April 29, 2025 • 28 mins
This week on the Insider Report, our favorite “Castaway” Dave Kuehn comes onboard with the “Fishing Report”. Then Kat and Bruce give the scoop on what is going on in the area, including the Chetco Library event schedule, the locally themed melodrama Thar She Blows at Chetco Playhouse, Legends Arcade presents May The 4th Be […]
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Hello, mister and missus Brookings Harbor and all
the fishing boats at sea. I'm cousin Bruce
Ellis. And I'm Kat Liddell. And this is
the Insider Report. So let your ears do
the walk in as we fill you in
on what's going on in the Brookings Harbor
area and beyond.
Well, hello. Hello. Hello. And welcome to this
week's show that keeps you in the know.
Hey, Akat. Hi, Bruce. Well, we got a
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new little setup here in the studio. So
that's pretty cool. We got the round tray
bolt. Instead of little pods that they used
to post in, like, cubicle style, now it's
now it's this this open round lovely space.
And Mhmm. Yeah. I can actually see you
not through plexiglass. Yeah. Yeah. That's it. It's
and it's nice. Spacious too. Yeah. There you
go. So
spread out. I mean, yes. I'm I wholly
approve of this this new situation. Yeah. We
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just had to figure out where we were
sitting when we got in here, but that's
alright. Who's where now? We got it all
figured out.
Yeah. So how'd your weekend go? You guys
are doing the play. Willikers. Yep. We've been
rehearsing rehearsing for all in the timing. That's
gonna be opening the weekend after this one.
So Yep. Opening on May 9. Just getting
drilling, drilling, drilling those lines and getting them
down. And it's been it's been good. The
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weather's been nice. We've been able to have
some practices in the park and stuff and
Hi. Just enjoy that sunshine while we're also
while we're also just making sure we're ready
to go. Yeah. Yeah. It's been a good
time. How about you? How was your weekend?
Hey. We had a good one. Real good
one. Actually, I just because I had everything
done, the paper and everything was all done,
I actually got to relax a little bit
this weekend, and,
that's what we did.
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Hung out and yeah. I did it's weird
when I don't have to be on the
computer for some like, I feel like I'm
missing something. You know? Like, I'm wait. Am
I supposed to be out there doing something
and do no. The show's done. Now the
the paper's done. Now this is done. You
know? Like, the bedroom thing's done. You know?
It's like, I can actually sit here for
a minute. But we had a little barbecue
in the park yesterday. Yeah. And it was
very cool. The weather was nice except for
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I I was telling,
Dave here that we, we got it got
blown away. It was gonna be down in
the lower area, but the wind was so
much that all of a sudden, I see
everybody come walking back to the house where
it's usually at. And, I'm
looking out, and I go, we shifting? And
they go, yeah. The wind just blew the
tablecloths clear across the area. So it was
really windy, and the ocean was pretty radical
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too. So Alright. Yeah. Very good. So we'll
hear more about that. We'll leave here in
a minute. Ringbases.
Yeah. That's right. But, yeah, we did we
had a good weekend too. It was just
a mellow one. So very cool. So good.
And we got a lot of material, and
we gotta guess. So let's just get this
going. Hope everybody out there had some fun
this last weekend too because we got a
lot to do.
We'd like to thank, before we get going,
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Oregon South Coast Fisherman, otherwise known as the
Castaways, and the Oregon Coast VIP Marketing for
sponsoring the insider report. And if you'd like
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and you will be on your way. And
speaking of those crazy castaways,
our favorite ones on board here with us,
Dave Keane with the fishing report. Report. Report.
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Report.
Yeah. There you go. Well, hi, Bruce, and
hi, Kat. Hi. Good to be here at
the round table. Yeah. This is really Yeah.
It's around. Pretty cool.
Reminded me of a dentist office when I
first walked in, and that's not my favorite
place. It's not. Oh. But it's nice to
be here with you, though.
Okay.
Well, we have a lots happening. Yeah. That's
what you're telling me. Okay. We'll start with
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what's open right now.
Surf perch fishing is really going well now.
If you can get down to Crissy Field
or even Sport Haven Beach,
easy to do. You get to be on
the on the beach, not on the ocean,
cast out Right. Not too far,
with some shrimp or some Berkeley Gulp worms
and catch your, surfers. Oh, not too far.
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No. No. Right in the surf. Wow. Okay.
Why I think they call them surfers. Because
they're surf, man. That makes sense. So something
about that. Tell me, take bottom fishing when
you can get out, and you talk about
wind. I went out on Saturday, and we
tried to get up north near House Rock.
We could not get there. The wind and
the waves was Really?
Too big. So we turned around and went
south, but we still got our bottom fish
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and lingcod. So Alright. I still keep four
bottom fish and two lingcod.
But what's happening? Oh my gosh. Are you
are you ready? Are you ready? Are you
ready? Are you ready? Bring it. Bring it.
Alright. Pacific Halibut opens next Thursday, May 1.
Oh.
I love halibut fishing. Just for the halibut.
Just for the halibut. So you can keep
keep two per day and six for the
season.
So that's gonna be happening. And right now,
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Thursday looks like a good ocean day. So
I think some of us will be going
out for that. Right on. But wait. There's
more. But wait. Uh-huh. You have Chinook. We
have a Chinook season, this year, which is
a king salmon.
That opens
May 16 and runs through June 6. It's
a two week window, but still we have
an opportunity
to go catch a king. But it reopens
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again June 30 through July 15. So for
the fourth of July weekend, which we haven't
had a Chinook season in quite a while,
it's gonna be a busy, busy, busy place.
Oh, we're gonna be seeing them going in
and out on the port because we'll be
having the fourth of July going on there
too. Everything. Yeah. And yet there's even more
salmon. So there you go. Yep. Yep. Yep.
That's right. And a slamming salmon. So it's
really gonna be fun. Yeah. But the coho
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now, the silvers, that runs from June 7
through August 24.
So that also is gonna
kinda overlap with that Chinook season.
But there's certain times you can keep one
Chinook,
not two
two coho, but they have to be fin
clipped. So there's quite a few rules and
regs that you gotta pay attention to if
you're gonna be salmon fishing. But that's my
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job is to educate it. That's right. Hopefully,
not confuse them. No. Mhmm. I just get
to know when they come with the events.
I know that something's running. You know, it's
tuner or something like on the pirate festival.
Oh, yeah. Of course. It's tuner. And it's
like, you know, and I you know, so
it's like it's always whatever our events are,
it's like there's some run going on out.
Yep. Yep. So these are exciting times. Yeah.
Cool. We do have a we have a
meeting coming up. We have to we had
to move it up a week because of
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the book fair at the library. Mhmm. So
instead of May 21, we'll have it May
14. So we'll have a club meeting, 05:30PM
at the library.
Some of the things we just finished,
doing, we'd had real fish days at Arizona
Pond up north at Arizona Beach. All third
graders in Curry County had the opportunity to
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catch trout,
cast, tie knots, and have a good time.
That's the third grade one they Yeah. Yeah.
That's what Junior went to last year. That
was so much fun. Yeah. Oh, yeah. And
then the man monster fish were planted and
caught, and it's so fun to see the
excitement. Yeah. His good buddy went last time
and caught a 17 inches like Junior did.
Caught it. But with him, it was the
fifth one, the fifth largest because they caught
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some big ones. Oh, yeah. No. There were
some monsters. Okay. Yeah. Speaking of third graders,
coming up May 7, we have the eggs
to fry program.
They're gonna do their fish release,
their little fry that have been in their
classrooms for a few weeks now. Mhmm. So
we'll they'll bust them to a Loeb State
Park, and our fishing club guys will help
them release them, the little fry into the
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Oh. The river, Checo River. Alright. I remember
doing that. You do. Oh, I see.
It's a tradition. Yeah. It is a tradition.
And so, some of them give them names,
of course. Oh, yeah. Well, you know, we
encourage them to. And try to find them
later. Yeah. I'm right. Yeah. Maybe I I
tell them that when I go into the
classroom and educate him with John Weber, ODFW
guy, and then, hey. In a few years,
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you know, four or five years, you might
be catching the guy you Yeah. Just released.
Yeah. Could could happen.
Let's see. Coming up also, May 24, the
Azalea Festival Kids Fish Ponds.
I know it's down the road, but it's
gonna be here before you know it. Oh,
yeah. So we we do that. That's that's
another annual event Mhmm. That we do. And
then last but not least, spring salmon on
the Rogue River. It's going pretty well. I
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was actually able to catch one a couple
weeks ago, and they are yummy, yummy fish
to eat. Yeah. Really good. Mhmm. Right on.
So spring fever On the road? Here. On
the road. Sweet. Yes. This is my report.
Mhmm. Oh, that's great. Well, thank you so
much. Always glad to have you on board.
And now, it's time for you to take
Mary Lou dancing. Right? We're going dance. Don't
dance. Thanks, you guys. Hey. You take care.
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Have a good one. Appreciate it.
Yeah. You know, that was one thing I
forgot was the library.
My junior, his class went to the library.
I saw you there on on Thursday. Yeah.
That was Oh, yeah. Oh. Thursday. Third grade
ish, fourth grade ish library. Yeah. Yes. Yeah.
So much fun. Now he had a blast.
Schools. And now he's gonna get his library
card and all that good stuff. So, yeah,
I'm I'm big of it. Time. It's it's
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a fun it's always fun to have the
classrooms in there. Mhmm. And and I've gotta
say, your,
junior's class is a very well behaved class.
Oh, they were Kudos to the kiddos there.
Yeah. They did great. And the teacher, that's
where I gave her love too. You know,
I sent back saying, hey. Thank you so
much for that. Yeah. Yeah. Very good. Absolutely.
That was a great one. It was so
funny because, Brent her name is Brenna. Brenna.
Yeah. Brenna looks at me. She I thought
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I recognized your voice because she hears the
radio. Every once in a while. Yeah. And
she looks at me and I and I
told her, yeah. Yeah. Me and Kat. Kat's
my co host over to me. And she
goes, I thought I, yeah, recognize your voice.
Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. So that was fun last week. That
was really cool. And they got a field
trip this week. We're going to the tide
pool. Busy busy spring for everybody. Yep. Yeah.
Alright. Speaking of busy, we got some music
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going on here. Yeah. Let's not waste any
time there. Let's, take a look at Elk
Valley Casino. On the May 3, they're gonna
host Don Gato, a Latin dance band. On
the tenth, Van Halen Unchained. Of course, that's
a tribute to Van Halen. And then on
the seventeenth, they're hosting a comedy night with
headliner Steve Barclay. Yes. Indeedy and Black GTO
will be playing on the twenty third at
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the Intech at 8PM to 10PM. And on
the thirty first, Porta Pints, '3 PM to
4PM. And then disturbing the peace is playing
on the thirtieth,
down south at the Eureka Elks Lodge, seven
thirty to 10:30. Yeah. And then Sysco on
the third, the tenth, the twenty fourth, and
the thirty first, it'll be at Brick And
Harbor Farmer's Market 10 AM to 2PM. And
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then on the fourth, he'll be at Whales
Head Resort at 10AM to 2PM. Yeah. And
then the mighty Steelheads are playing on the
second and the twenty fourth at Inoteca down
in Crescent City at seven. And on the
thirty first, they'll be at the One King
Music Festival at 7PM.
Mhmm. And the Italian guys will be playing
on the third at the Anateca at 8PM.
And then JD Drums has a slew of
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dates here on the sixth, the thirteenth, twentieth,
and twenty seventh. He'll be at Oxenfree's open
mic night with Keith Roberts, and that's running
from eight to eleven. On the sixteenth, he'll
be at Oxenfree from eight to eleven. On
the seventeenth at Inateca from seven to ten.
On the twenty fourth, he'll play at Agostino's
from two to four. And then on the
thirty first, he'll be at Groundlings Pizza playing
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from five to eight. Mhmm. Yes. Indeed. In
Inoteca, music starts on Fridays and on Saturdays,
8PM. On the second, the mighty steelheads. On
the third, the Italian guides.
Then on the ninth, dog park, Monday.
Let's see. On the tenth, Rob Tiernan,
the sixteenth,
the way outs, the seventeenth, JD drums, and
on the twentieth, comedy night with Nick Meyer
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featuring Jeff Fahey and Michael Cordova.
We'll just stop right there. Alright. That's it.
Oh, you know what? I got one more
here to add on. Patty Ann gave me
her late one here, and I told her
I'd get it on the radio. But, she's
gonna be playing on the second at Misty
Mountain Brewing six to eight. And then on
the ninth, she'll be at Coontay
6 to eight. Alright. And that'll wrap up
the music there. Okay. Well, let's take a
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look over at the Checo Library located at
405 Alder Street in Brookings. They have a
weekly event lineup starting things off with Tuesdays
at 10:30AM.
They have story time. Of course, that's stories,
songs, and games for young children.
And at 05:00 on Tuesdays, brand new, they
have a club for tweens.
Youth ages 10 to 13 are welcome to
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hang out after school. They're gonna explore new
interests and activities every single week. And then
on Wednesdays at 01:30, they have after school
activities. That's homework help, a creation station, and
snacks for school aged kids.
Then on Thursdays at 04:00, they have more
after school activities.
And at 05:30 on Thursdays, they have a
free easy flow yoga class. And they do
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say for this class, it's recommended that participants
be able to comfortably get up and down
from the floor.
And then on Saturdays at 1PM, they have
Saturday shuffle, Magic the Gathering, Pokemon, and more.
Players can bring their favorite deck and play
a game. Gamers of all kinds are welcome
to bring their favorite card or board games
from their own collections. They're also welcome to
browse the library's game collection and find a
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crew to play with.
And then second and fourth Saturdays of the
month at 1PM,
they have Teens Teach Tech. You can drop
by the library annex, that's a little house
across the street from the main library, with
your device or tech questions, and then you
can get help from a trained cyber senior
technology mentor. Our mentors are young people who
have been trained to teach technology to older
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adults, and they're standing by to help with
your smartphone,
iPad, or computer. This is a 100% free
service, and it's presented in partnership with Harmony
and Me Music.
And then coming up in monthly and special
events at the library, of course, the first
Saturday, May third at 2PM, they have their
monthly afternoon indie films. They're partnering with the
Wild Rivers Film Festival to host free monthly
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indie and classic film screenings.
This month, we're screening the indie documentary Space,
Hope, and Charity.
This is about a rural Oregonian's journey navigating
grief and achieving her dream of one day
working for NASA.
Then on the seventh at noon, they have
lifestyle medicine brown bag lunch.
Join OSU professor Stephanie Polizzi for a free
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wellness and nutrition class. This month's topic is
foods that fight cancer. You're invited to bring
a brown bag lunch and a friend.
And then on the twelfth, that's Monday, May
12, all day long, they've got Spice World
bags. You can take a culinary journey around
the world. Spice bags feature a unique monthly
spice from a different part of the world
each month. It comes with a tester sample,
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trivia, and recipe suggestions, though they do say
supplies are limited, and it's first come, first
serve.
And rounding things out, May 14 at 1PM,
craft and connect with Kim. You can join
local craft guru Kim for a step by
step workshop on creating your own miniature terrarium.
Now due to limited space and supplies,
registration for these monthly workshops are required.
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Registration will open April 30, and these workshops
are designed for crafters eighteen plus.
And, just a note here on book clubs
coming up, the first one coming up this
month at May 7 at 04:00 is their
Voyagers Book Club. This is a fresh, fun
book club for tweens and young teens who
love diving into stories and exploring new worlds.
And the meetings include creative activities related to
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the book of the month. In April, the
group is discussing
Ember Rescue Dogs. Oh, in May, the group
is discussing Ember. That's a rescue dog series
book by Jane b Mason and Sarah Heinz
Stevens. And if you have any questions about
upcoming library events or services, they're always free
to attend whether or not you have a
library card. You can find more information at
checkcolibrary.org,
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follow them on Facebook, or give them a
call at (541)
469-7738.
That's right. Our library can't be called a
slouch. That's for sure. I mean, going on
every all the time. That was just tip
of the iceberg, people. That was the May.
Yeah. That was the May because, I mean,
we couldn't I couldn't even there's so much
going on at the library. It's awesome. I
I really dig it. You know? Pretty cool.
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That's a good time. Cool. Yeah. Yeah. Hey.
And we got a Gold Beach Chess Club
that's at the First Chapter Coffee House, two
nine three two five Ellensburg Avenue, Gold Beach.
This happens on Saturdays, 10AM to 03:30PM.
The Old Beach chess club is a free
non dues community chess club, which is open
to anyone who wishes to participate. They have
adult and scholastic chess players in attendance. They
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do casual games, practice chess tournaments for adults,
and scholastic
players. They also hold chess lessons and even
run a blindfold chess challenge at their weekly
meetings.
Bring your own set and board if you
have them. Limited extras available on hand. Casual
chess, game reviews, practice chess tournaments, and blindfold
chess challenges. For more information, you can contact
Sean at Stobin, s t o b I
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n, twenty fifteen at Gmail
dot com. Alright. And now it's time for
quotes from famous people with cousin Bruce. Yeah.
Hey. Here are a few quotes from Martha
Jane Canary,
better known as Calamity Jane. She was born
05/01/1852.
She said sometimes you just have to kick
up your boots and dance in the rain.
She goes, life is too short to waste
time hiding in the shadows. Embrace the light
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and let your true self shine.
And she said, I may not be the
prettiest flower in the garden, but I sure
am a wild one. And last but not
least, she goes, I figure if a girl
wants to be a legend,
she should just go ahead and be one.
I hope you enjoyed this week's quotes from
Calamity Jane with cousin Bruce. Till next week.
Have a great one.
Well, I love that one. Seems like a
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bit of an individualist. Yeah. She's awesome. Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, hey. Over at the Checo Playhouse at
1240 Checo Avenue, the Checo Pelican Players are
presenting the final weekend of Tharshi Blows. This
is written and directed by founding member and
longtime resident Mike Moran. Tharshi Blows is a
melodramatic comedic riff on the history of Brookings,
Oregon.
And, again, it's the last weekend to catch
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the play. It's running through the May 4.
The show times are Fridays and Saturdays at
7PM,
Sundays at 2PM. Doors open forty five minutes
before curtain. And if you want tickets, they're
$15 for adults, $7 for students. You can
get tickets at the door. You can also
call (541)
469-1857
for reservations,
or you can get tickets online at chetcopp.bookticks.com.
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Yeah. And, hey, the Curry Health Foundation is
presenting high on health Kentucky Derby party. This
will be happening on the third at 1PM
at the Dosha Suite Hall at the event
center in Gold Beach.
Appetizers,
mint juleps, gaming
auctions, wear your fanciest hats and bow ties.
And for more info on this, you can
contact (541)
425-4122.
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Alright. And over at Elk Valley Casino, they're
presenting
Don Gato, a Latin dance group, on the
May 3 at 8PM,
and tickets are on sale now in person
at the Points Club booth or online at
etix.com
in advance and on the day of the
event. And doors for this group open at
7PM with a show starting at 8PM. You
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do have to be 21 or older to
attend. Seating is first come, first served. That's
right. Look. We got a little salsa, meringue,
and kumbaya, and all that good stuff. Yeah.
There you go. Hey. Legends arcades presents May
be with you.
I love to play on words. Yeah. It's
it opens at 2PM,
the Legends Arcade there, down at the port.
The public is invited to celebrate
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the love of Star Wars. There will be
an inflatable
light saber dueling
Mhmm. Costume contest and more. So there's your
imagination. Yeah. I'm looking for some silly videos.
Oh my goodness. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Making a
silly video. One. Very Alright. Well, the Wild
River Symphony is presenting Wallace and Gromit, The
Wrong Trousers with a live orchestra,
and this event is happening at Trinity Lutheran
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Church. That's over at 1200 Easy Street in
Brookings. And this is on the May 5,
Cinco de Mayo, at 7PM.
Wild River Symphony is proud to present a
very special orchestral event graciously sponsored by High
Note Winery.
Wallace and Gromit, Arben's most loved and iconic
duo, have been delighting family audiences
around the world for thirty years. In Arben's
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second Wallace and Gromit adventure, The Wrong Trousers,
released in 1993,
Gromit finds himself being pushed out of his
room and home by a devious new lodger,
Feathers McGraw.
A ruthless criminal and a penguin cunningly disguised
as a chicken, he's planning a robbery and
needs to use Wallace and his mechanical remote
controlled trousers to pull off the raid. However,
Gromit is wise to the penguin and comes
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to the rescue.
Will he be able to stop the feathered
fiend? Well, you can find out by getting
tickets. They're $15 at the door, $12 presale,
and k through 12 students can go to
this for free. Presale tickets are available at
Delnor office supply, rights custom framing, and you
can also get them online at wildriverssymphony.org.
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That's wild. Walls and grommet. Yeah. Yeah. Symphony
behind them. That's it. What a concept. Pretty
cool. Hey. SWAC, the steam pathways is presenting
a night at the planetarium.
Southwestern Oregon Community College invites the Curry County
community to join them on Monday, mid fifth
for a night at the planetarium. The mobile
planetarium is a digital theater space that immerses
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viewers in a presentation that takes them on
an adventure.
You can join them at the lobby of
Southwestern's Curry campus located at 96082
Lone Ranch Parkway in Brookings. A variety of
shows will be played approximately
every thirty minutes.
This is a free event, and all ages
are welcome. They got shows and times, like
scene is one of them. It's a weaving,
a tale of journey of humanity
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that discovered the science, technology, and medicine that
allows us to understand how sight works,
cures diseases of the eye, and correct vision.
That's twenty six minutes. Then they got Out
There. That's the story of how human curiosity
has driven
us to look outwards to discover and explore
new and distance worlds. That starts at 04:45.
And then at another time, it says 06:30.
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And then two small pieces of glass,
visually stunning chronicle of the history of the
telescope from the time of Galileo, its profound
impact upon the science of astronomy, and how
both the shape,
the way we view ourselves in the midst
of an infinite universe. That's twenty two minutes.
So for more information on the upcoming events,
you can contact Crystal Hopper Myers at Steam
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Pathways at (541) 888-1518
or at crystal.hopper@s0cc.edu.
So there you go. Awesome. A lot of
fun stuff going on out there too. Local
planetariums. I I've been to a couple of
those during my school age years. They're really
fun. That's cool. Is it like a group
crawl inside this, like, inflatable, like, essentially planetarium,
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and they project things on the walls in
there. It's like a little mobile planetarium. Wow.
Okay. Yeah. Okay. Because it's a really cool
planetarium for it. So Yeah. It's a great
thing for kids to see. Yeah. It's really
fun. Neat. Yeah. Yeah. Alright. And then International
Yoga is presenting ecstatic dance at The Grange
over on Shopping Center Avenue. This one's happening
on the May 7 at 7PM
with DJ Nathaniel and DJ Lady Vegas. Donations
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are accepted.
Yeah. There you go. And the Southwest Oregon
Community College, they're at it out there. They're
just like the library, just getting and keeping
it going. They got stories from a chimp
conservationist
and colleague of Jane Goodall.
She'll be there May 8 from 1PM to
2PM.
This is a free program sponsored by the
Friends of Curry campus. In 1972,
doctor Nancy Merrick had the unique opportunity to
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study chimpanzee behavior with Jane God Goodall at
the Gombe Stream
Research Center in Tan Tanzania, Africa. Nancy was
thrilled for the opportunity to follow chimps around
the forest
documenting their behavior. You can check it out.
This get an insider look,
at the Curry campus. Stay tuned for upcoming
talks in the speaker series. For more information
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on this, you can contact the Curry campus
at (541) 813-1667.
So very interesting. She was colleague of Jane
Goodall. That Very cool. Interesting right there. Okay.
Well, hey. Now it's time for a bit
of real history with Bushwacker Bruce. Right. Good
day, cat. Good day, mates. Bushwacker Bruce here,
and welcome to this week's bit of real
history for your knowledge pleasure.
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Did you know that a toy possum tried
to replace the teddy bear?
It's true. Here's the story. When Theodore Roosevelt
left the office of the president, toy makers
encountered a problem. Their big moneymaker, Teddy's bear,
might not sell once president. Roosevelt was no
longer in office. So they took one look
at the next president and decided to make
a new toy. They called it the Billy
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Possum.
He was a toy they created. It was
a stuffed all possum made in honor of
Ohio's very own William Howard Taft. Well, the
toy companies were sure that they had struck
golf. Well, they hope the toy possum would
sell just as well, if not better than
the teddy bear. Well, how did an opossum
come to be associated with president Taft? Well,
the story goes that in January '9, the
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president-elect
was honored at a banquet in Atlanta.
At Taft's request, the main course was possum
and taters.
When Taft's belly was stuffed, local boosters presented
the president to be with a small plush
of possum. Well, the toy they told Taft
was just destined to be the next big
thing. It was gonna replace the teddy bear.
They dubbed it Billy Possum.
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The gift pleased Taft as did the dinner
while the Georgia Billy Possum Company formed churning
out thousands of the stuffed toys. Well, the
company slogan was goodbye, teddy bear. Hello, Billy
Possum.
Anti teddy bear ads were all over the
place. Companies tried to push the sales of
the stuffed possum.
Unfortunately, sales died quickly, and it was all
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a massive flop.
Billy Possum didn't even last a year. The
craze died by Christmas time. The possum failed,
and the teddy bear endured.
Well, I hope you enjoyed this week's bit
of real history of yours truly Bushwacker Bruce.
Till next time, Hey. Always keep it real.
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Gee. How could that not have taken off?
The Billy Possum. Oh my god. No. Thank
you. Everybody wants to get one. Yeah. Yeah.
It was freaky looking too if you're looking
a little. Thank you. Yeah. Alright. Well, with
the couple minutes we have left to us,
we've got time for one more announcement. Mhmm.
Brie Penny Theatre Co. Is presenting All in
the Timing, running May 9 through May 18.
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This is a series of comedic shorts by
renowned
modern playwright David Ives.
You can step into a world where the
absurd meets the profound from a comically awkward
meet cute in the multiverse to philosophical musings
with a troop of existentially
minded monkeys. This production is a laugh out
loud celebration of the most surreal and sublime
aspects of the human experience.
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Again, it opens May 9 and will run
for two weekends, Fridays at 7PM,
Saturdays and Sundays at 2PM. So two matinees
in those weekends. The production takes place at
the Brookings Event Center, 8 Hundred Checo Avenue
in Brookings. It's located between Feather Your Nest
and Wild Hair Barber and Tattoo.
And tickets are $10 for adults, discounts available
for seniors, students, and veterans. You can get
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tickets in advance at 3pennytheater.com
or at the door on the day of
performance, and box office doors open thirty minutes
before curtain. And, of course, don't forget free
penny Friday for this one is Friday, May
16. Free penny Fridays are pay what you
want in the spirit of making the performing
arts accessible to everyone in the community. For
tickets and info, you can call or text
(541)
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251-0640
or go to 3pennytheater.com.
Yep. See, it's all of the timing.
We got that last one in. Yay. Perfect.
I love that. Yeah. That's great that you
got to do that.
I try my best here. Yeah. It was
perfect. Hey. It's time to close out this
week's show. Before we go, I'd like to
give a shout out to our fearless producers,
Ray and Tom, for all their great work
each week helping us bring our show to
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the airwaves. And thank you all for tuning
in to this week's insider report, and please
make sure to tune in on a daily
basis to KCIW one hundred point seven FM
and catch all the fine shows they have
to offer. You can catch all the show
podcasts, including the insider report by going to
kciw.0rg,
and you can check out the live streaming
while you're there that's available. Most of the
info for this week's show came from the
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insider of Southern Oregon. You can read more
by going to the insider of southernoregon.com
where you will also find the link to
the insider report. Hey. Until next week. This
is cousin Bruce Ellis. And I'm Kat Liddell.
We're signing off. So please support local businesses,
keep it real, and spread the love and
the peace every chance you get. And, hey.
We'll see you out there.
Bam.
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For music credits for the preceding show, go
to kciw.org/credits.
Hello, mister and missus Brookings Harbor and all
the fishing boats at sea. I'm cousin Bruce
Ellis. And I'm Kat Liddell. And this is
the Insider Report. So let your ears do
the walk in as we fill you in
on what's going on in the Brookings Harbor
area and beyond.
Well, hello. Hello. Hello. And welcome to this
week's show that keeps you in the know.
Hey, Akat. Hi, Bruce. Well, we got a
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new little setup here in the studio. So
that's pretty cool. We got the round tray
bolt. Instead of little pods that they used
to post in, like, cubicle style, now it's
now it's this this open round lovely space.
And Mhmm. Yeah. I can actually see you
not through plexiglass. Yeah. Yeah. That's it. It's
and it's nice. Spacious too. Yeah. There you
go. So
spread out. I mean, yes. I'm I wholly
approve of this this new situation. Yeah. We
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just had to figure out where we were
sitting when we got in here, but that's
alright. Who's where now? We got it all
figured out.
Yeah. So how'd your weekend go? You guys
are doing the play. Willikers. Yep. We've been
rehearsing rehearsing for all in the timing. That's
gonna be opening the weekend after this one.
So Yep. Opening on May 9. Just getting
drilling, drilling, drilling those lines and getting them
down. And it's been it's been good. The
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weather's been nice. We've been able to have
some practices in the park and stuff and
Hi. Just enjoy that sunshine while we're also
while we're also just making sure we're ready
to go. Yeah. Yeah. It's been a good
time. How about you? How was your weekend?
Hey. We had a good one. Real good
one. Actually, I just because I had everything
done, the paper and everything was all done,
I actually got to relax a little bit
this weekend, and,
that's what we did.
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Hung out and yeah. I did it's weird
when I don't have to be on the
computer for some like, I feel like I'm
missing something. You know? Like, I'm wait. Am
I supposed to be out there doing something
and do no. The show's done. Now the
the paper's done. Now this is done. You
know? Like, the bedroom thing's done. You know?
It's like, I can actually sit here for
a minute. But we had a little barbecue
in the park yesterday. Yeah. And it was
very cool. The weather was nice except for
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I I was telling,
Dave here that we, we got it got
blown away. It was gonna be down in
the lower area, but the wind was so
much that all of a sudden, I see
everybody come walking back to the house where
it's usually at. And, I'm
looking out, and I go, we shifting? And
they go, yeah. The wind just blew the
tablecloths clear across the area. So it was
really windy, and the ocean was pretty radical
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too. So Alright. Yeah. Very good. So we'll
hear more about that. We'll leave here in
a minute. Ringbases.
Yeah. That's right. But, yeah, we did we
had a good weekend too. It was just
a mellow one. So very cool. So good.
And we got a lot of material, and
we gotta guess. So let's just get this
going. Hope everybody out there had some fun
this last weekend too because we got a
lot to do.
We'd like to thank, before we get going,
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Oregon South Coast Fisherman, otherwise known as the
Castaways, and the Oregon Coast VIP Marketing for
sponsoring the insider report. And if you'd like
to sponsor our show or one of the
other fine shows here at KCIW, just go
to KCIW.0rg,
and you will be on your way. And
speaking of those crazy castaways,
our favorite ones on board here with us,
Dave Keane with the fishing report. Report. Report.
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Report.
Yeah. There you go. Well, hi, Bruce, and
hi, Kat. Hi. Good to be here at
the round table. Yeah. This is really Yeah.
It's around. Pretty cool.
Reminded me of a dentist office when I
first walked in, and that's not my favorite
place. It's not. Oh. But it's nice to
be here with you, though.
Okay.
Well, we have a lots happening. Yeah. That's
what you're telling me. Okay. We'll start with
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what's open right now.
Surf perch fishing is really going well now.
If you can get down to Crissy Field
or even Sport Haven Beach,
easy to do. You get to be on
the on the beach, not on the ocean,
cast out Right. Not too far,
with some shrimp or some Berkeley Gulp worms
and catch your, surfers. Oh, not too far.
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No. No. Right in the surf. Wow. Okay.
Why I think they call them surfers. Because
they're surf, man. That makes sense. So something
about that. Tell me, take bottom fishing when
you can get out, and you talk about
wind. I went out on Saturday, and we
tried to get up north near House Rock.
We could not get there. The wind and
the waves was Really?
Too big. So we turned around and went
south, but we still got our bottom fish
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and lingcod. So Alright. I still keep four
bottom fish and two lingcod.
But what's happening? Oh my gosh. Are you
are you ready? Are you ready? Are you
ready? Are you ready? Bring it. Bring it.
Alright. Pacific Halibut opens next Thursday, May 1.
Oh.
I love halibut fishing. Just for the halibut.
Just for the halibut. So you can keep
keep two per day and six for the
season.
So that's gonna be happening. And right now,
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Thursday looks like a good ocean day. So
I think some of us will be going
out for that. Right on. But wait. There's
more. But wait. Uh-huh. You have Chinook. We
have a Chinook season, this year, which is
a king salmon.
That opens
May 16 and runs through June 6. It's
a two week window, but still we have
an opportunity
to go catch a king. But it reopens
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again June 30 through July 15. So for
the fourth of July weekend, which we haven't
had a Chinook season in quite a while,
it's gonna be a busy, busy, busy place.
Oh, we're gonna be seeing them going in
and out on the port because we'll be
having the fourth of July going on there
too. Everything. Yeah. And yet there's even more
salmon. So there you go. Yep. Yep. Yep.
That's right. And a slamming salmon. So it's
really gonna be fun. Yeah. But the coho
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now, the silvers, that runs from June 7
through August 24.
So that also is gonna
kinda overlap with that Chinook season.
But there's certain times you can keep one
Chinook,
not two
two coho, but they have to be fin
clipped. So there's quite a few rules and
regs that you gotta pay attention to if
you're gonna be salmon fishing. But that's my
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job is to educate it. That's right. Hopefully,
not confuse them. No. Mhmm. I just get
to know when they come with the events.
I know that something's running. You know, it's
tuner or something like on the pirate festival.
Oh, yeah. Of course. It's tuner. And it's
like, you know, and I you know, so
it's like it's always whatever our events are,
it's like there's some run going on out.
Yep. Yep. So these are exciting times. Yeah.
Cool. We do have a we have a
meeting coming up. We have to we had
to move it up a week because of
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the book fair at the library. Mhmm. So
instead of May 21, we'll have it May
14. So we'll have a club meeting, 05:30PM
at the library.
Some of the things we just finished,
doing, we'd had real fish days at Arizona
Pond up north at Arizona Beach. All third
graders in Curry County had the opportunity to
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catch trout,
cast, tie knots, and have a good time.
That's the third grade one they Yeah. Yeah.
That's what Junior went to last year. That
was so much fun. Yeah. Oh, yeah. And
then the man monster fish were planted and
caught, and it's so fun to see the
excitement. Yeah. His good buddy went last time
and caught a 17 inches like Junior did.
Caught it. But with him, it was the
fifth one, the fifth largest because they caught
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some big ones. Oh, yeah. No. There were
some monsters. Okay. Yeah. Speaking of third graders,
coming up May 7, we have the eggs
to fry program.
They're gonna do their fish release,
their little fry that have been in their
classrooms for a few weeks now. Mhmm. So
we'll they'll bust them to a Loeb State
Park, and our fishing club guys will help
them release them, the little fry into the
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Oh. The river, Checo River. Alright. I remember
doing that. You do. Oh, I see.
It's a tradition. Yeah. It is a tradition.
And so, some of them give them names,
of course. Oh, yeah. Well, you know, we
encourage them to. And try to find them
later. Yeah. I'm right. Yeah. Maybe I I
tell them that when I go into the
classroom and educate him with John Weber, ODFW
guy, and then, hey. In a few years,
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you know, four or five years, you might
be catching the guy you Yeah. Just released.
Yeah. Could could happen.
Let's see. Coming up also, May 24, the
Azalea Festival Kids Fish Ponds.
I know it's down the road, but it's
gonna be here before you know it. Oh,
yeah. So we we do that. That's that's
another annual event Mhmm. That we do. And
then last but not least, spring salmon on
the Rogue River. It's going pretty well. I
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was actually able to catch one a couple
weeks ago, and they are yummy, yummy fish
to eat. Yeah. Really good. Mhmm. Right on.
So spring fever On the road? Here. On
the road. Sweet. Yes. This is my report.
Mhmm. Oh, that's great. Well, thank you so
much. Always glad to have you on board.
And now, it's time for you to take
Mary Lou dancing. Right? We're going dance. Don't
dance. Thanks, you guys. Hey. You take care.
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Have a good one. Appreciate it.
Yeah. You know, that was one thing I
forgot was the library.
My junior, his class went to the library.
I saw you there on on Thursday. Yeah.
That was Oh, yeah. Oh. Thursday. Third grade
ish, fourth grade ish library. Yeah. Yes. Yeah.
So much fun. Now he had a blast.
Schools. And now he's gonna get his library
card and all that good stuff. So, yeah,
I'm I'm big of it. Time. It's it's
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a fun it's always fun to have the
classrooms in there. Mhmm. And and I've gotta
say, your,
junior's class is a very well behaved class.
Oh, they were Kudos to the kiddos there.
Yeah. They did great. And the teacher, that's
where I gave her love too. You know,
I sent back saying, hey. Thank you so
much for that. Yeah. Yeah. Very good. Absolutely.
That was a great one. It was so
funny because, Brent her name is Brenna. Brenna.
Yeah. Brenna looks at me. She I thought
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I recognized your voice because she hears the
radio. Every once in a while. Yeah. And
she looks at me and I and I
told her, yeah. Yeah. Me and Kat. Kat's
my co host over to me. And she
goes, I thought I, yeah, recognize your voice.
Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. So that was fun last week. That
was really cool. And they got a field
trip this week. We're going to the tide
pool. Busy busy spring for everybody. Yep. Yeah.
Alright. Speaking of busy, we got some music
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going on here. Yeah. Let's not waste any
time there. Let's, take a look at Elk
Valley Casino. On the May 3, they're gonna
host Don Gato, a Latin dance band. On
the tenth, Van Halen Unchained. Of course, that's
a tribute to Van Halen. And then on
the seventeenth, they're hosting a comedy night with
headliner Steve Barclay. Yes. Indeedy and Black GTO
will be playing on the twenty third at
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the Intech at 8PM to 10PM. And on
the thirty first, Porta Pints, '3 PM to
4PM. And then disturbing the peace is playing
on the thirtieth,
down south at the Eureka Elks Lodge, seven
thirty to 10:30. Yeah. And then Sysco on
the third, the tenth, the twenty fourth, and
the thirty first, it'll be at Brick And
Harbor Farmer's Market 10 AM to 2PM. And
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then on the fourth, he'll be at Whales
Head Resort at 10AM to 2PM. Yeah. And
then the mighty Steelheads are playing on the
second and the twenty fourth at Inoteca down
in Crescent City at seven. And on the
thirty first, they'll be at the One King
Music Festival at 7PM.
Mhmm. And the Italian guys will be playing
on the third at the Anateca at 8PM.
And then JD Drums has a slew of
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dates here on the sixth, the thirteenth, twentieth,
and twenty seventh. He'll be at Oxenfree's open
mic night with Keith Roberts, and that's running
from eight to eleven. On the sixteenth, he'll
be at Oxenfree from eight to eleven. On
the seventeenth at Inateca from seven to ten.
On the twenty fourth, he'll play at Agostino's
from two to four. And then on the
thirty first, he'll be at Groundlings Pizza playing
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from five to eight. Mhmm. Yes. Indeed. In
Inoteca, music starts on Fridays and on Saturdays,
8PM. On the second, the mighty steelheads. On
the third, the Italian guides.
Then on the ninth, dog park, Monday.
Let's see. On the tenth, Rob Tiernan,
the sixteenth,
the way outs, the seventeenth, JD drums, and
on the twentieth, comedy night with Nick Meyer
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featuring Jeff Fahey and Michael Cordova.
We'll just stop right there. Alright. That's it.
Oh, you know what? I got one more
here to add on. Patty Ann gave me
her late one here, and I told her
I'd get it on the radio. But, she's
gonna be playing on the second at Misty
Mountain Brewing six to eight. And then on
the ninth, she'll be at Coontay
6 to eight. Alright. And that'll wrap up
the music there. Okay. Well, let's take a
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look over at the Checo Library located at
405 Alder Street in Brookings. They have a
weekly event lineup starting things off with Tuesdays
at 10:30AM.
They have story time. Of course, that's stories,
songs, and games for young children.
And at 05:00 on Tuesdays, brand new, they
have a club for tweens.
Youth ages 10 to 13 are welcome to
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hang out after school. They're gonna explore new
interests and activities every single week. And then
on Wednesdays at 01:30, they have after school
activities. That's homework help, a creation station, and
snacks for school aged kids.
Then on Thursdays at 04:00, they have more
after school activities.
And at 05:30 on Thursdays, they have a
free easy flow yoga class. And they do
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say for this class, it's recommended that participants
be able to comfortably get up and down
from the floor.
And then on Saturdays at 1PM, they have
Saturday shuffle, Magic the Gathering, Pokemon, and more.
Players can bring their favorite deck and play
a game. Gamers of all kinds are welcome
to bring their favorite card or board games
from their own collections. They're also welcome to
browse the library's game collection and find a
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crew to play with.
And then second and fourth Saturdays of the
month at 1PM,
they have Teens Teach Tech. You can drop
by the library annex, that's a little house
across the street from the main library, with
your device or tech questions, and then you
can get help from a trained cyber senior
technology mentor. Our mentors are young people who
have been trained to teach technology to older
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adults, and they're standing by to help with
your smartphone,
iPad, or computer. This is a 100% free
service, and it's presented in partnership with Harmony
and Me Music.
And then coming up in monthly and special
events at the library, of course, the first
Saturday, May third at 2PM, they have their
monthly afternoon indie films. They're partnering with the
Wild Rivers Film Festival to host free monthly
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indie and classic film screenings.
This month, we're screening the indie documentary Space,
Hope, and Charity.
This is about a rural Oregonian's journey navigating
grief and achieving her dream of one day
working for NASA.
Then on the seventh at noon, they have
lifestyle medicine brown bag lunch.
Join OSU professor Stephanie Polizzi for a free
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wellness and nutrition class. This month's topic is
foods that fight cancer. You're invited to bring
a brown bag lunch and a friend.
And then on the twelfth, that's Monday, May
12, all day long, they've got Spice World
bags. You can take a culinary journey around
the world. Spice bags feature a unique monthly
spice from a different part of the world
each month. It comes with a tester sample,
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trivia, and recipe suggestions, though they do say
supplies are limited, and it's first come, first
serve.
And rounding things out, May 14 at 1PM,
craft and connect with Kim. You can join
local craft guru Kim for a step by
step workshop on creating your own miniature terrarium.
Now due to limited space and supplies,
registration for these monthly workshops are required.
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Registration will open April 30, and these workshops
are designed for crafters eighteen plus.
And, just a note here on book clubs
coming up, the first one coming up this
month at May 7 at 04:00 is their
Voyagers Book Club. This is a fresh, fun
book club for tweens and young teens who
love diving into stories and exploring new worlds.
And the meetings include creative activities related to
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the book of the month. In April, the
group is discussing
Ember Rescue Dogs. Oh, in May, the group
is discussing Ember. That's a rescue dog series
book by Jane b Mason and Sarah Heinz
Stevens. And if you have any questions about
upcoming library events or services, they're always free
to attend whether or not you have a
library card. You can find more information at
checkcolibrary.org,
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follow them on Facebook, or give them a
call at (541)
469-7738.
That's right. Our library can't be called a
slouch. That's for sure. I mean, going on
every all the time. That was just tip
of the iceberg, people. That was the May.
Yeah. That was the May because, I mean,
we couldn't I couldn't even there's so much
going on at the library. It's awesome. I
I really dig it. You know? Pretty cool.
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That's a good time. Cool. Yeah. Yeah. Hey.
And we got a Gold Beach Chess Club
that's at the First Chapter Coffee House, two
nine three two five Ellensburg Avenue, Gold Beach.
This happens on Saturdays, 10AM to 03:30PM.
The Old Beach chess club is a free
non dues community chess club, which is open
to anyone who wishes to participate. They have
adult and scholastic chess players in attendance. They
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do casual games, practice chess tournaments for adults,
and scholastic
players. They also hold chess lessons and even
run a blindfold chess challenge at their weekly
meetings.
Bring your own set and board if you
have them. Limited extras available on hand. Casual
chess, game reviews, practice chess tournaments, and blindfold
chess challenges. For more information, you can contact
Sean at Stobin, s t o b I
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n, twenty fifteen at Gmail
dot com. Alright. And now it's time for
quotes from famous people with cousin Bruce. Yeah.
Hey. Here are a few quotes from Martha
Jane Canary,
better known as Calamity Jane. She was born
05/01/1852.
She said sometimes you just have to kick
up your boots and dance in the rain.
She goes, life is too short to waste
time hiding in the shadows. Embrace the light
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and let your true self shine.
And she said, I may not be the
prettiest flower in the garden, but I sure
am a wild one. And last but not
least, she goes, I figure if a girl
wants to be a legend,
she should just go ahead and be one.
I hope you enjoyed this week's quotes from
Calamity Jane with cousin Bruce. Till next week.
Have a great one.
Well, I love that one. Seems like a
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bit of an individualist. Yeah. She's awesome. Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, hey. Over at the Checo Playhouse at
1240 Checo Avenue, the Checo Pelican Players are
presenting the final weekend of Tharshi Blows. This
is written and directed by founding member and
longtime resident Mike Moran. Tharshi Blows is a
melodramatic comedic riff on the history of Brookings,
Oregon.
And, again, it's the last weekend to catch
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the play. It's running through the May 4.
The show times are Fridays and Saturdays at
7PM,
Sundays at 2PM. Doors open forty five minutes
before curtain. And if you want tickets, they're
$15 for adults, $7 for students. You can
get tickets at the door. You can also
call (541)
469-1857
for reservations,
or you can get tickets online at chetcopp.bookticks.com.
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Yeah. And, hey, the Curry Health Foundation is
presenting high on health Kentucky Derby party. This
will be happening on the third at 1PM
at the Dosha Suite Hall at the event
center in Gold Beach.
Appetizers,
mint juleps, gaming
auctions, wear your fanciest hats and bow ties.
And for more info on this, you can
contact (541)
425-4122.
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Alright. And over at Elk Valley Casino, they're
presenting
Don Gato, a Latin dance group, on the
May 3 at 8PM,
and tickets are on sale now in person
at the Points Club booth or online at
etix.com
in advance and on the day of the
event. And doors for this group open at
7PM with a show starting at 8PM. You
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do have to be 21 or older to
attend. Seating is first come, first served. That's
right. Look. We got a little salsa, meringue,
and kumbaya, and all that good stuff. Yeah.
There you go. Hey. Legends arcades presents May
be with you.
I love to play on words. Yeah. It's
it opens at 2PM,
the Legends Arcade there, down at the port.
The public is invited to celebrate
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the love of Star Wars. There will be
an inflatable
light saber dueling
Mhmm. Costume contest and more. So there's your
imagination. Yeah. I'm looking for some silly videos.
Oh my goodness. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Making a
silly video. One. Very Alright. Well, the Wild
River Symphony is presenting Wallace and Gromit, The
Wrong Trousers with a live orchestra,
and this event is happening at Trinity Lutheran
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Church. That's over at 1200 Easy Street in
Brookings. And this is on the May 5,
Cinco de Mayo, at 7PM.
Wild River Symphony is proud to present a
very special orchestral event graciously sponsored by High
Note Winery.
Wallace and Gromit, Arben's most loved and iconic
duo, have been delighting family audiences
around the world for thirty years. In Arben's
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second Wallace and Gromit adventure, The Wrong Trousers,
released in 1993,
Gromit finds himself being pushed out of his
room and home by a devious new lodger,
Feathers McGraw.
A ruthless criminal and a penguin cunningly disguised
as a chicken, he's planning a robbery and
needs to use Wallace and his mechanical remote
controlled trousers to pull off the raid. However,
Gromit is wise to the penguin and comes
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to the rescue.
Will he be able to stop the feathered
fiend? Well, you can find out by getting
tickets. They're $15 at the door, $12 presale,
and k through 12 students can go to
this for free. Presale tickets are available at
Delnor office supply, rights custom framing, and you
can also get them online at wildriverssymphony.org.
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That's wild. Walls and grommet. Yeah. Yeah. Symphony
behind them. That's it. What a concept. Pretty
cool. Hey. SWAC, the steam pathways is presenting
a night at the planetarium.
Southwestern Oregon Community College invites the Curry County
community to join them on Monday, mid fifth
for a night at the planetarium. The mobile
planetarium is a digital theater space that immerses
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viewers in a presentation that takes them on
an adventure.
You can join them at the lobby of
Southwestern's Curry campus located at 96082
Lone Ranch Parkway in Brookings. A variety of
shows will be played approximately
every thirty minutes.
This is a free event, and all ages
are welcome. They got shows and times, like
scene is one of them. It's a weaving,
a tale of journey of humanity
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that discovered the science, technology, and medicine that
allows us to understand how sight works,
cures diseases of the eye, and correct vision.
That's twenty six minutes. Then they got Out
There. That's the story of how human curiosity
has driven
us to look outwards to discover and explore
new and distance worlds. That starts at 04:45.
And then at another time, it says 06:30.
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And then two small pieces of glass,
visually stunning chronicle of the history of the
telescope from the time of Galileo, its profound
impact upon the science of astronomy, and how
both the shape,
the way we view ourselves in the midst
of an infinite universe. That's twenty two minutes.
So for more information on the upcoming events,
you can contact Crystal Hopper Myers at Steam
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Pathways at (541) 888-1518
or at crystal.hopper@s0cc.edu.
So there you go. Awesome. A lot of
fun stuff going on out there too. Local
planetariums. I I've been to a couple of
those during my school age years. They're really
fun. That's cool. Is it like a group
crawl inside this, like, inflatable, like, essentially planetarium,
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and they project things on the walls in
there. It's like a little mobile planetarium. Wow.
Okay. Yeah. Okay. Because it's a really cool
planetarium for it. So Yeah. It's a great
thing for kids to see. Yeah. It's really
fun. Neat. Yeah. Yeah. Alright. And then International
Yoga is presenting ecstatic dance at The Grange
over on Shopping Center Avenue. This one's happening
on the May 7 at 7PM
with DJ Nathaniel and DJ Lady Vegas. Donations
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are accepted.
Yeah. There you go. And the Southwest Oregon
Community College, they're at it out there. They're
just like the library, just getting and keeping
it going. They got stories from a chimp
conservationist
and colleague of Jane Goodall.
She'll be there May 8 from 1PM to
2PM.
This is a free program sponsored by the
Friends of Curry campus. In 1972,
doctor Nancy Merrick had the unique opportunity to
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study chimpanzee behavior with Jane God Goodall at
the Gombe Stream
Research Center in Tan Tanzania, Africa. Nancy was
thrilled for the opportunity to follow chimps around
the forest
documenting their behavior. You can check it out.
This get an insider look,
at the Curry campus. Stay tuned for upcoming
talks in the speaker series. For more information
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on this, you can contact the Curry campus
at (541) 813-1667.
So very interesting. She was colleague of Jane
Goodall. That Very cool. Interesting right there. Okay.
Well, hey. Now it's time for a bit
of real history with Bushwacker Bruce. Right. Good
day, cat. Good day, mates. Bushwacker Bruce here,
and welcome to this week's bit of real
history for your knowledge pleasure.
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Did you know that a toy possum tried
to replace the teddy bear?
It's true. Here's the story. When Theodore Roosevelt
left the office of the president, toy makers
encountered a problem. Their big moneymaker, Teddy's bear,
might not sell once president. Roosevelt was no
longer in office. So they took one look
at the next president and decided to make
a new toy. They called it the Billy
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Possum.
He was a toy they created. It was
a stuffed all possum made in honor of
Ohio's very own William Howard Taft. Well, the
toy companies were sure that they had struck
golf. Well, they hope the toy possum would
sell just as well, if not better than
the teddy bear. Well, how did an opossum
come to be associated with president Taft? Well,
the story goes that in January '9, the
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president-elect
was honored at a banquet in Atlanta.
At Taft's request, the main course was possum
and taters.
When Taft's belly was stuffed, local boosters presented
the president to be with a small plush
of possum. Well, the toy they told Taft
was just destined to be the next big
thing. It was gonna replace the teddy bear.
They dubbed it Billy Possum.
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The gift pleased Taft as did the dinner
while the Georgia Billy Possum Company formed churning
out thousands of the stuffed toys. Well, the
company slogan was goodbye, teddy bear. Hello, Billy
Possum.
Anti teddy bear ads were all over the
place. Companies tried to push the sales of
the stuffed possum.
Unfortunately, sales died quickly, and it was all
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a massive flop.
Billy Possum didn't even last a year. The
craze died by Christmas time. The possum failed,
and the teddy bear endured.
Well, I hope you enjoyed this week's bit
of real history of yours truly Bushwacker Bruce.
Till next time, Hey. Always keep it real.
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Gee. How could that not have taken off?
The Billy Possum. Oh my god. No. Thank
you. Everybody wants to get one. Yeah. Yeah.
It was freaky looking too if you're looking
a little. Thank you. Yeah. Alright. Well, with
the couple minutes we have left to us,
we've got time for one more announcement. Mhmm.
Brie Penny Theatre Co. Is presenting All in
the Timing, running May 9 through May 18.
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This is a series of comedic shorts by
renowned
modern playwright David Ives.
You can step into a world where the
absurd meets the profound from a comically awkward
meet cute in the multiverse to philosophical musings
with a troop of existentially
minded monkeys. This production is a laugh out
loud celebration of the most surreal and sublime
aspects of the human experience.
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Again, it opens May 9 and will run
for two weekends, Fridays at 7PM,
Saturdays and Sundays at 2PM. So two matinees
in those weekends. The production takes place at
the Brookings Event Center, 8 Hundred Checo Avenue
in Brookings. It's located between Feather Your Nest
and Wild Hair Barber and Tattoo.
And tickets are $10 for adults, discounts available
for seniors, students, and veterans. You can get
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tickets in advance at 3pennytheater.com
or at the door on the day of
performance, and box office doors open thirty minutes
before curtain. And, of course, don't forget free
penny Friday for this one is Friday, May
16. Free penny Fridays are pay what you
want in the spirit of making the performing
arts accessible to everyone in the community. For
tickets and info, you can call or text
(541)
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251-0640
or go to 3pennytheater.com.
Yep. See, it's all of the timing.
We got that last one in. Yay. Perfect.
I love that. Yeah. That's great that you
got to do that.
I try my best here. Yeah. It was
perfect. Hey. It's time to close out this
week's show. Before we go, I'd like to
give a shout out to our fearless producers,
Ray and Tom, for all their great work
each week helping us bring our show to
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the airwaves. And thank you all for tuning
in to this week's insider report, and please
make sure to tune in on a daily
basis to KCIW one hundred point seven FM
and catch all the fine shows they have
to offer. You can catch all the show
podcasts, including the insider report by going to
kciw.0rg,
and you can check out the live streaming
while you're there that's available. Most of the
info for this week's show came from the
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insider of Southern Oregon. You can read more
by going to the insider of southernoregon.com
where you will also find the link to
the insider report. Hey. Until next week. This
is cousin Bruce Ellis. And I'm Kat Liddell.
We're signing off. So please support local businesses,
keep it real, and spread the love and
the peace every chance you get. And, hey.
We'll see you out there.
Bam.
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For music credits for the preceding show, go
to kciw.org/credits.
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