St Patrick’s Day Variety Show by 8th Grade

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Kitchen crew served up Corned Beef & Cabbage

Did you have a great cornbeef cabbage dinner for St. Patrick’s day? You could have, if you had been at the dinner sponsored by the Happy Camp Elementary School 8th grade class. There was also a Variety Show for entertainment, pies in some faces and auctioning off some really neat items. Read all about it on the Children & Youth page.

Also Outdoor Club birdhouse building.

Who Visited Happy Camp Fellowship?

Have you seen OLD stuff on the Happy Camp History page?

Soggy Bottom Band played foot stompin' music at the HCES Variety Show

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Home on the River

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By Dave Lambert
Imagine if you will, a green carpet of tall trees extending inland from the Pacific Coast to the Seiad Valley. Scattered here and there are natural meadows and lush grasslands where herds of elk and deer graze peacefully. This pristine wilderness abounded with wildlife of many kinds, Grizzlies, cougar, wolves, wolverine., lynx, black bear and many others co-existed here.

Winding through this paradise is an emerald green river of volcanic origin, which is teeming with life. Salmon, sturgeon, steelhead, eel’s shad and suckers all ascend this powerful waterway to spawn and replenish their species. Eagles, ospreys, ducks, otters and mink all proliferated along it shores. This is the river Klamath!

Originating in eastern Oregon, it flows south into upper and lower Klamath Lakes where the Klamath Tribe lives, whom the river is named after. It then flows southwest for several hundred miles where it merges with the Trinity River. From there it swings due west and continues on to tend the long, winding journey by emptying in to the Pacific Ocean.
The native peoples who called this paradise home had lived in harmony with nature for hundreds of years. They had never heard a loud, unnatural sound, such as a gunshot, the ruble of a jet passing overhead or the roar of a combustible engine. Pollution as we know it was unknown.

Life was not exactly effortless but all necessities could be secured without undue hardship. It seemed to them that the Great Spirit had smiled upon this land of the river called Klamath.

There is some evidence of foreigners cohabiting with Indians long before the coming of the miners. It is known that trappers and traders were here by the turn of the 18th century because of the abundant beaver, mink, muskrat, bobcat and many other fur bearing animals. When this fur trade was at its peak this was the disputed territory of several fur trading companies. In 1850, when gold was discovered in the ancient alluvial gravel deposits along the river, life quickly changed for all the inhabitants of the area. With the gold seekers came progress and the inevitable taming of the area. The U.S, Government was eager to add the freshly mined gold to its treasury and the miners no time to exploiting to the extreme. Claims were staked on every patch of high bar and gravel deposit that could be found. There were the natural flats and benches along the stream bank that just so happened to be where the village sites were also located. The rich layer of topsoil was the first to get washed down through the sluice boxes. This was followed by the gold bearing gravel and boulders and eventually to bedrock where the much hoped for giant nuggets would be found.

Chinese miners began arriving and as they had previous experience at mining were very successful in procuring the gold they had come

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Happy Camp Chamber of Commerce April Minutes. 2011

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April 5,2011

President Cathleen called the meeting to order shortly after six o’clock on April 5th
Rosemary will call Siskiyou Telephone for further instructions regarding our phone service as she will be answering the phone.

The Minutes from February 17th were read and approved. The minutes from March 1 were approved with the correction of changing April to March for mid March meeting. The minutes from March 15th were approved as read.

Cathleen shared a few words as president. She is extremely pleased and believes we are right on track, with the website and advertising accomplished already. She will encourage other directors to come to the next meeting.

Linda gave a secretary report on the e-mails. If they have request more information they will be referred to other websites. Former Web designer has not been able to be reached and her husband refused to give any contact information and so other alternative means of solving the website disappearance will have to be pursued.

In addition, Cathleen shared a former new member packet that she received from the Chamber in 1999.. We’ll make more new member packets and certificates for the new members. Cathleen, Linda and Judy plan to meet tomorrow to plan that and UPVISE data base of businesses. The newest additions to the membership are Happy Camp Volunteer Ambulance, South Fork Mining and Clinic Pharmacy. WELCOME!

Judy will contact Illinois Valley C of C, Mt. Shasta C of C, Yreka C of C, Willow Creek C of C, Trinity County C of C, and Yreka C of C about exchange memberships (without vote) for sharing information such as we have with Grants Pass C of C. They may discuss this at the Siskiyou County Chambers meeting in Weed on April 20th.

More information, probably an E-book, was discussed for providing answers to inquiries (and could be printed out for the person without internet access.) We also need brochures, flyers and business cards from every business member so that we can give them to people who ask, and take to events like the Sportsmen’s Expo where we handed out literature. (Please let us know if you have brochures & cards for this!!)

A letter which Cathleen had written to community businesses was discussed. It was suggested that we ask Ken Harris to speak to a meeting.

James gave a treasurers report (which is attached and also updated on the happycampchamber.org website.) We have about $1,789.79 in the bank account, of which $1,535.79 is available, not designated. Terri made a motion to pay about 3 months Siskiyou Telephone bill in advance for $65, 2nd by Rosemary, and passed.Plans for the coming year were discussed. It was decided to have a Bylaws meeting on a Saturday that Marie Wells, executive Director of Mt. Shasta Chamber of Commerce can come. the end of April or in May.

Plans for an Art and Treasure Yard Sale weekend June 11th after graduation were to be worked out with Terri and Cathleen as committee chairs.. The July concert at the park and Anniversary celebration were Rosemary and James to chair the committee.. Montine is the liaison with the Bigfoot Jamboree Committee and Judy volunteered to help with Chamber booth and float committee. The Date of the Community Tree Lighting hasn’t been set in December yet. March will be the Annual Meeting and Elections.

Next meeting will be the May 3rd meeting at 6 PM and all are welcome to come and participate.
Meeting was adjourned
Those present were: Cathleen Searle, Rosemary Boren, James Buchner, Dolly Elston, Linda Martin, Terri Winslow, and Judy Bushy.

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St. Pat’s Day Variety Show

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Happy Camp Pie in the Face

Pie in the Face

Happy Camp CA St. Patricks Day

Abbye, Bela & Ciera had a great skit!!

What did you do for St. Patrick’s Day? Did you have a great corned beef and cabbage dinner? You could have, if you came to the St. Patrick’s Day Dinner at Happy Camp Elementary School. Besides dinner, there were also auctions and variety show. It was a delightful evening of visiting with friends and neighbors.

Cody Haskell and Glenn Rickel were the Masters of Ceremonies. They also served as auctioneers of some really neat donated items. All the proceeds of the dinner and auctions went to the 8th grade class of Happy Camp Elementary School. You would be truly amazed at all the talented people in our community. First Abbey Eadie, Bella Bryant and Madison Offield did a song and dance routine. Silas Yoshomoto played the piano. Brittany , Madison Offoeld and Matilda Peters cheered. Jessica Williams, Jessica Lantow Mekhia Gabriel and Maddy Offield jumped rope. We enjoyed Mirandas song. Natalia and Nikki also sang. Rudtz Galindo played a great song on the keyboard. After Megan sang her song, Chelsea King, Ella Galindo, Sylvanna Arwood and Royale Pinassi were up there keeping the hula hoops spinning, They even kept them going when throwing and catching a ball among themselves.

Abbey in white wings and a halo, and Cierra, in red and black from wings to horns tried to influence Bella, the young girl in the middle, for a skit. Natalia sang a song. Ryan Randleman sang with his guitar an original song. Then the Soggy Bottom Band played. Casey Chambers, Glenn Rickles, Cheryl Horvath, `Rana Scruggs, Rattj Sherman, and Melissa Rhodes played some most unusual instruments. What a fun time. The whole audience sang, “You are my sunshine!”

Oh, one more thing for the evening. The pies in the faces of Deputy Tygart, High School Principal Alan Dyar and Elementary Superintendent Chambers. Glen Rickles also got a pie in the face. Carmynne Neimoyer “got a pie” from the Cheerleaders.

The Elementary School Multipurpose Room was packed, and everyone had a good laugh. It was fun to see neighbors that we hadn’t seen in awhile. Those with grown kids looked at the performers and wondered where the years have gone. It’s great to have them off in the world, working and being busy but it wasn’t long ago that they were the little kids singing in Jon Saler’s choirs, playing in the band, and looking so adorable. Children grow up much too fast but we can enjoy them while they are young!

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Scenic River Environment for the Artist

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By Diann Hokanson
The Scenic Klamath River is a painter’s paradise. Monet’s Giverney gardens with lily pones and Japanese bridge summoned the Impressionists no less than our Klamath inspires the Realist, Abstract, Representational and Surrealist artist.
The River itself with its deep emerald still places and raging white water rapids, travels both swiftly and lazily through narrow steep rock walls and wide open spaces. Edged with spiky river grasses, the smooth worn river rocks invite the graceful Snowy Egret. Blue Heron and the artist!
The Klamath is fed by bubbling streams and some pretty swift creeks. Down along their banks the temperature can be twenty degrees cooler.
Our own little Ferguson Creek isn’t even on the map. Walking under its conifer, oak and maple canopy is like closing a door, shutting out the noise of traffic from the highway, and opening into a world of quiet, cool and non-electric gurgle of the creek. Huge ferns grow here and moss covers the trunks of the Oaks and old fallen logs. N the middle of all these greens and earth tones are surprising brilliant reds, tiny fuchsia and delicate pinks and lavenders of wild flowers and trillium.
The landscape painter finds scenes of majestic grandeur. In the Wilderness area Ukonom, Spirit, Blue Granite and Cliff Lakes, each set like a diamond in the Marble Mountains. Ukonom falls, a mile up Ukonom Creek from the other side of the river, is worth the hike. The beautiful double waterfall is much like the Wiamea Falls of Hawaii. From Greyback, the high country, you can see across thirteen different layers of mountains and hills, each a little fainter as if you could see to infinity. In the spring and fall, mists settle in below and between the mountains, and we feel like the very first human.
Pastoral Scenes are also available; cattle and horses in cattle in golden meadows as well as lovely old barns and cabins. Along Highway 96 are old communities left from the Gold rush. Klamath River, Scott Bar, Hamburg, Seiad Valley, Fort Goff and Happy Camp. We have our old buildings and small town atmosphere. It’s like stepping into a time warp.
The portrait artist is after my own heart. You would think living in all this would be pretty distracting but the closest theater is 75 miles and the closest shopping mall is 110 miles away! What makes our place unique are its people. Do you know a medicine man? Have you seen the expression on the face of the prospector who held two nuggets of gold in hand? I know a 63 year old lady who dredges underwater, A man who can fell a tree in a stand without hitting another, a doctor who came to retire and fish and has never worked so hard in his life, a woman who runs a publishing house, and people who really live off the land with no phones and electricity. There are river guides and wilderness packers who will take you into the wilderness and artists living here. We have lived here fifty years and haven’t made a dent!

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The Redwood Canoe

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by Charles S. Graves
from Before the White man Came c1934

The redwood canoe as made by the Indians of the lower Klamath is the most artistic of all the caoes used by the different tribes, and is made in this manner:

They select a log of suitable size and split it in half. They then take one half and trim it down, top and bottom un til they get it in proper shape. They then hew out the inside until they have it on an equal thickness. then they cut out the seat, leaving two cleats to brace the feet afainst when rowing or when using the paddle. The paddle is used for rowing, they do not use oars. A hole is made in each corner of the canoe, through which a haxel withe is put around the end of the canoe and drawn very tight. Thius prevents the canoe from splitting should it strike a rock.
In operating the canoe, the Indians believe that it should have a heart, otherwise it would be a dead boat. So he leaves a round knob about three inches across a short distance back from the bow and so long as the heart is there he feels safe, knowing that the canoe is alive.
The canoe pictured here is the property of the author (Charles S. Graves).

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