The Columbia press. (Astoria, Or.) 1949-current, September 02, 2022, Page 8, Image 8

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    The Columbia Press
8
September 2, 2022
Events
Civil War comes
alive this weekend
A Civil War living histo-
ry encampment and battle
re-enactments are scheduled
throughout Labor Day week-
end at the Clatsop County
Fairgrounds, 92937 Walluski
Loop, Astoria.
The event is sponsored
by the Northwest Civil War
Council.
A battlefield medical
demonstration is one
of the featured history
programs at the living
history encampment.
Photo courtesy
Northwest Civil War Council
Visitors can see two battles
each day, a fashion show,
medical demonstrations and
tour the camps. A full sched-
ule can be found on the coun-
cil’s Facebook page.
Admission is $8 for every-
one 8 and older and free for
younger children. Parking is
$5. At least one food vendor
will be on hand.
Hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday, Sept.
3 and 4, and 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Monday, Sept. 5.
day, Sept. 3 and 4, in the
historic area of Fort Ste-
vens State Park, 1900 Ocean
Drive.
Admission is $15 for adults,
children 13 to 17 are $5, and
children 12 and younger are
free.
Drink tickets are $1 each,
or $5 with a commemorative
drinking glass. Parking is $5.
Tickets are available at
aftontickets.com/sum -
mersendfestival.
Cindy Yingst
Fest is a fundraiser Fort Stevens Guardhouse
for guardhouse
Wood, wildlife
The Friends of Old Fort artists featured
Stevens is sponsoring a Sum-
mer’s End Festival this week-
end.
The event includes music,
food, retail vendors and beer,
along with a disc golf tour-
nament. All proceeds benefit
the restoration of the historic
Fort Stevens Guardhouse.
The festival is from 11 a.m.
to 9 a.m. Saturday and Sun-
Artists are sought for a
monthlong wood carving and
wildlife art show that takes
over the Clatsop County Fair-
grounds and Expo Center be-
ginning Sept. 30.
The 33rd annual juried Co-
lumbia Flyway Wildlife Show
offers more than $10,000 in
cash prizes to winning art-
ists. Featured events cover
birds, fish, mammals, Native
American carvings and gen-
eral woodworking.
The group has partnered
with Washington Ducks Un-
limited, NW Decoy Carvers
Association, and the Oregon
Waterfowl Festival.
The show provides sem-
inars for attending artists
and several world champion
speakers.
To participate as an artist
or vendor, contact Rick Pass
at drrickpass@gmail.com or
503-468-8377.
The show, which is open to
the public, will be at the fair-
grounds from Sept. 30 to Oct.
2. Admission is free. Raffles
and auctions will be held Sat-
urdays and Sundays.
A carving by artist Karen
Hess.
Chinook season
now closed
Chinook salmon retention
on the Columbia River from
the Buoy 10 line upstream to
the western end of Puget Is-
land closed Tuesday.
State fishery managers from
Oregon and Washington an-
nounced the decision after
evaluating catches and catch
rates since the fishery began
Aug. 25.
Catches were more than
double what was expected.
Hatchery coho retention
remains open in the Buoy 10
fishery, with a daily adult bag
limit of two hatchery coho,
which increases to three
hatchery coho on Sept. 8. Re-
tention of steelhead remains
closed until Nov. 1.