NORTH COUNTRY CAR CLUB
THE TAMING OF THE SHREW
2014 CAR SHOW
At the CCC of Tonasket Fri.-Sat., June 20-21, 7:00 p.m. Sunday, June 22, 4:00 p.m.
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Molson Midsummer Festival is Saturday Grand Marshals are David, Silvie and Sandra Hilstad BY GARY A. DEVON MANAGING EDITOR
MOLSON – The 19th Annual Molson Midsummer Festival is planned for this Saturday, June 21 in and around the Molson School Museum and the Molson Grange Hall. This year the event is honoring David, Silvie and Sandra Hilstad as Grand Marshals for all the family does for the community. It is also a preview of the 100th anniversary of the Molson School House, which now is a museum and houses many exhibits of early day life in Molson, as well as items from Molson’s school days. The day starts out with a pancake breakfast at the Grange Hall beginning at 8 a.m. and going to 10 a.m. The Fun Run/Walk also takes place in the morning and is a good time to gather wildflowers to decorate the May Pole at 10:30 a.m., followed by the May Pole dance where everyone is encouraged to join hands and dance around the May Pole. Meanwhile the classic car show will be taking place on the lawn next to the school house. At 11 a.m. the parade, featuring the Grand Marshals
Clockwise from top: Kade McKinney, nine, and Wylie Shellenbarger, six, return from an airplane ride at the Tonasket Father’s Day Fly-in last Sunday morning. Gabe, six, gets a lift from his mom, Rosalyn Ray to get a closer look inside this sport airplane. The Spirit of Tonasket, is a familiar sight at the fly-in and gave lots of rides to the five and under kids. There’s always time to pose before going for one of the adult rides. Lee Orr, with the Airport Improvement Club, which sponsors the event, said he was very happy with the turnout, including the barbecue the night before, which attracted many pilots from all over the region Washington and B.C.
and everyone else who would like to participate, will make it’s way down Main Street. The food concessions, put on by the Sitzmark Ski Club, also begin at 11 a.m. and go through 3 p.m. in the Grange Hall. At 11:30 festival goers are invited to participate in several events on the school house lawn, including a horseshoe tournament, kids’ games, and new for this year, the Amazing Molson Challenge. The Challenge includes the traditional scavenger hunt and much more, say organizers. The Ed Forthun Memorial Frizbee Golf Tournament begins at 12:30 p.m. and goes through 3:30 p.m. The car awards are announced at 2 p.m., so voters on their favorite cars must have their votes in by 1:45 p.m. While all the outdoor events are going on there will also be much besides food taking place inside the Hall. There will be arts and crafts tables, as well as music going on all day long at the Grange. And of course folks are invited to step inside the School House Museum and look at the many displays or take a short trip to the Molson Ghost Town Museum and have a look at the early day buildings, farm equipment and vestiges of pioneer living in the highlands. All proceeds from the day go to the museums and maintenance of the Grange Hall. Organizers also invite people to come back on July 26 to help them celebrate the school house’s centennial anniversary.
Tonasket seeks grant for Parry’s Acres sewer rehabilitation BY BRENT BAKER BBAKER@GAZETTE-TRIBUNE.COM
Following a public hearing to get public comment, the Tonasket City Council voted its approval for the city to apply for a Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) to partially fund the rehabilitation of the Parry’s Acres sanitary sewage collection system on Tuesday, June 10. Though Parry’s Acres lies outside the city and was originally built and operated by Okanogan County more than 30 years ago, its sewage system was transferred to the city about 15 years ago. Mark Varela, representing the city’s engineering firm Varela and Associates, estimated the cost of the project will be about $700,000.
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He said that the chances of receiving the grant would be enhanced by the city’s ability to contribute its own funds (from the sewer reserve fund) to the project. “When we apply, if we say we have $400,000 in the bank but ask for a 100 percent grant, we’re not going to get it,” Varela said. “If we say we have $400,000 and we’ll kick in $100,000, they’ll want to know what the other $300,000 is for.... “We need to show a pretty significant chunk of those reserves matching to do the Parry’s Acres improvements. When you do improvements in the city, Rural Development will make you spend it anyway. If you get the grant, you will have used the reserves to leverage the block grant.
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Conscious Culture Festival June 20-22 Forty live acts and as many DJs line up to perform at festival THE GAZETTE-TRIBUNE
TONASKET – The fifth annual Conscious Culture Festival, which blends music, art and education, will take place in the highlands above Tonasket June 20 through 22. The festival features over 40 live acts and 40 DJs playing reggae, rock, folk, soul, hip hop, dubstep, blues and more. There will also be fire dancers, aerial performers, a kids area, live glass blowing, local crafts, great food, free camping and free workshops, say organizers. This year Conscious Culture Festival has booked number of notable and nationally celebrated acts including
popular Jamaican reggae singer Kabaka Pyramid (with his band the Bebble Rockers), the NWs favorite stringband The Blackberry Bushes, hard hitting soul stars The Staxx Brothers, Californian female hip hop sensation J Ross Parrelli, Seattle reggae-fusion stars Indigitize, and renowned Australian DJ Mr Bill. In the diverse field of roots music the festival is proud to announce Washington State locals Robin Barrett & Coyote Kings (blues/rock), Mike Love (acoustic/beatbox) hailing from Hawaii, Australian export Blake Noble(percussion/guitar), local roots reggae favorite Essential I and the top Costa Rican reggae singer Noah among the 40 live acts that will perform. In the DJ dome we will feature many EDM (Electronic Dance Music) DJs from around the world and the U.S. playing will into the night. The CCF reaches its fifth year as the largest Roots, Rock, and Reggae festival of its kind in the Northwest. The festival has steadily gained a loyal following since
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its inception, for the most part because of incredible word and mouth and grassroots support, say organizers. But also because CCF is truly an inclusive event by nature. Over the last five years, festival founder and life long Tonasket area resident, BlueJay Hankins, co-owner off Sick Donkey Records, has enthusiastically embraced visual artists, teachers, speakers, DJs; just about any artist of merit that impacts his life, and is willing to work with his festival to spread a positive message. “CCF is also proud to announce they have teamed up with Ben Cohen of Ben & Jerry’s fame to present what Ben himself humorously calls the “world’s most complex way to stamp a dollar.” “His machine is a brilliant work of functioning art and engineering, protest and activism, that uses a Rube Goldberg style machine to send a special message to elected officials and the people they represent,” said Hankins. “Ben’s machine stamps dollar bills with a message that
your money is not to used to bribe politicians.” Free workshops include subjects ranging from Organic Farming, NonGMO use, Energy Healing, Kirtan, T’ai Chi, Fertility Awareness, Informed Childbirth, Dynamic Breath Release, Healing with Sound and Belly Dancing to African Drumming, Hula Hooping and Hoop making. Also all sorts of yoga classes all weekend including the very popular Youth Yoga classes, Viniyoga, Qigong, Kundalini Spirit Animal, Moon Salutations, Open Heart Yoga Flow and Yoga Nidra. The festival takes place at the Okanogan Family Faire grounds located at 76 West Cayuse Mountain Road, about 12 miles east of Tonasket. Entry is $50 pre-sale or $60 at the gate for the weekend. Tickets are available at Main Street Market in Omak, Tonasket Natural Foods Co-op in Tonasket and online at BrownPaperTickets.com. Day passes will be available at the gate for $25 a day.
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A scene from last year’s CCF. The festival is full of music, art and dance.
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