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Join Angora Hiking Club on guided walk Learn how ‘The Soil Will Save Us’ SEAVIEW, Wash. — Angora Hiking Club invites walkers and hikers to join Washington State Park interpretive special- ist Aaron Webster for a walk to view the waves, currents and tides and how they interact to de¿ne Washington¶s beauti- ful and sometimes dangerous Long Beach Peninsula coast. Walkers will meet at 9 a.m. Saturday, July 18 at the Sixth Street parking lot in Astoria. From there, attendees will car- pool to 38th Place in Seaview, Washington, arriving at about 9:30 a.m. at the beach to meet Webster. There is roadside parking along 38th Place ap- proaching the Discovery Trail entrance to the beach, with no fees or time limits posted. This guided, level walk is about 3 miles south to Beard¶s Hollow. Possible birds to see are terns, gulls, eagles, cor- morants, pelicans, peregrines, osprey and dunlins. A return walk back to 38th Place should result in approx- SEASIDE — The Friends of the Seaside Library will host Kristin Ohlson, author of “The Soil Will Save Us,” at 7 p.m. Thursday, July 23. There will be book sales and signings presented by Beach Books. Thousands of years of poor farming and ranching practic- es and modern industrial ag- riculture have led to the loss of up to 80 percent of carbon from the world¶s soil. ,n “The Soil Will Save Us” journalist and bestselling author Kristin Ohlson makes an elegantly ar- gued, passionate case for our “great green hope” — a way in which we can not only heal the land but also turn atmospher- ic carbon into bene¿cial soil carbon and potentially reverse global warming. The granddaughter of farmers, Ohlson has long had an appreciation for the soil. A chance conversation with a chef led her to the crossroads of science, farming, food and Submitted photo Angora Hiking Club members pose for a photo during a past hike. imately a three-hour sojourn total. Wear sturdy shoes, bring bug repellant, water and sun- block lotion. There are re- strooms at Beard¶s Hollow. Annual dues to for Angora Hiking Club members is $7. Membership is not required to participate in the hikes. Angora¶s annual schedule of hikes and where they occur is available at www.AngoraHik- ingClub.org For additional club infor- mation, contact chief guide Bob Westerberg at 503-325- 4315 or Westysr@charter.net. Hike leaders are Jim and Kath- leen Hudson, available at 503- 861-2802. Webster is available at 360-642-3029. Organizers ask that potential hikers call if they plan to participate. Seaside Public Library hosts Portland author Kristin Ohlson Submitted photo Kristin Ohlson, author of “The Soil Will Save Us,” will speak at Seaside Public Li- brary on July 23. environmentalism. She dis- covered that there is a vast kingdom of creatures under our feet — billions of micro- organisms in a tablespoon of soil—that take the carbon di- oxide that plants pull from the atmosphere and turn it into life-giving soil carbon. ,n her book, Ohlson introduces visionary sci- entists, farmers, foodies, ranchers and landscapers whose work shows that the earth can be healed. She of- fers the hope that problems like climate change, air and water pollution, and food quality have the same low- tech solution: through the soil. Ohlson is a freelance jour- nalist, author, essayist and ¿ction writer who lives in Portland. She has written for The New York Times, Salon, Smithsonian, Oprah, Utne, and many other publications. “The Soil Will Save Us” was a ¿nalist for the 2015 Oregon Book Award. The Seaside Public Library is located at 1131 Broadway. For more information call 503-738-6742 or visit www. seasidelibrary.org Astoria Artists’ St udio Tour July 25 - 26, 2015 • 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Free, self-guided tour of local artists’ studios. Buy art from the artist! Tour brochures with maps available early July at Dots ‘n’ Doodles Art Supply, RiverSea Gallery, Imogen Gallery, Old Town Framing, Luminari Arts,Tempo Gallery and online at www.AstoriaArtists.org. Presented by the Astoria Society of Artists and sponsored by Columbia Memorial Hospital 1#."#.#)(&5((#&-/**),. ,)'Ų-.),##-/&Ų,.-(."ū#.3) Ų-.),#Ņ SPONSOR 36 Astoria artists welcome you to their creative spaces +) July 16, 2015 | coastweekend.com | 11
