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Pane d’Amore is just one of the many locally owned businesses that offer locally made products from scratch at the Port Townsend Farmers Market.

The Local is devoted to locally owned businesses throughout the county, many of which are offering residents hundreds of dollars of savings Photo by Scott Wilson through coupons.

Welcome aboard The Local The Local is a local celebration in print.

The Local is unique in that it is entirely devoted to locally or regionally owned businesses.

They are featured in what we write about, and they are featured in the advertising and coupons within.

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Not only will you find hundreds of dollars in bargains from your locally owned businesses, but also you will find a story with each one. These are the stories about how a person or a couple or a family decided to open up shop here in Jefferson County to provide some unique products or services to their neighbors. These are entrepreneurs who are raising their families here. These are

people who really care.

In this perplexing and difficult economy, the businesses inside this magazine are those devoted exclusively to the people of Jefferson County. They not only offer some great deals but also provide service after the sale, a personal touch, and a commitment to our communities that is much deeper than making the next sale.

What does it mean to be a “Local”?

For one thing, it means having a lot of special memories of people and places that have come and gone, and many that remain.

We turned to two long-timers, Virginia Smith and Nora Petrich, to guide you down memory lane

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with their recollections of “You know you are a local if you remember …”

For another thing, it means a legacy of businesses that not only provide goods and services but also weave their goodwill, their labor and their cash donations through the fabric of our communities. Read Pam Clise’s story about the remarkable DeLeo brothers – Carley, Mickey and Bonzo – who spent decades building Port Townsend not only with lumber but with the sweat of their collective brows. Read about how Swain’s Outdoor in Port Townsend and Peninsula Foods in Quilcene carry on that tradition today, and they are far from alone. Viviann Kuehl pro-

vides those insights.

Judith Alexander tells about our growing network of community gardens, where entire neighborhoods gather to grow healthy food and healthy relationships.

And Mike Dobkevich offers insights into a skill-based local currency that, given these times, offers an interesting alternative to the battered greenback.

Finally, Katherine Baril offers a discussion on the benefits of locally owned businesses for the economy and the community.

It all speaks of a common, simple, powerful insight for how we live our lives: Think local. Buy local. Be local.

– Scott Wilson

The Port Townsend & Jefferson County Leader • THE LOCAL • October 2008

Aldrich’s Grocery in Uptown Port Townsend has been a regular stop for neighborhood shoppers for generations. The current market is rebuilt on the original site, after a fire destroyed the original building.

Photo courtesy of the Jefferson County Historical Society

Index to Advertisers Aisai Bento Ajax Café Aldrich’s Allstate Insurance Auto Works BADd Habit Screenprinting & Embroidery Belltower Art Big Pig Thrift Store Candle Store Cherry Blossom Circle & Square Auto Care Cuts & Curls Dana Pointe Interiors Dinah’s Yarn Discovery Bay Golf Club Don’s Automotive Service Inc. Eaglemount Winery Expressions Fins Coastal Cuisine First Federal First Federal Food Co-op Fox Draperies Frameworks Frog Mountain Pet Care

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Gardens at Four Corners Genetic Link Bicycles Homer Smith Insurance Agency Izadora’s Tanning & Day Spa Jacqueline’s Hairstyling John L. Scott Khu Larb Thai Restaurant Leader Classifieds Leader Classifieds Local 20/20 Loehr, Joanna Maestrale Mail Plus Maricee McDonald Insurance Group Mt. Townsend Creamery Mt. Townsend Creamery Pane d’Amore Port Hadlock Medical Care Port Townsend Muffler & Fabrication Port Townsend School of Woodworking PT Computers PT Cyclery Public House Grill Quality Landscapes

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Salal Café Sea Marine Silverwater Café SOS Printing Sport Townsend Summer House Sunshine Propane Swain’s Outdoor & More T’s Restaurant UPS Store Uptown Nutrition Victorian Square Market & Deli Wandering Angus Wild Sage Windermere PT WSU Extension

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Ajax Cafe You will be hard pressed to find long time locals that don’t have a story to

tell about the Ajax Café. The Ajax has been a locally operated café for over 30 years with a long colorful history. It is off the beaten path but once found, its out of the ordinary character make it hard to forget. The customers, former owners, performers and employees of the Ajax have contributed to the Ajax’s evolution and continue to put it in its own unique class. The Ajax uses as many local products as possible including locally grown produce, cheese and fish.

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Dana Pointe Interiors “Stop by and meet the Queens, . . . oops, I mean the team.”

Cynthia Landis, Dana Petrick, Diane Johnson-Kithcart Locally owned since 1996

The Big Pig Thrift Store Owners Bonnie and Warren Osmer Bonnie, Morgan, Mikayla and Warren have been in business for four years in Port Hadlock. The store offers good quality secondhand merchandise at great prices. We have a large selection of hardware, clothes for the entire family, craft and sewing supplies, toys, home decor, books, furniture, kitchen and bath items, bedding, rugs, electronics and much, much more! Merchandise arriving daily.

Donations are always welcome.

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Dinah’s Yarn Shop We have enjoyed 24 years of great rapport with our customers and look forward to many more. A win/win situation! Our shop is a warm and friendly place to share your craft. Learn new crafts and meet and mingle with new and old friends. We have a large supply of new and vintage yarns and lots of accessories. Come visit and Dinah Reed enjoy.

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This delighted customer holds one of the free chicks from DeLeo Brothers in 1950. In the apron is Bonzo DeLeo.

Photo courtesy of Linda DeLeo

DeLeo Brothers: Generations of service

By Pam McCollum Clise

People lined up for the DeLeo Brothers Feed, Lumber and Hardware Store annual sale each year. One of their major suppliers, Centennial Feed, partnered with the brothers to bring great specials to the community. The year that baby chicks were given away free created a lineup of customers bigger than ever.

The chick giveaway said a great deal about the brothers. By giving away the chicks, they knew the customers would return for feed and other related supplies as the chicks grew, creating goodwill

and a return cycle that both business and customers were happy with.

When James (known as Bonzo) DeLeo came home after World War II, he began developing DeLeo Feed and Poultry while he worked nights driving freight for Frankie Norwich. In 1949, his brother Michael (Mickey) joined him in the business. After returning from the Korean War, their brother Carl (Carley) joined in the business full time.

All three brothers grew up working hard alongside their parents in family businesses, and they were respected in the community. From their father, Tony, they learned the art of trading

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and bartering as well as giving back to the community. In the 1930s, Tony purchased a large building near the boat haven where he and his family operated a popular lumber and hardware business, and his sons eventually took over and expanded it.

DeLeo Brothers carried a large line of materials, including lumber, hardware, paint, electrical supplies, plumbing and appliances, and chickens in the back of the warehouse, along with poultry feed and products. Bags of cement and loads of Presto logs eventually replaced the chickens.

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These customers lined up on free chick day at the DeLeo Brothers store in 1950.

Photo courtesy of Linda DeLeo

DeLeos: Putting customers first

Continued from Page 8

According to family members, besides regular business hours, the store was “open” whenever people needed something, as long as staff was there. Sometimes a contractor would call after hours, and someone would come down to the store and open up for him.

All about service

When DeLeo Brothers did not have something that was needed by a potential customer, staff referred the customer to another store in town for the product.

The businesses helped each other out in this way by putting the customer first.

To the DeLeo brothers, it was all about customer service.

When customers were in a difficult situation, Tony, and later his sons, would often just open a line of credit for them and say, “Pay me when you can.”

As the needs of the town changed, the

brothers closed down the store and each started a smaller business. Bonzo built what is now Henery’s Nursery and operated it for quite a while. Carley operated a building and plumbing supply store, and Mickey opened a locksmith and cabinetry shop. Their motto of “customer first” followed the brothers as they moved on in their individual businesses.

Tom Camfield relates that several years after he and his wife, Jean, purchased their house in 1962, a glass door in the fireplace broke. Tom went down to what was then Carl’s building/plumbing supply to see about a part.

He recalls: “Carley’s father had apparently supplied the guy who built the modern addition to our house back about 1951. Carley remembered the name of the homeowner back then, reached under the counter and found a piece of butcher paper with some hand-written stuff on it, including measurements for the fireplace

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doors … and fixed me right up with a replacement. Amazing!”

The brothers traded materials for land, meals at restaurants, and even a piano.

One brother got his first good work truck through a lumber trade his father made with Buhler Motor Co. Besides their successful businesses, the three brothers were active in almost every town event and organization. Bonzo was involved in the Rhododendron Festival for 65 years. Besides holding the position of chairman, throughout the years he was always one of the first people out on the street on parade day, pounding in stakes as lineup markers or looking around to see what else might be needed. He just did the jobs that he saw were in need of being done.

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Peninsula Foods: Giving back a way of life

By Viviann Kuehl

Peninsula Foods is a familiar sight in downtown Quilcene. It looks like what it is: a small-town grocery with a big blue mural on the side of the building.

What is not so obvious are the contributions the store makes to Quilcene’s community groups.

Over the years, the Saleh-Alazani family, owners and workers in the store, have donated cash, food, video rentals and other goods to community groups and fundraisers.

In terms of sheer numbers, the store’s contributions to community groups over the years has impressed Quilcene Fire Chief Bob Wilson.

“It’s pretty good for being such a small business and struggling along like the rest of us,” he said.

When fires break out in Quilcene, Peninsula Foods often supplies Gatorade and other beverages for the thirsty firefighter crews. The store has supplied all the food for different barbecues put on by the Quilcene Fire Department and has given prizes for volunteers at annual recognition events.

Firefighters are not the only recipients.

Quilcene School and its students have been the beneficiaries of many donations.

Cash donations have been made to various student groups and programs, including the school’s yearbook, annual graduating class events, scholarships for graduating students, and student needs for those without financial resources.

Donations of food and supplies have also been made. Ice cream cones have been supplied as classroom prizes and for student groups as part of the school program as well as for programs operating independently.

“He gladly supports the school,” said store manager Ke Bruce-Edwards of Mohammed Alazani. “He gives yearround to the community.”

According to Alazani’s Muslim religious practice, he donates 2.5 percent of his income to charity as a moral obligation. He has been donating regularly since

Showing off Peninsula Foods’ famous ice cream cones, from front to back are: Mahmood Alazani, Mohammed Alazani, Sam Alazani and store manager Ke Bruce-Edwards.

Photo by Viviann Kuehl

“The point is just to give, not to keep track or to judge others.”

Mohammed Alazani co-owner Peninsula Foods

he reached adulthood, but he does not keep track of his donations.

“The point is just to give, not to keep track or to judge others,” he said.

Many other community groups have also received Peninsula Food donations.

Food has been donated to fundraiser

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breakfasts for keeping streetlights on in Quilcene and for the Lions Club, which supports various community needs.

There is practically no area of community endeavor in Quilcene that hasn’t received some kind of donation support from Peninsula Foods.

What makes this even more remarkable is that the storeowners make it a policy not to talk about their contributions, in keeping with their religious tradition.

The family’s silence about their giving affirms their belief that true generosity does not involve recognition. Although only a small part of the Saleh-Alazani family’s largesse is apparent to any one group, their generosity and support of their community is both welcomed and significant in Quilcene.

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Several studies are documenting that when we buy from an independent, locally owned business rather than a nationally owned business, significantly more of our money is used to make purchases from other local businesses, service providers and farms – thus continuing to strengthen the economic base of the community.

Two recent studies – one in Austin, Texas, and the other in Maine – compared locally owned businesses with nationally owned bookstores as far as their impact on their local economies.

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Compared to their national competitors, local independent businesses recycle more money back into the local economy and give greater support to a community’s nonprofit and civic needs.

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capital due to the national crisis. Companies that relied on lines of credit or short-term financing to meet payroll, buy inventory or bridge seasons will now be faced with a real challenge. But, just as we discovered during the ferry downturns in December 2007, the local consumer and local financial support make all the difference.

Steps to grow our local economy

• Move your mortgage to a local bank. Home mortgages may be our biggest leak outside our community.

• Eat more local food. Recent economic analysis of our regional food economy found a $450 million industry, with half of the food eaten at home and half outside the home. A personal pledge to eat just 10 percent more local food could mean $25 million more in local farms, local open space and local food production.

• Invest in our local community. Nonprofit organizations nation ally receive an average of 250 percent more support from smaller business owners than they do from large businesses. In our community, critical arts and culture groups, youth organizations and environmental groups rely on charitable contributions from local residents.

• Think local first and shop locally. Up to three times as much money stays in the local economy when we buy goods and services from locally owned businesses instead of large chain stores.

Local businesses generated slightly more sales per square foot compared to the chains ($263 versus $243).

• Invite your friends to enjoy our community. Where we shop, where we eat and have fun – all of it makes our community home.

Our one-of-a-kind businesses are an integral part of the distinctive character of this place. Our tourism businesses also benefit.

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in the Kiwanis Club, Elks Club, Eagles, Rotary and Chamber of Commerce. They were involved in local youth projects, and Mickey played Santa for children throughout the community for more than 40 years. The brothers had a “Christmas Boat” that they decorated each year and motored along the shore in front of town, playing recordings of Christmas songs over a speaker.

Community involvement was a way of life for all three brothers, and each could be found working behind the scenes on any number of causes. Each, in his turn, was honored as Citizen of the Year over a 20-year period of their adult lives.

Carley DeLeo died in 1984. Mickey DeLeo died in 1993.

Bonzo DeLeo died in the spring of 2008.

The DeLeo Brothers lumber supply building was demolished in 1989 to make way for what is now the Harborside Inn. The brothers just did what they could in order to serve their community while providing needed goods and services to all.

Thanks go to Tom Camfield and the children of Bonzo DeLeo for their assistance on this article.

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You know you’re a local if . . .

By Virginia (Kiesel) Smith

You know you’re a local if you remember …

• The football game when the Chimacum Cowboys won 14-2 against Port Townsend Redskins on a Halloween victory in 1986. The Cowboys gave their school its first victory over the Tribe since 1948!

• The cow pasture behind the Chimacum schools – now the Chimacum High School baseball field.

• When you could leave school freely for lunch and walk to Chimacum Café to share a chef’s salad among four people – and still have leftovers!

• The Tri-Area dump, located where the Jefferson County Jail is now.

• The local Tri-Area hangout the Arcade (with games such as Asteroids, Frogger and PacMan), at the church by Reed’s (now Hadlock QFC).

• Riding your motorcycle in the trails

by Big Rock. Now it’s an RV community.

• When Mountain View Elementary School was the Port Townsend Junior High.

• Going through the drive-up window at Maestro Burger in Port Townsend and getting the best French fries, with seasoned salt and tartar sauce for dipping.

That building is now Macadoo’s, recently closed.

• Going to Del’s grocery for a quick snack, and helping Del take inventory, with other kids, using a pencil and paper.

• Spending your Saturday nights at the old skating rink doing the “Hokey Pokey.”

It’s now a church.

• When T’s Restaurant was a great Mexican restaurant called La Fonda, and The Upstage use to be the Back Alley.

• When our local pizza place was Outer Limits, where Frugal Framer is now.

• Getting your school clothes or sport shoes at the family clothing store Dagen’s, where now stands Sirens & Tickled Pink.

• When Safeway was downtown, where Swain’s Outdoor is now. After buying groceries, you could go across the street to Harper’s Shell – now the business com-

plex that includes Ichikawa Restaurant and Keith Harper, Attorney at Law. • When the grocery store that is now Port Townsend QFC was Stock Market Foods (great value prices) and, before that, Mark-it Foods, where you marked your own food with the price.

• When Penny Saver had a set of gas pumps, so you could cruise, get your Mighty Bite and gas up.

• The Oasis, an espresso shop behind Aldrich’s, which was created because the Ace of Cups – which offered the first espresso in Port Townsend, uptown

Virginia (Kiesel) Smith has been a resident since 1980; her family roots in Jefferson County go back to the 1930s. She attended Chimacum schools. She has worked at Don’s Pharmacy and is today the circulation manager of The Leader. She has raised six kids, all of whom have attended Port Townsend schools.

where Sweet Laurette’s is today – was long gone.

Interlude at the Ace of Cups in A minor Music from the coffeehouse waves sunset back into the blue-black eyebrows of the hills.

A carver in the corner chips out lovers.

The customer beside her stirs his chocolate and a soft bloom of hot milk lulls his eyelids down, and he nods.

The one sunny day before solstice, and now as evening clears, Gemini sends a stream of meteors down the broadening night.

The customer wakes and wonders at his hands, those wiry women who finish off his arms.

A last quiver of guitar hides itself in the dark.

The carver huddles tight to her work while rattletrap trucks of her neighbors wheeze their lonely ways home.

The customer counts out a little more time and speaks to his hands of love.

They wrinkle like nuns around his white cup.

The schizophrenic night imagines clouds and cries on the cheeks of the carver.

She listens for some alien whisper of love and the ragged wings of empty sigh across the room.

A heavy batter of dreams flutters under her ribs.

We are mute testimony to a lusterless magic.

The joys of love.

Next time, next time let’s speak of dreams.

This poem memorializes the Ace of Cups, the first coffee shop in Port Townsend to serve espresso. The author, Bill Ransom, founded and directed the Port Townsend Writers’ Conference for Centrum and is currently academic dean of curriculum at The Evergreen State College in Olympia. This poem is contained in Ransom’s new book, The Woman and the War Baby, published by Blue Begonia Press in Yakima.

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Local currency rooted in exchange of skills

By Mike Dobkevich Special to The Local

Are you worried about an insecure economy? Did you know that something is already being done about it in our own community?

We have a terrific way to connect unmet needs with unused resources. A local currency system, known as the North Olympic Exchange, has been in existence for over three years in the Port Townsend area. It’s a local chapter of a larger community exchange system working out of Bellingham (Fourth Corner Exchange).

“Community currency” refers to a regional trading system that facilitates the exchange of services, skills and goods using “Life Dollars.” It’s based on human capital: your energies, talents and forms of expertise. Unlike the national cash economy, this capital is not restricted by the size of your bank account.

As long as you have something to offer another person – and everybody does – you have capital and you can trade.

Various forms of community currency developed during the Great Depression of the 1930s. The basic idea is that even if the economy declines or fails, we still have our talents and abilities that other people need. Within the context of our current financial crisis, it is more important than ever to work

together as a community to entourage cooperation rather than have an individualistic survival attitude. Even if some of the more dire predictions do not play out within our national economy, the use of a local form of currency moves us closer to building a sustainable community. This is one way of putting “unity” back into “community.”

The concept of community currency goes beyond a simple “one-to-one” barter system. The goods and services you want to obtain are not limited to those provided by the people who want to exchange with you directly. Life Dollars can be “earned” or “spent” with anyone in the system.

North Olympic Exchange (NOE) has listings for numerous

“Life Dollars” is the term used for the exchange unit, valued at approximately 10 U.S. dollars. services, products and goods as well as a section to list your wants and needs. Just about anything can be traded. You can also combine Life Dollars with partial cash payments as necessary. Members decide for themselves how to charge for their goods and services.

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John’s services have been in demand, and he accumulated 20 LDs. Looking over the offerings on the website, he spotted Amber’s handmade jewelry. Amber requested a combination of LDs and cash. So he used two of his LDs plus $20 cash to purchase a necklace for his wife. After trading several pieces of jewelry, Amber used some of her LDs to have Steve, a handyman, put in a new front door at her home. Steve used a few LDs to have Rachel come feed his pets while he was out of town.

I have used LDs to purchase firewood, a used chain saw, a table, a box of apples, a homemade pie, plants, computer help, and some repairs around the house. I receive LDs for therapeutic counseling, aiding construction work, pet sitting and other services.

How can you get involved? Come to an orientation meeting to learn more and to join in if you want. Orientations take place twice monthly in Port Townsend, and at least once a month in the new chapter in the Port Angeles/Sequim area. In Port Townsend, the meetings occur on the first Monday of the month and the third Sunday of the month. For more information, contact me at 379-2627 or dobkevich1@msn.com.

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You know you’re a local if . . .

By Nora Petrich

You know you’re a local if you remember …

• Your dog sleeping in the middle of Water Street.

• Shopping at the Water Street Grocery.

• Paying $1 for a bowl of soup at the Town Tavern.

• Listening to George Rowley talking over a loudspeaker at Point Hudson, telling boaters where to tie up.

• The name of George Rowley’s yacht.

(See a. below.)

• Who Mark Burn’s original partner was in the Boat Works. (See b. below.)

• Watching Shannon and Kit Africa sail into town on their 20-foot schooner the Dana Erin, which they sailed up the coast from Sausalito.

• Where the Vito Dumas was built and who her designer was. (See c. below.)

• Who owned the Ragland when she sailed into town. (See d. below.)

• The names of the original crew of the Ragland. (See e. below.)

• The Odylle family.

• The names of at least eight people who lived in the Cupola House.

• Being an extra in “An Officer and a Gentleman.”

• Being a Grocette or a Grocette fan.

(See f. below.)

• The names of two of Van Hope’s boats.

(See g. below.)

• Owning the record single “Kai Tai” performed by Pie in the Sky. • The names of the band members in Pie in the Sky. (See h. below.)

• Playing chess at the Ace of Cups.

• Seeing Richard Gere eating at the first Lonny’s Restaurant.

• Seeing only fishing boats in the Commercial Basin.

• When your mayor was a jazz musician.

(See i. below.)

• Fred Apstein’s nickname. (See j. below.)

• When Apstein went to court for

This photo from the late 1970s or early 1980s shows Nora Petrich working on sails inside the Sail Submitted photo Loft building at Point Hudson.

dumpster diving at Safeway and, when asked what his nickname was, said “Fred the Foot.”

• Walking through the bookstore to get to the Waterfront Café.

• The names of the founders of the Wooden Boat Festival. (See k. below.)

• Eating breakfast at the Blue Parrot.

• Knowing that David King used to build wooden boats.

• Dancing at the Judge’s Chamber to Feather Stone.

• Knowing what the Edith Rose was really transporting.

• Knowing who Hassle and Getrich were.

(See l. below.)

• When you had the impression that men built boats and women ruled Water Street.

• Buying a mandolin or guitar from Grimes Guitars at 220 Jackson St. (former home of Pygmy Kayaks).

• The concrete wonder Moclips, moored at Point Hudson.

• The Hardly Famous Sisters.

• The names of all of Kendon’s dogs.

(See m. below.)

• When you were one of the guys with a truck picking up the thousands of 2x4s that washed up on North Beach when a barge spilled them. There were guys hauling them up 300 feet off Middlepoint.

• Living in your shop under your worktable.

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• Attending the first-ever Sailmakers Ball.

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Giving back important for Swain’s

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Many economists say that locally owned businesses give more back to the local community than do their corporate cousins. Is it true?

If Swain’s Outdoor and More of Port Townsend is an example, the answer is clear.

Swain’s Outdoor & More started on the Olympic Peninsula. This is its home. That, according to managers and owners, is why it is known for donating to community groups on the Olympic Peninsula.

Earlier this year, Swain’s Outdoor Port Townsend store manager Joe Jordan

heard that the local schools were having problems with finances. He got the idea to have the store donate 1 percent of sales during August to the local schools.

“One percent is not a ton of money,” said Jordan, “but if it could save a class or a program, it would be worth it.”

Storeowners Dick and Glenda Cable agreed, and the 1 percent for schools campaign was on during all of August.

Each customer could designate which school would get the donation. The monies are being disbursed in October.

Port Townsend received about $2,500, Quilcene got around $400, and Chimacum received approximately $700.

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“It’s not enough to save a school district, but it’s something,” said Jordan.

He is hoping to make this an annual event, adding to the other community contributions the store makes throughout the year.

“August is a good time because people are thinking about going back to school,” said Jordan. August is the thirdbiggest month for the store, but sales this year have been off 15 to 20 percent because of the reduced ferry service, said Jordan.

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“This is where we live,” explained owner Glenda Cable, a daughter of Cliff Swain, who opened the first Swain’s store in Port Angeles. “This is our local community. The community supports us, and we try to support them where we can.”

Every year on the day after Thanksgiving, Swain’s donates $1,000 to local food banks, said Jordan. Swain’s is also a big Excludes kayaks & sale items. supporter of Humane Society spay and neuter programs, said Offer expires 4/30/09 Cable. The family has been involved with horses and other 1044 WATER STREET • MON-SAT: 9-8 & SUN: 10-6 • 360-379-9711 • www.sporttownsend.com animals for many years.

“I’m a real strong proponent of that,” noted Cable.

As a cancer survivor, Cable supports Relay for Life from a personal perspective as well as through store donations.

“It makes you take a good hard look at things,” she said.

Other donations are made throughout the year, in the form of gift cards and other items given to local groups for raffles and other fundraising purposes.

“People are always asking for donations,” said Cable.

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Cancer Society, you don’t really know where it’s going,” said Cable. She enjoys knowing that the store donations make a difference to local groups.

OR Jordan said that Swain’s prices are competitive and the goods are often better quality than those in stores such as with when Wal-Mart. any purchasing “People think it’s going to be a lot higher, but that’s not Sandwich 2 Sandwiches the case,” said Jordan. “Those who do shop around realize we don’t charge an arm and a leg. It’s the same with the Dollar Store. If more people checked it out, they’d realize they could save a lot on food items that they use every day.”

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Mari Friend opened Sport Townsend eighteen years ago. The employee turnover is very low, most have stayed there for years because it is such a fun place to work! She is committed to stocking the inventory for the locals, and welcomes special orders.

The store is open 7 days a week with extended hours.

You will not find better customer service in all of Port Townsend!

Inch by inch, row by row Community gardens growing

By Judith Alexander Special to The Local

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Victorian Square Deli

Don’t judge a book by its cover – and don’t judge a deli by its entrance! “Once you are down here – you are pleasantly surprised!” says Gina Landon, owner of the local deli for 4 years. She offers great food and homemade baked goods and candy. Gina moved here 11 years ago from the San Juan Islands looking for a small town that was more reasonably priced. Come be pleasantly surprised!

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The Dundee Hill Neighborhood Garden was just an idea last fall, when Pete Von Christierson was approached about letting his neighbors use his open-space land fronting Hastings Avenue near Sheridan as a community garden.

Now that idea is 18 people strong, with 6,000 square feet of garden space, deer-fenced and sheet-mulched, growing an array of fruits and veggies for residents of Dundee Hill. Also in the vision is a small patch just for kids and another area for individual pea-patch gardens.

The Oak Street Garden just off F Street started out as an 80-foot-square blackberry patch owned by Cameron and Roger McPherson. Goats were first in line to birth this garden vision, munching down the brambling vines so the crowns were extractable from the soil. This garden, started in 2008, fed 10 families, all from nearby neighborhoods.

The Rosewind Community Garden, the North Beach Community Garden – and likely others in and around town – have been growing good food and good neighbors for years.

Growing gardens, growing friends

Local 2020’s Food Resiliency Action Group is working hard to expand the number of Jefferson County neighborhood community gardens. Our access to local organic food is growing.

Public agencies are helping: Jefferson County Public Works and the WSU Master Gardener program have cosponsored compostbuilding workshops.

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Swain’s

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See us for your apparel, footwear, housewares, sporting goods and toy needs.

We have what you need to work hard and play harder on the peninsula.

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open space are preserved.

Anyone can start

The Dundee Hill Neighborhood Garden is home to the produce of some 18 local neighbors who grow their food. It has 6,000 square feet of space for fruits and vegetables and is protected by a deer fence. There are a number of community gardens in the Port Townsend area.

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gardening alone. Not only is everything easier, but also there are usually a range of gifts and talents that can be brought to a project with diverse people involved. You can walk to your food source, increase your social connectedness, enhance your collective self-reliance and beautify your neighborhood.

Need more motivation? Here are some things to consider: Local food uses less fossil fuel getting from the garden to your plate. In an organic neighborhood community garden, the fossil fuel miles can be close to zero.

Compare that to commercially grown food, which travels 1,800 miles or more from farm to plate.

As resources become increasingly depleted by overpopulation, we are going to have to learn how to share what is available. These skills can be cultivated as easily as are vegetables in community gardens. Learning to talk to each other, take what we need but not all we want, giving to those less fortunate or able – all these attributes develop while growing food together. Local community gardeners are being encouraged to plant a row or regularly share overflow produce with the local food bank too.

It’s better food

Becoming better connected with the rhythms and cycles of the natural world, the seasons, the weather, the life cycle of plants, the insect and bird populations, not to mention the impact of deer – these become more evident once you start to grow food. It is a magical world that moves at a slower pace than do we humans.

And guess what? Organic, locally grown food tastes better, by far. There is something about fresh food that is unbeatable for flavor, since it is picked at its peak of readiness.

The health benefits are immense. Not only does freshly picked food provide more potent nutrition for our bodies, but the benefit of just being around growing things is palpable. Feeling stressed? Half an hour in the garden and the stress disappears.

Community gardening can produce more food with less effort than gardening alone or working on a farm. The collective effort makes work fun. You will be amazed at the output of a community garden’s harvest.

Food budgets decrease as consumption of garden fare increases. Resources and

The Quimper Grange Garden in the Dundee Hill neighborhood was adopted by young people this year. Tyler Lappetito, one of the young enthusiasts, thinks anyone can start a garden that produces fresh, delicious fruits and vegetables. Experience, it turns out, is not as necessary as curiosity and passion.

Port Townsend and environs are full of people with the expertise to help turn a backyard or vacant lot into a productive food garden. Ask a member of an existing community garden or a Master Gardener, or read Steve Solomon’s Growing Vegetables West of the Cascades and just start experimenting.

With just one experienced gardener as mentor, an entire neighborhood of beginning gardeners can discover great success growing food. And having access to this food “store” can increase a neigborhood’s emergency preparedness, proving food resiliency for families in uncertain economic times.

Local 20/20

Local 20/20, a grassroots organization intent on strengthening our local ability to address future needs sustainably, promotes the formation of neighborhood community gardens through its Food Resiliency Action Group. For more information, visit www.l2020.org and see the community garden pages under Food Resiliency. The website lists the community gardens already in operation, including descriptions, which gardens have space for new members, and contact information for each one.

A matchmaking tool on the website helps people connect with other motivated gardeners and with landowners nearby who can offer space. Own open space?

Consider allowing it to be used for a community garden with your immediate neighbors. Local 20/20 will help.

A Yahoo group, ptcommunitygardens@yahoogroups.com, offers another way to connect with other community gardeners, to pose questions, propose cooperative, cost-saving supply orders or to just chat about what’s happening in the gardens. Request an invitation to join this list from list manager Dan Post at danpost@frandango.org.

Happy gardening!

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