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Garden Plots: Garlic and gardening this summer season
Events: June 6 Columbia County Beekeepers Monthly meeting. Thursday, June 6 at 7 p.m. All are welcome to attend. Dr. Dewey Caron will give a report about the PNW Honeybee Survey. Linda Zahl will also talk about the blackberry nectar flow. Contact Linda Zahl at ColumbiaCountyOregonBeekeepers@gmail.com for the zoom link or you can attend in person at the OSU Extension Office in St. Helens. Prime time for garlic ...
Lights, Camera, Action: Movie filming to cause sporadic road closures
Due to movie filming in the Riverfront District, South 1st Street will be closed May 22 through the morning of May 25 from approximately 8 p.m. - 2 a.m. each day. This closure is from the Plaza Square intersection to Cowlitz Street. Outdoor work includes actors portraying police, a bank robbery scene, and firearms. There will be no audible firearm noise during this time, according to the city. Movie filming in the St. Helens Riverfront District is currently taking place and will continue through June 7, 2024. Filming will take place during the day and at night. The Columbia County Chronicle & Chief have contacted production members of the film for details of the movie. It has been relayed that filming is for a "feature film," but no other details are available at this time. Stay tuned for updates as they become available.
Tradition and Poetry: 60 readers and writers gather in Clatskanie for Raymond Carver Writing Festival
“Where I’m Calling From” was Clatskanie May 17 and 18, when approximately 60 writers, literary experts and fans of Raymond Carver attended the annual Raymond Carver Writing Festival (RCWF). The theme of this year’s festival, devoted to the world-renowned short story writer and poet who was born in Clatskanie on May 25, 1938, was taken from a story and a collection of stories, “Where I’m Calling From,” published by Carver shortly before his death in 1988. Since his death, Carver’s fame and popularity has continued...
The Columbia Chorale will soon take a bite of the Big Apple
The Columbia Chorale of Oregon is headed to New York City’s Carnegie Hall next week, despite some bumps in the road. The Columbia County-based group, made up of members from a variety of communities, will be performing “Magnificat,” an original work from English composer John Rutter at the historic venue May 27. “Magnificat” is based on the New Testament’s announcement of the birth of Christ. Rutter will also serve as...
Nature park and labyrinth in St. Helens ready to be dedicated
The ambitious Blessing Woods Nature Park and Labyrinth, designed as a location to meditate and connect with nature during stressful times, will be officially dedicated at 1 p.m. Saturday, May 25, at Christ Episcopal Church in St. Helens. Church Vicar Jaime Sanders said the church has completed the initial planting and layout phase of the project. “The Nature Park is designed to be a place of refreshment for people and...
CMHS Event: Spring Concert and awards
Music will ring through the rafters of Clatskanie Middle/High School on May 21, as members of the CMHS Concert Band, CHS Choir, and CHS Jazz Band will perform for their annual Spring Concert and award ceremony. The concert will take place at the Donovan Wooley Performing Arts Center at 7 p.m. on May 21, and is a free event to attend. The concert band consists of the middle school band...
Road closure ‘no reason’ not to visit Mount St. Helens on ‘erupt-iversary’
COWLITZ COUNTY, Wash. — Saturday, May 18 marks the 44th anniversary of the eruption of Mount St. Helens. For the second year, visitors to Mount St. Helens won’t be able to drive to the closest observation center due to a road closure caused by a landslide in May of 2023.
In Preparation: Columbia Chorale of Oregon performing locally
Columbia Chorale of Oregon and the River City Children’s Choirs will perform their pre-Carnegie Hall concert locally on May 19, 2024 at 5:30 p.m. at the Christian Church of St. Helens, 185 S. 12th Street, St. Helens, OR. We invite the public to hear The Magnificat and other selections by composer John Rutter. Columbia Chorale of Oregon will be performing Magnificat on May 27, 2024 in Carnegie Hall in New York City.
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