I attended the monthly meeting of the SWHS Alumni Association on Wednesday and picked up some news tidbits:
Membership to date for 2009 is 587 members. Out of a potential 4500 people who are eligible to join. It's $10 a year. Many people pay for multiple years at a time. Think about it. Every surviving grad of the Class of 46 is a member.
Their recent geranium and bake sale is one of their major fundraisers for the year. On May 2nd they sold 945 geraniums and 170 tomato plants. Jim Kallio bought the last tomato plant - I was there to see it.
The SWHS Alumni Assn has been raising money for scholarships for 15 years. This year they awarded seven $1500 scholarships to SWHS grads (some current year, some past years) for students pursuing vocational education.
They also award "named" scholarships funded by special donations or families of deceased grads. For next year, there will be a scholarship named after Jack Newcomer [who was our grade school music teacher] and funded by his family. The details are being worked out as to the qualifications for applicants.
The SWHS Alumni Assn still sends out paper/hard copy newsletters about twice a year. They contain a lot of interesting info about Sedro-Woolley as well as class info. Plan to join! I posted membership info on this blog some months ago, but if you need that info again and can't find it here, just let me know.
More soon.
Friday, May 29, 2009
Thursday, May 7, 2009
Our brick in Hammer Heritage Square
Last year a few Class of 71 members pooled our funds and purchased a brick for Hammer Heritage Square. These bricks are only installed about once a year - in time for Loggerodeo and other summer activities. It is fun to walk through our town square and read the commemorative bricks and see who is there. I'm hoping that our brick will give some other classes the same idea. When you come to visit S-W be sure to stop in the square and look for ours! The Farmer's Market is also held in this square, every Wednesday afternoon through the summer. This year the Farmer's Market season starts on May 27th.
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The city, as you can probably guess, has had some financial cutbacks recently. They announced in the paper that the city can afford to buy the beautiful hanging flower baskets that make the city so pretty in the summer. But this year they could not afford to hire a seasonal employee to go around and water and tend the baskets. They were looking for a volunteer. Yesterday, at the Chamber of Commerce meeting, it was announced that an employee of the Les Schwab Tire Center had offered to be the basket-caretaker this year. So we will be able to keep our beautiful baskets! They hang from utility and lamp posts downtown, as well as from the gazebo in Hammer Heritage Square. I'll take photos later. No baskets yet.
Since my day in the tulip fields the weather has turned cold and wet again. We're hoping for a big change starting tomorrow!
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The city, as you can probably guess, has had some financial cutbacks recently. They announced in the paper that the city can afford to buy the beautiful hanging flower baskets that make the city so pretty in the summer. But this year they could not afford to hire a seasonal employee to go around and water and tend the baskets. They were looking for a volunteer. Yesterday, at the Chamber of Commerce meeting, it was announced that an employee of the Les Schwab Tire Center had offered to be the basket-caretaker this year. So we will be able to keep our beautiful baskets! They hang from utility and lamp posts downtown, as well as from the gazebo in Hammer Heritage Square. I'll take photos later. No baskets yet.
Since my day in the tulip fields the weather has turned cold and wet again. We're hoping for a big change starting tomorrow!
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