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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.
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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