A couple of quick Kitchen notes this issue. First off, you're invited (yes, you!) to the first-ever ETS! VOLUNTEER FAIR, to be held Thursday evening, Oct. 18, location TBA (we'll have it next issue and announce it on KEXP). We could use writers, artists, layout and graphic help, web savvy, distributors, ad sales. It takes a lot to keep a volunteer-run publication going, and this will be your chance to meet the editors, writers, and other volunteers at ETS!, hang out a bit, and check us out. Fun and prizes, too. Mark your calendars and stay tuned for further info! And, of course, you don't have to come on the 18th to volunteer--check out the Mini-Mart ads on page 7, or e-mail us at info@eatthestate.org.

We have two articles this issue on friends of ETS! who passed away recently, Jeff Fairhall and Walt Crowley. Both died much too young, and will be missed.

At the other end of things, one of the volunteer slots we've been working to fill is a replacement for our outgoing webmaster, Peter Sutherland, who, after nearly a decade on the job, has a new priority--he should be a first-time father by the time you read this. (Congratulations!) Amazingly given the, um, distractions in his life, Peter just oversaw the transfer of the ETS! website to a new server last week, and in that process we had about three days (before we figured out the problem) in which all e-mail to any of the @eatthestate.org accounts was bouncing. If you sent e-mail during this time and it came back to you, try it again--it's working now! --eds.