MY EDMONDS NEWS Posted: July 12, 2021
Tufted Puffin by Georgia Schlegel
Artist Georgia Schlegel has been named the winner of the 2021 Puget Sound Bird Fest Poster Art Contest with her mixed-media piece
Tufted Puffin. The piece was selected by a jury from among 17 entries, and will be featured on the promotional poster for the 2021 Bird Fest event to be held in Edmonds on Sept. 11-12.
The Puget Sound Bird Fest Poster Art Contest is held each spring to select a piece of original art to be used for the festival’s promotional poster. Sponsored by the Edmonds Arts Festival Foundation, the winning artist is awarded a $350 prize.
Cute, Colorful Puffins Subject of Oregon Coast Talk, May 12
Published 05/09/21 at 3:05 PM PDT
By Oregon Coast Beach Connection staff
(Cannon Beach, Oregon) – Oh, those adorable and slightly comical puffins of the Oregon coast. Now that they’ve returned for the spring and summer, puffin love is in the air. So is monitoring them for scientific purposes. And who wouldn’t want to monitor puffins?
(Photo courtesy Tiffany Boothe / Friends of Haystack Rock)
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Yet “just how do you monitor puffins?” That’s an actual question and the title of the latest World of Haystack Rock Library Lecture Series, set to take over your digital airwaves on May 12. The virtual lectures continue, this time with bird expert Tim Halloran – starting at 7 p.m. on the Friends of Haystack Facebook page.
Lori Tobias, arguably one of the hardest-working journalists travelling the 363 miles of U.S. 101 between the Astoria-Megler bridge and the California border, will discuss her recently published memoir, âStorm Beat: A Journalist Reports from the Oregon Coast,â via a Zoom/Facebook Live presentation at 2 p.m., Saturday, May 15.
Hosted by the Cannon Beach Libraryâs Northwest Authors Series, Tobias will discuss her ten years as a correspondent and feature writer for the Oregonian who focused mostly on small-town events, boating disasters, accidents, murders, storms, drownings and 165-ton dock the Tohoku tsunami pushed onto Agate Beach, just north of Newport, on my 65th birthday in 2012.