Sounds of the Season

Episode Highlights: 

This week, we’re tuning in to the voices, music, and creativity that give our community its holiday spirit. First up is Terry Voss, here to share the story behind the Pacific Coast Singers and their upcoming performance, Holiday Sounds of the Season—a true community ensemble bringing people together through song.

Next, we step into the world of classic radio with Louis Smith, director and Foley artist for the upcoming production of It’s a Wonderful Life at the Lincoln City Cultural Center. He walks us through the craft of making classic radio-style sound effects live on stage—footsteps, slamming doors, swirling wind, and all the magic in between.

And finally, we welcome Serena Dressel, a new voice to many and a returning one to the community. As the new Executive Director of the Lincoln City Cultural Center, she shares what brought her back and what she’s excited to shape in the seasons ahead.

A warm, spirited episode filled with music, memory, and the sounds that make this place wonderful. Tune in and enjoy.

• Terry Voss, Pacific Coast Singers
• Louis Smith, It’s a Wonderful Life
• Serena Dressel, Lincoln City Cultural Center

Transcript

Jana 0:06

Welcome to the Double R Show, the podcast that features everything about North Lincoln County. The Double R Show, directed and produced by Paul Robertson and hosted by the voice of Lincoln City, Roger Robertson.

RR 0:30

And welcome to the Double R Show. Double R here along with Son Paul, and today we'll have an opportunity to get a little holiday, if you will.

Son Paul 0:38

Yeah, we've got a lot of festive things happening this week, and uh happy to highlight a couple of those on the show.

RR 0:44

Yeah, we'll have Terry Voss, the director of the holiday sounds of the season. Uh, this is gonna be a special contr uh concert Saturday afternoon and Saturday night at the Congregational Church. Lewis Smith is gonna be in talking about a wonderful life. It is a wonderful life. It is a wonderful life. That'll be a lot of fun.

Son Paul 1:02

Live radio broadcast type version of it.

RR 1:04

We have a new individual in town in an area of responsibility that has to do with the arts as well. We'll have an opportunity to meet the brand new director of the Lincoln City Cultural Center here in Lincoln City. Looking forward to that and a whole lot more right after this. Light razor.

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RR 2:24

The Pacific Coast Singers will present holiday sounds of the season. And speaking of sounds, Terry Voss, director of that very huge choir. It is the largest choir I think I've seen in Lincoln City put together in one space, Terry.

Terry Voss 2:40

It's a good size. There are 38 singers, and then with Milo accompanists and myself, that's 40. Whereas the spring group was about 17, 17 or 18.

RR 2:50

Is that surprising to you?

Terry Voss 2:52

It is because it it's a tough time of the year. It's a busy time of the year, and for you to be able to work out your schedule and make that work and be consistent with coming to rehearsals. I'm really pleased because people have been they've been there all the time.

RR 3:05

Okay, now the concert is going to be December the 13th, 3:30, and 7 o'clock. Tell us a little bit about what type of music or the music that will be involved.

Terry Voss 3:15

Right. So there's a variety of music. We have seven selections that the big choir will be doing. Three of those selections are a cappella, so without accompaniment. And then the other four are with accompaniment primarily. We're bringing some instrumentalists. We have a flute player, clarinet, cello, violin, some percussion instruments, the bell tree, as well as a piano. So we have the variety. We're singing one piece in Spanish. Another one has quite a bit of Latin in it. And of course, English. So there's a nice variety as well. And then we have three ensembles that are singing three separate pieces that are made up of different people. One's a small whims ensemble, another one's a small mixed ensemble, and one's a larger mixed ensemble. And then we have four separate solos as well. And then we have the bell choir.

RR 4:01

No, it's gonna be in the congregational church in in the sanctuary. The acoustics of that are are pretty decent.

Terry Voss 4:07

Are they really good? They're really good for a small space. We added a concert because we've the advertising's been great, and with the size of the choir, we think we need to have two concerts.

RR 4:17

And they will be back to back the same day.

Terry Voss 4:20

Yes, 3:30 and 7.

RR 4:22

Okay. The music itself, uh all holiday?

Terry Voss 4:27

It is all holiday. It's not all sacred though. We have a a medley called the Christmas Pops Trio that has three familiar songs in it to people. Winter, winter land, have yourself a merry little Christmas, and it's the most wonderful time of the year. So we have familiar ding dong merrily on high. We're opening up with Make We Joy. The tenors and basses will be standing in the aisle, and we have the the sopranos and altos up front, and it's a bell choir, hand drum, tambourine with it. So there's quite a bit of variety.

RR 4:59

And variety of voices.

Terry Voss 5:01

Yes. In in age. And age, right. I was checking last night because I thought that would be interesting. Our youngest member is 13. His mother and grandparents are in the group, and then our oldest member is 88. So we're so excited with that variety. And we have uh like you mentioned, it's a big group, 38 singers. There are seven basses, eight tenors, eleven altos, and twelve sopranos. So it's it's a really good balance.

RR 5:28

Now you are directing, you've had a lot of help in that directing.

Terry Voss 5:33

I have Amy White is a rehearsal assistant. So for about three or four of the rehearsals, for part of the time she would work with the Spanos and the Altos, and I would take then her tenors of basis to another room. So yeah, if we don't do that alone, Carol Wolfe was a rehearsal accompanist for a couple weeks, and Omilo Grahmans, who does a lot around this area, was the accompanist that you're talking about. He's really accomplished. Oh, he is so talented and so adaptable, and yeah, the whole works. He reads my mind, he kind of knows what I'm gonna go over and where I'm gonna start, and he's amazing.

RR 6:05

How do you go about selecting the various pieces you're gonna uh have the choir perform or or right?

Terry Voss 6:13

I've some I've done before. Um, sometimes I will talk to colleagues. I taught you know choral music for 40, 45 years or so. So I'll reach out and say what pieces really worked for you for a variety of voices and you know techniques and experiences, and I go from there. I try to find something that everybody's gonna like. So we've got that popular music, we've got the the old time stuff. We have four carols we're gonna do as a sing along. So we do have enough variety. I hope that it appeals to somebody, some of it, and hopefully most people like it all.

RR 6:44

No admission, but we are asking for a contribution of canned foods.

Terry Voss 6:49

Right, exactly. And I think that's wonderful too, that people can just come and enjoy themselves and not have to worry about it if it's something they think they can't afford. It's a busy time of the year. There's a lot of expenses. So I and I really appreciate the Congregational Church financially supports you know, with Pastor Mike Grogan as well, that they are willing to support this community because n most of the people are not in the the congregation.

RR 7:15

That's true.

Terry Voss 7:15

You know, we have primarily Lincoln City, Depot Bay, Newport, but then we have people from Otis, Toledo, Solette, uh, Walport, I mean Rockaway. I mean, so people come from all over. What draws them? I don't know. I'm hoping that their experience in the past has been good, that they've spread the word. I think you we start the rehearsals and you can already see the end. We only have eight rehearsals, so it doesn't go on for months and months and months. So it's not daunting in that way. The rehearsals are two hours long, which isn't we used to go an hour and a half. But so many members would s would say, Can we just go longer? Which is a good thing. So we we've extended the rehearsal times to two hours. But I I think that's it. I hope it's a positive experience. We end every rehearsal with somebody or or in this case it'd be acquired two people every week bringing cookies or bars or some type of treat that we can socialize for just a little bit afterwards and you know, and just have a good time. That's not just making music, but hopefully building community and friends.

RR 8:15

As I look around what has happened with that choir, with that concert, and the way it has expanded year after year, what's next?

Terry Voss 8:24

I don't know what's next. I I really, you know, if I'm asked to continue to do it, I I just hope that the I don't think that's yeah for debate. I don't know. I I hope that the choir stays a similar size because then we're we're able to do more types of music because of that. But yet the core group, the what the people that have been there all along, you know, at all five, I think, concerts, have been in the choir for that long. If some, I think up to like 40 years. So, you know, we we have that, you know, that core group, like I said, that if we if it is smaller in size, it's still gonna be great.

RR 8:57

I can think of one lady that's been in it about 50. Yeah, yeah. She's a saint. She probably is gonna slap you alongside the head for saying that. Yeah, right. Uh-huh. Again, it is December the 13th, 3:30 and 7 o'clock. Uh, two goo concerts. Uh, it's at the Congregational Church directly west of Kenny's IGA. Uh I used to be Kenny's IGA. Uh now it's here at Grocery Outlets. Sorry about that. Right. Uh 2435 Northwest Our Place. And again, it is uh free admission, but please bring canned food for the food bank.

Terry Voss 9:34

Right, and the concert doesn't have an intermission, it's only about an hour, 10 minutes long, so sing it through when we're done. Short little reception after each concert, and and that's it.

RR 9:44

Do you have a favorite piece?

unknown 9:47

Oh boy.

Terry Voss 9:48

You know, every other year I like to do Mary Did You Know, and I really like that arrangement. We end the concert with it this year again. We did it two years ago. And I I that's a piece that I've loved doing for years and years. A signature Yeah, I think so.

LCCC 10:01

Woven Legacies is a special sale of killings, rugs, bags, shoes, jewelry, and home decor made by artesians in Turkey. The sale of these items at the Lincoln City Cultural Center will support the center and also the ongoing care of Julie Reynolds Otraman. All treasures of Woven Legacies were imported by Julie and her late husband, Senere Otraman. View the entire display today at the Lincoln City Cultural Center and own a treasure destined to become a family heirloom.

RR 10:31

If you're looking for great early garden fresh produce, it's Kenny's IGA in the Bay Area of Lincoln City. Four generations of Morgans caring for your every grocery need. All your favorite beverages, a full deli, meat produce, and of course, groceries. It truly is a wonderful life. And a wonderful life, a live radio program is gonna be on the air. With us is Lewis Smith. Lewis, it is a wonderful life.

Louis Smith 10:58

Yes, uh, I'm very excited about this. It's been a couple years since we put it on, and uh uh we've had some scheduling issues, or COVID has kind of kept us out of the theater for for a while, but we've got uh most of the gang back, uh, some of the original people that did it back in 2017, and then some new folks. So people will be able to watch you do a radio play, correct? Exactly. We we have it set up to kind of recreate what it might have looked like back in 1940s a radio show. I've even got some, they're not great, but they're the retro-looking mics. And uh yeah, they're gonna be uh we've got they're gonna be reading off scripts. We do rehearse it. My favorite thing to do is the Foley table. So I do the sound effects.

RR 11:45

And it is with complete sound effects.

Louis Smith 11:47

Yeah, we do have some digital stuff that we had to do. I the first year I did it, uh, the one in 2017, I tried to do it all with the homemade sound effects. Uh, some of the things like the window breaking and the the body going into the the river, uh the splash, uh it was just too messy. So uh some of them we've digitized, and you know, like car doors opening and closed. I do have a an actual building door uh which uh Brian Kirsch built for me back in 2017. So it's a miniature door that every time somebody opens a door or closes, it I get to make that sound. But but yeah, so you'll that's up on stage. Uh then again, we have a few digital ones to supplement it.

RR 12:31

So you have a number of people that uh will be reading all of the parts as if it was going live on radio. Exactly.

Louis Smith 12:40

Yeah, they uh most of the people, except for the principals, are doing multiple characters, so they get to do uh you know different voices. I believe this particular script was originally designed that you could do it with as few as seven people. Uh I've got 14. People like to be in it. And and you know, even if it's for a couple of lines or something, but uh they they they have fun with it. But yeah, they'll be uh playing the different characters and they'll be coming kind of rotating up and back from the microphones. Uh that part's kind of interesting sometimes.

RR 13:13

Couple of voices that I am very familiar with, Wes Ryan and Brian Kirsch.

Louis Smith 13:18

Yes, absolutely. And they both uh they were two of our original ones back in 2017. Uh when I first moved up here, the first play I saw was uh I Hate Hamlet at Theater West, and Wes was in that. He played the ghost of Hamlet. Or no, I'm sorry, it was the ghost of or was it the ghost of the actor that played Hamlet. I can't remember, John Barrymore or whatever, but uh regardless. And I just I I loved his voice. And uh and I remember telling my ex that I said, yeah, god, that would be kind of fun to you know get him involved in something like this. And I had no idea that he had experience in radio and had actually seen some of these productions. Uh, I don't I don't want to give away say the wrong age, but you know, from that era, he talked about seeing some of them as a kid. And I had done this show down in San Francisco before I moved up here, and I played, I got cast as the George character, the Jimmy Stewart character, and I was a little nervous about that because I don't, you know, people still have a certain expectation of what you're gonna sound like, and you know, and but I remember watching the director who was doing the sound effects during the show and thinking, I want to do that. And so Wes, I uh you know, I thought he would be a great announcer, and the the show itself has some kind of uh era appropriate hokey commercials, and then we have you know a chorus that sings and whatnot. But uh I was really Wes has been at every year since uh 2017 with us. Uh Brian has been the irascible Mr. Potter, and a few others uh have been along for the ride. One of these days I told Brian that we'll switch and let him do George, but he plays such a good, evil, bad guy. It works. It works, it works.

RR 14:58

So now this is gonna be on stage if you will when.

Louis Smith 15:02

Yeah, this is gonna be on stage at the uh Lincoln City Cultural Center. Uh we were just there for two days. Uh we're on Friday, December 12th, uh, that's at 7 p.m. And then on Saturday, December 13th, we have a 2 p.m. matinee and a uh 7 o'clock evening show.

RR 15:22

If my memory serves me right, the first time that I saw this sold out.

Louis Smith 15:27

We yeah, we've had some pretty good uh it kind of depends which year you went, but uh when people know about it, we fill up the space.

RR 15:36

So uh the actors and you are on stage and uh the audience just sits sits in the back and watches the goings on.

Louis Smith 15:46

That's pretty much it. They get to see what goes on behind the scenes. Um, there's a a kind of a premise behind what the actors are doing, and and I think this is the hardest part for people that have regular stage experience, is I tell them your first character is as a radio actor, your second character is the character in the show because it's a very different kind of thing. So I said, our premise is that we're putting on a charity or charitable event, and they are all famous actors from that 40s era. So I said, dress as you feel fit, you know, have fun with it. Uh, you are somebody famous that's just coming here to put on a show. And I tell them that, but I said, The other part is though, you you can't, and it's the hardest part, I think, for people with stage experience when you're doing a dramatic scene, like between George and Mary or whatnot, or like when George is having his meltdown, your natural inclination is to want to connect with the other person on stage next to you, like in this case, Mary, his wife, and it's really hard to resist, you know, turning towards her and hugging her while you're while you're crying or something, and you can't do that. And I've it's it's like you gotta keep your mouth, you know, an inch from the mic. And you know, you could try maybe go a little bit off center, but uh you you just you have to use your voice, and I think that's a that's a really hard thing to put it all in your voice and not be able to back it up with your physical action.

RR 17:10

How close is the script that you will be using to the one that's on television? Uh it's pretty we've been on the movies.

Louis Smith 17:17

Yeah, it's pretty close. It's uh I'm I'm trying to think of uh there might be one or two slight differences, but for the most part, it it it does a pretty good job, the adaptation. If you know the movie, you won't be disappointed and think, hey, where's that scene with blah blah? And the angel gets its wings. Well, I can't give that away. But yes, yes, it's a positive thing.

RR 17:38

Don't miss it, Bruce Smith, and it is a wonderful life, a live radio play on stage at the Cultural Center. Yes, Lincoln City Cultural Center. It's gonna be uh Friday, December 12th at 7 o'clock, and Saturday, December the 13th, uh two performances, two and seven o'clock. It truly is a wonderful life. Yes, it is. And you have a trio that's gonna be performing?

Louis Smith 18:02

Yes. The second year we did this, I decided that it would be a lot uh I had to use kind of can music the first time, and I thought if the cultural center has enough space, why not have our own studio band? And I had worked with uh John Brangetto, who was at the time uh the band leader for Lincoln Pops Orchestra, and I had worked with him in Tour to Die Four and a few other things. And I I said, Hey, you know, are you interested in doing this? And can you put some folks together? And and he did, and uh it the the personnel has changed, but John's always been there. And then this year, I and last year, actually last two shows, we had also Matt White, who's uh Beach Crest. Beach Crest, yeah. Yeah, he's an excellent musician, and then he'll have a drummer. Uh so you know John usually plays keyboards, he plays uh trumpet, uh sometimes accordion, and then uh uh Matt, I'm sure, will be doing saxophone and then a drummer. So the audience will have like a half hour before the show of just listening to era specific tunes from that period, and it's really a lot of fun. Don't miss it is a wonderful life.

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RR 19:48

Welcome back to the Double Eye Show. We have a brand new voice to introduce to the listening audience. Serena Dressel is with us, and Serena is the new director for the Lincoln City Cult. Center. Welcome.

Serena Dressel 20:01

Thank you. I'm happy to be here today.

RR 20:03

What brings you to Lincoln City?

Serena Dressel 20:05

So I actually grew up in Lincoln City and lived here until I was about 10 and moved away. And I'm coming back for the first time in a long time. And I was excited about the job hosting at the Lincoln City Cultural Center. And I also uh my partner lives in Lincoln County in Celettes, so that helped bring me back to the area as well as family. So it feels really special to be back in my hometown.

RR 20:31

You are there as the director, and what do you see as your main work program right now?

Serena Dressel 20:40

Well, one of the things I've been busy with is as some people are aware, local celebrity Judy Hardy is retiring. She had a retirement party yesterday. And so helping find someone to fill her shoes and our donor relations manager position, which is vacant. But I also am excited for the future to look into bringing more cultural programming into the cultural center and uh increasing engagement for a kind of I don't know if you would call it young adults, people in their 20s to 50s. So I think the cultural center is great at engaging people who are youth like K through 12 and seniors, but we can do a better job at engaging like the middle-aged adult range.

RR 21:28

You are at the cultural center now, you bring what to the table? What was your degree in?

Serena Dressel 21:34

So I a few years ago finished my master's in public administration, so some focus on nonprofit management, but I also have a background in event planning and volunteer management and organizational management. And most of my career has been more in sustainability and sustainability education, but I see that as serving some of the same purpose as the cultural center, really connecting people to place and through events too, creating spaces where people can gather, where they can be belong, and where they can connect to the places they call home. So my background in sustainability was really thinking about how to connect people to place in a meaningful way so that they care about the environment. And at the cultural center, I think uh it's such a hub for connecting people to Lincoln City as a place and connecting them to each other and creating that sense of belonging.

RR 22:28

What do you think is the biggest asset right now of the Lincoln City Cultural Center?

Serena Dressel 22:32

Oh, that's a big question. I guess my initial first impression, I haven't hit my two-month mark uh in the job yet, is the people. So the people who work there have such a good reputation and such big hearts, and it really seems like they've built such a community at the center that it really brings in a lot of returning members and donors and community members who just really care about uh the atmosphere that's been created at the center because it's so friendly.

RR 23:05

Big question. Judy LaFrida theoretically retires.

Serena Dressel 23:10

Yes.

RR 23:10

How do you keep her out of the building? Because you know she's gonna be there to work.

Serena Dressel 23:14

I know I've been brainstorming that a lot. So I unfortunately is not I'm not as much of a handy woman as Judy. So I can't see myself up there on a ladder with a hammer all the time.

RR 23:26

Or putting in light bulbs or whatever would happen to me. Yeah, yeah.

Serena Dressel 23:29

So if you know anyone who's great at that, we're we're still looking. But yeah, I think Judy, it'll be hard to fill her shoes, just like Nikki. They both just like Nikki. Yeah, quite quite a big legacy for both of them.

RR 23:42

You needed that to begin. Now it goes for forth from here. And do you have established goals?

Serena Dressel 23:50

I wouldn't say, yeah, just the ones that I've shared. I wouldn't say anything in particular, but just thinking more about how to engage that middle-age group in the cultural center and establish more cultural activities and connections with cultural groups in the Lincoln County area. But I haven't had time to refine those goals into something more tangible yet. So I'm looking forward to doing that, but I have been pretty busy trying to fill Judy's position.

RR 24:18

I bet you have. Yeah. The Cultural Center is such a hub of uh specialty and arts and crafts and in beauty that uh you know it's just sometimes we only take it for granted and we shouldn't.

Serena Dressel 24:36

Yeah, I think I've been kind of shocked coming coming back to Lincoln City and being at the cultural center, just how special the Lincoln City community is and how welcoming and vibrant. And I think it's because I'm at the cultural center. Well, Lincoln City is great, but the cultural center really does seem like the part at the heart of the city. Yeah. And so it feels so special to be there, and people care so much about the center and its work. So it's I'm happy to be helping lead that.

RR 25:05

Well, especially as it was an old school building, and there's a lot of memories that go back and forth uh for people that went to school there or taught there.

Serena Dressel 25:14

Yeah, yeah. And I actually went to the former Taft Elementary before uh it relocated. So I have all these memories of a school that isn't there anymore, too. So it's interesting to see how Lincoln City is evolving.

RR 25:29

Arts does what for the human spirit?

Serena Dressel 25:33

Ooh, that's a good question. I guess I just see arts as really healing and uh and it has the power to really connect people to each other and to their values and to really what makes them feel human. So kind of arts are like a medium for connecting to the soul in a way.

RR 25:53

Serena Dressel, we look forward to hearing from you a number of times down the road as you embark on a brand new career right here in Lincoln City.

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RR 27:13

Right, yeah. A really short-tailed relative. But this is a uh person that was the remains have just been found. He was killed during World War II. Uh he is from Dalin, North Dakota, which was three miles from where I was raised. Uh his name is Irvin C. Ellingson, age 25 of Dalin, North Dakota, killed during World War II. He was accounted for on June 17th, 2025. Wow. It is it's an amazing story. The Ellington family in uh North Dakota, I give you platitudes for everything that you've endured all of these years, always wondering what happened to your son, your grandson, uh, and the like.

Son Paul 28:01

Yeah, and uh, you know, we're just thinking about veterans and uh veteran services. We uh just reached out to the elections office uh earlier, and they're gonna do that hand recount uh next week, next Thursday. Uh so speaking of veterans and uh time served, uh, you know, there's this uh ballot measure that Lincoln County put forth, and uh yes we'll see the outcome of that uh officially uh here in a week or so.

RR 28:26

It is uh something of great importance, and uh we uh uh wish those concerned uh best of luck in that recount. It may wind up back at the ballot again down the road if it does not pass this time.

Son Paul 28:41

I suppose it could, yeah, absolutely. And it was a it's a five-year levy uh so it would have to be renewed even if it did pass. So yeah.

RR 28:48

Some of the other things taking place, St. James Santiago School play on Wednesday, December 17th, 6 o'clock, at the Santiago School uh 2490, Northeast Highway 101, of course, here in Lincoln City. Uh you can still purchase your Christmas holiday tree uh from the Boy Scouts. Uh all of the trees that were auctioned off at the Angels Anonymous Festival of Trees. I can't say all because some were artificial trees. Boy Scouts don't sell artificial trees, but all of the live trees were bought from the Boy Scouts, and our thanks to them for bringing them in, setting them up uh and helping out uh Josh Zantillo and company did a yeoman's job of putting that together for us. Angel Ball done said over for the year. Big fundraiser, yeah.

Son Paul 29:38

I I haven't heard the totals. Did you get totals on that?

RR 29:41

Uh no totals yet, but I'm guessing uh according to Sun Phil, we should be somewhere around about forty-five thousand dollars that uh uh Angels will make that and uh maybe even a little bit more. Uh, we'll find out down the road. I every dime all of the profits go to help people with immediate and basic needs, and especially this time of year. Sure, yeah.

Son Paul 30:03

I just want to give a you know shout out to the music. Uh oh you know, the sole proprietors up there, right? Uh so yeah, it was uh Amy and Matt White and company. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. It was it was great, great sound all through the night, and uh yeah, thanks to thanks for them for helping put that on to me.

RR 30:21

Yeah, not only to to get up and dance too after all of the auctioneering was done, but the dinner music was right on track. And speaking of dinner, great, great meal.

Son Paul 30:31

Oh yeah, you know, I know you and I had part of the salmon because I had a couple bites from Allison's plate. Yeah, but uh I had the uh the filet, which was fantastic, and uh yeah, and shrimp, of course, and uh cheesecake, I think.

RR 30:45

Yes, yes, it was well worth sitting down at that table for.

Son Paul 30:48

Yeah, it was great, great and again.

RR 30:50

Thanks uh to the staff and management at Shunakwins Casino Resort. Uh Dee Pigsley uh came and uh had an opportunity to to spend some time with Dee. Uh she is a delightful individual that uh uh leads the tribal council with uh probably the most gifted hand of anybody that I know of.

Son Paul 31:11

Yeah, it's really great that uh she's been there for so many years and uh hope for many, many more now come uh as well. So that's great.

RR 31:19

And again, our condolences to the Ellington family, and uh it's condolences, it's congratulations because now they can finally rest and know that their son, their grandson, uh has been put to rest finally, uh killed in action in uh the spring of 1945, and as of last month, identified. Yeah, and identified.

Son Paul 31:47

Brought on to be reinterred here stateside.

RR 31:49

So, yeah. And anything else your side of the table? No, we are clear from here. Thank you. That will do to the doings, and we remind you to uh like, subscribe, and share so you, your family, and friends around the world and across the street can join us on the double R Show for Paul and Jenna. I'm Double R. Have yourself a happy day.

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You've been listening to the Double R Show. Join Roger and Paul Robertson as they explore everything about North Lincoln County. The Double R Show produced by Always Productions and hosted by Roger Robertson. Have a story? Email contact at alwaysproductions.com or call four five eight two zero one three zero three nine. For the Double R Show, I'm Jana Gron.