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8 January 5, 2018 T he C olumbia P ress This Weekend Seaside writers event features dozens of authors Two-dozen authors will be featured in an eight-day fine arts writing series in Sea- side. The event is free and spon- sored by the Pacific Univer- sity Master of Fine Arts in Writing program. The series includes eve- ning readings beginning at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 5, through Friday, Jan. 12, at the Best Western Ocean View Resort, 414 N. Prom. Featured authors include poet Vievee Francis, who received the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, and fiction writer Chris Abani, recipi- ent of the PEN Hemingway Book Prize and a Guggen- heim Award. Jan. 5: Judy Blunt, Vievee Francis and John McNally Jan. 6: Kwame Dawes, Pete Fromm and Willy Vlautin Jan. 7: Steve Amick, Claire Davis and Scott Korb Jan. 8: Ellen Bass, Frank Gaspar and Valerie Laken Jan. 9: Mike Magnuson, Mary Helen Stefaniak and Kellie Wells Jan. 10: Chris Abani, Debra Gwartney and Joseph Millar Jan. 11: Marvin Bell, Jack Driscoll and Christopher Merrill Jan. 12: Sanjiv Bhattacha- rya and Laura Hendrie For more information about the writers or the MFA in Writing program, contact director Shelley Washburn at 503-352-1532. Longtime county band to perform The group, made up of John Fenton, Ned Heaven- rich, Ray Raihala, Robert Stevens and Dan Suther- land, play family-friendly folk, traditional, popular and original works and each member plays a string instrument. For more information, call 503-325-0590. Hike club holds planning session The Angora Hiking Club will have its 2018 trip-plan- ning meeting at 2 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 7, in confer- ence room 231 at the OSU Seafood Lab, 2001 Marine Drive, Astoria. For more information, contact chief hiking guide Bill Herold at 503-468- 0474 or President Kathleen Hudson at 503-861-2802. Brownsmead Flats, an acoustic band founded in Clatsop County in 1984, will perform in a donation-on- ly concert at 2 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 7, in the Performing Arts Center, corner of 16 Street and Franklin Avenue in As- toria. Preventing cyber attacks is topic of class Two instructors with expe- rience in business and tech- nology will present a class, “Cyber Security for Small and Mid-Sized Businesses,” on Tuesday, Jan. 9. Participants can select a class in Seaside or Astoria. Cost is $20 and registra- tion is required. The lecture is designed for business owners and those working in facilities, human resources, internet technology or as an office manager. Participants will hear about the latest threats and vul- nerabilities affecting small businesses, strategies for minimizing threats, remedi- al measures, free resources and initiatives under way in Oregon to develop a more cy- ber-aware workforce. Instructors are Lewis Howell, founder and chief executive officer of Hueya Inc., a company that helps people take control of their online identity and secure their digital world, and Les- lie Golden, who has worked in technology for nearly 20 years, spanning the public and private sectors as a chief information officer in charge of security and compliance. The first session is 8:30 to 10:30 a.m. in Room 2-3 at Clatsop Community College, South County Campus, 1455 N. Roosevelt, Seaside. The second session is 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. in Room 310, Towler Hall, Clatsop Com- munity College, 1651 Lexing- ton Ave., Astoria. For more information or to register, call Tammy Lam- bert at 503-338-2402.
