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Join Ben Rosenberg as he introduces the principles and practices of creating monoprints and monotypes. Monotype is a distinctive print made by pressing paper against a painted or inked surface. When creating a monotype, it cannot be replicated again. It is a highly individual creation, much like painting, as it allows for spontaneity, “happy accidents,” and working along a plate surface to bring a wide range of marks that can be obtained through the creation of an image.
Topics include basic theory and use of color and composition in working with water-based, mixed media, and a variety of surfaces. This workshop will involve both conceptual approaches and direct observations using still life, the figure, abstract composition, and a variety of student investigative resources.
You will explore various monotype styles, techniques, and media used with rollers, stencils, textured surfaces, brushes, and various inventive wiping tools to create unusual one-of-a-kind prints.
Through lectures, demonstrations, discussions, and printing time, participants will develop a command of the technical aspects of monotypes and monoprints (color mixing, paint application, materials), and the properties of creating an image (line and shape, color concept, composition, abstraction) and an understanding of how formal choices create meaning.
Each day will begin with a lecture and discussion, followed by an afternoon for studio time. This class is a place where you can engage your own artistic interest and explore your personal voice.
Follow the link below for more information or to register:
hoffmanarts.org/events/printing-workshop-led-by-ben-rosenberg/
Come in and experience our new Sea of Life, Vitamin Sea Radiance, or Ocean Illumination Age-defying facial and take home a travel size OSEA product.
Call 503.368.4777 or Book Online @ www.spamanzanita.com. And don’t forget to mention that you’re local to get 15% off services!
Thanks, Kim
Autumn is offering its gold again.
All along the descending river,
in gatherings of maple and alder,
a season’s leaves will soon join
the water’s quieting reflections.
Moving slowly downstream,
through the open pasture lands,
and nearing the end of its run,
river grows wide approaching the sea,
where urgent tides rush the shallow
bars, the sweep the old log moorings.
What has been supported returns.
Please join the conversation by asking questions, endorsing, opposing, or observing.
If you don’t use Facebook you can still view the candidate’s statements and the conversation. Just go to
www.facebook.com/groups/MooVoter
From there you can scroll to find the candidates with a RED background.
Or, for easier access click the TOPICS button at the top of the page and then click #manzanita. This will gather ALL of the candidates and measures that are specific to Manzanita in one place.
Full comments are accessible with a click under each Candidate’s Thread.
PS: you may want to look at #county to see races that Manzanita voters will be voting on.
Ballots drop October 19th, 2022. Polls close November 8, 2022.
Part One: Trolls in the Village
I think I’m like many Manzanita residents. I don’t use Facebook. In fact, I don’t have an account. I used to when I first started publishing, but I noticed that too many people turn into mean middle schoolers once they sit down to read and respond to a post. Even a post about something seemingly innocuous, like having an indoor or outdoor cat. Oy.
You might find it ironic, if you’re reading this post on the North County Facebook page. That’s because I allow other people to post and publish what I write in other places. I do my best in everything I write to only say the facts, as I know them and to keep my tone friendly and open because the world has too much anger, too much rash, thoughtless and explosive speech. Too much mean.
What I’ve found to be true on Facebook community groups is that even very nice people who volunteer in the community can turn into trolls once they start responding to posts by people they don’t agree with. Far from being a passionate and candid opinion, these posts turn vicious pretty quick. Sometimes it’s intentional meanness meant to shut someone down, and sometimes it’s just not getting how the tone and style of their writing comes across to readers. Sometimes it’s that they open the wine and close their minds when they start writing. Don’t be that guy or gal.
So I post—or my husband posts—for me on the BBQ. But just because I don’t have an account, doesn’t mean I don’t know who’s saying what on Facebook. In an effort to let me know how people are responding to things I write, I get screenshots from people who do use Facebook. I save them to refer back to but I don’t use anyone’s name or their words. They’re simply a reference.
The times I’ve gotten something wrong, I’ve written something to clarify or to retract the information.
My email address is included in my posts on BBQ and it’s not hard to get in touch with me. People contact me when they do and don’t agree with me. We have conversations. We meet sometimes. That’s how I like to roll—conversations, not debates. A debate is a fight you’ll never win. It starts with the idea that you alone are right about something and the other person is wrong. Right away, you go to defend your position and BOOM! you are in a war. Most things are not so clear-cut.
I read somewhere that when Obama was president there was someone he nominated to a position that he fundamentally disagreed with. When asked why he would choose that person Obama said something like, “We can agree to disagree without being disagreeable.” I love that quote and I’ve thought of it often the last few months.
I’ve been discouraged by the tone and content of the rhetoric that I’ve seen on Facebook around our local election this fall, as well as during the 2020 election. It’s clear to me that there are a handful of trolls in the village. They are the first to shut down conversations with people who don’t share their views, they belittle and condescend, they spread hate and division, they’re mean to people with whom they disagree, and they’re not always spreading the facts because they believe in the rightness of their position without checking sources. They discourage new ideas, fresh perspectives and new voices when they use social media platforms to bully others.
In the first instance, someone wrote an untrue and libelous post on BBQ about, Deb Simmons, our Mayor to be. I thought Simmons handled it perfectly. She took her time to respond with facts and some humor. She elevated the conversation from a small mind that must’ve thought she was fair game to a call for civility. She asked for contact. She was open.
Never mess with an elementary school teacher.
I’ve used her name here because she’s a candidate for public office.
It’s especially troubling to me that the trolls in the village are targeting a candidate for office. How is that supposed to encourage citizen engagement in the future? How does that fix the divisions in our community—many of them caused by this mean spirited behavior on-line?
All three candidates say they want to listen to the community and bring people together but if the candidates, and their trollish supporters, can’t be respectful to each other and the people with whom they disagree, it doesn’t bode well for our future.
It’s one thing to disagree it’s another deal to be disagreeable.
Kim Rosenberg loretta.kim.rosenberg@gmail.com
Opening Sept. 30 and running weekends through Oct. 29, performances will be at 7:30 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays with a 3 p.m. matinee on Sunday, Oct. 16 at the Coaster Theatre Playhouse.
When Nancy Willard’s landlady dies at age 103, Nancy learns that she has been left something named Nathaniel Coombes in addition to her house. Nathaniel is the handsome ghost of a Revolutionary War soldier killed in 1776, who has been doomed to an earthbound existence for something he failed to do in the war. As a result of meeting her ghost, Nancy’s life is turned upside-down, and mayhem results.
Gramercy Ghost is directed by Deanna Duplechain and features Rhonda Warnack as Margaret Collins, Katherine Lacaze as Nancy Willard, Michael Murdoch as Parker Burnett, M. Duck as Augusta Ames, Marcus Liotta as Charlie Stewart, Sean Cooney as Nathaniel Coombes, Frank Jagodnik as Officer Morrison/Rocky, Cyndi Fisher as the Ambulance Driver/Irv, , Molly Oien as the Assistant Driver/Girl.
The production crew includes Colleen Toomey (stage manager), Sondra Gomez (costumer), Mick Alderman, (set builder/lighting design) Juan Lira (set painter) and Nancy McCarthy (sound and light operator).
Tickets are $20 or $25; they can be purchased at the theatre box office (503-436-1242) or online at coastertheatre.com. The box office is open 12:30 to 4:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and 12:30 p.m. to curtain on performance days.
At this time, everyone must show proof of vaccination or a negative COVID test to enter the Coaster Theatre on performance day. Face masks are optional but encouraged. The Coaster Theatre recommends visiting coastertheatre.com or contacting the box office closer to the performance for possible changes to the theatre’s COVID policy.
Available October 1. FOR INFO text 503-812-2022
Sunday 9/18
9:00-10:00 am Weekend Warrior
Monday 9/19
9:00-10:00 am Walk Around Nehalem meet @NCRD
10:00-11:00 am Stretch & Balance
11:30-12:30 pm Qi Gong
5:30-6:15 pm Spin
Tuesday 9/20
6:00-6:45 am Early Bird Spin
9:00-10:00 am Spin Fusion
6:00-6:45 pm Evening Spin
Wednesday 9/21
9:00-10:00 am Core Pilates
12:00-12:45 pm Mid Day Spin
Thursday 9/22
9:00 am Hike NKN Mtn meet @NCRD
4:00-5:00 pm Yoga for Pickleball
Friday 9/23
6:00-6:45 am Early Bird Spin
For more information call 855-444-6273 or email kileyk@ncrdnehalem.org
See you when we get back. We’ll have a new menu starting on that Friday.
Happy Fall!
Miles- 60,382
Current tags.
Runs good. Needs updating.
$3,700
Will be parked in Nehalem at the light this weekend.
For more info call Peppe at 503-368-6246.
I am looking for 64 oz wide mouth mason jars (with or without lids) to store dry goods. If you have any to spare or collecting dust please let me know.
Many thanks,
MJ
$275 OBO
Pick up in Seaside.
Contact: gmarberry@gmail.com
Jan Fisher
October 7 and 8.
Opens at 10:00 in the morning till 4:00 on Friday.
Opens at 10:00 am on Saturday till 2:00 pm.
Something for everyone.
Are you looking for a way to begin Fall with more clarity and connection to seasonal rhythms?
Tap into the oracle wisdom of the Tarot while enjoying the scenic gardens of the North Fork 53 Communitea Wellness organic farm and Tea Tasting Room, newly opened this month. With all the elements present, we will begin with a cup of tea and meditation, followed by a seven-card Tarot reading to help illuminate your body-mind-soul journey.
This is a wonderful way to begin Fall with more clarity, connection to seasonal rhythms, and the bounty of Nature.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17th
60 minutes || $100
30 minutes || $50
Appointments available through advance booking:
www.artandchannel.com/appointments
These sessions are held in person in the beautiful gardens of the Tea Tasting Room at NorthFork 53 Communitea Wellness 77282 OR-53, Nehalem, OR 97131.
Saturday, September 24th at 4pm
Astoria native, Heather Christie was born singing to a family of musicians on the Oregon Coast. As a baby she attended her dad’s rock shows under her mother’s poncho. Early on she picked up her mother’s 1942 Martin Guitar and began writing her own music.
Playing in bluegrass jams, country and gospel sing alongs, musical tributes, competitions, and radio theater… A Lilith Fair Finalist, Heather has performed nationwide, from solo artist, to full band, to the award winning FROGTOWN musical stage show, honoring the muse wherever she goes.
“Heather has developed her own brand of Lyrical Soul and it’s traveling down the road in a Folkwagon bus” ~Hipfish Arts & Culture
This is a private outdoor concert with only 20 tickets available. 100% of proceeds go directly to the artist.
Please bring a lawn chair to sit on.
Our tea room will be open before the concert and during intermission.
Get your tickets on our website- link below:
www.northfork53.com/events/heather-christie-private-concert-tickets?p
However, taking time to listen to others and to hear where they’re coming from does not mean we will agree. “Being heard” should not be confused with “I agree with you”. We are all individuals so the odds are good that even after we’ve heard each other out, we may arrive at separate solutions to our problems. In this community of spirited individuals we need to be able to move ahead with actions and policies needed to run Manzanita, knowing some of us may be disappointed by particular details.
“Transparency” in our local government means we can observe directly the actions of our elected officials through public meetings, reports and individual conversations. My personal experience has been that Manzanita city officials are consistently open and transparent. They have always taken the time to speak with me, listen to my concerns and answer questions. They have not always pursued solutions I wanted them to, but I felt heard.
All City Council meetings are, by Oregon law, public meetings. Since her arrival, City Manager Leila Aman has reinforced and enhanced the avenues available to connect citizens with city officials. Zoom meetings and workshops, in-person working sessions, and online forums have all been created. These opportunities help us stay informed. Let’s take advantage of them!
My parents encouraged me to speak candidly and listen respectfully. Early in my social media education, I learned that speaking candidly can quickly devolve into unpleasant interchanges. I resolved to try to respond with facts, not feelings. Sometimes my passion for truth and justice shakes that resolve, but we’re all a work in progress and I strive to heed the better angels of my nature to grow each day.
We may not always agree, but I promise that I will listen and let you know when – and why – I have a different opinion.
I ask for your vote on November 8. If I haven’t met you yet, I hope to do so over the next several weeks. Learn more about me at www.MarkForCouncil2022.com.
We will also have Red Gold nectarine, Arctic Jay white nectarine, Flavor Grenade pluot, Dapple Dandy pluot, Fortune plum, and so much more!
Hope to see you there!
