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East Oregonian
Tuesday, July 12, 2022
Athena’s Caledonian Games draws locals, spectators
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Biko Wright, drumming, and Joey Linahon, members of the folk band Endalos from the
Oregon Coast, entertain the crowd Saturday, July 8, 2022, at Athena’s Caledonian Games.
Troy McGee of Athena, left, talks about his 1968 Corvette with locals Dwight Richter, center,
and Lee Friese at the car show Saturday, July 9, 2022, at Athena’s Caledonian Games.
COMMUNITY
BRIEFING
Chamber of
Commerce
Oregon poet takes
the spotlight at
First Draft
PENDLETON — Penelope
Scambly Schott has two bits
of advice on how to be a poet:
“Read a lot of poetry and get
a dog.”
Schott contended a dog
provides company but not
interruption.
“The words come to you
and put themselves together,”
she noted in a press release.
“All you have to do is listen and
remember until you get home.”
The Pendleton Center for
the Arts is featuring Schott at
the First Draft Writers’ Series
on Thursday, July 21. The free
event begins at 7 p.m. at the
Pendleton Center for the Arts,
and it also is possible to attend
via Zoom. The reading will
be followed by an audience
discussion, then an open mic,
where those in attendance in
person and virtually will have
an opportunity to read their
own 3-5 minute pieces.
Schott is the author of a
novel and several books of
poetry and was awarded four
New Jersey arts fellowships
before moving to Oregon,
where her verse biography, “A
is for Anne: Mistress Hutchin-
son Disturbs the Common-
wealth,” received an Oregon
Book Award for Poetry.
Several of her books and indi-
vidual poems have won other
prizes, and her individual
poems have appeared in APR,
Georgia Review, Nimrod and
elsewhere.
Professionally, she has sold
cosmetics at Macy’s in Herald
Square, made doughnuts at
Scrumpy’s Cider Mill, taken
care of the elderly as a certi-
fi ed home health aide, written
scripts for software on career
guidance, posed as an artist’s
model, and — as she quips,
“punishment for her Ph.D. in
late medieval English litera-
ture” — spent years and years
teaching college literature and
creative writing courses.
In an interview for
Combustus, Schott shared
her thoughts on poetry. “It
never occurred to me not to
write poems. They seemed
as matter-of-fact and daily as
socks and shoes. When I am
with non-poets, I always try to
demystify poetry and bring it
along as one of life’s satisfac-
tions and treats. Since we all
use words every day, using
those words in a poem doesn’t
need to seem hoity-toity or
inaccessible.”
Schott lives in Portland and
Dufur, where she teaches an
annual poetry workshop.
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Hermiston grad
makes Linfi eld
Dean’s List
MCMI N N VILLE —
Oliver Rodriguez of Hermis-
ton earned dean’s list honors
during the spring 2022 semes-
ter at Linfi eld University.
Linfi eld in a press release
reported the 2021 Hermis-
ton High School graduate is
pursuing a degree in political
science.
The dean’s list identifi es
undergraduate students who
have earned a term GPA at
least equivalent to a cum
laude (at least 3.650 GPA) for
a given semester.
Founded in 1858, Linfi eld
is a private liberal art univer-
sity in McMinnville. For
more information visit www.
linfi eld.edu.
— EO Media Group
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