Chetco Pelican Players Hold Auditions for “The Villain Wore a Dirty Shirt”

The Chetco Pelican Players are holding auditions December 28 and 29 for The Villain Wore a Dirty Shirt, the first play of their 2022 season. Set in California at the height of Gold Rush era, this light-hearted melodrama is full of camp and humor.

In the mining town of Digalittledeeper, local con artist Phineas Flatworm has his eye on the “Tub and Scrub,” the most successful laundry business in town. After the Tub and Scrub’s owner mysteriously dies, Phineas inherits the business–and a wave of arson wipes out the other laundries in town!

Can Sheriff Jack B. Nimble and Sweet Sally bring the villain to justice? Maybe so–but the fighting WILL get dirty.

At least 4 men and 7 women are needed for a variety of roles. Teens and adults of all ages welcome!

We are also seeking singers, dancers, and creative comedians for classic oleo acts, which will entertain audience members between Acts 1 and 2.

Audition Dates: December 28 & 29, 6:30 PM at The Chetco Playhouse, 1240 Chetco Avenue, Brookings

Show Dates: February 11 – 27

For more information, contact director Kathleen Teague on Facebook, call 541-469-1857, or send an email to kathleen@chetcopelicanplayers.org.

CURRENT COVID GUIDELINES: ALL THEATER VISITORS ARE CURRENTLY REQUIRED TO WEAR A MASK OR FACE SHIELD INDOORS UNLESS ACTIVELY EATING OR DRINKING, OR ACTIVELY PERFORMING ONSTAGE.

Chetco Pelican Players Share OSF’s Snow in Midsummer

As a thank you to their actors and audience members, the Chetco Pelican Players are providing group streaming access to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s 2018 production of Snow in Midsummer!

This is an amazing opportunity to bring our members a free professional theater experience. Tickets for live shows at OSF, a professional regional theater in Ashland, Oregon, can range from $35 to more than $100 per ticket. This spring, you can engage with the artists at OSF–without having to travel, and at no cost to you!

Streaming Dates: May 3 – May 29. You can sign up to watch anytime before streaming ends on May 29.

How it works: Visit chetco-pelican-players.square.site to sign up for a free streaming pass. This streaming pass allows you to stream the show on demand anytime between May 3 and May 29.

After checkout, you will receive a followup email with a link and passcode to view the show. The show can be viewed from any mobile device or smart TV with an internet connection.

About the Show: Snow in Midsummer is based on the classical Chinese drama The Injustice to Dou Yi That Moved Heaven and Earth, by Guan Hanqing. This 2018 U.S. premiere production interweaves two stories—of a young woman who curses her city from beyond the grave, and of a wealthy businesswoman who must face the parched, locust-plagued city. This modern ghost story beautifully reimagines a classic myth and explores the legacy of trauma, the heart of injustice, and the lengths to which we go for love.

Length: Approximately 2 hours, 25 minutes, with one intermission.

Full show description, including audience age recommendations, available at osfashland.org

Curry County Junior Livestock Auction date set for 2021!

The Curry County Junior Livestock Auction will take place Sunday, Aug. 1st, 2021 @ 2pm at the Event Center on the Beach in Gold Beach. Come support Curry County youth as they learn valuable life skills with a livestock project animal!

For more information, send email to: currycountyjrlivestockauction@gmail.com.

Call to Coast Artists for 2021 Art at the Port Exhibition

Announcing ART at the PORT for 2021
Call to Coast Artists – Over $1,000 in cash awards.
ART at the PORT is a nonprofit, summer-long Art Exhibition at the Port of Brookings Harbor, curated by Pelican Bay Arts Association and sponsored by the Oregon Cultural Trust and Curry County Cultural Coalition.

Matching Funds Campaign

A generous donor is willing to match up to $10,000 in donations received by 3/30/2021 to Curry Student Success Fund. All 100% of donations are applied to scholarships for high school seniors, adults returning to school or GED students returning to school. Certification programs, trade school, 2 year or 4 year college students are all welcome to apply for scholarships.
This year’s scholarship application is now available. Due May 1st, 2021. Go to www. CurrySSF.com for more information and an opportunity to donate on-line. Call 541-469-9850 with any questions.

February Newlsetter

Del Norte County Library District

Happy February! In this newsletter, we are launching our Library Love campaign by spotlighting the words of one of our faithful patrons, Melissa Endert. It is feedback like this that makes our work meaningful. If you would like to contribute to our Library Love campaign by sharing your story with us, send us a message; we would love to hear from you.

From my first visit after moving here 6 years ago I knew your library was going to be a different experience for my family. From Ms. Hilary including my child with special needs into her reading time with his younger siblings (he was 7) to Ms. Nillie starting a Lego club where children could come alive and express themselves. This library is the most kid friendly and accepting place I have ever been. As soon as you step in, you feel love and loved. I miss my children feeling okay to be kids and explore with wonder and joy the shelves and shelves of books. I have never heard a child be told to ‘Shhhhhhhh!’, but rather have seen so much patience and understanding. I look forward to the day when you can open your doors again and brighten the worlds of the families that you have deeply impacted in this community.

Thank you
Melissa Endert

Check out our Free Cart!
Our main has a free book cart outside the front doors on various genres from fiction to non-fiction to children’s books, you name it! The selection changes daily. And the best part – you may take whatever you like – for FREE.

If you would like to donate books, staff asks that you not put your donation on the cart but instead call us at 707-464-9793. At this time, we are only accepting children’s books and best sellers.

Del Norte County Libraries

MAIN LIBRARY
190 Price Mall
Crescent City, CA 95531
Phone: (707) 464-9793
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Smith River, CA 95567
Phone: (707) 487-8048
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1080 Mason Mall, Suite 9
Crescent City CA 95531
Phone: (707) 464-7072

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Raven Ridge – Wild Rivers Land Trust’s Newest Conservation Easement

January 14, 2020

Raven Ridge – Wild Rivers Land Trust’s Newest Conservation Easement

The Wild Rivers Land Trust is thrilled to announce the addition of the Raven Ridge property to their growing list of protected lands on the southern Oregon coast. A conservation easement, donated by a local Gold Beach resident, will protect 40 acres of forest and wetland in perpetuity. On a recent visit to the property the staff of the Wild Rivers Land Trust was astounded to find almost every type of tree that grows in Curry county at Raven Ridge. Douglas fir, western hemlock, tanoak, madrone, alder, Port Orford cedar, western red cedar, myrtle, Oregon ash, Sitka spruce and even the golden chinquapin are present. The property is bordered by a large stand of old-growth forest, designated as a Late Successional Reserve, and managed by the Bureau of Land Management.

Wetland areas at Raven Ridge include Frog Lake, perched at over 2,000 feet in elevation, which provides habitat for wood ducks, buffleheads, egrets, and herons, rough-skinned newts and several species of frogs. A headwater stream on the property feeds into Indian Creek, a tributary to the Lower Rogue River important for salmon and steelhead.

Conservation easements are a tool used by land trusts to assist private landowners to ensure their land is protected forever. It is a binding legal agreement that creates obligations for a landowner and the land trust to ensure the protection of conservation values. A conservation easement attaches to the deed of a property, meaning it survives transfers of ownership, making easements a powerful method for protecting land.

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If you would like to know more about Wild Rivers Land Trust, visit the website at WildRiversLandTrust.org, Facebook page at facebook.com/WildRiversLandTrust/ or call the office at 541-366-2130.

People’s Choice Awards – WRLT Photo Contest

Join us by selecting your favorite photos from Wild Rivers Land Trust’s photo contest winners! The winners will be announced at our Awards Ceremony on February 4, 2021 at 7:00pm during our virtual presentation of all awards.
Thank you and hope to see you at the awards night!
here’s the link: https://www.wildriverslandtrust.org/get-involved/upcoming-events.html/event/2020/12/31/people-s-choice-awards/316183?fbclid=IwAR2bJcJUk3ZVcicQ_nHGjSQR38dmbxeq2X33oakQuPoTl6cTvZJ09-f2LVo

Wild Rivers Connect Joins the Community Website Partnership

Wild Rivers Connect Joins the Community Website Partnership

From the beginning, Wild Rivers Connect (WRC) was a community driven concept, with its website (and Facebook page) the result of many months of surveys, focus groups and community outreach. This was the communication hub that so many organizations had identified as the highest need for themselves: the need to communicate with others, to learn, to share and to network, which WRC had hoped to provide through its social media and face to face networking gatherings.

Since 2013, when the WRC website was first launched, other communities have recognized the need for communication hubs in their communities. And even better, the concept of a network or networks of community communication hubs has recently evolved, creating hubs that utilize or build on many of the concepts first established by the WRC website.

The Community Website Partnership (CWP), supported by the Ford Family Foundation, is one such network. Indeed one of the principals of the former Human Systems organization, Mary Ward, who was instrumental in the formation of WRC, is also the force responsible for the launch of the CWP. CWP works to create inclusive, comprehensive, accessible, and sustainable community-owned websites for engaging residents, businesses, and/or nonprofits to promote community awareness, connectedness, and community building.

CWP unites nine different community websites in Oregon and Northern California and provides these groups opportunities for collaboration, a website template, back-end support for their websites, and training opportunities. These websites include: JeffCo Connects, Rural Klamath Connects, Applegate Valley Connect, Illinois Valley Web, RiverCal, McKenzie Community, Southern Oregon Coast Connects, Bandon Cares and now, Wild Rivers Connect. Like WRC, the websites offer tools for their community organizations: a directory, a calendar of events, a way to share news about what is going on in their communities, a volunteer matching tool, press release tools, and more.

WRC joined forces with the CWP both as an opportunity to upgrade their website to a more modern and useful one, but more importantly to receive support and training and to connect with other rural organizations with similar missions to our own. This opportunity comes with an updated WRC website that has a few new functions. Organizations can still use the site to create a listing in the directory (or claim an existing one in some cases), post events to the community calendar, and even submit a press release. But now they can also submit stories about their organization to be published on the website, or find volunteers for their organization or a special project using the new “volunteer listings” page.

Claim Your Organization’s Directory Listing or Create a New Listing

As part of the updated website, WRC has a new, more streamlined directory. The listings from the old website were transferred to the new one; however, ownership of those listings – as well as images – now need to be updated. This means that we need YOU to claim the directory listing for your organization, and once you’ve done that (and after we’ve confirmed your claim), to log in to your listing and add some pictures!

Claiming your listing (or creating a new one for your group if one doesn’t already exist) gives your organization the ability to edit and update the listing so it best represents your current group and mission. Having a listing in the WRC website is completely free, and can help you get the word out about your organization. For some organizations – those who don’t already have their own website – it is even a way to have a presence on the web.

Wondering how to claim you listing? Follow the steps below, and don’t hesitate to reach out for support if needed:

  • Click on this link to the WRC Directory.
  • Use the search bar to search for your organization.
  • Click on your organization’s listing.
  • Click on the yellow button near the bottom of the listing that reads “claim this listing.”
  • Follow the prompts to claim your listing.

This will send your listing claim request to our team to approve your claim. Once you have ownership of the listing, you will be able to update content and upload photos. (Note: it may take us a few days to confirm your claim before you can begin updating it, but if you’re concerned that we haven’t received your claim request, please feel free to email us at wildriversconnect@gmail.com to double check.)

Wondering what to do if your group doesn’t have a listing? Visit this link to add a new listing. 

New Feature: A Focus on Volunteers

One of the highlights of the new website is its volunteer matching tool. Organizations seeking volunteers, whether for an event or for a longer term volunteer position in their organization, can post a listing. This listing includes basic information about the organization and about the volunteer position, as well as a contact person.

So please, start posting your listings, and recommend the page to those who are looking to get involved in the community. When our team here at WRC sees a listing on the site, we will also share it to our Facebook page to help increase visibility.

To add a volunteer listing for your organization, visit this link (select “volunteer” before clicking the “next step” button!)

New Feature: Submit Your Organization’s News and Stories to the Website

Want to share news and stories with the community on the Wild Rivers Connect site? Now you can! Simply click on submit your stories and enter your story into the email form provided. Our team at WRC will review your submission, make any needed grammatical adjustments, and reach out to you for more information if needed. Once we have approved the post, it will appear on the WRC site and you will be able to share it from there to social media or via email. We look forward to reading you stories, so please, send them our way!

Conclusion

The team at WRC and the CWP are excited to share this updated site and new tools with your organization. We encourage you to take this opportunity to claim and update your directory listing, submit a news story or press release, post a volunteer opportunity or community event, or read about what’s happening in the community. Please don’t hesitate to contact us with questions.