September 11, 2008 01:00 am
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Baker City watercolorist Rose Fisher is the featured artist this month at The Sycamore Tree, 2108 Main St.
Fisher grew up in Eastern Oregon. Though she always liked to draw, she
said she never had an opportunity to take any painting classes.
Then, while living in California, she signed up for an adult education class.
“I enrolled in a watercolor class and was hooked. I found a passion that until then I had never known existed,” she said.
Her subjects include birds, leaves, elk, florals — “everything but landscapes.”
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September 11, 2008 01:00 am
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Poet and essayist Rob Whitbeck will conduct a series of three-hour
writing workshops at the La Grande and Baker City public libraries this
Friday and Saturday.
The intensive workshops are geared toward writers of all levels and
will focus on “writing home” — exploring and creating work rooted in
the northern West, and in Oregon in particular.
Whitbeck will encourage participants to place themselves in the larger history, and literary history, of the region.
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August 28, 2008 01:00 am
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Crossroads Carnegie Art Center’s 10th annual “Art at the Crossroads”
opens Friday, Sept. 5, and there’s still time to enter up to three
original pieces.
This regional art event is open to professional and amateur artists, 18
years and older. Each artist may submit up to three original pieces
completed in the last two years and not previously shown at Art at the
Crossroads.
Categories include: two-dimensional, sculpture, photography and fine crafts.
The entry fee for up to three pieces is $15. Cash prizes and ribbons
will be awarded. Art needs to be delivered to Crossroads on Sept. 1 and
2, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
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August 28, 2008 01:00 am
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Whit Deschner is encouraging everyone to “get your licks in now” for the second annual Great Salt Lick Contest.
The event works like this: enter salt blocks that have been licked into artistic forms and you might win some money.
All entered salt block sculptures will be auctioned Sept. 27 with
proceeds going to the Parkinson Center of Oregon at Oregon Health &
Science University.
Salt lick entries must be submitted by Sept. 18. The blocks can be
delivered to Crossroads Carnegie Art Center, 2020 Auburn Ave., or those
who want a replacement salt lick can take entries to Oregon Trail
Livestock Supply in Baker or Richland Feed and Seed in Richland.
There’s a limit of two per person.
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August 28, 2008 01:00 am
The Sumpter Valley Railroad’s annual Labor Day night train is set for Saturday, Aug. 30.
The train leaves the McEwen Station (about 25 miles south of Baker City on Highway 7) at 6 p.m. and returns at 8:30 p.m.
In between those hours, riders will be treated to a dinner and live
music at the Sumpter Depot. The meal includes prime rib and stuffed
chicken breasts with all the fixings, dessert and cold beverages.
Tickets are $35 for adults and $28 for children ages 6-17. For reservations, or more information, call the SVRR at 866-894-2268.
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August 28, 2008 01:00 am
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The Baker County Library will host an Oregon Chautauqua program titled
“Food for Thought” at 1 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 30, at Mad Matilda’s, 1917
Main St.
The event is free and open to the public.
The presenter is essayist and radio commentator Diana Coogle, who will discuss the many ways we view sustenance.
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August 28, 2008 01:00 am
Mid-Day Connection’s annual “A Day at the Dobbel Ranch” is set for
Thursday, Sept. 11. Cost is $10.50, and those attending can meet at
Calvary Baptist Church, 2107 Third St., at 10:45 a.m. to car pool.
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