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Zombie Paintball This year, the annual Night Fright Haunted House features Zombie Paintball. Night Fright Haunted House opened for its 10th season on Oct. 3. The haunted house runs from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday nights through Nov. 1.

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Ch oirs of the Valley The largest Choirs of the Valley concert will be held at 7 p.m. Thursday in McKenzie Theatre on the Eastern Oregon University campus.

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Idaho writer in residence, poet and teacher Diane Raptosh will read for the Roundhouse Reading Series along with local poet and retired teacher Amelia Ettinger. The writers took time to talk with Go! magazine about their crafL

Christmas color The glass-blowing ornament workshops at Dimond Art Glass, 60881 Stackland Road, are back starting in early November for a fourth year.

Cover photo: Aaron Hull and Gerald Hopkins perform an Abbott and Costell act during performances of "WBKR Retro Radio Live" that opens Friday and runs for two weekends. (Lisa Britton/Gol staff)

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each show. In the back, Karen Leasy provides the sound effectsdrumming fingernails on a plastic bowl for pounding hooves, stompingfeetforfootsteps,slamming a door when a character leaves theroom, and yanking a dummy to the floor to simulate someone fainting.

And on occasion, Leasy holds up an"Applause" sign to engage the audience — providing the laugh track.

'You are the studio audience," Burroughs said.

By Lisa Britton Hannah Violette provides the Go! staff live mood music — spooky for'The Shadow," fast-paced for"The Lone Radio shows from the 1940s are coming to life again with a hearty Ranger" — and has written the "Hi-yo, Silver, away!" jingles for the advertisements folEastern Oregon Regional Theusa Br~an/Go~staff lowing each segment. The jingles atre is presenting'WBKR Retro A performance of "The Lone Ranger" comes alive with the actors of Eastern Oregon RegionalThecatch the flavor of those 1940s ads Radio Live" during the next two atre including, in front row from left, Gene Stackle, Aaron Hull, Lynne Burroughs and Gerald Hopkins. — transitioning fiom the scripts weekends. into the sales pitch.

Betsy Ferns is in the back row, Jennifer Button is the narrator (standing, far right), and Karen Leasy Director Lynne Burroughs has (Such as how Popeye eats spin(far left) provides the sound effects. found the original scripts for 'The ach for strength, but if you need Lone Ranger,""Abbot and Costello," The performance will be at Broadway streets in Baker City. radiotohear the adventures of other supplements, visit Baker 'The Shadow,""Popeye" and a 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday and Tickets are $10 and are availThe Lone Ranger and Tonto, or the City Pharmacy.)

George Burns and Gracie Allen 3 p.m.Sunday, then again at able in advance at Betty's Books bad guyscaughtbyThe Shadow.

The cast includes Burroughs, i'Who knows what evil lurksin mystery. And she knows she can 7 p.m.Oct.24 and 25 and 3 p.m. and at the door.

Violette, Leasy, Gene Stackle, find more, including the"Green Oct. 26.

Thisretroradio performance the hearts of men? The Shadow Betsy Ferns, Lisa Ensworth, Hornet."

Shows are at the Iron Gate The- takes the audience back to the knows.")

LaVonne Yeoumans, Robert Coon, "I'd love to do this yearly," Bur1940s —beforetelevision,when Actorssitbefore the audience, Jennifer Button, Gerald Hopkins ater, located upstairsin Bascheroughs said.

Sage Place, corner of Main and families would gather around the readingthe scriptstoperform and Aaron Hull.

• What:"WBKR Retro Radio Live" presented by Eastern Oregon RegionalTheatre • When:7 p.m .Friday and Saturday and 3p.m. Sunday;7 p.m .Oct.24 and 25 and 3 p.m. Oct. 26 • Where: Iron Gate Theater, upstairs in Basche-Sage Place, Baker City • Details: $10 tickets available at Betty's Books and at the door • Contact: www.bakerlivetheatre. com

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A Conversation Project on"Life afterWar, Photography and Oral Histories of Coming Home" is set for 7 p.m. Friday at the Baker County Library, 2400 Resort St. This is part of Oregon Humanities' statewide Conversation Project.

The event features photographer Jim Lommasson, a freelance photographer who received the Dorothea Lange — Paul Taylor

Prize for his first book"Shadow Boxers: Sweat, Sacrifice & the Will to Survive in American Boxing Gyms." His second book is "Pentimento: Portland's Lost and Found Carousel." Lommasson is currently working on a book and traveling exhibition about American veterans from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars called "Exit Wounds: Soldiers' Stories — Life after Iraq and Afghanistan."

The Sumpter Valley Railroad will run a special Fall Colors train Friday with round trips from McEwen Station at 10 a.m. and 1:15 p.m. and from Sumpter at noon.

Fares are $17.50 adults, $15 seniors and military, $11 children

(6-16) or $50 family.

The more extensive Fall Foliage trains are held Saturday and

Sunday, although Sunday is the only one with room still available.

Trains depart the McEwen depot at 7 a.m. following a continental breakfast at 6 a.m.

These trains are full-day events, usually wrapping up between 3 p.m. and 4 p.m. There is a large amount of walking and hikinginvolved overuneven grounrl.

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fortableshoesor boots,and dress in layers as the weather can be unpredictable in midOctober.

The cost is $80, which includes breakfast and lunch.

To makereservations,call866894-2268.

More information is also available on the Sumpter Valley Railroad website, www.sumpter valleyrailroad.org.

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"Less scary" show 6 p.m. to 7 p.m.

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• Where: Maridell Center, 1124 W ashington Ave.,LaGrande Submitted to Go! magazine

There is only one place in La Grande where you can shoot zombies — the Maridell Center.

This year, the annual Night Fright Haunted House features Zombie Paintball.

Night Fright Haunted House openedforits 10th season on Oct.3. It runs Friday and Saturday night from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. through Nov. 1.

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and $15 with paintball.

On Oct. 25, there will be a"less scary" preshow for younger children and the faint ofheart from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. This preshow will not feature the paintball but there will still be zombies. Instead of jumping out to scare you, they will passouttrick-or-treatcandy for the kids. Cost of the preshow will

Zombie paintball, where guests gettoshootlive zombie actorswith paintball guns, is the latest craze appearing at haunted attractions across the nation. With the popularity of shows likeuWalking Dead" anduWorld War Z," this fun interactivesporthastaken ofK Usually it is featured at corn mazes, hayrides and other outdoor attractions, but the Night Fright Haunted House has designed a special indoor arena where zombies can hide and attack. The paintball guns in use are lower impact, making them more suitable for an indoor space. Even so, the "zombie" actors still wear goggles and plentyofprotective gear.

People can experience"The Hunted" with or without shooting the zombies. The haunted house is open toallages,butguestsmust be atleast9yearsold to usethe paintball guns. Anyone younger than 12 must be accompanied by an adult.

For more information, visit nightfrightproductions.com or call the Maridell Centerat541-9632023.

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This year's haunted house,'The Hunted," will take visitors on a mission across a quarantined military compound to rescue the doctor who has found the cure to the zombie outbreak. But the zombies are lurking everywhere, and you don't have weapons until after you gettothedoctor and hislab.

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• Barley Brown's Brewpub, 2190 Main St., 541-523-4266 • Bear Mountain Pizza Co., 2104 Island Ave., La Grande, 541-963-2327 • Bud Jacksons Sportsmans Bar and Grill, 2209 AdamsAve., La Grande, 541-962-7858 • Corner Brick Bar and Grill, 1840 Main St., Baker City, 541-523-6099.

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13WEDIIESDA V • Baker City Farmers' Market: 3-6 p.m., Baker City fairgrounds.

• Bingo:doors open at 5 p.m., early-bird games at 6, regular games at 7; 5 p.m.;VFW High Valley Post 4060, 518 N. Main St., Union.

• Live Music by Bill Staines: Heidi Muller BcBobWebb open the show; $10 in advance, $12 at door, $5 kids12 Bcyounger; 7 p.m.; Odd Fellows Hall,105 N.E. First St., Enterprise.

• LiveMusic byThe Dakota Brown Band:Free; 8-10 p.m.; Bud Jackson's Sportsmans Bar Bc Grill, 2209Adams Ave., La Grande.

• Roundhouse Reading Series: Diane Raptosh and Amelia Ettinger read; 7 p.m.; Looking Glass Books, 1118 Adams Ave., La Grande.

• Story time:Join Miss Melissa for a reading of Stafford's book "Everyone Out Here Knows: a BigfootTale." Featuring the poetry of Stafford and the art of Angelina Marino-Heidel, the booktakes you to the places where you feel Bigfoot just around the bend; free; 10 a.m.; Baker County Library, 2400 Resort Ave., Baker City.

I THIIRSDAV • Bingo:1-2 p.m.; Union County Senior Center, 1504 N. Albany, La Grande.

• Choirs of the Valley concert: Local performing groups will include the Union County Children's Choir, the Grande Ronde Community Chorus and the EOU Chamber Choir; free; donations taken at door; 7 p.m.; McKenzieTheatre, Loso Hall, EOU, La Grande.

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• Country Swing Thursday:$3 before 8 p.m., $5 after 8; 7:30 p.m.; Maridell Center, 1124Washington Ave., La Grande.

• Craft lecture:with visiting novelist and essayist Vanessa Veselka on "Beyond Sympathy: Writing Past the Cliches of Class, Race and Subculture"; 1 p.m.; Ackerman Alumni Room, No. 208, EOU. • Fishtrap Fall Arts & Lecture Series:Alfred Habeggar and his book"Masked: TheLifeofAnna Leonowens, Schoolmistress at the Court of Siam"; $5; 7 p.m.; Fishtrap House, 400 E.Grant St., Enterprise.

• Live music:Local artists perform from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m.; free; 8 p.m.;Ten Depot Street, La Grande.

• Live Music by Fine Tunes:free;

11 a.m.; Union County Senior Center, 1504 N. Albany, La Grande.

• PFLAG Board Game Night:6-9 p.m.; Bear Mountain Pizza, 2104Island Ave., La Grande.

• Storytime:Free; 11:30 a.m.; Cook Memorial Library, 2006 Fourth St., La Grande.

• Swingin' with Sam:The Powder River Dance Clubs meets every Thursday (except the second Thursday) with lessons in the western and country swing, Texas Two Step, waltz, cha cha and more. First two lessons are free.

All ages welcome; no partner necessary; $3, $5 couples; yearly memberships are $25 or $40 couples; 6:30-8 p.m.; Baker City VFW Hall, First Street BcValley

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11FRIDA V • Cinema Night at the Josephy Center:"Secretariat"; 6:30-9 p.m.; Josephy Center for Arts BcCulture, 403 N. Main St., Joseph.

• Conversation Project:"Life After War: Photography and Oral Histories of Coming Home" featuring freelance photographer Jim Lommasson.

Sponsored by Oregon Humanities; free; 7 p.m.;

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• Fall Colors Train:Take a ride aboard a steam-powered train to see the fall colors in Eastern Oregon. Round trips from McEwen at10 a.m. and1:15 p.m. and from Sumpter at noon; $1750 adults, $15 senior/military, $11 child (6-16), $50 family pas; Sumpter Valley Railroad, 12259 Huckleberry Loop Rd..

• Fall Harvest Street Fair:10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Penn Bc Fourth Street, La Grande.

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• iCraft:tweens Bt teens ages 11 Bt older; free; 4-5 p.m.; Cook Memorial Library, 2006 Fourth St., La Grande.

• Josephy Center Presents Molly Gloss:7-8:30 p.m.; Josephy Center for Arts Bt Culture, 403 N. Main St., Joseph.

• Lecture:EOU English faculty member Cori Brewster on "Blogging of Women in Ag' Ethos, Ag Mediaandthe Gendered Production of Food" in Room109;11a.m.;Zabel Hall EOU, La Grande.

• Live music:Stefannie Gordon plays fiddle every Friday night; 7 p.m.; Geiser Grand Hotel, 1996 Main St., Baker City; 541-5231889.

• Live Music by Fine Tunes:free; 11 a.m.; Union County Senior Center, 1504 N. Albany, La Grande.

• Live Music by KeithTaylor: ragtime piano; free; 5-6 p.m.; Veterans Center,1901 Main St., Baker City.

• Movie Screening:"Every War HasTwo Losers: A poet's meditation on peace"; this short

biographical film is based on William Stafford's journals; free; 6:30 p.m.; Baker County Library, 2400 Resort Ave., Baker City.

• Pinochle Social Club:7 p.m.; Union County Senior Center, 1504 N. Albany, La Grande.

• Reading:students in the MFA program read their recent works; 7:30 p.m.; Ackerman Alumni Room, No. 208, EOU. • Story time:Join Miss Melissa for a reading of Stafford's book "Everyone Out Here Knows: a BigfootTale." Featuring the poetry of Stafford and the ait of Angelina Marino-Heidel, the booktakes you to the places where you feel Bigfoot just around the bend; free; 10 a.m.; Baker County Library, 2400 Resort Ave., Baker City.

• WBKR Retro Radio Live: Eastern Oregon RegionalTheatre is bringing the1940s radio shows backto life — "The Lone Ranger," "The Shadow," "Popeye," "Abbott and Costello" and "George Burns and Gracie Allen"; $10; 7 p.m.; Iron GateTheater, inside BascheSage Place, 2101Main St., Baker City; 541-523-4371.

• WBKR Retro Radio Live: Eastern Oregon RegionalTheatre is bringing the1940s radio shows back to life — "The Lone Ranger," "The Shadow," "Popeye," "Abbott and Costello" and "George Burns and Gracie Allen"; $10; 3 p.m.; Iron GateTheater, inside BascheSage Place, 2101Main St., Baker City; 541-523-4371.

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• Bingo:7 p.m.; Odd Fellows Hall, Summerville.

• Dance Arts lnc. Kids Haunted House Performance:7 p.m.; Maridell Center, 1124Washington Ave., La Grande.

• Eagle Cap Excursion Train Two Rivers Fall Foliage Trip: returns at1:30 p.m., lunch served; contact Alegre Travel for details Bt reservations;10 a.m.; Elgin Depot, 300 N. Eighth St..

• Fall Harvest Street Fair: 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Penn BtFourth Street, La Grande.

• Old-Time Community Barn Dance:$5, children younger than 12 free; 7-10:30 p.m.;The Blue Barn, 63327Tenderfoot Valley Road,Joseph.

• Old-Time Community Dance: live string band Bt caller, no experience or partner necessary; $5, kids younger than12 free; 7-10:30 p.m.; Hurricane Creek Grange, 63081 Hurricane Creek Rd.,Joseph.

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• Bridge:1 p.m.; Union County Senior Center, 1504 N. Albany, La Grande.

• Coalition of Union County Ukeleles Strum Circle:7-8:30 p.m.; Bear Mountain Pizza, 2104 Island Ave., La Grande.

• Community Symphonic Band rehearsal:ages 14 and up, all experience levels; $30 per term, college Bt high school students play free; 7-9 p.m.; Loso Hall Room 126, EOU, LaGrande.

• Live Music by Dennis Winn: Free; 11 a.m.; Union County Senior Center, 1504 N. Albany, La Grande.

• Union County Children's Choir rehearsal:grades 2-6; 4:305:30p.m.;Loso Hall,Room 123, EOU, La Grande.

$1TDaSD AV • Baby Tot Bop Story Circle: ages 0-3; free; 11:30 a.m.; Cook Memorial Library, 2006 Fourth St., La Grande.

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• Eagle Cap ExcursionTrain, www.eaglecaptrainrides. com,tickets:800-323-7330 • Elgin Opera House, 104 N. Eighth St., Elgin, 541-663-6324, www. elginoperahouse.com • Eltrym Theater, 1809 First St., Baker City. www. eltrym.com • Geiser Grand Hotel, 1995 Main St., Baker City, 541523-1889. Tours offered at 3:30 p.m. Saturdays for $2.

• Hot Lake Springs,66172 Ore. Highway 203, La Grande, 541-963-4685, www.hotlakesprings.com • Ladd Marsh Wildlife Area, 59116 Pierce Road, La Grande, 541-963-4954 • National Historic Oregon Trail lnterpretive Center, 22267 Oregon Highway 86, Baker City, 541-523-1843 • Oregon Trail lnterpretive Park at Blue Mountain Crossing, 1-84 exit 248, west of La Grande, 509-963-7186 • Sumpter Valley Railroad, 12259 Huckleberry Loop Road, Baker City, 866-894-2268 • Sumpter Valley Dredge State Heritage Area, Sumpter, 541-894-2486 • Wallowa Lake Tramway, 59919Wallowa Lake Hwy.,

appointment only, 541-963-3123 • Eastern Oregon Museum, 610Third St., Haines. Open Thursday-Sunday.

• Union County Museum, 333 S. Main St., Union, 541-562-6003. Open Monday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

• Wallowa County Museum, 110 Main St., Joseph, 541-432-6095

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• Alpine Meadows Golf Course, Enterprise, 541-426-3246, www.alpine meadowsgolfcourse. com • Anthony Lake Recreation Area, 47500 Anthony Lake Highway, North Powder, 541-856-3277 • Buffalo Peak Golf Course, Union, 541-562-5527, 866-202-5950, www.

buffal opeakgolf.com • Forest CoveWarm Springs Pool, Cove, 541-568-4890 • Hells Canyon National Recreation Area, 541-523-6391 • La Grande Country Club golf course, 541-963-4241, www.lagrandecountry club.com.

• La Grande SK8 Park, Oak and Palmer, 541-962-1352 • Meacham Divide Nordic Ski Area, west of La Grande

• Mount Emily Recreation Area, www.union-county. org.

• Quail Ridge Golf Course, 2801 Indiana Ave., Baker City, 541-523-2358 • Sam-0 Swim Center, 580 Baker St., Baker City, 541-523-9622 • Spout Springs Ski Area, www.skispoutsprings. com, 541-566-0327 • Veterans Memorial Pool, 401 Palmer St., La Grande,

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• Adler House Museum, 2305 Main St., Baker City.

Closed for the season, but special tours available by advance registration; 541523-9308 • Baker Heritage Museum, 2480 Grove St., Baker City, 541-523-9308.

• Eastern Oregon Fire Museum, La Grande, by

5 Art Center at the Old Library, 1006 Penn Ave., La Grande, 541-624-2800 • Aspen Grove Gallery, 602 N. Main St., Joseph, 541-432-9555 • Crossroads Carnegie Art Center, 2020Auburn Ave., Baker City, 541-523-5369 • Da ncing E lepha nt Gallery, 1788 Main St., Baker City; www. dancingelephantgallery. com.

• Fire Works Pottery Studio 8t Gallery, 62378 Hurricane Creek Road, Joseph, 541-432-0445 • Gene Hayes Gallery of Western Art, 301 Donald St., Wallowa, 541-886-3311 • Kelly's Gallery on Main,103 N. Main St., 541-432-3116 • Lakeside Interiors,

Call or email us with updates to this guide • Baker County: 541-523-3673, events@bakercityherald e Union and Wallowa counties: 541-963-3161, events@lagrandeobservercom

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The largest Choirs of the Valley concert yet, sponsored by Red Cross Drug, will be held 7 p.m.

Thursday in McKenzie Theatre on the Eastern Oregon University campus.

Local performing groups will include the Union County Children's Choir, the Grande Ronde CommunityChorus and the EOU Chamber Choir.

In addition, the audience will hear performances by high school choirs from La Grande, Baker, Milton-Freewater, Hermiston and Pendleton. Admission is free. Donations will be taken at the door to assist with future EOU music scholarship programs.

The Choirs of the Valley concert is designed to give singers in local choral ensembles an early in the year performance opportunity, said Peter Wordelman, director of the Union County Children's Choir.

All of the five high school choirs and conductors have joined together to form the Eastern Promise Regional Choir, which is a pilot project through the EOU Eastern Promise program. The projecthas nearly 60 participants, which allows the students to come together once each term to rehearseand perform together.

While the Choirs of the Valley concert will not include those students singing alone, it will allow all of the individual high school choirs the opportunity to listen and learn from each other.

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Arts commission, trust hold local meeting Led by Executive Director Brian Rogers, the stafFof the Oregon Arts Commission and the Oregon Cultural Trust will hold 14 statewide town meetings between now and Dec. 12 to hear from Oregonians about arts and culture issues.

Among those meetings is one from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday at Cove Ascension School, 1104 Church St., Cove.

The meetings are free and open to the public.

Rockers close out market for season Whisky Barrell Rocker is set to play for the final La Grande Farmers' Market of the season from 9a.m.tonoon Saturday at Max Square.

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PeterWordelman directs the Union County Children's Choir, among the groups performing at the Choirs of the Valley concertThursday at McKenzie Theatre on the Eastern Oregon University campus. singing,"Wordelman said.

EOU music performance schedule NOVEMBER Nov. 14 — Sarah Maines (Guest) Vocal Recital, location TBA, donations Nov. 19 — Grande Ronde Symphony,7:30 p.m.,McKenzie Theatre, tickets Nov. 21 — EOU Jazz Ensemble, 7:30 p.m., McKenzie Theatre, donations DECEMBER Dec. 1 — EOU Community Band, 7:30 p.m., McKenzie Theatre, donations Dec. 2 — EOU Music Composition Recital, 7 p.m., Groth, free Dec. 6 — Holiday Music Festival, 7:30 p.m., McKenzie Theatre, tickets Dec. 7 — Holiday Music Festival, 3 p.m., McKenzie Theatre, tickets Dec. 14 — Lanetta Paul and Friends, 3 p.m., Methodist Church, donations JANUARY Jan. 30 — Popular Music Show,

7:30 p.m., McKenzie Theatre, tickets Jan. 31 — Popular Music Show, 4 p.m. and 8 p.m., McKenzie Theatre, tickets FEBRUARY Feb. 13 — "The Syncopators," Music Scholarship Fundraiser, Gilbert, tickets Feb. 21 — Eastern Promise Regional Choir, 2:30 p.m., Loso Lobby, free MARCH March 5 — EOU Choir Concert, 7:30 p.m., McKenzie Theatre, donations March 6 — 45th Parallel Concert, 7:30 p.m., McKenzie Theatre, donations March 9 — EOU Community Band,7:30 p.m.,McKenzieTheatre, donations March 11 — Grande Ronde Symphony,7:30 p.m.,McKenzie Theatre, tickets APRIL April 6-8 — Portland Opera To Go! "The Barber of Seville," student performances April 9 — Portland Opera with EOU students, 7:30 p.m.,McKenzie

Theatre, donations April 11 — GRSA Chamber Music, Holly Sorensen and Friends, 7:30 p.m., donations MAY May 15 — GRSA Chamber Music, Linda (Bishop) Hartig, flute, and Lanetta Paul,organ.W ood Road, La Grande;7:30 p.m.,donations May 27 — Grande Ronde Symphony,7:30 p.m.,McKenzie Theatre, donations May 29 — Music Concert, 7:30 p.m., McKenzie Theatre JUNE June 1 — EOU Community Band, 7:30 p.m., McKenzie Theatre, donations June 2— Music Concert,7:30 p.m ., McKenzie Theatre June 3— Music Concert,7:30 p.m ., McKenzie Theatre June 4 — EOU Choir Concert, 7:30 p.m., McKenzie Theatre, donations June 5— Music Concert,7:30 p.m ., McKenzie Theatre June 6— Music Concert,7:30 p.m ., McKenzie Theatre

Brown, Basile play tonightat Bud's Dakota Brown and Luke Basile will play from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. tonight at Bud Jackson's, 2209 Adams Ave. in La Grande.

Tivel, Masa play Thursday at Ten Depot Anna Tivel and Moorea Masa perform Thursday and Steve Hines performs Tuesday at Ten Depot Street in La Grande. The music runs from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. and is free.

Train ends season with extra trip Saturday The Eagle Cap Excursion Train season is ending Saturday with two trips.

The morning trip, 10 a.m. to 1:30p.m.,hasa few seatsleft.

The afternoonridedeparts at 2:30 p.m. and returns at 6:30 p.m., ending the trip at sunset.

For tickets,contactAlegre Travel, 800-323-7330 or 541-963-9000, oremail to train@laegretravel .com, orstop by theoffi ce at 1307Adams Ave., La Grande.

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Roundhouse ReadingSeries

• What: Roundhouse Reading Series • When:7 p.m. tonight • Where: Looking Glass Books,1118 Adams Ave., La Grande

By Jeff Petersen Go! staff

Idaho writer in residence, poet and teacher Diane Raptosh will read for the Roundhouse Reading Series along with local poet and retired teacher Amelia Ettinger.

The Third Wednesdayreadingis at 7 p.m. tonight at Iooking Glass Books, 1118Adams Ave., La Grande. The eventis sponsored

by Blue Mountain Writers and made possible by grants from Union County Cultural Coalition, Cook Memorial Library, Libraries of EasternOregon and private donations.

Go! interviewed both writers to get their viewpoints on writing and the writing process.

Diane Raptosh How did you get started writing? Did you have an aha! moment?

I started writing very bad poetry in high school. I loved literature: this I knew. And my father was killed in a car accident two weeks before I started college. This fact (perhaps it was the"aha" moment) broughttheprecariousness oflife and the fact of my own mortality into very high relief I quickly decided I wanted to go about my days in a way that allowed the maximum possible state of awareness, a likelihood of something like meaning, as well as a general practice of gratitude. The writing life, specifically the writing of poetry, seemed thebestpossibleroute.

Bigger recent accomplishments?

I don't know what accomplishments might be considered bigger than having"American Amnesiac," my fourth book, longlisted for the National Book Award, as happened ayear ago.

I am also just putting the finishing touches on my next book-length manuscript of poems, eTorchie's Book of Days." This booklength dramatic monologue $es, another one) contemplates, among other things, space, freedom, mass extinctions, the nature of consciousness, the surveillance society and the dramatic monologue itself 'Torchieu is "Heraclitus in a shift," a"perceptions worker," a yogini and a teacher at Who University.

She wears a few other hats as well in what she herself describes as the "age of pre-post-hope."

Last book read?

The last book I read was notin factliterature.Itis'TheRiseofthe Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces," by Radley Balko. In addition to teaching creative writing and literature at The College of Idaho, I direct their program in Criminal Justice Studies, which is one of my sub-fields. I do alotofreadingin thatarea.

Three favorite writers and why?

I respect very much the prose and poetry of Adrienne Rich, the poetry of Walt Whitman and absolutely everything by James Baldwin. I am particularly drawn to writers whose works wrestle with the idea of America and whose works' content is informed primarily by the moral imagination.

One tip for other writers?

Writing poetry is a means to survive and perhaps even flourish in this world.

Sitting alone at the writing tableisofcoursethemost im portantpart ofbeing awriter.It

is not a glamorous or exotic lifestyle.

If sitting alone and thinking and feeling and writing seems Raptosh li k e just about the most important thing on earth, then one should be a writer. There is no better tool than writing to promote that distinct strain of agency, that sense of selfownership necessary to re-craft self and envision new possibilities fora betterfuture.

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Amelia Ettinger

Three favorite writers and why?

Last book read?

I like to read in English and in Spanish, and my taste in books is a bit eclectic. I likeeflufI"' as well as serious writing. A book I recently finished was "All The Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr.

Currently, I am reading"Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher" by Timothy Egan,"La Hija de la Chuparrosa" by Luis Alberto Urrea and"Small Talk" by Peter Sears.

How did you get started in writing? What was your aha!

moment?

I have been playing with words even before I knew how to read and write. As a preschooler, I would often call one of my aunts or uncles and say I had a poem, and they would write the poems down for me. Unfortunately, when I lived in Pullman, Wash., there was a flood in the basement and the book was ruined. Fortunately for me, I memorized my favorite one, so that one is notlost.

I guess I never had an ahamoment, for I have always loved to write. But the moment I felt that I really had a chance at writing was in college. On a whim, I took a creative writing class — I am a biologist by training. In the class, the teacherstarted reading students' work and criticizing them, but two weeks passed and he had not read my story. I was in a bitof agony thinking that maybe I should drop the class, thinking that he was not going to read it at all. But then the day came when he said,"Now I will read a short story — I want all of you to pay attention to the voice."

Anyway, to make a short story longer, he complimented my work and askedme to stay afterclass.

He wondered why I was in biology

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Amelia Ettinger instead of working on my writing. I was very pragmatic and wanted to make a living after college.

Bigger recent accomplishment?

Soon after that I began to work on my writing and started publishing short stories and poems. Most were minor things, but I had the fortune ofhaving a section of my novel,"Mangrove Pod," reviewed

by Toni Morrison. She actually suggested the title for this work that I am presently rewriting.

My most recent accomplishment is coming back to writing after a 24-year hiatus. My book of poetry, "Speaking at a time, Hablando a la vez," is going to be released in either February or March of 2015 /

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a in our own ornamen ri ens o i a s • What: Glass-blowing ornament workshops • When: November and December • Where: Dimond Art Glass, 60881 Stackland Road, Cove

By Jeff Petersen Go! Staff

COVE — A blind guy can do it.

A 5-year-old girl can do it.

The glass-blowing ornament workshops at Dimond Art Glass, 60881 Stackland Road, are back starting in early November for a fourth year.

Last year, 220 people, including entire families and holiday visitors from out of town, took part in the workshops, getting a field trip to one of the most beautiful views in the valley out of the deal.

What's more, there was a waiting list of about 50 people. This year, two more days have been added togive more people an opportunity to make their own ornament.

"There's something really primal about the Christmas holidays,fi re and breathing your own breath into something to create it," said Tom Dimond, who runs the studio along with his partner, Kevin Boylan.

People sign up for half-hour slots and blow their own handmade, durable ornaments with helpfrom Dimond and Boylan.

"People need to come early to decideon colors,patterns and designs, so we can get them ready for them when it's their turn to blow," Dimond said.

Dimond Art Glass has every color of glass under the rainbow and every pattern, with about 60 samplestochoosefrom.

The ornaments, after being blown, need to cool down overnight. They can be picked up the nextday,in a gift-wrapped box with a bow tie on it ready to go

Workshops set Glass blowing ornament workshops will be held starting in early November at Dimond Art Glass, 60881 Stackland Road, Cove.

The workshops will take place Nov. 8-9, 15-16, 23 and 30 and Dec. 6-7,13-14 and 20-21.

Time slots for one-half hour sessions run from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. People are asked to reserve their slot now.

The cost, $35, includes a lesson, an ornament and a gift box.

For more information, call 541-568-4397, 541-786-1222 or 541-910-3510. under the Christmas tree.

But the glass blowers are not just individuals. Whole families and even the entire Bear Mountain Pizza crew have come out in past years to make ornaments.

"One guymade four — two one day and two the next — to give to each member of his family," Dimond said.

Dimond was among the pioneers in the glass field. He started working in glass as an undergraduate in 1963 and the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. He became the first to graduate from the master of fine arts program at Southern Illinois University-Carbondale with a specialty in glass and ceramics.

The glass program he started at Eastern Oregon State College in the early 1970s was one of the irstaccredited artglassprof grams in the United States.

Dimond taught glass blowing and ceramics at what is now Eastern Oregon University from 1972 to 1994.

He has won national awards and exhibited internationally.

But mostly he shows and sells his

work, these days, within a 300mile radius of the Cove studio.

Boylan was one of Dimond's students at EOU. Besides his work in fall and winter at Dimond Art Glass, he also works as a shop technician in spring at the Pilchuk International Glass School, a center forglassart education in the Cascade foothills in Stanwood, Wash.

'The transparency of glass allows you see beyond the surface — that's my major interest," Dimond said. 'When I was a kid in Wisconsin, the rivers would be ice and you could walk on them, or skate, and see, through the ice, fish swimming and the bottom of the river. For a lot oflife, people just look at the surface of things.

The truth, though, often lies well below the surface."

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It is so easy to blow an ornament,Tom Dimond said, that a child can do it. Dimond and his partner, Kevin Boylan, will again offer glass ornament workshops at Dimond Art Glass in Cove starting Nov. 8 and running almost to Christmas.

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