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Views from the Rock
Arts education, funds
pay long-term dividends
I
met Sydney Ordway
music venues, driving arts
when she was wearing
expenditures of $14 million.
a tiara on her head. She
The state and county pull in
is an Astoria Regatta
an additional $1.2 million
princess, representing
in revenue combined. Every
one of the Northwest’s
cultural visitor to Clatsop
hallowed events. This year’s
County spends an average of
regatta, “Full Steam Ahead!”
$68 or meals, refreshments,
comes to Astoria from Aug.
souvenirs, gifts, transpor-
9-Aug. 12.
tation and lodging — and
Each princess chooses a
that’s not including the ticket
topic to research and share
price.
with the community. Ordway,
Governments, both local
an incoming senior at Seaside
and state, are also big win-
High School, chose the arts.
ners, drawing in more than
“Art infl uences ideas,
$1.2 million in revenue gen-
instills values and translates
erated from cultural events,
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experiences across space
states the report.
R.J. MARX/CANNON BEACH GAZETTE
Arts camp began Monday,
and time,” she told a group
Cannon Beach Arts As-
Sydney Ordway, Regatta
presented by the Cannon sociation Program Director
of business and civic lead-
princess and arts advocate.
Beach Arts Association.
ers gathered by the Seaside
Cara Mico, now in her 30s,
Chamber of Commerce. “My
went straight to arts school
story is about art and culture and how
before college.
that impacts our region. A huge part of
Art was “something that kept me
CANNON SHOTS
culture is art.”
sane,”
Mico said. “It kept me grounded,
R.J. MARX
Ordway chronicled the impact of arts
and I think that’s true for a lot of kids.
programs in the region, recalling times
When they don’t have a creative outlet
past and present. The cities we know
they tend to fi nd another outlet. It really
now as Cannon Beach, Astoria, Seaside
touches on all parts of childhood.”
and Gearhart were once inhabited by 14
Art “made me a more professional
tribes. “To this day, Indian artifacts are
person,” Mico said, helping her to build
being discovered,” Ordway said.
confi dence and develop presentation
Art can include diverse elements, from
skills. “With this age of technology and
architecture to storytelling and theater.
the Internet, you can start a business and
“The Clatsop Indians worshiped the
be a billionaire before you’re 25. Ninety
salmon,” Ordway said. “They were told
percent of the Internet is graphic.”
if they did not appreciate and honor the
The web provides young adults the
— HAYLEY ROLLINS
salmon, the salmon would not come. The
opportunity to go pursue an arts career
stories were important to the tribe and
in a realistic way, she said.
taught right versus wrong.”
Mico said she would like to see more of a focus allowing
Today, Ordway described Cannon Beach as “the hub of art
students to explore their own interests, including arts career
in Clatsop County.”
readiness and business skills.
“On every corner you will fi nd an art gallery,” she said.
Spreading wings
“Cannon Beach holds many opportunities to express yourself
At Cannon Beach’s Stormy Weather Arts festival, silent
and watch others express themselves in almost every way
auction proceeds brought scholarships for children attending
imaginable.”
the Coaster Theatre Kids Camp, the Sea Ranch Children’s
Connections
Summer Music Camp or the Cannon Beach Arts Association’s
Seaside’s Hayley Rollins provided the spark for Oregon’s
Arts Camp. The camp, for kids age 3 and up, began Monday
Art Day, with support from her mother; her father, a teacher at
for a fi ve-day session.
Seaside High School; and the rest of the staff and administra-
Are the arts education programs connecting with students?
tion. As an eighth-grader at Broadway Middle School, Hayley
“It’s something we take really seriously at Seaside,” Ord-
conceived and promoted House Bill 3042. She was motivated
way said. “The arts are very important and a lot of kids in our
by a 2013 report by the Oregon Arts Commission, based on
community have made it a passion of their own.
fi ndings that almost one-quarter of the state’s schools did not
The annual Tillamook Head Gathering, put on by a com-
offer any arts courses.
mittee of current and former Seaside arts students
Art allows students to have fun and
and held at Seaside’s Civic
relax and “not have to follow as many
and Convention Center,
strict rules as math and science,” Roll-
supports arts enrichment for
ins, an incoming junior at Seaside High
Seaside High School stu-
School, said this week.
dents. Last year’s gathering
After her impassioned plea to the
helped fund an arts day at the
Oregon Legislature, Art Day is an
high school, in which local
annual tradition in Seaside. Heading
artists gave workshops for the
into its third year, North Coast artists
entire student body.
interact with kids in their chosen
Rollins remains involved
visual arts form. Workshops cover oil
in Art Day. “When I graduate
painting, cartoon portraits, printmak-
I’m hoping to be able to pass
ing, calligraphy, art therapy, pysanky
it on to a new student, but I’ll
egg art, culinary décor, wire sculpting,
still come and help out,” she
origami, photography and more.
said. “Our goal is to continue
“It’s like the quote ‘a picture is
spreading this event to schools
worth a thousand words,’” Rollins
across the state. We talked
said. “We all speak different languag-
about going to other schools to
es, but art can connect us all together
show a presentation of our event
despite the language barrier. Art
in Seaside to inspire them.”
connects us in ways words can’t.”
Ordway intends to keep art in
her life for years to come.
Art as a career
“In Clatsop County, we used
A new economic study by the
art for trade and stories of our
Arts Council of Clatsop County
people,” Ordway said. “Now-
indicates there are 93 arts jobs
adays, we use art to express
in the county. More than 87,000 local
ourselves,
and view the world
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attendees and an additional 73,000
around us. In the future, I don’t
visitor attendees bring 161,000 peo- Arts association students learn watercolors
know what it will hold, but I know
from Dorota Haber-Lehigh.
ple to county galleries, theaters and
it will be a work of art.”
‘Art connects us
in ways words
can’t.’
EVE MARX/FOR CANNON BEACH GAZETTE
Always on the hunt for a great cup of coff ee.
Turning ‘Guns’
into ‘Bonfi re’
onfi re’ just doesn’t have the same ring to it as
‘Guns & Gold,’” I lamented to my husband in the
Insomnia Coffee Company located at the corner
of Second and Larch in Cannon Beach. I discovered
Insomnia a couple of years ago when a Seaside
acquaintance brought me there. I already knew about Sea
Level Bakery and Coffee on S. Hemlock (this is a special
place), and Sleepy Monk, and was in fact already in the
habit of buying
Sleepy Monk’s
Monastery
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Blend to brew
THE PORCH
at home in my
EVE MARX
French press.
The Seaside
woman frequents
Insomnia
late mornings during the rainy season in part because
she enjoys the coffee, but also for the cozy seating
arrangements.
Besides the excellently rendered 12-ounce Americano
that is my favored beverage, Insomnia sells Dapper &
Wise coffee, a Portland brand in the whole bean. The
company has an amusing sense of humor bordering on
the insouciant. A banner on their website homepage
proclaims, “We’re putting the fun back in cofunfee,”
a riff, obviously, on the President’s now-famous tweet
“covfefe,” which I think is pretty clever.
Dapper & Wise are best known for their Brazilian
Rodomunho and Ethiopia Kochere; they also produce a
nice Stag espresso and Mexico decaf. I’ve never under-
stood the purpose of decaf coffee. In my book, coffee is
for wakefulness. While I try to restrict myself to no more
than 12 ounces a day, I realize there are people who drink
8 or 10 cups a day. While that’s good for the coffee busi-
ness, I call it “wired for sound” or “never sleep,” which
must be the reason, I suppose, for the name, Insomnia.
My chosen whole bean blend to buy at Insomnia for
a long time was Guns & Gold. (For the record, I am also
a regular purchaser of Peet’s Major Dickason’s blend.)
Guns & Gold was tough to get ahold of sometimes as it
fl ew off the shelf. Then, one day, I noticed it was gone
forever.
“Where’s the Guns & Gold?” I asked the beautiful
young woman working the register. That’s another thing
about Insomnia. I don’t know if it’s the tats or the hair,
but the people working at Insomnia strike me as particu-
larly attractive.
“Oh, they changed the name,” she said airily.
I did a little research and indeed there has been a
name change. “Formerly known as Guns & Gold,” Dap-
per & Wise says, “Bonfi re is a darker roast than many
of our other offerings.” They recommend serving it with
cream and sugar as well as straight up. They say it tastes
like Baker’s chocolate, tobacco, and merlot. That’s a
heady mix.
While I still love the coffee, I can’t say I’m in love
with the new name. Bonfi re sounds like what people do
at night on the beach; Guns & Gold sounds like Guns
and Roses, the rock band. But, hey, even I think Axl
Rose should retire.
I bought the Bonfi re blend and brewed up a pot in
my French press. Pouring it into my favorite coffee cup,
it tasted just like Guns & Gold, which means it’s still
fabulous.
B
Experience the joy of summertime bird-watching
W
elcome summer! My
favorite things about
this time of the year
are sunshine, long days and dry
binoculars! After work and chores,
there is still plenty of time to go
birding on the beach, in the forest
and on my own back porch.
For me, each season has a special
event in birding. The fall has mas-
sive migration and sometimes very
rare birds. Winter has bare branches
on trees and brush that make it easi-
er to see birds. Springtime has more
migration and all the birds in their
fi nest colors and loudest songs for
breeding (and easy location for bird-
ers!). But summertime has babies!
Although it’s been a bit fl aky this
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year, I have spent hours watching
the Seaside osprey camera. Betty
laid three eggs in early May and
one has hatch (the others were sadly
lost). It’s was fascinating to watch
the chick eat bits of fi sh at just three
hours old!
There is something very satis-
fying for me to know where birds
are nesting and to hear the hungry
chicks chirping for their meals as
the parents visit. I have three nests
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that I know about in yard this year
and all of them have young ones!
Two are barn swallows, between the
rafters of the house, beautiful and
amazing feats of building with mud
and grasses. And the nest box that
usually has tree swallows has house
sparrows this year. It is so much fun
to listen and watch the feeding pro-
cess. The adults approach the nests
with food in their beaks and the
chicks start the soft hard begging of
“feed me, feed me.”
Soon these babies will fl edge and
spend a few precarious days on the
ground gaining strength to fl y. This
is a very dangerous time for them as
they are susceptible to attack from
predators, mostly cats. That’s why
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I advocate keeping cats indoors for
the months of June and July. This
would help the bird populations
very much.
Sadly, I have seen no action at
my martin houses this year. After
having two scouts checked it out
last year, I thought for sure I would
have a whole community in 2017.
Maybe next year!
The beautiful Martin house at the
Lagoon Trail in Cannon Beach has
residents, but they are not martins.
They are the smaller cousin, tree
swallows. Experts think this hap-
pens because the lodging is placed
to early in the season. There are
plans to remedy that next year.
And remember to join us on the
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First Sunday Cannon Beach Bird
Walks on Aug. 6 and Sept. 3. Meet
at 9 a.m. at the Lagoon Trail on
Second Street. We generally walk
around the lagoons and along Ecola
Creek, mostly level easy walking.
Bring binoculars and wear appropri-
ate clothing. Everyone is welcome!
Susan has spent her life enjoying
the great outdoors from the lakes
and woods of Northern Minnesota,
Mount Adams in Washington and
now the Oregon beach environs.
After spending many pleasurable
hours driving her avid birder par-
ents around, she has taken up bird-
ing as a passion. Susan resides on
Neawanna Creek in Seaside where
her backyard is a birder’s paradise.
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