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Wednesday, March 27, 2019
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Humbolt students use creativity at EOU Writers’ Workshop
Kids learn haiku
and other writing
styles
By Angel Carpenter
Blue Mountain Eagle
A busload of 27 Hum-
bolt Elementary students
made the trek March 9 to
the annual Eastern Oregon
University Student Writers’
Workshop in La Grande.
The event is designed to
boost their enthusiasm for
creative writing.
Humbolt
fifth-grade
teacher Anna Stargel led the
group of students, in grades
3-5, along with two other
teachers and two parent
chaperones.
Stargel said the students
attended workshops led by
EOU undergraduate stu-
dents, including classes on
haiku poetry, fantasy writ-
ing, a St. Patrick’s Day lep-
rechaun story and music and
poetry.
She said the haiku class
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was multi-sensory, engaging Humbolt Elementary students gather during their visit to the Eastern Oregon University’s writing workshop.
the students with a nature
walk before they began writ-
ing about what they saw,
heard and felt.
Ten-year-old Nick Stiner
wrote a poem in the class
called “Beauty”:
“See the blossoms sprout
Hear the beautiful plants
grow
Find the types of plants”
All the students were
welcome to share a sample
of their writing from the day
during open mic time at the
end of the day.
Sixth-grader Maddie Bai-
ley, in Georgia Boethin’s
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Fifth-grader Boyden Weaver, left, won a cash prize in the “World’s Best
class, said that was her
Sentence Competition,” awarded by EOU English/writing professor Nancy
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favorite part.
“I liked listening to other Nick Stiner finishes a writing project at the Eastern Oregon University’s Knowles, at the March 9 Eastern Oregon University Student Writers’
people’s stories,” Bailey writers workshop.
Workshop in La Grande.
said.
Her sister Eliza, in Amy express ourselves however chaun writing was my
dents met people who
About 200 students in all writing professor.
Hittle’s fourth-grade class, we wanted,” she said.
favorite because Ms. Car- from schools in La Grande,
Fifth-grader
Boyden are making a career of
said the event was a learning
Rowdy Wilson, also son was really nice, and Baker City, Pine Eagle and Weaver won a cash prize in writing.
“It was so fun and so
experience.
in Hittle’s class, said the we got to write a whole other cities also joined in for the “World’s Best Sentence
“I liked when we got to teachers were kind and bunch,” he said. “The teach- the event, which was spear- Competition,” which was unique,” she said. “It was
ers were really nice and headed by Nancy Knowles handed out by Knowles.
turn music and songs into encouraging.
a really cool experience for
who is an EOU English/
poems, because we could
“Ms. Carson’s lepre- encouraging.”
Stargel said the stu- our kids.”
Inland Northwest Musicians Chorale and string ensemble to perform in Canyon City
Vivaldi and
Randall Thompson
among selections
to be performed
By Angel Carpenter
Blue Mountain Eagle
A group of 40 music
lovers, the Inland North-
west Musicians Chorale,
invite other music lov-
ers to a free concert at
4 p.m. Saturday at Can-
yon City Community
Hall.
Donations
will
be
accepted, and there is a
dessert reception follow-
ing the presentation.
The Juniper Arts Coun-
cil is partnering with
Inland Northwest to bring
the concert to Grant
County.
Led by conductor R.
Lee Freise, the chorale
will perform selections
from “Peaceable King-
dom” by Randall Thomp-
son as well as “Gloria” by
Antonio Vivaldi, which
will be accompanied by a
four-piece string ensemble
and harpsichord.
This
year
marks
Inland Northwest’s 20th
anniversary.
The group’s program
manager RaNiel Dunn
said, over the two decades,
they’ve performed in
over 400 concerts in 50
communities.
“We all travel, and it’s
an all-volunteer organi-
zation,” she said, adding
their concerts are offered
for no charge.
Members of the cho-
rale and string ensemble
come from Ione, Hermis-
ton, Pendleton, Athena, La
Grande and Walla Walla,
Washington.
She said the group trav-
els to areas in southeast
Washington and northeast
Oregon, mostly to smaller
communities.
Inland Northwest last
performed at Canyon
The Inland Northwest
Musicians Chorale, led
by conductor R. Lee
Freise, will present
a concert at 4 p.m.
Saturday, March 30, at
Canyon City Community
Hall. A four-piece
string ensemble will
accompany on a piece
by Vivaldi. In the photo,
the group performs at a
previous concert.
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City Community Hall in
2016 and in John Day in
2000.
Dunn said it’s their
mission to take music to
areas that don’t often have
that opportunity for a live
performance.
“It’s something we feel
is an important thing we
do,” she said.
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