DECEMBER 1, 2016 // 21
Get in the holiday spirit in
downtown Cannon Beach
Haystack Holidays
continues with
Lamp Lighting,
Holiday Tea, more
CANNON BEACH — Hay-
stack Holidays, Cannon
Beach’s own series of fes-
tive holiday events, kicked
off after Thanksgiving and
continue this weekend.
Get creative at the
Cannon Beach Chamber of
Commerce from 11 a.m.
to 3 p.m. Saturday, Dec.
3 The chamber will host
a holiday wreath making
event. Get tips from the
instructor and make a holi-
day wreath while enjoying
refreshments and holiday
music.
After your wreath is
finished, get cozy at the
Cannon Beach Library’s
annual Holiday Tea from 1
to 4 p.m. Saturday. Enjoy
home baked cookies, tea
and cider. During the
event, library staff will
draw the winner of the
annual quilt drawing; you
do not have to be present
to win. For more informa-
tion, call 503-436-1391.
Then, from the library
head to Sandpiper Square
for the Lamp Lighting
Ceremony at 4 p.m. Sat-
urday, a beloved Cannon
Beach holiday tradition.
Attendees will find treats
and refreshments after
the ceremony as well. For
more information, call
503-436-2618.
You can also have fun
any time now through Dec.
17 with Cannon Beach in
Lights and the Name That
Tune Window Display
Contest. Cannon Beach’s
picturesque downtown
sparkles with festive hol-
iday lighting displays the
entire month of December
as businesses compete
SUBMITTED PHOTO
North Coast Land Conservancy Stewardship Director Melissa Reich looks over a stand of noble
firs on Boneyard Ridge. NCLC has thinned some of the trees and will sell them Dec. 4.
Have the greenest Christmas ever
with a tree from Boneyard Ridge
PHOTO BY DANI PALMER
Wreath making at the Cannon Beach Chamber of Commerce is
one of many Haystack Holiday events.
for awards. You can vote
for your favorite online
at www.cannonbeach.org
through Dec. 16. Awards
will be announced at the
Coaster Theatre play on
the Dec. 17. For more
information, contact the
chamber at 503-436-2623.
Downtown businesses
are also competing in a
window display contest;
each window display is
patterned after a well-
known holiday song. Pick
up a Name That Tune
playing card at participat-
ing businesses, fill them
out and submit them for
the chance to win a holi-
day gift basket.
SUBMITTED PHOTO
BY GEORGE VETTER
The Lamp Lighting Ceremony
will take place at 4 p.m. Satur-
day, Dec. 3.
SEASIDE — Buy your
Christmas tree from North
Coast Land Conservancy in
a special one-day sale Dec.
4, and you’ll be contributing
— in multiple ways — to
the restoration of two habitat
reserves on Tillamook Head.
NCLC is thinning a stand
of young fir trees high on
Boneyard Ridge Habitat Re-
serve, overlooking Seaside,
to create a healthy future
forest. The trees just happen
to be the perfect size and
shape for Christmas trees.
Purchase your tree from
NCLC and contribute to
the restoration of Boneyard
Ridge and Circle Creek
habitat reserves.
On Sunday, Dec. 4, come
to the barn at NCLC’s Circle
Creek Conservation Cen-
ter to choose your tree and
enjoy a cup of hot cocoa.
“The trees look really
beautiful,” the conservancy’s
Stewardship Director Melis-
sa Reich said. “It will be a
cool opportunity for people
who want to feel good about
where their trees come from
this holiday season.”
Most of the trees are no-
ble firs, with sturdy branches
and an airy structure just
right for hanging ornaments.
There may be a few grand
firs as well. The trees range
upward from about 5 feet in
height. The trees will be cut
the previous afternoon, so
they will be extremely fresh.
Boneyard Ridge, ac-
quired by NCLC in July, is
a former commercial tree
farm. “They planted to max-
imize timber production,”
Reich said. “Our goal is to
create an old-growth forest
in the future. We need to
thin the trees down so that
they will grow faster and not
compete with each other.”
NCLC is asking a
donation of $100 for each
tree, regardless of size; your
donation will be put to work
helping to restore the forest
on Boneyard Ridge.
When the holidays are
over, return your Boneyard
Ridge tree to Circle Creek
Conservation Center. Staff
and volunteers will place it
in a waterway on Boneyard
Ridge or adjacent Circle
Creek Habitat Reserve,
where it will provide refuge
for juvenile coho salmon
and contribute to the food
chain serving those fish and
a variety of other wildlife.
Sales start at 11 a.m. and
end at 3 p.m. or until trees
run out. Come early for best
selection. Circle Creek Con-
servation Center is at the end
of Rippet Road in Seaside;
look for it on the west side
of U.S. Highway 101, 0.7
mile north of the junction
with U.S. 26. Follow the
road west and north a short
distance to where the road
ends in front of the barn.