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The INDEPENDENT, March 6, 2003
anks Fire District receives FEMA grant Rodeo court clinic scheduled
Banks Fire District has been
awarded a $25,000 grant from
the Federal Emergency Man
agement Agency’s 2002 Assis
tance to Firefighters Grant Pro
gram.
Banks Fire District will use
the funds for personal protec
tive and rescue equipment.
The Assistance to Firefight
ers Grant Program is designed
as an opportunity for the United
States Congress to work with
FEMA to enhance basic fire
ShamRock’n Roll
at H illsboro St.
Pat’s Day Parade
The community is invited to
celebrate at the annual Hills
boro St. Patrick’s Day Parade
on Saturday, March 15! Spon
sored by Murphy’s Furniture,
the community event is a bene
fit for the Boys and Girls Clubs
of Portland.
The theme of this year’s pa
rade is “Sham Rock’n R oll.”
Staging for the parade will be
gin at 9:00 a.m. in the parking
lot across from Hare Field on
N.E. Grant Street in Hillsboro.
The parade will begin at 11:00
a.m. Starting from Hare Field,
the parade route goes east to
Cornell Road, south on Main
St., west on Main to 2nd Ave.,
north on 2nd to Grant St., and
east back to Hare Field.
The $10.00 entry fee bene
fits the Boys and Girls Clubs of
Portland. Entry forms for the
parade will be mailed out by
February 11 to all previous par
ticipants. If you do not receive
an entry form within a week, or
would like to be in the parade
for the first time, entry forms
are available at local Hillsboro
businesses.
Adding to the festivities, the
Hillsboro Boys and Girls Club
is developing post-parade ac
tivities for children. These past-
times will be on the Courthouse
lawn.
For additional information,
call Murphy’s Furniture, 503-
640-1124. ‘
service delivery across the
United States. Over 5,000 de
partments will receive $360 mil
lion to support fire protection,
EMS delivery, vehicle purchase
and prevention programs in
2002.
“The men and women of
both volunteer and career fire
departments confront new and
changing life safety challenges,
everyday,” according to USFA
Administrator, R. David Pauli
son. “President Bush has pro
vided the USFA an opportunity
to take some much needed
steps in providing these people
the right tools to be able to do
their jobs safely and more effi
ciently. It is our hope this grant
assistance
program
will
demonstrate our commitment
to improving fire and life safety
across the country, and will pro
vide the necessary incentive for
all Americans to join in support
ing these brave men and
women, as they face the chal
lenges of today."
Over 19,000 fire depart
ments applied for grant awards
this year. The request of the
Banks Fire District has been
through a national peer review
process involving over 300 fire
service leaders. FEMA is proud
to announce the Banks Fire
District is a 2002 grant award
recipient.
For more information, call
Banks Fire District 13 or Tom
Olshanski, USFA Grant Infor
mation Coordinator, at 202-
646-3068. For more informa
tion and national fire statistics,
visit <www.usfa.fema.gov>
Great musical farce “The Mikado
presented by Pacific University
Pacific University’s Music
and Theater departments pres
ent the best loved of all Gilbert
and Sullivan operattas, The
Mikado. Produced by Theatre
Professor Edwin Collier and
conducted by Professor of Mu
sic Scott Tuomi, the production
opens on Wednesday, March
12 and continues through Sun
day, March 16, in Tom Miles
Theatre in Warner Hall on Pacific’s
campus. Curtain is at 7:30 p.m.
The Mikado revolves around
Nanki-Poo, who has banished
himself from the little town of
Titipu. Nanki-Poo has fallen in
love with Yum-Yum, who is en
gaged to be married to her
guardian, Ko-Ko. However,
when Nanki-Poo hears that Ko-
Ko has been condemned to
death tor the capital crime of
flirting, he hastily returns to
Titipu, only to learn that Ko-Ko
has not only been granted a re
prieve, but has been promoted
to the post of Lord High Execu
tioner. Those in power, wishing
to slow down the rash of exe
cutions, reason that since Ko-
Ko was next in line for execu
tion, he can’t cut off anyone
else’s head until he cuts off his
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own. The Mikado soon takes
notice of the lack of executions
in Titipu and decrees that if no
executions take place within a
month, the city will be reduced
to the status of a village. Ko-Ko,
desperate to avoid cutting off
his own head, vows to find a
substitute, and at that moment,
Nanki-Poo wanders onto the
stage with a rope, determined
to take his own life rather than
live life without his beloved
Yum-Yum. Ko-Ko immedidately
seizes on this opportunity and
offers a month of luxurious liv
ing at the end of which Nanki-
Poo would be decapitated.
Nanki-Poo agrees, on the con
dition that he is married to Yum-
Yum right away so that he can
spend his last month in wedded
bliss. But just as the wedding
celebration begins, a law is dis
covered which decrees that a
condemned man’s wife must
be buried alive with his corpse.
Tickets will be on sale at the
door or at the Pacific University
Box Office for $7 for adults and
$4 for students and seniors.
For more information, call
the Pacific University Box Of
fice at 503-352-2918.
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A clinic covering all aspects
of preparing for a rodeo queen
pageant, including applications,
fashions, modeling, interview
ing, speeches, impromptu ques
tions, rodeo knowledge, horse
manship and more, will be held
Saturday, April 12 and Sunday,
April 13, in St. Helens.
Instructors
include past
rodeo royalty, queen coordina
tors, pageant judges, Miss
Rodeo Oregon committee mem
bers and well-known horse train
er and judge Lance Branum.
Class is designed for young
ladies from 12 to 24. Early reg
istration is recommended, as
space is limited.
American Classics
Saturday’s session will be at
Best Western Oak Meadows
Inn, 585 S. Columbia River
Hwy. Sunday, it will be at Ch
eney Q uarterhorses, 34478
Pittsburgh Rd.
Fees for the clinic are $125
for both days, with instruction
book, meals, makeover and
photos; $75.00, Saturday class
only, with instruction book,
meals, makeover and photos,
$55. Adult audits are available.
To register, send check by
April 1 to Jean McPherson, PO
Box 458, Columbia City, 97018.
For more information, call 503-
366-1945 or 503-369-2775.
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