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What’s coming up this fall at the library
T
he arrival of Labor Day suggests
calm will soon settle over Cannon
Beach as vacations end and families
prepare their little darlings for a new
school year. Such nostalgic predictions
may be premature, however, if September
activity at the Cannon Beach Library
offers any indication.
Library members already are preparing
for the annual fall festival — scheduled
from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday, Sept.
29, at the library. A silent auction already
began Sept. 1 for five hotel stays donated
by Hallmark Resort, Land’s End, Ocean
Lodge, Surfsand Resort and Tolovana
Inn, each stay valued from $365 to $638.
Bidding continues until 4 p.m.
Tickets ($1 for one, $5 for six, and $20
for 25) also continue on sale until 4 p.m.
at the festival for drawings of six vbundles
of gift certificates, each valued to $295.
Forty Cannon Beach art galleries, brew
pubs, restaurants, coffee shops, clothing
stores, and other shops donated these
certificates.
Winners of silent auctions and draw-
ings will be announced at 4 p.m. at the
fall festival, but they need not be present
to collect their winnings. Library mem-
bers and community volunteers, though,
already are working hard to encourage
attendance.
They are crafting handmade items
— knit and quilt accessories, artwork,
jewelry, ornaments and more—making
the festival an opportunity for early holi-
day shopping. And these crafty volunteers
soon will be baking homemade treats —
cookies, pies, specialty breads and other
treats — that sell early during the festival.
Be sure to circle Sept. 29 on your calendar
so you don’t miss winning gift certificates
and hotel stays or finding uniquely crafted
holiday presents and tempting baked
goods at the festival.
While preparing for the festival, the li-
AT THE LIBRARY
JOSEPH BERNT
brary membership held its first monthly
meeting of the new year on Wednesday,
Sept. 5, where City Manager Bruce St.
Denis discussed “The State of the City”
and members learned that the library
board of directors had hired Kimberly
Catton as library office manager, the
library’s only paid employee.
Holly Lörincz — award-winning
Manzanita novelist, nationally prominent
literary editor and collaborative author of
fiction and nonfiction books—will read at
the first Northwest Authors event of the
new year from “The Everything Girl,” her
latest novel collaboratively published with
L.E. Malecki. She also will read from a
crime book slated for fall publication and
discuss collaborative authorship at 2 p.m.,
Saturday, Sept. 8, in the library, 131 N.
Hemlock.
Before founding Lörincz Literary Ser-
vices in 2010 in Manzanita, Lörincz, who
holds a journalism degree and a Master
of Arts in Teaching from Western Oregon
University, taught at Neah-Kah-Nie High
School in Rockaway Beach for 15 years.
A language arts teacher, she coached the
speech and debate team to two OSAA
state championships and seven of her stu-
dents to individual championships in nine
forensic events. This experience informed
“Smart Mouth,” her first novel, which
received the 2014 Bronze Independent
Publishers Book Award in popular fiction.
A member of the Editorial Freelancers
Association, Lörincz was named National
Federation of High Schools Educator of
the Year for Oregon. A participant in writ-
ing workshops nationwide, Lörincz now
serves on the faculties of the Profitable
Authors Institute and the Blackbird Studio
for writers in Portland.
In another literary event this month,
Kathy Bell will lead Cannon Beach Reads
participants in a discussion of the late
Brian Doyle’s “Mink River,” a captivating
novel of quirky characters set in a fictional
North Oregon Coast community that mix-
es Salish and Irish cultures. Cannon Beach
Reads meets Wednesday, Sept. 19, from 7
to 8:30 p.m. Anyone interested may par-
ticipate in discussion, coffee and treats.
I return now to predictions about a
calm arriving (or not) with Labor Day
behind us. Last month John Huismann
touched on the local tourism invasion in
his Aug. 10 Gazette column. He rec-
ommended a parking structure for day
visitors, a fleet of buses to deposit visitors
downtown and strict parking enforcement
so emergency vehicles and residents can
negotiate midtown streets. Hitting my hot
button, he opined:
“We have the responsibility of sharing
our great natural beauty with the rest of
the world. What we do not have to do is
make this place unpleasant for the people
who live here. Unfortunately, this has
already happened. The question now is
what are we going to do about it?” Well
stated, John.
Elizabeth Becker, a former New York
Times correspondent, makes exactly this
point in “Overbooked: The Exploding
Business of Travel and Tourism.” Her
2016 analysis of nations dependent on
tourism, contrasts those countries that
benefit their citizens’ lives (France and
Costa Rica) with those that don’t (Venice,
Dubai, China and cruise ships). North
Coast residents could benefit from reading
Becker’s nonfiction book, now available
at the Cannon Beach Library. “Over-
booked” will be discussed by Cannon
Beach Reads on Nov.21.
Socializing through games and
movement improves health
By Susan Cody
For Cannon Beach Gazette
Did you know that social-
izing and playing games can
keep you healthier longer?
In the comfortable lobby
of the Astoria Senior Center
a few people are relaxing
and talking. About 20 bridge
players are in another room
gearing up for an afternoon
of cards. In the cafeteria,
another 18 people gather to
play pinochle.
Similar to the Bob
Chisholm
Community
Center in Seaside, activi-
ties abound for residents to
get out and do something.
Whether it is line dancing,
music, yoga, exercise class-
es, free movies, cards, board
games, education or a mu-
sical jam session, there are
ways to engage and meet
like-minded people.
The Astoria Senior Cen-
ter is a great place to social-
ize, says Larry Miller, the
center’s director. The new
space is designed for many
activities that don’t inter-
fere with each other, such as
playing pool, using comput-
ers or eating lunch.
“Everybody enjoys it,”
Miller says. “It is welcom-
ing and friendly, and you
can get lots of snacks and
coffee. The coffee’s always
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Partly this is because we as a culture
continue to inflate the meaning of the
word over time, thereby giving our
population an inflated sense of its
presence in our dogs. This mis-sense
is then perpetuated by our institutions,
including animal welfare institutions,
giving it a disturbing amount of power.
It used to be that aggression in a dog
meant biting — an aggressive dog was
a dog that physically attacked, bodily
injured, or even killed — a dangerous
dog, proven dangerous by direct
evidence. Bizarrely, some now place
aggression’s starting line at barking
— an invalid placement since almost
every dog in the world barks, and very
few people would label every dog in
the world “aggressive.” So why has the
word’s definition become so flaccid?
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Fear is also the answer to the
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their fearful feelings in less than healthy
ways, just as we often do. We do a huge
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nity if we overlook their fear and insist
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result of their past experiences. Having
lost their homes, being left in a shelter,
perhaps being surrendered and moved
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AS HUMANS MAY
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LET FEAR TURN TO
ANGER, DOGS WHO
ARE AFRAID MAY
APPEAR ANGRY.’
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methods, etc. These things pile on the
fear. There may also be genetic com-
ponents in some dogs, but experiences
play a huge part. Once you know you
have a dog shouldering fear, you should
also know there are things you can do
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1. Ensure the dog is always safe.
Safety is one of the most basic needs
for all animals. A fearful dog is a dog
whose needs went unfulfilled in the
past.
2. Ensure the dog feels safe. If the
dog doesn’t feel safe, fear continues
to overwhelm the dog. Feeling safe is
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to the dog and to those on whom the
dog relies, as well as perceived dangers.
Consider actual and perceived threats.
Consider extreme temperatures, natural
disasters, fights between animals and
people, loud noises inside and outside,
volatile people, especially those who
express their displeasure, e.g. by stomp-
ing around, slamming doors, tossing
things, or just muttering passive aggres-
sively under their breath and carrying
around a head of steam all day. Ask
every person in the dog’s vicinity to set
aside habitual expectations and behav-
iors that might harm or scare your dog.
Dogs are sensitive creatures, and fearful
dogs moreso. Consider the quality and
availability of food — another basic
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home, which is often the case for fearful
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a common problem when caring for a
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the sense of safety are far more import-
ant for a fearful dog trying to heal.
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