Ongoing through November

• Get a free listing for your business in the December ‘Shop the Mountain’ issue of The New Mountain Pioneer. Submit the form on pg. 7 or use the online form at www.MountainEnterprise.com (in Community FYI, right column) by November 19.
   
• Work of HeART Gallery features Peter Gullerud as Artist of the Month in November.
• Bandit plays live at La Sierra 6-8 p.m. Tuesdays Nov. 2-30 (3500 Mt. Pinos Way).
• Sign up for FMHS Ski Club Feb. 2011 trip through Nov. 30 (FMHSSkiClub@aol.com, 242-3340)

Thursday, November 11 — Veterans Day

• Veterans Day holiday for all ETUSD schools. The Mountain Enterprise will be open.
• Los Padres National Forest “Fee Free” Day. National Forest Adventure Passes are not required to visit all areas of the LPNF except Lower Santa Ynez (245-3731).
• Veterans Day Ceremony is 11 a.m. at the Cody Prosser Veterans Memorial in Frazier Mountain Community Park.

Friday, November 12

• Congressman Kevin McCarthy’s mobile office hours are 10-11 a.m. at the Family Resource Center (3015 Mt. Pinos Way). Call 661-327-3611 to make an appointment.
• FMHS Girls Volleyball team fundraising game begins at 5:30 p.m. Lady Falcons play against the FMHS Manly Men of Manliness to raise money for new uniforms.
• *The Pine Mountain Town Hall meeting will feature a talk by David Koskenmaki on this region’s fascinating geology at 7 p.m. in the Clubhouse Condor Room.
• Open Mic Poetry at the Coffee Cantina 7-8:30 p.m. All ages/genres welcome. Sign ups begin 6:30 p.m. Free, sponsored by Do We Dare literary ‘zine (3011 Mt. Pinos Way, 245-3166)

Saturday, November 13

• Clean Up The Ridge Route (CUTRR) meets 9 a.m. at the Ranch House Restaurant (49713 Gorman Post Rd.) Wear work clothes and bring tools. RSVP to Carl at 242-2726.
• James Hurley live at 7 p.m. in the Work of HeART Gallery (3011 Mt. Pinos Way, $15)

Sunday, November 14

• Mountain Memories Association public meeting is at 5:30 p.m. at the Coffee Cantina. All welcome to help plan Fiesta Days 2011 event (3011 Mt. Pinos Way, 661-431-8260).

Monday, November 15

• Editorial deadline for the December New Mountain Pioneer is at 12 p.m.
• 2010 Holiday Faire Fantasy of Lights planning meeting is 6 p.m. at A Spot of Bead (3436 Mt. Pinos Way). All volunteers welcome.

Wednesday, November 17

• Advertising deadline for the December New Mountain Pioneer is at 2 p.m.

Thursday, November 18

• Kern Community Foundation’s Women’s and Girls’ Fund grant applications due by 5 p.m. (3300 Truxtun Ave., Bakersfield, CA 93301, fax 661-325-5358, www.kernfoundation.org).
• James Goldman’s ‘Lion in Winter’ dinner theater performance begins at 6:30 p.m., show at 8 p.m. in the Pine Mountain Club Condor Room. Call 242-3788 for tickets ($25 dinner/show, $15 show/dessert, ). Also Friday
• Business Readiness free workshop by the Mountain Communities Small Business Development Center is from 6:30-7:30 p.m. at Cuddy Hall (335 Lakewood Place, Lake of the Woods). This is an information session designed to evaluate readiness for a February 2011 Self-Employment Training course. Sign up by calling 805-667-8004.

Friday, November 19

• Deadline for “Shop the Mountain” free listing submissions for December edition of The New Mountain Pioneer (online at www.MountainEnterprise.com).
• GEMCare Medicare Plus HMO special meeting for Medicare beneficiaries is 11 a.m. at La Sierra Restaurant (3500 Mt. Pinos Way). Learn more about the Medicare Advantage Prescription Drug Plan. RSVP to 661-716-8800 or 877-697-2464.
• Seventeenth Annual Regional Award of Merit Program nominations due by 5 p.m. at Kern Council of Gov. (1401 19th St. Bakersfield, CA 93301, kerncog.org, 661-861-2191)
• Compassion Film Night presents What the Bleep Do We Know? at 7 p.m. Jizo Peace Center (2012 Pioneer Way, Pine Mountain, 242-6569, Free)
• James Goldman’s ‘Lion in Winter’ dinner theater performance begins at 6:30 p.m. with show at 8 p.m. in PMC Condor Room. Tickets 242-3788.

Saturday, November 20

• Dragonfly’s Garden, a new Frazier Park florist, will have their grand opening at 12 noon. (3121 Mt. Pinos Way, behind Big John’s, 245-1895.
• Michi’s Magic Bookshelf story Time and Craft Club will be 2-4 p.m. at the Ridge Route Communities Museum (3515 East End, Frazier Park)

Monday, November 22

• 2010 Holiday Faire Fantasy of Lights planning meeting is 6 p.m. at A Spot of Bead (3436 Mt. Pinos Way). All volunteers welcome.

Wednesday, November 24

• Thanksgiving holiday begins for ETUSD, classes resume Monday, Nov. 29

Thursday, Nov. 25 — Happy Thanksgiving

• The Mountain Enterprise will be closed for the Thanksgiving holiday. Business hours resume Friday 8:30 a.m. with advertising deadline for Dec. 2 at 2 p.m.
• Girl Scout Troop 134 hosts a Community Thanksgiving Dinner from 1-4 p.m. in Cuddy Hall (335 Lakewood Place). All ages, limited space, RSVP 245-1477

Friday, November 26

• *Pine Mountain Club Community Tree Lighting will be 6 p.m. at the Clubhouse.
• Blues and Jazz Club Jack Stone Review performance is sold out (242-3788).

Saturday, November 27

• PMCPOA’s annual Holiday Craft Fair is 9 a.m.-3 p.m. at the Pine Mountain Clubhouse.

Monday, November 29

• 2010 Holiday Faire Fantasy of Lights planning meeting is 6 p.m. at A Spot of Bead (3436 Mt. Pinos Way). All volunteers welcome.

Saturday, December 4

• Fantasy of Lights ‘It’s a Cartoon Christmas’ Holiday Faire and Parade is 12-6 p.m. in downtown Frazier Park. Vendors open all afternoon, photo ops with special holiday guests, caroling and live music, parade on Mt. Pinos Way at dusk.
• Welcome reception for local artists Roberta Jean Owen, Eda Jensen Martinek and JoAnn Koch is during the Holiday Faire at Arts for Earth Foundation. Refreshments, music and raffle to support the 2011 children’s Arts In Nature Club (3408 Mt. Pinos Way, 245-1534)
• *Annual Holiday Tea at the Pine Mountain Clubhouse is 12-3 p.m. Call Christi for more information at 242-2788, ext. 223 (Indian theme, price and full menu TBD)

This is part of the November 12, 2010 online edition of The Mountain Enterprise.

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