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THE FISHERPOETS GATHER
Cannon Beach Gazette
Fisherpoets will read
poetry and sing tunes April
25 in the Cannon Beach
Library. The gathering
begins at 7 p.m.
Highlighting the evening
will be former merchant
seaman and poet Clemens
Starck, whose latest book
of his collected poems,
“Cathedrals & Parking
Lots,” was released last fall.
Starck is a Princeton
dropout, a retired union
carpenter and construction
foreman, and the author of
seven books of poems—
including the award-win-
ning
“Journeyman’s
Wages.”
His other books are:
“Studying Russian on
Company Time,” “China
Basin,” “Traveling Incog-
nito,” “Rembrandt, Chain-
saw” and “Old Dogs, New
Tricks.”
A widower, he has three
grown children and lives
outside of Dallas in the foot-
hills of the Coast Range in
western Oregon. His web-
site is www.clemstarck.com
Also appearing at the
event will be Jon Broderick,
of Cannon Beach, and Jay
Speakman, of Gearhart.
Broderick is a founder of
the FisherPoets Gathering,
which meets for a weekend
every February through-
out Astoria. A former high
school teacher, he has been
a commercial salmon fi sh-
erman for more than 40
years fi rst in Kodiak, then in
southeast Alaska and mostly
in Bristol Bay where he and
his family run a salmon set
gillnet outfi t each summer.
Speakman is a descen-
dant of an old Maine sea-
faring family. After attend-
ing college in Hawaii, he
began a lobstering career,
weathering a dozen seasons
in Maine. He spent sev-
eral more fi shing commer-
cially in Alaska and British
Columbia.
Speakman has worked
aboard
freighters
and
yachts, taught seamanship at
an Outward Bound school,
and worked as a marine
mechanic and boatyard jack-
of-all-trades. He gave up
fi shing full-time to become
an architectural blacksmith
in Santa Fe, New Mex-
ico where he met his wife,
Cannon Beach Gazette
To
promote
busi-
ness creation, retention
and expansion in Clatsop
County, CEDR will rec-
ognize outstanding busi-
nesses at the annual awards
reception and event on
Thursday, April 11, at the
Seaside Convention Cen-
ter, from 5:30-7:30 pm.
Award selections will
be based on merit, as
demonstrated by the nomi-
As the library director of
the Seaside Public Library,
one of the things I am very
proud of is our collabora-
tion with the Astoria Pub-
lic Library and Warren-
ton Community Library.
Together we work with
the fi ve school districts in
the County to provide free
library cards for all chil-
dren in Clatsop County and
an annual countywide sum-
mer reading program. This
program is called Libraries
Reading Outreach in Clat-
sop County, or, Libraries
ROCC. We host an annual
fundraiser every year at the
Seaside Convention Cen-
ter. This year’s event, Write
On Seaside! the third annual
event, will be held on April
14 starting at 5 p.m. Tick-
ets are $10 and may be pur-
chased at the door. With
your ticket you will have
Seaside Library
Little free libraries, including
this one from Vintage
Hardware,
are
among
auction items on display at
Libraries ROCC.
light bites and wine to enjoy.
We will have 8 authors there
who have written short sto-
ries that they will share
excerpts from throughout
the evening. You will have
the chance to bid on naming
the characters in their stories
as well as the silent auction
items and live auction for
the chance to bid on one of
FLOORING
Diane. Together they oper-
ate a small home-decor shop
in Cannon Beach. They have
two grown daughters and
live in Gearhart.
Speakman’s
writ-
ings have appeared in The
Alaska Fisherman’s Journal,
Like Fish in the Freezer, and
Moving Mountain. He per-
forms each year at the Fish-
erPoets Gathering in Astoria
and has long been part of its
planning committee.
the six little free libraries up
for auction to make one your
very own. I’ve included
an excerpt from one of the
short stories below. Please
join me at the Convention
Center on Sunday, April 14.
It promises to be a very fun
evening.
2019 Libraries Read-
ing Outreach Fundraiser
story excerpt, “What Sets
Us Free,” by Dayle Nelson:
Daily patterns shape and root
each of us: seeing or touch-
ing the faces of those who
know us best, the inexpress-
ible joy of walking under
leafy trees and feeling sun-
shine and raindrops, marvel-
ing at the profusion of stars
on a clear night, holding
someone’s hand, the songs
of thrushes and meadow
larks, the taste of honey, the
soft pillow as you fall asleep.
When all that is famil-
iar and loved is suddenly
banished in one arbitrary
stroke, it is as if an emer-
gency surgery has occurred
and a limb has been ampu-
tated without your consul-
tation or consent, and now
you are expected to adjust
and go on as if you are OK.
But you are not okay. This
was how Daria felt. Know-
ing she had an immigration
court hearing in a month,
that her parents had hired an
attorney for her, that her uni-
versity roommates were car-
ing for her cat, and that her
school advisor was advocat-
ing for her so she wouldn’t
get kicked out of the uni-
versity — none of it less-
ened the trauma or lifted the
black fog that enveloped her
existence.
If you want to fi nd out
the rest of the story, join me
at the convention center on
Sunday, April 14. All pro-
ceeds from the event will
benefi t the Libraries Reading
Outreach in Clatsop County
program and the Seaside
Public Library Foundation’s
long term goals for the Sea-
side Public Library.
Annual library volunteer appreciation day
T
his column often men-
tions the important
role volunteers play in
providing library, informa-
tion, meeting facilities and
programs to Cannon Beach,
Arch Cape and other North
Coast communities.
The library members
make a point of the contri-
butions of volunteers fre-
quently, but especially so at
the Annual Volunteer Appre-
ciation Luncheon — this
year held last Wednesday at
the Chamber of Commerce
Community Hall.
Catered by Season’s Café,
library members and volun-
teers celebrated 102 volun-
teers, a record number, who
contributed 8132.5 hours
of their time and talents to
keeping the library running
smoothly while expanding
available programming and
services. The volunteers con-
tribute the equivalent of what
four fulltime paid employees
might provide, which strains
the budgets of many city
governments.
In addition to a great lunch
and conversations, volun-
teers won two tickets to Get
AT THE
LIBRARY
JOE BERNT
Lit in Cannon Beach, a pro-
gram in which the library is
participating this year. Others
received two gift cards from
the Driftwood and the Bistro
and one gift card from The
Irish Table and from Pelican
Brewing.
Volunteering at the library
brings benefi ts beyond the
mythical “free lunch.” Most
volunteers — whether work-
ing on the desk with patrons,
cataloging books, sorting
shelves, stocking the book
sale room or participating
in programming communi-
tees — fi nd the library a per-
fect introduction to a large
group of area residents. This
is especially the case for peo-
ple new to the North Coast.
At the library they quickly
form lasting friendships in
their new community.
Involvement at the library
introduces such local authors
as Peter Lindsey who, as part
of Get Lit, will read from
his latest book, “Movin’ the
Water Around: Commer-
cial Trolling with the Cannon
Beach Dory Fleet.” Catch
his presentation from 6:45
to 7:30 p.m., Friday, April 5,
at the library, 131 N. Hem-
lock St.
Or, again at the library, the
Friends of Haystack Rock
will host Joe Liebert, of the
Portland Audubon Soci-
ety, in a presentation on Ore-
gon’s black oystercatchers.
Part of The World of Hay-
stack Rock Series, Liebert
will speak Wednesday, April
10, at 7 p.m.
Or, also at the library, the
Northwest Author Series,
presents Portland novelist
and former journalist Dana
Haynes reading from and dis-
cussing his many thrillers,
Saturday, April 13, from 2 to
3:30 p.m. In 2010, “Crash-
ers,” Haynes’ fi rst thriller,
received the Spotted Owl
Award from Friends of Mys-
tery as the best mystery or
thriller by a Northwest writer.
Or, catch “FisherPoets
Return” at the library, Mon-
day, April 25, at 7 p.m. Clem
Starck will read from his lat-
est book and be accompa-
nied by Jon Broderick and
Jay Speakman, who also will
present some of their songs.
The last FisherPoets show
earlier this spring rocked an
overfl ow crowd at the library.
Finally, On Wednesday,
April 17, from 7 to 8:30 p.m.,
the Cannon Beach Reads
group will discuss John
Steinbeck’s “Cannery Row.”
The cast of characters in this
classic contains well-inten-
tioned scoundrels, misfi ts and
deadenders, all of them trying
to please Doc, the local col-
lector of scientifi c specimens.
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support. Businesses of all
sizes will be given equal
consideration.
Businesses must main-
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sop County to be eligible,
and must be structured as
a “for-profi t” organization.
Visit the Clatsop Com-
munity College website at
www.clatsopcc.edu/com-
munity-resources/CEDR
and click on the nomina-
tion form link on the left
side of the page.
Sally Sheldon
Reading Outreach in Clatsop County
By ESTHER MOBERG
For Cannon Beach Gazette
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