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First-ever Coast Community
Festival features cook-off, concert
CANNON BEACH — Cannon
Beach’s first-ever Coast-
al Community Festival is
scheduled for 9 a.m. to 7
p.m. Saturday, May 12, with
an outdoor marketplace fea-
turing arts and crafts, food
vendors, a farmer’s market,
live music and a unique
Blue Barrel chef’s cook-off
planned for the day-long
event at Cannon Beach City
Park (207 N. Spruce St.).
The festival offers a fun
way to build awareness for
safety and emergency pre-
paredness.
Events kick off at 9 a.m.
with a Safety Fair lineup that
includes the police depart-
ment, fire and rescue, Life
Flight and Medix.
“This is an opportunity
for community members
of all ages to connect with
local officials through fun
safety activities such as a
Bike Rodeo,” Police Chief
Jason Schermerhorn said.
Other programs represent-
ed include water safety
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Haystack Rock
education, pedestrian safety,
poison safety and household
safety from Pacific Power
and Northwest Natural Gas.
The Blue Barrel Chal-
lenge will include celebrity
chefs competing on site to
create the best dish from
non-perishable food items
typically found in emer-
gency preparedness barrels
stored in disaster cache sites
around town.
The chefs will need to
build and maintain a fire,
as well as prepare and
cook their meals using the
contents in the barrel. Each
barrel will contain a mystery
ingredient as well as other
local fresh-foraged foods.
The cooking competition
begins at 1 p.m.
Throughout the day — 9
a.m. to 4 p.m. — the festival
will feature a farmer’s
market with arts and crafts,
as well as home and garden
vendors.
Haystack Rock Awareness
Program will be selling their
handmade jewelry as part of
their “Trash Talk” project.
Fashioned from microplastic
marine debris, the unique
jewelry pieces tell a story
and inspire HRAP support.
Visitors are encouraged to
collect beach debris and
bring it in to make a necklace
for themselves. Artists from
the area will give classes
on using unique mediums
to create beautiful works
of art throughout the day.
To close the festival,
the musical talent of
blues guitarists Mary
Flower, Mark Shark and
Thad Beckman will join
forces for an evening
concert of lively acoustic
music. The concert be-
gins at 5:30 p.m and ends
at 7:30 p.m.
The Coastal Commu-
nity Festival is free and
sponsored by the City of
Cannon Beach.
For more information,
call the Cannon Beach
Chamber of Commerce
at 503-436-2811 or visit
the Chamber’s events
website at cannonbeach.
org/events/Entertainment/
Coastal-Community-Fes-
tival.
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Enjoy art in the park
FORT CLATSOP — The art,
dance and music event
known as “Sunday in the
Park with Art,” an expe-
rience combining hiking
and art at Fort Clatsop
within the Lewis and
Clark National Historical
Park, takes place May 6.
This season, the event
takes the form of a play
with two “acts” along the
Netul River Trail, a two-
mile round-trip stroll.
Act I begins at
1 p.m. at the Netul
Landing north shelter.
Music, dance and art
installations will entice
the walking audience
northward along the
trail to the Fort Clatsop
Visitor Center picnic
area. There, participants
will enjoy an interactive
intermission and ready
themselves for Act II and
walk southward back to
the Netul River parking
lot, starting at 2:30 p.m.
A different experience
of music and dance will
greet the audience during
this segment as new per-
formers take the place of
the Act I artists.
Those who have
attended previous events
will notice the ease of
traveling along the art/
hike this year, the third
installation of this event.
The smooth, flat river
trail is a departure from
the longer curvy, rocky
and sometimes steep
Kwis Kwis trail on the
west side of Fort Clatsop
Road.
The organizers are
excited that this year,
artists and hikers will
experience the ecology of
the river and the riparian
zone, which provides
a home to thousands
of plants and animals
and plays a critical role
between upland areas of
Fort Clatsop and open
water.
“Ready yourselves
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Hikers will encounter art in-
stallations on their hike.
to be taken over by the
incredible talent in our
area,” organizer Marco
Davis said. “These artists
bring their expression
and share it with us as we
connect to the earth and
the elements and their art
and each other.”
“Sunday in the Park
with Art,” an all-ages,
family-friendly event,
happens rain or shine.
Come dressed for the
elements and feel free
to add flair. Arrive early
to purchase a pass at the
Visitor Center, $5 for
ages 16 and older, free
for anyone under 16.
For more information,
call the Fort Clatsop Vis-
itor Center at 503-861-
2471, or keep up to date
on the “Sunday in the
Park with Art” Facebook
page.