Tuesday, June 5, 2012
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Bandon Today Senior Center, 9-4, Barn. Good Neighbors emergency food distribution, 9-noon, Lions club shed behind Barn in City Park. Dial-a-Ride public transportation, 9-4, 541-347-4131. Bandon Historical Society Museum, 10 -4, Hwy 101 and Fillmore. Visitor Information Center, 10-4, Old Town. SCH Blood pressure checks, 10:3012:30, Senior Center, Barn. Senior hot meals, 11:30, Barn. Bandon Kiwanis Club, noon, Billy Smoothboar’s. Italian dinner fundraiser for HLMS teacher Diane Smith, 4:30-6:30 p.m., district cafeteria. HLMS spring choir and band concert, 7 p.m., BHS gym. TOPS, 5, Ocean Crest Elementary School teachers’ room. E.A.T., Inc., 5:30-6:30, Barn, serving dinner to those on limited incomes. Weight Watchers, 5:30 weigh-in, 6 meeting, Senior Center, Barn. Beginning and intermediate fiddling lessons, 6 p.m., HLMS music room. Weedum Seedum Garden Club, 7, Presbyterian Church. AA meeting, 8 pm, St. John Episcopal Church.
Everyone also is invited after the meal to come next door to the BHS gym at 7 p.m. to enjoy the final HLMS band/choir concert of the school year. Smith, who teaches history at HLMS, was diagnosed two weeks ago with acute lymphoblastic leukemia, a form of leukemia that is more common in childen than adults and is trickier to treat in adults, according to Smith. She is in currently in Portland at Oregon Health and Sciences University receiving intensive chemotherapy treatments.
Today’s Tides: Highs—12:33am, 8.3 ft., 2:11pm, 6.3 ft. Lows—7:35am, -2.32 ft., 8:24pm, 2.0 ft.
AN ITALIAN dinner fundraiser to benefit Harbor Lights Middle School teacher Diane Smith will be held from 4:30-6:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 5, at the Bandon School District cafeteria. Menu includes Italian pasta with choice of four sauces, salad bar, french bread, assorted desserts, coffee and punch. Pay at the door: $6/adults and $4/under-12.
NOEL COWARD’S classic “Blithe Spirit” is coming to Bandon’s Sprague Community Theater in June. This delightful comedy has entertained audiences worldwide for more than 70 years. It revolves around mystery writer Charles Condimine (Darren Dirk), who plans a seance as research for his new book. He invites the eccentric medium Madam Arcati (Johnna Hickox) into his English country home intending
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Bandon, Oregon to expose her as a fraud. To witness this event, Charles and his second wife, Ruth (Cathy Underdown), invite the skeptical Dr. Bradman (Richard Robinett) and his anxious-to-believe wife, Violet (SharonLee Danielson). When, in the course of the seance, Madam Arcarti mistakenly summons Charles’ first wife, Elvira (Linda Sack), back from the beyond, things get thoroughly out of hand. Rounding out the cast is Darby Underdown who plays simple housemaid, Edith. The play is directed by Mike Dempsey and produced by the Bandon Playhouse and Johnna Hickox It will run June 9, 10, 15, 16, 17, 22, 23 and 24 with Friday and Saturday performances at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday performances at 2 p.m. Tickets are available at the Bandon Mercantile, Bandon True Value Hardware, Billy Smoothboar’s and by calling The Bandon Playhouse at 541-551-1066. The Sprague Theater is located at 1202 11th St. S.W. in Bandon City Park.