Booy to Speak to QUILT Bonnie Booy of Oklahoma will be featured at the Oct. 23 meeting of Quilters United in Learning Together. The meeting is set for 7 p.m. at the Springdale Holiday Inn, 1500 S. 48 th St. Social time starts at 6: 30 p.m.
Booy will display 35 years of quiltmaking during her trunk show. She made two traditional quilts then began designing her own patterns. Booy describes her style as "contemporary."
QUILT members are preparing for two quilt shows. On Oct. 17-18, the guild will hold a mini-show in conjunction with the Ozark Regional Arts & Crafts Show at the John Q. Hammons Center. Hours are 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.
The show will feature a display of small quilts which will be auctioned at the guild's April 3-4, 2009, show at the Northwest Arkansas Convention Center in Springdale. Hours for the April show are 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
The show will feature 300 quilts, a small quilt auction, a vendor's mall, special exhibits and demonstrations. Mary Sorenson will be teaching two classes and presenting a lecture. Admission is $ 5 with children under age 12 admitted free.
For general information about the guild or the quilt show, visit www. quiltguildnwa. org or call Debbie Wheeler at 273-7™ or JoeAnn Reaves at 925-7001. Call Debbi Moore at 248-7499 or e-mail at debmoore @ centurytel. net for quilt show information.
Guests are welcome to attend their first meeting at no charge. Subsequently there is a $ 20 annual membership fee. Siloam Springs writers hear Shelly Moran SILOAM SPRINGS - Shelly Moran, former editor and publisher of The Herald Leader, held the attention of the Siloam Springs Writers as they met for their October meeting at Books on Broadway. Her impressive opening statement was "I Love Words. "She gave a history of her life in newspaper publishing and brought items of interest, such as a hot metal type block, advertisement mat and a wing maker. Her family was owner of Cabot newspapers for 25 years. She then gave the writers tips for submitting articles to the newspaper.
Awards for September's competition were as follows: "How To"article: first place, Rachel Kulp," How to Clean a Cat; "and second place, Billie Hammers," How to Make a Flying Jenny. "Poetry winners were: Limerick: first place, Rachel Kulp," A Ship in a Harbor; "second place, Margaret Weathers," Oops ! "; and third place, Shane Qualls," There's a Guy Named Shane."
All interested writers are invited to attend the Nov. 6 meeting featuring Anita Burney as speaker. Burney will address the topic of writing a play. The competition assignments for November will be prose "I'm Thankful For … ", and for poetry, a couplet poem. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. at Books on Broadway, 201 Broadway St., Siloam Springs.
The Poets Roundtable 61 st annual Poetry Day will be held in Fayetteville on Oct. 18. For information concerning Siloam Springs Writers' meetings or the Poetry Day, contact Margaret Weathers at 524-6598.
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