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LUMMI ISLAND COMMUNITY CLUB NEWSLETTER

October 1969

POT LUCK DINNER MEETING ‑ WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29 ‑ 6:45 P.M. ‑ GRANGE HALL

MR. SAMUEL LEATHERS OF BELLINGHAM WILL GIVE AN ILLUSTRATED TALK ON SCUBA DIVING AS DONE AROUND THE LUMMI ISLAND AREA.

EVERYONE WELCOME.

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The following report of the last Community Club meeting was lifted from the Ferndale Record and was authored by Jeanie Granger our local reporter of said tabloid. Hope I don’t get called for illegal proselyting: The Lummi Island Community Club held its first meeting of the fall season Wednesday, September 24th at the Grange Hall. There were between 75 and 80 attending and as always seems to happen the pot luck dinner was varied, plentiful and scrumptious. The program was composed of a slide lecture on the North Cascade National Park now in existence and of plans for the future, presented by Mr. Stewart Frittz a ranger from the Park Service. He originally came from New Jersey and was previously stationed in Mt. Rainier National Park. His talk was most interesting and his pictures depicted the grandeur of our Cascade range and the recreational possibilities and facilities. A business meeting followed and several new residents to our island were welcomed. It was agreed we have another island New Years Eve party. Those islanders responsible for painting the church under Mr. Peele’s guidance were gratefully thanked for their project. Until the island residents have had further discussion the idea put forth that we enlarge the grange hall and thus have a larger multiple purpose building for grange and community activities was postponed. More discussion is needed before any decisions can be made.

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COMING EVENTS:

The PTA have asked everyone to remember the annual Halloween party at the school gym Friday, October 31st. The PTAers will be most happy to accept any donations of any kind that could be used for prizes. Items for the Fish Pond should be suitable for all children through grade school age. White elephant prizes for the adult bingo should be secretively packaged (like wrapped in a C note perhaps?). They sincerely hope that you and you and so forth will come and wear a costume this year.

The Craft Club will sponsor the annual Christmas Bazaar and urges all you clever people to get your sale items all ready for the December 6th date. As usual, you may display and sell your own products at fabulous figures. Watch for a final notice in next month’s letter.

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MEDICAL REPORT: The flu made its rounds a bit early and caught its many victims unawares, even before some of them had any time to do any dissipating to speak of or even some they couldn’t speak of. Mrs. Dale Wright has been incapacitated (I think that means ‑ do your own cooking and housework) for several weeks and we all hope she gets back on her feet real soon ‑ judging from the appearance of Dale. Heard Ardith Baumgarde has been feeling a bit poorly and is only able to work raising kids, husband and cows 16 hours a day rather than 18. Who was it said ‘frailty thy name is woman’?

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PEOPLE HAPPENINGS…..Mac and Edith Granger are busy using their gift air travel tickets to Alaska sent to them by their daughter Dorothy who lives there. Guess the trip up was a bit bumpy but enjoyable. Wonder if Mac took a real long handled shovel with him seeing as how other outlanders have been finding oil thereabouts …. Jack and Lucille Miller report a fair fowl foraging foray over yonder the other side of the mountains last week. Their chief complaint ‑ too many other fowl foraging foragers …. Jerry and Norma McDonald forced (?) themselves to take a trip to California to take Aunt Nellie Brown back for the winter …. The Jerry Andersons, Dick Pooles, Lehr Millers, Marion Tuttle and Bob Adema took an enjoyable 1 day trip to Canada’s Weaver Creek salmon spawning grounds last Sunday to watch the sex life of thousands of decrepit and sorrowful looking fish (oh joy). They also watched the hundreds of other curious human types that showed up, too. This writer was amazed at the number of people that drove those back country roads to get there. However, all of them were Canadians, even though the U.S. taxpayer pays half the tab of constructing the facility. This is an artificially constructed 2 mile spawning stream primarily made for but not limited to the sockeye salmon, and October is a peak breeding time. All those in the local caravan except the Millers are in the salmon fishing industry, so they were immense interested. The Millers represented the consumers ‑ and how! …. Speaking of consumers, that Dick Poole family is a durn good one to take to a picnic. Their survival kit of goodies is unbelievable. Incidentally, the Pooles bought the Walt Fishers’ home.

Dick Poole has agreed to put on the next program for the club, which will be the 26th of November, and judging from the information we have about him it should be immensely interesting. It seems that he is the director of a local oceanographic laboratory and is professionally known as a shell fish culturist. He is employed by the Oceanographic Institute of Hawaii. This non profit organization’s prime object apparently is to do research on developing the resources of the marine life. He is also working on the aquaculture program with Dr. Heath on the Lummi Indian Reservation. As a side issue to our trip to Canada ‑ if Marie Anderson ever offers you a chocolate drop after she has been to her favorite import shop in Canada, forget it, especially if you are a member of the WCTU or something.

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My, how quiet it is on the island, what with all the shootin’ arms fraternity sloshing around elsewhere. All of which reminds me of a quotable quote purported to be emitted by a sportsman of British ancestry upon arising one morning at his hunting lodge. “Jove, what a beautiful day. Let’s all go out and kill something.”

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Many other islanders are filtering back to the local scene after having again gone through the motions of doing penance to their respective ancestral heritage ‑ that of slaying the beasties so’s the tribe can survive another winter, just sort of a prehistoric ritual, I guess.

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The announcement by the representative of Atlantic Richfield recently to the effect that every oil company in the nation wants to build a refinery in this area has been received with mixed feelings by those of us who are already considerably irritated by the odor from the present refinery in Ferndale. What will happen when 3 or 4 others are built?

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The local church is in dire need of more tangible support (translation: attendance) by the islanders. The time is 10:30 Sunday mornings for both church and Sunday school. The church message is given alternately by Rev. Elmer Erickson from the Congregational Church in Bellingham and Dr. Lawrence Brewster and others from the speech department of the college.

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Craft Club invites any interested lady islander to join the activity every Monday starting about 11 A.M. at the Scenic Estates Clubhouse. Bring a sandwich, the club serves the coffee. Present project is making Christmas ornaments from plastic crystals. Phone Prexy Helen Barry at 758‑2350 for more information ‑ or just pick up and go next Monday morning. Artistic talent is POSITIVELY not necessary.

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See you on the 29th.

Your scribe, for

Gus Johnson, President

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