Puccini Opera LA BOHEME Set for Allan Hancock College
A special premiere of Puccini’s LA BOHEME will be staged at 8 p.m. tomorrow by the Allan Hancock College Performing Arts Center to benefit the A Cappella Choir’s Romanian tour. The English production features Phillip McLendon as Rudolfo and Carol Brolaski as Mimi with a youthful cast and emphasis on human warmth over operatic form.
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Performing Arts Center
Allan Hancock College
Donovan Marley
PACT
Jack Shouse
Puccini
Musetta
Marcello
Rudolfo
Mimi
Shouse
Phillip McLendon
Jennifer Mussard
Parpignol
Phil Jones
Mark Harlik
Benoit
Alcindore
Statesman
Pact Company
Cathy Bangs
Tomy Matthews
Larry Delinger
Bruce Leavy
David Hastings
Grandmother recalls life in W Vacoal mine camp
Mansfield Ohio United Press International recounts a West Virginia coal camp life through an immigrant grandmother. She describes renting from Island Creek Coal Co from 1920 to 1941, housing boarders, canning corn, making bread, and hardship followed by her husband’s 1941 death from Black Lung.
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Mansfield
Ohio
UPI
West Virginia
Grandma
Logan
W. Va
Island Creek Coal Co
Montgomery Ward
Carpinteria Society seeks protection from beach expansion
The Carpinteria Conservation Society asked the County Park Commission to oppose county sponsorship of measures that could grow Carpinteria State Beach Park. They cited plans to use bond funds for park expansion and argued funds would be better spent on open spaces and wildlife preserves in the South Coast. The commission forwarded the letter to State Parks director William Penn Mott.
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Carpinteria Conservation Society
County Park Commission
Carpinteria State Beach
Don Shorts
State Department of Parks and Recreation
Mike Pahos
Shorts
Carpinteria
Santa Barbara
Carpinteria Valley
Carpinteria Slough
Ocean Bluffs
Carpinteria Park
William Penn Mott
State Parks and Recreation Department
Goleta plans new ventures for water
Goleta County Water District unveiled a plan to raise groundwater by about 500 acre feet per year to serve up to 2,500 people. Proposals include check dams on creeks in San Jose Maria Ygnacia San Antonio and Atascadero Parks lands to spread wetted areas and increase basin recharge by about 40 percent. The district will stage a demonstration project and draft a joint powers pact for review.
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Goleta County Water District
County Park Commission
James Stubbner
Stubbner
Goleta Water District Board
Jose Martinez
Robert Dahlquist
Mike Pahos
San Jose
Maria Ygnacia
San Antonio
Atascadero
Octogenarian student ally defies campus age gap at Scripps
Mary Routt an honorary board member and longtime donor lives in a dorm at Scripps College with about 5000 students nearby. The 80s widow moved in 1972 after her husband died and continues to stay active auditing classes attending seminars and writing a memoir of her syndicated column career. She believes youth bring fresh viewpoints and urges living among them to bridge differences.
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Claremont
Calif
UPI
Mary Routt
Routt
Scripps College
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Lompoc
North H Street
Francis Beattie
Olivia Cotsenmeyer
Chamber of Commerce
Art Scott
Gary Wilson
Betty Toakelson
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