Spring Musical The Spitfire Grill to Open April 18th at COS

COS Department of Theatre is pleased to announce the opening of their spring musical, The Spitfire Grill Friday April 18th in the COS Kenneth Ford Theater. It is an award winning American musical with music and book by James Valcq and lyrics and book by Fred Alley, based on the film by Lee David Zlotoff. The Spitfire Grill is a story about a feisty parolee who follows her dreams based on a page from an old travel book. She arrives at a small country town and finds a place for herself working at Hannah's Spitfire Grill. Spitfire is an upbeat, well-crafted and performed show, with an enjoyable folksy score (conducted by Roger Emerson) that works hand-in-hand with its story of hope and redemption. This is new Director of Theatre , Tom Murdock’s first musical at COS and stated of all the shows he has directed as well as been a part of in the past, Spitfire has proven to be something quite special. “I chose Spitfire not only because of its excellent script and score, but also because of the uncanny similarities between its fictional town- Giliad and the town of Weed . The reason many of us are here, is the beauty of this area and its relaxed pace of life. It is human nature to forget what there is to appreciate around us. My hope is that audience members will walk away not only humming the catchy soulful tunes of Spitfire, but with perhaps a better appreciation of how very lucky we all are to be here.” He added that if community members have not been to see a COS Theatre Department production in a while, they should come out to see what we are doing. New faculty, training and energy have resulted in some top notch productions this year. The start up of the COS Theatre Membership fund has also served to energize the program. Our opening night exclusive member’s reception has proven to be a big hit. As a reminder to our members, Spitfires opening night reception on April 18th will be quite special as Café Maddalena will be catering. Each performance audience members will have an opportunity to win a dinner for two at Café Maddelena via a raffle. Spitfire show dates are April 18th, 19th, 25th, and 26th at 8pm, and Sunday the 27th of April at 2pm. Tickets are available at the door or in advance at the Public Information Office. Prices are $10 for General admission, $5 for students and seniors; free for current COS students with proof of registration. If you would like more information or tickets please call the COS Public Information Office at 938-5373. Hungry for great entertainment? Something’s cooking at The Spitfire Grill.


Tom Murdock
Director of Theatre
College of the Siskiyous
Weed, CA 96094

Goodbye, Ed

I'm saddened to report that Ed Dallara lost his battle with a variety of physical ailments and passed away a little before 8 this morning. Those of you who live in this corner of Lake Shastina probably remember seeing him trudging along with his little red walker around the Hogan, Fisher, Muskrat, and Palmer circuit. He did it so faithfully he wore out several sets of wheels. You could even hear him coming before you saw him.

Our dogs will miss him too, he always made a point of stopping and feeding them biscuits. In fact for the longest time he was accompanied by a big stray that Bob and Dodi Dickson adopted until the dog passed away about a year ago. Ed made friends with every dog on the block and went through so many treats that he and Pat had to buy them in bulk at Costco.

Ed had been fighting many ills and at 82 it slowly became a loosing battle. Mercy Hospice was there at the end for him and he died peacefully.

So goodbye old friend, you soldiered on right to the end.

Editor

Doggie Pre-Wash, Going Green

I heard somewhere, sometime that dogs help heal their own wounds by licking them. If true might there be some heretofore undiscovered sanitary ingredient in dog spit that can benefit mankind? Then I read that it's wasteful to rinse dishes before putting them in the dishwasher......... then, aha!

Spot can do the pre-wash for you!! Not only does he gain the joy of pleasing his master but, if one can believe the holistic articles on pet diets, he can gain substantive nutritional value by disposing of limp salad, soggy peas, and other leftovers that really look disgusting in the refrigerator the next day.

This must be what they mean by "going green", right? No only do we ourselves save time and hot water but we benefit our pets both emotionally and nutritionally. Wow, I can do this!

(No author name for obvious reasons)

The Office Depot Deal

Each of these is worth 3 bucks at most office supply stores and while some of them limit you to three cartridges per purchase here's how you can manipulate that:

Office Depot recycles electonics. Old PC's, printers, monitors, etc. They ask that you buy the box(es) to put them in (small $5, medium $10, large $10) but that (they claim) covers their shipping costs.

So I walk in to the Medford Office Depot with 5 used-up ink cartridges and a $3 coupon from an earlier cartridge trade (they'll take as many as you give them but only 3 can apply to a purchase, they give you a $3 coupon for the remaining ones).

In the back of my car I brought an old PC, a busted printer, two bad keyboards, and a box-full of old speakers, and other accessories.

The clerk suggests I apply 3 of my cartridges ($9) toward the $10 medium box and the other two cartridges + my $3 coupon toward a second medium box for a total net cost to me of $2.

Then he grabs a shopping cart, goes out to our car, and loads up all my stuff. After putting it all into the boxes and filling out the forms himself, he asks me to sign and I'm gone.

Maybe 15 minutes but I have responsibly disposed of things I'd have to wait months to do locally.

For 2 bucks.

B-24 Story Continues

As we continue to follow the fate of the aircraft and crew, new developments keep coming in which add flavor to the tale.
For example the student pilot in the left seat who survived the crash also survived the war (and other training exercises). He died in San Diego in 2001. Born in 1918, he would have been 100 years old this year.

And here's an interesting kicker; the instructor pilot, Douglas Thornburg, who also bailed out and survived, was killed only 25 days later on a search and rescue mission around the Channel Islands west of Santa Barbara (can you belive it... looking for two crew who bailed out of ANOTHER B-24 that ditched!). Again, he had two student pilots running the ship but against orders it descended into the overcast and crashed on San Miguel Island. See the full story on www.california.rural.blogspot.com.

I continue to seek descendants of the crew as well as local witnesses who may have souvenirs of the crash to establish for certain that it was OUR B-24E, tail number 42-7119 (for example, the manufacturer was Consolidated in San Diego and they stamped "32" on most parts).

Please call me if you have any parts or stories about this aircraft. A great many local residents scoured the wreck for them and I would like to put together a museum exhibit of this incident with provable artifacts.
Editor

Pine Needles Welcome

As some of you know we have three Shelties and they do the doggie perimiter tour thing morning and night. That is, they stroll around the inside our fenced lot to the point that it's pure dirt.

So we collect pine needles to scatter along their trail and limit the mud that they track into the house.

If you'd like to get rid of your pine needles and save a trip to the burn site just dump them over the fence in our east lot. I'll scatter them and you will have done a "green" thing in the process. All I ask is that they be just needles, not garden debris or garbage, that's all.

Thank you, Bruce & Sally

Free Firewood ! !

If you don't like paying $200 per cord (usually unsplit, in rounds) now hear this:
Two people here in Lake Shastina will DONATE (read give away) the firewood you can harvest from their juniper trees. That's right. Cut them down and haul away next winter's fuel. For NADA (nothing) and buy yourself 13-1/2 dinners out with the savings!
Call Jean Stevens at 937-4673 or Tiffany Young at 938-0121.

How good can it get ? ?