Editorial
Now & Then
Welcome to the Edge of w inter Our
careful readers w ill notice some changes
in this issue F irst it is w ith tears in our
eyes that we inform you that baseball
season has once again come to an end, and
Mr Baseball w ill be taking a w e ll deserved
rest at Betty Ford or Serenity by the Sea
u n til spring training brings his ground hog-
IIke form to cast his shadow again on
these pages
Also, you may have noticed the lack of
our beloved Dr Karkeys, Io, these last
months, again getting all m isty eyed we
must report that the good doctor has
succumbed once again to that tragic life
style choice, Musician (Oh, w ill they
never learn'?) Yes, Dr K has run off to
pursue a cowperson wanna-be life style in
Austin, Texas, but plans to send us
occational reports scrawled on the backs
of cocktail napkins (Soaked in Jack
Daniels and w ith Howdy Pardner' printed on
the front, no doubt')
Now on a more pleasant note, we are in
this issue welcoming two new, and on
going features for all ages Joame
Ausmues (a personal friend of Uncle Mike)
w ill be sharing her unique mazes w ith us,
and Rob Mi 11 iron w ill be reviewing music,
movies, and food from a younger point of
view
Also in this issue is an excerpt from a
new book,independently produced by the
author, who lives on the coast, and has a
different perspective when it comes to
travel guides The Meeting Ground
(Journeys into Wild Places) by David
Siegmund, takes the reader on trip s that
don t lis t RV fa c ilitie s or camp ground
fees, but do let you feel the places he has
visite d and de finite ly makes you want to
go feel them for yourself The color
photographs (that we re g re tfu lly cannot
reproduce here) are beautiful, and the text
can be read like poetry The author
wanders about the coast selling his book
and walking the "w ild places", nice job He
wandered into the book store the other day
and shared his book w ith us, so we are
happy to share part of it w ith our readers,
if you want to read it all you can send
$9 95 plus $ I 00 postage to Windshadow
Press, Box 207-F, Westlake, Or 97493 or
ask at your local "new" bookstore or g ift
shop
Speaking of books and the bookstore, as
some of our more intelligent readers have
figured out. your beloved editor is also the
proprietor of Jupiter s Rare and Used
Books, and as such comes in contact daily
w ith folks who also like old editions we
have been running a list of Used Book
stores which we blatantly stole from
Perpetua, that lis ts stores from Manzanita
on down south We would like to elaborate
on this, and would welcome folks from
Portland. Eugene, Astoria, the Long Beach
Area, etc to send us information on their
stores, or stores they know about, we ll
lis t them for free (It is a form of
recycling)
While we are on the subject of free
listings, the same goes for Art Galleries,
Musical Events, Community Meetings,
Theatre, P olitical Statements, any notices
that we think are cool (Don t you wish you
had your own newspaper')
Local colour
We hear in town that the cutting has
begun on the watershed The Beloved
Reverend has not had the strength to view
the carnage, but we are sure all the rules
were followed and good money was made
by all we at the Edge propose, again, but
more seriously this time, that the folks
from Cavenham come to the Chamber and
talk to the people of Cannon Beach about
exactly what they plan to do w ith their
land and our lives
we did recently have the chance to see
some pretty nasty earth sculpture on
county property, bulldozer art, but a great
view As we can see by the poetry from
Lincoln City, in this issue, it is a problem
up and down the coast The problem
continues, the solutions, alas, wait More
on that later
One thing we can do is let our feelings
be known The Edge and a lot of other
publications try to give a voice to people
who can articulate simply their feelings
on the situations facing us So, if you can
w rite a declarative sentence, and have
something to say about something we
might need to know about, w rite it down,
send it in, at least we II read it We might
print it 5000 times, cool, huh? You see,
part of the point of the Edge (love that
phrase) is to be a participatory paper
(there we go again), to encourage folks
who may not be WRITERS, to w rite, and to
participate in that art, much like you
would in community theatre, or playing In
a week-end band We see so many people
who have learned so much since the last
time they were encouraged to w rite in high
school, or college, that we wonder
We had the pleasure of a v is it to Seaview,
Washington recently, to observe the fir s t
day of clamming in three years (boy, w ere
glad we don t let cars on the beach in
Oregon) A brief v is it w ith Terrence
O’Donnell (historian and curmudgeon
extraordinaire) was concluded w ith a
wonderful dinner at the 42nd St Cafe,
(these are the folks who now are also
running the Crab Broiler at the
Seaside/Cannon Beach Junction), and we
recommend it without reservation, but
perhaps you should call ahead anyway
considering how fu ll the parking lot has
become these days
important Notice to Subscribers' It is
time to check your file s (we w ill try to
check ours but we seem to have forgotten
where we put them) and renew your
subscriptions if you have been getting the
Edge for a year or more (Some friends in
Colorado just sent us a check so we
remembered ) it costs a buck an issue to
mail plus those cool wine sacks we s tu ff
it into and the precious time the Beloved
Reverend spends hand scrawling your
address on each one, so we don t make
money on the deal
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E d ite r /P o b lis b e r The Beloved
Reverend Billy Lloyd Hulls
A m i U i l E d ito r/G ra p h ics E d ito r
The Humble Ms Sally Louise Lackaff
S cien ce E d ile r /V e ic e o f R ea so n
Michael Burgess
1 » p r a v is a lia o a l E a g ia a e r Dr
karkeys
V ild lif e /M u a ic R e p o rte r Peter
"Spud Siegel
P o litic a l C o a s o lla a l Kathleen
K rush as
E o rc ig a C o rre s p o n d e n t Bill
Wickland
Education E d ito r Peter Lindsey
M e a n w h ile m N e w p o rt Alei
LaFoUeue
Ace R e p o rte r m P o rtla n d Alison
Pride (eat your heart out Lois Lane)
M r Baseball Himself
T b e F n a n ie s Pa<e Mar A Rory
Local Color Ron Logan
Pool in Reside neo Bill Clunie
On tb e edge Dave Bart ho let
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