Wildlife biologist to give talk

The mistakes: tickets prices were too high and most people didn’t take advantage of the bus. 

Tourists came through our show from as far away as San Diego and Portland. Posters worked, as many people mentioned them.

The Lighthouse Quilt Guild Show held at the fairgrounds had between 350-400 people in attendance. We don’t have stats on the Elk Valley Casino show held in its Bingo Room, but the 24 quilts that hung there received good reviews.

Pat McGee and staff at Elk Valley Casino were extremely gracious. The star of that venue was local attorney Ferman Sims’ queen-sized batik quilt.

This dynamic, hands-on training will provide participants with many ideas and tools they can use with their own organizations. Subjects include: strategic planning, leadership and board effectiveness, resource development, financial management, volunteer/staff development and communicating your organization’s message. 

Trainers Mary Ward and Roi Crouch each have over 30 years’ experience working with the non-profit sector.

The 24-hour course is taught in four sessions held over two weekends, Oct. 16-17 and Nov. 13-14 at Howonquet Hall. Participants are strongly encouraged to attend all four sessions as each one lays the foundation for material that follows. 

For information call Alicia Flory at (541) 957-2574. To register online go to www.tfff.org/eo . The registration deadline is Oct. 9.

Hundreds of free publications on topics ranging from gardening to agriculture, nutrition to food safety, are available for downloading from University of California’s  Web site, www.ucanr.org/freepubs .

The publications are written by UC academics and meet the scholarly standard necessary to be considered “peer-reviewed.”

 The most frequently downloaded titles are featured and regularly updated. Subjects include facts about fats, compost in a hurry and safe methods to store, preserve and enjoy tomatoes.

The publications are available as PDFs. The site also provides links to related for-sale publications.

60th season opens with Lithuanian immigrant

“Since I left the Soviet Union,” said pianist Rudolf Budginas in a recent interview, “I have all the freedom I want, and I like to ‘push the envelope.’” In his concerts, his goal is to “break the wall between the artist onstage and the audience.”  

“I make it very casual and personal, like in a living room,” he said.

Another approach he uses for a part of the concert is to play some ‘crossover’ classical pieces “wrapped in different genres, mixed in with some spangle, blues, world or Latin,” he said. “I’m gonna shock everybody!”

Traverse the rocks or stroll the bluffs—but be careful

A side trail rises to a precipice on the bluffs. (The Daily Triplicate/Richard Wiens)

The first time I saw Point St. George, I couldn’t help but wonder how hard it would be to traverse the length of its rocky finger perennially pointed into the Pacific. Impossible at high tide and not that easy at low tide, it turned out, but that’s getting ahead of the story.

This installment of Walk Your World doesn’t contain many specific trail directions, because there are so many ways to experience Point St. George. What it does contain is a healthy dose of cautionary notes, because whether you choose to go high on the bluffs or low on the rocks, this place can be hazardous.