NEWS BRIEFS
• A No Coal Demonstration during President Obama’s
Portland fundraiser is planned from 11 am to 2 pm Tuesday,
July 24, in the park blocks in front of the Portland Art
Museum, sponsored by the North Portland Coal Committee.
Visit www.goodgrowthnw.org or email bonnie@
goodgrowthnw.org
• Ten Salem households will showcase their backyards
in the second annual Capital City Chicken Coop Tour
from 10 am to 4 pm Saturday, July 21, hosted by Chickens
In The Yard (CITY), the group responsible for legalizing
backyard chickens in Salem. Email salemchickens@yahoo.
com for details.
LANE COUNTY AREA
SPRAY SCHEDULE
Seneca Jones Timber Co. (541) 689-1011 is hiring
Western Helicopter (503) 538-9469 to spray 223 acres in
3 units in the Camas Swale area with some combination of
glyphosate, imazapyr and metsulfuron methyl and the
surfactants/adjuvants methylated seed oil, Syl-Tak and
Sylgard. See ODF notice 2012-781-00510.
Compiled by Jan Wroncy, Forestland Dwellers: 342-8332, www.forestland-
dwellers.org
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BY PAUL NEEVEL
KORY WEIMER
Growing up in Glendale, Calif., just outside
Hollywood, Kory Weimer first auditioned for a
commercial when he was 4 years old. “From that
moment on,” he says, “I knew I wanted to be an
actor.” At age 8, he moved, along with his mom,
sister, uncle and grandparents, to an ostrich farm 2
miles from Junction City. “I had a lot of time to
watch old movies and memorize monologues,” he
says. “One of the first was Iago’s monologue from
Othello. I recited them for my mother and
grandma.” In eighth grade, he and a friend
performed stand-up comedy in a high school talent
contest. “In high school, I tried for some kind of
theater every term,” he says. “My first lead role, as
a senior, was nominated for an award by the
Cappies, student reviewers from around the area.”
After high school, he studied theater at LCC, where
his first major role was Edgar in King Lear. “For the
last eight years, it’s been one show after another, at
Very Little Theatre, Lord Leebrick and Actors
Cabaret,” says Weimer, whose day job as an early
morning barista at Allann Bros. frees his evenings
for rehearsals and performances. “On July 1, I
finished Tom in Glass Menagerie at the Cottage
Theater. Now I’m taking the rest of the year off to
rest and recuperate. I’m hoping to get in with the
Oregon Shakespeare Festival.”
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