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he Pete Lake Trail in Upper Kittitas County is a favorite this time of year for good reason. It’s a reasonable day hike in the Alpine Lakes Wilderness with stunning scenery as a reward. The trail to the lake is 9 miles roundtrip, and follows the Cooper River valley upstream to its headwaters. It’s a great place to bring a lunch, and if it’s hot, cool off your feet in the water.

Take state Route 903 through Ronald toward Salmon la Sac, passing Lake Cle Elum. Turn left on to Forest Road 46 and drive five miles to Cooper Lake.

Turn right onto Forest Road 4616, crossing Cooper River and continue one mile to the trailhead. The trail can be busy on the weekends and is popular with backpackers.

Ellensburg Rodeo on Friday, Aug. 31. Crowdfavorite Xtreme Bulls is Saturday, Sept. 1, but don’t miss the action Monday at the Ellensburg Rodeo Finals.

• The Ellensburg Rodeo parade on Saturday morning, Sept. 1., winds down University Way and into downtown. It includes hundreds of horses, marching bands, floats and pretty much every community organization in town.

Labor Day weekend in Kittitas County It’s hard to keep up with everything that happens in Ellensburg and Roslyn over Labor Day weekend, but here’s a sampling:

• Things kick off Thursday with the Rockin’ the Arena concert and Ellensburg Rodeo Hall of Fame induction banquet on Aug. 30.

• The Kittitas County Fair starts Thursday, Aug. 30, followed by the four-day

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His hits include “Home,” “Pickup Man,” “Bigger than the Beatles,” and “If the Devil Danced (in Empty Pockets).”

Country performer Joe Diffie will help kick off the 2018 Ellensburg Rodeo with a Rockin’ the Arena concert over Labor Day weekend. The Rockin’ the Arena concert is at 8 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 30, in the Ellensburg Rodeo Arena.

The performance will be held in the main arena at the Kittitas Valley Event Center and attendees are encouraged to dance and kick up some dirt. Arena seating is available.

Diffie is an acclaimed county performer with multiple platinum-selling albums and a Grammy and ACM-award winner.

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• Don’t forget about Coal Miner Days and the High Country Log Show in Roslyn. The timber sports competition runs Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 1-2, and includes pole climbing, choker setting and other high-action competition in Runje Park.

Tickets to the event are $32 and include same day admission to the Kittitas County Fair. Go to ellensburgrodeo. ticketforce.com. For more information, call 1-800-637-2444.

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ummer took a little while to arrive in the Kittitas Valley, but it showed up in full force this July.

Temperatures reaching the tripledigits can make people a lot of things, but it mostly makes them thirsty. Reporter Karl Holappa took it upon himself to make a great sacrifice for the readers, venturing to the Upper County to tour around every brewery he could find.

Summer also is the edition of KV Living where we get to work with magazine writing students from Central Washington University. Sarah Hoot explored a small, unassuming building behind Dean Hall on campus, which is teeming with exotic plant life. The university’s greenhouse is open to the public from 1-3 p.m. on Fridays if you’re curious to see what’s inside.

Daily Record contributor Monica Mersinger once again did what she does best, exploring the history of Kittitas

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County. This time she looked into the interesting and peculiar past of the Ladies Lounge, which provided a respite for women in Ellensburg from 1948 to 2002.

I was lucky enough to snag a tour of Pautzke Bait, which most people pass on Dolarway Road without giving a second thought. Turns out that the large cement building produces more than a million jars of salmon eggs every year, and has been doing so since 1934. Owner Casey Kelley said even if people can’t remember the name of the bait they grew up fishing with, they remember the bright red eggs and the green lid.

So find a cool spot to enjoy this edition of KV Living, whether that’s in the shade by the creek with your favorite fishing bait, or enjoying a beer in the new air-conditioned lady’s lounge you’ve constructed. Just don’t read it in the greenhouse. Probably not very comfortable.

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Portal into another world CWU greenhouse emphasizes the importance of plants

By Sarah Hoot For the Daily Record

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small building tucked behind Dean Hall on Central Washington University’s campus might seem unassuming, but a visit inside opens the door to other worlds.

The CWU Biology Department greenhouse is used for student and faculty projects and research, but it’s also open from 1-3 p.m. on Fridays for community members to see what lies inside and why the plants are so important.

Photos by Jack Lambert

“If not for plants we would all be dead,” CWU biology professor Mary Poulson said. “I think it is important for people to learn about them and see them because it might help people appreciate them more and perhaps might make people more inclined to be good stewards of the Earth. I feel like people need to remember that humans can’t exist without other forms of life on Earth.”

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A recent tour with instruction and class support technician Jonathan Betz, and other Central students began at the front doors; the single hallway is lined on one side with pots, spray bottles, labels and everything needed to maintain and grow the plants within.

A rolling cart ďŹ lled with seedlings available in exchange for a small donation stands against the wall for visitors who want to try out their green thumbs.

Four nearly identical thick wooden doors line the other side of the greenhouse.

Each is a portal to another world.

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Calamondin grows at the CWU Greenhouse in Ellensburg.

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Tropical Paradise The window next to the first door drips with the condensation from the humidity in the room. Opening the door releases a wave of hot, sticky air and the smell of rain-soaked earth and leaves. Butterflies – courtesy of local kindergartners – float around and rest on surrounding leaves.

Plants in the rainforest room are built to survive in places with a lot of rain but little sunlight.

Betz, who is in charge of giving tours of the greenhouse, said it is common for plants living in tropical areas to have large leaves that act as solar panels to gather small amounts of light. They also have special ways to deal with the moisture.

“There are slippery leaves … and that’s a good thing,” Betz said.

“You don’t want a whole lot of water pooling up on the leaf for a long time because that would be just something that would cultivate bacteria and fungus. These (plants) don’t want a moldy leaf otherwise they might not get enough sun or it might get infected.”

Meet the plants • Hibiscus – “It’s not an uncommon plant,” Poulson said.

“But it is my favorite because it is continually attacked by aphids but it persists. It has gumption and I respect that.” Hibiscus flowers come in a variety of bright colors used to attract pollinators like birds and butterflies.

Hibiscus also can be used for tea, medicine, and even polishing shoes.

•Swiss cheese plant – This plant has a trailing root system and large leaves with holes. “They also call it the hurricane plant,” Betz says.

“Wind can pass through the holes.

A hibiscus flower blooms at the CWU Greenhouse in Ellensburg.

It’s really well suited to growing in an environment where tropical storms come through.”

•Angel’s trumpet – The angel’s trumpet comes from Columbia and it is rumored to be even more dangerous than cocaine. Betz said

it has hallucinogenic properties but it is also full of other chemicals that will make you violently sick. Visit the greenhouse in the morning and you might smell the leftover fragrance of these night-blooming flowers.

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Venus Fly Traps crowd a pot at the CWU Greenhouse in Ellensburg.

Biology in Action Door No. 2 leads to the research room, Betz said, where biology students work on projects. Bright lights shine down on several sunflowers growing in the center tray tables.

Be careful — some of the projects bite. At one the end are the carnivorous plants. Venus fly traps, butterworts and pitchers are specially adapted to living in swampy areas with poor soil and few nutrients. In response, these plants developed ways 14

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to lure and trap insects and other creatures.

Unlike the other three houses, there is no central theme for the plants living here and visitors are just as likely to see cacti as common herbs. Try coming in at different times throughout the year to see things change.

Meet the plants • Mimosa pudica – “With the younger school kids we tell them it’s called the bad breath tester plant. If you blow on it, the leaves close up,” Betz said. To protect itself, the leaves will close and droop when disturbed, which startles herbivores. They aren’t

big but there are a lot of them growing in the greenhouse.

• Dumb cane – Tucked against the wall is a common plant with thick, vine-like branches and large leaves.

“57 percent of grandmothers have this growing in their house,” Betz said.

The dumb cane hides a secret: tiny crystals that cause extreme irritation when eaten.

• Moruga Scorpion pepper – Hailing from Trinidad and Tobago, this is one hot pepper. Pepperhead. com ranks it as the second hottest pepper in the world measuring 2 million Scoville heat units. While humans may not be able to handle the heat, birds aren’t affected, which helps the plant spread its seeds.

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pineapple, coffee, vanilla, ginger and cacao.

To gain an advantage, some tropical plants have abandoned the soil and begun living in the air. This may sound like something out of science fiction but Betz said these plants are called epiphytes. Epiphytes are not parasitic but they do make their homes living on other plants for support.

Epiphytes are found throughout the plant world and include species like orchids and bromeliads.

the desert room, plant defense mechanisms take on a new form. This room houses most of the cacti and succulents, and the greenhouse’s only permanent non-plant resident: Snorkle the tortoise.

The shelves along the walls are covered with cacti, agave and aloe. The plants growing here show how structural design changes depending on the environment. In the desert there is lots of sunlight and not enough water, which means that large, thin leaves will quickly dry up and lose water. Cacti flowers add splash of color to the desert.

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Meet the plants • Tequila agave – This is one of the handful of plants that is not a cactus but still makes its home in the desert. “It is useful not only for making tequila but can also be used to make rope,” Poulson said. The leaves of this agave can survive up to four months detached from the plant.

• Old Man’s Beard Cactus – These plants look like furry caterpillars crawling out of their pots. “It makes these spines that are really fine and hair-like, and they act like a (white) shirt,” Betz said. “You don’t want to wear a black shirt in the

A prickly pear cactus reaches for the sun at the CWU Greenhouse.

desert. You want to wear a white shirt to reflect off that solar radiation.”

• Euphorbia – Several of these large plants reach almost to the ceiling. The euphorbia has a poisonous milky sap. “You barely nick it and it just pours out those protective juices,” Betz said.

Time to eat

The humidity is back inside the tropical room.

Some plants here have an important purpose: providing food. One plant that isn’t hard to recognize is the banana tree with its large leaves and tall trunks. Other plants include

• Calamondin – This tiny tree is covered with what look like tiny limes or tangerines, depending on the growing stage. While Betz said they don’t taste that good, they can be used for culinary purposes. “It is actually a pretty common houseplant. It’s a citrus and it’s more ornamental than anything,” Betz said.

• Titan Arum – Sometimes called the “corpse flower,” this plant has one of the world’s largest and stinkiest flowers. It may be dormant when you visit, but ask about it.

• Condom plant – As the name suggests this is another slightly phallic plant. It may not look like much, just a pot full of tiny green vines, but when it blooms you can see where it gets its name. “It’s really quite beautiful, actually it looks like a little bird cage,” Betz says.

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Soft, but satisfying

By Matt Carstens Staff Writer Photos by Jack Lambert

Pautzke Bait Co. president Casey Kelley gives a tour of the company’s production facility on Dolarway Road in Ellensburg.

Pautzke Bait Co. has been fooling fish since 1934

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autzke Bait Co. President Casey Kelley said not everyone who grew up fishing remembers his company’s name, but they definitely remember the brightred salmon eggs and the green lid of the jar they came in.

“You ask them what they grew up fishing on they’d say either worms or little red salmon eggs,” Kelley said with a smile.

Those little red eggs have been manufactured in Ellensburg since 1934, when Kelley’s grandfather’s

uncle started the company. That single product sustained the company for more than 70 years, along with a few other lines of eggs. But when Kelley took over the company in 2003, he slowly started to expand the company’s product line. Today, the catalog contains about 46 different fishing products, including curing agents, floating dough baits and dry powders. “(The little red egg) is the workhorse of the line,” Kelley said.

“It’s been around a long time, same

original recipe. These days we have about seven different types of eggs we changed colors on, add some other scent to them. We’ve even created some fake eggs out of polymers.”

Essentially what Pautzke Bait is trying to do is take a natural food that fish usually eat, salmon eggs, then present them in an attractive way so they become irresistible to the fish.

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Pautzke purchases its eggs from a supplier which gets its eggs from the Great Lakes in the New York area.

Kelley said they receive all the eggs they can handle, and usually have about 12 days a year of production.

Those production days produce about 120,000 per day and a little over 1 million jars per year.

Production cycle The products are made inside a production facility on Dolarway in Ellensburg, where Kelley’s grandfather’s original cooking pots are lined up and ready to use.

In the ‘50s, Kelley’s grandfather had a manual mechanism, where he would pedal on a bicycle to keep the paddle turning over the eggs, which are being heated up. Now, Kelley fires up the machine that stirs the eggs over the burners automatically.

Kelley said they add the eggs, a certain amount of solution, food preservative, some sugar and dye while the eggs are processing.

The cooking procedure also firms up the eggs so they’ll be easier to put on a hook.

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LEFT: A ball of power bait sits in Casey Kelley’s hand at the Pautzke Bait Company in Ellensburg. RIGHT: Old press clippings line the front hallway into the head offices at the Pautzke Bait Company in Ellensburg.

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“There’s a lot of heat in here,” Kelley said. “We try to do it in the middle of winter.

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The family business Kelley grew up in Ellensburg and always worked off and on at the company, but really only had one focus — baseball.

Kelley played at Washington State University and then was drafted by the Angels, where he played in the minor league system for a few years. After some injury trouble and top prospects coming up behind him, he decided to come back to work full-time at the company.

“I just always had a great relationship with my mom’s side of the family,” Kelley said. “They were hunters and fishermen. It was always a good fit.”

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An Upper County craft A closer look at breweries from Cle Elum to the cascades

By Karl Holappa Staff Writer Photos by Jack Lambert and Karl Holappa

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ver the course of the last five years, the Upper County has seen three new breweries sprout up. Each brewery is unique in their beer styles, locations and vibe. One thing that all four Upper County breweries have in common, however, is that they brew delicious beer.

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rinkers of Taneum Creek Brewing’s multiple offerings finally have a taproom to visit.

Owner Gabe Gorton opened the taproom, formerly home to Mule and Elk Brewing a week before Memorial Day. The taproom was partially funded by a Kickstarter campaign that raised over $5,000.

He said business has been good at the location.

“People are liking it so far,” he said.

Gorton, a Peshastin native, quit his job as an engineer to work full-time with the brewery and taproom.

He brews his beer in his modified garage in South Cle Elum and produced his first batch last September.

“I work more now than I ever did before,” he said. “It’s a little nerve wracking but I’ll make it happen.”

If you go Mule and Elk Brewing 418 E. 1st St. Suite 7, Cle Elum (206) 909-9622 Hours, Thursday 4-8 p.m., Friday 2-9 p.m., Saturday 11 a.m.- 9 p.m., Sunday 11 a.m.- 6 p.m.

Taneum Creek Brewing 811 Highway 970 Suite, Cle Elum (509) 306-6493 Open Daily 12- 8 p.m.

Roslyn Brewing 208 W. Pennsylvania Ave. Roslyn (509) 649-2232 Open Friday 2-7 p.m, Saturday 1-7 p.m.

Sunday 1-5:30 p.m.

Dru Bru 10 Pass Life Way, Snoqualmie Pass (425) 434-0700 Open Monday-Thursday 12-9 p.m., Friday and Saturday 11 a.m. to 10 p.m., Sunday 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.

Gorton said he is working overtime to keep up with demand and is working on building a five barrel system to increase production, hoping to increase distribution in the community.

“Right now, I’m going like crazy,” he said. “I did four brews in a day a couple weeks ago.”

Gorton plans on participating in multiple beer festivals over the next year and is entering two of his beers into the Great American Beer Festival. It will be his first time competing as an established brewery.

“I’m signing up for this on a whim,” he said. “We’ll see how that goes.”

Gorton said people’s love of craft beer is what drove him to start in the industry.

“Everybody wants to hear your story, and everybody is super excited about it,” he said. “It’s awesome.

I’m my own boss and I’m doing what I like doing. I love it.”

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he oldest existing brewery in Upper County is working hard to keep up with increasing demand and growth in the area.

“There’s just more people coming to Roslyn now,” Roslyn Brewing co-owner and brewer Kent Larimer said.

The brewery first opened its doors in 1990, and Larimer and two other business partners purchased it in 2004.

“We thought it would be kind of a fun thing to do,” he said.

Larimer, who is originally from Cle Elum, worked on the West Side in various jobs. He said he felt drawn back to Upper County.

“Coming from this area, I wanted to move back this way,” he said. “This gave me the opportunity to do that.”

Since purchasing the brewery, Larimer and his business partners have expanded the brewing system. The brewery averages 700 to 1,000 barrels a year. Roslyn Brewing’s beers are distributed all over the state, primarily to ale houses and bottle shops.

“At one point we were pushing sales outside our area,” Larimer said.

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Roslyn Brewing is located Pennsylvania Avenue in Roslyn.

“Now we are refocusing closer to home here just because of the growth in Upper County.”

Larimer produces a range of bottom-fermented lager-style beers, with a Belgian ale that is topfermented. He said lagers are a signature of the brewery. The bestseller at Roslyn Brewing is the Brookside pale lager.

“Lagers take a little longer to make and that’s why most people do ales,” he said. “Our system seems to manage it pretty well and I think there’s a following for lagers out there.”

Summer is the busy season at the brewery’s taproom, and Larimer said they have plans to

re-landscape the beer garden and increase the seating space in the taproom. He said he hopes doing that will give him more room to bring new beers to the current lineup.

“We’re limited with space in our current building,” he said. “We’re pretty tight as it is.”

Larimer said his favorite part of the industry is the brewing process itself.

He said he enjoys the steps in the process and seeing the final product once it is finished.

“The other stuff is work and running a business can be difficult at times,” he said. “The brewing side of stuff is definitely the fun part.”

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le Elum’s Mule and Elk Brewing is up and running in their new taproom, and co-owner Adam Burtt said things are going great in their new location.

“It’s been a lot better,” Burtt said. “A lot more traffic, a lot more visibility. That’s what we’ve been looking for.”

Burtt, a former law enforcement officer on the West Side opened the brewery with friends in 2016. He said he settled on a location in Upper County because he and his wife own property in the area. Their original taproom, now home to Taneum Creek Brewing created issues with space, so Burtt brewed beer in another location. He said the goal with the new taproom was to have all the components in the

same place.

“We realized we needed to get a larger space, so we could consolidate into one location,” he said. “It was just a matter of finding the right place. Having everything in one location is so much more efficient.”

The new taproom had its grand opening Memorial Day Weekend. Burtt brews on a four barrel system, with the flagship and best seller being the Warrior 2.0 IPA. He said his goal for the next couple years is to focus on the consolidation and ensure the demand for the taproom is supplied.

He said some targeted keg distribution is planned, but the focus is on the taproom.

“We aren’t trying to be a brewery that’s pushing out into multiple counties and different parts of the state,” he

said. “We’re looking to stay local, stay regional and serve Kittitas County.”

Burtt said the goal of the brewery is to have a unique space and products that highlight their Upper County location.

“We want to have an outdoor emphasis to it,” he said. “A lot of us are climbers or backcountry skiers or hunters and whatnot. We want to bring that into the brewhouse where people come in who are like minded and can come in and find their next adventure here, that’s kind of the idea behind it.”

Burtt said he loves the creativity that goes into producing the beers on tap at Mule and Elk. “Making something from scratch that turns really good that people enjoy and plan their adventures around it,” he said.

A customer sits at the bar enjoying his afternoon pint at Mule and Elk Brewing in Cle Elum.

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The exterior of Dru Bru’s Snoqualmie Pass taproom. The beer garden is open all year and is dog friendly.

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p at Snoqualmie Pass, Dru Bru has created a lifestyle brand.

“They love it, they live it, they hike it,” Dru Ernst, president and head brewer at Dru Bru said of his employees. “We all definitely participate in and are part of this place, Snoqualmie Pass.

Pretty much everybody that works at Dru Bru does outdoor recreation on a regular basis.”

Ernst said he began homebrewing while working as an engineer on the West Side. He said he was inspired to make a full-time business out of it because of the positive feedback he received from family and friends.

“We started getting random strangers showing up at our house to inquire about the beer that we were making,” he said.

Ernst said he wanted to bring a brewery to a place that didn’t have one, and that, along with his love for the outdoors, helped him decide on the pass.

“When we came across Snoqualmie Pass as a place to put the brewery it was kind of like a match made in heaven,” he said.

The brewery opened its doors at the pass in December 2014. Ernst said the lack of snowpack the first winter and the ski area closures was an unexpected turn the first year.

“That was obviously a big hurdle for us to climb over at the beginning,” he said. “What that did was it really accelerated us into pushing beer out of the brewery faster. We started distributing way faster than we were expecting to.”

Ernst said the brewery first set its sights on distributing to Cle Elum,

Ellensburg and North Bend.

“We’ve been really well received in the Kittitas County area and continue to sell a lot of beer in Kittitas County,” he said. “That was probably some of the first places that we went to were out there. That helped us get more beer out.”

The brewery now distributes statewide in kegs and bottles. Ernst said bottling began about a year and a half ago, and canning began about two months ago.

He said kegs still account for approximately 85 percent of total sales, with the Hop Session India Pale Ale and Kolsch as the top sellers.

“That’s going to continue to get balanced as we get more of our products in cans,” he said. “I think the big thing we are hoping to do is get our marquee products in the can by next year.”

The brewery has been steadily grow-

ing, producing approximately 2,000 barrels last year. Ernst said he hopes to produce 5,000 in three to five years. He said the brewery has longterm plans to increase distribution outside the state, but has have plenty of room left to grow within Washington.

As the brewery grows, Ernst has brought on more employees to keep up with demand. He hired Cheyenne Weisshaar as an intern out of Central Washington University’s craft brewing program in 2015. Weisshaar now brews the majority of Dru Bru products. The beers produced at Dru Bru have a heavy German influence on them, and Ernst said the beer and the location go hand in hand.

“The beer we make and the place we chose to make in it all kind of worked out together,” he said.

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A place to rest M

Comfortable furniture and potted plants gave women visiting the “Ladies Community Lounge” a safe place to wait for rides, tend to their children and use the restroom from 1948 to 2002.

By Monica Mersinger For the Daily Record

any local residents still remember the Ladies Lounge with its comforts and potted plants, which provided a respite for women in downtown Ellensburg for decades.

In 1948 Bertha Tiffany, her niece, Barbara Kohler, and several others discussed the need of rural women for a place downtown.

Women who came to town for weekly errands needed a clean, safe place to wait with their children, change diapers, use the restroom, and make telephone calls.

The first lounge opened at 107 E. Third Ave., but it is better known for its location at 407 N. Pine St.

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A look back at the history of Ellensburg’s Ladies Lounge Filled with grandmotherly furniture and potted plants, the Ladies Lounge created a comforting atmosphere for elderly women, mothers with children and college students. People stopped in to use the facilities, rest, wait for rides, change diapers, use the telephone or purchase house plants.

The lounge offered air conditioning when businesses commonly didn't have such luxuries. In the 1970s, an easy stroll on Pine Street would take people past J.C. Penney, the 88-cent store, Carlyle’s cafe (known for its shakes and fries), the Ladies Lounge, Buttons jewelry store and Ostranders Drug store.

In the 1990s, more than 1,000 visitors a month crossed the threshold of the Ladies Community Lounge, the official name.

Lillian Jennings served as hostess for many years at the lounge. Her trim figure, her coordinated outfits and matching earrings were a welcoming presence.

Men were allowed limited use of the Ladies Lounge. Several men in wheelchairs found the lounge had better restroom access. When it was particularly cold, men waiting for rides were routinely invited inside to stay warm.

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In 1995, a local radio station claimed discrimination against men.

“We don’t (routinely) allow men to use our facility, but if there was an emergency we certainly would not turn anyone away,” Lounge Board President Virginia Hashagen said at the time.

The lounge was funded by county, city, businesses and service clubs, as well as fundraisers. The Lounge Board consisted of two members from each service or community club that donated to the lounge. The Altrusa service club took an active role in sustaining the service.

The Daily Record provided free newspapers, the Ellensburg Telephone Company provided free telephone service, and Waste Management provided free garbage service.

Funding became a struggle in the 1990s as women’s service clubs became less numerous and public funds became restricted, but the Ladies Lounge served the public until it closed its doors in 2002.

Monica Mersinger is a historic preservationist documenting Washington and Oregon history and photography and a local history columnist for the Daily Record.

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