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April 24, 2015 | Cannon Beach Gazette | cannonbeachgazette.com • 5A Celebrating 12 Days of Earth Day SUSAN BOAC PHOTO SUSAN BOAC PHOTO Susan Glarum, right, a Cannon Beach resident, is this year’s winner of the Gaylord Nel- son Award. Beside her is Bob Lundy, the 2014 winner. Glarum was honored at the Can- non Beach Community Hall on April 17 during the annual city potluck. Mayor Sam Steidel and Susan Glarum, the 2015 Gaylord Nelson Award winner, carry the Earth and Arbor Days banner down North Hemlock Street. They led the Cannon Beach walking parade, held April 18. Spring arts festival to unveil two masters of scenery Arts from Page 1A A retrospective of the work of Shirley Gittelsohn, forests and mountain rang- a painter of Cannon Beach’s es, what Burkett tries to coastal environment, opens convey is “a sense of the sa- May 1 at the Cannon Beach cred in nature, or the sacred Gallery, 1064 S. Hemlock in the world,” he said. “If it St. On May 2, Gittelsohn was something I could con- herself will lead an artist vey in words, I would write conversation at 12:20 p.m. like Wendell Berry does.” and enjoy an artist recep- Just as it is possible to tion from 5 to 7 p.m. know the photographer Her exhibition, which through his photographs, runs through June 2, will “the Creator can, to a certain include about 15 oil paint- extent, be known through ings, most of which she his creation,” Burkett said. painted during the 1970s $QG WKDW LV ZK\ KLV ¿UVW and 80s. They depict the big book of photography is stretch of beach from Chap- titled “Intimations of Par- man Point to Haystack adise” (1999). “We’re not Rock as she viewed it from talking about worshiping na- her beach house window. ture as God, but God’s pres- In 1981, she feared that ence in nature, which are two a proposed housing devel- different things,” he said. opment would block her view of Haystack Rock. So, Shirley Gittelsohn between March and July of Burkett’s Saturday show that year, she cranked out falls between two midtown 183 paintings of the rock, events that celebrate anoth- to “catch the view before it er Oregon artist who has was gone,” she said. These spent decades capturing were displayed at Cannon sacred scenery (and, as it Beach City Hall. happens, has also been fea- The history of these tured on Oregon Art Beat). paintings, which represent Street paving slated to begin the week of May 4 IMAGE COURTESY OF SHIRLEY GITTELSOHN Shirley Gittelsohn’s work, of which this family portrait is one of her most famous, will be on display at the Cannon Beach Gallery during Gittelsohn’s exhibition, which opens May 1, the first day of Spring Unveiling, and closes June 2. her efforts to keep alive the memories of an older Can- non Beach, will likely be the subject of her artist conver- sation Saturday afternoon, she said. “I’ll probably try to explain as best I can what was happening at the time.” The exhibition will also include her famous 6-foot- by-12-foot family portrait from 1977 of Gittelsohn, her late husband, and their three children cavorting along the shoreline near the north end of town. “I liked being a moth- er and wife and so on, but I wanted something else to do, too,” she said. “So I started painting and found I enjoyed it very much.” During her nearly 60- year career as an artist, New book club forms in Cannon Beach Gittelsohn has also paint- ed still life scenes from her vacations in Mexico, and many, many portraits of her children. Her work has been displayed at Reed College, Willamette University, the Oregon Jewish Museum and Arlene Schnitzer’s Foun- tain Gallery. In 2009, she wrote and published a book, ³3DLQWLQJVDQG5HÀHFWLRQV´ “We’re honored to have Shirley here at the gallery. She’s an important Oregon artist,” said Andrea Mace, executive director of the Cannon Beach Arts Asso- ciation. “It’s just a seminal show.” Asked what tradition she paints in, Gittelsohn said, “My own.” Though macular degen- eration has slowed her out- put, Gittelsohn, who lives in Portland, still paints and shows her work at White- Bird Gallery. Incidental- ly, Gittelsohn’s “Cannon Beach Retrospective” comes as the artist prepares to turn 90 on May 20. She said she is delighted to have an exhibition de- voted to her Cannon Beach work, especially one that spotlights the chosen pieces. “I’ve been going through various pieces and just re-seeing them again and just enjoying them very much for the most part,” she said. “I just hope the gallery’s big enough for all this stuff!” NEWS IN BRIEF Travelers should be aware of in- creased activity along the highway right of way and the public is encour- The week of May 4, 3DFL¿F The Cannon Beach Community aged to drive with caution through the the city of Cannon Beach Local neighborhood ac- Church Book Club will meet in the area. The activity is scheduled to take will be completing the cess will be provided, how- basement of the Community Church place along U.S. Highway 101 from 2015 Pavement Preserva- HYHU 7KURXJK WUDI¿F ZLOO at 10:45 a.m. every fourth Sunday Ecola Creek Bridge at milepost 28.70 tion Project. The following not be allowed while pav- of every month. The Cannon Beach to Sunset Boulevard at milepost 29.48. roads will be affected at ing is occurring. Community Church is located at 132 The project is part of ODOT’s various times throughout vegetation management of the U.S. The project is expect- E. Washington St. the week: S. Spruce, from ed to be completed within 7KH¿UVWPHHWLQJZLOOWDNHSODFHRQ Highway 101 corridor through Can- Sunset to Ross Lane; E. one week. If you have any $SULO DQG WKH ¿UVW ERRN VHOHFWLRQ non Beach. Trees, shrubs and ground Madison, from Hemlock to questions, please feel free will be Ann Voskamp’s “One Thou- FRYHUVLGHQWL¿HGLQWKH&DQQRQ%HDFK Spruce; W. Chisana, from to contact Public Works sand Gifts,” an inspirational book Forest Corridor management plan that +HPORFNWR3DFL¿FDQG: Foreman Cruz Flores at where the author invites her read- are better suited along ODOT high- Susitna, from Hemlock to 503-436-8068. ers into her own moments of grace ways will be planted. — teaching them how to biblically In early March, ODOT crews re- lament loss, turn pain into poetry and moved a number of alder trees that how to intentionally embrace a life- ZHUH LGHQWL¿HG DV KD]DUGRXV WR WUDY- style of radical gratitude. The group elers and to the safe operation of the Creek Awareness Project, as ZLOO DOVR VWDUW LWV ¿UVW PHHWLQJ E\ roadway. The tree thinning effort is Letters from Page 4A well as arborists, ecologists, passing out thankfulness journals and part of a multi-year commitment to trees and a variety of orna- gardeners, artists, teachers showing a brief video. improve safety along this section of mentals, as well. and others who are interest- For more information about the highway while addressing the guide- Visitors and residents ed in helping the trees of our Cannon Beach Community Church lines of the Cannon Beach Forest Cor- alike appreciate our area trees community grow and thrive. Book Club, go to the website at www. ridor vegetation management plan. and care deeply about their We’re committed to helping cbccbookclub.wordpress.com. continued existence. With Cannon Beach once again gratitude in mind, a group of become an active Tree City caring, concerned folks are USA. Volunteers are gearing up for the coming together to advocate Please join with us and, if An Oregon Department of Trans- 4th annual Cannon Beach Broombuster for trees in Cannon Beach. possible, volunteer a little of Cannon Beach Friends your time and energy to cel- portation crew is planting trees and event at Les Shirley Park on Saturday, of Trees hopes to work with ebrate and nurture the trees of other plantings in an area along U.S. May 2, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Originally in- the City of Cannon Beach, our Cannon Beach area. For Highway 101 near Cannon Beach troduced form Europe as an ornamen- Department of Forestry, Or- more information, call Jan at that was thinned in early March to tal plant and for erosion control, Scotch remove hazard trees. The work is broom is highly aggressive and forms egon Department of Trans- 503-436-0143. portation, Ecola Creek Wa- Jan Siebert-Wahrmund scheduled for 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. April dense stans, which displace native plants tershed Council and Ecola and provide poor wildlife habitat. Cannon Beach 28 and 29. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Ecola Watershed Council ODOT plans tree to bust broom May 2 planting along U.S. 101 The Ecola Creek Watershed Coun- cil is a local stakeholder group that works to protect and restore wildlife habitat in the Ecola Creek watershed in Cannon Beach and Arch Cape. It is SDUWRIWKHQRQSUR¿W1RUWK&RDVW:D- tershed Association, which also man- ages the Nicolai-Wickiup, Skipanon and Youngs Bay watershed councils. All volunteers are welcome. Meet at Les Shirley Park on East 5th Street, off Laurel Street at the north end of Cannon Beach. Volunteers should wear work clothes and waterproof shoes and bring raingear and a re-us- able water bottle. Gloves and tools will be provided. For more information, contact Brooke Duling at 503-468-0408 or northcoastwatershedcouncils@gmail. com. Seaside High open house set April 27 Seaside High School will celebrate STEAM (science, technology, En- glish, art and mathematics) at an open house Monday, April 27, at the Sea- side High cafeteria from 7 to 8 p.m. Open to the public, the event will feature music, robot demonstrations, Rube Goldberg-inspired machines, 3D printing, photography student es- says, poems, math demonstrations and more. Don’t miss this opportunity to see and observe what Seaside High School students have been up to in the classroom the past few months. 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