Benefit Show to raise money and awareness for flood victims. Eagles Club!

Recent flooding severely impacted many of our local farmers. Some have been devastated by the swollen and raging flood waters and have lost not only crops, cattle and products they produce, but also equipment, homes, barns, production facilities and much more.

Olympia Flood Aid is a collective of musicians and friends organizing benefit concerts throughout the year to help provide relief for impacted farms. We've set up this page as a sort of catch-all page for the benefit - blog, message board, musician meet-up, publicity, and so forth.

Our intent is to donate all money received during our first event to the Olympia Food Co-op's Flood Relief Fund. The Flood Relief Fund donates all money received directly to farmers, with no overhead. You can also donate now by visiting the Co-op.

For more info: http://www.myspace.com/farmfloodrelief

Olympia Flood Aid, a loose collective of musicians and friends, is organizing a two-night benefit event, Feb. 16 & 17, at the Olympia Eagles Ballroom, with a multitude of bands and solo performances as well as an auction. The performers playing these shows include: The Pasties, Mudcat & Evan, KnotPineBox, Betsy Holt, Alice Stuart, TenderForever, Z-Camp, High Ceiling, Abby Blue and the Incarnations, Live People, Collective Love Unlimited, Gary Allan May, Heliotroupe, and DeviLs Boots -- and there may be some surprise guests, too. This is an all-ages event; kids are welcome.

All donations and profits will go to the Olympia Food Co-op's Flood Relief Fund. This fund donates all of its proceeds directly to farmers, with no overhead. Our hope is to make this a continuing initiative, with additional events in the future.

Beyond inviting you to attend the event, I'm writing to ask you to consider making a donation of goods or services to this auction -- -- any gift, of any dollar value, is welcome -- and to ask you to help get the word out about this effort. I no longer pass on e-mail petitions to my friends but this is truly a community networking project -- where friends talking to friends can make all the difference.

Please consider:

The Thurston County 4-H Dog Club The Muttz-K-Teers and many other local 4-H clubs will be collecting this Saturday, water Bottles for Adna Elementary School. All of the schools in Adna use Boistfort Valley Water and due to the flood it is now not drinkable. Adna said it would be nice to have a stash of bottled water to last for the end of the year, But that would take around 60,000 Bottles! So This Saturday at the WSU Thurston County 4-H Extension Office (back parking lot of Fred Meyers) we will be collecting as many bottled waters as we can. But we will need your help!!! Help out our neighbors—tell everyone you know to bring donated bottled water this Saturday, January 19!

Address: 720 Sleater-Kinney Road SE, Suite Y Lacey, WA (The Back Parking Lot of Fred Myers)

Feel Free to Contact Chris Swearingen for more info at,

360-456-6309

If you are out and about, and can add a case of water to your shopping list, it's is much needed.

Big Lots has cases of water for only $4.