Save Helvetia welcomes you to the
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Save Helvetia welcomes you to the
Welcome A message from the Save Helvetia Steering Committee The Save Helvetia Steering Committee would like to welcome you to the 2 nd annual Helvetia Culture Fest. We are pleased and honored to have you as our guest. Throughout 2009 and 2010, hundreds of you rallied to support our efforts to preserve thousands of acres of foundation farmland north of Highway 26 as Rural Reserves. You sat through hours of tedious hearings, you prepared detailed testimony, you signed petitions, wrote letters and emails to Washington County and Metro, and you spread the word to your friends and neighbors. Thanks to your superb efforts, we whittled the number of urban reserves down from 10,000 acres in Greater Helvetia to about 1,000 acres. It appears we have preserved over 9,000 acres of farmland for Rural Reserves for 50 years! These efforts didn’t come for free. We had to engage the services of Carrie Richter, a respected land use attorney, to combat the high-priced attorneys fielded by the developers as we slogged through the most technical aspects of the Reserves process. The Save Helvetia Steering Committee has donated thousands of hours of effort and our own money to pay the bulk of the attorney’s fees of approximately $10,000. Was it worth the money? After facing meeting after meeting of Washington County committees stacked with mayors, our experience was that the lines on the maps didn’t begin to move until Carrie began submitting testimony. Our answer is “absolutely.” There are millions of dollars at stake in the reserves process - we were up against deeppocketed developers and Washington lobbyists, and even our own County - who all stand to profit if more land is designated as Urban Reserves. The developers and lobbyists have not given up. They have appealed to DLCD (the Department of Land Conservation and Development) at the state level to change many Rural Reserves to Urban Reserves. We have submitted objections to several areas north of Highway 26 that remain unprotected. Over the next few months, we will be incurring more legal costs to fight this battle at the state level as we try to retain the Rural Reserves that were designated at the regional level. We are grateful for your support over the last 16 months. With your participation in the Culture Fest and with your donations, we hope to retire our legal debt. Looking at it another way, our goal is to save more than 9,000 acres north of Highway 26 for about $1 an acre. Each dollar you donate saves 1 acre for 50 years. How many acres will YOU save? The Save Helvetia Steering Committee Cherry Amabisca Patricia Bailey Robert Bailey Brian Beinlich Elizabeth Furse Faun Hosey Lyn Jacobs James Just Greg Mecklem Linda Peters John Platt Steve Radtke Save Helvetia welcomes you to the 2nd Annual Helvetia Culture Fest SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2010 Helvetia Alphorns - Gathering Song - 1:00 p.m. Cherry Amabisca - Welcome Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde Siobhan Taylor - Introduction Flag Posting Traditional Native Signing of the Lord’s Prayer Cultural Dance Demonstrations Traci Mogster - Pie Walk 101 Music - Bob Shoemaker Music - Jimmy Boyer and Dave Reisch of the Freak Mountain Ramblers Closing - 4:00 p.m. For your enjoyment throughout the afternoon Pie Judging and Pie Walks Children’s Clown and Balloons Helvetia Winery “Rural Reserve” Wines Helvetia Tavern Meals Commemorative T-shirt Sales Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde Information Table Swiss Alphorns We are honored to have Mark Grossen, David Schoch and Gary Zurbrugg of the Helvetia Alphorns play for us today. Archeological records of the Alphorn in Switzerland date back nearly two thousand years. Early instruments in the mountainous regions of the Alps were used for signaling and to announce daily activities. Since ancient times, the Alphorn has sounded as a part of the daily activities of the shepherds and cowherds of these mountain people. The Alphorn was used to calm the dairy cows at milking time. It was the twilight signal for the flocks of sheep to settle in for the night as the shepherds exchanged rustic melodies across the valleys. Such melodies became ritual signals for “All is Well in the Valley” and were passed down through countless generations, from shepherd father to shepherd son. The sound of the Alphorn called the people to gather for council and the men to gather for war. Today the alphorn is not used by herdsmen for signaling, but primarily by musicians. The horn is about twelve feet long and is carved or bored in wood and overwound with birch bark or caning. Modern alphorns are also made with a carbon-fiber composite, making them lightweight and compact. Sound is produced in a manner similar to brass instruments by the vibration of the performers’ lips. Due to its conical bore, the Alphorn produces a mellow and reverberant sound that can carry for long distances. The instrument has a four-octave range. A common mistake is to call the instrument the “alpenhorn” - the correct term is “alphorn”. Source: http://www.alphorngruppe.com/history.htm Celebrating the Cultural Heritage of Greater Helvetia Native Americans The Helvetia Culture Fest celebrates the long-lasting cultural diversity of the Greater Helvetia area. The original inhabitants, the Atfalati people, now represented by the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, used this area during the summer and fall months when they gathered berries and acorns from the Oregon White Oak trees. They hunted deer and elk in the Tualatin Mountains and used the sacred feathers of the Acorn Woodpecker in special ceremonies. The Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde consider the Greater Helvetia area a “remnant cultural landscape”: an area remaining very similar in flora, fauna, and landscape as it was in previous cultural histories. As part of their commitment to preserving the cultural heritage of this area, the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde have contributed generously to the Washington County Museum at Rock Creek. They also testified before the Washington County Board of Commissioners urging preservation of cultural sites and remnant landscapes north of Highway 26. In addition, Tribal Council wrote intergovernmental letters to the Metro counties and Metro, urging this preservation. Swiss and German Immigrants The Helvetia Culture Fest also celebrates the heritage of the Swiss and German settlers who began arriving in the 1870s to farm the Greater Helvetia area. The topography, climate and soils reminded the immigrants of their native Switzerland, and they named the area “Helvetia”, which means “Switzerland” in Latin. Descendents of the original families continue to apply their creative dry land farming techniques and dairy skills. We applaud their careful stewardship of the fertile soils and sub-surface water resources, providing premium crops for export as well as for local markets. In more recent times, others have arrived in the Greater Helvetia area and are bringing added diversity to the area, working shoulder to shoulder to preserve and protect the special landscape, the unique community, the rich cultural history and the diversity of rural and economic uses. We are privileged to honor Greater Helvetia’s Native American, Swiss and German contributors to our diverse cultural heritage! 2010 Helvetia Culture Fest Volunteers Webmaster, graphics design . . . . . . . . . . . . . Brian Beinlich Program booklet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Charlie Young Cherry Amabisca Logistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Patti & Robert Bailey Talent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . John Platt Phone Sales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Anita Jensen Children’s Entertainment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Donna Prock Beverage Sales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Heather Rode Gary Price T-Shirt Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Brian Beinlich T-Shirt Sales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Anna Becker Anita Jensen Hospitality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sharon Beinlich Prep and Cleanup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Teri Allen Pam Gates Allen Amabisca Steve Radtke Pie Walk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pie Bakers Sharon Beinlich Michelle Christenson Carmen Fletcher Faun Hosey Claudia McCarter Lynn Mogster Liz Robbs Kristine Walter Traci Mogster Susan Blevins Alison Confer Michelle Hascall Shari Lawrence Sally Millone Traci Mogster Nancy Rountree Acknowledgements A special thanks goes to the following people Diana Yates and Greg Mecklem of Pacific Crest Alpacas for allowing us to enjoy their barn at Accoyo Norte, overlooking the beautiful Tualatin Valley Helvetia Tavern for their delicious meals Helvetia Winery for their special “Rural Reserve” wines Donna Prock for her delightful clowning Helvetia Alphorns, Bob Shoemaker and Jimmy Boyer and Dave Reisch of the Freak Mountain Ramblers for their unique music Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde for sharing their culture Please patronize the advertisers in this program. Let them know that you saw their advertisement and appreciate their support. Congratulations on your success in saving land for Rural Reserves! Thank you, Anita Jensen Thank you For saving the land For our generation Adrian Amabisca Allison Amabisca In the Heart of Helvetia Open weekends from noon until five. 23269 NW Yungen Rd. 503-647-7596 www.helvetiawinery.com New Earth Farm A New Earth through Renewed Soil Scott Olsen, owner New Earth Farm supports sustainable agriculture and organic gardening with bokashi fermentation - a more sustainable alternative than hot compost residential fermentation systems and agricultural consulting Vermicomposting Worm bins, Composting redworms, Vermicompost, Worm Castings Food scrap recycling Home, Businesses, Events To learn more, visit our website, email, call, or stop by and visit. Web: www.newearthfarm.net Email: [email protected] Phone: 503-913-2641 Address: 11000 NW Jackson Quarry Rd. Hillsboro, Oregon 97124 Abundant Harvest farming at New Earth Farm & Dos Sequoias Farm A Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) business in Helvetia. Growing fresh produce, herbs and flowers for families and restaurants in our community. 971.205.2203 www.abundantharvest.biz La Finquita del Buho Sustainably-grown vegetables April through October 7960 NW Dick Road Hillsboro, OR 97124 (503) 647-2595 [email protected] We lost our wonderful local school district- West Union School District #1 Let's not lose Helvetia. I support preserving and protecting this beautiful and historic area. Tom Woodruff Past President of the West Union Community Club and Chairman of the School Board. Before Save Helvetia After Save Helvetia