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
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