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"I think it is the <br />accumulation of all <br />these experiences, the <br />research and the old <br />stories, the trips on <br />the old trails to actual <br />places, the visits to <br />history museums, <br />large and small, that <br />make it possible to do <br />pictures that are real <br />and believable and <br />have the feeling of the <br />place and the time. I <br />have always tried in <br />both wildlife paintings <br />and historical <br />paintings to take the <br />viewer to an actual <br />place and make him <br />feel he was really <br />there " <br />John Clymer, An <br />Artist's Rendezvous <br />With The Frontier <br />West, by W. Reed. <br />FA <br />'RENDEZVOUS! <br />We held our Fall fundraiser, Rendezvous and it was a great success! We held it in the <br />newly renovated Elks event space, and approximately 200 people attended! This year, <br />we had an OktoberFest theme complete with an ompah band from CWU—the were <br />great! We want to thank Cascade Mountain Grilling (Shannon Berbe) for providing an <br />excellent dinner of (what else?) German sausage. Iron Horse Brewery supplied as great <br />German -style Kolsch beer. The Roller City girls were our bartenders. Our auctioneer, Gee <br />Scott, helped us raise over $15,000 (after expenses). Thank you to the members of the <br />community who came and supported us! <br />LNEW PARTNERSHIP! <br />We are very excited to announce a new partnership with the Ellensburg Rodeo Hall of <br />Fame! They will be renting storage space in our upstairs and display space in our <br />Gallery. We hope this is the beginning of a long and fruitful partnership. Our long term <br />goal in working with ERHOF and ideally other western -themed groups is to turn our <br />upstairs into a Western Heritage Center that serves the community by honoring the past <br />and building for the future! <br />UPSTAIRS UPDATE <br />Speaking of the upstairs, we are close to beginning the work on refurbishing the offices upstairs! <br />There are ten offices and a conference room that we plan on bringing back into service both for <br />the Museum and the Community. Work could start as early as later this month! We are excited <br />about it <br />I FIRST FRIDAY COFFEE CLUB <br />On October 7`h, we hosted the Friday Morning Coffee Club at the Museum. About thirty <br />young business people came to the Museum, had coffee, learned about the Museum, <br />and toured the upstairs. It was great to host the group! <br />'HALLOWEEN! <br />Halloween! The Community and the Chamber did a great job with Monday's downtown <br />Halloween Event. We had 2773 people come through our doors! We were handing out <br />candy as fast as we could! Great evening. <br />