| Antique Show set for weekend
Antique hunters will relish the gathering of vendors that will be on hand at the Oroville Municipal Auditorium on Saturday and Sunday for the annual Spring Antique Show and Sale put on by the downtown district. The event will feature over 35 dealers from all over the West from Oregon, Nevada, Northern and Southern California and Arizona according to event organizer Diane Putman and will cater to a wide variety of visitors from all over the area. KPAY's radio host John Humphries will be on hand for evaluations on Saturday only and in addition all the downtown antique stores will be open and within walking distance of the auditorium to provide additional shopping opportunities. Putman said the dealers and stores feature a wide variety of goods from sterling silver plated silverware, furniture, pottery, glass, Depression glass, elegant glass and baubles of all kinds.
A step into the past
Tours of Oak Ridge Country Store, which is close to the Lee/Pontotoc county line, are free and by appointment only. The Kenneys welcome everyone, including schoolchildren, church groups, garden clubs and historical societies. To schedule a visit, call 842-0530 (nights) or 842-4384 (days).
By Ginna Parsons
Staff writer
PONTOTOC - Talk about your busy beavers.
In the past five years, Sadie and David Kenney have bought enough antique tins, advertising signs, tobacco bins, thermometers, enamelware, Coca-Cola memorabilia, dye cabinets, clocks, long handles, cigarette packages and dry good packages to fill a country store - their own little country store.
The Pontotoc County couple started work on Oak Ridge Country Store about four years ago and they recently completed it and started opening it up to the public for tours.
Two sisters, a man and a saxophone spell trouble
Longing courses through Indigo Blues: A Love Story. There's laughter, too, along with pleasure both desired and denied and the specter of what might have been. Judi Ann Mason's play, which has just opened at the M Ensemble Company's cozy North Miami space, is a wee bit too close in style to message-heavy ''gospel'' plays to make the cut as terrific theater. But thanks to its director and a talented, inventive trio of actors, Indigo Blues is abundantly entertaining. Mason, one of the screenwriters credited with Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit, has a gift for the sort of comedy that flows from clashing personalities. Here, she gives us the battling Boudreaux sisters, black Louisiana siblings of a certain age who continue to share their antique-filled family home.
Lincoln Pilgrimage is this Saturday
Southern California youth, including many from Yucaipa and Calimesa, will walk for the 68th year to honor President Lincoln this Saturday, Feb. 10.The Sons of Veterans Reserve color guard, the uniformed division of the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, with the Ladies Auxiliary, will proceed with a mass of American flags at the front of the Pilgrimage this year. Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Cub Scouts, 4-H mounted horse units, local middle school and elementary band members and other youth groups with parents and adult leaders will follow joined by wagons, antique cars and fire engines.The pilgrimage starts at 10 a.m. with participants walking from the corner of Citrus and University down Citrus through downtown Redlands to Eureka, turning left to end up in the Redlands Bowl for a historical presentation of music and words.
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