Kaila Yeager, on ladder, talks to her art mentors Sheryl Tuttle, left, and Sara Broderick.

Yeager is 19 years old and a graduate of Brookings Harbor High School. She is presently a student at Southwestern Oregon Community College (SOCC). Yeager has been Broderick’s student since she entered college and was also greatly influenced by her high school art teacher Sheryl Tuttle. Yeager works in acrylic and is very dedicated to her art, Broderick said.

Lueckfeld to reign over 71st Azalea Festival

It was Princess Ashley Lueckfeld who was selected by a panel of judges to reign over the 2010 Azalea Festival themed “Beauty and the Beach” scheduled for Memorial Day weekend May 28-31. She was crowned by 2009 Queen Kayla Hamm.

Although it was the judges who chose Lueckfeld as queen, she was chosen Miss Congeniality by her princess peers and received the award for the most tickets sold.

The panel of judges – consisting of Debra Wright, Becky Ross, Barbara Lopez and Bill McMillan – did, however, choose Princess Kelly Aldrich to serve as first runner-up. Winning the talent competition was Princess Shalynn Doan.

A team leads women in worship during conference.

This Celebration of Praise was the 10th anniversary of the Women’s South Coast Christian Conference, initiated by Brookings resident Sandy Dose in April 2001.

Dose said that she was led to found the women’s conference to make it available to all on the South Coast and Northern California rather than having to travel hundreds of miles to attend an inspirational conference.

Azalea Middle School students plant flowers and shrubs outside the school building. The Pilot/Arwyn Rice

Preschool children from Creative Learning Preschool and Daycare  picked up litter at Stout Park.

Brookings-Harbor High School students hosted Kalmiopsis Elementary School students with a series of recycling-themed games, including soda bottle-bowling, fishing for trash, and a recycling relay.

It was standing-room only even after more chairs were added at the Harbor Performing Arts Center on Sunday during the first Stagelights Community Variety Show.

It was estimated that about 100 people attended the concert which featured more than 23 local musicians performing for three hours during the event, a benefit for the Stagelights Musical Arts Community.

Band performing included the Stagelights House Band, RockAway, Sweet Town Little, Bridges, FreeFlight, Matt Harrison and Mason McKinney, and Michael George and Michele Later.