Pensioners Visit Riga Zoo And Tree Nursery in Baltezers

On Friday, 30+ Stelpe pensioners went on a tour sponsored by Vecumnieki District Board (Vecumnieku novada Dome). They visited Riga Zoo (Rīgas Zooloģiskais dārzs), Baltezers Tree Nursery (Baltezera kokaudzētava) and did some shopping on their way back to Stelpe.

Poetry Evening "When Heart From Love Breaks"

Picture: Olga Dreģe (center), the megastar of the Latvian theater, together with those having contributed to the content of the Poetry Evening.
Second line from left: Mārīte Kviešone, Nijole Ķerūde, Valentīna Rūtiņa
First line from left: Sandra Neliusa, Aleksandra Hadžimoratova, Olga Dreģe, Māra Lagzdiņa, Līga Karpinska

Olga Dreģe is by all means one of the brightest ever Latvian theater stars. For many decades, she has been enjoying love from all the nation having played several hundred roles in theater the Daile. She has featured also a few outstanding movie characters.

But this evening (October 8) she was visiting Stelpe School. Using poems of one of the most celebrated Latvian poetess Ārija Elksne, Olga led us on a delicate path of the deeper values of everybody's soul. She spoke a lot about a Home in the broader sense of this word, and the love for Latvia as our homeland. The professionalism and the true emotion she was putting into what she was saying, made tears appear in the eyes of nearly everyone.

The intimate air and deep emotional poetry was reinforced by wonderful music played by pianist Līga Karpinska and cellist Māra Lagzdiņa. These two ladies already start feeling at home in Stelpe since they are quite frequent guests on different occasions.