20 // COASTWEEKEND.COM De-vine intervention for land conservancy WARRENTON — The North Coast Land Conservancy is planning a volunteer ivy removal stewardship day 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 20, at its Sand Creek Wet- lands Habitat Reserve, next to the cemetery in Warren- ton. Everyone is welcome to join the conservancy’s first stewardship day of 2018. Sand Creek Wetlands is a hidden gem: a pristine, intact scrub-shrub coastal wetland, one that few people have visited. The vegetation is dense, making it hard to walk through. The conservancy scheduled this stewardship day for the winter, when the deciduous vegetation has died back and it’s a little easier to move around, but participants can still expect rough walking. Most of the ivy at Sand Creek is grow- ing on large Sitka spruce trees, but volunteers may COURTESY NORTH COAST LAND CONSERVANCY Volunteers remove ivy from trees at the North Coast Land Conservancy’s Cottongrass Lake prop- erty in Warrenton in 2014. find some on the ground as well. Conservancy staff will provide the handsaws, lop- pers and other tools needed to remove this invasive vine. Participants should wear gloves and work boots, and bring their own water and snacks (no potable water or toilets are at the site). Dogs are not allowed on Conser- vancy properties. Volunteers are asked to email Stewardship Director Melissa Reich (melissar@nclctrust.org). She will provide direc- tions to the site and ad- ditional details. She will also notify volunteers if the date changes due to inclement weather. Sale on the almost ENTIRE STORE! COASTER THEATRE PLAYHOUSE Up to One day only! 75 Clearance Items February 2-24, 2018 Tickets $20 or $25 Shows begin at 7:30 p.m. Sunday shows start at 3:00p.m. Sponsored by Mike & Tracey Clark (503)325-5720 • 1-800-851-FINN • 1116 Commercial • Astoria Tickets: 503-436-1242 or coastertheatre.com 108 N Hemlock Street, Cannon Beach, OR Reed reads from her latest novel MANZANITA — Author Deborah Reed will read from her latest book, “The Days When Birds Come Back,” 7 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 20, at the Hoffman Center for the Arts in Manzanita. Following Reed’s reading and Q-and-A, the Center will hold its popular open mic, where up to nine local or visiting writers will read five minutes of original work. The suggested (not required) theme for the open mic is “Starting Over.” Admission for the evening COURTESY HOFFMAN CENTER FOR reading is $7. Doors open at THE ARTS 6:30 p.m. “The Days When Birds Come Reed is the author of four Back” by Deborah Reed literary novels. “The Days When Birds Come Back” is teaches creative writing at scheduled to be published in workshops around the U.S. January 2018 by Houghton and in Europe. Mifflin Harcourt. She lives on the Oregon Her other novels include Coast. “Olivay,” a Bustle magazine The Manzanita Writers’ pick of the year for 2015; Series is a program of the “Things We Set on Fire,” Hoffman Center for which sold over the Arts and will be 100K copies in the held at the Hoffman first six months; and Center (across from “Carry Yourself Back Manzanita Library at to Me,” an Amazon 594 Laneda Ave.). Editor Pick of the More informa- year for 2011. She tion is available at has also authored Deborah hoffmanblog.org, or two popular thrillers Reed contact Kathie High- under the pen name tower at kathiejhigh- Audrey Braun. In “The Days When Birds tower@gmail.com. Come Back,” the renovation Novel-writing group of an old house on the Ore- Beginning March 21, gon Coast brings two people Reed will lead a 10-week together in this emotionally novel-writing group in searing novel of love and Manzanita. Interested writers second chances. Brimming must submit a writing sample with empathy, the book, like of no more than ten pages to the house itself, is a graceful hoffmancenter@nehalemtel. testament to endurance, re- building and the possibilities net by Sunday, Feb. 25. No of coming home. more than 10 people will be Reed holds a Masters accepted, so apply early! of Fine Arts in Creative The fee for the course Writing and is co-director is $350. For a complete of the Black Forest Writing description of the course and Seminars at the University requirements, go to hoffman- blog.org. of Freiburg in Germany. She