Some mulch-needed gardening advice
As the coast moves into winter, gardening might be the last thing on your mind, but now is the time to start thinking about getting the garden ready for spring and the Lincoln County Master Gardener Program is here to help. Registration is now open for the 2014 Master Gardener Classes sponsored by Oregon State University Lincoln County Extension Service and dedicated to getting people prepared for the coastal gardening season The classes start on January 7 and are held from 9 am to 4 pm every Tuesday at the Oregon Coast Sam Case Students harvesting at Community College the Yaquina Lighthouse Master Gardener project in South Beach, Newport. Limited partial scholarships are available. The deadline for registering is Tuesday, Dec. 10, and there is a mandatory orientation session on Thursday, Dec. 12. For more information, call Lincoln County Extension Office at 541-574-6534, go to the Extension website at http://extension.oregonstate.edu/lincoln/master_ gardeners or stop by the Extension Office at 29 SE 2nd Street, Newport, across from the Newport Recreation Center.
Research your roots
Driftwood Public Library is offering people the chance to dig up the story of their own family line in a series of genealogy workshops starting on Monday, Dec. 2. The roughly-90-minute workshops are free and are designed for beginners who are interested in researching their roots. The classes will include instruction for conducting online research. The Dec. 2 workshop will begin at 6 pm, and will be followed by another session at 2 pm on Saturday, Dec. 7. Beginning the week of Dec. 9, the workshop instructors will be available at the library to assist genealogy researchers on the 1st and 3rd Mondays of the month from 6 to 8 pm and on the 2nd and 4th Saturdays of the month from noon to 2 pm. Questions about the workshops may be directed to Ken Hobson at 541-996-1242 or kenh@lincolncity. org. Driftwood Public Library is located on the 2nd floor of the Lincoln Square Civic Complex, 801 SW Hwy. 101.
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Looking for an alternative?
One of the most distinctive voices in investigative journalism will lend his support to Lincoln County’s fledgling community radio station on Tuesday, Dec. 3, when David Barsamian visits Newport to present “Capitalism and the Environment.” Barsamian is the award-winning founder and director of “Alternative Radio,” the independent weekly audio series based in Boulder, Colorado. “Sure, we have Earth Day, the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, the Endangered Species Act, and the Environmental Protection Agency, but the threat to our environment is acute and growing,” Barsamian writes. “The majority of solutions — from driving a hybrid, to recycling plastic, to using efficient light bulbs — all focus on individual lifestyle choices of mostly privileged people. But the scale of the crisis requires a far deeper and fundamental transformation. As global warming accelerates, carbon-fueled industrial capitalism is systemically incapable of making the necessary radical changes to protect the planet. Its insatiable appetite for profits
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precludes it from doing so. It is time to think about a different economic system.” Barsamian has worked with Noam Chomsky, Tariq Ali, Howard Zinn, Edward Said, Arundhati Roy, and others. His most recent books are “Occupy the Economy: Challenging Capitalism” with Richard Wolff, “Power Systems: Conversations on Global Democratic Uprisings,” and “The New Challenges to U.S. Empire” with Noam Chomsky. He is winner of the Media Education Award, the ACLU’s Upton Sinclair Award for independent journalism, and the Cultural Freedom Fellowship from the Lannan Foundation. The Institute for Alternative Journalism named him one of its Top Ten Media Heroes. Barsamian’s talk is a fund-raiser for KYAQ, Lincoln County’s brand new non-commercial, full-power, community radio station, which is scheduled to begin broadcasting at 91.7 FM by Jan. 4, 2014. “Part of KYAQ’s mission is to do locally what David Barsamian does on a national level through Alternative Radio,” KYAQ Board Chair Bridget Wolfe said, “present information, analyses, and views that are frequently ignored or distorted in other media. Our initial programming will reflect the interests of the volunteers who come forward to create the programming. KYAQ will continue training community journalists at Oregon Coast Community College this winter, as well as provide instruction on how to be a radio operations tech, and how to host a music or talk show, through the college’s Lifelong Learning program.” People interested in getting involved should contact Alan Searle at news@kyaq.org or 541-264-5917. Barsamian’s talk will take place at 6:30 pm at the First Presbyterian Church, 227 NE 12th Street. Admission is $10. Advance tickets are available online at KYAQ.org. Wolfe urged those who cannot attend the talk to consider making a donation to KYAQ’s capital campaign through IndieGoGo, where the station is trying to raise $6,000 for studio equipment. Donations are fully tax deductible and can be made online at www.kyaq.org, or mailed to KYAQ, P.O. Box 1664, Newport, OR 97365. For more information, go to www.kyaq.org, or contact Wolfe at 541-336-2284.