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Tom and René Skaggs moved to a 10-acre farm in Eatonville for weekends like this: Bright sunshine. Fresh air. A day of polo with his friends.
“You can’t really ask for more, can you?” Tom asked Saturday.
Skaggs, wearing white pants, a striped shirt and boots, wrapped the legs of his horses as he prepared to umpire the first match of the Piper Classic 2008 polo tournament in Roy – one of three competitions the Tacoma Polo Club hosts this season.
Polo has become a weekend staple for the Skaggs.
René was a collegiate polo player at Texas A&M University. When she and Tom looked for places to move after graduation in 1995, their decision hinged on whether a polo club was within a reasonable difference. They chose Eatonville.
“I played for the first time when we moved out here,” he said. “Now it’s in my system.”
The Tacoma Tall Ships Organization is considering several ways to pay off its $500,000 deficit from last month’s festival but is also seeking input for ideas, festival co-chair Clare Petrich said.
“We are open to every idea from the community on how to raise these funds,” she said. “The ideas we have now are kind of the typical fundraising.”
Such ideas include selling the leftover merchandise from last month’s festival, initiating a membership drive and looking for an angel donor who would contribute a large sum or put up matching funds.
The event, which ran July 3-7 along the Thea Foss Waterway, attracted about 300,000 people. But organizers said last week that it ran at a $500,000 deficit because of several factors, the board of directors wrote to supports in an e-mail.
“This event renewed Tacoma’s pride in its maritime heritage,” the e-mail read. “Poor weather, a faltering economy and low ticket sales impacted us and we are investigating what we do differently next time.”
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has named Tacoma’s Cheney Stadium as the fifth-most vegetarian-friendly minor league ballpark.
“Rainiers fans can choose from an array of delicious meatless options at Cheney Stadium,” a press release said. “Items on the menu that are sure to hit a home run with hungry vegetarians include veggie burgers and burritos, veggie tacos and taco salads, and large baked potatoes.”
PETA forgot an important non-meat product that Cheney sells: beer. It’s cheaper there than at Safeco Field. And that’s important.
I’m off to Roy today to cover a tournament that the Tacoma Polo Club is hosting.
