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Peninsula Arts Center
hosts guitarist Terry Robb
LONG BEACH, Wash. — The
Peninsula Arts Center will
once again welcome guitar-
ist Terry Robb for a concert
at 7 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 18.
Doors open at 6:30 p.m.
Robb has long been
considered one of the top
acoustic blues guitarists.
His dynamic finger picking
style and ability to sound
like a hard, yet sophisticat-
ed band all within a solo
performance have amazed
audiences worldwide.
From ragtime and coun-
try to swing and free jazz,
Robb’s foundation is the
blues, but his influences and
music and includes ele-
ments of finger style, rock,
bluegrass, Latin, hymns and
spirituals.
A member of the Oregon
Music Hall of Fame and
Cascade Blues Association
Hall of Fame, Robb is an
icon of the Pacific Northwest
music scene. In 2011, having
won the Muddy Award for
best acoustic guitar an un-
precedented 19 consecutive
years, the Cascade Blues
Association honored Robb
with a namesake award: the
Terry Robb Acoustic Guitar
Muddy Award, bestowed
on a nominated guitarist
from the Pacific Northwest
annually.
One of Robb’s early
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Terry Robb will perform at
the Peninsula Arts Center Sat-
urday, Feb. 18.
influences was the legend-
ary steel-string guitarist
John Fahey. He and Fahey
became good friends, and, at
the young age of 24, Robb
began producing several of
Fahey’s critically-acclaimed
recordings — including the
1984 album “Let Go,” which
Rolling Stone named one
of the top three albums of
the year alongside “Purple
Rain” and “Born in the
USA.”
The Peninsula Arts Cen-
ter is located at 504 Pacific
Ave. N. Admission is $15 at
the door or online through
Brown Paper Tickets; or call
Bill at 360-901-0962.
Join the Great Backyard Bird Count
Fort Clatsop to
host bird activities
Feb. 17 to 20
ASTORIA — The 20th annual
Great Backyard Bird Count is
taking place Feb. 17 to 20.
To participate in this citizen
science opportunity, anyone
in the world can count birds
at any location for at least 15
minutes on one or more days
of the count and enter their
sightings at www.BirdCount.
org
The information gathered
by tens of thousands of vol-
unteers helps track changes in
bird populations on a massive
scale. The Great Backyard
Bird Count is a joint project of
the Cornell Lab of Ornithology
and the National Audubon
Society with partner Bird
Studies Canada and is partially
sponsored by Wild Birds
Unlimited.
From Friday, Feb. 17,
through Monday, Feb. 20, vis-
itors to Fort Clatsop in Lewis
and Clark National Historical
Park can join in the count by
recording bird observations
in the park and make plans
to count birds in their own
backyards. Binoculars will be
available for loan within the
park.
Along with the actual
bird counting activities, the
park has planned four days of
bird-related opportunities. A
“great pink heron scavenger
hunt” will be ongoing using
the Netul Trail along the Lewis
and Clark River. A Birds of
Fort Clatsop display is in the
visitor center.
On Saturday, Feb. 18, Mike
Patterson will lead a birding
walk starting at 9a.m. in the
Fort Clatsop Visitor Center
lobby. Although leashed dogs
are welcome at most of the
park’s outdoor programs, dogs
are not allowed at this morning
walk. Dress for the weather.
The walk is wheelchair acces-
sible, although non-motorized
users might need assistance for
about 200 yards.
PHOTO BY ANDREW TONRY
Wildlife Center of the North
Coast Director Josh Saranpaa
will speak about the center’s
work on Sunday, Feb. 19.
PHOTO BY JOSHUA BESSEX
A rhinoceros auklet at the Wildlife Center of the North Coast.
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A “great pink heron” awaits scavenger hunters.
On Sunday, Feb. 19, Josh
Saranpaa, a wildlife reha-
bilitator and director of the
Wildlife Center of the North
Coast, will talk about the
center’s work at 1 p.m. in the
Netul River Room of the Fort
Clatsop Visitor Center. This
In Their Footsteps program
will feature live birds from
the center, such as common
murres, rhinoceros auklet,
northern fulmar, a northern
saw-whet owl and an Ameri-
can kestral.
For 20 years, the Wildlife
Center of the North Coast has
been a helpful resource when
people find sick or injured
wildlife. The nonprofit center
aids all indigenous wildlife,
has a wildlife hospital, and
provides off-site education
programs. Saranpaa has
worked there for nine years.
His presentation will cover
some of the dangers that
wildlife face in this region, the
work of the Wildlife Center
of the North Coast and how
people can help local wildlife.
Admission to the In Their
Footsteps program is free.
Park hours are 9 a.m. to 5
p.m. each day. Admission is $5
per adult and free for youth 15
years old and under. Passes to
National Park Service sites are
accepted.
In honor of President’s Day,
visits to National Park sites,
including Lewis and Clark
National Historical Park, are
free on Monday, Feb. 20.
A variety of bird field
guides are available for
purchase at the Lewis & Clark
National Park Association
bookstore in the Fort Clatsop
Visitor Center.
For more information on
the national bird count event
or to submit bird counts
from your home, go to www.
birdcount.org. The weekend’s
birding events at Fort Clatsop
are sponsored by the Lewis &
Clark National Park Associ-
ation and the National Park
Service. For more information,
call the park at 503-861-2471
or check out www.nps.gov/
lewi or Lewis and Clark
National Historical Park on
Facebook.