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TWO MEN WAIT by the side of a road for another man, whose identity isn’t entirely clear. Test Drive For director, Karen Bain, it’s a long-awaited pleasure. In May 2015, she was part of the Directors Lab West, a gather- the new ing of international theater directors invited to attend a 10-day intensive lab exploring aspects of stage directing. Samuel Beckett’s play was first performed in Paris in 1953. His light work was the focus for the lab that Bain attended in Los Angeles. “I studied the script deeply and fell in love with the text,” frame Bain said. “I was drawn to the humanity in the absurdity and the comedy in the rhythms. As a director, it’s a huge challenge. It was detroit exciting to find a script that had no easy answers. I knew I had to put this play on the stage to understand it.” Bain’s directing career has been varied. bike “I try to bring a range of work to the community,” she said. “I’ve directed Shakespeare, Shepard, Aristophanes, Rand and themes of 11th and Marine Drive in Astoria dysfunctional families, murder, the intellectually challenged, social 503.325.2961 • OPEN DAILY • www.bikesandbeyond.com philosophies, Iraqi women and war.” The Astoria production features William Ham and Slab Slabinski as the two men waiting, Vladimir and Estragon, with Bill Honl as their mysterious visitor, Pozzo; Parker Fergus appears as a boy messenger. The backstage crew includes stage manager Sue Mey- Merry TiMe Bar ers and costume designer Susi Brown. Ham invites people to attend a performance and make up their and own minds as to what it is all about. Grill “Samuel Beckett gives the audience what it needs and trusts it to fill in the blanks and reconcile the ambiguities by applying their FREE LECTURE: own experiences,” the actor said. “He does not put everything on Home of the Merry Monster! a plate — there are no easy resolutions or revelations. The more Existentialism and Waiting for Godot you bring to it, the more you get out of it.” with Seth Tichenor Bain, the director, describes “Waiting for Godot” as a classic piece of theater. It was voted the most significant English-lan- In conjunction with the Astoria production of “Waiting for guage play of the 20th Century in a poll of 800 playwrights, actors, Godot,” Seth Tichenor, the philosophy instructor at Clatsop Com- directors and journalists conducted by the Royal National Theatre munity College, will give a free lecture on existentialism, Friday, in London. Jan. 22, 7pm, at the CCC Performing Arts Center at 16th Street “It’s from the ‘theater of the absurd’ tradition, which is rarely and Franklin Avenue. produced here,” she added. “I am looking forward to sharing this Admission is free, but donations may be made to support Part- remarkable, historically important play with my community.” ners for the PAC, the group staging the production whose mem- ber organizations are working to keep the building functioning as a year-round performance arts space. North Coast drama students and their advisers are especially invited to attend. Godot Party “Waiting for Godot” was written by Irish author Samuel Beckett January 30 and first performed in Paris in 1953. It spawned the “theater of The Merriest the absurd” movement, while opening up new lines of intellectual Join cast and crew following the thought about the meaning of human existence. Happy Hour January 30 performance of Tichenor has pursued advanced degrees in philosophy from the in town! University of Hawaii-Manoa and in theology from Boston Univer- 7 days a week 4-7pm Waiting for Godot sity. He has been teaching for 19 years, including the University Featuring $3 well drinks, of Hawaii, Oregon State University, Concordia University, Linfield all draft beer and @ KALA. College, and a number of community colleges including Clatsop. Cocktails and Bites. His areas of specialty include the Philosophy of Religion, Clas- a buck off bar snacks. sical South Asian Philosophy, Comparative Philosophy and the “Breakfast served daily until 3pm” All are welcome. Philosophy of Education. He is a co-founder of Philosofarian, a project that aims to make philosophical life relevant to everyone 1017 Marine Drive • Astoria everywhere. 503.468.0852 21 and over only 995 Marine Drive Astoria • www.merrytimebar.com 3 Jan 16 hipfishmonthly.com The 150-Ft Elephant in the Park by Bob Goldberg EMEMBER THE STADIUM DEAL? How about the excess Rcity property sales debacle? Well, here comes another finn wolf of a deal in sheep’s clothing – a new, 150-ft. cell tower to be placed in Astoria’s oldest, historic-landmark park, Shively Park. ware Like Astoria High School’s new sports complex down Wil- liamsport Road from Shively Park, negotiations were held out of the public’s (and the city council’s) eye for a series of deals that would modernize Astoria’s cell phone and emergency Annual January communications equipment, relocate the current tower from near the Astoria Column, and allow the Friends of the Col- Progressive Sale! umn to expand the Column developed area – the same kind crystal & pottery of win-win-win that a smiling Willis Van Dusen declared when dinnerware the stadium deal was announced. ANNUAL JANUARY SALE But the new CMH Stadium, paid for by Astoria’s larg- cooking products est employer, Columbia Memorial Hospital, in exchange home decor Almost the entire store will be: for school district property used for football for decades, was built on a closed landfill site, with the only neighbors Cell tower simulation at 150 ft./Source: Centerline Solutions Annual January Progressive Sale (not sweet treats 20% off January 2-11 being the Recology transfer station. The monopole cell positive that title sounds the best?) jewelry tower proposed by Verizon for construction in Shively Park master plan. The result is the proposed 150-foot tower in Shively 25% off January 12-21 has for one of its potential neighbors Ron Zilli, who is not sure the Park (for coverage on the south side of Astoria and beyond), a pro- Almost the entire store will be: sweaters and t-shirts proposed site is proper, or even legal, for a 150-foot-tall structure. posed new emergency communications complex on Pipeline Road, books & travel Since being notified of the project in September of last year, Zilli and cell equipment mounted on the Astor Hotel (for coverage on 20% off January 2-11 30% off January 22-30 has submitted reams of comments, done his homework, read all the the north side of Astoria). The equipment is already on the Astor music applicable staff and consultant reports, and is convinced that ap- Hotel, according to Zilli, without much hoopla. The city council 25% off January 12-21 35% off January 31 cards & calendars provals from the Parks Board, the Historic Landmarks Commission voted 4-1, with Drew Herzig dissenting, to compensate the Friends 30% off January 22-30 and the Planning Commission were based on incorrect information for the study, last year. astoria souveniers too! .... and drawings, and is appealing those decisions to the city council The problem with all this is that, like the stadium deal and the 35% off January 31 Excludes food, consignment, and items already reduced. Limited to stock on hand and no layaways or holds. at their January 19 meeting. excess property sales, all the details of the Verizon proposal are The cell tower currently located near the Astoria Column was coming out after the deal had already been worked out between Discover Scandinavian Design built by the city in 1989, according to Zilli, and T-Mobile expanded the negotiating parties, some private and some public. Non-dis- the tower soon after that. (Verizon took over for T-Mobile a few closure agreements were signed, talks were held, and plans were 1116 Commercial St. in Astoria • finnware.com 503/325.5720 years back.) It turns out that the Friends of the Column, the group developed, and even approved by citizens’ committees, before which has funded improvements to the Column for years, devel- the whole story was known. With new information uncovered and oped a master plan that includes clearing the trees surrounding demanded by Zilli, the council will get the opportunity to hear from the tower there for enhanced views for those unable to climb the the public about the proposal, and rule on the appeal on the 19th. Partners for the PAC Presents: Column’s spiral staircase. When Verizon’s consultant suggested that the tower be moved farther into the trees bordering the Column For more information, check out comments and photo simulations site, the Friends funded a study to determine more alternatives. posted by Zilli and others on the Astoria Forum web site (asto- They worked with the city, which wanted a new site for emergency riaforum.org) under the Shively Park Cell Tower “hot topic”. And communications equipment, and Verizon – which just as soon come on down to the Astoria City Council meeting at City Hall would keep the Column site, since it is the highest point in Astoria on January 19th at 7 pm. If it’s anything like the hearings on the – to come up with a plan to provide cell coverage, emergency com- excess property sales, you’ll be in for a treat! munications capability, and accommodation for the Column area Samuel Beckett’s WAITING FOR GODOT A WORD: Help support new and exciting changes at the Directed by Wildlife Center of The North Coast Karen Bain IT’S BEEN A YEAR OF LOSS, of change, at www.coastwildlife.org, or by mail to PO Box Waiting for godotand of new hope at the Wildlife Center of 1232 Astoria OR 97103. A simple notation Jan 29-30 • 7pm the North Coast; occurrences which are all of the “Legacy Fund” will ensure that your Jan 31 • 3pm too common to wildlife rehabilitation. With contribution is allocated properly. The Wildlife the loss of founder Sharnell Fee, the last Center is a 501(c)(3) organization and your Feb 5-6 • 7pm few months have been filled with change as donation is tax deductible. Center staff and volunteers focus on learning, If donating cash isn’t your thing, before her CCC PAC leaning on one another, and moving forward. passing Sharnelle began looking for a new 16th Street and Franklin Ave New director, Josh Saranpaa, has risen to the logo for the center. The board would like to by the Board of Directors at the February Astoria occasion to follow Sharnelle Fee. The Center continue that search, and is asking the com- board is pleased to be able to say that the munity for help by opening it up to a contest. meeting. Everyone is invited to submit and Tickets: $15 @ the door, cash or check Center is strong and committed to a future of The winner will receive thanks and adoration, entry, so please help spread the word! helping wildlife. along with bragging rights! Logos should be ABOUT: The Wildlife Center of the North Coast is the FREE LECTURE: Existentialism and Waiting For After many requests from the community 2-3 colors maximum, in digital vector format, only wildlife care hospital on the Central and North Godot. By Seth Tichenor, Jan 22 @ 7pm at the PAC. that Sharnelle Fee so greatly impacted, the simple to reproduce in a variety of sizes and Oregon coast and provides professional medical care Center is pleased to announce the establish- mediums (text, screen print, embroidery, etc.). for all native wild birds and animals, assisting over ment of the “Sharnelle Fee Legacy Fund”. Logos should clearly represent the work of the 2,000 wildlife patients each year. The mission of the Sharnelle dedicated her life to caring for Wildlife Center and the area they serve. Please Wildlife Center of the North Coast is to rehabilitate WAITING FOR GODOT injured, sick, orphaned and displaced native wildlife animals, and contributions to this fund will consult the website for more information with the goal of releasing healthy, viable wildlife back Godot Party Saturday Jan 30 ensure that her legacy of compassion and about the center, or contact Agnes Waliser Join Us at KALA, for an aftershow meet n’ greet, into the appropriate habitat. The Center is a 501(c) caring for the wildlife of the northern Oregon with questions, at [email protected]. Entries (3) and operates under permits issued by the Oregon w/cast and crew. No-Host Cocktail Bar & Snacks and southern Washington coasts is continued. should be submitted to Agnes via email by Department of Fish & Wildlife and the US Fish & No Cover • 1017 Marine Drive • Astoria • Across from Himani Donations can be made through the website January 31st, 2016. The winner will be chosen Wildlife Service. 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Jan 16 hipfishmonthly.com 4 Got Tree? A New Year and a New Reserve Don’t let your Christmas tree go to waste; drop it off at one of many partner locations to be turned into wild salmon habitat.

Inside the Month: WATERSHED COUNCILS FEATURE: The Norblad Reverberation along the north Oregon coast are once again E. Bernard . . .p12 teaming with Trout Un- limited, local Boy Scout Troop 642, CARTM, and Albatross & Co : E Linstrom . . . p11 the North Coast Land Conservancy in an effort to utilize the season’s NATURE EVENTS - p10 surplus and old Christmas trees, wreaths, and garlands. Once collected, local groups such as the Necanicum Water- SPECIAL: FLASH CUTS BEST OF 2015 p22 shed Council, the Lower Nehalem Watershed Council, and Trout Unlimited will place the trees in appropriate locations and let nature do its thing. Within a few days of being placed in the wa- SONJA GRACE REFLECTS ON THE ter, the needles and branches become covered with algae, which Cell tower simulation at 150 ft./Source: Centerline Solutions FUTURE p25 attract aquatic insects, and ultimately feeds salmon. The trees also provide critical cover from predators and can last around five Cape Falcon Marine Reserve Kick-Off Events years. Not only are the trees not wasting space in a landfill, but We’re here, We’re Queer!! p8 they provide an essential functions within our coastal ecosystem OIN THE FRIENDS OF CAPE FALCON MARINE RESERVE and their community LGBTQ eVenTs p8 when placed appropriately. Jpartners as they kick-off this historic event with FREE food, music and fun! LAST DROP: ASTORIA & WARRENTON: Lewis and Clark The 2016 New Year marked the start of Oregon’s 5th marine reserve site, Cape Matt Love got an army - Now What? p10 National Historical Park and North Coast Watershed Association Falcon Marine Reserve, (off Oswald West State Park). Learn more about the new are hosting a drop site at The Colewort Creek Restoration Site in underwater park while enjoying live music, food and family activities. Tsunami Drum- Lewis and Clark National Historical Park. Trees can be dropped mers kick-off the event, with more music by acoustic duo Two Crows Joy. anytime between December 26 and January 16. Look for signs • Saturday,January 16, 4:30-8pm Pine Grove Community House - 225 Laneda for the drop site on the west side of Fort Clatsop Road between Ave, Manzanita COLUMNS the Visitor Center and Netul Landing. You can also join in the “Cocoa and Coho” work party to help place trees on January 16 • Saturday, January30, 4:30-8pm Cannon Beach Community Hall - 207 N Spruce STEVE BERK . . . 6 from 1-4pm. Prepare to get muddy. Hot chocolate and gloves St, Cannon Beach THEATER . . . 16 will be provided. ART HAPPENS . . . 17 On Marine Reserves Oregon’s coastal ecosystem is WORD/Literary EVents . . . 18 threatened by natural and human FLASHCUTS ...... KANEKUNI 22 Informational Forums on stressors - development, erosion, sea BIKE MADAME . . . HAMMITT-MCDONALD . . 23 Emerging Trends and Issues – level rise, ocean acidification, invasive FREE WILL ASTROLOGY . . . BREZNY 23 species, water quality and other fac- NETWORK COMMUNITY LISTINGS . . . 24 Marijuana and Heroin tors are degrading coastal ecosystems and threatening the services and func- SONJA GRACE MESSAGES . . . 25 On Thursday, January 21, 2016, North Coast Prevention tions these places provide. BODIES IN BALANCE. . . . . ERFLING ND 26 Works will be hosting two informational forums on emerging The health of our ocean affects our issues and trends regarding marijuana and heroin. These forums WORD & WISDOM . . . NASON 25 quality of life and our state, regional, are free and open to the public. FOODGROOVE NEWS . . .26 and national prosperity. Oregon cre- The first of the two sessions on January 21 will be from noon CHEW ON THIS . . . MYERS 25 ated five marine reserves and nine to 2 p.m. at Clatsop Community College in Columbia Hall, protected areas in 2012 to conduct HIPFiSHmonthly is located at 1017 Marine Dr in Astoria. By Appt. Room 219. The second session that day will be held from 6 to 8 scientific research and monitoring pm in the Astoria High School auditorium. of these living laboratories to better ADVERTISING INQUIRIES - 503.338.4878 Eric Martin, a noted authority on drug use will discuss current understand their contribution to the Catch coastal acoustic duo Send general email correspondance: issues regarding these two drugs and answer questions. As health of Oregon’s ocean. Two Crows Joy at the events [email protected]. of July 2015, marijuana is legal for retail sales in Oregon. Mr. HIPFiSH is produced on the web at: Martin will explain what the new law means for communities, Why are Marine Reserves and Marine Protected Areas Important? www.hipfishmonthly.com schools, families, and youth. Scientists have developed a strategy for protecting ocean resources by establish- These sessions are a follow-up on two workshops hosted by ing a system of marine reserves and marine protected areas. The goal is to create EDITOR/PUBLISHER: North Coast Prevention Works this past fall to explain the current underwater havens for fish and wildlife that will contribute to a healthy ocean for Dinah Urell law on retail marijuana. future generations, while leaving the vast majority of ocean waters open to current Eric Martin is the past president & director emeritus of the Ad- uses. Scientific studies throughout the world, including those in temperate regions GRAPHICS: diction Counselor Certification Board of Oregon, adjunct faculty and those in regions with rocky reef habitats (similar to Oregon coastal areas), have Buggy Bison member with the University of Oregon SAPP program, and has proven that marine reserves and protected areas help boost marine diversity and Les Kanekuni served on several Governor’s advisory boards. He is state & revitalize the ocean ecosystem. Dinah Urell nationally certified with 29 years as an addictions counselor and Special Features in the Vicinity of Cape Falcon prevention specialist. Mr. Martin is an international presenter and The coastal and ocean waters around Tillamook head and Cape Falcon, includ- Michelle Roth advocate. ing the rocky reef habitat, productive intertidal habitat, important bird and mammal Prevention Works is a local coalition working to prevent youth ACCOUNT EXEC : areas, and deep offshore habitats make these important ecological areas in Oregon’s substance abuse and other risk behaviors such as youth suicide Ryan Sheile Territorial Sea. This site was designated as one of 31 important ecological areas off COVER: Les Kanekuni and delinquency. Members include representatives from law Oregon’s coast because of its unique physical and biological features representative enforcement, education, parents, business, mentoring programs, of high biodiversity, critical habitat for threatened and endangered species, habitats CALENDAR/PRODUCTION substance abuse treatment professionals, social service and important for breeding, feeding and shelter, and sensitive and rare habitats. Assistance/StaffWriter: Cathy Nist healthcare providers, and youth. Individuals can contact Preven- tion Works by email at [email protected] and find Learn more about Cape Falcon and the other Oregon Marine Reserve sites: MAGIC WEB WORKER: them on Facebook. They meet the third Thursday of every - Like us on Facebook at: www.facebook.com/CapeFalconMR Bob Goldberg Social Media: Sid Deluca month 3:30 – 5:00 at Warrenton City Hall. - Connect with Oregon Marine Reserve Partnership: www.oregonmarinereserves.org

5 Jan 16 hipfishmonthly.com The Neocon Imperialist V. the Business Republican by Stephen Berk

he intervened in Ukraine. He accuses Putin with China and other rising economies over Astoria Artwalk AS OF MID-DECEMBER in the TV presidential of the “crime” of trying to break up NATO, the past several decades. Unlike Rubio, 5-8pm • November 8 GOP debates, Donald Trump continues to a military alliance created and now sustained the neocons and Obama liberals, who see lead the pack with a mid-thirties percentile, “Gathering” featuring works by with the specific purpose of surrounding multi-nation free trade deals like NAFTA some twenty points ahead of his nearest Gail Wahlstrom and Jill Merrill Russia with hostile armies and nuclear missi and the TPP as ways of extending American competitor, who is either Florida senator les. influence and prosperity, Trump looks at the Marco Rubio or Texas senator Ted Cruz, de- The forty-four year old senator’s family millions of good American jobs lost to off- Art Cards, Artisan Crafts, pending on which poll you consult. 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Thus he other countries, they promoted US would curb the decades-long race to elimination of strongmen in Iraq and the bottom that has so hollowed out Libya, thus unleashing chaotic sectar- an American manufacturing economy ian strife. Their destabilizing actions that once was the envy of the world. In foreign policy Trump eschews have also ignited ruinous civil war in the Russophobia of the neocons. He Syria, where they are determined to respects Putin and believes he could remove another strongman. work cooperatively with him. In the Neocon sponsored regime change progressive British Independent, has not only killed and displaced mil- dating from the Puritans and popularized Patrick Cockburn praises Trump’s frank lions in the Middle East, but also in Ukraine, during his formative years by the charismatic assessment of the Middle East: “Iraq is a of vital strategic interest to Russia. There actor president, Ronald Reagan. For Rubio, disaster.” “Libya is not even a country” (due Obama administration neocons destabilized wherever our armed forces go, we are de- to regime change). Trump’s slogan, “Make a pro-Russian government, orchestrating a fending “democracy,” never seeking power America great again,” does not mean fascist coup. Russia, which lost some 28 mil- or wealth. This means that if China asserts extending empire. It means negotiating lion due to Hitler’s World War Two invasion power in the South and East China Seas, it trade deals that benefit us, not ones that through Ukraine, moved quickly to reclaim is not acting in its sphere of influence. In lead to more corporate inversion. It means its historic naval base in the Crimea and to a world “benignly” led by the superpower, cooperating and bargaining intelligently back now separatist ethnic Russians under neocons deny that any nation has a sphere with other world powers like Russia and KAREN KAUFMAN siege in the eastern Donbass region. The of influence. Except the US, whose purpose China, not surrounding or confronting them US and its NATO vassals condemned this is to militarily contain “dangerous” other militarily. Trump believes that we have L.Ac. • Ph.D. countries’ assertions of power. action as “Russian aggression.” permitted China to gain free access to our Donald Trump has never been a politi- markets while giving us nothing in return. The neocon goal is for neither Russia, cian. His credentials are those of a billion- He would reverse this by tough economic Acupuncture China nor any other world power to be in a aire real estate developer educated at U. negotiations. At the same time, he would position to challenge the American “super- & Traditional Penn’s Wharton School of Finance. He is a eschew the neocon and frequent liberal role Chinese Medicine power.” To pursue their strategy in the next practical deal maker who admires the art of of global cop. 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The • Q/A with Dan Serres, Columbia RiverKeeper. a significant portion of the Ameri- current Oregon situation in fact was can public is hostile to Washington, preceded by a peaceful protest against NEWS: In a somewhat surprising turn, Oregon LNG whether with respect to expansion of federal regulation of ranch land, only to has withdrawn its legal challenge against the U.S. Army civil liberties and human rights, taxa- have the “militia” preempt it to serve Corps of Engineers. Federal Magistrate Judge Acosta tion, immigration policy, or diplomacy. its own needs. Its leaders never both- accepted Oregon LNG’s request to dismiss its own case This part of the public wants a strong, ered to ask the Hammond family, on “without prejudice,” meaning the Army Corps retains a no-nonsense leader who will take whose behalf the extremists says they valid property right to dispose of dredge spoils over the them out of the cultural and political are acting, if it wanted their support. East Skipanon Peninsula. This news comes as we wait for wilderness, and restore to them (mainly The extremists’ action is reminiscent of the recommendation from Daniel Kearns, the hearings meaning to white male America) the various US interventions abroad that officer who will make the initial call on whether Oregon Astoria’s First Licensed respect and power it once supposedly have occurred without a request for LNG complies with Warrenton’s land use code. had (and supposedly deserves). A it by local authorities or indigenous These issues will be discussed at the Jan 20 Meeting. subset of this public consists of gun groups claiming oppression. Dispensary lovers (again, all white males) who live The so-called militia in Oregon is by conspiracy theories, a distorted no- armed and dangerous. These people Friendly Helpful Staff tion of the Constitution and the Bible, have been spoiling for a fight and, Oregon Bar honors VandenHeuvel for and a craving for violent action against while preaching peaceful intentions, Environmental Leadership and Service authority. They are our terrorists. seem to welcome doing battle with BRETT VANDENHEUVEl, We in America thus must deal with government officials. Its leaders executive director of the unfortunate fact that domestic ter- speak the language of millenarian Columbia Riverkeeper, has rorism is becoming a serious national groups: referring to loyalty to a higher received the Oregon State • ¼ o z . Q u a l i t y T r i m f o r security threat, greatly helped by the power, professing to act on behalf of Bar’s Leadership and Service provocative rhetoric of the leading “the people,” vowing violence only if Award. only $15 Republican presidential candidates. provoked. This is the familiar language In a media release from Since 9/11, “non-Islamic extremists” of terror groups which, while to some Riverkeeper, it was noted actually account for more lives lost than degree reflecting a larger public anger, that the award recognizes • Discounts for: “Islamic extremists,” by 48 to 45. Yet, exploit it to further its own ambi- persons who provide this predominantly white, male, Chris- tions. The Oregon group would like “leadership, service, and tian terrorism invariably escapes being nothing better than to be joined by outstanding contributions - Military Vets 10% labeled as such. Instead, the mass more far-right antigovernment outfits in the areas of environmen- media uses more polite language, as a means of self-justification. It’s tal and natural resources - Senior Citizens 10% such as “militia men” and “armed a microcosm of the ISIS end-of-days law.” activists”—words that probably would perspective. VandenHeuvel leads not be applied if the terrorists were Local and federal law enforcement Riverkeeper’s legal and policy work to protect clean water. • Medical Card Holders American Indians, African Americans, will need to confront these people at “Brett is more than deserving of this prestigious award,” said Jews, or of course Muslims. As Janell some point, hopefully with Waco and Chris Winter, Co-Executive Director of Crag Law Center and mem- Ross writes in the Washington Post, Ruby Ridge in mind and therefore ber of the Executive Committee of the Bar’s Environmental and are V.I.P. !!!!! “The descriptions of events in Oregon without violence. There are plenty Natural Resources Committee, which made the selection. appear to reflect the usual shape of of options, including cutting off the “He has a long and distinguished track record of advocating on our collective assumptions about the group’s water, power, and telephone to behalf of the public interest in conservation of the Columbia River relationship between race and guilt— isolate it. A negotiated solution also ecosystem, and he also exemplifies professionalism in the legal or religion and violent extremism—in seems possible, one that trades the profession.” The ENR selected VandenHeuvel from its 460 statewide 7 Days a Week the United States.” group’s willingness to end its occupa- members. Which brings me to the current situa- tion in return for no prosecution. The “This award reflects the work of our top-tier legal team at 9am – 7pm tion in rural Oregon’s Malheur National federal authorities also might consider Columbia Riverkeeper, which brings successful legal actions to Forest Refuge. A small group of self- reducing the sentences of the two protect clean water and our climate,” VandenHeuvel said in the 503.468.0881 styled “militia” seems to think that an Hammond family members who have news release. armed occupation is the only alterna- been returned to jail. Their five-year Columbia Riverkeeper recently prevailed to force eight large Fax 503.468.0882 tive when complaints against govern- sentences do seem excessive, for dams, for the first time, to reduce toxic oil pollution, an accom- ment are not satisfactorily addressed. range-fire arsonists. A sentence reduc- plishment that the New York Times called historic and the Wall But that is nonsense: peaceful protest, tion would calm public resentment in Street Journal called groundbreaking. passive resistance, elections, petitions, that county and take the ground out Riverkeeper in its news release said VandenHeuvel has led the sweet-relief.org and recalls are all available. Four years from under the terrorists. group’s “efforts to establish stronger limits on toxic pollution and ago, when the Occupy movement was protect our region and climate from fossil fuel export terminals.” sweetreliefastoria@ VandenHeuvel thanked the Oregon State Bar and the lawyers gmail.com Mel Gurtov, syndicated by PeaceVoice, is Professor Emeritus of Political Science who practice environmental law: “Oregon is renowned for strong at Portland State University and blogs at In the Human Interest. environmental lawyers, and I’m honored to accept this award from my outstanding peers.” 1444 Commercial St. PeaceVoice is a project of the Oregon Peace Institute and is an idea whose time VandenHeuvel previously started a public interest law practice, has come. PeaceVoice is devoted to changing U.S. national conversation about researched climate change during expeditions to Antarctica and Astoria, Or 97103 the possibilities of peace and the inadvisability of war. New Zealand, and taught science to kids at OMSI field stations throughout Oregon. www.peacevoice.info

7 Jan 16 hipfishmonthly.com QFolk~ LGBTQ Events Volunteer with The Harbor! Big Gay Skate Night New Volunteer Training Scheduled to start January 12 Get your gay skate on! HAVE YOU BEEN LOOKING for a way to give back to your community? Do you want to help individuals who have been affected by domestic violence and/or sexual assault? Are you looking for a way to increase job Astoria Armory- 1636 Exchange Street skills, while doing work that makes a difference in your community? Saturday January 23rd 9pm-11pm Volunteer Training begins January 12th. Class will be held Tues- days and Thursdays from 5:30pm to 8:30pm. Come learn the basics in Compassionate Communication, Crisis Intervention, Active Listening, the The Lower Columbia Q Center and the Astoria Armory are impact of Oppression on individuals and communities, DV and the Law hosting gay skate night again! This is quickly becoming an and more. The training includes educators from the Harbor as well as anticipated local event. All ages are welcome. Entry is $3.00 experienced guest speakers from the community. and $3.00 for skate rental. Proceeds support the efforts of We currently have volunteer opportunities at the shelter, during com- creating a safe space for LGBTIQ individuals in Clatsop County munity events and special projects. Some volunteers work in our client and beyond. Donations in excess of entry fee are welcomed service office, Déjà Vu’s donation center, and as ongoing advocates for and appreciated. Costumes and bright colors are encouraged. individuals accessing services. Come support your local LGBTIQ community and have a night All volunteers will need to attend the first training January 12, 2016. to remember. Training requirements vary depending on the type of volunteer position. Contact Chris, Volunteer Coordinator, at 503-325-3426, or stop by our While the Q Center meets in Astoria we welcome all interested office at 1361 Duane St, Astoria to pick up your volunteer packet. individuals in the Lower Columbia Region to participate. Career Skills Readiness Course The Harbor is offering a career skills readiness course for all current and Lower Columbia Q Center potential clients. Participants will meet on Fridays at 10:00am-11:30am at The Harbors Peer Center. Some materials covered in this course include: communication skills, creating a resume, professional manner and attire, Meeting and accessing community resources. These skills are vital to men and Astoria Armory - 1636 Exchange Street Astoria, women fleeing intimate partner violence as they seek autonomy. A recent This Way Out marks almost 30 years on the air! Wednesday, January 20th 6pm-8pm study found that between 21 to 60 percent of victims of domestic vio- Our first program was distributed on April 1, 1988. lence lose their jobs due to reasons associated with abuse . Furthermore, Attention all LGBTIQ community members and allies! We will many victims are isolated within the home, limiting their employment ex- It’s the award-winning internationally distributed be meeting at the Astoria Armory to discuss the great strides perience and skills. At the end of this nine week session the program will weekly GLBT radio program, currently airing on over we have made in our efforts to build awareness, community, start over again. The first class will be on January 19th. Please direct any questions about the program to Meredith Payton at Meredith@harbornw. 150 local commmunity radio stations around the educational opportunities and pride, as well as future endeav- ors to increase safety, visibility and support services in Clatsop org or (503) 325-3426. world. County and beyond. Something often said in the LGBTIQ community is that “we get to choose our family”. We want to Get the latest news, listen to This Way Out on Coast extend a welcome to the people of the Lower Columbia Region It’s An Election Year! Community Radio. to join our family. Please attend this meeting to see how you Meet for coffee and fun discussing can help. Local, Statewide, and National - Mission: The Lower Columbia Q Center is a safe and welcoming resource and peer support service for the LGBTIQ community, Clatsop County Democrats friends, family, and allies of the Lower Columbia Region. Meet January 25 Join the Clatsop County Dems for a special pre-meeting 30 minutes only The Coaster Theatre Playhouse Presents Lower Columbia Gender lively discussion of candidates – local and afar, the caucuses, primaries and the debates! Quizzes and prizes too.

Alliance/Trans Support Doors open: 6:15 pm. Election Year Fun: 6:30 – 7:00 The Lower Columbia Gender Alliance holds peer support group Regular meeting begins 7:00 Agenda items include: meetings on the third Thursday of each month. Meetings are 7:00 – 7:15 Brett Thomas – Renew Oregon Ballot Initiative - {regarding open to transgender, gender queer, questioning and family Coal} members or partners. Meetings will be at 6:30 pm at the Q 7:15 – 7:45 Legislative Agenda Items for the State Convention center. For Information call Jeralyn O’Brien @ 503-341-3777 7:45 – 8:00 Election of Delegates to the State Convention

Also on the agenda: Announcing details and recruiting volunteers for Monthly LGBTQ Events CCDCC’s Saturday, April 2, 2016 Spring FunRaiser! At the Astoria Events Center 5-8 PM in Lincoln County New people encouraged to attend. Clatsop County Democrats meet at the Astoria Yacht Club, located on - 1st Wed of ea. month, 7pm is Trans Parents Coffee Hour the second floor of the building immediately to the east of the former As- at the Chalet in Newport. toria Riverwalk Inn and above Tiki Tours. Access is by the external staircase - 2nd Tues. ea month, 4pm is LGBT+ & Allies Happy Hour January 29 - February 20, 2016 on the north/beautiful Columbia River side of the building overlooking the at Georgie’s in Newport. West Mooring Basin. - 2nd Wed. ea month - 6pm to 7:30pm PFLAG Group at Tickets $20 or $15 More information available at www.ClatsopDemocrats.org Performances begin at 7:30 p.m. St. Stephen’s at 9th and Hurbert in Newport. - 4th Sun of ea month, 11am is OUT OR Coast Women’s All Sunday shows begin at 3:00 p.m. Coffee at Cafe Mundo in Newport. PACIFIC COUNTY DEMOCRATS Sponsored by Mike & Tracey Clark February 1, 2pm - 4pm, Love is Love Party, OCCC Com- Monday, February 8, 2016 - 7:00pm mons. North County Annex Tickets: 503-436-1242 or coastertheatre.com To connect with Oregon Central Coast Chapter of PFLAG, 1216 Robert Bush Drive, South Bend, WA 108 N Hemlock Street, Cannon Beach, OR call (541)265-7194, email: [email protected]

Jan 16 hipfishmonthly.com 8 NATURE Beach Pride!! Listening to the Land: 2016 Beach Clean Up Anticipating the Impact of on the WA Peninsula Climate Change Jan 16 WE KNOW RISING SEAS will cause coastal erosion. But in what other ways will climate change impact life in Oregon—on the coast in particular? Join climatolo- gist John Stevenson as he kicks off the 2016 season of Listening to the Land presentations, focused on the theme of water. “Climate Change and the Coast” begins at 6 pm on Wednesday, Jan. 20, at the Seaside Public Library. Admission is free. Refresh- Timing is Everything! ments will be served. OVER THE PAST 12 plus years, through A warming climate is Plants’ Response to Climate Change tens of thousands of volunteer hours, already affecting life in over 250 tons of debris have been Oregon, Stevenson says. and How You Can Help removed from 28 miles of WA, Peninsula Higher seas will mean Thursday Jan 21 Beaches. The GrassRoots Garbage Gang, changes to the shoreline (a not-for-profit 501c3 begun by concerned and damage to coastal struc- in coastal hazards, water resources, NATURE MATTERS presents an evening Student Conservation Association (SCA) citizens) gets busy each January, April and tures. The impacts are being felt and forest disturbance. Previously of conversation about observation, citi- to fully immerse herself in community July, when hundreds of volunteers, with upstream too, in the watersheds he worked with Portland-based support from local businesses and State or- Ecotrust to map critical fishing zen science and phenology – the study outreach, education, and youth leader- that support our fisheries, and of cyclic and seasonal change at Astoria’s ganizations go out to gather the garbage, grounds off the Oregon Coast in ship. Since her initial involvement with across the mountains where most Fort George Brewery. and half the volunteers come from outside Oregonians live. But the news isn’t a process to site renewable ocean the SCA she finds more pleasure in The explorers Meriwether Lewis and Pacific County, and all over the Northwest. all doom and gloom, Stevenson energy. Before moving to Oregon, William Clark were some of America’s hiking, photographing the outdoors, and Join the Garbage Gang this January says. It’s his job to ask what we Stevenson worked on fisheries and first scientific observers, making notes philosophizing. 16. Arrive at any major beach approach need to do to ensure that the ocean planning issues for NOAA in at 9:30am to sign in and pick up supplies, and sketches about plants and animals In summer 2015, she came to Lewis things we care about will remain Silver Springs, Maryland. He has a or sign up for an adopt-a-beach group. master’s degree in marine resource to share with Thomas Jefferson and an and Clark National Historical Park as viable. It turns out, Stevenson emerging nation. Today scientific obser- Family, friends, and organizations, team up says, that the choices we make management from Oregon State It’s An Election Year! part of the NPS Academy, a program vation continues to play a critical role and enjoy a morning on the beach while today about management of our University. Meet for coffee and fun discussing in animal and plant species monitoring, within the SCA. As a Healthy Parks making an incredible difference. natural resources can have just as Listening to the Land is a particularly in the face of climate change intern, Fernandez created a map and Then finish off the day of good work profound an impact as will climate monthly winter speaker series Local, Statewide, and National - sharing stories with other volunteers over a and its impacts. National programs such brochure of parks within Astoria as part change itself. offered January through May and as Project Budburst serve to connect citi- free bowl of hot soup at Peninsula Sr. Activ- John Stevenson is a regional presented by North Coast Land Clatsop County Democrats of a bigger campaign to get the people ity Center in Ocean Park - from noon until zen scientists with opportunities to help extension climate specialist with Conservancy and the Necanicum of Clatsop County more active. She also the pots run dry, around 1:30 or 2pm. Meet January 25 monitor changes in plants and animals in Oregon Sea Grant and the Climate Watershed Council in partnership For information on how to join the Gar- their communities. got involved with the local Hispanic Impacts Research Consortium, with the Seaside Public Library. bage Gang on January 16, go to www. On Jan. 21 hear from Nancy Fernan- community allowing her to connect with where he facilitates community ad- Learn more at NCLCtrust.org. ourbeach.org. Adopt-a-beach inquiries dez, a climate change intern with Lewis the youth, a few of whom were able to aptation to climate-driven changes send to [email protected]. and Clark National Historical Park and attend summer camp for the first time. San Juan Island National Historical Park, Her other projects included assistance as she talks about Budburst at the Parks, Project leaders needed for Oregon’s largest volunteer with a new museum exhibit on the his- an opportunity for the public to learn A Volunteer’s Choice Event Earth Day event, SOLVE IT for Earth Day on April 23. tory of Chinese cannery workers of the about tracking changes to 10 significant Haystack Rock SOLVE is accepting applications for volunteers to lead Earth Day projects plants at each park. Fernandez, a 2015 Lower Columbia. for the 27th annual SOLVE IT for Earth Day event. SOLVE IT for Earth Day graduate of the NPS Academy, delves Lewis and Clark National Historical Awareness Program projects will take place across the state on Saturday, April 23 from 9am- into the history of plant phenology as Park and San Juan Island National Histor- 1pm. Also as part of SOLVE IT, teachers are encouraged to involve their seen through the eyes of Lewis and On Saturday, January 16, 10am – students in service-learning activities any time between April 18 and April ical Park are two of the nation’s 409 sites Clark, and gives practical information 2pm, HRAP presents a hands-on 29. The deadline for applications is Monday, February 1. celebrating the 100th anniversary of the about how to get involved with Project event to learn about and select Project leaders receive assistance for Earth Day volunteer projects, Budburst locally and regionally. National Park Service in 2016. In prepa- including project planning and training, event flyers and pre-event public- Fernandez was born in Santa Cruz ration for the next 100 years, servicewide your preferred station on the ity, online volunteer registration, and cleanup project supplies. SOLVE also has a limited number of grants of up to $100 for reimbursement of project County, California. After moving various goals include creating the next genera- beach, or behind the scenes. If expenses. times throughout her childhood, she tion of stewards, engaging communities you are interested in volunteering The SOLVE IT for Earth Day program supports Oregonians who help finally arrived in the Central Valley where and building resiliency into natural and take care of our parks, waterways and neighborhoods by picking up trash, she would later attend and graduate with HRAP, this is a great time to pulling invasive weeds and planting native trees and shrubs. Last year, cultural landscapes. from CSU Stanislaus with a degree in learn about the program. Stop by SOLVE IT helped 9,300 Oregonians volunteer at over 165 sites across Anthropology. Her interest in ancient Nature Matters is free, open to the pub- each table and see what each sta- Oregon. “SOLVE is ready to help individuals, community groups, and gov- knowledge, and the people and cultures ernment agencies organize successful volunteer events in their community lic, and takes place in the Fort George’s shaped by it, were her first introduction tion communicates to visitors. to take care of the special natural areas, parks, and neighborhoods they to environmental stewardship. It wasn’t Lovell Showroom. Doors open at 6pm Taking place at Cannon Beach love “ said Quintin Bauer, SOLVE Statewide Team Leader. until her last year in college when she and the talk begins at 7pm. Interested volunteer leaders can visit solveoregon.org to apply online or City Hall, 163 E Gower Ave. call SOLVE at 503-844-9571. was given the opportunity through the

9 Jan 16 hipfishmonthly.com The Great Oregon Army Dear Stranger and Return of the SOBs Letter Exchange An Oregon Humanities Program

Dear Stranger Letter Exchange Continues In January Submissions for Dear Stranger, a letter-exchange program from Oregon Humanities, are due January 22, 2016.

PORTLAND, Ore.— Oregon Humanities invites Oregonians to write a personal letter to someone they’ve never met this winter as part of Dear Stranger, a letter-exchange project now in its second year. Dear Stranger aims to engage Oregonians from all walks of life through the mail. The premise is simple: Write a letter, get By a letter, and make a new connection. There have been three rounds of Dear Stranger each year, one for each issue of Or- Matt egon Humanitiesmagazine. The theme for the current round of Dear Stranger is “Move.” Love Why a letter exchange? Part of Oregon Humanities’ mission to connect Oregonians to ideas that change lives and transform These forces are legion and relentless and they communities is bringing people together across differences, It has begun…the massing have to be pulverized every now and then in a beliefs, and backgrounds, both in person, through programs like of a great Oregon army. very public fashion. Virtually every week I receive the Conversation Project and Think & Drink, and over distances, an email from a coastal resident who reports of through Oregon Humanities and Dear Stranger. To date, more than 250 Oregonians have written Dear Stranger letters. The army is leaderless as far as a single individual another violation of the great birthright. goes. The leader is the people of Oregon. Anyone who has ever enjoyed one minute on the state’s • A beachfront property owner in Rockaway publicly-owned beaches is a soldier in the army. wants to install more riprap Isn’t that all of us. Isn’t that you? Isn’t that your • An Arch Cape couple claims part of the beach dog? as their private fiefdom On July 7, 2017 the army will wage a monumen- • A new mansion in South Beach blocks a path to tal 24-hour campaign to commemorate the 50th the beach used for half a century anniversary of the famous 1967 Beach Bill that • A beach access in Lincoln City being overrun protected the dry sands areas of our ocean beaches by vehicles from privatization and prudery. • An old nemesis to the Beach Bill resurfaces in No symposiums. No panel discussions. No Neskowin speechifying. No power points! No meetings and • A proposed golf course in South Tillamook mission statements. No scholarly articles with County that would desecrate a pristine beachfront footnotes. area Rather, we will party. On the beach. All day and • Beach access signs disappear and disappear all of the night. The goal is to put 50,000 Oregonians on the And so on. The winter 2015 prompt for letter writers is as follows: socialist beaches from Hammond to Brookings Enjoy the serenity of our Write about moving: moving on, moving over, feeling moved, doing what we’ve done for generations. I want it to Back in 1967, a group of citizens formed a politi- gardens, wooded paths, sauna, being moved, making a move, keeping things in motion. A time yurt and bhuddas . . . become an international spectacle. I want Fox news cal organization called Citizens to Save Oregon you pulled up stakes or joined a movement. . . . in Nahcotta, Washington anchors shaking their blow-dried heads at all the Beaches to help pass the Beach Bill when it faced on Sandridge Road, Writers will send their letters along with a self-addressed, organic Oregonians. almost insurmountable odds. The “SOBS,” as their just south of Bay Avenue stamped envelope and a signed permission form (available at overlooking willapa bay Driftwood forts, hackey sack, sand castles, opponents quickly dubbed them, didn’t have one oregonhumanities.org) to Oregon Humanities. Letters will be sculptures, cairns, football, walking, running, mean- paid staffer. They were the people—you. swapped with the goal of pairing individuals from different parts “women have been central to the environ- dering, mediations, bonfires, amorous avocations, The SOBS won. They would not give up. mental movement and our understanding of of the state. What happens next is up to the writers; the hope is kite flying, perch fishing, sea stripping, surfing, I have reformed the SOBS to commemorate the ecology since its earliest stirrings and fragile that the project will inspire further correspondence. beginnings in the 19th century” paddle boarding, clamming, rock hounding, limpet 50th anniversary of the Beach Bill. The new SOBS Letters should be addressed to Dear Stranger, 921 SW Excerpted from “Rachel Carson and hunting, weddings, divorces, kelp flogging, salmon are going to take it to a whole new level. We have Her Sisters” by Robert K. Musil Washington St., Suite 150, Portland, Oregon, 97205. Oregon bakes, reading, brooding, reflecting, baptisms, new skills and new weapons. Humanities will exchange letters mailed through January 22, ablutions. Don’t you want to join? Don’t you want 2016. Any letters postmarked after the deadline will be returned Who cares what you do that day or to enroll your children, grandchildren? to their writers. night. Just be there! Your dog, too? Are you ready for a noble Letters will be mailed to participants the week of January It won’t cost anyone a cent be- purpose? To get off your ass and work for a 25. Instructions for replying to your letter will be enclosed. If cause this is Oregon and decades better Oregon for the next generation? you have questions about Dear Stranger, email dearstranger@ ago we decided to take a different, oregonhumanities.org or call Ben Waterhouse at (503) 241- better path to preserve the “great Go to www.nestuccaspitpress.com and 0543, ext. 122. Further details about the project may be found birthright” as former Governor Os- join the 7-7-17 celebration. Enlist every- at oregonhumanities.org. wald West memorably described our one you know. Oregon Humanities connects Oregonians to ideas that publicly-owned beaches? change lives and transform communities. More information The Governor of Oregon better show up or we And get ready to party. about our programs and publications—which include the need a new Governor. Conversation Project, Think & Drink, Humanity in Perspective, What are you doing to protect it? Will you get Matt Love is the author/editor of 14 books about Public Program Grants, andOregon Humanities magazine—can commit to July 7, 2017 and hit the beach? Will Oregon, including The Great Birthright. His books be found at oregonhumanities.org. Oregon Humanities is an you send a message to the malevolent forces that are available through coastal bookstores or his independent, nonprofit affiliate of the National Endowment for would try to undermine or overthrow the great web site. He can be reached at nestuccaspitpress@ the Humanities and a partner of the Oregon Cultural Trust. www.mobydickhotel.com birthright? gmail.com 360-665-4543 or 1-800-673-6145 Jan 16 hipfishmonthly.com 10 Albatross & Co & Eric Bechard Story and Photos Dear Stranger By Erin J. Bernard Letter Exchange ”Stirring His Brandy With A Nail” : An Oregon Humanities Program The Style + Story Behind An Expansion”

“Everything here has a point,” Bechard notes. THE POET And, I can’t help but admire, a story. SIMON ARMITAGE once said, “If Bechard cites no specific era or style from which he draws inspiration, (“Doc Holliday, you can write about the individual, Tom Waits, and MacGyver walk into a bar” was that appeals to the individual, then my helpful suggestion) but states simply that art imitates life where design is concerned. you’re going to appeal to abso- “This is pretty much what my house looks like,” lutely everybody.” he says, “it’s not just a business aesthetic.” His pleasure in curating pieces for repurposing and He may have been speaking as a writer, but I personal enjoyment seems to be the guiding imagine the same applies to running a busi- line for his ventures, explaining that “I enjoy ness. I ventured west after eight years in New designing as much as running a business, so York, seeking new creative/emotional context, I’m interested in trends, but I don’t do things and one of my parting impressions was that of because they’re popular. The best trends a city struggling to maintain its edge amidst happen organically, over time, and by word of corporate and consumer shifts. My tenure mouth.” saw cultural landmarks like the Chelsea Hotel It’s hard not to draw a correlation between and CBGB, among other beloved establish- the topic of trends and Astoria itself, as the ments, gradually disappear, transformed into town continues to flourish. “I feel like the condos, brunch niches, and Duane Reades. reason Astoria is so popular is because it Brooklyn in particular underwent a trendy (and never set out to be popular, “ Bechard says. heatedly gentrified) facelift that trended itself “It wasn’t trying to be anything but itself. That right into ridicule, becoming more brand than perfect storm of time and place catapulted it borough over time. Make no mistake, my love onto a national scale, but it’s being proactive for New York goes deep--that never departs. about its popularity. It’s not changing so rapidly But change is inevitable for any metropolis or that you aren’t aware it’s happening.” While town on the rise, which you can ignore, fight, we discussed at length our views on actively or cultivate. Otherwise, you move on. The contributing to such a community, rather than longing for authenticity is impossible to ignore, riding the wave for personal gain, Bechard and where style and substance cohabitate you stresses the importance of supporting the local get--well, Astoria. economy. He praises David Rafkin, owner of I was reminded of Simon Armitage the night Reclaimed Lumber, for supplying the wood I spoke to Eric Bechard, owner of Albatross & that accounts for the oyster bar and fireplace Co, as the concept of authenticity reiterated structure. Furthermore, 100% of Albatross’s itself throughout our conversation. Opened a seafood is procured from small family fisheries, little over two years ago, Albatross began as an with additional menu items provided by ethical intimate beer, cocktail, and artisanal sand- independent farms within a two hundred mile wich spot that, by Bechard’s own admittance, radius, Bechard’s belief being that proxim- quickly outgrew its cozy front-of-house space. ity to the source should be fully utilized, with A successful chef and restaurateur of 15+ keywords like ‘local’ and ‘sustainable’ serving years, with the likes of McMinnville’s Thistle as more than just catchwords. and Portland’s Alberta Street Oyster Bar to his Overall, he credits much of his business’s name, Bechard had no initial plans to expand success--and subsequent expansion--to the on Albatross until happy necessity demanded. overwhelming support of the community, The roughly 800-foot expansion began as well as the amazing Albatross staff. He almost a year ago, and Bechard admits to the expresses his gratitude with a refreshing goodhearted frustration he was met with as matter-of-factness, and admits that the expan- opening delays were prolonged. “Every time sion has allowed for welcome additions to the I’d get ready to do it, it didn’t feel done, and menu and overall atmosphere. “The beauty By I’d hold off. I think it drove people a little cra- of Albatross is it fills a lot of people’s needs,” zy.” He continues, “I can be a slave to detail. Bechard says. “You can get a beer and burger Emmie I’d rather wait and do it right, so that when it’s for under $20, or drop $250 if you want.” (It’s done you’ll truly appreciate it.” That dedication true. I’ve done both.) Linstrom to detail shows. From the gas canisters pur- A telling testament to all of the above chased at Vintage Hardware and repurposed is a bench that sits in the entrance of the into lamps, to the chicken nesting boxes that new Albatross space, gifted from a friend to now serve as bar shelving, Bechard’s eye is not celebrate the expansion. Fashioned from a only keen but impressively creative. (For ex- wooden floating device found on the beach, ample, the fireplace table is a restructured ship you can just make out the S carved into the hatch from World War II.) Items such as the surface. Bechard smiles at how quickly guests copper Moscow Mule mugs from the 60’s and have made it a comfortable fixture. Small detail 70’s were meticulously hunted down at thrift perhaps, but one that speaks volumes. stores and rummage sales. An impressive free Located at 225 14th Street, Albatross & Co is standing rail beam is actually the outer slab of open Tuesday-Saturday, 5pm-Late an enormous log purchased from an Oregon You can visit their site at www.albatrossand- City chainsaw mill, the main bar consisting of company.com for menu and event info.

the inner portion. Photos: Dinah Urell Dinah Photos:

11 Jan 16 hipfishmonthly.com New Life for the Norblad Hotel and Hostel For savvy travelers, a hipper take on budget lodging

By Erin J. Bernard Photo: E. Bernard Owner Paul Caruana and General Manager Jerome Steegmans in the lobby

has long drawn its share of wanderers, from the early ex- “There wasn’t a master plan here in terms of the décor,” he says. “The idea was to strip the ASTORIA plorers who came seeking distant fortunes to modern-day hotel down to a warm vanilla shell and bring in the high quality things every guest is going to cyclists working their painstaking way up and down the blustery coastline. want and expect: nice beds, high-quality linens.” The end result? A bright and basic hotel room offered at a fixed, affordable rate, ideally And at the end of a long day’s adventuring, what does the contemporary weary traveler suited to travelers who’d rather spend their hard-earned clams on food and entertainment. desire most heartily? Forget the hot buttered biscuits, bubbling tubs and crisp newspapers — So far, the formula is proving popular, says Jerome Steegmans, General Manager of the A soft bed, a warm welcome, and a draught of friendly banter will Norblad and the Commodore: “We are building a devoted following more than suffice. “There isn’t a surface in here that hasn’t by delivering a consistent quality experience to people at affordable Norblad Hotel and Hostel owner Paul Caruana, a frequent traveler prices.” himself, can definitely relate. been cleaned, fixed or painted. We’re just The Norblad’s bathrooms and showers are shared, a communal “I’m always bothered by staying in hotels where I feel like I’m putting little jewels on now. The work’s kitchen and laundry are on hand, and the sharp, snug rooms are ap- paying a premium for services I don’t want,” he says. “We wanted to been done. Everything now is just small pointed with quality mattresses and private sinks. pare everything down to the essentials.” To guide the remodel, Caruana took a cue from the building’s lon- With those essentials squarely in mind, Caruana recently took the enhancements.” ger history, staying faithful to its original floor plan and mix of hostel/ historic hotel through an extensive renovation, reimagining it into - Paul Caruana, co-owner of The Norblad hotel/permanent residence options. a colorful, minimalist crash pad catering to the discerning budget and Commodore Hotel The Norblad, which first opened its doors in 1924, is the longest traveler. continuously operating hotel in town. But the years took their toll, The goal was to deconstruct the hotel experience, and by the time Caruana and Faherty got hold of the reassembling the most important bits into something a property in 2008, things had gone a bit cheap in the whole lot more fun than the sum of their parts, he says. seams. Rechristened the Hideaway Inn & Hostel, it housed Caruana, a developer who also owns the Commo- a rough-and-tumble crowd, plumes of smoke drifted dore and John Jacob Astor Hotels as well as Shark through the dingy hallways and the police were frequent Rock Center, has proven instincts for breathing new life visitors. into downtown Astoria’s aging historic buildings, but he Caruana’s team redid the carpets, floors and plumbing doesn’t consider himself a grand design type of guy. but restored the original windows. They installed new “With [Business Partner] Brian [Faherty] and I, it’s less plumbing fixtures but recoated and reinstalled the exist- about finding a niche or a market and trying to appeal ing sinks. Loud, quirky wallpaper and floor-to-ceiling pho- to it,” he says. “Everything we’ve done with real estate tographic murals (many of the photos shot by Caruana has been about doing what I like, and I’ve been fortu- himself) replaced the pink-and-turquoise sponge-paint. nate enough that other people also like what I like.” The balustrade, skylights and check-in counter were Caruana kept concepts loose as he revamped the restored to their original glory, and today, the Norblad’s Norblad, which freed him up to pursue inspirations as brightly colored lobby boasts a cozy fireplace, an eclectic they materialized, hewing always to that original man- record collection, and furniture made from reclaimed tra: style meets simplicity. wood scraps.

Jan 16 hipfishmonthly.com 12 January Art Sale and Two Shows The layout comfy, cozy, & chic bunkin’ encourages visitors Brighten the New Year at RiverSea Gallery to wander the hotel THE TWO SHOWS from Hostel Take Over and encounter each December at RiverSea other, says Caruana: Gallery have been held photo ops “It’s fascinating to over and will be exhibited conducted by come into this inti- through February 9, 2016. mate lobby in this All are invited to take Tyler Little obscure hotel in this advantage of the extended town off the beaten time to view Stories from path and there’s the Edge, a group show celebrating the essence of people here from all Astoria and the north coast, over the world.” featuring paintings by Brian Like its shabbier Cameron, Rich Hoffman, predecessor, the Robert Paulmenn and Noel new-and-improved Thomas, pastels by Tom Norblad houses Benenati, relief prints by a mix of perma- Stirling Gorsuch and pho- C. Payne, Graphite our doors and all get together and have a good time and show tography by David Lee Myers. nent residents and off what we’ve been working on when it gets dark out,” he Showing in the Alcove is Payne’s Grey, a series of miniature draw- visiting guests who says. ings in graphite by local artist Christi Payne, who lives on a hundred- relax and social- It’s all in keeping with the Norblad’s plan to offer savvy year-old floathouse just off the tidal Columbia River, five miles ize in the halls and Astoria travelers a fun place to drop their bags and hang out upstream from Astoria. Many of her drawings represent bowpickers, common areas. awhile, adds Caruana: “All told, we want people to stay here, lightships, skiffs, duck shacks, and moorings, details from her estua- They come from rine community, a world not often glimpsed by outsiders. we want them to party hard downtown, crash here when the Meanwhile, the gallery has been refreshed with new artwork, revi- near and far. Many night’s over, and when they wake up and roll over in the morn- are youngish, many talized displays and a fresh coat of paint to welcome the New Year, ing, we want them to be impressed with what they see. It’s and from January 9 through 31, the January Art Sale offers select photo: Sid Deluca are traveling by bi- kind of the perfect date, you know?” works by more than seventy of the gallery’s represented artists at cycle. It’s sorta like a For Caruana’s next trick: revamping the city’s tallest building, temporarily reduced prices through the end of the month. college dorm, but with cooler cohabitants, cleaner carpets and the aforementioned Astor Hotel, into something more befitting RiverSea Gallery is open daily at 1160 Commercial Street in Asto- far hipper décor. of its grand stature and long history. ria. 503-325-1270, riverseagallery.com. The remodel’s just about complete, but Caruana, a fre- Wherever the creative muses take Caruana and his suite of quent stopper-by, is taking his time with the finishing touches: funky properties in the future, he’ll keep on letting his aesthetic “There isn’t a surface in here that hasn’t been cleaned, fixed instincts take the wheel. or painted. We’re just putting little jewels on right now. The “If someone told me how difficult a project would be to get Private Collection work’s been done. Everything now is just little enhancements.” from point A to the end, I don’t know if I’d do it,” he says. “But At Luminari Arts Perpetual enhancement is key to Caruana’s aesthetic and you take a morsel at a time. You fix up one room, and you want approach, notes Steegmans: “Paul’s passionate about design. to do it again and again.” Throughout his travels, he’s on the lookout for interesting THIS JANUARY Luminari Arts www.norbladhotel.com things. There’s always updates and new things and exciting celebrates the new year with “Private changes to be made.” 443 14th St. Astoria 503.325.6989 Collection,” a show of pre-owned art And locals are definitely invited to join this party. On Jan. by various local and national artists 9, the Norblad hosted THE HOSTEL TAKEOVER, a raucous photo: Sid Deluca art-and-music event showcasing the works of local artists, curated by Charlotte Bruhn, Dale Clark set to a backdrop of rock music, with plenty of food and and Diane Jackson. Works represented adult beverages on hand. include artists Michael deWaide, Caruana and Steegmans envision the Takeover as just the Brenda Mickelson, Linda Taylor, first in a series of social, art-and-music-focused events at the Debbie Roberts and others. Norblad. Luminari Arts is located at 1133 “I don’t think most local people realize how much of a trans- Commercial in Astoria. formation this property has been through,” says Caruana. “It’s Open 7 days a week. a great way to open it up to people and let them see. Also, it’s a perfect environment to showcase artists of all kinds … We, “The Pencil Thief” wood carving by want to have a party here, basically.” M. deWaide Steegmans, too, sees the Norblad as the ideal incubator for creative gatherings of every stripe: “It’s a great time to open Art Party Take Over

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Comedy. $14, 7:30pm at it’s your birthday month. 2pm at the Crab Feed. Ticket prices paced on cur- the national Folk scene in 2012 with back Theater West in Lincoln City. Peninsula Senior Activity Center in rent crab cost. Noon – 8pm at the Long Klipsan Beach to back hit albums on the Folk Charts. Beach Elks. Often compared to Dave Carter and Tracy Friday 15 Crab Feed. For the Deep Sea Fisher- HAPPENING Grammer, Otter Creek’s classical training, men’s Benefit Fund. 4 – 8pm at the Entrance Fee Free Day at Fort Clatsop, MUSIC Warrenton. combined with Peter’s deep roots in the Kendl Winter with Eli West. No cover, 7pm at Warrenton Community Center. folk tradition enable them to cross bound- the Sand Trap Pub in Gearhart. HAPPENING aries among musical genres. Seaside A Cappella Festival. 7pm at the United Paws Monthly Adoption Day. Tuesday 19 Since they began playing together the Seaside Convention Center. Get tickets at This is a great time to stop in and see MUSIC Salt Lake City based folk duo has won seasideacappellafestival.com/?product_ all the kittens, cats and dogs that need The Cabin Project. No cover, 7pm at the numerous awards for their virtuosic instru- cat=show-2016 new forever homes. Noon – 3pm at the Adrift Hotel in Long Beach. mentals, adept songwriting, and visionary Tillamook County Fairgrounds The Hugs. No cover, 9pm at the Adrift Hotel LECTURE arrangements of traditional and original in Long Beach. LITERARY Past to Present Lecture Series. 49 Days tunes. Their daughters (The Three Muses) FOOD & DRINK Author Presentation. An evening with Across the Pacific. With Tracy Hollister. travel and perform with them. Drawing Crab Feed. For the Deep Sea Fishermen’s author and musician Jim Stewart. He $5, 10:30am - noon at the Columbia frequent comparisons to the Peasall Sis- Benefit Fund. 4 – 8pm at the Warrenton will read from his newest book “Ochoco River Maritime Museum in Astoria. ters, the Muses’ three part harmony and Community Center. Reach, An Ironwood Novel” and will also infectious charm never fail to put a smile sing. Free, 7pm at the Cannon Beach LECTURE Book Company. Wednesday 20 on every face in the room. Library After Hours. Slavery at the End of the MUSIC OUTSIDE Currently touring coast to coast, Otter Oregon Trail. With R Gregory Nokes. Free, 6 – Sea of Bees + Sunmonks. No cover, 7pm Beach Clean Up Day. Starts at 9:30am at Creek has drawn praise from around the 9pm at the Astoria Public Library. at the Adrift Hotel in Long Beach. any beach approach on the Long Beach country as “a duo that is both a techni- OUTSIDE Peninsula. ART cal marvel and tastefully perfect.” They Oregon Spirits Tour Golf Tournament. Tipsy Painting. You will receive instruc- have just finished production of their third Unique and local Whiskey, Gin and even THEATER tion from our professional artist, Ronni album “The Fiddle Preacher.” Aquavit from distilleries will be stationed Seasonal Allergies. Comedy. $14, Harris, a glass of wine, and an experi- on the course for tasting. Find a partner 7:30pm at Theater West in Lincoln City. ence to last a lifetime. $30, 6 – 8pm at January 23, 2016 at 7:00 pm Open and start the year with a 2-Player scramble. WineKraft in Astoria. Seating Adult $15.00 Student, Senior, $60/player, 21+, noon shotgun start at the Gearhart Golf Links. Sunday 17 FOOD & DRINK Military $12.00. Box Office is open MUSIC Astoria IPAs and Indian Cuisine Brewer’s Wednesday through Saturday, and 2 THEATER The Cabin Project. No cover, 7pm at the Dinner. Reservations required. $65, 6pm hours before curtain. Tickets may also Seasonal Allergies. Comedy. $14, 7:30pm at Adrift Hotel in Long Beach. at Fort George in Astoria. Reserve by be purchased through TicketsWest Theater West in Lincoln City. calling 503-321-PINT 503.224.8499 or 1.800.992.8499. Nick Jaina & Stelth Ulvang. No cover, 8pm at the Sou’wester Lodge in HAPPENING Saturday 16 Seaview. Community Information Meeting – MUSIC Oregon LNG and You. What will the Vaudeville Etiquette. No cover. 8pm at decision by the City of Warrenton’s Brad Griswold. 7 – 9pm at WineKraft in Fort George Brewery & Public House Hearings Officer mean to Warrenton Astoria. in Astoria. and the North Coast? What about LA FÊTE 2016 Quartet Champions of the Evergreen Zhug. 8:30pm at Snug Harbor in Lincoln another public hearing?What about District Show. With 4.0, The New Originals, City. jobs, eminent domain, public lands, air Fast Track, Flipside, Quadraphonics, and and water, public safety, river traffic, Overtime. 7:30pm at the Seaside Convention CINEMA pollution, armed tugboats, and more? January 30 Center. Buy Tickets at seasideacappellafesti- Sunday Matinee Winter Film Series. Come to the meeting to take part in the val.com/?page_id=1453 Noises Off. $5, 2pm at the Liberty discussion. 6 – 8pm at the Warrenton Theater in Astoria. Local designers craft new styles out of second hand finds! Hey Lover. No cover. 9pm at the Voodoo Community Center. Room in Astoria. FOOD & DRINK LECTURE The Masonic Temple: 7pm - 11pm The Hugs. No cover, 9pm at the Adrift Hotel Pancake Breakfast. All-you-can-eat for Listening to the Land. Anticipating the in Long Beach. $5, 8am – noon at the Bay City Arts Impact of Climate Change. With John 1572 Franklin Ave, Astoria Center. Jimmy Bivens. 9pm at Snug Harbor Bar & Stevenson. Free, 6pm at the Seaside This will be the second annual La Fête, fashion show fundraiser for The Harbor. Emcees, Daylight Cums and Grill in Lincoln City. Cannon Beach American Legion Library. Ginger Vitus, two of Astoria’s most fashionable drag superstars host. Breakfast. $7 adults, $3 children under Renee Hill Band. No cover, 9pm at Road- LITERARY 6. 9 – 11:30am at the American Legion 12 Local designers have been challenged to put together two outfits using only items found at Déjà Vu Thrift house 101 in Lincoln City. Lunch in the Loft. Author Honey Perkel Hall in Cannon Beach. store. Their models will stomp down the runway in a competition to crown Astoria’s next top designer. The will read from her latest book “Between two winners of last year’s La Fête, Becky Tonkin and Ryan Saunders will join Jeanine Fairchild and Judith Stokes ART LECTURE Two Shores.” $25 includes a catered at the Judges table. All attendees will be able to vote for their favorite styles for people’s choice winner. Art a la cARTe. This event features works of lunch and a signed copy of the book. art signed only on the reverse. Each piece of In Their Footsteps Lecture Series. The Many local restaurants have generously donated food and beverages. There will be a hosted bar and items Towns that Became Today’s Warrenton. Noon at Beach Books in Seaside. RSVP art will be the same size, offered at the same at 503-738-3500 for auction. Midway through the event a performance by Jessamyn Grace. Following is an After-Show Party. $99 price. Live music, food, & drink. A benefit With Susan Glen. Come dressed in your best and celebrate Astoria’s stylistic creativity, have fun and dance the night away! for the Liberty Theater. $15 admission, 2 – LITERARY 3:30pm at the Barbey Maritime Center in Oregon Legacy Literary Series. Author Thursday 21 $7 Entry. All proceeds will go to The Harbor, Inc. The mission of The Harbor is to assist in the intervention, Astoria. Tickets available at 800-992-8499. Kathleen Cremonesi will present from MUSIC recovery, and well-being of survivors of stalking, domestic and sexual violence. Artistry in Wood Show. Experience the won- her work. Free, 3pm at the Driftwood Danny Schmidt. $17, 7pm at the Lincoln derful world of woodcarving. Carvings on Public Library in Lincoln City. City Cultural Center.

Jan 16 hipfishmonthly.com 14 Sea of Bees + Sunmonks. No cover, 7pm at Wine Tasting. Wines from Washington Danny O’Flaherty. $17, 7pm at the MORE MUSIC the Adrift Hotel in Long Beach. State. 1 – 4pm at the Cellar on 10th in Tuesday 26 Lincoln City Cultural Center. Lincoln Pops Big Band. $6, 7:30 – 10pm at Astoria. MUSIC The Guess Who. $15 - $30. 8pm at the Gleneden Community Club at Gleneden Wine Tasting. 1 – 5pm at the Wine Shack Pretty Gritty. No cover, 7pm at the Adrift Chinook Winds in Lincoln City. Beach. in Cannon Beach Hotel in Long Beach. Old Time Music Gathering with Bub- LECTURE Pie Day Celebration. Pie auction and FOOD & DRINK baville. No cover, 8pm at the Sou’wester Nature Matters. Timing is Everything: A all-you-can-eat pie and ice cream feast. Library Lovers’ Spaghetti Dinner. $20, Lodge in Seaview. Plant’s Response to Climate Change. With $10 for adults, $5 for kids under 12. 2:30 – 5pm at Big Wave Café in Manzanita. The Dischords. $5 cover, 9pm at the San Nancy Fernandez. Free, 7pm at the Fort 4:30pm at the White Clover Grange near Dune Pub in Manzanita. George Lovell Showroom. Nehalem. FMI 503-815-2800 HAPPENING Lewis & Clark Playground Benefit. Silent The Gusto Bros. 9pm at Roadhouse 101 THEATER HAPPENING auction, raffle, and a portion of pizza and in Lincoln City. Seasonal Allergies. Comedy. $14, 7:30pm at Windless Kite Festival. Choreographed beer sales will go to the fund. 4:30 – 9pm Nebraska Boy Snatchers with Chad Theater West in Lincoln City. solo, duet and group indoor kite flying at Fort George in Astoria. Badit, Shaken Growlers, and Symptoms. performances. Admission by donation. At 9pm at the Voodoo Room in Astoria. the Long Beach School Gymnasium. LECTURE Friday 22 Past to Present Lecture Series. River Pilot Soul Shine. 9pm at the Nauti Mermaid Gay Skate Night. $3 entry, $3 skate rental. in Lincoln City. MUSIC Operations. With Rick Gill. $5, 10:30 – Costumes and bright colors are encour- noon at the Columbia River Maritime Samantha Crain. No cover, 8pm at the aged. 9 – 11pm at the Astoria Armory. Wilkinson Blades. No cover, 9pm at the Sou’wester Lodge in Seaview. Museum in Astoria. Adrift Hotel in Long Beach. LECTURE Annalisa Tornfelt + Jon Neufeld. No cover, What Do You Do? A discussion about how CINEMA 9pm at the Adrift Hotel in Long Beach. Saturday Morning Cinema. The Blue our work tells a lot about who we are, Wednesday 27 Vaudeville Etiquette Angel. $2, 11am at the Bijou Theater in Sol Seed. 9pm at the Nauti Mermaid in how work shapes us, and what marks our MUSIC Vaudeville Etiquette pushes the Lincoln City. Lincoln City. work leaves in our lives. With Adam Davis. Pretty Gritty. No cover, 7pm at the Adrift boundaries of psych-folk with grit, CINEMA Free, 1 – 3pm at the Tillamook County Hotel in Long Beach. FOOD & DRINK passion, and come-hither wit. Sunday Jan 17, 8pm, Fort Pioneer Museum. Manzanita Film Series. The Best of the 41st ART Wine Tasting. Abacela. 1 – 4pm at the One of “The 50 Bands Rocking George Brewery Astoria, All Cellar on 10th in Astoria. Northwest Filmmakers Festival featuring ten THEATER Artist-in-Residence Show & Tell. Free, Seattle Music Right Now” - Seattle Ages, No Cover short films made in Alaska, British Columbia, Rumors. Comedy. $17, 7pm at the Barn presentations begin at 6pm at the Sitka Wine Tasting. 1 – 5pm at the Wine Shack Magazine Idaho, Montana, Oregon, or Washington. Community Playhouse in Tillamook. Center, Otis. in Cannon Beach 7:30pm at the Hoffman Center in Manzanita. Seasonal Allergies. Comedy. $14, 7:30pm HAPPENING Winemaker’s Dinner. Abacela. Reserva- HAPPENING at Theater West in Lincoln City. Talent Audition Call. For the Manzanita tions required. 6pm at the Cellar on Windless Kite Festival. Choreographed solo, 10th in Astoria. 503-325-6600 HAPPENING annual Community Talent Showcase. 5 – duet and group indoor kite flying perfor- 8pm at the Hoffman Center in Manzanita. Windless Kite Festival. Choreographed HAPPENING mances. Admission by donation. At the Long Hoffmanblog.org La Fete Fashion Show. Twelve local Beach School Gymnasium. solo, duet and group indoor kite flying performances. Admission by donation. At designers have been challenged to put Comedy on the Coast. $15, 8pm at Chinook the Long Beach School Gymnasium. together two outfits using only items Winds in Lincoln City. Thursday 28 found at Déjà Vu Thrift store. Food & Shore Style Wedding Faire. Vendors will MUSIC drink, and more. Come dressed in your LITERARY be showcasing the best in style, tastes, Adam Miller. Folksinger & storyteller. Free, best and celebrate Astoria’s stylistic Poetry Night in the Gallery. In conjunction floral, gifts, decor and more. 10am – 7pm at the Seaside Library. creativity, have fun and dance the with the Lost At See: Experiments in Art & 3:30pm at The Loft at the Red Building Pretty Gritty. No cover, 7pm at the Adrift night away. A benefit for the Harbor. Text exhibit by Robert Thomlinson. Artist’s in Astoria. $7, 7 – 11:30pm at the Masonic Temple talk and poetry readings from 5:30 – 7 pm at Hotel in Long Beach. Comedy on the Coast. $15, 8pm at in Astoria. the Lincoln City Cultural Center. Chinook Winds in Lincoln City. ART Community Talent Showcase. $10. 7pm THEATER Opening Reception. Au Naturel Inter- At the Hoffman Center in Manzanita. Rumors. Comedy. $17, 7pm at the Barn Com- national Juried Exhibit. 6pm at the CCC Hoffmanblog,org munity Playhouse in Tillamook. Sunday 24 Royal Nebeker Gallery in Astoria. MUSIC THEATER Aquarian Romp Seasonal Allergies. Comedy. $14, 7:30pm at LECTURE Waiting for Godot. Drama. $15, 7pm at Rabbit Wilde. No cover, 7pm at the Adrift Theater West in Lincoln City. Is There Truth in Nostalgia? With Robin the PAC in Astoria. It’s the age of Aquarius!!! Grab your music, follow your heart and feet Hotel in Long Beach. Cangie. Free, 7pm at the Fort George Rumors. Comedy. $17, 7pm at the Barn good vibes, open heart, free spirit and climb the stairs,” invites Mr. Us Lights. No cover. 8pm at Fort George Lovell Showroom in Astoria. Saturday 23 Community Playhouse in Tillamook. and dancing shoes and join Marco Davis - at 342 10rh to the second Brewery & Public House in Astoria. at the AAMC on January 29 at 9pm. floor ballroom and party down with Dead Guilty. Drama. $15 - $20. 7:30pm MUSIC DJ imcodefour works your bodies in the water barer to the gods. Hannah & Fred. 8:30pm at Snug Harbor in Friday 29 at the Coaster Theater in Cannon Beach. Barbie G. 7 – 9pm at WineKraft in Astoria. Lincoln City. earthly and metaphysical delights!!! This is a 21+ party, $5 @ door. Otter Creek. $15, 7pm at the Liberty Theater MUSIC It’s a birthday party!!!! “This is the in Astoria. ART The Guess Who. $15 - $30. 8pm at Chi- time of our awakening!!! Hear the Tipsy Painting. Participants will receive nook Winds in Lincoln City. Sunday 31 Terry Holder. $11 at the Peninsula Arts MUSIC instruction from professional artist, Ronni Ford Prefect with Wild Bill and Stumble- Center in Long Beach. The Dept of Washington American Harris, a glass of wine, and an experi- bum. 9pm at the Voodoo Room in Astoria. Zeb Dewar. No cover, 8pm at the Sou’wester ence to last a lifetime. $30. 2 – 4pm at Legion Band. $15, 2pm at the Historic Lodge in Seaview. WineKraft in Astoria. Soul Shine. 9pm at the Nauti Mermaid in Raymond Theater in Raymond. Lincoln City. Annalisa Tornfelt + Jon Neufeld. No cover, Tillamook County Historical Society Karlie Paige. No cover, 7pm at the Adrift 9pm at the Adrift Hotel in Long Beach. Annual Meeting/Luncheon. The featured Wilkinson Blades. No cover, 9pm at the Hotel in Long Beach. Adrift Hotel in Long Beach. Karlie Page Dusu Mali. No cover, 9pm at the Voodoo speaker will be Melodie Chenevert, owner Wilkinson Blades. No cover. 8pm at Room in Astoria. of the “Lost Art of Nursing” museum in THEATER Fort George Brewery & Public House Cannon Beach. $15 includes lunch and in Astoria. John Pounds. 9pm at Roadhouse 101 in Waiting for Godot. Drama. $15, 7pm at presentation. 1 – 3pm at the Bay City the PAC in Astoria. Lincoln City. Arts Center. HAPPENING Parrish Gap. 9pm at Snug Harbor in Lincoln Rumors. Comedy. $17, 7pm at the Barn A Community Gathering Around Living City. LITERARY Community Playhouse in Tillamook. and Dying. An interactive roundtable Oregon Legacy Literary Series. Author and resource fair with aspects of care- Sol seed. 9pm at the Nauti Mermaid in Dead Guilty. Drama. $15 - $20. 7:30pm at Jason Gurley will present from his work. the Coaster Theater in Cannon Beach. giving, ALS and other chronic diseases, Lincoln City. Free, 3pm at the Driftwood Public Library networking, technology advancements, CINEMA in Lincoln City. HAPPENING family issues, and more. Food and live Aquarius Dance Party. Marco Davis invites music. Free, open to the public. 3:30pm Saturday Morning Cinema. The Woman THEATER Alone. $2, 11am at the Bijou Theater in you to a birthday celebration, and to at Fairview Grange in Tillamook. Rumors. Comedy. $17, 2pm at the Barn dance the age and calendar month of Lincoln City. Karlie Paige is an acoustic stepping off the floor of Pickled Community Playhouse in Tillamook. Aquarius. DJ imcodefour spins. 9pm, $5, LITERARY 21+ at the AAMC in Astoria. Oregon Legacy Literary Series. Author singer songwriter with folk Fish to play onstage. A writer, Justin Hocking will present from his and bluegrass influence. She FOOD & DRINK musician, and wanderlust at work. Free, 3pm at the Driftwood Public dabbles with ukulele, mandolin Seafood Excursion. With crabbing expert heart, she hopes this opportu- Library in Lincoln City. and piano. After a two year Jason Thorne and oyster guru Dan Driscoll. Monday 25 Saturday 30 break from music, Karlie is re- nity will lead to more shows in $30 includes crab and oysters and hot tea. MUSIC MUSIC THEATER the area soon! Meet at the Sou’wester Lodge in Seaview Rabbit Wilde. No cover, 7pm at the Adrift Troll Radio Revue. 11am at Fort George Rumors. Comedy. $17, 2pm at the Barn surfacing in her current town of at 10am. Hotel in Long Beach. in Astoria. Community Playhouse in Tillamook. Long Beach, Washington, and January 31 @ The Adrift 7pm p19

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6th Annual Real Lewis & car crash that occurred when a Clark Story Or...How the business associate suffered a Finns Discovered Astoria! fatal heart attack at the wheel. Fri. & Sat. 7pm April 8th to Housebound and depressed, 24th Sun. Matinees 2pm Julia is tormented when things AUDITION: 4/17th & 30th disappear, a Mexican orange AUDITIONS Sat. Feb 20th blossom materializes on her The Real Lewis & Clark Story 6pm - 8pm shambling Victorian terrace THE COASTER THEATRE PLAYHOUSE kicks and someone prowls upstairs Rolls for over 20 colorful characters May Readers Theater off its 44th Season in 2016. Again this season at night. While a kindly counselor contends with Fundraiser the theatre will stage 5 plays and 2 musicals Julia’s manic tendencies and a besotted handy- ASOC’s 5th Annual historical, hysterical, musical melodrama, “The Fri. & Sat. 7pm May 13th to selected to entertain audiences of all ages. Tra- man helps around the house, the excessively Real Lewis and Clark Story (or How FINNS Discovered ASTORIA) 21st Sun. Matinee 5/15th ditionally the theatre presents its musicals in the solicitous widow invades Julia’s life. will hold Auditions on Saturday February 20th 6 to 8pm at the summer and holiday seasons, this year they’re 2pm ASOC Playhouse West 129 Bond Street Astoria. switching things up a bit! The first musical of the DIRECTOR – Edward James: After earning a The ASOC tradition opens April 8 - 30 featuring rolls for over 20 Tenor Guitar Gathering season – The Apple Tree from the songwriters Masters in Playwriting, Edward James devel- colorful characters ages 18 years and older, with some exceptions Sat. & Sun. May 28th & 29th of Fiddler on the Roof – will delight audiences oped his acting chops in the Midwest working based on maturity and experience for performers under 18. Please this spring. Summer kicks off with 9 to 5: The at The Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, Actors call the director if you are under 18 and would like to audition. Junior Shanghaied 2016 Musical based on the seminal 1980 hit movie. Theater of Louisville and Kentucky Shakespeare Written and directed by Judith P. Niland, with original music by Fri. 7pm Sat. & Sun. 2pm Then this holiday season the classic holiday play Festival among others. He lived a decade in Dr.’s Stanley Azen and Joyce C. Niland of Pasadena, California and June 10th to 19th It’s A Wonderful Life will close out the season. New York, doing regional theater and appear- Professor Philip Morrill of Astoria Oregon. Other plays throughout the season include ing on numerous daytime and prime-time Absolutely no experience - but veteran performers are encour- 32nd Season of an intense drama about guilt and obsession in television shows including All My Children, The aged to come out. All parts do a little singing and dancing with SHANGHAIED IN ASTORIA Dead Guilty, a look at a marriage through the Cosby Show and Dr. Ruth. For thirteen years, help from chorographer Carleta Lewis Allen and Astor Street music Thurs.-Sat. 7pm July 7th years in The Fourposter, a comedic murder he was Artistic Director for Sylvia’s Class Act director ChrisLynn Taylor. mystery in Let’s Murder Marsha and a fast-paced -Sept 10th Dinner Theater in Portland where he produced The variety in the cast of over 20 include villains, Krooke and farce about marital shenanigans and gourmet Sneake, the brave native woman guide Sacagawea, 2 saucy French Sun. 2pm July 24th, Aug. and directed more than 50 shows. Credits since food in Don’t Dress for Dinner. girls, one whom needs to be able to sing like a songbird. Along 14th & Sept 4th include directing Don’t Dress For Dinner and Christmas Carol for the defunct River Theater, with a feisty, gun toting, beer guzzling, frontier saloon owner and a Dead Guilty The Passion Of Dracula, The Foreigner and The salty Captain of the Sea. Not to mention, a couple of guys to play ASOC Annual FALL the parts of our hero Beer makers from Minnesota Sven and Ole. Production Opens January 29 – February 20 Farndale Murder Mystery for Astor Street Opry, An affair, a car crash, a guilty mistress and an And of course, two men for the parts of our heroes Meriwether Fri. & Sat. 7pm Oct 7th to She Loves Me and Bell Book and Candle at The obsessed widow. Julia’s leg is badly injured in a Coaster Theater. Lewis and William Clark! 22nd Sun. Matinee Oct. Four mature women roles or performers who can play over 16th 2pm thirty-five years of age and 10 parts for men as the Lewis and Clark Corps of Discovery Crew. But if you’re a gal and would play the 3rd Annual “Be An ASOC Neil Simon’s Rumors part of a guy come on down! Angel” Fundraiser Opens at TAPA • Jan 22 - Feb 6 A fiddler or guitar player adds spark to the journey! With Sti- November 9th 6pm THE TILLAMOOK Association for the Performing Arts (TAPA) is excited to announce the cast for the pend. Contact Judith below to inquire. upcoming comedy, Rumors. Written by Neil Simon and directed by Kelli McMellon, Rumors is set in a Jump on board and come try out for ASOC’s Real Lewis and 21st Annual Starving New York townhouse, where the Deputy Mayor of New York has just shot himself. Though only a flesh Clark Story, Saturday February 20th 6pm at the ASOC Playhouse! Artist Faire wound, four couples are about to experience a severe attack of Farce. Gathering for their tenth wed- FMI: Judith at 503-791-1037 or online at [email protected] December 2nd -4th ding anniversary, the host lies bleeding in the other room and his wife is nowhere in sight. His lawyer and lawyer’s wife must get “the story” straight before the other guests arrive. As confusion and 10th Annual SCROOGED IN mis-communications mount, the evening spins off into classic farcical hilarity. The New York Times has ASTORIA said “Has nothing on its mind except making the audience laugh.” New Opera Appreciation Class Fri. & Sat. 7pm Dec. 2nd to FOR THE FIRST TIME Clatsop Community Col- lege is offering Opera Appreciation this winter 18th Sun. Matinees 2pm THE CAST for this hilarious comedy include both theater veterans, as well as several actors making as a non-credit class. Find out what opera is all 12/11th & 18th their stage debut. Playing Ken Gorman and his wife Chris, the well-to-do lawyers who are first on the scene, are Christian Chiola and Anita O’Hagan. Lenny and Claire Ganz, who arrive after a car ac- about or hone your experience of opera. Class cident, are played by newcomer Joey Hake and TAPA veteran Margaret Page. Dave Mattison is in the will cover musical and dramatic as well as stylistic Tickets On Sale ONE HOUR role of Ernie Cusack, a psychiatrist, and is partnered by newcomer Sandra Neumiller playing Ernie’s analysis of its component parts to gain a greater appreciation and understanding of opera for the before all shows! wife, Cookie. Real life couple, Micah and Briar Smith play stage couple Glenn (a state senator) and general public. Trace its history, while examining ***Reservations Recom- Cassie Cooper, who is convinced Glenn is cheating on her. Rounding out the cast is Gerry Cortimilia mended*** the relationship to society and historical events. playing Officer Welch, and Suzannah Floyd playing Office Pudney. We will investigate the lives of the great compos- astorstreetoprycompany. ers of opera and shed light on the form and com RUMORS RUNS January 22nd - February 6th with an Opening Night Gala celebration that includes meaning of many popular operas. We will also complimentary hors d’oeuvres and a beverage of choice with the purchase of each ticket for opening ASOC PLAYHOUSE 129 W. investigate the production of an opera, including night, January 22nd. Fri/Sat performances, 7pm and Sunday matinees 2pm. Doors open one half hour Bond Str. Uniontown set and costume design. Opera Appreciation is taught by Denise Reed, prior to curtain. CCC adjunct music instructor and Director of the North Coast Chorale. Astoria RESERVED SEATING is available through Diamond Art Jewelers located at 307 Main Street in Tilla- Opera Appreciation is on Thursdays, January 7-March 10, from 5:30- For more info call mook, call (503) 842-7940 for reservations. Tickets $15/person, children 12 and under are $10 . info@ 7:30 pm. Cost is $75 for 10 weeks of class and preregistration is recom- 503-325-6104 tillamooktheater.com or find us on Facebook. mended. Or email TAPA’S BARN Community Playhouse is located at 1204 Ivy Street, on the corner of 12th and Ivy one To register go to www.clatsopcc.edu/schedule and search for ‘Opera [email protected] block west of Hwy 101. www.tillamooktheater.com Appreciation’ under Course Title or call 503-338-2402. Jan 16 hipfishmonthly.com 16 art happens. Roger Hayes and Sally Lackaff Clatsop County Waters at IMOGEN N THE WAKE of record rainfall and the highest series of reflected Itides this area has seen in years, we bring you Clatsop Coun- change of ty Waters, an exhibition by Roger Hayes and Sally Lackaff. moon, tide Clatsop County Waters will open for Astoria’s Second Satur- and season. day Artwalk, January 9th with a reception for the artists, 5 – 8 They have pm, with food and drink provided by the Astoria Coffeehouse both con- and Bistro. Both Roger and Sally will be available to answer tinued to questions about their work. If you can’t make the opening incorpo- THETA WAVES AUDITION: night celebration, the exhibition will available for viewing rate their through February 9th. individual Artist In Residence Float Program The Real Lewis & Clark Story Local favorites, the innovative and demiurgic, Roger Hayes background and Sally Lackaff, bring their first collaborative exhibition in into their Float your art @Prana Wellness Center Rolls for over 20 colorful characters over a decade to artistic Imogen. Their style, utiliz- inspiration for ing core Sally Lackaff, View from Alderbrook, 3x3 on yupo PRANA WELLNESS CENTER in Astoria announces the creation of its artist this body of experi- in residence float program, “Theta Waves,” which takes place in the coast’s work is clear and ences to define the world around them. one and only Float Tank, also referred to as an isolation tank; a lightless, direct: the mighty Clatsop County Waters is the first time these two have soundproof tank inside which subjects float in salt water at skin tempera- Columbia River joined forces for a duel exhibition in over a decade. Both art- ture. Floating is an incredible tool to expand not only your mind, but your and its estuary. ists explore the natural terrain, holding true to their indepen- creativity. Floating increases your theta brain waves which are linked to Although the sub- dent style. Roger, who works primarily in acrylic, has enjoyed vivid visualizations, inspiration, creativity, and insight. Theta waves are con- ject matter may a colorful and eclectic career as a painter, extending well nected to us experiencing and feeling deep emotions as well as a sense of sound simple at beyond the diverse art community of Astoria, Oregon. He unity with the universe. first thought, they established himself early on in his career into what was known Here’s the drift: Prana Wellness Center will give the artist three (3) free illustrate a deeper as the International Neo-Expressionist movement. His work floats, preferably within three consecutive weeks. Float sessions will be 90 look into what is has been exhibited extensively throughout the great cities minutes in duration. The artist agrees to begin thinking about and working often taken for of the Mid-West prior to his inclusion in European exhibi- on their creation immediately after their third float. The artist has 3 weeks granted. Roger tions. He has participated in exhibitions throughout France, from the date of their third float to submit the completed artwork. The brings his edgy Switzerland, Argentina and many other destinations. About submitted piece must be an original, float tank experience inspired piece abstract paintings his current series, Roger states: of visual artwork. The artist will not submit previously created artwork. which explore the Sally too has cultivated a long and rewarding career The original artwork belongs to the artist. Prana Wellness Center is nuance of fluidity through her art. Although the majority of her life has been granted inalienable royalty free rights to reproduce the image online and and refraction of spent here in Clatsop County, Sally, as a child travelled and in print, for promotional and/or commercial use. Prana Wellness Center will water. His paint- lived with her family in Western Europe, this experience display the original creation for one month upon completion. Roger Hayes, River Series 1, acrylic on ings show the cultivated a life-long love of design and illustrative periods Prana Wellness Center will use the artistic images to promote both float- paper on canvas, 25x18 illustriously myste- throughout the history of art. Her accomplishments include ing and local Clatsop, Tillamook, and Pacific County artists. If you would rious side of the chemical compound, while Sally focuses her ten years as Artistic Director to the locally cherished Upper like to apply the artist program, please contact Leigh at Prana Wellness hand and eye on the more literal and delicate, portraying our Left Edge, an ever witty left leaning rag; the publishing of Center for an application and more information. 503.298.9773. complex life giving waterways as support of habitat to flora her own hand lettered, hand illustrated book, Wildlife on the and fauna while defining and shaping our landscape. Edge and multiple exhibitions throughout the north coast. Roger Hayes and Sally Lackaff have always shared a keen For this series Sally brings gorgeous depictions of the rich Sitka Center for Art and Ecology understanding of visual art as a means of communication, county waterways, utilizing ink and watercolor that she further Artist-in-Residence Show and Tell despite their very different upbringings. Roger hails from embellishes with use of fabric, found objects and embroidery. Wednesday, January 27 at 6pm the gritty streets of Detroit, studying ambiguously, constant Sally describes how water has informed her visual narrative as THIS WINTER and evolution of sides of buildings, billboards, passing trains an artist and about this series she states: Spring, an artists, a through marks of renegade artists, whose only canvas was the Imogen Gallery is located at 240 11th Street in Astoria. on writer and a entomolo- city itself. Sally, transversely grew up in what was the idyllic the vibrant block shared with Cargo and Astoria Coffee- gist will escape their bohemian enclave of Cannon Beach, immersing herself in the house & Bistro. Regular business Open Mon - Sat 11 - 5, normal lives to withdraw natural world, studying minutia and daily transformation that 11to 4 Sunday. 503.468.0620 www.imogengallery.com into the forest near Cas- New Opera Appreciation Class cade Head where they UNSIGNED, of the same size and all priced at $99, works of art by emerging will find the solitude Astoria artists, prominent local artists and Cuban artists will be for sale during needed to push through a one day event to benefit the Liberty Theater. Art ala Carte, a highly success- their creative boundar- ful repeat event takes place at the Columbia River Maritime Museum’s Barbey ies and chase their own Center on Saturday Jan. 16, beginning at 2pm. The event which features live artistic pursuits. The Art ala Carte music by local ensemble Acústica World Music, includes food and Northwest Resident Show & Tell wine and beers. is an opportunity for This lively event lasts only till about 3:30pm, so art lovers are urged to arrive these residents to share Liberty Theater when doors open. To add an edge to the art buying, over 75 pieces are un- their work with the local community. Presentations begin at 6pm in the signed, and many of the artists will be on the scene to sign purchased pieces. Boyden Studio. Light refreshments and a comfortable atmosphere will be The Cuban aspect of the event was generated by Christine Lolich, vice provided. This event is free and open to the public. $99 Art Sale president of Liberty Restoration, Inc. On her December trip to Havana, Lolich If you’ve never been to the Sitka Center, this is a chance to see the purchased art, which she has donated to the sale. studios and find out what they are all about. The Sitka Center for Art and Astoria artist Darren Orange, elected to the Liberty Theater board in Decem- Ecology encourages people to discover more about their creativity and ber 2015, is the event organizer. their connection to nature, while working to fulfill its mission of expanding Art a la carte is 2 to 3:30 p.m. Admission is $15 and tickets are available at the relationships between art, nature and humanity. This event is free and the door or in advance at the Liberty Theater Box Office. open to the public. For more information: www.sitkacenter.org 541-994- 5485 Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, 56605 Sitka Drive, Otis, OR 97368.

17 Jan 16 hipfishmonthly.com word. In Their Footsteps Mining Your Life for Laughs!! The Towns that Bob Balmer Workshop Became Today’s BOB BALMER TEACHES a writing workshop on “Mining Your Life for Laughs” on SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 10am to Warrenton 2:30pm at the Hoffman Center for the Arts in Manzanita. LEWIS AND CLARK NATIONAL Students will explore humorous writings in class and Historical Park, Fort Clatsop “In Their then discuss what about them makes us laugh: from Footsteps” presents, The Towns that Be- exaggeration to characterization, from one-liners to irony came Today’s Warrenton by Susan Glen and many other techniques. Special attention will focus on on SUNDAY, JANUARY 17 AT 1PM. how the authors used events from their lives for humorous Warrenton, Oregon was incorpo- material. rated in February 1899, and is a city Balmer has provided a web site: http://discovering- comprised of many earlier towns and laughter.weebly.com/ that includes several essays to read villages. These include Skipanon, Flavel, A Ship docked in Flavel - late 1800s, ahead of the workshop date. Hammond, and Fort Stevens, as well known today as Warrenton. Tuition is $50. Register at http://hoffmanblog.org/ongo- as Lexington which was the first county ing-classes/register-for-workshops. claim that became the town of Hammond. Glen seat for Clatsop County until 1879 when it moved Bob Balmer’s first humorous essay was published in the came to Warrenton in 1976. She is a former school to Astoria. This illustrated talk shares some history Oregonian in 1992. His work has appeared in The Smith- teacher and loves history and is very active with the of each of these towns as they grew and became sonian, The Oregonian, The Seattle Times, The Seattle Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) and the present city of Warrenton. Weekly, Golf Illustrated, and many other publications. It has Sue Glen has compiled photos and written text several historical and genealogical societies includ- aired on the radio shows The Savvy Traveler, MarketPlace as for five books in Arcardia Publishing’s Images of ing the Warrenton-Hammond Historical Society. well as on Oregon Public Radio and Television. Balmer has America series including Warrenton-Hammond. Her Warrenton-Hammond book will be available an MFA in creative writing from Portland State University Her other titles are Governors Island, Seaside: for purchase in the Lewis & Clark National Park and attended the Iowa Summer Writing Workshop and the Tin House Summer Writing Workshop 1920-1950, Fort Stevens, and USCG Air Station and Association bookstore in the visitor center during at Reed College. Group Astoria. Each of these books features more this event and she will have a book-signing after At the Hoffman Center(across from Manzanita Library at 594 Laneda Avenue.) FMI: contact her talk. Vera Wildauer, [email protected]. than 200 vintage images, capturing often forgot- ten bygone times and bringing to life the people, places, and events that defined a community. Monthly programs are held in the Netul River Folksinger And Storyteller Susan L. Glen has had relatives in the area Room of Fort Clatsop’s visitor center and are free since the 1800s. In November 1847, one rela- of charge. For more information, call the park at Adam Miller tive by marriage had the original donation land (503) 861-2471. At Seaside Public Library The Friends of the Seaside Library welcome folksinger, storyteller, and autoharp virtuoso, Author and Musician Adam Miller, on THURSDAY, JANUARY 28, 7pm. The concert will take place in the Com- Jim Stewart munity Room. One of the premier autoharpists in the at Cannon Beach Books world, Adam Miller is a renowned American Cannon Beach Book Company hosts an folksinger and storyteller. An accomplished Kathleen evening with Portland author and musician folklorist, historian, musicologist, and song- Cremonesi Jim Stewart on SATURDAY, JANUARY 16TH collector, he has amassed a repertoire of over at 7pm. 5,000 songs. Miller accompanies his baritone voice with lively finger-picking acoustic guitar To Speak Stewart, who has a longtime connection and autoharp melodies. His time-honored traditional folk songs and ballads will have folks of At Oregon to the north coast, has released his debut all ages singing along, and Adam will interweave stories that will evoke a by-gone time when novel, Ochoco Reach, An Ironwood Novel. It entertainment was homemade. Legacy 2016 follows freelance investigator Mike Ironwood, Traveling 70,000 miles each year, this 21st-century troubadour has performed from the his special ops brother Daniel, and Bucket, Everglades to the Arctic Circle. Using the experiences of the road, Miller points out fascinat- a Catahoula leopard dog who is equally at ing connections between events in history and the songs that survived them. And like radio’s home herding cattle and pinning bad guys Paul Harvey, he manages to give you “the rest of the story” about some of our nations richest Driftwood Public Library’s 2016 Oregon Legacy series to the floor. Stewart will be reading from musical treasures. continues on SUNDAY, JANUARY 17TH at 3pm, his book and singing a few songs with local Adam Miller has performed at the Walnut Valley Bluegrass Festival, the Tumbleweed Music when writer Anna Keesey visits thelibrary to talk musician John Mersereau. Festival, and the Kentucky Music Weekend. When he is not on the road, Adam calls Drain about her book Love in the Elephant Tent. Cremonesi Bubbly and Oregon home. took a circuitous route to finding her place in the homemade The Seaside Public Library is located at 1131 Broadway. For more information call (503)738- world. In lieu of college, she traveled America’s “blue treats will be 6742 or visit us at www.seasidelibrary.org and www.facebook.com/seasidepubliclibrary highways” in a VW bus while following The Grateful served after the Dead. When she was ready for a new adventure, she talk while Stew- flew off to Europe, where she accidentally joined a art signs books circus, fell in love with the Italian elephant keeper, and chats with and became an ostrich-riding, shark-taming showgirl attendees. Open Mic Poetry Night while traveling around the Mediterranean. She now This event is Join Host Ric Vrana every last Tuesday of the month lives near Eugene with her husband, and volunteers free and open to at a local animal shelter. She expresses her creativity the public. for Open Mic Poetry, 7pm at the Port of Call at 9th and through woodworking, leather craft, and ceramic arts. Commercial in Astoria. Bring poems . . . each event, there’s Cannon Beach The library is located on the second floor of the Book Company something a little bit different. Lincoln Square City Hall Building at 801 SW Hwy 101 is located at in Lincoln City. For further information about the se- 130 N. Hem- LET POETRY BE YOUR ADVENTURE! ries, contact Ken Hobson at 541-996-1242 orkenh@ lock, Suite 2. lincolncity.org. 503.436.1301

Jan 16 hipfishmonthly.com 18 ••• music • visual arts • literarylecture • outdoor • theater•••

Waiting for Godot. Drama. $15, 3pm at the Mary Flower. $11, 7pm at the Peninsula Arts PAC in Astoria. Center in Long Beach. Friday Tuesday Monday 1 Blue Evolution. 9pm at Roadhouse 101 in MUSIC MUSIC Lincoln City. Maggie & The Cats w/ The Tolovana Brass. A Richard T. Blues. No cover, 6 – 8:30pm at T MUSIC McDougall. No cover, 9pm at the Adrift THROWBACK New Orleans Gumbo of eclectic covers, soul, Paul’s Supper Club in Astoria. Luke & Kati. No cover, 7pm at the Adrift Hotel in Long Beach. blues, r&b, and a Lagniappe of originals. No Brian O’Connor. Jazz guitar. No cover, 6pm at Hotel in Long Beach. cover, 6:30 – 9:30 at the Wine Bar at Sweet the Shelburne Inn in Seaview, WA ART Prom Night! Basil’s in Cannon Beach. HAPPENING Seaside Art Walk. 5 – 8pm at galleries and Salty Dogs. Folk/Blues/Classic Rock. No cover, Tom Trudell. Jazz piano. No cover, 6– 9pm at Community Talent Showcase. $10. businesses in downtown Seaside and 6:30pm at the U Street Pub in Seaside. the Shelburne Restaurant & Pub in Seaview, At the Hoffman Center in Manzanita. Gearhart. Feb 6 Open Jam. Hosted by One Way Out. 8:30pm WA. Hoffmanblog,org at the Snug Harbor Bar & Grill in Lincoln City. FOOD & DRINK Asleep at the Switch. Blues, Country, 40’s, & Open Stage for Music and Word. Performers Wine Tasting. Wines for Valentine’s Day. 1 – Astoria 50’s. Free (donations accepted), 6 – 8pm at HAPPENING can sign up at the door for 10-minute slots. 4pm at the Cellar on 10th in Astoria. the City Hall in Garibaldi. Teen Tuesdays. Free special events just for $3 donation, 7 – 8:30pm at the Hoffman teens in 6th through 12th grades. Activities Wine Tasting. 1 – 5pm at the Wine Shack in Armory Center in Manzanita. Jackson Andrews & Dave Quinton. Blues/ include movie making, video game nights, Cannon Beach. Folk/Rock. No cover, 6pm at Sweet Basil’s Café crafts, and movie nights. 3:30 – 4:30pm at the in Cannon Beach. Tuesday 2 HAPPENING Seaside Library. FMI visit seasidelibrary.org Game Day at the Library. Relax and have Open Mic. Musicians, singers and comedians MUSIC are all welcome. Each performer will receive THEATER fun with family and friends at the library’s Teen Theater Club. Classes will present acting Luke & Kati. No cover, 7pm at the Adrift REMEMBER YOUR $1 off pints of beer or cider. Perform or just free monthly Game Day. Choose from a skill development and a monthly focus on Hotel in Long Beach. PROM? Skip it? Wish enjoy the show. 7:30 – 9:30pm at Hondo’s wide variety of board games, card games, a specific area of theater, including stage Brew & Cork in Astoria, LECTURE and LEGO® bricks for all ages. 2 – 4pm at you could have a re-do? Well.... Shake out those dresses and make-up, set design and lighting, script Past to Present Lecture Series. The Souvenir. the Astoria Public Library. grab your tux!! The Astoria Armory is hosting ‘THROWBACK HAPPENING writing, budgeting and stage management. Louise Steinman. $5, 10:30 – noon at Throw Back Prom. With DJ Imcodefour. PROM NIGHT’ !!!! This is a fundraiser for the Armory Com- Friday Night Mixer. Enjoy a social hour at For ages 14 to 17. $10/ month. At the ASOC the Columbia River Maritime Museum in Dancing, food, and drinks. Prizes for best munity Center and the Assistance League of the Columbia the gallery, with art and conversation, plus Playhouse in Astoria. Astoria. 60s, 70s, 80s, or 90s prom attire. $20 - $25 Pacific!!! beverages provided by Astoria Coffeehouse. admission. 21 and over. 8pm at the Astoria Come have a prom night you wish you would have had! 5 – 7pm at Imogen Gallery in Astoria. Wednesday Wednesday 3 Armory. FMI 503-791-6064 Prizes for best era of prom attire!! Trivia Night. Find out how much useless (or MUSIC King of the Cage. Live Mixed Martial Arts. DJ imcodefour will lead us through the decades of even useful) stuff you know at the weekly George Coleman. Pop/Jazz/Folk/Rock. 5:30 MUSIC Trivia Night. 7pm at Baked Alaska in Astoria. – 9pm at Shelburne Restaurant and Pub in Luke & Kati. No cover, 7pm at the Adrift $40 - $100. 6pm at Chinook Winds in dance!!! No rulers will be pulled out for our slow dances Family Skate Night. The Shanghaied Roller Seaview. Hotel in Long Beach. Lincoln City. and the punch will be spiked!! There’ll be awesome food!!! Dolls host a family friendly Open Skate Night. A photo station with Tyler Little Photography and so much The Coconuts. Swing/Jazz/Country/Blue- LITERARY There’s also Shanghaied Roller Doll merchan- grass/Folk. 6pm at the Wine Bar at Sweet Thursday 4 Manzanita Writer’s Series. Author Bob more! dise available to purchase and concessions Basil’s Café in Cannon Beach. Balmer will read from his work. Open Mic This is a 21+ event!! 7 bucks a person at the door or on if you need a snack during all the fun! Come MUSIC Jam Session. No cover, 7pm-ish – 10pm at the session follows. $7, 7pm at the Hoffman line at: brownpapertickets.com on Friday and see if your favorite Doll is there. Mary Flower. No cover, 7pm at the Adrift Center in Manzanita. Moose Lodge in Astoria. We are doing a package deal too!! $2 at the door and $3 for skate rentals. 5 - Hotel in Long Beach. 9:00pm at the Astoria Armory. Jam Session. Hosted by Richard Thomasian. THEATER 25 a person or 45 a couple. It includes admission, drink No cover, 7 – 10pm at the Port of Call in HAPPENING Waiting for Godot. Drama. $15, 7pm at the tickets, prom photos and free rides on the Glamtram!!! Spirit Dance 2. A free-form dance celebration. Astoria. First Thursday Trivia. Teams of 1-5 compete PAC in Astoria. Music by DJ Pranawave. 6pm warm-up & for universal admiration and fantastic stretch. 6:15 circle opens and dance begins. Dan Golden. World Music. 7:30 – 10:30pm at Rumors. Comedy. $17, 7pm at the Barn prizes. Sign up ahead of time or just show February 6 at 9pm at the Astoria Armory, 1636 Exchange. 8pm finish. Suggested donation $10, free McKeown’s Restaurant & Bar in Seaside. Community Playhouse in Tillamook. up! Free, 5:30 – 6:30pm at the Astoria Public Prom on dude! for kids. At Pine Grove Community House in LITERARY Library. Dead Guilty. Drama. $15 - $20. 7:30pm at Manzanita. Weekly Writing Lounge. A weekly drop-in the Coaster Theater in Cannon Beach. writing environment with resources. $3/ ses- LECTURE HAPPENING Saturday sion. 10am – 12:30pm at the Hoffman Center Ales and Ideas. Rescue Boats of the Colum- Tuesday 9 Asian New Year Kite Celebration. MUSIC in Manzanita. bia River and Beyond. With Chris Jacobsen. Sunday 7 Hands-on kite-building classes and MUSIC Musician’s Jam. Free, 2 – 4pm at the Tillamook SPIRITUAL Free, 7pm at the Fort George Lovell Show- MUSIC other unique events. At the Long Sam Densmore. No cover, 7pm at the Adrift Library. Ocean Within Awareness Group. Mission: to room in Astoria. Malachi Graham. No cover, 7pm at the Beach Kite Museum. Hotel in Long Beach. actively move toward our true nature and Adrift Hotel in Long Beach. Open Mic. 3 – 6pm at the Beehive in HAPPENING Nehalem. become one with the Ocean Within. Meet- The Lowest Pair. No cover. 8pm at Fort ings will have two short meditation sessions, Friday 5 Asian New Year Kite Celebration. Hands-on Friday 12 George Brewery & Public House in Astoria. George Coleman. Pop/Jazz/Folk/Rock guitar. group discussions, and a focus practice for MUSIC kite-building classes and other unique MUSIC No cover, 6pm at the Shelburne Restaurant the week. All faiths/paths welcome. 6:30 – Bart Budwig with Luke Ydstie. Plus solo per- events. At the Long Beach Kite Museum. CINEMA Peter Cetera. $40 - $55, 8pm at Chi- in Seaview, WA 7:30pm at the Astoria Indoor Garden Supply. formance by Brian John Appleby. No cover, Sunday Matinee Film Series. Singin’ in the LECTURE nook Winds in Lincoln City. The Honky Tonk Cowboys. Country. No cover, FMI 503-741- 7626 8pm at the Sou’wester Lodge in Seaview. Rain. $5, 2pm at the Liberty Theater in Past to Present Lecture Series. Finding The Resolectrics. No cover, 9pm at the 7 – 10p at the Astoria Moose Lodge. McDougall. No cover, 9pm at the Adrift Astoria. David Douglas (film). With Lois Leonard. Adrift Hotel in Long Beach. Saturday Night Dance Party. With DJ Nacho Thursday Hotel in Long Beach. $5, 10:30 – noon at the Columbia River HAPPENING ART Bizznez mixing the latest dance music with MUSIC HAPPENING Storytelling. Free, 3pm in the Chessman Maritime Museum in Astoria. old favorites. No cover, 1pm at Twisted Fish Opening Reception. For Another Alex Puzauskas. Jazz. 6pm at the Shelburne Gallery at the Lincoln City Cultural Center. in Seaside. First Friday Nights. A mix of live music, Wednesday 10 Time, Another Place, featuring the Inn in Seaview. games, film screenings, skills demonstra- LITERARY work of Elena Nikitin. 5 – 7pm at the FOOD & DRINK Dallas Williams. Folk/Americana. No cover, tions, and hands-on activities. A cash bar Poetry Slam and Open Mic. Open Mic MUSIC Chessman Gallery in the Lincoln City Wine Tasting Special. $9 for 4, 2-oz pours + 6:30pm at the Wine Bar at Sweet Basil’s Café and inspired snacks will be available. Free for poets to share their own poem or a Sam Densmore. No cover, 7pm at the Adrift Cultural Center. complimentary appetizers. 4 – 6pm at the in Cannon Beach. admittance, 7 – 9pm at the Barbey Mari- cherished poem of their choosing. Bring Hotel in Long Beach. Wine Bar at Sweet Basil’s Café in Cannon Live Music. No cover, 6pm at U Street Pub time Center in Astoria. HAPPENING your work to share. 3 – 6pm at Three Arch Beach. in Seaside. HAPPENING Asian New Year Kite Celebration. THEATER Inn in Oceanside. Asian New Year Kite Celebration. Hands-on Hands-on kite-building classes and Live Music. Thursday Night Gigs, 6pm at the Waiting for Godot. Drama. $15, 7pm at the Sunday THEATER kite-building classes and other unique other unique events. At the Long Cannon Beach Gallery. PAC in Astoria. Dead Guilty. Drama. $15 - $20. 3pm at the events. At the Long Beach Kite Museum. Beach Kite Museum. MUSIC Richard T. Blues. No cover, 6 – 8:30pm at T Coaster Theater in Cannon Beach. All That Jazz. Jazz. No cover (donations ac- Paul’s Supper Club in Astoria. Night of All Knowledge Trivia Tournament. THEATER cepted). 2pm at the Wet Dog Café in Astoria. Rumors. Comedy. $17, 7pm at the Barn A free and fun team trivia event. 6pm at the Dead Guilty. Drama. $15 - $20. 7:30pm Two Crows Joy. 6 – 8pm at the Sand Dollar Community Playhouse in Tillamook. Monday 8 Seaside Library. at the Coaster Theater in Cannon North Coast Country Band. No cover, 3 – 6pm Restaurant & Lounge in Rockaway Beach. at the Astoria Moose Lodge. Dead Guilty. Drama. $15 - $20. 7:30pm at MUSIC Beach. Basin Street NW. Jazz. No cover, 6:30pm at Steve Sloan. 8:30pm at the Snug Harbor Bar & the Coaster Theater in Cannon Beach. Malachi Graham. No cover, 7pm at the Thursday 11 Saturday 13 the Bridgewater Bistro in Astoria. Grill in Lincoln City. Adrift Hotel in Long Beach. MUSIC MUSIC Music Jam. All are welcome. 6:30 – 8:30pm at the Astoria Senior Center. Saturday 6 HAPPENING Sam Densmore. No cover, 7pm at the Adrift Sweetheart Dance with the Lincoln Monday Asian New Year Kite Celebration. Hands-on Hotel in Long Beach. Jim Wilkins. 7pm at the Voodoo Room in MUSIC City Pops. $16 or $28/couple. 7 – HAPPENING kite-building classes and other unique Sourdough Slim. $15, at the Lincoln City 10pm at the Lincoln City Cultural Astoria. Kathy Boyd & Phoenix Rising. $15, 7pm at Burgers & Jam Session. 6 – 9pm at the Ameri- events. At the Long Beach Kite Museum. the Lincoln City Cultural Center. Cultural Center. Center. can Legion Hall in Cannon Beach.

19 Jan 16 hipfishmonthly.com FLASH CUTS film. MOVIES & MUSINGS FLASH CUTS 2015 TOP TEN MOVIES by Les Kanekuni

7. The Kubrick directed a dark, tongue-in-cheek Revenant comedy. Alejandro 2. Room Although veering close to hor- Gonzalez ror territory, Room is really about how the Inna- relationship between young mother Ma ritu’s film (Brie Larson) and her five-year-old son Jack is both weather the very different stresses of being beauti- imprisoned in a room for six years and then ful and living freely in the world again. brutal as it details the 3. Brooklyn Throwback very moving story survival about a young woman’s journey from Ireland story of to America in the early 1950s, and the hard- frontiers- ships and emotional pulls she feels separat- man Hugh ed from her loved ones while simultaneously AIFF & Liberty Theater present Top Ten Hollywood Films Glass (Leo making a new life for herself in Brooklyn. DiCaprio) who must survive alone in the wil- 4. Spotlight Drama about the Boston Sunday Matinee Winter Film Series 1. Star Wars: The Force Awakens J.J. derness after being mauled by a bear while Globe investigative team that cracked the 2016 Abrams does the impossible and revives a burning for revenge against the men who story about pedophile Catholic priests in series that seemed destroyed by George left him for dead. Boston and the Archdiocese that covered up Lucas, with his much-maligned prequels. 8. Sicario A Dante’s Inferno view of the their crimes for decades. Very much like the With new characters Rey (Daisy Ridley) and Noises Off world of Mexican drug cartels as witnessed journalism classic All The President’s Men. Finn (John Boyega) taking up the light saber by an FBI Agent (Emily Blunt) caught up in il- January 17, 2pm and old stalwarts Han Solo, Princess Leia and 5. Carol Todd Haynes’ masterful adapta- legal CIA op to control the drug trade, aided tion of Patricia Highsmith’s lesbian classic Directed by Peter Bogdanovich Luke Skywalker revived, The Force Awakens by their scary “sicario” (hitman) played by had the best of new and old. The Price of Salt tells the story of young 104 minutes - March 20, 1992 Benicio del Toro. shopgirl Therese’s (Rooney Mara) introduc- 2. Straight Outta Compton Straight 9. Ant-Man While Marvel blockbusters like tion and relationship with older woman Outta Compton goes way beyond most Age of Ultron went large, this movie literally Carol (Cate Blanchett) and the price paid by The Liberty Theater and AIFF Kick-off the musical biopics by not only showing the rise did the opposite with comic actor Paul Rudd lesbians in the closeted ‘50s. and fall of notorious rap group N.W.A and its playing nearly-inept shrinking lead, Ant-Man winter film series with a 1992 Peter Bogda- creators Ice Cube, Dr. Dre and Eazy-E, but 6. Anomalisa The rare animation for had fun with the whole concept of superhe- adults, this Charlie Kaufman-scripted movie novich comedy. Remember when we were also by depicting the racially-based harass- roes while also delivering the goods. ment by the LAPD that fueled their scorching tells the Kafka-esque story of Michael Stone, going to party like it was 1999. Time flies!!! music. a customer service consultant who, while But the Liberty is still a great place to see a wallowing in the mundanity of his life while 3. Inside Out Pixar scores again with Top Ten Specialty Films on a business trip to Cincinnati, meets Lisa, movie on a winter Sunday afternoon. perhaps its most creative concept ever – a who may be the love of his life. dramedy based on the emotions of young The comedy where everyone gets caught in girl. With Amy Poehler (Joy), Phyllis Smith 7. Ex Machina Made on only a $15M the act! (Sadness) and Bill Hader (Anger) doing great budget, Alex Garland’s startling scifi psy- vocal work, Inside Out is probably the best chological thriller about an inventor who Hired to helm an Americanized take on a film ever of literally dramatizing a character’s invites a programmer (Domnhall Gleason) to British play, director Lloyd Fellowes (Mi- emotions. his home to administer the Turing test to an android (Alicia Vikander) kicked off breakout chael Caine) does his best to control an 4. Mad Max: Fury Road Rivalling J.J. years for Gleason and Vikander. eccentric group of stage actors. During Abrams work reviving Star Wars is original creator George Miller’s fourth installment 8. Beasts of No Nation Chilling story practice sessions, things run smoothly. in the Mad Max series, 30 years after the by Cary Fukunaga (True Detective) about a However, when Lloyd and his actors begin young boy in a fictional African country rav- previous one. Even more kinetic and action- a series of performances leading up to a packed than the previous efforts, Miller aged by war who joins a rebel army led by re-booted his lead with a new Max in Tom Commandant (Idris Elba) and his subsequent Broadway premiere, chaos ensues. Star ac- Hardy and added the equally impressive loss of childhood through the brutalities of tress Dotty (Carol Burnett) is quickly pass- Charlize Theron as the intimidating Impera- war. ing her prime, male lead Frederick (Chris- tor Furiosa. 9. Listen To Me Marlon Fascinating 5. The Martian Combine the technical documentary about the legendary actor told topher Reeve) has no confidence, and bit wizardry of Ridley Scott and the earnest, like- through his own personal voice recordings, actor Selsdon (Denholm Elliott) is rarely able and frequently hilarious performance home movies and digitized likeness dealing sober. Also stars: Julie Hagerty, Marilu of Matt Damon and the result is this highly with his career, family and personal trag- entertaining story of astronaut Mark Watney edies. Henner, Mark Linn-Baker, John Ritter and (Damon), who must survive alone on Mars 10. Me and Earl and the Dying Girl Nicollette Sheridan. Based on Noses Off by through wisecracks and “sciencing the shit” The anti-The Fault In Our Stars, movie is a Michael Frayn. out of the problem. 1. The Lobster Greek director Yorgos frequently hilarious, totally non-sentimental 6. Creed A small miracle of a movie, writ- Lnathimos’ hilarious mating satire has the story of social misfit Greg who strikes up er/director Ryan Coogler not only rebooted most original concept of any film this year. a non-romantic friendship with childhood Sunday, January 17th, 2pm, $5 at the series that did not seem to need rebooting, In a dystopian near future, singles from friend Rachel who is dying of leukemia. Earl but also drew from Sylvester Stallone his the City are taken to the Hotel where they fends off the world by making self-admitted door. Open Seating. best performance in years, to the point Sly is must find a partner in 45 days or be turned “terrible” parodies of classic movies with his now frontrunner for Best Supporting Actor. into the animal of their choice. As if Stanley friend Earl.

Jan 16 hipfishmonthly.com 20 The Pedaling Adventures of Madame Velo (a.k.a. The Bike Madame)

Bike Madame FREE WILL ASTROLOGY© Copyright 2016 Rob Brezsny January By Margaret Hammitt-McDonald ARIES (March 21-April 19): John Koenig is an artist who invents and others sat in carriages and wagons that horses pulled. But new words. Here’s one that’s applicable to your journey in 2016: as cities grew larger, a problem emerged: the mounting manure “keyframe.” Koenig defines it as being a seemingly mundane left behind on the roads. It became an ever-increasing challenge phase of your life that is in fact a turning point. Major plot twists to clear away the equine “pollution.” In 1894, a British newspaper in your big story arrive half-hidden amidst a stream of innocuous predicted that the streets of London would be covered with nine Rust Strikes Again! events. They don’t come about through “a series of jolting epipha- feet of the stuff by 1950. But then something unexpected hap- T’S THE ARCHENEMY of bicycles in not beyond salvation, in which case it’s nies,” Koenig says, but rather “by tiny imperceptible differences pened: cars. Gradually, the threat of an excremental apocalypse Ithe Pacific Northwest, and without time for a new bike. It’s important to get between one ordinary day and the next.” In revealing this secret, I waned. I present this story as an example of what I expect for you constant vigilance (in the words of the down deep enough to reach a rust-free hope I’ve alerted you to the importance of acting with maximum in 2016: a pressing dilemma that will gradually dissolve because uber-paranoid Mad-Eye Moody from the area, but remember that if rust works integrity and excellence in your everyday routine. of the arrival of a factor you can’t imagine yet. Harry Potter series), it can devour frames its way too deeply, structural damage TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The coming months look like one of SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): The longest river in the world flows and make your chain sing notes that has occurred and the metal can fatigue the best times ever for your love life. Old romantic wounds are fi- through eastern Africa: the Nile. It originates below the equator shatter glass. No, it’s not moss or mold, while you’re in motion—crash!) nally ready to be healed. You’ll know what you have to do to shed and empties into the Mediterranean Sea. Although its current although Chemi- tired traditions and bad habits that have limited your ability to flows north, its prevailing winds blow south. That’s why sailors these cal meth- get the spicy sweetness you deserve. Are you up for the fun chal- have found it easily navigable for thousands of years. They can could ods involve lenge? Be horny for deep feelings. Be exuberantly aggressive in either go with the flow of the water or use sails to harness the grow on coating honoring your primal yearnings. Use your imagination to dream power of the breeze. I propose that we make the Nile your official a bike if the rusty up new approaches to getting what you want. The innovations in metaphor in 2016, Scorpio. You need versatile resources that en- it’s left in areas with intimacy that you initiate in the coming months will keep bring- able you to come and go as you please -- that are flexible in sup- the yard a liquid ing you gifts and teachings for years to come. porting your efforts to go where you want and when you want. long and leaving enough. it on to GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In ancient times, observers of the SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In many cases, steel isn’t fully sky knew the difference between stars and planets. The stars useful if it’s too hard. Manufacturers often have to soften it a bit. It’s rust, react with remained fixed in their places. The planets wandered around, This process, which is called tempering, makes the steel springier the the rust, always shifting positions in relationship to the stars. But now and more malleable. Car parts, for example, can’t be too rigid. If dreaded then wip- and then, at irregular intervals, a very bright star would suddenly they were, they’d break too easily. I invite you to use “tempering” product Tubes Be Proud!!!!! Inner Rubber, Outer Pleasure. ing it off. materialize out of nowhere, stay in the same place for a while, and as one of your main metaphors in 2016, Sagittarius. You’re going of oxida- Inexpen- then disappear. Chinese astronomers called these “guest stars.” We to be strong and vigorous, and those qualities will serve you best tion-re- sive home- refer to them as supernovae. They are previously dim or invisible if you keep them flexible. Do you know the word “ductile”? If not, duction treatment stars that explode, releasing tremendous energy for a short time. look it up. It’ll be a word of power for you. reactions methods a I suspect that in 2016, you may experience the metaphorical and a la Farmer’s CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In his essay “The Etiquette of Free- equivalent of a guest star. Learn all you can from it. It’ll provide consequence of living in our precipita- Almanac include white vinegar and dom,” poet Gary Snyder says that wildness “is perennially within teachings and blessings that could feed you for years. tion-rich paradise. citric acid (lime juice is one form). Don’t us, dormant as a hard-shelled seed, awaiting the fire or flood that CANCER (June 21-July 22): Be alert for an abundance of interest- Prevention is the first step in keeping wait too long before wiping off the rust awakes it again.” The fact that it’s a “hard-shelled” seed is a crucial ing lessons in 2016. You will be offered teachings about a variety those orange blossoms from flowering and its solvent or the acids may end up detail. The vital stuff inside the stiff outer coating may not be able of practical subjects, including how to take care of yourself really on your bike. With an average annual causing further harm to your frame. You to break out and start growing without the help of a ruckus. A fire well, how to live the life you want to live, and how to build the might hear somebody recommending or flood? They might do the job. But I propose, Capricorn, that in rainfall of 100+ inches, fighting rust can connections that serve your dreams. If you are even moderately feel like a losing battle, especially when Coca-Cola as a solvent. True, phos- responsive to the prompts and nudges that come your way, you 2016 you find an equally vigorous but less disruptive prod to lib- erate your dormant wildness. Like what? You could embark on a your chain sports brown links a week phoric acid can dissolve rust, but Coke will become smarter than you thought possible. So just imagine after its last lube session. Regular main- is sticky and annoying to rinse off, so how savvy you’ll be if you ardently embrace your educational brave pilgrimage or quest. You could dare yourself to escape your comfort zone. Are there any undomesticated fantasies you’ve tenance makes the difference between you’re better off using a phosphoric acid opportunities. (Please note that some of these opportunities may spot treatments and a thousand-mouse solution. It will remove the rust without be partially in disguise.) been suppressing? Unsuppress them! chorus squeaking in your chain. After damaging a steel frame. (However, LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The silkworm grows fast. Once it hatches, it AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Frederick the Great was King of each wet ride, towel-dry your friend and beware if you have brazed joints on your eats constantly for three weeks. By the time it spins its cocoon, it’s Prussia between 1740 and 1786. He was also an Aquarius who apply new chain lube. (You’ll need one frame, as phosphoric acid can dam- sometimes experimented with eccentric ideas. When he brewed 10,000 times heavier than it was in the beginning. On the other that stands up to wet weather, but that’s age brass.) If you’re adept at amateur his coffee, for example, he used champagne instead of water. hand, a mature, 60-foot-tall saguaro cactus may take 30 years to not hard to find at a coastal bike shop.) chemistry, you can try removing rust Once the hot elixir was ready to drink, he mixed in a dash of fully grow a new side arm. It’s in no hurry. From what I can tell, Store your bike indoors, in a low-humidi- via electrolysis (http://www.rickswood- powdered mustard. In light of the astrological omens, I suspect Leo, 2015 was more like a silkworm year for you, whereas 2016 ty spot. I know my faithful readers would shopcreations.com/Miscellaneous/ that Frederick’s exotic blend might be an apt symbol for your life will more closely resemble a saguaro. Keep in mind that while never (gasp!) leave their bikes outside all Rust_Removal.htm). You can also use in 2016: a vigorous, rich, complex synthesis of champagne, coffee, the saguaro phase is different from your silkworm time, it’s just as chemical methods to remove rust from and mustard. (P.S. Frederick testified that “champagne carries hap- winter, to surrender to ungraceful decay. important. components, such as sprockets or the piness to the brain.”) Once the monster has taken hold VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “The sky calls me,” wrote Virgo teacher of your bike’s frame, there are many chain. Use your judgment, though, to and poet Sri Chinmoy. “The wind calls me. The moon and stars PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): My Piscean acquaintance Arturo plays ways to remove it, including a host of determine if the part can be redeemed call me. The dense groves call me. The dance of the fountain calls the piano as well as anyone I’ve heard. He tells me that he can commercial products. On a more basic from rust or needs to be replaced. me. Smiles call me, tears call me. A faint melody calls me. The produce 150 different sounds from any single key. Using the foot level, you can use a mechanical or a Rust can get inside parts, which is why morn, noon and eve call me. Everyone is searching for a playmate. pedals accounts for some of the variation. How he touches a key chemical method. Mechanical methods it’s vital to grease bearings and other Everyone is calling me, ‘Come, come!’” In 2016, Virgo, I suspect is an even more important factor. It can be percussive, fluidic, involve rubbing or scraping the rust internal workings. If you prefer not to do you will have a lot of firsthand experience with feelings like these. staccato, relaxed, lively, and many other moods. I invite you to off with something, such as a piece of this yourself, your bike mechanic will do cultivate a similar approach to your unique skills in 2016. Expand Sometimes life’s seductiveness may overwhelm you, activating aluminum foil, a dish scouring pad, or it as part of an annual check-up. and deepen your ability to draw out the best in them. Learn how confused desires to go everywhere and do everything. On other a metal file. (These are all spot treat- Rust is a demon with many tentacles, occasions, you will be enchanted by the lush invitations, and will to be even more expressive with the powers you already possess. ments. For a frame gone entirely to rust, but with prevention and regular mainte- know exactly how to respond and reciprocate. Homework: If you’d like to enjoy my books, music, and videos I recommend professional assistance, nance, you can keep its suction cups off LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In the 19th century, horses were a pri- without spending any money, go here: http://bit.ly/LiberatedG- which would involve stripping the paint your bike after any journey through our mary mode of personal transportation. Some people rode them, ifts. and re-painting—that is, if the frame is undersea world—I mean, coastal winter.

21 Jan 16 hipfishmonthly.com network. COMMUNITY LISTINGS WORKSHOPS/CLASSES on beautiful properties doing a variety of habi- Tues and Thurs from 10am to 4pm and the sec- Teaching Wednesdays And Saturdays). For MEDITATION CLASS AT CCC. Learn how to sit tat restoration activities. For more information Men’s Group ond and fourth Saturdays from 10am to 2pm. Free Introductory Lesson Contact Instructor quietly, be in your body, and listen to your contact Lower Nehalem Community Trust, Jon Belcher At:Phone: 360-665-0860 E- heart in the practice of developing compas- 503-368-3203, [email protected] Every other Sunday evening DOES FOOD RUN YOUR LIFE? Come to Mail:[email protected] sion for yourself and others. A secular class Overeaters Anonymous every Wednesday 5:30 - 7:30 Next Meeting Jan 17 NORTHCOAST PARENTING.Positive Disci- of self discovery, students help each other from 7-8pm in the Seaside Public Library, ZUMBA. Low Impact Fitness for many ages. pline Tips & Strategies What:Two workshop Center for Contemplative Arts in Manzanita to create a home practice of meditation. Board Room B. No dues, fees or weigh-ins. Licensed instruction. Tolovana Community for parents/caregivers of children age 5 to Contact Darel Grothaus Starting this fall - Thursdays 6-7:30pm. at Everyone welcome! (if you have questions call Hall 3779 S. Hemlock, Cannon Beach, Call Joy: 10 * Presented in both English and Spanish the college room 209 Towler Hall. Register at 503-505-1721). 503.738.6560 206-818-4833 * Thursday Evening – January 21st, 6:15 pm Clatsop College. For more info: Ron Maxted Toddler Arts Group. Every Wednesday 10 to ZUMBA. Come join the Zumba party at North to 7:30 pm. Astor Elementary School. 503.338.9153, email ronmaxted@wwetsky. 11am –Get your toddler started in the arts! County Recreation District in Nehalem, We are a group of men, some completely new to sitting in a circle net Activities are geared towards ages 1–3, but Oregon. Tue-Thur 6:30 to 7:30pm/Fri 9-10am. with men, others have been meeting for over seven years, NEW WINTER AQUANASTICS CLASS.Get a age birth–5 are welcome. All children must FAll term thru Dec. Attire: Loose gym clothing, MEETINGS/MEET-UPS be accompanied by a caregiver. Bay City Arts non-gripping sneakers, a water bottle & lots of head start on your fitness goals for 2016 with GRIEF SUPPORT GROUP. ASTORIA/SEASIDE. Center, Bay City. energy! Rosa Erlebach – instructor. Ncrd. 36155 We are confidential. We are inclusive. We are diverse. a special Winter Term Aquanastics class at CCC. Lower Columbia Hosice is currently offering 9th Street Nehalem, Or 97131(503) 368-4595 This class will be held on Tuesdays and Thurs- free bereavement and grief support group Bring Yourself - Be Yourself - Add Yourself to the mix. See what [email protected] days, January 19 through February 25, from BODY WORK•YOGA•FITNESS meetings twice per month: 1st Thurs. 2-4pm@ happens. 9:00 to 9:50 A.M. or from 10:00 to 10:50 A.M. Bob Chisholm Comm.Center, Meeting Rm. Only 12 students can attend each section. The YOGA NAMASTE. Level 1&2 90 minutes Yoga SPIRITUALITY 1, 1225 Ave. A, Seaside. 3rd Tues. 4:30-6pm, Some of us have been meeting together for seven years. Others are cost is $29.00. Register now at www.clatsopcc. classes. Monday 8a.m., Wednesday 6:30p.m., Columbia Memorial Hospital, Columbia edu/schedule and search under Course Title Friday 6:30a.m. and 8:30a.m. $16 walk-in. Com- CONVERSATIONS WITH MOTHER MARY. Come Center, Chinok Rm, 2021 Exchange St., Astoria. new to the process. Either way, each man adds to the evening. We or call 503-338-2402. Please direct inquiries munity yoga Wednesday 5:15p.m. $12 walk-in. and experience the Love and Wisdom of Qeustions call: 503-338-6230. all have connection to a vast knowledge. The group intelligence is to: Mary Kemhus, 503-338-2408; mkemhus@ 342 10th street, Astoria. Check website for Mother Mary through her channel Barbara LA LECHE LEAGUE OF ASTORIA. 2015 Fall Se- more expansive than the individual awareness. clatsopcc.edu weekend workshops. www.yoganam.com. 530 Beach. Every Second Sunday, 10:30 to 12:30ish. ries Meeting Notice Breastfeeding Information There is a great release and power in sharing our wisdom and our 440 9761. In Seaside, Oregon. Call or email for directions: and Support. If you are interested in breast- FLOWER ARRANGING. January 23. With Jennie 503-717-4302 [email protected]. vulnerabilities. Meyers. Learn the basics of flower arranging LOTUS YOGA ASTORIA. Classes with Certified, feeding your baby, consider attending a La Suggested donation $15.00. Bring finger food Leche League meeting. You will meet other As we sit in the circle we more clearly see ourselves and the other, using greens and floral foam to extend the Experienced Teachers: Monday - Gentle if you feel so inclined. The gathering will in- life of the flowers. Make a simple bud vase 9:00am, Level 1 5:30am, Tuesday - Level 2 6am, mothers who have breastfed their babies realizing there is no difference between the two. clude a healing circle, channeled conversation and mothers with babies around the same arrangement and a table centerpiece. Bring Wednesday - Gentle 9am, Restorative 6:30pm, with Mother Mary, snacks and sharing. age as your own. Group meetings provide an a pocket knife, a bud vase and a centerpiece Thursday - Level 2&3 6pm, Friday - Thera- opportunity for both new and experienced Dance Your Joy at peutic 9am. Meditation - Wednesday 6pm, Art & Mindfulness. With Amy Selena Reynolds. bowl with at least a 5 inch opening. Flowers mothers to connect and share their questions New Classes coming soon!Monthly Prices: Once a month , 2nd Saturdays, 1-4 pm. Deepen AAMC and other materials provided. $20, 10am – and concerns with each other. Babies and Unlimited Classes - $90, 4-8 Classes - $10 each, your connection with your heart, mind, and The AAMC is a cooperative of noon in the NCRD kitchen. FMI knappgj@ toddlers are always welcome. Meetings are Drop Ins - $13 each. New Students get a $10 spirit, play with creativity, find out where are WEd cont. yahoo.com held on the Third Thursday of each month passionate professionals who discount on first month. and meditation begin. No previous art or med- from from 11:00 – 12:30 at 320 South Street, want to share the love of dance, 8:30 - 9:30pm Argentine FINANCING YOUR BUSINESS FUTURE. January itation experience is necessary. Bring a journal Astoria. Come join us! • November 19 What to fitness & performance art with Tango Practica with Peter von 19. Presented by Noah Brockman. $15, 9am in RIVERSZEN YOGA and Ki-Hara Resistance and your favorite pen. All other supplies will be Stretching Studio. Located at 399 31st Str. Expect: The Normal Course of Breastfeeding- you. Located at 342 10th St. in Payens Room 219 at Columbia Hall at CCC in Astoria. provided. Class fee:$30 (Note: No one will be December 17 New Beginnings: Baby’s First Register by emailing [email protected] Astoria. 503-440-3554. Over 30 classes, for turned away for lack of funds. Please contact Astoria. Strength, Stamina or Yoga Flow,Levels 1, 2 & 3 Foods. La Leche League Leaders are available • Thursday Amy if you have a financial hardship but want to answer breastfeeding questions and • Monday OFF THE WALL HAND BUILDING CLAY CLASS. offered from early morning to evening, 7 days 9:00-10:00am: Zumba Toning to take a class.) Call Amy at 503-421-7412 or concerns. For more information on meet- 5:30 - 6:15pm SloFlow January 22. With Kathleen Ryan. This workshop a week. 1/2price for new students first month with Nayelli Dalida email [email protected] ings or questions, please call/text Megan and locals residents first day free.Free parking Vinyasa Yoga with Jude Matu- will cover basic clay art principles, including Oien @ 503.440.4942 or Janet Weidman @ 10:30 - 11:30am Tai Chi with and a handicapped ramp is available. http:// COLUMBIA RIVER MEDITATION GROUP. Spon- lichHall slab building, how to shape and join clay, and 503.741-0345 Margaret Murdock sored by Great Vow Monastery. Meets ever 6:20 - 7:15pm QuikFlo create textures, with primary emphasis on riverszen.com orFacebook.com/RiversZen. Slomo w/Kestral Gates Wednesday in the FLag Room of the Public LA MESA CONVERSATION GROUP. Join us on Vinyasa Yoga with Jude Matu- works that may be hung on the wall. Introduc- YOGA—North County Recreation District— 5:30 - 7:00pm Tri-Dosha tion to the studio’s equipment will be included LIbrary. Time: 5:45 - 6:55. MOVING to Clatsop Tuesday nights this summer to share food, lichHall Nehalem. Monday 5:45-7:15pm Level 1 Yoga. Community College on Tuesdays @ 6-7:30pm, community, and culture! La Mesa de Conver- Yoga with Melissa Henige and there will be plenty of hands-on practice Tuesday 4-5:30pm Yin Flows into Restorative. time. $35 which includes three pounds of clay starting Sept 30. Regtration is required at CCC. sacion (conversation table) brings together Wed 8-9:30am Mid-Life Yoga, leading into your a group of community members to discuss • Tuesday • Friday and three hours of instruction, plus use of all Class# is F.T085054, Rm 209 Towler Hall. All 50’s, 60’s, 70’s and beyond! Wed 5:45-7:15pm are welcome to practice - quiet setting and common themes and informally practice 9:00-10:00am: Zumba Fitness 9:30 - 10:40am Gentle tools needed including glazes and firing of Restorative Yoga. Thurs 8-9:30am Chair Yoga. slow walking meditation. Local contact: Ron both English and Spanish over shared meals. with Nayelli Dalida Yoga with Terrie Powers your work. 1 - 4pm at the Hoffman Center in Thurs 5:45-7:15pm Vinyasa Light Yoga. Fri Maxted - 503.338.9153. email: ronmaxted@ La Mesa will be held all summer on Tuesdays 10:30 - 11:30am Thera- 6:30 - 7:30pm Zumba with Manzanita. Register at hofffmanblog.org 8-9:30am Very Gentle Yoga. Fri 11:30am-1pm wwestsky.net from 6-8, and is a family event, with activities peutic Chair Yoga with Jude Nayelli Dalida (every other Fun Flow Fridays Saturday 8-9:30am Mixed- PESTICIDE APPLICATOR SAFETY TRAINING. for kids. Join us tomorrow night-- we’ll be talk- Levels Yoga. 4 different instructors, $8 drop-in A SILENT MEDITATION • with Lola Sacks. St. MatulichHall Friday Dec 4th, 18th) January 28. The pesticide applicator safety ing about summer celebrations and traditions fee each class. 36155 9th St. in Nehalem, Catherine’s Center for the Contemplative Arts, over a meal of fajitas provided by the Bunk- 1:15 - 2:15pm Tai Chi with training class is designed to help pesticide Room 5 (going south, just past Wanda’s Café, Manzanita: Monday Nights 5 - 5:45 Call 368- house! For more info, contact Willa Childress Margaret Murdock • Saturday applicators understand the risks and hopefully turn left uphill). Call 503-368-7160 for more 6227 for more info. at (503) 812-1056 or at wchildre@macalester. 7:30-8:30pm: Beg. West Coast 6:00-7:00pm: Argentine Tango make better decisions while using pesticides information. edu.The Lower Columbia Classics Car Club. to control weeds or other pests. In this class LECTIO DIVINA • Meditation with Holy Scrip- Swing w/Jen Miller with Estelle Olivares Invitation to all who are interested in Collector 8:30-9:30pm: West Coast 7:00-8:00pm: Argentine Tango we will introduce the laws, potential hazards, YOGA –Bay City Arts Center. Classed with ture. The Center for the Contemplative Arts, Cars to attend one of our monthly meetings. talk about the pesticide label, and discuss Michelle Lawhorn - Mon & Thurs 6pm. $5 Manzanita: Tuesday Mornings 10-11:30. Call The meetings are held at Steve Jordan’s Shop Swingw/J. Miller Prac. Hr. Practica with Estelle Olivares per class. 368-6227 for more info. safety equipment, practices and calibration. Building, located at 35232 Helligso Lane in • Wednesday $25, 10am – 4pm at the Tillamook County rural Astoria - meet on the 3rd Thursday of News: New Fall Classes!! YOGA—Manzanita, Center for Contempla- LABYRINTH WALK • Grace Episcopal Church, 9:00 - 10:00am Zumba Toning Extension Office in Tillamook. Register at the each month. For directions call Steve Jordan at Slomo with Kestrel Gates, tive Arts, Manzanita Ave., Tuesday 5-6:30pm. 1545 Franklin St, Astoria, 3-6. Every 1st Sunday. with Nayelli Dalida extension Office. 503-842-3433 503-325-1807. Ballroom/West Coast Swing $10 drop-in fee. Call 503-368-3733 for more 10:30 - 11:30am Tai Chi with information. with Jen Miller, and Zumba PILGRIMAGE TO THE GARDEN OF YOUR TILLAMOOK PILOTS ASSOCIATION. Meets 1st Margaret Murdock VOLUNTEER Sat ea. month at the Airbase Cafe (Tillamook HEARt. January 29-31. With Shakti Sharon Yoga in Gearhart. Gearhart Workout. For more with Nayelli Friday evenings! Air Museum) at 9am for their regular business 7:00-8:15pm: Belly Dance with Hanson and Robin Lieberman. Experience your information log on to www.gearhartworkout. CLATSOP COUNTY GENEALOGY SOCIETY is meeting and to promote general aviation. Jessamyn Grace innate creativity for more fluid self-expression embarking on county-wide cemeteryidentifi- com 3470 Hwy. 101 N. Suite 104 in Gearhart Interested in learning to fly? Or simply inter- through the rhythm of your breathing in yoga, cation and cataloging project. Cemeteries are ested in general aviation, come to the meeting painting and between the two activities. $225, QIGONG. Free. Easy relaxing exercise & among the mostvaluable of historic resources. and meet similar-minded folks? The TPA owns at the Center for Contemplative Arts in Manza- meditation qigong class.Helps arthritis & fibro- They are reminders of our settlementpatterns a Cessna 172 available for members to rent for nita. FMI [email protected] myalgia, reduces stress, Helps balance. Tues & and can reveal information about our historic THE LOWER COLUMBIA CLASSICS CAR Thurs, 9am to 10am, Astoria Methodist Church, events, ethnicity,religion, lifestyles and geneal- BREASTFEEDING INFORMATION & SUP- CLUB. Invitation to all who are interested in FIBER ARTS. NCRD is hosting the North Coast 1076 Franklin Ave.Enter 11th St door Call Linda ogy. The society is seeking volunteers tojoin ENCORE. Join us for the ENCORE Lunch Bunch PORT. La Leche League’s monthly support Collector Cars to attend one of our monthly Fiber Arts Group on Mondays from 1-3 pm Williamson. 503.861.2063. members in identifying and visiting cem- the first Tuesday of the month. Questions group meetings provide an opportunity in the Riverbend Room. If you do handwork about Lunch Bunch? Call Reta Leithner meetings. The meetings are held at Steve for both new and experienced mothers THAI CHI /QIGONG. ASTORIA. Angela Sidlo eteries to catalog theinformation for future of any kind...knitting, crocheting, weaving, 503-717-2297. ENCORE is a membership orga- Jordan’s Shop Building, located at 35232 to share their questions or concerns, and teaches Tai Chi at Astoria Arts & Movement generations. The society would also be grateful macramé, needlepoint, etc. You are welcome Helligso Lane in rural Astoria - meet on the to talk with each other about the special Center! Mon 10-11, Wed 10 - 11, Thur 5:30 - forany information from the public regarding nization for people age 50 and older who are to come and join like-minded folk. Bring your old cemeteries and burial sitesthat may not interested in life-long learning opportunities. 3rd Thursday of each month. If you are inter- joys and challenges of parenting. We 6:30. QiGong, Tue, 12:10 - 12:50 , Thur 12:10 especially encourage expectant and new knitting problems on the 3rd Monday of the be commonly known. If you are interested, ENCORE is sponsored by Clatsop Community ested and need the directions to get there, - 12:50. Starts in Sept. Call Angela to register mothers to join us. Healthy babies and month and get help from knitting instructor contact thesociety at www.clatsopcounty- College, and offers classes in a variety of sub- you may call Steve Jordan at 503-325-1807 503-338-9921 toddlers are always welcome at La Leche Lou Stine.The group will be working on [email protected] or call 503-325-1963 or jects, social events, and occasional educational THE ASTORIA CHESS CLUB. meets Saturday League meetings. Meetings are held on charity projects in the future such as Warm Up T’AI CHI. The Center for the Contemplative Arts, 503-298-8917. trips. For more information, please refer to our mornings at 11:30 AM at Three Cups Coffee the Third Thursday of each month from America or Carewear. email Jane for further Manzanita: Wednesday Mornings 10-11:30. website: www.encorelearn.org or contact Mary Weekly Habitat Restoration/Stewardship Work House and Thursday evenings at 5:30 PM at 11:00 – 12:30 at 320 South Street, Astoria. information. [email protected] $30/month. Call 368-6227 for more info. Parties. 10 am - noon. Meet at Alder Creek Kemhus-Fryling, Clatsop Community College the Hotel Elliott’s wine bar. Players of all ages La Leche League Leaders are available Community Education Coordinator, 503-338- and skill levels are welcome to attend. For The Hoffman Center Clay Studio. Manzanita. LEARN SELF DEFENSE. American Kenpo Karate Farm, at the end of Underhill Lane between to answer breastfeeding questions and 2408, or toll free at 1-855-252-8767. more information, contact us at astoriachess- Drop by studio to reserve or e-mail hoffman- (Ocean Park, Wa) Private & Semi-Private Les- Nehalem and Manzanita. Dress for the weather concerns. Megan [email protected] or [email protected] or visit our Facebook page.” Janet [email protected] [email protected]. The Clay Studio open sons (Adults Only, $10.00 Per Lesson. Currently and prepare to get outside with great people Jan 16 hipfishmonthly.com 22 If we all have these thoughts be possible. 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Choices. By Tobi Nason word and wisdom We make choices every day, from getting out she, on some level, wants to be. (Disclaimer: This my hopes and dreams and found that I was be- of bed, to whether we’ll have have breakfast. does not apply to those in abusive relationships. ing led, in some way, to a simpler life. Another cup of coffee, perhaps? As I write this, That is another discussion altogether.) Be brave. Take that leap. Rock the boat. Most I am still in bed, pondering more coffee. My Spinning one’s wheels. Getting nowhere. Feel- likely the worst does not happen. I like to remind choice... ing helpless and hopeless. people that the worst that can happen is sudden We all have choices. We choose what we wear, Here’s a very simple rut-breaker: Just say Yes. death. Moving to London, becoming a dog- what we eat... well, that’s assuming you are not Yes, to trying a new behavior. Yes, to looking for groomer or tattoo artist, dropping a long-term in the prison system. Even then, choices exist. a new job. Yes, for opening up to new pos- love,,,these brave acts will not result in sudden How one responds to circumstances is a choice. sibilities. Yes to the future, one that is different. physical death. As long as sudden death is not a How one behaves towards others is a choice. “Easier said than done,” perhaps? logical end-result, everything else has potential How one perceives life in general is a choice. Next step: Be Brave. Imagine your life as a big for personal growth. Humbling experiences - As a counselor, and in life general, I hear surprise package and let it happen. I speak from well, make us more humble (aka realistic). Kind- things like: “I had no choice,” or “No, that’s not experience here. I invested many years working ness from strangers strengthens the heartstrings. a choice,” or “I just can’t do that.” Eventually, for security in all forms. I found myself in a very Confronting new concerns is good for develop- the circle comes around and the person is right secure place with no room to grow. I invested ing problem-solving skills. where he/she started from... convinced that in my own status quo. No room for growth, At the end of a new day, life has given you a life has dealt them an unusually difficult card to imagination, change, new relationships, visions, gift or two. play. Here’s where the counselor with a big C hope. I woke up one day and said, “I can’t do comes in.... If a person is stuck, stuck, stuck and this anymore.” I said “Yes!” to the unknown. I Tobi Nason is a counselor located in Warrenton bemoaning being stuck, and finds reason not to was totally scared to the bone. Nothing left to (503) 440-0587. She’ll be glad to share more of change, then that person is probably where he/ lose, was my prevailing thought. I filed through her journey upon demand.

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INTER SOLSTICE has passed and the program will include elements Lower Columbia Region. Wdays are getting longer. The New of strength, endurance and Questions? Year will increase focus on our health and flexibility…so change things the impending Spring will enhance our up to accommodate all your [email protected] motivation to be outside in the garden, body’s exercise needs. playing with the kids, or enjoying a neigh- Yes there are nutritional and tea, hot bath, guided relaxation, reading; borhood walk. Are you finding that you herbal supplements too. Try a B-complex whatever is soothing and relaxing. Slow are not making it out? Do you feel your vitamin. You should take them at least down the mind with deep breathing and energy is less than it should be? You are twice a day as they are water-soluble and restful thoughts. The body wants to rest not alone!! Complaints of fatigue and will pass through you in a matter of hours. and repair, so allow that to happen, it will low energy are a common reason we seek Take it once in the morning with your reward you with better energy! medical attention. Sometimes the solu- protein rich breakfast, and again with your If your moods are keeping you tions are obvious…other times we run into mid-day meal. B vitamins can be upsetting away from making good health choices dead end after dead end trying to seek the to an empty stomach, they may also cause it may be time to seek some help. Both source. As always in Naturopathic medi- sleeplessness if taken too close to bed- anxiety and depression can weigh heavy cine we attempt to start simple and move time, so allow at least 2-3 hours (or more if in these winter months. Whether there is obi ason to the more complex so here we go… sleeplessness is already an issue). Vitamin T N social/situational anxiety which keeps The easiest and least expen- you from getting out, or the vicious Counseling and Mediation Services sive way to conquering your low cycle of depression and lethargy In Astoria energy would be to start making Specializing in Life Changes which keeps you on the couch; there smart food choices. This means call 503-440-0587 are many chemical and natural op- shopping the periphery of your M.A in Counseling tions to assist in pulling you back into grocery store. This will ensure life. And of course many of the things that you increase your consump- mentioned above are worth a try for tion of fresh foods. Fresh fruits, these mood related issues as well. vegetables, fish and meats are What if you’ve tried all that and all excellent sources of vitamins you’re still low and slow? Well then and minerals to give your body a you may be in need of some extra hipfishmonthly.com nutritional boost. Another idea guidance. Physical causes of low is to try and add more protein energy span from the simple common into your first morning meal. cold to more debilitating condi- Rather than pastries, bagels, or tions such as Fibromyalgia and of processed cereals; try hard- course the ever common condition boiled eggs, nut butters, yogurt of hypothyroidism. Some questions or oatmeal with raw nuts, beans Tracy Erfling n.d. to consider: have you had a blood and rice, or protein filled dinner test for your thyroid, your vitamin D naturopathic physician leftovers. Protein provides a levels, checked for chronic viral infec- more sustainable form of energy tions like Lyme’s or Mono? Are there for your body to utilize through- some deeper digestive issues that are out the day versus the typically leaking nutrients, not allowing you primary care using carbohydrate loaded breakfast to get the most from your food? Are you foods. Also important to evaluate the D3 may be deficient, consider supplement- natural therapeutics in chronic pain? How are you managing regularity with which you eat. Try to eat ing 1-2000IU daily, especially now through your stress? There are so many factors at regular intervals, even if it’s every 5-6 the month of May and/or requesting a which can contribute to how you feel and hours (starting with breakfast of course), blood test from your doctor which can as- Call for an appointment! 503.440.6927 perform each day. The attention of a well- it’s better than not eating for 10 hours then sist in determining where you’re at. Herbs 2935 Marine Dr. • Astoria trained health care provider should help to having a huge meal to compensate. Water such as Ginger, Ginseng, Green Tea, and email:email: [email protected] [email protected] rule out other causes such as anemia, hy- too…hydration is an essential element to Licorice may be useful for increasing blood pothyroidism, hypoglycemia, sleep apnea, many chemical reactions that keep our flow, energy and giving those adrenal or unresolved viral infections. Whatever bodies running smoothly. glands an extra-added boost. Licorice the cause of your lack of energy, do not let Exercise! What better source of energy has been shown to increase high blood it go unattended as there are treatments can you give your body than movement? pressure, however, so seek the attention out there to help. Exercise will increase your metabolism, of a trained professional if you have this Simple tools can yield powerful results; your blood flow, and decrease your stress, condition. so commit to enhancing your life with all of which help increase your overall How can we possibly be energized for simply better energy. Make this the year energy. Think about adding a walk dur- the day if we’re not sleeping, yet another to take charge of your health and revitalize ing lunch, parking 15-20 minutes from significant problem contributing to poor your energy! work to walk that distance, walking your energy. There are probably more sleep errands, and taking the stairs. There are aids, both natural and prescription, avail- also many great classes out there through able than any other health remedy…it’s local pools, gyms, health centers or com- clearly a big problem. Again let’s start munity colleges. Don’t forget about those simply. Make a relaxing sleep environ- DO something you love, BE with someone home videos or old exercise equipment ment, clean, cozy and inviting; preferably you love, EAT your vegetables, DRINK collecting dust and clothing that you can free of stimulus (especially TV’s). Have a clean water, BREATHE deeply and MOVE do instead of sitting on the couch feeling bedtime…we make our kids do it and so your body EVERYDAY!! sluggish. Remember a good exercise should we! Have a bedtime ritual with Cooking Classes at the North Coast Food Web Jan 16 hipfishmonthly.com 24 Astoria CHEWCHEW ON ON THIS! THIS! “HO, HO,” Real Estate by Merianne Myers HOLIDAY Your Locally Owned Real Estate Office for all Your Real Estate Needs! CRAB DIP Buying • Selling • Investing 10 ounces Dungeness crab meat www.astoriarealestate.net 1 egg yolk 10 ounces cream cheese softened Peter & Janet Weidman THERE ARE many to room temperature Owner/Brokers traditional holiday 1/4 cup grated Jack cheese foods I could talk about dipping 2 Tablespoons grated Parmesan 336 Industry Street in January. But, it is crab sauce. Like cheese plus more for garnish Astoria, Oregon season at last. We’ve waited lon- steamer clams, 2 Tablespoons good quality olive oil ger than usual this year and there is now artichokes grow in mass 1 cup canned artichoke hearts (not darned little reason to discuss anything else. as you eat them. What starts as a simple bowl marinated) sliced 503.325.3304 Dungeness crab is arguably the gold standard of food swells to a crescendo of compost by 3 Tablespoons chopped fresh garlic for the Northwest seafood industry. 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Artichokes are residents, once described freshly boiled crab so completely deli- and a cold beer as “...a meal that the gods in- cious that we love tended only for the pure in palate.” James was them despite these a little snooty when it came to good taste and distressing bits of I certainly don’t claim to be pure in anything information. including palate but I can’t fault him on his My New Year’s wish choice of lunch. for you: Perhaps the only way to make crab more luxurious is to combine it with artichoke hearts. May artichokes and Artichokes first appear in history in the Mediter- crab come your ranean area. There are cultivation records from way often and may the 15th century. Even then, it was considered you steer clear of a delicacy. Like crab, artichokes are wonderful noxious fevers. just boiled or steamed and served with a simple

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