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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, JANUARY 22, 2016
VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES
4-H — Looking for 4-H leaders.
For information, call Sandra Carl-
son at the Oregon State University
Extension at 503-325-8573.
Astoria Column — 1 Cox-
comb Drive. Volunteers needed to
welcome visitors, provide informa-
tion and answer questions about
the Astoria Column and the city of
Astoria. For information, call the
Friends of the Astoria Column Visi-
tor Center at 503-325-2963.
Astoria Riverfront Trolley As-
sociation — 111 W. Marine Drive.
Needs conductors/motormen to
operate trolley and narrate points
of interest. One or more three-hour
shifts per month. For information,
call the 503-325-6311.
Astoria Senior Center —
Temporarily located at 1555 W.
Marine Drive in the old Astoria
Yacht Club. To volunteer, call Larry
Miller at 503-325-3231.
Astoria-Warrenton
Area
Chamber of Commerce — 111 W.
Marine Drive. Volunteers needed
at the chamber and for events. For
information, call 503-325-6311.
Camp Kiwanilong — A large
variety of volunteer opportunities
are available. For information, call
503-861-2933 or go to www.camp-
kiwanilong.org
Caring Adults Developing
Youth (CADY) Mentoring Pro-
gram — 800 Exchange St., second
Àoor. Needs mentors for youths
ages 10 to 17 at risk of school fail-
ure. Time commitment: one year,
about eight hours per month. For
information, contact Laura Parker
at 503-325-8601 or lparker@co.
clatsop.or.us
Clatsop Animal Assistance
Inc. — Needs volunteers who have
a strong commitment to work on
behalf of the Clatsop County An-
imal Shelter’s dogs and cats. For
information, email info@dogsn-
cats.org or call 503-861-0737.
Clatsop Care Center — Vol-
unteers needed daily for all three
meals to provide one-on-one as-
sistance to dining dependent resi-
dents. Volunteers must participate
in a 16-hour training program. For
information,
contact
Mandy
Brenchley at 503-325-0313, ext.
209.
Clatsop County Animal Shel-
ter — Animal care volunteers age
16 and older needed for one 3-hour
shift per week. Pick up an applica-
tion at 1315 S.E. 19th St., Warren-
ton. For information, or to schedule
orientation, call Leslie Atkinson at
503-325-1000.
Clatsop Community Action
Regional Food Bank — Volun-
teers needed to help hand out
fruits and vegetables at the weekly
produce pantries for two hours on
Thursdays, from April to October,
in Seaside and Warrenton. Ware-
house attendants are needed for
food packing or processing, picking
orders for agencies, light janitorial
and housekeeping, or lawn and
grounds maintenance. Three to
four-hour shifts are available Mon-
day through Friday. To volunteer,
call 503-861-3663.
Clatsop Community College
Outreach Literacy — Needs
volunteer literacy tutors to work
with adults, native and non-native
speakers. Training available. For
information, call 503-338-2557.
Clatsop County Public Works
— 1101 Olney Ave. Adopt-A-Road
volunteers needed to remove litter
two times (minimum) per year for
two years. Safety equipment and
supplies provided. Volunteers must
receive safety orientation. For in-
formation, call 503-325-8631.
Clatsop Cruise Hosts —
Looking for volunteers to meet and
greet cruise ship passengers and
crew, provide information and an-
swer questions about the Clatsop
County area. Ships arrive in the
spring and fall, about 20 ships each
year. Work all the ships or part of
them. For information, go to www.
clatsopcruisehosts.org
Columbia Memorial Hospital
— Needs volunteers to provide
assistance to patients, visitors and
hospital staff. Training provided.
For information, go to www.colum-
biamemorial.org. To schedule an
interview, call 503-325-4321.
Columbia River Maritime
Museum — 1792 Marine Drive.
Volunteer opportunities for those
with an interest in maritime history.
For information, call the volunteer
coordinator weekdays at 503-325-
2323.
Columbia Senior Diners —
565 12th St. Volunteers needed
weekdays to serve tables and for
kitchen help. To volunteer, call 503-
325-9693.
Community Emergency Re-
sponse Team — CERT volunteers
needed for community events and
disaster response with local police,
¿re and emergency medical ser-
vice agencies. Training includes
¿re safety, ¿rst aid, traf¿c and
crowd control, communications,
damage survey, disaster planning
and civic events within city limits.
For information, contact CERT
coordinator Kenny Hansen at
khansen@astoria.or.us or leave a
voicemail at 503-325-4411.
Friends of Seaside Library
— 1131 Broadway, Seaside. Volun-
teers needed to staff the fundrais-
ing store. For information, call 503-
738-6742 or stop by the library.
Knappa Rural Fire Protec-
tion District — Needs volunteer
¿re¿ghters. Training provided. For
information, contact any of the
active personnel or call Chief Paul
Olheiser at 503-458-6610.
Lunch Buddy Mentoring Pro-
gram — Adults needed to mentor
elementary and middle school stu-
dents once a week during lunch.
For information, call Mary Jackson
at 503-440-0368 or email lunch-
buddies.mp@gmail.com
NorthWest Senior & Disabil-
ity Services — Needs dishwash-
ers and volunteers to serve and
clean up weekdays at a meal site,
and drivers for Meals on Wheels.
For information, contact Candy
Foster at 503-738-9323.
Providence Seaside Hospi-
tal — Needs volunteers to drive
local senior citizens to medical
appointments for the Partners for
Seniors Program, and to work in
the Providence Seaside Hospital
Gift Shop. Commitments as small
as one hour a month to regularly
scheduled weekly shifts are avail-
able. For information, call Volun-
teer Services at 503-717-7171 or
email Alana.Kujala@providence.
org
River Song Foundation
— Looking for people to assist
with Trap/Neuter/Release/Feed
(TNRF), especially in the Seaside
and Knappa/Svenson areas. TNRF
involves setting and/or monitoring
traps, and daily feeding of cats
and maintenance of any shelters,
and is a proven, science-based
method that along with spay/neu-
ter programs is the only effective
and humane way of ending cat
homelessness and suffering. Call
503-861-2003 for information and
to volunteer.
Seaside Downtown Develop-
ment Association — Volunteers
needed to help with local events
happening throughout the year.
For information, call Tita Montero at
503-717-1914 or email director@
seasidedowntown.com
Seaside Museum and Histor-
ical Society — Volunteers needed
to help as docents, maintaining
and creating exhibits, and various
events throughout the year. Small
and large projects available. Any
amount of time will be greatly
appreciated. Call the museum at
503-738-7065 or email seasidemu-
seum@hotmail.com
Start Making a Reader Today
— Needs volunteers to read to stu-
dents one-on-one for one hour a
week at local elementary schools.
To volunteer, call 503-391-8423 or
go to www.getsmartoregon.org
Svensen Congregate Meal
Site — Wickiup Grange Hall,
92683 Svensen Market Road. To
volunteer, or for information, call
Debbie Dunaway at 503-791-7298
or 503-861-4202.
Titanic Lifeboat Academy —
Volunteer to help care for animals
and assist with sustainable living
projects; minimum commitment
of four hours per week requested.
Some training provided. For in-
formation, contact Caren Black at
503-325-6886.
Tri-City Spay and Neuter
Thrift Store — 600 Broadway,
Seaside. Needs volunteers inter-
ested in improving the welfare of
animals. For information, call 503-
738-7040.
9eterans Services OfÀcer of
Clatsop County — Seeking vol-
unteer drivers to transport veterans
from Astoria to the Veterans Ad-
ministration Medical Center in Port-
land using the Disabled American
Veterans (DAV) van. To volunteer,
call 503-298-8757 or email clat-
sopvso@gmail.com
Warrenton Senior Lunch
Program — Warrenton Communi-
ty Center, 170 S.W. Third St. Vol-
unteers needed to help with Meals
on Wheels and in the dining room
Mondays or Thursdays. For infor-
mation, contact Barb Balensifer at
503-861-1341.
Wildlife Rehab Center of the
North Coast — Needs volunteers
to help rehabilitate orphaned and
injured wildlife. For information, call
503-338-0331 or go to coastwild-
life.org
Submitted Photo
Seaside High School alumna Heather Christie sings Frogtown’s “Middle of the Road” with
Oregon Hall of Fame’s Andy Stokes. Christie will be performing with the Frogtown cast at
the Tillamook Head Gathering fundraiser to benefit the arts at Seaside High School.
Gathering aims to keep
the arts alive in Seaside
Second-annual
event supports
art education,
experiences for
Seaside High
School students
Mizell said. “They might not
be necessarily bread-and-butter
sorts of things as far as money
goes, but the arts give us spir-
itual nourishment that some-
times the students don’t neces-
sarily get in other places.”
¿nd a meeting, call 503-861-5526 or
go to www.aa-oregon.org
Al-Anon Family Groups in-
formation line for Clatsop and Til-
lamook counties, 503-338-5688.
Oregon Area Al-Anon website. ore-
gonal-anon.org
Jones and Bonnie Raitt. She has
written and produced three al-
bums and toured with her own
material.
About eight years ago, she
got connected with Pelletier
and Frogtown and started pro-
ducing, collaborating and sing-
ing with the group.
Teaching diversity
“It actually helped me grow
with frogs, music
The Tillamook Head Gath- a lot as an independent artist to
ering is put on by a committee have all these new experiences
By KATHERINE LACAZE of current and former students and take it to another level,” she
said.
EO Media Group
and teachers.
The group is focused on a
The highlight of the event
SEASIDE — The common- will be a multimedia stage new release, called “Bedtime
ality of art, music and poetry show, Frogtown, based on Em- for Tadpools,” a multimedia
is one of the messages stu- my-award-winning author and experience with a lullaby am-
dents will receive when they composer Philip Pelletier’s mu- biance that follows the water
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Head Gathering in Seaside this Frogtown,” published in 2008. ing dance music, called “Let’s
“It’s for kids 9 to 90,” Mizell Move!” Some of the new ma-
month.
The gathering “is really an said. “It’s really a cool story, terial will be premiered at the
effort to keep art endeavors and the performance they do is group’s Tillamook Head Gath-
alive,” English teacher Mark really neat.”
ering performance.
Using projected anima-
Mizell said. “I really think
Christie said she is excited
we’re shorting the kids if we tions, a live-story reading and and honored to partake in the
don’t expose them to the arts.” live music performances, the fundraiser for her alma mater.
The fundraiser returns Jan. theatrical rock show tells the Giving students access to arts
30 at the Seaside Civic and story of cultural diversity using education is “essential for sur-
Convention Center for a second music as a metaphor. The cast vival and sanity,” she said. High
year with a special multimedia includes Seaside’s Christie, school is a time when “you’re
production by Frogtown, a so- Pelletier, Oregon Music Hall of growing and learning and hav-
cially conscious entertainment Famer Andy Stokes and saxo- ing strange feelings and emo-
troupe that features Astoria phonist Andy Warr.
tions, and you take things really
native and 1993 Seaside High
intensely,” she said. Art “helps
graduate Heather Christie, and
us transform those emotions
Music as an outlet
other performers from the Pa-
Christie, who helps produce into something beautiful and
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the show, also does individ- positive,” she added. Seeing the
Last year, about 250 peo- ual work as a performer. She way children — and people of
ple attended to hear prominent comes from a musical family; all ages — react and respond to
local author and Seaside High her grandparents, father, aunt Frogtown. Christie knows the
School alumnus Karl Mar- and uncles all did performing importance of musical exposure.
lantes. The event raised more arts of some sort. Her aunt,
“It’s a really magical expe-
than $6,000, used to bring Retta Christie, spearheaded the rience and with such positive
award-winning Oregon author western swing group Retta and messages,” she said of Frog-
Clem Starck to speak to En- the Smart Fellas.
town. “It’s very intergenera-
glish classes on the subject of
Heather Christie’s early tional, and brings everyone
beat poetry, send students on memories include watching together, from the grandkids to
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ties to learn more about visual mother’s poncho. At a young
The fundraiser will include
and performing arts.
age, she started singing blue- a silent auction, featuring art
When Mizell started teach- grass, country and western and donated by local artists. From
ing at the high school, funds gospel songs. Using her moth- 6:30 to 7 p.m., people can
ZHUH DYDLODEOH IRU ¿HOG WULSV er’s 1940s Martin guitar, she browse the silent auction items.
and activities to support extra- taught herself how to play the High school senior Claire Ogil-
curriculars, but “those funds instrument.
vie will coordinate the auction,
have really gotten scarce,” he
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That is unfortunate, since life, not something she had to
The high school’s jazz choir
“there is a very thin line — if consciously strive for.
and jazz band will perform,
there is a line at all,” between
“I think it was just some- followed by the Frogtown pro-
the arts, creativity and spiritual thing I was born with,” she duction.
matters, he added.
said. “It was just happening and
Tickets cost $10 in advance
“When you’re talking about it was what was driving me.”
and $15 at the door. They are
the arts, you’re talking about
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things that really keep people the sounds of the ’60s and Seaside Coffee House and the
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visual arts, music, poetry,” gles, Grateful Dead, Rickie Lee School.
SELF-HELP GROUPS
Seaside TOPS (Take Off
Pounds Sensibly)— 8 to 8:45 a.m.
weigh-in, 9 to 10 a.m. meeting Tues-
day, North Coast Family Fellowship
Church, 2245 N. Wahanna Road,
Seaside. For information, call 503-
861-2904.
Astoria TOPS — 5 p.m. weigh-
in, 5:30 p.m. meeting Tuesday, First
Lutheran Church, 725 33rd St. For
information, call Trisha Hayrynen at
503-325-4114.
a.m. weigh-in, 10 a.m. meeting
Wednesday, First Baptist Church, 30
N.E. First St., Warrenton. For infor-
mation, call Marilyn Barnard 503-861-
2918 or Jeannie Pike 503-861-1404.
Warrenton TOPS — 9 to 9:45
Alcoholics Anonymous — To
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FREE
Kick Butts Group Meets (Nic-
otine Anonymous) — 6:30 to 7:30
p.m. Wednesday, Seaside Public
Library, 1131 Broadway.
Astoria Al-Anon — 12 p.m.
Wednesday, First United Method-
ist Church, 1076 Franklin Ave. For
information, call 503-325-1087; 7
p.m. Thursday, Crossroads Commu-
nity Church, 40618 Old Highway 30,
Svensen. For information, call 503-
458-6467.
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