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Wednesday, January 31, 2018
East Oregonian
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PENDLETON
Robbers hit stores
Symphony announces upcoming concerts in Hermiston, M-F
Waiting list for
chamber festival
East Oregonian
Small chamber ensem-
bles paired with hearty
hors d’oeuvres and wine is
featured during the upcoming
performance presented by the
Oregon East Symphony
The
annual
Winter
Chamber Music Festival is
Saturday, Feb.10 at 6:30 p.m.
in the Vert Clubroom, 345
S.W. Fourth St., Pendleton.
Tickets are sold out for the
event, however, people may
be put on a waiting list by
contacting the symphony
at 541-276-0320 or oesof-
ficeinfo@gmail.com.
In
addition, some seats may be
released on the day of the
performance — allowing
patrons an opportunity to
purchase tickets at the door.
Contributed photo
Violinist Hannah Leland
and pianist Sue Nelson
(not pictured) will per-
form Sarasate’s “Carmen
Fantasy” as part of the
Feb. 10 Winter Chamber
Music Festival at the Vert
Clubroom in Pendleton.
The performers include
violinist Hannah Leland and
pianist Sue Nelson, who will
perform Pablo de Sarasate’s
“Carmen Fantasy,” the
Raising the Bar Players
performing movements of
Mozart’s “String Quintet No.
3,” principal flautist Cathy
Muller leading performances
of works by Luigi Boccherini
and Dmitri Shostakovich,
and perennial favorites the
Pendleton Brass Quintet
featuring Steve Muller, Jill
Scanlan, Gary Ferguson,
Andy Cary and Kaitlyn
McMasters.
Tickets are still available
for other upcoming Oregon
East Symphony concerts. “A
Soldier’s Tale” is Saturday,
March 10 at 7:30 p.m. in
the Bob Clapp Theater at
Blue Mountain Community
College, Pendleton. Produced
in
collaboration
with
Pendleton Ballet Theatre,
“L’Histoire du Soldat (A
Soldier’s Tale)” is a theatrical
ballet composed by Igor Stra-
vinsky, which premiered in
September 1918. The Faus-
tian tale of a soldier, it centers
around his homecoming from
a great war and his exchange
of his fiddle to the devil for a
book of knowledge.
Also, the season finale
is Saturday, April 21 at 7:30
p.m. in the Vert Auditorium. It
feature guest soloist Augusta
Schubert on Felix Mendels-
sohn’s “Violin Concerto.”
The program also includes
Beethoven’s
“Symphony
No. 2” and the overture to
Mozart’s “Don Giovanni.”
Tickets are $20 for adults,
$15 for students and seniors
or $45 for a family of four.
Advance tickets are available
at
www.oregoneastsym-
phony.org, Pendleton Art +
Frame, 28 S.W. Court Ave.,
and the symphony office, 345
S.W. Fourth St. They also
will be sold at the door. For
more information, call the
symphony office at 541-276-
0320.
BRIEFLY
Oldies Night features
Fats Domino
MILTON-FREEWATER — Fats
Domino had his first hit on the rhythm
and blues chart in 1950 when “The Fat
Man” peaked at number two.
Five years later, he broke onto the
pop chart with “Ain’t That a Shame.”
Domino went on to place more than
60 songs on each of those charts in
the ’50s and ’60s, influencing up-and-
coming rockers like Elvis Presley, The
Beatles and the Rolling Stones.
Domino, who was inducted into the
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1986,
died Oct. 25, 2017. However, his music
lives on and is being featured during
the latest installment of Oldies Night in
Milton-Freewater.
BJ the DJ will spin such tunes
as “Blueberry Hill,” “Whole Lotta
Lovin’” and “Blue Monday.” The free
event is Saturday at 7 p.m. at Wesley
United Methodist Church, 816 S. Main
St., Milton-Freewater. The Frogs will
offer snacks.
For more information, contact Bob
Jones at 541-938-7028 or dubuquer@
charter.net.
Grange holds weekend
meals and flea market
HERMISTON — Breakfast, lunch
and a flea market are all planned
Saturday at the Columbia Grange.
The event runs from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m.
at 32339 Diagonal Blvd., Hermiston.
Vendor space is available for $8.
For more information, call Doris at
541-567-8663 or Pat at 541-567-5706.
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Submit information to: community@
eastoregonian.com. Call 541-564-4539
or 541-966-0818 with questions.
East Oregonian
For the second time
in less than a week the
Neighborhood Grocery in
Milton-Freewater was the
target of an armed robbery.
And a late-night robber also
hit Hermiston’s 11th Street
Market.
Milton-Freewater Police
Chief Doug Boedigheimer
said
his
department
could be closing in on
their suspect, who may
be responsible for both
robberies at Neighborhood
Grocery.
The latest took place
Monday at 4:35 p.m.,
Boedigheimer reported, and
the suspect again carried a
pistol into the store at 209
N.W. Eighth Ave. “The
store employee,” according
to Boedigheimer, “based on
their verbal exchange with
the suspect, believes it is
the same person that robbed
the store a few days prior.”
The robber is male,
has a medium build, is
approximately 5 feet,
10 inches tall, and could
be Hispanic with a light
complexion with shoulder-
length dark-colored hair.
He also had “a scruffy
goatee beard, a quasi Fu
Manchu mustache, with
what appears to be a mole
on the right side of his face
near the curvature of the
mustache,” according to
Boedigheimer.
The suspect wore a
zippered coat with an
attached hood along with a
“brimmed beanie” hat and
a black pair of running-type
pants with red striping
down the sides of the legs.
Milton-Freewater police
is seeking help from the
community to identify the
robber.
“If you see this person,
or someone who resembles
this person, please call
911 immediately and
report your sighting,”
Boedigheimer
urged.
But he also cautioned
the suspect is armed and
therefore is dangerous, so
do not approach or attempt
to contact the person.
And
Hermiston
police also are searching
for an armed robbery
suspect. Police Lt. Randy
Studebaker reported the
crime happened shortly
after 11 p.m. at the 11th
Street Market, 425 N.W.
11th St., when a woman
entered,
displayed
a
weapon, demanded money
and fled. No one was hurt
during the robbery.
Studebaker described
the suspect as a short,
heavyset, Hispanic female
in her early 20s. She wore
dark clothing and covered
her face.
Investigators
are
following
on
leads,
according to Studebaker,
but Hermiston police
also asked anyone with
information about the crime
to call the department at
541-567-5519.
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