Auction Raises Wampum For Wampum
The 27th annual meeting of WAMPUM was unusually exciting with the announcement that the group raised $155,000 this year to be distributed to various beneficiaries.
“In the history of WAMPUM, this amount has been exceeded only once - WAMPUM’s 25th Anniversary year,” said Ron Stanley, president.
Hundreds of items, ranging in value from $100 to $59,000, were auctioned during the April gala. The money raised helps support Spokane-area charitable, cultural, educational and civic organizations. WAMPUM has donated nearly $3 million to more than 50 organizations since it was founded in 1968.
Beneficiaries this year include the Spokane Symphony, Spokane Civic Theatre, Eastern Washington Historical Society, Spokane Art School, Greater Spokane Music and Allied Arts Festival, Spokane Youth Symphony, KPBX-Spokane Public Radio, Music for Youth and Spokane Interplayers.
Other recipients are Uptown Opera, Spokane Park and Recreation Foundation, Theatre Ballet of Spokane, Connoisseur Concerts, Spokane Area Children’s Chorus, Allegro Baroque & Beyond, Coeur d’Alene Summer Theatre, Festival at Sandpoint, Holy Names Music Center and Spokane Chamber Music Association.
Rain not a deterrent
Despite unseasonably cold and wet weather last Tuesday, golfers were out in force for the Salvation Army’s ninth annual Camp Gifford Golf Classic to help send underprivileged boys and girls to camp this summer.
Begun in 1987, the event has raised $125,000 to provide campships for children as well as a variety of needed items for the camp, including commercial kitchen equipment, a new swimming dock, row boats and canoes.
Golf dinner/auction comes to the fore
The dinner and auction portion of the Salvation Army’s annual Camp Gifford Golf Classic and Dinner & Auction Benefit has become so popular that it’s been “promoted” to lead the event, rather than follow it.
This year, the dinner and auction, hosted by Bud Namek, former KXLY-TV sportscaster, was moved to the night before the tournament.
Mary Jones, auxiliary president and golf committee chairperson, said the event’s success is largely due to the support of sponsoring businesses, especially Spokane’s trucking industry.
Chat with an artist today
Kathleen Cavender, a Spokane artist, will demonstrate her work from 1 to 4 p.m. today in the Cheney Cowles Museum Shop. The event is the third in the series, “Meet the Artist Days,” sponsored by the museum.
The series is designed to acquaint artists and people with one another and the public with the museum complex at 2316 W. First.
When the ice melted
“The Great Floods: Cataclysms of the Ice Age,” will be discussed by Dan Brown on Wednesday, July 12, at 7:30 p.m. in the Cheney Cowles Museum’s auditorium.
Brown’s lecture will be the third in a series of lectures on the theme “Rivers and Dams: Promises, Progress and Perils.”
The lectures coincide with the series of three exhibits on the same theme showing at the museum through Sept. 24.
The Pacific Northwest was swept by floods of cataclysmic proportions some 12,000 years ago during the Ice Age. Flows, estimated at 10 times the combined flow of all the world’s rivers, carved Eastern Washington’s enormous coulees. It also left giant ripple marks and other bizarre landforms that are of a magnitude beyond any others known on Earth, a museum spokesman said.
Brown’s last lecture on this topic was attended by a standing-room-only crowd, so early arrival is encouraged. There is no fee for the lecture, but donations are welcomed.
Syringa quartet performs
The Syringa String Quartet, featuring four members of the Spokane Symphony, will be in recital on Tuesday, July 12, at 7 p.m. in the Music Recital Hall on the Whitworth College campus.
The quartet will perform music by Mozart, Dvorak and a composition by Michael Young, associate professor of music at Whitworth.
Quartet members are Tana Bachman and Jeri Bentley, violins; Judith Jamison, viola; and Janet Exner, cello.
For more information, call 466-3280.