Find live music, games at First Friday Night
ASTORIA — Join the Columbia
River Maritime Museum during
its next First Friday Night event
from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday, Oct. 2.
This month, First Friday moves
back to the Barbey Maritime
Center.
Enjoy music by Snowblind
Traveler, a cash bar and a variety
of lively games.
Songwriter Matt Dorrien
is Snowblind Traveler, a Port-
land-based musician who spe-
cializes in acoustic folk and
blues-inspired music as well as
piano-based music. His reper-
toire includes original songs as
well as an eclectic mix of covers
by artists from the ’60s and ’70s
to the present day. His music is
inspired by the rolling expanse
of middle America, the fog and
lichen-draped cathedral of red-
woods of the Northwest and the
lulling whisper of a New En-
gland blizzard.
Columbia River Maritime
Museum First Friday Nights are
an entertaining, casual, and so-
cial experience on the First Fri-
day of each month. They include
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Learn how marine debris
affects mammals, seabirds
Biologist, professor to give free talk
7 to 9 p.m. Friday, Oct. 2
CANNON BEACH — Want to
learn
more about marine
2042 Marine Drive, Astoria
mammals and seabirds off Or-
All ages
egon’s coast? Join Friends of
Cape Falcon Marine Reserve,
Free
CoastWatch and Haystack
screenings, skills demonstrations
Rock Awareness Program at
and hands-on activities.
6:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 2 for
First Friday Nights are free
a special free presentation by
of charge. The Barbey Maritime
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Kim Raum-Suryan and Rob
Center is located at 2042 Marine Snowblind Traveler will perform acoustic
Suyran to learn about the im-
folk and blues during First Friday Night.
Drive.
pacts of marine debris on ma-
rine mammals and seabirds.
Raum-Suryan, a marine
boy poetry by Joel Fitts. The mammal biologist and owner of
evening will end with an old- Sea Gypsy Research, has stud-
time auction of local arts and ied pinnipeds, focusing on Stel-
Creamery at 1681 Washington Bridge Dinner, with seating at crafts, with Fitts as auctioneer. lar sea lions, for over 25 years.
Tickets for the dinner are She will present on the life cycle
State Route 4. The creamery 4:30 p.m. Saturday. The dinner
will be open until 4:30 p.m. for will feature Columbia River limited and are available at the of pinnipeds and the impacts of
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netters, Mickey Bates’ chicken and Naselle. The dinner seat- creatures in various ways.
farmers too.
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Suryan, an associate pro-
Tickets are $35 for adults, fessor at Oregon State Uni-
Wahkiakum Fair Foundation’s led beets, locally grown roast-
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of wares from several vendors, DQG/RLV:DNH¿HOG¶VSXPSNLQ and veterans.
of environmental change on
All proceeds from the din- the reproductive biology, for-
9 a.m. to 3 p.m. They will cake for dessert. WSU Cougar
also operate their cider press, Gold cheese will be served ner go to the Wahkiakum 4-H aging ecology and population
Youth Development program. dynamics of marine birds for
and they encourage visitors to with bread with the meal.
The evening’s entertain- Parking for the dinner is avail- 20 years. His presentation will
bring apples to press.
The weekend culminates ment will feature violin music able on the south side of the cover the threats of marine de-
in the Grays River Covered by Jeffrey Reynolds, and cow- Covered Bridge.
bris on seabirds.
Both presenters will share
how their research is linked to
marine reserves.
This free educational evening
will take place at Cannon Beach
Barbey Maritime Center
Find food, fun at Columbia River Country Days
SKAMOKAWA, Wash. — The
eighth annual Columbia River
Country Days will take place
Friday and Saturday, Oct. 2
and 3.
The event kicks off Friday
with a pie social at 3 p.m., and
live music by Kyleen Aus-
tin and Andrew Emlen at the
Puget Island Farmers Market.
Pies are homemade by 4-H
families and volunteers.
Saturday is a full day and
starts with milking at 7 a.m.
at the Skamokawa Farmstead
Submitted photo
Biologist Kim Raum-Suryan will talk about
the effects of debris on marine mammals.
Submitted photo
Rob Suryan is an associate professor of
senior research in the Department of
Fisheries and Wildlife at Oregon State Uni-
versity’s Hatfield Marine Science Center.
City Hall Council Chambers, lo-
cated at 160 E. Gower St.
Enter to win, taste and vote
in Surfside Chili Cook-Off
OYSTERVILLE, Wash. — The
seventh annual Surfside
Chili Cook-Off, Bake Sale
and Small Craft Fair is
scheduled for 11 a.m. to 3
p.m. Saturday, Oct. 10, at
the Oysterville Schoolhouse.
There will be prizes for
first, second and third place
winners. If you have a great
recipe, or just want to come,
taste and vote for your fa-
vorite, entry is free.
Surfside’s own One Lane
Bridge musicians will play
live during the day, and lo-
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cal crafters will offer their
wares for sale.
Baked goods, as well as
bowls donated by the Pen-
insula Clay Artists, will be
sold to benefit the Ocean
Park Elementary Back-Pack
Program.
The deadline for chili en-
tries is 12:30 p.m. Oct. 10,
judging begins promptly
at 1 p.m. There is no entry
fee for vendors, but space is
limited; call 360-665-4171
by Thursday, Oct. 8, to reg-
ister.