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NORTH COAST THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, APRIL 13, 2015 Odie B’s has a heart for foster kids admission fee going to CASA. Upcoming workshops include “Extreme Beading” Sunday and “Make a Fairy Garden” April 26. The mission of helping CASA, which volunteers say has been proven to help make kids more likely to be ad- opted, mixed with the Heart Gallery, which Wilson said is composed of some children who are maybe older and have some special needs, and DUHWKXVPRUHGLI¿FXOWWR¿QG families for. 2QH SUR¿OH ZDV /HUR\ RU “Li,” a 5-year-old from Wash- LQJWRQ ZKRVH PDLQ DGXOW ¿J- XUHVKLV+HDUW*DOOHU\SUR¿OH read, are now his foster par- ents, daycare providers, pre- school teachers and his other supporters. “He is a loving boy with a laugh that will make you VPLOH´WKHSUR¿OHUHDGVZLWK contact information on how to adopt him. The Heart Gallery pro- ¿OHV DUH RQ GLVSOD\ DW 2GLH B’s, 1255 Commercial St. in downtown Astoria, through- out April. A full list of the children available for adop- tion can be found at www. heartgalleryofamerica.org Jones said next month’s featured charity would like- ly be the Le Leche League of Astoria, the local chapter RI DQ LQWHUQDWLRQDO QRQSUR¿W based on breastfeeding. Odie B’s also plans to eventually sponsor Victory over Child Abuse camp, where she and Moor have been volunteers more than a decade. By EDWARD STRATTON The Daily Astorian Odie B’s owner Georgi- na Jones and shop manager Charmarie “Char” Moor have been foster and adoptive par- ents, as well as volunteers for the Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) program. Jones’ store revolves around children and families, buying their clothes, toys and other accessories; selling them to other families; and hosting eclectic workshops in art, home economics and other lessons. April is Child Abuse Pre- vention Month. As part of its charity of the month, and for 2nd Saturday Art Walk, Odie B’s focused on the needs of foster children. They brought in a volun- teer Saturday from CASA, the store’s charity of the month. And instead of art, they creat- ed a Heart Gallery, a traveling exhibit of kids seeking adop- tion. “At any one time, there’s about 100 kids in foster care, and I have 33 CASA vol- unteers,” executive director of Clatsop County’s CASA group, Lauren Wilson, said. Her visit to Odie B’s was timely, Wilson added, as the orientation for new CASA volunteers is Wednesday at Clatsop Community College, with training starting April 22. Contact Wilson at 503-338- 6063 or lauren@clatsopcasa. org for more information. Odie B’s holds workshops each Sunday, with $5 of the Photo courtesy of Jenn Sharon Leroy, 5, who often goes by “Li,” is one of the profiles displayed at Odie B’s in downtown Astoria as part of the Heart Gallery, a traveling exhibit of foster children seeking forever families. Art celebrates Week of the Young Child By EDWARD STRATTON The Daily Astorian Sunday began the Week of the Young Child, which runs until Friday, bringing awareness to issues of early childhood development and education. The children of Astoria and Warrenton’s Head Start cen- ters, along with early-child- hood classes through the local Education Service District, joined 2nd Saturday Art Walk with “Art Through the Eyes of a Child,” displaying their own exhibits in select spaces throughout the week. “Our vision is that all Head Start centers and preschools will be doing this,” Lori Honl Wilson, a teacher at the War- renton center, said about the concept, which started with Astoria last year and expand- ed to Warrenton and the ESD. The exhibits from War- renton’s center, representing four classes and 72 children, surrounded the entire upstairs of the Curious Caterpillar Saturday night, from painting with marbles and on coffee ¿OWHUVWR'6/5SKRWRJUDSK\ and molded, decorated clay disks. More than 30 kids from Astoria’s center, and another 30 from Northwest Regional Education Service District’s Early Childhood Class in Asto- ria, held their own exhibit in the back room of Luminari Arts. Most of the work at Luminari EDWARD STRATTON — The Daily Astorian The 2nd Saturday Art Walk exhibits by Head Start and Northwest Regional Educa- tion Service District children covered most mediums and the walls of the back and upstairs spaces at Luminari Arts and The Curious Caterpillar Saturday. Some of the remaining artwork is up and for sale during the Week of the Young Child, which runs through Friday. and Curious Caterpillar includ- ed names, ages and sometimes a back story from the artist DERXWWKHLULQÀXHQFHV The ESD’s Early Child- hood Class, located in As- toria, serves more than 40 students from throughout the region. Tiffany Hall, an early childhood specialist with the ESD, said it serves mixture of children with learning and other disabilities, with pro- grams in Astoria and Seaside covering the northern and southern portions of Clatsop County. The exhibits offered par- ents and guardians a chance to view their children’s work RQ GLVSOD\ DQG WKH ¿UVW chance to buy. Some of the remaining work is available at Luminari Arts, 1133 Com- mercial St. until Friday. All proceeds support special ac- tivities for the kids. Local Harvey Award nominees sought The Astoria Historic Land- marks Commission is encour- aging nominations for an annual award that recognizes historic preservation. The Dr. Edward Harvey Historic Preservation Award is presented to a property owner ZKRVHUHVWRUDWLRQRUEHDXWL¿FD- tion of a building over the past WZR\HDUVH[HPSOL¿HVKLVWRULFDO Mayor Arline LaMear will tional Historic Preservation attributes or the city’s architec- present the award during Na- Week in May. tural heritage. Nominations can include residential, commercial, public, and other buildings. Nomina- tions can be submitted to the Alder and Maple Saw Logs & Standing Timber city’s Community Develop- ment Department until April N orth w es t H a rdw oods • Lon gview , W A 30. Contact: Steve Axtell • 360-430-0885 or John Anderson • 360-269-2500 W A NTED B ro w n sm ea d G ra n ge Fu n d ra iser CHILI C OO K O FF & CO M M U N IT Y CH IL I CH AL L E N GE W EDN ES DAY APRIL 15 • 5-7PM E ven t: Chili & Corn Brea d & Chili D og F eed Cost: $10 a dults ($8 Gra n ge m em bers) • $5 kids (12 & un der) E n ter the com petition by brin gin g a t lea st 3 q u a rts of hom em a d e chili in a w a rm er (crock pot) a lon g w ith a 3”x5” ca rd listin g in gred ien ts a n d spice level (m ild , m ed , hot) W hether you r w a n t to cook a n d com pete or ju st w a n t to ea t, you ’re bou n d to ha ve a w hole lotta fu n ! For more info: https://www.facebook.com/events/ 1596527417259755/ Email: BrownsmeadGrange@gmail.com • (503) 458-5229 W IN G REAT PRIZES Present 102.3 fm the Classic Rock Station Quarterflash 3A Get your Goonies tickets starting now Tickets for the Goonies 30th Anniversary Cele- bration events June 5-7 are now on sale through TicketsWest, and can be purchased online at www. ticketswest.com or by call- ing 800-992-8499, and are available for the following activities: • The Shot in Asto- ria Bus Tour (June 5-7) costs $35 a ticket. Hop on a school bus with 30 fans for a narrated 2-hour tour through Astoria that will SDVV ¿OP ORFDWLRQV IURP “The Goonies,” “Kinder- garten Cop” and more. This is the only way to ac- cess the interior of the res- idence used as the Walsh family home in “The Goonies.” • Behind the Scenes of “The Goonies” (June 5-7) is $20 per person. Learn about what it was like on set from special guests Randell Widner, Sloth’s stunt double; Mark Mar- shall, “kid wrangler” on the set; Mick Alderman, DVSLULQJ ¿OP GLUHFWRU LQ- YLWHGWRWKHVHWGXULQJ¿OP- ing; and Paul Gillum, city of Astoria staff liaison to the production. 7KH 7UXIÀH 6KXIÀH 5K Run/Walk, a casual 5K run/jog/walk that starts at 9 a.m. June 7 in Cannon Beach, costs $20 per entry. Annual Golf Ball Drop to land May 9 WARRENTON — The eighth annual Assistance League of the Columbia Pa- cific Golf Ball Drop fund- raiser is being held from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. May 9 at the Astoria Golf & Country Club, 33445 Sunset Beach Lane in Warrenton. There is a free golf clin- ic for children at 11 a.m., with lessons from golf pro John Kawasoe, as well as a free barbecue for children younger than 5 years old. The cost for the barbecue lunch is $5 for all those older than 5. There is also a bicycle raffle and a dessert bake sale. The helicopter is drop- ping 2,000 marked golf balls at 12:15 p.m. for lots of prizes. Golf ball tickets are for sale now at Holly McHone Jewelry in Asto- ria and at Columbia Bank branches located in Asto- ria, Warrenton and Sea- side. Tickets cost $5 each; purchase a ticket, and the number will be put on a golf ball to be dropped from the helicopter. All proceeds from this event go to help clothe Clat- sop County children in need for the upcoming school year through ALCP’s Oper- ation School Bell program. The major sponsors for this ke ts at the Liberty Theater t.com at Astoria es th e sw bo x t ke of fic e d an Tic Submitted photo Numbered golf balls are pre-sold for $5 for the Golf Ball Drop. years’ Golf Ball Drop are Lektro, NW Natural Gas, Columbia River Bar Pi- lots and the Astoria Golf & Country Club. For information about this event, go to www.assis- tanceleaguecp.org or con- tact Leslie Long at 503-717- 3671 or Jane Cartwright at 503-738-2734. ACCE P T IN G N E W P AT IE N T S As to ria Ch iro p ra ct i c AN N GO L D E E N , D .C. | B ARRY SE ARS, D .C. AU TO ACCIDEN TS W ORK -RELATED IN JU RIES D on ’t dela y! Ca ll toda y! W e bill m ost in su ra n ce com pa n ies, in clu din g M edica re 5 03 -3 25 -3 3 11 2935 M ARIN E DR • AS TORIA B arbie is retiring B B I A R I S E R E T I R I N G MARCH Friday, May 22 nd tic Sail with Sloth takes place at 6 p.m. June 5, and costs $70 a person. Join Randell Widner and Curt Hanson, the actor who por- trayed Elgin Perkins, the ¿OP¶VJROIFRXUVHGHYHORS- er, for an evening cruise on the historic tall ship Lady Washington. While this event is only offered once, the Lady Washington will be in Astoria for 10 days, with many opportunities for dockside tours and sail- ings, starting at $35 a tick- et. Book directly through the Historical Seaport at http://historicalseaport.org All tickets will be avail- able on a will-call system at the event headquarters located at the Astoria Ar- mory, aka The Goondocks, beginning June 4. Ticket EX\HUV ZLOO EH QRWL¿HG RI the schedule for pick up by email. There are many other activities taking place that don’t require a ticket at all, such as Geocaching’s One Eyed Willy Treasure Hunt, for example, or can be purchased in person at the venue, like admission to the Oregon Film Museum. For information about Goonies 30th Anniversary events, go to www.the- goondocks.org N JOI ! US 6 3- M P Ba rb ie Jen kin s ha s b een a n o p ticia n fo r the p a s t 20 yea rs here in As to ria . S he s ta rted her ca reer w ith Dr. K u m p u la in 1994, co n tin u ed o n a s it b eca m e No rth Co a s t Vis io n Cen ter, a n d s in ce 2011 ha s b een vita l in help in g Co a s ta l E ye Ca re b eco m e the thrivin g clin ic it is to d a y! As the p ra ctice cha n ged ha n d s s evera l tim es o ver the yea rs Ba rb ie ha s rem a in ed the co n s ta n t fo rce. S he ha s b een d ed ica ted to her p a tien ts fo r a ll this tim e w ith her co m p a s s io n a te w a ys a n d s tea d fa s t s ervice. Barbie will be greatly missed. C om e help us celebrate! Coastal Eye Care 553 18th St., Astoria!