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12A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, MAY 8, 2015 Maori: They received a traditional welcoming by the Chinook Nation Continued from Page 1A Chinook Nation members and others. “I believe they bring to our world a real perspective, an authentic perspective that they’ve worked on for 10,000 years, or 20,000 years, and the Maori folks are right in line.” From Aotearoa The visiting clay artists, con- sidered some of the best in New Zealand, are sponsored by arts organizations Creative New Zea- land and Toi Maori Aotearoa to share their culture. They include group leader Colleen Waata Urlich, group elder Baye Riddell and four younger artists, Doro- thy Waetford, Rhonda Halliday, Todd Douglas and Carla Ruka. All traveled from North Is- land, New Zealand, also known as Aotearoa in the Maori language, and brought their own tribal back- grounds and artistic focuses: • Urlich, is with the iwi (tribe) Te Popoto o Ngapuhi ki Kaipa- ra and involved in several Mao- ri art initiatives. She originally met Rowland at his Dragon Kiln outside Astoria, sparking the relationship that led to the RULJLQDO ³3DFL¿F 5LP´ FXOWXUDO exchange and exhibit at CCC in 2012. Rowland met most of the other Maori artists in a visit to an indigenous arts festival in New Zealand in 2014. • Riddell descends from the iwi of Ngati Porou. He took up ceramics in the 1970s and has since tutored and been fea- tured around the world. He is D FRIRXQGHU RI 1JƗ .DLKDQJD Uku, a collective of Maori clay workers. 'RXJODV DI¿OLDWHG ZLWK the Nga Puhi, the largest of the Maori tribes, works in ceramics, sculpture and wood. Douglas VDLG KH KDV DQ DI¿QLW\ IRU ROG tools, featured prominently in his work. Traveling with him was his wife and glaze technician, Karu- na Douglas. +DOOLGD\ DI¿OLDWHG ZLWK the Ngapuhi nui tonu tribe, said much of her work focuses on metaphors relating to rebirth and in learning more about her cultur- al heritage, both Maori and Pake- ha (New Zealander of European descent), and integrating the two. 5XND DI¿OLDWHG ZLWK WKH Nga Puhi and Ngati Whatua iwis, said that in being a strong Maori woman, many of her works fo- cus on the female form. • Waetford, from the Ngati Wai, Ngati Hine and Nga Puhi JOSHUA BESSEX — The Daily Astorian Members of the Chinook Nation give gifts to the visiting Maori artists during a public exhibition reception at the Clatsop Community College Arts Center Thursday. JOSHUA BESSEX — The Daily Astorian The visiting Maori artists travel along the Columbia River on the Forerunner, Clatsop County Community College’s training vessel, to ancestral Chinookan fishing grounds near Pillar Rock Wednesday. JOSHUA BESSEX — The Daily Astorian Visiting Maori artists sing “Nga Iwe e,” meaning “Our Peo- ple,” during a presentation at Astoria High School Tuesday. iwis, is a former member of a Maori dance company who grav- itated toward ceramics, in which VKH IRFXVHV RQ ¿JXUDWLYH VFXOS- ture with strong shape, line and form. “I come from the coast,” she said, “and this place reminds me of home … a lot.” Urlich, Waetford, Halliday, Douglas and Ruka came from Te Tai Tokerau, a peninsular Maori electorate at the northern- most tip of the country, north of the nation’s most populous city Auckland. Riddell came from Te Tai Rawhiti, along the east coast and southeast of Auck- land. Joining the Maori artists on their trip was the towering Eddie Daughton — described by Urlich as “one hairy giant Celt from En- gland” — from Somerset in the United Kingdom. A Chinook welcome The visiting Maoris received a traditional welcoming by the Chinook Nation at Chinook Point (Fort Columbia), Wash., Sunday; rode in a Chinookan canoe during the Long Beach, Wash., Loyalty Days parade; and visited ancestral forests near Willapa Bay. On Wednesday, they met with Chinookan elder Gary Johnson and hereditary Chief Phil Hawks at CCC’s Marine and Environ- mental Research and Training Station campus. “It’s always a wonderful ex- perience,” Johnson said. “We’ve traveled with many people on the canoe journey. There are always Maori people who come and pull on our canoes, for Grande Ronde and with Chinook on the inter- tribal canoe journey.” The Chinookan emissaries and Maori artists, along with Rowland and writing instruc- tor Nancy Cook, took a cruise on the college’s training vessel, Forerunner, upriver to ancestral grounds near Pillar Rock. The exchange between the two indigenous cultures culmi- nated Thursday as tribal coun- cilman Tony Johnson and other Chinookans surrounded the Maori visitors in the arts gallery DQG¿OOHGWKHH[KLELWKDOOZLWKWKH deep drumming of a traditional paddle song from Willapa Bay. “This relationship has been built, and a lot of it behind the scenes of this really fantastic exhib- it and cultural exchange,” Johnson said. “It’s something that’s really important and is going to last lon- ger than all of us, I’m sure.” COLUMBIA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION PRESENTS Center: ‘We’ve waited a long time to get to this point’ Continued from Page 1A winter months to solicit bids, rather than advertising last The Astoria City Coun- summer during the peak of cil voted Thursday night at the construction season, when a special meeting for a re- bids would typically come in vised $1.7 million price tag, higher. But the bids the city re- UHÀHFWLQJ DQ H[WUD grant from the Oregon Busi- ceived earlier this year ranged ness Development Depart- from a low of $1.8 million to ment’s Infrastructure Finance a high of $2 million. “I thank you for working Authority. The city had initially re- with the low bidder to change ceived a $1.5 million grant the scope of work and work- ing with our partners at the from the state. Al Jaques, the city’s proj- state to come up with these ect manager, said the city miracle funds to shore the originally estimated the proj- gap,” City Councilor Zetty ect would cost about $1.3 mil- Nemlowill told Jaques. Jaques said the city had lion, enough to stay within the wanted to start construction initial grant. Jaques had recommend- last year, but the project was ed that the city wait until the delayed by an extensive envi- ronmental review that was a contingent of the grant. He said construction could now break ground in July. Larry Allen, the president of the Senior Center’s board, said he hopes the project will be completed by Christmas. The Senior Center could seek grant or other money in the future to renovate the base- ment. For more than a year, se- niors have had to go to a tem- porary senior center at the old Yacht Club on West Marine Drive, which, for many, is less convenient than downtown. “We’ve waited a long time to get to this point, a lot of VHWEDFNVDQGPRGL¿FDWLRQDQG everything,” Allen said. W hile most of us don’t like to think that we will ever need the ambulance or Life Flight services, believe me, it can happen. “Thanks to Lifecare and Life Flight membership, our family has saved tens of thousands of dollars in the last couple of years. Membership is a small price to pay, for peace of mind.” “Not convinced? 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