1) Piano lessons available in Reedsport each Friday morning
2) First Friday & Eola Hills Wine
3) COOS COUNTY CULTURAL COALITION ENCOURAGES TAX-SAVING CONTRIBUTIONS
2) First Friday & Eola Hills Wine
3) COOS COUNTY CULTURAL COALITION ENCOURAGES TAX-SAVING CONTRIBUTIONS
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WHAT: Piano lessons available in Reedsport each Friday morning
WHERE: Reedsport Church of God, 2191 Birch Avenue
WHEN: Non-school Friday mornings between 9am and noon
WHO: Hosted by Reedsport Church of God
Contact: Kristen Zetzsche, 541-707-0878 or kzetzsche@internationalwriters.com
We're pleased to host a weekly piano studio offering individual half-hour lessons taught by Kathy Parsons. Mrs. Parsons is a veteran piano teacher with a fine arts degree from the California College of Arts and Crafts. She has taught piano since 1981 and recently relocated to the Oregon coast from California. Piano lessons are available to students of any age. The cost is $20 for each half-hour lesson, payable monthly in advance. All lesson fees will be directly payable to Mrs. Parsons; the Church of God collects no fees and receives no compensation for hosting or arranging this service. For more information and to register for lessons, please call Kristen at 541-707-0878 or send an email to kzetzsche@internationalwriters.com.
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WHAT: First Friday & Eola Hills Wine
WHEN: Now through December 7, 2012
WHO: Coastal Douglas Arts & Business Alliance (CDABA)
Contact: Kathleen Miller – 541-271-2101
Eola Hills Holiday Wines Available at First Friday
The Eola Hills Holiday Wines will be available to be purchased at First Friday . . . Art for Everyone event this Friday, December 7th from 5 pm to 7 pm.
The various holiday wines, will be available through Coastal Douglas Arts and Business Alliance, a local nonprofit, as part of a fundraiser for CDABA. CDABA will receive a financial benefit for every bottle sold through this fundraiser. The per bottle price for the featured holiday wines will be:
Blitzen's Blanc (White) @ $9.95
Vixen's Vino (Chardonnay) @ $13.95
Rudolph's Red (Pinot Noir) @ $15.95
Cupid's Cab @ $15.95
The artists who are also participating in the First Friday event are: Sue Bridston, paper crafting; Rose Burch, painter; Tom Castanda, wood carving; Tim Fitzgerald, driftwood; Bill & Mikayle Karcher, ceramics; Jim Thompson, ceramics; Kathy Elfers, felted wool; Beebee Slater, painter; and Jost Zetsche, author.
This First Friday event will be hosted by Coastal Ceramics, 159 So. 20th, and will be a year end thank you celebration. There will be wine and finger foods at the event. CDABA wishes to say thank you to all of its supporters, artists, and the community for showing such great support during the year.
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FROM THE COOS COUNTY CULTURAL COALITION
COOS COUNTY CULTURAL COALITION
ENCOURAGES TAX-SAVING CONTRIBUTIONS
GIVE THE TWO-WAY GIFT!
Over the past eight years, the Coos County Cultural Coalition has granted more than $70,000 to about 100 individual and non-profit group applicants in various fields of arts and culture. In 2013 the Cultural Coalition will be able to distribute $11,000 to qualified applicants.
The Cultural Coalition is a 501(c)(3) non-profit entity, financially independent of county government. The awards are funded in large part by state of Oregon Cultural Trust funds. However, the Coos County Cultural Coalition also needs members of our community to invest at the local level in its 2013 grant program. Grant applications are being accepted now and until February 28, 2013. Awards will be made on April 18, 2012.
Helping is easy. Let's say you give $500 – the maximum for an individual; for a couple it's $1,000, and it's $2,500 for a business -- to the Coos County Cultural Trust for us to grant to local cultural groups or individuals. Then match it with an equal donation to the Oregon Cultural Trust. Combined your two gifts of $500 are a $1,000 deduction from your taxable income. Plus, the $500 donation to the state Cultural Trust is a dollar-for-dollar reduction in what you owe in state income tax (called a tax credit).
The Coos County Cultural Coalition address is P. O. Box 1091, Coos Bay, OR 97420. The Oregon Cultural Trust address is 775 Summer Street, NE, Suite 20, Salem, OR 97301. The matching donation to the Oregon Cultural Trust cannot exceed the amount donated to the local organization(s).
If you or your accountant would like further information on this way of giving to cultural growth in your community, please log onto the Oregon Cultural Trust web site at www.culturaltrust.org. Click on "donate" and then on the button "Give! now" at the bottom of the page to learn more about the tax credit. For more information on the benefits to Coos County please log onto the Cultural Coalition web site at www.ccculturalcoalition.org.
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PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE PUBLICATION
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I do not write or edit the press releases that are sent out - if you have questions about them, please contact the person listed as the contact for that event. I will send your announcement out only once. If you wish to advertise your event more than one time, please follow the example of OCCO. They write an entirely new story about their concerts each week.
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"We can only be what we give ourselves the power to be." -- Native American Proverb
"I don't want to drive up to the pearly gates in a shiny sports car, wearing beautifully, tailored clothes, my hair expertly coiffed, and with long, perfectly manicured fingernails. I want to drive up in a station wagon that has mud on the wheels from taking kids to scout camp. I want to be there with a smudge of peanut butter on my shirt from making sandwiches for a sick neighbors childres. I want to be there with a little dirt under my fingernails from helping to weed someone's garden. I want to be there with children's sticky kisses on my cheeks and the tears of a friend on my shoulder. I want the Lord to know I was really here and that I really lived." --Parjorie Pay Hinckley
