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Wednesday, October 2, 2019
GO! magazine — A&E in Northeast Oregon
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Concert follows art show
Friday at Churchill
BAKER CITY — A concert
will follow the First Friday art
show at Churchill School on Oct.
4, featuring Catherine Lazar
Odell, Mo Troper, Clay Cole and
Friend. Doors open at 7:30 p.m.
and the show begins about 8
p.m. Tickets are $8 in advance at
Sweet Wife Baking and $10 at the
door. Food by MC Taco Bus and
beverages from Copper Belt and
Barley Brown’s will be available for
purchase.
Enjoy fall colors aboard a
steam train Oct. 11
SUMPTER — Reservations are
now available for the Fall Colors
Train aboard the Sumpter Valley
Railroad on Oct. 11. Round trips
will leave the McEwen Depot at 10
a.m. and 1 p.m. Cost is $24 adults,
$20 seniors/military, $14 age 5-17,
and $60 for a family (two adults,
two children). Tickets may be
purchased at www.sumptervalley-
railroad.org. For information, email
reservations@sumptervalleyrail-
road.org or call 541-894-2268.
Saturday is cider pressing
day at farmers markets
JOSEPH, LA GRANDE — The
Wallowa County Farmers Mar-
ket invites the community to a
Customer Appreciation & Cider
Pressing Day Oct. 5. The market
runs from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. next to
Stein Distillery on Main Street in
Joseph. BYO apples to press or, if
you don’t have apples, add a dona-
tion and taste the freshly pressed
cider. Proceeds will benefi t the
Wallowa County Farmers Market.
Saturday’s market will also feature
live music by Elwood. Oct. 12 will
be the last market of the season.
For more information, go to www.
wallowacountyfarmersmarket.com.
Cider pressing will also be the
main event at the Oct. 5 La Grande
Farmers Market, between 9 a.m.
and noon at Max Square, corner of
Fourth Street and Adams Avenue.
Community Cider Pressing Day
will feature old-fashioned apple
pressing and the opportunity to
sample unusual and unique heir-
loom apples that have been grown
in the Grande Ronde Valley. The
autumn celebration is sponsored
by Better Homes Construction.
Tailgaters will provide live music.
The last market of the season in
La Grande will be Oct. 19. More
details are available at www.
lagrandefarmersmarket.org.
Share your talent at TG’s
open mic
ENTERPRISE — Terminal
Gravity’s next Open Mic Night will
run from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. Oct. 4.
Anyone who feels like sharing a
song or other talents is welcome
to take the stage at the Enterprise
brewpub, located at 803 School St.
Terminal Gravity hosts an open
mic the fi rst Friday of the month.
For more information, contact
Jacey Bell at 541-426-0158 or go to
www.terminalgravitybrewing.com.
See glassblowing in
action Saturday
ENTERPRISE — Moonshine
Glass Art, 624 S. River St. in
Enterprise, is hosting glassblowing
demonstrations from noon to 4 p.m.
Oct. 5. The special event coincides
with the new “Function of Medium”
exhibit at the Josephy Center in
Joseph, which features, in part, the
works of glassblower Kevin Boylan.
Jazz 4tet brings Coltrane
and Sun Ra tribute
LA GRANDE — Rob Scheps’
4tet will take the stage Oct. 10 at
hq, 112 Depot St., La Grande, with
a tribute to John Coltrane and Sun
Ra. Scheps, on saxophone, will be
joined by Matt Cooper on piano,
Luke McKern on bass and Mark
Emerson on drums. Doors open at
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7 p.m., and the jazz show begins at
8 p.m.
For tickets and information, go
to www.lagrandehq.com, email
lagrandehq@gmail.com or call 541-
962-5799.
‘Newsies’ run ends
Saturday
ELGIN — The Elgin Opera
House’s production of “Newsies”
ends Oct. 5. The musical showcases
a cast of Opera House veteran ac-
tors and an ensemble of more than
30 energetic young actors.
“Newsies” is inspired by the real-
life Newsboy Strike of 1899, when
newsboy Kid Blink led a band of
orphan and runaway newsies on a
two-week action against Pulitzer,
Hearst and other powerful newspa-
per publishers. Shows are at 7:30
p.m. Friday and at 2:30 p.m. and
7:30 p.m. Saturday.
Tickets are $8-$17. For reserva-
tions, visit www.elginoperahouse.
com or call 541-663-6324.
Val’s Veggies corn maze
opens this weekend
MEDICAL SPRINGS — Val’s
Veggies corn maze and pumpkin
patch opens this weekend. Sunday
is family day with games, buggy
rides, face painting, food and pump-
kin golf from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
The maze is open by appoint-
ment Monday through Thursday.
Friday hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Saturday is a night maze only from
7 p.m. to 9 p.m. (Oct. 12 is “Full
Moon in the Maze” from 7 p.m. to
midnight with live music by Sam
Campbell). Sunday hours are 10
a.m. to 6 p.m.
Admission to the maze is $8 per
anyone age 3 and older (age 2 and
younger are free). Pumpkins are
priced per pound.
To get there, take Highway 203
to Medical Springs. At mile marker
26 turn on Blue Mt. Ridge Road,
go half a mile and turn right on
Houghton Creek Road. Go 2 miles
and maze is on left.
For group and school rates and a
full schedule, call 541-853-2358 or
go to www.valsveggies.com.
Cast Iron Chef Dutch
oven cook-off is Saturday
BAKER CITY — The Bureau
of Land Management’s National
Historic Oregon Trail Interpretive
Center will be connecting kids to
America’s natural and cultural
heritage with a variety of programs
and events in October.
Oct. 5 is a fee free day for all
visitors, and will feature the fourth
annual Cast Iron Chef Dutch Oven
Cook-off from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Cosponsored by the Baker County
Chamber of Commerce, this event
celebrates pioneer-style open-air
cooking using locally harvested
ingredients. Sample the entries
and cast your vote for your favorite.
To be a contestant, call 541- 523-
5855 or go to www.visitbaker.com
for more information.
Additional programs will be
offered throughout the month. At
10 a.m. on Oct. 6, 19, 23 and 25,
and at 2 p.m. on Oct. 2, 4, 9 and 27,
the center will feature a ranger-led
discussion of the “Oregon Fever!”
that gripped many an emigrant
traveling the Oregon Trail.
At 10 a.m. on Oct. 7, 16 and 29,
the “Crossing the Blues” ranger
program will use pioneer diary
excerpts to describe the arduous
crossing of the Blue Mountains,
one of the fi nal ranges emigrants
crossed before reaching Oregon
City.
“The Final Decision” program at
10 a.m. on Oct. 12 and 14 examines
the choices pioneers faced during
the last 150 miles of their journey
west.
Live demonstrations are offered
daily at the center, varying from
black powder fi ring to Dutch oven
cooking or blacksmithing, candle
dipping and other pioneer skills.
Get ready for Halloween with
a visit to the Flagstaff Gallery’s
new exhibit, “Uncanny Tales Along
the Oregon Trail,” featuring the
folklore that sprung up around the
pioneer experience and the role
these tales play in the history of
the Oregon Trail.
The center is open daily, from
9 a.m. to 6 p.m. through Oct. 12.
Fall hours begin Oct. 13, when the
center will be open from 9 a.m. to
4 p.m.
As of Oct. 1, regular two-day
summer passes will cost $8 for
adults and $6 for seniors; winter
passes will cost $5 for adults and
$4 for seniors. Admission is free
for age 15 and younger. All federal
interagency America the Beautiful
passes are good for free admis-
sion. Commercial group rates will
increase from $5 to $6 per person.
For a complete schedule of events
and activities at the center, call
541-523-1843 or go to oregontrail.
blm.gov.
Israeli comedy shown on
Foreign Film Friday
LA GRANDE — Cook Memorial
Library in La Grande hosts a free
foreign movie at 4 p.m. the second
Friday of the month. The Oct. 11
Foreign Film Friday will feature
a 2017 Israeli comedy, “Holy Air,”
about a man who goes into the big-
gest business in Nazareth: religion.
Refreshments will be provided.
Wine Down hosts live
music
LA GRANDE — On Oct. 5 at
8:30 p.m., Pendulum Swing will
perform at Wine Down, 115 Depot
St., La Grande.
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