22 • March 2015 • UPBEAT TIMES REDWOOD WRITERS ANNOUNCES ITS 2015 PLAYWRIGHT CONTEST WINNERS Upbeat In Seaside, WA!
up for her play “Nothing, Thanks.”
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Sonoma County, CA. ~ Win- ners of the annual Redwood Writers 2015 short play contest have been announced. The winning playwrights in- clude Lynn Millar for her play “Crossed Connections,” Male- na Eljumaily for “The Call,”, Scott Lummer for “Love Her Madly,” Natasha Yim for “El- evator,” Seth Freeman for “The Last To Go,” Gilbert Mansergh for “Felix the Cat and the Real Estate Guy” and Maureen Studer for “Accosted.” Wilma Chandler was named runner-
winners were an- nounced by Con- test Chair Linda Loveland Reid at the Red- w ood Writers
February meeting.
Playwrights were asked to submit a ten-minute play to a panel of judges selected by Redwood Writers. Play winners will have their plays produced at Sixth Street Playhouse dur- ing the Redwood Writers Play Festival, beginning May 21. Judges for the contest in- cluded Garret Jon Groenveld, Margarite Winer Kaplan and Sheri Lee Miller. Biographies of the winning playwrights and judges follow.
Our friend David Campiche, owner of the Shelburne Hotel in Seaside, Washington, reads the latest issue of Upbeat Times in front of his historic hotel on the southern most tip of Washing- ton. The Shelburne Inn was established as a retreat to the Washington coast for visi- tors from Portland, Oregon, and has operated continuously since 1896. Charles Beaver chose the name Shelburne for the home and boarding house he built, naming it after a grand hotel in Dublin, Ireland.
In 1911, to better accommodate increasing numbers of summer visitors, a team of horses was used to pull The Shelburne across the street to join it to another building. In those early days, travel- ers ventured up the Columbia River to Astoria on the sidewheeler T.J. Potter. From Astoria they ferried to Megler and then traversed the Long Beach Peninsula via the narrow-gauge Clamshell Rail- road. The Shelburne Station was one of the main stops, dropping off summer residents and visitors to the Inn.
Humor #9
An old farmer was walking down the path to the pond when he spotted a bullfrog. He reached down and grabbed the frog and started to put him in his pocket when the bullfrog said, “Kiss me on the lips and I will turn into a beautiful farm- ers wife.” Again the old farmer started to put the frog in his pocket. The frog asked, “Didn’t you hear what I said?” The farmer looked at the frog and said,” At my age I’d rather have a talking frog.”
Weird Facts & Fun Trivia -8
In 1936, American track star Jesse Owens beat a race horse over a 100-yard course. The horse was given a head start.
A large flawless emerald is worth more than a similarly large flawless diamond.
Cher’s last name was “Sarkissian.” She changed it because no one could pro- nounce it.
In Kentucky, it is illegal to carry ice-cream in your back pocket.
Degringolade means to fall and disintegrate.
The zorilla is the smelliest animal on the planet. It’s anal glands can be smelled from half a mile away.
The Astoria–Megler Bridge is a steel cantilever through truss bridge that spans the Columbia River between Astoria, Oregon and Point Ellice near Megler, Washington, in the United States. Located 14 miles from the mouth of the river, the bridge is 4.1 miles long and was the last completed segment of U.S. Route 101 between Olympia, Washington, and Los Angeles, California. It is the longest continuous truss bridge in North America.
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make it happen. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to
Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will. ~James Stephens
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