Crabby kids welcome
The Sustainable Living Center of Oregon wants to create more crabbers by furnishing a free Crab Trapper set for kids aged eight to 16 on Sunday, Feb 28.
Time for a little pub banter
How do you get a book published? Sue Fagalde Lick will offer the nuts-and-bolts answers in “Book Publishing 101” at 6:30 pm on Monday, Feb. 22 at the joint meeting of Willamette Writers’ Coast and Corvallis chapters. The meeting will be presented via Zoom.
An ex-stream workout
Every winter, trees come down on power lines and across roads and waterways, wreaking havoc and jamming up people’s lives. And last September, coastal wildfires added a large number of “hazard trees” that must be removed before property owners can begin to move forward with rebuilding.
Stuck on art
Whether it’s diamonds, dinner or just a coupon for a free hug, getting something special on Valentine's Day can really help improve the spirits.
Break up with plastics
There have been changes in the legislature, but the issue of single-use plastic pollution is still holding steady and is, unfortunately, very visible on Oregon beaches.
Lincoln City makes history
While Antique & Collectibles Week has been a significant part of our Oregon coastal culture for many years, the pandemic has made us more conscious than ever before of the value of maintaining in the present our often-tenuous connections to the past.
Manzanita makes the natural choice
Appreciation of nature is the theme welding together the metal works of Chayo Wilson and paintings by Frankie White and Paul Polson, the three featured artists in the February show at Manzanita’s Hoffman Gallery.
Camping season
Not far from Lincoln City, North Creek’s proximity to the ocean, rainfall totals that would send Noah to the woodshed, cobble-strewn creek bed and woody debris gifted by the forest have combined to provide ideal habitat for generations of salmon.
A Valentine with strings attached
Join the Newport Symphony Orchestra for “Valentine’s Enchantment and Beautiful Inner Harmony,” a special intimate get together streaming on Zoom at 7 pm this Valentine’s Day, Sunday, Feb. 14.
School of rock
A lot has changed in the world of music since the days when Elvis shocked the world with his swiveling pelvis and the mere sight of a Beatle caused fainting spells. While we once had collectible album covers designed by real artists, music now travels through the air and is stored in the cloud. Concerts that were once highlights of the social calendar can be seen online from anywhere at any time.
Dress up (or down) for Pearls
If you’ve ever wanted to show up to a dignified community event in your pajamas, now's your chance, since the Oregon Coast Community College Foundation’s third annual Pearls of Wisdom has gone virtual.
This show looms large
Handweaver Linda Borntrager will pop open a trunk full of vests, shawls and jackets for her show at the Lincoln City Cultural Center Fiber Arts Studio Gallery, running from Thursday, Feb. 4 through Sunday, March 28.
Small town, big canvas
Toledo, the small town with the big arts community, will continue to demonstrate its artistic side during the first First Weekend of the new year on Saturday and Sunday, Feb. 5 and 6.
Still got the music bug
There’s no doubt about it, COVID-19 has put a huge hole in the Central Coast live music scene. Most venues have fallen silent, but the Drift Inn in Yachats powers on with an entire year’s lineup.
Library presents a fine selection
Traditionally, Ken Hobson casts a wide net throughout the state when choosing authors for Driftwood Public Library’s annual Oregon Legacy Literary Series. This year, he’s sticking to the coast for the four fiction and nonfiction authors who will appear each Sunday throughout February.
Now that’s sticker shock
Buy a sticker, and possibly win something to put it on, in the new online raffle from Tillamook Off Road Trail Alliance, or TORTA.
The mural majority
The Central Coast has a bounty of public art. Try to catch it all in one day and you’ll find yourself boggled by brunch-time. To make it easier to take in, one can divide the offerings into categories, like sculptures or functional art for example. But if you want to take in art on the largest scale, you can’t go wrong with the murals that give color to our coastline.
A totally clawsome time of year
Anyone who lives at or frequents the Oregon Coast would find it difficult to miss just how embedded crabbing season is within coastal culture.
A talk you really otter sea
Join the MidCoast Watersheds Council for a virtual community meeting on Thursday, Feb 4, to learn about the history and possible future of sea otters in Oregon.
An artful way to give
Since last fall, the Lincoln City Cultural Center has rallied around the goal of helping survivors of the Echo Mountain Fire by hosting or supporting individual fundraisers, shifting funds from its annual auction and planning an art show to help victims tell their stories.