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Sept. 12 Evening Benefit Dance at Bayview Hall
Nvira Marimba Band at 7 p.m. and the Dark Horse Band at 9 p.m.
Tickets are available at Good Cheer Thrift Stores, Good Cheer Food Bank, and The Paint Escape in Freeland.
Tickets: $5 individuals -- $10 per family. Tickets are also available at the door for $2 more.
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Free Community Workshops
Workshops that are currently scheduled:
10:00 a.m.: Learn Composting 101
10:00 a.m.: Make Musical Instruments From Recycled Items
11:00 a.m.: Attracting wild birds to your garden (By Wild Birds Unlimited)
Noon: Fresh-from-the-garden-cooking
2:00 p.m.: Build an Herb Gift Basket (By Bayview Farm & Garden)
3:00 p.m.: Create garden signs and containers from recycled goods
3:00 p.m. : Rags to Riches (Create a colorful rag rug out of old shirts)
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Festival Food
Come hungry and partake of this festival food from theses local nonprofits serving food between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. between the top of the garden and the Food Bank.
CMA Soup Kitchen... Tasty Tacos
Good Cheer... Root Beer & Green River floats
Habitat for Humanity... cupcakes
Island County Sheriff Guild... Hot-diggety hot dogs
Saratoga Community Housing... Popcorn & cold drinks
South Whidbey Commons... Coffee, tea, water, apple juice
South Whidbey Rotary... Berry milk shakes & sundaes
Whidbey Island Nourishes... Pasta Salad
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Tour Good Cheer's Garden and Food Bank
Tour our new exciting on-site garden, then see our model community food bank.
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Garden Quilt Raffle
Just $1 puts your name in a drawing for this lovely garden quilt made by the Quilters of Trinity Lutheran Church. Proceeds will benefit Good Cheer's Garden.
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Silent Auction
Stop in at the Food Bank lobby to view these fabulous donated items collected by Good Cheer's Board of Directors and write your best bid on them. Winning bidders may pick up their items upon payment directly after the auction, or will be contacted and arrangements made for early next week. Proceeds will benefit Good Cheer's Capital Campaign, Phase II.
"Albert” garden art deer deterrent (Carl Ulmschneider) minimum $100
Cedar Salmon (Jessie Groeschen) minimum $100
Ed Bennett Black Chinned Bronze Hummingbird (minimum $200)
Steel lawn sign up to 8 letters by Pat Manning (minimum $50)
Steve Backus Bear Wood Carving (minimum bid: $40)
Canvas Painting “Two Onions Jousting Featuring Carrot” (Claire Williamson) minimum TBD
Langley Salon & Spa Manicure (minimum bid $1)0
Harvest Party 2009 Signed Original Artwork (Minimum Bid: $100)
Good Cheer Birdhouse by Dwight (minimum bid $20)
David Price "Aubergine View" (minimum $400)
Rob Schouten (“Is There Any More Room?) early lithograph (minumum bid $100)
Valerie Easton Signed Garden Book (minimum $20)
"Winter Wren" Bronze by Georgia Gerber (minimum bid $100)
Four cedar Planter Boxes (minimum bid $85)
Wheelbarrow Full of Garden Tools by Sebo's Hardwarer (minimum bid $100)
Cord of Seasoned Alder (you haul) (minimum bid $100)
PLUS MORE ITEMS!
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Jam Judging Contest
First place winner receives a $100 gift certificate good at Good Cheer Thrift Stores.
1. Bring your homemade jam by 11 a.m. to Good Cheer’s Harvest Party & Music Fest on Saturday, September 12 at Good Cheer Food Bank in Bayview. Winners will be announced at 2 p.m..
2. Submit your recipe with the process used (typed or neatly printed) on an 8 1/2 x 11 sheet of paper.
3. All recipes become the property of Good Cheer to be shared with our Food Bank Clients.
Scoring for judging jams:
Appearance: Color, characteristic of fruit: 25% -
Container (glass, clean, sealed, screw top lid, neatly labeled): 5%
Texture: crushed Fruit, no separation of fruit and juice: 35%
Flavor: 35%
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Thank you to our Festival Sponsors!
Major Sponsors: Clinton Foodmart • The Clyde Theater • Payless Foods • Porter-Whidbey Insurance • Saratoga Inn • The Star Store • Whidbey Marketplace and News • Whidbey Telecom
Additional Sponsors: Bayview Farm & Garden • Half-Link Bicycle Shop • Island Athletic Club • Waterman Self Storage
