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Ending 2015 with 2 Baptisms @ KGFWritten by Levi Simpson
Baptism is a powerful step in the Christian walk. It's an outward declaration of an inward decision. What a joy it was to celebrate the baptisms of Nicki Peachy and Joslin Annett on the final Sunday of 2016. More in this video.
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HOPE Offering: And The Total Is. . .Written by Mike Penninga
What a joy it is to be part of a church family that is always looking to be part of the solution, not just bemoan the world's problems. This year the Syrian Refugee crisis came front and centre in so many ways. As a church, we have committed to sponsoring refugee families moving forward. Our goal was to raise $25,000 in our first HOPE Offering. As you'll see in this video, your generosity far exceeded that! We are anticipating our family (4 generations, 7 people) will arrive by Easter 2016.
"Reason for the Season Blues" Rolly Rangno & Worship Team, Christmas Eve 2015Written by Mike Penninga
Our very own Pastor Rolly Rangno wrote this song to share at the 2015 Christmas in the City. It's a toe-tapper, and we know you'll love it!
"You're Not Going To Believe This!" Marcel Morneau as Joseph @ Christmas in the CityWritten by Mike Penninga
We were blessed to have Marcel Morneau part of our Christmas in the City presentations December 24, 2015 @ the Kelowna Community Theatre. Morneau brought us back to that first Christmas through his powerful portrayal of Joseph. We know you will be blessed by it again here.
"A Hallelujah Christmas", KGF Christmas in the City SpecialWritten by Mike Penninga
"I've heard about this baby boy, Who's come to earth to bring us joy, And I just want to sing this song to you. It goes like this, the fourth, the fifth, The minor fall, the major lift, With every breath I'm singing Hallelujah. Hallelujah"
Relive this powerful song from the 2015 Christmas in the City, presented by the KGF Worship Team at the Kelowna Community Theatre December 24, 2015.
"A Hallelujah Christmas" by Cloverton, http://www.clovertonmusic.com/
Christmas Eve in the City - Full Service from the Community Theatre: December 24, 2015Written by Mike Penninga
We are so excited to be able to share the entire 70 minute Christmas in the City presentation from December 24, 2015 @ the Kelowna Community Theatre. What an incredible night it was together with 1,600 others in person, and another 300 plus online. Feel free to relive and pass along to others. You are loved!
Who Needs Hope This Christmas? Reflections from Pastor RollyWritten by Mike Penninga
Christmas is a message of HOPE. But have you ever thought about how HOPE fills so many parts of our life? If you are in need of HOPE this season, take a moment to lean into what Pastor Rolly Rangno shares in this reflection from KGF Church.
Christmas Special: "Oh Holy Night" with Garry KakoschkeWritten by Mike Penninga
"Fall on your knees
Oh hear the angel voices
Oh night divine
Oh night when Christ was born
Oh night divine
Oh night divine
The KGF Church Family was blessed with the gift of music December 20th, as our friend Garry Kakoschke shared his version of Oh Holy Night. What a powerful worship song at this time of year. Enjoy!
Violinist Trevor Dick: Stories & Songs about our SaviorWritten by Mike Penninga
Our church family was incredibly blessed to have Trevor Dick join us on Compassion Sunday December 13th. Trevor is an award winning violinist from Ontario who's music and story touched us at a deep level. You can watch it again here, and find out more on his website, www.trevordick.com
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Planning 3 nights in Cinque Terre in October but getting a bit nervous after hearing how touristy/crowded it can be. Any suggestions for an alternative in the northern part of the country (we'll be coming from southern Tuscany and continuing on to Florence afterwards) that would also offer good hiking and scenery? Something else on the Italian Riviera or Le Marche perhaps? Would prefer seaside villages like CT but not necessary.
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I wouldn't be as concerned about crowds in October as I would about the weather. The hiking trails can be a bit slippery and hard to navigate if there has been a lot of rain and some might even be closed. Early October would be your best bet. We have visited towns on the Italian Riviera and done a lot of walking, but not hiking. Cinque Terre is worth a visit but, IMO, only if you plan to hike. Not much else to do there although we had good food.
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Yes, early October is a great time to visit the CT. I have visited twice, once in early October when I was lucky to have excellent warm weather. (Glad I brought shorts to hike!) On my last visit in 2011 (mid-September) it was very crowded, but I still enjoyed returning and hope to go back again someday. And I don't like overly-touristed places generally. For me, the CT was still worth it. I doubt I'd go in the summer though!
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Montemarcello national park: Lerici is a great town and Tellaro quite beautifully situated.
The north side of Portofino national park also quite nice (not a fan of Portofino the town).
The Maremma of southern Tuscan coast was a strong contender for my vacation this year, but Croatia won out.
There are some trip reports about Le March you may wish to peruse.
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I took the hike listed to Portovenere in late August: it was excellent and we had the trail almost to ourselves.
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I didn't experience many crowds in October either, but I did experience some terrible weather. I was fortunate to get my hikes in before/after storms.
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#1 May 21, 2009
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Our Tony: Pay your taxes
OIN: No
Day 2
Our Tony: Please pay your taxes
OIN: No
Day 3
Our Tony: Don't you want to pay your taxes?
OIN: No
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Our Tony: If I ask you nicely will you pay your taxes?
OIN: No
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Our Tony: Well if you don't want to pay your taxes - what do you want?
OIN: We want you to leave us alone, we think County government is incompetent and corrupt and when we talk to you our head hurts.
Our Tony: Can't you give me something?
OIN: OK we'll pay you some money but we want you to give us a liquor license, let us build what we want, and never mention taxes to us again.
Our Tony: Anything else?
OIN: Yeah - bark like a dog for us.
Our Tony: Big or small?
OIN: Your call
Our Tony: Arf Arf
OIN: Attaboy, here's a milkbone now go tell everyone what a great job you're doing
Our Tony: Awesome I got a deal!!
#2 May 22, 2009
At least Tony tried. What about Roann Destito? She's become a wealthy woman while representing us against the very people that pay her! Nice work if you can get it!
#3 May 22, 2009
Good job by the Rep Oneida County Legislators to go against their own party in shutting down this bad deal. This was truly both parties coming together for the people.
#4 May 22, 2009
Yeah, give Picente an A for effort but this was the worst deal between the White man and the Red man since Manhattan Island went for $24 worth of beads.
#5 May 22, 2009
Don't you think Tony was pushing this to get some of that Oneida good will and for personal benefit? Why else sell out for such a flawed plan with only a near term benefit, no changes allowed and a quick vote approval. He needs to go along with Roanne and Joe G right behind him - they are less than useless.
#6 May 22, 2009
I'm voting my legislator out! Us seniors wanted that deal to go through. I didn't vote for Picente last time, but I will now.
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Hey 66,
You might one of a very few people that thinks this was a good deal. Did you read it?
#8 May 22, 2009
At least he did something. It's more than the grandstanding we see from Tanoury and Hennessy who do nothing more than criticize without offering any meaningful solutions.
The local share if the sales tax is the only thing the County Executive has any control over. It is the state government that is in charge of the bulk of the sales tax and it is the federal government that is in charge of the land into trust. The County Executive can NOT negotiate for them. He is only in control of so much. People who criticize him, like the person who started this thread, should educate themselves.
Look at where we are now. No aggreement, no negotiations and the OIN has issued a statement wishing the legislature good luck with their ongoing work and problems, minus $55 million that would have no doubt helped.
Congratulations to all of those who killed this agreement. You've won the battle but in the long run I think you'll find that you've lost the war.
#9 May 22, 2009
I started this and an agreement would be good for all parties. The question remains "Is this that agreement??" Presented as a take it or leave it with little enforcement behind it this was taking a bad situation and compounding it with a Pandora's box of things the OIN could do to benefit themselves at the expense of everyone else.
As for the "grandstanding" yes it's bad - especially when you see that our side has barely the smarts for checkers and Ray Holbritter is a master chess player.
What it all comes down to is we need new leadership on both the Dem and Rep sides these guys (County, State and Fed) are clueless.
Tell me someone disagrees with that??
#10 May 22, 2009
You started this thread with sarcasm giving the impression the the County Executive was nothing more than a lap dog to the OIN and caving to their every demand. That is not true. First,$55 million is not exactly chump change even for a sucessful enterprise.
Second, this agreement represents two years of negotiation. Negotiation means that two sides sat together and came up with a compromise that benefited both parties. In that negotiation Mr. Picente can only negotiate with what he has power over. He has no power over the sales tax issue. That would be the state. He has no control over the land into trust issue. That would be the federal government.
The true measure of the agreement is "where are we now?" and "where will we be in the future?". Right now we are without any agreement therefore we are without any revenue from the OIN. The OIN has waved off any chance of a reopening of negotiations. Please tell me what impetus the OIN has to negotiate further at this point. None would be the answer. Yes, they want a liquor license but in the meantime they seem to be doing quite well without it.
Time will tell who is right. I just think that this will now drag on for years and years in the courts with no winners except the lawyers.
#11 May 22, 2009
You are making my point - the leaders we have now don't know what they're doing. Where is the School, State, Feds in all this?? How is it that this guy starts this without a coordinated solution from the major players as a goal?!?
Solving a small fraction of a problem can easily lead to more critical problems because negotiations between a County Exec and the OIN is a miss match from the start.
You ask where the motivation was for the OIN? It was that the OIN COULD treat him as a lapdog because there was no other group there pushing for full solutions and applying more pressure.
Why wasn't Roann there representing the State - because she represents the Savoy that's why.
Where was Rep Arcuri - cowering under his desk because he didn't want to risk his seat with a controversy?
So put simply the OIN was taking advantage of our County lead so they could divide and conquer whatever forces are against them. As I said the County plays checkers while the OIN plays chess and if he didn't recognize that he really is in way over his head.
#12 May 22, 2009
The entire premise of negotiations with the Oneidas is a farse.
#1- The agreement as written would rely on New York State changing its sales tax laws.( fat chance)
#2 - The agreement as written does not encumber the next Sheriff to abide by the deputization agreement. If the next Sheriff changes his/her mind the deal is off.
#3 - The agreement as written would allow the Oneidas to ask for their money back if some court actually follows the laws as written and caps are denys land into trust.
With all that said, the agreement is a big roll of the dice which could come back and cost the County the 55 million dollars recieved it things go sour.
The legislature recognised the risk and deemed it too much to gamble on considering the track record of the Oneida's keeping their word.
Ask the Stockbridge school district about them keeping their word. I can also remember the Oneidas agreeing to collect 2% bed tax when the hotel opened.They did collect it and then decided to keep it.......
You cannot negotiate a deal unless you have the power to enforce its outcome
#13 May 23, 2009
How about the fact that they make over 200 million in one year. The residents of this county are supposed to be happy with 55 million dollars over a 10 year period. This is an absolutely absurd deal and anyone who voted for it should be voted out. I voted for Picente and I think he has done nothing but sell everyone one out. I work for the county and he played a smooth one on the caseworkers making several of them think he was looking out for them and then turing the tables.
No if he was interested in brokering a real deal, he would have looked for reoccuring payments from the Nation, caps on land deals. The county loses what 10 to 12 million dollars a year just on taxes that we would have received from cigarettes. No I think he sold out and sold out big. I only hope he didn't spend the money he was getting already.
#14 May 24, 2009
Picente and Destito make their living from nepotism and inside deals. If anyone thinks these two are really there to represent us, think again. They promote what is best for their own interests first, and have proven it time and time again. I'm sorry, who's your brother-in-law? Oh, and whose husband has a deal with the Indians? I cannot believe how blind people around here really are to this crap.
#15 May 24, 2009
Where does Oneida County stand now?
Is there any chance of any kind of agreement in the near term? No.
Won't this just continue at a snail's pace through the courts? Yes.
Even if there is a ruling in favor of collecting something doesn't it still have to be enforced? Fat chance.
Oneida County needs to take what it can get because it's obvious that the state and the feds are not interested in pursuing this in a way that will make the OIN want to negotiate a true settlement of everything. Killing this agreement is a mistake.
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#16 May 24, 2009
A bad settlement is worse than no settlement. If/when the land finally goes into trust, the Oneida's will have to pay all back taxes.
I bet they calculated it at 55 million.
#17 May 25, 2009
No doubt this is a mess and the biggest part of it is the State and our incredible lack of leadership in all parts of NYS government.
This is what we pay the highest taxes in the country for??
#18 May 25, 2009
another goombah??!
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#19 Oct 15, 2011
oh the state will chage the sales tax laws. they have already did teir studies.the only part is when and it won't involve the native nations.sometime 2012. uptick another 2 or 3 points state sales. and county's 1.5.this will save us from higher tax down the road.L.O.L.the anoucment will come in march or early april.
#20 Oct 16, 2011
Ummm, spell much???
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Fifteen years after a pandemic marks the end of life as we know it, an itinerant Shakespearean troupe performs its way across the husk of a vastly depopulated America. In this stunning, layered narrative tying together the lives of people before, on the eve of, and after most of the world's population is wiped out, St. John Mandel writes about what matters at the end of everything. Dystopian fiction is so often about mere survival, but St. John Mandel understands we need something to survive for. See all of the Best Fiction Books of 2014.
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An audacious, darkly glittering novel set in the eerie days of civilization's collapse, Station Eleven tells the spellbinding story of a Hollywood star, his would-be savior, and a nomadic group of actors roaming the scattered outposts of the Great Lakes region, risking everything for art and humanity.
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An audacious, darkly glittering novel set in the eerie days of civilization's collapse, Station Eleven tells the spellbinding story of a Hollywood star, his would-be savior, and a nomadic group of actors roaming the scattered outposts of the Great Lakes region, risking everything for art and humanity.
One snowy night Arthur Leander, a famous actor, has a heart attack onstage during a production of King Lear. Jeevan Chaudhary, a paparazzo-turned-EMT, is in the audience and leaps to his aid. A child actress named Kirsten Raymonde watches in horror as Jeevan performs CPR, pumping Arthur's chest as the curtain drops, but Arthur is dead. That same night, as Jeevan walks home from the theater, a terrible flu begins to spread. Hospitals are flooded and Jeevan and his brother barricade themselves inside an apartment, watching out the window as cars clog the highways, gunshots ring out, and life disintegrates around them.
Fifteen years later, Kirsten is an actress with the Traveling Symphony. Together, this small troupe moves between the settlements of an altered world, performing Shakespeare and music for scattered communities of survivors. Written on their caravan, and tattooed on Kirsten's arm is a line from Star Trek: "Because survival is insufficient." But when they arrive in St. Deborah by the Water, they encounter a violent prophet who digs graves for anyone who dares to leave.
Spanning decades, moving back and forth in time, and vividly depicting life before and after the pandemic, this suspenseful, elegiac novel is rife with beauty. As Arthur falls in and out of love, as Jeevan watches the newscasters say their final good-byes, and as Kirsten finds herself caught in the crosshairs of the prophet, we see the strange twists of fate that connect them all. A novel of art, memory, and ambition, Station Eleven tells a story about the relationships that sustain us, the ephemeral nature of fame, and the beauty of the world as we know it.
Editorial Reviews
Few themes are as played-out as that of post-apocalypse, but St. John Mandel (The Lola Quartet) finds a unique point of departure from which to examine civilization's wreckage, beginning with a performance of King Lear cut short by the onstage death of its lead, Arthur Leander, from an apparent heart attack. On hand are an aspiring paramedic, Jeevan Chaudary, and a young actress, Kirsten Raymonde; Leander's is only the first death they will witness, as a pandemic, the so-called Georgia Flu, quickly wipes out all but a few pockets of civilization. Twenty years later, Kirsten, now a member of a musical theater troupe, travels through a wasteland inhabited by a dangerous prophet and his followers. Guided only by the graphic novel called Station Eleven given to her by Leander before his death, she sets off on an arduous journey toward the Museum of Civilization, which is housed in a disused airport terminal. Kirsten is not the only survivor with a curious link to the actor: the story explores Jeevan's past as an entertainment journalist and, in a series of flashbacks, his role in Leander's decline. Also joining the cast are Leander's first wife, Miranda, who is the artist behind Station Eleven, and his best friend, 70-year-old Clark Thompson, who tends to the terminal settlement Kirsten is seeking. With its wild fusion of celebrity gossip and grim future, this book shouldn't work nearly so well, but St. John Mandel's examination of the connections between individuals with disparate destinies makes a case for the worth of even a single life. (Sept.)
A movie star who's decided to pound the boards as King Lear collapses and dies mid-performance, and shortly thereafter civilization collapses and starts dying as well. The narrative then moves between the actor's early career and a journey through the blasted landscape 15 years after the book's opening events. Indie Next darling Mandel breaks out with a major publisher.
Survivors and victims of a pandemic populate this quietly ambitious take on a post-apocalyptic world where some strive to preserve art, culture and kindness.In her fourth novel, Mandel (The Lola Quartet, 2012, etc.) moves away from the literary thriller form of her previous books but keeps much of the intrigue. The story concerns the before and after of a catastrophic virus called the Georgia Flu that wipes out most of the world's population. On one side of the timeline are the survivors, mainly a traveling troupe of musicians and actors and a stationary group stuck for years in an airport. On the other is a professional actor, who dies in the opening pages while performing King Lear, his ex-wives and his oldest friend, glimpsed in flashbacks. There's also the man—a paparazzo-turned-paramedic—who runs to the stage from the audience to try to revive him, a Samaritan role he will play again in later years. Mandel is effectively spare in her depiction of both the tough hand-to-mouth existence of a devastated world and the almost unchallenged life of the celebrity—think of Cormac McCarthy seesawing with Joan Didion. The intrigue arises when the troupe is threatened by a cult and breaks into disparate offshoots struggling toward a common haven. Woven through these little odysseys, and cunningly linking the cushy past and the perilous present, is a figure called the Prophet. Indeed, Mandel spins a satisfying web of coincidence and kismet while providing numerous strong moments, as when one of the last planes lands at the airport and seals its doors in self-imposed quarantine, standing for days on the tarmac as those outside try not to ponder the nightmare within. Another strand of that web is a well-traveled copy of a sci-fi graphic novel drawn by the actor's first wife, depicting a space station seeking a new home after aliens take over Earth—a different sort of artist also pondering man's fate and future.Mandel's solid writing and magnetic narrative make for a strong combination in what should be a breakout novel.
"Station Eleven is so compelling, so fearlessly imagined, that I wouldn't have put it down for anything."
— Ann Patchett
"A superb novel . . . [that] leaves us not fearful for the end of the word but appreciative of the grace of everyday existence." —San Francisco Chronicle
"Deeply melancholy, but beautifully written, and wonderfully elegiac . . . A book that I will long remember, and return to."
— George R. R. Martin
"Absolutely extraordinary." —Erin Morgenstern, author of The Night Circus
"Darkly lyrical. . . . A truly haunting book, one that is hard to put down." —The Seattle Times
"Tender and lovely. . . . Equal parts page-turner and poem."—Entertainment Weekly
"Mesmerizing." — People
"Mandel delivers a beautifully observed walk through her book's 21st century world…. I kept putting the book down, looking around me, and thinking, 'Everything is a miracle.'"—Matt Thompson, NPR
"Magnificent." —Booklist
"My book of the year."—Karen Joy Fowler, author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
"Unmissable. . . . A literary page-turner, impeccably paced, which celebrates the world lost." —Vulture
"Haunting and riveting."—Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
"Station Eleven is the kind of book that speaks to dozens of the readers in me—the Hollywood devotee, the comic book fan, the cult junkie, the love lover, the disaster tourist. It is a brilliant novel, and Emily St. John Mandel is astonishing." —Emma Straub, author of The Vacationers
"Think of Cormac McCarthy seesawing with Joan Didion. . . . Magnetic." —Kirkus (starred)
"Even if you think dystopian fiction is not your thing, I urge you to give this marvelous novel a try. . . . [An] emotional and thoughtful story." —Deborah Harkness, author of The Book of Life
"It's hard to imagine a novel more perfectly suited, in both form and content, to this literary moment. Station Eleven, if we were to talk about it in our usual way, would seem like a book that combines high culture and low culture—"literary fiction" and "genre fiction." But those categories aren't really adequate to describe the book" —The New Yorker
"Audacious. . . . A book about gratitude, about life right now, if we can live to look back on it." —Minneapolis Star-Tribune
"A surprisingly beautiful story of human relationships amid devastation." —The Washington Post
"Soul-quaking. . . . Mandel displays the impressive skill of evoking both terror and empathy." —Los Angeles Review of Books
"A genuinely unsettling dystopian novel that also allows for moments of great tenderness. Emily St. John Mandel conjures indelible visuals, and her writing is pure elegance." —Patrick deWitt, author of The Sisters Brothers
"Possibly the most captivating and thought-provoking post-apocalyptic novel you will ever read." —The Independent (London)
"A firework of a novel . . . full of life and humanity and the aftershock of memory." —Lauren Beukes, author of The Shining Girls
"One of the best things I've read on the ability of art to endure in a good long while." —Tobias Carroll, Electric Literature
"Will change the post-apocalyptic genre. . . . This isn't a story about survival, it's a story about living." —Boston Herald
"A big, brilliant, ambitious, genre-bending novel. . . . Hands-down one of my favorite books of the year." —Sarah McCarry, Tor.com
"Strange, poetic, thrilling, and grim all at once, Station Eleven is a prismatic tale about survival, unexpected coincidences, and the significance of art." —Bustle, "Best Book of the Month"
"Disturbing, inventive and exciting, Station Eleven left me wistful for a world where I still live." —Jessie Burton, author of The Miniaturist
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Jeevan's understanding of disaster preparedness was based entirely on action movies, but on the other hand, he'd seen a lot of action movies. He started with water, filled one of the oversized shopping carts with as many cases and bottles as he could fit. There was a moment of doubt on the way to the cash registers, straining against the weight of the cart—was he overreacting?—but there was a certain momentum now, too late to turn back. The clerk raised an eyebrow but said nothing.
"I'm parked just outside," he said. "I'll bring the cart back." The clerk nodded, tired. She was young, early twenties probably, with dark bangs that she kept pushing out of her eyes. He forced the impossibly heavy cart outside and half-pushed, half-skidded through the snow at the exit. There was a long ramp down into a small park-like arrangement of benches and planters. The cart gained speed on the incline, bogged down in deep snow at the bottom of the ramp and slid sideways into a planter.
It was eleven twenty. The supermarket closed in forty minutes. He was imagining how long it would take to bring the cart up to Frank's apartment, to unload it, the time required for tedious explanations and reassurances of sanity before he could return to the grocery store for more supplies. Could there be any harm in leaving the cart here for the moment? There was no one on the street. He called Hua on his way back into the store.
"What's happening now?" He moved quickly through the store while Hua spoke. Another case of water—Jeevan was under the impression that one can never have too much—and then cans and cans of food, all the tuna and beans and soup on the shelf, pasta, anything that looked like it might last a while. The hospital was full of flu patients and the situation was identical at the other hospitals in the city. The ambulance service was overwhelmed. Thirty-seven patients had died now, including every patient who'd been on the Moscow flight and two E.R. nurses who'd been on duty when the first patients came in. The shopping cart was almost unmanageably heavy. Hua said he'd called his wife and told her to take the kids and leave the city tonight, but not by airplane. Jeevan was standing by the cash register again, the clerk scanning his cans and packages. The part of the evening that had transpired in the Elgin Theatre seemed like possibly a different lifetime. The clerk was moving very slowly. Jeevan passed her a credit card and she scrutinized it as though she hadn't just seen it five or ten minutes ago.
"Take Laura and your brother," Hua said, "and leave the city tonight."
"I can't leave the city tonight, not with my brother. I can't rent a wheelchair van at this hour."
In response there was only a muffled sound. Hua was coughing.
"Are you sick?" Jeevan was pushing the cart toward the door.
"Goodnight, Jeevan." Hua disconnected and Jeevan was alone in the snow. He felt possessed. The next cart was all toilet paper. The cart after that was more canned goods, also frozen meat and aspirin, garbage bags, bleach, duct tape.
"I work for a charity," he said to the girl behind the cash register, his third or fourth time through, but she wasn't paying much attention to him. She kept glancing up at the small television above the film development counter, ringing his items through on autopilot. Jeevan called Laura on his sixth trip through the store, but his call went to voicemail.
"Laura," he began. "Laura." He thought it better to speak to her directly and it was already almost eleven fifty, there wasn't time for this. Filling the cart with more food, moving quickly through this bread-and-flower-scented world, this almost-gone place, thinking of Frank in his 22nd floor apartment, high up in the snowstorm with his insomnia and his book project, his day-old New York Times and his Beethoven. Jeevan wanted desperately to reach him. He decided to call Laura later, changed his mind and called the home line while he was standing by the checkout counter, mostly because he didn't want to make eye contact with the clerk.
"Jeevan, where are you?" She sounded slightly accusatory. He handed over his credit card.
"Are you watching the news?"
"Should I be?"
"There's a flu epidemic, Laura. It's serious."
"That thing in Russia or wherever? I knew about that."
"It's here now. It's worse than we'd thought. I've just been talking to Hua. You have to leave the city." He glanced up in time to see the look the checkout girl gave him.
"Have to? What? Where are you, Jeevan?" He was signing his name on the slip, struggling with the cart toward the exit, where the order of the store ended and the frenzy of the storm began. It was difficult to steer the cart with one hand. There were already five carts parked haphazardly between benches and planters, dusted now with snow.
"Just turn on the news, Laura."
"You know I don't like to watch the news before bed. Are you having an anxiety attack?"
"What? No. I'm going to my brother's place to make sure he's okay."
"Why wouldn't he be?"
"You're not even listening. You never listen to me." Jeevan knew this was probably a petty thing to say in the face of a probable flu pandemic, but couldn't resist. He plowed the cart into the others and dashed back into the store. "I can't believe you left me at the theatre," he said. "You just left me at the theatre performing CPR on a dead actor."
"Jeevan, tell me where you are."
"I'm in a grocery store." It was eleven fifty-five. This last cart was all grace items: vegetables, fruit, bags of oranges and lemons, tea, coffee, crackers, salt, preserved cakes. "Look, Laura, I don't want to argue. This flu's serious, and it's fast."
"What's fast?"
"This flu, Laura. It's really fast. Hua told me. It's spreading so quickly. I think you should get out of the city." At the last moment, he added a bouquet of daffodils.
Meet the Author
Emily St. John Mandel was born in British Columbia, Canada. She is the author of three previous novels—Last Night in Montreal, The Singer's Gun, and The Lola Quartet—all of which were Indie Next picks. She is a staff writer for The Millions, and her work has appeared in numerous anthologies, including The Best American Mystery Stories 2013 and Venice Noir. She lives in New York City with her husband.
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There has been a lot of "buzz" surrounding Emily St. John Mandel's contribution to the post-apocalyptic genre, Station Eleven, which was selected as one of Amazon's best books of the month for September. While I'm not sure that all the hype is quite justified, I did enjoy Mandel's writing and her fresh approach. Rather than placing her primary focus on the horrors and challenges of survival in a world decimated by the "Georgia flu," Mandel clearly believes the motto she gives her Traveling Symphony: "Survival is insufficient." The main characters in Station Eleven are not ex-military hardasses, as is so often the case in this genre; they are actors, musicians, and artists who believe that the fine arts are essential to our human identity, a sentiment with which I heartily agree. Mandel conveys this feeling not only through the actions and dialogue of her characters, but also by following key relics of the pre-apocalypse world (a paperweight, a comic book) as they pass through various hands, connecting lives in sometimes unexpected ways. We have here, not six degrees of Kevin Bacon, but six degrees of "Station Eleven," the comic book from which the novel draws its title. Strangely enough, Station Eleven's strength is also its main weakness. Mandel gives short shrift to her characters' survival narratives. Survival may be insufficient, but it is nevertheless essential. Kirsten Raymonde, the child actor who subsequently joins the Traveling Symphony in its Shakespeare productions, doesn't remember her first year as a survivor, presumably because it was too traumatic. Although I didn't need the gory details, I did feel as though her amnesia left a gaping hole as I reached the end of the book. This quibble aside, Station Eleven is a moving and surprisingly hopeful addition to the literature of the post-apocalypse. I received a free copy of Station Eleven through Edelweiss in exchange for an honest review.
If you love literary fiction you'll love this. If you are not a fan of science fiction or dystopian fiction...well, read this anyway. It's all about character, time, and place. You'll love it and expand your horizons. Trust me!
I am a sucker for the recent flood of apocalyptic tales, and this was one of the best stories I've read in a long time. It was less about the collapse of civilization and more about the characters experiences, but the story provided enough details of the events to be satisfying. I did not want the story to end, and yet I could not put the book down. I would recommend this to anyone who likes to read!
A good read. More a series of interwoven stories than a traditional novel. The stories/storylines influence each other, some directly, others indirectly. Past and present are presented in no particular order. This flipping back and forth between the times before and after the apocalyptic event emphasizes the order within chaos concept that is center to the overall story and drives home the fragile, transitory nature of life and all we take for granted.
Wonderful! Emily is such a gifted writer. Engaging and beautifully written, STATION ELEVEN has something for everyone-a little sci-fi, dystopia, heartache and survival. I will recommend this book to everyone.
Though i am only 13 years of age (About to be 14), i would highly reccomend this book. This book is appropriate for ages 15 and up. Though there are some obscenities and graphic violence, this book will open your eyes to a whole new world of literacy. The author is honetly a genius, this peice of writing is absolutely preciously valuable.
Not entirely what I expected, the novel has many more layers and depth to it. This is a story for those who appreciate character development as opposed to violence and clichés.
A wonderfully composed sci-fi story about how civilization in general and both decent and not so decent individuals fare when civilization as we know it collapses suddenly due to a worldwide calamity. Endlessly interesting. Satisfying how all the main characters eventually interact with each other either directly or indirectly. Brilliantly composed without a wasted word. Lots of action too, but the human relationships , and how people are shaped and changed by adversity very much intrigued me. People reacting under pressure. Moments of tragedy and humor with lots of action as civilization suddenly collapses. A must read for sci-fi fans!
There is an expectation among those who research such things, that the end of world, as it presently stands, will not occur due to a war fought over oil, religion or politics. Its final gasp will not be due to nuclear fallout or global warming. The end will come because of a natural occurring virus against which 99.99% of humanity has no resistance. That is the premise upon which Ms. Mandel launches what has all the markings of a remarkable trilogy. How humanity was whittled down to potentially extinction levels is of less importance in this story than how those who lived respond to being survivors of a sparsely populated world. The book opens with a production of Shakespeare's King Lear at Toronto's Elgin Theater. The death of the lead actor, Jeeven Chaudhary, star of stage and screen, from a heart attack during Act IV, is a death unrelated to the pandemic but it does set the tone for what will happen after the devastation the flu strain will bring is complete. This flu is so contagious, incubates so quickly and is so deadly that humanity has no chance of responding; Shakespeare is timeless & humanity has been responding to his works for centuries. One of the book's over-arching themes highlights the difference from the "temporary" from the "transcendent." Kristen Raymonde is an 8-year-old bit player on stage when "King Lear" has his heart attack. In "Year 15," as time is now measured, she is a member of a traveling Symphony and Shakespeare company. "Cities" are made up of groups of more than 100 and are typically centered around buildings constructed to serve people – former gas stations, fast food restaurants and big box stores. Houses, for reason's unclear are shunned and allowed to dilapidate after being repeatedly searched. Everyone who survived Year One is leery, paranoid and guarded. As the troupe is on constant tour, they see the stagnation of humanity and are on constant alert for fear of a reoccurrence of "what happened." In response to what she sees Kristen ponders if, perhaps, "humanity should pass from existence." At each stop, the Company performs - music one night, Shakespeare the next. The story is told in flashbacks each "visit to before" sheds light on how those still living came to react as they do, how seeming disparate events and elements were not as random as they first seem, everything and everyone is connected to the present. Life is reduced to its basics – food, water, shelter, community. One goes to bed at dark and rises with the sun. Questions so important when "everything worked" are revealed to be empty, replaced by deeper ponderings of faith, power, beauty and trust. The survivors are no longer connected to possessions, having learned to treasure what is of real value. Religion is still alive in this new age, as is the genuine faith sometimes found in its practitioners. What is more often the case, however, in this tale of warning, is one's "religion" gives credence to delusion. Prophets abound, their followers seeming to find safety in following the words of one who "hears the voice of god" and will obey what this prophet says, even if it means violating every moral and value they possess. The book ends with many questions answered and new paths discovered. The "end" did not feel like a conclusion, Kristen's angst was confronted with hope. I would like for this journey to continue, but if Ms. Mandel brought her readers to the intended place of parting, it is a good spot to rest.
I'm a huge fan of the post-apocalyptic genre and I've read tons of books but none like "Station Eleven" and I guess that's because I would say that it doesn't fall into this genre. Oh don't get me wrong it take place just before and after the Georgia Flu has killed 99% of the world's population, but it's not about that at all. Some books take you thought the collapse of civilization some only show the aftermath but this book takes you right through it but it completely glosses over it. One character rides it out his brother's apartment one in an airport but the author keeps us confined in these areas. When people do leave we only hear what they say when they come back and don't get to see what goes on for ourselves. Even the news reports the reader hears are broad generalizations. This book is all about the characters, their interactions with each other, how their lives intertwine and their actions and regrets in this fleeting world. It's was written and thought provoking and sometimes frustrating (the biggest example is the lack of discussion of the evolution of The Prophet being huge missed opportunity) but overall a great example of modern literary fiction.
This is brilliantly constructed novel with great complexity of characters and time lines. St. John Mandel intertwines her characters and time with ease flow and great love for the integrity and ambition of the theme she tackles. I was intrigued by the characters plot and had trouble getting emotionally involved.This is a novel of desperation,trust and hope in relationships that help all of us survive in different levels.
I am only 200 pages into this book but I can already tell I'm going to be sad when it ends. The author has masterfully created a post civilization world that forces the reader to examine their current life and wonder what it would be like to live without the luxuries we have come to expect. This book isn't gross or creepy just a wonderfully organized plot that keeps you hooked. I can't wait to see where it goes but I also never want it to end. I can't recommend this book highly enough.
A key quote from Star Trek in this beautifully written and more upbeat post-apocalyptic novel. Highly recommend.
My previous review indicating this was drivel was premature. After the first 50 pages the sgiry picks up and the writing also improves.
There is a fine line between hoe and despair in post apocalyptic noves and she threads that path perfectly. So much that it makes you think...if the worlrd were to end next week : would you be happy witj your life?
Love this book! So fantastic and beautifully written!
I was really looking forward to reading this. I have heard and read rave reviews about how fantastic it is so was chuffed to bits when I was provided with a copy from Netgalley via the publisher, Picador, and I settled down to read. What can I say? Is there something wrong with me? I just didn't get it. I don't know why but it just didn't grab me at all and, I'm sorry to say, I found it boring so much so that I skim read parts just to get it over with a bit quicker. I recognise when I am not enjoying a book because I find myself subconsciously finding other things to do rather than read and I did this quite a lot whilst trudging through this book. The characters, although well written were just not that interesting and I found myself not caring what happened or happens to them. I found the whole thing a mix of different stories which was confusing and just didn't seem cohesive. Maybe it was partly because it was told from different points of view with no central character. Maybe it was the Shakespeare - I'm not a huge fan. Maybe it was a bit too "deep" for me … I'm a simple person who reads purely for enjoyment and I don't want to have to think too hard to find complex meaning … my job is taxing enough on my brain, I don't want it to be overworked! This book received so much hype that I think it raised my expectations and I was just left feeling flat and unconvinced and actually rather sad. I even left it a few days before writing this review because sometimes if I give it a few days to reflect on what I've read, it sometimes helps but unfortunately not in this case - it just didn't do it for me at all. I realise that I am in a minority here and there are loads of people who love this book so I suggest you give it a go and make your own mind up.
Just finished this. It was good, but confusing at times. Don't really like the back and forth. Really makes you think about the little everyday items you would lose and what could become important. Is remembering important? This could apply today. I would probably read this author again.
A post-apocalypse with a heart? That's how I would describe this narrative as the story sweetly navigates a heartrending situation with a mixture of reserve and intrigue. So foreign is the novel (locally) yet, such a frequent wake-up call
I loved this book and am so sad it is over. Everything about it was just wonderful, the writing, the characters, the story. There are so few books I want to reread, this one I wanted to reread it before I was even half way. One of my favorite books of all time.
I have never read a book like this before. It's more a series of snapshots than a cohesive story, and yet, I loved it. It follows a handful of main characters all centered around one man who died of a heart attack the night before the world ended. I was riveted by the details of this post apocalyptic world. Unlike most stories of this kind, it was a very realistic portrayal of the near future (assuming a pandemic were to break out) vs. a distant, new social structure type future. The story is not laid out linearly. Instead, it jumps around a lot, both in time and with characters. But somehow the genius of the details and the way that everything was so intricately woven together made up for this non-traditional writing style. I was annoyed by some of the flashbacks especially when they seemed unrelated to what had just been happening, but in almost every case the back story proved valuable. Also, Mandel writes about the things I've worried about with the end of civilization as we know it: living without glasses (my biggest fear), surviving after essential medications aren't available, and trying to navigate streets full of abandoned cars in a wheelchair. This is a story about real people dealing with the real struggles of life without electricity, cars, and telephones. At times, especially in the beginning, I wanted more plot, but then I kind of accepted the ambiguity of the story. I let the characters wash over me. Listening to the audiobook made this a little easier. I really enjoyed all of the characters, even the Prophet, the quasi-bad guy. The rich details made them all endearing. I was a little surprised when the book was over. I wanted more. More information, more developments between the characters, and more knowledge of the world 20 years after the collapse and beyond. http://www.momsradius.com/2016/04/book-review-station-eleven.html
One of the best books I've read in YEARS. I won't go too much into the plot because you can read the description for that, but I'll just say that the writing itself is so beautiful. At points, this book reads like poetry or prose. But not confusing poetry. I guess what I'm trying to say is that this book will make you see the poetry and beauty that is everyday, mundane life. And then there are the characters. It's all about the characters in this book. The development is beautiful. The plot is narrated through various viewpoints depicting vignettes of the characters' lives. It's all stunning. I would absolutely recommend this.
4.5 Emily St. John Mandel has taken a more literary slant to her post-apocalyptic world than the bulk of them out there. You won't find many action filled scenes of crazed road-warriors or zombies or gun-toting survivalists chasing down the 'good-guys'. There are no long explanations of how society collapsed, instead the story focuses on a handful of characters, before and after the plague that wipes out most of the world's population. The major players in the story are all connected, yet they connect through tenuous threads, and there is no big moment where their stories converge. Kirsten was a child actor when the end came, and now, travel with a symphony and acting troop that performs Shakespeare and Shakespeare and his world - another impacted by plague - serve as metaphors. Arthur is an actor and has a heart-attack on stage the night the plague strikes. His ex-wives and his son, are three more threads. There is Arthur's friend Clark, and the paramedic who was in the theater that night. There is a comic book that ties several characters together, that impacts how they understand this new world. Mandel uses the plague to explore philosophy more than the how the world would fall apart and that is the power of her story. The rumination by characters on art and music, the value of items no longer of use, whether the past should be let go or taught, and so much more, all layered over the threads that connect the characters, seen and unseen. Mandel weaves back and forth between the past and the present, and moves from individual story to story, building the larger story. The characters are fully realized and they are a cross-section of flawed humanity. Mandel's descriptions of both the world before and the world after are beautiful and frightening and vivid. There is hope in the new world, but their is an arbitrariness that undercuts that hope. There is a brutality to the new world but there is also a beauty to it as well. In the end, Station Eleven is a novel of the end of the world, but more importantly it is about how that end impacts a few individuals. The focus never wavers from the personal and it is the power of Mandel's narrative.


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By Saturday, we felt like SDCC pros. We were getting into all the panels we were wanting to see. We had scored the exclusive merchandise we had lusted after. We had partied the PERFECT amount to where we didn't feel like zombies the next day. We were, in a word, killing it. Would Saturday proved to be as charmed of a day as the first two? Read on to find out!
Walking the Exhibit Hall
After walking the now familiar route around the top floor of the convention hall (Me: "Let's do a lap before we commit to a location") to settle into the line for the Exhibit Hall, we had one goal in mind: getting to the Legendary Booth for a chance to win a ticket for the Crimson Peak signing (HIDDLES) later that afternoon. The autograph culture at SDCC is much different from the one at NYCC. At NYCC, as long as you have the money and the willingness to stand in line, you can get the autograph you so desperately need. Not all of the talent attending NYCC (especially your A-Listers) does the autograph booths, but if the object of your desire does do them, you can get your autograph for a sum ranging from 20 to upwards of 100 bucks. (This also applies to paid photo-ops, also known as what currently decorates my kitchen walls, also known as that time Stephen Amell caught a bit of Sage's side boob.) At SDCC, all the autographs are free and the A-list talent DOES participate. The catch? It's all based on a lottery system. That's right…some people will line-up in the wee hours of the morning for a chance to DRAW A TICKET to win a chance to get autographs from the Game of Thrones or Arrow casts. I have a hard time comprehending that, to be honest. When we camped out for 21 hours, we at least KNEW we would be guaranteed to be in the presence of Peter Capaldi. I digress.
Once the exhibit hall opened, we made a beeline to the Legendary Booth, taking full advantage of our New York City honed power-walking skills (NOT RUNNING!). Alas, the line to draw a ticket was capped by the time we made it there. Clearly, the universe knows we aren't ready to be face to face with Tom Hiddleston.
Since the majority of the early morning crowd was occupied with getting exclusives, we took advantage of the lighter traffic flow and walked the exhibit hall from end to end. I highly recommend anyone attending a major con to do this. There are so many unique booths and vendors to discover outside of all the licensed merchandise. The degree of creativity displayed in the hall is astounding, from traditional comic book art to handmade toys to prints inspired by various fandoms. These are the best souvenirs, in my opinion, because despite the "exclusive" merchandise, these are the things that are truly unique to each con. Before I came to SDCC, I had vowed not to buy any fan art due to the fact that my available wall space was rapidly decreasing. On the exhibit floor, however, my attitude was thus: "GIMME ALL THE ART". I was on the hunt for a good gift for Kelly, who was graciously watching my dog for me. In the course of doing so, naturally things like this happened…
These were going to be for @_kellyQ till I found something better. Now they are mine. #SDCC #DoctorWho pic.twitter.com/XgIkKG3FI2
— Head Over Feels (@HeadOverFeels) July 11, 2015
Honestly, as soon as I bought those Rose and Nine prints, I knew I wanted to keep them. I knew deep in my heart I wanted to find something X-Files themed for Kelly anyway. One would think that X-Files art would be easy to find. Nope. Whenever we would ask a particular booth whose style we enjoyed whether or not they had any Mulder and Scully, the reply was always the same: "No, but I should TOTALLY do them!!" Yes. Yes, you should. I expect there to be an abundance of Mulder/Scully art next year people. We did find that Joe Harris, who illustrates the comics for The X-Files, had a booth. He had a limited edition (there were only 100) print of Mulder and Scully for sale. I was unsure about getting it because I knew we had NO time to go back to the apartment that day and I was concerned about toting a print around all day without damaging it. He saw me waffling, grinned, and pulled out another print that he had limited quantities of. I immediately forked over my money without giving it a second thought. Why? Because this one had Mulder, Scully, AND Skinner.
Joe also recognized Kelly's blog series, "Times Mulder and Scully Should Have Made Out This Week" ("It's so clever!") and wrote her a personal message on the back of the print. Thus, I left the exhibit hall with my wallet lighter but secure in the knowledge that I had scored an amazing gift for my friend. Mission accomplished.
On our way to our brunch destination, we had to pass through the crowds of protestors that had amassed outside of the convention center. Yep. Every day there were radical Christian and Anti-Abortion protestors outside the center with their bright yellow signs and fliers. Perhaps they were taking advantage of the massive crowds or perhaps they really DID think we were all hell-bound for attending Comic Con. I'm not sure which. I'll leave what Sage oh-so-eloquently said to a person who tried to shove an anti-abortion flier into her hand to your imagination, but just know it was amazing.
Then we ran into what I consider to be one of the most brilliant publicity stunts I've seen. Well done, Team Damien. WELL DONE. (They often stood with their signs right next to the legit protestors, these guys were just on their break.)
Brunch with OJ and a side of BAMF
It goes without saying that we were devastated when Sleepy Hollow pulled out of SDCC because of production conflicts. Not only because the show missed out on some much-needed exposure (When someone on the floor saw Sage's Ichabbie shirt we overheard them say "Is Sleepy Hollow still ON?" #promoteSleepyHollow) but because we had been counting on getting into its press session and getting face-time with our beloved cast. We were delighted when our friend Terena informed us that she was coordinating an intimate offsite brunch event with Mr. and Mrs. BAMF themselves, Orlando Jones and Lyndie Greenwood. Time with two of our favorites, plus delicious brunch food (Crab cakes Benedict!! Chocolate pancakes!!), PLUS legit bottles of champagne for only 8 bucks? SIGN US UP.
I love that even though Orlando is leaving Sleepy Hollow (I can't talk about it yet, you guys), he's still the biggest ambassador to the fandom. Some performers THRIVE on interacting with their fans and Orlando is clearly one of them. Orlando didn't sit down ONCE during the 2 hour event, instead choosing to visit every single table and spend a good amount of time with every attendee. When he arrived, he literally bumped into our waitress, whose hands were full of plates for another table. She was absolutely paralyzed with delight at seeing him and he promptly took the plates out of her hands and personally delivered them to the proper table. That's the kind of guy he is. When we later teased him about how he worked the room, saying "Dance, monkey, dance," he BELLY LAUGHED, teasing "I don't appreciate your choice of animal!" Basically, he's the best and we're best friends now.
Lyndie Greenwood arrived a little late because she walked over to the restaurant on her own, rather than taking the car offered to her (she is THAT down-to-earth). She also arrived in a handmade cosplay of an obscure comic character that was SUPER HOT. She had tweeted earlier in the week that she had cleaned Party City out of its stock of mini-skulls, so it was awesome to see the fruits of her labor. We asked her if she was planning to walk the floor after brunch and her response was a giddy "Hell yes!" She squealed with delight when she noticed that my phone case was Abbie and Ichabod (which I had completely forgotten about until the moment we took our picture together) and flailed when I showed her a picture of the Ichabbie prints I had bought at the Sherlock party the night before. "You don't see NEARLY enough Sleepy Hollow art," she exclaimed. "Tweet me the name of that artist!" ONE OF US.
It was neither the time nor place to try to get any scoop about what's to come on Sleepy Hollow (we didn't want to be THOSE people), so sadly, we have nothing to report on that front. (Hopefully Sleepy will have a big presence at NYCC and we'll be able to bring you all the scoop then!) We were just grateful to be able to have some time to celebrate our show and to hang out with fellow Sleepyheads. We should do this every year…someone get it on Tom and Nicole's calendar for next July!
Seth MacFarlane Animation Panel
Let it be known that SDCC is all about sacrifices and hard choices. Saturday afternoon's schedule was jam-packed with everything from the offsite official Doctor Who meet-up to John Barrowman in a room with a microphone to the EW Women Who Kick Ass Panel and Crimson Peak (HIDDLES) in Hall H. And where were we? Suffering through an HOUR AND FORTY FIVE MINUTES of Seth MacFarlane and company all in the name of getting good seats for Outlander and Hannibal.
And that's all I have to say about that. However, I will begrudgingly admit that it was pretty impressive when they did a live-read of a few Family Guy scenes.


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Saturday, July 7, 2012
Hood River Little League All-Star baseball and softball teams wrapped up District 5 tournament play this week. The tournament included 625 baseball and softball players on teams from 13 Little League associations, ranging from Hood River east to Hermiston and south to Gilchrist.
Finishing at sixth place, the 9-10 baseball team was eliminated Wednesday, placing the highest out of the five teams representing the Hood River-area.
The 9-10 boys took their second loss of the tournament with a tough 16-5 game against Bend South. The loss came after the boys opened the tournament with a close 4-3 loss against Jefferson County, followed by back-to-back wins to advance to the top six.
The Hood River 11-12 boys were eliminated Tuesday with a 6-5 loss against South Central (La Pine-Sunriver). The game was the second one-run loss for the team after a 1-0 nail-biter to Hermiston.
The 9-10 softball team was eliminated Monday after an 11-2 loss to Hermiston, the 11-12 softball team was eliminated last week after tough losses against Bend and Crook County and the 10-11 boys were eliminated Monday after an 8-0 loss against Hermiston.
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