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Artists are invited to submit their original artwork to the 2013 California Duck Stamp Art Contest. The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) will accept submissions from April 30 through May 30.
The contest is open to U.S. residents who are 18 years of age or older on March 8, 2013. Entrants need not reside in California.
The winning artwork will be reproduced on the 2013 California Duck Stamp. The top submissions will also be showcased at the Pacific Flyway Decoy Association’s art show in July.
The artwork must depict the species selected by the California Fish and Game Commission, the American wigeon.
The design is to be in full color and in the medium (or combination of mediums) of the artist’s choosing, except that no photographic process, digital art, metallic paints or fluorescent paints may be used in the finished design.
Photographs, computer-generated art, art produced from a computer printer or other computer/ mechanical output device (air brush method excepted) are not eligible to be entered into the contest and will be disqualified.
The design must be the contestant’s original hand-drawn creation. The entry design may not be copied or duplicated from previously published art, including photographs, or from images in any format published on the Internet.
All entries must be accompanied by a completed participation agreement and entry form.
These forms and the official rules are available online at www.dfg.ca.gov/duckstamp .
Entries will be judged at a public event to be held in June. The judges’ panel, which will consist of experts in the fields of ornithology, conservation, and art and printing, will choose first-, second- and third-place winners and an honorable mention.
CDFW also WILL support the annual California Federal Junior Duck Stamp Contest held by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. CDFW will recognize the overall Best of Show winner, whose artwork will be submitted to compete in the National Junior Duck Stamp Contest in April.
Since 1971, CSDF’s annual contest has attracted top wildlife artists from around the country. All proceeds generated from stamp sales go directly to waterfowl conservation projects throughout California.
In past years, hunters were required to purchase and affix the stamp to their hunting license. Now California has moved to an automated licensing system and hunters are no longer required to carry the physical stamps in the field (proof of purchase prints directly onto the license).
However, CDFW will still produce the stamps, which can be requested by interested individuals at www.dfg.ca.gov/licensing/collectorstamps/ .
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LAKEPORT, Calif. – Lakeport musician Bob Culbertson will treat his audience to a recital on his Chapman stick at noon Wednesday, March 27, at St. John’s Church, Lakeport, in the last of three Lenten concerts.
Everyone is welcome to attend for meditation and enjoyment.
Culbertson is a stick virtuoso who has spent more than 30 years cultivating his unique sound. His combination of expression, technique and musical emotion is like nothing heard before.
Invented by Emmett Chapman in 1974, the stick is a 10- to 12-string touch board.
Using fingertips of both hands, parallel to strings, a full range of sounds is produced. See examples of Bob Culbertson’s music at www.stickmusic.com .
St. John’s is the presence and ministry of The Episcopal Church in Lake County since 1877. The church building was recognized as a historical interest by California Historical Resources Commission in 1989. Last year, the church earned an Award of Recognition for its restoration and preservation by the California Heritage Council, California Trust for Historic Preservation.
The church parish is a visible, welcoming family of Christ, resolved to deepen personal relationships with God. All are welcome to Sunday services at 10 a.m.
For further information, please call Fr. Leo at 707-349-6563 or see St. John’s Web site at www.saintjohnslakeport.org .
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There’s an old country-western song with the refrain, “That’s what happens when two worlds collide,” and in this poem by Bruce Guernsey, who divides his year between Illinois and Maine, we see a near collision between two worlds.
Back Road
Winter mornings
driving past
I’d see these kids
huddled like grouse
in the plowed ruts
in front of their shack
waiting for the bus,
three small children
bunched against the drifts
rising behind them.
This morning
I slowed to wave
and the smallest,
a stick of a kid
draped in a coat,
grinned and raised
his red, raw hand,
the snowball
packed with rock
aimed at my face.
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 Bruce Guernsey from his most recent book of poems, From Rain: Poems, 1970-2010, Ecco Qua Press, 2012. Poem reprinted by permission of Bruce Guernsey 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.
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- Written by: Ted Kooser
There’s an old country-western song with the refrain, “That’s what happens when two worlds collide,” and in this poem by Bruce Guernsey, who divides his year between Illinois and Maine, we see a near collision between two worlds.
Back Road
Winter mornings
driving past
I’d see these kids
huddled like grouse
in the plowed ruts
in front of their shack
waiting for the bus,
three small children
bunched against the drifts
rising behind them.
This morning
I slowed to wave
and the smallest,
a stick of a kid
draped in a coat,
grinned and raised
his red, raw hand,
the snowball
packed with rock
aimed at my face.
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 Bruce Guernsey from his most recent book of poems, From Rain: Poems, 1970-2010, Ecco Qua Press, 2012. Poem reprinted by permission of Bruce Guernsey 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.