If you like costumes, hit Langley
Published 11:25 pm Thursday, April 22, 2010
Here’s a great opportunity to be seen in public dressed as a slug, chicken or sea urchin.
It’s parade time at the annual Welcome the Whales Day Festival and Parade Saturday in Langley.
Dress like a critter and join Gary the Gray Whale at 1:30 p.m. strolling down the hill on Cascade Avenue and First Street, ending at Langley Waterfront Park. There will be children’s activities and educational displays beginning at 10 a.m at the Langley United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall, 301 Anthes Ave.
Buy whale-themed artwork at the church. Find music and entertain after the parade at Langley Waterfront Park at the intersection of Anthes Avenue and First Street.
Orca Network and Langley Chamber of Commerce sponsor the seventh annual event to celebrate resident gray whales that return to the waters around Whidbey Island.
After the parade, at the park, there will be a blessing and possible viewing of gray whales swimming nearby. They will ring a Whale Bell and dedicate a new Whale Trail.
Learn more about gray whales from 3 to 5 p.m. at the church.
They could still use volunteers at the event. For more information, e-mail Susan Berta at info@orcanetwork.org or call 360-678-3451.
Looking for a few collectibles?
Western Auction Co., of Clinton, will sell goods from RayMar Farms, a 140-acre dairy farm in Monroe. Collectibles will be sold beginning at 10 a.m. May 15 at the farm, 17920 183rd Ave. SE.
Some farm equipment will also be offered. The farm itself has been sold.
Featured will be a Seeburg jukebox that plays 45 rpm records, old console radios, a vintage Williams pinball machine and a Coca-Cola vending machine, milk signs, hand scales, a hand-crank clothes wringer, lanterns, logging prints, a Westinghouse water fountain, old fire extinguishers, 5-gallon crocks, a grinding stone and an ice box.
It could be a successful sale. Western Auction’s Arizona branch recently sold a never-erected airplane hangar measuring 60 feet by 252 feet for $70,000.
“It included all the girders, trusses, siding, nuts, bolts, hangar doors, including opening cylinders and hardware, and everything else needed to erect it, even the engineering design plans,” says Larry Marty of Western Auction Co. “Every part needed to construct this hangar was here, down to the last screw.”
Having put kits together, we’ll just believe them that every screw was in the big box. For more information on the Monroe auction, go to www.westernauctioncompany.com.
Servpro of Everett, Marysville and Smokey Point, a company that cleans up damage from fire, water, mold and other causes, offers a pancake breakfast from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday near the Navy Exchange at13421 39th Ave. NE, Marysville.
The meal supports Northwest Burn Foundation so donations will be taken, says Servpro spokesman Christian Love.
This event celebrates the grand opening of the new Servpro location in Marysville and the anniversary of ServPro’s partner Halo Construction.
Kristi O’Harran: 425-339-3451, oharran@heraldnet.com.
