SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2015
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Gallery to showcase pillows, witty words
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The Gallery Above Silver Lining’s December featured
artist Janey DiMuro’s fabric and two-dimensional cre-
ations will be on display.
time, especially here in my
home town of Florence.”
At her champagne and
hors d’oeurves reception,
DiMuro will be joined
by local writer Burney
Garelick, whose inspir-
ation
fabricates
words
into witty reviews and stories.
Garelick worked for the
Siuslaw News, where she
wrote countless theatre and
concert reviews, as well as
feature stories and press
releases celebrating the enor-
mity of talents and local
artists.
She continues to write, in
her well deserved retirement,
and has recently published
three books — two slim vol-
umes of opera reviews and
one rollicking novel set in the
Oregon dunes where anything
can happen.
Garelick’s book, “It’s Not
Over: Mornings at the Met,”
contains seven reviews from
the 2013-14 season of the
Metropolitan Opera.
“Mew and Cry: Catcall
from the Box” contain 10
reviews from the 2014-15
Met season.
Her novel, “Big Dunes
Gold Doubloons Coffee
Spoons and Looney Tunes”
transports Diva, the doctor,
and Gelato the talking cat,
over the river into the dunes
and across the pond for a
series of preposterous adven-
tures, including pirates,
Amelia Earhart, medicinal
beetles, teddy bears, King
Midas and the Red Nuns of
Fuschia.
This is all done with excep-
tional humor, breath-catch-
ing-and-taking reviews of
actual local concerts and
plays presented over the last
decade.
All three books are avail-
able on Amazon.com, as well
as at The Silver Lining
Boutique.
Donate decorated wreaths for festival
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The Florence Festival of
Trees is seeking donations of
new decorated Christmas
wreaths.
The wreaths will be sold at
the annual community event
Celebrate the Season at the
Florence Festival of Trees
Gala of Giving
and gala on Saturday, Nov. 28,
and Sunday, Nov. 29, at the
Florence Events Center, 715
Quince St.
All proceeds benefit the
Oregon Coast Military Museum
in Florence.
There is an entry fee of $25
for live wreaths and they
will be available at the State
Farm
office
at
1275
Rhododendron Drive, begin-
ning Monday, Nov. 23.
You may also to donate a
decorated artificial wreath.
Contact 541-997-7161 for
more information and an entry
form.
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a semi-formal event to benefit the Oregon Coast Military Museum.
Sunday, November 29, 2015
4pm to 7pm
Florence Event Center
Beautifully decorated Christmas trees and wreaths
that have been donated by local
businesses & organizations will be auctioned.
Tickets are available at the office of
State Farm Insurance
Champagne welcome and no-host bar
for more information please call 541-997-7161
Central Lincoln PUD and the
Florence Area Chamber of Commerce
present a
HOLIDAY
LED LIGHT DISPLAY
CONTEST
Open to all homes and commercial
businesses in the Florence Area
Th ree Prizes to be awarded in each category
in the form of a VISA gift card which can be used at
any local business including your PUD bill.
1st - $250
2nd - $150
3rd - $100
To enter visit the Chamber or the City’s website,
for entry forms or stop by the Chamber Offi ce to pick one up.
290 Highway 101, Florence
All forms should be emailed to sherri@fl orencechamber.com or
turned in to the Chamber Offi ce.
Rules: All entries’ light strings must be all LED lights.
Non LED lit decorative characters and the like are acceptable.
ENTRY DEADLINE:
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2015
JUDGING DATE:
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2015
WINNERS ANNOUNCED:
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 18 on COAST RADIO KCST
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19 in the SIUSLAW NEWS
www.fl orencechamber.com
www.ci.fl orence.or.us
541-997-3128
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Thanks
for giving.
On Saturday, Dec. 5, from
3 to 5 p.m., The Gallery
Above the Silver Lining
Boutique, 2217 Highway
101, will present the sixth
annual
Janey
DiMuro
Christmas show, coupled with
three book signings by
Burney Garelick.
The fabric of art includes
inspiration, materials, crafts
and execution.
The show will feature
multi-dimensional fine artist
Janey DiMuro, whose inspi-
ration uses opulent, touch-
able fabrics to create her new
Haiku collection of whimsi-
cal pillows.
These will be alongside her
paintings and collages of pol-
itics, ideas and a celebration
of beauty.
DiMuro’s pillow art, along
with her striking and
provocative two-dimensional
art, has become a holiday tra-
dition at the gallery.
The smaller Haiku pillows
are varied in content and
each one is completely
unique.
DiMuro’s astute artistic
attention to detail in her pil-
lows, collages and paintings
truly sets her creations apart.
Her edges are crisp and
sharply defined, her fabrics
are hand woven silks, cottons
and velvets from around the
world.
These truly are one of a
kind and perfect for holiday
giving.
“I have been working with
these extraordinary fabrics
to create an entire exper-ience
for the observer, and
it has been as exhilarating
for me as for you, to whom
I present them,” said DiMuro.
“The season of Christmas is
such a magnificently magical