Olympic Avenue in downtown Arlington will be an auto enthusiast’s dream on Saturday, June 8, as the Downtown Arlington Business Association (DABA) presents the 14th annual Show & Shine Car Show.
Drivers of antiques, classics, hotrods and muscle cars are invited to register Saturday morning at 8 a.m., in the 300 block of N. Olympic Avenue, to display their prized possessions and enter to win best of show and other awards. The registration fee is $20.
Pre-registration is also available by contacting organizer Marilyn Bullock, DABA president, at (360) 435-4963 or online at www.arlingtonwa.org.
The first 275 cars registered receive dash plaques, and an awards ceremony is planned for 3 p.m. A raffle will also be held during the event.
The Show & Shine Car Show is one of DABA’s major fundraisers, with proceeds from the car show helping support downtown projects and activities, along with a donation to the Arlington Food Bank.
DABA meets on the second Wednesday of the month at 8 a.m. at the Wild Rose, 318 N. Olympic Ave. Business owners and interested individuals are welcome to attend.
Credit Josh Marshall / Josh Marshall Photography Raven Two Feathers of Seattle directs a short documentary about the Suquamish Indian tribe as part of the 2013 SuperFly Filmmaking Workshop.
Each year, 50 teens from all over the country fly into Seattle to participate in a fast-and-furious film challenge. They have to produce short films in 36 hours, or “on the fly.” Which is why the program is called “SuperFly.”
Most of the participants are Native Americans, creating Native-themed films out on location on an Indian reservation.
Seattle filmmaker Tracy Rector and her Longhouse Media company launched the workshop 8 years ago.
“Growing up in Seattle as a mixed race woman who’s indigenous, I was very aware that there were not representations of people like me. And I often felt very isolated,” she said.
The all-expenses paid workshop, held in partnership with the Seattle International Film Festival, brings together a multi-cultural group of youths. And in an effort to demystify Indian Country, the workshops are held on a different Indian reservation each year.
This year, the Suquamish Tribe out on the Kitsap Peninsula hosted the teens and introduced them to their history and culture through songs, dances, teachings, and a feast of traditional foods. They also inspired the subjects for five short documentaries and one animated film. In previous years, the teens have worked off of original narrative scripts authored by a Native writer.
On the beach on a recent day, Raven Two Feathers and Evodie Ngoy helmed the camera to tell the story of Suquamish tribal member Peg Deam.
Deam stirred up controversy a few years ago when she took a canoe from the Suquamish museum and paddled it out on the water. She says it was her way of reclaiming and revitalizing her culture.
Raven, 16, is Cherokee, Seneca, Cayuga, Comanche, and a New Mexico transplant who now attends Ballard High. She said the workshop taught her more about the diversity of tribes in the Pacific Northwest.
She added she could relate to the subject of her documentary: “I feel like you need to take risks cause originally I was super shy as a kid and I had this one teacher that pushed me to get out of my comfort zone.”
When she stood out on the beach, directing, Raven was anything but shy. She shared directing duties with Evodie, a 15-year-old from Baltimore originally from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
“It feels awesome. I don’t know how else to express it. I’m mean, too pumped. Too pumped. Too much joy,” she said about the filmmaking experience.
The teens are divided into teams. They work with professional mentors and professional equipment. They’re fueled by the adrenaline of an intense deadline and the passion of what they’ve already figured out they love to do.
“I heard a great thing from a director once that you don’t say, ‘I want to become a filmmaker.’ You say, ‘I am a filmmaker!’ So I guess you could say I am a filmmaker!” said Raven.
“You are! Did you see what you did today?” said Evodie to Raven.
The SuperFly films, which get screened as part of the Seattle International Film Festival, will also get submitted to other festivals. They’ll also wind up in the collection of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C.
Shot in Sudbury, Ont. (standing in for the book’s Northwest Territories setting), the drama opens in Montreal, Winnipeg, Edmonton and Ottawa on Friday. It opened in Toronto last weekend.
Russian-born Canadian filmmaker Anita Doron directed the film, with young newcomer Joel Evans starring as the teen outsider protagonist. He becomes involved in an unlikely triangle when he becomes smitten with the prettiest girl at school and also befriends a cool new student.
“The story is as familiar as Rebel Without a Cause or even West Side Story — this idea growing up and having issues with other factions or other cliques inside your high school and this journey of self-exploration,” said American actor Benjamin Bratt, who appears in The Lesser Blessed in the role of Jed.
While attending the Toronto International Film Festival last September, Bratt — best known for his turn on TV’s Law and Order — talked to CBC News about why he agreed to take part in a small Canadian indie film.
Bratt, the son of a Peruvian-born Quechua Indian, said he felt it was important to take the role of a native person who shatters stereotypes by teaching a volatile teen about balance. The actor is interested in the social problems among First Nations people and lauds Doron for creating a film that shows a young native person up against the same dilemmas that all teens face.
A weasel pokes its heads out of the rocks along the boat launch parking lot.
Mike Benbow, The Herald
You typically don’t associate wildlife and the outdoors with business and industry, but the Port of Everett wishes you would.
It’s no secret that people want access to the waterfront; they’ve told port officials that quite frequently.
So through the years, the port has partnered with the city of Everett to create a system of trails for hikers, runners and bicyclists. On both ends of the trail are postage stamp parks
But with a few notable exceptions, like the summer ferry to the beach on the port’s manmade Jetty Island, public access along the waterfront isn’t well known and is certainly under used.
“A lot of people, somewhat surprisingly, still don’t know there are all these walking trails,” said Lisa Lefeber, the port’s public affairs administrator.
She’s talking about a system of trails developed in 2009 called the Marina District Waterfront Loop. It combines walkways along the port’s north and south marinas with those along W. Marine View Drive to provide a variety of opportunities for exercise coupled with a chance to see lots of wildlife.
“You have a better quality of life when you have a walkable waterfront,” Lefeber said.
And while many people don’t know what’s available, the wildlife have.
For example, the mudflats on the north end of the port once teemed with logs waiting to be shipped to Asia. The logs are mostly gone now, but the pilings used to tether them have been taken over by osprey.
On a short walk along W. Marine View Drive where the city has established two small view parks, Southview and Northview, there are five or six active osprey nests.
Depending on the state of the tides, it’s not unusual to see osprey or eagles soaring overhead looking for a meal. Ospreys also often dive to the tideflats to snatch a stick to add to their nests.
And, of course, where else would you expect harbor seals than around the harbor? On the opening weekend of boating season earlier this month, those walking behind Anthony’s Homeport restaurant were treated to seals looking for a quick meal around a net pen used to rear salmon. They didn’t appear to find one.
On my walks, I always try to include a trip along the parking area for the 10th Street Boat Launch because that’s probably the closest view of some of the osprey nests. They’re a ways off, so you may want to bring binoculars.
On a recent visit I saw something flash in the corner of my eye and looked down on the riprap to see a weasel dashing back into the rocks. But weasels are curious critters, and it wasn’t long before he poked his head out to have another look at me.
Probably the most popular access to the waterfront begins on July 5 with the opening of the Jetty Island ferry. It’s a short trip across the boating channel to a beach popular with families and with kite boarders.
Most people like the island for its shallow, sandy beach. But the area is teeming with wildlife and well worth the visit to see it.
Even though the ferry isn’t running yet, kite boarders are going there now using a variety of their own tiny watercraft: everything from paddle boards to canoes and inflatable kayaks.
You can too, but don’t forget your life vest and whistle for safety.
If you don’t have a boat, you can still get to a beach right now at one of the port’s least known areas: Pigeon Creek Beach and Viewpoint. It’s at the south end of the trail system and skirts the area where the port unloads and stores cargo from incoming ships.
To get there, you park at the end of Bond Street near the old train depot, walk across the railroad tracks, and walk or bike less than a mile.
First timers may be a little leery of the trip because it has all the charm of a prison exercise yard. You walk on an asphalt path between two chain-link fences; one keeps you off the railroad tracks and the other, topped with barbed wire, keeps you away from the cargo.
The walk is thankfully short, however, and the payoff is worth it.
Pigeon Creek is a gem of a park with a couple tables for picnics, and some logs and rocks for sitting. When the tide is out, there’s a nice beach and the water is pretty shallow. The view is stellar.
Walking/biking map
For more Information on port waterfront access, visit bit.ly/12ML7k5bit.
From June 9-14 the Chinook Indian Nation Council will travel down the Lower Columbia River Water Trail in traditional canoes. The route, starting from Washougal, Washington will include stops in Kelly Pt. Park, Ridgefield Wildlife Refuge, Kalama, Mayger Dock/Clatskanie, Cathlamet, Elliott Landing/Pillar Rock, Ilwaco, and Chinook Point/Fort Columbia.
The Chinook Council consists of nine members: Chairman Ray Gardner, Vice-Chairman Sam Robinson, Secretary/Treasurer Peggy Disney and Representatives Marketa Van Patten, Charlie Funk, Jane Wekell, Lisa Elliott, Jeremy Wekell, and Kate Elliott.
(Chinook Indian Nation/Facebook)
In accompaniment with other Chinooks and friends, the Chinook Council will spend five days and five nights travelling down the Lower Columbia River Water Trail. This will be a celebration of the great river, Yakaitl-Wimakl, which is still home to many Chinooks today. This journey will include the chairman’s family canoe, Itsxut (“Black Bear”), the Snohomish Chairman’s family canoe Sbeqwá (“Blue Heron”), Chinook Dan Heiner’s Canoe the Beau Tanner, and will include long time Chinook friend, Lyle Deschand’s new canoe.
After spending Sunday night in the Cathlapotle plankhouse, the Chinook Council and People will meet up river at the Clark Park in Washougal to conduct a naming ceremony for Deschand’s new canoe. They will then place all the canoes in the water and begin the journey back to Ridgefield Wildlife Refuge. As the canoes travel down the river, Chinook families will host dinner and provide shelter for the travelers, much in the way of their ancestors.
This week of sharing and commemoration will culminate in paddling down to Chinook Point on Friday afternoon to participate in the private annual Chinook Nation First Salmon Ceremony.
Historical photo, Chinook canoe (Chinook Indian Nation/Facebook)
The Chinook Indian Nation/Chinook Tribes consist of the Cathlamet, Clatsop, Lower Chinook, Wahkiakum, and Willapa tribes. Despite being an influential tribe in this region since time immemorial, the U.S. government does not recognize the Chinooks as a tribal nation. The U.S. Senate shelved the 1851 Tansey Point Treaty agreements with the Chinook because they did not move them east of the Cascades. The Chinook continue their fight for federal restoration today.
By Beckye Randall, North County Outlook
Russian-born Canadian filmmaker Anita Doron directed the film, with young newcomer Joel Evans starring as the teen outsider protagonist. He becomes involved in an unlikely triangle when he becomes smitten with the prettiest girl at school and also befriends a cool new student.
