JUNE 2, 2016 // 9
Submit artwork to
judged exhibition
Trail’s End Art
Center calls for art
for annual show
SUBMITTED PHOTO
Glen and Venus Fromwiller, pictured on either side of Perry
Browning, the Astoria Scandinavian Midsummer Festival Troll,
were the irst married couple top inishers of the 5.75-mile
course at the 2015 Running of the Trolls race.
Register for the annual
Running of the Trolls
ASTORIA — Registration
is now open for the Astoria
Scandinavian Midsummer
Festival’s 13th annual
Running of the Trolls
sponsored by Columbia
Memorial Hospital.
This is a run/walk event
in the beautiful Wallus-
ki-area countryside south
of Astoria on June 18. The
race begins at 8:30 a.m.
from the Clatsop County
Fairgrounds parking lot.
The entry fee is $25.
The fee includes free park-
ing for Saturday, a bottle
of water and your choice
of a T-shirt or a three-
day admission pass to the
festival.
Race day check in is
7 to 8 a.m. at the Clatsop
County Fairgrounds build-
ing entrance. Distance
choices include 1.5-mile
run/walk, a 3-mile run/
walk or a 5.75-mile run.
Registration forms are
available at astoriascan-
fest.com/events, or call
Angie Cereghino at 503-
325-4686. Registration is
open until the race starts.
Proceeds fund the Astoria
Scandinavian Midsum-
mer Festival Scholarship
program.
GEARHART — It is a sign
of summer when the call
goes out to artists up and
down the coast to enter
Trail’s End Art Center’s
Judged Exhibition. For the
66th consecutive year, this
show will feature the work
of talented Northwest
artists representing many
modes of expression. The
exhibition is open to all
artists, including children
and youth.
Interested artists should
bring their work to Trail’s
End Art Gallery, located at
656 A St., between 10 a.m.
and 3 p.m. June 25 and 26.
The entry form is available
at www.trailsendart.org
and in many area art stores
and galleries.
Categories for judg-
ing include acrylic, oil,
watercolor, ink, pastel,
charcoal, colored pencil,
mixed-media, photogra-
SUBMITTED PHOTO
“Winter Light,” a watercolor
by Jane McGeehan.
phy, and three-dimensional
work such as wood turning
and jewelry.
The Gala Opening
Reception for the Judged
Exhibition is open to the
public from 2 to 5 p.m.
July 2. The award ceremo-
ny will be at 3 p.m.
Requests for more
information can be di-
rected to trailart2010@
hotmail.com or Trail’s
End Art Center at 503-
717-9458.
Go birding in June
WARRENTON — Do you
have an appreciation
for birds and want some
experience on how best to
see them? Or are you an
experienced birder wanting
to help with bird surveys?
Here’s your chance to join
Oregon State Parks’ Let’s
Go Birding program.
Birding activities are free,
and birders 8 years old and
older are welcome. Loaner
binoculars are available for
up to 10 birders. Bring your
own binoculars if available.
The Sunset Beach State Rec-
reation Site and the Fort to Sea
Trail are the sites of weekly bird
surveys. The surveys monitor
bird species and will be con-
ducted weekly for an entire year.
Each survey will take around
two hours and will cover several
habitats along the trail.
For questions contact
Park Ranger Dane Osis 503-
861-3170 x 41 or at dane.
osis@oregon.gov
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Spot local birds this June on
weekly bird surveys.
For the Sunset Beach
Weekly Bird Surveys, meet
at the Fort to Sea Trailhead
on the beach:
• 9 to 10:30 a.m. Friday,
June 3;
• 9 to 10:30 a.m. Wednes-
day, June 8;
• 9 to 10:30 a.m. Wednes-
day, June 15;
• 9 to 10:30 a.m. Thurs-
day, June 23.
Fort Stevens State Park
also holds a monthly guided
bird survey. In June, the
survey will be held from 9 to
11 a.m. Wednesday, June 29.
Meet at Battery Russell.
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