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North Tillamook Library celebrates
30 years with free event Saturday
MANZANITA — To mark
the 30th anniversary of the
North Tillamook Library
in Manzanita, the library’s
Friends group is hosting a
celebration Saturday, July
8, at the Hoffman Gardens
adjacent to the library at 571
Laneda Avenue.
The event will include a
children’s story time; family
music fun with Portland
singer and musician Mo
Phillips and the Ocean
Bottom Country Blues Band,
featuring Tillamook Coun-
ty’s library director Sara
Charlton; a presentation on
the library’s history by Patty
Went; and an appearance by
special guest Lauren Kessler,
a noted Oregon author.
“For thirty years the
North Tillamook Library has
been building a community
of learners by serving the
communities of Wheeler,
Nehalem and Manzanita,
as well as the rural areas of
north Tillamook County,”
said Madeline Olson, pres-
ident of the Friends of the
Library. “Three decades ago
visionary community leaders
developed the plan and the
funding to construct a beau-
tiful building. All of us have
benefi ted from that foresight,
and we are eager to celebrate
30 great years, thank our
friends and acknowledge the
great partnership we enjoy
with the Tillamook County
library.”
The North Tillamook Li-
brary operates with a unique
public-private partnership.
The Friends organization
owns and maintains the
library building, while the
county library supplies all
library materials and the
professional library staff.
Oregon author Lauren
Kessler will talk about the
importance of libraries in
both her work and her read-
ing life.
“A community without a
library is like a body without
a soul,” Kessler said. “That’s
how important I think librar-
ies are to communities, big
and small — but especially
to small, rural communi-
ties where there are fewer
cultural opportunities. Books
open the world to us. In rural
and isolated communities,
they bring the world to our
doorstep.”
The public is invited to
attend the celebration and to
consider becoming a Friend
of the Library.
Friends board member
Gail Young, who is coor-
dinating the anniversary
celebration, can be reached
at gailmyoung@mc.com.
SCHEDULE
OF EVENTS
• 11 a.m. to noon:
Story Time in the
Library
• Noon to 1 p.m.:
Family fun with Mo
Phillips
• 1 to 2 p.m.: Music
by Ocean Bottom
Country Blues Band,
featuring Tillamook
County head librari-
an Sara Charlton
• 2 to 3 p.m.: Wel-
come by Friends
President Madeline
Olson
• Friends and library
history presenta-
tion by Patty Went
• “Tribute to Librar-
ies” by Oregon au-
thor Lauren Kessler
• 3 to 4 p.m.: Music,
socializing – and
cake!
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SUBMITTED PHOTO
“Bitter Ridge #7”
by John Wimberley
LightBox gallery marks
100th exhibit with
“Preternatural’ reception
ASTORIA — LightBox
Photographic Gallery is com-
memorating its 100th exhibit
with the opening reception
for “A Preternatural Place:
Dream and Memory in the
Great Basin,” a body of work
by internationally renown
photographic artist John Wim-
berley.
This exhibit opens Sat-
urday, July 8, with an artist
reception taking place 5 to
8 p.m. An artist talk will be
held prior to the opening at 4
p.m., call the gallery at 503-
468-0238 for availability and
reservations.
“This collection demon-
strates the refi ned photo-
graphic process Wimberley is
known for,” the gallery said in
a release.
The exhibition consists of
photographs made during a
two-decade period, from 1997
to 2017. It consists of black-
and-white, gelatin-silver
prints that were hand-printed
by Wimberley in his tradition-
al wet darkroom.
All prints were made with-
in the American Great Basin
— that is, Nevada and slices
of adjacent states, Wimberley
said.
“They reveal traces of
dream and memory in the
land, and explore artifacts of
human endeavor in the form
of petroglyphs and abandoned
structures,” Wimberley said.
“The primary focus is on
stone that has been altered by
human activity.”
Born in Bermuda in 1945,
Wimberley currently lives in
Ashland, Oregon.
With more than 50 years
in photography, his work has
been honored with over 70
major exhibitions and exten-
sively published and collected
around the world.
“A Preternatural Place:
Dream and Memory in the
Great Basin” runs Saturday,
July 8, through Tuesday, Sept.
5. LightBox is located at 1045
Marine Drive in Astoria.