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coast weekend 4 8 10 12 January 15, 2015 arts & entertainment COASTAL LIFE Tillamook Head Gathering New event benefits Seaside High School arts enrichment THE ARTS ‘Falling from Horses’ Molly Gloss’ latest book will change the way you watch westerns FEATURE Scenic railroad dreams Astoria Railroad Preservation Association works to restore a locomotive DINING French lentil salad This simple, healthy lentil salad tastes anything but STEPPING OUT........ .............................................................. 5, 6, 7 CROSSWORD........... ....................................................................14 CW MARKETPLACE........ ....................................................... 15, 16 GRAB BAG ...... .......................................................................... . 19 Find it all online and more! COASTWEEKEND.COM www.coastweekend.com features full calendar listings, keyword searches and easy sharing on Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest. coastweekend.com | facebook.com/coastweekend | twitter.com/coastweekend on the cover Atop the boiler of locomotive Number 21, Astoria Rail- road Preservation Association volunteer Mark Clem- mens assists in the peening process of large stay bolts ,that is, hammering the bolt ends to flatten them, which hardens the metal and makes it more resistant to cracking and abrasion. Photo by Dwight Caswell See story on Page 10 COAST WEEKEND EDITOR: REBECCA SEDLAK CONTRIBUTORS: DWIGHT CASWELL COAST WEEKEND PHOTOS: JOSHUA BESSEX KATHERINE LACAZE ADVERTISING MANAGER: BETTY SMITH RYAN HUME JON BRODERICK MATT LOVE To advertise in Coast Weekend, call 503-325-3211 or contact your local sales representative. © 2015 COAST WEEKEND Learn the story of the nearly forgotten Olympia oyster (the marine laboratory of the University of Oregon) in Charleston, and received her Bachelor of Arts in integra- tive biology from the Uni- versity of California, Berke- ley in 2008. Along the way, Rimler worked and volunteered at three different aquariums in California, caring for jelly- Rose Rimler to speak at Nature Matters ASTORIA — Fresh oysters are a culinary symbol of the boun- ty of the Oregon Coast, but the oysters currently raised, sold and eaten here are not native to our waters. The story of the Olympia oyster — the West Coast’s “nearly forgotten native oys- ter” — tells us a lot about the history, ecology and economy of our coast. Learn about the overhar- vest of the Olympia oyster around the turn of the 20th century at the next Nature Matters free lecture event at 7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 15 in the Fort George Lovell Showroom. You’ll also learn about the fascinating life cy- cle of this species; current efforts to restore the popula- tion to its former abundance; and the ecological benefits of a healthy population of native oysters. Rose Rimler, the lecture presenter, is a recipient of the 2014-15 Oregon Sea Grant Natural Resources fellowship, which she is carrying out at the Tilla- mook Estuaries Partnership in Garibaldi. TEP works to protect and restore critical estuarine and riverbank hab- itat in Tillamook County and monitors water quality in its Nature Matters 7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 15 Fort George Lovell Showroom 426 14th St., Astoria Free bays and rivers. Rimler is spending a year there coor- dinating the revision and up- date of TEP’s management plan. Her background is in marine invertebrates and in ecology and evolution in general: She graduated Submitted photo by Brian Kingzett The Olympia oyster, Ostreola conchaphi- la, is the native oyster of the West Coast, where they led to the founding of Oyster- ville and a still-thriving shellfish industry based on other oyster varieties brought from elsewhere. in March of 2014 with an Master of Science in marine biology from the Oregon Institute of Marine Biology and many other specie. She is currently a volunteer at the Haystack Rock Awareness Program in Cannon Beach. This free program takes place in the Fort George Lovell Showroom. Doors open at 6 p.m. Nature Mat- ters is a program from the North Coast Watershed As- sociation and Lewis and Clark National Historical Park in partnership with the Fort George Brewery. Coast Weekend welcomes comments and contributions from readers. New items for publication consideration must be submit- ted by 10 a.m. Tuesday, one week and two days before publication. To submit an item, contact Rebecca Sedlak Phone: 503.325.3211 Ext. 217 or 800.781.3211 Fax: 503.325.6573 E-mail: rsedlak@dailyastorian.com Address: P.O.Box 210 • 949 Exchange St. Astoria, OR 97103 Coast Weekend is published every Thursday by the EO Media Group, all rights reserved. No part of this publication can be reproduced with- out consent of the publisher. Coast Weekend appears weekly in The Daily Astorian and the Chinook Observer. January 15, 2015 | coastweekend.com | 3
