FEBRUARY CALENDAR

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Be My Valentine

The Boldman House Museum, owned and managed by the Dayton Historical Depot Society. Tours and located at 410 North First Street in Dayton, will be having a special exhibit for the month of February. The museum will have a large collection of Valentine's Day cards from the Boldman family on display. The cards will range from the year 1900 to 1970. There is a large variety of colors, shapes and designs. Feel free to stop by during regular hours. Call the Depot Museum at 509-382-2026 for more information.

Cowboy Poetry Prescott inThe Prescott branch of the Walla Walla County Rural Library District is offering an informal and informative evening for those who are interested in participating in Cowboy Poetry Week (April 17-24, 2011). This event will take place Thursday, February 3, starting at 6:30 p.m.

The session will be led by librarian Josh Westbrook and Susan and Bruce Matley (aka Nevada Slim & Cimarron Sue). Topics will include: What is Cowboy Poetry? What is Cowboy Poetry Week? What is the Cowboy Poetry Week Rural Library Project? How can I participate in Cowboy Poetry Week? Cowboy Poetry resources at the library. Cowboy Poetry resources online.

The Prescott Library is locatedat103SDStreet, 509 849 2411, http://www.wwrurallibrary.com.

Eccentric Orbits Willow atThrough the end of February, Willow, the downtown Walla Walla art gallery on Rose Street, will host an exhibition by Walla Wallabased artist Ian Boyden.

The Artist's Reception will take place Friday, February 4, from 5-8 p.m. Art Talk begins at 6 p.m.

Boyden's "Eccentric Orbits" presents visitors with images made with pigments derived from meteorites, as well as a set of remarkable collaborative paintings he produced with the artist Timothy C. Ely.

Boyden, who has a degree in Asian Art History, spent over a decade studying and practicing Chinese calligraphy before eventually turning his attention to the history of ink making and the production of his own paints and inks. He has made inks from many unusual source materials including freshwater pearls, cuttlefish, fossilized shark teeth and whale bones.

Boyden allows the stories of whatever materials he makes his ink from to direct the compositions of his paintings.

In this show, the inks in Boyden's solo works are made from meteorite, and the materials direct the compositions and stories locked in meteorites. The images range from delicate renderings of tree-like forms, to evocations of metallurgical structures of meteoric iron, to dramatic calligraphic studies of chaos.

Contact Willow at 509- 876-2247 or online at www. willow- wallawalla.com. Boyden maintains a website at http://ianboyden.com/.

Feb. 4-March 4

Free Movie Night

The Columbia Rural Library District will present the DVD movie "The Civil War: An Illustrated History" by Geoffrey Ward, Ric Burns and Ken Burns every Friday evening from 6:30-9:30 through February and the first week of March in the Dayton Memorial Library's Delany Room on 3rd Street, Dayton.

This is a PBS series brining to life the Civil War, interwoven with more than 500 illustrations, rare photos, paintings, lithographs and maps.

Showing of the DVD is part of the We the People Bookshelf, "A More Perfect Union," a National Endowment for the Humanities grant the library district received.

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Acoustic Jam Night

Fellow musicians will enjoy an appreciative audience for this monthly jam night at Skye Book & Brew, in downtown Dayton, beginning at 6:30 p.m.

Time Out For Tea

Ladies of the local Single Action Shooting Society will talk to women of Dayton's monthly tea group all about the fun they have dressing up and slinging lead Old-West style from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Delany Room of the Dayton Memorial Library. Visitors will enjoy free tea and lunch while meeting new friends at this month's program, themed "Guns & Roses."

Free on-site childcare provided. For more information, call Annie at 509-382-2248.

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Evening of Elegance

Help raise money for the Walla Walla Community Hospice while enjoying wine and hors d'oeuvres with a live and silent auction at the Marcus Whitman Hotel & Conference Center in Walla Walla beginning at 6 p.m.

The Walla Walla Community Hospice is a nonprofit committed to providing quality hospice care to adults and children facing a limited life expectancy.

The full action catalog will be available for preview on the hospice website (www.wwhospice.org) beginning Feb. 9.

Cost of the evening is $90 per person. Contact the hospice at 509-525-5561 or e-mail laurie@wwhospice.org for more information or to make reservations. Reservations must be confirmed with payment by Feb. 8.

Skates For A Sweet

Join the Walla Walla Sweets Roller Girls for "Luv Hurtz" on February 12 at 6:30 p.m. at the Walla Walla YMCA, 340 S. Park St. Doors open at 5:30 p.m.

Local Twisted Vines will take on Lilac City of Spokane. The half-time performance will be a scrimmage between Walla Walla and Spokane's junior derby teams. Tickets can be purall chased online at BrownPaperTickets.com or in person at the YMCA or Book and Game on Main Street in Walla Walla for $8. Tickets are $10 at the door the day of the event.

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Romance Is Alive

The Walla Walla Symphony will present its "Viennese Romance" on Tuesday, Feb. 15, at 7:30 p.m. at Cordiner Hall in Walla Walla. As a "Celebration of the Strauss Family," Maestro Yaacov Bergman will conduct Voices of Spring, The Beautiful Blue Danube, and Tales From the Vienna Woods by Johann Strauss, Jr., Woman's Heart by Josef Strauss, Radetzky March by Johann Strauss, Sr. as well as Richard Strauss' Horn Concerto No. 1, featuring horn virtuoso Dean Kravig.

Also on the program is Schubert's Symphony No. 9 in C Major, the "Great." New this year, the half-hour "Inside Music" free pre-concert talk begins at 6:30 p.m. at Whitman College's Reid Campus Center Ballroom. Guest artist sponsor for the concert is Isaacs & Associates. Season sponsor for the Symphony's 104th season is The Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation, and season lodging sponsor is The Marcus Whitman Hotel and Conference Center.

All seating for the concert is by reservation. Tickets for the concert are available online at www.wwsymphony.org, by calling the Symphony office at 509-529-8020, or at the Symphony office at 13-1/2 E. Main, Suite 201. Tickets are also available at the door.

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Light Up Your Life

The monthly Christian Women's Connection Luncheon at the Seneca Activity Center in Dayton takes place from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. The cost is $9 per person; luncheon catered by Ruth Shearer.

Enjoy the lighted ambiance and aroma created by scented soy candles. Barbi Johnson, from Nussentials Whole Food Products & Natural Soy Candles, will be the special feature this month. She will bring many samples and tell all about them. Visitors might learn some useful tips on how to "light up your life" with candles.

Enjoy listening to beautiful music brought by Yelizaveta (Liz) Romadin, part of the Columbia County team that recently went to Zambia. Let your hearts and minds be soothed by her keyboard playing and also through songs she has selected to sing.

Enjoy hearing the speaker this month, Kristi Roberts from Mabton, Wash.., as she presents "The Influence of a Grandmother's Life," a drama written by Jan Mathers. It is about a granddaughter looking back at her grandmother's life.

Reservations are required and babysitting is available. Call Judy Jackson at 399- 2005 to reserve a lunch. Please honor reservations, "gift" them to a friend, or call Judy by noon on Monday, February 14, to cancel if plans change; otherwise, the CWC is obligated to pay for the uneaten meal.

CWC will meet, pray for each other's needs and plan its upcoming luncheons during a potluck on Wednesday, March 2, at noon. Members will meet in the Delaney Room of the Dayton Memorial Library, located at 111 South Third Street.

For more information or directions, call JoAnn Thatcher at 399-2220.

18-20

Books, Books, Books

American Association of University Women's Annual Book Sale will take place all weekend at the Marcus Whitman Hotel and Conference Center, 6 W. Rose Street, in Walla Walla.

Hours will be: Friday from noon to 9 p.m., Saturday from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Sunday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

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Sam Erwin Memorial Breakfast

All proceeds from this you-can-eat breakfast, from 8-11 a.m. in the Prescott Community Center, will go to the Prescott High School Memorial Scholarship Fund in honor of Sam Erwin, a founding member of the Prescott Lions Club. Enjoy a hearty meal of pancakes, biscuits and gravy, bacon, hash browns, sausage, eggs, juice and coffee all for just $5.99.

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Pheasants Forever Banque t

The Blue Mountain Chapter #258 of Pheasants Forever will give a delicious, catered prime rib or salmon dinner, thousands of dollars worth of raffle prizes, fun and games for the entire family during its annual sponsorship banquet in the Walla Walla County Fairgrounds Community Center. Social hour begins at 4 p.m. Dinner is at 6 p.m.

Since 1991 the Blue Mountain Chapter of Pheasants Forever has completed over 50 habitat projects in Columbia and Walla Walla counties to benefit all upland wildlife species.

Contact Jim Sonne at 509-525-3550 or jimsonne@aol.com or Alison Bruggeman at 509-432-6425 or ali_ rose01@hotmail.com for ticket information.

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Annual Historical Society Meeting

The Waitsburg Historical Society will gather for its annual meeting on Monday, February 28, at 7 p.m. at the Wilson-Phillips house, 124 West 4th in Waitsburg. Reports for activities during 2010 plus election of officers on the agenda. Historical society members invited as well as anyone else with an interest in the group.