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8 // COASTWEEKEND.COM CCC teaches beer brewing, ecopsychology ASTORIA — New to the College Community Educa- tion line-up this fall is Home Brew Beer. Caution: Home brewing leads to intense feeling of happiness, delicious beer and a lifelong home brewing habit. Home brewing: hob- by, obsession, way of life. “Brewing beer is fun and easy; if you can make mac and cheese from a box with- out help, you can make beer, and we’re going to show you SUBMITTED PHOTO A botanical drawing by Dorota Haber-Lehigh how,” the college said in a release. Taught by Marc Silva, the class meets Saturdays: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sept. 30 and Oct. 14; 9 to 11:30 a.m. Oct. 7 and Nov. 4; and 9 a.m. to noon Oct. 21. Times may vary depending on brewing needs. The cost is $110. Sup- plies are included. Another class covers the basics of ecopsychology — the psychology of how we relate to nature and how we can use the therapeutic prop- erties of nature in mental and physical health care. Students will understand ecopsychology and ecother- apy to treat nature defi cit disorder and other effects of separation from nature, as well as identify how ecotherapy heals the mind and body. Learn horticultural ther- apy, animal-assisted therapy and how to incorporate ecopsychology into your practice. Taught by Rebec- ca Lexa, the class meets Wednesdays, 6 to 7:30 p.m. Sept. 27 through Nov. 1. For information on more community education classes ranging from farming and gardening skills, to offi ce applications, to grant writing and grant administration, visit clatsopcc.edu/communityed. Register now atclatsopcc. edu/schedule and search under Course Title, or call 503-325-2402. Create botanical art, half-hull model at Barbey Maritime Center ASTORIA — The Barbey Maritime Center, part of the Columbia River Maritime Museum, is offering classes in making botanical art and half- hull models in October. SUBMITTED PHOTO Botanical art “Fall Botanical Drawing & Painting” will be taught by artist Dorota Haber-Lehigh 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. Thursdays (Oct. 5, 12, 19 and 26). Capture the magic of the fall in a botanical illustration, combining color pencils and watercolor pencils. Draw fall fruit, mushrooms, fall leaves, seed pods, branches with lichen and anything else you discover in nature. Develop basic drawing and observa- tional skills through fun and engaging exercises. Learn how to incorporate line, value, shape, texture and color to create a botanical illustration. Please bring fall fruit of your choice to the fi rst class, H or F pencil, kneaded eraser, pencil sharpener, sketchbook and set of colored pen- cils. Other materials will be provided. The cost is $40 for museum members, $65 for nonmembers. Half-hull images Half-hulls Instructor Steve Kessler will teach a class on creating a half-hull model 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 14, and 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 15. Learn how to create a beautiful half-hull model and how to use half-hull models for exploring the shape of a boat and making a table of offsets that can be used to build a full-scale boat from the model. Tools will be provided, but if students bring their own, the suggested kit includes tri-square, scale rule, dividers, hammer, half-round rasp, fl at or four-in-one fi le, chisels and gouges, spokeshave, tape measure, No. 2 Phillips screwdriver, utility knife and sharpening stone. The cost is $50 for museum members, $75 for nonmembers. word W nerd By RYAN HUME FOR COAST WEEKEND ERIKSON [ƐR•ɪK•SƏN] noun literally means “Son of Erik.” Erikson — also Erik- sen, Ericsson, Eriksson, and the North German variant, Erichsen — are all respell- ings derived from the Old Norse name Eiríkr, or Erik, which is a combination of the words ei, which means “always” or “forever,” and ríkr, which means “power” or “ruler.” Combined the personal name was taken to mean “sole ruler,” as in sense of the one true king. 1. Leif Erikson: A Viking explorer credited as the fi rst European to discover North “50 years ago America nearly fi ve […] The sturdy hundreds prior to Sons of Norway Christopher Colum- seem to have won bus. a bloodless victory The son of Nor- before the city wegian Viking Erik council in defense the Red, Erikson of the name of Leif touched down on Erikson for that COMMONS. the north tip of portion of the main WIKIPEDIA.ORG Newfoundland in highway lying east A 1968 Leif what is modern day of 32nd street. Erikson “Before the fi rm Canada sometime resistance of the stamp around the year Sons of Norway, 1000 AD. Having the attempts to put a new blown off course on a voy- name on Leif Erikson Drive age from Norway to bring have faltered and broken. Christianity to Greenland, The attack apparently has he established the Norse been abandoned, and the colony of Vinland on the name of the Viking discov- patch of craggy shore he arrived at in Newfoundland, erer of America will remain though there has been much commemorated for years to come in this city where debate of where the colony so many of his descendants of Vinland was actually live.” located. —“Water Under the 2. Leif Erikson Drive: a major thoroughfare near the Bridge,” The Daily Astorian, Columbia River through the Wednesday, April 20, 2005 east end of Astoria. As Ma- “‘I have to-day the rine Drive heads east out of downtown, it becomes Leif honor of announcing to you Erickson Drive as it crosses the discovery of Vinland, including the landfall of Franklin Avenue to the Leif Erikson and the site of south and 32nd Street on his houses.’ The following the north near the Safeway. is the inscription on the A roughly two-mile tablet let into the tower: stretch of U.S. Route 30, ‘Landfall of Leif Erikson Leaf Erikson Drive winds on Cape Cod, 1000 A.D. it way out of town with the Norse canals, dams, walls, name terminating at the intersection of Nimitz Drive pavements, forts, terraced places of assembly, remain and Maritime Road around to-day.’” Tongue Point as the high- —“A Norwegian Set- way continues to push east. tlement in Massachusetts Five Hundred Years Before Origin: Columbus,” The Daily A common Scandinavian Astorian, Friday, Dec. 6, patronymic surname which 1889, p. 2 CW