Meeting New Friends who Appreciate Dear Mad’m also!
Beautiful Autumn, Busy time, in Happy Camp!!
In Happy Camp and all along the beautiful wild Klamath River corridor there are lots of things happening!!
SATURDAY
Saturday, October 5 is a big Arts & Crafts Fair at the Happy Camp Elementary School on Park Way! The Eight graders are eager to earn money for their class so they can really celebrate advancing to high school after this year. They have at least a dozen people coming to set up tables with wonderful arts and crafts things for you to enjoy. They are also serving food to keep your tummy contented while you shop. I want to go get a cinnamon roll for only $2. They’ll also have drinks, coffee, tea, Pepsi, sprint and Gatorade. If you are in the mood for something better for lunch there’s soup and bread for $4 or hot dogs or corn-dogs for $2. Chips, nachos and rice crispy bars will also be for sale. So don’t miss the Arts & Crafts Fair at the Happy Camp Elementary School!! 10 a.m. To 4 p.m. On Parkway.
MONDAY
Deputy David Nye called me this week with news of the start of another Neighborhood Watch Group. The start up meeting will be Monday, October 8th at 6 p.m. At the Family Resource Center on Park Way. Volunteers with an interest in keeping our town crime and vandal free are welcome and encouraged to attend. For further information you may call the Family Resource Center at 493-5117.
NEXT FRIDAY – Oct 12
Next Friday evening will be an Art Show and Fabulous Friday Supper at the Klamath-Siskiyou Art Center at the corner of Highway 96 and Davis Road. More information to follow but make your plans now to take your favorite lady or friend to the Fabulous Friday Supper and help to build a fantastic new art gallery in our community.
NEXT WEEK – ESPECIALLY FRIDAY Oct 12
Happy Camp Homecoming Football Game is Friday also. That means this will be an exciting week with posters all over the halls walls for prince and princess votes, and dress-up specials each day of the week. There will even be a parade Friday afternoon. Hurray for the Blue and Gold!!!
SUNDAY MORNING Oct 14th
Sunday Morning PANCAKE BREAKFAST at the Happy Camp High School. Support the Senior Class of 2013!!! Breakfast will be served 8 am to 11 pm. Make it a special family breakfast with your family!
Also, Next Weekend is the Dear Mad’m Symposium celebrating Stella Walthall Patterson’s book Dear Mad’m published in 1956. Peter and Elizabeth Lismer, relatives of Stella’s and authors of the new book, Dear Mad’;m Who Was She” will be here to sign books and tell about the writing the book.
Publishers Reception Friday Evening at Naturegraph
Dear Mad’m Symposium with Luncheon Saturday at Karuk Building at Hwy 96 & 2nd Av 10-3
Evening Campfire at River Side at Klamath River Resort Inn
Sunday Field Trip to the Sites where Dear Mad’m story took place.
Reservations $30 at the C of C office 35 Davis Road (weekday afternoons)or $40 at the door.
If you have more events to announce, please contact me.
Give me a call at 493-5192 or email at klamathviews@yahoo.com. Thanks, Judy
NATIVE AM DAY & Open House Saturday & Register for Dear Mad’m now!
happy Native American Day Friday, Sept 28th! There will be a program at the Happy Camp Elementary School at 12:45! David Arwood and students will present a Brush Dance. Jennifer Goodwin and students will do a flower dance. There will be stories, language, basket making and many other topics of interest to all.
Besides, some local offices will be closed, such as the Computer Center, for Native American Day!
Just two weeks until Dear Mad’m Symposium. If you haven’t gotten your registration in yet, be sure to do it. Space is limited since it isn’t the outdoors picnic that we had last year. The cooks need to know how many will be coming for lunch so be sure to get your registration in right aay…we want to see you there!
Peter and Elizabeth Lismer who have written the new book, Dear Mad’m Who Was She will be there to autograph your book and you won’t want to miss their presentation on the life of Stella Walthall Patterson and the writing of the book about her.
*******OPEN HOUSE****** 9-29-12 FROM 1-4 COME VISIT – 1523 LOWER ELK CREEK ROAD HAPPY CAMP CA
********Door prizes *******Also if you will be traveling to see this home, receive a large discount off lodging with reservation based on availability @ Thompson Creek lodge.*******call for details
SUPERBLY MAINTAINED – This lovingly cared for country home features 3 bedrooms, 1 & 3/4 baths. New forced air propane furnace and woodstove. Spacious living room with French doors leading to the backyard with fruit trees, garden area, and beautiful forested setting. Attached 2 car garage with storage, wood shed & fantastic newer work shop. The workshop of approx. 30×40 features a slab foundation and office. Situated on approx. 3.1 acres, city water, in ground sprinkler system on a timer, wonderfully manicured front yard and a short walk to the creek & river are just a few of the features that make this home right for you. $285,000.00 PRICE AT $245,000 WHAT A DEAL! HC-477
Neighborly Klamath Neighbors….and Dear Mad’m! and an open house, looking for a family!!
Have you read Dear Mad;m? Stella Walthall Patterson wrote this book that first came out in 1956, Naturegraph has been publishing it since 1986.
What is the charm of this book that people read it over and over and it encourages them to keep on keeping on? Why does it encourage mature people that life doesn’t have to be “over” at eighty or ninety years if one has purpose and others around to depend and be depended upon?
See:www.happycampnews.com/community/2009/08/24/the-story-behind-dear-madm/and www.dearmadm.com where you can get the registration form to mail with $30 payment for the whole program nest weekend: Dear amad’m Symposium, Octber 12=14, 2012.
Just a couple of weeks until we celebrate Stella;s birthday October 14th, 1866!
We hate to see houses being lonely for a new family. There is a house on teacher’s row,Lower Elk Creek Road, a beautiful home, looking for a family. Come and see the open house next Saturday!
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OPEN HOUSE –1-4 – Sat. 9-29-12
1523 Lower Elk Creek Road Happy Camp Ca
3bd/2ba, hardwood flrs,2 car garg+30×40 shop, 3acs
$245,000
Door prizes, COME LOOK! Carrol Nelson – Agent, CAL#01214187
530-496-3657 www.rivercrealty.com
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New book launch, Dear Mad’m Who Was She?
Pete &:Liz signed autographs in the wonderful new book, Dear Mad’m Who Was She?
Pete and Liz Lismer will be the speakers at the 2012 literary luncheon in Happy Camp in October! Pete is a grand-nephew of Stella W. Patterson, who wrote the story, Dear Mad’m of her adventures moving to the remote forest cabin on the Klamath River at the age of eighty!
Dear Mad’m Who Was She? Published in 2012
Happy Camp is on the Bigfoot Scenic Byway
by Judy Bushy
Someone mentioned to me that they were unaware that we had a Bigfoot Byway, from Happy Camp down Highway 96 to Willow Creek.
The theme of this Byway is “where the wildlife watches you!: It was dedicated when Debbie Wilkinson was the President of the Happy Camp Chamber of Commerce on April 1st, 2001. The date was chosen for those who feel our Sasquatch is a myth or legend, so everyone could join in the fun! Harvey Shinar was there as both a council member for the Karuk Tribe as well as past Chamber president. Bud Johnson as Chairman took part also.
Peg Boland was the Klamath National Forest Supervisor at the ribbon cutting. Although she was not cutting the ribbon, the accomplishment of the Bigfoot Byway was in large measure the work of Gay Baxter who worked with businesses and organizations along Highway 96 to make it happen years ago.
Some years later, Cheryl Wainwright had the inspiration and enlisted Ralph Starrit’s help as well as community involvement to build a large Bigfoot Statue on the corner of Highway 96 and Davis Road where the Byway begins.
It is perhaps appropriate that the other end of the Bigfoot Byway is at Willow Creek where they have a wooden statue and a Bigfoot wing on the China Flat Museum.
Bigfoot Byway Logo