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FRIDAYEXTRA ! The Daily Astorian Friday, March 6, 2015 Weekend Edition THAT’S COOL, DADDY-O! /RFDOVFHOHEUDWHDOOWKLQJV%HDWDWWKHLQDXJXUDO%HDFKQLN&DIp ERICK BENGEL — EO Media Group A hearty crowd attended the inaugural Beachnik Café, held at the Cannon Beach Gallery on Valentine’s Day. It represented the culmination of a two-part Beat Poets workshop pre- sented by the Tolovana Arts Colony. in my life. They did not care what you wore, what you did, how you looked. They cared about what was going on in iven the exalted status that the your heart.” mid-20th century Beat writers Though Ginsberg had already pub- HQMR\ LQ$PHULFD¶V FXOWXUDO FRQ- lished his poem Howl (1956) and Ker- sciousness, their present-day fans may ouac his novel On the Road (1957), the forget that Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, ZULWHUVGLGQ¶WKROGFRXUWVKHVDLG HWDOGLGQ¶WSUHVHQWWKHPVHOYHVDVOLWHUDU\ “It was like they were a group of peo- demigods. ple who read their poems and read their When Nehalem resident Louise essays along with a lot of other people,” &KULVWLDQVRQPHWWKHPDW6DQ)UDQFLVFR¶V she said. “They were funny. Ginsberg City Lights Bookstore in 1963, the “con- in particular had an amazing laugh, and servative girl from the Midwest” had no \RX MXVW FRXOGQ¶W QRW EH KDSS\ LQ KLV idea what she was getting herself into, presence. Jack was a little bit more som- she said. ber.” “I never would have had to worry The Beats created an atmosphere of about a thing,” she said. “These peo- freedom and safety, compassion and ac- ple, who were living in San Francisco ceptance, where no one got singled out, at that time, in that area, were the most everyone could speak his or her mind and nonjudgmental people I have ever met artistic expression reigned. By ERICK BENGEL EO Media Group G ERICK BENGEL — EO Media Group Tracy Abel reads Allen Ginsberg’s political poem, America at the Beachnik Café. She attended the two-part Beat Po- ets workshop at the Tolovana Arts Colony taught by Mark Mizell, an English teacher at Seaside High School. 6SULQJ¶VQHZOLIHVKRZVWKHZD\ By PETE BATTJES For The Daily Astorian S pring is my favorite time of the year! It is awesome to see the daffodils opening and trees budding. As new life emerges it is refreshing, inspiring and renewing. It also reminds me of the new life that God offers us. As we approach Good Friday and Easter, we must examine an audacious claim Jesus made to His disciples EHIRUH+HIXO¿OOHG*RG¶VSODQ to die on the cross for the sins of humanity. Jesus said, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.” (John 14:6). There are many people who are confused about the way to God and Heaven. Je- sus makes it plain and simple. As God, He provides the only Long Tran The/Thinkstock Crosses on the horizon signify Easter. way. There are no exceptions. There are not many ways to God, only one — believing in Him as the Son of God and Savior of the world. If there were other ways to God and Heaven, then His death on the cross was not necessary. $QGLW¶VWKHDWPRVSKHUHWKDWWKH7ROR- vana Arts Colony sought to recreate at its ¿UVW ³%HDFKQLN &DIp´ KHOG LQ WKH &DQ- non Beach Gallery the night of Feb. 14. Several dozen local Beat writers, readers and devotees, including Christianson, gathered to delight in all things Beat — a post-WWII countercultural movement that eschewed conformity and “the estab- lishment” while reveling in creativity and the human condition. With lights dimmed; candles lit; JXHVWV TXDI¿QJ FRIIHH EHHU DQG ZLQH paintings encircling the podium; an em- cee tapping the tumba; and jazz pulsing softly beneath the performances, the Bo- hemian spirit of the Beats felt alive and well and right at home in the sophisticat- ed setting. See BEAT, Page 4C Beliefs It would have been a terrible ZDVWH -HVXV GRHVQ¶W HYHQ allow for any other ways, INSPIRATIONAL MESSAGES FROM LOCAL CLERGY EHFDXVH WKLV LV *RG¶V GLYLQH plan. Jesus had to die to pay the VDFUL¿FHIRURXUVLQVRWKDWDOO who believe in Him would be forgiven and enter into a rela- tionship with God. The way to Heaven is not about the good deeds people do, but about having faith in a good God and His divine deed of dying for our sins so we can be for- given. This is refreshing, inspir- ing and renewing! We can have a new spiritual life now and for eternity because of what Jesus accomplished. He loves each person and calls us to follow Him by faith. Je- sus alone secures our eternal Home in Heaven! Dr. Pete Battjes is the lead Submitted photo pastor at Lighthouse Chris- Pete Battjes is the pastor at Lighthouse Christian Church. tian Church in Warrenton. ts Presen Live at the Liberty Theater, Astoria Tickets $15 - $20 - $25 at the Liberty Box office & www.TicketsWest.com/ March 6 7:30 pm His only Oregon performance!