“It said the Discovery Channel had the right to film me clothed, half-clothed or naked,” Newberry said. “I didn’t have to read any more. I signed it right away.

“I wonder why it took 45 years for someone to discover me.”

The show documents the around-the-clock schedule of working on crab boats and has made celebrities of the ship’s captains, Johnathan and Andy Hillstrand, who have written a book about their ship, Time Bandit, and will be at the Clark County Skills Center May 17 to autograph copies. But crew members such as Newberry also enjoy the media attention and often make appearances.

Newberry will be in Vancouver this weekend, but this time it’s not about promoting the show as much as helping old friends and the Vancouver Farmers Market.

Vancouver’s Fred Fry and Mel Brooks, who operate a food booth at the market, are old fishing buddies of Newberry’s and asked him to sign autographs and sell his shirts as a market fundraiser.

“It’s easy for me to sit around and babble on about crabbing,” Newberry said.

A big screen adventure

Vancouver’s Jacob Marsh still sings the praises of a filmmaking competition that led to him walking down the red carpet in Los Angeles a year ago.

Marsh is encouraging other aspiring filmmakers to consider entering the Samsung Mobile Fresh Films competition this year.

He was part of a team of students from Washington that made a film voted top movie of the competition.

The group attended the premier at the American Film Institute Film Festival.

“I’ve been promoting the contest because it’s such a great experience,” 15-year-old Marsh said.

Marsh, a sophomore at Camas High School, worked with students from the Seattle area on the project. All were chosen after submitting applications through the Web site fresh-films.com.

Marsh said his interest in filmmaking is even stronger now.

“It opened me up to incorporate my love of music with film and I’ve worked on scoring local projects since,” he said.

A winning opinion

Nathan Childs knows how to make a point with his pen.

Childs, 29, draws an editorial cartoon for the Clark College newspaper, The Independent, and he uses the characters Ozzie and Oswald, a penguin and a buzzard, to tackle issues around campus, such as a lack of parking spaces.

His weekly cartoon also was recently honored with a second-place award in the Society of Professional Journalists regional competition.

Impressive for a cartoon offered to simply fill space in the newspaper a few years ago.

“The creative director needed copy to fill empty space for an issue and no one had any stories,” Childs said. “I told her I could do a cartoon every week and she could count on that amount of space being filled.”

The editorial drawings have been in the paper for two years now and Childs said he’ll keep it going at least one more year.

MIKE BAILEY’s column appears ­Mon­days and Wednesdays. Reach him at mike.bailey@columbian.com.