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9A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2015 Jazz: Closing show will present myriad short performances Continued from Page 1A Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley. And he plays the piano like Jerry Lee Lewis. It’s rock and roll!” Bennett and the Memphis Speed Kings kick off the weekend with a special event Thursday night (Feb. 19) at the Elks Lodge. The schedule The festival begins in earnest Friday, with concerts scheduled concurrently on ¿YHVWDJHV²WKUHHDWWKH6HDVLGH&LYLF and Convention Center, plus the Shilo Inn Oceanfront and the Elks Lodge. All but one of the venues will be pre- SDUHGVSHFL¿FDOO\ZLWKGDQFHUVLQPLQG ³)RXU RI RXU ¿YH YHQXHV KDYH GDQFH ÀRRUV DQG ZH EULQJ LQ ZRRGHQ ÀRRUV´ said Johnson. “We don’t ask people to dance on concrete all weekend.” “There are young people, and they just dance all day long,” added Shook. “Some of them have a favorite band they follow from place to place.” Aside from bands simply performing their regular material, a few special sets are planned. “Saturday, we have three bass saxes playing at the same time,” said Johnson. “That is an awesome sound. If you know what a bass sax looks like or sounds like, NANCY McCARTHY — The Daily Astorian The Memphis Boys, of the band Dave Bennett and the Memphis Boys, brought the crowd to its feet last year with their rock ‘n’ roll and rockabilly music. Now called Dave Bennett and the Memphis Speed Kings, the band will kick off the festival at a special event at the Elks Lodge Feb. 19. you really should show up for that set. That’s my favorite set.” Uptown Lowdown will be playing, she added. “They have two band members who play the bass sax, and Peter Meyers will join them; he’s the reed player for High Sierra.” Saturday is the big day, packed across the board, with 45 shows spread across ¿YHYHQXHVIURPDPWRSP The festival’s closing show, at 3 p.m. Sunday, will present a smorgasbord of short performances. “We will bring a band on that will play two or three songs, and then they’ll rotate off and another band rotates on,” said -RKQVRQ³:HZLOOURWDWHDERXW¿YHEDQGV through just as a way of saying ‘Goodbye, and see you next year!’” The Seaside High School jazz band will also play in the “closing” this year. “It gives them an opportunity to play in the big room at the convention center,” said Johnson. “So that’ll be kind of fun.” In the spotlight ,QGHHG-RKQVRQDQG6KRRN²DORQJ with the rest of the many volunteers that comprise the Lighthouse Jazz Society ² HQMR\ VSRWOLJKWLQJ 6HDVLGH ZKHWKHU it be by hosting old friends, welcoming the high school band or boosting tourism during the wet winter months. “The reason why I do this is because I think it’s a great event for Seaside,” John- son said. “I just like to see people having a good time. And when I go to other jazz festivals and I say that I’m from Seaside it’s just nice to hear, ‘Seaside! That’s our favorite festival!’ That’s why I keep doing it. I like to see people having a good time, and I like to make people happy.” LNG: Area crabbers make up to 2,200 trips into the estuary a month Continued from Page 1A 7KH ¿UP ZDQWV WR EXLOG the export terminal to link the plentiful natural gas of West- ern Canada and the Rockies with eager energy markets in Asia. A new 87-mile pipeline would run from the North- west Pipeline, the natural gas DUWHU\ IRU WKH 3DFL¿F 1RUWK- west, through Cowlitz Coun- ty in Washington state and Tillamook, Columbia and Clatsop counties in Oregon to reach the terminal. Oregon LNG is seeking federal, state and local ap- provals and has encountered VLJQL¿FDQW RSSRVLWLRQ IURP environmentalists, property RZQHUV ¿VKHUPHQ DQG UHV- idents who have fought the $6 billion project for the past decade. “Our livelihood survives by our ability to transit and have free passage on the bar, and if you’re shutting down that whole river for periods of time, you’re going to have a negative impact,” said Mar- tin McMaster, an owner of the Lady Laura, a crabber and longliner. Dan Serres, the conser- vation director of Colum- bia Riverkeeper, a Hood River-based environmental group that opposes the LNG terminal, described the con- flict between the project and fishing as a “fundamental- ly unanswered, unresolved problem that has the poten- tial to be enormously de- structive to the local econo- my, to people who fish in the area.” The Department of Fish and Wildlife’s comments, in a Jan. 16 letter to the Army Corps of Engineers, raised concerns about a dozen top- ics related to the LNG proj- HFW LQFOXGLQJ GUHGJLQJ ¿VK passage, water use and dis- charge, wetlands and habitat restoration. The department “has iden- WL¿HGVHYHUDOLVVXHVWKDWPD\ Continued from Page 1A Goldeen estimates about 70 Jewish people live around the lower Columbia region. They either recognize their heritage at their homes or travel to services in Portland, she said. Over the past 24 years, a North Coast Shabbat Group in Seaside has met one Friday a month for six months out of the year. The group honoring Shabbat, the Jewish day of rest, has been the only con- sistent Jewish service in the North Coast community. Those interested in the new Beit Salmon Congregation are encouraged to attend a meet- ing at 11 a.m. Sunday in the Fellowship Hall of Peace Lu- theran Church in Astoria. Allie Evans, treasurer of Beit Salmon, said the Sunday meeting will be an opportunity for people to share their ideas and give input about the newly formed congregation. “(The congregation) is just to enhance everyone’s lives in whatever way they want that to happen,” Evans said. “For some people, it’s just about the food. Our mission is to em- brace all of that.” The idea behind a new congregation has been talked about casually for years, but it reached a fever pitch last fall at a Rosh Hashanah, or Jew- ish New Year, celebration in Astoria. Los Angeles-based Rabbi Abram Goodstein, Goldeen’s son-in-law, attended the cel- ebration at her home and noticed a crowd of about 30 people all seemingly willing to organize. “He said ‘You know this community could be more. Do you want to be more?’” Gol- deen said. Rabbi Abram is planning to spend two months this summer in Astoria helping the group get off the ground. He will hold services, teach classes, write grants and help the group formalize. The group is fundraising on a crowdfunding website, www.giveforward.com, to help cover Rabbi Abram’s ex- HOW TO HELP • Beit Salmon Congre- gation is hosting an informational meeting at 11 a.m. Sunday at in the Fellowship Hall of Peace Lutheran Church in Astoria. Those interested in the new congregation are encouraged to attend and share their input. Parking is on the street. Snacks will be served. For more information, call Ann Goldeen at 503-791- 4611. • In addition, the congre- gation is hoping to raise up to $4,000 to bring Rabbi Abram Goodstein of Los Angeles to Astoria for the summer to aid in the new congregation’s cohesion and engage- ment in the community. The congregation set up a fundraising campaign on www.giveforward. com. So far, the group has raised $750. To donate, visit http://bit. ly/1vEHQai penses over the summer. “This whole push to orga- nize more and have more of an increase in presence, it’s been a continuous snowball,” Evans said. “Enough people got the ball rolling. We are at the point where we can set it up and actually have a congre- gation.” Looking toward the future, the Beit Salmon organizers see the congregation as a place for not only worship, but also fel- lowship. They see a place for book groups, movie nights and Hebrew school over the sum- mers. The new space, when it is found, could host bar mitz- vahs or have a mikvah, for rit- ual baths. While Judaism is based in religion, Evans said, the con- gregation recognizes it is also cultural. Those who do not as- sociate to Judaism religiously, but were raised in the culture will have a place to connect with their heritage through food, games and holidays. “We are embracing the di- versity and enhancing every- one’s lives through it,” Evans said. ALEX PAJUNAS — The Daily Astorian file The east side of the Skipanon Peninsula, right, is the pro- posed location for a liquefied natural gas export terminal to be built by Oregon LNG. of the lower Columbia River estuary.” Oregon LNG has ac- knowledged the extremely SRSXODU VDOPRQ ¿VKLQJ DW Buoy 10, but the department IRXQG WKDW WKH ¿UP KDV QRW adequately characterized the potential for substantial dis- ruption of the socially and HFRQRPLFDOO\LPSRUWDQW¿VK- ery. Last year, for example, there were 107,700 angler JOSHUA BESSEX — The Daily trips with a catch of nearly Astorian file 84,500 salmon. Columbia Riverkeeper Dan Similarly, the department Serres gives a presentation argues, Oregon LNG has not about the dangers of build- documented the potential ing a liquefied natural gas impact of the project on rec- terminal in Warrenton to a reational crabbing. Crabbers group of protesters and lo- make about 1,500 to 2,200 cal community members at trips into the estuary a month the Warrenton Community during the peak fall season, ac- Center Jan. 22. cording to the department, tak- ing between 12,000 and 28,000 result in substantial impacts Dungeness crab a month. WR ¿VK VKHOO¿VK ZLOGOLIH While much of the crab- their habitats, as well as po- bing occurs outside the Ham- tential reductions in op- mond Marina, the department portunities for recreational found, some crabbing also KDUYHVW RI ¿VK DQG VKHOO¿VK happens in the estuary near associated with construction the proposed berthing dock and operation of the marine and outside the mouth of terminal in the marine waters Youngs Bay. Join us! FREE! Fun for the whole family! Community Health Fair Inquiry: Recent allegations against the JRYHUQRUDUHµYHU\VHULRXV²DQGWURXEOLQJ¶ third term to serve as a fellow for a Washington, D.C.-based In contrast, Rosenblum QRQSUR¿WWKDWKDVGRQHSROLW- stopped the release of public ical work in Oregon. Hayes records for the duration of had not included that income at least one similar case, her on tax returns she provided to investigation of then-Mult- other news organizations last nomah County Chairman Jeff fall, Willamette Week report- Cogen, The Oregonian report- ed. That was followed by a ed. report in The Oregonian that Rosenblum has provided Kitzhaber associates, who only brief comments about worked on his 2010 campaign Kitzhaber and Hayes, but she and were later hired to work did say in a statement last in his administration, helped week that recent allegations Hayes to secure contracts. DJDLQVWWKHJRYHUQRUDQG¿UVW The Oregon Republican ODG\DUH³YHU\VHULRXV²DQG Party and then-state Rep. troubling.” The EO Media 9LFNL %HUJHU 56DOHP ¿OHG Group/ Pamplin Media Group complaints against Kitzhaber Capital Bureau reported on and Hayes last fall asking the Jan. 27 that Hayes was paid ethics commission to investi- $118,000 early in Kitzhaber’s gate reports that Hayes used Continued from Page 1A Beit Salmon: ‘Enough people got the ball rolling’ her public position to bene- ¿W KHU FRQVXOWLQJ EXVLQHVV including by tasking a state employee with scheduling for her business. Bersin said he had not heard from the Attorney Gen- HUDO¶V 2I¿FH DQG ³LQ WKH DE- VHQFHRIFRQ¿UPDWLRQWKDWLVD criminal investigation by the $WWRUQH\*HQHUDO¶V2I¿FHZH are still moving forward.” Bersin said if the ethics commission suspends its in- vestigation, that will only last until the conclusion of the criminal investigation. “And then we will take it back up.” — The Capital Bureau is a collaboration between EO Media Group and Pamplin Media Group. February 14, 9am-2pm Clatsop County Fairgrounds 92937 Walluski Loop, Astoria, OR Join the CMH/OHSU Cardiology Clinic on Valentine’s Day for a fun and informative, heart-friendly Community Health Fair. Experts will be presenting and answering questions throughout the day: 9:30 AM 10 11 11:30 12 PM 12:30 1 1:30 Rebekah MacNeill, PA-C, cardiology Brian Cox, MD, general health Jeanette Schacher, DPT, hospice Aimee Adelmann, organ donation Chad Rankin, ATC, concussions Allison Martin, MD, pediatrics Peter Bales, MD, orthopedics Diana Rinkevich, MD, cardiology Win prizes hourly! Fun for the whole family!! &YDIBOHF4USFFU"TUPSJB0SFHPOt XXXDPMVNCJBNFNPSJBMPSHt"1MBOFUSFF%FTJHOBUFE)PTQJUBM
