LA GRANDE — After a busy season of performing basketball halftime shows and competitions, Dance Arts Inc. will share its routines with the public during an upcoming recital. The show, called “Perfect Balance,” will include several different dance styles. The recital will showcase many of the routines performed during competition throughout the season. Dance Arts Inc. Coach and Artistic Director […]
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Go! magazine‘s editor Emily Adair talks with La Grande Alive’s Will Bowman about what events are coming up in Northeast Oregon in a weekly segment called “Get Out and Go!”
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Grande Ronde Symphony Association has announced its Spring 2017 Concerto Competition to find soloists for the spring concert. In the spirit of competition, GRSA has decided to invite three levels of applicants and add prizes to this year’s contest. “I couldn’t be more excited to build on this tradition,” Music Director Zeke Fetrow said. “GRSA has a great history of […]
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The following songs were named as Observer readers’ favorites. ‘Mary Did You Know’ (8 votes) ‘Silent Night’ (7 votes) ‘White Christmas’ (7 votes) ‘Oh Holy Night’ (5 votes) ‘Little Drummer Boy’ (3 votes) ‘Carol of the Bells’ (2 votes) ‘Blue Christmas’ (3 votes) ‘Baby It’s Cold Outside’ (3 votes) ‘Grandma Got Ran Over by a Reindeer’ (2 votes) The following […]
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HUNTINGTON — The Huntington Highland Games of 2014 still holds the record for the worst weather of the series, and no one makes any bets on the forecast for the November event. “Last year was by far the best weather we’ve had,” said Tom Keffer. But the uncertainty of whether they will have sun, rain, snow, sleet, hail or wind […]
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COVE — A Blown Glass Ornament Workshop in Cove will give people a chance to create their own Christmas tree ornaments, and they won’t need any previous experience to do it. Tom Dimond, of Dimond Art Glass Studio, which hosts the workshops, said he hopes to see more work groups participate. “This year, we are really pushing for the team […]
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LA GRANDE — Surgeon Hisham Bismar remains undeterred by the war around him as he helps refugees displaced by the Syrian uprising. Bismar is the subject of the film “50 Feet from Syria,” one of the features that make up Eastern Oregon Film Festival 2016. “Thanks to some coordinated efforts with Eastern Oregon University, filmmaker Skye Fitzgerald will give a […]
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PENDLETON — In 1916, Roy Raley’s musical debuted as Happy Canyon, a nighttime addition to the Pendleton Round-Up. One hundred years later, that pageant still lights up the night in nearly its original form — except for some parts that were rewritten to remedy anything considered politically incorrect by today’s standards. “But it’s still hijinks and war,” said Brian Addison, […]
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