With our Merv-13 air filtration system, we feel confident hosting our events. Please stay home if you are not feeling well! See each event for health precautions.
Mark your calendars with these November events - see below for more info...
- Nov. 9th - JeffCo Repair Event - free community gathering where individuals can bring their broken belongings to be repaired by local volunteers with a variety of skills and knowledge.
- Nov. 10th - Second Sunday Social Dance with The Alternators. Presented by Cheri & Doug Partner Dance.
- Nov. 12th - Food for Thought Lecture Series: Regenerative Communities - Care for the Earth, Care for the People, Care for the Future presented by Bear.
- Wednesdays Nov. 13th, 20th, & 27th - Balkan Dancing (all but first Wed. of the month).
SPONSORED & COMMUNITY EVENTS - NOV. 2024
JeffCo Repair -
Port Townsend Repair Event
Join
JeffCo Repair
for this free community event where people with repair skills share
their time & talents to fix their neighbors’ belongings. Bring
your toaster that no longer toasts, sweater with a hole in the
elbow, and excitement to get these belongings repaired while also
learning how the repairs are made and ways you could do it yourself
next time! At this
Port Townsend Repair Event, we will have volunteers donating their time to help repair:
- Small appliances/electronics
- Textiles/clothes
- Bicycles
- Tools needing sharpening
- and other household items
All are welcome…everyone has broken stuff, which needs
repairing!
Saturday, November 9th, 2024
10:00 am - 1:00 pm
All Ages • Free
Quimper Grange
1219 Corona Ave., Port Townsend, WA 98368
Second Sunday Social Dance
with The Alternators
This high-energy acoustic trio consists of fiddle wizard Peter Evasic and his accomplices, George Radebaugh on accordion/piano and Gary Romjue on guitar. They play a mix of Irish, Zydeco, Gypsy, Django swing, polkas and waltzes and more. The Alternators frequently play festivals, weddings, performance spaces around western Washington and are guaranteed to get your inner dancer moving even if you sit there nonchalantly tapping your foot.
Sunday, November 10th, 6:30-8:30 pm
Admission by donation
Admission by donation
Presented by Cheri & Doug Partner Dance
SPECIAL NOTE: Time Marches On. This is the final live music dance presented by Cheri and Doug. All proceeds from this November dance, and our Holiday Music party on December 8th will be matched by $500 from Doug+Barbara+Cheri+Rocky, gifting all donations to the Recovery Cafe.
We are proud to have served this community for over twelve (!) years with free partner dance lessons and monthly community dances. We hope to see you on the dance floor - maybe YOU can show US some new moves!
Regenerative Communities -
Care for the Earth, Care for the People,
Care for the Future
presented by Bear
This Food for Thought presentation helps us to understand
permaculture ethics and how they can guide us to build healthier
communities and ecosystems. Let's get back to our roots by
reconnecting and tending our relationships with ourselves, each
other and the planet.
Bear (they/them) is a Queer Disabled Regenerative Business
Owner, dedicated to decolonizing and healing ecosystems we call
home. Bear's Magic involves art, community healing, tending to the
dead and the living. Currently attending a two year PINA Program
called Earth Activist Training to receive their Advanced
Permaculture Design certificate and Regenerative Land Management
Diploma.
They own Earth Benders, a mindful land stewardship business
for regenerative landscaping and agriculture management. Need help
designing or maintaining land projects? E-mail Bear at
bearthefarmer@gmail.com.
Tuesday, Nov. 12th, 6:30-7:30 pm
Doors open at 6:15 pm
All Are Welcome
The Grange has ADA access and an outstanding Merv-13 air
filtration system.
Quimper Grange is located at 1219 Corona Ave.,
Port Townsend, WA 98368.
Food For Thought, a free series offered by Quimper Grange #720,
will examine "all things food" in our area. For over 100 years,
the Quimper Grange has supported the Jefferson County community
through public programming, concerts, dance, rental space, and a
7,000 SF all-volunteer Food Bank Growers garden. Quimper Grange is
located at 1219 Corona Ave, Port Townsend, WA 98368.
Granges (derived from ‘grain’ or ‘granja’ [farm]) were grassroots
organizations that sprung up across the US in the 1860's to build
strength and community among rural farmers. For over 100 years,
the Quimper Grange has supported the Jefferson County community
through public programming, concerts, dance, rental space, and a
7,000 sq. ft. all-volunteer Food Bank Growers garden, donating
over 2,000 lbs. of fresh produce annually to food banks and other
entities around our area.
Did you know? The Quimper Grange’s first songbook was
“Grange Melodies” published in 1891. It celebrated growing with
songs like “The Farmer Feeds Us All” and “Cultivator” and “The
Hand That Holds the Bread.”
Balkan Dances
Wednesdays: November 13th, 20th, & 27th
Every Wednesday except the first Wed. of the month. No partner needed. Evenings start with mellow dances & progress to intermediate. Fast paced & fun! Richard & Susi Watson host. 7:00 pm, $5 entry.
SIMPLE TECH HELP NEEDED!
Tech help needed! Please show us how to set up both a Facebook and an Instagram page
and teach us how to maintain, we just need help to get started in the right format!
Senior project? Goodness of your heart, or ???
Please contact us at quimpergrange@gmail.com
You will receive back our undiminishing respect and admiration, plus a mention (if appropriate) of your business or personage in our next newsletter.
FOOD BANK GARDEN NEWS
by Barbara Tusting
As the days get colder and wetter, we are turning our attention to indoor work. We are still planting some cover crops on the fallow beds, but a number of beds have been planted to produce in the winter, spring, and even into the summer. Those beds we've covered with a product called Remay, or cover cloth. This will help our veggies stay alive unless it gets REALLY cold (into the 20s and below), then we'll just throw a big tarp over it.
Our first harvests of sweet potatoes this fall have been exciting and rewarding. Those grown inside one of our hoop houses will need to be harvested soon to make way for winter greens. We can hardly wait to see what's underground.
We added large pots down the center of two of our hoop houses in which we can expand our growing this winter. JJ just finished hooking those up to our irrigation system, which is now shut off for the winter (except inside the hoop houses).
Another new idea at the Grange garden, based on successful mushroom growing at Salish Garden, is a bed of Red Wine Cap mushrooms. Everyone had a hand in the spreading of spores; we probably won't know if it's successful until late summer. Good things are worth waiting for.
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| Spreading spawn-laden sawdust over the mushroom bed. |
If you are in the neighborhood of 1219 Corona St on Tuesday or Friday 1:00-3:00, please stop by for a tour of what we're doing this fall and winter. Something is always happening!
BECOME A MEMBER • RENT • DONATE
Grange MembershipSupport your local Grange! Become a member! Help keep the hall open for community events, concerts, dances and rentals! Meetings occur the third Sunday of the month, 7:00 pm at the Quimper Grange Hall. Come at 6:30 to meet members and learn about activities, concerts and new projects we’re considering. Download and print our brochure from our website: quimpergrange.com at the Membership Information tab and mail to:Quimper Grange, 1219 Corona Ave, Port Townsend, WA 98368.
Building Rentals
Rent our Grange Hall for your event or meeting. We have an excellent air filtration system and a beautiful interior.
- Check our website under “Calendar of Events” to see if the date you want is available.
- Call Doug at 360-531-0326; or write to quimpergrange@gmail.com
- An orientation to the building will follow for potential renters.
Donations
Your support keeps the Grange Hall maintained and open to offer music, dance, community events, and private rentals. Your help also supports the food bank garden with water and electricity bills. Checks made out to “Quimper Grange #720” can be mailed to 1219 Corona Ave, Port Townsend WA 98368.
See you at the Quimper Grange!
Rent our Grange Hall for your event or meeting. We have an excellent air filtration system and a beautiful interior.