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PROMISES CHANGE. senate control from the republicans. 2021 Of course, if 2020 established After Georgia’s run-off results were an- anything, it’s that change is the only nounced, congress began the process promise. In the past decade, truthtelling of counting electoral votes to confirm has initiated momentous cultural shifts, the presidential election of Joe Biden, from exposing lies of rape culture to call- contested by 100+ house republicans ing out systemic racism. This reckoning and a handful of senators. And then, intensified in 2020, a year of unraveling in a move long-planned and incited social institutions and the loud disavowal by the lame duck president, his armed of rotting systems of relationship. We’ve supporters flooded the capitol building. deepened the long struggle of truth- With little resistance, they shut down telling, illuminating false glories mask- government business. ing stories of landgrabs and massacres. This drama of whiteness obscur- Stirling Gorsuch"Icefire" monoprint, 2016 We’ve started to occupy the freedom truth ing the hard work of black organizers instigates. seems emblematic of stories we have come to understand in the past decade. Real In 2020, the COVID19 pandemic helped reveal the inadequacies of many of our work toward justice is eclipsed by inflated, sensationalized performances of domi- social networks at the same time we witnessed the boundless capacity of individuals nance. But the symbols on display were easily recognizable as serious signifiers of and local organizations to truly support each other. The tumultuous events of 2020-- oppression: confederate flags, camera cords knotted into nooses. from the pandemic to reckoning with white supremacy--inspire a reexamination of who The epiphany brings to light that these divisions are not serving us. The narratives we are at an essential, existential level--how we flourish or flail as individuals and in of freedom in the US, the promises of the american dream, are hollow. The lens shifts relationship to each other. What matters? to reveal the suffering incurred by generations of adherence to a paradigm that pits 2021 hits like a King Tide. Within the first full week of the year, on January 6, 2021-- us against “them”. Days into 2021, we’re reverberating in the energetic and systemic the Epiphany--grassroot efforts to get out the vote in rural Georgia resulted in the red shifts that came to fruition in 2020. And while painful, these shifts have cracked open state turning blue. The election of democrats Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff wrests some worn out narratives. cont. p9

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While the hack was about ever-present dangers of a nuclear a month after the 2020 election, exchange, which could be caused the last significant accusation by mistaken information, the Russian of Russian hacking came on the Continuous American Russophobia leader wished to eliminate nuclear heels of the 2016 election: Hillary weapons entirely. The American former Moscow mayor, whose alcoholism Clinton versus Donald Trump. Clinton president, Reagan, a cold warrior who increasingly compromised his ability to was claiming “Russian interference” on had referred to Russia as “the evil em- Open: Every Day 11 to 5pm govern. At one point he ordered tanks the eve of the election, seemingly too pire” was willing to negotiate. But he to fire on the Russian Parliament, so out www.forsythia.com 1124 Commercial St • Astoria, OR early to tell its source. After a 22 month would not consider abolishing America’s of touch with reality was he. While Yeltsin subsequent investigation by his com- nuclear arsenal. For one thing, the was head of state the Clinton administra- mittee, special counsel Robert Mueller defense contractors who supported him tion did everything they could to enable issued a report claiming 2016 election made great fortunes building nuclear his alcohol based dysfunction. Incompe- interference “in a sweeping and system- weapons. So Reagan settled for the INF tence and corruption reigned as Russia A Poetic atic fashion.” Much journalistic hoopla Treaty, which sharply limited intermediate under Yeltsin sought to transition to capi- followed this revelation, but rarely was range nuclear weapons. talism. Indeed, with the help of the CIA there any description of in what manner After Gorbachev, Russia’s most vision- Family and NED, Russia was in the economic the election interference occurred. This ary leader since the 1917 Revolution, doldrums by the late nineties. turned out to include Russia’s staging came the Yeltsin period, wherein the Memoir “a social media campaign” favorable to Moreover, the US blatantly interfered Soviet Union collapsed and the US began Trump and disparaging of Hillary Clin- with Russian politics by conducting “color to implement its “color revolutions,” “Toast na zdrowie to this ton. This amounted primarily to ads on revolutions” (coups) in the Eastern Euro- installing authoritarian pro-Western lead- delightful collection.” Facebook. Congress appointed Robert pean states along Russia’s border. Russia ers. The US thus succeeded in “western- -Margaret Chula, laureate Mueller to investigate Russian interfer- had communized those states, including izing” the buffer states which had helped author of One Last Scherzo ence. Almost two years later, the Mueller the Baltics, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and protect Russia from invasion. As those Report would state that Russia had Rumania in order to have buffer states countries threw off communism and between Russia and the West. Western “An exquisite piece of indeed “interfered in the 2016 election” joined the West, the US placed nuclear remembrance.” -Hal Calbom A social media campaign disparaging European countries, together with the weapons in them aimed at Russia. of the Columbia River Reader Clinton does not in this writer’s opinion US, had invaded Russia after the 1917 Yeltsin was replaced in 2000 by Vladi- constitute a “sweeping and systematic Revolution, attempting to restore the mir Putin, a capable leader who succeed- campaign.” tsar. And Nazi Germany had invaded and ed in revamping the Russian economy, as Now Available at RiverSea Gallery in Astoria Comparing Russia’s anti-Clinton ad- devastated much of Russia in the early well as its defense systems. The US con- vertising with previous US interference years of World War Two. stantly derides Putin as an authoritarian, in Russia’s internal politics, mainly during After World War Two, the US, being as if we never cozied up to authoritarians. Visit Downtown Astoria the Bill Clinton presidency, reveals the US the only major participant not to have American elites keep presidents from on the 2nd Saturday of level of interference in Russian politics to suffered invasion or bombing found itself negotiating with the Russians, as Reagan every month for art, music, have been far greater. During the Clinton in better economic and infrastructural had been able to do. This benefits the and general merriment! years Russia had been extremely vulner- shape than the other great powers, and US arms racket. Thus we decay internally NEW HOURS: able because of the dissolution of the the US ruling elite thus began a drive for as we spend over half the federal budget Food and refreshments will not Soviet Union in 1991. At that time the US world dominion. Defense expenditures on militarism. Russia continues to be the 12 noon to 8pm be served. Participants are sent a non-governmental organization, shot up rapidly, notably on the nuclear rationale for our huge arms expenditure, encouraged to follow social Presented by distancing guidelines and to the National Endowment for Democracy, weapons the US had introduced in with a more dangerous China, soon the Astoria Downtown please wear masks. into Russia for the express purpose of in- destroying Hiroshima and Nagasaki while to have the world’s biggest economy, Historic District terfering with Russian politics. The NED Japan, having already been effectually getting a pass, as they are so profit- Association accompanied the usual CIA psy-ops and defeated, was seeking peace. able to the US business class. Russia, attempts to manipulate Russian politics. In 1949 the Soviets got the bomb and for its part, continues as scapegoat for The US overall purpose was to do as thus began the nuclear arms race. The this powerful faction. So the Russians, much damage to the Russian state and Cold War between the US and Russia for purposes of self-protection against Jan economy as possible. In so doing they (USSR) continued for 47 years before the US hegemon, monitors and tries to 9 astoriadowntown.com promoted the presidency of Boris Yeltsin, it was ended by the reformist Russian influence American elections. JAN 21 hipfishmonthly.com 4

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PRIVATE FOREST ACCORD working group hires Peter Koehler to mediate discussions (Salem, OR) — Despite the impacts of two sides in fostering new forestry the COVID-19 pandemic and a devas- policy to date, including: Rural Citizens’ Timber Tax Inside the Month: tating wildfire season, the collaborative • Passage of landmark legislation process between 12 timber and forest in the June special legislative session Cover Feature . . . H. Hirschi p3, 9 -10 products companies, the Oregon Small that increased drinking water protec- Initiative Concept Commentary . . . D. Reed p7 Woodlands Association, and 13 envi- tions with larger buffers around homes, ronmental and fisheries organizations schools, and water intakes for helicop- NEW COLUMN Unsheltered Thoughts p7 to amend Oregon forest practices is ter applications of pesticides on forest- Zoom Forum INCO News . . . p6 moving forward. That process was es- land. Senate Bill 1602 also created a tablished by the historic Memorandum state-of-the-art electronic notification Nature NEWS & Events p8 of Understanding brokered by Gover- system for real-time neighbor commu- Join a Zoom Forum about the Rural Citizens’ Timber Culture Connect . . . p10 nor Kate Brown in February. This past nications and timely post-application Tax Initiative. This Initiative aims to improve the State record availability for helicopter appli- Laws that protect our watersheds and also provides Art Happens . . . p11 December Governor Brown announced that the signatories to the agreement cations of pesticides on forestland. badly needed funding for our local Communities. IN Memory . . . p18 have taken a major step forward by appointing experienced mediator Peter Goals: Revive the property tax on timber, address Small COLUMNS Koehler, Jr., to facilitate the dialogue, Tract Forestland program and re-direct OFRI funding to Outside the Box . . . Berk p4 expected to begin in early 2021. achieve the following: As principal of Koehler ADR, LLC, Sonja Grace Messages p13 Koehler brings both business and envi- • Generate property tax funding for local jurisdictions, Flash Cuts p14 ronmental perspectives to mediation. • Revenue to address and prevent harm to forested water- Koehler was selected for his extensive Free Will Astrology p15 sheds and funds needed for water infrastructure experience with arbitration, mediation, Bike Madame p15 and litigation in complex legal matters, • Revenue to address threats to communities in fire hazard Whole Planet Health p16 as well as for his impartiality in matters zones. of forest management and natural Background Chew On This p17 resources. Koehler worked as a com- Compared with our neighboring state of Washington: mercial litigator and trial lawyer for 20 years, including 15 years with Tonkon • Oregon has 39% more forestland Torp, LLP, where he also served as • Cuts 46% more timber, and Managing Partner. He then worked for • Expansion of harvest buffers 12 years as in-house counsel for Nike, around streams for salmon, steelhead, • Yet Washington collects roughly 3 times more in taxes when first as U.S. General Counsel, and then and bull trout in the Siskiyou geo- trees are cut than Oregon. as Vice President responsible for man- region, bringing buffers developed aging the global legal team. 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North Coast INCO NEWS By David Delk Indivisible Keep Democracy And Build Community OREGON voters overwhelmingly ap- rations, and limit so-called Independent special interests, they will engage at any proved ballot Measure 107 in November Expenditures. Ask that laws be enacted level, including where you live. RAISE 2020. This state constitutional amend- requiring that political ads show the ad’s YOUR VOICE; MAKE THE DEMAND! ment allows limits on campaign contri- major funders in the ads themselves., Models of such laws already exist, as butions and for political ads to name not just a requirement that a political both Portland and Multnomah County their largest funders. The vote was 78% committee name be shown (like Citizens have overwhelming enacted limits and statewide in favor. Every county voted for Safe Food, whatever/whoever that disclosure requirements. And the people approval with at least 2/3 “Yes” vote. might be). The ad must show the actual who wrote and enacted those limits are WOW! It was a display of bi-partisan individuals who have provided funding willing to help others throughout the support in both rural and urban areas with their corporate employer’s identify- state draft and adopt such limits. Let for limiting the influence of big them know of your interest and let’s special interests in Oregon. start working together. Contact Da- We need to step through vid Delk - Oregon Honest Elections: the door opened by M107’s [email protected]. approval and pass the limits/ disclosures we want at all levels Another needed political reform: of government. We can restore require that those elected earn a trust in government and encour- majority (50%+1) of votes, not just age a broader range of individu- a plurality (largest number of votes). als to run for office, instead of Currently, in Oregon elections, the only those who can raise tons of plurality method mostly prevails. money. Many people would like to reform Cities, counties and the this and require a majority to win. If state, or the people using the initiative ing information. We must know who is you agree, then look at Ranked Choice Special Orders process, now have the authority to enact giving the money and it needs to be in a Voting (RCV). The Benton County RCV such laws. M107 prevents the Oregon size and manner that a person of average website has a good explanation (www. Recommendations Supreme Court from declaring that limits eyesight or hearing can understand. We bentonbetterballot.com). With RCV, the on campaign contributions are uncon- should not have to wonder or search for voter ranks the candidates, 1,2 or 3, and Free shipping stitutional. M107 makes clear that the the information, which for independent then a process of vote transfers hap- Oregon Constitution allows governments expenditures will most likely not be pens, ending when one candidate has a The Cloud & Leaf Bookstore to require campaign advertisements available at all. We should require the majority of votes. 148 Laneda Ave prominently display the names of those information where we are can easily see mManzanita, Oregonn providing a campaign the most funding. it – on the ad itself. Let your elected state representative/ Let’s get to work now at all levels of All levels of governments can enact senator know that you support legislation 503.368.2665 government to remove the power of big these laws. With M107’s approval, the making RCV easier to enact and use. special interests in our democracy. state, cities and counties can do this ------Efforts are developing in the Oregon work. City/county officials won’t enact www.cloudleafstore.com open daily 10 to 5 Legislature already. Call your state repre- these without knowing that local people David Delk is a member of Indivisible sentative and senator, expressing your want these reforms. Don’t think that North Coast Oregon (INCO) and chair of expectation that strong contribution lim- special interests are not interested in the Oregon Progressive Party. its, without loopholes, be enacted. The who gets elected in your city or county. COASTER THEATRE PLAYHOUSE limits must ban contributions from corpo- When an issue arises which affects

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SYSTEMIC RACISM UNCONSCIOUS BIAS BLACK TEENAGER was killed recently societal systems, just by the mere fact that Unsheltered Thoughts Ain Medford, Oregon by a white man race is a constraint of America’s identifica- By Kathleen Sullivan who was later arrested and charged with tion system. second degree murder. The killing was a Yes the word racist is scary, and no one AS I BEGAN considering what I would write for this first spur of the moment crime, not premedi- wants to be called such, but to recognize it column, Robert Frost’s poem, The Death of a Hired Man, tated. Apparently the young man was in one’s self or in factions of the society in- came to mind. playing music in a parking lot at a motel volves taking a close look, back in history, ‘Home,’ he mocked gently. where he was staying, having lost his job to find out about statements and actions ‘Yes, what else but home? because of the fires in southern Oregon. that may have and still are contributing The white man who killed him had been to an unequal evaluation of who or what It all depends on what you mean by home. displaced to the motel because his house an individual is. Without a knowledge Of course he’s nothing to us, any more was lost in the fire. It seems that both of racism’s historic development, it then Than was the hound that came a stranger to us were in a stressful predicament but why becomes part of our unconscious bias. Out of the woods, worn out upon the trail.’ Here is an example of both systemic was the black youth the victim of the white ‘Home is the place where, when you have to go there, racism and unconscious bias working to- man’s frustration? They have to take you in.’ In an interview with the mother, while gether to affect the lives of African Ameri- distraught to say the least, but her under- cans: several years ago it was reported standing of her son’s situation was what that emergency ambulance workers were African Americans are familiar with and underestimating the pain ratio of African HOME. SIMPLE WORD. What does it really mean? ‘Of course he’s nothing to us, any more experience daily. Americans. (“Paramedics undertreat com- Friends tell me when I refer to Michigan, I use the Than was the hound that came a stranger to us The mother had arrived in Oregon from plaints of pain from Black, Asian patients, phrase, “back home”. It’s like hearing my mother Out of the woods, worn out upon the trail.’ California and fell in love with the greenery says study” By Molly Harbarger. Orego- refer to my grandfather as, “Daddy”. My mother and mountains and settled in the Medford nian/OregonLive. Oct. 16, 2018). will be 85 in February. It just tumbles out without What touches me about poetry, is that it’s often area, which is 80% white and 1% African When the patient notated a pain ratio of thought. spare, but so much larger than the words on the American. for example, 9 or 10 points, the emergen- I love Oregon. I’ve lived here since 2003, in page. To me it’s the reflection of life—so much of cy ambulance worker recorded a “6” on Astoria since 2007. Does this count as my home life is feeling that has no words, no pictures, just a now? For some that have lived here for genera- deep knowing. Dr. Denise Reed is an Educator and director of Astoria’s North tions, the answer may be a resounding, “No!” Is We are in the middle of troubled times. Not just this terrible pandemic, but a time of great disparity Coast Chorale. In January she’ll be teaching a course for future home where we were born, or where we choose of incomes and experiences. We no longer share teachers at Tillamook Bay Community College, “Multicultural to be? the same three sources of news. Our individual Friends of Cape Falcon Marine Reserve Pelican Survey Education” and will also lead a number of public school faculty My question is what does home mean? The ad- realities are our microcosm of weather, we’re lost in-services on the same subject in Clatsop County, facilitated age “home is where the heart is” works, but what in our own cloud banks. But we need to step back by Clatsop Community College. She also teaches Music History about when the heart is broken? and see the whole. To imagine what we have been Classes at both colleges. We are living in a time of multiple myths, like being enveloped in a bank of clouds, with each of lucky enough to have missed. A series of future articles will highlight Systemic Racism in the us reaching out to grab a handful of crystallized air What does it mean to not just be hungry need- operating systems of our society. and call it our own. It is only when we step out of ing lunch, but to not have eaten for days? What the clouds do we see the entire sky. does it mean to not just sulk inside due to lousy weather, but to huddle in the onslaught of a Commenting on her son’s death, she Television families have beautiful homes, with the form before admitting the patient into coastal storm, with only a poncho and a doorway? said that he had talked to her about not no worries of mortgages or job losses, conflicts are the hospital’s emergency care unit. The The notion of hospitality as a means of showing being able to be himself, to be who he resolved with a tearful conversation or a joke and ambulance attendance reported that he/ wealth and spiritual enlightenment is something was, but his white friends and classmates a hug. she, did not observe a 9 or 10 level of pain that weaves in and out of world cultures as a high could be who they were, and express Facebook and social media projects our lives in in the physical appearance of the patient. cheerful photos or angry rants, it’s a daily cascade value. Hospitality as giving to strangers, of making themselves freely. This inequality played Recently, I was discharged from the of the news of shoulds and dids. those less known feel welcome among us. out in the motel driveway as the young emergency room of a local hospital with Our lives get filtered through those myths. What can we do, as those who have been fortu- black man was expressing who he was, a note in my discharge papers from the nate, to help the less fortunate to lay their burdens playing his music. His music, he related attending physician that I looked healthy What is home? Back to Robert Frost: down? to, and used it as a relief for the stress of and I should go home and take Zantac or ‘Home is the place where, when you have to go As the new executive director of the Astoria losing his job and fearing the pressure of Pepcid and my abdominal pains should there, they have to take you in.’ Warming Center, I’ve been thinking a lot about the fire’s impending encroachment on his stop. I returned to the emergency room For me it means family. I know with family, if these issues. Do I understand what it means to environment. in less than 6 hours and required major I show up, I’ll always have a seat at the table, a have a home? If so, what does it mean to be Isabel Wilkerson in her book Caste surgery for a condition that I thoroughly couch to lie on. I know I’ll do the same for them. without a home? Without privacy, without warmth, reminds us that race is a consignment of related to the physician and emergency My “them” means those by blood and those by without welcome? The next question is ‘what can I do about it’? the founding fathers of America and that room nurse at my first ER visit. love. This space will be a mediation on the issue of there are no Black people in Africa, only During the United States period of But I have a “them.” I am lucky, for now. What homelessness in all its dimensions. It’s not an easy, people. In America, racism is something slavery, the plantation owners would forbid about those without a them to call family, however solvable puzzle, but it is workable. We can make that is inescapable and cannot be easily the slaves from showing pain after being family is defined. a difference. Let me know what you think. This erased as it is conjoined in America’s 400 beaten for whatever reason with the threat I am grateful. An adage about gratitude is “my column will explore what home means, and how year history. Systemic racism is blatantly of being beaten more or a second time. cup runneth over.” Does that mean in gratitude we we get a home for all of us. recognizable in every aspect of society yet This developed in the assumption that can be generous about good fortune, to share as many claim that it is non-existent. It resides black people can withstand more pain than to not waste? in our justice system, in the medical field, persons with lighter (white) skin. These are If that is so, how can we with a sense of home, Kathleen Sullivan is the Executive Director in the education realm, in political institu- the roots and examples of systemic racism be generous? It’s more than donations, which are of the Astoria Warming Center. tions and in the entertainment and sports which result in the unequal medical treat- always appreciated, it’s about risking to change our Contact her at: [email protected]. arenas. ment of people of color, ultimately leading sense of family, our definition of what family is, how www.astoriawarmingcenter.org. The term “systemic,” how does it play out? to a distrust of the medical system, unnec- do we reach out for our human family? How do we www.facebook.com/astoriawarmingcenter/ It’s imbedded in all of our functioning essary disease and pain and even death. provide a home for those we do not yet know?

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SNAP PHOTOS OF THE KING TIDES – the highest high tides of the winter – Jan. 10-12. Pick, Snap, and Share! Help visualize what sea level rise might look like along the Oregon coast in the future. Remember that the time of day of the king tides is based on your location on the coast. Check the exacttime for your area here: https://www.oregonkingtides.net/when/ Capture photos of local coastal areas that are subject to flooding or erosion. Take images where the impact of the tide can be gauged against familiar landmarks like buildings, jetties, bridges, roads, sea walls, shorelines, beach infrastructure or estuary shorelines. Photographs with these features in them will be very useful in comparison shots taken at other times, and can help people understand the potential impact of rising water levels on our coastal environment. Take contrasting shots of the king tide event compared to a “typical” high tide. This helps show the tidal variability in a single location. For this reason, time-lapse photography can also be quite striking. Once a month . . . all month long ya dig?

Environmental Steward NATURE NEWS NYONE interested in Asharpening their ability to Certificate Program Nature Matters: Oregon’s Lost Sea Otters observe the shoreline, burnish- ing their credentials for a career at Clatsop Restoring a Cultural Heritage and in conservation, or both, is invited to join the Environmental Community Ecological Keystone Steward Certificate Program. College Now! With registration open IT’S HARD TO APPRECIATE the cultural importance and ecologi- for the next term at Clatsop cal significance of a species that disappeared from Oregon’s Community College (CCC) — coastal waters over a century ago. What has the loss of sea otters meant to Oregon’s indigenous peoples? What does their absence would be a good time. mean to the health of nearshore ecosystems? What might be The Oregon Shores Conserva- gained from the return of sea otters to Oregon? Join Peter Hatch tion Coalition partners with the college in sponsoring the program, Nicole Steegmans and John Goodell, from the Elakha Alliance, as they discuss the environmental steward history and possible future of sea otters in Oregon. an innovative initiative which melds volunteerism with preparation for The 7pm presentation takes place January 14th online via professional engagement in con- Facebook Live on Fort George Brewery’s Facebook page. servation. Participants in the pro- Peter Hatch is a member of the Confederated Tribes of Siletz gram combine classes in relevant Indians and works in the tribe’s Cultural Resources office. Peter The Elakha Alliance, reintroducing sea otters subjects at CCC with experience to the Oregon coast. is the son of the late David Hatch – the co-founder of the Elakha in citizen science projects orga- Alliance. John Goodell is a conservation biologist and former museum curator with a background in science communication and natural history interpretation. nized by Oregon Shores’ Coast- Nature Matters, a lively conversation about the intersection of nature and culture, takes place on the Watch volunteer program. second Thursday of each month from October through May. This Nature Matters presentation is hosted by Lewis and Clark National Historical Park in partnership with the North Coast Watershed Association, SOME scholarships are available. Typifying the program. There are always CoastWatch the Lewis & Clark National Park Association, the Fort George Brewery + Public House and Friends of student participants is current scholarship citizen science projects, year-round, through Cape Falcon Marine Reserve. recipient Nicole Steegmans. In her case, which participants can meet their community For more information, call the park at (503) 861-2471 or check out www.nps.gov/lewi or Lewis and Clark program director Ed Joyce, an Oregon volunteer commitments. National Historical Park on Facebook. Shores board member and CCC faculty The program has two key goals. One is member in geology and oceanography, to serve the CoastWatch program, through

lined up a $500 stipend from the state’s which volunteers adopt a one-mile segment Coastal Management Program to work of shoreline and monitor it for both natural LNWC Speaker Series on the King Tides Project (co-sponsored changes and human impacts. Through the by CoastWatch), through which volunteer certificate program, CoastWatchers have an In Their Footsteps – Virtual Year in Review opportunity to boost their shoreline monitor- LEWIS AND CLARK National photographers document the reach of the THE LOWER Nehalem Wastershed ing skills while deepening their knowledge of Historical Park, Fort Clatsop highest tides of the year. Nicole is updat- Council invites you to partake in Year in coastal science through classes and men- announces the next virtual ing the 2019-2020 winter season King Review. From implementing in stream toring from environmental scientists at the “In Their Footsteps” guest Tides photos on Flickr and is also helping habitat enhancement projects, working college level. speaker series event. Aaron to develop social media content for the on innovative project designs, student The other goal is to enrich the experience Webster will present “End 2020-2021 King Tides Project season. She is research, and more! of students at the college, who may become of the Stone Age: George gaining this relevant work experience while It begins with the Annual Meeting, future conservation leaders and future Coast- Ramsay” onhttps://www. pursuing the other requirements to quality election of members to the Board of Watchers, by giving them a chance to explore youtube.com/user/Lew- for the certificate. Directors, followed by council coordinator the possibilities of a career in conservation. isandclarknhp at 1:00 p.m. Says Steegmans, “I’ve been passionate Zac Mallon presenting the Year in Review. Both CoastWatchers and student participants Pacific time, Sunday, about environmentalism since my early The goals, current status, and partnerships will receive an Oregon Shores Environmental January 17. involved in each project will be described. twenties, but wasn’t sure what I could do Steward Certificate. This will go on college This monthly Sunday on- transcripts and boost the employability of This is an opportunity for the community to expand my knowledge on the subject line event is made possible graduates. to ask questions about projects and learn and take action until I came to CCC. This by the Lewis & Clark National The longer-term goal is to extend this a more about the watershed council’s seemed like a great opportunity to learn Park Association (LCNPA), program to colleges throughout the coastal work. more about the Oregon coast and how I can the park’s non-profit partner. Since 1963, the LCNPA has region so as to make it available to all Coast- The Year in Review will end with a look help to maintain it. I’m very excited to take supported education, interpretation, research, and com- Watchers and students. to the future for the watershed council, part in this project and am incredibly grate- munity involvement. Purchases at the LCNPA’s Fort Clatsop Oregon Shores and CCC will award the including two new ways to get involved. ful for the opportunity!” Bookstore support programs such as “In Their Footsteps.” certificate to those completing 12 credit In 2021 the LNWC plans to implement a The certificate program, which began For more LCNPA information, visit https://fortclatsopbook- hours of environmentally focused classes, water temperature monitoring program during the 2019-2020 academic year store.com. and completing 30 hours of participation in at a series of important tributaries to the Cape Disappointment State Park Ranger Aaron Webster awarded its first certificate early this year to CoastWatch monitoring and citizen sci- mainstem Nehalem. Additionally, the has worked at the Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center for 18 Angela Whitlock, both a CCC student and ence projects, or other volunteer work with LNWC is getting into the planning for the years. He has a passion for using storytelling to illuminate the a CoastWatch volunteer. Immediately after Oregon Shores. The requirements could March 2022 Nehalem Estuary Clean Up! lesser-known history of our region. His presentation tells the gaining the certificate, Whitlock found em- easily be met within a single academic year, For both of these projects, many hands story of George Ramsay, a Native American who lived near ployment as a rocky shore interpreter with although there is no time limit on completing will make light work. This presentation the mouth of the Columbia River during the time of Lewis the Haystack Rock Awareness Program in the steps toward receiving the certificate. will be a good way to learn about these and Clark. Ramsay may have been the son of a European Cannon Beach. “The Environmental Steward The program will award $500 scholarships upcoming volunteer opportunities and sailor in the late 1700s, and by some accounts lived long Certificate program has set me on a path to selected participants. Businesses as well find out how to get involved. enough to meet the Wilkes Expedition in 1841. His story that I’m thrilled to be on!” she says. as individuals are invited to sponsor students illustrates the idea that the fur trade era was terrible and EVENT INFORMATION: Jan 16, 6:30pm The program is always open to new with contributions of $750 (covering a schol- tragic when viewed from the perspective of the local tribes. This event is FREE and open to the pub- participants, whether they be current arship and associated program costs). lic. This event will be hosted on Zoom CoastWatchers or CCC students seeking For additional info contact Ed Joyce, an Or- For more information, call (503) 861-2471, check out www. Got to: at www.facebook.com/lnwc1 to expand their horizons. Which academic egon Shores board member who is also adjunct nps.gov/lewi, or lewisandclarknps on Instagram, or Lewis and or by emailing: classes are available will depend on the time faculty (in geology and oceanography) at CCC: Clark National Historical Park on Facebook [email protected] of year when a new candidate starts into (503) 468-0995, [email protected].

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cont. feature p3 at Clatsop Community 2021LENS College We’ve started to unravel stories of polarization and power. In the past decade, we’ve seen the middle class become a chasm between the rich and poor. We have begun to understand the intersectionalities of oppression. We’ve named the resurrection of Jim Crow; witnessed the violence perpetrated globally against migrants; further reimagined gender and sexuality; Throughout and debunked fallacies of rape culture and heteronormalized relationship. the sum- The struggle of rising voices, particularly in the US, has been excruciatingly long lived. mer and well But we’re beginning to see stories of multiplicity--class, race, gender, sexuality and ability into the fall, the Nicole Steegmans environmental steward diversity--emerge in mainstream cultural representations. coastal community 2020 illuminated this long-rolling collapse of realities we tolerate as normal. Catastrophes- posted signs, created -natural, viral and human--violently exposed the rotten undergirding of that tolerance. art, and stood in solidar- Whether perceived through political, spiritual, economic, psychological or sociological lenses, ity with BLM. Community “normal” shifted across the globe. A reckoning, a lifting of the veil, a realignment culminated fissures were revealed, divisions in 2020, revealing fallacies in our relational systems that have long been invisible to those that between neighbors widened. But benefit from them. the courage to call out racism as The poverty of federal response to the COVID pandemic and the now iconic deaths of intolerable, especially in the face of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery revealed truths many were horrified to violence and intimidation, strengthens realize. Inequity is inherent in our justice system; the US economy is rooted in policies devel- the collective move toward justice. That oped in the leftover racism of slavery. strength is visceral within Astoria, where the We’ve seen white supremacy and nationalism emerge like a blistering case of eczema entrepreneurial spirit of mutual responsibility has across the US--condoned, invoked, and touted at the highest levels of government. We’ve increased the visibility of BIPOC-owned businesses seen poor people, disenfranchised people, and disproportionately, native people suffer and organizations. through the pandemic with the most deaths and the fewest resources. In the same year so much seemed to unravel, some

This horror is where we begin. We acknowledge that the “normal” we lament included justice was restored around Oregon. After years of orga- Ready to Shift? to Ready oppressions we actually can’t tolerate as free people. 2020 revealed that we don’t have to nizing, the Nez Perce people reclaimed their ancestral lands tolerate lies about who we are. in Eastern Oregon. Last May in Seaside, ownership of stolen At a national level, we’re beginning to reconcile our country’s myths and the foundational ancestral land was transferred to the Clatsop-Nehalem Confeder- truths of our history. Some of these foundational histories are being represented in entertain- ated Tribes. Ne-ah-coxie, or “place of little pines,” is a stretch of saltmarsh ment. “Lovecraft Country” and “Watchmen,” two HBO originals, both represent the 1921 and Sitka spruce forest in the Necanicum Estuary that was last owned by Massacre in Tulsa, Oklahoma with graphic intensity. More than 300 black people were mur- the tribes 200 years ago. dered in that terrorist attack on the thriving black neighborhood of Greenwood in Tulsa. The These rising waves of illumination have exposed the division in our col- Tulsa Massacre, like Ahmaud Arbery’s death nearly 100 years later, was aided and abetted by lective consciousness, in circles as close as neighbors. But as our different local law enforcement. perspectives are given voice, adherence to old stories of us and them is In 2021, maybe we can begin heal- killing us. Literally. ing through this kind of truth telling. Simultaneously, politicizing the COVID19 virus has masked the impact of Maybe, to paraphrase Malcolm X, we the pandemic and deferred its treatment. Political divisiveness and manipu- can admit the knife of oppression, lation can’t diminish the isolation, grief and suffering engendered by the pull it out and let the wound finally pandemic. In spite of manipulation and disinfomation, a major lesson of the begin to heal. Maybe as a country, we virus is that cooperative values overpower our imagined divisions. We are can own the horror white supremacy energetically interdependent. has wreaked on BIPOC in the US for 2020’s wake up calls were cacophonous. Collectively and individually, the centuries. year’s reckoning walked us through shadowy valleys. Now we sit with our In these current tense days of shadows and recognize the false storylines we’ve tolerated. This reckoning political transition, we see history heralds a reality reorganization, beginning with ourselves. revealed in the discourse of Geor- In the same light we see the fallacies of division between people, we rec- gia’s tight senate race, where senate ognize the divisions in our own psyches, our internalized narratives of lack, control hinged on the black vote. We inadequacy, isolation. Right now we have the capacity to heal the wounds hear history in the lack of condemna- inflicted by these dualistic paradigms. As we shift lenses, we illuminate our tion for terroristic tactics in the capitol connection to all life, our reality as one consciousness. from the lame duck who incites them. In some circles, this may be called unity consciousness, a lens that 2020 revealed the ragged fissures recognizes the falsehood of dualities, oppositional relationships of good/ in our national veneer, but a fissure evil, male/female, black/white in which one part of the binary wields power is a crack that lets the light in. Truths based on the “otherness” of its complement . When we begin to recog- emerge. As black people raised their nize ourselves in others, to carry and understand each other’s stories, to voices again and again, in 2020, all recognize our interdependence, fear diminishes. Hate diminishes. If we kinds of people flooded the streets disengage from stories of lack that insist someone’s joy or prosperity or and the internet in global solidarity, very existence threatens our own, we may begin to build new systems of to affirm with their own bodies and support and cooperation. words that black lives matter. The epiphany recognizes the manifestation of the divine on earth. Christ In Clatsop County, local high as Jesus insists that all people are of god, are connected to each other school student Alejandra Lopez, through god. Duality’s false paradigms attach us to the misunderstanding spearheaded Black Lives Matter ral- that our individual consciousness is the parameter of who we are. David Foster Wallace dubbed our egos “skull-sized kingdoms” and hinted that Stirling Gorsuch, ‘Through Storms’ linocut/ monoprint, 2016 lies from Seaside to Astoria because she enjoys “doing what’s right.” staying alive depended on recognizing our individual perspectives are not cont. p10 9 JAN 21 hipfishmonthly.com

hf 2021 LENS cont. CONNECT TO C ULT URE the only “truths” of living. Within our kingdoms, egos interact in oppositional relationships where the other cannot matter as much as the “I”. Hence, Christ’s insistence that we love our neighbors as ourselves. In the dethroning of the 45th occupant of the white house, we glimpse the break broke breaking possibility of an end to the false masculine, an embodiment of that individual- RAIN 51 hits the streets istic egoism. Toxic masculinity is part of egoic desire fulfillment exalted as the THE 2020 EDITION OF RAIN MAGAZINE, Clatsop Com- Email work spoils of success. In this paradigm, the feminine is relegated to the position of munity’s College’s annual literary and arts publication, to rain- object, of other. And again, she doesn’t matter as much as the falsely exalted has finally landed and is available for purchase at the magazine@ masculine. CCC Bookstore on the Lexington Campus, Lucy’s Books clatsopcc.edu. In the opening scene of Wonder Woman 1984, 2020’s final blockbuster, a and other coastal bookstores. Include your child Diana bests her adult Amazon sisters in a breathtaking physical tourna- A virtual reading took place on January 7 with con- full name and ment, then loses her win because she cheated. Truthtelling becomes the lesson tributing local luminaries, Robert Michael Pyle, Wayne contact infor- of her 1984 adventure, recalling the principle instilled when she was denied that Downing, Florence Sage, Jim Dott, John Ciminello, mation along first trophy: winning means nothing if it’s built on lies. Sophie Bayla, Elizabeth Winters, Jan Bono, Joanne Ride- with genres Valid as critiques of the movie may be, WW84 does something few action out and others. With a special section on the theme of and titles of blockbusters do--suggests that winning may not justify any means and gratifica- “Broken,” there’s new work from local writers and artists submissions in tion of your heart’s desire may not equate with happiness. on what it’s like to live in the pandemic era and much the subject line Something else happens in this tale of rising divine feminine power--the more. The reading can be accessed on the Clatsop Col- of your email battle of good conquering evil is recast as an internal struggle to live honestly, lege facebook page. message. Rain would also like to announce that submissions are Submissions authentically. Egoic desire fulfillment, the hungry ghost of “never enough” now open for the 2021 edition of Rain until March 30. without proper is the root of danger in WW84’s plotline. Rain 52’s theme section will focus on the idea of contact infor- 2021 promises further unraveling of false dualities. The rare proximity of “Healing,” a much-needed topic to explore in this new mation will not Jupiter and Saturn’s conjunction on Winter Solstice, 12/21/20 is seen by many year. Contributors are encouraged to explore the subject be considered. Email submissions are greatly preferred. visionaries to herald the return of the divine feminine, Sophia, who is inextrica- however they interpret it. RTF or Docx is the preferred format for written work. ble from the divine masculine, signified as Christos. In unity, we understand that Of course, all general submissions of art, fiction, TIFF or JPG files (at least 300 dpi) are preferred for we are all, individually and collectively, embodiments of both masculine and poetry and nonfiction will be also considered. artwork. feminine. As unified consciousness, we transcend the duality imposed by the Please submit no more than three items total, includ- You can also mail submissions to Rain Magazine, Clat- false paradigm of power over relationships. Instead, we recognize self as other, ing poems, photographs, high-quality (at least 300 dpi) sop Community College, 1651 Lexington Ave., Astoria, other as self. As the rastafarians say, “I & I”. We experience unity within our digital images of original artwork and prose less than OR, 97103. individualized “soul,” and in communion with human, animal, plant, and mineral 5,000 words in length. Make sure to label your work by Every year Rain Magazine is produced by the Writing beings as emanations of universal consciousness. its appropriate genre (poetry, fiction, nonfiction) in a 270: Literary Publications class, which includes instruc- Whatever language one chooses to access the divine, the times we live in cover letter or on the manuscript. tion in editing techniques and Adobe InDesign, the beg us to heal our wounds of disconnection. To do so, we look into the open The ability to print color is limited, so artists submit- industry standard for book design. The class meets on maws of our hungry ghosts. We face the demons we’ve molded out of fear. ting color images should indicate if the image may ap- Mondays and Wednesdays at noon during Spring Quar- pear in black and white. Include name, address, phone ter and the public is encouraged to register for the class What if we invited our demons to sit with us? What if we listened to their stories, number, email, title, medium and a two-to-three-line and join the staff. their wants and needs? biography with all entries. What if those stories reveal, once again, that our demons, the parts of ourselves we deny, the parts we project onto our “enemies”, just want to be loved? Once again, the unknown calls us to recognize that we’re here, in this moment, simply to love and be loved. Right here, right now, we have a choice: NEW PROGRAM Neahkahnie Mountain continue to cultivate the monsters of fear--resentment, anger, hatred--continue to adhere to lies of disconnection, or to enact new stories, raise voices that Build Community Poetry Prize reify the truth of our connection. HERE’S YOUR CHANCE to hf through Writing see your poem in print along Manzanita, OR – The writer Margaret Atwood once noted with winning a $100 cash Stirling Gorsuch is a North Coast print- that “A word after a word after a word is power.” As a new prize. maker. The images utilized in this feature year beckons after so many months of untold loss, the The winning poem and are sourced from 2015/2016 collections. Hoffman Center for the Arts is launching a new program to poet will be featured in the Gorsuch says about these works, “My strengthen our community through writing. Hoffman Center Website work explores time recorded in land- “Community Writes” invites residents of the North and Newsletter in April and scape. I draw inspiration from forests, the Coast, and those with strong ties here, to submit short in print in the North Coast Squid literary journal, coast as well as the Cascades and high pieces of fiction, non-fiction or memoir, focused on rotat- October 2021. desert in eastern Oregon. Although the ing topics each quarter. You may submit up to three poems of 30 lines or terrain and feeling of these places are “Community Writes” kicks off December 1, seeking less, on any subject. very different, they all contain a visual contributions on the topic “New Beginnings,” with sub- Each submitter must state a clear connection to recording of the past, which fascinates missions accepted through Jan. 15. There is a $5 fee per the North Oregon Coast in the biographical state- me as an observer—signs of geology, submission. ment that accompanies the submission. erosion, decay, and a sense of new life Topics and deadlines for the spring, summer and fall The contest will be limited to the first 50 poets appearing in the midst of destruction. quarters, and more information about how to participate, who submit. The submission window runs from Jan- The most dramatic example I’ve come are available here: www.hoffmanarts.org/writing/communi- across recently that illustrates this are uary 1 to 31. The winner will be notified in March. ty-writes/ forests affected by wildfires and how There is a $7 entry fee to enter the contest. All The program is open to all – whether you are a published these areas transform afterwards.” submissions must be made online at hoffmanarts. StirlingGorsuch.com writer or not – and contributions will be published on a roll- org (also see submission guidelines). ing basis on the Hoffman Center website, hoffmanarts.org. "Winter/Summer Mantra" 2016 Contest Judge Lana Ayers, MFA, has been pub- “Writing is like a muscle; the harder you work it, the lishing the Concrete Wolf Poetry Chapbook Series more powerful it becomes,” said Ellis Conklin, a longtime since 2001. In 2010, she created MoonPath Press Heather Hirschi is a writer, educator and former proprietor of Pink Elephant Juice journalist and co-leader of the program. “Community to publish poetry collections by Pacific Northwest Emporium. She currently offers writing consulting and tutoring through Creative Juices Writes is aimed at helping us see one another and our poets. She has authored nine collections of poetry Writing Services. Contact: [email protected]. world more clearly.” and recently released her first novel.

JAN 21 hipfishmonthly.com 10 art happens openings and news in the LCPR IGNITE! art and sound installation ignites this river city

HOW TO ATTEND: Visit Astoria Visual Arts.org to access the installation map or pick up a map at AVA or numerous galleries participating in Astoria’s Art Walk. PRIVATE GALLERY All site locations are in downtown Astoria between 10th and 12th Streets. Bundle up, social distance, and TOURS wear masks. Funding for this project was provided by the Oregon Call for safe viewing of fine Cultural Trust, Ford Family Foundation, and the City of local art, or to show your art. Astoria. Supporters also include Hipfish Monthly, the OPEN on ARTWALK Astoria Institute of Music and Center for the Arts, the Liberty Theater, and the Labor Temple. see us on Facebook

LOCATIONS: AstoriA institute Site 1: Sanborn Building near Labor Temple of usic 343 10th Street M Site 2: AVA - 1000 Duane St. And center performance by Crystal Quartez for the Arts Site 3: American Legion - 1153 Exchange St. Sea Creatures Trailer Astoria Institute of Music and Center for the Site 4: MUSICAL INSTRUCTION Moment 2 Arts - 1180 Marine Drive (near Mallternative) East facing wall. for Piano, Guitar, Ukulele, ASTORIA VISUAL ARTS welcomes Portland’s we used digital programming to allow performers to Bass, Banjo, and more. Mobile Projection Unit for IGNITE!, an evening embody the reality that in our essence we are all “sea ALSO AT AVA creatures.” Other collaborators include the Kusanagi Stephen Slappe 1159 Marine Dr. of mega light installations and sound Astoria, OR spatialization throughout Astoria on Saturday, Sisters, Jaleesa Johnston and Sophia Wright Emigh, Video Projection: Willamette Line Sahra Brahim and Yaara Valey. (503) 395 –1221 vm January 9 beginning at 7pm. STEPHEN SLAPPE of Portland showcases Willamette “I’m excited to bring our new work to Astoria to Line at Astoria Visual Arts, January 9 - February 6. The Mobile Projection Unit (MPU) is a roving media enlighten the city during a particularly dark time of the studio that presents new, experimental, site specific year,” says MPU co-founder Sarah Turner, “Debuting Recorded by a drone camera angled straight down, outdoor projected video installations. Founded in right next to the Columbia River and the Pacific Ocean, Willamette Line is a single-channel video projection 2018, MPU is the brainchild of Fernanda D’Agostino many of the themes of the piece may awaken the next depicting the distance between the mouth of the and Sarah Turner and has produced many massive time you stare into the water at your own reflection. Willamette River and the top of Willamette Falls as a light installations including for the Portland Institute “Sea Creatures” delves into our subconscious realms, continuous moving line of video. The presentation re- Neahkahnie Mountain of Contemporary Art for TBA2020, the Virtual Venice right below the surface, to unearth new realities in the veals an unusual perspective that flattens and abstracts Biennale Film Festival, and the Portland International wake of this year that dredged up so many possibili- the passing landscape while providing glimpses of a Poetry Prize Film Festival, including site specific installations on the ties.” variety of human activities along that 26-mile stretch of Burnside Bridge, the Portland Art Museum and many Turner’s immersive installations often explore the river. Scrolling at a slow speed, the motion of the video others. For this Astoria debut, MPU collaborates with depths and artistic capabilities of curatorial collabora- creates a long, fragmented portrait of the waterway local dancers, The Sparrow Dance Company, directed tions, experimentation with technology and community Portland was built around. by Julia Gingrich. building. She’s the artistic director of Pink Noise and The duration is four hours and all of the footage was MPU co-founder Fernanda D’Agostino’s installations along with the list of MPU productions, her credentials shot consecutively on a single day in September 2018. incorporate sculpture, interactive video, projection also include productions for the mapping and sound in novel ways. About bringing her Northwest Film Center, Spaceness art to Astoria she says, “It was a special challenge and Festival, and Marfa Open Festival. joy for me to create a new digital platform, The Liminal Joining the MPU cast for Performance Space, that would allow the collaboration IGNITE! is Crystal Cortez, a that is at the heart of our practice to continue despite composer, creative coder, profes- the restrictions imposed by Covid,” says D’Agostino. sor and creative producer based “Introducing new collaborators like Astoria’s Sparrow in Portland, Oregon. Under her Dance Company to the transformations that live video performance moniker Crystal coding permits is always a thrill. It was wonderful to Quartez, she weaves field record- see how they immediately grasped the potential of this ings, synthesis, self-made elec- new medium to create work that beautifully embodies tronics, and multi-channel sound the concepts driving “Sea Creatures.” spatialization to produce complex “Sea Creatures,” the title of one of MPU’s four sonic realms. Her work often planned installations for IGNITE, was conceived as an blends sound with interactive tech investigation of the ocean’s transformational power and performance art to produce and its age old position in myth and cosmology in atmospheres for deconstruction, Video Clip from Willamette LIne every culture. Each of the installations investigates a release and rebuilding. Her prac- different mood or aspect of water and how it per- tice has recently explored the development of interac- The exhibit will be open to the public Fridays and vades our consciousness, our mythologies, and our tive sculptural interfaces and wearable technology that Saturdays from noon to 4pm, and will be open for rituals of health and healing. Working remotely with use movement and sensor data to free the performer Astoria’s Second Saturday Art Walk from noon to 9pm. both local dance group Sparrow Dance Company and from their equipment. Her art has been shown at AVA is located at 1000 Duane Street. with diverse collaborators from Portland and Japan PNCA, Disjecta, PICA, Navel (LA) and more.

11 JAN 21 hipfishmonthly.com art happens openings and news in the LCPR Emotional Alignments Dayna Collins at RiverSea IN EMOTIONAL ALIGNMENTS, Dayna Collins Metamorphosis offers abstract paintings in an exuberant burst of color to welcome 2021. Working from her Kim Hamblin at IMOGEN Astoria studio, the artist combines multiple IMOGEN GALLERY welcomes back artist Kim layers of oil paint with cold wax over plaster to Hamblin for a solo exhibition to kick off the highly create works with vibrant luminosity and inter- anticipated New Year. Hamblin has fully embraced esting surfaces. Her current series was painted the sense of optimism for her latest series. Utiliz- as an emotional response to the pandemic, ing her background in farming she brings a series politics and wildfires of 2020. of work inspired by elements important to the life- The exhibition opens Saturday, January 9, style, based from personal experiences that focus with a reception held during Astoria’s Second on the cycle of renewal and growth. Metamor- Saturday Artwalk from noon to 8pm. Meet the phosis is a close look through metaphor about the artist in the gallery from 5 to 8pm. The show perils of where we’ve come towards optimism for will remain on view through February 9, 2021. a brighter future. The exhibition opens January 9th The artist notes, “When I’m painting in oil and will remain on display through February 9th. and cold wax, I love laying down paint, and Hamblin brings a new collection of her intricate Mothra, 16.5 x 22.5 papercut assemblage then going back in and scraping part of it hand cut paper assemblages exploring her ongo- paper cutting, a delicate and tedious practice that away, revealing remnants of an earlier layer. I Making Time for Idle Pursuits, 30 x 30 ing interest in connectivity between flora and fauna originated in 6th century China. Regarded as an art begin my paintings with a coating of plaster, and the ensuing dialogue with humans. She brings form that requires careful forethought and concentra- which allows me the immediate gratification of texture upon which I can layer. Interesting complex compositions that visually narrate her pas- tion, Hamblin considers it therapeutic, utilizing the surfaces are enhanced by making marks, drawing, and scratching into the surface with a knife sionate plea for all to consider on the loss of species practice as focus and relaxation from her busy life or blade. I paint intuitively, laying down paint in bold swaths of color, then going back in and and habitat. style. refining the composition, finding the story buried in the paint. When you look at something I Besides being known throughout the northwest Specific to her artwork, inspiration is gleaned have created, I want you to wonder about its previous life, to feel like you’re on an archeologi- for her intricate paper-cut assemblages, Kim Hamblin from her lifelong love of the sciences; particularly cal dig, getting a glimpse beneath the surface, but never the full story.” is also a farmer, realtor, music festival organizer, wine- anatomy, botany, biology, entomology and zoology. Collins divides her time between Salem and Astoria, Oregon. She exhibits her art in galleries maker and mom. Hamblin resides on a 50 acre farm The focal point of her work is not merely subject and juried shows throughout the Pacific Northwest, and is also an art instructor. She’s been called Roshambo ArtFarm, located in the Willamette matter and imagery, process also becomes quintes- represented by RiverSea Gallery since 2014. Her work can be seen in several published books, Valley where she and her husband keep pastures for sential to each finished piece. Hamblin’s use and including Art for Everyone, Oil and Cold Wax, Art Abandonment, The Mixed-Media Artist, and rescue sheep, alpacas & chickens, they also maintain application of materials goes beyond traditional Cold Wax Medium. apple, quince and paper cut assemblage. By adding painted surface RiverSea Gallery is open daily at 1160 Commercial Street in Astoria. Current pandemic pear orchards, fer- and nails to further enhance tessellation and texture, ment cider & wine hours are 12pm – 5pm Monday through Saturday, and 12pm – 4pm on Sunday. For more Hamblin adds an industrial nature to the delicateness information, and host (in non- of pattern revealed in each paper cut. The juxtaposi- pandemic) times an tion between paper and steel make for a unique and annual music festival, striking finished composition. Within this series she Brumfield Gallery the Wildwood Mu- brings in more color to her usually limited palette, sicFest. Her interests with rich and saturated corals, pinks and golden Momentary Collapse the paintings of Kamala Dolphin-Kingsley are vast but always tones. An overall warmth points to signs of spring, a and Mary Alayne Thomas connect in a mean- time of renewal. Installation: Kirista Trask ingful way to her At the Sou’ Wester Art Trailer artistic endeavors. Imogen Gallery is open 5 days a week (closed A NEW INSTALLATION opens Dec 18 in the vintage travel Hamblin has spent Tues/Wed) at 240 11th Street in Astoria. Hours: trailer turned permanent art gallery, at The Sou’wester years honing the Thur-Mon 12noon to 5pm, 12 to 4 Sun. Avail by Lodge. ancient art from of appt, 503.468.0620/imogengallery.com. Intertwined, 34x24f Momentary Collapse examines how multiple experiences while individual imprints can simultaneously function as one. Using one long roll of paper and created over nine months, Momentary Collapse abstractly documents AIMCA individual experiences engaging with the same physical environment. The physical location is the Columbia River 3 Artists Featured where it meets the pacific, the mental location is merely a AIMCA welcomes three artists to its venue for Winter Salon dream. a two month showing: Dave Ambrose shares + Historical Film Kirista Trask translates subtle moments and landscapes his vibrant and diverse action oriented por- at Cannon Beach Gallery into swirling abstraction, blending saturated, opaque traits and landscapes in acrylics; Natalie Orr colors with translucent washes to evoke moment as an presents dreamscape paintings, with a soulful During the month of emotional experience. Her work is created using a variety and relevant social January the Cannon Beach of materials, including acrylic, ink, charcoal, pencil, oil pastel, chalk and coffee, in order to react to gallery will feature 2-D and message. Alex Trevino the spirit of the location at the moment. These abstract works exist somewhere between presence 3-D works by local and shows unique visionary and memory, giving the viewer a moment for pause. Her best work is done plein air style in stun- regional artists. As well as abstract paintings and ning locations all over the world and especially in the Pacific Northwest. As a seventh generation a historical film presented collages with dramatic Flourishing, Alex Trevino. Oregonian Kirista finds a deep connection to place and incorporates that into her work. by the Cannon Beach His- truths. Included in the Kirista’s current body of work explores the impact of identity in rural communities. As an native tory Center. The movie will show are ceramics by Oregonian and member of the lgbtqa community Kirista has experienced a life of bias based be shown ongoing in the local artist TKO, and gallery during the month of on sexual orientation. Her current work seeks to inquire as to whether art can be a channel of surreal art by Lisa Ack- Alex Trevino, Flourishing January. change in regards to rural community value systems. erman. Live music. Please call (503) 395-1221 for appt OPEN through Feb 28. Fri/Sat/Sun 9am-9pm (and by request: call the lodge front desk at to see art before or after Artwalks and to get involved in Located at 1064 S. Hem- lock St. in Cannon Beach. 360-642-2542 and they’ll open the gallery for you)* The Art Trailer Gallery is free and open Dave Ambrose, Miles music projects and art shows. Open Wed – Sun, to the public. The Sou’wester Lodge, 3728 J Place, Seaview, WA *Due to Covid-19 a face covering is required while inside the gallery. The gallery is open to one Open for Astoria Art Walk, Jan. 9, from 12noon to 8pm. Astoria Institute 11am to 4pm. of Music and Center for the Arts is located at 1159 Marine Drive in Astoria. person, couple or family at a time and allowing for 6’ distance at all times.

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but she fights it off with a pistol she carried aboard. re-meet for the first When questioned by the crew about the shots, a time in 60 years after radio message is received stating that Maude Gar- their grandchildren get rett doesn’t exist and was never ordered onto the them to join Facebook. flight. When Maude comes clean to the crew about Despite decades having who she is and what’s in the case, they must fight for passed, Celia and Alan their lives against Japanese planes and the gremlin. both find they still have passion for each other. PIECES OF A WOMAN (JAN. 7 NETFLIX) Series also covers Celia’s When a young couple’s home birth ends tragically, daughter Caroline (Sarah the effects are devastating on everyone involved. Lancashire) who is a les- Vanessa Kirby (The Crown) plays Martha, who with bian and the problems her partner Sean (Shia LaBeouf) are excitedly await- her relationship with ing the birth of their child. When contractions start, another woman create Martha calls her midwife, but is informed she is in with her mother, who the middle of a difficult labor and offers a replace- is closeminded about ment instead. When the replacement Eva (Molly same-sex relationships. LET THEM ALL TALK (HBO MAX) Meryl Streep plays Parker) arrives, Martha’s water has broken. The Alan’s daughter Gillian a novelist who re-connects with estranged college friends while apparently healthy baby is born, but stops breathing and dies. (Nicola Walker) is im- on a cross-Atlantic trip. Streep plays acclaimed novelist Alice, Majority of the film deals with the emotional toll on Martha and pulsive in relationships who has been awarded a major literary prize but must travel to Sean, their relation- and tends to act before England to receive it. Unfortunately Alice doesn’t fly. Karen, her ship, and a lawsuit. thinking. agent, suggests she travel by sea. Only if she can brings friends Martha retreats along, Alice replies. So Alice sets off with Susan (Diane Weist) emotionally. Sean, a ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI (JAN. 15 AMAZON) Regina and Roberta (Candice Bergen), along with her nephew Tyler former addict, reacts King films Kemp Powers’ play about a real encounter in 1964 (Lucas Hedges) in tow on the Queen Mary 2. Why Alice chooses angrily at Martha’s when four titan of ‘60s Black history meet in one hotel room in after 35 years to reconnect is left vague. Alice likens the situation change. Martha’s Miami – legendary heavyweight champ Cassius Clay (Eli Goree), to “picking up a conversation where we left off.” Alice is sup- mother, Elizabeth Malcolm X (Kingsley Ben-Adir), pop musician Sam Cooke (Leslie posed to we working on her latest bestseller, however Roberta (Ellen Burstyn) who Odom, Jr.) and star football player Jim Brown (Aldis Hodge). The still bears a grudge against her for supposedly basing a character has never cared meeting actually occurred at the Hampton House Motel & Villas on her, which led to the breakdown of her marriage. Susan is for Sean, blames on the night Clay fought (and won) the heavyweight champion- left in between the two women trying to negotiate a truce while Eva and pushes for ship. Story has more on its mind than sports. After introductory Tyler flirts with Karen who has slipped onboard to keep an eye lawsuit against the episodes for all four, story takes place in one hotel room, where on Alice. Renowned short fiction writer Deborah Eisenberg wrote midwife. the four have gathered for what is supposed to be a post-fight celebration that instead turns into serious discussion of the the script. Directed by Steven Soderbergh, film was shot on an HERSELF (JAN. actual trans-Atlantic crossing with dialogue improvised by the African-American movement of the ‘60s and each man’s respec- 8 AMAZON) tive place in it. actors. Mama Mia! direc- SHADOW IN THE CLOUD (VOD) Chloe Grace Moretz tor Phillida Lloyd CALL MY AGENT! SEASON 4 (JAN. 21 NETFLIX) toplines this hard-to-describe mashup of WWII, horror and returns with this Hugely enjoyable show about a French talent agency returns. feminist statement movie. Moretz plays Maude Garrett, a female uplifting story of Show focuses on four prime agents of agency – Andrea, Mathias, flight officer assigned to catch a ride on a B-17 flight from New a woman and her Gabriel and Arlette who must deal with disasters like the agency’s Zealand. Maude carries orders that she is on a secret mission children escaping founder dropping dead, defections to other agencies, takeovers and carries a leather case everywhere with her. Despite this, the from an abusive hus- and of course, crew mock her, making band and (literally) the constant crude sexist remarks building a new life egos, pettiness and questioning her ca- for herself. After enduring being battered by husband Gary for and craziness of pabilities. With no ex- years, Dubliner Sandra (Clare Dunn) escapes with her two young their actor clients. tra room, she is put in daughters in tow. Sheltering with her family in a shabby airport Each show fea- the Sperry turret in the hotel while she waits for Ireland social housing to find her more tures a real French bottom of the plane, permanent housing – a wait that could last years – Sandra takes actor guest star- where verbal battle matters into her own hands when, with the help of sympathetic ring as them- rages between her and friends, she decides to build her own house. With a bank loan selves, including the crew. Maude spots in hand, Sandra’s friend Peggy, whose house she cleans, is so Isabelle Adjani, a Japanese scout plane impressed with Sandra’s step that she donates a parcel of her Guy Marchand, through the clouds backyard for Sandra’s planned cottage. With money and land in Juliette Binoche, and reports it, but then hand, but no practical knowledge of building, Sandra befriends a Jean Dujardin and witnesses a more im- local builder, Aido, whose son had Down’s syndrome. Aido, who Isabelle Huppert. mediate danger. Bor- is aware of her abusive husband, agrees to supervise the project In Season 4, for rowing from a classic – provided she finds the labor. the first time a Twilight Zone episode, LAST TANGO IN HALIFAX SEASON 4 (JAN. 12 Hollywood actor Maude sees a gremlin NETFLIX) Season 4 of the acclaimed BBC series about two appears – Franco- on the outside of the older lovers and their children drops. Anne Reid and Derek phile Sigourney plane, tearing open an Jacobi play Celia and Alan, both in their ‘70s. While meeting Weaver playing engine. The gremlin and being mutually attracted to each other as teens in the 1950s, herself. attacks and injures her, life took them apart. In the present day both are widowed but JAN 21 hipfishmonthly.com 14 By Margaret Hammit McDonald

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY © Copyright 2020 Rob Brezsny JA N 2021 Bike Madame ARIES (March 21-April 19): Your capacity for pioneering feats assignment, as I understandw it, will be to shed your certainties By Margaret Hammitt-McDonald IN REVIEW and impressive accomplishments will be at a peak in 2021. So about what love is and is not so that the wild, fresh challenges you could become the best human ever at balancing a ladder and opportunities of love can stream into your life in their wild- on your chin or typing with your nose or running long-distance est, freshest state. while holding an egg on a spoon with your mouth. But I’d prefer SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Until 1893, Hawaii was a sovereign it if you channeled your triumphal energy into more useful nation. In January of that year, a group of wealthy foreigners, My First Wipeout innovations and victories. How about making dramatic strides mostly Americans, overthrew the existing government with “I just wiped out in a bush!” my judgement of traffic behavior (cars, in fulfilling your most important goal? Or ascending to an un- the help of the US military. They established a fake temporary daughter Luthien declared as she pedestrians, other cyclists, skate- precedented new level of inspiring people with your passionate “republic” that excluded native Hawaiians from positions of came inside with her new, training- boarders, etc.), she’ll earn the right to idealism? Or setting a record for most illusions shed? power. Their goal, which was to be annexed by the United States, wheel-free bike. ride around the neighborhood without TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Ark Encounter is a fundamentalist was fulfilled in July 1898. I propose that you use this sad series “Are you OK?” I asked. She nod- me. All of this is a gradual process, fa- Christian theme park in Kentucky. Its main attraction is a giant of events as a motivational story in 2021. Make it your goal to ded. “Is the bike OK?” She gestured cilitated by what my mother (a retired replica of Noah’s Ark. Constructed mostly from spruce and pine resist all efforts to be colonized and occupied. Commit yourself at a small scrape. “Is the bush OK?” teacher) calls scaffolding: providing trees, it’s one of the world’s largest wooden structures. Even passionately to preserving your sovereignty and independence. She showed me a small divot in an support for a child as they develop a though I don’t believe that there was in fact such a boat in Be a tower of power that can’t be owned. otherwise un-bashed bush and went new skill, then dismantling the scaffold ancient times, I do admire how its builder, Ken Ham, has been so SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In 2021, you may be smarter back to tooling around the parking once they have the confidence, skill, fiercely devoted to making his fantasies real. I encourage you to than you have ever been. Not necessarily wiser, too, although lot. Afterward, and drive to do cultivate an equally zealous commitment to manifesting your I have reason to hope that you will leverage your smartness to we went for it on their own. own visions and dreams in 2021. also deepen your wisdom. But as I was saying, your intelligence a ride around Some skills GEMINI (May 21-June 20): From 1961 until 1989, a concrete could very well soar beyond its previous heights. Your ability to the neighbor- (like handling a barrier divided the city of Berlin. Communist East Berlin lay on speak articulately, stir up original thoughts, and solve knotty hood, with bike) develop the east side of the Berlin Wall, and capitalist West Berlin on the riddles should be at a peak. Is there any potential downside me running to more quickly west. It was an iconic symbol of the Cold War between the US and to this outbreak of brilliance? Only one that I can imagine: It’s keep up as she than others possible that your brain will be working with such dominant Soviet Union. More than 100,000 people tried to escape from navigated up- (like mediating efficiency that it will drown out messages from your heart. And east to west, but just 5,000 succeeded. The standoff ended in hill and down, disputes with 1989, during the peaceful revolutions that swept through East- that would be a shame. In order to do what I referred to earlier— through gravel, leverage your smartness to deepen your wisdom—you’ll need to others). Devel- ern Europe. In subsequent months, the Berlin Wall was slowly and around opment plays demolished. Today, tiny fragments of the wall are marketed as be receptive to your heart’s messages potholes with a part in this medicines for asthma, headaches, narcolepsy, and ulcers. Now I CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The birds known as red knots growing confi- progression: will propose that in 2021, you adopt the demolished Berlin Wall breed every year in the Arctic regions. Then they fly south—way dence, a whole new world of mobility children acquire abilities more easily as your metaphor of power. May it inspire you to be gleeful and south—down to the southern edge of South America, more and adventure open to her. at ages when they’re ready for them— forceful as you dismantle psychological obstacles and impedi- than 9,000 miles away. A few months later they make the return I find it both amusing and troubling as frustrated parents learn when trying ments. trip to the far north. In 1995, ornithologists managed to put a that these ordinary childhood epi- to transition their children from dia- CANCER (June 21-July 22): The year 2021 will contain 525,600 monitoring band on one red knot’s leg, making it possible to sodes have become political battle- periodically get a read on his adventures over the subsequent pers to toilet. Throw learning styles, minutes. But I suspect you might enjoy the subjective sensa- grounds. Some people decry “heli- temperament, and other individual tion of having far more than 525,600 minutes at your disposal. years. The bird’s nickname is Moonbird, because he has traveled copter parents” for over-attentiveness differences into the mix and you can That’s because I think you’ll be living a fuller life than usual, with so many miles in the course of his life that it’s equivalent to a that robs kids of the opportunity to jaunt to the moon. He’s known as “the toughest four ounces on understand why there’s no one-size- greater intensity and more focus. It may sometimes seem to you collect their bandage-patched badges the planet.” I nominate him to be your magical creature in 2021. fits all approach to parenting. as if you are drawing greater riches out of the daily rhythm—ac- of honor, which allegedly furnish them I suspect you will have stamina, hardiness, persistence, and The only constant in children’s lives complishing more, seeing further, diving down deeper to capital- with self-confidence, grit, and cour- determination like his. is change. In many ways, a five-year- ize on the privilege of being here on planet earth. Be grateful for age. Others worry that reviving the old isn’t even the same person as they this blessing—which is also a big responsibility! AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): An Aquarian park ranger named minimally supervised childhoods of were at age two. Responsive aware- Roy Sullivan was struck by lightning seven times in the course yesteryear isn’t realistic in today’s soci- LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Our lives are filled with puzzles and enig- ness allows savvy adults to adjust mas and riddles. We all harbor aspects of ourselves that we don’t of his 71 years on the planet. (That’s a world record.) None of the ety. These viewpoints each have their their approach to guiding children as understand. I hope that in 2021, you will be on a mission to learn electrostatic surges killed him, although they did leave a few merits, but most problematic for me is burns. After studying your astrological potentials for 2021, I’ve they mature. That’s why “free-range more about these parts of yourself. One of your superpowers that they’ve become associated with concluded that you may be the recipient, on a regular basis, of a parents” and “helicopter parents” are will be a capacity to uncover secrets and solve mysteries. Bonus: political stances: libertarian/conserva- much more pleasurable and rewarding kind of lightning strike: not real people but labels that keep I suspect you’ll be able to make exceptional progress in getting tive for free-ranging and liberal for the metaphorical kind. I advise you to prepare yourself to be to the root of confusing quandaries that have undermined you— us apart. They reinforce a tendency to- alert for more epiphanies than usual: exciting insights, inspiring helicoptering. Free range equates to and then fixing the problems so they no longer undermine you. the “free-market” economy, with the ward binary thinking: us versus them, revelations, and useful ideas. two extreme viewpoints with nothing VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): When actor Gene Wilder was eight home as ground zero for small gov- PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Coral reefs are in danger all over the in between. They deny the reality that years old, his mother began to have heart-related health issues. ernment. According to this perspec- world. These “rainforests of the sea” are being decimated by a person might hover over a crawling The doctor that treated her suggested he could help her out if tive, it’s a small step from hovering ocean acidification, toxic runoff from rivers, rising temperatures, baby, equipping her with knee pads he would try to make her laugh. From then on, Wilder cultivated over one’s kids to endorsing a govern- and careless tourists. Why should we care? Because they’re beau- an ability to tell jokes and got interested in becoming an actor. ment that hovers over its citizens and and childproofing the house, but tiful! And also because they’re hotbeds of biodiversity, providing Ultimately he appeared in 22 films and was nominated for two deprives them of their rights to tote when that same child turns six, she’s homes for 25 percent of all marine species. They also furnish Oscars and two Golden Globe Awards. I foresee a comparable guns and avoid unionizing. free-ranging her way to her grandpar- protection for shorelines from erosion and storm damage, and development in your life in 2021: A challenging situation will ents’ house two blocks down. are prime spots to harvest seafood. So I’m pleased people are All this symbolic weight resting on inspire you in ways that generate a major blessing. Growing up is a journey where finding ways to help reefs survive and recover. For example, a kids’ scraped knees! wipe-outs come along with the LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In my astrological opinion, love won’t group in Thailand is having success using superglue to re-attach I love watching Luthien zip around be predictable in 2021. It won’t be easily definable or com- broken-off pieces to the main reefs. I hope this vignette inspires on her bike. For now, we keep to low- package. It makes sense to let the parable to what you’re experienced before. But I also suspect you to engage in metaphorically similar restorative and reju- traffic streets as she learns to navigate little wipeouts happen, as they’re that love will be delightfully enigmatic. It will be unexpectedly venating activities, Pisces. In 2021, you will have an enhanced bumps and avoid cars. Soon, her bal- stumbling steps on a journey toward educational and fervently fertile and oddly comfortable. Your power to heal. ance and steering will improve to the independence, while steering young point that I can ride along beside her. ones away from the ones that wipe Freewillastrology.com As she develops more sophisticated out future possibilities (or life).

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THE TRANSITION to a new calendar year usually has me feeling optimis- The heatlh of the river is the health of you tic and impossibly well-intentioned. It’s your garden variety Never Mind Columbia Riverkeeper announces its 2021 virtual series The Egregious Transgressions Of The Past or the This Time I Really Mean featuring incredible environmental lawyers, community It sorta deal. I promise myself I will eat only healthy foods that are not organizers, scientists, and partners who work every day to destructive or wasteful of our natural resources. I will purge my recipe protect the Columbia. Attend the “Love Your Columbia file of all decadence. I will plant only kale and devise new and luscious Community” events to get inspired to fight for clean water ways of preparing it, all the while thinking benevolent thoughts about and our climate. humankind and our collective prospects of survival. SOMETIMES YOU FEEL Needless to say, this proposition is doomed at the outset. That’s why Love Your Columbia 2021 Programming: the average New Year’s Resolution lasts about a month. As proof of my LIKE YOUR NERTZ SPICED • The Fight Against Fossil Fuels: What’s Happening and superior ability to be human, I will skip the month of good intent and What’s Next: January 14, 2021, 6pm. move swiftly to the part where I inevitably end up asking myself, “What Preheat the oven to 275° Interested in learning more about Columbia Riverkeeper’s the HELL is wrong with me?!?” Then I have a snack. efforts to stop dirty fossil fuels? Join a conversation with con- For years, I have used this column to rant about whatever burr is servation director, Dan Serres, and staff attorney, Erin Saylor, as currently under my saddle after which I tack on a recipe so as to cajole they discuss the status of current work to protect the Columbia River from fossil fuel infrastructure like pipelines and refiner- you and my esteemed editor, Dinah, into thinking this is a food column. 2 cups raw nuts, any combination you like Sometimes one of you tells me that you tried and loved the recipe, so ies. Topics covered will include the Kalama methanol refinery, I guess the conceit is working. It’s not that I don’t care about the food or all one kind, your choice Zenith Energy, Port Westward, the Perennial fracked gas power angle. Frankly, I’m all about the food angle. Pretty much everything I 2 Tablespoons coconut or olive oil plant, and others. do is an affirmation of the food angle. However, I am occasionally cranky 1/4 cup sugar • Poetry Workshop “Tardeada de poesia” in Spanish with about something gone wrong and I’m not above holding a recipe hostage 2 teaspoons salt Washington State Poet Laureate: January 27, 2021, 3pm until I’ve offloaded a piece of my mind. 1 Tablespoon chili powder, use your Join Columbia Riverkeeper and special guest, Claudia Castro Here’s the issue du jour: You know how they say that we only use 10% Luna, for an afternoon of poetry for the family. This kid-friendly favorite flavor and heat level of our brain capacity? I know why. Not why they say it. I know why we poetry workshop in Spanish will focus on themes around the do it. We do it because every single person, animal, element and thing 1 teaspoon cinnamon environment and river ecosystems. Kids and their families will in the universe is connected in some way and awareness of that fact on 1/2 teaspoon cumin have the opportunity to write poetry, draw, and publish their a minute-to-minute basis is exhausting and often terrifying. Even the oc- work on Columbia Riverkeeper’s website. This event will be in- casional glimmer of realization about this is sufficient reason for the 90% In a medium bowl, toss the nuts with the structed in Spanish and kids and families are welcome to speak of leftover brain to clock out. I am aware there are those who are highly oil and sugar. In a small, separate bowl, mix in whatever language is comfortable for them. evolved and, you know, Zenful and able to grok the above info with grace together the salt, chili powder, cinnamon, • Homebodies and Waterbodies: Learn about the harmful and calm. I’M NOT TALKING TO YOU! I’m never talking to you. and cumin. Set aside. chemicals potentially lurking in your home and what you can My brain, in its tiny way, chooses to focus. It’s a self defense mecha- Line a baking sheet with parchment (un- do to reduce them: February 24, 2021, 12pm nism and it has worked just…sporadically, thank you, for lo, these many less you love scrubbing greasy pans that We’re all spending a lot of time at home to stay safe during years. 10% of my brain focuses on the issues at hand and the other 90% don’t fit in the dishwasher) and place the the pandemic, but some of the chemicals found in our homes lolls about on its chaise lounge eating bonbons and channel surfing. I’m nut mixture on the sheet. Bake for 15 to and everyday products are harmful to our health and the envi- about 10% certain that’s how it works. 17 minutes, tossing it a few times during ronment. Join Columbia Riverkeeper and Dr. Arlene Blum, Ex- So, while our ship of state yaws queasily from port to starboard, baking. ecutive Director with the Green Science Policy Institute, to learn threatening never again to right itself, I cook. When war, climate change, As soon as the nuts come out of the about the harmful chemicals found in household items, how poverty, disease, cruelty and despair take up relentless residence in my oven, toss them in the spices. Let them cool they end up in the river, their impacts, and what you can do. head, I cook. I use cooking to banish demons, assuage guilt, manifest completely before serving. You can and Follow Columbia River Keeper on social media for critical activ- art, celebrate love and appreciate good fortune. And while I cook, I try probably should double or triple this recipe. ism opportunities, breaking news, and ways to learn about the to locate just where I am on the Functional Nutcase Scale. You know the You can keep the extras in an airtight Columbia River (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram). See columbi- one, with Serious Space Case at one end and Not That Bad, All Things container for weeks. Then you’ll have them ariverkeeper.org to screen video productions. Considered at the other. I try to keep the needle near the middle, some- handy whenever too much introspection where around Vaguely Wacky but Usually Harmless. Then I resolve not to leaves you needing a snack. worry about it again for at least 12 months. Happy New Year! Join Columbia Oh, yeah. Here’s a recipe. Riverkeeper’s Conservation Director, Dan Serres • Jan 14 Tune in to FOOD TALK, an irreverent conversation about home cooking with hosts Merianne Myers and Linda Perkins. First and Third Mondays of every month, 9:30 to 10am on Coast Community Radio, KMUN 91.9fm, KTCB 89.5fm, streaming and available as podcast at coastradio.org

17 JAN 21 hipfishmonthly.com Photographer Marcy Merril Sculptor Jeffro Uitto

IN MEMORY By Dinah Urell Bonnie Bentley1952 - 2021 Jim Wilkins 1943 - 2020 THIS PAST NOVEMBER 2020 the coastal cultural community lost a longtime member, Jim Wilkins. For those who have lived here long enough will know of the burgeoning folk and string band scene of the 70’s. While playing venues were at a minimum compared to the leap of offerings now in the Lower Columbia Pacific Region, there was plenty of local music going round, and Jim Wilkins upon residency to Astoria, kicked in with his upright bass, guitar and vocal stylings. An early combination in the 80’s featured Wilkins, Peter “Spud” Siegel on mandolin, and David Crabtree on guitar and banjo, called the Columbia Trio, and you could fine them playing at the longtime once “Cheers” of Astoria, The Ship Inn. There still may be some displaced regulars wondering what happened, for the Ship Inn was truly a home away from home watering hole for many an Astorian besides its long and successful run as a quaint riverside seafood eatery. Working his contracting business by day, eventually Jim and Regina that over to his KMUN interview program. Wilkins became sole proprietors of Café Uniontown. One of Astoria’s I approached Jim about possibly hosting a Above photo: circa 1980 - New Creatures band mates, Bonnie Bentley, Bill Tinka- oldest bars, originally known as Snug Harbor, it was jazzed up in the Queer social night at Café U. He welcomed la on guitar and the late Pierce Christie on drums caused a stir at the Astoria Fair- 70’s by it’s then owner Ray Goforth, (the unofficial mayor of Union- that community. We ran the mixer Gertrude’s grounds (once located where the Gateway Theater plaza now stands, and regular town). Ray served a killer ciopinno, and hired singing bartenders Wilde for numerous years, on a night when rock venue from the 60s to the 80s). Bentley was the groundbreaker on the punk (notably gentlemen from the gay community), cajoling customers over it was closed to the public, literally providing sound on the coast. When they finished the set, the crowd jumped the stage and the long log bar that stretched the length of the room. us a private bar, and subsequently hosted demanded another – they got it, and the New Creatures got paid double. Eventually the ol’ “Snug” was expanded into the adjoining barbershop, with a new more urban bar, a larger dining room and music stage area. Jim and Regina created a place for Astoria and the coast that was welcoming, hip and WITH NOT ENOUGH TIME to properly entertaining. Music poured out, with the Wilkins honor the musical history of Bonnie and Spud Siegel duo on Thursday nights, the Bentley Dasse, deepest heartfelt late Betty Phillips providing her sing-along piano sympathies go out to her family in her bar, and the late jazz pianist Chuck Wilder finess- very recent passing. Bonnie Bentley ing harmonic progressions. was 69, and she was rocking her music, Over its 10 to 15 year run, it became the writing and performing, all the way. A gathering place of Astoria’s theatre players who love affair with rock and the first punk would show up after their shows, and gather rock queen of Astoria, please read a round Betty’s piano to continue the theatrics. wonderful feature by Steve Lippencott It was always Jim’s mission to create the Third written in conjunction with a retrospec- Place, to nourish a sense of community and di- tive performance presented by HIPFiSH- versity. Café Uniontown became that place, and monthly at KALA in July, 2013 with her will never be replicated in this era. then current band, Phantom Teardrops I had the pleasure of working at Café U, in at www.hipfishmonthly.com. the mid 90’s, thrown in as a bartending noob. Bonnie was a highly creative spirit Returning to my roots after an 18 year hiatus, it was seeing this com- larger queer events. Café U eventually who gave everything to her song. She munity through the camaraderie of customers that convinced me, my became known as “The Gay Bar” within the embodied what is the raw and beautiful home town had a sparkle. I learned quickly how to mix as the Café queer community. spirit of rock. With her latest incarnation was hosting a 3 week Jazz festival, featuring world class jazz saxo- HIPFiSH Excerpt – July 2013 by Steve Once during my tenure, I booked a stand- The Bonnie Bentley Project, Bonnie on phonist David Murray, of all people. Attendance was fantastic and so Lippencott: In the early 80’s, there are up. She billed herself as Lisa Geduldig, the guitar and vocals, a longtime band mate was the music. Jim ran an open bar for the musicians, but when he That’s Good Garlic! some of you who packed a little bar short, Jewish, Lesbian comic, and Jim was Arthur Beardsley on bass, Brian Frech on found out how much they were drinking, his generosity was spent and called Kokko’s and danced to local band up for it. The place was packed, not just drums, keys, viola and vocals, and Mike he told me to cut off the free drinks. The New Creatures. Astoria had seen with queers but people kinda dying for some Smith on drums and vocals, Bonnie pro- David Murray was taken on a fishing trip out to sea, his first. When nothing like them before, blowing away comic relief. She handled the hecklers with duced 3 albums in the last several years, he came into play his gig, (he drank like a fish) usually hefting down the malaise of that era’s tired covers glorious aplomb. and was receiving air play on UK Radio. as many shots of tequila he could manage, I asked him what he would bands, bluegrass and DJ Disco nights. A When Café Uniontown closed, much like In the late 80’s, Bonnie’s band The like to drink. He said, “water.” Did he blow a mean horn that night. sound where the blues of Keith Richards The Ship Inn, there was a loss. A loss of that Twist was an all-women rock band based Eventually I teamed up with Jim and organized a Women’s Music meets up with the punk poetry of Patti in Portland, playing the clubs, and of Third Place that Jim with Café U took pride Smith and sires Bonnie Bentley, all five night, drawing on locals and touring artists. I booked, Jim made course best known The Satyricon. She creative posters. After I left, later Heidie Johnson would take over the in nurturing, but nurture it did, providing foot five full of spunk and sass, a wife & later regrouped with one of the band a common ground instrumental in rooting mother in her 30’s emerging from the booking, and Astoria began to see more and more alternative acts. members, Sylvia Hackathorn for recent community in this region and its cultural house with a hungry need to rock ‘n Hipfish started up and Jim did a regular column, called chiaroscuro, recordings. growth. roll. Writing and singing gritty and real covering local issues. We once had a dispute over content, and he Jim, I’m drinking a glass of red in your songs such as Half Tough, Leave Me Many Blessings to you Bonnie on said, “If you edit me, I quit.” We did, he quit. honor. Lots of love, “Where’er you roam, Alone, and I’m No Angel (a song that your journey. Thank you for sharing Jim was a staunch progressive, and member of one of the first city man.” became her anthem). your passion with the world. councils in the 90’s to begin addressing broader issues, and he carried

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