Making Tracks
By Kat Bryant
So many committees, so little time.
I’m thoroughly enjoying lending a hand and making new friends within the Harbor community. This week, I’m stepping on my soapbox to ask for my readers’ help with a couple of things.
7th Street Theatre
90th anniversary
The 7th Street Theatre in Hoquiam is celebrating its 90th anniversary this coming year. Yes, I’m on the planning committee. And yes, we need your help.
We’re amassing information from all the way back to the theater’s opening in 1928 to create slideshows and other forms of media to share with the community during the course of the year.
Toward that end, we’re trying to look beyond books and old newspaper clippings. We’re searching for folks who’ve lived on the Harbor long enough to have special memories of the theater “back in the day.”
Did you or someone you know work there as either an employee or a volunteer? Did you take your first date to a movie there? Did you perform on its stage as a student? Did you ever have a particularly noteworthy experience there?
We have set up a special email address for people to submit their memories. If you would like to share your story (with permission for the committee to use it with your name), please send it to memories@7thstreettheatre.com.
Thank you in advance!
Klondike 2018
pre-registration
Our local Boy Scouts of America district is holding its winter camporee the last full weekend in January. (As the saying goes: We don’t do February, it’s too nice!) Yes, I’m on the event planning committee (and camp staff, too). And yes, we need information.
Klondike is put on each year by the Coastal Waters District of BSA’s Pacific Harbors Council. It was held at Camp Delezenne near Elma for many years before it was closed, and now it’s at Camp Thunderbird on Summit Lake, near Olympia.
The event involves a wide variety of challenges for Scouts using the Patrol Method – employing leadership and teamwork to accomplish goals in pioneering, orienteering, first aid, cooking and other areas. Along the way, they earn points toward recognition as the event’s top overall patrol.
The cost is $20 per person (Scouts and adult leaders) for early bird registration, or $30 after Jan. 5.
Right now, it’s important for the committee to get an idea of how many patrols intend to be there for planning purposes. Pre-registration is open, though it’s not yet on the district website.
No payment is required at this point – just information. Local Scout units wishing to attend Klondike should email the following details as soon as possible to copykat.scouter@gmail.com:
• Unit number
• District
• Number of patrols (very important!)
• Estimated numbers of Scouts and adult leaders
• A contact name, phone, email and mailing address
If you have other questions about Klondike, please contact Barb Dyer (barbdyer52@gmail.com or 360-580-4907) or Erik Simonson (simonson72@gmail.com or 360-581-8838). They’ve been doing this a lot longer than I have, so will be better able than I am to give solid answers.
Try me next year. That is, if I survive this one.
Kat Bryant is lifestyle editor of The Daily World and a serial volunteer. Stop her before she gets voluntold again! Reach her at kbryant@thedailyworld.com or on Facebook at Kat Bryant-DailyWorld.
