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South
Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve
Contacts:
Joy
Tally
Education Program Specialist
(541) 888-5558 ext. 27
Deborah
Rudd
Public Involvement Coordinator
(541) 888-5558 ext. 58 www.southsloughestuary.org.
Come
celebrate estuaries at
South Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve. All
programs are held at the Interpretive
Center
located 4 miles south of Charleston
on Seven Devils Road
unless
otherwise noted. Please
register for all programs in advance. Call
South Slough
at (541)-888-5558
to register.
The trails at South Slough Reserve are open daily from dawn
until
dusk. The Interpretive Center’s
fall hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10:00 am-4:30pm.
Come Celebrate Your Love
of
Nature!
The South
Slough National
Estuarine Research Reserve and Kimberly
(See Victoria's article and
pictures) Wurster invite you to enjoy an
afternoon of fine art, nice music and good company!
Kimberly’s solo exhibit features her most recently created
paintings, several of which have never been seen. Come
meet the artist and enjoy a variety of light refreshments as
you relax in the natural beauty of this setting.
Place: South
Slough National
Estuarine Research Reserve, William Q. Wick auditorium, 4 miles south
of
Charleston on Seven Devils Road
Exhibit
Dates: June 6-August
26. Normal Business Hours are:
Tuesday-Saturday, 10-4:30. For more
information call the South Slough NERR at: (541)-888-5558.
For Immediate Release:
July 1, 2009
Contact:
Joy Tally
Education
Program Specialist
South Slough National Estuarine Research
Reserve:
(541)
888-5558
Explosions of
Excitement at South
Slough!
Join South Slough and
Cape Arago Audubon Society at our combined booth at the Farmer’s Market
in Coos Bay
on Wednesday, July 1st from 9-3 to learn interesting facts related to
the history of both of these organizations.
Join us on Thursday, July 2nd from 1-3pm for “Crabbing Around”, where we
will explore the amazing life cycles of crabs through colorful images
and interpretation. Cast a crab ring from
the dock and learn proper crab harvesting methods.
All trips will meet at the Charleston
Visitor Center. ($1/person.) Please call (541)-888-5558
to register.
The Interpretive
Center will be closed
Friday, July 3 and Saturday, July 4 in honor of Independence Day. Trails and waterways will remain open from
dawn until dusk.
Explore South Slough on
a trail that shows no footprints and flows with the tides on Wednesday,
July 8th from 9am-2pm. An interpretive guide will
describe the natural and cultural history of this wild arm of the Coos
Estuary. Provide your own canoe or kayak,
paddles, life jackets, and binoculars. Pre-registration
is required. Please call (541)-888-5558 to register. ($15/boat)
Want to add some variety to your usual exercise
routine? Join us for a Fit Friday Hike on
July 10th from 10am-12 noon. These
hikes focus on getting our hearts pumping while remembering that a
natural trail requires more care in where you step and you may want to
take the extra time to appreciate the natural environment –soak in the
scenery, etc…Please dress in layers, wear sturdy hiking pants, thick
socks and hiking shoes or sneakers. Bring
water, a snack and any other personal gear in a backpack.
Please call (541)-888-5558 to register for this
free program.
July 11th is our 35th birthday
celebration including the unveiling of our new North Creek trail! Share
some birthday cake and hear some historic presentations at the
interpretive center. Learn about the history of the South Slough
Reserve, meet people involved in the creation and operation of the
Reserve, and hear interesting stories about Oregon’s
state shell, the Oregon Hairy Triton. Walk
off some birthday cake by joining us for a hike on a brand new trail,
when we reach the bottom of the trail join us for the dedication of a
new bridge spanning tide waters of South Slough.
Deborah Rudd
South Slough NERR
Public Involvement
Coordinator
PO Box 5417
Charleston, OR 97420
541-888-5558
ext. 58
Tues-Sat 8am-4:30 pm
South
Slough's mission is to improve the understanding and stewardship of
Pacific Northwest estuaries and coastal watersheds.
Celebrate Oregon at South Slough!
As we celebrate the 150th anniversary of Oregon’s entry into the union
consider the many ways in which the landscape and the culture of the
South Slough valley have changed since February of 1859. Take a
walk on one of our trails, which are open daily from dawn until dusk,
and ponder about the history. Visit our Interpretive Center, open
Tuesday-Saturday from 10am-4:30pm, and travel back in time via an
old-style handset and listen to a rich resource of stories about what
it was like living on South Slough during the early part of the last
century. After your walk, browse in our Friends of South Slough
Book Store & More for a wide array of natural and cultural history
books.
Contact:
Deborah Rudd
South Slough National Estuarine Research
Reserve
Public Involvement Coordinator
(541)-888-5558 ext. 21
To
sign up for future outings,
please call 541-888-5558.
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SOMETHING NEW: I am starting a never-ending sale sometime
soon. It will start with a rather large book collection, many
have only been read once, many audio books, videos, and HB
books.. Look for notices here and in the Coffee Break.
I am also working on a long needed update of the 'links' page. Much of
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As I See It
for June 25th,
2009
By Mary Schamehorn
If you
live in the area of the hospital and happen to see a pond turtle
wandering around your neighborhood … he may be looking for Matt and
Esther Winkel’s house.
Or,
maybe not.
The
Winkels recently purchased four pond turtles (for just under $100).
They spent hours preparing their pond for the arrival of the new
inhabitants. They even built up a little area so the turtles could sun
themselves.
Last
week, the turtles arrived and were quickly introduced to their new
home, where they would live among the gold fish. But the next morning
Matt and Esther noticed there were only three, but since there’s a lot
of cover area, they were pretty sure the missing turtle was just
resting under the vegetation.
The
next morning there were two … and the next morning there was only one.
They were still hoping the little guys (two six-inchers and two
four-inchers) were somewhere in the pond. But the fourth morning, they
went out and discovered there were no longer any turtles . . . and they
looked up at the hillside just in time to see their fourth turtle
heading south.
Then
Matt remembered that he’d been on his way to a meeting a couple of
nights earlier when he saw a woman stop on 11th, get out of
her car, pick something out of the roadway and put it in the ditch. Now
he realizes it was probably the first of their turtles heading to
points unknown.
It
probably won’t do you any good to call Matt if you do find one …
because the turtles have made it pretty plain that they don’t plan to
hang around the Winkel’s pond.
They
were obviously looking for something better …
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Matt’s
been meeting regularly with Denise Hunter of the Coquille Indian Tribe,
who is coordinating the Tribe’s 20th
Year
Restoration Day celebration this weekend in Bandon. He’s been advised
that the event, which will be held in Bullards Beach State Park, at the
Port of Bandon boat basin and Bandon City Park, could bring anywhere
from 1,500 to 3,000 people into the community.
Add
that to the state’s biggest annual amateur golf tournament, the Oregon
Amateur, which is behind hosted by Bandon Dunes from Wednesday through
Saturday, and you could see a lot of new faces around town. Now let’s
hope the weather doesn’t let us down like it did this weekend for the
PGA US Open, held on the Black course at Bethpage in New York, which
was inundated with rain and delayed the finish until Monday.
It was
also good news to learn that the U.S. Amateur Public Links
championships, for both men and women, will be held at Bandon Dunes
June 27-July 2 in 2011.
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Another
important event, which is being held this weekend, is a walk to raise
money for BHS graduate and former track star Katie Phillips Burke, 24,
who is battling breast cancer. She’s the daughter of Jerry and Sheryl
Phillips. The event will be held from 9 to 11 a.m. Saturday at the high
school track.
Another
benefit, sponsored by the Ford Family Foundation Leadership Institute,
is a golf scramble and corn hole tournament for the Bandon Community
Garden, set for Sunday, July 5, at the Old Bandon Golf Links (formerly
Face Rock Golf Course). For more information people can call Breanna
Heim Quattrocchi at 404-7834, or talk with Sherry McGrath at her design
business in Old
Town.
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There’s
a lot going on this weekend, and from what I’ve heard the Bandon
Playhouse production of “Witness for the Prosecution” is truly great. I
plan to go Friday night. Myra Lawson told me at church Sunday that she
was really impressed … particularly with the role played by Paul Hay.
Paul and his family have been in quite a few productions in the past
couple of years, but Myra
said he was really great in “Witness.” And I’m really looking forward
to seeing it. It’s on the Sprague Theater stage Friday and Saturday
nights at 7:30 and Sunday at 2 p.m.
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I seem
to get more than my share of spam, and in the last three days, I have
received 10 messages from Bank of America, Chase, Chase Bank and JP
Morgan Chase Bank. Of course, none of those were the real thing, but
they were hoping that if I had an account at one of those entities
(which I do), I would fill out the requested customer form (which I
wouldn’t).
My
reward would probably have been the emptying of my accounts.
They
never give up …
A note regarding Mary's last
paraagraph. I just received this notice from my email filtering
system - you may get more than just lost money/identity by responding
to these "bank" notices. the following is the notice I just received
today:
v irus protection service has
detected a potential
email virus. This
suspicious message has been quarantined in
your KITUSA Message
Center:
From: "Chase bank" <Chase@reply.chase.
address partly
deleted for your protection
Subject: your account
Virus: AUTH-HTML/Bankish.MZ
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As
I See It
for July 1st,
2009
By Mary
Schamehorn
People ask me why I hardly
ever drive my little black BMW convertible. It’s not that I don’t like
to drive it, I do. But every time I look at my Honda SUV and see the
large dents that have been put in there by careless people opening
their door into my car, I just don’t want that to happen to my little
car. It’s safer in the garage.
Last weekend, we watched a stray shopping
cart roll across a parking lot and crash into a brand new, shiny gray
convertible. There was nothing we could do but sit helplessly and watch
it because we didn’t have time to grab it before it hit its mark. I did
run over and see what damage had been done to the car, but it wasn’t as
bad as it could have been: just a couple of small scratches. I then
pushed it away so that it wouldn’t hit anyone else’s car. You have to
wonder what kind of a person would just leave a cart in the middle of a
parking lot surrounded by other people’s cars … with a cart depository
near by.
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I can’t help but comment on the beautiful new
cranberry red lettering on the arches leading into (and out of) Old Town. They are beautiful and are
really inviting. They can be seen for a long distance and will most
certainly make people want to visit Old Town.
I also love the beautiful lighthouse (white) insignia that further
enhances the new design.
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Not long ago I received a press release at The Herald from The Oregon
Lottery, about a speakers bureau for organizations, designed to provide
“a wealth of information about the Lottery including its history, where
Lottery profits go and how they are allocated, as well as the latest
about Lottery games and winners.”
This came just about the time a Coquille
woman had been charged with embezzling all of the Project Graduation
money (and was the prime suspect in an armed robbery of a bank in
Roseburg), the second in command at the Brookings Chamber of Commerce
had been arrested for embezzlement, a Coquille police officer had
stolen from the evidence locker… and the list goes on and on. Articles
about each case pointed to one common thread: a gambling habit.
Instead of running the “news” item, I
e-mailed the Oregon Lottery and told them exactly what I thought of the
Lottery and gambling in general, and suggested that instead of a
speakers bureau to tout the glamour of gambling, they needed to
concentrate heavily on the problems caused by rampant addiction.
I did receive an answer from the contact
person … a Larry Trott . . . who told me there is help available for
people addicted to gambling, while at the same time telling me that his
family used to live in Bandon.
He seemed nice enough, but it didn’t change
my mind about gambling.
I have no problem with “social gambling,” but
when it becomes a way of life, it is a serious issue. And more and more
“white collar crime” is attributed to people’s addiction to gambling.
It’s obvious that Oregon will never do away
with the Lottery since it depends so heavily on the receipts … but I
can’t help feeling the state would have been better off had we never
gone down that slippery slope …
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Over the last 20 or 30 years, I have written hundreds of column items,
but I don’t think I’ve ever received the positive feedback that I have
gotten over Matt and Esther’s turtles. People have stopped me on the
street, at the theater, at Thai Thai and anywhere else I’ve been to say
how much they enjoyed that piece.
Maybe we all need a good laugh once in a
while.
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Over the years, I’ve written a lot about the practice of field burning
in the valley, and none of it has favored the archaic practice. In
fact, I was running for state representative back in 1988 and was on
the freeway the day a 23-vehicle crash, caused by field burning in the Albany area,
killed seven people and injured 38. Although I fortunately missed the
crash, I can remember the terror of driving in that area … and not
being able to see two feet in front of you.
Opponents of field burning have repeatedly
pointed out the health dangers of the particle-filled smoke, which
covers Albany and parts of Eugene. It seems
obvious to me that this should have been outlawed many years ago, but
the seed growers lobby is rich and powerful. People have been forced to
stay inside their homes in the Eugene
and Albany
areas when the fields are being burned, and even then it’s hard to
escape the toxic smoke.
Thankfully the Oregon Senate voted in favor
of SB 528, which would effectively eliminate field burning after 2010.
As I write this, the Oregon House had not voted; I can only hope that
at least a few Republicans will join the Democrats and approve this
much-needed legislation.
I was shocked to learn that Coos Bay Senator
Joanne Verger was one of only two Democrats to vote against the bill. I
immediately e-mailed her and said I would expect that from “our”
Senator Jeff Kruse, but I certainly did not expect her to vote against
such an important bill.
Her staff sent me a lengthy explanation. She
said although most farmers no longer burn their fields, the 10 percent
who do would be forced to till their land, which would create high
volumes of dust and also dramatically increase the use of pesticides.
(I doubt that the people of Eugene or Albany would
have been impacted like they are from the smoke, but that’s just my
opinion).
She felt it was important to balance “our
environmental health and our economic welfare.”
I am sorry to say I cannot agree with her.
It’s not just “environmental health” that was being compromised.
It was the health of thousands of people in
the valley.
And that piece of legislation is long overdue.
ART BEAT by
Victoria Tierney
ART BEAT FOR JUNE 8, 2009
Greetings to all. I’ve been away on a camping trip for the month
of May, so I haven’t been anywhere near a computer for quite
awhile. Lots of stuff going on in the art world though, so I
thought I’d mention a few shows:
First of all, ART 101 opened south of Bandon while I was away.
That’s Angela Hazeltine Pozzi’s bioluminescent Sea Cave and other
sculptures, plus photographs by other members of her amazing
art-dynasty family….oh yes, and a great bathroom painted entirely (wall
to wall) by her talented daughter Nicola, who watches the gallery when
Angela isn’t on the scene.
My friend and fellow artist Joanne Drapkin went there last Thursday
night for ART 101’s first “art night” and had a blast. It was $25
for two , and we got wonderful desserts by Coastal Mist (the
gallery sells their scrumptious chocolates as well as other goodies),
music by ….oh dear…not sure of their names….Mike and Pete?....one is
Mr. Takahashi and he runs Zumwalts just down the road; the other lives
in Port Orford and was playing two of his beautiful hand-built
myrtlewood guitars…anyway, delightful music – a gallery tour and art
lecture by Angela, and then a chance to make our own art using all
kinds of art supplies which Angela keeps on hand.
If you haven’t stopped by there yet, treat yourself. It’s truly a
class act. Angela is both an amazing artist in her own right, and
an amazing teacher and arts advocate as well. She told us that her
first love was DANCE, and that she never DRAWS PICTURES of the
sculptures she is creating….she has to feel how they will move in space!
Art 101 is located just one-quarter-mile north of the Game Park and you
can’t miss it…it’s bright purple with orange trim and has a great
orange and purple sign. Check it out! (Thursday night is
adults-only; if you want to bring the kids, come on Sundays..that’s
“family day.”)
This article is being posted in between trips….I spent a month camping
out in California, and next week I’m heading to New York for my 50th
(!!!) high school reunion. (50th? How did that happen?)…But while
I’m here I’m working on TWO SHOWS that are coming up over the July 4th
weekend:
Vicki Affatati -
self portrait
photos of works by Vicki Affatati, Pat Snyder, and Candace Kreitlow here
At the hospital (Southern Coos Hospital & Health Center) we’re
working on a show of works by three wonderful, very  high
energy
artists: Pat Snyder, painter and printmaker, of Coos Bay;Vicki
Affatati-teacher, painter, and muralist of Bandon; and Candace Kreitlow
, weaver and musician extraordinaire, who lives with her husband Pete
Bauer in a beautiful house they designed and built recently on top of
the world off North Bank Lane. They are all great…all very bold
and direct….it’s going to be a fun show. It will be up for three
months, July, August, and September, but the opening will be Sunday,
July 5th from 1-3 pm, and Candy has 
gotten her friend Julie Hawthorne
(also an artist and a musician) to come with her stand-up bass
accompanied by Will Hubell who plays keyboard. Candy and Vicki
both love to sing, so I hear rumors that we’ll get to hear them sing at
least one song! Mark that one on your calendars!
While you’re marking your calendars, don’t forget Friday, July 3rd, for
a one-week-only special show at HARBORTOWN COMMUNITY EVENTS CENTER in
Old Town…Kirk and
Elizabeth Day, who own the building, are throwing an art party; the
opening is from 6-9 on Friday night. Holly and Jim Sylvester and
Kathleen Reddick are providing the music and you’re invited!
Kirk and Elizabeth will be sharing some of their favorite works from
their own collection –works by Elaine Roemen, Terry Rutledge, and some
of Kirk’s own new abstract paintings….and there will also be works by
some of our most talented young local artists, such as John Castaldi
and Damian Hawthorne….as well as works by some of us older folks like
Susan D’Amico, Susan Lehman , and myself. Alexandra Eyer will be
bringing up some of her prizewinning watercolor portraits from Gold
Beach (Alexandra has had a live model at her house on Thursday for
years now, with the result that she has become one of the finest
figuret painters in the Watercolor Society of Oregon- she was one of
only two or three accepted into the Western Federation of Watercolor
Society show this year). There are a few more artists we’re still
lining up, but it should be a really excellent
exhibit.
The HARBORTOWN COMMUNITY EVENTS CENTER is right in the heart of Old
Town Bandon…it’s where the old Harbor Hall theater used to be.
McFarlin’s restaurant is in there too, in case you’re still trying to
figure out where it is. They have some great ping-pong tables in
there too, so you can look at art, enjoy music, and—hey! – play ping
pong!
A couple of other shows ……the miniature show opened Saturday at the
Second Street Gallery and it is delightful. Kudos to Richard
Ramlaugh for coming up with this one (with a tip of the hat to Susan
D’Amico and John Castaldi who have had miniature shows at Bandon Art
Supply for the last two years)---over 100 pieces were entered and there
are some beauties….Be sure to stop by and look them over
carefully. Richard waived the usual 50% commission to keep prices
down, and is only taking 25% on these small pieces, so there are
some extraordinary bargains. We’re all doing what we can to
survive the economic crisis…..buying art is a great way to stimulate
the economy in my (utterly prejudiced) opinion!
Anne Sabbotta has a new show opening at the Sage, and I haven’t seen it
yet, so I can’t tell you more, but Joanne Drapkin told me she just took
a piece over there….I guess we’ll all have to go and see.
Kimberly Wurster with some of her
new paintings now on display at
South Slough
Interpretive Center
Kimberly Wurster is having a show at South Slough Interpretive
Center….I haven’t seen it as of this writing (Saturday June 6) but hope
to stop by for the opening this afternoon. She is one of my favorite
artists….I’m a proud owner of a little wood rat she painted…her works
are crafted carefully, with great attention and love.
detail of painting
by Kimberly Wurster
Another show I haven’t seen yet but want to see is Robin Jenkins new
show at Gallery by the Bay in the Unity Church Gallery up in North
Bend, just around the corner from
Little Theater on the Bay (LTOB.) Robin started as a painter,
took a very long hiatus to raise children and have a career; then
returned a few years ago to painting. She has been painting up a
storm, and her work just gets better and better….I’m looking forward to
seeing these new pieces.
Meanwhile I got a call from Lorna Salt who is the producer for the
Bandon Playhouse Production of “WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION” which
opens the 19th of June.
Linda Sack, one of my favorite Bandon actresses, plays the role that
Marlene Dietrich played in the movie, and that alone is worth the price
of admission! Although the production has had a few health-issue
setbacks, director Jeff Norris tells me it’s coming along swimmingly
now, and I’m looking forward to seeing it when I return from my 50th
high school reunion.
Till then…enjoy the summer solstice. Talk to you again when I
return!
Victoria
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