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3 Nov 15 hipfishmonthly.com FRAMED Test Drive the new TRIFECTA light Zac Caswell frame @ KALA Tim Liddiard detroit ART w/Kristin Shauck hen Zak Caswell was a kid, he was fascinated by the ioned for the pur- bike Wmerging layers of paint spills on the garage floor at home, pose of applying his father a contractor. A couple decades later, and Caswell has paint in innovative become an art-fiendish mixoligist – intertwining a connection to the ways.” th 11 and Marine Drive in Astoria heavens, and a penchant for experimentation. While the 503.325.2961 • OPEN DAILY • www.bikesandbeyond.com KALA exhibits the new-to-Astoria Caswell’s work this month, horizontal orienta- in a triple show with two artists on the scene for over a decade tion of the bands now. TRIFECTA presents new work by Tim Liddiard, an artist in the of color have frontier world of color exploration, also in collaboration with partner a tendency to Kristin Shauck currently in her twelfth academic year teaching paint- evoke the sense ing, drawing, and design at Clatsop Community College in Astoria, of a landscape in where she also serves as founding director of Au Naturel: the Nude Liddiard’s colorful in the 21st Century, an annual international competition of figura- pallets, it is not tive art. the intention to Professional Real Estate Services Zac Caswell creates visually provoking pieces by way of explor- create any specific ative mediums. Most pieces are constructed of recycled material. references. Enter • Local Knowledge Cosmic series was created to capture chemical reaction. Melting Kristin Shauck. Zak Caswell and Cosmic Imagery Series • National Exposure Imagery series was created to capture the uniqueness of layering Shauck’s animal figures appear on Liddiard’s canvases in a magical different shapes and lines forming a melting effect within the piece. and almost metaphysical way. Entranced by color, the process of • Attention to You painting says Shauck is an explora- tion of the infinite possibilities of 503-468-0915 iridescence, luminosity, and poly- chromatic interactions. “My creative www.PacificProHomes.com work has evolved from my experi- 207 12th St., Astoria, Oregon ence practicing art and teaching art over the past two decades. “Although in my professional career I have focused primarily on the enormous challenge of captur- ing the human form, recently I have turned to the subject of animals. Since my childhood, I have always GayGay SkateSkate Night!Night!Saturday felt a deep connection to and The Lower Columbian Q center and Astoria Armory present:November 21 Kristin Shauck and Tim Liddiard Sky Dog II Acrylic on Synthetic Fabric Tim Liddiard, Untitled, Acrylic on Synthetic Fabric, 2015 The two mediums couldn’t be more different from one another, fascination with animals of all one a wild organic abstract form, and the other, whimsical, yet kinds, from the tiniest insect to mysterious figures crawling with life and through each other. What the largest mammals, and have they do share is Caswell’s addiction to playing heavily with color. In always experienced a profound addition to this dichotomy of art medium, Caswell too is a musician, sense of both awe and joy while dedicated to playing numerous instruments – and at the age of 29, in their presence,” says Shauck. has already logged some 18 years in both artistic genres. He sites a Of her process she says, “I seek to capture the essence of both supportive background in the arts in high school where he focused humans and animals by beginning each painting with a very spon- on ceramics, and later studied sculpture as an art major at Wichita taneous, gestural approach, drawing initially with either chalk or State. directly with a brush, and progressing with many obsessive layers Tim Liddiard, with a Bachelor of Arts in Mathmatics, has been of vibrant color. It is my hope that every mark conveys a world of (after Skate bout) practicing art for 15 years, taking classes and states that his art- meaning within itself, not only in terms of anatomy and proportion, making approach is process based and is strongly influenced by but also in terms of the energy and emotion of the physical act of Doors at 9pm his broad work experience, including garment dying, working in mark-making.“ construction, teaching, and truck driving. From Zak Caswell’s planetary explosions formed from found $3 admission Often using alternative canvas culled from his work sites, Lid- paints to Liddiard’s unusual tools and canvases, while the two artists diard says, “The progression of my work extends logically from my have not yet to meet, there is a mutual fondness for each other’s $3 skate rental experience in printmaking and painting combined with my concrete work, and serendipitous that they share this particular art walk. finishing experience, including the use and adaptation of various Shauck, who has spent years refining and teaching form is the ironic Social Media: Sid Deluca Family skate night 9-11 construction tools. I consider my approach to artmaking to be a twist in this trifecta of artists. Benefitting the Lower Colmbia Q Center! process-based experience in which I am learning how to use these Opening November 14, 2nd Saturday Art Walk, 5pm - 7:30pm. adapted tools for the application of paint. 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Governor Brown Makes an Appearance At FERC offices via Volunteer Climate Actioneers Inside the Month: Rising Tide

Cover Story: New Farm to Table Portland, OR – Governor Kate Brown (look-a-like) made a pg 12 public declaration of opposition to the transportation of natural Sleepy Monk - p11 . . . HofSeth gas for liquefaction and export in Oregon today at the downtown Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) offices. Addition- Holiday Alternative Faires - p7 ally, Brown used her executive powers as governor to use the power of eminent domain to issue a Notice of Condemnation of Indie First Book Event - p8 FERC’s presence in Oregon. Brown stated “The legal right of eminent domain is govern- ment’s right to take private property for public good. I wouldn’t NATURE MATTERS p9 seize a federal agency office without good reason unlike, for example, FERC’s willingness to give multi-national corporations Don Your Caroling Chops! - p10 the power to use eminent domain to build export pipelines for corporate profit. In this case, it is in the clear public good of in promoting the best interests of Oregon communities. Both agencies the state of Oregon to use my power as governor to oppose FERC’s have previously rejected LNG proposals in 2010. CCC FACULTY AT SHOW rubberstamping of destructive pipeline projects.” A broad coalition of Supporters of a livable planet and thriving rural communities through- Honors Royal Nebeker p13 Oregonians across the state object to FERC’s September 30th approval out the state were overjoyed by the wave of public opposition to LNG. of a Final Environmental Impact Statement on the Pacific Connector Portland Rising Tide activist Katie Behrendt said, “I am glad that our Pipeline Project and Jordan Cove liquefaction plant in North Bend and state leadership is standing with us to confront root causes of climate to the plans for the Oregon LNG project in Warrenton. change, like the collusion of government agencies and corporations, but Governor Brown further stated “Clearly the public good of the state I confess I’m shocked that Governor Brown is actually willing to join us in of Oregon is combating climate change by keeping fossil fuels in the using direct action.” COLUMNS ground and the protection of forests, watersheds, and rural communi- In Medford, members of Southern Oregon Rising Tide addressed Steve Berk . . . 6 ties.” Brown’s decision to use eminent domain against FERC is unprece- Senators Wyden and Merkley at a climate change conference this THEATER . . . 16 dented but nonetheless follows in the footsteps of Governor Kulongoski month. Activists and community members called on the Senators to ART HAPPENS . . . 17 who in 2010 threatened to sue FERC over the Jordan Cove project. “I “walk their talk” on climate change and to take a public stance against stand today with other shining examples of historical Oregon leadership the Jordan Cove LNG export project. WORD/Literary EVents . . . 18 on environmental issues.” said Brown. Rising Tide is an international, all-volunteer, grassroots network of FLASHCUTS ...... Kanekuni 22 Brown also made it clear that the state agencies who would also have groups and individuals who organize locally to promote community- Bike Madame . . . Hammitt-McDonald . . 23 to approve LNG projects in Oregon including the Oregon Department based solutions to the climate crisis and take direct action to confront FREE WILL ASTROLOGY . . . Brezny 23 of Environmental Quality and the State Land Board would stand with her the root causes of climate change. portlandrisingtide.org Network Community Listings . . . 24 Sonja Grace MESSAGES . . . 25 Learn About Electric Vehicles Bodies in Balance. . . . . Erfling ND 26 The Oregon Health Plan For The Hispanic Community Word & Wisdom . . . Nason 25 With Pamela Mattson Mcdonald At The Seaside Public Library FOODGROOVE NEWS . . .26 At Seaside Public Library On Saturday, November 21, at 1:00 p.m. The Lower Columbia His- CHEW ON THIS . . . Myers 25 panic Council will be presenting a program in Spanish about the Oregon Are you thinking about buying how the world phenomena of EV’s HIPFiSHmonthly is located at 1017 Marine Dr in Astoria. By Appt. Health Plan. The event will take place in the Community Room. a Chevy Volt or Nissan Leaf or any is impacting the United States. 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Astoria Artwalk 5-8pm • November 8 The TPP and One Dimensional Consciousness “Gathering” featuring works by Trans-Pacific Partnership, or TPP, signatory countries evince even greater explosion. Dominion of big transnational Gail Wahlstrom and Jill Merrill the behemoth trade agreement negoti- skepticism of the pact’s benefits. While its capital promotes a one-dimensional world- ated over some eight years in secret, is now particulars remain shadowy, the TPP is a view favoring accumulation at the top, while completed and ready for passage by the giant step in the direction of complete inte- ignoring the public good. Trade negotiators Art Cards, Artisan Crafts, national legislatures of the eleven countries gration of world trade under the control of pour far more time and energy into servic- Gallery & Working Studio involved. These include Japan and many transnational banks and corporations. While ing transnational capital than anyone pays 1133 Commercial St. Astoria, OR 97103 of the smaller Asian countries, such as TPP spokespersons talk up new protections to solving the vast ecological and climate 503.468.0308 Vietnam, together with the US and Canada. for labor’s right to organize and new rules crises which unbounded trade has greatly While Asian giant, China, looms conspicu- against wildlife poaching and overfishing, accelerated. ously absent from the pact, an opening for whether serious enforcement will occur is The reason that presidential candidate, its affiliation will likely emerge. The free another question. Existing trade pacts, Bernie Sanders, is attracting such enthusi- trade elite proffers an economic system to including the WTO, exist for the purpose astic and broadening support is because he engulf the entire world. China is a member of eliminating all national trade barriers in draws attention to the human and ecologi- of the World Trade Organization and has the world. This hinders newly developing cal consequences of the neoliberal world just completed a deal with American aircraft nations from protecting and thereby grow- order. As an open socialist in this most giant, Boeing. Like all such deals it is lucra- ing their own industries, and it continues capitalist of countries, he makes no pretense tive purely for the corporation, not American the process of draining off American jobs, of homage to the almighty “free” market, workers, since or unrestrained movement of capital the planes will be across national boundaries. Like manufactured in past socialists, he calls attention to China. American corporate rule’s generation of massive power brokers = ecocide = wealth disparities, with poverty and view large trade homelessness engulfing ever greater agreements as means for the US to project because corporations invariably locate in numbers, while the middle class disappears, economic power at the same time as it lower wage countries. TPP will also foster and a few fabulously wealthy families domi- projects military might through a farflung monopoly by granting, e.g. pharmaceutical nate the world. Sanders, like Pope Francis, network of bases. The Obama administra- giants exclusive patent rights on new drugs can see through the superficial glitter of tion has strongly backed the TPP to advance for a decade or more before other compa- technological consumerism. Both men see US influence in Asia. But such power projec- nies may produce generic versions afford- values higher than wealth accumulation and tion mainly benefits business elites, chiefly able to low wage workers. consumerism. They focus not on individual the military industrial fossil fuel energy Because trade itself and ensuing enrich- material success, but the good of the entire complex. The urgent questions are how TPP ment of the transnationals is the one great biosphere. That means that impoverishment KAREN KAUFMAN will affect common people and how it will priority, other vital matters, like a country’s of people and extinction of species through impact now spiraling impoverishment and right to protect its food supply and envi- destruction of land and sea habitat is unac- L.Ac. • Ph.D. ecological crisis. ronment from contamination are never of ceptable. Provisions of the TPP have from the out- primary consideration. In fact, under WTO The regulated capitalism, or mixed Acupuncture set been worked out in complete secrecy. rules countries or regions resisting importa- economies, that were emerging in many If they were as beneficial to the world as tion of certain toxic industrial products are industrialized countries, including the US, & Traditional touted, would this be necessary? Even subject to legal suit, loaded to favor the cor- in the middle third of the twentieth century Congressional lawmakers, when pressured poration. Under TPP, if the state of Oregon supported measures to redistribute wealth Chinese Medicine to fast track the final treaty, meaning either should keep outside investor based Oregon downwards and began to address the deep 503.298.8815 vote it up or down with no amendments, LNG from building a plant in Warrenton, the ecological damage wrought by untram- [email protected] were only given the most general sense of company could sue and probably win. So meled industrialism. 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stor Street Opry Company celebrates the 20TH Season of the Donations of money, needed goods or volunteer time to one of dozens local and creatively endowed Starving Artist Faire, Dec of local not-for-profit groups are the Gifts That Make a Difference. Choose A White Clover Grange, 36585 4 – 6, now a favorite annual tradition for the Winter Holidays in the region. from arts groups like the Columbia River Symphony and the Liberty Hwy 53, about 2 miles east of Hwy ASOC’S charming holiday show and faire is again held at the Astoria Theater, or service organizations like CASA, Lower Columbia Hospice, Safe 101, landmarked by a humorous Kids North Coast and the Astoria Warming Center. Community groups Armory at 16th and Exchange in downtown Astoria! Over 60 artisans will cow sculpture, will emphasize like 4-H and Master Gardeners, or education groups like Libraries Rural be displaying and selling their wares of quality one of a kind gifts, ranging locally produced gift and food items, quality resale tables and a raffle with 2 Outreach and Clatsop Community College, and animal advocates River from photography, collage art, paintings, home and holiday decor, soap, prizes—a quilt or a turkey. Lunch will be served from 11-2 featuring Reuben Song Foundation and Wildlife Rehabilitation Center will join many other wreaths, jewelry, candles, hats, glass art, pottery and much, much more! sandwiches and applesauce, veggie chili and cornbread and dessert and pie. worthy organizations. There will be a group to honor everyone on anyone’s ASOC Starving Artist Faire began its endeavors to support local For more information, call 503-368-8255. artists and musicians in 1996, and like its fun family summer melodrama gift list. SHANGHAIED IN ASTORIA, the Starving Artist Faire (SAF) first began at Local nonprofits may still register for table space at the event. Fees The Alternative Gift Market, Pine Grove Community House, 225 the downtown Eagles Hall until it the building was sold. About the same requested are $30 for large tables and $20 for small. Interested groups Laneda Avenue, Manzanita, provides a different direction in meaningful time the ASOC moved into their permanent home at the ASOC Playhouse should contact Caren Black at 503-325-6886 as soon as possible to reserve holiday giving. Shoppers make contributions to any of a large variety of local in Uniontown but to keep the faire going they needed to find an outside a place. nonprofits or worldwide projects. They then receive gift cards to give friends location since the theater schedule was completely full. They then moved Featured Music Guests: Larkin Stentz on flute and hammer dulcimer, and loved ones to let them know a gift was made in their name to a cause the SAF Faire to the Old Yacht Club by the Old Youngs Bay Bridge, but Vocalist Dinah Urell, plus a special appearance by the Maddox dancers. that will benefit others. Roughly two-thirds of the funds raised go to local when the city decided to remodel, the faire was kept alive by Lum’s Columbia River Coffee Roaster’s provides hot beverages, and plates of nonprofits and one-third to international projects. Soup and bread provide Automtive Show Room in Warrenton. Following they landed at the Star of special treats from local favorites including Astoria Coffee House, Bridge- the sustenance at this venue. The 11th annual Market is again sponsored by Fulcrum Community Resources, whose mission is to create sustainability in The Sea Auditorium for a few years run and are happy now to be back in water Bistro, Baked Alaska, Buoy Beer, Home Bakery, Jalisco, Silver Salmon north Tillamook County. For more information, call 503-368-6874. downtown Astoria at the very popular Armory. and T Paul’s. And during all these moves, was one person, Cindy Peake, an artistian Astoria Kiwanis and the Lower Columbia TimeBank have worked togeth- Nehalem Bay United Methodist Church, 45th Annual Christmas Bazaar herself, who stayed at the helm to keep this valued tradition alive for the er to bring back this popular holiday event, with sponsors Columbia Bank, & Clam Chowder Luncheon, 10th & A Streets, Nehalem. This long-running over 60 different artists who came to rely on this event for their holiday Columbia Memorial Hospital, Mary Jean and Jon Englund, Cannery Pier bazaar has added Christmas only tables and continues to offer the traditional season. Peake took over the art faire from longtime ASOC icon Judith Hotel, Warrenton Deep Sea, Blue Scorcher Bakery Café, Laurie Caplan, outside crafts people; handmade boutique; cookies, candy and jam; silent Niland back in 2000. and the Liberty Theater. auction; and filled baskets and jewelry areas. Eats here include clam chowder, Niland said “We created this faire long before there was a Sunday The date and time are easy to remember! 12/12 at 12. vegetable soup, crackers, pie, ice cream and beverages. For more informa- Market and there were very few art galleries and gift shops that carried FMI or to register your nonprofit for table space at the fair, contact tion call 503-368-5612. quality one-of-a kind hand crafted work. I also wanted those artisans who Caren Black at [email protected], or Robert McClelland at 503-894- can’t give all their time to their art because of work and family life, to have 0187. Or visit LoCoTimeBank.org/gifts-fair THREE VILLAGE AFFAIRE- a chance to show the world what they can do. I’m a big believer that “Art Thursday November 26th at 10am Tri-Village Turkey Trot 2.4 mile Walk/ saves Lives” in more ways than one. In the beginning our faire drew a large Run. group of eclectic cutting edge artists, who really could not find galleries, Friday November 27th Old Fashioned Holiday Celebration-5-8pm Pin who yet perceived their work as “Art”. We were a part of a new movement Grove Community Center in Manzanita. that included art in the expanding mediums of collage, digital, fabric, •Kids Holiday Fun Faire & crafts 5-8pm paper, book, mixed mediums and beads. We also created a family like •Santa arrives at 5:30 on a Fire truck (Pictures Santa and Mrs. Claus at atmosphere that called artists back year after year, to share, connect and the Kids Holiday Fun Faire). trade their art with their fellow creative friends.” •Tree Lighting at 6 pm. Peake added “I keep coming back to do the faire as it is a fund raiser Saturday November 28th – Holiday shopping Market and Trunk Show for two worthy causes, the ASOC and the food bank. Our community 10-6pm The Three Village Market at the Pine Grove in Manzanita will needs all members to band together to keep it great! I love this faire as continue to have 20 vendor spots and will continue to showcase only there are so many talented people in our community and surrounding ar- handmade/personally created goods. eas. It’s important to showcase their talent. And it’s a great venue to meet The Three Village Trunk Show in Nehalem at NCRD gym will have 30 interesting and fun people each year.” vendor spots and will showcase all variety of gifts & goods. There will also Join ASOC in celebrating it’s 20th Anniversary Season of the Starv- be a kid’s bounce house and kid crafts available while people shop. ing Artist Faire the first weekend of December. BUT! Shop early, you only Sunday November 29th – Pancake Breakfast 8:00 to Noon at the Pine have three chances to pick up a few quality gifts to give to your loved Grove ones during this special time of the year! There is a donation at the door Sponsored by Rinehart Clinic of two cans of food for the Clatsop County Food Bank or St. Vincent De Sunday November 15th -December 15th Shopping Passport Paul Food Bank or a $2.00 suggested contribution to help the Astor Street Contact April at, phone: 503-368-3792, email: [email protected] Opry Company keep up its good work in our community. Or Darcey at, phone: 503-314-6623, email: [email protected] Web- For more information please about being an artist at this faire site: http://threevillageaffaire.weebly.com/ please call coordinator Cindy at 503-458-6250 or email at cindykp_6@ hotmail.,com GIFTS THAT MAKE A DIFFERENCE Once again the most amazing people in Clatsop and Pacific counties will light up the Liberty Theater’s elegant McTavish Room when the area’s nonprofits gather for Gifts That Make a Difference, Saturday, December 12th from noon until 4pm. Shoppers can make holiday giving meaningful by donating in the name Nehalem Bay Area hosts 3 Gift Fairs of someone else! Giving takes the form of a beautiful holiday card that Continuing the successful tradition of holding three Nehalem Bay area reads “in your name”… a child was helped, someone had shelter, educa- holiday gift fairs on the same day, this year’s big event will take place on tion became available, an animal was saved. Gifts like these embody the Saturday, Dec 5th from 10-4. For the fourth year in a row, shoppers can make true spirit of the holidays, making a difference for all of us, not only the the rounds at the White Clover Grange, Fulcrum’s Alternative Gift Market at giver and recipient. And, helping others never comes in the wrong size. the Pine Grove in Manzanita and the Methodist Church in Nehalem. Here’s what you will find:

7 Nov 15 hipfishmonthly.com Indies First Event at Cloud & Leaf Bookstore in Manzanita on Saturday, November 28.

dent bookstores here, in Cloud & The local Leaf. You need to support them… authors at the book business is incredibly challenging these days especially Cloud & Leaf because of Amazon.’ I decided to on Saturday order all my books from Cloud & Leaf because I do want them here November in town.” 28th are: One of the things that indepen- dent bookstores do so well is to “hand-sell” books, to introduce you to books you might not hear Kathie Hightower, coauthor of Military about otherwise. These can be the Spouse Journey, and 1001 Things to Love big bestsellers, but just as often are About Military Life. great books from small publishing Lauren Kessler, author of Raising the wo years ago the award-winning houses or self-published books that Barre, Counterclockwise, Stubborn Twig, poet and author Sherman Alexie came T don’t quickly get press, titles that might not The Write Path, and others up with a simple but powerful way for gain a foothold in the book world without authors to be what he called “superheroes the efforts of indies. Holly Lorincz, author of the novel for independent bookstores.” He named “When my book came out in February,” Smart Mouth, and coauthor of Step By it Indies First. To participate, authors new author Phyllis Mannan shares, “Jody Step Pitches And Proposals: A Workbook and illustrators had only to show up at bolstered my confidence by placing a stack For Writers and How Do I Find A Literary their local independent bookstores on the of copies on the counter at Cloud & Leaf Agent? And 101 Other Questions Asked Saturday after Thanksgiving and hand-sell where customers couldn’t miss them. I owe By Writers. books. More than eleven hundred of his her a debt of gratitude.” colleagues did. Phyllis Mannan, author of Torn Fish: A A number of local authors will be at Mother, Her Autistic Son, and Their Shared What Sherman began with one great Cloud & Leaf Saturday, November 28, from idea has quickly become a movement of Humanity. This Way Out marks almost 30 years on the air! 11-4, sharing some of their favorite books, authors and illustrators directly support- hand-selling books. Not their own books, Deborah Reed, author of Things We Set Our first program was distributed on April 1, 1988. ing the independent booksellers who so but other books on Fire, Olivay, Carry Yourself Back to Me, directly support them. they personally and others. It’s the award-winning internationally distributed Join Cloud & Leaf Bookstore at 148 love. Floyd Skloot, author of Approaching weekly GLBT radio program, currently airing on over Laneda Ave in Manzanita for the Indies Indies First First event on November 28th, 2015. That Winter, Revertigo: An Off-Kilter Memoir, is a way to say 150 local commmunity radio stations around the day is Small Business Saturday, one of the and others. thank you to busiest shopping days of the year, coming world. independent Mark Scott Smith, author of Enemy in as it does right before the holidays. It’s the booksellers the Mirror: Love and Fury in the Pacific War. perfect time for you to find gift books for Get the latest news, listen to This Way Out on Coast for all they do, everyone on your list. Stop in and say hi, and discover some great Community Radio. and specifically “Shortly after we moved to Manzanita books at the same time. Shop local as you to show Jody fulltime in 2006,” Kathie Hightower, author take care of your holiday shopping this and her crew at and cofounder of the Manzanita Writers’ year. Cloud & Leaf series said, “My husband and I attended how important For information, contact Kathie Hightower an evening where Mike Powell of Powell’s they are to our at 503-739-1505, or Jody Swanson, at Books said something that really struck town. 503.368.2665. me. ‘You have one of the best indepen- The Coaster Theatre Playhouse Presents

Columbia River Symphony Nov 14 -15 a musical message of peace & harmony he Columbia River Symphony presents two family-friendly Tconcerts November 14 & 15, featuring music to celebrate the beauty of the autumn season with a message of harmony and peace for human- ity. With music as the universal language, the Columbia River Symphony The will perform a number of musical selections intended to lift people of story of the different backgrounds and beliefs above the differences that set us apart. Princess & Set to the theme of Autumn Magic, the program reflects the fall season the Pea that progresses so quickly and beautifully with constant colorful changes, will never be lending itself to a potpourri of delightful sounds and expressions. Each the same! piece has been carefully selected to reflect upon these changes and the differing effects that they have on cultures throughout our world. November 13 - December 20, 2015 The concerts are scheduled for 7 p.m. Saturday, November 14th at the Astoria Masonic Lodge, and at 3 p.m. Sunday, November 15th at the what is now Russia; and other selections celebrating the differences of life Tickets $23 or $18 Coastline Christian Fellowship in Olney, along Hwy. 202. Both concerts on our planet. are free, but donations are welcome. Led by conductor Cory Pederson, Columbia River Symphony is an all- Performances begin at 7:30 p.m. Musical selections will include Albert Davis’s “Anasazi II: The Night volunteer, nonprofit performing arts group. The mission of the Columbia All Sunday shows begin at 3:00 p.m. of the Yellow Moon,” representing the life of early Native Americans River Symphony is to provide quality musical entertainment, to increase of the Southwest United States; Carl Strommen’s “Cumberland Cross,” visibility of its performers’ talents, and to serve a leadership role in the Sponsored by The Clark Family an exuberant selection reminiscent of bluegrass fiddling containing a community while promoting cultural enrichment. chorale representing the sunset and sunrise over the mountains; Elena For those interested in performing with the symphony, visit www.colum- Tickets: 503-436-1242 or coastertheatre.com Lucas’s “Tatarian Dances,” featuring four movements that offer a variety biariversymphony.org, and check out our new Facebook page under the 108 N Hemlock Street, Cannon Beach, OR of textures and depictions of the Tatar people, whose ancestors settled in name Columbia River Symphony.

Nov 15 hipfishmonthly.com 8 Nehalem Basin NATURE Salmon Abundance by bob goldberg Trends and Forecasts for 2015 Manzanita, Oregon. Anglers and fish enthusiasts alike – you won’t want to miss this presentation! The Lower Nehalem Watershed Council will welcome acting District Fish Biologist Paul Atwood, from Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife’s Tillamook District office, during our upcoming Speaker Series event on November 12th at 6:30 pm. Please join us for an exciting update on the latest coho Weed Lives Matter and Chinook salmon populations in our local rivers. The presentation will be held Immigrants are definitely in the vasive species”, also called “aliens” at the Pine Grove Community House, 225 news lately. Europe is having fits – are often feeling the same pain, as Laneda Ave, Manzanita. Doors open at figuring out how to deal with millions they are systematically eradicated 6:30 pm for refreshments. The presenta- of people fleeing conflicts in Syria for being who they are, in the wrong tion will start at 7:20 pm following an and elsewhere in the Middle East and place at the wrong time. update from Lower Nehalem Watershed northern Africa. In the U.S. presiden- You may not feel empathy for a Nature Matters • Welcome Back Otter! • Nov 19 Council. tial campaign, Republican primary field of Scotch broom or Japanese candidate Donald Trump stirred the knotweed being poisoned, or even Sea otters are coming home to advocacy work and how the public can Interested in getting more involved pot by saying that Mexican migrants for acres of spartina grass sprayed Oregon and we are working hard to give get involved more directly in sea otter with restoration and enhancement of the coming into the U.S. are rapists and to oblivion, but you may start to feel them a warm welcome. recovery. Nehalem? Lower Nehalem Watershed criminals. Several of the Republican something for cormorants or sea lions For much of the last century, the Fensterer has worked with the sea ot- Council (LNWC) is seeking applications candidates running against Trump killed to save salmon. Maybe you chances of seeing a sea otter playing ters at the Oregon Zoo since the Steller for Board of Directors membership. echoed his call for repeal of section don’t tear up thinking about millions in the waves off of Cannon Beach or Cove exhibit opened in 2000. He has LNWC is a citizens’ group and tax-exempt 1 of the fourteenth amendment that of rats and mice being eradicated Depoe Bay were virtually zero. But that found wild sea otters in Seward, Alaska, nonprofit corporation. The Council gives citizenship to all people born in on islands off the California coast may be changing. In the last several Tofino, British Columbia, and Monterey, welcomes participation from a diverse the U.S. Trump went as far as to say to help bring back “native” birds, years, a steady trickle of confirmed sea California, and says he looks forward to citizenry, including active or retired farm- that we need to send all the illegal but perhaps you have some feeling otter sightings along the Oregon coast the day when he can count on seeing ers, foresters, woodland owners, rural immigrants in the country back to for cats or horses destroyed to save has revived hope that these intelligent, sea otters on the Oregon coast. and urban residents, business owners, their homelands – no exceptions – some other “endangered” species, highly-social animals may once again Nature Matters, a lively conversation and government, university or NGO now. or just because we think there are too flourish off our shores. Come hear what about the intersection of nature and staff and scientists. LNWC is committed The Black Lives Matter move- many of them, or they don’t belong we can do so that we can all once again culture, takes place on the third Thurs- to watershed improvement action (e.g. ment in the U.S. has sprung up after wherever they are. see these intelligent day of each month, October through water quality, habitat for fish and wildlife) several unarmed African-Americans In Part II of David Theodoropou- and playful critters thrive in their May. Nature Matters is hosted by Lewis through community discussion, broadly- were killed by police in the last year los’s book Invasion Biology - Critique native Oregon home. Join North Coast and Clark National Historical Park, The inclusive decision making, and voluntary or two, where videos from bystanders of a Pseudoscience (Avvar Books, Watershed for the presentation of “Wel- North Coast Watershed Association, action. We bring grant dollars to the area conflicted with the official police de- 2003), which started me thinking come Back Otter!” Thursday, November and the Fort George. The series delves and leverage donations to achieve both scription of the incidents, and many differently about invasive species, 19 at the Nature Matters Lecture series. into the many ways that human beings programs and projects. New members of the police involved did not receive he attempts to answer the question, Philip Fensterer of Oregon Zoo and look to the natural world for inspiration, will be elected at the January 14th, 2016 punishment. The gist of the move- Why? Why do we hate and kill these Marielle Cowdin of Oregon Wild are sustenance and survival - the intersection Annual Meeting & Speaker Series. Please send a letter of nomination to the Nomi- ment is that the white establishment innocent plants and animals? There teaming up to talk about sea otters in of nature and culture. of the country needs to acknowledge Oregon. Fensterer will give the bulk of nating Committee at lnwc@nehalemtel. are many recent quotes from promi- Nature Matters is free, open to net or to the Council mailing address (PO the misdeeds of the past and the nent scientists and environmentalists the presentation from the perspective present, and make the effort to not the public, and takes place in the Fort Box 249, Nehalem, OR 97131). The letter that are scarily similar to quotes and of his 16 years of experience caring for only change things now, but make up George’s Lovell Showroom. Doors should include at minimum your name, policies of the Nazis which justified Oregon’s ambassador sea otter popula- for the past in words and deeds. open at 6pm and the talk begins at contact information, and a statement of the mass killing of Jews and others tion at the Oregon Zoo. Cowdin will For our purposes, the key element 7pm. interest. Please apply by December 15th, in the chapters of this section. Plenty follow up with more on Oregon Wild’s of these literal and figurative move- 2015. of xenophobia to go around. U.S. ments is that they involve people LNWC November Meeting Canceled: presidential candidates or European who were brought, or came to, The Lower Nehalem Watershed Council leaders don’t have a corner on this Help Plant 10,000 Violets another place from abroad, through will not be holding a separate meeting no choice of their own, and were and market. In Gearhart and Warrenton in the month of November, previously are persecuted solely for their origins. We play God and decide which scheduled for November 4th at 3:00 pm. The presence of the early blue violet (Viola adunca) is essential to the survival of the Can you figure out where I’m going species should live and which should Please join us for our next Council meet- Oregon silverspot butterfly, a butterfly native to the coastal prairie stretching from northern with this? die, just like we decided, and still de- ing on Wednesday, December 2nd, 2015 California to southwestern Washington. On Nov. 20 and 21, North Coast Land Conservancy is This column has featured species cide, which race, religion, or people from 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm at Nehalem City orchestrating the planting of more than 10,000 early blue violet seedlings on land it owns or after species of plant and animal that should live or die. We’ve spread all manages in the Clatsop Plains—the grassy dunes west of U.S. 101 stretching from Gearhart to Hall (35900 8th Street, Nehalem). We will could easily empathize with the plight over the world, and brought plants Warrenton. The land conservancy is seeking volunteers to help with this landmark conservation be discussing Board elections, current of the Syrian refugees, the Mexicans and animals with us, some purposely, effort. and future projects, and other Council and Central Americans coming to the some not. Some we’ve decided are Oregon silverspot butterflies lay their eggs near these violets; their larvae (caterpillars) eat Business. This is a great opportunity to good, and we encourage their prolif- the dried stems and leaves of the violets and nothing else. The 10,000 violet seedlings to be U.S. to escape poverty or violence get more involved in the Council and eration, and some we’ve decided are planted Nov. 20 and 21 are among more than 16,000 grown for this purpose from seed collect- in their country, or the Africans that learn about out exciting projects. We bad, and we try to eradicate them. ed from violets growing wild in the Clatsop Plains beginning in 2006. The rest of the seedlings were snatched from their homeland encourage our partners and the public to to work the plantations in America Our preferences change with time, are being planted in coastal prairie habitat at Willapa National Wildlife Refuge in southwestern join us! Washington and at Lewis and Clark National Historical Park property in Clatsop County. (and elsewhere around the world). Or sometimes reversing the fortunes of North Coast Land Conservancy is organizing teams of volunteers to plant the violets at sev- Event Information: Refreshments and snacks will for that matter, the Jews and other millions of individuals and scarring eral sites. No experience is necessary, all ages are welcome, and tools are provided. Volunteers be served. This event is FREE and open to the minorities that were persecuted and landscapes in the process. should wear boots and clothing appropriate for the weather. Please e-mail Stewardship Direc- public. Find more information on our speaker killed by the Nazis in World War II, If black lives matter, and immigrant tor Melissa Reich at [email protected] in advance for location and other details and to series on our Facebook page (https://www. just for being who they were. Name lives matter, then weed lives matter let her know you (or your group) are coming. For more details, visit NCLCtrust.org. facebook.com/lnwc1). your genocide – these so-called “in- too.

9 Nov 15 hipfishmonthly.com Caroling Competition and Cookie Bake-Off Sleepy Monk Coffee Roasters a new Astoria Winter Festival Tradition sight and sound and vision get the goods on 2 awesome ways to “rock the holidays!” and . . . a Golden Bean! ASTORIA, OR – The Astoria Winter businesses, non-profit organizations, Festival is holding a Caroling Compe- government offices, military, and tition and Holiday Cookie Bake-off as religious organizations can register a part of its three-days of festivities. So team. Caroling Award categories warm up your singing voice and dig are: People’s Choice Giving Award up your best holiday cookie recipe given to the top three teams that raise to win fun prizes and raise money for the most money for their chosen char- your favorite local charity ity; Creativity Award to the most cre- “We encourage carolers to begin ative presentation; and the Scrooge downtown to spread good cheer Award to the “Ok, so you’re not a to shoppers before coming to The great singer or maybe ‘Bah-Humbug’ Armory for the competition,” added is your holiday mantra but by-gosh festival coordinator Cyndi Mudge. you tried” team. Astoria Sunday Mar- The Caroling competition ket has agreed to donate $100, $75 takes place Saturday, December 20. and $50 to a local charity chosen by Registrations can be downloaded at the top three winners. Charities must www.AstoriaSundayMarket starting be a registered non-profit. Registra- December 1. tion deadline is Friday, December 19. The Holi- Registrations day Cookie will be avail- Bake-off Astoria Winter Market able online is Sunday, Dec 4-6, 12-14 • PIER 11 by December December 1 at www. 21. Cookie AstoriaSun- contestants dayMarket. are asked to Story and photos by Erin Hofseth com bring a plate The Holi- here’s a reason that Cannon Beach, Oregon is a of their best day Cookie family holiday Tromantic-getaway hotspot. Fine foods, bakeries, beaches, Bake-off cookies to is a great wine, sunsets, classy hotels; the town is home to many vacation The Armory opportunity indulgences. We mustn’t forget coffee though; especially here by 1pm. Win- to showcase ners will be in Oregon, where a well pulled espresso shot is equivalent to your fam- announced unwrapping a golden ticket. ily’s favorite at 4:30 pm. So, it’s no surprise that Cannon Beach is also home to one of the Oregon cookie. Judges Enjoy the serenity of our “Every fam- Coast’s most renowned coffee shops: Sleepy Monk Coffee Roasters. Opened gardens, wooded paths, sauna, include originally in 2000 by Jane and Victor Harding in what’s known as “midtown” yurt and bhuddas . . . Anna Holen, ily seems to . . . in Nahcotta, Washington have a cookie favorite they bake for Cannon Beach, the coffee shop traded hands three years ago. It is now on Sandridge Road, daughter of Chris and Jennifer Holen collectively owned by twin sisters, Rebecca Parker and Rachel Conyers, and just south of Bay Avenue from Baked Alaska, one of Santa’s the holidays,” noted Mudge. “This is overlooking willapa bay original co-owner, Joel Bernhard. The shop reaches customers around the Elves and a local cookie expert! The a fun way to share your family tradi- globe with their award winning coffee. Tourists and locals alike would de- Festival is a program of Astoria Sun- tion!” Anna Holen graciously agreed “women have been central to the environ- scribe the one-of-kind organic coffee shop as welcoming and cozy. The cof- mental movement and our understanding of day Market showcasing up to forty to be a judge along with one of ecology since its earliest stirrings and fragile Santa’s Elves. “We appreciate Santa fee, roasted on site, is described on their website as, “brilliant, rich, complex, beginnings in the 19th century” vendors that make or grow their prod- Excerpted from “Rachel Carson and ucts and a Beer and Bacon themed offering to let one of his favorite elves and almost mystical.” It is certainly a must stop for anyone visiting town. The Her Sisters” by Robert K. Musil concessions. Wet Dog Café is the participate during his most busy week shop’s popularity amongst tourists and locals alike is evident to any passerby, featured brewer and the North Coast of the season,” noted Mudge. To par- on any given day. The line stretches out to the street, the porch is crowded Chefs Syndicate is providing the ticipate simply bring your fully baked with smiling, coffee sipping customers, and the doorways are bustling with bacon treats. Home Depot is hosting cookies on a tray with the recipe to people awaiting their orders. a Kids Clinic on Friday for kids who The Armory on Sunday, December 21 A big part of the business’s continued success has been the personalities want to make a gift (while supplies by 1pm. There will be display tables of those running it from the beginning. Jane and Victor set the tone fifteen last). The Festival takes place Friday, and instructions at the Festival. Prizes years ago, creating a laid back and inviting environment for employees and Saturday and Sunday December 19, will be given to the top three winners customers alike. “Jane and Victor’s motto was, ‘We live to work, not work to selected. 20 and 21. Festival hours are 3 to 8 live.’ They passed that along to us. It’s about quality, not quantity,” says one Mudge says, “We hope the Carol- pm Friday, December 19 and 10 am of three owners, Rachel Conyers. The current owners also credit the Hardings to 5 pm Saturday and Sunday. ing Competition and Holiday Cookie for teaching them how to treat their employees; which for the record, is really, For the caroling competition, Bake-off become annual traditions really well. Sleepy Monk employees receive full benefits packages, a solid teams are invited to have fun and to here in Astoria as a way to give feel free to share traditional, cultural back to our local charities, share our hourly wage plus gratuities, and paid time off for the entire month of January or crazy renditions of favorite holiday traditions and spread the joy of the when the shop shuts down. Rachel and Rebecca refer to their business as songs. Families and individuals can season!” “employee owned,” because they admittedly could not do it without every www.mobydickhotel.com form caroling teams or groups from person there. 360-665-4543 or 1-800-673-6145 Nov 15 hipfishmonthly.com 10 Head roaster, Aubrey Scott Ferber.

Co-owners and Twin sisters, Rebecca Parker and Rachel Conyers. Co-owner Joel Bernhard

“We treat our employees as equals. We are all a team here. petition. They took 3rd place in the Organic Espresso category for puter controlled. They don’t have any timers or anything. It’s all No one is better, no one is lesser. We are all even,” says Rebecca. their Monastery Blend, a well-known Sleepy Monk favorite. done by sight and sound.” The effects of this philosophy are evident. Their employees The Golden Bean Competition is an event that is held yearly in It is somewhat uncommon these days for roasters to use these stick around; they smile, they’re helpful, and they’re proud of Australia. This was the first year that it was held in North America methods, especially for consumer coffee. “I don’t want to say the product they’re selling. The Sleepy Monk has 12 year-round as well. According to Aubrey, “it’s a world-wide competition and we’re exclusive but we’re in a small group of people who are still employees who stay busy throughout the seasonal shifts of this you can enter from anywhere in the world. Sleepy Monk was roasting by sight and sound and watching the development of the area. Upon entering the shop, one cannot help but notice the invited and asked to submit a few coffees.” He was excited for beans the whole time and just controlling the temperatures.” Au- unique attributes of each employee. They style-up their Sleepy the opportunity to get some feedback on his trade, “There’s a lot brey does all the roasting on-sight, so their old school techniques, Monk t-shirts by cutting the sleeves to make tanks, tying them at of competitions these days for farmers growing organic coffee and their small 40 pound roasters, are used partially because of the side, or cutting the necks into a trendy V. They have piercings, beans and especially for baristas, but there’s not much that really their limited space. “We don’t have the means to mass produce so tattoos, dramatic hair colors and styles. Freedom of expression is highlights what the roasters do.” Aubrey was honored to attend, we kind of have to do everything by itself. It takes more time but what originally drew Rachel and Rebecca to this line of work. Both and to receive the award on behalf of the Sleepy Monk, “It was we feel better about it and we know that we’re getting a better women had been working for a larger establishment in town for a special experience to go up there and mingle with all the other product by doing it.” many years. They were ready for a change of scenery, environ- roasters from around the nation and around the world.” Coffee All the coffee at the Sleepy Monk is Fair Trade and Organic. ment, and schedule. “We didn’t want to work corporate any- samples from all contesting roasters were sent in a week before They have about 30 blends for sale at the shop at all times. Cof- more,” says Rebecca. “We were looking for something where we the week-long judging process. World-class baristas were on sight fee is shipped globally, and orders can be made through their could have our own individualities. We could have piercing and preparing drinks for the judges to sample. “There were over 200 website, www.sleepymonkcoffee.com. “We have a pretty good tattoos if we wanted to, and we wouldn’t have to work so many roasters invited, and over 400 coffees judged in 8 different cat- wholesale following. We ship to a lot of companies in Oregon and hours.” So, when Jane and Victor approached the two women egories over the week,” says Aubrey. “They are going to try to do Washington,” says Aubrey. The charm is really in the faces behind and proposed that they begin to learn the coffee business in order it every year in North America, and they said that they are going the counter though. “We want people to feel like they are coming eventually take over, both women whole-heartedly agreed. After to use Portland as their head-quarters. Hopefully we will be able into our homes,” says Rebecca, and this is certainly one of the one full year of hands on, five-days-a-week training, the women to go back next year.” reasons people keep coming back. took over the business in January of 2012, with existing co-owner Aubrey is humble; just like his bosses. He credits Jane and “We remember people’s names, and what they drink. We try Joel Bernhard. Victor for implementing the roasting methods that he currently to make each individual customer feel really important, even if we Joel had been with Jane and Victor from the beginning, training uses to produce consistent, high quality beans. “Victor and Jane only get them for a half a minute to a minute. We want to give as their coffee roaster. He eventually became a co-owner and the started to train me under Joel a couple years back and since then them eye contact, and we want to them feel special.” head roaster. He is now passing his knowledge and expertise on I’ve kind of taken over as the head roaster.” It takes some effort to A cup of coffee has never sounded so good. to the current head roaster, Aubrey Scott Ferber. The artisan craft stand out though; Aubrey’s job is time intensive. “We roast all of of roasting that Jane and Victor established when they opened still our beans single origin to the specifications of each bean. Then Sleepy Monk is located at 1235 S. Hemlock St. in Cannon Beach. exists, and the product is earning some well-deserved praise. In we do our blending after all of it has been roasted.” He goes on Hours: Mon, Tue & Thu : 8 am - 3 pm; Fri - Sat : 8 am - 4 pm; Sun : September Aubrey went over to the Jupiter Hotel in Portland to to explain, “We’re running old school roasters that are not com- 8 am - 4 pm; * somewhat consistent * receive a bronze medal at the Golden Bean North America Com-

11 Nov 15 hipfishmonthly.com The New Farm to Table - And Oregon’s first “Bud & Brunch!” By Cathy Nist Local Cannabis finds it’s legal place in Oregon agriculture BUD AND BRUNCH NOV 22. tober, North Fork 53 promises to play a leading role in increasing he legalization of cannabis for Oregon Stephanie Calderon leads a local sustainable agriculture on the North Oregon coast. North pairing of locally grown canna- Topened up more than just dispensary doors Fork 53 features a bed and breakfast (serving food grown on their bis and locally grown foods this fall. Farmers all over the state, as well as farm) as well as a commercial kitchen for teaching cooking classes Stephanie’s cannabis career got and hosting visiting chefs, a year round farm store that offers value Oregon’s Department of Agriculture, are on it’s start in 2006 in Los Angeles’ added farm products as well as fresh produce, local grass fed dispensaries. She began her work high alert for what could be the most influential meats and line caught seafood. “North Fork 53 is a vision that we to help her family find an alterna- new crop since wine grapes vined their way into have had for years. We wanted to create a local food hub, a place tive to treatments for cancer and where people the Willamette multiple sclerosis. Her experience could eat, stay Valley. spans from budtending, process- and learn all ing, growing, and now managing Marijuana is poised to about food, dispensaries. She relocated to join in the local farm medicinal Oregon earlier this year in pursuit to table movement, herbs and of a profession in cannabis. With taking it’s place along their health” two dispensary opening under side craft beers, micro- Brigham Ed- her belt, Stephanie is currently distilled liquors and wards notes. the manager at TJ’s Organic regional wines, as a sig- In Novem- Provisions in Eugene, OR. nature Oregon harvest ber, North Fork TJ’s Organic Gardens’ MK Ultra which can be paired is hosting the placed first in the hybrid category at with seasonal foods. first “Bud and the NW Cannabis Classic Competition. Like wine, cannabis has Brunch” in Named after the famous L.S.D. experi- distinct strains that re- Oregon. “We ments in the ‘50s, this mostly Indica flect the plants heritage want to invite hybrid will truly hypnotize you. A cross and region where it our friends of the legendary G-13 and LA’s finest was grown. It’s appetite who farm can- O.G. Kush that produces very tight inducing properties nabis locally to resin coated buds with qualities that are famous, making the table. They cannot be underestimated. A piney fla- it a perfect comple- are growing a vor that lasts and lasts and a hypnotic ment to a meal. In crop just like high make MK the ultimate head stash! addition, cannabis can the rest of us. MK Ultra is an especially helpful strain be consumed as food By pairing it for pain, stress and insomnia. or added in tincture Two Oregon coast farmers that are pioneering the conversation around all things local and with food we form to drinks as well sustainable are Brigham and Ginger Edwards of North Fork 53. Ginger is the owner of organic can start to as smoked, giving it a vegetable farm, R-evolution Gardens and has been feeding the North Coast for over 7 years de-stigmatize versatility that makes through her CSA veggie boxes and at farmer’s markets and local restaurants. Brigham is a stu- it and bring it dent of herbalism and founder of PNW Potions, a Cannabis tincture company creating herbal pairing it throughout into the realm blends for pain relief and increased vitality. a meal an endless, of something creative, fun process. as normal a But is this legal? The answer is mostly - yes! Chefs, farmers and farm brunch.” Ginger is careful to add, “Cannabis will be free to even wedding planners are now brainstorming innovative ways sample, not sold. We are just a farm and not a dispensary - but that Oregon’s new law could be a huge boon to local food lovers we can legally give out free cannabis testers with the brunch and as well as the cannabis industry. let people try out the local strains in a safe and informative way.” Two Oregon coast farmers that are pioneering the conversa- North Fork 53 has invited cannabis industry expert Stephanie tion around all things local and sustainable are Brigham and Calderon of TJ’s Organics in Eugene to lead a pairing of locally Ginger Edwards of North Fork 53. Ginger is the owner of organic grown cannabis and locally grown foods. There will be information vegetable farm, R-evolution Gardens and has been feeding the presented about the new Oregon law and how it impacts rural North Coast for over 7 years through her CSA veggie boxes and communities, health and farm economies. “If people are curious at farmer’s markets and local restaurants. Brigham is a student about cannabis or the new law this will be a great place to learn”. of herbalism and founder of PNW Potions, a Cannabis tincture North Fork 53 also hosts non-cannabis brunches, cooking Upcoming at North Fork 53: company creating herbal blends for pain relief and increased classes, community events and a 4-room bed and breakfast. • Nov 13th - Fresh Pasta Making Class and Dinner (with vitality. “We have been having so many conversations lately with Brigham Edwards explains, “We don’t grow cannabis commer- PDX chef Shimron Tubman) friends about what the legalization of cannabis means to us as cially ourselves. Ginger farms 3 acres of organic vegetables.” small farmers.” reflects Ginger Edwards. “People are just starting Both Brigham and Ginger are more interested in the agritourism • Nov 14th- Learn to Make Soap! (make your own gifts to realize that we don’t need to sneak around the subject or be potential of cannabis for their farm. this year!) embarrassed. In my opinion, cannabis is probably one of the most North Fork 53 was started as an agritourism destination as well amazing plants out there.” It is true that cannabis is an agricul- as educational community center. If Oregon follows in Colorado’s • Nov 17th- Holiday Pies 101 (using local pumpkins and tural wonder plant. It is easy to grow, highly adaptable to different footsteps, our state will see a huge boom of agritourism in 2016. apples) regions and can produce everything from high protein foods, to Local farmers are taking note. “It’s hard to finance small farms • Nov 22nd- Bud and Brunch (Cannabis educational fabric and paper, to powerful cancer fighting drugs. “It was ridicu- on veggie sales alone. We started North Fork 53 to help us fund event with free sampling) lous that it was ever illegal and now that the ban is lifted we can our farm and expand our CSA and distribution along the coast to celebrate and start visioning how this plant fits into our farm plan”. more people. The Oregon coast already has lots of dispensaries • Nov 27th- Green Friday (Buy nothing day, come make Brigham Edwards adds, “I have been fascinated by the medicinal selling legal cannabis, what it doesn’t have is any place folks can crafts and gifts on the farm!) qualities of marijuana for years. It started as a party thing for my pair it with local food in a safe and healthy atmosphere,” Ginger friends and then expanded as I found my tinctures were helping clarifies. Only time will tell whether cannabis tourism will be a The North Fork farm store is open every Saturday and people with PTSD sleep peacefully for the first time in years, and revenue source to farmers other than pot growers. What is clear is Sunday from 11am to 3pm. To see all of North Fork 53’s stopping migraines and other chronic pain.” that North Fork 53 is breaking new ground and could be a state upcoming events visit www.northfork53.com Ginger and Brigham together own a new farm-to-table venture leader in how local communities can steer the marijuana economic on Highway 53 in Nehalem called North Fork 53. Opened in Oc- boom towards a local, sustainable and healthy future. New events are added weekly!

Nov 15 hipfishmonthly.com 12 Art Faculty Exhibit Honoring Royal Nebeker CCC Art Center Gallery thru January 14 In a very special exhibit honoring the memory of the late Royal Nebeker, the Clatsop Community College Art Center Gallery will feature a selection of Nebeker’s artwork in addition to recent work created by current art faculty who teach in the areas of both credit and community educa- tion studio art classes. The reception will be held at 6:00 p.m. on Thursday, November 12 with light refreshments, including special treats provided by Rebecca Kraft of Winekraft and beverages from the Fort George Brewery. The exhibit will be on display through January 14. The gallery reception and exhibit are free and open to the public. The CCC Art Center Gallery, located at 1799 Lexington Avenue, Astoria, is open from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday, and on weekends and holidays by appointment. For more than three decades in his role as teacher, colleague, mentor, and role model, Ne- beker enriched the lives of countless individuals through his dedication and passionate guidance in the visual arts and set the highest standards in terms of shaping the art department’s educational philosophy and rigorous curriculum emphasizing creative expression, critical analysis and thoughtful dialogue, research, empathy, and integrity. In addition to setting extremely high standards for teaching excellence, Nebeker also set a very high standard for CCC faculty to actively create and professionally exhibit their own work. Follow- ing Nebeker’s remarkable example, the art faculty are pleased to present several examples of their own recent work in a range of disciplines, including drawing, painting, printmaking, ceramics, sculp- ture, photography, and calligraphy. Current faculty Royal Nebeker represented in the exhibit are: Bill Antilla, Dwight “Untitled Memory 44” Caswell, David Homer, David Lee Myers, Rebecca Oil and collage on canvas, 60” x 48” Read, Ben Rosenberg, Richard Rowland, Lucien Swerdloff, and Kristin Shauck. RECEPTION: 6pm,Thursday, November 12 with light refreshments, including Not only did Nebeker dedicate his life to teach- special treats provided by Rebecca Kraft of Winekraft and beverages from the ing, but he showed by example the importance of Fort George Brewery. The exhibit will be on display through January 14. The the arts in all aspects of our lives, and his presence gallery reception and exhibit are free and open to the public. The CCC Art will be felt in the CCC art department for genera- Center Gallery, located at 1799 Lexington Avenue, Astoria, is open from 8:00 tions to come. The CCC art faculty are committed a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday, and on weekends and holidays by to carrying on Nebeker’s extraordinary legacy. appointment.

LightBox Photographic Gallery will host the opening and artist’ reception of “Cómo juegan los niños” (How Children Play), 2nd Saturday Art Walk, November 14, 6-9pm. Photographer Calvin Chen of Portland, Oregon includes 25 Pigment Ink prints of his sig- nature work, which was voted into the 2014 Top 50 Critical Mass Photographic series. All sales will be donated to one of Calvin’s favorite charities. Vibe of Port- land, an organization that offers music classes and visual art classes to low income children; and Reach Out and Read, which supports medical providers in giving books to children and advice to parents about the importance of reading. Portland Rescue Mission - a homeless shelter that provides food, shelter, addiction services to the homeless. “Cómo juegan los niños” will be on display in the gallery from Novem- ber14 until December 8. Also opening on this night at the Gallery is the first of a new series of LightBox Pop Up Shows, that will exhibit at the gallery dur- ing Second Saturday’s Art Walks every month. Also in the gallery, new work from LightBox Darkroom Members, presenting archival fiber silver gelatin prints. LightBox offers supporting memberships for those who would like to help promote the creative photographic arts on the North Coast of Oregon. LightBox is located at 1045 Marine Dr. in Astoria. Hours are Tues-Sat 11-5:30. Contact LightBox at 503-468-0238 or [email protected].

13 Nov 15 hipfishmonthly.com GoingsOn: NOVEMBER ‘15 day-by-day w e a r astoria in the columbia pacific rant in the Shelburne Inn in Seaview. Near Astoria or on the Long Beach Secret Drum Band Thursday 12 360-642-4150 Peninsula. columbiapacificheritage- MUSIC museum.com/news-events-2/ocian- Saturday Nov 28, HAPPENING in-view/ Moon Grass. No cover, 8pm at the Adrift Ocian in View Cultural Weekend. Sou ‘Wester Hotel in Long Beach. Lectures, dinners, bus tour, and other Game Day at the Library. Relax and is a noise & percussion ensemble themed events. At various locations have fun with family and friends at ART the library’s free monthly Game Day. that started as a four-piece in CCC Faculty Show. Featuring the work of Near Astoria or on the Long Beach Peninsula. columbiapacificheritage- Choose from a wide variety of board Olympia, WA in 2006. Lisa Sch- Royal Nebeker. Opening Reception at 6pm games, card games, and LEGO® bricks in the CCC Art Center Gallery in Astoria. museum.com/news-events-2/ocian- onberg is the primary composer, in-view/ for all ages. 2 – 4pm at the Astoria Public Library. and many of her pieces are place- HAPPENING First Friday Nights. A mix of live music, based and reflect on landscape, Fall Teen Programs at the Tillamook Library. games, film screenings, skills demon- LITERARY ecology, and soundscapes. Build a Hexbot Maze, lego mazes for little strations, and hands-on activities. A Fall Book Sale. 9am – 5pm at the bug like robots to race through. Stop in at cash bar and inspired snacks will be Seaside Library. Instrumentation includes up to the Tillamook Library to show your skills at five drummers and two musi- available. Free admittance, 7 – 9pm at maze building. Free, 5:30 – 7pm. the Barbey Maritime Center in Astoria. OUTSIDE cians creating noises, loops and ASOC Be an Angel Fundraiser. $40 admission Photo Hiking. Hike with professional tones. Secret Drum Band features includes dinner. 5pm at the Astoria Event LITERARY photographers Bob Gibson and Jeri Heather Treadway (explode Center. Fall Book Sale. 9am – 5pm at the Knudsen and learn basic techniques. Seaside Library. $20 per person. 9 – 11am at Spring Lake into colors), Sara Lund (hungry LECTURE Trail, Lincoln City. ghost/unwound), Allan Wilson Learn About Electric Vehicles. Are you think- THEATER {chk chk chk, HITS), Sam Humans ing about buying a Chevy Volt or Nissan Leaf Shakespeare Experience. With THEATER or any of the new electric Vehicles (EV’s)? If historical-dress actress Tames Alan. 9am I Hate Hamlet. Comedy. $14, 7:30pm at (modernstate/orquestra pacifico at the Hilltop Auditorium in Ilwaco. Theater West in Lincoln City. tropical), Alison Clarys (tiburones), so, The Friends of the Seaside Library are hosting Pamela Mattson McDonald speak- I Hate Hamlet. Comedy. $14, 7:30pm at and Anthony Brisson and Eddie ing about the growth of Electric Vehicles. Theater West in Lincoln City. Sunday 8 Bond of Psychomagic. Heather Free, 7pm at the Seaside Library. Treadway designs costumes for MUSIC Lower Nehalem Watershed Council Speaker Saturday 7 Richard T and Friends. No cover, the ensemble. Recently Secret Series. With Paul Atwood. An exciting up- MUSIC 11:30am at the Bridgewater Bistro in Drum Band merged with HITS date on the latest coho and Chinook salmon Astoria. (Schonberg’s other band with populations in our local rivers. 6pm at the Tom Trudell. Jazz piano. No cover, 6pm Pine Grove Community Center in Manzanita. at the Bridgewater Bistro in Astoria. Bart Budwig. No cover. 8pm at Fort Wilson and Treadway), and SDB is George Brewery & Public House in now also performing selections Learn More about Medicare, Medicaid & Marie Antoinette’s 260th Birthday Bash. With cake (of course), and an evening Astoria. written by the trio. 8pm. OHPO. Learn about Medicare, Medicaid and the Oregon Health Plan Options. Get of vaguely Marie-related songs by Fred Ezza Rose. No cover, 8pm at the Adrift answers to your questions. Guest speaker Bassett and Sonya Kazen, Eric Sap- Hotel in Long Beach. will be Dwayne Scales. 10am in the Hatfield pington, Jim Nelson and Tim Hines, and Leon Forrest. 8:30pm at Snug Harbor Room at the Tillamook Library. RSVP to Susie Wayne Frampton and Joe Wrabek (with Bar & Grill in Lincoln City. at 503-842-3900 ext. 1060 special guest Steve Bauer). Free, 7pm at Golden Donna the Bay City Arts Center. ART Beers to Your Health. Where does Wellness Stormy Weather Arts Festival. A Misé (Me zay) Begin? With Angela Sidlo. Free, 7pm in the Zak Borden. $11, 7pm at the Peninsula Arts Center in Long Beach. celebration of the arts featuring special Dec 5 @ KALA Lovell Showroom at Fort George in Astoria. exhibits, artist demonstrations, and THEATER Ages and Ages. No cover, 8pm at the host receptions for guest artists. At Double Bill at KALA on Dec 5, Sou’wester Lodge in Seaview. brings Golden Donna to A. Town. I Hate Hamlet. Comedy. $14, 7:30pm at various locations in Cannon Beach. can- Theater West in Lincoln City. Big Monti & Doug Rowell. 9pm at nonbeach.org/events/Entertainment/ Joel Shanahan, from the mid- Roadhouse 101 in Lincoln City. Copy-of-Stormy-Weather-Arts-Festival west but now posed in Portland Bolt Upright. 9pm at Snug Harbor Bar & HAPPENING plays hypnotic grooves. Golden Friday 13 Grill in Lincoln City. Ocian in View Cultural Weekend. Donna is the electronic outlet of MUSIC Tim Snider. 9pm at the Adrift Hotel in Lectures, dinners, bus tour, and other a project that draws on genres David Drury. Jazz guitar. No cover, 6pm at Long Beach. themed events. At various locations ranging from psych to house the Bridgewater Bistro in Astoria. Near Astoria or on the Long Beach music to create layered tracks Open Stage for Music and Word. Performers ART Peninsula. columbiapacificheritage- Stormy Weather Arts Festival. A built on powerful, danceable can sign up at the door for 10-minute slots. museum.com/news-events-2/ocian- $3 donation, 7 – 8:30pm at the Hoffman celebration of the arts featuring special in-view/ rhythms and bass lines and intri- Center in Manzanita. exhibits, artist demonstrations, and cate, headphone-worthy synth host receptions for guest artists. At CoLoSo. 9pm at the Nauti Mermaid in various locations in Cannon Beach. can- LITERARY composition. Lincoln City. “[Golden Donna’s second album, nonbeach.org/events/Entertainment/ Fall Book Sale. 1pm – 5pm at the Copy-of-Stormy-Weather-Arts-Festival Seaside Library. II, is] a tour de force of dance mu- sic styles whose constituent parts Friday 6 FOOD & DRINK are themselves accomplished MUSIC Wine Tasting. Antinori. 1 – 4pm at the Monday 9 Cellar on 10th in Astoria. hybrid.” —Little White Earbuds. David Drury. Jazz guitar. No cover, 6pm at MUSIC the Bridgewater Bistro in Astoria. Winemaker’s Dinner. Antinori. 6pm, Leon Forrest. 8:30pm at Snug Harbor Misé is a new locally –based duo Tim Snider. 9pm at the Adrift Hotel in Long reservations required. At the Cellar on Bar & Grill in Lincoln City. who plays THE sweetest of indie- Beach. 10th in Astoria. 503-325-6600 pop. Opening act, you’ll be ready ART Wine Tasting. 1 – 5pm at the Wine Shack in Cannon Beach. Tuesday 10 to ooze into the house after be- Stormy Weather Arts Festival. A celebration MUSIC ing emotionally lifted from your of the arts featuring special exhibits, artist HAPPENING Leon Forrest. 8:30pm at Snug Harbor demonstrations, and host receptions for Lower Columbia Pug Socializing Club. heart of songs. Bar & Grill in Lincoln City. guest artists. At various locations in Cannon Pugs and their people meet monthly Doors Open 7:30. Muisc follow- Beach. cannonbeach.org/events/Entertain- for fun and socialization. 11am at Car- ing 8ish. And, $8 @ the door. ment/Copy-of-Stormy-Weather-Arts-Festival ruthers Park in Warrenton. Wednesday 11 KALA, 1017 Marine Drive in FOOD & DRINK Ocian in View Cultural Weekend. MUSIC Astoria. 12+please. Wild Mushroom and Wine Dinner. Reserva- Lectures, dinners, bus tour, and other Moon Grass. No cover, 8pm at the Adrift tions requested. At the Shelburne Restau- themed events. At various locations Hotel in Long Beach.

Nov 15 hipfishmonthly.com 14 HAPPENING ART HAPPENING LITERARY MORE MUSIC Night of All Knowledge Trivia Tournament. Art About Agriculture Opening Recep- Craft & Bake Sale. 10am – 3pm at the Nancy Slavin Poetry Reading. Poet A team trivia competition. Free, 6pm at the tion. 5 – 7pm at the Lincoln City Cultural Eagles Lodge in Tillamook. Nancy Slavin will read from her new Seaside Library. Center. Holiday Fair & Bazaar. Free admission, poetry collection “Oregon Paicfic.” 3pm Veterans Day Celebration. “Honoring The at Three Arch Inn in Oceanside. HAPPENING Noon – 7pm at the Tillamook County Medics” beginning at 11am at the Tillamook Fairgrounds in Tillamook. THEATER Air Museum. Enjoy guest speakers, High Haystack Holidays. Women Only Haystack Holidays. Women Only Two One-Act Plays. The Dear Departed School Choir & Community Choir, traveling Weekend. Fabulous food, divine wine & Weekend. Fabulous food, divine wine & and A Separate Peace will be performed Military Museum, local band Buffalo Kitty, sensational shopping in Cannon Beach. facebook.com/wowcannonbeach sensational shopping in Cannon Beach. as Readers Theater. $10, 2pm at NCRD fundraiser breakfast 7:30am - 10:30am. in Nehalem. Craft & Bake Sale. 10am – 4pm at the facebook.com/wowcannonbeach LECTURE Eagles Lodge in Tillamook. Lower Columbia Pug Socializing Club. The World of Haystack Rock. Effects of Vari- Pugs and their people meet monthly for Monday 16 able Ocean Conditions & Climate Change Holiday Fair & Bazaar. Free admission, fun and socialization. 11am at Carruthers on Marine Food Chains, Salmon, and other Noon – 7pm at the Tillamook County MUSIC Park in Warrenton. Fishers. With Bill Peterson. Free, 7pm at the Fairgrounds in Tillamook. The Cabin Project. No cover, 8pm at the Adrift Hotel in Long Beach. Cannon Beach Library. LITERARY Restoration Pow Wow. Celebrate the heri- Lunch in the Loft. Author Jonathan Evison tage of the Confederated Tribes of Siletz FOOD & DRINK LITERARY Indians. At Chinook Winds in Lincoln City. Driftwood Poets Open Mic. Poetry Reading. will read from his new book, “This is Ice Cream Social. The public is invited Free, 6 – 8pm at the Driftwood Public Library Your Life, Harriet Chance.” $30, includes LECTURE for cake & ice cream + birthday celebra- in Lincoln City. catered lunch and a copy of the book. Gliding Through Art & History. Presenting tion. $1 suggested donation, free if it’s your birthday month. 2pm at the Noon at Beach Books in Seaside. RSVP at Astoria’s unique history, art and amazing OUTSIDE 503-738-3500 Peninsula Senior Activity Center in vistas from atop Coxcomb Hill, home the Free Admission to Washington State Parks. Klipsan Beach, WA THEATER Astoria Column. This will be held on the Rabbit Wilde Two One-Act Plays. The Dear Departed grounds of Astor Park in Astoria. Free, Folk-stomp Americana via ukes, recent EP at Bear Creek Studio Thursday 12 and A Separate Peace will be performed donations accepted. Tuesday 17 cello, foot-stomping and 3 distinct (Fleet Foxes, Vance Joy, The Lum- MUSIC as Readers Theater. $10, 7pm at NCRD in MUSIC vocal styles, Voted best band in ineers) and is available on iTunes, Nehalem. LITERARY Moon Grass. No cover, 8pm at the Adrift Northwest Author Series. Author Urban North Oregon Coast Symphony. Norwe- their home city of Bellingham, WA Spotify and at www.rabbitwilde. Hotel in Long Beach. Visiting Mr Green. A staged reading. $15, Waite will read from his work. Free, 2pm gian Melodies. $15, 7pm at the Cannon for the past two years, they have com. 7:30pm at the PAC in Astoria. Beach Community Church. ART at the Cannon beach Library. quickly risen to local renown and November 15, 8pm, Fort Once Upon a Mattress. Musical. $18 - $23, George in Astoria, All ages, No CCC Faculty Show. Featuring the work of THEATER now tour extensively throughout Royal Nebeker. Opening Reception at 6pm 7:30pm at the Coaster Theater in Cannon the U.S. – recording their most cover. Beach. Two One-Act Plays. The Dear Departed Thursday 19 in the CCC Art Center Gallery in Astoria. and A Separate Peace will be performed MUSIC I Hate Hamlet. Comedy. $14, 7:30pm at as Readers Theater. $10, 7pm at NCRD in Lincoln Pops Big Band. $6, 7:30 – 10pm HAPPENING Theater West in Lincoln City. Fall Teen Programs at the Tillamook Library. Nehalem. at the Gleneden Beach Community Build a Hexbot Maze, lego mazes for little Visiting Mr Green. A staged reading. $15, Club. bug like robots to race through. Stop in at Saturday 14 7:30pm at the PAC in Astoria. Matthew Zeltzer. 8pm at the Adrift the Tillamook Library to show your skills at Hotel in Long Beach. MUSIC Once Upon a Mattress. Musical. $18 - $23, maze building. Free, 5:30 – 7pm. Finnish Folk. Pekka and Perttu from Fin- 7:30pm at the Coaster Theater in Cannon HAPPENING ASOC Be an Angel Fundraiser. $40 admission land, rock the violin and button accordion Beach. Fundraising Dinner. $7 for adults and includes dinner. 5pm at the Astoria Event only the way a Finn can. $10 @ door, right I Hate Hamlet. Comedy. $14, 7:30pm at $5 for children includes. 5 - 6:30pm at Center. after Art Walk. 8pm. KALA in Astoria. Theater West in Lincoln City. the Peninsula Senior Activity Center in LECTURE Niall Carroll. 6 – 8pm at the Wet Dog Café Klipsan Beach, WA Learn About Electric Vehicles. Are you think- in Astoria. LECTURE ing about buying a Chevy Volt or Nissan Leaf Tom Trudell. Jazz piano. No cover, 6pm at Sunday 15 Nature Matters. Welcome Back Otter! or any of the new electric Vehicles (EV’s)? If the Bridgewater Bistro in Astoria. Jennifer Goodenberger. Jazz piano. No With Quinn Read. Free, 7pm in the so, The Friends of the Seaside Library are cover, 11:30am at the Bridgewater Bistro Columbia River Symphony. Autumn Lovell Showroom at Fort George in hosting Pamela Mattson McDonald speak- in Astoria. Magic. Free, donations welcome, 7pm at Astoria. ing about the growth of Electric Vehicles. the Astoria Masonic Lodge. Aeolus String Quartet. Chamber music. Free, 7pm at the Seaside Library. The Twang Shifters Ryan Stively & The Luke Ydstie Band. No $25, 3pm at the Camp Winema Chapel, Lower Nehalem Watershed Council Speaker Friday 20 Emerging from the garages of continue to set the Rose City & cover, 8pm at the Sou’wester Lodge in near Neskowin. Series. With Paul Atwood. An exciting up- MUSIC Portland, OR, The Twangshift- Pacific Northwest on fire. There Seaview. date on the latest coho and Chinook salmon Columbia River Symphony. Autumn The Flat Nines. Free, 6pm at the Astoria ers busted down the doors of is no rain on this parade! Magic. Free, donations accepted, 3pm populations in our local rivers. 6pm at the CoLoSo. 9pm at the Nauti Mermaid in Public Library. the Rock ‘N’ Roll/ Rock-a-Billy/ November 20-21, 9pm, at the Pine Grove Community Center in Manzanita. Lincoln City. at the Coastline Christian Fellowship in Olney. Jennifer Goodenberger. Jazz piano. No Roots/ Blues scene in 2010 and Adrift Hotel in Long Beach. Learn More about Medicare, Medicaid & Curtis Interrupt Us. 9pm at Snug Harbor cover, 6pm at the Bridgewater Bistro OHPO. Learn about Medicare, Medicaid Bar & Grill in Lincoln City. The Cabin Project. No cover, 8pm at the in Astoria. Adrift Hotel in Long Beach. and the Oregon Health Plan Options. Get The Ocean. 9pm at Roadhouse 101 in Freak Mountain Ramblers. No cover, answers to your questions. Guest speaker Lincoln City. Billy Strings & Don Julin. No cover. 8pm 7pm at the Sand Trap Pub in Gearhart. will be Dwayne Scales. 10am in the Hatfield Paradox. $5 cover, 9pm at the San Dune at Fort George Brewery & Public House Ken Lavigne: The Road to Carnegie Hall. Room at the Tillamook Library. RSVP to Susie in Astoria. at 503-842-3900 ext. 1060 Pub in Manzanita. 7pm at the Lincoln City Cultural Center. Larry Blake Medicine Show. 8:30pm at Beers to Your Health. Where does Wellness ART North Oregon Coast Symphony. Snug Harbor Bar & Grill in Lincoln City. Norwegian Melodies. $15, 7pm, at the Begin? With Angela Sidlo. Free, 7pm in the 6x6 Art Show and Auction. $10 admission. PAC in Astoria. Lovell Showroom at Fort George in Astoria. 5- 8pm at the Columbia Pacific Heritage FOOD & DRINK Museum in Ilwaco. Pancake Breakfast. All-you-can-eat for $5, The Twangshifters. No cover, 9pm at the THEATER 8am – noon at the Bay City Arts Center. Adrift Hotel in Lincoln City. I Hate Hamlet. Comedy. $14, 7:30pm at Astoria’s Second Saturday Art Walk. 5 – Theater West in Lincoln City. 9pm downtown Astoria. Cannon Beach American Legion HAPPENING FOOD & DRINK Breakfast. $7 adults, $3 children under 6. Vicki Lawrence & Mama: A Two-Woman Chowder Cook-Off. Event features “Best 9 – 11:30am at the American Legion Hall Show. $10 - $25, 8pm at Chinook Winds Friday 13 Chowder” competition, local beers and in Cannon Beach. in Lincoln City. MUSIC wines, live music, kids’ activities and a Na- Chowder Cook-Off. Event features “Best OUTSIDE David Drury. Jazz guitar. No cover, 6pm at tive American Celebration. $5 admission, Chowder” competition, local beers and International Peace Day Golf Tourney. SKINKS play Kinks the Bridgewater Bistro in Astoria. 11am – 4pm at the Lincoln City Outlets. wines, live music, kids’ activities and a Na- Tie-dye shirts, Beatles’ music, and hugs. It is an all star lineup, comprised Society” in its entirety. Per- oregoncoast.org/chowder-cook-off/ tive American Celebration. $5 admission, $60/player, cart rental is $15/player. Open Stage for Music and Word. Performers of members of Evolutionary formed once in Portland, this can sign up at the door for 10-minute slots. Wine Tasting. Longshadows. 1 – 4pm at 11am – 3pm at the Lincoln City Outlets. Noon shotgun start at the Gearhart $3 donation, 7 – 8:30pm at the Hoffman the Cellar on 10th in Astoria. oregoncoast.org/chowder-cook-off/ Hotel. Jass Band, Pendejo, Plants, will be their second and quite Sad Horse, and Thinking Fellers possibly final performance of Center in Manzanita. Wine Tasting. 1 – 5pm at the Wine Shack THEATER HAPPENING Union Local 282, will perform this amazing record. CoLoSo. 9pm at the Nauti Mermaid in in Cannon Beach. Two One-Act Plays. The Dear Departed Haystack Holidays. Women Only the legendary and well beloved Lincoln City. Winemaker’s Dinner. Longshadows. Weekend. Fabulous food, divine wine & and A Separate Peace will be performed Friday, Nov 27, 8pm at the Kinks studio LP “The Kinks Are The Resolectrics. No cover, 9pm at the Adrift Reservations required. At the Cellar on sensational shopping in Cannon Beach. as Readers Theater. $10, 7pm at NCRD Sou’Wester Lodge in Seaview. Hotel in Long Beach. 10th in Astoria. 503-325-6600 facebook.com/wowcannonbeach in Nehalem. the Village Green Preservation

15 Nov 15 hipfishmonthly.com theater AAUW Dessert Theatre Visiting Mr. Green Once Upon A Mattress AAUW presents its annual scholarship benefit staged at The Coaster reading of Jeff Baron’s Visiting Mr. Green at the PAC this year. This well-loved event will offer scrumptious desserts at intermission and as always, the fund-raiser evening will feature an auction and theatrical entertain- ment. The performance dates are Friday and Saturday, November 13 and 14 at 7:30pm in Astoria at 16th and Franklin. Tickets are $15 and include desserts. This year’s production is directed by Sheila Shaffer, a resident director/actor on the Oregon coast for the last 13 years. She holds a degree in Theatre Arts from the University of Wisconsin. Since moving to this area, her dramatic talent has been seen at the Coaster Theatre in Cannon Beach. She has worked with community, regional, and non-profit theatres periodically for overJason Hippert and Ben Van Osdol 30 years. widower and is charged with reckless driving. A com- This holiday season the Coaster Theatre Jester - Darren Hull. Ladies-In- Waiting: Aftyn The playwright, Jeff Baron, told producer Susi Brown munity service sentence, in the form of regular visits Playhouse brings to life the classic fairytale Garvin, Lisa Fergus, Holly Fergus, Carolyn An- about the world premieres in Rome and The Hague to Mr. Green, has been imposed. Both resent being of The Princess and the Pea in Once Upon derson, Nancy Taylor, Crystal Rouse. Knights: (The Netherlands) which open the same week as AAUW forced together, but in the soul-searching days that A Mattress. Although…you may think you T.J. Newton, Parker Fergus, Ben Faubion, Eric presents its show. It also opens that week in Dublin and follow, the men sort through family and social issues in- know the story but will be in for a wallop- Bredleau, Duncan Fenison will be seen in November in Israel, Brazil, Kazakhstan, cluding the absurdity of pushing love away if it doesn’t ing surprise! Did you know, for instance, that Purchase tickets by calling 503-436-1242 or The Czech Republic, Denver, and Romania. conform to certain conditions. Princess Winnifred actually swam the moat to online here. A crotchety old widower (Bill Honl) survives his reach Prince Dauntless the Drab? Or that Lady DIRECTOR Arnie Hummasti grew up in loneliness by clinging to religious rules. A successful Tickets are available at 3 Cups Coffee House, Blue Larken’s love for Sir Harry provided a rather the wings (his mother, aunt and grandpar- young man, Ross Gardiner) (Bill Ham) insulates himself Scorcher Bakery, and Rusty Cup in Astoria. They compelling reason that she reach the bridal ents acted in Finnish theatre) and he’s been against his isolation by burying his emotions and focus- can also be purchase at the PAC door (performance altar post haste? Or that, in fact, it wasn’t the involved in theatre most of his life. He gradu- ing on his career. Their paths would have been unlikely evenings), and from any Astoria AAUW member, or by pea at all that caused the princess a sleepless ated from Portland State with a degree in to cross but then the young man almost drives into the calling Sara Meyer at 503-325-7969. night? Carried on a wave of wonderful songs, Theatre Arts, and, through California State, by turns hilarious and raucous, romantic and studied British Theatre and Shakespeare in melodic, this rollicking spin on the familiar London and Stratford-Upon-Avon. He acted TAPA presents classic of royal courtship and comeuppance for three seasons at the Oregon Shakespear- provides for some side-splitting shenanigans. ean Festival in Ashland. He taught drama Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks Chances are you’ll never look at fairytales and directed plays at all levels: an elementary TAPA and the This international hit play has quick-hitting wit, scath- quite the same way again. school in Washington, high schools in Oregon Oregon Coast ing sarcasm, and many touching moments between the CAUTIONS: Mild adult themes. If this were and California, College of the Redwoods, and Dance Center two characters. Playing Lily and Michael are Ann Harper a movie it would be rated PG. various community theatres. In the 70’s, he are pleased and Robert Buckingham. Both actors have been in many to announce TAPA productions but Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks directed The Fantasticks and Macbeth at the CAST: Princess Winnifred The Woebegone the cast of Six is the first time either of them has had to formally dance - Amanda Payne; Prince Dauntless - Todd Lewis and Clark Civic Theatre in Astoria (now Dance Lessons on stage. “Dancing has added an additional layer of Payne; Lady Larkin - Ann Bronson; Sir Harry - the Columbian movie theatre). in Six Weeks complexity to the show that I hope audiences enjoy” says Timothy Garvin; Queen Aggravain -Ellen Blan- Performance: 11/13 - 12/20 Time: Fri/Sat written by Director, Chris Chiola. The actors have had to learn many kenship; Wizard/Nightengale Of Smarkand 7:30pm. Sunday shows 3:00pm. Ticket prices: Richard Alfieri, ballroom dances including the Cha-Cha and Tango with - Sheila Shaffer; Minstrel - Richard Bowman; $18-$23 Box Office: 503-436-1242 coasterthe- directed by the help of sponsor Oregon Coast Dance Center’s, Lisa King Sextimus The Silent - David Sweeney; atre.com Chris Chiola and Greiner, along with Wally and Diane Nelson. produced by Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks runs Nov 26 – Dec 13. Diane Cross. Fri/Sat 7pm, Sun Mats (11/29 & 12/13) 2pm. The Barn In roles Community Playhouse: 1204 Ivy Street, at the corner of Riverbend Players Present 2 originated by Uta Hagen and David Hyde Pierce, this 12th St and Ivy Ave, and adjacent to Les Schwab Tires. two-character comedy opens as an aging, but still formi- Two One-Act Plays directed by Mary Moran featuring local talented thespians. Tickets: Diamond Art Jewelers, 503-842-7940, 307 Main dable, woman hires an acerbic dance instructor to give THE DEAR DEPARTED is a touching satire focusing on family preconceptions. Street in Tillamook. Reserved seating is recommended. Written by Stanley Houghton. A SEPARATE PEACE - a sly, yet gentle, dig at society’s conventions. Written by her lessons in St. Petersburg Beach, Florida. Antagonism $15. This show does deal with adult themes and has Tom Stoppard. between the two gives way to friendship as they reveal Friday 11/13 & 11/20 - 7pm. Saturday 11/14 &11/21 - 7pm. Sunday 11/15 & 11/22 - 2pm. North County Recre- themselves to each other. As Michael, the dance instruc- some adult language, children under 12 are cau- ation District, Riverbend Room. 36155 Ninth Street, Nehalem. $10 (children under 12 are free). For information tor takes Lily by the arm as they both transcend fear and tioned. www.tillamooktheater.com or advance tickets Call: 503-368-7008. mortality while the sun sets on the last dance.

Nov 15 hipfishmonthly.com 16 art happens. Charles Schweigert At RiverSea Facing You Paintings and Sculpture with An Exploration of Portraiture Poetry by Karin Temple At IMOGEN Astoria artist a vessel designed to contain the remains of something re- Imogen presents a three person exhibition exploring humanity through Charles Schweigert vered and held dear, and two examples carry an environmen- portraiture. Included to this exhibition will be the work of Reed Clarke, reaffirms his interest tal statement. Also included are vessels simply intended April Coppini and Christos in abstract painting This is Schweigert’s third solo show at RiverSea Gallery. Koutsouras. This evocative and ventures into Prior to moving to Astoria in 2009 he exhibited widely on the collection moves beyond three dimensions by West Coast and in the Southwest, including seven one-person capturing the likeness of introducing a collec- shows in Denver and in Santa Fe, where he lived for ten years an individual, instead invit- tion of mixed-media before moving to Oregon in 2005. ing the viewer to consider sculpture in a show ALSO AT RIVERSEA: the underlying, perhaps titled, Clearing the even to see ourselves Mind and the Holiness Ceramic Dolls and Sculpture Express the Ro- through the eyes of others, of Broken Things at mance of the Sea and what it means to be RiverSea Gallery. The Showing in the Alcove at RiverSea Gallery is Lost Dolls at human. Each portrait tells show adds a multi- Sea, introducing the engaging and delightfully enigmatic a story; Imogen invites CSchweigert Crossfire4, 20x24 media dimension by ceramic figurative sculpture of Portland artist Dawn Panttaja. viewers to participate. The incorporating the poetry of noted local writer Karin Temple, The exhibit opens Saturday, November 14 during Astoria’s exhibition will open for who has written poems inspired by several of the sculptural Second Saturday Artwalk, Astoria’s Second Satur- pieces. An opening reception will be held during Astoria’s and the artist will be present day Artwalk, November Second Saturday Artwalk on November 14, from 5:00 to 8:00. to explain her inspirations 14th with a reception for Temple will start things off with a poetry reading at 5:00 and and technique. the artists, 5 – 8 pm. The Schweigert will be on hand to discuss his latest work. The art- Featured in the show exhibition will be on view Coppini Viva Las Vegas oil on canvas 12x12 work and accompanying poems will remain on view through is a collection of pose- November 14th thru December 8th. December 5, 2015. able figures created with Most artists at some point in their career have placed focus on the Clearing the Mind is a reference to the title of several of riveted joints similar to dolls human form as subject matter, for many it’s a form of study, for others it’s the paintings, each called Suburi, a Japanese word referring treasured in centuries past, a means to participate with humanity on a more intimate level. Artists to the practice of using a sword to trace movements through along with sculpture inspired Reed Clarke, April Coppini and Christos Koutsouras fall into that category. space to help focus and clear the mind. The paintings have by sailing ship figureheads, Portraiture becomes a vehicle utilized to explore deeper reflection of who a very linear quality suggesting rapid movement and are on mermaids, sea sprites, we are, what we convey without speaking, simply by stance, expression or TAPA presents paper using graphite and oil color. The sculptures also have a bathing beauties and other direction of gaze. These artists, all incredibly skilled with chosen medium, very linear quality and are constructed from rusted metal, cop- subjects evoking rollicking bring suggestion of story and history through portrayal of individuals. Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks per wire, and various other materials, including ceramic, bent and romantic tales of the Reed Clarke of Portland, Oregon has dedicated much of his career as a bamboo, and acrylic paint. sea. The artist applies ox- fine artist painting others. Known for his skill as a painter and printmaker, The sculptural component of the show is titled The Holiness ides, stains and underglazes he has had his work juried into Clatsop Community College’s prestigious of Broken Things, since the pieces suggest relics that have to add subtle color to her DPanttaja Figurehead Au Naturel: Nudes in the 21st Century exhibition 5 times, receiving a first been long buried and unearthed, revealing aged, broken, and figures to lend them an age- prize award as well as a purchase award from CCC. He has exhibited his corroded surfaces. Some reference religious reliquaries de- worn effect appropriate to the survivors of fantasy adventures. work throughout Portland includ- signed to house bones and objects relating to Christian saints, RiverSea Gallery, open daily at 1160 Commercial Street in ing a show at the White Gallery while others take the reliquary idea a step further by denoting Astoria. 503-325-1270, riverseagallery.com. of Portland State University. April Coppini of Portland, who is well known for her gestural Woodcut Artist Peter Nevins charcoal drawings of bees and other flora and fauna, has also Jeweler Molly Jaber found herself drawn to the hu- man face for her own reasons. at Luminari Arts After accidently giving herself Luminari Arts features two artists this month, both local Cannon a black eye and hearing stories and both recent transplants from Portland. Woodcut artist Beach jew- from other people’s experiences, Peter Nevins is a largely self taught (by studying the masters) eler Molly Jaber she became intrigued with the print maker whose work focuses on ‘the emotional life of shows new work imagery and the connection and the imagination.’ He works extensively with musicians and with an Art Walk collaboration that ensued from received a Grammy Trunk Show. shared stories. Coppini began nomination (2011) for Molly found her painting a series of individuals album cover art. niche in recreat- she encountered, her focus be- Sunday Market ing styles from ing the story behind a physical visitors will remember the 70’s; enjoy mark, in this case a blackened seeing Peter’s work her journey eye. on sunny days: vivid into hammered RClarke What I Know Can Hurt Me 20x16 oi Christos Koutsouras, prior to woodcut Images of brass, bronze his move to Astoria, had for years focused on the human form for inspira- monsters and beasts, and silver, creat- tion and subject matter. He brings two large graphite drawings on wood and intricate direc- ing a faceted, panel. The individual portrayed is honest, straightforward and soulful, dar- tives of “Read”, “aged” look. ing the viewer into wordless conversation. Koutsouras too, found himself “Dig”, “Grow” and She also works intrigued with the presence of his subject matter. Like many artists who Nevin Serpent others. Peter’s most with leather, focus on painting or drawing “someone”, the goal is to create not so much recent works, including combining it with fresh water pearls and other natural ele- an exact likeness, but to convey the essence of an individual. “Sea Monster” will be ments for an earthy, distinctive look. Imogen Gallery is located at 240 11th Street. Open Monday through Sat- exhibited at Luminari Join Luminari Arts at 1133 Commercial in Astoria for an artist urday, 11:00 to 5:00, 11:00 to 4:00 each Sunday and closed Wednesdays. Arts through Decem- reception and trunk show on November 14, 5-8 pm. Live 503.468.0620 www.imogengallery.com . ber 7. music by Bill Hayes, snacks and beverages.

17 Nov 15 hipfishmonthly.com word. At The Hoffman Center Rene Denfeld :The Enchanted Robert Michael Pyle Deborah Reed : A writing workshop on at the Hoffman Center Nov 21 the Elements of Suspense Rene Denfeld will read from her book The En- Wintergreen chanted at the Hoffman Center for the Arts in Manza- November 21 nita at 7pm on Saturday, November 21, 2015. Thirtieth Anniversary Saturday, November 21, from 10 a.m. to 1230, Denfeld’s first novel has garnered many awards Deborah Reed will teach a writing workshop on the and rave reviews to include: #1 Book of the Year, the Edition Reading Elements of Suspense. Oregonian; One of the Top #5 Books of the Year, Learn techniques to keep your reader turning the Powell’s Books; an Indie Next Pic, and winner for Best Dec 4 page. Students will read examples illustrating various Foreign Novel 2014 for the French Prix Award. ways to build suspense and should bring examples “Filled with themes of pain and suffering and still of work they aspire to. Everyone should also bring a pleasure to read, this impressive debut… is set in Robert Michael Pyle’s classic book Winter- a piece of their own writing, which Deborah will a decaying, dark, corrupt prison, but as the opening green: Rambles in a Ravaged Land has just been critique in the class. line reveals, it ‘is an enchanted place.’ …Read this published in a thirtieth anniversary edition by Deborah Reed is author of the recently released magical book, and prepare to be spellbound.” *** Pharos Editions of Seattle, an imprint of Counter- novel Olivay. Her novel Things We Set On Fire sold Starred Review ” point Press. Pyle will introduce the new edition over 100,000 copies in the first six months, and Carry -- Library Journal in a reading, discussion, and booksigning at the Yourself Back to Me was a Best Book of 2011 Ama- “Rene Den- Astoria Library on Friday, December 4 , at 7:30 zon Editors’ Pick. She wrote the bestselling thriller feld is a genius. p.m. The book’s publisher, Harry Kirchner, will also In The En- be on hand for this free event. Wintergreen has chanted she has been described as “a love song to the Maritime imagined one Northwest” and “an owner’s manual for the tem- of the grimmest perate rainforest.” settings in the This edition, Wintergreen’s fifth since it was first world—a dank published in 1986, includes a new afterword that and filthy death brings things up to date in Willapa, and an intro- row in a corrupt duction by novelist David Guterson (Snow Falling prison—and on Cedars), who selected the book for this series. given us one of In his introduction, Guterson says “We need, and the most beauti- will continue to need, this singular, celebratory, ful, heartrending, and heartfelt book.” Author William Dietrich (The and riveting nov- Final Forest) wrote: “Not just a classic of Northwest els I have ever nature writing and literature, Wintergreen is a book read.” – Donald that transcends the wounded Willapa Hills where it A Small Fortune and its sequel, Fortune’s Deadly Ray Pollock, au- is set and becomes a meditation on the relation- Descent, under her pen name, Audrey Braun. All of thor of The Devil ship of all people to all places.” And as well-loved local denizen Krist Novoselić describes her novels have been translated or are forthcoming All the Time the book, Pyle looks past the stumps and clear cuts to rediscover the essence of the Willapa in German. Denfeld has written for many publications includ- Hills. Even though scarred from decades of logging this terrain is still a wilderness. The “If you’ve read any of Deborah’s books, you know ing The New York Times Magazine, The Oregonian, author puts the pieces together to create an example of nature trying to survive our species’ she is a master at making her reader turn the page,” and the Philadelphia Inquirer. She has published demands.” says Kathie Hightower, local writer. three non-fiction books. In addition to her writing Reed’s nonfiction has appeared in publications career, Denfeld is a death penalty investigator who such as Poets & Writers, and the Literarian. Debo- works with men and women facing execution. She Oregon Poet rah holds a Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing calls herself “the happy mother” of three children she (fiction) and teaches at UCLA’s Extension Writing adopted from state foster care. Laureate Program, the Black Forest Writing Seminar at the Following Denfeld’s reading and Q&A: Open Mic. Visits Astoria University of Freiburg, Germany, as well as workshops Up to nine local writers read 5 minutes of their origi- and conferences around the United States and in nal work. The suggested (not required) theme for the Dec 5 Europe. evening’s Open Mic is “Magic.” Oregon’s Poet Laureate, Peter Held at the Hoffman Center, the workshop is $30. Admission $7. This evening’s reading is just one Sears, will lead a poetry workshop Register and get more information at hoffmanblog. of the events of the Mystery Weekend put on by the at Astoria Public Library – 450 org. North Tillamook County Library, the Hoffman Center 10th Street, Astoria – on Saturday, for the Arts, CART’M, and NCRD. For a complete December 5 at 3:00pm. As space is This workshop is just one of the events of the Mys- listing of events, go to hoffmanblog.org. limited, registration is encouraged. tery Weekend put on by the North Tillamook County Library, the Hoffman Center for the Arts, CART’M, At the Hoffman Center (across from Manzanita Peter Sears was named to a Library at 594 Laneda Avenue.) hoffmanblog.org two-year appointment as Oregon’s and NCRD. For a complete listing of events, go to hoffmanblog.org. online or contact Kathie seventh Poet Laureate by Governor Hightower, [email protected] John Kitzhaber on April 25, 2014. Western States Book Award for Poetry for Sears has taught creative writing at Reed his second full-length collection, The Brink. College, Bard College, and Pacific University, This collection of poems was also named one The Friends of the Seaside Library have been col- and is the founder of the Oregon Literary of Oregon’s 150 best books by the Oregon lecting items, from our generous patrons, over the Coalition and co-founder of Friends of Wil- State Library in 2009. Sears is the author of past few months and there will be a huge selection. liam Stafford and Cloudbank Books. He is a two supplementary teaching texts, Secret You will find Tom Clancy, James Patterson, kitchen Writing and I’m Gonna Bake Me a Rainbow Gigantic widely published poet, with four collections: Fall Book Sale makeovers, travel books, and much more. All items Tour (2002), The Brink (2004), Green Driver Poem. He has dedicated himself to teach- will be sold at unbelievably low prices. (2006), and Small Talk, New and Selected ing and leading poetry workshops in public At The Seaside Public Library So come on down to the Seaside Public Library, Poems (2014). His poems have appeared schools, libraries, colleges, community Beginning Friday, November 6, and running through at 1131 Broadway, for a gigantic Fall book sale right in numerous magazines and newspapers, centers and literary festivals throughout the Sunday, November 8, 2015, the Seaside Public in your own backyard. including the New York Times, the Atlantic state. Library will host a ginormous Fall Book Sale. It will For more information please call (503)738-6742 or and Rolling Stone. For more information about this free event be open during library hours, which are: Friday, 9:00 visit us at www.seasidelibrary.org and www.facebook. Sears has received several awards, includ- and to register, please contact Ami Kreider at a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Saturday, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., com/seasidepubliclibrary ing the Gibbs-Smith poetry prize and the 503-325-7323 or [email protected]. and Sunday 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Nov 15 hipfishmonthly.com 18 ••• music • visual arts • literarylecture • outdoor • theater•••

Once Upon a Mattress. Musical. $18 - $23, Once Upon a Mattress. Musical. $18 - Rabbit Wilde. 8pm at the Adrift Hotel in Long Not Quite 11th Hour Santa Sale. Shop 7:30pm at the Coaster Theater in Cannon $23, 7:30pm at the Coaster Theater in Friday Tuesday Beach. for handmade gifts and goodies for Beach. Cannon Beach. MUSIC MUSIC Steve Sloan. 8:30pm at Snug Harbor Bar & the holiday season. Free, noon – 7pm at the Lincoln City Cultural Center. Maggie & The Cats w/ The Tolovana Brass. A Richard T. Blues. No cover, 6 – 8:30pm at T Saturday 21 Grill in Lincoln City. Sunday 29 New Orleans Gumbo of eclectic covers, soul, Paul’s Supper Club in Astoria. THEATER THEATER blues, r&b, and a Lagniappe of originals. No Brian O’Connor. Jazz guitar. No cover, 6pm at MUSIC Two One-Act Plays. The Dear Departed and A Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks. 7pm MUSIC cover, 6:30 – 9:30 at the Wine Bar at Sweet the Shelburne Inn in Seaview, WA David Drury. Jazz guitar. No cover, 6pm at the Separate Peace will be performed as Readers at the Barn Community Playhouse in Richard T and Friends. No cover, Basil’s in Cannon Beach. Bridgewater Bistro in Astoria. Tillamook. 11:30am at the Bridgewater Bistro in Salty Dogs. Folk/Blues/Classic Rock. No cover, Theater. $10, 2pm at NCRD in Nehalem. Tom Trudell. Jazz piano. No cover, 6– 9pm at 6:30pm at the U Street Pub in Seaside. Ara Lee. $12, 7pm at the Peninsula Arts Once Upon a Mattress. Musical. $18 - Astoria. the Shelburne Restaurant & Pub in Seaview, Once Upon a Mattress. Musical. $18 - $23, Open Jam. Hosted by One Way Out. 8:30pm Center in Long Beach. 3pm at the Coaster Theater in Cannon Beach. $23, 7:30pm at the Coaster Theater in North Coast Chorale. Messiah Sing- WA. Cannon Beach. at the Snug Harbor Bar & Grill in Lincoln City. The Gospel Trio. Free, 7pm at the Bay City A-Long. Donations support Clatsop Asleep at the Switch. Blues, Country, 40’s, & Arts Center. County Food Bank. 4pm at the PAC 50’s. Free (donations accepted), 6 – 8pm at HAPPENING Monday 23 in Astoria. Teen Tuesdays. Free special events just for Jenny Don’t & The Spurs. No cover, 8pm at Saturday 28 the City Hall in Garibaldi. MUSIC Tomten. No cover. 8pm at Fort George teens in 6th through 12th grades. Activities the Sou’wester Lodge in Seaview. MUSIC Jackson Andrews & Dave Quinton. Blues/ include movie making, video game nights, Rabbit Wilde. 8pm at the Adrift Hotel in Long Brewery & Public House in Astoria. Folk/Rock. No cover, 6pm at Sweet Basil’s Café The Twangshifters. 9pm at the Adrift Hotel in Beach. Jamie Leopold and The Short Stories. crafts, and movie nights. 3:30 – 4:30pm at the Long Beach. Former Dan Hicks band member The Earnest Lovers. 8pm at the Adrift in Cannon Beach. Seaside Library. FMI visit seasidelibrary.org Jamie Leopold leads a six piece Hotel in Long Beach. Open Mic. Musicians, singers and comedians Countryside Ride. $5 cover, 9pm at the San THEATER band, playing folk, country and Zuhg. 8:30pm at Snug Harbor Bar & are all welcome. Each performer will receive Dune Pub in Manzanita. Tuesday 24 Teen Theater Club. Classes will present acting Acid Memory, aka American Quirk. Grill in Lincoln City. $1 off pints of beer or cider. Perform or just skill development and a monthly focus on Dixie Wrecked. 9pm at Roadhouse 101 in MUSIC Story telling and music – great for enjoy the show. 7:30 – 9:30pm at Hondo’s Pretty Gritty. 8pm at the Adrift Hotel in Long a specific area of theater, including stage Lincoln City. post –turkey weekend. Full table FOOD & DRINK Brew & Cork in Astoria, Beach. Breakfast with Santa. All ages make-up, set design and lighting, script Ian’s Musical Memorial. 9pm at Snug Harbor seating, Full Bar, $13 @ door, tickets in welcome. $18 adults, $13 kids ages 6 HAPPENING writing, budgeting and stage management. Bar & Grill in Lincoln City. advance at www.brownpapertickets. Friday Night Mixer. Enjoy a social hour at For ages 14 to 17. $10/ month. At the ASOC com. Doors at 7:30pm, show at 8pm. months to 10 years; under 6 months Wednesday 25 the gallery, with art and conversation, plus Playhouse in Astoria. FOOD & DRINK KALA in Astoria. free. 11am at the Sand Trap Pub in Wine Tasting. Wines for Thanksgiving. 1 – MUSIC Gearhart. beverages provided by Astoria Coffeehouse. 4pm at the Cellar on 10th in Astoria. Pretty Gritty. 8pm at the Adrift Hotel in Long Troll Radio Revue. Americana. $2 for 5 – 7pm at Imogen Gallery in Astoria. Wednesday adults, free for children. 11am – noon HAPPENING Beach. Trivia Night. Find out how much useless (or Wine Tasting. 1 – 5pm at the Wine Shack in at Fort George in Astoria. Holiday Gift Fair. 10am - 3pm at the MUSIC Cannon Beach. Seaside Convention Center. even useful) stuff you know at the weekly George Coleman. Pop/Jazz/Folk/Rock. 5:30 Tom Trudell. Jazz piano. No cover, 6pm Trivia Night. 7pm at Baked Alaska in Astoria. – 9pm at Shelburne Restaurant and Pub in HAPPENING Thursday 26 at the Bridgewater Bistro in Astoria. THEATER Family Skate Night. The Shanghaied Roller Seaview. United Paws Monthly Adoption Day. This FOOD & DRINK Secret Drum Band. No cover, 8pm at Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks. 2pm Dolls host a family friendly Open Skate Night. is a great time to stop in and see all the The Coconuts. Swing/Jazz/Country/Blue- Thanksgiving Buffet. $30 for adults, $18 for the Sou’wester Lodge in Seaview. at the Barn Community Playhouse in There’s also Shanghaied Roller Doll merchan- kittens, cats and dogs that need new forever grass/Folk. 6pm at the Wine Bar at Sweet kids 5 – 12, kids 4 and under free. Reserva- Tillamook. dise available to purchase and concessions homes. Noon – 3pm at the Tillamook County Blue Evolution. 9pm at Roadhouse 101 Basil’s Café in Cannon Beach. tions required. 11am – 5pm at the Sand Trap Once Upon a Mattress. Musical. $18 if you need a snack during all the fun! Come Fairgrounds. in Lincoln City. Jam Session. No cover, 7pm-ish – 10pm at the Pub in Gearhart. 503-717-8150 - $23, 3pm at the Coaster Theater in on Friday and see if your favorite Doll is there. Western Haunts. 9pm at the Adrift Moose Lodge in Astoria. Gay Skate Night. $3 admission, $3 skate LITERARY Cannon Beach. $2 at the door and $3 for skate rentals. 5 - rental. 8 – 11pm at the Astoria Armory. Hotel in Long Beach. Jam Session. Hosted by Richard Thomasian. Last Thursday Poetry Open Mic. With host Ric 9:00pm at the Astoria Armory. No cover, 7 – 10pm at the Port of Call in Vicki Lawrence & Mama: A Two-Woman Vrana. Sign up onsite for a short time slot to Erotic City. $5 cover, 9pm at the San Spirit Dance 2. A free-form dance celebration. Astoria. Show. $10 - $25, 8pm at Chinook Winds in read your own poems or a poem you like. 7 – Dune Pub in Manzanita. Monday 30 Music by DJ Pranawave. 6pm warm-up & Lincoln City. 9pm at Port of Call in Astoria. Ocean. 9pm at the Snug Harbor Bar & MUSIC stretch. 6:15 circle opens and dance begins. Dan Golden. World Music. 7:30 – 10:30pm at Te Earnest Lovers. 8pm at the Adrift McKeown’s Restaurant & Bar in Seaside. LECTURE Grill in Lincoln City. 8pm finish. Suggested donation $10, free Hotel in Long Beach. for kids. At Pine Grove Community House in The Oregon Health Plan for the Hispanic LITERARY Friday 27 ART Manzanita. Community. The Lower Columbia Hispanic Tuesday 1 Weekly Writing Lounge. A weekly drop-in MUSIC Peninsula Arts Association Studio Council will be presenting a program in Span- Tour. 10am – 4pm throughout the MUSIC writing environment with resources. $3/ ses- The Skinks. Performing The Kinks are the Saturday ish about the Oregon Health Plan. Free, 1pm Long Beach Peninsula. See a printable sion. 10am – 12:30pm at the Hoffman Center Village Green Preservation Society. No cover, The Earnest Lovers. 8pm at the Adrift at the Seaside Library. studio map online at beachartist.org/ in Manzanita. 8pm at the Sou’wester Lodge in Seaview. Hotel in Long Beach. MUSIC Musician’s Jam. Free, 2 – 4pm at the Tillamook SPIRITUAL LITERARY FOOD & DRINK ART Country Music Jam. Free, 7 – 9pm at the Library. Manzanita Writers Series. Author Rene Breakfast with Santa. All ages Ocean Within Awareness Group. Mission: to Wickiup Senior Center in Svensen. Monthly Photo Salon. 7 – 9pm at the Denfield will read from “Going Somewhere: welcome. $18 adults, $13 kids ages 6 Open Mic. 3 – 6pm at the Beehive in actively move toward our true nature and Hoffman Center in Manzanita. become one with the Ocean Within. Meet- A Bicycle Journey Axross America. Open mic Franco & the Stingers. 9pm at Roadhouse 101 months to 10 years; under 6 months Nehalem. ings will have two short meditation sessions, session afterward. $7, 7pm at the Hoffman in Lincoln City. free. 9am at the Sand Trap Pub in Wednesday 2 George Coleman. Pop/Jazz/Folk/Rock guitar. group discussions, and a focus practice for Center in Manzanita. Western Haunts. 9pm at the Adrift Hotel in Gearhart. MUSIC No cover, 6pm at the Shelburne Restaurant the week. All faiths/paths welcome. 6:30 – Long Beach. THEATER Wine Tasting. Special Holiday Tasting. McDougall. 8pm at the Adrift Hotel in in Seaview, WA 7:30pm at the Astoria Indoor Garden Supply. Two One-Act Plays. The Dear Departed and A ART 1 – 4pm at the Cellar on 10th in Long Beach. The Honky Tonk Cowboys. Country. No cover, FMI 503-741- 7626 Astoria. Separate Peace will be performed as Readers Peninsula Arts Association Studio Tour. HAPPENING 7 – 10p at the Astoria Moose Lodge. Theater. $10, 7pm at NCRD in Nehalem. 10am – 4pm throughout the Long Beach Wine Tasting. 1 – 5pm at the Wine Thursday Tree Lighting. 5:30pm in downtown Saturday Night Dance Party. With DJ Nacho Once Upon a Mattress. Musical. $18 - $23, Peninsula. See a printable studio map online Shack in Cannon Beach. Bizznez mixing the latest dance music with at beachartist.org/ Cloverdale. MUSIC 7:30pm at the Coaster Theater in Cannon old favorites. No cover, 1pm at Twisted Fish Alex Puzauskas. Jazz. 6pm at the Shelburne HAPPENING Fantasy of Trees. Free admission to Beach. in Seaside. Inn in Seaview. CINEMA Holiday Gift Fair. 10am – 5pm at the view trees. Noon – 8pm at Chinook Manzanita Film Series. Mostly documen- Seaside Convention Center. Winds in Lincoln City. FOOD & DRINK Dallas Williams. Folk/Americana. No cover, taries from the Northwest Film School in Wine Tasting Special. $9 for 4, 2-oz pours + 6:30pm at the Wine Bar at Sweet Basil’s Café Sunday 22 Not Quite 11th Hour Santa Sale. Shop LECTURE Portland. $5, 7:30pm at the Hoffman Center in Cannon Beach. MUSIC for handmade gifts and goodies for complimentary appetizers. 4 – 6pm at the in Manzanita. Workplace Bullies: Control Them Wine Bar at Sweet Basil’s Café in Cannon Tom Trudell. Jazz piano. No cover, 11:30am at the holiday season. Free, noon – 4pm Live Music. No cover, 6pm at U Street Pub FOOD & DRINK at the Lincoln City Cultural Center. Before They Destroy You. With Jennifer Beach. in Seaside. the Bridgewater Bistro in Astoria. Bouman-Steagall. $20, includes lunch. Wine Tasting. Special Holiday Tasting. 1 – 4pm The Good Co. $12, 2pm at the Historic Ray- LITERARY 11:30am – 1pm at Buoy Beer in Asto- Live Music. Thursday Night Gigs, 6pm at the at the Cellar on 10th in Astoria. Sunday mond Theater in Raymond. Indies First Event. A number of ria. Register at lchrma.org/blog/ Cannon Beach Gallery. local authors will be at Cloud & Leaf MUSIC Ken Lavigne. $30, 2pm at the Tillamook High HAPPENING First Thursday Trivia. Teams of 1-5 Richard T. Blues. No cover, 6 – 8:30pm at T Bookstore in Manzanita from 11-4, All That Jazz. Jazz. No cover (donations ac- School Auditorium. Holiday Gift Fair. Noon – 5pm at the Seaside compete for universal admiration and Paul’s Supper Club in Astoria. sharing some of their favorite books, cepted). 2pm at the Wet Dog Café in Astoria. Convention Center. fantastic prizes. Sign up ahead of time Two Crows Joy. 6 – 8pm at the Sand Dollar North Oregon Coast Symphony. Norwegian hand-selling books. Not their own Mimosa Madness. A shopping extravaganza or just show up! Free, 5:30 – 6:30pm at North Coast Country Band. No cover, 3 – 6pm Restaurant & Lounge in Rockaway Beach. Melodies. $15, 3pm at the Rockaway Com- books, but other books they person- in Cannon Beach. 8 – 11am. facebook.com/ the Astoria Public Library. at the Astoria Moose Lodge. munity Church. ally love.Indies First is a way to say Basin Street NW. Jazz. No cover, 6:30pm at MimosaMadness Steve Sloan. 8:30pm at the Snug Harbor Bar & Simon Levene. No cover, 6 – 9pm at Port of thank you to independent booksellers LECTURE the Bridgewater Bistro in Astoria. Grill in Lincoln City. Call in Astoria. Tree Lighting with Santa. Artisan vendors, for all they do. Ales and Ideas. Can Anybody Here Music Jam. All are welcome. 6:30 – 8:30pm ornament-making, a cake walk, complimen- Marty O’Reilly and the Old Soul Orchestra. No THEATER Count? Developing an Energy Policy at the Astoria Senior Center. tary refreshments and the arrival of Santa for the United States. With Pat Keefe. Monday cover. 8pm at Fort George Brewery & Public Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks. 7pm Jim Wilkins. 7pm at the Voodoo Room in Claus. Noon – 7pm at the Lincoln City Cultural Free, 7pm. At the Lovell Showroom, House in Astoria. at the Barn Community Playhouse in HAPPENING Astoria. Center. Fort George, Astoria. Tillamook. Burgers & Jam Session. 6 – 9pm at the Ameri- can Legion Hall in Cannon Beach.

19 Nov 15 hipfishmonthly.com Flash Cuts film. Movies & Musings by Les Kanekuni

Carol (Nov. 20 limited) Director Todd Haynes brings Patricia Highsmith’s Astoria International Film Festival 2015: It’s A Wrap! 1952 lesbian classic “The Price of Salt” to the screen in a movie version that is The 9TH Astoria International Film Festival Voyagers screened to a sold-out crowd of 500 in already being heralded as an Academy screened some of the world’s finest films in the Portland, as well as a second encore screening (to Award nominee. What made High- culturally and historically robust small town of accommodate the high level of audience interest). smith’s book an underground classic is Astoria on the northern Next up for Voyagers will that unlike most lesbian stories of the Oregon Coast, where be the Banff Mountain Film time, her story’s characters unconven- the Columbia River Festival in Banff, Alberta, tional choice does not end in tragedy. meets the Pacific Ocean. Canada, and the National Set in the gray, repressed setting of Billed as “10 Smart. Geographic Theater in mid-‘50s New York, Carol follows mousy Intriguing & Stimulat- Washington, DC; both shopgirl Therese Belivet (Rooney Mara) ing Films from Around screening are in November. who works in the doll section of a Man- the World” AIFF 2015 BLACK ROAD hattan department store. With a job and (October 16, 17 & 18) U.S. | Oregon Filmmaker | boyfriend she doesn’t care for, Therese’s prospects seem dismal. Into this dreary enjoyed the greatest Director: Gary Lundgren setting steps Carol Aird (Cate Blanchett), audience attendance in The Northwest Premiere of whose chic, vivacious personality is like a the film festival’s nine Black Road – just two days ray of light. Therese is immediately smitten. Their courtship proceeds slowly, but despite their opposite personalities, year history. after their World Premiere the mutual attraction is obvious. But there are (male) complications. Therese’s nice but fumbling boyfriend expects Beyond the record in Beverly Hills, CA — for her to marry him, despite her obvious indifference. Carole’s situation is more complicated, with a child, Rindy, and attendance, the major this stunning dramatic by husband Harge (Kyle Chandler), who live apart from her. Although all too aware of his wife’s true nature, Harge is des- coups, well they turned Oregon filmmaker Gary perate to hold his family together and invites Carol to spend the holidays at his parents with Rindy and him. In order to out to be major coups Lundgren; with final scenes see her daughter, Carol will have to conform to Harge’s wishes. Instead, Carol and Therese take off on a blissful road for any film festival, filmed on the Oregon trip where their relationship blossoms – only to have it threatened by Harge who sends a detective after them to gather and super major for a Coast. The week after Black evidence to blackmail Carol. film festival of AIFF’s Road’s screening in Astoria, intimate size. Black Road screened to sold-out crowds in Ash- The 33 (Nov. 13) The 2010 the stakes are no longer just for hands and sets out to track down the Chilean mining disaster comes to the survival, Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer man. Ray then teams up with Claire FESTIVAL land, OR.

screen in this true story of 33 miners Lawrence) teams up with her clos- to find the man first before Jess finds HIGHLIGHTS est friends, including Peeta (Josh him and possibly murders him in AUDIENCE AWARD WINNERS ANNOUNCED trapped in a collapsed mine and their INGRID BERGMAN: IN HER OWN WORDS (Jag är Hutcherson), Gale (Liam Hemsworth) revenge. Cynthia Baker Craig Humanitarian Award struggle to survive that lasted more Ingrid) than 2 months. Opening with the and Finnick for the ultimate mission. VOYAGERS WITHOUT TRACE (Les Voyageurs Sans The Danish Girl (Nov. 27 Sweden | Director: Stig Bjorkman Together, they leave District 13 to lib- Trace) sobering statistic of just how danger- limited) Academy Award winner erate the citizens of war-torn Panem AIFF’s Centerpiece film -- a love letter to Astoria to ous the profession is – 12,000 miners Eddie Redmayne appears to have Directed by Ian McCluskey and assassinate President Snow, pay tribute to Astoria’s Scandinavian heritage. To die every year from mining accidents, a second straight nomination lined who’s obsessed with destroying put this coup in perspective, even Italy had to wait. Audience Award: World Cinema Documentary the movie cuts to the retirement up with his performance as the early Katniss. What lies ahead are mortal Ingrid did not screen in Rome until two days after INGRID BERGMAN: IN HER OWN WORDS party where the main characters are 20th century transgender ground- traps, dangerous enemies and moral Astoria. Ingrid has been winning Special Citation Directed by Stig Bjorkman fleshed out. There is a miner who is breaker Lili Elbe. Einar Wegener choices that will ultimately determine Awards and Audience awards around the world. retiring soon, one who asks for extra (Redmayne) is a thriving landscape Audience Award: U.S. Documentary the future of millions. Sweden has named Ingrid their submission to the hours, one who does a mean Elvis painter in 1926 Copenhagen, while VOYAGERS WITHOUT TRACE (Les Voyageurs Sans 2016 Academy Awards. Ingrid will have only lim- impersonation. At the center is shift Secret in Their Eyes (Nov. 20) his wife Gerda (Alicia Vikander), also Trace) supervisor Don Lucho (Lou Diamond Captain Phillips screenwriter Billy Ray a painter, is a struggling portraitist. ited theatrical release in New York and Los Angles Directed by Ian McCluskey Phillips), the one man cognizant of directs this remake of the Academy Everything changes when Gerda asks (to make it eligible for the Academy Awards). Audience Award: U.S. Dramatic how safety measures have been Award-winning Spanish crime thriller. Einar to sub for usual model Ulla. If you saw Ingrid in Astoria you enjoyed a very rare ignored at the 121 year-old San Julia Roberts and Chiwetol Ejiofor When Einar puts on Ulla’s stockings opportunity to see this beautiful film. BLACK ROAD Jose Mine. Antonio Banderas plays play FBI investigators Jess and Ray. and jeweled slippers, a side of him Directed by Gary Lundgren “Super” Mario Sepulveda, the leader Called to a murder scene, they are he’d never acknowledged rises to the SEYMOUR (BERNSTEIN): AN INTRODUCTION of the 33. When the collapse comes, Audience Award: Short Film: U.S. Fiction horrified to discover that the body surface. After gaining confidence, U.S. | Director: Ethan Hawke THE RADIO the men are trapped underground is that of Jess’s teenage daughter. Einar ventures out as Lili, as Ulla calls Seymour: An Introduction — AIFFF’s tribute to the beneath 700 tons of rock with only Directed by Michael Boylan After a chase through the middle of Einar’s alter ego. Taking a job as Lili stellar work and achievements of the Astoria Music 2-3 days food and water. Sepulveda a football game, the two capture the behind the perfume counter in a chic Festival — was another highly acclaimed, compel- Audience Award: Short Film: U.S. Animation has the 33, as they come to call man they believe to be the culprit, department store, Lili observes the ling and beautiful documentary. A major coup for THE LONELIEST STOPLIGHT themselves, ration the food and tries only for icy blond District Attorney female body language of his custom- AIFF, this uplifting and inspiring documentary has Directed by Bill Plympton to keep up spirits while the Chilean Clair (Nicole Kidman) to release the ers. Living a double life however, is government begins a rescue mission screened at all of the major film festivals around smirking suspect. Thirteen years something Lili/Einar cannot reconcile, Congratulations to all of the winners. led by the minister of mines (Rodrigo the world – Toronto, Telluride, New York . . . and later, Ray contacts Jess, telling her even as wife Gerda both encourages Santoro) and its chief engineer (Ga- Astoria! believes he knows the identity of and profits from him as her model. FROM AIFF: To Astoria with love. We hope that you briel Byrne). Meanwhile, the loved the suspect they were forced to Gerda, too is torn between her love VOYAGERS WITHOUT TRACE (Les Voyageurs Sans enjoyed. ones of the trapped miners gather at release. When Jess asks him how for the man she married and her en- Trace) We invite you to join us again next year. the site and start a vigil at the make- he found the suspect, Ray reveals he couragement of the woman he wants shift “Camp Hope”. has spent the past 13 years poring to become. Eventually Einar takes U.S. | Oregon Filmmaker | Director: Ian McClus- over the photos of every white male the plunge and sees gender surgeon key The Hunger Games: Mock- Astoria International Film Festival ingjay Part 2 (Nov. 20) One in the U.S. prison system until he Dr. Kurt Warnekros (Sebastian Koch) Astoria, Oregon USA of the most anticipated movies this found him. With a second chance at to complete his transformation into A World Premiere for this amazing documentary goaiff.com fall is the final chapter of the Hunger justice, and not trusting the legal sys- what he realizes is his true identity. by Oregon filmmaker Ian McCluskey. The week Games series. Synopsis: Realizing tem, Jess takes matters into her own after Voyagers’ headliner screenings in Astoria,

Nov 15 hipfishmonthly.com 20 The Pedaling Adventures of Madame Velo (a.k.a. The Bike Madame)

FREE WILL ASTROLOGY Bike Madame November © Copyright 2015 Rob Brezsny By Margaret Hammitt-McDonald ARIES (March 21-April 19): The next seven weeks will NOT be coming weeks. More than once, you will suddenly tune in to facts, a favorable time to fool around with psychic vampires and situations, or influences that had previously been invisible to you. charismatic jerks. I recommend you avoid the following mistakes, That’s a good thing! But it might initially bring a jolt. as well: failing to protect the wounded areas of your psyche; The World Beneath LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The 20th century’s most influential artist demanding perfection from those you care about; and trying to may have been Pablo Picasso. He created thousands of paintings, fulfill questionable desires that have led you astray in the past. and was still churning them out when he was 91 years old. A Now I’ll name some positive actions you’d be wise to consider: journalist asked him which one was his favorite. “The next one,” he Your Feet! hunting for skillful healers who can relieve your angst and aches; said. I suggest you adopt a similar attitude in the coming weeks, Pedals aren’t a bicycle’s most glamor- When you come to a stop, you just slip favoring the companionship of people who are empathetic and Libra. What you did in the past is irrelevant. You should neither ous part. They don’t have the cachet of your push-off foot straight backward emotionally intelligent; and getting educated about how to build depend on nor be weighed down by anything that has come derailleurs, with their exalted gear-shift- out of the clip—no twisting needed. I the kind of intimacy you can thrive on. before. For now, all that matters are the accomplishments and ing function and the chance to babble like clips because they give you more TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You may have seen websites that adventures that lie ahead of you. about gear ratios. They don’t present “oomph” going uphill, as you can pull offer practical tips on how to improve your mastery of life’s little maintenance difficulties. And yet these up against the pedal as well as push SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): A windbreak is a line of stout trees or details. They tell you how to de-clutter your home, or how to keep things you down. thick bushes that provides shelter from the wind. I think you need baked goods from going stale, or why you should shop for shoes stand on en- Clips present a metaphorical version: someone or something to shield you at night to get the best fit. I recently come across a humorous site able you to from a relentless force that has been putting pressure on you; a two maintenance that provides the opposite: bad life tips. For instance, it suggests buffer zone or protected haven where you can take refuge from a work the phys- issues. The that you make job interviews less stressful by only applying for stressful barrage that has been hampering your ability to act with ics miracle that screws holding jobs you don’t want. Put your laptop in cold water to prevent clarity and grace. Do you know what you will have to do to get it? is your bicycle, them on loosen overheating. To save time, brush your teeth while you eat. In the Here’s your battle cry: “I need sanctuary! I deserve sanctuary!” that efficient with road vibra- two sets of examples I’ve just given, it’s easy to tell the difference transfer of tion, so tighten between which tips are trustworthy and which aren’t. But in the SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Your fellow Sagittarian Walt Dis- energy from them periodically coming days, you might find it more challenging to distinguish ney accomplished a lot. He was a pioneer in the art of animation feet to pedals to avoid losing between the good advice and bad advice you’ll receive. Be very and made movies that won numerous Academy Awards. He built to drive chain a clip. The web- discerning. theme parks, created an entertainment empire, and amassed to wheels. bing straps wear fantastic wealth. Why was he so successful? In part because he GEMINI (May 21-June 20): On a windy afternoon last spring I Pedals through after a had high standards, worked hard, and harbored an obsessive de- was walking through a quiet neighborhood in Berkeley. In one come in three while. I replace votion to his quirky vision. If you aspire to cultivate any of those yard there was a garden plot filled with the young green stems flavors. The them with zip qualities, now is a favorable time to raise your mastery to the next of as-yet unidentifiable plants. Anchored in their midst was a basic model is ties—cheap and level. Disney had one other trait you might consider working on: small handwritten sign. Its message seemed to be directed not the plat- durable, if not He liked to play the game of life by his own rules. For example, his at passers-by like me but at the sprouts themselves. “Grow faster, form. These good-looking. favorite breakfast was doughnuts dipped in Scotch whisky. What you little bastards!” the sign said -- as if the blooming things workhorses Clipless ped- would be your equivalent? might be bullied into ripening. I hope you’re smart enough not are stable, als are the luxury to make similar demands on yourself and those you care about, CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): October is Fix the Fundamentals don’t require car of the pedal Gemini. It’s not even necessary. I suspect that everything in your Month. It will be a favorable time to substitute good habits for you to pur- world. You need life will just naturally grow with vigor in the coming weeks. bad habits. You will attract lucky breaks and practical blessings as chase special to purchase a you work to transform overwrought compulsions into rigorous CANCER (June 21-July 22): “I am rooted, but I flow,” wrote Virginia footwear, and shoe and pedal passions. You will thrive as you seek to discover the holy yearning Woolf in her novel *The Waves.* That paradoxical image reminds some models system that are that’s hidden at the root of devitalizing addictions. To get started, me of you right now. You are as grounded as a tree and as fluid have pins to compatible with instigate free-wheeling experiments that will propel you out of as a river. Your foundation is deep and strong, even as you are increase grip. each other. The your sticky rut and in the direction of a percolating groove. resilient in your ability to adapt to changing circumstances. This Some riders pedal and a part is your birthright as a Cancerian! Enjoy and use the blessings it AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Have you made your travel plans yet? like these unadorned pedals because at the bottom of the shoe clip into place confers. (P.S. If for some strange reason you’re not experiencing Have you plotted your escape? I hope you will hightail it to a fes- your foot doesn’t get caught in some- when they come together. I confess an exquisite version of what I’ve described, there must be some tive playground where some of your inhibitions will shrink, or else thing if you fall off. On the downside, that I’ve never tried clipless pedals; the obstacle you are mistakenly tolerating. Get rid of it.) journey to a holy spot where your spiritual yearnings will ripen. there’s nothing to keep your foot in combination of price and the possibility What would be even better is if you made a pilgrimage to a place place and give you extra traction when of not being able to get off my pedal LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Should I offer my congratulations? You have that satisfied both of those agendas -- filled up your senses with you’re climbing a hill. That’s why you’ll in a hurry have encouraged me to stick corralled a gorgeous mess of problems that are more interesting novel enticements and fed your hunger for transcendent insights. see these pedals most often on casual with my faithful, low-tech, and cheap and provocative than everyone else’s. It’s unclear how long this Off you go, Aquarius! Why aren’t you already on your way? If you riders’ bikes. friends the clips. Clipless fans have told odd good fortune will last, however. So I suggest you act deci- can’t manage a real getaway in the near future, please at least If you want to keep your foot in the me that their preferred pedal gives them sively to take maximum advantage of the opportunities that your stage a jailbreak for your imagination. dilemmas have cracked open. If anyone can turn the heartache of saddle, you have two options: clips or the best bond with their bikes when misplaced energy into practical wisdom, you can. If anyone can PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Pablo Neruda’s *Book of Questions* clipless pedals. Toe clips, which I use, they hop curbs (or logs) and zip along at harness chaos to drum up new assets, it’s you. Is it possible to be consists entirely of 316 questions. It’s one of those rare texts that are metal or plastic “cages” with straps. racing speed. I’m unsure what mainte- both cunning and conscientious, both strategic and ethical? For makes no assertions and draws no conclusions. In this spirit, and They come in small, medium, and nance issues clipless pedals present; of you right now, I think it is. in honor of the sphinx-like phase you’re now passing through, large sizes, and you need to adjust the course you need to keep them clean I offer you six pertinent riddles: 1. What is the most important strap to provide the right size open- so that grit does not get in the way of VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Let’s say you have walked along the thing you have never done? 2. How could you play a joke on your ing for your foot. Inserting first foot is clipping in. same path or driven down the same road a thousand times. Then, fears? 3. Identify the people in your life who have made you real easy. With the second one, you have As with the many possible modifi- one day, as you repeat your familiar route, a certain object or to yourself. 4. Name a good old thing you would have to give up to get used to kicking off with the foot cations you can make to your steed, scene snags your attention for the first time. Maybe it’s a small in order to get a great new thing. 5. What’s the one feeling you and slipping it in as you start to pedal. whether you want to attach clips to your fountain or a statue of the Buddhist goddess Guanyin or a wall want to feel more than any other in the next three years?. 6. What The clips are weighted to facilitate this platforms or replace them with a clipless with graffiti that says “Crap happens, but so does magic.” It has inspires you to love? move: a little turn of the pedal pops the system depends on how you ride. Now always been there. You’ve been subconsciously aware of it. But at clip up so you can slide your foot inside. what I’m waiting for is a set that comes this moment, for unknown reasons, it finally arrives in your con- Homework: Send testimonies about how you’ve redeemed the This maneuver takes a few tries to per- with rain booties attached. Wouldn’t scious mind. I believe this is an apt metaphor for your life in the dark side to: Sex Laugh, [email protected]. fect, but you’re unlikely to get tangled. that be cool?

21 Nov 15 hipfishmonthly.com network. Community Listings WORKSHOPS/CLASSES Meditation Class at CCC. Learn how to sit weekend workshops. www.yoganam.com. 530 In Seaside, Oregon. Call or email for directions: 440 9761. ASTORIA WELLNESS FAIR quietly, be in your body, and listen to your 503-717-4302 [email protected]. Suggested donation $15.00. Bring finger food Presented by Thrivent Financial and RiversZen Yoga and Re- heart in the practice of developing compas- LOTUS YOGA ASTORIA. Classes with Certified, if you feel so inclined. The gathering will in- sion for yourself and others. A secular class Experienced Teachers: Monday - Gentle sistance Stretching on Sunday, November 22nd from Noon to clude a healing circle, channeled conversation of self discovery, students help each other 9:00am, Level 1 5:30am, Tuesday - Level 2 6am, 4:00 at 399 31st Street on the Riverwalk in Astoria. with Mother Mary, snacks and sharing. to create a home practice of meditation. Wednesday - Gentle 9am, Restorative 6:30pm, The Entrance is free to this one-day event at the RiversZen as local prac- Starting this fall - Thursdays 6-7:30pm. at Thursday - Level 2&3 6pm, Friday - Thera- Art & Mindfulness. With Amy Selena Reynolds. titioners gather to showcase their services and education about Holistic the college room 209 Towler Hall. Register at peutic 9am. Meditation - Wednesday 6pm, Once a month , 2nd Saturdays, 1-4 pm. Deepen Health and Wellness options available to the community. Clatsop College. For more info: Ron Maxted New Classes coming soon!Monthly Prices: your connection with your heart, mind, and 503.338.9153, email ronmaxted@wwetsky. Unlimited Classes - $90, 4-8 Classes - $10 each, Topics to be covered include massage therapy, yoga, resistance stretch- spirit, play with creativity, find out where are ing, reflexology, aromatherapy, health coaching, acupuncture, infrared net Drop Ins - $13 each. New Students get a $10 and meditation begin. No previous art or med- sauna, float tank, meditation, relaxation and rejuvenation, healthy food discount on first month. itation experience is necessary. Bring a journal MEETINGS/MEET-UPS Soap Making Class. November 14. With Nadine choices and resources, financial health and more. RiversZen Yoga and Ki-Hara Resistance and your favorite pen. All other supplies will be of Black Market Soaps. Each student will go GRIEF SUPPORT GROUP. Astoria/Seaside. Stretching Studio. Located at 399 31st Str. provided. Class fee:$30 (Note: No one will be In addition all yoga that day will be free, we’ll be offering simple home with one pound of home made soap Lower Columbia Hosice is currently offering Astoria. 503-440-3554. Over 30 classes, for turned away for lack of funds. Please contact stretches and self-stretch sessions all for free and the North Coast Food and a hand crafted soap mold and recipes free bereavement and grief support group Strength, Stamina or Yoga Flow,Levels 1, 2 & 3 Amy if you have a financial hardship but want Web will be serving snacks. to craft your next batch. Due to process of meetings twice per month: 1st Thurs. 2-4pm@ offered from early morning to evening, 7 days to take a class.) Call Amy at 503-421-7412 or working with lye in cold processed soap we Bob Chisholm Comm.Center, Meeting Rm. Columbia Memorial Hospital will be on hand to facilitate health screen- a week. 1/2price for new students first month email [email protected] don’t recommend this class for kids. $65, noon 1, 1225 Ave. A, Seaside. 3rd Tues. 4:30-6pm, ings with immediate results by appointment for $25 by appointment and locals residents first day free.Free parking – 2pm at North Fork 53 near Nehalem. Register COLUMBIA RIVER MEDITATION GROUP. Spon- Columbia Memorial Hospital, Columbia only. The assessment will include: blood pressure, height/weight, waist and a handicapped ramp is available. http:// by emailing [email protected] sored by Great Vow Monastery. Meets ever Center, Chinok Rm, 2021 Exchange St., Astoria. circumference, body fat percentage, body mass index and blood sugar. riverszen.com orFacebook.com/RiversZen. Qeustions call: 503-338-6230. Holiday Pie Making Workshop. November 17. Wednesday in the FLag Room of the Public To schedule a screening, contact Venus Fromwiller, Columbia Memorial Want to up your holiday cooking game this YOGA—North County Recreation District— LIbrary. Time: 5:45 - 6:55. MOVING to Clatsop La Leche League of Astoria. 2015 Fall Se- Hospital Community Outreach at 503-338-4520. Additional participants year? Join us for this fun and scrumptiously Nehalem. Monday 5:45-7:15pm Level 1 Yoga. Community College on Tuesdays @ 6-7:30pm, ries Meeting Notice Breastfeeding Information are Prana Wellness Center, Waves of Change, Allow Your Body to Heal Tuesday 4-5:30pm Yin Flows into Restorative. starting Sept 30. Regtration is required at CCC. simple pie making class just in time for Thanks- and Support. If you are interested in breast- and North Coast Food Web. Call 503-440-3554 for questions about the Wed 8-9:30am Mid-Life Yoga, leading into your Class# is F.T085054, Rm 209 Towler Hall. All giving! We will be using farm fresh organic feeding your baby, consider attending a La event. For more information about the RiversZen please call Peggy at ingredients to make two classic pies, Apple 50’s, 60’s, 70’s and beyond! Wed 5:45-7:15pm are welcome to practice - quiet setting and Leche League meeting. You will meet other Restorative Yoga. Thurs 8-9:30am Chair Yoga. and Pumpkin, that participants can take home slow walking meditation. Local contact: Ron mothers who have breastfed their babies 503-440-3554 or go online @ http://riverszen.com. Thurs 5:45-7:15pm Vinyasa Light Yoga. Fri with them and freeze until the big day. No Maxted - 503.338.9153. email: ronmaxted@ and mothers with babies around the same 8-9:30am Very Gentle Yoga. Saturday 8-9:30am stress and no mushy crusts. $50, Noon – 3pm wwestsky.net age as your own. Group meetings provide an Mixed-Levels Yoga. 4 different instructors, $8 opportunity for both new and experienced Dance Your Joy at 5:30 - 6:30pm Tri - Dosha at North Fork 53 near Nehalem. Register by drop-in fee each class. 36155 9th St. in Ne- A SILENT MEDITATION • with Lola Sacks. St. mothers to connect and share their questions Yoga with Melissa Henige emailing [email protected] AAMC halem, Room 5 (going south, just past Wanda’s Catherine’s Center for the Contemplative Arts, and concerns with each other. Babies and The AAMC is a cooperative 7:00-8:15pm: Belly Dance Café, turn left uphill). Call 503-368-7160 for Manzanita: Monday Nights 5 - 5:45 Call 368- toddlers are always welcome. Meetings are Handmade Soap/Japanese Tawashi Workshop. of passionate professionals with Jessamyn Grace November 22. Learn to make handmade more information. 6227 for more info. held on the Third Thursday of each month from from 11:00 – 12:30 at 320 South Street, who want to share the love of 8:30 - 9:30pm Argentine cold process vegan bar soap. Learn the entire YOGA –Bay City Arts Center. Classed with LECTIO DIVINA • Meditation with Holy Scrip- process from beginning to end. From there, Astoria. Come join us! • November 19 What to dance, fitness & performance Tango Practica with Peter von Michelle Lawhorn - Mon & Thurs 6pm. $5 ture. The Center for the Contemplative Arts, Expect: The Normal Course of Breastfeeding- learn how to create a crocheted flower shaped art with you. Located at 342 Payens per class. Manzanita: Tuesday Mornings 10-11:30. Call December 17 New Beginnings: Baby’s First washcloth in the Japanese Tawashi method. 10th St. in Astoria. 368-6227 for more info. Foods. La Leche League Leaders are available YOGA—Manzanita, Center for Contempla- • Thursday The combo workshop is $60 or soap workshop to answer breastfeeding questions and • Monday tive Arts, Manzanita Ave., Tuesday 5-6:30pm. 9:00-10:00am: Zumba Toning is $45/Tawashi workshop $25. At Lucky Bear LABYRINTH WALK • Grace Episcopal Church, concerns. For more information on meet- 10:00-11:00am: Tai Chi with $10 drop-in fee. Call 503-368-3733 for more with Nayelli Dalida Soap Company in Tillamook. Please register 1545 Franklin St, Astoria, 3-6. Every 1st Sunday. ings or questions, please call/text Megan Angela Sidlo information. by November 15th by calling 503-812-3595 or Oien @ 503.440.4942 or Janet Weidman @ 5:30 - 6:15pm SloFlow 12:10-12:50pm: Qigong with 541-418-2329. Yoga in Gearhart. Gearhart Workout. For more 503.741-0345 Vinyasa Yoga with Jude Matu- Angela Sidlo (starts Sept VOLUNTEER 24th) Holiday Wreath Making. November 28 and information log on to www.gearhartworkout. LA MESA CONVERSATION GROUP. Join us on lichHall December 5. Get creative at the Cannon Beach com 3470 Hwy. 101 N. Suite 104 in Gearhart Clatsop Care Center is looking for Tuesday nights this summer to share food, 6:20 - 7:15pm QuikFlo 4-5pm: Slomo w/Kestral volunteers to assist in our Quality of Life Gates Chamber of Commerce from 11am until 3pm. QIGONG. Free. Easy relaxing exercise & community, and culture! La Mesa de Conver- Vinyasa Yoga with Jude Matu- Department. Your presence could make a This wreath making event even comes with meditation qigong class.Helps arthritis & fibro- sacion (conversation table) brings together 5:30-6:30pm: Tai Chi with difference in their lives. Volunteer roles can lichHall an instructor - along with refreshments and myalgia, reduces stress, Helps balance. Tues & a group of community members to discuss Angela Sidlo common themes and informally practice holiday music. To register, call 541-992-4292 Thurs, 9am to 10am, Astoria Methodist Church, be customized to fit your schedule & prefer- both English and Spanish over shared meals. • Tuesday • Friday 1076 Franklin Ave.Enter 11th St door Call Linda ences in terms of type of activity and time FIBER ARTS. NCRD is hosting the North Coast La Mesa will be held all summer on Tuesdays Williamson. 503.861.2063. commitment. Volunteer roles include visiting & 9:00-10:00am: Zumba Fitness 2nd Friday of each Month Fiber Arts Group on Mondays from 1-3 pm building friendships with individuals, reading from 6-8, and is a family event, with activities with Nayelli Dalida 6:00 - 7:30pm Restorative/ for kids. Join us tomorrow night-- we’ll be talk- in the Riverbend Room. If you do handwork THAI CHI /QIGONG. ASTORIA. Angela Sidlo aloud to residents, playing music , singing 10:30 - 11:30am Thera- Yin Yoga, optional medita- of any kind...knitting, crocheting, weaving, ing about summer celebrations and traditions teaches Tai Chi at Astoria Arts & Movement with residents, assisting on outings, conduct- peutic Chair Yoga with Jude tion until 8:00pm with Jude macramé, needlepoint, etc. You are welcome Center! Mon 10-11, Wed 10 - 11, Thur 5:30 - ing a movie night activity, assisting in craft over a meal of fajitas provided by the Bunk- house! For more info, contact Willa Childress MatulichHall MatulichHall (November 13, to come and join like-minded folk. Bring your 6:30. QiGong, Tue, 12:10 - 12:50 , Thur 12:10 activities, games, cooking activities & other ac- at (503) 812-1056 or at wchildre@macalester. 12:10-12:50pm: Qigong with knitting problems on the 3rd Monday of the - 12:50. Starts in Sept. Call Angela to register tivities. Volunteers will need to pass a criminal December 11) edu.The Lower Columbia Classics Car Club. month and get help from knitting instructor 503-338-9921 background check & a TB screening test. For Angela Sidlo (starts Sept Saturday Lou Stine.The group will be working on Invitation to all who are interested in Collector 22nd) 6:00-7:00pm: Argentine T’AI CHI. The Center for the Contemplative Arts, more information, call Brandy at 325-0313 Ext. Cars to attend one of our monthly meetings. charity projects in the future such as Warm Up Manzanita: Wednesday Mornings 10-11:30. 220 or Rosetta at ext. 222”. The meetings are held at Steve Jordan’s Shop 1:15 - 2:15pm Tai Chi with Tango with Estelle Olivares America or Carewear. email Jane for further Building, located at 35232 Helligso Lane in Margaret Murdock 7:00-8:00pm: Argentine $30/month. Call 368-6227 for more info. CLATSOP COUNTY GENEALOGY SOCIETY is information. [email protected] rural Astoria - meet on the 3rd Thursday of 6:30-7:30pm: Ballroom w/Jen Tango Practica with Estelle LEARN SELF DEFENSE. American Kenpo Karate embarking on county-wide cemeteryidentifi- The Hoffman Center Clay Studio. Manzanita. each month. For directions call Steve Jordan at Miller Olivares (Ocean Park, Wa) Private & Semi-Private Les- cation and cataloging project. Cemeteries are Drop by studio to reserve or e-mail hoffman- 503-325-1807. sons (Adults Only, $10.00 Per Lesson. Currently among the mostvaluable of historic resources. 7:30-8:30pm: West Coast [email protected]. The Clay Studio open Teaching Wednesdays And Saturdays). For They are reminders of our settlementpatterns TILLAMOOK PILOTS ASSOCIATION. Meets 1st Swingw/J. Miller News: New Fall Classes!! Tues and Thurs from 10am to 4pm and the sec- and can reveal information about our historic Sat ea. month at the Airbase Cafe (Tillamook Free Introductory Lesson Contact Instructor • Wednesday Slomo with Kestrel Gates, ond and fourth Saturdays from 10am to 2pm. Jon Belcher At:Phone: 360-665-0860 E- events, ethnicity,religion, lifestyles and geneal- Air Museum) at 9am for their regular business Qigong with Angela Sidlo, meeting and to promote general aviation. 10:00-11:00am: Tai Chi with DOES FOOD RUN YOUR LIFE? Come to Mail:[email protected] ogy. The society is seeking volunteers tojoin Ballroom/West Coast Swing members in identifying and visiting cem- Interested in learning to fly? Or simply inter- Angela Sidlo Overeaters Anonymous every Wednesday ZUMBA. Low Impact Fitness for many ages. ested in general aviation, come to the meeting from 7-8pm in the Seaside Public Library, eteries to catalog theinformation for future Licensed instruction. Tolovana Community generations. The society would also be grateful and meet similar-minded folks? The TPA owns Board Room B. No dues, fees or weigh-ins. Hall 3779 S. Hemlock, Cannon Beach, Call Joy: a Cessna 172 available for members to rent for forany information from the public regarding Everyone welcome! (if you have questions call 503.738.6560 The Lower Columbia Classics Car old cemeteries and burial sitesthat may not BREASTFEEDING INFORMATION & SUP- 503-505-1721). Club. Invitation to all who are interested in ZUMBA. Come join the Zumba party at North be commonly known. If you are interested, ENCORE. Join us for the ENCORE Lunch Bunch PORT. La Leche League’s monthly support Collector Cars to attend one of our monthly Toddler Arts Group. Every Wednesday 10 to County Recreation District in Nehalem, contact thesociety at www.clatsopcounty- the first Tuesday of the month. Questions group meetings provide an opportunity meetings. The meetings are held at Steve 11am –Get your toddler started in the arts! Oregon. Tue-Thur 6:30 to 7:30pm/Fri 9-10am. [email protected] or call 503-325-1963 or about Lunch Bunch? Call Reta Leithner for both new and experienced mothers Jordan’s Shop Building, located at 35232 to share their questions or concerns, and Activities are geared towards ages 1–3, but FAll term thru Dec. Attire: Loose gym clothing, 503-298-8917. 503-717-2297. ENCORE is a membership orga- Helligso Lane in rural Astoria - meet on the to talk with each other about the special age birth–5 are welcome. All children must non-gripping sneakers, a water bottle & lots of nization for people age 50 and older who are joys and challenges of parenting. We be accompanied by a caregiver. Bay City Arts energy! Rosa Erlebach – instructor. Ncrd. 36155 Weekly Habitat Restoration/Stewardship Work interested in life-long learning opportunities. 3rd Thursday of each month. If you are inter- especially encourage expectant and new Center, Bay City. 9th Street Nehalem, Or 97131(503) 368-4595 Parties. 10 am - noon. Meet at Alder Creek ENCORE is sponsored by Clatsop Community ested and need the directions to get there, mothers to join us. Healthy babies and [email protected] Farm, at the end of Underhill Lane between College, and offers classes in a variety of sub- you may call Steve Jordan at 503-325-1807 Nehalem and Manzanita. Dress for the weather toddlers are always welcome at La Leche jects, social events, and occasional educational THE ASTORIA CHESS CLUB. meets Saturday and prepare to get outside with great people League meetings. Meetings are held on BODY WORK•YOGA•FITNESS trips. For more information, please refer to our mornings at 11:30 AM at Three Cups Coffee the Third Thursday of each month from SPIRITUALITY on beautiful properties doing a variety of habi- website: www.encorelearn.org or contact Mary YOGA NAMASTE. Level 1&2 90 minutes Yoga House and Thursday evenings at 5:30 PM at 11:00 – 12:30 at 320 South Street, Astoria. tat restoration activities. For more information Kemhus-Fryling, Clatsop Community College the Hotel Elliott’s wine bar. Players of all ages classes. Monday 8a.m., Wednesday 6:30p.m., CONVERSATIONS WITH MOTHER MARY. Come La Leche League Leaders are available contact Lower Nehalem Community Trust, Community Education Coordinator, 503-338- and skill levels are welcome to attend. For Friday 6:30a.m. and 8:30a.m. $16 walk-in. Com- and experience the Love and Wisdom of to answer breastfeeding questions and 503-368-3203, [email protected] 2408, or toll free at 1-855-252-8767. more information, contact us at astoriachess- munity yoga Wednesday 5:15p.m. $12 walk-in. Mother Mary through her channel Barbara concerns. Megan [email protected] or [email protected] or visit our Facebook page.” Janet [email protected] 342 10th street, Astoria. Check website for Beach. Every Second Sunday, 10:30 to 12:30ish. Nov 15 hipfishmonthly.com 22 sciousness. Everyone is a guru nothing. As the metaphysical because our accelerated level community swings their crystals of competition leaves people and marches to weekend work- feeling they might be left shops let’s embrace the truth of behind. The ego bolsters up spiritual enlightenment. We are spiritual pride and a desire to not attached to anything here be seen. Our need to be spiri- on earth. Our dedication to our Messages tually elevated is an illusion that inner journey is all that matters. exists in the duality. Humility Our first responsibility is to the Sonja Grace is not something we admire or earth. We are the caretakers mystic healer promote in our society. Rather of this planet. Once you are we focus on how many likes you enlightened, then what? Your have on social media and how life becomes a state of service Everyone’s A Guru popular you are. to humanity and the real work umanity has rushed to shopping, alcohol which are all We set the stage early insist- begins. the fore seeking spiritual H the layers of avoidance in our ing all children receive a cer- enlightenment in this higher society. Fear of failing, fear of tificate for various activities like For over thirty years, frequency. As we rush past the not being loved, fear of suc- soccer or other sports, with the author and Mystic gates of centuries of religious cess, fear of being abandoned good intention of not leaving Healer, Sonja Grace practice, demanding the final has been offering her are the underlying issues. a child behind. This however result, very few ask what then? international clientele, When we are born we enter teaches children that they do immediate stability, Our society is built upon com- physical form and inherit a not have to invest their time clarity, and petition and addiction. These state of amnesia. Packed with and energy with serious study. guidance. Sonja is front runners have an underly- lifetimes of karma we face A certificate gives them a sense an energy surgeon who ing sequence which leads back once again the biggest fear all of completion. We allow our works with the physical, to fear; competition to be the humans carry: separation from kids to try everything and com- emotional, mental and best, the most popular, the God. This primary experience pete fiercely for the top spot, spiritual bodies. She most acknowledged and the connects us to the root of fear. best role, first chair and starting helps clients process emotional wounds, clear most enlightened. Addictions We remain in a state of turmoil position. We forget this is the The Lower Columbia Clinic karma and gain inner run rampant because we no just being in physical form and very template from which they peace. Her book Thomas S. Duncan, M.D. • Susan L Skinner, CNM, CFNP longer exercise our fight or the duality of our experience is will live by. ‘Become and Earth 595 18th, Astoria • 503-325-9131 flight sequence utilizing the like a maze. So how do reach A state of nothingness is the Angel’ Advice and basic human nature of survival, this coveted state of being path of the guru. There is a Wisdom for Finding unless we live in a war torn called enlightenment? We can deep understanding that there your Wings and Living country. We cover our feelings, start by recognizing this is just is no attachment to anything. in Service is available misunderstandings and emo- one of many journeys we make. They fully embrace that they are through Findhorn Press. tional wounds with everything Our evolution is an ongoing nothing. It is within the nothing Her companion film series ‘Earth Angel’ can we can be addicted to. Sports, process and nothing to sneeze that they experience everything. be found on her website cell phones, texting, the inter- about. Taking time to work on In ancient times the gurus www.sonjagrace.com net, gaming, sex, drugs, sugar, oneself is the key to higher con- lived in caves and literally had Tis the Season By Tobi Nason word and wisdom The Holidays are Coming! I admit, it triggers some little person in me to buy a few odds and ends, if it’s something The Holidays are Coming! that goes “Awww! Pretty!” I have to pack away in a box in January, most Yep, you betcha. As I write this, there’s At one time, I would and could indulge in likely I will not buy it. less than 2 months of fun and frenzy, until stuff. Decor, candles, cute hand towels. You I believe that infusing more thought the New Year when we get to recoup and name it, I was a suburban housewife married and feeling into the season takes time and sweep up the mess. to a working man. Now I’m a downsized energy, something money can’t buy. I’m It is the season of frenzy, no doubt. Since I older person, single, who chose to live discovering the world where money does have no means to indulge in physical excess, simply (or simply live?) I actively gave away not reign. that is not my concern. My focus is just that all my decorations, years of decorations, So much of life is adapting to Change. - Focus. lots of memories attached to the Hallmark The best adaptations have a flow to them, It’s easy to let the Holidays overwhelm cuteness, yes, I was on my way to a new life a natural sense of Rightness. Trying too and drain a person. Too much to do, not and I wanted to clear the path. I wanted my hard to hang onto things that once were enough time. Too many choices, and not Christmases to reflect my new life. My best is a sure way to frustration and a waste of enough ways and means to do it all. Even memories are not gone with the decora- time. My suggestion: Adapt to “what is.” with that in mind, there’s still a sense of tions. They have stayed with me - a picture Get comfortable with reality and work with hyperspeed and overcomsumption and here, a scarf, a letter. it. No family in town? Volunteer somewhere. too much to it all. Overeating the hors I want you to know this: There’s a sense of No money? Do a good deed and say kind d’houerves at free events is still an indul- excitement in Not Knowing how my Holiday words. Feeling sad and lost? Join the crowd. gence. That extra glass of wine, once more season will pan out. I have choices to make, Literally. Get out and mingle. Just be. Feel cookie, and more, more, more.... like an array of goods on display, only these grateful that the option of mingling is still It starts now, people. The retailers have are big and small events. My emphasis is on within your physical powers. their stuff on display. Colorful, sparkly, and Doing, rather than Having. Much as I’d like Happy Holiday Season, Everyone!

23 Nov 15 hipfishmonthly.com bodiesinbalance By Tracy Erfling, N.D.

Dr. Tracy Erfling is a Holiday Cheer naturopath physician in the Giving You Lower Columbia Region. Questions? the Blues? [email protected]

The holidays can be a hard time of year tigue and lethargy. Amino acids, which are apathetic, fatigued person with poor for many people. Whether it is remember- precursors to neurotransmitters, can cause concentration you might consider more en- ing a loved one who has passed, financial depression if not at adequate levels. Tyro- ergetic, tonic, restorative herbs. Ginseng, instability or just the gray weather; it’s a sine (a precursor to dopamine, epinephrine Rhodiola, Oat Straw, Skullcap or Rosemary season when symptoms of depression can and norepinephrine) or Tryptophan (a pre- which are nourishing to the nervous and reach an all time low. Depression is one cursor to serotonin and melatonin) are two endocrine systems. Herbs are safe when of those terms like organic, which seems of the twenty amino acids, which are key used correctly, but always best to seek obi ason overused and poorly defined. There is no players in depression. The latter our bod- the attention of a licensed professional T N one size fits all when managing depression, ies cannot produce itself and must come who can design and advise something Counseling and Mediation Services so let’s explore some naturopathic basics from protein food sources such as nuts, specifically for your needs, especially if you In Astoria to this common experience. are already taking an anti-depressant Specializing in Life Changes It is important when seeking medication. Flower essences are also call 503-440-0587 attention for depression that you a favorite of mine and can be a subtle M.A in Counseling thoroughly explain what depression yet powerful tool to help with emotions. means to you. It is purely lethargy Finding the one to fit your emotional and loss of motivation, or is there needs is the art to using these rem- also trouble sleeping (too much OR edies. Elm for overwhelmed, Mimulus too little), an element of anxiety, for fear of the known, Aspen for fear and difficultly concentrating. Is it of the unknown and Holly for anger… hipfishmonthly.com a seasonal problem, or something this is just a sampling of the emotional that you struggle with year-round. states that flower essences may be able All of these specifications can help to help. I like to tell my patients that a practitioner refine treatment to flower essences won’t necessarily take better fit your needs. away the emotion but put you in more The root of depression may stem control. from a variety of causes: a mental- Other lifestyle choices can impact the Tracy Erfling n.d. emotional trigger, a nutritional way that you mentally move through naturopathic physician deficiency, an overload of heavy your day. Obviously eating well, making metals, or a biochemical imbal- quality food choices and taking time for ance. Anti-depressant drugs, which digestion will help your body maintain focus solely on the biochemical many of the vitamins, minerals and primary care using imbalances, are among the leading amino acids mentioned above. Getting prescriptions in this country. But exercise has been shown in numerous natural therapeutics often these drugs just flatten emo- studies to improve your moods…the tions so that neither joy nor sadness BEST all-natural anti-depressant. You seem intense, and they come may want to consider taking up an old Call for an appointment! 503.440.6927 with unwanted side effects. Many hobby or starting a new one. Sew- 2935 Marine Dr. • Astoria people do experience significant re- ing, painting, writing, playing music or email:email: [email protected] [email protected] lief from anti-depressants, but let’s woodworking may speed up those long, explore a few non-drug choices for dark nights and keep you away from you to consider. the all too depressing television. If you are For those who are beginning to recog- seeds, dairy, meat, quinoa and seaweed… lonely consider adopting a pet, even a fish nize the symptoms of depression, there OR you can supplement them (under the (non-allergenic) can make a nice change in are some simple nutritional therapies to advisement and supervision of a health a lonely home. Pets have been reputed to try before drugs. My first go to is always care professional of course). lower blood pressure, help us feel more re- vitamin D3, this all too common defi- The wonderful world of plant medicines laxed and live longer; there is no shortage cient vitamin can often work wonders for can also supply our bodies with the neces- of loving pets waiting for a happy home. seasonal depression. The use of a quality sary tools to aid in easing the blues. Again Happy Holidays Hipfish readers, I hope B complex vitamin is a must try as well. A depending on your specific depressive your holiday season is filled with warmth, deficiency in almost any one particular B symptoms there are choices that may be love and good health!! vitamin can cause a whole range of emo- more appropriate. If your depression takes tional problems from irritability and anxiety on more of an anxiety, edgy, angry, racing to depression and mood swings. Minerals thoughts and insomnia form then soothing, DO something you love, BE with someone such as Magnesium and Zinc are key to sedative nervines are for you. Consider you love, EAT your vegetables, DRINK clean many physiological reactions in the body. Passionflower, St John’s Wort, Skullcap, With a deficiency of minerals one may Linden Flower or Valerian to ease your water, BREATHE deeply and MOVE your experience low energy, poor memory, fa- emotional lability. If you are a lethargic, body EVERYDAY!!

Nov 15 hipfishmonthly.com 24 CHEW ON THIS! REASSURING CHEW ON THIS! Daylight cook- by Merianne Myers Savings Time ing. RICE PUDDING has left us to Sure, Serves 4 if you’re generous or twist in the pitch lightly 1 if you’re smart dark wind and the rains have steamed, 1 1/2 cups water returned at last. The semi-crisp, 3/4 cup white rice furnace has occasionally brightly col- 1/4 teaspoon salt groaned into action result- ored vegetables Or replace the above with 2 cups of ing in a house-wide search for the are scrumptious. So are source of the mysterious sound and the homegrown string beans, diced onion leftover cooked rice musty smell. The sound, once identi- and bacon tossed in a saucepan with a 3 cups whole milk and 1 cup heavy fied, quickly becomes a comfort and little water and a dollop of bacon grease cream (or 4 cups half & half) the smell, a penalty for forgetting that and simmered within an inch of their 1/2 cup sugar filters were meant to be cleaned, is soon lives. 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon remedied and replaced by pots of stuff All that nostalgia inevitably leads me bubbling aromatically on the stove. Win- to baked custard, a food so old fash- Tiny grate of nutmeg northfork53.com ter may be weeks away on the calendar ioned if you crave it, you’d better be Handful of golden raisins (the spices but I reserve the right to say when it able to make it because you’ll not find and raisins are optional) starts in my house. That would be when it waiting to be added to your shop- 1 vanilla bean (not negotiable) a hot shower is required just to warm up, ping cart anytime soon. Baked custard when slippers start to trump bare feet has to smell like butter and cream and If you’re starting from scratch, bring and when deliciousness is daily born vanilla. It has to surrender delicately to in the warmth of a 350 degree oven. a spoon, be silky smooth on your tongue the water, rice and salt to simmer in Goodbye sun and sweat. Hello dark and taste equally luscious warm or cold. a saucepan. Reduce heat and cover. Organic Farm Stay and toasty. The seasons are not only Bread pudding lovers will argue that Cook until the water is absorbed, about Cooking Classes and Events, Private Parties and Weddings! magnificent, they’re the perfect length. there is no higher calling for custard. I 15 minutes. If you’re using leftover rice, Visit our farm store weekends 11am-3pm! Ninety days, give or take, is just right to beg to differ. Rice pudding is pudding’s place it in a saucepan and continue. make me happy to see them come and raison d’être (with raisins). Warm from Add milk and cream or half & half and happy to see them go. Sort of like out- the oven, rice pudding dares dinner to the sugar. Split the vanilla bean and of-town guests. step aside all together. A day later, rice scrape out the seeds. Put seeds and The separation anxiety that creeps in pudding requires one to have spoon in the whole bean in the pot along with at the thought of fresh corn, melon and hand whenever opening the fridge for cinnamon and nutmeg. Cook over berries disappearing steals away cloaked any reason. It’s a beautiful bite of home in the steam from endless roasting and and love and winter. It’s a key ingredi- medium low heat until rice is tender 29th Annual Customer braising. My fondness for summer ent in a season that suggests I set the and the whole works becomes soft and Appreciation Day proves to be fickle in the face of winter oven to 350 and leave it there until May. creamy. It takes about a half hour and squashes, persimmons, pears and root Happy to oblige. you need to give it the occasional stir. Saturday November 14 vegetables, stuff so rich, When it’s just right, which you will dense and sexy there is know because you have tasted it simply no reason to pine compulsively throughout the process, • Purina Feed Truckload Sale: 10% off! for love lost. Food that remove the vanilla bean and spoon • Dog Coats and Horse Sheets 20% off takes time and perfumes the gorgeousness into bowls to serve the house and radiates warm or cover with plastic wrap placed • Muck Boot Trunk Show heat conjures powerful memories of standing on a directly on the pudding’s surface and and Sale: 20% off chair at my grandmother’s tuck it in the fridge. stove stirring butter into This is perfection unto itself but is the mashed potatoes or graciously welcoming of a dollop of whisking gravy or watch- whipped cream, a whisper of citrus ing the late harvest green zest, a spoonful of warm compote cre- beans slowly turn gray in ated from summer berries unearthed the face of severe over- from the freezer or ‘D’, all of the above.

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Fri: 7pm 10pm LIVE Sat: 10am 6pm Sun: 11am 4pm HOLIDAY’ Re: Where Does Wellness Begin? Now is the time to register for the OSU Clat- Astoria Co-op Grocery’s monthly talk sop County Extension Service Master Gar- dener Program. Classes are held at Clatsop MUSIC Local Wellness Coach: Angela Sidlo Community College – South County Campus in “Where Does Wellness Begin?” locating some of your budget to a gym Seaside on Wednesdays from 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 ASOC Playhouse That’s the title of a talk Wellness Coach membership, a tai chi class or a medita- p.m. beginning January 6 and ending March At the 129 West Bond Street Angela Sidlo will be giving as she tion group. 23. Students will receive over 60 hours of in Uniontown Astoria answers that question. Her presentation “By raising awareness about wellness intensive gardening education in the classroom Astoria Armory will begin with the concept of primary we all begin to start making better choic- tickets online @ and an additional 60 hours of Volunteer Service astorstreetoprycompany.com food and secondary food and focus on es about food, exercise, re¬lationships 2 Cans of Food soil, organics and how to choose the and all the things that create a healthy as hands-on training. The cost is $150 and or $2 Donation ticket info call best way to nourish one’s self to create mind, body and spirit. It is what I am pas- includes your handbook. ASOC Box Offce: 503-325-6104 healthy bodies, families and ultimately sionate about and what I love to teach The Master Gardener curriculum provides healthy communities. the most,” Sidlo said. the volunteer with information and references Sidlo has been out and about in the Sidlo is a wellness coach, licensed on subjects such as botany, soil management, community conducting interviews, get- reflexologist, certified holistic aromather- pruning techniques, integrated pest manage- The Harbor Volunteer ting to the root of wellness. For example, apist, certified tai chi instructor, and Usui Dr. Jennifer File, a local pediatrician, Reiki Master Teacher. She owns Waves of ment and more. The classes are taught by OSU Training Program feels that wellness begins first as a Change Wellness Center. Sidlo is also a Extension Faculty, veteran Master Gardeners mindset, while Farm¬er Teresa Retzlaff member of the Astoria Co-op Grocery’s and experts in their respective fields. Stu- LEARN ABOUT OPPRESSION, DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, believes wellness begins in the soil. Sidlo board of directors. dents of all ages and abilities, beginners and SEXUAL ASSAULT, ADVOCACY SKILLS, AND MORE. will bring her findings and knowledge to Learn more from Sidlo on Thursday experienced gardeners alike, are welcomed in the public in a talk titled “Where Does November 12 at 7pm at Astoria Co-op’s the program. Interested applicants call: The Harbor Wellness Begin”. monthly food and wellness talk “Beers Your Volunteer Service time is a fun time Chris Wright (503) 325-3426 1361 Duane St. in Astoria “I personally believe that wellness be- to Your Health” at Fort George Brew- www.harbornw.org gins with awareness: just the simple act ery. It happens in the brewery’s Lovell spent working on projects such as the OSU of being aware of what you put on your Showroom, located at the corner of 14th Extension Master Gardener Information Line, plate, what you choose at the grocery and Duane Street in downtown Astoria. Sunday Market or other plant clinics, as well store, where you spend your restaurant Doors open at 6 p.m. for food and drinks as hands-on gardening in the Demonstration dollars,” Sidlo said. (available from the Taproom). The talk Garden with Veteran Master Gardeners. The Sidlo says food is only one aspect of lasts about an hour, with an opportunity remainder of your community service may be wellness. Also important are your choices for questions and answers. This is a free when it comes to exercise such as al- community event open to all ages. spent on many different projects as diverse as helping to develop and maintain a pet friendly garden project at the Animal Shelter, teaching high school students the basics of gardening, and the annual “Spring into Gardening” and NORBLAD “Winterizing your Garden” events. If you like to have fun exploring gardening, DEC. 4, 5 & 6 AND DEC. 11, 12 & 13 • 2015 443 DEC. 4, 5 & 6 AND DEC. 11, 12 & 13 • 2015 and are prepared to learn more about sustain- DEC. 4DE, C5. 4&, 5 6 & A6 NANDD DDECC. 1.1 1, 12, &12 13 & • 1 230 1 5 able gardening methods to share with the & • 2015 . . . up .to . . up40 to artisans, 40 artisans,& craftspeople, craftspeople, and andjewelers jewelers featuringfeaturing interesting interesting and and unique unique gifts gifts local community please apply to the Extension 14th street together with wineries, distillers and food vendors. together with wineries,& distillers and food vendors. . . . up to 40 artisans, craftspeople, and jewelers Office by Monday, November 30, 2015. featuring interestingCaroling and unique gifts * together with wineries,Caroling& distillers and food vendors. 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27 Nov 15 hipfishmonthly.com Liberty Theater presents Art Ala cARTe ON JANUARY 16, 2016 at the Barbey Maritime Center we will once 5:00 pm again present Art a la cARTe, our fabulous fundraiser to benefit Downtown the Liberty Theater. This event will run from 2 to 3:30 pm and Astoria feature works of art by artists from the Northwest and Every month, around the country, all signed only on the reverse. year ‘round! This fabulous afternoon will feature live music, delicious food and tasty northwest wine and beer. Art a la cARTe 2016 promises once again to be a magical winter afternoon.

Liberty Theater and NCSBpresent Nov “Home For Christmas” 14th Saturday, December 19th at 4:00 pm Joining in the fun are vocalists percussionist, and his wife Denise from the North Coast Chorale and Dillenbeck, violinist. Both are Visit Downtown Astoria Cannon Beach Chorus. Our special TICKETS ON SALE SOON music faculty members at Central Regular admission is $20 on the 2nd Saturday of guest performers this year are Student tickets (age 12 to Washington University. 21) are $10 every month for art, music, Astoria native Mark Goodenberger, Children (under age 12) and general merriment! tickets are $5. No unaccompanied children and Presented by the no babes in arms. Astoria Downtown Historic District Association

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SATURDAY NOV. 14 PLAYING @ KALA FRIDAY, JAN 8, 2016 From Finland: CHRIS PARKER QUARTET KALA IS LOCATED AT 1017 MARINE DRIVE IN ASTORIA. 503.338.4878 PEKKA and PERTTU From NYC – Jazz Pianist/ Direct from Helsinki Folk Scene. Composer Chris Parker, w/ SATURDAY, NOV. 28 SATURDAY, DEC 5 Portland’s Rob Davis --Tenor JAMIE LEOPOLD and GOLDEN DONNA w/Misé and soprano saxophones, the Short Stories “DJ/Composer Joel Shanahan is Golden Donna. Dave Captein – Bass Dance and listening. A tour de force of dance Charlie Doggett – Drums. American Quirk: Folk/Country/Acid music styles whose constituent parts are Memory Guitarist/Story teller Jamie Leopold formerly of the original Dan themselves accomplished hybrid.” Hicks and the Hot Licks. —Little White Earbuds Opening Act: Local-based Misé – Folktronica indie hop.

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