July 2018 • vol 19 • issue 233 HIPFiSH MONTHLYalternative press serving the lower columbia pacific region Toward a New Vision for Oregon Forests Part IV

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Exhibits include art, logging Therapy (PEMF) 1428 Commercial St and SR 401) in Naselle, WA, July 27th- equipment patented by Oiva Wirkkala, and classes. Astoria, Or 97103 29th. “Finnish 101” was chosen as the iittala glassware, all Naselle High School theme in honor of the 101st anniversary graduating class photos, photos of Na- www.designinghealthastoria.com of the independence of Finland, plus selle families covering many years, and Dan Karvonen will teach Finnish 101 on historic photos from the Appelo Archives both Friday and Saturday, and Naselle is Center. The library has a special display located close to US 101. on genealogy put together by May Saari Adair. The Finnebago will return Visit Downtown Astoria to the Naselle campus thanks to Frank on the 2nd Saturday of Eld. Frank will also display a model of every month for art, music, the classroom and sauna he is building 5:00 pm and general merriment! in the Finnish Room at the University of Downtown Presented by the Pittsburgh. Astoria Downtown Every month, Historic District Association FRIDAY AND SATURDAY PERFORMANCES year round! They include many from past festivals: FinnAm organizer Anita Raistakka wears Maypole Dancers, Laulaa Out Loud the traditional medicine bag, fire starter, (children’s choir), Naselle Kanteles, Gene fruit knife, and weaving tool. Quilhaugh, Carl Wirkkala and the Ghost PhD candidate Ellen Jensen. She’ll also JULY AALLOTAR performs hybrid original Finnish Folk. Town Boys, Skamokawa Swamp Opera, present on Samî culture. Their lithe instrumentals and beautiful vocal Dale Bradley, Valerie Blessley, the Katrilli Finnish log construction expert and astoriadowntown.com harmonies in both Finnish and English demon- 14 strate how gracefully traditional and modern Dancers, and the Scandinavian Dancers. preservationist Frank Eld from Idaho has folk music can speak together. titled his talk “Researching US/Canadian Finnish log construction and the anoma- If one wants to learn about Finnish ly I discovered in New Finland Canada.” The 34th Season of Shanghaied in Astoria and Finnish-American culture; connect Tuomi Hovi from the University of Turku, The Astor Street Opry Company’s Live on Stage… Award Winning… with friends, family, and relatives; meet Finland, will do a presentation on the new people with the same interests as Family Entertainment… Original…Historical…Hysterical… influence of Finland’s epic Kalevala in Broadway-Style…Musical Melodrama yours; just watch and listen or participate culture, art, and business in modern day in sports, dancing, or learn new arts/ Finland. A folklorist, he’ll be interviewing crafts, FinnFest organizers attest, this festival organizers and others about the is place you want to be. The festival is Finnish traditions still being carried on filled with love and unity. today in this country. Golfers can participate in the FAFF Finnish log construction expert Frank tournament at the Peninsula Golf Course Eld returns in his Finnebago SATURDAY PANNUKAKKU BREAKFAST in Long Beach, WA, on Thursday, July 7:00-10:00am. It’s followed by the Paa- 26th. Pre-registration is necessary. The much-loved Finnish musical duo vo Nurmi Run/Walk for all ages at 8am. Lunch is at noon with a tee off time at known as Allotar who performed here Download a registration form from the 1:00pm.The cost is $50 with proceeds in 2014 will be returning to this year’s website. The Opening Ceremony takes stor treet going to FAFF. Call Dave Leeland at FAFF. New this year are Double J and place from 10am to 11:30am in the Astor street stadium. A wife carrying contest and Opry Company 360.484.3277 to register. the Boys and Giants in the Trees, a new Proudly presents musical group featuring Krist Novoselic boot toss are scheduled to follow the FESTIVITIES BEGIN AT 10am FRIDAY. of Nirvana fame. FAFF co-founder Sue Opening. The Tori (marketplace), exhibits, and Holway is busily writing a new play for food vendors are open until 6:00 pm. Saturday evening. Saturday night ends SUNDAY ENDS with a Closing Ceremo- The Tori vendors sell Finnish made items with a community dance with music pro- ny, a worship service followed by coffee or items with a Finnish theme. Informa- vided by Toby Hansen and the Smilin’ and pulla (cardamom bread). Check SHANGHAIED in Astoria Scandinavians. the website for a full performance and presentation Schedule: www.naselle- THE CULTURAL PROGRAMMING July 12-September 1st finnfest.com. No Pets please. Handi- SERIES BEGINS FRIDAY AT 10AM, fea- capped accessible. There is no charge Thursday-Saturday • 7pm turing a documentary of Estonian history for parking. and its 100th year of independence. 2pm Sunday Matinees: July 22, August 5 & 19 Presentations on Friday and Saturday Connect with your Finnish roots or TICKETS: Front row - $20. ASOC Playhouse include topics such as Finland’s geog- learn about the Finnish culture no raphy along with slides from this year’s All other seats - $15 adults, $10 children 129 West Bond Street in Uniontown Astoria rhododendron convention in Finland, matter what your nationality. You’ll $10 Fridays - ALL SEATS! ASOC Box Offce: 503-325-6104 the Finnish Revolution, and current be warmly welcomed in this “little Box office opens 1 hour before performances Shop traditional jewelry at The Tori research done in Tromsö, Norway by village with the big heart!” Get your tickets now at asocplay.com! 3 JULY 18 hipfishmonthly.com

Pajunen/Brynnel Duo The Spirit of St. Louis Trumpeter Mark Berney w/ Lee Stromquist - piano Joey Altruda - Bass By Dinah Urell Friday July 6 • 8pm Glass works by Greta Latchford

@ Glass Works by Trust.Together MUSICKALA Greta Latchford Singer/Songwriter Myshkin Warbler and Author/Cellist Jenny Q. A performance piece based on a remarkable true story 160 Tenth St., Astoria McVarish Gallery July 13 • KALA (503)-298-1690 Opening Reception July 14, 5-8pm

FROM THE JOSHUA TREE COMMUNITY in We sell traditional Southern Cal, KALA welcomes folk-jazz/singer convenience store songwriter Myshkin Warbler on Friday June 13 at 8pm. Myshkin performs with cellist Jenny products with LOCAL Q. and drummer Scott Magee in a special OPTIONS from touring music and storytelling performance, Astoria and Oregon; TRUST.TOGETHER. Tickets $15, in advance at Craft Beer • Sodas • libertyastoria.org. Myshkin and the Ruby Warblers LIVE in Joshua Tree Open: 7am to 10pm Sun - Thur New Orleans schooled, gypsy spirited, end- Snacks and alternatives 7am to 12 Midnight! Fri & Sat lessly curious, Myshkin Warbler - a rare bird As both projects wrapped up simultaneously, Myshkin and Jenny to smoking. among songwriters, creates darkly joyous, compellingly complex created Trust.Together, a live show that pulls the two works togeth- 1020 Commercial St. Astoria astoriadowntownmarket.com songs: literate, political, heartbreaking, soulbuilding. Her nine solo er on stage into one performance piece. Trust.Together debuted records travel though raw-folk, gypsy-swing, torchjazz, punk-poetry, in Joshua Tree, on June 9 at Harrison House, with an eight piece desert-blues, and electronic post-rock. band and thirteen readers, and Jenny and Myshkin are touring a potent stripped down version on the West Coast this summer. The CARRYOUT ONLY! In late 2013 Myshkin left Oregon for the desert to join her new ONLINE ONLY! love, herbalist Jenny Q, in the artists’ hideout of Joshua Tree CA, Astoria performance features Myshkin and Jenny on guitar and LARGE 99 cello, and longtime collaborator Scott Magee on drums. HAND TOSSED (260-450 Cal) where Jenny had built her apothecary Grateful Desert. In a powerful and intimate performance piece, TRUST. $7 Thin ‘N Crispy® (220-420 Cal) In January of 2014, Jenny fell into septic shock. During her six PIZZA CAL/SLICE, 8 SLICES PER PIZZA TOGETHER is ultimately a love story. UP TO 2 TOPPINGS days in a coma and six months in the ICU Myshkin held Jenny’s home, business and daughter, wrote spells for songs, and helped This ruby warbler’s song commands your attention, frees your ORDER ONLINE AT 113 S. HWY 101 channel the community’s potent energies toward her healing. gypsy heart and soul, and lets you see the world from her own www.pizzahut.com Warrenton Four years later, Jenny has re-learned to walk—and dance—on unique perspective. Myshkin is not to be missed. prosthetic legs, and has completed “Held Together,” a moving, —World on 3, BBC Radio Limited Time Offer. Not valid on Stuffed Crust® Pizzas experimental book providing a raw and revealing look at her jour- 2000 CALORIES A DAY IS USED FOR GENERAL NUTRITIONAL ADVICE, BUT CALORIE NEEDS VARY. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST. ADDITIONAL CHARGE ney and community. Myshkin’s new record Trust and the High Wire, DOORS OPEN 8PM. Show at 8:30pm $15. Advance tickets at FOR EXTRA CHEESE (ADDS 15-50 CAL/SLICE) AND PAN (ADDS 70-100 CAL/SLICE) released by DoubleSalt on June 1, 2018 covers the same story in libertyastoria.org. And at the door. Full Bar. 1017 Marine Drive dialects of soul/jazz and indie rock. in Astoria. 503.338.4878 acific ro Realty PAUL SORIANO PP VENERATIONS. HIPFiSH Each painting focused on the image of the Buddha—the new works by Seattle-based artist PAUL SORIANO begin as meditations in the Kundalini tradition. The imagery presents itself, unfolding like flow- ers. These are simple Red Buddha, oil on canvas, 46 x 48 works of devotion, meditation and prayer. Oil on canvas—bold Real People. Real Service. colors and bold brush strokes Real Estate. embrace different facets of the Buddha image. Also showing: Re- Astoria 2nd Saturday Art Walk 503-468-0915 nee Rowe, Sid Deluca, Joi Smith - Refreshments. 5-8pm. KALA July Cover Art by Bill Atwood and Tom Hilton. www.PacificProHomes.com willematwood.com on Instagram: bill_atwood_art 1017 Marine Drive in Astoria. 207 12th Street Astoria, Oregon

JULY 18 hipfishmonthly.com 4 Coast Community Radio Receives a Grant from the Templin Foundation By Dinah Urell A group of students and community members from last year’s event work on their t- shirts for the Clothesline Project.

Fitness Fundraiser Dec 24 • 8am

Astoria Sunday Market helps to light up the 13th St. Alley STREET LIGHTING UP the 13th Street connector alley just got a SPOTLIGHT little brighter. The board of Astoria Sunday Market re- STREET SPOTLIGHT IS AN cently approved a $1,000 grant toward the 13th Street Lighting project spearheaded by Astoria Downtown ON-GOING SERIES THAT AIMS TO Inside the Month: Historic District Association (ADHDA). “Sunday Market SHARE VOICES AND STORIES OF has always been a generous supporter and partner of CITIZENS OF THE NORTH COAST Oregon Forests Part IV . . . p12-13 the ADHDA. It is great that we all see the importance WHO ARE HOMELESS OR Big Timber Poisons . . L. Arkin p9 of activating the 13th Alley. Thank you ASM, “ said UNSTABLY HOUSED AND Dulcye Taylor, President, ADHDA. LIVING ON THE STREETS OF AVA Studio Tours . . . A Graybealp11 ADHDA is seeking to raise $7,000 toward “Activat- THIS COMMUNITY.. ing 13th Street Alley” with permanent lighting and ASOC’s Ashley Mundel . . . K. Schlarb p14 commission an artist for painting. Currently, the alley By Kaisa Schlarb lights can only be hung on a temporary basis using INCO NEWS . . . L. Caplan10 for HIPFiSH extension cords because the electrical source is not inconjunctin with up-to-code for a permanent display. ADHDA is raising SHIFT Gear . . . A. Graybeal p26 Filling Empty Bellies money to create a permanent electrical source that is NATURE NEWS . . .p7 fully up-to-code by September and has already raised $2,000 toward the $7,000 goal. OY HALL could be quickly termed by According to him, the house sat vacant “For those who have already visited the alley during Ranyone he meets, “a character.” A jok- for several years after they were kicked out. We’re here, We’re Queer!! temporary displays, it is obvious the amazing positive ster, he’s often high energy, high volume, In recent years, Roy hasn’t lived in what MOnthly LGBTQ eVenTs, + impact it has on the alley,” explained ADHDA Director and the center of attention. One of his would be considered traditional housing, political groups/organizations... p8 Sarah Lu Heath. ADHDA hung 100 red lanterns to friends calls him a “conductor,” meaning but he did have a stable home. For four commemorate the Chinese New Year and more re- he’s a conduit of the energies of others. years, he camped out on a friend’s prop- cently white lanterns were hung to create a bright and Roy calls it being a “magnet,” and the erty in Lewis & Clark. festive walkway. “Lighting has made the alley safer and dynamic is complicated. “I was living out there in Lewis & Clark, more inviting as a connector to the Duane and 13th COLUMNS “This is how it feels,” Roy explains. I had a tent and an electrical cord runned Street merchants,” added Heath. STEVE BERK . . . 6 “The more people I’m around, whether out to me. So I had power for my com- it be positive or negative, I draw all their THEATER . . . 16 puter, my TV, and I had my cat, Freyja. We energy into myself and it just builds up ART HAPPENS . . . 17 was just camping outside in our tent.” and builds up and I don’t know what to WORD/Literary EVents . . . 18 Living on someone else’s property gave do with it or how to release it, and I just FLASHCUTS ...... KANEKUNI 20 Roy the space he needs to manage. His start getting loud and getting in trouble friend, who owned the property, under- BIKE MADAME . . . HAMMITT-MCDONALD . . 21 because I don’t know what to do with all FREE WILL ASTROLOGY . . . BREZNY 21 stood Roy. “It was cool. I could blast out that energy. If people don’t pay attention music. When I got too drunk, you know NETWORK COMMUNITY LISTINGS . . . 22 or don’t listen quick enough then I get what he’d do? He’s just kill my power and SONJA GRACE MESSAGES . . . 23 really impatient, so then I get louder and I’d have to plug it back in the next day. It BODIES IN BALANCE. . . . . ERFLING ND 24 louder trying to be overheard. And then was awesome out there.” WORD & WISDOM . . . NASON 23 it’s just all bad.” He payed rent for the space from his FOODGROOVE NEWS . . .26 This is why, despite his friendly nature disability check. CHEW ON THIS . . . MYERS 25 and how well-known and loved he is A couple of years ago, Roy’s friend sold among his street community, it is impor- the property and moved to Washington. HIPFiSHmonthly is located at 1017 Marine Dr in Astoria. By Appt. tant for Roy to also have safe time and Initially, Roy followed, but it ultimately did ADVERTISING INQUIRIES - 503.338.4878 space to be alone. “I usually just like to not make him happy to be so far away Send general email correspondance: hang out by myself,” he says. “When I’m from his friends and family. [email protected]. by myself I’m calm and mellow.” He returned to Astoria with no indoor HIPFiSH is produced on the web at: As a child, he would read to drown www.hipfishmonthly.com people out. Now, he likes to play games or covered place to stay. Hipfish is printed at the Daily Astorian on the internet or watch TV when he can. Though, Roy rejects the notion that he He’s also open about the role drinking is “homeless.” “I’ve never been homeless, I’m house- EDITOR/PUBLISHER: plays in a complicated relationship to self- less. Wherever I lay my head is my home.” Dinah Urell care and survival. Roy receives disability for a mental health diagnosis, and says He continues on philosophically, “I’d GRAPHICS: that drinking, “makes the voices go to rather have a home and not a house, than Buggy Bison sleep. We don’t like those voices, those have a house and not a home. Its all a Les Kanekuni Sara Lu Heath and Greg Cross hand over the $$$ voices always tell me to do bad things, state of mind. If you own a house, and you Dinah Urell and I get in trouble, yea.” aren’t comfortable there, you don’t have Michelle Roth Check out the Astoria Flea Market Growing up in Portland, Roy followed a home.” CALENDAR/PRODUCTION his mother and sister to Astoria in 2002. Instead of thinking about where he is 2nd Saturday going to sleep, Roy is putting energy into Assistance/Staff Writer: Cathy Nist Until 2012, he was housed on Alameda Next Saturday, July 14th with his mother. When new owners took honoring his street father, Ronnie Fisher, MAGIC WEB WORKER: 10am to 3pm First Presbyterian Church over the 3-unit rentals, he says, “ they who died in 2017. Ronnie was both a Bob Goldberg 1103 Grand Ave., Astoria, Oregon 97103 took everybody’s rent for March, and then commercial fisherman and cannery worker, Enter on the uphill side of the building at 11th 2 days later we got a letter in the mail say- and Roy wants to get his name on the and Harrison Streets. ing they had to be out by April 1st. Maritime Memorial Wall next year.

5 JULY 18 hipfishmonthly.com outside the box STEPHEN BERK

Values and Practices that Transcend Social System Some who read this column regularly may ment control of society as a whole. desires. For society to be anything more find what I’m about to say more general Both models of government in their than a competitive free-for-all, or as they and philosophical than the usual. My many variations the world over can be put it in nineteenth century America, “ev- intent is simply, amid the blather of end- made to work well to serve the indi- ery man for himself and the devil take the less news, which focuses only on what’s vidual’s needs. The question is whether hindmost,” you have to purposely implant current, with yesterday’s events already or not a given country’s system works to values that devalue selfishness and reward growing stale, to sift out the universal make life better, or more simply, worth- empathy and generosity. themes that transcend the mere they while, for most of its people, or for just a My point is that you can cultivate such think/we think back and forth that goes on small elite. Twentieth century psycholo- benevolent values in either a capitalistic interminably. This task also means point- gist, Abe Maslow was known for having or socialistic, even a communistic, or ex- ing out the limitations of seeing things come up with a “hierarchy of needs” that treme socialistic system. For example, in in terms of us, as if there were only one people have. The most basic have to do some of the more socialistic countries, say New Time: 9am Thursdays! American point of view, as opposed to Finland, the cost of schooling all the way that of some adversary, often Russians, through the various forms of doctoral This Way Out marks almost 30 years on the air! despite the fact that they ceased to education, is taken care of by the state. Our first program was distributed on April 1, 1988. practice communism several decades Hence anyone who wants to attain such ago. Seeing things in adversarial terms high levels of education, regardless of It’s the award-winning internationally distributed supposedly makes for more exciting their means, can do so. But a more capi- weekly GLBT radio program, currently airing on over reading. I wrote a previous column talistic society, like the US or Canada, 150 local commmunity radio stations around the about how such “binary thinking” is can also make schooling readily avail- world. oversimplified. But despite that truism, able through a plethora of scholarships us and them, good guys and bad guys, and the like. It is not necessarily how Get the latest news, listen to This Way Out on Coast still is a popular writing trope. socialistic a country is that creates such Community Radio. I refuse to see the world that way. opportunities. A dysfunctional socialist For one thing, it is mere propaganda to country can devolve into a bureaucrati- Brown Pelican identify one’s own “side” (say Ameri- cally run state wherein the bureaucrats’ can), as good or virtuous, versus their friends and relatives get most of the Survey side (say Russian or Chinese), as bad opportunities for advancement. Simi- or vicious. It is a vast oversimplification larly while a functional capitalist country THE COASTER THEATRE PLAYHOUSE PRESENTS left over from the Cold War. 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It is the cultivation in the nism or socialism, led by the Soviet Union, of the virtues of generosity and empathy citizenry in all walks of life of the virtues despite the fact that most European come in here, whereby a person goes of empathy and generosity. A capitalist democracies had strong admixtures of beyond mere self-gratification to becom- society with those values would school socialism. American journalism assumed ing sensitive to others’ wants and needs, all its young in the most effective means the vast inferiority of communism, the and making some effort towards address- of competing, while at the same time authoritarian state-controlled systems ing them. In other words, life is about teaching them to be generous and caring SHOWS RUN IN REPERTORY of Russia and China. The communists of much more than just seeking to acquire towards all others. 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JULY 18 hipfishmonthly.com 6 Community welcomed to annual picnic Jan 18 at Circle Creek Conservation Center Salt Hotel & Pub Ilwaco

NATURE NEWS CoastWatch 25th Anniversary It’s not too late to PULL, PILE, and STOMP a notorious weed at Circle Creek And get some exercise to boot! SOON THE SEED PODS of invasive policeman’s helmet plants will be maturing, and when they do, their seeds can fly as far as 20 feet, spreading the plant far and wide. You can help arrest this weed and keep it from overrunning native coastal plants. Join North Coast Land Conservancy for a volunteer stewardship day at its Circle Creek Conservation Center in Seaside on Saturday, July 21, from 10am to 1 pm. Policeman’s helmet (Impatiens glandulifera), a highly invasive, non-native plant, has taken hold throughout the Necanicum River watershed, choking out native plants and reducing plant and animal diversity while increasing the risk of streambank erosion. North Coast Land Conservancy and the Necanicum Wa- tershed Council are working together on a three-year project to try to rid the watershed of this invader. Four summer stewardship interns are working throughout the watershed to eradicate this plant, and volunteers will be gathering to help them at Circle Creek on July 21. The plant is easy to pull; the next step is to pile uprooted plants and stomp on them to crush the stems Take a beachwalk with a leading Coastal Ecologist and prevent the seed pods from developing or maturing. Get details on the July 21 stewardship day at NCLCtrust.org/pull-policemans-helmet-july. FOR COASTWATCH VOLUNTEERS, it’s a shoreline environment. An Oregonian who The community can help get rid of this weed. Wherever you live in Clatsop or Tillamook counties, chance to celebrate the program’s 25th an- grew up playing on the shore near Gearhart, keep an eye out for policeman’s helmet on your property. As soon as you see it, pull, pile, and stomp niversary. For anyone interested in shoreline he went to Reed College and obtained his the plants so they can’t reproduce. Visit NCLCtrust.org/pull-pile-stomp for more details and to report science, it is an opportunity to hear two talks doctorate in botany from the University of suspected sightings of the plant. by a leading coastal ecologist, and then fol- British Columbia. He worked on the Oregon STUDENT OPPS! Policeman’s helmet is named for the shape of the blossom, which resembles an old-fashioned low him on a guided beachwalk. coast for the Nature Conservancy, the Ore- The event is a CoastWatch anniversary British policeman’s headwear. It is native to the Himalayas and was introduced in North America as an gon Department of Fish and Wildlife and the ornamental garden plant but has since spread widely. party taking place on Saturday, July 7, begin- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, gaining wide ning at 9:30 a.m. at the Gleneden Beach Community Hall (110 Azalea St. in Gleneden field experience, before pursuing an aca- Beach). CoastWatch is the volunteer shore- demic career as a professor at the University line monitoring program of the Oregon of Miami, and now the University of Zadar in Shores Conservation Coalition. Croatia. During the academic year he studies Brown Pelican All activities are free of charge, and every- marine ecology, as well as his specialty of one is invited for all or any part of the day. plant evolution and genetics, but every sum- Featured speaker is Stewart Schultz, author mer he returns to the Oregon coast to teach Survey of “The Northwest Coast: A Natural History” shoreline science. and an expert on coastal and marine ecosys- CoastWatch at present engages more than ON MAY 19, 2018, 146 volunteers and biologist tems. Dr. Schultz will speak at 9:45 a.m. on 1,400 Oregonians (and a few regular Oregon from Baja California to Washington participated the ecology of Oregon’s rocky shores, and visitors) in monitoring one-mile segments again at 11 a.m. on the beach ecosystems of in the on-going Brown Pelican Survey – now into of the state’s coastline, watching for both its third year. The May 2018 survey included four the Pacific Northwest and the creatures that natural changes and human impacts. Coast- participants in Mexico, 99 in California, 39 in Breakdown per state: Mexico=1,116, California= inhabit them. After lunch, Schultz will guide 5,311, Oregon=537, and Washington=164 Oregon, and four in Washington. a beachwalk that will focus on the beach and Watch volunteers are asked to walk their • Over 90% of the surveyed pelicans were The results are helping provide a better on the plants and animals that wash up in the miles and make careful observations at least aged as “adult” or “juvenile” understanding of the distribution, age structure driftline. The walk will also be accompanied four times per year, once per quarter, with changes, and productivity of Brown Pelicans on • The percentage of adults to Juveniles was detailed reports to be submitted on those 71.3% adults to 28.7% juveniles across the study by Fawn Custer, CoastWatch’s volunteer the West Coast. Although recently removed from coordinator, herself an experienced marine occasions. “Mile adopters” are encouraged the endangered species list, Brown Pelicans are area. Breakdown per state: • California: 71% adult, 29% juvenile educator. to visit their miles as often as possible, to still vulnerable, particularly to changes in their Lunch will be a “semi-potluck” indoor pic- check for problems and report situations forage fish prey abundance which they depend so • Mexico: 80.9% adult, 19.1% juvenile • Oregon: 65.3% adult, 34.7% juvenile nic at the community hall. CoastWatch will needing attention where the information will heavily on. furnish finger food and beverages. Those Here are some result highlights from the May • Washington: 26.3% adult, 73.7% juvenile do the most good. attending can brown-bag their own sand- 2018 survey: CoastWatch also organizes a number of wiches or other main courses, but are also • 94 out of 116 known roost sites were moni- Locally, volunteers with Friends of Cape Falcon special citizen science projects, including encouraged to bring a side dish or dessert tored across the entire sampling area. Breakdown Marine Reserve counted 5 pelicans at Castle surveys for marine debris, beached birds, Rock, just outside of Cape Falcon Marine Reserve. to share (not obligatory). Brief talks during by state: stranded marine mammals and sea star lunch will outline CoastWatch 25-year history Mexico=4, California=66, Oregon=18, Wash- populations, and also promotes stewardship Statistics from survey provided by Joe Liebezeit, and future plans. ington=6. actions such as beach cleanups. • Total time spent surveying at all 94 sites MS – Avian Conservation Program Manage, After the beachwalk concludes, at about For information about the anniversary sampled was 121 hours and 33 minutes. Average Audubon Society of Portland 3 p.m., the celebration will conclude with a event or about CoastWatch, contact Fawn time spent surveying at an individual site was 1hr To learn more about ongoing North Coast bird wrap-up party, including an anniversary cake. and 17 minutes. surveys this summer, email capefalconmr@gmail. Stewart Schultz has wide-ranging experi- Custer at (241) 270-0027, fawn@oregon- • A total of 7,128 Brown Pelicans were counted com or visit https://www.nehalemtrust.org/cape- ence in studying the Oregon coast, making shores.org. during the survey across the entire survey area. falconmr/ him a very knowledgeable guide to the

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Lower ColumbiaFolk Q Center AstoriaQ Armory - 1636 Exchange Street Astoria Mission: The Lower Columbia Q Center is a safe and welcoming resource and peer support service for the LGBTIQ+ community, friends, family, and allies of the Lower Columbia Region. The Lower Columbia Q Center provides many great services and has fostered some amazing relationships over the past few years. We would love to welcome you with open arms to join us during one of our events, or support groups. June’s CREATE meeting in Astoria featured the Support Groups/Ongoing charming thespians from Stop Fracked Gas/PDX & - Queer Edge Sobriety Support Group: First 350pdx both amused and informed meeting attendees with their performance of The Folly of Frack. Wednesday of the month. 6-7:30 pm Astoria Artwalk - Open Social Group: Second Wednesday of the 5-8pm • November 8 month. 6-8 pm “Gathering” featuring works by Gail Wahlstrom and Jill Merrill - LCQC Board Meeting: Third Wednesday of the month. 6-8 pm Art Cards, Artisan Crafts, Gallery & Working Studio 1133 Commercial St. Astoria, OR 97103 Lower Columbia Gender 503.468.0308 Alliance/Trans Support The Lower Columbia Gender Alliance holds peer support group meetings on the third Thursday of each month. Meetings are open to transgender, gender queer, questioning and family members or partners. Meetings will be at 6:30pm - 8pm at the Q center. For Information call Jeralyn O’Brien @ 503-341-3777

Over the Rainbow Radio Show o n KMUN 91.9 Every 3rd Wednesday 8:30 - 1030pm LCQC Choir meets every Monday 7-8:30pm INCO’s Rally to Keep Families Together on June 30 in Contact [email protected]. Astoria drew 500 people demanding this country give -LGBTIQ+ Teen Social and Skate Night: Every Friday respect, kindness, and welcome to immigrants. at the Astoria Armory. 5-9 pm CLATSOP COUNTY DEMOCRATS MEET Clatsop County Democrats meet the fourth Monday of each month at 6:00 p.m. in room 221 of Columbia Hall at Clatsop Community College in Astoria. Parking next to Monthly LGBTQ Events Columbia Hall is accessed off of and above Lexington Avenue, between 15th and 16th Streets. For more information about the Clatsop County in Lincoln County Democratic Party, please go to www.clatsopdemocrats.org or www.face- - 1st Wed of ea. month, 7pm is Trans Parents book.com/clatsopdemocrats. Coffee Hour at the Chalet in Newport. PACIFIC COUNTY DEMOCRATSMonthly Meeting - 2nd Mondays, 6pm, - 2nd Tues. ea month, 4pm is LGBT+ & Allies Long Beach County Building, Sandridge Rd. Pacific pacificcountydems@ Happy Hour at Georgie’s in Newport. gmail.com - 2nd Wed. ea month - 6pm to 7:30pm PFLAG Group at St. Stephen’s at 9th and Hurbert in CREATe • July 21 Columbia River Estuary Action Team Newport. CREATE is a group of citizens working to protect the unique Columbia River Estuary and the rivers and streams that flow into it. All are welcome! - 4th Sun of ea month, 11am is OUT OR Coast CREATE was started by people who were involved in the successful 12 year Women’s Coffee at Cafe Mundo in Newport. battle against LNG in Clatsop County. Its purpose is to foster citizen involvement in protecting the unique, beautiful and productive Columbia River Estuary. To connect with Oregon Central Coast Chapter of New members are always welcome. Come and join in at 6pm, 3rd Thursdays at PFLAG, call (541)265-7194, email: [email protected] the Blue Scorcher.

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The Harbor and Clatsop CASA Team up for Sexual Assault Awareness Month and Child Abuse Prevention Month. The Oregon Coast: Your Dream Vacation Hiking and Swimming in Big Timber’s Pesticide Poisons By Lisa Arkin Exec Dir/Beyond Toxics Danny It takes courage to There are substantial environmen- grow up and become tal hazards warnings on the pesticide label of products with the ingredient who you really are Indaziflam. Esplanade F has a Sur- e.e. cummings face Water Advisory: “This pesticide may impact water quality due to runoff of rainwater. This product is classified as having a high potential Congratulations! for reaching surface water via runoff I LOve YOu - MOM. for several months or more after ap- plication.” The problems associated with aerial sprays of Esplanade F continue to mount. This pesticide also has an Environmental Hazard Advisory: THE SPIRIT “This product is toxic to fish, aquatic vertebrates, and plants. Do not apply Trumpeter Mark Berney directly to water, or to areas where N THE FALL OF 2016, groups of concerned coastal citizens of St. Louis! surface water is present or to intertidal areas below the mean water IN tribute to the era of Louis ArMSTRONg launched an impressive effort to stop toxic aerial herbicide I mark.” sprays in industrial timber holdings near Oswald West State Park The spraying of Necarney Creek and the Neahkanie recreational and Short Sands Beach. Here we are again, it’s Summer 2018 area started in years past. The public protested the 2016 sprays. LEE STROMQUIST and coastal residents, fish, pollinators and birds all face the same PIano Also, in September 2017, the same steep slopes, tributaries and threats of herbicide drift in the air and run-off into our life-giving JOEY ALTRUDA the riparian area of Necarney Creek were aerially sprayed with streams and rivers. Bass glyphosate, imazapyr, sulfometuron mythyl and metsulfuron meth- The Weyerhaeuser Company continues to poison the coastal Friday, July 6, 8pm at KALA • $15 yl. Beyond Toxics asked ODF in our complaint: “How do state streams, their latest aerial herbicide spray just recently applied in tickets:libertyastoria.org or call: 503.338.4878 agencies, as stewards of our natural resources and wildlife, account KALA • 1017 Marine Dr. in Astoria late May. The corporation used helicopters to aerially spray three for the accumulation and bio-persistence of multiple chemical ap- herbicides – Indaziflam, clopyralid and sulfometuron methyl on plications in a single drainage?” We’ve not received a satisfactory hundreds of acres of their industrial timber holdings. The sites are answer to this question. very close to Oswald State Park, the Oregon Coast Highway US Have you gone for a swim or surfed in and around Short Sands 101 and the Tillamook State Forest. The aerial sprays are also very Beach? You may be exposing yourself and your family and friends close to the Neahkanie Mountain Loop Trail and also run alongside to a pesticide for which the manufacturer issued the following cau- Necarney Creek. At some locations, the aerial sprays are within tionary notice: WARNING - Organ Damage. Specific target organ 1000 ft. of popular public trails. The spray site is directly north of toxicity - repeated exposure: Category 2. and adjacent to Necarney Creek, a designated fish habitat stream This warning means that, based on a federal Hazard Commu- and upstream from Short Sands Beach, a public recreation site. nication Standard (HCS 2012) there is evidence that Indaziflam is Beyond Toxics joined with Rockaway Beach Citizens for Water- presumed to have the potential to be harmful to human health, shed Protection and Oregon Wild to file a public records request even after a single exposure. The research on the chemical con- with the Oregon Department of Forestry expressing concern with firms that it causes neurobehavioral effects and neuropathological two particular aerial spray operations. The sprays around Necarney changes in other mammals such as dogs and rats. Creek, specifically Necarney Falls and Necarney Flats, are particu- This aerial spray application is not safe for people, fish, aquatic larly egregious because of the potential herbicide exposure risks to invertebrates and potentially other beneficial insects. What about salmon, people and aquatic organisms. The fact that these sprays the safety of people using Necarney Creek for recreation down- occurred after clear cut logging on steep slopes carries additional stream of the pesticide application? Aerial pesticide drift is known risk of unstable soils and herbicide run-off on bare soils after rain. to travel long distances, a situation that is potentially exacerbated All of us find it unacceptable that ODF allows Weyerhaeuser to by common weather conditions on the Oregon Coast (wind, rain, spray Esplanade F made by the Bayer Corporation, which contains steep slopes, fog, water vapor, etc.). People recreating along the Cottage & Garden Tour the active ingredient Indaziflam. Even the Bayer Corporation Oregon Coast Trail and Short Sands Beach should not have to admits on its product label that the active ingredient Indaziflam is fear the potential of pesticide exposure through inhalation and/or September 7 - 9 prone to run through soils and leach into groundwater. dermal absorption from nearby aerial herbicide sprays. Tour grand beach homes, vintage cottages, and What is even more concerning is the original EPA’s pesticide as- Beyond Toxics has asked that ODF establish rules protective sessment for Indaziflam. The EPA warned that Indaziflam “may not of people, fish and aquatic ecosystems. Such protections should well-tended gardens of mid-town Cannon Beach. be applied by air.” When ODF and ODA were asked about the include no less than a 0.5 mile no-spray buffer near resources A weekend of music, speaking events, wine & beer contradiction of allowing a pesticide to be sprayed by helicop- that include recreational areas (i.e., hiking trails, public beaches, tastings, and a tour of beautifully cra ed homes and Columbia River Estuary Action Team ters that cannot be applied by air and should never be used near streams used for swimming and fishing, public parking lots, etc.) rambling Paci c Northwest gardens! salmon streams below steep slopes, agency staff were not at all and fish streams. However, understanding the risk of pesticide concerned. They replied that Weyerhaeuser is using Esplanade drift, we really should be challenging the entire practice of aerial F, which is a special formulation that doesn’t have a restriction on herbicide sprays in Oregon’s coastal regions. aerial application. Nonetheless, Bayer is not required to disclose On behalf of thousands of Oregonians who recreate in the Os- Tickets available now! its inert ingredients or formulation, so there is no guarantee that wald State Park area, Neahkanie Mountain, Short Sands Beach and Esplanade (the product with the “No Aerial Spray” requirement) the Tillamook State Forest, there must be public discussion, public and Esplanade F are any different once the chemical is in the hearings and protective action taken on this matter at the Oregon 503-436-9301 www.cbhistory.org environment. State Legislature.

9 JULY 18 hipfishmonthly.com INCO NEW Indivisible The Trump Psyche North Coast Oregon BY CHRIS LEHMANN

Enjoy the serenity of our Chris Lehmann is editor of THE BAFFLER and author personal narrative of dogged triumph over adversity— gardens, wooded paths, sauna, of THE MONEY CULT and RICH PEOPLE THINGS. yurt and bhuddas . . . the adversity in question here being mostly self-inflicted . . . in Nahcotta, Washington He’ll be traveling from Washington DC next month bankruptcy. One certainly appreciates the impulse to on Sandridge Road, July to engage in an on-stage conversation in Astoria on seek out hidden depths in a character that’s composed just south of Bay Avenue INCO EVENTS how and why money corrupts American democracy overlooking willapa bay as completely of surface impressions as Trump’s is, but and what we can do about it. Details follow INCO this seems too much of a stretch into the storehouse July events listings . “women have been central to the environ- March with INCO in the Seaside of American political myth-making to pass muster (as a mental movement and our understanding of true archetypal warrior prince might say). ecology since its earliest stirrings and fragile July 4th parade YOU KNOW that the Trump distemper in our body beginnings in the 19th century” Wednesday, July 4: decorating at 10 politic has risen to a new threat status because our jour- Just for starters, warriors in Western tradition are Excerpted from “Rachel Carson and nalistic thought leaders are enlisting the help of mental- bound by fairly stringent codes of conduct—they don’t Her Sisters” by Robert K. Musil am; parade starts at noon Wear red, white, and/or blue health professionals. [A 2016] issue of the Atlantic, for lie and gleefully promote torture, or belittle weak or Line-up on Necanicum Drive in Seaside; one, features a stem-winding cover story by psycholo- disabled civilians. And when they do, they’re sup- posed to be punished, not lavishly rewarded with mass look for the “Vote Boat” gist Dan P. McAdams devoted to divining just where the tangle of Trump pathologies falls along the spectrum of adulation and media attention the way Trump has been. personality disorders of presidents past. And surely none has gone to the trouble of inventing Astoria INCO Community Group The answer will not likely surprise you. Yes, Trump is pseudonymous alter egos for the sake of spinning their Saturday, July 7, 8am an angry, rampaging narcissist in the mold of Andrew travails in the media. Street 14 Café, Astoria Jackson—but unlike most classic narcissists, he shows No, the more dispassionate, European verdict on no evidence of crippling parental neglect in his early Trump’s character…assayed by the Financial Times INCO Reading Group: The Age of childhood development. (Old Hickory also came by writer Gideon Rachman seems more on point: like Vlad- American Unreason in his self-love the hard way, battling for distinction along imir Putin, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Narendra Modi, and a Culture of Lies the white-trash frontier of the late eighteenth and early countless other contemporary world leaders in fraying Wednesday, July 11, nineteenth centuries; Trump’s domineering parents were democracies or full-blown oligarchies, Trump is simply a 6:30 pm already presiding over a multimillion-dollar real-estate strongman and a bully. Like Trump, Rachman writes, Astoria (private home; fortune.) All these men have promised to lead a national re- email incoregon@ And yes, Trump is a callous manipulator of the unfor- vival through force of their personalities and willingness tunate souls he thinks may be cluttering his career path, www.mobydickhotel.com gmail.com for details) to ignore liberal niceties. In many cases, the promise 360-665-4543 or 1-800-673-6145 in the winsomely paranoid style of Richard Nixon—yet of decisive leadership is backed up by a willingness— unlike that scheming whack-job, Trump is an incurable INCO Vote the Future sometimes explicit, sometimes implied—to use illegal extrovert, feeding on mass adulation as he glides joy- violence against enemies of the state. Team ously from rally to primary-victory celebration to radio Wednesday, July 18, interview and cable news hit. (This insatiable “extro- From this global perspective, the woolly features of 6:30 pm version,” McAdams observes, places Trump in the the Trump psyche emerge in plainer relief as well. Putin, Seaside Library Board Room approval-craving ranks of Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Erdogan, et al. are all incorrigible show-offs, eager to Warrenton INCO Community and Teddy Roosevelt.) That tortured Shakespearean parade their wealth, influence, and macho derring-do Group Meeting prince Nixon, meanwhile, would prowl around Nixon- before what they’re firmly convinced is an admiring Saturday, 11 am; email incoregon@ hating peace rallies in the dark of night; revenge, rather global audience. And as Rachman notes, this ethos of alpha showmanship “goes hand-in-hand with extreme gmail.com for dates than approval, was his drug of choice. sensitivity to criticism”—another non-warrior trait that Dooger’s Seafood and Grill, Warrenton So at great length, McAdams alights on his diagno- sis: Trump embodies the archetype Swiss psychoanalyst we need not belabor in Trump’s case… Carl Jung called “the warrior.” Here the historical frame- Read the rest of this article at thebaffler.com. Reprinted Save the Date: work widens considerably, even as the overall terms of with permission from The Baffler, May 19, 2016. analysis begin audibly to creak: PROSPERITY AND POLITICS: Going back to ancient times, THE AMERICAN NIGHTMARE victorious young combatants en- joyed the spoils of war—material Wednesday, August 8, 7pm bounty, beautiful women. Trump Lovell Showroom, has always been a big winner 426 14th Street, Astoria there. His life story in full tracks Doors open at 6:15 pm. his strategic maneuvering in the 1970s, his spectacular victories Join Chris Lehmann, editor of The Baffler (the Grand Hyatt Hotel, Trump and author of The Money Cult and Rich Tower) in the 1980s, his defeats People Things, for an on-stage conver- in the early 1990s, his comeback sation on how and why money corrupts later in the same decade, and American democracy and what we the expansion of his brand and can do about it. celebrity ever since. Throughout it all, he has remained the ferocious Free and open to all. Light fare and combatant who fights to win. In other words, even though drinks available for purchase. Trump was a coddled, silver- Donations welcome. spoon scion of a Queens real- Hosted by Indivisible North Coast Or- estate fortune, he still comes egon (INCO) Astoria bearing a trademark American March with INCO this year in the Seaside Fourth of July parade

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As AVA’s New Executive Director Annie Eskelin By Alyssa Graybeal prepares for the Astoria Open Studios Tour and future collaborations

AVA also partners with Recology Western Oregon for the Coastal Oregon Arts Resi- dency (COAR). Based in Warrenton, COAR provides artists with plenty of space to do sculptural work using reclaimed objects. San Francisco and Seattle are the only two other cities who have such a residency, which really shows how, “for artist destina- tions, Astoria is absolutely phenomenal,” says Eskelin. “All of these programs are very young Jo Pomeroy Crocket – The Art Loft 106 3rd St for an organization that’s been around since 1989,” says Eskelin. “But the longer I’m here, the better it seems to be.” Moving into the future, Eskelin says AVA is looking for a brick-and-mortar space in which to expand programming possibili- ties and community events. Grant-writing

Exec. Dir. Annie Eskelin at the door of new AVA digs on 11th & Duane Photo: Dinah Urell is also high on the agenda because “it’s a really great way to bolster programs IN MAY 2018, Annie Eskelin started as the have been moving to, or back to, the area. and expand them to see what’s possible.” first-ever executive director of the Astoria And the tour is a great way for artists to Luckily, continues Eskelin, that AVA has Visual Arts Association (AVA). Eskelin, who get their names out there.” 130 members in a town the size of Astoria was AVA’s artist-in-resident in 2016, has Eskelin is one of seven artists on the “shows to large foundations that the com- been coordinating the Astoria Open Stu- tour who will have pop-up studios across munity is really supportive of what we do.” dios Tour since 2016. “AVA sort of pulled the street from City Hall, and local cerami- In the end, Eskelin explains, it’s all about me in because I lived the benefits of its cist Audrey Long will be in the brand new individuals’ passions and enthusiasm. “You programming,” she says. Astoria Makers’ Space. The tour has also can orchestrate some of the programs/ Eskelin comes to the position with sub- expanded geographically to include three workshops, but it’s the individuals and Jill McVarish – McVarish Gallery 160 10th St stantial experience in non-profit manage- artists in Svensen and one in Knappa. members and organizations’ interest in col- ment. She is the former executive director “We’re really including the greater Astoria laborating and developing new programs of the Union County Art and Culture area,” says Eskelin. “People can branch that really influence what we can offer.” Center (now “Arts Center East”) in La out and get to know Clatsop County as Grande, Ore. and was instrumental in bol- another layer to the adventure.” stering that organization’s community arts Last year, about half the visitors to the Astoria Open Studios Tour education program and helping facilitate Astoria Open Studios Tour were from out a horizontal merger with another, comple- of town, “which is phenomenal,” says is free and self-guided. mentary arts organization. Eskelin has an Eskelin, “because we don’t do a lot of ad- Full color printed tour aptitude for arts administration thanks in vertising outside of our area. There’s a lot part to having two degrees from Eastern of word of mouth, and the tour is generat- guides may be picked up Oregon University, in Business and in Art. ing its own annual energy.” at Studio 11, RiverSea “It’s been a whirlwind beginning,” says While Eskelin thinks the tour has the Eskelin. While her position is currently potential to expand even further, such as Gallery, Imogen Gallery funded by a nine-month grant, Eskelin taking place over more than one week- and most coffee joints in says she’s constantly talking to people on end, she’s also enthusiastic about AVA’s the street about ideas and directions and many other programs—and potential mid July and will be Chris Bryant — Paradise Prod. 5115 Birch St. collaborations. “I’d really like to build the programs—for expanding the visual arts available in Coast position into something a little bit more community and access to the visual arts stable based on programming,” she says. in Astoria. She wants to see “more in- Weekend in the When we spoke, in addition to looking vigorating arts experiences that just open Daily Astorian the week of towards upcoming grants and prepar- people up,” such as more public art, art in ing for the AVA fundraising party at Fort schools, workshops, and pop-up galler- the tour. More information George on June 26, Eskelin was finalizing ies. Indeed, talk of collaboration is around is available at the logistics for this year’s Astoria Open every corner. Studios Tour. “Now it’s figuring out where AVA has recently expanded its Com- www.astoriavisualarts.org. to put the pop-up studios, doing all the munity Arts-Based Programming for Teens: marketing and press releases, and putting last year, Andie Sterling became a part- Annual AVA membership is together the tour guide and map.” time coordinator of regular workshops by $30/40/60 for individuals, families, This year, the Astoria Open Studios Tour working artists in Knappa and Astoria High and businesses, respectively. Many has grown to include 50 local artists (up Schools. With this expanded arts curricu- local businesses also offer from last year’s 37) who will open up their lum, students have also gone on field trips generous discounts for studios to visitors from 10am to 4pm on to visit artists’ studios and to Portland. AVA members. July 28 and 29. “The growth is not surpris- In addition to its artist-in-residency www.astoriavisualarts.org ing,” says Eskelin, “since so many people (AIR) program for local emerging artists, Dave McMaken — Ratz and Co. 260 10th St. March with INCO this year in the Seaside Fourth of July parade PHOTOS: James Redland Anderson

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TOWARD A NEW VISION FOR OREGON FORESTS By ROGER DORBAND PART IV: THE BLUE MARBLE BEAUTIFUL BLUE, distributed photograph in history. But like perfectly round sphere, all revolutionary new ideas, the impact isn’t A necessarily immediate. accented with touches of The space travelers who went to the light brown and green, the moon looked back at Earth and saw para- whole marbled with spinning dise. We may say cynically that it’s only paradise from afar, and far from it up close. ribbons of white atmospheric Like most transcendent truths, the reality is vapors, a brilliance against both ambiguous and paradoxical. the utter blackness surround- One can’t diminish the sight of vast ing it; that is the planet Earth areas of Earth’s surface that have been laid to waste by strip mining, fracking or as seen from space, singular the clearcutting of the rain forests. And in our solar system, and per- yet, there is the Blue Marble and all of the haps far beyond, for its ability beautiful places we can visit that are still intact; the National Parks, protected wilder- to sustain the mystery we call ness areas, Wild and Scenic Rivers. life. The astronauts knew the reality back Can this image of Earth on Earth. They knew that the vision provide the beginning of a they saw of the planet was an image of utopia, and that utopia is a product of the new vision for Oregon for- imagination. And yet they were profoundly ests? Part of that answer lies moved by what they saw. The record of in the impact it had on the the astronauts’ words and actions after astronauts who first beheld it. they returned to Earth suggests that the emotion they felt became the impetus for In 1947, before the advent of rededicating themselves to improving their NASA, a group of U.S. military and “The deepest cause of our discontent and confused yearnings is the loss of Paradise. lives and that of the planet; even though scientific personnel sent a camera The human soul needs anchoring in something beyond itself….an image of Paradise lies the emotion came from a “reality” that loaded projectile over 100 miles up at the root of wanting to do the right thing and make things better. “ they were imagining. capturing the first composite black

and white photographs of sections James Hillman - The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart of Earth’s surface. Humanity waited EXPLOSIONS OF UTOPIA IMAGI- nearly 20 years after that to get a EXPLOSIONS OF UTOPIANATION IMAGINATION So every imperial mind could ravage the earth’s resources with more wholistic view of Earth from space, and an additional 6 In a recent Sierra magazine article, author and activist, Naomi Klein, impunity.” more years until the astronauts aboard the Apollo 17 moon mis- theorizes that the success of social and environmental movements of the Rohr provides an enlightened alternative, “that everything that sion captured the now iconic “Blue Marble” photograph showing past came about because bold action followed bold vision which, “...un- has being in the universe carries within itself the sacredness of folded in times when people dared to dream big, out loud, in public…”. Earth in its entirety surrounded by the boundless blackness of spirit.” Some scientists, like Suzanne Simard of the University of space. At the bottom of her examination of why certain national crises result in British Columbia, who is founder of the Mother Tree Project, are sweeping social change and others do not is the presence, or absence, Virtually all American astronauts, and their counterparts, the circling around a similar point of view. Simard’s research demon- Russian cosmonauts, were deeply moved by their first view of of what she describes as “explosions of utopian imagination.” strates that trees have a consciousness and are able to communi- Klein’s main point is that a utopian vision provides the passion for Earth from space. On the 1971 Apollo Moon Mission, astronaut cate with one another, suggesting an interconnectedness that is a Alan Shepard was “brought to tears” at his first sight of Earth. great accomplishments, which, though they may fall short of the dream, hallmark of the sacred. surpass that which Two years earlier Frank Borman, test pilot and tough minded Perhaps of equal importance historically will be the collective could be achieved with- cold warrior, was overcome by “powerful emotion” when he experience of the space travelers noting the “loneliness” and out the vision’s energy. glimpsed Earth while orbiting the moon. diminutive size of the planet relative to deep space. Earth’s size One such explosion In his first evening broadcast from the moon, Jim Lovell, the suggests limited resources, a planet vulnerable to exploitation occurred after the Civil command module pilot on the 1968 Apollo moon mission, spoke and overuse. Yet here we are in the 21st century, with climate War when freed slaves of the lonelines of Earth in space, a loneliness that is, “awe change bearing down on us, and still this message has not be- and their radical allies inspiring and makes you realize just what you have back there on come, in any real sense, an operational principle for corporations imagined a world free Earth.” That night Lovell and the crew ended their broadcast by extracting natural resources. of prejudice and social taking turns reading from the book of Genesis. The lucky individuals who have flown in space and seen the injustice. Their passion Lovell’s crew were not the only astronauts to exhibit a seem- earth from afar are gifted with a visual memory as profound as resulted in immediate ingly innate religious sense inspired by seeing Earth from space. any in the history of human consciousness. The poet, Archibald social changes such as Borman also exclaimed after returning to Earth from space, “I McLeisch, wrote that, “To see the earth as it truly is, small, blue free public education had an enormous feeling that there had to be a power greater and beautiful, in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see ourselves as riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright for all children. Though than any of us – that there was a God.” Veteran astronaut, John their utopian vision is Glenn, said, “To look out at this kind of creation and not believe loveliness in the eternal cold, brothers who know now they are truly brothers.” still unrealized it has in God is to me impossible.” Astronauts Charles Duke and The empathetic capacity of a poet made it possible for been re-imagined and James Irwin both became ministers in the years following their McLeisch to glean a powerful insight from the Blue Marble photo- kept alive by the dream time on the moon. graph. And what of the rest of us? Has the image of Earth from of Martin Luther King Bringing a sense of the sacred back into creation may ulti- space moved the consciousness of planet bound earthlings in any and the vision of other mately be a more important contribution from the astronauts profound way? black leaders. to humanity than the scientific data their missions produced. Certainly the Blue Marble photograph has become an icon Following the Great Theologian Richard Rohr has written that in our modern, secular for the environmental movement, and most probably has Crash of 1929, and Scientist Suzanne Simard’s research demonstrates times Earth has been left “essentially devoid of sacred energy. changed the course of many lives. It remains the most widely the resulting Great that trees communicate with one another. Google Earth Oregon’s Upper left Edge clear cuts

JULY 18 hipfishmonthly.com 12 TOWARD A NEW VISION FOR OREGON FORESTS Depression, a massive collective response made Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s By ROGER DORBAND vision of a New Deal possible. Major social changes occurred, like social security and unemployment insurance. The passion of that utopian vision has been carried forward by men like Bernie Sanders, whose presidential candidacy focused on a more humane and economically just society, rousing Along the perilous an impassioned, progressive wave among the youth of America. way the heroes seek Environmental crises can also become the catalyst for major social change. allies, tools and wisdom Klein writes about the 1969 oil spill off of the coast of California, which cov- to help them surmount ered the beautiful beaches in the Santa Barbara area and far beyond, as well the difficulties. Miracu- as killing thousands of sea birds, fish and mammals. The public outrage over lously, help appears, as the spilling of 2 million barrels of oil into the ocean had immediate impact. it frequently does for Shortly after the disaster, Richard Nixon, who was himself a Californian, those whose heart is halted all off shore drilling for a time, and later launched the Environmental sincerely on the side of Protection Agency, which was followed in the years after the Santa Barbara life. And for that the oil spill by other major pieces of legislation that have become the bulwark of heroes feel gratitude. the nation’s defense of the environment. Klein maintains that the oil spill was Those nurturing a vi- the environmental equivalent of the Great Crash of 1929; “a shock millions sion of an eco-paradise responded to by demanding fundamental change.” in Oregon can be So what are we to make of more recent environmental catastrophes, like Hur- grateful for the many ricane Katrina, the Exzon Valdez, and the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster, which environmental organiza- didn’t spark much social or policy change? Klein maintains that the aftermath of tions and citizen groups the more recent environmental crises lacked a utopian vision of what the future already hard at work Photo: David Meyers — Sign on a road near Ashland Or. could look like. She continues, “Reclaiming the “utopian tradition means to save and restore having the courage to paint a picture of a different world, one which, even if it our forests. They can exists only in our minds, can fuel us as we engage in winnable battles.” be grateful for land trusts and the burgeoning community forest move- ment that is acting to protect water and habitat; and for timber owners, BUILDING AN ECO-PARADISE IN OREGON like Peter Hayes of Hyla Woods, and others, who manage their forest AFTERWORD The Google Earth map of Clatsop County shows a checkerboard of property profitably by logging selectively and eschewing aerial spraying Exploring our grief over the condition of the clearcuts that appear like angular, brown patches on Mother Earth’s hide. of herbicides. And they can be grateful for a shifting state economy in planet is not the only way toward hope and ac- When come upon while hiking, or driving, the full impact of their chaos and which state parks now contribute over a billion dollars yearly; an increase tion. Advances in science can also inspire and deadly aftermath hurts the soul. Yes, there are still beautiful parts of the state in monies from tourism and recreation that has diminished the importance fuel the pursuit of a utopian dream. Suzanna to celebrate, but based on all of the evidence, pairing the word “eco-para- of the timber industry. Simard’s Mother Tree Project , based on her re- dise” with Oregon suggests an improbability, even an impossibility. How can The process that Macy and Johnson describe doesn’t end with the search showing the interconnectivity of nature, Oregonians find the courage, wisdom and vision to dream large about our gratitude felt by the heroes in having found kinship with trusted allies, or is a good example. Quantum physics has also state; to dream of creating an eco-paradise right here? new knowledge. Gratitude is not hope, not the fuel needed to continue produced the startling revelation that we live The journey toward an eco-paradise in Oregon requires hope, above all the adventure. an illusion that blinds us to the unity of a world else. Finding and maintaining hope is a heavy lift for those living in proximity The authors maintain that as we feel gratitude, “We become more pres- both seen and unseen to the clearcut devastation along the Oregon coast. A way forward is sug- ent to the wonder of being alive in this amazing living world…yet the act No less important as a source for the expan- gested in “Active Hope”, a new book by Joanna Macy and Chris Johnson. By of looking at what we love and value in our world brings an awareness of sion of individual and collective consciousness the authors’ measure, those despairing over the environment can find solace, the vast violation underway.” Consequently, “From gratitude we naturally are the wisdom traditions of native cultures, and identity and a path toward hope by imagining themselves heroes in a great flow to honoring our pain for the world.” the enlightened voices from mystical tradi- environmental adventure story. To honor grief and despair is to recognize the importance of the con- tions and the great religions. The international At the beginning of many great heroic adventures, the protagonists find tribution it can make toward hope and personal wholeness. With the trust movement inspired by Standing Rock has all themselves with little power, facing insurmountable situations. In these mo- and buoyancy gained from the gratitude of finding allies, the heroes find of the earmarks of an “explosion of utopian ments, they will naturally feel despair, but, because they see what is at stake and the courage to acknowledge their pain, journeying into its very depth to imagination,” ignited by three simple words; feel called to play a part in rectifying matters, they make a decision to follow the suddenly find, against all odds, that a light has appeared. water is life. dark path ahead, vowing to let the adventure play out, come what may. The light is described by Macy and Johnson as the arousing of our Pope Francis has taken the name of the saint “survival mechanism”. The profound truth that is discovered at the nadir most aligned with the glorification of nature. of grief is the affirmation of our interconnectedness with all of life which The Pope’s making the mitigation of global simultaneously reveals “our profound caring”. From this wellspring of warming the highest priority for all citizens of love for Earth, and life, it is not far to hope and action. the world reveals the aptness of his choice. Those longing for an eco-paradise in Oregon can begin to see a way Finally, a simple walk in the woods can forward. Facing our grief and despair, and discovering of a deeper eco- rekindle our love of nature. Northwest poet, logical connection to life, we are able to feel the love that allows for a new ecologist and naturalist, Robert Pyle, has said vision of what can be achieved in Oregon. And we recognize our power to that, “…its utterly important to celebrate the participate in bringing it forward. world. Celebrate what’s left, otherwise despair Hope has arrived! Over a lifetime, the journey from gratitude to hope is really close. There’s plenty to celebrate still. and action will recur spirally, as often as needed, depending on how we That’s the surprising thing…” are attempting to serve life. Situations change, but the fundamental From that celebration our love of nature is nature of the journey remains the same. With each round on the spiral rekindled, we become more hopeful and find we gain trust in the process, freeing us to become droplets of water in the the courage to act. mounting utopian wave. It is the flowing together of all rivers of change that will produce what Joanna Macy “See how the names are feted by the waving grass, calls the Great Turning. “From the confluence The names of those who in their lives fought for life, of these rivers we drink. We awaken to what Who wore at their hearts the fire’s center. we once knew: we are alive in a living Earth, the Born of the sun they traveled a short while toward the sun, source of all we are and can achieve. Despite And left the vivid air signed with their honor.” our conditioning by the industrial society of I Think Continually of Those the last two centuries, we want to name, once Stephen Spender again, this world as holy.”

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13 JULY 18 hipfishmonthly.com Parade Entry Old Time Music Fiddlers Spencer & Rains FEb 12 @ KALA

10th Street Stage: Astoria Library serves live music and fresh lemonade during SHANGAIED in Astoria By KAISA summer concert series SCHLARB Veteran Performer Ashley Mundel Directs! SOAK UP MUSIC and refreshments and share in excite- ASHLEY MUNDEL moved to Astoria 16 years ago to was in the 1984 version. I’m going to add the glitz and ment about the future of the library at 10th Street Stage, a perform in “Shanghaied in Astoria” with the Astor glamor and 2018 stuff in the dances.” 4-part outdoor concert series situated on the steps of the Street Opry Company. As a teenager, she first saw She also notes that part of the curve is learning how Astoria Library (450 10th St.). The series begins Wednes- the show while visiting her grandparents in Longview, to direct a group of people she is so close with. day, July 11, at 6pm with performances by musicians Laura WA. A self-professed theater kid, she was immediately “These are all my friends and family. My ex-husband Lewis and Christopher Reyne. During the kick-off event, hooked. is in the show, his wife and their baby, his sister, my architectural plans for the library’s renovation will be on “I’m from Montana where you don’t have things like best friend, my little brother, my little brother’s best display, and information about the building project will be that,” she explains of the show. “People come here to friend, and my boyfriend. The list goes on and on for available. All ages are welcome. Admission is free. view it because it is kind of an anomaly. Vaudeville and how we are all con- Raised under the fog banks of the San Francisco Bay on old-fashioned melodrama nected as a group of 150 a heavy dose of country, folk and blues from old Clem- is not taught very often in people.” ent Street, Laura Lewis is building her foundations in the theatrical schools or arts vibrant west coast music scene. Her performances have schools anymore and it is Those 150 people make a big commit- captivated and engaged audiences from festival crowds, rarely taught in community Christopher Reyne bar stools and the windows of coffee shops. Lewis cur- ment to keep the show theaters.” rently is writing and recording her first solo project. running. Practices and In July, Shanghaied will Christopher Reyne is an Astoria-based artist with a clear vision of how he wants his open to its 34th season, performances are at least compositions to make you feel. His debut album, “A Stranger at the Wheel”, is a col- with the distinction of being a 6 month affair, rehears- lection of lush, layered soundscapes with lyrics that, as Mod the longest running musical als have been running City puts it, “feel like honest journal entries put to music.” melodrama in the country. since April, and the show The Deli writes, “Catchy pop-esque hooks and complex mu- This will be Mundel’s first itself will run from July sical textures pair with Reyne’s melodic voice to make it clear season as director. 12th-September 1st, 3-4 that this performer is dedicated to entertaining his listeners.” Originally co-written and shows a week. Reyne is working on a new album slated for release in the fall. directed by Del Corbett, Mundel was nomi- The series will continue with a performance by Lucy Barna former theater director and nated to her directing at 6pm Wednesday, July 18. professor at Clatsop Col- role in February and has 10th Street Stage is a program of the Astoria Library, lege, the show began in the been busy working since sponsored by the Liberty Theatre, the Astoria Oregon Public mid 80’s and has grown over Library Foundation, and the Astor Library Friends Association. the years. The story centers, then. This 34th season, For more information and the complete concert schedule, on the shanghaiing of our Mundel explains, is contact library staff at 503-325-7323 or visit astorialibrary.org. hero Eric Olson and his dar- Laura Lewis dedicated to Bill Brooks, ing rescue, all in melodra- the show’s drummer. For Sarah Mitchell Photgraphy matic style, with audience 25 years, Brooks has per- participation by cheering, formed at every single Lincoln City Farmers and Crafters Market presents world booing, sighing and throw- show. This year will be performance on ing popcorn!” the first year he will ever In her years of involve- have an assistant drum- the Main Stage ment with the show, Mundel mer. “He’s the beat to • Sundays has supported the produc- Mundel as the saucy Miss Macie also directs our show and the beat to tion in a number of roles. our heart,” she says. FOLK MUSIC from the Andes. She’s done hair and makeup, been an assistant, is on String music and clogging in the board of directors, and has directed smaller shows ASOC PLAYHOUSES GETS A MAKEOVER! the tradition of Appalachia. throughout the year. The home of Shanghaied in Astoria, the Astor Street Narrated dances from Samoa She has also been playing her dream role in Shang- Opry Company Playhouse in Uniontown, Astoria has and Hawaii. Modern originals Jim Fitzgerald, Alders-Oregon Coast haied, that of Miss Macie, as understudy to long-time gotten a makeover with generous donations of time, by a Filipino-American singer- lead/ASOC veteran, Chrislynn Taylor. materials, and a lot of hard work. The Sherwin Williams songwriter. Danza Azteca from Mundel refers to her new role as director as “the Store in Gearhart donated over $1800 in paint, and the heart of ancient Mexico. now the building is Positive Red and Papaya. Englund You can take this tour, getting Marine also donated equipment for the theater’s a taste of culture from around outdoor awning. One of ASOC’s founders, Dr. Del Cor- the world, at the Market Main bett, chose the color, secured donations and was one Stage this summer. The Lin- of nearly two dozen hardworking volunteers to paint coln City Cultural Center will Chayag en Familia perform on the Farmers market Stage the outside of the playhouse on Saturday, June 23rd. present this 8-week outdoor music series, in conjunction with the Lincoln City Farmers ASTOR STREET OPRY COMPANY presents the 34th and Crafters Market, every Sunday from July 8 to Aug. 29. Concerts will start at 1 pm in Season of SHANGHAIED IN ASTORIA, the Live on the food court, 540 NE Hwy. 101. Stage… Award Winning…Family Entertainment…Orig- This free cultural series will begin on July 8 with the Matt and Amy White Duo, of- inal…Historical… Hysterical…Broadway-Style…Musical fering jazz vocals, keyboard and saxophone, and will end on August 26 with the fun, Melodrama. Opening July 12 thru September 1. interactive children’s show by 3 Hand Stephen. In between, you’ll see locally-grown Show times are 7 pm Thursday-Saturday, with 3 singer-songwriter Pat Magada, the Celtic duo Pipedance, the new Foulweather String Band, Chayag En Familia, Paradise of Samoa, and more. This program is sponsored heaviest job she has ever had.” Sunday matinees at 2 pm on July 22nd, August 5th and August 19th. Tickets are $20 for front row seats, by Rusty Truck Brewing Company and supported by a grant from the Oregon Cultural “The learning curve is definitely there. I feel like I Trust, through the Lincoln County Cultural Coalition. had all of the tools inside me because I know the show All other seats – $15 adults; $10 children. This season we are featuring $10 Fridays, with all seats $10. July and August are great times to visit the market, which features a wide variety of so well. I saw what I wanted to add and what I wanted produce, plants and other agricultural products plus arts and crafts made my local and to take away to get it back to its original roots as a regional vendors. The market is open from 9am to 3pm every Sunday at the LCCC, 540 show.” SNEAKE PEEK: Fri/Sat July 6&7, be the first to see NE Hwy. 101. The public is invited to shop, grab some lunch or a treat, and enjoy these With Del Corbett as one of her mentors, she is con- the 2018 Season. All tickets are $10! Purchase tick- family-friendly Market Main Stage Performances. For more information, call the LCCC fident in her goal to bring the show “back to the way it ets online at www.asocplay.co at 541-994-9994.

JULY 18 hipfishmonthly.com 14 Powered by Climate Justice The Biketopia Music Collective Follow the Rainbow

Thursday 5 Pete Kartsounes. No cover, 8:30pm at the Adrift Tuesday 10 Hotel in Long Beach. July Cultural Calendar MUSIC MUSIC Ben Cosgrove. 7 – 9pm at the Lincoln City ART Pete Kartsounes. No cover, 8pm at the Adrift Cultural Center. Seaside Art Walk. 5 – 8pm at galleries and busi- Hotel in Long Beach. nesses in downtown Seaside and Gearhart. Crystal and The Pick Me Ups. No cover, 7pm at HAPPENING Fisher Poet’s Salon the Sand Trap Pub in Gearhart. FOOD & DRINK Spotlight Dance Cup. At the Seaside Convention Raeann Phillips. No cover, 8pm at the Adrift Wine Tasting. Oregon Pinot Gris #2. 1 – 4pm at Center. Sea Songs Hotel in Long Beach. the Cellar on 10th in Astoria. IN THIS SPECIAL, one-night only event, Fisher Poets HAPPENING HAPPENING Wednesday 11 Geeno Leech and David Campiche read original works that Game Day at the Library. Relax and have fun First Thursday Trivia. Teams of 1-5 compete for MUSIC celebrate the oceans, their power to inspire and obliterate, with family and friends at the library’s free universal admiration and fantastic prizes. Sign Rita Waeton & Justin Herndon. $10 suggested monthly Game Day. Choose from a wide variety to give, take and shape our up ahead of time or just show up! Free, 5:30 – donation. 7pm at the Lincoln City Cultural Center. human lives. 6:30pm at the Astoria Public Library. of board games, card games, and LEGO® bricks Alex Ashley. No cover, 8pm at the Adrift Hotel in The poets are accompanied for all ages. 2 – 4pm at the Astoria Public Used Book Sale. 10am – 5pm at the Cannon Library. Long Beach. by live ambient music, by Beach Library. Gregg Skloff, Micah Huang Fireworks. At dusk at the Port of Ilwaco. Dreamspook! No cover, 8pm at the Sou’wester OUTSIDE Used Book Sale. 10am – 5pm at the Cannon Lodge in Seaview. and Emma Gies (aka the Beach Clean-Up. On the beach in Seaside, Lin- Beach Library. Flower Pistols). Art by David coln City, and on the Long Beach Peninsula. HAPPENING Campiche and Sid Deluca will Coastwatch 25th Anniversary Party. Lectures, Spotlight Dance Cup. At the Seaside Convention be showcased. THEATER picnic, beach walk. Stating at 9am at the Center. The Musical of Musicals. $20 - $25, 7:30pm at Gleneden Beach Community Hall. Night of All Knowledge Trivia Tournament. A free Complimentary refreshments follow the show. the Coaster Theater in Cannon Beach. Comedy on the Coast. Hosted by Aaron Wood- and fun team trivia event. 6pm at the Seaside Friday, July 13, 8pm. NO COVER, all ages. At the all, featuring Mark Yaffee and headliner Kristin Library. Blue Scorcher in Astoria. Friday 6 Key. $15, 8pm at Chinook Winds in Lincoln City. THEATER MUSIC OUTSIDE Ken Ludwig’s Baskerville. A Sherlock Holmes Trumpeter Mark Berney. Professional trumpeter Ilwaco Firecracker 5k. The event starts at the Mystery. $20 - $25, 7:30pm at the Coaster Theater Electric Fences Festival and native Astorian, Mark Berney returns home Port of Ilwaco and leads participants along in Cannon Beach. Leo Rondeau, Selector Dub Narcotic to headline to play a jazz tribute to Louis Armstrong, with the Discovery Trail to Beard’s Hollow before trio, Joey Altruda on bass, Lee Stromquist heading back to the Port. The run starts at 9am. NEHALEM — The fourth annual Electric Fences music festival will take place Satur- piano. Guest vocalist Dinah Ural. $15. 8pm at Register at unbeach.com/event/firecracker-5k- Thursday 12 day, Aug. 4th at Lunasea Gardens in Nehalem, from noon until midnight. The event, KALA in Astoria. walkrun-ilwaco/ MUSIC held at a 12-acre, partially forested farm on the North Fork of the Nehalem River, will David Pollack. No cover, 7pm at the Sand Trap Pub Adams and Costello. 8 – 10pm at Public Coast THEATER feature performers from Oregon, Washington, Tennessee, and Texas. Brewing in Cannon Beach. in Gearhart. The festival is open to all ages. Advance tickets are $20 and are available through Shanghaied in Astoria. Sneake (not Snake) Peek Pete Kartsounes. No cover, 8:30pm at the Adrift Weekend. $10, 7pm at the ASOC Playhouse in Alex Ashley. No cover, 8pm at the Adrift Hotel in the festival website. Overnight camping passes are also available for purchase. Hotel in Long Beach. Astoria. Long Beach. This year’s featured performers include: Karaoke from Hell. $5, 9pm at the San Dune Love Letters. Comedy. $15, 7pm at the NGRD HAPPENING Laura Lewis • Leo Rondeau (Nashville, TN): A cornerstone of Austin’s underground country Pub in Manzanita. Performing Arts Center in Nehalem. Spotlight Dance Cup. At the Seaside Convention scene for over a decade, Leo Rondeau relocated this past autumn to Nashville. Back in Center. 2013, Saving Country Music praised Rondeau as “...a songwriting lifer who you sense Live Music. No cover, 9pm at the Adrift Hotel in The Musical of Musicals. $20 - $25, 7:30pm at takes a wide, patient perspective, and has a belief in the power of song to outlast Long Beach. the Coaster Theater in Cannon Beach. OUTSIDE trends, obscurity, or even a song’s original creator when it is approached with heart.” ART Geology on the Estuary. Explore the south end of the Clatsop Plains where the dunes meet the Ne- Returning to the Pacific Northwest for a brief series of shows, Rondeau will close out Ilwaco First Friday Art Walk. 4 – 7pm in Ilwaco. Sunday 8 canicum River estuary at Neawanna Point Habitat Electric Fences with an intimate acoustic set. Trunk Show. With the work of jewelry artist MUSIC Reserve in Seaside with Tom Horning. Free, 10am • Selector Dub Narcotic (Olympia, WA): Founder of K Records and vocalist of Sandra Lill. At the Columbia Pacific Heritage Brownsmead Flats. 10am – 3pm at the Astoria – noon. Call 503-738-9126 to register. bands such as Beat Happening and The Halo Benders, Calvin Johnson released This Museum in Ilwaco. Sunday Market. THEATER Party Is Just Getting Started under the pseudonym Selector Dub Narcotic this past CINEMA Matt & Amy White. 1 – 3pm at the Lincoln City summer. In a review of the album, Noisey called Johnson’s sound a “...wild, hypnotic, Shanghaied in Astoria. Musical Melodrama. $15 - Star Wars VII; The Force Awakens. No cover, 9pm Farmers and Crafters Market. $20, 7pm at the ASOC Playhouse in Astoria. beat-smothered album that would sound best as the soundtrack to a party, or some in the Lovell Brewery at Fort George in Astoria. Mark Wagner and Chuck Seggerman, Free, 1 – Sylvia. Comedy. $15, 7pm at Theater West in other situation where you want to feel uplifted, free and giddy as a kid after fanta and 3pm at the Hoffman Gardens in Manzanita. skittles.” HAPPENING Lincoln City. Used Book Sale. 10am – 5pm at the Cannon Creedence Clearwater Revival Tribute. $20, 2pm Little Mazarn (Austin The Musical of Musicals. $20 - $25, 7:30pm at the • , TX): Under the stage name Little Mazarn, Lindsey Verrill Beach Library. at the Historic Raymond Theater in Raymond. released her debut album last year through Austin-based label Self Sabotage Records. Coaster Theater in Cannon Beach. Pete Kartsounes. No cover, 8pm at the Adrift This March, The Austin Chronicle named Little Marzan as one of 12 breakthrough Comedy on the Coast. Hosted by Aaron Wood- all, featuring Mark Yaffee and headliner Kristin Hotel in Long Beach. Austin bands at SXSW. Key. $15, 8pm at Chinook Winds in Lincoln City. Johnny Dango. No cover. 8pm at Fort George Friday 13 Other confirmed acts: The Lonesome Heroes (Austin, TX), Bad Shadows (Portland, MUSIC THEATER Brewery & Public House in Astoria. OR), Countryside Ride (Clark County, WA), Thee Last Go ‘Round (Portland, OR), Mouth Myshkin Warbler. From Joshua Tree, CA, Myshkin, Shanghaied in Astoria. Sneake (not Snake) Peek Painter (Portland, OR) Jean Wranglers (Austin, TX), Hey Lover (Portland, OR), Book of OUTSIDE Singer Songwriter and Cellist/Author Jenny Q, Weekend. $10, 7pm at the ASOC Playhouse in Colors (Portland, OR), Dowsing (Port Townsend, WA) Happy Tails Group Dog Walk. Walk along the drummer Scott Magee perform on tour with Astoria. About The Festival: Electric Fences was founded in 2015 as an autonomous, D.I.Y. beach in Cannon Beach. Free, dogs must be on show TRUTH.TOGETHER. At KALA in Astoria. $15. event, rejecting the Love Letters. Comedy. $15, 7pm at the NGRD standard leashes. Meet at 6pm at the parking Advance tix:libertytheater.org Performing Arts Center in lot by Mo’s at Tolovana Beach State Park in necessity of sponsorship, Professional trumpeter and native Astorian, Mark Nehalem. Cannon Beach. and operating under the Leo Rondeau Berney returns home to play a tribute to Louis idea that a smaller, less Ken Ludwig’s Baskerville. A Sherlock Holmes THEATER Armstrong, with trio, Joey Alturda on bass, Lee restrictive model of the Mystery. $20 - $25, 7:30pm at the Coaster Love Letters. Comedy. $15, 2pm at the NGRD Stromquist piano. $15. 8pm at KALA in Astoria. Theater in Cannon Beach. Performing Arts Center in Nehalem. traditional music festival Alex Ashley. No cover, 8:30pm at the Adrift Hotel would create a more in Long Beach. memorable and endur- Saturday 7 Monday 9 Countryside Ride. $5 cover, 9pm at the San Dune ing experience for both MUSIC MUSIC Pub in Manzanita. the audience and the Pete Kartsounes. No cover, 8pm at the Adrift Baby Gramps & The Nehalem Valley All-Stars. 2 FOOD & DRINK performers. Hotel in Long Beach. – 6pm at the Nehalem Bay Winery, Nehalem. Shop at the Dock & Beyond. Learn about local Crosby Lane. Free, 7pm at the First Presbyterian commercial fisheries, where to find local seafood, For tickets, directions, and all Church in Astoria. HAPPENING and for a behind the scenes tour of a local market. Tours start at 9 and 11am. Meet at the Warrenton other festival info please visit: Terry and Jerry Holder. $15, 7pm at the Penin- Spotlight Dance Cup. At the Seaside Conven- Marina Commercial Docks. www.electricfencesfest.com sula Arts Center in Long Beach. tion Center. cont. p19

15 JULY 18 hipfishmonthly.com theater & performance MYSTERY, MEYHAM AND MUSIC TAKE TO THE “It’s COASTER THEATRE STAGE THIS SUMMER Broadway, Baby!” At TAPA

Slabinski (Actor One), Ryan Hull TAPA presents “It’s Broad- (Actor Two), Richard Bowman way, Baby…& more!” (understudy for Actor Two) and at The Barn Community Emily Dante (Actress One). Playhouse, home of TAPA Next up is The Musical Theater in Tillamook. of Musicals (The Musical!), Throughout the years, Tin Tickets are available by calling Diamond a musical about musicals! In Pan Alley has enthralled and entertained with Art Jewelers at 503-842-7940 or at the this hilarious satire of musical engaging stories and music that pull extraor- door. Showing times are 7pm on Friday and theatre written by Eric Rockwell dinary emotions from the very heart of us all Saturday, with a 2pm curtain for the Sunday and Joanne Bogart, one story - emotions that run the gambit from joyous matinees. It is strongly recommended you call becomes five delightful musicals, celebration to devastating tragedy and back and reserve your tickets early. Ticket price is each written in the distinctive again. This delightful revue offers some of the $15 with the traditional opening night gala. Very Life Like! David Sweeney as Watson, Slab Slabinski (Actor 1) and Frank style of a different master of the most memorable music the Broadway stage Bring the entire family for an evening of Jagodnik in Baskerville. form, from Rodgers and Ham- has offered...and more! song and dance, support TAPA and celebrate merstein to Stephen Sondheim. “It’s Broadway, Baby…& more!” is staged THE COASTER THEATRE Playhouse readies the the incredible phenomenon that is musical The basic plot: June is an ingenue who can’t pay by Joni Sauer-Folger and produced by Val stage for two hilarious farces – Ken Ludwig’s Basker- theater. the rent and is threatened by her evil landlord. Will ville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery and The Musical of Braun, with musical direction by Diane Nelson. the handsome leading man come to the rescue? Musicals (The Musical!). The cast features: Jennifer Purcell, Margaret PERFORMANCES: July 13-14, 15, 20-21, The variations are: a Rodgers & Hammerstein ver- Summer kicks off with Ken Ludwig’s Baskerville: A Page, Lisa Greiner, Kayla Cooley, Abby Ab- 22, 27-29. The Barn Community Theater sion, set in Kansas in August; a Sondheim version, Sherlock Holmes Mystery Sherlock Holmes…the sher, Kelli McMellen, Jerilee Henderson, Wally is located on the corner of 12th & Ivy in featuring the landlord as a tortured artistic genius man, the myth, the legend. When Sir Arthur Conan & Diane Nelson, Bill Farnum, Fred Casey, and Tillamook. who slashes the throats of his tenants in revenge for Doyle put pen to paper and began to write about Joni Sauer-Folger. not appreciating his work; a Jerry Herman version, the adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor John as a splashy star vehicle; an Andrew Lloyd Webber Watson, he created two of the most unforgettable version, a rock musical with themes borrowed from characters in English literature. As the father of the Puccini; and a Kander & Ebb version, set in a speak- mystery genre, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s influence LOVE LETTERS easy in Chicago. An entertaining comic valentine to throughout the ages cannot be denied. In creating Riverbend Players Bring The Classic A.R. Gurney Play musical theatre. Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery, comedic To NCRD Performing Arts Center This entertaining parody of musicals is directed genius Ken Ludwig honors the origin story while by Patrick Lathrop (Coaster Theatre’s Executive Di- Nehalem July 6-21 creating an exciting and funny Sherlock Holmes rector) and features a veteran cast including Richard A FINALIST for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama continued to share confidences. As the actors adventure. He’s created a classic melodrama with Bowman (Big Willy, Billy, William, Bill, Villy), Cam- (1985), this classic American serio-comedy read the letters aloud, they create an onstage antics that’ll leave the audience both on eron Lira (June, Jeune, Junie Faye, Junita, Juny), has been performed and loved around the evocative, touching, frequently funny the edge of their seats and rolling in the aisles. The Donald Conner, Ryan Hull, Sheila Shaffer & Sue Neuer Darren Hull (Jidder, Jitter, Mr. Jitters, Phantom Jitter, world. In its simplest form, it is a story of but always telling pair of character studies thrills come from the classic text and the comedy Jütter) and Ann Bronson (Mother Abby, Abby, Aun- friendship and love that spans fifty years all in which what is implied is as revealing and from the three actors playing 35+ characters creat- tie Abby, Abigail Von Schtarr, Fraulein Abby). told through love letters exchanged between meaningful as what is actually written down. ing a magnificent farce to feed your hunger for a the two characters. This play tells the story of Andrew Make- good mystery. The summer fun starts runs through September While the actors read the script on stage, peace Ladd III and Melissa Gardner, both This whimsical spin on a classic Holmes mystery 2, 2018. Tickets are $25 or $20 and can be the greatness of this show is how the char- born to wealth and position, who exchange is helmed by Jenni Tronier (Coaster Theatre’s Mar- purchased online at coastertheatre.com or by acters and words are guided and delivered letters from grade school though a lifetime of keting & Operations Director) and features veteran calling 503-436-1242. through the two performers. It’s storytelling experiences. We connect to them, laugh with Coaster Theatre actors Frank Jagodnik (Sherlock at its finest. “The audience will laugh out them, identify with their stories and Holmes), David Sweeney (Dr. John Watson), Slab loud and be moved to tears as the stories feelings, and ultimately what they gave to and incredible relationship unfolds.” says each other over the years—physically apart, director Mike Arseneault. perhaps, but spiritually as close as only true Director Mike Arseneault cast three lovers can be. HOLA separate pairs of actors to read this funny, “‘It’s theater down to its most simple level, ALOHA touching play: Stewart and Karen Martin, the spoken word,’’ said John Tillinger (direc- Mike Arseneault and Leslie Gestautas, and tor of the original New York production). HELLO! Matt and Meghan Ruona. “I did this to Ann Bronson, provide more opportunities for local actors to DATES & CAST: Stewart Martin & Karen Mar- Darren Hull, perform on-stage and more opportunities for tin—July 6-7 at 7pm, Sunday July 8 at 2pm. Richard Boman audiences to appreciate the unique interpre- Cast: Mike Arseneault, Leslie Gestautas–July & Cameron Lira tation of A.R. Gurney’s brilliant words.” Said 14 at 7pm, Sunday July 15 at 2pm. Cast: Matt get intensely Arseneault. “See the play more than once as Ruona, Meghan Ruona—Friday July 20 at each couple will bring something new to the 7pm, Saturday July 21, 7pm. “Musical” this words and the experience”, says Arseneault. At the North County Recreation District summer at About Love Letters By A.R. Gurney Performing Arts Center, 36155 9th Street, The Coaster. Author A.R. Gurney says, “The piece Nehalem, OR. TICKETS: $15 each. Advance is comprised of letters exchanged over a tickets available on tickettomato.com/ and lifetime between two people who grew at the door. up together, went their separate ways, but

JULY 18 hipfishmonthly.com 16 Imogen Gallery is located at 240 11th Street, Open Mon-Sat, 11- 5, 11- 4 each Sunday, closed Wed. 503.468. www.imogengallery.com .

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Letting It All Hang Out GRAND VISION and RECONFIGURATION New Works by Rachel Maxi IMOGEN at RiverSea

Seattle artist and working here as a member of the restoration RIVERSEA GALLERY presents paintings, drawings and RACHEL crew for the Astoria Column in 2015. Following the engravings by Mark Larson MAXI makes completion of the restoration, Imogen hosted a and the mixed media works her first solo group exhibition of the many talented artists who of Karen Story. The two exhibition participated in the arduous restoring of the iconic shows open July 14, with a appearance Column. Maxi contributed three small paintings to at IMOGEN. that exhibition depicting the final days of comple- reception from 5:00 to 8:00 Known tion of the monumental project when a wind storm during Astoria’s Second throughout tore the protective tarping from scaffolding. Saturday Artwalk featur- the northwest In her work, Maxi holds to her source of inspira- ing live music and catered for her rep- tion by the stimulus of environment, urban decay, refreshments. The work will resentational graffiti, compositions in landscape and architecture, remain on view through oil paintings patterns, textures, textiles, and the paint itself. She August 7, 2018. of Seattle includes reference to music, specifically African Grand Visions is an exhibition of oil paintings, Performance Artist oil and gold spray paint/canvas scenes, old Jazz and old Soul within her paintings. She likens drawings and drypoint trucks, dumpsters and oysters, she has transitioned color as notes, and composition and repetition as Karen Story, Agritecture 12 x 12 into the realm of abstraction. Still working in oil she structure and rhythm. After being hit by a car in a engravings by Mark Larson explores the process of painting more intuitively crosswalk in St. Louis, due to various severe inju- Mark Larson, Installation of Vancouver, Washington. Inspired by his lifelong love of na- allowing an expression of personal growth and ries, including a blow to the head—while learning ture and his travels to Italy, he mixes images of flora and fauna development after life altering experiences. to use her brain again, Maxi made the choice to go with elements of Italian architecture to compose surreal works that reflect on our relationship to the The exhibition opens July 14 during Astoria’s forward with abstraction. environment, and how we seek out nature to find peace and solace in a time of constant change. Second Saturday Artwalk, 5 – 8 pm. Meet Rachel Exhibiting in the Alcove space, Portland artist Karen Story delivers a show of her latest work titled, Imogen Gallery is located at 240 11th Street, Maxi with bites and beverages provided by the As- Reconfiguration, an exploration of figure and landscape in a mix of acrylic and collage on panel. The open Mon- Sat, 11 to 5, 11 to 4 each Sun, and toria Coffee House and Bistro. On display through collaged elements blend seamlessly to create painterly compositions suffused with a soft romanti- closed each Wed. 503.468.0620 Facebook, Insta- August 7th. cism. This work is profoundly influenced by her yearly travels to Borneo as well as outdoor adven- gram or at www.imogengallery.com. Rachel Maxi is not a new comer to the Astoria tures in the Pacific Northwest. art community, she spent several months living RiverSea Gallery is open daily at 1160 Commercial Street in the heart of historic Astoria. 503-325-1270, or visit the website at riverseagallery.com.

Sandra Lill Jewelry • Ilwaco Art Walk Columbia Pacific Heritage Museum THE COLUMBIA PACIFIC HERITAGE MUSEUM will feature a special PILLOW TALK Greta Latchford Trunk Show with jewelry artist Sandra Lill during the Ilwaco First Friday Art Walk, July 6. Sandra brings fine craftsmanship together Amanda Manitach McVarish Gallery with an artistic eye to create striking neckwear from antique stone at Sou’ Wester OPENING JULY 14, McVarish and glass beads, fiber and metals. The Art Walk Trunk Show is an Gallery will be exhibiting the exceptional opportunity to see new and unique pieces by this well mixed media stained glass respected artist. work of Greta Latchford. In FIRST FRIDAY ART WALK takes place throughout Ilwaco on July this show titled “Letting Go of 6 from 4 – 7 pm. Start your Art Walk in downtown Ilwaco at the Shoulds,” Greta explores the Columbia Pacific Heritage Museum, 115 SE Lake St. female subject, womanhood and the identity of self within, using an innovative technique of combining glass and textile Mary Schlunegger at Trail’s End to produce richly textured Trail’s End Gallery featured July artist is Mary imagery. These powerful works Schlunegger, opening July 7. WINGS AND WAVES are the fruit of a journey of ex- features acrylics, mixed media and fiber art. A former ploration and experimentation Interior Designer from California, she now resides on the in both medium, and personal truth and consciousness. North Coast, devoting her time to art. PILLOW TALK, by artist Amanda Manitach, is a 160 10th St. Astoria new art installation in a vintage travel trailer turned A reception will be held from 2:00-5:00pm. The Abundance, mixed media, 43”x 24” gallery is located at 656 A Street in Gearhart. into a permanent art gallery, at The Sou’wester Lodge July 3 - September 23. Opening reception is Thursday July 19, 6-9pm. In installations like “Pillow Talk”, fragments of text gleaned from found sources or original writings literally pile up in soft July at Seaside Art Walk heaps offering immersive, intimate exploration Luminari Arts Celebrating 14 years in 2018, the next Seaside First by visitors who are invited to physically embed “Surviving the Retrograde” themselves amongst the murmurings of forgotten Saturday Art Walk, will be held on July 7, 5-7: pm. tarot card readings by Judith. The event is free and is all about seeing and selling poets and others. New upcycled portraits by art in sponsoring businesses between Holladay and Manitach’s work has been exhibited at venues Angela Rossi, on porcelain. Broadway in the historic area of downtown Seaside, including Tacoma Art Museum, Frye Art Museum, Local favorite Scheckpea plays with over 15 businesses/galleries. Bellevue Arts Museum, Winston Wächter Gallery, Bryan Ohno Gallery, Roq la Rue and Lawrimore toe tapping tunes. Finger Fairweather Gallery “100 Turtle Project “ Project. She is represented by Winston Wächter foods and beverages. by Emily Miller, ceramics Gallery. 1133 Commercial St. in Astoria Sou’ Wester is located 3728 J Place, Seaview, WA. July 14 5-9pm

17 JULY 18 hipfishmonthly.com word. Astoria Writers Guild Workshop Fire in the Mind: Writing Memorable Images Tales Of Tillamook Rock Lighthouse with Neil Aitken Author Deborah Baldwin at Seaside Library THE WRITER’S GUILD OF ASTORIA hosts poet Neil Aitken Saturday July 21st, 10am SEASIDE LIBRARY hosts Deborah Baldwin, author of Tillamook to 1pm at Fort George Brewery, Lovell Rock Lighthouse on July 26. The event will take place in the Showroom for a writing workshop focused Community Room at 7pm with book sales and signings. on helping writers formulate memorable Built in 1880, Oregon’s Tillamook Rock Lighthouse has had images to bring new power to their work. the most notorious reputation of any lighthouse on the Pacific Fee is $65, discount for Guild Members. Coast of the United States. Fierce storms regularly catapulted How can the images we create as huge boulders through the lantern, with waves that broke over writers rise above flat description and its 136-foot height earning it the modern nickname “Terrible become surprising, evocative, and deeply Tilly.” It’s been described as a pint-sized Alcatraz, and many compelling presences in our work? Where keepers could not stand its confinement. However, there were do our most powerful images come from? some who actually enjoyed it and even came to love it. A rare How can we best capture them in writing? glimpse of the more pleasant side of daily life on “the Rock” Great images carry weight and exert force is shown in Deborah Baldwin’s book through newly rediscov- on our imagination, bringing us back to ered historic photographs taken by the keepers who faithfully critical turns in the poem or narrative, and served there. This important visual legacy serves to temper haunting us long after we’ve set aside the horrific view of Terrible Tilly and provides a new perspec- the text. In this generative writing workshop, participants will write in response to tive: that perhaps an assignment to Tillamook Rock Lighthouse history for future generations and to honor the memory of all a series of exercises and prompts designed to help them discover and create fresh, was not so wholly terrible after all. lighthouse keepers who diligently served so that lives could unexpected, and personally meaningful images. Debra Baldwin serves as historian and a staff writer for be saved. Neil Aitken is the author of two books of poetry, The Lost Country of Sight, which Lighthouse Digest Magazine, which celebrated its 25th year The Seaside Public Library is located at 1131 Broadway. won the Philip Levine Prize, and Babbage’s Dream, as well as a chapbook of poetry, of publication in 2017. The ongoing mission of Lighthouse For more information call (503)738-6742 or visit us at www. Leviathan, which won an Elgin Award for sci fi poetry. A past Kundiman poetry fel- Digest is to research, document, and preserve lighthouse seasidelibrary.org low, he is the founding editor of Boxcar Poetry Review, curator of Have Book Will Travel, and co-director of De-Canon: A Visibility Project. He lives in Vancouver, WA Cannon Beach Library where he works as a creative writing coach and consultant. www.neil-aitken.com To register contact [email protected]. The Writer’s Guild is an Astoria Annual July 4th Weekend Book Sale based non-profit dedicated to promoting literacy in our community. Meet the third THE CB LIBRARY Annual Fourth of July Book Sale takes Cannon Beach for decades into an iconic All-American Tuesday of every month at Winekraft from 6-8 pm for writing prompts and an Open place July 4 – 7, 10am, to 5pm, at the Cannon Beach village. Mic. July meeting is the 17th. www.thewritersguild.org Library, 131 Hemlock St. Thousands of donated fiction The Cannon Beach Library--a private, member-owned and nonfiction books in three rooms, conveniently library founded in 1927--provides a full range of library categorized and selling at attractively discounted prices. services six days a week for residents and visitors to All proceeds to support the library. Arch Cape and Oregon. The library, which receives a Each July 4th weekend the library holds one of small subsidy from the City of Cannon Beach, relies on Searching For The Beeswax Shipwreck the largest used book sales on the Oregon coast, the ninety volunteers; one part-time office manager; numer- With Anthropologist Scott Williams AnnualTHOUSANDS Fourth of July Book Sale, a fundraiser that OF last ousBOOKS!!!!!!!!!! fundraisers; an annual appeal; and sales of books year provided nearly 10 percent of the library’s annual donated by residents, visitors, and patrons to staff and Seaside Public Library budget. This book sale, along with the town’s quirky fund purchases of new books for its collection, e-books, SEASIDE LIBRARY hosts anthropologist Scott Independence Day Parade, has been transforming computing services and office and other expenses. Williams on July 14, speaking on Searching for the Beeswax Shipwreck. The event will take place in the Community Room at 1pm. TIDES: The Science & Spirit of the Ocean WRITE ASTORIA One of the most popular mysteries of the WRITE ASTORIA is a free, open Oregon Coast has been the identification of Jonathan White at Beach Books forum where writers read the “Beeswax Wreck” at Nehalem Beach, in Til- July 13 from works in progress and offer each other constructive lamook County. Identified over time by various EXPERT MARINER and marine conservationist Jonathan White will give a presenta- feedback. The group meets researchers as either a Chinese or Japanese tion of his recent book, TIDES: The Science and Spirit of the Ocean at Beach Books in in the Astoria Public Library junk, a Spanish galleon, a Portuguese trader, Seaside, July 13th at 7pm. Flag Room twice/month, on or a lost English or Dutch pirate vessel, it has In TIDES, White takes readers on a journey of discovery around the globe to 1st and 3rd Wednesdays from been determined that the ship was in fact a witness the largest, fastest, scariest and most amazing tides in the world. Jonathan 5-7pm. Spanish Galleon of the Manila Trade. Nehalem travels to California to shadow the Mavericks competition where surfers paddle into Indian oral histories and the journals of the deadly waves sixty feet high; to the Arctic to shimmy down a hole in the ice with an Ric’s Poetry Mic earliest traders in the area indicate that the Inuit elder to hunt for blue mussels in the dark cavities below; to the Qiantang River 1st Tues @ Winecraft galleon wrecked prior to European settlement in China to witness the Silver Dragon, a twenty-five-foot tidal bore that crashes its way IN HONOR of founder Ric Vrana, and indeed most European exploration of the Pacific Northwest. The site has been buried for up the eighty-mile river; In France’s Mont St. Michel he learns how the monks were Ric’s Poetry Mic is the last 100 years. However, blocks of beeswax are occasionally found by beachcombers in the inspired by the tide, at the Royal Society of London he discovers how Plato and Aris- held at WineKraft, sand dunes adjacent to the site. totle, Leonardo de Vinci, Newton, Descartes, and many other noted thinkers had been 80 10th Street Archaeologists have recovered assemblages of Chinese porcelain sherds from nearby captivated by the tide. (on the west end archaeological sites, including some which were modified into projectile points by the local TIDES won the 2018 Pacific Northwest Booksell- of the Pier 11 Nehalem Indians. These sherds display design motifs indicating they were manufactured in ers Association Award for Best Book, as well as the Building) in Astoria. China in the late 17th Century, and were intended for export to the European market. Analysis National Outdoor Book Award in the Natural His- The event takess of the design motifs indicates the majority of the porcelain was manufactured sometime tory Literature category; the IBPA Benjamin Franklin place the first Tuesday of every between 1680 and 1700 AD. Award (Silver); Nautilus Book Award (Silver); and month,. Readings are from 7pm Radiocarbon samples from wood known to be associated with the wrecked vessel and bees- to 8:30pm, with sign up to read was winner of Publishing Professionals Network Bet wax blocks that were part of her cargo have also been dated, and, while not as precise as the at 6:45 p.m. All poetry friends Book Award for Trade, Text-driven. TIDES has been ceramic dates, they also indicate the vessel is from the period of the Spanish Manila Trade. are welcome to come to read translated into Chinese and is being considered by and listen. Contact: Mary Lou The Seaside Public Library is located at 1131 Broadway. For more information call (503)738- the BBC for a documentary film. McAuley 6742 or visit us at www.seasidelibrary.org

JULY 18 hipfishmonthly.com 18 ••• music • visual arts • literarylecture • outdoor • theater••• CEDAR TEETH Cedar Teeth hails from the Cascade foothills, where HAPPENING Sunday 15 and near the Bolstad Beach Approach. See the sound of saws cut through the Oregon woods Sea Songs. A Fisher Poets Salon with readings schedule at sandsationslongbeach.com and the lights of Portland set the western horizon by Geno Leach and David Campiche. Music MUSIC THEATER aglow. by Greg Skloff & The Flower Pistils. Art by Sid RJ Marx Quartet. 10am – 3pm at the Astoria The music of Cedar Teeth is shaped by the experi- Deluca & David Campiche. No cover, 8pm at The Musical of Musicals. $20 - $25, 7:30pm at Sunday Market. the Coaster Theater in Cannon Beach. ence of living in this margin dividing the wilderness Blue Scorcher in Astoria. Chayag en Familia. 1 – 3pm at the Lincoln City from the city. Between the five members of the Spotlight Dance Cup. At the Seaside Conven- Farmers and Crafters Market. Thursday 19 band emerges a fusion of guitars, banjo, keys and trombone, propelled by bass and drums, while vo- tion Center. Rose Hashimoto. 3pm at the Driftwood Public MUSIC cal harmonies weave through the music. Their songs Library in Lincoln City. THEATER The Coastline. No cover, 7pm at the Sand Trap are thus sweeping and immersive, at turns rustically Shanghaied in Astoria. Musical Melodrama. Patrick Lamb. $20 - $25, 7:30pm at the Coaster Pub in Gearhart. melodic, lyrically raw, and aggressive, as they $10, 7pm at the ASOC Playhouse in Astoria. Theater in Cannon Beach. Sundae + Mr Goessl. No cover, 8pm at the explore the tensions of our time: love, confusion, It’s Broadway, Baby & More. Musical. $15, Long Gone John, No cover, 8pm at the Adrift Adrift Hotel in Long Beach. progress, and corruption in a morally ambivalent 7pm at the Barn Community Playhouse in Hotel in Long Beach. landscape. HAPPENING VISIBLE CLOAKS Tillamook. Jessica Dennison + Jones. No cover. 8pm at Sandsations Sand Sculpture Extravaganza. Thursday July 26, 7-9pm, Sand Trap Pub in Gear- Sylvia. Comedy. $15, 7pm at Theater West in Fort George Brewery & Public House in Astoria. Sand Sculpture competition, lessons, and hart. All Ages, No Cover. Lincoln City. FOOD & DRINK much more. Along the shoreline adjacent ANITA BUILDING to the Long Beach Boardwalk and near the Ken Ludwig’s Baskerville. A Sherlock Holmes Pancake Breakfast. All-you-can-eat for $5, 8am Soft opening for the Anita Building Bolstad Beach Approach. See schedule at Mystery. $20 - $25, 7:30pm at the Coaster – noon at the Bay City Arts Center. -With music by - sandsationslongbeach.com Theater in Cannon Beach. Cannon Beach American Legion Breakfast. $7 Visible Cloaks - Portland adults, $3 children under 6. 9 – 11:30am at the THEATER Serious River Song - Astoria Saturday 14 American Legion Hall in Cannon Beach. Shanghaied in Astoria. Musical Melodrama. Geological Creep - Anacortes $15 - $20, 7pm at the ASOC Playhouse in HAPPENING And special guest MUSIC Astoria. Lorenzo. At Old Things and Objects Grand Clamshell Railroad Days. Experience historic Open for ArtWalk; music on at 7pm Reopening Celebration. 6 – 8pm in Astoria. railroad lectures, model railroad layouts from Sylvia. Comedy. $15, 7pm at Theater West in Sliding scale/donation regional clubs, the kids craft caboose, and Lincoln City. Two Crows Joy. 7pm at WineKraft in Astoria. Anita Building • 1312 Commercial • more. $5 admission, 10am – 4pm at the Co- Ken Ludwig’s Baskerville. A Sherlock Holmes Astoria Waikiki Beach Concert. 7pm at the Waikiki lumbia Pacific Heritage Museum in Ilwaco. Mystery. $20 - $25, 7:30pm at the Coaster Beach Amphitheater at Cape Disappointment, Portland Duo VISIBLE CLOAKS- THEATER Theater in Cannon Beach. Ilwaco. Though they straddle vaporwave, the It’s Broadway, Baby & More. Musical. $15, Friday 20 new age revival and the current wave of Long Gone John, No cover, 8:30pm at the 3pm at the Barn Community Playhouse in neo-classical and ambient music, they Adrift Hotel in Long Beach. Tillamook. MUSIC occupy a space of their own, composing FM. $5 cover, 9pm at the San Dune Pub in Love Letters. Comedy. $15, 2pm at the NGRD New World String Project. $17, 7pm at the music that could soundtrack a virtual Manzanita. Performing Arts Center in Nehalem. Lincoln City Cultural Center. reality zen garden - FACT Magazine ART Monday 16 Adams and Costello. 8pm at Public Coast Astoria Artwalk. Free, 5 – 8pm at galleries and Brewing in Cannon Beach. other businesses n downtown Astoria. MUSIC Happy Together Tour 2018. $35 - $50, 8pm at Cascadia Concert Opera Showcase. Admission Chinook Winds in Lincoln City. Saturday 21 artisan fair, live music, fish fry and more. ourlittle- Opening Reception. Life on the Coast art by donation. 7pm at the Lincoln City Cultural beachtown.com/things-to-do/july-20-22-dory-days- Searching For The Beeswax Shipwreck The Horsenecks. No cover, 8:30pm at the Adrift exhibit. 1 – 3pm at the Garibaldi Museum. Center. MUSIC weekend Hotel in Long Beach. With Anthropologist Scott Williams FOOD & DRINK Music in the Gardens. A day touring coastal gardens Quattlebaum. No cover, 8pm at the Adrift of the Long Beach Peninsula. Mt, musicians and OUTSIDE FOOD & DRINK Seaside Beach Run. Activities include 5K and 10K Seaside Public Library Wine Tasting. Worldwide Chardonnay. 1 – 4pm Hotel in Long Beach. artists will perform throughout the day in each at the Cellar on 10th in Astoria. Shop at the Dock & Beyond. Learn about garden. $20, 10am – 4pm. watermusicfestival.com/ beach runs, 5K walks, and a Kid’s Sand Dash and Trea- Anthony Tripp. Free, 8pm at the Workers sure Hunt. $0 - $40. 7:30am – 12:30pm at the Beach at local commercial fisheries, where to find local event/music-in-the-gardens/ HAPPENING Tavern in Astoria. seafood, and for a behind the scenes tour of a 12t Avenue in Seaside. seasidebeachrun.org Ara Lee with Chris Hayes. $15, 7pm at the Peninsula Clamshell Railroad Days. Experience historic local market. Tours start at 9 and 11am. Meet Pull Policeman’s Helmet. Help remove this invasive Arts Center in Long Beach. railroad lectures, model railroad layouts from Tuesday 17 at the Warrenton Marina Commercial Docks. plant form the North Coast Land Conservancy’s Circle regional clubs, the kids craft caboose, and MUSIC Happy Together Tour 2018. $35 - $50, 8pm at Creek Habitat Reserve in Seaside. 10am – 1pm. More HAPPENING Chinook Winds in Lincoln City. details at nclctrust.org/pull-policemans-helmet-july. more. $5 admission, 10am – 4pm at the Co- Quattlebaum. No cover, 8pm at the Adrift Sandsations Sand Sculpture Extravaganza. See lumbia Pacific Heritage Museum in Ilwaco. Hotel in Long Beach. The Horsenecks. No cover, 8:30pm at the Adrift THEATER schedule at sandsationslongbeach.com Hotel in Long Beach. Spotlight Dance Cup. At the Seaside Conven- OUTSIDE The Pied Piper. With the Missoula Children’s Theater. Dory Days Festival. Celebrate the unique dory Ultronz. $5 cover, 9pm at the San Dune Pub in $10, performances at 3 and 5:30pm at the Liberty tion Center. Explore a Treasured Coastal Forest. Hike fishing fleet of Pacific City, the only one in the Manzanita. Theater in Astoria. Second Saturday Makers Bazaar & Flea Market. between 0.75 and 1.5 miles. The walk will be lower 48 states. Watch the parade starting at on unpaved roads, narrow trails, and soggy ART It’s Broadway, Baby & More. Musical. $15, 7pm at the 10am – 3pm at the First Presbyterian Church 11am, see the boat display and check out the Barn Community Playhouse in Tillamook. grassy pasture. There will be a small amount childrens’ activities, artisan fair, live music, fish Tokeland Wood and Art Fest. See woodcarvers, in Astoria. woodcrafters and other artists at work during this of elevation gain. No toilets on site; public fry and more. ourlittlebeachtown.com/things- Love Letters. Comedy. $15, 7pm at the NGRD Per- family friendly event that features art, music, food LECTURE toilets available nearby at Neskowin Beach to-do/july-20-22-dory-days-weekend forming Arts Center in Nehalem. Searching for the Beeswax Shipwreck. With State Recreation Site. 11am – 1pm at the Butte and more. Starting at 9am at the Tokeland Hotel. Shanghaied in Astoria. Musical Melodrama. $15 - $20, Scott Williams. 1pm in the Community Room Creek habitat Reserve, Neskowin. Register at OUTSIDE FOOD & DRINK 7pm at the ASOC Playhouse in Astoria. Microplastic Filtration. 1 – 3pm on the Beach at the Seaside Library. nclctrust.org Wine Tasting. Summertime Wines. 1 – 4pm at the Sylvia. Comedy. $15, 7pm at Theater West in Lincoln in Cannon Beach. FMI, go to eventbrite.com/e/ Cellar on 10th in Astoria. City. THEATER Wednesday 18 microplastic-filtration-tickets-44005061323 Shanghaied in Astoria. Musical Melodrama. HAPPENING Ken Ludwig’s Baskerville. A Sherlock Holmes Mystery. $15 - $20, 7pm at the ASOC Playhouse in MUSIC THEATER Sandsations Sand Sculpture Extravaganza. See $20 - $25, 7:30pm at the Coaster Theater in Cannon Astoria. Bryan Foster with George Coleman. $5, 7pm at Shanghaied in Astoria. Musical Melodrama. schedule at sandsationslongbeach.com Beach. the Peninsula Arts Center in Long Beach. $10, 7pm at the ASOC Playhouse in Astoria. Versus Comic Con. Vendors, live shows, cosplay, and It’s Broadway, Baby & More. Musical. $15, Sunday 22 It’s Broadway, Baby & More. Musical. $15, more. $15 - $80, at the Seaside Convention Center. 7pm at the Barn Community Playhouse in Kirk Hurd. $5, 7pm at the Peninsula Arts Center 7pm at the Barn Community Playhouse in MUSIC Tillamook. in Long Beach. Microplastic Keepsakes. 1 – 2pm in Cannon Beach. Tillamook. Ray Prestegard. 10am – 3pm at the Astoria Sunday Sundae + Mr Goessl. No cover, 8pm at the FMI, go to https://www.eventbrite.com/e/micro- Love Letters. Comedy. $15, 7pm at the NGRD plastic-keepsakes-tickets-44005240860 Market. Adrift Hotel in Long Beach. Love Letters. Comedy. $15, 7pm at the NGRD Performing Arts Center in Nehalem. Performing Arts Center in Nehalem. Open Mic. Spoken word and music. 6:30 – 8pm at Foulweather String Band. 1 – 3pm at the Lincoln City HAPPENING Art Accelerated in Tillamook. Farmers and Crafters Market. Sylvia. Comedy. $15, 7pm at Theater West in Sylvia. Comedy. $15, 7pm at Theater West in Lincoln City. Sandsations Sand Sculpture Extravaganza. Rhythm Method. 1 – 3pm at the Hoffman Garden in Sand Sculpture competition, lessons, and Lincoln City. Dory Days Festival. Celebrate the unique dory fish- ing fleet of Pacific City, the only one in the lower 48 Manzanita. The Musical of Musicals. $20 - $25, 7:30pm at much more. Along the shoreline adjacent to The Musical of Musicals. $20 - $25, 7:30pm at states. Watch the parade starting at 11am, see the the Coaster Theater in Cannon Beach. the Long Beach Boardwalk Ignace Jang with Cary Lewis. 2pm in the McTavish the Coaster Theater in Cannon Beach. boat display and check out the children’s activities, Room at the Liberty Theater in Astoria. cont. p20 19 JULY 18 hipfishmonthly.com Tom Grant & Shelly Rudolph. $20 - $25, 7:30pm at the Friday 27 film. Coaster Theater in Cannon Beach. FLASH CUTS Previews MUSIC MOVIES & MUSINGS by Les Kanekuni The Horsenecks. No cover, 8pm at the Adrift Hotel in Live Music. No cover, 8:30pm at the Adrift Hotel in Long Beach. Long Beach. MAMMA Live Music. No cover. 8pm at Fort George Brewery & HAPPENING MIA! HERE Public House in Astoria. Finnish American Folk Festival. Vendors, music, dance WE GO performances, food, and more. In Naselle. naselle- AGAIN (JULY ART finnfest.com 20) A decade Tokeland Wood and Art Fest. See woodcarvers, wood- Garibaldi Days. Vendors, food, music, parade, and lots after the crafters and other artists at work during this family of fun events. In Garibaldi. original movie friendly event that features art, music, food and more. was a surprise Starting at 9am at the Tokeland Hotel. THEATER It’s Broadway, Baby & More. Musical. $15, 7pm at the hit, the sequel HAPPENING Barn Community Playhouse in Tillamook. returns to the Sandsations Sand Sculpture Extravaganza. Sand Shanghaied in Astoria. Musical Melodrama. $10, 7pm picturesque Sculpture competition, lessons, and much more. Along Greek island the shoreline adjacent to the Long Beach Boardwalk at the ASOC Playhouse in Astoria. setting, this and near the Bolstad Beach Approach. See schedule at It’s Broadway, Baby & More. Musical. $15, 7pm at the sandsationslongbeach.com Barn Community Playhouse in Tillamook. time follow- ing Sophia Versus Comic Con. Vendors, live shows, cosplay, and Sylvia. Comedy. $15, 7pm at Theater West in Lincoln more. $15 - $80, at the Seaside Convention Center. City. ANT MAN AND THE WASP (Amanda Seyfried). Synopsis: Ten years later, Dory Days Festival. Celebrate the unique dory fishing Ken Ludwig’s Baskerville. A Sherlock Holmes Mystery. (JULY 6) Paul Rudd returns as the on the Greek island of Kalokairi, fleet of Pacific City, the only one in the lower 48 states. $20 - $25, 7:30pm at the Coaster Theater in Cannon titular character, joined by Evange- Watch the parade starting at 11am, see the boat display Beach. line Lilly as Wasp and Michael Doug- Sophie is pregnant with Sky’s child and check out the children’s activities, artisan fair, live las as Dr. Hank Pym and Michelle while running her mother’s villa. music, fish fry and more. ourlittlebeachtown.com/ Saturday 28 Pfeiffer. Basically an effects-laden often come back to haunt you. things-to-do/july-20-22-dory-days-weekend MUSIC light comedy in the Marvel universe, Mission: Impossible – Fallout THEATER Troll Radio Revue. 11am at Fort George in Astoria. Ant Man and the Wasp doesn’t take finds Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) Shanghaied in Astoria. Musical Melodrama. $15 - $20, Waikiki Beach Concert. 7pm at the Waikiki Beach itself too seriously. Dr. Pym rescues and his IMF team (Alec Baldwin, 2pm at the ASOC Playhouse in Astoria. Amphitheater at Cape Disappointment, Ilwaco. Scott Lang (Rudd) from house arrest Simon Pegg, Ving Rhames_ It’s Broadway, Baby & More. Musical. $15, 2pm at the The Hackles. No cover, 8:30pm at the Adrift Hotel in in quest to rescue his wife, Janet van along with some familiar allies Barn Community Playhouse in Tillamook. Long Beach. Dyne (Pfeiffer) from the subatomic (Rebecca Ferguson, Michelle Sylvia. Comedy. $15, 7pm at Theater West in Lincoln City. Will West & The Friendly Strangers. $5 cover, 9pm at Quantum Realm, where she’s been Monaghan) in a race against time Monday 23 the San Dune Pub in Manzanita. trapped for 30 years. Hank and his CHER!!!!!!!! after a mission gone wrong. daughter, Hope (Lilly), also a quan- ART MUSIC Astoria Open Studios Tour. Artists welcome visitors tum physicist, plan to rescue Janet The Horsenecks. No cover, 8pm at the Adrift Hotel in Self-conflicted and worried that she THE DARKEST MINDS into their studios between 10 am and 4pm. Free. asto- through a tunnel that will send them Long Beach. can’t do it by herself without her (AUG 3) Young adult superhero riavisualarts.org/2018-open-studios-tour.html subatomic to the Quantum Realm. mother around, but with Tanya and movie based on the book by Alex- Tillamook Downtown District Art Walk. 1 – 3pm in But their plan hinges on access to Tuesday 24 Rosie’s guidance, Sophie will find andra Bracken. After an unknown Tillamook. Dr. Pym’s secret lab – which is also out more of Donna’s past. Discover- MUSIC wanted by Sonny Burch (Walton plague kills 98% of America’s Mcdougall. No cover, 8pm at the Adrift Hotel in Long FOOD & DRINK ing how she fronted The Goggins), a sleazy tech trafficker Beach. Wine Tasting. NW sauvignon Blanc. 1 – 4pm at the Dynamos, came to start Cellar on 10th in Astoria. and Ghost (Hannah John-Kamen), up her villa on the island LITERARY an emotionally-damages superhero. HAPPENING from nothing, met each Stories in Astoria. Come join our community of writers With Michael Pena as Luis, Lang’s from all avenues of life as they read their fantasies, Finnish American Folk Festival. Vendors, music, dance one of Sophie’s dads scripts, essays, creative non-fictions, sci-fi, songs, poetry, performances, food, and more. In Naselle. naselle- hilarious security consultant partner (Pierce Brosnan, Stellan and stories. 7 – 9pm at Bridge and Tunnel Bottle Shop finnfest.com and sidekick. Skarsgård, and in Astoria. Long Beach NPRA Rodeo. $10, starting at 1pm at the Colin Firth), Peninsula Saddle Club in Long Beach. peninsulasa- and raised Wednesday 25 ddleclub.com/long-beach-rodeo/ a daughter, MUSIC Garibaldi Days. Vendors, food, music, parade, and lots bravely on her Men of Worth. 7pm at the Lincoln City Cultural Center. of fun events. In Garibaldi. own, without Mcdougall. No cover, 8pm at the Adrift Hotel in Long OUTSIDE a mother to guide her – children the survivors develop super Beach. with an unexpected visit Birdwatch the Water’s Edge. Join naturalist Mike powers. The government views them from someone she had not THEATER Patterson for an early-morning birdwatching walk at as dangerous threats and exiles them Stanley Marsh, Seaside. 7 – 9am. Register at nclctrust. invited or never even met: Ken Ludwig’s Baskerville. A Sherlock Holmes Mystery. to Thurmond, a brutal “rehabilitation $20 - $25, 7:30pm at the Coaster Theater in Cannon org her grandmother, Ruby camp.” Ruby is one of them. Sepa- Beach. Oregon Corgi Beach Day. $10 suggested donation at Sheridan. SKYSCRAPER (JULY 13) rated from her parents at age 10 and sign in. 10am – 4pm on the beach between 1st Street Dwayne Johnson stars in this slightly- Thursday 26 MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - sent to Thurmond, where she and the and Ecola Creek in Cannon Beach. more-realistic-than-usual action FALLOUT (JULY 27) Tom Cruise others are guarded under maximum MUSIC THEATER thriller unabashedly inspired by Die returns for the sixth installment of Cedar Teeth. No cover, 7pm at the Sand Trap Pub in security and tortured like lab animals. It’s Broadway, Baby & More. Musical. $15, 7pm at the Hard. Synopsis: Dwayne John- the 23-year-old series. Ethan Hunt Gearhart. Barn Community Playhouse in Tillamook. Now sixteen, Ruby is one of the most son leads the cast of Legendary’s must battle nuclear terrorists while Live Music. No cover, 8pm at the Adrift Hotel in Long powerful of the teens and escapes Shanghaied in Astoria. Musical Melodrama. $15 - $20, Skyscraper as former FBI Hostage dealing with the personal conse- Beach. the camp with others, pursued by 7pm at the ASOC Playhouse in Astoria. Rescue Team leader and U.S. war vet- quences of old choices. The MI se- ruthless bounty hunter Lady Jane LITERARY Sylvia. Comedy. $15, 7pm at Theater West in Lincoln eran Will Sawyer, who now assesses ries has increasingly relied on bigger (Gwendoline Christie). The teens Tales of Tillamook Lighthouse. Author Deborah Baldwin City. security for skyscrapers. On assign- and bolder stunts, usually performed will present from her book “Tillamook Rock Lighthouse.” travel to a safe haven in East River The Musical of Musicals. $20 - $25, 7:30pm at the ment in China he finds the tallest, personally by Cruise. In MI-Fallout, 7pm in the Community Room at the Seaside Library. where they join a resistance group Coaster Theater in Cannon Beach. safest building in the world suddenly Cruise takes a HALO (high altitude, headed by a mysterious leader. THEATER ablaze, and he’s been framed for it. low opening) jump – a stunt that Shanghaied in Astoria. Musical Melodrama. $15 - $20, A wanted man on the run, Will must required takes to accomplish with There, the teens realize that escape 7pm at the ASOC Playhouse in Astoria. Sunday 29 find those responsible, clear his Cruise jumping on each one. Also, is not enough. They must use their Sylvia. Comedy. $15, 7pm at Theater West in Lincoln City. MUSIC name and somehow rescue his family Cruise literally hangs off the side powers against the government in a The Musical of Musicals. $20 - $25, 7:30pm at the The Floating Glass Balls. 10am – 3pm at the Astoria who is trapped inside the building… of a helicopter in an aerial dogfight rebellion to secure their futures of all Coaster Theater in Cannon Beach. Sunday Market. above the fire line. scene. Synopsis: The best intentions the persecuted.

JULY 18 hipfishmonthly.com 20 FREE WILL ASTROLOGY © Copyright 2018 Rob Brezsny Bike Madame JULY w By Margaret Hammitt-McDonald ARIES (March 21-April 19): Your best ideas and soundest decisions courtesy of philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre: “We only become what will materialize as if by magic while you’re lounging around we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which oth- doing nothing in a worry-free environment. So please make sure ers have made us.” Pedal Powered Everything you have an abundance of relaxed slack and unhurried grace. WALKING DOWN BUSY 23rd Avenue washing machine, which requires a Treat yourself to record-setting levels of comfort and self-care. Do SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): André René Roussimoff, also known in Portland, I heard the distinctive stationary-bike setup (imagine tooling whatever’s necessary for you to feel as safe as you have ever felt. I as André the Giant, was a French actor and professional wrestler. sound of bicycle cranks whirring. The around town with a washer rolling on a realize these prescriptions might ostensibly clash with your fiery He was 7 feet, 4 inches tall and weighed 520 pounds. As you sound emanated from a tiny smoothie cart behind you). The build-it-yourself Aries nature. But if you meditate on them for even two minutes, I might imagine, he ate and drank extravagantly. On one festive restaurant sandwiched between bou- device uses one of those old-fashioned bet you’ll agree they’re exquisitely appropriate for you right now. occasion, he quaffed 119 bottles of beer in six hours. Judging tique clothing stores. Curious, I peeked generators for a bike light to re-juice from your current astrological indicators, Scorpio, I suspect you TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “It is always what is under pressure in in and discovered that an employee your phone. You’ll need experience and may be ready for a binge like that. JUST KIDDING! I sincerely hope us, especially under pressure of concealment -- that explodes in was powering a blender by pedaling a a comfort level with electrical work to you won’t indulge in such wasteful forms of “pleasure.” The com- poetry.” Taurus poet Adrienne Rich wrote that in an essay about ing days should be a time when you engage in a focused pursuit stationary bike. After sampling a deli- complete this project; the article was a the poet Emily Dickinson. She was describing the process of of uplifting and healthy modes of bliss. The point is to seek gusto cious carbon-neutral fruit smoothie, I bit technical for me, as a non-electrician tapping into potent but buried feelings so as to create beautiful and amusement that enhance your body, mind, and soul. wondered what other devices a person (or electronics hobbyist). The washer I works of literature. I’m hoping to persuade you to take a compa- on a bike could power. When the most just described was also a home project, SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): On her 90th birthday, my Great- rable approach: to give voice to what’s under pressure inside you, recent issue of HIPFISH announced but commercial models are available but in a graceful and constructive way that has positive results. Aunt Zosia told me, “The best gift you can give your ego is to that a band, BIK- as well. make it see it’s both totally insignificant and totally important in GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Introductory offers are expiring. The the cosmic scheme of things.” Jenna, my girlfriend when I was ETOPIA, would be Popular Mechanics bracing thrills of novelty must ripen into the cool enjoyments of 19, was perhaps touting a similar principle when, after teasing playing in Astoria highlights a number maturity. It’s time to finish the dress rehearsals so the actual show and tormenting me for two hours, she scrawled on my bathroom whose instruments of interesting pedal- can begin. You’ve got to start turning big, bright fantasies into mirror in lipstick, “Sometimes you enjoy life better if you don’t receive electric- powered machines, crisp, no-nonsense realities. In light of these shifting conditions, I understand it.” Then there’s my Zen punk friend Arturo, who says ity from listeners some available to suspect you can no longer use your good intentions as leverage, that life’s goodies are more likely to flow your way if you “hope for volunteering to the public and oth- but must deliver more tangible signs of commitment. Please nothing and are open to everything.” According to my analysis don’t take this as a criticism, but the cosmic machinery in your pedal bicycles, the ers in development. of the astrological rhythms, these messages will help you make vicinity needs some actual oil, not just your witty stories about question intrigued These include a wa- the most of the bewildering but succulent opportunities that are the oil and the cosmic machinery. me all over again. ter purifier for areas now arriving in your vicinity. I also wondered: where droughts and CANCER (June 21-July 22): In the coming weeks, you will have an CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In accordance with the astrological how much electric- contaminated water excellent chance to dramatically decrease your Wimp Quotient. beacons, I have selected two pieces of advice to serve as your ity could a cyclist are endemic, agri- As the perilously passive parts of your niceness toughen up, I bet guiding meditations during the next seven weeks. You might you will encounter brisk possibilities that were previously off- generate? Would cultural equipment want to write them on a piece of paper that you will carry in your limits or invisible to you. To ensure you remain in top shape for pedal-powered like grain grinders wallet or pocket. Here’s the first, from businessman Alan Cohen: this delightful development, I think you should avoid entertain- electronics be and threshers, water “Only those who ask for more can get more, and only those who ment that stimulates fear and pessimism. Instead of watching the limited to low- pumps for wells, know there is more, ask.” Here’s the second, from writer G. K. latest flurry of demoralizing stories on Netflix, spend quality time power-demand and even coffee Chesterton: “We need to be happy in this wonderland without summoning memories of the times in your life when you were devices? Could a roasters. Stationary once being merely comfortable.” unbeatable. For extra credit, pump your fist ten times each day as power-hogging piece of equipment get bikes can keep computers charged you growl, “Victory is mine!” AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Ecologists in Mexico City investi- charged up by a cyclist…without need- in remote areas where electricity and gated why certain sparrows and finches use humans’ discarded LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): It’s not so bad to temporarily lose your ing to pedal eight hours straight? Internet connectivity are chancy. People cigarette butts in building their nests. They found that cellulose bearings. What’s bad is not capitalizing on the disruption that It turns out that a cyclist can gener- with respiratory disease can even use acetate, a chemical in the butts, protects the nests by repelling caused you to lose your bearings. So I propose that you regard ate electricity for appliances both large a pedal-powered nebulizer (with a parasitic mites. Is there a metaphorical lesson you might draw the fresh commotion as a blessing. Use it as motivation to initiate and small. Esther Emery and Nick friend pedaling to spare the user further from the birds’ ingenious adaptation, Aquarius? Could you find radical changes. For example, escape the illusions and decep- good use for what might seem to be dross or debris? My analysis Fouch, who live off-grid in a yurt with respiratory distress). (Laura Kiniry, “7 tions that caused you to lose your bearings. Explore unruly emo- of the astrological omens says that this possibility is worth their three children, created a YouTube Ways Pedal Power Will Change the tions that may be at the root of the superpowers you will fully meditating on. video demonstrating how they do their World,” (www.popularmechanics.com/ develop in the future. Transform yourself into a brave self-healer laundry with what they call the Fouch- search ways-pedal-power-will-change- PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): I suspect that sometime soon you will who is newly receptive to a host of medicinal clues that were not O-Matic process (www.youtube.com) the-world/). previously accessible. come into possession of an enchanted potion or pixie dust or a The washer’s located outside, and a So what’s next: a pedal-powered hair pouch full of magic beans -- or the equivalent. If and when that VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Here’s my list of demands: 1. Avoid occurs, consider the following protocols: 1. Before you use your bike, mounted on a training stand, gets dryer for the salon? Recharging an elec- hanging out with people who are unreceptive to your influence. new treasure, say a prayer to your higher self, requesting that you it going: 20 minutes’ low-speed pedal- tric car through bike power? Launching 2. Avoid hanging out with people whose influence on you is will be guided to use it in such a way as to make yourself wiser ing for the wash cycle, ten minutes’ a rocket to the moon using a thousand mediocre or dispiriting. 3. Hang out with people who are recep- and kinder. 2. When you use it, be sure it harms no one. 3. Express high-speed spinning for the spin cycle. bicycles? It’s intriguing how cranking tive to your influence and whose influence on you is healthy and gratitude for it before and during and after using it. 4. Use it in Between cycles, the operator just opens along generates mechanical energy stimulating. 4. Influence the hell out of the people who are recep- such a way that it benefits at least one other person or creature in the valves to let the graywater irrigate that then gets converted into electric- tive to your influence. Be a generous catalyst for them. Nudge addition to you. 5. See if you can use it to generate the arrival or them to surpass the limits they would benefit from surpassing. nearby trees. The rider even got to ity by, well, um, a mysterious process. more pixie dust or magical beans or enchanted potion in the fu- 5. Allow yourself to be deeply moved by people whose influence catch up with a book while pedaling, a To probe the subject more deeply, as ture. 6. When you use it, focus on wielding it to get exactly what on you is healthy and stimulating. plus when one has children and reading well as to understand the mysterious you want, not what you sort of want or temporarily want. time’s at a premium! process, I’ll need to open my college LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “If I didn’t define myself for myself, I Want to recharge your phone in an physics textbook for a refresher on would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eco-friendly, calorie-burning way? Make kinetic and electric energy. (Embar- eaten alive.” Activist author Audre Lorde said that, and now, in ac- Homework: Describe the tree house you would like to build for cordance with your current astrological and psychological needs, yourself one day, and what pleasures you would like to pursue Magazine provides details on how to rassed sigh.) Until then, I look forward I’m offering it to you. I realize it’s a flamboyant, even extreme, there. Write: [email protected]. build a bike-powered phone charger: to learning more ways to harness pedal declaration, but in my opinion, that’s what is most likely to mo- (makezine.com/projects/pedal-power- power for convenience, reducing one’s tivate you to do the right thing. Here’s another splashy prompt, phone-charger). The cellphone’s small environmental footprint, and delight. size makes it possible for you to ride Look for me going to the moon, ET-like,

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Meets at the Cen- Olivares we’ve got you covered. Summer bounty at it’s ter for Contemplative Arts in Manzanita. Sun- mentCenter YOGA –BAY CITY ARTS CENTER. Classed scrumptious best. The menu is extemporane- COLUMBIA RIVER MEDITATION GROUP. day evenings. 5:00pm - 8:pm. Next meeting • THURSDAY with Michelle Lawhorn - Mon & Thurs 6pm. ous, the recipes will follow. $60, 5:30 – 8pm at Meets Wed 5:30-7:30pm, Towler Hall rm 306 June 9. Benefit from the experience of a more $5 per class. • MONDAY the North Coast Food Web in Astoria. Register at CCC. Meditation can reduce stress, increase diverse circle of men – all ages - all walks of life 8:30-9:30am Zumba with at northcoastfoodweb.org YOGA—MANZANITA, Center for Contempla- health, creativity and efficiency, and lead to a - all points of view - let’s expand the possibili- 8:30 - 9:30am Zumba Dance Joy Sigler PIE MAKING CLASS. July 21. With Brian tive Arts, Manzanita Ave., Tuesday 5-6:30pm. more deeply satisfying and richerl ife. Led by ties. Some of us have been meeting together Fitness with Kim Postlewaite 5:30 - 6:30pm Pilates with Medford. This comprehensive class explores $10 drop-in fee. Call 503-368-3733 for more ordained Zen priest/non-religious. Many dif- for 9 years. Others are new to the process. the steps of creating pie with seasonal information. ferent styles practiced, discussion of common Either way, each man adds to the evening. We 5:30 - 6:15pm: Level 1, 2 Jude MatulichHall ingredients. Get one-on-one attention as you all have connection to a vast knowledge. The YOGA/GEARHART. Gearhart Workout. For problems encountered during meditation, & 3 SloFlo Yoga with Jude learn techniques for creating a flakey pastry, group intelligence is more expansive than the • FRIDAY more information log on to www.gearhart- focus on deveoping a regualr practice. All rolling and shaping crusts, baking pie, and individual awareness. There is a great release Matulich Hall workout.com 3470 Hwy. 101 N. Suite 104 in welcome. troubleshooting common pie dilemmas. $60, and power in sharing our wisdom and our 9:30 - 10:40am: Gentle Gearhart 6:30 - 7:15pm: Gentle Yoga 10am – 12:30pm at the North Coast Food Web ART & MINDFULNESS. With Amy Selena vulnerabilities. We are confidential. We are Yoga with Terrie Powers in Astoria. Register at northcoastfoodweb.org CB T’AI CHI. The Center for the Contemplative Reynolds. Once a month , 2nd Saturdays, 1-4 inclusive. We are diverse. Bring Yourself - Be with Jude MatulichHall Yourself - Add Yourself to the mix. See what RECONNECTING MIND, BODY & SPIRIT. (Let Arts, Manzanita: Wednesday Mornings 10- pm. Deepen your connection with your heart, That Shift Go). July 25. With Shanna Gillette. 11:30. $30/month. Call 368-6227 for more info. happens. FMI: Darel Grothaus, darelgrothaus@ •SATURDAY mind, and spirit, play with creativity, find out raincity.com Learn to use ancient yogic techniques mixed LEARN SELF DEFENSE. Private lessons in where art and meditation begin. No previous • TUESDAY 8:30-9:30am: 6-7pm: Argentine Tango with the latest in neuroscience and proven Ocean Park, WA (home gym) with Black Belt art or meditation experience is necessary. TILLAMOOK PILOTS ASSOCIATION. Meets mind/body methods to reconnect mind, body Zumba with Joy Sigler Fundamentals with Estelle instructor Jon Belcher in Kenpo Karate (Adults Bring a journal and your favorite pen. All other 1st Sat ea. month at the Airbase Cafe (Til- & spirit. $30, 2 – 5pm at the Sou’wester Lodge lamook Air Museum) at 9am for their regular only, $10.00 per 1 & 1/2 hr lesson). Currently supplies will be provided. Class fee:$30 (Note: Olivares in Seaview. RSVP at souwesterfrontdesk@ teaching Mondays & Thursdays from 1:00pm business meeting and to promote general • WEDNESDAY gmail.com No one will be turned away for lack of funds. 7-8pm: Intermediate Argen- on. To try a free introductory lesson contact aviation. 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A SILENT MEDITATION • with Lola Sacks. St. TPA. tillamookpilots.org. Licensed instruction. Tolovana Community with Melissa Henige arnicadia.com Catherine’s Center for the Contemplative Arts, Hall 3779 S. Hemlock, Cannon Beach, Call Joy: Manzanita: Monday Nights 5 - 5:45 Call 368- 503.738.6560 ENCORE. Join us for the ENCORE Lunch Bunch THE LOWER COLUMBIA CLASSICS CAR 6227 for more info. NORTH COAST LA LECHE LEAGUE. Preg- BODY WORK•YOGA•FITNESS NEHALEM ZUMBA. Come join the Zumba CLUB. Invitation to all who are interested in the first Tuesday of the month. Questions nant women, mothers, babies & toddlers party at North County Recreation District in LECTIO DIVINA • Meditation with Holy Scrip- Collector Cars to attend one of our monthly ANGORA HIKING CLUB in celebration of about Lunch Bunch? Call Reta Leithner Nehalem, Oregon. Tue-Thur 6:30 to 7:30pm/ meetings. The meetings are held at Steve welcome. Topics discussed: preparing the clubs Centennial in 2020, hikers will be ture. The Center for the Contemplative Arts, 503-717-2297. ENCORE is a membership orga- Fri 9-10am. FAll term thru Dec. Attire: Loose Jordan’s Shop Building, located at 35232 for birth and breastfeeding, adjusting to challenged to do a hike/walk that begins with Manzanita: Tuesday Mornings 10-11:30. Call nization for people age 50 and older who are gym clothing, non-gripping sneakers, a Helligso Lane in rural Astoria - meet on the motherhood, parenting babies and tod- our name A N G O R A. Saturday July 7 @ 9am 368-6227 for more info. interested in life-long learning opportunities. water bottle & lots of energy! Rosa Erlebach – 3rd Thursday of each month. If you are inter- dlers, breastfeeding basics, benefits and Willapa Bay nature Trail/ Teal Slough. Leader instructor. Ncrd. 36155 9th Street Nehalem, Or LABYRINTH WALK • Grace Episcopal Church, 1545 ENCORE is sponsored by Clatsop Community ested and need the directions to get there, challenges of breastfeeding, nutrition, and Arline LaMear 503 338-6883. Sat July 21 @ 97131(503) 368-4595 [email protected] College, and offers classes in a variety of sub- you may call Steve Jordan at 503-325-1807 9am A to N and back again. 10K Volkswalk Franklin St, Astoria, 3-6. Every 1st Sunday. weaning. Astoria: 1st Tuesdays 5:30-7pm. jects, social events, and occasional educational THE ASTORIA CHESS CLUB. meets Saturday Blue Scorcher Bakery1493 Duane St, Asto- on Astoria’s paths and stairs. Leader Arline trips. For more information, please refer to our LaMear 503 338-6883. Wed July 25 @ 1 PM Fort mornings at 11:30 AM at Three Cups Coffee ria. Seaside: 3rd Thursdays 10-12. Seaside SPIRITUALITY VOLUNTEER website: www.encorelearn.org or contact Mary House and Thursday evenings at 5:30 PM at to Sea/ South Slough loop. Leader Marlene Public Library, 1131 Broadway St, Seaside. the Hotel Elliott’s wine bar. Players of all ages 503 325-8202. Sun July 29 @2:00 Potluck and LOOKING FOR A UNITY CHURCH? Join in CLATSOP COUNTY GENEALOGY SOCIETY is Kemhus-Fryling, Clatsop Community College Call or text LLL Leader Megan Oien for Community Education Coordinator, 503-338- and skill levels are welcome to attend. For meeting. Bring a dish to serve 6-8 people and a “Celebration of Spirit” sponsored by Com- embarking on county-wide cemeteryidentifi- more information, contact us at astoriachess- breastfeeding support at 503-440-4942 or beverage of choice. Home of Cecilia and Doug mon Ground Interspiritual Fellowship. This cation and cataloging project. Cemeteries are 2408, or toll free at 1-855-252-8767. [email protected] or visit our Facebook page.” LLL leader Kestrel Gates at 503-453-3777. JULY 18 hipfishmonthly.com 22 A Special Request from the Dogs & Cats at the Clatsop County Shelter Messages We’re a little Sonja Grace low on supplies. mystic healer Would you please help? I CAN’T WHEN WE IDENTIFY and say inner child what you did not get our own bad luck. At times it the message is confusing. If you repeatedly, ‘I can’t’, we are often when you were growing up. might seem like we must climb want to manifest something the Dog Food - Nature’s Domain locked into an emotional wound This is never about blame. a mountain as big as Everest to feeling in your body must match that has been a cycle since early Everyone has emotional tackle cycles like abandonment, your words. ‘I can’t’ stops ener- (Costco) childhood. This cycle repeats wounds. People tell me all the resentment, and betrayal. gy from moving forward. ‘I will over and over reaffirming that time they are healed and then What if you allowed for your try’ keeps the energy flowing. 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Disapproval has the Tuesday thru Saturday only with a bit more punch to it. ability to shut a person down. Too much Noon to 4pm Some opinions do matter, such as the disapproval from one party to the other boss’s opinion of your job performance. and the relationship has turned abusive. Your significant other may have an opin- Some opinions certainly come out ion about childcare that differes from sounding a bit like disapproval. I have yours. Let’s just say that some opinion- spent a good chunk of my life develop- come. At some point you have to give sare warranted and necessary. ing a teflon attitude towards it. Despite up caring what others think. The earlier Others may not be. Some opinions the fact that I was basically a good kid, the better. This does not apply to those are verbal disquises for disapproval. alaw-abiding, fairly successful adult, I you trust and care about, the ones who Some opinions cross boundaries. Some was surrounded, it seemed, by negative have shown themselves to be there for opinions are just not necessary. I hear all opinionated people. Family.They had you. sorts of things. This person’s too young mastered the back-handed compliment At my age, I kind of like having oth- foryou. That person’s too old for you. and the slick and sweet innuendo. I ers disapprove of me. Means I’mdoing This person isn’t good enough for you. don’t much care for how it’s presented, something that maybe he/she wouldn’t/ That person is, well, not your type. this disapproval thing. It is crossing a couldn’t/ shouldn’t do. Disclaimer: I am not writing from only boundary. The older I get, the more I want to my own experience. I have gathered Unless I ask, there really is no need to do, knowing that life ends for everyone. from others that free floating opinions pipe up with, “I just think you ought to.... 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• Auto Accidents Dr. Tracy Erfling is a • Work Related Injuries naturopath physician in the • Sports Injuries Lower Columbia Region. Questions? • Second Opinions [email protected] covered by most insurance FIVE CHEERS FOR FEET! Dr. Barry Sears, D.C. CAN YOU THINK of a part of the body that disease like diabetes. Symptoms that may Over the counter medicines are an obvious takes more physical use and abuse than resonate for some would be numbness, suggestion and then of course there are ASTORIA CHIROPRACTIC our feet!?! They carry us through many of tingling, hot/cold sensations or just out- also pharmaceuticals to use either topically 503-325-3311 2935 Marine Drive • Astoria the activities of the day. They are structural right pain in specific areas of the footbed, or internally. Nail fungus can be particular- Safe Effective Alternative Care Since 1981. and sensual. They connect us to the earth although most commonly affecting the ly stubborn and one must employ patience as we walk our way over mountains and toes. It should be of note that gout is an- when attempting to treat this infection. along beaches. The biggest issues I see other very common condition causing pain INGROWN TOENAILS can for some be when facing foot health are pain (plantar at the root of the big toe (this is a topic in a chronic and debilitating condition. I see fasciitis, bone spurs, gout and neuropa- and of itself so I am not going to review this issue increase with age as we become thy), skin/nail issues (namely fungus and it here). One of my first go tos when ad- less able to care for the basic needs of ingrown nails) and swelling or edema. dressing neuropathy is B vitamins, specifi- our feet. Footwear can sometimes be to These can have a variety of consequences cally B6 but as I’ve mentioned before any blame...again make some quality air time for our comfort and mobility. So take a few one B vitamin should be supplemented for the feet! Regardless of the reason, in- minutes to rest those dogs and read on with the entire complex. These B’s are grown toenails are one of those structural/ Tobi Nason about foot health. quite nourishing to the nervous system and anatomical conditions that are best solved I should begin with a disclaimer that I neuropathy can be one sign of B vitamin by a nail professional. Podiatrist, nail Counseling and Mediation Services am not a foot specialist. There is, in fact, deficiency, so worth a try. technician, or elder-care specialists can all Specializing in Life Changes In Astoria a whole medical speciality called podiatry be very adept at addressing and maintain- call 503-440-0587 which is dedicated to keeping the feet ing this issue. M.A in Counseling in good health. My lay knowledge is in- SWELLING is the final foot issue that tended to outline some foot concerns and deserves addressing. Swelling from inflam- strategies but this article is by no stretch matory concerns like those listed above Sliding Fee Schedule and Flexible Hours of the imagination a substitute for proper or injury is one possibility. However, the medical care when needed. feet are the gravitational pooling area of PLANTAR FASCIITIS is basically an the body, and when it comes to swell- inflammatory issue affecting the tendinous ing (a.k.a. edema), the feet are a bit of a tissue that connects the heel to the balls window into our cardiovascular function. of the feet. If you think about the pressure The fluid balance of the body is a well the plantar fascia takes on to maintain the coordinated event between the blood Tracy Erfling n.d. arches of our feet and keep the spring in vessels, lymphatic system and surround- our step, it is no wonder this wears over ing tissues. There is delicate balance of naturopathic physician time. Now granted I mostly see women, osmosis which governs whether fluid is but I find this condition incredibly common higher in one system vs. another. This bal- in perimenopausal women. This in fact is ance is influenced by hydration, nutrients, a time when the as the estrogen lessens hormones, blood pressure and inflamma- primary care using the elasticity of the tissues throughout the tion (to cover the basics); and therefore body stiffen, including the plantar fascia. FUNGUS...the toe’s arch nemesis. Both the solution(s) can be complex. Clearly natural therapeutics First line treatments can include proper the skin and nails of the feet are suscep- making sure there is adequate hydration calf stretches, the use of a tennis ball for tible to this type of infection. On the skin and movement will ensure that some of the Call for an appointment! 503.440.6927 massaging the tight fascia, epsom salt foot it most commonly manifests as athlete’s basics are covered. Also addressing blood soaks and an absolute must is good arch foot, which is typically located around and pressure is a worthwhile pursuit. Bottom 2935 Marine Dr. • Astoria support. All arch support is not created between the toes, but especially virulent line is to accept that some swelling from email:email: [email protected] [email protected] email: [email protected] equal, while the simple cheap ones may cases can spread throughout the footbed. time to time can be a reflection of stress to feel good, they may not be all that sup- It can be red, blistery, have peeling or even the system but ongoing swelling (even if it portive so good to seek out a reputable torn bleeding and oozing skin, and most comes and goes) should be brought to the source or get fitted for orthotics. annoying, be super itchy. The nails are attention of your health care professional. BONE SPURS most commonly affect the another susceptible area, which can lead And remember to elevate, our feet spend center of the heel, again where the plantar to minor discoloration or more invasive nail a great deal of time at the bottom so why fascia attaches to the heel. As the fascia involvement where the nail thickens and not give them a chance to be on top for stiffens (or weakens) it can pull on the heel pulls away from the nailbed. Thankfully some portion of the day!?! attachment. The body seeks to compen- nail involvement is fairly asymptomatic yet sate for this by laying down bone to keep for many an unsightly sign of dis-ease in Give five cheers for your feet, be thank- the attachment strong and thus a bone the feet. Treatment options range from ful of their ability to carry you through this spur forms. Therapies which may assist in simple home/hygiene like making sure lovely world, and reflect on ways to care softening the spur would be ultrasound, you wash regularly, clean or even bleach for them today, tomorrow and for years to topical castor oil and heat, and of course socks between each use, give feet quality come. addressing the above issue as it is com- air time and make sure shower surfaces DO something you love, BE with some- monly the root of the problem. are well maintained. Tea tree oil is my first one you love, EAT your vegetables, DRINK Neuropathy is a problem of nerve origin. natural go to. This essential oil can be a clean water, BREATHE deeply and MOVE The nerves can be inflamed, pinched or bit harsh directly onto the skin but diluted your body EVERYDAY!! damaged from injury or more systemic in some type of carrier oil is worth a try.

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BEACH DANCE OREGON CHEWCHEW ON ON THIS! THIS! Free Form Dance Opportunity by Merianne Myers

YOU SAY TOMATO, I SAY GAZPACHO Makes 4 to 6 cups

1 English cucumber, chunked Glenna Gray PHOTO: 2 sweet peppers any color, cored, seeded, Exercise your body and your heart. Breath in the sea air, and dive chunked into your dance – it might be stillness, slow motion or an all out HE ROMANS were responsible for reverent names. Folks who formerly 4 +/- ripe heirloom tomatoes, chunked boogie on the beach. A 1-hour dance track is provided on ipod the calendar we use these days. As gave tomatoes a wide berth, suddenly 1 red or sweet onion, coarsely chunked by dance facilitator Denise Lofman. Free self-judgment and let T your body rhythms take you on your own free-spirited journey, was their habit, the Romans gave scant swore that placing one on your window 3 +/- garlic cloves, minced be “in-tribe” with fellow dancers. Make it an amazing Saturday credit to the Greeks for pretty much ev- sill would ward off evil, that tomatoes 1 quart organic, no salt added tomato juice morning ritual to culminate the activities of your week, or let erything all the while building on Greek were a perfect offering to their gods 1/4 cup white wine vinegar your weekend resonate. brilliance to ultimately come up with and that, as a matter of fact, tomatoes 1/4 cup olive oil (This soup does not get a pretty darned impressive empire. As were an aphrodisiac. We humans are so Most Saturdays through September 15. Meet at Chapman with all empires, the end was inevitable quixotic! cooked. Use your good finishing oil.) Point in Cannon Beach at 10am. $10 - $20 sliding scale and in 476 C.E.*, the Barbarians finally In 1897, Joseph Campbell intro- Salt and Pepper to taste donation. (No Beach Dance July 14). Please contact Denise tired of being at the gate, marched duced condensed tomato soup and the Tabasco or favorite hot sauce to taste to reserve your space/and directions to Chapman Point (N. in and took over. Remnants of all who rest is Mmm,Mmm Grilled Cheese. Cannon Beach). [email protected] came before from the world over There are countless ways to love remain, our calendar, a mashup to be tomatoes. First, eat local, in-season You can make this in a processor or blender. Yoga With Kaisa sure, being one of them. tomatoes just as they are and as many Process each vegetable separately, until Kaisa Schlarb hosts foundational and intermediate Hatha yoga I think I will rename the months. I just as you can. My first memory of toma- coarsely chopped. If you prefer a smooth classes for beginners and those with a regular practice. Explore don’t think the title ‘July’, named for toes is of lingering in my grandfather’s textured soup, keep going. I like some texture grounding through breath and safe, conscious movement. Julius Caesar is evocative of the sultry, vegetable garden where he kept an in mine. Dump processed vegetables in a bowl Classes held at Watershed Wellness at 1490 Commercial. Foun- sumptuous spectacle that occupies the overturned tin can protecting a salt and stir in garlic, tomato juice, vinegar, olive dations/Beginner on Wednesdays @ 5:30 pm, Intermediate on heart of summer. Frankly, I don’t think shaker at the end of the tomato row. oil, hot sauce, salt, and pepper. Here’s where Thursdays @ 9 am. For a full list of class schedules visit: http:// we should name anything truly impor- Snack Bar! you adjust the amount of juice, garlic, salt and www.watershedwellnessastoria.com/ tant after a person. But, I spare you BLT’s, Salade Caprese, grilled pizza pepper to please just you. Add enough juice to that particular rant. That’s how much I and pasta sauce are obvious tomato create the desired consistency and amount of RECONNECTING MIND, BODY & SPIRIT. (Let That Shift Go). love you. lusciousness. Add a fried egg to your finished soup. July 25. With Shanna Gillette. Learn to use ancient yogic tech- I think we should each choose our BLT to elevate yummy to yikes! Sauté Mix and stick in the fridge for at least an niques mixed with the latest in neuroscience and proven mind/ preferred names for the months so that cherry tomatoes in a dollop of good hour. Even better, make it in the morning for an body methods to reconnect mind, body & spirit. $30, 2 – 5pm at none of us would ever know exactly olive oil just to bursting and add to afternoon picnic, giving the flavors time to truly the Sou’wester Lodge in Seaview. RSVP at souwesterfrontdesk@ what the other one meant thereby lightly steamed green beans sprinkled develop. gmail.com putting time in its proper perspective. with crumbled feta. Those same burst I hereby name the month formerly tomatoes added to al dente spaghetti *C.E. stands for Current Era, formerly known as SEASIDE WALKERS known as July. Tomato. I write this col- dressed with a drizzle of olive oil, a Anno Domini or Year of Our Lord. Settle down If you enjoy being outdoors, waking and meeting new people umn at the beginning of Tomato. crack of black pepper, a chiffonade of Christians, we are merely adjusting terminol- join SEASIDE WALKRS - Facebook group. We are an informal The name tomato comes from the fresh basil and shaved Parmesan make ogy to include everyone. B.C. is now B.C.E. or group of people that enjoy walking in our beautiful community. Nahuatl, an Aztec language where it a quick and deluxe meal. Switch up Before Current Era. It’s not my idea, but it’s a Free Membership,fresh air, meet new people, always have some- was called tomatl. By my rule, it quali- traditional Succotash with two more of good one. one to walk with. Dogs/kids okay! fies as not only a vivd expression of the summer’s gifts, corn and Fava beans, month but was never ever named after add fresh tomatoes, simmer with fresh RACE-WALKING on MANZANITA BEACH. a person. The botanical name, lycop- herbs and be appropriately happy. Meet each Sunday at 9am (rain or shine) At the bottom of ersicon esculentum, might work using Tomatoes love avocados, peaches, fen- Tune in to FOOD TALK, an irreverent Laneda Ave. on the beach. We -”race walk” 2 1/2 miles south its translation, wolf peach. You can use nel, pesto, fish and fresh herbs. Tomato conversation about home cooking with & 2 1/2 back. Instruction happily given. Member of RWNorth West.Your feet will get wet. (Tevas are great! ) Socialized dogs that one if you like. It’s up for grabs. loveliness is without end. In the interest hosts Merianne Myers and Linda Perkins. I’m guessing that tomato’s member- of not messing overmuch with a good are welcome. Info: Corinna 503 368 61 44 ship in the nightshade family was one thing and honoring summer’s warmth First and Third Mondays of every month, reason it spent so long being thought with something cool and refreshing, 9:30 to 10:00am on Coast Community Relax into Meditation poison. Once the world caught on to I offer Gazpacho. There are so many Join Coast Meditation Group members for qigong relaxation what the Aztecs knew all along, toma- ways to make good Gazpacho, this Radio, KMUN 91.9fm, KTCB 89.5fm, exercises and guided meditation supporting the healing and toes went from being shunned to being recipe is a mere suggestion. Add a streaming and available as podcast harmony of oneself and the planet. Sundays @ 11am. Tolovana called Love Apple, Apple of Paradise, sparkly glass of Cava and chunk of Hall, 3779 S Hemlock St., Cannon Beach. $10 drop in . Linda Golden Apple and other excitedly good bread. Happy Tomato! at coastradio.org. Lawson - facilitator. heartlink-ed.com.

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them and get a crisp edge. I like a good, tight weave that folds like paper.” Most importantly, she says, “I’m making clothes that are missing in the market for me personally as a short, round person, and then I’m making them work for other people too.” Wearability is integrated into Tonkin’s design pro- cess. She makes and wears a test pattern in her own size to check the fit and performance, such as how the fabric moves and pock- Wearable Gear from SHIFT et locations, before she draws the final patterns. Becky Tonkin Talks Fabric and Design While Tonkin doesn’t “Finn Tunic” and the very popular “Suspender Dress” typically do custom designs However, the technical work in that program didn’t lead directly to for people, she’s enthusias- her making and selling clothes. “I didn’t want to go work for the tic about customizing the big companies in Portland. I just wasn’t interested in sportswear or the seamstress/designer designs she already has. being just a pattern-maker. I kind of wanted to do everything.” BECKY TONKINbehind the clothing She tends to have three or four sizes ready-made for each design, She went on to work in retail boutiques, earn a master’s in company SHIFT, based in Astoria, considers the clothes she makes and she takes many special orders for size or other adjustments. museum studies, and work in non-profit arts administration before to be gear rather than fashion. She uses natural fibers with crisp “I’m super into that kind of customization,” she says. “If I could, I’d moving to Astoria in 2013. And even though she sewed and did lines and topstitching to create functional, long-lasting gear, such have 1,000 sizes on my rack, but it’s really easy for me to size up alterations, she didn’t necessarily intend to start a small business. as aprons and shift dresses, from sizes 6 to 28. or down, and I know how to grade a pattern so it’s proportionally “I wasn’t trying to appeal to anybody,” she says. “I was just like, ‘I “I’m making clothes that empower people,” Tonkin says, accurate.” can’t find this for myself so I’m going to make it, and I think it’s cute “clothes that actually work and feel good and look great because “Right now, I’m super crushed out on this summer dress,” she and functional.’” they’re made out of delicious fabric that will wash well and survive says. “I just love it so much. It’s got a little drawstring; it’s easy to But after a friend encour- for a long time.” She describes her designs as “big boxy things wear. It’s this beautiful indigo hemp/organic cotton blend, and I’ve aged her to do a holiday that are comfortable as f*** and have big ‘ol pockets,” and con- been customizing it for a lot of people. It’s easy for me to raise or market at Albatross in 2015, CAL lower the waistband, or make the neck bigger or smaller, or adjust Tonkin realized people were BITE LO tinues, “I mean, literally something as small as pockets in women’s clothing is considered revolutionary, which is dumb but true.” the length.” really interested in what she Tonkin pays special attention to the functionality of the fabric The suspender dress is another customer favorite. “It’s my bread was doing. Then another itself, and her staples include a black and a railroad-striped denim. and butter, and I do a lot of custom orders for sizing on that one friend, Nick Wheeler of “One of the things I do well is pick fabric that drapes well and folds too,” she says. “They’re really fun to make with a lot of topstitch- Wheeler Bag Co., asked if nicely. That’s really vital for me, picking the right fabric for the right ing.” she wanted to do the Astoria garment.” And not only are natural fibers what she wants to wear Tonkin first learned to sew from her mom and grandma, and Sunday Market with him in herself, “they’re way more fun to sew,” Tonkin says. “You press she earned a BA in apparel design from Oregon State University. 2016. “Other people pushing me was kind of essential,” she says. 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