Whale Watch training to start soon

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Training for volunteer whale watchers opens Dec. 5 and 6 in Newport for the winter Whale Watch Week that runs Dec. 26 through Jan. 1.

During the week between Christmas and New Year's Day, trained volunteers staff 26 sites — 24 of them on the Oregon Coast, one each in Southern Washington and Northern California — to dispense information and brochures and to help coast visitors spot southward-migrating gray whales.

The highlighted speaker/trainer at the training sessions is Bruce Mate, one of the foremost authorities on whales in the world and the director of Oregon State University's Marine Mammal Institute.

For more information, call 541-765-3407 or go online at http://whalespoken.org/.

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