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Vendors, crafters wanted
to help ‘Deck the Hall’
SKAMOKAWA, WASH. — The
Friends of Skamokawa
is seeking vendors and
crafters to participate in
the group’s annual holiday
open house, “Deck the
Hall.”
Looking to sell your
unique art or craft? Wheth-
er you are new to selling or
have years of experience,
we would love to have
you at this fun community
event. We offer a warm,
friendly holiday shopping
environment for everyone
to enjoy.
Submit vendor items no
later than 3 p.m. Monday,
Nov. 20.
The open house takes
place Friday, Nov. 24,
through Sunday, Dec. 17,
at the Friends of Skamoka-
wa’s River Life Interpre-
tive Center (aka Central
School and Redmen Hall)
at 1394 Washington State
Route 4, Skamokawa,
Washington.
For more information,
or to sign up, call 360-795-
3007 or email fos1894@
gmail.com.
At Astoria Public Library, Oregon
Humanities goes ‘Beyond Fake News’
Astoria Yacht Club talks
marine diesel engines
ASTORIA — At 6:30 p.m.,
Thursday, Nov. 2, the As-
toria Yacht Club will host
Mark Woolsey of Coast
Diesel as part of its 2017-18
educational program.
Woolsey will discuss the
maintenance, troubleshoot-
ing and selection of small
marine diesel engines.
The talk will be held
in the Yacht Club room
upstairs in the Chinook
Building (300 Industry
St.) at the West Mooring
Basin and will last one to
two hours. There will be
no charge, but donations
toward facility expenses
will be accepted.
Though the presentation
will be primarily oriented
toward pleasure craft, it will
be open to the public.
COLIN MURPHEY PHOTO
A sailor with the Astoria Yacht Club adjusts the main sail on
his boat during a leisurely outing on the Columbia River.
COURTESY ASTORIA PUBLIC LIBRARY
Kelly McElroy, an outreach librarian at Oregon State
University
ASTORIA — Oregonians have
seen how the news can both
represent and misrepresent facts.
From debate over the Malheur
National Wildlife Refuge to the
discourse around “alternative
facts,” it can seem difficult to
find current and accurate infor-
mation as we make decisions in
our communities.
This is the focus of “Beyond
Fake News: How We Find
Accurate Information about the
World,” a free conversation with
Kelly McElroy 3 p.m. Saturday,
Nov. 4, at the Astoria Public
Library (450 10th St.). This
program is sponsored by Oregon
Humanities.
McElroy is an outreach
librarian at Oregon State
University. She coedited
the Critical Library Pedagogy
Handbooks and is interested
in engaging communities in
thoughtful inquiry about the in-
formation they need for school,
work and play.
Through the Conversation
Project, Oregon Humanities
offers free programs that engage
community members in thought-
ful, challenging conversations
about ideas critical to our daily
lives and our state’s future.
For more information about
this free community discussion,
contact Senior Library Assistant
Ami Kreider at 503-325-7323 or
akreider@astoria.or.us.
Oregon Humanities — an
independent nonprofit affiliate
of the National Endowment for
the Humanities and a partner of
the Oregon Cultural Trust —
connects Oregonians to ideas
that change lives and transform
communities.
More information about
Oregon Humanities’ programs
and publications can be found at
oregonhumanities.org.
Ales & Ideas presents ‘Imperiled:
Church/State Separation in America’
ASTORIA — Clatsop Community Col-
lege’s next Ales & Ideas lecture, titled
“Imperiled: Church/State Separation in
America,” takes place 7 p.m. Thurs-
day, Nov. 2, at the Fort George Lovell
Showroom at Duane and 14th streets.
Doors open at 6 p.m.
Ed Joyce, an adjunct instructor of
geology at the college, will moder-
ate a panel discussion. Speakers will
include Seth Tichenor, CCC instructor
of philosophy and religion, along with
the Reverend Kit Ketchum of Pacific
Unitarian Universalist Fellowship and
Pastor Bill Van Nostran of the First
Presbyterian Church of Astoria.
Come early to the free event and
visit with members of Indivisible North
Coast. Seasonal ales and pub food will
be available for sale, but no purchase is
necessary. Minors are welcome.
“Implicit in our understanding of
COURTESY CLATSOP COMMUNITY COLLEGE
our First Amendment right of religious
freedom is the idea of separation of
church and state,” Joyce wrote. “It has
been well demonstrated throughout
history that both the church and state
are more functional and effective when
they are kept separate.
“The present administration in
Washington is proceeding with legis-
lation that would severely breach the
wall of separation between church and
state on numerous fronts.”
This timely panel discussion will
explore several of the more egregious
breaches, including the allowance of
school prayer, overt discrimination
involving religious liberties, school
vouchers that provide public funding
to private religious entities, and clergy
who endorse political candidates from
the pulpit.
Before moving to Astoria more than
two years ago, Joyce was president of
the Philadelphia Chapter of Americans
United for the Separation of Church &
State.