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MARCH 22, 2018 // 17 LET’S TALK PUFFINS! PHOTOS COURTESY SEASIDE MUSEUM & HISTORICAL SOCIETY The Cove in the late 1970s, before the Tillamook slide A cute puffin Horning recounts history of Clatsop Plains’ geology CANNON BEACH — The Haystack Rock Awareness Program (HRAP), with support from the Can- non Beach Chamber of Commerce and the Friends of Haystack Rock, is announcing the rollout of our 2018 We Speak Puffin Campaign. This exciting new initiative is designed to increase hospitality and promote education around our city’s most iconic sym- bol, Haystack Rock. Lisa Habecker, HRAP’s education and volunteer coordinator, has prepared a short presentation for local hoteliers and businesses with the goal of helping everyone become more Haystack Rock Awareness Program — and puffin — savvy! Craig Davidson, a Friends board member and HRAP volunteer, has been instrumental in forming We Speak Puffin partner- ships. This venture is the culmination of their joint vision and hard work. Everyone can be included in becoming We Speak Puffin certified, an honor that comes with stickers, window clings and buttons. Our hope is for visitors to recognize SEASIDE — What do we see as we travel throughout Seaside and the Clatsop Plains? We notice that trees have gone, areas have flooded, features of the land have changed over time. The topography and geology we see have formed over the past 4,500 years. At the next History & Hops — 6 p.m. Thursday, March 29, at Seaside Brewing Co. (861 Broadway St.) — native son Tom Horning will take us on a “Geologic Tour of Clatsop Plains,” sharing how our area formed by slow chronic processes punctuated by infrequent catastrophes. Great storms and mag- nitude 9 subduction zone earthquakes and tsunamis caused erosion and changes in vegetation patterns of forests and plains, rearranging land- forms and disrupting Native American communities. Horning will cover events, from Columbia River sands forming a delta, to landslides falling from Tillamook Head, to regular deposition of silts, gravel and peat flowing off the hills. He will explain how spectacular tsunami land- forms sculpted Seaside and influenced how the town was developed, as well as why the Lewis & Clark Salt Works PHOTOS COURTESY HAYSTACK ROCK AWARENESS PROGRAM A Haystack Rock Awareness Program member (far left) and visitors observe the great sea stack of Cannon Beach. the We Speak Puffin logo and trust their questions about Haystack Rock can be confidently answered at the participating establish- ments. The whole process was designed to be quick, casual and fun! HRAP is in its 33rd season on the beach and has educated more than one million visitors and thousands of students. The program’s mission is to “protect, through educa- tion, the intertidal and bird ecology of the Marine Gar- den and National Wildlife Refuge at Haystack Rock.” To schedule your We Speak Puffin presentation, or if you have questions or comments, contact Ha- becker at 503-436-8064 or email habecker@ci.can- non-beach.or.us. was sited near Avenue N. Horning, a member of the Seaside City Council, has a master’s degree in geology, with a minor in volcanology, from Oregon State University. After a career as an explora- tion geologist, he returned to Seaside and became a natural hazards and geotechnical consultant doing business as Horning Geosciences. History & Hops is a series Seaside City Councilor Tom Horning, a natural hazards and geotechnical consultant of local history discussions hosted by the Seaside Mu- seum on the last Thursday of each month, September through May. COASTER THEATRE PLAYHOUSE March 16 - April 21, 2018 Tickets $20 or $25 Shows begin at 7:30 p.m. Sunday shows start at 3:00p.m. Sponsored by Coaster Construction Tickets: 503-436-1242 or coastertheatre.com 108 N Hemlock Street, Cannon Beach, OR
