E VENTS CONTINUED
lifelinescreening.com, $149. Life Line Screening is a set of preventive health screen-
ings administered by trained professionals to help detect hidden health issues.
Saturday, Jan. 16 (continued)
Kick-off Party
4:30 p.m., Pine Grove Community Center, 225 Laneda Ave., Manzanita, free, all ages.
Friends of Cape Falcon will hold a kick-off party for Oregon’s newest reserve, includes
family friendly activities, food, beer and live music.
Editor’s Pick:
Saturday, Jan. 16
Artist Reception
5 to 7 p.m., Cannon Beach Gallery, 1064 S. Hemlock St., Cannon Beach,
503-436-0744, www.cannonbeacharts.org. Cannon Beach Arts Association
and LightBox Photographic Gallery will have a combined reception featuring
12 artists representing memberships of both organizations for the show
“Confessions.”
Past to Present Lecture Series
10:30 a.m., Columbia River Maritime Museum, 1792 Marine Drive, Astoria, 503-325-
2323, www.crmm.org. Tracy Hollister will recount his solo crossing from Japan to
Astoria that concluded a two-year voyage.
ABATE Chapter Meeting
5:30 p.m., Astoria Moose Lodge, 420 17th St., Astoria, 503-325-3566, www.north-
coastabate.com. ABATE is a north coast group of motorcycle enthusiasts who ride,
have fun and provide community support.
Wednesday, Jan. 20
“Soup Night” Book Reading
11 a.m., Ilwaco Timberland Library, 158 N. 1st Ave., Ilwaco, Wash., 360-642-3908,
www.TRL.org. Join author Maggie Stuckey in a discussion of her book “Soup Night:
Creating Community Around a Pot of Soup.”
Lunch in the Loft
Noon, Beach Books, 616 Broadway, Seaside, 503-738-3500, www.beachbooks37.
com, $25. Author Honey Perkel who will share her latest novel “Between Two
Shores.” Cost includes lunch and a signed copy of the book. Reservations required.
Write Astoria
5 p.m., Astoria Public Library, Flag Room, 450 10th St., Astoria, 503-325-7323, www.
astorialibrary.org, free. Write Astoria is an open forum where writers read from works
in progress and off er constructive feedback.
Listening to the Land
6 p.m., Seaside Public Library, 1131 Broadway, Seaside, free, all ages. North Coast
Land Conservancy presents “Climate Change and the Coast” with John Stevenson.
Legion Crab Feed
6 p.m., American Legion 168, 1216 S. Hemlock St., Cannon Beach, $20. Cannon
Beach American Legion will host a crab feed, includes salad and garlic bread.
Cannon Beach Reads
7 p.m., Cannon Beach Library, 131 N. Hemlock St., Cannon Beach, 503-436-1391. The
next selection is “All the Light We Cannot See,” by Anthony Doerr.
Author Reading
7 p.m., Cannon Beach Book Company, 130 N. Hemlock St., Cannon Beach, 503-436-
1301, free. Author and musician Jim Stewart will read from his debut novel “Ochoco
Reach, An Ironwood Novel.” Q&A and book signing will follow the reading.
Thursday, Jan. 21
Let’s Go Birding Survey
9 a.m., Sunset Beach State Recreation Site, Warrenton, 503-861-3170 ext. 41, dane.
osis@oregon.gov, 8 and older.
Sunday, Jan. 17
In Their Footsteps
1 p.m., Fort Clatsop Visitor Center, 92343 Fort Clatsop Road, Astoria, 503-861-2471,
www.nps.gov/lewi, free. As part of In Their Footsteps lecture series, Fort Clatsop
presents “The Towns that Became Today’s Warrenton” with Susan Glen.
Editor’s Pick:
Candlelight Walk
5:30 p.m., 12th and Commercial streets, Astoria, 503-325-1895, all ages. Join the Low-
er Columbia Diversity Project for a candlelight walk honoring Martin Luther King, Jr.
Tuesday, Jan. 19
Life Line Screening
8:30 a.m., Seaside Convention Center, 415 First Ave., Seaside, 888-653-6450, www.
Trivia Night
6:30 p.m., Uptown Café, 1639 S.E. Ensign Lane,
Warrenton, $2 person per game.
Nature Matters
7 p.m., Fort George Lovell Showroom, 426 14th St., Astoria, 503-861-4443, free.
Guest speaker Nancy Fernandez will talk about Budburst at the Parks, an opportuni-
ty for the public to learn about tracking changes to 10 signifi cant plants at Lewis and
Clark National Historical Park and the San Juan Island National Historical Park.
C LASSES
Tuesday, Jan. 19
CCC Off ers Aquanastics Class
9 to 10:50 a.m., KOA Pool, 1100 Ridge Road, Hammond,
503-338-2402, www.clatsopcc.edu/schedule, $29.
Aquanastics are gentle water exercises designed to
increase range of motion, fl exibility and cardiovas-
cular fi tness for both men and women. Swimming
is not required. Classes meet on Tuesdays and
Thursdays to Feb. 25, includes two time slot options
and limited to 12 students.
Financing Your Business Future
9 to 11 a.m., Clatsop Community College, 1651 Lexington Ave., Astoria, 503-338-
2402, $15. Noah Brockman will cover fi nancing, development and resources. Seating
is limited and registration required.
Philosophical Foundations of Buddhism
10 a.m. to noon, Astoria Senior Center, 1111 Exchange St., Astoria, 503-338-2566,
www.encorelearn.org. This class meets on Tuesdays to March 1 to discuss philosophy
in terms of Buddhism.
Thursday, Jan. 21
Preregister
Winter Film Series
2 p.m., Liberty Theater, 1203 Commercial St., Astoria, 503-325-5922, $5, PG-13. AIFF
and Liberty Theater present a screening of the comedy “Noises Off !”
Monday, Jan. 18
Writers at Work
6 p.m., Seaside Public Library, 1131 Broadway,
Seaside, 503-738-6742, www.seasidelibrary.
org. This group is designed for writers to meet
and share ideas with local authors.
CCC Off ers Aquanastics Class
9 to 10:50 a.m., KOA Pool, 1100 Ridge Road, Hammond, 503-338-2402, www.
clatsopcc.edu/schedule, $29.
CHIP-In at Shively Hall
1 to 4 p.m., Shively Hall, 1530 Shively Park Road, Astoria, 503-741-5965, all ages,
free. Learn about the historic facility as you help clean it up. T-shirts, snacks and tools
provided. Volunteers will pick up trash, prune bushes, paint, power wash and more.
Daphne Restaurant Pop-up Event
6:30 p.m., Albatross & Co., 225 14th St., Astoria , http://daphnepdx.com/events, $90.
Chef Jake Martin and wine and service director Christopher Sky of Portland contem-
porary American restaurant Daphne are off ering a seven-course meal with wine
pairings using local produce and products at this pop-up dinner event. Limited to 20
diners. A second pop-up dinner is set for Jan. 31. Menu and tickets available online.
“Soup Night” Book Reading
6 p.m., Raymond Timberland Library, 507 Duryea St., Raymond, Wash., 360-942-
2408, www.TRL.org.
Thursday, Jan. 21
Book Reading & Discussion
2 p.m., Columbia River Maritime Museum, 1792 Marine Drive, Astoria, 503-
325-2323, www.crmm.org, all ages, free. Hear the true story of a little boat
that brings together two communities from across the Pacifi c Ocean in “The
Extraordinary Voyage of Kamome: A Tsunami Boat Comes Home,” a book read-
ing in Japanese and English with Lori Dengler and Amya Miller. This illustrated
bilingual book tells the story of the small boat swept away by the March 2011
Japan tsunami that was found in April 2013 on Crescent Beach and started an
exchange between high school students in Japan and Crescent City.
Mining Your Life for Laughs Writing Workshop
10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 6, Hoff man Center for
the Arts, 594 Laneda Ave., Manzanita, hoff manblog.
org, balmerbobb@comcast.net, 503-368-3846, $50. Bob
Balmer will lead this workshop, the goal of which is to
produce a 600- to 1,500-word rough draft of a humorous
essay or story based on your own life. Students will explore
humorous writings in class and then discuss what about them
makes us laugh: exaggeration, humiliation, characterization, one-liners, wordplay,
irony, identifying with the story or the narrator, juxtaposition of internal monologue
and external dialogue, structure or some other reason.
Personal Essay Writing Workshop
1 to 3:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 20, Hoff man Center for the Arts, 594 Laneda Ave.,
Manzanita, hoff manblog.org, 503-368-3846, $30. Join Ellen Urbani to work on
the fundamentals of writing short-form personal narratives/essays with a focus
on attention-getting openers, truth-telling, brevity, and kick-ass summations.
Students will explore the concept of universal themes and how to use them to draw
in readers.
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