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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.