Sometime just prior to 4 o’clock on Sunday afternoon, ROC Musical Director Brian Farrell, along with the cast and chorus, will sound the final chord of Donizetti’s endearing opera The Elixir of Love. The curtain will fall. If the audience is applauding, performers will bow. The house lights will come up. And at that moment, the result of weeks and weeks of preparation will become ...

... ephemera.

But between now and then, there are concrete tasks to accomplish, all in the hopes that they will help transport performers and audience alike to another time, another place ... and that in the end, the lingering vestiges of ephemera will evoke warmly moving memories of time well spent in each other’s company at the opera house.

Today’s concrete contributors to Sunday's ephemera include crew members from the Goodwill Industries Summer Youth Employment Program team, as pictured above, working under the beneficent oversight of the B.V.M. at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Pomona.