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8 // COASTWEEKEND.COM AAUW hosts inspirational KALA welcomes speaker, a Seaside native ‘Bigfoot’ author with CANNON BEACH — The Sea- side American Association of University Women will feature Polly Campbell, a motivational speaker and au- thor of three books on living well, at the organization’s Saturday, Oct. 21, meeting, held in Cannon Beach at Breaker’s Point Community Room at 10 a.m. This is an open meet- ing for anyone interested in Campbell’s message or AAUW in general. Campbell’s keynotes, trainings and workshops are inspiring, funny and insightful. Each presen- tation provides practical, science-based strategies and practices audiences can use to ease stress, promote well-being and happiness, and have positive outcomes. Campbell’s down-to- earth, funny and practical approach engages audiences and motivates them to take small actions to get big re- sults. She empowers people to become the creators of their own lives, instead of complaining about the lives they are living. Raised in Seaside, Campbell now lives in the Portland area. She is widely sought-after for workshops, and has been featured on reading, signing, pie PHOTO BY DAVID B. KINDER Polly Campbell Portland television and other venues. Her published books are “Imperfect Spirituality,” “Extraordinary Enlighten- ment for Ordinary People” and her latest, “How to Live an Awesome Life: How to Live Well, Do Good, Be Happy.” For more information about AAUW, an organiza- tion that advances equity for women and girls through advocacy, education, philan- thropy and research, contact local president Cindy Gould at aauwseaside@gmail.com. Campbell may be reached at p2campbell@ comcast.net. The Jordan World Circus comes to town ASTORIA — The Jordan World Circus comes to the Clatsop County Fair & Expo Center in Astoria on Monday, Oct. 23, for two shows, one at 4 p.m., anoth- er at 7:30 p.m. Doors open one hour before the event. With three rings of af- fordable family fun, “The Jordan World Circus” will thrill fans of all ages. Come see the death-defy- ing aerial acts and animal attractions, including tigers and elephants. In addition to the per- forming acts, kids will have the unique opportunity to ride and pet different types of animals. (Acts are sub- ject to change.) Once online sales have finished, you can only pur- chase tickets at the circus location. The Fair & Expo Center is located at 92937 Walluski Loop. ASTORIA — KALA wel- comes author and ecologist Robert Michael Pyle for a book release celebration 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 20. The author will read, and a book signing and com- plimentary pie social will follow. Cocktails are avail- able. Admission is $8. The new reissue of Pyle’s “Where Bigfoot Walks” is a spectacular, moving and witty narrative exploration of not only the phenom- enon of Bigfoot, but also the human need to believe that something is out there beyond the campfire — and that wildness remains. Awarded a Guggenheim to investigate the legends of Sasquatch, Pyle trekked into the unprotected wil- derness of the Dark Divide near Mount St. Helens, where he discovered both a giant fossil footprint and recent tracks. He searched out Indians who told him of an outcast tribe, the See- ahtiks, who had not fully evolved into humans. He attended Sasquatch Daze, where he met scientists, hunters and others who have devoted their lives to the search, and realized that “these guys don’t want to find Bigfoot — they want to be Bigfoot!” A handful of open-mind- ed biologists and anthro- pologists countered the tabloids he studied, while rogue Forest Service em- ployees and loggers swore of an industry conspiracy to deep-six accounts of unknown, upright hominoid apes among us. In the years since publication, the author’s fresh experiences and finds PHOTO BY DAVID LEE MEYERS Author Robert Michael Pyle SUBMITTED PHOTO — detailed in an all-new chapter which includes an evaluation of recent DNA evidence from Bigfoot hair and scat, the study of speech phonemes in the “Sierra Sounds” purported Bigfoot recordings, Pyle’s examination of the impact of the wildly popular Ani- mal Planet series “Bigfoot Hunters,” the reemergence of the famous Bob Gimlin into the Bigfoot community — have kept his own mind open to one of the biggest questions in the land. Pyle is the author of twenty books and the recent poetry collection “Evolu- tion of the Genus Iris.” A Yale-trained ecologist and a Guggenheim fellow, he is a full-time writer living in Southwestern Washington. KALA is located at 1017 Marine Drive in Astoria.
