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Managing Editor Beverly Browne, [email protected] South Bay Community Association Editor Janet Force, [email protected] INSIDE THIS ISSUE Bay Club Editor Judy Thomas, [email protected] Arts and Entertainment 13 Beach Club Editor Bay Club / South Bay 25 Eva Van Buren, [email protected] Beach Club / North Bay 23 Arts and Entertainment Editors Beverly Rothenborg, [email protected] Classifieds 35 Linda Karp, [email protected] Community Meetings 11 Copy Editor Features 4 Maggie Blackburn, [email protected] Local News 7 Regularly Scheduled Activities Editor Kathie Bomke, [email protected] Port Ludlow Village Council 19 Regional News 30 Business Staff Sports & Games 27 Finance and Subscription Manager Cathy Thomas, [email protected] Village Activities 21 Classified Advertising Manager Bill Blackburn, [email protected] The Voice Online Display Advertising Manager Jo Buck, [email protected] plvoice.org Breaking news and announcements: Find information that was not Distribution Manager Denny Schuch, [email protected] available when the Voice went to press. 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New This Month: Digging for Dinner announcement, Golf Packages, Health Heroes. Letters – PLA Cleans up Logging Debris. Port Ludlow Voice Page 4 Feature Articles From the Editor’s Keyboard Celebrate Summer by Beverly Browne, Managing Editor by M.J. McCulloch, Contributing Writer The Port Ludlow Voice has always been devoted to My interest in the solstices began a few years ago when providing its readers with the most complete monthly I stood inside the innermost chamber of a prehistoric coverage of local news and community events that the all mound in Newgrange, outside of Dublin. On the Winter volunteer staff could manage to compile. In doing so, the Solstice, the shortest day of the year, I watched the light staff has endeavored to convey what they believed to be of the rising sun come through a small opening in the true, helpful, and accurate, and that would serve the best mound, travel up a narrow passage, and totally illuminate interests of the community as a whole. the chamber. It was only a simulation, but it was eerie, especially when you realize the people who figured out The publication has always been delivered free to how to accomplish this did so long before the pyramids addresses within the MPR. That does not mean that it were built. is free to produce. Its financial supporters include the homeowner associations (SBCA and LMC), the Village Now, I want to talk about the Summer Solstice, the Council (PLVC), its advertisers, subscriptions, and some- longest day of the year, which is coming up this month. times donations from individuals in the community. As a This year it falls on June 21, but it can also happen on non-profit, tax exempt 501(c)(4) organization, we are able the 20th or 22nd, depending on all those scientific facts, to provide our services economically with the help of our which I don’t believe are fake. Solstice comes from the supporters. We value their assistance. Latin words sol, meaning Sun, and sistere, meaning to come to a stop or standstill. On the day of the June In my roles as writer/reporter and then as managing editor, Solstice, the Sun reaches its most northern position, as I have been proud to be associated with this publication seen from Earth. At that moment, its zenith does not move and its excellent staff. However, circumstances dictate that north or south as it does on most other days of the year, I must shelve my computer and move on. A replacement but stands still at the Tropic of Cancer. It then reverses has been difficult to find, but we have found an excellent direction and starts moving south again. person in Caleb Summerfelt, who will assume the role of the next Managing Editor of the Port Ludlow Voice. He For astronomers and scientists, the summer solstice will be supported by a staff of volunteers who will share marks the first day of summer, while for meteorologists, the responsibility of bringing you the information you summer begins much sooner, on June 1. Many Northern need to take advantage of all Ludlow offers. European countries consider the June Solstice to be the middle of summer and call their celebration of this event We believe this change in editorship will work well for Midsummer Eve. At one famous prehistoric solstice our loyal readers. The Port Ludlow Voice will continue as site, Stonehenge in England, great monolithic stones are an independent publication devoted to the high standards aligned to sunset on the winter solstice and the opposing of journalism that it has always championed and to the sunrise on the summer solstice. The site of a large solstice promotion of Port Ludlow as a place to make your home. festival, it had some 12,000 people gathered to watch the Although I feel regret at leaving this beautiful commu- sun rise last year. nity and its people, I know I am leaving this publication in excellent hands. Thank you, Port Ludlow, for your For many cultures, this date symbolizes change, nature, support of the Port Ludlow Voice over all these years. and new beginnings, and is celebrated with feasts, This column is devoted to editorial comment and contains the opinions bonfires, picnics, and traditional songs and dance. of its author. Letters may be sent to the new managing editor at Austria’s solstice celebration in the Tyrol is a scene to [email protected]. behold, as torches and bonfires are lit up on mountain- sides in the Wachau und Nibelungengau valleys. The best place to see that spectacle is from the deck of a ship on the www.plvoice.org Danube River. Then there is the Mount Olympus trek in Greece, or the Secret Solstice Festival in Iceland, a music Late-Breaking News, Calendar Updates festival that lasts for 72 hours of daylight. Or, honor the current issue and historical issues on-line sun with an all-day yoga event in Times Square, complete Color Photography • Letters to the Editor continued on next page Port Ludlow Voice Page 5 Summer continued from previous page Where are the Remnants with sun salutations. In Porto, Portugal, it’s called the Feast of St John, with endless food and drink, as well as of Old Port Ludlow? spectacular fireworks on the Douro River at midnight. by Tim Rensema, Guest Writer If all these events are beyond your reach, you can still Port Ludlow has a very interesting and colorful history as celebrate the coming solstice by waking up early to watch a one of Jefferson County’s early industrial towns. Few the sunrise, building a bonfire on the beach, hiking up remnants of that history exist today. The Pope and Talbot Hurricane Ridge, or having a sumptuous picnic in the (Puget Mill) company town slowly died when the mill woods. And since you are celebrating new beginnings, closed in 1935, at least in its original industrial form. here’s another chance to revisit those New Year’s Pope and Talbot demolished buildings and structures. In resolutions, which may have fallen by the wayside. the 1940s, the majestic Admiralty Hotel – the building that Cyrus Walker built in 1887 to outlast fire – was razed. Picking Up a New Habit The beautiful Phinney House was demolished in the 1900s. In its heyday, Port Ludlow had a small hospital, a by Jo Buck, Display Advertising Manager/Guest Writer dentist and doctor, a school for all grades, a water supply, I know for me, coming from the Los Angeles area, the electricity powered by the mill, housing, and stores.