MAY 5, 2016 // 7
Learn how to go razor clamming
ODFW to hold
family clamming
workshops in Fort
Stevens State Park
HAMMOND — Bring the
whole family to learn how
to razor clam. Spots are still
available in Oregon Depart-
ment of Fish and Wildlife’s
razor clamming workshops
happening Saturday, May 7
and Sunday, May 8 at Fort
Stevens State Park.
At the workshops you’ll
learn how to spot clams,
how to dig with proper tech-
niques, and how to prepare
and cook clams. All neces-
sary equipment is provided,
along with lunch.
The workshop runs from
7 a.m. to 3 p.m. Cost is $52
for adults and $12 for kids.
Pre-registration is
required. Everyone age 12
and over must purchase a
shellish license in advance.
(Shellish licenses are $9
annually for adult residents;
kids 12 to 17 can get a $10
combination license that
includes shellish, angling
and hunting plus Columbia
River Basin Endorsement.)
Children under 12 are free
and do not need to register.
Register for the work-
shop and buy your shellish
license online, at a license
sales agent, or an ODFW
ofice that sells licenses.
For more information or
for help registering, contact
Darlene Sprecher by email-
ing Darlene.M.Sprecher@
state.or.us or by calling 503-
947-6025.
Hofman center to host
free marketing classes
MANZANITA — Albert
Kaufman, a Portland-based
consultant, will conduct four
free marketing classes for
local small businesses and
nonproits May 12 and May
18 at the Hoffman Center
for the Arts, located at 594
Laneda Ave.
Kaufman specializes in
using social networking and
email campaigns.
The classes offered are:
• May 12, at 10 a.m.:
“Power of the Inbox: Fea-
turing Social Media Engage-
ment.” Register at http://
tinyurl.com/PowerofThe
Inbox51216Manzanita
• May 12, at 1 p.m.:
“Live In Manzanita – 60
Ways to Grow Your List +
Getting Started with Email
Marketing.” Register at
http://tinyurl.com/60Ways
ToGrowYourList51216Manz
• May 18, at 10 a.m.:
“Stand Out Subject Lines:
Get Open, Get Read and Get
Little Ballet Theatre
puts on tap dance
show with guests
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Learn how to dig for razor clams with ODFW in Fort Stevens
State Park on May 7 and 8.
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Results!” Register at http://
tinyurl.com/StandOut
SubjectLines51816Manza
• May 18, at 1 p.m.:
“Automate Your Marketing!
Planning Ahead to Convert
& Keep.” Register at http://
tinyurl.com/AutomateYour
Marketing51816Manz
For more information,
email albert@albertideation.
com or visit albertideation.
com
ASTORIA — Local dancers
will celebrate National Dance
Week when dancers at the
Little Ballet Theatre put on
their tap shoes to bring an
all-tap dance show to the
Liberty Theater stage. The
performance will take place
at 7 p.m. Saturday, May 7.
Guest tappers will in-
clude the Hollywood Dance
Center tap dancers from
Portland. Hollywood Dance
Center is owned and operat-
ed by former Astoria dancer
Marilynne Ward Belden.
The dance center holds an-
nual tap dance seminars with
some of the nation’s top tap
dancers. Her groups perform
annually at Disneyland and
on cruise ships.
Debbie Lake’s Tapped
Out Tappers will return this
year with their entertaining
style of tap, as they perform
“Uptown Funk.”
Also appearing will be
the Main Street Tappers, a
group of local women who
have danced together for nine
years. The group comprises
retired teachers, business
women, a nurse and an artist.
The audience will be
invited on stage to take a
quick tap lesson, with or
without tap shoes — a fun
event for participants and
observers.
Tickets will be available
at the door. Admission is
$10 for adults, $5 for seniors
and students, and free for
children under 6. Proceeds
go to the Little Ballet
Theatre grant foundation.
For further information, call
503-861-1971.
Create artwork
with whatever in Big Monti brings
May collage class blues to Merry Time
Lynne Johnson to
teach two classes
at Astoria Art Loft
Albert Kaufman will teach
four free marketing classes in
Manzanita.
Dancers to tap across
Liberty Theater stage
ASTORIA —Wondering
what to do with all those
old greeting cards, photos,
recipes and articles you
clipped, old keys and bits
of screen?
Wonder no more. Bring
your old stuff and other
“treasures” to Lynne John-
son’s class, “Create with
Whatever,” at the Astoria Art
Loft, and create a collage.
Collage is a timeless art
form and a wonderful way
to re-cycle, re-create and
transform old items into new
artwork.
“Create with Whatever”
will meet on two Saturdays,
May 14 and May 21, from
10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Other materials partic-
ipants will need include a
glue stick, an old phone
book or thick pad of paper,
scissors, an Exacto knife,
a cutting mat or piece of
cardboard.
Bring a sack lunch;
coffee, tea, and water will
be provided. The class fee
is $70.
Johnson is a teacher and
artist who works in many
media. In addition to col-
lage, she works in water-
color, colored pencil, ink,
stained glass and ceramics.
She holds degrees in biology
and art.
For more information
or to reserve a place in the
class, call 503-325-4442 or
e-mail astoriaartloft@gmail.
com
ASTORIA — His name is
Monti Amundson, but most
people call him Big Monti.
A blues guitarist, Amundson
is mighty not just in size but
with talent and energy on
stage: He sings and plays
larger than life.
Frequently compared to
Stevie Ray Vaughan or John-
ny Winter, Amundson has
his own style. “I’m a blues
guitar player in a band that
plays rock ’n’ roll,” he says.
Amundson doesn’t so
much as straddle the line
between the genres as bend
it, ignore it, or race back
and forth across it until both
sides go up in lames. The
blues of come straight from
the heart and cut through
your soul.
Catch him play at 9:30
p.m. Saturday, May 7 at the
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Monti Amundson performs
May 7 at Merry Time.
Merry Time Bar & Grill,
located at 995 Marine Drive.
The show is ages 21 and
older.
Admission is $5 per
person. Or, for two people,
pay $5 and a can of food
for donation to the Clatsop