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Due to Covid-19, please call for the clinic hours. 1 coupon per customer per day. Coastal Currents Magazine Coupon, Expires 8/31/2021 Volume 3 • Issue 2 • Summer 2021 Published Quarterly: Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall Coastal Currents Magazine is mailed to 34,426 Grays Harbor households. Photo by Rick by Moyer Photo Grays Harbor Coastal Currents is a quarterly Wine, gardens, mermaids and more can be found at the Westport Winery. See page 10. publication featuring original stories from Grays Harbor County and a resource guide of local art, music, theater, food and festivals. PUBLISHER Stan Woody GRAYS HARBOR • CREATIVE DIRECTOR Amy Ostwald COPY EDITOR 7 Inside summer issue Gail Greenwood Ayres CONTRIBUTORS Award-winning Westport Winery Gail Greenwood Ayres • [email protected] 10 Marguerite Garth • [email protected] Rick Moyer • [email protected] 15 Rex Valentine: Storyteller, poet, musician & more Christine Vincent • [email protected] Juliana Wallace • [email protected] Explore Harbor craft breweries this summer Gregory E. Zschomler • [email protected] 21 GRAPHIC DESIGN Amy Ostwald, Ostwald Graphic Design 26 Chainsaw artists carve out a piece of history [email protected] or [email protected] WEB & SOCIAL MEDIA Bill Brown, pianist about town Paul Woody • [email protected] 35 ADVERTISING Stan Woody • [email protected] (830) 265-0190 Harbor theaters scheduling summer and fall plays 40 PRINTING JG Commercial Printers, Inc 43 Grays Harbor schedule of events DISTRIBUTION • USPS P. O. Box 261, Grayland, WA 98547 www.coastal-currents.com 47 Coastal Currents summer 2021 contributors [email protected] (830) 265-0190 send events to: [email protected] Cover: Kim Roberts, owner of the Westport Winery Garden Resort. Photo by Rick Moyer. Voted BEST • Pie Pies • Mu ins in Grays Harbor! • C kies • Pastries ARTS CRAFTS • Jam • Bread BAKERY • Granola DELI • Ci amon Ro s PRODUCE Open 7 Days a Week 360.538.9747 . 1956 Riverside Ave., Hoquiam WA Located at the Grays Harbor 1956 Farmers Riverside Ave., Market Hoquiam WA 4 Coastal Currents MAGAZINE Summer 2021 www.Coastal-Currents.com DINE-IN or TAKE-OUT Menu online at www.graylandwheelhouse.com 1800 SR 105, GRAYLAND • (360) 268-7154 Privileged to offer a military discount • Formerly Bennettt’s Restaurant In the interest of safety Grays Harbor for our customers and staff, PUD works the PUD Customer Service offi ce remains closed to the for you public. However, PUD staff are ready to serve you with your account service needs. If you are concerned about account payments, have suffered a COVID related hardship or have questions, contact Customer Service at 360-532-4220 to learn how the utility may work with you. You can also manage your account, make payments and Thank you for your past support. get power use information online at ghpud.org or by using the SmartHub app. Wat fo ou ne seaso We are committed to helping our customers through s edul i Septembe! diffi cult times. www.ghpud.org Visit www.ghc.edu/bishop Spring virtual performance schedule Bishop-ad-Summer21.indd 1 5/6/21 2:24 PM 6 Coastal Currents MAGAZINE Summer 2021 www.Coastal-Currents.com Inside summer issue Grays Harbor poets, musicians, actors, artists keep creating After more than a year of being to bring this magazine free to you! closed-in and cloistered, the warmer Please honor and help them by summer weather and opportunity for Not even a world-wide patronizing them. Put your money outdoor entertainment and activities where your mouth is and show leaves us with optimism that our world pandemic can stop them how valuable they are to our is slowly getting back to normal in community! And while you are at it, do the wake of the ongoing Covid-19 artists from producing us a favor and let them know that you pandemic. saw their ad in the magazine! It helps art, musicians from them and us.) As you can imagine, publishing a magazine celebrating art, music, theater making music, writers The good news is that things really are and food in Grays Harbor has certainly opening back up again! been a challenge this last year when from writing and actors At press time for this summer issue, quarantine rules necessitated the however, some uncertainty still exists shutdown of plays, concerts, art shows, from honing their art. about whether society will close down museums and many restaurants, as well tighter again for a season. Thankfully, as the cancellation of much-anticipated And it certainly can’t we’ve selected stories about people festivals and celebrations. stop art lovers from and places that should be accessible Still, reporting on creative people regardless of quarantine concerns. gave us a leg up. Not even a world-wide appreciating creativity! Let’s start with our cover story on the pandemic can stop artists from producing Westport Winery Garden Resort. If art, musicians from making music, writers you travel on Highway 105, you can’t from writing and actors from honing their miss the oasis that Kim and Blain art. And it certainly can’t stop art lovers And while many restaurants, galleries, Roberts have built halfway between from appreciating creativity! museums, theaters and concert halls Westport and Aberdeen. There’s even a For some artists, their creativity genius took a financial hit during this time, lighthouse to show you the way! Either turned to exploring new ways and we predict a great resurgence in their before or after a meal, a bakery treat or mediums through which the audiences popularity after people realize, after a a glass of wine, take time to stroll the could experience the creations – virtual near starvation diet, how much the arts well-designed gardens filled with both concerts, drive-in celebrations, outdoor inspire and feed their souls. whimsical and reflective sculptures. performances, online Q and A’s about (So, before we go forward, we want Or, play one of the many outdoor games the creative process and more. For to look back and thank all of our available for adults and children. other creatives, the year served as a advertisers for allowing us to continue You may want to also explore the sort of sabbatical to nurture their own recently opened mermaid museum! creative process, take a break, delve into Tony Robinson, chainsaw carver. new genres, or just create, create, create Photo by Marguerite Garth (Continued on page 9) and simply wait to share their passion with others once it was easier to do so! Photo by Rick Moyer Mermaid Museum Photo by Marguerite Garth www.Coastal-Currents.com Summer 2021 Coastal Currents MAGAZINE 7 ONE COUPON PER PERSON/PER VISIT OFFER EXPIRES AUGUST 31, 2021 8 Coastal Currents MAGAZINE Summer 2021 www.Coastal-Currents.com pianist Bill Brown, who not only follows (Continued) Summer a centuries-old tradition of using his Photo by Rick by Moyer Photo talent within the church, but also enjoys playing for local theater as well as training up the next generation of musicians. This issue of Coastal Currents also introduces you to the area’s craft breweries. A cool glass on a warm day is appreciated by many – and we were aware that many of these breweries This issue of Coastal Currents also offered outside seating, both pleasant features the personalities and lore of in the summer and helpful during area chainsaw artists.