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Readings & Talk by: John Sibley Williams & A. Molotkov Co-founders & editors of Inflectionist Review Opener with local poets: Nancy Cook Jim Dott Anne Splane Phillips Florence Sage, MC Friday, Nov 8 Doors at 7 p.m. Opener 7:30 p.m. Inflectionism 8:45 p.m. $8 @ KALA everything everything everything Inflectionism is an artistic movement that was started in 2010 by three Portland poets a love triangle, a buddy comedy, a road movie who sought a more organic approach that respected both poet and reader, both words and Sunday, November 3 @ KALA interpretation. As a creative philosophy, Inflectionism seeks ulti-media performance, EVERYTHING mixed-racewriter, performer, mixed media artist, multi-disciplinary story telling, teaching theatrical to build upon what has come EVERYTHING EVERYTHING comes to the KALA M and lighting designer. Her work has been shown at technique to students, using memory as the jumping before and gently bend it to stage this November. After a successful workshop Odyssey Idea Gallery, On the Boards, Northwest Film off point, to create creative non-fiction. reflect what has and has not performance during the Heineken City Arts Fest Forum, Century Ballroom, Seattle Repertory’s Leo K KALA welcomes audience to experience innova- changed about the world and 2012 (under the working title Storytelling in the Fur- Theater, and Bumbershoot Music Festival. As a Light- tive theater from our north I5 urban neighbors. Come our methods of expressing it. The Inflectionist Review is a niture Store) its creators are taking their show on the ing Designer and Technical Director, she has worked enjoy an herbal cocktail by Love Warrior Medicine and road. The project combines spoken word, music, and for Salt Horse, the Cherdonna and Lou Show, the Pat small press publishing stark and a one-hour story-telling trip, with music and pictures! distinctive contemporary poetry visual art in the form of a vintage Kodak slideshow to Graney Company, and LINGO dancetheater. that fosters dialog between create an immersive audience experience like none Andrews is a writer and performer. His storytell- Sunday, November 3. Doors Open 7pm. the reader and writer, between other. ing work has appeared in the City Arts Festival, the words and their meanings, Performance at 7:30. It’s the story of two roommates, Wesley K. An- Solo Performance Festival, 12 Minutes Max at On the between ambiguity and concept. drews and ilvs strauss (pronounced “Elvis”), whose Boards, and the “Radio Heads” Festival in Edison, NJ. Tickets are $12 in advance, available at Each issue gathers established shared passion for the same seductress threatens to He is the Producer of Verbalists, a storytelling com- Imogen and RiverSea Gallery, and emerging voices together toward the shared aim of unique ruin their friendship and both their lives. And that’s all pany in Seattle, and recorded his first album-length $15 at the door. expression that resonates be- we’re saying! spoken word show at Empty Sea Studio in 2012. yond the author’s world, beyond Seattle-based artists Andrews and Strauss share a Strauss and Andrews, in addition to writing and Listen to ilvs and Andrew on KMUN Radio’s the page, and speaks to the diverse background in performance. Strauss is queer, performing also offer workshops in collaborative Friday Magazine, November 1. universality of human language and experience.

3 oct13 hipfishmonthly.com KALA@HIPFiSHmonthlypresents Borrowed Images LAYER CAKE: Leigh Oviatt • Photgraphy LIKE LIKE: Jeremy Okai Davis • Paintings 2nd Saturday Art Walk • Oct 12, 5 – 9pm KALA is located at 1017 Marine Drive in Astoria • 503.338.4878.

This month KALA@hipfishmonthly adds music publication, American Songwriter, to pixels to indicate that population’s two new artists to the layout, aptly titling of late penning Americana duo The Civil lack of public recognition, while the show Borrowed Images, in a continuum Wars. Art writer A.L. Adams (art colum- light-skinned subjects were given from September’s collage show. nist for the Mercury and former editor for Elizabethan neck- Portland Monthly Magazine) recently writes Kurtiss Lofstrom’s thrift store painting/ ruffs for a sinister Leigh Oviatt: photo image on canvas 16 x 20 on Davis’ show: torn paper mastery, in addition to his hint at a system of shade-stratified reconstructed croquet sculpture remain; Jeremy Okai Davis’ Like Like is titled The images in “Like” along with Sid Delcuca’s absurdist/humorist after the banal post-modern act of thumbs- status. Davis’s 2013 tend to taper into vintage magazine pieces. upping a digital image on a social media paintings again drips toward their site—and maybe that’s all there is to it? If borrow imagery base, both as an hom- LAYERCAKE: The photography of Leigh age to Warhol’s works, that’s what you see, the artist won’t argue. from 70’s and 80’s Oviatt searches for faces peeking out of the and as a concession “My choosing of what to paint does come retro and celebrity, to the medium of confusion of the peeling layers of post- from my liking of these images,” Davis now with primarily paint—as Keith Haring ers on utility poles. Creating a collage of advocated, “letting... explains of the photos he’s painted from white subjects, board weathered papers and poster images, with materials have a kind friends’ Facebooks and Instagrams. of power for them- an “up-close”enough to make you want to game poses, and uneasy self-help-book selves.” Daub pointil- touch – her two year project traversing the Davis’s frankly hipsterish subjects mug lism is also a favorite streets of Portland culminates in a series a range of expressions and gestures with titles. Not what they for Davis, forcing the photographic works printed on canvas. obvious awareness of the camera, but they seem, these pieces viewer’s eye to make shrug off prior generations’ “smile and say have been Davis’s way the final assembly of A new comer to the Astoria artist scene, only-nearly-smooth cheese” poses. This generation of image- of processing a surreal forms. Oviatt remarks she has a penchant for crafters clearly prefers to be caught in an personal experience, street photography, “shooting from the act, rather than frozen from some flattering when his stay in a hotel hip,” especially in travel to other places. angle. This evolution fascinates Davis, both coincided with another She is currently ensconced in the HOLGA Jeremey Okai Davis, 2013, acrylic on canvas because people in motion are so graphical- guest’s murder. camera and practicing the art of film de- ly dynamic, and because the habit of acting velopment at LightBox Gallery in Astoria. rather than posing has become a hallmark Davis’s body of work viewed as a whole Layercake came about from a class project of our visual times and virtual selves. invites an important question: where does through Portland’s New Space Center, he see himself—among White hipsters, or Davis’s 2009 Shits ‘n’ Giggles show and in which the subject of photographing Black history? “I don’t,” he admits. Where 2010 works had a similar tone to Like Like, was to incorporate language/letters as many portraitists use their paintings of featuring mostly young, boldly-dressed- imagery. Oviatt became drawn to the daily and-accessorized-subjects captured in mo- others as a secret vehicle for self-revelation, urban imagery of posters on utility poles, ments of expressive action. In 2011, Davis Davis instead attempts to stay out of the discovering it was faces that she was more changed his subject matter to bygone way. Once, when specifically asked to paint attracted to. child sitcom stars. 2012 brought his most a self-portrait, he submitted only his torso Jeremy Okai Davis, 2012 In Studio on LIKE LIKE, Jeremey Okai Davis. LIKE LIKE: Portland-based artist Jeremy conceptual work to date: recreating 1970’s in a polo shirt, wearing a button reading Davis brings his most recent show to KALA. African-American pomade ads, but super- “URYIMHERE [you are why I’m here].” Yet Davis works as a portrait commission artist imposing visual edits with heavy philosoph- even through his near-militant selflessness, as well an illustration artist for national ical intention: some subjects were reduced Davis’s work has a distinctive style.

Daric Moore New songs • Fri. Oct 18 While he still plays solo acoustic guitar and responding to Moore’s music and performance. sings, you’ll recognize the upbeat tempo and As much as they love his songs, so too he’s a bit Astorian singer / songwriter Daric Moore easily imagine drums keeping beat. Moore is of a monster guitarist, not putting any energy on continues his re-emergence into music after a looking to form a band to perform his songs with reserve. This ain’t no laid-back folk singer. Equal long hiatus to pursue carpentry and art. Having and record the album, but this concert will fea- delivery on vocals, emo doesn’t fit this bill. And played concerts locally this summer in Astoria ture his solo performance. (Surprise guest from one thing that truly stands out, Moore almost and Manzanita he took time again to write more KALA house band accompanies). Moore’s music sounds like he’s singing his own hits, songs that songs and polish his other recent material. A long is folk rock with an upbeat tempo and emotional people could already know, and only one thing time musician Moore has recorded and written undertone. Songs you can relate to and tunes to stands to reason, because their good songs, and his own music before but...”with a barrage of keep in your head. they’re sung with gusto. ideas flowing I’m nearly ready to record my first Moore’s rock tunes might be reminiscent of - D. Urell really professional album. The songs are gelling, Oasis, lots of melodic pop dips and dives, and the theme emerging and the time is ripe. I just then Oasis is known to be purveyors of OPM, Fri. Oct 18, doors open 8pm. Music to follow need a few more puzzle pieces in place and I’ll (other people’s music), so . . . ? Stalwart on 8:30ish. Cocktails and munchables. $5 cover. be ready.” stage as a live performer, audience members are 1017 Marine Drive in Astoria.

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CCC Ales & Ideas • Oct. 24 h f • news bites Library Meme: Transmitting the Power HIPFiSHmonthly of Libraries through Story Roller Horror Picture Show Shanghaied Roller Dolls vs. Willamette Kidney Thieves Clatsop Community College Oct 18 Sept 13 and the Fort George Brewery present the second Ales & Ideas education series, Thursday, Octo- ber 24 at 7pm in the Fort George CULTURAL CALENDAR Lovell Showroom, 14th & Duane & the month day by day 16-22 in Astoria. It’s a story about libraries and “us.” Libraries reflect a socially dynamic community and News & FEATURES . . . 5 - 15 provide a conduit to our past, present, and future. They are a • Last RAIN . . . LOVE 7 unique institution in our commu- • NEW COLUMN ACTIONS ON THE LAND 9 nities and holistically democratic. How is it, then, that our society • CO-OP NON-GMO MONTH . . . 10 has formed a meme - a viral thought pattern - that profession- • NO LNG EVENTS . . . 11 al librarians are a disappearing • Astoria Film Fest Schedule . . .12 breed? That their positions are The Dolls of women’s flat track roller derby are preparing expendable in K-12 schools? That for their next bout, and they’re ready to terrify the competi- • FEATURE . . . 14 - 15 CB Academy!!! they are irrelevant in a time of swiftly changing technology? tion. It’s all happening at the Clatsop County Fairgrounds And how do librarians form a new meme, one that acknowledges as the Shanghaied Roller Dolls host the Willamette Kidney that libraries and librarians are essential to the heart of a modern, Thieves in a special Halloween showdown derby event on global community? How do they weave a tale that reveals the golden Friday, October 18, at 8pm. thread in the community fabric that is the library? Doors open at 7pm. Spectators are encouraged to wear COLUMNS Join Candice Watkins for an engaging evening of inquiry. Watkins is costumes and ticket holders dressed in costume will receive a the Library Director at Clatsop Community College, the Vice President/ Steve Berk . . . 6 commemorative Shanghaied Roller Dolls button at the door! President-Elect of the Oregon Library Association, and the Chair of ON RAIN . . . Love 7 Tickets are available online at www.brownpapertickets.com the Information Literacy Advisory Group of Oregon (ILAGO). Much of and at the door on bout day. Limited seating is available. WORD/Literary EVents . . . 20 her focus revolves around advocating for libraries. She will discuss how FLASHCUTS ...... Kanekuni 22 “story” plays an important role in communicating the value of support ABOUT THE SHANGHAIED ROLLER DOLLS Bike Madame . . . Hammitt-McDonald . . 23 organizations, like libraries. She’ll use her current collaboration with Shanghaied Roller Dolls is a flat-track Roller Derby League FREE WILL ASTROLOGY . . . Brezny 23 KMUN radio to illustrate how different community partners and media that spans Clatsop, Tillamook, and Columbia Counties. It is Network Community Listings . . . 24 can be harnessed to effectively tell a story and to proclaim: Libraries dedicated to empowering all women to be braver, kinder, are alive, Libraries are essential, and Libraries are YOU! (see WORD pg smarter, healthier, stronger, more accepting, and embracing Bodies in Balance. . . . . Erfling ND 25 22 for more info on the CCC Library /KMUN stories project). their inner “Bad Ass” while having fun. We are daughters, Sonja Grace MESSAGES . . . 26 wives, mothers, sisters, and friends. Big, small, and bad ass, Word & Wisdom . . . Nason 26 CCC Library Hosts Book Sale and we are Derby Girls. CHEW ON THIS . . . Myers 27 For more information about the Shanghaied Roller Dolls FOODGROOVE . . . . COOP COOKING CLASS 30 Unveils Learning Commons and the upcoming Roller Horror Picture Show derby event on Oct 10 - 11 October 18, please check us out on Facebook, or visit www. The Clatsop Community Col- Shanghaiedrollerdolls.com KALA is the groundfloor gallery and performance space lo- lege Dora Badollet Library and cated at the production office of HIPFiSHmonthly. We proudly Friends of the CCC Library will collaborate with local and regional artists in a presentational conduct their second book sale A Snapshot of the Regional County format. KALA is the Finnish word for fish. beginning Thursday, October 10, CMH Sets Economic Forum • Oct 17 HIPFiSHmonthly is located at 1017 Marine Dr in Astoria. 9am – 6pm. The sale will con- Columbia Memorial CMH.” The Forum will begin 503.338.4878 tinue Friday, October 11, 9am Hospital Foundation will at 5:00pm with a social hour – 5pm. The CCC Dora Badollet present an Economic Forum and the program will start at Send general email correspondance: [email protected] Library is located at 1680 Lexing- featuring a panel discus- 6:00 p.m. on Thursday, Oc- HIPFiSH is produced on the web at: www.hipfishmonthly.com ton Avenue, Astoria. A large sion titled “A Snapshot of tober 17, 2013 at the CMH Hipfish is printed at the Daily Astorian number of items that no longer the Regional Economy” on Community Center Coho support the college curriculum brary Passport program, including October 17, 2013. The panel Room at 2021 Marine Drive, will be offered at very affordable the Astoria Public Library. will consist of Scott Somers, Astoria. Clatsop County Manager; Editor/Publisher: prices. Cash and checks only The College also proudly The Forum is sponsored Kevin Leahy, Executive NOVEMBER please, and bring your own box unveils the new Learning Com- by the CMH Foundation’s Director, Clatsop Economic Dinah Urell HIPFiSH or bag if possible. All proceeds mons located on the second Business Relations Commit- Development Resources; benefit the Friends of the Library floor of the Dora Badollet Library. tee. The Committee invites Graphics: ON THE RACKS Paul Benoit, Astoria City Fund that is used to expand This innovative space contains a businesses to join its Health- FRIDAY NOV 1 Manager and Brett Estes, Les Kanekuni Works business giving club. the collection. Donations to the variety of technology-supported Astoria Community Devel- Michelle Roth Members receive exclusive Cover Art: Sid Deluca Friends of the CCC Library Fund learning spaces and will be used opment Director. They will Kate Giese Cover Design: Les Kanekuni are also welcome at any time. to facilitate collaborative learning discuss issues and take ques- benefits and sponsorship rec- The CCC Dora Badollet Library experiences. The public is invited tions regarding the regional ognition at CMH Foundation Calendar/Production is an essential resource for to tour the Learning Commons economy. Moderators will be events. Assistance/StaffWriter: Cathy students and the entire commu- on Thursday, October 10, 4pm – Jeff Parker, CMH Foundation Reservations can be made Nist nity. All members of the commu- 6pm. Light refreshments will be Business Relations Commit- by calling the CMH Founda- nity can access library materials provided and Library staff will be tee Chair, and Janet Niemi, tion office at 503-325-3208 Magic Web Worker: through either purchase of a on-hand to answer questions. CMH Foundation Executive or emailing foundation@ Bob Goldberg low-cost community membership Please direct inquiries to: CCC Director. Ken Boucher, CMH columbiamemorial.org. KALA VISUAL ARTS CURATOR: or presentation of a library card Library at 503-338-2462 or Can- Chief Operating Officer, Reservations are required. from any Oregon library that is dice Watkins, cwatkins@clatsopcc. will open the program with Admission is free but seating Agnes Field participating in the Oregon Li- edu. “The Economic Impact of is limited.

5 oct13 hipfishmonthly.com L E T T E R S by Stephen Berk Gaming the System for Fun and Profit Dear Stephen Berk I read your editorial “America’s Other”. I agree with you; however, there is The US power structure has now cre- disadvantaged Americans getting a leg sent only a minority of Americans. Since one thing that you need to fix. George Zimmerman is not a white man. He is ated a corporate feudal state. We have up in a Job Corps program. laissez faire capitalism returned in the Latino. a Supreme Court whose reactionary It’s getting harder for the inner city eighties, we have become a society of We cannot, I repeat cannot see everyone as either white or black. Latino majority leads the way by knocking out and rural poor even to vote in Repub- vast inequalities. If all people of voting people, Asian people, and Native American people are not white. I am the underpinnings of representative de- lican controlled states. These “red” age had ready access to the polls and white, of European ancestry, three generations from Ireland, the rest of my mocracy. In 2010, by disallowing limits states, many in the South, now ensure were not subject to round the clock cor- ethnicity comes from Scotland and England. Latino Americanos, Latinos, on campaign spending, five unelected minority Republican power by passing porate media distortions of public issues for short are not white. I know this first hand as my son’s father is Peruvian. oligarchs saw to it voter suppression paid for by wealthy special interests, we My son has earwax that is not found in European ears. It is found in Native that the wealthi- laws, cutting voting would have governments at the federal American ears. He has Inca ancestry. He is Latino. est and most elite hours, early voting, and state levels that represent the inter- entities, national and poll locations ests of the American people as a whole George Zimmerman is Latino not white. and foreign, could as well as requiring rather than those of economic elites. gain control of our expensive, difficult As the current Congress completes - Kathleen Adams, Columbia Pacific Region elections. This year, to obtain special its term, we hear Republican and media the same judicial I.D. cards in order to talk of “entitlement reform,” meaning Berk Replies autocrats saw fit vote. North Carolina cuts. For Republicans and their allies I had never seen anywhere that Zimmerman was Latino. Zimmerman is a to gut the federal passed the most “entitlement” only refers to govern- German name. I know that some Latinos are of German ancestry. But if we protections the 1965 restrictive version of ment aid to the increasing numbers of are referring to race, not nationality, and if Zimmerman indeed has German Voting Rights Act voter suppression disadvantaged populations. It never ancestry, as his name suggests, then he is at least white or partially white on guaranteed histori- laws shortly after refers to entitlements lavished on cor- his father’s side. Also, race is a very slippery term today that does not have cally disfranchised the Supreme Court porate and financial institutions. Oil and the “clear” delineations it did in the days of pseudo-scientific eugenics, in citizens, namely Afri- abolished federal agribusiness remain entitled to huge the early 20th century. Latino, in my book, is not a race. It is a form of eth- can Americans in the guarantee of voter subsidies. Megabanks, corporations and nicity, and a multi-ethnicity at that. Many, I think perhaps even most Latinos, South. The justices protection. This gives billionaires are entitled to offshore their have a mixture of white in them. There are few indigenous Latinos, due to claimed that the the lie to the Court’s incomes to escape taxation. And trans- the fact that most were killed by European diseases and arms. Still there are act was no longer assumption that such national corporations retain an absolute proud indigenous people’s throughout Latin America. I would concede that necessary and was protections for Afri- right to outsource their labor to the indigenous Latin Americans (First Nations), are not white. But Latino is not a species of “racial can Americans and lowest wage countries, thus eliminating a race. That is because of its very mixed blood nature. It is a group of eth- a once prosperous, unionized American entitlement.” For the other disadvantaged nicities that include Spanish and other European and even some Sephardic manufacturing class. Those are the real minority of wealthy whites they spoke minorities are no longer necessary. Jews and Arabs, as well as Asians. entitlements that ought to be reformed, for, this is a politically loaded phrase. Today’s Republican Party differs Latinos are, like their counterparts in the US, descendants of people of a not Social Security, Medicare and food For the far right today, especially the from its historic predecessor in wholly very diverse group of nations, many being European and Caucasian. Middle stamps. But congressional Republicans Tea Party wing of the Republican Party, rejecting the notion that government Eastern peoples are also generally thought of as Caucasian. If you read the now threaten to obstruct budgetary the term “entitlement” means allot- has any obligation to protect the most famous book by Rigoberta Menchu, the indigenous Guatemalan freedom legislation, in effect shutting down the ments to people who don’t quite “de- vulnerable members of American fighter, “I. Rigoberta Menchu,” she writes of her enemies, the brutal, society. Hence they ignore the Consti- federal government, should they not get serve” such benefits. This might mean genocidal oppressors of the indigenous people in Guatemala as “Ladinos.” tution’s mission stated in its preamble their version of entitlement reform. And the average senior depending on Social [her spelling]. So even though I might concede to the email writer on my “to promote the general welfare.” An while they enjoy the best health care Security, those living on disability or col- last article that Latino may imply partly non-white, Zimmerman, as his name ideologically pure and thoroughly elitist program in the US, they are determined lecting unemployment insurance. Or it implies, was no indigenous Latin American. Hence he is at least part white. Republican Party now openly supports to block the duly passed Affordable might mean the working poor supple- And he certainly identifies with the white American conservative establish- a government that bestows lavish favors Care Act. “Obamacare”, while far menting their meager incomes with food ment, as Clarence Thomas does. What my statement here boils down to is on the richest among us, while cast- inferior to most countries’ nationalized stamps. Or it might mean a poor mother that “Latino” is not a race. It is a group of related ethnicities, which contains ing aside the ever growing ranks of the medicine, will provide health services to getting federally funded nutrition for indigenous but also European (white) elements. Not quite so simple. her baby under the Women, Infants and needy. some thirty million Americans formerly Children allotment. Or it might mean As champions of the most privileged, excluded because of prohibitive costs. the inner city poor getting early school- today’s Republicans, along with a But in Orwellian America, the rich and LETTERS: want to respond to articles and issues presented in HIPFiSH? ing with supplemental nutrition for their growing number of allied conservative well connected must remain more Email (300 words max) to [email protected], Subject: LETTERS. let us children in Head Start. Or it might mean Democrats funded by Wall Street, repre- “equal” than others. know if you would like it published in a following issue.

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A few days later, as rain fell lightly on the cabin, I found a poem I wrote in one of my old college journals: Walking to Class in the Rain—Random O Thoughts (U of O 1984) How ever I die, I don’t want it to be in the rain. N The rain covers, soaks and rusts away a friendly disposition. SeptemberRAIN 24 / Nature seems to be saying—I am depressed, therefore, so will you. Last Rains of Consciousness I trudge on, bored, irritated, dis- he rainy season has rotated our way and the lakes will tracted. Tsoon begin colliding overhead, perhaps as you read this. Rain is a very cynical experience, Are you ready? Rapturous at the thought? As Jack Kerouac especially before class. wrote, “The taste of rain—why kneel?” As I return to my naïve and imma- Some last thoughts on rain, in this final rain column for ture days when the Duck football team Hipfish: routinely and happily finished 4-7, I really Invariably, when a new book comes out, a few days, have no idea who I was then. I wanted to weeks or months later I discover (or remember) a fan- become a writer but had no language to tastic story about the subject of the book that obviously express this desire except English. That is won’t be included. It happened again last month when I never enough. purchased a 35-year old pamphlet for $3 at a Lincoln City Some 15 years later, I found the neces- bookstore. sary language after relocating to the Oregon Coast. Rain was an instrumental The pamphlet is titled Orygone III, or everything you always part of acquiring this language. wanted to know about Oregon, but were afraid to find out. I have never fancied myself a poet but The first sentence goes, “…it was Sunday and it was raining I read poetry all the time. The other day, and it was in Oregon.” I read that sentence and felt dumbstruck: I had forgot to When I was writing my book on rain last spring, I never had the courage to listen after mowing the irrelevant lawn in mad- include in my book about rain perhaps the greatest Oregon to Kenny G’s song about rain. But I knew where it was, the Pick of the Litter thrift dening sunshine, I retrieved an anthology Coast rain story ever captured in literature, one I had read a store in Newport, in the wall of cassette tapes, each one a quarter. I nearly purchased of poetry and sat on the deck to relax. I dozen times over, one written by a Nobel Prize-winning au- it months ago but couldn’t bring myself to hear rain murdered. opened the table of contents and knew thor whose working editorial mantra was: “An American writer The other week, that tape mysteriously called out to me and I ventured to the a rain poem would randomly be pouring has to know his land and the people if he is going to write thrift store to claim it as easily as someone might explore a deep, terrible place in there. It was, “The Rain,” written in 1959 about America.” (By the way, my working editorial mantra one’s soul with a mediocre psychoanalyst. Naturally, it was raining. by Robert Creely. I’d never read it. is: “An Oregon writer has to know rain if he is going to write It was gone. No tape! I felt stunned, cheated, deprived of soft impotent jazz inter- The last two stanzas: about Oregon.”) preting hard erect precipitation. Nevertheless, I knew what I would find next. Rain is Love, if you love me, like that. I reached out and randomly grabbed a cassette and knew it would contain That sentence was written by John Steinbeck in 1960 and lie next to me. a rain song I’ve never heard before. It would either be a liquid nugget or sheer mud. appeared in Travels with Charley, the greatest dog book of all Be for me, like rain, Rain delivered. I beheld Sonny and Cher’s All I Ever Need is You, a 1972 release time. My favorite scene in Travels with Charley is Steinbeck’s the getting out anguished description of blowing out a tire during a deluge from the oddest collaborative enterprise in the history of pop music. The cover pho- on the Oregon Coast and how an elderly and laconic garage tograph appeared almost Gram Parsons flower power in nature. Was this a psyche- Of the tiredness, the fatuousness, the owner improbably rescues him with new tires for his custom- delic country album? The year was right. Did Sonny and Cher drop acid? semi- made camper. Steinbeck never mentions the name of the I read the back of the cassette. There it was, of course, second song: “Here Comes lust of intentional indifference. town, “After forty years in the painful wet desert with no cloud that Rainy Day Feeling.” I bought the tape and ran out to the truck. I smashed the Be wet by day nor pillar of fire by night to guide us, we came to a tape into the cassette player and prayed to the gods it worked after 41 years in the with a decent happiness. moldy wilderness. damp little shut-up town whose name escapes me because I I ripped the poem out of the anthology A song came on. Cher belted it out as only Cher can. I mean she was murdering, never learned it.” (I believe it was Tillamook.) and flung it across the deck. Damn you It’s a wonderfully rendered story of a black rain veteran aid- giving it a bath as the old Vaudeville performers used to say. Creely. In two stanzas you conveyed what ing a green rookie bewildered by a deluge and Steinbeck was Rain, let it rain I tried to convey in 40,000 windy words grateful: “I hope that evil-looking service-station man may live Let it wash theses muddy waters with my rain book. You undercut and a thousand years and people the earth with his offspring.” Rain, let it rain amplified me; you humbled and reduced Who knows, this story might even be true, although you Pour, let it pour me, too. You mastered the semiotics of never know in Travels with Charley because apparently much And while these muddy waters raise rain and let rain wash away the “intention- of the book was fabricated, pure fiction. Did Steinbeck lie I’ll be staring into your eyes about Oregon rain? Does it matter? al indifference” or what I call the insidious Out of the rain malaise known as whatever. What? I didn’t get it. They did take acid! Then Sonny started singing something Poets are the unacknowledged meteo- Matt Love lives near Newport and is the author/editor about crystal clear. Who cared? Give me more Cher on rain or give me death by rologists of the world. of ten books about Oregon. His new book, Of Walking in And now let me end my reign of rain Rain, is available through nestuccaspitpress.com and coastal dehydration! bookstores. He can be reached at [email protected]. But wait. It occurred to me that this wasn’t “Here Comes that Rainy Day Feeling.” by quoting Henry Miller from Tropic of You can also visit http://nestuccaspitpress.com/blog/ to read I ejected the cassette, scanned the songs and saw one titled, “Crystal Clear/Mud- Rain, “These are night thoughts produced his blog on rain. dy Waters.” Sonny and Cher had two rain songs on one album. Sometimes I miss the by walking in the rain after two thousand 1970s, variety shows and sane Republicans. . years of Christianity.”

7 oct13 hipfishmonthly.com j Games and Puzzles for kids of all ages! SAVE THE DATE! j North Coast Unites • Freedom To Marry Open House Petition Signing • Nov 3 The public is invited to a local Open House to 503.368.4873 support the efforts of Oregon United for Mar- j 457 Laneda Ave riage. Over the weekend of November 3, 2013, Manzanita, Or house parties all over Oregon will be occurring to support the freedom to marry for all loving and committed Oregon couples. With 13 states allowing same-sex marriage, The Coaster Theatre Playhouse Presents it’s time to bring the issue of marriage back to Oregon voters. Oregon United for Marriage is working to qualify the issue for the November 2014 ballot and do the work necessary to win. This campaign will achieve an historic victory for Gramercy marriage freedom. Come and Sign the Petition. No RSVP needed, bring a friend. Refreshments will be pro- Ghost vided. This is also an opportunity to contribute By John Cecil Holm to the Oregon United For Marriage Campaign.

September 13 - October 12, 2013 NORTH COAST UNITES: OPEN HOUSE Place: 1711 Grand Avenue, Astoria Oregon, the Tickets $20 or $15 historic Sanborn house Date: Sunday, November 3rd 3:00 pm until Performances begin at 7:30 p.m. 7:00 pm Hosts: Bill Bender and Jack Osterberg All Sunday shows begin at 3:00 p.m. rd Talkback — Thursday, Oct 3 Senator Betsy Johnson Receives Hatfield Award Sponsored by Keith C. Schnip The League of Oregon Cities’ (LOC) This year, the Hatfield award was For more information about the GED prestigious Mark O. Hatfield Statesman- presented for just the sixth time since its test process and testing schedule visit Tickets: 503-436-1242 or coastertheatre.com ship Award was presented to Senator creation in 1996. Previous winners include: www.clatsopcc.edu. 108 N Hemlock Street, Cannon Beach, OR Betsy Johnson (D-Scappoose) during the Congressman Greg Walden (2011); Ray Please direct inquiries to: George League’s 88th Annual Conference, held Naff, Intergovernmental Relations Direc- Heiner, 503-338-2347; gheiner@clatsopcc. September 26-28 at the Red Lion on the tor for former Governor Ted Kulongoski edu. River. (2010); former Oregon Senator Brady Over her dedicated career in public Adams (2007); former Oregon Senator Cliff service, Senator Johnson has cast many Trow (2001), former Oregon Governor Neil courageous votes that have prioritized the Goldschmidt (1997) and former Oregon Astoria LGBT Meetings delivery of vital public services. She has and U.S. Senator Mark Hatfield (1996). PFLAG NORTHCOAST meets the been a long-time champion and advocate 3rd Thursday of the month. Thursday, for the Oregon Solutions program, leading NEW GED TESTS - CCC Aug 15, 6:30pm to 8pm at the First the effort to secure the initial funding from Clatsop Community College continues Lutheran Church, 725 33rd St., Asto- the governor’s office to address repeated to urge those interested in earning a GED ria, OR. FMI: [email protected] flooding in Tillamook County. In 2007, credential to complete the testing process TRANS FAMILIES SUPPORT when the city of Vernonia suffered major before the end of 2013. An entirely new GROUP meets the last Monday flooding, Senator Johnson was responsible test and process will be implemented in of each month. For TBA location for raising millions of dollars to replace January 2014 and any passing scores from contact [email protected]. For destroyed school buildings, senior center the prior version of the GED test will then transgender individuals and family and other facilities. She also worked with become null and void. Students will need members only. the city of Astoria and the Northwest Area to start the test process over. Commission on Transportation to secure The current GED testing process con- Lincoln City LGBT a $3.8 million grant to rebuild the failing sists of a battery of five tests covering lan- MonthlyGatherings 17th Street Pier, next to the Columbia guage arts writing, reading, social studies, Wednesday, Oct. 9. 6 pm - PFLAG Maritime Museum and home to the Coast science and math. Successful completion at St. Stephen’s in Newport--Coming Guard ships. serves as the equivalent of a high school Out Stories. NOTICE NEW TIME-- Senator Johnson’s current service diploma. Orientations for GED preparation We’re starting at 6 pm!!! on boards and commission in Oregon classes for the current GED test are sched- Saturday, Oct. 12 . 9-1 pm - includes: the Board of Visitors for the uled for September 23 and November 1. PFLAG at Saturday Market---Come Northwestern School of Law at Lewis & Pre-registration for preparation classes say hello at our last Market for the Clark College; the Columbia River Mari- is required by calling 503-338-2347 or season! time Museum; the Institute for Metropoli- stopping by Columbia Hall Room 114, Saturday, Oct. 26 . 6pm - Party tan Studies at Portland State University; 1651 Lexington Avenue, Astoria. GED & Freedom to Marry Fundraiser at and as president of the Samuel S. Johnson preparation classes are conducted in Asto- Ineka’s Foundation, founded in 1949, which has ria, Clatskanie and Seaside. Those already Sunday, Oct. 27. 11am - Womens’ been a benefactor to many organizations prepared and ready to test, can schedule Out on the Oregon Coast Coffee at in Oregon, including those impacting local testing at 503-338-2347. Cafe Mundo communities. oct13 hipfishmonthly.com 8 ACTIONS ON THE LAND by bob by Bob Goldberg Bleeding Gums goldberg In the hills near the UC Berke- fast-growing hardwood timber, had moved to Seattle only days ley campus, where I lived just medicinal extracts to cure almost before the fire burnt the house to You’re driving to the beach to take a long walk before moving to Seattle in 1989, anything, windbreaks for ground the ground. and forget it all, and you round a corner, and the and in the Mt. Sutro Preserve in crops, and a joy to look at. That fire burnt many houses in forest that was there yesterday is gone. Bulldozers San Francisco, there’s a bit of When the Aussies came over the hills of Berkeley and Oakland, are working the land, getting it ready for some- a war going on. No guns (yet), to prospect for gold, many came and killed 24 people. It changed thing… Or, you’re walking around in town during but plenty of words. And if you in ships made of eucalyptus people’s ideas about eucalyptus, your lunch break, and notice that there’s a city crew believe either side, there’s a wood, and brought stories of the with many blaming the gums working on the road, and you’re thinking that you battle out there between the na- great old-growth forests of their for the rapid spread of the fire won’t be able to get through that way for a while, tives and the invaders, and if the homeland. In Australia (or Oz, as and its scorching temperatures. but wonder what’s going on. Actions on the Land other side wins, devastation and the current residents call it), there A true invader – waiting for its intends to report on new development in the places destruction will ensue. chance and then spreading where we live, work and play. Think of it as a series The major players on ruin far and wide. of Land Use Action signs, letting you know for each the “invader” side include The East Bay hills are no Monterey pine, acacia, and featured project its name, a short description, when stranger to fire. The oak French broom, but the fo- it is planned to be completed, contact information and bushy grassland there cus of this war is the stately burned regularly before the if you have questions, and what it might look like blue gum or Eucalyptus when it’s done. gums arrived, and since. globulus. Originally from But our hero hadn’t had to Each month you’ll see a short list of projects that Australia, this variety of eu- contend with the nativist are on-going. If you see something happening in calyptus tree was brought and invasion biology crowd your neighborhood or neck of the woods, give us a over to California during of recent times. shout out at [email protected], and we’ll check it the Gold Rush of the 1850s, The battle lines were out and maybe include it in the list! and with many other sub- drawn. Groups sprouted up species of eucalyptus, has defending and vilifying eu- had a roller coaster history Buoy Ten Apartments hit, so Phase II was delayed. A total of 53 lots calyptus, and a now-classic in the Golden State since then. are now only remnants of the pattern emerged. Mainstream Next to Bridgeview Apartments on W. Ma- are possible in this subdivision, after Phase III In an essay entitled The great forests that were cut down, rine Drive (near Old Youngs Bay Bridge) is complete. environmental groups, govern- Eucalyptus of California, Robert much like ours here in the U.S., ments and many victims of the Two buildings containing 60 units will be Completion (Phase II): Winter 2015 L. Santos, a librarian at the Cali- when the English settlers first fire supported plans to eradicate built over the next year. The first building is fornia State University, starts off arrived. The hope was that young the eucalyptus and other non- under construction now, and will be 3 stories, Contact the piece: gums here would have the same natives, to the tune of some- Bob White While traveling along the properties as the old growth with a stone and brick façade and balconies. where around a million trees in Pacific Ridge Estates LLC roads and highways of California, (we’re talking hundreds of years In spring 2014, the second building (4 stories) the region. Residents who enjoy 503-717-3796 especially along its coast and old) back in Oz, but this wasn’t will be started, behind the first, with parking in the Mt. Sutro Preserve and the [email protected] inland valleys, one will see the the case. Nevertheless, eucalypts between. The developer has given the City of many forested parks in the East usual oak, pine, and scrub brush. grow incredibly fast, and love the Astoria an easement by the river for a future Bay joined together to try and Yet there is another member of foggy weather that is prevalent Riverwalk extension. Clatsop Care Memory Community save the trees, whatever kind the plant family whose presence on the California coast (and here, South of Ben’s Computer Store on Dolphin they are. The mainstream media Completion: Fall 2014 is dominating and charismatic. for that matter). Road, near the Skipanon River is mostly on the mainstream side, Its size is lofty; its silhouette After several boom and bust Contact This facility will be licensed to serve those which advocates for eradication captivating; its smell clean and cycles for our gummy hero (or Doug Circosta with Alzheimer’s and other dementias. The of invasives (i.e. non-natives that antiseptic like the scent unfurling villain), the idea of an industry Partin & Hill Architects single-story building design is basically four are inconvenient). from a medicine cabinet. Many based on eucalyptus in Cali- 503-640-1216 households surrounding a courtyard. Dolphin think it is a California native, but fornia petered out as the 20th Readers of this column have Partners and Clatsop Care Health District are [email protected] it is not. It is really an immigrant century came to a close. Some heard this time and time again, partnering to build (and own) and operate the from Australia that arrived as of the groves that were planted whether it’s Asian carp, spartina, Ensign Lane Extension facility, respectively. many immigrants have in this throughout the 1900s (and be- beavers, frogs, Scotch broom, or any of the species on the various From behind Costco to Business 101 (cur- Completion: Fall 2014 wonderful country, surreptitiously. fore) remained, and became part rently at Business 101) Santos goes on to quote many of the landscape and lore of the lists that doom those included to Ensign Lane now goes through from the Contact writers praising and scorning the land. People born recently would eradication. In this case, I have a Lums/Home Depot development to the west Clatsop Care Health District gums of California, and gives have no idea that the gum trees bias, since I spent several years in of Highway 101, across the highway and 503-325-0313 a pocket history of the species weren’t there from the begin- Oz, at what’s now the University through the Costco development on the east there from its origins to the end ning of time. To many, the gum of South Australia in Adelaide, side (North Coast Retail), through the business The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter- of the 20th century. What a fasci- had naturalized in California, and and had the chance to visit many park, on to Business 101. It will be the main Day Saints Parking Expansion nating tale it is! they couldn’t imagine the state eucalyptus forests, and see these beautiful trees all over the place, route from Business 101 to Costco and High- Mormon Church on corner of Spruce and The blue gums in the East Bay without it. dropping huge branches all the way 101 (instead of 19th St.), and is part of the Wahanna in south Seaside hills and in the Mt. Sutro Preserve And then the East Bay Hills fire time. And I have a piece of jarrah ongoing project to develop the business park The church is expanding their existing park- are remnants of vast planta- of 1991 happened. (a variety of eucalyptus) wood ing facilities to provide 70 additional spaces tions of these types of trees Like the earthquake two years in that area. from Perth that I picked up from on the north side of their property. The condi- that were spread throughout earlier, I was very aware of this a construction site while there for Completion: By November 1, 2013 tional use was approved in October 2012. The California, grown for profit and fire. In the case of the earth- for aesthetic reasons, with the quake, I had moved to Seattle the America’s Cup in 1985 that Contact forest in front of the church was leveled for heyday in the early 1900s. The only 3 weeks before it, and was is as dense as stone and serves Clatsop County Public Works Department the project, but there are supposed to be 22 University of California, which is watching the World Series (be- as a bookend and reminder of new trees planted there, a brick retaining wall 503-325-8631 now proposing to eliminate the tween the two Bay Area teams) my time in Oz as a grad student erected, and additional landscaping provided. eucalyptus trees and other non- before playing ultimate Frisbee (where my Masters project was Pacific Ridge Estates Completion: December 2013 natives on their land in the East on a perfect day. I couldn’t extracting useful materials out On the left of Ridge Road just before the Bay near the Berkeley campus, believe the pictures, and my of an invasive weed from South north entrance to Fort Stevens State Park (on Contact sponsored the planting of gum luck. I might have been on the Africa!!). Gums are home to the right), if you’re coming from Hammond City of Seaside Community Development seeds throughout the state in the roads that collapsed, and not koalas there, and monarch but- Phase II of this project began in August. Department early 1900s. In those heady days, here to tell this tale. And in the terflies here. I can’t conceive of Phase I was built in 2007, then the recession 503-738-7100 eucalyptus was thought to be case of the fire, my landlord and their eradication as a good thing. a panacea of benefits – strong, housemate in the Berkeley hills Can you?

9 oct13 hipfishmonthly.com OCTOBER Astoria Co-op features Non-GMO Month October has been deemed OSU, will kick off the program with a “Non-GMO Month” by the Non- presentation on Thursday, October BEERS TO YOUR HEALTH! GMO Project. At least 64 countries 10 at 7pm. He’ll talk about the sci- Astoria Co-op Lecture Series to Focus on GMO’s currently have GMO labeling laws. ence of GMOs and be available for OSU Professor to speak on genetically modified organisms questions. On Thursday, December Connecticut and Maine are the first The Astoria Co-op’s lecture series, “Beers to states to pass laws requiring that 12, the Co-op’s General Manager, Your Health”, will put genetically modified organ- foods containing genetically modi- Matt Stanley will talk about consumer isms in the spotlight, looking at multiple sides of fied organisms be labeled as such. concerns of genetically engineered the controversial issue in a series of two lectures. Studies show that as many as 9 out food. GMOs are plants or animals of which scientists of 10 consumers support labeling of “We are advocating for labeling, have altered the genes with DNA from different Genetically Engineered foods. because we feel that the general species of organisms, bacteria, or viruses to gain During October, the Astoria Co-op public, when polled, wants GMOs traits such as resistance to disease or tolerance of will give a nod to Non GMO month to be labeled. We’re not saying pesticides. GMOs are present in many conven- by springboarding consumer aware- they’re good or bad, we don’t know tional foods on US supermarket shelves, but some people question potential health risks, environ- because there has been no testing ness of GMOs and the Just Label mental harm, plus farmer and consumer rights. It Campaign (JLI). Just Label It is a done. Customers have the right to Japan suspended buying certain varieties of coalition of more than 650 partner choose to not be a test subject,” wheat from the US after experimental geneti- organizations who have joined to- Stanley said. cally modified wheat created by Monsanto Co. gether in support of legally requiring The easiest way to avoid GMOs mysteriously appeared on an Oregon farm last the mandatory labeling of GE foods. currently, Stanley says, is to purchase spring. The US Department of Agriculture has The Co-op Deals sales flyer will certified organic food and the farm- never approved any strains of GMO wheat to be include information about geneti- direct food the Co-op carries. grown in our country, and is investigating how this cally modified organisms (GMOs) The Co-op generally keeps its breach happened. A Monsanto representative and action consumers can take to nose out of politics, but when it speculated that anti-biotech activists stole some of the GMO wheat and planted it to create problems tion, he plans to explain what it means when a bring about mandatory labeling of comes to GMOs, there is an excep- for his company. plant is genetically engineered and then answer genetically engineered foods. There tion. Meantime reporters called on an expert from questions. He believes the science is safe when it will be in-store displays and market- “This issue is food-related, central Oregon State University for perspective on how comes to human consumption. ing materials including a non-GMO to our business, and we can’t say the GMO wheat ended up on the field. Professor “My attitude is that people who don’t want shopping guide. These elements are whether or not GMO’s are healthy, of Wheat Breeding and Genetics, Robert Zemetra, GMO’s for whatever reason, that’s fine, but you all part of a campaign that the Asto- and for that fact alone we should contradicted Monsanto’s theory. He thinks it was can’t justify something on no science or bad sci- ria Co-op participating in with other at least give people the choice,” an ordinary mistake. Zemetra says it was his “15 ence,” Zemetra said. food co-ops from around the country Stanley said. minutes of fame” when he was quoted in Forbes, You can hear Zemetra’s presentation on via the National Cooperative Grocers Stanley recently spoke to state the Wall Street Journal, on NPR, and other world GMO’s, Thursday October 10th at the Fort Association. The NCGA is working Senator Betsy Johnson, encouraging media outlets. George Lovell Showroom, located at 426 14th Zemetra will travel from Corvallis to Astoria Street in Astoria. Doors open at 6 p.m. with with some of our food manufacturers her to deny an initiative that is on the to speak on GMOs from a scientific standpoint. food and drinks available from the Taproom. to donate $75,000 to the Just Label agenda for the legislature’s special Much of his current research focuses on develop- The lecture starts at 7 p.m. and lasts for an it campaign. session, which would limit local ing new varieties of wheat for Oregon. He also hour. It is free and open to all ages. As a local element to the cam- municipalities’ ability to ban GMO has a special project to look at modern versus The Co-op will hold a second lecture on paign, the Astoria Co-op is spon- seeds. (Oregon in SB 863). traditional strains of wheat and its effect on gluten GMO’s December 12th, focusing on consumer soring a two-part lecture series on For more information on Non- intolerance and Celiac disease. In his presenta- concerns of genetically modified food. GMOs. The lectures will be offered GMO Month, go to: nongmoproject. as installments in a new monthly org. For a state-by-state breakdown CURRENT GMO LEGISLATION OR/WA lecture series, Beers to Your Health, on the status of GMO labeling leg- Oregon Special Session SB 863 • Passed. at the Fort George Lovell Show- islature, see organicconsumers.org. This bill gives exclusive regulatory power over seeds, and products of agricultural seed, to the Enjoy the serenity of our state of Oregon, preventing counties and cities from regulating local use of Genetically Engineered gardens, wooded paths, sauna, room. Robert Zemetra, a genetics To learn more about the Just Label It crops. Certified Organic and GE crops do not play well together. Pollen and seeds from GE crops can yurt and bhuddas . . . and wheat-breeding professor from Campaign, visit www.justlabelit.org contaminate organic crops in nearby fields, farmers are forced to destroy the contaminated crops in . . . in Nahcotta, Washington order to maintain their organic certification. Some counties in Oregon would like to ban GE crops in on Sandridge Road, order to maintain areas where organic farms are safe from contamination. Several counties and cities just south of Bay Avenue overlooking willapa bay in California, Hawaii, Washington, and Maine have already adopted policies to ban the growing of GE crops in their counties. Some counties in Oregon would like to do the same. SB 863 bars counties Celebrating the in Oregon (other than Jackson, where regulatory control of GE organisms is already in process) from 50th Anniversary of regulating GE agriculture. The bill includes an emergency clause that would allow the law to take immediate effect, precluding efforts in Benton and Lane counties to restrict genetically modified SILENT SPRING agriculture. But man is a part of nature, and his Basis of SB 863 war against nature is inevitably a war against himself. • -The regulation of seeds and crops should be done at the state and federal levels where the expertise and resources reside. Counties and municipalities do not have the scientific expertise or – Rachel Carson finances to regulate crops effectively. • -Different restrictions on seeds and crops in different counties and municipalities would signifi- cantly burden growers, distributors, manufacturers, and local governments. • -This bill is crucial to preventing a patchwork of different regulations on seeds and crops in each county and city.

Washington State Initiative 522 • November 2013 Election Label Genetically Engineered Foods The YES on 522 campaign is working to ensure that genetically engineered foods are labeled in the state of Washington. Yes on 522 draws support from farmers, fishing families, health professionals, moms and dads, business owners and consumer advocates who believe that Washington shoppers should have the right to know what is in our food. A “yes” vote on 522 would give Washington shoppers more information about what’s in their food and control over their shopping decisions. Under this initiative, genetically engineered foods to be labeled could include chips, cold cereals, soft drinks, candy, corn and soy. Our food is already labeled with abundant nutritional information including sugar, sodium, whether flavors are natural or artificial and if salmon is wild or farm-raised. Additionally, American companies are already required to label genetically engineered food in 64 other countries. www.mobydickhotel.com 360-665-4543 or 1-800-673-6145 oct13 hipfishmonthly.com 10 OCTOBER NO LNG EVENTS

Wednesday, October 9 Clatsop County Public Hearing and possible vote GASLAND II about the proposed Oregon LNG pipeline Sunday, October 20 2:30 Rally outside - - wear red, bring your NO LNG signs 3:30 Public hearing and possible vote Follow-up to Judge Guy Boyington Building, 857 Commercial, on the corner of Gasland 9th, Astoria the major film about Background: An LNG import terminal was first proposed for the Warrenton site in 2004. In 2011, the Board of Commissioners de- fracking. 2pm cided to reconsider the Oregon LNG Pipeline and made prelimi- Columbian Theater, nary findings to deny the project because it conflicts with county 1102 Commercial, Astoria. land use laws. Since March 2011, Oregon LNG has repeatedly, The public is invited to this free screening. Film and discussion and unsuccessfully challenged the authority of the Clatsop County presented by Columbia Riverkeeper, Columbia Paicifc Common Board of Commissioners to make a final Sense, and Food and Water Watch. Oregon LNG’s proposed decision on the Oregon LNG Pipeline. The export terminal is based on having fracked upcoming October 9th hearing by the County natural gas to export, and the fracking indus- Commissioners restarts this process, which try needs more export terminals so they can Astoria Real Estate could lead in an affirmation of the 2011 vote profit from fracking. Your Locally Owned Real Estate Office for all Your Real Estate needs! and a rejection of Oregon LNG Pipeline by Refreshments available for purchase the Clatsop County Board of Commissioners. Enjoy the theater’s new digital projector. Buying • Selling • Investing Wednesday, October 16 GASLAND PART II: In this explosive follow- www.astoriarealestate.net Comments due to Oregon Water Resources up to his Oscar®-nominated film GASLAND, Department, which is currently receiving com- filmmaker Josh Fox uses his trademark dark Peter and Janet Weidman ments about a request by Oregon LNG for humor to take a deeper, broader look at Owner-Brokers two separate water rights to use millions of gallons of water each the dangers of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, the controversial day for its LNG terminal. Mail to: method of extracting natural gas and oil, now occurring on a 336 Industry Street Oregon Water Resources Department global level (in 32 countries worldwide). Astoria, OR 97103 725 Summer Street NE, Ste. A Premiered at the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival, Gasland II shows how Salem, OR 97301 the stakes have been raised on all sides in one of the most impor- 503-325-3304 tant environmental issues facing our nation today. The film argues Thursday, October 17 that the gas industry’s portrayal of natural gas as a clean and Columbia Pacific Common Sense safe alternative to oil is a myth and that fracked wells inevitably NO LNG Meeting leak over time, contaminating water and air, hurting families, and 6pm: Social & snacks endangering the earth’s climate with the potent greenhouse gas, 6:30 - 8pm: Meeting methane. In addition the film looks at how the powerful oil and Three Cups Coffee House - 279 West Marine Drive, Astoria gas industries are in Fox’s words “contaminating our democracy”. News and Q&A with Dan Serres, Conservation Director of Colum- bia Riverkeeper. Wednesday, October 23 Complimentary coffee provided by Three Cups and Columbia IF NEEDED, second part of Clatsop County Public Hearing about River Coffee Roasters. If you’d like, bring a snack to share, meet- the proposed OLNG pipeline. 6pm - Judge Guy Boyington Build- ing takes place after open hours. ing, 857 Commercial, on the corner of 9th, Astoria. Say NO to coal on the Columbia! Into the Wind: Windmill Weekend Federal and state agencies are taking comments about the Workshop and Retreat proposed coal export terminal in Longview to determine what topics October 12th and 13th, 2013 need to be covered in their reviews and in the Environmental Impact The Ingenuity Innovation Center at 32180 Pittsburg Rd., St Helens, OR. Statement. At September’s public hearing in Longview, the hearing This two closest to us in Clatsop County, there were not many comments day workshop and retreat introduces what windmill from the public about the Lower Columbia. technology is, how to integrate it into your life, and will feature a They need to hear from us! It is vitally important that regulators hands-on windmill building and installation time. There is space hear about the impacts of coal, coal dust, coal trains, coal ships, available for tent camping, healthy meals provided, nature walks, and such on our air, water, health; on our fisheries, properties, local morning yoga, child care, and art workshops are included in this two economies, farms, etc. day event. Please take a moment to comment. Coal information and talking Learn about windmills and how they work • Learn how to lower points are at www.sierraclub.com, www.powerpastcoal.org, www. your energy costs • Discover how wind can do work and create columbiariverkeeper.org. Comments are due November 18. energy • Determine if windmill solutions are right for you • Build and install a windmill You can submit your comments several ways: In addition to learning about windmills, you will also have a • Via the official EIS website established by the three agencies chance to see and experience other sustainable solutions in action. for the EIS process: www.millenniumbulkeiswa.gov Ingenuity is community-based innovation center where all people • By email: [email protected] of all backgrounds and generations come together to create, build • By U.S. mail: Millennium Bulk Terminals-Longview EIS, c/o and share sustainable solutions. The retreat fee will include Whole- ICF International, 701 Second Avenue, Suite 550, Seattle, WA some meals, nature walks, child care, art workshops. Individual 98104 $130, Coupke $225, Family of 4 $300, ($20 ea add. Child). Call • Submit a form or personalized comments at Riverkeeper’s web- 503.866.7081. 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11 oct13 hipfishmonthly.com of the North Carolina Dance Theatre, a world-class repertory dance ensemble, and centers on three ballerinas in various stages of their careers. It 7th Annual Astoria International Film Festival explores how they navigate through the growing pains of their careers, life A Reel Experience on the Oregon Coast: 11 Films over One Weekend choices, and their struggles.

EVERYTHING WENT DOWN (2013) 12:30 – 2pm Second Showing @ Liberty Theater Directed by Dustin Morrow and Kacey Morrow - 85 min. USA, U.S. Dra- matic/Musical 1st AND 2nd PLACE WINNERS OF THE 2013 FILM TRIATHLON ASTO- RIA 2pm – 2:30pm 5-10 min. USA, Shorts Competition First place. The Siren Song. 8 minutes, 33 seconds Second place. A Starless Night. 9 minutes, 19 seconds This year’s The Film Triathlon (TFT) competition was held in Astoria, Oregon, starting on September 7th, and running through the 13th. Com- peting teams had approximately 5 days, 18 hours and 53 minutes to write, shoot, and edit a short film, including writing and recording original music for said film. The grand prize? $5,000 in cash and a chance to have their film screened at the 2013 Astoria International Film Festival. The Film Triathlon bills their competition as “500,000 seconds of filmmaking endurance.”

SEARCHING FOR SUGAR MAN (2012) 2:45 – 4:15pm Directed by Malik Bendjelloul 85 min. Sweden, World Documentary Academy Award Winner, Best Documentary Tells the incredible true story of Rodriguez, the greatest ‘70s rock icon who never was. Discovered in a Detroit bar in the late ‘60s by two celebrated producers struck by his soulful melodies and prophetic lyrics, they recorded an album, which they believed would secure his reputation as the greatest recording artist of his generation. In fact, the album bombed and the singer disappeared into obscurity. But a bootleg recording found its way into apartheid South Africa and, over the next two decades, he became a phenomenon. The film follows the story of two South African fans who set out to find out what really happened to their hero. Their investigation leads them to a story more extraordinary Film clip from PINA – documentary on choreographer Pina Bausch than any of the existing myths about the artist known as Rodriguez. n its 7th season, The Astoria International Film Festival Friday, October 18 WORKSHOP/Film Editing 3pm – 4:30pm at the Cannery Pier Hotel showcases the work of independent film and video artists and I PINA (2011) 5pm – 6:40pm REDWOOD HIGHWAY 4:30 – 6pm writers. “Ultimately, we seek to present a collection of films, Directed by Wim Wenders - 103 min. Germany, World Documentary Directed by Gary Lundgren 95 min. USA, U.S. Dramatic frequently recent world premieres and award winners, that some- Best Documentary, European Film Festival Oregon Filmmaker times push you out of your cerebral comfort zone and inspire Acclaimed director Wim Wender’s (Wings of Desire, Buena Vista Social Redwood Highway is visually stunning, a beautiful ode to the Pacific a dialogue on the issues broached with your closest friends, Club) breathtaking tribute to the legendary modern dance choreographer, Philippine (Pina) Bausch. Northwest. new acquaintances, or within your own mind, “ says Executive A major coup for the 2013 AIFF, this film is only being screened at a Director and Founder Ron Craig. Plus . AIFF provides unique THE STORY OF LUKE (2013) 7pm – 8:30pm Directed by Alonso Mayo - 85 min. USA, U.S. Comedy/Dramatic handful of festivals this Fall and is scheduled for a small theatrical release opportunities to interact with the directors of select films, and to Spring 2014. converse and socialize with other festival attendees, with featured Audience Award, San Francisco Independent Film Festival Luke, 25, is autistic and lives a sheltered life with his grandparents. But his “It took Marie 45 years to walk 80 miles.” meet & greets at local restaurants and galleries. world is suddenly turned upside down when his grandmother dies and he is Living in a comfortable retirement community in Southern Oregon, All screenings $5. LIBERTY THEATRE • ASTORIA forced to live with his dysfunctional relatives who have no patience for him or estranged from her family, unsatisfied with her surroundings, and generally his senile grandfather, who they quickly force into a nursing home. Luke is left not happy about life, seventy-six-year-old Marie (Shirley Knight) decides to with his grandfather’s final semi-coherent words: “Get a job. Find a girl. Live THE ROMANCE OF FILM EDITING your own life. Be a man!” For the first time in his life, Luke has a mission. He is journey 80 miles by foot along the fabled Redwood Highway to the coast of This year, something new and exciting, the festival presents a film about to embark on a quest. Oregon to see the ocean for the first time in 45 years. Her sudden disappear- workshop for everyone! ance causes her family and authorities to fear the worst, but Marie is off on a 7PM – 8PM RECEPTION AT LIGHTBOX GALLERY. Wine and Light appetiz- grand adventure where she meets an extraordinary cast of characters. A Workshop by Dustin Morrow, will be held on Saturday, October ers. All attendees welcome. 19, from 3:00 to 4:30 pm at the Cannery Pier Hotel, Astoria, OR. THE MOO MAN (2013) 7pm – 8:45pm The workshop is open to everyone – from aspiring filmmakers EVERYTHING WENT DOWN (2013) 8pm - 9:30pm Directed by Andy Heathcote and Heike Bachelier - 98 min. United King- to film buffs. There is no charge. To reserve your place, please SCREENING BY ADVANCE RESERVATION (limited to 20) Directed by Dustin Morrow and Kacey Morrow - 85 min. USA, U.S. Dramatic/ dom, World Documentary call the Cannery Pier Hotel at 503.325.4996. Musical $5 each - Please call Lightbox at (503) 468-0238 to reserve your Official Selection, Sundance Film Festival, International Film Festival, Professor Morrow, an Emmy-winning filmmaker, is the Director seat. Oregon Filmmaker/Prof. Film Portland State Berlin of Everything Went Down, which will be screened at the Astoria Inter- Set in the beautiful Pacific Northwest, Everything Went Down is a con- A major coup for the 2013 AIFF, this film has only been screened to date at national Film Festival on Saturday, October 19 at 12:30 to 2:00 pm at temporary musical that tells the story of a young college professor who has several U.S. film festivals, and has not yet been scheduled for U.S. cinemas. The the Liberty Theater in historic downtown Astoria. become a shell of a person following the death two years earlier of his wife. Crippled by a numbing grief, he’s succeeded at shutting himself off from the remarkable story of a maverick farmer and his unruly cows, filmed over four years Film editing is the shaping and structuring moving images and world. At the same time, a young singer-songwriter has begun to lose faith on the marshes of the Pevensey Levels in the English countryside (UK). sound so as to invest them with intention and meaning. A success- in te struggle to make a name for herself as a musician. Bogged down by ful editor named Ralph Rosenblum (The Producers, Annie Hall) once the pressures of turning her art into commerce, she has lost sight of why she 7pm – 9pm Meet & Greet at the Baked Alsaka. No Host Bar and aps. said: “The best compliment one can pay an editor is to tell him his wanted to make music in the first place. editing is invisible; an editing job is considered The film chronicles the budding friendship between the professor and the singer, BUOY (2013) 9pm – 10:30pm as the energy and beauty of her music begins to bring him back to life, and the Directed by Steven Doughton 76 min. USA, U.S. Dramatic successful when it goes unnoticed on the screen. Ironically, an edi- value of her songs to this man reawakens her to the merits of making music. tor invests weeks or months of intensive work to achieve the impres- Oregon Filmmaker ALIEN BOY: THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JAMES CHASSE Audience Favorite Winner, Northwest Filmmakers’ Festival sion that he has done nothing at all.” Liberty Theater 9pm – 10:30pm, Directed by Brian Lindstrom - 90 min. USA, A married mother of two, unexpectedly pregnant with her third child, In this workshop, Emmy-winning filmmaker, professional film editor U.S. Documentary Oregon Filmmaker and professor Dustin Morrow takes this invisible art and makes it vis- Chronicles one man’s struggle with schizophrenia and examines the actions answers the phone to hear a voice from her distant past. Against the back- ible. Prof. Morrow explores the history and the psychology of editing, of the police officers responsible for his death, exposing a city grappling with drop of various subjects - his narrow escape from a sinking fishing vessel, and seeks to answer such questions as: How does the brain process accountability in the death of an innocent, unarmed man. Documents the inci- her deep loneliness as a parent, their shared and complicated history - the dents leading up to James Chase’s arrest and death, in Portland Or, Sept 2006. an edit? What makes a cut work? How does an effective edit engage 80-minute conversation reveals the deeper stories of their selves. a viewer’s imagination? Saturday, October 19 He will also discuss the relationship between time and editing, and STRENGTH AND BEAUTY (2013) 10:30am - Noon CLOSING - After Theater Cocktails and Jazz at the Bridgewater Bistro Directed by Chelsea Wayant - 93 min. USA, U.S. Documentary the inherent romance and beauty of this mysterious art form. ARTINFO UK’s Top 5 Films to Watch at Portobello (London, UK) Film Festival Ful Schedule (including Film Shorts series) www.goaif.com Three ballerinas. Three voices. This documentary goes behind the scenes oct13 hipfishmonthly.com 12 Ful Schedule (including Film Shorts series) www.goaif.com

13 oct13 hipfishmonthly.com Cannon Beach Elementary Academy A tuition-free public charter school

by Bob Goldberg In 1912 Ecola (as Cannon Beach was then known) had enough children to establish a school, and the first classes were held in the Hotel Bill (now the Cannon Beach Conference Center). In 1917, the school moved to a rented house, and, in 1921, a one- room school was built in the location of the present school. In 1964 a tsunami left its mark on a swing set still used by children today (from the Can- non Beach History Walking Tour website).

ast May, the Seaside School District announced Lthat Cannon Beach Elementary was closing its doors after the school year finished. The announcement came as a surprise to members of the task force charged with finding a new location for the school after a study in 2011 concluded that it could not withstand a major earthquake and tsunami, and posed a danger to its students and staff. The task force met from February 2012 until the announcement in May. They identified a property east of Highway 101 that the City of Cannon Beach was interested in purchasing from the Campbell Group to act as a campus for essential city services, including education.

In the meantime, Seaside School District (SSD) helping at the Fire Department’s Annual Ham Cannon Beach Elementary School was closing. us to send our young daughter to a town 8 miles had decided to go ahead with a bond measure Dinner – events that make Cannon Beach and liv- This threw a giant kink in our entire plan and vi- away for 2 hours of school when we wanted all for a new central campus, above Seaside Heights ing here so special. A large part of these events sion. Alyx was so upset because we had to break along for her to go to school in the same town Elementary, to house all its programs. This mea- are children, and my memories that we live and work in. come from my childhood. As an sure will be on the ballot in all the towns covered I am working hard to make this adult with a child of my own now, I in the Seaside School District, including Gearhart, charter school happen because it’s realize I did not fully appreciate all Seaside, Cannon Beach, Arch Cape and Hamlet, so important to my husband and I of these experiences until I moved in November, and ballots should arrive in the mail to have our young daughter close away from Cannon Beach. this month. If passed, Gearhart Elementary would to us, in the town we work and join the current Seaside elementary, middle and My husband and I had planned live in. We struggle every month high school classes on the new campus. Given all along to move back to Can- with a budget like most families the current SSD budget, there was not enough non Beach to raise our daughter, that live here do. We are not money to support the separate elementary however right after she was wealthy. We live in Cannon Beach school in Cannon Beach this school year, and born the economy began to go because this small town, for us, these students moved to Seaside Heights at the downhill. Originally we were go- works. It’s where we want to be. beginning of September. For more information ing to move back when she was Sometimes I feel like the choice on the ballot measure, see the SSD web site school-aged; however, with the to live here is held against me... (www.seaside.k12.or.us) or contact Mary Blake at state of the economy we decided ‘oh, you live in Cannon Beach 503-717-3810. to put our house on the market huh? why not Seaside?’ I like small For many former Cannon Beach Elementary right away so that we could get town. I did big town and big city. (CBE) students and their parents, the transition out before it went really bad. We It’s not for me. Without a school has been hard. Here’s the story of Kimm Mount made the preparations and were here families will stop moving so excited. Everything has gone here. We have already lost families (CBA board member) and her daughter Alyx, who really well. We both found jobs in to other towns because of the was supposed to be going to kindergarten at Cannon Beach and we managed to closure of the school. Children in a CBE this year: get a loan to purchase a home in community provide such diversity. Artist’s concept of what an elementary school could look like Haystack Heights. Our daughter’s I moved to Cannon Beach when I was 5, with on the 55 acres of land southeast of downtown CB. How many other families will birthday is in September; there- my parents. I have many memories that I cherish miss out on their dream to live fore she missed the cutoff to start and many experiences that helped shape my the news to her that she would not be going to in a small town? How many awesome people kindergarten when she was 5. values; the annual lamplighting ceremony, act- school; that we would be homeschooling next and kids will we not get to meet because they ing in plays at the Coaster with my sisters and Spring came, and Alyx was all excited for year. This was a hard decision to make, and we choose somewhere else to go since we don’t my grandma, the community Christmas party, kindergarten round-up... until we learned that made it because it just doesn’t make sense for have a school? I know of one family who already oct13 hipfishmonthly.com 14 The group is planning on submitting their charter to the Seaside School District at the end of October or the beginning of Novem- ber. The district will have 10 days to respond, and then public hearings will be scheduled in November or December. Community support is a big part of the picture in pitching charter school proposals to school districts in Oregon. In addition to being required by state law to take at least 25 students (the CBA business plan currently projects the need for at least 76 students from within the boundaries of the Seaside School District; the former elementary school had 89 students), charter school proposals are better received if local support can be shown. The Cannon Beach City Council has given the academy a letter of support, and Simmons says that presentations were received favorably at other local organizations such as the Chamber of Commerce. In addition, the group received hundreds of signatures on two change. Board Member Kimm Mount and daughter Alexa. Board Member Phil Simmons with sons Erik and Jack Board Member Ryan Hull and daughter Rosie. org petitions for the academy, and their fundraisers so far have moved into Seaside because of the school closure. Business could performance (the program has been used particularly for histori- achieved their goals. lose employees, our fire department could lose volunteers; the cally disadvantaged and/or at-risk students). It is currently in use If all goes as planned, the academy will move to permanent impact is more than I think many people who live outside of the in thousands of schools across the nation as well as in Canada, digs in a part of a 55-acre parcel of land that Cannon Beach is community realize.” the UK and Australia. (modified from National Institute for Direct in the process of purchasing from the Campbell Group that will Instruction website) According to Mount, there was little time for crying and remi- house essential government services and public facilities above niscing after the announcement of the closing of CBE. The major- SRA/McGraw-Hill has published a series of books and materials the tsunami inundation line, as required by state law, according to ity of the task force members quickly decided that the only choice used for DI programs. And yes, SRA is the same company that put Marc Barnes, a planner for the City of Cannon Beach. That parcel to replace CBE was a tuition-free, public charter school. The group out the self-paced booklets and cards for teaching reading that is being annexed by the city, with an option to buy at a set price was incorporated in May, and has met every two weeks since students such as myself used in elementary school 50 years ago! until this December. A master plan would be developed in 2014, then, setting up committees to work on financing and fundraising, Hull is absolutely convinced of the efficacy of DI. He told me and construction started sometime after that. The charter school curriculum, securing a building for the academy, and the business that in all the kindergarten classes he taught that used the DI sys- group estimates that construction costs would be in the range of aspects of the school. tem (along with the SRA/McGraw-Hill materials), all the students $2-3 million, which they would need to raise. Recently, a couple came to Astoria with the aim of opening a were reading by the end of the school year. Similar results were charter school in the area, but their charter was turned down by obtained for math and writing. The DI system would be used in the Astoria School District. The district’s superintendent, Craig the lower grades (K-2) at Cannon Beach Academy for reading, Hoppes, told me that their charter lacked two very important writing and math. elements – an acceptable building and a curriculum that offered The other teaching system that the academy would use is also something that the school district did not provide itself. Both are one that Hull has experience with. It’s called Core Knowledge, a required under Oregon law for a charter school to operate here. system developed by E. D. Hirsch, Jr., professor emeritus at the Phil Simmons, the leader of the Cannon Beach Academy group University of Virginia. The following paragraphs are adapted from and a board member, assured me that a temporary location for the the website of the Core Knowledge Foundation. school is almost secured, and will be available by the time the K-5 Although current events and technology are constantly chang- school is scheduled to begin classes next fall. In addition, in order ing, there is a body of lasting knowledge and skills that form the to set up the school, approximately $500,000 will be necessary. core of a strong preschool–grade 8 curriculum. Explicit identifica- When asked whether this fundraising target could be reached tion of what children should learn at each grade level ensures a in time, Simmons replied, “That’s the least of my worries. We’re coherent approach to building knowledge across all grade levels. very confident in our ability to raise the necessary funds. There’s Every child should learn the fundamentals of science, basic prin- fantastic support for this school in the community, and people ciples of government, important events in world history, essential have already given us a large amount of money, with more coming elements of mathematics, widely acknowledged masterpieces in every day.” Future Academy kid’s raised money this summer with a of art and music from around the world, and stories and poems good ole fashioned lemonade sale. The group has decided to use two educational programs that passed down from generation to generation. are not offered in the SSD, but are very popular in charter schools The Core Knowledge Sequence provides a clear outline of con- The Canon Beach Academy vision is straightforward; to create across the country. Behind these programs is Ryan Hull, who is a tent to be learned grade by grade so that knowledge, language, and operate a school that will allow parent and community in- board member and chairs the curriculum committee. Hull became and skills build cumulatively from year to year. No more repeated volvement in providing children the skill, knowledge and com- the principal of the Woodburn Arthur Academy, a member of a units in multiple years on the rain forest, with little or no atten- passion they will need to succeed in life. From an old fashioned group of charter schools known as the Arthur Academies, after go- tion to the Bill of Rights, world geography, or exposure to other lemonade sale to a strong and determined team; the board of ing through the Teaching Fellows program in New York City, a stint cultures. Core Knowledge sets high expectations for all children directors and committees, Cannon Beach Academy’s goal appears as a middle school music teacher, a drama teacher at Clackamas that are achievable thanks to the cumulative, sequential way that to be just around the corner. Community College, and a kindergarten teacher and principal knowledge and skills build. in Gresham. At the Arthur Academy, he used a curriculum called The initial enrollment period for the Cannon Beach Academy Direct Instruction. The Sequence is distinguished by its specificity. By clearly speci- is during the month of October 2013. If 76 spots are not taken fying important knowledge in language arts, history, geography, Direct Instruction (DI) is a model for teaching that emphasizes by the end of the month, an additional enrollment period will be math, science, and the fine arts, the Sequence presents a practical well-developed and carefully planned lessons designed around announced. If more than the maximum students the academy can answer to the question, “What do our children need to know?” small learning increments and clearly defined and prescribed accept (to be determined) enroll, then a lottery will determine teaching tasks. Its creators, Siegfried Engelmann (now at the Hulls says that the Cannon Beach Academy would use the Core which students can attend, according to state law. To enroll, or for University of Oregon) and Dr. Wesley Becker, and their col- Knowledge curriculum for history, science and the arts, mostly in more information, go the academy website at http://www.thecan- leagues believe that correctly applied DI can improve academic grades 3-5. nonbeachacademy.com/.

15 oct13 hipfishmonthly.com The 29th Annual Water Music Festival Acústica World Music Celebrating American Composers • Oct 11 - 12 CD Release Concert and Party • Oct 13 Just as North Coast residents settle down toes tapping and for the long rainy season, Water Music Fes- laughter in the air. tival comes along with its annual presenta- At the charming tion of music guaranteed to chase away the Oysterville Church winter blues. The Festival will be held Octo- in Oysterville, 6pm, ber 11-12 on the Long Beach Peninsula. Tickets $20. FRIDAY OCT 11 - In celebration of TANGLETOWN American composers, the weekend kicks TRIO can boast off, at the INN AT THE HARBOR VILLAGE in award winners as Ilwaco, with the GRETE MATASSA Quartet well, with Sara Mat- in performance. An opening appearance tox having been 1st by the North Coast Chorale sets the scene Prize Winner of the with Leonard Bernstein and Duke Ellington Belle Voce’ Nation- tunes. Matassa, named Northwest Vocal- al Voice Competi- Bandleader/vocalist Delores Villareal-Levine is the driv- ist of the Year in 2012, is called “...one of tion. Mattox has ing force behind the North Coast world music quartet Acústica. America’s finest singers...among the best” played Carnegie The current line-up of musicians, Dave Ambrose on stand-up by Jazz Review. Her most recent CD, ‘I Hall four times. bass, Matthew Crichton on percussion and John Orr on guitar, Wanna Be Loved’ has spent three months Pianist Judith Co- just finished an album of recordings at local Bentrabbit Studios. on national charts. Matassa cut her musical hen is the winner As of this writing no CD in hand, but it will be a nice surprise as chops in a variety of mediums, including as of several national Delores and the band are sure to have laid down some sweet replacement for Ernestine Anderson with and international samba, bossa novas, tangos and cha-chas. Pacific NW Ballet. competitions, while Gaining recognition as one of the regions most musically color- Jo Nardolillo was ful bands, Acústica have also become a staple at any variety of featured soloist for events, from high profile to outdoor, providing a desired niche; infectious, sexy Latin rhythms in a repertoire of what the band the World Premiere describes as a vintage global sound, Delores Levine’s multi-lingual of Pasatieri’s voila vocals roll off her tongue in French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, concerto in April. Cape Verde Creole, and even some Finnish too, to suit ethnic The Trio will play Astorian roots. Cole Porter, Ger- They’re also really great at promotional photos – creating an shwin and other image of allure, mystic, a certain savor faire – proving that the American compos- North Coast can and should enjoy some color, elegance and style ers at Leadbetter against the backdrop of the ever-drab and grey. To walk through Farms Lighthouse the door at an event or party and hear Delore’s vocal with “just to which the the right amount of gravel” pulsing a jazzy Jobim tune mkaes an evening. Acústica celebrates their first CD Release, “Cuotro Vi- Steinway Grand das” on Sunday, October 13 at the ASOC Playhouse. Doors open Piano from Hilltop 6:30pm with a pre-concert opener by Flamenco guitarist, David Auditorium will be Villareal, brother to Delores. $10 at the door. moved for the oc- Pacific Northwest jazz great, Greta Matassa casion. Appetizers and a no-host bar All proceeds from the concerts will be Timberbound Project • Oct 26 will be available from 6pm until the concert donated to the local school music program. The rich history of folk music in Vernonia, OR begins at 7:30; this will allow concert goers Online Tickets end Tuesday, Oct 8. Tickets to stroll the unique Leadbetter property and will be available at the door (check website watch the sunset prior to concert seating. for availability). At the Leadbetter Farms Lighthouse, For more information and ticket pur- 6pm, Tickets $30 chases, visit www.watermusicfestival.com

Tangletown Trio

This evening’s music will pay tribute to Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, and other jazz composers. Appetizers and no-host bar will be available at 7PM with the concert starting at 7:30. Tickets $25 SATURDAY OCT 12 - Saturday’s concerts Joe Seamons, Kate Sandgren and Gavin Duffy are driving a cover additional musical genres, with the unique project. On Saturday, October 26, a concert and square noon concert featuring Social Insecurity, an dance will be held at the Vernonia Scout Cabin to celebrate the internationally-loved barbershop quartet, rich history of folk music in Vernonia, OR. The Timberbound followed by the evening’s 6pm performance Project--who interpret the music of John and Kim Cunnick, Hobe by TangleTown Trio, a chamber ensemble. Kytr, and Dave Berge--will perform a concert of these artists’ music, and then provide music for the ensuing square dance. The SOCIAL SECURITY is distinctive among songs will celebrate the spirit and culture of the region, and the barbershop quartets because of their musicians hope to spread awareness of this music to yet another dedication to bringing humor into their generation. music. In fact, two of its members sang for Therefore, the event is free to people under 19 years of age. years with the comedy quartet McKenzie All others will be asked to contribute as able, $5 - $10 at the door. Touring Company. Winners of several major Concert starts at 7:00 sharp, the square dance will go from 8:30 competitions, this group promises to keep until late at night. Barbershop Bravado, Social Security oct13 hipfishmonthly.com 16 GoingsOn: October ‘13 in the columbia pacific 2013 Halloween Hellorium ASOC FALL at the Fort George Brewery + Public House MURDER MYSTERY Costume Contest! GET your Spook Scene On! Costumes encouraged, Yogoman Burning Band • Psycho Adorable almost required... October 31st, at 7pm.

No finer dance band you’ll YBB has toured find than Ska/Soul Brass Band with Iron and phenom Yogaman Burn- Wine, collabo- ing Band, that hail from the rated/improvised more northern, equally dark live with Pato feelin’ regions of Bellingham, Banton, Junior where bandleader/drummer Reid, Geologic of Jordan Rain, decided to fire-up the Blue Scholars, Murderat this oft subdued corner of the Winstrong, and USA. many independent Checkmate Manor Raised in the Jet City, Rain M.C.’s and instru- By David McGillivray came up through Seattle’s mentalists, while underground all-ages music sharing the stage and Walter Zerlin Jr. scene in the 90’s which he with Jamaica’s leg- a zany tribute to participated in as a musician endary Skatalites, and booked house concerts. Clinton Fearon amateur theatre Being a generally intimate (of the Gladia- climate for experiencing music tors), Camper Van and culture, the Do It Yourself/ Beethoven, RJD2, October 11 – 26 all-ages music scene tends the Cave Singers, Fri & Sat 7pm to instill a value of removing Helio Sequence, Sun Matinee, Oct 20, 2pm barriers between audience, Dengue Fever (door 1/2 hr before show) entertainers and the industry, and Orgone. YBB Tickets: $15 to $8 making it a community pro- has built a strong Psycho Adoable, a multi- ! CoastRadio.org/KCPB cess, which Rain has taken with name for them- ...hitting all the right notes All tickets on Fridays him to Yogoman Burning Band. selves down the West Coast dimensional collaboration Listen Live $5 Bucks! YBB invites their audiences/ USA, and becoming interna- of artists known as Lionsweb Sponsored by HIPFiSH fans/friends to engage with tionally recognized for their (Bronwyn Leslie), and Grandma and “Q” 94.9 FM their music through dance and unique musical experience. Kelsey (Kelsey Swope) open 90.9 FM personal connection. the eve. KCPB for the Coast ACúSTICA World Music Colleen Raney • CD Release CD Release Concert October 13, at 3pm to as it is about time on the road. Stay tuned as Sunday, October 13 celebrate her new CD, More importantly, though, it KMUN 91.9FM $10, doors open 7:30pm “Here This is Home.” Com- is about the integral part that turns ing up this weekend, 3:00 this music has played in her TEEN THEATER PM October 13th - Irish life. Rather than a location, the The Astor Street Opry Company singer Colleen Raney will sense of home comes from the announces their new unique be on stage at the Hoff- songs and stories of the people theater club for teens ages 14 to man Center in Manzanita of Ireland - and of the people 17 at the ASOC Playhouse. Tues- celebrating her CD release, who left Ireland, as her family days afternoons staring October 8th 4-6pm to explore the craft of “Here This is Home”. Join- did several generations before. “I can be anywhere, in any car theater. The cost per student is only ing Colleen are Johnny B. $10 per month. For more informa- Connolly and Sean Earnest on any long highway, and still tion please call Mary at adding button accordion get a sense of home from these 503-791-7127 or our box office and bouzouki/guitar to her songs and tunes. They are our 30 at 503-325-6104. 1983 - 2013 beautiful Celtic voice. living legacy. And they are very In the summer of much alive.” ASOC Playhouse 2013 Colleen traveled to Doors open at 2:30. Tickets 129 West Bond Street Dublin, Ireland and spent are only $10 at the door. Cash/ as seen in Irish singer Colleen Raney five weeks collecting and checks/MC/Visa accepted. At in Uniontown Astoria tickets online @ will be on stage at the Hoffman recording songs with some of the Hoffman Center on Laneda Ireland’s finest musicians. Street in Manzanita. Refresh- astorstreetoprycompany.com Center in Manzanita, Sunday, “Here This is Home” is as ments served during intermis- ticket info call much about the time in Ireland sion. // Coast Community Radio // coastradio.org ASOC Box Offce: 503-325-6104 17 oct13 hipfishmonthly.com theater & performance. ASOC AUDITIONS: Scrooged in Astoria ASOC Fall Murder Mystery MOVE! Angels, Elves and Villians! Oh My! Astoria Arts and The Astor Street Opry Company is once Murder at Checkmate Manor again seeking performers of all ages Movement Center and experience for the 7th Annual Holi- The Farndale Housing Estate Featuring Guild members: Halloween Dance Oct 25 day Musical Melodrama SCROOGED Townswomen’s Guild Dramatic Society Mrs.. Reece (ChrisLynn Taylor) IN ASTORIA! Audition Dates: Saturday (And the Astor Street Opry Company) performing as Lady Bishop, The Astoria Arts and Movement Center has October 12, noon to 2pm, and Mon- present their latest murder mystery Violet Bishop, Joan Bishop a full schedule of dance opportunity this fall day, October 14, 6pm to 8pm. presentation, “Murder at Checkmate and Audrey, (Amber Moss- season. From Irish to Belly Dance, Zumba and Directed and written by Judith P. Ni- Manor. ” written by David McGillivray man) performing as Clarissa, Jazz, in addition, Tuesday Oct 8 kicks-off land with original music by Phil Morrill, and Walter Zerlin Jr.and produced with Letitia, Patricia, Mr.. Good- an ecstatic dance night. Hosted by Eugene Musical Direction by Chris Lynn Taylor and Co-Direction by Nate Bucholz, this permission by Samuel French Ltd. at body and Regine, Thelma(Aly Hedlund and Kimberly Hazel. Eugene Hedlund the ASOC Playhouse 129 West Bond Hanson) as Daphne and Rose fun and colorful show is a great way to is a certified 5 Rhythms teacher and the Street Astoria, opening October 11th Bishop, Felicity (Carly Keone) learn the ropes of community theatre founder of the SheddingSkins path of personal 2013 and running through the 26th. as the Pawn,Mrs. Castle and combining the traditional holiday Directed by Edward James, this hi- Colonel King and Gordon transformation. He teaches both 5 Rhythms story “Scrooge” with the melodrama larious, zany tribute to amateur theatre (Justin Germond) as Inspector and SheddingSkins workshops throughout the characters from SHANGHAIED IN everywhere is a “play-within-a-play” O’Reilly. US and in Europe. ASTORIA. No previous theatre or music experi- as we meet the ladies who perform Sponsored by HIPFISH and Photo: Heidi Aphrodite Photography 5 Rhythms is a movement meditation ence necessary. before the play itself begins and see the “Q” 94.9FM the show practice created by Gabrielle Roth. It draws go towards helping ASOC Production “Scrooged In Astoria” performs De- their rivalries. Upon opening night, runs Fridays and Saturday evenings from shamanic, ecstatic, mystical and eastern Committee to fund new productions cember 6 – 22, at the ASOC Playhouse almost everything that could go wrong at (Please note the NEW SHOW TIME philosophy, as well as transpersonal psychol- and activities! And don’t forget! All 129 West Bond Street Uniontown does, with collapsing scenery, missed CHANGE!) 7:00pm (doors open at ogy. The core premise to the practice is that Astoria. Light Rehearsal starts Tuesday tickets are only $5.00 on Friday nights! cues, forgotten lines and quick costume 6:30pm) October 11th to 26th with everything is energy and moves in waves and October 15,7-9pm, and then gradually changes a’misfire, the ladies try to pres- one Sunday Matinee on the 20th at For more info or to purchase tickets patterns. Roth describes the practice as a jour- build up to all weekend nights with the ent their cunning whodunit, “Murder At 2:00pm (doors open at 1:30pm). Tickets call 503-325-6104 or online @ www. ney to soul and believes that moving the body, week of Thanksgiving off. Backstage Checkmate Manor.” are only $15.00 to 8.00. All proceeds astorstreetoprycompany.com. releasing the heart and freeing the mind are help is also needed. FMI: jniland@ avenues to connecting with our soul essence. pacifier.com. For more updates check 8pm Sharp. Cost $10. FMI contact Kim at our website at www.astorstreetopry- LIZ COLE: Storytime for Grownups company.com [email protected] 503-791-6087. Look for Hoffman Center • Nov 7 a continued bi-monthly ecstatic dance night Liz Cole performs readings at the halem Valley Historical Society). Most TBA this fall. Hoffman Center on Thursday, Novem- recently she appeared in the original • AAMC hosts a Halloween Dance Party on The Coaster Theatre ber 7 at 7p.m. Titled Storytime for solo play Lost Pioneer, which she Friday, Oct. 25. $5 or $3 with costume. DJ Playhouse Presents Grownups, Liz will read “great, funny, developed with Mark Beach and Port- Decel spins. Beverages served. and moving pieces that I feel passion- land playwright Ellen West. The play, Gramercy Ghost ate about.” presented seven times in this area, is AAMC WEEKLY SCHEDULE OF CLASSES The Coaster Theatre Play- Liz Cole has had a long acting career based on the lives of three women who house presents John Cecil Holm’s Located at 342 10th St. in Astoria. For on the professional stage, and has also homesteaded in Tillamook County in Gramercy Ghost - opening Sep- info about a specific class please contact the made TV guest-star appearances on the 1890s, and blends biographical tember 13th and running through instructor directly through www.astoriaartsand- Seinfeld, ER, Star Trek, The Practice, data with historical imagination. October 12th. Shows run Friday’s Judging Amy, Las Vegas, and many Liz last performed a staged reading movement.com Classes subject to change. and Saturday’s through October others. at the Hoffman Center in May, 2010. MONDAY 12th at 7:30 p.m. There is one She originated the leading role in She directed and acted in the title role 5:00-6:00pm Irish Dance with Gina Marie Sunday matinee on September Margaret Edson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning of Bryan Harnetiaux’s play, Vesta, an in- Newkirk 15th at 3pm and a Talk-back drama Wit in 1995, for which she timate drama that examines an ordinary TUESDAY Thursday on October 3rd at 7:30 received the L.A. Drama Critics’ Circle family’s struggle with end-of-life issues.. 9:00-10:00am Zumba Fitness with Nayelli pm. Award for Outstanding Performance. To find out more about Liz Cole’s ca- Dalida This charming play opened on She also tours with “The Wisdom of reer and watch a demo reel of selected open at 6:30 p.m. Come early, seating 5:30-6:30pm Ballet (all ages and levels) with Broadway in 1951. After the death Wit,” her solo version of the play. TV appearances go to megancole.net. Lyndsay Harris of her landlady, Amelia Bullock, Liz has performed locally for There is a suggested donation of is limited. Refreshments will be served. 6:30-7:30pm Jazz with Marco Davis Nancy Willard discovers that various benefit events (Lower Nehalem $5 and all proceeds will go to support At the Hoffman Center in Manzanita, Amelia left Nancy her wonderful Land Trust, Rinehart Clinic, Ne- the Hoffman Center’s programs. Doors 594 Laneda Avenue. WEDNESDAY old house and everything in it… 6:00-7:00pm Tap with Marco Davis including a ghost. Nancy discov- Reader’s Theatre in the McTavish Room 7:00-8:15pm Belly Dance with Jessamyn ers her otherworldly inheritance Grace is a young Revolutionary soldier SIGHT UNSEEN THURSDAY named Nathaniel Coombes who Oct 23-24 9:00-10:00am Zumba Toning with Nayelli had been ambushed and killed in 1776 and is doomed to an earth- A Reader’s Theater event starring lo- his former lover, Patricia, lives with her forced to deal with the unanswerable Dalida 6:00-7:00pm Ballet Stretch (all ages and bound existence as a ghost in cal actors Mick & Rhonda Alderman, Bill British husband, Nick. Archaeologists question of anti-Semitism, the legacy of levels) with Lyndsay Harris Nancy’s neighborhood. He is un- Honl and Sofie Kline will take you on a working on a dig, their sparse existence the Holocaust and assimilation, the sad- 7:00-9:00pm Dream Workshop with Kim able to get into heaven because romp through the art world of an artist is spent sifting through a Roman ness of lost love, the role of the artist, he failed to deliver a message whose work has become so famous it’s rubbish heap to discover the past. In Hazel - PRE REGISTRATION REQUIRED and the location of the human soul at to George Washington. Unfortu- purchased “Sight Unseen.” their cold, remote house, Jonathan FRIDAY the end of a ragged century. nately, Nancy is the only person The New York Times said, “ . . . you discovers an early painting of Patricia 3:00-4:00PM Irish Dance for Kids (ages 12 The New York Times said, “ . . . you who can see Nathaniel. Nancy’s can tell when a play has gripped its he’d done when they were young lov- and under) with Gina Marie Newkirk can tell when a play has gripped its life is complicated even further audience, for no one seems to breathe, ers. The subsequent struggle for the 5:30-6:45pm Kenpo Karate with Jon Belcher when a newspaperman, Charlie audience, for no one seems to breathe, let alone shift in his seat. A smart and painting embodies the unreconciled 7:00-8:00pm Partner Dance with Marco Stewart, comes seeking informa- sad comedy.” passions of the past. Patricia has never let alone shift in his seat. A smart and Davis tion on the late Miss Bullock and Jonathan Waxman is the artist as forgiven Jonathan for leaving her, Nick sad comedy.” SATURDAY is torn between 3 men, Nathaniel, superstar, plunged into the exorbitant despises Jonathan and the kind of art Thursday & Friday, Oct 23-24, 10:00-11:00am Parent & Child Class with Charlie and her fiancé, Parker Bur- hype of the American art world where he produces, and Jonathan has never 7pm. Tickets are $15 available at nett. Ultimately, Nathaniel helps a publicist is as necessary as a brush been able to recapture the inspiration Marco Davis the Box Office 503-325-5922 ext. SUNDAY Nancy choose the right husband and canvas. Just before his works are and purity he felt when he painted Pa- and gains admittance into heaven E55. At the Liberty Theater McTav- 5:30pm-6:30pm Zumba Fitness with Joy celebrated at an exhibition in London, tricia. In taut scenes that dart from past at last. Jonathan journeys to the village where to present and back, the characters are ish Room. Sigler oct13 hipfishmonthly.com 18 ••• music • visual arts • literarylecture • outdoor • theater••• MORE MUSIC Will West. Folk/Roots/Americana. No HAPPENING $15, 2pm at the Historic Raymond Theater Monday 7 cover, 9pm at the Adrift Hotel in Long Cranberrian Fair. A celebration of local in Raymond. Beach. MUSIC harvest including all things cranberry, David Finckel & WuHan. Classical cham- foods, crafters, bog tours, and more will ber music. $25, 3pm at the Chapel at Pat Hull. No cover, 8pm at the Adrift Hotel ART showcase the area’s rich heritage. Hand- Camp Winema, north of Neskowin. in Long Beach. Peninsula Arts Association Fall Art made items and homemade peach/cran- Show. 10am – 5pm at the Old Train Depot berry pies. Craft demonstrations will include Acustica. World Music. CD Release Party in Long Beach. rug hookers and a blacksmith. Cranberrian and Concert. Preconcert music by Flamen- Wednesday 9 Opening Reception. Kevin Schluker Glass Fair buttons are $5. The Cranberry Trolley co Guitarist David Villareal. $10, 6:30pm ART Sculpture Show. 5 – 7pm in the Chessman will run from the Columbia Pacific Heritage at the ASOC Playhouse in Astoria. Artist –in-Residence Show & Tell. Light Gallery at the Lincoln City Cultural Center. Museum in Ilwaco to the Pacific Coast refreshments at 6pm, artist presentation at Cranberry Research Foundation and Ben Fisher. No cover, 8pm at the Adrift 6:30pm. Free at the Sitka Center for Art & FOOD & DRINK Museum near Long Beach. Watch the red Hotel in Long Beach. Ecology north of Lincoln City. Wild Mushroom Celebration. Wild Mush- berry harvest Friday 11th through Sunday Will West and the Friendly Strangers. room Dinner. With wine from Blakeslee 13th. FMI 360 642 3446. No cover. 8pm at Fort George Brewery & FOOD & DRINK Vineyard. Reservation required. 7:30pm Public House in Astoria. Spice Class. Spice 101: The Spices of the at the Depot Restaurant in Seaview. 360- Home and Chef Tour. Tour residences Eastern Mediterranean. Free, 6pm at Pat’s 642-7880 along Astoria’s waterfront. Local restaurant Elizabeth Cable. 8:30pm at the Snug Pantry in Astoria. chefs offer samples at each home. Tickets Harbor Bar & Grill in Lincoln City. Wild Mushroom Celebration. Boreas B&B available at Holly McHone Jewelers in HAPPENING and Pelicano Restaurant Wild Mushroom Astoria and at all Columbia Bank branches. ART No LNG Rally. Outside of the Clatsop Weekend Getaway. October 11 – 13. FMI 503-717-3671 Peninsula Arts Association Fall Art County Commissioners public hearing and Includes 2 nights/2 breakfasts, a 6-course Lower Columbia Pug Socializing Club. Show. 10am – 5pm at the Old Train Depot possible vote about the proposed Oregon Wild Mushroom brunch and a 5 course Pugs and their people meet monthly for fun in Long Beach. LNG pipeline. NO LNG Rally outside at 2:30 Wild Mushroom and matching Wine dinner and socialization. 11am at Carruthers Park pm: wear red shirts and NO LNG buttons at Pelicano Restaurant in Ilwaco. RSVP at in Warrenton. HAPPENING and bring your NO LNG signs 360-642-8069. Cranberrian Fair. A celebration of local Oregon Coast’s Scenic Railroad’s Fall harvest including all things cranberry, Hearing begins at 3:30. At the Judge Guy LITERARY Splendor. Departs from Wheeler. For Ezra Holbrook at the Peninsula Art Center Boyington Building in Astoria. Book Sale. Books, VHS and more avail- foods, crafters, bog tours, and more will The Peninsula Arts Center Saturday, October 12, Doors tickets and more information please call showcase the area’s rich heritage. Hand- LITERARY able at bargain prices. 9am – 5pm at the 503-842-7972 welcomes back Ezra Holbrook at 6:30; music at 7:00. $12 CCC Library in Astoria. made items and homemade peach/cran- Open Mic Poetry Reading. Free, 6pm at Oregon Coast Scenic Railroad Dinner berry pies. Craft demonstrations will include (The Decemberists, The My Oh the Driftwood Public Library in Lincoln City. at the door. Wine, beer, and THEATER Train. Departs at 4pm from Garibaldi. For rug hookers and a blacksmith. Cranberrian Mys, Dr. Theopolis, KMRIA). Ezra Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher. tickets and more information please call other refreshments will be Fair buttons are $5. The Cranberry Trolley is one of the Northwest’s best Thursday 10 Presented by Book-It Repertory Theater. 503-842-7972 will run from the Columbia Pacific Heritage available. To reserve call Bill Free, 2:30pm at the Naselle Timberland Museum in Ilwaco to the Pacific Coast songwriters, with an authen- Library. LITERARY 360.901.0962 MUSIC Written in the Sand. A gathering of 12 Cranberry Research Foundation and tic and moving collection of Will West. Folk/Roots/Americana. No Enjoy Open Mic at the Pen- Murder at Checkmate Manor. A murder Northwest authors. Meet the authors, Museum near Long Beach. Watch the red songs that reflect on themes of cover, 8pm at the Adrift Hotel in Long mystery comedy. $5, 7pm at the ASOC share some wine and have them sign berry harvest Friday 11th through Sunday insula Arts Center, Friday Oct Beach. redemption, forgiveness and Playhouse in Astoria. their books. 1 – 4pm at Beach Books in 13th. FMI 360 642 3446. love with heartfelt vocals and 11, 7pm. Singers, poets, come- ART Gramercy Ghost. Comedy. $8 - $20. Seaside. Oregon Coast’s Scenic Railroad’s Fall accomplished guitar work. He’s dians, and all other performers Opening Reception. Paul Rutz Exhibit. 7:30pm at the Coaster Theater in Cannon Seascape Poetry Festival & Contest. Splendor. Departs from Wheeler. For 8pm at the Art Center Gallery at CCC in Beach. Come for a day of poetry workshops, read- tickets and more information please call also a pretty charming guy. are welcome. Astoria. Ghost of a Chance. Comedy. 8pm at ings and open mic contest. 9am – 5pm at 503-842-7972 Bigfoot Brewfest. Live music and beer Theater West in Lincoln City. the Congregational Church in Neskowin. tasting. 7 – 9pm at Chinook Winds in FMI and for schedule, lincolncitycalendar. OUTSIDE Lincoln City. 888-CHINOOK com/index.php?eID=725. One Sky, One World Kite Celebration. Saturday 12 OUTSIDE Participants can bring homemade kites or HAPPENING purchased ones; those who wish can make Library Learning Commons Open House. MUSIC One Sky, One World Kite Celebration. Birds of a Feather Acoustic. Noon – 2pm Participants can bring homemade kites or a kite at event headquarters. At the World Tour the new Learning Commons in the Kite Museum in Long Beach and on the Dora Badollet Library. Light refreshments. at Coffee Girl in Astoria. purchased ones; those who wish can make beach nearby. 4 – 6pm at the CCC Library in Astoria. Water Music Festival. Social Insecurity. a kite at event headquarters. At the World Kite Museum in Long Beach and on the Barbershop quartet. $20, noon at the LECTURE First Thursday Trivia. Teams of 1-5 com- beach nearby. pete for universal admiration and fantastic Oysterville Church. Tickets at watermusic- Wild Mushroom Celebration. Wild Mush- prizes. Sign up ahead of time or just show festival.com On the Land, Nature Walk: Fall Forest room Discussion with Veronica Williams. creatures at Circle Creek Habitat Re- up! Free, 5:30 – 6:30pm at the Astoria Water Music Festival. $30, 6pm at Free, 11am at Boreas B&B in Ilwaco. RSVP serve. Join naturalist and NCLC volunteer Public Library. Ledbetter Farms Lighthouse on the Long at 360-642-8069 Mike Patterson in an expedition seeking LECTURE Beach Peninsula. Schedule and tickets at out salamanders, frogs, and other denizens Beers to Your Health Lecture Series. Tickets at watermusicfestival.com of the coastal forest at Circle Creek Habitat Monday 14 Super Water Sympathy Robert Zemetra will speak about GMOs and Ed & The Red Reds. No cover, 8pm at the Reserve near Seaside. 10am – noon. Free, bioengineering. Free, 7pm at the Lovell Sou’wester Lodge in Seaview. but reservations are required. Register at ART Shreveport, Louisiana- ambience with modern rock ‘n’ Peninsula Arts Association Fall Art Showroom at Fort George in Astoria. Ben Fisher. No cover, 9pm at the Adrift nclctrust.org/on-the-land based Super Water Sympathy roll anthems. With comparisons Show. 10am – 5pm at the Old Train Depot Hotel in Long Beach. deliver the next chapter in the bound to conjure up images of LITERARY THEATER in Long Beach. Book Sale. Books, VHS and more avail- Joybox. Hi Fi Mojo. 9pm at Roadhouse Murder at Checkmate Manor. A murder development of the band’s Coldplay, The Fray, and Florence HAPPENING able at bargain prices. 9am – 6pm at the 101 in Lincoln City. mystery comedy. $6 - $15, 7pm at the self-made genre Water Pop with + the Machine, one thing is for CCC Library in Astoria. ASOC Playhouse in Astoria. Undertow. 9pm at the Snug Harbor Bar & WBCA Pool Tournament. At Chinook their sophomore full-length, Hy- sure, Super Water Sympathy live Dark & Stormy Nights Series. With Grill in Lincoln City. Gramercy Ghost. Comedy. $8 - $20. Winds in Lincoln City. 888-CHINOOK British mystery author Carola Dunn. Free, 7:30pm at the Coaster Theater in Cannon drogen Child. Produced by Cam show will stick in your head - and 4:30pm at the Driftwood Public Library in ART Beach. Tuesday 15 Blackwood (Florence + The Ma- entertain you like never before! Lincoln City. Peninsula Arts Association Fall Art chine, Coldplay, Morrissey), the Friday, Oct 18, 7pm at the Show. 10am – 5pm at the Old Train Depot Ghost of a Chance. Comedy. 8pm at HAPPENING Theater West in Lincoln City. band flew to London to record Sandtrap in Gearhart. No THEATER in Long Beach. Halloween Makeup Party. For teens, Ghost of a Chance. Comedy. 8pm at middle & high school. Prepare for Hal- a synthesis of classic symphonic Cover. Theater West in Lincoln City. Astoria’s Second Saturday Art Walk. 5 – 9pm downtown Astoria. Sunday 13 loween by dropping in at the library and MUSIC creating a new face. Make up kits will be FOOD & DRINK available for you to experiment with at the Friday 11 Pancake Breakfast. $5 for adults, $3 for Scott Warren & Peter Hinsbeek. Jazz. The Defibulators 2 – 5pm at the Nehalem Beehive. library and take home to recreate your MUSIC children. 8am – 11am at the Peninsula “monsterpiece.” Free, 6pm at the Naselle Get yer banjo and your drum Alexander’s Real Time Band. No cover, Senior Activity Center in Klipsan Beach, WA Colleen Raney. Celtic. Tickets available Timberland Library. kit and get ready to rock country. 7pm at the Sand Trap pub in Gearhart. October Fest Dinner. At the Grays River at the door. 3pm at the Hoffman House in WBCA Pool Tournament. At Chinook Brooklyn, New York’s kickess-ass Ukolollo in Concert: Devotion, a multi- Valley Center. FMI 360-465-2775 Manzanita. Winds in Lincoln City. 888-CHINOOK alt-country rockers hit the Long media show. $14, 7pm at the Lincoln City Wine Tasting. Wines from Southern David Finckel and WuHan. Classical Beach, Peninsula. It’s Halloween. Cultural Center. 541-994-9994 Oregon. 1 – 4pm at the Cellar on 10th in chamber music. $25, 3pm at Camp Winema Chapel north of Neskowin. Wednesday 16 Did you wanna rock? Sheeeeee- Water Music Festival. Jazz. $25, 7pm at Astoria it!! Well then . . . rent yer self a the Inn at Harbour Village in Ilwaco. Sched- Wild Mushroom Cook-Off. Free admission Thomasian Trio. 10am – 3pm at the HAPPENING room at the Adrift and get your ule and tickets at watermusicfestival.com Astoria Sunday Market. with tasting-size portions available for a WBCA Pool Tournament. At Chinook self pickled at the [pickled fish]. Hi Fi Mojo. 9pm at Roadhouse 101 in small fee. 11am – 2pm at the Culinary Those Were the Days. With William Flo- Winds in Lincoln City. 888-CHINOOK Thursday, Oct 31, 8pm. No Lincoln City. Center in Lincoln City. 800-452-2151 rian. A tribute to Folk and Pop of the 60s. Listings continued on pg. 21 cover. At the [pickled fish] in Long Beach. 19 oct13 hipfishmonthly.com art happens. Field Notes: Considering Resonance and Longing Bethany Rowland at Imogen With definite and Paul Rutz: Athletic Measures deliberate brushstroke, Exhibit and Workshop at CCC Art Center Bethany Rowland of Port- land, Oregon describes Clatsop Community College (CCC) will open its ex- the world around her in hibition season with a show entitled Athletic Measures by her first solo exhibition, artist Dr. Paul Rutz of Portland, OR. “Field Notes: Consider- An artist reception will be held on Thursday, October ing Resonance and Long- 10 at 6pm in the CCC Art Center Gallery, 1799 Lexington ing” at Imogen Gallery. Avenue, Astoria, OR. The show continues through Novem- Rowland brings a rich ber 7. Both the artist reception and exhibit are free and collection of acrylic paint- open to the public. The CCC Art Center Gallery is open ings, exploring nuance of from 8:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m., Monday through Friday and on terrain and its inhabitants weekends and holidays by appointment. for Astoria’s Second Sat- Dr. Rutz was selected in the 2013 international juried urday Artwalk, October Au Naturel competition by juror Clint Brown, Professor 12th. The exhibition will Emeritus at Oregon State University, for the coveted prize open October 12th with of a solo exhibit at the CCC Art Center Gallery. an opening reception Glimpse From a Train, 1 x 14 acryllic Rutz has an impressive and extremely diverse back- from 5 – 8 pm for the ground. Graduating from the Naval Academy in 2001 with artist. Bethany Rowland Portland, OR as well as others includ- an English major and Spanish minor, he went on to earn will be available to answer questions ing Andrea Schwartz-Feit, William Park a Master’s degree in British and American Literature from about the collection and her painting and Royal Nebeker for giving her the George Mason University eight months later, and then techniques. The exhibition will remain courage to trust her own intuition in served aboard the aircraft carrier USS Kennedy. While in on display through November 5th. her practice. She understands form and the Naval Reserve, he danced with various small ballet Rowland is an artist who has been allows herself freedom to explore the groups. After working as a reporter/photographer for the honing her painting skills quietly and nuance of posture through the discipline Pentagon’s press service, he went back to school to study privately for over 20 years, but has just of painting the human figure. Her figura- imagery in American culture, completing a Ph.D. disser- recently entered the public stage. She tive work has been juried into Clatsop tation in Visual Theory on art and the Iraq war in spring paints with the confidence of a skilled Community College’s annual Au Naturel: 2011. “Throughout those times I used the practice of artist who knows her style and her sub- The Nude In The 21st Century in both painting to digest the stagecraft around me, earning gal- ject matter. Rowland carefully cultivates 2009 and 2013. She has also exhibited lery representation and solo shows, and eventually taking imagery that is a balance between rep- her work in the multi-venue exhibition on painting as a vocation,” he writes. resentation and abstraction. Combining Nudes Downtown, 2013 held in con- Dr. Rutz has created new paintings specifically for Muscle Up quiet corners of complex layers of sheer junction with CCC’s Art Center Gallery’s this solo show in which he works with “a two-part rule: color with definitive mark and gesture exhibition. measure and move.” This approach echoes the intention Dr. Rutz will also conduct a workshop entitled “Embrac- making, she conveys emotion; a hint of Imogen Gallery is located at 240 of Cézanne as described by French phenomenological ing Messy Beginnings (with a Live Model)” on Friday, Oc- melancholy, comfort and acceptance 11th Street, Open Monday through philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty, as an exploration of within each composition. Saturday, 11:00 to 5:00, 11:00 to 4:00 the interplay between “the stable things which we see and tober 11 from 10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. during which he will Rowland readily sights such artists as each Sunday and closed Wednesdays. the shifting way in which they appear.” Rutz builds multiple share his own unique process of working with a live model Phil Sylvester of The Drawing Studio in 503.468.0620. www.imogengallery.com perspectives into his work, which simulates the natural with workshop participants. visual fluctuations of human perception, unlike the static, The workshop will be held in the Drawing/Painting monocular method of Renaissance perspective that im- Studio of the CCC Art Center, and is free to Earth Embrace: mobilizes objects by dictating absolute positions in space. CCC students currently enrolled in credit classes and A Collaborative Exhibition at RiverSea Gallery “With each spot of canvas I paint, I move my head to a new location. Working with a live model I measure every open to the general public for a $15 fee. Space is limited Showing at RiverSea Gallery in As- of our world, and a celebration of the body part—every toe, collar bone, and eyeball—rendering and pre-registration is required. To register, contact Kristin toria for the month of October is Earth preciousness and beauty of our planet. them on canvas exactly the same size as in life. Shauck at 503-338-2472 or [email protected]. Embrace, a collaborative exhibition of A reception will be held during Astoria’s ceramic Second sculpture Saturday The Last Spooky Show and mixed Artwalk At LightBox Gallery media on Octo- 12th from 6-9pm. LightBox invites you Visit the gallery show page for com- work by ber 12, to join them for their fun show of the plete information at http://lightbox- northwest from 5:00 year with select Spooky images juried photographic.com/shows/ . artists Les- by Michael and Chelsea Granger of Also opening on this night is the lie Green to 8:00 LightBox. new collection of MobileMagic and Anna pm, with In it’s fifth year of a tradition started prints for the monthly Cell Phone Wiancko. music in October of 2009 to celebrate the Photography exhibit. Each month Both art- played by month of Halloween and the spooky LightBox features prints of cell phone ists share Wes Wah- history of Astoria, the exhibit features a passion imagery from around the world. Every rmund. photographic images that are haunt- and submission to MobileMagic is printed The art- ing, mysterious, evoking a sense of concern as a quality archival print and sent work will unease while maintaining an element for earth’s remain of beauty. The works of 44 photogra- to the photographer. Visit http:// living en- on exhibit phers from across the country are pre- lightbox-photographic.com/mobile- vironment magic/ for info on these exhibits and through Stacie Turner, Sheets sented with a variety of photographic and our “Table of Plenty” by Anna Wiancko, ceramic processes represented, including submissions. essential and mixed media, 36”x48”x35”h. October LightBox Photographic Gal- traditional silver gelatin prints and a LightBox is located at 1045 Marine connec- 29th. lery hosts the artists’ reception and variety of alternative methods. The Dr. in Astoria. Hours are Tues-Sat 11- tion to nature, which they express in RiverSea Gallery is located at 1160 opening of “The Last Spooky Show“ Spooky Show IV will be on display at 5:30. Contact them at 503-468-0238 differing artistic styles. This body of work Commercial, Astoria. Open Daily. exhibit Saturday evening October the gallery through November 5th. or [email protected] is both a statement about the condition 503.325.1270 oct13 hipfishmonthly.com 20 43rd Annual Fall Peninsula ••• music • visual arts • literarylecture • outdoor • theater••• The Don of Division Street. Americana- The Don of Division Street. Americana- LECTURE Art Association Show Thursday 17 soaked Pop. No cover, 9pm at the Adrift soaked Pop. No cover, 8pm at the Adrift Ales and Ideas. LibraryMeme: Transmit- October 11 - 14 Hotel in Long Beach. Hotel in Long Beach. ting the Power of Libraries through Story. MUSIC Candice Watkins, CCC Library Director, Naomi Hooley & Rob Stroup. No cover, Jacob Merlin Band. No cover, 9pm at Misner and Smith. No cover. 8pm at Fort The Peninsula Art Association’s oldest, continued art event Roadhouse 101 in Lincoln City. George Brewery & Public House in Astoria. discusses how libraries and librarians are receives an addition this year…The Fall Small Wall! More informa- 8pm at the Adrift Hotel in Long Beach. essential to the heart of a modern, global Third Seven & Ol Mountain Due. No tion on this is coming, but it is guaranteed to be brilliant. Another FOOD & DRINK CINEMA community. Free, 7pm at the Fort George cover, 9pm at the Voodoo Room in Astoria. Astoria International Film Festival. $5 Lovell Showroom in Astoria. change is the venue…the show moves to the Old Depot Building Fundraising Dinner. $7 for adults and $5 for children includes. 5 - 6:30pm at the Thunder Road. 9pm at the Snug Harbor per film, $44 for All Event Pass. At various at 3rd and Pacific in Long Beach. This historic building, with natural locations in Astoria. Schedule at liberty- LITERARY Peninsula Senior Activity Center in Klipsan Bar & Grill in Lincoln City. light and high ceilings, will house the art show and the PAA office, theater.org/events.php Dark & Stormy Nights Series. With mys- Beach. CINEMA tery author Chelsea Cain. Free, 4:30pm at just steps away, will host Inspired Creations and artist demonstra- Gasland 2. Film and discussion presented HAPPENING Finnish Film Series. Two documentaries the Driftwood Public Library in Lincoln City. tions. 50 artists are expected to exhibit in a grouping of five cat- will be shown. “Solveig – The Life and by presented by Columbia Riverkeeper and Fall Into Art. Includes wine and hors de Artwork of Solveig Arneng Johnson” and Columbia Pacific Common Sense. Free, THEATER egories. People’s Choice Ribbon has the honor of being top prize ourvres, buffet supper, live music, dancing, “Andrea Hansen – Strings Across the Sky.” 2pm at the Columbian Theater in Astoria. Sight Unseen. Comedy. Reader’s Theater. in the show, with visitors being handed a ballot to choose their silent auction and art sale. $50, 5:30 $15, 7pm at the McTavish Room at the Free , 11am at the Appelo Archives Center FOOD & DRINK favorite work. The winner of this public vote will be announced at – 10:30pm at the Lincoln City Cultural in Naselle. Liberty Theater in Astoria. Center. 503-812-7813 Pancake Breakfast. All-you-can-eat the Artists’ Reception…public invited! Astoria International Film Festival. $5 for $5, 8am – noon at the Bay City Arts Ghost of a Chance. Comedy. 8pm at Inspired Creations Shopping Experience, featuring art and art WBCA Pool Tournament. At Chinook per film, $44 for All Event Pass. At various Center. Theater West in Lincoln City. Winds in Lincoln City. 888-CHINOOK inspired work for same-day purchase, allows even more art from locations in Astoria. Schedule at liberty- Cannon Beach American Legion Break- the exhibiting artists to be on view. An art raffle, of member and LECTURE theater.org/events.php fast. $7 adults, $3 children under 6. 9 Friday 25 public donated work, benefits the PAA High School Graduate Listening to the Land. Hug Point is Really FOOD & DRINK – 11:30am at the American Legion Hall in MUSIC Scholarship Fund and the Art Enrichment Program. Free admission the Mouth of the Columbia River (And Wine Tasting. Longshadows. 1 – 4pm at Cannon Beach. Country Music Jam. Free, 7 – 9pm at the There’s Nothing You Can Do About It!) With the Cellar on 10th in Astoria HAPPENING Wickiup Senior Center in Svensen. ~ street parking is available! Visit the PAA new home, the art and Geologist Tom Horning. Free, 6 – 8pm at Winemaker’s Dinner. Longshadows. 6pm, WBCA Pool Tournament. At Chinook Steelhead. No cover, 7pm at the Sand the fabulous Old Depot Building! the seaside Public Library. reservations required. At the Cellar on 10th Winds in Lincoln City. 888-CHINOOK October 11 – 14, 10 to 5 pm Friday, Saturday, Sunday, 10 to Trap Pub in Gearhart. LITERARY in Astoria. 503-325-6600 2 pm Monday. New Location The Old Depot Building & PAA Of- LECTURE Styx. Classic Rock. $40 - $55, 8pm at Dark & Stormy Nights Series. With best- HAPPENING In Their Footsteps Lecture Series. Chinook Winds in Lincoln City. fice, 3rd and Pacific Hwy (north of Dennis Co), Long Beach, WA selling mystery author Phil Margolin. Free, Oktoberfest – Chinook Style. A fund- Meriwether Lewis’s Traveling Library. Pretend Sweethearts. No cover, 9pm at 4:30pm at the Driftwood Public Library raiser dinner & silent auction. At Chinook With Junius Rochester. 1pm at the Netul the Adrift Hotel in Long Beach. in Lincoln City. School in Chinook. FMI, go to friendsofchi- Room at the Visitor Center at Fort Clatsop, nookschool.org Warrenton. FOOD & DRINK THEATER Wild Mushroom Celebration. Wild Mush- Game Day at the Library. Relax and have Ghost of a Chance. Comedy. 8pm at THEATER room & Pike Brewing Company Dinner. fun with family and friends at the library’s Shadows and Light Theater West in Lincoln City. Murder at Checkmate Manor. A murder At the Shelburne Restaurant in Seaview. free monthly Game Day. Choose from a mystery comedy. $6 -$15, 2pm at the Reservations at 360-642-2442. Cannon Beach Gallery wide variety of board games, card games, ASOC Playhouse in Astoria. Friday 18 and LEGO® bricks for all ages. 2 – 4pm at HAPPENING The Cannon Beach Gallery MUSIC the Astoria Public Library. Monday 21 Halloween Dance Party. With DJ Decel. will host an invitational group Daric Moore. Local singer/songwriter Daric Law Enforcement of the Year Awards. Ages 21 and over, no host bar. $5 cover, Moore introduces new songs. Doors open 2pm at the Warrenton Community Center. FOOD & DRINK $3 in costume. 9pm at the Astoria Arts and show, Shadow and Light from Ice Cream Social. The public is invited for Movement Center, Ball Room. 342 10th 8pm. $5. Cocktails. KALA, 1017 Marine Oregon Coast Scenic Railroad Pumpkin October 5-28, 2013 with an Artist’s Drive in Astoria. cake & ice cream + birthday celebration. St, 2nd Flr, Astoria. Trains. Trains will be running from Garibaldi $1 suggested donation, free if it’s your Reception on Saturday, October Super Water Sympathy. No cover, 7pm at 11:00 am, 1:00 pm and 3:00 pm. This Free North Coast Legal Clinic. Free ad- birthday month. 2pm at the Peninsula vice on civil matters available at this Walk- 5 from 5-7pm. Shadow and Light at the Sand Trap pub in Gearhart. is a 1 hour round trip. For tickets and more Senior Activity Center in Klipsan Beach. information please call 503-842-7972 in Clinic at Community Action in Tillamook. was curated by Susan C. Walsh, Sara Jackson-Holman. No cover, 9pm at Appointments can be made from 1-4 PM a Manzanita based artist who sits the Adrift Hotel in Long Beach. Oregon Coast Scenic Railroad’s Fall Tuesday 22 by contacting 887-296-4076 Splendor. Departs from Wheeler. For on the CBAA’s Gallery Committee. CINEMA tickets and more information please call CINEMA THEATER Walsh invited ten regional artists Astoria International Film Festival. $5 503-842-7972 Coming to Light: Edward S Curtis and Murder at Checkmate Manor. A murder to explore the subject of shadow per film, $44 for All Event Pass. At various United Paws Monthly Adoption Day. This the North American Plains Indians. Free, mystery comedy. $5, 7pm at the ASOC locations in Astoria. Schedule at liberty- 6pm at the Naselle Timberland Library. Playhouse in Astoria. and light in both two and three is a great time to stop in and see all the theater.org/events.php kittens, cats and dogs that need new for- dimensional work.“The hope is FOOD & DRINK Ghost of a Chance. Comedy. 8pm at HAPPENING ever homes. Noon – 3pm at the Tillamook Taste of Home Cooking School. $10, Theater West in Lincoln City. that you will walk away from this Jean Erhardt, Armando, Roller Derby. Roller Horror Picture Show: County Fairgrounds. doors open at 5pm at Chinook Winds in show with a feeling of the amaz- 24 x 24, oil on wood Shanghaied Roller Dolls vs. Willamette Kid- WBCA Pool Tournament. At Chinook Lincoln City. Saturday 26 ing power of art to transform an abstract concept into work that ney Thieves. Spectators are encouraged to Winds in Lincoln City. 888-CHINOOK wear costumes and ticket holders dressed Wednesday 23 MUSIC provokes thought and compassion for the human experience,” LITERARY GreenhornBluehorn. No cover, 9pm at in costume will receive a commemorative Poetry Appreciation. Poetry, Poems, and the Adrift Hotel in Long Beach. Walsh explained about the show.The artists in the show are Carol Shanghaied Roller Dolls button at the door. FOOD & DRINK Ferris, Claudia Johnson, Susan Walsh, Jean Erhardt, Linda Cook, Poets will be discussed during this hour Spice 101: Cooking with Spices. Free, Troll Radio Revue. Americana. $2 for Tickets available online at brownpap- long group meeting. 2 – 3pm at Necani- 6pm at Pat’s Pantry in Astoria. Mike Cook, William Walsh, Andrea Mace, Liza Jones, Paul Miller adults, free for children. 11am – noon at ertickets.com or at the door. 8pm at the cum Village assisted Living and Memory the PAC in Astoria. and Shirley Kishiyama. Clatsop County Fairgrounds near Astoria. Care in Seaside. HAPPENING Dragon Daze. For children & families. En- The Highwaymen. Country. $15 - $30 Manzanita Writers’ Series. Author Whit- WBCA Pool Tournament. At Chinook ter the world of dragons and knights, royals 7:30pm at the Liberty Theater in Astoria. Winds in Lincoln City. 888-CHINOOK ney Otto will read from “Eight Girls Taking and wizards. Enjoy exciting stories, games Styx. Classic Rock. $40 - $55, 8pm at Pictures” + Open Mic session. $7, 7pm at and activities. Discover your royal name, OUTSIDE the Hoffman Center in Manzanita. Chinook Winds in Lincoln City. Mike’s Bike Shop Team Pride Golf Tourney. Football jump the moat monster, pin the flame on Writers on the Edge. Poets Toni Hanner Blues Evolution. 9pm at the Snug Harbor Jerseys, Hockey Sweaters, Baseball Shirts, the dragon, and more. Free, 3:30pm at the Est. 1974 & Allan Peterson will read from their work. Naselle Timberland Library. Bar & Grill in Lincoln City. and the one day we’ll allow Basketball Tank Open Mic session follows. $6, 7pm at the The Tommy Hogan Band. No cover, 9pm Tops. $55/player, cart rental $15/player. Newport Visual Arts Center. THEATER 1pm shotgun start at the Gearhart Hotel. Sight Unseen. Comedy. Reader’s Theater. at Roadhouse 101 in Lincoln City. THEATER $15 7pm at the McTavish Room at the CINEMA THEATER Murder at Checkmate Manor. A murder Liberty Theater in Astoria. Murder at Checkmate Manor. A murder 180 Degrees South. $7, 7:30pm at the mystery comedy. $6 - $15, 7pm at the Hoffman Center in Manzanita. ELECTRA Townie 7 D mystery comedy. $5, 7pm at the ASOC ASOC Playhouse in Astoria. Playhouse in Astoria. Thursday 24 Women’s 6 color choices Ghost of a Chance. Comedy. 8pm at FOOD & DRINK Relaxed “flat foot technology” Ghost of a Chance. Comedy. 8pm at Theater West in Lincoln City. MUSIC Wine Tasting. Big Reds. 1 – 4pm at the #1 Comfort Bike in the USA Theater West in Lincoln City. Pretend Sweethearts. No cover, 8pm at Cellar on 10th in Astoria the Adrift Hotel in Long Beach. Sunday 20 HAPPENING Saturday 19 FOOD & DRINK Haunted Library. What lurks in the Astoria MUSIC Cannon Beach MUSIC Wild Mushroom Culinary Exploration. Public Library after dark? Find out if you Bob Brook. Jazz. 2 – 5pm at the Nehalem This demonstration-based workshop fea- dare! Cost of admission is $1 for teen Acustica. World Music. 7 – 9pm at the (503) 436-1266 Beehive. tures Chefs Sharon Wiest, Rob Pounding, programming or a can of food for the food Cove @Night in Long Beach. North Oregon Coast Symphony. $12 and Justin Wills. $100, 3 – 7pm at the bank. Children 10 and under must be Eliza Rickman & Richie Young. No cover, adults, 12 and under free with adult. 3pm Sitka Center for Arts and Ecology north of accompanied by an adult. 6 – pm at the mikesbike.com 8pm at the Sou’wester Lodge in Seaview. at the PAC in Astoria. Lincoln City. 541-994-5485 Astoria Public Library.

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Oregon Coast Scenic Railroad’s Fall HAPPENING Halloween Party. Prizes, fun, games and Friday Splendor. Departs from Wheeler. For Oregon Coast Poker Championships: Thursday 31 Skareoke with Mike. 9pm at the Snug tickets and more information please call DeepStacks Poker Tour. At Chinook MUSIC MUSIC Harbor Bar & Grill in Lincoln City. Bill Hayes. Rock/Folk/Bluegrass. No cover, 5 – 8pm at the Cannon Beach Cookie Company. 503-842-7972 Winds in Lincoln City. The Defibulators. No cover, 8pm at the LITERARY Mix & Mingle Jazz Night. With jazz guitarist Wes Wahrmund & friends. Refreshments will be served. Creatures of the Night. Featuring a Adrift Hotel in Long Beach. Free, 6 – 8:30pm at the Cannon Beach Gallery. Dark & Stormy Nights Series. With true haunted maze, spooky creatures and Monday 28 Tom Trudell. Jazz piano. No cover, 6– 9pm at the Shelburne Restaurant & Pub in Seaview, WA. HAPPENING crime author Ann Rule. Free, 4:30pm at scares aplenty. Admission: 2 cans of Halloween Hellorium. Fort George Brew- Asleep at the Switch. Blues, Country, 40’s, & 50’s. Free (donations accepted), 6 – 8pm at the City HAPPENING the Driftwood Public Library in Lincoln City. Hall in Garibaldi. food, 6:30 – 8:30pm at the Oregon Coast Oregon Coast Poker Championships: ery Halloween Bash. Thomasian Trio & Maggie Kitson. Blues/Classic Rock. No cover, 7-11pm at Sweet Basil’s Café in Aquarium in Newport. DeepStacks Poker Tour. At Chinook Neewollah Daze. A costume and poster Cannon Beach. THEATER Winds in Lincoln City. contest for children of all ages. 4pm at the Ghost of a Chance. Comedy. 8pm at Open Mic. Musicians, singers and comedians are all welcome. Each performer will receive $1 off THEATER Bank of the Pacific in Cathlamet. pints of beer or cider. Perform or just enjoy the show. 7:30 – 9:30pm at Hondo’s Brew & Cork in Murder at Checkmate Manor. A murder Theater West in Lincoln City. Astoria, Hess Mansion Tours. Hear locals tell true mystery comedy. $6 -15, 7pm at the ASOC Tuesday 29 HAPPENING stories of poltergeists, dementia, exorcisms Friday Night Mixer. Enjoy a social hour at the gallery, with art and conversation, plus beverages Playhouse in Astoria. MUSIC and demons; sharing what has gone on Friday 1 provided by Astoria Coffeehouse. 5 – 7pm at Imogen Gallery in Astoria. Ghost of a Chance. Comedy. 8pm at The Defibulators. No cover, 8pm at the in this old house over the last 100 years. Tickets are $5, available at Gannaway MUSIC Theater West in Lincoln City. Adrift Hotel in Long Beach. Saturday Jewelers. 6 – 9:30pm at 92388 Wireless The Resolectrics. Rock/R&B/Soul. No MUSIC Wednesday 30 Road, Astoria. cover, 9pm at the Adrift Hotel in Long Musician’s Jam. Free, 2 – 4pm at the Tillamook Library. Sunday 27 Sunset Thriller & Fall Fun Fest. A Beach. Jennifer Goodenberger. Classical/Improvisational/Contemporary piano music. No cover, 6pm at the MUSIC MUSIC haunted house for ages 6 years & Shelburne Restaurant in Seaview, WA older and a carnival for ages 12 years and HAPPENING North Coast Symphonic Band. Classics & Grandma Kelsey & Lionsweb. No cover, The Honky Tonk Cowboys. Country. No cover, 7 – 10p at the Astoria Moose Lodge. younger. This event is free for pass holders, Business Hazardous Waste Collection Curiosities directed by David Becker. 2pm 8pm at the Adrift Hotel in Long Beach. FOOD & DRINK all others $2 at the door. (under 3 is free) Day. By appointment only at the Tillamook Wine Tasting Special. $9 for 4 2-oz pours + complimentary appetizers. 4 – 6pm at the Wine Bar at at the PAC in Astoria. HAPPENING or 2 cans of food for the South County Sweet Basil’s Café in Cannon Beach. Transfer Station. 503-815-3975 The Highwaymen. Country. 2 – 4pm at Hess Mansion Tours. Hear locals tell true Food Bank. This event includes a cakewalk, carnival games, cookies and punch, music Sunday the Tillamook High School Auditorium. stories of poltergeists, dementia, exorcisms Comedy on the Coast. $15, 8pm at and hair-raising haunting you’ll never for- and demons; sharing what has gone on Chinook Winds in Lincoln City. MUSIC 503-842-2078 get! 5 – 8pm at Sunset Pool in Seaside. All That Jazz. Jazz. No cover (donations accepted). 2pm at the Wet Dog Café in Astoria. in this old house over the last 100 years. GreenhornBluehorn. No cover, 8pm at Trick-or-Treat Tanger Style. For children Oregon Coast Poker Championships: North Coast Country Band. No cover, 3 – 6pm at the Astoria Moose Lodge. Tickets are $5, available at Gannaway the Adrift Hotel in Long Beach. under the age of 12. 5 – 7pm or until the DeepStacks Poker Tour. At Chinook Brian Johnstone, Flamenco/Jazz/Blues. 5 – 7pm at the Wine Bar at Sweet Basil’s Café in Cannon Jewelers. 6 – 9:30pm at 92388 Wireless Beach. candy runs out. At the Tanger Outlet Center Winds in Lincoln City. Polecat. No cover. 8pm at Fort George Road, Astoria. in Lincoln City. The Thomasian Trio with Maggie Kitson. Jazz/Blues/Classic Rock. 7pm at Moody’s Supper House Brewery & Public House in Astoria. in Seaside. Oregon Coast Poker Championships: Oregon Coast Poker Championships: THEATER Steve Sloan. 8:30pm at the Snug Harbor Bar & Grill in Lincoln City. Hannah & Fred. 8:30pm at the Snug DeepStacks Poker Tour. At Chinook DeepStacks Poker Tour. At Chinook Ghost of a Chance. Comedy. 8pm at HAPPENING Harbor Bar & Grill in Lincoln City. Winds in Lincoln City. Winds in Lincoln City. Theater West in Lincoln City. Indoor Winter Farmers Market. 4 – 5 farmers will vend every week. 2 – 5pm at the Nehalem Beehive. Monday What was your first memory of libraries to individuals and us what you do believe, not Seascape Poetry HAPPENING of a librarian? What does a communities. what you don’t believe. Avoid Burgers & Jam Session. 6 – 9pm at the American Legion Hall in Cannon Beach. Festival and Contest Tuesday library mean to you? What kinds Keep your story at 500 words speaking in the editorial “we.” MUSIC of transformative experiences or less. Also, when you tell your Make your essay about you; Seascape Poetry Festival will be Richard T. Blues. No cover, 5:30 – 8:30pm at T Paul’s Supper Club in Astoria. have you had in your life be- story, keep in mind the follow- speak in the first person. held October 12 in Lincoln City. It Brian O’Connor. Jazz guitar. No cover, 6pm at the Shelburne Inn in Seaview, WA will feature readings, workshops and cause of libraries? ing guidelines. This is NPR’s Be personal: Write in words Salty Dogs. Folk/Blues/Classic Rock. No cover, 6:30pm at the U Street Pub in Seaside. discussion by four well-known Oregon Bruce Thomas Smith. Acoustic. 7:30pm at Moody’s Supper House in Seaside. We need your story! The Prompt for the This I Believe and phrases that are comfort- writers and publishers, A. Molotkov, Open Jam. Hosted by One Way Out. 8:30pm at the Snug Harbor Bar & Grill in Lincoln City. Oregon Library Association series, http://thisibelieve.org/ able for you to speak. We Duane Poncy, Patricia McLean and HAPPENING along with Candice Watkins, guidelines/: recommend you Teen Tuesdays. Free special events just for teens in 6th through 12th grades. Activities include movie the Library Director Ger Killeen. It will include an open making, video game nights, crafts, and movie nights. 3:30 – 4:30pm at the Seaside Library. FMI visit read your essay mic for public participants. seasidelibrary.org at Clatsop Com- aloud to yourself The general theme will be poems munity College, Wednesday several times, and of peace and/or justice. and KMUN Coast A morning workshop 9am to Noon MUSIC Community Radio each time edit it George Coleman. Pop/Jazz/Folk/Rock. 5:30 – 9pm at Shelburne Restaurant and Pub in Seaview. and simplify it until will be conducted by A. Molotkov. The Coconuts. Swing/Jazz/Country/Bluegrass/Folk. 6pm at the Wine Bar at Sweet Basil’s Café in invites people from Prior submission of work and pre- Cannon Beach. you find the words, all walks of life to registration are suggested. Salty Dogs. Folk/Blues/Classic Rock. No cover, 6pm at the Rio Café in Astoria, tone, and story Jam Session. No cover, 7pm-ish – 10pm at the Moose Lodge in Astoria. contribute their The Poetry Contest submission Moody’s Music Jam. Bruce Thomas Smith will host a music jam every Wednesday. Everyone is voices to an audio In Libraries I Believe! that truly echo your deadlines past. Winners will be an- welcome. 7 – 9pm at Moody’s Supper House in Seaside. project in Clatsop belief and the way nounced during the festival at the Dan Golden. World Music. 7:30 – 10:30pm at McKeown’s Restaurant & Bar in Seaside. It’s story-time but this time County. Basically, you speak. Congregational Church in Lincoln HAPPENING Ecstatic Dance. Spirit-filled, freestyle, yogic trance dance. $5 - $7, 6:30 – 7:45pm, at Pine Grove we need interest- YOU tell the story! The deadline for City, 1760 NW 25th Street. Community House in Manzanita ing stories; stories submitting essays Duane Poncy and Patricia J. SPIRITUAL about your life and CCC Library Story Project is Friday, Decem- McLean will present a program on Ocean Within Awareness Group. Mission: to actively move toward our true nature and become one with the Ocean Within. Meetings will have two short meditation sessions, group discussions, and a how a library, read- ber 1, 2013. The the “State of Poetry, Publication and focus practice for the week. All faiths/paths welcome. 6:30 – 7:30pm at the Astoria Indoor Garden ing, or a person in the library authors of the selected essays Activism” at the Seascape Poetry Supply. FMI 503-741- 7626 Tell a story: Be specific. Take Festival in Lincoln City at 1:30pm. has impacted you. The story will be invited to narrate their Thursday your belief out of the ether and The couple, founders of Elohi Ga- may be funny, sad, empower- essays for recording. The re- ground it in the events of your dugi Journal and The Habit of Rainy MUSIC ing, or…the sky’s the limit. It’s cordings may air individually or Brian O’Connor. Jazz. 6pm at the Shelburne Inn in Seaview. really up to you! life. Think of your own experi- Nights Press in Portland, are activists Live Music. No cover, 6pm at U Street Pub in Seaside. be compiled into a single radio The project focuses on ence, work, and family, and tell for peace and justice and the editors Paul Dueber. Folk music from the 70s and 80s. No cover, 6 – 8pm at the Cannon Beach Hardware show or podcast. The interviews of Raising Our Voices: An Anthology & Pub. libraries and the important role of the things you know that will air on KMUN and will also of Oregon Poets Against the War, The Thomasian Trio. Jazz/Blues/Classic Rock. No cover, 6pm at Twisted Fish Steakhouse in Seaside. that they play in our lives. The no one else does. Your story Basin Street NW. Jazz. No cover, 6:30pm at the Bridgewater Bistro in Astoria. be available online through honored as one of the 150 most im- format will be based on NPR’s need not be heart-warming or Steamin’ Stan Ruffo. Blues/Jazz/Soul/Rock. No cover, 7 – 10pm at Moody’s Supper House in portant books of poetry in Oregon. gut-wrenching—it can even be the Oregon Library Association Seaside. “This I Believe” series, which re- Poncy is a life-long activist, writer, Jim Wilkins. 7pm at the Voodoo Room in Astoria. cords people’s personal beliefs funny—but it should be real. website. Please submit your Salty Dogs. Folk/Blues/Classic Rock. No cover, 9pm at Sam’s Seaside Café in Seaside. essays to cwatkins@clatsopcc. and advocacy journalist, with numer- and showcases them on public Be brief: Your statement ous peace, justice, environmental, ART edu or mail directly to Candice Knitting/Spinning Group. 3 – 5pm at the Astoria Fiber Arts Academy. radio. Similar to that series, should be between 350 and union, and feminist publications. Watkins, Clatsop Community HAPPENING contributors are asked to write 500 words. That’s about three FMI: Opening Door at 541- Trivia Night. Bring a team or just bring yourself and test your knowledge of useless (or possibly useful) a brief essay based on their minutes when read aloud at College Library, 1680 Lexing- 921-1395 or 503-392-3717 or facts. 6pm at the Ship Inn in Astoria. ton, Astoria, OR 97013. Contact Poet & Songwriters Circle. If you are interested in writing poetry/songs, please drop in and join the personal beliefs and/or experi- your natural pace. email Lincoln City Congregational group. 7pm at the Bay City Arts Center. ences with libraries. The goal Be positive: Please avoid Candice with questions at (503) Church [email protected] or is to highlight the importance preaching or editorializing. Tell 338-2460. [email protected]. oct13 hipfishmonthly.com 22 word. Eight Girls Taking Pictures: Whitney Otto IN REVIEW: NORTH COAST By Charles LeGuin at the Hoffman Center Peninsulas and Islands: A Tale for Coastal Communities October 19 By Margaret Hammitt-McDonald particular struggles creative tography exhibit highlighting The classical Latin poet Catul- Kim overhears his Eng- lus addresses his homeland, Sirmio, lish instructor enthusing women faced in the past the work of local women. as “Paene insularum”: “almost to the librarian about an century. As author Sena Jeter Admission for the evening island.”[1] Peninsulas like Sirmio essay Steve had written Naslund put it, “What makes is $7. cast themselves into the sea with comparing Wuther- Eight Girls Taking Pictures so WORKSHOP: On Saturday the hopefulness of that first strand ing Heights to Native remarkable is its simultaneous from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Otto in a spiderweb, where the weaver American legends and is sharp focus and wide-angle will lead a writing workshop: hurls thread and self into space in troubled by the librarian’s lens.” – Powell’s.com Interview “Memoir/Fiction: Is there a search of an anchor. Peninsulas are racist disparagement of by C.P.Farley bridges between the security of the Steve, who is of Canadian Whitney Otto is the author mainland and the independence— First Nations and French of five novels: How To Make and arrogance—of an island. Canadian ancestry. When an American Quilt, which was Charles Le Guin’s novel, North Kim shares his dismay Coast, is a peninsula of a story. Set with his parents, they a New York Times Best Seller in the fictional community of Bridg- strive for an uneasy bal- (as well as other bestseller lists) Whitney Otto reads from er Bay, the protagonists—Kim, the ance between critiquing and NY Times Notable Book; her book Eight Girls Taking narrator, and Steve, who becomes her attitude and defend- nominated for the Los Angeles Pictures at the Hoffman Center his closest friend and briefly his ing her as a neighbor. The Times Art Seidenbaum Award, at 7pm on Saturday, October lover—reach out between individu- retiring Kim is inspired and adapted into a feature film als, cultures, and elements. Impor- to provide Steve with 19, 2013. produced by Steven Spiel- tant locales begin in one realm and the welcome he assumes Otto’s new novel explores the berg. Now You See Her was stretch into another: Kim’s treetop more than one neighbor ambitions, passions, conflicts nominated for an Oregon Book retreat; the cottage belonging to has refused to extend and and desires of eight female Award, and optioned for film. the elder Mary, situated on a for- invites Steve to his home than on the ground, in the different photographers throughout the The Passion Dream Book was a ested shoreline; Steve’s hang glider, after school. This visit is the first of communities where he has lived. by which earth-born mortal is borne many, and as their friendship deep- twentieth century. This spectac- Los Angeles Times bestseller, On graduation night, Steve joins into the sky. Even the structure of ens, Kim invites Steve into his most ular cast of spirited, larger-than- optioned for a film, and an Kim in his retreat and they reveal, life women offers wide-ranging the novel is peninsular: a frame private of spaces: the treehouse- both to each other and them- Oregonian Book Club selection. story from which the older Kim like aerie Kim’s grandfather had insight about the times in which selves, their love for each other. A Collection of Beauties at the reaches back to a decisive moment built and his father bequeathed to Now Kim has even more reason to they lived. From San Francisco Height of Their Popularity was in his youth. him as a retreat away from parental look forward to going to college to New York, London, Berlin, a Multnomah County Library difference?” Find out ways to The choice between being a oversight. together, only to have those hopes Buenos Aires, and Rome, Otto selection. Her novels have use the strategies of narrative peninsula or an island is a choice Steve, who with his reserved dissolve when he arrives at col- spins a magical, romantic tale been published in fourteen to engage the reader, even it presented to residents of small nature is a kindred spirit to Kim, lege and Steve does not appear. that creates a compelling por- languages. means reworking some of the communities all the time. They demonstrates his trust for his Later he learns that Steve has gone trait of the history of feminism Following Otto’s reading and nonessential facts (‘nonessen- can extend their community-as- friend when he invites Kim to meet south with a co-worker from the and of photography. Q&A, we’ll have our popular tial’ being key.) Open to writers extended-family ethos to other Mary, an elder of the local Pacific communities or can distort that Northwest people (like Bridger Bay, hang-gliding shop. As an older man Through the fascinating lives Open Mic where up to nine interested in both fiction and principle in order to exclude “out- invented for the world of the novel). recalling this formative episode of these eight unconventional local writers will read 5 minutes memoir. For details and to reg- siders,” including anyone who lives Among other things, Mary had from his youth, Kim laments that women, the reader not only of their original work. Admis- ister, go to hoffmanblog.org. among them but whom they wish taught Steve the legend he cited he never sees Steve again and, al- travels the arc of 20th century sion is $7. The Hoffman Center is to exclude for whatever worn-out in his essay. From Steve’s example, though he returns to his hometown history, technology, and art but That evening the Hoffman located (across from Manzanita reason of religious affiliation, skin Kim learns to approach Mary with to teach at his old high school, he is brought face to face with the Center will also present a pho- Library at 594 Laneda Avenue.) color, sexual orientation, economic respectful attention rather than never meets anyone to replace the status, and so forth. North Coast intrusive questions, and she shares man he loved and almost immedi- is primarily the quiet story of a her knowledge and experiences ately lost. Just Breathe: A Mother’s Story with Honey Perkel diffident young man awakened to with them both. Learning from her North Coast is a subtle work of the passions of an avocation and introduces Kim to the first consum- Seaside Library fiction. The structure of the narra- first love. But Bridger Bay speaks in ing interest of his life: Pacific North- On Thursday, of Brian’s growth Honey Perkel wrote this tive—older Kim reflecting back on its own fog — and tradition-bound west cultures. Although his parents October 24, The brought more outra- book hoping her story will help voice and Kim’s story—set in an wish for him to attend a prestigious the turning point of his life—lends Friends of the geous behavior and other parents raising mentally- undated past non-specific enough East Coast university, he decides itself to a tone of reverie, even Seaside Library host soon the couple challenged children and also to seem archetypal — is a story to attend the local college, which elegy, not passion. Some readers Honey Perkel author lost control of their hoping to give Brian’s life some for any community troubled by has a Pacific Northwest studies pro- may prefer more intensity: struggle of, “Just Breathe: A son. Through the rather than reflection. meaning. It is the story of let- tensions between the peninsular gram. He hopes that Steve, whose Mothers Story”. The years they took him and the island mentalities, between family is struggling financially, will Kim’s friendship with Steve ting go and in the end, instead event will take place to nine different bridges and fortresses. receive a scholarship there so they encourages him to grow, but does in the Community therapists, had him of saving her son; one mother is The narrator, Kim, is a high- can attend together. Bridger Bay grow as a community? Room at 7pm. hospitalized twice able to save herself. school student uncertain of his Steve is ambivalent about The elder Kim does not inform us “Just Breathe” for suicidal tenden- Honey is the author of, “A future direction. His father is the college: although he is a good stu- about this possibility. However, is the true journey cies, turned over Thousand Summers”, “Secrets president of the local bank (which dent, he knows he cannot afford to Kim’s fictional experience offers the of author Honey custody to the State at the Cove”, and “A Place his grandfather founded), who attend without either a scholarship opportunity for people in communi- has furnished Kim and his gentle, (which he is reluctant to accept) or a Perkel’s personal of Oregon, and was Called Paradise”, all of which ties like his, like ours, to consider cultured mother with a life of full-time job. The previous summer, tragedy. It is a finally estranged the possibility of collective growth, take place on the North Oregon unobtrusive prosperity. Until he he had worked at a hang-gliding story of growth, lost from him for nearly from islands sealed away from oth- Coast. She lives in Seaside with meets Steve, who is new that year shop to support himself. Enthralled dreams, and new ten years. Brian was ers (including the “others” within her husband. to the community and its school, by the freedom of drifting through dreams realized. plagued by inner demons and us) to peninsulas connecting sea to Seaside Library is located Kim floats through his life with the skies, he dedicates his energies, The Perkel’s son Brian began he was always searching for land, person to person. at 1131 Broadway. For more the insubstantial touch of coastal and his earnings, to purchasing a having raging tantrums when some path that would give him fog. Steve impresses him with his hang glider of his own. He tries to Peninsulas and Islands: A Tale for information call (503)738-6742 he was 15 months old. They the peace he longed for. His soft-spoken self-assurance, and he convince Kim to try gliding, but Coastal Communities first appeared thought it was the “terrible parents continually struggled to or visit us at www.seasidelibrary. decides he wants to befriend the Kim is no aviator and limits himself on the Upper Left Edge. Find a twos” coming early but that find him the help he needed. org and www.facebook.com/ thoughtful—and physically strik- to watching Steve soar above him, local copy of NORTH COAST at wasn’t the case. Each year seasidepubliclibrary ing—young man. at home and at ease in the air more Jupiter’s Books in Cannon Beach.

23 oct13 hipfishmonthly.com Flash Cuts film. Movies & Musings by Les Kanekuni

how the story ends, but director Paul Greengrass (United 93) is so skilled at creating a sense of realism in his movies that it doesn’t matter.

12Y earsA S lave(Oct. 18 limited release) As awards season gets underway, perhaps no other film has jumped to the Oscar contender shortlist faster after rave festival reviews. British director Steve McQueen tells the true life story of Simon Northrup (Chiwetel Ejiofor), a free black man from New York who was kidnapped and forced into slavery from 1841 to 1853. If last year’s Django Unchained looked at slavery through the lens of exploita- tion movies, 12 Years is a far more straightforward (to the point of extreme discomfort a times). Living a well-to-do life in Saratoga, New York, the violin- playing Northrup is duped by two would-be entertainers to join them in a job in Washington D.C. Once there, Northrup is drugged and wakes up in chains. When he tries to proclaim his free man status, he’s beaten savagely. A fellow slave advises Northrup that to survive he must say as little as possible and conceal his literacy. “I don’t want to survive, I want to live!” exclaims Northrup Gravity (Oct. 4) Children of Men director Alfonso Cuaron returns with Soon he’s on a boat to Louisiana in the custody of slave trader (Paul Giamatti) his first film in seven years with the space thriller Gravity. Essentially a two- who renames him Platt Hamilton and, after a degrading auction, sells him hander, Sandra Bullock stars as Dr. Ryan Stone, a medical engineer on her first to plantation owner Ford (Benedict Cumberbatch). A religious man, Ford is space mission. George Clooney plays Matt Kowalsky, a space vet on his last decent as times permit, even admiring and encouraging Northrup’s fiddle mission. Stone, Kowalsky and a third member of the team have left the space playing. But this provokes Northrup’s work boss Tibeats (Paul Dano), who shuttle to fix the Hubble telescope. The mood is jovial, at least for Kowalsky goads Northrup until he snaps and beats as jets around in his propelled suit. “Houston, I have a bad feeling about this Tibeats. To protect Northrup from Tibeats’ mission,” he jokes. Stone is far less jovial as she tries to get used to the effects revenge, Ford sells him to his worst owner of zero gravity while tethered to the Hubble. Kowalsky’s joke turns deadly yet, Edwin Epps (Michael Fassbinder), serious when Mission Control (Ed Harris, channeling his role in Apollo 13) a man who believes he can break any informs them that a nearby Russian satellite has blown up and the resultant slave. Epps is a drunk who also favors the debris field is moving toward them. Before the astronauts can react, they’re charms of beautiful slave Patsey (Lupita FINNISH FILMS •Naselle pelted with shrapnel, killing the third member. Stone’s tether is severed, Nyong’o), to the dismay of his wife (Sarah Series Kick-off sending her spinning helplessly into space. Kowalsky, with his propelled suit, Paulson) who takes out her jealousy on The film series featuring Finnish productions will begin is the only one who can save Stone, but even after reaching her, their troubles Patsey. When any hope for Northrup again on the third Saturday of each month starting October have just begun. With their shuttle damaged beyond repair, the two go on a escaping and rejoining his family seems 19th at the Appelo Archives Center, 1056 SR 4, Naselle, WA. harrowing journey to return to Earth alive, with air dwindling and abandoned lost, it is rekindled with the appearance On that day two 38 minute documentaries will be shown; space stations their only hope for survival. Cuaron spent four years making of Canadian carpenter Samuel Bass (Brad Solvieg, The Life and Art Work of Solveig Arneng Johnson, the short 90 min. film with groundbreaking special effects of the vistas of Pitt) who with Northup’s help, constructs and Andrea Hansen, Strings Across the Sky. space in long, unbroken takes which were very hard on the actors. a building on Epps’ property. Bass is an Kiersten Dunbar Chase produced, directed, and edited abolitionist and is not afraid to speak his Solveig - The Life and Artwork of Solveig Arneng Johnson. Tom Hanks stars as Captain Richard Phillips in CaptainP hillips(Oct. 11) mind on the subject. But Northrup, who Ms. Johnson was born in Kirkenes, Norway, in 1925. In the the true life drama of a ship captain struggling to protect his ship and crew has been betrayed by many white men, documentary she talks about her life during World War II, her from Somali pirates. In March 2009, New Englander Phillips leaves his wife is reluctant at first to put his fate in the indigenous Sami Identity, her art studies, her immigration to (Catherine Keener) behind to pilot a giant cargo ship down the coast of Oman hands of another one. America in 1949, and about the love of her life. She states, past Somalia to Kenya. The ship Maersk Alabama and crew are American “As a small child in Norway, I wanted to draw all the time. and the no-nonsense Phillips is acutely aware that their journey takes them The terrestrial counterpoint to In the Arctic north, drawing was a natural pastime for all the through pirate-infested waters. Meanwhile on the beaches of Eyl, Somalia, Allis L ost(Oct. 18 limited release) Gravity is writer/director J.C. Chandor’s All Is Lost. Chandor, who made an children.” Reflecting on her childhood in northern Norway, she young men with guns are being recruited to hijack the container ships for impressive debut with his financial crisis drama Margin Call, returns with a talks of the clarity of the air and the unique quality of the light. money and hostages which they intend to ransom. Two skiffs set out to with a man-against-the-sea survival tale with Robert Redford taking the lead Pirkko Karvonen produced Andrea Hansen - Strings Across board Phillips’s ship. With no arms on board, all Phillips can do is slowly (and only) role. While Margin Call took place in one location and was nearly the Sky. Ms. Hansen was born to Finnish parents in Kenora, maneuver his ship and set off his fire hoses. One skiff is drive off, but the 100% dialogue-driven, All Is Lost is nearly dialogue free and is basically a Ontario, and became a child prodigy at the age of three. other boards and takes possession of the ship, but can find no trace of the one-hander. While on a solo voyage in the Indian Ocean a man (Redford) In 1988 she began teaching fiddling in isolated villages in crew, only Phillips. Unbeknownst to them, Phillips has secreted his men in wakes up in his 39-foot yacht the Virginia Jean, to find a shipping container Canada while being a full time violinist with the Toronto Sym- the locked engine room. Thus begins a hostage crisis where the pirates led has smashed a hole in his hull. He manages to pump out the boat, but phony Orchestra. At that time she co-founded a non-profit for by Muse (Barkhad Abdi), turn the ship upside down while Phillips tries to stall seawater has ruined his electronics. He patches the hull, but with his naviga- the purpose of empowering high-arctic youth through music for time, knowing help is on the way. But whenever Phillips makes excuses, tion equipment destroyed, sails into the path of a vicious storm which he and the art of fiddling, a tradition which had died out in this the pirates, particularly hot-tempered Najee threaten to kill him. Even when barely survives. With the hull leaking again, he abandons ship for a rubber area. She has been labeled “Canada’s National Treasure” and Phillips attempts to buy the pirates off with $30,000, the pirates refuse, know- life raft. Using only a sextant and maps he navigates into a shipping lane, a “magical educator” who touches others profoundly and ir- ing the ship and crew are insured for a million. With the situation growing hoping for rescue from a passing ship. From there on out the narrative shifts revocably. She retired from the orchestra in 1999 but contin- desperate and a U.S. Navy ship bearing down on them, the pirates takes into the minutiae of survival – ever-present sharks, gathering water, endless ued work with the non-profit, Strings Across the Sky. Some of Phillips hostage in a small lifeboat. Anyone following the news lately knows sun. Reviews of the 71-year-old Redford’s nearly wordless performance have her first students have now returned to carry on the work she called it Oscar-worthy. started. Not only has she rekindled a music tradition in these villages, she has revitalized the villages themselves. TheC ounselor(Oct. 25) One of the most anticipated films of the fall is This free showing of the two inspirational films will begin at this one written by Cormac McCarthy, a film noir without heroes, where mor- 11:00 am. ally dubious characters do illegal things and usually pay the price. Although Academy Award winning films have been made of McCarthy’s novels with the means a $20M payday. Guards are paid off and a septic truck filled with Coen Brothers No Country For Old Men, this is the first original story written the cocaine is to cross and then be met by a drug runner on a motorcyle by the author for the screen. The Counselor (Michael Fassbinder) is a lawyer who will drive the load to Chicago. Meanwhile, the innocent Laura and whose love is Laura (Penelope Cruz). The Counselor wants nothing better not-so-innocent Malvina strike up a friendship of sorts. As is usual in the than to spend the rest of his life with Laura. Toward that end he intends to pitch black McCarthy universe, although the Counselor is warned of the get rich quick. Which in his border area means a drug deal. He meets with moral and personal consequences of his actions, he goes ahead with the the fabulously wealthy Reiner (Javier Bardem), who keeps house with beauti- deal. It all goes horribly wrong, of course, in an extremely complicated ful, sexy and intelligent Malvina (Cameron Diaz). They concoct a plan to enter plot that ends in a kind of bitter poetic justice for the survivors. Ridley the drug business without attracting the (deadly) attention of the cartels. Scotts directs. Diaz’s performance is already being touted as an Oscar Hatching a plan to move 625 kilos of cocaine across the Mexican border contender. oct13 hipfishmonthly.com 24 Featuring biking quips, quibbles, and some damn good advice from Margaret Hammitt-McDonald.

OctoberFREE WILL ASTROLOGY© Copyright 2013 Rob Brezsny By Margaret Hammitt-McDonald ARIES (March 21-April 19): Are you good at haggling? Do you discovered that British comedian Milton Jones tried a similar maybe even enjoy the challenge of negotiating for a better price, experiment. He did his stand-up act for a herd of cows on a farm of angling for a fairer deal? The coming week will be a favorable in Hertfordshire. I can’t speak for Jones’ motivations, but one of Cycling For Two, Part Three: time to make extensive use of this skill. According to my analysis the reasons I do my nature shows is because they bring out my of the astrological omens, you will thrive on having friendly wild, innocent, generous spirit. Now is a good time for you to do arguments with just about everyone, from your buddies to your something similar for yourself, Libra. What adventures can you External Passengers undertake that will fully activate your wild, innocent, generous significant other to your mommy to God Herself. Everywhere you There’s an spirit? unforgettable scene in your offspring might tolerate the ride go, I encourage you to engage in lively discussions as you ham- the documentary Babies that’s sure to better in a trailer. You can also use mer out compromises that will serve you well. Be cheerful and SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Are you anxious and agitated, enthrall or appall cycling parents: after trailers into your child’s preschool years, adaptable and forceful. afraid that you’re careening out of control? Is there a flustered their discharge from the hospital, a while they will outgrow an infant seat TAURUS (April 20-May 20): In David Markson’s experimental voice in your head moaning, “Stop the insanity!”? Well, relax, family from rural Mongolia takes their faster. novel Wittgenstein’s Mistress, the protagonist fantasizes about dear Scorpio. I promise you that you no longer have to worry newborn home on their motorcycle, Trailers make your rig wider, so on the winter she lived at the Louvre Museum in Paris. She says about going cray-cray. Why? Because you have already gone cray- traveling off-road across rolling plains. those sections of road where the shoul- that to keep warm she made big fires and burned some of the cray, my friend. That is correct. You slipped over the threshold Luckily, der narrows museum’s precious artifacts. I’m hoping you won’t do anything a few days ago, and have been living in Bonkersville ever since. most North to balance- And since you are obviously still alive and functioning, I think it’s remotely resembling that mythic event in the coming week, Coast cy- beam obvious that the danger has passed. Here’s the new truth: If you Taurus. I understand that you may be going through a cold spell cling routes width, surrender to the uproar, if you let it teach you all it has to teach -- a time when you’re longing for more heat and light. But I beg aren’t this you’ll have you, you will find a lively and intriguing kind of peace. you not to sacrifice enduring beauty in order to ameliorate your hairy (unless to head temporary discomfort. This, too, shall pass. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): To give you the oracle that you travel out into the best matches your current astrological omens, I’ve borrowed by logging motor-ve- GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “Don’t say you want love,” writes San from “Sweetness,” a poem by Stephen Dunn. I urge you to road), so hicle lane. Francisco author Stephen Sparks. “Say you want the morning memorize it or write it on a piece of paper that you will carry once your This can be light through a paint-flecked window; say you want a gust of wind around with you everywhere you go. Say Dunn’s words as if they offspring problem- scraping leaves along the pavement and hills rolling toward the were your own: “Often a sweetness comes / as if on loan, stays is strong atic during sea; say you want to notice, in a tree you walk past every day, the just long enough // to make sense of what it means to be alive, / enough times of ruins of a nest exposed as the leaves fall away; a slow afternoon then returns to its dark / source. As for me, I don’t care // where of conversation in a shadowy bar; the smell of bread baking.” to hold busy traffic. it’s been, or what bitter road / it’s traveled / to come so far, to up his/her How- That’s exactly the oracle I want to give you, Gemini. In my opin- taste so good.” ion, you can’t afford to be generic or blank in your requests for helmeted ever, most love. You must be highly specific. You’ve got to ask for the exact CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In her book Teaching a Stone head while drivers feelings and experiences that will boost the intensity of your lust to Talk, Annie Dillard apologizes to God and Santa Claus and a bouncing over uneven road features, recognize a trailer as a conveyance for for life. (Here’s Sparks’ Tumblr page: invisiblestories.tumblr.com.) nice but eccentric older woman named Miss White, whom she with some knowledge and preparation, children and/or dogs and are often knew as a child. “I am sorry I ran from you,” she writes to them. you can take him/her for a safe ride. more curious and amused than annoyed CANCER (June 21-July 22): “The world breaks everyone, and “I am still running from that knowledge, that eye, that love from The usual baby-transport suspects are by your brief presence in their domain. afterward, many are stronger in the broken places,” wrote Cance- which there is no refuge. For you meant only love, and love, and infant seats and trailers. Baby seats are Just use caution and common sense rian writer Ernest Hemingway. By my estimation, my fellow Crabs, I felt only fear, and pain.” Judging from your current astrological either attached to the rear of the bike, when joining them there. we are now entering a phase of our astrological cycle when we omens, Capricorn, I’d say that now would be a good time for you behind the adult’s seat, or mounted to Innovative utility bikes from the can make dramatic progress in healing the broken places in to do something similar: Take an inventory of the beauty and love the handlebars. The venerable rear- Netherlands, called bakfiets (“bucket ourselves. But even better than that: As we deal dynamically and power you have sought to escape and may still be trying to mounted system works with many bike bikes”) are now available in the United with the touchy issues that caused our wounds, we will become avoid. You’re finally ready to stop running and embrace at least styles, while the front-mounted seat isn’t States and can carry children as well stronger than we were before we got broken. some of that good stuff. suitable for all frames (it could block as groceries, yard-sale finds, materials LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Let’s hope you have given deep thought AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): The Dragon Lives Again is a 1977 the rider’s view). The front-mounted for do-it-yourself projects, and even to understanding who you are at this moment of your life. Let’s film that tells the story of martial arts legend Bruce Lee fighting seat has the advantage of being able to furniture. These sturdy bikes feature a also hope that you have developed a clear vision of the person bad guys in the underworld. Among the villains he defeats are watch the passenger’s mood shift from large “bucket” between the front and you would like to become in, say, three years. How do you feel Dracula, James Bond, the Godfather, Clint Eastwood, and the Having a Blast to Imminent Meltdown. rear wheels, and their gearing is suited about the gap between the current YOU and the future YOU? Exorcist. I urge you to use this as inspiration, Aquarius. Create an If you choose either type, make sure to carrying loads. Because they are still Does it oppress you? Does it motivate you? Maybe a little of imaginary movie in your mind’s eye. You’re the hero, of course. your passenger’s feet can’t get stuck in specialty items, these elegant bikes are both? I’ll offer you the perspective of actress Tracee Ellis Ross. “I Give yourself a few superpowers, and assemble a cast of scoun- spokes and don’t let him/her take along expensive—but worth the price to their am learning every day,” she told Uptown Magazine, “to allow the drels from your past -- anyone who has done you wrong. Then a toy that can get tangled in the drive fans. space between where I am and where I want to be to inspire me watch the epic tale unfold as you do with them what Bruce Lee chain or fall into the path of the tires. Be Once a child can sit safely on a bike and not terrify me.” did to Dracula and company. Yes, it’s only pretend. But you may aware that the seat and its occupant will seat and pedal, you can consider an be surprised at how much this helps you put your past behind affect balance, particularly when coming add-a-bike, which attaches to the back VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Do the words “purity” and “purify” you. Think of it as a purgative meditation that will free you to to a stop, dismounting, or re-mounting. of an adult’s bike. While the pedals have any useful purpose? Or have they been so twisted by move in the direction of the best possible future. religious fundamentalists and mocked by decadent cynics that Consider test-riding on a walking- aren’t connected to the drive chain, cycling path. parents who have used these contrap- they’re mostly just farcical? I propose that you take them serious- PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): After studying the myths and Trailers provide more stability, trans- tions have told us that the child’s efforts ly in the coming weeks. Give them your own spin. For instance, stories of many cultures throughout history, Joseph Campbell ar- you could decide to purify yourself of petty attitudes and trivial rived at a few conclusions about the nature of the human quest. forming a two-wheeled balancing act seem to add something to the overall desires that aren’t in alignment with your highest values. You Here’s one that’s apropos for you right now: “The cave you fear into a well-balanced load. They also momentum. However, because you might purify yourself of self-deceptions that have gotten you into to enter holds the treasure you seek.” He came up with several give their occupants protection from don’t depend on him/her to move the trouble and purify yourself of resentments that have blocked variations on this idea, including this one: “The very cave you are precipitation, and you can take toys, bike, he/she can rest whenever he/she your creative energy. At the very least, Virgo, cleanse your body afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking books, and other entertainment sources wants. with extra-healthy food, good sleep, massage, exercise, and for.” I urge you to consider making this your operative hypothesis to keep restless minds, and hands, oc- Becoming a parent doesn’t mean sacred sex. for the coming weeks, Pisces. cupied. You can’t look in on the inmate you have to be relegated to cruising while riding, however, and on a busy the streets in a Family Car the size of a LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): I periodically hike alone into the Homework: Name ten personal possessions that you’d put in road, you might not hear anything until small whale. Investigate your options serene hills north of San Francisco and perform a set of my a time capsule to be dug up by your descendants in 500 years. he/she is in full howling mode. Because for cycling with children and leave the songs for the birds, insects, squirrels, and trees. Recently I Testify at Freewillastrology.com. it’s dry and relaxing in there, though, whale beached in the driveway!

25 oct13 hipfishmonthly.com network. Community Listings Call 503-812-3522 for more information. lessons learned in the later stages of life. the Oregon Coast Trail. These hikes are open WORKSHOPS/CLASSES Tuesdays, 7-9, Dinner at 6 by donation. Silver Services Yoga provides instruction in to the community, and we encourage you to simple yoga postures with props, breath and join us for one or all of the walks. If you have DOES FOOD RUN YOUR LIFE? Come to energy work, meditation and relaxation. questions about this program, contact Arline Natural Childbirth Classes. Do you want Overeaters Anonymous every Wednesday LaMear, 503-338-6883. Car shuttles will be- a better birth? Starting on Sunday evening from 7-8pm in the Seaside Public Library, gin at the Basin St. parking lot across Basin September 1st, Homebirth midwife Kristen ZUMBA CLASSES/NEHALEM. At the Board Room B. No dues, fees or weigh-ins. St. from Astoria KFC. Walkers should gather Downer, will be offering a natural childbirth Lighthouse located at 36480 Hwy 101 in Everyone welcome! (if you have questions call there by 9 a.m. for the March, April, May education series with 4 parts. It’s fun, inter- Nehalem. Mon and Wed. 5pm – 6pm. Begin- and June hikes. The remaining hikes, July, 503-505-1721). active, and a chance to meet other expecting ners pace for all ages, 12 and over. 5.00 per August, September, and October will begin mothers and couples. You will learn advanced class. First class FREE. at 8 a.m. to allow extra time for the longer HAM RADIO CLASS. Once again, you coping skills and pain management, you drives to the walk start points. A record book have an opportunity to become an will be able to write an informed birth plan YOGA • Bay City Arts Center. Classed with is available for $2 in which to record the eight amateur ham radio operator by taking for hospital or home birth, you will have a Michelle Lawhorn - Mon & Thurs 6pm. $5 legs of the North Oregon Coast Trail. Upon a day and ½ class and then the FCC li- better understanding of stages of labor and per class. completion of all eight hikes, participants will cense test for about $15.00. The great what to expect at the birth, and some helpful receive a certificate. If you are interested in instructors in Seaside offer the class information for breastfeeding and newborn receiving one of the record books, please call through Clatsop County Community care. All taught by Kristen Downer, homebirth YOGA • Manzanita. The Center for the 503-338-6883 so we will know how many to College. The dates are Nov 15 (Fri eve) midwife! It’s $95 for the 4 week series, pre- Contemplative Arts, Manzanita: Tuesday have on hand. and 16 (most of the day on Sat) and registration is helpful. For more details check evenings 5 - 5:45pm. $35 for 5 classes. Call 368-6227 for more info. D. I. Y. the test same day. They have a great out www.astoriamidwife.com and click on the Childbirth Education page. Happy Birthing!” pass rate! Then you can join the local SPIRITUALITY Clatsop Community College offers do-it-yourself skill building in two Hamster radio club for further training, Yoga in Gearhart. Gearhart Workout. For drills and more. Be part of the solution more information log on to www.gearhart- upcoming weekend workshops covering diverse subjects. Explore options BODY WORK•YOGA•FITNESS FULL MOON LEMURIAN CONNECTIONS. Join the for area disasters! (No Morse code workout.com 3470 Hwy. 101 N. Suite 104 and learn new skills: fun as we explore ways to help keep our ocean required any longer!). Read about the in Gearhart •How to Self-Publish is offered Saturdays, October 12 and October 19, 8:30- class at www.clatsopcc.edu. For more YOGA • NCRD. Celebrating 20 years of com- and beaches healthy and retain the magical information about Hamsters or go to munity yoga, and offering ongoing year-round spirit of honoring the element of water. The 11:30am, at the CCC South County Center, 1455 N Roosevelt, in Seaside. YOGA • Nehalem. Ongoing yoga classes at www.http//evcnb.org or call Ann Morgan claases as follows: Monday, Yoga of the Lemurians are ancient earth healers and have Fee for this two-day workshop is $39. You will learn the pros and cons of self- NCRD are as follows: Monday, Level II, 5:15- 503-368-6595, club president. Heart, 8:15 - 9:45 am, instructors: Lorraine much to share with us if we are ready to listen 6:45 pm, Nicole Hamic; Wednesday, Morning publishing, how to market your completed work and how to keep efficient Ortiz and Lucy Brook (no drop ins); Monday, to them. Sept 19th, 2013 Place: Gearhart, Or- Yoga Stretch, 8-9:30 am, Lucy Brook; Vinyasa, 2:00 - 3:30 pm, instructor Charlene financial records. Discuss selecting a publisher and get tips on how to get French Conversation Group Re-Start. The Thursday, Yoga for Parents & Kids, 3:45-4:45 egon Time: 7 pm. Celebrating the full moon and Gernert; Tuesday, Mixed Levels, 4:00 - 5:30 e-published from two local authors with self-publishing experience. group is devoted to speaking French only. pm, Charlene Gernert; Thursday, Level I, 5:45 the Lemurian connections. $35. Contact: Cindy pm, instructor Monica Isbell; Wednesday, It is NOT a class, so please do not show up - 7:15 pm, Charlene Gernet; Friday, Very McGonagle Phone: 503 531 2758website: cindy- • In Home Repairs and Maintenance you will learn basic hand and power tool Yoga Stretch, 8:00 - 9:30 am, instructor expecting to learn French from scratch. Once Gentle Yoga, 8-9:30 am, Lucy Brook. Lucy Brook; Wednesday, Restorative Yoga, mcgonagle.comemail: [email protected] safety and how to complete basic tasks such as fixing a leaky faucet, repairing you step through the door of the Riverbend 2:00 - 3:30 pm, instructor Charlene Gernert; drywall holes and painting a popcorn ceiling. This two-day workshop, taught Room, it is French only. It will be on Satur- Thursday,Yoga of the Heart, 8:15 - 9:45 am, QI GONG CLASSES/ASTORIA. Taught by COLUMBIA RIVER MEDITATION GROUP. days, from 1-3pm at NCRD in the Riverbend by a home-repair specialist, is offered Saturdays, October 12 and October 19, instructors: Lorraine Ortiz and Lucy Brook (no Linda Williamson at Wave of Change in Sponsored by Great Vow Monastery. Meets Room. There is a nominal charge of $1/ 9am-12pm, at the CCC South County Center in Seaside. Course fee is $35. drop ins); Thursday, Level I, 5:45 - 7:15 pm, Astoria. #1 12th St. Tuesday and Thursday ever Wednesday in the FLag Room of the person/time. For more information email Jane instructor Monica Isbell; Friday, Very Gentle 8:30am to 9:30am. Qigong is an ancient Public LIbrary. Time: 5:45 - 6:55. All are or call her 503-368-3901 or, call Paul Miller Yoga, 8:00 - 9:30 am, instructor Lucy Brook; Chinese system of exercise and meditation. welcome to practice - quiet setting and slow at 503-368-5715. Register now at www.clatsopcc.edu/schedule or call 503-338-2408. Saturday, Mixed Levels, 8:00 - 9:30 am, 503.861.2063 walking meditation. Local contact: Ron Maxt- instructor Lorraine Ortiz. All classes meet at ed - 503.338.9153. email: ronmaxted@ NCRD, 36155 9th Street in Nehalem, Room Computer Basics. Third Saturday of each T’AI CHI. The Center for the Contempla- wwestsky.net phone, and may also help with answering encourage expectant and new mothers to join 5. For more information call 503-368-7160. month 9:00am-10:00am. If you’re new to tive Arts, Manzanita: Wednesday Mornings mail requests and other tasks as needed. us. Healthy babies and toddlers are always PC computers or just needing to update 10-11:30. $30/month. Call 368-6227 for A SILENT MEDITATION • with Lola Sacks. For more details, contact Suzanne at 503- welcome at La Leche League meetings. We basic skills, this class is for you. Each class LOTUS YOGA. 1230 Marine Drive, Downtown more info. St. Catherine’s Center for the Contemplative 325-6311 or stop by to pick up a volunteer is tailored to meet the needs of participants. look forward to seeing you soon. Second Astoria. Ongoing classes on a month to Arts, Manzanita: Monday Nights 5 - 5:45 Call application. Free, at the Astoria Public Library. month basis. Call (503)298-3874, Check Monday of the month at 10am- Astoria FOR TAI CHI AND STRETCHING. New Tai Chi 368-6227 for more info. web for class schedule updates. Email FURTHER INFO, PLEASE CONTACT JANET Classes forming the first week of each month MEETINGS AND MEET-UPS! ALCOHOL SERVING TRAINING OFFERED. If [email protected], website www.lotusyoga- WEIDMAN @ 503-325-1306 OR LIZ PIETILA (am and pm times available) At WavesOf LECTIO DIVINA • Meditation with Holy you mix, sell or serve alcohol for on-property online.com Yoga/Private Instruction. Change 1002 Marine Drive in Astoria. Also Scripture. The Center for the Contemplative @ 503-861-2050. consumption or if you manage employees The Astoria Chess Club will be holding its gentle stretching classes and light resistance Arts, Manzanita: Tuesday Mornings 10- with these responsibilities, you are required inaugural meeting at Three Cups Coffee Gentle Stretching Classes (M/W/F 9-10 training. Sat May 19 - Reiki Level 1 class 9 11:30. Call 368-6227 for more info. House in Astoria (279 W. Marine) at 11:30 to have an Alcohol Service permit. Register AM & M/W 5:30-6:30 PM classes avail- am - 3 pm, Sat June 2nd Aromatherapy Spa EVENTS AM on Saturday, October 26. All ages and for a one-afternoon class taught by Action able) at Waves of Change Wellness Party 2 pm, Sat June 23 Intro to Aroma- LABYRINTH WALK • Grace Episcopal skill levels are welcome. For more informa- Server Training, a certified OLCC Provider, to Center, 1 12th Street suite #8 Astori- therapy (Level 1) 9 am - 4 pmCall for details Church, 1545 Franklin St, Astoria, 3-6. tion, contact [email protected]. complete the required training. This required aQigong Classes offered TU/TH mornings 503.338.9921 The Women’s Club of Manzanita-North Every 1st Sunday. training is scheduled for Friday, October 18, 8:30-9:30 AM Tillamook County will hold its annual fall 1-4pm, at the Clatsop Community College ENCORE Lunch Bunch. Will be held on Adult Beginning Tennis is held on Mon- “Gifts and Goodies” sale event from 10 South County Center, 1455 N. Roosevelt, Tuesday, August 6, 2013, 12:30 PM at ECSTATIC DANCE. Ecstatic, trance, yogic, days and Wednesdays, June 24 through VOLUNTEER a.m.-4 p.m. on Saturday November 9 at Pine Seaside. The course fee is $35 and students Arnie’s Café, 1609 S Main St, Warrenton spirit filled), playful, improvisational, freestyle July 17, from 6:00-6:50 pm. Learn the ba- must pre-register at least two days prior to OR. National Tell a Joke Day, August 16th Grove Community House.Individual sellers/ - We’re Dancing! Wed. at 6:30 at Pine Grove sics of tennis with the fundamentals of fore- the class. To register, call 503-338-2408 Weekly Habitat Restoration/Stewardship and Book Lovers’ Day, August 9 will be the vendors and local community service clubs Community House, 225 Laneda Ave. in hand, backhand, the serve and volley. Please or visit www.clatsopcc.edu/register. Please Work Parties. 10 am - noon. Meet at Alder monthly topics. One is frivolous and one is Manzanita. No experience necessary. You are bring your own racquet and a can of balls. are invited to participate in this early holiday direct inquiries to: Mary Kemhus-Fryling, Creek Farm, at the end of Underhill Lane (or can be) serious. Tell about your favorite welcome to bring Instruments of any sort to The class is taught by Donna Geertz who has season sale by reserving a table by October 503-338-2408; [email protected]. between Nehalem and Manzanita. Dress for author or book or share your favorite joke. play along with what we’ve got going. Cost a Bachelor’s degree in Physical Education. the weather and prepare to get outside with We’re all curious..... Members are reminded 26. For additional details and to reserve a is a sliding scale from $5 - $7, or free if you Cost for this class is $50. Class registration great people on beautiful properties doing a The Lower Columbia Classics Car Club. to please wear your nametags! ENCORE is 6-ft. table for $20 call 503-368-4677. really need to just be there. is open now at www.clatsopcc.edu/register or variety of habitat restoration activities. For Invitation to all who are interested in Collector a membership organization offering life-long call 503.338.2402 or 503.338.2408. more information contact Lower Nehalem Cars to attend one of our monthly meetings. learning opportunities. It is sponsored by “LEARN SELF DEFENSE IN ASTORIA. Community Trust, 503-368-3203, lnct@ TRIVIA AT THE LIGHTHOUSE. The Light- The meetings are held at Steve Jordan’s Clatsop Community College but is run entirely Kenpo Karate for Adults, WEEKLY KENPO Waves of Change Class Schedule. M-W-F nehalemtel.net. house has Trivia every Sunday at 5:00 pm. Shop Building, located at 35232 Helligso by its members who decide what they want to KARATE CLASS every Friday, 5:15pm till 9-10 AM—Adv. Stretching Class with Light Lane in rural Astoria - meet on the 3rd Thurs- learn and how they want to learn it. Classes The competition is keen, the questions some- 6:30pm, 342-10th Street, 2nd floor, resistance training. M-W-F 10-11 AM— are conducted by the members but speakers day of each month. If you are interested and VISITOR CENTER SEEKS VOLUNTEERS. times challenging and always FUN. Teams Astoria, OR 97103.Class tuition is $40.00/ Beginning Gentle Stretching. M-W 530-630 are often invited; current issues and books need the directions to get there, you may call The Astoria Warrenton Chamber of Com- mo. Instructor is a Black Belt in Ed Parker’s PM- Beginning Gentle Stretching with Angela and plays are read and discussed – keeping of up to 4 people compete. The members of Steve Jordan at 503-325-1807 merce operates the Visitor Center located at the winning team each receive a $5.00 poker American Kenpo Karate. Visitors are welcome Sidlo. TU/TH 830-930 AM - Qigong with 111 West Marine Drive in Astoria. The Center their minds alive. For more information check to drop in and see the class or inquire for Linda Williamson. TU/TH 10-11 AM—Tai Chi is open year-round with visitor information out the ENCORE website: www.encorelearn. chip good at the LighthouseThere’s always Toddler Arts Group. Every Wednesday 10 to free introductory lesson.Sign-up by e-mail at: Fan 36 Form with Angela Sidlo. TU/TH 530- org or call the Community Education Coordi- about the local area, the state of Oregon and FREE Pool every Sunday at Ron’s Lighthouse, 11am –Get your toddler started in the arts! [email protected] or by phone at: 630 PM—Tai Chi with Angela Sidlo. Saturday beyond. The Chamber is looking to bolster nator at 503-338-2408. Activities are geared towards ages 1–3, but 360-665-0860”. 9-10 AM - Stretching class with Angela. and a “3-Ball” competition at 1:00 their crew of volunteers for the upcoming age birth–5 are welcome. All children must Private lessons available $25/hr. Drop In rate busy season and you may be just the person BREASTFEEDING INFORMATION & SUP- be accompanied by a caregiver. Bay City Arts for stretching classes $10 YOGA • MANZANITA. Silver Services Yoga for the job. “All that is needed is a welcoming PORT. La Leche League’s monthly support PANCAKE BREAKFAST. All-you-can-eat, Center, Bay City. t with Holly Smith. Meeting each Thursday smile and a desire to assist our visitors,” says group meetings provide an opportunity at the Bay City Arts Center. Every Sunday. from 10 to 11:30am beginning March 14, HIKE THE NORTH OREGON COAST WITH Suzanne Cannon, Visitor Services Manager. for both new and experienced mothers to 8am to noon. $5/adults, $4 members. Kids CELEBRATE RECOVERY • Nazarene 2013. Cost: $40 for five classes. (Sorry, no ANGORA HIKING CLUB. This year the Angora “We’ll teach you the rest.”Volunteers typically share their questions or concerns, and to Church, 2611 3rd St, Tillamook. Adult & drop-ins) To Register: Call Holly at 503-368- Hiking Club will be leading 8 hikes that will work a three-hour shift, once a week. They talk with each other about the special joys 1/2 price. Sausage, beans , slasa, fruit and teen 12 step program. Child care provided. 4883. There is a richness which comes from cover the 64.4 miles of the north portion of primarily greet visitors in person and by and challenges of parenting. We especially yogurt, juice and tea. oct13 hipfishmonthly.com 26 a much bigger orchestra. The Uni- are all hard wired with an inner verse stretches and moves daily compass; our intuition is our VOLUNTEERS NEEDED to create balance. Right down to direct line to Creator and helps us To help Shelter animals the micro movement within your navigate through our lives and all body there is a balancing act that things changing. When we trust Can you donate a few hours a week keeps you upright and centered. our connection to the Divine, we to help the dogs and cats currently Our bodies reflect the wonders are filled with a sense of peace. at the Clatsop County Animal of the Universe and show us Peace within quiets the mind and Shelter? Volunteers are badly the complexity of each system creates balance. Our job here on needed. The work’s not hard but it’s keeping balance with the entire Earth is to maintain an inner state wonderfully rewarding. Messages physical form. of balance, creating very few When our elders tell stories ripples in the energy field of this about the past and recount living planet. Change is always present, Sonja Grace through wars and hardship we may we all return to a deeper mystic healer should listen. People experienced state of peace. a loss of freedom in ways that we For over thirty years, author can’t even fathom, unless they are and Mystic Healer, Sonja Grace Trust in Change currently living in Syria and other has been offering her clients, We are all invested in our daily global events that impact us on countries that have genocide both in the United States and routines from a morning cup of many levels. These changes are prevailing. We are blessed to abroad, immediate stability, clar- coffee to working every day. Our working in concert with the Uni- have the change in weather and ity, and guidance. Through her schedules can have us desen- verse. What you experience from channels as we watch television. healing, counseling and spiritual sitized from the energetic con- a small detour on the highway to We must not forget the stories processing, Sonja has a wide nection to the Earth. We gather the loss of a job are the ripples that are shared within a family, variety of talent to choose from information from the news, social culture or tribe for everyone to in which she accesses her ability of energy that connect us like a media and television but rarely learn from. Visit your grandpar- to channel and communicate with tapestry across the globe. We do we take the time to receive a ents and the elderly. Listen to the the divine. Two time author of An- respond to the vibration with a message from the Goddess. That stories of the past and how they gels in the 21st Century and her is the real source of information variety of emotions sending out endured change. Most of them latest book, Earth Ways Healing we all have access to. Change more ripples of energy that are cannot recall an event without Medicine for the Soul, provides happens daily on this planet. The a vibrational match for what has talking about how they got a pathway to the four seasons seasons and cycle of life remind taken place. The lens we view through such a horrific time with through prayer and ceremony us that we too are changing. from is the duality and all of the help of people they didn’t and is a companion to the film Every day we experience small this energy rippling through the even know, an aunt in Chicago presentation Earth Ways Series. shifts in our schedule to huge cosmos is working in concert with and faith in a higher power. We www.sonjagrace.com The Lower Columbia Clinic Thomas S. Duncan, M.D. • Susan L Skinner, CNM, CFNP word and wisdom Right About Now.... 595 18th, Astoria • 503-325-9131 By Tobi Nason Right about now, I can feel myself almost time to show up. Occasionally Santa was married. I often felt like apologizing to them. dreading the upcoming holiday season. Yes, half-drunk, asleep, in the armchair, but I could I’m sorry, I wanted to say. “I’m sorry. It should I am one of those. I have a hard time with see that some effort had been made. Then not be this way.” holidays, and I bet a lot of people do. Let me one year, my mother decided it was too much The kids are grown now. As I read the above, clarify: I know a lot of people do. trouble to un-decorate the fake tree. So she I know exactly why Christmas is hard for me. It I don’t like it, this feeling. I want to get back hauled the whole thing, decorated and all, up was a time of loss and sadness. I saw the loss of to where I anticipate, look forward, to special the stairs into the attic, crashing and smashing innocence in my children. A repeat of my own events. Fun! Good Cheer! Hope! I want to join along the way. So much for Christmas cheer. loss of innocence. Wonderment was gone. It the human race. I married a family-kind of guy, and for years, broke my heart. It started yesterday. I received the Humane 18 to be exact, Christmas was “as it should Here I am, a grownup. Now what? I know Society’s selection of cards. Boy, were they be.” Especially when our two kids were little. how the holidays make me feel. I also know that cute! Dogs and kitties on a sleeping Santa lap. We’d spend hours in the spare room wrapping Christmas and the holidays are not about the Dogs gazing up at Santa’s sleigh in the night and laughing and trying to be quiet so the kids wrappings and the gifts and the food. It’s about sky. Stuff like that. Innocent wonderment. Real- didn’t hear us. (They reassure me now that they people. Hope. Wonderment. izing I had none. did. They loved it.) My guess also is that there are a number of I need some innocent wonderment. I need Divorce came along. Kids and I trying middle-aged people out there, struggling to as- to Believe. I need... to do something. hard to make new Christmas memories. We semble some sort of family life. Kids may live far Doing the same thing over and over again, made a big to-do about getting the real tree, away. Family is gone, in one sense or another. if it doesn’t work, is a sign of craziness. So right although we three were conscious that it had Loneliness sets in. The Ghost of Christmas Past here and now, I am going to change my ways, to be smaller and fit mommy’s budget. It had comes visiting.... change my thoughts. That’s the way it works. to be something my kids and I could physically This is a tough area to conquer. Since I know It’s the basis of cognitive-behavioral therapy. I handle between the three of us. Tying it on the pretty much what to expect and how this world TRANSLATION: know this. Now let’s see if I can follow my own roof of the car, the drama of getting that tree plan. home, safely and set up. We congratulated our- works, and I know that my past attempts to Share the love. Adopt a dog or Let’s see... Innocent wonderment. What is it selves when we managed to get that tree set make the best of things did not succeed, I am about Santa’s sleigh in the sky that triggers my up and decorated. We even had a few cookie going to spend the next week writing down cat from the Animal Shelter memories? Because until Santa came along, exchanges at the house when we first moved. alternative plans. I might bake cookies and reindeers and sleighs didn’t fly. Big guys in red Kids invited new school friends.I invited people bring them to the Care Center. I may save a few suits, coming down chimneys, leaving gifts.... I hardly knew. dollars and go with a friend to see a movie or almost unbelievable! But I remember thinking, I remember then though, that there was a the Nutcracker. Decorating- I may discard that as a child of 6, wasn’t it nice we had a chimney sense of innocence lost. My kids knew I could step altogether. The time frame really is not a What’s this invisible and such a big one?? I anticipated that Santa not give them everything on their lists. They big one. It’s just getting through it that may be dog nonsense? would deliver the goods, so to speak. AND- he were great. They got into the spirit of decorat- tough. Creating new memories will take effort, did!!! Every Christmas...until.... ing the house and baking cookies without but what doesn’t these days? What have I got The year after my father died. My mother me. A gift to me, I suppose, since I was busy to lose. filled her days with drinking quite a bit. And for and tired. An underlying sadness pervaded My gift to myself.... Doing something that in- years after that. Christmas evolved into a mis- everything.. It was like we were... trying. Maybe volves others. Creating a new set of memories. ery. My only hope was that something would trying too hard. The rain and storms and the Remembering that wisdom sometimes has to be under the lopsided under-decorated tree for decorated tree and the few gifts and the pretty replace wonderment. And being okay with that. me. Something. Many times I’d postpone wak- quiet day of Christmas... contrasted with the Tobi Nason lives in Manzanita. She can be ing, emerging from my room, to give “Santa” large family life I and the kids had when I was reached at [email protected]

27 oct13 hipfishmonthly.com bodiesinbalance By Tracy Erfling, N.D.

Nutrition in a Bottle When beginning down the road of natural of us with the cleanest of diets can benefit from Oregon coast our fish are in trouble, so choos- acidophilus, lactobacillus and bifidus. Although healthcare it is common to jump into supplements a well balanced multivitamin. What I would look ing fish that are small and reproduce quickly (like there can be conditions where one specific organ- blindly. The plethora of information and advertising for would be something that is whole food based, mackerel and sardines) is a much better health and ism is key, often we are looking to replenish a to sort through in order to make good choices for meaning that beyond the list of all the vitamins and environmental choice. Also look for the key words whole microcosm...so the more the merrier. you and your family is daunting. I thought for this minerals, when you actually look at the ingredients coldpressed as this form of processing assures the Last is somewhat of a toss up between a diges- month I would try to simplify some of the basics; so you see food items that you recognize like carrot, quality of the oil stays intact. tive enzyme or adrenal support. Both digestive that you the consumer have some confidence when buckwheat, kelp, alfalfa or rice for example. This Third would be Vitamin D3. This nutrient is troubles and adrenal insufficiency (i.e. fatigue, poor facing your next supplement choice. means that the B vitamins, vitamin C, D, E, mixed especially important to us northwesterners as the stress management) are so common I would just First a simple note on “why supplements?” Sad- carotenoids, major minerals like calcium, magne- sun from about this time of year through May is at go by what resonates between the two for you. ly our planet, the water, soil, and microflora neces- sium, potassium, zinc, or iron (if indicated) and an angle to the planet that is not able to deliver An easy start digestive aid is papaya enzymes, sary to grow nutrient dense food, is becoming trace minerals like selenium, boron, manganese, the necessary rays which our skin converts to Vit. they taste good and are very safe and helpful in a more depleted. Therefore the foods we choose are etc. are com- D. This vitamin variety of digestive situations. Adrenal support is less able to provide us the basic nutrients needed ing from food works very typically found in the way of an herbal formulation, to optimize our health. Second we have come to and not chemi- similarly to a which is more challenging to give advice on here. rely on foods that are less and less fresh. Third we cals. You may hormone in the That being said there are many ginseng products are living longer and therefore experimenting with have to take Dr. Tracy Erfling is a body and touches out there which could be a nice first go to for how far these bodies can take us, a worthy experi- more than one naturopath physician in the upon many energy production. There are of course many won- ment, but not an equal experience for all. a day. Ideally systems including derful natural health practitioners which are versed Therefore the mighty supplement has been born there are also Lower Columbia Region. the skin, immune in the nuances of adrenal health, so don’t hesitate to find some guidance if you need it. to attempt to replace all these deficiencies and some digestive Questions? system, bones, shortcomings!?! Cynical as that may sound I find enzymes to and endocrine So where is the best place to shop for supplements? If there is a local naturopathic physician that the right combination of nutrients has turned assure good [email protected] system. For all in your area this would be the first go to as many around the health of many of my patients. assimilation of these reasons this of the most reputable companies are available What would I choose for my family? There are a the nutrients. is a key nutrient to physicians only. Otherwise, in my area I guide basic 5 that I would like to share with you...starting And incidentally as many of us have proven to be truly deficient! people to the local health food stores, herb shops, with the herbs can be a terrific Ideally Vitamin D should be taken in an emulsified or the natural food sections in the larger stores. I multivitamin. source of many of these form since it is a fat soluble vitamin. But at the very try to steer away from large box store pharmacies, This is an nutrients as well! least take this with some food that contains fat, like although some smaller pharmacies may have bet- easy way to Second on the list eggs, salad dressing, butter, most dairy products ter options. Of course online there are a gazillion cover your would be a good qual- or nuts. options as well...a topic for another day. bases. It is ity fish oil. Fish oils not Fourth would be probiotics. Our bodies are Hope this brief guide has been a useful simpli- not meant to only add an important dependent on the presence of good gut flora. Not fication to help you feel a bit more informed when be therapeu- component to our cell only is it essential for digestion of many foods and making your next supplement choice. As always if tic, meaning walls allowing for better absorption of vitamins and minerals; it is also the you have questions or topics you are interested in it alone is not absorption of the nutri- foundation of a good immune system. Over 60% hearing more about please feel free to contact me designed to ents listed above; they of our immunity is housed in our intestines, and a via email. cure a defi- are also a wonderful, large part of that system is due to a health supply ciency but it natural source of antiin- of probiotics...so embrace the microflora! When is assurance flammatories. Reducing looking for a good probiotic choose something DO something you love, BE with someone you that whatever inflammation is a key to refrigerated or enteric coated. This will ensure that love, EAT your vegetables, DRINK clean water, may have sustaining good quality there are plenty of viable organisms which will BREATHE deeply and MOVE your body EVERY- been missing health and longevity. make it past the high acidity in the stomach. Also DAY!! in that meal of chicken nuggets and french fries When looking for a fish oil choose your fish sources choose a formula that has multiple organisms, like is indeed being covered. And indeed even those carefully. As we know all too well here on the

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Healing Holistic Health oct13 hipfishmonthly.com 28 Community-Style Acupuncture THE PERFECTION ALL AROUND US PUMPKIN PEAR SOUP This makes a lot of soup, which you can freeze for later. Or you Now Offered in Astoria can halve the recipe and eat the whole thing yourself. Karen Kaufman, Ph.D., L.Ac., is now offering low-cost, community-style acupuncture two times per week at her Astoria clinic. • 1 cup chopped onion This format enables several people to be treated, fully clothed, • 4 teaspoons grated fresh ginger in a group, semi-private, or private setting. • 2 Tablespoons butter While community-style acupuncture is not as detailed or as • 6 pears, peeled, cored and sliced comprehensive as a traditional one-hour, one-on-one session, • 2 15 oz. cans of pumpkin (not pie filling, just pumpkin) this method works well for the following issues: headache, CHEW ON THIS! • 3 cups vegetable broth nausea, joint pain, allergies, smoking cessation, stress, anxiety, • 2 cups milk sciatica, back and neck pain, wellness, and for general curiosity by Merianne Myers • Salt and Pepper about acupuncture. Fall hours will be Thursday evenings (beginning September Sauté onion and ginger in butter until softened. Add pears and 19th) from 5:30 to 8:30 and Sunday afternoons (beginning Sep- sauté another minute or two. Add pumpkin and broth. Bring to tember 22nd) from 1:30-5:30. First come, first served, so ap- a boil, reduce heat and simmer, covered until pears are tender - pointments are recommended. Cost is $25. Located in Astoria maybe 5 to 10 minutes. Blend or process in batches until smooth. Chiropractic, 2935 Marine Dr., Suite B., Astoria. For additional Return to the pan, stir in milk and heat through. Season with salt details or to make an appointment, call Karen at 503-298-8815. and pepper to taste. This soup is delicious beyond imagining just as it is. However, Elders Journey Retreat these kinds of soups shine even brighter if you bejewel them with a tiny bit of fat. A pat of compound butter, a dollop of creme Saturday Oct 26 fraiche or even a dot of mascarpone would do it. Better yet: An exploratory adventure for men and women interested in the second half of life as a spiritual journey. A third year in a row The last big blow rendered every tree in the yard, save the Lime Sour Cream retreat sponsored by the North Coast Seeds of Change Open Redwood, naked as a Jay Bird. No use pretending - summer’s Men’s Group. Each session builds on the next but it is not neces- a fond memory and any sunshine from here on is a windfall (stir • 1/2 cup sour cream sary to have attended any previous retreats. metaphors until thoroughly mixed). I tend to greet the onset of • 1 teaspoon finely minced lime zest Sharing stories, confronting mortality, passing on family history, any new season with enthusiasm which can only be dampened • 2 Tablespoons lime juice being a source of blessing, and advocating for a healthy planet. by actual water. Lots of water, inches and inches of it over months Soup and Bread lunch and course materials provided. Course Mix everything together and let it sit in the fridge while you and months. Washes the shine right off after a while. facilitators are local elders, Michael Hithe, LMT and Tela Skinner, make the soup. Downright tasty on tacos, chili, rice and beans MAIS in Gerentology. There’s really only one cure for this particular malaise. I have and a whole bunch of other stuff, too. to make a huge pot of soup and share it with someone. In truth, 9pm – 5pm at the Pine Grove Community Center. Limit to 24 this is the cure for almost all of life’s tribulations. Homemade soup people. $20 sugg. Donation to Tillamook County Women’s in the freezer is the best hedge against cold and flu. No bug can Resource Center. To Register call: 206.818. 4833 withstand its restorative powers for long and there’s no laundry list of side effects. It is a mighty weapon against the blues and the Writing Workshop blahs. Combined with a nice glass of wine and a chunk of good bread, homemade soup can instill peace and well-being. Connecting with Spirit Soup simmering on the back burner is the ultimate housekeep- through Creativity with Amy Ryding ing secret, imbuing my home with a comforting, tantalizing aroma Saturday October 26th 1-4 PM so alluring, so steamy, I fail to notice that the windows need wash- @ Waves of Change Wellness Center ing. Soup is a palette inviting the artist to come forth. Soup is a No. 1 12th Street suite #8 Astoria scrumptious way to clean out the refrigerator, prevent waste, eat “Ever wondered what your spirit might tell you if you could your vegetables and cook a meal for umpteen in one pot. dive beneath all the surface chatter of your mind? Have some Soup is efficient, healthy, heartwarming and easy. It tames unanswered questions about life? Then this workshop might be the winds of winter. It’s an easy manifestation of the perfection for you. all around us. Here’s one I found in a magazine at a laundromat Using a combination of writing prompts, guided meditation, collage, and all five senses, we’ll delve deep into ourselves to some 20 years ago while killing time between wash and dry. get in touch with our creative spirits. Come join the fun and participate in this “play”shop!” Call 503-338-9921 to register. Aquanastics Class At KOA in Warrenton These classes are being offered to adults, men and women, for the first time on Monday/Wednesday/Friday October 30 thru November 15 from 9 to 9:50 AM and 10 to 10:50 AM at the KOA heated, indoor pool, at 1100 Ridge Road, across from Fort Stevens State Park entrance. For directions call (503) 861 2606 or (800) 562 8506. Each session of lessons is $25; credit cards are accepted. Classes are offered thru Clatsop Community College’s “Education For Life”. WATER IS TERRIFIC! It’s stimulating, therapeutic, exhilarating, and equal- izing. It’s just plain fun! This class will be lead by Kathleen 503 Hudson, a water exercise professional with certification from the 887 American Red Cross water safety program and the Arthritis Aquatic 9180 Training program. Kathleen has taught water exercise classes at Community Colleges and YMCA’s in St. Louis, MO. Her students have fun, get fit, and stay healthy with water workouts. With dozens of exercises that use the natural resistance of the water, you will improve your body’s composition and tone, strengthen muscles, increase aerobic and muscular [email protected] endurance, and improve flexibility, coordination, and agility - all with minimum stress on your body. Jump into Aquanastic water workouts Oregon Costruction Contractors Board #98737 and discover your renewed physical self. Washington Registration of Architects #5524 29 oct13 hipfishmonthly.com The Nehalem Beehive A sunday winter market will feature local farmers The Nehalem Beehive is a new 2000 sq ft store front in downtown Nehalem. Half of the shop is dedicated to sup- porting artists and small eco-companies, while the other half provides a comfortable place to sit down and relax in Nehalem. It has an old time and welcoming feel. At it’s Self serve tea bar you can find Mountain Rose Herbs, Townshend Teas, Sleepy Monk coffee, Terra Firma botanicals and more. All tea and coffee are also sold by the weight. This winter starting Sunday, Septem- ber 29th the Beehive will be hosting an Indoor Winter Farmer’s Market. The Beehive’s space will comfortably hold 4 to 5 Farmers per market. Local meat, produce, herbs, farm direct products, and fresh baked items will be available to you. The Beehive will also have market items for sale such as tea, coffee, medicinal sipping chocolate, culinary salts and salt blends, useful art, gifts and much By Cathy Nist more. Stop in and celebrate the bounty which lasts through the winter in the maritime climate of the coast. CMH and the Astoria Co-op Join Up to Showcase Local Bounty The market will be every Sunday 2-5 pm at the Nehalem Beehive located on HWY 101, in down- at a Hugely Successful Farm to Fork Cooking Class and Dinner. town Nehalem. On the evening of September 26, a Farm to He harvested arugula from his own garden, and Cranberries In the Spotlight, WA Peninsula Fork Cooking Class and Dinner was held at obtained apples from the backyard gardens of Cranberrian Fair • U-pick farm • fresh cranberries Columbia Memorial Hospital’s Columbia Center friends, he also contributed wild chanterelle From early October into November Coho Room. Chef Marco Davis presented the mushrooms to the event. As crimson berries ripen in the late summer sun visitors are invited by many farmers to watch har- sold-out class to more than 50 people, backed The evening kicked off with wine spritzers and harvest nears, the spotlight turns to cranber- vest up close. Adventuresome types with waders up by Kurt Rummel, Executive Chef at Columbia incorporating cranberry juice from Starvation Al- ries on Washington’s Long Beach Peninsula. From and a strong back might also see about volun- Memorial Hospital, and assisted by a posse of ley Farms of Long Beach, soon to be Washington early October into November, the Long Beach teering. Helpful greeters at the Long Beach Pen- volunteers. The demonstration-style cooking State’s first Certified Organic cranberry farm. Peninsula welcomes visitors to experience the rich insula Visitors Bureau (intersection of highways class included presentations by local farmers and Stockhouse Farm of Puget Island provided harvest season with an array of cranberry events 101 and 103, in Seaview), phone 360.642.2400, wine pairings supplied by Brandborg Winery of most of the produce used for the dinner. Farmer and activities. email [email protected], can point out area Starting a week into October, cranberry bogs and harvest schedules. Elkton, Oregon. Rob Stockhouse said of the event, “The most farmers begin the practice of wet harvesting The class was a cooperative project of Colum- exciting thing is to be here with Chef Marco, eat- century-old bogs – flooding fields, gently bia Memorial Hospital and the Astoria Co-op. ing our vegetables cooked in a way that we don’t “beating” the ripe cranberries off the vines, The two organizations came together with a normally cook them.” wading into the bogs to corral the floating common mission, the wellness of our community. Chef Davis, a showman at heart, deftly led berries onto conveyor belts, which empty Joining up with the Co-op and Chef Davis, who the audience through the creation of a delicious them into huge containers, and then carting both have strong local followings, enabled CMH meal including an appetizer, salad, a main course them off to Ocean Spray’s Long Beach Receiv- to reach out to members of our community by featuring locally–caught tuna, and a scrumptious ing Station. showcasing local food ingredients and educating apple crisp dessert. “The three plus-week harvest is hard the public on how to use them. Astoria Co-op Marketing Director, Zetty Nem- work,” shared Ardell McPhail, co-owner, Cran- Kurt Rummel, Executive Chef at CMH, has lowill, was pleased with the success of the eve- Mac Farms. “Still, after 33 years, cranberry been working with the co-op to incorporate ning. “Everyone who has worked on this event harvest can be quite magical, especially on a local food into the hospital food service. He is has been blown away by the reception we got mild day when early morning sun dances on also a strong proponent of community outreach. from the public. The general consensus is that the glistening berries, and we can literally see the fruits of our labors.” “We’re trying to get away from the institutional we [the Co-op and CMH] would like to do more Being cautious not to block the roads mindset and bring the concept of Farm to Fork collaborations like this. Possibly another farm to needed to transport equipment and berries, to our community. The co-op has been building fork event next spring. For two seemingly differ- a network with the local farmers, and we began ent organizations to come together and focus The Cranberrian Fair: a Harvest Festival bringing local produce into our salad bar. We on a mutual mission of good food and wellness, Oct 11 - 13 have been wanting to work more with the public I think, is extraordinary. I really believe that it’s Marking its 92nd year, the Fair is hosted by the Columbia Pacific Heritage Museum located at , 115 and bring local chefs into the mix. This isn’t just the people who are working at the hospital right Lake Street, SE, Ilwaco, with the Cranberry Museum, 2907 Pioneer Road, Long Beach. about us [CMH], we want to show that we’re not now who really believe in good food and in find- Purchase of a collectible button for $5 admits one to sample foods, visit with crafters, tour CPHM just a healing center, but a support to the coming ways to incorporate it into their institution. exhibits, take a guided tour of research bogs, and ride the Cranberry Trolley to the Cranberry Mu- munity.” It’s really great to be able to showcase our local seum (free admission) and Pacific Coast Cranberry Research Foundation. Matthew Stanley, Astoria Co-op General Man- bounty. I think that a whole foods diet, meaning The Cranberry Trolley will run from the CPHM to the Cranberry Museum on the hour from 11AM to ager, said at the dinner that, “Most of the food food closest to its natural state with an emphasis 2PM on Oct. 12 and 13. Seating is limited and on a first-come, first-served basis. being served tonight has come from outside the on fresh and local is something that everybody Other ways to experience cranberries this fall on the Long Beach Peninsula include the following: industrial food chain. What wasn’t sourced from can appreciate.” • Pick and/or purchase cranberries at Cranguyma Farms for fresh eating, canning or freezing for local farms came from the co-op and is mostly Hopefully next spring will bring more events Thanksgiving fare; certified organic.” like the Farm to Fork Cooking Class and Dinner. • Taste seasonal cranberry specials at Pacific County restaurants and bakeries; The multitalented Chef Marco Davis, who A very strong beginning for what could poten- • Sample libations at select restaurants and pubs using Starvation Alley Farms Cranberry for Con- has worked at the Columbian Café for 23 years, tially be a great series of collaborative events coctions raw cranberry juice concentrate. Starvation Alley is the first cranberry farm in Washing- gleaned some ingredients for the dinner himself. produced by the Co-op and CMH. ton to work toward USDA Organic Certification. oct13 hipfishmonthly.com 30 The Circle of the Labyrinth Casual Dining First Sunday of the Month Great 3PM - 6PM River ( Brief introduction at 3pm) Views Grace Episcopal Church 1545 Franklin Astoria B i s t r o For more info: 503.325.6580 donations welcome

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Reader’s Theater in the McTavish Room “A smart and sad comedy” Sight Unseen – The New York Times by Donald Margulies Performed by the Liberty Theatre Players Directed by Sen Incavo Wed Oct 23, Thur Oct 24, 7pm Winner of the 1992 Obie Award Open Seating, Tickets $15

Country Music Super Group 7th Annual Astoria The Highwaymen International Film Festival A musical tribute to October 18 – 20 Willie Nelson, Films $5 Johnny Cash Full Details: goaiff.com & Waylon Jennings. Saturday, October 26, 7:30pm Tickets $30, $25 and $15 COMING IN NOVEMBER! Package Discounts available. Dan Hicks and The Hotlicks

LIBERTY THEATER BOX OFFICE Tues – Sat, 2 – 5:00pm & 2 hours before curtain • 503.325.5922 ext. 55 1203 Commercial Street, Astoria, OR (Corner of 12th & Commercial) www.liberty-theater.org