Need A Few Decorating Ideas? Bazaars And Home Show Can Help
Looking for ways to cover your bare walls, exposed windows and empty shelves? There are several craft fairs around town this weekend, as well as a home show, to give you ideas and inspiration.
Mead High School’s marching band is holding Craft Fair from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday and from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday. More than 100 crafters will be in the high school field house. Admission is $1.
Or, you can catch the Autumn Holiday Bazaar at Corbin Community Center, 827 W. Cleveland, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and from noon to 4 p.m. Sunday. There’s no admission charge and lunch will be available on Saturday.
Of course, the folks from Homefest ‘95: The Home Idea Show say don’t do anything new to your house without going to Homefest first. It’ll cost you $4 admission.
Nearly 250 exhibitors will be under the roof at the Spokane Interstate Fairgrounds today through Sunday, offering hundreds of useful and creative products, services and ideas to make living easier.
It’s a great place to shop and compare prices.
New this year are exhibits of melamine closet systems, spinal analysis, heating pads for your steps and an orange shampoo bar.
And you’ll find the regular fare: interior design and decorating, roofing, siding, heating, window and wall coverings, replacement windows and doors, small appliances, kitchen and bath remodeling and more.
And what would a home show be without the ubiquitous hot tub displays? Not much of a home show at all.
Homing Eagles
Eastern Washington University celebrates Homecoming this week, capped off with the traditional football game which pits Eastern against Northern Arizona at 1 p.m. Saturday at Woodward Stadium in Cheney.
There’s a tailgate party and food court before kickoff, at 11:30 a.m. in Parking Lot 12.
Reserved seat tickets are $10, general admission tickets are $8, $4 for seniors and students, free for kids 6 and under. For more homecoming information, call 359-6303.
Bee’s knees
Ever wonder about the language and sociability of bees? Longtime beekeeper Jerry White will tell you that and more at The Children’s Corner Bookshop at 1 p.m. Saturday.
The EWU biology professor will be joined by Maureen Kelly-Woitas who will demonstrate her beeswax candle-making kits.
The program promises to be especially interesting to school-age and older people, but all ages are welcome. Admission is free, but those candle-making kits probably aren’t.
Call 624-4820 for more information.
What’s on stage
Gonzaga University’s theater division will present “The Madwoman of Chaillot” at 8 p.m on Saturday (and again Oct. 26-28) at Russell Theatre.
The play is set in Paris, where a group of promoters plot to tear up the city for financial gain. The Madwoman of Chaillot sees through their crooked and greedy interests.
The production is open to the public; general admission is $7, $3 for seniors and students. Call 328-4220, ext. 3153.
Music and miscellaneous
The Panida Theater in Sandpoint is close to retiring its mortgage and David Gunter will help get it closer with “Torch Songs to Burn the Mortgage” tonight at 8.
Gunter will be backed up by The DeVilles. All proceeds will go toward the mortgage.
Tickets are $8, $5 for seniors and students 18 and under. Call (208) 263-9191 for more information.
Bart Kryger, a WSU vocal music education student from Ruston, Wash., will hold a recital at 3:10 p.m. today in Bryan Hall, Room 305, on the WSU campus in Pullman. It’s open to the public without charge.
Special effects propmaster Dragon Dronet will offer a free lecture, “Hot Hollywood Magic,” at 11:30 a.m. today in the Spokane Falls Community College student union building.
Dronet will discuss the latest technological advances in props and special effects and will display props used in some of the films he’s worked in, including “Speed,” “Waterworld,” “Demolition Man,” and “Lawnmower Man.”
It’s free and open to the public.
Next week
Here’s something new and different. Spokane Community College kicks off its Fall Festival with Krandel Lee Newton, The Original Butt Sketch Artist, Monday at 10:30 a.m. in the Lair Student Center.
Newton’s specialty is drawing the derriere, and claims to have drawn the backsides of Wolfgang Puck, John Goodman, Alex Trabek and Burt Reynolds. The question is, why?
Other amusing events next week include stand-up comic Mark Britten at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, hypnotist Chuck Milligan at 11:30 a.m. Wednesday and acoustic pop duo Bananafish at 11:30 a.m. Thursday. All performances are free and open to the public.
A Habitat for Humanity benefit concert called Concert Enchante is Tuesday and includes performances by area women artists.
A champagne and non-alcoholic beverage reception begins in The Met lobby at 6:30 p.m. The performances begin at 7:30 p.m. The talent includes Kathy Blair directing the Messiah Project Women’s Choir, Charlotte Carruthers, Sharon Daggett, Dorothy Darby Smith and Kathy Doyle.
Tickets are available by calling 534-2552. Advance prices are $12, $10 for seniors and students. At the door they are $15 and $12.
, DataTimes MEMO: This sidebar appeared with the story: GETTING OUT Trust us, it’s not too early to buy your Halloween pumpkin. The best ones will be gone by next weekend, and this way you can enjoy it for at least a week before the big day. Pumpkins are available in front of most grocery stories - and a lot of home improvement stores - or you can go to the patch and pick your own. We’ve never seen as large a pumpkin patch as the one at Seimer’s on Green Bluff, which has acres of pumpkins still attached to the vine, just waiting to be picked as “the one.” The autumn festival continues at Green Bluff so many of the farms have pumpkins already picked, along with apples, cider, pears and other fall produce. For directions, follow the signs to Green Bluff and ask for a map at the first participating farm.