April 2019 • vol 20 • issue 242

HIPFiSHMONTHLY alternative press serving the lower columbia pacific region explore a kindred of artists Tokeland Northcove Studio Tours May 4 In Relevance To The Forest

I Ask. The Harbor plans events for SEXUAL ASSAULT AWARENESS MONTH Forest Visions Art

Exhibit Poet Laureate Kim Stafford Earth Day haPPEningS

NC Chorale performs at CCC Royal The Seven Last Words of Christ Nebeker Gallery Through May 9 HIPFiSH talks with the creator folks behind THE FOREST VISION PROJECT Laura Ross-Paul, Woods III 2018 THEATRE KALA

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Get Your Tickets NOW! We offer weekly classes by local artists, workshops by nationally known artists, studios and TRUE LIFE meeting space, 2 classrooms and a large TRIO gallery showing fine art and crafts. riveting vocal AstoriaArtLoft.com harmonies from Eastern [email protected] 106 Third Street, Astoria Or. 97103 503.325.4442 Europe, the Americas and beyond Sunday, April 14, Smile, Sweat, Connect... 7:30pm Two Locations! •Tolovana Community Hall at KALA 3779 S. Hemlock, Cannon Beach Mon and Wed - 8:30am with Joy and Trinh •Astoria Arts & Movement Center 342 10th St. Astoria KALA welcomes the return of dazzling vocal masters, True Life In 2016, TLT released their first full-length recording, Like Never Trio, Sunday April 14 at 7:30pm. and Like Always, a collaboration with multi-instrumentalist Gari Tues and Thurs - 8:30am with Joy And Tammy Since its inception in 2010, True Life Trio has enchanted audi- Hegedus More Info? 503.440.2547 ences with their powerful harmonies. Their concerts take audi- Leslie Bonnett, Briget Boyle, and Juliana Graffagna met under ences on a borderless journey through the villages of Ukraine, the the musical auspices of the renowned KITKA Women’s Vocal Facebook: Zumba Fitness with Joy mountains of Bulgaria and Louisiana’s Cajun county demonstrating Ensemble, that once performed in a dynamic show at the former the beauty, power and diversity of vocally-driven folk music from River Theater in Astoria. We cant wait to dance with you... Eastern Europe and North America. TLT honors these traditions “They bring the world. Via gorgeous harmonies, the East Bay’s while adding their own unique spin via innovative arrangements True Life Trio travels through a wide spectrum of styles and tradi- and folk-inspired compositions. The trio’s fiery and supple vocals tions….Whenever they raise their voices in song, True Life Trio bridge musical worlds and deliver them right to the listeners’ ears. uplifts the listener, regardless of the song’s subject matter or lan- True Life Trio’s performances include a mix of a cappella songs guage.” — Paul Freeman. The Daily News, Bay Area News Group and tunes accompanied by fiddle, guitar, accordion and percus- home & garden ARTS sion. In any given concert, the trio will sing in more than ten languages, interweaving translations, tales of their travels and Doors open at 7pm. Show at 7:30pm. Tickets are $15. Advance •artisan decor background stories that bring this beautiful music to life and dem- tickets at www.libertyastoria.showare.com. KALA is located at onstrate their passion, joy and humor in singing together. 1017 Marine Dr. in Astoria. 503.338.4878 for home and garden •traditional toys

North Coast Chorale performs 1124 Commercial St • Astoria, OR Open Mon - Sat 11 - 5:30, Sun 12 - 4 The Seven Last Words of Christ

ONCE AGAIN, North Coast Chorale (NCC) will perform “The Sev- en Last Words of Christ”. This sacred cantata will be presented at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, April 17th at the Performing Arts Center acific in Astoria, at the corner of 16th St. and Franklin St. “The Seven Last Words of Christ” is being performed as a Benefit to support ro Realty the Performing Arts Center. A $10 Donation is suggested. P “The Seven Last Words of Christ” is a rendering of Jesus’ P crucifixion and His seven last phrases, which are called “words” of Forgiveness, Salvation, Relationship, Abandonment, Distress, Tri- umph, and Reunion. This year it will be accompanied by Vincent the Church of St. Clotilde. Even though Dubois composed several Jones-Centeno on the PAC’s Estey Opus-429 Organ. Phil Keim, other works (orchestral, choral and organ), very few of them are Lois Willis, and Elias Hesse, well-known Chorale soloists, will fur- still performed today, with the exception of the “Seven Last Words ther illustrate the presentation of this sacred cantata while being of Christ.” Perhaps part of the reason for his relative obscurity supported by the NCC singers. today is that Dubois composed very much in the idiomatic style of The composer Theodore Dubois was born in France in 1837. his day–a style some consider overly-romantic or trite by today’s He spent most of his life in Paris, where he studied at the Paris standards. In this sense, the “Seven Last Words” is very much a Conservatory. While he was not recognized as one of the great “period” piece, in that its style is representative of another time musicians of his time, he was highly respected by his more famous and place–namely, the gilded age of the late 1800s and early counterparts, including Franz Liszt (who gave him musical encour- 1900s. Real People. Real Service. agement), Cesar Franck, and Camille Saint-Saens. As a dramatic chorale work, The Seven Last Words of Christ Real Estate. Dubois was the organist and choirmaster at the Church of St. depicts the spiritually moving scenes of the crucifixion–the angry Clotilde in Paris (where Cesar Franck also served at one time) crowds, the anguish of Jesus’ mother, the thief on the cross, and 503-468-0915 when he wrote the “Seven Last Words of Christ.” This composi- Christ’s suffering and death on the cross. tion was first performed in 1867 for the Good Friday service at www.PacificProHomes.com - Michael Shawgo, Second Presbyterian Church of Chicago 211 12th Street Astoria, Oregon

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Pajunen/Brynnel Duo The Spirit of St. Louis Trumpeter Mark Berney ASTORIA CHRISTMAS FANTASTICOUTTAKESRUSSIAN GOLD w/ Lee Stromquist - piano Kelley Shannon & Friends MEDALISTS SusanRETURN Banyas TO Joey Altruda - Bass Saturday , Dec 22, 6pm Friday July 6 • 8pm SeptASTORIA 21 Liberty Theatre

Oregon Poet Laureate Kim Stafford in Astoria

POET LAUREATE OF OREGON KIM STAF- in conjunction with the Forest Vision Proj- FORD, is in Astoria for a series of happen- ect, talk poetry, talk forests, takes place ings that include an Earth Day Ceremony at the Royal Nebeker Gallery with the on MONDAY, renowned Photographer Robert Adams. APRIL 22 starting Creative Practices and the Impor- Radical Inclusive SelfCare practiced here at 8:30am at tance of Writing Your Own Story – is an Reserve classes online or by drop-in Clatsop Com- engagement with students and faculty at Reserve a Massage online WINTER SPECIAL munity College Clatsop Community College and Astoria or by calling: $15 off monthly packages Royal Nebeker High School and Job Corps students, in $10 off punch cards Gallery, created collaboration with Marianne Monson/the 503.791.9624 Marga Stanley in collaboration Astoria Writer’s Guild and poet/faculty 922 Commercial in Astoria wildrootsastoria.com with CCC faculty member Nancy Cook. member and A BOOK RELEASE PARTY for Stafford’s new master ce- book of poetry, Wild Honey, Tough Salt ramicist, Richard will take place, WEDNESDAY APRIL 23 at Roland. NEW WORKS KALA performance space at 7:30pm. 1017 At 6pm a pub- Marine Drive in Astoria. All events are free lic conversation, BY and open to all! Morrison Photographer Robert Adams WILD HONEY, TOUGH SALT offers a prismatic view of Earth Kim Stafford is the founding director Pierce citizenship, where we must now be ambidextrous. The of the Northwest Writing Institute, at book takes a stern look inward calling for sturdy character Lewis & Clark College, where he has Opening Reception and supple spirit, and a bold look outward seeking ways taught since 1979, and co-founder of Sat. April 13 to engage grief trouble. The book begins with poems that 5-8:30pm witness a buoyant life in a difficult world: wandering New Fishtrap. He is the author of a dozen Orleans in a trance, savoring the life of artist Tove Jans- books of poetry and prose, includ- mcvarishgallery.com son, reading the fine print on the Mexican peso and the ing Having Everything Right: Essays Scottish five-pound note. Clues to untapped energy lie of Place in 1986, and the new poetry McVarish Gallery everywhere by the lens of poetry. The book then moves 160 Tenth St., Astoria collection, Wild Honey, Tough Salt: (503) 298 - 1690 to considerations of the worst in us--torture and war: how to recruit a child soldier? How to be married to the heart- Poems, in 2019. He has taught writing less guard? What to say to your child who is enamored by in schools, colleges, meadows, forests, bullets? In the third section, the book offers a spangle of and in Assisi, Glasgow, and a remote poems blessing earth: wren song, bud growth, river’s eager way with obstacles. And the final section offers poems of village in Bhutan. In May 2018 Gov. affection: infant clarities of home, long marriage in dog Kate Brown appointed him as Oregon’s years, a consoling campfire in the yard when all seems lost. ninth Poet Laureate. He is the son of The book will soften your trouble, and give you spirit for the American poet William Stafford. days ahead.

A Medley of Voices Celebrate National Poetry Month at the Astoria Library

IN CELEBRATION OF NATIONAL POETRY MONTH, a handful of regional writers will per- form several of their poems at 7pm Wednesday, April 10, at the Astoria Library. Admission is free. Following a theme of “Variations of Voice,” the readers will interweave their pieces to make a medley of poems written and spoken in each individual’s unique way. The six performers are John Ciminello published poets who read regularly at Ric’s Poetry Mic – held on first Tuesdays at WineKraft in Astoria – and by invitation at special events in the area. Poets include: from Washington, John Ciminello (“Magnolias, Mockingbirds, and Sweet Potato Pies,” Falling Water Mary Lou McAuley Press) and Robert Michael Pyle (“Evolu- tion of the Genus Iris” and “Chinook & Chanterelle,” Lost Horse Press); from Astoria, Lucca Ettienne (“The Beautiful Bones of Hope”), Jim Dott (“A Glossary of Memory,” Blind Slough Press); Mary Lou McAuley (“The Other Door” and “Nine Hundred Moon Journey,” The Other Door Press); and Florence Sage (“Nev- ertheless: Poems from the Gray Area,” Hipfish Publications). The reading also will include a poem by Karin Temple (“Chalice of Tears, Peregrina,” Radiolarian Press). The Astoria Library is at 450 10th St., Astoria. For information about library programs and services, contact 503-325-7323 or visit astorialibrary.org. Lucca Ettienne APRIL 19 hipfishmonthly.com 4 ASTORIA CHRISTMAS FANTASTICOUTTAKESRUSSIAN GOLD Kelley Shannon & Friends MEDALISTS Coast Community Radio SusanRETURN Banyas TO Receives a Grant FREE Wheelchair Program for Saturday , Dec 22, 6pm ASTORIA from the Templin Foundation Citizens and Visitors on the Sept 21 A group of students and community members from last year’s event work on their t- Liberty Theatre Beach shirts for the Clothesline Project.

Preservation Society Announces Landmark Speaking Truth to Power...Wall Street Forests, Nomination Assistance Program the Climate Crisis and the Green New Deal: Lower Columbia Preservation Society (LCPS) has launched a new Putting People and Nature Before Profit program to assist Astoria property owners who would like to have their property designated as a local historic landmark. Although several areas of Astoria have been inventoried for historic resources, there are many neighborhoods that have yet to be surveyed. LCPS is encouraging owners of historic properties located outside of Chuck Willer previously inventoried areas to proactively seek designation of their Inside the Month: properties as local landmarks. These areas include Alderbrook, South April 9 Slope, Smith Point and Peter Pan/Hilltop neighborhoods. FOREST VISION PROJECT . . . p11 K Schlarb LCPS is also encouraging nominations by owners who have previously IF YOU’VE never heard opted-out of designation or who have made restorations to their prop- Chuck Willer speak, now’s Guest Column: Candidate erty since a previous inventory was completed. your chance to hear one of Marianne Williamson . . . p5 R. Koehler Rachel Jensen, LCPS’s executive director, has noticed several homes the most seasoned, diligent, where vinyl siding has recently been removed, exposing the original and persistent voices work- Harbor Events . . . p9 wood siding underneath, “If your home was excluded from designation during an earlier inventory because of alterations that have since been ing to protect Oregon Coast Nature News . . . p7 reversed, we would love to see it added back to our community’s list of Range forests and water- local historic resources.” sheds. TOKELAND ART TOUR . . . p26 Owners can nominate their property for designation as a historic On April 9 Willer will INCO NEWS . . . p10 landmark by completing an application with the City of Astoria, provid- explain “Wall Street Forests, the Climate Crisis and the Green New ing information on the historic significance and integrity of their property Deal: Putting People and Nature Before Profit,” summarizing three PELVIC STEAMS ...p23 K. Schlarb and paying a nomination fee. Completed nomination applications must be approved by the Historic Landmarks Commission (HLC) at a public years of Coast Range Association research into the ownership and Qfolk hearing in order to receive formal landmark designation. management of Western Oregon’s forests. MOnthly LGBTQ eVenTs, + “One of the major benefits of designation,” said Jensen, “is that it He will then discuss past research in light of the climate crisis and political groups/organizations... p8 triggers design review by the Historic Landmarks Commission for adja- potential opportunities afforded through the much discussed Green cent new construction. The design review process helps to protect the New Deal. The opportunities and proposals Chuck will explore cen- historic character of our neighborhoods and streetscapes through ensur- ter on building up carbon dense forests to mitigate climate change, ing that new construction is compatible in size, scale and design with the protect watersheds and provide for rural economic renewal. COLUMNS existing built environment.” Chuck has studied coastal forests and watersheds for twenty- STEVE BERK . . . 6 LCPS is offering 10 hours of historic research, documentation and seven years as Director of the Coast Range Association. Over that THEATER . . . 16 application assistance per property, as well as covering the $100 applica- tion fee to the city. Property owners can learn more about this program time he has led studies into the connection of forest management ART HAPPENS . . . 17 and apply for LCPS assistance online at lcpsociety.org/landmark-nom- to water quality, salmon habitat, pesticides, and the conservation of WORD/Literary EVents . . . 18 ination. The deadline for applications for the first round of nomination biological diversity. Chuck’s career studying coastal forest manage- FLASHCUTS ...... KANEKUNI 20 assistance is March 31, 2019. LCPS’s goal is to select three properties by ment has always focused on the underlying economic issues that BIKE MADAME . . . HAMMITT-MCDONALD . . 21 May 1st and to see these properties designated by the end of 2019. drive forest management. FREE WILL ASTROLOGY . . . BREZNY 21 Do you remember seeing a color-coded map a few years ago NETWORK COMMUNITY LISTINGS . . . 22 that showed ownership of industrial forests? Published in Hipfish S. GRACE MESSAGES/ 5TH DIMENSION . . . 23 and other north coast publications, it covered the northern portion WHOLE PLANET HEALTH. . . . . HAMMIT-MCDONALD 23 Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici of the Oregon Coast Range. Compiled by a team through Willer’s WORD & WISDOM . . . NASON 23 Townhall Astoria - Clatsop Community College, organization, it shows who owns what (the who is mostly corpo- FOODGROOVE NEWS . . .26 Columbia 219 rate investors, the what is the industrial forest lands we see from CHEW ON THIS . . . MYERS 25 Tuesday, April 16, 2019 - 6:00pm our highways). The owner of every parcel was identified through a HIPFiSHmonthly is located at 1017 Marine Dr in Astoria. By Appt. 1651 Lexington Ave painstaking data gathering process using public records. Ultimately ADVERTISING INQUIRIES - 503.338.4878 Astoria, OR 97103 the map demonstrates that our “forests” tend to be tree farms, Send general email correspondance: grown for profit, not habitat or air and water quality. [email protected]. North Coast Communities for Watershed Protection, previously HIPFiSH is produced on the web at: known as Rockaway Beach Citizens for Watershed Protection, www.hipfishmonthly.com meets the second Tuesday of every month at 6:00 p.m. at NCRD Hipfish is printed at the Daily Astorian AAUW: Sex Trafficking Lecture ON TUESDAY APRIL 16TH, the pointed to complete the unexpired in Nehalem. This is part of the educational “Speak Truth to Power” American Association of University term of the Mayor of Seaside upon series of talks. EDITOR/PUBLISHER: Women (AAUW) Astoria Branch the death of long-time Mayor Don NCRD is located at 36155 9th Street, Nehalem, one block off John Ciminello Dinah Urell will present a program on sex Larson. He was recently elected Hwy. 101 and up the hill from Nehalem Lumber. trafficking at the Astor Library, for a full 4-year term as Seaside’s Rockaway Beach Citizens for Watershed Protection started in GRAPHICS: Flag Room at 6:00 p.m. Dr. Jay A. mayor. Buggy Bison Barber Jr., Mayor of Seaside, will Currently Barber provides 2011 when a group of neighbors in Rockaway Beach, Oregon Les Kanekuni Cover Design: Les Kanekuni speak on the topic of sex traffick- consultation services to a wide watched as the Jetty Creek watershed, the source of their drink- Dinah Urell Susan Banyas Photo: ing followed by questions and range of not-for-profit organiza- ing water, was clearcut logged at an alarming rate and then aerial Michael Mathers Michelle Roth answers. Also, the film “Chosen” tions in the Northwest assisting sprayed with pesticides. In the last decade, about 90% of that will be shown which tells the true with strategic planning, fundraising CALENDAR/PRODUCTION watershed has been clearcut, thereby causing highly detrimental story of a young woman who was strategies, board development, effects on the drinking water and natural habitat. We have now been groomed by a trafficker and staff recruitment and coaching new Assistance/Staff Writer: Cathy Nist grown to represent other communities up and down the North how she was rescued. This film has and emerging leaders. Facebook Genie: Sid Deluca been shown to middle and high For more information on the Coast of Oregon that face similar difficulties; therefore, our new MAGIC WEB WORKER: school students. program contact Jan Nybakke at name, North Coast Communities for Watershed Protection, reflects Bob Goldberg Barber was elected to the 503-325-4592. The program is our working together on a regional basis to insure that the air we Seaside City Council and was ap- free and open to the public. breathe and the water we drink are safe. Lucca Ettienne 5 APRIL 19 hipfishmonthly.com By Robert C. Koehler

Marianne Williamson: Challenging The Status Quo In 2020

REPARATIONS FOR SLAVERY? Upending political sphere for far too long. Together There’s something happening here. Evolu- militarism and waging peace? Taking cli- we can reclaim both our democratic prin- tion — the creation of a world beyond mate change seriously? Getting carbon out ciples and the angels of our better selves, war and environmental exploitation — has of the atmosphere and fossil fuel money expressed not only in our personal lives but grabbed hold of the political system and out of the EPA? Valuing healing over pun- in acts of citizenship as well. Politics should is no longer irrelevant to it. In 2016, Bernie ishment in our disastrous criminal justice not be a pursuit disconnected from the Sanders scared the DNC to within an inch system? Ending mass incarceration? heart; it should be, as everything should of its corporate life. In 2018, a wave of Bringing all this up — and much, much be, an expression of the heart. Where fear progressive change flooded Congress. more — in a presidential race? has been harnessed for political purposes, Williamson told me she wants to con- “Join with me for a year,” cries Marianne let’s now harness the power of love.” front the gatekeepers with “the necessary Williamson. “of talking about things that This is not how a presidential candidate audacity to keep democracy alive.” matter!” is supposed to talk. A word like “love” Visit her website and imbibe some of her Williamson, best-selling author audacity: and long-time political activist (and “America should embark on a a friend I’ve known and respected 10- to 20-year plan for turning a for many years), is, indeed, running wartime economy into a peace- for president of the United States, time economy, repurposing the bringing into her campaign a tremendous talents and infra- burning commitment not so much structure of our military-industrial 10pm Wednesday Nights! to winning as to pushing past the complex in such a way as to leave consensus of know-nothingism This Way Out marks almost 30 years on the air! that has long dominated American us strong enough to deal with America’s legitimate needs for Our first program was distributed on April 1, 1988. politics — and certainly the Demo- cratic Party — at the highest level. military preparedness, yet moving on to the urgent task of build- It’s the award-winning internationally distributed “Our democracy has stage 4 cancer,” she says in her campaign ing a sustainable society and weekly GLBT radio program, currently airing on over video, “and all the traditional sustainable world. . . . (It) is time 150 local commmunity radio stations around the politicians are offering is a topical to release this powerful sector of American genius to the work of world. ointment.” Can this actually happen here? promoting life instead of death. Get the latest news, listen to This Way Out on Coast Can American democracy dig to the level ignites cynicism. It’s soft. What about our . . . of the national soul? Can it burrow beyond enemies? What about the interests we “In many ways, America has continued Community Radio. our superficial “exceptionalism” into our need to pursue in a hostile world? Politics the process of racial reconciliation begun past and truly look at what we’ve done is supposed to be tough and hard, or in the 1960s. Yet in other ways, we have over the last two and a half centuries? Can pretend to be, as candidates spout clichés actually slipped backward. Yes, there are the nation hold itself accountable . . . for about “a strong defense” and dance away no more colored bathrooms and separate slavery, for Native American genocide, for from any real challenge to the status quo. drinking fountains. But we now have mass wasting trillions of dollars and murdering Suddenly, as I was talking to Williamson, incarceration; racial disparity in criminal millions of people by waging endless war? I thought about the John Kerry campaign sentencing; lost voting rights; outright COASTER THEATRE PLAYHOUSE Can America change? of 2004 and how, when I received a call voter suppression; and police brutality How, I asked her the other day, did you from a Kerry fundraiser one day, I got hung often focused on black populations. . . . decide to run for president? up on when I kept pestering the guy about “Criminal justice has become both a po- “One day I was sitting on my bed in Iraq. At that point, we were a year into litical and moral disaster. . . . Trauma sends New York and the idea just popped in,” the carnage and quagmire. He refused people into the criminal justice system, and she said. Her first thought was: “Are you to discuss the candidate’s position and then the criminal justice system too often insane?” She spent a year and a half pro- finally rang off. I was so disturbed by this heaps more trauma on those incarcerated cessing the idea before finally making the I called Kerry’s central campaign office, or facing incarceration. If we are serious commitment to such an arduous undertak- where a spokesman did nothing but spout about breaking the cycle of violence, we ing: to run not simply as an isolated indi- Bush-lite truisms. Even though the heart of need to be sensitive to these traumatic vidual with a strategy and a bumper sticker, Kerry’s constituency thought the war was a experiences that lead to violence, and by but as part of a movement, determined to disaster, the spokesman could speak only doing so, we have a chance of addressing bring the aspirations of that movement into of “crushing the terrorists” and “building both.” direct confrontation with the forces of Big a democracy” in Iraq. He too hung up on And there’s so much more. Her goal is to Money. me. cry truth at the American political consen- Join the evolution! This confirmed what I pretty much knew. “I’m doing this,” she said, “not just to The country had become no more than a sus. To get into the debates, she must re- Tickets $20 or $25 elevate the conversation but to begin the spectator democracy. The government’s ceive 65,000 unique donations. She’s about two-thirds of the way there right now. Shows begin at 7:30 p.m. process of making it happen. Why assume agenda is none of our — the public’s — the American people won’t do it?” business. We get to go shopping and The political groundswell is just begin- Sunday shows starts at 3:00p.m. Williamson says on her website: “There watch the bombing on TV. But . . . ning. Democracy does not mean business is a groundswell of Americans seeking “There is a groundswell of Americans as usual. Sponsored by Coaster Construction higher wisdom, in politics as well as every- seeking higher wisdom, in politics as well Robert Koehler, syndicated by PeaceVoice, is where else. . . My campaign for the presi- as everywhere else . . .” Tickets: 503-436-1242 or coastertheatre.com a Chicago award-winning journalist and editor. dency is dedicated to this search, for wis- Yes, I believe this as well. 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NATURE NEWS Help knock out knotweed on the Necanicum River NORTH COAST Land Conservancy is seeking vol- WHOLE SYSTEMS unteers for one more assault on invasive Japanese Ecological Restoration knotweed that had spread widely in its Necanicum Forest Habitat Reserve east of Seaside. Join them for – Rethinking the Role this stewardship day Wednesday, April 17, from 10am of Invasive Species to 1pm. Knotweed is a robust weed, native to Eurasia, that AUTHOR TAO ORION has invaded riverside forests on Oregon’s North Coast. It was widely planted in logging camps and along headwater streams in the 1900s. Floods transported root masses downstream, creating huge infestations on many Oregon rivers, including the Necanicum. NCLC ON APRIL 7 there’s two opportunities to hear seeds, nuts, and animals on her southern Wil- has been working to rid Necanicum Forest Habitat Tao Orion present “Whole Systems Ecological lamette Valley homestead, Viriditas Farm. Reserve of knotweed for several years. One more big Restoration – Rethinking the Role of Invasive Sunday April 7, at two separate times and push by volunteers will help NCLC get a handle on this Species”. locations. invader. This presentation will focus on develop- • Fort George Brewery Community Room, Please e-mail Stewardship Director Melissa Reich at ing a whole systems-based understanding of [email protected] or call her at 503-738-9126 if invasive species as a foundation for holistically Astoria (please enter on corner of 14th and Duane St) from1:30pm - 3:30pm you plan to attend; she will provide directions to the managing their populations. Invasive species site and additional details. Wear gloves and work are often viewed as the drivers of ecosys- • St. Catherines Episcopal Church, Manza- boots. NCLC will supply the necessary tools. Bring water and snacks/lunch; there is no potable water at the tem change, and the practice of landscape nita from 5:30pm - 7:30pm site, and no toilets. Dogs are not allowed on any NCLC properties. FMI visit NCLCtrust.org. management often focuses on their removal Also consider attending the “Eat the Invaders” as a means to improve ecosystem function dinner with Andy Catalano featuring Japanese Save the Date! APRIL 10 and enhance biodiversity. A more holistic view Knotweed, held at the Salmonberry Saloon on of invasive species places them within a larger Monday April 8, 2019 from 5:30pm - 8:00pm. CoastWatch Marine Debris Survey social, economic, and ecological context as Chefs around the world delight in the Citizen Scientists Wanted! symptoms, rather than causes, of changing unlimited ways to use shoots, stalks, leaves, OREGON SHORES has inaugurated a new site for its marine ecosystems. Factors including climate change, flowers and roots of this plant that conserva- debris survey which takes place at numerous sites along the historic changes in land use and manage- tionists curse. coast. The new location is at Fort Stevens State Park, just south ment, and even our modern concept of nature Chef Andy Catalano of Alimento Astoria will of the Columbia’s South Jetty. New volunteers are needed to and wilderness contribute to the status of fill out a team headed by Oregon Shores board member Ed grace us with multiple approaches to this ver- ecosystems we live in today, many of which Joyce who will conduct the survey at this site. A Missing satile plant. Those who know chef Andy know Meet at 10am, April 10, at Parking Lot B, about three- are declining in health and productivity. Land he can wow through pickling and preserving, quarters of a mile south of the Columbia on Jetty Rd. in Fort Keystone Species managers have an important role to play in combining the freshest local ingredients into Stevens State Park. Whether traveling north or south on Hwy accounting for and mitigating these forces as tasty dishes, and pulling together amazing 101, turn west on Ridge Road and follow the signs within the Sea Otters of Oregon they make plans for increasing biodiversity, pairings through sauces. Chefs from Salmon- park. beauty, and ecosystem function over the long berry Saloon are on deck to add their touches CELEBRATE EARTH DAY at the Cannon Beach As with all CoastWatch’s marine debris survey sites, the term. from the savory to the sweet! History Center & Museum with a talk about survey is conducted monthly, to supply consistent data. TAO ORION is the author of Beyond the This multi-course meal (with dessert!) will be CoastWatch seeks to organize a large enough team that some sea otters. Who wouldn’t want to talk about War on Invasive Species: A Permaculture Ap- interspersed with brief talks from Tao Orion, members can be there every month. sea otters? Sea otters of Oregon are a missing Everyone is welcome to participate in this citizen science keystone species and expert Robert Bailey will proach to Ecosystem Restoration. Tao teaches author of Beyond the War on Invasive Species, project, CoastWatchers and non-CoastWatchers alike. While talk about the history of why Oregon is where permaculture design at Oregon State Univer- and leaders from Lower Nehalem Watershed the goal is to recruit volunteers who will participate at this it is and how we can make some changes. The sity and at Aprovecho, a 40-acre nonprofit Council and Tillamook Estuaries Partnership site, anyone is welcome to participate on this occasion simply presentation will be on Monday, April 22, 4pm. sustainable-living educational organization. Tao who are working to improve our regional to learn the ropes and consider getting involved, either here Once common on the Oregon coast, sea consults on holistic farm, forest, and restora- ecosystems. or perhaps at another site. Instructions and materials will be otters were hunted nearly to extinction for tion planning through Resilience Permaculture Monday April 8th, 2019, 5:30pm - 8:00 pm. provided. their rich fur in the late 1700s and early 1800s. Design, LLC. She holds a degree in agroecol- $45 per person, No Host Bar. To purchase These monthly surveys are conducted according to a Their loss was a significant blow to coastal na- ogy and sustainable agriculture from UC Santa protocol developed by the National Ocean and Atmospheric tive people and to the marine environment. tickets, visit Brown Paper Tickets. Salmonberry Administration (NOAA), and data collected is used by scientists Although sea otters have returned elsewhere, Cruz, and grows organic fruits, vegetables, Saloon, 380 Marine Drive, Wheeler OR studying the marine debris problem. they remain missing in Oregon. What will it Although we continue to learn more and more about marine take to help them return? debris, there are still many unanswered questions. These The Lower Nehalem Watershed Council This talk will explore the history of sea ot- Speaker Series will feature DR. STEPHEN include unknowns such as which types of debris are most com- ters in Oregon, their ecological and cultural mon in a certain area? Or, how is the problem of marine debris LANCASTER from OSU for a discussion titled Champions for Cetaceans importance, and the prospects for their return “It Takes a Lot of Guts: The Slow Digestion of Guest speaker Era Horton changing over time, and are our efforts to prevent debris and recovery. It will touch on the mission of the effective? NOAA’s Marine Debris Monitoring and Assessment Mountain Ranges by Stream Networks”. In this Volunteering with the American Cetacean Elakha Alliance, an Oregon non-profit organi- Project (MDMAP) helps answer these questions and others talk he’ll discuss how rivers and streams erode Society (ACS) since 2015, Era Horton is a proud zation devoted to sea otter conservation. by collecting baseline data. The data collected through this away mountains, deposit sediment, and move contributor of Gray Whale ID photos to the project can be used to evaluate the impacts of marine debris Monday, April 22, 4pm. Arrive early and ex- across their floodplains. This talk will be of Cascadia Research Collective, and a monitor along our coastlines and can help inform future marine debris plore the museum and enjoy complimen- interest to anyone who recreates on any river, for the ACS Marine Reserve project. He’ll talk mitigation and prevention efforts on a local, regional, and tary coffee. Admission to the Cannon Beach landowners who have property on a river, land about the 25 cetacean species on the Oregon national scale. History Museum is donation based. The managers, and anyone interested in how our Coast, whale watching on the Oregon Coast, FMI: on this effort - marinedebris.noaa.gov event is FREE and open to the public. 1387 watershed has changed and will change over and threats to cetaceans world wide. FMI: on the upcoming survey event contact Ed Joyce S. Spruce St., Cannon Beach. cbhistory. ime. (503) 468-0995, [email protected]. org/503.436.9301 The Cannon Beach History At the Cannon Beach Community Center on RSVPs would be helpful, so Ed can provide some background Center & Museum is open Wed - Mon, from April 11, 7pm at the Pine Grove Community April 17 at 7pm, in conjunction with 12 Days information in advance and will know who to look for on the day. 11am to 4pm. House, 225 Laneda Ave in Manzanita. of Earth.

7 APRIL 19 hipfishmonthly.com LGBTQ news and culture Kimberly Lane for the lower columbia pacific Sexual Assault & the Q Community f THIS MONTH’S Central Coast PFLAG meeting on Wed., April 10 from engages Active 6-7:30 pm at St. Stephen’s Church (9th & SW Hurbert) will feature Dreaming a presentation on the issue of the many ways that sexual assault, techniques to including domestic violence, affects the Q (formerly LGBTQ) Com- munity. Note that PFLAG OCC has adopted the current and simpler assist you in Lower ColumbiaFolk Q Center Q as an umbrella term for those in the minority regarding gender expanding your AstoriaQ Armory - 1636 Exchange Street Astoria identity and sexual orientation. Elizabeth “Lisa” Norton is a member of the Confederated Tribes of Mission: The Lower Columbia Q Center is a safe and awareness Siletz Indians where she has lived and worked for over 20 years. She welcoming resource and peer support service for the has worked and volunteered in a variety of capacities for the Siletz LGBTIQ+ community, friends, family, and allies of the Tribe, including Tribal Court, TANF, Child Welfare, Enrollment, Mental www. Lower Columbia Region. kimberlylane Health Research, and Small Business Development. She has been THE Q CENTER IS OPEN on Friday Nights to Adults from a sexual assault advocate for over five years, including as Director .xyz 5 – 9pm, hosted by volunteers. Enjoy the Library, WiFi of My Sisters’ Place. She received her MSW from Portland State access, snacks. games, and a venue to share information, University, and is completing her Ph.D. in Social Work and Research. Kimberly lane resources and community. Stop by to find out what’s Her research interests include community-based, participatory DreamworKer [email protected] happening with the LCQC and the Q Community of the action research. She serves as Trainer for the Oregon Sexual Assault Lower Columbia Pacific Region. Use the entrance at Taskforce, and presents on Two-Spirit identities as well as Sexual 1636 Exchange St. Come on in out of the rain and check Assault and Domestic Violence. out your Q Center living room and offices. The Circle of All members of the Q Community, their families and friends, are invited to these monthly information and support group meetings. the Labyrinth Support Groups/Ongoing Following the program there’s time to get acquainted and visit with First Sunday of the Month - Queer Edge Sobriety Support Group: First others who share the joys and concerns of Q families. 3PM - 6PM ( Brief introduction at 3pm) Wednesday of the month. 6-7:30 pm

Grace Episcopal Church - LCQC Board Meeting: Third Wednesday of the 1545 Franklin Astoria month. 6-8 pm Lower Columbia Q Center April Social For more info: 503.325.6580 donations welcome April 11, from 6-8:00 PM Lower Columbia Gender Sam’s Seaside Cafe 104 Broadway St. Seaside, OR 97138 Sea Otters in Oregon Alliance/Trans Support A missing Keystone Species A fun filled evening with great food and compa- With Robert Bailey The Lower Columbia Gender Alliance holds peer support group ny! All are welcome! Come meet and greet some meetings on the third Thursday of each month. Meetings are An Earth Day event open to transgender, gender queer, questioning and family of the LCQC’s BOD, other community members members or partners. Meetings will be at 6:30pm - 8pm at the and make new friends! Q center. For Information call Tessa James at 503 545-5311. ASTORIA PRIDE COMMITTEE: Over the Rainbow Radio Show o n KMUN Is looking for team players dedicated to mak- April 22 at 4:00 p.m. 91.9 Every 3rd Wednesday 8:30 - 1030pm Seating is limited. ing another successful year of PRIDE! Meet LCQC Choir RESUMES!!!!!! on January 21st, meeting each Monday at the Astoria Armory starting at At the Cannon Beach History every Monday 7-8:30pm. Contact LCQCAAstoria@ 6:00PM. Center & Museum gmail.com. 503-436-9301/cbhistory.org -LGBTIQ+ Teen Social and Skate Night: Every Friday 1387 South Spruce St. CLATSOP COUNTY DEMOCRATS MEET Clatsop County Democrats Cannon Beach, OR 97110 meet the fourth Monday of each month at 6:00 p.m. in room 221 of Columbia Hall at Clatsop Community College in Astoria. Parking next to Columbia Hall is accessed off of and above Lexington Avenue, between Monthly LGBTQ Events 15th and 16th Streets. For more information about the Clatsop County Democratic Party, please go to www.clatsopdemocrats.org or www.face- in Lincoln County book.com/clatsopdemocrats.

- 1st Wed of ea. month, 7pm is Trans Parents PACIFIC COUNTY DEMOCRATSMonthly Meeting - 2nd Mondays, 6pm, Coffee Hour at the Chalet in Newport. Long Beach County Building, Sandridge Rd. Pacific pacificcountydems@ - 2nd Tues. ea month, 4pm is LGBT+ & Allies gmail.com Happy Hour at Georgie’s in Newport. Astoria Artwalk 5-8pm • November 8 - 2nd Wed. ea month - 6pm to 7:30pm PFLAG CREATE • April 18 Columbia River Estuary Action Team “Gathering” featuring works by Group at St. Stephen’s at 9th and Hurbert in Newport. CREATE is a group of citizens working to protect the unique Columbia River Estuary Gail Wahlstrom and Jill Merrill and the rivers and streams that flow into it. All are welcome! - 4th Sun of ea month, 11am is OUT OR Coast CREATE was started by people who were involved in the successful 12 year Art Cards, Artisan Crafts, Women’s Coffee at Cafe Mundo in Newport. battle against LNG in Clatsop County. Its purpose is to foster citizen involvement in protecting the unique, beautiful and productive Columbia River Estuary. Gallery & Working Studio To connect with Oregon Central Coast Chapter of New members are always welcome. Come and join in at 6pm, 3rd Thursdays at 1133 Commercial St. Astoria, OR 97103 PFLAG, call (541)265-7194, email: [email protected] the Blue Scorcher in Astoria. 503.468.0308 APRIL 19 hipfishmonthly.com 8 By PAMELA Mattson Mcdonald

The Harbor and Clatsop CASA Team up for Sexual Assault Awareness Month Sexual Assault Awareness Month CREATIVE and Child Abuse Prevention Month.

I Ask. the importance of consent in all human relationships OUTLETS

THE HARBOR Clatsop County’s advocacy resource for survivors of domestic WHALE SPIRIT DRUM CIRCLE Trying something new is some of the violence, sexual assault and stalking, plans a wide variety of awareness An Open drum circle meets the FIRST bravest work you’ll ever do. The best way raising events for April 2019, National Sexual Assault Awareness Month. SATURDAY of each month in Seaside from to coax out ideas, songs, words, whatever 7pm - 8pm. Everyone is welcome to gather might in there takes a thoroughly support- EVERY 92 SECONDS, an American is sexually assaulted. These staggering numbers have come and drum together; no drumming experi- ive environment and permission to just try down since the nineties, when activism against sexual and domestic violence became more ence is necessary. The goal is to drum already. widespread, but there is still much more work to be done. Each year during the month of April, indoors at the Bob Chisholm Community THINGS WE’LL DO: Write group poetry. Center in Seaside at 1225 Avenue ‘A’ when events and activities take place to highlight sexual violence as a public health, human rights Make up songs. Do some creative unlock- the weather is crummy and outside when the ing–do some talking about why and where and social justice issue and to reinforce the need for prevention efforts. This year’s theme, I weather is nice. Check www.WhaleSpirit. and how we get stuck. Get tools to dig up ASK, highlights the importance of consent in all human relationships. com to confirm location each month. We that stuff and give you permission to start EVENTS ask that you kick in a $10 donation to cover where you are. Sit still–what happens when renting the venue. Don’t have a drum yet? APRIL 1 CITY COUNCIL MEETING: Mayor Bruce Jones proclaims April as National Sexual we do that is things float to the surface. Extra drums may be available for you to play. Learn to catch that stuff with a net, usually in Assault Awareness Month here in Astoria. Please respect that this is a drug and alcohol the form of a piece of paper. APRIL 2 IS THE NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION. Wearing teal on this day signals your support free event. For more information go to: Sing, like nobody’s listening. Off-key, on- for sexual assault survivors. www.WhaleSpirit.com key, loudly, softly, together, and solo if you APRIL 13 5 – 8 pm, ARTWALK VIGIL - Join the Harbor in the lot next to the American DREAM CIRCLES ECSTATIC DANCE feel ready–non-religious, non-performance, What wants to move through you? Resur- non-take-yourself-too-seriously environment. Legion on Duane Street for an ongoing slide show of statistics and art by and for survivors of recting Astoria Arts and Movement Center Because singing is the most fun and if you sexual assault. Make your own art and post it on our board, light an (LED) candle and take a ecstatic dances on Good Friday. A once a can talk, you can sing. moment to honor survivors of sexual assault and commit to making Clatsop County and the month event with dream specific themes May 4, Noon to 4pm at the Peninsula world a safer place. The Harbor is soliciting art for the slide show; email images to felicity@ and opening circle. Arts Center in Long Beach. The cost of Friday, April 19, 7pm – 8:30pm. $10. 342 harbornw.org ; the deadline is 5:00 pm Friday, April 12. the workshop is $65 and a light lunch is 10th St. 2nd Flr, Astoria. included. Some scholarships are available APRIL 14 1 – 3 pm, SAFER BARS TRAINING – The Harbor through the Acoustic Music Foundation. is partnering with NOTOKPDX to present Safer Bars, a by- A singing, songwriting, group shenanigans To register for the workshop, or for more stander intervention workshop that focuses on the role alcohol workshop for everyone information, please contact Sue Svendsen WITH BETH WOOD AND ARA (LEE) consumption can take in instances of sexual violence, with an at [email protected] or call (360) JAMES 771-5708. emphasis on how to identify predatory behavior and how to Singing can be intimidating. Writing can safely intervene. The program was developed by bartenders, be intimidating. Jams can be intimidating. DANCE NIGHT AT KALA Drop-in and dance at KALA, Saturday, April social workers and behavioral health clinicians in the Portland And open mics? Palms can get sweaty just thinking about it. Maybe you were born 13 after 2nd Saturday Art Walk. You’ve area and is free and open to the public. Labor Temple, 934 with nerves of steel but for most of us, even been soaking in art, now let it fly through Duane Street. seasoned performers, putting your creative your soul. Old and new/disco, R&B and soul. APRIL 18 5:30 – 8:30 pm, LET’S TALK ABOUT SEX – A fun, self out there feels like standing in front of Wood floors, great sound system and laser quirky, informative panel discussion with local sexperts, local a room naked and you get all shaky and lights assist in your badass dance grooves. second guess yourself and feel like everyone 9pm to midnight. $5 Cover. 21+please. 1017 drag celebrity Ginger Vitus as MC, anonymous questions and a is better than you and wonder why are you Marine Drive in Astoria. Full Bar. raffle! Tickets are $10 and support The Harbor, Clatsop County’s doing this again? only community based nonprofit devoted to providing advoca- cy, prevention and support while promoting self-determination and hope for survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault and stalking. Writer In Residence Opportunity Labor Temple, 934 Duane Street. Advance tickets available at The Harbor Advocacy Cen- The Writer’s Guild Astoria, in conjunction with your residency; (2) a one-page description of your Astoria Visual Arts(AVA), announces a new Writer- writing project, its scope, and current state; (3) a ter, 801 Commercial Street or by calling (503) 325-3426 in-Residence program, beginning July 2019. short (1-5 page) writing sample, and (4) a resume, including any writing publications if applicable. Details: The chosen writer will have the oppor- Send to [email protected]. See www. tunity to spend one week in meaningful pursuit ALL APRIL – keep an eye out for painted rocks thewritersguild.com for more information. of creative work in a lovely cottage located on hidden around Clatsop County with a special Washington’s magnificent Willapa Bay. Hosted ABOUT THE HOSTS. Buzz Bissinger teaches message of consent and love! Take a photo and by Buzz Bissinger and Lisa Smith at their five-acre advanced narrative non-fiction at the University of upload it to Instagram and/or Facebook with the waterfront property, this residency will provide Pennsylvania and is the author of various books, writing time and space in an idyllic setting to including Friday Night Lights, Three Nights in hashtag #consentrocks, tag @theharborastoria make substantial progress on a significant writing Augustand A Prayer for the City. Lisa Smith has and be automatically entered in a drawing to win project. Writers of novels, short stories, literary spent much of her career in public-interest com- nonfiction, plays, memoir, poetry and screenplays munications, including writing and producing for a surprise gift basket! Columbia River Estuary Action Team will be considered. public television and public radio. One or both of the hosts will be on hand, for at least a portion July 14-21, 2019: Lodging and a food stipend are of the residency, for socializing in the evenings. provided. Writer must arrange for transportation The Writer’s Guild will arrange opportunities for to and from the residency. additional evening social interactions with writers *** If you or anyone you know is in an unsafe HOW TO APPLY. Applications are due May 15, and others throughout the week. A cocktail hour situation due to domestic or sexual violence, The 2019. Applications consist of (1) a cover letter and reading of a sample of the resident’s work will Harbor’s 24/7 crisis line number is (503) 325-5735; describing your experience and interests as a be open to the public and scheduled at the AVA en espan ̃ol, 1-855-398-0584 ** writer, your connection with the Pacific North- Gallery the close of the residency. west, and what you hope to accomplish during

9 APRIL 19 hipfishmonthly.com INCO NEWS You Can Help Stop Gun Violence INDIVISIBLE NORTH COAST OREGON (INCO) has trip without parental permission be allowed to own Indivisible written to Senator Betsy Johnson and Representative guns without parental consent? Should children be Tiffiny Mitchell in support of gun violence prevention allowed unrestricted access to firearms? Should an in- North Coast Oregon measures under consideration this legislative session. dividual be able to buy a lethal weapon without pass- We urge you to do the same. ing a background check? Should a person deemed Enjoy the serenity of our In Oregon, we have many gun owners who under- a danger to herself or others, as demonstrated by a gardens, wooded paths, sauna, yurt and bhuddas . . . stand the need to secure their firearms. But Oregon protective court order, be allowed to possess firearms? . . . in Nahcotta, Washington statistics on the number of stolen guns - over 17,000 Should a person convicted of domestic assault be on Sandridge Road, in a recent three-year period - prove that too many are allowed to keep guns? Should hospitals withhold from just south of Bay Avenue INCO EVENTS APRIL 2019 overlooking willapa bay not secured. SB 275 would require owners or possess- law enforcement the fact that their patients have suf- ors of firearms to secure their weapons with trigger or fered gun injuries? “women have been central to the environ- cable locks, or in locked containers, except in speci- Common sense tells us that the answers to these mental movement and our understanding of Lobby Day: Health Care for ecology since its earliest stirrings and fragile fied circumstances. questions is no. That’s why Governor Kate Brown beginnings in the 19th century” All Oregon Unsecured guns pose a serious risk to our chil- introduced HB 2551. We applaud her efforts to enact Excerpted from “Rachel Carson and Her Sisters” by Robert K. Musil Monday, April 1 dren. In the US, 4.6 million children and teens have measures to prevent gun violence in Oregon. Too State Capitol, Salem access to unlocked firearms in their homes, leading many elected officials at the federal level are beholden to suicides, accidental deaths, and mass shootings. to the National Rifle Association, which in recent INCO Advocacy Team Last month, a Seaside student brought a gun from decades has taken the extreme position of advocating home to threaten a classmate at school. We hate to for virtually unrestricted access to firearms. Now it’s Wednesday, April 3, 6:30 pm think of what could have happened had a teacher not up to state legislators to act in the public interest by Seaside Library Board Room intervened. enacting HB 2551. We value our Constitutional rights, including the We know the gun lobby is loud, well-funded, and INCO Warrenton Community Group Second Amendment. But with these rights come organized. But in our nation and in our state, we’ve Saturday, April 6, 11:30 am responsibilities. 58% of gun owners agree: As a mat- suffered far too many tragedies due to gun violence. Dooger’s, Warrenton ter of public safety, we need legislation to ensure that We need your help to champion HB 2551, HB 2505, firearms are locked and secured when not in use. SB and SB 275. Contact Senator Johnson and Represen- 275 and its companion measure, HB 2505, will save tative Mitchell today: INCO Astoria Community Group lives without unduly restricting the right to bear arms. [email protected] Saturday, April 6, 10 am Gun safety is one route to curbing the epidemic of Phone: (503) 986-1716 WineKraft, Astoria gun violence in America and in Oregon. But we have other concerns. Should minors who can’t go on a field [email protected] (503) 986-1432‬ www.mobydickhotel.com INCO Seaside-Gearhart Community 360-665-4543 or 1-800-673-6145 Group Tuesday, April 9, 6:30 – 8 pm Hundreds of library accounts restored in $25 in fines might Email [email protected] Driftwood Public Library fine amnesty mean that they for location have to choose Lincoln City, OR, March 25, 2019 – Last fall, Driftwood between groceries Public Library and the Lincoln City City Council agreed Congresswoman Bonamici Town Hall or using the library. to eliminate daily overdue fines on library materials, en- We don’t want Tuesday, April 16, 6 pm suring patrons would no longer be assessed five cents folks to have to Clatstop Community College, per day per item returned late. On February 11th, the make that choice.” Columbia Hall 21, Astoria City Council took things one step further, and moved to Patrons will still forgive outstanding overdue fines on patron accounts. be expected to re- The library has completed an audit of accounts INCO Vote the Future Team turn their items to blocked due to overdue fines of $25 or more, and has the library on time. Wednesday, April 17, 6:30 – 8 pm restored 439 accounts to good standing. This means If an item is kept Seaside Library Board Room that more than four hundred people – including 131 for six weeks past children -- will once again be able to use the library. the due date, the In conducting the audit, library staff learned that the INCO Book Club patron will receive most common items that were returned overdue were a bill for the cost of the item. This bill will be automati- Wednesday, April 17, 6:30 pm children’s items. cally removed from the account if the item is returned Email [email protected] In January, the American Library Association’s gov- to the library in good condition. for location erning council released a resolution identifying mon- All residents of Lincoln County are eligible to receive etary library fines as an economic barrier to library use, a library card at Driftwood Public Library. All that is and encouraging libraries to re-assess the collection of required is photo ID showing your Lincoln County ad- INCO Cannon Beach at fines. However, the issue has been a topic of interest dress. If you’re new to the area and haven’t changed 12 Days of Earth for Library Director Kirsten Brodbeck-Kenney for much your ID over yet, bring your current photo ID along with Saturday, April 20, 11 am – 1 pm longer. “We held a major fine amnesty back in 2016, something that shows your name and your physical Lin- offering to forgive overdue fines for anyone who came US Bank parking lot, Cannon Beach coln County address (a utility bill or piece of first-class to the library,” she says, “and what we found is that mail are the most common documents we can accept). for many people, even the fear of having a library fine Visiting? No proof of address? No problem. DPL offers Lobby Day: Small Donor Elections was enough to keep them away. We also learned that a Provisional Card to those who are in the area tempo- Thursday, April 25 research doesn’t support the idea that fines encourage rarily or who cannot provide proof of address. This card State Capitol, Salem people to bring their items back on time.” For patrons allows for two check-outs at a time as well as access to such as children, teens, and people with disabilities the library’s electronic materials. It is good for 90 days who rely on others for transportation to the library, the and can be renewed. Library staff encourage anyone risk of running up large fines is greater, and these same who is not sure if they qualify for a card to call or stop patrons often lack the monetary resources to return by the library! their account to good standing. “For someone on a FMI: Kirsten Brodbeck-Kenney at 541-996-1251, or fixed income,” says Brodbeck-Kenney, “accumulating via email at [email protected].

APRIL 19 hipfishmonthly.com 10 open one year, announces new services to help people reset By Roger Dorband TOWARD A NEW VISION FOR OREGON FORESTS

The Forest Vision Project to forest management and climate change

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Working on the wake-up call

By Kaisa Schlarb he and Washingtonree are the last major sequester of carbon in theeo She realizedp no onele has been talking back to the timber in- HE DRIVING FORCE behind the “For- T Tcountry.” P dustry, whom she realized dominates the narrative about forests. est Visions” Exhibition, an art exhibit on T Bernie Sanders, of course, secured neither party nomination Identifying a prior sense of personal ignorance, she began ques- display at Clatsop Community College’s Royal nor the presidency, and 2016 saw the election of Donald Trump. tioning why there wasn’t a stronger voice on behalf of the trees. Nebeker Gallery through May 9 is the trio of As well, it was the warmest year on record, globally. She wondered if people were accessing Dorband’s work and CCC librarian Dan McClure, multi-media artist Earlier in 2016, many North Coast residents celebrated suc- whether it was being read or discussed in schools. If it wasn’t, she felt a sense of urgency to get the information across. and choreographer Susan Banyas, and writer cessfully keeping a liquified natural gas terminal from being built across the Skipanon Peninsula. Oregon Liquid Natural Dorband and Banyas eventually partnered up, and the Forest and photographer Roger Dorband. The three Gas withdrew its plans and walked away from the project after Initiative Group morphed into the Forest Vision Project. Their have worked together over the last year to spear- being met with 12 years of organized, committed community vision has been to engage the community around forest issues, and to ignite change through synergy rather than the top-down, resistance, and its team mate Columbia River Keeper. head the “Forest Vision’s Project,” and have billed hierarchical approach that dominates the social and political As a part of that resistance, the Columbia River Estuary Action landscape. this exhibit as their culminating event. Team (CREATE) was formed. Finding new direction after their However, the show is really more of a milestone in an on- “We’re shining the light of awareness on the west coast,” victory, they created a sub-committee called the “Forest Initia- going endeavor to engage the community in a bigger story explains Banyas. “All of the world needs to take total respon- tive Group,” for which Dorband became a co-leader. about our relationship to the forest and climate change. sibility for climate change right now. When you have a corpo- In May of 2016, Roger Dorband wrote an open letter in He also continued to go deeper writing about the issues he rate-dominated state like we do, you have to have a different HIPFiSHmonthly, to Democratic Presidential Candidate hope- implored Sanders to address: logging the Bear Creek Water- counterforce than trying to out-spend and out-gun. Well what is ful Bernie Sanders. In the letter, published in anticipation of shed, clear cuts, aerial-spraying and the state of our forests. A our counterforce? We the people, we the educators, we the art- his campaign visit to Oregon, Dorband implored Sanders to series of essays published in HIPFiSHmonthly across the next ists, we the storytellers, we have to push from below. I’m in the address clear-cuts and the power of the timber industry to pol- two years were titled, “Bear Creek Watershed: Of Water & For- game to learn and push and be with my cohorts here.” lute and exacerbate climate change with little accountability. ests” Part I-III and “Toward A New Vision For Oregon Forests” The first push was to bring together an interdisciplinary group “No one in Salem is even talking about the effects of clear-cut Parts I-IV, among other related writing. of people involved in forests to address the question: how do logging on climate change,” he states. “The forests of Oregon Susan Banyas read Dorband’s articles and it opened her eyes. we educate people for the future?

11 APRIL 19 hipfishmonthly.com cont. p12 Camp Sweeps, Circuit Courts & City Codes Where do the Homeless live? artTOWARDnote A NEW VISION FOR OREGON FORESTS

FOREST VISION PROJECT FOREST VISIONS a high-profile contemporary art exhibit, will be on display from April 1 through May 9 at Clatsop Community College’s Royal In April 2018, Dorband and Banyas facilitated their first McClure became the grant writer and a coordinator of Nebeker Art Gallery located at 1799 Lexington Avenue, Astoria, OR. A roundtable discussion at Clatsop Community College, the “Forest Visions Exhibition.” community reception will be held on Thursday, April 11 at 6:00 p.m. followed by a second discussion November of 2018. They He sees the continuity in each phase of the project, now Curator Bonnie Laing-Malcolmson has assembled a stellar cast of sought to bring students, educators, activists, artists, entering into its most high-profile phase with the art ex- Northwest artists for the exhibit, including Astoria photographer Robert designers, and professionals in the field of forestry, parks hibition. “All the events we’ve coordinated come back to Adams, as well as painters Kim Osgood, Laura Ross-Paul, Michael Brophy, management, to co-imagine a “living lab” where science, exploring how education takes place and how we can raise Rita Robillard, and sculptor Lee Imonen. art, work-force training and eco-design intersect. education about the forest and other ecological issues.” They took up questions such as, what would an eco- The current Forest Visions Exhibition runs through May training education look like? What would a living labora- 9th. Funding comes through donations from Clatsop tory look like? County Cultural Coalition, Oregon Cultural Trust, Clatsop ROBERT ADAMS Banyas recalls during the first round table, when at- Community College Foundation, The Harold & Arlene From our living room window tendees were asked to describe their relationship to a tree, Schnitzer CARE Foundation, and The Ford Family Founda- we see not only the the responses and storytelling were both emotional and tion. campsites of Lewis and Clark but ridge after ridge of powerful. “These are the roots of our desire, to have a The show’s curator is Bonnie Lain-Malcomson, for- clearcuts. It is, as a book relationship to nature. It is part of who we are, not some- mer curator at the Arlene and Harold Schnitzer Curator describing American Forest thing we conquer. Trees are not a commodity.” of Northwest Art at the Portland Art Museum. In her Practices is titled, “strangely like While he felt they were motivating, Dorband wondered statement, she explains how the show’s 6 artists are all a war,” a war upon ourselves. if he was preaching to the choir in his articles and in the interpreting the forest from their perspective, ranging from round table discussions. It occurred to him that the early political to celebratory. stages of the project may have brought already like- Framing the show, she juxtaposes the “old” and “mod- minded individuals to the conversation, and he noticed the ern forest.” The old forest is a canopy of fir, hemlock, red absence of a particular demographic: young people. cedar, and a “lush carpet” undergrowth of sword fern and Hence, the project’s call to develop an ecology program salal. The modern forest is a “patchwork” of clear cuts, at the college. “littered with stumps and lumped with burn piles.” Kirstin next to an old growth stump Coos County, Oregon 2001 The round table discussions generated “eco-learning The exhibition will have “a lot of wow factor” says curriculum concepts,” and was inspiring enough for the McClure. “The visual art show has the potential to raise group to further develop their philosophy and share it a lot of awareness. We hope this energizes a whole new KIM OSGOOD with Chris Breitmeyer, President of Clatsop Community generation of people who are interested in the forest and I desire for my paintings of trees to College. are able to engage with this crisis.” be viewed as icons, doorways to the While the college has currently taken no specific view The artists are painters Michael Brophy, Lee Imonen, sacred. For me, painting is an act or point of advocacy around climate change or the timber Kim Osgood, Laura Ross-Paul, and Rita Robillard and pho- of prayer. An icon is a visual form of industry, they have been open to exploring these issues, tographer Robert Adams. prayer that seeks to inform about partnering with the Forest Visions Project and creating Amid the show’s run, Oregon Poet Laureate Kim Staf- the spiritual world. I invite the viewer spaces for their events to occur. ford will also be speaking April 22nd @ 6 pm at CCC in the to connect to the healing power of The next iteration of community engagement for FVP Royal Nebeker Gallery. The event will include a conversa- nature. was the “Ecology Speaker Series,” a four-part series, also tion between Stafford and photographer and writer Robert Belonging Here, 2019 hosted by CCC. Broadening their community reach, FVP Adams entitled, Talk Poetry, Talk Forest. Acylic on Panel, 30” x 40” brought in professional speakers to expand “the conversa- Through this visual experience, the hope is for the tion on forest management, climate change, watersheds, imagination to take over where the logical mind lacks com- eco-building, and the social issues related to the econom- prehension for meeting the challenges of our future. MICHAEL BROPHY ics and stewardship of the great forests of our region,” a For those who are newly mobilized by the power of the My work has always been statement explains. show, the Forest Visions Project has recommendations for about the place I live, and the CREATE sponsored two of Ecology Speaker Series. direct action. interconnectedness of human, natural, and cultural histories. I The college also hosted a screening of the film “Intel- One is to get involved with CREATE, and/or Indivis- aim to contend with the land- ligent Trees,” a documentary by scientist Suzanne Simard ible North Coast of Oregon (INCO), another local activist scape as a constructed place, and German forester and author Peter Wohlleben, which group formed in response to the election of Donald and define the often strange investigates and observes the communication between Trump. encounter of natural beauty trees over decades. As the FVP put it, the film spoke to Another is for community members to reach out to CCC and human intervention. “the soul intelligence we share with the forests.” leadership regarding the creation of an ecology program. The work eventually led to a welcome expansion of proj- Also, show up and put pressure on the city council and ect leadership. Dan McClure joined Forest Visions Project, county commissioners for a local Green New Deal. dubbed by Dorband, “the warrior from the college.” From Banyas’ perspective, the Astoria city council is a Rim No. 2, 2016 great place to continue with the round table discussion Oil on Canvas, 12 x 13 format started by the project. “To look at redesigning and retooling our city-- that can happen,” she says. “What are we waiting for? We are at a LEE IMONEN time when we can flip the narrative more easily because Each sculpture in the Source Series people are suffering. Every one is seeing the jig is up.” is made from a single salvaged or A final, more personal call to action: affirm one another. windfall tree. One half of each log “Affirm one another’s creative voice and affirm your remains intact in its natural form, while own relationship and feelings toward these great beings the other half has been cut, sawn, [trees].” constructed and reconfigured into an “For 12 years people fought off LNG and they got that object that would typically be made from that wood. The constructed half billion dollar monster off Astoria’s back.” This history is evi- has not been added to the natural dence to Banyas that a groundswell of change is possible. half but emerges from it. “Climate change is happening and forests are part of our way we deal with this. Ours are being managed by giant corporations, but what if we take that management back?” The Source Series Eight Studs Left Attached, 2008 Trees Trio, Dorband, McClure and Banyas 2’ x 2’ x 3’

APRIL 19 hipfishmonthly.com 12 TOWARD A NEW VISION FOR OREGON FORESTS

YOUR Advertising in HIPFiSH YOUR Advertising Once a month . . . SPIRE DUO Performs all month long Classical Art Song Over 300 locations on the Coast SPIRE DUO Performs Classical Art Song At The CCC Perform- in HIPFiSH 503.338.4878 ing Arts Center Astoria Friday, April 12, 7:30pm USING the seasons of the year as a metaphor, Spire Duo’s newest musical collaboration Her Light Escape takes the listen- ers on a narrative journey that explores the way we process change, and transformation over the course of a year. Audi- Once a month . . . ence members will hear a world premiere of original work by poet Jorah Lafleur, as well as 16 gorgeous songs for soprano and piano curated and performed by soprano Emma Rose Lynn and pianist Andrew Pham of Spire Duo. all month long Her Light Escape can be heard in 6 cities across the northwest from April 12th - May 4th. Spire Duo will perform in Astoria at the CCC Performing Arts Center (588 16th St.) on Friday, April 12 at 7:30pm. The duo are also offering a Masterclass on piano and voice, ya dig? Poetry in Motion: Exploring form and drama in Art Song, Sat- urday, April 13, 10:00 AM at the PAC. For more information capture the joy, dejection, wonder, and renewal of a year in a life please see www.spireduo.com/astoria-masterclass. well-lived through the music of composers such as Benjamin Brit- The program begins with the changing colors and falling leaves ten, André Previn, Dominick Argento, and more. Over 300 locations of autumn, moves through the winter, rejoices in the new life of spring, and finally arrives in the welcome quietude of a warm Tickets at the door are $25, however concert goers can save summer, reflecting on both sentimental moments of the past as 25% by purchasing tickets in advance. To learn more about well as life’s present beauty. The words of master poets such as Spire Duo or to purchase tickets, please visit www.spireduo. on the Coast Emily Dickinson, William Shakespeare, and Robert Louis Stevenson com. DAVID SHIFRIN with asdfghjkl;ASDFGHJKL;'CARY LEWIS 503.338.4878l April 26 at the LibertyQWERTYUIOP Theater Belonging Here, 2019 ONE OF ONLY TWO An artist member of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Acylic on Panel, 30” x 40” wind players to have Center since 1989, David Shifrin served as its artistic director from been awarded the 1992 to 2004. He has toured extensively throughout the US with Avery Fisher Prize CMSLC and appeared in several national television broadcasts on since the award’s Live From Lincoln Center. He has also been the artistic director of inception in 1974, Chamber Music Northwest in Portland, Oregon since 1981. Mr. Shifrin is in con- He’s received three Grammy nominations - for a collaborative stant demand as an recording with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center of the ASOC Family Friendly ORIGINAL MUSICAL MELODRAMA! orchestral soloist, re- collected chamber music of Claude Debussy (Delos), the Copland citalist and chamber Clarinet Concerto (Angel/EMI) and Ravel’s Introduction and Alle- The REAl Lewis & Clark Story music collaborator. gro with Nancy Allen, Ransom Wilson, and the Tokyo String Quar- David Shifrin tet (Angel/EMI). His latest recording, Shifrin Plays Schifrin (Aleph has appeared with Records), is a collection of clarinet works by composer/conductor the Philadelphia Lalo Schifrin. Both the recording of the Copland Clarinet Concerto and Minnesota and a 2008 recording of Leonard Bernstein’s Clarinet Sonata with Orchestras and the pianist Anne-Marie McDermott have been released on iTunes via Dallas, Seattle, Angel/EMI and Deutsche Grammophon. Houston, Milwaukee, Pianist Cary Lewis, Director of Chamber Music at the Astoria Detroit and Denver Music Festival, is in frequent demand as a collaborative pianist symphonies among for soloists and chamber music groups. He joined William Preucil (concertmaster of the Cleveland Orchestra) and his wife, cellist many others in the Dorothy Lewis, to form the Lanier Trio, whose recording of the US, and internation- complete Dvorak Trios was honored by TIME Magazine as one of ally with orchestras in Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Japan, Korea the Ten Best Recordings in 1993. With degrees from the University and Taiwan. In addition, he has served as principal clarinetist with of North Texas as well as a doctorate and Performer’s Certificate the Cleveland Orchestra, American Symphony Orchestra (under from the Eastman School of Music, he was a Fulbright scholar for Stokowski), the Honolulu and Dallas symphonies and the Los Or . . . two years in Vienna. His teachers included Eugene List, Brooks Angeles Chamber Orchestra and New York Chamber Symphony. Smith, and Dieter Weber. How the Finns Discovered Astoria! Mr. Shifrin has also received critical acclaim as a recitalist, appear- Tickets $20-$40 reserved seating. libertyastoria.showare.com ing at such venues as Alice Tully Hall, Weill Recital Hall and Zankel Fri & Sat @ 7pm Now Thru Hall at Carnegie Hall and the 92nd Street Y in New York City as Sun. Mat. April 7 &14 @ 2pm well as the the Library of Congress in Washington D.C. A sought Clarinet Day April 27 April 20! Clarinetists of all ages and ability are welcome to join in on after a chamber musician, he collaborates frequently with such sponsored by Tickets: $20 to 15, distinguished ensembles and artists as the Guarneri, Tokyo, and the fun from 10am-12pm on the Liberty stage. Attendance Corps The Source Series Emerson String Quartets, Wynton Marsalis, and pianists Emanuel is free, please rsvp to [email protected] or of Discovery Kids 12 & under $10 Eight Studs Left Attached, 2008 503-325-5922 x33. Bring your clarinets and play! 2’ x 2’ x 3’ Ax and André Watts. Construction, LLC Available Online NOW asocplay.com ASOC PLAYHOUSE 129 W. BOND ST. UNIONTOWN, ASTORIA 13 APRIL 19 hipfishmonthly.com ART ON 3 Astoria Artists Offer a Tribute to Ursula K. LeGuin RIVERSEA GALLERY presents A Tribute to GARDEN STUDIES Ursula K. LeGuin, an influential American novelist and writer known for her speculative Deb Stoner at IMOGEN fiction who made her home in Portland and IMOGEN GALLERY hosts a solo exhibition for dimen- Cannon Beach. The exhibition features works Portland artist Deb Stoner. Garden Studies opens sion that by three Astoria artists, Christine Trexel, Sally April 13th for Astoria’s Second Saturday Artwalk leaps from Lackaff and Roger Dorband, who have been with a reception for Stoner, from 5 – 8 pm. Stoner, the flat profoundly affected by her writings. The show an accomplished photographer brings a new surface of opens April 13 with a reception during Astoria’s series of archival pigment prints, focusing on rag paper Second Saturday Artwalk from 5:00 to 8:00 with her love of gardening and the Dutch masters of that each musician Paul Chasman. Work will remain on still life painting. The exhibition will be on view image is view through May 7, 2019. through June 4th. Stoner from Portland, OR, com- printed to. Christine Trexel has constructed sculptures bines her skills as photographer, researcher, and Her in paper and mixed media combining vari- gardener along with a meticulous sense of detail photo- ous book arts techniques, most inspired by to create dramatic still life imagery. Reminiscent of graphic LeGuin’s science fiction tales. She has chosen “Candidate Z” oil on panel, Matthew Dennison the still life painting of the 16th and 17th centuries process from the LeGuin oeuvre the books that person- she weaves complex mazes of texture and color is not the ally resonated with her. The first novel Trexel within each composition. Her fine art prints are atypical read by LeGuin, The Left Hand of Darkness, the culmination of a passion for growing plants, point and C Trexel Shed collecting insects, and choreographing the still life shoot for- “Rose, Peonies and Clematis” archival pig- image. mat with ment print on cotton rag paper 72” x 52” Garden Studies, Stoner’s current series showcas- a hand es her love of botanicals with large format prints held camera and lens doing the work, instead she that allow the viewer to immerse themselves in creates each high resolution image on her scanner, details not normally seen without careful scrutiny. literally building her compositions on the scanner With some images printed as large as 60” x 42”, bed to capture as much detail as possible. insects larger than life reveal themselves within her Deb Stoner holds an MFA in Applied Design compositions, looking at home in their artist made from SDSU, a BS in Geology from UC Davis, and a world. decades long teaching career at Oregon College Incredible detail in a vast array of plant varieties of Art and Craft. Recently she presented lectures included to each print, Stoner’s work is easily a on photography to the Yuma Symposium, the horticulturist’s dream come true. She carefully culti- Portland Art Museum, and the SPE NW Regional R Dorband The House Disappeared C Trexel Shed vates each detail of her compositions with the deli- Conference. J Mayer Cauldron- monotype cate nuance of curl on a petal, or the subtle shift remains her favorite and has inspired two of the Imogen Gallery is located at 240 11th Street, Open of hue within a blossoming rose. The juxtaposition works in this show. ages from Steens Mountain Country, a book by Mon-Sat, 11- 5, 11- 4 each Sunday, closed Wed. of the bright and shiny surface of an eggplant next Sally Lackaff, an illustrator and writer, pres- Ursula K. Leguin and Roger Dorband published 503.468.0620 imogengallery.com ents mixed media works inspired by LeGuin’s in 2010. to the matte, almost velvety skin of a purple string The Earthsea Cycle, a series of fantasy novels bean gives the allure of indescribable texture and IN ITS ALCOVE SPACE RiverSea Gallery and short stories. This artist, whose work nearly introduces Portland artist Jason Mayer. In this always focuses on the natural world, has found solo show, Mayer presents a new series of rich inspiration in the in the alternate world ASTORIA VISUAL ARTS (AVA) is proud to monotypes which range from non-objective of islands in an unchartered sea created by showcase local student artists in For Love of work to slightly abstracted figures, scenes and LeGuin. Illusion, the third annual Clatsop County High landscapes. Photographer Roger Dorband, who has School Art Show at the AVA Gallery, 1010 Mayer was mentored by artist William Park collaborated on two books of poems and Duane Street, during Astoria’s 2nd Saturday and was his studio assistant for many years. He photographic essays with LeGuin, draws on Artwalk on April 13 from 5-8pm. has shown throughout Portland and southwest their thirty years of friendship and mutual love The exhibition brings together students from Washington, and has twice been accepted into of the evocative eastern Oregon landscape for Astoria, Knappa and Warrenton High Schools the annual Au Naturel exhibition at the CCC the images in this show. For years he met with as well as students from the Gray Alternative Royal Nebeker Art Gallery. This is his first solo the author and her family for a summer retreat School and homeschool students. Each student exhibition on the Oregon coast. in the Steens Mountain wilderness. He shows created artwork on a 12”x12” panel, with 115 a series of double exposed images, creating RiverSea Gallery is located at 1160 Commer- pieces total. A wide variety of media is rep- illusory landscapes influenced by LeGuin’s mind cial in Astoria Open Mon - Saturday, 11:00 to resented. All artwork will be available for sale world of fantasy and metaphor. 5:30 and Sun 11:00 to 4:00. 503-325-1270, for $60 each, with students receiving $50 and During this exhibition, the gallery will have riverseagallery.com. AVA’s Miss Bea Program for Young Artists receiving $10 for each sale. Cash and other awards will be copies available of Out Here: Poems and Im- presented to artists during opening night at 7:00 pm. DJ and local high school student, Josiah Hirsch, will be providing tunes during the reception. The show will also be available to view during AVA’s regular hours Fridays and Saturdays, April 13 through May 4 from 12 to 5 pm. Art Call: THE ART TRIANGLE Art About Aging Community Show: Mysteries, Challenges TAKE your date and friends To Participate In July Open Studios Tour & Opportunities about the Process for a night out at the Art- ists’ Reception, Friday, Register by May 15 WHAT MOVES YOU about the concept and facts of aging? How does it feel April 12, 5 – 7 PM. The watching people you love grow older? Taking care of people you love? Feeling it Art Triangle–620 NE Hwy ASTORIA VISUAL ARTS INVITES local artists to This event draws hundreds of visitors to Astoria in yourself? Fearing it? Enjoying it? Find the beauty in it… And share the result(s) 101, Lincoln City, includes participate in the 2019 Astoria Open Studios Tour, and benefits artists and our region in a multitude with your community during the month of May. ASA’s Beachstone Gallery, Saturday and Sunday, July 27 and 28. Studios of ways. Artists retain 100% of sales made from Art must be delivered Wednesday May 1 from noon-3 pm at North County the Pacific Artists’ Co-Op Recreation District Gallery in Nehalem (unless other arrangements have been must be open to the public both days from 11am their studios. The deadline to register is May 15. and Chessman Gallery at to 5pm and be located in Greater Astoria. Artists AVA will publish a full-color Tour Guide featuring made) and picked up May 30. the Lincoln City Cultural working in all media are welcome. Registration all participating artists and will widely publicize A limit of 3 pieces per artist in any medium, including 3 dimensional. Art does Center. Beachstone Gallery not have to be framed but should be ready to hang. welcomes JoAnn Ballantyne, forms are available online at www.astoriavisual- the event. Work can be for sale or not as you choose. If sold artist gets 75%, Raven Project fabric artist, sharing demos. arts.org. Hardcopy forms are also available via Visit astoriavisualarts.org or contact Annie at 15%, NCRD 10%. Your evening includes wine, email or at the AVA Gallery, open Fridays and [email protected] or 503-791-0575 Sponsored by the Raven Project – A group leading conversations and teaching music, snacks and parking, Saturdays from 12 to 5pm. The cost to participate for more information. sessions in our North Coast community around the issues we face as elders. at no charge. is $30 per artist or $15 for AVA members.

APRIL 19 hipfishmonthly.com 14 ART ON Stumptown April Calendar Swing Stumptown Swing returns to Manzanita to perform a set of hot, cool and sultry classics, fea- Monday 8 Friday 12 turing swinging groove and gorgeous acoustic instruments played with intelligence and passion MUSIC MUSIC by four masters of their craft. Buzz Holland. No cover, 7pm at the Adrift Hotel in Long Buzz Rogowski. 6pm at the Bridgewater Bistro in Astoria. Beach. Maggie & The Katz. 6:30pm at Sweet Basil’s Café in Stumptown Swing takes audiences back to LECTURE Cannon Beach. 1920’s Paris, when gypsies with guitars, violins Speaking Truth to Power. Wall Street Forests, the The Hackles. No cover, 7pm at the Gearhart Hotel. and upright basses made the leap from French Climate Crisis, and the Green New Deal. With Chuck musette to American “hot jazz” and kept Pari- Spire Duo. Classical art songs. $25, 7:30pm at the Willer. 6pm at the NCRD in Nehalem. PAC in Astoria. sians dancing to this evocative new sound. Redray Frazier. No cover, 9pm at the Adrift Hotel in Tim Connell (mandolin) and Mike Burdette (guitar) of Rio Con Brio formed the group after nearly a decade of Tuesday 9 Long Beach. playing swing gigs with Portland’s best acoustic musicians. They snapped up the hottest upright bass player in MUSIC Midas Digs. $5 cover, 9:30pm at the Labor Temple town, Keith Brush (Stolen Sweets, Pete Krebs Trio, Blue Cranes) and are proud to feature their long-time friend in Astoria. Buzz Holland. No cover, 7pm at the Adrift Hotel in Long and collaborator, the absolutely pyrotechnic violinist, Ben Blechman. Beach. ART Spring Art Show. Works by Peninsula Arts Associa- Friday May 3, 7pm. At The Hoffman Center, 594 Laneda, Manzanita. $20 admission. Brown Paper Tickets or tion artists available for sale. 10am, - 4pm at the $20 cash at the door - all ages. Wednesday 10 Long Beach Train Station. MUSIC HAPPENING Buzz Rogowski. 6pm at the Bridgewater Bistro in Annual Young Choreographer’s Concert. With the Pete Seeger Astoria. Little Ballet Theater. $10, 6:30 pm at the Liberty Theater in Astoria. 100th Birthday Celebration Live Music. No cover, 7pm at the Adrift Hotel in Long Beach. THEATER Over 30 musicians gather On Saturday May 4th Spring Musical. An Adaptation of HMS Pinafore. at 7pm for the Pete Seeger 100th Birthday Tribute HAPPENING Comic musical melodrama. $15, 7pm at Peninsula Concert and Sing Along, at the CCC Performing Night of All Knowledge Trivia Tournament. A free and Players in Ilwaco. Arts Center at 16th and Franklin in Astoria – A PAC fun team trivia event. 6pm at the Seaside Library. The Real Lewis and Clark Story. $10, 7pm at the Benefit – $15.00 After last year’s successful 99th ASOC Playhouse in Astoria. LECTURE Birthday celebration, an all new roster of material The World of Haystack Rock Lecture Series. Oregon’s Living on Love. Romantic Comedy. $20 - $25, has been selected. Don’t miss it! 7:30pm at the Coaster Theater in Cannon Beach. Black Oystercatchers. With Joe Liebezit. 7pm at the Cannon Beach Library. Saturday 13 The Hackles. No cover, 9pm at the Adrift Hotel LECTURE ART LITERARY MUSIC in Long Beach. How We Grow Old. Stories of Aging in Oregon Spring Art Show. Works by Peninsula Arts As- A Medley of Voices Celebrate National Poetry Month. and Beyond with Melissa Madenski. FREE. 1pm Canticle of the Black Madonna. Screening of the ART sociation artists available for sale. 10am, - 4pm Regional poets will perform their works. 7pm at the filmed Opera. 6pm at the Lincoln City Cultural at Tillamook County Pioneer Museum. Spring Art Show. Works by Peninsula Arts As- at the Long Beach Train Station. Astoria Library. Center. sociation artists available for sale. 10am, - 4pm LITERARY FOOD & DRINK Lee Stromquist. 6pm at the Bridgewater Bistro in at the Long Beach Train Station. Northwest Author Series. Portland author, Dana Roll and Bowl Dining Room Takeover #2. Astoria Astoria. Haynes, will be reading at the Cannon Beach Thursday 11 food truck “The Roll and Bowl” crew will be Astoria Artwalk. Free, 5 – 9pm at galleries and Library at 2pm. Britnee Kellogg. 7pm at Public Coast Brewing in serving up an exclusive menu of locally-sourced MUSIC Cannon Beach. other businesses n downtown Astoria. Todd Pederson and Peter Unander/Jazz. 6pm at the OUTSIDE ramen. At the Shelburne Inn dining room in Pretty Gritty. $15, 7pm at the Peninsula Arts Center FOOD & DRINK Bridgewater Bistro in Astoria. Splash N Dash 5K & 10K. 8am – 5pm at Tilla- Seaview. in Long Beach. Breakfast with the Easter Bunny. $5, 8 – 11am mook Junior High School. unsignup.com/Race/ Redray Frazier. No cover, 7pm at the Adrift Hotel in US Coast Guard Woodwind Quintet. Free, 7pm at at the Warrenton Community Center. OR/Tillamook/TJHSSplashNDash HAPPENING Write on Seaside! Silent and live auctions, au- Long Beach. the Liberty Theater in Astoria. Hawaiian Dinner. $12, 4 – 7:30pm at the Can- THEATER thor meet & greet and more. 5pm at the Seaside Countryside Ride. $5 cover, 9pm at the San Dune non Beach American Legion Post. Spring Musical. An Adaptation of HMS Pinafore. VISUAL ART Convention Center. To benefit the Reading Pub in Manzanita. Comic musical melodrama. $15, 7pm at Penin- Forest Vision Exhibit. Opening at CCC Nebeker Gallery, Beer & Cheese Festival. Ten breweries pair up Outreach in Clatsop County. 6pm, Astoria. with ten cheesemakers for a delicious festival sula Players in Ilwaco. Home and Garden Show. At the Tillamook at the Pelican Brewery and Taproom in Til- The Real Lewis and Clark Story. $10, 7pm at the County Fairgrounds in Tillamook. lamook. $15, 11am – 3pm. ASOC Playhouse in Astoria. Classic Wooden Boats, Crab Feed, and More. All Maurice HAPPENING Living on Love. Romantic Comedy. $20 - $25, 7:30pm at the Coaster Theater in Cannon Beach. day events in Depoe Bay. and the Stiff Sisters Beach Pets Bash. Lasagna dinner and silent LECTURE Inspired by troubadours such auction benefitting the South Pacfic County In Their Footsteps Lecture Series. The Astorians, as Nick Lowe, Robyn Hitchcock Humane Society. $25, 5pm at the Peninsula Sunday 14 Vision and Desperation in the Pacific Northwest. and Jonathan Richman along Senior Center in Klipsan Beach. MUSIC with horn-powered soul and Second Saturday Makers Bazaar & Flea Market. Canticle of the Black Madonna. Screening of the 1pm in the Netul Room at Fort Clatsop, Astoria. rock ‘n roll, Maurice and the Stiff 10am – 3pm at the First Presbyterian Church filmed Opera. 2pm at the Lincoln City Cultural THEATER Center. Sisters push the boundaries in in Astoria. Spring Musical. An Adaptation of HMS Pinafore. pursuit of fine songcraft. Filtered Native Plant Sale. 0am – 2pm at the Astoria Richard T. 6pm at the Bridgewater Bistro in Comic musical melodrama. $15, 2pm at Penin- Astoria. through the rose-tinted glasses of Historical US Customs House. sula Players in Ilwaco. psychedelia and power-pop, the The Hackles. No cover, 7pm at the Adrift Hotel Early 20th Century Timber Workers. Songs and The Real Lewis and Clark Story. $15 - $20, 2pm at music weaves daring horn lines in Long Beach. the ASOC Playhouse in Astoria. and serpentine guitar riffs through Stories. 3pm at the Pine Grove Community House in Nehalem. True Life Trio. Vocal ensemble True Life Trio per- Merseybeat rockers and cheeky forms the music of Eastern Europe, the Ukraine sambas. It’s an undeniably upbeat, Home and Garden Show. At the Tillamook and Bulgaria. $15. 7:30pm at KALA in Astoria. Monday 15 positively danceable affair. County Fairgrounds in Tillamook. advance tickets at libertyastoria.showare.com MUSIC Friday, April 26, 7-10pm at the Classic Wooden Boats, Crab Feed, and More. Live Music. No cover. 8pm at Fort George Brew- The Hackles. No cover, 7pm at the Adrift Hotel Sandtrap All day events in Depoe Bay. ery & Public House in Astoria. in Long Beach. cont. p19

15 APRIL 19 hipfishmonthly.com theater & performance Peninsula Players H.M.S. PINAFORE or The Lass That Loved a Sailor PENINSULA PLAYERS’ musical this year is an adaptation of H.M.S. Pinafore or The Lass That Loved a Sailor directed by Rita Smith and as- sistant director, Robert Scherrer. It’s a comic musical melodrama in two acts, with music by W. S. Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan. H.M.S. Pinafore opened at the Opera Comique in London, on May 25, 1878 and ran for 571 performances, which was the second- longest run of any musical theatre piece up to that time. The story takes place aboard the ship HMS Pinafore. The captain’s daughter, Josephine (Rita bumboat woman who has designs on Captain Corcoran. Smith), is in love with a lower-class sailor, Ralph Rackstraw Rounding out the cast is Hebe, Sir Joseph’s first cousin, (Bob Goldberg), although her father, Captain Corcoran (Bette Lu Krause), who is part of Sir Joseph’s entourage of (Robert Scherrer), intends for her to marry Sir Joseph Porter sisters, cousins and aunts (Rose Power, Gretchen Goodson, (David Immel), the First Lord of the Admiralty. She abides by Penny Bierly, and Melissa Goldberg). The Bosun, (Jim Romantic Comedy her father’s wishes at first, but Sir Joseph’s advocacy of the Tweedie), and “Little Bosun” (Aarin Hygaard), make sure the equality of humankind encourages Ralph and Josephine to sailors (Bill Clark, Patrick Buckley, and Natasha Beals) are LIVING ON LOVE overturn conventional social order. They declare their love doing their jobs. at the Coaster thru April 13 for each other and eventually plan to elope. The captain The cast is comprised of actors ranging in age from 11 to discovers this plan, but, as in many of the Gilbert and Sul- BASED on the play Peccadillo by Garson Kanin, when a demanding diva discovers that over 70. Sets by Andy Tauber & crew, Props and Costumes livan operas, a surprise disclosure changes things dramati- her larger-than-life maestro husband has become enamored with the lovely young lady by Darlene Montgomery, Musical Director Barbara Bate. cally near the end of the story. Dick Deadeye (Kevin Perry) hired to ghostwrite his largely fictional autobiography, she hires a handsome young scribe Friday 4/5 & 12 at 7pm Saturday 3/30, 4/6 & 13 at 7pm, is as ugly as his name implies, and is a fellow crew member of her own. Sparks fly, silverware is thrown, and romance blossoms in the most unexpect- Sunday 3/31, 4/7 & 14 at 2pm . who tries to sabotage Ralph’s happiness. Of course, who ed ways in this delightful and hilarious romantic comedy. For Ticket info: peninsula-players.com can forget Little Buttercup (Andrea Patten) a Portsmouth Directed by Patrick Lathrop. CAST: Cathey Ryan, Frank Jagodnik, Bennett Hunter, Emilee Andrade, David Sweeney, Thomas Ryan. March 15 – April 13. Fridays and Saturdays 7:30pm. Sunday Matinees 3pm. Tickets $25-$20. Go to coastertheatre.com Have you seen The Real Story of Lewis and Clark? NO?!!!!!… Voi Kauhea! 10:15april love Donald Conner, Ryan Hull, Sheila Shaffer & Sue Neuer a night of song AT PIER PRESSURE

APRIL LOVE, is the next piece in the TEN-FIFTEEN series cre- ated by Pier Pressure Productions. This month spotlights singers performing pieces they love to share with an audience. To see and hear the songbirds, come to 1015 Commercial Street in Astoria on Monday, April 15th, at 10:15 A.M. and 7:15 P.M. This one-day-only event features Niall Carroll, Patrick Lathrop, Daric Moore, Nancy Montgomery, Celeste Olivares, Dida DeAngelis, DanPa Reiley and Dinah Urell. Donations welcome.

THE REAL STORY of Lewis and Clark (or how the of their Mama, of course). No coincidence, the ASOC Play- Villains and Heroes and AUDITIONS house is located in Astoria’s historic Finn Town, where you dancers, musicians FINNS discovered ASTORIA!) opened on March Sturdy Women! can still smell the fish, and as we say here, “Astoria! Throw a and technical help. 29, and you can catch this fictionalized histori- Oh MY! fish, hit a Finn! Shanghaied In Astoria began in the mid ASOC announces auditions for 2019 cally accurate, ahem….”tale” weekends at 7pm, 1980’s with a bare bones budget and a cast Performances are at 7pm Fridays and Saturdays thru April SHANGHAIED IN ASTORIA, set for Satur- through April 20 at the ASOC Playhouse. of fun and talented friends that has now day, May 11 at 12pm, and Sunday, May 12 Written by Judith P. Niland, with original music by Dr. 20 with 2pm Sunday matinees on April 7 and 14. Tickets grown into a piece of Astoria’s folklore, en- at 6pm. Held at the ASOC Playhouse at 129 Stanley Azen, Dr. Joyce C. Niland and Professor Philip Mor- are $20 for front row seats, $15 for all others, children 12 tertaining over 100,000 people in its 35 year West Bond St. rill, the 2019 edition of The Real Lewis and Clark Story is and under $10. But … there’s $10 Fridays, where all seats history. The story centers on the “Shanghai- Being a part of “Shanghaied” is guar- directed by ASOC veteran Jayne Osborn. and brought to are $10. Get your tickets 24/7 at asocplay.com. Online ing” of the hero and his daring rescue, all in anteed to make your summer a rewarding you by Corps of Discovery Construction, LLC, veteran-owned sales end two hours before performances. melodramatic style with audience participa- life-time memory as you connect, learn and and licensed contractor in Oregon and Washington. tion - cheering, booing, sighing and throw- The ASOC Box Office opens 1 hour before performances grow through theatre techniques and this ASOC is very proud of this original historical, hysteri- ing popcorn! precise style of stage craft performance. cal, musical melodrama featuring the “very, very” lost, but and the house opens a half hour before performances. Free Shanghaied in Astoria runs July 11-Sep- Over two dozen delightful & colorful parts uncovered story of how Meriwether Lewis and William Clark parking is available at Wauna Federal Credit Union, and the tember 14 on Thursday, Friday and Saturday are open for guys and gals 17 to any age! and their Corps of Discovery really came to the end of the Astoria-Warrenton Chamber of Commerce. The Real L&C nights at 7pm and Sunday matinees at 2pm Parts for: Sturdy Women, Nefarious Saloon trail. And how they were rescued by the true heroes of the Story is brought to you by Corps of Discovery Construction, on July 28, August 18 and September 8. Owners, Jolly Fishermen, Nasty Villains and Pacific Northwest, two boys from the Old Country, Minne- LLC, veteran-owned and licensed contractor in Oregon and FMI: asocplay.com a Sweetheart or two! Along with spots for sota, who showed up in time to save the day! (with the help Washington. APRIL 19 hipfishmonthly.com 16 art happens

New Paintings: LUMINARI ARTS CELEBRATES 5! ROBERT SCHLEGEL WITH BILL DODGE Whitebird Gallery LUMINARI ARTS jumps into spring with a bang! Theyr’e celebrating five years of awesome busi- ness. The gallery will feature the artwork of local icon, Bill Dodge, who brings humor and wry wit to his lively street scences. Meet Bill and hear a new story or two. LIVE music with Ted Brainiard CREATING a narrative with place is the foundation and John Orr, the duo of Red Beans and Rice + for Schegel’s work, and a new series of paintings that Tarot card readings by Judith + photo gallery of provide a portrait of a community in transition—origi- past artwalks, Find yourself! Light snacks, adult nating from a sketch of shapes of structures on the beverages. steep hillside facing the bay in middle of the Young’s Bill Doge at the market Luminari Arts is located at 1133 Commercial in Astoria – open daily. Bay Bridge, Astoria. View Robert Schlegel’s work through April 30, at the Whitebird Gallery, located at 251 N. Hemlock St. in Cannon Beach. PNW 40 & The LightBox Files Exhibit LIGHTBOX Photographic Gallery recognizes the Northwest photographic community for their incredible talent in the The Love of Nature “PNW 40 Exhibit”. This group exhibit opens with an artists’ reception on Saturday, April 13th, from 5-8 pm. Terri Remington In recognition of Portland Photo Month, April 2019, this at Trail’s End group exhibit celebrates the photographic talent of the Pacific Northwest. For the last 7 years the exhibit celebrated tural paintings provides information of depth and the Portland Photographic Community combining great work energy; the colors speak in a more ethereal realm. from the Portland community. This year, we have opened I use whatever media necessary to manifest that the Exhibit to the entire Pacific NorthWest for the PNW 40. elusive quality that connects the emotional and The exhibit combines work from emerging photographers spiritual to the physical art form”. with that of established and known photographers from the Her signature sculpture painting technique was Amor a Media Noche, 16” x 24” Region. One image each from 40 photographers have been developed by Remington during her eleven years Per Bjesse Amelia in the Bath TRAIL’S END Art Association and Gallery (TEAA) chosen, images which stand out and uniquely exhibit the vi- of residency in Spain, and was first introduced in will open a new show on April 6 as part of the sion and creativity of the photographer. 1967 at her gallery “Refugi d’Art” in Barcelona, Gearhart ArtWalk held every first Saturday. The Terry Novak is Juror for the first PNW 40 Exhibit. Terry is the new Executive Director at Photographic Center Spain. Paintings are sculpted on different surfaces. featured artist, Terrie Remington, will take center Northwest, an education institution dedicated to the photographic arts, located in Seattle, WA. Her cur- Multi-media sculpture is of clay, and sometimes stage with her show entitled “The Love of Nature.” rent work focuses on partnerships, grants, public programs, and exhibitions that foster financial support and natural fibers and raw linen, marbleized for durabil- Terrie will show her latest work that explores her resources for photographers and the photographic arts in the Pacific Northwest. Novak received her BFA in ity, then painted in acrylics. Sealed driftwood, memories, as well as the in-the-moment spiritual photography from Columbia College Chicago, and MFA in arts administration from Seattle University. She has shells and feathers are sometimes utilized. Ground connection, that grows in a different kind of wis- an affinity for color analog photography and alternative processes. marble is added to produce special effects. www. dom in her art as she ages. Also opening on this night is the LightBox Files Exhibit. Entering the fourth year, the exhibit and collection TerrieRemington.com Terrie’s statement about her art, “It is my quest honor the complete photographer by recognizing those that pursue the art of fine printing. On this night four to capture the true essence of a subject. I need to Opening reception in Remington’s honor from photographers will be featured with a series of prints on the walls and a collection in the drawers. The work get to the passion of it - the emotional fire - the 2-5pm when she will be available to share her will be featured in the viewing drawers for the 2019 calendar year including Jim Fitzgerald • Ann Kendellen • driving force. I choose to work with sculpture unique process and production with guests. The Roger Dorband • Ken Hochfeld. combined with color. The tactile quality of sculp- gallery is located at 656 A Street in Gearhart. “The PNW 40 Exhibit” and “The Lightbox Files Exhibit” will be on display in the gallery through June 1st. Please visit the gallery during the month to see the collection of work. 503-468-0238 or info@lightbox- photographic.com. LightBox is located at 1045 Marine Drive in Astoria, hours are Tuesday – Saturday, 11 Oregon Botanical Artists - 5:30. CB Gallery

THE CANNON BEACH ARTS Association presents Cannon Beach a collection of works by the Oregon Botanical Art- Arts Association ists through May 5, 2019. volunteer, artist New Work by Morrison Pierce The exhibit, sponsored by Oregon Botanical and art grant McVarish Gallery Kim Rose Adams Artists (OBA), features the works of Aislinn Adams, recipient Dorota Alice Debo, Jeanne Debons, Rene Eisenbart, Haber-Lehigh, THIS MONTH McVarish Gallery presents new work by Morrison Dorota Haber-Lehigh, Tina Lange, Marilyn Lind- who is a member Pierce. In this new series of mounted paper on panel, Morrison berg, Suzanne Jones, Jane Levy Campbell, Kristine of the Oregon combines acrylic and wax to paint a stark and heartbreaking story of Mackessey, Mary McCarty, Kip Nordstrom, Janet Botanical Artists, loneliness and the American housewife in the Fifties. Kim Rose Parker, Carol Putnam, Laura Shea, Janene Walkky, curated and Retrospect and the lessons of history play a large part in Pierces Alice Hill, Mickey Anderson, and Margot Cole. facilitated the work. His subject this time “Isolation, suburbs, some lost American Adams The Oregon Botanical Artists have 37 active exhibit. She is dream all wrapped up in cake batter and fashion,” is put forward Rene Eisenbart members, many of whom are members of the also a teacher at with the question of what we, almost 70 years on, take from the Photographic American Society of Botanical Artists. OBA has the Seaside High School and regularly teaches art spectacle of that era and the dictates of society on women at that Tapestry exhibited at Audubon Society’s Wild Arts Show, at workshops regionally. time. “For me as an artist, it’s that journey that keeps me going. the Yard, Garden & Patio Show, the Hardy Plant So- Cannon Beach Arts Assoc. Gallery is open Wed An opening reception will be held Second Saturday, April 13 Astor Ruins ciety’s Hortlandia Show, the juried David Douglas – Sun 11am to 4pm. 1064 Hemlock St. cannon- from 5 - 8:30pm at McVarish Gallery, 160 Tenth Street, Astoria Exhibit and the Lan Su Chinese Garden Exhibit. www.mcvarishgallery.com beacharts.org French Chef

17 APRIL 19 hipfishmonthly.com BOOK LAUNCH EVENT word. JENNIFER HAUPT AND LIZ PRATO Political Hell-Raiser: The Life and Times of Authors in Conversation Senator Burton K. Wheeler of Montana April 20 Manzanita Writer Series Author Marc Johnson • May 2 HAUPT AND PRATO kick off the new format for the Manzanita Writers’ Series LOCAL NORTH COAST author Marc Johnson At last, Burton K. Wheeler has the biography prominent for 2019, two authors in conversation will discuss his new book, the first complete his public service deserves.” spokesman sharing a similar theme. In this case, biography of the influential maverick Mon- A New Deal Democrat and lifelong op- against authors who help us look at places tana senator Burton K. Wheeler at his book ponent of concentrated power—whether U.S. in- in a new way. When someone hears launch event at the Hoffman Center for the economic, military, or presidential —Wheeler volvement “Rwanda” our minds go to the horrible Arts in Manzanita. consistently acted with a righteous personal in World bloodshed, often reducing that popula- The University of Oklahoma Press is and political independence that has all but War II tion to the atrocity, rather than seeing publishing Political Hell-Raiser: The Life and disappeared from the public sphere. right up to how people are stitching their lives back Times of Senator Burton K. Wheeler of Mon- Wheeler came of political age amid anti- three days together in the aftermath. We think of Jennifer Haupt tana. Cloud and Leaf Books in Manzanita will war and labor unrest in Butte, Montana, dur- before Hawaii as paradise, not necessarily considering the life the full-time have books available for purchase. ing World War I. As a crusading United States Pearl Harbor. residents are navigating. Burton K. Wheeler (1882-1975) was the attorney, he battled Montana’s powerful Marc C. Johnson has worked as a broad- Jennifer Haupt, will read from and discuss her novel, In the most powerful politician Montana ever economic interests, championed farmers and cast journalist and communication and crisis Shadow of 10,000 Hills, recently selected as a finalist for the 2018 produced, and he was one of the most influ- miners, and won election to the U.S. Senate management consultant and served as a top INDIES Book Awards. ential—and controversial—members of the in 1922. There he made his name as one of aide to Idaho’s longest-serving governor, Haupt has been a journalist for United States Senate during three of the most the “Montana scandalmongers,” uncovering Cecil D. Andrus. His writing on politics and more than 25 years, writing primarily eventful decades in American history. corruption in the Harding and Coolidge ad- history has been published in the New York about women prompted by their own Richard A. Baker, the U.S. Senate Historian ministrations. Drawing on extensive research Times, California Journal of Politics and depression and grief to reach out and Emeritus and coauthor of The American Sen- and new archival sources, Marc C. Johnson Policy, and Montana The Magazine of West- help others to heal. Her essays and ate: An Insider’s History says: “Marc Johnson follows Wheeler from his early backing of ern History and appears regularly on the blog articles have been published in O, has delivered the long-awaited life story of Franklin D. Roosevelt and ardent support and podcast Many Things Considered. The Oprah Magazine, The Rumpus, the national statesman who represented of the New Deal to his forceful opposition May 2, 7pm at the Hoffman Center in Psychology Today, Spirituality & Montana in the U.S. Senate with ‘more than to Roosevelt’s plan to expand the Supreme Manzanita, 594 Laneda Ave. No Cover, all Health, The Sun, and other publica- one man’s share of fights’ during the twenti- Court and, in a move widely viewed as welcome. tions. Her Psychology Today blog, eth century’s transformative second quarter. political suicide, his emergence as the most One True Thing, is a collection of essays contributed by and inter- (August 2018, Shadow Mountain, $19.99) views with bestselling and emerging D. B. Cooper & the Exploding Whale: authors. The Astorians – Vision Folk Heroes of the Northwest at CB History Center Liz Prato In the Shadow of 10,000 Hills high- and Desperation in the lights how those unrelated by blood can come together as family, EXPLORE the history and leg- Pacific Northwest ends that make Oregon unique. offering love, strength, and understanding… Haupt’s debut novel is Acclaimed Oregon author and IN THEIR FOOTSTEPS free speaker a good choice for those seeking tales of hope after adversity and it historian William L. Sullivan will series event. The Astorians – Vision and Ric’s Poetry Mic may prove popular with book clubs.— Booklist Desperation in the Pacific Northwest by 1st Tues @ take you on a journey through Liz Prato will read from her book of essays Volcanoes, Palm Trees legendary northwest folk heroes Robert Heacock will be on SUNDAY, Winecraft IN HONOR of and Privilege, which explores what it means to be a white tourist from Sacajawea and D.B. Cooper APRIL 14 at 1pm in the Netul River founder Ric in a seemingly paradisiacal land that has been formed, and largely to Bigfoot. Expect entertaining and Room of Fort Clatsop’s visitor center Vrana, Ric’s destroyed, by white outsiders. educational tales about the histori- free of charge. Poetry Mic Prato is the author of the short story collection, Baby’s on Fire cal figures that helped define the spirit of the Pacific Northwest -- as The Lewis and Clark Expedition is is held at and editor of The Night, and the Rain, and the River: 22 Stories. Her told by the author of the thriller, “The Case of D.B. Cooper’s Parachute”. considered an epic success, the result of years of planning and substantial WineKraft, 80 10th stories and essays have appeared in dozens of literary journals and Sullivan has written four novels and a dozen nonfiction books about Street (on the west magazines, including Hayden’s Ferry Review, Carolina Quarterly, Bal- the Northwest, including “Hiking Oregon’s History” and “Oregon Favor- efforts by those involved. Five years later, the expeditions of the Astorians end of the Pier 11 timore Review, The Rumpus, Salon, Hunger Mountain, and ZYZZYVA. ites.” His journal of a 1000-mile hike he took across Oregon, “Listening Building) in Astoria. The also had years of planning, and involved She is the Editor at Large for Forest Avenue Press. for Coyote,” was chosen by the Oregon Cultural Heritage Commission event takes place the an epic amount of effort, but for various “Liz Prato’s profound meditations on place dislocate and then as one of Oregon’s “100 Books,” the 100 most significant books in the first Tuesday of every reasons did not have the direct success relocate understandings of Hawaiʻi from the point of view of the state’s history. Sullivan is an engaging lecturer who keeps attendees on month,. Readings are enjoyed by Lewis and Clark. Of the 56 non-native visitor. This book is a love letter to the land and people the edge of their seats. You won’t want the lecture to end! from 7pm to 8:30pm, or so individuals of the Lewis and Clark of Hawaiʻi, with a keen awareness that some people must let their April 25, 4pm. Arrive early and explore the museum + enjoy compli- with sign up to read story of this place go. Breathtaking.” —Lidia Yuknavitch, author of Expedition, only one man died on the at 6:45 p.m. All poetry mentary coffee. Admission to the Cannon Beach History Museum is “The Chronology of Water” and “Book of Joan” journey. For the Astorians, 65 of the friends are welcome to donation based. The event is FREE and open to the public. 1387 S. approximately 140 people involved lost come to read and listen. Spruce St., Cannon Beach. cbhistory.org/503.436.9301. their lives. Robert Heacock will share WOKSHOPS FMI: Mary Lou McAuley the story of the Astor Expeditions and Three Keys to Unlocking Your Story, 10am to noon. Jennifer [email protected] discuss the challenges they faced. Haupt. Whether you’re writing fiction or memoir, learn three ele- Philosophy Talk Robert Heacock is an historian on- WRITE ASTORIA ments of structure to unlock what your story is really about. We’ll Conversing about Conversation board riverboats cruising the Columbia A free, open forum look at examples and use writing prompts and exercises to create and Snake Rivers. He has been active in some basic tenets for your story world. Fee is $50. WE SEEM TO LIVE in a time where people talk at one another, rather where the Lewis and Clark story for more than than converse. People who disagree will speak past one another, while writers Submit to Literary Journals Like a Pro. 20 years and isa past president of the 1 to 3pm, Fee is $60. Learn those who agree find themselves trapped in echo chambers that they read from Washington Chapter of the Lewis and to streamline and demystify the sometimes confusing submission don’t even realize are there. And, yet, there is clearly a longing for more works Clark Trail Heritage Foundation, Inc. process. We’ll cover researching and targeting markets, formatting meaningful, constructive, and even challenging conversation. But what in progress and offer Heacock is a frequent contributor to the work, how to interact with editors, whether to enter contests, decod- does this mean, and what would it look like? What exactly is a “con- each other construc- chapter’s newsletter Worthy of Notice, tive feedback. The ing vague rejections, and what happens when you get accepted. versation” anyway & why do they seem to have become more difficult and the author of Wind hard from the group meets in the (Note: Not for book-length publishing). in recent times? Can conversations really change minds, or actually be west - The Lewis and Clark Expedition Astoria Public Library “transformational”? And, once we find ourselves engaged in them, No Open Mic at the evening event to allow for the reading and on the Snake and Columbia Rivers, avail- Flag Room twice/ what do we hope will come from them? Q&A with two authors. Admission for the evening reading is $7. able at the bookstore in the Fort Clatsop month, on 1st and 3rd Doors open at 6:30.At the Hoffman Center (across from Manzanita Join host Seth Tichenor and guest John Nygaard on April 25th 7pm a the visitor center. There’ll be a book-signing Wed. 5-7pm. Library at 594 Laneda Avenue.) hoffmanarts.org Fort George Lovell Room in Astoria. following his presentation.

APRIL 19 hipfishmonthly.com 18 One bitchin’ rock trio from P-Town, gonna rock Seaview. Said to deliver a large selection of body shaking grooves wrapped in emotionally complex arrangements guaranteed to get everyone on the dance floor. Sou’ Wester Lodeg in Seaview, Dec 29, in the eve, No Cover

••• music • visual arts • literarylecture • outdoor • theater••• Sou’ Wester 7th Anniversary Party Tuesday 16 OUTSIDE THEATER Saturday, April 27th from Knotweed Be Gone. Stewardship event. Help The Real Lewis and Clark Story. $10, 7pm at 5-10pm MUSIC remove knotweed from the Necanicum Forest the ASOC Playhouse in Astoria. Music, festivities and cheer Chanticleer. 7pm at Tillamook High School. Habitat Reserve. 10am – 1pm. Call 503-738-9126 to celebrate 7 years of Live Music. No cover, 7pm at the Adrift Hotel to attend. Saturday 20 Sou’wester Wonder!! in Long Beach. Thursday 18 MUSIC FOOD & DRINK David Drury. 6pm at the Bridgewater Bistro PARTY WITCH! A dark and Kiwanis Club of Seaside Pancake Feed. $7, 5 – MUSIC in Astoria. dreamy power duo featur- 7pm at the Seaside Convention Center. Basin Street NW. 6pm at the Bridgewater Bistro ing Alicia J. Rose (Miss in Astoria. Skamokawa Swamp Opera. 7pm at Redmen LECTURE Hall in Skamokawa. Murgatroid) on accordion, Beyond the Sound. With the Astoria High School synth and vocals and AAUW Presentation. Jay A Barber Jr., Mayor Music Department. $15 suggested donation, The Saxophones. Plus Lynette. No cover, 8pm Shawna Gore (Captain Vs. of Seaside, will speak on the topic of sex traf- proceeds benefit the AHS Music Department. at the Sou’wester Lodge in Seaview. ficking followed by questions and answers. Crew) on drums. Jennifer Haupt 7pm at the Liberty Theater in Astoria. Alex Ashley. No cover, 9pm at the Adrift Hotel Also, the film “Chosen” will be shown which in Long Beach. ARCH CAPE (RACHEL BLUMBERG) tells the true story of a young woman who The Horsenecks. No cover, 7pm at the Adrift ARCH CAPE (RACHEL BLUMBERG)! Hotel in Long Beach. McDougall. $5 cover, 9pm at the San Dune was groomed by a trafficker and how she was Rachel is a drummer and multi-instrumentalist who composes her own Pub in Manzanita. rescued. 6pm in the Flag Room at the Astor LECTURE music and performs and records both under her name, and under her Library. Let’s Talk About Sex. A panel discussion with with FOOD & DRINK moniker Arch Cape. She has toured all over the world and recorded with local sexperts and Chef’s Table Dinner. With Andy Catalano. many widely acclaimed artists including The Decemberists, M.Ward, Bright Wednesday 17 MC Ginger Vitus, plus anonymous questions and Four courses of spectacular local ingredients Eyes, Califone, Mirah, Tara Jane O’Neil, Michael Hurley, Sam Beam/Jesca a raffle. $10, 8pm at the Labor Temple in Astoria. artistically prepared and served with wines MUSIC chosen for their ability to elevate the tastes on Hoop, Laura Gibson and Death Vessel. Buzz Rogowski. 6pm at the Bridgewater Bistro Friday 19 your plate. $150, 6 – 8pm at the North Coast www.rachelblumberg.com/music in Astoria. Food Web in Astoria. Register at northcoast- Bruce Thomas Smith. $15, 7pm at the Penin- MUSIC foodweb.org VOOVOL!.VooVol is bassist and vocalist Kadi Rae Smith (Oro Azoro) and sula Arts Center in Long Beach. Buzz Rogowski. 6pm at the Bridgewater Bistro drummer Shana Lindbeck (Orquestra Pacifico Tropical). The duo, sonically in Astoria. HAPPENING The Horsenecks. No cover, 7pm at the Adrift Long Beach Razor Clam Festival. Free razor only utilizing two instruments, engages low-fi, soulful rhythms with operatic, Hotel in Long Beach. Maggie & The Katz. 6:30pm at Sweet Basil’s Café clam digging lessons, contests, live music, an haunting vocals & stripped down percussion. in Cannon Beach. annual chowder cook-off and a giant clam fry. North Coast Chorale Concert. The Seven Last Eric John Kaiser. 7pm at Public Coast Brewing in Free - $10. Starting at 6:15am in Long Beach. Words of Christ. $10 suggested donation, 7pm Cannon Beach. longneachrazorclamfestival.com at the PAC in Astoria. LECTURE Seaside. Register to play at secure.pickleballtour- The Folly. No cover, 7pm at the Gearhart Hotel. Egg Hunt and Aquatic Treasure Dive. Starting Wit and Wisdom. Philosopher Seth Tichnor and John HAPPENING naments.com/welcome.pl?tid=2556 The Horsenecks. No cover, 9pm at the Adrift at 10am at Broadway Park in Seaside. Nygaard converse about conversation. 7pm in the Health & Wellness Fair. Meditation, healthy Hotel in Long Beach. Beaches & Breakers Pickleball Classic. Mixed Lovell Showroom at Fort George in Astoria. living, tobacco cessation, stress reduction, pet Doubles. At Broadway Middle School in Sea- Monday 22 therapy, clubs & class demos, and more. Noon FOOD & DRINK DB Cooper & the Exploding Whale. Folk Heroes of side. Register to play at secure.pickleballtour- MUSIC – 2pm at Patriot Hall at CCC in Astoria. Legendre Winemaker’s Dinner. Four courses for the Northwest. With Bill Sullivan. 4pm at the Cannon naments.com/welcome.pl?tid=2556 Alex Ashley. No cover, 7pm at the Adrift Hotel in $60, $80 with wine pairing. 6pm at the Shelburne Beach History Center and Museum. Tillamook County Job Fair. A chance for job Long Beach. Hotel in Seaview. Buy tickets at shopadrifthotels. DOGgone Crazy Day. All things for dogs, their seekers and employers to meet one another, owners and admirers. Agility obstacles, games, Friday 26 establish professional relationships, and dis- com/winemakers-dinner.html LECTURE K9 units, trainers, booths and more. 11am – Returning Sea Otters; Repairing the Coast. With cuss potential job opportunities. 10am – 1pm MUSIC HAPPENING 5pm at the Lincoln City Cultural Center. Rob Bailey. 4pm at the Cannon Beach History at the Tillamook Library. Trance Dance. A resurrection of ecstatic dance Salsa & Strings. Secrets of Salsa 4 – 6:30pm. Classical Center and Museum. at the Astoria Arts and Movement Center at LITERARY guitarist James Kline performing live 7 – 6pm at the LECTURE 7pm with continued monthly dances on third Manzanita Writer’s Series. Authors in Conversa- Poet Kim Stafford. Talk Poetry, Talk Forests, a Lincoln City Cultural Center. . Listening to the Land. Lost and Imperiled Spe- tion Event. With authors Jennifer Haupt and Fridays. All are welcome, no previous experience conversation with Photograper Robert Adams, Buzz Rogowski. 6pm at the Bridgewater Bistro in cies of the Oregon Coast. 6pm at the Seaside Liz Prato. $7, 7pm at the Hoffman Center in necessary. 6pm CCC Gallery, Astoria. Astoria. Library. Manzanita. Beaches & Breakers Pickleball Classic. Womens Tuesday 23 Maggie & The Katz. 6:30pm at Sweet Basil’s Café in Champions for Cetaceans. Featuring guest Doubles. At Broadway Middle School in Seaside. OUTSIDE Cannon Beach. speaker Era Horton from the American Ceta- Register to play at secure.pickleballtournaments. Community Beach Cleanup. 9:30am – MUSIC David Shifrin & Cary Lewis. Classical Clarinet. $20 - cean Society’s Oregon Chapter. 25 cetacean com/welcome.pl?tid=2556 12:30pm at beach approaches on the Long Alex Ashley. No cover, 7pm at the Adrift Hotel in $40, 7pm at the Liberty Theater in Astoria. species on the Oregon Coast, whale watching Beach Peninsula. Long Beach. on the Oregon Coast, and threats to cetaceans LECTURE Pretty Gritty. No cover, 9pm at the Adrift Hotel in Long THEATER world wide. FREE. 7pm at the Cannon Beach Salty Talks. A Tribute to Gordon Huggins. 6:30pm Beach. at the Salt Hotel and Pub in Ilwaco. The Real Lewis and Clark Story. $10, 7pm at Wednesday 24 Library. the ASOC Playhouse in Astoria. MUSIC CINEMA Buzz Rogowski. 6pm at the Bridgewater Bistro in Manzanita Film Series. $5, 7:30pm at the Hoffman Sunday 21 Astoria. Center in Manzanita. MUSIC Foulweather String Band. 6:30pm at the Drift- FOOD & DRINK Singer/songwriter Stephanie Schneiderman Jennifer Goodenberger. 11:30am – 2pm at the wood Public Library in Lincoln City. Astoria Warrenton Crab, Seafood & Wine Festival. Presenting great coastal cuisine, arts and crafts ven- Bridgewater Bistro in Astoria. Pretty Gritty. No cover, 7pm at the Adrift Hotel in dors, live music, wine, beer & spirits tasting and more. Trying to pin down Stephanie Schnei- Long Beach. Dan Sternadel. 6pm at the Bridgewater Bistro $5 - $15. 4 – 9pm at the Clatsop County Fairgrounds, derman to any one genre, talent or in Astoria. discipline is next to impossible. Whether HAPPENING Astoria. Alex Ashley. No cover, 7pm at the Adrift Hotel Repair Café. A community of volunteers who pursuing her prolific work as a solo artist, HAPPENING in Long Beach. repair, sew, sharpen and give expert advice on Cheech and Chong. $35 - $50, 8pm at Chinook Winds playing drums for all-star roots pop act pretty much anything that is broken, torn, dull or Live Music. No cover. 8pm at Fort George in Lincoln City. Swan Sovereign (formerly Dirty Martini), Brewery & Public House in Astoria. in need of repair. 4 – 8pm at 1010 Duane Street stepping on the stage in the musical The in Astoria. Saturday 27 Full Monty, producing a wildly successful FOOD & DRINK humanitarian concert series for refugees Pancake Breakfast. All-you-can-eat for $5, 8am Thursday 25 MUSIC – noon at the Bay City Arts Center. in Uganda (raising over $70k) as well as MUSIC Troll Radio Revue. 11am at Fort George in Astoria. Cannon Beach American Legion Breakfast. $7 producing the soundtrack for 3 popu- Equinox Jazz Ensemble. 6pm at the Bridgewater Anniversary Party. With Fronjentress, Party Witch, adults, $3 children under 6. 9 – 11:30am at the lar children’s DVD’s (selling more than Bistro in Astoria. Rachel Blumberg, VooVol, Dustin Hamman. 5 – 9pm at American Legion Hall in Cannon Beach. 75,000 copies) Schneiderman is hands Brazilian Strings Trio. $20, cash only, 7pm at the the Sou’wester Lodge in Seaview. down one of the most diversely talented HAPPENING Hoffman Center in Manzanita. David Drury. 6pm at the Bridgewater Bistro in Astoria. artists the Northwest has to offer. Easter Egg Hunt. 2pm at the Adrift Hotel in Long Beach. Maurice and The Stiff Sisters. No cover, 7pm at the Bar-K Buckaroos. 7pm at Public Coast Brewing in Gearhart Hotel. Cannon Beach. Saturday, April 27, 7pm. Peninsula Arts Beaches & Breakers Pickleball Classic. Mens Center in Longbeach Doubles. At Broadway Middle School in Pretty Gritty. No cover, 7pm at the Adrift Hotel in Long Beach. 19 APRIL 19 hipfishmonthly.com Stephanie Schneiderman. $15, 7pm at the HAPPENING FLASH CUTS Previews film. Peninsula Arts Center in Long Beach. Local Comics Showcase. 7:30pm at the Labor MOVIES & MUSINGS by Les Kanekuni Live Music. No cover, 9pm at the Adrift Hotel in Temple in Astoria. Long Beach. LITERARY civil rights activist Ann Atwater, who ART Book Launch Event. Political Hell-Raiser: The fought with KKK leader C.P. Ellis (Rock- Tillamook Downtown District Art Walk. 1 – 3pm. Life and Times of Senator Burton K. Wheeler of well) for decades until 1971, when the two Montana. A new book by author Marc Johnson. co-chaired a community meeting to deal FOOD & DRINK 7pm at The Hoffman Center in Manzanita. Astoria Warrenton Crab, Seafood & Wine Festi- with court-ordered school desegregation. val. Presenting great coastal cuisine, arts and Friday 3 Amazing Grace (April 5 limited) 47 years crafts vendors, live music, wine, beer & spirits in the making, the film of Aretha Franklin’s MUSIC tasting and more. $5 - $15. 10am – 8pm at the legendary gospel concert from finally gets Clatsop County Fairgrounds, Astoria. Maggie & The Katz. 6:30pm at Sweet Basil’s Café in Cannon Beach. a release in selected theaters. Filmed at HAPPENING Stumptown Swing. $20, 7pm at the Hoffman a Baptist church in Los Angeles in 1972, Cheech and Chong. $35 - $50, 8pm at Chinook Franklin’s resulting live album became the Winds in Lincoln City. Center in Manzanita. Chicks With Hits. $25 - $40, 8pm at Chinook biggest-selling gospel record in history LECTURE Winds in Lincoln City. and also the singer’s best seller. But due Acupunture Presentation. With Katherine Stew- to audio synching problems and Franklin’s art. 1pm at the Seaside Library. Live Music. No cover, 9pm at the Adrift Hotel in Long Beach. own recalcitrance when the problem was OUTSIDE solved 10 years ago, the film languished Black Lake Fishing Derby. Free Fishing Derby for ART Spring Unveiling Arts Festival. At several venues in the vaults. After Franklin’s death last children ages 2-14 from 7 am-11 am on Black year, director Alan Elliott finally negoti- Lake. Free pancake breakfast and hot dog lunch. in Cannon Beach. cbgallerygroup.cpm/events/ ated a release from her estate. At the 7 – 11am at Black Lake in Ilwaco. HAPPENING peak of her career, Franklin decided to do with Thanos -- the evil demigod who deci- The Forest Remembers. 11:30am – 1pm at the Cinco de Mayo Celebration. Pre-show Mexican PET SEMATARY (APRIL 5) The second Circle Creek Conservation Center, Seaside. dinner at 4:30pm and performance by La Voz de screen adaptation of the Stephen King an album/film that honored her roots sing- mated the planet and the universe. la Communidad at 6pm. $20 for dinner, perfor- ing gospel in church. Variety called the Oswald West Action Day. Beach cleanup and book stars Jason Clarke as the head of a LONG SHOT (MAY 3) Charlize Theron mance free. At the Liberty Theater in Astoria. film “an essential filmed record of what is restoration projects . 10am – noon at Oswald family that move to a rural home where and Seth Rogen star as a mismatched undoubtedly one of the greatest gospel West State Park. THEATER they discover a strange burial ground couple in this farfetched romantic com- Bunbury. $20 - $25, 7:30pm at the Coaster performances you’ll ever see.” for pets in the woods. Synopsis: Louis edy. Rogen plays Fred Flarsky, a down Sunday 28 Theater in Cannon Beach. Creed (Jason Clarke), his wife Rachel (Amy THE CURSE OF LA LLORONA on his luck investigative journalist who MUSIC Saturday 4 Seimetz), and their two children Gage and (APRIL 19) Horror film from Warners has just lost his job. While drowning his Richard T. 6pm at the Bridgewater Bistro in Ellie, move to a rural home where they tells the story of the Mexican legend sorrows with best bud Lance (O’Shea Astoria. MUSIC are welcomed and enlightened about the of a mother doomed to forever wander Deborah Mayer & Cary Lewis. $20 - $40. 7pm at Jackson, Jr.), the two crash a high-end Seattle Sea Shanty Singers. $15, 2pm at the the Liberty Theater in Astoria. eerie ‘Pet Sematary’ located near their between Heaven and Hell searching for party. While mouthing off to a media Historic Raymond Theater in Raymond. home. After the tragedy of their cat being Pete Seeger 100th Birthday Tribute Concert and her lost children. Synopsis: La Llorona. baron, Flarsky grabs the attention of polar Live Music. No cover, 7pm at the Adrift Hotel in Sing Along. $15, 7pm at the PAC in Astoria. killed by a truck, Louis resorts to burying The Weeping woman trapped in a terrible opposite, hotter-than-hot Secretary of Long Beach. it in the mysterious pet cemetery, which Chicks With Hits. $25 - $40, 8pm at Chinook fate sealed by her own hand. In life, she State Charlotte Field (Theron) who thinks Live Music. No cover. 8pm at Fort George Brew- Winds in Lincoln City. is definitely not as it seems, as it proves drowned her children in a jealous rage, he looks familiar. He has. Years earlier ery & Public House in Astoria. to the Creeds that sometimes, dead is Live Music. No cover, 9pm at the Adrift Hotel in throwing herself in a churning river after Fields was his babysitter. Field is about to FOOD & DRINK Long Beach. better. them as she wept in pain. Now, her tears run for President, but is told she needs to Astoria Warrenton Crab, Seafood & Wine Festi- Metts, Ryan, & Collins. $5 cover, 9pm at the San THE BEST OF ENEMIES (APRIL 5) are eternal. They are lethal, and those be funnier. Presto. Flarsky is hired for his val. Presenting great coastal cuisine, arts and who hear her death call in the night witty writing. As they flit from city to city crafts vendors, live music, wine, beer & spirits Dune Pub in Manzanita. Taraji P. Henson and Sam Rockwell star in are doomed. In 1970s Los Angeles, La as Field tries to raise support, an unlikely tasting and more. $5 - $15. 11am – 4pm at the ART this historical drama of natural enemies Clatsop County Fairgrounds, Astoria. Tokeland Art Studio Tour and Auction. Dozens who learn to work together for the com- Llorona is stalking the children. Ignoring romance arises as the far-out-of-his-league of artists open their studios and gather in Toke- mon good. Henson plays North Carolina the eerie warning of a troubled mother Secretary of State warms to Flarsky’s Monday 29 land and North Cove for a weekend of art along suspected of child endangerment, a social raunchy charms. the scenic 105 Coastal Byway. Live demos, mu- worker and her own small kids are soon MUSIC sic, and the art auction. tokelandnorthcove,com Live Music. No cover, 7pm at the Adrift Hotel in drawn into a frightening supernatural Long Beach. Seaside Art Walk. 5 – 8pm at galleries and busi- realm. Their only hope to survive La Llo- nesses in downtown Seaside and Gearhart. rona’s wrath may be a disillusioned priest Tuesday 30 Spring Unveiling Arts Festival. At several venues and the mysticism he practices to keep in Cannon Beach. cbgallerygroup.cpm/events/ MUSIC evil at bay. HAPPENING Live Music. No cover, 7pm at the Adrift Hotel in MARVEL’S AVENGERS: ENDGAME Long Beach. Ilwaco Children’s Parade & Blessing of the Fleet. Noon – 5pm in Ilwaco. (APRIL 26) The fourth Avengers movie Wednesday 1 CCC Foundation Arts and Experiences Auction is the culmination of all 22 Marvel movies that have come before as the Avengers MUSIC and Dinner. $85, 5pm at Patriot Hall, CCC, Asto- ria. Register at clatsopcc.edu/foundation battle Thanos in a fight to the death only Brian O’Connor. $15, 7pm at the Peninsula Arts Center in Long Beach. Culture of Course. An Affair to Remember. An- a few survive. Synopsis: Adrift in space nual benefit dinner & auction including a buffet with no food or water, Tony Stark sends Live Music. No cover, 7pm at the Adrift Hotel in dinner, carnival games, live auction and crooner Long Beach. a message to Pepper Potts as his oxygen Rocky Blumhagen. 5:30pm at the Lincoln City supply starts to dwindle. Meanwhile, the Cultural Center. Thursday 2 remaining Avengers -- Thor, Black Widow, THEATER MUSIC Captain America and Bruce Banner -- Bunbury. $20 - $25, 7:30pm at the Coaster must figure out a way to bring back their Live Music. No cover, 7pm at the Adrift Hotel in Theater in Cannon Beach. Long Beach. vanquished allies for an epic showdown APRIL 19 hipfishmonthly.com 20 FREE WILL ASTROLOGY © Copyright 2019 Rob Brezsny Bike Madame w By Margaret Hammitt-McDonald ARIES (March 21-April 19): A mushroom shaped like a horse’s triply true if you’re a woman, but also important if you’re a man or hoof grows on birch trees in parts of Europe and the U.S. If you some other gender. You have a potential to heal deeply if you get strip off its outer layer, you get amadou, spongy stuff that’s great very clear about what you hunger for and then express it frankly. for igniting fires. It’s not used much anymore, but it was a crucial LIBRA resource for some of our ancestors. As for the word “amadou,” (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Only one of Nana Mouskouris’s vocal The Wide, Wild World of Bike Jousting it’s derived from an old French term that means “tinder, kindling, cords works, but over the course of an almost 60-year career, the spunk.” The same word was formerly used to refer to a person Libran singer has sold over 30 million records in twelve different IN FIFTH GRADE, we didn’t discuss with an extra-long chain so the cyclist who is quick to light up or to something that stimulates liveliness. languages. Many critics speculate that her apparent disadvan- career choices often, but when pressed can pedal from six or seven feet up. In accordance with astrological omens, I’m making “Amadou” tage is key to her unique style. She’s a coloratura mezzo, a rare by an adult, the other kids would rattle This elevation supplies an innate riding your nickname for the next four weeks. category of chanteuse who sings ornate passages with excep- off things the adult expected to hear: challenge before you add the lance and tional agility and purity. In the coming weeks, I suspect that you astronaut, firefighter, homemaker, race- shield. Shalit also notes that tall bikes TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “Human beings are not born once and will be like Mouskouris in your ability to capitalize on a seeming car driver. Then my turn would come made another appearance in Great Brit- for all on the day their mothers give birth to them,” wrote novelist lack or deprivation. and I’d proclaim, “Grail knight!” The ain in the 1950s, when an enterprising Gabriel Garcia Marquez. “Life obliges them over and over to give SCORPIO adult had the grace not to laugh. The bike-building company released “Flood birth to themselves.” Here’s what I’ll add to that: As you mature, (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Your tribe is symbolized by three other kids did laugh, but that was noth- Bikes” (some up to 20 feet high!) to al- you do your best to give birth to ever-new selves that are in align- animals: the scorpion, the eagle, and the mythological phoenix. ing new. I’d learned that they made fun ment with the idealistic visions you have of the person you want Some astrologers say that the scorpion is the ruling creature low riders to pedal to work despite sub- to become. Unfortunately, most of us aren’t skilled at that task of “unevolved” or immature Scorpios, whereas the eagle and of me whether I tried to fit in or not, so I merged roads. (I’d love to have had one in adolescence and early adulthood. The selves we create may phoenix are associated with those of your tribe who express the decided I’d rather be the person I liked to get through the three-times-yearly be inadequate or delusory or distorted. Fortunately, as we learn riper, more enlightened qualities of your sign. But I want to put better—my own eccentric self. Over flooding on the 101 south of Seaside.) from our mistakes, we eventually learn to give birth to selves that in a plug for the scorpion as being worthy of all Scorpios. It is a the years, my Grail-knight ambition (Eric Shalit, “Practical Origins of the are strong and righteous. The only problem is that the old false hardy critter that rivals the cockroach in its ability to survive—and morphed into Tall Bike: Gas selves we generated along the way may persist as ghostly echoes even thrive in—less than ideal conditions. For the next two weeks, a medieval- Lamp Lighting I propose we make it your spirit creature. in our psyche. And we have a sacred duty to banish those ghostly studies PhD and Flood echoes. I tell you this, Taurus, because the coming months will SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Sagittarian novelist Gustave and then my Travel,” Tubu- be en excellent time to do that banishing. Ramp up your efforts Flaubert declared that it’s “our duty is to feel what is sublime and medical and locity, http:// NOW! cherish what is beautiful.” But that’s a demanding task to pull off library/archival tubulocity. studies—ways GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “When spring came, there were no on an ongoing basis. Maybe the best we can hope for is to feel com/?p=3923). problems except where to be happiest,” wrote Ernest Heming- what’s sublime and cherish what’s beautiful for 30-35 days every I tried to Medieval way in his memoir. He quickly amended that statement, though, year. Having said that, though, I’m happy to tell you that in 2019 combine the Archives, a mourning, “The only thing that could spoil a day was people.” you could get all the way up to 95-100 days of feeling what’s knight’s dedica- website for Then he ventured even further, testifying, “People were always sublime and cherishing what’s beautiful. And as many as 15 to tion to service reenactors and 17 of those days could come during the next 21. the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as and an interest other hobbyists good as spring itself.” I bring these thoughts to your attention so CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Sommeliers are people trained to in the historical who love the as to prepare you for some good news: In the next three weeks, I understand the nuances of wine. By sampling a few sips, the best period that Middle Ages, suspect you will far exceed your quota for encounters with people sommeliers can discern facts about the type of grapes that were gave rise to the The Black Label Bike Club (BLBC) doing a bit of jousting. describes bike who are not “limiters of happiness”—who are as good as spring used to make the wine and where on earth they were grown. I chivalric code. jousting as a itself. think that in the coming weeks you Capricorns should launch an Not being able to afford a horse, I revival of the ancient sport for mod- turned my bike into my steed for riding CANCER (June 21-July 22): It’s time to prove that Cancerians effort to reach a comparable level of sensitivity and perceptivity ern folks. Instead of a wooden lance, have more to offer than nurturing, empathizing, softening the about any subject you care about. It’s a favorable time to become on errantry (scouring the neighborhood combatants use a foam tube or plastic edges, feeling deeply, getting comfortable, and being creative. even more masterful about your specialties; to dive deeper into for wrongs to right, damsels or dudes conduit. They also wear a shield over the areas of knowledge that captivate your imagination. Not that there’s anything wrong with those talents. On the in distress, and Grails). For a more their non-dominant arm, which adds contrary! They’re beautiful and necessary. It’s just that for now AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Every language is a work-in-prog- authentic equine look, I tied a hobby to the difficult of steering one’s bike, you need to avoid being pigeonholed as a gentle, sensitive soul. ress. New words constantly insinuate themselves into common horse to my headset (complete with which is also wobblier than a horse. To gather the goodies that are potentially available to you, you’ll usage, while others fade away. If you traveled back in time to vinyl head with that realistic seam down Even without a sharp lance, folks get have to be more forthright and aggressive than usual. Is it pos- 1719 while remaining in your current location, you’d have trouble the center) and rode off to battle. hurt from slamming into each other, sible for you to wield a commanding presence? Can you add a big communicating with people of that era. And today linguistic Although I’ve named subsequent unhorsing (un-biking?) each other, dose of willfullness and a pinch of ferocity to your self-presenta- evolution is even more rapid than in previous ages. The Oxford bikes after knightly chargers, I’ve long or falling over, so some competitors tion? Yes and yes! English Dictionary adds more than a thousand new words an- since retired the hobby-horse head. decide to use ordinary-height bikes LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): General Motors manufactured a car called nually. In recognition of the extra verbal skill and inventiveness Imagine my pleasant surprise when instead, including kids’ bikes fitted out you now posses, Aquarius, I invite you to coin a slew of your own the Pontiac Aztek from 2001 to 2005. It wasn’t commercially I, connoisseur of everything eccen- for tricks (“Bicycle Jousting, Transfer- fresh terms. To get you warmed up, try this utterance I coined: successful. One critic said it looked like “an angry kitchen appli- tric, especially when it involves bikes, ring a Medieval Sport Into a Modern ance,” and many others agreed it was exceptionally unstylish. But verizzimo! It’s an exclamation that means “thrillingly beautiful discovered the peculiar sport of bicycle and true.” Sport,” Medieval Archives, September later the Aztek had an odd revival because of the popularity of jousting. This side of knighthood has 30, 2010, http://www.medievalarchives. the TV show Breaking Bad. The show’s protagonist, Walter White, PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): One of history’s most audacious never attracted me—if someone were com/2010/09/30/bicycle-jousting-trans- bearing down on me on horseback owned one, and that motivated some of his fans to emulate con men was George C. Parker, a Pisces. He made his living ferring-a-medieval-sport-into-a-modern- with a dowel on steroids aimed at me, his taste in cars. In accordance with astrological omens, Leo, selling property that did not legally belong to him, including the sport/). I suspect that something of yours may also enjoy a second life galloping away seems the best op- Brooklyn Bridge, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Statue Bike jousting events occur in Portland sometime soon. An offering that didn’t get much appreciation the tion—but replace the horse with a bike of Liberty. I suspect you could summon his level of salesmanship and around the country, so you can get first time around may undergo a resurgence. Help it do so. and persuasive skills in the coming weeks. But I hope you will use and the friendly anarchy of it all starts a taste of this crazy…I mean fun sport. your nearly magical powers to make deals and perform feats that to appeal. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “Of all the female sins, hunger is Just don’t forget your helmet and knee/ have maximum integrity. It’s OK to be a teensy bit greedy, though. Many bike jousters opt for a type of the least forgivable,” laments feminist author Laurie Penny. elbow/shin guards! It’s the chivalrous mutant bike called a tall bike, which She’s referring to the hunger “for anything, for food, sex, power, way to stay out of the ER. education, even love.” She continues: “If we have desires, we looks like two bikes stacked on top are expected to conceal them, to control them, to keep ourselves Homework: Name a beautiful thing you were never capable of of each other and welded together. Physician, writer and writing instructor, in check. We are supposed to be objects of desire, not desiring doing until now. https://FreeWillAstrology.com As Eric Shalit explains, the design for visit Margaret Hammit - McDonald’s beings.” I’ve quoted her because I suspect it’s crucial for you to these bikes was inspired by extra-tall blog/website Valor and Compassion, not suppress or hide your longings in the coming weeks. That’s bikes ridden by lamplighters through where she focuses on writing topics Freewillastrology.com Victorian-era streets. They are equipped www.valorandcompassion.com.

21 APRIL 19 hipfishmonthly.com network. COMMUNITY LISTINGS WORKSHOPS/CLASSES s. Hemlock Cannon Beach. Drop in $10. Every- those who draw from new thought sources Manzanita: Tuesday Mornings 10-11:30. Call one welcome. Info call Sarah 971-601-0127. or from more than one faith tradition. Time: 368-6227 for more info. Sundays 9:30 – 10:30 am Location: Franklin WHALE SPIRIT DRUM CIRCLE: Open drum Repair Café YOGA IN NEHALEM.North County Recreation Ave. & 11th St. Astoria, in the Wesley Room of circle meets the first Saturday of each month in LABYRINTH WALK • Grace Episcopal Church, 1545 District. Mon. 5:15-6:45pm/Beginning Classical the Methodist Church, (use building entrance Seaside from 7pm - 8pm. Everyone is welcome Yoga. Tues. 4-5:30pm/Feel Good Flow Yoga. on 11th). For more information see http:// Franklin St, Astoria, 3-6. Every 1st Sunday. to gather and drum together; no drumming Wed. 8-9:30a/Mid-Life Yoga, Leading You into cgifellowship.org, contact info@cgifellowship. experience is necessary. Our goal is to drum Your 50’s, 60’s, 70’s and Beyond! Wed. 5:45- org, or call 916-307-9790. indoors at the Bob Chisholm Community 7:15pm/Restorative Yoga. Thurs. 8-9:30am/ VOLUNTEER Center in Seaside at 1225 Avenue ‘A’ when Chair Yoga.Thurs 5:45-7:15pm/Hatha for All Weekly Habitat Restoration/Stewardship Work the weather is crummy and outside when Yoga. Fri 8-9:30am/Very Gentle Yoga. Fri 11:30- A COURSE IN MIRACLES STUDY GROUP A Repair Café is a community of volunteers who repair, sew, Parties. 10 am - noon. Meet at Alder Creek the weather is nice. Check www.WhaleSpirit. 1pm/Living Yoga. Sat. 8-9:30am/Classical Yoga. Course in Miracles study group will meet on sharpen and give expert advice on pretty much anything 6 different RYT yoga instructors, in-district $8; Farm, at the end of Underhill Lane between com to confirm location each month. We Sundays from 3-5pm at the Ocean Park Library that is broken, torn, dull or in need of repair. At the monthly out-of-district $13. contact 503-368-7160. Nehalem and Manzanita. Dress for the ask that you kick in a $10 donation to cover conference room as of April 1st. All meetings weather and prepare to get outside with great event they work on bicycles, toys, clothing, scissors, knives, renting the venue. Don’t have a drum yet? are open to the public and free of charge. The people on beautiful properties doing a variety household appliances, garden tools or just something that Extra drums may be available for you to play. RIVERSZEN YOGA and Ki-Hara Resistance Course in Miracles is a spiritual practice, Chris- of habitat restoration activities. For more infor- Stretching Studio. Located at 399 31st Str. needs to be glued (no gas engines). Please respect that this is a drug and alcohol tian in nature, dealing with universal themes mation contact Lower Nehalem Community free event. For more information go to: www. Astoria. 503-440-3554. Over 30 classes, for Trust, 503-368-3203, [email protected] Strength, Stamina or Yoga Flow,Levels 1, 2 & 3 and experience. The Course will address Repair Café events are held on the fourth Wednesday of WhaleSpirit.com offered from early morning to evening, 7 days existential questions such as “Who am I?”, each month: April 24 and May 22, and June 26! Join them “Where did I come from?”, “What is my purpose a week. 1/2price for new students first month for repairs or just come to enjoy watching volunteers put PUFFIN POSTCARDS. Our Migratory Local and locals residents first day free.Free parking here?”, as well as the practice of undoing fear Birds. April 13. With Brianna Ortega. 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Register at eventbrite.com YOGA—MANZANITA, Center for Contempla- Repair Café Please call 503-307-0834. tive Arts, Manzanita Ave., Tuesday 5-6:30pm. $10 drop-in fee. Call 503-368-3733 for more AUTHENTIC Spiritual Conversations Meets SOUTHERN BISCUITS. April 13. With Brian information. every Tuesday in Astoria, from 7:00 – 8:30 PM. Medford. Brian will show you the secrets to Are you looking for a spiritual community of creating a tall and flaky buttermilk biscuit and like-minded people but don’t seem to fit in will answer all your questions about biscuit YOGA/GEARHART. Gearhart Workout. For MEETINGS/MEET-UPS more information log on to www.gearhart- making, shaping and baking. You’ll also learn anywhere? Do you want to be able to explore workout.com 3470 Hwy. 101 N. Suite 104 in Dance Your Joy at AAMC how to make the perfect accompaniment to your spiritual questions, doubts, and practices Gearhart GRIEF SUPPORT GROUP. ASTORIA/SEASIDE. in a space where everyone’s needs are respect- a southern biscuit.... pork sausage gravy. $50, Lower Columbia Hosice is currently offering 10am – 1:30pm at the North Coast Food Web. fully held? Are you tired of keeping silent in free bereavement and grief support group 342 10th St. in Astoria. Register at northcoastfoodweb.org CB T’AI CHI. The Center for the Contemplative order to fit into group norms that tell you what meetings twice per month: 1st Thurs. 2-4pm@ For class info please contact Arts, Manzanita: Wednesday Mornings 10- Bob Chisholm Comm.Center, Meeting Rm. FRIDAY you should believe? Join in a conversation the instructor directly. Classes 11:30. $30/month. Call 368-6227 for more info. 1, 1225 Ave. A, Seaside. 3rd Tues. 4:30-6pm, 7-10pm Contra Dance (1st EMBODIED CREATIVITY. April 20. With Liz Asch where your unique spiritual path is respected may change, for a current Columbia Memorial Hospital, Columbia Fri. ea. mnth) LIVE Band Greenhill. play with creative imagery as a and you can feel safe to express your authentic schedule & instructor info visit: LEARN SELF DEFENSE. Private lessons in Center, Chinok Rm, 2021 Exchange St., Astoria. source for generative writing. This workshop truth. All faiths, including “spiritual but not astoriaartsandmovement.com 7:00 - 8:15pm Dream Circles Ocean Park, WA (home gym) with Black Belt Qeustions call: 503-338-6230. will include guided visualization, breathing Ecstatic Dance with Kimberly instructor Jon Belcher in Kenpo Karate (Adults religious” are welcome. We meet in the new techniques, brainstorming, sharing, writing, • MONDAY O’Bryant (3rd Friday of each only, $10.00 per 1 & 1/2 hr lesson). Currently Columbia Memorial Hospital Cancer Center KNITTING CLUB. Weekly on Tuesdays 5:30- and ideaphoria focused on creative process. 8:30 - 9:30am Zumba Dance month) teaching Mondays & Thursdays from 1:00pm located at 1905 Exchange. For more informa- 6:30. Location: Coffee Girl, Pier 39 Astoria. You will learn to integrate energetics and em- on. To try a free introductory lesson contact tion contact [email protected] or call Community members of any skill level can Fitness with Kim Postlewaite 6:30 - 8:30pm Wise Women bodiment techniques into the ways you source instructor at: Phone: 360-665-0860 or E-mail: 916-307-9790. meet to knit at Coffee Girl. We teach begin- 6 - 7pm: Yoga with Jude Gatherings with Melissa ideas. $30, Noon- 3pm at the Sou’wester Lodge [email protected] Instructor ners and encourage everyone to bring their Matulich Hall Henige (4th Friday of each in Seaview. RSVP at 360-642-2542 teaches the Ed Parker system of American own supplies. If knitting isn’t your thing, we month) Kenpo Karate. COLUMBIA RIVER MEDITATION GROUP. Meets welcome other crafts as well. • TUESDAY 8:30-9:30am: HAND WOVEN BEACH BASKETS. April 20. With Wed 5:30-7:30pm, Towler Hall rm 306 at Zumba with Joy Sigler •SATURDAY Susan Spence. Make your own beach basket CB ZUMBA. Low Impact Fitness for many ages. CCC. Meditation can reduce stress, increase 10:30 – 12pm Contemp INCLUSIVE MEN’S GROUP. Meets at the Center • WEDNESDAY sculpture from “foraged flotsam”- found and Licensed instruction. Tolovana Community health, creativity and efficiency, and lead to a for Contemplative Arts in Manzanita. Sunday Dance (private) with Julia 6-7:15pm: Belly Dance Basics recycled local crab fishing rope. $115, noon – Hall 3779 S. Hemlock, Cannon Beach, Call Joy: more deeply satisfying and richerl ife. Led by evenings. 5:00pm - 8:pm. Next meeting March Gingerich with Jessamyn Grace 4:30pm at the Cannon Beach City Hall. Register 503.738.6560 ordained Zen priest/non-religious. Many dif- 10. Benefit from the experience of a more 6-7pm: Argentine Tango 7:15-8:15pm: Belly Dance at eventbrite.com. ferent styles practiced, discussion of common diverse circle of men – all ages - all walks of life Fundamentals with Estelle - all points of view - let’s expand the possibili- Choreography with NEHALEM ZUMBA. Come join the Zumba problems encountered during meditation, Olivares party at North County Recreation District in ties. Some of us have been meeting together Jessamyn Grace NATURAL DYEING BAG OF TRICKS. April 27. focus on deveoping a regualr practice. All 7-8pm: Intermediate Argen- Nehalem, Oregon. Tue-Thur 6:30 to 7:30pm/ for 9 years. Others are new to the process. With Iris Sullivan Daire. Paint on cloth using welcome. Fri 9-10am. Fall term thru Dec. Attire: Loose Either way, each man adds to the evening. We • THURSDAY tine Tango Concepts color from plants. Students in this class will get gym clothing, non-gripping sneakers, a all have connection to a vast knowledge. The 8:30-9:30am Zumba with Joy to play with a variety of natural dye paints to SUNDAY water bottle & lots of energy! Rosa Erlebach – ART & MINDFULNESS. With Amy Selena group intelligence is more expansive than the Sigler draw and print on cotton. Paints will be made 9-10:30am: Tri-Dosha Yoga instructor. Ncrd. 36155 9th Street Nehalem, Or Reynolds. Once a month , 2nd Saturdays, 1-4 individual awareness. There is a great release 5:30 - 6:30pm Improv Tribal from local plants as well as dyes known since 97131(503) 368-4595 [email protected] and power in sharing our wisdom and our with Melissa Henige pm. Deepen your connection with your heart, Belly Dance with Julie Ko- ancient times. Materials provided include vulnerabilities. We are confidential. We are 1:00 - 2:30pm Character mind, and spirit, play with creativity, find out vatch thru Dec 27 sample squares, and a cotton tote bag that has inclusive. We are diverse. Bring Yourself - Be Dojo with Rachel Lionheart been prepared to paint. $30 + $15 materials SPIRITUALITY where art and meditation begin. No previous 6:45-7:45pm Close Embrace Yourself - Add Yourself to the mix. See what (4th Sunday of each month) fee. 11am – 3:30pm at the Sou’wester Lodge in art or meditation experience is necessary. happens. FMI: Darel Grothaus, darelgrothaus@ Argentine Tango w/ Estelle 5-8pm Burlesque (private) Seaview. RSVP at 360-642-2542 LOOKING FOR A DIFFERENT APPROACH TO Bring a journal and your favorite pen. All other raincity.com and Celeste Olivares 3:00 - 4:30pm Improv Jam RECOVERY? Join us every Wednesday evening supplies will be provided. Class fee:$30 (Note: 7:45 - 8:45pm Argentine at the Mary Blake Playhouse, 1218 Avenue A No one will be turned away for lack of funds. ENCORE – Join us for the ENCORE Lunch Bunch with Rachel Lionheart (4th BODY WORK•YOGA•FITNESS the first Friday of each month. Questions Tango Practica hosted by Es- in Seaside from 7:30 to 8:30. Refuge Recovery Please contact Amy if you have a financial Sunday of each month) is a program using Buddhist based principles about Lunch Bunch? Call Gerrie Penny 360- telle and Celeste Olivares hardship but want to take a class.) Call Amy QIGONG WALKING AND FORMS. Mondays, and meditation to support our recovery from 244-3018 or Carey Birkenfeld, 503-791-3917. at 503-421-7412 or email amyselena888@ starting January 23. With Donna Quinn. Qi- addictions of all kinds. Each meeting includes ENCORE is a membership organization for a meditation session, study of recovery related gmail.com gong is an ancient Chinese health care system people age 50 and older who are interested materials and group discussion. For additional that integrates physical postures, breathing in life-long learning opportunities. ENCORE information contact Roger at roger.s.oakes@ (Exploring New Concepts of Retirement Educa- techniques and focused intention. Qigong (Chi A SILENT MEDITATION • with Lola Sacks. St. gmail.com. tion) is sponsored by Clatsop Community Col- Kung) means cultivating energy, it is a system Catherine’s Center for the Contemplative Arts, NORTH COAST LA LECHE LEAGUE. Pregnant women, mothers, babies & toddlers welcome. Topics practiced for health maintenance, healing lege and offers classes in a variety of subjects, Manzanita: Monday Nights 5 - 5:45 Call 368- discussed: preparing for birth and breastfeeding, adjusting to motherhood, parenting babies and and increasing vitality. Free community class, SPIRITUAL BUT NOT RELIGIOUS? Join in a social events, and occasional educational toddlers, breastfeeding basics, benefits and challenges of breastfeeding, nutrition, and weaning. 6227 for more info. 7:30am at RiversZen Yoga in Astoria. “Celebration of Spirit” sponsored by Common trips. For more information, please refer to Astoria: 3rd Tuesdays 5:30-7pm.Blue Scorcher Bakery1493 Duane St, Astoria. Ground Interspiritual Fellowship. This Sunday our website: www.encorelearn.org or contact morning gathering is not defined by any par- Leah Olson, Clatsop Community College Com- LECTIO DIVINA • Meditation with Holy Scrip- CLASSICAL BELLY DANCE. Classes held Sun- ticular belief system, and is especially intended munity Education Coordinator, 503-338-2408 days 3-4:30 @ Tolovana Community Hall 3778 for the “spiritual but not religious,” as well as ture. The Center for the Contemplative Arts, OR TOLL FREE AT 1-855-252-8767. APRIL 19 hipfishmonthly.com 22 By Margaret Hammit McDonald

TOLERANCE

Messages mystic healer Sonja Grace Presume Nothing Repair Café

A Special Request from the WHEN WE PRESUME we know everything with a teacher but rather a workshop or your spiritual development. Knowledge is Dogs & Cats at the there is to know about spiritual matters, weekend on how to become a shaman, a great gift, but spiritualism is an experi- we limit ourselves to learning at a deeper healer, mystic or psychic. It is rare to find ence. Presume nothing, empty yourself CLATSOP COUNTY SHELTER level. The ego can block our development a teacher who teaches the principles and and be nothing. It is from this place you hiding the underlying issues or fear of responsibilities of the unseen world. Our can experience everything. what we don’t know. When I was much world demands we are all knowing with We’re a little low on supplies. younger, I trained as a classical ballerina technology pushing us every day to know Sonja Grace is a highly sought-after attending ballet class daily. Ballet class more. mystic, healer, artist, and storyteller with Would you please help? is a strict regime of plies, tendus and a When we can sit quietly and not have both Norwegian and Native American regular set of warm ups at the bare’ that any expectation about what we should or heritage. She has been counseling an in- Dog Food – Nature’s Domain (Costco) prepare dancers for combinations prac- should not know, we open to something ternational roster of clients for over thirty ticed in the center of the ballet studio. If quite new. The ancient people practiced years. The award-winning author of Spirit Cat Food – Nature’s Domain (Costco) I add up all the tendus I have done in my this daily. They listened to the earth and Traveler, Become an Earth Angel, and High Quality Kitten Food life it is in the millions! If I presume, I un- could hear her heart beat, they under- Dancing with Raven and Bear, Sonja has derstand everything that a tendu is then I stood when it was time to move the camp appeared multiple times on GAIA TV’s 50 Gallon Garbage Bags miss the opportunity to learn even more and when they should plant crops. This Great Minds, Inspirations, Ancient Civi- about how the foot works, and ultimately place I am describing is found in medita- lizations and Beyond Belief with George 13 Gallon Tall Kitchen Bags transform my physical experience. In tion. It is not a brain activity, but rather Noory and Coast to Coast AM. Paper Towels respect to spiritualism, a tendu is a daily an experience. Our desire for knowledge Her latest creation is ODIN AND THE practice like meditation and although we can fill up all the spaces and leave us void NINE REALMS ORACLE a 54-card set Cat Toys (No Catnip) know what meditation is, there are many of experiencing a feeling or vibration. No containing all original artwork by Sonja layers of consciousness to be discovered. matter what you know or don’t know it all Grace who share the wisdom and guid- Bleach Meditation is like ballet class, focused, leads back to the same place. We must ance of the Norse Gods. Findhorn Press/ Dog Kongs (Black only please) dedicated and aligned with intuition. experience the mystery, feel it and live it. Inner Traditions Pre -order at: www. People seem to have the notion we are When we hold on to our doubts, discount- sonjagrace.com Feline Pine Cat Litter entitled to everything spiritual. Spiritual- ing our feelings, we miss the opportunity ism no longer includes a rigorous training to trust. Trusting what you feel is key to Tennis Balls Liquid Laundry Detergent Also we take Cash Donations By Tobi Nason wordwisdom Clatsop County 503-861-7387 AS I SIT to write this, I remind myself: Start mistake, maybe even a childhood situa- seeking happiness can be an elusive pursuit. Tuesday thru Saturday writing before April comes and goes.... Yes, tion. Before you know it, a simple mistake All the details of a life can be as one desired, Animal Shelter sometimes a new thought is hard to come has snowballed and your mind has labeled but still there’s that ache for something else. 1315 SE 19th Street Noon to 4pm by. From what I read, a mind needs a certain you, once again, as one who always makes Something that would finally jettison the Warrenton, OR 97146 amount of “free time” in order to find space mistakes. How depressing! person into the land of “Happy.” I ‘m here for new thoughts and inspirations. I believe How much better it would be to take the to say that always letting circumstance jerk that. time to learn lessons from those times in you around will not make you a happy soul. I believe that so much that I am going to life that Hence, take the time to let the mind wander carve time out in themornings just for that cause us and discover who you are, what you want. purpose. It may be a combo of meditation concern At some point, life will ask you to take a leap and/or writing freestyle. I don’t know, maybe or angst. of faith. You want the bedrock of learned just a half hour ofmindlessness and let’s see Learn lessons and a vision to go where you need what evolves. them as to go. Mindlessness. What a concept! There’s an embed- Gameplan: Planned mindlessless. I want Eastern country that has a word for depres- ded in to see what’s rattling around, unattended. sion that literally translates into “overthink- the heart. See what pops up. See if it pops up repeat- ing.” I sometimes get so busy, I overthink, Imagine edly. Perhaps see if there’s steps to get make quick assumptions, go on autopilot. how calm where I’m wanting to go. It can lead to rumination. It is something life would be if we could return to our wealth Wish me well. that usually draws in the little bits of leftover of learned knowledge and know that “this childhood crap as fodder. Imagine you make too shall pass.” The Lower Columbia Clinic a minor mistake at work. You correct it. But I’m afraid what I’ve written is not new to Tobi Nason is a counselor in Warrenton. (503) in the meantime, you may beat yourself up those of you who read my column. I discov- 440--0587. Got a thought, got an idea? Call me. Thomas S. Duncan, M.D. • Susan L Skinner, CNM, CFNP

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MERKA BA CENTER Whole PLANET Health PLANET By Kaisa Schlarb

for Healing, LLC Pelvic Love

DURING A YOGA CLASS This is after an at North Portland Yoga, intake process instructor Mandy Kreuger used to make Structural Integration of MERKA BA CENTER told our class that our informed recom- MIND. BODY. SPIRIT for Healing, LLC pelvic health would mendations for Structural Integration of improve if we did Horse which herbs are MIND. BODY. SPIRIT Pose every day. best suited for the Offering a gentle therapeutic bodywork that Try Horse Pose right now, individual. There helps release limitations, creating alignment, it goes like this: are contraindica- tions for steaming ease and resilience within your system. Take a wide but comfort- such as pregnan- able stance, approximately cy, current men- R three feet. Engage a subtle drawing-in of the navel and lower Bowenwork struation, having belly, which will support the tailbone to draw toward the ground. Kendra Bratherton had tubal ligation, Energy Medicine With both feet, turn toes out and ankles in. Take a big breath in, among others. Rosemint Wellness steam space OTA, PBP, lifting your arms overhead as you inhale. As you exhale, bend Tensegrity MedicineTM According to Kelli Garza, founder of the Peristeam Hydrothera- Reiki Master through the knees, lowering the entire pelvis to suspend between py Institute, which offers pelvic steaming education and supplies, your thighs. Lower your arms as you exhale and either bring hands FREE CONSULT the practice is found worldwide for menstrual and reproductive to hips or together at heart-center. Medical Sauna health; most commonly in the postpartum period. It is also used (209) 791-3092 Keep your chest more-or-less upright with your tail still pointed and Chromotherapy as a self-care tool to treat gynecological problems such as cramps, toward the floor. The engagement of the lower belly is your friend. infections, fibroids, cysts, etc. Take several breaths, settling into this lowered center of gravity. Much of Kestrel’s work in Clatsop County centers on postpartum merkabacenterforhealing.com Isn’t it terrible? support. She is the author of Build Your Nest: A Post Partum Plan- 399 31St. Suite B, Astoria, OR 97013 Horse Pose has made me internally curse many a yoga instruc- ning Workbook, which is available in many places locally, including tor, which is why I try to incorporate it into every yoga class I Columbia Memorial Hospital. She trained through the Peristeam teach. This wretched, thigh-burning, root awaking pose, like Hydrotherapy Institute as a “Vaginal Steam Facilitator” to broaden many poses, lights up the parts of ourselves we have dimmed our her postpartum offerings; however, she has ended up seeing just awareness of. as many clients for a range of issues who were seeking relaxation Our awareness of pelvic health can be particularly dim. Here’s and greater health. some words associated with the pelvis that may make you feel as On the prevalence of chronic reproductive ailments she says, uneasy and exposed as horse pose did: fibroids, hemorrhoids, “We are such a sedentary culture, people’s bodies are much more cysts, cramps, keloid scars, fissures, polyps, warts, prolapse, HPV, stagnant and this is a reason we see so much disease.” incontinence. I could go on. Clarifying her offerings as part of the bigger picture of what My point is, we deal with a lot of dis-ease in this region of our makes people well, she says, “Steaming is not the one modal- body, across the anatomical spectrum. ity: doctors, naturopaths physical therapists, diet, acupuncture, My interpretation of Kreuger’s guidance for us in Horse Pose self-care practices - all of these can work together. What is special is to get lower and deeper and to let-go. I keep her visual guide about steaming is that people learn to do it at home, and it’s in my mind, telling myself that if I let my pelvis sink, some of the super relaxing.” physical ailments I experience will just come tumbling out of the “Super relaxing” is a far cry from emotionally wrestling one’s places I hold my pain and be absorbed back into the Earth. way through horse-pose, but the two practices do have some Horse isn’t going to be everyone’s favorite ride, and even if it things in common. Both can be taught by an informed guide and is, the more modalities we have to support ourselves to health then practiced alone, and both draw our awareness lower, and the better. So in addition to Horse Pose,* the North Coast has a deeper into a part of our gentler offering for pelvic support: Pelvic Steaming. Other names body that might be holler- include peri-steam hydrotherapy or vaginal steaming. Geared to- ing with symptoms, asking ward menstrual and postpartum support, this practice can actually us to find ways to let-go. support everyone with a pelvis, because we all have soft bits that More information about need love. pelvic steaming locally The practice is this: an individualized combination of herbs are can be found at Kestrel’s steeped in hot water and placed underneath a low-stool with a website: slit or hole in the middle. A person sits over this opening, allowing Rosemintwellness.com steam to reach the soft tissues and reproductive organs. The vital Tobi Nason properties of the herbs, carried through the steam, are meant to *An alternative to Stand- have a range of healing, supportive effects. The steam is kept at a ing Horse-Pose is Happy Counseling and Mediation Services gentle, not overly hot temperature, and the individual is wrapped Baby. Lie on your back and in a blanket to keep all steam contained and directed toward the lift your legs straight in the In Astoria Vintage ad for home pelvic steambathing Specializing in Life Changes pelvis. air, soles of the feet to the call 503-440-0587 North Coast health practitioner Kestrel Gates offers pelvic ceiling. Take ahold of shins/ankles/feet and draw knees wide and M.A in Counseling steaming, and sees clients in her own home or theirs. She sets bent, keeping the sole’s of the feet facing the sky. Think- happy the tone for the experience by reading a short, grounding medi- little baby holding their toes, innocently exposed and not yet tation, then leaves the room to allow space for a restful, healing shamed by the world for the human condition of having a pelvis Sliding Fee Schedule and Flexible Hours experience. and reproductive organs.

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BODY/SPIRIT

Acupuncturist Katharine Stewart By Kaisa Schlarb At Seaside Public Library ON SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 1:00 p.m., CHEWCHEW ON ON THIS! THIS! The Friends of the Seaside Library host Acupuncturist and Herbalist, Katherine by Merianne Myers Stewart. The event is free to the public, and will take place in the Community Room. Sign-up is not required. Acupuncturists are trained in a tradi- tional form of Chinese medicine which involves inserting thin, sterile needles into various points of the body to relieve pain, promote healing, and improve physical, mental and emotional well-being. The body points correspond with energy chan- nels that are stimulated during treatments and are considered pathways COOL YOUR JETS to a life-energy force called Qi. The most commonly reported use of SPRING SCRAMBLE acupuncture is for back pain, joint and neck pain, and headache. Acu- RAGE IS RUNNING RAMPANT around You heard me. It all and always comes puncturists are highly regulated in the United States by the National Serves 4 if you’re feeling Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine, and the globe. The whole world has gone down to graciousness. Rage is the lazy generous. Otherwise, grab a the needles are regulated by the FDA. According to a 2017 National mad. I don’t mean insane. That’s a giv- way out and completely counterproduc- fork, the sauté pan and a seat. Health Survey, an estimated 3.1 million adults and 150,000 children, in en. I mean angry. I’m not saying rage is tive. If you want to get your way and the United States, used acupuncture the previous year. useless. I’m saying we waste it by being not be the victim of a coup as a result, Preheat oven to 375 Katherine Stewart is a licensed Acupuncturist and Herbalist and has Rosemint Wellness steam space mad all the time. It’s a valuable commod- play nice. I’m thinking the whole country been in practice for 29 years. At this event Katherine will explain the ity that becomes weak and tedious when needs a year in finishing school where techniques and benefits of acupuncture and will give a demonstration used on a daily basis. we will relearn civility with a side of table of how the process is done. 1 bunch asparagus Seaside Public Library is located at 1131 Broadway. In the U.S., we’ve gotten fat and lazy manners and good posture tossed in. Handful of snap peas and complacent and now we’re ticked Until then, we should all be sent to our 8 eggs RADICAL EMBODIMENT: off. At ourselves, at each other, at rooms to think about what we’ve done. 2 Tablespoons milk Reconnect with the Wisdom of Your Body corporate-owned government, at the Life truly is a bitch and yes, we are Through Movement, Art, Story 2 ounces or 1/4 stick butter lack of whatever it is we personally need all most certainly going to die. Why A weekend of body-mindful creativity & celebration on the Oregon and can no longer come by easily. If we spend a minute of it being ticked off at salt & pepper coast With writer-maker-dreamer Jennifer Langdon, PhD. May 17th-19th could figure out a way to refine the heat someone you probably don’t even know? Cut the woody tips from the asparagus @the 7th Street Cottage In Gearhart, Oregon. from all that rage, we could put the fossil How about we concentrate on the count- stems. Cut the stems into bite-sized • Friday, 2pm-8pm Dedication Ceremony + Radical Embodiment 101 fuel industry out of business tomorrow. less things we have in common instead of pieces leaving the tips whole. Cut snap + Dinner, Restorative Yoga with Nicole Bales + Crystal Bowls with Fawn Politically, our choices are pretty dis- trashing our blood pressure by focusing peas on the diagonal into bite-sized DeViney mal. On the one hand we have the Tea on the other stuff? pieces. • Saturday, 9am to 4pmChakra visualization + walking meditation + Lunch Party, which sounds completely lovely At the risk of repeating myself, let’s Blanch the asparagus in a pan of boil- but turns out to be the crazy guy on the have dinner together. It’s the easiest, Handbound journal-making + writing the body workshop ing water starting with the stem pieces • Sunday, 10am-12pm, Dream Circle + Closing Ceremony corner holding a “The End Is Near” sign. most delicious reset of attitude to be for a couple of minutes, then adding the Ever so slightly to the left of that are the had. It will lower your blood pressure tips and peas for another minute or so. Registration fee: $250, includes all activities and course materials, plus Republicans whose “Let Them Eat Cake” and raise your alpha waves. It’s suste- The timing of this depends on how al dinner on Friday night and lunch on Saturday. Housing and other meals philosophy seems to be fine with 1% of nance, reassurance and comfort in one dente or soft you like your vegetables. on your own. us having all the goods and the rest of tasty masterstroke. It provides everyone Remove, drain and set aside to cool. Un- To Register: Email [email protected] or call 503 298-9773 FMI: www.designinghealthastoria.com or www.creative-egghead.com us working at Walmart where we earn so a seat at the table. And it’s nice. like some preparations, no ice bath here. little, we need Food Stamps to buy the Speaking of nice, it’s SPRING! That Whisk eggs and milk with a smattering cake. Only slightly off from there, the means endless sappy poetic musings of salt and pepper until well blended. 1st Annual Wahkiakum Autism Walk Democrats would love to do something and, much more importantly, aspara- Melt the butter in a sauté pan and, over April 13 helpful but are busy trying to extinguish gus. There are endless recipe-free ways medium heat, scramble gently and Join students, friends and family members for the 1st Annual Wahkiakum the fire in their hair and wishing they had to love asparagus. Steamed, grilled or patiently by pulling the outside edges Autism Walk on Saturday, April 13th at the Wahkiakum High School track in as much money as the Republicans. roasted. Tossed in salad with lemony into the middle repeatedly until eggs are Cathlamet, WA. Starting at 10:00 a.m., participants can choose from a 5K or 1K Spooky, snobby or sadly ineffective. vinaigrette and a scattering of chopped, scrambled soft. Add the vegetables, stir- walk. Gee, I just can’t decide. boiled egg, drizzled with satiny Hollanda- ring gently until warmed through. The purpose of the walk is to raise funds for a sensory room & sensory path- At some point someone will remember ise, etc, etc, etc. Here’s a classic Spanish If you’re feeling artsy, sprinkle with a ways for children with autism and special needs in Wahkiakum. Sensory rooms provide a safe place for children with special needs to go to calm or stimulate their that In politics, as in personal relation- dish that honors asparagus and spring’s bit of paprika and dig in. ships, the key to abiding success is other gift delivered by chickens awaken- senses. Indoor Sensory pathways for Autism, ADHD, and ADD students help to increase cognitive functioning and reduce sensory seeking behaviors. Students can courtesy. ing from their wintery slumber. get sponsors for each lap or for completing the walk. Local businesses and families are also encouraged to sponsor or make a donation. Pick up your pre-registration & / or sponsorship forms from the Wahkiakum school offices or by emailing [email protected] 360-839-7182

Tune in to FOOD TALK, an irreverent conversation about home Trigger Point Release Class cooking with hosts Merianne Myers and Linda Perkins. HOW TO RELEASE a tight muscle in 30 seconds or less! A FREE class at Vintage ad for home pelvic steambathing First and Third Mondays of every month, 9:30 to 10am on Graceful Waves Chirpractic in Wheeler offers this to the community, Mon, April 22, 6:15 to 7:15pm. Bring a friend to be your “massage partner” Coast Community Radio, KMUN 91.9fm, KTCB 89.5fm, streaming for this hour where you will learn how to release a tight muscle with a and available as podcast at coastradio.org. quick and gently technique. The conclusion of the class includes a brief DEMO of Graceful Waves unique care services, and an opportunity to schedule a specially discounted evaluation to discover if we can help you. Graceful Waves Chiropractic is located at 278 Rowe St. #210 in Wheeler. 503.368.WELL(9355). gracefulwaveschiropractic.com

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Metalsmith Judith Altruda

THE OREGON BEE ATLAS 2019 LASTWORD Boldly going to find the bees that no Oregonian has seen before Tokeland NorthCove Studio Tour AN ART COLONY May 4 10am - 4pm is a place where creative people live and exchange ideas with one another. Think Big Sur or Laguna Beach in the 1950’s and ‘60’s for example. These were places artists went to “get away from Maggie Roberts Kennedy Creek Pottery it all” and live the dream. Today Tokeland, Washington is such a place—a haven for a diverse group of artists drawn by beauty and isolation. The lack of development and distraction Tribal Artist Earl Davis provides the kind of setting that gives birth to dreams DID YOU KNOW Oregon has more health work across state agencies and creative experiments of all kinds. Although the art forms are diverse they are connected by place. than 500 different species of bees? and hosts a weekly podcast called to gather in communal spaces and show their work. Mark your Some make art with material gathered from the beach. Learn about some of the more fa- PolliNation. In 2018 Andony was calendar for Saturday, May 4, from 10:00-4:00 Pick up a free Jeffro Uitto salvages wood from coastal waters and builds miliar and strange bees of the state, recognized with the national Pollina- map or follow the signage to each studio. After the tour, join fantastic large scale sculptures from his Tokeland workshop. and statewide efforts to seek them tor Advocate award by the North the artists at a wine tasting and art auction to benefit Ocosta From here, his pieces are shipped to national art shows and out, in APRIL’S NATURE MATTERS. American Pollinator Protection High School’s art program at the Tradewinds By The Bay, 5pm displayed in museums worldwide. The 7pm talk features Oregon’s Campaign. 21+ please. Pollinator Health Specialist Andony Judith Altruda is FREE April 11 at Fort George Brew- a metalsmith who DISPLAY LOCATIONS: Melathopoulos. ery Lovell Showroom, 1483 Duane Melathopoulos is an assistant pro- gathers sea glass and Namscac Heritage Museum. Earl Davis will give carving Street, Astoria. Doors open at 6pm black stones from the fessor in Pollinator Health Extension demonstrations, come and learn about indigenous art of to purchase dinner or beverages at beach, setting them in the Department of Horticulture at Shoalwater Bay. the Fort George Brewery before the in silver and gold. Oregon State University, which was event. Nature Matters is hosted by Sophia Anderson, The Historic Tokeland Hotel hosts artists in the lobby the first such position in the United Lewis and Clark National Historical Park a senior at Ever- Capt’s Tavern, adjacent to the Tokeland Hotel features art- States. He also sits on the steer- in partnership with the North Coast green State College, ists inside the newly opened tavern ing committee of the Oregon Bee Watershed Association. paints portraits of Nelson Crab Project, which coordinates pollinator , at the Tokeland Marina, a beautiful new her Shoalwater Bay building with views of the bay and artists who celebrate it! tribal ancestors on ART STUDIOS Flavel Mansion Photographer Marcy Merril wood reclaimed from Elements Glass Highway 105 in North Cove Fort George in Downtown Astoria houses that washed away at nearby North Cove. : Jeremy Saturday, May 25th Marcy Merrill finds an endless source of inspiration for her Bartheld gives live glass blowing demonstrations throughout Lupulin Ecstasy Noon to 6pm photography in the flotsam that washes up on local beaches the day, and hosts stone cutter Pierre Mollinet and river banks. She describes her collection as “Items found Knock On Wood: Jeffro Uitto, driftwood sculpture and JOURNEY to a mystical realm, where the skies are filled with wonder and in local waters and quirky images thereof.” furniture, Yoseph Admz, metal sculpture, Rick Wilcox, glass fields burst in a glorious green. Tour the grand history of Astoria as you Many are inspired by the rustic beauty of the area. Oil float assemblages wander the halls of the Flavel Mansion. Expand your hop-perception sipping painter Melody Gerber only has to look out her bay-facing Judith Altruda Jewelry: mixed metals with sea glass, gems lupulin delights in the Flavel Garden, with an assortment of fanciful creations studio window to find inspiration. Joanne (Nelson) Barney from all of the 3-Way IPA collaboration breweries throughout the years. Then, photographs the places she has known all her life–from fishing and ancient coins. explore the grounds to discover a carefully curated collection of live music, boats to wide open tidelands. Bayside Gallery: Melody Gerber paintings and Barbara special attractions, and street tacos. Fort George announces this May fest, North Cove Sampson, watercolors and ceramics LUPULIN ECSTASY. Glass blower Marguerite Gerth: encaustic paintings Jeremy Batheld Jane’s Language and Art Nest: pressed flower art 2019’s 3-Way is on the way, a collaboration with Cloudburst and Ruse. says “the climate is The following artists will be set up in one of the above Tickets to Lupulin Ecstasy are on sale now. Your purchase grants you admis- very conducive to locations: sion to Lupulin Ecstasy attractions & live performances, a festival glass & eight playing with fire. It tasting tickets, access to fest beers sprinkled around the grounds, and entry doesn’t get too hot Captain John Johnson, into the Captain George Flavel Mansion for the day. Plus, don’t forget those or too cold to work Fancy Nautical Knots, Joanne tacos. in the studio.” Barney Photography, Happy Shoalwater Bay Cells Studio, Bowerman Basin tribal artist Earl THE CAUSE LTD, Kennedy Creek Pottery, Davis draws on his A portion of the ticket price will go to the Clatsop County Historical Soci- Shoalwater Pottery, Spirit, ety, supporting the Uppertown Firefighter’s Museum, the Heritage Museum, heritage to carve Mystchif’s Madness, Nauti- and the Flavel House. More info at www.cumtux.org. replicas of bowls, house posts and cal Wreaths, Shanna Gillette ECSTASY other items made Photography, Altered Nature, Special selections will be pouring from all FGB 3-Way IPA friends - Gi- by his ancestors Delightful Gems, Gaia Blends. gantic, Lompoc, Block 15, Boneyard, Georgetown, pFriem, Melvin, Barley and now housed in Saturday May 4th 10:00-4:00 museums. Brown’s, Reuben’s Brews, Great Notion, Holy Mountain, Modern Times, Ruse, Follow Facebook Tokeland Cloudburst, and Fort George. Each ticket holder will receive a tasting glass Once a year NorthCove Studio Tour and 8 tasting tickets. these artists open their studios and For more information (360) To purchase tickets go to www.eventbrite.com/e/lupulin-ecstasy-festival- invite other artists 267-2326 tickets-58462549058 or find updated information at lupulinecstasy.com. Metalsmith Judith Altruda Sculptor Jeffro Uitto APRIL 19 hipfishmonthly.com 26 Metalsmith Judith Altruda

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