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Pioneer Previews: Bemidji Sculpture Walk awards around the corner

The Bemidji Sculpture Walk Reception and award ceremony will begin at 5 p.m. Saturday, May 26, at the Blue Ox Bar and Grill. Information on how to vote for your favorite installation for 2011 is in today’s Pioneer.

Christian trio Phillips, Craig and Dean encourages audience participation

BEMIDJI – A group of pastors/singers will be telling the audience, “It’s gut check time,” at 7:30 p.m. Friday when Phillips, Craig and Dean take the stage at the Sanford Center.

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Mason, Chorale honored

BEMIDJI – Conductor Patricia (Pat) Mason of the Bemidji Chorale kept the program notes for the 33rd annual Mother’s Day Concert a secret but, as it turned out, the tables were turned with a surprise for her and the singers.

Adoption: ‘Every day is Mother’s Day to me’

BEMIDJI – Mother’s Day is every day for Amy Skala, a sixth-grade teacher at Bemidij’s middle school, coach of the seventh-grade girl’s softball team and mother of two adopted children who are siblings of the heart.

Pioneer Previews: Bemidji Chorale presents concert

Bemidji Chorale Mother’s Day Concert will begin at 7 tonight in the Beaux Arts Ballroom on the campus of Bemidji State University.

Community Theater’s adult comedy weaves mistaken, made-up identities

BEMIDJI – Bemidji Community Theater Comedy “Kiss or Make Up,” by Jack Sharkey opens Friday at the Wild Rose Theater, 501 Bemidji Ave N.

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Pioneer Profiles: Spoken Word tour hits Bemidji

BEMIDJI – Matt Mauch, poet and driving force behind the “Great Twin Cities Poetry Road Show,” uses the analogy of taking a road trip without a map and finding a hidden away town or treasure as one way to describe today’s free-form poetry.

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Pioneer Previews: Syttende Mai Dinner tickets available

Syttende Mai Dinner ticket purchase deadline is Thursday. Sons of Norway Walker and Bemidji Lodges will be holding a gala evening of a concert by world-renowned Norwegian pianist Knut Eric Jensen and a dinner May 17. The celebration will begin with a 6 p.m. concert by Jensen with dinner to follow at Calvary Lutheran Church, 2508 Washington Ave. SE. The dinner ticket is $15 and may be purchased at First National Bank main branch in Bemidji. Tickets for the concert are $10 each and may be purchased at the door or bank.

‘Friend’ award goes to impactful musician

BEMIDJI – Patricia (Pat) Mason has been selected to be honored as the 24th annual Friend of the Arts, a recognition enthusiastically supported by those who wrote letters of recommendation in support of her nomination.

Graphic novelist follows up with adventure/sci-fi work

BEMIDJI – Erik Evensen is following up his award-winning graphic novel, “Gods of Asgard,” based on Norse mythology with his second graphic novel, “The Beast of Wolfe’s Bay.”

Columns

Pioneer Previews: A space for people, places, things

As a follow up to the editorial written by the Pioneer’s new editor, Steve Wagner, last Sunday, I am using this week’s column to further explain the new changes to Pioneer Previews.

Pioneer Previews: MPR to hold open house event in Bemidji

“MPR Connects!” with the public as the station invites listeners, members and advocates to join Cathy Wurzer, Minnesota Public Radio’s Morning Edition news host, and listen to how she prepares for and presents her daily, early morning broadcasts.