Edmonds rock and gem club prepares for show

Bev Ryder spends vacation time digging in the dirt.

She’s not a gardener.

Ryder is a member of the Maplewood Rock and Gem Club. It will hold its annual fall show from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday at the clubhouse, 8802 196th St. SW in Edmonds.

There will be lapidary demonstrations, rocks for sale and a complimentary children’s beading table.

Admission is free. For more information, go to www.maplewoodrockclub.com.

The club has more than 75 members and meets the third Monday of each month at the clubhouse. They offer two shows each year.

Several members, Ryder says, attended a powwow in Madras, Ore., with about 50 vendors and field trips.

“Our big find was several kinds of obsidian from Obsidian Butte south of Madras,” Ryder says. “It was quite a site with a creek bed of rock covering the side of a rolling hill.”

She also went on a dig for petrified wood and angel-wing agate and visited several ranches.

“We also do rock hunting here in Washington, sometimes with the Washington State Mineral Council and on our own. I love finding rocks with a lot of color and crystals.”

Visit the Edmonds Library this month and see rock and jewelry displays by club members.

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An appropriate new use has been found for Cinema 123 at Everett Mall.

It’s now the New Community Performing Arts Theater and its first play, by Reunion Theatre Group, opens this weekend.

“Don’t Talk to the Actors,” a comedy by Tom Dudzick, opens at 8 p.m. Friday at 1402 SE Everett Mall Way.

For more information, go to www.reuniontheatregroup.org.

Directed by Dave Francke, the story is about backstage mishaps of a Broadway-bound play.

Reunion Theatre Group was formed in 2003 by a group of former Everett High School Drama students in honor of their EHS drama instructor Bob Henry. The students he taught at EHS from 1958 through 1979 gathered to pay tribute to Henry for his role in their lives.

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A week before Halloween, teenagers from St. Mary of the Valley Catholic Church in Monroe offered a Monroe Community Pageant O’ Pumpkins.

“It was quite impressive,” says coordinator Susan Howard. “We did not get the quantity we hoped for, but the quality of the carvings made up for it, some from folks who had never carved a pumpkin in their lives.”

Judges included Monroe Chief of Police Tim Quenzer, Fire Chief Jamie Silva, Monroe Arts Council President Leonie Saaski, Monroe School Board member Debra Kolrud, Sky Valley Education Center Principal Karen Rosencrans and the church pastor, the Rev. Phillip Bloom.

The weather was bad, so lighted pumpkins were set up in the church, rather than in a field.

“The effect was beautiful,” Howard says. “As a first time event, I think the showing was great and sets us up to build on this year’s success.”

Kristi O’Harran: 425-339-3451; oharran@heraldnet.com

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