From Seth Wiltermood
I would like to take this opportunity to share some of CCW’s traditions.
- Starting with Christmas…in this picture, one of our faithful volunteers, Nancy and her family are sporting their tie-dye shirts from our December 25th gathering. Christmas 2010 was the second year we made “yuletide tie-die.”
- Another Christmas tradition is the staff and volunteer Christmas party and white elephant gift exchange. We have had a high heel shoe and a six-foot piece of rope in circulation for a combined 10 years!
- This past summer was the second year we went rafting on the great Spokane River.
- Hoopfest 2010 was our second hoopfest team, and our first game won!
- Our third summer gardening in Browne’s Addition bore much fruit. (Well … vegetables.)
- 5 Bloomsdays!
- Sticking duct tape with kids’ names on them all over every wall of the drop-in center.
- We have had a super bowl party in a volunteer’s home two years in a row.
- Prayer: Before we open, before we eat dinner, after we close … and everywhere in between.
Tradition brings us all together. We are all very different: kids, staff, volunteers. But our traditions gather us to common ground, and make our community what it is … a family – a very weird, dysfunctional family. We have many more traditions in this family, too many to list here and some that are difficult to put words to. Basically, our traditions bring simplicity to lives plagued with chaos.
- Seth Wiltermood
