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War i: la.
Volume 26 - Issue 7
Wednesday September 29, 2010 Julian, ca.
ISSN 1937-8416
Seven Eagles
Earn AP
Scholar Awards
Seven students at Julian Union
High School have earned AP
Scholar Awards in recognition
of their exceptional achievement
on AP Exams.
The College Board's
Advanced Placement Program®
(AP®) provides motivated and
academically prepared students
with the opportunity to take
rigorous college-level courses
while still in high school, and to
earn college credit, advanced
placement, or both for successful
performance on the AP Exams.
About 18 percent of the nearly
1.7 million students worldwide
who took AP Exams performed
at a sufficiently high level to also
earn an AP Scholar Award.
The College Board recognizes
several levels of achievement
based on students' performance
on AP Exams. Michael Hatch
qualified for the AP Scholar with
Distinction Award by earning an
average grade of at least 3.5 on
all AP Exams taken, and grades
continued on page 13
Apple Days
Is Upon Us,
Festival This
Weekend, More
Fun All Month
As part of Julian's Apple Days
harvest celebration, a two-day
Apple Days Festival will be held
October 2nd and 3rd at Menghini
Winery featuring apple displays,
music and dancing, an antique
tractor display, children's games
and activities, gold panning
demonstrations, a beer and
wine garden, over 50 food and
merchandise vendors, contests,
and, of course, apple pie. The
event runs from 10am to 5pm,
both Saturday and Sunday. The
admission is $5 for adults with
children 12 and under free of
charge.
"Today, Julian Apple Days is
no longer a single day event
but a full two month celebration
with a variety of daily activities,"
according to Tracy Turner,
president of the Julian Merchants
Association. "The Festival gives
you a special weekend of fun."
There will be plenty of
entertainment, including live
music, pie eating contests,
hayrides as well as a pumpkin
patch. The coronation of Mr. or
Mrs. Apple Days as well as the
winner of the Julian Woman's
Club Apple Pie Baking Contest
will also be announced at the
festival.
There's plenty of free parking for
the Apple Days Festival available
at Menghini Winery, located at
the end of Farmer Road, about
2 miles out of downtown Julian.
Last year's festival attracted over
5,000 visitors.
There will also be a variety
of other events throughout the
town and surrounding areas
this weekend, including U-pick
apple orchards, the Old Time
Melodrama & Olio performance at
Town Hall, wine tours, a Country
Market at Wynola Junction
Antiques, and entertainment by
Julian's Doves & Desperadoes.
For a full two-month schedule
of events and more information,
please visit www.julianappledays.
com or call 760-765-4758.
The Apple Days celebration is
planned by The Julian Merchants
Association, a community group
representing more than 90
merchants in the greater Julian
area -- Julian, Wynola and Santa
Ysabel in San Diego County's
eastern mountains.
Curtain Rises On
Melodrama - Friday
Introducing this Years Cast Of Characters
We all have family, neighbors,
friends or acquaintances who
have been in the Melodrama,
a Julian tradition that has been
shared by almost every family in
town, sometime over the past 54
years. Who are this years "stars"
on stage? Here is a list of the
cast. In subsequent issues we
will highlight the Triangle Club
Chorus (Aka "Julian Floozies"),
Can Can Dancers and support
crew. Will next year be your year
to be involved?
Cast of Characters - In Order
of Appearance:
Amanda Kendall plays Lilly
Wight, our lovely heroine and
Julian City's foremost milliner.
She keeps her plans for the
election under her hat.
Amanda has been performing
in theatre since the first grade.
Acting is a passion and she
has enjoyed being a part of
the melodrama for a number of
years, as a junior cancan dancer
and choreographer, Triangle Club
Chorus member, and character
in the cast. She hopes to try her
hand at directing someday.
Terry Tupta plays Hope
DeFerd, the spinster friend of the
heroine. Would like to choose her
own man, but doesn't even get to
vote.
Terry, an 11-year Wynola
resident, is performing in the
melodrama for the first time. In
fact, it's her first time on stage
since high school drama. "1
didn't expect to be doing this at
66 years old!" Terry is loving the
experience and having so much
fun that she is already thinking
about being involved again next
year.
by Nancy Kramer
cast photos by Brian Kramer
BOO THE
VILLAIN
Sandra $1adkey plays Granny
Knott, Judge Knott's mother. Her
heart is straight and true, but her
mouth gets all tied up in knots.
Sandra is enjoying her latest
wig and a fun role in her seventh
melodrama, which she assisted
in rewriting. After drama classes
in high school, she took a
break from acting, but began
performing again 30 years ago
as a ventriloquist, puppeteer,
and Gospel illusionist. This
December, for the second ),ear
running, she will reprise her role
as director of Charles Dickens'
A Christmas Carol at the Julian
Town Hall. She enjoys life in
Wynola with her husband Jerry,
daughter Selah, and a passel of
pets.
CHEER
THE HERO
Daniel J Reese plays Judge
Chadwick Cheatham, a hanging
judge from Florida, known as
Hangin' Chad. Puts a few new
jogs in the old political lines. His
shady past is bedimmed by a
darker future. A dastardly villain.
Daniel is a 23-year Julian
resident whose recent
performances include lead
roles with "Once Upon a Star
Productions" out of Las Vegas,
Nevada, and a starring role in
the hit comedy series Vigilantes.
Film work includes Sand Farm,
From the South, and the 2007
Best Actor Award at the Almost
Famous Film Festival. This is the
first time Daniel has had a role in
the Julian Melodrama.
Anthony Soriano Chuck
Borde, beloved sChoolteacher,
he knows Julian City is not letter
perfect, but he wants it to be the
county seat. He is our hero.
This is Anthony's first
melodrama. Other stage
performances have been in
Annie Get Your Gun, the 2009
Julian production of A Christmas
Carol, and Crazy for You. He
greatly enjoys stage acting and
would like to continue on with
the challenge of this art, in the
hope of having an acting career
someday. The melodrama has
been his favorite production so
far, and he has enjoyed meeting
new people as well as stretching
himself in his role as an 1890s
Julian schoolteacher.
Karen Winn plays Mrs. Lotta
Potts, keeps the saloon in Julian
City, but is more to be pitied
than censured. Raising her two
orphaned nieces.
Karen is new both to Julian
and to the stage--at least, to
the spotlight. She has always
enjoyed being a backstage
person, but is honored to have
been invited to participate in
the melodrama. Her dad Kirby
Winn has been involved with the
melodrama for many years as
Tiffany Christie plays Gloria
Singer, the preacher's daughter,
also unmarried, a singer who
lives life on a high note.
Tiffany is a California native
who recently moved to Julian
with her family, after spending
the past six years in Washington.
She has acted before and is also
a vocalist. She is enjoying life in
Julian very much and is happy to
be raising her two boys here.
Joshua Christie is Judge
Aloysius Knott, he tries to keep
election fraud to a minimum and
finds more than gold in the Julian
City hills.
Josh was born and raised in San
Diego. He took part in many high
school productions, including
The Princess Bride, in which he
played Inigo Montoya. He and his
wife Tiffany are enjoying being a
part of the melodrama and the
Julian community.
Amanda Crosswhite plays
Honey Potts, Mrs. Potts' niece.
Sweet, but has too often seen the
wrong side of the saloon door.
While Amanda is not new to
the Town Hall stage (having
made her debut in last season's
A Christmas Carol), this is
the 14-year-old's first time
participating in the melodrama.
A life-long resident of Julian, she
is a home-schooled high school
freshman. She enjoys riding her
bike, reading, texting her friends,
and being on stage! Her mother
is in the Triangle Club Chorus
performing between the acts.
continued t)n page l O
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"Proposition L" Bond
Informational Meeting
Tuesday October 5
by Cara Couvillion,
Principal of Julian Union High School
On Tuesday, October 5 at 6:00 pm, the high school will host an
Informational Meeting on the Prop L Bond Measure followed by an
Open House in the Multi-Purpose Room. The purpose of this meeting
is to answer community members' questions about the Bond Measure
that has been placed on the November 2nd ballot. This article will
give you a summary of the JUHS School Board's reasons for voting to
have this measure placed on the ballot. If you have further questions
after reading this article, you are invited to our Bond Informational
Meeting, along with your friends and neighbors who reside in Julian,
Cuyamaca, Shelter Valley, Santa Ysabel, Mesa Grande, etc. to hear
more details so you can make an informed decision when voting.
The purpose of this bond measure is to help the school district
raise funds to renovate the currently condemned classroom building
which housed science labs and other classrooms. In 1999-2000,
renovations were completed to the main buildings on campus. In
May 2004, an inspection showed that there were many instances
of faulty construction done to these buildings during the renovation.
The district has made many efforts to alleviate the issues, including
leasing portables for classroom use, renovating one of the buildings
with reserve funds, and lawsuits against the construction company
and other entities involved in the faulty renovation. Since the students
were forced out, the science "labs" have been portable classrooms
not suitable for many science experiments. The district feels it is
time to move forward in rebuilding the science laboratories and other
classrooms our students deserve.
On May 26, 2010 we appealed to the state and were granted.a
conceptual approval for Facility Hardship. This means the state will
grant us $1.85 million dollars, IF we can come up with matching
funds and approved plans within 18 months. The only way the school
district can raise the necessary funds (about $2 million) in this short
amount of time is through a bond measure. The district is proposing a
Prop 39 Bond. This bond requires 55% majority to pass, and requires
an Oversight Committee to be formed once the bond is passed to
oversee both the construction and the finances of construction. The
bond payment for residents would not exceed $30 per $100,000
property value for the life of the bond, and would not begin until the
current bond is complete in about 2020. The bond payment would
extend through about 2045.
Recently I have been to several organizations in the community to
present information regarding the Prop L Bond Measure. If you would
like me to speak to your organization, please call the high school at
(760)765-0606 x108. I also encourage you to attend the meeting on
October 5 at the high school, when we will also give you a tour of our
campus and classrooms.
Music On The Mountain
Library Welcome San Diego
Keyboardist, Songwriter
Marie Haddad isn't one to talk
much about herself. Not that she
is socially withdrawn or secretive
- that would never fit her upbeat,
energetic personality. It's more
like Marie doesn't feel the need
to explain who she is - listen to
her music, she would tell you - it
explains everything so well. Her
music is how she best engages
her outer world.
On Tuesday, October 5th, Ms.
Haddad brings her diamond-
clear voice, heartfelt original
songs and piano mastery to
the Julian Library for a special
Music on the Mountain Concert
performance. The show begins
at 6:00 PM in the acoustically
blessed Main Library Room.
The public is welcome to this
free event, sponsored by the
Friends of the Julian Library.
Refreshments will be served
and a raffle for Marie Haddad's
CD "A Beautiful Road" will take
by Perry Savage
place.
Ms. Haddad is a well known
member of the San Diego music
scene - a community that includes
past Music on the Mountain
favorites: CiCi Williams, Lisa
Sanders, Notas Antiguas, Peter
Sprague, Judy Taylor and most
recently, Gregory Page, now
touring in Europe.
At age five, Marie Haddad
was already a budding pianist.
She loved playing the piano,
but formal music lessons were
another matter. It was that
"attention span" thing that got in
the way. Her practicing was too
often interrupted by a compelling
desire to do cartwheels, or the
like. At age eleven, her formal
training came to an end but
her desire to someday play
professionally stayed with her.
She continued writing music and
playing piano, but the shy side
continued on page 10
Wednesday, October 20 • 8am
YNOLA FARMS
ARKETPLACE
Cuyama000000!:00000000er Valley,
Mt. Lagu00 Summit,
War i: la.
Volume 26 - Issue 7
Wednesday September 29, 2010 Julian, ca.
ISSN 1937-8416
Seven Eagles
Earn AP
Scholar Awards
Seven students at Julian Union
High School have earned AP
Scholar Awards in recognition
of their exceptional achievement
on AP Exams.
The College Board's
Advanced Placement Program®
(AP®) provides motivated and
academically prepared students
with the opportunity to take
rigorous college-level courses
while still in high school, and to
earn college credit, advanced
placement, or both for successful
performance on the AP Exams.
About 18 percent of the nearly
1.7 million students worldwide
who took AP Exams performed
at a sufficiently high level to also
earn an AP Scholar Award.
The College Board recognizes
several levels of achievement
based on students' performance
on AP Exams. Michael Hatch
qualified for the AP Scholar with
Distinction Award by earning an
average grade of at least 3.5 on
all AP Exams taken, and grades
continued on page 13
Apple Days
Is Upon Us,
Festival This
Weekend, More
Fun All Month
As part of Julian's Apple Days
harvest celebration, a two-day
Apple Days Festival will be held
October 2nd and 3rd at Menghini
Winery featuring apple displays,
music and dancing, an antique
tractor display, children's games
and activities, gold panning
demonstrations, a beer and
wine garden, over 50 food and
merchandise vendors, contests,
and, of course, apple pie. The
event runs from 10am to 5pm,
both Saturday and Sunday. The
admission is $5 for adults with
children 12 and under free of
charge.
"Today, Julian Apple Days is
no longer a single day event
but a full two month celebration
with a variety of daily activities,"
according to Tracy Turner,
president of the Julian Merchants
Association. "The Festival gives
you a special weekend of fun."
There will be plenty of
entertainment, including live
music, pie eating contests,
hayrides as well as a pumpkin
patch. The coronation of Mr. or
Mrs. Apple Days as well as the
winner of the Julian Woman's
Club Apple Pie Baking Contest
will also be announced at the
festival.
There's plenty of free parking for
the Apple Days Festival available
at Menghini Winery, located at
the end of Farmer Road, about
2 miles out of downtown Julian.
Last year's festival attracted over
5,000 visitors.
There will also be a variety
of other events throughout the
town and surrounding areas
this weekend, including U-pick
apple orchards, the Old Time
Melodrama & Olio performance at
Town Hall, wine tours, a Country
Market at Wynola Junction
Antiques, and entertainment by
Julian's Doves & Desperadoes.
For a full two-month schedule
of events and more information,
please visit www.julianappledays.
com or call 760-765-4758.
The Apple Days celebration is
planned by The Julian Merchants
Association, a community group
representing more than 90
merchants in the greater Julian
area -- Julian, Wynola and Santa
Ysabel in San Diego County's
eastern mountains.
Curtain Rises On
Melodrama - Friday
Introducing this Years Cast Of Characters
We all have family, neighbors,
friends or acquaintances who
have been in the Melodrama,
a Julian tradition that has been
shared by almost every family in
town, sometime over the past 54
years. Who are this years "stars"
on stage? Here is a list of the
cast. In subsequent issues we
will highlight the Triangle Club
Chorus (Aka "Julian Floozies"),
Can Can Dancers and support
crew. Will next year be your year
to be involved?
Cast of Characters - In Order
of Appearance:
Amanda Kendall plays Lilly
Wight, our lovely heroine and
Julian City's foremost milliner.
She keeps her plans for the
election under her hat.
Amanda has been performing
in theatre since the first grade.
Acting is a passion and she
has enjoyed being a part of
the melodrama for a number of
years, as a junior cancan dancer
and choreographer, Triangle Club
Chorus member, and character
in the cast. She hopes to try her
hand at directing someday.
Terry Tupta plays Hope
DeFerd, the spinster friend of the
heroine. Would like to choose her
own man, but doesn't even get to
vote.
Terry, an 11-year Wynola
resident, is performing in the
melodrama for the first time. In
fact, it's her first time on stage
since high school drama. "1
didn't expect to be doing this at
66 years old!" Terry is loving the
experience and having so much
fun that she is already thinking
about being involved again next
year.
by Nancy Kramer
cast photos by Brian Kramer
BOO THE
VILLAIN
Sandra $1adkey plays Granny
Knott, Judge Knott's mother. Her
heart is straight and true, but her
mouth gets all tied up in knots.
Sandra is enjoying her latest
wig and a fun role in her seventh
melodrama, which she assisted
in rewriting. After drama classes
in high school, she took a
break from acting, but began
performing again 30 years ago
as a ventriloquist, puppeteer,
and Gospel illusionist. This
December, for the second ),ear
running, she will reprise her role
as director of Charles Dickens'
A Christmas Carol at the Julian
Town Hall. She enjoys life in
Wynola with her husband Jerry,
daughter Selah, and a passel of
pets.
CHEER
THE HERO
Daniel J Reese plays Judge
Chadwick Cheatham, a hanging
judge from Florida, known as
Hangin' Chad. Puts a few new
jogs in the old political lines. His
shady past is bedimmed by a
darker future. A dastardly villain.
Daniel is a 23-year Julian
resident whose recent
performances include lead
roles with "Once Upon a Star
Productions" out of Las Vegas,
Nevada, and a starring role in
the hit comedy series Vigilantes.
Film work includes Sand Farm,
From the South, and the 2007
Best Actor Award at the Almost
Famous Film Festival. This is the
first time Daniel has had a role in
the Julian Melodrama.
Anthony Soriano Chuck
Borde, beloved sChoolteacher,
he knows Julian City is not letter
perfect, but he wants it to be the
county seat. He is our hero.
This is Anthony's first
melodrama. Other stage
performances have been in
Annie Get Your Gun, the 2009
Julian production of A Christmas
Carol, and Crazy for You. He
greatly enjoys stage acting and
would like to continue on with
the challenge of this art, in the
hope of having an acting career
someday. The melodrama has
been his favorite production so
far, and he has enjoyed meeting
new people as well as stretching
himself in his role as an 1890s
Julian schoolteacher.
Karen Winn plays Mrs. Lotta
Potts, keeps the saloon in Julian
City, but is more to be pitied
than censured. Raising her two
orphaned nieces.
Karen is new both to Julian
and to the stage--at least, to
the spotlight. She has always
enjoyed being a backstage
person, but is honored to have
been invited to participate in
the melodrama. Her dad Kirby
Winn has been involved with the
melodrama for many years as
Tiffany Christie plays Gloria
Singer, the preacher's daughter,
also unmarried, a singer who
lives life on a high note.
Tiffany is a California native
who recently moved to Julian
with her family, after spending
the past six years in Washington.
She has acted before and is also
a vocalist. She is enjoying life in
Julian very much and is happy to
be raising her two boys here.
Joshua Christie is Judge
Aloysius Knott, he tries to keep
election fraud to a minimum and
finds more than gold in the Julian
City hills.
Josh was born and raised in San
Diego. He took part in many high
school productions, including
The Princess Bride, in which he
played Inigo Montoya. He and his
wife Tiffany are enjoying being a
part of the melodrama and the
Julian community.
Amanda Crosswhite plays
Honey Potts, Mrs. Potts' niece.
Sweet, but has too often seen the
wrong side of the saloon door.
While Amanda is not new to
the Town Hall stage (having
made her debut in last season's
A Christmas Carol), this is
the 14-year-old's first time
participating in the melodrama.
A life-long resident of Julian, she
is a home-schooled high school
freshman. She enjoys riding her
bike, reading, texting her friends,
and being on stage! Her mother
is in the Triangle Club Chorus
performing between the acts.
continued t)n page l O
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Julian CA, 92036
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"Proposition L" Bond
Informational Meeting
Tuesday October 5
by Cara Couvillion,
Principal of Julian Union High School
On Tuesday, October 5 at 6:00 pm, the high school will host an
Informational Meeting on the Prop L Bond Measure followed by an
Open House in the Multi-Purpose Room. The purpose of this meeting
is to answer community members' questions about the Bond Measure
that has been placed on the November 2nd ballot. This article will
give you a summary of the JUHS School Board's reasons for voting to
have this measure placed on the ballot. If you have further questions
after reading this article, you are invited to our Bond Informational
Meeting, along with your friends and neighbors who reside in Julian,
Cuyamaca, Shelter Valley, Santa Ysabel, Mesa Grande, etc. to hear
more details so you can make an informed decision when voting.
The purpose of this bond measure is to help the school district
raise funds to renovate the currently condemned classroom building
which housed science labs and other classrooms. In 1999-2000,
renovations were completed to the main buildings on campus. In
May 2004, an inspection showed that there were many instances
of faulty construction done to these buildings during the renovation.
The district has made many efforts to alleviate the issues, including
leasing portables for classroom use, renovating one of the buildings
with reserve funds, and lawsuits against the construction company
and other entities involved in the faulty renovation. Since the students
were forced out, the science "labs" have been portable classrooms
not suitable for many science experiments. The district feels it is
time to move forward in rebuilding the science laboratories and other
classrooms our students deserve.
On May 26, 2010 we appealed to the state and were granted,a
conceptual approval for Facility Hardship. This means the state will
grant us $1.85 million dollars, IF we can come up with matching
funds and approved plans within 18 months. The only way the school
district can raise the necessary funds (about $2 million) in this short
amount of time is through a bond measure. The district is proposing a
Prop 39 Bond. This bond requires 55% majority to pass, and requires
an Oversight Committee to be formed once the bond is passed to
oversee both the construction and the finances of construction. The
bond payment for residents would not exceed $30 per $100,000
property value for the life of the bond, and would not begin until the
current bond is complete in about 2020. The bond payment would
extend through about 2045.
Recently I have been to several organizations in the community to
present information regarding the Prop L Bond Measure. If you would
like me to speak to your organization, please call the high school at
(760)765-0606 x108. I also encourage you to attend the meeting on
October 5 at the high school, when we will also give you a tour of our
campus and classrooms.
Music On The Mountain
Library Welcome San Diego
Keyboardist, Songwriter
Marie Haddad isn't one to talk
much about herself. Not that she
is socially withdrawn or secretive
- that would never fit her upbeat,
energetic personality. It's more
like Marie doesn't feel the need
to explain who she is - listen to
her music, she would tell you - it
explains everything so well. Her
music is how she best engages
her outer world.
On Tuesday, October 5th, Ms.
Haddad brings her diamond-
clear voice, heartfelt original
songs and piano mastery to
the Julian Library for a special
Music on the Mountain Concert
performance. The show begins
at 6:00 PM in the acoustically
blessed Main Library Room.
The public is welcome to this
free event, sponsored by the
Friends of the Julian Library.
Refreshments will be served
and a raffle for Marie Haddad's
CD "A Beautiful Road" will take
by Perry Savage
place.
Ms. Haddad is a well known
member of the San Diego music
scene - a community that includes
past Music on the Mountain
favorites: CiCi Williams, Lisa
Sanders, Notas Antiguas, Peter
Sprague, Judy Taylor and most
recently, Gregory Page, now
touring in Europe.
At age five, Marie Haddad
was already a budding pianist.
She loved playing the piano,
but formal music lessons were
another matter. It was that
"attention span" thing that got in
the way. Her practicing was too
often interrupted by a compelling
desire to do cartwheels, or the
like. At age eleven, her formal
training came to an end but
her desire to someday play
professionally stayed with her.
She continued writing music and
playing piano, but the shy side
continued on page 10
Wednesday, October 20 • 8am
YNOLA FARMS
ARKETPLACE
Cuyama r Valley,
ML Lagu Summit,
Volume 26 - Issue 7
Wednesday September 29, 2010
[ssN 193:-16
Ju!a CA 920"Se;
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Seven Eagles I Curtain Rises On
Earn AP I
Scholar Awards I
S ......................... Melodrama - Friday
High School have earned AP
Scholar Awards in recognition Introducing this Years Cast Of Characters
of their exceptional achievement
on AP Exams.
The College Board's
Advanced Placement Program@
(AP®) provides motivated and i
academically prepared students
with the opportunity to take!
rigorous college-level courses
while still in high school, and to
earn college credit, advanced
placement, or beth for successful
performance on the AP Exams
About 18 percent of the nearly
who took AP Exams performed
1.7 million students worldwide
I
at a sufficiently high level to also
earn an AP Scholar Award. ,I
The College Board recognizes
several levels of achievement
based on students' performance
on AP Exams. Michael Hatch
qualified for the AP Scholar with J
Distinction Award by earning an
average grade of at least 3.5 on
all AP Exams taken, and grades
congnued on page 13
We all have family, neighbors,
friends or acquaintances who
have been in the Melodrama,
a Julian tradition that has been
shared by almost every family in
town, somefime over the past 54
years, Who are this years "stars"
on stage? Here is a list of the
cast. In subsequent issues we
will highlight the Triangle Club
Chorus (Aka "Julian Floozies"),
Can Can Dancers and support
crew. Will next year be your year
to be involved?
Cast of Characters - In Order
of Appearance:
As part of Julian's Apple Days I
harvest celebration, a two-day i
Apple Days Festival will be held
October 2nd and 3rd at Mengbini
Winery featuring apple displays,
music and dancing, an antique
tractor display, children's games
and activities, gold panning
demonstrations, a beer and
wine garden, over 5O food and
merchandise vendors, contests,
and, of course, apple pie. The
event runs from tOam to 5pm,
beth Saturday and Sunday The
admission is $5 for adults with
children 12 and under free of
charge.
"Today, Julian Apple Days is
no longer a single day event
but a full two month celebration
with a variety of daily activities,"
according to Tracy Turner,
president of the Julian Merchants
Association, "The Festival gives,
you a special weekend of fun."
There wiL be plenty of
entertainment, including live i'
music, pie eating contests, J
hayrides as well as a pumpkin
I
patch. The coronation of Mr or
Mrs. Apple Days as well as the
winner of the Julian Woman's
Club Apple Pie Baking Contest
will also be announced at the
festival.
There's plentyoffree parking for
2 miles out of downtown Julian
the Apple Days Festival available
at Menghini Winery, located at
the end of Farmer Road, about
Last year's festival attracted over I
5,000 visitors.
There will also be a variety !
of other events throughout the J
town and surrounding areas,
ths weekend, ncudng U-pck i
apple orchards, the Old Time =
Meledrama&Olioperformanceat 1
Town Hall, wine tours, a Country I
Market at Wynola Junction '
Antiques, and entertainment by i
Julian's Doves & Desperadoes.
For a full two-mordh schedule
of events and more information,
please visit ww w.julia na,p pledays.
planned by The Jufian Merchants
corn or call 760-765-4758.
The Apple Days celebration is
Association, a community group I
representing mere than 9O II
merchants in the greater Julian I
area -- Julian, Wynola and Santa
I
Ysabel in San Diego County's !
eastern mountains
Apple Days
Is Upon Us, i
Festival This Amanda Kendall plays billy
Wight, our lovely heroine and
Weekend, More Ju,an Cfiys foremost m,,Jner
She keeps her plans for the
Fun All Month e,ectioo udder her hat
Amanda has been peHorming
Sandra Sladkey plays Granny
Knott, Judge Knott's mother Her
heart is straight and true, but her
mouth gets all tied up in knots.
Sandra is enioyiog her latest
wig and a fun role in her seventh
melodrama, which she assisted
in rewriting. After drama classes
in high school, she took a
break from acting, but bega
performing agah= 30 years ago
as a ventriloquist, puppeteer,
and Gospel illusionist. This
December, for the second )'ear
running, she wig reprise her role
as director of Charles Dickens'
A Christmas Carol at the Julian
Town Hail She enjoys life In
Wynola with her husband Jerry,
daughter S@ah, and a passel of
pets
by Nancy Kramer
cast photos by Brian Kramer
BOO TIIE
VILLAIN
in theatre since the first grade.
Acting is a passion and she
has enjoyed being a part of
the melodrama for a number of
years, as a junior cancan donor
and choreographer, Trtangle CfU b
Chorus member, and character
in the cast. She hopes to try her
hand at directing someday
Terry Tupta plays Hope
DeFerd, the spinster fdend of the
heroine. Would like to choose her
own man, but doesn't even get to
vote.
Terry, an 11-year Wynola
resident, is performing in the
melodrama for the first time. in
fact, it's her first time on stage
since high school drama "1
didn't expect to be doing this at
66 years oldP Terry is loving the
experience and having so much
fun that she is already thinking
about being involved again next
year.
(?IIEER
THEHERO
Anthony Soriano - Chuck
Borde, beloved schoolteacher,
he knows Julian City is not letter
perfect, but he wants it to be the
county seat. He is our hero.
This is Anthony's first
melodrama Other stage
performances have been in
Annie Get Your Gun, the 2009
Julian production of A Christmas
Carol, and Crazy for You He
greatly enjoys stage acting and
would like to continue on with
the challenge of this art, in the
Small Town Papers :FN
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"Proposition L" Bond
Informational Meeting
Tuesday October 5
by C Covillion,
Principal of Julian Union High School
On Tuesday, October 5 at 6:00 pm, the high school will host an
Informational Meeting on the Prop L Bond Measure followed by an
Open House n the Multi-Purpose Room The purpose of this meeting
is to answer community members' questions about the Bond Measure
that has been placed on the November 2nd b@@b This article will
give you a summary of the JUHB School Board*s reasons for voting to
have tNs measure placed on the ballot ft you have further questions
after reading this article, you are invited to our Bond Informational
Meeting, along with your friends and neighbors who reside in Julian,
Cuyamaca, Shelter Valley, Santa Ysabel, Mesa Grand& etc, to hear
more details so you can make an informed decision when voting.
The purpose of this bond measLlre is to help the school district
raise funds to renovate the currently condemned classroom building
which housed science labs and other classrooms. In 1999-2000,
renovations were completed to the main buildings on campus. In
May 2004, an inspection showed that there were many instances
of faulty construction done to these buildings during the renovation.
The district has made many efforts to alleviate the issues, including
Daniel J Reese plays Judge leasing portables for classroom use, renovating one of the buildings
Chadwick Cheatham, a hanging with reserve funds, and lawsuits against the construction company
judge from Florida, known as andotherentitiesinvolvedtcthefaultyrenovntion. Sincethestudents
Hangin' Chad. Puts a few new were forced out, the science "labs" have been portable classrooms
jogs in the old political lines, His not suitable for many science experiments. The district feels it is
shady past is bedimmed by a time to move forward in rebuilding the science laberatortas and other
performances include lead grant US $185 million dollars, IF we can come up with matching
darker future. A dastardly villain, classrooms our students deserve
Daniel is a 23-year Julian On May 26, 2010 we appealed to the state and were granted a
resident whose recent conceptual approval for Facility Hardship. This means the state will
roles with "Once Upon a Star funds and approved plans within 18 months. The only way the school
Productions" Out of Las Vegas, district can raise the necessary funds (about $2 million) in this short
Nevada, and a starring role in amount of time is through a bond measure. The district is proposing a
the hit comedy series Vigilantes, :
Film work includes Sand Farm,
From the South, and the 2007
Best Actor Award at the Almost
Famous Film Festival This is the
first time Daniel has had a role in
the Julian Melodrama,
Karen Winn plays
City, but is more to be pitied !
than censured Raising her two
orphaned nieces I
Karen is new both to Julian i
and to the stage--at least, to I
the spotlight She has always j
enoyed being a backstage i
person, but is honored to have
been nvted o par cpae in :
the melodrama. Her dad Kirby
Winn has been involved with the
melodrama for many years as
Prop 39 Bond. This bond requires 55% majority to pass, and requires
an Oversight Committee to be formed once the bend is passed to
oversee both the construction and the finances of construction. The
bond payment for residents would not exceed $30 per $f00,ogg
property value for the life of the bond, and would not begin until the
current bond is complete in about 2020. The bond payment would
extend through about 2045.
Recently I have been to several organizations in the community to
present information regarding the Prop L Bond Measure. If you would
like me to speak to your organization, please call the high school at
{760)765-0606 x108. I also encourage you to attend the meeting on
October 5 at the high school, when we will also give you a tour of our
campus and classrooms,
Music On The Mountain
Library Welcome San Diego
Keyboardist, Songwrlter
by Perry Savage
hope of having an acting career
someday. The melodrama has
been his favorite production so
far, and he has enjoyed meeting
new people as well as stretching
himself in his role as an 1890s
Julian schoolteacher.
Marie Hedded isn't one to talk place.
muehabeutherself Notthatshe Ms. Haddad is a well known
is socially withdrawn or secretive member of the San Diego music
Amanda Crosswhife plays
Honey Pofts, Mrs, Potts' niece,
Sweet, hut has too often seen the
wrong side of the saloon door,
While Amanda is not new to
the Town Hall stage (having
made her debut in last season's
A Christmas Carol), this is
the 14-year-old's first time
i Joshua Christie is Judge
participating
in
the
melodrama.
Tiffany Christie plays Gloria AloysLus Knott, he tries to keep A Ige-long resident of Julian, she
s a home-schooed hgh school [
Singer, the preacher's daughter, elec6on fraud to a minimum and freshman. She enjoys riding he
also unmarried, a singer who findsmorethangoJdintheJulian bke, readog, extingherfrieeds, I
lives Ide on a high note. City hills.
Tiffany is a California native JoshwasbornandraisedinSan and being on stage Her mother !
who recently moved to Julian Diego. He took part in many high is in the Triangle Club Chorus !
h [
with her family, after spending school productions, including performing between t e acts.
the past six years in Washington The Princess Bride, in which he tontinuedOnpage lg I
She has acted bef ..... d is also played ,nigo Montoya. He and his BEVARE
a vocalist She is enjoying life in wife Tiffany are enjoying being a
Juli ..... ymuchand ishappyto part of the melod ...... d the r]T][] OIIO
be raising her two bays here Julian community.
- that would never fit her upbeat, scene - a communitythat includes
energetic personality. It's more past Music on the Mountain
like Marie doesn't feel the need favorites: CiCi Williams, Lisa
to explain who she is - listen to Sanders, Notes Antiguas, Peter
her music, she would tell you - it Bprague, Judy Taylor and most
explains everything so well. Her recently, Gregory Page, now
music is how she best engages touring in Europe.
herouterwedd. At age five, Marie Haddad
On Tuesday, October 5th, Ms. was already a budding pianist.
Hedded brings her diamond- She loved playing the piano,
clear voice, heartfelt original but formal music lessons were
songs and piano mastery to another matter. It was that
the Julian Library for a special "attention span" thing that got in
Music on the Mountain Concert the way, Her practicing was too
performance. The show begins often interrupted by a compelling
at 6:00 PM in the acoustically desire to do cartwheels, or the
blessed Main Library Room, like. At age eleven, her formal
The public is welcome to this training came to an end but
free event, sponsored by Ihe her desire to someday play
Friends of the Julian Library. professionally stayed with her.
Refreshments will be served She continued writing music and
and a raffle for Marie Haddad's playing piano, but the shy side
CD "A Beautiful Road" will take continued on page 10
We.ne..a., Oo,ober20..am.
