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SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2015
Mushroom Festival this weekend
YACHATS — The 16th
annual Village Mushroom
Festival continues in Yachats
today, Oct. 17, through tomor-
row, Oct. 18.
Mushroom cuisine will con-
tinue to be highlighted, as well
as culinary mushroom markets
(wild and cultivated, fresh and
dried), mushroom tools, spe-
cialty products, arts and crafts,
and books.
Festival weekend offers
learning opportunities, includ-
ing a speakers’ forum, work-
shops, guided mushroom
walks, mushroom slideshows
and mushroom displays.
Mushroom displays will be
presented by three mycological
societies — Lincoln County Shaggy parasols grow along
Mycological Society, Cascade
Mycological Society, and
Species are just now being
North American Truffling definitively delineated and
Society at the Yachats Lions named.
Hall on W 4th St (one block off
Conjoined morels often
Highway 101).
have genes from different par-
Admission is free.
ents. They can derive nutrition
The Speakers’ Forum is from multiple resources.
offered today with presenta- Triggers for fruiting are com-
tions by renowned experts in plex and predicting where and
the field of mycology includ- when they will show up can
ing Dr. Dan Luoma, Dr. Steve vary from inscrutable to cer-
Carpenter, David Pilz and Dr. tain.
Matt Trappe.
They are experts at camou-
• 10:00 a.m. — What is a flage and require pattern
Mushroom?
Dr.
Steven recognition skills to observe.
Carpenter; a general presenta- Indeed, trying to pin down
tion on what fungi are, what morels can cause a form of
they do, and what mushrooms “madness” in humans.
themselves are all about.
• 2:45 p.m. — Lichens:
• 11:15 a.m. — Fantastic Fungi in Disguise. Presented
Fungi Fuel Forest Growth. by Dr. Matt Trappe, OSU
Presented by Dr. Dan Luoma, College of Forestry with
Dept. of Forest Ecosystems Northwest
Advanced
and Society, OSU; expand Renewables Alliance.
An
your understanding of the cen- ongoing Mushroom slideshow
tral role that fungi play in the will also be provided by Dr.
dynamic life of a forest. This Matt Trappe, and a slideshow
program will provide basic presentation by Anna Moore is
context for understanding how offered Sunday morning cov-
fungi contribute to forest ering the habitat of selected
growth.
plants and fungi in the Oregon
• 1:30 p.m. — Doggone Dunes.
Eccentric
Morels!
The
Two workshops are offered
Opportunistic Mycelia of an Saturday afternoon including
Edible Mushroom Weed. a mushroom cooking work-
Presented
by
David shop and a workshop on how
Pilz, PilzWald (Forestry to grow your own gourmet
Applications of Mycology);
mushrooms.
Local scouts to serve
up spaghetti dinner
Cub Scout Pack 777, Boy
Scout Troop 777 and the
Florence Elks are joining
forces to put on a spaghetti
dinner fundraiser today, Oct.
17, from 5 to 7 p.m., at the
Elks Lodge on 12th Street.
The
dinner
includes
spaghetti, salad, garlic bread,
and a beverage. Proceeds from
this fundraiser help support
scout programs and camping.
Dinner is $8 per person.
A bake sale of home-baked
goodies is planned with the
dinner.
WE’RE MOVING
Look for us in our
NEW LOCATION beginning
Monday, October 19th.
PHOTO BY HEATHER SIELICKI
Stop in and see us at 1751 12th Street, Florence
(Next to Papa Murphy's Pizza)
the hillside in Yachats.
Check the festival’s web-
site at www.yachats.org/MF
est2015. For more details,
including times and workshop
materials fees.
All of these presentations
and workshops occur at the
Yachats
Commons,
W.
Fourth Street and Highway
101.
Dr. Trappe’s slideshow
will be shown in the theater
room at the Cape Perpetua
Visitors Center, as well.
Twenty-four guided mush-
room walks are also being
offered during the weekend
free of charge for all levels of
learning, from beginning to
advanced.
Preregistration is offered
online from the festival web
site and continues festival
weekend at the Yachats
Commons.
“Purchase of a $5 Festival
Wristband allows you admis-
sion to the talks and work-
shops and helps meet produc-
tion costs and sustain the fes-
tival,” says festival coordina-
tor Bev Wilson.
Wristbands will be avail-
able during festival weekend
at the Yachats Commons,
today from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.,
and Sunday from 9 a.m. to 1
p.m.
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