Check the photo page for the first batch of photos from the 2008 event

It’s official. Oysters and Ale will be this Friday at 5:30PM on Woodley Island. It will be sunny even after the sun goes down.

Oysters and Ale has been postponed until next Friday. The tents are leaking and the storm is suppose to get worse. The Weather Service told us that the storm is gaining strength off shore and should be really bad this evening. The Party Place is afraid the tents might blow down and no one wants to take that chance.

We’ll see you next Friday.

Mark Ritz

 Mark Ritz along with Charlie Jordan are the owners of Kinetic Koffee Company, a gourmet micro roaster, located in Arcata, California. They specialize in super-premium, certified organic coffees that are shade grown, and governed by fair trade practices. In addition to purchasing from environmentally aware vendors, they also contribute 10% of their net proceeds to charities to support worthy causes.

We are happy that they also support cycling teams, one of them being Team Lost Coast Brewery, a national award winning mountain bike racing team.

Hannah and Rick get ready to make the secret sauce.

There was an in-house taste off at Eureka Natural Foods to find the best sauces for the oysters at Oysters and Ale. The winners were:

• Pomegranate Cranberry Chipotle Sauce
• Raspberry Cocoa Tarragon Sauce
• Butter Lemon Garlic
• Sweet Chili Plum Sauce with Wasabi

Don’t worry, if you don’t like oysters you can always put the sauces on your sausage.

Lynn and Joel designed our poster, tickets and our blog site. They are the owners of Carson Park Design. They can provide creative and effective marketing and branding solutions for your business as well as great graphic design for your projects. You can reach them through their web site http://www.carsonparkdesign.com/

Hannah and Rick get ready to make the secret sauce.

Last year, the oyster sauce made by Rick and Betty Littlefield, owners of Eureka Natural Foods, was a crowd favorite. This year they will again donate a variety of sauces for the oysters. At ENF they constantly strive to offer competitive prices and the widest variety of natural and organic foods. They have a wonderful deli with cooks like Hannah that make daily specials. I like to stop there on my way home and pick up the dinner special for the low, low price of $4.99. You can’t beat it for a quick, delicious, nutritious meal.

Rex and Bonnie

Rex Bohn and Bonnie Neely take time out of their busy schedules to make a promo for Oysters and Ale. They have found something on which they can agree. Both have been big supporters of The Humboldt Botanical Garden. Thank you, Rex and Bonnie.