It's Saturday July 5, 2008
News From The Village Updated Almost Daily
Circle 10 Art Gallery holds an opening reception on Sunday July 6th for the gallery’s July Guest Artist, Martin Henry. Henry makes metal sculptures for the home and garden and his work is noted for the colors and patinas he uses. The reception is from 2-4pm at the gallery at 1103 Broad Street. Regular hours for the gallery are: Wednesday through Saturday 10am to 5pm. and Sunday from 1pm to 4pm. Call 252-249-0298 for more info.
The Pamlico County LIbrary is showing four bug-related movies on Monday afternoons thru July. It’s part of the kid-oriented “Catch the Reading Bug” summer reading program, but the movies, showing at 2pm on Mondays are open to all ages. First show is “A Bug’s Life” on July 7, followed by “Bee Movie” on July 14, “Charlotte’s Web” on July 21 and “How to Eat Fried Worms” on July 28. No charge for these movies. They’ll be shown in the Library auditorium,
You can see a selection of Sue Henry’s paintings thru the month of July at M&M’s Restaurant. The recent work includes tight focuses on boat parts — booms, masts, bows — as well as New Zealand waves. The work is in the main dining room at the restaurant on South Water Street. You can’t miss the boom….
The Sailing Capital of NC now has a place in town where kids learn to sail. The Bow-to-Stern Sailing School’s Youth Sailing Camps are now underway. It’s where kids, 7-15, are learning to sail, using Optimist class dinghies (that was a community effort in itself.) The week-long sessions of classes are all day, from 9a-5p, Mondays thru Fridays. Sign up now for classes in upcoming weeks. Cost is $200 a week — with a 20% discount for siblings — scholarships are available.
If you want more details on the sailing camps or would like to register for it, call Jim at 252-474-6000. For more info, download the Youth Sailing Clinic flyer – click here.
To register your youth sailor just download these forms:
Youth Sailing Registration Form
Oriental’s Farmers’ Market brings you locally grown, locally made goods — produce, eggs, crabs, crafts, crumbcake — every Saturday. The next one is Saturday July 11. The market is starting at a new time — 7:30am and running until 10 or 10:30 — depending on how hot it is and whether the basil and farmers are wilting. It’ll be at the usual place: the Wit’s End on Hodges Street, next to the Duck Pond.
At the next market, you’ll find cherry tomatoes, freshly picked basil, rainbow chard. wild arugula, bouquets of flowers grown around the corner. Also, wooden bird houses, stilts, children’s chairs/ladders. Check in here as the market nears to see what else will be for sale; the list is updated as farmers let us know. If you have something locally grown or locally made, you can join the market! There’s no charge to sell. But just let us know — at 675-0180 — that you want to take part.
The Wednesday night sailboat race is part of summer… boats rendezvous at Oriental Marker 1 on each Wednesday (weather permitting), for an impromptu race around the government marks. No need to register, just show up. Start time is 1730 GPS time. The course is which ever is more upwind, Garbacon or Adam’s Creek as a weather mark and round the other as a leeward mark – then finish at Oriental “1”. Channel 72 is used for communications. Social at the Tiki Bar afterwards. Any questions email Joe Valinoti at joesail1@gmail.com.
The downward facing dog paddle? Karen Prince of Paddle Pamlico and Susan Koepp of Body Balance are offering another Yoga Paddle on Saturday July 12 starting at 1pm There’ll be a pre-paddle stretch, a 30-40 minute kayak trip, a creekside stop to do a 40 minute yoga session and then a paddle back to the launch site and another post-paddle integration. It’s open to all levels of kayak and yoga skill. Those who’ve gone on earlier Yoga Paddles came back enthused and refreshed. The 2-3 hour session is $65 ($45 if you bring your own kayak, paddle and PFD). Reservations recommended. 252-249-1850. (BTW, there will be Yoga Paddles on the second Saturday from now thru the end of the summer.)
Get those words written. On Wednesday July 16, Hilda Corey presents a workshop on Writing Your Life Stories at Pamlico Community College’s Delamar Center. The 3-5pm session will include what makes a good story, publishing and marketing. It’s free but pre-registration is required. Call Joan Burns at 249-1851, ext. 3034.
Do you have a poem or three tucked away somewhere that you would like to share? Circle 10 Art Gallery is offering a place and setting to do that. Circle 10’s new series, “Poetry Corner” begins on Friday July 18 from 5-6;30pm at the gallery. Leading the way will be Janet Adkins and Evie Chang Henderson who will read some of their poems. Ben Casey and Francine Robins will share a selection of their works, too. You too, may read your works. TO sign up — three poems is the limit — contact Evie at 249-9999. It’s all free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served. The gallery is at 1103 Broad Street, across from Miss Ruth’s Town and Country.
Get more out of your yoga practice through Kundalini, yoga in its original form. Body Balance Studio presents a workshop on Kundalini on Saturday July 19 from 1-3:30pm. Teacher HarDarshan will work with the mental, spiritual and physical aspects of yoga.. Cost of this workshop is $28. To learn more and to register call 249-3664 or visit the Body Balance website.
Pamlico Community College holds an Open House Saturday July 19 from 10a – 2p. This is an opportunity for prospective students to meet Career Counselors, Faculty, Advisors and the Financial Aid Officer. You can take placement tests and apply for college admission at the Open House. Find out how PCC can change your life. For more info visit pamlicocc.edu.
After Croakerfest, it’s the biggest event in the Oriental summer: The Rotary Club’s 16th Annual Tarpon Tournament is scheduled for July 25-27.
Try your hand at catching (then releasing) the tarpon. There’s $22,000 in prizes. Tournament headquarters will be at Whittaker Pointe Marina. On Saturday night, July 26 that’s where there will be a barbeque dinner and free concert that’s open to the public. You can get your tickets from any Oriental Rotary Club member. The Rotary is also looking for folks to volunteer as observers. Proceeds from the event go toward a scholarship fund for Pamlico County students. For more contact Paul Miller at 252-249-1443 or email to orctarpon@hotmail.com.
Oriental’s Planning Board holds its monthly meeting on Tuesday July 29 at 7pm at Town Hall.
The Town Board meets a few days before every monthly meeting to go over the agenda. This month’s Agenda Meeting is happening on July 31at 4:30pm at Town Hall. As with all Town Board meetings, this one is open to the public.
Oriental holds its second annual Fall Celebration of Fine Art on Saturday September 13 from 9am-4pm. It will take place on and around the Oriental Marina. Last year 60 painters, sculptors, potters, jewelers, woodcarvers, metal workers and other fine crafts artisans had their works on display. If you are an artist who’d like to take part this year, contact the Eastern Carolina Artists Association’s Judy Wayland at 249- 1505 or Marlene Miller at 249- 2827. Entry fee for artists is $25. For the public, the event is free. Click here to get a copy of the registration form for the 2008 Celebration of the Arts
The Pamlico Musical Society holds its 2nd or 3rd annual (it’s hard to keep track) Oriental Folk Festival on October 17-18 at Oriental’s Old Theater. On Friday, October 17 Little Windows will be opening for Tracy Grammer and on the next night, Saturday October 18, the line-up will be Noah Paley and Susan Werner. Details on tickets coming.
Mark the calendars, paddlers! The 2008 Pamlico Paddle has been set for Saturday, October 18 at Spring Creek, a tributary of the Bay River. After a scouting trip there, Karen Prince of Paddle Pamlico reports it’s the most pristine place she’s seen in Pamlico County, with pocosin, native pine and oaks, wild flowers and waterfoul impoundment areas. The start time is 10 am at a place called Alice, on the Bay River. There will be three trails — a 4 mile beginner, a 5.5 mile intermediate and a 7.5 mile advanced. Registration fee is $35 and for that you’ll get a map, t-shirt and box lunch. Volunteers will help unload and load kayaks and canoes and help with the launching. Registration forms available soon right here. For more info contact Karen at 249-1850 or at info @ pamlicopaddle.com If you’re coming from away, make a weekend of it in Oriental — this coincides with the Oriental Folk Festival.
For two decades, PEACE Preschool has been preparing students for kindergarten and life beyond. PEACE is now enrolling kids for the Big Fun Summer Session — and needs a few more students to keep the school going. The school offers special instruction, walks around the village, visits to places in town, as well as Spanish instruction. PEACE says that there is financial assistance is available thru DSS and an additional scholarship program.) For more details, call 252 249-2168 or 252-670-9318 or click here.
Handy with a hammer and nails? Pamlico County Senior Services needs more volunteers to help build handicap access ramps at the homes of some of Pamlico’s older residents. Senior Services provides the materials while volunteers led by Tim Balfour construct one ramp every month. Contact Tim at 745-3247 to offer a hand for the next project.
Go take a walk! The Oriental Walking Group sets out on a series of organized walks through the village on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Meet up with walk leaders Gary and Pat Leonard at Lou Mac Park for a 9am departure. Oriental’s a great town to walk around and the walking group may help you stay disciplined about getting fit. Pedometers and water bottles provided by the Flexfit program of Heartworks. Call the Leonards for details at 249-0138 or just show up.
The cold weather may be here but the Paradise Cove Marina is continuing to host their Saturday night pot-lucks. Bring a dish to share —maybe a hot one would be in order — and buy your drinks at the ammo-barge bar. The dinners start at 6pm. There’s karaoke, too but owner Paul Del Rio says it’s not your usual karaoke and all that implies. At Paradise Cove, he says, it evolves in to singalongs. Find out for yourself. Paradise Cove Marina is off the road between Whortonsville and Florence. Call Paul or Rose del Rio at 249-2025 for directions and more info.
Those drummers you heard during the Running of the Dragon don’t limit themselves to New Years Eve. The Oriental Drum Circle meets most Wednesdays for a session of West African style hand drumming. This is at Town Hall from 7-8:30pm every Wednesday except the last Wednesday of the month. Anyone who wants to play or learn about this style is welcome. Bring your own drum or percussion instrument. If you don’t have one, come anyway, cos they have a few extra drums on hand to try out. For more info, contact Doug Carmichael at 249-2363.
The Oriental Express Bicycle Club invites anyone with a bike to join them for their Recreational Ride on Saturday mornings. It winds it’s way through th Old Village and on to the Dolphin Point area. It’s about 8 miles and the pace is very undemanding. Conversational you might say. Just show up with bike and helmet and you’re off!
In addition to their Saturday morning recreational ride in Oriental, the Oriental Express Bicycle Club also goes on longer and faster rides. These are ‘no-drop’ rides focused on fitness and fun. For more info, including the days, locations and times, check out the Bicycle Club’s web site. or call Kathryn Garcia 249-0119 or John Hanley 249-1188.
The Pamlico Amateur Radio Society meets at Brantley’s Village Restaurant on the last Saturday of every month at 9am. The group includes cruising and liveaboard hams, those interested in the Amateur Radio Emergency Service , weather watchers active in SkyWarn and those who are just generally interested in amateur radio. All hams and those interested in amateur radio are welcome. Call call Tom Corwin at 249-1590 (KI4NSP) for more info.
Friends of the Pamlico County Library meets the first Thursday of the month at 11am at the library on Highway 55 in Bayboro. This is the group of folks who help sustain the library. For info, call 745-3515.
Oriental Rotary Club meets every Monday at the Oriental Steamer starting at 6:45pm. The club does good things throughout the community….from scholarships to road clean-up. For info about the club and meetings contact Ed Braun at 745-3462.
The Oriental Woman’s Club holds its meetings on the first Tuesday of the month at 1pm at the clubhouse at 1007 Gilgo Road. Guests are welcome. For further information contact Nancy Miller 249-1443.
Find a bargain, help Hospice of Pamlico County. The Hospice Thrift Shop on Highway 55 in Bayboro is open from 10am-1pm on Saturday, Monday, Thursday and Friday, and 10am- 4pm on Tuesday and Wednesday. The shops proceeds help support Hospice which supports those who need help and support with terminal illnesses. Donations of clothing, costume jewelry and housewares can be dropped off at the shop during open hours.
Cool stuff, good deals, great cause. The Habitat for Humanity “HomeStore” on Hiway 55 in Alliance is a thrift store that focuses on the home — furniture, lamps, paint, doors, building supplies — and uses the profits for Habitat’s effort to build affordable homes in Pamlico County. For more info on how to donate items to be sold at the Home Store, call the store at 745-1106.
