Illinois Valley News, Cave Junction, Ore. Wednesday, August 1, 2018
Page A-9
‘Let’s write’ workshop covers all writing genres
Not your usual writers’
conference, Let’s Write!really
will be a day of writing, and
sharing – with inspiration
and edification from an
exciting and varied group
of writer-facilitators – all in
air-conditioned comfort at the
Guild Gallery and Art Center
on the RCC Kerby Campus,
Saturday, August 4.
The day begins with
registration and a light
breakfast at 8:00 am and
proceeds through a series of
writing, learning, and sharing
experiences throughout the day
to an Open Mic at the end of
the day. The public is welcome
for the Open Mic, but Let’s
Write participants will have
priority for performance spots.
Oregon slam poetry
champion, MOsleyWOtta
(aka Jason Graham) is coming
from Bend to be part of Let’s
Write! He’ll lead us into “The
art of Freestyle BEYOND
Hip Hop”, starting with one
of the segments during the
morning writing intensive
and digging deeper in a
longer afternoon session. He
will also MC the Open Mic,
which will include optional
musical accompaniment for
performers. To get a taste of
who MOsleyWOttas is as an
artist, search for him online
and check out the video of his
Oregon Art Beat appearance.
Dynamic teacher and
playwrite, Kaci Elder, will
manage the morning intensive.
Starting at 9:00 am sharp,
each of the five accomplished
writers will conduct their own
segment. Elder will lead one of
the morning writing segments,
each of which will begin with
a sensory prompt to help get
creativity flowing. Kaci is co-
coordinator of the Whirlwind
24-hour Playwriting Festival
in the Illinois Valley and
will conduct an afternoon
workshop on Whirlwind
Playwriting.
Well-known nature writer
and personal essayist, Diana
Coogle, will join us from the
southern Oregon mountains
above the Applegate Valley to
inspire participants to begin
exploring the depths of their
experiences with nature during
the morning session. In her
afternoon session, she will
support writers in utilizing
all the tools in the writer’s
toolbox to create a powerful
personal piece of work. Diana
will also examine the question,
“Am I a Writer Yet?” during
lunch.
Coogle is a prolific
writer with many publications,
awards, and years of regular
commentaries on Jefferson
Public Radio. Her latest book,
At the Far End of Life: My
Parents’ Aging – and Then My
Own, Laughing Dog Press,
was published this year.
Two poets, Vincent
Wixon and Michael Spring,
will collaborate to offer the
fourth afternoon workshop.
Both Wixon and Spring are
many-times-published and
award-winning poets with
years of experience leading
poetry workshops. They
will address the challenge
of finding ways of getting
poems started and keeping
them going, a challenge well
known to those who write
poetry, whether regularly
or on occasion. Vince will
present the approach used
by acclaimed 20th century
poet and Library of Congress
and Oregon poet laureate,
William Stafford, to keep a
creative work moving forward.
Michael will offer an exercise
that will help the writer find
direction from music and
experience how repetition can
infuse new ideas and rhythm
into the words. Michael’s
morning segment will also
incorporate music.
Well-earned by a lifetime
of writing, research, and
teaching, Vince Wixon and his
wife Patty received the Stewart
H. Holbrook Literary Legacy
Award for contributions to the
literary life of Oregon. His
most recent book of poetry
is Laying By, published by
Flowstone Press. Michael
Spring is co-editor of Cobra
Lily – A Review of Southwest
Oregon Literature and Art,
published by Left Fork
Books,and author of numerous
books of poetry, including
Unfolding the Field.
After lunch, Let’s Write
participants will choose
between MOsleyWOtta’s
workshop, “The Art of
Freestyle, BEYOND Hip
Hop”, and Kaci Elder’s
workshop on Whirlwind
Playwriting for their first
90-minute workshop. The
second set of workshops
presents the choice between
Diana Coogle’s “A Writer’s
Toolbox”, which offers the
writer a choice of genres,
and the dedicated poetry
workshop, “New Pathways in
Poetry”, with Vince Wixon and
Michael Spring.
Included in the day
are a light breakfast during
registration, a bag lunch, and
wine-tasting and snacks at the
Open Mic.
Let’s Write will end
with Open Mic performances
of work created during the
day or at some other time.
With MOsleyWOtta as MC
and the option of musical
accompaniment, this is sure to
be a lively celebration.
The Open Mic will end
at 6:00 pm and you might also
want to stay for the beginning
of the Whirlwind 24-hour
Playwriting Festival. It begins
immediately and will end with
a 6:00 pm performance on
Sunday.
Fee for “Let’s Write”
is on a sliding scale of $35 to
$55. Student fee is $20. Prior
registration will guarantee a
place and is available online
at www.southernoregonguild.
org . Or, you can register by
calling 541-592-5019 or in
person at the Guild on the
RCC Kerby Campus, 24353
Redwood Highway, Kerby,
Oregon.For financial hardship
scholarship information, call
541-659-3858or email guild@
southernoregonguild.org
‘Summer’s Last Blast’ is the theme for I.V. Lions Labor Day Parade
Sharissa Smith
IVN Contributing Writer
As summer moves right along
we’re launched into Labor Day
festivities and preparations! Illinois
Valley Lions Club parade chairman
Marty Haynie gave an update
regarding upcoming preparations for
the annual parade.
He explained how to register
a float: “They can fill out the
application. You can pick one up at
City Hall, I left some there, or you
could call me.”
Parade applications are also
printed in the Illinois Valley News
and you can mail them to I.V. Lions,
P.O Box 396, Cave Junction, OR
97523 or email to hayniem@cavenet.
com.
More floats make for longer
parades with more candy. Haynie
said, “Usually people do come out to
get their kids some candy. Even last
year we had a good turnout and stuff
but a lot of people canceled because
of all the smoke.”
Despite the smoke Haynie still
has high hopes and expectations. “We
are trying to get it bigger than last
year. Last year was a record we had!
We’d like to have it as big as possible,
you know, and you can throw candies
to the kids on the sidewalk and stuff.
Last year we didn’t want the kids to
get run over by running out, but you
got to throw it over, you know, so
they don’t run out in the street.”
For all those who want to be
in the parade, Haynie said, “At the
beginning of the application it has that
Evergreen School is where to check
in starting at 8:30 a.m. and then you
receive a number, the number you can
be [in line].” The parade route starts
at 10 a.m. sharp and then ends back at
Evergreen Elementary School.
Every year the theme changes
and this year the theme will be
“Summer’s Last Blast.” If you would
like to look at all the parade entry
categories, they are listed on the
official parade application.
Haynie wanted to express
the I.V. Lions Club’s need for
volunteers: “We are always looking
for people and we do quite a bit for
the community.” He listed some of
the venues and ways that the I.V.
Lions gives to the community that
include: Medical Equipment Loan
Program, eyeglasses and hearing aids,
donations to the Boys and Girls Club
and Little League sponsorship. “We
are always looking for younger people
to help out if they want to help the
community. This year we are having a
fish fry!”
The All-You-Can-Eat Fish Fry
will be Saturday, Aug. 18, at Jubilee
Park from 4-8 p.m. The prices will
be adults $12, children 8 -12 $6 and
children 7 and under are free.
Finally, Haynie gave this
word of encouragement to all:
“Everybody come out! Anybody can
register to be in the parade. Old cars,
and stuff ... I encourage everybody to
come on out and join the party!”
For any questions, or if you
would like more information about
the I.V. Lions Club, please contact
Marty Haynie at 541-538-8298.
Obituaries
Loretta Marie
Cutler (Packard)
11/26/1944 – 7/13/2018
In celebration of the most
incredible woman, mother
and person a family could ask
for; we say farewell until we
meet again. You will be missed
more than you could ever
know.
Your life is a testament
to faith, love, strength,
compassion and kindness!
There are many more things
that we could say about
Mom but most of all we are
grateful that God chose you
to be our Mother. You taught
us how to be good human
beings and children of God
by your example. We thank
you for the life and love you
have given us. To those who
knew you; you were not just
a great mother or friend but
a true child of God but to
your kids you were a Saint
always willing and ready to do
whatever God asked of you.
Our tears of grief will
eventually dry but your
memory will never fade. We
want to say thank you for
this life you gave us but are
happy that God has called you
home and no longer are you
in pain or suffering. You can
once again dance in heaven
with Grandpa, Grandma, Dad,
Uncle Donald, the Angels and
Jesus by your side. Farewell
sweet Momma….
Lori is survived by
her children, grandchildren
and great-grandchildren:
Kimberly Thurman and her
children: Michael Cutler,
Steven McClanahan, Christina
Coronado, Joshua Coronado,
Cassie Thurman; Audra
Johnson and her children,
Jamie Dobler and Eric
Johnson; Arthur Cutler and his
son Kai Cutler; and Charles
Cutler and his children, Jacob
Cutler and Emma Cutler. Lori
is also survived by her brother,
Rev Kenneth Packard, and
her sister, Leona Campbell.
Also survived by her great-
grandchildren: Mathew, Jacob,
Ryan, Zoey, and Lilly Cutler.
Austin, Cali, Natalie, and
Savanah McClanahan; Isabelle
Coronado; Eleanor Coronado;
William Mitchell; along with
countless friends, including
Sharon Tinley, her sister in
Christ.
Preceded in death by
her father, Charles Edward
Packard; and mother, Flossie
Marie Packard (Sledge); and
her brother, Donald Packard.
There will be a
Celebration of Life for Lori
on Sept. 22 at Reinhart Park
(All Aports Park) in Grants
Pass at the Harry and David
Pavilion, from 12- 5 p.m. We
will be having pot luck and
sharing stories and pictures.
All are welcome! Come help
us celebrate Lori’s “life well
lived”!
Diana Savage
Frost, age 75, of Selma,
died July 28, 2018 at her home
Arrangements are pending
with Illinois Valley Funeral
Directors.
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Cave Junction
592-3667
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Loretta Marie Cutler