2021 KVL Spring

From the Cascades to the Columbia - Q2 2021

• How Kittitas County Got Its name - P7 • Pillars of the community - P8 • Playtime: Youth sports return to action this spring - P14 • Local History Quick Quiz - P16 • The Geddis Block - P17 • Notable Exceptions - P18 • It’s back: Ellensburg Farmers Market returns - P20 • Looking Back: Roaring (wind) 20’s - P22

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How Kittitas County GoT Its name page 7

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Playtime: Youth sports return to action this spring page 14

Local History Quick Quiz

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KITTITAS VALLEY

Q2 | 2021

Letter from the Editor Oh, spring in the Kittitas Valley. Some call it the season of rebirth as green replaces our winter gray, and others call it the season of endurance as the wind adds an element to every outdoor excursion.

This spring there is even more reason to rejoice as the distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine becomes more readily available.

There are still many unknowns about how traditional spring and summer fare will play out, but there are indications of a return to normalcy that will build as we had to fall.

In this issue of Kittitas Valley Living we take a tour through some of the Upper County’s rural post offices and pop in for a visit with the talented duo of Notable Exceptions, who did not let a pandemic slow them down much or silence their voices.

There is also a bit of historical fun, whether taking a quiz on local history or reading what took place in Ellensburg at the start of the Roaring ’20s.

Enjoy what spring has to offer in the Kittitas Valley.

— Michael Gallagher, managing editor

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How Kittitas County GoT Its name

By Monica Mersinger

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ow Kittitas County got its name is uncertain. Opinion concludes that it is a Native American name, but interpreting what Natives meant by the word is unclear.

Kittitas Valley has always been a unique place, including for Native Americans who populated the valley. Its first inhabitants were the Psch-wan-wap-pams (stoney ground people), also known as the Kittitas band of the Yakama or Upper Yakama. Although the Kitttias were distinct from the Yakama Tribe, settlers and the federal government (for treaty purposes) grouped the Kittitas with the larger Yakama Tribe.

One of the interpretations of the meaning of the word Kittitas is the meaning

shale rock, white chalk, or white clay but in any case the name may refer to the soil composition in the Kittitas Valley. Another interpretation is that a bread made from the root Cous was referred to by Natives as kit-tit. “Tash” is a Native term generally accepted to mean “place of existence.” So, kit-tit Fur trader Alexander Ross was one of the first non-Indians to decribe tash would be “where the entering the Kittitas Valley in 1814.

Cous root exists”.

The Kittitas Valley was crossroad for the state, than 2,000 men, exclusive one of the few places in allowing Natives to travel of women and children, Washington where both and treble the number from British Columbia, camas (sweet onion) and of horses. It was a grand the Puget Sound, the cous (a root used to make Columbia and Spokane and imposing sight in bread) grew. These were the wilderness, covering area to this bountiful staples that could be more than six miles in valley. dried, made into cakes, every direction. Councils, Fur trader Alexander and saved for winter root gathering, hunting, Ross was one of the consumption. Yakama, horse-racing, foot-racing, first non-Indians to Cayous, Nez Perce and gambling, singing, describe the Kittitas other tribes gathered in dancing, drumming, Valley which he entered the valley to harvest these in 1814 to trade for yelling and a thousand foods, fish, hold council other things I cannot horses and stumbled talks, settle disputes, mention were going on upon an enormous tribal socialize, trade goods, around us.” The place gathering. race horses and play where the camas and cous Ross wrote, “This games. As it still is today, mammoth camp could grow - Kittitas. • the Kittitas Valley was the not have contained less K V LIVING

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Pillars of the community

Rural post offices serve as community centers in Upper County

by KARL HOLAPPA staff writer

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or urban dwellers and even those who live in the suburbs, a trip to their local post office is generally looked on as a burden. In rural communities, the trip is commonly a routine part of the day, as well as a way of life.

Such is the way things are done in Upper County, where rural post offices serve as the nerve center of communities such as Easton, Roslyn, and Ronald. Residents of these areas do not have access to the luxury of having mail delivered to them. Instead, going to the post office to pick up their mail is simply how things are done, as it has been for generations.

A PERSONAL TOUCH Mail is delivered to rural post offices in both corners of Kittitas County, and residents living at the crest of the mountains even have the ability to pick up their mail at Snoqualmie Pass, although that delivery is conducted by a carrier out of North Bend. Further down the hill, Postmaster John Del Gaizo ensures that residents of Roslyn, Ronald and Easton continue to have their postal needs met.

Originally from New York, Del Gaizo started his postal career the same way many fell into their professions: he responded to a job posting. Cutting his teeth in the Cle Elum Post Office in

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The Easton Post Office is housed in a former snowmobile dealership.

2002, he worked in that location for 16 years. After transferring to work as a supervisor in Yakima, he assumed his current position about a year ago after the previous postmaster for his region transferred to Cle Elum.

“I asked him how I could get to where he was at,” Del Gaizo said. “He put me on the right path, and I owe a lot to him.”

Having spent most of his 20 years with the postal service in Upper County, Del Gaizo said he is moved by the warmth and generosity of the residents he and his employees serve.

“People come in and thank us just for doing our job and being here,” he said.

In the rural communities he serves, Del Gaizo said he sees the service as not only essential to the local infra-

structure, but also valuable for the ability for residents to socialize with each other.

“For some of our older customers, this may be some of the only interaction they get throughout the day,” he said. “When I delivered mail in Cle Elum, it was the same way. We bring them essentials they need, so this is vital, especially for the smaller rural communities.”

With the frequency he and his employees interact with residents, Del Gaizo said the atmosphere and connection can often feel as if rural postal workers are part of an extended family that includes the residents they serve.

“They come to us with their problems, and we help them in the right direction,” he said.

Antique post boxes adorn the interior at the Easton Post Office

Having spent most of his career in a rural setting, Del Gaizo said he loves the small town atmosphere and the connections it forges between him, his employees and the residents who rely on them.

“We get to know our customers, their names and what’s going on in their families,” he said. “Someone comes in and you get to know that person, and you kind of build a relationship with them. I love working with people on this job, and without the people, there’s no post office. I owe everything to them.”

CENTERS OF ACTIVITY Up the hill in Easton, Shana Canterbury serves as the smiling face at the Easton Post Office. She interacts with most residents on a daily basis as they

drop into the small structure that once housed a snowmobile dealership.

“Aw, this guy is going to be bummed,” Canterbury says as a man pulls up in a pickup truck and saunters into the building.

“Sorry, no mail for you today!”

Such is a day in the life of a rural postal employee in a town where delivery has never existed, save for a handoff over the counter. Canterbury has worked for the postal service for six years, spending time in Ronald and Roslyn before becoming the personality behind the Easton location two years ago.

“Six days a week, it’s me,” she said. “Unless I’m on vacation.”

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Roslyn Post Office employees Katie Stefanovich, Debbie Porter and Postmaster John Del Gaizo pose in front of the office’s newly-created mural.

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The following is a list of the history of post offices in Kittitas County: Bertha (1898-1900)

Kittitas (1909-Date)

Roslyn (1887-Date)

Boylston (1910-1919)

Kittitass (1871-1884)

Rowan (1911-1912)

Burge (1883-1888)

Lea (1881-1882)

Roza (1904-1935)

Casland (1919-1930)

Liberty (1892-1951)

South Cle Elum (1909-Date)

Cle Elum (1887-Date)

Martin (1892-1902)

Sparta (1879-1882)

Clealum (1903-1904)

McCallum (1884-1898)

Taneum (1871-1873)

Cliffdell (1924-1934)

Meadow Creek (1913-1916) Teanaway (1885-1901)

Easton (1890-Date)

Milton (1881-1884)

Thorp (1891-Date)

Ellensburg (1894-Date)

Nastash (1881-1881)

Thrall (1911-1915)

Ellensburgh (1873-1894)

Oren (1884-1891)

Umtanum (1906-1911)

Galena (1905-1909)

Pleasant Grove (1872-1881) Vantage (1945-1964)

Hyak (1919-1921)

Reclamation (1922-1923)

Hyak (1923-1979)

Ronald (1890-1896)

Keechelus (1915-1919)

Ronald (1909-Date)

Wymer (1912-1938)

— Kittitas County, Washington Genealogy and History , Genealogy Trails continued from page 9

Having worked in retail and owned her own business prior to working for the postal service, Canterbury said her time behind the counter has been an adventure over the six years.

She said the postal service is unique in that people don’t have options to choose from when they require mail service, unlike choosing a bank or a grocery store.

“Everybody that lives in this town comes here for their mail,” she said. “They

may be 5, or they may be 93, like one of my favorite customers. You see them frequently during the week, and it’s every background, every experience, every age.

They all come here.”

Canterbury’s days are filled with small town socialization she said can be likened to chats neighbors might have over a fence line.

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Post boxes at the Ronald Post Office. All residents collect their mail at the location. continued from previous page

“You realize that the world is completely and entirely connected,” she said. “I’ve been witness to every type of kindness, if somebody is in need.

They’ll see a neighbor they haven’t seen before, and they start talking about how their truck is stuck in such and such. So and so walks in and offers up their tractor. Beyond that, what struck me is their willingness to go beyond just loaning something and even teach someone else a skill.

I’ve been privy to conversations where someone is welding something, and three guys want to learn. They’re trading resources and skills like neighbors, and I’m impressed by that.”

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up their mail for their entire lives.

Canterbury has customers who know nothing different, and she said that routine is ingrained into their way of being.

“The ceremony of coming to pick up your mail every day is a big part of some of these people’s lives,” she said.

“I’ve got a customer that comes in that is beginning to suffer from a bit of dementia, and his touchstone of the day is that he comes and gets the mail, because it’s what he has always done. It’s like this reset button of starting his routine of the day. It’s not only important for a lot of people, but it’s also crucial for a lot of people just for their daily correspondence because they prefer it to be done the old-fashioned way.” •

A plaque dedicating the Roslyn Post Office stands in the lobby.

A sign reminds patrons of the Roslyn Post Office to take care during winter months.

The Ronald Post Office serves as a center of activity for the small town.

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Gear hangs quietly in the dugout as players line the field during opening day ceremonies kicking off the youth baseball and softball season at Rotary Park in Ellensburg in 2017. After missing last spring due to COVID-19, youth baseball and softball return this spring

Playtime

Ok, it’s great that the pro sports are back in action and we were able to enjoy some March Madness this year, but the question that matters in Kittitas County is when are youth sports returning?

Good news, this spring will see kids playing baseball, softball and soccer in Ellensburg.

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Youth sports return to action this spring organizing teams and competitions.

Obviously, there are COVID modifications, but once the action starts conversations about the pandemic likely will recede, replaced with cheers and shouts of joy, from the fields and the stands.

Check the Ellensburg Youth Baseball and Softball and the KVJSA websites for information about teams and games. •

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Local History Quick Quiz 1. Which town was the earliest of incorporate?

A. Thorp B. Kittitas C. Roslyn 2. Which was the original spelling of Ellensburg?

A. Ellensburgh B. Ellensborgh C. Ellensberg

3. Ellensburg Rodeo,1923 ; Kittitas County Fair,1885; Cle Elum Pioneer Days,1969 2. Ellensburgh 1. Earliest town - Thorp,1890 (not incorporated); Kittitas,1931; Roslyn,1889

5. Who was Ellensburg’s name honoring?

A. A Native American woman B. A war hero C. Wife of town founder

4. Water,1855; Electricity,1890; Telephone,1890

4. Which utility came first to Ellensburg?

A. Electricity B. Water C. Telephone

5. Founders wife. John Shoudy names the platted city Ellensburgh after his wife Mary Ellen

3. Which is the oldest event?

A. Ellensburg Rodeo B. Kittitas County Fair C. Cle Elum Pioneer Days

Answers - Local History Quiz

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The Geddis Block

One of the fallacies in the phrase “Ellensburg’s historic downtown” is the notion that means it has never changed. But surviving more than 100 years has meant overcoming obstacles, including complete destruction.

The Geddis Block, on the corner of Fourth Avenue and Pearl Street, encapsulates the history maintained and restored ever since. of the city in that the original Geddis Building The latest touchup has been facade and brick was destroyed in fire, rebuilt and then lovingly work this spring. •

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Notable Exceptions

by Rodney Harwood staff writer

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ennifer Epps was already here in Washington. Her playing partner Judy Coder was in Kansas.

Even before the pandemic, the distance made it difficult to get anything done musically.

“We decided it would work better if we were both in the same state, so we picked Ellensburg. I told her, if I’m going to relocate, it has to be somewhere with more sunshine than here,” Coder said in a telephone interview somewhere on the road in Mississippi.

The wind was just an added bonus.

Coder made her way to the Pacific Northwest, and Ellensburg has been the home base since 2014, even though they’re on the road more than sitting on the front porch at home.

Coder and Epps, who first played together in the Horse Crazy Cowgirl Band, are known in the world of western music for their finely crafted vocal harmony. Their original music is lighthearted and conversational. Coder’s rhythm guitar is the foundation the music is built on. Epps sweetens the sound with bits of harmonica, rhythm instruments, Native flutes and whistles. The end result is a

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Notable Exceptions Western Folk duo Judy Coder, sitting, and Jennifer Epps are out there somewhere on the road on their Coast-to-Coast Quarantine Tour. singing the harmony,” she said. bold, fresh taste of Americana.

“Sometimes we change up who But it is the two-part harmony sings which part. Our songs are that brings it all together, Epps about places we’ve been or about said. our travels being out there on the “We harmonize. One is singing road.” the melody and the other is

Notable Exceptions was part of the virtual musical entertainment at the Gallery One Visual Arts Center fundraiser back in February, joining forces with a musical lineup that included singer/song writer Mark Pickerel and gospel singer Melanie Peterson. Coder and Epps brought it full circle on a night where creative minds raised money for the downtown art gallery.

“We actually did our virtual performance from the living room of our house,” Coder said with a laugh. “It was really a fun evening.

We were able to interact with the people that were chatting through the internet.

“Audience interaction is what we miss most about not performing.

That audience energy plays a big part and we hope to get back to that, The audience is our favorite part of playing.”

They have been on the road ever since.

Notable Exceptions loaded up the Rolling Quarantine Machine (NoRMa) for a Coast-to-Coast Quarantine Tour. Like Bob Dylan and the Rolling Thunder Review, it’s a no rules, no schedule tour that takes them every which way

Judy Coder, left, and Jennifer Epps formulate the Ellensburg Western Folk duo Notable Exceptions the wind blows with a series of flash-mob-style shows, spontaneous outdoor mini-concerts, from parking lots to campgrounds, house concerts to concert halls.

Fans can travel along virtually, with exclusive online content and prizes for paid subscribers through their website. They are quite literally on the road again, Coder said.

“Our mission is to make the world a better place, so we keep it light,” she said. “We were talking to a couple in the campground the other night and they were worried about a storm coming in and tornado reports, so we played them

a song to make them feel better.

“Sometimes it’s two people, sometimes it’s 50. The world needs happy songs right now and that’s what we’re doing with this tour – a smile for every mile.”

They have been recognized by the International Western Music Association with the 2017 song “Marilyn Tuttle,” which won the “Best of the Best” Harmony Award, and the 2015 Harmony Duo of the Year Award.

Notable Exceptions is driven by a commitment to spreading joy and laughter through song.

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Ellensburg Farmers Market returns end of October. The market is modified to comply with COVID spacing standards.

Once again, it will be the only weekly farmers market in the county as the Roslyn Farmers Market announced it will suspend services again for this years with plans to return in force in 2022. •

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Frank Farnum is coaching Pauline Starke in the Charlston in this 1925 photo. Farnum was an actor who appeared in 1,100 films, while Starke appeared in silent films, accordign to the internet. Local history records are somewhat silent on when and if the Charlston caught on in Ellensburg.

Looking Back: Roaring (wind) 20’s

by MICHAEL GALLAGHER managing editor

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erhaps hopes are irrationally high and, just as perhaps, no one actually knows what they’re talking about, but one hears the common refrain of late, “It will be just like the roaring ’20s.”

The reference is to what life will be like once the COVID-19 restrictions are completely lifted — the sense that people will feel a need to get out and live life a bit.

The roaring ’20s were a reaction to both coming out of the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic and the end of World War I. Given that none of us were of age during the 1920s and few

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popular movies (actually no movies) focus on life in Ellensburg in the 1920s, there is only one place to turn for a sense of how much roaring took place locally in the 1920s. That one place is the The Evening Record. And, in turning to the Evening Record, the one person we turn to is Dorothy Black, the woman behind The Evening Record’s In Society column.

(Readers were directed to call Dorothy at Main 9, not sure who has that number now).

As we start the process to come out of our COVID coma, it is timely to look back at Ellensburg, circa de April 1921.

In following are excerpts from Black’s April 1, 1921 In Society column. She starts with an introductory essay, as pertinent today as it was 100 years ago. Yes, Dorothy does

Dorothy closed with this item, which reflects the longterm effort to bridge the town-gown divide. Reading this raises the questions of whether people of that day suffered for coulrophobia (fear of clowns) and what Dorothy means by “interesting.”

Normal Party “When the town girls entertained for the out of town girls attending the Normal, sixty girls enjoyed an April Fool party last evening at Kamola Hall. Greeting the guests as they arrived were members of the entertainment committee dressed as clowns. They presented each guests with newspapers to be converted into hats, giving a prize for the best creation.

An interesting program made up commenced with a one set play “Old Sweetheart of Mine,” with Miss Leila Beckett as lead, and Miss Louise Peterson, Miss Bernice Myers, Miss Dorothy Williams, Miss Elfie Cofer, Miss Irene Berto, Miss Minnie Mathews, Miss Ada Spaulding, Miss Agnes McKenzie, Miss Mary Hinch, and Miss Dorothy Englehardt as the “sweethearts.” A “Romeo and Juliet” number with Miss Freda Tamm and Miss Leila Backett as Romeo and Juliet was next on the program. A chorus of girls accompanied them.

Miss Ann Stroud and Miss May Shaw appeared in a clown dance. Miss Ada Spaulding and Miss May Shaw appeared in a duet. An April Food supper preceded the serving of dainty refreshments.”

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mention roaring.

“In spite of the concerted effort of Ellenburg’s loyal people to overlook and ignore the wind, and never let anyone from any other town hear an adverse word about the Kittitas valley zephyrs, it is fitting, that in a quiet manner, merely as one neighbor to another it might be observed that is is blowing a bit today.

There are a number of us who, in spite of good intentions cannot help being annoyed at the things that the perverse wind, which is stored in a giant warehouse somewhere in the north end of the valley and is occasionally let loose in roaring gusts. For instance one of the sufferers is the woman, who finds the carefully laundered clothes that she hung on the line, either in a grimy condition on the ground, or tightly wrapped about a dusty tree trunk or who finds them not at all. And there is the bald headed man, getting along in years who must chase his hat for several blocks, moving at a rate of speed not in keeping with his dignity. And there is the carefully coifed maid who leaves home, a veritable dream of large hair puffs, and curled bangs, who comes home again, bedraggled, blown, storm tossed wreck.

But this is merely between ourselves, and the person who tells any of these confidences to any of the rival cities who claim that the winds blows here, shall be sentenced for first degree bad citizenship.”

So now we know that a more accurate title for the time may be the Ellensburg Roaring Wind ’20s, but then Black did delve into what Ellensburg’s loyal people were up to that week: Card Party “Mrs. Avery Stevens and Mrs. L.J. Richards were hostesses yesterday evening at a delightful card party at the Wolsdale Gymnasium when more than a hundred of their friends enjoyed an evening of cards and dancing. Winners of the high prizes at cards, which took up the early hours of the evening were Miss Edna Bates and Mr. Welch.”

It’s possible that “delightful card party” for a hundred friends was code of a gambling den/speakeasy — Dorothy is nothing if circumspect on that subject.

Friday Club “Places were marked for twenty members of the Friday Club at two tables at the Antlers hotel yesterday when the club entertained with its annual luncheon. Pink snap dragons made an effective color note, centering each table. At each place were favors, in the predominating color of rose. Following luncheon the club adjourned to the home of Mrs. F.P. Wolff where they enjoyed an informal social afternoon. the committee in charge of arrangements for the luncheon was made up of Mrs. F.P. Wolff, Mrs. C.W. Johnsone and Mrs. T.R. Jacobson.”

The question here is, when did informal social afternoons stop being a thing because they seem prime for a comeback.

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Eastman House has been making beds by hand in America since 1866.

Fitterer's has been providing our customers with a quality nights sleep since 1896. Let our combined 280 plus years find the perfect mattress for you...

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