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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8, 2017
LOCAL NEWS
Riverside student perform adventurous musical
IN BRIEF
Blackwood Legacy to
perform local concert
A familiar southern
gospel quartet will per-
form this week in Herm-
iston.
Blending southern gos-
pel’s traditional sound
with contemporary coun-
try music, Blackwood
Legacy Quartet is led by
Rick Price, former lead
singer for the award-win-
ning Blackwood Brothers
Quartet. The local concert
is Thursday at 7 p.m. at
Anchor Point Seventh-day
Adventist Church, 77 W.
Highland Ave., Hermis-
ton. Admission is free —
although, an offering will
be accepted.
For more information,
call 541-289-3022. For
more about Blackwood
Legacy, visit www.theb-
lackwoodlegacy.com.
People Power
presents resistance
training
A grassroots organiza-
tion is launching an effort
to resist the Trump admin-
istration’s attacks on civil
liberties.
A one-hour ACLU
Town Hall Resistance
Training is taking place in
Florida with live-stream
events across the coun-
try. Local residents are
invited to participate in
People Power Saturday
with sign-in at 1:30 p.m.
and the live-stream event
beginning at 2 p.m. in the
Community Room at the
Pendleton Public Library
Community Room, 501
S.W. Emigrant Ave. A dis-
cussion will follow from
3-4 p.m.
For more information,
call Miriam Gilmer at
425-748-4487.
St. Patrick’s play
to raise money for
Heppner family
An annual tradition
during the St. Patrick’s
season, Father Gerry
Condon of Heppner has
written another drama to
be presented in Ione and
Heppner.
“A Rose in Bloom” will
accept donations for Ash-
er’s Army. Asher Schon-
bachler, the son of Eric
and Rachel Schonbachler
of Heppner, is being treat-
ed for leukodystrophy, a
rare brain disease.
The play will be
staged Sunday at 3 p.m.
at Ione Community
School, 445 Spring St.;
and Thursday, March 16
at 7 p.m. at in the parish
hall at St. Patrick’s Cath-
olic Church, 525 N. Gale
St., Heppner.
A sequel to the 2016
drama “Intrigue at Glen-
dalough, the production
fi nds Rose being pres-
sured to accept a govern-
ment assignment. Because
of this, she sets out to
catch and arrest a known
criminal.
Rose is confronted with
several challenges, mostly
because of her disguise as
a Catholic nun. Along the
way there are clowns and
”Festival Singers” with
Joe Lindsay singing an
original song for the dra-
ma.
For more information,
call Ashley Lindsay at
541-376-8285 or 541-
379-4079.
Altrusa scholarship
deadline looms
Altrusa International
of Hermiston is accepting
applications for the Doro-
thy Juve Memorial Educa-
tional Scholarship.
The deadline for the
award, which is up to
$3,000, is Friday, March
10. To be eligible, stu-
dents must be 2/3 of the
way through their educa-
tional process.
The scholarships are
designed to assist students
in the completion of post
high school studies for
training to upgrade job
skills or for those re-en-
tering the job market. Ap-
plicants must be residents
of west Umatilla County
or north Morrow Coun-
ty, although, they may be
studying out of the area.
The scholarship is in
memory of Dorothy Juve,
who died in 2011. She was
an active Altrusan and
community member who
was a strong education ad-
vocate.
Applications are avail-
able at www.facebook.
com/altrusainternation-
alofhermiston. For ques-
tions, contact Diana Ables
at 541-567-3795 or herm-
istonaltrusa@gmail.com.
Local author leads
writing workshop
A writing workshop is
being offered by Hermis-
ton author Karen Spears
Zacharias.
The six-part series be-
gan Tuesday and contin-
ues weekly at 5:30 p.m. at
the Hermiston Public Li-
brary, 235 E. Gladys Ave.
There is no fee.
Zacharias describes the
workshop as, “Memoir,
fi ction – it’s all storytell-
ing.” She said regardless
of the style, the approach
focuses on structure, char-
acter, voice, place and de-
tails. Part of each session
will include time generat-
ing new material based on
writing prompts, reading
passages from memoirs,
stories and novels that
help to illuminate aspects
of craft.
A Georgia-raised Gold
Star daughter, Zacharias’
work has been featured
in the New York Times,
CNN, National Public
Radio and Good Morn-
ing America. In addition,
she has published several
books, including “Mother
of Rain,” which received
the Weatherford Award
for Best in Appalachian
Fiction.
For more information
about the workshop, call
541-567-2882. For more
about Zacharias, visit
www.karenzach.com.
Hermiston Herald
An adventure intertwin-
ing characters from familiar
Brothers Grimm fairy tales
is featured in upcoming
performances at Riverside
Jr/Sr High School.
Featuring both junior
high and high school stu-
dents, “Into the Woods”
is described as a musical
with a modern twist. The
family-friendly produc-
tion is March 16-18 at
6:30 p.m. in the school’s
auditorium, 210 N.E.
Boardman Ave. Tickets
are $5 each.
A Broadway production,
which Disney picked up for
PHOTO CONTRIBUTED BY KATHIE GOAD
Students at Riverside Jr/Sr High School will present the
musical “Into the Woods” March 16-18 at Riverside High
School, Boardman.
a fi lm adaptation several
years ago, the story follows
the Baker’s wife, who has a
desire for a child. Follow-
ing instructions from the
Witch, the couple sets off
on a scavenger hunt. Wish-
es come true by the end of
Act I — however, things
start to fall apart in the sec-
ond act.
From the opening words
of “Once upon a time” to
the fi nal curtain, the au-
dience will be entertained
with song and mystery.
With the twists and turns,
remember to “be careful
what you wish for.”
For more information,
contact music director Col-
lin Dunlap at 541-481-2525
or collin.dunlap@morrow.
k12.or.us.
Echo student pieces together metal sculpture
By TAMMY MALGESINI
Community Editor
An Echo High School
student has morphed an
interest in mechanics and
welding into creative art-
work.
Ethan Hobson, 16,
was awarded an honor-
able mention for his metal
sculpture in the Eastern
Oregon Regional High
School Art Exhibition.
The show is currently on
display at the Nightingale
Gallery at Eastern Oregon
University in La Grande.
“I just started putting
things together by welding
to see how I could make it
look cool,” Hobson said.
Calling it “Metal Wil-
low,” Hobson used an old
pipe he found on the play-
ground, as well as old car
parts and a tire chain.
No stranger to the re-
gional competition, Hob-
son received best in show
for sophomores during
the 2016 event — also for
a metal sculpture. More
than 300 students from
15 high schools across the
region — the other Uma-
tilla County student who
received recognition was
Johnny Malcom of Pend-
leton — are featured in the
exhibit.
Hobson’s art teach-
er, Rick Thews, received
CONTRIBUTED
Ethan Hobson of Echo received an honorable mention for his
sculpture “Metal Willow” in the “Eastern Oregon Regional
High School Art Exhibition.” The show runs through March
21 in the Nightingale Gallery at Eastern Oregon University in
La Grande.
his undergraduate degree
from Eastern Oregon Uni-
versity. He said the re-
gional exhibition is a great
opportunity to give stu-
dents a rare experience of
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having their work shown
in a professional setting.
“It can add another
layer of motivation to
pursuing art later in life,”
Thews said.
Rather than painting or
drawing to sketch things
out, Hobson comes up
with ideas in his head and
then begins to craft and
create.
“I can’t really put on
paper what’s in my head,”
he said. “I actually have to
build it.”
Thews encourages his
students to view art as
more than just having
skills in a certain medium.
He stimulates interest by
focusing on the process
and journey of creation.
With Hobson and oth-
er students who may not
particularly enjoy two-di-
mensional art, Thews
helps them connect the
dots — by taking their in-
terests in building or cre-
ating and communicating
that artistically.
“The hope is to tap into
their passion or what they
care about,” Thews said.
Although
currently
limited by facility space,
Thews said the art offer-
ings at Echo are varied. In
addition to painting and
found object sculpture, he
tries to offer a few differ-
ent types of projects each
year — and looks forward
to adding pottery in the
future.
Also, students in shop
and art classes assist with
creating trophies for the
school’s A.C.E. Car Show.
Hobson said he particular-
ly enjoys working on the
unique prizes, which uti-
lize car parts.
Art, Thews said, goes
beyond the creative pro-
cess. It’s an activity that
can help in dealing with
stress, as well as leading
to further personal discov-
ery.
The exhibit remains on
display through Tuesday,
March 21, in the univer-
sity’s Loso Hall. It’s open
Monday through Fridays
from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. For
more information, con-
tact gallery director Cory
Peeke at 541-962-3584,
cpeeke@eou.edu or visit
www.eou.edu/art.
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