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February 2018 • vol 19 • issue 228 POETS ER 2 H 0 S 1 I 8 F HIPFiSH Check Out the Special Events Sched Now! MONTHLYalternative press serving the lower columbia pacific region A campaign underway will create permanent space for this most essential organization p3 Show your PET Will Frances ACTORS IN PROCESS at KALA • LIVE Opera at the Bridgewater Some LOVE with McDormand take home • Murder at the Coaster • Riverbend Players do a Classic Satire • Curlytail Pet another Oscar? p20 Classical Music with Intention at the Liberty MASSAGE! p9 Got Acupuncture? Sliding scale of only $25-45 (pay what you can afford) ANCIENT HEALTH & HEALING Seaside Group Acupuncture To schedule, or for more info: AncientHealthandHealing.Com 971.320.4217 Katharine Stewart, L.Ac. 10B North Holladay, Seaside 28+years of experience. 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Hrs: Tue - Sat 11am - 6pm &Traditional closed sun - mon For private lessons, performances: Chinese Medicine astoriaartsandmovement.com 11391130 Commercial Commercial St. St. Located at Astoria Chiropractic • 2935 Marine Dr. Astoria 503.791.5657 Astoria,Astoria, OR 97103 FEB 18 hipfishmonthly.com 2 Filling Empty Bellies’ PROJECT HAND UP By Kaisa Schlarb A campaign to create permanent space for an organization meeting the needs of homelessness and poverty N A RECENT THURSDAY at One day was different. She got up to what had become her ritual of grieving for her daughter, “I OPeople’s Park at 16th and Marine, would sit in my chair, watch some shows, and cry.” it’s noon, and that means lunch. The On this day, a voice spoke to her, Corri calls it a divine January rain has temporarily abated, voice. “As clear as I am speaking to you right now, a and a rainbow shines over the river; voice said, ‘Get up, make sandwiches, and go feed hungry people.’” She heeded this call and hasn’t picturesque, yet a reminder that the next looked back. shower is not far away. A group of nearly What started as a solo mission to feed hungry peo- two dozen people stand and mingle ple, took root and began to grow. She started serving or sit curbside in the parking lot, wait- lunches at regular locations downtown, managing relationships with the community and their varied ing for lunch to arrive. It is evident that feelings about serving the homeless, and ultimately most of the people waiting are homeless landed at People’s Park. or unstably housed. If not homeless, at “People’s Park seems to be a place everyone can least hungry. The vibe at noon is a mix of digest because it is out of downtown and not residen- tial,” she says. energetic socializing and people keeping Through showing up and feeding people Corri has to themselves. earned a reputation as a consistent and trustworthy “It’s like recess out here,” says Vern Hall. He’s face of support to Astoria’s unhoused community. one of the people waiting for lunch. Also known as “She has more respect from street people than “O.G.” for “Old Guy” or “The Foreman,” because anyone in town,” says Vern. he “gets a job done,” he’s lived in Clatsop County While the topic matter is chilling, the cast members for 20 years, moving here to take care of his father in this particular conversation leave one feeling that after his mother passed away. He’s always worked– FROZEN is a story that needs to be told. as a builder, mechanic, landscaper, an all around “It’s not a play that leaves you hanging for the sake handyman. His job history and skill sets are exhaus- of shock value or for arty-ness,” says Moore, “It actu- tive, and even as he currently works three jobs, this ally has a conclusion, a surprising conclusion. It has is his fourth winter homeless in Astoria. an ending that gives you humanity in many different “I had a good career, I seen it all spiral real fast,” I will need help on the text we should have. lights, not just the bad stuff, it is I honestly think, quite he explains. uplifting to a degree.” Now, he hustles his multiple jobs to keep up the Her practice is to not judge or ask questions, she payments on a storage unit and to get by. For now, Co-directorsSwakane Erin Hofseth Winery and Corri Bucktasting (l to rroom center), celebrate their newly gained 501 (c) 3 status believes firmly that everyone deserves to be fed as he has to break to eat. with folks from240 the 10th prgram, street at People’s Park in Astoria. a fundamental human right and with no strings at- Vern has been a participant of Feeding Empty tached. When Corri first started feeding meals to Astoria’s homeless Bellies (FEB), the lunch program everyone is gathered for, since Astoria Or 97103 She named her growing food program Feeding community, her work was hardly a “program.” She was simply it began more than 3 years ago. Relying on this meal, served at Empty Bellies, because being fed is the starting point for any kind making sandwiches and driving around in her car to find people noon 6 days a week, is part of what gets him by. of successful living, let alone for lives that are in need of rehabilita- 503 to741 give 3350 them to. The first time she did it, back in November tion and second chances. A few minutes passed noon, and a vehicle pulls up quickly to 2014, none of it was premeditated. Corri was experiencing her “A vital part of what we are doing is getting people’s voices the park. People move immediately to form a line, and within own cycle of hopelessness, due to her child’s battle with addic- heard, because there are misconceptions and there is a lot of seconds, Corri Buck, the founder and driving force of Feeding We tion.are openStruggling for towine come tasting to terms andwith thebottle reality sales that there Fri-Sat was 12-6judgement thru end about of why people are homeless and what keeps Empty Bellies, is unloading the back of her car and setting up Februarynothing she could do as a mother to help or save her child, she people in homelessness,” she says. donated hot soup, fruit, and cupcakes. Without haste, people remembers, “I couldn’t help her, I couldn’t hold her. 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