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Newspaper Page TextA4 • Friday, January 17, 2020 | Seaside Signal | SeasideSignal.com SignalViewpoints Arts for all, at the Tillamook Head Gathering SEEN FROM SEASIDE R.J. MARX Six years ago, students and teachers created the Tillamook Head Gathering to encourage the arts at Seaside High School. In the past ﬁ ve years the event, which features alumni, community and student talent, has raised nearly $30,000, supporting Arts Day, lit- erary ﬁ eld trips, music and more. Michelle Wunderlich, with Lind- sey Mizell, Karen Emmerling and Ben Chambers, organized this year’s event coming Jan. 26 at the convention center. Wunder- lich, a school district board mem- ber and owner of the Seaside Cof- fee House, shared details. IF YOU GO The Sixth Annual Tillamook Head Gathering for the beneﬁ t of the arts at Seaside High School will be held Sunday, Jan. 26, at the Seaside Convention Center. Doors will open at 4:30 p.m. for browsing the silent auction and the program begins at 5. This year’s entertainment features the Orbitonz band plus performances by the Seaside High School a cappella choir and the high school jazz band.    Q: What’s different about the Tillamook Head Gathering this year? Wunderlich: What’s different this year is we’ve always wanted to include the high schoolers. We’re hoping having their peers there performing brings the student population and their parents. We’re trying to broaden our base. We have a core of people who have supported this for ﬁ ve years, but we really want to broaden it. People say “I’ve heard of the Tilla- mook Head Gathering, but I don’t know what it is.” We want that shift to go from “I’ve heard of it” to “I know what it is and I want to go.” Q: The event is a fundraiser. What activities will beneﬁ t? Wunderlich: We aren’t fund- raising for speciﬁ c activities. It’s a scholarship fund that students or teachers can apply for. Say they have an idea and there’s no fund- ing for it. They ﬁ ll out an appli- cation, bring it to us and we look it over. We’ve funded Art Day at the high school, a beach cleanup to sift through sand for microplas- tics, (literary) trips to Ashland and to Nevada. Q: How do you see Seaside High School addressing the arts overall? Are they a leader, or is there or room for improvement? Wunderlich: There’s always room for improvement in any- thing that we do. I feel I look at arts more as a culture. Not nec- essarily at the high school, but in education as a whole, the arts are pushed aside. We’re ﬁ nally start- ing to realize there’s a huge part of education that was missed because we were focused on reading, writ- ing and arithmetic. Seaside High School does understand that you have to include those other things Advance tickets available for $10 at Seaside Coﬀ ee House, Beach Books, Cannon Beach Book Company and the high school business oﬃ ce. Tickets available at the door for $15. R.J. Marx Arts proponent and member of the Tillamook Head Gathering organizing committee. In the past ﬁ ve years the event has raised nearly $30,000 and has supported projects such as literary ﬁ eld trips, Seaside High School Arts Day, the choir performance at Disneyland, creative workshops, visiting speakers, art supplies and musi- cal instruments. File photo File photo File photo Karl Marlantes, a graduate of Seaside High School, Rhodes Scholar and U.S. Marine who fought in the Vietnam War, was a speaker at a previous Tillamook Head Gathering. Kelsey Mousley, a Seaside High School graduate, is one of many local performers to headline the Tillamook Head Gathering in recent years. The group Frogtown premiered a new production at the Tillamook Head Gathering. because not everybody is going to be a rocket scientist. There was a shift in education as a whole, but we’re going back to recognizing it is really important. Q: Some schools cut programs. Wunderlich: Completely. I’m thankful that the high school never had to cut its arts program, and in that sense we’re ahead of a lot of schools. Q: What are some of the high- lights of the gathering over the years? Wunderlich: (2019 graduate) Hayley (Rollins) bringing art day to the high school was huge. Every student in the high school gets to participate in that. It’s about giving kids the opportunity to do things and opening their minds to art. And that we all have talents we have to uncover. Q: How do you reach out to the entire student population, not just the “arty” kids? Wunderlich: There are a lot of very talented athletes that you would never know are talented, Antiwar protesters seek to ‘make voices heard’ VIEW FROM THE PORCH EVE MARX D uring a break from days of sideways rain, about 30 peo- ple gathered in Seaside last Thursday at 1 p.m. to protest Ameri- can involvement with a possible war with Iran. The “No War With Iran” rally took place in conjunction with sim- ilar rallies being held at the same time across the country, including several in Oregon. Mark Rolofson was the local organizer. “I was happy to see how many people showed up on such short notice,” Rolofson said. “There were great people at today’s rally and lots of good energy. It was a learning experience for me, but not difﬁ cult to organize. Bigger events with guest speakers would be much more work.“ Rolofson said the Trump admin- istration seems to be “striking out.” “They’re lying the American public into yet another war,” he said. “They’ve been unable to success- PUBLISHER EDITOR Kari Borgen R.J. Marx The Tillamook Head Gathering was created to encourage the exposure and inspiration of arts beyond the walls of Seaside High School. Eve Marx Joyce Hunt, Kathleen MacDonald and Eric Halperin at the “No War With Iran” rally last week in Seaside. fully create a false ﬂ ag, like weap- ons of mass destruction. Unfortu- nately, mainstream media continues to push war propaganda to manufac- ture consent.” For an hour, antiwar protesters took over the east corner of Broad- way and Highway 101. While some were directly contacted by Rolofson, most said they learned about the rally through a courtesy posting on the Facebook page Indivisible North Coast. The rally was not hosted by INCO, but they posted the informa- tion and the time and location. The Seaside rally was cross- CIRCULATION MANAGER Jeremy Feldman ADVERTISING SALES MANAGER Sarah Silver- Tecza MULTIMEDIA ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVE Kim McCaw posted by the organizations Code Pink and MoveOn.org. Code Pink is an internationally active NGO that describes itself as a grassroots peace and social justice movement. Code Pink has taken action on issues such as drones, Guantanamo Bay prison, Palestinian statehood, the Iran nuclear deal, Saudi Arabia, and Women Cross DMZ. “We live in the age of informa- tion and some excellent indepen- dent journalism can be found on The Grayzone, The Real News Network, Counterpunch, The Nation, Consor- tium News, Truthdig, World Social- PRODUCTION MANAGER CONTRIBUTING WRITERS John D. Bruijn Skyler Archibald Darren Gooch Joshua Heineman Rain Jordan Katherine Lacaze Eve Marx Esther Moberg SYSTEMS MANAGER Carl Earl ist Website, RT and more,” Rolofson said. He anticipates seeing a resur- gence of interest in antiwar movements. Seasiders Joyce Hunt and Kath- leen MacDonald were among the protesters. “I came because I want to make sure my voice is heard,” MacDonald said. “No war with Iran. We can’t afford it. We don’t want to send our troops to the Middle East.” Hunt said she was motivated to come out because “It wasn’t raining for a few minutes.” Bruce Johnston, another Sea- sider, found out about the rally through Indivisible North Coast. Protesting the possibility of war with Iran he said is, “The right thing to do.” Aside from a singularly unpleas- ant blast of biodiesel fuel from a passing driver who evidently didn’t share the anti-war sentiment, the general feeling among the protest- ers was there was more positivity coming from those driving past than negativity. “Deﬁ nitely more positive horn toots and thumbs up than people giving us the ﬁ nger,” one protester commented. because all you see is that they’re throwing a touchdown pass. But if you take a step back and start taking a look at these kids not just for the sports page, there’s a lot of talent. And when you live in a small town sports is what is cel- ebrated, but we have a lot of tal- ented kids around here, and we have to teach them it’s OK to be that artist as well as that athlete. And that goes with anything. Q: Are there ways to celebrate that student achievement? Wunderlich: I think we’re try- ing right here (at the gathering). The jazz band and the a capella chorus will be performing. We have student art. There will be stu- dents who have art for sale. As a kid, you see you painted some- thing that someone just bid on. That feels good and motivates you to do some more. Q: Anything else you’d like to add? Wunderlich: We hope people come. It’s a fun night to celebrate the community. MEETINGS Tuesday, Jan. 21 Union Health District of Clatsop County, 8 a.m., Seaside Providence Hospital Ed Center, Room B. Sunset Empire Park and Recre- ation District Board of Directors, 5:15 p.m., Bob Chisholm Communi- ty Center, 1225 Avenue A, Seaside. Seaside School District Board of Directors, 7 p.m., 1801 S. Franklin, Seaside. Seaside Planning Commission, work session, 7 p.m., 989 Broadway. Monday, Jan. 27 Seaside City Council, 7 p.m., 989 Broadway. Tuesday, Jan. 28 Seaside Airport Advisory Committee, 6 p.m., City Hall, 989 Broadway. Tuesday, Feb. 4 Seaside Community Center Com- mission, 10 a.m., Bob Chisholm Community Center, 1225 Avenue A. Seaside Library Board, 4:30 p.m., Seaside Library, 1131 Broadway. Sunset Empire Park and Recre- ation District, board workshop, 5:15 p.m., Bob Chisholm Communi- ty Center, 1225 Avenue A, Seaside. Seaside Planning Commission, 7 p.m., City Hall, 989 Broadway. Seaside Signal Letter policy Subscriptions The Seaside Signal is published every other week by EO Media Group, 1555 N. Roosevelt, Seaside, OR 97138. 503-738-5561 seasidesignal.com Copyright © 2020 Seaside Signal. Nothing can be reprinted or copied without consent of the owners. The Seaside Signal welcomes letters to the editor. 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