Summer 2013

Dear Cornish Cousins,

We had a good meeting in March in Puyallup with Gord’n Perrott and his mother Pamela presenting a slide show of his trip to Cornwall. We are now in full gear for the summer’s Highland Games, where we set up our booth and represent our Celtic Cornish Heritage. We did this last year with a great deal of success.

These are some of the games remaining on this summer’s calendar:

A new one is at Mt Vernon, WA, at the Skagit Valley Highland Games. We are looking for volunteers to do this one July 13^th and 14^th.Please contact Dot Huntley or me if you can take that one on. Currently we are not reserved for that one until we know if someone will be able to do it.

On July 20^th we have the Portland Highland Games at Mt Hood Community College in Gresham, OR. I will be setting that one up and could use someone to help me in the booth for the day, please let me know if you can help.

We are looking for volunteers to do the next one, Seattle’s Northwest Highland Games, July 26, 27 and 28 at Enumclaw Expo Center in Enumclaw, WA. Please contact Dot Huntley or me if you can take that one on. We are not reserved for that one until we know if someone will be able to do it.

Douglas County Celtic Highland Games will be in Winston, OR, Aug. 16, 17 and 18. Dot Huntley will be doing this one with her husband Dan.

Aug. 31 and Sept. 1 it’s the Hood Canal Highland Celtic Festival at Belfair State Park in Belfair, WA. Joan Huston and Claudia Hunt will be doing that booth. Again, please come and show your support.

Thank you for any help your can offer, this is a way for PNCS get the word out that we are here in the Northwest and that we too are Celtic.

PNCS Annual Picnic, normally scheduled in July, will be August 3 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Fort Borst Park in Centralia, WA. This is a potluck, so please bring a dish to share. Dot Hosking Huntley will put on a slideshow of her recent trip to Cornwall. I have also asked her to give us an update on what is going on in Cornwall today, what life is like there and what their politics and concerns are that they deal with on a daily basis.

I am looking forward to seeing you all at one or all of the Highland Games and/or the Annual Picnic.

Alene Reaugh

President

Cornwall was first inhabited in the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic periods. It continued to be occupied by Neolithic and then Bronze Age peoples, and later (in the Iron Age) by Celts.
Forming the tip of the south-western peninsula of Great Britain, it is bordered to the north and west by the Atlantic Ocean, to the south by the English Channel, and to the east by the county of Devon, over the River Tamar.
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