There can be little argument that all members of the Sequim Guild for Seattle Children’s Hospital are heroes, considering all they do for sick children and their families — including 1,277 Clallam and Jefferson County children. The group has long raised money for the hospital and have donated handmade quilts, toiletries, stuffed animals and other items.
According to give.seattlechidrens.org, the Sequim Guild, established 50 years ago in 1976, has raised about $400,000 for the hospital’s Uncompensated Care Fund. The ladies have also helped fund research.
“They have earned notoriety with their homemade jams, jellies and pies which they sell at numerous community events,” the website states of the Sequim Guild.
Meet Guild member Raini Cacy. If you don’t already know her personally, you may have purchased or been gifted jars of her homemade jams that are sold at the Guild’s various fundraisers. She, as well as other members, also regularly contribute pies and cakes.
Cacy grew up in a jam-making family and started, as she puts it, “jammin’” again in 2013, two years after she and her husband retired to Sequim, relocating from Alaska. Armed with a food handler’s license, she makes more than 50 flavors/blends, and makes low sugar and no-sugar versions.
With 10-12 cases of her jams sold at the Guild’s Holiday Bazaar and Christmas Cottage, they are now a staple at every Guild event, Cacy said, including the group’s monthly Bunco fundraiser luncheons. (The next one is scheduled for Friday, Feb. 20 at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, 525 N. Fifth Ave. Doors open at 11:30 a.m. There will also be a “mini” bake sale at The Fifth Avenue, 500 W. Hendrickson Road, on Sunday, March 15.)
“I joined the Guild in 2017,” Cacy said, “as I was looking for some place to volunteer with a good cause.”
Reach out to the Sequim Guild through their Facebook page at Facebook.com/groups/1584230355175481.
Photo courtesy Sequim Guild/ Raini Cacy stands ready to hand out some of her homemade Easter treats.
Photo courtesy Sequim Guild/ A customer pays for some of the homemade sweets Raini Cacy sells to benefit the Sequim Guild of Seattle Children’s Hospital.
