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Soroptimists make green work for our community By Kathy Purcell What does it mean being green? According to Kermit the Frog, it isn’t easy. Green is a term for something fresh and new and the 11th Annual Soroptimist Gala Garden Show has plenty of that. Come on along to the Garden Show and you’ll find many green ideas. And you’ll see some changes from previous shows. It’s not the same old song and dance. This year’s theme is going green — focusing on the eco-nomical, sustainable and edible. From the speakers to the classes, to the vendor items for sale, you’ll discover ways to utilize what resources are available here on the Olympic Peninsula and in your own backyard. Some of the speaker topics include backyard composting, herb gardening, septic fields — installation and planting, gardening for birds and wildlife and landscaping with native plants. Ever wonder how to take good pictures of your backyard plants? On Saturday, speaker Judy Larimore will give you pointers on getting the best shots. You can capture not just the greens of the garden, but all the many lovely colors and textures. Thinking about creating a picture perfect xeriscape garden? Speaker Catherine Mix will teach you how. Did you know that some common plants used in Western xeriscaping are lavender, juniper, sedum and thyme? The Soroptimist Gala Garden Show is the time to welcome spring. In the past, some visitors to the show have said they enjoy this annual event because it has such a variety of garden-related products and
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services on display and for sale. Because of the venue, they get to see the entire show. The site is local, which means they don’t have to travel far to get the whole garden show experience. The raffle wagons of previous years have rolled away. This year the raffle still will have lots of garden-related items, but the wagons are being replaced with Adirondack chairs hand-painted with colorful designs. You won’t know whether to sit in them or showcase them in your garden. Maybe you’ll take a photograph of them once you learn the tricks from speaker Judy Larimore. This year there will be a nature walk created through the collaboration between Joshua Piper of Good Earth Plantings and Henery’s Garden Center. This is one of the first things you will see after you step beyond the front lobby. It will transport you to a wonderful woodland paradise. Admission to the show this year is $5 for one day. At the entrance you are greeted by smiling Soroptimist members and after you enter, your first glimpse of spring will turn into a majestic garden experience. The energy at the show is palpable. Green is the color of money and in the big picture, money is what allows Soroptimist International of Sequim to do the work they do. They are a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. The annual Gala Garden Show is their main fundraiser of the year. The mission of Soroptimist is to improve the lives of women and girls in local communities and throughout the world. The Women’s Opportunity Awards program is Soroptimist’s major project. Through the program, clubs in 19 countries and territories assist women who provide the primary source of financial support for their families by giving them the resources they need to improve their education, skills and employment prospects. The money Soroptimist International of Sequim raises goes out locally in the form of the Women’s Opportunity Award; Violet Richardson Award (honors young women between the ages of 14-17 who volunteer in the community. The award is named after the first president of the first Soroptimist club); 11 scholarships; the WIN (Women in Networks) Program;
the Medical Loan Closet; donations to First Teacher; Rose House (shelter for victims of domestic violence); Sequim Community Aid; Girls Little League; Boys & Girls Club — just to name a few. They also contribute to the Mujeres de Maiz Foundation, an organization helping women in Chiapas, Mexico, but started by several Sequim women. Green is a color on the painter’s pallet. It is the color of the stems of many flowers and plants — some of them perhaps, drawn by a painter — some of them you will see at the many exhibitor booths. A number of the products will worm their way into your heart or perhaps at least into your garden. For the past five years the Garden Show’s vendor registration has been orchestrated by Philippa Manley. She is thorough and has made things look easy. Unfortunately for Soroptimist International of Sequim, she moved out of the area just prior to the show. She will be missed, not just for her excellent work on the Garden Show, but for the energy and enthusiasm that she generated. It will be difficult to fill her shoes for next year’s show. Not to worry this year. Peg Rinker, the previous vendor registration guru, will be stepping in to once again perform some of the vendor duties she did for many years. You will recognize Peg by her sunflower hat that is her trademark. Barbara Thompson, co-chairman of vendor support, also will be helping in this important area. The Garden Café will be offering some new menu items for 2009 and will be in a new locale — a separate room just to the east (your right) once you enter beyond the lobby. There will be a complimentary booth area for informational/educational booths in that room also. The color green is the hue of the visible spectrum lying between yellow and blue. These are the two Soroptimist colors — how fitting. Also fitting, Kathleen DeJong, this year’s president of Soroptimist of Sequim, is Irish. Go green! Even if you don’t have a green thumb, you will enjoy the
Need a Ride? The Soroptimist Gala Garden Show will have a f ree shuttle running Saturday only from the St. Luke’s Episcopal Church parking lot to the Boys & Girls Club every 30 minutes from 9:45 a.m.-4 p.m.
11th Annual Soroptimist Gala Garden Show. Although the theme is green, you will learn how to color your world with wonderful plants, flowers, trees, etc. In this atmosphere of new growth you will see how easy it is to be green.
Harpist David Michael will play both days.
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Flowers bloom under Hooser’s hand By Patricia Morrison Coate Staff writer This year, the Soroptimist Gala Garden Show showcases one of its own as the featured cover artist. Marilyn Hooser, a member of Soroptimists for 35 years, including eight in Sequim, said she was extremely pleased when fellow members encouraged her to submit one of her watercolors to be considered for the coveted honor and she won it. Hooser, who’s been painting since the 1970s, still considers herself an amateur who likes “staying in the background,” but the quality of her rendition of hollyhocks in her backyard begs to differ. Other judges have recognized her talent, too. Last year, a slightly different hollyhocks watercolor won the “Special Award” category at the Clallam County Fair and three years ago, Hooser won “Best in the Student Division” with a cacti landscape at the fair. She’s also received awards for works exhibited at Sequim Arts juried shows. “I always had the gift of doing things with my hands, so painting came naturally for me,” Hooser said. “I got interested in watercolors because oil is too messy to travel with. I wanted a medium that I could travel with easily, but I’ve been struggling because I learned oil painting first. With oil painting, you paint from top to bottom. With watercolors, it’s the reverse and you save your lights and work into your darks.” After her husband’s death in 1999, Hooser moved from California to Sequim in 2001. “I worked in earnest with watercoloring because I had lots more time. The past two years it’s been much, much easier. It helps to practice,” Hooser laughed. She continues to challenge herself as a member of the North Olympic Watercolorists, a group of 15 that meets weekly, and takes classes through adult education with Judy Priest and Carol Janda. Along with Sequim Arts shows, Hooser exhibits with her group at the Blue Whole Gallery. She also is treasurer of Sequim Arts and is a volunteer tax counselor. “We paint together and critique each other’s works, so it helps,” Hooser said. “Part of the benefit of being the featured artist is having the Soroptimists auction off my watercolor. I’ll also have an exhibit at the garden show.” A pastels purist, Hooser said her style “is more
realistic. I’m not interested in modern but I am getting looser with my painting. It’s been difficult for me to get more color in. With pastels, when it dries it seems to fade so I’m pushing myself to use more vibrant colors. I also like doing a lot of fine detail because of the challenge.” Although she’s received accolades for her botanical watercolors, her real passion is landscapes, old buildings and animals. Hooser proudly pointed out a judge’s comments on a street scene she entered in the Sequim Arts exhibit last fall — “Strong composition and atmosphere, lots of atmosphere.” Hooser completes one or two watercolors a month and presently she’s working on watercolors of three local barns for the Sequim Museum & Arts Center dairy exhibit for Dairy Month in June. It’s the reward of personal satisfaction that keeps Hooser putting brush to palette. With years of honing her art, does she feel she has more to learn? “Every painting is different,” Hooser said. “People who decide they know it all are very closed minded. Especially with watercolor, I learn from everything I do.”
Marilyn Hooser said one of her favorites is a rendering of a bear at Olympic Game Farm. Photos by Patricia Morrison Coate
Hooser poses with several of her award-winning watercolors.
Marilyn Hooser, featured artist for the Soroptimist Gala Garden Show, also will have her works on exhibit from March through April at Key Bank, 120 N. Dunlap Ave., during regular banking hours.
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Friends of the Garden Show By Kate Creasey Putting together a quality show year after year involves a huge amount of time and effort. Soroptimist Club members volunteer many, many hours to the tasks that need to be done in order to bring everything together. But our Gala Garden Show would not be complete without a little help from our friends. The Co-op Farm & Garden has provided a booth, potting soil and plants for the past three years so that the children who attend the show can get a chance to plant something and take it with them to watch it grow. An activity free to all, it is wonderful to see the excitement in the children’s eyes as they have a chance to take advantage of this opportunity. Miller Signs has been with us since the beginning 11 years ago and faithfully has relettered our signs every year. This is no small task as Rob updates the dates, times and sponsor information on our banners, signs and posters. Creative Framing came on board four years ago when we began to have a featured artist provide our Garden Show artwork. They have provided the beautiful framing for our artwork again this year. Framing is an art in itself and they have such a great eye for enhancing the appeal of our artwork. We could not do this without them.
Sherry Schubert of A Catered Affair has been a longtime supporter. Sherry is in charge of our Garden Café, providing a delectable menu and now the required commercial kitchen in which to prepare all the wonderful menu items offered at our café. This year we have four new friends who have come on board to help us out. The Sequim Lavender Growers Association has donated two wonderful baskets full of lavender products that will be used as door prizes this year. St. Luke’s Episcopal Church supports this community in many ways and this year they are allowing us to use their parking lot to provide shuttle service, which will relieve parking congestion at the Garden Show venue. Mike Steim of A&N Upholstery made and donated several new reusuable banners this year. And lastly, we have Angel Farm owners Leeon and Cathy Angel who made a cash donation of $250 this year to show their support of our show and of Soroptimist projects. When I was in Girls Scouts, I remember singing a little song that went like this, “Make new friends but keep the old, one is silver the other gold.” All of our friends are precious to us and we value you all. Thank you for being friends of the Soroptimist Gala Garden Show.
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THINK BEAUTIFUL... but this year’s Gala Garden Show is much more than just flowers!
THINK ECO-NOMICAL THINK SUSTAINABLE THINK EDIBLE
Soroptimist Garden Show planners have spent the past year coming up with ways to expand the focus of the Garden Show and bring in new features in order to broaden the appeal and provide more for your donation dollars. To that end, these are just a few of the new things to look for: • Relocation of the Garden Café with more seating and new items on the menu • Complimentary booth area for informational/educational booths • Speakers on practical, economical and sustainable gardening/ landscaping practices • Exhibitors with xeriscape plants, worm tea, seeds, etc. • A new twist on our popular Garden Show raffle • A door prize each day
We’re excited to share what’s new this year so please, come see for yourself!
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Without the following Soroptimist business women, there would not be a Garden Show. Please support them. Andrea Alstrup The Water Limousine Cathy Angel Angel Farm Deborah Carlson Director of Blaze, Firecamp for Young Women Heather Cerutti Acme Septic Pumping/ Onsite Monitoring & Inspection (OMI) Kathleen DeJong Highland Farms Jane Elyea Cozy Care Pet Boarding Louella Hanson Rose Jaeger Henery’s Garden Center
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Speakers’ topics Bill Wrobel “Constructing A Self-Watering Container For Growing Tomatoes” Bill will demonstrate how to construct a self-watering container out of readily available materials (e.g., a plastic tote box, child’s sand bucket and PVC pipe) using just a drill, utility knife and a pencil. This container is ideal for tomatoes as it is moveable, provides for earlier (and longer) soil warming, healthier plants, and is self-watering. A hand-out with instructions will be provided.
Bob first will describe the common backyard birds of our area, including some of the flashy neotropical migrants that grace our forests and neighborhoods in spring and summer. He will then describe the best ways for you to encourage these species to your backyards, by planting native plants and encouraging habitat diversity.
Cynthia Warne “Worm Composting” Cynthia will share the basics of composting with worms including types of worms, containers, bedding and feeding.
Catherine Mix “Designing & Implementing a Xeriscape Garden” Catherine will review site selection, soil preparation, site preparation and plant material selection with the focus being to learn a fun and simple method of locating plants in the design so that plant height, color and bloom time all are considered before planting begins.
Bob Boekelheide “Gardening for Birds and Wildlife on the North Olympic Peninsula”
Herb Senft “Remembrances and Confessions of a Nurseryman” This is a gardening tale by a nurseryman who now is eradicating many of the plants he once sold; it might even be termed as a mea culpa or a sermon. The Good, Bad and Ugly of the plant world. There are invasive and often poisonous plants that nurseries will sell. These plants should come with a warning label. Consider this lecture as your warning label. Or as a British plants man said, “Not all plants belong in the choir of your garden.”
John Cerutti “Septic Fields 101 — State & County Requirements, Maintenance and Landscaping” A quick overview of how a septic system works. He will discuss the new Washington state requirements for on-site septic systems and provide some examples of good versus poor septic maintenance. Then he will close with septic system landscaping do’s and don’ts and have a brief period for questions and answers.
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Joe Holtrop “Landscaping with Native Plants” This presentation will focus on environmentally friendly landscaping principles, highlighted by the use of native trees and shrubs. Covering topics of cultural requirements, landscaping values, aesthetic attributes and environmental and wildlife habitat benefits of trees and shrubs native to the North Olympic Peninsula. Participants will receive tips on designing a natural landscape and learn how to prepare for planting.
“Growing Vegetables for Pennies” There is no one right way to grow a garden. You Marcella can raise vegetables in a bucket by your door. But Beth has found that Stachurski raised bed gardening uses the fewest “Herbs ... Grow resources and produces the highest Your Own!” yield with the least effort! While Fresh herbs add labor intensive to construct intitially, not only flavor they require little upkeep thereafter. but also special Come and learn Beth’s tips for flair to any dish! backyard vegetable gardening. They have become a staple in so many of our kitchens but the cost of purchasing a “little sprig” can be Judy Larimore exorbitant! Why not grow your “Capturing Your own — whether in a small backyard Backyard Beauty patch or in an indoor container. in Photographs” Join Marcella for tips on selecting, Learn how to growing and cooking with herbs. see the seasonal
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Gala Garden Vendors VENDOR BUSINESS NAME
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Aawnings of Distintion Airport Garden Center Bambu-U Cedarbrook Lavender & Herb Creative Design/Wildbirds Darlene Dihel Diggit Dragonfly Landscape Design Dungeness Gold Dungeness Valley Landscaping Earth CPR Supplies Edenscapes Energy Exteriors Evans Earthworks Fiddleheads Fresh Hats Friends of the Fields Garden Mosaics Garden Pot Stacker Gifts of Mother Earth Good Earth Plantings Henery’s Garden Center Judy’s Solar Lamps Lavender Hill Farm Leafguard Northwest Lost Mountain Art and Frame Lost Mountain Lavender Lund Fencing Mack’s Novelty & Ceramic Shop Manny’s Works Marlow Metalworks Massey Copper City of P.A. Master Composters McComb Gardens
Sunrooms Live Plants, Garden Art Bamboo Lavender Products, Garden Art Planters/Lamps Zen Gardens, Sum-E Paintings Garden Implements Fountains/Landscape Design Sauces and Spices Plants/Landscaping Service Organic Fertilizer Live Plants Custom Garden Windows Plants, Landscape Designer Home And Garden Fresh Hats Farmland Preservation Stepping Stones, Beadwork Garden Pot Stackers Garden Ware/Pottery/Raku Native Plant Landscaping Service Plants/Garden Products Solar Garden Lamps Garden Art/Ceramics Gutters & Rain Chains Framed Botanical Art Lavender Products Fencing Garden Art and Ceramics Porcelain Vases/Pots Custom Metalwork Copper Art Composting Info (City) Plants, Garden Art
Metal & Mud Metal Garden Art Olympic Coast Garden Mixed Plants, Seeds, Primrose Olympic Outdoor Furniture Garden Furniture Nash’s Organic Produce Farming Pacific NW Naturals Dry Florals/Native Plants Papa Jon’s Bird Havens Birdhouses/Wind Chimes Peninsula Nurseries Lavender Phocas Farms Hardy Succulents/Sedums Primitive Americana Art/Rustic/Paintings Randy’s Nursery Hardy Plants for Landscaping Roji Home and Garden Granite Statuary/Bamboo Sanford Irrigation Irrigation/Auto Watering Systems Scentsy Wickless Wickless Candles Sequim Lavender Growers Assoc. Lavender Growing Information Sequim Locally Grown Mercantile Local Online Market Sequim Prairie Garden Club Garden Club Sequim Prairie Star Live Plants, Worm Tea Shoestring Wood Products Hanging Planters/Grilling Planks Skyline Nursery Live Native Plants Solar Gem Greenhouses Gem Greenhouse/Work Tables Sunbaked Greenhouse Greenhouse Kits The Cedar Box Cedar Planters The Co-Op Farm & Garden Hardware ‘The Family Farm Dahlias, Flowers, Etc. The Greenhouse Everything Garden The Twisted Stick Birdhouses Topflite Construction Copper Roof Birdhouses Vision Landscape Nursery Plants & Hard Goods Waterburyhill Garden Art Whimsical Woods Woodcraft Bird Houses Woodland Gardens Specialty Nursery WSU Master Gardeners of Gardening Information, Clallam County Gardening Program You Seed Dum Sedum Plants Nonprofit organizations located in the Garden Café
The Sequim Soroptimist Club thanks the following for their generous donations to the Gala Garden Show: • St. Luke’s Epsicopal Church • The Co-Op Farm & Garden • Creative Framing • Sequim Lavender Growers Assn.
• Miller Signs • A Catered Affair • Angel Farm • A&N Upholstery
... and our official sponsors: • First Federal • Sequim Boys & Girls Club
• Henery’s Garden Center & Good Earth Plantings • Sequim Gazette
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Local Artists paint chairs for raffle prizes By Patricia Morrison Coate Staff writer For the past several years at the Gala Garden Show, the Soroptimists have raffled off wagons overfilled with all kinds of garden goodies. Last year, organizers upped the ante by having two raffles — one for a garden wagon and the second for two Adirondack chairs. This year there are six chances to win — three children’s and three adult Adirondack chairs will be offered in separate drawings. The cost for raffle tickets is $2 each or six for $10. A neat twist to the chair raffles is the chairs have been painted by local artists Donna Standerwick, Martha Rudersdorf, Bobbie Rhodes, Karin and Turi Anderson and Priscilla Messner-Patterson. • Donna Standerwick is a self-taught artist of more than 40 years. Her works range from realism to abstract and experimental that are created in various media and mixtures of media including oil, watercolor or carving. Her paintings reflect deep feelings for and love of life, nature and the Northwest including Alaska. Some paintings are available as prints. Standerwick has won many awards and her work is in public and private collections national and international, including the Waterfront Art Gallery, Port Angeles; Gallery 9, Port Townsend; and Lakeshore Gallery, Kirkland. “I often do volunteer art projects for worthwhile causes and I consider Soroptimists’ projects one of them,” said Standerwick. She also painted a bench for an Olympic Theatre Arts fundraiser that sold for $800. Her chair is yellow with clematis vines. Reach Standerwick at www.dstanderwick. com, laughingloon@dstanderwick.com or 360-460-0369. • Martha Rudersdorf, Sequim High School art teacher. This chair was painted by a few students in the advanced placement studio art class at Sequim High School. Some of the students have been painting for a few years, some just started painting intensely this year. “They are wonderfully creative and motivated students,” Rudersdorf said. “Since we are a group painting this chair, it will be a variety of styles combined in a unified way.” The chair features native Northwest plants. The students’ work will be exhibited in the Sequim Arts Student Art Show in March and the class will have a celebration of its art at the end of this school year.
Three of the chairs for the Soroptimist Gala Garden raffle are in the window at the Dove’s Nest, 139 W. Washington St. In the foreground is Donna Standerwick’s chair, covered with clematis vines. The child’s chair in the background was painted by Bobbie Rhodes with bugs and critters. Photo by Patricia Morrison Coate
Rudersdorf said she decided the class would paint a chair for the Soroptimists to raffle because “I like to involve my students in community projects. This is a gift they can give back to their community.” • Bobbie Rhodes has used drawing and sketching as a creative outlet since childhood. She always made her own Christmas and greeting cards, used her art skills throughout school years and at various jobs. She particularly enjoys working in pen and ink and water color pencil. Rhodes’ style is “figurative, linear, sometimes abstractsometimes not, detailed, lots of color … .” Rhodes said she’s supporting the Soroptimists because “It is a worthwhile organization and I’m happy to be able to benefit my community.” She is painting a child’s green chair with “just lots of fun bugs and critters!” Regarding what she hopes to accomplish with her chair, Rhodes said, “Children love color and detail and have fantastic imaginations. I envision a little person
examining my colorful creatures and perhaps making up stories about them, perhaps even wanting to draw some bugs like these. It is all about imagination and having fun.” • Karin Anderson has been painting for as long as she can remember. “I can’t imagine not drawing, painting or creating something on paper, canvas or fabric … it is part of me, how I express who I am,” she said. A native of Port Angeles, Anderson earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in studio art from Pacific Lutheran University and worked as a graphic artist for 10 years. Now she paints and creates mixed media collage and assemblage pieces in her home studio in Sequim. Anderson opted to take two chairs — she created the designs and she and her 17-yearold daughter Turi painted them. The larger chair is “Garden of Joy” and the smaller chair is “Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater.” Like mother, like daughter, Turi is in the AP Studio Art class taught by Martha Rudersdorf and is a talented artist in her own right.
“The Soroptimists do so much for Sequim and provide great role models for young women in our community!” Anderson said. Turi, a junior at SHS and an AP art student of Rudersdorf, has been involved with the Soroptimists Women In Networking program at the school and has volunteered at the annual Garden Show for the past two years. Anderson has been a member of the Blue Whole Gallery in Sequim for four years. She’s also exhibited her work at the Port Angeles Fine Art Center, the Northwind Gallery in Port Townsend and Sequim Arts member and juried shows. • Priscilla Messner-Patterson taught art at Kodiak College in Kodiak, Alaska, for nearly 18 years. She painted wildlife, landspates and still life before she began specializing in aviation-related subjects in 1994. She is an award-winning member of the American Society of Aviation Artists. The chair she painted is a child’s chair in apricot with lavender fields and biplanes.
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See Olympic Outdoor Furniture at the show By Patricia Morrison Coate Staff writer Jim Willauer is a solid, exacting man and when he created his hobby business Olympic Outdoor Furniture in 2004, he wanted customers to see and feel the sturdy craftsmanship in his work — and they do. Jill Willauer helps promote the business with her husband. Visitors to the 11th annual Gala Garden Show will be able to test drive Adirondack chairs, bistro table and chair sets, garden benches and planter benches at their booth. Don’t forget to check out the “Barkolounger” and “Catarondack” for Fido and Fluffy, too. “We are going to try to set up the booth to look like a patio so people can see how to utilize the pieces,” Jill said. “The first show we do is the garden show and then we exhibit at the Open Aire Market from May to October.” An electrician before he retired, Jim is a self-taught woodworker and focused on custom-made Adirondack chairs — there are about 100 patterns, he said, and he sizes each to the customer requesting one — lower, the easier to get out of — taller for long-legged folks or wider for those with more girth. “If they bring along a picture, I can duplicate it. I use Douglas-fir which I get from McClanahan Lumber in Forks,” Jim said. “The pieces are created for outdoors but can be used indoors. I think our Adirondack is the most popular type because it’s oversized and lower to the ground.” “It’s the best product in outdoor furniture you can buy out here. It’s solid,” Jill affirmed. Orders are strictly though the garden show and the farmers market, so there is no Web site selling them for two reasons, the couple said. One, the furniture is rock solid and heavy and two, Jim builds it to last. “If it comes apart (for shipping), it already has a weakness,” said Jill. To which Jim added, “When I put one together, it stays together.” And don’t expect to buy pieces off the shop floor either — they’re for display only. Depending on what the order is and how much craftsmanship goes into it, the project may take two weeks. “This is a first-come,
first-served business,” Jim said. But it’s well worth the wait. The Willauers are community minded as well. They have donated their chairs to the Boys & Girls Club, Welfare for Animals Guild, the Museum and Arts Center and the Olympic Theatre Arts. Come and sit a spell at the Olympic O utdoor Furniture booth at the show! The Willauers welcome you. At right: This throne is for the real king of the house — the Barkolounger by Jim Willauer can be customized to fit almost any canine. Below: Jill and Jim Willauer relax in Adirondack chairs from their business, Olympic Outdoor Furniture. Jim handcrafts each piece. Photos by Patricia Morrison Coate
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Roxana Vidals, a member of the Soroptmist Women in Networking program at Sequim High School, helped Leah Burwell last year at the petunia potting area provided by The Co-Op Farm & Garden. Submitted photo
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will have a booth at the Soroptimist Club’s Gala Garden Show where young people can plant strawberries and decorate their pots. In 2007, The Co-op gave out more than 150 strawberry starts. This is the fourth year the store has participated. The space for the booth, the pots and the potting soil are donated by the Co-op and the strawberries are donated through one of its vendors. Store manager Kathy Reid and Paul Creasey, lawn and gardening manager, welcome children to plant their own takehome strawberries. The store continues to support the Gala Garden Show continue in order to keep young people interested in agriculture.
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Gifts of Mother Earth by Patricia Morrison Coate Staff writer One look at Lynda Pollard, and you can tell she’s a creative person — from her bold jewelry to her natural fiber sweater. Pollard, in her bubbly New York accent, says she’s been an artist since she was 10 years old. She taught art education for many years until she and her husband, Frank, retired near Port Townsend in 1993. She still substitutes in the Chimacum School District as an art teacher. Since 1994, they have built their home business, Gifts from Mother Earth, into a farmers market favorite. Pollard said she chose that name to match her philosophy as a potter — clay and glazes made from Mother Nature’s chemicals. “I began with handthrown clay baskets that I’d painted in
native designs. They would sell as fast as I could make them.” She has extensive experience in native art from the Southwest, and upon moving to Washington, has incorporated symbols of the Northwest tribes in her work. “Then a farmer at the Port Townsend Farmers Market asked me to make a sign that said, ‘I’m out in my garden.’ Bed and breakfast owners wanted the same and pretty soon I had more than 200 sayings to put on terra cotta clay signs.” Pollard hand-makes her garden signs and plant markers. She explained the process f rom raw clay to finished product is quite labor intensive, requiring dozens of steps and days to complete. A simple explanation is she rolls out slabs of clay, trims and imprints the
she takes the pliable material and fires extra step by the pieces twice in a kiln. giftwrapping When Pollard g the expressed an interest in t purchases in recyclable bags, Raku, a Japanese firing r cinched with process that results c raffi in shimmering metal ra a and tied with finishes on clay pieces, w a handcrafted ornament. Frank built a special o “I appreciate Raku kiln for her. the “I started doing pieces th beauty of nature around me in Raku: tile vases, na and cornets, jewelry pins, an I always have Pollard provides gift-w to be doing African-design masks, ne as her ceramics. Eachrapping as customized needed pie is wrapped in something creative oil lamps and tea lights. recyclable bags and tied wice th a handcrafted orn am en t. He r ta gs ex with my hands, I buy the glazes mixed creating each of her pro plain the process of ducts. making things from up and apply them to whatever materials are the pots and it’s the firing that makes around,” Pollard said, describing the well them shiny.” of her inspiration. “Each piece is a part of The Pollards don’t have an online me, one of my ‘babies.’ I take pride in my e-shop, so one of the best places on the work because they’re all one-of-a-kind. Olympic Peninsula to purchase her art is at the Gala Garden Show. She’s featuring It’s fun to know where my pieces go all over the world as gifts.” her tile vases, garden signs, glazed Besides the Gala Garden Show, Pollard garden mushrooms, oil also takes Gifts of Mother Earth on the lamps and terra cotta garden markers. Pollard road to the Chimacum Arts & Crafts Show, Master Gardeners flower show at delights in making Fort Worden State Park, Port Townsend handmade cards, Farmers Market, North Kitsap Holiday art in themselves, Festival, Sequim Lavender Festival describing the and Harrison Medical Center Festival pieces. For of Trees. all of her Contact Pollard at lyndap@olypen.com. customers,
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Gala Good Earth Plantings Garden Show Welcomes You ...
Garden design by Jennifer R. Weir
Visitors to the Gala Garden Show will stroll through an inviting entrance walk designed and built by Henery’s Garden Center and Good Earth Plantings, both of Sequim. This year’s theme is “Making the Most of Native Plants” and the two businesses and their crews feature many of their favorites in several settings. While Tim and Rose Jaeger of Henery’s furnish most of the greenery, Joshua Piper of Good Earth Plantings demonstrates how to create a natural setting with native and forest plants, shrubs and trees. Visitors will be drawn to his living roof dog house, made of 90 percent recycled materials, and a garden shed with streaming water to show how to set up a rainwater catchment. Some of the native plants include red twig dogwood, Douglas-firs, hemlocks, western red cedar, nettles, wild lettuce, serviceberry, evergreen huckleberry, bleeding hearts, salal, and of course, rhododendrons. Come see how you can “go native.”
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