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Page 14 CALDWELL PERSPECTIVE
September 2019
IT TAKES A VILLAGE Caldwell Centennial Band
by Leora Summers
photos by Leora Summers
putting them back into place afterwards. The City of Caldwell houses us under their umbrella and the water department even lets us put notices on the water bill about our concert dates. The College of Idaho allows us to practice on their campus and allow us to have two concerts in Jewett. They are such great community members in many other ways also. Also, the Caldwell Perspective’s community calendar is a great community service that allows us to keep the citizens up on our concert dates. Caldwell is such a fantastic community. Even though the population is now 50,000 plus, we still have that small hometown feeling where people help people when it counts! Thank you everyone for supporting our Caldwell Centennial Band. “It takes a village” and we live in a great community, my community, Caldwell, Idaho!
Cody Peterman directing the Caldwell Centennial Band during the last concert of the season in August at Caldwell Memorial Park’s bandshell. It takes a community to keep something like this going on year after year. So much cooperation among people! This band has been playing on since 1990 and next year will be its 30 year of existence! FIRST, it takes a dedicated group of musicians to come to practices once a week all year long to prepare for the concerts of which there is a Christmas and a Spring Fling Concert, both in Jewett and 5 free summer concerts in the park every year, Hugo-award winning author, Mary Robinette Kowal is a novelist and professional puppeteer. Her debut novel Shades of Milk and Honey (Tor 2010) was nominated for the 2010 Nebula Award for Best Novel. In 2008 she won the Campbell Award for Best New Writer, while three of her
About 300 people attended the Centennial Band’s last concert. They were spread out under the big shade trees enjoying the music with friends and family.
City of Caldwell’s Park and Recreation employees, Vinton Howell (front) and Rick Larsen (back) hauling music stands and chairs back to Syringa Middle School.
with their only month off being September. These musicians come from all over the Treasure Valley. Some are in many other volunteer or paid groups and others are just folks who love to play their instrument after playing in high school currently or many years ago. They love making a “big sound” together. Neither our directors or musicians are paid and we really appreciate our directors. We honored past director Jerry Howard who recently passed
away during this last concert of the season. SECOND, there are the dedicated audience folks who come to enjoy the music. Without them, the band would dismember, for there would be no one to enjoy their music, which is the one thing that really keeps them coming together in the first place. THIRD, there are many others that support us in many ways. The Park and Recreation employees led by Vinton
short fiction works have been nominated for the Hugo Award: “Evil Robot Monkey” in 2009 and “For Want of a Nail” in 2011, which won the Hugo for short story that year. Her stories have appeared in Strange Horizons, Asimov’s, and several Year’s Best anthologies, as well as in her collection Scenting
the Dark and Other Stories from Subterranean Press. (maryrobinettekowal.com) The Calculating Stars is book one in A Lady Astronaut series. The novel opens with a meteor hitting the ocean on the east coast of the United States, 1952. The main protagonist, Elma York, is vacationing with her husband,
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Howell, are always ready to help prepare for our summer series. They pick up our stands and chairs from our other partner in the Caldwell School District, Syringa Middle School, and take them to be housed at the park for our summer concerts and bring them back to the school when the series is over. They also prepare the band shell for us prior to each concert, moving picnic tables to give us more room to set up for the concerts and then
The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal Dr. Nathaniel York. Surviving the earthquake and air blast that follow, they are able to get to Elma’s Cessna and fly to an airbase in Kansas. Determining that the meteor strike is an extinction event, mankind launches a space program with the goal of colonizing the moon and Mars.
NEW GROUPS COME TO CALDWELL
Two new groups will be meeting downtown Caldwell at the Flying M Coffee House, 724 Arthur St. The first group is a writing group, people who share an interest in writing. It will offer an opportunity for individuals to share their works and get feedback from other writers. The meeting will be at 6:30 p.m. on the 1st and 3rd Wednesday of each month.
Kowal depicts an accurate cultural picture of the United States and other countries. I have asked about the science and my local scientist confirms that it is correct. This is an excellent alternant history, apocalypse story and I would happily recommend it to anyone, teen and up.
A second group, The Happiness Club, at 6:30 p.m. on the 2nd and 4th Wednesdays of each month. The Happiness Club will discuss…well… happiness. What makes you happy; how to spread happiness and just happiness in general. Calling all people who want to let the negativity out of their lives and smile.
Mallard Park
By Deborah L Wynkoop gentle rolling green grass slopes display a 360 view of shining lake and mountain peaks many things to see and do picnicking and barbeques frisbees flying through the air people walking with their dogs children playing everywhere but I am left to wonder about something this park lacks that green headed duck seems absent I have yet to hear a quack
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THE GRAND FINALE
September 21, 2019 at 5 p.m. Caldwell Night Rodeo Grounds GATES OPEN AT 4:30 PM BULLRIDING EVENT $5 Per Person 8 & Under Free
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