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MAY 5, 2016 // 5 Golf Ball Drop tickets for sale Proceeds help buy clothes for local children in need WARRENTON — The ninth annual Assistance League of the Columbia Pacific’s Golf Ball Drop is Satur- day, May 7 at the Astoria Golf and Country Club, located at 33445 Sunset Beach Road. A free kids’ golf ball clinic, putting contest and barbecue begins at 11 a.m.; the heli- copter drop takes place at 12:15 p.m. The barbecue is $5 per person, and kids younger than 5 eat for free. There is a bicycle and gift raffle at the event; tickets are $1 each, or six for $5, for a chance to win a bike or other gift items. A bake sale will feature pies, cakes, cookies and more. Tickets to participate in the helicopter golf ball drop, with chances to win prizes from many area businesses, must be purchased in advance, and are on sale now at Holly McHone Jewelers in As- toria and from Assistance League members. Each golf ball ticket is $5 and represents one ball and one chance to win. Only 2,000 tickets are being sold. Each ticket number is put on a golf ball and dropped from the helicopter. Golf balls that land closest to the pin win a prize. Everyone is wel- come to attend. You do not have to be present to win. Proceeds from the event go directly to Assistance League’s Operation School Bell to purchase new clothes for children for the school year. Purchasing 20 golf ball tickets dresses one Clatsop County child. This years’ Golf Ball Drop sponsors are Pacific Power, U.S. Bank, Co- lumbia River Bar Pilots, Lektro, Astoria Golf and Country Club, NW Natural Gas, ReMax River & Sea, Seaside Temps and state Sen. Betsy Johnson. For information, and a list of prizes and sponsors, go to www.assistancelea- guecp.org, or contact Jane Cartwright at 503-738- 2734 or Shelby Mogenson at 503-325-6687. PHOTO BY JEFF TER HAR A helicopter will drop 2,000 marked golf balls over the Astoria Golf & Country Club golf course for Assistance League of the Columbia Paciic’s annual Golf Ball Drop fundraiser May 7. PHOTO BY JEFF TER HAR Astoria Golf & Country Club golf pro John Kawasoe coaches an aspiring golfer during the 2014 Golf Ball Drop fundraiser. Fisherpoet, environmentalist Dave Densmore to share stories Astoria, Alaska isherman to read poems May 12 CANNON BEACH — Famed poet and fisherman David Densmore will read poems and stories at the Cannon Beach History Center & Museum at 7 p.m. Thurs- day, May 12. Densmore has appeared in the New York Times and Smithsonian Magazine, he was one of the subjects of a documentary called “Fisher Poets,” and he has pub- lished several books of his writings. He is well known as an artist and fisherman on the coast of Oregon and in Alaska. He has appeared at events for the Bioneers, Astoria’s FisherPoets Gath- ering, Columbia River- keeper events, and at New Bedford’s Working Water- front Festival. When not fishing in Alaska or writing in Oregon, he spends his free time in Belize and Guatemala. Densmore is more than a fisherman and more than a poet — he is a staunch pro- tector of nature and mother earth. His recent works are often more about the pain inflicted on Mother Earth by his fellow man than the contents of his fishing net, but the seas and the fishing life are his first love. The reading event is free and open to the public. Cannon Beach Histo- ry Center & Museum is located at 1387 S. Spruce St. Coffee and tea will be Speaker to discuss surveillance, privacy ASTORIA — Recent reve- lations about government surveillance, including Ed- ward Snowden’s leak of the National Security Agency’s documents, have renewed worldwide attention to ques- tions around privacy. Why is privacy important? What are the uses of surveillance? What are the dangers? What are the scope and conse- quences of government surveillance, and what are the ethical and legal limits of surveillance practices? This is the focus of “Keeping Tabs on Ameri- ca: Surveillance and You,” a free conversation with Kristian Williams at 6 p.m. Friday, May 6 at the Astoria Public Library, located at 450 10th St. This program is hosted by the Astor Library Friends Association and sponsored by Oregon Hu- manities. Williams has studied state surveillance for almost 20 years, writing as both a scholar and a journalist. He is the author of “Our Enemies in Blue: Police and Power in America,” “Amer- ican Methods: Torture and the Logic of Domination” and “Hurt: Notes on Torture in a Modern Democracy.” He is one of the editors of “Life During Wartime: Resisting Counterinsurgen- cy,” as well as an occasional contributor to Counterpunch, Toward Freedom, and In These Times. SUBMITTED PHOTO Scholar and journalist Kris- tian Williams will speak about surveillance May 6 at the As- toria Public Library. Through the Conversa- tion Project, Oregon Human- ities offers free programs that engage community members in thoughtful, chal- lenging conversations about ideas critical to people’s daily lives and the state’s future. For more information about this free community discussion, contact Ami Kreider at 503-325-7323 or akreider@astoria.or.us Oregon Humanities connects Oregonians to ideas to change lives and transform communities. More information about Oregon Humanities’ programs and publications can be found at oregon- humanities.org. Oregon Humanities is an indepen- dent, nonprofit affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities and a partner of the Oregon Cultural Trust. SUBMITTED PHOTO Dave Densmore will read poems at the Cannon Beach History Center on May 12. served. 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