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Enjoy guided
tide pool tours
Haystack Rock
Awareness
Program kicks off
new tour initiative
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Students at Fire Mountain School learn through place-
based study, making use of the North Coast as a living
laboratory.
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Students from the New School at Fire Mountain say thanks.
Win your dream vacation while
supporting Fire Mountain School
ARCH CAPE — The
New School at Fire Mountain
is continuing the tradition of
holding a raffle for a dream
vacation valued at $4,000.
The theme this year is
India and the drawing is May
6 at the old Nehalem Fire
Hall during a raffle party with
Indian food, libations, music
and dancing.
In addition to the grand
prize of $4,000 toward a
dream vacation (airfare and
accommodations to the desti-
nation of the winner’s choice),
there is also a second-place
prize of a $250 gift certificate
The Coaster Theatre Playhouse Presents
March 3 - April 15, 2017
Tickets $20 or $25
Shows begin at 7:30 p.m.
Sunday shows at 3:00p.m.
Sponsored by Coaster Construction
Tickets: 503-436-1242 or coastertheatre.com
108 N Hemlock Street, Cannon Beach, OR
to Breitenbush Hot Springs
and a third-place prize for a
90-minute massage with Ashe-
ley Nagle of At the Water’s
Edge in Seaside.
Tickets are $40 each or
three for $100 with a limit
of 500 tickets for sale. They
can be purchased from a Fire
Mountain parent or at Moxie
in Seaside, Cannon Beach
Books in Cannon Beach or
Mother Nature’s in Manza-
nita. A raffle ticket gets two
people into the raffle party
at no charge (a $30 value).
There will also be a silent
auction featuring goods and
services unique to the coastal
region.
Fire Mountain School is an
independent school dedicated
to assisting children in their
ongoing work of exploring and
making sense of the world.
Since 1983, teachers and
parents have joined together to
create a community structure
in which children experience
an environment that helps
them to become their best
selves, curious, confident,
creative problem-solvers and
stewards of their home. By
providing a foundation of ex-
periential, hands on education
2017 SPRING RAFFLE
Drawing: 9 p.m. Sat-
urday, May 6 at the old
Nehalem Fire Hall
Tickets: $40 each or
three for $100. Only
500 tickets available.
Grand Prize: Trip of
choice worth S4,000
Second Prize: S250 gift
certificate to Breiten-
bush Hot Springs
Third Prize: 90 minute
massage with Asheley
Nagle of At the Water’s
Edge, Seaside
for the whole child, the Fire
Mountain Community nur-
tures healthy, happy, lifelong
learners.
Fire Mountain School is
surrounded by the rain forest
of Oswald West State Park on
the Oregon Coast and serves
preschool-aged children
through fourth-graders.
If you would like more
information about the school
or to buy a raffle ticket online,
visit the website at http://www.
firemountainschool.org.
CANNON BEACH — The
Haystack Rock Awareness
Program announces a new
program: guided tide pool
tours with award-winning
author, filmmaker, photogra-
pher and intertidal enthusiast
Stephen Grace.
The Haystack Rock
Awareness Program is en-
tering its 32nd season on the
beach. The program’s mis-
sion is to protect, through
education, the intertidal and
bird ecology of the Ma-
rine Garden and National
Wildlife Refuge at Haystack
Rock. Having educated over
one million visitors, HRAP
aims to provide sustainabil-
ity focused educational op-
portunities to a wide range
of Cannon Beach visitors.
Tours led by Grace
provide an exploration of
the Pacific Ocean’s edge
unlike any other experience
HRAP has previously been
able to offer. Participants
in these small group tours
will benefit from Grace’s
unique combination of sci-
entific knowledge and ex-
pansive storytelling skills,
which he combines in a
compelling exploration of
Cannon Beach’s ecological
jewel: a dynamic coastline
teeming with wondrous
creatures.
Grace is the author of
books such as “Dam Nation:
How Water Shaped the
West and Will Determine Its
Future.”
Tour participants should
prepare to immerse them-
selves in the elements
(dressing for all types of
weather) as they venture
down to the shore from Can-
non Beach City Hall. Tours
cost $25 per person, are
capped at 10 participants,
and last approximately one
hour and 30 minutes.
Private tours with Grace
to Haystack Rock, or to oth-
er intertidal areas, are also
offered at $40 per person, or
$35 per person with groups
larger than three explorers.
The first tour is scheduled
for 3 p.m. Thursday, March
23.
For more information, or
to schedule your tour, visit
ci.cannon-beach.or.us/HRAP
or contact Melissa Keyser at
504-436-8060 or HRAP@
ci.cannon-beach.or.us
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The Haystack Rock Awareness Program will host guided tide
pool tours.