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Tickets on sale now for second
Washington state poet laureate
annual Shore Style Wedding Faire to visit Pacific County Jan. 14
Learn how to
incorporate local
businesses into
your special day
ASTORIA — The Astoria
Downtown Historic District
Association will once again
host the award-winning
Shore Style Wedding Faire
in Astoria.
The event brings togeth-
er a curated group of the
Oregon Coast and south-
west Washington Coast’s
top wedding vendors,
including Baked Alaska and
McMenamin’s Gearhart
Hotel, who are headlining
the event.
The Shore Style Wed-
ding Faire will be held
at The Loft at the Red
Building from10 a.m. to
3:30 p.m. Jan. 28 and will
feature over 25 wedding
venues, photographers,
caterers, DJs, florists and
more. There will be how-to
talks and demos; appetizers
to try by caterers; and even
a bridal and formalwear
fashion show.
Couples searching for
the perfect wedding des-
tination will find answers
to their questions about an
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The Astoria Downtown Historic District Association will hold
its second annual Shore Style Wedding Faire on Jan. 28.
Oregon Coast wedding with
professionals on hand to
provide guidance on how to
create a unique and memo-
rable event.
Event co-chairs Becky
Johnson, owner of Vintage
Hardware, and Jessica Ne-
whall, co-owner of The Loft
at the Red Building, are
once again leading efforts
to curate a special event
that showcases the style and
the local businesses that can
be incorporated into special
events and weddings at the
coast.
The Loft at the Red
Building is located at 20
Basin St., Suite F.
General admission tick-
ets are $10 each. VIP tickets
are $20 each and include
a gift bag with items from
local vendors, two drink
tickets, reserved parking,
reserved seating at the fash-
ion show and more.
Visit ShoreStyleWed.
com for a complete sched-
ule of events and to buy
tickets.
Last year’s Shore Style
Wedding Faire received an
Excellence in Downtown
Revitalization Award for
“Best Economic Vitality
Activity” at the Oregon
Main Street Evening of
Excellence Celebration.
TOKELAND, Wash. — The
Washington state poet laure-
ate, Tod Marshall, will lead
a poetry workshop Saturday,
Jan. 14 at the Shoalwater
Bay Tribal Library.
The workshop will cover
how to write poetry, and
Marshall also plans to do a
short reading of his own po-
etry. The free event is open
to the public and will take
place from 10 a.m. to noon.
The Shoalwater Bay Tribal
Library is located at 2373
Old Tokeland Road.
Marshall has been trav-
eling Washington building
awareness and appreciation
of poetry — including the
state’s legacy of poetry —
through public readings,
workshops, lectures and pre-
sentations in geographically
diverse areas of the state.
Marshall, a poet and
professor at Gonzaga Uni-
versity, is the author most
recently of “Bugle” (2014),
which won the Washington
State Book Award in 2015.
He is also the author of
two previous collections,
“Dare” Say (2002) and “The
Tangled Line” (2009), and a
collection of interviews with
contemporary poets, “Range
of the Possible” (2002).
Mashall was appointed as
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Washington State Poet Laureate Tod Marshall will visit the
Shoalwater Bay Tribal Library on Jan. 14.
the fourth Washington poet
laureate by Gov. Jay Inslee,
and his term runs from Feb.
1, 2016, to Jan. 31, 2018.
Marshall was the first in
his family to attend college
and has dedicated himself to
bringing the humanities to
underserved populations.
“Poetry matters — not
just to poets, professors, and
students: poetry matters to
everyone,” said Marshall. “I
am a first-generation college
student, and because of that,
I understand the skepticism
that many have for the arts.
But I’ve also come to realize
that the inner life that the arts
and humanities can nurture is
important to living deliber-
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ately and introspectively. So
I am interested in how poetry
and all of the arts can help us
find our best selves.
“When I meet people
throughout the state,” he said,
“I hope to reinforce a message
that as children they probably
took for granted: their voices,
their words, their songs of the
self, are important and need to
be heard.”
The poet laureate
program is sponsored by
Humanities Washington and
The Washington State Arts
Commission (ArtsWA).
For more information,
call Shoalwater Bay Tribal
Library Manager Linda Rose
at 360-67-8190.