Lewis County Weekender April 25, 2019

Thursday, April 25, 2019

ROCHESTER COURSE IS A LABOR OF LOVE FOR BILL DUNSON

THE SHIMMY RETURNS SATURDAY

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NOT JUST AN OLD MAN’S GAME

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CALENDAR OF EVENTS

FRIDAY, APRIL 26

The Lucky Eagle Casino presents Hell’s Belles, a premier all-female AC/DC band. Doors open at 7 p.m., the show start at 8 p.m. The concert is free and attendants must be 21 or older. Venue space is available first come, first served.

FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, APRIL 26, 27

Country Chicks Spring Market at the Southwest Washington Fairgrounds, runs from 10-6 p.m. on Friday and 10-4 p.m. on Saturday. Tickets are available at the door, $6 admission or $5 with a canned food donation for local food banks. It’s a two-day event for people to shop vintage, repurposed, upcycled and farmhouse items from over 140 vendors. Food, coffee and music will be onsite. Parking is free. Direct vendor inquiries to countrychicksllc@ gmail.com.

SUMMIT TO SWAMP OBSTACLE MUD RUN

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Return of the Shimmy at the Chehalis Theater, is a 21+ event.

Doors open at 7 p.m. and the show starts at 8 p.m. General admission tickets are $20 online pre-sale or $25 at the door. Show will be hosted by The Illustrious Ms. Hattie Hotpants with special guest Carson St. Clair and Miss Sugar Kane and performances

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balloons. The first 250 participants will receive a goody bag of treats, and those who get their passport stamped at every participating business will have a chance at winning a grand prize basket. A portion of the “passport” sales will go to the Human Response Network.

Summit to Swamp Obstacle Mud Run in Randle, check-in starts at 7 a.m. and races start at 8 a.m. with the men’s jackpot race for cash and 8:20 a.m. for the women’s jackpot race for cash. Entry into the jackpot races is $10 in addition to registration fee. From 9-4 p.m., the course will be open for all participants.

Register online at summittoswap.com, prices vary by age and all ages are welcome. Spectators can spectate for free. This year’s course features over 30 natural and manmade obstacles, with an awards ceremony and live music in the evening. The course is located at 156 Peters Rd. Randle, in the Big Bottom Valley in the foothills of Mt. Adams about halfway between Seattle, Portland, and Yakima, on Hwy 12.

Riverside Golf Club’s Comedy at the Course, presents Adam Hunter, a comedian who has headlined shows all over the country. Dinner starts at 6 p.m. and the show starts at 8 p.m.

Tickets cost $15 and are available online. Hunter is a New York native whose stand up style consists of stories about relationships, his family and other life observations. He was a finalist on “Last Comic Standing” and has appeared on “Chelsea Lately,” FRIDAY, MAY 3 “The Late Late Show,” “Conan Women’s Brew Day Beer Release, O’Brien” and “Jimmy Kimmel.” at Dick’s Brewing Company. The women at Dick’s brewed their own Lewis County AAUW presents beer; a Botanical Blonde, a blonde LUNAFEST 2019, beginning at 1 ale infused with herbs soaked in p.m. in Washington Hall at Centralia gin, orange peel, juniper berries, College. Tickets are $20 an can be lemon peel, cinnamon, coriander and purchased at local businesses or online at lunafest.org. LUNAFEST provides ginger. The limited release will be films by, for and about women to available in the tasting room at the people all over the country. There brewery and for lunch at the deli.

Girls Night Out in Downtown Centralia, runs from 2-8 p.m.

Participants can begin at two starting points — HUBBUB (328 N. Tower Ave.) or The Station Coffee Bar & Bistro (120 S. Tower Ave.). At the starting point, participants can buy their “passport” for $5 and then visit over 30 businesses offering special merchandise, sales and prizes for the event. Participating businesses will be marked with will be raffle baskets, food and drinks bouquets of pink, black and silver available. Proceeds will go to the Human Response Network and AAUW scholarships. Address of event is 600 Centralia College Blvd. Centralia.

Rainy City Roller Dolls Double Header, will be at the Centralia Rollerdrome. Doors open at 5:30 and first bout starts at 6 p.m. with Overbeaters Anonymous vs. Antique RollShow. Second bout at 7 p.m. with Rainy City vs. Queer Squad Washington. Tickets available online, $12 pre-sale and $15 at the door. All ages are welcome, kids 10 and under can attend for free. There will be a beer garden for 21 and older with I.D. For a front row seat, bring your own chair. There will also be an after party, location is yet to be determined. The Centralia Rollerdrome is located at 216 W Maple St.

Ladies Night at the Chehalis Theater, sponsored by Cutting Edge Landscape will feature the movie “Magic Mike.”

Pre show festivities start at 7 p.m. and the show starts at 8 p.m.

Packwood Mountain Festival, runs from May 3-5 at the White Pass Country Museum. Admission is by donation. On Saturday there will be a parade starting at 10 a.m., the history of Packwood at 7 p.m. and live music throughout the day. On Sunday starting at 9 a.m. there will be a 10k and 5k fun run for adults and a 1k kids fun run. At 1 p.m., there will be a drumming ceremony with the Tree Mountain Clan. The White Pass Country Museum is located at 12990 US Hwy 12 Packwood.

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Bill Dunson maintains the Gate Ranch Golf Course with help from volunteers.

89-Year-Old Golfer Continues to Maintain Free Gate Ranch Golf Course

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For nearly 20 years, the Gate Ranch Golf Course has served as a practice course, a place for family events and a stopping point for curious visitors from out

of town. Bill Dunson, who will soon turn 90 years old, continues to maintain the golf course with help from other volunteers, mowing the greens every morning. Bill created the course with his brother, Jim Dunson, in 2001 after they bought a ranch and converted it into a nine-hole golf course. Jim passed away in 2017 after a battle with pancreatic cancer, leaving Bill to take care of the course they began together.

“He was a big part of my life,” Bill said. “He wouldn’t have done it without me and I wouldn’t have

done it without him. It took two of us. We worked together quite well.”

A few months ago, Bill broke his shoulder and was in the hospital battling pneumonia, bronchitis and a kidney infection. He is just now getting back into his normal routine, but is very thankful for the health he has at his age.

“To be 90, I got a lot of things to be thankful for,” he said. “Ninety and to have the health that I have and be able to go and take care SEE PAGE 5.....................................

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Bill Dunson talks about the photos of people who have visited the Gate Ranch Golf Course.

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Bill Dunson talks about how he and his brother, Jim Dunson, created the Gate Ranch Golf Course.

Since Jim’s death, Bill continues to hold an annual Fourth of July of this place like that, I think is tour nament in memory of his fantastic.” brother. Because Jim was a great Last year, Bill was visited by fisherman, there is a special flag Mike Rowe, host of “Returning the Bill uses for tournaments at the Favor,” a Facebook show that course that is made of a fishing seeks out selfless people helping pole and a flag with pictures their community. Rowe spent of Jim. During tournaments, the time with Bill, golfing the course flag is placed on hole four, with together and learning about Bill’s a toilet seat around the hole, a story. At the end of their time tradition from one of their other together, Rowe returned the favor tournaments. Bill is also receiving by donating $5,000 to the Gate a monument for Jim from an Ranch Golf Course. Bill said he still anonymous donor that will be doesn’t know how Rowe found placed at the golf course. out about the course, but he While Bill does a lot of the course thinks about the donation all the maintenance himself, he gets help Bill Dunson holds a flag with pictures of Jim Dunson that is used on hole #4 for the course’s time.

“In one sense, it isn’t much from friends, neighbors and the tournaments. money,” Bill said. “But in my sense, Rochester High School boys golf team. Bill also receives volunteer right now, it’s a lot of money.”

The course continues to be help from Controlled Rain and was open to the public for free, seven given another large donation to days a week, all year round. Bill use for the course. If it wasn’t for appreciates donations, which the course, he wouldn’t have the are used to buy fertilizer, gas for health he has because it keeps his mower and other materials him active, Bill said.

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Tyler Working, left, and Matt Boyovich practice their swings at the Riverside Golf Club driving range.

GOLF PRO GIVES ADVICE FOR BEGINNERS: ‘You Don’t Have to Play 18 Holes and You Don’t Have to Play by the Rules’

By Lydia Denney

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While some people stigmatize golf as a sport for the older generations, Riverside Golf Club in Chehalis is taking steps to get kids and young adults interested in the game. Riverside’s head golf professional Austin Abbott had his own golf clubs at the age of three and by the time he was a teenager, he would spend nearly every day of his summer break at

the golf course with his friends.

“I think one thing that kind of steers younger people away from playing golf is the notion that it’s expensive and it’s not very fun, you have to be quiet, it’s super serious all the time,” Abbott said. “But it’s really not.”

Riverside’s marketing and event coordinator Sydney Link thinks golf is a good sport for someone to pick up because it can be a family activity and is for all ages, making it a sport someone can play their whole life.

“You don’t have to be good at it,” Link said. “Most women I think are intimidated by (golf)... People should just try. You might like it.”

Abbott said golf is getting more fun every day as the culture changes, like how he hears music played from golf carts during the summer months. As Riverside makes changes to get younger players

involved, Abbott hopes that young golfers will take advantage of the rates the club has for them. “(Golf) doesn’t take a ton of physical ability, it just takes practice,” Abbott said. “With the handicap system the way it is, anybody can play with anybody…

It’s awesome for someone younger like me to get to play golf with guys that are maybe in their 50s or 60s that have had successful businesses and successful careers.

Those are good people to get to know.”

For beginners, Abbott suggests they start out using the course’s practice greens and chipping area, which are free of charge.

Before golfing the course, Abbott said it’s important someone also use the driving range so that they can practice their swing.

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take some sort of instruction, Abbott said. At Riverside, there are classes available for individual or group lessons. Starting in April, Riverside also offers “Get Golf Ready” classes for all ages and skill levels, where golfers will get five group sessions focusing on various SEE PAGE 8.....................................

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For someone to start golfing, they will also need equipment.

Rental equipment and box sets are available at the club, but Abbott said there are also a lot of other options to get equipment depending on someone’s budget.

If someone is serious about starting to play golf and wants to spend more money, they can be fitted for clubs at Riverside. For someone not wanting to spend as much money on their first set of clubs, Abbott suggests checking OfferUp or eBay or asking your grandpa. “ We h a v e s o m e n e w r a t e structures just to get younger people to get into the game and start playing here, kind of going against industry standards,” Abbott said.

There are a growing number of options available for children to get more involved in golf at Riverside. For ages 17 and younger, Abbott said the junior

annual membership is $1 a day for unlimited golf. Abbott also coaches the course’s PGA Jr. League, which is available for ages 7-13 years old and open to all skill levels. Starting in May, the team will practice for matches played against other courses in the area like Indian Summer, Tumwater Valley, Hawks Prairie and Olympia Country Club.

“It’s a really cool program,” Abbott said. “The kids get jerseys and we have to come with a team name. It’s like little league for golf.”

Though it is pretty normal for courses to offer discounts for kids and seniors, there aren’t very many discounts for young adults, Abbott said. He thinks the game is starting to get younger.

“The industry has been hammering these poor 25-30 year olds that may be physically and emotionally ready to play golf, but it’s just so expensive,” Abbott said.

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A golfer finishes a hole at the Riverside Golf Club.

those people, just in an effort to bring more of them here to get them to start playing.”

If someone is serious about becoming a golfer, Abbott said it’s important to practice and be patient. Link and Abbott both agree that just getting out on the course is a great start, and caution beginners not to worry too much

about logistics.

“You don’t have to play 18 holes and you don’t have to play by the rules,” Abbott said. “If you want to tee it up in the fairway, tee it up in the fairway. If you want to pick it up and throw it out of the bunker, pick it up and throw it out of the bunker. You can figure that stuff out later, just get out here and try it.”

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Minxy Forte performs at a Hub City Shimmy show.

The Shimmy Is Back Saturday at the Chehalis Theater

By Lydia Denney

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For those not already in the know, Lewis County has its very own burlesque troupe: Hub City Shimmy. The group is currently preparing for their next show, “Return of the Shimmy,” located at the Chehalis Theater for the first time. Hub City Shimmy performers are ready to have a fun night with the audience, guest performers and the show’s panty butlers.

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kind of negativity.”

Starting in 2012, a group of women decided to create their own burlesque troupe and began performing at The Shire in Chehalis, where the performers converted a broom closet into a dressing room. After outgrowing T h e S h i re , t h e p e r f o r m a n c e s moved to the Fox Theatre and the Evergreen Playhouse. Since founding Hub City Shimmy, the group has always had great community support and a solid fan base that is continuously growing, Minxy Forte said. “(The reception) was really good because I think that, although we are in a conservative county, those people won’t come to the show,” said per for mer Whiskey Tango. “The people that are interested in it will come. We have had pretty good results so far.”

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performed burlesque and acted as a leader for the rest of the group.

“I do (burlesque) because I never thought I could do it,” she said. “You kind of stereotype the type of person that should be doing burlesque. Instead of allowing myself to fall into that, I just said, ‘F*** it’ and I did it anyway and to be plus size and just own it because this is the only body I have and this is the only life I have.”

Minxy Forte, another original member, often does “sing strips” for her performances. She said she has always loved theater and fell in love with the good feeling she gets from per forming and the platform that allows her to express herself and her ideas. “ We j u s t l i k e b r i n g i n g l i v e entertainment to town and engaging with people like that,”

Hub City Shimmy stands out amongst other burlesque groups due to the diversity in their performers, Whiskey Tango said.

The performers have made the show more accessible to their audience, especially because the majority of their audience is often women, Minxy Forte said. “ We ’ v e a l w a y s h a d g o o d diversity in per for mers as far as age, size, personality, talent, background,” Minxy Forte said. “We’ve found it’s really empowering to women to come in and see all these different ages and sizes just bringing it and owning it and showing that they’re sexy.”

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Minxy Forte said. “Then to have this amazing new group of sisters, that is just priceless.”

The sisterhood and comradery of Hub City Shimmy is what interested Pidge, a per for mer that joined in 2014. Pidge started “kittening” for the troupe, (kitten = panty wrangler, or a person who helps clean up the stage after an act), but the upcoming show will be her first per formance. After spending time with the powerful women in the troupe, she was hooked.

“That’s why I joined the troop, to have that power and be sexy or hilarious or both,” Pidge said. “I went to a couple of their shows at the Fox and was like, ‘Yes, these girls are killing it.’”

Each show requires extensive planning and rehearsal, which is why the troupe depends on each other to help produce an event. All of the members have demanding lives with full-time jobs and families, but they still find time to create their own costumes and rehearse choreographed per for mances for a show. Because of how much money a performer might spend on a costume or performance, many performers don’t make any money from a show. However, they don’t do it for the money, just for the passion, Whiskey Tango said.

“It’s all worth it,” she said. “All of the pain, all of the tape you’re pulling off your nipples.”

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The members of Hub City Shimmy encourage people to come to the show with an open mind, especially if someone has never been before. Many people don’t know what burlesque is or they think that it is either like the movie or a strip club, but it’s neither, Minxy Forte said.

“I think people get the wrong impression and think of the bad movie,” Minxy Forte said as other members of the group instantly began a synchronized groan in annoyance.

In the past, Hub City Shimmy shows have included jugglers, contortionists and drag performers.

Sass Crotch, stage manager for the troupe, said she loves to see the reactions from the crowd with the different performances, especially when there is a surprise male per former. The only time Sass Crotch has had to bounce an audience member was for taking photos or video, which are not allowed. If someone wants to experience the show, they have to attend, Whiskey Tango said.

“I’m continually surprised by our support,” Sass Crotch said. “We’ve never had a negative incident…

I don’t think that we’ve ever had issues with how people are reacting to what we’re doing.”

Aside from all the behind the scenes planning and carpet tape, Hub City Shimmy performers want the audience to have a good time at their show.

“When we’re on stage, we don’t want people thinking about how long we have to practice or make a costume or what kind of adhesive is holding that little thing,” Minxy Forte laughed. “We want them just to enjoy the magic in the moment and be engaged in the show.”

The show starts at 8 p.m. on Saturday, April 27 at the Chehalis Theater. T ickets are available online or at the door of the event.

For more information, visit the Hub City Shimmy Facebook page.

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Brady Calkins watches his tee shot on Hole No. 8 during the final round of the Hillcrest Invitational Pro-Am at Hillcrest Golf and Country Club. Calkins shot a final round 67 to win the pro title by two strokes over Andre Metzger.

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the level I’m at now, so you can’t listen to those who say you can’t do anything like this.”

Key dates for Calkins this season include the start of qualifying for the Web.com Tour, one of the premier stops for aspiring PGA golfers, in late August. He’s also slated to play in the Reno Open this week, where the winner will receive an exemption into the Barracuda Championship, an official PGA Tour event slated for July 22-28 also in Reno, Nevada.

A return to the nine-week Dakotas Tour, which largely takes place in North Dakota and South Dakota from July 4 through Labor Day, is also on tap. Before that, Calkins will partake in the local stage of U.S. Open qualifying on May 9 in Ber muda Dunes, California, followed by The Scottsdale Open from May 20-23 in Arizona. The latter features a prize pool of at least $125,000.

F o r m e r W. F. We s t s t a n d o u t Brady Calkins established a new milestone last summer in his budding career as a professional golfer, winning three tournaments on the Dakotas Tour en route to earning Player of the Year honors and nearly $75,000 in prize money.

For the Chehalis native, it represented validation after a few years spent grinding through the many mini-tours that make up the equivalent of a feeder system into the PGA Tour and other top-level professional series.

Calkins is still working his way up the ladder toward his shot at the big time, but the 2013 State 2A Championships runner-up feels that opportunity is closer than ever before.

“I’m out working for it every day, working to sharpen my skills,” Calkins said. “A lot of people told me I wouldn’t even get to SEE PAGE 13....................................

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Brady Calkins hits an approach shot over the water on No. 8 during the final round of the Hillcrest Invitational Pro-Am at Hillcrest Golf and Country Club.

down to really believing you’re going to make putts,” Calkins said.

“Mechanics are one thing, but if you have a 20-footer to make to win a tournament or to qualify for something, you have to trust your stroke and that you’ve picked the right line so you can commit to it.

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“Big tournaments, little tournaments, it doesn’t matter,” Calkins said. “You can never be too good. I’m trying to give myself the best opportunities to succeed, working every day on my game, eating right and doing the things that will make me better.

Having been able to find the winner’s circle while getting opportunities to play in larger events has helped Calkins improve and refine his game, said Joe Blaser, Calkins’ cousin and caddy.

He sees Calkins developing the ability to feel when he’s locked in on the course and able to chase low scores, such as when he shot a course-record 61 last December in the first round of the Bo Tour event at Los Robles Greens in Thousand Oaks, California. Calkins went on to win that tournament by two strokes.

“He’s been able to get a lot more experience, which helps him stay poised in the bigger events he’s starting to get into,” Blaser said. “Every tour nament he’s playing in now gives him better and better experiences. Guys go out there and shoot low numbers pretty often, so it’s just a matter of who is playing well. (Calkins) personally thinks getting better at putting will be the key for him going forward. If he can do that, he thinks he can really dominate.”

Calkins agrees with Blaser that improving his performance on the greens will go a long way toward helping him contend as he continues climbing the ladder.

He cited inconsistent putting as one reason he didn’t per for m well last month when he attempted to earn a spot on the Mackenzie Tour, also known a s P G A To u r Canada.

“It all comes

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What we call The Conjuring Universe has become a sprawling franchise of big-budget horrorlite spookfests that pull from every urban legend, folk tale and ghost story one can think of, usually involving vengeful feminine spirits and the women with whom they do battle. We’ve got hauntings, possessions (“The Conjuring” and “The Conjuring 2”), creepy dolls (“Annabelle” and “Annabelle: Creation”), demonic nuns (“The Nun,” obviously) and now, the ancient ghost of a murderous mother in “The Curse of La Llorona,” directed by Michael

Chaves, making his feature debut.

Six movies in, there are a few hallmarks of the freaky franchise kicked off by director James Wan. The films are often set in the 1970s and feature dizzyingly long tracking shots that give the camera (and therefore, the audience) their own set of eyes to reveal or conceal the things that go bump in the night. The look, feel and dynamic movement of the films gives the loosely connected series an aesthetic DNA. It helps here it’s literally genetic — “The Curse of La Llorona” cinematographer Michael Burgess is the son of “The Conjuring 2” cinematographer Don Burgess, and he shot second unit footage

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Linda Cardellini attends The Curse Of La Llorona Premiere held at the Egyptian Theatre on April 15, 2019 in Hollywood, California.

The “Conjuring” spinoffs are like Xerox copies — each new iteration comes out to diminished returns. The structure, ideas and style are there, but there isn’t the same heft of themes or slick craft Wan expressed in his two “Conjuring” films. “The Curse of La Llorona” is middling B-movie schlock that goes for the lowhanging fruit: sequences you know will end with some kind of jump, bump or scream, and jokes that cut the tension and indicate everyone here knows what’s up. We do. Wail as she might, the silly, not scary “The Curse of La Llorona” never reaches the operatic heights that the best of the franchise can offer.

‘The Curse of La Llorona’

2 stars Cast: Linda Cardellini, Raymond Cruz, Roman Christou, JayneeLynne Kinchen.

Directed by: Michael Chaves.

Running time: 1 hour, 33 minutes.

Rated: R for violence and terror.

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