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Wednesday, January 1, 2014• The Islands’ Sounder
Trailblazers help out island kids Lorraine Feather The local horse 4-H group Orcas Island Trailblazers filled 109 stockings with goodies for the children of families who received food bank donations. The 4-Hers got together on Dec. 15 at Camp Orkila to work on the stockings. This project has been provided for more than 10 years and the number of stocking requests have increased every year. The girls love participation in this community service project, and they do everything including getting all the goodies organized to actually filling the stockings. This project will help the club as part of their community service project requirement. The trailblazers received help from many community clubs and individuals including Dr. Brenda Ivans, Dr. Steve Bailey, Mary Minnis, Kiwanis and the Orcas Island Lions.
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At left, the Trailblazers Horse Club. L-R, back row: Jackquie Figueroria, Nisha Tomsen, Emma Minnis, Daria Stankevich, Molina Stone, Hannah Brunner Gaydos, Katy Minnis and Dana Sabine. Front row: Miette Tomsen, Emma Freedman, Margot Van Gelder, Ame Exton and Avigayil Klein.
Benefit movie showing The Orcas Angels are teaming with the Trailblazers for a special benefit showing of the movie “How to Train Your
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Dragon.” All proceeds go to support a 4-H member with her horse project and to the Orcas Angels. The movie begins at 1 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 18 at the SeaView Theater. The cost is $15 and includes a soda and popcorn.
“We are hoping to sell 200 tickets and are encouraging folks to help out by purchasing a ticket and sponsoring a local island child and parent who would not be able to attend,” say organizers. “In the stockings we filled for the food bank, we added 62 movie tickets to various families. A very special thank you to Bob and Phyllis Henigson who sponsored 36 of those tickets.”
up for a Grammy
Lorraine Feather, a lyricist and jazz singer who lives on Orcas, has just received a Grammy nomination “Best Jazz Vocal Album” for her album “Attachments.” The record, released in August 2013, consists of collaborations with Feather’s three longtime cowriters: Shelly Berg, Russell Ferrante and Eddie Arkin. One additional song is an adaptation of a movie theme by Dave Grusin (“Memphis Stomp,” from “The Firm”), with whom Feather began working in 2012; another is a Grusin arrangement of Bach’s “Air on the G String” with Feather’s added lyrics. “Attachments” also includes a lyricized version of Joey Calderazzo’s “La Valse Kendall,” from Calderazzo’s album with Branford Marsalis, “Songs of Mirth and Melancholy.”
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Lorraine Feather.
Feather has released nine albums in the last dozen years. Her last three solo albums have focused heavily on songs written with living jazz composers and were all Grammynominated. In 2013, Feather also released “Fourteen,” under the duo name Nouveau Stride, with young St. Louis stride piano phenomenon Stephanie Trick.
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