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GARIBALDI LIONS 32ND ANNUAL A Progressive North Coast Responds AN EVENT FOR GARIBALDI ALL AGES!

SPIRITS WERE HIGH on Jan 21, 2017, CRAB all around the globe. The most success- ful peaceful protest in the history of the earth took place –long over due, but RACES better late than never. While aggression A small town tradition that’s a whole lot of was acted out by a spectrum of protes- fun to watch! Featuring great food, great tors in various urban centers, peaceful people and supports a great cause! humans trekked the streets calling for Buy a button - only $5.00 for entrance to both days. Ages 6-12 only $2, 5&Under Free civility on every humane possible level, 5 million on 7 continents. WHEN

Saturday, March 11th, 11am-5pm In an address to an audience at the Balti- more Nonviolence Center, on January 18, Sunday, March 12th, 11am-5pm activist and journalist Arun Gupta, stated, “To put it simply, if it’s possible for Donald WHERE Trump to become president, then socialism

Old Mill Event Center is possible in America.” 210 S 3rd St, Garibaldi, OR 97118 (3rd & American) Was Gupta as in awe of the numbers march- PHOTO: Scott Docherty/redhare.com ing? One would think so. Just as the organizers of the Astoria Women’s March were BENEFITING hoping for 50 attendees, then began to realize, there may be 500, but an official coun- Indivisible Garibaldi Lions Club who provide sight and hearing ter on site, when the group was en masse, speculated there were at least 1200 people north coast Oregon services and Christmas baskets to low income families http://indivisiblenorthcoastor.blogspot.com/ in Central Tillamook County. come together in solidarity with signs, pink hats, children, friends and family, from all points coastal region. Use Your VoiceCOOLLAB WWW.VISITGARIBALDI.COM/STORY/CRAB-RACES What’s Next. WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/GARIBALDICRABRACES/ SENATOR RON WYDEN On February 1st, at the Methodist Church in Astoria, the first INCO, Indivisbile 221 Dirksen Senate Office Bldg. Washington, D.C., 20510 North Coast meeting took place. People came from Manzanita, along the coast, into tel (202) 224-5244 east County, and across the river! An experienced audience-counter counted 150 in tel (503) 326-7525 attendence. Email via https://www.wyden.senate.gov/ contact Over 3000 Indivisible groups have come into organization around the country, based hipfishmonthly.com on a guide put together by former Democratic congressional staffers. Read the down- SENATOR JEFF MERKLEY to-earth Indivisible Guide, available at www.indivisibleguide.com. 313 Hart Senate Office Building hipfishm Washington, DC 20510 onthly.com As a result of the first INCO, Community Groups based on where you live, and Task Phone: (202) 224-3753 Teams are being organized. If you haven’t signed up yet, or did not make it to the Phone: (503) 326-3386 meeting, you can do so easily through the INCO blog: Email via https://www.merkley.senate.gov/ contact https://indivisiblenorthcoastor.blogspot.com/. REPRESENTATIVE SUZANNE BONAMICI In the meantime, INCO organizers state, don’t wait for us! Act now. Here are some 439 Cannon HOB examples of what you can do: Washington, DC 20515 Phone: (202) 225-0855 SEND A POSTCARD to one or all three of your Members of Congress (MoC) from Phone: (503) 469-6010 Oregon: Representative Bonamici, Senator Wyden, and Senator Merkley. You can write Email via https://bonamici.house.gov/ a Thank You postcard or ask your MoC to take a specific action about a specific issue. contact-me Write about only one issue per card. Governor Kate Brown THINK ABOUT POTENTIAL CANDIDATES for the 120 local positions on the Clatsop State Capitol Building 900 Court Street NE, 160 County ballot in May, 2017. For more info about finding and campaigning for progres- Salem, OR 97301 sive candidates, attend the next meeting of the CLATSOP COUNTY DEMOCRATS, on Phone: (503) 378-4582 Monday, February 13, at 5:45, at Towler 310 at Clatsop Community College. www.oregon.gov/gov/Pages/share-your- opinion.aspx ALSO; PACIFIC GREEN PARTY next chapter meeting, which will be held on Sunday, February 12, at 4pm at Clatsop Community College in the Art Building room 101. The THANK YOU address is 1651 Lexington Ave, Astoria, OR 97103. Discussion: Rank Choice Voting. Women’s March Committee: Deb Vanasse, Jeanne Braun INSPIRATION: Henderson, Joyce Hunt, Be inspired all over again by the AUDIO INTERVIEWS at the Astoria Women’s March. Kit Ketcham, Laurie Caplan, Conducted by Joanne Rideout, Station Manager of Coast Community Radio (KMUN). Margaret Frimoth, Here’s the URL: http://shipreport.nfshost.com/audio/AWM-FB.mp3 Nancy Holmes, Pat Wollner, Sharon Kloepfer

Feb 17 hipfishmonthly.com 4 Cooperative Housing in Clatsop County A Progressive North Coast Responds Meet & Greet

MEET AND GREET about the possibility for cooperative housing in Clatsop County Wednesday February 22, 2017 5:30 - 6:30p.m. Blue Scorcher in Astoria. Anyone interested in the housing crisis for working people in our county and will- ing to collaborate to improve Inside the Month: the situation is welcome. There will be a short Opt Out Linn County. . . p10 presentation by Iris Sullivan Daire about Cooperative and 2017 FISHER POET SCHEDULE . . . p12 shared housing, followed by cooperative model as it can be Clatsop Casa AU NATUREL EXHIBIT. . . p14 small group discussion. The goal applied to housing. Follow up of the meeting is to identify stake actions will be announced at the (Court Appointed Special Advocates) Fundraiser NATURE News. . . p7 holders who are interested in the end of the hour. March 9 DAY BY DAY HAPPENIGS . . . p15,19 COURT Appointed Special Advocates (CASAs) are ordinary people doing Effecting Change at the Right Levels of Government extraordinary things. They volunteer their time to advocate for the best Jason Gonzales • Oregon Wild We’re here, We’re Queer!! interest of children who suffered neglect or abuse and are now in foster JASON GONZALES from Oregon Wild will give a power-point pre- care. The Clatsop CASA Program currently supports 50 volunteers who MOnthly LGBTQ eVenTs, and sentation and workshop on Effecting Change at the Right Levels of give of themselves to improve the lives of children. PHOTO: Scott Docherty/redhare.com political organizing... p8 Government. Participants will see examples of all the different agencies Help support them during the 19th Annual CASA Celebration on and levels of government that make decisions about the forests, water, Thursday, March 9, 2017, from 6-9 pm at the gorgeous BRIDGEwater and wildlife Oregon Wild works to protect and defend. Learn new ways Bistro in Astoria. Enjoy an evening of delicious “small bites”, wine and to get engaged in 2017 to take a stand for the things you care about, other beverages, and a lively dessert auction in this beautiful setting by and how to be as effective as possible while you are doing it! the Columbia River, to raise money for advocacy services for children and COLUMNS February 15th (Wednesday) from 6-8pm in the Hatfield Room at Tilla- youth in foster care. Clatsop CASA Program relies on community support STEVE BERK . . . 6 mook Public Library (corner of Stillwell and 3rd in downtown Tillamook). to recruit, train, and supervise volunteers. COOLLAB Sponsored by Oregon Wild and Rockaway Beach Citizens for Water- THEATER . . . 18 Tickets for this annual fundraiser are $30 per person and should be shed Protection purchased in advance. Space is limited and the event frequently sells ART HAPPENS . . . 19, 23 out. To purchase tickets, contact Clatsop CASA at 503-338-6063. For WORD/Literary EVents . . . 20 more information about Clatsop CASA and the important work done by FLASHCUTS ...... KANEKUNI 24 Roaring 20’s Speakeasy • Casino Night volunteer advocates, visit www.clatsop-casa.org or www.facebook.com/ BIKE MADAME . . . HAMMITT-MCDONALD . . 25 Get ready for a Roaring Good Time on Saturday, ClatsopCASAProgram FREE WILL ASTROLOGY . . . BREZNY 25 February 18th Above Photo: A recent swearing-in of volunteers,by of Judge Brownhill. NETWORK COMMUNITY LISTINGS . . . 26 The Clatsop County Historical Society’s annual Roaring 20’s Speak- SONJA GRACE MESSAGES . . . 27 easy Casino Night promises a fun time for all, at 7pm.There will be Responding to Federal Attacks on Workers BODIES IN BALANCE. . . . . ERFLING ND 28 games of Black Jack, Roulette, Craps, and (for an additional fee) Texas Hold ‘em poker with prizes for top chip holders and best 1920s cos- WORD & WISDOM . . . NASON27 AFL-CIO tume at the end of the night. FOODGROOVE NEWS . . .30 Statement by Oregon AFL-CIO President Tom Chamberlain on the nation- Make your reservations today by calling 503-325-2203 or e-mail to al “right to work” bill introduced yesterday in the United States Congress, CHEW ON THIS . . . MYERS 25 [email protected] on a leaked Executive Order threatening the rights of millions of workers, HIPFiSHmonthly is located at 1017 Marine Dr in Astoria. By Appt. Entry is $15 for an individual or just $25 for a couple. Get in on the and on last week’s immigration Executive Orders: action at the Texas Hold ‘em tournament for an additional buy-in of “Yesterday, legislation was introduced in Congress with the intent to ADVERTISING INQUIRIES - 503.338.4878 $30, $40, or $50, call for details. limit the ability of working people to stand together as unions. Deceptively Send general email correspondance: This event has been generously sponsored by: Jim and Jan Aalberg, called a “right to work” bill, this type of legislation drags all workers down, [email protected]. Uptown Café, Lektro, Whole Brain Creative, Astoria Sunday Market, regardless of whether they belong to unions or not. If passed, this law will HIPFiSH is produced on the web at: Ocean Crest Chevrolet, Astoria Fultano’s Pizza, Patricia Roberts, and mean lower paychecks[i] for workers and increased workplace fatalities[ii]. www.hipfishmonthly.com Warrenton Deep Sea Market. This legislation is designed to do one thing: dismantle the tools workers All proceeds support the Clatsop County Historical Society which is have to form and maintain strong unions by which we negotiate for better EDITOR/PUBLISHER: a 501(c)(3) non-profit educational organization dedicated to preserv- wages, benefits and working conditions. Oregon’s union movement is pre- Dinah Urell ing and presenting the history of Clatsop County Oregon and the pared to do everything we can to protect our right to stand together. surrounding area. The Society operates the Flavel House Museum, GRAPHICS: Beyond threats from Congress, working people and our families could the Heritage Museum, the Oregon Film Museum, and the Uppertown face rampant rollbacks of protections in what several credible news outlets Buggy Bison Firefighters are reporting as a leaked Executive Order from President Trump.[iii] This Les Kanekuni order, if enacted, would provide a license to discriminate against LGBTQ Dinah Urell Elliot State Forest Lobby Day people on everything from hiring and firing to health benefits and beyond. Michelle Roth On Thursday, February 23rd, activists from across Oregon will gather If this leaked order comes to pass, it will be a significant and disturbing step ACCOUNT EXEC : in Salem to speak to their Senate and House representatives about the backward for our nation. importance of keeping the Elliott State Forest protected and public. The Oregon AFL-CIO is strongly opposed to any Congressional or Ryan Sheile The Oregon legislature can play a key role in decoupling old growth Presidential action which threatens the rights of working people by any logging from funding education, and in finding a permanent solution COVERDESIGN: means, including last week’s Executive Orders regarding immigration and CALENDAR/PRODUCTION for this forest. If you would like to be a part of this effort, Go to forestle- Les Kanekuni refugees. We stand in support and solidarity with Oregon’s immigrant and gacy.org and please fill out the form. refugee communities. Last week’s Executive Orders have only increased fear Assistance/Staff Writer: Cathy Nist Cover Photo: Trainings and background information will be provided. If you have and divided us as a nation – they do not represent the values that Oregon’s Scott Docherty / never done anything like this, it’s a great way to learn! Space will be MAGIC WEB WORKER: unions stand for. We are thankful for the actions of Governor Brown who redhare.com. determined by how many volunteers come forth from each House and Bob Goldberg Senate district. Once you fill out the form, you’ll be contacted by the today stood up for immigrants and refugees in Oregon, and by doing so set Social Media: Sid Deluca North Coast State Forest Coalition representative. an example of what leadership looks like.”

5 Feb 17 hipfishmonthly.com DONALD TRUMP’S emphasis in his Inau- Arms Conference negotiated reductions US historians and journalists have touted gural Address on “America First” has much for Britain, France, Japan, Italy and the US. American globalist militarism as the only historical resonance. Its roots go back to Six years later, Secretary of State Frank Kel- responsible course. While most America Washington’s Farewell Address wherein the logg engineered a pact in which 62 nations Firsters were ordinary citizens disgusted with first president warned the country against renounced war as an instrument of national the waste and horrors of war, support of “entangling alliances” with European powers policy, with the caveat that one could resort their cause by prominent German sympathiz- that would land the US in the midst of an- to defensive war if attacked. ers, like Henry Ford and Charles Lindbergh, In 1934-5, served to marginalize them. Senator When US postwar communist adver- Gerald Nye, sary, the Soviet Union, broke up in 1991, in the face neoconservatives in the Defense and State Sabotaging AMERICA FIRST by Stephen Berk of growing departments, crusaded for US global he- authoritarian gemony. Implementation of their strategy militarism has, however, devastated and destabilized cient dynastic rivalries and wars. This would in Japan, Italy and Germany, retained an the Middle East and parts of Central Asia, draw precious human resources and treasure antiwar posture by investigating the causes resulting in over a million deaths and a huge away from building our new nation. About refugee crisis. In Eastern Europe, neocon a generation later, President John Quincy policy makers, resolved on keeping Russia Adams, who supported the American weak, expanded NATO, a Cold War mili- System, a program for building domestic tary alliance against the Soviet Union, to infrastructure and institutions, also warned the Russian border, increasing the danger KAREN KAUFMAN his fellow citizens against “going abroad of nuclear war with a resurgent Russia. Dur- L.Ac. • Ph.D. in search of monsters to destroy.” ing his campaign, Trump correctly stated Washington and Adams represent an that NATO is obsolete, with Russia now important strand in American national neither communist nor expansionist. But Acupuncture policy that seeks to check imposing our two weeks into office, the Trump admin- will abroad, while concentrating on istration is back peddling and reaffirming & Traditional building a just, equitable and prosper- commitment to NATO. Chinese Medicine ous society at home. Woodrow Wilson Trump’s America First emphasis seem- represents the opposite tendency and its ingly recognizes a multipolar world, where 503.298.8815 disastrous consequences. Following a the US will not seek hegemony. But while [email protected] successful first term pursuing the progres- stating America will not attempt to impose sive cause of reining in corporate excess, its way of life on any other country, Trump at Astoria Chiropractic he ran in 1916, promising to keep us out also reaffirmed commitment to smashing 2935 Marine Dr., Suite B of the slaughterhouse of the European Islamist jihadism. He has planned doing Great War. But within months of reelec- so in partnership with Russia, but his tion, he reversed his “peace without administration has already given strong victory” stance and entered the war “to save of US entry into the Great War. Pressure indication that it will continue a bellicose the world for democracy.” US entry ended from international bankers and arms dealers posture against Russia and its allies, Iran and the stalemate, enabling decisive defeat of was named as culprit. This confirmed the Assad’s Syria. Retired general Michael Flynn, Germany and its allies. The Versailles Treaty findings of Marine General Smedley Butler speaking as new National Security Chief, thus severely punished Germany, saddling that war profiteers in everything from cloth- overreacted to Iran’s test of a conventional it with massive reparations and a humiliat- ing to the whole range of arms became very missile by putting it “on notice” of further ing war guilt clause. As is well known, Adolf wealthy from the massive militarism of 1917- US sanctions and possible military action. Hitler’s Nazi regime arose out of these Ger- 18. Butler detailed his findings in his classic And super-hawk senators McCain and man ashes. War Is a Racket, still in print and widely read. Graham are pushing the new president hard Between the wars an American movement As the threat from what would become for action against Russia in eastern Ukraine. Enjoy the serenity of our arose recalling Washington’s admonition the Axis Powers increased, Franklin Roo- Trump’s government has also reaffirmed gardens, wooded paths, sauna, yurt and bhuddas . . . and seeking to keep the US out of subse- sevelt tried with eventual success to get alliance with Saudi Arabia, as it devastates . . . in Nahcotta, Washington quent foreign wars. The people who took around the Neutrality Acts to aid countries in Yemen and remains the prime sponsor of on Sandridge Road, this position, speaking for peace and arms the path of the gathering militarism of these Islamist terrorism. Trump has no previous just south of Bay Avenue overlooking willapa bay reduction, were responsible in Congress for regimes. FDR, as Hitler moved toward war, experience in politics, and as president, he passage of the Neutrality Acts, which made formed the Committee to Aid the Allies. faces entrenched militarist interests that, “women have been central to the environ- going to war abroad very difficult. After Its opposite number called themselves the given their way, will keep him from imple- mental movement and our understanding of the First World War, antiwar lawmakers also America First Committee. Since World War menting his America First plans for moving ecology since its earliest stirrings and fragile beginnings in the 19th century” attempted to goad the great powers toward Two and the Allied victory, which placed away from war and international hegemony Excerpted from “Rachel Carson and disarmament. In 1922, the Washington Naval the US at the top of the world order, most to emphasis on domestic rebuilding. Her Sisters” by Robert K. 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NATURE NEWS Listening to the Land: Join the Great Backyard Bird Count Swimming with the at Fort Clatsop, February 17-20 wild fishes On Saturday, February 18, Mike Patterson will lead a birding walk starting at 9:00 FOR NEARLY 20 YEARS, the capturing a.m. in the Fort Clatsop Visi- Oregon Department of Fish underwater tor Center lobby. Although and Wildlife has been closely behavior and leashed dogs are welcome monitoring the survival and spawning of at most of the park’s outdoor downstream migration of salmon wild chum programs, dogs are not al- in coastal river basins. As the salmon, Chi- lowed at this morning walk. assistant project leader of the nook salmon, Please dress for the weather. Salmonid Life Cycle Monitor- coho salmon, The walk is wheelchair acces- ing Project, Derek Wiley has and Pacific sible although non-motorized spent the past decade research- lamprey in users might need assistance ing salmon and steelhead and several rivers for about 200 yards. making estimates about their and creeks On Sunday, February 19, abundance and survival rates on the north- Josh Saranpaa, a wildlife on the northern Oregon coast, ern Oregon THE 20TH ANNUAL Great Backyard Bird rehabilitator and director of the Wildlife often taking his GoPro camera Coast. He will Count is taking place February 17 through Project. He earned a bachelor’s Center of the North Coast, will talk about into the field with him to capture also share 20. To participate in this citizen science degree in biology from Towson the center’s work at 1:00 p.m. in the Netul fish behavior and spawning. footage documenting Salmonid opportunity, anyone in the world can State University and a master’s River Room of the Fort Clatsop Visitor On Wednesday, Feb. 15, join Life Cycle Monitoring Project count birds at any location for at least degree in fisheries and wildlife Center. This In Their Footsteps program Derek at the Seaside Public activities on the North Fork 15 minutes on one or more days of the from Frostburg State University, will feature live birds from the center such Library for the second of this Nehalem River from fall 2015 count and enter their sightings at www. both in Maryland. In 2004 he as common murre, rhinoceros auklet, year’s Listening to the Land pre- and give us an update on more BirdCount.org. The information gathered moved to John Day, Oregon, to northern fulmar, and American kestral. sentations focused on wildlife. recent monitoring results. by tens of thousands of volunteers helps work for ODFW on a steelhead Park hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. each Admission to “Life in the River” As a research biologist with track changes in bird populations on a research project. Two years later day. Admission is $5 per adult and free is free. ODFW, Derek supervises a field massive scale. The GBBC is a joint project he moved to Tillamook to take for youth 15 years old and under. In Derek will provide a special crew responsible for monitor- of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the screening of his films document- ing abundance of adult and honor of Presidents Day, visits to National his current position. Derek is an National Audubon Society with partner ing the freshwater life of native juvenile salmonids in the North Park sites including Lewis and Clark NHP avid fly fisherman, photographer, Bird Studies Canada and is partially spon- salmon in our region. Journey’s Fork Nehalem River for the are free on Monday, February 20. Passes and videographer. sored by Wild Birds Unlimited. End is an 18-minute video Salmonid Life Cycle Monitoring to National Park Service sites are ac- From Friday, February 17, through cepted. A variety of bird field guides are Monday, February 20, visitors to Lewis available for purchase at the Lewis & Clark and Clark National Historical Park, Fort National Park Association bookstore in the Clatsop can join in the count by recording Registration opens for Fort Clatsop Visitor Center. bird observations in the park and make For more information on the national CoastWalk Oregon 2017 plans to count birds in their own back- bird count event or to submit bird counts yards. Binoculars will be available for loan from your home go to www.birdcount.org. within the park. The weekend’s birding events at Fort Clat- hotel owner’s effort to claim part of the beach Along with the actual bird counting ac- sop are sponsored by the Lewis & Clark for his private use. tivities, the park has planned four days of National Park Association and the Na- Day One will begin in Ecola State Park, pass bird-related opportunities. A “great pink tional Park Service. For more information, Cannon Beach, and end at Arch Cape. Day Two heron scavenger hunt” will be on-going call the park at (503) 861-2471 or check crosses into Tillamook County on a route wind- using the Netul Trail along the Lewis and out www.nps.gov/lewi or Lewis and Clark ing through Oswald West State Park on forest Clark River. A “Birds of Fort Clatsop” National Historical Park on Facebook. trails, ending at the north Neahkahnie Mountain display is in the visitor center. trailhead. On Day Three participants will summit Neahkahnie Mountain, then—after a shuttle In Their Footsteps to Neahkahnie Beach—walk the beach to the Wildlife Center of the North Coast tip of Nehalem Spit, where they’ll cross the Lewis and Clark National Historical Park, Fort Clatsop is Nehalem River by boat. After a successful first pleased to announce the next In Their Footsteps free speaker year with 50 participants, CoastWalk will top out series event. This illustrated program is Wildlife Center of the at 75 walkers in 2017. North Coast presented by Josh Saranpaa on Sunday, Febru- The $349 registration fee covers wayfinding ary 19, at 1:00 p.m. This is part of the February 17-20 world- COASTWALK OREGON, a three-day walk benefitting guidance, parking fees, shuttles to and from trailheads, wide Great Backyard Bird Count activities led by the National North Coast Land Conservancy, is back for a second year a boat shuttle across the Nehalem, snacks, a celebratory Audubon Society and the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. on Sept. 22, 23, and 24. This year’s walk welcomes more lunch at the end of Day Three, and lots of cheerleading. For 20 years, the Wildlife Center of the North Coast has participants and features a new route highlighting the Lodging and most meals are not included. Most of the been a helpful resource when people find sick or injured history of the Oregon Beach Bill, which marks its 50th registration fee represents a tax-deductible donation to wildlife. The non-profit center aids all indigenous wildlife, has anniversary this year. Registration opened today. Details North Coast Land Conservancy, which has just under- a wildlife hospital, and provides off-site education programs. and registration are at CoastWalkOregon.org. taken a project to conserve 3500 acres of forest adjacent Josh Saranpaa is the director of the wildlife center and has Participants in CoastWalk Oregon 2017 will walk to Oswald West State Park—a private land conservation worked there for nine years. He enjoys learning about, caring roughly 10 miles a day of the Oregon Coast Trail, about for, and teaching about local wildlife. effort unprecedented in size in western Oregon. The half on the beach and half on forest trails. Most of the Some of the center’s education birds will be at the program such as an American kestrel, Rainforest Reserve, which NCLC hopes to complete a northern saw-whet owl, and possibly common murres and a cormorant. This program will 30-mile walk follows the route Gov. Oswald West took within five years, will create a continuous 29-square-mile cover some of the dangers that wildlife face in this region, the work of the Wildlife Center on horseback in 1911 that, two years later, inspired him conservation corridor stretching from the ridgetops to of the North Coast and how people can help local wildlife. to champion a law declaring Oregon’s beaches public the nearshore ocean at Cape Falcon Marine Reserve. This monthly Sunday forum is sponsored by the Lewis & Clark National Park Association highways. That law was a precursor to the 1976 Oregon CoastWalk Oregon participants will walk right through and the park. These programs are held in the Netul River Room of Fort Clatsop’s visitor Beach Bill, which was prompted by a Cannon Beach the middle of that corridor. center and are free of charge.

7 Feb 17 hipfishmonthly.com LGBTQ news and culture Warrenton Warming Center • Volunteer! FOCUSMUSIC for the lower columbia pacific f THE WARRENTON WARMING CENTER located inside the gym at the Calvary Assembly of God on 1365 S. Main Street in Warrenton is offering warmth, shelter and a hot meal to those that need it. Folk Founder, Beverly Jackson-Shumaker, the Warrenton Warming Q Center board and her team of volunteers are doing everything Lower Columbia Q Center they can to ensure the homeless in our community have a warm place to sleep when the weather hits 38 degrees and lower. Meeting If you or anyone you know is looking for an opportunity to Astoria Armory - 1636 Exchange Street Astoria, make a difference in someone’s life, we’d like to invite you to 3rd Wednesdayof the month, 6pm-7pm take a look at the Warming Center schedule and see how you Attention all LGBTIQ community members and allies! We meet can help. We desperately need more volunteers. Each shift is at the Astoria Armory to discuss the great strides we have made in our efforts to build awareness, community, educa- only three hours long. tional opportunities and pride, as well as future endeavors Operating Hours: 6:30pm – 8pm, 8pm – 11pm, 11pm – 2am, to increase safety, visibility and support services in Clatsop 2am – 5am, 5am – 8am, 8am – 9am County and beyond. Something often said in the LGBTIQ Please email [email protected] if you can community is that “we get to choose our family”. We want to extend a welcome to the people of the Lower Columbia Region help, even if it’s for only one day. to join our family. If you’re stretched thin on time but would like to make a tax- Mission: The Lower Columbia Q Center is a safe and welcoming deductible donation you may mail checks to: P.O. BOX 808, resource and peer support service for the LGBTIQ community, Warrenton, OR 97146 or make donations through our Go Fund friends, family, and allies of the Lower Columbia Region. Me account at www.gofundme.com/rennn4bg.

Lower Columbia Gender PACIFIC GREEN PARTY OF CLATSOP COUNTY next chapter meeting, which will be held on Sunday, February 12, at 4pm at Clatsop Community College in the Art Alliance/Trans Support Building room 101. The address is 1651 Lexington Ave, Astoria, OR 97103. Discussion: Rank Choice Voting. The Lower Columbia Gender Alliance holds peer support group Discussion will regard endorsement of candidates for the upcoming meetings on the third Thursday of each month. Meetings are Clatsop County special elections in May. Candidates who are seeking open to transgender, gender queer, questioning and family endorsement from the Pacific Green Party of Clatsop County chapter must members or partners. Meetings will be at 6:30 pm at the Q submit their name, whether they are a PGP member, their district (if appli- center. For Information call Jeralyn O’Brien @ 503-341-3777 cable), the office they are considering running for, and a brief biography to [email protected] prior to the meeting Over the Rainbow Radio Show o n KMUN CLATSOP COUNTY DEMOCRATS MEET fourth Monday of each month at 91.9 Every 3rd Wednesday 8:30 - 1030pm 7pm. Doors open at 6:30pm, at the Astoria Yacht Club, located on the second floor LCQC Choir meets every Tuesday 7-8:30pm of the building immediately to the east of the former Astoria Riverwalk Inn and above Tiki Tours. Access is by the external staircase on the north/beautiful Columbia Contact [email protected]. (On River side of the building overlooking the West Mooring Basin. www.ClatsopDemo- Break till March). crats.org PACIFIC COUNTY DEMOCRATS/ 92nd Annual CRAB FEED The Coaster Theatre Playhouse Presents Skate nights and LGBTIQ+ teen social nights March 18. 4pm Social Hour-5pm Program & Dinner are back! Next Skate - Feb 17 5-9pm. Willapa Harbor Community Center, 916 West 1st St. South Bend WA. Live Auction • Silent Auction • Raffle 2nd Wed each Month. Open LBGTQ Friends pacificcountydemocrats.com for more info and families peer support group 6-9pm. Monthly Meeting - 2nd Mondays, 7pm, North County Annex 1216 Robert Bush Drive, South Bend, WA Eveyone Welcome. On the web: LCQCAstoria.org/facebook [email protected] CREATE • Feb 16 Columbia River Estuary Action Team The Columbia River Estuary Action Team (CREATE) holds its regular Monthly LGBTQ Events monthly meeting on Thursday, February 16 from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Blue Scorcher Bakery and Cafe. All are welcome! in Lincoln County CREATE was started by people who were involved in the successful 12 March 3 - April 15, 2017 - 1st Wed of ea. month, 7pm is Trans Parents Coffee Hour year battle against LNG in Clatsop County. Its purpose is to foster citizen at the Chalet in Newport. involvement in protecting the unique, beautiful and productive Columbia Tickets $20 or $25 River Estuary. - 2nd Tues. ea month, 4pm is LGBT+ & Allies Happy Hour Shows begin at 7:30 p.m. Most recently CREATE members have been speaking out about issues at Georgie’s in Newport. involving the state forest watersheds which feed into the estuary and affect Sunday shows start at 3:00 p.m. - 2nd Wed. ea month - 6pm to 7:30pm PFLAG Group at its health. St. Stephen’s at 9th and Hurbert in Newport. Dan Serres of Columbia Riverkeeper will attend the Feb. 16 meeting to Sponsored by Coaster Construction - 4th Sun of ea month, 11am is OUT OR Coast Women’s talk about proposed fossil fuel projects upriver that could have significant Coffee at Cafe Mundo in Newport. effect on the Estuary. Dan will also will also have an update on important legislation being discussed soon in Salem. To connect with Oregon Central Coast Chapter of PFLAG, Tickets: 503-436-1242 or coastertheatre.com New members are always welcome. Come and join in at 6 p.m. on 108 N Hemlock Street, Cannon Beach, OR call (541)265-7194, email: [email protected] Thursday, Feb. 16 at the Blue Scorcher.

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FOCUSMUSIC Three Pound Note a rockin’ Welsh of a time Feb 24 LOOKING FOR A RAUCOUS good time, then look no further than the Cannon Beach History Cen- ter & Museum’s concert series from blues to jazz, to rock and everything in between. This February welcomes Portland’s Three Pound Note, singing traditional Welsh, Cornish, and English tunes. Lead vocalist, Andrea Wild, was born in Liverpool, England and grew up with the sibling singing tradition emphasizing harmony and a capella performance. Andrea’s mother was from Caernarfon, Wales, and moved to Liverpool with her grandmother and grandfather (Nain and Taid) during WWII. As a result, Andrea and her brother, Straford grew up in a Welsh speaking household hear- ing traditional, Welsh songs from infancy. They began singing in folk clubs throughout the North of England and Andrea was a regular at Liverpool’s Irish Centre. After moving to the United States, Andrea continued to sing with her brother, Straford. They collaborated with Oregon Symphony cellist, Jim Smith in the band Both Wild and performed at folk festivals and music venues throughout the US. Both Wild released a CD recording in 2002 Just Say Nevoth. Cascadia Concert Opera • Feb 18 An early note of Spring? The ever roaming Cascade Concert Opera is returning to Astoria to present along with our local North Coast Chorale a program of opera highlights: arias and choruses from some of the most well- known and well -loved operas sung in their original languages. No need to wait for the June Astoria Music Festival to hear fine vocal artistry sung with exuberance, technical expertise and nuanced expression. Indeed if music is the language of the heart, this presen- tation reflects the full range of human emotions. From the bright upbeat choruses of Gershwin’s ‘Porgy and Bess”, to Verdi’s rousing, heroic themes from “IL Travatore”, to the soulful longing in Purcell’s “Dido’s Lament” and Verdi’s “Nabucco”, the singers project both the tragic and the comedic elements of life. Currently in it’s ninth season, the Cascadia Concert Opera is a non-profit performing arts organiza- tion based in Eugene. It’s troupe of established and emerging professional singers and pianists afford it a rather unique identity as a “ touring ensemble, presenting opera in intimate venues throughout Andrea has hosted Irish, world folk and soul music programs on Portland’s independent KBOO the Northwest.” While CCO provides the principal singers, it collaborates with local singers to support radio. Her native wit and clear articulation earned her a go-to position within the community for the choral sections. In this way it engages communities and, in some instances , introduces residents hosting and emceeing all manner of music, cultural, charity and civic events. Andrea joined PSU for the first time to the vibrant story-telling tradition of opera.Astoria audiences have enjoyed CCO’s Chorale and earned a longed-for opportunity to perform at Carnegie Hall. performance of Beethoven’s “Fidelio” ( 2014) and Mozart’s “Don Giovanni”2015). In 2011, Andrea teamed up with Sean Nos dancer, Maldon Meehan with a goal to merge tradi- The present production of opera highlights will help raise money for the NCC which in turn helps tional forms of percussive dance and song for stage performance. And thus was the birth of The with the fundraising efforts of Partners of the PAC . These efforts are vital to the continued operations Stomptowners, a project which continues to grow and please crowds from Portland to beyond. of the PAC facility as a venue for affordable artistic and educational offerings. Some of the proceeds On guitar, mandolin, and melodeon is Hugo Glanville. Hugo started singing in Folk Clubs in of this particular concert will go toward the funding of CCO’s upcoming event “Tango of the White England in his early teens, but didn’t find his solo singing voice until he moved to the United States Gardenia”. Described as “ a tango infusion in a chamber opera in 2 acts”, this production will be per- and started leading pub-singing sessions with The Bridgetown Morris Men. formed in Astoria and else where. Sounds intriguing! He led several songs on Bridgetown’s first CD - ‘All About the Ale”, and has performed as a singer at Seattle Folklife Festival and Princeton Folk Festival. He performed as part of a Trio called For a uplifting mid-winter boost don’t miss the Cascadia Concert Opera on Saturday evening Feb- Village Briar that came together annually to sing songs of a darker and more sinister tradition at ruary 18 at 7 P.M. at the Performing Arts Center (corner of 16th and Franklin in Astoria). Tickets Dark Harvest Ballad events, annually, and more recently created a sea chanty group called Stor- are available at the door for $25 general admission and $15 for students with ID. malong that had it’s inaugural performance at The Global Folk Club hosted by Andrea. Soon after Hugo and Andrea met, they realized that they grew up in England at roughly the same time with the same music being played in the folk-clubs they attended. The ‘duo’ offers them both great opportunities to perform songs from the English repertoire. PERFORMANCE: 7pm. $15. $2 Children. Tasty treats and donated libations. Doors open at 6:30pm. 1387 South Spruce St. in Cannon Beach age of aquarius dance party

Gerle Haggard Band CELEBRATE THE AGE OF AQUARIUS and the Sun Sign. GERLE Haggard Band returns to the Washington singles as well as carefully chosen covers of some of AAMC Hosts Feb 11. AAMC, loves to throw a great Coast and The Historic Sou’wester Lodge President’s his own idols - Bob Wills, Jimmie Rodgers and Lefty dance party, and the Aquarius party has become an an- Day weekend. Saturday, February 18th, this eight- Frizzell. nual event!! piece ensemble will perform a post Valentine’s Day The band’s original instrumentation, tight harmo- The theme this year is “to the 9’s.” Let’s get dressed sweetheart show for all music lovers in the Lodge’s nies, and a mix of showmanship from lead singer Tave intimate parlor room. Fasce Drake are woven into a show unlike any other. up and let DJ imcodefour lead us on the dance floor as This marks the fifth appearance of the all-female This appearance also features national fiddle champ we dance, laugh and sweat the evening away. Bring the Merle Haggard tribute to the Seaview, WA venue on Aarun Carter who brings her own finesse to these clas- magic and energy we need to help carry us along our the Long Beach peninsula. Don’t miss the Portland- sic country songs. Gerle Haggard has been described path as we negotiate this new year. based band at what they call their “cozy home away as “Ferale, Female and Funtastic,” and, “As a really from home on the coast.” good band playing great songs.” There will be some entertainment too!!!! Jessamyn Grace tends to your libations and Beginning their fourth year, Gerle Haggard Ginger Vitus will grace with her star power and we Aquarians will bridge the gaps and fuel continues to delight Merle Haggard’s loyal fans with Enjoy this free, all-ages event at The Historic the fire of the night!!! well-known hits like “Mama Tried” and “Okie from Sou’wester Lodge & Cabins. 3728 J Place, Muskogee”. Old and new outlaw country listeners will Seaview, WA 98644. 360-642-2542. Saturday, $5 at door, to help support the amazing and affordable dance offerings at AAMC. The enjoy hearing pepperings of The Hag’s more obscure February 18th, 2017. 8 to 10 pm. AAMC is located at 342 10th 2nd floor ballroom. See you there!! 21+ please. 9pm!

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Invasion of The Shopper Snatchers. Reprint HIPFISH Dec 2009. THE OREGON WAY... The Clatsop County Commission Opts Out of the Linn County Timber Lawsuit

by Roger Dorband HE MEETING HALL of the Judge Guy The call for public comments that TBoynton Building was packed with immediately followed the Pledge of Al- citizens who had braved the frigid tempera- legiance was a testament to the health ture outdoors in order to be on hand for of democracy and community in Astoria. the most momentous vote by the Clatsop Most comments were about the lawsuit, County Commission in recent years. After with strong voices on both sides of the nearly a year of consideration, on the eve- issue. ning of January 11th the Commission was Representing the timber industry were poised to vote on whether to join or opt out timber company owners 87 year old of the Linn County timber lawsuit. Martin Nygaard and Mark Gustafson. In those board feet”. He concluded that “the The suit alleges that Oregon officials have his deep, gravely voice Nygaard spoke of a principled thing to do for the long term mismanaged forest policy by failing to pro- lifetime in the woods working in the family economic health of Clatsop County is to opt mote timber harvests (for full details of the business. During high school and college out of the lawsuit.” suit see the November 2016 issue of Hip- he “worked on a boom and learned how to George McCartin, who recently ran for fish). A yea vote to join the 1.4 billion dollar roll logs.” He recommended to the Commis- City Council, also reminded those pres- suit targeting Governor Brown and the sion that they stay in the law suit. Without ent that the lawsuit was being financed by Director of the State Forestry Department, doubt he represented the living embodi- timber companies. He further questioned Doug Decker, would by most accounts align ment of the legendary logging tradition in the impact on tax payers if the suit prevails, Astoria Artwalk the county on the side of increased indus- Clatsop County. stressing that the 1.4 billion dollar award 5-8pm • November 8 trial timber harvest on state forest land. Like Nygaard, Mark Gustafson cited the would have to ultimately come from their “Gathering” featuring works by This position was supported by number of men he employed, 120, who con- pockets. Countering another major claim Gail Wahlstrom and Jill Merrill many commissioners and public officials tribute 7 million dollars in wages to the local made by proponents of the suit, McCartin, who see an opportunity for the 15 Forest economy and provide over $100,000 dollars who is a lawyer with an extensive back- Trust Land Counties and tax districts to reap in taxes to the county. His dollars and board ground, said that being a member of the Art Cards, Artisan Crafts, massive financial gain if the suit prevails and feet analysis was bolstered by Sheriff Tom class action did not guarantee that the Gallery & Working Studio the compensation is granted. It is estimated Bergen representing his tax district. Bergen county would have a “voice at the table”. 1133 Commercial St. Astoria, OR 97103 by the plaintiff’s lawyers that Clatsop Clatsop County citizen Laura Russell 503.468.0308 County, with 147,000 acres of state forest gave a brief but passionate appeal to land representing 22% of the total, alone “I don’t think I have protect forests echoed by several others could reap as much as 200 million dollars ever taken a walk in in their comments. In Russell’s view our from a victory. the forest and said to state forests are currently at risk from too A decision to opt out would advocate myself, “look at all of much logging. “It’s so important for so a status quo position on the amount of those board feet”. many reasons” she concluded, to pre- logging on state forest land. This posi- serve forests for the sake of clean water, tion would be consistent with the policy - Roger Rocka, co- clean air, the fishing industry and more. of previous Clatsop County Commissions, chair for the One advocate of staying in the lawsuit the county’s Vision 2030 Together plan CREATE activist group claimed that it was being driven primar- and in harmony with the Department of in Astoria, at Clatsop ily by environmental groups who have Forestry’s 20 year old balanced forest Commission meeting. little interest in the economic health of management plan. Opting out would Clatsop County. This certainly qualifies forego any windfall if the suit prevails. as an “alternative fact” considering the That night the crowd present seemed number of independent citizens in the to be evenly divided on the issue. There implied that Clatsop County was so rich in community who weighed in on the issue via were many familiar faces who had been urg- forest land that sustainability shouldn’t even their e-mails, letters and in public testimony. ing the Commission to opt out for months. be questioned. For Bergen the possibility It also ignores the “opt out” opinion of the At the previous Commission meeting when of increased funding for county services far Daily Astorian, the Board of the Clatsop comments from the public - specifically outweighed all other considerations. He County Democratic Party and the City Coun- on the lawsuit - were requested, those listed services that would be “jeopardized” cil of Cannon Beach as well as the majority advocating opting out were in a majority by by the Commissioners if they didn’t join the preference for balanced forest management a margin of 26 to 2. But this time there were lawsuit, concluding that, “Opting out would expressed in the Clatsop Vision 2030 To- unfamiliar faces on hand as well. They had be a huge mistake.” gether plan long before the suit was filed. come out in numbers for the first time to Roger Rocka, co-chair for the CREATE By the end of the public comment period support staying in the lawsuit. The tension activist group in Astoria, spoke in support of the tally was 11 to 19 in favor of opting out. in the room was palpable. The drama of the opting out of the lawsuit. Rocka exclaimed It is worth noting that no representative of moment was heightened by the vote being that the lawsuit had been concocted and an environmental group or lawyer for the placed dead last on the agenda. funded by lawyers who were trying to plaintiff was present on the night of the The din of nervous chatter in the room convince the tax payers “to sue themselves” vote. was silenced a few minutes after 6pm when by promising “a pot of gold at the end of The evening moved swiftly along from the Chairman Scott Lee announced the begin- the rainbow.” He questioned how citizens public comments. After a 3 minute break ning of the meeting. Before calling for the could trust the promises of the plaintiff’s Chairman Lee called for a staff report on the customary salute to the flag, Lee announced lawyers who stood to earn 15%, or 210 mil- Linn County lawsuit from County manager the swearing in ceremony of 2nd term lion dollars, if they won the suit. As a direct Cam Moore who provided a succinct sum- Commissioner, Sarah Nebeker and 1st term counter to points made by several support- mary. Afterwards, it was time for opinions Commissioner, Kathleen Sullivan. At that ers of the lawsuit, Rocka stated poignantly, from the Commissioners. moment no one could have anticipated how “I don’t think I have ever taken a walk in Lee appointed himself first to com- significant this swearing in was. the forest and said to myself, “look at all of ment opening with the remark that the

Feb 17 hipfishmonthly.com 10 lawsuit “is a big deal,” which he conceded had occupied most Last to speak was Lianne Thompson, who has been an of his thoughts for “over a month or two”. The statement he unflagging supporter of the suit. Thompson repeatedly called read which followed made clear his unequivocal preference for for a community “at war with itself” to work together. This opting out of the lawsuit. In it he concurred with many of the notion seemed to ignore the “overwhelming” public testimony arguments that had been made by citizens over the months in favor of opting out cited by Scott Lee and the conclusion of THANK YOU to everyone who has since the lawsuit was filed. In providing his reasoning he gave the Clatsop Vision 2030 Together plan she signed that clearly the first clarifying, full declaration of the county’s position on demonstrates the public’s desire for a balanced forest manage- weighed in on the very important forest management that has been made publicly in a long ment plan. matter of the Clatsop State Forest, while. The statement (included next page over in full in order In spite of her repeated claims to be a supporter of the and the Linn County lawsuit, which ) will help the community to better understand what in large environment, Thompson seemed to isolate the lawsuit in much claims that the state must man- part will be their representatives’ position going forward. When the same manner as Clement saying that the issue was “a legal age our state forests to maximize Lee concluded the room matter” that Commis- timber harvest. The overwhelming erupted in loud applause . sioners shouldn’t “apply The other Commissioners their personal concerns” message from public testimony has then gave their opinions in to. Both reached this been in favor of balanced forest- turn. Lisa Clement followed conclusion after talking management and against the Linn Lee stating her concern for with the county’s legal County lawsuit. the environment, most par- council, Heather Reynolds I also am in favor of opting out of ticularly the impact of tim- . Thompson said she was ber harvest on the fishing “not in agreement with the Linn County lawsuit. These are my reasons. industry which has been her the lawsuit at all” but was Clatsop County has been repeatedly on record in support of family’s livelihood. In spite voting to stay in the suit for balanced management of state forests and against an industrial of her concerns Clement’s fear that the county would emphasis over all other values. While I strongly support substantial position was confounded lose control of its resources and reliable timber harvests in our state forests, I do not support and ambivalent because “without a place at the timber harvest overall other values. she sees the Linn County (settlement negotiation) lawsuit as a “strictly legal table.” Ironically for many Instead, I support the integrated and multi-benefit approach “matter and “not political”. proponents of opting out to Greatest Permanent Value thatthe Board of Forestry adopted An apparent unwillingness the opposite is true be- in 1998. That has been the position of Clatsop County since 1998, to speculate about the cause a successful suit will and it should be the same position today. I want a strong rec- repercussions of the lawsuit give the timber industry reation program on our state forests. I want our salmon streams prevailing could explain her more control over our state statement that “this is not a forests. protected and restored. I want alternatives to pesticidesexplored. forest practices issue”. She With statements com- I want diverse habitats for our hunters. I want special areas per- advocated joining the class pleted Chairman Lee asked manently protected. I do not want timber harvest levels to trump of the lawsuit. for a roll call vote. Commis- all these values. Third to comment was sioners voted consistent There are great risks in prioritizing timber harvest over all other Kathleen Sullivan, the with their statements and values on public lands. If we cut too much, we not only damage newly elected Commis- once again loud applause, sioner sworn in that night, punctuated with hoops the environment, but we also risk lawsuits that could dramatically who was in perhaps the and hollers, rang out in the restrict or even close down harvest. Anyone who watched what most difficult position of all meeting room. Clatsop has happened on federal lands should see that risk. of the Commissioners. It County was opting out! The Department of Forestry and Board of Forestry have dif- would have been easy for ficult jobs finding balanced management and integrating these her to recuse herself due THE TAKE AWAY to her nascent position on Now that the January multiple values. But they have generally done a good job over the Commission. Instead 25th deadline for joining the years. And harvests have been high since the 1998 rule; they she chose to display her the Linn County timber did n ot go down becauseof multi-value management, as Linn courage and passion about lawsuit has passed it’s clear County claims. forest issues by voicing her Photo by Leigh Oviatt that Clatsop County is in a Rather than attacking the Board of Forestry through lawsuits intent to vote for opting distinct minority. Of the 15 that could pay two hundred million in taxpayer dollars to private out. counties eligible only Clatsop County opted out. Sullivan acknowledged that it had been a difficult decision. All of the citizens who made their voices heard in favor of a lawyers, we should work together and forge a common path. In order to better understand the ramifications of the suit she balanced forest management plan must commend Commis- Manufacturing a perception of a crisis and promoting the idea of had studied the case thoroughly and consulted with a variety sion Chairman Scott Lee, Commissioner Sarah Nebeker and an urban and rural divide serves none of us. of individuals on both sides of the issue. In the course of Sul- Commissioner Kathleen Sullivan for the courage, leadership Some have spoken of our need to have a “seat at the table” livan’s remarks she corrected an “alternative fact” embedded and vision of their vote. because then our voice would be heard . But this makes little in the lawsuit stating that official state data clearly shows that The vote to opt out was made under intense pressure from sense to me. Clatsop County’s values are not the values ex- “both timber harvest levels and revenues have increased sub- logging interests and other proponents of the suit. Attorney stantially” since the inception of the balanced forest manage- DiLorenzo and Linn County Commissioner Nyquist held up pressed in the lawsuit. Why would we join a lawsuit that demands ment plan in 1998. She concluded that, “Though not perfect, a fist full of money in a symbolic effort to convince Clatsop maximum timber harvest over all other interests if we don’t sup- the forest management plan is working.” County Commissioners to their side. That strategy worked port that position? Sarah Nebeker, beginning her second term that night, spoke elsewhere but not in Clatsop County. To make our voice heard, we need to clearly and decisively with clarity and conviction after Sullivan. While not stating Beyond all of the arguments pro and con for staying in the state that we support the Board of Forestry’s current vision of exactly how she would vote it became clear that she did not suit, beyond the facts and “alternative facts” is the broader think that joining the lawsuit was a wise decision. Her opinion issue of values. The Commissioners voted to opt out because Greatest Permanent Value. was based on her knowledge of government and conclusion they value a balanced approach to timber management in our Clatsop County and Oregon are beautiful. I love our home. that if the suit succeeds the taxpayers of Oregon will have county and the state over increased industrial tree farming. This lawsuit is not only contrary to our values but it also contains to pay the award through loss of services or higher taxes. They chose the long term health of the environment over short the potential to damage our fish, our forests, clean water and “There is no free money here as far as I can see,” she said. In term financial gain. They voted for community, cooperation, the legacy of balanced management we owe to future genera- reaching her decision she, like Sullivan, had studied the state’s for doing things the “Oregon way” as Chairman Lee so aptly tions.. statistics about timber harvest on state land. Since 1998 and stated. the onset of the balanced forest management plan, timber Finally, the Commission’s stand sets an example for the Oregon has a proud history of working together to find solu- harvest on state land has more than doubled and in four of young and all of the rest of us, by resisting the mantra money, tions. We need to stick to the Oregon Way, which is solutions and the years, tripled. Reaching her conclusion, Nebeker quoted money, money that permeates our culture. They chose a not standoffs. highly regarded former Commissioner, Peter Huhtala, who has higher path by honoring a sacred trust that looks beyond the Scott Lee (Commissioner Chair Statement, January 11, stated, “Management by the Board of Forestry is far better prospect of making life easier for ourselves to the welfare of 2017 Commission meeting). than management by the courts, whether driven by industrial future generations who have the right to inherit a healthy, natu- or environmental concerns.” ral environment. Well done, Commissioners!

11 Feb 17 hipfishmonthly.com FisherFisher PoetsPoets GatheringGathering 20172017 20th20th AnnualAnnual •• FebFeb 2424 -- 2626 VENUES: The Wet Dog Cafe, The Voodoo Room, The Columbian Theater, The Astoria Event Center, The Lovell Showroom at Fort George Brewery, KALA Gallery, Barbey Maritime Center, The Liberty Theater, Pier 39 and Winecraft Plus 100 Poets from a dozen states, provinces and countries Buttons available $15 at all Venues

FPG 2017

RiverKeeper at Fisher Poets Special Events • PANEL: Healthy Rivers for Our Future - Protecting the Columbia River Basin Saturday, Feb. 25 at 10:00-11:15AM, at the Barbey Maritime • ANNUAL FISHERPOETS DANCE CLUB and late night Center (1792 Marine Drive, Astoria, OR). cocktails, Friday night 10 p.m. - KALA RAY TROLL AND THE RATFISH WRANGLERS - Sub-aquatic• neo- The Columbia & Snake Rivers face unprecedented threats from • UGANIK BAY watercolors by fisherman artist George folk • fishy-funk punk rock for the masses. Saturday Night, controversial fossil fuel to deadbeat dams. Join Columbia River- Wilson. Welcoming reception for George and all fisher- 9:45 to 11pm at The Columbian. keeper and Save Our Wild Salmon to discuss plans to stand up poets, Imogen Gallery, Friday 4 to 6 p.m. for the Columbia Basin Health of the Columbia River. *FisherPo- ets button required. • DEEP BLUE Fisherpoet Art Exhibit, mixed media, New Works by Nancy Cook, Veiwing Saturday 3 to 4:30 p.m. Saturday 11:30 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. • SONGS AND POEMS: Community Gathering - KALA • Knot Tying & Splicing w/Dano Quinn - Barbey Maritime Saturday, Feb. 25, 2017 from 3:15-4:30PM, at The Columbian Center Theater (1102 Marine Drive Astoria, OR). • WE EAT FISH an Inside Passage Waterkeepers film by •Creative Writing w/Jon Broderick – Barbey Maritime Let’s bring together art and activism. Come sing songs with Kendall Rock, Friday and Saturday 2:30 p.m. - Colum- Center Joseph Stevenson and friends, hear poems, and make plans on bian Theater • Singing Circle w/ Mary Garvey and Dick Holdstock - how we can all work together to protect the mighty Columbia Pier 39 River and the waters that we love. The Columbian Theater will • OPEN MIC Friday and Saturday 3 to 5 p.m. sell beverages and snacks. *FisherPoets button required. - WineKraft Saturday 3:15 to 4:30 p.m. • HIKE: Walk a public trail on the Skipanon Peninsula • Columbia Riverkeeper: Songs and Poems and Plans to Former site of the now-defeated Oregon LNG terminal and • SINGING CIRCLE Saturday 10 p.m. protect the mighty River pipeline on Sunday, Feb. 26, 2017, at 9:00AM, at the Premarq - WineKraft - Columbian Theater Center (Warrenton, OR). Don Abing, Recordkeeper of the Chinook Indian Nation Cultural Committee, and Tessa Scheller, WORKSHOPS: RAY TROLL AND THE RATFISH WRANGLERS in concert, Chair of the Skipanon Watershed Council will offer their per- (Times subject to change. Check the FPG website for spectives on the area’s cultural and ecological significance. Saturday night 9:45 to 11 p.m. – Columbian Theater updates). Meet at Premarq Center parking lot in Warrenton, Oregon at 9AM. Wear hiking shoes and bring a raincoat and water for the Friday 3:15 to 4:30 p.m. STORY CIRCLE, Saturday 1:30 to 3 p.m. - leisurely 1.5-hour walk. *No FisherPoets button required; please • Commercial Fishermen for Bristol Bay on Pebble Mine Astoria Event Center RSVP to columbiariverkeeper.org and Bristol Bay’s watersheds’ future – Columbian The- ater SILENT AUCTION bids close Saturday at 4 p.m. – Gearshack (TBD) Saturday 10 to 11:15 a.m. • Global Ocean Health on combatting ocean HANTHORN CANNERY self-guided tour Pier 39, FPG DANCE KLUB acidification and climate impacts Friday and Saturday AND COCKTAILS! - Barbey Maritime Center projections on city •Save Our Salmon and Columbia Riverkeeper on PHOTOGRAPHER COREY ARNOLD FRIDAY NITE • Feb 24 wall, Friday and Saturday nights healthy rivers of the future AFTER POETRY - Barbey Maritime Center ON-SITE POETRY CONTEST, Saturday 10:30 p.m. @ KALA • Song writing w/John Palmes and friends - Pier 39 – Astoria Event Center

Feb 17 hipfishmonthly.com 12 ART@FPG Uganik Bay Paintings by George Wilson @ IMOGEN IMOGEN GALLERY hosts the second solo exhibition by professional artist/fisherman, Take a Self-Guided Tour of the Historic Hanthorn Cannery George Wilson, who resides in Portland, Oregon. Uganik Bay Uganik Bay 7x9 watercolor on paper at Pier 39 •Friday/Saturday opens February 11th for the in 2012 was a return to the light and weather of The historic Hanthorn Cannery is the oldest fish processing plant remaining on the Astoria Second Saturday Artwalk with a reception my Scottish life. Uganik Bay has a latitude of 57.8° lower Columbia River. The facility houses a collection of historic equipment and from 5 – 8 pm. Friday, February 24th from 4 – 6 North and my home village of Portknockie is at documents that is second only to the Columbia River Maritime Museum in the pm, all are invited for a second reception, to kick 57.7° North. Familiar too were the calls of the region. Many of these resources are accessible to the public at our museum, located off the full weekend of events scheduled for Fish- seabirds, Kittiwakes and Arctic Terns and Oys- at what is now called Pier 39, in historic Astoria, Oregon. erPoets Gathering. Light bites and beverages will tercatchers.” For Wilson, even though he was be provided by the Astoria Coffeehouse and Bistro. thousands of miles away from “home”, it was still The exhibition will remain on display through March The Hanthorn Cannery Foundation was founded in 2003 by former workers and a bit of a homecoming, echoing the climate, sights 7th. managers of the Columbia River Packers Association (CRPA) and the Bumble Bee One wouldn’t quickly draw a parallel of career and sounds of a place he carries within himself. He Seafood Corporation to commemorate the work done by thousands of employees shares with the viewer his love of the landscape, choices between the fishing industry and the who worked there between 1875 and the late 20th century. Bumble Bee Seafoods with dreamlike renditions of places that resonate a arts, whether visual or literary, yet it seems more was founded in Astoria, Oregon, and closed its headquarters there in 1981. prevalent than one might assume. Year after year deep and rooted sense of nostalgia. He further de- scribes his experience in Uganik Bay: “Set netters the fishermen who might be poets, or vice versa, The Hanthorn Cannery Foundation is dedicated to the preservation of the history convene in Astoria to share their prose, their short live on shore in “fish camp”, in our case two wall stories, their livelihood with those of us who have tents; we drive skiffs out to the anchored nets four of the cannery industry and the cannery workers. The foundation operates a free perhaps never been to sea, let alone experienced times a day to pick the five species of salmon. I museum located on pier 39 at the east end of Astoria in the oldest cannery building first-hand the hard and dangerous work of being a painted most of this work in my spare time between still standing on the Columbia River, dating from 1875. The Museum displays several commercial fisherman. Likewise, with visual artists picks; after I returned to Portland, I augmented a wooden gill-netters and other craft on permanent loan, canning machinery, and pro- who make their living from the sea. George Wilson few pieces with the aid of my sketchbook. I hope cessing equipment inside the original freezer rooms where tuna was stored before is one of those unique individuals, who from child- they convey the scale and beauty of the landscape canning. The foundation’s goals are to maintain and improve the museum and to hood has enjoyed the beauty, sometimes solitude I encountered.” create a Cannery Woman?s Memorial Park on the adjacent waterfront. and unpredictability of the fishing industry while Wilson who has painted as long as he’s fished, combining that with his other love, that of the visual eventually found himself entering the academic language which he utilizes to narrate his observa- world with studies at Gray’s School of Art, one of tions as a fisherman. the United Kingdom’s most prestigious art schools For his second solo exhibition at Imogen, Wilson located in Aberdeen, Scotland. After graduating brings a series of small and ethereal watercolor with a focus on painting and drawing, he found paintings that depict his most recent fishing season his way back to the sea where his time was shared in Uganik Bay of Kodiak, Alaska. This was Wilson’s between fishing trips and the studio. His work is first foray into commercial fishing since leaving his a beautiful balance of both worlds with one love hometown, a small coastal fishing village in North always merging with the other. East Scotland. About the series he shares, “In the DEEP BLUE summer of 2016, I crewed for seven weeks on a Imogen Gallery is located at 240 11th Street. HRs: set net site catching salmon in the Village Islands Mon- Sat 11 to 5, 11 to 4 each Sunday and closed A Mixed Media Show on Uganik Bay, Kodiak, Alaska. This return to com- Wed. 503.468.0620 www.imogengallery.com . mercial fishing for the first time since I left Scotland New Work by Nancy Cook @KALA Photographer/Fisherman Corey Arnold this year MANY know Nancy Cook as the Fisher Poet who is unconventional in perfor- retuns to project images mance, famous for her 2-person epic “Fish’ opera, performed sometimes in the street, on the city annually at the Gathering. On the faculty Quilt section, from Deep Blue the wall facing west of Clatop Community College Writing Dept., Cook edited and ran the RAIN Magazine for many years, instrumental in it’s developement literarily and visually. Her interest in visual art, no secret. at the corner of Several years back, Cook did an installation piece at KALA, expressly for FPG, and had a rather odd christening at the FPG Dance, torn up and knocked over by overly-excited dancers- Marine and 11th. Now, KALA welcomes Deep Blue, a series of mixed media pieces, new work by Cook, for FPG this year. Quilting, sewing, collage, book parts, and science play a big part. Without further ado, as they say in show buisness - go see the show. IN the KALA Bare Bulb space. Open for viewing from 3pm to 4:30pm, on Saturday, Feb 25, in addition to the eves poetry shows.

13 Feb 17 hipfishmonthly.com Fearless Watercolor Audene Jay at NCRD Gallery

Au Naturel: Nude in The 21st Century ART ON The 11th Annual international juried exhibit Royal Nebeker Gallery Au Naturel: The Nude in the Clatsop Community College 21st Century ist’s studio, some use is on display through the figure allegorically, and others are explora- March 17 at the tions of media through Royal Nebeker Art Gallery, the figure,” Duford 1799 Lexington, Astoria , OR observes. For Thomas Jackson of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, HIS YEAR’S JUROR is Daniel Duford, a risk-taking is a critical 2010 Hallie Ford Fellow and a recent T part of his creative recipient of an Art Matters grant. He makes process. “I often use a comics, pots, paintings and sculpture. His single brush and ink to work has been shown in museums and draw directly from life galleries around the US including MASS without any preliminary MoCA. Schneider Museum of Art, Atlanta pencil sketching to Center for Contemporary Art and Bellevue create a high contrast, Arts Museum. His publications include the simplified realism,” he graphic novels The Unfortunates, The Naked explains. “The thick/ Boy, The Green Man of Portland and a book thin line and various of poems, Wellspring: Poems 1993-2003. His types of marks result writing has appeared in High Desert Journal, from the direction, feel, Parabola, ARTnews and Artweek. In 2012 he and pressure of the curated “Fighting Men: Leon Golub, Peter brush on paper. There Voulkos and Jack Kirby” at Hoffman Gallery is no subtle layer- at Lewis and Clark College. In 2016 he co- ing or erasure. It has been described as ‘working without a net.’ You get what you get the first time curated “Intersecciones: Havana/Portland” and it either works or it doesn’t. This practice forces quick decisions and a ‘just do it’ state of mind.” also at the Hoffman Gallery. He is Visiting However, in spite of the spontaneous execution, there is deep meaning embedded in Jackson’s work, Associate Professor of Art at Reed College in as he describes: “Viewers of these drawings are reminded of body-related social and political issues: Portland, Oregon. perceptions of ideal beauty and society’s pressure to attain that ideal; the relentless use of the youth- Awards to be announced at the reception ful human body in marketing; sexuality, gender identification or ambiguity, body image, relationship include cash prizes, purchase awards, a spe- dynamics, aging, mental and physical health, etc. My subject is as old and universal as Man and cial exhibit award to be held during the 2017 speaks to me of endless possibility.” - 2018 exhibition season, and a select number of workshop awards. This reception is free and open Internationally recognized Portland-based artist Henk Pander, who was born in Haarlem, The Neth- to the public. The College also thanks the Cannery Pier Hotel, the Bridgewater Bistro, Erikson Floral erlands, and whose artwork is represented in prestigious museums and collections across the globe, Company, and the Ft. George Brewery for their support. A special post-reception gathering will be including the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, will be exhibiting three large oil paintings in the show. held at Carruthers Restaurant, 1198 Commercial St. in Astoria, immediately following the reception. “These three paintings were recently painted from life as an on-going group. The model was a close This year, artists from 27 states plus the District of Columbia, as well as international submissions friend of an intimate of mine who died in a horrific car accident in Long Beach, Washington in 2015. I from Canada, France, Germany, Portugal, and Tiawan submitted over 400 images for consideration. have known the model for many decades. The paintings echo the decadent period of the 1960’s still The 2017 exhibit lingering, while recognizing aging, mortality and existential loneliness,” says Pander. will represent 38 artists Highly respected local artist Robert Paulmenn describes his reaction to being selected to exhibit from 16 states plus the his work in the 2017 show: “Getting into any show is always important. It shows that you have met District of Columbia, in the criteria of the judge or jury. So much of what we do as artists is done in the confines of the studio, addition to an interna- much of which is not seen by anyone. Like any job, you have to show up everyday and go to work, tional artist from France. even on the days that you don’t feel like it, if you’re going get things done. Getting accepted into a Selecting artwork for show is a validation of the countless hours working at getting it right. Getting into Au Naturel is sweeter each year’s show from still since Astoria is where my wife and I make our home and I get the chance to show in front of the among the hundreds home crowd.” of submitted images is Gallery hours are from 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday, and Saturdays from 11:00 always a very difficult a.m. - 4:00 p.m. The gallery is open on Sundays and holidays by appointment only. A reception undertaking. Each year, honoring the selected artists will be held on Thursday, February 9th, at 6:00 pm. a different juror is in- Further information about the 2017 exhibiting artists is available online at the Au Naturel website. vited to select the work Direct inquiries to: Kristin Shauck, 503-338-2472. for the show, and each juror brings his or her own unique perspective Top Left: Thomas Jackson, Cedar Rapids, Iowa and approach to the Suddenly Everything Began To Spin selection process. “I Ink and watercolor on paper, signed in pencil sorted through many 26” x 19” competent figure drawings and technically proficient paintings,” Duford reports. “All occupied a Top Right: Right: Henk Pander, Portland, Oregon tradition that began with the earliest Greek Kouros figures, filtered through Renaissance ideas of pic- The Letter torial empiricism and finally through French ateliers and the desire to capture the figure in all its truth Oil on linen • 54” x 64” from direct observation. The humanness is what drew me most to the works I chose.” Bottom Left: Robert Paulmenn, Astoria, Oregon However, beyond the common denominator of the human form, the artists chosen for this year’s Reclining Nude show practice a wide range of approaches. “Some use time-honored themes of the model in the art- Oil • 24” x 36

Feb 17 hipfishmonthly.com 14 ART ON February Cultural Calendar Trails End Art Association Outstanding A Capella Gearhart

Women of AN ICONIC PART of the Gear- hart landscape, Trail’s End Art the World Association has been promot- ing the arts along the North Liberty Theater Coast for over 50 years. Their gallery at 656 A Street reopens March 11 in February after a winter break with an inspiring show featuring WOMEN OF THE WORLD was formed members’ art. The show proudly to bring women musicians from across highlights the talents and the the globe onto a common platform variety of artworks created by to collaborate and create, not only TEAA members. through the sharing of music, but also Visitors will see watercolor, ning vocalist, Bobby McFerrin and African vocal icon, acrylic, and pastel creations. Look to explore and celebrate the differences in ideolo- Angelique Kidjo. gies, and cultural tenets that exist in the daily lives of for the exciting work of Susan Women of the World continues to serve as cultural Bish, Lynda Campbell, Gheri women all over the world. ambassadors of peace and unity through music and Fouts, Judith Frederickson, Mary Honoring global folk traditions, their repertoire has delighted audiences at venues like Carnegie Hall, Ann Gantenbein, Judi Garrity, spans music in 27 languages. Blue Note Jazz Club, Boston Symphony Hall, as well Linda Gebhart, Jane McGeehan, In many ways, the ensemble is a microcosm of the as through collaborations with the United Nations, and Michael Muldoon to name a world, with members working closely together, not Lynda Campbell, , pastel amongst others. Creating the Harmonious Human few. Three-dimensional works by Coastal Morn just to create and perform music, but also learning Orchestra of Life, Women of the World has brought Kathy Karbo, Jane Newhouse and Jim Schoeffel include paper sculpture, fused glass and turned about each other’s countries, cultures, languages, over 200 women from all over the world together to wood items. Noted photographer, Richard Newman, will display some of his most recent work. beliefs and practices. collaborate musically. In the foyer gallery, a wide variety of unique notecards are available along with giclee prints. The 2014 American a cappella champions, nominees good news in addition to this wide variety of art is that the prices make it affordable. for the 2013 Boston Music Awards and 2014 Indepen- PERFORMANCE 7:30pm at The Lbierty Theater. dent Music Awards, Women of the World has toured Tickets On Sale Now! www.box-officetickets.com/ Trails End Art Association, 656 A Street. Winter hours are Friday-Sunday, 11:00- North America and Japan, having collaborated with Liberty/Astoria. Box Office. Wed-Sat 2pm to 3:00, so there are plenty of chances to take advantage of this exceptional show. many industry legends including Grammy-award win- 5:30pm. 503.325.5922 x55.

Saturday 11 Annual Seed Exchange. 11am at the White Clover FOOD & DRINK Tuesday14 HAPPENING Jason Goodding Memorial Concert. With Texas Grange, Nehalem. A Sweet Affaire. Enjoy signature appetizers, MUSIC Third Thursday Craft Fair. 10:30am – 12:30pm at Tribute, a ZZ Top tribute band. Donations at the the Bob Chisholm Community Center in Seaside. Love is Love Community Valentine Party. Live tempting treats, northwest wine and beer tasting, Pretty Gritty. No cover, 7pm at the Adrift Hotel in door go to the Oregon Fallen Badge Foundation. music, poetry readings, card making, sweet treats, Long Beach. La Leche League Monthly Meet-up. Pregnant 8pm at the Seaside Elks Lodge. live music and live & silent auctions featuring and more. Hosted by PFLAG. 2 – 4pm in the lobby many unique items from around the north coast. FOOD & DRINK women, mothers, babies & toddlers welcome. Lisa Prank, The Young Pioneers & Panduhs. No Topics discussed: preparing for birth and breast- at Oregon Coast Community College in South $35, 4 – 6:30pm at the Bob Chisholm Community Valentine’s Day Spaghetti Feed. $12.50, 5 – 8pm at cover, 8pm at the Sou’wester Lodge in Seaview. Beach. feeding, adjusting to motherhood, parenting ba- Center in Seaside. the Brownsmead Grange. bies and toddlers, breastfeeding basics, benefits Pig Honey. No cover, 9pm at the Adrift Hotel in Age of Aquarius Dance Party. Let’s get dressed and challenges of breastfeeding, nutrition, and Long Beach. up and let DJ imcodefour lead you on the dance HAPPENING HAPPENING Speak Not of Love (or Do). Spoken word. 2:30 – weaning. 10am – noon at the Seaside Library. 3 Bands Post-Artwalk Fun Event. With Slim, Pulsar, floor. $5, 9pm at the AAMC in Astoria. Pacific Green Party of Clatsop County chapter 3:30pm at the CCC Library in Astoria. LECTURE and Fuzz Bomb. $5 suggested donation, 9pm at LITERARY meeting. 4pm in room 101 in the Art Building Thursday Night Talks. Mask Maker: Bringing Film the Astoria Armory. Local Author Book Fair. Fiction, poetry, coloring at CCC. and Television Characters to Life. With Christina books and more. Find a great new read and have ART Valentine’s Celebration. Food, drink, and live Wednesday 15 Kortum. 7pm in the Lovell Showroom at Fort it signed while you enjoy gourmet treats. 5:30 – Astoria Artwalk. Free, 5 – 9pm at galleries and music. $15, starts at 5pm at the Seaside American MUSIC George. 8:30pm at the Blue Scorcher in Astoria. other businesses n downtown Astoria. Legion. The Horsenecks. No cover, 7pm at the Adrift Hotel Conversation Project. Fish Tales: Traditions and THEATER Your Heart’s Desire Preview. Art preview and Valentine’s Day Dance and Fundraiser. $10, 7pm at in Long Beach. Challenges of Seafood in Oregon. With Jennifer The Curious Savage. Comedy. $15, 7pm at NCRD silent auction. Free admission, noon – 4pm at the the Pine Grove Community House in Manzanita. LECTURE Burns Bright. Burns will help participants explore in Nehalem. our relationship with the products of the sea Kiawanda Community Center in Pacific City. Listening to the Land. Life in the River. With Derek Valentine’s Day Adoption Event. Find you r new and cultural traditions involving fishing, eating Your Heart’s Desire. An Evening of Chocolate, Wiley. Derek will provide a special screening of his forever friend. 1 – 4pm at Four Paws on the Beach seafood, and understanding the ocean’s bounty Wine and Art. Appetizers, Desserts, Drinks, Art Sunday 12 films documenting the freshwater life of native in Manzanita. and challenges. Sale, Silent Auction, Raffle. $35, 6:30 – 9:30pm at MUSIC salmon in our region. 6pm at the Seaside Library. the Kiawanda Community Center in Pacific City. The Don of Division Street. No cover, 7pm at the THEATER 7pm at the Seaside Library. FOOD & DRINK Adrift Hotel in Long Beach. The Curious Savage. Comedy. $15, 2pm at NCRD Thursday 16 FRIDAY 17 Wine Tasting. Woodward Canyon. 1 – 4pm at the Gaelic Supergroup DAIMH. $25, 7 – 9pm at the in Nehalem. MUSIC Cellar on 10th in Astoria. Lincoln City Cultural Center. MUSIC Spud and the Snake Skinners + 2:AM Pacific. The Horsenecks. No cover, 7pm at the Adrift Hotel Live Music. No cover. 8pm at Fort George Brewery Music all day at the Sand Trap Pub in Gearhart. Winemaker’s Dinner. Woodward Canyon. 6pm at Monday 13 in Long Beach. the Cellar on 10th in Astoria. Call 503-325-6600 & Public House in Astoria. Rock Candi. 8pm – midnight at the Seafood Grill for reservations. June Rushing & Friends. 8:30pm at Snug Harbor MUSIC Lincoln Pops Big Band. $6, 7:30 – 10pm at the Lounge at Chinook Winds in Lincoln City. Broadway Favorites. Free, 7 – 9pm at the First Gleneden Beach Community Club. HAPPENING in Lincoln City. Hollis Peach. No cover, 9pm at the Adrift Hotel in Christian Church in Tillamook. Wahkiakum Fair Flea Market. 9am – 3pm at the ART FOOD & DRINK Long Beach. Youth Building at the Wakiakum County Fair- Art for the Heart Show. 1pm at the NCRD Gallery The Don of Division Street. No cover, 7pm at the Pop-Up Farmers Market. 2:30 – 5:30pm at the Water Brothers Reunion. 9pm at Snug Harbor in grounds in Skamokawa. in Nehalem. Adrift Hotel in Long Beach. North Coast Food Web in Astoria. Lincoln City. cont. p19

15 Feb 17 hipfishmonthly.com theater & performance SAVAGES on Stage! Bigger Than Life . . . Itself! RIVERBEND PLAYERS AT NCRD THEATER STORM LARGE Coaster Theatre This Spring MEMBERS OF THE THE COASTER THEATRE presents Storm Large: In SAVAGE FAMILY are the Concert for two performances on Saturday, March 18, center of action in The at 7:30pm and Sunday, March 19, at 3:00pm. Storm Curious Savage, The Large – musician, actor, playwright, author, awesome, Riverbend Players’ first shot to national prominence in 2006 as a finalists on production of the 2017 Kitty Paino, Bright Moon the CBS shot Rock Star: Supernova. In April of 2011, season at the NCRD Storm made her debut as a guest vocalist with the Performing Arts Center band Pink Martini and continues to perform with the in Nehalem. band, touring nationally and internationally. A heartwarming com- Recent highlights include engagements with the edy, written by John New York Pops, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Patrick and directed by Houston Symphony, RTÉ Dublin, Toronto Symphony Suzanne Jelineo, chron- Orchestra, and the Knights, as well as performances icles the adventures of at the Grant Park Music Festival in Chicago. She Mrs. Ethel P. Savage. joined Michael Feinstein as special guest on the Jazz To prevent Mrs. Savage at Lincoln Center Popular Song series. Storm has from spending what her also sung with Grammy winner k.d. lang, pianist Kirill stepchildren consider Gerstein, punk rocker John Doe, singer/songwriter their inheritance, they Rufus Wainwright, and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer have their stepmother George Clinton. the NCRD kitchen, with complimentary refresh- She debuted with the Oregon Symphony in 2010, committed to The Cloisters, where the play takes ments and an opportunity to meet cast mem- and has returned for sold out performances each place. The Cloisters is not an asylum but a home bers. year thereafter. Storm made her Carnegie Hall debut in May 2013, singing Weill’s Seven Deadly to several gentle people, each with their own PERFORMANCES: Saturdays—Feb. 11, 18, and Sins with the Detroit Symphony as part of the Spring for Music festival. The NY Times called her eccentricities who are referred to as ‘guests,’ not “sensational,” and the classical music world instantly had a new star. ‘inmates.’ 25—and two Fridays, Feb. 17 and 24. Evening “It’s a delightful story,” Director Jelineo said. performances @7pm. Sunday matinees, Feb. PERFORMANCE DATES: Sat. March 18 at 7:30pm. Sun, March 19 at 3pm (Limited seating – only “It shows people working together and living 12 and 26, @2pm Doors open ½ hr before 100 tickets available. The afternoon includes complimentary champagne and hors d’oeuvres.) together—and accepting each other. The play showtime - NCRD located at 36155 Ninth Street Ticket Prices - $75 or $125. Box Office – 503-436-1242 or online at coastertheatre.com. reminds us, in a warm and heartfelt way, that we in Nehalem. each are unique and need to be appreciated by TICKETS: $15 (children under 12 FREE) others.” Purchase at the door or at the NCRD (North OPENING NIGHT Feb. 11, includes a reception County Recreation District) office at 36155 9th TAPA: A Sting in The Tale open to the general public at 5:45pm, upstairs in Street in Nehalem. Call: NCRD 503/368-7008. TAPA with the support of Yo Time Frozen Yogurt and Krazy Kat Publishing, announce the cast of the upcoming production A 24 @ 7pm. The house opens 30 minutes before Sting in the Tale, written by Brian Clemens each performance. and Dennis Spooner, directed by Chris Tickets are $10 General and $6 for kids under 12, and Chiola, and produced by Diane Cross. don’t forget, $5 FRIDAYS. The Playhouse is located at A Sting in the Tale follows two play- 129 West Bond Street in Astoria’s Uniontown District. wrights, Nigel Forbes and Max Goodman, who were once successful crime writers ASOC AUDITION that are now struggling to write their next It’s A Wonderful Life ASOC Original Production of “The Real Lewis hit show. While trying to come up with new and Clark Story, or How the Finns Discovered plot ideas, Forbes’ wife Ann barges into At The Coaster • Thru Dec 23 Astoria”, Directed by Ashley Mundel, with musical the room, complaining bitterly about their direction By Dida DeAngelis and Choreography by lack of inspiration and their drain on the Carleta Lewis-Allen!. A Vaudeville-styled, musical- bank account. Feeding off the animosity of melodrama. Ann’s nagging, Forbes and Goodman start writing the perfect murder…of Ann! But OPEN AUDITIONS: Sun/Mon - Feb 12,13 when the writing of the new play and real- at 6pm at the ASOC Playhouse. No previous ity get confused, their secretary Jill gets theatre or music experience is necessary for any accidently murdered. Star struck Detective of the small or large parts for over 20 actors and Berry arrives and gets mixed up in the TAPA CAST: (from L to R) Richard Coon, Anita actresses. mess. Who is the body in the trunk? Who O’Hagan, John Pickering, Val Braun, Steve Lewis Performance Dates: Fri/Sat @ 7pm, March 31 - gets buried under the guest house? You’ll April 29. Matinees, Feb 9 & 23 at 2pm. The house OPENS February 17 with a Gala Celebration have to buy a ticket find out! and runs through March 5. Fri/Sat shows @ opens 30 minutes before each performance. All New to the stage is Steve Lewis, cast as play- Fridays are $5 for any seat! 7pm, with matinees on Sunday Feb 26 and wright Nigel Forbes. His onstage writing partner March 5 @ 2pm. MUSICIANS NEEDED: fiddle and guitar to Max Goodman is portrayed by John Picker- join the musical crew and add a little spark to the TICKETS ON SALE NOW! As always, re- THE ASTOR STREET Opry Company presents a ing—new to TAPA, but bringing the theater journey. If you have any interest in performing and experience. Anita O’Hagan plays Nigel’s wife, served seating is available through Diamond true adaption of Rudyard Kiplings masterpiece, have questions, please contact Ashley Mundel, Ann Forbes. Anita was most recently seen in Art Jewelers located at 307 Main Street in “The Jungle Book” for youths! Directed by Heath- Director, at [email protected] or last summer’s TAPA hit “Vanya, Sonia, Masha & Tillamook, or call (503) 842-7940 for reserva- er A. Yadon-Ramsdell, featuring 40 young actors. at (503)730-9689. Spike!” Playing secretary Jill, is TAPA’s Val Braun, tions. Tickets: $15/person, kids 12 and under $10. FMI: email [email protected] Show dates are February 17-18, 19, 24-26. Mati- For tickets call (503)-325-6104, or find us online at while Richard Coon, another TAPA veteran plays Detective Berry. or find us on Facebook. nees: February 18-19 and 25-26 at 2pm. Feb 17, www.astorstreetoprycompany.com.

Feb 17 hipfishmonthly.com 16 PHOTO: Janet Bowler, courtesy Partners for the PAC F art happens. The Photographic Nude 2017 Mayhem & Magic at LightBox at RiverSea RIVERSEA GALLERY turns an eye to otherworld- View painting, printmaking, mixed media who practice the art in the ly antics with a group show titled, “Mayhem and and sculpture by twelve invited artists: Ro- medium with the theme of Magic: The Gods and Goddesses Are Back.” berta Aylward, Benz & Chang, Alea Bone, Tara the nude. Artists were asked to depict how ancient deities Murino-Brault, Stephanie Brockway, Michelle This year’s interna- might manifest in today’s world and encouraged Gallagher, Jill McVarish, Jesse Narens, Stacy tional exhibit was juried to use introspection, flights of fancy and irrever- Polson, Meghann Sprague, Deborah Unger, and by Kim Weston of Carmel, ent humor to interpret the theme. An opening Samyak Yamauchi. California and the famed night reception will be held on Saturday, Febru- The show offers a panoply of interpretations, photography family. With a ary 11, from 5:00 to 8:00 pm during Astoria’s both serious and tongue-in-cheek. Astoria art- total of 65 images selected Second Saturday Artwalk, and the artwork will ist, Jill McVarish depicts Artemis, Minerva and for the exhibit from 55 remain on view through March 7, 2017. Terpsichore from Greek legends as three female photographers, the show Deities and magical beings from bygone cul- characters from the television series, Twin Peaks. represents many of the very tures may not be worshipped today, but many Portland printmaker, Tara Murino-Brault explores talented practitioners of the symbolism, mor- photographic fine art nude tality, rebirth and from around the country and power in her etch- the world. ings interpreting Again this year all ac- Medusa, a Harpy, cepted images to The Thomas Robinson Salt and Shadow and the archangel Photographic Nude 2016 LIGHTBOX PHOTOGRAPHIC GALLERY opens Gabriel. Stacy exhibit will be published in Polson, a fiber “The Photographic Nude 2017” with an opening the upcoming April edition of Blur magazine, artists’ reception on Saturday, February 11th artist from Port- www.blur-magazine.com, an online PDF maga- land, decorates a from 6-9pm, thru March 8. This is the seventh zine promoting international fine art photogra- needle-felted urn year of the annual international juried exhibit, a phy, located in Zagreb, Croatia. with Anubis play- collection of photographic prints exploring the ing on his I-Phone artistic and creative view of the body and it’s Visit lightbox-photographic.com/shows/ for and the Pharaoh form, dedicated to the creative spirit of photog- complete exhibit and artists info. LightBox commanding a rapher Ruth Bernhard. offers associate memberships as a way of be- drone. Deborah LightBox developed “The Photographic coming part of the community of supporters Unger, a sculptor Nude“ series to reveal compelling imagery and that help to further the mission of the gallery. from Mt. Angel, the mastery of the medium, to foster apprecia- LightBox provides photographic printing and Diana huntingforcutedogs by Samyak Yamauchi Caladrius, 1928 by Benz & Chang illustrates the tion of the nude in the medium of photography archival framing, restorations and other photo- of their aspects have survived through myth and story of Daphne and Apollo with contemporary and gain an understanding of the theme histori- graphic services. 1045 Marine Drive in Astoria, Hrs: Tues - Sat 11 - 5:30. 503-468-0238 or at legend to influence how we perceive ourselves, figures carved in wood. cally in the photographic art form as well as to our relationships, and the very structure of soci- bring further recognition to the current artists [email protected]. ety. In this show, ancient divinities and creatures RiverSea Gallery, open daily at 1160 Commercial of myth transcend their original cultural identi- Street in Astoria, 503-325-1270, or visit the website ties and adapt to the modern age. at riverseagallery.com. Sacred Art: Alysha Graham Picard Luminaria Arts de la Salandra At NCRD Gallery FEBRUARY hand-made clothing ART WALK AN EXCITING OPPORTUNITY presents itself in March at Lumi- JOIN MARY DE LA SALANDRA, handmade for local art patrons. Alysha Graham Picard, an im- nari Arts clothing designer since 1984, each weekend pressive and soulful artist with local beginnings (she features the 12-5 and every Art Walk evening. View one- attended Neahkahnie High School) will exhibit her unveiling of of-a-kind garments in European fabrics and work at the North County Recreation District’s Gallery collaborative workmanship. Also, be charmed by her limited from March 1-31, 2017. Paintings will be available for installation editions of mohair and cashmere teddy bears purchase through the month. The opening reception piece by and hares. on March 4 promises many delights, from the spiritu- D. Jackson ally inspired art, an Artist talk on the transformational and C. creative process, storytelling from Rachael Pecore, and Bruhn. This interactive audience participation. giant altar is Alysha formally began her painting studies at age comprised de la sixteen when she studied oil painting with Jackie of hand Salandra Wilson on the Oregon Coast. She painted throughout embellished is located high school also working with pottery and a variety of furniture, at 1145 mediums. At age eighteen she traveled to New York stacked and topped with an antique pump or- Commer- to study art at the Rochester Folk Art Guild, focusing gan shelf. Whimsical, happy and meticulously cial Street in pottery. She then moved to Eugene to study art detailed, this magnificent piece greets people in Astoria. at the University of Oregon. Here she took classes in as they enter the shop. 503- 325- Basic Design, Figure Drawing, Sculpture, Silk Painting, and Oil Painting. She then transferred to PSU, Also featuring new sculptures by J. Gibson. 7644 graduating with a BFA in 2007. Her aim is to create a sanctuary similar to the spiritual center she was These voluptuous pieces are cast in cement, raised in, focused on artistic exploration, self-awareness, full spectrum health, and a culture rooted in and suitable for indoor and outdoor hanging. right relation to the environment. Alysha currently lives outside Ashland Oregon. Luminari Arts is located at 1133 Commercial Opening March 4, 6-9pm at NCRD (North Coast Recreation District) located at 36155 9th St, St. in Astoria. Open daily. Music, beverages, Nehalem, OR 97131 · (503) 368-7008. & snacks, ensue on the eve.

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Ceramics by Rose Antaki Jeanne Dana Bronze work word. Eat Local, Read Local PoetryFest 2017 Hoffman Center opens registration Feb 15 Book Fair at Blue Scorcher Friday, March 31 - Sunday April 2 WHAT TWO THINGS go well together? Artisanal breads and books! with Carl Adamshick and Emily Kendal Frey Come meet North Coast authors at the Blue Scorcher. Find a great new read and have it signed while you enjoy gourmet treats. LAST YEAR’S POETRYFEST 2016 was the first 3-day event sponsored by Manzanita Writers’ Series and the Hoffman Center for the Arts in Manzanita. Join the love of books on Saturday, February 11, from 5:30pm-8:30pm at the “All 24 registration spots filled before we could even get a press release out,” Blue Scorcher Bakery at 1493 Duane Street in Astoria. This is a free event for says Phyllis Mannan, one of the event coordinators. This year registration will open readers of all ages. February 15 after press releases go out. Three days of poetry workshops, writing, reading, networking…all immersed in With multiple reading genres represented, there’s something for everyone: the inspiration and creativity that a long beach weekend provides. What’s not to poetry, coloring books, contemporary fiction, historical fiction, fantasy, memoir, like? metaphysical, mystery, self-help, young adult, and more. Featured authors to Event organizers were pleased to see so many writers from Portland, as well as up date: Catherine Al-Meten Meyers, Matt Crichton, Heather Douglas, Melissa Eskue and down the coast join local participants for the weekend in 2016, and hope to see Ousley, Andrea Larson Perez, Angela Sidlo, and Deb Vanasse. a good mix again this year. For more information, contact Heather Douglas at [email protected]. The participants all said they would return to PoetryFest in future and recommend it to others. “I feel very renewed and inspired,” said Jennifer Dorner.

The topics for 2017 are Moods and Modes. Arthur Bradford: Turtle Face and Beyond The workshops will focus on understanding poems as modes of expression. Feb 18 • Hoffman Center Classes will include discussion not of poems of formalized structure like sonnets, haiku, villanelle or pantoums, but rather of poems with a mode and governing ARTHUR BRADFORD WORKSHOP: Bradford purpose like elegies, odes, aubades (love poems about dawn), blazons (poems in is an O Henry Award will offer a workshop during which the speaker describes his lover’s body) and epithalamiums (wedding poems). winning writer and the day on “What Can Writ- Participants will then pick, choose and invent their own modes of expression and Emmy-nominated ers Learn From South Park?” ascribe different tones and feelings to each mode. filmmaker. His writing from 1 to 3:30 pm. has appeared in Es- At first glance this crude The workshops quire, McSweeney’s, animated show might appear will begin with Vice, Men’s Jour-nal, to offer few lessons for the lecture/discus- and many other serious fiction writer, but sion and will publications. His first Bradford discovered that include ample book, Dogwalker, the unconventional way this opportunity has been translated show is produced offers for generative into ten languages. valuable lessons for anyone writing. engaged in creative pursuit, especially writers. He’s published two Carl Adamshick In this workshop Bradford will show clips from his film children’s books, is the author of and discuss which lessons apply to writers in general. Benny’s Brigade and Curses and Wish- Participants should come prepared to write. This is a 43 Monsters, along es, which won the fiction/non-fiction writing workshop. with the current col- Walt Whitman The workshop is held at the Hoffman Center for the lection of short stories, Turtle Face and Be-yond. award from the Arts. Tuition is $40. Register at hoffmanblog.org. Bradford is also creator and director of the acclaimed Academy of Open Mic: up to nine local or visiting writers will read “How’s Your News?” docu-mentary series, versions of American Poets 5 minutes of their original work. The suggested (not which have been broadcast on HBO/Cinemax, PBS, and and Saint Friend, required) theme for the evening’s Open Mic is “A Good Channel Four England. published with Idea That Turned Bad.” Admission for the evening read- Bradford brought his writer’s sensibility to a recent McSweeney’s. Both titles received an Oregon Book Award. He has taught at Catlin ing is $7. Folowing a Q&A with guest author. film project in which he doc-umented the creation of the Gabel and lectured at Stanford University and the American International School in At the Hoffman Center (across from Manzanita Library TV show South Park for Comedy Central. The film, “Six Vienna, as well as being a writer in-residence at the William Stafford Archive at Lewis at 594 Laneda Av-enue.) hoffmanblog.org or contact Days to Air” was nominated for an Emmy Award, in part and Clark College. His work has been published in Harvard Review, American Poetry Kathie Hightower, [email protected] because of the un-precedented intimate access to the Review, The Missouri Review and Narrative. He is a founder and editor at Tavern writer’s room of the show. “The most outlandish and energetic writer I Books, a non-profit press dedicated to poetry and the preservation of books. can think of.” — David Sedaris “This tone of voice, Carl Adamshick’s, is a new one, a voice that cannot be faked and bears the marks of having been earned.” Historical Society TNT Lecture Series — Marvin Bell, judge for the Walt Whitman Award Christina Kortum FX Makeup Artist Ric’s Poetry Emily Kendal Frey is the author of several poetry collections, including The Grief The Clatsop County Historical Society’s Thurs- Mic Performance, winner of the 2012 Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry day Night Talks (TNT) lecture series continues First Tuesdays @ Society of America, and Sorrow Arrow, winner of the 2015 Oregon Book Award. February 16th with a presentation by special She teaches at the Independent Publishing Resource Center, Marylhurst University, FX makeup artist and prop maker Christina Winecraft Portland Community College and Portland State University. In honor of founder Ric Vrana, Ric’s Kortum. Her work has appeared on televi- Poetry Mic and is held at WineKraft, Wily, witty and weird, often haunting, sometimes heartbreaking, [Frey’s] sion shows such as Portlandia, Leverage, The 80 10th Street (on the west end of poems…dive deep, for all their individual brevity. Librarians, and Grimm as well as numerous the Pier 11 Building) in Astoria. The —Dana Levin, judge of 2012 Norma Farber First Book Award independent features. She is also the owner of Ravenous Studios, a makeup effects event takess place the first Tuesday company that supplies custom makeup and props for the film industry. of every month,. Readings are from Fee for the weekend of workshops and an introductory networking evening on The Thursday Night Talks (TNT) lecture series is a free event at the Fort George Show- 7pm to 8:30pm, with sign up to Friday is $165 through March 15 and $195 after. Register at hoffmanblog.org. room in the Lovell Building on the third Thursday of each month. Doors open at 6:00 read at 6:45 p.m. All poetry friends pm, with lectures beginning at 7:00 pm. Seasonal beers on tap, food and other bever- are welcome to come to read and PoetryFest, a program of the Hoffman Center for the Arts is held at the Hoffman ages are available for purchase. Minors are welcome with an accompanying adult. listen. Contact: Mary Lou McAuley Center, 594 Laneda Avenue, Manzanita, OR (across the street from the North Til- For more information about this event or other Clatsop County Historical Society lamook Library).FMI: hoffmanblog.org and/Kathie Hightower, kathiejhightower@ activities, please call 503-325-2203 or e-mail: [email protected]. gmail.com

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ART with performances from across the TPB OUTSIDE Sou’wester Lodge in Seaview. http:// Art Opening. Pop-Up Art Show. 5:30 – repertoire. $6, 2pm at the Lincoln City Great Backyard Bird Count. For more spaceness.com/Event-schedule-1 Cultural Center auditorium. 8:30pm at 302 main Ave, Tillamook. information visit http://www.audubon. HAPPENING org/content/about-great-backyard- HAPPENING Books, Brownies, and Browsing. Book Fisher Poets Gathering. $15 for event bird-count Comedy on the Coast. Featuring Colin and media sale. 10am – 3pm at Grace button. At various locations in and near Moulton and Alex Elkin. $15, 8pm at Episcopal Church in Astoria. Monday 20 Astoria. fisherpoets.org/ Chinook Winds in Lincoln City. Confluence Project Story Gathering Cannon Beach Yoga Festival. Workshops LITERARY Event. Confluence Story Gatherings MUSIC and more. Full Festival pass, $375. Lewi Longmire. No cover, 7pm at the Books, Brownies, and Browsing. Book are story-driven discussions, framed by Individual event tickets are available. Adrift Hotel in Long Beach. and media sale. 10am – 3pm at Grace excerpts from interviews of native elders cannonbeachyogafestival.com/ and leaders. 2 – 4pm at the Liberty Episcopal Church in Astoria. FOOD & DRINK Warrenton. 10am – 1pm. Theater in Astoria. THEATER Ice Cream Social. The public is invited for THEATER Roaring 20’s Speakeasy Casino Night. cake & ice cream + birthday celebration. The Curious Savage. Comedy. $15, 7pm There will be games of Black Jack, Rou- The Curious Savage. Comedy. $15, 7pm at NCRD in Nehalem. $1 suggested donation, free if it’s your lette, Craps, and (for an additional fee) birthday month. 2pm at the Peninsula at NCRD in Nehalem. The Jungle Book. Youth Theater. 7pm at Texas Hold ‘em poker with prizes for top Senior Activity Center in Klipsan Beach. The Jungle Book. Youth Theater. 7pm at the ASOC Playhouse in Astoria. chip holders and best 1920s costume at the ASOC Playhouse in Astoria. OUTSIDE A Sting in the Tale. Whodunit. $15, 7pm the end of the night. $15/ individual and Great Backyard Bird Count. For more A Sting in the Tale. Whodunit. $15, 7pm at the Barn Community Playhouse in $25/ couple. 7 – 10pm at the Heritage information visit http://www.audubon. at the Barn Community Playhouse in Tillamook. Museum in Astoria. org/content/about-great-backyard- Tillamook. Manzanita Writers Series. Author Arthur OUTSIDE bird-count Great Backyard Bird Count. For more Bradford will read from his Short Story Saturday 25 Collection “Turtle Face and Beyond.” Silver Lake 66 information visit http://www.audubon. Tuesday 21 MUSIC org/content/about-great-backyard- $7, 7pm at the Hoffman Center in Manzanita. MUSIC Seaside Jazz Festival. Full festival button, Silver Lake 66 - February 26 + 27 @ 7pm bird-count $95, single day, $60, evening $25. Comedy on the Coast. Featuring Colin Lewi Longmire. No cover, 7pm at the Americana songwriter duet Maria Francis and Jeff Adrift Hotel in Long Beach. jazzseaside.com/About.htm Saturday 18 Moulton and Alex Elkin. $15, 8pm at Overbo combine tight harmonies, twang and an Chinook Winds in Lincoln City. Troll Radio Revue. 11am at Fort George MUSIC HAPPENING North Coast Open Mic. 6 – 8pm at the in Astoria. unmistakable SoCal country sound. Red & Ruby. Free, 1pm at the Columbia OUTSIDE Salt Hotel and Pub in Ilwaco. At The Adrift - [pickled fish] in Long Beach Pacific Heritage Museum in Ilwaco. Great Backyard Bird Count. For more Jose Antonio Rodriguez. $22, 7pm at the information visit http://www.audubon. Lincoln City Cultural Center. Cascade Concert Opera + North Coast WEDNESDAY 22 org/content/about-great-backyard- Chorale. $25, 7pm at the PAC in Astoria. MUSIC Blue Evolution. 9pm at Snug Harbor in Silver Lake 66. No cover, 7pm at the What do you want to sell, or What do bird-count Lincoln City. Adrift Hotel in Long Beach. Terry Robb. 7pm at the Peninsula Arts Pretty Gritty. No cover, 7pm at the Adrift you want to buy? Bring your contact Center in long beach. THEATER Hotel in Long Beach. Evening Bell. No cover, 9pm at the Adrift Live Music. No cover. 8pm at Fort George information to hand out. 1 - 3pm at CCA The Curious Savage. Comedy. $15, 7pm Hotel in Long Beach. Brewery & Public House in Astoria. Regional Food Bank in Warrenton. Gerle Haggard. No cover, 8pm at the at NCRD in Nehalem. HAPPENING Sou’wester Lodge in Seaview. Clatsop County Job and Career Fair. UndeRtoW. 9pm at Rusty Truck Brewery Zuhg. 8:30pm at Snug Harbor Bar & Grill Tuesday 28 The Jungle Book. Youth Theater. 2pm at High School Juniors and Seniors 9am in Lincoln City. in Lincoln City. Rock Candi. 8pm – midnight at the the ASOC Playhouse in Astoria. MUSIC – 1:30pm, adult job seekers, 2 – 4pm. Seafood Grill Lounge at Chinook Winds ART ART Borealis Wind Quartet. $25, 3pm at A Sting in the Tale. Whodunit. $15, 7pm Free, at the Clatsop County Fairgrounds, in Lincoln City. Spaceness. A celebration of time, space Spaceness. A celebration of time, space Camp Winema, near Neskowin. at the Barn Community Playhouse in Astoria. https://clatsopjobfair.com/ and the unknown through experimental and the unknown through experimental Hollis Peach. No cover, 9pm at the Adrift Tillamook. art, media and performance. Free, at the art, media and performance. Free, at the Blind Pandas. No cover, 7pm at the Adrift Hotel in Long Beach. Thursday 23 Sou’wester Lodge in Seaview. http:// Sou’wester Lodge in Seaview. http:// Hotel in Long Beach. Renee Hill Band. 9pm at Rusty Truck Sunday 19 MUSIC spaceness.com/Event-schedule-1 spaceness.com/Event-schedule-1 HAPPENING Brewery in Lincoln City. MUSIC Seaside Jazz Festival. Thursday Night HAPPENING HAPPENING North Coast Open Mic. 6 – 8pm at the Scratchdog String Band. $5 cover, 9pm Coffee Concert. 2pm at the Lincoln City Kick-off party. $10. jazzseaside.com/ Fisher Poets Gathering. $15 for event Fisher Poets Gathering. $15 for event Salt Hotel and Pub in Ilwaco. at the San Dune Pub in Manzanita. Cultural Center. About.htm button. At various locations in and near button. At various locations in and near Astoria. fisherpoets.org/ Wednesday 1 Steve Sloan Band. 9pm at Snug Harbor Duetto. $15, 2pm at the Historic Ray- Guitarology. 6 – 8pm at the Tillamook Astoria. fisherpoets.org/ MUSIC in Lincoln City. mond Theater in Raymond. Library. Open Mic for Music and Literature. Art Cannon Beach Yoga Festival. Workshops and more. Full Festival pass, $375. Sun- Austin Quattlebaum. No cover, 7pm at Pretty Gritty. No cover, 7pm at the Adrift Accelerated Open Mic with Eric Sapping- FOOD & DRINK Lewi Longmire. No cover, 7pm at the day pass &190. Individual event tickets the Adrift Hotel in Long Beach. ton on guitar, writers, comedians, other Wine Tasting. Big Reds. 1 – 4pm at the Adrift Hotel in Long Beach. Hotel in Long Beach. are available. cannonbeachyogafestival. ART Cellar on 10th in Astoria. Friday 24 musicians. Art by local artists for sale. At com/ No cover. 8pm at Fort George Brewery & Yo Time Frozen Yogurt in Tillamook. Adult Coloring Fun. Adult Coloring; Crab & Oyster Feed. $32, seatings at 3, Public House in Astoria. MUSIC Pacific Northwest Professional Wrestling. relaxing music, pens, colors, colored 5:15, and 7:30pm at Norse Hall on Puget THEATER $10, 5pm at the Astoria Event Center. CINEMA Seaside Jazz Festival. Full festival button, pencils, markers and intricate coloring Island. The Curious Savage. Comedy. $15, 7pm Why Not Home: The Surprising Birth $95, single day, $35. at NCRD in Nehalem. THEATER sheets will be provided. 3:30 – 4:30pm at HAPPENING Choices of Doctors and Nurses. A film The Curious Savage. Comedy. $15, 2pm the Bay City Recorder and 6 – 7pm at the jazzseaside.com/About.htm The Jungle Book. Youth Theater. 2pm at Annual Pool-a-Thon. 9am at the NCRD about improving birth at home and at NCRD in Nehalem. Library in Pacific City. The Jacob Zimmerman Jazz Trio. $15, the ASOC Playhouse in Astoria. Pool in Nehalem. in the hospital. 3pm at the Columbia The Jungle Book. Youth Theater. 2pm at Thursday 2 Manzanita Cash Mob. Meet at 11am at Theater in Astoria. 7pm at the Lincoln City Cultural Center. A Sting in the Tale. Whodunit. $15, 7pm the ASOC Playhouse in Astoria. at the Barn Community Playhouse in the Manzanita Visitors Center. FOOD & DRINK Red and Ruby. No cover, 7pm at the A Sting in the Tale. Whodunit. $15, 2pm MUSIC Tillamook. United Paws Monthly Adoption Day. Pancake Breakfast. All-you-can-eat for Sand Trap Pub in Gearhart. at the Barn Community Playhouse in Austin Quattlebaum. No cover, 7pm at This is a great time to stop in and see $5, 8am – noon at the Bay City Arts Three Pound Note. $15, 7pm at the Can- FOOD & DRINK Tillamook. the Adrift Hotel in Long Beach. all the kittens, cats and dogs that need Center. non Beach History Center and Museum. Wine Tasting. Oregon Pinot Noir. 1 – 4pm ART at the Cellar on 10th in Astoria. Monday 27 new forever homes. Noon – 3pm at the Cannon Beach American Legion Evening Bell. No cover, 9pm at the Adrift Adult Coloring Fun. Adult Coloring; Tillamook County Fairgrounds. Breakfast. $7 adults, $3 children under 6. Hotel in Long Beach. HAPPENING MUSIC relaxing music, pens, colors, colored An Afternoon with the Portland Ballet. Cannon Beach Yoga Festival. Workshops Silver Lake 66. No cover, 7pm at the pencils, markers and intricate coloring 9 – 11:30am at the American Legion Hall CINEMA Featuring a demonstration, lecture, and and more. Full Festival pass, $375. Adrift Hotel in Long Beach. sheets will be provided. 1 – 2pm at the in Cannon Beach. Manzanita Film Series. Mostly documen- performance. The Portland Ballet’s most Saturday pass, $210. Individual event Rockaway Beach Library, 3:30 – 4:30pm LECTURE taries from the Northwest Film School in FOOD & DRINK advanced, pre-professional students tickets are available. cannonbeachyoga- Farmer – Chef Connect. Farmers are at the Library in Manzanita. In Their Footsteps Lecture Series. Wildlife Portland. 7:30 pm. $5 admission charge. will perform a 45-minute program that festival.com/ beginning to decide what to plant for Center of the North Coast. With JoshSa- THEATER explores classical ballet training and At the Hoffman Center in Manzanita. the new season. Chefs can help those ranpaa. 1pm at the Fort Clatsop Visitor Sunday 26 The Dinner Party. Comedy. $15, 7:30pm performance. It will begin with a cho- ART decisions along by sharing their needs Center Netul River Room. at Theater West in Lincoln City. reographed demonstration of a dancer’s Spaceness. A celebration of time, space MUSICSeaside Jazz Festival. Full festival for local produce, dairy, meat, etc. Come daily class exercises (with an element of The Jungle Book. Youth Theater.2pm at and the unknown through experimental button, $95, single day, $20. prepared to introduce yourself to the David Drury. 6 – 8:30pm at Bridgewater audience participation), and culminate the ASOC Playhouse in Astoria. art, media and performance. Free, at the jazzseaside.com/About.htm group and answer one of two questions: Bistro in Astoria.

19 Feb 17 hipfishmonthly.com film. MOVIES & MUSINGS FLASH CUTS by Les Kanekuni 2017 Academy Award Predictions BEST PICTURE Hollywood loves films about Hollywood – humble house he and his family live in, turns out not be the Pick: Mahershala Ali (Moonlight) witness 2011’s Best Picture win for silent movie The Artist. La product of his sweat but something far less noble. Other nominees: Jeff Bridges (Hell or High Water) / Lucas La Land, director Damien Chazelle’s original musical for the Pick: Denzel Washington (Fences) Hedges (Manchester by the Sea) / Dev Patel (Lion) / Michael screen has been wholeheartedly embraced by the Academy, Other nominees: Casey Affleck (Manchester by the Sea) / Shannon (Nocturnal Animals) garnering a record-tying 14 nominations, and is a favorite to Andrew Garfield (Hacksaw Ridge) / Ryan Gosling (La La Land) win 10. Opening with the exhilarating “Another Day of Sun” / Viggo Mortensen (Captain Fantastic) BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS number with 150 singer/dancers on a gridlocked freeway, La Pick: Viola Davis (Fences) La Land tells the very L.A. story of two young people strug- BEST ACTRESS In La La Land, Emma Stone bedazzles as Other nominees: Naomi Harris (Moonlight) / Nicole Kidman gling to make it in their respective artistic fields who meet Mia, an aspiring actress who meets similarly struggling jazz (Lion) / Octavia Spencer (Hidden Figures) / Michelle Williams and fall in and out of love against the tinselly-tough back- pianist Sebastian (Ryan Gosling). After an initial hostile (Manchester by the Sea) ground of Los Angeles. Emma Stone plays Mia, a struggling encounter in a traffic jam, the two warm to each other over actress/barista. Ryan Gosling plays Sebastian, a jazz pianist their respective passions and lack of success. Mia is a barista BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY. purist whose pure aspirations are deadending his career. in a studio coffee bar and Sebastian is fired from his gig at Pick: Manchester by the Sea (Kenneth Lonergan) After a rough start, the pair explain their mutual aspirations a restaurant. After realizing they are kindred spirits, the two Other nominees: La La Land (Damien Chazelle) Hell or High and passions to each other, realize how similar they are, and enter a relationship. But when Sebastian takes a job in a pop Water (Taylor Sheridan) / The Lobster (Efthymis Filippou, Yor- then fall in and out of love, singing and dancing against band, it’s Mia who admonishes him for giving up his dream gos Lanthimos) / Manchester by the Sea (Kenneth Lonergan) dreamy L.A. landmarks in a fusion of classic Hollywood and a and settling for a lucrative regular gig. Mia’s dreams of be- / 20th Century Women (Mike Mills) contemporary setting. coming a working actress seem far away after she is quickly BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY Pick: La La Land dismissed from auditions, but Sebastian encourages her to Pick: Moonlight (Barry Jenkins) Other Nominees: Arrival / Fences / Hacksaw Ridge / Hell or writer her own one-woman play to showcase her talents. Other nominees: Arrival (Eric Heisserer) / Fences (August High Water / Hidden Figures / Lion / Manchester by the Sea Few people attend. Mia is crushed and decides to move Wilson) / Hidden Figures (Allison Schroeder and Theodore / Moonlight home to Nevada, but while she is gone Sebastian receives a Melfi) / Lion (Luke Davies) call from a casting agent who attended her play and wants BEST DIRECTOR La La Land director Damien Chazelle very her to audition for a film she’s casting. In the end, Mia and BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY likely will become the youngest Best Director winner at 32 Sebastian find success, but not with each other, which they Pick: La LA LAND (LINUS SANDGREN) in the history of the Oscars. After breaking 3 years ago with each recognize is not a bad thing. Other nominees: Arrival (Bradford Young) / Lion (Greig Fra- the crackling music school drama Whiplash, Chazelle dusted Pick: Emma Stone (La La Land) ser) / Moonlight (James Laxton) / Silence (Rodrigo Prieto) off an older project that he could not get made, and with his Other nominees: Isabelle Huppert (Elle) / Ruth Negga new heat, turned it into the romantic musical on screens now. (Loving) / Natalie Portman (Jackie) / Meryl Streep (Florence BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM As on Whiplash, Chazelle relied on college buddy Justin Foster Jenkins) Pick: Zootopia Hurwitz to write the score and songs which also seems likely Other nominees: Kubo and the Two Strings / Moana / My to win. Chazelle’s own growth as a director was showcased BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR Veteran actor Mahershala Ali Life as a Zucchini / The Red Turtle with elaborately choreographed dance numbers, often in is having a career year, playing major characters in the TV one take, with leads that had previously not had professional series House of Cards and Luke Cage, an appearance in the BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM singing or dancing training. Coordinating real locations, box office hit Hidden Figures and his indelible performance Pick: Toni Erdmann (Germany) scrumptious sets and costumes that winked at classic musi- as a drug dealer with a heart in Moonlight. Ali plays Juan, Other nominees: Tanna (Australia) / Land of Mine (Denmark) cals while still believably contemporary, Chazelle pulled off a a South Florida drug dealer who befriends a young gay / The Salesman (Iran) / A Man Called Ove (Sweden) balancing act that most directors would not even attempt. boy, Little (Alex Hibbert) who Pick: Damien Chazelle (La La Land) is fatherless and tormented Other nominees: Mel Gibson (Hacksaw Ridge) / Barry Jen- by bullies. Little lives with his kins (Moonlight) / Kenneth Lonergan (Manchester by the Sea) overworked single mom, Paula / Denis Villenueuve (Arrival) (Naomi Harris), who is addicted to crack. After seeing Little’s BEST ACTOR Denzel Washington reprises his Tony Award- home life, Juan becomes Little’s winning turn as an overwhelming family patriarch in the film surrogate father, taking him adaptation of August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play. for meals, teaching him how Washington plays Troy Maxon, a Pittsburgh garbage collec- to swim, gradually gaining his tor in the 1950’s who works hard, provides for his wife Rose trust. One day, overseeing his (Viola Davis) and their teenage son, Cory (Jovan Adepo), street dealers, Juan discovers and never lets them forget whose house it is and who’s boss. that one of his customers is While Troy is essentially a good man who does the right Paula. Little rarely speaks, but thing, he is tormented by personal demons that trap him, like just as Juan learns about him, the metaphorical fence he is building around his propety. A Little begins to realize the truth former outstanding baseball player, Troy is resentful that he about himself, Juan and his was not given a chance at a professional career because of mother. At dinner one night, racism and blocks his son’s interest in playing football, which Juan faces hard questions Damien Chazelle, 32, director of LA LA LAND may only makes Cory more resentful. Troy’s relationship with from Little about his being gay, be the youngest to win BEST DIRECTOR in the Rose, while happy on the surface, masks the fact that both about Juan’s occupation and feel trapped in their roles. And Troy’s greatest pride, the whether Paula is a drug addict. history of the Oscars.

Feb 17 hipfishmonthly.com 20 by Les Kanekuni FREE WILL ASTROLOGY Bike Madame 2017 Academy Award Predictions © Copyright 2016 Rob Brezsny By Margaret Hammitt-McDonald FEBRUARY ARIES (March 21-April 19): Once upon a time, Calvin of the Calvin music. From 1978 to 1984, he and his collaborators averaged and Hobbes comic strip made this bold declaration: “Happiness one album per year. But when Mothersbaugh started writing isn’t good enough for me! I demand euphoria!” Given your current soundtracks for the weekly TV show Pee-Wee’s Playhouse, his astrological aspects, Aries, I think you have every right to invoke process went into overdrive. He typically wrote an entire show’s that battle cry yourself. From what I can tell, there’s a party under- worth of music each Wednesday and recorded it each Thursday. I way inside your head. And I’m pretty sure it’s a healthy bash, not suspect you have that level of creative verve right now, Libra. Use a decadent debacle. The bliss it stirs up will be authentic, not con- it wisely! If you’re not an artist, channel it into the area of your life trived. The release and relief it triggers won’t be trivial and transi- that most needs to be refreshed or reinvented. tory, but will generate at least one long-lasting breakthrough. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Many vintage American songs remain TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The coming weeks will be an excellent available today because of the pioneering musicologist, John time to ask for favors. I think you will be exceptionally adept at Lomax. In the first half of the 20th century, he traveled widely to seeking out people who can actually help you. Furthermore, track down and record obscure cowboy ballads, folk songs, and those from whom you request help will be more receptive than traditional African American tunes. “Home on the Range” was a usual. Finally, your timing is likely to be close to impeccable. prime example of his many discoveries. He learned that song, of- Here’s a tip to aid your efforts: A new study suggests that people ten referred to as “the anthem of the American West,” from a black are more inclined to be agreeable to your appeals if you address saloonkeeper in Texas. I suggest we make Lomax a role model for their right ears rather than their left ears. (More info: tinyurl.com/ you Scorpios during the coming weeks. It’s an excellent time to intherightear) preserve and protect the parts of your past that are worth taking Accountability on the Road with you into the future. WE ALL HAVE ALARMING TALES of in a hurry and distracted, they might re- GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Here are your five words of power road users who’ve either endangered us member what you taught them—that is, for the next few weeks, Gemini. 1. Unscramble. Invoke this verb SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): The mountain won’t come to you. or rattled us with rude behavior. One of if they’re a reasonable person, not the with regal confidence as you banish chaos and restore order. 2. It will not acquire the supernatural power to drag itself over to the most frustrating aspects of these en- hostile type whose ire gets triggered by Purify. Be inspired to cleanse your motivations and clarify your where you are, bend its craggy peak down to your level, and give counters is the lack of resolution. Unless whatever (or whoever) they consider an intentions. 3. Reach. Act as if you have a mandate to stretch out, you a free ride as it returns to its erect position. So what will you a police officer cruises by and catches obstacle. Alas, traffic-safety education expand, and extend yourself to arrive in the right place. 4. Rollick. do? Moan and wail in frustration? Retreat into a knot of helpless the offender, you’re left shaking and doesn’t alter somebody’s basic orienta- Chant this magic word as you activate your drive to be lively, care- indignation and sadness? Please don’t. Instead, stop hoping for free, and frolicsome. 5. Blithe. Don’t take anything too personally, the mountain to do the impossible. Set off on a journey to the swearing to no avail. It’s bad enough tion to the world. too seriously, or too literally. remote, majestic pinnacle with a fierce song in your determined that you narrowly escaped injury. What’s The anonymity of the road is a major heart. Pace yourself. Doggedly master the art of slow, incremental worse is that frequently, you can’t do cause of these problems. Like the Inter- CANCER (June 21-July 22): The 17th-century German alchemist magic. anything about it. net, roads are common spaces, and like Hennig Brand collected 1,500 gallons of urine from beer-drinkers, Whenever the subject of regulating the Internet, nasty behavior happens then cooked and re-cooked it till it achieved the “consistency of CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Who can run faster, a person or a undesirable behavior arises, people there that wouldn’t happen when the honey.” Why? He thought his experiment would eventually yield horse? There’s evidence that under certain circumstances, a hu- place themselves along a spectrum that repercussions for being a jerk are im- large quantities of gold. It didn’t, of course. But along the way, he man can prevail. In June of every year since 1980, the Man Versus ranges from external controls (pass- mediate and serious. accidentally produced a substance of great value: phosphorus. Horse Marathon has taken place in the Welsh town of Llanwrtyd It was the first time anyone had created a pure form of it. So in a Wells. The route of the race weaves 22 miles through marsh, bogs, ing new laws and/or more stringently In the old days, when most folks inter- sense, Brand “discovered” it. Today phosphorus is widely used in and hills. On two occasions, a human has outpaced all the horses. enforcing existing ones) to internal ones acted with the same people every day, fertilizers, water treatment, steel production, detergents, and food According to my astrological analysis, you Capricorns will have (education). Then there’s taking matters acts of collective opprobrium provided processing. I bring this to your attention, my fellow Cancerian, that level of animalistic power during the coming weeks. It may into our own hands through shaming the a powerful impetus to toe the line. (Who because I suspect you will soon have a metaphorically similar not take the form of foot speed, but it will be available as stamina, offenders, such as by filming hair-raising wanted to face the small-town world experience. Your attempt to create a beneficial new asset will not energy, vitality, and instinctual savvy. encounters and sharing them online. every day wearing a scarlet letter?) Even generate exactly what you wanted, but will nevertheless yield a All of these recommendations have today, in small communities, one rumor AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Who would have guessed that useful result. their benefits and drawbacks, and some is enough to ruin your reputation. It’s Aquarian Charles Darwin, the pioneering theorist of evolution, might have unintended legal conse- understandable why, when industrializa- LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In the documentary movie Catfish, the had a playful streak? Once he placed a male flower’s pollen under directors, Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman, present a metaphor a glass along with an unfertilized female flower to see if anything quences. (Is that You Tube film of bad tion gave people cities to flock to, many drawn from the fishing industry. They say that Asian suppliers interesting would happen. “That’s a fool’s experiment,” he con- driving or riding free speech or libel?) embraced this anonymity and freedom used to put live codfish in tanks and send them to overseas fessed to a colleague. “But I love fools’ experiments. I am always The regulatory route offers the advan- from scrutiny. I’m happy not to live in markets. It was only upon arrival that the fish would be processed making them.” Now would be an excellent time for you to con- tage of providing legal support should those times and places where noncon- into food. But there was a problem: Because the cod were so slug- sider trying some fools’ experiments of your own, Aquarius. I bet your chance nasty encounter ever formity could earn one hours of being gish during the long trips, their meat was mushy and tasteless. at least one of them will turn out to be both fun and productive. become a case (more likely if you’re sermonized or worse. Yet the price for The solution? Add catfish to the tanks. That energized the cod and injured). Sadly, there aren’t enough this freedom is the same anonymity that PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In Shakespeare’s play MacBeth, three ultimately made them more flavorful. Moral of the story, accord- traffic police to witness every incident. makes aggressive behavior possible on witches brew up a spell in a cauldron. Among the ingredients ing to Joost and Schulman: Like the cod, humans need catfish-like they throw in there is the “eye of newt.” Many modern people The educational route works well when the road. companions to stimulate them and keep them sharp. Do you assume this refers to the optical organ of a salamander, but it your listeners are open-minded and not We can lobby for laws that protect have enough influences like that in your life, Leo? Now is a good doesn’t. It’s actually an archaic term for “mustard seed.” When I in the heat of the moment—attending the rights of every road user; we can time to make sure you do. told my Piscean friend John about this, he said, “Damn! Now I a presentation on traffic safety rather participate in public meetings that make VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The city of Boston allows an arts know why Jessica didn’t fall in love with me.” He was making a than getting defensive at your well-in- certain everyone’s interests (and safety) organization called Mass Poetry to stencil poems on sidewalks. joke about how the love spell he’d tried hadn’t worked. Let’s use tentioned lecture after you caught up to are taken into account; we can provide The legal graffiti is done with a special paint that remains invisible this as a teaching story, Pisces. Could it be that one of your efforts them at the next stop sign. Such presen- education for cyclists and motorists until it gets wet. So if you’re a pedestrian trudging through the failed because it lacked some of the correct ingredients? Did tations are great opportunities to teach to foster understanding and encour- streets as it starts to rain, you may suddenly behold, emerging you perhaps have a misunderstanding about the elements you things other road users might not know, age courteous road-sharing. We can’t from the blank grey concrete, Langston Hughes’ poem “Still Here” needed for a successful outcome? if so, correct your approach and for example, with the combination of a fix hostile personalities, but the more or Fred Marchant’s “Pear Tree In Flower.” I foresee a metaphorically try again. cyclist’s brakes being slower to deploy present, numerous, and well-informed similar development in your life, Virgo: a pleasant and educational than a driver’s and the fact that he/she is different road user groups become, surprise arising unexpectedly out of the vacant blahs. probably moving faster than the motor- the more quickly even these hard cases Homework: Even if you don’t send it, write a letter to the person LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): When he was in the rock band Devo, ist assumes, it’s dangerous to pass the will be forced to acknowledge that the you admire most. Share it with me at [email protected]. Mark Mothersbaugh took his time composing and recording new cyclist only to make a turn right in front roads belong to all of us and unmindful of them. The next time your listeners are behaviors there threaten us all.

21 Feb 17 hipfishmonthly.com network. COMMUNITY LISTINGS have to know how to swim. Games and safety WORKSHOPS/CLASSES informationcall 916-307-9790 or send email to [email protected] or call 503-325-1963 or tips too. For women and men. Tues and Thurs [email protected]. 503-298-8917. INTRODUCTION TO FITNESS PROGRAM. beg. January 5 - February 28, a total of sixteen January 10, 17, 24, 31, and February 7. This classes, from 9:00 to 9:50 A.M. or from 10:00 CONVERSATIONS WITH MOTHER MARY. Weekly Habitat Restoration/Stewardship Work training is designed to get you comfortable to 10:50 A.M. Only 12 students can attend Come and experience the Love and Wisdom Parties. 10 am - noon. Meet at Alder Creek with offered fitness programs, find a fitness each section. The cost is $39.00. Held at KOA of Mother Mary through her channel Barbara Farm, at the end of Underhill Lane between In-Door Super Sale at Johnson Park buddy and gain confidence to pick the classes CAMPGROUND. Taught by Kathleen Hudson, Beach. Every Second Sunday, 10:30 to 12:30ish. Nehalem and Manzanita. Dress for the An invitation for vendors and individuals who wish to partici- that are right for you. You will be guided experienced instructor, with certifications from In Seaside, Oregon. Call or email for directions: weatherand Manzanita. Dress for the weather through Core/Strength, Pound, Cycling, Circuit ARC Water Safety Instructor, Arthritis Aquatic 503-717-4302 [email protected]. and prepare to get outside with great people pate in the 4th Annual In-Door Super Sale at Johnson Park training at the pool and Barre. You’ll get five Instructor Training program, completed A Suggested donation $15.00. Bring finger food on beautiful properties doing a variety of Center on Saturday, March 25thth from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM. customized intro classes and five regular Matter of Balance at CMH, and Aqua Aerobics if you feel so inclined. The gathering will in- habitat restoration activities. For more infor- classes with registration for $50. Jan 10: Intro- training from Pismo Beach Athletic Club. Reg- clude a healing circle, channeled conversation This is a fund-raiser for Grays River Valley Center at Johnson ductions, basic core/ strength intro class at the ister now at www.clatsopcc.edu/schedule and with Mother Mary, snacks and sharing. Park. Johnson Park Center is the old Rosburg, WA school Astoria Recreation Center (ARC), 17: Cycle Class search under Course Title or call 503-338-2402. at the ARC, 24: Pound Class at the ARC, 31: Pool Please direct inquiries to: Mary Kemhus, 503- COLUMBIA RIVER MEDITATION GROUP. building. Items for sale can be gently used, repurposed, Weekly Habitat Restoration/Stewardship Work Circuit weights at the pool, pool intro, Feb. 7: 338-2408; [email protected]. Meets Thurs, 6-7:30pm, Towler Hall rm 306 at vintage, antique, or newly crafted. Barre at the ARC. 6:30 – 7:30pm at the Astoria CCC. Meditation can reduce stress, increase Parties. 10 am - noon. Meet at Alder Creek Recreation Center and Astoria Aquatic Center. health, creativity and efficiency, and lead to a Farm, at the end of Underhill Lane between There will be over 50 table spaces, approximately 5’ x 10’, Register online at astoriaparks.com CLASSICAL BELLY DANCE. Classes held Sun- more deeply satisfying and richerl ife. Led by Nehalem and Manzanita. Dress for the plus room for tents on the lawn outside. The cost for table days 3-4:30 @ Tolovana Community Hall 3778 ordained Zen priest/non-religious. Many dif- weather and prepare to get outside with great 2017 MASTER GARDENER CLASS. Tuesdays, s. Hemlock Cannon Beach. Drop in $10. Every- ferent styles practiced, discussion of common people on beautiful properties doing a variety space is just $10 for the first table space, and $5 for each January 12 – March 23. The 12-week course, one welcome. Info call Sarah 971-601-0127. problems encountered during meditation, of habitat restoration activities. For more infor- offered by the Tillamook office of Oregon State additional space. Lawn space for a tent is $25. Call Donna at focus on deveoping a regualr practice. All mation contact Lower Nehalem Community University Extension Service, will cover soils, YOGA IN NEHALEM. North County Recreation welcome. Trust, 503-368-3203, [email protected] 360-465-2273 for more information and to make your reserva- propagation, pruning, landscape and garden District. Mon 5:45-7:15pm, Level 1 Yoga.Wed planning and design, suitable plants for 8-9:30am, Mid-Life Yoga “leading you into your 7TH ANNUAL JIZO BON FESTIVAL. Saturday, tion. Set up will be Friday afternoon, March 24th. coastal gardening and landscaping, pest and 50’s, 60’s, 70’s and beyond!” Wed 5:45-7:15 pm, August 27 3pm to 10pm.Great Vow Zen Mon- Food and beverages will be available during the sale and disease control, weed management, orchards, Restorative Yoga. Thurs 8-9:30am, Chair Yoga. astery. Come join us for the fun and festivities a bake sale will be provided by the Friendship Circle of the raised beds, and other topics of interest to Thus 5:45-7:15pm, Hatha Yoga. Fri 8-9:30am at our seventh annual Jizo Bon. This special MEETINGS/MEET-UPS local gardeners. Students will experience a Very Gentle Yoga Sat 8-9:30am, Mixed Levels festival includes painting lanterns, Obon danc- Grays River United Methodist Church variety of hands on and interactive training, Yoga Sun 5:45-7:15, Level 2-3 Yoga. 3 different ing, a play, and an informal dinner.The evening GRIEF SUPPORT GROUP. ASTORIA/SEA- including greenhouse techniques at our learn- RYT instructors. $8 drop-in. contact 503- will also include a Ksitigarbha ceremony, and a SIDE. Lower Columbia Hosice is currently ing garden, assisted by local Master Gardeners 368-7160 lantern procession through the Jizo garden. All offering free bereavement and grief support and OSU staff. The program also requires 60 are invited; families with children are especially RIVERSZEN YOGA and Ki-Hara Resistance group meetings twice per month: 1st Thurs. hours of community service work in the first welcome. Donation of $10 or $15 for families 2-4pm@ Bob Chisholm Comm.Center, Meeting Stretching Studio. Located at 399 31st Str. year of training. $120 - $240 at Tillamook Bay or groups of friends, and $5 for individuals, is Rm. 1, 1225 Ave. A, Seaside. 3rd Tues. 4:30- Astoria. 503-440-3554. Over 30 classes, for Community College. 503-842-3433 suggested to cover the cost of tea, lanterns, 6pm, Columbia Memorial Hospital, Columbia Strength, Stamina or Yoga Flow,Levels 1, 2 & 3 Dance Your Joy at AAMC and supplies.Please RSVP to let us know how Center, Chinok Rm, 2021 Exchange St., Astoria. BALLROOM WORKSHOP. January 14. Learn offered from early morning to evening, 7 days many are coming. Qeustions call: 503-338-6230. the basics of Tango and Foxtrot, in a fun and a week. 1/2price for new students first month The AAMC is a cooperative casual atmosphere. 6 – 7:30pm at the Oregon and locals residents first day free.Free parking ART & MINDFULNESS. With Amy Selena KNITTING CLUB. Weekly on Tuesdays 5:30- of passionate professionals • WEDNESDAY Coast Dance Center in Tillamook. Register at and a handicapped ramp is available. http:// Reynolds. Once a month , 2nd Saturdays, 1-4 6:30. Location: Coffee Girl, Pier 39 Astoria. 9:30-10:40am: Gentle Yoga OregonCoastDanceCenter.com who want to share the love riverszen.com orFacebook.com/RiversZen. pm. Deepen your connection with your heart, Community members of any skill level can with Terrie Powers meet to knit at Coffee Girl. We teach begin- of dance, fitness & WINTER BEVERAGES. January 22. With Iris mind, and spirit, play with creativity, find out YOGA –Bay City Arts Center. Classed with ners and encourage everyone to bring their performance art with you. 5:30 - 6:30pm: Pilates with Daire. Participants will prepare tonics and where art and meditation begin. No previous Michelle Lawhorn - Mon & Thurs 6pm. $5 own supplies. If knitting isn’t your thing, we Jude MatulichHall herbal remedies, and receive instructions art or meditation experience is necessary. 342 10th St. in Astoria. per class. welcome other crafts as well. 7:00-8:15pm: Belly Dance with to take home for additions that make them Bring a journal and your favorite pen. All other astoriaartsandmovement.com YOGA—Manzanita, Center for Contempla- supplies will be provided. Class fee:$30 (Note: Jessamyn Grace individualized to your tastes. Tonics include INCLUSIVE MEN’S GROUP. Meets at the • MONDAY Hibiscus Tonic, Fire Cider, Elderberry Syrup, tive Arts, Manzanita Ave., Tuesday 5-6:30pm. No one will be turned away for lack of funds. Center for Contemplative Arts in Manzanita. 8:30 - 9:30pm: Argentine 8:30 - 9:30am Zumba Dance and Herbal Oxymel. $30, 11am – 2pm at the $10 drop-in fee. Call 503-368-3733 for more Please contact Amy if you have a financial Sunday evenings. 5:00pm - 8:30pm. Benefit Tango Practica with JL Gillikin North Coast Food Web in Astoria. Register at information. hardship but want to take a class.) Call Amy from the experience of a more diverse circle Fitness w/Kim Postlewaite northcoastfoodweb.org/events/winter-bever- at 503-421-7412 or email amyselena888@ of men – all ages - all walks of life - all points 5:30 - 6:00pm: PreYoga Self • THURSDAY YOGA IN GEARHART. Gearhart Workout. For ages-with-iris-daire/ gmail.com of view - let’s expand the possibilities. Some Care with Jude MatulichHall 8:30-9:30am: Zumba with Joy more information log on to www.gearhart- of us have been meeting together for seven Sigler BEACHCOMBING CLINIC. January 31. workout.com 3470 Hwy. 101 N. Suite 104 in A SILENT MEDITATION • with Lola Sacks. St. 6:00 - 7pm: SloFlo Yoga with years. Others are new to the process. Either Unearth treasures from the sand and sea. Gearhart Catherine’s Center for the Contemplative Arts, Jude Matulich Hall 6:00 - 7:30pm: Tri-Dosha Yoga way, each man adds to the evening. We all Learn how to hunt for agates, gemstones, Manzanita: Monday Nights 5 - 5:45 Call 368- 7:15 – 8:15pm: 15pm Medi- with Melissa Henige THAI CHI /QIGONG. ASTORIA. Angela Sidlo have connection to a vast knowledge. The fossils, jasper and petrified wood from a local 6227 for more info. tation for Beginners in the teaches Tai Chi at Astoria Arts & Movement group intelligence is more expansive than the • FRIDAY expert. Free, 9am at the 35th St beach access Shambhava Tradition with Ter- in Lincoln City. FMI visit oregoncoast.org/ Center! Mon 10-11, Wed 10 - 11, Thur 5:30 - LECTIO DIVINA • Meditation with Holy Scrip- individual awareness. There is a great release 9:30 - 10:40am: Gentle Yoga tide-pool-clinics 6:30. QiGong, Tue, 12:10 - 12:50 , Thur 12:10 ture. The Center for the Contemplative Arts, and power in sharing our wisdom and our rie Powers (begins Jan 23rd, with Terrie Powers - 12:50. Starts in Sept. Call Angela to register Manzanita: Tuesday Mornings 10-11:30. Call vulnerabilities. We are confidential. We are pre-reg required) IN-HOUSE INVESTIGATIONS: Mediation 7 -10pm: Contra Dance with 503-338-9921 368-6227 for more info. inclusive. We are diverse. Bring Yourself - Be in the Workplace. February 8. With Denise Yourself - Add Yourself to the mix. See what • TUESDAY Dave Ambrose and Live Music T’AI CHI. The Center for the Contemplative Downs. Disputes between employees and LABYRINTH WALK • Grace Episcopal Church, 1545 happens. FMI: Darel Grothaus, darelgrothaus@ (2nd Friday of each month)• Arts, Manzanita: Wednesday Mornings 10- 8:30-9:30am: Zumba Fitness between employees and management can get Franklin St, Astoria, 3-6. Every 1st Sunday. raincity.com tricky. Selecting the right person to investigate 11:30. $30/month. Call 368-6227 for more info. with Joy Sigler SATURDAY the issues internally comes with its own bag MEDITATION/PAINTING FOR WOMEN. March 4, TILLAMOOK PILOTS ASSOCIATION. Meets 6:30– 7:30pm: Beginning 6:00-7:00pm: Argentine LEARN SELF DEFENSE. American Kenpo 1st Sat ea. month at the Airbase Cafe (Til- of issues to consider. Denise will help walk 11, 18. With Mindi Bender. A series of three quiet West Coast Swing with Jen Tango Fundamentals with Karate (Ocean Park, Wa) Private & Semi-Private lamook Air Museum) at 9am for their regular us through the process of selecting the right Lessons (Adults Only, $10.00 Per Lesson. mornings of meditation, reflection and silent paint- Miller Estelle & Celeste Olivares investigator and many of the highlighted business meeting and to promote general Currently Teaching Wednesdays And Satur- ing. The paintings will be your private response to 7:30 – 8:30pm: Level 2 West 6:30-7:30pm: Intermediate issues you need to consider when taking on aviation. Interested in learning to fly? Or days). For Free Introductory Lesson Contact the reading and meditation. Neither experience simply interested in general aviation, come Argentine Tango Concepts this process. 11:30am – 1pm at Buoy Beer Coast Swing with Jen Miller Instructor Jon Belcher At:Phone: 360-665-0860 to the meeting and meet similar-minded in Astoria. Register online at lchrma.org by with meditation nor painting is necessary. All 8:30-9:30pm: West Coast 7:30-8pm: Argentine Tango E-Mail:[email protected] folks? The TPA owns a Cessna 172 available for February 3. supplies will be furnished. $15/ 3 week session. Mini-Practica with Estelle & members to rent for instruction or forgeneral Swing Practice Hour with Jen ZUMBA. Low Impact Fitness for many ages. Register by calling 734-476-6941 use for licensed pilots who are members of Miller Celeste Olivares Licensed instruction. Tolovana Community TPA. tillamookpilots.org. BODY WORK•YOGA•FITNESS Hall 3779 S. Hemlock, Cannon Beach, Call Joy: 503.738.6560 VOLUNTEER QIGONG WALKING AND FORMS. Mondays, THE LOWER COLUMBIA CLASSICS CAR CLUB. BREASTFEEDING INFORMATION & SUP- CLATSOP COUNTY GENEALOGY SOCIETY is starting January 23. With Donna Quinn. Qi- ZUMBA. Come join the Zumba party at ENCORE. Join us for the ENCORE Lunch Bunch Invitation to all who are interested in Collec- PORT. La Leche League’s monthly support embarking on county-wide cemeteryidentifi- group meetings provide an opportunity gong is an ancient Chinese health care system North County Recreation District in Nehalem, the first Tuesday of the month. Questions tor Cars to attend one of our monthly meet- cation and cataloging project. Cemeteries are for both new and experienced mothers that integrates physical postures, breathing Oregon. Tue-Thur 6:30 to 7:30pm/Fri 9-10am. about Lunch Bunch? Call Reta Leithner ings. The meetings are held at Steve Jordan’s among the mostvaluable of historic resources. to share their questions or concerns, and techniques and focused intention. Qigong (Chi FAll term thru Dec. Attire: Loose gym clothing, 503-717-2297. ENCORE is a membership orga- Shop Building, located at 35232 Helligso Lane Kung) means cultivating energy, it is a system non-gripping sneakers, a water bottle & lots of They are reminders of our settlementpatterns in rural Astoria - meet on the 3rd Thursday of to talk with each other about the special nization for people age 50 and older who are joys and challenges of parenting. We practiced for health maintenance, healing energy! Rosa Erlebach – instructor. Ncrd. 36155 and can reveal information about our historic each month. If you are interested and need interested in life-long learning opportunities. especially encourage expectant and new and increasing vitality. Free community class, 9th Street Nehalem, Or 97131(503) 368-4595 events, ethnicity,religion, lifestyles and geneal- the directions to get there, you may call Steve ENCORE is sponsored by Clatsop Community mothers to join us. Healthy babies and 7:30am at RiversZen Yoga in Astoria. ogy. The society is seeking volunteers tojoin [email protected] College, and offers classes in a variety of sub- Jordan at 503-325-1807 members in identifying and visiting cem- toddlers are always welcome at La Leche jects, social events, and occasional educational League meetings. Meetings are held on GET FIT WITH AQUANASTICS Winter Class. eteries to catalog theinformation for future THE ASTORIA CHESS CLUB. meets Saturday trips. For more information, please refer to our the Third Thursday of each month from This water fitness class is energizing and SPIRITUALITY generations. The society would also be grateful mornings at 11:30 AM at Three Cups Coffee website: www.encorelearn.org or contact Mary 11:00 – 12:30 at 320 South Street, Astoria. strengthening, yet gentle on the joints. The forany information from the public regarding House and Thursday evenings at 5:30 PM at exercises are designed to increase range of A COURSE IN MIRACLES . The Astoria ACIM Kemhus-Fryling, Clatsop Community College the Hotel Elliott’s wine bar. Players of all ages La Leche League Leaders are available old cemeteries and burial sitesthat may not motion, flexibility and cardiovascular fitness. study group meets weekly on Tuesdays Community Education Coordinator, 503-338- and skill levels are welcome to attend. For to answer breastfeeding questions and be commonly known. If you are interested, This is not a swimming class and is conducted from3:00-4:00pm at the Masonic Lodge, 1572 2408, or toll free at 1-855-252-8767. more information, contact us at astoriachess- concerns. Megan [email protected] or contact thesociety at www.clatsopcounty- in a 3-5 feet deep heated pool. You do not Franklin Ave. Bring your book with you. For [email protected] or visit our Facebook page.” Janet [email protected]

Feb 17 hipfishmonthly.com 22 lifted skyward. I could see the 1890. I watched the Calvary mountains beneath my feet, celebrate the death of these strong, majestic and filled with noble people. sorrow. White Buffalo Calf Woman We moved rapidly through took my hand, “Never forget time and space. I found myself the message that I carry to Messages in the middle of a prairie the people. Our lives are squinting in the bright sunlight sacred, the earth is sacred and Sonja Grace the thundering sound of the pipe is a sacred gift from mystic healer hooves in my ears and heavy Creator. Do not mourn the loss dust in my mouth and eyes. My of these people for their time guides pulled me to them as has passed. You will help those a group of warriors galloped who remain by celebrating all CIRCLES past us on painted horses. A people of the earth. It is the ONE DAY, while I sat in medita- not bear him a male child and second later and I would have heart and soul of each person tion, I ‘spirit traveled’ to the she went blind in one eye. been crushed. This was South that defines how they will expe- heart of the mountains on the According to local legend she Dakota. It was very cold. rience their journey.” Hot tears Isle of Skye in Scotland. I was was sent back to her brother in We soon arrived at a camp rolled down my face as she far back in time, hiding myself disgrace. She was delivered to filled with Lakota Sioux Indians said, “You are walking a good behind rocks. There was a him on a one-eyed horse. She and moved to the warmth of red road.” She called me by feeling of apprehension in the was tied backwards with a one- the fire. A mist rose from the my Lakota name given to me air - something was about to eyed servant and mongrel dog flames and through it I could by Martin Highbear years ago. happen. Suddenly, I heard a leading the way. This caused see White Buffalo Calf Woman Sobs echoed from my body. loud roar on the wind and saw great shame and embarrass- walking towards me. In respect, No matter where I stood in two groups of kilted men run- ment among the clansmen and I dropped my head. This was time the battles all seemed ning towards each other into her outraged brother swore the Goddess of the people. senseless. battle. Paralyzed by what was vengeance. The battle ensued. She lifted my chin, “I am glad White Buffalo Calf Woman unfolding before me I watched I was astonished that so you finally came here. You will put her arms around me and as axes and swords split open a much blood could be shed over see what happens to men when held me. She told me the circle very real scene out of history. an insult but according to my they lose their respect for the that humans chose to walk has My guides were next to me. guides there were many historic earth.” Tears ran down her face. violence, greed, jealousy and They told me to stay steady and bloody battles fought over I felt a wave of shock pass pride. Bringing these into the and still. What unfolded was what seemed to be small mat- through my body. The 7th Cav- medicine wheel or sacred circle The Lower Columbia Clinic astonishing. I watched as these ters and with similar stories. alry Regiment was riding into of life results in destruction. strong and battle hardened My guides explained that we the camp, not though as history She looked me in the eyes, Thomas S. Duncan, M.D. • Susan L Skinner, CNM, CFNP men savagely fought with humans behave in a circular tells it to disarm the Lakota, but “I hope you can carry this mes- 595 18th, Astoria • 503-325-9131 one another. More than half manner, just like the earth - we rather to slaughter the innocent sage to the people.” fell, the rest walked or limped move in circles to better under- men, women and children. A I watched her walk away away, exhausted and bloody. I stand what we are orbiting and deaf Lakota man was unwill- through the camp. She stood wondered why my guides, who in this case the clans were orbit- ing to relinquish his rifle to the on the ridge looking back have always traveled with me, ing their anger, their greed and military and what could have so toward me. brought me to this place. They their pride. easily been resolved gave way My guides said, “It is impor- told me it was important to see My guides took my hand. In to misunderstanding, anger, tant you understand the battle. history for what it was. an instant we left the ragged resentment and ultimately This circle has existed on earth I learned that the battle was outcrop of rocks behind us. destruction. The warriors fought since the beginning of time. In over a woman married to a Wrapping my cloak tight but all fell. Over 300 died at order to change that circle you man of another clan. She did around me I hung on as we Wounded Knee December 29, must address what is inside.” wordwisdom By Tobi Nason I’VE WRITTEN about every kind of love This type of love propelled those that so different, you’re tempted to exclude available, perhaps, but today, transported slaves to freedom or Jews them. What about those that annoy you this morning, I want to talk about the out of the country who faced annihila- in the workplace? Step back and see the kind of love that runs deep and pure, tion. I see it these days, when many are persons as people you really don’t know. untainted by quirks of personality or mis- realizing that refugees are in danger or Guaranteed, though, is that they have guided attempts at personal happiness. Women’s rights are at risk. You don’t have cared, loved, needed, and suffered like This kind of love never sours, never to be a refugee to feel the fear. You don’t anyone else.. Maybe just like you have. turns on you. It’s the kind you can prac- have to be a woman to want the best for Different details, same story. tice daily to many. It’s the love for human- the women in your life. Daughters, moth- It took that lady in the vet’s waiting ity, in general. It’s the kind of love that ers, grandmothers..... men get it too. room to remind me that we can con- propels you to drop a coin in a bucket, I mentioned my dog had passed away. nect in meaningful ways, if we want to. I listen to a stranger’s lament, or hug oth- That dog, all dogs, demonstrate the suggest that these are probably the days ers spontaneously. kind of unconditional love that we need we want to comfort others. Love, in other This early in the morning, only a few now. Compassion, and recognition of our words. days since my pug Cosmo passed mutual humanity is prevalent these days. away, I cannot think of the right word When I stood in the reception area of the Tobi Nason is a counselor located in for this type of love. I know that it is not vet’s office, crying, a lady from Warrenton. a flashy thing. Dogs display this sort of the waiting room came up and put her She can be love as partof their make-up, but people arm around me and said a prayer. reached at also have this ability to love uncondition- I was not alone in my grief. A stranger (503) 440- ally. It is a hard thing to do, and harder shared my pain. I did not get her name. 0587. for some. If life is a struggle, there is not Unconditional love can also mean

Different Kind of Love much left to love others with.... striving to understand those that seem

23 Feb 17 hipfishmonthly.com Why Suffer? bodiesinbalance By Tracy Erfling, N.D. call us today!

• Auto Accidents Dr. Tracy Erfling is a • Work Related Injuries naturopath physician in the • Sports Injuries Lower Columbia Region. • Second Opinions Questions? Lions, Tigers, Bears, [email protected] covered by most insurance Taxes, Trump, Global Warming… Dr. Barry Sears, D.C. Oh My, Anxiety! ASTORIA CHIROPRACTIC THERE IS NOTHING as disconcerting as with our to do lists and are starting to relax in the stress response cascade. These 503-325-3311 2935 Marine Drive • Astoria feeling out of control of your body. Yet and be restful...how cruel is that? small glands which sit upon our kidneys Safe Effective Alternative Care Since 1981. when anxiety strikes that is precisely the Awareness and exploration of the un- are some of the most overworked in the sensation we experience. Indeed being derlying reasons for anxiety is an essential endocrine system. Ways to nourish these chased by a large mammal would put in step in its treatment. Finding that deeper glands are often elusive to conventional motion a classic sympathetic fight or flight connection to the moment, the spirit, the medical practitioners, but naturopaths response. But for most of us this is not the power that lies within, is a key element. I have some wonderful therapies. Although condition under which the body throws often encourage my patients to seek this there are a variety of herbal and nutritional at us the same sensations. or even hormonal therapies; I would It seems that I am seeing like to focus on lifestyle factors that much more anxiety this establish an important foundation. Adrenals reply upon routine. Try to winter so thought we should We’re not in Kansas anymore? Tobi Nason revisit this topic and try to have mealtimes, bedtimes, work, put our overly excitable play and relaxation times on as Counseling and Mediation Services systems at ease. regular of a schedule as possible. Specializing in Life Changes In Astoria The fight or flight -re This routine will ensure the adrenals call 503-440-0587 sponse serves us quite well have clear expectations for the day, M.A in Counseling when we are truly faced with Well, where the are being cared for and that their danger. The adrenals pump fight or flight response need not out epinephrine and cortisol FUCKING HELL ON OZ be so heightened. Of course good making the heart race, are we Toto??? quality sleep is a necessity for the the breath quicken, and whole body and the hours of 10pm- enhance the senses; all of 4am are ideal for adrenal renewal. which prime our bodies for The final adrenal routine essential is an efficient response. Yet, exercise. Interestingly, the adrenal in our modern lives where response to a walk, swim, bike ride, threats are less tangible, etc. is similar to the fight or flight Tracy Erfling n.d. more complicated and long-lasting, this out through creativity…a way to tap into response but in a much more appropriate naturopathic physician same system is still being triggered. Our the depths of the self that I think everyone way...anxiety management training so to rightful feelings of being out of control of has the potential to access. Whether this speak. the vast unknowns of the future invoke a is something you can achieve on your own When’s the last time you focused on response which indeed gets our atten- or need professional assistance that is your your breath? The use of rhythmic breath- tion but also leaves us feeling, for lack of journey. That does not mean, however, ing at the onset or during an attack will primary care using more elegant term, crappy. The body has that there are not tools to assist the body give the body something to concentrate natural therapeutics not over time adapted a more controlled in squelching anxiety. on, diverting its attention from the anxious system for dealing with stressors, it still First let’s consider nourishing the ner- response. Any practitioner of Yoga or relies upon this old safety system of fight vous system so it is not so sensitive. This Meditation will assure you of the power of the breath. If you spend the time to exer- Call for an appointment! 503.440.6927 or flight...anxiety! can be done with a quality B-complex vitamin taken at least once a day with cise this skill when you’re not experiencing 2935 Marine Dr. • Astoria Anxiety can exist as a general state, a food. Another consideration here is add- anxiety, it will pay back tenfold in your email:email: [email protected] [email protected] feeling directed towards a certain situ- email: [email protected] ation (like public/social interactions), or ing some nervines, herbs which are specific ability to take back control when you are. an attack that seemingly comes out of to the nerves. Consider Oats, Kava Kava, An easy pattern to start is to count to five nowhere. Symptoms of anxiety are not Skullcap, and Passionflower; these each as you breathe in, hold for five, and five the same for everyone but include racing have a wonderful calming effect without out...REPEAT. As you breathe, set aside all thoughts, racing/pounding heart, shortness being sedative. My note on safety here the little thoughts and worries that are try- of breath, dizziness, stomach upset, diar- is to make sure to purchase herbs from a ing to divert your attention and just think rhea, etc. and may for some reach a mental reputable source, and if you have any pre- about counting the breath. state of panic. It is also a rather draining existing conditions that require medication, The next time you feel that bear of anxi- experience, because as you can imagine or are pregnant, seek some professional ety roaring through your body, remember it is directing our resources to escape a advice before starting an herbal therapy. your tools to return to the moment, the seemingly threatening situation. Clearly Another effective plant based tool to have only moment that matters, and find peace. this response is attempting to protect us… around for those suffering from panic but from what? Each must answer this attacks is Bach Flower Rescue Remedy. It for themselves; pain, repressed trauma or comes in a wide variety of applications and DO something you love, BE with some- emotions, lack of control at home or work, can help take the urgency off the situation one you love, EAT your vegetables, or stress from finances, poor health, etc. so that you can be more reasonable in your DRINK clean water, BREATHE deeply could all be potential triggers. I find that response. and MOVE your body EVERYDAY!! anxiety is especially common at night sur- Next let’s think about ways to improve rounding sleep; just as we stop being busy adrenal function, the key endocrine player

Feb 17 hipfishmonthly.com 24 BODY/SPIRIT

- FILM: Why Not Home? Doctors, nurses and midwives who attend birth in the hospital and chose home birth explore risk, safety and CHEWCHEW ON ON THIS! THIS! birth experience in the US. by Merianne Myers STOP WITH THE WHINING BURGUNDY BEEF Serves approximately 6 or 1 whiner IN THE COURSE for several days of some seven decades of living, I’ve 6 strips bacon, cut crosswise into 1/4” strips aka the had occasion to see some lardons things change. Things that were face of 2 pounds beef chuck or round steak, cut into 1” once fiction are now reality. You know, human nature. cubes like space travel and legalized pot and Sadly, vain hopes, like fake news and 1 cup Burgundy wine, plus a glass for the cook MAD Magazine. Alternative Facts are the very distrac- When we’re little, we focus on the tions that leave us stunned to realize 2 cups beef stock necessities. You know, like motor skills where we have landed as a nation and 1 Tablespoon red wine vinegar and staying upright and Highlights for a planet. 1 large onion or some shallots, diced to yield Children. I kind of miss those days, I’m not talking about who’s in the about 2 cups although some things tend to come White House or the fact that the tip- 1 Tablespoon tomato paste ping point on global warming is in the “Why Not Home?”, the documentary that tells the stories of back around. You know, like staying 3 garlic cloves minced doctors, nurses, and midwives who have attended hundreds of rearview mirror or the fact that at any upright. 2 or 3 sprigs of thyme, 2 or 3 stems of parsley, 2 hospital births, yet chose to have their children at home. How given time at least a third of the world Whatever has come my way, life has bay leaves, did these women with inside knowledge of birth evaluate the is at war. You know, the Big Picture evidence and make their decisions? Through the experiences consistently held my attention. Some- tied together with cotton string into a bundle. times it’s the breathless beauty of it all stuff. I’m talking about the Uncivil War of these women, both at home and in the hospital, we gain Voila! Bouquet Garni. unique insights into risk, safety, and the experience of childbirth or the wondrous mystery, sometimes we are up to our eyeballs in right here Zest of 1 orange in America. it’s the feeling that I’m playing an at home. Families, friends, neighbors At one time, home birth was the norm, and hospital birth 1 teaspoon salt endless game of Whack-A-Mole. You and co-workers are splitting up/choos- was the exception. Now, nearly 99% of births in America take know, like now. ing sides/ not speaking over politics. 1/2 teaspoon black pepper place in hospitals. With the normalizing of hospital birth, the no- Seems to me we Americans are not Given that some of us are still ticked off 1 1/2 cup diced carrots tion of home birth carries a certain stigma and evokes fear and about the way things went in the real 1/4 cup parsley, chopped judgment from many. How did we become so fearful of birth adept at the Big Picture. We were in America? Has birth changed in significant ways? Through a not raised to take the long view. Our Civil War over 150 years ago, I hold combination of personal stories and scientific data about safety specialty is taking action, getting out little hope we’ll get it together any Preheat oven to 350. and interventions, we explore these questions and more. something done, chasing the dream. time soon. It will probably take a cata- In an oven proof pot, cook bacon until crisp and Why Not Home was made by Jessica Moore, a Nurse Practi- tioner in the San Fransisco Bay area. The film is brought to the As one who is American to the core, I clysmic event to unite us. You know, remove to paper towels to drain. Brown the beef like an alien invasion. Columbia Pacific Region by Libby Silva of Astoria. In addition to feel qualified to comment. I was raised chunks in a single layer in the bacon drippings the film screening, Ms. Silva will be giving a presentation about by people who drilled hard work and I don’t have an answer. But, I know until brown on all sides. You may need to do this a recent trip to Uganda and volunteer work in a rural maternity one tiny thing. The ‘my way or the responsibility into me. You know, like in batches depending on the size of your pot. Add clinic, and will address the gap between in and out of hospital parents. It wasn’t lip service. It was by highway’ attitude is not workable. We birth workers, as she witnessed this collaboration in Uganda. the wine, stock, vinegar, tomato paste, garlic, salt, setting a high and thus far unattainable are a big, messy country populated by bouquet garni, black pepper, orange zest, parsley, • Less than 1% of babies born in the US are born at home. standard of behavior. So, like many of a wildly diverse, fractious, ambitious, and carrots. Bring to a boil. my fellow citizens, it’s easy for me to independent people who are free to • The US spends more than any other country on maternity care, yet it is the only developed country where rates of maternal overlook world history and our place speak their minds. The odds of us Remove from stove top, cover and bake in the oven mortality are rising. in it in favor of meeting the deadline, agreeing on anything, let alone politics until meat is tender. This will likely take a couple of putting out the fire du jour. and religion are zillions to one. Don’t • One in three births in the US is now via c-section hours and make your house smell really good. Add and half of those are likely unnecessary As a result, I am occasion- like what’s going on? Do something! the mushrooms and cook another 20 minutes or so ally stunned to realize where we have Being mad or mean or scared is right “For the last three to four generations, we’ve highly medicalized until mushrooms are to your liking. Remove from childbirth.”Melissa Cheyney, PhD, CPM Oregon State University landed as a nation and a planet. That up there with vain hopes, fake news the oven. Take out the bouquet garni. Blend flour is not an easy thing to admit. It puts and Alternative Facts when it comes to and water to a slurry and stir into the pot to thicken. SCREENING: Sunday, Feb 19, 3pm – 5:30pm at me squarely in the ‘fiddling while Rome being distracting. Get busy taking ac- burns’ camp. So, imagine my surprise tion, getting something done, chasing Simmer for 10 minutes or so to allow the sauce to the Columbian Theater in Astoria. when I stopped fiddling and found your dream. You know, like Ameri- blend and the flour taste to cook out. myself part of the nationwide cast of cans. I started by making Burgundy Serve with a warm baguette, some excellent soft Mama & Baby Night Beef Stew which is the evocation of a giant All In The Family reenactment. cheese, a glass of the remaining wine and a some • Hosted by North Coast La Leche League everything I know to be true: Good You know, where we’re all rude and greens tossed with a nice citrus vinaigrette made March 4th 5:30-7:30, Blue Scorcher Bakery intolerant. food made with love and shared with with the juice of the zested orange. If you’re still 1493 Duane St, Astoria I have wasted a notable amount of someone is a balm, a gift, a way to This is an open house for pregnant moms and families with ba- whiny about politics, do us all a favor and stay home time wishing we could all be more civil bridge the divide, to share something bies -all family members welcome!! Come meet other families eating leftover Burgundy Beef until you can shut up to each other. You know, like in fiction. real and really delicious. Plus there’s and learn about local resources. Contact: Kestrel Gates 503.453.3777 or Janet Weidman I am aware that particular hope flies in usually wine left over. and get busy. 503.741.0345

25 Feb 17 hipfishmonthly.com Fish Tales: Traditions And Challenges LAST WORD Of Seafood In Oregon Jennifer Burns Bright At Seaside Public Library

On Thursday, February distribution technologies are the most sophisticated they have ever 16, The Friends of the been? Why do we consider seafood more of a delicacy now than it Seaside Library will host has been in the past? In this conversation, food writer Jenifer Burns Jennifer Burns Bright Bright helps participants explore our relationship with the products of speaking about Fish the sea and cultural traditions involving fishing, eating seafood, and Tales: Traditions and understanding the ocean’s bounty and challenges. Challenges of Seafood Jenifer Burns Bright is a food and travel writer based in Port in Oregon. The event is Orford, Oregon. She recently retired from teaching at the University part of Oregon Humani- of Oregon, where she led a faculty research group in the emerging ties’ statewide Conversa- discipline of food studies. She holds a PhD from the University of tion Project and will take California at Irvine and a Master Food Preserver certification. Her place at 7:00 p.m. writing appears in Gastronomica, Oregon Quarterly, NPRs The Salt Oregonians and Eugene Magazine, among others. love the wild beauty of Through the Conversation Project, Oregon Humanities offers this our 363 miles of coast- program to engage community members in thoughtful, challenging line, but finding truly conversations about ideas critical to our daily lives and our state’s local seafood can be future. ASTORIA’S FIRST hard, even on our coast. The US imports approximately 90 percent The Seaside Public Library is located at 1131 Broadway. For more of its seafood and ships out nearly as much to the global market. information call (503) 738-6742 or visit us at www.seasidelibrary.org LICENSED DISPENSARY Why aren’t we eating more local seafood, now that preserving and Friendly Helpful Staff!

•Matryoshka with Cocoa Nibs Discounts for: Fort George Stout Month (+bottle release) * Military Vets 10% It started with a simple enough idea: take a versatile, yet underappreciated style like stout, brew as many as your Released February 8th boss will allow, and put them on tap all at once. This was •All Seeing Pie - bourbon bar- * Senior Citizens 10% rel apple pie stout the idea Jack Harris, co-founder of Fort George, had over •Viva La Stout - Mexican twenty years ago as a young brewer working for McMe- • Medical Card Holders are V.I.P.!!! chocolate stout (some restrictions may apply) namin’s Cornelius Pass Roadhouse. •Polish’s Black Walnut Stout “Nobody else was doing it,” Jack explains. “I certainly wasn’t paying any attention to marketing or filling niches, it Released February 15th was sort of dumb luck on my part that folks really respond- •Kaiju Stout - plum and black ed to the idea of celebrating a variety of stouts during the tea stout cold, dark days of February.” •Keg Nog - milk stout spiced Open 7 Days a Week Throughout the years, as he moved from town to town, he with nutmeg, cinnamon, and took the stouts with him. “It’s the people I’ve worked with vanilla beans 9am to 7pm since then that have taken the idea and run with it. That’s •Barrel Aged May The Oats Be what makes Stout Month such a big deal,” he continues. With You - aged in Four Roses 2 Locations! “It gets more sophisticated, elaborate, and popular every bourbon barrels year.” And now that he has his own brewery, February at Fort Released February 19th 1444 Commercial St. George is forever dedicated to Stout Month, a twenty-eight •Matryoshka with Cocoa Nibs day celebration of the darker ales. Taps will pour invitingly & Raspberries (+bottle release) •Subtle Hyperbole - Candy Astoria, Or 97103 black, overflowing with new stout releases each week, and Cap mushrooms, molasses, all centered around the darkest single-day stout festival in 503.468.0881 • Fax 503.468.0882 graham crackers, and cinna- the world -- the Festival of Dark Arts. mon •Dark Matter - oatmeal stout aged in Pinot Noir and bourbon 65 Portway St. Release the Stouts!!!!! barrels Astoria Sit down for a heady pour or test your tongue on a blind stout Released February 22nd taster tray. New stouts are on tap every week (with 19! from •Nostalgia Trip - sassafras, sarsaparilla, cinnamon sticks, and “Temporarily Closed” Fort George this year). vanilla bean (root beer stout) •Kentucky Girl - Coffee Girl aged in Kentucky bourbon barrels Released February 1st Both serve medical and recreational needs. •Itsy Bitsy Stout - dry Irish stout. •May The Oats Be With You - oatmeal stout •Tuesday’s Lunch - roasted peanuts and blackberries (PB&J Matryoshka with Cocoa Nibs will be available in 500ml bottles stout) on February 1st, the second release from the Sweet Virginia •Coffee Girl - brewed with Brasilian Santa Luzia coffee beans Series bottle project. That’s followed by Matryoshka with from Coava Coffee Roasters Cocoa Nibs & Raspberries on Sunday, February 19th. All three •From Astoria with Love - Russian Imperial Stout Matryoshka stouts will be on tap in the Lovell Taproom that sweet-relief.org •Voluptas - fig & oatmeal stout day. Bottled variations of Matryoshka are extremely limited and [email protected] •Matryoshka - bourbon barrel aged Russian Imperial Stout available only at the brewery.

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