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From The Heart’s ‘Springs Rummage Sale’ has a new location
Volume 15, Issue 14
AVA’s Heart of the High Country Art Show featured artist to be painter Richard Stergulz Jill Roberts AVA President Anza Valley Artist’s President Jill Roberts has announced that the featured artist at this year’s Spring Heart of the High Country Art show and sale on April 25, will be Murrieta’s figurative painter Richard Stergulz. “My passion is painting the figure. Everyone has a story and I like to reveal it in my paintings especially through the eyes,” Stergulz said. He’s an Illinois native who, by the age of 8, knew he wanted to be an artist. He graduated from the American Academy of Art in Chicago in 1983, which began his successful commercial art career. After 12 years of doing commercial art, he felt it was time to fine-tune his fine art style. He moved to California in 1995 and started painting for himself in a realistic style with a touch of Russian impressionism. “I admire the Russian Impressionists, especially Nickolai Fechin, for their intense brush strokes that exude passion into their paintings,” Stergulz said. “I also admire Norman Rockwell for his amazing drawing ability and the volume of work he produced in his lifetime.” He also admires John Singer Sargent for his portrait work. “His portraits give a sense of reality but still have a painterly style which I hope to aspire to,” he said. Stergulz works in oils on Masonite board and his work is mostly figurative. His work hangs in galleries in Santa Monica, Idyllwild and Vista, California and his
Jodi Thomas Anza Area Manager From The Heart’s “Springs Rummage Sale” has a new location. It will be held at Valley Gospel Chapel located off of Chapman in the Terwilliger area. see page A-3
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Anza Valley Chamber of Commerce what can your chamber do for you? What can your chamber do for you? As a Chamber board we are routinely asked questions like these. The Anza Valley Chamber of Commerce is focused on helping you grow and improve your business. see page A-4
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Richard Stergulz is known for his figurative paintings.
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see STERGULZ, page A-4
Delving into Hillary’s past
Day Trippin’ Destination: Palm Springs Airplane Museum
Harold Pease, Ph.D. Special to the Anza Valley Outlook
Jodi Thomas AVO Manager
Hillary Clinton’s refusal to use government secured servers and a government email address, opting instead for her own unsecured home server as Secretary of State, is now criticized by Democrats and Republicans alike.
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Palm Springs Airplane Museum is a nonprofit organization that runs mostly with the help of volunteers and funds garnered through admissions and donations. From the road, the Gene Audrey Trail, the museum looks ordinary, but as someone pulls into the parking lot, they will begin to see a lot of history: searchlights, jeeps, ammo shells and fighter jets. As they enter, visitors are welcomed by a mural above and a hallway painted like a runway before being checked in by volunteers. Behind them is a gift shop with aircraft and military memorabilia. Once visitors have paid their fee to get in and have their wrist bands, they can travel down the runway hall and meet the information volunteers who will give them a quick overview of the museum. To the left of the museum, the hangar hosts World War II planes and information mostly from the pacific campaign. The right side, another hangar hosts planes and information from the Vietnam and
There are more things to see and learn than one can imagine with in the walls of the hangars that house the Palm Springs Airplane Museum. Jodi Thomas photo
Korean war eras. The third hangar is reached through the second; it houses the B-17, a large plane, as well as the Freedom Café and more.
Working aircraft engines are on display and are cut away in parts so visitors can marvel at the complexity of the workmanship of the day. The B-17 has a 37 gallon barrel
of oil on the wing for each engine. It burns two gallons of oil an hour per engine. Tours of the B-17 help fund
see MUSEUM, page A-6
Get to know your new ACHA Board Jodi Thomas Anza Area Manager Anza Community Hall Association Board has welcomed nine new members for the 2015-2017 term. Those nine were elected on March 19, 2015 at the last general meeting. Seven were elected to the board and two others were elected to stand in as alternates. To help the board members better introduce themselves, a community a questionnaire was sent to each of the board members so the Anza Valley Outlook’s readers could get to know them better. Each was asked to share something about their experience and background and the same three questions:
1) What would you like to accomplish on the board? 2) What are your goals for the hall? 3) What was the biggest impression/ feeling/ surprise/challenge you encountered at your first board meeting (March 23, 2015)? Each board member’s response will be shared over the next few weeks. The first three to share Board President Noel Donahue, Board Secretary Donna Barnhouse, and Board Treasure Gayle (Annie) Shaffer. The next ACHA general meeting will be held Thursday April the 16 at a new time, 7 p.m.
see ACHA, page A-5
Donna Barnhouse, Secretary.
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