Spaghetti Dinner at Woodmen Hall

For the second year, the Friends of Woodmen Hall are sponsoring an evening of good food, music and the opportunity to enjoy one of Lopez’s great traditions, a community gathering at Woodmen Hall, Jan. 16. Again this year, Jim Ghinazzi will prepare his famous traditional Italian spaghetti sauce and Lance Brittian and Friends will provide the music. The menu will include spaghetti, bread, salad, dessert, and coffee or juice. Beer and wine can be purchased. Glutton free pasta will be available.

January 3, 2012 2:36 pm
For the second year
For the second year

For the second year, the Friends of Woodmen Hall are sponsoring an evening of good food, music and the opportunity to enjoy one of Lopez’s great traditions, a community gathering at Woodmen Hall, Jan. 16. Again this year, Jim Ghinazzi will prepare his famous traditional Italian spaghetti sauce and Lance Brittian and Friends will provide the music. The menu will include spaghetti, bread, salad, dessert, and coffee or juice. Beer and wine can be purchased. Glutton free pasta will be available.

Over the years, The Friends have sponsored several fundraisers helping to provide a commercial kitchen, bathrooms, a well, stage improvements, and electrical updates. Future projects include more gravel, cleanup of the upstairs, and improved energy efficiency of the building as well as some outdoor seating and dining areas.

The hall has been a part of island life for over 100 years now. In 1898, it was built by The Modern Woodmen of America, a fraternal and an insurance organization. It was then sold to the Lopez Island Commercial Club. After World War II, it was purchased by the Hoey-Kjargaard American Legion Post 185. In 2004, the building was purchased by the San Juan County Senior Services Council and today the Lopez Senior Services are housed there providing twice weekly lunches and many other services for our local seniors.

Woodmen Hall is also a meeting place for several organizations such as The Garden Club, Lopez Quilters, and The Birthday Club.

In addition, the hall is also available for rental. It has housed wedding receptions, birthday parties, baby showers, memorials, music events, book signings and much more.

For rental info, you can contact Gordon Eustis at 468-3537 or Lopez Senior Services at 468-2421.

 

The Friends invite you to join them on Monday night, Jan. 16, to enjoy this island treasure, and to have a fabulous dinner.  Tickets are $25 per couple, $15 for a single adult and $4 for youth, 5 to 17 years.  They are available at Paper Scissors on the Rock and at Woodmen Hall during Senior Services business hours. We will also be selling tickets at Lopez Village Market the week before the dinner.

 

There will be two settings available, 4:30 and 6 p.m. Take out dinners will be ready for pick up between 3:30 and 4:30 p.m. For more info, call Virginia Palmer at 468-2738 or Connie Kyser at 468-3275.