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Community Description of Brewster

Answers to questionnaire on community:

Geography?

• Mountains
• Valley
• Small hills
• Columbia River
• Orchards
• Wheat
• Rich soil
• Sagebrush
• Fish and game land
• Okanagan river
• near Methow River and rat Lake (5-10 minute drive)
• dams
• 2 parks

What is your community's population/size?
2-3,000 people, harvest time 4-5,000

What is your community's history? Any legends?

• Brewster house has old pictures
• Used to be water tower and a few houses
• Okanagan museum
• There are a lot of people there who know the history
• There is a bridge between Bridgeport and Brewster
• They used to have a great high school band, choir, basketball team

What does your community value? How do you know?

• Sports ahead of academics (some like it, some don't)
• Apples (orchards); it supports the town -- most people work in the orchard business -- everybody's in it together
• religion