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FEBRUARY 17, 2018<br />
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Nature:<br />
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Sounds:<br />
9<br />
Pieces:<br />
Butterflies, moths highlighted<br />
at new class at nature center<br />
WindSync set to perform<br />
in Worthington on Saturday, Feb. 24<br />
Pamela Douglas currently<br />
has an exhibit of pastels up at PLAC<br />
ON THE COVER 8<br />
The wind quintet, WindSync, will be performing in Worthington at 7:30 p.m. on Satuday, Feb. 24.<br />
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9 10<br />
An exhibit featuring the work of Pamela<br />
Douglas is currently on display at the PLAC.<br />
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the evening.<br />
Many times our<br />
conversations include<br />
what he had for dinner<br />
and how far he<br />
ran when he went<br />
to the gym, or what<br />
his English professor<br />
had to say about that<br />
week’s writing assignment<br />
(his least favorite<br />
class).<br />
Last week though he<br />
told us the dorm floor<br />
had voted to spend<br />
some of their dues on<br />
a ping pong table for the den. As the floor<br />
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4 | Nature<br />
At a Glance:<br />
WHAT: Pollinator Education Series -<br />
Native Butterflies and Moths<br />
WHERE: Dickinson County Nature<br />
Center, 2279 170th St., Okoboji<br />
WHEN: 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb.<br />
22<br />
COST: Free<br />
CONTACT: 712-336-6352<br />
ONLINE: www.dickinsoncountyconservationboard.com<br />
Upcoming:<br />
Native Butterflies and Moths is<br />
just the first installment of the Pollinator<br />
Education Series. Next up<br />
will be Native Plants and Pollinators<br />
on March 26 followed by Native<br />
Bees in April.<br />
“The second one is about plants<br />
that help pollinators and in the third<br />
one we’ll actually talk about native<br />
bees, not honeybees, because<br />
honeybees aren’t actually native to<br />
Dickinson County,” Bryanna Kuhlman<br />
said.<br />
Armed with all this knowledge<br />
about pollinators, visitors can<br />
come back in October for the final<br />
installment of the education series:<br />
seed collecting.<br />
“If people want to create their<br />
own pollinating garden they can<br />
come collect seeds out here and<br />
take them home, or donate back<br />
to the nature center,” Kuhlman<br />
said. “If it doesn’t pan out because<br />
it rains or something, we will<br />
still probably do something inside<br />
about how to collect seeds and information<br />
on that.”<br />
RYLAN HOWE | STAFF WRITER<br />
Promoting pollinators<br />
Butterflies, moths highlighted at nature center<br />
Beautiful butterflies. Majestic<br />
moths. Both are vital pieces of<br />
the prairie ecosystem.<br />
During the first installment of the<br />
Dickinson County Nature Center’s<br />
new Pollinator Education Series, visitors<br />
will learn all about these colorful<br />
creatures.<br />
The program begins at 5:30 p.m.<br />
Thursday, Feb. 22, at the nature center.<br />
It is free and open to the public.<br />
“We decided to create the pollinator<br />
series this year to kind of introduce<br />
our new addition but to also dovetail<br />
into the plight of pollinators and<br />
how people can help,” said Bryanna<br />
Kuhlman, environmental education<br />
coordinator at the nature center. “We<br />
thought a good way to do that would<br />
be to educate about what native species<br />
there are here in Iowa.”<br />
When it comes to butterflies, there<br />
are actually about 70 species native to<br />
Dickinson County.<br />
“We’ll talk about native butterflies<br />
and moths and specifically what<br />
kinds you can find in this county, but<br />
we probably won’t go through all of<br />
them,” said naturalist Ashley Hansen.<br />
“We want it to be things the audience<br />
can know, relate to, and see in their<br />
own garden or backyard.”<br />
They’ll certainly be highlighting a<br />
subject popular among butterfly enthusiasts:<br />
the monarch.<br />
But there are also butterflies such<br />
as the Painted Lady and Red Admiral<br />
that will be highlighted.<br />
“We’ll talk about the differences between<br />
butterflies and moths, their life<br />
cycles, what plants they need such as<br />
host plants for caterpillars. And we’ll<br />
talk about ways to attract butterflies to<br />
your garden and what kinds of plants<br />
you would need,” Hansen said.<br />
Some of those differences include<br />
what plants are crucial to the life<br />
cycles of specific types of butterflies<br />
and moths.<br />
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this rule. Some moth caterpillars may<br />
create their cocoon for winter and<br />
emerge in the spring, where certain<br />
butterfly species start the process in<br />
spring. They also perform different<br />
roles, pollinating different plants.<br />
They’re also part of the greater prairie<br />
ecosystem.<br />
“Bees and butterflies are important<br />
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prairie plant community and unique<br />
ecosystem,” Kuhlman said.<br />
“The bees, the plants, the butterflies.<br />
They all go together.”<br />
“For this first one we’re hoping<br />
people get a better idea of what specific<br />
butterflies and moths they can<br />
find in the area and that some are<br />
struggling with decreasing numbers.<br />
It’s good for the public to know and<br />
what they can do to help with that,”<br />
Hansen added.<br />
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promote these pollinators and their<br />
unique roles in the prairie. F<br />
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8 | Sounds<br />
At a Glance:<br />
WHAT: WindSync in concert<br />
WHERE: Memorial Auditorium of<br />
Performing Arts, 714 13th St.,<br />
Worthington, MN<br />
WHEN: 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 24<br />
COST: $15 at the door<br />
CONTACT: 507-376-4862<br />
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They are young and<br />
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Brenda DeSmith<br />
KATE HARLOW | STAFF WRITER<br />
Blowing in the wind<br />
WindSync to perform in Worthington on Feb. 24<br />
The Worthington Concert Association<br />
is bringing a group of musicians<br />
to the area who are putting<br />
a spin on classical wind music.<br />
WindSync, a prizewinning wind<br />
quintet based in Houston, will be<br />
performing at the Worthington Memorial<br />
Auditorium of Performing Arts<br />
on Saturday, Feb. 24, at 7:30 p.m.<br />
“They are young and exciting and<br />
trying to ‘push the boundaries’ of<br />
traditional wind quintet playing.<br />
They do much of their own arranging,<br />
which allows them to incorporate<br />
a dramatic or unexpected flavor<br />
to traditional music,” said Brenda<br />
DeSmith, with the Worthington Concert<br />
Association. “With their unique<br />
arrangements, they hope to make<br />
classical music more accessible and<br />
enjoyable to children, families and<br />
underserved audiences.”<br />
During the months of February and<br />
March, WindSync is touring the Midwest<br />
as a part of their “Great American<br />
Road Trip.”<br />
WindSync is composed of Garrett<br />
Hudson on flute, Emily Tsai on oboe,<br />
Julian Hernandez on clarinet, Kara<br />
LaMoure on basson and Anni Hochhalter<br />
on french horn.<br />
The group has performed all over<br />
the world including at the Schubert<br />
Club, Met Museum, Shanghai Oriental<br />
Arts Center and the Weill Recital<br />
Hall at Carnegie Hall.<br />
“In its ninth season, the prizewinning<br />
Houston-based wind quintet<br />
builds highly thematic programs<br />
that feature landmark quintets, new<br />
works by American composers, and<br />
premiere arrangements of standard<br />
repertoire with the goal of increasing<br />
accessibility and cultural significance<br />
of wind chamber music,” according to<br />
their website.<br />
WindSync is on its way to<br />
Worthington thanks to the efforts of<br />
the Worthington Concert Association<br />
Board.<br />
“The Worthington Concert Association<br />
Board meets in the fall each year<br />
to select the performers for the next<br />
concert season. We try to select a variety<br />
of musical styles for each of the four<br />
concerts to appeal to the individual<br />
tastes of our audience. Every season, we<br />
like to include one concert that would<br />
lean more toward the classical genre of<br />
music. WindSync fills that spot for us<br />
this year,” DeSmith said.<br />
DeSmith is sure that WindSync will<br />
help shake up people’s preconceptions<br />
of what classic music sounds like.<br />
“We were excited to hear about<br />
them because so many people hear<br />
the words ‘classical music’ and they<br />
think ‘dull and boring.’ WindSync will<br />
keep the audience engaged and will<br />
make classical music fun and exciting,”<br />
DeSmith said.<br />
Even if you aren’t a classical music<br />
fan, DeSmith is sure that WindSync<br />
will still have something in their program<br />
for just about everyone.<br />
“The program selections are wide<br />
ranging and should have something<br />
to appeal to everyone. Composers<br />
range from Mozart to Copland to<br />
Bernstein,” DeSmith said. “The quintet<br />
has even included a selection by<br />
Chuck Berry, ‘Johnny B. Goode.’ Definitely<br />
not usually part of woodwind<br />
quintet’s repertoire.” F<br />
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RYLAN HOWE | STAFF WRITER<br />
At a Glance:<br />
WHAT: Pamela Douglas exhibit<br />
WHERE: Pearson Lakes Art Center,<br />
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WHEN: Feb. 1-March 10<br />
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Power<br />
of Pastel<br />
New exhibit up at Pearson Lakes Art Center<br />
As the gray weather continues<br />
outside it’s nice to get<br />
a splash of color now and<br />
then. A new exhibit at the<br />
Pearson Lakes Art Center in Okoboji<br />
will certainly help brighten these remaining<br />
winter days.<br />
Pastel work by Pamela Douglas is<br />
on display through March 10 in the<br />
Weaver Lobby Gallery and McIlrath<br />
Landing Gallery.<br />
“The use of color, composition and<br />
organization in this still life work will<br />
be obvious to viewers,” said Danielle<br />
Clouse Gast, visual arts director.<br />
Each pastel still life features fruit,<br />
like pears and oranges, vegetables<br />
such as egg plant, and objects like<br />
pitchers and carafes.<br />
“My subject matter includes containers,<br />
vessel and organic objects that<br />
have specific orientation set in space,”<br />
Douglas says in her artist statement.<br />
These objects are set against vibrant,<br />
colorful patterns and backdrops.<br />
In Douglas’s artist statement she<br />
says, “my work has evolved from a<br />
tradition approach to investigations<br />
of the dimensional use of color. Still<br />
lifes have moved from random ordering<br />
to the gravitation of objects with<br />
specific orientation set in spaces.<br />
These are then structured by the impact<br />
of color.”<br />
In addition to the use of color and<br />
composition, of Douglas’s work,<br />
there is a level of technique that<br />
makes each item stick out and draw<br />
in the viewer.<br />
Use of complimentary colors helps<br />
make certain hues stand out, and a<br />
formula of layering pastels creates<br />
highlights and depth.<br />
Douglas notes that she enjoys<br />
how “complements help broaden<br />
the tonal range in my paintings and<br />
enrich contrasts. Using complements<br />
also establishes color balance and<br />
harmony in my compositions and<br />
sets objects in space.”<br />
The balance of the soft curves of<br />
organic shapes against sharp, straight<br />
lines of the geometric patterns in the<br />
backdrop provides another layer of<br />
contrast and interest for the viewer.<br />
“She uses a very technical approach<br />
to her craft,” Clouse Gast said. “Not<br />
using just white but, instead, layering<br />
colors for a natural highlight.”<br />
Douglas also collects textiles to use<br />
for backdrops and works directly<br />
from her subjects in her studio.<br />
And now those subjects are presented<br />
to the public for the next<br />
month at Pearson Lakes Art Center.<br />
“These are real nice, beautiful examples<br />
of pastel work,” Clouse Gast<br />
said. “With the snow and how white<br />
it is outside it’s great to walk in see all<br />
this color. It certainly warms things<br />
up for February.” F<br />
Okoboji | Iowa
FEBRUARY 17, 2018 | <strong>DISCOVER</strong>!<br />
10 | Playbill<br />
At a Glance:<br />
WHAT: “Bus Stop” by William Inge<br />
WHERE: Spencer Community Theatre,<br />
518 1st. Ave. E, Spencer<br />
WHEN: Feb. 23-25, March 2-4<br />
COST: $18 for adults, $9 for youth<br />
CONTACT: 712-262-7336<br />
ONLINE: www.sctplayhouse.org<br />
Cast<br />
Elma: Hanna Russmann<br />
Grace: Vonnie Hinrichsen<br />
Will: Roger Partridge<br />
Cherie: Abbie Hinrichsen<br />
Dr. Lyman: Rusty Ruth<br />
Carl: Mark Joenks<br />
Virgil: Colin Van Westen<br />
Bo: Ethan Johnson<br />
KATE HARLOW | STAFF WRITER<br />
LOVE at a<br />
BUS STOP<br />
Spencer Community Theatre presents “Bus Stop”<br />
I’m hoping<br />
audiences will<br />
leave feeling<br />
good about<br />
themselves.<br />
The play is<br />
heartwarming<br />
and the analysis<br />
of love is frank<br />
and inspirational.<br />
Rusty Ruth<br />
Love shows up in some funny<br />
places.<br />
It even makes an appearance<br />
at an emergency bus stop during a<br />
blinding snowstorm in Kansas in the<br />
middle of the night in William Inge’s<br />
play “Bus Stop.”<br />
The show will be on stage at the<br />
Spencer Community Theatre Feb. 23-<br />
25 and March 2-4.<br />
The show is set in a diner a ways<br />
outside Kansas City in early March<br />
1955. A snowstorm in the middle of<br />
the night has forced a bus and its five<br />
passengers to wait out the weather at<br />
the diner with the three people who<br />
work there.<br />
Some of the characters are complete<br />
strangers and some have previous relationships.<br />
The show follows the characters as<br />
love or what looks like love is found<br />
at the bus stop.<br />
The show is a popular one that they<br />
are very excited about bringing to the<br />
stage.<br />
“We decided to do ‘Bus Stop’ because<br />
we fell in love with the story of<br />
people trying to make sense of love<br />
while being snowbound in a cafe,”<br />
said Rusty Ruth, the executive artistic<br />
director for the Spencer Community<br />
Theatre. “It is has been favorite<br />
by many audiences for years and we<br />
thought it would be a perfect fit for<br />
our season.”<br />
The cast began rehearsing in January<br />
and is composed of veterans to the<br />
Spencer Community Theatre stage as<br />
well as some newbies. One of those<br />
newbies is Ruth himself.<br />
“The cast has a nice mixture of<br />
veteran SCT actors and newcomers to<br />
the SCT stage. Roger Partridge, Mark<br />
Joenks, Vonnie Hinrichsen, Abbie<br />
Hinrichsen and Ethan Johnson have<br />
been involved on stage either through<br />
SCT’s Mainstage season, Second Season<br />
or Deegan’s Children’s Season,<br />
while myself, Colin Van Westen and<br />
Hanna Russmann are making their<br />
SCT debuts,” Ruth said.<br />
In addition to watching the actors<br />
onstage there will be some other elements<br />
of the performance that Ruth is<br />
excited for the audience to experience.<br />
“Personally, I excited for audiences<br />
to really experience the feeling of a<br />
spring blizzard in Kansas, through<br />
the use of technical elements,” Ruth<br />
said. “Using snow effects and realistic<br />
sound cues really helps enhance the<br />
excellent acting, and helps the audience<br />
lose themselves in the world we<br />
are creating. I’m excited to see their<br />
reaction.”<br />
“Bus Stop” is a show that will hopefully<br />
leave the audience in a happy<br />
mood.<br />
“I’m hoping audiences will leave<br />
feeling good about themselves. The<br />
play is heartwarming and the analysis<br />
of love is frank and inspirational,”<br />
Ruth said. “I’m hoping the audience<br />
will enjoy the fine mixture of dramatic<br />
and comedic moments.” F<br />
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