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Who makes the best bowl of chili? In Their Footsteps presents ‘A Tale of Brownsmead Grange hosts chili cook off, feed, fundraiser BROWNSMEAD — The Brown- smead Grange will host a chili cook off and feed from 5 to 7 p.m. Friday, April 15. This family-friendly event offers food and community fun. Whether you cook and compete in the chili contest or just want to eat, everyone is bound to have a good time. Tickets are available at the door and are $10 for adults and $5 for children12 and under. The event is a fundraiser for the grange. The meal will include fresh corn bread and honey, a hot bowl of chili (with meat or vegetarian), or a chili dog with fresh chopped onions and a sprinkle of grated cheese. Iced tea and beverages will be provided as well as freshly brewed coffee donated by Co- lumbia River Coffee Roasters in Astoria. To enter the chili cook off, bring at least 2 quarts of homemade chili in a warm- er or crock pot along with a 3-by-5-inch card listing the in- Submitted photo Enjoy a bowl of chili or a chili dog at a fundraiser for the Brownsmead Grange. gredients (no amounts needed to keep “secret” recipes secret) and spice level (mild, medium or hot) by 5 p.m. to the Brown- smead Grange. Contestants will be judged anonymously by a panel of judges. A crowd-favorite chili will also be chosen; everyone who comes will get to vote for their favorite chili. There are prizes for the chili cook off contestants, as well as the FRYHWHG ¿UVW SODFH WURSK\ GR- nated by the Trophy Case in Gearhart. For more information, call 503-458-5229 or email BrownsmeadGrange@gmail. com or visit the Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/ events/1057737694271995. Follow the signs from U.S. Highway 30 in Knappa east to one of the hottest events of the year. Explore wetlands with Kathleen Sayce Two Shipwrecks with Jerry Ostermiller ASTORIA — For its next In Their Footsteps lecture, Lewis and Clark National Historical Park will present “A Tale of Two Shipwrecks: Underwa- ter Archaeology on the Most Dangerous Bar” by Jerry Os- termiller at 1 p.m. April 17 in the Netul River Room of Fort Clatsop’s visitor center. “A Tale of Two Shipwrecks” introduces a 1989 discovery of a mysterious shipwreck near Sand Island at the mouth of the Columbia River. Underwater archaeology in extreme envi- URQPHQWVLVLQKHUHQWO\GLI¿FXOW The Columbia River Mar- itime Museum and the Na- tional Park Service’s Cultural Resource Dive Team initially LGHQWL¿HGWKLVVKLSDVWKH+XG- son’s Bay Company supply vessel Isabella. Over the next Learn about citizen science seabird monitoring in Oregon’s marine reserves Nature Matters hosts speaker Amelia O’Connor April 21 ASTORIA — Join the North Coast Watershed Association and Lewis and Clark Nation- She’ll examine the life cycle of al Historical Park for this SEASIDE —-RLQ¿HOGHFRORJLVW a dune swale lake and share what month’s Nature Matters lec- Kathleen Sayce as she gives a she learned from a year of mon- ture. Amelia O’Connor will presentation about tracking the itoring groundwater wells on the give the presentation “Citizen course of water in the Clatsop Long Beach Peninsula. Plains, including rain, rivers, Science Seabird Monitoring Sayce grew up and contin- in Oregon’s Marine Reserves” dune swale lakes and fens in ues to live on Willapa Bay and and talk about how individuals “Into the Fens: Exploring Clat- has been active in conservation can help monitor seabirds on sop Plains Wetlands” at 6 p.m. efforts in southwest Washington the Oregon Coast. Wednesday, April 20 at the Sea- all her life. She is a consulting side Public Library. This pro- The lecture takes place at ecologist and educator and has 7 p.m. Thursday, April 21 at gram is part of the Listening to served as science program di- Fort George Lovell Show- the Land speaker series, which rector for the Willapa Alliance room. Doors open at 6 p.m. has the theme of water this year. DQG DV FKLHI VFLHQFH RI¿FHU IRU This event is free and open to Admission is free, and refresh- 6KRUH%DQN 3DFL¿F 6KH KDV D the public. ments will be served. master’s degree in botany from The unusual mix of plants Seabirds are top preda- Submitted photo Washington State University. IRXQG LQ *HDUKDUW¶V %XWWHU¿HOG Kathleen Sayce will speak April 20. tors in their ecosystems and Listening to the Land is an as such serve as indicators of Fen is no accident. It begins with When is a bog really a fen? annual winter speaker series pre- environmental health. Of all water falling from clouds and ul- timately percolating up through Sayce will talk about ground- sented monthly by North Coast bird groups, seabirds are ex- layers of sediment. It took hun- water and what conditions led Land Conservancy and the Ne- periencing the most dramatic dreds of years to create the fen. to the development of the par- canicum Watershed Council declines around the world. And like everything else in the ticular ecosystem at Gearhart’s in partnership with the Seaside 2UHJRQFXUUHQWO\KDV¿YH0D- coastal landscape, it is in con- %XWWHU¿HOG )HQ ZLWK LWV SHDW Public Library. For more infor- rine Reserve (MR) and Marine bogs and insectivorous plants. mation, call 503-738-6742. VWDQWVORZÀX[ Protected Areas (MPA). These Listening to the Land lecture to address Clatsop Plains 10 | April 14, 2016 | coastweekend.com wreck has become a national case study and was featured in a National Geographic Society television production illustrat- ing the value of new CSI-type technologies. Ostermiller is an award-winning historian spe- cializing in underwater archae- ology. He is a master diver and a founding member of the Mar- itime Archaeology Society and WKH3DFL¿F1RUWKZHVW0DULWLPH Submitted photo Heritage Council. He served Jerry Ostermiller will speak about under- as the executive director of the water archaeology April 17. Columbia River Maritime Mu- seum for 20 years. 18 years, Ostermiller conduct- Lewis and Clark National ed annual monitoring dives for Park Association and the park the Oregon State Historic Pres- sponsor this free monthly Sun- HUYDWLRQ RI¿FH WKDW SURGXFHG day forum. The visitor center is new information requiring fur- located at 92343 Fort Clatsop ther study, leading to a different Road. For more information, shipwreck identity. This ship- call 503-861-2471. areas provide breeding habitat for many seabirds, including more common species like the Brant’s cormorant as well as more illusive species like the rhinoceros auklet. In 2014, Audubon Society of Portland and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service initiated a citizen science seabird-mon- itoring project within the Cape Perpetua MPA. In 2015, in collaboration with the U.S. Geological Survey, Portland Audubon led a coast-wide black oystercatcher survey. With the help of these citizen science projects, nesting suc- cess was compared within and outside Oregon’s MR/MPAs for three species, and abun- dance estimates were made for the entire coast. In 2016, monitoring will expand into the new Cape Fal- con Marine Reserve off the coast of Oswald West State Park between Cannon Beach and Manzanita. Volunteers can join the effort to build a better under- standing of seabird usage and health in Oregon’s new sys- tem of Marine Reserves and Marine Protected Areas by participating in local seabird monitoring. O’Connor is a contractor for the Audubon Society of Portland with a masters degree in marine resource manage- ment from OSU. Nature Matters, a lively conversation about the inter- section of nature and culture, takes place the third Thurs- day of each month, October through May. Lewis and Clark National Historical Park, North Coast Watershed Association and the Fort George are hosts for Nature Matters. The series delves into the many ways that human beings look to the natu- ral world for inspiration, suste- nance and survival.
