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Heritage
center
celebrates
valley wine
Members of the cast took part in indoor
and outdoor rehearsals to prepare for the
play's debut. Submitted photos
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McNary's production of Midsummer
debuts this weekend with shows Friday,
May 21 and Saturday, May 22. Tickets
can be purchased online at mcnary-the-
atre.ticketleap.com.
The outdoor performance will be
from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. in the new court-
yard at high school.
Audience members are encouraged
to bring a chair for the show, but if they
can’t, chairs will be provided for them.
Attendees will be seated on a fi rst-
come, fi rst-serve basis.
Despite COVID, auditions were held
in-person. They were held over four
days starting in early March and any
student was welcome to sign up. For
auditions, students read Shakespeare
and participated in improv games
Cavanaugh said.
From a student point of view, the
auditions were seemingly normal.
“It was pretty straightforward. He
pretty much just wanted to see if you
could articulate through the mask and
project loud enough,” said Talia Medlin
who is playing Helena in the play.
COVID restrictions caused a few
issues in picking a location for the play
specifi c scenes in the play and rehears-
als, however, this did not stop the actors
from having a good time.
Michael Zwemke, playing Demetrius,
noted that one of the best parts of the
play was being able to see everyone.
Dylan Lopez, playing Nick Bottom,
agreed with Zwemke and mentioned
that he was excited to be able to have a
live audience.
“We did a couple of other shows
this year, but we weren’t doing them
publicly because of COVID and every-
thing,” Lopez said.
“These kids haven’t had an audi-
ence all year, so it’d be nice to send
them out with a nice big audience
or at least as big one as we can,”
Cavanaugh said.
Breaking bread at St. Ed
The newest changing exhibit at the
Willamette Heritage Center – Toasting
the Mid-Willamette Valley Winemaking
Heritage – explores the history of the
region’s winemaking industry and its
vital role in our agricultural heritage and
future.
Learn how the valley’s rich abundant
fruit harvests have led to over a century
of fermenting. The exhibit explores the
evolution of the industry from small-scale
commercial ventures to the post-prohi-
bition founding of Honeywood Winery
– Oregon’s oldest continually operating
bonded winery.
The 1960s and '70s saw the birth of
the modern varietal production, and the
talents of local winemakers being rec-
ognized at international competitions.
Today, the region boasts over 590 winer-
ies, crushing over 66,000 tons of grapes
each year.
Willamette Valley Heritage Center is
located at 1313 Mill Street S.E. in Salem.
This exhibit is produced in partner-
ship with Honeywood Winery and the
Oregon Wine History Archive at Linfi eld
University.
St. Edward Catholic Church welcomed spring with a food
festival last weekend. Local non-profits served up a variety
of Oktoberfest type fare to help fill in funding gaps created
during the pandemic. Photo by BROOKLYN FLINT of Keizertimes
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