September 29, 2025 • 28 mins
In this episode of Joyously Free!, Joanie Lindenmeyer talks with Peggy Gergen and Gail Marta about the long-running Brookings Harbor Community Bazaar. Originating over 55 years ago, the bazaar has grown from a small local gathering into a major event featuring 110 vendors offering handmade crafts, festive foods, and unique gifts. Now managed by the […]
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be talking about Christmas in just a second,
but Christmas to me is all year long.
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each one of us. It's a time where
we give gifts. We give smiles. We give
hugs. We give love.
That's my short reflection for today. So holly
jolly, everybody.
We end our sport we end our prayer
today by lifting up our friends and our
family.
Lord, take care of them, be with them
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all day long.
Let's have a happy day, listeners.
So it is time to introduce the speakers
right in front of me.
Oh my gollies. Our topic today is
the,
Brookings Harbor Community Bazaar, which I have been
a part of for years.
Our guests are Peggy Gergen
and Gail Marta, and they are here to
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talk to us about the bazaar,
the beginning of it, as well as what
is transitioning right now. And all of you
listeners, make sure you put this on your
calendar. It's coming up in November.
So here we go. Welcome, Peggy. Welcome, Gail.
Hey, Joni. Nice to be here. Oh, good
day. I am really glad. Peggy, how are
you doing? I'm doing just fine. Thank you.
Good. Good. Oh, my pleasure to have you
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here. You know? And, Gail, how about you?
How are you doing today? I'm doing just
fine. Good. Good. Good. Good. So, Peggy, tell
us a little bit about the the history
of the Brookings Harbor Community Bazaar.
Well, a little over fifty five years ago
now,
we had a bunch of groups in town,
the homemakers groups, through University of, excuse me,
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Oregon State University extension.
And we were all having these little bazaars
to raise money for our expenses,
and a bunch of church groups were too.
And so these people and that people, and
they'd have them on different days. And,
and it was kinda crazy because you had
to drive around town to try and figure
out where these people were.
So one of our meetings we talked about,
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why don't we get everybody together in one
place on one day?
Oh. That was fifty five years ago. Oh
my god. And I think we started with
if I remember right, it was only, like,
12 tables.
It was at the Catholic Parish Hall because
it was the bigger one of the ones
around town.
And it went so well
that, we decided we better continue this. At
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the time, Marilyn Shipley, longtime resident, and Vanjie
Andreesen Oh, two lovely people that I absolutely
love. Oh.
And, they were pretty much the lead of
it. And every year, it got a little
bigger. So it got too big for the
parish hall,
and we moved to the Kalmiopsis,
elementary school cafeteria.
And about the second year, the fire marshal
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came through and said, you can't do this
anymore. You crowded this building way too much.
So we moved to the high school gym.
But we had to use a great huge
tarp on the floor of the high school
gym to protect it for the basketball games.
And that got to be very challenging. Somebody
tripped one day and so forth. So we
moved from there to the Azalea Gym
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because it had a durable floor.
And then pretty soon, we were clear out
in the hallway,
and we had to add the high school
cafeteria, which was directly behind us. And now
we're up to a 110 vendors. Oh my
gosh. And all homemade gifts or,
merchandise Handcrafted. Products. Yeah. Handcrafted.
Yeah. That that includes people like you with
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books. That includes
all kinds of different crafts.
Canned tuna from time to time that's, of
course, commercially canned but caught by a local
person. Right. And so, anyway, we have all
kinds of varieties, but we insist that it
not be commercial. A
little bit of an exception on the tuna.
Yeah. Exactly. Exactly. So from there,
how are we in now with the chairman,
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Gail Marta? How did this all come about,
Peggy? And then Gail's gonna jump in here.
Well, our extension group, after
doing this for fifty years,
decided it was time to turn it over
to a younger group. We were all getting
older,
and, so we decided to call it quits
at around 50.
And
because, usually, all of our funds that we
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raised from booth fees was going into some
kind of education, whether it was four h
camp or four h scholarships
or something to do like on that order.
Well, we knew about another group in town
who was involved in education, and it was
our PEO fellowship.
And they were involved in raising scholarships for
women.
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And so because I happened to belong there
too,
presented the idea to that group, and they
picked up on it. And that's the reason
Gail's here. Oh my gosh. And, Gail, how
long has that been? And and tell me
your take on this.
Well, it's been I've been a member of
PEO for three years and pretty much got
involved with The Bazaar
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before I joined. That's how I found PEO.
An article in our local paper talked about
them taking over the bazaar and how they
worked with education for women and scholarships,
and I was a new transplant from the
Sacramento Valley.
And so I wanted to go meet these
women. So off to the bazaar, I went
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and met them and never looked back. You
bet. And holly jolly when you meet them.
That's the truth. These gals,
I trust them with my life. Let's put
it that way. They they are just
the most kind, caring, supportive group.
You have a job. You don't have to
worry about finding somebody to do it. Somebody's
there to volunteer, and we all just work
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really well together. Right. Right. So when your
organization took over, were they are as enthusiastic
as you are right now? Yeah. I think
they were because that was the enthusiasm
that I met that very first,
bazaar, which was in 2019
that I attended.
And then, of course, we had COVID, and
we had to put it on hold for
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a little bit. But we came back strong
after, and I think it's stronger now than
than when we started. Absolutely. Oh, I agree.
It's stronger now. In fact, I see more
people from out of town
coming to this, not just our local people,
but out of town. Do you wanna comment
on that, either one of you? Well, that
includes vendors too. We had our registration for
vendors, last week, and we started at 09:00
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in the morning.
And we had three people manning the phones,
and by noon,
it was pretty close. And by 12:30, we
had all a 110 booths filled. And that's
not just local people. That includes
the ever popular fudge ladies from Coos Bay.
Yummy. And, you know, people from all over.
We try to reach out to the Medford,
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Eureka, Coos Bay circle.
Right. Right. Gail, do you wanna add to
that? It's it's amazing
how
many people want to come and participate in
our bazaar.
We've had comments that it's, you know, very
well run and organized, which we pride ourselves
on being able to do.
But we are happy to offer the opportunity
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for people to
sell their, handmade wares
because and we've all gotten some gorgeous things
when we've gone. We, you know, always make
sure we've got our our money stuffed in
our pocket as we're wandering around doing PEO
business, but also shopping a little bit too.
You bet. The artists are phenomenal, and they're
so diverse. Absolutely.
Yeah. You know?
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What I was thinking about was the joy
that goes on inside that gymnasium and the
hallway and the chitter chatter and and everybody.
There's also food
there. Peggy, when you talk about the old
days of the food and now the food,
and, of course, we need to throw out
the date and the time for everybody.
Well, the date and the time is November
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8, which is a Saturday.
It starts at nine in the morning, and
it ends at four in the afternoon.
So that's that. But now the food,
back in the good old days, we had
enough extension groups in town that we put
on a luncheon, and we used the,
high school facilities to do that so it
would be under the food line guidelines.
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And,
people still ask us, why aren't we doing
that luncheon anymore? Well,
first of all, we just don't have the
people to do it. It takes all of
us to put on the bazaar.
But we actually reached out to local food
vendors, and in the alleyway between
the two venues,
the Hyacelaea Gym and the high school cafeteria,
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We park
food vendors,
and we get some really good ones. Ever
popular one is the kettle corn guys.
Yes. And, we've got,
oh gosh. What's the hot dog guy's name?
I can't remember. But, anyway, he's pop Papa
John's or somebody. He's there every year. Papa
dog, I think. Papa dog. Yeah. And, and
so we have I don't remember even who
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all they all are this year, but we'll
have food available.
And that helps people stay longer because they
can come to the bazaar. They can have
their lunch. And we always say visit with
new friends and old because you're gonna meet
new people as well as people you haven't
seen for a whole year. Yes. Yes. And
and speaking of those friends, how many people
attend this event, Gail? You know, I have
no idea. But what I do know is
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most of the time, it's really hard to
walk through either venue.
It seems to be pretty steady.
You know, you have that great rush in
the very beginning,
but all day, we have people in and
out. And and you talk about joy. That's
what you
hear. The like you saw, the chatter,
everybody's smiling. Everybody's
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seeing
friends, finding
a treasure. It's it's just a delightful
day to go hang out, actually. All in
the winter spirit, the Christmas spirit, the decorations,
the colors. Can you describe some of that?
Well, you can even get live Christmas trees
this year. Mhmm. One of our vendors tried
a little bit last year, but they're coming
back again this year, and they'll be outside,
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underneath the, overhang by the cafeteria.
And so you can buy potted Christmas trees.
You can,
you can find,
birdhouses. I know we have at least two
vendors that are doing birdhouses. We have books.
We have food of all kinds. The bakery
is always popular.
That's one of the first places I hit.
I slipped money underneath their tablecloth that's covering
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their goods so I can get something to
go with my coffee.
Right. We have, drink stands in both locations,
but one of our most popular things are
the dollar Christmas trees. Oh, yes. We have
white elephants that we the group collects all
year round. We make sure that somebody who
gets it is not gonna find they wasted
their dollar. They got something good.
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And,
last year, I think we had
close to 500 Close to 500 gifts. In
the two venues. So these were a wrapped
gift that a person could buy they buy
one gift for $1. Uh-huh. And,
it's gonna be a surprise when they open
it. And it's a white elephant. You gotta
expect that. But, nevertheless,
we label them so you know if it's
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a child, an adult, a man. We have
trouble finding men gifts, but we work on
it. Men and teenage boys. So, you know,
if someone's got a source for that, let
us know because we would gladly take those
donations and put them under our Christmas tree.
Super. How do they get ahold of you,
Gail? Well, they can get ahold of myself,
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by my email, but the best way would
be to go to Brooking Harbor Bazaar.
The website? Our website. And then you'd put
in an inquiry,
and it will go to one of our
members
that monitors that, and we'll get back to
you with an answer. There you go. Good.
Good. Good. Peggy, I I love personal stories.
There's a friend of ours, Doris Westeby.
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Will you talk about what she does with
those Christmas gifts for a dollar?
She puts them under her own Christmas tree.
She buys a bundle of them. She puts
them under her own Christmas tree because she's
by herself. Her family lives a long ways
away, and it's just for fun. On Christmas
morning, she opens those gifts up. And,
what she likes, she keeps. What she doesn't
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like, she donates back for next year. Isn't
that great? And she's so happy, so joyful
about that because oh, the the joy on
her face when she opens that up or
she'll give me a call or a text
and, look what I got, Joni. Look what
I got. And she's not the only one.
We've had other people hear about it and
do that too. Oh, fantastic. Fantastic. You know,
and and it's always people say, oh, I
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don't wanna spend that much money on Christmas
gifts. A dollar for a gift. There's there's
nothing. And, again, what does what does the
money go to? It goes to women's scholarships,
of which we are very proud. Can you
talk more about that, Gail? We can. We
have
various,
scholarships for women. Some are for,
going high school students going into college. Some
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are for returning students. Perhaps they've had to
take a break in their education, and they're
coming back to school, advanced degrees.
We also give scholarships to women from outside
of The US
with the stipulation that once they have completed
their education, they go home and use that
education. Oh, fantastic. And we also have a
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college, a women's college, cottage college that we
support with our funds.
Fantastic. Oh my gosh. And if somebody wants
to donate, can they do that Absolutely. At
any time? Absolutely. And go into the website?
How do they do that, Kel? They can
go to the community,
bazaar site. Tell us that they'd like to
make them a donation.
We can give him an address to send
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that money. Also, at the bazaar,
PEO has a booth in both venues,
and we always have a donation can out.
So if you wanna come by and make
a donation,
we also do our own handcrafted items.
We have a raffle,
and one of the raffle prizes this year
will be a cord of wood. Oh. Yeah.
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Nice. And so there are all of those
things contribute to the money that we bank
that we are able to donate at the
end of the year for scholarship.
From start to finish, this is all joy,
isn't it? It is. My gosh. Peggy, what
were you gonna say? Oh, I was gonna
say that many of those scholarships go to
women right here in our community
or in our general community, including Gold Beach
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and Crescent City and so forth, because there's
a group in Crescent City too.
And,
that's really lovely because
we get to meet people that, like you
said, have had to take a break in
their education.
And maybe now they're coming back in the
middle of their life, and they wanna get
that degree or that vocational skill. We had
somebody that went to beauty school. And so
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whatever they need, if they can we send
everything off to our national organization.
We send them the money. We send them
the applications.
So it's not a local decision
because we don't want to say, oh, you
can't have one. We let somebody else do
that.
But we very seldom send anybody that doesn't
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get a small scholarship or a bigger one.
Oh, repeat that one more time. Seldomly,
we
Get send off an application that doesn't get
funded.
Wow. Think about that, everybody that's listening. You
know, this is an opportunity for many of
you right now that are thinking, oh, yeah.
I I could use an extra money for
my education or my trade school or whatever
it may be. Fantastic.
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So what do you enjoy the most about
this bizarre, Peggy?
Oh, I just love going.
Is it the shopping? Is it the people?
Get get get a rundown of you personally
about this. Everything.
Yeah. I really enjoy just flat going. I
love picking up things from each of the
booths. Not each of them, of course, a
110.
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But, finding something special for somebody on my
list, finding something special for me. I've got
a whole bunch of birdhouses.
Cool. Cool. Cool. I think of the soaps.
I think of the jewelry.
I I think of the, the knit knitted
and crocheted
purses and clothing and potholders
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and everything you can imagine. You know? What
else can you add to that, Gail? Oh,
the first year that I went to the
bazaar, we had a vendor that did the
most beautiful stained glass items.
And,
of course, I was in a new town,
and we were celebrating Christmas for the first
year.
And I've got a couple very special,
stained glass ornaments I bought from her. She
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hasn't been back. I really wish she'd come
back.
No. If you're out there and you hear
this, that's your that's your cue. Mhmm. That's
your cue. Right on. Right on. You know,
Peggy, I know you've been associated with us
for many, many years. Can you pop some
names of our local people in our community
that have been a part of this or
a part of the extension or PEO names?
Let's throw out those names so people can
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hear their name on the radio. Are you
talking about vendors? Vendors and or
workers or volunteers or members.
Well, another,
vendor that does books like you do is
Georgia Cockerham,
and she's there again, I believe, this year.
Like I mentioned, Vanjie Andreesen and and Marilyn
Shipley and
Fran Shimon,
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Sharon Huff. Those are some some of the
names that people might know that have been
involved in the bazaar
and gradually retired out as now the PEO
took over. Right. Shirley Mason. I'm thinking Shirley
Mason. I'm thinking Sharon Andreessen. Mhmm. Mhmm. Mhmm.
You know? And if somebody wants to be
a part And you. And me and myself
and Carol, absolutely. That's how we met the
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wild and crazy bizarre group, and we always
just called it the bizarre group. You know?
What were you gonna say say, Theo?
We'd this we had three people in PEO
that
really spearheaded us being involved
in those first couple three years. Peggy Peggy
was the chairman,
Sally Irish, and,
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June Roby Blum.
And those three women
have left
notebook that is unbelievable
for
our how to's, and
it has time frames. It has phone numbers.
It has how to do this and how
to do that. That's my Bible. And without
that book, I would be so lost, and
I'm very grateful for those ladies for that.
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Right. Well and it takes a a year
to plan this. It's not like you just
jump right into it. That's correct. Yes. Yep.
As soon as this one's done,
we will do our
recounting and
figure out how much money we're able to
donate this year,
and then we will start in for next
year.
Fantastic. I think our group, the PEU Go
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O group is the largest donor in the
state of Oregon
Wow. Because of the bazaar.
Wow. Yeah. Yeah. And what it does for
our local community is just fantastic. You know?
I I've seen all ages of people, families
coming in with their strollers and the kids,
and we have the the elderly. They're coming
in with their walkers or their wheelchairs, and
it's accessible to everybody and anybody, of course.
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Mhmm. And it and one of the things
that we've
done is we've made rest areas. We have
little spots all around both venues with three
or four chairs. So when when you need
to put your feet up, you can. Or
when hubby's getting a little anxious and you're
not quite done, he's got a place to
go sit. I love it. I love it.
That's great. That's great. So with all this
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great joy going on,
what do you foresee
is gonna be, like, the best of the
best on Saturday, November 8 from nine to
four?
Oh my gosh. The best of the best.
The best of the best.
Well, while we were on the phones trying
to frame, we can get all these 110
people signed up, we, of course, didn't hear
what the other guy was doing over next
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to us. So we we, right now, couldn't
tell you exactly who all is gonna be
in there. Will it be in the print?
Surprise. Will it be yeah. It'll be a
surprise at Christmas. I I love it. That's
a Christmas thing. I will tell you, we
have about 20%
of our vendors that are brand new this
year that have never been at the bazaar.
So we're so we're excited. So we've got
people that have been with us every single
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year,
like the Carmel Corn and the Fudge Lady.
Those are my two favorites.
And but also new vendors with new products
and ideas, and so we're excited about that.
Awesome. Awesome. Awesome. Good. Good. Good. Good. Alright.
What else is on your mind and heart
about the bazaar this year?
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I know you're getting me excited already.
Exactly. I love it. It's a day. It
is a day, and you can spend an
hour there. You can spend the whole day
there. Well, for us, it's more than a
day because it starts the day before when
we have to get everybody in there and
set up.
And, because of school being in session, of
course, we have to wait for the school
day to be totally done.
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On Friday.
On Friday,
which means that,
the Azalea Gym is not available until the
basketball team is done practicing. So
that makes it a pretty short evening. You
usually get people in there about seven, and
they have we have to close-up at nine
Mhmm. And, lock the doors. And but the
cafeteria folks can get in a little bit
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earlier
than that. And so it starts and we
then we're back there at seven in the
morning. So we can Put the coffee pot
on. Put the coffee pot on.
Two things I'd like to add. One is
that we donate space to youth local youth
groups,
be it a church group, be it,
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the the football team, whoever that needs to
raise funds.
If they wanna come and have a handmade,
booth, we will donate the space to them.
They just need to go to the brooking
harbor bar bazaar
and get ahold of us. Let us know
what they're they're making, and we'll send them
up a space.
Last year, the,
four h, sporting
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good group that they do all kinds of,
like, shooting sports and archery, and and they
even have some livestock stuff in there too.
But those folks, had the best baked goods.
Oh my gosh. Remember the cookies? Oh, the
cookie. Oh, the lemon bars were delightful. And
I'm sure they'll be back. Yeah. Right on.
Right on. And the other thing that has
been a huge boon to us for the
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last two years is the track team has
come and helped us set up.
Those young people can get on that floor
and lay that tape out a whole lot
easier than we can, and that is we've
really appreciated
their time and their energy that they also
bring,
as we do it. So Yes. We enjoy
that very much. So volunteers. If you're thinking
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that you'd like to volunteer, you can go
onto the website, get a hold of them,
and see what you would like to do
for that. Mhmm. You know? And one of
the things that I like, and we haven't
even talked about it, and I've been to
cities where things like this go on, they
charge an entry fee.
There is no entry fee to come to
this. It is absolutely free. If you wanna
just come and browse
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Mhmm. If you just wanna walk around and
see your friends
and get maybe get an idea for something
that you wanna make,
Absolutely. Come on down to do that. The
vendors do pay a small fee. That's where
we make our money for the scholarships. And
it's small. But not the customers. That's free.
Right. Right. Right. Right. Exactly. What we are
down to just a few minutes.
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Final comment from Gail and then a final
comment from Peggy about the community bazaar.
You've gotta come and join us. It's just
the energy, the joy. I love that that's
your theme on this, Joni. It is really,
really joyful. Even on Sunday when I've got
my feet up and I'm going, thank goodness
it's over, it's still a very joyous time
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because we just enjoyed everything we did.
Yeah. Thank you. I just wanna remind everybody
of when and where. It's at the Brookings
Harbor School District in Azalea Middle School gym
and the cafeteria for the high school, which
is right directly behind it down an alley
and the alley with the food booths. And
that's on
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November
8,
and it starts at nine in the morning,
and we end it at four so the
out of towners have a chance to get
home. Excellent. Excellent. What a great what a
great radio show this has been. Oh my
gosh. Like, I I I'm just my heart
is just so filled and happy.
Thank you, beautiful listeners, on the gorgeous coast
of Southern Oregon and Northern California for being
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with us in this joyously free radio show.
We hope you've been inspired, maybe even challenged.
You've enjoyed the stories and the tips and
the hopes with our special guests, Gail and
Peggy. Yes. It's been a wonderful day with
you. So I wanna give high tens right
now across the table to Gail and to
Peggy. Woo hoo. From the top of my
heart, I really, really thank you. Thank you,
KCAW
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one hundred point seven. Team, Mike Gorse on
the sound today. Fantastic.
Of course, Tom Bozak, Candice, and Rose. And
we wanna, of course, put in there doc,
Nate dog from KZZH
in Access Humboldt. So we appreciate everybody being
here. You know that you can just show
up at this bazaar and have a great
time. It'll be a joyful day. And so
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I wanna just say signing off here. Remember,
my books are available, 2sisterswriting.com
or locally at the Brookings,
bookstore or the library or gonna be at
the bazaar. So I look forward to signing
them with you.
Contact me if you need to, k c
I w, and that's one hundred point seven
FM. We look forward to a beautiful day
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today as well as the future days coming
up. We're gonna end with smile big and
wear bright colors. Have a great day. Bye.
Hi, and welcome KCIW listeners at one hundred
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This is joyously free with me, none better
than Joni Lindenmeyer, a best selling author. I'm
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I'm a thirty four year resident of Harbor,
Oregon, a retired Del Norte High School teacher,
and a twenty twenty five Lambda nominated author
who has published three books in two years.
But mostly, I love life and love being
the producer and host of this show. I'm
so glad you are here with us today.
As in every morning salutation, let's begin with
(00:54):
our mantra. It's a brand new day, and
you respond with never been lived before. Let's
see if our, guest can even remember that
today. So here we go. It's a brand
new day. It's never been lived before.
Oh, what teamwork? Oh, you all sound fantastic.
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Simply said, the purpose of the show is
to share, radiate, and spread that abundant joy
and abundant freedom. Hence, the title joyously free.
It is also the second book that I
coauthored with Elizabeth Ann Atkins of two sisters
writing.
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As in life, there's no
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on our show. We blast the show with
the three c's, courage, confidence, and collaboration.
Together, let's seek understanding.
It's so fun to see our guests sitting
right across from me, but I know we
have to do our prayer first. So let's
open our hearts,
ask our creator to shine light on our
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I, and I think you too, excitedly believe
in hope, in the power of the divine,
and that Jesus, God, whatever name you put
on a higher being, is always with us.
Be not afraid or troubled,
saddened or depressed.
Joy and peace are an internal expression of
love and harmony that is already within us.
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All is well with my soul, for love
is abundant and everlasting.
So let's center ourselves.
Unless you're driving,
take a deep breath in with the good
and out with doubt.
Again, breathe in through your nose
with hope and out from your mouth with
fears.
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Last one. Take a big deep breath in
with joy
and out with any worry or despair.
In the name of our mother earth, god
our creator, Jesus our redeemer, and the blowing
winds of the Holy Spirit, we say, hi,
Jesus. Hi, god. Hi, spirit. Thank you for
being with us today.
Well, this is a great one, everybody.
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My quote for the day came from a
calendar,
and it's called holly jolly.
So, Lord Jesus, that is the message today.
Holly jolly. I know if Jesus were walking
this earth today, he'd be a jolly old
soul walking around. And so, yes, we're gonna
be talking about Christmas in just a second,
but Christmas to me is all year long.
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That spirit of joy just can radiate from
each one of us. It's a time where
we give gifts. We give smiles. We give
hugs. We give love.
That's my short reflection for today. So holly
jolly, everybody.
We end our sport we end our prayer
today by lifting up our friends and our
family.
Lord, take care of them, be with them
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all day long.
Let's have a happy day, listeners.
So it is time to introduce the speakers
right in front of me.
Oh my gollies. Our topic today is
the,
Brookings Harbor Community Bazaar, which I have been
a part of for years.
Our guests are Peggy Gergen
and Gail Marta, and they are here to
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talk to us about the bazaar,
the beginning of it, as well as what
is transitioning right now. And all of you
listeners, make sure you put this on your
calendar. It's coming up in November.
So here we go. Welcome, Peggy. Welcome, Gail.
Hey, Joni. Nice to be here. Oh, good
day. I am really glad. Peggy, how are
you doing? I'm doing just fine. Thank you.
Good. Good. Oh, my pleasure to have you
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here. You know? And, Gail, how about you?
How are you doing today? I'm doing just
fine. Good. Good. Good. Good. So, Peggy, tell
us a little bit about the the history
of the Brookings Harbor Community Bazaar.
Well, a little over fifty five years ago
now,
we had a bunch of groups in town,
the homemakers groups, through University of, excuse me,
(04:47):
Oregon State University extension.
And we were all having these little bazaars
to raise money for our expenses,
and a bunch of church groups were too.
And so these people and that people, and
they'd have them on different days. And,
and it was kinda crazy because you had
to drive around town to try and figure
out where these people were.
So one of our meetings we talked about,
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why don't we get everybody together in one
place on one day?
Oh. That was fifty five years ago. Oh
my god. And I think we started with
if I remember right, it was only, like,
12 tables.
It was at the Catholic Parish Hall because
it was the bigger one of the ones
around town.
And it went so well
that, we decided we better continue this. At
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the time, Marilyn Shipley, longtime resident, and Vanjie
Andreesen Oh, two lovely people that I absolutely
love. Oh.
And, they were pretty much the lead of
it. And every year, it got a little
bigger. So it got too big for the
parish hall,
and we moved to the Kalmiopsis,
elementary school cafeteria.
And about the second year, the fire marshal
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came through and said, you can't do this
anymore. You crowded this building way too much.
So we moved to the high school gym.
But we had to use a great huge
tarp on the floor of the high school
gym to protect it for the basketball games.
And that got to be very challenging. Somebody
tripped one day and so forth. So we
moved from there to the Azalea Gym
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because it had a durable floor.
And then pretty soon, we were clear out
in the hallway,
and we had to add the high school
cafeteria, which was directly behind us. And now
we're up to a 110 vendors. Oh my
gosh. And all homemade gifts or,
merchandise Handcrafted. Products. Yeah. Handcrafted.
Yeah. That that includes people like you with
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books. That includes
all kinds of different crafts.
Canned tuna from time to time that's, of
course, commercially canned but caught by a local
person. Right. And so, anyway, we have all
kinds of varieties, but we insist that it
not be commercial. A
little bit of an exception on the tuna.
Yeah. Exactly. Exactly. So from there,
how are we in now with the chairman,
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Gail Marta? How did this all come about,
Peggy? And then Gail's gonna jump in here.
Well, our extension group, after
doing this for fifty years,
decided it was time to turn it over
to a younger group. We were all getting
older,
and, so we decided to call it quits
at around 50.
And
because, usually, all of our funds that we
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raised from booth fees was going into some
kind of education, whether it was four h
camp or four h scholarships
or something to do like on that order.
Well, we knew about another group in town
who was involved in education, and it was
our PEO fellowship.
And they were involved in raising scholarships for
women.
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And so because I happened to belong there
too,
presented the idea to that group, and they
picked up on it. And that's the reason
Gail's here. Oh my gosh. And, Gail, how
long has that been? And and tell me
your take on this.
Well, it's been I've been a member of
PEO for three years and pretty much got
involved with The Bazaar
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before I joined. That's how I found PEO.
An article in our local paper talked about
them taking over the bazaar and how they
worked with education for women and scholarships,
and I was a new transplant from the
Sacramento Valley.
And so I wanted to go meet these
women. So off to the bazaar, I went
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and met them and never looked back. You
bet. And holly jolly when you meet them.
That's the truth. These gals,
I trust them with my life. Let's put
it that way. They they are just
the most kind, caring, supportive group.
You have a job. You don't have to
worry about finding somebody to do it. Somebody's
there to volunteer, and we all just work
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really well together. Right. Right. So when your
organization took over, were they are as enthusiastic
as you are right now? Yeah. I think
they were because that was the enthusiasm
that I met that very first,
bazaar, which was in 2019
that I attended.
And then, of course, we had COVID, and
we had to put it on hold for
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a little bit. But we came back strong
after, and I think it's stronger now than
than when we started. Absolutely. Oh, I agree.
It's stronger now. In fact, I see more
people from out of town
coming to this, not just our local people,
but out of town. Do you wanna comment
on that, either one of you? Well, that
includes vendors too. We had our registration for
vendors, last week, and we started at 09:00
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in the morning.
And we had three people manning the phones,
and by noon,
it was pretty close. And by 12:30, we
had all a 110 booths filled. And that's
not just local people. That includes
the ever popular fudge ladies from Coos Bay.
Yummy. And, you know, people from all over.
We try to reach out to the Medford,
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Eureka, Coos Bay circle.
Right. Right. Gail, do you wanna add to
that? It's it's amazing
how
many people want to come and participate in
our bazaar.
We've had comments that it's, you know, very
well run and organized, which we pride ourselves
on being able to do.
But we are happy to offer the opportunity
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for people to
sell their, handmade wares
because and we've all gotten some gorgeous things
when we've gone. We, you know, always make
sure we've got our our money stuffed in
our pocket as we're wandering around doing PEO
business, but also shopping a little bit too.
You bet. The artists are phenomenal, and they're
so diverse. Absolutely.
Yeah. You know?
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What I was thinking about was the joy
that goes on inside that gymnasium and the
hallway and the chitter chatter and and everybody.
There's also food
there. Peggy, when you talk about the old
days of the food and now the food,
and, of course, we need to throw out
the date and the time for everybody.
Well, the date and the time is November
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8, which is a Saturday.
It starts at nine in the morning, and
it ends at four in the afternoon.
So that's that. But now the food,
back in the good old days, we had
enough extension groups in town that we put
on a luncheon, and we used the,
high school facilities to do that so it
would be under the food line guidelines.
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And,
people still ask us, why aren't we doing
that luncheon anymore? Well,
first of all, we just don't have the
people to do it. It takes all of
us to put on the bazaar.
But we actually reached out to local food
vendors, and in the alleyway between
the two venues,
the Hyacelaea Gym and the high school cafeteria,
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We park
food vendors,
and we get some really good ones. Ever
popular one is the kettle corn guys.
Yes. And, we've got,
oh gosh. What's the hot dog guy's name?
I can't remember. But, anyway, he's pop Papa
John's or somebody. He's there every year. Papa
dog, I think. Papa dog. Yeah. And, and
so we have I don't remember even who
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all they all are this year, but we'll
have food available.
And that helps people stay longer because they
can come to the bazaar. They can have
their lunch. And we always say visit with
new friends and old because you're gonna meet
new people as well as people you haven't
seen for a whole year. Yes. Yes. And
and speaking of those friends, how many people
attend this event, Gail? You know, I have
no idea. But what I do know is
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most of the time, it's really hard to
walk through either venue.
It seems to be pretty steady.
You know, you have that great rush in
the very beginning,
but all day, we have people in and
out. And and you talk about joy. That's
what you
hear. The like you saw, the chatter,
everybody's smiling. Everybody's
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seeing
friends, finding
a treasure. It's it's just a delightful
day to go hang out, actually. All in
the winter spirit, the Christmas spirit, the decorations,
the colors. Can you describe some of that?
Well, you can even get live Christmas trees
this year. Mhmm. One of our vendors tried
a little bit last year, but they're coming
back again this year, and they'll be outside,
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underneath the, overhang by the cafeteria.
And so you can buy potted Christmas trees.
You can,
you can find,
birdhouses. I know we have at least two
vendors that are doing birdhouses. We have books.
We have food of all kinds. The bakery
is always popular.
That's one of the first places I hit.
I slipped money underneath their tablecloth that's covering
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their goods so I can get something to
go with my coffee.
Right. We have, drink stands in both locations,
but one of our most popular things are
the dollar Christmas trees. Oh, yes. We have
white elephants that we the group collects all
year round. We make sure that somebody who
gets it is not gonna find they wasted
their dollar. They got something good.
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And,
last year, I think we had
close to 500 Close to 500 gifts. In
the two venues. So these were a wrapped
gift that a person could buy they buy
one gift for $1. Uh-huh. And,
it's gonna be a surprise when they open
it. And it's a white elephant. You gotta
expect that. But, nevertheless,
we label them so you know if it's
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a child, an adult, a man. We have
trouble finding men gifts, but we work on
it. Men and teenage boys. So, you know,
if someone's got a source for that, let
us know because we would gladly take those
donations and put them under our Christmas tree.
Super. How do they get ahold of you,
Gail? Well, they can get ahold of myself,
(14:27):
by my email, but the best way would
be to go to Brooking Harbor Bazaar.
The website? Our website. And then you'd put
in an inquiry,
and it will go to one of our
members
that monitors that, and we'll get back to
you with an answer. There you go. Good.
Good. Good. Peggy, I I love personal stories.
There's a friend of ours, Doris Westeby.
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Will you talk about what she does with
those Christmas gifts for a dollar?
She puts them under her own Christmas tree.
She buys a bundle of them. She puts
them under her own Christmas tree because she's
by herself. Her family lives a long ways
away, and it's just for fun. On Christmas
morning, she opens those gifts up. And,
what she likes, she keeps. What she doesn't
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like, she donates back for next year. Isn't
that great? And she's so happy, so joyful
about that because oh, the the joy on
her face when she opens that up or
she'll give me a call or a text
and, look what I got, Joni. Look what
I got. And she's not the only one.
We've had other people hear about it and
do that too. Oh, fantastic. Fantastic. You know,
and and it's always people say, oh, I
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don't wanna spend that much money on Christmas
gifts. A dollar for a gift. There's there's
nothing. And, again, what does what does the
money go to? It goes to women's scholarships,
of which we are very proud. Can you
talk more about that, Gail? We can. We
have
various,
scholarships for women. Some are for,
going high school students going into college. Some
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are for returning students. Perhaps they've had to
take a break in their education, and they're
coming back to school, advanced degrees.
We also give scholarships to women from outside
of The US
with the stipulation that once they have completed
their education, they go home and use that
education. Oh, fantastic. And we also have a
(16:14):
college, a women's college, cottage college that we
support with our funds.
Fantastic. Oh my gosh. And if somebody wants
to donate, can they do that Absolutely. At
any time? Absolutely. And go into the website?
How do they do that, Kel? They can
go to the community,
bazaar site. Tell us that they'd like to
make them a donation.
We can give him an address to send
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that money. Also, at the bazaar,
PEO has a booth in both venues,
and we always have a donation can out.
So if you wanna come by and make
a donation,
we also do our own handcrafted items.
We have a raffle,
and one of the raffle prizes this year
will be a cord of wood. Oh. Yeah.
(16:56):
Nice. And so there are all of those
things contribute to the money that we bank
that we are able to donate at the
end of the year for scholarship.
From start to finish, this is all joy,
isn't it? It is. My gosh. Peggy, what
were you gonna say? Oh, I was gonna
say that many of those scholarships go to
women right here in our community
or in our general community, including Gold Beach
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and Crescent City and so forth, because there's
a group in Crescent City too.
And,
that's really lovely because
we get to meet people that, like you
said, have had to take a break in
their education.
And maybe now they're coming back in the
middle of their life, and they wanna get
that degree or that vocational skill. We had
somebody that went to beauty school. And so
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whatever they need, if they can we send
everything off to our national organization.
We send them the money. We send them
the applications.
So it's not a local decision
because we don't want to say, oh, you
can't have one. We let somebody else do
that.
But we very seldom send anybody that doesn't
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get a small scholarship or a bigger one.
Oh, repeat that one more time. Seldomly,
we
Get send off an application that doesn't get
funded.
Wow. Think about that, everybody that's listening. You
know, this is an opportunity for many of
you right now that are thinking, oh, yeah.
I I could use an extra money for
my education or my trade school or whatever
it may be. Fantastic.
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So what do you enjoy the most about
this bizarre, Peggy?
Oh, I just love going.
Is it the shopping? Is it the people?
Get get get a rundown of you personally
about this. Everything.
Yeah. I really enjoy just flat going. I
love picking up things from each of the
booths. Not each of them, of course, a
110.
(18:39):
But, finding something special for somebody on my
list, finding something special for me. I've got
a whole bunch of birdhouses.
Cool. Cool. Cool. I think of the soaps.
I think of the jewelry.
I I think of the, the knit knitted
and crocheted
purses and clothing and potholders
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and everything you can imagine. You know? What
else can you add to that, Gail? Oh,
the first year that I went to the
bazaar, we had a vendor that did the
most beautiful stained glass items.
And,
of course, I was in a new town,
and we were celebrating Christmas for the first
year.
And I've got a couple very special,
stained glass ornaments I bought from her. She
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hasn't been back. I really wish she'd come
back.
No. If you're out there and you hear
this, that's your that's your cue. Mhmm. That's
your cue. Right on. Right on. You know,
Peggy, I know you've been associated with us
for many, many years. Can you pop some
names of our local people in our community
that have been a part of this or
a part of the extension or PEO names?
Let's throw out those names so people can
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hear their name on the radio. Are you
talking about vendors? Vendors and or
workers or volunteers or members.
Well, another,
vendor that does books like you do is
Georgia Cockerham,
and she's there again, I believe, this year.
Like I mentioned, Vanjie Andreesen and and Marilyn
Shipley and
Fran Shimon,
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Sharon Huff. Those are some some of the
names that people might know that have been
involved in the bazaar
and gradually retired out as now the PEO
took over. Right. Shirley Mason. I'm thinking Shirley
Mason. I'm thinking Sharon Andreessen. Mhmm. Mhmm. Mhmm.
You know? And if somebody wants to be
a part And you. And me and myself
and Carol, absolutely. That's how we met the
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wild and crazy bizarre group, and we always
just called it the bizarre group. You know?
What were you gonna say say, Theo?
We'd this we had three people in PEO
that
really spearheaded us being involved
in those first couple three years. Peggy Peggy
was the chairman,
Sally Irish, and,
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June Roby Blum.
And those three women
have left
notebook that is unbelievable
for
our how to's, and
it has time frames. It has phone numbers.
It has how to do this and how
to do that. That's my Bible. And without
that book, I would be so lost, and
I'm very grateful for those ladies for that.
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Right. Well and it takes a a year
to plan this. It's not like you just
jump right into it. That's correct. Yes. Yep.
As soon as this one's done,
we will do our
recounting and
figure out how much money we're able to
donate this year,
and then we will start in for next
year.
Fantastic. I think our group, the PEU Go
(21:29):
O group is the largest donor in the
state of Oregon
Wow. Because of the bazaar.
Wow. Yeah. Yeah. And what it does for
our local community is just fantastic. You know?
I I've seen all ages of people, families
coming in with their strollers and the kids,
and we have the the elderly. They're coming
in with their walkers or their wheelchairs, and
it's accessible to everybody and anybody, of course.
(21:51):
Mhmm. And it and one of the things
that we've
done is we've made rest areas. We have
little spots all around both venues with three
or four chairs. So when when you need
to put your feet up, you can. Or
when hubby's getting a little anxious and you're
not quite done, he's got a place to
go sit. I love it. I love it.
That's great. That's great. So with all this
(22:14):
great joy going on,
what do you foresee
is gonna be, like, the best of the
best on Saturday, November 8 from nine to
four?
Oh my gosh. The best of the best.
The best of the best.
Well, while we were on the phones trying
to frame, we can get all these 110
people signed up, we, of course, didn't hear
what the other guy was doing over next
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to us. So we we, right now, couldn't
tell you exactly who all is gonna be
in there. Will it be in the print?
Surprise. Will it be yeah. It'll be a
surprise at Christmas. I I love it. That's
a Christmas thing. I will tell you, we
have about 20%
of our vendors that are brand new this
year that have never been at the bazaar.
So we're so we're excited. So we've got
people that have been with us every single
(22:55):
year,
like the Carmel Corn and the Fudge Lady.
Those are my two favorites.
And but also new vendors with new products
and ideas, and so we're excited about that.
Awesome. Awesome. Awesome. Good. Good. Good. Good. Alright.
What else is on your mind and heart
about the bazaar this year?
(23:15):
I know you're getting me excited already.
Exactly. I love it. It's a day. It
is a day, and you can spend an
hour there. You can spend the whole day
there. Well, for us, it's more than a
day because it starts the day before when
we have to get everybody in there and
set up.
And, because of school being in session, of
course, we have to wait for the school
day to be totally done.
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On Friday.
On Friday,
which means that,
the Azalea Gym is not available until the
basketball team is done practicing. So
that makes it a pretty short evening. You
usually get people in there about seven, and
they have we have to close-up at nine
Mhmm. And, lock the doors. And but the
cafeteria folks can get in a little bit
(23:58):
earlier
than that. And so it starts and we
then we're back there at seven in the
morning. So we can Put the coffee pot
on. Put the coffee pot on.
Two things I'd like to add. One is
that we donate space to youth local youth
groups,
be it a church group, be it,
(24:18):
the the football team, whoever that needs to
raise funds.
If they wanna come and have a handmade,
booth, we will donate the space to them.
They just need to go to the brooking
harbor bar bazaar
and get ahold of us. Let us know
what they're they're making, and we'll send them
up a space.
Last year, the,
four h, sporting
(24:40):
good group that they do all kinds of,
like, shooting sports and archery, and and they
even have some livestock stuff in there too.
But those folks, had the best baked goods.
Oh my gosh. Remember the cookies? Oh, the
cookie. Oh, the lemon bars were delightful. And
I'm sure they'll be back. Yeah. Right on.
Right on. And the other thing that has
been a huge boon to us for the
(25:02):
last two years is the track team has
come and helped us set up.
Those young people can get on that floor
and lay that tape out a whole lot
easier than we can, and that is we've
really appreciated
their time and their energy that they also
bring,
as we do it. So Yes. We enjoy
that very much. So volunteers. If you're thinking
(25:23):
that you'd like to volunteer, you can go
onto the website, get a hold of them,
and see what you would like to do
for that. Mhmm. You know? And one of
the things that I like, and we haven't
even talked about it, and I've been to
cities where things like this go on, they
charge an entry fee.
There is no entry fee to come to
this. It is absolutely free. If you wanna
just come and browse
(25:43):
Mhmm. If you just wanna walk around and
see your friends
and get maybe get an idea for something
that you wanna make,
Absolutely. Come on down to do that. The
vendors do pay a small fee. That's where
we make our money for the scholarships. And
it's small. But not the customers. That's free.
Right. Right. Right. Right. Exactly. What we are
down to just a few minutes.
(26:04):
Final comment from Gail and then a final
comment from Peggy about the community bazaar.
You've gotta come and join us. It's just
the energy, the joy. I love that that's
your theme on this, Joni. It is really,
really joyful. Even on Sunday when I've got
my feet up and I'm going, thank goodness
it's over, it's still a very joyous time
(26:26):
because we just enjoyed everything we did.
Yeah. Thank you. I just wanna remind everybody
of when and where. It's at the Brookings
Harbor School District in Azalea Middle School gym
and the cafeteria for the high school, which
is right directly behind it down an alley
and the alley with the food booths. And
that's on
(26:47):
November
8,
and it starts at nine in the morning,
and we end it at four so the
out of towners have a chance to get
home. Excellent. Excellent. What a great what a
great radio show this has been. Oh my
gosh. Like, I I I'm just my heart
is just so filled and happy.
Thank you, beautiful listeners, on the gorgeous coast
of Southern Oregon and Northern California for being
(27:07):
with us in this joyously free radio show.
We hope you've been inspired, maybe even challenged.
You've enjoyed the stories and the tips and
the hopes with our special guests, Gail and
Peggy. Yes. It's been a wonderful day with
you. So I wanna give high tens right
now across the table to Gail and to
Peggy. Woo hoo. From the top of my
heart, I really, really thank you. Thank you,
KCAW
(27:27):
one hundred point seven. Team, Mike Gorse on
the sound today. Fantastic.
Of course, Tom Bozak, Candice, and Rose. And
we wanna, of course, put in there doc,
Nate dog from KZZH
in Access Humboldt. So we appreciate everybody being
here. You know that you can just show
up at this bazaar and have a great
time. It'll be a joyful day. And so
(27:49):
I wanna just say signing off here. Remember,
my books are available, 2sisterswriting.com
or locally at the Brookings,
bookstore or the library or gonna be at
the bazaar. So I look forward to signing
them with you.
Contact me if you need to, k c
I w, and that's one hundred point seven
FM. We look forward to a beautiful day
(28:09):
today as well as the future days coming
up. We're gonna end with smile big and
wear bright colors. Have a great day. Bye.
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