Camera and its memories back with owner
Published 10:22 pm Monday, October 4, 2010
A camera containing family photographs found at the Big Four Ice Caves has been reunited with its owner.
In my Sept. 28 column, “Did you lose your camera at the ice caves? Call me,” we asked readers if they knew the people in the photograph.
Eric Minnig, co-owner of Ken’s Camera in Everett, said his family was hiking Aug. 5 at the Big Four Ice Caves near Granite Falls.
The family found a digital camera and asked us to help find the owner. The photograph was noticed in The Herald and the Canon 640 camera found its way home.
A friend called the Shoreline man to say his picture was in The Herald.
The Shoreline man took snapshots of the family to the camera shop to verify the camera belonged to him.
“He was definitely the owner,” Minnig said. “The photo you ran was actually taken in Utah.”
The family in the photograph hails from Texas, Utah and Eastern Washington. They all came to visit in Shoreline and took a trip to the ice caves. While the owner did a bit of climbing, he put the camera down and forgot about it.
“He didn’t really want to make any more of a deal about it other than offer a big thank you,” Minnig says.
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Every year, this seems amusing.
The fun happens again Thursday.
The fourth annual Chilifest, organized by the Greater Bothell Chamber of Commerce, will be served and judged at a funeral home.
Dale Amundsen, spokesman for Evergreen Washelli at Bothell, 18224 103rd Ave. NE, says it begins at 5:30 p.m. Bring a donation for the Hopelink food bank program and earn the right to vote on your favorite dish.
Fifteen chefs will compete for the following juried awards: The Green Bean (vegetarian), Mr. Meaty (for the carnivores), The Burnt Spoon (best hot chili) and The Judges’ Choice (best overall).
Costco will provide beverages.
The funeral home will provide Rolaids, Alka-Seltzer and Beano.
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Folks in the Snohomish County Mycological Society are known to tromp through the woods searching for specimens. The tromping picks up speed this week, before the annual mushroom show from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday at Floral Hall at Forest Park, 802 E. Mukilteo Blvd., in Everett.
Visitors to Sunday’s show want to see lots and lots of mushrooms.
More than 150 varieties will be on view. Feel free to bring in your own finds for identification. There will be demonstrations on cultivation and dehydrating, arts and crafts, T-shirts and books.
Dorothy Crossman says folks bring all kinds of mushrooms to the show.
“It’s a real science to identify mushrooms, and even the experts are not always able to identify them,” Crossman says. “I’ve found plenty that are not edible, for instance, the big ones with orangish red caps with warts on them are very poisonous, but they are the ones that artists use in those whimsical pictures with fairies and such.”
She says she is only confident identifying four or five edible varieties.
Crossman says mushrooms are gathered throughout Western Washington, Wenatchee and Ocean Shores.
“When they pick them, they try to include the entire mushroom including the stem portion under the ground. They also try to bring in a portion of the moss, forest duff or log where the mushroom is growing. All of these factors are taken into consideration in the identification process.”
On Saturday, she says, everyone brings in what they’ve collected to be identified and grouped with similar types of mushrooms and fungi for the displays. Several experts stay late into the night identifying and labeling the different species. Other members prepare soup or stew and other treats for the participants in the show set up.
“The club is an interesting group of people of all ages and backgrounds,” Crossman says. “Most are excellent cooks.”
Kristi O’Harran: 425-339-3451, oharran@heraldnet.com
