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April 13, 2018
T he C olumbia P ress
This weekend
Historian/guide to talk about Lewis and Clark mistakes
Recent findings about the
secondary mission of the
Lewis and Clark expedition
will be discussed at the next
“In Their Footsteps” lecture
at 1 p.m. Sunday, April 15.
Historian Steven McClure,
a member of the Lewis &
Clark Trail Heritage Foun-
dation and a Lewis and Clark
tour guide, will give the talk
in the Netul River Room at
Fort Clatsop’s Visitor Cen-
ter. The talk is free.
While it’s usually taught
that the explorers missed
the mouth of the Willamette
River twice when they pad-
dled by on the Columbia,
McClure contends the ex-
pedition mistook the Wil-
lamette for the Multnomah
Channel.
McClure combines a close
analysis of period maps and
the Lewis and Clark Expedi-
tion’s journals.
He’s a board member of
Friends of Baltimore Woods,
a neighborhood group restor-
ing a wildlife corridor along
the Willamette, and has led
tours to where he has deter-
Submitted photo
mined Clark turned back to The area along the Willamette
the Corps of Discovery’s base River where historian believes
camp on the Columbia.
the explorers turned back.
Vivaldi featured
in guitarist’s show
Press Gang to do
CD release show
Irish music sensation “The
Press Gang” will have a new
CD release show at 7 p.m.
April 14 at the Liberty The-
atre, 1203 Commercial St.
Tickets are $25 and avail-
able
at
libertyastoria.
showare.com.
The Press Gang is from
Portland, Maine, and in-
cludes Christian “Junior”
Stevens on the accordion,
fiddler Alden Robinson,
flute-player and vocalist
Hanz Araki and guitarist
Owen Marshall.
The group blends tradi-
tional Irish music with other
styles.
Radio station has
35th birthday bash
Coast Community Radio
will celebrate its 35th birth-
day with a party for the com-
munity on Saturday, April 14.
The bash is from 6 to 10
p.m. at the Ruins of the Astor
Hotel, 1425 Commercial St.,
Astoria.
KMUN went on the air April
17, 1983. Now called Coast
Community Radio, the NPR
affiliate is the only communi-
ty station in the region.
Astoria Music Festival
presents “Graceful Baroque:
Viva Vivaldi!” at 3 p.m. Sun-
day, April 15, at Grace Epis-
copal Church, 1545 Franklin
Ave., Astoria.
Classical guitarist Aaron
Larget-Caplan and mem-
bers of the Astoria Festival
Baroque Players will per-
form popular concertos of
Vivaldi, including “Guitar
Concerto in D Major.”
Admission is $20. Tickets
are available online at liber-
tyastoria/showare.com. Or
call 503-325-5922, Ext. 55
for “will call” tickets that can
be picked up at the church
on the day of the event.
Cancer support, chronic conditions classes begin
Two new health classes start
up next week and are free to
attendees.
“Cancer: Thriving and Sur-
viving” is 9:30 a.m. to noon
on Mondays, April 16 through
May 21. The class is open to
anyone living with cancer
and their caregiver/support
person. The workshop is de-
signed to enhance regular
treatment and covers frustra-
tion fatigue, pain, isolation
and making decisions about
treatment and complementa-
ry therapies.
“Living Well with Chron-
ic Conditions” is 9:30 a.m.
to noon on Thursdays, April
19 through May 24. It’s de-
signed for people with arthri-
tis, asthma, cancer, diabetes,
heart disease, fibromyalgia
and other chronic health con-
cerns. Topics covered in-
clude pain and fatigue man-
agement, better breathing,
healthy eating, medication
usage and making informed
treatment decisions.
Both classes are in the
Knight Cancer Center Collab-
orative, 1905 Exchange St.,
Astoria.
Register at columbiamemo-
rial.org or call 503-338-7564.