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Sandra Lill
Jewelry featured in
Ilwaco Art Walk
ILWACO, WASH — The
Columbia Pacific Heri-
tage Museum will feature
a special trunk show with
jewelry artist Sandra Lill
during the Ilwaco First
Friday Art Walk, 4 to 7
p.m. July 6.
Lill joins fine crafts-
manship and an artistic
eye to create striking
neckwear from antique
stone and glass beads,
fiber and metals. The Art
Walk Trunk Show is an
exceptional opportunity
to see new and unique
pieces by this respected
artist.
Start your Art Walk
in downtown Ilwaco at
the Columbia Pacific
Heritage Museum, 115
S.E. Lake St. For more
information, call 360-
COURTESY COLUMBIA PACIFIC
HERITAGE MUSEUM
Jewelry by Sandra Lill
642-3446 or visit colum-
biapacificheritagemuse-
um.org.
‘Love Letters’ read
on Nehalem stage
NEHALEM — The
Riverbend Players bring
A.R. Gurney’s classic
play “Love Letters” to the
North County Recreation
District Performing Arts
Center in Nehalem, Friday,
July 6, through Saturday,
July 21.
See it more than once
— three different casts will
bring this classic stage-
read play to life with seven
performances.
A finalist for the Pulit-
zer Prize in Drama, this
American serio-comedy
has been performed and
loved around the world.
The play tells the story
of Andrew Makepeace
Ladd III and Melissa Gard-
ner, both born to wealth
and position, who ex-
change letters from grade
school though a lifetime of
experiences.
“The audience will
laugh out loud and be
moved to tears as the
stories and incredible rela-
tionship unfolds,” director
Mike Arseneault said.
The North County Rec-
reation District Performing
Arts Center is located at
36155 Ninth Street. Tickets
are $15 each; advance
tickets are available at
Tickettomato.com. For
showtimes, visit riverbend-
players.org.
COURTESY ASTOR STREET OPRY COMPANY
Get a ‘Sneake’ peek of ‘Shanghaied in Astoria’
ASTORIA — Astor Street
Opry Company and KGBE,
94.9 FM The Bridge are
proud to present a “Sneake
Peek” of the 34th season of
“Shanghaied in Astoria,” 7
p.m. Friday and Saturday,
July 6 and 7, at the ASOC
Playhouse, 129 W. Bond
Street.
Be among the first to
see the 2018 version of this
award-winning, origi-
nal, historical, hysterical,
Broadway-style musical
melodrama.
The 34th season opens
Thursday, July 12, and runs
through Saturday, Sept. 1.
Tickets are available now
at asocplay.com, and all
Sneake Peek tickets are
$10!
This year’s production is
directed by “Shanghaied”
veteran Ashley Mundel, and
features your friends and
neighbors, including Matt
Duncan, Dawson Yukon
Shadd, Matthew Zedwick,
Ashley Mundel, Roy Breur,
Raul Espericueta, LaMar
Blackner, Zachary San-
doval, Mark Fischer, Jon
Osborn, Katy Sokol, Josie
Posey, Lexi Blacksten,
Kristin Zedwick, Jamie
Baird, Stephanie Osborn,
Dorothy Frace, Madison
Ferguson, Lora Posey, Bria
Frech, Beth Beauparland,
Kathy Matthews, Sandi
Hilton, Patricia VonVin-
tage, Dena Tuveng, Julien
Thomas, Richard Bracke
and Norm Brown.
“Shanghaied” began in
the mid 1980s with a bare-
bones budget and a cast of
fun, talented friends. It has
since grown into a piece
of Astoria folklore, enter-
taining more than 83,000
people in its history.
The story centers on the
shanghaiing of our hero and
his daring rescue — all in
melodramatic style, with
an audience encouraged to
cheer, boo, sigh and throw
popcorn!
The Astor Street Opry
Company is a nonprofit
community theatre organi-
zation and is currently seek-
ing show sponsors. Contact
us at info@astorstreetopry-
company.com.