ART IS A.V. SENIOR'S PASSION.Byline: BETTIE RENCORET Senior columnist LANCASTER - Senior Barbara Snedigar is a talented artist whose oil paintings regularly take ribbons at the Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley Fair - like the Best of Show award earned last year by her unusual depiction of blue sunflowers. Every Tuesday she paints with other dedicated artists at the Antelope Valley Senior Center and every Thursday she puts brush to canvas at Mayflower Mayflower, ship Mayflower, ship that in 1620 brought the Pilgrims from England to New England. She set out from Southampton in company with the Speedwell, Gardens in Quartz Hill. ``I don't teach,'' she said, ``but I offer advice if anyone asks me.'' While she only paints in oils, her subject matter is varied. She does landscapes, flowers, animals, just about anything that takes her fancy. At the moment she's working on a white, spired chapel surrounded by a stand of flowers. She sells paintings sometimes, but she doesn't do it for the money, she said. ``I paint because I love to,'' she said. ``I'd rather just give my friends paintings to make them happy, but sometimes they won't let me. Sometimes they won't take a painting unless I let them pay for it.'' The art group that gathers at the senior center is just like a family, she said. ``We're all very close. When someone has a problem, we're all there for him or her. We can talk our problems out together, cry together and sustain each other through everything,'' she said. ``We all get our therapy there.'' She said it's such a good group of people that she hates to miss any Tuesday session. ``It's so relaxing I can be sick as a dog, and I'll go down there if it kills me,'' she said. ``Even when I'm traveling, if it's Tuesday I feel like I ought to be at the center painting.'' Of Croation ancestry, Barbara Babick Snedigar was born and received her early schooling in Milwaukee before she came to the Antelope Valley as a teen-ager with her parents in 1947. She returned to Milwaukee briefly after she got married in 1948, then came back to the desert to stay in 1952. Her two children, Ronald of Lancaster, and Sharon Megee of Austin, Texas, were both born during those years back in Wisconsin. Snedigar finished her last semester of high school and received her diploma in 1976 by taking classes at Antelope Valley College Antelope Valley College is a comprehensive community college located in Lancaster, California, USA. It is operated by the Antelope Valley Community College District, with a primary service area of 1,945 square miles covering portions of Los Angeles and Kern counties. . She spent four years as an assistant home economist for Edison Co. back in her early Lancaster years, and since she loves to cook she found that an enjoyable experience. While Snedigar loves to paint and cook, her friend, Anne Chronister claims she has many other talents including sewing, crocheting and making lasting friendships. ``I've never heard her say one unkind word about anyone,'' said Chronister. ``And I don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. anyone else who remembers to send cards to her friends for every occasion. She never misses a birthday, anniversary, illness or any other special reason to let them know she's thinking about them.'' Snedigar loves to travel. She has taken several cruises, has gone to Alaska, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , Hawaii, Oregon and many other places. Planned later this year are trips to Reno and Mexico. Many of her weekends are spent at beaches in Ventura and Santa Barbara Santa Barbara (săn'tə bär`brə, –bərə), city (1990 pop. 85,571), seat of Santa Barbara co., S Calif., on the Pacific Ocean; inc. 1850. and at least once a year she goes to Phoenix. When she travels she indulges herself by adding to her several collections. ``I collect wolves, lighthouses, bears and T-shirts or sweat shirts every place I go,'' she said. She's been a member of the Antelope Valley Allied Arts Association, the Lancaster Women of the Moose, the American Association of Retired Persons American Association of Retired Persons: see AARP. , volunteers at the senior center and belongs to the Friends of the Center. Menus for the week at the senior life nutrition sites in Lancaster, Palmdale and South Valley have been announced. All meals include bread, margarine and coffee, tea or milk for a suggested donation of $2. Monday: Tuna casserole, peas and carrots, three-bean salad, pineapple juice, pears. Tuesday: Barbecued pork Barbecued pork may refer to:
Noun, pl long narrow green beans that are cooked and eaten as a vegetable , creamy coleslaw cole·slaw also cole slaw n. A salad of finely shredded raw cabbage and sometimes shredded carrots, dressed with mayonnaise or a vinaigrette. , pudding. Wednesday: Salisbury steak, mashed potatoes n. pl. 1. Potatoes which have been boiled and mashed to a pulpy consistency, usu. with sparing addition of milk, salt, butter, or other flavoring. It is a popular accompaniment to a meat course [U.S., 1900's], providing bulk and calories to a meal. , cooked cabbage, carrot/raisin/pineapple salad, cheesecake. Thursday: Spaghetti and meatballs Noun 1. spaghetti and meatballs - spaghetti with meatballs in a tomato sauce dish - a particular item of prepared food; "she prepared a special dish for dinner" , mixed vegetables, tossed salad, apple juice, banana. Friday: Oven-fried chicken, baked potatoes, beets, marinated salad, Jell-O with fruit. CAPTION(S): Photo: Barbara Snedigar paints each week with artists at the Antelop e Valley Senior Center and Mayflower Gardens. Bettie Rencoret/Special to the Daily News |
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