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SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18, 2015 11 A LRP presents ‘Our Town’ this weekend I N BRIEF COURTESY PHOTO Jesse Reeves and Lyndsey Keppol as George Gibbs and Emily Webb in the LRP production of “Our Town.” ice cream sodas may be long gone, but the truths of small town life are eternal. In one intimate scene between Emily and George, she reprimands him, “I used to watch you as you did every- thing because we’d been friends so long and then you began spending all your time at baseball and you never stopped to speak to anybody anymore.” Emily’s real life father, Danny Keppol, had a similar thing happen to him. Before they were married, Kassy let HOLLOWAY & ASSOCATIONS, LLC CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS Focused on Your Financial Health...Protecting Your Assets him know in no uncertain terms that he was spending way too much time on baseball. George gets his priorities straightened out just as Danny did in real life. That’s the kind of situation that makes Thornton Wilder’s “Our Town” still speak to audiences today. The FEC’s art gallery committee has invited local artists to display their interpre- tations of “Life in Our Town” and those paintings and photographs can be viewed throughout the month of March, as well as during the intermissions of the play. Three cast members from the play, Kassy Keppol, Kary Keppol and Shawn Penrod, have contributed to the art exhibit. To enhance the experience, The Siuslaw Pioneer Museum has loaned more than 20 histor- ical photographs of Florence in the early 1900s to be displayed in Gallery Five. “Our Town” opens at the Florence Events Center on March 20 and runs Friday through Sunday for two week- ends. Tickets are available at the box office, by calling 541-997- 1994 or online at www.event center.org. LIHEAP program still has openings $15; non-members is $20. To register, call 541-997-8444. Siuslaw Outreach Services has openings for the LIHEAP energy assistance program. Persons who wish to be on that list may call 541-997-2816 or stop by the SOS office between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. Port of Siuslaw board meets today Tune in with West Lane Translators West Lane Translator, Inc. is a not-for-profit organization providing free television and radio re-transmission to the Florence area, including non- commercial radio station KXCR serving the Florence community. The public is invited to attend its semi-monthly meet- ing today, March 18, at 6:30 p.m., in the conference room of KXCR Radio, 1509 Ninth St., across from the Siuslaw Public Library. Seniors can reduce car insurance AARP Driver Safety Program will be offered today, March 18, from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., at Shorewood Retirement Apartments, 15th and Spruce streets. 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Legal Forms • Deeds •Typing Payroll & all Reports • Tax Organizing Notary • Copying • Faxing A/R & A/P Services Checkbook Management Ellen VanCurler • 541-997-4187 705 9th Street, (Suite 102) • Florence in the 9th Street Professional Center The Port of Siuslaw Board of Commissioners will hold its regular meeting today, March 18, at 7 p.m., at the port office, located at 100 Harbor St. in Florence. This meeting will include a public hearing for increasing moorage and campground fees. Port meetings are open to the public. Following the regular meet- ing, the Board will enter into executive session to evaluate the performance of the Port Manager. The agenda and meeting packets will be avail- able at PortofSiuslaw.com. Shrine Club business meeting tomorrow The Pacific Dunes Shrine Club will hold a quarterly club business meeting Thursday, March 19, at 11 a.m., at Craig’s Barbecue, 1161 Highway 101. Topics to be discussed will include: increasing annual dues and a date and location for the annual banquet to honor high school football players nominated to the Shrine’s Annual East-West Football Game. For more information, con- tact Al Pearn at 541-997-1863. Popular Portland Los Dos to play Yachats Portland’s Los Dos will be at the Underground Pub and Grub is at 125 Ocean View Drive, in Yachats on Saturday, March 21, beginning at 7 p.m. The six member band plays all originals. Call 541-547-4600 for more information. CYAN MAGENTA YELLOW BLACK It’s all in the family in the Last Resort Players’ production of “Our Town.” Telling the story of family relationships in a small town, the Florence cast of this classic American drama doesn’t have to go far to bring personal experience to their character portrayals. Their role relationships are right there on stage to remind them. There are father and daugh- ter, Danny and Lyndsey Keppol; father and son, Shawn and Shilo Penrod; husband and wife, Chris and Chris Campbell (try keeping that one straight) and Kassy and Danny Keppol; mother and daughter, Kate Gibson and Memphis Gliewe; and mother and son, Linda and Jesse Reeves. All that’s lacking are cousins by the dozens. Grover’s Corners, N.H., may be the stretch of a continent and 100 years away, but it’s got Florence, Ore., 2015 written all over it. Newspaper boys deliv- ering the morning edition, horse-drawn milk wagons and
