Farmer-Consumer Awareness Day 2019

Farmer-Consumer Awareness Day 2019 • QUINCY, WA

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Table of Contents Parade route - see the map below. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 3 Welcome to FCAD. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pages 4-6 Schedule of events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 7 Connections to food - a column . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pages 8-9 Farm Family of the Year. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pages 12-15 Entertainment: a local band . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 16 Grant County - an agricultural leader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 18 Test your bean IQ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pages 20-21 Historic firetruck in the parade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pages 23-24 Dancers in the parade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pages 26-29 Honorary Farmer of the Year. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pages 30-33 Geology tour, videos. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pages 35 Fireworks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pages 36 New barn at Quincy High School. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pages 38-39 The Farmer-Consumer Awareaness Day section of The Quincy Valley Post-Register is published by Washington Media LLC, 305 Central Ave. S, Quincy, WA, 98848. 509-787-4511. © The Quincy Valley Post-Register 2019 Dave Burgess, news@qvpr.com Janette Morris, ads@qvpr.com Pedro Caballero, design@qvpr.com Miles King, sports@qvpr.com Luisa Leon, office@qvpr.com

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Welcome to FCAD 2019!

Join the celebration of farming and food (a topic we can all get into) at the 39th Annual Farmer-Consumer Awareness Day (FCAD) on Saturday, September 14, 2019.

FCAD was started in 1981 to close the gap between farmers and consumers. The farmers have the opportunity to share the fruits of their labors, as well as their tools and techniques, while consumers gain a better understanding of where and how their food is grown.

Get an early start with registration for the Beat the Beast run at 7 a.m. at Mountain View Elementary. Choose from three options: 2k, 5k, or 10k.

Starting time is 8 a.m.

If a run isn’t on your menu for the day, head to the Quincy Middle

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School cafeteria for a pancake breakfast (served from 7 a.m. to 10 a.m.) to fuel up for a busy morning.

If you are wondering where Quincy Middle School is, it is the same place where FCAD events were last year: 16 Sixth Ave. SE. But the school is now a middle school rather than a high school.

From 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., the middle school gym and surrounding grounds host food booths, exhibits, a quilt show and produce sale.

In the performing arts center/auditorium of the middle school, video presentations and talks begin at 8:30 a.m. and continue until 4 p.m.

The WSU Raptor Club presentation of live birds of prey begins at 2 p.m.

At 9 a.m. registration opens for the car show and tractor events on the middle school grounds. Judging for the car show begins at 11:30 a.m. and the tractor event at 12:30 p.m.

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The veterans memorial plaque dedication begins at 9 a.m. in Memorial Park, at the corner of F Street and 2nd Avenue SE. Grab your chair and a great viewing spot for the Grand Parade, which start at 10 a.m. Colorful costumes and floats, ringing music and revving engines offer delight for spectators of all ages.

Free local tours begin at 11 a.m. on a firstcome-first-served basis. You can sign up in front of the middle school for any of the following: 11 a.m. Quincy Fresh Fruit 11:15 a.m. Cruising the Crops 11:30 a.m. Great Escape Geology 12:30 p.m. Quincy Foods 1:10 p.m. Reiman Simmons Museum 1:30 p.m. Quincy Foods 2:10 p.m. Quincy Foods The Quincy Rotary Barbecue runs from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. with tasty fare for the whole family.

Live music and entertainment begins onstage at 11:30 with a local band kicking off the fun.

At noon, the Farm Family of the Year and Honorary Farmer will be honored onstage.

If you plan to show off your kitchen prowess, cook-off entries are due in the middle school gym between 12:30 and 1 p.m.

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Onstage entertainment continues until 3 p.m. with music and dance performances, as well as awards for the cook-off, car show, parade and antique tractor.

The grand opening celebration for the new Quincy High School, 403 Jackrabbit St. NE, is

The Quincy Valley Lions Club In conjunction with

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Special group rates and times are available by calling 509.398.2631, 509.398.0957 or email quincyvalleylions@ yahoo.com. Cost is $6 per person and includes the mazes, a pumpkin of choice, games and activities. Children 2 and under are free when accompanied by a paid adult.

Pumpkins may be purchased during the week at Becerra Gardens u-pick garden.

Call 509.989.1298 or email amado@becerragardens.com for more information about the u-pick garden.

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7 A.M.- Beat the Beast, 2K/5K/10K registration at Mountain NOON - Farm family of the year and Honorary farmer onstage View Elementary 12:30 P.M.-Tractor events begin after registration 7-10 A.M.- Breakfast at QMS cafeteria 12:30 P.M. - 1 P.M. - Cook-off entries due in QMS gym 8 A.M.- Beat the Beast begins at Mountain View Elementary School.

9 A.M.- Car show and tractor events registration at QMS Entertainment, Events & Awards 1 P.M. - 3 P.M. grounds. Parade registration downtown.

- Q.V. Allied Arts 8 A.M.-4 P.M.- Food, exhibits, quilt show, produce sale in the - Tina Hobson Dance Troupes middle school gymnasium and FCAD grounds - Alan Baerlocher Music 9 A.M.- Veteran’s memorial plaque dedication at Memorial Park - Cook-Off Winners 10 A.M. - FCAD Grand Parade through downtown Quincy - Antique Tractor - Best of Show Award 11 A.M. - Tours Begin - Car Show & Parade Winners 11 A.M-2 P.M.- Quincy Rotary barbecue (Cash Only) - Local Band 11:30 A.M.- Car show judging begins 11:30 A.M. - Local Band

The Quincy School District has invited the community to celebrate the grand opening of the Quincy High School on Saturday, September 14th from 3:30 P.M. to 7:30 P.M.

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Sign up and meet for all tours in front of the middle school at the bus turnaround. These are free tours and are first-come-first-served.

11 A.M. - Quincy Fresh Fruit 11:30 A.M. - Great Escape Geology 1:10 P.M. - Reiman Simmons Museum 11:15 A.M. - Cruising the Crops 12:30 P.M. - Quincy Foods 1:30 P.M. - Quincy Foods 2:10 P.M. - Quincy Foods IN THE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER (PAC)/AUDITORIUM AT QMS 8:30 A.M. & 4 P.M. - Video: Desert Garden (15 min.)

9:00 A.M. - VIDEO: “Huge Floods in the Pacific Northwest – A Story of Lava, Ice and Water” featuring Nick Zentner, Geology Professor at Central Washington University (20 min.)

9:30 A.M. - VIDEOS: Frenchman Coulee (5 min.), and The Great Floods, Cataclysms of the Ice Age (15 min.)

10 A.M., 1:30 P.M. & 3 P.M. - Video: Desert Garden (15 min.) followed by “Interactive Agriculture” (10 min.)

10:30 A.M. & 3:30 P.M. - VIDEO: Ice Age Floods, Catastrophic Transformation of the West (30 min.)

11:00 A.M. - Talk by Ken Lacy, “The Great Escape.” Ken will tell about glacial Lake Missoula, the ice-age floods and the geologic features found around the Quincy Valley. Then, Ken will lead a tour by bus to the Potholes Coulee, Frenchman Coulee and the Drumheller Channels and nearby areas to view flood-carved geology.

11:45 A.M. - Lower Grand Coulee Chapter of the Ice Age Floods Institute Monthly Meeting 12:15 P.M. - TALK & VIDEO: David McWalter, Interpretive Specialist at the Dry Falls Visitor Center. David will talk about the Junior Ranger Program, Dry Falls and the Grand Coulee, and present a video featuring Nick Zentner, Geology Professor at CWU. 2 P.M. - WSU Raptor Club Presentation with live birds of prey and telling the story of each one. The WSU Raptor Club is a non-profit organization located on the WSU campus in Pullman. Its mission is to promote wildlife conservation through the use of non-releasable raptors as living representatives in public environmental education programs. The club’s presentation gives people an opportunity to see these amazing birds up-close. Please bring your children and/or grandchildren to this program.

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FCAD helps average people see the farmers connected to their food

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ven though I’m fairMy mom’s dad put his horse ly new to the basin, on a train in Oklahoma 1908 my agricultural backand got off in Seattle at the tenground runs deep in my der of age of 11 years old, rode ancestry. My dad’s family immiback through the mountains to grated from Germany in the midthe Lake Chelan Valley, stak1800s, settling in Indiana where ing a claim on a quarter section they grew hogs, draft horses and of ground on the bench above wheat. My grandmother and Manson. His brothers soon folBy Rod Cool grandfather were married there lowed, and they started raising in 1898 and sought out the best hay, cattle and apples. His opground they could find to continue that legacy eration grew throughout the early part of the over the next 65 years of marriage. Moving 20th century to include logging and a sawmill from Indiana to North Dakota, South Dakota, to cut the shook for the wooden apple boxes, Eastern Oregon to a place on Willow Creek a transportation company to haul fruit to the where the closest town was Ione. From there railroad line and supplies up lake to the mines to Birch Mountain in Wenatchee, then finally and logging operations. He and my grandma ending up at the head of Texas Creek near the had four girls, the oldest being my mother. My town of Carlton in the Methow Valley. Along parents were children of the Great Depression the way they had 14 kids, the youngest being and learned to get by on not only raising and my father. selling livestock and crops but raising their

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After they were married, they raised hay and cattle, operated an outfitter business to put the ranch horses to work on the off times, and a custom butcher shop. This was the home that I was raised in.

In addition to the cattle, hay and horses, we raised fat rabbits, laying hens, fryers, and a small walnut and peach orchard. I learned at an early age the value of hard work and the importance of agriculture.

I worked in the orchards alongside my mom, starting at 8 years old, thinning and picking apples. When I was older, I started changing handlines in the orchards and hayfields that were in bike-riding distance from home.

I joined FFA when I got into high school, and this changed my life. In the FFA, I raised show sheep and cattle. I competed in creed speaking, public speaking, extemporaneous speaking, livestock judging, apple judges, and parliamentary procedure. I went

to college and earned an Agriculture Education degree. My ag skill set and a few scholarships got me through college shoeing horses, driving combine, and cutting meat.

When I became an agriculture teacher, my sole purpose in life became stamping out agricultural illiteracy even if I had to do it one mind at a time. Farmer-Consumer Awareness Day is a means to that end.

The percentage of the population of the United States that were farmers in my grandparents’ days was upwards of 60 percent. In my parents’ day, it dropped to right around 20 percent, and today it rests right around 1.5 percent.

While most of the folks in the Quincy Valley just have to look in the mirror or across the dinner table to find a farmer in their family. For some Americans, they are five or six generations off the farm. And as that gap widens, the disconnect between food producers and food See Food on page 10

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With so much information and misinformation that is available with the modern technological advances that we have today, most folks are confused and concerned about where their food comes from. Farmer-Consumer Awareness Day allows the average person to put a face to their food.

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or “they” who are drenching our food with pesticides and cutting corners to make a huge profit from your food dollar. When you talk to a farmer, you realize they eat the food they grow and wouldn’t put anything on your food that they wouldn’t feed their own kids.

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thing to jeopardize that. Probably not a story you’ll see on the evening news. Because the 2 million farmers in America are too busy working to feed the rest of us that they don’t have the time to tell it.

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per crop. Now a circle in Quincy will cut an irrigated winter wheat crop in excess of 200 bushels to the acre.

Much has changed since my grandfathers turned the earth and coaxed a living out of the ground.

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For the Becerras, the Farmer-Consumer Awareness Day Farm Family of the Year, selling their produce in local markets is not just a way to earn a living, it’s more personal.

“It’s not just a transaction, it’s more a family thing,” said Amado Becerra, also known as Ruben.

The Becerras – 63-year-old father Amado, 63-year-old mother Rosa, and 27-year-old daughter Laura – have been building their “family” cus-

tomer base for 20-plus years. Laura and Amado have been selling in the Wenatchee farmers market for that long, and some of the customers have been with them since the beginning.

“Some of our customers, I’ve known them since I was 5 years old,” said Laura. “You end up getting to know these people.”

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the mid-90s. Before settling in their current location a few miles south of Winchester in 1999, the family started with a little corner garden off of A street in 1995. Back then, they sold produce to large grocery stores in Wenatchee, such as Albertson’s, as well as the farmers market.

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tricks of the trade while working with the Jones family for 20 years. He worked for Mike Jones in George for eight years before joining Jack Jones in Quincy for 12 years. He and Rosa originally came to Washington in the late 70s, where he worked on the sugar beet farms.

Starting out in the 90s, Amado claimed there was “no hard part,” adding, “we like it, that’s why we do it.”

Although, they have received a lot of help tending to their 20 acres from Laura, their son Juan at times, Rosa’s sister, Maria from California, and a local friend Manuel Villa, who Rosa called a “good neighbor; good friend.”

Today, with Amado and Rosa getting older and Laura working full time as a nurse, the family has dialed back sales in those big national stores.

Nowadays, customers can find Becerra produce in Akins Fresh Market in Quincy, they can pick it themselves at the garden, or find Amado and Laura

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Farm Family of the Year in Wenatchee at the farmers market.

“We really like the u-pick,” said Laura. “It’s really neat that people come out here and just pick their own produce, bring their kids and make a family event out of it.”

While the garden has changed location and sold in different places over the years, one thing that has never changed is what the family grows. The family is known for its variety of peppers, according to Laura, and they grow every color of the rainbow, added Amado. Other crops include asparagus, potatoes, cucumbers, tomatoes, onions, green beans, carrots and an assortment of other vegetables. The only fruits the family grows are strawberries and cantaloupe.

The family also grows pumpkins during the summer, but not to sell personally. They are sold instead by the Quincy Valley Lions Club, which organizes the pumpkin patch and harvest mazes. The event has

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grown every year, according to Amado, adding that the parking lot is usually full and sometimes customers are parking out on the road at the busiest times.

“It’s just a fun community event,” said Laura. “It’s kind of a way to give back to the community.”

With Rosa and Amado getting older, the future of the garden rests with Laura. Her brother Juan only stops by occasionally, but stays busy with his job at the Department of Transportation and his four children. Amado believes he has another 10 years before he really slows down. For Laura, while she thinks she will never quit nursing entirely, her heart belongs to the garden.

“I travel a lot, I’ve left for school and I have another job, but something always brings me back here,” said Laura. “For me, this is what I love.”

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Local band to play in FCAD debut performance Unlike previous Farmer-Consumer Awareness Days, this year’s entertainment will feature more local groups than headliners of the past, such as The Weavils, Dave Stamey or the Moses Willey Band. Lined up for this year’s entertainment is a local group going by the name In Transit.

Composed of five members in their early twenties, the band plays primarily alternative rock, but each member enjoys playing a variety of tunes, said bass guitarist Byron Buys. For their set at FCAD, the group plans to play a lot of covers by the likes of Imagine Dragons, Journey and The 1975, among others, said Buys.

Buys and his brother Kendrick, who plays acoustic guitar, hail from Quincy. The three others – Kieran Rolfe on lead guitar and vocals, Clay

Dukes on drums, and Zach Delano on the keyboard – are from Ephrata. The musicians have been playing together for about three years and have played a few shows before, according to Buys.

However, for some the acquaintance goes further back.

In Transit got the gig when Keith Kooy, of Kooy’s Irrigation, who is an FCAD committee member in charge of entertainment, asked the group to play for this year’s event. Buys had asked Kooy in past years if the group could play FCAD to no avail.

“We’re trying to keep it more Quincy-ish,” said Kooy, adding that there are locals that want to show off their talent.

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The band will play on a stage set up behind the baseball fields and the former Quincy High School turned Quincy Middle School. The band is scheduled to play from 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., with breaks to announce the car show, tractor show and parade winners, according to Kooy.

“Our hope is that we can get the audience energized and having a good time,” said Byron.

In addition to the band, a local dance troupe led by Tina Hobson will perform as a group, another musician known as Alan Baerlocher, and Quincy Valley Allied Arts will perform a production, said Kooy. Times for the other entertainers had not yet been determined.

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Wheat, alfalfa, hay and cattle are just a few of the many crops produced in Grant County. The total earnings from just those crops combined was $159,076,900.

Grant County accounts for 26,500 of the 280,000 total milk cows in the state, or a little over 9.5 percent. Including calves, that percentage almost doubles to 15.3 percent in the county, according to United States Department of Agriculture 2018 statistics.

As for the wheat (excluding durum), Grant County accounted for 20,900 acres of the 515,000 total acres across the state in 2018, producing 2,535,000 bushels or 9.1 percent of the state total. Across the state, each acre yielded an average of 54 bushels per acre; in Grant County, 121.3 bushels per acre. With the market year average price per bushel at $5.70, Grant County farmers earned a whopping $14,449,500 last year.

Grant County also accounted for nearly a third of the alfalfa in the state, with 101,500 acres harvested of 350,000 acres total. The county produced 619,000 tons of alfalfa, which is 39.3 percent of the state total.

At the market year average of $183 per ton, farmers in Grant County earned $113,277,000 in 2018.

Excluding alfalfa but counting all other hay, farmers in the county harvested 30,500 acres of the county’s total 410,000 acres. Grant County produced 161,600 tons of hay, accounting for 13.6 percent of Washington’s total. Compared to the state’s 2.9 tons of hay yielded per acre, the county yielded 5.3 tons per acre. At a market year average price of $194 per ton, Grant County hay producers earned $31,350,400.

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Since purchasing it about five years ago, Randy Zolman has driven a 1957 Seagrave engine in the Farmer-Consumer Awareness Day Grand Parade every year. The red firetruck was the first new engine purchased by the city.

Zolman, who serves as Grant County Fire District 3 Station 37 chief, plans to drive the historic vehicle in this year’s Grand Parade too, slated for a 10 a.m. start in downtown Quincy on Sept. 14.

“It gets a pretty good reception in the parade because it’s old and part of Quincy’s history,” said Zolman, adding that it gives folks a look at what firefighting used to be like.

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Firetruck from page 24 when the engine was retired and was left to rust, he said, adding, “It kind of meant something to us [older firefighters].” About a day after buying the engine, it was donated to the GCFD3 volunteer association, said Zolman.

According to Zolman, the last call the engine responded to was for a fire at a church in the 1980s.

Other than some new lights on the engine and a new diesel motor installed, the truck is original, according to Zolman.

“That truck is just the way it was when I started in 1979,” he said.

The original motor was a flathead 12-cylinder, according to Zolman.

“That truck in its heyday would pump 1,000 gallons per minute,” he said. New trucks nowadays can pump upwards of 1,700 gallons per minute, he added.

The truck came from Florida in 1957. Don Simmons and Jim Burns flew to Florida and then proceeded to drive it all the way back across the country to Central Washington. Today, a plaque on the side of the truck details those involved in the truck’s delivery to Quincy.

On their long drive back to Quincy, Simmons and Burns were pulled over for speeding in South Dakota, according to Zolman. At another point in the trip, they passed a fire, and bystanders were disappointed when the two didn’t try to subdue the flames; they did not have the hoses.

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Of course, the FCAD parade wouldn’t be the same without the uplifting, heart-pumping music and bright, colorful outfits of dance groups such as Ballet Sol Y Luna and Ballet Carisma, which have both been part of the parade tradition for years.

Ballet Carisma consists of 16 youth members led by their instructor Lupe Cendejas who has had 24 years of experience teaching dance. Ballet Carisma was formed eight years ago, and has been a part of the FCAD parade ever since.

Ballet Carisma performs regional dances of Mexico that originated from the states of Jalisco, Nuevo Leon and Guerrero. To dance the parade route to eight different songs takes about 25 minutes.

“We look forward to it,” said Cendejas. “The children enjoy it.”

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“It’s fun,” said Ballet Carisma member Brianna Cendejas. “It’s really fun to dance folkloric. I really like how the movements are and how the skirts are. It inspires me to keep the tradition.”

Alejandra Delgado, another Carisma member, started dancing when she was 4 years old.

“When I found out she was giving dance classes my face lit up,” Delgado said.

Perhaps the most challenging part of dancing the parade route, which is roughly a mile on foot by the time they get through with their steps, is to withstand the heat of dancing while in full costume.

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The group is led by choreographer and dance instructor of four years Delayne Sandoval and her sister and assistant Jennifer.

“Walking and dancing the route is hard,” Delayne said. “We make up a list of more upbeat songs. The kids just know the steps. We shuffle the songs so they are different.

They are adapted to it already. Everybody likes being recognized by their community and peers.”

Ballet Sol Y Luna performs traditional folkloric dances from the Mexican regions of Sinaloa, Nayarit, Jalisco and Nuevo Leon.

Sandoval mentioned that each region has its own culture and its own dances.

“There are certain steps and certain shoes you can’t wear with certain outfits,” Sandoval said. “You must follow the background of the region they are representing.”

The outfits worn by the dancers can be expensive, Sandoval

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Sandoval believes it is all worth it. She notices that the children who start dancing often are shy at first, but then they gain more confidence over time.

Ballet Sol Y Luna is ready to dance at the FCAD parade, but they are preparing by practicing, of course. Right now Ballet Sol Y Luna consists of 25 youth members. They started dance practices back in February with a few new members. Ten will graduate and leave the group this year.

“The kids get tired, but we are excited to start and finish the parade,” said Sandoval. “It is enjoyable for everybody.”

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• Honorary Farmer of the Year The Honorary Farmer of the Year for this edition of Farmer-Consumer Awareness Day is never too far away.

He’s in the respect Henry Mann gives his elders and in the way Della Mann talks about agriculture.

He’s in the flowers planted alongside the roads of Quincy, and in the vibrancy of FCAD itself. He’s in the mowed lawn of his next-door neighbor and in the American flag that flies high atop the pole outside his own house.

Chester “Chet” Pedersen is everywhere.

“He was so kind-hearted,” said Grace Kok, a longtime friend of Pedersen. “If people only knew how kind-hearted he was.”

The stalwart of FCAD from its beginning and supporter of many other community projects died in December of last year. But his legacy is alive and well, thanks to decades of tireless work, many of them dedicated to the Quincy community he loved so well. For instance, he served on Quincy’s Beautification Board and spent many hours working in the flower beds around town.

“He was a great neighbor,” said the Quincy historical society’s Harriet Weber, who lived next door to him and who worked on the FCAD committee for several years with Pedersen. “He was very family oriented. Until his mother died, every single Sunday he would go and visit his mother (near) Kittitas.”

Kok, who also serves on the FCAD organizing committee, knew Pedersen for about 25 years and says the same attention he gave his mother, he also offered to others.

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housecleaning duties for 18 years.

“He loved to give.”

Weber attests to that, saying Pedersen loved to “lather his nieces and nephews with gifts.”

Seattle’s Barbara Mann can attest to that and much more. As one of Pedersen’s nieces and as the mother of Henry and Della, Barbara Mann struggles from the start to put her uncle into words.

“I’m gonna try to do this without crying,” she says at first. Later on, she says the gift her uncle loved to give the most was his own time.

Kok agreed, saying that Pedersen was a good listener as well as a continuous fountain of ideas.

“He would call me in the evening, ‘Grace, what do you think of this?’ And I would say, ‘I don’t know, Chester, I’m gonna have to think on it.’ We did that a lot.”

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• Honorary Farmer of the Year a family function, and often traveling to Seattle to see the Manns, or calling Barbara every week, and to the Ellensburg area to visit his mother.

“My kids loved him so much,” Mann said of Henry and Della Anne. She sees part of her uncle in her children’s actions and values, she added.

“My son takes time to listen to people,” Mann said, adding that he wants to live in a farming community and Della Anne wants to study agricultural economics at WSU. Famous were the talks between great-uncle and great-niece, and not just time-passing chit-chat.

“Soil. They would talk about soil and chemistry,” Mann said.

“He loved science, he loved plants.

He kept a garden at home and would help my grandmother with her yard.”

The product of an upbringing on a potato farm in the Badger Pocket valley of Kittitas County, Pedersen

never strayed from his farm-boy roots. Pedersen earned a degree in agronomy from Washington State University in 1964 and started his own business in 1967, called Columbia Agricultural Consultants.

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Mann agreed, saying Pedersen’s legacy is in how much he cared for the community. If people want to honor her uncle, a good way to start is by loving their community as much as he did, Mann said.

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Geology tour showcases Quincy Basin’s wet history Part of Farmer-Consumer Awareness Day activities, “The Great Escape” geology tour will show attendees just how flooding has shaped the Northwest and the Quincy Basin specifically.

The tour will leave Quincy at 11 a.m. on Saturday, Aug. 14, from the former high school (now Quincy Middle School) and will last about three to four hours, said tour guide Ken Lacy. It will visit three coulees in the area: Lynch, Potholes and Frenchman Springs.

Between 15,000 and 18,000 years ago, the Quincy Basin was flooded more than 90 times, said Lacy. The flood water would escape through these coulees, creating the distinct landscapes seen today.

Between Last year’s tour took about 20 attend15,000 and ees by bus to Othello to see the Drumheller Channels, said Lacy. The tour this 18,000 year will forgo those channels. Lacy is years ago, expecting about the same amount or more attendees at this year’s the Quincy slightly tour.

Lacy claimed the tour will be the Basin was most exciting event in the group of flooded events known as the geology showcase.

Other geology-focused events include more than informational videos featuring Central 90 times.

Washington University geology professor Nick Zentner detailing the history of ice age flooding in the area. David McWalter from the Dry Falls Visitor Center and Lacy will speak along with the videos.

According to Lacy, a lot of people he talks to, some of them having lived in the area for their whole lives, have no idea of the numerous floods that ravaged the area during the last ice age.

Some tour attendants will watch every video, then go on the tour as well.

“It’s a dedicated group of people,” Lacy said.

Lacy encouraged those who are curious about how the Quincy Basin landscape was formed to go along for the tour and watch the informational videos.

“It’s going to explain why things are the way they are around here,” said Lacy, adding that mostly older folks have attended past tours.

Three other tours are planned for the day in addition to the geology tour. At 10 a.m., Cruising the Crops; at 11 a.m., Quincy Fresh Fruit; and at noon, Quincy Foods. All tours are first-comefirst-serve.

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If all goes well, there will be a fireworks show on Farmer-Consumer Awareness Day, unlike last year.

According to the local organizer, Kent Bacon, the fireworks show will be in George, not in Quincy.

Ten days before FCAD Saturday, Sept. 14, Bacon’s plans were all but finalized for the show to take place just to the south of the community park in George.

In 2018, the fireworks show was canceled, along with the balloon festival that Bacon and his wife, Kim, helped organize for years.

The cause was a permit issued by the city of Quincy for the fireworks made it untenable to do the show, Kent Bacon said after last year’s disappointment. The terms of the city’s permit scuttled the fireworks show, according to Bacon, and it was a hard decision to make.

This year, Bacon sought a site outside of the Quincy city limits for the fireworks instead of facing re-strictive terms on a city permit and the complications of seeking permission from five landowners in order for the show to be held at Quincy’s Lauzier Park.

Bacon, a Quincy resident and member of Northwest Pyrotechnics Association, organizes fireworks activities around FCAD and other times. Bacon also serves on the Quincy Valley Tourism Association.

As a hobbyist club, NPA pyrotechnic artists will do some training and practice Friday in George, and there will probably be some fireworks going off again on Sunday as the club cleans up the site.

The Bacons started the Quincy Valley Balloon Festival in 2008 at their home, on their turf farm, and added the fireworks show in 2010.

The balloons and fireworks thrilled thousands of FCAD attendees for years and brought many visitors to Quincy. In 2014, the show moved into Quincy.

Concerns about noise and safety increased in town, along with more home construction in the direc-tion of Lauzier Park, which eventually pushed the fireworks show out. It is a common occurrence around the country, Bacon said.

The city of Quincy used to chip in some money for the annual show, but club members paid for most of it. This year, Bacon said, he had not heard whether the city would contribute cash and expected the club members will shoulder all the costs.

Bacon said that if a commercial display company were hired to put on a similar show, it would cost $40,000 to $50,000.

Members of the club bring their own shells – what they like to work with. Bacon said he hopes to do a spectacular “gas mine,” which he could not use inside Quincy.

Why do Bacon and other pyrotechnic club members bear the costs and organizing headaches?

“Because we just love what we do,” Bacon said. “Our passion is fireworks.”

The fireworks will be back, but the balloons will not.

Bacon said there were several factors bringing the balloon festival to an end. The balloonists are getting older and fewer, and young balloonists are not getting into the sport as much, he said. Plus, the timing was difficult with a number of other, larger balloon festivals going on around the same time in western cities.

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The new Quincy FFA Barn, seen under construction in August 2019, sits northwest of the new Quincy High School main building.

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New barn brings opportunities for high school students With construction of the new Quincy High School, one of the many new features is the FFA barn located on the north side of the campus.

According to Mike Wallace, Quincy FFA co-adviser at QHS, the old high school, now turned into Quincy Middle School, did not

have a barn structure like the new facility, but something that worked for the program’s needs.

The new barn will feature three 320-squarefoot pens, a 40-foot by 60-foot show ring, and 60-foot by 80-foot covered area for animals outside, said Wallace.

“It’s going to be something else,” he said in an interview before classes started.

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The animal science class focuses on the process of raising livestock all the way to market, or as Wallace called it, “conception to consumption.”

The Quincy FFA chapter has about 220 members in the high school, according to Wallace. He was also last year’s FCAD Honorary Farmer of the Year.

More and more of the FFA students live in the Quincy city limits, not on farms, so they don’t have livestock of their own, said Wallace. He would like to get a key access system installed so students can tend to their livestock in the barn in off-hours.

“It’s going to be a real awesome teaching tool,” said Wallace of the barn. With the new barn, he thinks more kids will be able to take their animals to shows, like the Grant County Fair.

The new facility will be heated, air-conditioned and include an automated watering system, said Wallace. It will also have a new septic

system installed, part of a strong focus on sanitation and biosecurity for the whole facility. Strict biosecurity measures will implemented and enforced, he said.

“It only takes one bug [virus] to wipe out an entire barn,” he said.

According to a report to the school board by project manager David Beaudine, the barn will not open until late September due to issues with the barn’s septic system.

Wallace has no concerns that this delay will set back the animal science class, as the students will not get their animals until November.

At least for the first year, the students will not be breeding any animals for their projects; however, that could change in the future, said Wallace, adding, “We’re going to take baby steps.”

The grand opening celebration for the new Quincy High School, 403 Jackrabbit St. NE, will be Sept. 14 from 3:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., and the public is invited to the dedication and tours.

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