More than half of the entries in this year’s Concours d’ Elegance are British automobiles, among them an Aston Martin Vanguard. But you’ll also see antique autos, special-interest cars, and an all-electric Tesla sports car at the event. Concours d’Elegance is a fund-raiser for the Family Resource Center, the San Juan Island Public Schools Foundation and the Rotary International Polio Eradication Project. More than 85 cars are expected to be on exhibit.
Traveling deep into the back country of Costa Rica we arrive at Palmar Norte, our stop for lunch. As our driver speaks no English, I ask him in my shaky Spanish if he wants to continue driving my friends Katie and Roberto and I further into the mountains to the Boruca indigenous village. I tell him, if so, he must do his tarea and find out how to get there. He asks around and we are off.
The award-winning film “The Cove” will show Thursday, 7 p.m., in the Palace Theatre as a fund-raiser for Orca Relief Citizens’ Alliance. The film’s director, Louie Psihoyos, will attend the showing. Psihoyos is also the executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society.
Ed Tuck, who was assistant foreman of Roche Harbor Lime & Cement Co. in the 1930s and 1940s, has died. Mr. Tuck, who lived in Tacoma, died Aug. 17, his daughter, Cookie Tuck-Lowe, wrote in an e-mail received Saturday. “Dad sailed away Monday to join Mother,” Tuck-Lowe wrote.
SanJuanJournal.com is now offering blogs on its site. Veteran newsman Howard Schonberger is writing a staff blog. Carrie Lacher, a candidate for mayor, is blogging, and all other candidates for office have been invited to blog as well.
Candace Groseclose Henderson and Chuck Henderson are celebrating their first wonderful year together. Candy and Chuck were married Aug. 23, 2008 aboard the Desert Princess, with son Nicky and daughter Kim at their sides. The ceremony was followed by a lovely moonlight dinner cruise of Lake Mead and Hoover Dam, surrounded by family and friends.
Cambalache, this year’s San Juan County Fair headliner, brings its smoking-hot salsa to the fairgrounds Main Stage tonight from 7-9. The band last rocked the fair stage in 2007 and since then has been energizing audiences at events like the Alaska Folk Fest, Bumbershoot, Bite of Seattle, Northwest Folklife, Portland’s Rose Festival, and at venues like Lewis & Clark College, Planet Hollywood, Portland’s Crystal Ballroom, Reed College, Seattle University, The Showbox in Seattle, University of Washington, and University of Puget Sound.
Children get unlimited rides from noon to 5 p.m. for $20. Buy a wristband and get a free cotton candy from Paradise Amusements with the coupon in today’s Daily Fair, available at the fair gates and The Journal booth.
Maddy Anderson and Sarah Ayre of the Palace Theater had handed out about 150 free season passes to children by 8:30 a.m. on opening day of the fair, Wednesday. A sizable crowd lined up outside the theater and employees started handing out the passes at about 8:25 a.m. Tickets are available Thursday and Friday; preference will be given to children from other islands Saturday.
Maddy Anderson and Sarah Ayre of the Palace Theater had handed out about 150 free season passes to children by 8:30 a.m. on opening day of the fair, Wednesday. A sizable crowd lined up outside the theater and employees started handing out the passes at about 8:25 a.m. Tickets are available Thursday and Friday; preference will be given to children from other islands Saturday.
The Palace Theater in Friday Harbor is making available a limited number of free youth admission tickets to the San Juan County Fair. Each day of the fair, the Palace Theater will give away tickets at the theater from 8:30-11 a.m., or until the day’s supply is gone, whichever is sooner. Each person can pick up a ticket only for him or herself.
The San Juan County Fair is Aug. 18-21. The theme is “Locally Grown.” The fair features four days of competition, live entertainment (the headliners are bluegrass/Celtic rock group Clumsy Lovers), equestrian events, exhibits, rides and shows.
The San Juan Islands Museum of Art and Sculpture Park is co-sponsoring a series of DVD viewings with the island libraries of acclaimed architect James Hubbell’s life work, to prepare for his appearance at several public events on San Juan Island Sept. 3-5.
