Siletz Tribal Basketmaking
Robert Kentta presenter

Yachats, OR – History comes alive through the stories and artifacts shared by Robert Kentta, Cultural Educator for the Confederated Tribes of the Siletz. Kentta will be presenting a historical and cultural program at the Cape Perpetua Visitor Center on March 23 at 2 p.m. as part of the newly initiated Chats by the Sea winter series program.

“We are very excited to have Robert kick off our series of Chats by the Sea,” said David Thompson, Interpretive Specialist for the Central Coast Ranger District – ODNRA of the Siuslaw National Forest. “He is wonderful speaker with a wealth of knowledge about our local area and the history of his people’s culture,” he added.

Kentta has been the Tribe’s Cultural Resources Director since 1994, and an elected member of the Tribal Council for the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians for the last eight years. He has had a long-term interest in his own people’s culture, with formal education in American Indian Arts and in museum studies. He has been supported and encouraged by his community’s elders, who helped him to gain traditional knowledge.

“Cape Perpetua has a rich history of use by native peoples,” Thompson notes. “Robert will discuss local uses of the land and will bring regalia and baskets to show the presentation. Along with historical cultural topics he will discuss current programs and modern day events” he adds.
The Chats by the Sea are free of charge and open to all. Kentta will speak for about an hour and then be available for questions and informal discussions for another hour.

Cape Perpetua Visitor Center will be open every day, 10:00 am to 4:00 pm., starting March 25. The Visitor Center is located three miles south of Yachats on Highway 101 and is famous for breath-taking views of the sea and forest.

A Day Use Pass is required for access to the Visitor Center, facilities and trail system. A Day Use Pass costs $5. Five-Day and Annual Passes are also available.

For more information, please call the Visitor Center at 541-547-3289 or visit us on the web at www.fs.usda.gov/siuslaw. You can also follow us at twitter.com/SiuslawNF and www.facebook.com/DiscoverCapePerpetua.

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Gov. Tom McCall
Reading by kerosene lamp during 1973 Energy Crisis

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, GOV. TOM MCCALL!
CELEBRATE WITH MATT LOVE ON MARCH 22, AT THE LCCC

On March 22nd, Oregon will celebrate the 100th birthday of Governor Tom McCall, who served two terms (1967-75) and was renowned for his unconventional and progressive stances on politics and the environment. As he said in one of his speeches to open a legislative session, “The interests of Oregon for today and in the future must be protected from the grasping wastrels of the land.”

To celebrate Gov. McCall, and his legacy on the Oregon Coast, the Lincoln City Cultural Center is hosting a birthday party. This event, which will begin at 6 pm on Friday, March 22, will include a slide presentation, a trivia contest, a surprise musical performance and birthday cake. The host for the evening will be historian and author Matt Love. Admission is just $3 for youth and adults, and free for kids 12 and younger.

The event will take place in the auditorium at the cultural center, inside the historic Delake School building at 540 NE Hwy. 101, Lincoln City. There will be no advance ticket sales. If you have questions, call the office at 541-994-9994 or check the LCCC web site, LincolnCityCulturalCenter.org.

When McCall completed his second term in 1975, the state could boast of many recent bi-partisan political innovations, most of them nationwide firsts: protection of ocean beaches from development, a law dedicating one-percent of highway funds for bicycle and pedestrian paths, a mandatory five-cent deposit on returnable cans and bottles, an effort to clean up the polluted Willamette River, a government open meetings law, visionary land use planning to preserve farm and forestland, a state-sponsored rock festival to forestall violence, decriminalization of marijuana, and increased voluntary energy conservation promoted by state government.

For the event on March 22, Love plans an interactive multi-media presentation on the unprecedented achievements of Tom McCall’s gubernatorial career. Highlights will include:
* A slide presentation on McCall and his legacy;
* A contest called The McCall Challenge (with prizes);
* A screening of the famous 1962 television documentary called “Pollution in Paradise,” that McCall co-wrote and narrated when he was a KGW newsman. This acclaimed documentary is generally credited with ushering in the modern Oregon environmental movement and helped propel McCall into the political arena. It lasts an hour;
* A special song about the governor, performed by a mystery guest, and complimentary birthday cake.

This March 22 event is the third offering in the center’s 2012-13 “History Lives” series, sponsored by the Lincoln City Visitor and Convention Bureau non-profit grant program. Through this series, the center has hosted interpreters of Mark Twain and Abraham Lincoln; later this spring (April 30) the guest will be actor Patrick Garner, as the inventor Thomas Edison.

ABOUT THE IMPRESARIO
Matt Love is the author/editor of eight books about Oregon, including, the best-selling “Far Out Story of Vortex I,” “Citadel of the Spirit: Oregon’s Sesquicentennial Anthology,” and Gimme Refuge: The Education of a Caretaker.” He writes the “One Man’s Beach” column for Oregon Coast Today and the “On Oregon” blog for Powells. In 2009, Love won the Oregon Literary Arts’ Stewart H. Holbrook Literary Legacy Award for his contributions to Oregon history and literature. He lives in South Beach and teaches English and journalism at Newport High School. He’s currently working on a novel about teaching in a public high school.

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Justice of the Peace Studio
Toledo, OR
541-336-2797
MichaelGibbonsArt@charter.net

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It is always interesting to “get into” an artists studio. Hyatt, painter and Anne, printmaker,from Laguna Beach, CA recently spent 17 days in February, 2013 working in the heart of Toledo at the JP Studio and Living Space and
the attached photos show the results! Fabulous show for those interested in art and owners Michael and Judy Gibbons especially enjoyed this second visit and look forward to many more.

*Please note: The Justice of the Peace Studio and Living Space is available to rent weekly at a reasonable rate. Completely furnished (including easels and drawing tables)the unit is located a few steps from Michael Gibbons
studio in the Uptown Arts District. We ONLY rent to artists! (541) 336-2797 and michaelgibbonsart@charter.net.

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Pick up your investigative packets anytime after 9am Saturday

Safe Haven Hill
South Beach

Since it rains so darn much on the Central Coast it only seems fitting that the more creative among us would curl up in a warm corner in their favorite jammies and write corny murder-mystery plays. And here’s their latest:

Local news mogul Kiera Morgan and her band of spontaneously erupting thespians, launches a brain-tickling murder mystery on Saturday March 9th in Nye Beach. Morgan says it takes up after the Cascadian Subduction Zone earthquake/tsunami has roared ashore in 2033, leaving one rag tag group of refugees to make-do with what creature comforts they have managed to create atop Safe Haven Hill above what was once South Beach.

The mystery plot involves oddly named characters like Justin Case, Dio-crisys, Bridget Ordamit, Hilly Mounds, Edison Lighthouse, Betty Dyes and her ill-fated husband Aman Dyes. Aman in fact does ‘expire’ under highly suspicious circumstances,”done in” by a machine of his own invention called the Emoticon, a very advanced device that allows one’s user to “Pick-A-Mood,” for any length of time and in any order following a tsunami. Unfortunately, the Emoticon, which involves a bluetooth activated device in Aman’s brain, includes on its menu of options, “Death.” And on March 8th, somebody dispatched Aman to the great hereafter. The mission for those participating in the exercise are to figure out who pushed the “Death” button. In the interest of stirring an evil pot til it boils, Aman’s death is ruled NOT a suicide.

Here’s how the play works. Anytime after 9am Saturday you pick up your investigative packet at Nye Cottage (Beads) at SW Coast and 2nd. From there, you follow a prescribed route around Nye Beach and go inside specific stores to pick up clues and talk to those who were there atop Safe Haven Hill at the time and who has something “truthful” to say about who did Aman in. To make it challenging, you’ll notice there’s no ‘butler’ in the list of characters. (But there is an “Eco-obsessed elephant trainer.)

After making the rounds, correlating the clues, and talking to the actors, you name Aman’s killer, turn in your packet back at Nye Cottage (Beads) and then at 7pm you head for the nearby American Legion Hall. There you will learn who snuffed Aman, and who wins the raffle among other goodies.

For more information, contact Nye Cottage at 541-265-6262.

By the way, the latest updated tsunami evacuation maps are available by clicking here in case you don’t want to end up on Safe Haven Hill if and when the tsunami comes in our lifetime.

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Willamette Writers Coast Chapter Welcomes Angelique Little March 19

Filmmaker Angelique Little will present a workshop on Scene Writing at the March meeting of Willamette Writers Coast Chapter. The event takes place from 7:00 to 8:30 pm on Tuesday, March 19th in the Newport Public Library’s McEntee meeting room at 35 NW Nye Street in Newport. The event is free and open to the public.

Beginning her career as an actress, Angelique Little appeared on Unsolved Mysteries, Days of Our Lives, Six Feet Under, The O.C. and as a woman with Alopecia in the short film Hairless before directing her first short film. The Smartest Person Who Ever Lived was “Pick of Fest” at Palm Springs Intl. Festival of Shorts and aired on KTEH as part of the showcase of films at Cinequest. She studied screenwriting at UCLA and has coached playwrights, novelists and screenwriters to strengthen the emotional core of their stories.

Angelique is currently developing a web series about a teenage girl’s search for love while mourning her mother’s death. Angelique is looking forward to writing dynamic scenes across genres with the Willamette Writers. Attendees may bring a scene from their writing that they want to strengthen, or an emotional beat that they want to convert into a scene.

Willamette Writers is the largest writers’ organization in Oregon and one of the largest writers’ organizations in the United States. Willamette Writers’ goal is to provide and encourage a creative environment and support system for current and aspiring writers. Since its beginning in 1965, Willamette Writers has provided meeting places for the exchange of ideas and information and has initiated programs designed to help writers increase skills related to the craft of writing. For more information call Theresa Wisner at 541 270-3870.

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