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PO Box 219
98250

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Town of Friday Harbor Celebrates National Historic Preservation Month

This year you can celebrate National Preservation Month by attending any or all of three local history events, beginning on May 4th and ending on Memorial Day.

2006 Partners in Preservation Awards, Thursday, May 4, 2006, from 1pm-2:00pm. The Town of Friday Harbor and Historic Preservation Review Board (HPRB) invite the public to the acknowledge the members of the Memorial Park Steering Committee and the Women’s Study Club, both long-time advocates of Friday Harbor’s Memorial Park. The 2006 awards recognized "Outstanding Achievement in Continuing Historic Preservation". The Memorial Park Steering Committee award recipients include: Julie Capron-Ashcraft, Nancy Larsen, Lorraine Larson, Sue Madden, Mona Meeker, Betty Nash, Tony Surina (deceased) and Marge Workman (deceased). Kathryn Chadwick will accept the award on behalf of the Women’s Study Club. The awards presentation and reception will be held in the newly renovated Memorial Park.

Odd Fellows and Orcas: The History of the Historic Odd Fellows Hall, Thursday, May 25, 2006, 6:30pm. The Whale Museum is hosting a local history event to highlight the history if the Odd Fellows Hall that houses the Museum. The event is a fundraiser for the preservation of the building and will feature three speakers on local history, followed by a dessert buffet.

Presenters include: The Whale Museum Director, Rich Osborne, Ph.D., who will speak about the changing perceptions of local whales over time; Boyd Pratt, a local architectural historian who will lead an insiders’ tour of the building and present findings from his recent research; and Sandy Strehlou, the Town of Friday Harbor Historic Preservation Coordinator, who will speak about the origins of the Odd Fellows nationally and in San Juan County.

Major sponsors of this are Countrywide Home Loans San Juan Island, and Islanders Insurance.

Memorial Park Re-Dedication, Monday, May 29th. This year the annual American Legion Memorial Day commemoration will include the re-dedication of Memorial Park. The re-dedication celebrates the recent renovation of one of Friday Harbor’s most important landmarks: the 85 year-old World War I memorial, the first of its kind erected in the state of Washington. The dedication will take place after the annual Memorial Day parade, during the traditional Legion program. The dedication is being coordinated by the Hackett-Larson American Legion Post 163, The Memorial Park Steering Committee and the Town of Friday Harbor.

For more information about these events, contact Sandy Strehlou, 360.378.2810 or sstrehlou@fridayharbor.org.

 

05/09/2006

 

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