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Fr om Each to Zappa Jimi Hendrix, Keb Mo, Frank Zappa, Michael Bloomfield, Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, Stravinsky, J.S. Bach, Beethoven — these musicians are just a few of the bands La Grande's Terry LaMont lists as having influenced him.

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Anthony Lakes Mountain Resort is open every day through Jan. 4 iexcept Christmas Dayl from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. to entice all those skiers, snowboarders and snowshoers who want to fill their Christmas break with time on the snow.

On the schedule during this open streak are two music events — Add Collard of Baker City will play Saturday and Standard Deviation of La Grande will play on New Year's Eve. Both perform ances startat3:30 p.m.

Another event during Christmas break is Celebrate Nordic on Jan.4. This is a chance to try Nordic skiing for free — free rentals, free trail passes and free lessons.

The ski area's regular schedule — open Thursday through Sunday — begins Jan. 8.

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The event includes a buffet dinner with a chocolate fountain and live music. Guests can gamble with'%nny money" in blackjack, bingo, poker, craps and more.

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The La Grande band Standard Deviation will play NewYear's Eve atAnthony Lakes Mountain Resort.

The Elkhorn Classic Race set forJan. 11featuresthreedifferentevents— a 6K classicrace,a 5K snowshoe race and a 6K skate race.

The classic and snowshoe events begin at 10 a.m.; the skate race is at noon.

Entry is $10 per event, and prizes will be awarded in each.

For more information, or to register ,calltheNordicCenter at 541-856-3277ext.31orvisitwww. anthonylakes.com.

More live music events include

Greenneck Daredevils of Hood River on Jan. 17 and Johnny & The Lawbreakers on Jan. 31 in conjunction with the annual Beach Party.

For afullcalendar ofevents at the ski area, visit the website www.anthonylakes.com.

Square dancecub sponsors communi dance Jan. 10 Go! staff

• What:Community dance • Where: Crossroads Carnegie Art Center, 2020 Auburn Ave., Baker City • Details: $5 or $2.50 for Crossroads members. No experience or partner is necessary to attend • Contact: Richard Rubicam, 503560-9005; richard.rubicam@gmail. com

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The Baker Heritage Museum will be open special hours this weekend, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday and Saturday and noon to 4 p.m. Sunday.

The museum is closed for the season but has planned the special openingdays during the Christmas holiday season.

The next museum eventis Feb.28. Then,the museum will be open for"A Night at Old Auburn" casino night fundraiser from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m.

Tickets are $28 in advance ivisit www.bakerheritagemu-

• What: Racesand live music performances planned atAnthony Lakes Mountain Resort • Where:Anthony Lakes is 19 miles west of the North Powder Exit 285 off Interstate 84 on a wellmaintained all-weather road • Contact: 541-856-3277 ext. 31; www.anthonylakes.com

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A community dance featuring HouseBlend live string band and dance caller Mark Lewis is set for 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Jan. 10 at Crossroads Carnegie Art Center, 2020 Auburn Ave., Baker City.

No dancing experience is required.

The caller will teach the steps needed before each dance. The dances are quick to learn but still lots of fun.

Come either with or without a dance partner. Everyone gets to dance.

Expect a mix of traditional folk dances such as contra lines, circle dances and square dances.

Cost is $5 per person or $2.50 forCrossroads members. People are asked to bring a snack to share. Coffee, tea and water will be provided.Casual attire is appropriate.

The best shoes for dancing have smooth bottoms that provide a bit of slip and slide. Soles with alotofgrip are notrecommended, nor are shoes without heel backs.

This dance is sponsored by the Elkhorn Swingers Square & Round Dance Club. For more information, visit www.squaredancers.com or contact Richard Rubicam at 503-560-9005 or richard.rubicam@gmail.com.

Wax and Beer event set for Barley Brown's An event to support the Anthony Lakes Ski Patrol is set for 6 p.m. Friday at Barley Brown's Taphouse, 2200 Main St. in Baker City.

For $15, those attending can get afresh coatofwax on skis or snowboard and a free pint ofbeer.

Music will be by The Channel Cats.

Live fiddle music every Friday at Geiser Grand Steph Gordon offers up a festive evening with live fiddle music from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. every Friday at the Geiser Grand Hotel, 1996 Main St., Baker City.

Gordon has toured with bluegrass and country legends and has played at Carnegie Hall in New York City.

No reservations are required.

For more information, call 541-523-1889.

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— Peter Christian Johnson Go! staff "I'm always working tangen'The older I get, the more I see tially at the idea of the metaphor Peter Christian Johnson was well on his way to a pre-med that my science and construcof collapse," he said. degree at Wheaton College west tion backgrounds play in my art," Johnson's work has been exof Chicago when his life took an Johnson said. "I learned how to hibited in Canada, Australia and abruptcreative turn. make things with my hands from throughout the United States.

"I hadtotake an artclassto ayoung age, and now Imake a lot For more information, go to fulfill general education requireof different things." www.eou.edu/art or like Nightinments," he said. "I had never Courtesy art He said his goal is to always be gale Gallery on Facebook. taken an art class before, even in evolvingas an artist.

See Johnson's award-winning Peter Christian Johnson, "Orange Vu 2014, porcelain, 22 inches by high school."

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As a sculptor, he explores such work in "Ceramic Arts Monthly": Something clicked. Johnson central themes as the role of the httpJ %eramicartsdaily.org/ceramwent on to get his pre-med deexhibition at Nightingale Gallery. all by hand. These structures artifact in history, and the impor- ic-art-and-artists/ceramic-artists/ tance oflabor, deconstruction and peter-christian-johnson-emerginggree, but in the meantime took all The exhibit gives an in-depth look become thearchitecture over the otherartclasseshisprofessor, at therecent studiopracticesof which to stretch a fluid skin that invention. artist-201V. "Some of the sculptures are Jeff Thompson, taught. not only Johnson but also Susan is allowed to warp or collapse the Friends ot the Aftergraduation,Johnson, who Murrell, Cory Peeke and Michael structure under the strain of the small," he said."Some are on a Opera House Sell. firing. more monumental scale." grew up working for a construction company owned by his father, An opening reception is According to a press release Johnson said he is interested Bob Johnson, offered to remodel from the college, "Johnson's rein how society builds incredible plannedfrom 6 p.m. to 8 p.m .

Thompson's two-car garage into Jan. 9 in the gallery in Loso Hall. sulting sculptures expose the rebuildings and does remarkan art studio in exchange for the In conjunction with the exhibit, lationship between soft and hard, able feats of engineering. Yet he faculty will present a gallery talk the fluidity of a membrane and observes that technology, however privilegeofworking there fora from 5p.m.to 7 p.m .Jan.14 in the moment of intersection bemagnificent, cannot avoid the year.

"He showed me that art is visu- Nightingale. Both events are free tween these contrasting elements. traps ofhumanity.

"I'm intrigued by industrial al philosophy," Johnson said. "Art and open to the public.

They pair labored construction is ultimately about communicatwith unpredictability and capture objects that are eroded,"he said.

Sculptural ceramic work ing guiding principles, talking in the deterioration embodied in the "They were the top technology of a language that words can't. Art The exhibit will feature the time, and now they are sitting ~ YM 5 ' o ~ ! ) process."

Wltb spectacularbollday muslcal builds meaning in a different way Johnson's most recent sculptural The show will be on exhibit be- in someone's field." performances by some of your farorfte Opera House performers. than the written language." ceramic work. That work explores tween 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. Monday A spirited sleiah ride New point of view Later, Johnson finished his structural and material transforthrough Friday through Jan. 30. through tP)e holiday seasan! master of fine arts at Penn State mation. As a clay artist, he uses Johnson has two other exhibits Every time Johnson takes on a University and spent three years the kiln as a vehicle for deconcoming soon. One, called Hand new project, he said he comes at "A shaw that will as an artist in residence in North struction. in the Machine, is at Sheehan it from a new point of view. have you Iaughing "It's the same ideas except from harder than spiked Carolina.

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Eastern Oregon University for celain grid systems. The process Gallery, 1930 N.E. Oregon St. in Johnson said he likes to work Calllrexf 541-663-6324 F/ in O e r a H o u s e.com 11 years, willbepartofafaculty involves meticulous fabrication, Portland in April. with clay because of his interest • What: EOU faculty art show • When: Opening reception is 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Jan. 9 • Where: Nightingale Gallery • Details: Show will be on display through Jan. 30

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• Valley Bronze Gallery, 18 S. Main St., Joseph, 541-432-7445

AdamsAve., La Grande BJStubborn Mule Saloon 8t Steakhouse, 104 S. Main St., Joseph, 541-432-6853 • Ten Depot Street, La To Milton-Freewa e G rande, 541-963-8766 • Terminal Gravity, 803 SchooI St., Enterprise, 541-426-0158

• 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.

• Earth 8t Vine, 2001 Washington Ave., Baker City, 541-523-1687 T Ukiah • Geiser Grand Hotel, 1996 Main St., Baker City, 541-523-1889 • Joe Bean's, 1009 AdamsAve., La Grande, 541-624-5600 • Lear's Main Street Pub 8t Grill, 111W. Main St., Enterprise • LG Brewskis, 267 S. Main St., Union, 541-562-6286 • Outlaw Restaurant 8t Saloon, 108 N. Main St., Joseph, 541-432-4321 • Paizano's Pizza, 2940 10th St., Baker City, 541-524-1000 / To John Day • Short Stop Frozen Yogurt and Espresso Shop, 12th Street and Gekeler Lane, La Grande, 541-963-2121.

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24WaDliaSDA V • Bingo:doors open at 5 p.m., early-bird games at 6, regular games at 7;;VFW High Valley Post 4060,518 N. Main St., Union.

• Bingo:hosted by Elgin Lions; 6:30 p.m.; Elgin Community Center, 260 N. 10th Ave. • Live Music by Blue Mountaineers:Free; 11 a.m.; Union County Senior Center, 1504 N. Albany, La Grande.

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• Baby Tot Bop Story Circle: ages 0-3; free; 10:30 a.m.; Cook Memorial Library, 2006 Fourth St., La Grande.

• Bingo:$1 per card; 6:30 p.m.; Rockwall Grange Hall, 71562 Middle Road, Elgin.

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

• Section Ate Live Music by Terry LaMont:Free; 11 a.m.; Union County Senior Center, 1504 N. Albany, La Grande.

$7SATD RDAV • Museum opening:Baker Heritage Museum is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., 2480 Grove St., Baker City • Live music:Add Collard, 3:30 p.m.,Anthony Lakes Mountain Resort.

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

3PTDESDAV • Bingo:6:30 p.m.; Union County Senior Center, 1504 N. Albany, La Grande.

• Brown Bag Lunch:Free; bring your own lunch; noon; Josephy Center for Arts 85Culture, 403 N. Main St., Joseph.

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• Union Library Storytime:10 a.m.; Union Carnegie Library,182 N. Main St. • Union Senior Meal:noon; Union United Methodist

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Union County Senior Center, 1504 N. Albany St., La Grande.

• Live music:Standard Deviation plays at Anthony Lakes Mountain Resort, 3:30 p.m.

• NewYear's Eve Block Party: family-friendly event hosted by La Grande Main Street, corner ofAdams BrDepot;9:30p.m.midnight; Downtown La Grande.

1THIIRSDAV • Bingo:cash only; 6:30-9 p.m.; La Grande American Legion Post 43,301 Fir St. • Live Music by Fine Tunes:free; 11 a.m.; senior center, 1504 N. Albany St., La Grande.

• Slow & Easy Jam:7-9 p.m.; Bear Mountain Pizza, 2104Island Ave., La Grande.

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• Bingo:hosted by Elgin Lions; 6:30 p.m.; Elgin Community Center, 260 N. 10th Ave. • Live music:Terry LaMont plays on Newyear's Eve;5-9 p.m.; La Grande American Legion Post 43,301 Fir St. • Live Music by Blue Mountaineers:Free; 11 a.m.;

• Baby Tot Bop Story Circle: ages 0-3; free; 10:30 a.m.; Cook Memorial Library, 2006 Fourth St., La Grande.

• Bingo:$1 per card; 6:30 p.m.; Rockwall Grange Hall, 71562 Middle Road, Elgin.

• First Friday Art Walk: Downtown Baker City.

• Live Music by Fine Tunes:free; 11 a.m.; senior center, 1504 N. Albany St., La Grande.

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

• Terminal Gravity Open Mic Night:7-10 p.m.; Terminal Gravity Brew Pub,803 School St., Enterprise.

3SATIIRDAV • Bingo:7 p.m.; Odd Fellows Hall, Summerville.

• Live Irish Music:7 p.m.; Lear's Main Street Pub BrGrill,111W. Main St., Enterprise.

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• Celebrate Nordic:Experience Nordic skiing at Anthony Lakes Mountain Resort with free rentals and trail passes; www. anthonylakes.com.

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

• Bingo:hosted by Elgin Lions; 6:30 p.m.; Elgin Community Center, 260 N. 10th Ave. • First Wednesday Concert: 7-9 p.m.; Joe Beans, 1009Adams Ave., La Grande.

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

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

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

• Union County Children's Choir:4:30-5:30 p.m.; Loso Hall, Room 123, EOU, LaGrande.

$TIIESDA V • Bingo:6:30 p.m.; Union County Senior Center, 1504 N. Albany, La Grande.

• Brown Bag Lunch:Free; bring your own lunch; noon; Josephy Center for Arts BrCulture, 403 N. Main St., Joseph.

• International Folk Dance Workshop:group dancing, no experience necessary;free, donations accepted;7:30-9p.m.; Art Center at the Old Library,1006 Penn Ave., La Grande.

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

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

• Union Library Storytime:10 a.m.; Union Carnegie Library,182

ITHIIRSDAV • Bingo:cash only; 6:30-9 p.m.; La Grande American Legion Post 43,301 Fir St. • La Grande Library Storytime: free; 11:15 a.m.; Cook Memorial Library, 2006 Fourth St. • Section Ate Live Music by Terry LaMont:Free; 11 a.m.; Union County Senior Center, 1504 N. Albany St., La Grande.

9FRIDAV • Baby Tot Bop Story Circle:ages 0-3; free; 10:30 a.m.; library, 2006 Fourth St., La Grande.

• Bingo:$1 per card; 6:30 p.m.; Rockwall Grange Hall, 71562 Middle Road, Elgin.

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

• Section Ate Live Music by Terry LaMont:Free; 11 a.m.; Union County Senior Center, 1504 N. Albany 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,

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• Eastern Oregon Fire Museum, La Grande, by 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. Closed until Mother's Day 2015.

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

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59919Wallowa Lake Hwy., Joseph, 541-432-5331 • • 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,

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• Meacham Divide Nordic Ski com, 541-566-0327 Area, west of La Grande • Veterans Memorial Pool, • Mount Emily Recreation 401 Palmer St., La Grande, Area, www.union-county.

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• Quail Ridge Golf Course, 2801 Indiana Ave., Baker • Adler House Museum, City, 541-523-2358 2305 Main St., Baker City; • Sam-0 Swim Center, closed for the season but 580 Baker St., Baker City, open by appointment; 541541-523-9622 523-9308 • Spout Springs Ski Area, • Baker Heritage Museum,

• 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

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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American Legion every Tuesday night. He will also play there on New Year's Eve trom 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. LaMont's biggest support, he said, is his wife, Maggie. She attends nearly all his shows and encourages, supports and believes in him.

"She has been my rock-solid," he said."She's like Gibraltar to me.

She makes everything else make sense."

And now, after a career of 47 years, LaMont sees his music as having come full circle.

"I've gone all the way out to rock, classic rock, blues, country, bluegrass, jazz, swing country, swing jazz, big ballroom kind of music, everything else," he said.

"And now I'm backin a small, intimate coffee house, winery kind of venue playing'Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out.' How great is that!"

Jimi Hendrix, Keb Mo, Frank lr Zappa, Michael Bloomfield, Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, Stravinsky, J.S. Bach, Beethoven —these are just a few of the musicians La Grande's Terry LaMont lists as having influenced him, musicians trom myriad genres, all of which he loves and plays. ''Well-written music is wellwritten music," he said."And it can come trom many different genres.

When you shut yourself off and Nick Page phato say, Well, I'm not going to play that!' you're missing out on a lot of Retired teacherTerry LaMont spends his days writing and recording music and his nights performing really good stutf." all around Eastern Oregon and EasternWashington.

LaMont currently lives in "Music business is a karma La Grande with his wife, Maghim in Houston, where necessity local band Monika and Big forced him to play many genres Trouble. business: you get back what you gie. Retired trom school teaching "Since I've moved up here," he in Baker City, he now spends and styles. give out."

"Some days there would be a his days writing and recording LaMont plays at the La Grande said, "I've been the guy who books music and his nights performing string quartet doing brunch," he m yself, advertises,arranges and all around Eastern Oregon and moves equipment in, sets it up, said, "then I may be in a heavy Eastern Washington. metal band in some bar on Monplays all night, tears it all down, We will be open Christmas LaMont's musical career began day, on Tuesday night I might be moves it all to the next place and & New Ye a rs Day at age12.A friend loaned him a in a bluegrass band, Wednesday does it again the next night. I've night I may be in a country band, been that guy. guitar while he was in a cast to "But it's Monika's baby," he constaveofftheboredom. For Thursday night I might be in a P~ lf IJQ P~Q ~ ~ g ~ 'tfi g'tf ig~ g hours he played tunes like "¹ tinued."She runs all the business jazz trip, sometimes I'm playing body Knows You When end ofit. All I have to do is play guitar, sometimes I'm playing You're Down and Out" by Eric Christmas Buffet 12:30-5pMChristmas Day bass. You just find that good music music and kind of direct the music Prime rib, turkey, ham, smokedmeatballs, homemade noodles, fish Clapton. is good music and it really doesn't end of it." tt, much more! Includes famousChuckwagonSalad Bar anddessert.

After his recovery, LaMont matter what source it comes Monika and Big Trouble often began playing folk songs in coffee trom." plays classics, said LaMont, Open for dinner: shops. At the end of the day, he material that people hear and say, Mon -W ed-Thurs-Fri atCu30 vM • Sat 3:30 vM • Sun 12:30 vM Today, LaMont continues to Closed Tuesday • Open special hours for the Holidays "Ooh! I know that song!" said, money was in the jar and he play across the genres in Eastern Open by reservation for private parties. was hooked.

Oregon, recording personal music, LaMont also records a nonprofit 10 miles north of Baker City on Hw y 30 in H aines, Oregon In his 20s, LaMont joined up volunteering his time at the album every year, the proceeds 541-856-3639 w w w . h a i nessteakhouse.com with a country/folk band and went American Legion and the senior trom which go to the American on tour. But soon they dumped center, and playing with the Legion.

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Debra Otterstein was a junior in high school in Council, Idaho, when she found she was short an elective to graduate.

She chose art over home economics and it changed her life.

'They sat me down next to the best artist in school," Otterstein said."I watched what she was doing. When I put a piece of charcoal in myhand,drawing a fi gurineof a mouse, I was amazed I could replicate what I was looking at onto a piece of paper."

Having grown up in a very analytical family, with no artists or musicians, Otterstein was surprised when she found her gift.

N ow, about fourdecades later, the Cove artist is making waves across the state. She recently won the people's choice award in the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife's 2015 Habitat Conservation, Upland Game Bird and Waterfowl Stamp art contest. The winners were announced in late November at an event at Duck Pond Cellars in Dundee that Debra and her husband, Michael, weren't ableto attend because ofa raging snowstorm.

Otterstein's winning acrylic painting was of a Northern Goshawk with Mount Hood in the background.

"From thevery beginning when I had the concept I knew I would send it in," Otterstein said."From the conceptto thelastbrush stroke that was the intent."

It wasn't Otterstein's first try at the contest. Otterstein entered a pine marten painting in the 2013 contest and came in third.

Otterstein was delighted to win people's choice,thisyear.

"It shows the general public appreciates my work," Otterstein said."I ts 'a greathonor.Besides,

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She said artistsneed to persevere. ''When you enter art shows, Debra Otterstein paints everything from cougars and antelopes to hummingbirds and horses. they're judging something very paintings, but I have a lot more to personal to you," Otterstein said. you have to compete with artists Winners 'You've spent hours putting your from all over the country, not just learn."

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• Habitat Conservation Right now, she's learning to heart and soul into your work. Just paint snow. Hint: It's not white. because you don't win one time Now, Otterstein is a medical Stamp Winner — Don record coder at Grande Ronde Meinders of North Carolina If she were advising a young doesn't mean you won't win the Hospital by day and a wildlife with his painting ofTufted artist just starting out, Otterstein next time." artist by night. She works out of a Puffins. would tell them it takes hard work.

Otterstein said it's also impor"It's not easy but don't give up if tant to find your passion. studio in her home. She said it took • Upland Game Bird Stamp it's something you want to do," she "Creating art is my passion," she her several months to complete Winner — Shari Erickson of the Northern Goshawk painting sald. said."It's what I desire to do more Beavercreek with her painting because she could work on it She also encourages young artthan anything else." of Gray Partridge. only during evenings and • Waterfowl Stamp Winner ists to have a thick skin.

"Artisvery subjective,"she said. weekends.

— Timothy Turenne of "Not everyone is going to like what Otterstei n began her career Minnesota with his painting of Northern Pintail. you do. You have to really be able painting in oils.

"But I found out I'm not a very • People's Choice Award to take criticism and use it to your Winner — Debra Otterstein of advantage." +U N B R O K E N P G -13 patient person,"Otterstein said.

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Cove for her painting of the prroner by Japanee force dunngWorldWarI THURS: (3 50) 6 50, 9 50 With acrylics, you don't have to Northern Goshawk. wait for the paint to dry."

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Today, she not only does acrylic M USEUM : S E C R ET The study of muscles, movement O FTH E T O M B P G painting but paints scenes on wine UNBRO KEN(PG-13) Larry spanstheglobe, unmngfavonte andnewcharacters while embarkrngon and functions of the body has come an eprcquet to savethemagic before rt r, goneforever glasses. One ofher specialties is DAILY: 1:15, 4:00, 7:50, 9:35 FRI - THURS: (4 00) 7 00, 9 45 in handy,however,in helping her painting such things as cougars, NIGHT ATTHE MUSEUM: SECRET hummingbirds, antelope and become a better wildlife artist. % THE H O B B I T : "I am self-taught mostly," she horses on turkey feathers.

B ATTLE O F T H E 5 OF THE TOMB(PG) A R M I E S P G - 13 Otterstei n took a few artclasses said."One of the top wildlife artDAILY: 1:30, 4:10, 7:00, 9:10 Brlbo andCompany areforced to engagern awar to keepSmaugfrom obbterahng all ofMrddfeEarth when she attended Boise State. iststold me you have todo 100 FRI - THURS: (3 40) 6 40, 9 40 THE HOBBIT (PG-13) "But I was a little more practical paintings before you can begin to eNo Tightwad Tuesday ( )Bargarn Matinee DAILY: 12:45, 3:45, 6:40(2D), 9:30(3D) and went in the health care field," be anartist.Ihave done the 100 Jeff Peterseu/Got magazine

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By Michael Phillips Chicago Tnbune

Two of the year's best came fiom Houston-born filmmakers of very different temperaments.

Yeah, yeah. It's"Boyhood."

Out of sheer contrarian perversity, I did everyUmg I could to avoid picking"Boyhood" as the year's best film. It has been lauded so much already; its hype, the increasingly heavy burden of awards-generated expectation, has turned into this gentle masterwork's worst enemy.

Writer-director Richard Linklater' sstory covers 12yearsin the lifeofayoungTexas boy,played

by Ellar Coltrane. The film itself covers12yearsin thecreativelives of Coltrane and his fellow actors; Linklater shot"Boyhood"in a compressedapproximation ofrealtim e, reconvening with his cast iincluding Patricia Arquette, Ethan Hawke and Linklater's daughter, Lorelei) everyyear or two to film another chapter.

Those who do not respond to "Boyhood" call it a novelty of mild dramatic interest.

I hear the objections. Butifyou're like me, as you watch or ie-watch Linklater's film, you may find yourself welling up fiom time to time for reasons you can't even pinpoint.

As Thornton Wilder said in"Our Town" and other plays: It's all over very soon. In Wilder's one-act'The Long Christmas Dinner," 90 years in the life span of a single extended family unfold across the same dinner table. Linklater manages much the same illusion in"Boyhood,"only there are no theatrics. The movie feels likefew othermovies,perhaps no other movie. Itrevels in the everyday.

We grow up.W e learnjoy, and sorrow, and if we're lucky we learn to seek out the better of the two options.

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2."The Grand Budapest Hotel," directed by Wes Anderson. What is it this year with Houston-born filmmakers? Like Richard Linklater, Anderson — the obsessively stylized yin to Linklater's relaxed yang — is a Texas writer-director doing the best work of his life.

3."Winter Sleep," directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan. The longest great film of the year comes from the Turkish auteur (who co-wrote with his wife, Ebru Ceylan) and continues the filmmaker's uncanny insight into male schmuckdom.

4. "Whiplash," directed by Damien Chazelle. Writer-director Chazelle's tightly wound melodrama speaks to anyone who ever believed in a fearsome mentor figure.

5."The Lego Movie," directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller. The best American comedy of the year.

6."Listen Up Philip," directed by Alex Ross Perry. The rising young novelist (Jason Schwarzman) goes the extra mile in alienating everyone in his life,yet"Listen Up Philip" with a fierce and true performance from Elisabeth Moss in support — is an oddly buoyant experience.

7. "Force Majeure," directed by Ruben Ostlund. We reveal our true selves in crisis.

8. "Mr. Turner," directed by Mike Leigh. The year 2014 brought an astonishing number of films exploring artistic obsession and ego, none more plaintive than Leigh's portrait of English painter J.M.W. Turner.

9. "Dear White People," directed

by Justin Simien. A racially offensive frat party at a fictional Ivy League school leads to slyly funny ramifications.

10. "Heaven Knows What," directed

by Josh and Benny Safdie. This intense prowl alongside heroin addicts and street people in New York is a remarkable experience.

marimba.

• Culinary Arts: workshop on vegetarian cooking Sign up by contacting Carla Arnoldat541-786-4535,oremailing her at pickandbow@aol.com.

Check the website at www.neofs. us/ for a full schedule.

Most classes will be scheduled beginning on, or after 2 p.m. Friday through Dec. 31, culminating in a New Year's Eve party.

Fees are on a donation basis.

Families are welcome. All children must be accompanied by a parent.

Looking for something to do the week after Christmas and into New Year's Eve? Combat the post-Christmas doldrums by joining others in learning and participating in active, folk arts-based activities.

Traditional-Live! has assembled five days of fun elective music, traditi onal dance,and food classes for a Christmas Country Folk School experience. Classes are at the Art Center iFourth Street and Penn Avenue, La Grande) and in various home locations.

• Dance: Longsword dance and Down North plays for New Year's Eve party English Country dancing • Music: Daily Irish Session, Down North will be performing Singing in Rounds, bluegrass for a New Year's Eve party at OK vocals and jam etiquette and Theatre in Enterprise. introduction to playing the The theater is joining with

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Doors open at 9 p.m., with an opening act taking the stage at 9:30 p.m. and Down North taking the stage at 10:30 p.m.

Tickets are $15 in advance and

$20 the day of the show.Advance ticketsare available atThe Dollar Stretcher, M. Crow and Joseph Hardware.

Piper's Gathering set Dec. 29 at Art Center The next Piper's Gathering will be after Christmas at 1 p.m.

Saturday at the Art Center at Fourth Street and Penn Avenue in LaGrande.Those attending will discuss the Highland dancing and piping workshop planned for spring.

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