BBF gets great press!

Visit the Blueberry Blues Fest website at www.mossyrockfestivals.com to read some of the great articles and even a sound clip of a radio interview. Video clips and photos of the big event will be posted soon!

Thanks to All from Jackie Morris

The Blueberry Blues Fest was fabulous. I'm getting nothing but positive feedback, and lots of it! It was a fun family weekend for all! Lots of people, a great parade, lots of old cars, and the music was great! When "Organized Chaos" came on at the end, the little kids started dancing, and everyone else followed their lead. We had folks of all ages out there on that lawn having a TERRIFIC time!.......exactly what we wanted.

And we had a really wonderful surprise at the end. When we got there to clean up the next day, there was very little to clean up! The crowd was from everywhere and they all respected our little town. A good time and a very good, respectful crowd.

This worked because we had a wonderful, creative, festival committee who met every week and had a great time doing it. It was work, but it was also a lot of fun. We also would like to thank all of our sponsors from the business community and organizations who gave us their support. We could not have done this without them.

Especially we'd like to thank Ruth and Paul Ghosn who allowed us to use the lawn which is an extension of their front yard for our musical events, and the wonderful musicians who all donated their talents for this event. Paul Stewart and the East Lewis County Chamber of Commerce gave us support and encouragement, as well as helped with many details. It was a lot of people working together to make this happen. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Sincerely,
Jackie Morris
Mossyrock Blueberry Blues Fest coordinator

Get Involved: Mossyrock Blueberry Blues Fest!

Dear Festival Committee and other interested persons,

Let's get together and organize our work! We've done plenty of brainstorming and such; now it's time to dig in and get the work done! Thanks to the hard work of Ivy and Debbie and the generosity of the business community, we now have some money to work with. We'll need to decide who will manage that money (treasurer). We also need committee heads for all our activities, and people to work on those committees. Click this link to see a tentative organizational plan for us. It's not written in stone. We can change things around and add to it if you think something else might be better. Some of the committee head positions have already been filled.

Please take a look at it and decide where you could fit in. Think about the people you know, and who might want to help us. Bring as many of these people as you can to our meeting. We can recruit others later. The more we spread the work around the better! One of our goals is to get as many people in the community involved as possible. Judging from the response we've had from the business community and others, there is a great deal of interest in this festival. Let's get people going to get it done!

I've reserved the Mossyrock High School library for our next meeting: Tues. May 1st, 6:30 p.m.

The school art teacher said it is a bad time to try to get the kids to make a logo as they have too many other things to do right now. Please let me know what you think of the logo above. Wendy sent me the clip art of the blueberry pie, and I incorporated it into the logo I had already put together. I like it better. What do you think?

We have a little web page which will grow as we go. http://www.mossyrockfestivals.com/ Shelley put it up for us. (thanks Shelley) Notice our sponsorship forms are up there and also our vendor application form.

Several of us attended the Leadership Plenty training on Saturday. It was fun, and useful. However, we need more people to do this with us! This training is good for people in any organization, not just the Horizons group, and is free to all. The Horizons program requires us to have at least 25 people in this training in order to retain their sponsorship and funding. (Remember the up to $10,000 grant we are hoping to get for the community at the end of the program.) We need a few more people to meet the quota. Please join us if you can! There will be a makeup day for those who missed last Saturday, so it's not too late. The training is free and breakfast goodies and lunch are provided free too. More info: http://www.horizonsweb.info/LeadershipPlenty.htm I hope to see you there.

My best,

Jackie Morris, Mossyrock Blueberry Blues Fest coordinator
Email: info@mossyrockfestivals.com