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Hi Members,
 
I surely hope that your summer is going swimmingly for all. We have been so 
 busy and when we weren't, my computer and printer were down. Not a good  
combination for communicating about our picnic.
 
It will be on August 15th (Sunday) from 11:00 am to 4:00 pm at Chetzemoka  
Park in Port Townsend. For those of you who have not been to this wonderful 
park  on the water you will find it at 900 Jackson St. Drive north through 
downtown  Port Townsend on Water Street until it ends, then turn left and 
drive on Monroe  up the hill to Blaine. Turn right and it will end at the 
beautiful little gate  for the park. There is parking all along Jackson Street so 
you don't have to  walk far. We have great facilities there and you can 
either sit in the shade or  out in the sun and go down to the beach for some 
great treasure hunting. If you  would like, bring a blanket or chairs that 
will enable you to also stay after  the picnic for the production of 
Shakespeare's Tempest which will be performed  on the lower hill in the park. Dress 
warmly for that.
 
I would like to ask people who are attending to please bring a side dish or 
 dessert. It is very important that you bring a list of ingredients with 
Brand  names for me to check. We all must be very careful on cross 
contamination in our  kitchens so please keep this in mind as we all will be eating 
your delicious  dishes. GIG is supplying gluten free hamburgers, hot dogs and 
vegetarian  hamburgers and a new bun from the Bertille Baking Company in 
Michigan. They are  only being carried by savorymoment.com, which also has a 
retail store and  prepared meals in Redmond, WA. Kay from Savory Moments says 
that they are Udi's  buns so I can't wait to try them.
 
Now that we have talked about food I would like to tell you that we have a  
special guest attending the picnic this year. She is Mari Cleven from 
Bremerton.  You may have read about her in the Kitsap Sun a few months ago. She 
is the  leader of the GIG Tags Group for Teenagers. She is a multi talented 
girl and I  would encourage you all to bring the kids and spend some time 
with her as she is  a 16 year old girl with a real grasp of the gluten free 
diet and living with  Celiac Disease.
 
We will also be raffling a bread maker, which was lovingly used only for  
gluten free baking and thoroughly cleaned, and I have a number of cookbooks 
that  I will put out for anyone to purchase at a much reduced price.
 
We will be leaving tomorrow for 10 days on the road but will return home on 
 July 27th until the picnic. If you would PLEASE RSVP before the 12 of 
August it  will really help with what people are bringing for their dish and how 
many  hamburger buns to order. Last year it was fun, but we had ten 
desserts and no  side dishes.
 
Please feel free to bring family and friends and especially your teens and  
children for a fun day of gluten free eating and meeting new and old  
friends.
 
See you there,
 
Sue Eliot
Branch Manager
Kitsap/Olympic Peninsula
Gluten  Intolerance Group
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