Eastern Sierra events
The Subject was Roses
Get your tickets now for one of this year’s finest dramatic theater experience: Playhouse 395’s “The Subject Was Roses,” an award-winning family drama set in the 1940s, with three actors performing this riveting narrative. The show opens Nov. 29 and also plays Nov. 30, and Dec. 1, 8, and 9 at the Inyo Council for the Arts Theater in Bishop.
Opening night tickets are $12; all remaining shows $15. Info/reservations: call 760.920,9100 or visit www.playhouse395.com.
Cut your tree
Christmas tree cutting permits are now available for $5 per tree with a limit of one tree per household, from cutting areas on the Bridgeport District of the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest and Bureau of Land Management lands.
Permits for that area are available at the Bridgeport Ranger Station, Mammoth Lakes Welcome Center and the White Mountain Ranger Station.
For the Bureau of Land Management lands there are tree cutting areas near Benton and Lyda, Nevada. Permits for these areas are available from the joint BLM/Forest Service Visitor Center (White Mountain Ranger Station) in Bishop and the Mammoth Lakes Welcome Center.
Please note that all ranger stations and visitor centers will be closed on Thursday Nov. 22.
Maps, directions to cutting areas, and regulations for cutting Christmas trees may be obtained at the issuing office.
Hispanic Advisory Committee
The Mammoth Lakes Police-Community Hispanic Advisory Committee has finalized plans for the next Town Hall meeting scheduled for Friday, Nov. 30, at 4:30 p.m. @ the Grand Sierra Lodge, in the Village at Mammoth.
Presentations will be made by representatives from the Mexican Consulate, the Mono County Department of Health, the California Highway Patrol, and an immigration rights attorney who will speak on the Dream Act. Interpreters will be present and it will be possible for attendees to ask questions anonymously by way of using index cards. Food will be provided and there will be supervised child care.
Are you off to see the wizard?
Playhouse 395 in Bishop will hold an Audition Workshop for its upcoming spring musical, “The Wizard of Oz,” on Wednesday Nov. 28, at 6 p.m. in the Bishop Union High School Theater. Open Audition Day is Saturday, Dec. 1 at 10 a.m., with call backs the following day at 1 p.m.
Show dates are March 1, 2, 8, 9, 15, and 16. For more information and details, visit www.playhouse395.com or call 760.920.9100.
Friends of Education Dinner
The 2012 Mammoth Lakes Foundation has special festivities planned for its Friends of Education Celebration on December 15.
This annual event pays tribute to both a Founder of the Year for their unprecedented support and dedication to education, the arts and the community and a Volunteer of the Year.
This year the event takes place in the Edison Theatre and features a performance of “A Dickens’ Christmas Carol: A Traveling Travesty in Two Tumultuous Acts.”
A special added feature of this year’s event is a special Diamond giveaway! Each attendee has the opportunity to purchase a Diamond Raffle ticket and one lucky winner will walk away with a certified diamond.
Other prizes include two VIP tickets to the July 5-7 Mammoth Food & Wine Experience.
To purchase tickets to the Friends of Education annual celebration, call 760.934.3781, or visit the website at www.mammothlakesfoundation.org/theatre.html
Angel Giving Tree
The Angel Giving Tree ensures that low-income children receive gifts for Christmas.You can participate by selecting a child’s name at Von’s from the Angel Giving Tree.
Last year we had 40 children whose names were not selected. We are asking you to select two names and buy less for them. We were only able to give them a gift certificate for $15 if their names weren’t selected.
You can bring your gifts to the Health Department by Wednesday December 12. This year we are offering the option of giving a gift certificate to Rite Aid, Kmart or the Cast Off to allow the parents to shop for their own children. You can drop off a certificate at the Health Department if you don’t want to shop for a child, but would like to supplement a gift the child receives. You can receive an income tax donation by writing a check to Mono County Office of Education and we will purchase the gift certificate.
Volunteers are needed for gift sorting and distribution from December Call Mary Jo @ 934-2253 to help with this event.
