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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, MAY 29, 2015
PARTING SHOT
A weekly snapshot from The Daily Astorian and Chinook Observer photographers
Sage Delong, of Vale, right, competes in the 3A 300-meter hurdles event during sunset at the OSAA 2015 Track and Field State Championships at Hayward Field in Eugene last Friday.
JOSHUA BESSEX — The Daily Astorian
Seen from Seaside: Finding wonder in the commonplace
Here are some
high school biolo-
randomly selected
gy was a really bad
gems from Maine’s
idea, that biology
It’s refreshing to hear a words that night:
is something that
speaker who doesn’t use a Pow-
• Quoting T.S.
might work later,
erPoint presentation and marks Eliot: “We shall not
but people should
his place in a book by sticking FHDVH IURP H[SOR-
be getting ecology
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ration, and the end
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integrative process
ralist and photographer Neal will be to arrive
of living things in
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their environment.”
R.J.
lecture for the “What Do We and know the place
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Public Library.
• On trash: “There is no hydrogen, but there would
Maine, a science teacher at ‘away’ when you say ‘throw be no clue that when you link
Seaside High School for three that away.’ Because ‘away’ is them they would make some-
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director of the North Coast
• “We need to look to na- isolated study doesn’t present
Land Conservancy, guided the ture more to see how we can the ‘emergent property,’ in
audience to rediscovery, turn- solve problems and what their this case, doesn’t make wa-
ing the commonplace around solutions are.”
ter. It’s the cake theory: you
us into an illumination of na-
• “In 1994, I wrote an ar- FDQVWXG\ÀRXU\RXFDQVWXG\
ture.
ticle suggesting that teaching baking soda, all their proper-
By R.J. MARX
The Daily Astorian
ties — but you couldn’t ever
make cake from that. Those
emergent properties are so
fundamental to everything
that’s going on.”
• “Each grain of sand has
its own ecology.”
• “Trees are just a tiny part
of a forest. And yet the forest
has been translated into trees.
The forest is something else,
and it just happens to have
trees as one of its elements.”
• “Get a piece of ground,
follow it for a year, and see
what happens.”
• “Being a community
member goes beyond attend-
ing city council meetings, or
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don’t like. It’s a function of
the whole system itself —
land, water, air, the whole bit.
Being a community member
means staying out of harm’s
way, but also celebrating the
natural phenomena of the
planet.”
• From author George Per-
kins Marsh, who wrote 130
years ago in “Man and Na-
ture”: “In these pages, it is my
aim to stimulate, not to satisfy
curiosity. And it is no part of
my object to save my readers
the labor of observation or
of thought. Labor is life, and
death lives where power lives
unused. The self is the school-
master whose lessons are best
worth his wages. The power
most important to cultivate
and hardest to acquire is see-
ing what is before him: sight
is faculty, seeing is art.”
Draw your own conclu-
sions — I’m sure that’s what
Neal Maine would want you
to do. As our climate and at-
mosphere become more cha-
otic, as natural forces rule
human decisions, his tutelage
may lead us to a response that
is both sane and secure. Listen
to the land.
The event was present-
ed by the North Coast Land
Conservancy and the Neca-
nicum Watershed Council in
partnership with the Seaside
Public Library and supported
by the Seaside Chamber of
Commerce. To them we are
grateful!
R.J. Marx is the editor of
the Seaside Signal and Can-
non Beach Gazette and the
North Coast reporter for The
Daily Astorian.
ODDITY
Fido al fresco? NY weighs allowing outdoor dining with dogs
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cleanliness, bites
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Manhattan park cafe.
American public health
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pet dogs from eateries, out of
concerns including potential
biting or transmitting germs to
people’s food. A 2013 study in
By JENNIFER PELTZ
the Journal of Environmental
Associated Press
Health found such risks ha-
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NEW YORK — Never
amid slim research.
mind the doggie bag: Spot
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wants a seat at the outdoor ta-
dogs hang out safely in home
ble, or rather under it.
kitchens and even make hospital
RICHARD DREW — AP photo
New York is considering
visits. California, Florida, Mary-
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number of states that give pet Goldendoodle service dog “Zola,” visit a cafe in a Manhat- other states and communities
dogs legal entree, if not actual tan park, on New York’s Upper West Side on May 19.
around the country have opened
entrees, at open-air eateries.
restaurant patios to dogs within
Dog lovers and restaura- raising questions, and some ment outside a patio railing, the last decade; North Carolina
teurs say the proposal would restaurant-goers fear an on- where the current law would even approved cats, too.
safely accommodate people slaught of begging, barking, have them.
After getting a unanimous
who want to dine out with biting and other doggie don’ts
“For me, there’s nothing OK from New York’s Senate,
man’s best friend in places — or, worse, doggie dos.
better than being with — I advocates are pressing its As-
from Manhattan sidewalk
Owners like Michelle Var- don’t even call them my dogs. sembly to sign on this spring.
cafes to country ice cream gas feel the estimated 500,000 They’re my boys,” Vargas said
New York City’s 83,000
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and at least one lawmaker is dining and it’s not on the pave- and Carmine, and a friend’s letting pets in. But furry faces
often can be seen while inspec-
tors are elsewhere.
Dougie the poodle peeked
discreetly from beneath owner
Marni Turner’s chair at a Man-
hattan sidewalk cafe table one
recent day. If he could be a le-
git guest, “it would make my
life a lot easier,” Turner said.
State Sen. Kemp Hannon
and Assemblywoman Linda
Rosenthal say their proposed
law would do that, while pro-
tecting people’s safety by bar-
ring servers from petting dogs
and banning dogs from the fur-
niture, among other provisions.
The lawmakers, who don’t
have dogs, stress that restau-
rants could decide whether
and how to host Fido outdoors.
Options could include special
sections.
The American Kennel Club
cheers the proposal as good for
owners and dogs. Restaura-
teurs are generally supportive,
state restaurant association
President Melissa Fleishschut
says.
Albany pub manager Tess
Collins would welcome hav-
ing permission for patio dogs,
since many patrons already
bring them along.
“It’s created a camaraderie”
among customers, she says.
But the idea gives some
New Yorkers pause.
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when they’re trying to eat?”
says Erik Galloway, of Shore-
ham, on Long Island.
He likes dogs generally but
notes diners can’t be sure how
healthy another patron’s dog
is.
The state Association of
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to oppose the measure, amid
concerns including cleanli-
ness, bites and whether local
governments could enforce
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tor Linda Wagner said. Assem-
bly Health Committee Chair-
man Richard Gottfried said
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