Tickets are now on sale for the Portland-based rock band Robert Wynia and The Sound, which will play with Brookings’ Slow Children and two other local bands at the Redwood Theater, 621 Chetco Ave., on Thursday, May 10.

Doors open at 8 p.m. and tickets are $8 for adults, $5 for those 18 and younger. Tickets are on sale now at the theater box office.

The name Robert Wynia may be familiar to fans of Floater, a nationally recognized rock band with numerous top-selling albums, two Grammy Award nominations and multiple sold-out performances at the West Coast’s larger venues.

Roxanne Gothard wants to use her talents to be a positive role model for other girls. The Pilot/Submitted photo

Roxanne Gothard wanted to be an Azalea princess to be a role model for young girls, as past princesses were for her. 

“I want to show girls that they can get where they want to go without having to do anything bad,” Gothard said.

Ever since she was a little girl,  the daughter of Erick and April Gothard has admired the princesses. She always thought they were smart and talented. 

The Pilot/Graphic by Lon Goddard, photos by Jef Hatch

When country girl Annie Oakley accepts a shooting challenge and quickly finds that “There’s No Business Like Show Business,” she reminds her partner that “Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better,” but when she falls in love, she also learns, “You Can’t Get A Man With A Gun.”

This is the story of “Annie Get Your Gun” in a nutshell, the Irving Berlin musical based on the book by Herbert and Dorothy Fields, being performed by the Chetco Pelican Players. The song titles are just three of many that are performed during the production.

Oakley, played by Tawndy Davidson, is a farm girl from Ohio who must shoot game to feed her family. Because she is poor, she has learned to make every bullet count. When “Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show and Congress of Rough Riders from Around the World” comes into town, they begin to set up in front of a hotel. The hotel owner Foster Wilson (Tommy Jones) asks that the show find another location, but  the show’s pitchman Charlie Davenport (Lon Goddard) strikes up a deal that the company will leave if Wilson can find a marksman better than Frank Butler (Erick Gothard). Wilson accepts the challenge, meets Oakley and puts her against Butler.

Dale Wells chooses a tool to create a watercolor painting in his basement studio. The Pilot/Lorna Rodriguez

Wells, who had only begun painting six months prior,  figured fair organizers thought the piece wasn’t good enough to show. 

After looking at the rest of the pieces, Wells walked through the special section area where all of the blue ribbons winners were hung – there was his painting. Wells was a first place winner.