Employees and friends celebrate the retirement of Debbie Gall Chalk, Starbucks’ longest-tenured employee on the peninsula (25 years), with a surprise party in the Sequim Market Place store on May 31. More than three dozen showed up with cards, flowers and a cake to wish her well. From left are Gall Chalk, district manager Diana Dorsey and Sequim manager Skye Raynor. Photo by Bob Lampert