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Custom Instrumentation Services Corporation - CiSCO
based in Englewood, COLORADO (USA)
Custom Instrumentation Services Corporation (CiSCO) provides complete Continuous Emissions Monitoring Systems (CEMS) and Data Acquisition and Handling Systems (DAHS/DARS) to monitor stack gases, process gases, flow, and opacity for EPA regulatory compliance and process control.
PML Process Technology
based in ONTARIO (CANADA)
PML Process Technology is first and foremost a specialty distributor of (1) On-line continuous chemical analyzers for monitoring the chemistry of liquids and gases. The company also integrates these into systems to meet area classification, protection or sample conditioning requirements. All the products are designed for rugged industrial applications. In addition, the ...
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CHWMEG, Inc. is a non-profit trade association representing over 690 participating entities. CHWMEG conducts comprehensive reviews of waste vendors, recycling vendors, e-scrap processors and spent material processors worldwide. CHWMEG members receive high quality, detailed, objective information concerning potential business risk at reviewed facilities. A unique ...
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Ecometrica is passionate about clear, correct, and meaningful environmental management that helps businesses meet their sustainability challenges, reduce costs, and increase overall performance. We help our clients measure their environmental impacts, from carbon, energy, paper, waste and water management all the way through to full supply chain accounting. We have global ...
Gannett Fleming, Inc.
based in Camp Hill, PENNSYLVANIA (USA)
Gannett Fleming is a global infrastructure firm that provides planning, design, technology, and construction management services for a diverse range of markets and disciplines. With 2,000 highly qualified individuals across a global network of 60 offices, we are united in our passion to deliver excellence. We have played a part in shaping infrastructure and improving ...
LandConsult.de - Environmental Planning and Consulting
based in Buehl, GERMANY
3D Digital Forest Inventories and Services, Biomass and Carbon Sequestration Estimations, Environmental and Land Use Planning & Consulting, GIS/Mapping and 3D Remote Sensing. We are an international consortium of geographic information engineers, land use planners and experts in natural resource management. We transform ideas and visions into practical solutions that ...
based in Toronto, ONTARIO (CANADA)
HRCarbon brings significant credentials and experience in sustainable Enterprise Carbon Management with an emphasis on human resources, process management and technology. Our core competence is to measure, analyze, report and integrate Corporate Sustainability. HRCarbon's unique "Sustainability Maturity Gradient" and "Sustainability Management and Reporting Framework" ...
based in Englewood, COLORADO (USA)
IHS is the leading source of information and insight in critical areas that shape today's business landscape – including environmental, health, safety and sustainability (EHS&S). Businesses and governments worldwide rely on IHS software, content and expertise to manage a broad spectrum of critical EHS business challenges, including operational risk, product stewardship, ...
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based in Ann Arbor, MICHIGAN (USA)
Quantum Compliance provides Environmental Health and Safety (EH&S) software solutions that help businesses implement and maintain compliant and sustainable EH&S practices. Our cost-effective modules are available individually or as part of the integrated Q EHS compliance system. Founded in 1985 by a team of environmental engineering and computer science professionals who ...


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War of the Worlds in Concrete, 1938
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Silver King James Wardner fools the world with his Black Cats Fur company
Eugenia Clinchard, child star of silent movies, in Woolley, 1911
Alice Hamilton's memories of her father and the settlement of Hamilton
Frank Evans (Courier-Times), Syd McIntyre Sr. and the 1915 UW Grads who were Skagit movers and shakers
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Henry [Martin] carved two oxen yokes in front of the fire in the evenings. In the fall of '95, he loaded the two oxen yokes into a canoe and went down on high water to LaConner. He knew that the steamboat captain was probably the only one in the community who would have cash. The captain bought the oxen yokes for the sum of $1 apiece. The father spent 35 cents in town and made the arduous return journey, paddling upstream to where Rockport is located today. When he came into the house with a $1.65, that was the only cash money the family saw for two years. — Ralph Munro.
|From left to right, on the porch of the Tom Porter cabin: Dick Harris, Tim O'Connor, Ted Porter, Dan O'Connor.
|Dick Harris points out the panels that honor his brother and his father and provide a summary of the importance of the exhibits, for visitors at the park.
Let us now praise famous men . . .
On the evening of Oct. 30 1938, Orson Welles and the Mercury Thetre presented a dramatization of H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds. . . . For a brief time as many as one million people throughout the country believed that Martians had invaded the earth, beginning with Grover's Mill, N.J.Some of those people lived in Concrete, and they did not take the news very well. The Nov. 3, 1938, issue of the Concrete Herald told of some east county citizens' reactions in graphic detail.
[Wardner autobiography, 1900]: Then [circa 1891] I started my cat ranch. Much has been said and much has been written about my celebrated cat ranch, located on an island about six miles from Fairhaven, Washington. So many bright writers have been there, and have seen my novel experiment and speculation, that I will let them tell the story themselves. I must, however, remark that, although the product did not equal my anticipation, I cannot blame Mr. Samuel Weller, of Cincinnati, who was my sole manager and purveyor to the cats.To read this story and the hilarious Wardner/Fairhaven/Cats series, it is from our current subscribers edition. Have you subscribed yet? We need a hundred more subscriptions to pay for our extensive research trip, planned for June 2012, to prepare for our book in progress: "Humbug!" — Mortimer Cook. We are touring and photographing the '49er gold fields and Santa Barbara, where Mortimer owned general stores and a bank and where he was mayor before founding Bug/Sedro in 1885. See a sample of the current issue here, with details of how to subscribe, or just click the Donate button on any webpage and make a donation or subscribe, $20/1 year . . . $35 2 years . . . $45 3 years. Thanks for your support.
"This gentleman was a cat man, and his father was a cat man before him. " If he finally erred in judgment it was from excessive zeal, and I forgive him. Now, as all my visitors like my cats, had tales, let us listen a bit.
From the New York Tribune:A new industry is always interesting. And it is especially attractive if it shows great possibilities and hints of perhaps becoming a source of national wealth. there comes at this time from the new State of Washington a report of such an industry. We refer to the black-cat ranch just established at Fairhaven by the Consolidated Black Cat Company, Limited.
Black Cats for Profit
We trust that our readers will understand that the organization of this company is a fact. Mr. James F. Wardner, of Fairhaven, is president. The names of the other officers are not given in the San Francisco dispatch which brings the intelligence, but the plan and the object of the company are quite fully explained. The company has bought an island in Puget Sound, and is already taking steps to secure all of the black cats in the neighborhood.
Several carloads will be shipped from San Francisco next week. The cats will all be placed on the island and shelter provided for them. An island is selected in preference to the mainland, that the cats may be kept separate from others and the pure black cat propagated. Men will be employed to take care of the cats and to feed them regularly three times a day. They will live mostly on fish caught in the surrounding waters, so the expense of keeping them will be small. . . .
The word got around the upriver district of the Skagit river quickly in the fall of 1911. It was time to take out the horse and buggy and head into Sedro-Woolley. Eugenia Margaret Clinchard came to town to visit her family who lived here. The draw was that she was a child star, at age six, in the relatively new phenomenon of silent movies. Her parents arranged for her to appear at the Princess Theater on Metcalf street, when the theater showed her first two short subjects: A Frontier Doctor and Papa's Letter, which were released together in December that year. . . .To read this whole story, it is from our current subscribers edition. Have you subscribed yet? We need a hundred more subscriptions to pay for our extensive research trip, planned for June 2012, to prepare for our book in progress: "Humbug!" — Mortimer Cook . We are touring and photographing the '49er gold fields and Santa Barbara, where Mortimer owned general stores and a bank and where he was mayor before founding Bug/Sedro in 1885. See a sample of the current issue here, with details of how to subscribe, or just click the Donate button on any webpage and make a donation or subscribe, $20/1 year . . . $35 2 years . . . $45 3 years. Thanks for your support.
By the time Eugenia visited her relatives here, she was already a veteran of two movies and she would be cast in nine more in her youthful career. Her parents brought her to meet most of the family at one time. Fred Clinchard was one of eleven siblings born to Elise (Balbach) Clinchard, who hosted the 1911 reunion in Sedro-Woolley. She was a widow; her husband, Jacob Francois Clinchard, died Jan. 5, 1906, in Omaha, Nebraska, where many of the Clinchards lived for quite a while. Brandon has not discovered why members of the family moved to Sedro-Woolley. She did learn during her genealogical research that principals of the family were major investors in various railroads.
Here in Sedro-Woolley, two of Fred's siblings never married and lived with their mother: Amelia Caroline Clinchard and Edward William Clinchard. Earl Harold Clinchard, youngest of the 11 children, also lived in Sedro Woolley and he married Lillian Baehner on in 1910 in Everett. Two of Fred's other sisters lived here. Adrienne Hermine (Clinchard) was married to Louis Philipoteaux and sister Constance Eugenia Clinchard was married to William Rausch. Finally, another of his brothers, George Alfred Clinchard, lived in Concrete and was married to Zena Augusta Kaster.
We discovered that Edward Clinchard advanced beyond the home-and-work tinkerer stage and actually obtained two patents while working as a foundryman for Sedro-Woolley Iron Works, the forerunner of Skagit Steel. His first patent in 1912 was for a dental appliance holder and his second a year later was for a washboard, which was featured in the American Artisan magazine.
During the construction period, Eugenia was cast in another Essanay short, The Sheriff's Inheritance. Her big break, however, came in the 1913 production of Broncho Billy and the Sheriff's Kid. The plot had Billy in hiding after a jailbreak when he discovered the sheriff's daughter, Eugenia, unconscious after a fall and he returns her to her mother. Eugenia impressed Anderson so much that she soon appeared in four more movies in the Billy series in 1913: The Influence of Broncho Billy, Broncho Billy and the Rustler's Child, The Crazy Prospector, and Broncho Billy's Christmas Deed.
In 1914 Eugenia appeared in her final movies: Broncho Billy, the Vagabond, and Broncho Billy's Christmas Spirit. Brandon discovered that Eugenia's exit from the movies was not due to being dropped as an actor, but because a runaway coach on the set almost ran her over. Fred Clinchard decided that the movie sets were too dangerous for a child and he insisted that she only act on the stage from then on. . . .
"He was the first movie star," said Dale Carpenter, producer of a 1990 Broncho Billy documentary. "When you passed by the nickelodeon and saw a Broncho Billy film, you put a nickel in. He wasn't by any means a great actor, and not a better story teller than anyone else, but he was one of the first people to realize that movies could succeed by creating a character that people were drawn to. . . .
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William Hamilton, wife and two children, Ashford and Motz, moved from Kansas to Washington Territory via San Francisco, thence north by boat. They first settled in LaConner where Alice was born. Mr. Hamilton had been in the Civil War and had powder burns on his face as a result.To read this whole story, it is from our current subscribers edition. Have you subscribed yet? We need a hundred more subscriptions to pay for our extensive research trip, planned for June 2012, to prepare for our book in progress: "Humbug!" — Mortimer Cook . We are touring and photographing the '49er gold fields and Santa Barbara, where Mortimer owned general stores and a bank and where he was mayor before founding Bug/Sedro in 1885. See a sample of the current issue here, with details of how to subscribe, or just click the Donate button on any webpage and make a donation or subscribe, $20/1 year . . . $35 2 years . . . $45 3 years. Thanks for your support.
In June of 1877, when Alice was five months old, the family moved to what was later the town of Hamilton. Mr. Hamilton filed on the land and the town was named for him.
He built their first house some distance back from the river. He wasn't satisfied there so moved to within about a mile of the river, but not liking it there either, he moved the family to the river, where he built a house of sawed lumber. The other two had been built of split of cedar. In 1884 he put in a general merchandise store, building a large two-story house.
The only traffic up and down the valley was by boat or canoe on the river, except for a crude trail along the river bank. Everyone tried to make Hamilton's place by nightfall, so it became a regular stopping place. As many as 35 or 40 people a day stopped for board and room.
Shortly after graduation from the University, he began work at the Everett Herald, which then had an active staff of two reporters. On Nov. 5, 1916, in his first week there, the massacre of the IWW demonstrators occurred at the Everett docks. Within just the next two years, the ambitious young reporter began looking afield for a weekly newspaper opportunity.To read this whole story, it is from our current subscribers edition. Have you subscribed yet? We need a hundred more subscriptions to pay for our extensive research trip, planned for June 2012, to prepare for our book in progress: "Humbug!" — Mortimer Cook . We are touring and photographing the '49er gold fields and Santa Barbara, where Mortimer owned general stores and a bank and where he was mayor before founding Bug/Sedro in 1885. See a sample of the current issue here, with details of how to subscribe, or just click the Donate button on any webpage and make a donation or subscribe, $20/1 year . . . $35 2 years . . . $45 3 years. Thanks for your support.
Evans bought the Skagit County Courier in Sedro-Woolley in January 1918 when he was just 24 years old, born on March 26, 1893. I had the pleasure of working as an apprentice for Evans back in 1957 when I was 13. He was also a close friend of my father's. He often told the story of how he arrived in town on Jan. 26, 1916, to take over the newspaper and was preparing to write his introductory editorial when he heard a thunderous crash: the wreck of the Great Northern and Northern Pacific trains that occurred just north of the depot on Eastern Avenue. The story of the deaths of six passengers, including County Commissioner Henry Thompson was the lead story in the first issue he published. In 1919 he bought the former Munro Shoe Store in the 800 block of Metcalf street, which was the location of the Courier-Times for 50 years until the office was moved to south Mount Vernon after the paper merged with the Skagit Valley Herald.
Two years later, after the death of Skagit County Times publisher John B. Stowers, on Jan. 11, 1920, Evans made an offer to Stowers' widow to buy the Times, and he spent the next four months lining up advertising pledges from Sedro-Woolley retailers and advertisers for a merged new newspaper. They eagerly signed up for the concept, which would eliminate or lessen the redundant ads, and by May he had enough to convince him that the purchase and merger could be profitable. The first issue of the merged Courier-Times appeared on May 20, 1920, with the lead story of the suicide of Lyman businessman Garfield Minkler. That was the beginning of his nearly six decades at the helm of the paper.
Some quick notes. Junia Buchanan was the neighbor of Junia Cannon out there where the river gets really wild with countless finger-like sloughs over the years and has eaten up a lot of the north bank, especially. Junia Cannon Palmer was like a second mother to me at times, the mother of my friend Ben and wife of Lloyd Palmer Jr., the longtime Jech and Berglund repairman for all types of Fords and such. We lost her much too soon, in the 1980s. She was indeed a Utopia girl, who grew up within a mile of my house near the Skagit and told me stories often about the Buchanans and Cannons and their nearby neighbors, the Stroms, from Norway, and William Bouck, who was briefly nominated, then passed up, for vice president of the U.S. in 1924 on the Communist Party ticket. The Cannon family moved here from eastern Washington sometime in the late Teen years, at the invitation of Junia Buchanan, the wife of Oscar Buchanan. Utopia was a wild place but made gentler by its quilts. Bill Newberg remembered them well, too. Go to the link above for the full list of women quilters and their genealogy, or we will be expanding on that list over this winter for a Utopia roundup. Are you from Utopia? Can you help us?
The Poppy Appliqué Quilt from UtopiaRepresentatives from the La Conner Quilt and Textile Museum visited the Mukilteo Lighthouse Quilters guild last June with a challenge to do the genealogy of a quilt in their collection. I took up the challenge and was shown the quilt when I visited the museum. This was a large (84" x 90") friendship quilt from the 1930s which was donated to the museum in 2006. It was signed by sixteen pioneer women from the Skiyou and Utopia communities in Skagit County. According to its donor, these quilters frequently met in the Utopia grange hall to quilt and reminisce about old times in the Skagit valley. [Journal ed. note: maybe the old Skiyou school? What we later called the Skiyou or Skitopia Grange when I was a child. At the south end of the Harrison road at Skiyou Slough.] This was the last quilt that the group made. The donor's aunt, named Junia Phay Buchanan, was one of this group.
Using Quilts in Genealogical Research
by Margaret Robe Summitt
The Museum displayed the quilt at the Woolley Fibers Quilt Show in June 2010 to get some information from local people who may have remembered the ladies who signed their names. The little bits of information collected were helpful yet tantalizing. The museum staff copied multiple pages from the 1930 U. S. Federal Census for Skagit County, drawing some of the families more into focus. They also copied biographies of pioneer families from the Skagit River Journal online. This site is edited by Noel V. Bourasaw, who was born in Utopia and has collected an amazing amount of local history: . The seventeen women (including Junia Buchanan) associated with the making of the quilt. . . .
Click on the photo to read about Skiyou farmers and their dahlias and corn — and a Cookie! And the strange story of a 19th-century Skiyou hotel and a body turned to stone.
It is not often that we get the opportunity to feature our best friends and cute couples on the site, but one arose this week. Cookson "Cookie" Beecher and Dean Harrington live near a historical oddity that we discovered many years ago and have never had the right place to feature it. Their dahlia gardens are planted next to the Hess location. You may remember Cookie's name from the time that she edited the Sedro-Woolley Courier-Times, arguably the best editor in its history. And Dean is the fix-it man that many call when haying season is current. The historical importance of such may be found by reading this brief article from 1885:
"At the mouth of Skiyou slough, C.F. Hess has made a clearing and built a comfortable hotel. The still stretch of river, the forest stretching up the side of Little mountain, and the higher ranges in the distance, make a beautiful view. It is just the place for a week's fishing or a summer's rest from overwork. There are no liquors sold and nothing to annoy the most delicate nerves. Those going up the river will do well to stop here. Crossing the slough at his ferry will save two good miles. . . ." [Read the whole story and get the big picture here.]
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|Ada Whitmore, Val Hanchett and Lawrence Whitmore in front of cases of memories at the inimitable Whoop-n-Holler Museum, south of Bickleton and north of the Columbia River Gorge. Do not miss it.
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Most people aware of Washington state history are familiar with the Great Fire of June 1889 that leveled the village of Seattle. But that was not the only city in the state that burned that year: add Spokane Falls and Ellensburg to the list. Earlier that year, attorney (later judge) J. B. Davidson commissioned the building and Architect J. B. Randall and builder William Ames were erecting it when the fire burned much of the rest of the town. As this very informative site notes, a three-foot Phoenix caps the pediment on the south façade and a phoenix mural has recently been painted on the west side. The Phoenix became the center point of the city as the pioneers rebuilt after the fire. Just one block west is the Palace Hotel, which has been extensively remodeled in recent years, featuring beautiful wood paneling and a fine restored ceiling. And the wait staff and bartender were very helpful as well as being a sight for sore eyes, as we emerged from the desert and coulees.
|We attended the grand opening of Dick & Jane's Spot, in Ellensburg, back in 1984 and have never forgotten it. Their displays indoor and out are their take on art and more than 40 fellow artists have shared eclectic work. Those who memorized the Dick and Jane books as primary-grade students will likely most enjoy the visit.
The owners outside Café Cicely in Roslyn, l. to r.: Michelle Crone, Lori Clemente, Stacy Reddy, Pat Reddy. They'll get your endorphins lining up for a great new day.
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|Ball House felled by the wind in 1996
|1900 Catholic Rectory now on Burmaster Road
Woolley editor tried to put
Sedro-Woolley on the map, 1899
|The real story of The Duke of Duke's Hill
|Centennials and anniversaries all over Sedro-Woolley in 2011
|Johnny Jacobin overcame great odds in Sedro-Woolley
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The old 1900 Catholic Rectory today as a house on Burmaster Road.
I finally found a picture of my house thanks to your site. It used to sit at 807 Puget Street. It was the old rectory for the church next to it. It now sits at 26802 Burmaster Road. It was moved by logging truck in 1977. I thought you might want to add that. Sure wish that old church was still around.That would have been Rex Howell's old moving company, if we remember correctly. When I was growing up here, we kids scrambled to go wherever the Howells were moving houses, with those old spring jacks and accoutrements. We can now supply more information, after researching old Sedro and Woolley newspapers.
The historic Catholic Rectory circa 1900, from a colorized postcard from the collection of Mike Aiken.
|Circa early 1990s
Seneca Ketchum's new Capital Boom
He would move the state legislature to Sedro-Woolley
Spokane Daily Chronicle, Feb. 20, 1899Seneca Ketchum has a capital boom that is all his own. When Seneca used to set type in Spokane he was regarded as a man of modest ambition, but now that he has become the distinguished editor of the Skagit County Times at Sedro-Woolley, Seneca has developed into an independent capital boomer. He was in Seattle one day last week and there made public his new boom.
"When I've talked about Sedro-Woolley," said Mr. Ketchum, "the fellows down here have always said 'Why don't your town get on the map' and such discouraging things. Well, we're on the map all right and have been for many moons, but never until last week did the citizens of Sedro-Woolley think of trying to change the map. We've started to do it, and there is no telling what will come of it.
"We have a representative from Skagit county, Joseph H. Parker, who has pleased his constituents right along until last week. In an unguarded moment Mr. parker introduced a bill to move the capital of the state from Olympia to Tacoma.
"Then it was that the people of Sedro-Woolley showed to the people of the state that not only had they an eye on the gun that is loaded, but likewise had as long a reach for the pie counter as Tacoma or any other town. On Wednesday evening last the Twin City Business League of Sedro-Woolley met and after discussing Representative Parker and his bill, set him a telegram saying, among other things:
"'The Twin City Business League of Sedro-Woolley, of which you are an honored member, not with astonishment, not to say chagrin, that you have so far forgotten your allegiance to this organization and your bounden duty to advance the upbuilding of this town to advocate whose interests it was projected, as to introduce a bill to move the state capital to any other town but Sedro-Woolley. Please amend the bill immediately.'
"Up to the present time Mr. Parker has not replied," continued Mr. Ketchucsh [sic], "but the Skagit county people feel assured that being first in the field the capital, when moved, will come our way."
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Dirty Dan Harris, aka Jim Rich, center, poses with a race team before the Dirty Dan Piano Race up Harris Avenue during Dirty Dan Days 2006. See the link for the schedule for this year's events and the race schedule and details for teams in the story links below.
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|Prairie church razed 1958
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Woolley editor tried to put
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We hope that a reader will recall the church and its exact location. Although we visited the Prairie district nearly every week back then, while visiting the Ernst families and the Vlahovich family, we cannot remember where the Samish Grange Hall was, either, so we hope a reader can fill us in about that too.
By Mrs. Raymond Hoyt, Courier-Times, Aug. 25, 1958The little Prairie church is no more. The lumber salvaged from it is being used as siding for a building at the Kenneth Fitzgerald farm and Fitzgerald J.B. Mumford are busy clearing up the debris at the original site.
Two bids, one for $20 from a wrecking company owned by Don McIntyre and partner at Clear Lake and one of $25 submitted by Fitzgerald and Mumford, were the only ones received in response to a recent advertisement placed in the Courier-Times. The highest bid took it.
The ten high-backed benches in the church were donated to a new Baptist church now being completed at Nooksack.The song books are being used int he Prairie Sunday school now being held at the Samish grange hall.
Bud Johnston, only grandson of the late Mr. and Mrs. Alex Johnston, who devoted so many years to keeping the Sunday school classes active, was given the old church bell as a keepsake. Money from the sale of the chruch has been turned over to Superintendent Larson for use in the work of the present classes. Some of the his money will perhaps be used in buying a bible and other prizes for a membership contest in the Sunday school.
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Fritsch Bros. HardwareThe Fritsch family is one of the ten most important in early Woolley, both for their four-decade hardware store and one brother's involvement in the birth of Sedro-Woolley Iron Works (later Skagit Steel). The family of Franz (Americanized to Frank) Fritsch emigrated from Germany to New Orleans in 1871 and settled in Texas until the early 1880s when they moved first to Whatcom County and then to Sauk City when that was the entryway to the Monte Cristo mines. Quite a great circle route.
But they walked into a real mess, as old Sauk City would be for the next decade until it washed away. At that early time, their location seemed like a good idea. Gold-seekers at the Monte Cristo mines in the Snohomish County portion of the North Cascades shipped all their machinery up the Skagit and the Sauk rivers and bought their supplies and staples at Sauk City. But the business district burned to the ground in 1889, and after a series of floods, Frank's sons, Joseph and Frank, moved to Sedro-Woolley and the father moved the rest of his family to Burlington.
The brothers bought out the original Waltz Hardware of old Sedro. Waltz did well during the rail-building times and he hosted the early masses for the itinerant Catholic priests. By 1892, they either moved the store to Jameson Street, at the boundary of the two Sedro's or Waltz had done so. In 1897 they led another parade of Sedro businesses up to P.A. Woolley's new town a half mile north, possibly building themselves a woodframe store at the northwest corner of Woodworth and Metcalf streets. Meanwhile, the father invested in a sawmill and a general store for at least a decade more.
A 1902 city directory notes that the brothers also opened a machine shop that catered to logging and railroad concerns that needed metal repairs. That was the beginning of what would evolve into Skagit Steel & Iron Works over the next two decades, all contained in those early years in a back room at the Fritsch store. Frank Fritsch became a partner of John Anderson, the new company's founder, and they soon moved the rapidly growing business to the corner of Puget Street and the railroad tracks. In 1907, the brothers erected a new woodframe building that was destined to be the center of one of the biggest stories in Woolley history, with a firewall between two parts to protect paint in storage in case of fire. That was a wise move but not enough to prepare them for the fire that broke out in their oil shed on July 24, 1911, and wasn't contained until it destroyed two blocks of businesses in the heart of Woolley.
The brothers quickly rebuilt, this time using brick and steel, and the building reopened in December 1911. The brothers sold their company in 1914 to the firm of Ludwick and Wuest, but in 1923, Ludwick-Wuest moved their hardware and appliance business to a new building where Bus Jungquist/Masonic Building stands today at the northeast corner of State and Metcalf streets. The Fritsch brothers soon moved back into their old building and they alternated as owners of the business and then landlord as the company went through several owners over the next five decades. It was for many years the home of Mt. Baker Hardware. We will profile this amazing family and business later this year.
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I finally finished my Fat Bike, The Mukluk of Wampa. It's 1st voyage was dry dirt during the local Tits ride. It was an awesome experience but this bike was built with snow in mind and snow it had.
I talked my buddy Torkima into riding Georgetown. I had no idea what the snow conditions were but I was hoping for something on the ground that was rideable.
We found what we were looking for and more...

Same idea as in the summer. It ain't Fat Biking without a little hike a biking

at 10,000 ft it was decision time. head down some sweet singletrack I know of back into Georgetown or head up to Waldorf Mine. We headed up.

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One of the main sources of fleas coming in on your pets is your yard. Keep fleas out of your home by removing them from your yard. This is a guide about getting rid of fleas in your yard.
First, I do not have any pets, but for some reason I have an embarrassing problem in that fleas are attracted to me! I asked my PCP doc and she said it's probably the meds I'm taking because I've never had this issue before.
I've tried about everything for the yard off the porch where I sit; pyrethrin insecticides, IGRs, DE, dishsoap, lime, cedar oil, mothballs, and others that I've tried through the years. Nothing seems to work! I live in Florida where it gets very hot, humid, and rains a lot in the summer.
Note: there is wildlife like squirrels, coons, and stray cats that walk through the yard and apparently drop fleas. I've even gotten into essential oils for my hair/body, which helps a little, but not totally. I've found that mixing 1 part lemon juice to 1 part water in a spray bottle helps those little suckers stop, but I want to keep them totally off of me! Please help.
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Very sorry about your problem.. I've had a lot of experience with flea infestations, and my opinion is it's at times nearly impossible to control :/ Your best option is to wait for them to die out in the winter, then start applying flea prevention measures. Fleas in the yard are a huge problem for many people, but there is a way to stop it while it's managable.
Good luck to you, Ren :)
Get an old Parmesan cheese shaker and fill it with Borax laundry powder then just sprinkle all over you yard. All the fleas will leave your yard and go to neighbors. As for the inside of your house do the same to all carpeted rugs, let it set for a couple of hours, and then vacuum. It is safe for your dogs and children. Go to the Borax website for many other uses for your home.
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I just completely flea treated my house, only to find that my yard has fleas. Does anybody know of any household products I could use to get rid of them as money is tight. I just spent a fortune on flea products.
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If you get D. E. make sure it is food grade. This is VERY important. Otherwise it could make your pet sick or worse. I use an old flour sifter and do our dog yard. There are a few draw backs it washes away after a good rain so you have to reapply. It also will kill just about anything outside, like bees, ladybugs etc.
Google Diatomaceos Earth, it will explain how it works. I have dusted my horses, goats, and chickens with it for lice, mites, horse flys etc. I also use it for wormer for my animals, it can also be put in flour and such to keep bugs out. It's very inexpensive and has so many uses. I do not use it in my flower garden because it will kill bees. I also spend the money and buy Advantix for ticks as we live in a high tick area. It is well worth the money and having multiple dogs, it sure beats getting Lyme disease.
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What's green and fun in the spring? A Greenbelt bike tour, a Dupont green festival, and bike fundraisers
Greater Greater Washington is organizing a bike tour of Greenbelt on Sunday, April 18. We'll be starting at 1:30, and the tour should run about 3 hours or so.
The Washington region is littered with different landmarks from the planning profession. From the original city plan of Washington by L'Enfant and Ellicott to the new urbanist Kentlands, many of the different eras of planning have significant examples in the area.
One of those is Greenbelt, a stone's throw from Washington, which was built as a planned community by the Roosevelt Administration from 1934-37 as a part of the New Deal. You can read a brief overview of Greenbelt here.
The tour will be about 4 miles long, but will include several stops, so the 4 miles won't be all at once. It will begin and end at the Greenbelt Metro station (east entrance) at the northern end of the Green Line. The riding will be almost entirely on streets with bike lanes, bike paths, or quiet residential streets. You should feel comfortable riding with cars, but even novice riders should be fine.
There will be no cost for the tour, but we will visit the Greenbelt Museum, which has an admission fee of $5. For logistical purposes, I'm limiting the size of the group, so please RSVP by email at firstname.lastname@example.com with the subject "Greenbelt Bike Tour". If there's enough demand, I will schedule another tour.
The Greenbelt bike tour isn't the only way to enjoy the outdoors and the spring weather. The day before the Greenbelt tour, and in honor of the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, Dupont Circle community leaders are organizing Green in the Circle, a showcase of environmental groups and businesses along with live music, food, dancing, a scavenger hunt and more.
Organizers plan a series of events in the Circle, with the next one featuring microscopes and telescopes in June. These are the first steps in a greater effort to program this excellent yet sometimes underutilized space.
And speaking of bicycling, two major bicycle fundraisers are coming up. This Thursday, Phoenix Bikes in Arlington is holding their annual Bike Show fundraiser, with art, a silent auction, a raffle, and more. And WABA's annual gala and benefit auction is Friday, April 23rd at the Austrian Embassy near UDC.
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Fiction, poetry and opera are center stage for me in 2015, with work moving forward in all realms. A lot to celebrate so far, including the talented group of writers from around the world who attended Under the Volcano's 12th season of master classes in Tepoztlan, where my wonderful colleagues were Owen Sheers, Jonathan Levi, Jennifer Clement, Alison Wearing and our featured guest writer, Francisco Goldman.
Central projects: I'm am finishing my novel Marose and creating a Spanish-language opera based on the Mexican Day of the Dead.
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Master distribution is a testimony to entrepreneurial inventiveness in a free economy. Our industry's manufacturer-distributor channel serves as the best way to get bulk goods to market, but it doesn't work all that well for dealing with oddball items, short orders, imports, repair parts and other specialty goods that don't fit snugly into this channel's normal stream of commerce. Master distributors popped up to fill the gaps.


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What do you get when you cross Klein + Hummel's pedigree in speaker design with Neumann's decades of industry experience? A very good monitor indeed...
It's hard to believe that I reviewed the Klein + Hummel O300D three-way, nearfield monitors as long ago as October 2004. The O300 range quickly gained a reputation as one of the best nearfield monitors that money could buy — and not that much money in the grand scheme of things, either — thanks to the combination of accuracy and transparency associated with a good three-way design, the precise time-domain performance of a sealed cabinet, and a surprisingly compact and very practical form factor. The only real criticism levelled at the O300 was about its slightly restricted maximum output level, which concerned some heavy rockers, although some were trying to use it as a midfield rather than a nearfield speaker! Personally, I always found the O300 was more than loud enough, and it has remained one of my favourite monitors throughout the last decade.
Since then, the K+H company have been acquired and rebranded by Neumann, but their design philosophy remains completely intact and, if anything, production quality has actually improved. The first monitor released under the new stewardship was the KH120A (reviewed in SOS in April 2012), which was a redesign of the preceding O110 model, and it punched well above its weight. The new KH310A is, similarly, a redesign of the previous O300 model, sharing the same size, aesthetics, layout and underlying design concepts, but with improved technical performance across pretty much every important parameter.
Neumann market the three-way, fully active KH310A towards the project studio, broadcast, post-production and mastering sectors, as a high-quality nearfield monitor suited to small- and medium-sized control rooms. As with the previous model, a version with a digital input is also planned but is not available at the time of writing, and I was equipped with the analogue version for this review.
The speaker's 28-litre cabinet measures 292 x 383 x 253 mm (HxWxD) — identical in height and width to the O300, but 2mm deeper — and it weighs 13kg. The monitors are shipped individually, with stock taken from the warehouse as required in left- or right-handed forms to suit the end user's requirements. There is no 'stereo pair' matching as such because every model is matched accurately to the factory reference. In effect, any two mirror-image speakers can be used as a precise stereo pair, as response deviation between any two randomly selected speakers is less than 0.5dB.
Each speaker is packed individually in a well-padded carton, along with three mains cables (with Euro, UK and US plugs), four sticky feet, a comprehensive operating manual and a quick-start guide. The monitors are labelled as 'left' and 'right' (either can be used as a centre monitor in 5.1 arrays), and normally the tweeter/mid-range drivers are placed on the outside of the monitoring triangle.
Although I used the monitors mainly on conventional floor stands, threaded inserts on the side and back panels allow numerous alternative mounting options, and Neumann have a wide range of optional mounting brackets and adaptors. All three drivers are magnetically shielded, so there's no problem with placing the KH310A on meter bridges near moving-needle meters.
At first glance, the most obvious differences between the old O300 and the new KH310A are that the mid-range driver is seated a little deeper within its chamfered recess — a deliberate move to help guard against accidental damage, since there is no protective front grille — and the surround on the bass driver has unusual indented radial lines, which apparently reduce radial standing waves across the surround material. The illuminated badge (now a white Neumann logo) has also been relocated, and sits between the HF and mid drivers on the edge of the cabinet. A switch on the rear panel allows its brightness to be adjusted when the speaker is active, with settings of 100 percent, 60 percent, 30 percent, or off. It also flashes red when the speaker protection systems are activated, even if the normal power-on illumination is disabled.
However, despite the general similarity in appearances, pretty much everything in the KH310A is new, starting with the cabinet construction, which has been redesigned to reduce structural resonances. The all-new electronics boast lower noise and distortion, and all three drivers are brand new units, designed exclusively for the KH310A from the ground up, entirely in-house and using the latest computer simulation techniques to optimise the magnetic circuits, physical geometry, and so on.
A 25mm 'alloy fabric' dome tweeter sits in an elliptical, mathematically modelled dispersion (MMD) waveguide, while the 75mm mid-range driver has a fabric dome and neodymium magnet (the woofer and tweeter both use ferrite magnets). Both the tweeter and mid-range dome are said to exhibit much better break-up mode behaviour than most similarly sized components from other mainstream manufacturers. The 210mm long-throw woofer uses a composite sandwich cone and an 'extremely linear force factor' (ELFF) design.
There are lots of bewildering marketing terms there, but the important point is that, relative to the old O300 model, the ensemble of new drivers delivers lower harmonic and intermodulation distortion, smoother responses both on and off axis, and improved efficiency, which translates into the much-requested greater output level. The waveguides around the tweeter and mid-range driver not only control directivity, but also act to increase the efficiency and reduce reflective interference from the other drivers.
Confirming its 'full-range' status, the published -3dB frequency response limits are given as 34Hz and 21kHz, and the overall response is very well controlled, remaining within a ±2dB tolerance between 36Hz and 20kHz. Returning to the issue of peak loudness, when measured with unmusical pure sine-wave signals, the new KH310A manages 3.5dB more SPL throughout the mid-range and 3.9dB more below 100Hz compared to the O300. This may not sound much, but with normal music material it is claimed to translate into around 7dB more SPL in typical listening conditions — and that really is quite a lot when 3dB represents a doubling of acoustic power! For the head-bangers who still want more, adding the matching (and enormous) KH810 subwoofer removes some of the LF workload from the KH310A, allowing a further 7dB increase in the maximum output level, while also extending the LF response down to 18Hz.
The KH310A is capable of producing 116dB SPL between 100Hz and 6kHz at one metre (for three-percent distortion), and around 105dB SPL between 50 and 100 Hz. That is pretty loud for a nearfield speaker but, more importantly given that this is supposed to be a reference monitor, when delivering a still generous level of 95dB SPL at one metre the total harmonic distortion remains below 0.5 percent for all frequencies above 85Hz. Now that really is impressive. Neumann quotes the acceptable frequency response tolerance as ±2dB, but typically achieves better than ±1dB.
The electronics chassis built into the rear panel contains four Class-AB integrated power amplifiers, with a high-capacity, switched-mode, universal power supply that operates on any mains supply between 100V and 240V AC. Power consumption at idle is 24W, rising to 300W at maximum output, and a cast aluminium heatsink deals effectively with unwanted heat. The new PSU design has been optimised specifically to maintain the bass transient response and maximise headroom margins. The bass driver is powered by a bridged pair of amps to deliver a nominal 150W (210W peak), while the mid-range and tweeter amps each produce 70W (90W peak). The driver protection circuitry is quite elaborate, with independent thermal limiters for each driver, as well as soft-clipping and excursion-limiting for the woofer.
The input signal is split between the three drivers via fourth-order (24dB/octave) crossover filters centred at 650Hz and 2kHz. There's a sub-sonic filter working below 15Hz to protect the woofer, as well as some protection above 20kHz to avoid ultrasonic intermodulation. The choice of a 2kHz crossover frequency ensures that mid-range dome break-up modes occur well above its working range (and the tweeter breaks up well above 20kHz).
Three rear-panel slide switches provide response-shaping options, starting with a HF shelf EQ which provides +1, 0, -1 or -2 dB above 2kHz. The bass output can be reduced by 0, 2.5, 5 or 7.5 dB at about 50Hz, with the roll-off starting at 150Hz, and the mid-range switch introduces a response dip of 0, 1.5, 3 or 4.5 dB between 50 and 500 Hz (centred at about 180Hz). The handbook provides helpful advice about the most appropriate settings for different speaker locations and situations.
The input sensitivity is set with a slide switch and rotary gain-trim knob. The switch sets the output SPL for a nominal 0dBu input signal, with options of 94, 100, 108 and 114 dB SPL, while the rotary pot allows the level to be attenuated by up to 15dB to provide intermediate output levels. In combination, the total sensitivity adjustment range is 35dB, which is almost twice that of the old O300's 18dB range. Most of my listening was done with the switch set to 94dB SPL and the trim at 0dB, since I found that combination provided ideal compatibility and sensible listening levels with all of my monitor controllers.
The electronically balanced input connection is via an XLR, with a maximum input level of +24dBu and an input impedance of either 10kΩ or 20kΩ, depending on the gain-switch setting. A ground-lift switch that floats pin 1 is provided, in case ground-loop problems are encountered.
I auditioned and worked with the KH310A at different distances in different environments. In a midfield studio setting I was around 2.5 metres away, while in a nearfield desktop arrangement I was around 1.2 metres away. At no point did I ever feel that the speaker was nearing its limits from a volume point of view. There was always plenty more on hand than I ever wanted, but then I was always quite content with the volume that the old O300 could produce, even at 2.5 metres. Nevertheless, the new KH310A gives no hint of strain when driven considerably louder than the old model, and it was quite able to keep up with my reference PMC IB1s with the might of a Bryston 4B behind it.
When sitting quite close to a monitor there is a risk that the outputs from each driver remain separate, rather than integrating properly to form a cohesive whole, and that is obviously more likely with a three-way design than a two-way, because the drivers often end up spaced further apart. However, the neat packaging of the KH310A, combined with the effective waveguides, seems to overcome that issue very well and, even when sat only around 1.2 metres away, the driver outputs gelled nicely into a cohesive and integrated whole. The other issue that often crops up when sitting close to the speakers is that of self-noise. However, the internal amplifiers in the KH310A generate no audible noise at all at any practical listening distance. The published self-noise specification is less than 20dBA at 10cm, and I had to put my ear next to the tweeter to hear any amplifier hiss at all.
When mounted in free space, well away from walls, the KH310A's tonality is absolutely spot-on, with excellent balance between bass, mid and the high-end, although the EQ options provide useful tweakability. When positioned closer to a back wall, the bass-cut options proved very effective in restoring the optimum balance, too.
As with the O300s, on first hearing the KH310A there is a sense of incredulity that such compact speakers can deliver such a big sound. I'm not just talking 'loud' here; the KH310A delivers a remarkably extended and natural bass response with a huge stereo soundstage that is stable over a wide listening area and has real depth. Playing some of my own simple coincident and ORTF recordings produced beautifully lifelike imaging, with natural width and separation between instruments and voices, and real, tangible depth information.
The horizontal dispersion is extremely consistent across the entire frequency range, with around a ±55-degree working angle. The vertical dispersion is less, naturally, but is still very well balanced over about ±40 degrees. What this means, in practice, is that you don't have to sit precisely in a small 'sweet spot' to hear the correct balance or stereo image — you can move around quite a bit without losing quality.
For such a compact cabinet the quantity and quality of bass provided by the KH310A is astonishing, and the relatively gentle roll-off that comes from the sealed-cabinet design means that useful information is perfectly audible down the lowest musical octave. There is no boominess at all, no 'overhang' and no smearing; it's all very precise, fast and natural. Kick drums and bass guitars can be heard as distinctly separate instruments, not one amorphous thump of LF energy, and applying level changes or EQ to just one is clearly audible as such.
Three-way speakers are supposed to provide greater mid-range clarity than two-ways, mainly because each driver has less of the spectrum to worry about, and so can be more linear and accurate, resulting in fewer intermodulation issues. While some of the latest two-way designs are beginning to challenge that view, the clarity and resolution of the mid-range in the KH310A is pretty special. When the words 'mid-range' and 'special' are used in the same sentence, a lot of people will think of the well-known and much-loved ATC mid-range driver, and K+H actually used it in their O500C model. However, it was deemed too expensive for the new KH310A, so the Neumann/K+H designers designed their own 75mm mid-range dome driver, which they describe as being more cost-effective, more sensitive, having lower THD and intermodulation distortion, and better break-up behaviour. That's a very bold claim, but on listening it is very easy to believe; the mid-range is very revealing and very accurate.
The KH310A presents a huge amount of information without being obviously forward or 'shouty'. It is extremely detailed and revealing, but remains unfatiguing, even after many hours of listening. Standard spoken-voice recordings (always a revealing challenge for any speaker) were reproduced with a very natural and lifelike character, and without any obvious colorations or resonances. Everything I listened to — from commercial classical, choral, jazz, rock, R&B and pop, as well as my own recordings and mixes-in-progress — were reproduced with equal accomplishment. Some speakers can sound great on rock, but lifeless on classical, or example, but a true 'monitor' should present the audio information accurately and reliably, regardless of the genre, and the KH310A does exactly that very skilfully. If the recording is poor, the KH310A makes that obvious; if it is good, that is made clear too. And that's precisely what a reference monitor is supposed to do.
The only thing I can find to criticise the KH310A for is that in some situations it could become susceptible to mobile phone interference — hints of 'blippity-blippity-blip' noises — if a mobile phone is placed near the back panel and operating on high power. I live in a very poor reception area, so my phone is constantly operating flat out to reach the nearest mast, and I happened to place my mobile phone on top of a speaker at one point, which is when I became aware of this issue. However, when the phone was more than a metre in front of the monitors there were no problems at all, and this isn't something that concerns me unduly. I've had much worse problems with other speakers occasionally in the past, but it is a fairly rare occurrence these days. I have reported the problem back to the designers and they are looking into it to see if the susceptibility can be reduced further.
After evaluating a second pair of KH310 montiors after this review was published, I'm pleased to report that the mobile phone interference issue appeares to have been resolved. I've not experienced any blippity-blippity-blips at all since swapping the speakers over.
Overall, then, the new KH310A is even better than its forebear. I'd go as far as to state that it easily rates as one of the very best active three-way monitors currently available, as well as one of the most compact. It certainly gets my vote for 'Best New Monitor of the Year'!
In every way, this is a stunningly good reference monitor and one that is genuinely worthy of that title. It also represents excellent value for money, too. For a number of reasons I never quite got around to purchasing a pair of O300s (although I did borrow pairs a few times for specific jobs), but I will buy these KH310As rather than let them go back to Germany — I really couldn't work without them now!
There aren't many sealed-cabinet monitors on the market, let alone three-way ones. The benefits of sealed cabinets can be obtained with the much cheaper Acoustic Energy AE22, although that is a two-way design. The nearly 60-percent more expensive Unity Audio Boulder is an impressive three-way monitor with a sealed cabinet, building on the success of the two-way Rock. There are plenty of ported three-ways around, including the Quested V3110, Adam S4X and S3X, Focal SM9 and Dynaudio Air 20, but they are all more expensive than the KH310A, and none are as compact.
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The Power of Positive Thinking Can't be Overstated
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If you haven't noticed, I repeat A LOT of the same messages that I write about in my articles. Mostly because you need to continuously have these positive thoughts in your head in order to make them a reality. But also because I try to associate the messages with events or instances that occur in my daily life; to prove that these things really do exist.
Let's reiterate some of these messages:
1. I believe you need to fulfill your vision and passions in life. Realistically, you're put on earth to accomplish something. Your vision and passions are there for a reason.
2. Throw the rule books out the window. You don't need to live within the parameters that other people have laid in front of you. Are there risks associated with carrying out your passions? Of course. But it is wise to go against the grain.
3. You are the only person who possesses the power to begin moving in the right direction. It only takes one step to embark on your personal journey. So take it.
4. If you're tired of the way you live day after day, week after week, year after year, stop accepting it. Take risks and embrace the change. It's easier to play it safe. That just happens to be a foreign concept to me.
5. … among countless others.
I know my readers are saying, "I understand. I hear ya, Bernie. But it's easier said than done. How do I implement this way of life?" I'll give you the wisdom that has allowed me to overcome the fears associated with living life without limits; fear of failure, fear of acceptance, fear of losing what you have chasing something that isn't guaranteed. Refer to this powerful quote, because I've adopted this ideal into my daily life.
"You can find inspiration from others, but determination belongs to you." – Unknown.
I've gotten plenty of feedback from readers about the messages I preach. Their portrayal of my life and their responses go something like this: "Sure, it's really easy for you to say. You were a professional athlete and have a ton of money with no worries, so I can't relate to you."
Don't misunderstand me. My messages may not apply to everyone. Some people go to the factory to work everyday, they have their family, they have their friends, and they're happy with that. That might be their passion. I'm talking to the people who are not happy about their current situation. I strive to make people realize that they have the ability to change it. All I ask is that you evaluate your level of content. I want you to think about how you can make changes for the better, to help live a more fulfilling life by delving into the "unknown." What's wrong with that? If I help just one person with each article I write, my work here is done.
Speaking of the "unknown," I was asked to attend an event on October 18th for a cause that is very near and dear to my heart; The Bethesda Project, a Caring Family for Philadelphia's Homeless. We were asked to participate in Philly Photo Day, an event in which everyone in Philadelphia was invited to take pictures anywhere throughout the city. Your pictures would be submitted and included in an exhibition to create a massive portrait of Philadelphia that will be displayed in Old City at 120 N. 3rd St between November 14th and December 28th.
My business manager and best friend, Dean Smith, and I were invited to join The Bethesda Project and participate. I had absolutely no idea what the point of Philly Photo Day was, or my level of involvement in the event itself, but I never give up an opportunity to help this cause. So we went.
When we first got there, we sat in a small group, right alongside the residents of the shelter. The instructor explained that we would be walking through the city of Philadelphia, taking photographs to allow other people to see the city through our eyes, capturing different perspectives, etc. My first question was, "What the hell am I doing here?" It just didn't make sense to me at first.
As we moved on through the process, my interest grew and I learned a lot about how to take pictures and what to look for; depth, lines, texture, framing, contrast. I learned that when I'm looking at something, I can apply these techniques to see things differently. After a short lesson, they handed us our cameras and off we went.
It was a nice change of pace, because we're so wrapped up in getting from point A to point B in life, all while missing the beautiful things around us. I got to stop, take a good look at my surroundings, find the beauty in a seemingly normal corner or street sign, and capture the feelings associated with these normal people, places and things in a still photograph. That is powerful.
I found myself standing in North Philadelphia — not the best section of the town, but I found beauty there; beauty that I've never seen before. Is it because we slowed down, or because we were looking for it? I believe the reasons that we were able to look at the city in a much different light was because:
1. We made the decision to do it;
2. We were enjoying something that we never thought we would.
I learned a lot that day, and what if I would have refused the offer to go? I would have missed out on an awesome opportunity because of the "unknown", or I thought that it really wouldn't interest me because I had no idea what the event was about. I would have missed out on the joy that it brought to me, but more importantly, the joy that it brought to the homeless men of The Bethesda Project. Something so simple put a smile on all of our faces. I was amazed at the pictures that these men took, and I was fascinated to see their perspective of the city. They were so intelligent in portraying their vision, and they were able to open their imagination and find beauty and detail in things that we couldn't, and we walked the same streets as they did!
Sometimes we take advantage of all the things we have. We tend to search for happiness with material things. Here we are with people that have lived without the basic necessities of life, who have finally found shelter in The Bethesda Project, expressing their creativity and genuinely enjoying themselves. It wasn't about money. They had friends and they trusted us. Sometimes, all you need is some love and laughter.
At the end of the day, I walked away with the feeling that I had accomplished something. There was a reason I was meant to spend time with those men, to see them smile, to be involved in one small day of their lives that ultimately could have been one of the best days of their lives. I know it was one of mine. Being that some of my passions include helping people and directing people to find happiness, I'd say it was a mission accomplished.
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Enrich and Nourish the Mind, Body and Soul Will Follow
Read my February 14th, 2013 article on Philly.com below:
It is imperative to make clear the difference between the feeling of loneliness and being alone. Being alone is a physical phenomenon. You are able to physically be alone, and be happy. Loneliness however, is an emotion that relates to your social fulfillment. You could be one in a crowd of 1,000 people, but not one of those 1,000 people can relieve that loneliness. This time of the year, masses will experience this loneliness, and it could be caused by the loss of a loved one, separation, a broken heart, etc., but the important concept to understand is that loneliness comes from within.
If you expect to relieve that lonely feeling simply by surrounding yourself with people, you can count on it for short-term satisfaction. I tell myself constantly, if I find myself in a negative mood and feeling lonely, negative circumstances are sure to follow. If I remain strong, it will not matter what goes on around me.
If someone you cherish is not around anymore, dedicate five minutes of your thoughts to them, and if there is nothing you can do about it, you must be able to push forward and reprogram life. Your mind functions just like your body. It needs nourishment from positive, motivational knowledge which may be gained from books, videos or seeking warm, enriching conversation with a likeminded person. To cope with both loneliness AND being alone, find your happiness within, with an overdose of positive thinking.
If you nourish the mind, body and soul will follow. Ask yourself this question: "What am I thinking about?" Once you have the answer, you have the ability to change it. Change your thoughts and program your mind to think about the things you would like to accomplish and the happiness you ultimately want to achieve in life. Your mind is what creates the feeling of loneliness. Kick the negative thoughts out.
"The material things" deserve an honorable mention in this piece. There was a time that I lived on a beautiful, 50-foot boat, which came hand-in-hand with the taste of loneliness on quite a few occasions. But the amazing thing is that I've also floated around aimlessly in a canoe with the biggest grin on my face, the happiest guy in the world.
Sure, material things are nice, but they will never provide you with the happiness and fulfillment that you seek. Flowers, candy, jewelry (enough to keep Steven Singer in business for life), etc. fly off the shelves so you can show your appreciation to loved ones each and every Valentine's Day. In my experience, I've learned that women appreciate the kindness and thoughtfulness.
Remember this: if these gestures are made out of love and admiration, I commend you. If you buy your partner gifts out of obligation, your partner may end up resenting your gesture. At this point, it becomes a phony situation, and you are better off not buying anything at all. If your partner is handing out that rose, piece of candy, or bracelet just for the sake of giving it, look the person in the eye, and you will know exactly where they stand. The eyes never lie.
It is crucial to keep your relationship healthy and alive. Take note of two things: allow your partner to be their own individual, and realize you are on a two-way highway. The secret is that we all have faults and defects. It is easy to dwell on the faults, but try to program your mind to focus on the good things. I am also a firm believer that friendship is a foundation and a staple in all relationships. You are going to come across issues and bumps in the road. If you have established a friendship and you both have recognized that the greatest substance in a healthy relationship is communication, things tend to work themselves out. If you have good communication, it goes a long way. If you don't, you will eventually start moving in different directions.
Have fun, laugh, and life will reward you with beautiful experiences.
You don't always get what you want, but you always get what you attract. What you are attracting is what you are thinking.
With love this Valentine's Day,
Bernie Parent
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