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Wednesday, May 8, 2013• The Islands’ Sounder
Youth help others in LA Orcas Island youth went on a mission trip to Los Angeles with Pastor Scott Harris from the Orcas Island Community Church. The group worked on four projects during the week-long trip in April. The kids served lunches at St. Mark’s Lutheran Church, feeding around 100 people Tuesday through Friday. They also planted a garden. At a local middle school, there was a huge area that used to be a garden where kids were taught horticulture in the 70’s. Budget cuts turned it into a weed patch. The school had a vision to restore the garden and allow groups to grow food for their community. One of the local sixth grade classes had adopted a plot already. Steve Deipenbrock
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showed school staff how to compost and mulch, purchased fertilizer from a horse farm near the middle school, and worked with Orcas youth and middle schoolers to give the garden a kick-start.
At Adventures Ahead, an L.A. based nonprofit, the students helped with the one-on-one tutoring in the afternoons. In the morning building projects were led by Mark O’Neill for a physics fair in June.
Left: Reclaiming a garden fallen into disuse. Front: Alenna Garcia, Emy Carter. Back: Gabi Carver, Joe Kostechko, Kirsten Fowler. Above: Front row, Stephanie Harris, Sandi Harris, Lana Bronn. Second photo, Lisa Carter, Aliza Diepenbrock, Kirsten Fowler, Jo Gudgell, Emy Carter, an LA friend, Lisa Bronn. Third row, Cindy Carter, Jess Gudgell, Alena Jansen, Roo Smith, Alenna Garcia, Alivia Garcia, LA friend Jeanette, Gabi Carver, Maggie Mason. Fourth row: Josh Bronn, Mimi Diepenbrock, Dennie Carter, Michael Harlow, Mark O'Neil, Steve Diepenbrock, Zack Tillman, Luke Bronn, Staci Lindgren, Zack Kostechko, Joe Kostechko and Kellen Comrie.
‘Bizarre Brassiere Bazaar’ event
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JoAnn Francis created the above piece for the auction. All islanders are invited to the Bizarre Brassiere Bazaar on Friday, May 10 from 7 to 10 p.m. at the Oddfellows
Have you told your doctor you’re having trouble sleeping? WE CAN HELP.
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Hall in Eastsound. The evening will feature a variety of donated items – artwork, jewelry, services, gift certificates and more – available to the crowd via raffles and a silent auction. Some
of the items include artwork from Jim Hardman and Fred Enge, a one-night stay and dinner for two at the Orcas Hotel, spa and massage packages, pottery and gift certificates for books, restaurants, and other island specialties and services. The highlight of the evening’s festivities will be the unveiling, presentation and spirited auctioning of more than a dozen one-of-a-kind artistic bras created by Orcas Island artists specifically for this event. Hors d’oeuvres from Orcas bakers and wine, beer and champagne from the Madrona Bar and Grill and Island Hoppin’ Brewery will be served throughout the evening.
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Emcee/Auctioneers, Mark Padbury and John Clancy will keep the action lively! Entrance to the event is by donation. Proceeds from the event will support the new Orcas Island Ferry Ticket Fund, an island-wide effort to provide both information and financial help for folks who need off-island medical care, have no insurance, are under-insured or underemployed. This program has been inspired by local musician Marlene Dickey and the Orcas Family Connections Resource Center will administer the fund. Stop by through May 9 to view a rotating sampling of the bra works” through the streetside window of the Our House building on Main Street in Eastsound. The organizing committee, dubbed “Team TaTas,” includes Dickey, Ethna Flanagan, Gaylynne Noonan, Beth McElhone, Gretchen Krampf, Carla Stanley, Marta Nielson, Anu Honey and Susan Malins. Email ferryticketfundraiser@gmail.com for more information.