CHAMPAGNE SHINDIG

Cloud & Leaf Bookstore in Manzanita is hosting a town celebration with free champagne, music, and an authors’ signing table on Saturday, March 5, 2 pm to 6 pm, to celebrate two decades of selling books and the people who’ve kept the rural store alive and thriving. This free community event, supported in part by a grant funded by Transient Lodging Tax dollars through Tillamook Coast Visitors Association, will be held under a large commercial tent in front of the bookstore. Complimentary cake and champagne will be catered by Manzanita’s Offshore Grill and local band StayTuned Manzanita will be playing the blues, while four PNW authors will be available to sign their books: Rene Denfeld, Liz Prato, Anna Quinn, and Carlos Reyes.

“A big book party is just what this world needs, with loud music and cake and probably a raging March storm to make it exciting,” says owner Holly Lorincz. “Let’s hoist a glass to the printed word!”