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About Oregon Coast today. (Lincoln City, OR) 2005-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 3, 2019)
learn a little Make room on the refrigerator door Geos between us If one of your resolutions this year is to foster your child’s creativity, the guidance and support given by the Art Smart program, for kids ages 7 to 13, is a smart place to start. (Kids age 6 may attend with accompanying adult). These Saturday art classes, starting on Saturday, Jan. 11 and running through April 25, are based around a story that is told bit-by- bit throughout the series of 16 classes. This year the theme is “the Shape-shifters’ Journey Home.” Art instruction includes concepts like light and shadow, color theory, texture, line quality, space and composition. The classes feature a different type of art with each class including sculpture, painting, drawing, scratch art, collage, weaving, embroidery, assemblage and much more. There are three class times: 10:30 am to 12 pm, 1 to 2:30 pm and 3 to 4:30 pm. A $20 membership per student fee, due on the first day of class, covers the entire series of 16 classes. Single drop-in price is $5 per class. All materials are provided. Classes are held at the Artists Studio Association, behind the Artists’ Co-op Gallery, 620 NE Hwy. 101 in Lincoln City. There is a 20 student limit per class; reserve your spot early by calling instructor Krista Eddy at 541-992-4292 or emailing k.eddyalexander@gmail. com. For more information visit www.asaart.org. Your hidden talent revealed Capture the color and intensity of the season and bring out your inner artist in a free watercolor art class brought to you by the Newport 60+ Activity Center. The six session class will meet on Tuesdays, Jan. 7 through Feb. 11, from 10 to 11:30 am. Instructor Shirley Steinhauer will help participants find their hidden talent. All the supplies will be provided, though those who have supplies are encouraged to bring them to class. Class size is limited. To register for this fun art class, go online: www.newportoregon.gov/ sc and click on the dark blue banner “Browse the catalog and register.” There, you may view a listing of additional trips, hikes, events, classes, presentations and events. For more information, stop by the office located at 20 SE 2nd Street, Newport, OR, or call 541-265-9617. An arresting presentation The Oregon Coast Learning Institute opens its winter semester on Tuesday, Jan. 7 with a presentation by Lincoln County sheriff Curtis Landers about the long and distinguished history of sheriffs. “The office of sheriff has a proud history that spans well over a thousand years,” Landers said, “from the early Middle Ages up to our own ‘high tech’ era.” Landers has been the sheriff in Lincoln County for the last three years and has been involved in law enforcement, emergency management and administration for Lincoln County since 1987. After a no-host lunch, Paul Reno will present the benefits of electric motor vehicles (EVs), the pros and cons of EVs currently on the market and the economic and ecological benefits of EV ownership. Oregon Coast Learning Institute (OCLI) is an all-volunteer, non- profit organization in Lincoln County made up mostly of retired men and women who desire to stimulate their intellectual interests in an atmosphere of shared learning. Visitors are always welcome to attend a full day for free. The $75 dues cover all of the 12 Tuesdays in the winter semester from Jan. 7 to March 24, 2020. Each new semester begins with a free coffee and cookie reception at 9 am for visitors, new members and long standing members to meet. Sessions are held at Salishan Spa and Resort located east of the Highway 101 traffic light in Gleneden Beach. Each Tuesday has two topics, the first from 10 am to noon and the second from 1 to 3 pm. A no-host buffet lunch is available at noon at Salishan. There are also restaurants open close by in Gleneden Beach and at the Taft area in Lincoln City. For more information visit www.ocli.us or call 541-994-4810. The carbon storage and chief scientist of benefits of trees, marshes the Geos Institute in and soils in natural and Ashland and former working landscapes are the president of the Society theme of a carbon-storage for Conservation Biology, North America Section. He focused speaker series, is an internationally “From Ridgetop renowned author to Reef,” hosted of over 200 science by the MidCoast papers on forest Watersheds and fire ecology, Council. conservation Dr. Dominick biology, endangered DellaSala of the species management Geos Institute will Dr. Dominick and landscape focus on the vital DellaSala ecology. Dr. role our coastal rain DellaSala has given forests play globally presentations at the United on Thursday, Jan. 9 at 6:30 Nations Earth Summit and pm at the Pacific Maritime has appeared in National Heritage Center in Geographic, Science Newport. His talk will also Digest, Science Magazine, discuss the importance of conserving unlogged forests Scientific American, Time Magazine and many and how our working other media outlets. He is forests can be managed for currently serving on the additional carbon benefits. Oregon’s Global Warming Receiving as much Commission Subcommittee as 200 inches of annual on Forest Carbon and is rainfall on average, the editor of numerous scientific forested western slopes of journals and publications. the Oregon Coast Range His book “Temperate and unsurprisingly fit the Boreal Rain Forests of definition of rainforest. the World: Ecology and In fact, the area between Conservation” received an Northern California’s redwoods and Southeastern academic excellence award from Choice magazine. Alaska, along with the Dr. DellaSala Canadian boreal forest and co-founded the Geos the world’s tropical forests are considered the ecological Institute in July 2006 and lungs of the planet, filtering says he is motivated “to leave a living planet for carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to create oxygen my two daughters, two grandkids and all those that while also storing the follow.” carbon in long-lived trees, Refreshments will be dead standing and downed provided. The MidCoast wood and in roots in the Watersheds Council regular soil. board meeting will follow While all plants provide the presentation. this function, the quick The Pacific Maritime growth rates and large Heritage Center’s newly- sizes that our coastal trees renovated Doerfler Family attain provides a powerful Theater is located at 333 SE mechanism to help absorb Bay Blvd. the additional carbon For more dioxide that is dangerously information visit www. warming our planet. midcoastwatersheds.org/ Dr. Dominick A. carbon-speaker-series. DellaSala is president oregoncoastTODAY.com • facebook.com/oregoncoasttoday • January 3, 2020 • 13