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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
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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
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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,
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a focus on printmaking and
art history. She has designed,
illustrated and published the
children’s books “ABC of Na-
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Northwest. She is currently
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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.
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