Jill Holden, award winning Los Angeles actress and acting coach, and Ray Richmond, formerly of Variety and the Hollywood Reporter, will read from John Pratt’s hysterically funny, deeply moving memoir, Show Me The Way, an account of growing up as a gay man in the sixties and seventies.
Tossed out of the house by his right-wing parents, John met an extraordinary group of people who helped him find his way, surviving the worst of those times and celebrating the very best of them as well.
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A bright blue book locker outside the Ashland Family YMCA provides a new, more convenient way to check out materials from the library. The book locker can be accessed 24/7. Books are placed on hold through the library services website, which also has a video showing the book locker installation.
John Marciano and Leslie Dwyer: While hedge funds and rich corporate interests are buying up hospitals across the country and cutting services and staff to increase their profits, the well-being of hospital staff and patients is undermined.
KS Wild Side: With the help of the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Wildlife Crossing Pilot Program, the state of Oregon will see its first wildlife overpass built in Ashland’s backyard. The proposed wildlife overpass is located roughly at mile marker 1.7 on Interstate 5, just north of the California border.
Editor’s note: Ashland.news reporter Morgan Rothborne covers city government, including its ongoing efforts to find ways to shape policies around homelessness. For better insight into the issue, Rothborne spent a night in early December in the shelter when it was operated by Jobs with Justice in Calvin Hall at First Presbyterian Church of Ashland.
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