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Yaak Country Barter

by Phil Johnson
| November 19, 2013 11:21 AM

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<p>The Yaak WomenÕs Club has recently created a quilt which they have traded to Fred and Carol Seton for a custom built wood stove for the historic Yaak Community Hall.Ê The quilt (which is pictured) is a beautiful and colorful, Circle Quilt design, and hand-quilted by the members of the Yaak WomenÕs Club.Ê (Carol Seton is in the far right of the photo receiving the quilt). The Yaak WomenÕs Club is dedicated to promote the welfare and integrity of the Yaak community as a whole, working together to create a financial base through quilting, crafting and volunteerism to support the Yaak Community Hall and lend support to other worthwhile projects.Ê The Yaak Community Hall was in need of a new wood stove to replace the aging barrel stove, which was quite inefficient.Ê So in this need, the offer was made to Fred and Carol Seton, of the Yaak, to trade a quilt for a wood stove.Ê The bartering trade has now been completed and the wood stove has been installed.Ê Thanks is given to all who helped in achieving and meeting this goal.</p>

When the ladies of Yaak Women’s Club decided it was time to get a new wood-burning stove for the Yaak Community Hall, they sought out Fred Seton of Therm-A-Volt Inc. The stove the ladies were interested in ran for $3,000, but Seton had a different kind of exchange in mind. Seton proposed a swap: his stove for a hand-made circle quilt.

“We are very happy with the swap,” Mary Loney of the Yaak Women’s Club said. “The stove provides more consistent heat and holds the fire for a lot longer than what we had before.”

The quilt is the product of a dozen women’s yearlong labor.

“It was a new design for all of us,” Loney said. “It was a lot of hand-quilting and fabric cutting.”

Seton is happy with the trade as well. He has donated several stoves to area causes and says he was happy to help.

The Yaak Women’s Club is dedicated to promote the welfare and integrity of the Yaak community as a whole, working together to create a financial base through quilting, crafting and volunteerism to support the Yaak Community Hall and lend support to other worthwhile projects.