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East Oregonian
Friday, November 13, 2015
RAIN: Later-than-usual PLAY: 20 girls, 3 boys tried out at auditions
oscillating between casts
fall moisture forced
heavy on males and females.
The gender makeup of
“It’s really different
the
actors has sometimes
I’m playing a guy,”
some farmers to re-seed because
informed the plays chosen
senior Deshon Dick said
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Growers must also plant
deeper into the soil when
it’s this dry, in order to
reach moisture that’s built
up underground from the
previous year’s fallow. The
goal is to raise an early
stand of wheat that has had
more time to absorb water
and nutrients before harvest,
increasing yield.
This year’s later-than-
usual fall rain has actually
forced some farmers to
re-seed, Wysocki said, since
the moisture causes soil to
crust up at the surface after
it dries.
“That’s the risk you
always run seeding early,” he
said.
Farmers would like to see
at least average to above-av-
erage precipitation through
the winter to buck the
ongoing drought, Wysocki
said. They will also watch
closely for the critical spring
rains in May and June that
can make or break a wheat
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“There’s still a lot of things
that can happen between now
and then,” he said.
Marilyn
Lohmann,
hydrologist with the National
Weather Service in Pend-
leton, said a cold front is
expected to move into the
region Sunday followed by
more storm systems into next
week.
Lohmann
said
she
expects overall precipitation
to be close to average for
November and December,
with El Niño settling in after
January. From there, winter
should become warmer and
drier than usual.
El Niño tends to push
storms either north or south,
leaving Oregon — and espe-
cially Eastern Oregon — in
no-man’s land for rain and
snow.
“We won’t see an abun-
dance, or much more than
what we’d normally see,”
Lohmann said. “That’s not
to say we won’t have any
storms, but precipitation
amounts will be below
normal.”
The good news is that
once El Niño cools off, more
seasonal precipitation could
return by March, April and
May, Lohmann said.
“Unfortunately on our
side, we won’t have a clear
picture on what we can
expect until springtime,” she
said.
Coming out of drought is a
slow process, Lohmann said,
and was only exacerbated by
the record-breaking heat of
last summer.
“Coming out of such
an extremely dry year ... it
makes it even harder for us
to come out of that hole,” she
said.
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Contact George Plaven
at gplaven@eastoregonian.
com or 541-966-0825.
bluntly about playing Dr.
Lyman.
Taking a break from
rehearsal Tuesday, the cast
alternated between humor
and
earnestness
when
describing an unintentionally
new take on an old play.
Sophomore
Cameran
Miltenberger, who plays
the sage ranch hand Virgil
Blessing, said the challenge
of acting in an opposite
gender isn’t just the way the
character talks or the clothing
he wears, but in the way men
carry themselves.
Miltenberger said she pops
her hip out when standing idly
and constantly has to remind
herself to stand up straighter.
Although
O’Rourke
appreciates how close the
girls have grown since they
were cast in September, she
in the past, like staging the
male-heavy “One Flew Over
the Cuckoos Nest.” O’Ro-
urke leaned into it.
“I didn’t want to (cast)
a guy just for the sake of
having a guy,” she said.
Throughout the audition
process, O’Rourke found
that the girls were better at
embodying the masculine
qualities of the charac-
ters than the boys were,
convincing her to go with the
all-female slate of actors.
The play opened Thursday
and runs through Saturday at
the Pendleton High School
Auditorium. Shows start at
6:30 p.m. and the cost is $6
for adults and $4 for students.
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Contact Antonio Sierra at
asierra@eastoregonian.com
or 541-966-0836.
Staff photo by E.J. Harris
Sophomore Cameran Miltenberger, left, playing Virgil
Blessing, speaks to junior Hannah Mossman, playing
Cherie, while rehearsing for “Bus Stop” on Tuesday.
didn’t stage an all-female
rendition of “Bus Stop”
because of a personal pref-
erence, or to make a political
statement.
O’Rourke was familiar
with the play from her time
as a student teacher assisting
with a production in 2001.
And she thought a drama
would be a good change of
pace after a spate of come-
dies in recent years.
Although the cast of char-
acters was fairly balanced
between men and women,
the auditions were not — 20
girls went out for parts,
compared to three boys.
O’Rourke said the gender
of the students interested in
the school play is cyclical,
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