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Editor/Publisher: Dinah Urell Production NEXT Graphics: Richard Ridgeway HIPFiSH Additional Graphics: FRI. April 6 Les Kanekuni Michelle Roth Brooke Duling Kate Giese herbal consultations Calendar/Production singing energy work Assistance/StaffWriter: plant meditations Cathy Nist individual or Magic Web Worker: couple sessions $45/hour Bob Goldberg COVER: Les Kanekuni KALA VISUAL ARTS CURATOR: astoria, oregon www.columbiariverkeeper.org Rebecca Rubens call 503.791.4624 www.columbiariverkeeper.org for info or appt 3 mar12 hipfishmonthly.com Eva Vecsernyes to America: by William Ham “You Make Me Feel Like A Naturalized Woman” Freedom. It’s a word you’ll hear a lot of this year, bandied about so often it’ll be surprising if no political entre- www.reflexology-works.com preneur goes out and gets it trade- marked before the election cycle ends. To many of us, freedom is a given, a fact of life, even a slogan. But to Eva Vecsernyes – native of Hungary, single mother of two, eleven-year resident of Astoria, and, as of last month, fully- naturalized citizen – freedom is the operating principle of her life, the thing located at 1004 Marine Dr. #7 in Astoria’s historic underground that informs everything she does. “I am a very bullheaded person!” Eva smilingly exclaims. “I don’t like being told what to do too much!” Coast Community Radio Which is not, as you might imagine, the most comfortable attitude for a child growing up in Communist listen now! Hungary. “There, I was told how to live my life. I like to live my life on my own terms – I understand there are rules to be followed but this is my life, I only have one. I don’t need my government telling me how I should live, where I should work, what I should read, what I should watch on television. I am entitled to choose my own life, as a human being.” And choose she did. Just after eighth-grade graduation, fourteen- year-old Eva hopped a plane to Alaska and immediately found emancipa- tion – not to mention extreme culture shock. “Culture shock? You’d better believe it! I come from a country that was technologically – not necessarily behind but kept back. I mean, they’re just finally getting color television! Spring Pledge Drive March 9-19 Come on! So you come from that to Photo: Dinah Urell Graphic: Richard Ridgeway a place that has washers and dryers across people who tell me ‘go back to your own she is now a full-blown citizen of the USA. oca Business Owners! L l Have your gifts announced on the air: … you’re going, ‘what’s a dryer? What’s a mi- country?’ Sure, but that’s just the bigots. Who “Anybody who’s afraid of it, don’t be! It’s the l More listeners crowave? What’s an automatic door?’ I didn’t cares? But to come across such a united front easiest test I ever took! They give you a study In t l know what to make of it all!” like that – that was very shocking. It’s such a guide for a hundred questions, and they say de den Standout spots - no clutter pen l Members who value your If major appliances take some getting used drastic life in Alaska in many ways.” Freedom they’ll ask you up to ten. I got asked four – CoastRadio.org support of community radio! to, imagine being confronted with a whole called again; she divorced and, with children who is the President, who is the Speaker of the world of cultural referents undreamt of in a Victoria (now nineteen) and Jonathan (seven- House, if I’m willing to bear arms for the United 503-325-0010, [email protected] Hungarian teen’s philosophy. “The movie Alien teen) in tow, “bummed around” the lower 48 States, and… there was one more question KMUN 91.9 fm AstoriaKTCB 89.5 fmTillamook was not allowed in Hungary, for example – the for a while. “I was in Arizona for a little bit, that honestly I’ve already forgotten! Then they government considered it ‘too violent’ so it was then Texas, and eleven years ago, I came here asked me to read one sentence, write one banned. I remember my aunt protesting to for two days and haven’t left yet! sentence and that was it. It was really simple have it shown and getting into a lot of trouble “Astoria got to me,” she says. “There’s a lot – I went into study mode like a crazy woman for for it. Certain movies were kept out of the of neo-classical architecture here, everything’s two months for nothing!” And what’s different country, there were certain books you could a little bit older, and there’s a real sense of now that she’s officially American? “I can bitch not read, and all pornography was completely history, which is one of the things I miss about in public now!” PREMIUM POWER illegal… so when I came here and saw how Hungary. And the weather is almost the same! But if you think that means she’s settled, freely available it was, I was in complete People are very open-minded around here; think again. “My son’s going off to college in ASSIST BICYCLES shock! To suddenly have all that in my face I’ve been made to feel very welcome, the local the fall so after that, I’m a free bird! I would emotoev.com as a fourteen-year-old girl – to go from it being families treat my children like one of their own. like to go back to school and get my Master’s illegal to being everywhere...” We were assimilated into the community very in literature, but at the same time I just want Cultural liberties are one thing, but Eva soon quickly. I do get some people telling me ‘learn to pack up and go somewhere – I’ve never discovered that oppression is not just a product to speak English,’ because my accent gets seen Africa, never seen Asia. Nothing’s really forged behind the Iron Curtain. “My ex-hus- heavy when I get a little upset… well, live with holding me back, so why not? I’ve been a 11th and Marine Drive in Astoria band is a native Alaskan. I remember going to it! It’s beautiful here – I really don’t want to daughter, I’ve been a wife, I’ve been a mother, 503.325.2961 • www.bikesandbeyond.com a potluck in his village, and the first thing they leave!” it’s time to be me. But Astoria feels like home, Winter Hours are: said when we got there is ‘no white women And now, she’ll never have to – just three it does. I can’t say I won’t flutter, but I’ll 10am ‘til 6pm Tuesdays through Saturdays allowed’ and I had to leave. Have I come weeks before we spoke, Eva made it official: always fly back.” 12noon ‘til 5pm Sundays & Mondays mar12 hipfishmonthly.com 4 Tillamook County Citizens for Human Dignity Host Richard Forer: Israel-Palestine Conflict CARTM & Hoffman Center Tillamook County Citizens for Human Dignity the depths of himself, he underwent a spontaneous will host Richard Forer, author of “Breakthrough: spiritual transformation in which he awoke to his true Join Together Transforming Fear Into Compassion”, on Wednesday, identity. Forer discovered that in truth we are all Mus- March 14, 6-8 p.m. at the Tillamook County Library, lim, Christian, and Jewish, Palestinian and Israeli. To Present 1716 third Street. In his talk, Forer will Until 2006 Richard share how blind loyalty to Forer had been a loyal Israel obstructed his ability defender of Israeli policy to empathize with the suf- TRASH and a member of AIPAC fering of Palestinians and (American-Israel Public induced him to support Affairs Committee), a self-destructive policies that powerful Washington D.C. BASH are doomed to perpetuate lobbying group. conflict and suffering on Alternative in July A series of conversa- both sides. tions with close friends MANZANITA,OR - Recently the board Richard Forer has Ultra- persuaded him to begin of directors of CARTM Recycling Cen- Orthodox relatives living in an intensive study into ter in Manzanita made the announce- Israel. His identical twin the history of the Israel- ment, that its 13-year signature brother is a prominent Palestine conflict. Open waste-free and smashingly popular member of an Ultra-Ortho- to the possibility that a event, the TRASH BASH is taking a dox sect of Judaism. His younger brother is a former lifetime of beliefs might contain a few inaccuracies, hiatus. president of one of the largest synagogues on the he secretly hoped to obtain information to discredit Since 1997, CARTM has been East coast. scholars whose findings he considered anti-Semitic. producing the popular annual party With uncompromising commitment to the truth, he The event is free and open to the public. For more “at the dump.” This multi-faceted went far beyond his original intention. Reaching into information call 503 398 5223. event literally stops operations at CARTM for days and requires up to Lewis and Clark National six months of valuable staff and vol- Historical Park = visitors, United Paws Receives unteer time in planning and organiz- money and jobs Grant from Build-A-Bear ing. The CARTM board realized that to gain significant traction on their ASTORIA, OR. and CHINOOK, WA. – A United Paws of Tillamook has received a generous grant of $2,500 from the Build-A-Bear Workshop Bear Hugs Founda- bold and challenging new mission The Trash Art Show which is scheduled for July new National Park Service (NPS) report (established in 2010) they would need to focus staff shows that more than 220,000 visitors tion toward its “A Trip to Snip!” program. “A Trip to Snip!” is a 6, 7, and 8 will be the 14th annual show which was time and resources on priority initiatives designed to in 2010 spent $10.8 million in Lewis transportation program designed to help Tillamook County pet birthed in 1998 by Susan Walsh and Lorraine Ortiz. meet their mission - Leading Our Community to Zero and Clark National Historical Park and in owners and caregivers of feral cat colonies who do not have Through the ensuing years the show has produced Waste. communities near the park. That spending any means of transportation. United Paws volunteers pick up a whole new cadre of local artists specializing in the Examples of new intiatives CARTM will be focusing supported more than 164 jobs in the lower animals in need of spaying and neutering and transport them making of this art-form which relies solely on recycled its 2012 energy on include: a redesign of the resale Columbia region. to and from a veterinarian. In addition United Paws ensures materials as its medium. “People in the lower Columbia have store and exterior building materials area, internal the animals receive any other medical necessities, such as “The Hoffman Center sees this partnership as the given their passion, pride and energy to waste audit as the basis for a community-wide waste perfect fit to let the show go on without impacting Ft. Clatsop, Middle Village & Station Camp parasite treatment and inoculations, as necessary. United audit program and a major appliance repair-resale Paws asks for a contribution toward payment of this service, CARTM’s operations or current desire to focus its and other units of Lewis and Clark National program. Other possibilities include the addition of a attention on its mission,” said John Freethy, Hoffman Historical Park,” said park superintendent because the more the group receives, the more animals it can delivery truck—possibly fueled by biodiesel created Center board member. “We are an art center so it David Szymanski. “This study shows that care for; however, nobody is turned away for lack of ability to at the site from local waste vegetable oil, and the was natural to have the show move to our venue to their support of the national park gives pay. creation of a scalable zero waste event “canteen” carry on this local tradition.” back and helps to drive our local economy. “The Build-a-Bear grant will enable United Paws to reach for community events of all sizes in CARTM’s service The show will be a fundraiser for the two organiza- We anticipate an even larger impact when that many more animals in need,” said Christine Watt, United area. tions and the plans for the event this year include a Middle Village & Station Camp opens in Paws’ grant writer. If you or someone you know needs the ser- “We hope the community will be as excited about ticketed pre-opening night event for those wishing to Washington in summer 2012.” vice offered by “A Trip to Snip!” call the United Paws hotline: these projects as we are,” said Kren Reddick-Yurka, Most of the spending/jobs are related support the organizations above and beyond purchas- 503 842 5663; leave a message, and a volunteer will call you CARTM board chair, “Enhancing our customers’ to lodging, food, and beverage service ing the art. There will be a limited number of tickets resale shopping experience is very important to our (59 percent) followed by other retail (16 back. sold to the pre-opening which are expected to go on percent), entertainment/amusements (12 mission. Our goal is to get everyone in our community sale in early May. to re-think habitual purchasing and consider “re-use percent), gas and local transportation (9 Winter Training for Literacy Tutors “All of us at CARTM are overjoyed at the partner- percent), and groceries (4 percent). first!” when a need arises.” ship proposed by Hoffman Center,” said Jan Hamilton, at CCC From the first Trash Bash in 1997, CARTM has The figures are based on $12 billion CARTM Executive Director. “We all want to see trash taken on a leadership role in the creative re-use of of direct spending by 281 million visitors Clatsop Community College will conduct its winter term art continue to thrive in our community because it is materials. The Trash Art shows captured the imagi- in 394 national parks and nearby com- Volunteer Literacy Tutor Training on Saturday, March 17, one of the way our community expresses itself cre- munities and are included in an annual, nation of attendees and birthed many new ideas of 11:00am to 2:00pm in Columbia Hall, Room 221, 1651 atively, and as as art-form it inspires creative re-use of peer-reviewed, visitor spending analysis how materials can be re-used in furnsiture, lighting, Lexington Avenue, Astoria. materials which is ultimately at the heart of everything conducted by Dr. Daniel Stynes of Michi- clothing, decorative items and fine art. gan State University for the National Park This training is for practicing tutors, persons interested in we do at CARTM.” Service. becoming tutors and others interested in the subject. Discus- The show must go oN. Plans are also underway for a series of Trash Art The Hoffman Center in Manzanita has stepped up workshops to be held in April and May in anticipation Across the U.S, local visitor spending sion will also concentrate on learning strategies and tools that added a total of $31 billion to the na- with an offer to collaborate with CARTM and host the of the show. The organizers of the 14th Annual Trash will help students listen, speak and read better. Please call to tional economy and supported more than beloved event at their venue and share in the work of Art Show encourage anyone who has ever wanted to 258,000 jobs, an increase of $689 million reserve a place and direct any inquiries to: Eileen Purcell, 503- production and marketing of the show, and the pro- enter something in the show to do it this year. For and 11,500 jobs over 2009. 338-2557 or [email protected]. ceeds. Both organizations see this as a win for both more information contact [email protected] or as well as a big win for the community. call 503-368-3846.

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In reality, the Soviet Union had see what Hampshire College Peace Studies secret war inside Iran, including the killing of communized the countries at its Western professor Michael Klare has predicted: continu- at least five nuclear scientists, as well as other border after World War Two to create a buffer ous twenty-first century resource wars. Iranian civilians, by means of explosive devices. against the West. The USSR had been invaded The overriding truth is that our two im- Can you imagine how the US or Israel would by Western powers twice since its formation in mensely destructive wars against Iraq, and our react if Iran were doing such things within their 1917 and had lost some twenty million of its sanctions and increasing bellicosity towards borders? population in World War Two. Yet our Cold War Iran have nothing to do with these countries’ We have been through all the sanctions and ideology held the Soviets to be the expansion- development of nuclear arms or other “weap- demonizing before in the run-up to the second ist power, and expansionist American policy ons of mass destruction.” Though who could invasion of Iraq. While the Obama administra- was always justified as countering Soviet com- blame these oil rich countries in an era of rap- tion lacks the ultra-imperialist Neocons to beat munist internationalism, as our present empire idly depleting oil reserves for seeking to defend their war drums, they refuse to take military ac- The Lower Columbia Clinic is justified as countering Islamic “terrorism.” themselves from inevitable Western invasion tion “off the table,” they conduct no high level, Thomas S. Duncan, M.D. • Susan L Skinner, CNM, CFNP In 1953, when British and American agents by developing such weapons? It is also true let alone summit negotiations with Iran, and as surreptitiously upended a democratically that just as Saddam Hussein had no “weapons with Iraq, they sponsor more and more brutal 595 18th, Astoria • 503-325-9131 elected Iranian socialist government that had of mass destruction,” neither can it be proven sanctions. Modern Iran has never started an nationalized oil, they claimed their purpose that Iran’s uranium enrichment program has aggressive war. In the past twenty years alone, was to counter Soviet influence. The Shah anything but the purpose their leaders articu- the US invaded Iraq twice and Afghanistan over A MESSAGE FROM ROLF… was placed back on the throne, and Iran’s late: development of an energy source. a decade ago, where we still fight to secure vast oil reserves were placed at the behest of But just as it was useful for the US and its a pipeline outlet for Caspian oil to the Indian Western oil corporations. Twenty-five years NATO allies to drum up a basis for invading Ocean. Who then is most likely to start the next “Hey... here later, the Islamist Iranian revolution renational- Iraq in order to gain control of its oil, so has it catastrophic war in the Middle East? Look out! at the Shelter It’s Rolf we’ve got dogs again! and we’ve got Help SOLVE the Problem of Marine Debris: cats. So, what Volunteer for the SOLVE Spring Oregon Beach Cleanup are you waiting Portland, Ore — Be part of the or even starvation. Larger debris such as Oh noooo Oregon Beach Cleanup tradition by joining rope, fishing line, and nets can tangle not Rolf! for? thousands of volunteers March 31st, from and strangle wildlife, as well as damage 10am to 1pm. SOLVE encourages volun- boat propellers and engines. 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7 mar12 hipfishmonthly.com wards encouraging other females they learn about the world around to embrace who they are. In fact, them. It means speaking in it demonstrates nothing supportive uplifting ways about both males in my cause. Instead of portraying and females, and in ways that myself as a victim-like, uptight fe- don’t blindly categorize. I always male, I would rather be perceived appreciated my Grandfather, who as a woman who is comfortable without a doubt, assumed that I in my own skin. Now a mother of would be running the motor and two boys, I find that I am faced pulling shrimp pots every time with a huge responsibility. I want we went out on his boat. The con- my boys to be vessels of change fidence in his voice when he said, in this world and I believe that it “Alright Erin, you’re up,” said, you starts with teaching them how to are just as capable as the boys. love and trust themselves so that When he stood in the kitchen with they may have the capacity to love an apron on and helped my grand- and accept others. I believe that mother make raspberry jam, he teaching through demonstration was demonstrating to me, at an is the most effective way to pass impressionable age, that kitchen on knowledge. My first goal is to jobs were not gender specific, be overtly respectful and loving but dependent on an individual’s towards my own body. One way interests and hobbies. I have chosen to do this, is to Men like my Grandfather are openly breastfeed my babies. I the reason that I have decided not do this because it is a way that I can publicly embrace my valuable to be an angry feminist. I don’t role as a mother and a female. need to prove anything to anyone, The more women who are made or force people to change their to feel comfortable doing this, the ways. I just need to be happy more mainstream this significant being me; pursuing my life without act will become. Wouldn’t it be self inflicted limits and precon- wonderful if the next generation of ceived notions, embracing my individual female identity, and en- A Contented Form of Feminism By Erin Hofseth little boys could grow up appreci- ating breasts as something more couraging the women and mothers So, two things got me thinking to give up the feminist act and just much “less nursed” looking. The Help got me thinking in a than sexual objects? that surround me to do the same. again. I finished reading The Help, live my life. I have since shied Breasts, to him, still solely signify whole different direction. Since fin- I am also on a quest to be After all, being a contented femi- by Kathryn Stockett, and I received away from gender discussions and nourishment, and any woman with ishing the book, I had spent hours purposeful with my language. The nist is much less tiring than being the December edition of Victoria’s turned my critical attitude inward. breasts, is without a doubt a sitting, watching my babies, think- subtleties of language can have an angry feminist, and it may be Secret catalogue in the mail (I Trying to make societal changes “mommy.” ing of how my life has changed a dramatic impact on children as more influential as well. am apparently residually on their through argument and accusations “Look at these models!” I said since becoming a mother; thinking mailing list after buying underwear only leads to frustration, which only to my husband, “they are tiny!” I about what it means to be a wom- there a few times). I have refrained leads to bitterness; this just keeps have said this before many, many an and a mother right now, at this from mentally engaging the com- a person down. Since college, in times. This used to be one of time, in this country. In what ways plexities of gender related issues lieu of stirring up gender related my favorite hot topics, ranting are we similar to the characters in since I graduated from college. I conflict, I have instead gotten mar- about how ridiculously unrealistic this widely read novel set in 1960’s had a feminist professor who had ried, traveled, bought a house with underwear model’s bodies are, but Mississippi that grapples with is- a knack for getting me all riled up. my husband, worked a variety of in this particular moment, with my sues of racism, sexism and human She was a beautiful combination of jobs and given birth to two beauti- two year old staring down at the cruelty? In what ways do we bring high heels and tri-athlete, challeng- ful boys. page and my husband smirking our fellow females down in our ac- ing every societal norm that slightly When that Victoria’s Secret over my shoulder, I felt that familiar tions, speech or judgments? How marginalized women. I couldn’t magazine landed on my front step, agitated burning feeling sneaking are we making conscious efforts to even sit through dinner with friends I opened it up, furrowed my brow up on me. Some of the women lift each other up? During an era without finding myself hot and and flipped through the pages were literally made to look plastic; when half naked Victoria’s Secret agitated, having been referred to, mindlessly. “Cute underwear,” I their skin iridescent and shiny, models seductively stare my two throughout the night, as a “chick,” thought. “That would be a great slightly bronzed and glimmered. year old in the face and pop culture a “hey man,” and a “you guys.” nursing shirt,” I found myself saying Others were so disproportionately continues to promote derogatory, They say “ignorance is bliss,” and I out loud. My husband and my small in the hips in relation to their over sexualized messages about Erin Hofseth is as freelance writer living in Seaside, Oregon with her agree, because enlightenment sure two-year old came beside me to breasts that I felt actual pain in my the female body, what are we do- husband, two boys and one sweet dog. She has been published in is exhausting. peer over my shoulder and check lower body just thinking about the ing to support and encourage one “Natural Child Magazine,” (Sept/Oct. 2011 issue) and “Natural Life Tired of always being mad at my out the goods. Asher, in all of his simple mechanics of walking up another? Magazine” (upcoming, March/April 2012 issue) and the upcoming male friends, father, brother and beautiful two year old innocence, a stair case with these measure- I realize now that angrily picking issue of La Leche League International Magazine, “New Beginnings.” anyone who accidentally called said, “Mommy?” pointing at one of ments. apart the overuse of generic mas- She guest blogs on the “Upper Left Edge,” and keeps her own blog me a “girl” instead of a woman, or the Barbie Doll models with breasts “No baby, that’s not Mommy, culine pronouns in our language “Rain Mother Musings,” at www.rainmother.org. Look for future contributions from Erin to HIPFiSHmonthly. referred to God as a man, I decided three sizes larger than mine and Mommy is real.” gets me nowhere on my quest to- mar12 hipfishmonthly.com 8 The Vagina Monologues Back at the PAC March 9-10 “The Vagina Monologues,” an other members of the campus com- episodic play by Tony-Award winning munity participate in V-Day. V-Day is playwright and activist Eve Ensler is celebrated February through April and Welcome to LightBox Illumina- cussions of technical issues and coming back to Clatsop Community began to create dialogue and shatter tions. This new column focuses educational presentations about taboos around violence against women College for its second appearance. on topics in the photographic the photographic arts. Darkroom and girls through thousands of events Opening night is March 9 with a second arts as well as events at LightBox memberships are available for in over 140 countries. Today, V-Day production March 10. Both productions those who wish to create prints includes over 58,000 events annually. Photographic Gallery in down- begin at 7:00 pm. at the CCC Perform- town Astoria. using the traditional silver gelatin ing Arts Center, located at 16th and Last year almost 200 people at- Opening in June of 2009, the process. Franklin in Astoria. tended the performance and raised goal of LightBox has been to es- The members of LightBox cre- The award-winning play that is more than $1,000 which was donated to organizations that work to end vio- tablish a center for the promotion ate an important social dynamic based on V-Day Founder/playwright lence against women. V-Day is a time of creative and alternative photo- that makes LightBox unique. Eve Ensler’s interviews with more than to dream of a world in which women graphic arts on the North Coast Their contribution has been vital 200 women. With humor and grace and children will be free to thrive rather in establishing the gallery, sup- the piece celebrates women’s sexuality of Oregon. LightBox has provided than merely survive. With our commu- porting its mission, and keeping and strength. Through this play and the a space where photographers nity’s support we can make this hap- the gallery thriving for the com- liberation of this one word, countless can share their vision to inspire pen. Admission tickets for $10 can be and influence other photogra- munity of Astoria and the North women throughout the world have purchased at the door each the night of phers and individuals. Coast. taken control of their bodies and their the event. We are pleased to have LightBox strives to educate lives. For more than twelve years, The Please direct inquiries to: Mindy displayed many exhibitions during more people in understanding Vagina Monologues has given voice to Stokes, 503-338-2377; mstokes@ the photographic arts. We invite experiences and feelings not previously clatsopcc.edu. the first 30 months. Over 300 everyone to drop by the gallery exposed in public. Clatsop Community College is an photographic artists have shown The performances are a class affirmative action, equal opportunity over 1500 images on the walls at anytime to enjoy and learn project for Mindy Stokes’ Women and institution. ADA accessible: for other during that time. The gallery has from the exhibits. Educational Social Action course. Organized by accommodations call 503-338-2474; hosted the work of talented pho- workshops and classes, as well Women’s Studies instructor Stokes, TDD 503-338-2468 at least 24 hours tographers from the local area as as artist presentations and talks, the performances help students and in advance of the event. well as from across the nation, take place regularly and are open showing prints of many photo- to all who are interested. graphic processes and styles. We look forward to present- Along the way we met countless ing this column in the future to individuals who have appreci- explore the art of photography ated the exhibits and thanked and to share current news from us for bringing this resource to the gallery. LightBox has many Astoria. We have enjoyed every incredible exhibits and events day, meeting all who have come planned for this year. Visit the to the gallery, and educating the gallery website, sign up for our public about the amazing work mailing list, and discover the and processes in the photo- history of the exhibits that have graphic arts. taken place at LightBox. A community has developed “The Photographic Nude around LightBox, which serves as 2012”, the second annual The Clothesline Project Through March 16 a gathering place for photogra- exhibit celebrating the nude in fine art photography, opened on The Clothesline Project is an annual global a testimony to the issue. Clatsop Community and the creator of VOCA Camp (Victory Over phers and individuals who appre- March 3rd with an artists’ recep- College’s Women’s Studies and Social Action Child Abuse), spoke about violence and its ciate fine photography. Member- event that started in Cape Cod, MA in 1990 to tion. The exhibit will run through class participated in this event that kicked-off impact on families. ships are available for those who bear witness to violence against women and April 3rd. We invite you to come on February 29. This is the second year CCC has hosted the wish to help support the gallery. by the gallery anytime or during children. T-shirts are decorated with words During an opening celebration, Margaret Clothesline Project. T-shirts will be on display Local members can take part in the Second Saturday Artwalk on or images that are hung on a clothesline as Frimoth, CCC Lives in Transition Coordinator from February 27 through March 16. Wednesday night get-togethers March 10th from 6-9pm to enjoy that offer educational opportuni- the show. ties. Meetings vary each week MARCH 10 • THE WOMEN’S The Sash Project with image and print sharing, dis- Michael and Chelsea Granger SUFFERAGE MOVEMENT IN OREGON North Lincoln County Century of Action: Oregon Women Vote, 1912– Historical Museum • 1PM • FREE 2012 is a project of the Oregon Women’s History Perhaps nothing is more important in Consortium (OWHC), a new organization formed to lead the history of women’s rights in the United the centennial celebration of woman suffrage and to States than the struggle for full citizenship promote women’s history beyond 2012. Throughout and the right to vote. Oregon’s woman suf- the year ‘Votes for Women’ sashes will circulate around frage activities were tied to the regional and the state and you have an opportunity to be a part of national movement since those leaders visited history! Order a sash ($15) and start taking pictures, Oregon to organize and support the work, and and post your pics to Facebook: Century of Action. For Oregon suffragists visited other states to assist more info go to centuryofaction.org them with campaigns. In November 1912, The famous picture of Mayor Clark flashing the Oregon voters approved woman suffrage by 52 “Kvinneakt” statue was taken to call attention to the percent. importance of art education. 9 mar12 hipfishmonthly.com by bob A Tale of Two Canoes Invasive Spring is in the Air goldberg After a typical Fisher Poets Gathering Oregon in Eugene, which became the and a media slip By Watt Childress weekend of wind, rain, hail, snow and impetus for this column. Panelists dis- yes, a little sun, I woke up this morning cussed how environmentalists and most to one of those days that makes you of the mainstream agreed that so-called love living here. The sky was about to be “invasive species” – plants and animals illuminated fully by the rising sun, and that are not “native” (another term they there wasn’t a cloud in it. The orange discussed) and cause either economic hues were mixing with the totally blue or ecological hardship (disputed by the sky, the snow was shining bright white panelists for many cases) – had to be on the Coast Range hills, the water eliminated, often at great cost. The pan- glistened, and though the mercury was elists’ views seemed to be that in many sitting at 32°F, the air was so dry that cases, these plants and animals were there wasn’t much ice on the roads, either beneficial, or had naturalized, and As a freelance columnist I weigh in on The ceremonial presentation of that that was stolen. Moreover, news coverage and it took forever to get the ice off my should be considered part of the local many issues that are covered by the tribal canoe was a centerpiece of the advanced the claim that both the canoe windshield. ecosystem. press. Sometimes the coverage itself potlatch. Everything about it was care- and the story of its theft belonged to the By the time you’re reading this, there The 2012 PIELC is scheduled for the merits comment, as evidenced by a local fully thought out, including the timing to Chinook. The press even referred to the might have been more wind and rain, first four days of March, and again, there Indian story. coincide with the bicentennial. For the Clatsop chief who suffered the theft as maybe snow and ice, but I think spring is will be a panel on invasive species. The For me this story began six years ago Clatsop-Nehalem, their new canoe was “Chinook” Chief Coboway. in the air. Take a good look at the trees focus will be how climate change affects when I was asked to participate in a pot- reparation for one that was stolen from Stories are a core part of human iden- latch – the traditional gifting celebration them by the Lewis and Clark expedition. and bushes, and the crocuses and daf- the picture. A complete report awaits tity, as integral to the people of the Pacific that anchors the indigenous culture of our The vessel’s significance to the recov- fodils. They’re waking up, in the renewal you in April. For now, it got me thinking Northwest as potlatches, cedar, salmon, region. This particular potlatch coincided ery of Indian heritage was newsworthy, es- and seagoing canoes. Understandably, a phase of the annual cycle of life. If we about the folly of controlling nature, with the Lewis & Clark bicentennial, and pecially in light of the timing. Yet despite strong corrective action was requested by let them live, they will go on to produce whether that means trying to eradicate was hosted by descendents of the people sweeping press coverage of the bicenten- the Clatsop-Nehalem. leaves, needles, flowers, fruit, wood, a species in a geographical area, or re- who greeted the explorers here at the nial, the canoe was barely mentioned be- To date, that appeal has gone unan- food and water, and most importantly, store a section of land to conditions that Pacific. yond my local columns. As often happens, swered. Instead, the Associated Press oxygen. They will take up carbon dioxide, existed a hundred years ago, or even Why was a pale-skinned pup asked truth was buried beneath a mainstream spread the fallacious story to news outlets any sunlight our sun-stingy region gives plant a successful garden. As any field to stand beside Northwest Indian elders, narrative. The cross-country adventures of around the country. The impact of this them, and water (usually not a problem), ecologist or gardener will tell you, it’s overwhelmed with humility in front of 250 famed white explorers, re-enacted by men coverage has been conveyed to me in and produce not only the things men- almost impossible to know what might people? Because the Clatsop-Nehalem in costume, brushed over the fact that writing by tribal member David Stowe, tioned above, but a spiritual sense of come of your efforts. The system is just Confederated Tribes wanted a member of those celebrities were also thieves. a 7th generation descendent of Clatsop calm, protection and beauty. too complex to be predictable. the local press to serve in the formal role So it goes, as it has for hundreds of Chief Coboway. If we let them live. The science of invasive species is of witness. years. The people who have lived here for “It was shocking, surreal, and disturb- Not only the plants are waking up this coming around to the conclusion that The historical context of that role millennia continue their work of cul- ing to me personally to see a member of humbles me. Conquest of this continent tural reclamation, undaunted by the gap time of year. So are the companies that these would-be terrors actually might be my family, Chief Coboway, being referred was often scouted by my kind -- scribes between what’s written and what’s done. make money from the cutting of trees, relatively tame, and in an era when more to as a member of another tribe with no who tell stories on paper. It can be argued Like returning salmon, the Clatsop-Ne- and soon, the crews that spray the road- and more of the planet is cleared and mention of the Clatsop tribe he belonged that Lewis and Clark were journalists, halem are determined to regenerate their to,” writes Stowe. “The entire tribe is very sides for weeds. On my weekday walks paved over, might actually be necessary dispatched to gather written intelligence relationship with their homeland. to work along Irving Avenue in Astoria, to preserve and enhance the biological unhappy with this effort to erase our tribal for empire builders. This was clear during the past year. heritage, and is determined to put an end the chainsaws have been disturbing the diversity of the planet (see http://mil- By contrast, indigenous people of The tribes published a beautiful and to this misinformation and get the true stately silence of the forested areas that liontrees.wordpress.com/2011/10/10/ the Northwest cleave to oral traditions. informative book titled “The Journey of story published.” have been largely left alone during the professor-arthur-shapiros-comment-on- Though it surprised me at the time, I now the Clatsop-Nehalem Canoe,” written Who among us would not be equally the-environmental-impact-report-for-the- winter. Good-intentioned homeowners understand why ten minutes into the by local artist Roberta Basch. Last July, offended if our cultural heritage were have been having those pesky non-native natural-areas-program/ for an example). potlatch I was asked to put away my pad Clatsop-Nehalem and Warm Springs displaced in this manner? (and native) trees cut down to improve I like this quote from an article and pen. My challenge was to watch and families joined together to participate in The situation grieves me, but not listen, with pure attention, then give an their view, tidy up their property, or just called Attack of the Flying Carp by Jeff a canoe gathering located in Swinomish, because I feel sorry for anybody. The more honest account from memory. Washington. They paddled 407 miles and because. People are even coming out to Wheelwright in the March 2012 Discover I learn about the Clatsop-Nehalem, the Since then I’ve written a number of camped 22 nights in order to celebrate look at their yards and gardens, thinking magazine. “Ninety per cent of the catch more assured I am of their resilience. The columns in local newspapers about what their culture with other native people. about what plants they’ll pick up at the in the Danube River is bighead and expropriated story of a stolen tribal canoe I witnessed at that event. I’ve described Not long after that journey, the canoe nursery to make their garden look nice silver [carp],” (Duane) Chapman [carp will not weaken their cultural revival. how gifts were given in a ritual way, to join story took a very strange turn. Members in case we have a better growing season researcher] remarked to his listeners. What’s less certain is the future of a together people and tribes in a web of of the Clatsop-Nehalem Confederated “They’re not an issue there; they are the tribe we call the American press. Our in- than last year (not likely). And I even saw generosity. Tribes were surprised by an article in the tegrity as witnesses is in need of repair, as some new soil on a neighbor’s garden, fishery. If you want more biomass, or At the center of those gifts was an old- Daily Astorian (September 21, 2011). evidenced by this and other stories. Can probably giving fresh cover to bulbs to feed more people, then it’s a great growth cedar, gifted by the Quinault Indian The press announced that the family we reclaim our role as truth-tellers? planted last fall. I wonder whether some choice.” He pointed out that “invasive” Nation. Many Clatsop-Nehalem people of explorer William Clark was making a If so, part of our upstream journey weed seeds are hiding in that soil, wait- was a relative term. “If you like ‘em, who were displaced from their homeland public gift of a new canoe to replace the involves a special canoe, gifted in a tradi- ing to take over that garden, and then they’re not invasive.” went to live with the Quinault, who wel- one that was stolen by their ancestor’s tional way at a Clatsop-Nehalem potlatch. the neighborhood! Well, I’m learning to like ‘em all. comed them. The gift tree was carved into expedition. Five days later a second article Almost exactly a year ago, I attended Enjoy the spring, and do what you can to a 32-foot seaworthy canoe, with guidance reported on this gifting. Watt Childress owns Jupiter’s Books a panel session about invasive species preserve and enhance life of all kinds on from a master carver trained in traditional Here’s the stunner: the Clark family in Cannon Beach and he publishes up- at the Public Interest Environmental Law the planet. Join in the annual chorus of native canoe making. This was made pos- gave it to the Chinook, a neighboring perleftedge.com. Email him at wattchil- Conference (PIELC) at the Univeristy of renewal and sing loud and clear! sible in part through federal grant funding. people who did not own the original canoe [email protected] mar12 hipfishmonthly.com 10 Tribal Identity: setting the record straight by David Stowe

Nation” or tribe due to the similarities of identity and history for a convenient “feel One other point regarding the canoe; our languages. In truth, the Clatsop had good” story. the Clatsop-Nehalem tribe was awarded a been deeply intertwined with the Nehalem The story of the Clatsop and other grant from the national park service to build and other Tillamook long before the Corp Western Oregon tribes has been a long tale a canoe for the bicentennial comemoration of Discovery came to Oregon. Lewis and of loss and death since contact with Euro- of the journey of the corps of discovery, Clark commented on this as did Franz Boas peans began in earnest in the late 1700s’. and as reparation for the canoe stolen 200 years before. You will find pictures and and others studying Indian cultures in later Death mostly from disease, and loss of our years. There is a great summary of our information on our canoe, “Dragonfly” on homelands from the American Government history on our website here: http://www. our website: http://www.clatsop/Nehalem. not honoring the treaties they signed with clatsop-nehalem.com/history.html com . Dragonfly was the first canoe built on us. In the case of the Clatsop, the govern- We in fact signed a treaty, with the US the Oregon coast using traditional methods ment thought we would just die off before government in 1851 (not ratified for eco- since the 19th century. We took part in nomic reasons.) There were also individual they had to deal with us. They succeeded those commemorations as the Clatsop- treaties for the Lower Band of Chinooks, in getting our land, but we didn’t all die. We Nehalem Confederated Tribes, Cathlamet Band of Chinooks, etc. and Ne- are still here, and intend to stay. This story At the end of the day, we would like halem, Tillamook and several other bands about the Clark family returning the canoe people to understand the true story. We This past September, a story ran in the Descendants of Coboway, as well as or tribes. to the Chinook tribe, and calling MY Great wish the best for our cousins across the big local paper about the descendants of the most Clatsop, Nehalem and Chinook were Assuming tribal affiliations based on lan- Great Grandfather a Chinook chief is yet river. We are all people of the river, but we Clark family returning a canoe stolen from forced out of our homelands and ended up guage is a gross oversimplification of native another case of others trying to ignore our have our own identity. the Chinook tribe by the Lewis and Clark being welcomed in several neighboring tribal relationships that Europeans have tried to existence, oral and written histories. It does David Stowe resides in Bend Oregon. He is a expedition in 1806. That story was picked communities. In Washington these included inflict on us for hundreds of years. It is more not sit well with me or the other members descendent of Chief Cobaway and spokesperson up by the wire services and ran in many Bay Center, Shoalwater Bay, Chehalis, convenient to lump tribes into groups, but it of my tribe. for the Clatsop-Nehalem Confederated Tribes. papers across the country and around the Quinault, Skokomish and Quilleute. The probably does not in fact represent anything world. The Clark descendants named in the Oregon communities included Siletz, Grande Native Americans recognize themselves. story were 7th generation descendants of Rond and Hobsonville. However, some of For example, the Apache and Navaho Captain William Clark. I am a 7th generation us were able to hang on and stayed in our languages are both Athabascan, but no one descendant would sug- of Chief My ancestor Chief Coboway was one of many that hosted the Lewis and gest that Coboway, Clark Expedition in our homelands. He was frequently mentioned in the they are the Clatsop Journals as being an honest and generous man, traits we value greatly to the same chief they this day. It is my responsibility and privilege to carry on his legacy by sup- tribe. In stole the porting all people in our most traditional and sacred ways. We as individual fact, there canoe Indian Nations have similar struggles, but in today’s world, now more im- were many from, and individual portant than any other time, in order to save our culture, our heritage, and on behalf Apache of all the our inherit rights, we must learn when to leave the pettiness at home and to tribes that Clatsops, stand united and help each other. It is important that we see beyond the dif- did not I would ficulties that are thrown in front of us to divide and conquer. It is my fond- associate like to set est hope that we muster up support for our individual nations for each one themselves the record of our tribes, and ignore the words, actions, or non-action, that are meant with the straight. Apache na- to harm or destroy. It is the duty of ALL of us to support the truths of our I and tion. Like- the other histories. wise, the descen- - Richard Basch, Vice-Chairman of Clatsop-Nehalem Confederated Tribes Shoshone, dants Piute, Ute, of Chief Comanche, Coboway I have spoken with all applaud the homelands. Some Clatsop and Nehalem Diegueno, and many other tribes speak Clark family for making the effort to right chose to become members of those tribes; Uto-Aztecan languages, but bear little The gift of an old growth cedar from the Quinault Nation to the Clatsop-Nehalem a wrong done long ago, but it would have others chose to remain Clatsop or Nehalem. resemblance to one another culturally. Tribes, federal grant funding, and a mas- been nice if they had done it in a truly just There’s no confusion that some Clatsop and I have been told that the truth about the ter carver helped to create the Dragonfly and correct way by returning the canoe to Nehalem are represented by other tribal relationship of the Clatsop and Chinook Canoe; this in conjunction with the L&C the tribe it was actually stolen from. As groups, however, as a tribe, we are repre- tribes is “murky” and can’t be sorted out Bicentennial. For the Clatsop-Nehalem, stated in the article, they gave the canoe sented by the Clatsop-Nehalem Confeder- with any certainty. It is not murky to us; it their new canoe was reparation for one to the descendants of “Chinook” Chief Co- ated Tribes. is clear in our oral traditions and is sup- that was stolen from them by the Lewis boway – who never existed. Coboway was There isn’t any dispute that Lewis and ported by all available evidence. I have also and Clark expedition. a Clatsop. We were and are a distinct tribe Clark stole a Clatsop canoe, and Chief heard this situation being dismissed as from the Chinook with our own traditions, Coboway went to fort Clatsop to get it back. some “squabble” between the two groups, language, and history. It is very hard for me The journals of the Corps of discovery make and that we would have a better chance and the rest of the tribe to understand how that all very clear. They named their winter at federal recognition if we did it as one this whole story could unfold without any encampment Ft. Clatsop for a reason. It has “Chinook” tribe. There is no squabble, and it Photos courtesy “The Journey of the Clatsop-Nehalem consultation from the Clatsop tribe. been a common misconception that the is condescending to ask us to relinquish our Canoe,” by Roberta Basch. Available through the Clatsop were some part of a larger “Chinook Lewis and Clark National Historical Park.

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In our coastal climate, and cooking classes. next page for a complete list and sum- crops such as greens, potatoes, carrots, Traditional agriculture in the US (i.e.: mary of offerings.) radishes, lettuce and brassicas do well. corn, soy, and beef) is heavily shored CSA (Community Supported Agricul- Greenhouses, hoop houses and row up by government subsidies, which are ture) is a grassroots method of food covers enable local farmers to extend funded by our tax dollars in order to distribution, a system wherein sub- the growing season and offer warmer- keep commodity prices artificially low. scribers receive shares of seasonally climate items such as tomatoes and Small CSA farms do not receive such available vegetables and/or fruit from a peppers. Don’t expect to get foods like subsidies. Think of a CSA subscription farm or network of farms within a local corn or melons unless they are obtained as a personal way to subsidize a local area. CSA members share the eco- from farms along the I-5 corridor or farmer and the farming practices of nomic risks with farmers by prepaying points east. We just don’t have the right which you approve. It’s another way of for a predetermined number of weekly climate here on the coast. voting with your fork. boxes of food, the contents of which CSAs originated concurrently in If you cook for yourself, like to eat a are influenced by seasonal availability of Europe and Japan during the 1960s in lot of vegetables, and are able to adapt particular foods and the success of the response to concerns with food safety to eating what is seasonally available, harvest. Prepayment prior to the onset and the neglect of land stewardship. a CSA may be just the ticket for you. of planting helps farmers offset the The CSA concept jumped the pond to Don’t let the initial expense scare you “How the Other Half Loves” costs of seeds, soil amendments, water, the US in the 1980s spearheaded by away. Some farms will trade share by Alan Ayckbourn and other expenses. adherents of the principles of biody- costs for labor, or can accept payments March 16 - April 22 Generally CSAs are operated by small namic agriculture. Over the intervening through WIC, Senior Nutrition, or SNAP single-family farms and are distributed years, the CSA concept has caught on. benefit programs, or will even subsi- Fri & Sat 8pm; Sun Mats 3pm (3/25, 4/22) only locally, keeping shipping costs There are now more than 13,000 CSA dize a limited number of low-income Tickets $8 - $20 down. The food is often grown us- farms in North America, the largest, subscribers. Read on to find a CSA farm ing organic or biodynamic methods, Farm Fresh to You, of Capay Valley in near you. Talkback Thursday 3/12 7:30pm but usually, the expensive and time- Northern California, feeds thousands of consuming process of obtaining organic subscribers. 108 N. Hemlock Cannon Beach, OR - Cathy Nist Box Office: 503.436.1242 www.coastertheatre.com mar12 hipfishmonthly.com 12 CSA FARMS in the Columbia Pacific - From North to South R-evolution Gardens Nehalem, OR R-evolution Gardens, a farm and education center located on the North Fork of the Nehalem River, is currently in its fourth year of offering a CSA. Shares are offered in four seasons of six weeks each that include spring, summer, late sum- mer, and fall. Full and half shares are available. A full share is $199 for one 6-week season, $796 for all four seasons (approximately May 16 – October 24). Half shares are $115 and $460 for one or four sea- sons, respectively. R-evolution gar- dens will trade work for part or all of share payments. Payment may also be made weekly with WIC or SNAP benefits at the Manzanita Farmers Boxing up the first CSAs at Re-Evolution, Nehalem Market. Members receive a weekly online newsletter, a copy of the farm cookbook, and share for an additional fee. The vegetables in a share discounts on educational classes on sustainable are all grown by Kingfisher Farm. Occasionally fruit Larkin on delivery to Three Cups Coffee, Astoria living, farming, building, cooking and preserving. A la such as cherries, strawberries, blueberries, or melons carte boxes are available to members prior and after will be included in a share, these are from farms in The Stockhouse Farm er week. CSA shares are available year-round. Greens the CSA seasons for an additional charge. Shares are the Willamete Valley. Eggs are from a farm near Til- Puget Island, WA and root vegetables are grown by Green Angel. Other delivered to Rockaway Beach, Wheeler, and Nehalem lamook. Kingfisher Farm is known for garlic scapes, items may be sourced from other farms in the region. The Stockhouse Farm is on Puget Island in the Co- on Wednesdays or to Manzanita, Arch Cape, and Can- potatoes, tomatoes and greens. CSA members can Boxes may include home-baked bread, eggs, honey, lumbia River, near Cathlamet, Washington. Rob and non Beach on Saturdays. pick up their shares at the Kingfisher Farm booth at or other value-added products. Green Angel delivers Diane Stockhouse host the Two Islands Farm Market Visit R-evolution Gardens online at: revolutiongar- the Astoria Sunday Market, and at the Cannon Beach on Fridays, May – October and have operated a CSA to the Oregon side of the Columbia as well as the dens.com or call 503-368-3044. Farmers Market on Tuesday. Shares are also available for 10 years. Large and small subscription levels are Washington Peninsula. Shares are picked up at Three for pick up on Friday in Seaside, and on Wednesday available, the price depends on whether members Rivers Coffee House in Astoria. Kingfisher Farm in Manzanita, Rockaway Beach, and Tillamook. pick up their shares on the farm or at the Astoria Visit online at: greenangelgardening.com or call Nehalem, OR Visit online at: [email protected] or Co-op, respectively. A large share for $580/$725 360-244-0064 Kingfisher Farm, is also located on the North Fork consists of 8 or more items of the Nehalem River. Owner Jeff Trenary and family Call Jeff at 503-368-6763, or Nicole at 503-368- Fred’s Homegrown 4368 per week and supplies Produce. sell Kingfisher produce to restaurants and at several vegetables for two or more Naselle, WA farmers markets as well as via CSA. Kingfisher Farm people. Small shares at has been a CSA for 10 years. A share costs $500 Corvus Landing Farm Fred’s Homegrown with a 10% discount for subscribers who sign up Neskowin, OR $435 and $580 have four Produce. Former restaura- prior to March 15. The CSA season runs 22 weeks, Corvus Landing Farm was founded in 2010 and or more items each week teur and chef Fred Johnson starting in the first week of June. Astoria subscribers is located on Slab Creek Road in Neskowin. They and are geared for one or has owned a historic farm get a jump on the season by getting their first box on specialize in Carrots, peas, greens, and potatoes. two people. For an addition- in Naselle, Washington for Mother’s Day. A share will provide enough vegetables They are expanding their CSA to 30 members this al fee, shares can include the better part of a decade. flower bouquets and eggs. Fred’s Homegrown is known every week for one hard-core vegetarian or a typically year. As well as via CSA, Corvus Landing sells produce Also available are chick- especially for tomatoes, omnivorous family of four. Eggs may be added to the and plant starts at the Lincoln City ens and turkeys (following greens, and potatoes. CSA Farmers Market and at a self-service butchering days), dry beans, shares are available at stand on the farm. Membership is Diane’s homemade granola Shaping bed at Fred’s in Naselle three levels: Seedling for $450 for 18 weeks, with pickup at and Diane’s cookbooks. The $350 provides a weekly box the farm on Tuesdays and Fridays or CSA season runs for 29 weeks, from the first week in for one person, or two full meals. Sprout for $500 at Trillium Natural Foods in Lincoln May through the third week in November. supplies enough vegetables for two or three people, City on Tuesdays. The season runs Visit online at: stockhousesfarm.com or call 360- or four full meals. Bunch at $750 will serve for four from June 19 through October 19. 849-4145. or five people, or five full meals. Boxes may be cus- Boxes generally contain enough for tomized by opting for a la carte for $100 more. The Green Angel Gardens & Sustainability a family of 4 moderate vegetable season lasts 20 weeks, June – October. Membership eaters, 2 adult vegetarians, or 1 Center includes access to members-only farm dinners and vegetable-eating machine. Corvus Long Beach, WA pizza nights, discounts on farm classes and events Landing Farm accepts SNAP benefits Green Angel Gardens & Sustainability Center is like Farmstock, plant starts, and a Fred’s Homegrown located on Sandridge Road in Long Beach, Wash- tote bag. Shares can be picked up Tuesdays and for CSA payments at the farmers ington. Owned and operated by Larkin Stentz, Green Wednesdays at the farm kiosk in Naselle, Thursdays market in Lincoln City and offers a Angel has an on-premises farm store and offers yoga at the River People’s Market in Astoria or at a soon to few subsidized shares for folks who classes and sustainability workshops. Green Angel be announced location in Long Beach, Washington. are unable to afford the full price. CSA shares are available at $200 for 8 weekly boxes. Visit online at: fredshomegrownproduce.wordpress. Visit online at: corvuslanding.com A half share for $100 nets members a box every oth- com Jeff Trenary and the Kingfishrer crops. “Fecundity, good!” or call 503-392-9327

13 mar12 hipfishmonthly.com here was a time when we knew everyone Lower Columbia Time Bank crew (clockwise): Christopher Paddon, Pearl Rasmussen, in our neighborhoods, and may have even Nancy Spaan, Theresa Barnes, Tallie Spiller been related to many of them, a happy (on the clock) Caren Black, Joseph Stevenson Lower Columbia T and Jennifer Rasmussen. tribal existence, of sorts. All pitching in when one needed help, and every member filling a need, but in the fast-paced world of today, we barely know our neighbors much less what their needs or skills might be. Often friends, neighbors, and family Time members can be there to help out, but there are times when no one is available. Any part of our community, separated from family and friends, such as elderly or minority groups, may not have access to the help they need without paying for a Bank service. Hour-for-hour, you can invest your By Lynn Hadley time in a new community economy

What if there was a way builds a rich infrastructure in the to rebuild a social network form of a community skills and that helped people and their services directory to promote communities become more exchanges that work beyond a self-sufficient, and placed value price. Work value is redefined and caring on everyday people from what comes in a paycheck needs. Voila! People are doing to what it takes to raise healthy it, and the new system of time children, build strong communi- banking is working. ties, revitalize neighborhoods, A time banking community of- and make the planet a more fers voluntary help and services caring and sustainable place. ranging from babysitting and dog Time banking brings people walking to car repair and techni- together, and turns strang- cal support from the people in ers into friends. Have you your community. Time banking is ever wished you had some- like having an extended family to one around to give you a ride help out with rides to the to the somewhere, help you run some doctor or the grocery store, help errands, pick you up after you with chores around the house, drop your car off for repairs, or or childcare. Time banking is a just give you a hand when you community “data-ing” service; a need it? Who has never been database of willing community stuck needing to move without members who care to offer their sufficient strong bodies or, special or simple talents for the worse, yet, no truck!? Everyone opportunity to bank “work hours” has seen the bumper sticker for use when they may need a proclaiming, “Yes, it’s my truck, lawn mowed, or help moving a and, no, I won’t help you move!” piano. Luckily for the Lower Columbia The concept of time banking region, a very different philoso- originated with founder Edgar phy has been appropriated by an Cahn in the 1980s. Time bank- eight person steering commit- ing is meant to honor the unique tee, who have been working talents and skills that all com- diligently to research and to munity members have to share, bring the Lower Columbia Time regardless of age, employment, Bank (LCTB) to the Northwestern or ethnic background, like teach- Oregon and Southwestern Wash- ing language, art, or music, ington Coasts. helping with yard work or minor The LCTB steering commit- repairs, or simply running er- tee is: Teresa Barnes, LCTB rands. By valuing the community Financial Officer; Jennifer Ras- as a resource for all its members mussen, LCTB Secretary; Pearl as human beings with something Rasmussen, LCTB Membership to contribute, the time bank Coordinator; Tallie Spiller, LCTB Photo: Dinah Urell Photo: mar12 hipfishmonthly.com 14 Outreach Director; Caren Black, been a resident of Astoria for the west, Caren embraces the child- and see them sit-up a little LCTB plans to make applications and member- v LCTB Adviser (Titanic Lifeboat last ten years. hood memory of an era when straighter when they realize they ship available to those who are not on-line via Academy); Christopher Paddon, The hours earned or ex- neighbors helped one another all have skills to share.” Fellow telephone and postal mail. Applications are LCTB Supporter (Titanic Lifeboat changed in a time bank are all in times of need. She recalls LCTB founding member, Jennifer to be reviewed by the LCTB staff, and prior to Academy Board Member); Nancy of equal value, respecting each how communities valued and Rasmussen (no relation to Pearl) Spaan, LCTB Supporter (Titanic participant as an asset with respected their citizens, based wants to support “cool things participation, a quick and easy orientation is Lifeboat Academy); Joseph Ste- something to offer the com- on what they would contribute to (happening) in my neighbor- required to facilitate the use of the program. venson, LCTB Supporter, came munity, and accepting the fact one another and the community, hood, exchanging help, instead Completion of the orientation gains new together initially to find a Time that we need each other to build and not on their professional of money makes you a better members three time bank hours to start Bank program that existed and stronger communities. The cur- training, number of degrees, or neighbor.” the exchange process. The time bank could be employed LTCB Outreach as a template or Director, Tallie database allows participants to locate mentor program. Spiller appreci- other time bank members’ “offers” and Having difficulty in What is time banking? ates a key tenet “requests” in their area to facilitate locating a specific of time banking an exchange. Members make their person to help with in the equal value own exchanges and report their own the set-up, they just Time banking is a tool by which a group of people can create an alternative placed in all work hours. Hours can not be swapped, dove into it, and, hours; everyone’s eventually, commit- model where they exchange their time and skills, rather than acquire goods hour is equal to sold, assigned a value, or given tee members discov- everyone else’s away. There are no membership ered the Southern and services through the use of money or any other state-backed value. hour. “To give fees and all exchanges are informal Oregon Time Bank something that and voluntary. The all-volunteer LCTB (www.sotb.org) from you want to give staff is seeking technical assistance with Ashland, which provided a model rent state of the economy makes salary. and then to be able to receive they were interested in, and this an opportune time to engage Having grown up in and what you need is a really exciting the on-line software (Joomla!) and website. offered affordable software to this “missing piece” to help with returning to Astoria after college, idea.” Talking with different parts establish the time banking on-line the political and economic future LCTB founding member, Pearl of the community, Tallie shares For more specifics on time banking, prior database for postings needs and of the Pacific Northwest, com- Rasmussen, felt a tremendous the concept and practice of time to the launch date contact LCTB at low- skills to be exchanged. mented LCTB supporter, Nancy sense of community in Astoria banking, “everyone sees how [email protected], or call For many of the committee Spaan. As the current economic after big storms hit the region. they can fit themselves into it.” (503)298-6709. members, the prospect of a bet- system does not seem to benefit “Sometimes it takes a disaster The time bank benefits come ter world through greater commu- the general population, accord- for people to see what they’re from getting to know and to share nity connections factors promi- ing to LCTB Adviser, Christopher capable of.” In the face of with new people, and to become nently into the interest in creating Paddon, time banks offer people economic disaster, the time bank a bigger part of the community as a time bank. LCTB Founding their own economy by enabling offers an appropriate response a resource. member, Teresa Barnes, not communities to be more neigh- to helping each other. Pearl’s The LCTB staff is eager to only sees the time bank as the borly and to put into action, the vision of the time bank opera- initiate and to maintain the potential to develop a community concept of reclaiming community tions builds bridges, and opens formation of LCTB; they stress give-and-take, sharing-based economics. Time banks serve as conversations between differ- the importance of flexibility in the opportunity that functions outside a tool for creating the community ent parts of the community. In growth and future of LCTB and of a strictly its possible monetary sys- off-shoot time tem, but as an “Health organizations believe time banks make people feel better, and cut the banks. LCTB, idea that fits in its current perfectly into form, desires Astoria and cost of health care . . . while some forms of barter are taxable, the I.R.S. has ruled to reach the Time Bank the outer-lying going back in time communities Time banking is not barter. Barter economies have been in communities. that time dollars are not — because they value all work equally, work is done for a all up and practice throughout history, but the idea of using time as a unit of “I never down the exchange only appeared shortly after the Industrial Revolution. The witnessed river, serving origins of time-based currency can be traced both to the American community-in- charitable purpose, and the exchange is informal and non-contractual.” Southwestern anarchist Josiah Warren, who ran the Cincinnati Time Store from action until I Washington 1827 until 1830, and to the British industrialist and philanthropist moved to Asto- - New York Times (September 20, 2011) (Pacific and Robert Owen, who founded the utopian “New Harmony” community. ria. There is al- Wahkiakum While both systems are based on the principles of mutualism and ready a strong Counties the labor theory of value, Josiah Warren’s currency was explicitly tradition (of helping), here...(The that works for you, transforming speaking with various com- ), and Northwestern pegged to time as a measure of specific goods or labor. For example, time bank) arises out of a direct communities into neighborhoods munity groups and encouraging Oregon(Clatsop, Columbia, and 3 hours of carpenter’s work would be considered equivalent to 3-12 need from the community and we want to live in versus com- participation, she has been able Tillamook Counties). pounds of corn. Meanwhile, Robert Owen’s currency simply bore an sells itself.” Theresa is excited munities we feel stuck in. to make people aware of the inscription referring to a number of hours, which presumably could to share her skills, as well as her Caren Black of the Titanic skills they have to offer in a time How it’s going to Work. be exchanged for however many pounds of corn a farmer would friends’ talents with the com- Lifeboat Academy serves a very bank exchange: reading a book to The launch date for the Lower deem adequate or labor of any kind. munity. “Knowing that you can important role as adviser and someone; speaking English with Columbia Time Bank commu- The first successful contemporary time bank was started in 1991 by Paul Glover in Ithaca, New York. Following his idea, people began help each other out empowers a mentor to the youthful and non-native speakers; helping with nity tool is March 20, 2012. At to exchange time, which led to the creation of a time-based cur- neighborhood”. She has already energetic LCTB volunteer staff. basic chores or repairs. The time which time the LCTB website, rency—the “Ithaca Hours,” which even local businesses began to been approached by neighbors The academy provided the 501c3 bank serves as a “powerful tool www.locotimebank.org, should accept, and which still flourishes. Time banking and service exchange expressing their interest in the wing to the Lower Columbia Time for many community members be accessible for applications for have since developed into a full-fledged movement, usually centered whole time bank idea. Teresa has Bank, under which it has been to build self-esteem. It’s nice to membership, more information, around local communities. allowed to fly. Raised in the mid- have a conversation with people and an orientation schedule.

15 mar12 hipfishmonthly.com KALA proudly presents an eve- Nudes Downtown: A Compendium of Art Inspired by Au Naturel ning with North Coast singer/ songwriter Heather Christie, on In celebration of the Art Center Gallery’s Saturday, March 24. Doors open annual exhibition, Au Naturel: The Nude In the at 7:30pm. The night includes 21st Century, at Clatsop Community College, a pre-show reception featuring and six Astoria businesses present Nudes Heather’s handcrafted heath- Downtown: A Compendium of Art Inspired by Au Naturel. This multi-venue exhibition will run erAdorn jewelry, a no-host concurrently with Au Naturel, offering works cocktail bar and light appetizers available for viewing through April 4th. Partici- from the Blue Scorcher Bakery pating galleries are RiverSea Gallery, LightBox and Café. Cover is $10. Photographic Gallery, Old Town Framing, Lunar Heather Christie certainly Boy Gallery, KALA at HIPFiSH, Studio 11, and must be called the daughter of Salon Vervé. the coastal rock music scene. Representation of the human form in art And when, as teenager, she has long been acknowledged as a significant stepped into that scene in Heather Christie at KALA 3/24 source of inspiration, and for many artists the the mid to late 90s, she came core of all artistic endeavors. Historically, willingly to represent the fusion including “5 O’Clock”, which is a reflection on the human form in art dates back to early of spirit and music for everyone. Guitar in an artist’s life challenges. cave dwelling societies, and is perhaps the She is also collaborating with Philip Pel- first form of artistic expression and record of hand, born to a colorful Astoria musical letier on an ambient music series inspired civilization. It is with this in mind that once a family, a penchant for songwriting and the year through The Art Center Gallery of Clatsop power and beauty of the vast pacific ocean by the beauty of nature, something she Community College, artists from around the pushing her -- a beautiful young woman has been looking forward to exploring Martin Anderson Reclining Nude at KALA globe come together to present a vast collec- with a clear and stirring folk voice, and eyes more deeply, and of which you can sample tion of paintings, drawings and prints, honoring to match, gifted stages; whether that stage an exclusive clip, (The Stream) at www. the importance of the nude as an art form. be the sandy beach itself, a new music hipfishmonthly.com. They are also working In support of the annual juried exhibition, venue, KMUN radio -- the upper left edge, as on a video production of the LIVE Frog Town seven downtown venues will present artwork penned by the late Billy Hults, was given its show in HD Video, including several songs celebrating this genre, thus expanding the folk rock priestess. from the upcoming “Bedtime for Tadpoles” concept beyond the boundaries of the campus. A decade and a half later, Christie has release, featuring ambient music for kids. A diverse collection will be exhibited through- tested the waters of country, R&B/pop, In addition to an upcoming gig at Mis- out downtown art galleries and supporting sissippi Pizza in Portland, it has been several businesses, creating a unique and cohesive recorded three of her own albums and has years since Heather Christie has performed art walk, entirely focused on the theme of dedicated much performance and record- humankind in its most elemental form. ing time to the wonderful award-winning as Heather Christie on an Astoria stage. View Nudes Downtown through March FrogTown project, driven by her partner in Recently, an informal appearance at KALA 29, and during the Astoria Second Saturday life and creativity Philip Pelletier. Throwing during the holidays, she gave an inspiring Art Walk. Works in the exhibit include local off the acoustic folk trappings, Christie has performance, a strong inclination its time to and regional Northwest artists and selected been on the road with the multi-media get back to the singer/songwriter/performer submissions to the Au Naturel juried exhibi- LIVE, kid book musical over the course of aspect of her artistry. tion. Local artists include: Nick Knapton, 5 years, donning a fancier pop lady and And of that artistry she says, “My personal Rebecca Rubens, (at KALA) Dwight Caswell ballad singer of the sultry and soulful song music involves allowing myself to walk ( at KALA and Salon Verve), Noel Thomas, ALONE, which by now must be a favorite deeply into the darkest parts of myself, to Penny Treat, Charles Schweigert (RiverSea channel emotions that I tend to avoid in my Gallery). LIghtBox Photographic Gallery in emotional dream catcher for many a kid and adult that has shared the experience of Frog day to day life, and to ride the wave of what addition displays the second annual “Photo- Rachel Black at RiverSea graphic Nude 2012.” Town. For those not informed, Frog Town is I find there. Hopefully within that experience a multi-media book about a little frog guy something otherworldly and beautiful is who comes up against barriers in a musical, born. Not just for me, but for the listener... cultural sea. From classical to country, sax- Music is my release, my ground and my basin street n.w. at the bridgewater bistro • Thursdays playing Thad the tadpole can’t seem to find sanity. I have to make it to stay alive, and if Jazz trio Basin anyone to play with, cause nobody in his big others enjoy it too, then lucky me.” Street NW features neighborhood likes jazz improvisers (ain’t two longtime coast- it the truth). Frog Town hosts numerous The KALA stage features lighting and a great al jazz artists, David Oregon musical artists, including R&B greats, acoustic/amplified sound mix, an intimate Drury guitarist, Linda Hornbuckle and Curtis Salgado. But musical setting in a beautiful restored Astoria and Chuck Wilder eventually music comes to bridge the gap. storefront. Located at 1017 Marine Drive. pianist. Joined by In the earlier 2000s, Christie lead her 503.338.4878. bassist Todd Peder- self-titled band featuring some of the ABOUT heather ADORN son, the refined- coast’s soulful native musicians; guitarist Joe Inspired by tribal elements in a modern cosmopolitan-style Patenaude, drummer Tom Peak and violinist trio performs main- world, heather ADORN adds sleek, delicate Jeffrey Reynolds, recording LOVE Road, an touches to bold, colorful designs, creating stream jazz classics analog studio album of rock originals and innovative, handcrafted pieces for your from Ellington to special nod to her rock pre-origins, Laura adornment. In these cosmic jewels, you will Johnny Mandel, Nero’s Ely’s Comin’. Since the days of her see gem stones combined with glass, metal, Tadd Dameron, more guitar driven material, you can find rocks, feathers, and miscellaneous findings Jobim and others. tracks available on myspace, like “Lady” and from years of collecting. It is not unusual to Enjoy the true “Runnin,” with a pop/R&B bent, but nonethe- discover hand gathered shells from the east or west shores, along with a sparkling piece heart and spirit of less an extension of the early, expressive of cut glass, from a vintage chandelier, in your jazz, Thursdays, Heather Christie. 6:30 – 8:30pm. On favorite pair of earrings. heather ADORN was Currently Heather is working on new ma- born from a desire to honor the center, ritual Basin St. under the terial in the studio, which she says “is a great and sacred space of the creative spirit. Every bridge in Astoria. way to spend the winter months!” She’ll be purchase supports the arts.. playing some of these new songs at KALA, mar12 hipfishmonthly.com 16 GoingsOn: March ‘12 in the columbia pacific

Siren Saturdays Lincoln City Cultural Center Paying tribute to WOMEN’S HISTORY All That Jazz MONTH, the Lincoln City Cultural Center does it with a month of selected live performance at the Liberty and film. Whether you live in the parts or head-out in search of coastal intrigue, LCCC is w/Lindsay Deutsch and Dick Hyman a super cultural facility with galleries, perfor- Five years and The Portland Chamber Orchestra mance auditorium, studio spaces and more. in the vintage biz baby! March 25 • 3pm Here’s Location #1: the 1454 Commercial ASTORIA month’s Hours: Monday, Tuesday, line-up: Liberty Theater winds up her Fifth and Friday thru Sunday, Country from noon to 6:00 p.m. Season on a “high note” with the Portland Roots Phone: 503.325.4272 Chamber Orchestra in “All That Jazz”. Songstress Featuring virtuosic violinist, Lindsay Beth Location #2: Deutsch along with world-renowned jazz Wood, 411 Broadway Street pianist and composer, Dick Hyman. Hy- March 10; SEASIDE Hours: Thursday through man’s long career includes his perfor- the Pilar Rock/Pop artist Pilar French Monday, from noon to mances as a member of the Benny Good- French In- man Trio, and rattling the ivoireis on most 6:00 p.m. tention, rock-infused, March 17, Lori Fletcher Phone: 503.738.SEAG Woody Allen film scores. This concert will and Deco Moon Jazz, March 24. All the shows premiere a new take on Gershwin’s classic will start at 7 p.m. at the LCCC, 540 NE “Rhapsody in Blue” with a transcription for Hwy. 101 in Lincoln City. Tickets are $10 in www.garbosvintage.com violin and orchestra. This exciting program advance, and $12 at the door. To get yours, also offers works by Hyman for jazz trio, call 541-994-9994. violin, piano and orchestra. Yacov Berg- LCCC screens SELENA on Sunday, March man conducts. 10, 11am. $2. The true story of Selena Tickets are $25, $20 and $15 and Quintanilla-Perez, a Texas born tejano singer are on sale at the Liberty Box Office open who rose from cult status to performing at the Tuesday through Saturday from 2 - 5 pm Astrodome. Stars Jennifer Lopez, who won the and 2 hours before curtain. Golden Globe award for outstanding actress.

ART THEATER garden. Bring cracking tools & condiments. Thursday 8 Evening With the Potters. Meet the The Vagina Monologues. $10, 7pm at 21 and over only. $30, seatings at 3:45, FOOD & DRINK potters who create the beautiful soup the PAC in Astoria. 5:30, and 7:30pm at Norse hall on Puget bowls used and sold at the annual Bread Savor Cannon Beach. Wine & Culinary The Mad Adventures of Mr Toad. Island, WA and Soup Fundraiser. The potters display Festival. Starting at 5pm. Events include ASOC Winter Children’s Theater. $6 - Pancake Breakfast. $5 for adults, $3 for some of their work and discuss the wine tastings, seminars, wine dinners and $10, 7:30pm at the ASOC Playhouse in methods and kiln used to create these children. 8am – 11am at the Peninsula related events hosted by Cannon Beach Astoria. unique bowls. Free, 6 – 8pm at the Bay Senior Activity Center in Klipsan Beach, WA art galleries, shops and restaurants. The Supporting Cast. Comedy. $8 - City Arts Center. Wine Tasting. J Christopher. 1 – 4pm at Festival tickets are $99 (wine dinners and $12, 8pm at Theater West in Lincoln City. other related events not included). At vari- FOOD & DRINK the Cellar on 10th in Astoria. ous locations in Cannon Beach. Schedule Savor Cannon Beach. Wine & Culinary Saturday 10 Savor Cannon Beach. Wine & Culinary at savorcannonbeach.com Festival. All day events include wine tast- Festival. Festival tickets are $99 (wine ings, seminars, wine dinners and related MUSIC dinners and other related events not LITERARY events hosted by Cannon Beach art Beth Wood. Acoustic/Folk Rock/ Indie. included). At various locations in Cannon Author Appearance. Bohemian $12, 7pm at the Lincoln City Cultural galleries, shops and restaurants. Festival Beach. Schedule at savorcannonbeach. travel author and ‘resident foreigner’ Sibyl Center. tickets are $99 (wine dinners and other com James reads from her latest, “The Last related events not included). At various Otis Heat. Zouk. $5 cover, 9pm at the Woro Woro to Treichville, A West African locations in Cannon Beach. Schedule at San Dune Pub in Manzanita. HAPPENING Memoir. doors open 7pm. Come relax and savorcannonbeach.com The Hobo Nephews of Uncle Frank. Lower Columbia Pug Socializing Club. have a beverage. Sibyl reads and talks Pugs and their people meet monthly for fun LITERARY Acoustic/Blues/Folk. No cover, 10pm at at 7:30pm. No Cover. KALA is located at and socialization. 11am at Carruthers Park Author Luncheon. Includes a catered Hazel’s Tavern in Astoria. 1017 Marine Drive in Astoria. in Warrenton. lunch, a copy of the author’s book and a ART THEATER chance to visit with an incredible writer. Astoria’s Second Saturday Art Walk. Garibaldi Crab Races. $3 entry fee kids The Supporting Cast. Comedy. $8 - Author Erica Bauermeister will discuss 5 – 9pm downtown Astoria. under 5 free. 10am at Old Mill Marina in $12, 8pm at Theater West in Lincoln City. her newest books. For $20, attendees Garibaldi. will get lunch and a copy of “The School CINEMA Selena. $2, 11am at the Bijou Theater in of Essential Ingredients.” For $30, LECTURE Lincoln City. Friday 9 attendees will receive lunch and a copy From Fantasy to Fabric to Finished MUSIC of “Joy for Beginners.” Starts at noon FOOD & DRINK Quilts. With fabric designer Karen Snyder. John Bunzow Trio. Roots. No cover, 7pm at Beach Books in Seaside. Register at Crab & Oyster Feed. Crab, oysters, po- 2:30pm at the Columbia Pacific Heritage at McMenamins Sand Trap in Gearhart. beachbooks37.com/ tato salad, beans, cole slaw. Beer & wine Museum in Ilwaco, WA

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B’aktun 13 Jane Barnes Revue A Teatro Milagro Get Your Cat Call On! bilingual play March 31 March 16 Three Latinos swept up in an ICE raid and deported to Mexico are suddenly immersed into indigenous cultural experiences. As they are drawn into prophecies surround- ing B’aktun 13, the final era in the Mayan calendar, will the world change on December 21, 2012? Or will they? The possibility of a way home leads them to the Yucatan, where they encounter Mayan deities, jaguars and visions of the Earth Chiapas and the Yucatan. Matthew Zrebski, noted flooding. Rio, gender queer, Luz, a Mayan and Sal, collaborator of new works, directs. a dream act hopeful, struggle with their personal demons as Ixchel, goddess of water and moon, In B’aktun 13 themes of acceptance and unifica- tion unfold to remedy the impending doomsday and Ahpuch, god of death lead them deeper into through a narrative of three main characters deported a mythological universe. A hurricane changes the to Mexico. While the spiritual side of the ancient course of their journey, sending them into uncharted prophecy fills plenty of space along the plotline, lands. Time revolves like a Mayan calendar and Rio, contemporary issues of immigration, assimilation and Luz and Sal must return to face the consequences of identity hit even more powerfully and poignantly than their past as they approach the uncertainties of their the thought of a world that may be no more.

inah Urell future. - Emilee Booher, Willamette Week B’aktun 13 is written by Teatro Milagro Artistic

Photos: D Director Dañel Malán, through collected dialogs from PERFORMANCE: Friday, March 16, 7PM, at the immigrant students and research from travels through The Astoria Downtown Historic few of the featured “Janes” to wet Columbia Memorial Hospital (CMH) CCC Performing Arts Center. Tickets & Information: District Association (ADHDA) pres- your whistle! Check in with the Women’s Center and co-sponsored 503-338-2469 or 338-2557 or 338-2460 ents the second annual, award ADHDA Facebook page as the list by the Astor Street Opry Company winning “Jane Barnes Revue.” of celebrity models join the roster and Holly McHone Jewelers. TAPA This topsey-turvey fashion show in drag-a-rama. This is seriously a no-miss folks! Wait Until Dark features Astoria notable males The delightful, and somewhat The “Jane Barnes Revue” will be At the Barn Community Playhouse dressed up as Jane Barnes (the scandalous, evening of tiaras and held at the Astor Street Opry Com- This thriller, directed by TAPA Carlino, who connive their way all of us eventually plunge into the historical “first white lady of Asto- formals took a surprising turn pany (ASOC) Playhouse, Saturday veteran Dan Phillips, focuses on into her home by pretending to be darkness together. ria” who came by ship, and left by last fall when ADHDA received an March 31. The fashion show starts the recently blinded woman Susy, someone they’re not. Performances: March 16-17, ship in the early 1800’s, and has “Outstanding Special Event” award at 7:30 p.m. Doors open 7:00 whose whole world has become With the aid of her precocious 23-24, 30-31 at 7pm, and March taken on somewhat of a mythical for the event at the Oregon Main p.m. dark as the result of an accident neighbor Gloria, who has taken 25 at 2pm. at The Barn Com- the doll for herself, Susy eventually parlor gal type of persona through Street Conference Excellence in There is limited seating so be six months earlier. Happily munity Playhouse at the corner of married to Sam, her photographer realizes that no one is who they the years). Downtown Revitalization awards. sure to purchase your ticket early. 12th & Ivy in Tillamook. Tickets husband, both are unaware that say they are and that her life is in The eye popping “cat walk” This award recognizes excellence Tickets go on sale on Monday, are available by calling Diamond he has unwittingly brought a doll fill imminent danger. As we watch features Doctor Bill Armington of in building a strong organizational March 5. Tickets can be purchase, Art Jewelers at 503-842-7940 and CMH and Jim Coffee of Coastal foundation through volunteer de- in advance, at Old Town Fram- with heroin into their home. With Susy struggle to survive, she uses the only weapon she has against at the door. Opening Night gala Family Health Center as they make velopment, fundraising activities, or ing Co. for $25.00 apiece. VIP Sam away on a photo shoot, Susy is left home alone to meet and the men and we join her on the champagne event – one beverage their debut at this year’s event. Ad- communication strategies. tickets are available for $50.00 greet Mr. Harry Roat and his two roller coaster ride of her life where and hors d’oeuvres included with ditionally, Brett Estes of the City of A meet-n’greet “the Janes” per person and offer special, front henchmen, Mike Talman and Sgt. price of ticket. Astoria, Andrew Bornstein of Born- dance follows the riotous runway, row “cat walk” seating. (Cash or stein Seafoods, and Jack Harris of where “the Janes” really know check is preferred.) Tickets will also Fort George Brewery will be among how to flaunt what they’ve got (or be available at the door one hour ASOC Kid’s Theater the “Janes” that will be returning wish they really had). The “Jane before the event time. All proceeds The Mad Adventures of Mr. Toad to the stage! But those are only a Barnes Revue” is sponsored by the go to support ADHDA. The ASOC’s 4th Annual Winter Children’s production is the fun and magical THE MAD ADVENTURES OF MR. TOAD written by Vera Morris. It opens March 2nd and will run through March 18th every Friday, Saturday At the Coaster evening at 7:30pm with the doors opening at 7:00pm and every Sundays How the Other Half Loves March 16 – April 22 at 2:00pm with the doors opening at 1:30pm at the ASOC Playhouse 129 In this brilliantly crafted, hilarious comedy, two couples in their own homes, West Bond Street Uniontown Astoria. the Fosters and the Phillipses, are visible to us but not to each other. That the This Musical Theatre presentation is a delightful, upbeat version of Ken- characters cross so blithely into each other’s spaces is an apt metaphor for the neth Grahame’s ever-popular Wind in the Willows featuring kids 8 to 13 double-dealings brought on by illicit affairs. Telephone calls are made to the years of age. Directed by Michael Wangen with Music Direction by ChrisLynn wrong wife or husband; idiotic conversations or hang-ups abound. When the Taylor. With colorful fantastical costumes by Terrie McDonald and Set De- hapless Featherstones are invited to dinner, Ayckbourn’s strategic ploys step up another unbelievable notch. signs by Julie House Meet the eccentric but likeable Toad of Toad Hall and PERFORMANCES: Fridays/Saturdays 8pm, Sun Mat (March 25, Apr 22), Talk- his dear friends Badger, Rat and Mole! Sponsored by CMH Pediatrics and back Thurs, Apr 12. Tickets $8 - $20. FMI go to coastertheare.com My 99.7FM and Country Eagle 103.9FM mar12 hipfishmonthly.com 18 ••• music • visual arts • literarylecture • outdoor • theater••• music.

LITERARY Lulu Lafever. Jazz/Blues. No cover. 8pm Author Appearance. Erica Bauermeister, at Fort George Brewery & Public House in Petty Cash 3 Part Pop and Bluegrass author of “The School of Essential Ingredi- Astoria. With a bluegrass instrumenta- ents” will read from her work. Free, 2pm at ART the Cannon Beach Library. tion combined 3 part pop vocals, Peninsula Quilt Guild Show. Noon – 4pm Petty Cash is a trio composed Manzanita Writer’s Series. Author Marjo- at the Columbia Pacific Heritage Museum of Janet Julian, Dan Haley and rie Sandor will read from her newest book in Ilwaco, WA “The Late Interior.” Q&A and Open Mic Francis Regan. They write songs session follow. $7, 7pm at the Hoffman FOOD & DRINK with soulful lyrics and infectious Center in Manzanita. Pancake Breakfast. All-you-can-eat melodies, performing them with for $5, 8am – noon at the Bay City Arts THEATER Center. an airy sensibility. Their 1995 re- The Vagina Monologues. $10, 7pm at lease “Shrouded By Angels” is an the PAC in Astoria. Cannon Beach American Legion Break- fast. $7 adults, $3 children under 6. 9 enduring classic and their kids’ The Mad Adventures of Mr Toad. ASOC Born in the West; Made in China: – 11:30am at the American Legion Hall in album “OWEE! with many kids Winter Children’s Theater. $6 - $10, The Song Dynasty at Hazels T. Cannon Beach. (and their parents!) and never 7:30pm at the ASOC Playhouse in Astoria. Founded in 2009, The Song odd-time grooves into a uncon- fails to get them dancing. Friday The Supporting Cast. Comedy. $8 - $12, HAPPENING 8pm at Theater West in Lincoln City. Dynasty has quickly become a ventional sound. Super Auction II, The Sequal. A fundrais- March 16, 7pm, No cover, at fixture on the Shanghai scene, Led vocally by Kate Lewis - ing auction. Attend in person or bid re- the Sand Trap in Gearhart performing in rock and jazz clubs keyboards, guitar, and drums motely. 10am – 4pm at 790 SE Hwy 101 Sunday 11 in Lincoln City. FMI lcchamber.com/ alongside local and expat musi- back her lyric/musical yet uncon- MUSIC cians. Tours around China and ventional phrasing with a late LECTURE North Coast Symphonic Band. Sousa In Their Footsteps Lecture Series. 1pm at the Liberty. $10, 2 pm at the Liberty East coast America have followed, Miles Davis-esque jazz and funk at the Netul Room in the Visitor Center at Theater in Astoria. with successful performances in flow. Its cool, complex, hypnotic. Fort Clatsop Ronnie Milsap. Country/Country Pop/ New York and at the prestigious Song Dynasty is tripping between Countrypolitan/Soul. $15 - $25, 5pm at THEATER JZ Music festival (http://www. Seattle, Portland, Eugene and the The Mad Adventures of Mr Toad. ASOC Chinook Winds in Lincoln City. jzfestival.com/en/) in Shanghai. little music mecca of Astoria. Winter Children’s Theater. $6 - $10, 2pm Otis Heat. Zouk. No cover. 8pm at Fort The band fuse rock, dub Thursday, March 22, 9pm. No at the ASOC Playhouse in Astoria. George Brewery & Public House in Astoria. reggae, electronica, funk and Cover. At Hazels Tavern, 1313 ART Marine Dr. in Astoria. Monday 19 Open House. Meet the staff & view the FOOD & DRINK wonderful items & exhibits. Noon – 4pm Porter Dodge & David Crabtree. Tradi- Ice Cream Social. The public is invited for at the Latimer Quilt & Textile Center in LITERARY tional Irish fiddle & guitar. No cover 8pm at cake & ice cream + birthday celebration. Tillamook. Author Appearance. Forensic expert Rod Englert, author of “Blood Secrets,” will dis- fort George in Astoria. $1 suggested donation, free if it’s your FOOD & DRINK cuss his work and sign copies of his book. Lloyd Jones. Blues/Funk/Soul. $5, 9pm at birthday month. 2pm at the Peninsula Savor Cannon Beach. Wine & Culinary Free, 7pm at the Seaside Library. the San Dune Pub in Manzanita. Senior Activity Center in Klipsan Beach, WA Festival. At various locations in Cannon Beach. Schedule at savorcannonbeach. ART Wednesday 21 com Friday 16 Peninsula Quilt Guild Show. 10am – Fast Rattler 4pm at the Columbia Pacific Heritage MUSIC HAPPENING MUSIC Open Mic Night. All acts welcome. 5 – A good bit a’ Utah Phillips Petty Cash. Classic Rock/Country/Rock. Museum in Ilwaco, WA Garibaldi Crab Races. $3 entry fee, kids 7pm at the Three Cups Coffeehouse in Fast Rattler started as a such as Portland Cello Project, No cover, 7pm at McMenamins Sand Trap under 5 free. 10am at Old Mill Marina in FOOD & DRINK Astoria. way for a son to get to know a Laura Gibson and more. Garibaldi. in Gearhart. Wine Tasting. Wines for St Patrick’s Day. Open Mic Night. Hosted by Ann Tierney. little bit more about a father. Fast Rattler made its debut on 1 – 4pm at the Cellar on 10th in Astoria Tillamook Bay Tsunami Outreach & ART All levels welcome. 5 – 7pm at Wheelhouse Brendan Phillips grew up listening the 2009 Grammy-nominated Education Rally. A panel of scientists Peninsula Quilt Guild Show. 10am – HAPPENING Coffee Company in Astoria. to the songs and stories of his album “Singing Through the Hard & professionals will present information 4pm at the Columbia Pacific Heritage Super Auction II, The Sequal. A fundrais- HAPPENING father, the late Utah Phillips. He Times: A Tribute to Utah Phillips,” on tsunamis, earthquakes & emergency Museum in Ilwaco, WA ing auction. Attend in person or bid re- Open Mic. All Acts are welcome. No cover, management. Also will be booths that will motely. 9am – 10pm at 790 SE Hwy 101 began to learn his songs, and which included artists like Em- share preparedness information and maps OUTSIDE 5 – 7pm at the Three Cups Coffeehouse the stories behind them, after mylou Harris, Ani DiFranco, Pete St Pat’s Golf Tournament. $45-$55/ in Lincoln City. FMI lcchamber.com/ in case of an event. Free, 2pm at Tillamook in Astoria. discovering an old songbook Utah Seeger and Tom Paxton paying Bay Community College in Tillamook player, cart rental $15/player. Noon LITERARY LECTURE shotgun start at McMenamins Sand Trap Writers on the Edge. Author Lidia had put out titled “Starlight On their respects at the passing LITERARY Listening to the Land: Nature’s Trails. in Gearhart. Yuknavitch will read from her memoir “The The Rails.” It wasn’t long before of one of Folk music’s activist Author Reading. Oregon Book Awards With naturalist Neal Maine. Free, 6pm at Chronology of Water.” Open Mic session a love of his dad’s music grew heroes. finalists Carl Adamshick, Vanessa Veselka THEATER the Seaside Library. and Lidia Yuknavitch will read from their B’ak’tun 13. A bilingual (Spanish and Eng- follows. $6, 7pm at the Newport Visual into a full-fledged appreciation Brendan Phillips will be work. Free, 7pm at the Cannery Pier Hotel lish) play. Free, 7pm at the PAC in Astoria. Arts Center. LITERARY of the power of songs. He began coming out with a duo album in Astoria. Cannon Beach Reads. A monthly book playing with Utah in 2004. with Bodhi Busick (a resident of The Mad Adventures of Mr Toad. ASOC THEATER discussion group. This month’s book is OUTSIDE Winter Children’s Theater. $6 - $10, B’ak’tun 13. A bilingual (Spanish and Eng- the Modern Library edition of “Heart of Fast Rattler is a 5 and Nevada City CA, virtuosic guitar Season Kick-off Scramble. At Skyline 7:30pm at the ASOC Playhouse in Astoria. lish) play. Free, 7pm at the PAC in Astoria. Darkness and Selections from the Congo sometimes 6 piece ensemble player and long time protégé and Golf Course in Cathlamet, WA 360-795- How the Other Half Loves. Comedy. The Mad Adventures of Mr Toad. ASOC Diary” by Joseph Conrad. Free, 7pm at the (with rock section) comprised comrade of Utah’s) in the near 3480 $8 - $20, 8pm at the Coaster Theater Winter Children’s Theater. $6 - $10, Cannon Beach Library. of Portland musicians of whom months of 2012. Friday, March Playhouse in Cannon Beach. 7:30pm at the ASOC Playhouse in Astoria. THEATER THEATER work with numerous noted folk, 23, 7pm, No Cover, at the The Mad Adventures of Mr Toad. ASOC Wait Until Dark. Suspense. At the Barn How the Other Half Loves. Comedy. The Wizard of Oz. Presented by the Neah- acoustic and roots music groups Sand Trap in Gearhart Winter Children’s Theater. $6 - $10, 2pm Community Playhouse in Tillamook. $8 - $20, 8pm at the Coaster Theater kah-nie Middle School After School Theater at the ASOC Playhouse in Astoria. The Supporting Cast. Comedy. $8 - $12, Playhouse in Cannon Beach. students. At the bay City Arts center. 8pm at Theater West in Lincoln City. Wait Until Dark. Suspense. At the Barn Thursday 22 Maggie Blues Thursday 15 Community Playhouse in Tillamook. At Sweet Basil’s Saturday 17 The Supporting Cast. Comedy. $8 - $12, FOOD & DRINK MUSIC Join North Coast Blues 8pm at Theater West in Lincoln City. Dinner at PSAC. Includes main course, MUSIC The Song Dynasty. Rock/Funk/Club. No Vocalist Maggie Kitson and salad, dessert, and beverage. $8, 5 – Pilar French Intention. Blues/Indie/Rock. cover, 10pm at Hazel’s Tavern in Astoria. Friends in the intimate music 6:30pm at the Peninsula Activity and Sunday 18 $12, 7pm at the Lincoln City Cultural FOOD & DRINK room at Sweet Basils in Can- Senior Center in Klipsan Beach, WA Center. MUSIC Fundraising Dinner. $7 for adults and $5 non Beach, every Friday from LECTURE Whistlin’ Rufus. Americana/Bluegrass/ Ariel String Quartet. Classical chamber for children includes. 5 - 6:30pm at the 6 – 9pm. Insta-groove a move, The Supporting Cast. Comedy. $8 - $12, Folk. No cover, 7pm at McMenamins Sand music. $25, 3pm at the Chapel at Camp Peninsula Senior Activity Center in Klipsan not to lose. At 271 N. Hemlock 8pm at Theater West in Lincoln City. Trap in Gearhart. Winema north of Neskowin. Beach, WA in CB.

19 mar12 hipfishmonthly.com artv happens. PAINT IN FRESCO Thread and Ink Agnes Field at Fairweather House and Garden Constance Waisanen and Rebecca Read Printmaker and calligrapher Rebecca Read and as rhythm. The process of textile artist Constance Waisanen stitch together translating internal or exter- two ancient crafts, the work of the quill and the nal observation becomes not needle. Read offers monotypes with lusciously a question of how to make, layered calligraphic text and mixed media embel- but of how to be.” lishment. Waisanen unveils color-drenched hand- Field has a Masters of dyed works with her magnificent signature stitched Studio Fine Art from New designs. Individual pieces by each artist will be York University and studied on display as well as several unique collaborative at the Pacific NW College works. of Art, School of Visual In the signature piece of the show, Old Crows, Waisanen used images by Read, which she printed Arts, New York, and SACI on fabric, as the inspiration for an original poem. in Florence, Italy. The Read rendered the poem in calligraphy reminis- award winning artist has cent of crow tracks, which Waisanen transferred shown nationally including to fabric. The resulting work reflects the sensibili- the Portland Art Museum, ties of both artists and evokes the deep longing to Coos Bay Art Museum, and connect. Cheney Cowles Museum. In another collaborative series the pair works She worked on the Astoria with rust dyed fabric by Waisanen overprinted with Column Restoration and the calligraphy by Read to create a visual experience historic DK Warren House. that is reminiscent of lost cultures and ancient One of the founders of non- languages. profit Astoria Visual Arts, Opening Reception: Saturday, March 10, she is currently curating the 5-8pm, Astoria Second Saturday Art Walk. At visual art sessions at KALA the Fisher Building, 42 Seventh Street, on the at Hipfishmonthly.com. River Walk. Agnes Field, Field Dream 48”x48” mixed media/plaster on panel An artist’s reception will Agnes Field, a native Oregonian, that allows little room for changing be held during the Seaside developed her work in Italy where the original idea. In her statement, Chamber of Commerce First Uniontown Women she studied fresco painting and Field reports that she is” always Saturday Art Walk on March 3rd Mary Tanguay Webb at Studio 11 began using unusual materials, looking for what is below the sur- between 5-7:pm at Fairweather On Saturday, March 10, painter Mary Tanguay 8:00 p.m. and then each woman takes home her such as insulfoam and plaster face--to understand how emotion House and Garden, located at 612 Webb will be showing portraits of eleven women own painting. and clay for a light and textured can be caught below the surface. Broadway, in the historic Gilbert at Studio 11 in conjunction with Women’s History The show will be more of a “happening” than a surface. Fresco painting is very Making and painting is a direct block. for more information go to: month. Studio 11 is located at 453-A Eleventh regular gallery show in that it will hang for the two search of the world around us. A www.fairweatherhouseandgarden. direct and spontaneous, which Street in Astoria. (The corner of 11th and Ex- hours of the reception from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. and creates a freshness on the surface mark on any surface is as primal com change.) The show is a result of a project that then each woman takes home her own painting. Tanguay Webb began a year ago. All of the women Opening Reception: Saturday, March 3, 5-9pm have supplied biographical information about their at Studipo 11, located at the corner of 11th and Fruits of Our Labor lives that will hang next to Exchange. CB Gallery their portrait. The Cannon Beach Gallery hosts in invitational Tanguay Webb said, “All an invitational group show, Fruits shows and of these women are con- of Our Labor, March 1- April 2. gallery settings nected to me and to Union Two Gearhart area artists will be across the coun- Town by various happen- featured in the show, glass artist try, and have stances during the almost John Cook and painter Brian Cam- received numer- six years we have lived in eron along with Portland based ous awards. Astoria. I met them walking artists Suzy Kitman and Margaret “My People my dog in the hood, taking an acting class, rescuing Terrall. The exhibit is the CBAA’s in Landscape,” feral cats, being a neighbor, nod to Savor Cannon Beach series deals “Anne Views the Future,” Suzy Kitman, going to a gallery, buy- and will highlight artwork that is directly with oil on canvas, 30”x40” ing our house or going out thematically related to growing, issues of pres- kitchen for much of the subject for coffee. They are each preparing and enjoying food. ence and purpose. Working in oil matter. Multi media artist, Marga- delightful and interesting and The Artist’s Reception will be paint, either from plein air views ret Terrall will be showing decora- trusted me to do this. I feel held on Saturday, March 3 from, or from my photographs, I create tive trays. Inspiration comes to her honored. 6-8 P.M. and is a free event, open vibrant and richly textured surfaces from her garden and the beauty of The show will be more of to the public. Light refreshments on my paintings,” Kitman says of Oregon. a “happening” than a regular will be served. her recent work. Opening Reception: Saturday, gallery show in that it will Suzy Kitman’s large scale oil Painter Brian Cameron has March 3, 3-6pm. Cannon Beach hang for the two hours of paintings of fruit and people within painted on a small scale for this Gallery is located at 1064 the reception from 6:00 to the landscape have been shown show, taking inspiration from his Hemlock. mar12 hipfishmonthly.com 20 ••• music • visual arts • literarylecture • outdoor • theater•••

LECTURE HAPPENING Headlight Herald Home & Garden Show. What Beekeepers Do. With Julie Tennis. PNPW Pro Wrestling. $10, 5 – 8pm at Friday 30 Vendors and food. Free admission. At the Free, 7pm at the Seaside Library. Tillamook County Fairgrounds in Tillamook. the Astoria Event Center. MUSIC THEATER THEATER LECTURE James Faretheewell & the Foolhardy. The Supporting Cast. Comedy. $8 - $12, How the Other Half Loves. Comedy. Coastal Think Tanks. “Tracking Godzilla: Acoustic/Electroacoustic/Folk Rock. No 8pm at Theater West in Lincoln City. $8 - $20, 8pm at the Coaster Theater Images of Nuclear Radiation” with Dr cover, 7pm at McMenamins Sand Trap in Playhouse in Cannon Beach. Friday 23 Isabelle Freda. $25 for a season pass good Gearhart. for all 6 seminars. 2 – 4pm at the confer- Sunday 1 Karaoke From Hell. $5 cover, 9pm at the MUSIC ence room at the Inn at Cape Kiwanda in san Dune Pub in Manzanita. MUSIC Country Music Jam. Free, 7 – 9pm at the Pacific City. Wickiup Senior Center in Svensen. Bluegrass Music Jam. 1 – 3pm at the ART Tillamook Forest Center. Fast Rattler. A blend of traditional THEATER Peninsula Art Association Annual Spring American folk, bluegrass, Irish and Gypsy How the Other Half Loves. Comedy. The Charming Man. No cover. 8pm at Fort with elements of jazz, swing, and rock. No $8 - $20, 3pm at the Coaster Theater Art Show. Free admission, 10am – 5pm at George Brewery & Public House in Astoria. cover, 7pm at McMenamins Sand Trap in Playhouse in Cannon Beach. the World Kite Museum in Long beach, WA ART Gearhart. Wait Until Dark. Suspense. At the Barn Peninsula Art Association Annual Spring CINEMA Art Show. Free admission, 10am – 5pm at Kory Quinn & the Comrades. Americana/ Community Playhouse in Tillamook. Folk/ Folk Rock. No cover, 9pm at the Big Made in Oregon Film Festival.The the World Kite Museum in Long beach, WA General. A silent film with Buster Keaton. O Saloon in Olney Monday 26 FOOD & DRINK At the Bijou Theater in Lincoln City. FOOD& DRINK Knights of Columbus Pancake Break- CINEMA NCSB Brings Sousa to The Liberty Pancake Breakfast. $5, 8 – 11am at THEATER fast. $7/person, $25/family. 8:30am Made in Oregon Film Festival. Some- – 1pm at the Parish Hall of Our Lady of the Peninsula Activity & Senior Center in How the Other Half Loves. Comedy. The North Coast Symphonic The March 11 concert will Klipsan Beach, WA times a Great Notion. At the Bijou Theater Victory Church in Seaside. Band will offer North Coast showcase the talent of several $8 - $20, 8pm at the Coaster Theater in Lincoln City. HAPPENING NCSB members with two special THEATER Playhouse in Cannon Beach. residents a musical treat with its Nehalem Bay Winery Anniversary Cel- “Sousa at the Liberty” concert on numbers during the concert. Flutist How the Other Half Loves. Comedy. $8 - $20, 8pm at the Coaster Theater ebration. Live music & more. Noon – 5pm Sunday, March 11, at the historic and piccolo player Lauren Brady at the Nehalem Bay Winery in Mohler. will perform Concertino for Flute by Playhouse in Cannon Beach. Liberty Theater in Downtown As- Headlight Herald Home & Garden Show. Cécile Chaminade. Brady, originally Wait Until Dark. Suspense. At the Barn toria. The program features many Community Playhouse in Tillamook. Vendors and food. Free admission. At the compositions by John Philip Sousa from Houston, Texas, received her Tillamook County Fairgrounds in Tillamook. master’s degree in flute performance The Supporting Cast. Comedy. $8 - $12, such as The Washington Post from the San Francisco Conservatory 8pm at Theater West in Lincoln City. Wednesday 4 March, Fugue on Yankee Doodle, of Music and her bachelor of music Comrades of the Legion, and of degree from Northwestern University Saturday 24 MUSIC course, The Stars and Stripes in Evanston, Illinois. She currently Baga’s Front Room. Join other music Forever. The band will also perform MUSIC lovers every first Wednesday for song and resides in Warrenton, Oregon, and Jason Lambert. A blend of acoustic and music from the era when Sousa conversation and maybe to sip a little wine is a second year member of the alternative rock. No cover, 4pm at McMe- or other beverage. Food available too. 7pm was popular like Triumphal March NCSB. A brass group of trumpets namins Sand Trap in Gearhart. at Lush Wine Bar in Cannon Beach. and trombones from the NCSB from “Aida” by Giuseppe Verdi and Billy D and the HooDoos. Blues. No Polka and Fugue from “Schwanda will solo with Sextet from “Lucia di HAPPENING cover, 7pm at McMenamins Sand Trap in North Coast Job & Career Fair. open to the Bagpiper” by Jaoromir Wein- Lammermoor” with Joan Paddock, Gearhart. trumpet professor at Linfield College, job seekers and students seeking career berger and Ira Hearshen’s Move- information. This annual event showcases taking the lead. Lorui Fletcher & the Deco Moon Jazz ment Two of Symphony on Themes Trio. Jazz. $12, 7pm at the Lincoln City over 60 employment recruiters, colleges, Tickets: $10/$8 for students of John Philip Sousa. Cultural center. and educational organizations. 12:30 - with ID. Children 12 and under are 4:00pm at the Seaside Civic & Convention The afternoon will begin at 1:30 No Excuse Rocks. A Van Halen tribute free with an adult. Advance tickets Brownsmead Flats Center. Visit www.mtcworks.com for P.M. with pre-concert music from band. $5 cover, 9pm at the San Dune Pub are available at the Liberty Theater Hearty songs are sung in what is the quintessential style of the registration. the Basin Street N.W. Trio, a popular in Manzanita. Box Office, Tuesthrough Sat from local jazz group consisting of Dave subculture of Brownsmead Oregon. One voice – one microphone, be 2pm-5:30pm. Day-of-show tickets FOOD & DRINK Thursday 5 Drury on guitar, Chuck Wilder on one with the Flats. Sunday, March 25, 8pm at the Fort in Astoria. will be available at the box office, Wine Tasting. Wines from Greece. 1 – piano, and Todd Peterson on string ART which will open at 12 noon. The 4pm at the Cellar on 10th in Astoria bass. The group performs main- Opening Reception. Pacific Rim Art auditorium doors will open at 1:15. Saturday 31 stream jazz classics with a refined HAPPENING Exhibit. Emergence from Place: Neo- Also available from Tickets West at Tuesday 27 cosmopolitan style and can be heard United Paws Adoption Day. This is MUSIC Traditional Indigenous Art. 6pm at the Art 800-922-8499 and are subject to a Center Gallery at CCC in Astoria. Thursday evenings at the Bridgewater a great time to stop in and see all the CINEMA Troll Radio Revue. Americana. $2 for convenience charge. kittens, cats and dogs that need new for- Bistro. The North Coast Symphonic Made in Oregon Film Festival. Kinder- adults, free for children. 11am – noon at HAPPENING ever homes. Noon- 3pm at the Tillamook garten Cop. At the Bijou Theater in Lincoln the PAC in Astoria. First Thursday Trivia at the Library. A Band will take the stage to perform County Fairgrounds in Tillamook. team trivia competition. Free, 5:30pm at its program at 2 P.M. Get Ready, Get Set, LAUGH! City. Henry Cooper. $5 cover, 9pm at the San And get your act together THEATER the Astoria Library. NCSB conductor Dave Becker of Dune Pub in Manzanita. Manzanita has thoroughly researched On Saturday, March 31 a Com- How the Other Half Loves. Comedy. Wednesday 28 Friday 6 performance practices of John Philip edy Night is planned to support the $8 - $20, 8pm at the Coaster Theater ART fund-raising efforts for renovation of Playhouse in Cannon Beach. Sousa and will incorporate many of CINEMA Peninsula Art Association Annual Spring the NCRD Theater/Auditorium. FOOD & DRINK Wait Until Dark. Suspense. At the Barn Made in Oregon Film Festival. The Art Show. Free admission, 10am – 5pm at Wine Tasting. At Taste of Tuscany in them into the concert. On October Comedy acts, musical skits, Community Playhouse in Tillamook. the World Kite Museum in Long beach, WA Seaside. 503-738-5377 8, 1927, the Sousa band celebrated mime, silly dances, comic stand- Goonies. $2, at the Bijou Theater in Lincoln its millionth mile of touring as their up, funny impressions, jokes ... The Supporting Cast. Comedy. $8 - $12, City. CINEMA HAPPENING train crossed the Columbia River whatever will tickle the funny bones, 8pm at Theater West in Lincoln City. LITERARY Made in Oregon Film Festival. The Shin- Easter Bingo Night. A family night out into Portland. Unfortunately, Sousa are invited to perform for this fun ing. At the Bijou Theater in Lincoln City. with bingo games and raffle drawings. neglected to come to the Liberty event. Submit your entry idea and/ Sunday 25 Local Author Showcase. Writers and 7pm at the JA Wendt Elementary School in Theater in Astoria on that tour, so or script with your contact informa- friends are invited to come share and listen FOOD & DRINK Cathlamet, WA tion (name, email, phone) by March MUSIC the North Coast Symphonic Band will to original works being read by local au- Wine Tasting. Oregon Pinot Noirs. 1 – Comedy on the Coast. $15, 8pm at 17 to the Comedy Night Committee Tlen-Huicani. Traditional folk music of the thors. Free, 6 – 8pm at Olde Towne Trading 4pm at the Cellar on 10th in Astoria Chinook Winds in Lincoln City. attempt to make right that omission at [email protected]. All state of Veracruz, Mexico. $10, 2pm at the with this concert of Sousa composi- acts should be “above-board” Raymond Theater in Raymond, WA Post in Ilwaco, WA HAPPENING LECTURE tions and others that his touring because this is a family event (PG All That Jazz. With Lindsay Deutsh, Dick Jane Barnes Revue. A topsey-turvey Pacific Rim Art Lecture & Slide Show. band might have performed. The only, please) and limited to 5 - 10 Hyman, and Yaacov Bergman, Conductor Thursday 29 fashion show featuring Astoria’s finest 7pm at the PAC in Astoria. NCSB will also attempt to transport minutes. & music Director. $15 - $25, 3pm at the males dressed up as Jane Barnes. $25 LITERARY the audience back to Sousa’s time Saturday, March 31. 7-9pm, at Liberty Theater in Astoria. CINEMA admission. VIP tickets are available for NCRD Appleton Auditorium/Theater Author Luncheon. Author Luncheon. in Oregon by including music from The Brownsmead Flats. Am. No cover. Made in Oregon Film Festival. Rooster $50.00 per person and offer special, front (lower level of gymnasium) $10 Includes a catered lunch, a copy of the Jerome Kern’s “Showboat,” an iconic 8pm at Fort George Brewery & Public Cogburn. At the Bijou Theater in Lincoln row “cat walk” seating. 7:30pm at the adults and $2 children under 12. author’s book and a chance to visit with an American musical written in 1927. House in Astoria. City. ASOC Playhouse in Astoria.

21 mar12 hipfishmonthly.com Jesus Loves Women: A Memoir of Body and Spirit IN REVIEW By Nancy Slavin Friday Author Tricia Gates Brown Tricia Gates Brown’s memoir, community, first love and sexual Oceanside, she writes, “Oceanside MUSIC Bill Hayes. Rock/Folk/Bluegrass. No cover, 5 – 8pm at the Cannon Beach Cookie Jesus Loves Women, has only awakenings, an early marriage is spellbinding....Light prances Company. three words in the title, and any rife with stereotypical gender role on the water. Cloudscapes part Tom Trudell. Jazz piano. No cover, 6– 9pm at the Shelburne Restaurant & Pub in one of them alone could deter the expectations and emotional con- and converge, billowing grada- Seaview, WA. prototypical hipfish reader (read: trol, single motherhood, academic tions of white and basalt-gray Asleep at the Switch. Blues, Country, 40’s, & 50’s. Free (donations accepted), 6 – theological study and self-imposed with gossamer sideburns, layers 8pm at the City Hall in Garibaldi. non-denominational, feminist, pressure to achieve, a second of steely blue.” I wished all over Thomasian Trio & Maggie Kitson. Blues/Classic Rock. No cover, 6pm at Sweet free-thinking individual) from pick- Basil’s Café in Cannon Beach. ing up the book. “Jesus” scares marriage, a second divorce, and a again I still lived there). But with few international peace keep- HAPPENING some people. “Love” scares plenty all the locations in the book, from Happy Hour for Higher Ed. With significant layoffs looming at Clatsop Community of people. And “Women,” as a ing missions. Brown handles the Willamette Valley’s influential College, faculty, administrators, and the public are gathering weekly to discuss the situ- capital lettered word and a sex, shifts in time and age without abbey, to Scotland, to Canada, ation and provide information about restoring teaching jobs. This in a fun setting that any major jolts – the narrative anyone can come to, at the Fort George Lovell Taproom, and the brewery is donating let’s be honest here, scare lots and back to the Oregon coast, a dollar from each pint sold during Happy Hour for Higher Ed, Fridays 3-6 p.m., to a of people, too. But put them all balances story and summary; it Brown’s writing makes me feel as faculty fund, which is dedicated toward maximizing faculty positions. together, along with a subtitle weaves both ideas and memories if I’ve been to those places, and Saturday that says, “a memoir of body and into a fine cloth. Additionally, offers metaphors for the narrator’s spirit,” and suddenly the book although Brown’s book reveals various emotional states, which, MUSIC several ill-advised decisions and Musician’s Jam. Free, 2 – 4pm at the Tillamook Library. begs questions that makes read- in turn, makes me feel like I’m wrong turns, the narrative voice getting to know a friend. Jennifer Goodenberger. Classical/Improvisational/Contemporary piano music. No ers want to open its pages. fundamentalist or even Christian, is thoughtful, contemplative, Jesus Loves Women is impres- cover, 6pm at the Shelburne Restaurant in Seaview, WA I’m one of those people who so much of what Brown meditates and honest without being either sive in its scope of thought and its The Honky Tonk Cowboys. Country. No cover, 7 – 10p at the Astoria Moose Lodge. scares easily upon hearing Jesus upon in her memoir, I related a shame-a-log or overly self- coverage of so many aspects of FOOD & DRINK in a sentence because, for me, to as an every day woman, like Wine Tasting Special. $9 for 4 2-oz pours + complimentary appetizers. 4 – 6pm at absorbed. This memoir gives – as one woman’s life. To write about too many people (read: fundamen- mistakenly trying to find Christ-love the Wine Bar at Sweet Basil’s Café in Cannon Beach. all good memoirs should give – its any individual life is hard enough, talist Christians) have used Jesus’ through the approval of men, or readers a chance to reconsider but to also manage to articulate Sunday name while justifying unhelpful trying to achieve academic and their own beliefs and paradigms; truths about female sexuality and and, often, hurtful action. But in literary success in order to prove MUSIC in this case those ideas we hold longing, violence and peace, and All That Jazz. Jazz. No cover (donations accepted). 2pm at the Wet Dog Café in Brown’s memoir, Jesus is a not about womanhood, religion, war, my worth as a person, or feeling Astoria. self-health and solitude, raises simply the son of God who bears sexuality, kindness, and what to confusion about my right as a Honky Tonk Cowboys. No cover, 3 – 6pm at the Astoria Moose Lodge. Brown’s memoir to the level of the cross of our sins, but a mentor do with our own hidden corners of woman to be a sensual being, or Brian Johnstone, Flamenco/Jazz/Blues. 5 – 7pm at the Wine Bar at Sweet Basil’s being a book one keeps close by to study, a person to emulate, a secrecy and shame. wondering what spiritual purpose Café in Cannon Beach. on the shelf. The kind of book helper to meditate upon, and a The book answers many of the my life holds. we can turn to again and again Monday teacher who advocates self-love questions the title begs, such as: Set primarily in the Pacific to learn from and to relate to and and self-respect. how can women not know, in this Northwest, Brown, writes about HAPPENING open in order to remember our Burgers & Jam Session. 6 – 9pm at the American Legion hall in Cannon Beach. Spanning from youth to middle day and age, that Jesus loves our lush area with memorable spirits. Tuesday age, Jesus Loves Women tells the them? And, based on the tagline sensory detail. “Lively woods... MUSIC story of one individual woman’s of the book, can a woman express hold their breath till morning, Jesus Loves Women is avail- Richard T. Blues. No cover, 5:30 – 8:30pm at T Paul’s Supper Club in Astoria. journey into spiritual authenticity. true Christ-like love and still be when birds burst into chorus able locally at Cloud & Leaf Book- Brian O’Connor. Jazz guitar. No cover, 6pm at the Shelburne Inn in Seaview, WA The memoir covers a lot of ground a sexual being? How does one and deer cut paths to the paltry store in Manzanita, Ekahni Books Salty Dogs. Folk/Blues/Classic Rock. No cover, 6:30pm at the U Street Pub in Sea- including: a childhood spent navi- balance body and spirit anyway? streams sauntering through the in Manzanita, and Lucy’s Books side. gating a fundamentalist home and Even though my upbringing wasn’t hills.” (About my old haunt of in Astoria. Wednesday MUSIC Salty Dogs. Folk/Blues/Classic Rock. No cover, 6pm at the Rio Café in Astoria, Poetry Writing Workshop/Reading with Carlos Reyes Dan Golden. World Music. 7:30 – 10:30pm at McKeown’s Restaurant & Bar in at the Hoffman Center Saturday, March 31 Seaside. Carlos Reyes conducts a poetry-writing creative. This workshop will involve different Fundación Valparaíso (Mojåcar, Spain). He was Suzanne Knutzen. Piano. No cover, 7 – 8pm at the Shelburne Restaurant & Pub in Seaview, WA workshop from 10am-2pm at the Hoffman writing prompts from the 2011 workshop. poet-in-residence in 2009 at the Lost Horse Center in You’ll walk away with useful handouts, a Ranger Station in the Joshua Tree National HAPPENING Ecstatic Dance. Spirit-filled, freestyle, yogic trance dance. $5 - $7, 6:30 – 7:45pm, at Manzanita “homework” assignment, along with many new Park, and recently writer-in-residence at the Pine Grove Community House in Manzanita on Saturday, poetry drafts. Island Institute in Sitka, Alaska. Pomegranate Open Mic Night. 7 – 9pm at Lush Wine Bar in Cannon Beach. (every Wednesday March 31. He Go to hoffmanblog.org to download a reg- is his fifth collection of poetry to be published. except 1st of the month) reads from istration form. Workshop fee is a $25. Bring At the Hoffman Center (across from Manza- Thursday his new book, a brown bag for nita Library at 594 Laneda Avenue.) FMI: hoff- Pomegran- the half-hour lunch manblog.org online or contact Vera Wildauer at MUSIC ate, Sister break. [email protected]). Live Music. No cover, 6pm at U Street Pub in Seaside. of the Heart, Carlos Reyes Basin Street NW. Jazz. No cover, 6:30pm at the Bridgewater Bistro in Astoria. following the lives and writes in Randy Weese. Bluegrass/Country. 6:30 – 9pm at the Wine Bar at Sweet Basil’s Café workshop at Portland, Oregon POETRY FOR EVERYONE in Cannon Beach. Driftwood Public Library will host an Open Jam Session. No cover, 7pm at the Triangle Tavern in Astoria. 2:30. This when he is not traveling. HIs travels Mic Poetry Night on Wednesday, March 21 Jim Wilkins. 7pm at the Voodoo Room in Astoria. is a special event of the to Panama, Spain, at 6pm in the Community Room. Light re- Salty Dogs. Folk/Blues/Classic Rock. No cover, 9pm at Sam’s Seaside Café in Seaside. Manzanita Alaska or Ireland, freshments will be served. All are welcome ART Writers’ Series. The free reading is open to the inspire and inform to read a favorite poem, bring a poem of Knitting/Spinning Group. 3 – 5pm at the Astoria Fiber Arts Academy. public and books will be available to purchase his poetry. In 2007 their own share, or just to listen. The library HAPPENING at the event. he was honored is located on the second floor of the city Poet & Songwriters Circle. If you are interested in writing poetry/songs, please drop in building at 801 SW Hwy 101. Contact and join the group. 7pm at the Bay City Arts Center. Writers who participated in Reye’s March with a Heinrich Boll Fellowship, which gave him Ron Sears at 541-996-1255 or rsears@ Poetry Open Mike. No cover, 8:30pm at the Wine Bar at Sweet Basil’s Café in Can- 2011 one-hour workshop can tell you that his two weeks to write on Achill Island, Ireland. non Beach. workshops are immediately engaging, fun and He has had fellowships to Yaddo and the driftwoodlib.org for more information. mar12 hipfishmonthly.com 22 word. Blood Secrets with Forensic Expert Rod Englert Oregon Book Awards Author Tour At Seaside Library Manzanita/Astoria Literary Arts is pleased to announce Her previous books include the linked events in Manzanita and Astoria as story collection, Portrait of my Mother, part of the Oregon Book Awards Author Who Posed Nude in Wartime: Stories The Friends of the Seaside Library will ing a vital new tool that is now a part of Tour. MARJORIE SANDOR will appear (Sarabande Books), which won the 2004 host noted forensic expert and author of any criminal investigation. Rod’s real life as part of the Manzanita Writers Series National Jewish Book Award in Fiction; “Blood Secrets” Rod Englert. The event CSI stories give you a fascinating look be- at Hoffman Center on Saturday, March and a previous book of essays, The Night will take place in the Community Room 10th. CARL ADAMSHICK, VANESSA Gardener: A Search for Home (The Ly- hind the scenes of forensic investigation. VASELKA AND LIDIA YUKNAVITCH will ap- ons Press), won the 2000 Oregon Award and there will be book sales and signings Chief Deputy (Retired) Rod Englert has pear at the Cannery Pier Hotel in Astoria for Creative Nonfiction. by Beach Books. conducted over 580 lectures and training on Sunday, March 11th. ASTORIA APPEARANCE: On Sunday, “Blood Secrets” reveals how forensic March 11th, at 7pm, Oregon Book seminars on managing criminal investiga- Awards finalists Carl Adamshick, Vanessa experts read the story of a murder told in tions, solving unresolved homicides, Veselka and Lidia Yuknavitch will be read- the traces of blood left behind, providing ing at the Cannery Pier Hotel in Astoria blood spatter interpretation, and crime crucial evidence that has helped convict (No. 10 Basin Street). scene reconstruction, to law enforcement criminals who might have otherwise gone In addition, there will be two free work- shops offered on Sunday at the Cannery free. When Rod Englert began his career personal in 35 states, Canada, Russia, Pier Hotel: Vanessa Vaselka will offer a England and France. in law enforcement, virtually no police workshop on crafting plots in fiction from force knew how to correctly examine Thursday, March 15, 7pm at Sea- 1:00 to 3:00, and Lidia Yuknavitch will of- blood spatter. He spent years studying side Public Library located at 1131 fer a workshop on writing the memoir from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. The workshops are free and testing how blood behaves, pioneer- Broadway. but space is limited and participants are asked to register by emailing Susan Den- ning at [email protected]. About the authors appearing in Erica Bauermeister Astoria: Carl Adamshick received the 2010 Cannon Beach Writer Series Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets judged by Marvin Bell. Seattle-based author Erica them must do something they’ve sworn Marjorie Sandor His book, Curses and Wishes, is a 2012 Bauermeister (“he School of Essential never to do, with Kate deciding what Oregon Book Awards finalist. His poems Ingredients”) speaks about her newest adventure each woman will embark WORKSHOP: In addition, Sandor will and essays have appeared in Narrative, offer a free workshop on Saturday, March American Poetry Review, Tin House, The novel, “The Joy of Beginners,” at the upon. 10th from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. at the Hoff- Harvard Review, and elsewhere. Cannon Beach Library. Each chapter in Bauermeister’s man Center for the Arts in Manzanita (594 Vanessa Veselka has been, at At a small dinner party, six women book focuses on the adventure that the Laneda Ave). various times, a teenage runaway, union The workshop will focus on memoir- organizer, a student of paleontology, an gather together to celebrate the fact heroin has assigned to each of the six writing and explore the power--both expatriate, a train-hopper, a waitress, that their friend Kate’s cancer is in re- women, allowing the reader to delve haunting and restorative--of our most and a mother. Her work has appeared mission. While rejoicing in her recovery, into each of the characters stories and ordinary and familiar domestic spaces. inThe Atlantic, Tin House, Bitch: Feminist Sandor will briefly discuss her own experi- Kate decides to do the one thing she’s their friendship to Kate. Response to Pop Culture and elsewhere. ence of creating a book out of the bits She has been featured on NPR/ American always been terrified of: white-water Meet the author, Saturday, March and pieces of an early-morning gardening Public Radio’s “The Story” and Zazen, rafting. But she comes up with an idea 10 at 2pm, at the Cannon Beach journal kept during a mid-life moment of her first novel, is a 2012 Oregon Book for the rest of the women, too – each of Public Library, 131 N. Hemlock. intense change. From there, participants Awards finalist. will do some of their own writing, working Lidia Yuknavitch is the author of The from simple prompts. The workshop is free Chronology of Water, a winner of the but space is limited and participants are Pacific NorthwestBooksellers Association Writers on The Edge Cannon Beach asked to register by emailing Susan Den- Award and a 2012 Oregon Book Awards Newport Reads: meets Wednes- ning at [email protected]. finalist. She is also the author of three Marjorie Sandor’s most recent book is works of short fiction: Her Other Mouths, day, March 21, 7pm at An Evening with Lydia The Late Interiors: A Life Under Con- Liberty’s Excess, and Real to Reel. She Lidia Yuknavitch is the the Cannon Beach Library. author of The Chronology of Yuknavitch - Saturday, March struction, a 2012 finalist for the 2012 is the recipient of awards and fellowships This month’s featured book Water, a winner of the Pacific 17 - 7 pm Nye Beach Visual Oregon Book Award in Creative Nonfiction. from Poets and Writers and Literary Arts. is “Heart of Darkness Northwest Booksellers As- Arts Center and Selections from the sociation Award and a 2012 Show begins at 7 pm in Congo Diary” by Joseph Con- Oregon Book Awards final- the second floor meeting rad. The group is using the ist. She is also the author of room of the Newport Visual Modern Library edition with three works of short fiction: Arts Center, located at 777 introduction by Caryl Phillips, Her Other Mouths, Liberty’s NW Beach Drive (across which is related to last Excess, and Real to Reel. from the Nye Beach Turn- month’s selection, “King She is the recipient of awards around). General admission Leopold’s Ghost.” The ses- and fellowships from Poets is $6 at the door, students sions are free and the group and Writers and Literary Arts. always admitted free. Light welcomes new members refreshments will be available. Carl Adamshick, Vanessa Vaselka and Lidia Yuknavitch

23 mar12 hipfishmonthly.com Flash Cuts film. Movies & Musings by Les Kanekuni Late winter is usually a time for genre films, horror and films that studios aren’t confident in – namely dogs. March brings more comedies than usual, another R-Pattz movie and the first of two Snow White movies.

not been good for both the direction and R-Pattz’s performance. Variety of Panem after North America is destroyed, a yearly lottery is held each said Pattinson “doesn’t exactly invigorate this flailing adaptation of Guy de year with a boy and girl from each of the 12 Districts being selected for The Maupassant’s novel.” Hunger Games, a televised battle to the death. Jennifer Lawrence plays Katniss, a young woman who cares for her mother and younger sister Prim. John Carter (Mar. 9) Animation director Andrew Stanton (Wall-E) makes But when Prim is selected for the Games, Katniss volunteers to take her his live action debut with his adaptation of Edgar Rice Burrough’s 100-year- place and must use her hunting skills to survive. Also selected from Katniss’ old science fantasy John Carter of Mars. Burrough’s John Carter series was district is Peeta (Josh Hutcherson) who befriended Katniss once and has extremely influential with scifi writers like Robert Heinlein, Arthur C. Clarke harbored a secret crush since. Woody Harrelson plays Haymitch Abernathy, and Ray Bradbury. In addition, filmmakers like James Cameron and George a survivor of the Games who has become an alchoholic but rouses himself Lucas have acknowledged his influence on Avatar and Star Wars. Story con- to mentor Katniss when she proves her worth. Much criticism has been cerns itself with John Carter, Civil War veteran who is transported to Mars leveled at the plot for its strong resemblance to the 1999 Japanese book/ and finds himself in the middle of another civil war with two rival races, movie Battle Royale. the Tharks (Green Martians) and the Red Martians. Bestowed with great strength and agility due to the planet’s lower gravity, Carter must unite the Mirror Mirror (Mar. 30) After Tim Burton’s 2010 film Alice in Wonder- tribes to save Mars which is dying due to loss of atmosphere and water. A land became the ninth-highest grossing film in history, studios have been trilogy is planned if John Carter is successful but $250M film has a tough scouring the bushes for other properties based on public domain books road as marketing surveys have shown little awareness/interest in the film. Bel Ami (Mar. 2) With the end of the Twilight series looming this fall, like Lewis Carroll’s classic. This led to two competing Snow White movies. Robert Pattinson hasn’t exactly been stretching himself outside the vampire For months the two studios played chicken with the release dates, both trilogy, playing romantic leads in Water For Elephants and again in Bel Ami. wanting to be first and leapfrogging the other. Finally, Relativity move their While he played a young man with morals in Water For Elephants in Bel Ami Snow White movie up to the relative dead period of March, but in winning Pattinson plays the amoral charmer Georges Duroy. Penniless in Paris after the battle may have lost the war. Unlike Universal’s Snow White and the serving as a soldier in Algeria, Duroy uses his looks and personal magnetism Huntsman which takes a harder-edged dramatic approach, Mirror Mirror to charm his way into a position at prestigious newspaper La Vie Francaise, goes the other way with a flat-out comedy. Julia Roberts all but cackles her then into the hearts of Clotilde (Christina Ricci) and the married Mme. Rous- lines playing an over the top Evil Queen. Armie Hammer (The Social Net- set (Kristin Scott Thomas). Like an good melodrama death, dishonor and work) plays the Prince. Snow White and the Huntsman might be the better betrayal follow. Still, this ain’t no Dangerous Liasons. Word of mouth has bet when it debuts in June.

21 Jump Street (Mar. 16) Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill star in this reboot of the ‘80s TV show that made Johnny Depp a household name. Movie is basically an action-comedy along the lines of Bad Boys. Zenko (Ta- tum) and Schmidt (Hill) are young-looking cops who go undercover in high school to stop a drug ring. Supposedly brothers, to keep up appearances the two are forced to go back to living with their parents. After investigat- ing, it appears that Eric, the coolest guy in school, is actually the head of the ring. But really, the crime angle is just the justification for a series of co- medic fish-out-of-water scenes where the older guys have to turn back the clock. Schmidt has to deal with his pot-smoking parents who are thrilled to have him home again and is almost outed when he makes a phone call instead of texting. Johnny Depp makes a cameo appearance.

The Hunger Games (Mar. 23) Based on Suzanne Collins bestseller, The Hunger Games is a post-apocalyptic teen actioner. Set in the fictional nation

mar12 hipfishmonthly.com 24 Featuring biking quips, quibbles, and some damn good advice from Margaret Hammitt-McDonald.

MarchFREE WILL ASTROLOGY© Copyright 2010 Rob Brezsny By Margaret Hammitt-McDonald ARIES (March 21-April 19): At one point in his book The Divine problems of life cannot be solved. They can only be outgrown.” Comedy, the Italian poet Dante is traveling through purgatory I encourage you to use that theory as your operative hypothesis on his way to paradise. American poet T.S. Eliot describes the for the foreseeable future. Here are some specific clues about Cycling with the Next Generation scene: “The people there were inside the flames expurgat- how to proceed: Don’t obsess on your crazy-making dilemma. ing their errors and sins. And there was one incident when Instead, concentrate on skillfully doing the pleasurable activities Dante was talking to an unknown woman in her flame. As she that you do best. Be resolutely faithful to your higher mission children can’t form answered Dante’s questions, she had to step out of her flame and feed your lust for life. Slowly but surely, I think you’ll find that a fitness-promoting to talk to him, until at last she was compelled to say to Dante, the frustrating impediment will be drained of at least some of its and fulfilling relation- ‘Would you please hurry up with your questions so I can get on power to lock up your energy. ship with bicycles… with my burning?’” I bring this to your attention, Aries, because SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): A few years ago, the Hong Kong and grow up into I love the way you’ve been expurgating your own errors and sins cycle commuters. It’ll lately. Don’t let anything interfere with your brilliant work. Keep company Life Enhance sold briefs and boxer shorts that were burning till you’re done. (Source: “A New Type of Intellectual: supposedly designed by a master practitioner of feng shui. On just take more effort Contemplative Withdrawal and Four Quartets,” by Kenneth P. the front of every garment was an image of a dragon, which from the adults in Kramer.) the Chinese have traditionally regarded as a lucky symbol. To their lives: us. have this powerful charm in contact with your intimate places TAURUS (April 20-May 20): If you’ve been holding yourself increased your vital force -- or so the sales rap said. By my esti- Adult mentors back in any way, Taurus, now’s the time to unlock and unleash mates, Scorpio, you’re not going to need a boost like that in the need to set a good yourself. If you have been compromising your high standards or coming weeks. Without any outside aids whatsoever, your lower example: using a selling yourself short, I hope you will give yourself permission furnace will be generating intense beams of magical heat. What bike instead of a car to grow bigger and stronger and brighter. If you’ve been hiding are you going to do with all that potent mojo? Please don’t use it for those gas-eating your beauty or hedging your bets or rationing your access to the on trivial matters. mother lode, you have officially arrived at the perfect moment to short errands, taking stop that nonsense. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): There are times in your life We “persons of a certain age” hold weekend cycling when you do a lot of exploring in the outer world, and other times GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In the cult blaxploitation film The warm, fuzzy, air-catching, gravel-scraped jaunts instead of sitting in front of the when your pioneering probes are directed primarily inward. In my Human Tornado, the main character Dolemite brags about his memories of cycling around our communi- TV, and keeping our bikes as healthy as astrological opinion, you’re currently more suited for the latter prowess. “I chained down thunder and handcuffed lightning!” he ties. We traveled in flocks of peers on a ourselves with regular maintenance. When raves. “I used an earthquake to mix my milkshake! I eat an ava- kind of research. If you agree with me, here’s one tack you might want to take: Take an inventory of all your inner voices, noticing motley assemblage of bikes: banana-seat adults incorporate bicycling into their daily lanche when I want ice cream! I punched a hurricane and made single-speeds with ribbons on the low-rider lives, children emulate them. it a breeze! I swallowed an iceberg and didn’t freeze!” This is the both the content of what they say and the tone with which they handlebars or hand-me-down ten-speeds, The element of fun is crucial. Although way I want to hear you talk in the coming weeks, Gemini. Given say it. Some of them may be chatty and others shy; some blaring the current astrological configurations, you have every right to. and others seductive; some nagging and needy and others calm chased by younger siblings on trikes. young people can be natural activists about Furthermore, I think it’ll be healthy for you. and insightful. Welcome all the voices in your head into the Although our adventures transpired with causes they care about, they might not be spotlight of your alert attention. Ask them to step forward and minimal supervision (hence the jumps and attracted to cycling if well-meaning adults CANCER (June 21-July 22): Astrologer Antero Alli theorizes that reveal their agendas. the placement of the sign Cancer in a person’s chart may indi- obstacle courses we created in vacant lots), preach about its environmental and exercise cate what he or she tends to whine about. In his own chart, he CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The Oxford English Dictionary, adults in the community watched out for virtues to the exclusion of the enjoyment says, Cancer rules his ninth house, so he whines about obsolete an authority on the state of the English language, adds an aver- us as they drove by. Some of us cycled to element. Instead of scaring them with near- beliefs and bad education and stale dogmas that cause people age of two new words every day. In the coming weeks, Capricorn, school; others delivered newspapers; our miss stories or tirades about the occasional to shun firsthand experience as a source of authority. I hereby I’d like to see you expand your capacity for self-expression with wheeled steeds delivered us to friends’ rude driver, I emphasize the humorous and declare these issues to be supremely honorable reasons for you equal vigor. According to my reading of the astrological omens, to whine in the coming weeks. You also have cosmic permis- you’re due for an upgrade in your vocabulary, your clarity, and houses, the movies, and the mall. We gave serendipitous things that happen on my sion to complain vociferously about the following: injustices your communication skills. Here’s one of the OED’s fresh terms, each other lifts on our handlebars, pulled rides. perpetrated by small-minded people; short-sighted thinking that which would be a good addition to your repertoire: “bounceback- wheelies, and cranked up huge hills for the While fun can get the younger set on ignores the big picture; and greedy self-interest that disdains ability,” the ability to recover from a setback or to rebound from rush of the descent. Even if our bike was board, coolness is essential for the ennui- the future. On the other hand, you don’t have clearance to whine a loss of momentum. an old beater with a rusty chain, it was a filled adolescent for whom the slightest about crying babies, rude clerks, or traffic jams. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): We turn to Dr. Seuss for help in beloved friend. whiff of “fun” sounds condescending. Listen LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): L.A. Weekly praised the music of drone- formulating your horoscope this week. He told a story of dining in Riding our bicycles gave us freedom well to learn who your teenager finds cool noise band Barn Owl. Its review said that the listening experi- a restaurant with his uncle, who was served a popover, which is within limits, taught us about spatial (kewl?), explore the Internet for photos ence is “akin to placing your ear against the Dalai Lama’s stom- a puffy muffin that’s hollow on the inside. “To eat these things,” relationships, and allowed us to engage of their idols on bikes, and casually leave ach and catching the sound of his reincarnation juices flowing.” said his uncle, “you must exercise great care. You may swallow That sounds a bit like what’s ahead for you in the coming weeks, down what’s solid, but you must spit out the air!” Drawing a in healthy physical activity outside. Sadly, them where your teen will find them (their Leo: getting the lowdown on the inner workings of a benevolent lesson from these wise words, Dr. Seuss concluded, “As you the bicycling way of life I knew as a child basket of still to be folded socks is not the source . . . tuning in to the rest of the story that lies behind a partake of the world’s bill of fare, that’s darned good advice to is vanishing. Sure, I see kids on bikes and most strategic location). If the Obsolete seemingly simple, happy tale . . . gathering up revelations about follow. Do a lot of spitting out the hot air. And be careful what trikes, but they often relinquish their stead- Parent rides a bike, that’s outré; if the lead the subterranean currents that are always going on beneath the you swallow.” I expect your coming weeks will be successful, surface of the good life. It’s ultimately all positive, although a bit fast friends when the squeaky siren song of singer of Toxic Wombat Embrace does, then Aquarius, if you apply these principles. complicated. the auto serenades them. While increased ten seconds after this revelation, you’ll find PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You should be like a rooster, Pi- adult supervision of children’s activities has your emo kid spray-painting that old BMX VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In the coming days, you could do a lot to develop a better relationship with darkness. And no, I don’t sces: dispensing wake-up calls on a regular basis. You should be undoubtedly made childhood safer, it’s also bike black and riding off into the day-star. mean that you should do bad things and seek out negativity and nudging people to shed their torpor and shake themselves out curtailed children’s opportunities to explore Young people love being better than their be fascinated with evil. When I use that word “darkness,” I’m of their stupor. What’s your personal version of “Cockadoodle- on their own—frequently on a bike. With parents at something, so let the kids win referring to confusing mysteries and your own unconscious pat- doo!”? It shouldn’t be something generic like “Open your eyes!” or “Stop making excuses!” Come up with attention-grabbing more afterschool activities teaching children the race you didn’t know you were having. terns and the secrets you hide from yourself. I mean the difficult everything from martial arts to trombone While they’re filing their nails and waiting for memories and the parts of the world that seem inhospitable to exclamations or signature phrases that no intelligent person can you and the sweet dreams that have lost their way. See what you possibly ignore or feel defensive about. For example: “Let’s leap playing (and ever heavier homework loads), you to puff the rest of the way up that giant can do to understand this stuff better, Virgo. Open yourself to the into the vortex and scramble our trances!”? children don’t have the free time for tooling hill, they’re contemplating how excellent redemptive teachings it has for you. homework: Your imagination is the single most important around on a bike. they are—and how excellent cycling is—as LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Sister Jessica, a character in Frank asset you possess. Listen to the podcast: http://bit.ly/Your- Even though the days of unchaperoned well as how epic swooping down that hill Herbert’s Dune books, says, “The greatest and most important Prophecy. travel may be over, this doesn’t mean that will be.

25 mar12 hipfishmonthly.com network. Community Listings life for the North Coast Citizen. Visit her web classes are 90 minutes long. Todd Jackson, can Red Cross water safety program and the WORKSHOPS/CLASSES site at www.creativejourneys.net. a master teacher from Portland Yoga Arts, Arthritis Aquatic Training program. will return to our studio May 18-20, 2012 TAROT CLASSES - FREE. Join us for free French Conversation Group Re-Start. The to teach a 10-hour yoga workshop. This T’AI CHI. The Center for the Contempla- classes to learn how to read tarot cards., at group is devoted to speaking French only. It has been a very popular workshop and early tive Arts, Manzanita: Wednesday Mornings Godfather’s Bookstore. Judith Davis has be is NOT a class, so please do not show up registration is encouraged. Please consult our 10-11:30. $30/month. Call 368-6227 for en reading tarot cards for forty years and will expecting to learn French from scratch. Once website www.yoganam.com for details or call more info. even help you pick out a deck if you don’t you step through the door of the Riverbend Ute Swerdloff at 503 440 9761. have one yet! Classes will begin on March Room, it is French only. It will be on Satur- Chinese Kung Fu. Tuesday and Thursday 4th from 2pm-4pm and continue on Sundays days, from 1-3pm at NCRD in the Riverbend LOTUS YOGA. 1230 Marine Drive, Downtown evenings from 5:30 to 7:00 at the Astoria (2-4pm). We are located at 1108 Commer- Room. There is a nominal charge of $1/ Astoria. Ongoing classes on a month to Arts and Movement Center (11th and Har- cial Street in Astoria, Or. person/time. For more information email Jane month basis. Evening Classes Monday thru rison). The focus is on two styles; Ving Tsun or call her 503-368-3901 or, call Paul Miller Thursday 6:00 PM: Monday Level 1 Yoga for at 503-368-5715. Kyun and Tai Xu Quan. While both are suit- INTRODUCTION TO FAMILY HISTORY. The Relaxation. Tuesday Level 2 Strengthening. able for self defense Ving Tsun is direct and Hoffman Center will host a repeat of Karen Wednesday Level 1 Beginning Flow. Thurs- linear in it’s approach and Tai Xu is circlular. Martin’s popular four-week “Introduction to Library2Go Basics. Second Saturday of day Level 2 Advanced Flow. Morning class Both are of ancient orgin (Buddhist and Tao- Family History.” Class sessions will be held each month 9:00am-10:00am. Over 5000 Friday 9:00AM All Level THERAPEUTIC Yoga. ist respectivly) and have been developed by audio books and videos can be downloaded on Thursdays, Mar. 22 and 29, and Apr. Dedicated to making Yoga an accessible part nuns and monks, and by lay deciples as well. to computers and digital devices through the 5 and 12, from 2 to 3:30 p.m. The tuition of everyday living. Call (503)298-3874, Matthew Crim [email protected] Library2Go database accessible through the will be $40 for all four classes. Martin has Check web for class schedule updates. Astoria Public Library web site. All downloads been doing genealogy research for over 20 Email [email protected], website www. are free to access with your library card. LEARN SELF DEFENSE IN LONG BEACH. year. She holds a Certificate in Genealogical Are you communicating with your pet? Learn the how to make the most of this lotusyogaonline.com Yoga/Private Instruction. Kenpo Karate for Adults, Tuesdays @ Studies from the National Institute of Genea- extraordinary resource. Free, at the Astoria Private Individual Therapeutic and Restorative 7:00pm - 9:00pm. Long Beach Grange, Animal Communication for Beginners. March 12. logical Studies affiliated with the University of Public Library. Yoga instruction with certified, Yoga Alliance 5715 Sandridge Rd, Long Beach WA.Also at Toronto. This class will offer students ideas registered yoga teacher SarahFawn Wilson, the Grange, KENPO Karate for Kids, Mondays With Lisa Fraser. Learn the basics of beginning animal com- on where to start, and help them decide MA, RYT-500. Private group classes also @ 4:00pm - 5:00pm, and free KENPO Open munication as we all have this ability. Students are asked to Computer Basics. Third Saturday of each where to go from there. Topics will include available. For more information and for public practice, every Saturday, 2:00pm - 4:00pm. month 9:00am-10:00am. If you’re new to bring a photo of their living animal (or one they know well). organizing files, protecting documents, class schedule, please call 503-440-6738 or Class tuition is $40.00/mo. Inquire for a PC computers or just needing to update researching vital records, making courthouse email [email protected]. free introductory class / sign up: jbgroove2@ Please make sure the photo has good visibility of the ani- basic skills, this class is for you. Each class trips, and finding online resources. For crescomm.net Phone: 360-665-0860.See is tailored to meet the needs of participants. mal’s eyes. This class is recommended for those who wish to more information, contact Martin directly at us on video at: www.YouTube.com/Jon- Free, at the Astoria Public Library. ECSTATIC DANCE. Ecstatic, trance, yogic, [email protected]. A registration BelcherKenpo understand their animal friend better. $30, 6:30 – 8pm at spirit filled), playful, improvisational, freestyle form is available online at hoffmanblog.org. Tolovana Hall in Cannon Beach. Pre-register with instructor The Lower Columbia Classics Car Club. - We’re Dancing! Wed. at 6:30 at Pine Grove Class space is limited. HIKE THE NORTH OREGON COAST WITH Invitation to all who are interested in Collector Community House, 225 Laneda Ave. in by email: [email protected] ANGORA HIKING CLUB. This year the Angora Cars to attend one of our monthly meetings. Manzanita. No experience necessary. You are ACTING/SCENE STUDY CLASS. Sundays, Hiking Club will be leading 8 hikes that will The meetings are held at Steve Jordan’s welcome to bring Instruments of any sort to for both new and experienced mothers to cover the 64.4 miles of the north portion of Please email us at CSINTERFAITH@ACTIVIST. starting March 4. With George Dzundza. Shop Building, located at 35232 Helligso play along with what we’ve got going. Cost share their questions or concerns, and to the Oregon Coast Trail. These hikes are open COM We wish you deep peace... Students must be at least 18 years of age Lane in rural Astoria - meet on the 3rd Thurs- is a sliding scale from $5 - $7, or free if you talk with each other about the special joys to the community, and we encourage you to due to the potential of adult subject matter. day of each month. If you are interested and really need to just be there. and challenges of parenting. We especially Students will be asked to perform prepared need the directions to get there, you may call join us for one or all of the walks. If you have A SILENT MEDITATION • with Lola Sacks. encourage expectant and new mothers to join scenes in the class. They will be instructed Steve Jordan at 503-325-1807 questions about this program, contact Arline St. Catherine’s Center for the Contemplative us. Healthy babies and toddlers are always YOGA NCRD. Monday, Yoga Of The Heart, on how to elevate their performances and LaMear, 503-338-6883. Car shuttles will be- Arts, Manzanita: Monday Nights 5 - 5:45 Call welcome at La Leche League meetings. We 8:15 am - 9:45 am Instructor: Lorraine gin at the Basin St. parking lot across Basin acquire the tools of a basic acting technique. 368-6227 for more info. look forward to seeing you soon. Second Open Art Night. 5:30 to 7 PM –1st & 3rd Ortiz (no drop ins). Monday, Level II, 5:45 St. from Astoria KFC. Walkers should gather They will be able to use that technique in any Monday of the month at 10am- Astoria FOR Weds. Bay City Arts Center, Bay City. pm - 7:15 pm Instructor: Nicole Hamic there by 9 a.m. for the March, April, May FURTHER INFO, PLEASE CONTACT JANET future performances. Work on a variety of LECTIO DIVINA • Meditation with Holy Wednesday, Yoga Stretch, 8:15 am - 9:45 and June hikes. The remaining hikes, July, WEIDMAN @ 503-325-1306 OR LIZ PIETILA guided scenes and experiences will sharpen Scripture. The Center for the Contemplative Life Drawing. 6 to 9 PM. Every 2nd & 4th am Instructor: Lucy Brook Thursday, Level August, September, and October will begin @ 503-861-2050. their acting skills. Everyone performs. Arts, Manzanita: Tuesday Mornings 10- Weds. Bay City Arts Center, Bay City. I, 5:45 pm - 7:15 pm Instructor: Charlene at 8 a.m. to allow extra time for the longer Students will learn by doing, but they will also 11:30. Call 368-6227 for more info. Gernert Friday, Very Gentle Yoga, 8:15 am drives to the walk start points. A record book learn by watching how their fellow students is available for $2 in which to record the eight NOTICES Toddler Arts Group. Every Monday, 10:30 to - 9:45 am Instructor: Lucy Brook Saturday, grow and progress. The hope is to produce legs of the North Oregon Coast Trail. Upon LABYRINTH WALK • Grace Episcopal 11:30 –Get your toddler started in the arts! Mixed Levels, 8:00 am - 9:30 am Instructor: dedicated, independent and confident theater completion of all eight hikes, participants will Church, 1545 Franklin St, Astoria, 3-6. Healthy Kids is Oregon’s newly expanded Activities are geared towards ages 1–3, but Lorraine Ortiz people. $5 per session, 2 – 5pm at the Barn receive a certificate. If you are interested in Every 1st Sunday. no-cost and low-cost health coverage pro- age birth–5 are welcome. All children must Community Playhouse in Tillamook. 503- receiving one of the record books, please call gram for uninsured kids and teens up to 19 be accompanied by a caregiver. Bay City Arts 842-5566 to register. YOGA • Manzanita. The Center for the 503-338-6883 so we will know how many to years of age. Healthy Kids offers comprehen- Center, Bay City. t Contemplative Arts, Manzanita: Tuesday have on hand. VOLUNTEER sive coverage. No family makes too much evenings 5 - 5:45pm. $35 for 5 classes. money for Healthy Kids. For assistance contact DOES FOOD RUN YOUR LIFE? Come to Judi Mahoney (503) 358-2333, or via email at: judima- CELEBRATE RECOVERY • Nazarene Call 368-6227 for more info. Weekly Alder Creek Farm Community Overeaters Anonymous every Wednesday [email protected] Church, 2611 3rd St, Tillamook. Adult & SPIRITUALITY from 7-8pm in the Seaside Public Library, Garden. Work Parties - Tuesdays, 10 am – teen 12 step program. Child care provided. Noon. Help out the Coastal Food Ecology Board Room B. No dues, fees or weigh-ins. Yoga in Gearhart. Gearhart Workout. For Call 503-812-3522 for more information. Center, community garden, permaculture Everyone welcome! (if you have questions more information log on to www.gearhart- ACIM (A Course in Miracles) study group Events Tuesdays, 7-9, Dinner at 6 by donation. garden and harvesting for the Wheeler Food call 503-505-1721). workout.com 3470 Hwy. 101 N. Suite 104 is forming in Astoria. All levels of Course Bank. Tasks may include: greenhouse and in Gearhart study welcome. Format promises to be WHY IS EVERYONE SO SICK? You are in- garden weeding, planting, and watering. OPEN ART NIGHT WITH PHAEDRA. Bay casual yet informative. For more information vited to an educational seminarPresented by FREE COMPUTER CLASSES AT TILLAMOOK City Arts Center, 5680 A St, 5-7pm on contact: [email protected]. Dr. Lyn Hanshew, M.D. At the Blue Scorcher YOGA • Nehalem. Ongoing yoga classes at COUNTY LIBRARIES. Tillamook County Wednesdays. Bakery, 1493 Duane St, Astoria, OR 97103, Libraries will be offering free basic computer NCRD are as follows: Monday, Level II, 5:15- Meetings TIBETAN BUDDHIST DHARMA GROUP. Sunday, Mar. 18, 4-8 pm. Get Your Ques- classes this fall. Sign up for a free one-on- 6:45 pm, Nicole Hamic; Wednesday, Morning tions Answered about the Terrible Health Dharma River, meets Mondays 7:30 - 9 pm, one session where you can ask questions BODY WORK•YOGA•FITNESS Yoga Stretch, 8-9:30 am, Lucy Brook; ENCORE Retirement Learning Community. Effects of Mercury and Radioactive Chemicals 1230 Marine Dr., Suite 304 in Lotus Yoga’s and learn at your own pace. Classes will be Thursday, Yoga for Parents & Kids, 3:45-4:45 Is an association of retirement-age people from Japan’s Nuclear Disaster. studio. Meditation, sadhana practice, teach- who share a love of learning. Established held on Saturdays at the Tillamook County YOGA NAMASTE. Yoga Namasté invites you pm, Charlene Gernert; Thursday, Level I, 5:45 ings & discussion. Dharma River is a satellite in 2001 by a Steering Committee of retired Library September 11th, 18th and 25th and - 7:15 pm, Charlene Gernet; Friday, Very to spring into Spring by offering 2 FREE yoga of the Portland Sakya Center. Contact adults, ENCORE is sponsored by Clatsop SPRING EQUINOX CEREMONY AT WAN- October 2nd and 9th. Additional sessions Gentle Yoga, 8-9:30 am, Lucy Brook. classes during the month of March. Treat Dharma teacher, Rosetta Hurley, 338-9704 Community College. We meet for lunch DERLAND RAINFOREST ISEUM. Monday, will be held at library branches in October yourself to an hour of simple Hatha Yoga for more info. the first Tuesday of every month. We try to March 19, 12-2pm. Meaning and mythology and November. Registration is limited, so at the Yoga Namasté studio on 342 10th FREE AQUANASTICS CLASS. At KOA in alternate between North and South County, surrounding the Equinox; ritual and personal Street in downtown Astoria. This is yoga for reflection. Attune your energy to the Earth’s contact your local library soon and reserve Warrenton. This class is being offered to so look for these Community Notes in your everyone, all levels are welcome. Equipment INTERFAITH GATHERING. ALL Paths / Faiths local Newspaper to see the place of choice. cycles. It is a time of Balance--and growth, your space. adults, men and women, 50 years or older, is furnished, so bring yourself and a friend WELCOME. Please Join Columbia Shores Our Lunch Bunch get-togethers are a wonder- for after Equi-nox (equal night) every day is on Monday, March 19, from 10 to 11 AM at and explore this ancient art of yoga with us Interfaith Gathering on the FIRST Sunday ful venue for meeting classmates over lunch, brighter than the one before as the Earth SPIRITUAL WRITING FOR MEN AND on Tuesday, March 27 and Thursday, March the KOA heated, indoor pool, at 1100 Ridge of EACH MONTH. We meet at the Naselle as well as new friends. Remember all guests blossoms into Spring. With Gwendolyn WOMEN. Instructor Gail Balden is a writer, 29 from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. The 10-week Road, across from Fort Stevens State Park Library Community Room in Naselle, WA (just that might be interested in ENCORE, or just Endicott, mythologist, author, Priestess of educator and workshop presenter with over Spring term will start Monday, March 26 entrance. For directions call (503) 861 2606 over the bridge from Astoria) at 11AM. All want to know what we’re all about, are wel- Isis. There is no charge; donations gratefully 30 years of teaching experience. Her work and end June 2, 2012. Level 1-2 classes or (800) 562 8506. WATER IS TERRIFIC! It’s Paths / Faiths Welcome. Enjoy a short scenic come. Aletha Westerbeerg, 503-325-4325. accepted. 503-368-6389 or gwendolyn@ has been published in anthologies, literary meet Monday, Wednesday, Friday at 8:30 stimulating, therapeutic, exhilarating, and drive and a soul refreshing gathering of like- nehalemtel.net *Wanderland Rainforest Iseum (“Hearth of the Goddess“) will honor journals and national magazines. She a.m. and Level 2-3 on Monday, Wednesday equalizing. It’s just plain fun! This class will minded souls. We offer “simple wisdom for BREASTFEEDING INFORMATION & SUP- each Seasonal Holy Day throughout the year teaches one-day writing workshops and writes and Friday at 6:15 a.m. Vinyasa or Yoga be lead by Kathleen Hudson, a water exercise complicated times”. Please visit us on the PORT. La Leche League’s monthly support with Ceremony from 12-2. For specific dates a monthly column on the joys of small town Flow class meets Saturday at 9:30 a.m. All professional with certification from the Ameri- web at : csinterfaith.spruz.com Questions?? group meetings provide an opportunity see our website wanderlandrainforest.org. mar12 hipfishmonthly.com 26 Laugh... Learn... REIKI: A self-healing tool for Playthe energy well system with by Jennifer Benedict I was suddenly downloaded with was so excited I not only wanted teaching. I spent several years a larger serving of spiritual “food to know others... more about what Reiki refining my skills before I met for thought” than I could digest was, I wanted to be able to do it. the master who did my Reiki III- and became physically ill and an I learned that traditionally, Master Teacher attunement. She emotional wreck. the master selects the students took my phone number and said A well-meaning classmate who are ready. Reiki is taught in she needed to spend some time The Future by Sonja Grace offered Checkme Reiki and I accepted out 3 levels our which are each passed in contemplation to determine if & 2012 Predictions only because I didn’t want to on with a Reiki attunement. It is it was right for her to do my next appear rude and ungrateful. I fairly common now for individuals level of attunement. A few days was terrified Pirate and didn’t trust this Loot!to search out a Reiki Master to The Love of Art later, she called and we arranged crazy hippie with a rainbow cat. train with. It is even possible to the time and place for the training. The arts are an expression of for more telepathy between each receive attunements online. My Everything in my being blocked the The experience was exhilarat- the physical, emotional, mental of us but also an expression energy and I prayed to God that choice was a little more middle of of art that is defining this fifth ing, and yet I knew this only and spiritual bodies. Always nothing bad would enter into me. the road. I didn’t rush out and find challenged by the medium, dimension in ways we have never meant that seeds of wisdom were What I did not know at the time the nearest Reiki Master so that I the dancer strives for physical seen before. Voices that seem planted. It took time and personal was that Reiki energy cannot be could obtain attunements for each perfection as a sculpture would to come from the angelic realm development before I was ready to forced upon someone who is not level of Reiki like a competitive approach his clay, the vocalist will grace the Earth stage as well teach with integrity. receptive to it. Reiki practitioners Girl Scout seeking merit badges. for a sound that is a vibration as the visual arts blending with We are fortunate to have many become a conduit to a Universal There is no higher glory in heaven within their soul, the painter who technology in ways that change It seems only logical that I qualified Reiki practitioners here how we look at the Universe. life force that in essence is pure, or quicker route to ascension for sees shapes and colors from the in Clatsop County. It’s even one of should be saying that I’ve only had those with more Reiki training. I depth inside their own historic The challenge for each of us unconditional love. My fears were positive experiences with Reiki, but the alternative therapies offered at past. The actor has an experi- is to discern what we are feeling completely unfounded and I was waited until the time felt right. that would not be true. My first ex- Columbia Memorial Hospital. Reiki ence that embodies all of these when we are experiencing any art rejecting Reiki as a whole without Several years passed and my perience with Reiki was anything, offers a comforting boost of energy expressions becoming the very form. The true alchemy of art is any clear understanding of what it life was more stable when the that allows people the ability to character he or she is depicting. to invoke such feelings in the au- but pleasant or planned for. It was really was. right opportunity for learning came Music has far reaching tentacles dience that they are moved and 1998 and I, the girl who followed Six months later I had an expe- along. I saved the money and over heal themselves. that pull us in or push us around quite literally changed. The ex- science and reason above all else, rience with Reiki that was simply the next few months I received my Jennifer Benedict is working like waves at sea. The instru- perience of a play, song, canvas, pursued training as a doula (labor beautiful. I ran into Gamestrusted family Reiki I andand II attunements. I did sculpture or written word touches with Veronica Dyer and Donald ment of each musician becomes and delivery coach) with a highly friend, who had also been my Sun- not officially practice Reiki at this our very soul and we can only Alan Lucas at the Mind Body Heal- the record keeper in the same respected midwife in Piedmont, day school teacher, and was given time. I offered it freely to friends surrender to the transformation. way canvas is to the artist. California. This was a huge stretch one of the most puzzles amazing love-filled andfor family who kids were in need of ing Center located at the Center In all professions there are the We do not always understand for me, but research indicated that hugs I have ever experienced. I lit- stress or pain relief. 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Rhythm of the waves? What about the pounding of the surf, the turbulent the contributing factors is key. Whether one has type supplement to your daily regime. Taking fiber has two grains, and seeds can actually promote better blood and often angry looking waves spewing out white foam like spit I or II, how long the disease has affected the body, special rules, it should always be followed with a large flow and help lower cholesterol levels. Cooking oil directed at the gray clouds overhead? And that mind full of lofty and how well it has been managed all influence the glass or two of water so as not to constipate, and you should be a quality extra virgin olive oil, or coconut and beautiful thoughts? Well, forget that. More like a mulling of treatment options. Diabetes is a serious medical should take medications and supplements separate oil. Consider a fish oil or flaxseed oil supplement. a problem, an indulgence into a light depression, or a mindless need to keep moving in search of some psychic answers. condition, which should be monitored by a licensed from fiber as it can bind up these items and thus These essential fatty acids help the cells throughout Living on the coast is a luxury. It really is. That’s why it costs health care professional. If you have received a decrease their effectiveness in your body. the body to access nutrients, which is a fundamen- a bundle to have an oceanfront home. It’s a luxury. Oh, I already diagnosis of diabetes, or are suffering from borderline Another dietary consideration which I find funda- tally missing element in diabetes. said that, didn’t I? Hope you recognize sarcasm when you see it, diabetes, insulin resistance or hypoglycemia, the fol- The area where conventional medicine because I am trying to avoid both ends of the same idea. One is lowing tips may be a useful adjunct to your treatment. and naturopathy whole-heartedly agree is It can often be a lonely existence, a hard place to work and live. Creating a balanced life here is hard. You may have time, but Regardless of where you are in the disease process exercise. Even a 5-10% weight loss (i.e. money is scarce. Or you work work work and have no time. I think knowing your options is important, so take time to be Dr. Tracy Erfling is a 15-30 lbs. if you weight 300 lbs.) can it may be a bit harder along the coast than elsewhere. The price evaluated, explore and take control of your health. cause significant improvement in glucose to iive here is high and one often has to work longer and harder In a nutshell, conventional treatment for diabetes naturopath physician in the tolerance and help lower risks for long- than maybe more populated places. That job security is a dream. Just like elsewhere, only more so. Restaurants close overnight. term damage. It has been shown that a may include insulin replacement, blood glucose low- Lower Columbia Region. Part time work gets cut down to near nothing, especially in winter ering pharmaceuticals and nutritional counseling. The minimum 10-15 minutes of walking can when the electrical bill rises. Businesses need to survive during basic notion being to monitor and control blood sugar Questions? improve blood glucose levels for up to 6 slow times. Beach towns are often dependent upon the kindness levels. Nutritional recommendations are usually sur- [email protected] hours! And if you can motivate to do any of strangers... oh, excuse me - I mean dependent upon the ar- kind of weights the benefits increase ex- rival of tourists. rounding a low-sugar, low-fat diet. In my experience I do love living here. It just is not a piece of cake. It is not my diabetic patients who have met with nutritionists ponentially. If you have never exercised idyllic. It can be a struggle. The struggle can be long and tiring. mental is the need for sweet. This is commonly at have been provided with limited information as to the or suffer from heart disease best to take things slowly It can be a combination of financial stress and loneliness. It can the heart of many diabetic challenges. First question effects of carbohydrates. I find this a very important or seek the advice of a professional before starting a seem unending when the grey days seem to never end.. to ask when a sugar craving strikes is ‘have I had Okay, our grey days are no different than those of Beaverton, factor that could potentially slow the progress of new exercise regime. enough protein?’ as this can help curb those crav- and financial struggles can occur anywhere. So what’s the point diabetes, so let’s spend a moment here. Refined There are of course a laundry list of supplements ings. Sweeteners are another confusing topic and of living here if its the same or in some instances worse than that are beneficial for blood sugar control. One of other places? Well, we get to walk on the beach at all hours of sugar is the epitome of the simple carbohydrate, common recommendations are to use calorie-free the body has to do very little to make blood glucose these, which has some good research behind it, is the day. Our choice. And in a small community, getting laid off sugar substitute. The problem with this recommenda- Chromium. With adequate levels of this mineral, means it’s common knowledge. It means being rehired quickly by from sugar. That you probably knew, but what is tion is that any time you consume something sweet a friend of a friend of a friend when someone’s business picks insulin receptors improve their acceptance and not so obvious is that the same is true for most the body will commence the whole insulin response. up. utilization of insulin’s message therefore improving cereals, crackers, chips, bread, pasta, etc. These So regardless of the calories, if the ultimate goal is to I often hear from visitors to our coast how it must be wonder- blood sugar control. Consider taking around 200mcg ful to live here. Yes, I reply, it is. But it is so much more. It’s are all simple, refined carbohydrates that are easily correct an inappropriate insulin response then as a first thing in the morning. Antioxidants from food or a test of one’s reslience, patience, and willlingness to accept converted to blood glucose. Complex carbohydrates diabetic consuming a sweetened calorie free anything supplement sources will help control potential end the ups and downs with grace. It’s a way of life that has its own such as whole grains, fruits, vegetables and legumes is not appropriate. I would rather my diabetics use a momentum dictated by seasons and weather and holiday breaks. organ damage: blueberries, pomegranate, turmeric, also contain sugars, but they are slower to spike minimal amount of a natural sweetener like stevia or Sometimes road closures and massive storms and tsunami alpha-lipoid acid, resveratrol, to name a few. threats alter the rhythm. No matter what though, it all asks for blood glucose because they contain a better balance honey rather than a calorie free substitute. Hope I’ve In summary as a naturopath I am trying to think of flexibilty and a willingness to stick around when there’s little of proteins, fats, and fiber! Fiber makes the system made it clear why. And what about savory, sour, bit- ways to heal the blood sugar system by attempting work, not much money and few prospects for a major financial work harder to release the sugars from the food thus ter, salty, spicy, there are so many wonderful flavors overhaul. Now that I wrote that, I realize that fimproved flexibilty to avoid blood sugar irregularity in the first place, not slowing the release of glucose into the bloodstream. beyond sweet…check them out! and exercised resilience are valuable life skills in themselves, to just manage the results once it has occurred. It A dietary guideline worth exploring is ‘low-glycemic‘, Okay let’s talk fat. Fat is not bad, it is the type skills that cannot be bought or achieved easily. A gift to us for takes more work, but creates a deeper, longer lasting choosing to live here.... this is a way of looking at how foods affect your blood of fat that gets you into trouble. Yes, it is true that healing experience! Walk on the beach. Often. With joy. Toss your concerns to the sugars based on how fast and effectively they release diabetics should use sparingly saturated fats found in waves.You deserve it. Yes, you... You deserve it. their sugars into your bloodstream. For those with red meats and dairy products; and avoid completely DO something you love, BE with someone you Tobi Nason is a counselor who often mulls over the pros and more severe diabetes or greater challenges with blood hydrogenated fats and trans-fatty acids, which come love, EAT your vegetables, DRINK clean water, cons of being a coastal resident. But then, she often mulls over sugar control it may be worthwhile to consider a break from vegetable oils, shortening, fried foods, and nu- BREATHE deeply and MOVE your body EVERYDAY! the pros and cons of .... her next cup of coffee.

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Stretching and Tai Chi For Community Health By Lynn Hadley At WAVES OF CHANGE Wellness Center classes outside (on the activity that you enjoy including the river) last summer, as part of your lifestyle. The flex- there’s something ibility you gain from a simple rou- about the power of tine of stretching allows the body that water that you to flow more purposefully through feel” and the public the day. Her current stretching takes notice. With the class participants started with the development of the basics, and stared at her strangely new park on the old when she introduced yoga poses, Safeway site, Angela initially, but, now, they hold a and Katie would love “downward facing dog” for over 45 to be invthis garden, seconds; that is bow-wonderful! open-air space as a NEW CLASSES BEGIN APRIL 2. place to practice their Angela Sidlo and Katie Hellberg tai chi and stretching. offer an abundance of health and Katie Hellberg wellness options in their comfort- teaches a stretching able downstairs space tucked class, focusing on away on 1004 Marine Drive, making participants aware of their bodies. Astoria, (Underground Astoria, This class, which con- cross street is 9th) (503) 338- As the tai chi class began with Wave’s of Change Wellness Center 9971; (503) 741-0414. www. instructor Angela Sidlo, Katie Hell- on Marine Drive in Astoria. Angela tributes greatly to flexibility, can be wavesofchangewellness.com berg, and tai chi class regulars, consistently learns more about tai an especially effective way to ease Some of the classes they offer Wendy Dornan and Janet Kemp, a chi movement and different styles, your body into an exercise routine, include tai chi for all ages and four calm sense of comfort and support sometimes from her own students; as some of us may have fallen off different skill levels, as well as warmed the studio. Small move- she is currently working with fans the health wagon, or maybe are recovering from a recent injury or stretching. New classes are start- ments causing great change and (both, class participants and surgery, or, like Katie herself, have ing April 2. Angela recommends advancement toward balance, tai actual Asian-style fans) in her 18 always been a physical person, but to anyone interested in classes chi instructs body-centered move- and 24 movement advanced Yang you just had a child, and want to to come and to observe the class ment to align mind, body, and style martial arts’ style tai chi class gently re-introduce your body to prior to signing up. spirit, plus, it’s fun! which emphasizes more breathing All too often the mind takes and theory. over in our day-to-day, and we After receiving her certification Metamorphosis with Maryejo del Meijer abandon the poor body to fend for and a grant through Northwest Se- Metamorphosis is a gentle type of Reflexology itself, maybe, an occasional vita- nior and Disability Services, Angela done on feet, hands and head. The focus is to ad- min, or medical treatment, when was able to teach three classes dress the reflexes that relate to the spine. It opens it really complains, but what if we at senior centers all over Clatsop up blockages and allows the body to begin to heal paid attention to what hones and County. When the grant ended she itself physically, mentally and spiritually. helps our bodies. “Patient, heal wanted to keep teaching, which For anyone to get a regular Metamorphosis lead to the opening of her studio. thyself”, maybe that’s what you session is beneficial in releasing stress and limiting The studio offers aromatherapy, heard from your HMO the last time patterns, experiencing flow and moving into a reiki, tai chi, reflexology, and you needed a special medical test, greater sense of Well Being. stretching. Angela describes it as or new prescription, but numerous This workshop is appropriate for health care a space ”for people who want to studies and reports cannot all be professionals, counselors, therapists, massage prac- get back into movement, and all wrong. A recent clinical trial results titioners, reflexologists and anyone who would like to transform their lives in a positive way. NOTE: YOU CAN REDUCE THE FONT that wraps into the wellness for showed tremendous improvements In the workshop we will learn more about the core patterns and how they may manifest our community....I’ve seen huge AND LEDDING AND MAKE THIS A in balance and in mobility for as foot issues, physical ailments and psychological conditions. We will learn the work, get improvements in people just by lots of practice and create breakthroughs in places where we may be stuck in our own lives. SIDEBAR Parkinson’s disease patients, who doing something as simple as WITH LADIES PHOTO exercised twice a week for an hour breathing exercises, stimulating WHEN: Saturday March 31st and Sunday April 1st over a six month period. the body’s “Chi” (In traditional Chi- WHERE: Waves of Change Wellness Center A diagnosis of Fibromyalgia nese culture, qì (also chi or ch’i) 1004 Marine Dr. Astoria, OR 97103 about 15 years ago, set Angela on is life energy, lifeforce, or energy TIME: 9-4 each day a course to avoid being a victim flow) through the movement of tai FEE: $200 ($225 after March 20th) of this condition - - she wanted chi, and drinking enough water Please contact Angela Sidlo for registration at 503-338-9921. to attack it head on nutrition- every day....huge improvements Maryejo will be taking private metamorphosis sessions Thursday evening, all day Friday, ally, mentally, and physically. Tai in people’s health. They’re able and Saturday evening. If you would like to schedule a session with Maryejo please contact chi addressed this exactly in the to get off of some prescription her email at [email protected] mind, body, and spirit approach. medications, able to have better Maryejo del Meijer, MA has been a practitioner and teacher of Metamorphosis for over Three years ago she discovered tai joint health, and their minds are 25 years. She has a Bodywork/Counseling practice in Santa Barbara, CA. She is mother to a chi classes at Columbia Memo- clearer...just amazing transforma- 6 year old daughter. Maryejo holds a Metamorphosis Footnight monthly and has observed rial Hospital, where she was tions.” that the participants have blossomed into unique, self expressed, thriving individuals. She is encouraged to seek out her tai chi Simple forms of education and currently co-authoring a book on metamorphosis as it relates to pregnancy and the birthing instructor certification. She now awareness help tune in the com- experience. For more info: Maryejo at [email protected] or visit the website at teaches classes at the hospital, munity into the power and energy www.metaliving.com, http://www.metamorphosiscenter.com as well as her own studio space, of the movement. “By taking my

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Beekeeper Julie Tennis At the Seaside Public Library On Thursday March 22, at 7:00 ing honey bees and gave her a hive tion for the contribution bees make p.m., naturalist and beekeeper to manage. That hive soon split to life on earth has led to a love Four days of wine tasting events, restaurant wine book signing by “Dishing Up Oregon” author Ashley extraordinaire, Julie Tennis will be into two and by 2011 she had built affair with their perseverance, self- dinners, a wine walk and a wide range of culinary re- Gartland. A special exhibit of culinary objects recov- buzzing in to the Seaside reliance, and determination. lated activities make Savor Cannon Beach one of the ered from historical shipwrecks will be featured at Public Library to speak about Traditionally beekeeping Northwest’s most unique wine and culinary festivals. the Cannon Beach Treasure Company. The exhibit “What Beekeepers Do”. was carried out for honey The Savor Cannon Beach Wine & Culinary Festival includes coral encrusted wine bottles that had been The event is sponsored by products, but today other on March 8-11 in Cannon Beach, Oregon will feature underwater for 200 years, Spanish “olive jars” which the Friends of the Seaside aspects of natural bee ser- four days of wine tasting events, restaurant wine sank on a once-proud galleon in 1743, and a full Library and refreshments will vices are utilized such as all dinners and a wine walk with tastings throughout complement of six-piece place settings used by be served. important crop pollination. town from over 30 Northwest wineries. Wine tasting officers of the British East Indiaman Queen, which The art of Beekeeping Other hive products are pol- events with specific themes occur each day of the sank in 1800. There are chocolate tastings and and honey production has len, royal jelly, propolis, and festival and include the “Thursday Night seminars at the Chocolate Cafe and been around for thousands bee venom which is an effec- Throwdown” matching Oregon wines EVOO Cannon Beach Cooking School of years as evidenced by rock tive treatment for Rheumatic versus Washington wines in several offers a free seminar on the use of paintings reckoned to be Fever. varietals. The “Battle of the Blends” cooking and finishing salts. Living up older than 10,000 years B.C. Seaside Library is located showcases red and white blends from to Cannon Beach’s notoriety as a dog Julie Tennis’s interest started at 1131 Broadway. For various regions of the Northwest. A friendly destination, there’s also a doggy much later when in 2005 more information call sparkling wine and chocolate tasting treat tasting at the local pet boutique. she found out she was allergic to her apiary to ten hives. Through (503)738-6742 or visit us at www. will feature sparkling wines from Yakima A festival ticket offers admission to sugar and began substituting honey study and participating in workshops seasidelibrary.org and www.face- Valley’s Treveri Cellars whose wines were all of the festival’s official tasting events, in recipes. Her father started keep- about native bees, Julie’s apprecia- book.com/seasidepubliclibrary served at the White House for State seminars and a glass to participate in Department holiday receptions this past the wine walk. Festival tickets are $99 December. Festival events also include and may be purchased in advance, School Gardens Receive Wide Support tasting seminars designed to teach online at: SavorCannonBeach.com. School garden projects in Clatsop County have everyone seems to be enthusiastic about teaching participants about the flavor profiles, Festival tickets good for all events are recently received nationwide recognition and donations students how to grow their own food. Kristin Frost- pairings, serving and storage of Northwest wine limited to 100 and have sold out in advance in past from various community members. The school garden Albrecht, director of the North Coast Food Web, says varietals. Andy Perdue, editor in chief of Wine Press years, so tickets to individual events will only be initiative started with the kick-off event of Food Day “We’re excited about the progress being made toward Northwest magazine will present a tasting seminar available at the door if space permits. on October 24th, 2011. We celebrated Food Day with cultivating a healthy community food system for the on pairing wine with cheese. The Savor Cannon Up to 400 additional tickets will be available for farmer’s market tasting tables at each of the Astoria North Coast.” Beach Wine Tour on Saturday afternoon is the larg- the Wine Tour on Saturday (a fundraiser for the local schools and won second place in a contest put on by We want to thank our community for its generous est event of the festival with up to 500 participants Children’s Center). Tickets for the Wine Tour may be epicurious.com and Whole Foods for best Food Day support for this project. Astoria Indoor Garden Supply who visit galleries, shops, restaurants and hotels purchased in advance through the Cannon Beach events. This prize earned the North Coast Food Web donated over a hundred packets of different fruit and that each host a winery. Over 30 Northwest wineries Chamber of Commerce and, if still available, one $750 to go toward school garden projects. vegetable seeds that will be used in all of the different will be represented. hour before the event at check in stations at Coaster AmeriCorps HOPE member Jennifer Rasmussen school garden projects. Also, the Di Bartolomeo Law “What sets our festival apart from most others Theatre and Tolovana Inn. has been working to establish ‘garden teams’ involving is that nearly the entire community is involved with For a complete schedule of events and informa- teachers, parents, students, and community partners Office donated $250 to be used for soil and fertilizer, their own food and wine related events,” said festival tion on lodging packages that include festival tickets, at each of four schools where she hopes to implement and to go toward beginning a garden library at Astoria director Gary Hayes. visit SavorCannonBeach.com. 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