Farmer-Consumer Awareness Day 2017

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FARMER-CONSUMER AWARENESS DAY 2017

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Table of Contents Welcome to Farmer-Consumer Awareness Day Parade route Schedule of events Fireworks and balloon rides Birds of prey from WSU Annual Cook-off Farm Family of the Year Dave Stamey to perform Car show returns Test your crop knowledge Free dental clinic Chef’s Challenge at White Heron Helicopter tours Honorary Farmer of the Year Experience the Wanapum way of life The Weavils to put on a show

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509-787-4511. Fax: 509-787-2682 305 Central Ave. S, Quincy, WA, 98848 The Quincy Valley Post-Register's Farmer-Consumer Awareness Day section is published by Quincy Valley Media Inc.The Quincy Valley Post-Register is published weekly and distributed free to in-city residents in Quincy, Wash., and locations in George, Wash.

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FCAD seeks to keep making the connection Special weekend serves as a path to education and celebration

to be a big part of the event, with talks, videos, tours and exhibits filling a large swath of the event’s schedule.

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At first the purpose was to educate. People did not seem to know where their food was coming from, and so a group of farmers in the early 1980s created a day to teach people about the connection between the farms and orchards around them, and the table they sat around to eat their meals every day.

With time, education has been joined by other four-syllable words: Celebration and entertainment, both a big part of a Farmer-Consumer Awareness Day, which ceased long ago to last for just a day.

This year, there will be events on three days, Sept. 8-10. Musicians, dancers, animals, chefs, athletes, car lovers, balloon enthusiasts, fireworks aficionados and many other hobbyists manage to find a niche in Quincy during the event.

To the organizers’ credit, the educational aspect of FCAD continues

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industries in an area such as Quincy, even as our 21st century grows more technology-reliant by the day.

The jaw-dropping aerial views of our small community surrounded by acres upon acres of farmland serves as a peerless reminder of the power of the state’s No. 1 industry, particularly in our corner of Washington.

For the 37th year, Quincy will tip

its cap to the industry that built this community and toast its ever-present importance to our daily lives.

In the following pages, we will invite you to learn how you can also be part of this celebration and learn how you too can salute the invaluable role of farming in keeping our region vibrant and healthy.

Welcome to FCAD. – By Sebastian Moraga, QVPR

With fireworks three straight days, the Northwest Pyrotechnics Association wants to do its part to make this year’s Farmer-Consumer Awareness Day truly unforgettable.

To be clear, this does not mean there will be a fireworks show from Friday to Sunday, just that there will be some kind of fireworks going off each day.

On Friday, there will be a practice round, from dusk until around 9 p.m., and on Sunday, whatever fireworks don’t go off on Saturday will be taken care of.

Saturday remains the big day for fireworks, with this year’s show set to start around 8:30 p.m.

Kent Bacon, a longtime fireworks enthusiast and member of the NPA, says that the evening festivities will begin around 8 p.m. with the Balloon Glow, where hot air balloons fill up and stay tethered, lighting up the night with their burners’ flames. About half an hour later, once the balloons have

deflated, it will be fireworks time, a show of color and sound that is as impressive as it is loud.

“We pretty much work on it all year,” he said, adding that the show will be bigger than last year.

Bacon also reminded people that they need to prepare their neighbors and pets for the Friday night fireworks, but “the loud stuff will not go past 9 p.m.,” he said.

In addition, Bacon said that people seeking to watch the balloons soar in the sky will have two chances this year, Saturday and Sunday of FCAD weekend at Monument Elementary, starting at 6 a.m. At the time of this writing, it had not been decided whether the balloons – around half a dozen of them are expected this year – will be taking passengers other than their sponsors on rides.

Balloons will arrive in Quincy from as far as Spokane, Oregon and Walla Walla, Bacon said.

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Raptor club brings birds of prey to FCAD For the second year in a row, at least one particular event at FCAD will have its audience enraptured and enraptored.

That’s right, enraptored. As in surrounded by raptors.

The Washington State University Raptor Club, part of that university’s school of veterinary medicine, will bring a variety of birds of prey to FCAD. It’s unknown at the time of this writing which animals will make the demanding three-hour trip to Quincy from Pullman, but the club has falcons, owls, hawks and one eagle.

All of the club’s animals were born in the wild, the club’s Kimberly Van Horn wrote in an email, but they came to the university’s veterinary hospital due to injury. With the lesions too severe for the birds to be released back in the wild, they became part of the club, where they are cared for by students and veterinary technicians, while carrying the new title of Ambassador Animal.

Everett the hawk and Widget the owl stand at attention.

The club started in 1981. With the club’s 40th anniversary up ahead, the club’s mission remains steady and strong: educating the public about raptor conservation, Van Horn

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An early club member, a red-tailed hawk named Charlie, lived to 33 years old, almost three times its normal lifespan. Charlie died in 2014.

Another red-tailed hawk – Brenda – is the current elder statesman of the group at nearly 20 years old.

The club’s mission has many facets, from the presentations in events like FCAD to encouraging hunters to using non-lead ammunition. Lead can make a raptor blind if swallowed, Van Horn said. At the same time, Van Horn says another mission of the club is to teach people in agricultural communities that these animals aren’t a menace to their crops or animals.

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Cook-off to display homemade eats and treats Ladies and gentlemen, start your ovens.

The annual FCAD Cook-off will feature homemade breads, desserts, salads, side and main dishes, using a variety of local products.

This year, every dish has to include either potatoes or corn or beans or apples.

“I’m really excited to see who comes up with what,” said Janet Lybbert, who organizes the cookoff. Lybbert is an employee of The Quincy Valley Post-Register.

Lybbert pointed to the bounty of fruits and veggies in the Basin as the reason for the expansion.

“The variety of fruits and vegetables we grow in this area are amazing,” she said. “And we have been doing potatoes-or-corn for years. I wanted to expand that a little bit.”

The contest is open to everybody, she said, and past contests included recipes from places like Wenatchee.

Many people have taken to the contest as an annual tradition, participating in different categories.

Sometimes, even children bring in recipes.

Judges have not been chosen yet.

People interested in participating need to submit both the dish and the recipe for it the day of the contest, Sept. 9, between 12:30 p.m. and 1 p.m., at the Quincy High School gymnasium. Judging will begin around 1:15 p.m., with winners announced shortly after at the entertainment stage.

Participants will be given a number, that way the names are withheld to preserve anonymity and impartiality.

Sometimes, the dishes are so elaborate, it’s a shame a knife has to get involved, she said.

“There’s this one lady who does these dishes that are absolutely gorgeous,” Lybbert said. “I’m like ‘I

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don’t know how you can cut into it, it’s so pretty.’”

Sometimes, the dishes are so good, it’s a bummer only three judges get to sample it, she said.

The health district sets strict rules on the distribution of food at events such as FCAD. “Last year, this lady made these amazing cinnamon rolls, and the smell almost made me crazy,” she said.

With the small sampling audience in mind, Lybbert recommended that participants don’t bring huge versions of their dishes to the contest.

“It’s just going to sit there the rest of the day,” she said. “It doesn’t look as pretty the longer the day goes on.”

Each judge judges each entry on its own, based on things like appearance and taste.

First prize in each category gets

$75, second place gets $40, and third place gets $30.

Lybbert is a one-time winner of the contest, having taken first place about five years ago with a “Bean Sili” (pronounced Silly).

“My husband calls it Bean Sili, because it’s not quite soup, but it’s not quite chili,” she said.

Lastly, Lybbert saluted FCAD as a good way to honor the importance of farming in our community.

“FCAD is a way to not only remind us, the citizens of Quincy, of our heritage, but a way to reach out to those in less rural areas – who depend on farmers, whether they know it or not,” she wrote in an email, later adding, “FCAD is not only a celebration of the harvest and our heritage, but is also an opportunity to educate our consumers where their food comes from and how it’s produced – farm-to-table.”

– By Sebastian Moraga, QVPR

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insects that would eat crops,” she wrote. “Raptors actually help the agricultural industry tremendously.”

Mostly, though, the response at events is terrific.

“Most have never seen any of the species up close and can’t believe

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The Buys are the 2017 Farm Family of the Year Married to each other for 61 years, Jim and Minnie Buys have been committed to this region for almost as long.

Committing to the area wasn’t as easy as ABC, but close. It was more like ABCDE, the non-consecutive initials of their five children: Arlene, Brenda, Cindy, Dennis and Elaine.

Cindy, 60, and Arlene, 54 are the bookends of the group.

“This is a great area to raise a family,” said Minnie Buys.

Residents of Quincy for half a century, with eight grandchildren and two great-grandchildren, the Buys family is the 2017 FarmerConsumer Awareness Day’s Farm Family of the Year.

Ironically, for a man who has been married for as long as 84-yearold Jim Buys has, he came to Quincy because of a divorce. Someone he knew was splitting from his spouse and selling his farm, and Buys bought it and moved to Quincy from Sunnyside.

A native of Minnesota, he said he left the Midwest when his father lost his farm during the Great Depression and headed west to Lynden, Wash.

In the latter part of the 1950s, the

grown Jim Buys – who says he was the first one of 15 siblings to earn a high school diploma – headed to Sunnyside, where he stayed for almost a decade, working on a dairy farm he owned.

He left Sunnyside for many reasons, not least of which was the hills.

In Sunnyside, the farming was laid out in smaller plots than Buys liked.

In addition, the hills made farming more strenuous.

“If a guy wanted to farm 100 acres or more, he would have to farm it in three or four different places,” he said, which involved constant trips to and fro in a truck or a tractor.

In Quincy, he could farm 240 acres of hay and grain with little help. In addition, for his wife, the flat land made keeping track of people easier.

“I could look out the window and say, ‘Where’s Jim? Oh, he’s over there,” said Minnie.

With time, it has become a little easier to keep track of him. First, after the children left the house, Jim and Minnie would work the machinery together.

“I loved to go out there and work on a tractor,” Minnie said. “Our son

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Jim and Minnie Buys, the 2017 FCAD Farm Family of the Year, have lived in Quincy for half a century and raised five children.

would say, ‘Oh, it’s so boring in the field,’ and I would say ‘Dennis, what’s the matter with you?’”

When it came time to choose a profession, none of the ABCDE group went for the letter F – as in farmer.

Jim retired from farming in 2005 and has limited himself to his longtime hobby: fixing tractors. His collection of 11 tractors includes modern and vintage models. One of the tractors is there because Minnie used to ride one like it when she

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Farm Family of the Year nyside, I made up my mind,” he said. “If I take care of the cows and the farm, the cows and the farm will take care of me, and that is what has happened.”

Gone is the dairy farm, and he’s not in Sunnyside anymore, for half a century and counting, but the mindset remains the same.

“This community wouldn’t be a community if it wasn’t for the farm-

ers,” he said. “We got Microsoft and those guys, but they come here in the last 10, 15 years, but all those places only employ a hundred people maybe. But you go past Double Diamond Fruit, and there’s 50, 60 cars sitting there and right next door there’s Starr Ranch and there’s 50, 60 cars sitting there. Where does it come from? Out of these orchards.”

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“The only reason I bought it is, nobody else has got one like it,” he said.

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Beyond collecting tractors or the suspenders bearing the name John Deere, the respect for the farming life is something that Buys exudes.

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A touch of Texas comes to Quincy From the Sierra Nevada to the Columbia Basin, David Stamey has a story to tell, and then some.

“I try to do a little more than just sing,” he said. “I try to engage the audience. I probably would be more accurately described as a singer-storyteller.”

This singer-storyteller comes to Quincy’s FCAD on Sept. 9, spinning his musical yarns that have gained him a faithful following over a quarter-century.

“I have not played this event before, I’m looking forward to it,” said Stamey, who grew up in Yellowstone County in Montana and now lives in central California.

He has played at events in Ellensburg but never in the Basin.

The stories are often autobiographical, he says, and

closely related to the song he’s playing. There’s always a backstory to each song, too. Other times, the songs relate to things he has seen or heard of.

The goal, he says, is to take the audience on a ride, on an experience that goes beyond sitting down and listening. Sometimes they laugh, sometimes, they choke up, and sometimes they learn.

The challenge, he says, is to keep the stories fresh, some of which he has told repeatedly over a 25-year career, the last 15 of them as a full-time performer.

Submitted by Dave Stamey “That’s the thousand- Musician and storyteller Dave Stamey comes to FCAD with his dollar question,” he said. mixture of tales and tunes.

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“I hadn’t picked up a guitar seriously in 10 years,” he said. “It snowballed from there until now.”

Storytelling is deep in the fabric of our DNA, Stamey says, as a means of explaining the enduring attraction of the lone man or woman telling a tale to a crowd.

“It goes all the way back to when we were wearing skins in the caves,” he said, “hunkered around the fire.

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Rotary Club’s Car Show promises roaring fun The Quincy Rotary-led FCAD Car Show returns with the club behind the wheel for the second time in a row.

“We had pretty good success last year, it worked out OK,” said Chuck Allen, a former Quincy Rotary president. “So we decided we would continue with it. We are going to keep it going this year, and we are excited about it. We had a good turnout last year, and we think we are going to have a similar turnout this year.”

Last year, about 90 cars participated, including cars built in the 2010s and as far back as the 1920s, Allen said. People from as far as Snohomish County, Kittitas Valley, and as close by as Ephrata brought their shiny toys to Quincy, hoping to get more shiny toys for their mantles.

This year, Allen said, “the only rules are, you have to have a car that you’d like to show off. Anybody who has a car that they want to show off, or a truck or a bike, they are invited to participate.”

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cade, starting with a category for cars built prior to the 1930s. Additional categories include Rat Rod, Truck, and Bike (for motorcycles and ATVs.) Trophies include Best in Class, People’s Choice, Kids’ Choice, and several giveaways.

“Anybody who enters should walk away with something that will be fun for them,” Allen said.

Another class of vehicles at the car show will be the Work in Progress class, for those vehicles be-

ing restored or refurbished but that aren’t quite there yet.

“You may have somebody that they have something they are working on that’s pretty cool, but they don’t quite have it finished, they can enter in the Work in Progress class and that will be judged not on the condition that it is now, but based on the vision the owner has.”

Vehicles participating may be American-made or foreign, he said.

To sign up, people can go to the car

show’s Facebook page, titled Quincy FCAD Car Show, or they can come to the car show on FCAD day, Sept.

9, with registration opening at 8 a.m.

The entry fee is $20. Money will go toward the Quincy Valley Cemetery memorial pavilion that Rotary is helping put together.

FCAD is meant to celebrate and entertain but also to educate people about the relationship between farms and the kitchen table.

“It is even more vital today to spread that message,” he wrote in an email. “As our population becomes more and more located in large cities and people have a natural disconnect with what happens in agricultural communities like Quincy. Quincy exists today because of agriculture and while we have diversified our economy recently, agriculture is what keeps our community thriving and it is important that we continue to educate and inform the public about their relationship with agriculture.”

– By Sebastian Moraga, QVPR

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Dentist brings free clinic to FCAD Bret Webley, a dentist from Everett who grew up in Quincy, will bring a free clinic to FCAD for those in need of dental care.

Webley says that this is the first time he has brought the free dental clinic to this area, but that he has already successfully held clinics in Everett.

Medical Teams of America provides the equipment for the Brett Webley clinics, which take place inside large vans. Webley, some staffers from his dental clinic and some volunteers from the Quincy community will help those

needing dental care.

The clinic will run from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. the day of FCAD, Sept. 9.

“I’m kind of excited to see what kind of turnout we get,” he said. “It’s never been done in Quincy, to my knowledge.”

Webley said that the clinic is targeted toward those in need of Submitted photo serious dental care and struggle to afford it, not just people seeking a filling.

No identification or paperwork is necessary, Webley said. Instead, they will have to answer a few ques-

tions about their medical history and job status. Webley speaks Spanish, and some of his staffers at the clinic speak Spanish as well.

The clinic will not schedule appointments beforehand, working instead on a first-come-first-served basis.

The clinic will welcome people of all ages. However, Webley said that

a child needs to be old enough to be able to take treatment without being sedated, since no sedation will be provided at the clinic.

“If parents feel like the kid is going to be fine, we can try,” he said.

“I would rather they come and try to help their child than not try at all.”

– By Sebastian Moraga, QVPR

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Chef’s Challenge returns to White Heron, on a different day Seeking to attract a bigger crowd, the Chef’s Challenge at White Heron Cellars has moved from one end of FCAD to the other.

Regularly slotted for Friday evening, the event, which challenges chefs to create dishes using a variety of local products, will happen on Sunday this year.

“There are so many events happening on Friday evening, we just weren’t getting the attendance,” said Cameron Fries (pronounced Frees) the owner of White Heron Cellars, just west of Quincy, which puts on the event. “I thought we would give it a try on Sunday.”

The new time slot might attract scores of people who otherwise could never have attended, such as those getting everything ready for the Saturday ahead.

“All the people who work Saturday can’t come (on Friday) because they are all super busy Friday night,” Fries said.

“There’s also high school reunions, football games, so much going on Friday night.”

The event will start at 2 p.m. Sunday. The work starts far earlier than that.

“It takes about three days to collect everything,” Fries said.

He tries to gather products from no farther than Ephrata or Quincy. Businesses like Becerra Farms have helped out by letting White Heron collect things like peppers and potatoes. Ephrata-based Pure Country Pork also helps out.

The challenge for the chefs is creating something different every 10 to 15 minutes.

The only thing done ahead of time is soaking the beans to make sure they are ready to cook, Fries said.

The challenge for those in attendance is remembering a new dish is coming right up, Fries says.

“The biggest problem we have is people come up and

they load up too heavy on the first plate, not realizing a whole bunch more is coming,” he said. And then, halfway through, they’re like ‘Oh, man, I’m stuffed.’” The trick, he said, is to pace yourself.

To avoid early fill-ups, the event will switch this year to plated dishes, instead of having a buffet, for the first two courses. The Chef’s Challenge normally involves six to eight courses, Fries added.

The names of the chefs participating this year have not been released yet, Fries said. Tickets are $25 apiece.

“It’s reasonably priced and you’re getting outstanding food,” Fries said. The money is split between the musicians performing and the chefs.

“It’s in support of FarmerConsumer,” Fries said, referring to FCAD, “and it’s designed to showcase the bounty of the Quincy Valley and the Basin.”

– By Sebastian Moraga, QVPR FCAD 2017

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FCAD from the air: Helicopter tours return While enjoying all that FCAD has to offer, be sure to get a higher view by joining Flying M Air for a helicopter tour.

Owner-operator Maria Langer will offer eight- to 10-minute tours of the area. Starting at 9 a.m., tours will take passengers east, then north, coming in for a good look at all the activity in downtown Quincy, then heading west before returning to land. Passengers will get a bird’s-eye view of Quincy and its surrounding farmland.

Sights include downtown Quincy, the basalt cliffs, the mighty Columbia River, and all the happenings going on during FCAD. Langer said there isn’t anything special passengers need for a flight.

“It’s like riding in a car basically, except a car that flies,” Langer said.

There’s no need for a jacket in the climate-controlled interior, but you do want to bring along a camera.

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Langer said only twice has a passenger gotten sick. For those with a fear of heights, she said, “It’s not like climbing a ladder to get something off your roof. You’re sitting in a chair, basically. You’re strapped in, the doors are on, and you’re looking out the window. It’s high, but you’d have to have serious acrophobia to be bothered by it.”

Langer said she doesn’t do thrill rides that are roller-coaster-like, but rather mellow rides. She wants her passengers to come away with a good experience. One that they might like to repeat on another flight-seeing tour or visiting local wineries, many of which call the Quincy Valley their home.

Langer also does agricultural work in the area, drying cherries and aiding in corn pollination by stirring up the air (and pollen) with the helicopter’s rotors, as well as offering frost control services.

The tours for FCAD are $40 per

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Flying M will offer tours of the Quincy Valley, from the cliffs to the schools, during FCAD.

person, with a minimum group of two and a maximum of three people per tour. A passenger coming alone might have to wait for another group to join.

“Go with a friend!” Langer urged.

The minimum age is 3 years old, but Langer advises parents to wait until their child is 5. She said children enjoy the tour more and get more out of it at that age.

To sign up for a helicopter tour, contact tour organizer Krysta Sorto

at 509-398-6967. Sorto said spots are filling up, so it’s best to call as soon as possible to reserve a spot. Langer said if there are openings the day of the event, walk-ins will be accepted until 2 o’clock in the afternoon.

For other tours and custom charters, go to Flying M Air’s website, www.flyingmair.com, or call 509699-8044.

– By Jean Moraga, QVPR contributor

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Gert Kooy is FCAD’s 2017 Honorary Farmer of the Year What started as a side business became a family business. What started as a small thing, ended up uprooting a family from Canada and later Western Washington, and planting it in Quincy.

And Gert Kooy (pronounced Coy), matriarch of that family, would not change a thing.

Kooy, the 2017 Farmer-Consumer Awareness Day Honorary Farmer of the Year, says that wasn’t always the case. When her husband, Ralph, now deceased, wanted to start a new business or an adventure, “I wasn’t always very cooperative,” she said with a smile. “Then, he always won.”

The couple was living in Alberta, Canada, when her husband, who was born in Alberta, traveled south and got the idea to relocate to Quincy in 1961. Gert, a teacher raised in an isolated part of Montana, liked Canada, particularly our northern neighbors’ school system.

To boot, she was pregnant with her sixth child by then.

But then, hubby always won. Gert ended up moving with her family to Quincy, including a 1-month-old.

They lived on a farm in Quincy, with the farming life running deep in the family’s blood. Not only had Ralph grown up on a farm, but Gert’s mother had run a 4-H club in

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2017 FCAD Honorary Farmer of the Year Gert Kooy, front row, second from the left (in blue jeans and pink-striped shirt), poses with all her children and grandchildren who work in the family irrigation business.

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It wasn’t too long after they arrived from Canada that Ralph noticed that irrigation was done

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Ralph had learned welding while in the Canadian Army, and once people found out about his skill, they started coming to him and saving themselves a long trip, Gert said.

When the side job became more work than the farm was, Ralph had to make a choice, Gert said.

“He decided to sell his farm, and I thought that was terrible,” she said. “I said ‘You got five boys, and you sell your farm?’ He just said, ‘We will start a little irrigation business.’”

Kooy’s Irrigation is in the midst of its fifth decade now. It started in 1975 and has become a staple in the Basin.

Three generations of Kooys work in the business, at 5284 State Route 281 N, Quincy. Still, that doesn’t stop people from slipping on the pronunciation.

“A lot of people say Coo-ee,”

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Gert said. “At first my husband used to correct people, but we don’t even hear it anymore.”

Sometimes, the wrong version comes to the rescue in an introduction.

“If you introduce somebody new and they say ‘This is Mrs. Kooy,’” Gert said. “They say ‘Mrs. Kooy?’ and I say ‘You’ve probably heard ‘Mrs. Coo-ee,’ and they say ‘Oh, yeah, I know Mrs. Coo-ee!’”

Coo-ee or Kooy, one thing has not changed, the family’s devotion and respect toward the farming community in the area. The appreciation extends to Hispanic folks working in the orchards and farms of the Basin, she said.

“To us, it’s extremely important,” she said of farming, “because it’s our livelihood.” Farming, she added, will always be a big deal.

“People will always have to eat,” she said.

– By Sebastian Moraga, QVPR

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A Wanapum experience comes to FCAD with artifacts and displays.

To experience the Wanapum The WNADU is frequently way of life, built over centuries used to visit schools, particularof tradition and history, step ly during times when students into a motorhome. are studying Native Americans Not just any motorhome, but in their social studies or history the WNADU, also known as classes. Most of the audiences the Wanapum Native Amerithe WNADU visits during these can Discovery Unit, a traveling times tend to range from kindermuseum on wheels designed to garten to seventh grade. share with crowds the treasures The motorhome is staffed of the Wanapum people. by members of the Wanapum The unit is the mobile portion band who share their history of the Wanapum Heritage Cenand culture, including how they ter, located next to the Priest maintain the things that are imRapids Dam in southern Grant portant to their way of life in toCounty, near Mattawa. day’s world.

The center is a result of a The motorhome is also availpartnership between the Waable for use at community napum and the Grant County events such as FCAD, Buck Public Utility District, and it said. seeks to teach diverse areas of Sebastian Moraga/Post-Register “The WNADU shares the Wanapum daily life.

Wanapum story, a little bit of The center’s Lela Buck said The Wanapum Native American Discovery Unit returns to FCAD after a one-year hiatus. the history and the present day, the motorhome has been in use everyday lives of the people. It for well over 10 years, replacused for educational outreach until customized motor home is 38 feet ing the traveling trailer that had been then. The wheelchair-accessible, long by 8 feet wide and is packed gives a little bit of the background

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of the Grant County PUD-Wanapum relationship.”

The word Wanapum means “people of the river,” and many of their artifacts, such as their fishing tools show the closeness between them and the river.

In the WNADU, there are artifacts including stone tools, arrowhead points, cedar baskets and beadwork. Buck said there is a diorama, including a miniature of the old (Priest Rapids) village site, “before the people were moved into modern

houses,” and a water feature. There are hands-on items such as different types of hand tools, materials used in making tule mats, hemp string and fishing tools.

Buck said there’s no admission charge to enter, “just come on over to the WNADU and go on through!”

To bring the WNADU to your school or community event free of charge, email WNADUSchGrp@ gcpud.org.

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The Weavils bring variety of styles Blame it on the Fab Four.

Wanting a name for his new band more than 15 years ago, Greg Lawless took a page out of the Beatles’ book and looked for an insect, then tweaked the spelling.

And thus were born The Weavils, a Seattle-based band coming to FCAD on Sept. 9.

“It started off as kind of a joke,” Lawless said. “I thought that if I did the same thing, maybe we would have the popularity of the Beatles. Didn’t happen. I’m still waiting, anyway.”

Missing hordes of adoring fans nonetheless, the name caught on.

And for 15 years, the band has worked on building a very eclectic niche, where bluegrass meets Hawaiian music and other genres like Cajun, swing and folk.

“I love bluegrass music, but even I have a hard time sitting through two hours of fiddle tunes,” he said.

“We found that we love bluegrass, but to be able to play different types

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Submitted by The Weavils

The Weavils return to the Quincy Valley after playing in George earlier this year.

of music is more fun for us as a band, and for the people listening it’s sort of nice to have a variety, too.”

Offering such a broad range of styles has not hampered the band’s ability to market itself, although

it was never a conscious decision, Lawless said. It was just more fun to play different stuff.

The fact that the band has been around for more than a decade helps.

“People know us, and that makes it easier,” he said. “And I’m sure if someone wanted to have straight bluegrass, they would let us know, and we could do that.”

At FCAD, Lawless said, there will be something for everybody, and people will be able to sing along “to at least some of our music.”

The band’s variety goes beyond the musical styles. The band’s three primary vocalists all have different styles, Lawless said.

And when the music stops, the variety continues. Lawless is a retired lawyer, Pete Thorn is an engineer, Mark Myers is a marine biologist, Mike Karbowski is an anesthesiologist, Chris Davidson is a coffee importer, Mark Steudel is a classically See Weavils on page 37

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trained guitarist, and Dave Grout is the son of a minister who works in real estate.

With such different schedules, getting together for gigs becomes a little tricky. They always practice Monday nights at Lawless’ house, but after that, things get a little more flexible.

“Sometimes we do have to decline gigs,” he said, “because people have lives. We try to keep a couple of weekends free each month.” It helps

when the band gets a lot of notice.

Larry Williamson of FCAD caught the band in George in January, and told the musicians about Quincy’s little shindig in September.

“I actually knew a little bit about it because my brother Tim used to be the principal” at Pioneer Elementary, Lawless said. “I had actually heard of it, so I went, ‘Gosh, that sounds like fun.’ I called the guys, I said ‘This might be fun to do, we have never done it before,’ and everyone marked their calendars.”

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