Supplement to the Cashmere Valley Record

Family Fun Throughout the Community!✪ Ping Pong Ball Drop✪ Grand Parade

✪ DEMOS✪ Games

✪ Food✪ Live Music

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2010 Founders’ Days

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Founders’ Days is an annual event organized by the Cashmere Chamber of Commerce, a non-profit membership organization dedicated to supporting the local business community. Each year the chamber invites the business community to pledge their support for this popular community festival, and the 2010 Chamber Board of Directors gratefully acknowledges their generosity. Thanks to the following for making Founders’ Days 2010 a reality.*

Founders’ Days Sponsors

Schedule of EventsSee the Cashmere Chamber of Commerce Web site, www.cashmerechamber.com, for up-to-date information

TIME EVENT LOCATION

FrIdAy

10 a.m. ASB Dodge Ball Tournament Cashmere High School Gym

6 p.m. Free Barbecue Dinner Cottage & Woodring Parking Lot

9 p.m. Red Means Go Club Crow

SATurdAy

7 a.m.-1 p.m. Cub Scout Pancake Breakfast American Legion Hall

8 a.m.- 12 p.m. CHS Yard Sale Cashmere Middle School

All day Merchant Sidewalk Sale Downtown Cashmere

8 a.m. Bike with Brian Riverside Park

9 a.m.-3 p.m. Dunk Your Commish & Tailgate Sale Chelan County Expo Center

10 a.m.-4 p.m. Artist in Action Senior Center

10 a.m.-4 p.m. Friends of Old Mission Log Cabin Sampler Quilt Raffle

Senior Center

Noon-2 p.m. Lady Blush Artisan Cherry Cider Luncheon

Cashmere Cider Mill (advance reservations required)

2-4 p.m. Singer-Songwriter Janet Drew Cashmere Cider Mill

2-3:30 p.m. Quilt Turning Demo Cashmere Senior Center

2-4 p.m. Founding Family Reception Cashmere Museum

4 p.m. CHS Wrestling Team. Baron of Beef Barbecue

Cottage & Woodring

4 p.m. Fire Dept. Water Demo Fire Hall

5 p.m. Doane’s Pharmacy Ping Pong Drop Riverside Park

7 p.m. Apple Annie Grand Parade Division Street to Cottage Avenue to Parkhill

9 p.m. Slack Daddy Club Crow

SuNdAy

9:30 a.m. Founders’ Days Golf Tourney Mt. Cashmere Golf Course

2-4 p.m. Concert-Ravin’ Wolf Cashmere Cider Mill

6 p.m. Singer-Songwriter Janet Drew First United Methodist Church

Major SponsorsApple Annie Antique Gallery • Grand ParadeMartin’s Market Place • Festival SponsorDoane’s Pharmacy • Ping Pong Ball Drop

Mt Cashmere-$500-$749Cashmere Convalescent CenterCashmere Valley BankCrunch Pak

Grower Pride-250-$499Cashmere Lions’ ClubHankins Family DentistryHill Insurance AgencyMilne Insurance AgencyTillicum Rider Association

Old Mission-$100 - $249Blue Star GrowersCascade Foothills Farmland Assn.Cashmere Veterinary ClinicChrist CenterClub CrowKashmir GardensMr. & Mrs. Jerry KenoyerNCW RealtyVillage Inn Motel

Friend of the Festival-$25-$99Nancy Van de VanterIcicle Creek Music CenterDebbie KnutsenMasterplan FinancialThe Best BitePrecise Carpentry & Painting* As of June 10

ContentsSchedule of Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2Founders’ Days Sponsors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2Chamber of Commerce president’s welcome. . . .3 Cashmere Royalty’s Welcome. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32010 Grand Parade Lineup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4Parade Route . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .42010 Founding Family: A short history of Archie

Smith. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5Activities promote fitness, philanthropy and fun . .6Photographing Cashmere Royalty . . . . . . . . . . . .7Drew, Ravin’wolf play at Cashmere Cider Mill . . . .8Slack Daddy and Red Means Go play at Club

Crow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9Float Theme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10Happenings at the Senior Center . . . . . . . . . . . .10Founders’ Days Family Honorees . . . . . . . . . . . .102010 Poster Contest Winners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12

The ping pong drop is one of the highlights of the Founders’ Days. Kids wait under the hovering chopper for the balls to come down, in hopes of winning prizes.

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Welcome to Cashmere’s annual celebration, Founders’ Days! This special weekend is full of exciting festivities for the whole family. I would like to start by introduc-ing myself. My name is Chelsea Stubbs, Queen Cashmere. I am accompanied by Mayra Hurtado and Ariel Lynch, princesses of Cashmere. We would like to give you a warm welcome to our home, Cashmere!

Founders’ Days is our town celebration and we would like to invite everybody to come! Grow-ing up in Cashmere, Founders Days has always been a summer highlight for me. From the ping pong ball drop, to browsing at the vendors shops set up, dancing in the streets to live bands, and who could forget the annual parade Saturday evening! Cashmere’s Founders’ Days is more than just

great entertainment and shop-ping, it’s a chance for the people of Cashmere to come together and appreciate this small town for what it truly is: a family.

Cashmere would like to invite everyone, from far to near, to come dance, play, laugh, and help celebrate our Founders’ Days. I hope to see everyone at the Apple Annie Grand Parade downtown Saturday evening, where the Cashmere, Washington com-munity float will be swingin’ and swayin’ with records playing as we all dance in the streets!

Ariel, Mayra and I will be giv-ing a smile and a wave to you all, as everybody does in this friendly town.

Sincerely, Chelsea StubbsQueen Cashmere

Welcome to Cashmere! On be-half of my fellow board members and local businesses, I’m proud to welcome you to Cashmere and to Founders’ Days.

The Cashmere Chamber of Commerce is 100 members strong, and has been organizing Founders’ Days since the “dia-mond jubilee” of our town back in 1979. We’ve grown over the last 32 years from a one-day festival to a weekend of community events.

In addition to putting on Found-ers’ Days, your chamber is deeply involved in promoting all that Cashmere’s business community has to offer, and I encourage you to drop in on some of our local businesses and give them your support. You’ll also find many exciting new businesses in our area, so if you haven’t shopped or dined in Cashmere lately, you’re in for a surprise!

On behalf of the chamber and the Founders’ Days organizing committee, I particularly want to thank the many generous busi-nesses who have contributed to this year’s event.

Patti Davis, President

Cashmere Royalty’s welcome

Chamber of Commerce president’s welcome

Patti Davis

The Cashmere Fire Department helps cool off the kids on a sunny, warm Founders’ Days weekend.

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Parade Route

2010 Grand Parade LineupSaturday, June 26 at 7 p.m.

As of June 18. Entry order is subject to change.

FLOAT SPONSOR

1 Color Guard American Legion Post #64

2 Apple Annie Antiques

3 Tillicum Riders

4 2010 Founding Family Cashmere Museum

5 Vale Elementary School Poster Contest Winners Cashmere Museum

6 Dancin’ in the Streets Cashmere Float Association

7 Grumpy Clowns

8 Cashmere Post Office Cashmere Post Office

9 Lake Chelan Rodeo Queen Rodeo Lake Chelan

10 Citizen of the Year Evelyn Davis Cashmere Chamber of Commerce

11 Believe in Magic Chewelah Community Float Group

12 Cashmere World The Wenatchee World

13 2010 Appleatchee Rider Queen Jessica Zimmerman Appleatchee Riders

14 Chelan County Port Commissioner JC Baldwin Port of Chelan County

15 Summertime Fun Marysville Strawberry Festival

16 Step Back in Time Eagle Rock Fruit Stand

17 Moses Lake Junior Miss Moses Lake Junior Miss

18 Prosser Community Float Prosser Chamber of Commerce

19 County Commissioner Keith Goehner Chelan County Commission

20 Cashmere Summer Swim Team Cashmere Summer Swim Team

21 Central Washington Concrete

22 10 years of Delicious Apples Crunch Pak

23 2010 Business of the Year - Cashmere Cottage Yarn Cashmere Chamber of Commerce

24 Chelan County Fair Ambassadors Chelan County Fair

25 Cashmere Bouncing Bulldogs Jump Rope Team Vale Elementary PTO

26 Autumn Leaf Festival (Leavenworth) Wash. State ALFA

27 Dryden Boutique Dryden Boutique

28 100 Years of Scouting Boy Scout Troop 1

29 Pack 1 Cub Scouts Cashmere Lions Club

30 Country Charm Royal City Festival

31 Wenatchee Valley Humane Society

32 Hero Headquarters Cashmere Methodist Church

33 Washington State Apple Blossom Festival

34 El Katif Moonshriners El Katif Shrine

35 Representative Cary Condotta 12th District Legislature

36 Juice it Up Selah Community Days

37 La Esperanza Folk Dancers La Esperanza Folk Dancers

38 Cashmere Mayor Gordon Irle City of Cashmere

39 JASCO Small Business Development

40 Cedarbrook Clowns Cedarbrook Lumber Company

41 Dancin’ in the Streets Cashmere Float Association

42 Cashmere Fire Department

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126 Cottage Ave.,downtown CashmereOpen: 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.,

7 days a week509-470-7551

Something old. Something new.Treasures waiting for you!

The Cashmere Museum and Pioneer Village has chosen the family of Archibald and Louisa Smith as the 2010 Founding Family. Their descendents will be celebrated at events through-out Founders’ Days weekend.

Archibald Frederick Smith was born in Danglingworth, England to railroad worker William Smith and his wife, Matilda. He was one of seven children, and as the family grew, they were to find that making a living in England in the latter part of the 19th century would prove very difficult. Knowing what a toll the physical labor took on his father, Archie de-cided to look to the new world to make his way, and hearing of the opportunities in North America, he saved up for steer-age passage to Canada on the Old Dominion Line.

Packing up his worldly goods, he bade a tearful farewell to his

family and sailed in 1894. How-ever, the depression set off by the “Panic of 1893” resulted in widespread unemployment. The 17-year-old moved from Nova Scotia to Manitoba, working here and there, until he reached British Columbia. Though jobs there were plentiful, the young Archie Smith learned of job opportunities and the scenic beauty of the Wenatchee Val-ley and arrived with little more than a blanket roll.

He quickly found work chop-ping cordwood for the paddle-wheel boats which carried cargo and passengers up and down the Columbia River. Archie worked in the small settlement of Colockum, and it was here that he met his future bride, the tall, redheaded Louisa Hamil-ton. Her father, John, emigrated to the states from Ireland as an indentured servant, working off his indebtedness to an em-

ployer in Minnesota, where the young Louisa was born. In the late 1890s the Great Northern Railroad, hoping to entice more settlers to the northwest, of-fered emigrants low train fares to Washington state, and John

Hamilton’s family may well have taken advantage of the offer to move west. They settled in the small mission village that later would be known as Cashmere.

Archie, on his days off from cutting wood for the steam ship companies, explored a newly-opened road from Colockum to Wenatchee, continuing on to Leavenworth. He explored the valley from one end to the other, looking for the perfect homestead, coming to settle along a new irrigation project

in Peshastin. He quit his job and threw himself into the new ir-rigation project along Peshastin creek. After the ditch’s comple-tion, he hired on as one of the first “ditch walkers,” a job not without its perils: once he was caught in a “wash out” when the flooding waters broke out of their banks and cascaded down the mountains.

While Archie worked on new-er, larger irrigation projects, he

2010 Founding Family:

A short history of Archie Smith

Archibald Smith

See SMITH on Page 11

The Pioneer Village is located on the grounds of the Cashmere Museum. It consists of 20 original structures, including the Smith’s cabin, a barber shop, general store, saddle shop, post office, saloon and more. The village provides a fascinating glimpse at our local history.

Cub Scout BreakfastCashmere Cub Scout Pack 1

and the American Legion offer a yummy good pancake breakfast June 26 from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the American Legion, 401 Sunset. Tickets are $5 each. Youth, 5 and under, are free. Enjoy pancakes, eggs cooked to order, ham, coffee and juice prepared by retired servicemen. For tickets contact Deanne Erickson at 782-1136 or valescouts@hotmail.com.

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Clifford’s

Hardware

It’s not all about sitting on the sidelines watching the parade go by. Cashmere is at the center of outstanding recreation op-portunities, and the following Founders’ Days events suggest a variety of ways to get fit, have fun, and work up an appetite.

CHS Dodgeball Tournament

Made popular in recent years by Hollywood cinema, Dodgeball is an easy sport popular from

elementary schools to Japan, and organized recreational leagues are even getting into the act.

This year the Cashmere High School ASB Club invites teams of five with a sixth person alternate, to register for the Founders’ Days Dodgeball Tournament, starting at 10 a.m. on Friday. Teams can be seventh grade to adult, and appropriate costumes or team uniforms are encouraged.

Send $15 entry fee to:Cashmere High School

Attn: Dodgeball329 Tigner Rd.Cashmere, WA 98815

Bike with BrianBike with Brian, now in its

sixth year, takes peddles away from Riverside Park at 8 a.m. Saturday morning.

Ride organizer Brian Webb, who has cerebral palsy, founded the ride as a fundraiser for the Cashmere Schools Foundation, and has awarded thousands in scholarships since 2005.

This year’s bike ride offers several routes, all departing from the Riverside Community Center at Riverside Park in Cash-mere. The easiest is a three-mile route downstream along the Wenatchee River. A 10-mile route takes riders farther downstream

to Monitor. The 25-mile ride tra-verses Old Monitor Road, Sleepy Hollow and Lower Sunnyslope Road, turning around at the sce-nic Ohme Gardens. Finally, for those who love a challenge, the 50-mile loop adds a jaunt to the Peshastin Pinnacles along North Dryden Road to Dryden, then finally back to Cashmere to take in the rest of the festival.

Webb stresses safety first: riders should have their bikes tuned up beforehand, and all riders must wear an ANSI, CPSC or Snell-approved bicycle helmet and obey all traffic laws.

Registration for the ride is $30 and includes a T-shirt. Forms are available at the Chamber office or by contacting Brian Webb, Box 776 Cashmere, WA 98815,

bikewithbrian@hotmail.com. Late registration on the day of the ride is available starting at 7:30 a.m.

Founders’ Days Golf Tournament

Golfers of every skill level are invited to the Mt. Cashmere Golf Course, located near the Chelan County Expo Center, on Sunday, June 27. Style is two man best ball. There will be a shotgun start at 9 a.m. The $40 per player entry fee includes 18 holes, barbecue lunch, closest to the pin and the longest putt (golf cart rental not included, and payment prior to the tournament is appreciated).

Field is limited to the first 52 paid entries. For information and reservations call (509) 782-1207.

Activities promote fitness, philanthropy and fun

A view down Cottage Avenue as folks line the streets eagerly anticipating the Grand Parade, the feature attraction of Founders’ Days.

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Founders’ Days would not be possible without the generous support of these businesses. thank you for making this celebration possible.

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& all the generous businesses of Cashmere

An event oF the

By Michael Thresher, River Street Photography

As you can see by the 2010 Royalty portrait, our girls went “glitzy” this year! Those dress-es really get your attention! Of course it was quite a challenge to photograph and print images that truly capture the feeling of the theme.

The dresses and crowns are so sparkly a traditional expo-sure would never work – any automated meter would say the scene was much brighter than it truly was. Luckily the girls chose to have their publicity portraits done in the studio this year, so we got to work with our

computerized lighting system. It really gave us a dynamic image!

Also the girls did not want to wear their sashes with their names on them – it just didn’t seem to fit the style of the por-trait. So we used some digital magic and included their names on the border of the portrait. The result is a beautiful image that I am very pleased with. Everyone seems to enjoy it and we are very proud to support our Royalty in this way.

The 2010 Royalty image is being distributed to businesses and individuals who generously support the Cashmere Float As-sociation.

Photographing Cashmere Royalty

Photo by River Street PhotographyPrincess Ariel Lynch, Queen Chelsea Stubbs and Princess Mayra Hurtado preside over Founders’ Days and represent Cashmere statewide.

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Janet DrewPacific Northwest singer and

songwriter Janet Drew will per-form two free concerts over Found-ers’ Days, from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Cashmere Cider Mill and 7 p.m. Sunday at the Cashmere United Methodist Church.

Janet Drew has a voice that has often been described as angelic. With lyrics that reach straight to the heart, the combination of her voice and beautiful musical arrangements pack a powerful emotional impact.

Drew’s latest CD, This Road, is her most ambitious and per-sonal recording to date. It pairs the instant familiarity of her voice with pop/country, bluegrass and emotive ballad arrangements of 13 original songs. Lyrical themes range from memoirs of home and family to the hope and struggle of everyday life.

Prior to This Road, Drew re-leased her first two recordings – Boundless and Starlight. Bound-less offers a collection of original

songs, contemporary songs of wor-ship and timeless hymns. Acoustic guitar and piano driven arrange-ments come to life with Celtic and folk inspired percussion, violin, pennywhistle and accordion.

Starlight is a seven-song Christ-mas album featuring treasured

songs of the season along with two new Christmas originals. Celtic and Appalachian influences weave their way through beautiful songs - from simple to symphonic in style and instrumentation.

Preview Janet’s music at www.janetdrewmusic.com.

Ravin’wolfRavin’wolf is set to perform

from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday at the Cashmere Cider Mill. The concert is a free outdoor all ages event in conjunction with Founder’s Days. Donations for the band are wel-comed. The concert is outdoors and seating is on the lawn, so bring blankets and folding chairs. Ravin’wolf is touring in promo-tion of their new CD, “Live at the Columbia City Theater.” For full Ravin’wolf calendar updates visit their website at www.ravinwolf.com.

Tucked away in the sacred canyons of Central Washington State, where Seattle meets the Sage, is found Ravin’wolf, one of the Pacific Northwest’s most cap-tivating and in demand acoustic

blues acts. This one of a kind pair slips in and out of the genre with ease to explore the psychedelic edges and defy the boundaries of their blues influences, to take their audience on a raunchy yet mystical journey into Sagebrush Blues...a shotgun wedding of blues rock fusion...and southern back-porch jelly...saddled up next to the pop edge...with an old school delivery.

Originally from the sage-brush in Kittitas County, they are deemed to be the next best ’new find’ on the Seattle blues scene. Ravin’wolf was recently nominated for the “Best of the Blues 2010” Best Blues Solo/Duo Award by the Washington Blues Society of Seattle, and has been submerging themselves in feral blues and non-stop gig-

ging, sharpening their double sided six-string performance to a razor’s edge, honing their live performance together and becoming increasingly familiar as “that male-female duo that defies musical boundaries you’ve just gotta hear!” The Pacific Northwest’s “best kept secret in blues” they tuck themselves into the wild west tourist towns, winery concert venues and festi-vals throughout the year where they are wowing surprised ears and leaving audiences wonder-ing where they’ve been all this time.

Under the vigilant eye of found-ing members Jamey and FaeR-aven, Ravin’wolf has gained cre-ative strength over the past two years with a nomination for the 2010 Independent Music Awards. They are pleased to be enjoying the longevity of their artistry while undertaking a pathway into joint authorship and the publishing world as performing songwriters in the industry. In the years since their formation, they have had the privilege to headline with acts such as Elvin Bishop, Alice Stuart, Nick Viga-rino, Terry Robb, Too Slim and the Taildraggers, Mary McPage and Seattle’s Flowmotion and Deadwood Revival.

Janet Drew, Ravin’wolf play at Cashmere Cider Mill

Janet Drew

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Local blues venue Club Crow has two great acts performing Founders’ Days weekend, with no cover charge for the 21 and older crowd. Friday night, Ellensburg band Red Means Go will hit the Crow, followed on Saturday night by Slack Daddy, featuring Crow

co-owner Jack Norris with fellow band members Larry Bagdon, Randy Kesterson, Mike Waters, Dan Sivey, and Phil Biladeau.

Red Means GoIn fall of 2007, Jazmarae Beebe

and Skyler Mehal met in the same dorm hall and decided to play

together. This meeting was the beginning of Jaz and Skyler—which then morphed into Red Means Go.

The singing/songwriting duo’s unique blend of jazz, pop, and indie creates a perfect blend with their piano/guitar-based songs

and their unique voices. They quickly became popular amongst students at Central Washington University and soon were ap-proached by a bass player and a drummer. Tom Noble became their powerhouse drummer and Janss Woldseth became their slapping bassist in the fall of 2008.

Red Means Go adds a new sound to the mix when they plug in, but keep their roots in jazz/pop/indie genre. By winter of 2008, Markus Hoyer added a new depth to their sound with back-up guitar and vocals. Soon after Markus joined, the band went into the studio and recorded their first album.

Slack Daddy and Red Means Go play at Club Crow

Slack Daddy

Red Means Go

Founders’ Days offers plenty of delicious dining options including the Cub Scout Pancake Breakfast and the Cashmere High School Wrestling Team’s Baron of Beef Barbecue.

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118 Cottage Ave., Cashmere(509) 782-2751

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Founders’ Days

Family Honorees2010 Smith Family

2009 Rieke Family

2008 Stoffel Family

2007 Grentz Family

2006 Schell Family

2005 Paton Family

2004 Cashmere Museum Founders

2003 Willis Carey Family

2001 Schmitten Family

2000 “The Greatest Generation”

1998 Roy and Elsie Turner

1997 A.C. Jones Family

1996 Celia Ann Dick

1995 Lewellyn Auvil

1994 David and Emma Treadwell

1993 O.C. and Lucretia McManus

1992 A.P. “Ryegrass” Johnson

1991 Frank and David Freer

1990 James Bates

1989 Edwin and Lois Cooke

1988 Squire and Algenora Stewart

1987 George Brisky

1986 George and Margaret Blair

1985 James and Elizabeth Weythman

1984 Deak and Lucy Brown

1983 George and Ida Richardson

1982 Philip and Lena Miller

1981 A.B. and Samantha Brender

Float ThemeThis year’s Cashmere Com-

munity Float is “swining’ and swayin’ with records playin’” as they’re Dancing in the Streets.

Queen Chelsea Stubbs and Princesses Mayra Hurtado and Ariel Lynch are dancing through-out the northwest and invite everyone to beautiful Cashmere, where the rivers flow and the apples grow. They began their northwest journey earlier this spring at the Washington State Apple Blossom Festival, and continue at parades throughout Washington and Canada.

Happenings at the Senior Center

The Cashmere Senior Center throws open its doors to artists and quilt fans over Founders’ Days. The Senior Center will host craft tables all weekend, as part of the downtown Cashmere sidewalk sale.

Artist Artie Bowman will be “in action,” painting under the aw-ning in front of the Senior Center from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday. Her painting will be raffled off Saturday at 4:30 p.m.

Inside the Senior Center, a quilt turning, a display of about 25 quilts from Ruth Gyer’s spring quilt collection, will take place from 2 to 3:30 p.m. Saturday, with commentary on techniques used. Goodwill offerings to benefit the Senior Center will be accepted.

For those who want a chance to own a beautiful “log cabin sampler” quilt, the Friends of Old Mission will be on hand selling raffle tickets.

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Archie Smith settled in the area before it was named Cashmere. Smith was born in England.

was determined to save enough money to buy his own team of horses to hire out for the backbreaking work. He saved enough money with this scheme to buy 83 acres of timbered land along the Wenatchee River from the Northern Pacific Railroad Company. Using the timber he felled on his new property, he built himself and his family a one-room log cabin.

Archie and Louisa’s family would grow beyond those four walls, but the structure survives to this day in the Cashmere Museum’s Pioneer Village as the General Store.

Smith: Bought 87 acres from the railroadContinued from Page 5

The Founding Family Reception takes place at the Cashmere Museum on Saturday, June 26 from 2 to 4 p.m. Pictured are the Museum hostesses for the reception, from left, Linda Frost-Rawley, Nancy Valeson and Joyce Dronen. Not in the picture is Annette Gilmer.

A little cheerleader takes part in the Grand Parade.

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One of the first signs of Found-ers’ Days is the annual poster contest honoring the year’s cho-sen Founding Family, Archibald Frederick Smith & Louise Ham-ilton Smith.

Organized by the Cashmere Museum and Pioneer Village, the contest features the fourth grade artists of Vale Elementary School. Students were given background on the Smiths, from Archie’s birth in England to his marriage and career as an orchardist and county commissioner. Students also received drawing and poster-making lessons. Some chose to depict the Smith home, built in 1912 in Dryden; others depicted Archibald and Louisa’s wed-ding.

Judges met at the Senor Center and, with the artists’ names hid-

den, selected the winners. Follow-ing selection of the winners, their entries appeared in business windows throughout Cashmere during the first week of June.

Following are this year’s poster contest winners:

First Place: Patricia Alaman-za

Second Place: Samatha Lip-pert

Third Place: William CassHonorable Mention: Rhiannon

Strutzel, Cami Knishka, Ashlyn Cockrum, Rainey Reed and Jorge Rodriquez.

Poster Contest Supporters: Penny Brouillette, Cashmere Mu-seum and Pioneer Village, Cash-mere Senior Center Volunteers, Cashmere Valley Bank, Cash-mere Senior Center, Gail Cates and Vale Elementary School.

2010 Poster Contest Winners

The annual poster contest, organized by the Cashmere Museum, features the Founding Family, Archibald Frederick Smith & Louise Hamilton Smith. Pictured, from left, second place winner Samantha Lippert, first place winner Patricia Alamanza, and third place winner William Cass.

The ping pong balls rain down on the awaiting crowd. It makes for an exciting few minutes. Kids can win prizes by collecting the balls.

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