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Quilting at the Beach offers colorful quilts
ILWACO, Wash. — Are you
sick of gray skies? Add
some color to your life,
and attend the 22nd annual
Quilting at the Beach event,
where over 100 colorful
quilts will be on display.
Presented by the Penin-
sula Quilt Guild, Quilting
at the Beach takes place 10
a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday and
Saturday, March 17 and 18
and from noon to 4 p.m.
Sunday, March 19 at the
Columbia Pacific Heritage
Museum, located at 115
Lake St. Admission is free.
This year, the guild has
grown to 80 members and
will exhibit work from the
local area’s most talented
fabric artists. All guild mem-
bers are from Washington
and Oregon.
The quilts displayed will
be as varied as the quilters
themselves. Quilts will be
done in a variety of styles
from scrappy, embroidered,
applique and art quilts to
quilts made by hand, by
home machine and by long-
arm machine. Fabrics will
also vary in color and type
(including the quilter’s fa-
vorite: cotton). Quilts maybe
adorned with thread buttons,
rick-rack and even driftwood.
Guild members participate
in many charitable projects
throughout the year, and quilts
are donated to OHSU Hospice
and Ocean Beach Hospital
Hospice, Rotary and teddy
bears with scrappy quits to
children at Ocean Beach and
Columbia Memorial hospi-
tals. Several guild members
also belong to Quilts from the
Heart, which this year donat-
ed several hundred quilts to
charity organizations.
Each year, members par-
ticipate in the construction
of a prize quilt, and $1 raffle
tickets are sold at several
venues, which generates
a little over $3,000. The
money is donated to many
charitable organizations on
the Long Beach Peninsula.
This year’s colorful quilt,
“Sailing Away,” is an ocean-
themed quilt in a queen size
to fit most beds. The draw-
ing for the prize quilt will
take place at 3 p.m. Sunday.
This year, donations will
be made to Camp Victory,
Columbia Pacific Heritage
Museum, the Elks backpack
program, His Supper Table,
Peninsula Church Center, St.
Vincent dePaul Food Bank,
Ocean Park Food Bank,
Boys and Girls Club and
the Cranberry Museum. At
the guild’s August picnic, a
basket filled with quilting
items was raffled and the
funds donated to the animal
shelter.
The Challenge Blocks
displayed at the quilt show
are made by guild members
from packets of fabrics.
Each member designs and
makes a 12 half-foot quilt
block that is judged at the
show. The winning block
receives an award. After the
show, the blocks are made
into a quilt and donated to
the Ocean Beach Education
Foundation for their auction.
The guild meets at the
Peninsula Church Center at
5000 N. Place in Seaview;
anyone interested in mem-
bership is welcome. Talk to
any of the hosts at the show,
or just come to the church
center at 1 p.m. on the sec-
ond Monday of any month.
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This year’s colorful prize quilt, “Sailing Away,” is an ocean-
themed quilt in a queen size. Raffle tickets are $1 each.
Local health coach hosts a gathering for women event
WARRENTON — Restore and
nurture your inner vibran-
cy as a woman at the first
annual Coastal Emersion: A
Woman’s Gathering, to be
held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Saturday, March 18.
This one-of-a-kind gath-
ering will be held at Camp
Kiwanilong — nestled in the
forest between Seaside and
Astoria. The gathering will
be hosted by Angela Sidlo,
coastal certified health coach
and Amazon bestselling
co-author of “The Silver
Linings Storybook.” Sidlo’s
vision is to bring women,
healers and teachers together
to facilitate an empowering
experience for women who
want to “emerge” and learn
how to share their talents with
the world.
Registration begins at 9
a.m., and the day of events
stats at 10 a.m. with a
welcome and introductions,
followed by a meditation
to raise the vibration of the
group and clear the space for
empowerment.
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Heather Douglas will lead a
session about writing.
Next, keynote speaker
Shannon Kaiser will lead the
group with the talk “Open
Your Heart and Reclaim Your
Strength,” helping attendees
reclaim inner strength and
tap into their authentic power
no matter what comes up in
2017. Kaiser has been named
in the Top 100 Women to
Watch in Wellness by the
Mind Body Green, and “a
thought leader on the rise”
by Café Truth. She appears
regularly as a happiness
expert on Portland’s KATU
AM Northwest and Huff Post
Sarah Dailey will lead a ses-
sion about classic Egyp-
tian-style belly dancing.
Wellness coach Angela Sidlo
will host a Coastal Emersion
for women March 18.
Live. She is the best-selling
author of “Adventures for
Your Soul” and “Find your
Happy” as well as being the
founder of PlayWithThe
World.com
After the keynote ad-
dress, the group will break
at noon for a vegan-friendly,
gluten-free, organic lunch
prepared locally. There will be
time to talk with Kaiser, and
vendors will have handmade
jewelry and aromatherapy
products to offer as well as
local authors with books for
sale.
The keynote speaker will be
Shannon Kaiser.
The afternoon session
will feature four additional
workshops.
First is holistic practitioner
Debbie Inman, who will talk
about meditation and the pow-
er of biofeedback. She will
discuss how to tap into the
energetic field to release past
trauma as a means to open up
to the limitless possibilities of
your inner potential and share
your gifts with the world.
Sarah Dailey will then lead
a session on “Embracing the
Feminine & Being Present
in Oneself.” She will show
attendees how movement
can unlock inner beauty in a
classic Egyptian-style belly
dancing session. For Dailey,
what began as an alternative
form of exercise, soon turned
into a life-changing hobby.
Her journey from pre-to-post
pregnancy dance helped her
become more at peace with
herself, on and off the dance
floor. Worries about appear-
ance, judgments, careers,
family or anything else, can
often weigh you down, even
unknowingly. “There’s won-
derful freedom in being able
to let go and be in the moment
with the music and dance, be
present in one’s self without
the worries that often seep
into our daily lives,” she says.
Then, writer, illustrator
and educator Heather Douglas
will lead a session on self-ex-
ploration through photogra-
phy and writing. Douglas is
the author of two coloring
books and a book of poetry.
She also recently finished a
writing residency through
Astoria Visual Arts and is
currently working on a novel.
Then, host Angela Sidlo
will wrap up the day of events
by sharing her expertise as a
holistic aromatherapist. She
will offer an explration into
the world of plant medicine
and essential oils.
Tickets are $98 each.
Pre-registration is required.
For more information and to
register, visit http://tinyurl.
com/eventbrite-coastale-
mersion. Or contact Sidlo at
503-338-9921.
Proceeds will be given to
the AAUW Scholarship Fund,
Camp Kiwanilong Scholar-
ship fFund and The Harbor to
empower women.