The Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, December 3, 1981-FIVE
Around About
By J limine Weatherford
Last Tuesday, during the noon hour just two days before
turkey day. when I picked up Irene Swanson and we headed
northeast we felt more like we were going off on a Christmas
trip than for a Thanksgiving weekend.
With the big soft snowflake falling and the ground quite
. while in Heppner, we were both apprehensive. We were each
carrying along Christmas gifts for our northernmost children
and grandchildren and Irene1! great-grandchild, too. "
Soon we learned again how foolish It was to worry to
attempt to cross bridges before we got to them. By the time
we reached the Bombing Range Road we were out of snow
country. Our drive on went nicely-including a quick stop at
the North County Courthouse where we found a substitute
Justice of Peace, Charles O'Connor, sitting In for Justice
Charlotte Gray, and where I got a blood pressure check from
County Nurse. Tat Wright. Irene had not visited the Annex
Building before.
However, Irene has been to the Pasco Airport many times
and this was my very first experience there, an attractive
and efficiently operated facility. This Port of Pasco serves
three airlines, Republic. Cascade and Horizon, which fly to
major cities of Washington. Oregon and Idaho and which can
easily provide travelers with connections to major airlines
that fly everywhere in the world. It was pleasing to find
large, well-gravelled, free-parking areas where I could
easily park the car for, evidently, as long as I wished.
Flying from Pasco over the Washington Cascades to
Sea-Tac was exciting. We left the ground about 4:15 p.m.,
had a grand view of many lesser snow-covered peaks and of
the great Mt. Adams, Mt. Rainier and their now diminished
sister St. Helens which were silhouetted in the fading
sunlight, and as we rounded Mt. Rainier, we could look down
and see the sparkling lights of Seattle and Sea-Tac where we
landed at 5:10 p m.
Irene's daughter-in-law, Joanne Swanson and my daughter
Karla Weaver with thirteen-month-old Abiah were waiting
for us and son whisked us off to their homes-Irene to
Auburn and me to Port Orchard. Although I am sold on
ground travel, this one-hour flight was Just great; driving to
Port Orc hard takes most of a day as does train or bus travel,
and they mean various transfers, too.
It seems that the Port Orchard Bremereton area, in fact,
the Puget Sound country generally has not had snow yet, but
they have had more rain and ice than they care about.
Occupational Therapist Karla works about half-time now
that she has a husband and their little girl. Wednesday
morning she took Abiah to her baby-sitter when she went to
work, and my oldest son. Ross Habertarh, came to the
Weaver home and took me with him for most of the day-to
his insurance office, to lunch and about town on various
errands.
I telephoned a woman who had taken the 36-day bus tour
that Helen Currin and I recently enjoyed and who lives very
close to Karla. This new friend looks remarkably like
Washington's ex-governor Dixie Ray and for much of our
travel time together, folks were calling her Dixie instead of
using her name, Alice When we parted in October at Biggs
Junction. Alice had said she really wanted to see me when I
came to Port Orchard for Thanksgiving. Now she insisted
that Karla and Abiah and I come to her home on Friday
morning. There we took brief looks at some of the pictures
we both had had developed of our tour, before the four of us
drove to the Port Orchard seawall to welcome Santa Claus
who was scheduled to arrive there by boat at 1! a.m.
The South Kitsap High School band played Christmas
music and the crowd of children and parents cheered as he
arrived After the crowd thinned we reached Santa's lounge
chair, and he held Abiah on his lap and I took pictures and
then I sat on his lap, too. which I never would have done
except that my son Ross was again playing this role in his
adopted community.
The sun shone on the crowd which was also busily looking
over the wares displayed at the tables along the same
blockedoff street where a regular Saturday Market is held,
except last weekend it was on Friday. The main street of the
old, downtown section of this town directly across from
Bremerton's big Navy Yard was festooned with Christmas
garlands and its merchants had really decorated their shops
as they invited everyone to begin, or continue, Christmas
buying. We ventured into several stores and found free
coffee and tables of holiday cookies being presented to all. I
surely like that community where two of our seond
generation have made their homes.
After a lovely, traditional Thanksgiving Day in the
Weaver's Sunnyslope Road home, my full Friday finished
with attendance at a presentation of the Performing Arts
Guild of South Kitsap. My son, Santa Claus, is also the
current president of this group, and he arranged for Alice
and me to come to the Bay Street Playhouse, which is a
restored former lodge hall that interested citizens are
operating as a little theater. This citizen-generated activity
thrills me. It offers live theater five or six times each year
and affords those who enjoy performing on a stage an
opportunity to do so
On Friday and Saturday Nov. 20, 21 and 27, 28, the
production was a Gershwin-Porter Show. It was simply
staged, carefully arranged and much enjoyed by the 60 some
who attended with us. A five-piece band composed of two
workers from the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, several
business men and the Ackley-like music teacher of the South
Kitsap School District furnished the background music for
seven amateur singers and four dance students who gave
delightful performances.
When the show ended and we left the playhouse, I felt as
pleased as I had felt seeing a New York stage show. My son
assures me that there is no chance for the PAG (Performing
Arts Guild) to make any money, they are delighted to even
break even, but the guild exists for the pleasure members
have in presenting shows that please some of their friends
and neighbors.
They have several more productions coming along soon
after the new year, including four nights of Thornton Wilder's
"Our Town" and four nights of Rossini's "Barber of Seville."
The board members really think big and aim to present
quality productions. I hope that maybe I can attend their
shows again.
My flight back to Pasco was from 1.15 to 2:15 p.m. on
Saturday, and I hope the snapshots I took through the plane
window of the three great mountains in Washington with
Oregon's Mt. Hood off in the distance turn out good. I am
anxious, too, to see the pictures of little Abiah and of this
mom and grandma on our favorite Santa's lap.
When I reached Heppner it was pleasing to see the
Christmas lights shining against the scattered snow. I know
that Albert Connor did a fine job of being the Santa Claus
here. Although I always have fun traveling and visiting, it is
great to come home to good friends and helpful neighbors
where I want to stay until I find another good excuse to
travel.
See you at the Artifactory.
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