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Eight actors with ties to Abrams are jumping county lines to perform in the Box in the Wood Theatre Guild’s latest show, “Anything Goes.”

Long viewed as a popular show for school and community productions, the musical will debut July 18 at the Mielke Arts Center in Shawano. “Anything Goes” takes place aboard an ocean cruise liner leaving New York and heading to London.

Faith Fuller, a performer with Abrams Spotlight Productions Inc., is one of the leads in the Shawano show, playing Reno Sweeny, an evangelist turned nightclub singer. She helps a young stowaway named Billy to win the heart of Hope, a young heiress on her way to London to meet her fiance, Sir Evelyn Oakleigh.

Fuller has plenty of family support in this show. Her father, Early Fuller, will play the Right Rev. Henry Dobson, as well as one of the passengers, while her sister, Whitney Fuller, portrays a reporter and mother, Karen Fuller, is a photographer.

The city of Oconto and the Department of Natural Resources, the Copper Culture Museum will be staffed with guides daily from 11:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. through Labor Day, thanks to additional funding provided by the state.

Operated by the Oconto County Historical Society, the museum is located in the Copper Culture State Park, one block south of the intersection of state Highway 22 and U.S. Highway 41.

The museum focuses on the Old Copper Complex, an Archaic Tradition people who utilized native copper to form tools and ornaments.

Within the park is the Oconto archeological site which is the oldest dated burial ground in eastern North America.

Some experts suggest it was used primarily between 3,000 and 4,000 years B.C.E.

Janina (Joan) Gauthier celebrated her 100th birthday at the Oconto Falls Senior Center on May 24. Friends and relatives came from near and far to be with her.

Gauthier was born in Milwaukee. She later lived in Spruce and finally in Oconto Falls, where she still lives on her own with a little help from her daughter, Sue Campbell.

Gauthier was married for 50 years to her late husband, Leo. They had 11 children and now have about 178 descendants.

Gauthier did seasonal work at the canning factory and at one time was the health inspector for the town of Stiles. She was a leader in the 4-H sewing club.

She has lived in the same farmhouse for close to 70 years and still plays cards with her neighbors at the Senior Center.

As part of her centennial celebration, a Mass was held in her honor at St. Anthony’s Catholic Church in Oconto Falls.