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myriad short performances
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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
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with concerts scheduled concurrently on
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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
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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
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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.”
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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
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$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.”
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and Wildlife’s comments, in
a Jan. 16 letter to the Army
Corps of Engineers, raised
concerns about a dozen top-
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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.
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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
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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.
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