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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.
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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