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Empire Fling prices

The Empire Theatre and Cafe Artisan of Tekoa will present the “1st Annual Spring Fling”, a music, food, and wine event, Friday, May 13, starting at 6 p.m. Advance tickets are $17 ($20 at the door of Cafe) and include music and tapas/hors d’oeuvres. Wine available at the Artisanís will cost extra, cash only. A dessert bar, three for $5, will be in the Empire’s lobby at intermission.

Admission for the concert only will be $10 for adults and $5 for students. Call 284-2000 for reservations.

Program, dedicaton set for Fairfield cemetery

Fairfield Cemetery Association and the town of Farfield May 30 will host a Memorial Day program and dedication ceremony for the restored 116-year-old gates. The ceremony will honor all veterans who attend along with the 28 who are buried at the cemetery.

Members of Liberty 4H will conduct a flag raising ceremony with a flag which was provided by Rep. Kathy McMorris-Rodgers. The flag was flown over the capital. Andrew Sills, a senior at Liberty High from Fairfield will play taps.

The Daughters of the American Revolutionb, the Rev. Mark McWhiney and Paul Anderson and Fairfield Mayor Ed Huber will participate. Micki Harnois and Bill Benson will sing patriotic songs.

The hand-forged gates were originally set at the entrance of the cemetery when is was established in 1895. Two years ago they collapsed in a winter storm. A fund drive was undertaken to have the ornate gates restored and the cemetery association raised $4,500. The restoration work was done by Bob Obernalte, owner of Artistic Metals Forge in Fairfield.

The Fairfield Cemetery is located two miles southeast of Fairfield on Truax Road.

‘Fur & Feathers’ opens at Dahmen

A “Fur and Feathers” exhibit opened May 7 at Artisans at the Dahmen Barn in Uniontown and will continues through May 29. Judy Fairley, Clarkston, and Julie Thompson, Spanaway, are co-exhibitors.

Thompson paints Northwest wildlife paintings on feathers. Fairley’s intricate scratchboard art captures the detail right down to the hair of the wildlife she paints. Scratchboard is a clay surface coated with India ink. Using a sharp, angled blade or scratch tool, an outline is made on the surface of the scratchboard. Shadows and highlights are created by “scratching” away at the board. Various techniques such as hatching and stippling are used to texture and detail the image further.

Fairley has been a resident artist at Artisans at the Dahmen barn since it opened in 2006. Thompson began painting in 1990 on wing feathers that her mother’s peacocks shed.

Clubs & Youth Groups

Chamber of Commerce

Colfax Chamber of Commerce will honor the Thrifty Grandmother’s members with a noon luncheon next Wednesday, May 18, at Hill Ray Plaza. This will be an opportunity businesses to sponsor a grandma in appreciation of the club’s contribution to the community.

Colfax Distinguished Young Women will present the program, and door prizes will be offered.

Athenaeum

The Club met last Friday, May 6, for their annual spring luncheon. A delightful lunch was prepared by Banyan’s on the Ridge at the WSU Golf Course for the 20 attending. President Mae Schultz read a lovely poem and presided over a short meeting.

New yearbooks were distributed by the incoming yearbook committee which is chaired by Lynne Bruya. The club will look forward to starting a new year in October.

ON CAMPUS

ART

The University of Idaho’s Prichard Art Gallery on Main Street in Moscow will present the thesis exhibition by master of fine arts students until May 14. Work of six students will be on display.

Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. and Sundays from 10 a.m. and 6 p.m.