1) Rotary $1,500 "Dream Trip" Raffle
2) Holiday Open House featuring The Pampered Chef, PartyLite, Stampin' Up!, and Cookie Lee
3) Oregon Coast Chamber Orchestra has unique role in musical drama
4) Coastal Douglas Has Talent! Winners Announced
5) Artists Showcase
6) $500 Holiday Cash Raffle (Benefiting Project Graduation)
7) Healthy Communities Project Community meeting
2) Holiday Open House featuring The Pampered Chef, PartyLite, Stampin' Up!, and Cookie Lee
3) Oregon Coast Chamber Orchestra has unique role in musical drama
4) Coastal Douglas Has Talent! Winners Announced
5) Artists Showcase
6) $500 Holiday Cash Raffle (Benefiting Project Graduation)
7) Healthy Communities Project Community meeting
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WHAT: $1,500 "Dream Trip" Raffle
WHERE: Any Rotarian
WHAT: $1,500 "Dream Trip" Raffle
WHERE: Any Rotarian
WHEN: Saturday, November 6, 2010 6:00 pm or (for Rotarian purchase) beginning November 18, 2010.
WHO: Rotary Club of Reedsport
Contact: Sheri Aasen -- 541-271-6392
NEED A STOCKING STUFFER OR SPECIAL SMALL GIFT? The Rotary Club of Reedsport will begin selling tickets for their annual "Dream Trip" raffle. The tickets are $5 each and are valued at $1,500.00, to be used within 1 year for the trip(s) of your choice. The drawing will be held February 3, 2011 at 12:30 pm at the local Rotary Meeting (need not be present to win). only 600 tickets will be sold!! Get yours beginning November 18 from any Rotarian or be the first to buy on at the Talent Show Saturday, November 13, 2010 at 6:00 pm.
All proceeds from the Dream Trip Raffle will be used to support our community and Rotary's service projects. Examples of the projects Rotary is involved in and supports are: Beach Clean-up, S.M.A.R.T. Books, Boy/Girl Scouts, Dental Van, Job Fair, National Night Out, Project Graduation, RCLC Great Afternoons, Downtown Flower Project, Scholarships for our High School Students, Student of the Month, Tree of Giving, Christmas in July, and the Memorial Day Parade.
WHO: Rotary Club of Reedsport
Contact: Sheri Aasen -- 541-271-6392
NEED A STOCKING STUFFER OR SPECIAL SMALL GIFT? The Rotary Club of Reedsport will begin selling tickets for their annual "Dream Trip" raffle. The tickets are $5 each and are valued at $1,500.00, to be used within 1 year for the trip(s) of your choice. The drawing will be held February 3, 2011 at 12:30 pm at the local Rotary Meeting (need not be present to win). only 600 tickets will be sold!! Get yours beginning November 18 from any Rotarian or be the first to buy on at the Talent Show Saturday, November 13, 2010 at 6:00 pm.
All proceeds from the Dream Trip Raffle will be used to support our community and Rotary's service projects. Examples of the projects Rotary is involved in and supports are: Beach Clean-up, S.M.A.R.T. Books, Boy/Girl Scouts, Dental Van, Job Fair, National Night Out, Project Graduation, RCLC Great Afternoons, Downtown Flower Project, Scholarships for our High School Students, Student of the Month, Tree of Giving, Christmas in July, and the Memorial Day Parade.
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WHAT: Holiday Open House featuring The Pampered Chef, PartyLite, Stampin' Up!, and Cookie Lee
WHERE: Beautiful Savior Lutheran Church, 2160 Elm, Reedsport
WHEN: Saturday, November 20, 10:30 – 2:00
WHO: A fundraiser for Jan-Hil Christian Preschool
Contact: Laurice Hedges 541-271-4991
Please join us for this fundraiser for Jan-Hil Christian Preschool. Bring a friend and avoid the stress and crowds of the malls as you view the newest fall and holiday products from The Pampered Chef, PartyLite, Stampin' Up!, and Cookie Lee. Representatives from these companies will be available to answer your questions and to demonstrate their products. Have a cup of coffee or tea and a cookie or two while you browse the products and enjoy some relaxed, early Christmas shopping.
WHAT: Holiday Open House featuring The Pampered Chef, PartyLite, Stampin' Up!, and Cookie Lee
WHERE: Beautiful Savior Lutheran Church, 2160 Elm, Reedsport
WHEN: Saturday, November 20, 10:30 – 2:00
WHO: A fundraiser for Jan-Hil Christian Preschool
Contact: Laurice Hedges 541-271-4991
Please join us for this fundraiser for Jan-Hil Christian Preschool. Bring a friend and avoid the stress and crowds of the malls as you view the newest fall and holiday products from The Pampered Chef, PartyLite, Stampin' Up!, and Cookie Lee. Representatives from these companies will be available to answer your questions and to demonstrate their products. Have a cup of coffee or tea and a cookie or two while you browse the products and enjoy some relaxed, early Christmas shopping.
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WHAT: Orchestra has unique role in musical drama
WHAT: Orchestra has unique role in musical drama
WHERE: Pacific Auditorium in Reedsport
WHEN: Sunday, December 12 @ 2:00 pm
WHO: The Oregon Coast Chamber Orchestra (OCCO)
Contact: website, WWW.OCCO.WS . Or you may call 541-997-6770
WHEN: Sunday, December 12 @ 2:00 pm
WHO: The Oregon Coast Chamber Orchestra (OCCO)
Contact: website, WWW.OCCO.WS . Or you may call 541-997-6770
In the world of opera and operetta, orchestras play a supportive role. Not only do they accompany soloists, choruses and dancers, they also provide musical pictures to set the mood, follow the action and/or to remind the opera goers of what has gone before. These short pieces are called Overtures, intermezzi and the like. Often, they are heard while the curtain is closed.
Music that demonstrates the unique contribution of the orchestra to opera is the subject of the Oregon Coast Chamber Orchestra Fall concert. "A night at the opera" will be heard at 2 P.M. matinee on Sunday, December 12 at Pacific Auditorium.
In celebration of their fourth year of bringing concerts to Reedsport audiences, the ensemble will again offer a special ticket price. Purchase of an "early-bird" ticket ($10.00) will admit two persons to the event. Tickets are now on sale at the Reedsport branch of Umpqua Bank. This price will not be available on the concert date. Tickets at the door will revert to the usual cost of $10 per person.
Conductors Robin DeVour, and John Monks lead the group in a wide variety of famous opera selections by such composers as Bizet, Gluck, Rossini, Saint-Saëns, Schubert and others. Operetta pieces including works by Victor Herbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan will also be heard. Concertmaster for OCCO is Florence violinist Barbara Wilcox.
Music that demonstrates the unique contribution of the orchestra to opera is the subject of the Oregon Coast Chamber Orchestra Fall concert. "A night at the opera" will be heard at 2 P.M. matinee on Sunday, December 12 at Pacific Auditorium.
In celebration of their fourth year of bringing concerts to Reedsport audiences, the ensemble will again offer a special ticket price. Purchase of an "early-bird" ticket ($10.00) will admit two persons to the event. Tickets are now on sale at the Reedsport branch of Umpqua Bank. This price will not be available on the concert date. Tickets at the door will revert to the usual cost of $10 per person.
Conductors Robin DeVour, and John Monks lead the group in a wide variety of famous opera selections by such composers as Bizet, Gluck, Rossini, Saint-Saëns, Schubert and others. Operetta pieces including works by Victor Herbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan will also be heard. Concertmaster for OCCO is Florence violinist Barbara Wilcox.
For more about this orchestra or to view the complete program, visit its newly redesigned website, WWW.OCCO.WS Or you may call 541-997-6770 for additional information.
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WHO: Rotary Club of Reedsport
WHO: Rotary Club of Reedsport
WHAT: Winners Announced
CONTACT: Kent Abendroth at 541-271-5386 or Kathleen Miller at 541-271-210
Coastal Douglas Has Talent! Winners Announced
The Rotary Club of Reedsport wants to thank all the talent acts for participating in this year's Coastal Douglas Has Talent! community talent show and to all the sponsors, contributors, supporters and everyone who came out to the show.
Congratulations to the Decker Point Blue Grass Band – Riley Johnson, Cory Christoffersen, Keelan McDuffy – chosen by the audience as this year's favorite talent act. Second place went to Alec Scott Howard and third place to "Walk the Dinosaur" dance routine by Ashley Espinoza, Courtney Manicke, Haylee Sams, Savanna Vitek.
This year's Judge's Choice went to Alec Scott for his rendition on guitar of "Always with Me, Always with You" by Joe Satriani.
The Club's appreciation goes out to the sponsors who make it possible to keep the ticket price at just $5.00:
Crabby Cafe
Dunes Family Health Clinic
Fullhart Insurance Agency
Gerhard Goorhuis DDS
Law Office of Megan L. Jacquot
Jim Mix Financial Services
Kitty's Kitchen is Christmas Forever
Lower Umpqua Hospital
Mast Bros. Towing & Collision Repair
Oregon First Community Credit Union
Reedsport Natural Foods
Reedsport Pharmacy
Signs Unlimited
Southern Oregon Sanitation
Sugar Shack Bakery
Umpqua Mobile Villa (Art Koning)
Umpqua Post Newspaper
Video Wave & Copy Center
Voellinger & Hill
Waterfront Tavern
Waves Hair Salon
Special thanks to
Bank of America (gift bags), Umpqua Bank (Name that Tune sponsor, Ocean Breeze Flowers & Gifts (ticket outlet), Reedsport Coffeehouse (ticket outlet), and the media for helping get the word out: Coffee Break, Community Email Blast by Jamie Swafford, K-dune 1030 am radio, and Umpqua Post.
The Talent Show is a fundraising event for the Rotary Club of Reedsport and will support its community and service projects. The 2011 Talent Show has been scheduled for November 12, 2011. Applications are to be received by October 7, 2011—consideration will be given to the applications in the order they are received. For more information you may contact any Rotarian, Kent Abendroth at 541-271-5386, or Kathleen Miller at 541-271-2101.
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What: Artists Showcase
What: Artists Showcase
When: Friday, November 19, 2010, 5 to 7 p.m.
Where: Reedsport Natural Foods store, 1891 Winchester Avenue (Hwy 101)
Who: Coastal Douglas Arts & Business Alliance (CDABA)
Contact: Kathleen Miller 541-271-2101
Artist Showcase to feature Dunes Art Club
Members of the Dunes Art Club will be the featured artists at the Artist Showcase on Friday, November 19th between 5 and 7 pm. Members to be featured include Marsha Astor, Patty King, Cheryl LeVesque, Mary Paula, Beebe Slater, and Fred VanWert, who will showcase their winter and Christmas themed arts. The Dunes Art Club is made up of 24 local artists who live in the surrounding area and meet every Monday morning at the Lower Umpqua Senior Center.
CDABA is also featuring a winter fundraiser---the special holiday labeled wines of Eola Hills Wine Cellars. CDABA members are taking pre-orders for the wines, which have been specially priced just for the fundraiser, and Eola Hills will be making a donation to CDABA of $5.00 per bottle pre-ordered. Orders should be placed by December 1st. Order forms are available to Coastal Ceramics, Kathi's Antiques, K-dune Radio Station, Mindpower Gallery, and Ocean Breeze Flowers & Gifts. The wine will be delivered at the December First Friday . . . Art is for Everyone event—along with a wine tasting by Eola Hills. The first anniversary of the First Friday events will be held at the initial location of Coastal Ceramics and Ocean Breeze Flowers & Gifts.
Artist Showcases are held at Reedsport Natural Foods store, 1891 Winchester Avenue (Hwy 101), Reedsport, OR on the third Friday of the month. Future dates are December 17th (memorial show for Jack Adams), February 4th, April 1st, and June 3rd.
CDABA also sponsors a First Friday art event at a different location each month. Future dates are: December 3rd (Coastal Ceramics/Ocean Breeze-1st Anniversary event) and January 14th (note date change—Mindpower Gallery/2nd Annual Photography Contest).
For more information about contact Kathleen Miller (541) 271-2101.
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WHAT: $500 Holiday Cash Raffle (Benefiting Project Graduation)
WHAT: $500 Holiday Cash Raffle (Benefiting Project Graduation)
WHERE: Tickets available at: Bank of America, Oregon First Comm. Credit Union, Ocean Breeze Flowers & Gifts, and Reedsport Natural Foods.
WHEN: Drawing will be held Dec. 10th at Butch Thompson Court (need not be present to win)
WHEN: Drawing will be held Dec. 10th at Butch Thompson Court (need not be present to win)
WHO: The Project Graduation Committee (Benefiting the graduating class of 2011!)
Contact: Susan Huebner 271-5819
Project Grad. appreciates the community support of our two major fundraisers: The $500 Holiday Cash Raffle drawn in Dec., and the $500 Spring Cash Raffle held in the Spring. Tickets can be purchased at the above listed businesses, or by contacting Susan Huebner @ 271-5819. (Tickets are $5 for one, or five for $20.)
Project Grad. appreciates the community support of our two major fundraisers: The $500 Holiday Cash Raffle drawn in Dec., and the $500 Spring Cash Raffle held in the Spring. Tickets can be purchased at the above listed businesses, or by contacting Susan Huebner @ 271-5819. (Tickets are $5 for one, or five for $20.)
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WHAT: Healthy Communities Project Community meeting
WHERE: Umpqua Discovery Center, 409 Riverfront Way
WHEN: Wednesday, December 1, 4:00 to 6:00 PM
WHO: Douglas County Healthy Communities Project
Contact: Dick Dolgonas, Coordinator, Douglas County Healthy Communities Project, 541 464-3816
There is a growing recognition of the ways that community conditions impact individual health and the health of entire communities. Research has shown that our surroundings matter--where we live, work, learn and play can affect our health. Some communities, for example, have greater access to affordable, healthy foods, making it easier for people to make healthy food choices. Likewise, people living in communities with easy access to parks, playgrounds, walkways, and bike paths are more likely to integrate physical activity into their daily routine.
The community is invited to attend a community meeting to talk about some of the conditions that promote health or pose barriers to health in our community. The meeting is part of a Healthy Communities effort to gather information about the policies and conditions that impact our health, especially as they relate to physical activity, nutrition, tobacco use, and the resources available to prevent and manage chronic disease.
Contact: Dick Dolgonas
Healthy Communities Coordinator
Douglas County Public Health Division
621 W. Madrone | Roseburg OR 97470 | p 541 464-3816 | c 541 430-2632 | www.co.douglas.or.us/health
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