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SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ SATURDAY, JULY 15, 2017
Old Town Coffee
features Estill in July
Local painter Caroline
Estill will be the July fea-
tured artist for the month at
Old Town Coffee, 125 Nopal
St. in Historic Old Town
Florence.
Estill’s work is influenced
by the artists of the
International Impressionist
Movement, whose works
exhibit luminous and high-
keyed pallets, with loose and
spontaneous brushwork pri-
marily on subjects of leisure.
In the past, Caroline has
studied in Tennessee and
Colorado.
She worked as a commer-
cial corporate artist in
Huston, Texas, and latter
taught in the private sector in
the Huston area.
Estill moved to Florence
Arrest
with her family in 2013.
She served on the Siuslaw
School Board from 2007-
2011.
Estill is an associate mem-
ber of Oil Painters of
America, and shows her
work locally at Old Town
Coffee, as well as Backstreet
Gallery in Florence and Coos
Art Museum in Coos Bay.
The artist’s work will be
displayed in the Old Town
Coffee Gallery throughout
the month of July.
Caroline Estill’s impres-
sionistic interpretations of
leisureactivities will be
featured during July at
Old Town Coffee, 125
Nopal St.
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Class Act Theatre to present ‘Love Letters’
The action in the late play-
wright A.R. Gurney’s “Love
Letters” features a 50-year
relationship between two peo-
ple through the use of pen and
paper.
“Love Letters” will be per-
formed at Florence’s Class Act
Theatre (CAT) the weekends of
July 21, 22 and 23 and July 28,
29 and 30.
Friday and Saturday curtains
are 7 p.m. and Sunday per-
formance time is 2 p.m.
The play, a Pulitzer Prize
finalist, was originally written
as a novel, but publishers said
the material would be stronger
as a dramatic script.
Gurney rewrote his manu-
script designing it as a Reader
Theatre. It was originally read
Streaming
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Many people couldn’t
physically attend the meeting,
others didn’t have access to
cable and the videos currently
on the website are posted days
after the meeting is held.
Live streaming over the
Internet allows anyone with a
computer or smart phone to
watch the meetings in real-
time, anywhere.
A live stream is different
than websites like Netflix or
YouTube. In those instances,
programs are pre-recorded
and uploaded to a server,
which a viewer can download
at any time. These are referred
to as “on-demand” streaming.
Live streaming, on the
other hand, is the 21st century
equivalent of live broadcast
television.
The history of live stream-
ing goes back to the mid-
1990s. The first major stream
took place in 1995 when the
American League streamed
its baseball playoffs to the
world. Later that year, the city
of Seattle streamed a sympho-
ny
concert
from
the
Paramount Theater.
The technology had issues,
however. Personal computers
did not hold the processing
power to properly view the
broadcasts and Internet was
generally received by tele-
phone land-lines, causing the
videos to lag. The technology
fell to the wayside.
It wasn’t until 2007 that
advances in technology made
live streaming practical. As
home computers processed
information faster and broad-
band Internet connections
became the norm, live stream-
ing began to be reintroduced
with websites like UStream,
which Dunes City uses for its
council meetings.
Soon after, websites like
Facebook began integrating
the service into their reper-
toire and the technology has
taken off.
Videographer
Alan
Campbell, owner of Campbell
Productions, creates the
Dunes City video streams. He
had originally concocted the
idea with former Dunes City
at the New York Library in
1989 and then moved to Off
Broadway.
“Reader’s Theatre is very
much dependent on the actor.
In the case of ‘Love Letters,’
the two actors sit on stools with
their scripts on stands in front
of them,” explained director
Paula Lindekugel-Willis. “I
know that as an audience mem-
ber, I might think ‘How bor-
ing,’ but Gurney has written
such a tight script we are asked
to listen to the development of
these two people.”
Reader’s Theatre-style per-
formance is not a new theatri-
cal device. It can be traced
back to early theater history in
Roman and Greek theater and
reached its peak in the United
States during World War II,
when production supplies were
limited.
“It is a challenge for the
actor but it puts focus on the
power of the vocal interpreta-
tion,” said Lindekugel-Willis.
“Love Letters” starts with an
acceptance to a birthday party
invitation
from
Andrew
Makepeace Ladd III, (played
by David Lauria).
His counterpart on stage is
Melissa Channing Gardner
(Rosemary Lauria).
Although their relationship
starts on a tenuous foundation,
the characters move through 50
years of relationship.
“‘Love Letters’ is an extraor-
dinary piece,” said actor Brian
Dennehy (who played Andrew
Councilor Maury Sanders a
few years ago.
“He kept asking ‘When can
we go live?’” Campbell said.
“I was thinking more of the
cable company for live pro-
gramming, like channel 191.
But as I was looking at the
technology and things were
getting more affordable, I
found out I could do this.”
Campbell and Mills see
multiple advantages to having
the meetings streamed.
Campbell recollected a
time when a Florence attorney
had to attend a Dunes council
meeting. Campbell, who was
testing the technology at the
time, had the lawyer view it
via the live stream instead.
“That could be a big thing
for Dunes City. They still
have to pay for an attorney,
but they don’t have to pay for
them to drive out,” he said.
Mills sees this as an oppor-
tunity to better connect with
Dunes City citizens.
“Hopefully, it will get more
interaction with residents.
They can watch and feel more
comfortable with speaking
out to the city if there’s some-
thing they don’t like. We’re
more in touch with our resi-
dents in what they do and
don’t want for the communi-
ty,” she said.
Other topics covered at the
Thursday council meeting
were a reminder that burning
is closed as of June 15; warm
water fishing in Woahink
Creek is only allowed until
Oct. 1; and birthday wishes
were given to Dunes City
Permit Tech Jan Sapienza.
The Citizen of the Year
Award was to be given to Ken
and Wan Platt, but they could
not attend. They will be given
the award during the Aug. 10,
which will, of course, be
streamed live on the Internet.
To access the live stream,
visit the Dunes City website
at www.dunescityhall.com.
Scroll to the bottom of the
page and click on the
UStream link. People can also
access the videos via the
UStream app, available to
download on cell phones with
Internet access. Viewing can
begin 10 minutes before the
meeting begins, which are
held every second Thursday
of the month at 7 p.m.
For more information, con-
tact Dunes City Hall at 541-
997-3338.
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2014 Broadway revival.) “You
cannot stage a play more sim-
ple than this, and yet it’s about
life. First love, loss of opportu-
nities, loss of life, loss of love
— it’s a beautiful play.”
Class Act Theatre is at 509
Kingwood St., at the corner of
Kingwood and Rhododendron
Dr.
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Miller then left the coffee
shop and began eyeing
Longo’s car, a GMC Envoy,
then returned and demanded
the keys.
“I told him I wasn’t giving
him my car,” said Longo.
Agitated, Miller hollered
“Not even for a kid?” and
asked for the keys again.
When
Longo
again
refused, Miller said he would
have him arrested and insist-
ed on the keys. Longo
declined a third time, and
Miller threatened that he
would “remove his face”
before heading outside.
According to Johnson,
Miller went into Frank’s
Place, then came back out
before heading to the local
gas station at the end of the
strip of shops. At that point,
Frank Wells, owner of
Frank’s
Place,
entered
Johnson’s coffee shop and
asked if Miller had wanted a
car.
Johnson
called
Lane
County Sheriffs, whose dis-
patcher told him someone
had already called from
Randy’s Riverview Market
and that officers were en
route.
When Miller began head-
ing east up Highway 126 on
foot toward Veneta, Johnson
called the sheriff’s depart-
ment to alert them.
“That’s when they told me
someone had reported the
man had a knife and to not
approach him,” Johnson said.
A short time later, Miller
was stopped by Sheriffs on
the Mapleton Bridge, prompt-
ing a short closure as they
took him into custody at
approximately 12:30 p.m.
Miller is currently being
held in the Lane County Jail
on charges of first-degree
robbery, unauthorized use of
motor vehicle and second-
degree assault.
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