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Coupeville Historic Waterfront Assoc.

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We’re off and running assisting those in need.

21 Wednesday Oct 2020

Posted by Coupeville Historic Waterfront Assoc. in Community Care, Covid19

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Children in need, Community Care Coupeville, Coupeville, Coupeville Cares, Coupeville Historic Waterfront Association, Coupeville Washington, Helping neighbors, Island County Washington, Philanthropy, Seniors in need, Whidbey Island

Every year at the beginning of fall and throughout the holidays the Historic Waterfront organizes our Community Care Teams to gather greatly needed items to be distributed to local seniors, disabled adults and children in need. This year it’s especially important to up our offerings and we hope you can help, or share with someone who can.

Needed items listed below

Monetary contributions ARE tax deductible

ALL items purchased through your contribution, or purchased by you directly go to Island County Human Services. Their staff will make sure those most in need receive what Community Care teams have generated.

Our first 2020 delivery to Health and Human Services was received with great appreciation! 

Can you help us make the next delivery? YOU chose how to help. Give a monetary donation online right now and we’ll purchase assorted items from the list below, OR you can buy items from the list and bring them to the office. 

You can safely donate through paypal.

If you rather not donate online, mail a check to Coupeville Historic Waterfront, P.O. Box 121, Coupeville, WA 98239. Please put “Community Care” on the check’s memo. 

For drop off’s of items you’ve purchased from the list below, the CHWA office is located on Coveland behind and below Balanced Body Works – 6 Coveland – map. Dropped off items are ONLY collected October through December 19th. Monetary donations are taken year round.

IF the office is closed put your donations in the box outside the office door.

If you’re donating grocery, gas or gift cards you’ve purchased yourself, please email our Executive Director Vicky Chambers to arrange for a drop off or pick up. 

COMMUNITY CARE WISH LIST

PLEASE – NO used items. 

Scarfs/gloves/hats

Blankets/sleeping bags

Toilet paper

Kids tooth brushes/tooth paste

Adult toothbrushes/toothpaste

Diaper wipes

Grocery store gift cards (Red Apple or Safeway $10 each)

Gas gift cards ($10.00 each)

Laundry soap – manageable weight sizes please.

New socks (men’s crew/women’s)**greatly needed

New Underwear (men’s and women’s)

Paper towels

Kleenex

Adult wipes

Adult depends  

Feminine products

Cotton balls/Q-tips

Shampoo/conditioner

Travel size shampoo/soap/deodorant/etc. personal hygiene items   

Bath towels/wash clothes

$ Quarters for laundromat – Great way to get the kids involved!!

Coffee cards/ fast food gift cards

Sweat pants and tops for men and women

Razors (male and female)

Plastic silverware/cups

Flashlights/batteries 

Ziploc bags

Large garbage bags

Dog food/cat food/bird food – Pet’s are family too

Hand and feet warmers

Clorox wipes

We are grateful to everyone who has a heart for those in need. Thank you!!!

RAINBOW OVER WHARF PHOTO CREDIT: WHIDBEY PANORAMA’S DENIS HILL
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Covid19 – Payroll Assistance – U.S. Small Business Administration

03 Friday Apr 2020

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Coupeville, Covid19, Island County Washington, Small Business Loan, Whidbey Island

“Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act”

aka “CARES Act”

From our Executive Director Vicky Chambers.

The Payroll Protection Program (part of last week’s CARES Act guaranteed under the United States Small Business Administration) went live today. This program is a loan program designed to provide a direct incentive for small businesses for them to keep their workers on the payroll. 

Please don’t be intimidated. Business owners on Whidbey and throughout Washington should read on, and fill out the application. Maybe a little admin, it’ll be relatively painless. Read on. 

BASICS

The Payroll Protection Program provides cash flow assistance in the form of a low interest SBA loan through your bank or credit union specifically designed to protect employees.

Interest rate: 1%.

There is discussion that this % could be cut in half or that a portion of the loan will turn in to a grant.  

Who’s eligible? Small businesses with less than 500 employees (including sole proprietorships, independent contractors and self-employed persons), private non-profit organizations or 501(c)(19) veterans organizations affected by Covid19 pandemic.

Small businesses in the hospitality and food industry with more than one location could also be eligible if their individual locations employ less than 500 workers.

Service -Disabled Veterans Owned Small Business Program

How does this loan get to me: From federally guaranteed lenders who issue Small Business Administration Loans. YOUR bank/credit union.

View and Download Application Paycheck Protection Program Application

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PRO-TIP – READ SMALL PRINT!!

Relax into the idea of needing to read a sentence or paragraph (in guidelines at the bottom of the application) more than once.

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CHWA ADVICE – PREPARE

Have your financial info and forms ready! Gather everything you’ll need up prior to beginning the application process.

  1. DBA or Tradename
  2. Business TIN (EIN, SSN)
  3. Average Monthly Payroll Amount
  4. Number of Employees
  5. Purpose of the loan (See “VERY IMPORTANT NOTE” below

Complete it, include any needed attachments and deliver to YOUR lender (bank/credit union) as soon as you can. The faster you can get in the que the better!

Reach out to YOUR lender immediately. We know Heritage Bank, Peoples Bank, and others are ready to help. 

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VERY IMPORTANT NOTE

LOAN DETAILS & FORGIVENESS language directly from SBA site

Payroll Protection Program loans will be fully forgiven IF the funds are used for payroll costs, interest on mortgages, rent, and utilities (due to likely high subscription, at least 75% of the forgiven amount must have been used for payroll). Loan payments will also be deferred for six months. No collateral or personal guarantees are required. Neither the government nor lenders will charge small businesses any fees.

Forgiveness is based on the employer maintaining or quickly rehiring employees and maintaining salary levels.  Forgiveness will be reduced if full-time headcount declines, or if salaries and wages decrease.

This loan has a maturity of 2 years and an interest rate of 1%.

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ALERT

AUTOMATIC DECLINE of SBA Payroll Protection loan: If you answer “Yes” to questions 5 or 6 on the form the loan will not be approved. View form

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HELP with valid data gathering! Take the Main Street America small business covid19 impact survey. Deadline: Monday, April 6

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Additional resources

Washington Retail Association: Retailer Resource Guide. Employers and employee resources.

 

US Chamber of Commerce: Covid19 Emergency Loans Check List and Small Business Guide  View and download

 

Norma Ramirez de Miess’s workshop: Leading through Crisis on Tuesday, April 7 at 9:00 a.m.

 

Kauffman Foundations Guide to Helping Small Business Navigate…. (including good information about PPP) https://www.kauffman.org/currents/a-guide-to-helping-small-businesses-covid-19/

 

Washington Women’s Business Center is offering free one-on-one consultation, including help with SBA loans, for women-owned small businesses! https://businessimpactnw.org/washington-womens-business-center/

 

Locable has free business status directory template web pages https://www.locable.com/2020/03/19/1087/free-business-status-directory-during-covid-19-coronavirus-for-your-community/

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CREATING AN ONLINE STORE

  • Creating an Online Store – an interview by Ben Muldrow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWOhymZWBYE

 

  • E-commerce Tutorials (Thanks to Oregon Main Street and Market)
    • https://websitesetup.org/woocommerce-online-store-tutorial/  (WordPress sites)
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IZ_-9-dL34  (Best for Squarespace subscribers)
    • https://www.websitebuilderexpert.com/building-online-stores/ (Overview of popular E-commerce platforms)

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Please don’t be intimidated by filling out forms at this time. It is to your benefit to navigate the relief package programs as soon as you can.

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HOMESCHOOLING? OH MY!

24 Tuesday Mar 2020

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Coupeville, Coupeville schools closed, Coupeville strong, educational videos, homeschooling, Learning online, Math, Physics, Reading, Science, Whidbey Island

It’s been enlightening hearing the comments and thoughts of parent’s who are home schooling right now. Most wonderful has been the number of great ideas and smart habits they’re working into the schedules, not to mention the exclamations that ‘teachers are underpaid’ (there’s lots of THAT comment).

Most parents and some grandparents will know about these videos but there’s a lot of us, some with kids at home and some without, who have no idea how many and how creative learning videos are today.

We wish everyone the best in their ‘stay home’ homeschooling efforts. Here’s some of the searches and videos that we watching while surfing the subjects (for 2 1/2 well spent hours).

MATH 

1st Grade Math – 5+mins

More 1st Grade Math Videos – short to long

2nd Grade Math – 5+mins

More 2nd Grade Math Videos – short to long

Groupings with music? Who knew?

More from Numberock

Math videos for 3rd Grade

Math videos for 4th Grade

You get the idea. Once on youtube, search the grade level in the search bar and poof there’s a video (or 100).

SCIENCE

Looking at the science videos was a blast.

Especially liked this one for not needing a lot of ingredients that require shopping or scratching your head thinking ‘where can I get THAT?’

 

More science videos – short and long

UT OH

GOT SUCKED INTO THIS while on the ‘Science videos for kids’ page – it’s 14+mins and pretty fantastic.

This event from 2017 features 3 new US domino records: largest domino field, largest domino structure, and largest overall domino project in America. 19 builders from 5 countries spent 7 days (over 1,200 combined hours) building the Incredible Science Machine.

More dominos videos LOL

Search anything on youtube. Search ‘homeschooling advice’, subjects and grades, etc., and lots will come up. Note: We are not necessarily advertising for them only in that it’s an easy search for ANYTHING.

VIRTUAL TRAVEL

One search we liked was the virtual travel search. There is a lot to learn from travel.  We started by traveling to China with the Panda videos.

More travel videos for kids

During the travel videos we got stuck in the National Geographic channel for kids. Specifically their Explorer Academy. Very cool.

More from National Geographic

BTW – we’re betting most people reading this grew up with Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom. As we watched videos today we recalled just how graphic Wild Kingdom was. And well, yes, you can find those online too. There’s 323 of them. Good luck.

READING

Moving along we were caught by the StoryTime Online channel while searching ‘reading with kids’. The Screen Actors Guild produces these and you can see actors and actresses you know read from kids books. This was a fun rabbit hole.

Went with Arnie the Donut first for obvious reasons (craving donuts).

Then on to Harry the Dirty Dog read by Betty White

More StoryTimeOnline videos

ART

Being as Whidbey has some of the greatest artists in the state of Washington and we’ll bet the county, we had to search the ‘art projects for kids’ videos. Suffice to say there’s no disappointment there.

More from Art for Kids Hub

More from Easy Kids Craft

More art projects for kids

Art projects for teens

Searching through art we came across an artist who offered up his channel for all those staying home during the pandemic, along with many artists helping people understand the processes of drawing, painting and sculpting. LAST RABBIT HOLE for the day.

This channel has A LOT. Trees is the choice for this post.

More from Drawing and Painting – The Virtual Instructor

Washington enough, we found a Latte Art tutorial in the ‘art tutorial’ search.

More ‘art tutorial’ videos

FROM ART TO PHYSICS

What can we say, there’s a lot of fantastic videos on physics. The channel for the trailer below is amazingly comprehensive. Basically there’s physics and everything and that Crash Course covers it.

More from Crash Course

More from MIT Lectures with Walter Lewin (calculus based physics)

More assorted Physics videos

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Well, it’s past lunch time and the 2 1/2 hours surfing educational videos has be very interesting, enlightening and fun. It’s time for lunch and then to make some calls and texts inquiring how our members, family and friends are doing.

We wish each of you reading this best as we navigate the ‘stay home’ virus closures. If you’re bored check in with loved ones and friends in other towns and states. If you need take out, want to shop local online, need to know if a shop will do curb side pick up or delivery or just want to know who’s open in Coupeville visit our ‘What’s Open in Coupeville‘ page. The page is updated daily.

Be well, kind and share your resourcefulness if, when and where you can.

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Washington State boosts historic preservation in Coupeville.

25 Saturday Jan 2020

Posted by Admin in Ebey's Reserve Preservation Grants, This Place Matters, Uncategorized

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Alexander Blockhouse, Captain Whidbey Inn, Coupeville, Coupeville Historic Waterfront Association, Coupeville This Place Matters, Department of Archaeology and Historic Preservation, Ebey's Reserve Preservation Grants, Ebey’s Landing National Historical Reserve, Far From Normal, Fort Casey Washington, Haller Coupeville, Haller House, Historic Whidbey's Heritage Center, Island County Historical Society Archives and Museum, Jay Inslee, Kingfisher Books, Kingfisher Bookstore, Kristen Griffin, Lower Loft Eatery, Methodist Church Coupeville, Oldest towns in Washington, Sea Bre's Coupeville, Sea Bres Yarn, Toby's Suds, Toby's Tavern, Toby’s Coupeville, Vail's Wine Shop, Vail's Wine Tasting, Vail’s Coupeville, Washington Main Street, Washington State Department of Archaeology and Historic Preservation, Whid-Isle Inn, Whidbey Island, Windjammer Custom Framing, Zylstra Coupeville

Ebey’s Landing National Historic Reserve will receive a million dollars in preservation grants from the state of Washington THANKS to Ebey’s Landing National Historical Reserve, the Washington State Legislature, the Department of Archaeology and Historic Preservation, and Governor Jay Inslee.

Ebey’s Landing National Historic Reserve Manager Kristen Griffin Press Release – PDF

Washington State Department of Archaeology and Historic Preservation (DAHP) announces recipients of Ebey’s Reserve Preservation Grants

Whidbey News Times article for Times subscribers

We couldn’t be happier for the recipients, and what these Ebey’s Reserve Preservation Grants mean to the furthering preservation of some of our state’s oldest buildings.  These buildings are still standing today because they were preserved in the past and thankfully continue to be preserved today.

This, our celebratory blog piece about the grant and distribution, includes images and links to the history of many of the buildings and a hearty thanks to all those who worked hard to have the preservation grants brought to the Reserve and our historic town. We include old images of the buildings as a testament to the years they’ve stood and the importance of historic preservation.

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Ebey’s Landing National Historical Reserve grant money within the Reserve and the Department of Archaeology and Historic Preservation’s Main Street Program’s catchment of the Historic Waterfront Association

The circa 1855 Alexander Blockhouse.

Part of the Island County Historical Society Archives and Museum the Alexander Blockhouse receives 2,300.00 to clean and preserve the cedar shake roof. Block House history. Photo Credit: Private collection of Lillian Huffstettler.

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#1 Front Street

The circa 1859 and 1866 Haller House, property of the non-profit Historic Whidbey, was awarded $196,940 for structural stabilization and foundation work, and rehabilitation of historic doors and windows. Haller House history.

1859 for first structure. 1866 for larger addition.

After sitting empty for many years, raccoons were the main residents of the Haller House until just recently. The house was purchased and is being restored by Historic Whidbey’s and their Heritage Center Project. To find out more about the restoration of Haller and Heritage Center visit Historic Whidbey’s site.

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#8 Front St. 

The circa 1860 Whidbey Mercantile building (now Toby’s) receives $19,022 for roof replacement. This is one of the oldest commercial building left within the Reserve. one of the oldest remaining commercial buildings in the Reserve. History of #8

Image circa 1903. Image Credit: Island County Historical Society Archives and Museum.

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#12 Front St.

Circa 1886 and originally the Blowers and Kineth building (where Lower Loft Eatery, Sea Bre’s Yarns and Far From Normal operate today) was awarded $78,253 for structural stabilization and foundation work, siding repair and rehabilitation of historic windows. History of #12

Image: Sack race during the Penn Cove Water Festival 1920’s. Bowers and Kineth building first in line. Photo Credit: Island County Historical Society Archives and Museum

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#16 Front St.

The 1916 Benson’s Confectionary (now Kingfisher Bookstore) receives $21,500 to rehabilitate and replace historic doors and windows. History of #16

Photo Credit: Island County Historical Society Archives and Museum

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#22 Front St.

The 1899 Terry’s Dryer/Gillespie Livery building (now the home of Vail’s Wine Shop, Front Street Realty, Windjammer Custom Framing and office of Therapist Jennifer R. Ayers) received $25,623 for structural stabilization and foundation work, and paint to preserve the weathered façade. History of #22

Photo Credit: Island County Historical Society Archives and Museum.

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#26 Front St. The much beloved Coupeville Wharf, circa 1905, was awarded $303,000 for structural stabilization and foundation work to replace the building’s roof. Wharf history.

The Wharf is the property of and operated by the Port of Coupeville. 

Image: 1910’s. Credit: Island County Historical Society Archives and Museum.

Other recipients within the Reserve 

 

Circa 1905 building once known as Pat’s Place (now the Tyee Restaurant and Bar) awarded $21,600 for structural stabilization and foundation work. Photo Credit: Unknown. Assumption is Island County Historical Society Archives and Museum or Washington State Archives. 

 

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Circa 1907 rustic log Whid-Isle Inn (Captain Whidbey Inn), awarded $99,427 to replace the cedar shake roof.

Image Credit: Captain Whidbey Inn Collection

 

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Circa 1889 Zylstra House received $36,665 to rehabilitate historic windows and replace a failing roof. Photo credit Washington State Dept of Archeology and Historic Preservation.

 

 

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Circa’s 1898 and 1968 Fort Casey State Park’s Battery Worth Guns were awarded $145,000 to restore exterior surfaces. Photo Credit: Fort Casey State Park.

 

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Circa 1894 Coupeville Methodist Church at 608 North Main Street awarded $30,670 for rehabilitation of its historic bell tower.

Photo: Assumption is Island County Historical Society Archives and Museum or Washington State Archives

 

CONGRATULATIONS TO EACH AND EVERYONE OF YOU!

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Settled in 1850’s Coupeville is the second oldest town in Washington. It was incorporated in 1910.

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Find out more about Coupeville though the 1998 study “How Coupeville Grew”, a joint effort of the Town of Coupeville, the Ebey’s National Historical Reserve Trust Board and the National Park Service – PDF

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MusselFest 2019

21 Thursday Feb 2019

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MusselFest 2019 is March 2nd and 3rd! 

Another year of bold, briny & blue fun in Coupeville, Washington

Come enjoy Mussel Chowder Tastings, Chef demonstrations, boat tours of the Penn Cove Shellfish Farm, music, dancing, mussel eating contest, kids activities, and so much more during MusselFest 2019

Visit the official MusselFest website for all you need to know.

Visit our MusselFest event page for quick links, videos and articles about past MusselFests.

SEE YOU HERE in Coupeville for bold briny & blue fun March 2nd & 3rd, 2019

Don’t know how to cook mussels? Or looking for some new recipes visit the Penn Cove Shellfish farm Recipes page

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Video Credit: Fusion Spark Media

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Coupeville Historic Waterfront Association

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P.O. Box 121
Coupeville, WA 98239
Ph. 360-682-6400

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Executive Director Vickie Chambers

2021 Public Meetings

January 21, 2021

April 15, 2021

July 15, 2021

October 21, 2021

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