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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. I was crying As Vern puts it, “Nobody wakes up and says, ‘I think I’m going are being fed. We could offer a buy one get one comp taste for February? every day.” to be homeless today.” article cont. p13

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The Actors Process THEATRE@KALA an Evening of Exploration and Performance. Feb 16 -17 at KALA KALA presents The Actors Process, and Evening of Exploration and Performance. In this unique performance presentation veteran North Coast theatre director Karen Bain brings actors to the stage to share a peek into the acting process. In a performance workshop setting, selected local actors worked under Bain, the objective to expand the actor’s creativity in making choices while inhabiting a character. “Often, my objective is to help actors find truth in the moment. This workshop process is about taking the next step, exploring and expanding the myriad choices available while in that creative state,” says Bain. Bain furthers, “Acting is a marriage between truth and technique. Truth consists of being honestly in the moment - not memorizing how to say something. I talk a lot about being in the moment. As Veteran North Coast Director Karen Bain an acting teacher, I believe we should start with finding the truth of In this presentation, Bain will talk about the complex process the scene, then work out into technique – physicality, voice, dialect, of acting and demonstrate some of the tools used to foster good and gesture.” performance, in an interactive exchange with actors on stage. Fol- lowing, the actors will perform three scenes and 7 monologs they have been developing in the workshop studio by playwrights David Jazz Noir Concert Mamet, Tennessee Williams, John Patrick Shanley, and Arthur Miller. Tickets $15 with Dmitri Matheny Actors include: Deac Guidi, Daric Moore, William Ham, Stephen Wood, Stacey Brown, Gigi Chadwick and Susi Brown perform. Friday, February 16 @ 7:00 p.m. Karen Bain holds a Masters of Fine Arts in Directing from U Of 503-436-9301 www.cbhistory.org O. She’s directed over 40 plays and acted in 30 including Martha in Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? Kate in All My Sons, Virginia Woolf in Vita And Virginia, Frankie in Frankie And Johnny In The Clair De Lune, Mama in Night Mother, Kate in Dancing At Lughnasa, Lenny in Crimes Of The Heart. She’s taught at UO, OSU and CCC, DJ Joey Altruda privately, and through local theaters. spinning a hard She states, “I’ve been very fortunate to have been able to thumping set play some remarkable women. I’ve played housewives, whores, of Funk & Soul on waitresses and witches. And a skunk. In Winnie The Pooh. Do you vintage vinyl. remember a skunk in WTP? Neither does anyone else. Bring your dancing February 16-17, at 7:30pm. Tickets at the door $10, doors open shoes! at 7pm. KALA is located at 1017 Marine Drive in Astoria. 16+ Kala 8:00 til Midnight Actors Deac Guidi and Stephen Wood in studio welcome. Cocktails available. 503.338.4878. Saturday 2/10! $8 • Cocktails! DJ Joey Altruda Spinners by Jill Mulholland COLLAGE in collaboration and @ KALA individually, Sid Deluca and Joi THESE PAST few winter months The KALA window acific front has featured SPINNERS by Light Artist Jill Smith share their provocative, Mulholland. You can still view them through Feb- intricate and, sometimes, ro Realty ruary, and especially in these dark months when irreverent views of society, P we seek light in alternative ways. These particular cultural and social mores P spinners are lit by black light. Of these works of light art the artist says, “I’m @ KALA interested in the beauty of light and its ability to be felt physiologically, or embodied. The involun- tary escape of an ohhh while viewing fireworks is an example of this embodiment. I strive to make art that makes the viewer feel an emotion, often beauty, sometimes laughter, minimally curiosity. The aspects of light that invite this embodiment can see the “infinity” of two mirrors, they project are shadow, reflection, color and glow, all my their colors and morphed shapes onto the walls, art has at least one and often several of these and the overlapping transparent colors form aspects. Glow is the strongest aspect of this orange, according to Mulholland. embodiment, to get to god (whatever your defini- Muholland is a newby Astorian who finds the Real People. Real Service. tion of god might) be its got to glow. Glow makes color and light in Astoria exhilarating. She’ll have us go internal. A great example of this are the Real Estate. a featured gallery show at the Astoria Visual Arts stained windows that churches used as a vehicle space during Art Walk in June, utilizing the natural for prayer.” 503-468-0915 light of summer. The Spinners utilize many of these aspects of www.PacificProHomes.com light; they glow under black light, in the sunshine 1017 Marine Drive in Astoria. 503.338.4878. You Don’t Get to Pick the Ghost 207 12th Street Astoria, Oregon they make reflections and with the right angel you Advance tickets at libertyastoria.org JOI SMITH collage

FEB 18 hipfishmonthly.com 4 Fitness Fundraiser Dec 24 • 8am Community Involvement Encouraged! Coast Community Radio CLOTHESLINE PROJECT Receives a Grant Bring Awareness to Domestic Violence from the Templin Foundation COAST COMMUNITY RADIO (CCR), the non- profit radio station in the Columbia-Pacific region, has received a $10,000 grant from The Templin Foundation of Pacific County, Wash. Inside the Month: News Director Joanne Rideout wrote the grant COVER STORY... K. SCHLARB p3, 12-13 for money to replace an important piece of equipment at the CCR tower on Megler Moun- PET MASSAGE . . . A. GRAYBEAL p9 tain in Chinook, WA. Station Manager Graham Nystrom will admin- INCO NEWS ...M. OUSLEY 10 ister the funds by purchasing a new Davicom, a critical device that closely monitors and com- AU NATUREL @ CCC ...p11 municates information about the overall health FISHER POETS EVENTS . . .p26 of multiple functions at the tower’s very large and expensive 5,000 watt Harris transmitter. It also al- Veteran North Coast Director Karen Bain NATURE NEWS . . .p7 lows us to remotely control certain aspects of the transmitter from our studios. A group of students and community members from last year’s event work on their t- The purchase and installation will take a couple shirts for the Clothesline Project. of months “When complete, this project will facilitate something great and of long lasting We’re here, We’re Queer!! value to our organization. We are very apprecia- MOnthly LGBTQ eVenTs, + tive to the Templin Foundation for providing community organizing... p8 Coast Community Radio this opportunity,” states Nystrom. THE STUDENTS of the Women and be provided. We encourage all ages and Coast Community Radio is a member-support- Social Action class at Clatsop Community levels of artistic ability are encouraged to ed, volunteer-operated radio station broadcast- College invite all community members participate. ing to the North Oregon and SW Washington to participate in the annual “Clothesline The shirts will be displayed in Towler COLUMNS coasts. We strive to provide locally relevant pro- Project”. Hall on campus from February 22 to gramming, news and emergency information on STEVE BERK . . . 6 Women and men of our North Coast March 21, 2018. three stations KMUN, KTCB and KCPB. KMUN, community can participate by painting a Started in Cape Cod in 1990 after a THEATER . . . 16 at 91.9fm is celebrating it’s 35th anniversary in t-shirt with art that expresses their views woman was murdered by her male partner ART HAPPENS . . . 17 April 2018. about domestic violence. Shirt painting in their community, the Clothesline Proj- WORD/Literary EVents . . . 18 The Templin Foundation was initiated by an will take place on Wednesday, February ect has become a national demonstration FLASHCUTS ...... KANEKUNI 20 endowment from Russell Templin a citizen and 14 from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm in the Art to raise awareness about and fight to end BIKE MADAME . . . HAMMITT-MCDONALD . . 21 businessman in Pacific County in the 1950’s. Since the 1990’s, when the Foundation starting awarding Building on the Lexington campus which domestic violence. To learn more about FREE WILL ASTROLOGY . . . BREZNY 21 grants, it has distributed over $4,000,000 to a host is located at 1651 Lexington Avenue, As- the Clothesline Project visit www.clothes- NETWORK COMMUNITY LISTINGS . . . 22 of causes in south Pacific County. toria. Shirts, paint, and paintbrushes will lineproject.org/ SONJA GRACE MESSAGES . . . 23 BODIES IN BALANCE. . . . . ERFLING ND 24 WORD & WISDOM . . . NASON 23 Clatsop County Job & Career Tech Trek for Grrrls!!!! SPAGHETTI FEED FOODGROOVE NEWS . . .26 Brownsmead Grange CHEW ON THIS . . . MYERS 25 Fair •Feb 21 Presentation HIPFiSHmonthly is located at 1017 Marine Dr in Astoria. By Appt. FINDING and retaining good employees is a con- ON TUESDAY February 20, the American As- Fundraiser stant issue all businesses face, from small busi- sociation of University Women (AAUW), Astoria THE BROWNSMEAD Grange will be having its ADVERTISING INQUIRIES - 503.338.4878 nesses all the way up to our largest employers in Branch will present “Tech Trek: Students and annual Valentine Spaghetti Dinner fundraiser Send general email correspondance: the county and region. What is being done about Leaders”. This presentation from 5:30 to 7:00 Saturday February 17th from 5pm to 8pm. It [email protected]. this great workforce need in Clatsop County? p.m. will be held at the Astor Middle School is a great family friendly event, serving the HIPFiSH is produced on the web at: CEDR, (Clatsop Economic Development Library located at 1100 Klaskanine Avenue community with a full Spaghetti and meat ball www.hipfishmonthly.com Resources) and WorkSource Northwest Oregon NOT AT THE ASTOR LIBRARY. dinner (vegetarian option as well) with good Hipfish is printed at the Daily Astorian are spearheading the fourth annual Clatsop What is Tech Trek? It is a week long summer friends, goof food, and good fun for all. County Job & Career Fair, which will be held on Tickets are available at the door and are $10 EDITOR/PUBLISHER: camp designed for girls entering the 8th grade Wednesday, February 21, from 10am- 3:15pm, at for adults and $5 for children 12 and under. Dinah Urell to learn about math and science. Girls will Patriot Hall at the Lexington Campus of Clatsop collect data from field trips, conduct scien- Meal will include all you can eat spaghetti, GRAPHICS: Community College in Astoria. tific experiments, and interact with women in garlic bread, salad and dessert. Coffee and Buggy Bison Astoria, Ilwaco, Jewell, Knappa, Naselle, Sea- STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and lemonade to drink as well as a no host bar. Les Kanekuni side and Warrenton High Schools will be sending Mathematics) careers. For further information please call (503) 458-5229 or email BrownsmeadGrange@gmail. Dinah Urell all Juniors & Seniors in the morning and will be What is the purpose of Tech Trek? Its finished by 1pm. com or find us on Facebook at https://www. Michelle Roth purpose is to encourage girls to enter a career facebook.com/brownsmeadgrange. Follow the At 1:15pm the doors will re-open for adult job in STEM and increase the decline of students signs from Hwy 30 in Knappa on the day of the ACCOUNT EXEC : COVER: Project Hand Up seekers, Clatsop Community College students, entering STEM careers. and those seeking more information about event. Ryan Sheile Logo by Justin Dickau Speakers will be a past participant, a par- career & job opportunities in Clatsop County. We More information available on Face- ent, and a school administrator; each giving estimate over 700 students will be in attendance, book: https://www.facebook.com/events/ CALENDAR/PRODUCTION a perspective/viewpoint of the Tech Trek and many college students and adult job seekers. brownsmead grange experience. Assistance/Staff Writer: Cathy Nist To register as an employer to participate in If you would like more information about this MAGIC WEB WORKER: the career & job fair, call Debbie Newton from Parking is available at the school and the building topic, please contact Matti Raihala at (503) 458-5229 or email at BrownsmeadGrange@ Bob Goldberg WorkSource Oregon at 503-325-4821 ext. 226, is handicap accessible. Light refreshments will be email her at [email protected]. provided. FMI: call Jan Nybakke 503-325-4592. gmail.com. Social Media: Sid Deluca

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The Significance of the New Women’s Uprising EW people would have predicted that ness about losing their jobs to women a Southern California urban university with Fthe sexual harassment case against who had flooded the workplaces during a faculty of 1,500 and a student body of Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein a few World War Two. Betty Friedan’s book, The 35,000, witnessed a real gender revolu- months ago would have touched off such a Feminine Mystique, gave powerful voice tion, beginning among the faculty and widespread movement of women from all to women’s anger at the re-imposition of percolating down to many young women walks of life against some men’s perpetual “separate spheres.” Friedan and her col- students. Our building housed history on sexual abuse of them. After all, we have leagues, focusing on the right of women to the ground floor and some of the second, had many individuals, especially in the work and gain equal pay and equality in the with an increasing part of the second given entertainment industry, from Fatty Arbuckle work place, formed the formidable National over to Women’s Studies. As I sat in my in the silent film era to popular and “family Organization for Women in 1966. office preparing a night class, I could hear friendly” TV comedian the women’s conscious- Bill Cosby exposed ness raising sessions giving individually as sexual voice to their rage. They predators. But unlike would come flying down New Time: 9am Thursdays! what were commonly the stairs energized by thought of as isolated getting out their anger at This Way Out marks almost 30 years on the air! cases, the Weinstein men’s accustomed way of Our first program was distributed on April 1, 1988. exposure has produced treating them. a veritable explosion But these were just the It’s the award-winning internationally distributed of further accusations opening salvos of a move- by increasing numbers ment that would revolution- weekly GLBT radio program, currently airing on over of women in virtually ize gender relations. In 150 local commmunity radio stations around the all walks of life. It’s like the eighties women who world. the phrase from Paddy cavalierly dismissed femi- Chayefsky’s iconic nism found little trouble in Get the latest news, listen to This Way Out on Coast 1976 film, “Network”, becoming half of the medi- “I’m mad as hell and cal and law school classes, Community Radio. I’m not gonna take it formerly almost entirely anymore,” has sprung male. My father gradu- to life. In Network, ated second in his class at however, Fay Dunaway, Boston University Medical playing an assertive School in 1940. The top woman clawing her student was a woman. Af- way up in a man’s world, was portrayed But it was Gloria Steinem, founder of Ms ter going through hell in the European war, COASTER THEATRE PLAYHOUSE negatively. And it was the male newscaster Magazine, who first laid heavy emphasis on dad was able to come home and become who took up the chant, “I’m mad as hell the overall indignity heaped upon women specialized in private practice in internal and I’m not going to take it anymore” as in their reduction to sexual objects, rather medicine and cardiology. The woman who a gimmick to raise the news program’s rat- than fully rounded people who could be graduated above him ended up in research, ings. Now we have women whose gender just as cerebral and versatile in their choice probably because even women then has endured male harassment and exploita- of career and lifestyle as men. Steinem, wouldn’t go to a female practitioner. Today tion from time immemorial honestly and like Friedan, worked as a journalist. She some half the physicians, in a full range of righteously raising a collective battle cry. infiltrated Hugh Hefner’s Playboy, with its specialties, are women. What has quickly developed not only in lucrative flesh peddling version of hip, My point is that the women now boldly the entertainment realm, but also among working as a Bunny, waiting on men in a shouting, “Me too!” about male sexual women in the Wall Street and business skimpy outfit with rabbit ears and a cotton harassment in the work place are building communities, is a full throated outcry tail. Steinem declared war on Hefner’s on what my sixties generation and the pre- against sexual harassment by men in sexist version of liberation, which Freudian/ vious suffrage generation and nineteenth relative power positions towards women Marxist theorist Herbert Marcuse labelled century women’s rights movement, all the February 2-24, 2018 coworkers. Such men tend to regard their “repressive de-sublimation.” What Mar- way back to Mary Wollstonecraft’s “Vindica- uncouth behavior as all in fun and their cuse meant and many radical grad students tion of the Rights of Women” had accom- Tickets $20 or $25 natural entitlement. But women have of the time got was that Hefner reduced plished. They have the courage to speak rightfully found it degrading and hu- genuine revolutionary liberation of human out the way they are doing about this most Shows begin at 7:30 p.m. miliating. As a veteran American cultural expression to mere titillation. And of primal form of male exploitation because Sunday shows start at 3:00p.m. historian who joined academia in 1970, I course, Hefner’s enterprise made him just their forebears had the courage to speak had a chance to observe and relate to the another capitalist tycoon, rather than leftist out against the worse abuses of their own strong feminist movement that came out or even left liberal. times. Young women should not deny their Sponsored by Mike & Tracey Clark of that period. That movement began with But despite Hefner’s pseudo-revolution feminism, as was fashionable in the eight- Second Wave feminism (the first wave had and all the other commercial attempts to ies, nineties and early part of this century. 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NATURE NEWS Listening to the Land: Swimming with the wild fishes

Join the Great Backyard Bird Count FOR NEARLY 20 YEARS, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife has been at Fort Clatsop, February 16-19 closely monitoring the survival and down- THE 21ST annual Great Backyard Bird Count (GBBC) the monthly stream migration of salmon in coastal river is taking place February 16 through 19. To participate In Their basins. As the assistant project leader of in this citizen science opportunity, anyone in the world Footsteps the Salmonid Life Cycle Monitoring Project, can count birds for at least 15 minutes at any location guest speaker Derek Wiley has spent the past decade on one or more days of the count and enter their sight- series and researching salmon and steelhead and ings at gbbc.birdcount.org. The information gathered takes place at making estimates about their abundance by tens of thousands of individuals helps track changes 1:00 p.m. in and survival rates on the northern Oregon in bird populations on a massive scale. The GBBC is a the Netul River coast, often taking his GoPro camera into joint project of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the Room of the the field with him to capture fish behavior National Audubon Society with partner Bird Studies Fort Clatsop and spawning. WEDNESDAY, FEB. 15, join Canada. Visitor Center. Derek at the Seaside Public Library for the From Friday, February 16, through Monday, Febru- second of this year’s Listening to the Land ON MONDAY, ary 19, visitors to Lewis and Clark National Historical presentations focused on wildlife. Admis- FEBRUARY Park, Fort Clatsop can join in the count by recording sion to “Life in the River” is free. 19, Presidents’ bird observations in the park and make plans to count Derek will provide a special screening of Day, the park birds in their own backyards. Binoculars will be avail- his films documenting the freshwater life of will offer a able for loan within the park. native salmon in our region. Journey’s End birding walk in Along with the actual bird counting activities, the is an 18-minute video capturing under- Spanish at 10:00 a.m. starting in the Fort Clatsop Visi- park has planned four days of bird-related opportuni- water behavior and spawning of wild chum salmon, Chinook salmon, coho salmon, and tor Center lobby. Although leashed dogs are welcome ties. A “great pink heron scavenger hunt” will be Pacific lamprey in several rivers and creeks on the northern Oregon Coast. He’ll also share at most of the park’s outdoor programs, dogs (perros) on-going using the Netul Trail along the Lewis and footage documenting Salmonid Life Cycle Monitoring Project activities on the North Fork are not allowed at this morning walk. Please dress Clark River. A “Birds of Fort Clatsop” display is in the Nehalem River from fall 2015 and give us an update on more recent monitoring results. for the weather. The walk is wheelchair accessible visitor center. As a research biologist with ODFW, Derek supervises a field crew responsible for moni- although non-motorized users might need assistance toring abundance of adult and juvenile salmonids in the North Fork Nehalem River for the ON SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17, Mike Patterson will for about 200 yards. Salmonid Life Cycle Monitoring Project. He earned a bachelor’s degree in biology from lead a birding walk starting at 8:30 a.m. in the Fort Park hours are 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. each day. Ad- Towson State University and a master’s degree in fisheries and wildlife from Frostburg State Clatsop Visitor Center lobby. Although leashed dogs mission is $5 per adult and free for youth 15 years old University, both in Maryland. In 2004 he moved to John Day, Oregon, to work for ODFW are welcome at most of the park’s outdoor programs, and under. Passes to National Park Service sites are ac- on a steelhead research project. Two years later he moved to Tillamook to take his current dogs are not allowed at this morning walk. Please cepted. A variety of bird field guides are available for position. Derek is an avid fly fisherman, photographer, and videographer. dress for the weather. The walk is wheelchair ac- purchase at the Lewis & Clark National Park Association cessible although non-motorized users might need Listening to the Land is a monthly winter speaker series offered January through May and bookstore in the Fort Clatsop Visitor Center. assistance for about 200 yards. presented by North Coast Land Conservancy and the Necanicum Watershed Council in More info on the worldwide bird count event or partnership with the Seaside Public Library. For more information, visit NCLCtrust.org. ON SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 18, Travis Koons, a curator to submit bird counts from your home go to gbbc. at The Oregon Zoo, will talk about plans to return wild birdcount.org. California condors to their historic range along the Columbia River and north of it. This program is part of Tillamook Estuaries Partnership 2017 Year in Review Thursday, February 22, 5:30pm California Condors: An Oregon Treasure Port of Tillamook Bay – Main Conference Room FORT CLATSOP wood National Park in Northern California. This close HABITAT RESTORATION, Water Quality including Water Quality Monitoring, Habi- presetns IN THEIR proximity to the southern Oregon border will allow Monitoring, a Native Plant Nursery, the tat Restoration, Education and more. FOOTSTEPS free natural movement of the famed Thunderbird back to Explore Nature series of events, Bounty This event is free and open to the pub- speaker series event. their historic home range in the Pacific Northwest. on the Bay – Would you like to learn more lic. Light refreshments will be served. The California Condors: Travis Koons has 17 years of experience working with about these programs and projects of the Port of Tillamook Bay is located at 4000 An Oregon Treasure raptors dating back to rehab/release internships at the Tillamook Estuaries Partnership (TEP)? Blimp Blvd., two miles south of the City of by Travis Koons on South Plains Wildlife Rehab Center in Lubbock, Texas. TEP is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organiza- Tillamook, OR, just off U.S. Highway 101. Sunday, February He began his career in earnest with South American tion located in Garibaldi with a mission to Please contact Valerie at Tillamook Estuar- 18, at 1pm. This is raptor species including, Harpy, Ornate-Hawk, and conserve and restore Tillamook County’s ies Partnership with any questions: (503) part of the February Black-Hawk Eagles at the Dallas World Aquarium estuaries and watersheds in their entirety. 322-2222. 16-19 worldwide in 2007. Beginning in late 2014 Koons was named Find out more about the 2017 work for Great Backyard Bird Supervisor of Birds at the San Antonio Zoo where Tillamook County’s Count activities led among many other species of birds, he managed Bald watersheds and estuaries by the National and Bateleur Eagles, as well as a pair of King Vultures. during its 2017 Year in Audubon Society Koons accepted the role of Animal Curator at the Or- Review, Thursday, Febru- and the Cornell Lab egon Zoo in May of 2017 where he manages the zoo’s ary 22nd, 5:3pm. in the of Ornithology. bird collection and butterfly programs. This includes main conference room The Lewis and Clark Expedition encountered Cali- management/operation of the Oregon Zoo’s remote at The Port of Tillamook fornia Condors during the winter of 1805-06 near the Condor Propagation facility that houses 34 birds Bay. mouth of the Columbia River. Meriwether Lewis wrote including 11 breeding pairs. Offspring from this facility The event starts with a detailed description of a live specimen at Fort Clat- are released to native home range environments. a brief introduction and sop on February 16, 1806. Just over 212 years later, overview of projects in Travis Koons from the Oregon Zoo, will share about the In Their Footsteps is a monthly Sunday forum spon- Tillamook County and current status of this endangered species. California sored by the Lewis & Clark National Park Association then guests can meet Condors – An Oregon Treasure is a discussion of prop- and the park. These programs are held in the Netul TEP staff and ask ques- agation methods for captive reared California Condors River Room of Fort Clatsop’s visitor center and are free tions in an open house and their eventual release to their home range. He will of charge. Park info: 503.861.2471 style exhibition of 2017 also cover plans for a new condor release site at Red- programs and projects Tillamook Bay Aerial

7 FEB 18 hipfishmonthly.com Yarrow collected by Lewis. LGBTQ news and culture Clatsop Cruise Hosts Preparing For 2018 Season for the lower columbia pacific Volunteers Sought! f ASTORIA, OR -- Clatsop Cruise Hosts (CCH) welcomes new volunteers for its 2018 season. Cruise Hosts are volunteers who greet the incoming cruise ships at various locations throughout Astoria. “I’ve been a Cruise Host for about 12 years and just love it!” exclaimed Myrle Bruner, CCH past board member, recording secretary and regular volunteer host. “You meet so many interesting people who are excited to be here,” she Lower Columbia Q Center Board Meeting added. “Cruise Hosts are such a fun group and we enjoy showing off our Folk beautiful community.” Clatsop Cruise Hosts conduct an annual luncheon Astoria Armory - 1636 Exchange Street Astoria, 3rd WednesdayofQ the month, 6pm-7pm and training for current and new volunteers. This year the event takes place on Friday, March 23, at the Columbia River Maritime Museum’s Attention all LGBTIQ community members and allies! We meet Barbey Center. at the Astoria Armory to discuss the great strides we have The first ship of the season arrives Sunday, April 8 with the Star Prin- made in our efforts to build awareness, community, educa- cess, a 2600 passenger ship. A total of 25 ships are arriving to the Port of tional opportunities and pride, as well as future endeavors Astoria in 2018 – including the Disney Wonder with more than 3700 pas- to increase safety, visibility and support services in Clatsop County and beyond. Something often said in the LGBTIQ sengers. There are about 150 registered volunteers with Clatsop Cruise community is that “we get to choose our family”. We want to Hosts and between 50 and 70 are needed to assist greeting each ship. extend a welcome to the people of the Lower Columbia Region Clatsop Cruise Hosts is a non-profit organization of volunteers dedi- to join our family. cated to ensuring Cruise Ship passengers, crew and staff are graciously welcomed to our community and encouraged to explore all that the Mission: The Lower Columbia Q Center is a safe and welcoming North Coast offers. Cruise Hosts are devoted to educating visitors about resource and peer support service for the LGBTIQ community, our history, local culture and activities. friends, family, and allies of the Lower Columbia Region. For more information visit www.ClatsopCruiseHosts.org or email Cyndi at [email protected] or call 503-440-7168. Astoria Artwalk LGBTIQ Group 5-8pm • November 8 The Lower Columbia Q Center is excited to announce its general LGBTIQ group. This group is designed to help “Gathering” featuring works by connect LGBTIQ people in the Lower Columbia Region Gail Wahlstrom and Jill Merrill which includes Clatsop, Columbia, Tillamook and Pacific County. Finding community in these rural counties can be challenging. The Lower Columbia Q Center builds commu- Art Cards, Artisan Crafts, nity and discusses LGBTIQ issues freely and confidentially. Gallery & Working Studio This group meets at the Astoria Armory, 1636 Exchange 1133 Commercial St. Astoria, OR 97103 St. every 2nd Wednesday of the month at 6:00pm. THE NEXT MEETING WILL BE AUG 9TH. Please Contact Chris 503.468.0308 Wright at (425)314-3388 with any questions. Lower Columbia Gender Alliance/Trans Support Photo: DavidCarter The Lower Columbia Gender Alliance holds peer support group NC PREVENTION WORKS COALITION meetings on the third Thursday of each month. Meetings are Please join us at our monthly coalition meeting! open to transgender, gender queer, questioning and family 3rd Thursdays. 3:30-5pm. Agenda items include: -Drug Free Communities members or partners. Meetings will be at 6:30 pm at the Q Grant- mORe Campaign -Youth Recognition Awards. Warrenton City Hall center. For Information call Jeralyn O’Brien @ 503-341-3777 Chambers. 225 S Main, Warrenton

Over the Rainbow Radio Show o n KMUN PACIFIC GREEN PARTY OF CLATSOP COUNTY meets the 2nd Sunday of 91.9 Every 3rd Wednesday 8:30 - 1030pm the month, at 4pm. FMI: contact [email protected] LCQC Choir meets every Monday 7-8:30pm Contact [email protected]. CLATSOP COUNTY DEMOCRATS MEET Clatsop County Democrats Start up March meet the fourth Monday of each month at 6:00 p.m. in room 221 of Columbia Hall at Clatsop Community College in Astoria. Parking next to Every Friday Skate night and LGBTIQ Columbia Hall is accessed off of and above Lexington Avenue, between + teen social nights -5-9pm 15th and 16th Streets. For more information about the Clatsop County Democratic Party, please go to www.clatsopdemocrats.org or www.face- book.com/clatsopdemocrats.

Monthly LGBTQ Events PACIFIC COUNTY DEMOCRATSMonthly Meeting - 2nd Mondays, 6pm, Long Beach County Building, Sandridge Rd. Pacific pacificcountydems@ in Lincoln County gmail.com - 1st Wed of ea. month, 7pm is Trans Parents Coffee Hour at the Chalet in Newport. - 2nd Tues. ea month, 4pm is LGBT+ & Allies Happy Hour CREATe • Feb 15 at Georgie’s in Newport. Columbia River Estuary Action Team - 2nd Wed. ea month - 6pm to 7:30pm PFLAG Group at CREATE is a group of citizens working to protect the unique Columbia River Estuary St. Stephen’s at 9th and Hurbert in Newport. and the rivers and streams that flow into it. All are welcome! - 4th Sun of ea month, 11am is OUT OR Coast Women’s CREATE was started by people who were involved in the successful 12 year battle against LNG in Clatsop County. Its purpose is to foster citizen involvement in Coffee at Cafe Mundo in Newport. protecting the unique, beautiful and productive Columbia River Estuary. To connect with Oregon Central Coast Chapter of PFLAG, New members are always welcome. Come and join in at 6pm, 3rd Thursdays at call (541)265-7194, email: [email protected] the Blue Scorcher.

FEB 18 hipfishmonthly.com 8 By alyssa graybeal LOVE IS LOVE Community Valentine Party S YOUR DOG OR CAT GETTING OLDER? I Suffering from anxiety? Growing mysterious Celebrate Diversity lumps? Going in for surgery? Consider pet South Coast massage! Kim Tews is a certified small animal massage practitioner based out of Seaside with a mobile practice that comes to you. Pet massage is based on Swedish massage strokes meant to help a pet relax, heal, and improve overall levels of health and well-being. How do you know if your pet might benefit? “It’s more looking at how your pet is now versus how they’ve been in the past. Maybe they don’t move or enjoy things as much as they used to, or maybe their movements aren’t as fluid due to chronic pain, or due to joint and mobility issues such as arthritis,” says Tews. Maintenance massage is great for pets of any activity level and benefits every system in the body. Tews also monitors pets for the early detection of health risks. “I examine the whole pet and might see things the owners overlook because they PLANNING for the annual LOVE IS LOVE Valentine Party see them every day.” She typically sees maintenance massage hosted by PFLAG is in full swing. This community Valentine clients every week or two for an hour. Like humans, pets have varying responses to massage. “Some Party will be held from 2-4 PM on Saturday, Feb. 10 in the Tews has a soft spot for working with older pets and making them take longer to become receptive because I’m new, I’m in their beautiful lobby of the Oregon Coast Community College in as comfortable as possible. “Most often I work with senior dogs space, and I’m touching them in weird ways,” says Tews. Tews South Beach. who’ve been explains how Volunteers will transform the College Commons into a with their own- animals are romantic Hearts and Flowers Valentine Party setting. ers for a long really good at Past Forward, a popular local music group, will provide live time or rescue Come, Heal, Relax—Curly Tail Pet Massage hiding what’s music to celebrate the power of love in all its wonderful and pets living wrong with surprising forms—young and old, gay and straight. their golden Popping Up! at Pet Stores in February them, that if Vocals by Akia Woods of Past Forward will delight the years with a they have a audience with traditional and modern love songs. new family.” Massage also helps rescue dogs with anxiety or fear to problem area they’ll often sit on the other side or otherwise try to Teen poets and writers representing the Gay/Straight Alli- negotiate touch and human contact. keep it out of reach at first. Other pets warm up to massage more ance Clubs from Lincoln County high schools will read their For pre- or post-surgery pets, Tews also specializes in rehabilita- quickly. “Owners tell me things like, ‘I told them aunty Kim was work, and adults will read striking modern and traditional tion massage. In fact, she first became interested in massage when coming two hours ago and they’ve been sitting at the door waiting love poetry, Newlyweds and longest married couples, gay one of her rescue pugs was on restricted bed rest and confined to a for you ever since.’” and straight, will becelebrated at the party. crate for 10 weeks after he tore his anterior cruciate ligament (ACL). For those curious about their pets’ openness to massage, Tews is Delightful and decadent Valentine desserts donated by In such cases, massage helps not only to maintain muscle mass offering two “Come, Heal, Relax—Pop-up Pet Massages” events at the best bakers from several local Welcoming Churches will but also to keep confined pets engaged. “I looked into massage local pet stores in February. She’ll be there to answer any questions make this celebration a really sweet treat and chocolate because he was so bored!” Tews says. and offer 15-minute/$10 massages at Dogs Allowed in Cannon heaven. No referral is necessary for rehabilitation massage, but Tews Beach on February 11 from 11am to 4pm, and at Four Paws on the Volunteers are preparing a table of hearts, flowers, glitter always works closely with the pet’s veterinarian to determine how to Beach in Manzanita on February 24 from 12 to 3pm. and glue for guests to createtheir own hand-made Valentine get the best results. Rehabilitation massage is more intensive and Tews’ range is currently confined to the NW corner of Oregon Cards. You can surprise your sweetheart with a card from the may be every other day for a shorter amount of time, depending on (soon to be expanded to SW Washington); she goes as far east as heart, unique and special, just like your love. the pet’s history and treatment plan. Portland and as far south as Tillamook ($5 and $10 mileage fees ap- PFLAG is a national organization providing support, Because she volunteers with Pacific Pug Rescue based out of ply for trips greater than 20 and 30 miles from Seaside, respectively). education and advocacy for LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Portland, Tews is especially familiar with the mobility issues that Transgender & Questioning) folks, their families, and friends. affect the breed. For example, intervertebral disk disease (IVDD) is She welcomes all questions and can be contacted by phone (503- The Oregon Central Coast Chapter focuses on creating a breakdown/compression in the spinal cord that can happen in any 805-1319), email ([email protected]), her website (curlytailpm. safe and nurturing communities for young people in Lincoln breed, including pugs, where they start to lose function due to the com), or social media for a free 5 to 10 minute consult or to book County, and opening hearts and minds of all ages. With this affected nerve endings. your initial appointment. Valentine Party for old and young, gay and straight, we’re bringing people together to celebrate the power of love in our lives. After all, Love is Love! Donations will support PFLAG’s programs for LGBT youth. 20th Annual CASA Celebration For more information about the Valentine Party or PFLAG, call 541-265-7194 or 541-265-2922. Tickets On Sale! WHAT IS IT LIKE to be a child who faces a world of uncertainty Attend the 20th Annual CASA Celebration on Thursday, March and change, whose parents or caregivers have been abusive or ne- 15, 2017 from 6-9 pm at the BRIDGEwater Bistro in Astoria. Enjoy REPAIR CAFE will once again convene in the Lovell Showroom glectful, who feels very alone and confused, and who cannot speak an evening of delicious “small bites”, wine and other beverages. A to fix items – anything one person can carry in FEB 28 6-9pm. up for himself or herself? The Clatsop CASA Program invites you lively dessert auction in this beautiful setting on the Columbia River These FREE monthly repair events bring people with broken stuff to help diminish that burden by making sure that these children will raise money for advocacy services for children and youth who together with people who know how to fix it. Our “fixers” can repair, or have advocates who know them, who understand their needs, and are victims of child abuse and neglect. give expert advice on most items: clothing, computers, furniture, power tools, household appliances, and bicycles – and you can observe and who are empowered to make recommendations in support of the The Celebration honors the rewarding work of CASA volunteers learn a bit about how it’s done. children’s best interests. who advocate for foster children. Clatsop CASA relies almost en- At The Lovell Showroom of Fort George Brewery is located at the CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocate) volunteers help foster tirely on community support to fund the recruitment, training and corner of Duane and 14th St in downtown Astoria. http://facebook.com/ children on their path to a safe, permanent home. CASAs are the ongoing support of volunteers, so that they can work on improving repairastoria only participants in the child welfare system who speak solely for the the services provided to families and children. Join the Celebra- Help create a community around skill sharing, repairs, and diverting child’s best interest in making recommendations to the court and tion! Tickets for this benefit event are $30 but space is limited. Call stuff from entering our landfills. advocating for services. With 50 volunteers serving 132 children in soon! Reserve your tickets now by calling the Clatsop CASA office Feel free to contact in advance of the event if you have a questions 2017, there is still a waiting list of children who need a CASA. at 503-338-6063. about an item for repair. 503-307-0834 Email [email protected]

9 FEB 18 hipfishmonthly.com INCO NEWS By Melissa Ousley Indivisible North Coast Oregon Creating Lasting Change Enjoy the serenity of our gardens, wooded paths, sauna, yurt and bhuddas . . . INCO EVENTS February Through Grassroots Activism . . . in Nahcotta, Washington on Sandridge Road, THIS YEAR has been tough on people. From our just south of Bay Avenue overlooking willapa bay IncoWa Postcard Party current administration, we’ve seen moves to under- Most Fridays, 1-3 pm mine public education, end health care for millions “women have been central to the environ- Ocean Park, WA (private home; email of Americans, remove protections for Dreamers and mental movement and our understanding of other immigrants, end net neutrality, deny climate ecology since its earliest stirrings and fragile [email protected] for details) beginnings in the 19th century” change while reducing environmental protections, and Excerpted from “Rachel Carson and reduce funding for social services, libraries, the arts, Her Sisters” by Robert K. Musil INCO Happy Hour and even medical research. Every Wednesday, 4 – 6 pm Recently, Oregonians saw a proposal to shrink the Astoria (email [email protected] size of Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument, an for details) important site for biodiversity, and a second proposal to open our coastal waters for new offshore drilling. These proposals are a blow against tourism, a major Warrenton INCO Community Group industry in Oregon, and could be particularly detri- Meeting mental to Clatsop County. An oil spill would be cata- Saturday, February 3, 11 am strophic to local wildlife, and would be devastating Dooger’s Seafood and Grill, Warrenton to the many small business that benefit from visitors to our beaches. According to Governor Brown, last year, the Oregon coast generated $2 billion in revenue INCO Oppose Bigotry Team Meeting through tourism and other industries (Campuzano, Tuesday, February 6, 6 pm Oregonian, 2018). Astoria (private home; email incore- What we are witnessing is a federal government are voting and running for office in greater numbers, [email protected] for details) that is no longer listening to the will of the people. and they are winning. Still, there’s hope, because here’s what else we are www.mobydickhotel.com If there’s a silver lining from the chaos of 2017, it’s 360-665-4543 or 1-800-673-6145 seeing—a surge in grassroots activism. After the INCO Reading Group: American the energy people are bringing as grassroots activists Women’s March in January of 2017, organizations like and candidates. But if we want to see real change in Nations: History of the Eleven Rival Indivisible got organized and got busy, coordinating our country, it’s not enough to resist. We have to win Regional Cultures rallies and informational events, encouraging people elections. Wednesday, February 7, 6:30 pm to contact their members of Congress, and canvassing We can do this by increasing voter registration and for initiatives like Measure 101. Along with a rise in participation, and by finding viable candidates. We Astoria (private home; email incore- activism, we’ve seen an increase in charitable dona- [email protected] for details) have to fight voter suppression and empower under- tions, volunteerism, and people running for office. In represented communities, broadening the electorate 2016, charitable giving grew by 4.1%, and may have so our democracy is truly representative. We have to increased by as much as 4.6% in 2017 (Nonprofits- Astoria INCO Community Group support progressive candidates who represent the will source.com, 2018). Tuesday, February 13, 6 pm of the people. Support can come in the form of en- The number of women running for office has dorsements, donations, or by mobilizing volunteers to Check Facebook or email incoregon@ exploded. Stephanie Schriock, president of Emily’s call voters, knock on doors, or host candidate forums. gmail.com for location List, the largest national organization dedicated to The more support we provide to candidates who rep- training and electing female candidates, stated that resent us, the stronger their chances of being elected, less than 1,000 women contacted her organization in Seaside/Gearhart INCO Community and the better our voices will be heard. the previous election cycle. After the 2016 presidential Group Informed and engaged citizens who vote can create election, interest in public service boomed. Now, more lasting policy change. If we learned anything in 2017, Tuesday, February 13, 6:30 pm than 26,000 women have signed up with Emily’s List it’s that our collective energy and strength makes a Seaside (private home; email incore- to run or volunteer in other ways (Associated Press, difference in speaking truth to power. [email protected] for details) New York Times, 2018). Similar trends have been noted in other organizations. Emerge Oregon, which Melissa Ousley is an educator who volunteers with V-Day Rally to End Violence Against trains women in Oregon to run, had a record number Indivisible and serves on the Seaside Public Library of applicants this year, resulting in an expansion of Foundation Board. She was accepted into Emerge Women their program. The number of men seeking to run has Oregon’s class of 2018 and plans to run for office this Wednesday, February 14, 11 am – 1 pm increased as well. year,for State Representative District 32. To view her 8th and Commercial, Astoria 2017 was a year of historic elections, with in- campaign site: www.melissaousley.com creased engagement from people who have been marginalized in our society. Danica Roem became the Indivisible North Coast Oregon (INCO) defends Warrenton Community Group Meeting democracy by opposing authoritarianism, bigotry, and Saturday, February 17, 11 am first openly transgender legislator to be elected to Virginia’s state legislature, defeating a lawmaker who corruption. It’s among thousands of grassroots Indivis- Dooger’s Seafood and Grill, Warrenton had sponsored a bill that would have discriminated ible groups that formed nationwide in response to the against her and other transgender people. Long-shot 2016 presidential election. INCO Vote the Future Team Democrat Doug Jones defeated far-right candidate Sign up to receive the INCO e-newsletter and Action Wednesday, February 21, 6:30 pm Roy Moore in historically conservative Alabama to Alerts at www.indivisiblenorthcoastor.blogspot.com. To Seaside Library Board Room win a seat in the Senate. He was propelled to victory confirm event information, visit the events page on the primarily by African-American voters. People of color INCO blogspot site or the INCO Facebook group.

FEB 18 hipfishmonthly.com 10 By Melissa Ousley THE 12TH ANNUAL The Photographic Nude 2018 Au Naturel: The Nude in the 21st Century LightBox Photographic Gallery HE TWELFTH ANNUAL international juried exhibit Au Naturel: and “Construct- TThe Nude in the 21st Century will be on display through March ing Identity: LIGHTBOX 15 at Clatsop Community College’s Royal Nebeker Art Gallery Petrucci Fam- Photographic located at 1799 Lexington Avenue, Astoria, OR. ily Foundation Gallery opens A community reception will be held on FEBRUARY 22 - 6PM and Collection of “The Photo- this year’s juror Arvie Smith will be present to give a brief gallery African Ameri- graphic Nude talk. Awards to be announced at the reception include cash prizes, can Art” from 2018” with an purchase awards, a special exhibit award to be held during the 2018 January - June opening artists’ - 2019 exhibition season, and a select number of workshop awards. 2017, also at reception on This reception is free and open to the public. A special post-recep- the Portland Saturday, Febru- tion gathering will be held at the Inferno Lounge, located at 77 11th Art Museum. ary 10th from Street immediately following the reception. He recently Photo: Intisar Abioto 6-9 p.m. This is This year, over 500 images were submitted for consideration by completed a the eighth year artists from 29 states plus the District of Columbia, as well as inter- commission Juror Arvie Smith of the annual national submissions from Canada, England, Latvia, and Taiwan. The through RACC international 2018 exhibit will include 60 works of art by 41 artists from 13 states to create a design for a 18’ x 24’ mural to be installed on the corner juried exhibit, plus the District of Columbia, in addition to international artists from of NE MLK and Alberta in September of this year. a collection of Jim Washington Glass Olive#1 Canada and Taiwan. Selecting artwork for each year’s show from among the hundreds photographic Juror Arvie Smith, known nationally for his large format socially of submitted images is never an easy task. Each year, a different juror prints exploring the artistic and creative view of the body provocative figurative painting is Professor Emeritus of Painting is invited to select the work for the show, and each juror brings his or and its form, dedicated to the creative spirit of photogra- at Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, Oregon where he her own unique perspective and approach to selection process. “A pher Ruth Bernhard. taught from 1984 to 2014. Smith (born in 1938) resides in Portland, truly talented group of artists submitted beautiful works for me to LightBox established “The Photographic Nude“ series Oregon where he is a full time artist. review making this a challenging and enjoyable process,” juror Arvie to reveal compelling imagery and the mastery of the me- He has shown in New York, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Washington Smith reports. “The works I chose included those that conveyed dium. The hope was to foster an appreciation of the nude DC, New Orleans, Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland, and Florence, originality, expressed mood and emotion, communicated move- in the medium of photography and to gain an understand- Italy. His paintings are in collections of the Portland Art Museum, ment, and utilized a pleasing use of color and light.” ing of the theme historically in the photographic art form The Reginald Lewis Museum of African American Art and Culture, For thousands of years, artists have been compelled to create as well as to bring recognition to the cur-rent photogra- Petrucci Family Foundation, Charlayne Hunter-Gualt, Nelson Man- images of the human form, and it is a subject matter with endless phers who practice their art with the theme of the nude. dela Estate, Myrlie Evers-Williams, Jordan Schnitzer, Oregon State possibilities for creative expression. “The relationship that an artist With a total of 50 images selected for the exhibit from University, Portland Community College and the City of Portland. He can experience from rendering the figure offers clues to their very 38 photographers, the show represents many of the very has traveled and studied extensively in West Africa and Europe. own nature as humans,” Smith explains. “There is no neutral way to talented practitioners of the photographic fine art nude Recent exhibitions of Smith’s work include a solo show at the Port- paint or draw the nude as we will always leave our personal imprint, from around the world. land Art Museum Northwest Gallery from July 2016 to March 2017, becoming part of the artwork itself.” This year’s exhibit was juried by Christa Blackwood of Austin, Texas. Christa Black-wood is an acclaimed photo- based artist whose photographs of male nudes refer-ence identity, photographic/art history and popular culture. Her works employ mul-tiple techniques and methods, Gary Stutler. Chen Lynn. FASIONABLE - STONEBONE - the exhibits three paintings in the fusing traditional, historical and alternative methods with Portland artist 2018 Au Naturel and is from contemporary ideas and practices. She has been featured exhibits three large Jiayi Shi, Taiwan, believes that in The New York Times, Art Desk Magazine, The Village charcoal and conté “Beauty is an attitude toward Voice and The Chicago Sun Times and her work has been drawings of male life.” She explains that she al- exhibited in galleries and museums throughout the U.S. nudes, strives to ways paints with “a free mind” and abroad. expose what he and also explains that her For the exhibit Christa Blackwood was interested in describes as the work is influenced by “Chinese seeing nudes presented in unique and meaningful ways, “discriminatory calligraphy, experimental tech- i.e., nudes that meld photographic technique with ide-as double-standard niques, as well as the ambiance and surprise. that allows/ encour- of a living Zen.” Again this year all accepted images to The Photograph- ages nude female ic Nude 2018 exhibit will be published in the upcoming images for public Spring edition of Blur magazine, www.blur-magazine.com, exhibition, but an online PDF magazine frowns on or even promoting international fine forbids the male art photog-raphy, located in nude.” He finds it Zagreb, Croatia. unacceptable that the female form is The exhibit runs from widely “studied, Justyna Kisielewicz. HEROINE - February 10th through revered, objecti- exhibits two paintings in this year’s March 7th 2018. Visit http:// fied,” while on the Au Naturel, is a Polish native and lightbox-photographic.com/ other hand, “the male form is devalued a California based painter. Her shows/ for complete exhibit paintings have been described as and hidden from view.” and artists info. LightBox “cheeky, trendy, cool, and popping is located at 1045 Marine with clever and lively unexpected Drive in Astoria, hours are colors.” Her paintings filled with Tuesday - Satur-day 11 - references to modern pop culture 5:30. Contact LightBox at Gallery hours are from 9am – 5pm Mon thru Friday, are inspired by the tradition of 503-468-0238 or at info@ and Saturdays from 11am – 4pm. Gallery visitors are American and European aes- invited to cast their vote for their favorite piece in the thetics. She’s been described in lightbox-photographic.com, show anytime throughout the duration of the exhibit. international fashion and lifestyle and visit lightbox-photo- The ballots will be tallied at the close of the exhibi- magazines as the “rebellious artist graphic.com for more info tion and the winner of the “People’s Choice Award” from Poland” and as the “princess and to en-joy past, current will be announced. of pop culture.” Lauryn Hare Complementary and upcoming exhibits.

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FEB facilitates laundry every other Thursday from 8-10am at the East Side Mini Mart. The laundromat donates the washes, and FEB covers the soap and dryer through donations. The organization has also handed out over a hundred sleeping bags, nearly as many tents and coats, boots, work clothing, winter clothing, interview clothing, hats, and blankets and close to 1000 pairs of socks over its lifespan. Socks are a simple, yet critical part of basic comfort and warmth for people living outside, often taken for granted by those who do not struggle to keep themselves warm and dry. During lunch, a participant is asked how he is doing that day. “I’ve got dry socks on, so I’m doing pretty good,” he Erin Hofseth and street artist Dread Chris replies. The duo, along with their board of directors, share the same vision, Corri has also sponsored eight free Haircuts For that “all humans are worthy without condition, that empowerment is The Homeless events, served holiday meals, provided powerful, that everybody deserves another chance, and that nobody Christmas presents to families and individuals in need, deserves to be forgotten or unloved.” supported multiple, pregnant homeless women with Near the end of the lunch hour, Erin begins unloading donated boots maternity clothing, newborn gear and advocacy, and that are in the back of her car. This is how resources are handed out. made numerous housing and job referrals. Requests come in to the Facebook page or by word of mouth and are She provides medical advocacy, and has acquired fulfilled by community members or the GoFundMe. Items and resources miscellaneous medical supplies for people living in the Board member, Vern “Old Guy” Hall, homeless, 3 jobs and a loving pet. are carted around by Corri and Erin to lunches and various locations to streets, such as: colostomy bags, wheel chairs, a walker, be delivered to those in need. antibiotic creams, hand sanitizer and tampons/pads. One misconception is that there are people coming to Astoria from If the group is going to connect someone with a resource and they Back-to-school supplies and clothes are another Portland to be homeless, or that some nebulous institution is bussing have to show up somewhere or follow through with something, the resource critical for the success homeless children, and homeless people to the North Coast. Last summer, Corri handed message is passed similarly. “Word travels very quickly on the street,” Corri has supported dozens. “Just so they don’t have to out a survey every day for 6 lunches, asking people where they came explains Erin. “We can say, ‘so-and-so needs to be at the DMV at noon go to school and be the ‘homeless kid,’” she says. from. She made the survey a requirement to get food. A total of 6 on Friday to get an ID,’ and they’ll get the message within a half hour.” The organization has coordinated eight memorial ser- people were from Portland. None cited being told by anyone to come While trusting in the efficacy of the grapevine keeps resources and vices for people who died without means. here. None of them were bussed. support moving, FEB is at capacity. To date, FEB has served an estimated 30,000 meals This misconception proved itself to be a collective distancing The model of meeting people where they are at is a viable strategy, and involved over 400 volunteers. strategy. but they are still an institution without shelter. People’s Park has been Corri has supported six Astoria High School students With a goal of being a direct-service, low-barrier program, Corri their unofficial home, but with a recent City Council vote to approve the to complete their senior projects through mentorship started a Facebook page and a GoFundMe to coordinate donations building of a Scandinavian Heritage Park on this site, they will inevitably and community service, hosted 50 students as volun- for food costs as well as clothing and other necessary supplies for come up against the park’s construction phase and have to move loca- teers, and 6 people in need of court-ordered commu- survival, in order to serve more people. tions. nity service. Meals are funded via public support of the GoFundMe, as well as The next effort for FEB is finding a home. It isn’t simply for the sake A little over a year ago, one student came on board donations from local institutions and businesses. Lunch on this winter of warehousing donations that the program is looking for a place to and got hooked. day was a mix: soup from CMH, fruit from donated funds, and des- ground. The mission to secure a location is foremost about the expan- Erin Hofseth began working with Feeding Empty serts from Table 360 bakery. sion of services and creating another space for those on the street to get Bellies as a part of fieldwork hours for a master’s degree The coordination and carting around of these goods six days a out of the elements and get connected to resources. week is the work of more than one person, and with time Corri began in sociology. The addition of Erin’s skills and energy to taking on volunteers to serve lunches. First a high school student, then FEB was the support Corri needed to legitimize and A drop-in center. amplify her work. Erin was able to manage the creation others. The vision began with one of FEB’s board of directors, Vern, “Old of a website, grant writing and the application of formal As she began to share the work with the larger community, it Guy.” Vern says it was conversations with other “old timers,” which 501(c)3 status for the organization. Overall “generating allowed her to focus on additional, much needed, advocacy and started getting him thinking. Thinking about people on the street hav- hubbub,” as she humbly puts it. She also works on the resource support that sprung from working with those in need. The ing a place to go, a kitchen to eat out of, take a shower, do a load of ground serving lunch and distributing resources. outcomes Corri has created are impressive. laundry. Maybe a chance to watch a ball game once in a while. Also, an This “hubbub” is a critical step for the growth of opportunity to ease tensions between the downtown business owners an organization dedicated to serving the community and the homeless if they had somewhere else to be. of people trying to survive in Astoria and Clatsop County with no where to go. “People don’t like sitting in a door way all day long, even though they Erin wanted to support Corri to do what she are doing it,” he says. was doing best: staying engaged in on-the-ground “Smart, he’s just smart, ” says Corri about Vern. service. Erin says of Corri, “She’s just doing her thing. Erin echoes positive sentiments. “Vern is the first one to be like, There are all these little birds up here chirping ‘let me help you with that.” Calling him a “quiet, wise and grounding about what to do about homelessness, and Corri person,” she notes that he is the person there to set up tables at the is down here saying, “ Ok, I’ll be over here helping beginning of a holiday meal, and still there at the end so he can take these people get jobs and clothes and laundry and everything down. showers and food, and I’m going to take them to “He’s a “freakin’ hard worker,” she says. the hospital.” When she graduated from her program at the Corri and Erin are grateful to have Vern on the board of directors for end 2017, Erin decided to continue her work with his work ethic and skills, as well as his knowledge of what the community FEB. She and Corri are now co-directors of the needs as a homeless person himself. organization, and they see their partnership as the He sees a drop-in center as something more than a social program, work of a higher power leading them to where they also a place that can be run and supported by the street community. A need to be. place to take ownership of and pride in. Founder Corri Buck breaking from noon lunch on a not so rainy day.

FEB 18 hipfishmonthly.com 12 By Alyssa Graybeal

HF FEB 18 FEATURE: PROJECT HAND UP

costs for meals, and other necessary items used to support their recipients. Doors Open 4:30pm However, they still do not have a building, and this is the most critical challenge they are facing at this stage. For the last month, Filling Empty Bellies has been scout- ing out a building location in Astoria, and so far, all three legitimate leads have been a bust. “A lot of it is finding people who are willing to work with us because of the population that we are serving and bring- ing in. There is a lot of controversy and business owners who have strong opinions about that,” Erin explains. The struggle to find a landlord willing to rent to an orga- nization serving the homeless is a typical barrier for many Benefit Night street-serving organizations, a glaring example of the kind of rejection and discrimination people living on the streets @ KALA face daily. “We’re getting treated this way just trying to find a Sunday, March 11 location for our nonprofit; how must those suffering from JC Penny Building, barricaded to prevent people from sleeping and gathering. homelessness be treated ever single day just walking down 5pm to 8pm For Vern, working “smarter not harder” is a value. A community run the street or trying to buy a cup of coffee,” says Hofseth. $10 admission drop-in and resource center is step in the “smarter” direction for both One landlord told them directly they would not rent to them for this (includes 1 Raffle Ticket) the organization and the City of Astoria. reason. Another sounded on board, FEB even offered to remodel the His goal is to take leadership over the education and skill-building building themselves, paint, and landscape. Everything seemed to be going doors open 4:30pm part of the center. Having worked as a landscaper, auto mechanic, in the right direction, until the landlord changed their mind, stating they builder, and more, he has many skills to offer and teach. He also wanted to keep wants to help people tap into and get excited about their own poten- the building a The Amazing tial and interests. restaurant. With “There’s a lot of people that are homeless here in Astoria and are no one currently raising a family. They have no careers, they don’t know how to do coming forward Bucket Raffle anything. Unless someone teaches them to do something, then they to make a res- are stuck.” taurant a reality, At a drop in center, people could discover what they enjoy and the building will Galore! where they fit. “Do they want to help in the kitchen? Do you want to remain empty get things set up in the morning? If you go there and you help build and derelict for Art • Spa Packages • the immediate the place, you have an invested interest.” Garden Grab • Getaways • Along with Erin and Corri, Vern sees every person as inherently future. worthy. “We live in a throw away society. I’ve found so many valuable This last lead Leather ware by Dread Chris and jewelry by Mike will Shop Local Certificates • things in dumpsters. The most amazing thing I’ve ever found in the had been the be for sale at the Empty Bellies Benefit trash that is still a good resource, is people. You’d be amazed at how most promis- Restaurants • Services and many people you will find in dumpsters.” ing, and FEB But he adds, “People need their immediate needs met if they want was excited to kick off their fundraising efforts knowing this space was in SO MANY MORE the works. Not getting the space was a blow, and temporarily hit on the to have any chance at rehabilitation.” GOODIES!!!! FEB just launched a campaign to raise money to make a drop-in momentum of their new campaign. Yet they persevere, finding hope and center a reality. The campaign is called,“Filling Empty Bellies: Project community from others who are also playing the long game on serving the homeless. 5pm - 6pm Hand Up.” A new GoFundMe has also been established. Complimentary Apps & Light Fare The campaign will culminate in a Benefit Night on March 11th Alan Evans, the Director of Helping Hands Re-entry Outreach Center, is at KALA Performance another non-profit that is planning to open a mixed emergency shelter and Donated by • EVO Space in Astoria, where transitional living space in downtown Astoria. According to the organiza- Rachel Conyers • Sarah Conyers they’ll be showcasing tion’s website, he is responsible for opening 11 emergency shelters and Rebecca Parker • Table 360 Bakery Street Art by some of the reentry facilities in Clatsop, Tillamook, Yamhill, and Lincoln Counties. He people in their program was also homeless for 25 years. Cocktails + Beer + Wine who are donating their In 2017, Alan received the Beverly “Ma” Curtis Award from the Oregon for sale work, as well as other Coalition For Housing and Homelessness, recognizing him as someone Street Art For Sale Clatsop Co artists. FEB who has made significant contributions to ending homelessness in Oregon. has already received a Containing the wisdom of time and experience behind him, he offers - Lucy Lu - Dreads Chris – Mike bounty of prize dona- support to the FEB, as well as advice. He assures them these moments of 6pm - 8pm intense struggle are part of the process, and when you are facing resis- + Art Donations tions from local services, Guest Performances + hospitality and retailers tance, that is how you know you are doing the work. for a bucket style raffle. With their work cut out for them, the community can support Filling Presenteters In addition, there’ll be Empty Bellies by attending the March 11th Benefit Night at Kala, or by Local Music Luminaries light fare, a No Host Bar, making donations directly to the campaign at: + The Street Beats! performances and guest Raffle Winners need not be present to WIN! speakers, and volunteers www.gofundme.com/project-hand-up-fillingemptybellies from the community Raffle Tickets sold throughout the Eve! served assisting with the www.fillingemptybellies.org event. www.facebook.com/groups/fillingemptybellies/ The goal is to raise 20K by the end of March to cover monthly rent, Street Artist Mike will donate his utilities, building updates and maintenance, food handmade jewelry to Benefit Night Story Photos: Dinah Urell KALA • 1017 Marine Drive • Astoria 13 FEB 18 hipfishmonthly.com

See Beneift Night p14 CAthlamet Art FEstival RiverSea Gallery Greets the New Year with Two Separate Shows

The Astoria Music Festival Presents Old Time Music VIENNESE OPERETTA at THE BISTRO Fiddlers Spencer & Rains Feb 25 Bridgewater Bistro, Astoria FEb 12 @ KALA KALA welcomes lauded old time mu- and playing the archaic style of fid- DIRECT FROM Most recently, sic duo Spencer and Rains in concert dling of his home state. Howard plays SALZBURG, soprano Summer 2017 Astoria on Monday, February 12, 7:30pm. rare, old tunes learned from friends, CHARLOTTE PISTOR Music Festival, Guidi $10 @ the door, doors open at 7pm. family, mentors, and old recordings. brings familiar music sang the role of Bar- The duo from Kansas, currently on As much known for his painting as his from The Merry Wid- tolo in The Barber tour, has been featured in Mother fiddling, Howard has painted many ow, Die Fledermaus, of Seville (Il Barbiere Jones, The NY Times, No Depres- of the great old time musicians, both and other audience di Siviglia). Guidi sion, Fretboard Journal as well as living and gone. While on tour, How- favorites. Welcome also is a guest artist other publications, covering the duo’s ard’s art will be available for sale. Charlotte back to the with Portland Opera, unique preservation and creative Together, Spencer & Rains have Astoria Music Festival where he recently reinvention of early fiddle music. performed and taught nationally from her home in sang the role of Ben- Tricia Spencer is a Kansas fiddler and internationally, preserving and Austria, where she oit in La Bohème. who grew up learning the tradition building upon the traditions of their is a soloist in the Inspired by soprano of old time music from her Grand- region. The husband and wife duo Salzburg Landesthe- Charlotte Pistor’s home town of Salzburg (also the home town parents. At an early age, she was are known for their twin fiddle harmo- ater Opera and the of Mozart), Pistor and Guidi will perform Mozart and Viennese perched up on some stage tap- ny, which is a product of the influence Cathedral in Mozart’s Operetta in an intimate style concert. ping her foot to the beat of fiddles, of midwestern Scandinavian fiddlers hometown. She will Operetta is a genre of light opera, light in terms both banjos, mandolins and guitars. While Tricia heard as a child. At the same be joined by Astoria’s of music and subject matter. Pistor is an expert is Austrian growing up, her free time was spent time, Howard’s distinct repertoire own Don Giovanni, operetta. traveling to festivals and fiddling reintroduces listeners to the pre- DEAC GUIDI. Relax in The Operetta on February 25 will be Astoria Music Festi- Trail’s End Art Center contests throughout the Midwest contest styles of Texas fiddling. That the elegant Bridge- val’s first-ever event at the Bridgwater Bistro. Complementing where she learned from the likes of same sense of harmony is in their vo- Honors Lou Kister With Lifetime Membership Award water Bistro, as this the festivals primary venue, Liberty Theater many European Pete McMahan, Cyril Stinnet, Lymon cals, as well, which they pull from all music magically transforms the mighty Columbia River into music festivals, cherish the opportunity to perform throughout Enloe, Dwight Lamb, Amos Chase, manner of American folk music. Both the Blue Danube. their communities, in the city’s main theater, as well as more and Lucy Pierce. Tricia is a multi- multi-instrumentalists are steeped Soprano Charlotte Pistor is a highly acclaimed American intimate venues. instrumentalist who has studied with in tradition and are dedicated to soprano enjoying an extraordinary European career from her Bridgewater Bistro co-owners Tony and Ann Kischner have some of the great masters and is the preservation, performance, and current home in Salzburg. She has sung with the Astoria Music shared: “We are looking forward to this—we love bringing highly sought after as a performer, teaching of old time music. For more Festival two summers, including the much praised North great music and food and libations together in this beautiful dance fiddler, and instructor. info go to spencerandrains.com. American premiere of Mozart & Friends’ The Philosopher’s old building!” Howard Rains is a native Texas Stone (Der Stein der Weisen) in Summer 2006. KALA is located at 1017 Marine Tickets: $20.00 includes a complimentary glass of Cham- artist and a fourth generation fiddler Pistor, who received her music degree from Portland State Drive in Astoria. Beer, wine and pagne $40.00 includes Viennese small plate, Champagne, (or “VY-lin,” as his grandfather would University, has performed with the Salzburg State Theater cocktails available. Ages 16+ and Coffee mit Schlag say) from a musical and artistic family (Salzburger Landestheater) and has been the principal Welcome. whose two obsessions are painting soprano soloist at the great Salzburg Cathedral (Salzburger Please Note: Seating is extremely limited. Tickets available at Dom) for the past 20 years. the Liberty Theater. In person: Box office, 1203 Commercial St., Pistor will be joined by Guidi. Guidi has sung with the Astoria. Online: libertyastoria.org. By phone: 503.325.5922 ex- Astoria Music Festival since its origin in 2003. Intriguingly Guidi tension 55. “Will Call” tickets available for pickup at Bridgewater shared the stage with Pistor Summer 2006 in Astoria Music Fes- Bistro when the doors open for this event. Bridgewater Bistro is tival’s highly acclaimed North American premiere of Mozart & located at 20 Basin Street A, Astoria. Friends’ The Philosopher’s Stone (Der Stein der Weisen).

Noted Oregon Painter Christa Grimm at The Art Loft Jimmie sucking smoke, S. McKey Casey Eye Institute, Salem Hospital, Oregon Dental Society, Teardrop Lounge, the Dundee Bistro, WillaK- enzi Estate tasting room in Carlton, and street murals at 32nd and Belmont and 13th and N. E. Freemont in Portland. Grimm is also passionate in her study of world religions, shamanic cultures, and the learning and teaching of yoga. The wisdom and balance of her varied interests are evident in her artwork. Raised in an artistic family – both parents are well- Contra Dance at the AAMC to America and popular today mostly in known for their ceramics—she always had a paint Friday February 16 New England and the Northwest.Caller Dave Ambrose will teach a beginner’s brush, a pencil, or a ball of clay in hand. Now living THE TANGO may be serious, the waltz lesson to start the dance and get everyone on the Oregon coast, Grimm indulges in observing romantic but a contra dance is just a lot of fun. It’s made for those with no experience ready to go at around 7:30. and savoring the emotions and moods of nature lead- Bringing a partner is not required and ing to more expressive paintings. and those who win dance competitions. It’s made for 8 year olds and 80 year olds. everyone is encouraged to dance with Visit with this productive artist on February 10, And there’s no need to learn any fancy as many people as they feel comfortable CHRISTA GRIMM is the featured artist for February at the 2018, during the Second Saturday Art Walk, at the Astoria Art footwork. with. Astoria Art Loft. This Oregon artist is passionate about Loft, 106 Third Street in Astoria, from 1 p.m. – 4 p.m. This You’ll be dancing to live music played Astoria Arts and Movement Center at landscapes of the Pacific Northwest and translates that pas- early time gives visitors time to meet Christa Grimm, have by the Clatsop County Stringband- music 10th and Commercial Street in Astoria. sion into paintings with vibrant colors and lively movement. dinner, and visit the other galleries from 5 p.m. – 8 p.m. This to get your feet moving whether you want The dance starts at 7PM with a beginner’s Featured on OPB’s Oregon Art Beat, she has exhibited her exhibit runs from February 6 through March 3. For more them to or not. lesson. Admission is $5-$10 KIds under 12 paintings and murals throughout the state. information, please call 503.25.4442, e-mail: Astoriaartloft@ Contra dancing dates back to the 1600s are admitted free. And remember-the first rule of Contra Grimm’s professional credits extend to large-scale public gmil.com or visit the website: AstoriaArtLoft.com. in England and Scotland, becoming popu- paintings across the state and in Portland. Her work is in the lar in France in the 1700s before spreading dancing is to HAVE FUN! FEB 18 hipfishmonthly.com 14 RiverSea Gallery Greets the New Year with Two Separate Shows Program highlights: Mozart Piano Trio in C Major Mendelssohn Piano Trio in D Minor

Old Time Music February Cultural Calendar Mindfulness-Based Performance Fiddlers Spencer & Rains The Bohdi Trio FEb 12 @ KALA Saturday 10 adoption event. Come find the love of your life THE BODHI TRIO pioneers Mindfulness- from noon – 2pm at Petco in Warrenton. MUSIC Based performance. Throughout their Bar K Buckaroos. 6pm at Public Coast Brewing Second Saturday Makers Bazaar & Flea Market. dynamic interpretations, the trio invites its in Cannon Beach. 10am – 3pm at the First Presbyterian Church audiences to experience stillness of mind in Astoria. and calmness of breath and heart. Hence Jennifer Goodenberger. No cover, 6 – 8:30pm at the Bridgewater Bistro in Astoria. Neon Party. A celebration of a new neon sign the name Bohdi, as in the Bohdi Tree. and other redos, with a DJ playing eighties/ In a performance video on the trio’s David Wiegan. $10, 7pm at the Hoffman Center nineties music. At the Worker’s Tavern in website, cellist David Eby gives the audi- in Manzanita. Astoria. ence simple instructions on connecting to Two Crows Joy. 7pm at WineKraft in Astoria. Congressman Kurt Schrader Town Hall Meeting. one’s breath, in order to make a connec- Petty Fever. A Tom Petty Tribute Band. $20 - 2 – 3pm at the Rockaway Beach Civic Facility. tion. Very similar to many forms of impro- $25, 7:30pm at the Liberty Theater in Astoria. LECTURE visational movement, the practitioners of Headwaves. No cover, 9pm at the Adrift Hotel Volcanism in the Solar System. NASA ambas- freeform dance, often set an intention in in Long Beach. sador Greg Carmak will take you on a tour of order to ride the wave of their own experi- the volcanism throughout our universe. Free, ence. & Clark College. Collaborative Pianist Kira Whiting is a ART 1 – 2pm at the Tillamook Library. Astoria Artwalk. Free, 5 – 8pm at galleries and This quote from Michael Barnes, Music director of the recent graduate of the Manhatten School of Music with a other businesses n downtown Astoria. THEATER Old Church says this, “From the very first welcome by cellist Master’s in Classical Accompanying with a Vocal Emphasis. Fit to Kill. Mystery/Thriller. $20 - $25. 7:30pm at David Eby, the audience was more interested, attentive and Violinist Kevin A. Lefohn maintains an international career as Trunk Show. Join fabric artist Becky Tonkin who the Coaster Theater in Cannon Beach. alert than usual. Their bespoke musicality created a shining will showcase her clothing designs at a trunk recital soloist, chamber musician, and pedagogue. aura of sound that washed over us in sea-like waves, devoid show inside the WineKraft wine bar in Astoria Program highlights: Mozart Piano Trio in C Major Men- at 5pm. Sunday 11 of affectation, but with electric intensity.” delssohn Piano Trio in D Minor. MUSIC Eby is one of the founding members of Pink Martini. He Your Art’s Desire. A celebration of art, wine & maintains an active performing and teaching carreer. He Liberty Theatre Classical Series chocolate. Art sale, silent auction, raffle, live Richard T and Friends. No cover, 11:30am – 2pm performs with the Oregon Symphony and teaches at Lewis Sat., Feb17, 3pm Tickets at libertyastoria.org music, food & drink. $35 admission, 6:30 – at the Bridgewater Bistro in Astoria. 9:30pm at the Kiawanda Community Center in Alexander String Quartet. $25, 3pm at Wi-Ne- Pacific City. Ma Christian Camp, Cloverdale. LECTURE Skadi. No cover, 6 – 8:30pmpm at the Bridgewa- CINEMA Monday 12 Art of Aging/Dying Series. The Power of Laughter. world can count birds for at least 15 minutes at any ter Bistro in Astoria. Astoria the Last Rivertown and Uppertown Girl. MUSIC 3pm at the Hoffman Center in Manzanita. location on one or more days of the count and enter A documentary film series presented by film- Jenna Ellefson. No cover, 7pm at the Adrift Spencer & Rains. Nationally recognized Old their sightings at gbbc.birdcount.org. Visitors to maker Ron Walker. Free, 1pm in the Community Hotel in Long Beach. Time Fiddle Duo on tour. 7:30pm, $10, at KALA Lewis and Clark National Historical Park, Fort Clatsop Room at the Seaside Library. Everett Bone. 7:30pm at Seaside Brewing Co. in Astoria. See pg 9. Thursday 15 can join in the count by recording bird observations MUSIC in the park. FOOD & DRINK Golden Promise + Hook and Anchor. Country & Jenna Ellefson. No cover, 7pm at the Adrift Basin Street NW. No cover, 6 – 8:30pm at the Wine Tasting. Woodward Canyon. 1 – 4pm at Western. No cover. 8pm at Fort George Brewery THEATER Hotel in Long Beach. Bridgewater Bistro in Astoria. the Cellar on 10th in Astoria. & Public House in Astoria. Actors Process. Intereactive Actor/Direcetor perfor- Julie Amici. Concert and dinner. 6:30pm at Bread mance -Classic Monologs and scences. Directed by HAPPENING ART Tuesday 13 and Ocean in Manzanita. Karen Bain. 7:30pm, $10 at KALA in Astoria. Later Show. DJ vintage Funk & Soul Dance at Art for the Heart Artist Reception. 11am at the MUSIC The Horsenecks. No cover, 7pm at the Adrift Hotel Fit to Kill. Mystery/Thriller. $20 - $25. 7:30pm at the KALA. 8pm. $8 NCRD Gallery in Nehalem. Jenna Ellefson. No cover, 7pm at the Adrift in Long Beach. Coaster Theater in Cannon Beach. WINGS. Women interested in going to school. FOOD & DRINK. Hotel in Long Beach. LECTURE Have you: Been out of school for a while? Never Annual Smorgasbord. 11:30am – 1:30pm at FOOD & DRINK Tap Into History. Book of the Dead. With Mac thought you could go to college or finish your Naselle High School. Saturday 17 Shrove Tuesday Pancake & Sausage Dinner. Burns. Free, 7pm in the Fort George Lovell Show- education? Need information about how to go MUSIC HAPPENING $8, 5 – 7pm at St Alban’s Episcopal Church in room in Astoria. to college or get a GED? Free all-day confer- Seaside Acapella Festival. At the Seaside Convention Antique Boutique. 10am – 4pm at the Lincoln Tillamook. ence, breakfast, lunch, and childcare included. . Center. City Cultural Center. LECTURE 8am – 3:30pm in Columbia Hall, Rm 219 at CCC Friday 16 The Bodhi Trio. $20, 3pm at the Liberty Theater in Pricing Carbon and Building Political Will to in Astoria. Register at wings-clatsop.com LITERARY MUSIC Astoria. Oregon Legacy. With author Susan DeFreitas. Address Climate Change. 6:30 – 8pm at the Loft Valentine’s Day Ball. Dressy casual to semi- Seaside Acapella Festival. At the Seaside Conven- 3pm at the Driftwood Public Library in Lincoln in the Red Building in Astoria. David Drury. No cover, 6 – 8:30pmpm at the Bridge- formal attire recommended. $10, 5:30 – 7:30pm tion Center. seasideacappellafestival.com/ water Bistro in Astoria. City. HRAP Lecture Series. Through the Looking at the Astoria Elks Ballroom. Glass: New Perspectives on Whale Ecology to Buzz Rogowski. No cover, 6 – 8:30pm at the Britnee Kellogg. No cover, 7pm at Public Coast Brew- Be Mine Adoption Event. Clatsop Animal THEATER Bridgewater Bistro in Astoria. ing Co in Cannon Beach. 3 Leg Torso Fit to Kill. Mystery/Thriller. $20 - $25. 3pm at the Inform Conservation. With Leigh Torres. 7 – Assistance will be presenting a cat and dog Dmitry Matheny. $15, 7pm at the Cannon Beach Coaster Theater in Cannon Beach. 8:30pm at the Cannon Beach Library. Terry Robb. $15, 7pm at the Peninsula Arts Center in History Center and Museum. Long Beach. Wednesday 14 Three for Silver. No cover, 7pm at the Sand Trap Espacio Flamenco. No cover, 8pm at the Sou’wester Pub in Gearhart. Lodge in Seaview. Eric Skye and MUSIC Buzz Rogowski. No cover, 6 – 8:30pmpm at the Stuffed Shirts and WNBA Jam. 9:30 music. 10pm Mike Coykendall. No cover, 9pm at the Adrift Hotel Mark Goldenberg Bridgewater Bistro in Astoria. Bands, No Cover. Charlie’s Chowder House and in Long Beach. TIKI Bar 1335 Marine Dr. Astoria Two Acoustic Guitar Masters Rhythm Method. A Valentine’s dance feat. No ART cover, 6pm at the San Dune Pub in Manzanita. FOOD & DRINK Astoria Artwalk. Free, 5 – 9pm at galleries and other Los Angeles based Mark Crab Dinner. 4 – 8pm at the Warrenton Com- The Horsenecks. No cover, 7pm at the Adrift businesses n downtown Astoria. Goldenberg is the consummate munity Center. A-list session player and side- Hotel in Long Beach. Festival of Dark Arts. Art, entertainment, and a HAPPENING man. Mark played lead guitar HAPPENING carnival of stout. All day at Fort George in Astoria. Contra Dance. Dance to live music played by the Night of All Knowledge Trivia Tournament. This event is sold out. for Jackson Browne for sixteen Clatsop County Stringband. $5 - $10, beginning at A free and fun team trivia event. 6pm at the years. 7pm with dance lessons. At the AAMC in Astoria. FOOD & DRINK Seaside Library Crab and Oyster Feed. $32, Seatings at 3, 5:15, and Though often billed as an acoustic jazz guitarist, Portland Oregon based Land Conservancy Volunteer Opportunity. Give LECTURE 7:30pm. At Norse Hall on Puget Island, Cathlamet. Eric Skye occupies a unique niche between jazz, Americana, and blues. A the Land Conservancy’s too collection some Salty Talks. Waves, Tides, and Currents. With Aaron Crab Dinner. 4 – 8pm at the Warrenton Community RARE DUET! love. Help sort, identify, maintain, and repair Webster. 6:30pm at the Salt Hotel in Ilwaco. Center. the tools in the shed at the Circle Creek Conser- Saturday March 4 7pm $20 admission. Hoffman Center in Manzanita OUTSIDE vation Center in Seaside. 10am – 1pm. 594 Laneda Avenue The Great Backyard Bird Count. To participate in this citizen science opportunity, anyone in the cont. p19

15 FEB 18 hipfishmonthly.com theater & performance BORN YESTERDAY Riverbend Players New Production BORN YESTERDAY, Garson Kanin’s part romantic FIT TO KILL at the Coaster Theatre comedy, part political satire, skewers the cor- ruption of American government by viewing A COMEDY NOIR that it through the eyes of a beautiful, uneducated tells of infidelity and mur- woman named Billie. In BORN YESTERDAY, der, with dark humor and Billie questions corruption’s stranglehold on the multiplying plot twists. disadvantaged as she awakens to a world full of Adrian, a charming but new possibilities. self-indulgent chess mas- Playing for over 1,600 performances on Broad- ter, enjoys a life of luxury way and earning 5 Academy Awards for its film thanks to his marriage to adaptation, this dangerous comedy asks who will survive the Washington political machine: brains, Janice, an older but still wealth or moneyed interests? Even though the sexy and vibrant woman play was written seventy years ago, the message who has made a fortune of BORN YESTERDAY still rings true in today’s as the CEO of an exercise America. Wind Chimes by Judith P. NIland empire. The arrival of Directed by Tom Cocklin and produced by Amy, a reporter with Linda Makohon, audiences will be delighted by an agenda of her own, Riverbend Players’ production of outstanding unleashes a whirlwind of community theater! deadly schemes that will NCRD Performing Arts Center, 36155 - Ninth Tickets: $15 at the door (plus ticket fees if Street, Nehalem, OR keep audiences guessing bought online at tickettomato.com.) riverbendplayers.org/www.facebook.com/ne- until the final seconds. February 17, 23-24 and March 2-3 @7pm. Feb- halemriverbendplayers. ruary 25 and March 4 @ 2pm Director by Jean Rice, Costumer-Judith Light, Lighting Designer-Mick Alderman Backstage Assistant-Elaine Mullin. CAST: Aaron Harris, Jessica Harris, Heather Neuwirth. Feb 2 – 24, Fri/ Sat 7:30pm, Sundays 3pm. Tickets: coastertheatre.com FAll In LOVE with FLAMECO • Feb 18

SPACIO FLAMENCO Eproudly present Fall in Love with Flamenco, an evening celebrating the Jazz Noir companies most beloved fla- at Cannon Beach Museum menco choreographies and compositions. In this special DMITRI MATHENY show company members Feb 16 chose their favorite palo AUDITION (style) of flamenco to share with the audience. From Fan- See How They Run dangos to Farruca, Alegrias to Siguiriyas, exquisite group ASOC THE CANNON BEACH History Center & Mu- acing, JAZZ NOIR offers a fresh spin on crime choreographies and soulful seum invites you to a dark Valentine celebration jazz, film noir and timeless classics. Selections solo performances will have with jazz musician Dmitri Matheny on Friday, include classic movie themes from Touch of Evil, you falling in love all over February 16 at 7pm. Acclaimed for his warm Laura, Chinatown, Vertigo, Taxi Driver, Blues again, with Flamenco! tone, soaring lyricism and masterful technique, In The Night, Twin Peaks, Toute Une Vie, High Espacio Flamenco Com- American flugelhornist DMITRI MATHENY has Wall, The Long Goodbye and Stormy Weather, pany is the professional the audience, leaving no choice but to shout been lauded as “one of the most emotionally modern standards Estate, Caravan, Here’s Look- performance group based out of Espacio Fla- “olé!”Flamenco is an improvisational art form expressive improvisers of his generation” (Inter- ing At You and Golden Lady, and two originals: menco Studio. Dedicated to sharing Flamenco art that combines song, dance, instruments (mainly national Review of Music). An honors graduate Film Noir (from a poem by Dana Gioia) and in Portland, OR, the company produces regular guitar), hand clapping, and other percussion of the Berklee College of Music, Dmitri Matheny Crime Scenes, a San Francisco-inspired jazz performances throughout the year with a focus on elements. Declared a World Heritage Treasure vaulted onto the jazz scene in the 1990s as the suite with voiceover narration in the hardboiled musical integrity and artistic development. by UNESCO in 2016, Flamenco developed as an protégé of jazz legend Art Farmer. Since then he style of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chan- At the heart of Espacio Flamenco’s perfor- amalgamation of centuries of cross pollination has garnered critical acclaim and a loyal interna- dler. mance are the soulful vocals of Moroccan born between the many cultural presences within Spain tional following, touring extensively throughout Tickets $15 each and include complimentary singer Randa BenAziz. Randa began her perfor- and along Spanish trade routes. While it’s precise the United States, Europe and Asia, traveling refreshments. The doors will open at 6:30 p.m. mance career at the age of ten and incorporates history is unknown, it is thought to be greatly to 19 countries. With over 100 recordings to his with ample time to tour the museum and grab a arabic and jazz influences into her flamenco influenced by the Roma people, called Gitanos, credit, Dmitri Matheny has released 11 albums glass of bubbly and hors d’ouevres. interpretation. Espacio Flamenco musical director who migrated from Rajasthan to Spain between as a leader. His latest is Jazz Noir, a fresh spin on The Museum has teamed with Cannon Beach Brenna McDonald provides guitar accompani- the 9th and 14th centuries, bringing with them crime jazz, film noir movie themes and time- Soap Company to create a special Black Valen- ment for the group. An accomplished soloist in tambourines, bells, castanets and a variety of less classics. The San Francisco Chronicle calls tine Gift basket. You may purchase raffle tickets her own right, Brenna has devoted her life to the songs and dances. The arm and hand movements Matheny “one of the jazz world’s most talented at the concert for $5. You must be present to study of flamenco music and dance and is one of of Flamenco closely resemble those of classical horn players.” win. the few female flamenco guitarists (“tocaoras”) Indian dance. These traditions combined with the Matheny will be promoting the release of his Get your tickets at www.cbhistory.org or by in the world qualified to play for singers and cultures of the Sephardic Jews and Moors make 11th album – Jazz Noir. With the help of a tre- phone 503-436-9301. The museum is open from dancers. Nick Hutch and Christina Lorentz bring up the Flamenco we see today. the groove with top notch percussion and palmas mendous cast and a repertoire refined over two 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., Wednesday through Performance: Sunday, February 18, 7pm, (hand clapping) essential to Flamenco. Dancers or decades, JAZZ NOIR proves a sinister beauty for Monday and is donation based. CB History Cen- (doors at 6:30 pm). $15, All Ages. Kids under “bailaoras” Lillie Last, Montserrat Andreys, Kelley fans of rainy city nights and old school noir.”— ter & Museum is located at 1387 South Spruce 12 FREE. Astoria PAC, 16th & Franklin. Earshot Jazz Mysterious, melancholy and men- Street in Cannon Beach, Oregon. Dodd, and Christina Lorentz charm and inspire

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

art happens Luminari Arts Eric Wiegardt LOVE THE ONE YOUR WITH! Marie-Hélène Rake at RIVERSEA LUMINARI ARTS celebrates the 2nd Saturday Art Walk in down- town Astoria Feb 10 with new RIVERSEA GALLERY presents watercolor lovingly created “Chakra Wind- paintings and a book signing by Eric Wie- chime” by JUDITH P. NILAND. gardt, along with a trunk show of one-of-a- These fanciful pieces, made kind jewelry by Marie-Hélène Rake in two from repurposed plastic, are all separate shows opening during Second decked out in multiple rainbow Saturday Artwalk on February 10, and con- colors and feature many in the tinuing through March 6, 2018. The jewelry February color of “Red” for Love trunk show begins at 3:00 in the afternoon, and Connection. LIVE music by and the art reception is from 5:00 to 8:00 Ted Brainard, snacks by Debbie! pm with live music and catered refresh- And starting this art walk night, ments. Featured musicians are Jesse Jones Luminari Arts announces that and Paul Brady of The Duck and the Fish Wind Chimes by Judith P. NIland all the drink cups used will be playing classic bossa nova tunes. repurposed into future colorful windchimes! ERIC WIEGARDT is a north coast native Also, in honor of the month of Love, Judith Niland will be offering 20 minute “Love the One and an internationally recognized artist liv- Your With” tarot card readings for couples $35 and Singles $25, using her specially created” ing in Ocean Park, Washington. This month Love” card spread layouts and reading from her new guide book for Tarot, “Sprit Sez….”. he celebrates the release of his new book, Cobalt Evening Space is limited, to reserve your spot call the shop at 503-468-0308. Painting without a Net: Thinking Like an Art- So, grab someone you Love (and that could be just YOU!) and feel the LOVE at Winfred series of non-objective watercolors is collectively ist, with a solo show of watercolor paintings and a Byrnes Luminari Arts in downtown Astoria, on Sat. Feb 10th as it celebrates all our special named, Tidepoint, and rather than referencing a book signing during Artwalk. relationships! particular place, these works reflect Wiegardt’s Many of the paintings in this show are a direct feelings about living around water. Other paintings Luminari Arts, open daily is located at 1133 Commercial, Astoria. response to the artist’s deep connection to the capture more recognizable boats, structures and north coast landscape, especially his lifelong love shorelines. of Willapa Bay, the tidal pulse and flow, the encom- MARIE-HÉLÈNE RAKE, an Oregon jewelry artist passing wetlands and moody skies. An ongoing originally from France, presents a trunk show of her 2016 International Challenge ART QUILT Show distinctive jewelry worked in silver with embellish- ments of high karat gold and gemstones. Stop Yachats Commons into the gallery beginning at 3:00 on Saturday to meet the artist ahead of the Artwalk crowds. Rake’s designs evolve from the juxtaposition of geometric shapes with organic texture, and encompass a wide range of techniques. Her most recent compositions involve playful sprinkles of gold dust fused onto an oxidized silver surface, adding a faint glimmer of golden contrast. The current group of quilts debuted at the 2016 Handmade Makers Show RiverSea Gallery, open daily at 1160 Commercial in Yokohama, November 2016. Since Street in Astoria. 503-325-1270, or visit riversea- that time, they have toured Japan and gallery.com. South Korea, and are now touring the US. A large number of the US quilts have been made by fiber artists from the Pacific Northwest, including Yach- THE COLLECTIVE ats artist Ruth Bass. at North Coast Recreation District Quilters in each of three nations, FOR THE MONTH of March a multidisciplinary the USA, Japan, and South Korea, group of artists from the Nehalem area will show were given a list of 30 World Heritage new works in the gallery at North County Recre- Sites. 30 quilters from each nation ation District. These pieces revolve around the Mese Verde, art quilt by Ruth Bass represented one of the heritage sites central theme of’ The Collective’- an encompass- in a piece of fiber art. The result is 90 ing moniker that references both the hopes as a A DISPLAY of the 2016 International Chal- small quilts, hung vertically on panels group as well as the intersectional connectivity lenge Art Quilt Show will be at the Yachats for each World Heritage Site, so you may experienced as members of this unique coastal Commons, Feb 24 and 25. The theme is compare the work of one nation to the next. community. World Heritage Sites. The show is a benefit for the Yachats Li- ‘The Collective’ also references a wish to loosely The concept for the International Quilt brary Move Project. The city library is moving define a fledgling group of artists who share a Challenge was born in 2003, after Izumi Taka- into the 501 Building, adjacent to the Com- common goal to provide greater access to the arts mori, owner of The Pin Cushion, a quilting mons. The quilts will be on display Saturday by establishing a setting in which members of the store in Tokyo, Japan, met Sue Cutsogeorge and Sunday Feb. 24 and 25. From 10am to community can gather to make art. There is cur- rently a lack of available space in the Nehalem area of Eugene, Oregon during a quilters tour of 4pm. for artists to be able to gather and produce new Japan. Since then, Ms. Takamori and her Admission is a suggested donation of $5. Jordan Gulaskey Jordan’s Rock High Tea and refreshments will be available works, but by beginning this conversation within quilting friends have challenged artists in vari- Stanley, and others! The Collective will be on view for purchase. An additional exhibit of art the community the group hopes to work together ous countries. Themes of past exhibits have to found a clean, comfortable setting in which this for the month of March at NCRD in Nehalem, with quilts created by local artists will be also be included the alphabet, world currency, world important work can be actualized. a reception on Friday March 2 from 5-7 pm. Come on display and for sale. festivals, world painters, world fairy tales, Some of the artists presenting work include meet the emerging artists and join in the Collective and now for the second time World Heritage Yachats Commons is located at 4th & Pontiac Chris Biegen, Phil Dagostino, Melissa M. Frisch, conversation! Sites. St in Yachats, Or. Glenna Gray, Jordan Gulaskey, Rex Harter, Henry NCRD Gallery is located at 36155 9th St in Nehalem.

17 FEB 18 hipfishmonthly.com word. . FETCH: A GRAPHIC NOVEL UNCHASTE NICOLE J. GEORGES Feb 17 at the Sou’ Wester NICOLE J. GEORGES reads from her latest book, the dow, and graphic novel Fetch: How a Bad Dog Brought Me “disarming Hosted by Home, at 7pm at the Hoffman Center for the Arts in and haunt- Jenny Forrester Manzanita on Saturday Feb. 17. ing, hip and When Nicole was 16 she adopted Beija, a dys- sweet, all at Feb 19 functional shar-pei/corgi mix—a troublesome com- once” by Ali- SOU’ WESTER Lodge welcomes bination of tiny and attack, just like teenaged Nicole son Bechdel, writer and host Jenny Forrester and herself. For the next 15 years, Beija would be the one author of the Unchaste Readers Series,Monday constant in her life. Through depression, relation- Fun Home. Feb 19, 8pm-10pm. 7pm socializing, ships gone awry, and an unmoored young adulthood “ Allô, dr find a seat, a drink and a snack. played out against the backdrop of the Portland punk Laura? was “The Unchaste Readers are cluding Seattle’s City Arts Magazine, Nailed scene, Beija was there, wearing her “Don’t Pet Me” an Official women aged 14 to 71 who have read at Un- Magazine, Hip Mama, The Literary Kitchen, bandana. Selec- chaste Readers Series between April 2012 Indiana Review, and Columbia Journal. Nicole’s gorgeous graphic novel FETCH chronicles tion at the and now. Unchaste is about creating a com- Her work is included in the Listen to Your their symbiotic, co-dependent relationship and Angoulême munity, promoting writing that takes risks, Mother anthology published by Putnam. probes what it means to be responsible to another International that shows the raw, vulnerable, ecstatic, She curates the Unchaste Readers Series. living thing—a living thing that occasionally lunges at Comics complicated lives of women, gender non- Her debut memoir was published recently toddlers. Nicole never successfully taught Beija Festival. binary and gender-noncomforming – nearly (May, 2017) by Portland’s own, Hawthorne “sit,” but in the end, Beija taught Nicole how to She anyone/everyone except CIS men. Books. stay. has been Jenny Forrester has been published in a Sou’ Wester is located at 3728 J Place, “Fetch combines the best qualities of diary publishing her own zines and comics for 20 years, number of print and online publications, in- Seaview, Wa. 360.642.2542 comics—particularity and granular detail—with the and has toured the country extensively, including two zoomed-out view of someone who has completed an appearances on Michelle Tea’s Sister Spit tour. arduous, mythic, and expansive journey.” Nicole won the Sunburst Award for Excellence in —Alison Bechdel, author of Fun Home and Are Arts Education in 2012. She was the 2013 Fellow at Local Author You My Mother? the Center for Cartoon Studies, the 2015/16 Donald- Marianne Monson Nicole J. son Writer in Residence at the College of William and Georges is a Mary, and currently teaches at California College for IN CELEBRATION of Women’s History writer, illustra- the Art’s MFA in Comics Program. month, and the long pioneer tradition in tor, podcaster Nicole currently lives in between Portland and Los Astoria, local author Marianne Monson & professor Angeles with her chomeranian best friend, Ponyo will be speaking at upcoming events from Portland, Georges. about incredible pioneer women who Oregon. Her OPEN MIC: Following Nicole’s reading and Q&A have been overlooked by history: Lambda Award in the evening, the popular Open Mic features up to Monson’s book Frontier Grit came winning graphic nine local or visiting writers reading 5 minutes of their out in 2016. It features twelve incredible memoir, Call- original work. The suggested (not required) theme for pioneer women drawn from all corners ing Dr. Laura, the evening’s Open Mic is “Sit, Stay, Fetch: the Pet of the globe who settled the American was called that Changed My Life.“ West who endured hardships, overcame obstacles, broke barriers, and changed the world. “engrossing, Admission for the evening reading is $7. Doors The book profiles women such as: lovable, smart open at 630.The Hoffman Center (across from Manza- Abigayle Scott Duniway, who lost her mother on the Oregon trail, but dedicated forty and ultimately nita Library at 594 Laneda Avenue.) hoffmanblog.org years of her life to fighting for women’s suffrage. poignant” by [email protected] Zitkala-Sa, who traveled from her native lands to the East Rachel Mad- to receive an education--which she used to speak out on behalf of native people. Clara Brown, who escaped a life of slavery and went onto amass a fortune on the frontier, which she used to fund the un- WRITE ASTORIA derground railroad. WRITE ASTORIA is a free, open Extravagant Graces Monson connects these stories forum where writers read Author Jeanette Chaffee with modern day issues, inspiring from works in progress and readers to live boldly and brave- offer each other constructive feedback. The group meets At Seaside Public Library ly--to live with grit. Frontier Grit in the Astoria Public Library FRIENDS of the Seaside Library host Jeanette Chaffee is available at Godfather’s Books Flag Room twice/month, on author of “Extravagant Graces,” on Saturday, Feb. 17, at and Lucy’s books in Astoria. 1st and 3rd Wednesdays from 1pm. The event takes place in the Community Room with Marianne Monson is the author 5-7pm. book sales and signings. of ten books for children and On April 2, 1986, Jeanette Chaffee was on TWA Flight adults. She is deeply interested in Ric’s Poetry Mic 840 bound for Athens Greece to purchase jewelry for her the connection between literature 1st Tues @ Winecraft collectibles business. What began as an ordinary travel IN HONOR of founder Ric Vrana, and history, with a focus on the frontier era. She holds a BA in day would later turn into sheer terror flying at seventeen Ric’s Poetry Mic is English Literature and an MFA from Vermont College of Fine thousand feet. Arts. She has two children and writes from a 100 year old house held at WineKraft, 80 10th Street About 20 minutes before landing in Athens a terrorist bomb hidden underneath seat 10F was detonated. in the town of Astoria, Oregon. She has taught Creative Writing (on the west end The explosion tore a 10-foot-square hole in the fuselage in front of the wing as the Boeing 727, with 121 and English for a number of colleges, and currently teaches at of the Pier 11 people aboard, was preparing to land at Athens’ International Airport. The blast killed four people and Clatsop Community College. Her forthcoming book, Women Building) in Astoria. seven others were injured by shrapnel as the cabin suffered a rapid decompression. The heroic pilot Richard of the Blue and Gray: Civil War Mothers, Medics, Soldiers, and The event takess “Pete” Peterson was able to make an emergency landing minutes later in Athens. Jeanette Chaffee was sit- Spies will be released in fall 2018. place the first Tuesday of every ting just fourteen feet away from the explosion and survived the blast unharmed. month,. Readings are from 7pm to 8:30pm, with sign up to read In “Extravagant Graces”, Jeanette tells her account of survival and faith as well as twenty two other inspir- Wit & Wisdom Thursday Fort George, March 1st, 7 pm at 6:45 p.m. All poetry friends ing stories of people facing impossible odds. Library Talk Saturday March 3rd, 3-4 pm are welcome to come to read The Seaside Public Library is located at 1131 Broadway. For more information call (503)738-6742 or visit Lucy’s Books Art Walk Saturday March 10, 5-8 pm and listen. Contact: Mary Lou us at www.seasidelibrary.org

FEB 18 hipfishmonthly.com 18 ••• music • visual arts • literarylecture • outdoor • theater•••

HAPPENIING Oregon Coast Women’s Expo. gathering of HAPPENING Chester Nordic Market Bazaar. 10am – 3pm at Suomi women in business, entrepreneurs, change- Clatsop County Job and Career Fair. Starting Hall in Astoria. makers and dreamers. This exclusive 1 day at 10am at Patriot Hall at CCC in Astoria. “Tucker” Wachsmuth Annual Pool-a-Thon. 9am at the NCRD Pool in event brings together women vendors clatsopjobfair.com From “Baffle Ball” Nehalem. showcasing unique products and ser- Thursday 22 United Paws Monthly Adoption Day. This is vices from the Oregon Coast, guest speakers, to “Big Hit”: a great time to stop in and see all the kit- awards ceremony and celebration of creative MUSIC tens, cats and dogs that need new forever entrepreneurs. All ages welcome. Free admis- Seaside Jazz Festival. At the Seaside Conven- Five Decades of homes. Noon – 3pm at the Tillamook County sion. 10am – 4pm at the Seaside Convention tion Center. Fairgrounds. Center. ocwexpo.com Basin Street NW. No cover, 6 – 8:30pm at the Pinball Machines Art Accelerated Open Mic. 6:30 – 8:30pm at Yo LECTURE Bridgewater Bistro in Astoria. Time in Tillamook. In Their Footsteps Lecture Series. California Pretty Gritty. No cover, 7pm at the Adrift Hotel Columbia Pacific LECTURE Condors: An Oregon Treasure with Travis in Long Beach. Heritage Museum presents Volcanism in the Solar System. NASA ambas- Koons. 1pm in the Netul Room at the Fort sador Greg Carmak will take you on a tour of Clatsop Visitor Center near Warrenton. ART TUCKER WACHSMUTH is one of the preeminent collectors of Pinball machines Opening Reception. Au Naturel: The Nude in the volcanism throughout our universe. Free, LITERARY in the Northwest. Two of his machines, “Bowling Queen” and “World’s Fair” 1 – 2pm at the Manzanita Library. the 21st Century. 6pm in the Royal Nebeker are currently on view at the Columbia Pacific Heritage Museum in the exhibition Oregon Legacy. With author Gina Ochsner. Art Gallery in CCC. LITERARY 3pm at the Driftwood Public Library in Lincoln Flashback: Remembering the 1960s. On SATURDAY, MARCH 3RD Wachsmuth “Extravagant Graces”. With author Jeanette City. LECTURE will bring over a dozen more machines to the Museum for an afternoon of history Chaffee. 1pm in the Community Room at the Wit and Wisdom. Is Poetry a way of Thinking? and play. Seaside Library. OUTSIDE With Philosopharian. 7pm in the Fort George Wachmuth’s collection dates back to the early 1930s when pinball machines be- The Great Backyard Bird Count. To participate Lovell Showroom in Astoria. came popular in the United States. In 1931 David Gottlieb’s Baffle Ball became the Manzanita Writer’s Series. Nicole J Georges will in this citizen science opportunity, anyone present from her new graphic novel “Fetch: in the world can count birds for at least 15 Friday 23 first hit of the coin-operated era. The game resonated with people wanting cheap How a Bad Dog Brought Me Home.” $7, 7pm at minutes at any location on one or more days entertainment in the Great Depression-era economy. Most drugstores and taverns the Hoffman Center in Manzanita. MUSIC of the count and enter their sightings at gbbc. in the US operated pinball machines, with many locations quickly recovering the Seaside Jazz Festival. At the Seaside Conven- OUTSIDE birdcount.org. Visitors to Lewis and Clark cost of the game. Baffle Ball sold tens of thousands of units and established Got- tion Center. The Great Backyard Bird Count. To participate National Historical Park, Fort Clatsop can join tlieb as the first major manufacturer of pinball machines. in this citizen science opportunity, anyone in the count by recording bird observations Jennifer Goodenberger. No cover, 6 – 8:30pm Machines became more complex with electric bumpers, flippers and elaborate in the world can count birds for at least 15 in the park. at the Bridgewater Bistro in Astoria. artwork that evoked the popular culture of each decade. With more levels of play minutes at any location on one or more days THEATER Adams and Costello. No cover, 7pm at Public pinball players developed strategies and techniques to gain those coveted extra of the count and enter their sightings at gbbc. Coast Brewing Co in Cannon Beach. birdcount.org. Visitors to Lewis and Clark Peter Pan. A musical adventure for youths. points and free games. National Historical Park, Fort Clatsop can join 2pm at the ASOC Playhouse in Astoria. Billy D. No cover, 7pm at the Sand Trap Pub in Tucker Wachsmuth will present machines from the 1930s, 40s, 50s, 60s and 70s. Gearhart. in the count by recording bird observations Fit to Kill. Mystery/Thriller. $20 - $25. 3pm at He will give an overview of their histories and special features. There will also be in the park. the Coaster Theater in Cannon Beach. Roots and Boots Tour. With Aaron Tippin, an opportunity for the audience to play the games after his presentation. Birding Walk. Starts at 8:30am in the Fort Clat- Sammy Kershaw, and Collin Raye. $40 - $55, sop Visitor Center Lobby. No dogs, please. Monday 19 8pm at Chinook Winds in Lincoln City. THEATER Pretty Gritty. No cover, 9pm at the Adrift Hotel MUSIC Afternoon Poetry in the Gallery. Readings by Terri Actors Process. Intereactive Actor/Direcetor in Long Beach. THEATER Norman Baker. No cover, 7pm at the Adrift Thomas and select guest poets from the Oregon performance -Classic Monologs and scences. Peter Pan. A musical adventure for youths. 2pm at the Hotel in Long Beach. HAPPENING Coast. 2 – 4pm in the Chessman Gallery at the Directed by Karen Bain. 7:30pm, $10 at KALA Fisher Poets Gathering. 2018. Downtown ASOC Playhouse in Astoria. FOOD & DRINK Lincoln City Cultural Center. in Astoria. Astoria.See pg. 26 Born Yesterday. Romantic comedy/satire. $15, 2pm at Ice Cream Social. The public is invited for THEATER Peter Pan. A musical adventure for youths. CINEMA NCRD Performing Arts Center in Nehalem. 2pm at the ASOC Playhouse in Astoria. cake & ice cream + birthday celebration. $1 Peter Pan. A musical adventure for youths. 2pm suggested donation, free if it’s your birthday Manzanita Film Series. $5, 7:30pm at the Hoff- at the ASOC Playhouse in Astoria. Born Yesterday. Romantic comedy/satire. man Center in Manzanita. Monday 26 month. 2pm at the Peninsula Senior Activity Born Yesterday. Romantic comedy/satire. $15, 7pm at NCRD Performing Arts Center in Center in Klipsan Beach. MUSIC Nehalem. LITERARY $15, 7pm at NCRD Performing Arts Center in FisherPoets Gathering. At various locations in Nehalem. The Hackles. No cover, 7pm at the Adrift Hotel in Fit to Kill. Mystery/Thriller. $20 - $25. 7:30pm at LITERARY Long Beach. and near Astoria. fisherpoets.org Fit to Kill. Mystery/Thriller. $20 - $25. 7:30pm at the Coaster Theater in Cannon Beach. Unchaste Reading Series. 8 – 10pm at the Sou’wester Lodge in Seaview. THEATER the Coaster Theater in Cannon Beach. Wednesday 28 Sunday 18 Born Yesterday. Romantic comedy/satire. OUTSIDE $15, 7pm at NCRD Performing Arts Center in Sunday 25 LECTURE The Great Backyard Bird Count. To participate Mason Bees and Other Pollinators. With John Benson. MUSIC Nehalem. MUSIC in this citizen science opportunity, anyone 6pm at the Seven Dees Garden Center in Seaside. Montreal Guitar Trio. $15, 2pm at the Historic Seaside Jazz Festival. At the Seaside Convention Raymond Theater in Raymond. in the world can count birds for at least 15 Fit to Kill. Mystery/Thriller. $20 - $25. 7:30pm at the Coaster Theater in Cannon Beach. Center. Skadi. No cover, 6 – 8:30pmpm at the Bridge- minutes at any location on one or more days Thursday 1 of the count and enter their sightings at gbbc. SATURDAY 24 Richard T and Friends. No cover, 11:30am – 2pm water Bistro in Astoria. at the Bridgewater Bistro in Astoria. birdcount.org. Visitors to Lewis and Clark MUSIC HAPPENING Death Metal Show. $5 admission, free if you First Thursday Trivia. Teams of 1-5 compete for uni- National Historical Park, Fort Clatsop can join Seaside Jazz Festival. At the Seaside Conven- Viennese Operetta with Soprano Charlotte Pis- bring a skateboard and skate. 7pm at the in the count by recording bird observations tor.$40 for concert plus champagne and pastries, versal admiration and fantastic prizes. Sign up ahead Astoria Armory. tion Center. in the park. $20 for concert only. 3 - 5pm at the Bridgewater of time or just show up! Free, 5:30 – 6:30pm at the Mike Coykendall. No cover, 7pm at the Adrift Troll Radio Revue. 11am at Fort George in Bistro in Astoria. Astoria Public Library. Hotel in Long Beach. Birding Walk in Spanish. Starting at 10am in Astoria. the Fort Clatsop Visitor Center Lobby. Skadi. No cover, 6 – 8:30pmpm at the Bridgewa- Friday 2 The Builders and the Butchers. Folk, Rock and David Drury. No cover, 6 – 8:30pmpm at the ter Bistro in Astoria. Bridgewater Bistro in Astoria. Roll. No cover. 8pm at Fort George Brewery & Tuesday 20 The Hackles. No cover, 7pm at the Adrift Hotel in MUSIC Public House in Astoria. Barbie G. 7 – 9pm at WineKraft in Astoria. Long Beach. UMPHY. No cover, 7pm at Public Coast Brewing Co in MUSIC FOOD & DRINK Vradiazel plus Katie sawicki. No cover, 8pm at Edmund Wayne. INdie Fok. No cover. 8pm at Fort Cannon Beach. Norman Baker. No cover, 7pm at the Adrift Pancake Breakfast. All-you-can-eat for $5, 8am the Sou’wester Lodge in Seaview. George Brewery & Public House in Astoria. Kizik. No cover, 7pm at the Sand Trap Pub in Gearhart. Hotel in Long Beach. – noon at the Bay City Arts Center. The Hackles. No cover, 9pm at the Adrift Hotel HAPPENING ART Cannon Beach American Legion Breakfast. $7 Wednesday 21 in Long Beach. Pro Wrestling. $10, 5 – 7pm at the Astoria Spaceness. A celebration of time, space and the adults, $3 children under 6. 9 – 11:30am at the HAPPENING Armory. unknown through experimental art, media and American Legion Hall in Cannon Beach. MUSIC Fisher Poets Gathering. 2018. Downtown LITERARY performance. 9am – 9pm at the Sou’wester Lodge in Barney Perrine. $15, 7pm at the Peninsula Arts Seaview. HAPPENING Astoria.See pg. 26 FisherPoets Gathering. At various locations in Fall in Love with Flamenco. A performance Center in Long Beach. and near Astoria. fisherpoets.org LITERARY THEATER of music and dance with Espacio Flamenco Pretty Gritty. No cover, 7pm at the Adrift Hotel Born Yesterday. Romantic comedy/satire. $15, 7pm at FisherPoets Gathering. At various locations in Oregon Legacy. With author Amy Stewart. 3pm Company. $15, 7pm at the PAC in Astoria. in Long Beach. NCRD Performing Arts Center in Nehalem. and near Astoria. fisherpoets.org at the Driftwood Public Library in Lincoln City. CAl cont. p20 19 FEB 18 hipfishmonthly.com FLASH CUTS film. MOVIES & MUSINGS 2018 Academy Award Predictions by Les Kanekuni

are known as the “Three Amigos of Cin- the single largest voting ema.” If del Toro wins the director Oscar, block in the Academy, will the Three Amigos will have pulled off the very likely carry the Oscar unprecedented feat of all three winning a to McDormand. In Three Best Director Academy Award. Billboards McDormand plays Other nominees: Christopher Nolan Mildred Hayes, a mother (Dunkirk) / Jordan Peele (Get Out) / Greta whose teenage daughter Gerwig (Lady Bird) / Paul Thomas Ander- was raped and murdered. son (Phantom Thread) Seething with rage after The Idiosyncratic Three for Silver. local police fail to catch BEST ACTOR Catch ‘em at The Sandtrap Feb16 the murderer, Mildred rents BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS Pick: Gary Oldman (Darkest Hour) Old- three billboards and has them painted Pick: Allison Janney (I, Tonya) Janney man, who won the Best Lead Actor at the Saturday 3 with comments questioning the local gives a tour de force of nasty perfor- Screen Actors Guild Awards, is the closest MUSIC police chief’s competence. This ignites mance as the worst stage mother since thing to a lock in the acting categories Eric Skye & Mark Goldenberg. 7pm at the Hoffman Center a firestorm, upsetting Chief Willoughby Joan Crawford, as LaVona Golden, Tonya with his dominating onscreen portrayal in Manzanita. (Woody Harrelson) and raising the ire of Harding’s mother. Decked out in huge of Winston Churchill. With convincing Zak Borden. $15, 7pm at the Peninsula Arts Center in Long his racist deputy Dixon (Sam Rockwell). specs and a hideous haircut, Janney plays prosthetics, hair and makeup, Oldman re- Beach. The all-male backlash includes her LaVona as the mother who pushes Tonya sembles Churchill yet is still recognizable Strange Hotels. No cover, 9pm at the Adrift Hotel in Long abusive ex (John Hawkes) who blames her into skating lessons at age 3. Tonya as himself. His performance is similar: Beach. for their daughter’s death. Mildred fights shows real talent, outskating older girls, BEST PICTURE he evokes Churchill without becoming back in ways both extremely violent, ART but LaVona reacts by pushing harder – not funny and profane, but always driven by Spaceness. A celebration of time, space and the unknown Pick: The Shape of Water After win- a duplicate of the Prime Minister who allowing Tonya bathroom breaks during an underlying sorrow. through experimental art, media and performance. 9am – ning the Directors and Producers Guild led Britain through the darkest hours of practice, then later physically and verbally Other nominees: Sally Hawkins (The 9pm at the Sou’wester Lodge in Seaview. Awards, this genre-mashing love story is World War II. With Europe capitulating to abusing her when she’s not guilt-tripping Shape of Water) / Margot Robbie (I, Seaside Art Walk. 5 – 8pm at galleries and businesses in in the drivers seat. Part Beauty and the Hitler and the British Army being routed, her for spending every last penny of her Tonya) / Saoirse Ronan (Lady Bird) / Meryl downtown Seaside and Gearhart. Beast, part Creature From the Black La- Churchill becomes Prime Minister after waitressing salary on skating lessons. Streep (The Post) FOOD & DRINK goon, part Cold War thriller, The Shape of Neville Chamberlain resigns only because Knowing Tonya skates better angry, Unwined 2018. Sip & savor award-winning wine during the Water mixes the unlikely combination with he is the only candidate acceptable to LaVona even hires someone to hurl insults tasting event. $40 (includes appetizers, wine glass, and 10 magical realism and a bittersweet tone, both parties. Disliked by King Tonya’s way just before she takes the ice. tasting tokens). 5:30 – 8pm in the McTavish Room at the to great effect. Sally Hawkins plays Elisa George and a borderline alco- While there’s no inkling of why LaVona Liberty Theater in Astoria. Esposito, a mute cleaning lady at a secret holic, Churchill is nonetheless herself is so bitter, Janney’s portrayal of HAPPENING government laboratory in the early ‘60s. the only politician willing to the stage mother monster leaves an indel- Bulls and Barrels Event. $12, 5 – 9pm at the Tillamook Elisa lives a solitary life in an apartment wage war “at any cost” against ible impression. County Fairgrounds. above a movie theater. Her only friends Hitler while Parliament is Other nominees: Mary J. Blige LECTURE are her neighbor Giles (Richard Jenkins) secretly negotiating a surrender. (Mudbound) / Lesley Manville (Phantom From “Baffle Ball” to “Big Hit”: Five Decades of Pinball and Zelda (Octavia Spencer), also a jani- All seems lost when the British Thread) / Octavia Spencer (The Shape of Machines. With Chester “Tucker” Wachsmuth. 1pm at the tor. One day a creature captured from a Army is pushed into the sea at Water) / Laurie Metcalf (Lady Bird) Columbia Pacific Heritage Museum in Ilwaco. South American river by Col. Strickland Dunkirk. Churchill seems ready THEATER (Michael Shannon) arrives at the facility for to give into the defeatist faction when a BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY. Peter Pan. A musical adventure for youths. 2pm at the testing. At her late night job, Elisa strikes chance encounter with his constituents Pick: Sam Rockwell (Three Billboards Pick: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, ASOC Playhouse in Astoria. up a curious friendship with the creature. raises his spirits and he gives his famous Outside Ebbing, Missouri) There is a lot Missouri (Martin McDonogh) Born Yesterday. Romantic comedy/satire. $15, 7pm at When Elisa learns Strickland has been or- speech that rallies a nation. of love for the cast of Three Billboards, Other nominees: The Big Sick (Emily V. NCRD Performing Arts Center in Nehalem. dered to dissect the creature, she, along Other nominees: Timothée Chalamet with three being nominated – two in this Gordon & Kumail Nanjiani) / Get Out with sympathetic scientist Hoffstetler (Call Me By Your Name) / Daniel Day- category. Sam Rockwell, looks poised to (Jordan Peele) / Lady Bird (Greta Gerwig) Sunday 4 (Michael Stuhlbar) hatch a plant take the Oscar for his performance as the / The Shape of Water (Guillermo del Toro, MUSIC to free the creature. racist deputy who nonetheless shows he Vanessa Taylor) Strange Hotels. No cover, 7pm at the Adrift Hotel in Long Other Nominees: Call Me by has a compassionate side. Dixon initially BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY Beach. Your Name / Darkest Hour / seems like the bad apple of the Ebbing Pick: Call Me By Your Name (James police department, unapologetic over Live Music. No cover. 8pm at Fort George Brewery & Public Dunkirk / Get Out / Lady Bird / Ivory) House in Astoria. harassing and torturing blacks and violent Phantom Thread / The Post / Other nominees: The Disaster Artist enough to throw the billboard renter out ART Three Billboards Outside Ebb- (Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber) / a second floor window. Not the brightest Spaceness. A celebration of time, space and the unknown ing, Missouri Logan (Scott Frank & James Mangold and through experimental art, media and performance. 9am – bulb and a mama’s boy, Dixon nonethe- Michael Green) / Molly’s Game (Aaron 9pm at the Sou’wester Lodge in Seaview. BEST DIRECTOR less is fiercely protective of his chief and Pick: Guillermo del Toro (The Sorkin) / Mudbound (Virgil Williams and THEATER an effective cop. After initially being set Shape of Water) The 53-year- Dee Rees) Peter Pan. A musical adventure for youths. 2pm at the up an unpleasant thoroughly unlikeable old Mexican-born director has ASOC Playhouse in Astoria. Lewis (Phantom Thread) / Daniel Kaluuya character, Rockwell manages the difficult slugged it out for nearly 25 years in the Born Yesterday. Romantic comedy/satire. $15, 2pm at (Get Out) / Denzel Washington (Roman J. feat of making Dixon’s business, largely in the horror, fantasy NCRD Performing Arts Center in Nehalem. Israel, Esq.) redemption believable, even and thriller genres, although always with admirable, without ignoring Thursday 8 a stylish edge and more depth of feeling BEST ACTRESS his many faults. Pick: Francis McDormand (Three Bill- MUSIC than your typical genre entry. For the Other nominees: Willem Xiaohui Yang in Recital. Free, 7pm at the Liberty Theater first time, del Toro (who also co-wrote) boards Outside Ebbing, Missouri) The Dafoe (The Florida Project) in Astoria. foregrounded a touching love story toughest competition in the acting awards / Woody Harrelson (Three wrapped in his usual genre trappings is this category with all five nominees giv- FOOD & DRINK Billboards Outside Ebbing, Savor Cannon Beach Wine and Culinary Festival. Highlight- and looks poised to win the Oscar. The ing outstanding performances. McDor- Missouri) / Christopher ing Northwest wines and regional cuisine, the Festival offers director, who along with friends and mand has the slight edge over Hawkins Plummer (All the Money in a four-day lineup of wine, culinary and arts events in various fellow Mexican directors Alfonso Cuarón with her win at the Screen Actors Guild the World) / Richard Jenkins locations in Cannon Beach. savorcannonbeach.com (Gravity) and Alejandro Iñárittu (Birdman) awards. The support of the actors branch, (The Shape of Water)

FEB 18 hipfishmonthly.com 20 FREE WILL ASTROLOGY © Copyright 2018 Rob Brezsny Bike Madame FEBRUARY By Margaret Hammitt-McDonald ARIES (March 21-April 19): In all of history, humans have mined phase when you need and deserve extra pleasure and delight, about 182,000 tons of gold. Best estimates suggest there are especially the kind that rearranges your attitudes as well as your still 35 billion tons of gold buried in the earth, but the remaining coiffure. You have license to exceed your normal quotas of raven- riches will be more difficult to find and collect than what we’ve ousness and rowdiness. already gotten. We need better technology. If I had to say who An Activist on Two Wheels Is Born would be the entrepreneurs and inventors best qualified to lead SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In his “Crazy Lake Experiment” docu- the quest, my choice would be members of the Aries tribe. For mented on Youtube, Harvard physicist Greg Kestin takes a raft Y PARENTS were politically active ness (and a conscience) not through the foreseeable future, you people will have extra skill at excavat- out on a lake. He drops a tablespoon of olive oil into the water, Mbut sedentary. On weekends, my meeting and discussing adult subjects, ing hidden treasure and gathering resources that are hard to and a few minutes later, the half-acre around his boat is still and brother and I played in the yard while but through studying our surroundings access. smooth. All the small waves have disappeared. He proceeds to Dad peeked out the kitchen window, his in a thoughtful way as we rolled past explain the science behind the calming effect produced by a favorite progressive radio station play- on our banana-seat bikes. Otherwise TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Stories have the power to either tiny amount of oil. I suspect that you will have a metaphorically ing as he cut up vegetables for dinner. we might’ve dismissed the pollution dampen or mobilize your life energy. I hope that in the coming comparable power in the next two weeks, Scorpio. What’s your Sometimes he accompanied us on bike choking Veterans’ Memorial Park as the weeks, you will make heroic efforts to seek out the latter and version of the olive oil? Your poise? Your graciousness? Your toler- rides through our own and adjoining inevitable fate of vacant lots and the avoid the former. Now is a crucial time to treat yourself to stories ance? Your insight into human nature? that will jolt you out of your habitual responses and inspire you neighborhoods, his leisurely pace per- old lady with the cats as insane, not a to take long-postponed actions and awaken the sleeping parts SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In 1989, a man spent four dollars fect for our shorter legs. Although Dad person with limited access to the com- of your soul. And that’s just half of your assignment, dear Taurus. on a painting at a flea market in Adamstown, Pennsylvania. hadn’t planned on it, those rides proved passionate mental-health services that Here’s the rest: Tell stories that help you remember the totality He didn’t care much for the actual image, which was a boring the best early political and environmen- the person with the big house down the of who you are, and that inspire your listeners to remember the country scene, but he thought he could use the frame. Upon tal education for me. street would’ve felt comfortable seeking totality of who they are. returning home, he found a document concealed behind the Touring the Bronx on a bicycle al- out (and paying for). painting. It turned out to be a rare old copy of America’s Declara- GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Author Anaïs Nin said, “There are two lowed me to cover more terrain in a When I think back to our childhood tion of Independence, originally created in 1776. He eventually ways to reach me: by way of kisses or by way of the imagination. shorter time sold it for $2.42 million. I doubt that you will experience anything rambles, I’m But there is a hierarchy: the kisses alone don’t work.” For two quite as spectacular in the coming weeks, Sagittarius. But I do span than amazed that reasons, Anaïs’s formulation is especially apropos for you right suspect you will find something valuable where you don’t expect I could’ve Dad helped now. First, you should not allow yourself to be seduced, tempted, it, or develop a connection with something that’s better than you managed Will and or won over by sweet gestures alone. You must insist on sweet imagined it would be. gestures that are synergized by a sense of wonder and an ap- on foot, me to be preciation of your unique beauty. Second, you should adopt the but I was conscious of CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In the 1740s, a teenage Capricorn girl same approach for those you want to seduce, tempt, or win over: also travel- the places we named Eliza Lucas almost single-handedly introduced a new crop sweet gestures seasoned with wonder and an appreciation of ing slowly rode through into American agriculture: indigo, a plant used as a dye for textiles. their unique beauty. In South Carolina, where she managed her father’s farm, indigo enough to but not the ultimately became the second-most-important cash crop over the absorb my humble CANCER (June 21-July 22): Are you more inclined right now to next 30 years. I have astrological reasons to believe that you are surround- machines we favor temporary involvements and short-term promises? Or now in a phase when you could likewise make innovations that ings—and used to get would you consider making brave commitments that lead you will have long-range economic repercussions. Be alert for good deeper into the Great Mystery? Given the upcoming astrological ask ques- there. The intuitions and promising opportunities to increase your wealth. omens, I vote for the latter. Here’s another pair of questions for tions about 1970s hadn’t you, Cancerian. Are you inclined to meander from commotion them. Why yet discov- AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): When I was in my early twenties, to commotion without any game plan? Or might you invoke the did people ered bikes I smoked marijuana now and then. I liked it. It made me feel magic necessary to get involved with high-quality collabora- good and inspired my creativity and roused spiritual visions. But throw their trash in the water’s-edge Vet- as alternative transportation; we rode tions? I’m hoping you’ll opt for the latter. (P.S. The near future will I reconsidered my use after encountering pagan magician Isaac erans’ Memorial Park (including a burnt- around for convenience and fun, not to be prime time for you to swear a sacred oath or two.) Bonewits. He didn’t have a moral objection to cannabis use, out car hulk), and when the tide came save gas, the climate, or the ozone layer. but believed it withered one’s willpower and diminished one’s in, did all that garbage really disappear? Now, many people are familiar, if not LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In March 1996, a man burst into the studio determination to transform one’s life for the better. For a year, I of radio station Star FM in Wanganui, New Zealand. He took the Why were some neighborhoods popu- with bike-advocacy organizations, with meditated on and experimented with his hypothesis. I found it manager hostage and issued a single demand: that the dj play a re- lated by a few huge houses, while the cyclists riding along beside them in the to be true, at least for me. I haven’t smoked since. My purpose cording of the Muppet song “The Rainbow Connection,” as sung by area surrounding that trash-choked park bike lane. Now, bicycles can become in bringing this up is not to advise you about your relationship the puppet Kermit the Frog. Fortunately, police intervened quickly, featured tiny, ramshackle houses where to drugs, but rather to urge you to question whether there are the message as well as the medium for no one was hurt, and the kidnapper was jailed. In bringing this to influences in your life that wither your willpower and diminish roofing material covered not just the social and environmental transformation. your attention, Leo, I am certainly not suggesting that you imitate your determination to transform your life for the better. Now is an roof but the walls too? Did anyone ever After the gloom of the November the kidnapper. Please don’t break the law or threaten anyone with excellent time to examine this issue. come to visit the “crazy” lady whose 2016 election, I’ve been thinking in- harm. On the other hand, I do urge you to take dramatic, innova- clothing and house vied for which was tive action to fulfill one of your very specific desires. creasingly about how to reactivate my PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Would you like to shed unwieldy the most ragged, and who allowed sixty politically-active life from BC (Before baggage before moving on to your next big challenge? I hope VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Many varieties of the nettle plant or so cats to wander in and out? Children), and I can’t imagine joining so. It will purge your soul of karmic sludge. It will prime you for a will sting you if you touch the leaves and stems. Their hairs are Learning about inequity and environ- a revolution that doesn’t involve bikes. fresh start. One way to accomplish this bravery is to confess your like hypodermic needles that inject your skin with a blend of sins and ask for forgiveness in front of a mirror. Here are data to mental devastation wasn’t as simple as Riding around together introduces a irritant chemicals. And yet nettle is also an herb with numerous consider. Is there anyone you know who would not give you a riding around and witnessing it. We also new generation to that environmental- medicinal properties. It can provide relief for allergies, arthritis, good character reference? Have you ever committed a seriously had to tune our senses and thoughts to ly friendly transportation method that’s joint pain, and urinary problems. That’s why Shakespeare invoked unethical act? Have you revealed information that was told to become aware of and reflect on what fast enough for many daily necessi- the nettle as a metaphor in his play Henry IV, Part 1: “Out of this you in confidence? While under the influence of intoxicants or nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety,” says the character we’d absorbed on our rides. Thanks to ties, yet slow enough to notice what’s bad ideas, have you done things you’re ashamed of? I’m not say- named Hotspur. In accordance with the astrological omens, our parents’ efforts to teach Will and me going on around you. And what could ing you’re more guilty of these things than the rest of us; it’s just Virgo, I choose the nettle as your power metaphor for the first critical thinking, we went off on those be more crucial to fostering lasting that now is your special time to seek redemption. three weeks of February. jaunts equipped with curiosity, alertness, change (as opposed to the momentary Homework: What’s the best, most healing trouble you could whip and the ability to notice and ask ques- fervor that characterizes revolutions) LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Knullrufs is a Swedish word that refers to up right now? Testify at Freewillastrology.com. tions about discrepancies and dispari- than engaging the next generation, what your hair looks like after sex: tousled, rumpled, disordered. ties. Our 1970s childhood was steeped as Dad did with my brother and me If I’m reading the astrological omens correctly, you should experi- in the consciousness-raising mentality of way back when on our banana-seat ence more knullrufs than usual in the coming weeks. You’re in a Freewillastrology.com the era, only we developed a conscious- one-speeds?

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Led by with Michelle Lawhorn - Mon & Thurs 6pm. 2-4pm@ Bob Chisholm Comm.Center, Meeting Dance Your Joy at AAMC continue your poetry journey at home. $30 ordained Zen priest/non-religious. Many dif- . $5 per class. Rm. 1, 1225 Ave. A, Seaside. 3rd Tues. 4:30- plus $5 materials fee. 10am – 2pm at the ferent styles practiced, discussion of common 6pm, Columbia Memorial Hospital, Columbia 342 10th St. in Astoria. Sou’wester Lodge in Seaview. RSVP by calling YOGA—MANZANITA, Center for Contempla- problems encountered during meditation, Center, Chinok Rm, 2021 Exchange St., Astoria. 360-642-2542 tive Arts, Manzanita Ave., Tuesday 5-6:30pm. focus on deveoping a regualr practice. All Qeustions call: 503-338-6230. astoriaartsandmovement.com 7:15-8:15pm: Belly Dance $10 drop-in fee. Call 503-368-3733 for more Choreography with MACRAME MADNESS WORKSHOP. February welcome. KNITTING CLUB. Weekly on Tuesdays 5:30- 17. Come explore the modern evolution of information. Jessamyn Grace ART & MINDFULNESS. With Amy Selena 6:30. Location: Coffee Girl, Pier 39 Astoria. • MONDAY macramé crafts at the cozy Bumble Art Studio. YOGA/GEARHART. Gearhart Workout. For Community members of any skill level can 8:30 - 9:30pm: Argentine Emily will teach you the three basic knots that Reynolds. Once a month , 2nd Saturdays, 1-4 8:30 - 9:30am Zumba Dance more information log on to www.gearhart- meet to knit at Coffee Girl. We teach begin- Tango Practica with JL Gil- can be used in infinite combinations to create workout.com 3470 Hwy. 101 N. Suite 104 in pm. Deepen your connection with your heart, ners and encourage everyone to bring their Fitness with Kim Postlewaite likin beautiful macramé art. You’ll craft a beautiful Gearhart mind, and spirit, play with creativity, find out own supplies. If knitting isn’t your thing, we 5:30 - 6:00pm: PreYoga Self wall hanging to take home using wood and where art and meditation begin. No previous welcome other crafts as well. Care with Jude yarn to create your own custom design. 7 – CB T’AI CHI. The Center for the Contemplative art or meditation experience is necessary. • THURSDAY INCLUSIVE MEN’S GROUP. Meets at the Cen- 9pm at Bumble Art Studio in Astoria. register Arts, Manzanita: Wednesday Mornings 10- Bring a journal and your favorite pen. All other MatulichHall 8:30-9:30am Zumba with at SeafolkArtisans.com 11:30. $30/month. Call 368-6227 for more info. ter for Contemplative Arts in Manzanita. Sun- 6:00 - 7pm: SloFlo Yoga Joy Sigler supplies will be provided. Class fee:$30 (Note: day evenings. 5:00pm - 8:pm. Next meeting TYPE/WRITING: Experiments in Creative Non- LEARN SELF DEFENSE. Private lessons in No one will be turned away for lack of funds. Sept10. Benefit from the experience of a more with Jude Matulich Hall fiction & Zinecraft. February 18. With Melissa Ocean Park, WA (home gym) with Black Belt • FRIDAY Please contact Amy if you have a financial diverse circle of men – all ages - all walks of life 7:15 – 8:00pm Meditation Favara. This workshop will consist of focused instructor Jon Belcher in Kenpo Karate (Adults hardship but want to take a class.) Call Amy - all points of view - let’s expand the possibili- 9:30 - 10:40am: Gentle writing time working with short memoir and only, $10.00 per 1 & 1/2 hr lesson). Currently with Jude MatulichHall at 503-421-7412 or email amyselena888@ ties. Some of us have been meeting together Yoga with Terrie Powers creative nonfiction prompts, producing small teaching Mondays & Thursdays from 1:00pm gmail.com for 9 years. Others are new to the process. pieces that could be expanded on later. Partici- on. To try a free introductory lesson contact • TUESDAY 6:30-8:00pm Living the pants will be provided with writing prompts instructor at: Phone: 360-665-0860 or E-mail: Either way, each man adds to the evening. We 8:30-9:30am: Zumba with Tarot with Julia Hesse (2nd A SILENT MEDITATION • with Lola Sacks. St. all have connection to a vast knowledge. The and their own vintage manual typewriter to [email protected] Instructor Joy Sigler Friday of the month ONLY) use for the writing process, feedback sessions, Catherine’s Center for the Contemplative Arts, group intelligence is more expansive than the teaches the Ed Parker system of American 6-7pm Beginning Ballroom: and materials and guidance for creating Kenpo Karate. Manzanita: Monday Nights 5 - 5:45 Call 368- individual awareness. There is a great release 7-10pm:Contra Dance with one-of-a-kind artifacts (zines) of their favorite 6227 for more info. and power in sharing our wisdom and our Salsa and East Coast Swing Dave Ambrose (3rd Fridays creative writing pieces from the session. $30 CB ZUMBA. Low Impact Fitness for many ages. vulnerabilities. We are confidential. We are with Jen Miller (all Swing- plus $5 materials fee. 10am – 2pm at the Licensed instruction. Tolovana Community LECTIO DIVINA • Meditation with Holy Scrip- inclusive. We are diverse. Bring Yourself - Be •SATURDAY resume Jan 9) Sou’wester Lodge in Seaview. RSVP by calling Hall 3779 S. Hemlock, Cannon Beach, Call Joy: ture. The Center for the Contemplative Arts, Yourself - Add Yourself to the mix. See what 6-7pm: Argentine Tango 360-642-2542 503.738.6560 7-8pm:Beginning West Manzanita: Tuesday Mornings 10-11:30. Call happens. FMI: Darel Grothaus, darelgrothaus@ Fundamentals with Estelle & 368-6227 for more info. raincity.com Coast Swing with Jen Miller TAROT WISDOM CIRCLE. February 19. Theme, NEHALEM ZUMBA. Come join the Zumba Celeste Olivares 3-card Readings. Tarot Wisdom Circles are an party at North County Recreation District in LABYRINTH WALK • Grace Episcopal Church, 1545 8-9pm: Student Led West TILLAMOOK PILOTS ASSOCIATION. Meets 6:30-7:30pm: Intermediate opportunity to explore the infinite ways tarot Nehalem, Oregon. Tue-Thur 6:30 to 7:30pm/ 1st Sat ea. month at the Airbase Cafe (Til- Coast Swing Practice Hour Fri 9-10am. FAll term thru Dec. Attire: Loose Franklin St, Astoria, 3-6. Every 1st Sunday. Argentine Tango Concepts can speak to us. It’s learning-by-doing around lamook Air Museum) at 9am for their regular with Jen Miller the table. Every participant will complete their gym clothing, non-gripping sneakers, a business meeting and to promote general 7:30-8pm: Argentine Tango water bottle & lots of energy! Rosa Erlebach – own reading based on the theme of the night. VOLUNTEER aviation. Interested in learning to fly? Or • WEDNESDAY Mini-Practica with Estelle & Call 970-570-9323 for Astoria location. instructor. Ncrd. 36155 9th Street Nehalem, Or simply interested in general aviation, come 97131(503) 368-4595 [email protected] CLATSOP COUNTY GENEALOGY SOCIETY is to the meeting and meet similar-minded 9:30-10:40am: Gentle Yoga Celeste Olivares embarking on county-wide cemeteryidentifi- folks? The TPA owns a Cessna 172 available for with Terrie Powers SUNDAY BODY WORK•YOGA•FITNESS cation and cataloging project. Cemeteries are members to rent for instruction or forgeneral 6-7:15pm: Belly Dance Ba- SPIRITUALITY among the mostvaluable of historic resources. use for licensed pilots who are members of 9-10:30am: Tri-Dosha Yoga TRIGGER POINT RELEASE CLASS. . Oct 12. How TPA. tillamookpilots.org. sics with Jessamyn Grace to Release a Tight Muscle in 30 Seconds or SPIRITUAL BUT NOT RELIGIOUS? Join in a They are reminders of our settlementpatterns with Melissa Henige Less. Bring a friend to be your “massage part- “Celebration of Spirit” sponsored by Common and can reveal information about our historic ner” for this hour where you will learn how to Ground Interspiritual Fellowship. This Sunday events, ethnicity,religion, lifestyles and geneal- morning gathering is not defined by any ENCORE. Join us for the ENCORE Lunch Bunch THE LOWER COLUMBIA CLASSICS CAR release a tight muscle with a quick and gentle ogy. The society is seeking volunteers tojoin NORTH COAST LA LECHE LEAGUE. Preg- particular belief system, and is especially CLUB. Invitation to all who are interested in technique. Free, 5 – 7:15pm at Dawn Sea Kahrs, members in identifying and visiting cem- the first Tuesday of the month. Questions nant women, mothers, babies & toddlers DC, in Wheeler. GRACFUL WAVES. intended for the “spiritual but not religious,” as eteries to catalog theinformation for future about Lunch Bunch? Call Reta Leithner Collector Cars to attend one of our monthly meetings. The meetings are held at Steve welcome. Topics discussed: preparing well as those who draw from more than one generations. The society would also be grateful 503-717-2297. ENCORE is a membership orga- QIGONG WALKING AND FORMS. Mondays, faith tradition. Time: Sundays 9:30 – 10:30 am Jordan’s Shop Building, located at 35232 for birth and breastfeeding, adjusting to forany information from the public regarding nization for people age 50 and older who are starting January 23. With Donna Quinn. Qi- Location: Franklin Ave. & 11th St. Astoria, in the Helligso Lane in rural Astoria - meet on the motherhood, parenting babies and tod- gong is an ancient Chinese health care system Wesley Room of the Methodist Church, (use old cemeteries and burial sitesthat may not interested in life-long learning opportunities. 3rd Thursday of each month. If you are inter- dlers, breastfeeding basics, benefits and that integrates physical postures, breathing building entrance on 11th). For more informa- be commonly known. If you are interested, ENCORE is sponsored by Clatsop Community ested and need the directions to get there, challenges of breastfeeding, nutrition, and techniques and focused intention. Qigong (Chi tion see http://cgifellowship.org, contact info@ contact thesociety at www.clatsopcounty- College, and offers classes in a variety of sub- you may call Steve Jordan at 503-325-1807 weaning. Astoria: 1st Tuesdays 5:30-7pm. Kung) means cultivating energy, it is a system cgifellowship.org, or call 916-307-9790. [email protected] or call 503-325-1963 or jects, social events, and occasional educational THE ASTORIA CHESS CLUB. meets Saturday Blue Scorcher Bakery1493 Duane St, Asto- practiced for health maintenance, healing 503-298-8917. trips. For more information, please refer to our AUTHENTIC SPIRITUAL CONVERSATIONS. mornings at 11:30 AM at Three Cups Coffee ria. Seaside: 3rd Thursdays 10-12. Seaside and increasing vitality. Free community class, website: www.encorelearn.org or contact Mary House and Thursday evenings at 5:30 PM at Meets every Tuesday in Astoria, from 7:00 Public Library, 1131 Broadway St, Seaside. 7:30am at RiversZen Yoga in Astoria. Weekly Habitat Restoration/Stewardship Work Kemhus-Fryling, Clatsop Community College the Hotel Elliott’s wine bar. Players of all ages – 8:30 PM. Are you looking for a spiritual com- Parties. 10 am - noon. Meet at Alder Creek Call or text LLL Leader Megan Oien for Community Education Coordinator, 503-338- and skill levels are welcome to attend. For CLASSICAL BELLY DANCE. Classes held Sun- munity of like-minded people but don’t seem Farm, at the end of Underhill Lane between more information, contact us at astoriachess- breastfeeding support at 503-440-4942 or days 3-4:30 @ Tolovana Community Hall 3778 to fit in anywhere? Do you long for the kind of 2408, or toll free at 1-855-252-8767. [email protected] or visit our Facebook page.” LLL leader Kestrel Gates at 503-453-3777. FEB 18 hipfishmonthly.com 22 Need more love in your life?

example, if we have proven to after the call, I reflected on Adopt from the ourselves throughout our adult the meaning of life. I thought Animal Shelter Messages lives that we can’t trust anyone, about how precious life is and and no one cares, we have not how much pain we can feel Sonja Grace healed but rather proven the from loss. Ultimately, I feel love Yeah! mystic healer point of why we are in pain. is the greatest gift we have, Most people spend every mo- for ourselves and others. My Animal Shelter location: ment of every day reenacting mission statement for humanity 1315 SE 19th in Warrenton those painful moments from is to love at the deepest level Phone: 503.861.0737 childhood, rather than healing of our beings. When we don’t Hrs: noon to 4 pm, Tue-Sat. THE MEANING OF LIFE the wound. understand karma and the con- WHEN WE understand our What is the purpose of I recently talked to a woman nections to our past, we often karma and where we have lived, understanding our cycles? in her early seventies who had miss the lesson we are meant loved and died in past lives, our Humanity has warred, suffered lost her grandson. He was a to learn in this life. Take time current life takes on a different from famine and disease, and troubled young man who died to love each other, be kind and meaning. The choice to believe struggled for power for centu- a violent death. Four years later compassionate. we only have one life, limits our ries. These patterns dominate his Grandmother still struggled understanding of the connec- the collective consciousness be- with the loss. She asked me For over thirty years, award tions we feel with people and cause we have yet to heal from if she would live much longer. winning author and Mystic places around the world. For the them. As we struggle to uphold Normally I wouldn’t answer Healer, Sonja Grace has been most part, we identify with this an opinion or belief system we that question as I feel life and offering her international life, but our karma is our emo- tend to fall into the pattern that death is between ourselves and clientele, immediate stability, tional wounds cycling through was a product of our parents, Creator. I asked her if she had a clarity, and guidance. Sonja is our lifetimes. Humans are grandparents and beyond. terminal illness or cancer to ask an energy surgeon who works clever and disguise the cycles Rarely do we look at what the such a question. She told me with the physical, emotional, that are created from karma. belief is and question its origin. no and insisted on an answer. mental and spiritual bod- Our environment has cycles that We accept many things as the My guides who are high angelic ies. She helps clients process are forever revolving around life ‘truth’ and like a flock of geese beings said she would live into emotional wounds, clear karma and death. we follow, call out to others her eighties. Suddenly, she and gain inner peace. Her new The Lower Columbia Clinic book ‘Dancing with Raven and This planet shares a wide va- to get in line and head in the began to wail. Sobbing and Thomas S. Duncan, M.D. • Susan L Skinner, CNM, CFNP riety of patterns that we live by direction that is familiar holding screaming ‘no’. I asked her why Bear, A Book of Earth Medicine like the four seasons, the cycle true to the cycle. she was so upset, and she said I and Animal Magic’ is published 595 18th, Astoria • 503-325-9131 of our plants and crops and the Familiarity brings comfort don’t want to be here. Despite by Inner Traditions and now migration of all life on earth. An and for some knowing what the having a good husband and a available for pre order at www. even larger contribution to our routine is every day brings a great grandchild to look after sonjagrace.com cycles around the world, is the sense of security. The comfort she wanted nothing to do with sun rising and setting and the level of our patterns also gain being alive. I gave her my love ADOPTION: phases of the moon. popularity as we get older. For and tried to ease her pain and It’s an Option The Animal Shelter’s THE place to go for your next pet! wordwisdom By Tobi Nason I LIKE THIS PHRASE. It’s sort of ambigu- the loss of a disease perhaps. Loss of loss turns into “ Best thing that could “DUKE” ous in meaning and full of suggestion. loved ones. Loss of memory. Loss of a have happened.” Loss is often shuffled This little guy is a 7 yr. It can be translated many ways. We’re home. to the back of one’s mind. Focus on the old pug mix. He’s cute more used to, “It’s good to be here.” Maybe we need to figure out a way present and the positive. Good to be “Here” can be a physical place or psy- gone. and compact. chological space. It’s a positive state- My vast variety of experiences.... No kids please. ment, placed in the present moment. Sometimes the ending of a time filled Good to be gone suggests a before me with such sadness, even though I and after, here, there, past and present. was moving towards something else. Perhaps I’ll start using it since it applies Sometimes a change in gears was a ne- so well. . . to so many situations. cessity, not a desire. Sometimes. it was We all have history. Marriages, di- sheer circumstance. In any case, I have “BABBS” vorces, love affairs, disasters, losses of a strong sense of good to be gone. This fetching female every sort. The road one travels during Counselor’s advice: Reclaim all of these times is often terrifyingly lonely, your life, even the messy bits. There’s tabby needs a home. fraught with anxiety. As one emerges value in the mistakes as well as the She’s a champion somehow, sometime, it’s with relief to successes. Often times those so-called lap sitter & so nice! feel - it’s good to be gone. To be back to memorialize our past. I had a job in- terrible times provide useful insight and where all is well. Sometimes it’s the com- terview recently and was told I had such promote coping skills. They also have pany we kept that prompts the phrase a vast variety of experiences. It made the ability to translate into a narrative To see more adoptable cats and dogs, check out our website at: - good to be gone. However it’s used, me smile. I never thought of my messy that tells others who you are. Good to www.dogsncats.org the word good is the qualifier. Gone, by life that way. In many cases, I could have be gone... but not forgotten. Animal Shelter location: itself, is connected with loss, unknown used the phrase - Good to be Gone! 1315 SE 19th in Warrenton whereabouts, or sense of forever-ness. It’s normal to maybe want to forget Tobi Nason is a counselor from Warren- Phone: 503.861.0737 Good and gone in the same breath! a certain time in a life. A 2-year divorce ton, available for appts. (503)440-0587. Shelter hrs.: noon to 4:00 pm

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23 FEB 18 hipfishmonthly.com Why Suffer? bodiesinbalance By Tracy Erfling, N.D. call us today!

• Auto Accidents Dr. Tracy Erfling is a • Work Related Injuries naturopath physician in the • Sports Injuries Lower Columbia Region. Questions? • Second Opinions [email protected] covered by most insurance If You’re Happy Dr. Barry Sears, D.C. and You Know It Thank Serotonin! ASTORIA CHIROPRACTIC HAT is at the source of our hap- emotionally troubled our sleep is affected worth checking out. The first is an amino 503-325-3311 2935 Marine Drive • Astoria Wpiness, anxiousness, depression, too. acid called L-theanine. It facilitates the Safe Effective Alternative Care Since 1981. mania, tearfulness, obsessiveness or lack Dopamine may be another familiar production and metabolism of most of the of any of the above? Neurotransmitters. neurotransmitter that is associated with our above and naturally occurs in green tea. These are the chemicals that we produce pleasure centers. For some the rewards It can help with moods, stress and brain that communicate throughout the nervous of eating or gambling, drug use or other power...yet another great reason to drink system keeping many of our mental and addictive behaviors can be linked to their more green tea. Vitamin D is a cofactor physical functions in check, or not… Their lack of dopamine production. Although which is key in helping enzymatic reactions production is a collaboration of amino problems with moods, sleep, attention, be- to move forward. (Incidentally, mid-winter acids, enzymatic functions and nutrients; as havior and learning may also be indicators is the time of year when D levels begin to is their metabolism and elimination. When of unhealthy dopamine levels. Parkinson’s drop into those deficiency ranges.) When Tobi Nason exploring how to evaluate and treat issues is the most profound example of a condi- enzymes are working properly, the body Counseling and Mediation Services related to the neurotransmitter system, tion associated with low dopamine, some is not only able to create these neu- answers can often be elusive. As you will signs are poor coordination and movement rotransmitters but also able to break them Specializing in Life Changes In Astoria see this is a VAST topic with no cut and (for some tremors), along with low motiva- down...not too little, not too much, but call 503-440-0587 dry solutions but let’s take this month to tion and poor memory. On the flip side just right. Vitamin B6 is another regulator M.A in Counseling scratch the surface of this important health too much dopamine can lead to paranoia... of production and break down of these topic. it’ll destroy ya. neurotransmitters, easily available and So who are these fascinating cast of Epinephrine and norepinephrine are safe. Remember with B vitamins to take characters? Serotonin, Dopamine, Epi- made from dopamine; these are our fight with food is best as they can be nauseat- nephrine, Norepinephrine, and GABA. Yes and flight responders. In a normal healthy ing on an empty stomach and taking them they act primarily in the nervous system state these neurotransmitters will help the as a complex is also valuable. Finally fish but are not exclusively produced there, body to ready itself in the face of stress oils (i.e. good quality fats), which bathe the nor does their function stay limited there. and danger. Therefore, when we are nervous system, allow access into and out They influence the endocrine (hormone) experiencing deficiency we are sluggish, of the cells so that everyone is able to get Tracy Erfling n.d. system, the musculoskeletal system, slow, depressed, reclusive and lack motiva- where they need to go, and communicate naturopathic physician the immune system, the gastrointestinal tion or concentration. This can also be a what they need to communicate. system and the cardiovascular system. common scenario for those whose stress Is there testing? Yes! There are a vari- Why? Because our nerves are linked from response has been overtaxed. Therefore, ety of labs testing neurotransmitters. The our central nervous system (the brain and along with looking at adrenal health, siz- one that I use tests a small urine sample; primary care using spinal cord) throughout the body via the ing up our epi and norepi levels may be an easy in-home test. I cannot say how peripheral nervous system in order to worthwhile. When we are over-producing common this testing is among conven- natural therapeutics communicate our thoughts and needs to these two neurotransmitters, we tend to be tional medical professionals or whether their outcome of our functions and actions. more hyper, restless, have trouble relaxing, it is something your specific insurance AWESOME! focusing and sleeping. Thanks to the ter- would cover. Neurotransmitter testing has Call for an appointment! 503.440.6927 I think of these characters you are likely rific ability of balance our bodies inherently really only emerged in the naturopathic 2935 Marine Dr. • Astoria most familiar with Serotonin. This little contain we have another neurotransmitter community in the last 10 years (to my email:email: [email protected] [email protected] email: [email protected] gem is our happy neurotransmitter. It is to help us tone down these stress respons- knowledge)...so fairly new in the grand the main focus of most of the antidepres- es, meet the down-regulating neurotrans- scheme of things. I have found this testing sants out there whose goal is create more mitter GABA. It is calming and assists the to be really valuable to reveal some basic free-floating serotonin through a variety body in relaxation. When GABA runs low foundational information when looking at of pathways. The widespread use of however, we see conditions like anxiety, mental health concerns, so definitely worth antidepressants can also be linked to the panic attacks and alcoholism (due to alco- asking about or researching on your own! fact that serotonin affects our pain, sleep, hol’s ability to depress the central nervous If you’re not happy and you know it then and digestion as well as our moods. In system). And as expected with too much maybe it’s time to think about supporting fact did you know that close to 80% of GABA we see drowsiness, poor attention the neurotransmitter pathways; because our serotonin is created in our intestines? and memory, and depressed moods. we all strive to be our happiest and healthi- It’s therefore worth considering its use in A LOT to think about huh? I think we est selves! irritable bowel and other GI complaints. can all relate to some combination of these Natural inducers of healthy serotonin pro- issues in ourselves or those close to us. duction are exercise, light and of course Where to start? There are a few nutrients DO something you love, BE with someone good nutrition! Incidentally serotonin also that seem to affect many pathways for you love, EAT your vegetables, DRINK converts to melatonin, our sleep hormone, creating and metabolizing neurotransmit- clean water, BREATHE deeply and MOVE which may explain why when we’re feeling ters. 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CHEWCHEW ON ON THIS! THIS! by Merianne Myers

DARK DAYS DEVIL’S FOOD CAKE URE, February is home base for reliably sketchy weath- Preheat oven to 325 Ser but, it’s the shopping holidays that really tick me off. Frankly, I don’t care whether Valentine’s Day resulted from chagrin over the execution of Roman clerics named Valen- 2 cups all-purpose flour (you can substitute Bob’s Red Mill 1-to-1 GF flour tine or whether it is a Christian morph of the Pagan fertility without fear of repercussion) celebration called Lupercalia. What it means today is shop SEASIDE WALKERS ‘til you drop. Likewise, President’s Day which no longer 1 teaspoon salt If you enjoy being outdoors, waking and meeting new honors a particular President and was assigned a Monday people join SEASIDE WALKRS - Facebook group. We are an 1 teaspoon baking powder date for no other reason than that we might have a 3-day informal group of people that enjoy walking in our beautiful community. weekend to, you guessed it, SHOP. 2 teaspoons baking soda I have waxed cranky about February (yes, the whole FREE MEMBERSHIP month) so often in this column, even I am bored by me. In 3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder an effort to redeem myself, I have determined to set out FRESH AIR the things I like about February. Although, most could be 2 cups sugar MEET NEW PEOPLE the things I like about any depth-of-winter month, so Feb- ALWAYS HAVE SOMEONE TO WALK WITH 1 cup vegetable oil ruary has debatable bragging rights. Although curmud- CHILDREN AND (WELL BEHAVED) DOGS WELCOME. geonly is my default setting around any shopping holiday, 1 cup hot coffee ( I make an 8 oz. Americano with 4 oz. of espresso and 4 oz. of which sadly includes all the major ones, I can be almost hot water but you can also use strong brewed coffee) chirpy about the other stuff. In February’s defense, I will admit I love the stormy 1 cup milk days when I find an excuse to sit down with a good book Strong Women. Strong Bones. and a mug of hot coffee to surrender a couple of hours to 2 eggs 5-Week Program pure pleasure. I love the appearance of perfect sleeping This program is a national evidence-based community exercise weather with its cold nights and rain pattered soundtrack, 1 teaspoon vanilla and nutrition program targeted to midlife and older women. flannel pj’s and snuggly cats. I love that there is no lawn The program assists women in maintaining muscle mass, mowing or garden watering. I love the invitation to cook Sift dry ingredients together into a large bowl. Add oil, coffee and milk, mix- strength and function. It is easy and fun. long, steamy meals which simmer or braise for hours and ing until well blended, about 2 minutes with an electric mixer. Add eggs and build temptation to a crescendo in the process. I love vanilla and beat a couple more minutes. Expect batter to be thin. Mondays & Wednesdays . January 8—February 14, 2018 (No spending a day off scuffing around the house in woolly class on January 15 & February 19) slippers, iPod (yup, I still have one) on shuffle and volume Pour into a 9” X 13” pan or two 9-inch round pans that have been greased 5:30—6:30 PM Clatsop Community College (Patriot Hall) cranked, watching the weather swirl past the windows. and floured. Bake the rectangular cake for about 45 minutes or the two layers Register online at www.columbiamemorial.org, or As for February, in particular, I have to admit any month for about 30 minutes. Cool in pans for 15 minutes and then tip out of pans by calling the CMH Community Outreach Department @ 503- that contains No Politics Day, Eat Ice Cream for Breakfast and cool completely 338-7564, or by e-mail to [email protected]. Please Day, Create a Vacuum Day, Don’t Cry Over Spilled Milk on racks. While cake is check our website for other Strong Women - Strong Bones Day, Get a Different Name Day, Hoodie Hoo Day and cooling, make your idea class dates at www.columbiamemorial.org. Open That Bottle Night has undeniable appeal. That said, of the perfect frosting if February and virtually all Tuesdays have questionable rea- you’re a frosting lover. We have mats and weights, but if you’d like to bring your own son to exist as far as I’m concerned. Seems like we could that is fine. Wear comfortable clothes to move in, supportive tighten things up and distribute the dreary a bit better if I am admittedly not shoes, and bring a water bottle. we went to a six day week and eleven month year. Add a frosting person. My that to the daylight/standard time thing and the phases of method of choice for the moon, you’ve got a whole new perspective on pretty this cake is the 9” X 13” much everything. Bonus: the potential to throw a couple version, served cold Trigger Point Release Class of shopping holidays overboard! from the fridge, sliced HOW TO RELEASE a tight muscle in 30 Hot or cold, chocolate is particularly appropriate for and topped with home- seconds or less! A FREE class at Graceful winter. An unctuous, dark Devil’s Food cake could not only made vanilla ice cream, Waves Chirpractic in Wheeler offers this to make all who get some delirious with joy, it could count as or whipped cream or the community, MOnday Feb 12, 6:15 to a pretty darned lavish gift for one of those pesky shopping creme fraîche or sweet- 7:15pm. Bring a friend to be your “mas- holidays. ened Mascarpone. I like sage partner” for this hour where you will the texture and flavor learn how to release a tight muscle with a of the cold cake. Suit quick and gently technique. The conclu- Tune in to FOOD TALK, an irreverent conversation about yourself. sion of the class includes a brief DEMO of home cooking with hosts Merianne Myers and Linda Graceful Waves unique care services, and Perkins. First and Third Mondays of every month, 9:30 an opportunity to schedule a specially discounted evaluation to to 10:00am on Coast Community Radio, KMUN 91.9fm, discover if we can help you. 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25 FEB 18 hipfishmonthly.com FisherPoets Gathering Special Events Schedule enviro • song circles • art/craft • film • writing • history + more Over 100 Fisher Poets descend on the FPG this year - to perform at The Voodoo Room, Wet Dog, KALA, Lovell Room, Liberty Theater, Columbian Theater and the Labor Temple. Enjoy too a diverse selection of special events open to all with a FPG Button. Pick up buttons at the Gearshack and any participating venue during the festival.

Friday, February 23 10pm to midnight • Pier 39 Noon to 10pm KALA Singers’ Circle with Mary Garvey FisherPoets Gearshack, Annual FisherPoets Dance with DJ 1174 Commercial St., sells FishWives • Clatsop County Heritage Museum admission buttons and fisherpoets’ Protecting Working Waterfronts and chapbooks, CDs and art. Silent Auction 10:30 to 11:30pm Community Fisheries with Kevin Scribner opens. Bids close at 4 p.m. Saturday. Liberty Theater Poetry at the Line: the first annual Noon to 1pm Pier 39 fisherpoetry slam with Moe Bowstern Wet Dog Café Hanthorn Cannery Museum self-guided State of Wonder: OPB broadcasts live tour of the oldest existing fish processing Saturday, February 24 from the FisherPoets Gathering plant on the Columbia. Pollock Log 30 x 40 10am to 10 pm 1:30 to 3pm • FisherPoets Gearshack, 1174 Com- Imogen Gallery • Columbian Theater Photographer/Fisherman Photography by Corey Arnold mercial St., sells admission buttons and Story Circle with Jay Speakman fisherpoets’ chapbooks, CDs and art. Corey Arnold at IMOGEN Silent Auction bids close KALA Gallery • Clatsop County Heritage Museum IMOGEN GALLERY welcomes the return of professional artist/fisher- Photography by Tom Hilton. at 4 p.m. Strength of the Tides: Empowering man, Corey Arnold in his third exhibition Aleutian Dreams, in conjunc- Women in Fisheries tion with the 2018 Fisher Poets Gathering. The exhibition opens Feb- Pier 39 I2:45 to 2pm ruary 10th for the Astoria Second Saturday Artwalk with a reception • HANTHORN CANNERY MUSEUM Patriot Hall, Clatsop Community College • Studio 11 from 5 – 8 pm, followed by an artist/welcoming reception held Friday, self-guided tour of the oldest existing Poetry Workshop: Taking Rhyme Japanese Fish Print Making with February 23rd from 4 – 6 pm, to kick off the full weekend of events fish processing Beyond Couplets with Peter Munro Duncan Berry (sign up in advance at scheduled for FisherPoets Gathering. Throughout that weekend, plant on the Columbia. the FPG Gearshack) Arnold is also planning a collaborative projection show on an adjacent 2 to 4pm • Open Boat aboard F/V Cold Stream building to Imogen Gallery, located on 11th and Marine Drive. WineKraft with Dave Densmore. (hours TBD) 2 to 4pm Corey Arnold began fishing as a child, about the same time he first Open mic. Everyone welcome to WineKraft picked up a camera. What began as weekend adventures with the have a go. Open mic. Eveyone welcome to family quickly became a permanent part of life, culminating into a suc- 10am. to 11:15am have a go. • Barbey Maritime Center cessful dual career, one mutually supporting the other. This exhibition 2:15 to 3:30pm Tides: the Science and Spirit of the will include photographs from his most recent series Aleutian Dreams. Patriot Hall, Clatsop Community College Ocean 4pm Arnold began fishing commercially in 1995 as a deckhand aboard KALA Revision Workshop: Finish Carpentry for with Jonathan White various vessels and skiffs in Alaska. His career as a fine art photogra- View Photography by Fisher Poet Tom Words with Jon Broderick Pier 39Hanthorn Cannery Museum pher and fisherman has taken him far, both documenting and fishing Hilton one hour before FPG Program the world’s oceans. The photographs included to this exhibition are 2:15 to 3:45pm • Songwriters’s Support Group: The from more recent trips, working out of Dutch Harbor, Alaska, where he Studio 11 Diddliest Catch with John Palmes 3:15 to 4:30pm focused his time documenting the challenging work of the commercial Japanese Fish Print Makin Columbian Theater g with fishing industry. Despite his international success as a photographer, Duncan Berry FIVE SHORT FILMS with Steve Schoon- • Clatsop County Heritage Museum Arnold returns every summer to Bristol Bay, Alaska, where he captains Yum! Rieska. (sign up in advance at FPG Gearshack) Protecting the Bristol Bay Watershed maker, Charlie and Cheryl Ess, Mark Titus, Marie Rose and Ryan Peterson two skiffs, fishing for salmon. from Pebble Mine with Melanie Brown About this current series, Aleutian Dreams, Arnold states, “I and Elizabeth Herendeen 2:30 to 3:45pm 10 to 11:30pm returned to the Aleutian Islands this time to photograph instead of Columbian Theater WineKraft fish in order to capture the life that I couldn’t previously. There is a FIVE SHORT FILMS with Steve 11:30am. to 12:45pm Singers’ Gathering collision of nature and industry up there that I find captivating and in Schoonmaker, Charlie and Cheryl Ess, • Barbey Maritime Center this new work, I focused on elements of the place and the life at sea Mark Titus, Marie Rose Weaving Traditional Chafing Matswith 10:30 to 11:30pm that inspired me as a young greenhorn. As a new fisherman going and Ryan Peterson Greg Neitzel Liberty Theater up there what is most striking is the scale of nature and the oversized Umpteenth Annual On-Site tools needed to harvest and survive under such harsh conditions. I Fisherpoetry Contest love the Aleutians because it feels like you’re in on a strange behind the scenes secret, and that ‘normal’ people don’t ever experience such things.” Imogen Gallery is located at 240 11th Street in Astoria. Open TOM HILTON Mon – Sat 11to 5pm Sun 11 to 4pm, closed ea. Wednesday. Fisher Poet/Photographer 503.468.0620. imogengallery.com Fisherman, Fisher Poet and owner/operator of the Hanthorn Crab Co. and Pier 39 Seafood at the historic Pier 39 in Astoria, Tom Hilton grew up in Uniontown in the shadow of the Meglar Bridge. He’s fished Join salmon on the Columbia River, Bristol Bay, and Puget Sound. For Shanty many years he chased the reds out of Kenai, Cook Inlet, Alaska. He’s fished herring in San Francisco Bay, tagged sturgeon from Coos Bay Singer to the Columbia River. A life history that informs his love of imagery, Mary Garvey he takes photos of nature, land and sea that catch his eye, no filtering or editing. in a song circle View Tom Hilton’s Photography at KALA during Fisher Poets, in @ Pier 39 reception, 4pm Saturday, Feb. 24 and Astoria 2nd Saturday Art 11:30am Walk, Feb 10. 1017 Marine Dr.

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Fisher Poets at KALA We’re coming back 5:00 pm Downtown with our Astoria • Finnish Menu! Every month, • Annual Fisher year ‘round! Poets Dance Saturday Night 10pm till . . . OctoberFeb 10 Feb 17 • The Bohdi Trio 3pm dance your wool 8th March 16 • The Delgani String Quartet 7pm socks off! Visit Downtown Astoria April 26 • The Oregon Brass Quintet 7pm FisherFisher PoetsPoets on the 2nd Saturday of Astoria Fisher Poet every month for art, music, May 25 • The Solstice Wind Quintet 7pm GatheringGathering Photographer and general merriment! Presented by the 20182018 Tom Hilton Astoria Downtown Sat. Feb23 - 4pm Historic District Association FebruaryFebruary 23-2523-25

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