Pat Sand The Roving Ranchers had a wonderful time at the Silver Star Dinner Theater on July 31. Forty Robson residents enjoyed a dinner show with musical entertainment by Mick and The Stones, a Rolling Stones tribute band. Dinner started at 5:30 p.m. with a full buffet featuring barbecue ribs and chicken parmesan, followed by a…
Nancy Friedman and Deborah Dougless Back by popular demand, The Fine Arts Guild held a palette knife acrylic painting class instructed by Nils Johnson. The class practiced the use of the palette knife with different angles and strokes to make a forest of birch or aspen trees. Shades of gray were added to a white paper…
Pat Sand Have you ever thought about starting your family tree? Does watching shows that use genealogy data to solve crimes and find ancestors like Who Do You Think You Are? or The Genetic Detective intrigue you to take steps to discover more about our own ancestors? If you are interested in beginning to explore your personal history but have…
Nancy Friedman, Co-Education Chair With summer upon us and many snowbirds gone until mid-October, a couple of the monitors have started a summer project to keep members coming down to the studio to paint in acrylics and oils. The project is named “Going Big.” One of our members, Susan Halley, donated some rolled canvas, and…
Ken Muhlbeier Like many other young men, Bernnie Leland enjoyed listening to his grandmother tell stories about his father. His father’s story, however, is quite unique. While still in high school, he was recruited to play shortstop on the city men’s team from Cashton, Wis. In 1938, that same team took up a collection to…
Cynthia Melito Each month, I offer a Thursday evening class for a stained glass project using a new technique for our members to learn. For the month of August, I challenged myself to invent a new technique to make a bowl using up the large collection of glass pieces we have in the studio. In my…