The Evergroove trivia series was produced as a result of conversations with Rick regarding the fact that my educational experience in Olympia spanned the years of Kindergarten through college. TESC opened in 1971 when I was in high school. Before I was enrolled at Evergroove (1974-1979) I liked to go to the campus and hang out and attend events. The 100 installments mostly focus on the early development of Evergreen and the relationship between town and gown. It is more a personal narrative than a history, but as a local and an early Geoduck grad, I think I can offer a different kind of perspective on the rise and fall of the Evergreen I knew and loved. And also how Olympia changed with the college.

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From GRuB secures future, buys land - The Olympian:

OLYMPIA - A 2-acre plot where locals have harvested food for a decade will stay a community farm.

Garden-Raised Bounty, the longtime nonprofit group that grows food for low-income people and educates youth, has purchased the land on Elliott Avenue. The move gives the group certainty about its future so members don't have to worry about hunting for a home.

"We've secured our place here, and that allows us to think long term in terms of the land, producing more food for the community and growing our youth program," said Emily Dietzman, farm manager. "That's harder to do when you don't know where you're going to be physically."

GRuB grows about 5,000 pounds of food a year, she said. It's begun leasing an extra 1 1/2 acres and hopes to double production, she said.

The food goes to the Thurston County Food Bank, Senior Services for South Sound and the families of the youth who work there. Produce and flowers also are grown for the Community-Supported Agriculture program, in which locals pay growers for their produce up front or in installments. That, in turn, helps farmers with the costs of seeds and labor.

A new farm stand will debut on the corner of Elliott Avenue and Division Street in July. Revenue will be funneled back into the running of programs.

This is my weekly review of the city council packet. There is always more in it than what I write about here, so if you think I missed something interesting to you, download the packet. 

1. Sen. Mark Doumit asked GA to ask the city to rename 14th Ave between Capitol Way and Cherry Lane after former state Senator Sid Snyder. Senator Snyder is one of the most well liked former legislators in my (well) short memory. I have one of my own Senator Snyder stories, which basically entails spending 15 minutes with him on a September morning when I was a reporter with the Montesano Vidette. He seemed to be a very nice guy.

Here is an even better description from the Seattle PI when Snyder retired in 2002:

One of the Sid Snyder stories is about the other time he quit the Senate. That was in 1997. Snyder was devastated by the way the then-Republican Senate majority was trashing some of the chamber's 100-year-old rules of procedure. As Snyder tearfully explained his decision to a reporter in his office just off the Senate floor, Bette Snyder was by his side, telling him, "With your principles, you can't stay."

He was back after a week, and after a petition from the whole Senate urging him to return.

Perhaps the earliest and least credible Sid Snyder story took place when he was the House elevator operator, giving a lift to two Republican lawmakers who asked the young operator his party affiliation. It was Democrat, Snyder explained, because his father was a Democrat, as was his grandfather.

Questioning the young man's logic, one of the solons asked, "If they were horse thieves, would you be a horse thief?"

"No," Snyder allegedly answered, "I'd be a Republican."

Since the city council renamed part of Cooper Point Road after a bunch of car dealerships a few years ago, lets hope they take up this honor of Sen. Snyder.

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