6A | WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 14, 2019 | COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL
SVRA now offering
‘Food Share Fridays’
South Valley Resource
Alliance (SVRA) has an-
nounced Friday Food
Share, serving South Lane
County residents who ex-
perience hunger or food
insecurity. The non-profit
organization offers free
food distribution on the
first and third Fridays of
each month at the Com-
munity Center in Cottage
Grove, 700 Gibbs Ave.,
starting at 3:30 p.m.
The next Friday Food
Share is scheduled for this
Friday, Aug. 16.
SVRA has been serv-
ing South Lane County
residents since July 2018
through this supplemental
food program. Over the
last few months, the num-
ber of food-insecure fami-
lies and individuals served
has increased — averaging
60 families (160 individu-
als). Individuals and fam-
ilies with incomes up to
200% of the poverty level
are eligible to join in.
On the first and third
Fridays of each month,
SVRA transports pallets of
donated produce and oth-
er perishables from Food
for Lane County’s Eugene
warehouse to the Cottage
Grove Community Center.
A team of volunteers
and participants work co-
operatively so Friday Food
Share runs smoothly.
Food for Lane County
estimates that nearly 42
percent of Lane County
households
experience
food insecurity. In part-
nership, Food for Lane
County and SVRA supply
additional food resources
to help residents meet nu-
tritional needs.
To make sure SVRA can
regularly transport the
many pallets of perish-
able food from Food for
Lane County, the group
has embarked on a “buck
for the truck” fundraising
campaign. It costs $300 a
month in truck fees and
operating expenses to
make this program work.
The organization ac-
cepts donations to its
“buck for the truck” fund-
raising effort.
Anyone interested can
visit www.southvalleyre-
sourcealliance.org and can
donate there as well.
The public can also visit
SVRA’s booth at the Con-
certs-in-the-Park series at
Bohemia Park in Cottage
Grove every Wednesday
evening through Sept. 4.
Opal
from A1
The younger campers’
final performance was a
short skit on July 26, with
the older campers’ final
performance
consisting
of a monologue showcase
Aug. 9.
There’s a lot of work that
goes on behind the scenes
in theater, from lighting to
costuming to stage organi-
zation and management.
The camp sought to ad-
dress it all, along with the
traditional skill associated
with theater: Acting.
SOPHIA EDELBLUTE/COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL
“We tried to present a
Participants
in
the
Opal
theater
youth
camp
take
the
stage during one of the
broad spectrum of things
workshop’s
final
showcases.
that happen in theater,”
in the older kids’ camp
said Holbrook in a speech logues, so that was a fun erything.”
Another camper, Anja showed an interest in
before the showcase, “Be- challenge,” said Dowell
cause a lot goes on in pro- in her speech before the Bartlog, expressed her en- continuing to pursue the
showcase.
joyment with practicing theater arts in one way or
ducing a show.”
They also learned how monologues, and also the another, which was one of
The older kids presented
their monologues, acting to make a great set on a progress she’d made at the the goals of the Young Per-
formers camp, according
them out along the way. budget which, according camp.
“I think it’s been kind of to Rose.
They were taught how to to Dowell, can sometimes
She also spoke about her
use not only their words be an aspect of theater. But challenging to play char-
to convey the message, she said making a very ap- acters I’m not entirely fa- hope that the theater camp
but their movement as propriate set out of a mini- miliar with. In one of the will continue to happen,
monologues I was doing and perhaps even year-
well. Other aspects of the mal set is doable.
The kids also seemed to in the first week, it was a round classes.
final performance includ-
From speaking with the
ed props and where to put enjoy the camp and all the character that wasn’t re-
skills they were learning.
ally anything like me — campers, it seems they
them.
One camper, Elizabeth and it was sort of hard to would be excited for an op-
“What they had to do
was come together with Eller, said she liked how get down the physicality portunity like that.
“It’s a very good camp
each of their monologues “it covers a bit of writing, and the voice of that. But I
and work as a group and it covers posture, it cov- think I got a lot better at it,” and I recommend it to ev-
erybody,” said Eller.
build a set that would work ers how you talk, it covers she said.
Most of the campers
with all of their mono- emotions — it covers ev-
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