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Tillamook Head Gathering comes to Seaside
Songwriter
Brian Bovenizer,
band New Old
Stock headline
By Katherine Lacaze
For Cannon Beach Gazette
From a field trip to watch
a national tour performance
of “Cinderella” in Portland
to workshops and assemblies,
arts enrichment opportunities
at Seaside High School have
become more accessible in re-
cent years thanks to the Tilla-
mook Head Gathering and its
annual fundraiser, coming up
Saturday, Jan. 13.
“There are so many things
in education that are import-
ant that you can’t necessarily
quantify,” said English teach-
er Mark Mizell, one of the
gathering’s original found-
ers. “Ideally, what schools
do when they’re doing their
best work is encouraging kids
to find things of interest they
can access for the rest of their
lives.”
The arts, he believes, play
a big role in accomplishing
that objective. They will be
celebrated at the fourth annual
Tillamook Head Gathering, a
fundraiser to take place at the
Seaside Civic and Convention
Center. Doors open at 6:30
p.m.
Featured performers
Each year, the Tillamook
Head Gathering features a
different performing arts or
musical group or person who
works in another artistic pro-
fession. Songwriter and musi-
cian Brian Bovenizer, with his
backing band New Old Stock,
is headlining this year’s event.
The Astoria-based musical
group includes pedal steel gui-
tarist Jamie Greenan, guitarist
Jeff Munger, bassist Luke
Ydstie and drummer Olaf
Ydstie. In the past, Bovenizer
described the band’s sound as
“surf country,” although it’s
evolved to encompass more
rock ‘n’ roll, he said.
As a teenager, Bovenizer,
originally from the Chicago
area, worked for Peterson
Electro-Musical Products, a
music-electronics company
that specializes in instrument
tuning devices, through which
he was introduced to various
country artists. Since then,
he has remained in the music
industry, working a variety of
jobs, from booking and mar-
keting to performing.
“The music industry is
constantly evolving, and I’m
interested in keeping up on it
all the time,” he said.
In
2009,
Bovenizer
“moved to Astoria to launch
a songwriting project and
started picking up gigs play-
ing drums for bands,” he said,
adding drums were his initial
instrument of choice. He got
connected with Munger, Gre-
enan and the Ydstie brothers
about two years ago.
“Right off the bat, it clicked,”
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he said. “I’m happy to be writ-
ing songs and have a cool band
behind me. … The guys who
are with me are all pros.”
When it comes to song-
writing, Bovenizer is inspired
through random circumstanc-
es and situations, like surfing
or being in a boat in the mid-
dle of a river in a canoe.
“Most of the songs that
end up being the ones I per-
form just come from stream
of consciousness,” he said. In
general, the people he’s met in
Astoria have “opened up the
music” for him.
One of his influences is
country folk singer-songwrit-
er John Prine, who also hap-
pens to be a musician Mizell
reveres, and they connected
over their mutual admiration.
“It’s really heartening to
see a guy like Brian and his
band doing music by peo-
ple I’ve idolized for years,”
Mizell said.
Other regional artists per-
forming at the gathering in-
clude former Seaside student
Max Strozzi, John Mersereau
and Jim Stewart.
Giving students a boost
During the past few years,
the funds raised through the
Tillamook Head Gathering
have completely or partial-
ly subsidized events, work-
shops, field trips and other
enrichment activities for high
school students.
Last fall, funds went to-
ward hosting two workshops
for the high school’s Words
in Music class. One workshop
was led by Peter “Spud” Sie-
gel, Jim Stewart, and Michael
Shay. The other was led by
folklorist Olivia Pepper and
singer-songwriter Nick Jaina,
a finalist for the 2016 Oregon
Book Award.
As for upcoming arts
enrichment
opportunities,
Mizell is organizing a field
trip to Elko, Nevada, for the
34th National Cowboy Poet-
ry Gathering, an event he has
attended with students “reli-
giously every three years for
the past 20,” he said. Anyone
from the school can join.
The poetry gathering takes
place Jan. 29 to Feb. 3 this
year, and includes various
concurrent sessions featuring
singers and songwriters, as
well as craft demonstrations
and films about the American
West, Mizell said. Fifteen stu-
dents and seven chaperones
from Seaside High School will
attend part of it, leaving the af-
ternoon of Jan. 31 and taking
a train to Sacramento and then
to Elko. While at the festival,
students will get to see shows
featuring Michael Martin Mur-
phy and Wylie & The Wild
West. They fly home Sunday,
Feb. 4. Overall, they will trav-
el more than 2,000 miles and
be exposed to a different facet
of culture, Mizell said, adding,
“Stuff like that makes your
world so much bigger.”
In February, funds also
will help bring Dave Ben-
nett and the Memphis Speed
Kings to play at a schoolwide
assembly. The music group is
a regular at the Seaside Jazz
Festival, and Mizell said he
hopes “to get the kids out on
the dance floor.”
When Mizell started teach-
ing more than 30 years ago,
these sorts of arts-related
events and activities received
decent funding.
“Now if you want stuff to
happen, like the trip to Elko,
you must figure out a way to
get the money somehow,” he
said. “It’s a bummer that’s the
case.”
Even though funding has
faltered, though, the impor-
tance of exposure to the arts
for high school students has
not, Mizell believes. Boveniz-
er echoed that sentiment.
“It’s almost not a question
of whether we need them or
not — I think we’d all be re-
ally unhappy if we didn’t have
art in our lives,” Bovenizer
said.
Knowing how difficult it is
to make a living as an artist,
Bovenizer also sees a value
in providing training and de-
velopment opportunities for
high school students who may
be pursuing professions in the
industry.
“It takes a while to get
where you want to be,” he
said. “You need that jumpstart
in your art of trade.”
Wine and beer will be
available for purchase at the
gathering, and The Stand is
donating light fare for the
event. The event will include
a silent auction featuring items
donated by local merchants
and artists. The cost of ad-
mission is $10 in advance and
$15 at the door. Tickets can be
purchased at Seaside Coffee
House, Beach Books and the
high school’s business office.
ElderPlace: A model that stands for total care
mouth; advertisements (in-
cluding the buses used for
transportation); and a variety
of other means.
“Sometimes, you come
to work and there’s a family
member pacing in the parking
lot who wants to know what
this program is,” Eling said.
With waiting list,
program aims to
fill a need
By Katherine Lacaze
For Cannon Beach Gazette
For nearly three years,
Providence ElderPlace has
served senior members of
Seaside and surrounding
communities with a system
of managed care that takes a
holistic, interdisciplinary ap-
proach to providing health.
When it comes to im-
proving the quality of life
for older adults, Providence
uses a model known as PACE
— which stands for program
of all-inclusive care for the
elderly — a federally recog-
nized program that offers a
seamless provision of total
care.
ElderPlace is the only lo-
cation through which a PACE
model is offered in the North
Coast, even though Oregon
has one of the largest PACE
programs in the country.
“We are the only rural site
in Oregon,” said Carin Eling,
the program’s nurse practi-
tioner.
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Shantell Mason, a clinic registered nurse, and Carin Eling,
nurse practitioner, are two members of a large inter-disci-
plinary team that provide managed care to residents of the
north coast through Providence ElderPlace in Seaside.
Since its establishment
in 2014, Providence’s North
Coast program has increased
its participants from six to 65,
including people from Astoria
to Wheeler. The program ser-
vices more than 900 square
miles of rural area, includ-
ing Clatsop County and the
northern part of Tillamook,
according to PACE Program
Manager Pam Olsen, who has
been with ElderPlace since its
inception. The patients cur-
rently range in age from 57 to
104.
To participate, individuals
must meet a number of crite-
ria, including being age 55 or
older; Medicare and Medic-
aid eligible (or willing to pay
privately); in need of support
services as defined by the
state; and capable of living in
their own home or an assist-
ed-care setting.
Many people are referred
to the program through Area
Agencies on Aging; home
health agencies; doctors’ of-
fices; assisted living facilities
where they reside; word-of-
The North Coast presents
its own sets of challenges for
providing care, according to
Eling, who started as a tem-
porary provider in January
before deciding to stay long-
term. She has a history of
working in managed care in
Minnesota.
Not only does the program
serve a large geographic area,
but about 60 percent of partic-
ipants have significant psychi-
atric issues – not to mention
various socioeconomic prob-
lems, such as homelessness.
All of these challenges have
to be addressed to provide
thorough care, Eling said.
“We try to get people
back on track, and we do that
through a multi-disciplinary
way,” she said. “We know peo-
ple are holistic,” comprised of
biological, psychological, so-
cial and spiritual aspects.
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