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Cashmere trounces Connell Photo submitted by Geralynne Padilla
Cashmere Convalescent Center Activity Director Geralynne Padilla snapped this photo of some of the dedicated beauty shop volunteers several years ago, many of them volunteering for more than 25 years. Pictured left to right are Joan Braun, Mary Newberry, Eloise Day, Mindy Peterson and Sharon Graaf. Not pictured, Patty Lindaberry and Dorothy Schmitten. Recent health issues have made getting a photo of the crew in action difficult. The Wednesday morning sessions have been cancelled for the past three weeks.
Curlers, combs and conversation, beauty shop volunteers boost spirits By Nevonne McDaniels Staff writer
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Cashmere quarterback Tyler McNair weaves his way downfield against the Connell Eagles in action last Friday night in Cashmere. On rainy night, the Bulldogs defeated the defending state champions 26-0.
Peshastin residents invited to serve on community council Two positions up for Nov. 1 vote
for a two-year election rotation, so not all the positions are open at once. Springer said two positions are up for election this year, two more By Nevonne McDaniels in November 2012 and three in 2014. Staff writer All of the terms are for six years The Peshastin Community and all positions are considered Council, the seven-member ad- at-large, which means candidates visory group to Chelan County can come from anywhere within government and organizer of local activities and events, has two positions up for election Nov. 1. Nominations for Positions 1 and 2, currently held by Kathy Springer and June Bergren, are due Oct. 4. Candidates must be at least 18 years old and live in the Peshastin area. The election is set for 7 p.m. – Chairman Steve Keene Nov. 1 at the Peshastin Legion Hall, at the group’s regularly scheduled monthly meeting. the designated Peshastin area. Other councilmembers are Keene said Bergren and SpringChairman Steve Keene, Vice Chair- er, whose terms are up for election man Doug Clarke, Brian Burnett, this year, likely will run again, “but Tricia Ortiz and Cheryl Parsley. we are looking for other people Bergren has been serving as trea- to run as well,” he said. Votes surer and Springer as secretary. will be cast by Peshastin commuThe election is, in part, due to nity members attending the Nov. revised bylaws approved by the 1 meeting. council earlier this year, which “The council has been around called for changing how coun- for years,” Keene said. “We don’t cilmembers are elected and stag- have a budget. We’re not a taxing gering the number of terms up for election each year. The bylaws call See PESHASTIN on Page 4
“For the people in Peshastin, we are their voice.”
Bear attacks man at Lake Wenatchee By Nevonne McDaniels Staff writer The wife of a man attacked by a bear Friday night at Lake Wenatchee is being credited by state Fish and Wildlife officers with saving his life. “She heard a ruckus and ran outside to see him lying on the ground,” said Deputy Chief Mike Cenci of the Washington Dept. of Fish and Wildlife. “She kept the bear at bay, yelling and screaming at the bear while trying to attend to her husband.” John Chelminiak and his wife, Lynn Semler, were at a Lake Wenatchee vacation cabin when he went out Friday evening to
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walk their dogs, a 5-pound lap dog and a 20-pound sheep dog. Cenci said Semler heard her husband yell and went to see what was wrong. “Frankly, her actions made all the difference in the world,” Cenci said. Three state Fish and Wildlife enforcement officers, along with a biologist and a Karelian bear dog named Cash responded to the call between 8 and 9 p.m. By the time the wildlife officers arrived, the victim had been transported to the hospital and eventually was taken to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle.
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New garbage rates face first official challenge By Nevonne McDaniels Staff writer “Impractical” and “more expensive” are two different things. That was the ruling by the Cashmere City Council Sept. 13 in one of the first tests of the city’s new garbage rate structure that went into effect Sept. 1. Tom Dew, owner of Country Boy’s Barbecue at 400 Aplets Way in Cashmere, submitted a letter to the council in August asking to be waived from city garbage collection in favor of using Waste Management, which would save him around $300 a month and contain his trash in one large 8-yard container rather than three smaller ones picked up twice a week. “We create a lot of trash on Friday and Saturday, so I needed a larger dumpster. This is something we’ve been struggling with for a lot of years. We had a 4-yard dumpster, but even that wasn’t enough. We’d been needing to go to an 8-yard dumpster for quite a while.” And that is what Dew proposed, but about that same time, the city’s new “automated” garbage system, which started Sept. 1, did not allow for either a 4-yard container or an 8-yard container. Instead, Country Boy’s was switched to three 1.5-yard dumpsters to be picked up twice a week
at a cost of about $600 a month, a $100 per month increase over the old 4-yard dumpster system. Dew said the three containers take up more space in the parking lot and are less efficient than one 8-yard container would be. “You’re not going to fit as much in three small containers as you would in one big box,” he said. Dew said he spoke with Waste Management and was told that company could supply an 8-yard dumpster, which would be dumped once a week at a cost of $315 a month. But he needed a waiver from the city to get it. The city maintains the franchise for garbage collection, which means Waste Management can contract for collection only with express permission of the city. Cashmere Director of Operations Bob Schmidt denied Dew’s request for the waiver. “My determination is that it is not impractical for the city to serve your garbage disposal needs,” he wrote in a letter dated Sept. 9. The city’s new ordinance states waiver requests are considered on a case-by-case basis. “The city may waive the requirement ... when the type or volume of solid waste makes it impractical for the city to deliver service,” the ordinances states. That includes hazardous materials and solid waste with excessive weight or volume.
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Cashmere sanitation worker Clay Johnson loads garbage at Riverside Park using the city’s old garbage truck. A new truck, with a mechanical arm that picks up cans, was put into service on Sept. 1, but isn’t yet used in park or downtown because the containers to go with it have not yet arrived. Along with the new system, the city has implemented new rates, which are taking some getting used to for commercial and residential customers. Cost is not part of the equation. Dew appealed Schmidt’s decision to the council on Sept. 13. Schmidt said Dew’s request had been delayed by a paperwork error and should have been addressed before the new rate structure was implemented, but his recommendation is the same as it would have been earlier. “I am asking the council not to give in to the request on the
basis of financial concerns,” Schmidt said. “He has room for the containers. Our customer base includes up to 20 yards a week for customers. It’s not considered impractical unless we’re past that range.” Councilwoman Debbie Knutsen said at some point cost is a factor, the difference between a tax and a fee. “This sounds like we See GARBAGE on Page 4
Wenatchee River clean up effort considered a success By Ian Dunn Editor
The second annual Wenatchee River Clean Up effort pulled 3,420 pounds of metal and junk out of the river. By any reckoning, that is a lot of junk. But sadly, it is but a portion of crud still in the waterway. This fact is why the Chelan County Natural Resources Department, which sponsors the clean up, plans to continue the See BEAR on Page 4 program year after year. Key
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Mary Newberry was visiting her mother-in-law in the Cashmere Convalescent Center 28 years ago when a friend asked her if she was interested in “helping us do hair.” A small group of volunteers had set up a makeshift beauty shop and showed up each week to set, curl and comb the hair of the center’s residents.
Newberry said she knew little about fixing hair, but she knew the boost in spirits that comes with looking good. She signed up to help, showing up nearly every Wednesday morning for 28 years. “It gives them all a little lift,” Newberry said. “Some of them don’t give a hoot what you do with it as long as it’s set. Sometimes you have to cajole them into doing
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to that is getting enough volunteers to show up. Promises of free food and music enticed some 60 volunteers to help out this year. Natural Resource Specialist Matt Shales, who helped organize the event on Aug. 14, said most of the people who showed up wanted to float the river looking for junk. But there some shore volunteers as well. Submitted photo “We focused on the public ac- Volunteers came together recently to help clean up the Wenatchee River around Cashmere. More 3,000 pounds of metal was removed See RIVER on Page 5 in this most recent clean up effort.
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