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~Butletin, Progressive, Record, Reporter
Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2011
11B
ARTS
and ENTERTAINMENT
Gallery celebrates 30 years with re-opening
The Plumas Arts Gallery is
delighted to present the work
of husband-and-wife artists
Harry Reeves and Linda
Blum in an opening reception
Friday night, Feb. 4. Kicking
off Plumas Arts' 30th an-
niversary, the gallery at 372
Main St. will be filled with
the couple's keenly observed
paintings of nature and
wildlife.
As part of Quincy's Art
Walk the same night, starting
at 5 p.m. the Plumas Arts
Gallery will host a reception
for the pair with drinks and
delicious treats. Main Street
Artists Gallery and Eagle's
Nest Frame Shop and Gallery
will also host opening recep-
tions from 5 to 8 p.m. Many
downtown merchants will be
open late for the festivities.
For more information about
the Plumas Arts Gallery
show, call 283:3402 or visit
plumasarts.org.
The artists
Since they are a husband-
and-wife team who show
their art jointly, it is helpful
to know how to tell the work
of one from that of the other.
Linda does the trees and
Harry does the birds: that's
how you tell them apart!
There Is more to it than that,
but Linda does favor land-
scape and forest scenes while
Harry enjoys wildlife sub-
jects. Linda's work employs
only watercolors, whereas
Harry also uses pastel,
charcoal and pen and ink.
Harry Reeves
"My family lived in Oak-
land and we regularly vaca-
tioned at Oakland Camp or
in Chester. My father fly-
fished and he considered the
Feather River waters to be
the best area in the world for
the pursuit of trout. I have
hiked, fished and hunted
over much of North America
but came to prefer the north-
ern Sierra and moved to
Quincy in 1980. Since then I
have spent as much of my
time as I can fishing and
creating art.
"I have been fascinated by
birds in particular nature
and wildlife in general for
my entire life, My mother,
being a very accomplished
artist in her own right, en-
couraged me to draw and
paint throughout my child-
hood and I had the benefit of
having some excellent art
instructors in elementary
through high school. While I
have not formally pursued
art academically, I have
Family across four2enerations
Front, from left: Horace Fitzpatrick, great-grandson Ronnie Fitzpatrick; rear, from left: grand-
daughter Shelia Fitzpatrick and son Ronald Fitzpatrick. Photo by Ran Slaten
Quincy resident Horace
Fitzpatrick is 9 years, 145
days too young. At .105 years,
30 days and counting, ,he is
well behind America's oldest
living person, Eunice San-
born, 114, and California's
Soledad Mexia, 112. However,
it seems quite likely he is
PlUmas County's oldest liv-
ing person. He recently cele-
brated his birthday with
family and friends. When he
Conservancy
plans meetings
The Sierra Nevada Conser-
vancy (SNC) is in the process
of developing a new strategic
plan to guide its work over the
next three years. With input
from many stakeholders, SNC
has refined its future direction
into four main areas of focus
that cut across its existing
programs: healthy forests,
watershed protection and
restoration, agricultural lands
and tourism and recreation.
SNC seeks as much stake-
holder input as possible for
the new plan, so it has planned
a series of workshops around
the region to gather thoughts
and ideas.
In addition, SNC will be
sharing ideas it is considering
for how to structure its future
grant program.
The meetings will take place
at these locations on the
following dates:
Feb. 7:1 - 4 p.m.
Susanville: BLM Office,
2950 Riverside Drive
Feb. 10:1 - 4 p.m.
Oroville: Butte College,
Swing Space G102, 3536 Butte
Campus Drive
Attendees should RSVP for
the meetings by visiting sierra
nevadaconservancy.ca.gov.
Click the appropriate link
under the News & Events tab
to get more information and
registration links.
For those who can't attend
either of the meetings, SNe
will broadcast the• 30-minute
workshop introduction via the
Web on both Feb. 7 and Feb. 10.
Viewers will be able to submit
their suggestions and ideas
electronically. Viewers can
use the links above to register
for the short Web broadcast on
the corresponding day they
would like to participate. More
information about the broad-
cast will be available closer to
the date of the meetings.
was 100, Fitzpatrick still
mowed his own lawn, paid
his own bills: and walked two
miles a day. Today, at 105, he
still pays his own bills and
gets around with the help of 8
walker; he walks outdoors
five or six times a week,
weather permitting. He also
attends the Lutheran church
as often as he can. Fitzpatrick
gets his own breakfast every
day: cereal, orange juice and
a banana. The Senior Nutri-
tion Program provides his
mare-meal at luncht4me, and
dinner is Ritz crackers,
peanut butter, a banana and
a glass of red wine the
glass of wine is consumed
without fail. An informal
survey identified two other
Plumas centenarians: Ida
Collier, 101, from the Chester
area, and Marian Kunz, 101,
from Indian Valley.
TOWN HALL THEATRE
Presents
Lrn'LE FOCKERS
Thurs., Jan. 27 - Sat., Jan. 29
98 min. • Rated PG-13 * Comedy
The test of wills between Jack Byrnes (Robert DeNiro) and Greg Focker (Ben
Stiller) escalates to new heights of comedy in the third installment of the block-
buster series - Little Fockers. Laura Dern, Jessica Alba and Harvey Keitel join
the returning all-star cast for a new chapter of the worldwide hit franchise, h has
taken ten years, two little Fockers with wife Pare and countless-hurdles for Greg
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• Lit&R~k~;
to finally get "in" with his tightly wound father-in-
law, Jack. After the cash-strapped dad takes a job
moonlighting for a drug company, however, Jack's
suspicions about his favorite male nurse come
roaring back. When Greg and Pain's entire clan -
including Pain's lovelorn ex, Kevin (Owen
Wilson) - descends for the twins' birthday party,
Greg must prove to the skeptical Jack that he'd
fully capable as the man of thi~ house. But with all
the misunderstanding, spying and covert missions•
will Greg pass Jack's final test and become the
family's next patriarch ... or will the circle of trust
be broken• for good?
YOGI BEAR
Sun., Jan. 30 & Mon., Jan. 31
83 rain, ° Rated PG - Animated Family Comedy
Everyone's favorite pic-a-nic basket-stealing bear comes to the big
screen m Yogi Bear. Jellyston¢ Park has been losing business, so
greedy Mayor Brown decides to shut it down and sell the land. That
means families will no longer be able to
experience the natural beauty of the out-
doors - sand, and even worse, Yogi and
Boo Boo will be tossed out of the only
home they've ever known. Faced with his
biggest challenge ever, Yogi must prove
that he really is "'smarter than the average
bear" as he and Boo Boo join forces with
their old nemesis Ranger Smith to find a
way to save Jellystone Park from closing
forever.
4pm matinee on Sundays
Adults .................. *7'.00
Students &
SiLL Seniors ................. s6.00
Children ................ *5,00
283-1140 • 469 Main St., Quincy, CA
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Visit us at www.quincytownhall.com
continually studied and
worked at it.
"Georgia O'Keeffe said, 'No
one can teach me how to paint.'
Art, I agree, is a talent you
must refine in your own way
to your own satisfaction. I gain
something from every master-
piece I get a chance to see. I
enjoy watching other artists at
work. I have attended several
workshops over the years
and picked up a lot of helpful
ideas along the way. Still I
believe that fundamentally
everyone is an artist and it
really remains up to the
individual to cultivate his or
her unique talents in their
own way.
"I want to know a wildlife
subject firsthaiad so that I
may convey my understand-
ing of where it lives and how
• it behaves. When you look at
an animal I have painted or
sketched, I hope you can
share my feeling that it is
looking back at you, letting
you in on something special
about its life."
Sierra Valley birds
A special series of 16 water-
color paintings shows several
of the many species ofbirds
commonly found in Sierra
Valley during the spring
and early summer breeding
season, These original water-
color paintings are being
used to make a set of inter-
pretive signs on the viewing
platform at the Feather River
Land Trust's Maddalena
Ranch. Plumas Audubon
Society's Darrel Jury guided
the development of the
interpretive nature trail and
set up the viewing platform
there with a National
Audubon Society/Toyota
Forever Green grant.
It is Reeves' hope that, in
the tradition of John James
Audubon, these paintings go
beyond showing simply what
different-birds look like, to
also inform the viewer about
where they live and how they
behave.
Linda Blum
"1 have been fascinated by
birds and forests since child-
hood, and have pursued those
interests over the last 30
years in a career as a land
use planner, wildlife habitat
specialist, natural resource
management consultant and
environmental activist. It
was only 10 years ago, with
Harry's encouragement, that
I began learriing to paint with
watercolors.
"My original reason for
taking up watercolors was
to make my own journal
illustrations. I've practiced
amateur photography since
high school. But sometimes
photographs are too literal.
or too limited, to record a
particular place at a particu-
lar moment. We tend to point,
shoot and take whatever im-
age the camera lens gives.
Painting a scene can edit,
concentrate and literally
color how I remember a place
far better than photographs
in some situations. I like to at
least start a painting onsite,
but many times I also use my
own digital photographs to
compose and guid~ my paint-
ings after I get home.
"I still make little paintings
for my personal journals. I
also enjoy making larger
watercolors and offering
them to others. I got carried
away trying to paint the as-
pen trees outside my kitchen
window this fall, and three of
my new works show autumn's
progress as well as my admi-
ration for aspen. Other paint-
ings I'm showing are more
whimsical; these came out of
a series of exercises in differ-
ent painting techniques
shown,on YouTube videos
and online classes. Harry and
Georgia O. are right: you can
learn by watching other
artists, but no one can teach
yOU to paint, It's something
you learn yourself."
Saturday,. February 12, 2011
'20 for Poker Rally & Lunch
*5 for Extra Poker Hands
~10 for Lunch Only
Poker Run Registration:
9am- 1 1 am
Lakeside Resort
• BBQ
u Raffle
• Cash Prizes
Sponsored by Bucks Lake Snowdrifters
For more information
call (530) 283-9766
dramaworks Presents
A Pulitzer-prize winning play
by David Lindsay-Abaire
Thursday, Friday, Saturday at 7PM
Sunday at 1PM
February 3 to 6 at the Town Hall Theatre
Adults Sl0 • Children $5
(no babes in arms please)
This is a remarkable play - a MUST SEE show - You will love it!
283-1956
www.dramaworks.us
Logo art by Quincy High School Senior Sierra Keely
A non-profit 501 (c) (3) Corporation
14 Crescent Street • p.o. Box 1686 • Quinc~ California 95971 - (530) 283-1956 • Fax: (530) 283-4574