PIONEER PORTRAITS

Ten Years Ago September 19, 2002

Just more than 800 hungry people helped the Waitsburg Commercial Club, in its primary fundraiser of the year, consume about 1, 100 pounds of Copper River salmon at the annual salmon barbecue held Sept. 12 in Waitsburg. Some 805 people paid to get a plate of the succulent seafood dinner, up from 782 in 2001, according to Ivan Keve, one of the chairmen of the event. Keve didn't have all the figures in by press time, but he did know that beverage sales were $170 higher than last year. Patrons of the fall classic bought some of the extra fish at the event's conclu-...