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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
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“Li,” a 5-year-old from Wash-
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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
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contact information on how to
adopt him.
The Heart Gallery pro-
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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tion of a building over the past
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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
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Contact: Steve Axtell • 360-430-0885 or John Anderson • 360-269-2500
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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
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“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,
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ing; and Paul Gillum, city
of Astoria staff liaison to
the production.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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!