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.
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intense electric set.
proceeds will benefit Juvenile
In addition to being a benefit Diabetes Research charities.
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Readings of Stafford works scheduled
The public is invited to the
St. Helens Public Library at
2:00 p.m., January 11, to join in
a celebration of the life of
William Stafford, Oregon’s Poet
Laureate, by reading from his
works. At this reading, jointly
sponsored by the Friends of
William Stafford and The Liter
ary Arts Series, five poets will
each read a poem by Stafford
and one of their own poems
written in the spirit of Stafford’s
work. The readers are Joseph
Green, Judith Irwin (retired),
Deborah Brink, Carolyn Norred,
all from Lower Columbia Com
munity College in Longview,
and Allen Braden from Pierce
County Community College,
Puyallup, Wash. 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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