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Great Columbia Crossing takes place Sunday
ASTORIA — The 35th annu-
al Great Columbia Crossing
10K run/walk will take place
Sunday, Oct. 16. The race
is a once-a-year opportunity
to experience the Asto-
ria-Megler Bridge on foot.
The 10K offers a scenic
adventure on a fairly lat
road with one steep incline
to the peak of the bridge.
The longest continuous
truss bridge in North Amer-
ica, the Astoria-Megler
Bridge is celebrating its
50th anniversary this year.
Whether you’re an expe-
rienced runner or looking
for a family-friendly event,
the Great Columbia Cross-
ing 10K appeals to every-
one. The run is an Oficial
USA Track & Field Certi-
ied Event (#OR12025LB).
Runners will be timed with
an electronic chip and will
be given a separate start
time from walkers.
Participants are required
to register in advance. Reg-
istration will close when the
event reaches capacity of
3,500 participants.
Registration is $40 or
$45 with electronic timing.
Long-sleeve cotton T-shirts
cost $15 or more. This
year’s shirt art is designed
by North Coast graphic
designer Sandra Froehle.
Register online at www.
greatcolumbiacrossing.
com or ill out a registration
form in person at the Asto-
ria-Warrenton Area Cham-
ber of Commerce, located at
111 W. Marine Drive. There
is no race day registration.
PHOTO BY DON ANDERSON
The Great Columbia Crossing
will take place on the Asto-
ria-Megler Bridge on Oct. 16.
See the website for
details regarding packet
pickup and the race day
timeline. Packets will be
available to pick up Oct. 13
to 16.
Registration includes
free parking, shuttle bus
service to the start of the
race from the Port of Asto-
ria or the Port of Chinook,
bib number, light snacks
at the inish line, and ive
“Clam Bucks” that can
be redeemed toward a $5
purchase at participating
Astoria-Warrenton Chamber
of Commerce businesses
Oct. 13 to 19. A list of
businesses is available at
greatcolumbiacrossing.com
The Great Columbia
Crossing is produced by
the Astoria-Warrenton Area
Chamber of Commerce and
sponsored by the Columbia
Memorial Hospital Cardiol-
ogy Clinic, a CMH/OHSU
Collaboration.
Portland author Liz Prato to appear at Hofman Center
Author to lead
writing workshop,
read short stories
MANZANITA — Author
Liz Prato will read from
her short story collection
“Baby’s On Fire” at 7 p.m.
Saturday, Oct. 15 at the
Hoffman Center for the
Arts, located at 594 Laneda
Ave. The event is part of the
Manzanita Writers’ Series.
Born and raised in Den-
ver, Colorado, Prato attended
Lewis & Clark College in
Portland. Her short stories
and essays have appeared
in over 24 literary journals
and magazines, including
Hayden’s Ferry Review,
Carve, Iron Horse Literary
Review and Hunger Moun-
tain. She was the guest prose
editor for the Summer 2013
issue of VoiceCatcher, and
she is the editor at large for
Forest Avenue Press, where
she edited the iction antholo-
gy “The Night, and the Rain,
and the River.” Her short
story collection “Baby’s on
Fire” was published in 2015.
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Author Liz Prato will teach a
writing workshop and read
from her book of short stories
Oct. 15 in Manzanita.
A Tennessee Williams
Scholar at the 2012 Sewanee
Writers Conferece and a
frequent attendee of the
Tin House Summer Writers
Workshop, Prato has studied
with Steve Almond, Aimee
Bender, Charles D’Ambro-
sio, Anthony Doerr, Jim
Shepard and other talented
authors. She has won the
2010 Minnetonka Review
Editor’s Prize, irst place in
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“Baby’s on Fire” by Liza Prato.
the 2005 Berkeley Fiction
Review Sudden Fiction Con-
test and four Pushcart Prize
nominations. She lives with
her furry feline friends and
her best friend/husband, who
is a bookseller, musician and
writer in Portland.
Prato has been teaching
writing since 2008 and
presents at literary festivals
and conferences across the
country.
She will lead a writ-
ing workshop before her
author reading during the
day from 1 to 3 p.m. at the
Hoffman Center. In “Writ-
ing Outside the Box (Lec-
ture & Guided Writing),”
Prato will help students
let their creativity rein and
write outside the traditional
prose structure. All stories
and essays are different,
so it stands to reason they
don’t all require the same
structure. In this class,
students will break out of
the standard narrative box
and have fun exploring the
forms available for telling
their best story. Tuition
is $30. Register online at
hoffmanblog.org
Following Prato’s reading
and question-and-answer
session in the evening, the
Manzanita Writers’ Series
will host its popular Open
Mic where up to nine local
or visiting writers will read
ive minutes of their original
work. The suggested (not
required) theme for the eve-
ning’s Open Mic is “char-
acters.” Admission for the
evening reading is $7.
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Create Halloween art and crafts at Trail’s End Art Association.
Make Halloween-themed
arts and crats at Trail’s End
GEARHART — Trail’s End
Art Association wants to
help make your Halloween
more fun and creative.
All ages are welcome
to attend a free open studio
focusing on Halloween art
and crafts from noon to 2
p.m. Sunday, Oct. 16.
Led by Kathy Karbo and
Judi Marsh-Garrity, students
will be making black cats,
witches’ hats, shadow pup-
pets and more. You might
want to create a lantern to
keep your jack-o’-lantern
company on Halloween
night, too.
All materials are provid-
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Create a fall lantern.
ed at no cost. Donations will
not be turned away.
The studio and gallery
are located in the center of
Gearhart at 656 A St.
Open 7am
Daily!
SERVING BREAKFAST,
LUNCH & SUPPER
European Style Coffeehouse by day,
intimate bistro offering neo-regional
cuisine by night.
Regional selection of beers, wines and
vintage cocktails available.
We cater your event!
Weekly Specials: 5-8 PM
Sushi & Martinis Mondays
Taco & Margarita
Thursdays (3 Buck Tacos)
243 11th Street, Astoria, OR 97103
503-325-1787
www.AstoriaCoffeeHouse.com
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