Three activities to partake in this weekend
CHICO >> Here are three things to do in Butte County this weekend.
The band Secondhand Smoke will perform Saturday, Jan. 20 at the Winchester Goose from 8-11 p.m. at 824 Oroville Ave in Chico.
Secondhand Smoke is a dance band featuring rock, blues, rockabilly, swing, soul and oldies sounds. The cost is $5.
Dance
The Kinetics Academy of Dance and Gymnastics is offering a free adult hip hop workshop Friday, Jan. 19 at 5:30 p.m. at 130 W. Seventh St. in Chico.
Theater
The play “Sherlock Holmes and the Final Problem” opened Jan. 18 at Theatre on the Ridge. The show runs from Jan. 19 through Feb. 3. Shows are on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights at 7:30 p.m. and there will be Sunday matinees at 2 p.m. Jan. 21, 28 and Feb. 4.
Theatre on the Ridge is located at 3735 Neal Road in Paradise, 530877-5760.
Tickets can be purchased at https://www. totr.org/.
Mary Ryan has worked toward developing a performing arts center on the ridge since the late 1970s.
Twenty years later, she stood before approximately 800 people giving her a standing ovation for her efforts.
Ryan was among the three longtime Paradise Auditorium Community Center Inc. directors to receive recognition during the performing arts center's grand opening Saturday.
“There's no words” to describe seeing the facility — which has been under construction since 1985 — finally at the point of completion, she told the Enterprise-Record.
As for her own determination to see the auditorium built, Ryan chalked it up to “being stubborn.”
“The community needed it and someone needed to do it,” she concluded.
Also honored for their dedication were auditorium directors Lois McDonald and Dean Kruta.
The Paradise Community Performing Arts Center is supposed to seat 769 people. But for Saturday's free event, those seats plus just about every available space but the aisles were filled.
“You are taking part in Paradise history right now,” Dr. Harvey Parrot told the audience. …
There's only one, stateof-the-art, privately-owned performing arts facility between Sacramento and Oregon.
“You have it right here in your hometown,” pointed out radio talk show host Bruce Sessions, the master of ceremonies. …
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