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Section Volume 14, Issue 26
Fifth Annual ‘Gourd Festival’ to take place in Valley Center
Cool centers provide point of refuge when temperatures heighten By Jodi Thomas
Native American themed gourd art for sale at Gourdstock.
Best of show winner from 2013, Ratina Djunhadi, Elaine Linton photos with her heavily carved gourd titled “Ready to Bloom.”
Looking for something really different to do? Visit the Fifth Annual “Gourd Festival” hosted by San Diego County Gourd Artists and California Gourd Society groups in Southern California. Free admission and free parking will be available at the event, which will feature classes, gourd art, crafts exhibits, vendors, demonstrations, raw gourds for sale and much more. Gourd art involves creating works of art using hard-shell gourds as an art medium. Gourd surfaces may be carved, painted, sanded, burned, dyed, and polished. Gourd decoration, including pyrography, is an ancient tradition in Africa and Asia as well as among the indigenous peoples of the Americas. Gourd crafting and painting has
evolved from early hand carvings to the modern day use, by some, of electric wood burners and highspeed pen-shaped rotary tools that can be used to inscribe almost any design. A wide variety of gourd shapes and sizes yields an array of art pieces, including: ornaments, bowls, sculpture, vases, and wall art such as masks. No longer considered just a craft, gourd art is being elevated to the point where it has been featured in a number of galleries and magazines. The event will be held from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily from Saturday, June 28 – Sunday, June 29 at the Bates Nut Farm located at 15954 Woods Valley Rd. in Valley Center, Calif. For more information, visit SanDiegoCountyGourdPatch.com.
Artists Spring Show Manzanita Ranch hosts Highlights 14 Local Artists L.A.-based radio show By Allison Renck The spring show for the Anza Valley Artists was held Saturday May 31 at the Anza Community Hall and all types of artistic talents were displayed from watercolors to gourd art and penciled art. Exhibiting were 14 local artists; each displayed their own unique style of art. Many of the crafted pieces were at sale at the event. Jill Roberts is the current President of the Anza Valley Artists (AVA). She explained that the local artist group hosts two shows a year, one in spring and the other in fall. Each of the two events has a guest artist and the spring show’s artist was Ricardo Breceda. Breceda is a world famous metal sculptor and his art focuses on horses, western and local themes, garden art and dinosaurs. His work can be seen along Highway 79 near Vail Lake just east of Temecula, where his studio is located. It can also be seen in the Anza Borrego Desert dotting the desert floor along the roadways. At each show the AVA also holds raffles of local artwork donated by the clubs artists; the funds raised
go to benefit the Anza Community Hall where the show is held. AVA President Jill Roberts had a display of her paintings at the art show of horses and outdoor scenes. Roberts is a mural artist who also teaches art and her classes have a unique flair. Her signature class is called “Art+Vino” and students of the class sip wine and learn to paint at the same time.
see ARTISTS, page A-5
Anza Valley Artists member Rika Anctil and her art display
Jill Roberts photo
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Health
Local foundation aims to combat Krabbe disease Alex Groves Staff Writer Few people know what it’s like to see a loved one struggle through Krabbe disease, a debilitating and ultimately fatal condition that impacts the nervous systems of infants and young children. see page B-12
Local
Temecula’s pilot special needs Visual Arts Program drawing praise
Raffles raises funds to benefit the Anza Community Hall Her classes are available at several wineries and are also available for private parties, too. Roberts has been painting for close to 15 years, and she said she enjoys painting subjects that help people feel happy. Two of Roberts’ students, Kris Rasmussen and Kathy Pizula from Temecula, arrived to the event and had nothing but praise for Jill’s “Art+Vino” classes. They said that they really enjoy taking her classes because she is
Many fall victim to heat during the hot summer months. Certain medical conditions as well as certain medicines can make a person more vulnerable, and so does age. Young children and the elderly find themselves at a greater risk than other groups when temperatures crest to the top of the thermometer. Thinking ahead and putting together a plan of action on how to stay cool is key to avoid heatrelated illness and death. A person may think they have all they need to keep cool but there’s always the chance an emergency could occur. A person’s evaporative cooler (swamp cooler) or air conditioning could break, or they might opt to leave the air conditioning off
Laura Rathbun Special to the Valley News
John Tiso, owner of La Serrenisima Winery, discusses Courtesy photo one of his wines from a type of grape that was almost lost.
By Jill Roberts and Jodi Thomas
has been a regular at the Ramona Pageant in Hemet for many years Manzanita Ranch played host to as an actor on horseback. He is “Chords & Vines,” a radio program currently writing new songs for his heard on a web-based radio station next album. Thomas said his music was at located in Los Angeles on Sunday, one time extremely high on the June 8. The program is based on paring music charts in Europe, even higher music and wine together. The musi- than Garth Brooks back in the states cal guest for the program was local at the same time. His music can be found on www. recording artist Michael Thomas, reverband the feanation. The mission of the ranch is to tured wine com under expert of provide horse therapy to veterans “Michael the week with post traumatic syndrome Thomas was John disorder (PTSD), cancer victims and C o u n t r y Tiso of La Music.” If at-risk youth. Serrenissima Winery - Johnny Roberts, President of the Board of you want in Sunshine Manzanita Ranch t o h e a r Thomas he Summit. Kat Ellis from Wildomar and often plays for local charity events. Joe Mullinex from Warner Springs, The next one will be for Manzanita the hosts of the program, were Ranches Liberty Ride to raise funds impressed three of Thomas’ songs for the “One Good Day Project.” John Tiso represented his winery that they featured. Those songs were “Going to the and described the background of Silver Bullet,” “Lady” and “South- his vineyard. The hosts enjoyed the taste of his wines as well as the bound Ride.” Thomas, an Anza resident, is a country music performer and songsee RANCH, page A-7 writer. He has toured in Europe and
The City of Temecula’s pilot Visual Arts Program for special needs adults is drawing praise from participants and their families. “I think it’s absolutely fantastic,” said Marlene Wilcox, whose daughter Samantha Wilcox, 28, was one of 19 students in the unique program. “My daughter has grown in so many ways.” see page A-8
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