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LAKEPORT, Calif. – The Lakeport Rotary Club is presenting a free musical show at the Soper-Reese Community Theater at 7 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 20.
The show features young adults from the favellas in Rio de Janeiro, currently traveling across the USA performing cross-continental music, dance and acting.
Sponsoring this show for the community is a facet of the Lakeport Rotary Club International outreach.
The “Getting the Show on the Road” concert will bring the audience entertainment they might not have an opportunity to enjoy in Lake County at any other time.
There will be unique interpretations of Brazilian and American songs. These performers are part of a Brazilian Arts & Transformation organization.
The show is free, however donations are welcome.
Rotary Clubs participate with International projects around the world and this project is an example of building international relationships in a variety of ways.
Many International projects are sponsored by Rotarians who travel to other countries and do projects which enhance the living environments of villages by building fresh water systems, bringing much needed medical supplies and in some cases helping to build hospitals where there were none.
The Lakeport Rotary Club has participated in all of these projects in different countries over the past several years.
For more information about the Lakeport Rotary Club please visit www.lakeportrotary.org .
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NORTH COAST, Calif. – Local band Ailura Fate, recent winners of the Rock2 category at Rising Stars Music Competition, will be performing their rockin’ set of originals and favorite covers at the Ukiah PumpkinFest on Sunday, Oct. 20.
They will perform from 2:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. on the Alex R. Thomas Plaza Stage in downtown Ukiah.
“The Pumpkinfest is a great family event and we’re grateful to DJ Ken Steeley, Mary Chadwick and the staff of K-Wine 94.5FM for inviting us,” the band said in a statement. “This is going to be a blast!”
"Yes! We're excited to have the live band ‘Ailura Fate’ perform at the Ukiah PumpkinFest on Sunday,” said DJ Ken Steely of K-Wine.
The Ukiah Country PumpkinFest is the largest street fair in Mendocino County. This annual two-day event is held each fall in the month of October.
Along with a variety of delicious foods, the streets of downtown Ukiah are filled with craft vendors, fine arts exhibits and “Scarecrow City.”
Enjoy live music, a haunted house, the Scout-o-Rama, pet costume classes, the Deep Valley Brew & Wine Festival, and the ever-popular children’s carnival including many games and amusements
For more information and directions for Pumkinfest, visit www.cityofukiah.com .
For more information on Ailura Fate, visit www.AiluraFate.com .
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LAKEPORT, Calif. – The Soper-Reese Community Theatre will present its Third Friday Live concert series on Oct. 18 featuring Ukiah-based band Will Siegel & Friends.
Join them for an evening of danceable jazz and folk rock music.
The theater has an open dance floor and table or loge seating. Snacks and beverages are available for purchase.
Doors open at 6:30 p.m.; the show starts at 7 p.m.
Tickets cost $10 each and are available at the box office, 275 S. Main St., on Fridays from 10:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., telephone 707-263-0577; at the Travel Center Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; and online at www.soperreesetheatre.com .
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Anyone who has followed this column since its introduction in 2005 knows how much I like poems that describe places.
Here’s one by Joseph Hutchison, who lives in Colorado. This is the kind of scene that Edward Hopper might have painted. I especially love the way Hutchison captures the buzz of the neon sign.
Winter Sunrise Outside a Café
Near Butte, Montana
A crazed sizzle of blazing bees
in the word EAT. Beyond it,
thousands of stars have faded
like deserted flowers in the thin
light washing up in the distance,
flooding the snowy mountains
bluff by bluff. Moments later,
the sign blinks, winks dark,
and a white-aproned cook—
surfacing in the murky sheen
of the window—leans awhile
like a cut lily . . . staring out
into the famished blankness
he knows he must go home to.
American Life in Poetry is made possible by The Poetry Foundation ( www.poetryfoundation.org ), publisher of Poetry magazine. It is also supported by the Department of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Poem copyright 2012 by Joseph Hutchison, whose most recent book of poems is Marked Men, Turning Point Books, 2013. Reprinted from Thread of the Real, Conundrum Press, 2012, by permission of Joseph Hutchison and the publisher. Introduction copyright 2013 by The Poetry Foundation. The introduction's author, Ted Kooser, served as United States Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 2004-2006. We do not accept unsolicited manuscripts.