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. For more informa-
tion, call 503-436-9301 or
visit cbhistory.org
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