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Shiloh Place receives award from Keep Fremont Beautiful for new landscaping | Local News

The idea to expand Shiloh Place came almost suddenly to Cyndi Whitten.

“We only had 16 beds in this, and I thought, ‘You know, we have all of this land, and I could put beds there,’” she said. “So one day just on a whim, we just called a contractor and voila, we doubled our size.”

With the addition to the assisted living center at 915 N. H St. now completed, Shiloh Place has received recognition from Keep Fremont Beautiful with its Clean Sweep Award.

“We are honored to have gotten it, and we really receive it with humility and gratitude from the community and on behalf of the whole neighborhood,” Whitten said. “We’re grateful to our neighbors and grateful to the chamber for acknowledging us and whoever nominated us.”

The award was given Nov. 12 during KFB’s annual Fremont Area Chamber of Commerce coffee event, in which KFB Board Director Al Sawtelle handed out various awards.

KFB Executive Director Casey Vaughan said the award is part of the organization’s recognition program.

“Part of our mission is to engage community members in taking a greater responsibility for our local environment, and the recognition program does that by recognizing those that are doing their part to keep the community clean, green and beautiful,” she said.

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The program also includes handing out certificates of appreciation to individuals on a monthly basis from April to September.

“Those are to local residences that are taking special steps to reduce litter, improve recycling or enhance the appearance of their property,” Vaughan said.

The Clean Sweep Award, given annually in November, goes to a local business or organization that has enhanced the appearance of its property through structural renovations or landscaping.

Vaughan said the Clean Sweep Award has nominations come in through community members and board members, and like the certificates, is voted on by the KFB Board.

“They just felt that Shiloh Place had done a beautiful job enhancing the exterior of their facility,” she said.

Whitten opened Shiloh Place with her husband, Eden, in 2014, in a Victorian mansion built in 1880. As well as assisted living, the center also provides medication management and meals.

“We also have our adult day program on Military, which offers activities and socialization during the day for adults who don’t have a lot to do during the day,” Whitten said. “And we provide transportation to and from that and to and from doctor’s appointments.”

As the building had a huge chunk of land next to it with no use, Whitten knew she wanted to expand Shiloh Place.

“My group here doesn’t really use the yard very much. It’s just a lot of older people, and it’s not just something we use,” she said. “We have to take care of it, but didn’t use it.”

Whitten brought the idea to her husband and First State Bank and Trust, which works with the center on its adult day program.

“I never saw myself building or adding on like this, but I’m really pleased that we chose to do this,” she said.

With a loan from First State Bank and everyone on board, the Whittens got to work on the project, which also included renovations to the existing building.

As well as repairing the building, Whitten said Fauss Construction also made the roof consistent with the addition.

“It was just time to do that. When they were tearing that old roof off, I think there were 10 layers on it,” she said. “It was bad.”

Additionally, Whitten said Siffring Landscaping and Garden Center provided landscaping, which included plants alongside a new sidewalk compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act.

“They just did a fantastic job, and it’s all the way around,” she said. “And so we’re really super pleased with the job.”

Whitten said she was happy to receive so much help on the project, which was completed last summer.

“Thank God it started pre-COVID, because I got it built right before the price of lumber doubled and tripled, and I’m so grateful for that,” she said. “And we filled those beds almost immediately.”

The addition has been “seamless” for Shiloh Place’s existing residents, Whitten said.

“All of our residents are loving it,” she said. “We’ve also had people stop by, walking by and driving by, and just say how pretty it is. So we’re really enjoying it.”

Whitten said she was pleased that Shiloh Place received the Clean Sweep Award, as she said the area looked rough before the project was completed.

“We wanted it to look really nice for our neighbors, but it didn’t for a long time,” she said. “And so it’s very nice for everybody, for the whole community.”


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‘A beautiful person who made beautiful paintings’: Galerie d’Orsay remembers life and work of artist Elizabeth DaCosta Ahern

But DaCosta Ahern died on April 19 last year, before the gallery was able to pay the studio a visit.

“She was just this quiet, but vivacious personality,” said Folsom.

“Even though she was quiet, she would always challenge you,” added Flythe, “challenge your beliefs and challenge the way you thought about things.”

Elizabeth DaCosta Ahern's “O Mar Salgado"
Elizabeth DaCosta Ahern’s “O Mar Salgado”
Handout/Courtesy Galerie d’Orsay

On Saturday’s showing of DaCosta Ahern’s work, Galerie d’Orsay presented a thread from mentor to mentee. “Jump In! Celebrating the thread between student + mentor” features a few of Frankenthaler’s works such as “Causeway” and “Aerie,” around 30 of DaCosta Ahern’s paintings, and then carries through to some of her students’ art. The works will be on view until the end of the year.

Several speakers remembered DaCosta Ahern’s influence. DaCosta Ahern’s husband, Thomas J. Ahern Jr., read aloud condolences sent to him by some of DaCosta Ahern’s students throughout the years. “I can tell you that she will be missed terribly … I will hear [her] in my head whenever I am painting, so I will still have her in my life,” one note read.

Originally from Providence, DaCosta Ahern taught at the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lesley University, and Worcester Art Museum. A graduate student at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in the 1970s, she later made it her mission to mentor students.

In a phone interview, her husband recalled a recent visit he made to the Concord Center for Visual Arts. Coincidentally, three of the faculty artists presenting work were former students of DaCosta Ahern.

“She had an imprint on many working artists and very successful artists,” Ahern Jr. said.

Along with some of her students, DaCosta Ahern was a participant in the Art in Embassies program, exploring and presenting her work in Portugal and Angola. Frankenthaler encouraged her to partake in her workshops, resulting in six trips to Sante Fe, according to Ahern Jr.

“Every trip produced something,” he said. “She was a beautiful person who made beautiful paintings.”

Elizabeth DaCosta Ahern's “Luanda Sunset"
Elizabeth DaCosta Ahern’s “Luanda Sunset”Handout/Courtesy Galerie d’Orsay

Many of DaCosta Ahern’s friends and students were in attendance at the exhibit. Laura Lester said she felt both honored and grateful to be able to share her art with her mentor.

“[Elizabeth] would stand back with you and look at your work and not talk until she was ready to say something that was meaningful,” Lester said in an interview. “I will always miss her, and when I paint, I talk to her, and I hope she’s talking to me.”

After 59 years of marriage, “I feel enhanced,” Ahern Jr. said, noting that he couldn’t help but feel her presence at the gallery. “I feel grateful, except for the quantum of sadness and so forth, and the unavoidable remembrances looking at all her work.”

According to those who knew her, DaCosta Ahern always knew when her paintings were finished.

“I think it was innate in her,” Folsom said. “I wouldn’t say that about everyone.”

“Jump In! Celebrating the thread between student + mentor” is an ongoing exhibit until the end of the year at the Galerie d’Orsay on 33 Newbury St.

Ramsey Khalifeh can be reached at ramsey.khalifeh@globe.com.

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The Yadkin Arts Council brings the Appalachian Nativity Musical ”Beautiful Star” back to the Willingham Theater stage Dec. 9-12, 2021 | Music

(Yadkinville, NC) –Beautiful Star, a down-home celebration and joyous musical revue, is back for an encore stage run this season from December 9-12, 2021. Beginning with the story of Adam and Eve, leading up to the birth of Jesus, this dramatized retelling will have you tapping your toes and singing its praises. Catchy Appalachian tunes and that peculiar mountain sense of humor make this a holiday favorite of families everywhere. This show also features backtrack recordings by local Bluegrass Americana band, None of the Above.  

Beautiful Star: An Appalachian Nativity

Book by Preston Lane, Music and lyrics by Laurelyn Dossett 

Show Directed by Jessie Grant & Presented by Willingham Performing Arts Academy

Tickets & Additional Information

What & When:”Beautiful Star” – December 9-11 at 7:30-pm; December 12 at 3pm. 

Tickets: $22. Tickets for these shows can be purchased at www.yadkinarts.org or at the Box Office from 10am-4pm, Monday-Friday. 

Where: Willingham Theater, 226 E. Main St., Yadkinville

About the Yadkin Arts Council

Transforming lives in our community through the arts by offering opportunities to encounter, create, and participate is the Yadkin Arts Council’s mission. We believe art is transformational.  Arts open minds, frees imagination, and helps people see the world from different perspectives.

The Yadkin Arts Council is a nonprofit 501(c)3 organization dedicated to enriching the lives of Yadkin County citizens through the arts. In September, 2010, the council opened the new Yadkin Cultural Center, providing a home for the arts in Yadkin County. It encompasses the Welborn Gallery, the Willingham Theater, the Center Bistro, classrooms and meeting rooms, staff offices and working artist studios. 

About the Willingham Performing Arts Academy

The Willingham Performing Arts Academy is located across the street from the Yadkin Cultural Arts Center and is operated by the Yadkin Arts Council. WPAA is a creative team, an educational studio, with a mission to enrich, educate, create, entertain, and collaborate with our community through professional quality productions and training.

About the Willingham Theater

The Willingham Theater hosted its first performance in December 2012, just two short years after the Yadkin Cultural Arts Center opened its doors to the citizens of Yadkin County. While many might dismiss the power of a small city theater, we like to prove that we can indeed bring the big city excitement and experience to our small town. Our state-of-the-art theater seats 193 patrons and showcases a variety of engaging performances ranging from music, dance, drama, comedy, and even film. In addition to ample seating, the Willingham Theater has remarkable state-of-the-art-technology. The Willingham Theater is owned and operated by the Yadkin Arts Council.

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So Late So Soon Review: Beautiful Documentary on Aging Artist Couple

Daniel Hymanson’s debut feature is a delicately noticed portrait of extensive-married Chicago artists as they confront their twilight years.

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The couple at the middle of Daniel Hymanson’s documentary “So Late So Soon” normally look at by themselves to a mouse and an alligator. The characterization feels apt for Jackie and Don Seiden, two ageing artists who’ve occupied a multicolored Victorian residence in Chicago for many years. Jackie scurries all over, dancing, dusting, and decorating their dwelling with identified objects from Furbies to classic suitcases — all in pastel hues of pink, purple, blue, or yellow. Don, in the meantime, sits in his chair as he reads and sketches, like an alligator, he suggests, waiting “for points to pass me by.” He couldn’t be more out of area in Jackie’s candy-colored wonderland, and it’s this opposition that would seem to gas their fascination with a single a further, as very well as their fairly frequent feuds, as they navigate the ups and downs of getting older, artistic generation, and long-phrase cohabitation.

Hymanson grew up with Jackie and Don, becoming buddies with them right after getting Jackie’s youth art courses at the Artwork Institute of Chicago. Debut aspect “So Late So Soon” is an extension of a number of of his quick movie jobs centering on Jackie, the very first of which he built when he was 15. He cites “Charleen” — Ross McElwee’s extremely subjective, observational portrait of his pal and poetry instructor — as an affect on his do the job, and like that film, “So Late” is impressed by the impactful connections we make with folks outside our family members or age team. It’s clear he’s designed a stage of rely on and convenience with Jackie and Don that allows him fade into the background as he shoots with his handheld digicam. Every single so generally, even so, Jackie will handle Hymanson directly, or he’ll pop into the reflection of a toilet mirror, echoing the directorial interjections McElwee was acknowledged for, and reminding us that a person else is in there.

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Though we fulfill the Seidens later on in lifetime, Hymanson and editor Isidore Bethel little by little introduce bits of Don and Jackie’s earlier into the photo, portray a fuller portrait of their life and highlighting their sluggish decay by way of comparison. Jackie is shown coming to terms with the constraints of her 78-yr-old overall body, crying out in soreness as she bemoans her condition. “I’m just broken-hearted,” she states. “Me of all men and women: the whirling dervish.” Hymanson then cuts to Tremendous 8 footage of Jackie dancing on roller skates in underwear and a bandeau bra leading in advance of transitioning to faucet shoes. She’s hardly touching the floor as she moves like no 1 is watching, entire of daily life and a seemingly inexhaustible strength. This footage, in particular in comparison with the subsequent shot of Jackie in fetal placement on her sofa, will make you want to get up and shift your physique even though you nevertheless can.

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Jackie’s honesty about the ageing system is refreshing. Even as an artist who’s usually been interested in disintegration, she states, it is really hard for her to find the beauty in seeing her personal human body drop aside. Nonetheless, she doesn’t submit simply to old age, which she describes as a “really soiled trick.” Her persona would seem to be completely intact as she “power-dances” to Sade in her dwelling place, skips dessert at lunch (due to the fact she ate ice cream and fudge for breakfast), and carries on her eccentric art tasks around the house with products ranging from rocks to dental floss.

Even though Don is certainly a quieter existence in the house (his laconic mother nature can get on Jackie’s nerves), his inside world is highlighted by means of Hymanson’s watchful camerawork, which observes him speaking to the quirky portraits he sketches in his notebook, animating every 1 with its own identity. Via archival information footage, we’re released to Don’s far more significant artistic pursuits in sculpture, which are influenced by regular visits to the zoo and a adore of the rhinoceros. “I wished I experienced a rhino of my very own to stare at,” he tells the nearby Chicago news station. He sees his everyday living-measurement sculpture of the animal that emerged from this drive as a self-portrait: “The rhinoceros is endangered, but a survivor.”

Jackie and Don conduct a dance that’s in all probability familiar to most couples — how to strike the equilibrium between individuality and separatism? Placid photographs of Jackie participating in jazz piano while Don reads in the dwelling area counsel domestic bliss, but neither of them shy absent from expressing their displeasure when they sense as well individual from just one one more. Don feels “left out” when Jackie semi-lucidly cries for “Mama, daddy, Mark, somebody” to assist her when she’s in pain. Jackie feels slighted when Don wishes to purchase his individual toothpaste. At a dinner get together she spiritedly tells the story of how Don “choked” at the altar, acquiring to action exterior to imagine it in excess of ahead of in the end declaring “I do.” While she laughs about it now, it is distinct that the incident continue to bothers her, as does the reality that he did not want to have children with her. “You ended up exhausted of women, so you would have me. The basic insult,” she sighs all through a combat toward the close of the movie.

Eventually, Don, who’s about 10 a long time Jackie’s senior, has a serious tumble, forcing him to shell out time at a rehabilitation center. The film’s most poignant second comes when Hymenson performs a voice information from Don in excess of footage of their vacant, scarcely lit home, emphasizing just how desolate it feels without the need of him. “I don’t miss out on the television and I really do not miss the computer system, and I never overlook my chair even. But I pass up you.” It is the type of sentiment, clichéd as it may be, that is sometimes needed following a fight (or 50 a long time of them).

Capturing for the movie wrapped in 2017, and Don passed absent in 2019. Jackie has moved to a senior residing elaborate and is promoting the household. Even with out realizing this, the movie feels like a tribute, and an eventual goodbye — to two terribly unique folks, their unconventional house, and their actually outstanding way of everyday living.

Quality: A-

“So Late So Soon” is now playing theatrically in Chicago from Oscilloscope Laboratories. It will open up in New York on December 9 with a countrywide rollout to follow.

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Kid A Mnesia Exhibition is an unsettling and beautiful Radiohead art exhibit

The easiest description of Kid A Mnesia Exhibition is that it’s primarily a virtual Radiohead artwork museum showcasing music from Kid A and Amnesiac. If that is adequate to pique your interest in the slightest, I highly recommend you stop reading through this and just enjoy the recreation, which is available Thursday for cost-free on Personal computer, Mac, and PS5.

Contacting Kid A Mnesia Exhibition just an art museum doesn’t really do it justice, although. Guaranteed, a lot of the video game is put in navigating via hallways of Radiohead-themed artwork when clips and bits of tracks from Child A and Amnesiac waft in and out of your consciousness. A person home, for instance, is piled high with televisions with frequently switching pictures when unnerving still familiar variations of melodies from “The National Anthem” warble all-around you. It would not feel out of put at a modern day art exhibit.

But then you can do the really video clip sport-y matter of walking correct into an amber column in the center of the place to provide up the song’s iconic drum and bass strains, which ended up earlier absent. When you step out of the column, the drum and bass fade away, and the unsettling warbles return. There are a ton of moments like that.

Now just picture that you are hearing “The Countrywide Anthem.”

That explained, Kid A Mnesia Exhibition is not a common movie activity. There are no enemies. You just cannot die. The only steps you can take are to zoom in on things, shift all-around the environment, and up your rate from a slow wander to a light trot.

I was still amazed to come across the experience unsettling at situations, while. You’ll see the sharp-toothed smile from Radiohead’s brand all about the put. Wisps of pixels will float across your vision like ghastly spirits. Living adhere figures wandering the halls will silently seem powering you as they consider in the art. The songs, even if it is ingrained into the folds of your brain right after many years of repeated listens like it is for me, can be dissonant and unpleasant.

But it wouldn’t be a Radiohead project with no some awe-inspiring natural beauty. In a single room, papers masking the flooring and ceiling will whip in the wind to deconstruct and reconstruct the place all around you. A person striking sequence is like an interactive new music visualizer. And my beloved moments in the sport were being expended with a small satan-like creature and viewing clips of aged Radiohead stay exhibits.

The activity is entire of strikingly attractive rooms.

To see the greatest of what Child A Mnesia Exhibition has to offer you, you should really choose your time. My to start with journey took a minor above an hour, but the rooms evolve in some extraordinary techniques that you may possibly miss if you hurry by. Placing down the controller to notice how the new music and the displays change and change is quite satisfying. While producing this posting, I remaining the sport idling in a number of distinctive locations, and I saw and read a good deal that I experienced skipped.

If you are a Radiohead enthusiast, Kid A Mnesia Exhibition is an exceptional way to practical experience two of the band’s iconic albums in a new structure. But even if you haven’t memorized all of the lyrics on equally albums, the video game is nonetheless well worth checking out as a really literal expression of the concept that online video online games can be art. From time to time, it is wonderful to just sit and hear to some tunes.

Kid A Mnesia Exhibition is readily available Thursday as a no cost down load for Personal computer, Mac, and PS5.

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Landscape marked by giant designs

You may well have witnessed aerial pics of geoglyphs in Peru and Chili or even people situated in Fantastic Britain and Australia, but here in the United States we also have equal cultural treasures.

A geoglyph is outlined as “a huge structure or motif created on the floor by strong aspects of the landscape, these types of as stones, stone fragments, gravel or earth.” Additional than 600 geoglyphs of the precise style known as “intaglios” have been found in the Southwest, Get Auto Tips.

Amid the ideal-identified and most interesting are the Blythe Intaglios, considerably less than 4 hrs driving from Las Vegas, in the vicinity of the lower Colorado River in jap California. These gigantic artworks are greatest considered from helicopter or airplane but without a flying equipment at your disposal, a stop by by way of car and shoe leather can be satisfying, too.

Intaglios had been presumably guy-created extensive ago, by engraving, tamping and scraping away the all-natural desert pavement, which uncovered the lighter soils and gravel beneath. These intaglios are so substantial that they have been not obvious to non-Indians until finally 1932. That yr a pilot, George Palmer, discovered them though traveling from Las Vegas to Blythe, California. His discovery led to a study of the region by the All-natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.

There are 6 intaglios at this web site, lying in 3 spots, atop two mesas. Intaglios are categorized by their designs, these as anthropomorphs (humanlike), zoomorphs (animallike) and different geometric shapes. The greatest anthropomorph at this site is 171 ft from head to toe. One particular, named the Human Determine, has arms stretched out and the feet turned outward and measures 105.6 toes from suggestion to toe with the arm span measuring 91.8 ft large. There are apparent knees and elbows. For some reason, anthropomorphs so significantly found out lie in close proximity to the Colorado River.

At this web page there are also zoomorphs that look to be a rattlesnake and an animal assumed to stand for a cougar or probably a horse. There are interpretive signs with aerial photographs, possibly the viewpoint from which the artists envisioned their performs to be considered.

Many presume they are religious figures as they are organized to be visible to supernatural beings in the sky. Scientists really do not all concur on the precise age of these geoglyphs, but most imagine they ended up manufactured by the Mohave and Quechan Indians about 450 to 2,000 many years ago. However, neither of these peoples, who reside close by on the Colorado, claims to have designed them.

Even so, these will work are thought of sacred by Native Americans. They are mentioned on the Countrywide Register of Historic Areas, and now lie in the Significant Marias Location of Critical Environmental Worry, selected in 1987 to secure the cultural and normal sources in the location these as these intaglios, location rock art, Alversons’ foxtail cactus, barrel cactus and wildlife such as desert bighorn sheep.

Regretably, the Blythe Intaglios weren’t fenced in until finally 1974 and hence expert destruction prompted by 20th century humans and their wheeled automobiles. This instance really should provide as a warning to those people of us who enjoy the back state.

When other intaglio web-sites have been recognized in our area, there are considered to be a lot more even now unidentified and therefore unprotected. If you are out poking all-around in the desert and you do stumble upon what may possibly be a internet site, respect it. Be certain not to disturb in any way and just take a extensive detour about it. It can be ruined for good by driving on it, or disturbing it in any way, possibly even walking on it. Higher than all, hardly ever increase your own design and style as this compromises the website and modifications the meaning of long-in the past men and women who developed it.

For far more facts make contact with the Bureau of Land Management’s Yuma discipline workplace in Arizona at 928-317-3200 or go to www.blm.gov.

Lots of of Deborah Wall’s columns have been compiled into books about climbing in the Southwest. She is also the creator of “Great Hikes, a Cerca State Guide” and a co-creator of the book “Access For All, Viewing the Southwest With Constrained Mobility.” Wall can be achieved at Deborabus@aol.com.

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