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The Gardiner Calendar and the Gardiner Community Center Meeting Minutes have been update.
Gardiner Remembers You
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Gardiner Community
by Pat Nebel 'Old Timer'
Don’t blink or you might miss the community of Gardiner,
on highway 101, about halfway between Port Townsend and
Sequim. The only indication of the community is the
private campground, the
Wild Birds Unlimited store and the
Espresso Garden
latte stand, the
community
center and
Gardiner
Community Church.
Gardiner is in Jefferson County, Washington, listed in the
Quilcene phone book, is in the Sequim School District and
has a Sequim Zip Code.
Many homes are built along the water to enjoy a view across
the mouth of Discovery Bay with Diamond Point on the west,
Beckett Point on the east and Protection Island bordering
the shipping lanes on the Straight of Juan de Fuca.
Beyond, the San Juan Islands are silhouetted against
the skyline.
The old school house was purchased by Jefferson County and
became the
Gardiner Community center. The building has been
the center for many local activities like the
Garden Club, Rhododendron Grange,
North
Olympic Council square dancing, exercise programs,
potluck dinners, birthday parties and Christmas programs.
Friends and neighbors meet for a 4th of July
picnic and get together at the
boat
ramp over the 3 day President’s Day weekend to help with
the Olympic Peninsula Salmon Derby.
We still see many small birds, bald eagles and blue herons,
Canadian geese, crows, hummingbirds, robins and even a
turkey buzzard or two. There are cattle and
horses in the fields and until lately a small herd of
buffalo. You might even see a coyote out in the middle
of the day.
Some things have disappeared like the Gardiner Store and gas
station and Post Office; Lobo Land and the howling of wolves
at sundown; the train that went thru from Port
Townsend to Port Angeles and it’s whistle in the middle of
the night; people earning their living by cutting and
hauling pulpwood or picking brush or digging clams and going
fishing for cod fish and actually coming home with some for
dinner.
Gardiner, for all it’s differences, it is still a nice place
to live.
CHECK THIS OUT!
Dick Bennett sent along a link to YouTube for a video titled: “Continuous Chest Compression CPR - Mayo Clinic Presentation”. It is a new procedure for CPR for cardiac arrest.
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