Meet Margie Ellis

Well, chances are you have already met her. When she and husband Bill lived here for 30 years Margie worked at the Five Corners Black Angus restaurant and performed for hundreds of stage show patrons.

Now living in Happy Valley in Sequim she is still in local show business. She is shown here in her role in the Clare Booth Luce Broadway hit play The Women. The movie in 1939 featured an all female cast including a cat and horse.

The Sequim venue was a historic schoolhouse.

It is a product of the Readers Theatre, which uses the novel idea of using a cast reading their parts accompanied by histrionics, gestures, body and facial emotions. The result is a hilarious show.

Margy also performs in tap dancing shows and recently starred in Driving Miss Daisy.

She and husband, Bill, are also partners in a successful mail order business. They have no plans for retirement from an exciting and productive life.

Meet Jim and Tude (she never did like Gertrude) Lingwood

He was 18 when he went on a blind date along with his best buddy who was dating Tude. He ended up stealing her and they have been happily married for 60 years

Jim served in Korea in the Army quartermaster corps and then attended UW studying economics. Both attended Highline High.

He became credit manager for several large corporations.

Jim's family pioneered much of the acreage west of Dunn Lumber in Normandy Park.

I asked him what it was like growing up on his dad's farm. He grinned and said his best days were when it snowed and he could ride his Flexible Flyer sled from the top of the hill on First Avenue South nearly to Five Corners