Official All Tribe Open Invitation...Feel Free To Copy & Send! We Welcome You!!! You and your families are invited to attend our annual Historical “Penn Cove Water Festival!” This is a time to open our hearts in friendship and sharing. A time to welcome our First Nations Neighbors to a place of Celebration! We will be joining our Ancestors on Whidbey Island in the town of Coupeville by welcoming you and sharing our gifts and talents together. We wish for you to mark this day on your calendars and copy and send this invitation far and wide! We request the honor of your presence with open arms. THE PENN COVE WATER FESTIVAL WILL BE HELD ON SATURDAY, MAY 7TH, 2005. IT WILL BE HELD IN THE TOWN OF COUPEVILLE, WA. ON WHIDBEY ISLAND. THE HOURS WILL BE FROM 11AM TO 6PM. THERE WILL BE CANOE RACES, PERFORMERS, FRY BREAD, VENDORS, CHILDRENS ACTIVITIES, CARING FOR THE EARTH EDUCATIONAL DISPLAYS & MORE!!! The Penn Cove Water Festival has been going on for generations. It is the ONLY well known Native American Event on Whidbey Island! We wish to see it continue for our children and our childrens’ children. It is vitally important to us to experience this special time together so our ties will remain unbroken. What can you do? Come and Share! Join us! We respect all of you. We want you to encourage you canoe racers and other canoes, your talented men, women and children who only you know personally. Your Veterans, dancers, singers, drums, artists, environmentalists...and any and all who are willing to come and share with us! Please call us to sign up ASAP! Thanks. We always have great hospitality with treats and coffee for signed-up participants. We will be prepared to hand out free tee shirts to all who register as canoe racers and bring thier teams and canoes. Cash Prizes for canoe winners! These gifts as well as a free after Festival Dinner put on by the town of Coupeville are all ways of saying, “We Honor You!” The canoe races will take place down at the park as always. We will have free programs with maps to help everyone. The main Festival activities, other than the canoe races, will take place in town only a short walk from the park...we also have in place a shuttle bus that will stop at the park and in town regularly to pick up and drop off all who wish to use it. We encourage all of you who attend to come and join us in both places! Experience Everything! The Live Entertainment will be onstage near the museum and the dock in town. There will be Storytellers for children as well. Art, food and craft vendors will be present in town. We would love to invite all of you to our annual event. It is a wonderful time to make new friends and to share our gifts and talents. A True Celebration... Rain or Shine! See you There! To Contact us for any questions, sign-ups or whatever...Please call... Susan Berta-(360)678-3451 or susan@orcanetwork.org...For Canoe Races Cheryl Bradkin-(360)678-5239 or bradkin@whidbey.net... Food, Arts & Craft Vendors Kathy Haven-(360)678-6262 phone calls only...Performers Lynda Imburgia-(360)321-7863 or imburgia@whidbey.com...Casino or Any Donations Benye Weber-(360)678-4602 or jOhnwebernahma@coupeville.net...Any Questions??