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Creating art from forgotten magazines

Features

let’s write a musical

A financial advisor who keeps in touch

Two sisters, no experience, so what?

10 Nason ridge

A cool hike on hot summer day brings waterfalls, sweeping meadows and not so many other people

If the market’s trending down, your financial advisor’s attention toward you should trend up.

12 Perri the Poetry fairy

School volunteer dresses in costume to bring the magic of the written word to elementary students

Experience the consistent, personal attention I can provide, no matter what’s going on in the markets.

14 over hill and trail

A new way of marathon training in the hills of the Columbia River Valley

16 hooping the life fantastic

A financial advisor www.edwardjones.com in touch Al Adan, AAMS , CRPC Dan Rodgers, AAMS Financial Advisor

Unusual hobby has mom gaining confidence and losing weight

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18 an energetic man

Craig Franklin has energy to burn... and bake and hike and coach and shoot photos and...

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20 talking with the farmers

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24 the whaley mansion gets a redo

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OPENING SHOT

Paragliding Saddle Rock on Memorial Day

By Joe Gluzinski

araglider, harness, reserve, helmet, flight suit, gloves, flight instruments, first-aid kit and water totaling 55 pounds.

With 26 years in the sport, this will be my first flight of the 2016 flying season. During the hike up my thoughts drifted to my friend Navy SEAL, Jerry McCauley, KIA in Iraq in 2008. Jerry and I had done many sky dives and a BASE jump together before he died. After dedicating the flight to Jerry, my footsteps felt lighter. FACEBOOK: https://www. facebook.com/NCWGoodLife

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Conditions were perfect at takeoff and I slowly climbed 2,000 feet over Saddle Rock circling in friendly thermals. The 360-degree view was beyond words. The flight lasted an hour and I was able to land safely by the Columbia River. I will remember this Memorial Day flight forever and believe that Jerry was there Ad design, Clint Hollingsworth TO SUBSCRIBE: For $25, ($30 out of state address) you can have 12 issues of The Good Life mailed to you or a friend. Send payment to: The Good Life 10 First Street, Suite 108 Wenatchee, WA 98801 For circulation questions, email: donna@ncwgoodlife.com BUY A COPY of The Good Life at Safeway stores, Walgreens, Mike’s Meats at Pybus, Rhubarb Market, Martin’s Market Place (Cashmere) and A Book for All Seasons and

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On the cover

The Good Life Editor Mike Cassidy took this photo of Brian Higgins and the Professor. Brian does all of the work in their act, but the Professor gets all of the attention. See their story on page 37.

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A puppet, school & musicals: Oh boy What a quirky issue we

have for you this month. We have a cover story involving a puppet (I can’t recall any puppet stories in our past 110plus issues), two stories revolving around schools, even though school is out for the summer (but back-to-school sales are already gearing up), an artist whose art is cutting up old magazines and an interior designer who lovingly recreated the past glory of a mansion in Chelan. We also have Eron Drew writing about farmers — and food is something we all identify with. I asked Eron how she became so interested in community farmers. Here is her answer: “I grew up with parents who were essentially ‘back to the land’ homestead type individuals (without the drugs) in rural Northern Wisconsin and had the influence of grandparents who owned a large farm in Minnesota. “We did a lot of canning and preserving and subsisting on what we could harvest from both our garden and the forest around us. When I went to college I realized how awful food could actually be when I was forced to fend for myself. So I became a regular shopper at the Madison Farmers Market in Madison, Wisconsin (one of the biggest and best in the nation... which I didn’t know at the time). “Once my husband and I had our own house, we immediately started growing vegetables. Eventually, our habit started to earn us income and like many small specialty farms, it became a career more on accident than on purpose. Turns out that gardening is addictive. “We now lease and grow over

five acres of Certified Organic produce and sell at two farmers markets, operate an on-farm CSA program, support the Rhubarb Market CSA program in Wenatchee and supply produce to around 10 restaurants and small retail establishments located between Plain and Wenatchee.” Thanks, Eron. I know from my own limited efforts at growing a garden that creating a yield from the soil is hard work — so it’s great to have a passion for it. Another story this issue is from Rebecca Duvall, who a couple of months ago suggested an article about how she and her sister write musical theater plays. “You probably never have had a story like that,” she emailed — and was she ever so correct. I like Rebecca’s story and particularly this line: “Life can be funny sometimes. A chance phone conversation can set you on a path that you never could have foreseen, that will change your life forever.” I asked her if she has a new project, and she replied: “Kari and I are working on a new musical; it is kind of a patriotic pageant. You might call it a musical story of Liberty. We’ve had the idea for a long time but just didn’t know how to frame it and put it together. Last summer we finally got the format nailed down… I’m not sure yet… what we will do with it when it’s done, but I truly believe that it will all work out somehow.” Don’t be a puppet, take a chance, be optimistic. Enjoy The Good Life. — Mike August 2016 | The Good Life

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Love? What’s love got to do with it?

Chicago will be staged 11 times at the PAC in August.

“I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me.” ― William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing

f you’re looking for goopy, sappy, summer love, perhaps you might wish to skip Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing this month, at least the first act. But stay around for a while, and the verbal jousting gives way to ... well, let’s just say that this is one of the Barb’s plays that ends merrily. Another play this month is Chicago, with an all-local cast at the PAC. And, a memorable line from one of the females is: “I’m standin’ in the kitchen, carving up a chicken for dinner, minding my own business, when in storms my husband, Wilbur, in a jealous rage. ‘You’ve been screwing the milkman,’ he said. He was crazy, and he kept on screaming, ‘You’ve been screwing the milkman.’ And then he ran into my knife... he ran into

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my knife 10 times.” These two plays and much more are happening around the area this month. Check out these items from the What To Do list: Chicago — Don Fox and Jaime Donegan return, joined by musical director Ron Bermingham, choreographer Bethany Christine Elkin, and an all-star local cast, to produce 11 Hot August Nights performances of the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical, Chicago. Numerica Performing Arts Center. Info: numericapac.org. 8/4, 10, 11, 17, 18 at 7 p.m.; 8/5, 6, 12, 13, 19, 20 at 8 p.m. Lake Chelan Rodeo — Ven-

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dors, beer garden, world famous chicken race, McMillan Family Trick Riders, Skagit Rain Riders and Ranch Bronc Riding. Chelan Rodeo Grounds, 71 Union Valley Rd. Cost: $10. Info: lakechelan.com. Friday and Saturday, Aug. 5 and 6, 7:30 p.m. Mike Bills — Live performance. His musical tastes range from jazz to pop; delta blues to country; reggae to funk. Pybus Public Market. Cost: free. Info: pybuspublicmarket.org. Friday, Aug. 12, 26, 7 – 9 p.m. Geology Tour — Explore with the experts. Guided bus tours take you to some unique geology highlights not featured in previous tours. The route includes stops south of Wenatchee nearly all the way to Quincy. Look over giant potholes formed by the swirling waters of the floods, get up close and personal with ice borne erratics, catch a

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glimpse of hanging valleys and learn about the role of ice and plants in the changing landscape carved out by the floods. Wenatchee Valley Museum and Cultural Center. Cost: members, $40, non-members $45 . Info: wvmcc.org. Saturday, Aug. 13, 9 a.m. – 2 p.m. Much Ado About Nothing

— Bring a chair or blanket for young love, a battle of the sexes, verbal jousting, mistaken identities, plots, deceptions, conspiracies and a happy ending that are all a part of Shakespeare’s most beloved serio-comedy play. Meadow Stage at Icicle Creek Center for the Arts. Cost: $22 advance or $24 at the door. Info: icicle.org. Thursday through Saturday Aug. 25 - 27, 7 p.m. Wenatchee Wine and Food Festival — Wine awards, food

from a variety of local restaurants and caterers as well as cider, craft breweries and distilleries. Town Toyota Center. Info: towntoyotacenter.com. Saturday, Aug. 27, 6 – 9 p.m.

Joseph sings Never to Be Forgotten in the 2005 Murrieta, CA production of One Life, A Musical Story of the Prophet Joseph Smith. It was written for the 200th anniversary of Joseph Smith’s birth (1805).

Hey, let’s write a musical 2 sisters take on THE BEST (HARDEST, MOST EXPENSIVE, MOST EXHILARATING, MOST FULFILLING) HOBBY IN THE WORLD By Rebecca Duvall

t was Aug. 17, 2000, 7:30 p.m. at the Temescal Canyon Theatre in Lake Elsinore, CA. My sister grabbed my hand, and we sat, quivering with excitement, quite literally on the edge of our seats as the overture began. I was so high with anticipation that I felt tingly all over. (Maybe I’d forgotten to breathe a little.) The curtain was about to go up on the premiere production of our first stage musical, Jane Eyre: The Musical. We were on pins and needles to see how it would go, and how our five years of work would be received.

Life can be funny sometimes. A chance phone conversation can set you on a path that you never could have foreseen, that will change your life forever. (I know that sounds a bit dramatic, but hey — drama is my business now.) In 1995, my sister, kindred spirit and best friend — Kari Skousen — and I were having one of our marathon phone conversations. (She lives in Southern California, so we don’t get to see each other often.) We started talking about favorite books, which might make good musical theater. Growing up with English teachers for parents, we’d always August 2016 | The Good Life

loved culture and the arts, and we liked musicals to have a good story and be meaningful. It struck me that my favorite novel of all time, Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë, would make a fabulous dramatic musical. As far as we knew, no one had ever written a musical adaptation of Jane Eyre. My sister hadn’t read it, so I began to tell her the story, and it caught her imagination. Fast forward a few months, and Kari and I were together at our parents’ house in Lacey, near Olympia. Kari showed us her lyrics to several songs for a hypothetical Jane Eyre musical. Her songs inwww.ncwgoodlife.com

spired me, and I started writing words to a song for another part of the story. And with that, we were hooked. Kari and I had grown up writing poetry and stories. I had always dreamed of someday writing a novel. But musical theater? Kari and I were just a couple of middle-aged moms who loved words, stories and music. We loved to see musicals, but neither of us could write music. What made us think we could do something like this? Maybe the simple fact that we didn’t know we couldn’t.

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Mrs. Eshton asks Blanche Ingram what the “gypsy” told her at Rochester’s house party, in the Lake Elsinore, CA production of Jane Eyre: The Musical.

Let’s write a musical }}} Continued from previous page I read numerous books on musical writing. We kept working on our “project.” Little by little, problems were solved, and things fell into place. Through a chance encounter, we found an incredibly talented composer, Bill Kilpatrick. Our songs started to come to life. Despite various roadblocks, we

felt driven to complete what we had started, and we were having great fun. That’s not to say that it’s all fun and games writing a musical. It is sometimes very difficult and a ton of work (finding the right rhyme, raising funds, breaking writer’s block, putting together presentations, solving problems with collaborators,

The Weeping Woman sings Go in Peace from the 2010 production of A Ransom for Many: A Musical Easter Pageant, produced in Murrieta, CA.

etc.) We definitely learned a lot with our first show. We learned to be thickskinned (mostly), and we learned about marketing (still working on that). We learned about revising every step of the way. We learned what the usual process was and then followed our own version of it.

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We held a staged reading in 1998 in California. With a grant from Artist Trust, we recorded a demo CD of four songs. In 1999, Music Theatre of Wenatchee staged a Showcase Performance of excerpts from the show, directed by Carol Bowen. It was enthusiastically received, and when our show was complete, we started sending it out to theaters. Before long, Kari found a creative team in her area willing to produce the show. Kari acted as artistic director, and with some brilliant fundraising a fabulous production was born. Which brings us to the rising of the curtain on opening night… The overture concluded; the curtain rose, and Young Jane ran into the Red Room with her evil cousin John Reed yelling close behind, thus beginning Scene One. We were spellbound, watching our words come to life through the talents of others. In the incomparable collaborative effort that is musical theater, a show was born which was entertain-

ing, riveting, lovely and fun. Nothing could compare to the feeling of seeing our imagination come to life on stage. We knew we had found our “calling,” and we would never stop writing musicals. We would probably never get rich from it (in fact, it tends to drain our pockets at times), but we found a hobby that could give us satisfaction that is hard to match. When our premiere production closed, it had received rave reviews, standing ovations

and the Inland Theatre League Awards of Excellence for the book, lyrics and music. After more revision, we landed a production at the small Wings Theatre of New York in 2003. Our next show, One Life, with composers Rachel Mecham Goates and Brian Jensen, has been produced six times to date. Our church in my sister’s area “commissioned” musical pageants for Christmas and Easter, with composer Norm Boaz. We are currently working on a patriotic pageant.

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Kari and Rebecca meet up during a family event in Utah in April. The sisters collaborate on writing musical plays, even while living far apart.

Life can be funny sometimes. You just never know how things will turn out. It’s kind of like writing musical theater — there are lows (discovering 10 other Jane Eyre musicals, learning your lead actor was arrested two weeks before opening, reading a notso-nice review), and there are highs (hearing your words set to music, getting a standing ovation, traveling to NYC to see your show, reading a more-than-

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just-nice review). There are challenges and triumphs. That’s what makes Life such a good story. And our hobby is all about telling stories. Although writers are supposed to shun clichés, this one seems apropos: You just never know what you can do until you try. When not writing musicals, Rebecca Duvall, a 24-year resident of East Wenatchee, enjoys being a wife, mother, grandmother, paraeducator, volunteer, and nature-lover.

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adventures for the outdoor enthusiast. A 25-mile trail runs its length. The eastern half is popular with advanced mountain bikers and features Alpine Lookout, a historic fire lookout. The western half has six unique lakes and is popular with hikers and backpackers. Conveniently, several trailheads allow for shorter or specific destinations. A good introduction would be the forest hike to Merritt Lake. Anyone wanting more adventure can continue over the ridge to Lost Lake, and probably not get lost. Add a few miles to visit pretty Crescent Lake in lush meadows. Hikers who can endure lots of switch-backs and want to rise above tree-line go for Rock Lake, nestled into a bowl just below

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the summit of Rock Mountain. Those seeking solitude and up for a rough challenge can climb to exotic Canaan Lake set in a high basin of heather and huckleberry between Mount Mastiff and 7,063 foot high Mount Howard. The bony ridgetop is comprised of schist and gneissic rock, which isn’t as desirable for climbers as the Stuart Range granite of Icicle Creek, but Nason Ridge doesn’t have the crowds, which has become a higher priority for me after 45 years of Cascade high-laking. A true wilderness experience is worthwhile for everyone, and makes for a good life. Wenatchee architect Brad Brisbine enjoys hobbies of photography, landscape painting, skiing, backpacking, and spending time with his wife, Jill.

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as presents. “That’s when I fell in love with the kids,” Susan said with a warm smile. “I started volunteering as a reading assistant with the guidance of Mary Berdine at the school.” After Susan got the spark to become Perri the Poetry Fairy in the fall of 2014, it turned out to be more than the occasional hour when she could spare it: Susan became a regular in 19 out of the 24 classes in the building, spending four days, a total of 15 hours, every week inspiring kids to read, and to read poetry especially. “The idea was well received at the school,” Susan said. “Both the kids and the teachers welcomed the addition of poetry

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into the curriculum. It wasn’t really scheduled into the classroom time frame, but the teachers got creative.” Her poetry fairy sessions were so popular Susan decided she should dress for the occasion. Her friend, Nancy Trucano, offered her skills as a seamstress. Nancy took measurements and after some joint brainstorming, the fitted dress including a skirt, a blouse embellished with a brocade bodice and a detachable collar — and of course, the wings, became reality. Like one would expect, the outfit creates magic. Once Susan wiggles herself into the costume, the transformation is not only physical, but mental, as well: her glow rivals that of the

“I want them to feel the rhythm, the heartbeat of the poem. Poetry is like music, it has its own beat.”

shimmering satin. On the day I accompanied Susan to Mission View Elementary to see her in action, she was well received, indeed. Greeted with the kids’ hugs and happy squeals, the turquoise-colored figure was a bright presence in the monotony of a school day. In the classroom, Susan reads aloud the poem of her choice and then asks the kids to read it aloud again off the whiteboard where she projects the text. She connects with the teachers ahead of time to tie her text with the classroom material as much as possible. “I want them to feel the rhythm, the heartbeat of the poem. Poetry is like music, it has its own beat,” Susan explained. There were no nodding heads or distractions that I could see, but eager hands pointing up, indicating participation and comprehension. Susan asked the kids to add to the spaghettithemed poem she had shared that day, and the students could hardly wait to have a turn to offer their ideas. They had so much to contribute it became a homework assignment — to sort out the mound of wiggly strands of thoughts. “It really makes my fairy wings flap with joy when a kid shows she or he got the idea, that the student listened. Not every visit is perfect, and I have had some bad ones, too, but it’s the successes that keep me going back,” Susan explained. In the spring of 2015, Perri the Poetry Fairy spearheaded a poetry contest through grades 3-5 at Mission View Elementary. She needed all the fairy power she could muster to carry it through.

Perri draws attention when the fairy visits the classroom of Coni Morgan.

“I did all the judging and supplied the prizes, plus all the sorting and organizing for the printing. It was quite the undertaking, with 17,000 pages to copy, which I then made into books with the kids’ original artwork. That was 240 books in all,” she said and took a deep

breath. What gives someone the incentive to use up most of their personal time and energy for such a big effort? “The kids need to have a chance to use their creativity. There has to be more to school than testing,” Susan said.

It seems the 2015-2016 curriculum didn’t allow time for such creative outlets, much to Perri’s disappointment. Coni Morgan, a fourth grade teacher, was still determined to carve out some poetry time, somehow. She believes in fairies, too. “I may try birthday parties and the libraries in the future,” Susan said, clearly disappointed about the reduced opportunities at school. The silvery magic wand Perri carries around isn’t just for show. At the end of each session, she lightly touches the lined-up kids with it, asking if they have a wish. She doesn’t promise to fulfill any hopes and dreams, simply asks if they have a something in mind. Susan encourages the students to find the rhythm and the rhyme in poetry and to think of some verses of their own — the wand serves the same purpose. It is not the simple solution, but the inspiration. Therein lies the magic.

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Over hill and trail

A new way of marathon training in the hills of the Columbia River Valley

story and photos By Chris Hanson

n my eastward drive over the Cascade Mountains in October, I didn’t have high expectations for my new home. I had just received a job offer in Wenatchee, a city I couldn’t find on a map, and the adventure of moving from Seattle to somewhere new had initially seemed exhilarating so I seized the opportunity. But as I drove

over Snoqualmie Pass my mind grew clouded due to uncertainty, matching the weather in the mountains. Though I don’t typically make decisions on a whim, I felt more than anything else the call of the adventure. The unknown was beckoning, and I knew I could not ignore it. I should probably mention I love running. It plays an enormous role in how I make my decisions. And after I had settled in Wenatchee, this love led to

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my discovery of some wondrous and well-hidden trails. I spent (and continue to spend) much of my off-the-clock time learning about and exploring this fascinating region, which is known as the Columbia River Valley. And my seeking has been repeatedly rewarded. By the time January was coming to a close, I knew I had all I needed to prepare for my first marathon — and none of it required being indoors. The first place I discovered is

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conveniently the closest to my apartment. At the end of the street that bears the hill’s name, Castle Rock looms over the city. On a December evening, I walked outside and as I gazed west, it stared directly at me. I felt as if the eye of Sauron was fixated on me, yet I stared back, undaunted. Within a week of learning about the Castle Rock trail, I resolved to hike and climb its snow-covered sides. This was my first Wenatchee hike so I was eager to find out

what my new home had to offer. I began my hike wearing new boots, hefty sweat pants and an insulated winter coat. The initial half hour along the trail was easy, but soon after the hills grew steeper and I had to dig my heels into the powdery slick snow to avoid sliding down after each step. Stopping to rest, I stripped off my jacket, crammed it into my backpack and climbed up on all fours like a weary yet determined bear. After 40 minutes I reached a peak and began to rejoice — when I turned around and saw even higher peaks mocking me. Not being one to settle, I trekked half a mile west for good measure as the dark night of winter deepened and summited the nearest of the hilltops. Turning around, I saw the city lights enveloping the valley and the Columbia River in a beautiful display. It was then when I knew I had found my race training grounds. I quickly determined Castle Rock wasn’t enough to satisfy my thirst for adventure and consequently continued looking for more trails. Within days I noticed Saddle Rock to the south and knew it held its own wonders. This has become my favorite place to run — not up Saddle Rock itself, but in the roaming, meandering trails just southeast. There are, I found, endless choices of routes to run in these hills. As I have repeatedly run around these trails, I have noticed both my speed and endurance improve drastically compared to previous months’ progress. Before moving to Wenatchee, I avoided hills as much as I could, thinking they slow me down and are impractical for speed training. Now my belief has changed: the hills provide a greater challenge than flat land, and the rocky, uneven ground keeps me on my toes, sharpening my mind and improving my

Within days I noticed Saddle Rock to the south and knew it held its own wonders. This has become my favorite place to run — not up Saddle Rock itself, but in the roaming, meandering trails just southeast. agility during runs across wild terrain. Often times when I run in these particular hills, I hear rustling sounds in the bushes. At such times I will glance around, hoping to find an animal, hoping not to find a rattlesnake. During one such run, I ventured further west than I had before and heard a rustling noise that could not have been caused by a small creature. Undaunted, I continued along the path for another quarter mile or so — and stopped when I found the carcass of a doe. It had evidently been lunch for a predator. I stared for five minutes at the recently-rent body, stunned and amazed.

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Then I ran a different route, keeping my ears and eyes alert for any unusual movement. With such a thrilling adventure still vivid in my memory, I can’t help but continue to run in these wild hills, looking for other exciting experiences while improving my race-training regimen. In all my recent adventures, I have learned some valuable lessons for marathon training. I’ll share my two favorites: first, I need not run a trail to get a good workout. Consistently and repeatedly hiking and climbing up rugged hills will improve stamina and endurance in a way many running workouts won’t. Second, I need not spend money on anything meant to merely motivate me to run — all I desire now is a challenging mountain trail to conquer, and nature will let my imagination and excitement grow to new levels. The Columbia River Valley has no end to the ways a runner can find new adventures, and it makes training for a race enjoyable in a way no gym or track ever will. Training for a race will never be as it was for me, nor for anyone who is determined to discover the wonders of the hills of the Columbia River Valley. Chris Hanson moved to Wenatchee in October 2015. He works at Forte Architects and spends all his available time hiking, running and sometimes sleeping in the mountains.

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n a breezy, sunny Sunday, Alicia Dart hoops in Cashmere’s Simpson Park, smiling, enjoying herself, as multiple hoops twirl around her legs, hands and arms. However, it wasn’t always this easy. “If you’d told me four years ago that I’d be able to go out to a park and dance around with a hula hoop, I would have laughed at you and said that sounded crazy,” she said. Her journey began with a wish to lose weight and get fit after her second child, Wolfgang, was born. While shopping one day, she spied a fitness hoop and thought, “That looks fun. All right, I’ll try it.” At home, she found “how-to” video Alicia Dart spins her fitness hoops in Cashmere’s Simpson Park. tutorials on YouTube, and then videos of hoop dancers. She said she thought, “This is amazing and I want to learn all of it.” The fitness hoop is not the same as the hula hoop of our childhood, Alicia said. The hula hoop is usually lightweight plastic while the fitness hoop weighs in between two to five pounds, ers to have bruises everywhere. eager to encourage newcomers. made of stiffer polypropylene Alicia stopped hooping when She enjoyed the fact that no one plastic. she found out she was pregnant seemed to set mileposts for what There are also dance hoops, with her third child, Rex. After to know after a set time. made of more flexible polyethhis birth in 2014, she picked Hoop dancing helped Alicia ylene. Alicia has found that the it up again, more determined lose weight, get fitter, gain a fitness hoops will cause bruising than ever to learn as much as confidence boost and fight dewhen used longer than 30 minshe could. She found the tutoripression and anxiety. utes. However, she says that it’s als made it easy to learn, and A painful situation in her rather a rite of passage for hoop- found the hooping community family had plummeted her into

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depression and anxiety, and had left her feeling brokenhearted and overwhelmed. She found hooping therapeutic as she took the time to focus on herself and her health. Now when problems arise or she feels cranky, she just picks up her hoop, “my little dance partner” as she calls it, and works through the issue. As the depression and anxiety dropped, so did the weight Alicia had wanted to lose, by doing an exercise she loved and could do for an hour without even thinking about it. She said you can burn 400 calories or more per hour, depending on how hard you work. It’s not just swinging the hoop around the waist; the whole body has to get involved. In general, Alicia said, the larger the hoop, the slower it goes and the easier it will be to swing around the belly or legs. If you’re going to be tossing the hoop around, choose a smaller hoop “that’s not going to hurt as much when it hits you because it will hit you at some point.” She laughed as she says this, because some misses and some bruises go along with the learning, no matter how advanced the hooper. After a year of steady hooping, Alicia’s confidence grew to the point that she could hoop outdoors, in public and not care about the stares. She said she’s

sociated with a nearing delivery are absent this time around. She has hooped all through this pregnancy, altering her routines as her center of gravity shifts and her belly grows. After hooping, Alicia notices that baby is more wiggly, as though ready for more. Is Alicia ready for more? Yes — she loves every part of hooping and may share that with others through teaching in the future.

After hooping, Alicia notices that baby is more wiggly, as though ready for more. never heard any nasty comments. Mostly, people are just interested in what she’s doing. Some want to know whether she teaches, as well. In the summer, she keeps hoops in the car in case she sees a spot she would really love to hoop in, and maybe take some photos. This is also convenient when her children are having a good time at a park and want to stay longer; no bored benchsitting for this mama. Her oldest, daughter Tezzi, seemed to think it was a bit weird when Mom started hooping, but not anymore. Once Alicia became comfortable enough to move her workouts from after the children were asleep to during the day, it became a normal part of life. Now, they feel free to grab a hoop in their favorite color and get moving right alongside Mom. “My kids have no idea that not everybody picks up a hula hoop and dances and throws it around and jumps through it, and I love that!” she said. With large online communities always available for encouragement, sharing and competitions, her children may not realize that for quite some

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all playing, biking, brownie-baking: These are just a few of Craig Franklin’s specialties. By day, he teaches reading and math at Columbia Elementary in Wenatchee. He also does data entry, and supervises the recess yard. One might think seven hours interacting with young folks would be exhausting. But for this valley native, that’s just a warm-up. Craig coaches middle school football in the fall, basketball in the winter, and fast pitch softball in the spring. He also acts as a game supervisor at Columbia’s Cougar Den (the afterschool activity program). Then there’s six weeks of supervising organized activities during migrant summer school. “Mr. Franklin” is popular among the students. His stern demeanor, silver hair, and anchorman looks belie a down-toearth quality. He also has a silly side that they appreciate. Warmly greeting students by name each morning, he often sports a ball cap cascading bright-colored dreadlocks. “Every kid is so different,” Craig said, “I love helping them understand perspective, and the importance of making good life choices.” Having lost both his parents by age 14, Craig had to grow up fast. He understands some of the challenges faced by many youngsters. “Being young at heart helps,” he added, “I feel like I can help make a difference

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in their lives, because of my life experiences. I want them to understand they can overcome hardships, and not use them as excuses.” He named lack of discipline in the home as the biggest obstacle for schools: “Kids who have no discipline at home, think there should be none at school either.” Craig recalls his own schoolboy days: “When I was a kid at recess, we were afraid of going to the principal’s office and getting a hack, so we were pretty well-behaved. I also knew if I got in trouble at school, I was really going to get in big trouble when I got home. Many kids now, don’t have to worry about either one of those things.” He is determined to teach accountability. “I get to talk with a lot of kids about what is important to them. I ask, “What do you want, 10-15 years down the road?” Then we talk about what

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they need to do to get the things they want. This opens the conversation to the importance of working hard, in order to get a good education and job. “I also talk about fishing, and what kind of bait you use to attract the kind of fish you’re trying to catch. Then we talk about what kind of “bait (behavior)” will attract friends who will help you make good choices. As a reminder to fish for good friends, I’ve given some of them a fishing lure (minus the hook) to hang on their backpacks.” Reflecting on what makes Columbia special, he said, “I love the kids I work with. Many of them really want something better. Hopefully, we can help them find it.” This proud father and grandfather has lived in Wenatchee for over 45 years. He graduated from Wenatchee High, and attended Eastern Washington

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University. He has worked as a professional photographer for over 25 years (and owns CFranklin Photography). In fact, Craig first became involved with the public schools as a school portrait photographer. His colleagues can even pinpoint the year he stopped taking school photos, by looking at their own children’s portraits. Apparently their multi-talented coworker has a knack for capturing children’s distinctive personalities. Craig traces his work ethic and family devotion back to his own grandparents. His dad’s parents owned Rooney’s Cafe, and his mom’s parents owned Crandell Fruit Company (both in Wenatchee). “They all taught me the importance of working hard and enjoying what you do,” he said, “as well as taking time to enjoy family.” The Franklins stay active

“... it snowed two inches the night before, and there was a nice thin crust of ice over the lake. We tossed some big rocks in to break the ice, and jumped in anyway.” together. “I coached my older daughter in softball and soccer,” he said, “while her sister and I took karate self-defense classes together. And our family has always enjoyed hiking, and being outdoors in general.” So, what does he like best about this area? “I love all the outdoor activities that are so close by… anything outdoors... hiking, mountain biking, kayaking, river rafting, golfing, paint balling and shooting guns. I also enjoy photography and woodworking.” One particular boyhood trip illustrates Craig’s sense of adventure: “Growing up, one of our traditions was jumping in the lake we’d hiked to. Once after backpacking for four days, my friend and I planned on jumping in the lake the morning of our last day. We didn’t want to smell bad when my mom picked us up. Well, it snowed two inches the night before, and there was a nice thin crust of ice over the lake. We tossed some big rocks in to break the ice, and jumped in anyway.” In his tiny window of spare time, he likes to bake. It’s always a good day when he arrives at work with his carefully packaged chocolate chip brownies. These tasty morsels come in handy when teaching students to line up correctly. Coworkers admit their attitudes also improve after sampling his brownies, cookies, sticky buns, and white choco-

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now Your Farmer” is an adage that has been thrown around a lot in recent years. As a nation, we have moved away from local foods and have relied heavily on supermarkets and big box stores to provide for our every whim. Seasonal or not, just about everything grown on God’s green earth can be acquired with little effort. But lately, we have begun waking up again to the idea that seasonal and fresh commodities are something special, something to savor and celebrate. Farmers markets are busier than ever but often we as customers don’t get the chance to really get to know the producers whose livelihood we are supporting by shopping local. So recently, I took the opportunity to interview several vendors at the Thursday eve-

Roots Produce and Flower Farm in Leavenworth — Dan and Becky Wilkinson

ning Leavenworth Community Farmers Market in Lion’s Club Park, downtown Leavenworth. Like all individuals, each one holds a unique story and each brings something different and special to the market. In a region dominated by large scale and export fruit production, a profusion of small specialty farms are carving out a niche for themselves with a reputation for high quality products and sustainable farming practices. Dan and Becky Wilkinson began Roots Produce and Flower Farm on Icicle Road in Leavenworth after moving up from

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California to be closer to their children and grandchildren. While in California, Dan and Becky owned a 10-acre lilac farm and sold flowers at the Los Angeles Flower Market. A former teacher and school principal, Dan now spends his summers tending their one-acre U-Pick blueberry patch and planting beds of cutting flowers for both private events (such as weddings) and for their market booth. During the winter he drives a school bus for the Cascade School District. “For years, I was learning about sustainable agriculture

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and reading about small scale farmers and direct marketing through farmers markets,” said Dan. “It was something I really wanted to do at some stage of my life. After we moved to Leavenworth and started our little blueberry and flower farm, I was able to get involved in farmers market, which also was something I’d always wanted to do.” Like most small farms, at least one member of the family has an off-farm career. “My wife Becky is my partner in this project,” said Dan. “Though she works another job during the school year as a counselor, in the sum-

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mer she is right in the middle of all the farm work and activities of market. Occasionally our kids or grandkids will help out, but Becky is the main source of help.” During the last 10 years, Dan and Becky have been moving away from conventional agriculture and have transitioned to organic farming methods. “It is so much more sustainable and better for the earth than industrial agriculture practices. I love being just a small part of a change that I hope is growing and catching on.” Susan Curtis founded Hope Mountain Farm in Plain after a successful career as a director at Microsoft. The mother

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keeping bees, Susan added a large processing kitchen to her on-farm operation. “I have a food processing license and am working to grow that side of the business, including co-packing for other farms,” she said. During the winter months, Susan spends her time working in the Group Sales Department at Stevens Pass Mountain Resort. However, farming is where her passion lies. “I love getting my hands in the dirt,” said Susan, “listening to wildlife while I am working, meeting great people, and setting my own course as a small business owner. I have lots of favorite things to grow, but loganwww.ncwgoodlife.com

berries are near and dear to my heart since my dad grew them.” Mathew Cox and his family founded Green Bow Farm just outside of Ellensburg in 2012. Green Bow is a grass and pasture rotation farm specializing in raising hormone and antibiotic-free beef, poultry, eggs, pork, sheep, beautiful yarn and handmade herbal soaps. Add to the mix three small boys and you find yourself admiring the tenacity and dedication of this young farming family. Although farming is now their family’s primary source of income, it was not a planned career choice.

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FARM TALK }}} Continued from previous page “After college I fell into installation work with museums and collectors,” said Matt. “My last job I worked for private collectors managing their art collection gallery. That was a great job and I decided to quit while I was ahead and check out farming. I ended up with three chickens, which I’ve always deemed a gateway livestock. Next thing you know we’re uprooting ourselves and starting a farm. “Our prices tend to be a bit higher than everyone else and there are several reasons for that but primarily we need to be sure that the costs are being covered,

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including marketing and point of sale costs, and that we are returning enough money to make it work year after year.” At first, Matt and his wife had hoped to do mainly on-farm sales but found that farmers markets offered them a connection to their clientele that was both pleasant and unexpected. Leavenworth is a new market for Green Bow but they are finding that each week, their customer base continues to grow. “I see the same customers week after week and those relationships are really important,” said Matt. “Not just for the sake of our business, but for the consumers as well. Having those relationships and being connected to your food and community

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“I ended up with three chickens, which I’ve always deemed a gateway livestock. Next thing you know we’re uprooting ourselves and starting a farm.” is just good quality of life stuff.” Currently, Green Bow is in the process of acquiring a second property in order to expand its farming operations. “We really do everything we

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can to produce the best food possible while also taking care of the soil and land. All of that means going the extra mile by moving animals regularly and staying on top of things. That is the only way to accomplish our objectives and stay sustainable. “It’s a lot of work and that work costs money,” he said. “We put a lot of extra work into the food we produce and when our customers come back to tell us how much they enjoyed our eggs or beef or lamb, it’s really rewarding.”

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hen Evie Hyde of Wenatchee ventures out her front door, there’s bound to be a smiling black lab trailing behind her, eager for whatever lies ahead. “I enjoy always having an adventure buddy, and Pepper is a good excuse to go exploring,” Evie said. “I have a book about dogs that says dogs live in the moment — when they’re chasing after balls, they don’t longingly think of the time they spent sniffing in the woods. They just enjoy the time they have right then. Pepper helps me do that too, especially when I’m out in nature.” Their dog-human connection first began in March 2014 at the Wenatchee Valley Humane Society where Evie frequently volunteered. Upon first glance, Evie knew there was something special about Pepper. After a brief walk and pet, she was sold. “It was fate,” Evie recalled. “She made a lovely first impression… she has

A marathon with Pepper: “Running it with her by my side is maybe the most proud I’ve ever felt.”

that thing you can’t name. Part of it is my connection with her, but honestly I think if anyone spent the time to get to know her they would be just as crazy about her as I am.” Since then, their bond has only grown stronger, and their memories more abundant. “We trained for a half marathon together for about eight weeks, and running it with her by my side is maybe the most proud I’ve ever felt. She was the only dog to run that far!” From adventures like lake days and hikes to simple moments like mailbox runs and new toys,

Evie falls further head over paws. “My relationship with Pepper is a little confusing if you haven’t seen us together. I am pretty much in love with her. Pepper mostly just tolerates me... I know she loves me but not as much as I love her. And I’m okay with that. I think that means I love her unconditionally,” Evie said. “She likes to follow me around too, and she knows getting in my car means an adventure, and she tolerates my cuddles. I don’t know what more a girl could ask for.”

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Each of the six guest rooms is decorated in a range of pastels, and each has a name plaque. “Miss Myrtle,” who lived in the home until 1975, was the last of the prominent Whaley family to do so.

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broad porch filled with welcoming chairs, the downtown landmark is happily accepting visitors. The well-attended

ribbon-cutting in April and its inclusion on this year’s Chelan Tour of Homes signal its return to the community. The story could have gone another way. Diane had long looked at the place and she dreamed of owning it, even though following a stint as a guest house owned by Mary Kay Addis, it had lain fallow long enough to need a lot of cosmetic repair. When she finally decided to make an offer, another was already in progress. She said, “That year we went

to Europe, and every B&B we saw made me think about the Whaley. I really wanted to fix it up, make it look like some of the places we were staying in.” Good news — The first deal fell through; the place was hers and her rescue mission could begin. Diane’s husband Wilf, thoroughly supportive, encouraged her to do the project solo, so the progress and scope of the renovations, and particularly the look of the interior, were entirely hers. Though she contracted out

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The spacious butler’s pantry, ideal for meal prep or even small gatherings, was presumably the original kitchen; a second cooking space was added to the house when the home became an inn. The Bridal Suite has, besides dramatic color scheme and a private side parlor, a favorite wall treatment. Diane scraped off floral paper but left the faint mottled shadow of color that remained.

the major work, she was an atsite, hands-on owner. Her professional background was a strong factor — the Wainhouses are now Chelan locals but she owned a successful interior design shop on the west side and had the savvy and even the remaining inventory to make the very best of the endeavor.

“I love hospitality and art, and they came together for me on this project.” But, she admitted, “I know I had some steps out of order — I was choosing perfect lamp shades before we redid the electrical outlets…” Any project of this scope — a four story home with 5,700 square feet plus a basement — needs a kind of triage. What could wait a while or be done gradually? What fixes were immediate, affordable, and visible? What deferred maintenance affected safety or security?

Diane, and a few friends also thoroughly invested in the project, made some smart choices. The best features of the home were original in 1911, and Diane conscientiously retained those. The broad porch with its distinctive columns indicates the grandeur inside. The main rooms — foyer, parlors and dining room — are anchored by massive golden oak pilasters, with paneled pocket doors, untypically large windows and pale wood floors which had been covered (and preserved) by dark carpet for years.

Unique flocked fabric, looking like old velvet, covers the entrance and stair walls. Brasspainted radiators and pipes in each room are part of the extant steam-heating system, and air conditioning is early century style — open the windows all around for air flow and turn on ceiling fans in the six bedrooms. The transition in the mid-’70s from a family home to a bed and breakfast was mercifully simple. An existing two-kitchen arrangement allows for a stove/ refrigerator/prep area in the

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The original oak seen here on stairs, window trim and banister has been preserved wherever possible throughout the house, and it nicely frames the (also original) soft fabric wall covering.

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walls, but a few retained a fascinating mottled patina that adds charm and age. Diane said that most floors and walls just got a thorough scraping and scrubbing and then were left alone or lightly painted. Ever a designing woman, she had a great time choosing fabrics and artworks for the bedrooms, each named on a plaque and color-

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nce again, members of Chelan Community Hospital’s dedicated Guild B, (a friend of the hospital since 1947) helped by employees and community businesses and volunteers, have organized a tour of some notable local homes, with proceeds from the event going toward the purchase of new and better equipment for the hospital. A companion piece to the all-day Saturday, Sept. 17 tour is the annual art show at Tsillan Cellars. In addition to the featured house (The Whaley Mansion), you’ll be able to visit these three homes: South Shore Retreat (Vince and Lorre Stimac) near Minneapolis Beach. This bright white and pale gray home, both chic and traditional, has quintessential beachside cottage looks. Carefully-planned away nooks for snuggling up with a book contrast with the wide-open view space in the main living area. A stone path leads to a separate guest suite. Lakeside Manor (Colleen and Chuck Orrestad) on Key Bay. Shingled siding and distinctive dark beams distinguish the exterior, with beam work repeated inside to frame extensive lake and mountain views. The main attraction is the big, full-time family and friends-sized deck with fireplace and radiant heating — only steps away from the lakeside beach and the pool. “Meer Huis” (Lake House) (John and Tammy Kingma.) It’s all about comfort for this big family that has enjoyed vacationing for 38 years on Lake Chelan. The Master Gardener-designed grounds feature dozens of plant species, two ponds and a small stream leading to the gazebo. Flanking the pool and facing the lake is a cooking and seating area for summertime living. More information and photos at facebook.com/GuildBLakeChelanTour and at LakeChelan.com/events/hometour. coordinated. In the back, a three-level white metal spiral staircase, imported from Louisiana, still meets code for egress, and there’s a gravel parking strip for guest cars. Though it’s in a filled neighborhood just a stroll to the commercial delights of Woodin Avenue, the home’s remaining surround of trees, lawn, and 54 rose bushes keep it serene. Though the overall look is traditional, Diane is fearless about mixing styles if the look is right. She pulled together an eclectic mix of Habitat for Humanity and family heirloom furniture, and period accessories like ornate chandeliers look fine alongside sleek and chic modern art, metal-topped tables, nocurtain windows. Light pours in, big chairs beckon. The house already radiates comfort and joy.

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Diane is excited about the Whaley’s future (she usually drops the word “mansion”). There’s buzz about offering weekends for treasure-hunting antique-lovers, or art retreats with communal living and plein air painting, wine tastings, weddings, family reunions, catered dinners. She said, “We’ve had one corporate retreat already where they holed up for hours at a time — they pulled out laptops and worked all day together in the dining room.” She’s also confident that the Whaley, just a few blocks from the tourism action on Chelan’s main drag, will again be popular with travelers. But she’s hoping to make it a hometown favorite — a close-by hub of activity for local families and organizations hankering for a touch of the elegant past.

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rapes are available at the grocery store all year long — but there is no purchased grape that can match the aroma and taste of a sun-ripened freshly picked seedless grape that begin to ripen in August. This grape dish is so unusual. Flame, Black Monukka, My guests rave Glenora, Interlaken and whenever I serve it Suffolk Red flourish in local as an accompaniback yards. ment to chicken I love eating handfuls of or fish. I mix the fresh grapes. Some people pickles in my tuna like them frozen as little salad. The pickled popsicles for a hot aftergrapes can be noon snack. served with cheese Incorporating fresh seedas an appetizer less grapes into lunch and as well — think dinner dishes enhances the Branston Pickle Grapes are delicious eaten out of hand, and even more tasty when they have been preserved. from England. This feeling of summer to me. recipe can easily be Fish and grapes are a natWash and drain them. Next bring to sprinkle this salad with apple cider halved or doubled. ural combination because a boil about three gallons of water. vinegar and a bit of olive oil. sweet and savory are balanced. When it is boiling rapidly, pour one1 1/2 cups sugar Chilled cooked salmon, a bowl third of the berries in the water for 30 Serves 6; 10 minutes preparation 3/4 cup vinegar of grapes and a spinach salad is SECONDS. Give them a stir. The goal is 1 inch cinnamon stick a perfect picnic lunch. to have the grape skin split so that the 2 cups seedless grapes 1/2 teaspoon salt One of my “I’ll never do this berries dehydrate effectively. 3 cups arugula leaves 60 seedless grapes stems removed again” recipes is a grape pie. Remove the berries from the water 1 cup cherry tomatoes — depending on the size of your This interesting and delicious and let them drain. Repeat with the 2 tablespoons finely chopped grapes. remainder of the grapes. Set them in roasted almonds desert was an old family recipe Or you can use more grapes as long your dehydrator in a single layer for 1/2 cup green olives served at a church supper. Spoilas the grapes are covered with the about 30 hours. syrup. er Alert: it takes two-and-oneChop the arugula, olives and tomahalf hours to make. Begin by Bring the sugar, vinegar, salt and peeling three pounds of concord toes. Stir all the ingredients together. cinnamon stick to a boil until the sugar grapes. Really! Cut each grape Serve at room temperature. is dissolved. in half and remove the seeds — I like to make grape jam rather than Let the syrup cool slightly. need I continue? grape jelly. Seedless grapes have so Usually, seedless grapes are Drop the grapes into a glass jar — Let’s prepare something flamuch flavor and are so sweet that you quart mason jars are fine. eaten fresh. The season can be vorful and doable instead. can add a minimum amount of sugar Pour on the syrup to cover. Cover extended with the following to this preserve. the jar with a tight fitting lid. recipes to preserve the berries.

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If the birds don’t eat all you’re your seedless grapes, it is fun to make raisins to eat out of hand or to use in cooking. Pick about 20 pounds of grapes; vary the amount of grapes you pick based on the size of your dehydrator. Remove each berry from the bunch. August 2016 | The Good Life

Remove the grape berries from the cluster, wash and rinse them. Put them in a large, heavy pot with just a bit of water and cook them for 10 minutes. Put them through the food processor and pulse only until the grapes are chunky. Then use the grapes in your favorite berry jam recipe. Grab the peanut butter; this beats Smuckers by a mile.

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Let sit in the refrigerator for at least two months. Light colored grapes may darken slightly but are still delicious. Bonnie Orr — the dirt diva — cooks and gardens in East Wenatchee.

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this summer with your children, your grandchildren, or just generally concerned about how kids are being raised these days? Most people I know just want kids to be happy, successful and to stay away from drugs. Then I listen to their ideas about how they might go about fostering those outcomes. What I hear in the way of parental wisdom is downright scary, it’s so off-base. I could point folks to the research, but there’s a lot. It’s overwhelming. If I were asked to squish the tons of information into two words, here’s what I would say. Word one, support. Word two, challenge. If you understand these concepts of support and challenge, you have a good chance of helping kids live the good life. And you may find a big bonus for yourself. Here’s how support shakes out. To support someone (in this context) means doing things like paying attention to, listening to, advocating for, believing in, encouraging, discussing options and strategies with, caring about, empathizing and understanding. Support is about being warm and noticing kids’ strengths and potential. Support is especially important after a perceived failure. Support can be confusing to some. Here’s what it is not. Support is NOT babying, doing things for kids that they can do them-

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selves, overindulging, having no rules, or being permissive. Children who are raised by parents who over-indulge them are often less able to cope with life’s routine problems. Some researchers claim they become more narcissistic and feel entitled. Other research indicates coddled children may be more prone to alcohol and drug addiction. How about challenge, what’s that about? When you challenge children, you do things like help them set valued, reachable, exciting goals. You help them figure out what they want to do with their lives. You model getting out of your own comfort zone. You help them see how their daily choices lead to certain consequences. You have high expectations and standards. You share your own stories of failure and mustering courage to do a hard thing. You acknowledge their progress. You let them see a vision of themselves at their best. All that’s rather abstract. How does it look in real life? Recently I was with two of my young granddaughters while attempting to buy some sandals. One of them, Sierra, is a crazy cartwheeler. She cartwheels up and down the street, she cartwheels on boat decks, she cartwheels up theater aisles. She was cautioned about cartwheeling in a small shoe store. Nevertheless, a cartwheel seemed to overtake Sierra before she quite realized what she had

done. We were all surprised and dismayed that she had broken a shoe display (which actually did very little actual harm, but scared us all). Sierra then ran out of the store crying. How can a parent, grandparent and others use the support and challenge concept in this case? Support? Even if the child did something wrong? Yes. Listen to the dismay, hug her, make it clear you still care about her. Listen to how she’s feeling. And Sierra was feeling a lot and had much to say between her sobs. Luckily I did remember to support her. It actually came pretty easily to me, which was a good thing because it helped me prepare her for the hard part, encouraging the apology. The challenge. Maybe you think that giving an apology isn’t really a challenge. Wrong. For many of us, apologies can be one of the hardest things on earth to do. Sierra would have rather died. Giving an apology was not just admitting that she’d done something wrong, but it also meant talking to people she didn’t even know. She’d have to consider what she could say with sincerity and how

she might even talk while she was crying so hard. As I worked with challenging Sierra, some of it went well and some of it could have gone better. The part that went well was my being able to share my own hard time of giving an apology when I was a kid. The part that I’d like to do over is giving her more of a chance to really settle down while we talked about what she might say. I’d spend more time helping her think through the reasons why she might want to apologize. I’d help her think about her goals with the apology. But it was all a bit hurried. As it was, she did squeak out a “sorry” and it was graciously received. Some may think that a stricter approach was warranted. In your view children must apologize for wrong-doings whether they want to or not. You see that as the right thing to do and that’s your rule. Occasionally that sort of strictness can work if good rationales are offered to children. But very rigid, authoritarian parenting styles often lead to compliance in the short-term, but rebellion or passiveness in the

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long term. Children may become more prone to depression, low self-worth, anxiety, suicide and drug abuse. Now here’s the part that has surprised me as I’ve thought more and noticed more about how I grandparent. I’m sort of re-parenting myself (though I hate to use that terminology. It sounds like some intervention from the ’60s.) What I mean is I’m learning to be more supportive and more challenging with myself. Seems like my blood pressure is bit lower. Maybe I’m feeling the love. We were all parented. A lot of it was not ideal. Pretty cool to realize we could re-do how we were parented as we parent others. And, just because we may have had some poor parenting ourselves, we don’t have to continue passing that parenting style down to the next generations. Imagine the possible impact of future generations moving up to the good life. But let me stop here. High support and high challenge parenting — it’s not a for sure thing. Nothing is. At least nothing we presently know about. Parents who do everything right can still have kids with

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problems. Parents who do everything wrong sometimes have great kids. How children turn out involves a lot of factors. We can only do what we can do. But if you want to give kids a good shot at the good life, and possibly reap benefits yourself, don’t get stuck in the way you were parented, don’t listen to unfounded advice, and don’t get bogged down by all the parenting books. The basic ideas around sound parenting aren’t terribly complicated. Sure it does take deliberate practice, reflection and trying again when it doesn’t go so well. But, hey, you have some time left this summer to find some kids to practice on. Get out there and experiment. How might you practice both support and challenge to help others (and yourself) move up to The Good Life?

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jim brown, m.d.

Foreign travel right next door I first started writing

a monthly article in The Good Life in February 2009 when I wrote an article about medical issues that can occur while traveling particularly to third world countries. Since that article appeared I have written 91 articles for The Good Life. At that time in our lives, my wife Lynn and I were traveling a lot as we were exploring the world in our new retirement. The editor Mike View from the OceanStar Bed and Breakfast, about 200 yards north of the border. Cassidy decided to title my articles “The Traveling Dochave been to Victoria several called Point Roberts. tor.” times over the last 40 years and I have always been curious We did spend a lot of time never get tired of visiting there. about Point Roberts when looktraveling and loved every minute Driving to Victoria from Cening at Washington state maps. of it. Many readers have asked tral Washington is quite easy It didn’t make much sense and me where are you traveling to except for an average 60-minute I wondered about its history so now? delay to go through the border decided to visit it too since it It seems like most recently our check at Blaine. was so close. traveling bug has diminished From there the TsawwasPoint Roberts, part of Whatsomewhat due in part possibly sen Ferry terminal is about a com County, Washington, is a to the aging process, but more 30-minute drive. The ferry goes five square mile appendage of to the increasing challenges of from there to Swartz Bay for Canada attached to the Tsawair travel including the crowded Victoria or to Nanaimo if you wassen peninsula of Delta, B.C. airports, security lines (even are heading north on Vancouver a suburb of Vancouver, B.C. though we have TSA precheck), Island. Captain George Vancouver flight delays and missed connecWe decided that it would be named it in 1792 after his friend tions etc. nice to spend a night somewhere Henry Roberts. In addition, terrorist groups, near the ferry terminal so we Point Roberts assumed its particularly in Europe, have could cross earlier in the mornpresent status in 1846 when the been focusing their destructive ing rather than later in the after- Oregon Treaty extended the efforts primarily on travelers. noon or evening. 49th parallel as the boundary Having traveled to 31 countries I found the OceanStar Bed and between the American and Britand six continents, we don’t Breakfast online so we reserved ish territories from the Rocky feel pressed to do that so much it for the night before we went to Mountains to the Straights of anymore. Victoria. It was a good decision Georgia. This essentially cut For now we have decided to do as this B and B is wonderful, off this tiny parcel of land from most of our traveling to North and the owners are gracious and Canada to which it was attached America including Canada, helpful. geographically. Mexico and the United States. We had a 180-degree view of The year-round population That will keep us plenty busy. the ocean as this place is on the is 1,300, mostly Canadians who Recently my wife surprised me beach. It is only 200 yards north with their Nexus passes can zip by reserving a terrific B and B in of the United States border, through our borders without Victoria, British Columbia for separating Delta, B.C. from a stopping for the border checks. our wedding anniversary. We tiny piece of the United States Many Canadians from the

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Delta area shop and get their gas there, which is about $1 a gallon less than in Canada. Canadian locals who order goods from U.S. stores, can pick them up at a U.S. parcel delivery station thus avoiding the Canadian value added tax. Children living there go through third grade in Point Roberts, and then any American kids have to be bused 40 minutes daily to finish school in Blaine while the Canadian children go to school in Delta right next door. This is one of the safest spots in the United States with the border guards who are essentially government-paid guards and gatekeepers. In fact the U.S. Witness protection program has located over 50 persons there over the years. My curiosity about this strange five square mile piece of the United States has now been satisfied. Victoria, B.C. has many of the attractions of “foreign” travel including border checks (not so prevalent any more in Europe but I suspect that will be changing soon), a ferry trip to Vancouver Island, and a wide variety of fabulous restaurants including almost any ethnic food that might appeal to your palate. The strong U.S. dollar currently gives us about a 30 percent discount when we travel to Canada or Mexico. Victoria itself has numerous attractions that make one have the feel of being in a European

city. The setting on the water, the Parliament building, and old churches including the huge Catholic Cathedral give it a European feeling. The world-famous Butchart Gardens are worth a trip by themselves. The Royal BC Museum in downtown, across from the parliament and the famed Empress Hotel, is one of the finest museums anywhere. Driving in Victoria is very easy compared to many large U.S. cities. Vancouver Island itself is very large and has numerous attractions beyond the city. The population of Victoria proper is about 80,000 while the population of the Greater Victoria metropolitan area is about 540,000. Lynn made our reservations at a B and B called Dashwood Manor. This large, three-story stone building was built in 1912 by Arthur Linehan as a family home for himself, his wife and their four children. He had come to Victoria from England at age 20 in 1891 to seek his fortune during the gold rush taking place in British Columbia and the Yukon. He died suddenly in 1923, and since, the manor has had several owners, was turned into apartments and fell into disrepair. At one point it was offered for sale in the 1940s for $1,500. Derek Dashwood bought it in 1978 when it was quite derelict for $125,000 and turned it into a B and B. The current owners, David and Michael, bought it three years ago and it is now rated among the top 10 B and B’s in Canada. David told me its current value would be around $3 million. It was a great spot for us to explore Victoria. One thing I really like is how the city is divided up into informal villages or neighborhood areas with small shops, two or three restaurants, a few offices all with in easy walking distance from those living in the vicinity. Starting at Dashwood, we were given a map of the Fairfield Heritage Walking Tour. This

was a self-guided two-mile walk through the surrounding neighborhood. There were 24 homes highlighted on the map that we were to look for and note their distinct era architectural design. A majority of these homes were built in the early 1900s, thus making for a very interesting stroll. Our room at the Manor looked out to the sea and had a great view of the Olympic Peninsula across the water. All along the street below, Dallas Avenue, there was a paved trail for walking or biking. From dawn to dusk, people were jogging, walking, walking their dogs and biking. Victoria says it is the bikingest city in Canada, and I certainly don’t doubt it. There is 60-mile bike trail, called the Galloping Goose, from Sidney BC to Sooke to the west. On an earlier trip to Victoria Lynn and I brought our bikes and rode the trail. Victoria and all of Vancouver Island is safe in all respects. The crime rate is quite low on Vancouver Island. In 2013 there were no homicides reported in the greater Victoria area and only three in the first six months of 2015. In 2014 British Columbia had it’s lowest homicide rate in 50 years. I feel very safe there and in all of Canada in general Americans are well liked and welcomed. Many years ago I heard a Canadian futurist speak at a conference I attended. The main thing I still remember were his comments comparing Americans to Canadians. He said we are essentially the same except that Canadians are “unarmed Americans with health care.” If you haven’t yet visited the “foreign” country just north us, I highly recommend it. Jim Brown, M.D., is a retired gastroenterologist who has practiced for 38 years in the Wenatchee area. He is a former CEO of the Wenatchee Valley Medical Center. August 2016 | The Good Life

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oming home every day from a full-time, high-speed, high-tech, high-pressure job — he’s the audio engineer for North 40 Productions in Wenatchee — Chad Yenney has learned to value the simple things in life. Like sitting at a table cutting out pictures from magazines and maybe, if he feels like it, pasting them together. It’s definitely not what he thought his off-work avocation was going to be when he remodeled the room above an existing orchard garage into a pitch-perfect surround for playing and recording music. The yurt-shaped space is replete with a one-byfour slat ceiling over fiberglass, old repurposed wooden organ pipes completely filling two high walls, and a variety of stringed instruments hanging at ready. But what has dominated the space for the last three years

is deep, high shelving full of old magazines like Life, Look, Holiday, National Geographic, The Saturday Evening Post and McCall’s. The place is rich in paper — stacks of projects, files of clippings, posters, prints and cards. The actual workspace is deceptively simple. A small cutting board, one good Xacto knife and a tub of Elmer’s rubber cement are all he needs. The try-it-out hobby has gradually morphed into an enticing array of images online (with 887 original one-of-a-kind pieces to date on Instagram) and cards and framed pictures to purchase in local shops and galleries, and he’s even ventured into adorning skateboards. Chad, 42, is a collage artist, but he admits he didn’t even know that was a viable art form (as in appealing, serious and marketable) until after he got started. He’d been intrigued by collage work on some favorite

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album covers and, “I fooled around with collage at Eastmont, but it wasn’t until I saw something Jeff (his boss) had put together on the computer as kind of a joke that I thought ‘Hey, cool. I could do that…’” A United States Forest Service wildfire film they were making inspired the wry image: a B52 bomber flew low over a fire, spewing instead of re- Haunted by his digital past tardant a huge stream of dollar bills. That struck a instead of using the computer’s creative chord in Chad, and he myriad potential and its evil was off and running. Or rather, twin: the temptation to never flipping pages and cutting them stop fiddling with the artwork. up. Not only did he use the tools When he explored the posand talents of an earlier time, sibilities for ironically juxtaposhe started collecting books and ing images, it was a no-brainer magazines that generally preto clip pieces of already-printed date his own birth. “No, I’m not images — magazine pictures — really a history buff — I just

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like the colors they printed with back then — Pantone, Technicolor,” he said. He’s fondest of the 1940s to 1970s, but feels no compunction to make a political statement about then and now, or mine deep philosophical themes, or, god forbid, tell a story or teach a lesson. He grinned and said, “I’m really shallower than that. I just put things together, and if I like the way they look… It’s done.” He even eschewed titles on his first gallery pieces, unwilling to coerce the viewer into any interpretation. That’s changed a bit, but his titles are clear-cut: Fly Girl, Far Out Jackie, Love Birds. His designs, some of them only two pieces, some more intricately overlayed, are almost categorizable, but Chad despises the predictability of doing the same thing even twice, so it’s hard to discern themes. Chad’s not an entrepreneur, and he’s not hankering for fame and fortune; he has, he insists, “No dreams of winning the Collage Lottery.” He’s pleased his wife and children understand how important those studio hours are to him.

His father, an artist, is supportive (“He said he likes my stuff,” Chad demurred), and friends encourage him, sometimes donating clippings or family photos. Besides the serenity inherent in the old-fashioned process, Chad’s learned collage-making has other benefits. With a team and clients, his job is very collaborative; here he’s in full control of the image. He also appreciates the limitations of size. What he clips from a magazine page is what he gets, and he is disobligated to digitally manipulate anything to fit his scheme. He may begin experimenting with multi-part pieces that are larger overall. The only oversize picture in his studio now is an Animal House poster where John Belushi’s sweatshirt says collage instead of college. He explained “I had to buy two of the same posters. Four bucks each! Then I just made an A out of the LL’s.” He added, “Oh, and of course I gave him devil eyes.” For more of Chad’s work, see www. instagram.com/computarded and https://society6.com/computarded. August 2016 | The Good Life

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runs and receive a free shirt. Cost: free (other than a smile). Info: Joel Rhyner 387-0051. 2 Left Feet, every Thursday, 7 – 9 p.m. 2 Left Feet is a loose organization of local dance enthusiasts who would like to see more dancing in the Wenatchee Valley. Beginner lesson at the top of the hour followed by carefree social dancing. No partner necessary to join in the fun. Dance style will be 1940s swing with a bit of salsa, blues, waltz or tango thrown in. Pybus Public Market. Cost: free. Info: pybuspublicmarket.org. Leavenworth Community Farmers Market, every Thursday evening, 4 – 8 p.m. Local eggs, meats, cheeses bread, produce, fruits, prepared foods, local crafts and more. Lions Club Park. Cost: free. Game Night, every fourth Friday, 7 – 9 p.m. Board games, card games or any games you would like to bring. Open to all and all ages. Pybus Public Market. Cost: free. Info: pybuspublicmarket.org.

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9 a.m. Bring your friends and dogs on leashes and walk the riverfront trail. Meet on the loop trail behind Pybus Public Market. Info: wenatcheefido.org. Sandberg on the Sax, 8/2, 9, 16, noon. Wenatchee resident, teacher and big time jazz fan Jeff Sandberg will perform live. Pybus Public Market. Cost: free. Info: pybuspublicmarket.org. The Sound of Music, 8/2, 5, 9, 11, 13, 17, 19, 24, 27, 28. 8 p.m. Live performance. The story of the von Trapp family. Ski Hill Amphitheater, Leavenworth. Info: leavenworthsummertheater.org. Kerry Christensen Master Yodeler, 8/3, 11 a.m. – 2 p.m. At the gazebo downtown Leavenworth. Cost: free.

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The movement and mediation paintings of John J. McCabe will be on display at Two Rivers Art Gallery during First Friday, Aug. 5, from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m., 102 N. Columbia, Wenatchee. susan@cdlandtrust.org. Max Kyllonen, 8/3, 4, 8, 9, 2 – 5 p.m. Live performance singing Alpine songs and playing on the diatonic button accordion. At the gazebo downtown Leavenworth. Cost: free. GWATA Summer Social, 8/3, 5:30 - 8 p.m. Food and wine, yard games and live music. Ohme Gardens. Cost: $15 for GWATA members or $20 for the general public. Singin’ in the Rain, 8/3, 6, 12, 16, 20, 26, 8 p.m. Live performance. Hatchery Park Stage, Leavenworth. Info: leavenworthsummertheater. org. Tiechner and Sanders, 8/4, 11, 18, 25, noon. Live performance by Well Strung. Pybus Public Market. Cost: free. Info: pybuspublicmarket. org. Chicago, 8/4, 10, 11, 17, 18, 7 p.m. 8/5, 6, 12, 13, 19, 20, 8 p.m. Don Fox and Jaime Donegan return, joined by musical director Ron Bermingham, choreographer Bethany Christine Elkin, and an all-star local cast, to produce 11 Hot August Nights performances of the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical, Chicago. Numerica Performing Arts Center. Info: numericapac.org.

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Lake Chelan Rodeo Parade, 8/4, 7 – 8 p.m. Downtown Chelan. Beauty and the Beast, 8/4, 10, 18, 23, 25, 8 p.m. 8/6, 13, 20, 2 p.m. Live performance. Festhalle Theater, downtown Leavenworth. Info: leavenworthsummertheater.org. Alpenfolk, 8/5, 6, 7, 19, 20, 21, 26, 5 – 9 p.m. 8/12, 6 – 9 p.m. Thomas Tilton plays the traditional steirische Harmonika, or button accordion, Cori Pflug-Tilton plays the hammered dulcimer and son, Peter plays the guitar and sings. Also Robert Baumann plays the string bass and sings. At the gazebo. Leavenworth. Waterdog, 8/5, 7 – 9 p.m. Live performance with this six-member band recreating the most popular rock hits of the ’60s, ’70s and ’80s. Pybus Public Market. Cost: free. Info: pybuspublicmarket.org. Lake Chelan Rodeo, 8/5, 6, 7:30 p.m. Vendors, beer garden, world famous chicken race, McMillan Family Trick Riders, Skagit Rain Riders and Ranch Bronc Riding. Chelan Rodeo Grounds, 71 Union Valley Rd. Cost: $10. Info: lakechelan.com.

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Puppet love The man with the hand inside the puppet has a grip on his true theater calling By Susan Lagsdin

rian Higgins has a passion for playing with puppets. Now that he’s tried his hand at it, he’s never going to let go. In real life and on the stage he’s a prepossessing man with a strong visual presence, but when he holds up a hand-operated puppet, like The Mad Scientist seen here, he almost disappears. Everyone’s eyes are glued to the real star of the show — that goofy, mute cloth and cardboard fiction that unerringly demands and holds their attention. For a third year, Brian’s been hired by the North Central Regional Library to tour with a repertoire of puppets and puppet show scripts, and he says, “It’s the highlight of my summer — everything I love about the theater I get to do all the time!” He partners mostly with veteran puppeteer and stagecraft guru Mark Wavra of Eastmont High School, but they also work with a few bright young theater kids with a yen for this unusual performance art. Even the down time is fun for him. (But then, he admits what he liked about football were the practices, not the games) “When Mark and I travel between shows we’re constantly riffing on gags, songs, new plots — most of them we can’t do for children, but it’s hilarious!” Traditional old vaudeville and melodrama plots are the basis of many shows, gussied up and modernized for young people, who, as any teacher or kids book writer knows are NOT an easy audience. Some plots are straight and simple, some outrageous (“He wants the rent; she

can’t pay the rent” or “World leaders are turning into salamanders…”) The shows never condescend, they’ve got layers of ironic jokes and sight gags, and they are short — a typical puppet outing consists of three 10- to 15-minute shows. Best of all, says Brian, “Kids are constantly interacting with the puppets.” Unlike older audienc- Brian Higgins and the Professor: Two for the show. es, they feel free to shout, whisper and gasp, so the He admits he’s got a rough puppeteer knows exactly what schedule right now, touring for works and what doesn’t and can NCRL and being double-cast make instant adjustments. in two prominent roles in Hot That constant interplay suits August Night’s Chicago. But, he his style. He’s totally in control said, “Last summer I seriously of the moment and he’s almost considered Cabaret auditions invisible, with no curtain call, and then thought, ‘Nah… I’ve got no handshaking afterwards. puppet shows lined up.’” In fact, the theoretical “fourth It wasn’t even a choice, and it wall” that theater tries to breach wasn’t necessarily an easier gig. isn’t even there. “There’s no wall. Playing for child audiences, with Everyone knows darn well that their spontaneous interaction, not just the story but even the awe and total involvement — it’s actors are fake,” said Brian. His addictive. Brian also believes the theory? That’s why puppets can limitations of the art form are have kid-friendly snarky reparinstructive: the subtly of tone, tee and mock violence without volume, head position and posany disturbing after effects. ture that puppets require — and Local theater-goers know their only means of communicaBrian best as a comedic actor tion — has brought nuances to and a song and dance man (yes, his own acting. the guy’s got moves) with a hefty Brian, 37, received a wealth of repertoire of musicals under his support for creativity from his belt: The 25th Annual Putnam big Quincy family (“We have five County Spelling Bee at Music teachers, seven actors or direcTheatre of Wenatchee, Bat Boy tors, and all of us sing and play and Rocky Horror Picture Show instruments,” he said) and after at the PAC, Hairspray and Phan- an early college start followed by tom of the Opera at Wenatchee eclectic job experiences — like High School. combine driving, school cook August 2016 | The Good Life

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— he graduated from Central Washington University and is finishing up a Masters degree. At Wenatchee High School, where he just finished his fourth year of teaching, his personal theatricality shines through every day in his literature classes. “My students are literally getting the best of me,” he said. “And, sure — working with puppets has helped me in the classroom; I know what it takes to hold attention, I know that kids of any age love to play.” Here’s a dilemma: World Law says you can either do puppets or acting, never the other. Which do you choose? Brian thought about two seconds. “Puppets.” And here’s an intriguing supposition. If you were granted $50,000 to enrich the community…? He immediately replied, “A puppet show cabaret! Puppet theater for adults!” Brian Higgins, Puppet Master. Keep your eyes on him — if you can possibly drag them away from the big puppet he’s holding in front of you.

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}}} Continued from page 36 First Friday venues: n Two Rivers Art Gallery, 8/5, 5 – 8 p.m. Abstracts: Movement and mediation featuring paintings by John J. McCabe. Music by Patric Thompson and Glenn Isaacson piano and bass. Wines by 3 Cellars. Complimentary refreshments. 102 N Columbia, Wenatchee. Cost: free. Info: 2riversgallery.com. n Merriment Party Goods, 8/5, 5 – 8 p.m. Snacks and beverages. 23, S Wenatchee Ave. Cost: free. Info: facebook.com/merrimentpartygoods. n Tumbleweed Bead Co., 8/5, 5-7 p.m. Positive Palette was created in January 2016 by husband and wife team, Jerry and Nicolette Manning. The idea behind it was to repurpose items that had been gently used and turn them into home decor. Their style includes a modern, rustic charm that appeals to the cottage/farm chic palette. Sips and snacks served. 105 Palouse St. Cost: free. Info: tumbleweedbeadco.com. n Small Artworks Gallery, 8/5, 5 p.m. Regional High School Art Show artists works will be on display at the Wenatchee Valley Museum and Cultural Center. Cost: free. Info: wvmcc.org. Wenatchee Riverfront Railway, 8/6, 20, 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. Ride the mini train. Home of the Nile Saunders Orchard Train at Riverfront Park. Cost: $1. Chelan to Africa Benefit Concert, 8/6, 6 – 10 p.m. Live music by the Kevin Jones Band, dancing and philanthropy. Proceeds benefit Thrive and Touching Tiny Lives Foundations. Benson Vineyards, 754 Winesap Ave, Manson. Info: chelantoafrica.com. Under the Tuscan Moon Dinner, 8/6, 6:30 p.m. A five-course meal prepared by chef Tim Putnam of Smokeblossom, each paired with Icicle Ridge Wine in an outdoor dining experience. Magic, music, moon and memories. Icicle Ridge Winery. Cost: $75. Info: icicleridgewinery. com. Pepe Aguilar, 8/6, 7 – 9 p.m. Pepe has a show singing with orchestra, Mariachi and Banda. Pepe’s two children Angela and Leonardo will

be special guests opening the show singing some of their grandparents’ greatest hits. Antonio Aguilar and Flor Silvestre are two icons in the genre of Mexican Ranchero music. Town Toyota Center. Info: towntoyotacenter.com. Mike Bills, 8/12, 26, 7 – 9 p.m. Live performance. Pybus Public Market. Cost: free. Info: pybuspublicmarket. org. Geology Tour — Explore with the experts. Guided bus tours take you to some unique geology highlights not featured in previous tours. Look over giant potholes formed by the swirling waters of the floods, get up close and personal with ice borne erratics, catch a glimpse of hanging valleys and learn about the role of ice and plants in the changing landscape carved out by the floods. Wenatchee Valley Museum and Cultural Center. Cost: members, $40, non-members $45 . Info: wvmcc.org. Saturday, Aug. 13, 9 a.m. – 2 p.m. Historical Walking tour, 8/13, 10 a.m. The tour will be 1-2 hours and will be a couple of miles on mostly flat ground, one hill. Learn about the area before the 1960s of the railroad and mill. Upper Valley Museum, Leavenworth. Cost: $3 by donation. Info: 548-0728. The Paperboys, 8/13, 7 p.m. Genre bending, globe-hopping, joyous rock-folk-pop-world-roots music in the meadow concert. Meadow Stage at Icicle Creek Center for the Arts. Cost: $25 advance or $27 at the door. Info: icicle.org Gordonaires, 8/13, 1 – 5 p.m. and 7 – 9 p.m. 8/14, 11 a.m. – 3 p.m. Brothers Gordon and Danny have been playing music together for over 30 years, playing German folk songs on the cowbells and alphorn. At the gazebo, Leavenworth. Cost: free. Info: leavenworth.org. Ghost Bears: the elusive north cascades grizzly, 8/14, 1 p.m. and 8/20, 5 p.m. Embark on an amazing four-day backpacking adventure with expert wildlife biologists as you venture into stunning mountain scenery in search of bears. Barn Beach Reserve, Leavenworth. Info: wenatcheeriverinstitute.org. Recognizing fraud, counterfeit bills and shoplifting, 8/16, 8:30 - 9:30 a.m. Workshop provided by Officer Jared Reinfeld, with the Wenatchee Police Department. Wenatchee Convention Center. Cost: free. Coffee and breakfast

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goodies provided. RSVP: linda@ wendowntown.org or charlotte@ wendowntown.org. Frank Calapristi, 8/18, 1 – 5 p.m. 8/25, 2 – 5 p.m. Local talent performs traditional Alpine songs and his own compositions on the accordion. At the gazebo, Leavenworth. Info: Leavenworth.org. Great Northern Railroad in Leavenworth, 8/18, 7 p.m. Discover where the roundhouse was located, how many tracks ran through town and why the railroad moved out of town in Leavenworth in the 1890-1925 era. Speaker will be Randy Dasho. Upper Valley Museum. Cost: by donation. Info: 548-0728. Ron Fowler, 8/19, 7 – 9 p.m. Live performance. Pybus Public Market. Cost: free. Info: pybuspublicmarket. org. Tomato Gala, 8/20, 10 a.m. – noon. Join in the fun of choosing your favorite tomatoes. Community Education Garden, 1100 N Western Ave. Creative Arts Festival, 8/20, 10 a.m. – 7 p.m. Fine art and sculptures, crafts, photography, antiques, assemblages, repurposed items, furniture. Riverwalk Park, Chelan. Cost: free. Info: lakechelan. com. First sales stories, 8/20, 10:3012:30 a.m. Write on the River will host a free membership meeting

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at the Wenatchee Public Library. Several published members will be sharing their first sale stories and answering questions. Guest are welcome. Questions: info@ writeontheriver.org. Children’s Film Fest, 8/20, 11 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. Icicle Creek enter for the Arts. Cost: $25 full day pass. Info: icicle.org. Color Rush, 8/20, noon – 8 p.m. Face painting, balloon animals. Check in is at 3:30 for the race. The run is Sunday, 8/21, 8 a.m. Pybus Public Market. Info: pybuspublicmarket.org. Moonlight Music Fest, 8/20, 6:30 p.m. Bring a chair and enjoy the moonlight, mountains and live music in Plain Valley. Benefit for local firefighters. Cost: free. Info: 509 763-3836. Color Rush fun run, 8/21, 8 a.m. United Way 3.1 mile fun run starts on Worthen Street. Info: colorwenatchee.com. Horticulture series: Turf grass management, 8/25, 9 a.m. – 3 p.m. This program will cover compaction and rehabilitation for heavily used turf areas. North Central Regional Library building, 16 N Columbia St. Afternoon session will be at Walla Walla Point Park. Info: Paula Dinius, pdinius@ wsu.edu. Much Ado About Nothing, 8/25 to 8/27, 7 p.m. Bring a chair or

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blanket for young love, a battle of the sexes, verbal jousting, mistaken identities, plots, deceptions, conspiracies and a happy ending that are all a part of Shakespeare’s most beloved serio-comedy play. Meadow Stage at Icicle Creek Center for the Arts. Cost: $22 advance or $24 at the door. Info: icicle.org. Dine out for the dog park, 8/25. Wenatchee and Leavenworth locations of Wok About Grill. The Wok About Grill will donate a portion of the proceeds to FIDO. Info: wenatcheefido.com. Write on the River, 8/25, 7 p.m. Four minutes of fame, an open mic night for local writers. Read or just listen to original works. O’Grady’s at Sleeping Lady, Leavenworth. Info: writeontheriver.org or 509 770-1662. Cutthroat Classic, 8/27. 11.1-mile trail run. North Cascades National Park. Info: methowtrails.org. LEAP, 8/27, 9 a.m. – noon. Short, unplugged performances selected from the new LEAP second album, a compilation album dedicated to original music and poetry from the Central Washington region. Pybus Public Market. Info: theleapevent. org. All Brass, 8/27, 28, 11 a.m. – 5 p.m. Hailing out of North Bend, and led by Jim Sailors, All Brass present their unique musical styles throughout the Pacific Northwest all year round. This brass trio entertains guest with German/Bavarian music, polka and other classics. At the gazebo, Leavenworth. Cost: free. Info: leavenworth.org. Wenatchee Wine and Food Festival, 8/27, 6 – 9 p.m. Wine awards, food from a variety of local restaurants and caterers as well as cider, craft breweries and distilleries. Town Toyota Center. Info: towntoyotacenter.com. Giant Garage and bake sale, 9/3, 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. 9/4, 9 a.m. – 2 p.m. The Lake Wenatchee Fire and Rescue Auxiliary will hold their 22nd annual Labor Day garage and bake sale. Fire Station #3 at 19015 Beaver Valley Rd. Plain. All proceeds will benefit local volunteer fire department. The Molly Tuttle Band, 9/4, 7 p.m. Opening guest Rob Newsom. Molly has a lovely voice, impeccable guitar playing and sensitive song writing. Meadow Stage at Icicle Creek Center for the Arts. Cost: $25 advance or $27 at the door. Info: icicle.org.

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Peter Lind

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he evening sky in August is dominated by Mars and Saturn, but Venus and Jupiter put on a little show late in the month as they pass near each other. The top event this month happens on the 12th with a great display of the Perseid meteors. The warm August nights offer plenty of good viewing as five planets are visible in the evening and night sky. As the month begins Mercury, Venus and Jupiter form a straight line above the western horizon. First and closest to the horizon is Venus, above and just to the left you’ll spot Mercury, and Jupiter stands highest and most prominent. During the first week, a crescent moon sits close to all three of our neighboring planets. Venus spends the month climbing away from the sun while Jupiter sinks closer to our star, making for an interesting late August rendezvous. On the 27th, Mercury and Venus sit four degrees below Jupiter forming a beautiful triangle above the western horizon. This is the closest Jupiter and Venus have appeared since May 2000. Binoculars will provide incredible views of the encounter. As darkness falls and the planets to the west sink below the horizon, move your attention to the south. Two more bright planets, Mars and Saturn, rule this part of the night sky. Mars shines at magnitude -0.8 on Aug. 1 when it sits between Libra and Scorpius. Mars and Saturn both sit just north of Antares the first magnitude star. As the month progresses Mars wanderers eastward and Saturn continues to move to the west. Although Mars reached peak visibility in late May it remains a worthy target for any telescope. August 2016 | The Good Life

After you’ve spent time looking at Mars slide your telescope a few degrees over to Saturn and be prepared for a sight you can hardly believe. The first thing you’ll notice is the huge ring system wrapped around the planet and tilted steeply to reveal a large flat surface of the rings. The cloud bands on the planet surface will show readily, and with a good telescope you might even catch a hint of the flattening of the planet due to its rapid spin. Notice the gap in the outer part of the rings called the Cassini Division that separates the outer ring A from the inner and brighter ring B. Once you can pull your eyes away from the rings check out the several moons around Saturn, there are four moons visible through a telescope. The summer’s best meteor shower, the annual Perseid meteor shower, peaks on the morning of Aug. 12. The skies will get dark once the moon sets around 1 a.m. Find an observing site away from city lights so the meteors don’t have to contend with artificial lighting. Although the Perseids are among the strongest and brightest showers of the year, 2016 could be exceptional. Scientists think that the rate of meteors could reach 150 per hour, which is 50 percent above normal. The reason: Jupiter’s gravity recently nudged the stream of debris from Perseids’ parent comet, which pushed it closer to Earth. Whether the prediction comes true or not the view should be spectacular as the radiant climbs high in the sky. I spent two weeks in Mexico last month and while I was www.ncwgoodlife.com

down there I met an interesting man. Jorge was his name and he was close to retirement age. He had spent his whole working career in the United States in the construction industry, starting out as a laborer, moving all the way to construction management. He had done quite well and spent a lot of years at his career but when the recession of 2008 came and his industry collapsed, he decided it was time to go home and be with his children and grandchildren. He was an amateur astronomer like myself and was hoping to teach all he could to his grandchildren about astronomy. He was very excited that already three grandchildren showed a big interest in it. All I could think was he had chosen the good life for himself going home to his family. We talked a lot about astronomy, checked out Jupiter, Mars and Saturn every night after dark, in fact we got another man wanting to come out and see the three planets. He lived in a big city in North Carolina and couldn’t remember the last time he saw anything in the night sky. One last little note, Mars and Saturn are about 30 degrees up from the southern horizon from my house in East Wenatchee. They were almost overhead from San Luis, Mexico. I seem to forget easily that the night sky from my house is only one perspective of something very big. Peter Lind is a local amateur astronomer. He can be reached at ppjl@ juno.com

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rod molzahn

Tough as a mule and a fun guy, too Editor’s note: Rod Molzahn is taking a few months off. Here is an encore column from a past issue.

verybody in Chelan County and some beyond knew Ed Ferguson, tall and lanky with a booming laugh and a friendly face. Ed was a back slapper, a hand shaker and a story teller but tough as a mule when that was required. John Gellatly, twice Wenatchee Mayor, wrote in 1958, that “Anyone, in trying to describe what has gone on in Wenatchee for the past 50 or 60 years and about the people who made it interesting, would certainly have to include J. Edward Ferguson. Ed has always been the spice ingredient of every community effort…” The Ferguson family arrived in Wenatchee in the summer of 1893 without 15-year-old Ed. He stayed on in Tacoma working as a newsboy and messenger until the next spring when he rode over Colockum Pass and into the biggest flood the valley had ever seen with water standing two feet above the railroad tracks. His father James, a tin smith, had opened a shop at Wenatchee Avenue and Palouse Street with living quarters in the back. James Ferguson also served as the town Marshall, a position he had been appointed to only days after coming to Wenatchee. After finishing seventh grade at Stevens School, Ed found work on Alexander Griggs’ steamboats. He was night watchman on “The City of Ellensburg,” fireman on the “Thomas L. Nixon” and deckhand on other boats traveling between Wenatchee and the Okanogan. On one of his many trips up

storekeepers and businessmen along with the postmaster… perhaps Wenatchee’s first community theater. Ed Ferguson always said there were three jobs he wanted; policeman, fireman and actor. By the early 1900s he was well on his way to accomplishing the goal. Ed was 26 in 1905 when he convinced O. B. Fuller, Wenatchee developer, to build the town’s first playhouse at the corner of Columbia and Palouse streets. Ed leased the building and began presenting dances, band Wenatchee’s police in 1908: From left, Nate Inscho, Chief J. Ed Ferguson and Bob Nel- concerts, local theater and traveling performers son. Photo from the Wenatchee Valley Museum & Cultural Center #90-56-56 with Ed, himself, often river, Ed commented on the taking part. strong resemblance between a Nationally known celebrities large rock above the west bank including William Jennings and the profile of Abraham Bryan and Al Jolson took the Lincoln. A photographer on the stage at the playhouse. The theboat took a picture of the rock ater was the first place in town and published it with the title, to show silent movies with Ed’s “Lincoln Rock.” new wife Louise at the piano. In 1898 and ’99, Ed Ferguson Ed had often stepped in to worked with the U.S. Geological help his father with the MarSurvey crew mapping the land shall’s duties. In 1896, at 17, he on both sides of the Columbia arrested and hauled off to jail between Wenatchee and Chelan. seven drunken railroad workers When that job ended he worked who were terrorizing the downas a clerk in Taz Rary’s gengreen pants, spats, a red necktie, town saloons. eral store and next door at the a derby and a cane. One night in 1907 Mayor Wenatchee Hardware Company Ferguson’s own showmanship Frank Scheble deputized Ed to where he took home the remark- surfaced in 1897 when, at age 18, roundup a bunch of drunken “riable sum of $50 a month. he helped organize the town’s oters” along Columbia Street. Ed After that, he worked for a first brass band. soon had the whole lot of them year for Wenatchee’s most ecOver the years Ed played bass standing in Police Court. centric and flamboyant pubdrum, tenor horn and tuba with Mayor Scheble was so imlisher, Leonard Fowler, owner the band. That same year he had pressed he made Ed Ferguson of the Wenatchee Republic. Ed a staring role in the melodrama Wenatchee’s first police chief, Ferguson claimed he learned “Turn of the Tide” performed at head of a three-man, uniformed showmanship from Fowler who Haskell-Prowell’s hall at Orondo force. was inclined toward sporting and Mission by a cast of local That same year Ferguson

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Later that afternoon the sheriff was spotted in the rail yard behind a boxcar enjoying one of the illegal cigarettes. chaired a committee to create the town’s first fire department. He was named chief. In 1908, while still police and fire chief, Ed was elected Chelan County Sheriff. The next year the state’s new ban on possession of tobacco and rolling papers went into effect and Ed Ferguson was one of the first sheriffs in the state to enforce the law. He was once tipped off that a shipment of tobacco was arriving on the train bound for a Cashmere store. Sheriff Ferguson met the train in Cashmere and confiscated the tobacco. Later that afternoon the sheriff was spotted in the rail yard behind a boxcar enjoying one of the illegal cigarettes. Ed Ferguson went on to sell life insurance in Wenatchee. He died July 4, 1959 at age 80. He had spent over 60 years working for the people in the town he loved, entertaining and protecting them. His ever-positive personality made him the town’s favorite master of ceremonies at events of all kinds. His speaking skills made him the choice to deliver eulogies for all his friends and it was his close friend, attorney Sam Sumner, that Ed chose to speak for him. Historian, actor and teacher Rod Molzahn can be reached at shake. speak@verizon.net. His third history CD, Legends & Legacies Vol. III - Stories of Wenatchee and North Central Washington, is now available at the Wenatchee Valley Museum and Cultural Center and at other locations throughout the area.

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Tasting wines from Sangiovese grapes

Sangiovese has for centuries

been the principal grape grown in the region of Italy known as Tuscany. Wine from the grape has been called Chianti, but in truth, real Chianti is made from Sangiovese grapes grown in the region in central Tuscany called Chianti. I knew Chianti when that wine came in bottles wrapped in straw because of my friend Jimmy Andrioli. Sunday dinner at the Andriolis was always at his grandma’s house, and there was always a bottle of the straw-wrapped wine on the table for the adults to enjoy with their meal. Children could sip the wine, but only with grandma’s consent. Wine made from Sangiovese grapes is often said to show flavors of strawberry and possess a little spicy quality. Tuscan-made wines from this grape tend to have softer tannins, lower alcohol and higher acidity than wines made from grapes grown in western America where the fruit can ripen longer, producing higher tannins, higher alcohol levels and lower acidity. Despite these differences, Sangiovese from both Tuscany and the New World are pleasing when young in the bottle, but

Tomato sauces love Sangiovese.

can age and develop some of the qualities often associated with the wines of Bordeaux. After the horrors of World War II, much of Europe was devastated, both physically and economically. As part of the attempt to rebuild and reestablish Tuscany as a world wine

center, some growers imported Bordeaux grape varieties and planted them alongside their older Sangiovese grapes, giving birth to the Super Tuscan blend. The blending originally was simply Sangiovese grapes, Cabernet Sauvignon grapes and Merlot grapes co-fermented, aged and bottled. I spoke of that blending some issues back when I wrote of Scott Benson’s creation: Cabriovese from the Benson Estate Vineyards fruit. One of the earliest creators of Tuscan wines in our region that I can remember was the MartinScott Winery. Mike continues to produce a marvelous bottle of Montepulciano wine that made my Top 25 list in this magazine. But there are others in our area creating wines from that Tuscan grape, Sangiovese. Rob Newsom’s Frangiovese is an interesting twist on the

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Alex Saliby is a wine lover who spends far too much time reading about the grapes, the process of making wine and the wines themselves. He can be contacted at alex39@msn. com.

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Super Tuscan blending in that it’s a blend of the Bordeaux grape Cabernet Franc and the Tuscan grape Sangiovese. As I recall, I think Rob’s venture into this creation was in 2008… might have been 2009; I don’t remember the year, but I do remember tasting it just after the tasting room opened up in Leavenworth. If you’re in Leavenworth, you might just drop by the Kestrel tasting room and tell them I told you about their venture into the Sangiovese arena. I know this isn’t a true winery of our local region, but that tasting room is the first wine tasting room opened in the region. At Eagle Creek Winery, Paul Sharpe has added two new wines to the list of those available at the winery with his creation of a Sangiovese wine and his entry into the Super Tuscan realm with his 2014 d’ Lovarco blend of Sangiovese, Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot.

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