October 2015

Jasmyne DeBeaumont

HAPPY HALLOWEEN

Art & Wine Walk Local Wineries, Breweries, Artists and Shopping Moses Lake and Ephrata Columbia Basin Allied Arts

SPOKANE JAZZ ORCHESTRA

Welcomes you to Moses Lake

PHANTOM OF THE OPERA Quincy Community Center

Harvest Maze Pumpkin Patch Quincy

The Holidays Are Here

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Italy Trip O rientation October 29 th, 2015 5:30 pm at The Mos es Lake Chamber o f Commerc e

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Trip Dates: October 1-15th, 2016 Rome Amalfi Coast Florence Venice

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Annual

holiday street tree friday, nov. 13th . 4-6pm Sinkiuse Square (corner of Third Ave. & Ash Street downtown)

Bring your kids & grandkids to enjoy this fantastic family tradition!

They can light one of the trees on Third Avenue!

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n the pursuit of all things bought locally, we offer up a collection of favorite places in our region. We want you to experience the quality and uniqueness of the businesses that give our hometowns their identity.

You see, we encourage you to think seriously before going out of our region to shop, dine, or be entertained.

You know the drill. You spend your time traveling, and for what? Our small independent businesses have much to offer right here, within the distance of a short day trip, including familiar faces to greet you and a wealth of knowing exactly what you are looking for.

Individual attention given to customers is a historical differentiator for small independents. You know as a consumer how delightful personalized service is. Strong relationships are created. The focus shifts from what moves product to what moves people.

There is another very important reason to shop at a locally owned business first. Every dollar spent in the local economy is a gift to the community where it is spent, generating income for family, friends and neighbors, who in turn, reinvest those same dollars, thus providing growth necessary to retain the quality of life we enjoy and desire.

Each time we spend a dollar locally, that dollar is a vote for the future direction of our community. It is a way to weigh the full value of our own choices, not solely to ourselves immediately, but for the future we want to cultivate for our family. With the understanding of this economic impact and knowing that we each individually contribute to it, we will more often choose to patronize local business with a smile.

- Melea Johnson

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director at the heart of it all

Jasmyne DeBeaumont

by Jan Thacker

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ecently, at the first ever “Downtown Fall Festival, Vintage and Artisan Fair, “ organizer Jasmyne DeBeaumont was seen everywhere -- chatting with business owners, helping vendors, greeting community members, and just generally serving as hostess at the new event. In her role as executive director of the Moses Lake Business Association (MLBA), heading up a big community event was just another aspect of the job she loves.

DeBeaumont’s position with MLBA, with a board of nine community members, is a big one. She is in charge of most downtown activities and events designed for families to enjoy coming into town to get acquainted with all it has to offer.

But her main focus, and the goal of MLBA, is to promote small business. “I’m out of the office a lot, talking

to people. I actively walk through doors to talk to people and I make an effort to understand and to maintain good relationships,” she said. “One reason I am still here is because I believe in Moses Lake. It’s a good place to raise a family.”

When DeBeaumont declares, “My heart is with small and local business and mom and pop shops,” all downtown business owners would have to agree with her. A gentle person, caring and thoughtful and always happy and encouraging, she is filled with ideas for improving downtown and her zeal, understanding, and compassion is a bolster to many a business owner. She is very much appreciated.

Over a year ago downtown merchants started holding meetings the first Tuesday of each month. Facilitated by DeBeaumont, the meetings have turned out to be a vital bonding of downtown small business owners who all have the same goal of being successful while also bringing something to the community. Strategies are discussed for promoting downtown through events but the meetings are also informative. Last month a member of the local police force talked to business owners about combating graffiti and in October a guest speaker will discuss how to discourage and handle shoplifters.

“MLBA started for a reason and businesses needed that support. We work together and care about the success of each other,” DeBeaumont said. “Despite our competitive natures and the little differences between people, family-run businesses all want to succeed and be able to give back to the community.”

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As far as her personal life, DeBeaumont spent her early years in Arizona, grew up in Prosser and moved to Moses Lake while in high school. Her husband, Jared, works in construction and their 12-year-old daughter, Grace, seems to have inherited her mother’s penchant for volunteering. After almost any downtown event Grace can be found working in the aftermath. picking up trash, helping tear down the MLBA booth and just generally assisting in clean-up activities.

When Jasmyne DeBeaumont looks back on her life she sometimes marvels at how almost everything in her past prepared her for heading up MLBA. She first learned the rewards and satisfaction of being in service to others when she was a young girl. Her grandfather, before he died of cancer, told family members how the Candy Stripers at Prosser Memorial Hospital made his hospital time more bearable.

“He was the most loving, affectionate man,” DeBeaumont recalled. “After he died I became a Candy Striper, working actively with seniors, handing out drinks and working in the hospital gift shop. Even at that age I wanted to help people.”

Later, as a young woman, DeBeaumont dreamed of becoming a marine biologist. “I love the ocean. I’m a Pisces and have a heart for being close to water,” she said, adding that one of her greatest recent adventures, which made her shed tears, was going on a whale watching tour out of Anacortes where six Orca whales put on a marvelous show for spectators.

As far as the marine biologist dream? “I found out it took a lot of math,” she said, laughing.

Daughter Grace Instead, she turned her vision toward continuing to help others and accepted a job with the Community Action Council’s program Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA). “I was basically a paid volunteer. I got a stipend that didn’t amount to much but the experience was amazing,” she said.

After that, she delved deeper into non-profit work, working for the Opportunities Industrialization Center and the Washington State Microenterprise Association, both of which, among other things, promote economic development.

From there it was an easy jump into actively serving the Moses Lake Chamber of Commerce. “I worked in membership, assisted running the Visitor’s Center and had a lot of opportunities to meet business owners. I am very thankful for my time there.”

Now her journey has brought her to MLBA and she is a perfect fit for the organization’s goals and ideals.

When asked about herself, DeBeaumont said, “I’m just a real simple person. It doesn’t take much to make me happy.

I don’t need a bunch of luxury or stuff. My husband plays guitar and when he sings me a song I’m perfectly happy with that.”

Then she thoughtfully added, “I just want people to know how much I care. It’s a passion of mine and I’m trying my best to listen and be very heartfelt about everything I do.”

Moses Pointe Steakhouse Presents

Friday, November 6th 6:00pm – 10:30pm

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SATURDAY OCTOBER 10TH 1-5PM DOWNTOWN MOSES LAKE, WA Pick up your glass in Sinkiuse Square on Oct. 10th

MARK YOUR CALENDAR! JOIN OUR LOCAL WINERIES, BREWERIES, ARTISTS & DOWNTOWN BUSINESSES!

GET YOUR TICKETS TODAY AT: MICHAEL’S BISTRO, INLAND CELLULAR, DUDA INSURANCE, ARTGARDEN POTTERY & AT MLBACARES.ORG Another great event brought to you by the Moses Lake Business Association. For more information on this event and others happening in Moses Lake’s downtown go to www.mlbacares.org or call 509-764-1745. Like ‘MLBAcares.org’ & ‘LakeTown Landing’ on Facebook. Support your downtown, become a member of MLBA!

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Begin your walk at Michael’s Market and Bistro.

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A girl named Allyson

“SHE’S GOT THIS!”

Article and Photo

by Judy Baker As my daughter and I sat in the dentist’s office I kept noticing a young lady who was writing in a composition book, looking up, closing her eyes, obviously thinking and clearly very invested in whatever it was she was pondering. I could not help but speak up and inquire if she was a writer? With a huge smile she answered, “I want to be, I am starting to write my first book!” Within five minutes of interacting with her and her dad, I was utterly amazed by her certitude.

Having the opportunity to meet new people in our community is one of my favorite interests, as it gives me all types of probability to encounter in unusual settings, out of the normal surroundings and situations. It allows for an unconditional interview with delightful members of our community on a moment’s notice. Meeting eleven year old

Allyson and her dad, Chris, was one of those unexpected moments.

Allyson, who goes by Ally stated that she was so anxious for the new school year to begin, with big plans and humongous hopes she stated, ”I will be going to Frontier Middle School this coming year and I am so excited and scared at the same time. It is a new school for me, which means new teachers and new friends. It won’t be like Park Orchard, where I knew all of the teachers and they knew me”, she said with a huge smile, “new things can be scary, but also be so fun!”

I asked Ally what her favorite classes were and she said,” My favorite class is Math which I will need to accomplish for my dream job as a forensic scientist when I grow up. I want to be like Dr. Brennan from the TV show Bones and I want to be able to help figure out what happened to a dead

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body. I want to help law enforcement solve crimes using science.”

I observed her Dad as she was speaking and he proudly sat and listened to his lovely daughter. The pride I read in his eyes and expressions was overwhelming and my hopes that all children could dream with the support of their family like Ally. When I asked her dad what is the most inspiring thing he recognizes about his lovely daughter he said, “She has always had a beautiful smile, and she taught me how to “baby proof” our home due to the fact that she was so inquisitive! Ally is very confident and is on a constant learning basis.”

Ally spoke about her teachers of the past and specified her most inspiring teachers at Park Orchard were Mrs. Mather and Mrs. McFarland as they both encouraged her to be positive and believe in herself. “I have been taught by my mentors to stay positive, not to let the negative take over and believe in myself with confidence and imagination”, she stated. “I also have been inspired by a band called My Chemical Romance.”

“When I am not in school, I like to play video games, watch Anime, read Manga books (Japanese comic books), and read horror novels. I love anything from Japan and I

like to write stories about crime and solving it. I like to do things that keep my mind sharp and focused.”

Ally shared that she enjoyed going to the Boys and Girls Club and had been attending since second grade. “They have a homework room and it really helped me during after school hours and in the summer,” she commented. The staff there is great and they offer a great place for kids to hang out and stay busy.

I asked about her college plans and she said her number one pick for college was Harvard. “It will take a lot of years in school to become a forensic scientist and there is a lot you need to learn and know,” she stated. “You need to know what causes things to happen and why it happens as well as you need to know math and be able to write well since you have to take a lot of notes. I am really into technology and computers which I would use all the time in my dream job and I truly love to write and love math so this would be a good job for me.”

For Ally moving forward is what life is all about and I want to thank her for her motivational lifestyle and also thank her for sharing it with our community.

I think wherever life takes Ally, she will investigate it to the fullest, remain positive and get it done.

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Get your

in downtown!

Downtown Trick–or–Treat Event Third Avenue & Sinkiuse Square

October 31st • 5-7pm

Another fantastic event brought to you by the MLBA. 509.764.1745 • mlbacares.org • Like ‘MLBAcares.org’ & ‘LakeTown Landing’ on Facebook.

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The History of HALLOWEEN

By VM

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his month, happiness appears to come in the form of tons upon tons of chocolate, billions of those tiny candy corns, and caramel covered popcorn balls and apples.

Halloween is without question one of America’s sweetest holiday traditions with billions of American dollars spent on sugary delights. And what are you going to wear? The costumes have no limits with endless new ideas cropping up every year.

With all of the ghouls and ghosts running around hand in hand with angels and fairies it’s hard to really know why we do this, where “trick-or-treat” came from or how pumpkin carving became known as the best October American pastime to include heaps of giant squash guts, oversized knives, and a box of white wine.

Read on, friends, and learn how the happy holiday during which you gorge yourself on candy sweets has its roots intertwined with the ominous winters of old

Western Europe, the Druids of Celtic fame, and the Roman Empire who once had it all. It should be noted that this “history” was stolen from various Internet websites and should certainly not be used as reference in any school paper. Dates, names, theories, and spellings should all be researched on your own time.

With that said, The Somewhat Interesting History of Halloween:

Ancient Origins

Roughly 2000 B.C.E. Celtic festivities began to permeate what is now know as the United Kingdom, Scotland and Northern France. The Celtic New Year began on November 1st, signifying the end of the harvest year and beginning of the cold, dark winter months ahead. On the day before the new year the Celts celebrated Samhain (Sow-in) during which time they believed that the spirits of

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he was a boy

obert Hull, FAIA, founding partner of The Miller Hull Partnership, past president of the Seattle Architecture Foundation and former chair of the American Institute of Architects, spoke across the globe from North America to South Africa, China and Australia on his work. He passed on April 7, 2014.

By Shawn Erin, Visitor Services - Moses Lake Museum ____ was a boy. ____lived in Moses Lake, Washington. ____ liked to skate on the frozen lake in the winter, build bon fires with friends, and explore the Coulees. ____ went to WSU after high school where he met many friends, and eventually graduated as an architect.

After college, ____ joined the Peace Corps.

Then, having interned and worked at prestigious architecture firms in New York City and Vancouver, B.C., and having successfully finished special projects and architectural competitions, ___ founded a firm with his long-time friend, David Miller.

This story starts out ordinary enough. Insert any boy’s name and the story is true for billions. With the next few lines the truth is narrowed down to thousands, hundreds.

Eventually only a dozen names fit. When the story becomes extraordinary only one name will work: Robert (Bob) Hull.

What pushed Hull’s story over the tipping point from ordinary to prodigious?

It was the drive to be. Be the best. It was less than nine years after graduating in 1977 that Miller and Hull opened their own firm. “That’s pretty unusual,” Miller said.

“Unusual then and unusual today. We were brave, naïve, idealistic and we gave it a try.”

Miller said both men had high aspirations and were willing to take risks. That, combined with their shared Peace Corps experience of building with available and lowcost resources and their equal but different appreciation of the environment (Miller grew up on the Puget Sound), was a win.

Success to them meant respect of their peers, admiration from the architectural community and the general public. “We always tried to get it [new work] published Continued on page

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Investigation, Innovation & Influence: The Life and Work of Bob Hull Currently showing through November 13, 2015 A retrospective on the life and work of Moses Lake native, Robert Hull, FAIA. The exhibit highlights the early influences on Hull’s life growing up in Moses Lake, his work in the Peace Corps and his 36 year collaboration with David Miller in The Miller Hull Parnership.

The ideas, experiments, drawings and sketches of his incredible career, and personal life will give a look into the amazingly creative, and incessantly curious mind of a man who had profound effect on everyone he met.

Continued from page in magazines and receive design awards. Whenever we designed we would draw and make models that would look good in a spread. Our work was always camera ready,” Miller said.

Hull has become somewhat of a house-hold name around Grant County since The Miller Hull Partnership (Miller and Hull’s architecture firm) constructed the Moses Lake Civic Center. The completed building opened in 2011.

Hull died in the spring of 2014. The exhibit Investigation, Innovation & Influence: The Life and Work of Bob Hull will honor and celebrate Hull as a man and an architect.

“I would love… to raise awareness of the amazing person Bob Hull was. Until he designed the Civic Center,

people [in the Basin] didn’t know what a rock star he was!”

Miller said.

Visitors can expect a total transformation of the Museum gallery. Custom free-standing displays will be incorporated and the walls covered in family memorabilia and artifacts of Hull’s hobbies including art, architecture and mechanized devices he made.

“Bob’s heart and soul came through his art and it conveyed in a very evident way,” Miller said.

The current exhibit will not only be to honor Hull’s memory, but also to inspire. Miller said Hull would want individuals to be inspired to “reach far and wide and travel far and wide. And reach high; try to be the top in what you do… see where you can go.”

Moses Lake Museum & Art Center

401 S. Balsam Street / Moses Lake, WA 98837 Hours: Monday – Saturday / 11:00am – 5:00pm Admission is always FREE.

509 764-3830 / moseslakemuseum.com

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Quincy Valley Lions Club in conjunction with Becerra Gardens Present their Annual

Harvest Maze & Pumpkin Patch Open Saturdays and Sundays 10:00am – 6:00pm September 26th through October 25th, 2015 Special group rates and times are available by calling 509 398-2631, 509 398-0957

or email quincyvalleylions@yahoo.com

Cost is $6 per person / Concessions are available for purchase.

Children 2 and under are FREE. Located at 11235 Road 9 NW, Quincy U-pick garden open dawn to dusk 7 days a week through end of October.

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75th Annual Moses Lake Chamber Banquet Tuesday, October 20

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Continued from page the dead returned to wander the earth and posses the bodies of the willing and unwilling alike. The Druids of the era built huge bonfires around which ceremonies of sacrifice and prayer to Celtic deities were had. Hearth fires would be extinguished so to make homes appear cold and uninviting to the spirits, while costumes, usually consisting of animal heads and furs, were donned to confuse the spirits of fleshy identity. Those Celts were clever, weren’t they?

Following Samhain, hearth fires would be relit from a common source, the Druidic fire which burned in the middle of Ireland at Usinach.

The Roman Empire had conquered the majority of the Celtic territory by 43 C.E. In the proceeding 400 years a cultural amalgamation resulted when two Roman holidays combining with the afore mentioned Celtic holiday of Samhain. One of the Roman holidays is thought to be Feralia, celebrated in late October by the Romans, as a day commemorating the passing of their dead. Another would be a day celebrating Pomona, the Roman goddess of fruit and trees. (The apparent symbol of Pomona, the apple, is thought to have some bearing on why “bobbing for apples” is a Halloween tradition.)

By 800 C.E., Christianity had spread (aggressively) into Celtic lands. In what is regarded as a move to displace the pagan festival of the dead with a church sanctioned holiday,

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Pope Boniface IV officially declared November 1 st as All Saints’ Day. All Saints’ Day, or All-hallows, was a day to honor all Roman Catholic saints and martyrs. The day before All Saints’ Day become known as All Hallows’ Eve and eventually Hallow E’en by the Irish.

Nearing 1000 C.E., the Roman church would make November 2nd All Souls’ Day to honor the dead. Together all three holidays, All Hallows’ Eve, All Saints’ Day, and All Souls’ Day, become knows as Hallowmas.

Evolution of Modern Tradition

During All Souls’ Day in England it became common practice for the poor to rove from door to door begging for “soul cakes,” small pastries, in return for prayers for the household’s recently deceased. The tradition was encouraged by the church and eventually replaced the ancient practice of leaving food and wine for wandering spirits of the dead. “Going a- souling,” as it was referred to, was soon adopted by children who would visit neighboring homes in hopes of getting food and money.

The act of dressing in costume for Halloween stems from both Roman and Celtic traditions. During a time of widespread stigmatic spiritual dogma and outright fear of that which is dead the idea of spirits coming back to ravage the souls of the living was hardly a comforting one. People

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of the era believe they would encounter less than benign deities if they left their homes during Hallowmas. To counter any such spiritual mish-mash during the festivities, party goers would dress up in masks, animal furs, and perhaps whatever else they could get their hands on to deter spiritual possession.

The story of the Jack-O-Lantern is perhaps the most fun of all Halloween lore. It goes something like this: According to Irish folklore there once was a man named Jack, a notorious drunk and town trickster. Jack was once able to trick Satan into climbing a tree and then trapped him in it by carving a cross in the tree’s trunk. Jack made a deal with the devil that if he never tempted Jack again he would let him down. The Devil agreed.

After Jack died he was neither admitted into Heaven because of his evil ways, nor into Hell for tricking the Devil himself. Rather he was forced to walk the eternal darkness with nothing but a single burning ember set inside of a hallowed out turnip. Poor Jack. No good trick goes without some manner of resentment. Later, American immigrants found that pumpkins housed embers/candles much better than turnips.

The boxed white wine came much later in the history of Halloween.

Halloween in the Americas

Rigid Protestant beliefs prevented widespread Halloween celebration in early New England times.

However, during Ireland’s potato famine of 1846, millions of immigrants flooded the shores of the East coast, bringing with them the second most popular holiday in American culture. (In terms of monetary expenditures, of course.)

Young Americans began roaming from house to house on the eve of October 31 st asking for food, money, and other treats. The practice became know as today’s “trick-ortreat” tradition.

By the turn of the century Halloween become most commonly celebrated with parties for the young and old alike, defining it more and more as a purely secular holiday.

Halloween began losing much of religious and superstitious overtones that helped shape the holiday nearly four thousand years ago.

Happy Halloween

Have a safe and sweet holiday this October! VM

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21st Annual

F ESTIVAL OF TREES Saturday, Dec. 12th, 2015

Donate auction items | Purchase tickets or a table | Purchase a tree for your home or office

Big Bend Community College ATEC Building

Silent & live auction items needed.

Get involved! Decorate a tree.

Go to www.habitatmoseslake.org for donation forms, to purchase tickets, reserve a table or to decorate a tree.

601 S. Pioneer Way, Suite F, PMB-278 Moses Lake, WA 98837 • 509.765.4030

7662 Chanute St NE | Moses Lake, WA 5:30pm Silent Auction 7pm Dinner & Live Auction $65 single | $125 couple | $450 table of 8

Proceeds benefit local families in need of adequate homes.

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Art Guild of the Soap Lake Area

2015

presents the 12th annual

WINTERFEST ART SHOW

& SALE

Entry Fee — $5/piece — no limit on number but original

work only and ready to hang

Prizes —

Cash prize for best in show, best student, people’s choice, divisional awards, and honorable mentions.

Divisions — painting, sculpture, drawing/print, ceramics/pottery, photography, mixed media, and others

Sales

— encouraged, not required — you set price — 20% goes to the Art Guild to support nonprofit work

2 Artist Categories — adults and student Bring Art — Nov 21 & 22, noon-6 pm at City Hall. Artists must

submit their own work to be eligible for prizes. However, any person may enter pieces in the show for public viewing or sale only, but written artist permission artist is required on the entry form.

Pick Up Art — Dec 13 after 6 pm, and Dec 14 4 to 7 pm Door Prize — for a lucky show visitor Info — 509-246-6259 Artists Reception Announcement of Awards Dec 5, 5 pm

12 - 6 pm , 4 days December 5-6, 12-13 Soap Lake City Hall, 239 2nd Ave SE The Guild thanks the City of Soap Lake for the use of the Council Chamber for this show.

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check in from 4 to 6 pm at ephrata recreation center 112 basin sw $25 / person $40 / couple more information, register & pay online at the website below, at the door or purchase tickets at the bookery chamber: 754.4656 Must be 21 and over, ID is required.

Door Prize: wine tour for up to 8 people at maryhill vineyard

wine & art walk Sponsored Sponsored by by

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Visit us in Ephrata, also!

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Lynnee’s Floral in Wilbur has expanded NOW you can also visit their store in an Ephrata location!

They offer apparel / purses / jewelry, Melissa & Doug toys, baby apparel, Ty Beanies, holiday merchandise, Barn Candles, home décor, and gifts.

Goin’ Postal (across from Safeway)

1105 Basin Street SW, Suite A Ephrata, WA 9:00am – 5:00pm Mon-Fri 10:00am – 2:00pm Saturday

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Getting back to normal

By Jan Thacker

A

ll my life, it seems, I have been waiting for “things to get back to normal.” There is always something going on to get things out of ordinary but they happen so frequently that I’m wondering if an out-of-kilter life is actually ordinary after all. Maybe abnormal really is normal.

There is always something. Changes in Red Door (like, yeah, let’s move down the street and open a cafe!), company comes for a week, the car is in the shop, puppies invade our lives, someone has a baby, someone has a divorce, and someone gets the flu. Projects and events take over because we don’t know how to say no. Well, sure, I’ll make 60 dozen cookies for the Hummingbird Support Group. No problem.

We volunteer to babysit, housesit, dog-sit, cat-sit and fish-sit.

We go through periods when the only thing we can think of to cook is macaroni and cheese or hot dogs. We find ourselves suddenly wearing strange clothes, sometimes the same three sets for months on end, and wonder how we ever thought they looked good.

We’re so busy running and doing the house falls apart.

We end up feeding our family peanut butter and hash sandwiches because that’s all there is in the cupboard. The younger kids think we own McDonalds. When things get back to normal, we say, we’ll go back to cooking real food.

We’ll clear off the table and sit on chairs and pass the salt and say, well, dear, how was your day. And he’ll say, fine, the way he always does and things will be normal.

When things get back to normal we’ll use a chainsaw to clear the weeds in the flower beds and clean out the dead petunias from the boxes that should look lush and gorgeous except that it hasn’t been a normal summer, what with all the strange things that have popped up to steal time and kept us from turning on the hose.

When things get back to normal. What a wonderful time that will be. Then we’ll start starring in our lives, rather than being flunky gofer stand-ins running around like mad people and never getting anything at all completely accomplished. We’ll get on top of life, we’ll stand right there on top of it, and we will run it thoroughly and efficiently without quirkiness or nonconformity or allowing anything to snatch us from our lofty goals and mission in life; the mission, of course, of being just ... normal.

We all yearn for a normal life; for the hubbub to die down so we can just relax and fall back into our routines.

We want mundane. We want ordinary, routine, everyday dull. We want predictable and humdrum. None of that opening the front door and hearing, “Surprise! Yup. Ol’ cousin Fred and Alma, all the way from Kentucky up here for a whole month!”

Normal. We all want normal. But, what is normal, anyway? When my sister Judy and I were little we would say the word “brush” over and over and over until we couldn’t remember the meaning of the word. Maybe that’s what happened to normal. Maybe it’s gone forever. Maybe,

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in my family, it’s never been there in the first place. Maybe what we thought was normal really wasn’t normal at all but was really eccentric and odd and the whole town looked at our family with raised eyebrows and snickers but we really didn’t realize they were eye-browing and snickering at us because, after all, we thought we were quite ordinary and normal.

I remember as a kid when all those people would drive by our house and slow down and stare and we thought it was because we were living in the Mahar house, which, for its time was considered a most unique modern dwelling.

Maybe it had nothing to do with the Mahar house. Maybe they were trying to get a glimpse of us because we were so strange. Maybe they went back to Sally’s Cafe after their drive-by and, when a crowd had gathered, said, “Drove by the Wood house. Yup. Strange family. Strange.”

In the Bible God says his people are “peculiar.” Some of us are more peculiar than others. Thankfully, it’s being one of his peculiar people that gets me through the strangeness of life. I guess God is the only normal person in our family.

He’s the one who gets us through the odd parts of life, the happenings that throw the whole thing off balance. It’s a blessing not to have to wallow through it alone.

J

an Thacker grew up in Whitefish, Montana, and she and her husband, Troy, dragged the family to Alaska in 1975. Now “retired” and living in Moses Lake, she and Troy are co-owners of Red Door Consignment and Red Door Cafe with their daughter and son-in-law, Rick and Lisa Boorman. A longtime journalist, artist, and author, her paintings and book (The Widows of Danford) are available at Red Door.

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Columbia Basin Allied Arts

Live performances held @ Wallenstien Theater

JOIN US!

NOVEMBER 10, 2015 | 7PM

PURCHASE Moses Lake Chamber of Commerce or TICKETS AT: www.columbiabasinalliedarts.org F or infor mation call: 509.793.2059 •

Support provided by Moses Lake & Grant County Tourism Commissions Wallenstien Theater 6989 College Parkway, Moses Lake

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Golden Dragon

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Acrobats

he Golden Dragon Acrobats represent the best of a time honored tradition that began more than twenty-five centuries ago. The Golden Dragons are recognized throughout the United States and abroad as the premiere Chinese acrobatic touring company of today.

The reputation of the company is solidly rooted in a commitment to the highest of production values and an attention to artistic details that is unparalleled in the art form. World renowned impresario Danny Chang and choreographer Angela Chang combine award-winning acrobatics, traditional dance, spectacular costumes, ancient and contemporary music and theatrical techniques to present a show of breathtaking skill and spellbinding beauty.

Be a Part of the Experience The Golden Dragon Acrobats are proud to represent the very best of this time-honored tradition. The 2013/2014 tour will mark the 34th year of the Golden Dragons’ touring career.

The Golden Dragons remind us that we belong to the same world and we share the same aspirations and dreams. We most sincerely invite you to consider bringing the Golden Dragon Acrobats to your venue. Watch the video clips, consider the marketing and support materials, talk to your friends and colleagues who have hosted the group. Let your audiences be a part of the experience of something spectacularly beautiful.

In November 2005, the Golden Dragon Acrobats made their Broadway debut to a sold out audience at the New Victory Theater, New York’s ultimate theater for kids and families.

Their Broadway run over the next six

weeks led to adoration and standing ovations from audiences of all ages and universal critical acclaim from the New York press. The run was highlighted by the Golden Dragons receiving two most prestigious New York Drama Desk nominations -- Danny Chang for Unique Theatrical Experience and Angela Chang for Best Choreography.

Golden Dragon Arcrobats will return to New Victory Theater in New York City for a 5-week engagement beginning December 1, 2014 and running through January 4, 2015. The Golden Dragons remain the ONLY Chinese acrobatic company touring year-round in the United States.

The response received from those who have presented the Golden Dragons is nothing short of overwhelming.

The ancient art of Chinese Acrobatics is an old and long running tradition that began in China well over two thousand years ago. Over its long and rich history it has developed as one of the most popular art forms among the Chinese people. While many historical records provide evidence for the development of Chinese acrobatics as far back as the Xia Dynasty (4000 years ago), it is most commonly held that the art form did not become wildly popular until approximately 2,500 years ago when it began to capture the attention of the country’s powerful emperors.

During the Warring States Period (475 BC - 221 BC) acrobatics in China began to evolve from the working lives of its people. Instruments of labor, such as tridents and wicker rings, and articles of daily use such as tables, chairs, jars, plates and bowls began to be used as performance props. This

unorganized form of entertainment and leisure eventually evolved into a form of performance that became recognizable to the Chinese people.

During the Han Dynasty (221 BC - 220 AD) these rudimentary acts of acrobatics developed into the “Hundred Plays”. More contents and varieties were quick to develop. Musical accompaniment was soon added to the performance as interest in the art form grew among the emperors. During the Tang Dynasty (618 - 907 AD) the number of acrobats greatly increased as the skills of each individual performer slowly began to become much more precise and amazing.

Since these early times, acrobatics have evolved into many forms of performances including dance, opera, martial arts, and sports. However, the impact of Chinese acrobatics goes far beyond the boundaries of performance as it has served an important role in the cultural exchange between China and Western nations including the United States. The citizens of China continue to present their acrobatic art for the world today, as it portrays the hard working nature of their people and sets forth an example of the rich traditions of Chinese culture.

“The ancient art of Chinese Acrobatics is an old and long running tradition that began in China well over two thousand years ago.”

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Columbia Basin Allied Arts

Live performances held @ Wallenstien Theater

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Sponsored by:

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OCTOBER 17, 2015 | 7PM

PURCHASE Moses Lake Chamber of Commerce or TICKETS AT: www.columbiabasinalliedarts.org F or infor mation call: 509.793.2059 •

Support provided by Moses Lake & Grant County Tourism Commissions Wallenstien Theater 6989 College Parkway, Moses Lake

SJO T

he Spokane Jazz Orchestra is the Nation’s oldest, continually performing, professional communitysupported 17 piece jazz big band.

The “SJO” was incorporated in 1975 as the flagship ensemble of Spokane Jazz Society. The roots of Spokane Jazz Orchestra originated in 1962 with the formation of its predecessor, the “Spokane Jazz Clinic”, a ‘rehearsal band’ of area professionals and outstanding students. From 1973 to 1975, the organization was known as “Jazz Ensembles of Spokane”.

The founding and incorporation of SJS and SJO as a non-profit, 501c3 arts organization was led by founder Craig Volosing and SJO’s first music director, Bruce Preuninger. Preuninger conducted the SJO its first four seasons.

Since its inception, the Spokane Jazz Orchestra has served the Inland Northwest with both performances and education services. Stylistically, the orchestra has been a repertory ensemble, offering programs in the various styles of large ensemble jazz ranging from Dixieland and Swing-era to contemporary repertoire. Education services are usually rendered in a workshop setting. These sessions are

“Over more than its four decade existence, the Spokane Jazz Orchestra’s list of guest artists has come to read like a “Who’s Who” in the jazz world.”

conducted as part of area jazz festivals and, most often, in conjunction with community concerts as part of the SJO’s very successful “We Came To Play!” regional school outreach programs. The SJO also sponsors an annual jazz soloist competition for area high school musicians.

Over more than its four decade existence, the Spokane Jazz Orchestra’s list of guest artists has come to read like a “Who’s Who” in the jazz world.

The exhaustive list includes Diana Krall, Mel Torme’, Dizzy Gillespie, Karrin Allyson, Della Reese, Joe Williams, The Four Freshmen, Clark Terry, Don Menza, Ethel Ennis, Ernie Watts, Claudio Roditi, Allen Vizzuti, Gail Nelson, Mary Stallings, Lanny Morgan, Mike Vax, Chuck Mangione, Carmen Bradford, Frank Foster, Gunther Schuller, Dee Daniels, David Benoit, Walt Wagner, Sunni Wilkinson, Ben E. King, Martha and the Vandellas, the Drifters, the Platters, and Little Anthony.

Each season, the Spokane Jazz Orchestra presents a series of at least four concerts in Spokane’s Bing Crosby Theater – “The Bing”.

Occasionally SJO produces concerts in the Spokane Opera House. SJO is also often engaged to perform for other major community events in the Inland Northwest, ranging from venues like Coeur d’ Alene’s Art on the Green and the Artfest in Spokane’s Brown’s Addition, to major community fundraising concerts and dances for a variety of causes.

To the region at large, the Spokane Jazz Orchestra is well known as the “ensemble/show of first choice” to perform for Spokane’s annual fireworks

concert each July 4 in Riverfront Park.

Each Independence Day, over 50,000 listeners enjoy the SJO and its various internationally-acclaimed guest artists in what has become Spokane’s very ‘hip’ tradition of JAZZ music!

Since its formation, the Spokane Jazz Orchestra has had nine music directors, beginning with co-founder Bruce Preuninger. Following Preuninger, the music directorship has been held by Paul Halversen, John Luppert, David Morgan, Bob Curnow, Bernard Rose, Paul Davis, Dan Keberle, Tom Molter, and now Don Goodwin. Additionally, the Spokane Jazz Orchestra achieved international status with Gunther Schuller as its Principal Guest Conductor for many years. Maestro Schuller conducted several of SJO’s performances in the 1990’s. This world-renown conductorcomposer-author-musician-jazz authority had extremely high regard for the artistic standards of the SJO. Don Goodwin, who took over in 2015, has just begun the next exciting chapter in the SJO’s ongoing evolution. All agree the orchestra has never before achieved and sustained such high artistic standards as it has in recent years, and Goodwin is proud and excited to be a part of the organization.

The Spokane Jazz Society is managed by a board of trustees and is aided by a volunteer group. Support for the orchestra comes from over 200 jazz society member-contributors plus corporate sponsorships, foundation grants, government grants, occasional fund-raisers, contract services and, of course, ticket revenue from its various concerts.

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Directed by: Randy Brooks Starring: Daren Vernon & Cheri Barbre Music Directors: Merie Walker & Stephanie Moore

Music &

Lyrics b Book b y Stephen So y Hugh n Wheele dheim r

Rated : PG - 1 3

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Sweeney Todd Performances

Friday and Saturday 7:30 PM, Oct 23-24, 30-31, Nov 6-7, 13-14 Sunday Matinees, 2:00 PM, Nov 1, 8 & 15 Tickets are $18 and are available online at www.masquers.com (No waiting in line at the theatre), or you can call the box office at 509-246-2611.

Produced in association with Music Theatre International

Auditions

Auditions for “Christmas in the Land of Oz” will be at 7 PM on Friday, October 2 and at 2PM on Saturday, October 3.

“Both Children and adults are needed for acting and for other stage help,” says director, Stacey Bresee.

In this delightful holiday play, the Wicked Witch of the West becomes the Grinch when she steals Christmas from Munchkinland. It takes all of your Oz favorites -- Dorothy and Toto, Scarecrow, Tin Man, the Lion and the Munchkins to bring the yuletide holiday back.

In the process, the Tin Man recovers his sense of humor, the Lonely Lion finds a lady companion and Dorothy finds the spirit of Christmas to take back to Kansas for Auntie Em and Uncle Henry.

Performances of Christmas in the Land of Oz will be Friday, 7:00 pm Dec 4 & 11, Saturday and Sunday matinees, Dec 5-6, 12-13. Ticket prices are $7

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THE QUINCY VALLEY CHAMBER & QUINCY ROTARY CLUB

CORDIALLY INVITE YOU TO THEIR BI-ANNUAL AUCTION

THE

PHANTOM OF THE

OPERA

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2015 Evening includes silent & live auctions, dinner & live entertaiment by Dave King Band For Tickets Call 509.787.2140 Doors Open at 5:30 at the Quincy Community Center

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Central Basin Community Concert Association 2015-2016 Concert Series - 61st Season

Ronnie Kole

Sunday, September 20, 2015 - 3:00 pm

Kole is a piano man’s piano man, admired by many top stars in the business, from Harry Connick Jr. to Allen Toussaint.

Kevin Johnson

Thursday, October 29, 2015 - 7:30 pm

“I think what you do is very clever” – Piers Morgan, Former judge on America’s Got Talent

Hits & Grins

Monday, March 21, 2016 7:30 pm “Hand-hewn hits and hilarity!!”

– Jim Parker’s Songwriters Series

Bandstand Boogie

Saturday, April 23, 2016 - 7:30 pm

“One of the best vocal groups in show business today… period!”

– Press of Atlantic City

Concerts held at

Wallenstien Performing Arts Center

Big Bend Community College, 6989 College Parkway NE, Moses Lake, WA 98837

Doors open half hour before curtain time. No Reserve Seating; Open Seating Only - Admittance by Season Pass

Artists & Dates Subject to change. Reciprocity Agreements with: Most Live On Stage Associations For More Information call:

Moses Lake: 765-3370, 765-4150, 765-3089 or 765-3259 Ephrata: 754-4469 Othello: 488-9508 Quincy: 787-3912

About Us:

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C

entral Basin Community Concerts has been bringing amazing performers to the Basin since 1954! We are a 100% volunteer, non-profit and tax exempt organization. We are looking for music enthusiasts to join us: in our audience, as volunteers, Board Members and Officers! Over the last several years, we have had at least 5 individuals that have volunteered with our group for OVER 50 YEARS! Because of their hard work and dedication to bringing Arts and Culture to our community, they have paved the trail! This is a very amazing and fun group of professional men and women, that have kept the Arts Alive and now we need some new faces to join us in many different areas.

Our mission is:

enriching our community with the highest quality of music and entertainment at family friendly prices!

Seasons Pass / Membership

- ($60 adult, Student $30, Family $135) admits you to 4 performances at Big Bends Wallenstein Theatre (Fall 2015-Spring 2016 Season).

- With a Seasons Pass, you are entitled to any shows on our Reciprocity Lists attached, also including Tri-Cities, http://www.communityconcertstc.org.

Available this year

- Individual tickets: ($33 adult, Student $17.50, Family $45)

Purchasing:

- Website you can download form, mail in check: CBCCA, PO Box 2203; Moses Lake, WA 98837 - Now accepting Credit Cards and Moses Lake Chamber also sells tickets - Night of concert at the door at Wallenstein Theatre Mary Andersen Central Basin Community Concert Association Publicity Chair

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full service florist!

Est 2003

perennials, shrubs, trees, roses, baskets, tools, decorative bark, seeds, ceramic pottery, vintage items. open daily 9am to 7pm 12543 Road H SW, Royal City 509-989-0428

We specialize in soups, salads, paninis, sandwiches, espresso, beer and wine.

We also offer produce grown in

the columbia basin.

Dinner available on Friday and Saturday nights.

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5th Annual Customer Appreciation Day Saturday October 10 Customer Appreciation 8am FREE Coffee and Treats - Help us cheer on our Shopping Spree Winner.

10am-2pm FREE Popcorn and Balloons. FREE Spin on the Wheel of Bargains.

Every 25th person through the register gets a special gift.

Hot Dogs and Soda for $1 all proceeds to benefit the Moses Lake Dog Park.

KDRM broadcasting live.

Pick out the perfect pumpkin in our pumpkin patch.

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ONLY bags available, excludes alcohol, see store for details.

Halloween Party:Carnival Games, Cake Walk and CANDY from 6pm to 8pm Saturday October 31, 2015!

Store Hours: 8am - 9pm Every Day 1177 N Stratford Road / Moses Lake, WA 509-766-7650 / Like us on for Specials!

Win What You Save in October.

Simply write your name and phone number on the back of your receipt and if your name is drawn you will receive your savings up to $100 in the form of a Grocery Outlet Gift Card.

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Monday – Saturday 7am-9pm • Sunday 8am-8pm 221 W. Broadway • Moses Lake • 509.765.4177 • www.michaelsmarketandbistro.com

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Fresh Seafood Friday Night

Breakfast Prime Rib Special!

Saturday & Sunday Homemade Soups Catering on and off site

Happy Hour 4pm-6pm

Banquet or meeting rooms available at no charge

Breakfast – Lunch – Dinner

Tues – Fri: 11am – 9pm / Sat: 8am-9pm / Sun: 8am – 7pm 1373 Rd F.2 NE, Moses Lake (just off I-90) / 509-765-8131

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Red Door Cafe Booking a party, conference, group meeting, or anything else that needs a bit of privacy? Consider our spacious conference room that seats 40+. We have a projector for Power Point or presentations and an oversized screen.

We do catering and boxed lunches.

Desserts, espresso and paninis are our speciality! Did we mention that everything, from soups to desserts to salads, is made from scratch?

Hours: Monday - Saturday, 7:30am to 5pm, Closed Sunday 202 and 206 West 3rd Ave, Moses Lake, WA, 98837

Be Inspired

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by fresh, local ingredients.

Holiday Market, December 5th at the Skill Center 9am-2pm

Pumpkin Decorating October 24th

Trick or Treat at the Market Oct. 31st

Thank you to all those who sponsored and donated to the Market in years past.

Rathbone Sales, Northwest Farm Credit Services, Moses Lake Spring Festival, Moses Lake Industries, Akzo Nobel, Moses Lake Steel Supply, Wenatchee Valley Medical Center , Alsted Real Estate, Chemi-Con Materials Corporation, Moses Lake Grocery Outlet, Rotary Club of Moses Lake, Moses Lake Firefighters Union Local 2052, Hot Springs Spa & Leisure, Washington State Potato Commission.

The market is looking for performers and buskers.

Please contact John at mlfmmanager@gmail.com

Moses Lake

FarMers

Market www.moseslakefarmersmarket.com

SATURDAYS MAY 2 - OCT. 31, McCOSH PARK 8AM - 1PM / 509-750-7831

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Small Town Charm ...at its best

Visit us online at www.VisitRitzville.com for a complete list of our festivals and events!

Ritzville Area Chamber of Commerce (509) 659-1936 • chamber@ritzville.com

509-681-2013

www.couleecity.com Painting by local Don Nutt

See our website for a complete calendar of local events & signup for our monthly enewsletter.

Become a fan of LakeTown Landing & MLBAcares.org on MOSES LAKE BUSINESS ASSOCIATION

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The city we’re all proud to call our home. home

Ephrata

Chamber of Commerce

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