Author: Judy Bushy

Judy Bushy fell in love with the beauty of Creation along the Klamath River Valley and the friendly little town at the top of California, Happy Camp when moving here over forty years ago. She would like to share the many wonderful things about this special place where in some ways time has stood still and the beauty of forest, river and sky surround us. Yet modern technology is helpful and Computer Center is available to all of the community. It is a community that has built a log cabin school in 1933 so that our young people wouldn't have to leave to continue their education, and can still do remarkable things working together. In difficult times, our Klamath neighbors care!

HC High School Reunion Coming July 25th

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This has been a busy month in Happy Camp! Everyone is very excited, anticipating the High School Reunion for ALL classes on Saturday and Sunday July 24th and 25th
There is no registration form; The Committee is just Requesting that everyone mail in their name, address, phone# and/or email address, the year of attendance/graduation at Happy Camp High School, and their guest’s name. Cost is $30 per single person or $50 per couple – made payable to:
Log Memorial Scholarship Fund, P.O. Box 1076, Happy Camp, CA 96039.

The location will be the River Park in Happy Camp ~ Saturday with dinner and dancing, from 11:00 AM til late and on Sunday from 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM. Breakfast will be served.

You need not have graduated from Happy Camp High to attend this event. It is for anyone who ever attended the Happy Camp High School. For more information contact Sharon Crocker, 530-493-2665, Pauline Attebery, 530-493-2250, or email derrykaren@yahoo.com

Later in the summer is another reunion is planned, Karuk Tribal Reunion! The Tribal Reunion will be on August 21st This is the 14th year that they have planned this event. This year it will begin at the River Park at 10 AM.

August 29th is the traditional day for Seiad Day!! The other BIG EVENT for the summer is the Bigfoot Jamboree!!! Everyone loves the Bigfoot Jamboree!! The coordinating council has great things planned for the Jamboree this year, including some thing new!! Mark your calendar and come to Happy Camp for Bigfoot Jamboree on September

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KIDS FAIR!! Saturday will be a busy day!

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For a Report on the Kids Fair go to Children & Youth page.
Family Resource Center’s Annual Happy Camp Kids’ Fair will be held on Sat. June 26th at the River Park. They plan to have lots of information, prizes, games, art, music, food and FUN! It will begin at 11:00 and will finish this year at 1:30. Please bring the family, especially the kids, and come!

On the very same day, June 26th, if you’re headed upriver, the Scott Bar Community Association is holding a Ducky Derby and Frontier Day. The event runs from noon to 4:00 PM. They’re raising money for their children’s programs. You can adopt a ducky for $10.00 or 3 for $25.00. They will be dropped off the bridge into the Scott River at Scott Bar about 12:00 noon and race about a half mile downriver. The first ten ducks to reach the finish line win a prize! First place is a $200.00 VISA card, $100.00 VISA card for second prize and third place gets a $75.00 card. There are other prizes for the next seven ducks to finish. They are also having a horseshoe tournament, all entry fees will go back out in cash prizes for the winners. They will also serve food, hold kids’ games and have cow bingo!

Vendors are welcome to the craft fair. Call Cheryl Horvath at 496-3401 if you want to participate or have questions. You can adopt your duck at Quigley’s, Seiad Store or by calling Cheryl.

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News of Happy Camp for May

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All those April Showers brought May flowers to Happy Camp!!

Also, Retirement Party for Coach John Kufner May 15th at the River Park.
(see below for further details)

Mardi Gras for Community Seniors Friday May 14 at 6 PM at Karuk Multi-purpose room. Call 4923-5117 for details. Donations accepted.

For Community Connections Fair at Old Town Park, see Community Page

Weigh diverse opinions on the Monument Proposal on Opinions Page.

Andrew Bley’s Senior Project was Compassion, see Church page.

Registrations for Scott Valley Bank Chili & Sals Challenger is June 11th,
Same day as graduation from Happy Camp High School.

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John Kufner Retirement
at Happy Camp RiverPark May 15th

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Thank you, Mr. Dyar, for the photo of John Kufner receiving Model Coach of the Year Award!

After 38 years of service to the youth of Happy Camp, during which he has coached in football and other sports activities, John Kufner will retire. John has also been the head of the science department of the Happy Camp High School. June 11th will be graduation for the senior class and for Coach Kufner.

There will be a Retirement party for John at the River Park May 15th. Bring a dish to share with all to this potluck retirement party for John Kufner. Spread the news and bring a friend. You can call Ruth at 493-2611, Linda 275-2574 or Wayne Weuignzinger 541-292-6266.No reservations are necessary.

It just doesn’t seem possible that John Kufner won’t be there when school starts in the fall!! But we do hope that he will be enjoying well earned leisure and has fun out on the golf course!

Happy Camp High

March Has Arrived
in Happy Camp
With Spring Breezes

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Spring comes to Happy Camp!

UPDATE by Judy Bushy

There may be complaints by some that we don’t have a MALL in Happy Camp to go shopping for recreation. Others may think we need bowling alley, amusement parks and other recreational centers. Thinking about what we may lack, or what the opportunities are in our area for recreation, may lead you to many suggestions. But the recreation we can all enjoy the most is having a nice family style dinner with friends and some good conversation.

It was great fun to be invited out by a very gracious hostess and talk with other guests, including a former Happy Camper who has returned. Reminiscences about the Woodsman, the Burger Barn, the old Frosty and other places that everyone in town enjoyed in past decades was interesting. In fact, I hadn’t known that before the Silver Eagle (where Our Place is serving delicious sandwiches with options for games and pool now, used to be a sporting goods store.

To have been here in the days of the soda fountain at the pharmacy in Old Town must have been enjoyable too! I found an ad for “Grizzly Adams” movie to be shown at the Del Rio Movie Theater in Happy Camp, before that theater burned down. Although a swimming pool that could be used for therapeutic uses and a snow park where snow could be enjoyed for recreation would both be great assets, we have so many wonderful miles of trails, and chances to garden and visit with other people that it makes Happy Camp a wonderful place to live.

Can anyone tell me if there was an Oaks Café in Happy Camp? If not, where there might have been an Oaks Café in 1940? We came across photos of it with some of Happy Camp but couldn’t identify it. Anyone with good memory of people and places in Happy Camp in 1935 or 40 with time to identify photos would be most appreciated.

Look at the March Calendar and tell me what needs to be added, see what some of the HCHS Senior Class are doing as they race the last few months to graduation, and learn about what the Truant Officer of Siskiyou County shared at Community Solutions Meeting. Whatever you do, please check out the Opinion page where we have two opinions on the effect of the Siskiyou National Monument on our area.

We thank you for your gracious input. Things are really getting busy around Happy Camp with the coming of spring, it is a beautiful time of year along the wild Klamath River!!

History

Sarah’s Poem About Our Log High School

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Songbird

From “Before The White Man Came”
by Charles S Graves c1934

Composed by Sarah Barney and sung by
Sarah and Mae Barney during the ceremony
of dedication of Happy Camp High School.

Down in a valley
In Happy Camp,
In our log High School
A tribute by all;

Willing hands lended
Lumber was bought,
Logs brought from mountains
To our School lot.

Community Spirit
Labor and toil
Community Spirit
For our High School.

Indian Creek murmurs
Down ‘neath the bank,
Whispering a message
As it goes by.

We’re proud of our High School
Our vision came true,
That we had pictured
From years before.

It’s through our efforts
Burdens and trials,
That our log High School
Stands here today.

Community Spirit
Labor and Toil
Community Spirit
Made our High School.

Editor’s Note: See more information on the Log Memorial High School in Happy Camp and how it was built on the Community page.

Early photo of little log high school & students.

Historic Buildings
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