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LAKEPORT, Calif. – On Saturday, Oct. 16, the Soper-Reese Community Theatre will have its fifth annual fundraiser.
The Harvest Moon Dinner and Dance event will take place in the theatre located at 275 S. Main St. in Lakeport.
The reception begins at 5:30 p.m. with wine and hors d’oeuvres in the newly landscaped courtyard (weather permitting).
Guests will be served a four-course dinner and local wines with catering provided by Blue Wing Saloon and Café.
Live and silent auctions will take place followed by dancing with music provided by John Parkinson and the Mendocino Big Band.
This is the second year the fundraiser will be held in the theatre.
Tickets are $100 per person for dinner and dancing.
Forty dollar tickets are available for dancing and music only beginning at approximately 8 p.m.
Seating for dinner is limited to 100, so get your tickets early for this special evening.
Event coordinators are asking that you purchase your tickets by Oct. 8.
For tickets and further information, please call 707-279-4082. Tickets may also be ordered online at www.soperreesetheatre.com.
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One of my friends told me he’d seen a refrigerator magnet that read, PARENTING; THE FIRST 40 YEARS ARE THE HARDEST. Here’s a fine poem about parenthood, and about letting go of children, by Chana Bloch, who lives in Berkeley, California.
Through a Glass
On the crown of his head
where the fontanelle pulsed
between spongy bones,
a bald spot is forming, globed and sleek
as a monk’s tonsure.
I was the earliest pinch of civilization,
the one who laced him
into shoe leather
when he stumbled into walking upright.
“Shoes are unfair to children,” he’d grouse.
Through a pane of glass
that shivers when the wind kicks up
I watch my son walk away.
He’s out the door, up the street, around
a couple of corners by now.
I’m in for life.
He trips; my hand flies out;
I yank it back.
Ted Kooser was US Poet Laureate from 2004 to 2006. He is a professor in the English Department of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He lives on an acreage near the village of Garland, Nebraska, with his wife Kathleen Rutledge, the editor of the Lincoln Journal Star.
American Life in Poetry is made possible by The Poetry Foundation (www.poetryfoundation.org),
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Nebraska, Lincoln. Poem copyright ©2009 by Donal Heffernan, whose most recent book of poetry is
“Duets of Motion,” Lone Oak Press, 2001. Poem reprinted by permission of Donal Heffernan.
Introduction copyright ©2010 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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LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – The Lake County Arts Council has announced that, for the fourth year, it will participate in “Poetry Out Loud,” a national recitation contest which is sponsored by the California Arts Council, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Foundation.
This is an exciting program for students in grades nine through 12 who have an opportunity to memorize selected poetry and recite it in a pyramid-designed competition, which begins in the classroom, moves to the school and county level.
Next is the state completion at the Capitol in Sacramento. The state winner proceeds, with all expenses paid, to a national competition in Washington, D.C. Scholarship dollars and school awards are made at the state and national levels.
Poetry is meant to be recited for the cadence and the interpretation of the poem in voice and posture. This program gives back to young people, and to the listener, the value of language that is well written and well spoken.
There is also an impact on the student in memorizing great pieces of poetry and then presenting them to first a few peers and, with greater confidence and panache, to an ever-increasing audience.
You can view some of these fine students by visiting the California Arts Council’s Web site at www.cac.ca.gov.
The program gives confidence to shy and quiet students to step upon a stage and recite a piece of poetry with conviction in their interpretation of the content of the poem.
Michele Krueger once again will take the lead on bringing this program to the schools of Lake County.
Anyone who wishes to participate in the program – student, teacher or support person – should contact Krueger at
The Lake County Arts Council extended its thanks to all the students who participated in last year’s Poetry Out Loud, and congratulated Mellany Watson for doing Lake County proud finals at the Capitol in Sacramento.