Fish Fry

Friday October 10th

5-7PM At Brinnon Community Center

10.00 Adult (advance ticket sale)

12.00 Adult (At door) 5.00 children under 12

Fish and Chips, Baked Beans/cole

slaw Coffee/punch/desert

Sponsored by Brinnon VFW and

Auxiliary Post 10706

Carol Andrews Bill Antiss

Karen Bianchi

Karen Brockway Rick Brown Ruth Calkins Ed Davies Pat Fear

Dave Greeleaf Judi Hyde Dave Jenner Doug Kirkey Duane Knoll Brogan Lont

Sierra Savanah Lont Kathi Mueller

Mike Regan Karen Shadbolt Diana Ueltschi

October 2014

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Brinnon Family Halloween Party

Date: Saturday, October 25th

Time: 2-4 pm

At: The Brinnon Community Center

Homemade Pizza and cookies!

Games, and prizes for all ages!

Get-togethers in Brinnon

October Birthdays

FLU SHOTS

Brinnon Community Center

Monday October 20th

1P.M. to 4P.M

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Brinnon Community

Church

52 Church Road,

PO Box 151, Brinnon, WA

98320

(360) 796-4462

website: www.brinnonchurch.com

Pastor Dan Kennedy (360) 447-8501

Sunday Morning:

8:30 a.m. 1st Morning Worship

9:45 a.m. Sunday School

10:50 a.m. 2nd Morning Worship

Monday: (At Church)

4:00 p.m. Ladies’ Bible Study

Tuesday: (At Church)

9:30 a.m. Ladies’ Bible Study

Men’s Coffee

(Other Community Bible Studies

are throughout the week, call

Pastor Dan.)

1st Wednesday of the month:

6:30 p.m. Diabetes Support

Group

Thursday: 3:20 p.m. School

Gym

Champions After School

Children’s Program K-12~when

school is in session.

Thoughts from your Editor…

Our Dear Mr. O has

passed. His presence in the

community center will be

terribly missed. A teacher and student

both, he inspired me and taught me

many life lessons. He was one of the

smartest men I have ever known . Hugs to

all who have been touched by this

extraordinary man.

The Quilcene Fair and Parade had

great weather this year. My sincere

thanks to the following folks for their

contribution s and support of my Little

Miss Pearl Pageant; The Quilcene Fair

Board, Lisa Hames, Brinnon Soup

kitchen, Kari & Stan Walter, The Boeing

Bluebills, Ashlyn &Jeremy Reed, Roxie

Reed, my Hubby, Sierra Savanah, Joy-ful,

Cathy Luce, Sandy Peterson, Whitney

Gardens, all the Pearl Princesses and

their families, Rylee, Summer, Brianna,

Phoenix, Piper, Avana, Brady, Debbie

Nelson, and a group of ladies who

stopped to see what was going on, and

stayed to help decorate!

Hugs,

Kendra

307103 Hwy 101

Brinnon

(360) 796-4430

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Fire Dept. questions? Go to:

www.brinnonfire.org.

October 2014

Movie Night

at the Brinnon Community Center

1st Wednesday of the Month

Dinner is Pizza, at 5:00 pm- $ 4.00

Movie is at 6:00 pm and is free.

Free popcorn included!

Reservations are required a day be-

fore movie.

Call the Community Center at 796-4350

Geoduck Lounge

& Restaurant

Located on scenic Hood Canal

Fall Specials

Tue.-terrific taco Tuesday

Watch for Wed. & Thur. dinner specials

Fri.– Prime Rib Dinner

Free Pool Sunday

Brinnon Music Nights First Thursday - Ukulele

Night

Second Thursday - Music

Practice and singing

Third Thursday - Open

Mike at Twana Café in

Quilcene

Fourth Thursday - Brinnon

Music and Songs

No Fifth Music Nights

unless requested

Bring your Uke and a song

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Christmas Dinner December 18th

Kids Christmas December 20th

Thanksgiving November 27th

Halloween October 25th

Brinnon Beauty and Barber

On November 1 2014 we will no

longer offer the Men’s walk-in

morning special

In place of our popular Men’s

morning- we will offer a senior

men’s cut by appointment at the

same $10.00 price

Please call 360-301-

3657 for an

appointment

Upcoming Brinnon Community

Center get-togethers~

October 2014

ANTS BE GONE from Judy H.

Do you have an ant problem? In-side or out... This will get rid of them... Homemade Ant Killer

What's so cool about this is, it took them 2 minutes to find it & 5 minutes to fill it up! 1 empty water bottle (Cut it down to about 2" tall) 5 T baking soda

5 T powdered sugar 3 T water. Take a small amount of powdered sugar

& mix it with an equal amount of baking

soda & water. Pow- dered sugar is es-

sential…. You cannot use the larger

grains of sugar for this.

Mix the 2 powders together & place

small amounts against the walls or

other areas where you would not nor-

mally walk but where you would nor-

mally see the ants. The ants will be at-

tracted to the sugar & will eat some of it

& collect more to take home to feed others, so all of them will get their

share.

The sugar & baking soda powders are

similar in size & once mixed together,

the ants cannot separate the 2. So, as

they eat the sugar, they will also ingest

the baking soda, which they would oth-

erwise never touch (this is the reason

for using powdered sugar). Once the ants eat the baking soda it will

react with the formic acid in their stom-

achs & cause ‘gas’. The bodies of ants

are unlike humans; they cannot elimi-

nate ‘gas’ so it will build up & eliminate

them.

FINALLY...HERE IT IS!

‘How to clean your cookie sheets’

- Kitchen "Miracle" Cleaner! Put about 1/4 cup of baking soda in a small glass bowl & squirt in hy-drogen peroxide until it makes a nice paste. Rub it on the offend-ing dirt/stain/grease...whatever!

You can usually just use your fin-gers...but you can also use a small sponge as well.

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Brinnon Community Center Events October 2014

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5-

12– 11am

– 3 pm-

Visitors

Center

6–7:45 am-

Yoga, 9:30

am-sewing

circle, 11 am-

Soup

7- 6:40 am-

yoga– 10:30

-Carlsborg

C.C

12 pm-AA

meeting, 5

pm-Supper

club

8- 5pm-

Supper

club

1- 5 pm

Supper

Club ,

19-11am-3

pm-Visitors

center

2– 8 am-

yoga-

10:30-

Carlsborg

CC, 5pm-

Supper

club

9- 8 am-yoga

10:30-

Carlsborg CC–

5pm-Supper

club, 6:30-

Music group

3– 6:40 am

-yoga,

10– 6:40-

Yoga,

11 am-soup

Fish fry

VFW, 5-7

pm

4-10 am-2

pm-Visitors

Center,12

pm AA

11–10am-2

pm-Visitors

center,12 pm

-AA meeting

17– 6:40 am

-Yoga

11 am– soup

16—8 am-

yoga, 10:30

am-

Carlsborg

CC,

13– 7:45 am-

yoga, 9:30

am-sewing

circle, 11 am-

soup

14– 6:40 am

-yoga, 10:30

am-Carlsborg

CC , 12 pm–

AA meeting

11 am-

3 pm–

Visitors

Center

For Supper reservations and

additional information

about the Brinnon

Community Center call

Sandy at 796-4350

20– 7:40

am-yoga,-

9:30 Sewing

circle, 11 am

-Soup , flu

shots 1-4

pm

21– 6:40 am-

yoga,10:30am-

Carlsborg CC 12

pm AA meeting,

5pm-Supper

club

22– 5 pm

Supper

club,

23– 8 am-

yoga, 10:30

am-

Carlsborg

CC, 6:30-

Music group

24- 6:40-

yoga,

11 am-

soup,

15- 5pm-

Supper

club

25–10 am-

2 pm Visitor

center,12

pm-AA

meeting,

Halloween

party 2-4

pm

18–10 am

-2 pm

Visitor

center –

12 pm-AA

meeting

26-11am-3

pm-Visitors

center

27– 7:40

am-yoga,-

9:30 Sewing

circle, 11 am

-Soup

28– 6:40 am-

yoga,10:30am-

Carlsborg CC 12

pm, AA meet-

ing, 5pm-

Supper club

29– 5 pm

Supper

club,

30– 8 am-

yoga, 10:30

am-

Carlsborg

CC, 6:30-

Music group

31- 6:40-

yoga,

11 am-

soup,

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October 2014

THE BRINNON COMMUNITY CENTER

now has a COMMUNITY JOB BOARD. If

you have a job to post or are offering

your job skills for a particular job...PLEASE

POST ON OUR JOB BOARD located in the rec-

reation

room. Local youth want and need jobs. We

encourage youth and adults looking for work

to visit the job

board. What better way to build trusting re-

lationships, teach a skill, learn good work

ethics and possibly create

a future job opportunity or necessary train-

ing. HELP BRIDGE THE COMMUNITY

THROUGH JOBS!!! call Sandy at the

center ! 796-4350

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Mike and Eloise Langenbach are passionate about the Brinnon Food Bank. The one thing they want everyone to know is that the Food Bank is feeding our neighbors, those who might not otherwise have the basic items to make a meal. The Food Bank has continued to grow as new people moved into the area and today feeds 685 people per month. On average, that’s 13,000 pounds of food dis-tributed in a month including 2700 pounds of fresh, seasonal produce from neighboring gardens. Mike and Eloise started volunteering with the Food Bank in 2009 and give a lot of their time and en-ergy. They also lead a group of 29 volunteers, all hard working people with big hearts. In total, vol-unteers drive 3200 miles per month picking up food from QFC in Port Hadlock, Oroweat in Bremer-ton and Trader Joe in Silverdale. Other food comes from Food Lifeline and Northwest Harvest. Vol-unteers spend endless hours unloading food, putting it away and bringing it out for the clients each week. The Food Bank would not be able to operate without the volunteers that give freely and will-ingly of their time to help their neighbors. The Food Bank has no income and is dependent on donations to cover its operating expenses of rent, electricity, the shipping and warehousing of some food and purchasing those staples that aren’t donated. Last Thanksgiving, that included over 80 turkeys to make up baskets of holiday food sta-ples for each family registered with the Food Bank. In 2011, the Food Bank raised enough money to purchase and equip a walk-in freezer, which allows them to accept and store larger quantities of food for distribution. I asked Eloise what was on her “Wish List”. Besides more room to efficiently move people through the various areas, Eloise said she wanted to reach out to the community to help locate those people who are not able to have food to eat or provide their children with good, balanced meals. Some of your neighbors are so overwhelmed with medical bills, insurance, utilities, medicine, etc. that they put food last. The Brinnon Food Bank hopes to provide a life line by reaching out to these folks. I asked Eloise what motivates her to work so hard for the Food Bank. “We love Brinnon and if we can make it a better place, that’s great. A friend of ours told us that you have to do this job with a good heart. I hope we do that”. You surely do Eloise! This October 11th, from 10:00 A.M. to 1:00 P.M. the Brinnon Food Bank will hold it’s annual food drive at the Halfway House parking lot. This is the only time of year that they solicit and collect do-nations of food and cash. Be sure to drop by and meet the Langenbachs, the other Food Bank vol-unteers and make a donation to this exceedingly worthwhile organization. If you have the time, con-sider donating some of that to help make Brinnon a better community for all our neighbors.

Thanks to Kari Walter

Faces of Brinnon

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Brinnon, Washington

98320

Business 360-796-3450

Toll Free 888-796-3450

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The Brinnon Senior Organi-

zation would like to THANK

the many advertisers in this

newsletter for their contin-

ued support, it is through

their participation this

newsletter is possible.

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Brinnon Parks and Recreation District will

begin office hours from 5 to 8 PM at the Brinnon Community Center on Thursdays. This is to provide a forum for Community concerns and to provide input for the Park's Board members. by Alan Ostenson, Chairman

For building rental

informatiom please

call Evelyn Cemper

at 796-3432 BINGO every Saturday night starting

with the Early Bird Game at 6:45 pm. Snack Bar is open with hot dogs, na-

chos, pizza, candy, etc.--Great time and it is the primary fundraiser for the

Booster Club.

October Booster Club Schedule

Tuesdays Food Bank 10 am to 1 pm Saturdays BINGO 6:45 pm

Brinnon Booster Club

P. O. Box 21 51 Corey Lane

Brinnon, WA 98320

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Booster Club

News

Booster Club Membership—2014

Name____________________________

Address__________________________

____________________________

Phone Number____________________

Please send your $5 membership

dues with this coupon to: Brinnon

Booster Club, P.O. Box 21, Brinnon, WA

98320. Thank you for your support.

Booster Club meeting is the 1st

Tuesday of the month. Come join us!

located at Pleasant Harbor right on the

beautiful Hood CANAL where you can

watch the sail boats from your own private

deck

Hal & Janice Richards

Mile 309, Hwy 101

(360) 796-4064

(360) 951-5366

Quilcene Fair and Parade fun!

Our Mayor of Brinnon, George Sickel made an

official appearance in the parade. Yeh George!

Little Miss Pearl 2014

Brianna Bancroft and her Princesses~

Please feel free to join or renew

your Membership at this time.

We are now accepting member-

ships for the 50-55 year olds as

well as 55 and older.

You may mail your $5.00 dues to:

306144 Highway 101 Brinnon, Wa.

98320 or drop off your member-

ship dues at the:

Brinnon Community Center. Judy

Hart can also be contacted at:

796-0391

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Time to renew your member-

ship!

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The Brinnon Fire Department would like to express our thanks to the commu-

nity for their support in passing the Fire Levy Lid Lift ballot proposal in the

last election.

Brinnon Fire Department participates in the File of Life Program – we have

FREE magnets and wallet kits that contain forms for you to fill out regarding

medical history and medications. This information can greatly assist person-

nel in delivering medical aid should you be unable to speak or uncon-

scious. We also have free window stickers that will help us to quickly deter-mine if information is available. The free kits are available at Fire Station 41,

or available from our crews if you see them out and about.

We have teamed up with the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office and Coast

Guard Auxiliary and have begun a water rescue program. We are housing

and maintaining a 19 foot Zodiak Boat belonging to the Sheriff’s Office. Our

staff has undergone training on behalf of the Sheriff’s Office and U.S. Coast

Guard Auxiliary. The Fire Department will be assisting those agencies with

calls for service involving people and vessels in distress and other maritime

emergencies. Our first emergency call using the boat occurred in late Sep-

tember regarding a vessel that sank in Pleasant Harbor, just 12 hours after

our initial orientation to the boat and placing it in service. Our boat crews are

cross trained as Firefighters, EMT’s, and Coast Guard Auxiliary.

The Fire Department underwent an audit and re-rating with the Washington

Surveying & Reporting Bureau. This agency evaluates criteria used by insur-

ance companies to develop insurance rates and loss costs. We are happy to

announce that the overall rating improved to a 7 from an 8 rating. This means

that residents living within a five mile radius of the main fire station in central

Brinnon may enjoy lower rates. The Chief and staff worked with water pur-

veyors within the various housing developments, gathered water data, and

mapped the fire hydrant systems, which assisted in the improved rat-

ing. We’ve also developed a business safety inspection program. The depart-

ment improved efficiency and demonstrated improved competence over the

past two years.

The county-wide burn ban is off, beginning October 1st and normal outdoor

burning rules will be in place. The Fire Department has instituted a manda-tory outdoor burn permit program, effective October 1st, 2014. Residential

burning is allowed with a free permit valid for one year after visiting Fire Sta-

tion 41 to apply. Larger burns and burns being done commercially or on be-

half of a property owner require a different permit with a fee assessed and a

site inspection. Recreational fires such as camp fires do not require a permit.

CHIEF PATRICK NICHOLSON, EMT-P, NAFI CFEI, IFSAC CFI

Brinnon Fire Department

Office 360-796-4450

Cell 360-301-3439

Thanks from the Brinnon Fire Dept.

Home of the Bobcat’s

BackPack Lunch program Brinnon Crier October 2014

Brinnon Beauty and Barber

Her specialties include haircuts, coloring, facial waxing, perms, and she is

an excellent stylist for a special event or an easy to manage every day

style.

Libby is available on Monday and Tuesday Walk-in’s welcome 10:00am to

noon, afternoon appointments are available

Stop in or call 360-301-3657 or 509-851-9938 for an appointment today

Would invite you to meet our newest stylist “Libby”

School has started and so has the BackPack Nutrition Program for Chil-dren. We need YOUR help. Hunger is a problem in Jefferson County for many of the children. Many of the school children who receive the major-ity of their nutritional needs at no cost in the school cafeteria during the week are food‐insecure on the weekend.

Donations are being sought for the BackPack Nutrition program for Chil-dren. What is this program? A small group of volunteers are providing back packs of food for weekend meals for children in Quilcene & Brinnon School who otherwise would go hungry. Our team shop for food, fill the back-packs and deliver them to the school for distribution. We are providing meals for 30 children in Quilcene and 13 in Brinnon for the weekend . The need is great. It costs approximately $6.50 to feed one child for a weekend, $225 for the school year. We believe the community will come together to help us raise the necessary funds to sustain this program for the school year. Will you sponsor a child in your community? All monies received are used to purchase food at the lowest cost possible.

Checks can be made out to “Quilcene Lions Club Food Back Packs for Kids”. Deposits can be made at US Bank, 14890 Center Rd, Quilcene, WA. 98376. If you donate to United Good Neighbors (UGN), please designate the monies to the “Quilcene BackPack Program”.

Help is also needed to pack the backpacks. If interested, please contact Patti Herold @ pawherold@gmail.com

Together we can ease the hunger crisis right in our own backyard.

Sincerely,

Patti Herold & the BackPack Volunteers

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Postage Paid

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Bulk Rate #9

Brinnon Senior Organization

306144 Highway 101

Brinnon, Wa. 98320

Address service requested

306362 Highway 101

Brinnon, Washington 98320

360-796-4555 fax: 360-796-3491