IT TAKES A VILLAGE

When Ocean Pines Yacht Club manager Joe Rinehart first saw the eye-catching sunset photo taken by server Terra Rygh, he was impressed. Terra snapped the sunrise photo one morning from the deck of the Yacht Club with nothing more than her cell phone camera. Joe showed the photo to Carol Ludwig, former Executive Director of the Ocean Pines Chamber of Commerce and now with Minuteman Press, who offered to enlarge the photo and mount it on a foam board. The photo then remained in the Yacht Club’s office. Anyone who has had a photo professionally framed realizes it is a costly project.

Focus-On-The-Pines host, Jack Barnes happened to be at the Yacht Club’s Java Bay Café one morning enjoying a cup of coffee when Joe showed him the photo. Jack, similarly impressed, asked if he could take the photo and, with the help of a few friends, see about getting it framed so it could be displayed at the Yacht Club. Thus began a sequence of events. Well-known photographer and Ocean Pines Camera Club member Walt Schumacher matted the photo; Dick Stafford provided some striking solid walnut wood for the frame that he had rescued from a school demolition project; Leroy Lyons found some glass from an old frame in his garage, and Adkins Hardware cut it to size. Jack coordinated all the pieces, made the frame and completed the project. Total cost..$0. When all was said and done, eight individuals had a hand in bringing the “project” to completion.

So the next time you visit the Java Bay Café, and are dispensing your coffee, take a moment to look on the wall to see this beautiful sunrise photo knowing that reaching this location really did “take a village”.

Terra Rygh, now an Administrative Assistant at the Ocean Pines Association, is shown with her sunrise photo prior to it being displayed in Java Bay Café.