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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-
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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
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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-
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The Columbia River Mar-
itime Museum and the Na-
tional Park Service’s Cultural
Resource Dive Team initially
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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
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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.
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master’s degree in botany from
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Washington State University.
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tors in their ecosystems and
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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.
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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.
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Protected Areas (MPA). These
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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
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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-
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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.