Horse-crazy kids can earn free trip to camp

Colorado is looking for a few friends.

You can book the horse for a week this summer. Horse Country Farm in Granite Falls offers riding camps where children can choose their steed.

“Wyoming, a small paint gelding is a popular choice,” says Shannon Kennedy. “He loves lessons, trail rides, barrel racing and, of course, carrots. His daughter, Colorado, doesn’t look like him but shares his love for horse day camp and is awesome for beginners. She is coal black with white socks.”

There is a way to go to camp for free.

Horse Country Farm offers an essay contest and the grand prize is a free session of camp.

First through ninth-graders may send in an essay about either “I love horses because,” or “I want to come to horse camp because,” or “I want to be a camp counselor because.” Each category winner gets a free week.

New this year, Horse Country Farm also offers a separate division for children whose parents serve in the military, either active or reserve.

For more information, go to www.horsecountryfarm.com or call 360-691-7509.

Entries are due by May 1.

If you drop off essays at 8507 Highway 92 in Granite Falls, remember to take along carrots for the horses.

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The Granite Falls Historical Society hosts a book reading at 2 p.m. Sunday at the museum, 109 E. Union St. in Granite Falls.

The book is titled “Margaret Callahan, Mother of Northwest Art” and is a compilation of her writing, edited by her son, Tobey Callahan.

Margaret was married to Northwest painter Kenneth Callahan, and they discovered the Robe Valley in the early 1930s. Until her death in 1961, they maintained a cabin there as well as a home in Seattle.

Kenneth Callahan had a studio at Robe, east of Granite Falls, where much of his painting was done. She wrote of their love for the area as well as recording her thoughts and observations of Seattle society. She spent her early years working as a journalist for the Town Crier, a Seattle newspaper.

The book takes an historical look at Robe Valley and the Mountain Loop Highway.

The book will be on sale at the free reading. A chocolate buffet will be available.

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When something works in a delightful manner, don’t change a thing.

For the second year in a row, Shoultes Elementary School students will put their acting and singing skills on display. Rehearsing since January, student thespians present Kathryn Schultz Miller’s adaptation for elementary school children of “Peter Pan.”

The free performance is planned for 7 p.m. March 19 at the school, 13525 51st Ave. NE in Marysville.

The Shoultes School Choir will entertain.

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Folks in Silvana who like to play bingo also like to get a good night’s sleep.

They are making Sunday bingo a couple of hours earlier for those who don’t like to stay out late, says Kevin Buhr, president of the Silvana Community Association.

Games begin at 4 p.m. Sunday at Viking Hall, 1331 E. Pioneer Highway in Silvana.

Kristi O’Harran: 425-339-3451, oharran@heraldnet.com.

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