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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
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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.