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WSU Organic Farm slates harvest party

All are welcome to attend WSU’s Organic Farm’s annual harvest party, Oct. 17, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Activities include hay wagon rides around the farm, face painting, fresh pressed apple cider, and a U-pick pumpkin patch with traditional jack-o-lanterns, baby pumpkins, and a few novelty varieties.

Participants will be encouraged to guess the weight of a giant pumpkin which will be on display.

The farm is located inside Tukey Horticulture Orchard on the corner of Airport Road and Terre View Roads. The orchard will also be open for U-pick and pre-picked fruit sales.

For more information, contact farm manager Brad Jaeckel at Pullman.

Dahmen will host Watercolor Socius

The Dahmen Barn at Uniontown will host an exhibit by the Palouse Watercolor Socius in October with an opening reception Sunday, Oct. 4, from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. with artists present and refreshments served. The exhibit will run through Oct. 25 during regular hours, Thursday through Sunday, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Palouse Watercolor Socius was formed in 1974 to give watercolorists the opportunity to exhibit, critique and further their artistic growth. Members exhibit as a group and individually in venues on the Palouse, Lewiston-Clarkston valley, Spokane and Coeur d’Alene. Many members have won awards in juried shows, had their own shows and have paintings displayed in galleries nationwide.

Maher to play at Dahmen barn

Folk singer Dan Maher will play at the Dahmen Barn in Uniontown Saturday, Oct.10 at 7:30 p.m. Maher has performed on the Palouse for over 25 years. He will sing folk tunes with his guitar accompaniment.

As the host of Northwest Public Radio’s Inland Folk, Dan has introduced an amazing array of folk, Celtic, and bluegrass music.

Weitman great-granddaughter born

A girl, Khloe Hayden, was born Sept. 19, 2009, at Holy Family Hospital in Spokane, to Kaytra Ann Hanes and Nathan Allen Toombs of Spokane. Grandmothers are Amy Lee Hanes, Oakesdale, and Janet Thorne, Bakersfield, Calif. Great-grandparents are Lin and Glen Weitman of Oakesdale; Duane and Bonita Herman, White River, Ariz., and George and Patricia Hanes, Spokane. Great-great grandfather is Lavern Herman, Haugen, Mont. Weighing six pounds, nine ounces at birth, she is the couple’s first child.

Guy-Albion Society meets

Annual meeting of the Guy-Albion Historical Society will be Sunday, Oct. 11, at 1 p.m. at the community building. Potluck lunch, meeting afterward with a program. Open to everyone.

Club & Youth Groups

WHMC Auxiliary

The Whitman Community Hospital Auxiliary will be meeting Monday, Oct. 5 at 1:30 p.m. in the hospital annex building.

Rosalia Garden Club

The club will meet next Wednesday, Oct. 7, at 1 p.m. at the home of Willa Mae Hardesty with Mary Ann Bowman, co-hostess. New officers for this year are Kathy Hilliard, president; Penni Barringer, vice president; Diane Henry, secretary and Edna Waterman, treasurer.

Yearbooks will be distributed at the meeting.

The program, on how to attract birds and butterflies to your garden, will be presented by Kathy Hilliard.

The club has an open membership.

Members are also reminded to continue gardening volunteer hours at the mini-park through October in the afternoons from 1 - 3 p.m. weather permitting.

On Campus

ART

WSU Museum of Art will display Don Normark’s 1948 photos of three Mexican-American neighborhoods in Chavez Ravine at Los Angeles, Oct. 2 to Dec. 19.

The neighborhoods were eventually razed to make way for Dodger Stadium. Title of the exhibit is “This Land is Your Land, This Land is My Land, Issues of Eminent Domain.” Normark will give a lecture Oct. 8 at 7 p.m. in the Fine Arts Auditorium. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Saturday.

University of Idaho’s Prichard gallery in downtown Moscow will present the work of Mark Klett and Peter Vincent, two photographers who have produced extensive work focusing on the American West. Klett traces the influences of human interaction with the environment, and Vincent has a particular interest in car culture and its expression at the Bonneville Salt Flats, Aug. 19-Oct. 11.

“Busy Signals,” an exhibit by printmaker Emily Ginsburg, will be on display at WSU Gallery II in the Fine Arts Center through Sept. 30. Ginsburg’s exhibit consists of large-scale black and white digital prints that were originally created as part of a portable public art project for Seattle City Light.

Gallery II is free and open to the public Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to noon and 1 to 5 p.m.

MUSIC

Clear Cut Jazz Trio will present a concert at 8 p.m. tonight, Oct. 1, in Kimbrough Concert Hall. The trio includes WSU faculty members Dave Hagelganz and Aleksander Sternfeld-Dunn, along with Lincoln Middle School band director Joe Covill.

WSU Jazz Ensemble will perform at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 6, in Kimbrough Concert Hall. The concert will open with the WSU VOJAZZ vocal jazz ensemble directed by Kathleen Hollingsworth. The group will perform an eclectic mix of jazz and jazz-influenced gospel music.

The WSU Jazz Big Band directed by Greg Yasinitsky will perform the hard swinging “Late Arrival” by Jeff Jarvis, the contemporary “Song for A. E. G.” by Tom Garling, and Yasinitsky’s arrangement of the classic ballad “Chelsea Bridge” by Billy Strayhorn.

The second concert of the WSU music faculty Series, “Romantic Octets,” will be at 8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 16, in WSU’s Bryan Hall Theatre. Faculty from WSU and guests from the University of Idaho will perform chamber music. The evening’s concert will present Octets from by Felix Mendelssohn and Franz Schubert.

The series was created by WSU music faculty in the fall of 2006 to raise additional funds for the school of music scholarship fund.

Tickets will be available in the lobby one hour before the concerts begin. The costs of tickets are $10 for general admission, $5 for seniors and non-WSU students, and free for WSU students with ID. Season passes for all faculty artist performances are also available for $45.

OTHER

WSU visiting writers program will host poets Kate Greenstreet, Oct. 12; Margo Tamez, Nov. 12, and Sarah Vap, Dec. 3l.