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                   The Barbless Flyer
                    Our mission is to provide a family friendly organization for promoting the

                        sport of fly fishing through education, application and conservation.

           Next Meeting: Unknown ( April is Cancelled, due to Corona Virus Pandemic)

                                                  Prez Sez
                                                 By Paul Olsen
                           Yesterday the Washington state governor Inslee decreed that no public meetings
                           with 50 people attending will be allowed to be held for a period time. Schools,
                           restaurants, and many other businesses are having employees work from home or
                           are closed for the foreseeable future. Some our members have told me that they
                           are wanting to play it safe and not take any chances of contracting the corona virus
                           and will not attend even small meetings.

                           I have contacted our board members and we have decided that we have no choice
                           but to cancel of our club’s meetings due to the danger of some our members
                           contracting the corona virus. A fishing club meeting is simply not worth
                           endangering any one’s life. Due to the large number of members who are likely to
                           fall into the especially vulnerable category people who if they contracted this virus
                           would be putting their lives in jeopardy. We simply can’t take any chances with this
                           virus.

I feel like the pilot of a hot air balloon where I am not sure where the wind is
going to blow us. I am hoping that we can all land safely and that everyone            Here’s what’s Inside...
will have a safe journey. I feel confident that this hiatus will not be major              (click on page number)
blow to the long-term vitality of our club, but instead hopefully this brief
pause in our year’s meetings and outings will be a prudent decision. Let us
hope for this is for the best.
                                                                              Prez Sez.................................1
                                                                              Show Your Pride.....................3
When in the (hopefully) near future we will hear favorable public health news Spring Fishing........................4
about dealing with this virus and the board will meet and discuss when we     Fly of the Month......................7
feel can safely meet once again At that time I will send an email blast       Conservation........................11
announcing resumption of our normal meetings and schools. We do not           Conservation and Education
have club outings announcements in this Barbless. At this point we are not
                                                                              Raffle....................................12
sure if they will be postponed or canceled. This is dynamic situation that we
can not with any certainty promise anything other than to keep you updated    Treasurer’s Report................13
as we have new information to share with you.                                 SFF Forum and Blog............14
                                                                              Advertisements.....................15
I want to thank everyone who worked at the recent club raffle. Claude         SFF Information....................16
Kistler guided the raffle to success again. The crew of people who helped
was great that included Dan and Carla Ferguson, Fred and Linda Howe,
Joann Allison, Jon Bowne, Brian Soth, Dave Marshall, Craig Adams, Miguel
Ferrera, and Rick Newman. Devon Greyerbiehl handled the sub sandwiches
and fixings. Thanks to all who contributed their generous donations. We had
132 items and 85 people who purchased raffle tickets. Thank you for helping
our club budget to meet its fund-raising goal for this event. It takes a team
to make an event like that go as well as that one did that night. We had a
good one.

Be safe and stay healthy

Paul
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                                                          Book of the Month
                                                                 By Larry Ray
                                           Another Wonderful Donation! In what is becoming a
                                           trend, our library has received another wonderful
                                           donation. These donations have helped update our
                                           collection with newer volumes. One such is the second
                                           edition of Landon Mayer’s Sight Fishing for Trout. With
                                           a copyright of 2019, it is about as new as a donated
                                           volume can be.

The reader would expect, given the recent issuance, that such a volume would display state-of-
the-art photography and other artwork, as well as the newest in discussions of techniques and
equipment. Sight Fishing… doesn’t disappoint. The color photography is wonderfully detailed and
fascinating. There is a fair share of “fish porn,” tastefully done, to excite the reader without being
offensive. In fact, almost all the fish shots are of a quality that allows the reader to enjoy the
individual traits found in trout – spotting, various shapes and sizes of kypes, differences between
individual fish in spawning garb and full fighting form. What these photos really do is reinforce
the author’s message that proper sight fishing techniques, when applied, yield much finer catches.
Indeed, if one can apply all the techniques described, I have no doubt that one’s catches would
substantially improve in number and quality.

The reader doesn’t get too far along before she/he realizes that this author is serious about his
topic! I have not seen such an emphasis on stealth and camouflage since The Curtis Creek
Manifesto. Photographs of anglers (even youngsters) bent at the waist, peering from behind
rocks and other cover, reinforce the authors emphasis on stalking. Likewise, there is also
emphasis on searching the water carefully… no, I mean really carefully… prior to approaching for
the cast. The author, in the chapter on “The Buddy System,” recommends working as a team,
with one angler locating and watching individually targeted fish from an elevated or sheltered
position while his buddy casts and works the fly according to the fish’s movements, as called out
by the spotter. Indeed, the author indicates a preference for this kind of fishing over fishing
alone. As already stated, Mayer is nothing if not serious!

As nice as the photography is, I found some of it to be a bit tricky. There are pictures of fish
sighted from the bank or from an overlook in moving or rippled water. These photos are well
done in that they are unfocused and one has to strain to find the fish in them, just as one would
(or, at least I would) have to on the bank of a stream or lake. In fact, I am still looking for the
fish in several of them! But, then, that is probably the idea behind these photos. Studying these
pictures to locate the fish is part of the enjoyment of reading this volume.

Sight Fishing for Trout is not limited to visual location and stalking. There are separate chapters
on dry-fly fishing, nymphing, and streamer presentation, with a few of the author’s favorite
recipes for each. There is a section on various types of casts. The portion describing rise forms
might rival the observations in Vince Marinaro’s In the Ring of the Rise. In particular, the chapter
entitled “Tools for the Hunt” reads something like a field manual for military commando
operations! It contains fine discussion of the equipment (sunglasses, hooded apparel, in colors
that match the background behind the angler) needed for the successful, stealthy approach and
attack. (Did I really say attack? Well, the intensity of the author leads toward such verbiage…)

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One bit of serious advice: Do not proceed through this volume without reading the forwards. The
forward, by John Randolph, to the first edition is repeated here. Even more importantly, the
forward to this second edition, by Ed Engle, is particularly insightful and helps the reader
understand the intensity of the author. As Engle notes, “…it’s the best way I know for you to
speed up your learning curve when it comes to angling intricacies of spring creeks and tailwaters.

You’ll still need to spend time on the water, but if quitting your day job isn’t an option, studying
Sight Fishing for Trout is as close as you can get to adding extra days on the River.”

This wonderful volume is now available through your SFF Library.

                                    Show Your Pride

If you are a Spokane Fly Fisher Member you are a member of
one of the top fly fishing clubs in the Northwest. You rub elbows
with some of the most skilled fly fishers in the Northwest. You get
the best fly fishing education, and no other club comes close to
the level of monthly guest speakers that we host. It’s the best.
You are the best!
Put an iron on patch on your fishing shirt, jacket, or hat, and
add a few logo stickers to your fishing box, your rod carrier,
your fly tying case, your car, or your truck, or your beer glass.
Buy these at the Membership Table at meetings. Its OK to show off!

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                                 Spring Fishing
                                    By Ken Moore

Finally, spring is here and I’m ready to get out the door and I bet you are too. So
where are you heading? The rivers are running high, the banks are blown out, and
the water is so off-colored that you are certain there is no way a fish would see your
presentation.

We are blessed with 75 lakes within a 50-mile radius of Spokane, and I fully
understand the pull to head to still water. But today, I am going to give away one of
the best kept secrets in the Northwest: now is the time to fish the creeks, streams,
and rivers that you run to in the height of the summer heat. Believe me when I say:
one of the absolute best times of the year to fish is during the spring when these
moving waters that are “blown out.” In the springtime when the water is high, the
fish are not in the middle of the river (they rarely are — that article is in the works).
They are right along the shoreline pretty much at your feet. In the springtime, you
may have your best chance of the year to catch a truly large trout. Furthermore, in
the springtime, I can pretty much guarantee you will be the only fisherman on the
river. Everyone else is on the couch or, you guessed it, in the parking lot with you at
the lake.

Now, high water fishing is a different beast, but the basics are pretty much the
same. First, let’s talk safety. The water is moving very fast and it is very cold, not
the ideal time to go for a swim. Personally, I suggest not going over the knees. Most
of the time, I am only in ankle deep water, if at all. I wear a self-inflating Personal
Floatation Device (PFD) just in case I slip. I also carry the means to make a fire with
me in my waders on the off chance I become separated from my fishing pack. If I
step into the water, I deploy my wading staff, and a whistle is always on my hip or
sling bag. Yep, those are my rules. You need to develop your own and stick to them.

Understanding Water-Volume and Push:
I personally believe that the key to understanding moving water is understanding
water volume. Too much hype is given to structure for a good reason, but the
common denominator is water volume. It is the most important factor in finding fish,
especially large fish. When I look at water, I’m not concerned with the flow of the
water. Instead, I’m always looking for the “push” of the water. Is the water moving
consistently, or is it lifting, ducking, or moving sideways as it rolls along down the
riverbank? The reason is fish have to swim or hold against the push of the water,
and when the water is high, guess what — these fish are as lazy as a teenager when
it is time to mow the grass.

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Two types of water that you should avoid are lifting hydraulics and ripping
hydraulics. (Water moving back up stream in a reverse hydraulic is a topic for
another article so let’s agree to ignore that for now.) Many anglers look at the water
and assume it’s dark and deep but fail to notice the hydraulics that are at play. If the
bottom is smooth, devoid of small gravel, muck, and mud, and the water is ripping
along parallel to the shoreline, then the odds of finding a fish fighting that current is
pretty much zero. The other is lifting hydraulics. I see fly fisherman fishing a flushing
or lifting hydraulic all the time, and I shake my head and move on. Fish lay close to
the bottom because the water is slower, and often the depth decreases aerial
predation. So, if the water hydraulic is lifting or gurgling like oil coming out of the
ground in a Texas oil field, then you would be correct in guessing there probably
aren’t many fish in that part of the river. So, lifting hydraulics have the volume but
the push is in the wrong direction, in this case, towards the surface. Fish there no
more; please. What you are looking for are buckets and small pools of quiet water.
When I say small, you would be surprised at what can come out of a quiet pool no
bigger than a football. I would like for you to try looking at the water in this volume
and push manner. Quiet pools are your nirvana. Do not be surprised when you see
how many fish can stack in that small quiet piece of water.

Fishing Fast Moving Water:
Trout typically hold in 18 to 36 inches of water with small gravel, silt, muck or a
combination of the three. The reason they choose this bottom structure is the water
is not moving fast enough to clean the bottom. So, look for a river bottom that
displays this type of a softer bottom. This typically means that you will be fishing
inside corners on your rivers. Softer, slower water volume allows the fish to rest and
that means inside corners are your new best friend and your chances of finding a
large number of trout. Hard, outside corners are high volume pushy water and even
juvenile fish prefer slower water. A soft rule to consider is if the water is too hard for
you to comfortably wade in, it is probably too fast for the fish to rest in. Casting in
higher flow waters requires an adjustment. I find myself high sticking, dabbing and
jigging my flies in soft water buckets or pools, be they heavy nymphs or streamers. I
often use a strike indicator like thingambobbers or air-lock strike indicators. In faster
water trout may not be willing to move laterally very far to eat. I mentally make a
grid on the pocket of water that I am fishing and try to fish the whole pocket of
water starting with what is closest to me and moving out. If the indicator
pauses, hesitates or moves slightly SET the hook, hook sets are free, and
trout rarely will submerge your whole indicator. The days of softly casting a
dry fly 40 foot will come in the summer for now it is all about fishing tight
lines, high sticking and getting your nymph or streamer presentation to the
bottom quickly. There is an advantage to this type of jigging presentation
style, fish are extremely predatory and in the spring time because everything
moves faster the fish do not have the luxury of studying your presentation,
they either decide to eat or let it pass, in the fast moving waters of spring
they usually chose to eat or at least mouth your flies.

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Colors of my flies do not change from what I fish during the summer
months, I still use the adage if the sky is dark due to cloud cover, I fish
darker flies, if the sky is bright, I fish brighter colored flies. Fish are very
adept at finding food using their lateral lines and their eyesight. The idea of
using fluorescent and chartreuse colors is appealing at the fly bin but I have
not found these colors to give me any advantage in faster dirty spring
water. I would argue that a weighted bead head nymph with a hot spot
elicits more strikes than a nymph without a hot spot (a hot spot is a piece of
colored dubbing tied in just behind the bead head and differs in color form
the thorax and tail sections of a nymph). The good news is you don’t need to
go out and buy new flies for spring high water fishing, what you do need to
do is weight your rig to get the nymph to the bottom fast, this can either be
done with tin, lead, or tungsten weights. Loon Outdoors, for one, sells tin
weights and I use sizes 2SSG or SSG (3.2 g or 1.6 g) If you have not yet
tried tungsten tack weight or twist on lead wrap this may be a good time to
begin to explore something new. Sometimes I will utilize a sinking line I like
a shorter 250 grain 18 foot head vs a 30 foot sinking line when I high stick
with sinking lines. If I am using a floating line I may use a weighted
VersiLeader (Each Rio VersiLeader is 10ft long, tapered for the best in
performance and has a 24lb nylon core. A neat, bullet-proof welded loop at
the butt end allows for fast rigging.) depending on the volume and push of
water I am fishing and my rig setup. Bottom line is your looking for soft
pockets of slow water that fish will hold in. Fish it vertically if you have to
and be quick and liberal at setting the hook. Always keep safety forefront in
your mind because everything in the spring moves faster.

There is a cosmic duality between the calm of still water and the rush of
spring runoff, two sets of opposing and yet complementing principles that are
observed in nature. The lessons we learn from fly fishing are often applicable
to life, if you haven’t tried something new in your chosen sport what is
holding you back? The reward of landing trout with a new method will put a
smile on your face.

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                                  Fly of the Month
                               Rickard's Emerging Bugger

                                     Stillwater expert, Denny Rickards, desiring a complementary
                                   emerger pattern to his A.P. Emerger, came up with the
                                   Emerging Bugger in 2010. The Emerging Bugger pattern
                                   utilizes many of the colorations and materials of his popular
                                   Seal Buggers series yet he ties this pattern to a 2XL Nymphal
                                   hook and adds a hackle collar for the impression of an
                                   emerging nymph. It is a 50/50 mix of Angora Dubbing and
                                   Ice Dubbing. Rather than palmering a hackle through the
                                   body (as on the Seal Bugger), the hackle is wrapped just
behind the head . The hook is slightly longer than his AP Emerger pattern, a 2xl nymph hook
such as a TMC 5263 or Daiichi 1710. Denny fishes this pattern as an emerging nymph with
either a Sink Tip or a Full Sinking line utilizing a pulsating upward retrieval. The pattern can
also be fished as a streamer with a slow retrieve mimicking a baitfish.

Denny uses many different color combinations of the body, tail and hackle. The major body
  colors are Olive, Black/Red, and Black. The darker colors work especially well under low
  light conditions. The lighter Olive colors work well late-morning and midday. Hackle
  colorations include: Burnt Orange and Burgundy. Tail colorations are: Burnt Orange,
  Burgundy, Olive, and Black.

Materials: (To Order Materials, click the link)
       •Hook: Daiichi 1710 or TMC 5262, #8-10
       •Thread: Danville Black 6/0
       •Weight: .020 Leadfree Wire
       •Head: Danville Black Thread
       •Tail: Black Marabou, Two strands Holographic Flashabou
       •Body: Black&Red Seal/Peacock Ice Dubbing
       •Rib: Copper Wire
       •Hackle: Purple Grizzly Saddle Hackle

Variations: (Materials list can be found at this link)

                                                         (Tying Instructions on next pages)

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                                   Tying Instructions

 1. Attach the .020 lead-free wire behind
the eye and wrap 10-15 times on the shank.

2. Attach the thread to the shank behind the eye..

3. Secure the lead wire with thread wraps. Bring the
thread back to the bend of the hook.

4. Clip the fibers off a marabou plume stem to tie in a
tail. The length should be the same as the shank length.
Keep the number of tail fibers sparse about 15-20 fibers.
Secure the marabou with 3-4 pinch wraps keeping the
material on top of the shank.

5. Secure the butt ends of the marabou over the lead
wraps with thread wraps.

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 6. Trim off the excess Marabou. Attach two
 strands of Flashabou to the top of the tail. The
 strands should go the length of the tail.

7. Attach a copper wire ribbing to the bottom of the
shank below the lead wraps. Secure the wire ribbing with
thread wraps to the tail tie-in position.

8. Mix up a dubbing blend of 50% J.Fair Simi Seal and
50% Ice Dubbing. For this pattern, we use Black/Red
Simi Seal and Peacock Ice Dubbing.

9. Apply the dubbing to the thread in a clockwise
rotation. Slide the dubbing up to the tail tie-in position
for that a few fibers touch the shank. Then, wrap the
dubbed thread 2 times to lock these fibers to the shank.

10. You can tighten or loosen the dubbing on the thread
with further twisting. Wrap the dubbed thread forward
about an eye width behind the eye and secure with
thread wraps.

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11. Wrap the ribbing forward about 5 turns. Secure with
thread wraps and trim off the copper wire tag using a
heavy wire scissor, not your thread scissor! Some will
break the wire with a back and forth motion but this is
medium guage and it doesn't break easily. Mash down
the cut end against the shank.

12. Select a webby saddle hackle the same size as the
hook. Attach the hackle just in front of the body by the
base with thread wraps. The shiny side of the hackle
should face forward so the fibers sweep back.

13. Build a small thread head and Whip Finish.

14. Brush the body with a piece of velcro or a dubbing
brush. Tease the dubbing material so that it extends
through the hackle fibers and tends to blend in.

15. Apply some head cement the thread head.
The finished Emerging Bugger:

         Reproduced with permission from Steve Schalla’s   Fly Fishing the Sierra

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                             Conservation
                               By: Claude Kistler

                     Included is a recent Conservation success as reported by
                     the Washington State Council of Trout Unlimited. Thanks
                     to all for reaching out in support of this legislation.

                                             GREAT NEWS!

                     Washington State fish habitat and water quality took a
                     big leap forward yesterday with the passage of suction
                     dredge reform legislation (you may have seen it called HB
                     1261), which now goes to Governor Inslee for his
signature. This legislation will protect thousands of miles of critical habitat for
salmon, steelhead, and bull trout from the harmful effects of suction dredge
mining. This is an incredible win for Washington’s watersheds, and it has
been a long time coming.

This victory is thanks to YOU! Supporters like you sent messages backed in
science calling for safeguards for Washington’s enormous salmon and orca
recovery investments, and the importance of clean water and intact aquatic
habitat. You demanded this commonsense approach because you knew it
was the right thing to do for our waters. And our lawmakers in Olympia
listened - the bill garnered broad, bi-partisan support.

Please take a moment to reach out to your legislators that voted for this
legislation and thank them for their support.

Singular voices - when spoken in chorus like we did here - make a
difference! YOU SPOKE, AND YOUR LEGISLATORS LISTENED. Every voice
matters, and your voice made the difference on this important issue for our
salmon, orca whales, and water quality in Washington State.

With immense gratitude,
The Team at Trout Unlimited Washington

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          Conservation and Education Raffle
                          April 2020 – Claude Kistler

                   There are so many thanks that should go around
                   regarding the raffle this year. Thanks to the 52 donors
                   who contributed 132 items, trips and services.

                   Thanks to the 85 ticket buyers and raffle bidders. Thanks
                   to the volunteers who set up the room, checked in items
                   and shuttled them to the tables.

                   A huge thanks to Linda Howe, Carla Ferguson, Brian Soth
                   and Jon Bowne for their work at the membership, check-
                   in, and pay table.

Thanks to the table runners who delivered items and tickets to the front table
for the drawings and of course to Dan Ferguson for handling the mic duties.

Thanks to Joann Allison for her important record keeping of winners and to
David Marshall for the AV system and data collection on various raffle items.

A huge thanks to Devon Greyerbiehl for providing food for purchase, and a
super shout out to Miguel Ferrera who was there with a steady hand when
things were their most chaotic at item check-in.

Lastly, thanks to all who stayed to clean up and put the room back into
order. Please accept my apologies if I have forgotten anyone.

Our gross total was $3,520 and that’s a good evening. As Treasurer Brian
Soth said, “with lots of energy in the room and the winners seemed happy
with what they won.”

Thanks again to all who helped and participated. You clearly demonstrate the
heart and soul of the Spokane Fly Fishers and our Conservation and
Education projects will flourish because of your efforts.

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                          Treasurer’s Report
                           By Brian Soth, Treasurer

The following report is submitted in a spirit of transparency. Any
member is welcome to ask questions about our income, expenses and
assets. (As a reminder, our current fiscal year runs from June 1, 2019
through May 31, 2020.) If you do have questions or comments, please
email Treasurer Brian Soth at treasurer@spokaneflyfishers.com.

Balances as of March 15, 2020:
Checking                            $25,200
Money Market Fund                   $10,170

Inflows and Outflows, February 2020:
Inflows                            $    5,895
Outflows                           $    2,024
Net Income                         $    3,871

Inflows and Outflows, Fiscal Year to Date
as of February 29, 2020:
Inflows                             $ 13,352
Outflows                            $ 12,234
Net Income                          $ 1,118

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                               SFF Forum and Blog

          Ready for the Opening of the Fishing Season!
The SFF Forum and Blog now has 80 members, an all time high, and we expect several
more in the coming months as the Fly School new members get into the fishing season
as the weather warms up.

There will be a special emphasis this year on members arranging their own outings or for
folks using the Forum to find some fishing buddies to join them as they visit a local lake
or river. For you new folks, please don't be shy and wait for someone else to make a
request. Get on the Forum, go to the "Fishing Buddies" category, and post a note saying
you are going to a lake or river and ask if anyone else would like to join you. If you don't
know where to fish, post a note asking your question and I'm sure you'll get an answer
or two that will be helpful.

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                                  SFF Information

                OFFICERS                                       COMMITTEE CHAIRMEN

President:           Paul Olsen              Programs:                       Stan Johnson
Vice President:      Stan Johnson            Barbless Flyer Editor:          Rolf Marsh
Treasurer:           Brian Soth              Publications Comm.:             TBD
Secretary:           Val Urbat               Conservation:                   Claude Kistler
Board Position 1:    Randy Ishihara          Outings:                        Chet and JoAnn Allison
Board Position 2:    David Marshall          Education:                      Ken Moore
Board Position 3:    Devon Greyerbiehl       Membership:                     Jon Bowne
Past President:      Doug Keene              Fly Fishing School:             Claude Kistler and Dan
Sgt. At Arms:        Rick Newman                                             Ferguson (co-chair)
                                             Librarian:                      Larry Ray
                                             PHW Contact:                    George Foster
                                             FFI Liaison:                    Rick Newman
                                             Beg. Fly Tying:                 Mary Kovatch
                                             Int. Fly Tying:                 Dan Fergson
                                             Casting for Recovery:           Mary Kovatch
                                             A/V Coordinator:                David Marshall

Time and Location of Monthly Meetings

       Place: St Francis of Assisi Church, 1104 W HEROY, Spokane

       Meetings are on the 2nd Wednesday of each month, except May (Club Picnic), June, July
       and August. Meetings start at 7 pm, preceded by a social hour starting at 6 pm.

SFF Contact Info
       Change of eMail Address: membership@spokaneflyfishers.com
       Club Mailing Address: SFF Club, PO box 4141, Spokane, WA 92202
       Club Web Site: https://www.spokaneflyfishers.com/links-club-document
       If you have any questions please contact: membership@spokaneflyfishers.com

              Spokane Fly Fishers                                       May articles due:
            Next Meeting: Unknown                                     Depends on Covid-19
  St Francis of Assisi Church, 1104 W HEROY.

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