Museum holds scavenger hunt
CANNON BEACH — Back by
popular demand is the Can-
non Beach History Center &
Museum’s trivia contest. This
family-friend event is a great
way to bond or compete for
the highest pride. The one-day
event takes place from 11 a.m.
to 5 p.m. Saturday, March 14.
Each competitor may pur-
chase a trivia card for $2. Each
card contains 10 questions that
must be answered while in
the museum; all answers are
contained within exhibits and
displays. Those who answer
all 10 questions correctly will
win a prize. No cell phone or
Internet searches are allowed.
The museum will offer
brain food in the form of
Sleepy Monk coffee and a few
light snacks. Writing materials
and writing stations are pro-
vided throughout the museum.
The Cannon Beach History
Center & Museum is located
at 1387 S. Spruce St. For more
information, visit www.cbhis-
tory.org
Hear Castle Rock ensemble
Men’s chorus performs in Cathlamet
CATHLAMET, Wash. — The
Castle Rock Men’s Ensem-
ble will give a concert at 2
p.m. Sunday, March 15 in
St. James Episcopal Church,
located at 1134 Columbia St.
A reception will follow.
The ensemble includes
10 pastors, teachers, a judge
and a plumber. The have
been singing together for 12
years under director Clar-
ence Knutsen.
Although they usually
sing in Cowlitz County, the
ensemble were invited last
year to visit Germany, where
they spent a week, singing in
several historical churches
as well as doing some tour-
ing.
This concert will include
a free-will offering for St.
James Family Center, the
only nonprofit agency in
Wahkiakum County serving
children and families.
For more information,
call Rachael Wolford at 360-
849-4181.
Can community be found
in the age of the Internet?
ASTORIA — Many social
theorists agree that com-
munity life has been trans-
formed by communications
technologies. Is community
disappearing or strength-
ening as we gaze at smart-
phones, video games, online
movies, and web pages?
How do these technologies
both connect and disconnect
us? Where online do we en-
gage deeply with friends,
family, and neighbors alike?
This is the focus of “Lost
and Found: Community in
the Age of the Internet,”
a free conversation with
Tod Sloan at 6 p.m. Friday,
March 13 at Astoria Public
Library, 450 10th St. This
program is hosted by Astor
Library Friends Association
and sponsored by Oregon
Humanities.
Sloan is a professor of
psychology in the Lewis &
Clark Graduate School of
Education and Counseling
in Portland. He was trained
in a field known as person-
ality theory, which address-
es fundamental questions
about human nature. Sloan
is fluent in Spanish and has
taught in universities in Ven-
Submitted photo
Tod Sloan is a professor of psychology in
the Lewis & Clark Graduate School of Edu-
cation and Counseling in Portland.
ezuela, Nicaragua and Costa
Rica.
Through the Conversation
Project, Oregon Humanities
offers free programs that en-
gage community members
in thoughtful, challenging
conversations about ideas
critical to daily life and the
state’s future. For more in-
formation, contact Astoria
Public Library at 503-325-
7323 or comments@astori-
alibrary.org
with a terrific
film, fashion and
chocolate!
Watch glamorous Audrey Hepburn
romance Cary Grant in the 1963 classic
film “CHARADE” on the big screen.
Win prizes for best “glam” costumes
in the audience!
Sip bubbly and eat chocolate while you
watch a fashion show!
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Celebrate Albert Einstein’s
Birthday with a slice of Pi
ASTORIA — Clatsop Com-
munity College will cel-
ebrate notable physicist
Albert Einstein’s birthday
and the mystery of the math-
ematical constant Pi from
1:59 to 6 p.m. Saturday,
March 14 at CCC’s Patriot
Hall Gym.
Pi is everywhere; it is the
ratio of any circle’s circum-
ference to the length of its di-
ameter. The celebration mim-
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(3.14), beginning at 1:59 p.m.
(159) and continuing to (2) 6
p.m. (6).
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will open the festivities at 1:59
p.m. with music and singing.
There will be math games, Pi
and other math walks, face
painting, Pi prizes and more.
Pi’s famous relative — pie
— will be sold by the Pi-Phi
Chapter of Phi Theta Kappa
as a fundraiser (by the slice or
whole pie).
Admission is free. This
event is appetizing for all ages,
and families are encouraged
to attend (children under 12
need to be accompanied by an
adult).
For more information, con-
tact TJ Lackner, CCC mathe-
matics instructor, at 503-338-
2452 or tlackner@clatsopcc.
edu
Listening to the Land: Clark
remembers the Oregon Coast
SEASIDE — It’s been 209 years
since the Corps of Discovery
reached the estuary of the Co-
lumbia River prompting Capt.
William Clark to pen the im-
mortal words, “Ocian in view!
O! the joy.” If Clark (now Gen.
Clark) was retired and relaxing
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he spent on the North Oregon
Coast in the winter of 1805-06,
what details would stand out in
his memory?
Hear for yourself at “General
Clark Remembers the Coast,”
the third of this year’s Listening
to the Land programs beginning
at 6 p.m. Wednesday, March 18
at the Seaside Public Library,
located at 1131 Broadway. Ad-
mission is free, and refreshments
will be served.
Clark, who will be reanimat-
ed by living history re-enactor
Tom Wilson, will share the po-
dium with Jill Harding, chief
of visitor services at Lewis and
Clark National Historical Park.
Wilson and Harding will talk
about the landscape and resourc-
es Clark encountered during his
stay. Attendees are welcome to
ask questions.
Submitted photo by Tom Wilson
Tom Wilson as William Clark.
Listening to the Land is a
monthly winter speaker se-
ries presented by North Coast
Land Conservancy and the Ne-
canicum Watershed Council in
partnership with the Seaside
Public Library with support
from the Seaside Chamber
of Commerce. This year’s
Listening to the Land series
is focused on the natural and
cultural heritage of the Oregon
Coast. For information, call
503-738-6742, or visit www.
seasidelibrary.org