Beaumont-Wilshire Neighborhood Assn.

Art, Music, and Fun in Store at Fremont Fest

Aug 02, 2000

By Margaret Davis

After the BWNA National Night Out picnic at Wilshire Park, Fremont Fest provides yet another chance within the week to celebrate our neighborhood. Festival organizer Byron Ady has many activities scheduled for the day, Saturday, August 5, all kicking off with the traditional morning bicycle parade.

In addition, look for the troupe Accordions Anonymous, from Eugene, to make music. That is, if visitors are not otherwise distracted by the 30 vaudevillian performers also invited to roam along Fremont.

Ady seeks a volunteer to oversee the children's sidewalk chalk art zone in front of Suzanne's restaurant, on 46th Avenue, as well as people to work the music area and the parade itself. If interested, call him at 253-5031.

To mark the Beaumont-Wilshire Neighborhood Association's 20-year anniversary, and to raise funds for neighborhood projects, a postcard printed from original artwork by watercolorist Carol Sands will be unveiled at the festival.

The full-color postcard features Sands' painting of the Dutch Village Building, located at 4100-4120 NE Fremont, surrounded by a border of roses, hydrangea, and rhododendron. The BWNA will sell the postcard in packets of 5 for $3 at its table at Fremont Fest. Visitors will also have a chance to view--and win--the original painting featured in the postcard, which will be raffled off at the end of the day.

The postcards will also be available for purchase at general membership meetings of the association and by calling BWNA secretary, Margaret Davis, at 287-2419.

Sands, who graduated with a degree in fashion illustration from the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles, is a Portland native and an 11-year resident of Beaumont. Eight years ago, after many years working as a graphic designer, Sands decided to take up watercolor. Since then, she has produced many paintings, more than 20 featuring Beaumont scenes and businesses. Look out for her booth, which will feature a range of work from notecards to full-size pictures, at Fremont Fest as well.