Busy day today. I met this morning with Cal Bratt, Editor of the Lynden Tribune. He is crafting a couple of articles concerning our new fundraising efforts to benefit the Holden and Phoebe Goodell Judson Memorial Statue in Lynden's new Judson Park. Our first event will be the "Gem City Picnic" on Saturday, August 15th, at Lynden City Park. We'll have live music by "Travelin' Light" (Lou Lippman on keyboard and yours truly on vocals) and "The Halleck Street Ramblers," a 7-piece Dixieland Jazz band. Tickets ($5 for adults, $3 for kids) will include food (hot dogs, chips, drink and Dutch apple pie.) We are gathering up sponsors at a brisk pace and all is going well, though ticket sales are just now taking off.
The second event will be the Northwest Washington Fair, where Lynden Pioneer Museum will be manning a booth for two purposes; fundraising for the Judson Statue as well as the collection of old-timer's stories about the early NW Washington Fair. We are receiving a free booth in exchange for helping the Fair Centennial Committee with information gathering in preparation for next year's Centennial book and DVD. Our booth will be manned by some Judson/Goodell family members, sculptor Bob McDermott, docents from Lynden Museum and staff from Whatcom Community Foundation, our fiscal sponsor (501(C)(3)) for the statue.
Cal is an excellent reporter and I expect his article(s) to be of their usual high quality. The first one (about the picnic) will come out this Wednesday and it is hoped that it will spark ticket sales. The second article, which will come out next Wednesday, will feature the new watercolor rendering of the statue as it will appear on site in Judson Park in front of Lynden's brand- new City Hall. As time goes on, we will eventually have a website to allow folks to make donations on line. For now, it is face-to-face contact and the passing out of paperwork that will generate our donations. Stay tuned for this over the next few months..I expect it to take off like a rocket as a result of massive exposure during the Northwest Washington Fair.
As soon as the watercolor painting is done (within the next couple of days,) I will post it on my blog. Rick Mullen, Presentation Art Studio, of Bellingham is our very talented artist. Rick has done renderings of many of Bellingham's best-known architectural projects. We are so lucky to have him on our team!
The second event will be the Northwest Washington Fair, where Lynden Pioneer Museum will be manning a booth for two purposes; fundraising for the Judson Statue as well as the collection of old-timer's stories about the early NW Washington Fair. We are receiving a free booth in exchange for helping the Fair Centennial Committee with information gathering in preparation for next year's Centennial book and DVD. Our booth will be manned by some Judson/Goodell family members, sculptor Bob McDermott, docents from Lynden Museum and staff from Whatcom Community Foundation, our fiscal sponsor (501(C)(3)) for the statue.
Cal is an excellent reporter and I expect his article(s) to be of their usual high quality. The first one (about the picnic) will come out this Wednesday and it is hoped that it will spark ticket sales. The second article, which will come out next Wednesday, will feature the new watercolor rendering of the statue as it will appear on site in Judson Park in front of Lynden's brand- new City Hall. As time goes on, we will eventually have a website to allow folks to make donations on line. For now, it is face-to-face contact and the passing out of paperwork that will generate our donations. Stay tuned for this over the next few months..I expect it to take off like a rocket as a result of massive exposure during the Northwest Washington Fair.
As soon as the watercolor painting is done (within the next couple of days,) I will post it on my blog. Rick Mullen, Presentation Art Studio, of Bellingham is our very talented artist. Rick has done renderings of many of Bellingham's best-known architectural projects. We are so lucky to have him on our team!
