Final Olga potluck of season

Islanders are encouraged to mark their calendars for the May Olga Potluck on Saturday, May 19. Social hour begins at 5:30 p.m. and dinner is served at 6:30 p.m. Everyone is welcome. Bring an appetizer, main dish, salad or dessert to share and a place setting.

May 8, 2012 1:18 pm
Betty Marcum’s quilt for this year’s raffle. She started the piece in January. It is made from local T-shirt designs.
Betty Marcum’s quilt for this year’s raffle. She started the piece in January. It is made from local T-shirt designs.

Islanders are encouraged to mark their calendars for the May Olga Potluck on Saturday,  May 19.

Social hour begins at 5:30 p.m. and dinner is served at 6:30 p.m. Everyone is welcome. Bring an appetizer, main dish, salad or dessert to share and a place setting.

This will be the final potluck of the season, and following dinner the annual meeting of the Olga Community Club will be held. There will be an election of officers as well as reports from the cemetery committee, the dock committee, and the park committee, followed by new business.

The Olga community is beginning to get ready for its big summer event on July 21: Olga Daze.

Betty Marcum, an Olga resident, has made a quilt for this year’s raffle. The pattern is composed of 30 squares of  colorful scenes in the San Juans, which are printed on top quality T-shirt material.  These were samples made for a local company and never used. Marcum spied them and came up with this unique quilt. The squares are bordered by  material with a pattern of seashells and ocean colors.

The sale of raffle tickets for the quilt started on Sunday, May 6 and tickets will continue to be sold every Sunday at Island Market until Olga Daze. The quilt will be on display outside Island Market. The drawing will take place at Olga Daze.