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Tree pruning workshop held Jan. 13
COURTESY TILLAMOOK ASSOCIATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS
Back row, from left: Kevin Josi, Kari Fleisher, Scott Malmquist. Front row, from left: Trish Bush,
Robyn Eley
Acting on the ‘Edge’
TILLAMOOK — “The Edge
of Darkness” sounds like
a pretty ominous title for
a play, until you find out
it’s a psychological thriller
written by the talented
Brian Clemens.
Directed by Steele
Fleisher, this can’t-miss
production opens the eve-
ning of Friday, Jan. 12, and
runs through Saturday, Jan.
27, at the Tillamook Asso-
ciation for the Performing
Arts’ Barn Community
Playhouse (1204 Ivy St.).
This dark, sinister thrill-
er is set in the early days of
the 1900s with a daughter
who has amnesia and a
fear of knives and silver
bells … but why? Who is
the mysterious handyman?
What secrets are the parents
hiding? And why does the
young woman sleepwalk
… while speaking fluent
Russian?
From an expert in the
art of thriller writing with
more than 50 years of
screenwriting experience,
the show is excellent enter-
tainment for January’s dark
winter nights.
“The Edge of Darkness”
opens with a Gala Celebra-
tion.
Friday and Saturday
shows start at 7 p.m., Sun-
day shows at 2 p.m. Tickets
are $15 per person and
available at Diamond Art
Jewelers (503-842-7940).
For more information,
email info@tillamookthe-
ater.com or find them on
Facebook.
Celebrating more than
35 years in Tillamook,
TAPA is a nonprofit com-
munity theater dedicated
to providing high-quality
performing arts experienc-
es through entertainment,
education and community
participation.
NEHALEM — The Lower
Nehalem Community Trust
will host a tree pruning
workshop at the Alder Creek
Farm Community Garden 10
a.m. to noon Saturday, Jan.
13. This event is free and
open to anyone 10 and older.
January is the perfect
time to get your trees and
shrubs ready for a season
of producing the fruits and
berries of summer.
Local arborist David
Sipp of Ecologic Trees will
teach this workshop on how
to properly prune your fruit
trees for the best health and
more fruiting. Sipp brings a
wealth of advice on the best
way to prune both young
trees and mature heritage,
or overgrown fruit trees to
maximize their production.
Join the Lower Nehalem
Community Trust’s group of
community gardeners as we
learn together using proper
tools and techniques for this
annual garden care. The
orchard at Alder Creek Farm
has just about every fruit and
berry imaginable and our or-
chardists and garden leaders
will be demonstrating how
to prune blueberries, cane
berries and more.
Bring your gloves and
favorite pruner (we have
loaner tools and gloves,
too, if you need them) and
join the group as we learn
about pruning for maximum
fruiting benefit. Alder Creek
FILE PHOTO
A former dairy farm located west of Nehalem, Alder Creek Farm
hosts the Lower Nehalem Community Trust’s Coastal Food
Ecology Center and most of the trust’s education projects.
Farm is located between
Nehalem and Manzanita off
U.S. Highway 101. Turn on
Underhill Lane and follow
the gravel road to the farm at
35955 Underhill Lane.
The Trust’s Communi-
ty Garden Program grows
food for the North County
Food Bank, Senior Lunch
Program, and the Commu-
nity Garden members. The
year 2018 will be the 13th
season of growing, and
the Community Garden is
accepting new members who
want to learn how to garden
and share in the bounty with
fellow gardeners. Garden
startup is set for Saturday,
Feb. 24.
To learn more about the
pruning workshop or Com-
munity Garden program,
pick up a brochure at the
farm, visit nehalemtrust.org/
alder-creek-farm/communi-
ty-garden/ or call the Lower
Nehalem Community Trust
at 503-368-3203.
‘Wander’ author signing books during Art Walk
ASTORIA — As part of As-
toria’s Second Saturday Art
Walk, author Lori Tobias
will be signing copies of her
novel “Wander” 5 to 8 p.m.
Jan. 13, at Kit’s Apothecary
(1168 Commercial St., Ste.
204).
“Wander” is the 2017
Nancy Pearl Book Award
winner in the literary cat-
egory and a finalist in the
International Book Awards
contest in new fiction.
Set in the 1980s in
the rural community of
Bidarkee Bay, Alaska (a
fictional area the size of a
small state with a popu-
lation of barely 20,000),
“Wander” is the story of
Patrice “Pete” Nash, a
young broadcast reporter
who finds herself facing
the winter alone after her
husband, Nate, accepts a
job on “the slope.”
As Pete pursues the next
big breaking news story, she
strikes up a friendship with
the new guy in town, the
Ivy League-educated Ren,
who recites poetry and lives
in the family-owned vacant
inn. Their friendship offers
a glimpse of a different kind
of life — one that seems
to Pete to offer everything
that marriage to the coun-
try-raised Nate does not.
But unbeknown to Pete,
Ren has come to Alaska for
his own dark reason — to
end his life. By the time,
Nate returns home, their
lives have been irrevocably
changed. One man is dead,
two others missing and a
third forever lost to them.
Tobias worked as a
columnist and feature writer
for the Rocky Mountain
News, and covered the Or-
egon Coast as a staff writer
for The Oregonian. She is a
recipient of an Oregon Lit-
erary Fellowship and lives
on the Oregon Coast with
her husband, Chan, and
shelter rescue, Mugsy.
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