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Sara Saliba, with Brett Shepard, Up With People cast member from Denver, center, are pictured with Anders Bond, their Danish host and president of the Lions Club in Nykobing. The picture appeared in the Nykobing newspaper.NANABOUTTOWNBy NAN RAUCH Women’s Editor“If someone doesn’t understand me, I move on until someone does,” Sara Saliba, now in Denmark with Up With People wrote her parents, Chida and Eddie Saliba.She's on tike advance team where her cast will he appearing in three small cities south of Copenhagen. They have appeared in Holland and Belgium also where the language is French or German or Flemish.“Her enthusiasm hasn’t let up one bit,” her mother noted, “it gets more exciting all the time. ”It has overflowed to bar parents, who have shared in Sara’s ex-neriences through mnrcrw ner clinoings and letters since her Up With People year began in January.Before going to Europe in mid-September, the cast had a performance with the Boston Pops which was televised on the east coast. Pavarotti was there and the troupe was so in awe of him, Chida commented.From Denmark they will go to Norway and Sweden where Sara will be doing her last performance with Up With People. She’ll beflying home from Brusseiis on Dec. 20.Martha Felts from Paragouid, the other cast member from Northeast Arkansas, had a fairy-tale ending to her Up With People experience. After completing her year with the cast in July, she returnedBlytheville Band Parents Ctab j» breathing. a ifttte easier. At their recent rummage sale and barbecue they socked away around $2600for the Blytberilte High School Band's trip to Winchester, Va., and Washington in April. That gives them $20,000 of the $30,000 needed for the trip.To raise that much money has taken much work and planning, but compared with the $100,000 the Jonesboro High School Band is trying to raise for their California trip to march in the Rose Parade on New Year’s Day it’s a piece of cake.Next project for the Blytheviile Band Parents will be the annual Pancake Day next Tuesday. The money from that event however goes into the regular fund for the normal expenses of the band.*4.Getting special attention Saturday night from The Lettermen at the concert in Osceola were Debbie Holmes sitting on the front row, ami farther back in the audience, Postmaster Wayne Taylor of Leachville, (qualifying him to be a ‘Letterman,’ one of the singers noted) and George Hubbard who ended up on the stage in an Elvis impersonation.The crowd loved the show and it was a fun beginning for another Mississippi County Community College Community Concert Series.You’ve been hearing and reading about EPCOT (the Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow) which opened Oct. 1 near Orlando. A trip to this 260-acre international showplace which was built at a cost of $800 million, is on the drawing board and will be announced soon by the Community Services divisional MCCC.The tentative departure date is Jan. 15, which would make it an ideal Christmas gift. If there’s not a chance anyone will give it to you, then why not treat yourself to this special gift?It was 'happy birthday’ on Saturday for Ann Pollock when her son, Dr. George Pollock, and his wife Dorothy of Osceola h06ted a surprise birthday party for her in her home. While they took Ann out for dinner, the 25 guests arrived for the big surprise return later.Lovie and Joe Mack Hester couldn’t be there but sent a bouquet of flowers for the centerpiece. Attending from out-of-town were Jeri Wheeler, Mrs. Pollock’s granddaughter, her husband, Larry Don and children Chris and Ashley from Cabot, another granddaughter, Laurie and Wroten Adams and son Brandon from Jonesboro, Mike Pollack, a grandson from Jonesboro, Ann and Hugh Lynn Adams from Bassett, and Carolyn Sarrells from Osceola.
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Blytheville Courier News
Blytheville, Arkansas, US
Wed, Oct 13, 1982
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