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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20, 2016
Our Community
Yellow Brick Road leads to whirlwind in Wonderland
Children’s theater to
perform spring play
HERMISTON HERALD
The worlds of Oz and
Wonderland will collide in
a fantastically fun produc-
tion presented by Hermiston
Parks & Recreation.
Youths in third through
12th grade are invited to im-
prove their acting skills while
participating in classes that
will lead up to a pair of per-
formances of “Dorothy in
Wonderland.” Everyone who
registers for the class will be
included in the spring produc-
tion as Dorothy *ale makes
her way down the Yellow
Brick Road.
$long the way, a whirl-
wind appears over the Emer-
ald City, whisking the charac-
ters, including Dorothy, Toto,
the Scarecrow, the Tin Man
and the Lion, to Wonder-
land. While Dorothy’s friends
try to help her ¿nd her way
home, they run into many in-
teresting characters, including
$lice, the White Rabbit, the
Mad Hatter, the March Hare,
the Cheshire Cat and more.
$ll participants in the Chil-
dren’s Community Theater
will receive parts. $uditions
will be held to determine the
cast for performances. No
acting experience is neces-
sary to participate.
Rehearsals, which begin
Feb. 17, are Monday and
Wednesdays from 5:15-
7:15 p.m. at $rmand Lar-
ive Middle School, 1497
S.W. Ninth St., Hermiston.
The registration fee, which
is due by Friday, Feb. 12,
is $50 for Hermiston resi-
dents and $63 for non-res-
idents.
Sponsored by Desert $rts
Council, the performances
are Thursday, $pril 21 and
Friday, $pril 22, also at $r-
mand Larive. Each partic-
ipant will receive two free
tickets to share with family
or friends. Regular ticket
prices are $2 for those or-
dered in advance and $3 at
the door.
For more information,
visit www.hermistonrecre-
ation.com. To register for the
acting class, call 541-667-
5018 or stop by the recre-
ation of¿ce, 180 N.E. Sec-
ond St., Hermiston.
Celebrate, Remember, Fight Back:
Relay for Life kicks off 2016
C
ancer sucks.
Most
of
the
time, my column is
light-hearted. However, when
it comes to cancer I have a
tough time. Between 2011-
2013, three people important
to me were diagnosed with
cancer — two of them have
since died from the disease.
That’s why Relay for Life
has become so personal for
me. It’s not a faceless disease.
It has taken my friends and
afÀicted my pops. $ctually,
I don’t think there are very
many people out there that
haven’t been touched by can-
cer in some way.
The premise behind Relay
for Life is to Celebrate, Re-
PHOTO CONTRIBUTED BY CAROL GREENE
member, Fight Back — Cel-
ebrate those who have beaten Judy Hayes, center, walks during the opening lap of the 2012 Hermiston Relay for Life. A
cancer, remember those who former Hermiston resident, Hayes died of cancer Dec. 15, 2015. A fundraiser for the American
have lost their lives to the dis- Cancer Society, the kick-off event for the 2016 Hermiston Relay for Life is Thursday at the
ease and ¿ght back by raising Hermiston Church of the Nazarene.
awareness and money for
celebrate with Dairy Queen
cancer research in pursuit of had Pepsi on hand when I vis-
ice cream cake. We got a
a cure.
ited.
good laugh about the inscrip-
Hermiston Relay for Life
She kept her sense of hu-
tion on the cake, “Cancer
is kicking off its 2016 event mor throughout her ¿ght with
WHEN: Thursday, Jan. 21
sucks Judy.”
with a rally Thursday from cancer. Back in our college
TIME: 6-7:30 p.m,.
Judy died Dec. 15, 2015.
6-7:30 p.m. at the
days, I had several
WHERE: Hermiston Church of the
During this year’s Relay for
Hermiston Church of
friends by the name
Nazarene
Life, I will walk in her memory.
the Nazarene, 1520
of Lynn. To keep them
ADDRESS: 1520 W. Orchard Ave.
For more information
:. 2rchard $ve. The
straight, my mom
INFO: Miranda Hunt
about Hermiston Relay for
event will feature in-
called her “long-haired
541-720-0369, mlhunt06@gmail.com
Life, contact Miranda Hunt at
formation tables —
Lynn.” My mom still
541-720-0369, mlhunt06@
including how to start
referred to her with
a team, fundraising
this moniker even after cer in May 2012, Judy Hayes gmail.com or visit www.re-
ideas and general in- Tammy
Lynn cut her hair. $nd, participated in the following layforlife.org/hermistonor.
Malgesini
———
formation about can- INSIDE MY
when she lost her hair month’s Hermiston Relay for
Tammy Malgesini is the
cer. $lso, food will SHOES
from chemotherapy, Life for the ¿rst time. I was
Lynn suggested my privileged to be able to walk community editor. Her col-
be available for pur-
chase and there will be a si- mom could call her “no-hair with my friend during the umn, Inside my Shoes, in-
cludes general musings about
opening lap.
lent auction. There is no fee Lynn.”
$t one point it looked like life. Contact her at tmalge-
My pops was diagnosed
to register a Relay for Life
team. The actual Relay for with prostate cancer in No- she had beat the cancer and sini@eastoregonian.com or
Life is June 25 at the Uma- vember 2013. He had surgery some of the herd gathered to 541-564-4539.
the following January. While
tilla County Fairgrounds.
Lynn O’Halloran, one of the waiting was the hardest
my old college roommates part, the doctor said it was
was diagnosed with breast best to reduce the risk of in-
cancer in January 2011. She fection after the biopsies. He
died just over two years later. continues to do well and is
Lynn was a great friend — a turning 78 this weekend.
Diagnosed with lung can-
Coke drinker, yet she always
Relay for Life
kick-off
Church
Directory
Rachel Dagley
IN BRIEF
Murder mystery
benefits Agape
House
Dave Hughes is cook-
ing up fun for another
$gape House murder
mystery dinner.
Hughes, $gape House
executive director, partici-
pated in a cruise workshop
teaching him the Jack Pa-
chuta Murder Mystery
Writing System. His lat-
est effort, “The Murder
of Handsome Jack,” will
be staged Saturday, Jan.
30 at 5:30 p.m. at $gape
House, 500 Harper Road,
Hermiston. The cost is
$35 per ticket, with $20
tax-deductible. The price
includes a prime rib din-
ner and dessert.
Each table of guests
will serve as an investiga-
tive team for the murder
mystery. $fter an intro-
duction and case summa-
ry, the suspects will share
their memories of Jack
and any interactions they
had earlier in the day pri-
or to his death. During the
dinner break, investiga-
tive tables may purchase
additional clue packages
of six for $5, 15 for $10
or 25 for $15. During
dessert, the crime lab and
autopsy reports will be
read. $udience members
will have an opportunity
to solve the mystery for a
chance to win tickets to an
upcoming murder mystery
presentation.
$ll money raised
from the event will go to
support the missions of
$gape House and Mar-
tha’s House in helping
those in need. For more
information, call 541-567-
8774.
Women’s choir set
rehearsals
Sisters in Song, a com-
munity women’s choir,
recently began rehearsals
for its spring concert.
$ll new and returning
singers are invited to the
weekly rehearsals, which
began Monday at 6:30
p.m. in the Pendleton
High School choir room,
1800 N.W. Carden $ve.
$uditions are not reTuired
to join the choir.
Directed by Lezlee
Flagg and is accompa-
nied by Suzi Wood, the
NEW BEGINNINGS
CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP
Worship Service 10:30 AM
Sunday School 9:00 AM
Pastor J.C. Barnett
Children's Church
& Nursery Available
700 West Orchard Avenue
P.O. Box 933
Hermiston, Oregon
541-289-4774
mission of Sisters in Song
is to learn and perform a
variety of music, while
striving for musical polish
and beauty in an atmo-
sphere of supportive and
good-humored coopera-
tion.
The spring concert is
Sunday, June 12. For more
information, contact Flagg
at 541-969-0055, Cheryl
Carlson at 541-429-0160
or womensingpendleton@
gmail.com.
First Draft features
two poets
$ pair of La *rande
poets are included in the
upcoming First Draft
Writers’ Series.
Featuring
Nancy
Knowles and Thomas
Madden, the event is
Thursday at 7 p.m. at
Pendleton Center for the
$rts, 214 N. Main St. It’s
free and open to the pub-
lic.
Knowles is a professor
of English and writing at
Eastern Oregon Universi-
ty and was the director of
the Oregon Writing Proj-
ect at EOU for more than
10 years. She publishes
primarily literary analysis
and articles on teaching
English and writing and
has been invited to read
her poetry at the Round-
house Reading Series and
the Eastern Oregon Word
Round-Up.
Madden believes that
good poems grow out of
the imagination’s inter-
section with both person-
al and cultural history,
as well as landscape. He
is especially interested
in the role of his poetic
imagination as it encoun-
ters his own European
heritage and the impact
of that heritage in the
United States. He’s been
a reporter, a college writ-
ing and journalism in-
structor and playwright.
He is writing a third col-
lection of poems, tenta-
tively titled “The Silas
Chronicles.”
$fter readings by the
featured writers, audi-
ence members may par-
ticipate in short open
mic sessions to read their
own original poems or
stories.
For more information,
call 541-278-9201 or visit
www.pendletonarts.org.
Echo Community
Church
21 N Bonanza Street
Echo, OR
Phone: (541) 376-8108
Sunday School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9:30 am
Worship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10:45 am
Children’s Church . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11:15 am
Potluck & Communion ~
First Sunday of the Month
Seventh-day
Adventist Church
Business
Health
Farm
Life
Rachel Dagley
541/276-2302 • 800/225-2521
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1255 Hwy. 395 S. • 567-5834
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Worship 10:00 AM
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The Stratton Agency
Pendleton / Hermiston • stratton-insurance.com
"come as you are"
The Full Gospel
Home Church
235 SW 3rd
Phone 567-7678
Rev. Ed Baker - Rev. Nina Baker
Sunday: Sunday School . . . . . 10:00 am
Worship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11:00 am
Evening Service . . . . . . 7:00 pm
Wednesday Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7:00 pm
AGAPE HOUSE PRESENTS:
Murder
of
e
Handsom
Jack
PRIME RIB DINNER
Where: 500 Harper Rd. • Altrusa Room
When: January 30th @ 5:30pm
Cost: $35 per person ($20 deductible)
For tickets, call Dave @ 541-567-8774
First United
Methodist
Church Of
Hermiston
Rev. Dr. James T. Pierce, Pastor
Open Hearts, Open minds,
Open doors
"Casting all your care upon him;
for he careth for you."
1 Pet. 5:7
191 E. Gladys Ave.
Sunday Worship at 11am
(541) 567-3002
Our Lady of Angels
Catholic Church
Grace Baptist Church
565 W. HERMISTON AVE.
DAILY MASS: Monday-Friday
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . English 7:00 am
THURSDAY . . . . . . . . . Spanish 6:00 pm
SATURDAY: . . . . . . . . . English 5:00 pm
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Spanish 7:00 pm
SUNDAY: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . English 9:00 am
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bilingual 11:00 am
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Spanish 1:00 pm
OFFICE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 567-5812
NEW HOPE
COMMUNITY CHURCH
1350 S. Highway 395, Hermiston
Sunday Worship Services
English- Pastor Dave Andrus
9:00 & 10:45 am
Spanish- Pastor Genaro Loredo
9:00 & 10:15 am
Classes for kids during all services
For more information call
541-567-8441
First Christian
Church
"Proclaiming the Message of
Hope, Living the Gospel of Love"
SUNDAY WORSHIP 10:30 AM
SUNDAY SCHOOL 9:30 AM
CHILDREN'S CHURCH 11:00 AM
Nursery Provided
567-3013
775 W. Highland Ave., Hermiston
567-8241
855 W. Highland • Hermiston
St. Johns
Episcopal Church
All People
Are Welcome
Scripture, Tradition
and Reason
Family service 9am Sunday
Gladys Ave & 7th Hermiston
Fr. Dan Lediard, Priest. PH: 567-6672
LANDMARK BAPTIST
CHURCH
555 SW 11th, Hermiston
567-9497
Nursery provided for all services
Sunday School - 9:30 AM
Worship - 10:45 AM
6:00 pm
Wed Prayer & Worship - 7:00 PM
“Proclaiming God’s word,
growing in God’s grace”
Saturdays
Sabbath School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9:30 a.m.
Worship Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11:00 a.m.
125 E. Beech Ave. • 567-3232
Pastor David Dever
Sun. Bible Classes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10:00am
Sun. Worship Service . . . . . . . . . . 11:00am
Sun. Evening Worship . . . . . . . . . . 6:00pm
Wed. Prayer & Bible Study . . . 6:00pm
www.hermistonlmbc.com
T HE C OUNTRY C HURCH
Pastor James Becker
32742 Diagonal RD
Hermiston OR 97838
Sunday School 10 am
Worship 7 am
Evening Service 7 pm
Bible Study Wednesdays 7 pm
Firestarter Youth Ministry
(Ages 12-17)
Monday @ 6 pm
To share your worship times
call Amanda Jacobs
541-278-2683
