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Golden age of postcards showcases Astoria’s past Celebrate Oktoberfest,
Local author to
talk at In Their
Footsteps speaker
series Oct. 16
ASTORIA — The next In
Their Footsteps free speaker
series event will feature
local author Andrea Larson
Perez giving the talk “Asto-
ria During the Golden Age
of Postcards,” based on her
new book.
The presentation will take
place at 1 p.m. Sunday, Oct.
16 in the Netul River Room
of Fort Clatsop’s visitor
center, which is located at
92343 Fort Clatsop Road.
The event is free and open to
the public.
Perez’s new book “As-
toria” is in Arcadia Pub-
lishing’s Postcard History
Series. The postcards in this
visual history book have
been shared by local resi-
dents. They have been lov-
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Angela Larson Perez is an As-
toria author.
ingly handled and carefully
organized by Perez to give
an inspiring glimpse of the
past industry and spectacle
that created today’s Astoria.
Astoria has continual-
ly inspired residents and
visitors. The town’s natural
Perez’s book showcases his-
toric postcards of Astoria.
beauty and accessible every-
day life invites documen-
tation. Those lucky enough
to experience Astoria sense
they are witnessing some-
thing special.
More than a century
ago, the city of Astoria at
the mouth of the Columbia
River was a place of big ish,
big trees, big dreams and big
personalities. Luckily, many
professional photographers
and everyday shutterbugs
made it their business to
capture life on the lower Co-
lumbia from the earliest days
of photography. Today, there
are fewer giant salmon and
the remaining old-growth
trees are protected, but the
town, dreams, personalities
and photographs remain.
Perez’s “Astoria” book is
available from the Lewis &
Clark National Park Associ-
ation bookstore in the Fort
Clatsop visitor center. There
will be a book-signing fol-
lowing her presentation.
This monthly Sunday
forum is sponsored by the
Lewis & Clark National
Park Association and the
Lewis and Clark National
Historical Park.
For more information,
call the park at 503-861-
2471 or visit www.nps.gov/
lewi
Join community conversation about
power, place, home and belonging
Oct. 14 event is
part of This Place
series by Oregon
Humanities
ASTORIA — “Place” is a
complicated and powerful
idea that informs our identi-
ties and the way we live our
lives, whether we’re talking
about the communities we’re
a part of, the neighborhoods
where we live, or the lands
that people before us called
“home.”
Oregon Humanities is
sponsoring This Place, a
series of 90-minute commu-
nity discussions happening
across the state this fall. The
Astoria Public Library will
host a This Place commu-
nity discussion at 6 p.m.
Friday, Oct. 14. The talk is
free and open to the public;
the library is located at 450
10th St.
The discussions provide
Oregonians with an op-
portunity to explore their
relationship to the places
they’ve come from and the
places they’re in now; to
consider how communities
have lost or gained land and
power, and how this has
affected people within these
communities; to consider the
history of neighborhoods,
communities and the state,
and how those places have
changed over time; and to
explore options for mean-
ingful engagement with their
places and communities
going forward.
Participants will come
away from this conversation
with a strengthened sense of
community support and col-
lective engagement around
their exploration of place,
as well as a resource list and
information to help them
continue the conversation.
This Place is part of
a statewide initiative by
Oregon Humanities to bring
25 conversations about
place to communities across
the state in September and
October. The community
conversations will culminate
in a one-day gathering Oct.
28 at the Chehalem Cultural
Center in Newberg. These
conversations will be led
by trained facilitators from
the ields of tribal resource
management, anthropology,
conlict resolution, applied
theology, natural resource
management, ethnic studies,
and isheries science.
For more information
about this free community
discussion, contact Ami
Kreider at 503-325-7323 or
akreider@astoria.or.us. To
learn more about the one-
day gathering, visit http://
oregonhumanities.org/pro-
grams/this-place
Oregon Humanities con-
nects Oregonians to ideas
that change lives and trans-
form communities. Oregon
Humanities is an indepen-
dent, nonproit afiliate of
the National Endowment for
the Humanities and a partner
of the Oregon Cultural Trust.
For more information, visit
oregonhumanities.org
fundraise for historic
Chinook School too
CHINOOK, Wash. — The
Friends of Chinook School
will hold the 12th annual
fundraiser “Oktoberfest:
Chinook Style” at 5 p.m.
Saturday, Oct. 15 in the Chi-
nook School Event Center.
For the past decade, the
friends have been work-
ing to restore the historic
Chinook School, built in
1924. The gym has been
restored and is now called
the Chinook School Event
Center. Current efforts focus
on the restoration of the
main school building, which
is nearing completion.
The fundraiser unites
friends and neighbors for an
evening of food, live music
and auction items all to sup-
port this community project.
Admission at the door
is $20 for adults and $10
for children age 6 to 12 and
includes dinner. Admission
without dinner is $5. The
Chinook School Event
Center is located at 810 U.S.
Highway 101. All proceeds
go to the restoration of the
Chinook School building.
This year, enjoy a
German dinner by Joanne
Leech. Local brews by
5
$
North Jetty Brewing and
Buoy Beer Co. will be
available, as well as wine
and cocktails. The Beach
Buddies band will perform
on stage, and visitors can
preview the changes in store
for the restored school.
Dinner will be served
from 5 to 7:30 p.m., and the
silent auction will run 5 to
8:45 p.m. The live auction
will go from 7:30 to 8 p.m.
Every year sees fabulous
auction items to bid on,
including art, event packag-
es, and local restaurant gift
certiicates. The popular Co-
lumbia River Bar Pilot boat
ride will be a live auction
item again this year. Be sure
to buy your rafle tickets for
a chance to win a Sun Dol-
phin Bali 10SS Kayak with
paddle and car-top straps —
good for paddling on Baker,
Willapa and Young bays.
The Friends of Chinook
School, a nonproit, is the
primary fundraising entity
for the restoration and is in
charge of the operation and
maintenance of the property.
For more informatiot, call
360-244-3627 or visit www.
friendsofchinookschool.org
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