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coast December 3, 2015 weekend arts & entertainment 4 8 10 12 COASTAL LIFE Volunteer and serve others Lots of local organizations are run on the power of volunteers THE ARTS Starving Artist Faire healthy at 20 Keeping the faire going has been a communal effort FEATURE ‘The Nutcracker’ The Little Ballet Theater presents its 41st production of “The Nutcracker” DINING Mouth of the Columbia Street 14 Cafe weekend dinner service is off to a promising start STEPPING OUT........ .............................................................. 5, 6, 7 CROSSWORD........... ....................................................................14 CW MARKETPLACE........ .............................................................15 GRAB BAG ....... ..........................................................................19 Find it all online and more! COASTWEEKEND.COM www.coastweekend.com features full calendar listings, keyword searches and easy sharing on Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest. coastweekend.com | facebook.com/coastweekend | twitter.com/coastweekend on the cover Clara (Allyssa Berger) and Nutcracker Prince (Joseph Justice) practice their dance, while choreographer Emily Madsen and others look on. Little Ballet The- ater’s “The Nutcracker” takes the stage Saturday and Sunday at the Astoria High School auditorium. Photo by Dwight Caswell See story on Page 10 COAST WEEKEND EDITOR: REBECCA SEDLAK COAST WEEKEND PHOTOS: JOSHUA BESSEX ADVERTISING MANAGER: BETTY SMITH CONTRIBUTORS: DWIGHT CASWELL DAN HAAG MATT LOVE ANDREW TONRY To advertise in Coast Weekend, call 503-325-3211 or contact your local sales representative. © 2015 COAST WEEKEND Create a holiday botanical greeting card Dorota Haber-Lehigh to teach class at Seaside Public Library SEASIDE — Do you like to draw? Like the holidays? Why not combine the two and sign up for Seaside Public Library’s Holiday Botanical Greeting Card Class with lo- cal artist and illustrator Dorota Haber-Lehigh. Haber-Lehigh’s classes have been so popular that the library is bringing her back for another holiday installment. The workshop will take place at 1 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 5 and is sponsored by the Friends of the Seaside Library. Registra- tion is required; you can sign up at the circulation desk or by phone. All materials will be provided. Botanical illustration is the art of depicting the form, color and details of plant spe- cies. These are often printed with a botanical descriptions in books, magazines and other media. Participants in this work- shop will create a winter bo- tanical card to celebrate the holiday season. Whether you are celebrating Hanukkah, Christmas, Kwanzaa, winter solstice, or the New Year, you can create a card depict- ing the gifts of nature. Bring a plant, fruit, nut, flower, pine cone, winter berries, or any botanical item that is symbolic to you during the holidays. The greeting cards you make in this class will be a one-of-a-kind delight for friends and family. Haber-Lehigh received a Bachelor of Arts degree, IURP 3DFL¿F 8QLYHUVLW\ ZLWK a focus on printmaking and art history. She has designed, illustrated and published the children’s books “ABC of Na- tive Plants of the Coastal Pa- FL¿F 1RUWKZHVW´ DQG ³1DWLYH %HUULHV RI WKH &RDVWDO 3DFL¿F Northwest. She is currently at work on a book about na- WLYHZLOGÀRZHUV6KHLVDOVRD member of the Oregon Botani- cal Artists and the Native Plant Society of Oregon. Seaside Public Library is located at 1131 Broadway. For more information call 503- 738-6742 or visit www.sea- sidelibrary.org Holiday Botanical Greeting Card Class 1 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 5 Seaside Public Library 1131 Broadway, Seaside 503-738-6742 Free Submitted photo Create a botanical drawing holiday greet- ing card in an upcoming class at the Sea- side Public Library. Coast Weekend welcomes comments and contributions from readers. New items for publication consideration must be submit- ted by 10 a.m. Tuesday, one week and two days before publication. To submit an item, contact Rebecca Sedlak Phone: 503.325.3211 Ext. 217 or 800.781.3211 Fax: 503.325.6573 E-mail: rsedlak@dailyastorian.com Address: P.O.Box 210 • 949 Exchange St. Astoria, OR 97103 Coast Weekend is published every Thursday by the EO Media Group, all rights reserved. No part of this publication can be reproduced with- out consent of the publisher. Coast Weekend appears weekly in The Daily Astorian and the Chinook Observer. December 3, 2015 | coastweekend.com | 3