Edna MacDonald

Edna MacDonald is Oregon's oldest convener...being 100 years young! She has a beautiful home in Redmond where she spends part of the year. She travels to Arizona during the winter months, where she lived a long time and has many friends. She is sharp as a tack and has many stories about Clan Donald and it's members...shhh! I have been sworn to secrecy on those...

We visited with her for several hours on Saturday and then returned to have lunch with her before leaving on Sunday. Todd declared it a conveners meeting and picked her brain for ideas on events to hold and on increasing membership in the clan. She reiterated my thoughts on needing younger members in the clan to keep it vital and alive. We truly enjoyed our time with her.

Douglas County Scottish Festival

Clan Donald was represented by Tammy Soto and Tyler Brotherton at the Winston Highland Games August 17^th and 18^th.  The day started off a little chilly with some dew on the ground and moisture in the air, but it soon warmed up to the usual hot and sunny day. 

 

Tammy manned the tent with her husband and two grand-daughters Brianna age 10 and Peyton age 6.  Both Bree and Peyton felt very important being part of such an event.  Peyton was “in charge” of applying the Clan Donald stamps to the young ones booklets, which she enjoyed very much. 

 

We heard rumors that this was the first year the athletics’ competition included some National competitors, but not being able to leave the tent, Tammy couldn’t confirm.  By the cheering coming from that direction, it was probably true! 

 

Winston is a smaller venue but that just adds to the charm of the whole event.  You can get traditional Scottish food as well a the American choices of BBQ, hamburgers and hot dogs; there was even a coffee cart there.  Tammy and Peyton’s favorite was the Hawaiian Shaved Ice, which was just across the green from the Clan Tent in the line of sight and tempted them into a couple servings that day J  

 

Tyler and his family took over the manning of the tent on Sunday which was very much appreciated, so that Tammy could spend time with her sick brother-in-law.  All in all, the weekend was a success and hopefully more Clan Donald members can make it down in the coming years.

Oy!

Life has been busy! We did not make it down to the Douglas County Scottish Festival, but we had several awesome conveners who covered the games for us...so Clan Donald was present, even if Todd and I were not. I have gotten a small write up from one of them that I will post tomorrow. Unfortunately they did not have a chance to get pictures.

We did manage a trip to Redmond last week end and got to spend time with our oldest convener...Edna MacDonald...I will have several pictures to post from that adventure.

I am busy with getting the next Signal put together and out the door in a few short weeks, it should be full of pictures from all the different events from around the region. If there is anything you would like to have added...just drop me a line.

Kate