The INDEPENDENT, March 6, 2002
Page 9
Months of work are required before Easter cantata performance
Director Lynda Cahill, right, worked with a small group dur
ing rehearsals last week. Rehearsals started during the first
week of January and have been held in the Vernonia First
Baptist Church. They will move rehearsals to the Washington
Grade School gym next week.
Car wash will help recover costs
The Vernonia Com m unity
Choir will hold a car wash on
March 9 from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00
p.m. at the Vernonia School
District 47J parking lot.
Donations will help defray
the costs of the annual Easter
Cantata, which will be held this
year on March 22, 23 and 24.
A nnual C olumbia C ounty
J ob & C areer F air
M arch 20, 2002 • 1-4 PM
Sponsored by Management & Training Corporation
(MTC) and the Oregon Employment Department (OED),
the sixth annual Columbia County Job Fair will be held
at the State Office Building, 500 N. Columbia River
Hwy. (Hwy. 30), Suites 300-320, in St. Helens.
Scheduled businesses include, but are not limited to,
the following:
AFLAC • Armstrong World Industries • US Navy
US Air Force • Columbia County Veterans Assn.
Dean Specialty Foods • US Air Force Reserve
Columbia Technology Center • Express Personnel
Interim Healthcare • Legacy Health System
Meadow Park Health Center • Stream International
Franz Bakery • Oregon Air National Guard
BCTI • Oregon Department of Forestry • Avamere
Fred Meyer • Portland Community College
Rose Valley Assisted Living Center • Safeway
Steamfitters Local 2 9 0 Training Center • US Army
Wacker Siltronic Corporation • Wal-Mart
Washington Mutual Bank • Western Business College
THE JOB FAIR IS FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
Taking a break for a picture, the people in this photo are only part of the cast needed for the
2002 Easter Cantata.
The Easter Cantata to be
performed this year by the Ver
nonia Community Choir is The
Borrowed Tomb, co-written by
Steve Moore and David T.
Clydesdale.
Actors for this year’s per
formance include Allen Vetch,
John Cahill, Kellie Murray, An
nie Dixon, Mike Skillen, Eric
Peterson and Marion Johnston.
Featured vocalists w ill be
Sandy W elch, Julie Coontz,
Phyllis Thornburg, M arcella
Seager, Lana Vetch, Susie
Armstrong and Kellie Murray.
This annual Easter musical
of faith and belief is directed by
Lynda Cahill, who, like all mem
bers of the Vernonia Comm uni
ty Choir, is a volunteer.
There will be three perform-
ances - March 22, 23 and 24 -
a week before Easter, in the
W ashington
G rade
School
gym. Performances will be at
7:30 p.m. on March 22-23; with
a matinee performance March
24 at 3:00 p.m. There is no ad
mission charge, however, free
will offerings will be accepted.
VHS Drama Club will perform The Zoo Story, by Al
bee, and Anton Checkov’s The Marriage Proposal
Two one-act plays, The Zoo
Story, by Edward Albee, and
The Marriage Proposal, by An
ton Chekhov, will be presented
by the Vernonia High School
Drama Club, March 7, 8 and 9.
The Zoo Story opens in New
York’s Central Park with Peter,
J
played by Shawn Hillyer, a m id
dle-aged and w ell-dressed
man, peacefully reading on a
park bench. Jerry, an unkempt
young vagrant, played by Jake
Brock, enters his world and
what follows is a conversation
between two characters who
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represent themselves not only
as individuals, but as opposing
aspects of society. W ith a sav
age sense of humor and his
iron will, Jerry forces Peter to
come to grips with his own ra
tionalizations and hypocrisies.
In The M arriage Proposal, a
nervous young farm er comes
to propose to his neighbor’s
daughter. Instead of making the
proposal, the two young people
get involved in many comic ar
guments. Carrick Flynn stars
as Stepan Stepanovitch Tchu-
bukov, Rachael Bentsen plays
Natalya Stepanovna. The role
of Ivan Vassilyevitch Lomov is
played by Casey Waltz.
Both plays are directed by
instructor George Ray.
The March 7 and 8 perform
ances w ill be at 7:00 p.m;
March 9 at 8:00 p.m., in the
Vernonia High School gym.
There is no charge for admis
sion but seating is limited.