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The INDEPENDENT, January 2, 2003 Artists invited to submit work for show at Columbia Center Gallery The Galiery at Colum bia Center is inviting artists to sub mit work for their first show of 2003. The show is titled Imag ine Art and is an open media, open theme show intended to celebrate creativity in all forms. Artists are encouraged to sub mit work in any medium. Two and three dimensional art in any style as well as photogra phy is welcome. Work by St Helens photogra pher, Ronda Hills, will be fea tured. Many of Hill’s landscape and wildlife photographs por tray the often unnoticed magic of the outdoors by capturing re flections and light and shadow. Art submissions will be ac cepted February 3, from 4:30 - 6:30 PM, in the Armstrong Room at the Columbia Center, 375 S 18th Street, St Helens. Art will be on display from Feb ruary 4th through February 28th. For more information on art subm issions contact Patty Kadel, chairman of the Colum bia Center Art Committee, (503) 397-9174. Broken Glory sets performance to aid research on juvenile diabetes Broken Glory (the Band) will fund raiser, the performance is perform January 8 in the Ver a celebration of the four-year nonia High School Gym at 7:00 life span of this high school p.m. to raise funds for Juvenile band and the different styles Diabetes research. they have encompassed. It will The show will consist of one include songs which have been electric guitar set, followed by performed at the school over an eight minute intermission, the past four years, including then an acoustic set. definitive Following a n - / ... — ««09®»*’’ ’ ' - tribute to Sep- other eighth tember 11, D on’t know. v ' V . * h n c cost o s t for f o r students « t iid n r minute interm is > ,. T The is sion, the show will $1.00 and $2.00 for adults. All conclude with an donations are welcome and all intense electric set. proceeds will benefit Juvenile In addition to being a benefit Diabetes Research charities. 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After the poets read, the audience will be en couraged to read a favorite Bill Stafford poem and one of their own poems. fore dawn each day, and his Born in Hutchinson, Kansas, habitual generosity to other in 1914, William writers and read Stafford was a pro ers. After serving lific and celebrated as Consultant in poet. He was a wit Poetry to the Li ness for peace, brary of Congress and for honesty, in 1970, he was recognizing in his named O regon’s writing that “justice Poet Laureate in will take us millions 1975. of intricate moves." Stafford’s po Author of over fifty ems are often de books and recipi ceptively simple. ent of the National Like Robert Book Award for Frost’s, however, William Stafford Traveling through they reveal a dis the Dark, Stafford was a pro tinctive and complex vision fessor at Lewis & Clark Col upon closer examination. James lege, and a traveling teacher Dickey, in Babel to Byzantium, throughout the world. As a con notes that Stafford’s “natural scientious objector during mode of speech is a gentle, World War II, he began his mystical, half-m ocking and unswerving habit of writing be highly personal daydreaming about the western United States." Among his best-known The Tillamook Burn books are The Rescued Year William Stafford (1966), Stories That Could Be True: New and Collected Po These mountains have heard God; ems (1977), Writing the Aus they burned for weeks. He spoke tralian Crawl: Views on the in a tongue of flame from sawmill trash Writer’s Vocation (1978), and and you can read His word down to the rock. An Oregon Message (1987). He died at his Lake Oswego home in 1993. In milky rivers the steelhead The St. Helens Public Li butt upstream to spawn brary is located at 375 S. 18th and find a world with depth again, Street. For more information on the Literary Arts Series, contact starting from stillness and water across gray stone. the library at 503-397-4544, or St. Helens Book Shop at 503- Inland along the canyons 397-4917. The Literary Arts Se all night weather smokes ries is a collaboration of the St. past the deer and the widow makers— Helens Public Library, the trees too dead to fall rill again He speaks, Friends of the St. Helens Public Library, the St. Helens Book Shop and the Columbia Foun Mowing the criss-cross trees and the listening peaks. dation. All events are offered without charge to the public. 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