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Contents

14 DRIVING THE ICONIC ROUTE 66

Father had always wanted to take this classic route through the USA heartland — so son says “let’s go!”

16 bucket list trip to angkor wat Helpful son made the trip to see Unesco sites easy

18 surprising house on the hill

Chelan view home adopts both midcentury and modern sensibility — and it’s on this summer’s Chelan Home Tour

22 JELLY SEASON

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In an homage to past memories, Susan Sampson works through the splatters to make her own jelly

monster art is more love than scary

Art sketches n Monsterlove creator Sara Hasslinger, page 30 n Theater director Jaime Donegan, page 34

Features

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Columns & Departments 6 A bird in the lens: Redwing Blackbird in the wetlands 24 Pet Tales: Rex, the bearded lizard is lost no more 25 Bonnie Orr: Homemade sauerkraut is the best 26 June Darling: Giving a hand for humility 27 Meet our native plants: Bluebunch wheatgrass 28 The traveling doctor: AI will transform medicine 30-35 Arts & Entertainment & a Dan McConnell cartoon 36 History: Digging into the Big Ditch 38 That’s life: The park? At night? In their pajamas?

Born in Canada to a proud Canadian family, but drawn to the USA by love — so where exactly is home?

10 a grandpa’s summer adventure

Jimmy McGregor has a cool idea of taking his 6-year-old grandson on a quest. The grandson has a different idea

12 music on the mountains

Coming down a hike on Sauer’s Mountain, a writer sees another hiker with an odd pack. “What’s that for?” the writer asks, and

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By Chuck Dronen

For anyone who has been bit-

ten by the birding bug, feeding stations are yet another way to enjoy our feathered friends.

At our Cashmere home, over the years we’ve had the joy and surprise of at least 44 different species paying us a visit.

We definitely get the frequent flyers like English House Sparrows and House Finches, but every once in a while something special will fly in and surprise birds and humans alike. Case in point, a Cooper’s Hawk.

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MIKE CASSIDY

The Good Life: Office in the cloud As a young reporter, I would

hustle out to a scene of a news event in my ’63 Rambler (about the best a beginning reporter could afford), take copious notes in a scribble on a reporter’s notebook and get myself back to the newsroom where I would put a semester’s worth of high school instruction to work by banging out a story on an IBM Selectric.

But, peering with my then 2020 vision at the blue-lined pages at my scribbles, I could get the gist of the quotes, but the details — like people’s names — were less clear. And my editor was death on getting names correct.

So, propping the rotary dial phone’s headpiece on my shoulder, I would dial “9” to get out of the newspaper’s switchboard, and make my call.

“The spelling of your husband’s name, is that Allen or Allan? Oh, Alan, OK, thanks.”

And then another detail I couldn’t quite read, followed by another call. And yet another detail, followed by … well, in all honestly, my best guess because I was too embarrassed to call a third time.

To stop for a second, when I was going to school to be a reporter, I was told of the “old days” when big city reporters took a trolly out to the scene of a news event, and then composed the story on the ride back.

No fact checking by phone for them.

Now, we have the internet and email.

Take a look at the Route 66 story this month on page 14 by Devin Scroggins.

First the story came in. Then I emailed a couple of questions and requested more anecdotes.

And what about Devin’s dad

who celebrates the same name as the president born in Springfield? Devin’s dad is named Boyd… we had a president named Boyd? Was I sleeping in high school history? (Well, yes, but…)

Boyd’s name is Lincoln Boyd Scroggins, Devin emails back.

So it goes, back and forth a dozen times as we nail down the details and photo captions for the story.

And a light bulb goes off in my brain… All of our advertising contacts are done out of the office and we do all of the editorial work via the internet, email, and a lesser extent, the phone.

Why pay rent on a physical space when all of our work is done in the virtual world?

So, at the end of July, we are moving our office to the cloud, and out of our physical space.

We love this space, with its view of Badger Mountain, upriver towards Chelan and the new Hilton Hotel next to Pybus.

But we think that — just like the ’63 Rambler — we can leave this office behind and move into the future.

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Red-wing blackbirds are real showmen

By Bruce McCammon

The Red-winged Blackbird is a good indicator of a wetland or marsh that is functioning and capable of providing the needed nesting habitat.

I was taking photos at a

marsh in Bozeman, Montana a few years ago when a family approached to ask a question.

The father said hello and asked if I knew the name of the blackbird with the red patches on the wings. I smiled and told him ”Red-winged Blackbird.”

We all got a good chuckle out of it.

Bruce McCammon We are is retired, colorrelative blind and enjoys newcomers to photographing the north central birds in north central Washington.

Washington.

As we explore the area we watch for wetlands and marshes hoping that we’d find areas to see these birds.

The Horan Natural Area shows potential but the marshes are drying out and the blackbird use is present but low. Extensive marshes in the Quincy area and on the Waterville Plateau and along the Columbia River

support good numbers of these great birds. Scan the tops of cattails as you hike, bike or drive by marshy areas and you’re likely to see them.

The male Red-winged Blackbird is a real showman during the spring mating season. They will cling to cattails or shrub branches, rear back as they fill up with air, flare their tails a bit, expand their bright red

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epaulets and call at the top of their voices. They put on a grand show to attract a mate.

The call is very distinctive.

Once you hear it, you’ll never forget it. You can sample the call here: https://www.xeno-canto. org/species/Agelaius-phoeniceus.

Spring marks the arrival of these birds as they begin to nest in marsh and wetland areas.

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Wetlands host a wide variety of birds and are critical to the survival of some species. The Red-winged Blackbird is a good indicator of a wetland or marsh that is functioning and capable of providing the needed nesting habitat. Even small areas of functioning wetlands can host a few of these birds.

Protecting our existing marshes and wetlands is one of the best conservation measures we can pursue. Recovering wetlands will help sustain the beautiful, vocal Red-winged Blackbird and many other bird species.

Where is your nearest wetland or marsh? If you get out soon you can still see these birds before they leave.

Don’t forget your binoculars and camera.

Becoming

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American

Where is home? The place you were born and raised, or the place you’ve come to love, that loves you back?

By Jackie Stonas

I always assumed I’d return to Canada and teach in my hometown and that my time in the U.S. was just a short adventure.

I grew up in a small Cana-

dian town — very similar to Wenatchee actually and Hwy 97 ran through the middle of our town, too.

I was surrounded by orchards and rolling hills, a few mountains and a lot of Canadians.

My first memory of anything “American” was getting a quarter that didn’t have the queen’s face on it. How could that be? I asked my dad and he laughingly told me it was an American quarter and that it was actually worth slightly more than our Canadian quarters.

Our family was not antiAmerican by any means but we were Canadian through and through. We were taught to be very proud of our flag and our courteousness. I grew up with jokes that the punchline always brought home that when Canadians and Americans were compared — the Canadians were the “nice” ones.

“A Canadian always asks if he can do something and an American tells you what he is going to do” was another saying that I heard a lot growing up.

And then the hands of fate started turning and my best option for a high school was across the border near Spokane.

Armed with a student visa, my parents bravely drove me across the border and I was now in the world of money that looked like it belonged in a board game surrounded by people who I assumed would now tell me what they were going to do.

The first few trips back and forth to home always had emotional moments for me.

Driving north and arriving to the Canadian border and seeing our flags made me feel like I was

Jackie Stonas joins 108 other soon-to-be-citizens pledging their allegiance to the U.S.A.

arriving home and then leaving to return to the USA always panged at my heart a little.

I followed my high school friends to an amazing University in Walla Walla extending my student visa and my USA life.

Studying Elementary Education, I always assumed I’d return to Canada and teach in my hometown and that my time in the U.S. was just a short adventure.

I adore my parents and a house close by with eventual grandkids to drop in with sounded ideal.

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handsome American boy entered my life and my heart and put a ring on my finger.

This new husband of mine owned property near Seattle and it was decided that we should spend our first few years there.

We followed Seattle with a few years in Spokane and then in 2003 we settled in Wenatchee.

At this point we had three young girls to call our own.

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cated opinion? I received jury duty requests many times and I always returned my card saying, “I’d love to serve but I’m a Canadian.”

Then one day, I was visiting my parents with my kids and when I crossed the border to return to Wenatchee the U.S. agent was particularly chatty.

“What were you doing in Canada?” to which I replied, “taking my kids to see grandma and grandpa.”

He then said, “And where is home for you?” and without missing a beat I said “Wenatchee.” After several more light-hearted questions he handed me back my passport and said, “Welcome home.”

I had immediate emotions. As I drove away and was tucking my Canadian passport into the glove compartment I found I was wiping a tear. I was contemplating what he said, “Where is home for you?” and that without missing a beat I had said Wenatchee.

As a student I had always responded to that question, “My home is in Armstrong, B.C. but I live in Spokane.” Such conflicted emotions that he was actually correct — I did feel this time — for the FIRST time I was aware of, coming into the USA actually DID feel like I was coming home.

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And “welcome home” just had felt so heartwarming. I realized I loved the familiar highway speed signs like 60 mph instead of 100km/h and gas prices are supposed to be in gallons and not litres, aren’t they?

I wrestled with emotions the entire way home. How disloyal I was being to Canada. What would my family think if they knew I felt this way. I had always harbored some secret thought that my family would move “home” and now I realized that we already were home and I had honestly had no desire to relocate.

When I was laying in bed that night I told my husband that I was going to apply for citizenship and he strongly encouraged me to do so. But I couldn’t pull the trigger. When it came right down to it I was ready logically but not quite there emotionally.

In 2012 I took my three girls on an amazing adventure. We moved to Kampala, Uganda for three months.

The second day we were there I got a taxi and toured my kids through the capital city of Kampala. Our goal was to find the embassies. “Here is the American Embassy,” I said, pointing to a long flat-roofed building surrounded with high fences and marines holding machine guns and wearing berets walked along the front on patrol.

“If anything EVER happens while we are living here in Africa and we get separated I want you to flag down a taxi and tell them to take you to the American Embassy and you do whatever you can to get inside those gates. They will help you.” I told my girls.

I was imagining the scene from The Saint where Elisabeth Shue runs for the gates yelling, “I’m an American” and they open the gates for her in the

brink of time.

And then we drove a little further and found the Canadian Embassy — a small building with no fence and no military presence outside. And I said to my kids, “And this is where I will go.”

And then in my mind I pondered. I would have rather known that I could go to the U.S. Embassy, too. My heart would not wish our family to be separated if there was a conflict.

But would the U.S. Embassy have opened the gates if I were yelling, “I’m a Permanent Resident Alien?” Somehow, I don’t think so.

Returning home, life was a typical whirlwind and the thought of naturalizing was far from my mind.

And then one final incident set the process in motion.

Our family had been on a wonderful Caribbean cruise and as we came down the final gangplank at Galveston, Texas, we felt like we were walking on air. Talking and laughing we entered the immigration line and when it came time for our family to be cleared I realized I hadn’t brought my green card along.

I had ID, had my Canadian passport but my actual green card was safely at home and not with me. If we would have been listening to a record player at the moment I could have imagined that the turntable just slowed until the music was distorted and then finally still.

I was unkindly whisked off to a room and treated harshly for not bringing along such an important document. In this day of technology I had to wonder why the actual card was so important? I could see on the official’s computer screen an exact copy of my missing card. Why couldn’t he just do a fingerprint match?

He had all my information in front of him but yet the fact that I wasn’t holding the physical copy of it didn’t allow me access to the country that I now felt was my home. As I waited in

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“If anything EVER happens while we are living here in Africa and we get separated I want you to flag down a taxi and tell them to take you to the American Embassy and you do whatever you can to get inside those gates. They will help you.” that room I finally understood why Americans have such a poor reputation on how they treat foreigners.

A Russian wife was separated from her family and the husband told that she would be flown back to Russia for not having the correct paper work.

He was weeping and wanted to say goodbye and they wouldn’t let him.

A Jewish family who held every correct document was being interrogated mercilessly. I said to the officer helping me, “I have a plane that leaves in six hours to return home. Is there anything that I can do? Is there a fine I can pay? Could I just enter the country as a Canadian and than when I get home I’ll drive my card to a customs agent and get cleared that way?”

When he was done laughing he told me I would most certainly miss my plane and that no, this ridiculous idea was not an option. He did tell me there would be a $700 fine and it was payable only in cash. I sent my husband to go to the ATM silently grateful that we did have $700 cash sitting there to draw from.

I told my kids that when Daddy got back I wanted them to all go with him and catch our plane and I would figure out how to get home when this mess was all cleared. I didn’t want to pay for new plane tickets for all five of us.

And then unexpectedly with no warning and no reason the situation changed and the agent came to where I was sitting in the waiting room and handed me my Canadian passport tell-

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ing me I was free to leave. They were going to make an exception for me. No fine. Just go.

Trust me I went. As fast as I could. I caught up with my family and we all flew home together.

This experience was jolting for two reasons — the first I realized that I REALLY needed to apply for citizenship and the second was that this country I wanted to join was not always lovely and kind. And I needed to wrap my mind around joining them anyway.

I applied for citizenship on April 17, 2018. It was very slick and easy — the form was available online and took about 30 minutes to fill out. When it was submitted I immediately got a receipt telling me I could expect the process to take 13 months.

Three days later I received a notice asking me to come to Yakima on May 5 to be fingerprinted.

I arrived at my appointment in Yakima 10 minutes early. It took me two minutes to clear security and I immediately went to the window where I was helped pleasantly, courteously and efficiently.

This was a biometrics appointment. They were double-checking that they had my fingerprints accurately in the system and they took a photo to go on the naturalization certificate.

My entire appointment took five minutes and I was already on the road back to Wenatchee before my scheduled appointment time.

I assumed it would be several months before the next step but on May 18 I got notice that

my interview was scheduled for June 1. I had exactly two weeks to study for my civics test.

There are several academic requirements to becoming a citizen. One is to understand directions in English that are simple. “Please close the door,” “please sit in this chair” are examples. Another is to have some knowledge of how the government works demonstrated on a civics test.

I was provided with 100 questions and answers related to U.S. history and government. They would choose 10 at random to ask me and I had to get six correct.

Some of these questions are easy: “Name a state that borders Canada” or “Who is the current president?” But others are harder like “Who authored the Federalist papers?” or “How many U.S. representatives are there in the house?” or “How many years does a senator term last?”

I printed these out as flash cards and anytime I drove anywhere with anyone I asked them to quiz me. I can say with certainty that I knew all 100 answers within a few days.

The day arrived for my interview — at this point I was only six weeks from the date of application.

I dressed in one of my favorite church dresses, was incredibly nervous and set out on the Wenatchee to Yakima drive. I arrived 30 minutes early this time and was taken into my interview 10 minutes later.

The interviewee immediately put me at ease. She was friendly and welcoming. She asked me my civics questions and after I got the first six correct, indicating that I had passed, she stopped. I queried her to ask me all 10 just for fun but she laughed and shaking her head said, “Everyone says that!”

I proved that I could answer simple English instructions and she also directed me to write a dictated sentence. She asked a few random questions and

As I held my right hand up repeating the words I could feel a few tears sliding down my face. This was IT. This was the moment. My emotions were impossible to describe. then said that she was going to recommend that I become a citizen. She also said that the ceremony would be back in Wenatchee the end of June.

I was shocked. Everyone I had spoken with had come back to Yakima for the “swearing in” portion of the process. How exciting to have it in my hometown.

Calling my parents to tell them where I was in the process and that it was now almost official was daunting. “You have done fine living in the US for 20-plus years with your green card. Why the need now? Does that mean you don’t love Canada anymore?” were some of their concerns.

I reassured them as best I could and explained the reasons that had brought me this far, assuring them that I wasn’t renouncing my Canadian citizenship or heritage but was just adding to it.

The day of the ceremony arrived. June 26, 2018. A far cry from the 13-month time frame I had expected. It had been nine weeks. I had nerves like the day of graduation and on my wedding.

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started someone slipped around to where I was sitting. It was my eldest daughter holding a bouquet of roses for me.

The ceremony began with the presentation of colors, the singing of the national anthem, and proceeded with several inspirational speeches about the importance of pursuing education and learning English.

I learned that our group of 109 potential citizens represented 14 countries from around the world (Denmark, New Zealand, Canada and Mexico to name a few).

Then we stood and raised our right hands and said our oath to the United States of America.

As I held my right hand up repeating the words I could feel a few tears sliding down my face.

This was IT. This was the moment. My emotions were impossible to describe.

Following the oath, the song and video “I’m proud to be an American” was played. How fantastic was that. “I’m proud to be an American where at least I know I’m free. I won’t forget the men who died and gave that right to me…”

This was now my history. The brave colonists who declared their loyalty to a new America and a disloyalty to Britain were in danger of being hung and yet they took that chance. The men who fought wars both physically and mentally on behalf of the U.S. These were now the www.ncwgoodlife.com

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heroes that built MY country. It was overwhelming and the tears flowed again.

For years I have said the pledge of allegiance. I was the game announcer for several volleyball seasons for my daughter’s school. Every time I led the crowd in the pledge my girls would find my eye and smile — knowing that this wasn’t my flag and they would tease me that maybe I should cross my fingers while I said it.

But now — in this moment at the ceremony we stood and faced the flag and I said it for the first time where it actually DID apply to me. “I pledge allegiance…” Yes I DO! I said in my mind.

And then the ceremony was over and we all filed past the immigration table where we were required to relinquish our beloved Permanent Resident Alien (Green) cards and given a certificate of naturalization. Aliens no more but citizens forever.

I couldn’t stop grinning and laughing.

And then an overwhelmed feelings as I turned and saw all the dear friends who were there to support me. I’m still finding out people who were there who came that I hadn’t glimpsed in the crowd but well over 50 people that I know of at last count. So heartwarming and such a reminder that this IS my home.

A wonderful party at our house with all these friends was the perfect way to end the day.

And the happily ever after?

I found that I actually do have political opinions. And I will perform my first job as a U.S. citizen in the near future — by voting for a Chelan County judge. And without doubt, celebrating the Fourth of July last month took on an entirely new meaning.

And how to describe the transition in my mind? It’s like I was living in this country as a really good friend and am now adopted into the family.

Oh it feels good to be home.

A grandpa’s summer adventure On a quest to entertain and engage a modern 6-year-old grandson

By James “Jimmy” McGregor

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s a grandparent I believe it is part of our job to inspire and entertain our grandkids — so I have this simple sounding idea: “Summer adventure with grandpa.”

The idea is I would choose an event or activity, pick up or have my young grandson dropped off with me and we would be off.

However, I learned such an adventure means I would need to be flexible.

When I wrote “flexible,” perhaps some of you thought, “what does this have to do with stretching?”

And while stretching might be something to consider before going on a grandchild-inspired adventure, I am talking about a different type of flexibility.

Today’s young are very different from yesterday’s or even last year’s young.

As a child, if I was given a pile of dirt and plastic army men, I would’ve been happy for a day or two. If I was allowed to have a running garden hose to add to this venture, I would be happy all summer.

Today’s kids are different — they need more. This is the flexibility that you need to thrive as a grandparent today.

For example: ordering four cheese burger meals doesn’t work. You must allow for time and opinions to be expressed.

Maybe they want chicken strips and apples? We just don’t know until we know.

I diverge — back to the summer adventure.

My wife and I were talking about different activities I could

LEFT: Bentley finds trying to locate a gnome is very difficult when the home is behind glass. RIGHT: Bentley doing his best impression of an American Ninja Warrior contestant? Maybe someday!

do during the summer with my grandson. She told me about the gnomes in Cashmere.

The City of Cashmere, as a tourist activity, has placed gnome homes throughout the city. After you get a map at the tourism office, you can wander around the town and see all of the gnome homes.

This sounded like an excellent plan to me. A quest, a quest to locate all of the gnomes. This was right up there with Bilbo’s quest in The Hobbit or even finding the perfect wedding ring. I was so excited.

My grandson, Bentley, is all boy and loves boy related activities. Over the years, I have pulled him towards Star Wars,

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games, and other sci fi related activities, and he always goes back to football, baseball, anything with a ball in it. He also likes most modern activities like video games and Pokémon.

Gnomes? I had my hopes.

Bentley was dropped off. He had a sour look on his face. I asked him if he needed anything. His response was, “No!” This will be a wonderful day, I thought to myself. I mentioned that we were going to go and find the gnomes in Cashmere.

The sour look changed to anger.

He said, “Gnomes bite and I want to go bowling.”

So being the flexible person I pride myself on being, I explained to him, “These gnomes

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won’t bite and I will buy you lunch after.” He was not interested.

I further explained that we were going to look for gnomes, go to the museum, and eat lunch… as his face reflected more frustration I added, “And if you do these things in the morning, we will go bowling in the afternoon.”

I got my way, and he got his.

Upon arriving in Cashmere, we quickly made our way to the tourism office and obtained our map. My grandson looked it over and asked, “How do we get there?” I answered, “We are walking!” He liked that idea.

Yes, this might be fun after all.

Our first house was at the Sure

And just like Bilbo Baggins in The Hobbit, we were pulled from our quest on a side adventure. to Rise Bakery in the downtown.

It was a small house in a corner and even when the cashier found out we were just looking for the gnome house, she was still very kind.

As my grandson dragged me from the perfect maple bars in the glass case, we continued down to the next gnome house.

Doane’s Pharmacy was next.

We entered and looked around.

Eventually we found the gnome home near the… well, if you decide to go, you will find it.

After an hour of walking around Cashmere, we walked toward the riverfront park. There were two gnome homes there.

There were also some amazing pieces of playground equipment.

And just like Bilbo Baggins in The Hobbit, we were pulled from our quest on a side adventure.

My grandson loves watching American Ninja Warrior, and the playground equipment was very similar. He jumped and climbed though many of the different obstacles. He was even able to tightrope walk across several sections.

I held my breath. Then he was done.

He then asked, “Are we going to the bowling alley?” I explained to him that we would after lunch.

We walked back to the car and made our way to the Cashmere Museum and Pioneer Village.

I have many fond memories of this place and was overjoyed to share these experiences with my grandson.

While the museum has changed over the years, it is still a very enjoyable place to visit and they have made some

Looking for ideas for Summer Adventures with kids?

Video games at an arcade: This is always a winner and be open

to the possibility of no more quarters but using a video game card instead.

3 marker challenge: This is something that has become popular on You Tube. You find some coloring pages, at least one copy per person, and place coloring markers into a bag. You randomly pick three and then color. Sometimes kids like to race, sometimes they don’t.

The waterslides: The waterslides in Chelan are always popular.

Movie time: This can be done at the theater or at home. If you do it at home, take the kids to a Redbox and they can help you. There is also an app available for your phone.

The park: An easy way to entertain your grandkids is to take them to the park. This is simple and also entertaining. They will love you.

Go for a hike: There are many places, local and within Central Washington, where you can get your hike on.

The library: The library has summer programs that you can take kids. Be ready to stay and participate.

Local tourism offices: You can also visit any chamber, tourism, or city office and find information about local events and activities. Most of these places will have pamphlets and books that contain detailed information.

— by James “Jimmy” McGregor

Sheriff Bentley, pointing at a possible snake ambush point. There were no snakes, but he is always on the lookout.

changes that my grandson found very pleasing.

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items you can locate. This was very helpful to keep a 6-year-old entertained. After completing the list, you get a painted rock as a prize. You can also dress up as a pioneer. He chose a sheriff.

The museum was educational and also entertaining. He was able to find all of the items on the list. My grandson was very interested in the Native American arrowheads and other artifacts. He also liked the animals, although he was curious about them being stuffed.

He finished his scavenger hunt and got his prize. He then asked, “Bowling alley?”

“Right after lunch,” I responded.

We had lunch in the park near the museum. The conversation was mostly about the museum

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and bowling. I know bowling again.

Bowling!

All I can say about this is that it is humbling when a 6-yearold gets a strike and you get two gutter balls on the first frame.

What an amazing ending to an amazing day with my grandson Bentley. I love that little guy!

For more information about the gnomes and the Cashmere Museum, visit the following websites: www. gnomesofcashmere.com and www. cashmeremuseum.org.

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Music on the mountains A chance encounter, a probing question, and a story of love, near-loss and discovery of a true voice

Anastasia Allison brings music outdoors: She especially enjoys playing hymns in nature.

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discovered something exciting on May 17 as I was hiking on Sauer’s Mountain in Peshastin. It wasn’t a rare flower or a rare bird – it was a rare person.

I was descending the hillside, within eyesight of the parking area, when I noticed a young lady a little farther down. Actually, I noticed her backpack; it was unusually tall and boxy. If you have been to Sauer’s Mountain, you know that a hiker will think twice about how much gear they haul up the steep trail.

I caught up with her down at the trailhead and couldn’t help but ask about the equipment on her back. Plant collecting?

“Oh, it’s my violin,” the young lady with a thick, dark braid escaping from underneath her baseball cap replied with a smile.

Say what? I gaped at her.

“I hike the mountains and play up there. I love it,” she continued.

She introduced herself as An-

astasia Allison of Everett. While accompanying her husband on a business trip, Anastasia had taken a friend’s recommendation to hike Sauer’s Mountain that day.

It was not her original plan, but a little voice in her head insisted she take the advice. She did, and we met.

We later connected on Facebook and to my surprise I learned that we had been on a similar path before, taking the Criminal Justice course at Skagit Valley College in Mount Vernon.

Anastasia graduated in 2005 and became a park ranger. I was taking the course in 2014, in addition to my AA, but stopped after a year when I realized journalism was my true calling.

Being a park ranger was a lifelong dream to Anastasia. She had been volunteering with the National Parks since she was 11.

Once she graduated, she ended up working on the Hood River at a national park for seven years. She put a special touch into the job: playing the violin around the campsites to soothe

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Anastasia started to evaluate her life when she nearly died in the car incident. rowdy campers. It worked.

The next five years Anastasia worked as a police officer and finally felt she had had enough of law enforcement — there was a lot of ugly in that work. It gets to a person over the years.

Anastasia has played the violin most of her 37 years. It was another thing she always wanted to do. She especially enjoys playing hymns outdoors.

“You look back on the things that you’ve done in your life and you realize why you’ve done them,” Anastasia said in one of her Facebook postings. There is a calling, a purpose, woven into her life’s shape with music and nature that is bringing her to a bigger mission: that of helping others find their path.

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It could be all over for her. It was a close call on Steven’s Pass in January 2017. The pick-up truck she was driving, with her mother and husband as passengers, suddenly began to fish-tail and drift towards the side of the road — which would have been a long drop down.

Somehow Anastasia kept her calm and steered the vehicle to the center of the road — only to face a semi-truck coming straight at them. Both trucks stopped at the last minute and nobody was hurt. Not physically, that is.

Anastasia carried the mental anguish from the accident in her mind every day. She felt guilty, as if she had caused the incident. Finally she went to see a therapist to help her make sense of her feelings. Only then she understood that what she had done were all the RIGHT things: staying calm, controlling the vehicle and saving lives.

“I am the oldest of three girls.

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s the Wenatchee Golf and Country Club adds all the bells and whistles that come with its recent expansion, there’s one thing that remains at the heart of the club’s tradition -- the amazing 18-hole golf course that long-time members compare favorably to exalted courses they have played around the world.

Wenatchee’s fairways rate pretty highly with local masters of the game like Al Chandler, who says “this golf course is so challenging you never get tired of it.” Dalton Thomas, a member since 1963, also rates it highly: “It’s a challenging little course.”

Club General Manager and Golf Pro Rob Clark is quick to agree because he knows just how meticulously the club maintains this course. He credits the golf course superintendent, John Orr, and his crew with keeping these greens “fast.” Clark says the club simply has higher standards when it comes to maintaining the course.

Of course the crew is lucky to have a well-designed course in the first place. While the greens may be a little on the small side compared with major metro courses, they’re each interesting and challenging.

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where you can say this is exactly like the other greens,” Clark said.

“They’re all unique in shape and slope.”

greens.

It’s that slope that makes the greens so challenging -- that, along with the faster speeds on these

It’s also a great place to learn to golf. Clark and his assistant pro are there to give you pointers and the practice facilities at the Wenatchee Golf and Country Club are said to be the best in Central Washington. The driving range, the chipping area, the putting area -- these are all well-designed to give your game the best chance for success.

There is even a set of tees for every type of player and a lot of variance between the options.

All and all, Clark is proud that the Wenatchee course is a great place to learn the game and to hone your skills. Not to mention, the great views you will enjoy while learning this new skill.

“And even when we have our busy days, you can show up and for the most part find a game pretty quick,” Clark said.

For more information on the Wenatchee Golf and Country Club, please visit www. wenatcheegolfclub.org or phone 509-884-7105.

Driving Route 66

Father and son travel the old road through USA's heartland Boyd Scroggins and his son, Devin, stop at an old Shell station. “Each state has preserved hundreds of original attractions, small and large museums plus cars, gas stations and other historical sights,” said Boyd.

By Devin Scroggins

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hile spending New Year’s with my dad, Boyd, we were talking when he mentioned that he had always wanted to travel on Route 66 with my mom before she passed, but my mom was not interested.

I asked him when he would like to go and the incredulous look on his face was priceless.

We chose the end of May as we thought the weather wouldn’t be too hot or cold.

On May 23, I met Dad at SeaTac and we flew to Burbank, CA, where we rented a car and

drove to the Santa Monica pier and started our adventure by signing the guest book at the Route 66 visitor’s center.

I knew we had over 2,400 miles to cover so we would have to drive up to 500 miles each day. My Dad was a great copilot. Every night we would go over the map and the Route 66 App we had on our phones and make a plan for the next day.

Most of the places we stopped at were photo stops of Route 66 historic places. Throughout the eight days our goal was to travel as much of the old road as possible. We found that much of

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Route 66 was well marked and easy to stay on course.

One memorable moment of the trip was when we passed through Hamel, IL on Memorial Day. We were amazed that the streets of the small town were lined with American flags and several red brick houses had red white and blue bunting hanging from the porches. We also passed several shiny antique tractors heading toward the parade.

We were amazed at how many people were traveling Route 66. Some were going over the entire route like we were and

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others just certain parts. What surprised us also was that we met people from the Netherlands and Australia that were on holiday specifically to drive Route 66.

Both Dad and I are talkers and enjoy asking people where they are from and what they are doing.

While we were eating breakfast at our motel in Springfield, IL, we noticed a group of teenagers come in with T-shirts saying “The great doughnut adventure.”

We of course had to ask them about this. They said they were from Kansas City and had been

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Towns and cities along Route 66 celebrate this historic highway.

My dad — Lincoln Boyd Scroggins — was named after the president ... I was able to see dad take in the history of his namesake. on the road for a week visiting all the doughnut shops between Kansas City and Springfield.

The thought crossed our minds that whoever thought of doing that was a genius and why didn’t we think of that when we were teenagers.

The most memorable event was the half day we spent in Springfield, IL, where we toured President Lincoln’s tomb and museum.

My dad — Lincoln Boyd Scroggins — was named after the president as they share the same birthday. I was able to see dad take in the history of his namesake.

As we took in the exhibits, we talked about how so many people in America do not know of the struggle our country went through during the Civil War years.

Too soon after we left Springfield, we stood on the shore of Lake Michigan where our trip

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was to end.

Looking back I recall all of the places we saw and great people we met but the most cherished memories I have is all of the time spent together traveling the old road with my dad together.

Devin Scroggins moved to East Wenatchee in 1979 when his dad was transferred to Wenatchee with the

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Boyd Scroggins retired from General Telephone of Wenatchee then bought an apple orchard by the airport and sold that after 15 years. He then worked for Chelan County as a construction inspector.

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a bucket list trip to angkor wat

Thanks to son who made it easy ‘I just follow behind him and see the world open up to my eyes’

By Barbara Tremblay

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hen you have a son who is addicted to travel and lives mostly out of the United States, one gets to travel the easy way.

He helps book all the flights, and tells me what visas and the like I need. He books the hotels when we travel and does the haggling with all vendors and taxis.

I have visited and stayed with him and his family three times now. The first travel was to China, where he met and married his wife. Next year to Thailand, to visit him again and this last time in March to visit the family in Vietnam, where he and his family have moved.

I told him he should start a travel agency, he does such a good job picking places to see and getting reservations. I just follow behind him and see the world open up to my eyes.

His wife, Cheng Shi, takes all the lovely pictures, then sends them to me so I don’t even need to worry about pictures.

Mike, my son, laughed and said her pictures make it look even better than the actual place. Some of the pictures are lovely, but I have wonderful memories in my brain for sure.

First stop in Vietnam was Ho Chi Minh, or old Saigon. We, of course, went to the shops to buy goodies to take home, and then looked at the War Museum.

Pretty gruesome but interesting and the Art Museum was in a lovely old building I thought was as good as the pictures in it.

The post office building looked awesome also — you can tell the French were there by the architecture for sure. Never mind the wonderful coffee and pastries.

The only bad thing I would say was the hot humid heat. We

The Tree Temple, or Ta Prohm, of the 12th century at Angkor Wat, gained prominence after it was featured in the movie and game of The Tomb Raider.

Preah Khan of the 12th Century is where the first of the conservation work at Angkor Wat started in 1991.

had to make sure to drink lots of water.

Mike decided we should go see Hoi An, a picturesque UNESCO city on Vietnam’s central coast known for its well-

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preserved Ancient Town.

There again the French has some influence but the buildings are definitely Vietnamese.

The colors were bright, yet fading and peeling with age, and

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reminded me of a day old party that went too long.

It was the end of Tet season, which is when the beautiful candles are lighted and floated on the river at night. It came alive with lighted paper lanterns strung in all the trees and buildings.

Of course one must go to the market. It is good my son has a wife that loves to shop as much as I. Jade and jewelry are relatively cheaper there. Also I came home with some carved buffalo horn and wooden carvings.

A day at the beach — the hotel provided bikes to ride — was another great day, along with a day visiting the coconut groves, via water taxi, and a cooking class.

Life can’t get any better? Oh yes, I can’t forget about the wonderfully relatively cheap massages.

Third stop and my big bucket list item got scratched off. I have always wanted to go to Angkor Wat. We got a flight from Danang — which is a taxi ride from Hoi An — to Siem Reap, Cambodia.

Once again my personal travel coordinator had all the taxis, hotel, flights, figured out and knew how to get through lines at the visa stamp area. I was fine with looking around the airport and watching people.

We spent three days at the temples, and I really didn’t realize how spread out they are or how many of them there are — 50 they say. In three days I can say I saw almost all of them.

They don’t disappoint. I even got to see the temple monkeys at the Terrace of the Elephants. I was excited, as much as my 3 1/2 -year-old grandson.

I do have to say my grandson was into the travels. No complaints at all, except he was quite put out that the tourist people/police at one temple who wouldn’t let him climb up some very steep stairs to the top to see the wonderful layout of the temple areas below. They said you have to be 12 years old.

After climbing those steps and then coming down, I decided

Hoi An, a beautifully preserved Unesco city in Vietnam, was a port city of the 12th through the 15th century.

the next time I would stay with the grandson and the others could climb to the top. It’s beautiful, but with 90 percent humidity, you best be in good shape and have lots of water with you.

At Bayon Temple with its gigantic stone heads, my grandson proudly told people they looked like Grammy. Didn’t know what to say — but did get a good

laugh at me.

The history of Angkor Wat is quite mind-boggling. Buildings date from 800 to 1300 A.D. and show lots of Hindu and Buddhist influence. With the jungle around, they have been in movies, such as one with Harrison Ford.

The taxi man/guide did say that many of the statues are missing because of people steal-

ing. A sad note.

It happened we went at a good time, the taxi man/guide said. The week before, with the Chinese New Year, the temples had a two hour wait to get in.

We had no waits and at some temples we were the only ones there.

At the temple Banteay Srei, where the women deities are, an older woman blessed us on our travels and the guard had us follow him through the piles of rocks and stones to see one woman deity in great shape, where people still pray. It was one of those moments.

I still marvel thinking back at all the beautiful spots that linger in my mind.

I would do it all over again even with the heat and, yes, a little travel upset stomach, common for us foreigners.

A couple of wonderful massages and you are ready to go again.

Barbara Tremblay retired in December after working 13 years at Okanogan County Transportation and Nutrition, which has a contract through Aging and Adult Care of Central Washington. She worked with senior meals at local senior centers, hiring cooks and finding volunteers to deliver senior meals throughout Chelan and Douglas counties.

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Built relatively low to the landscape on the street side, this north shore Chelan house adopts both “midcentury” and “modern” sensibility: a classic ranch outline with contemporary vibe. Owner Amy Sletten comes out of the tall front door to greet visitors.

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Tour of Homes this summer is a contemporary view house near the golf course that probably shouldn’t be there.

That is, if a while ago you had asked the opinion of neighbors and passers-by, or a few realtors and builders.

The half-acre lot squeezed between its flatter and broader neighbors was kind of orphaned… it boasted beautiful up-lake views but a helluva drop down a steep ravine.

Fortunately for Chuck and

Amy Sletten, who live and work in Mill Creek, Snohomish County, the price eventually plummeted along with the drop-off.

They took a chance.

Eager to build anew after eight years of vacationing in the Chelan Hills subdivision, they bought the property in 2015 and worked with JWS Designs from sketches and home photos Amy had gathered.

Jon Simpson, familiar with Chelan hillscapes, designed a compact 2,250 square foot home that hovers close to the road in the front and rises far above the steep slope in the back. Amy is pleased to call the front exterior “neighbor friendly” with no sight

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Everything changes in the back where the two-story structure opens up to the view. Surprisingly, the oddly-shaped lot— one-half acre at the rim of a ravine — was big enough for a compact four-season pool, patio and lawn beyond the covered patio.

line problems or garish towers.

About 150 yards of soil were removed before the basement foundation went in, and the lot held up beautifully.

“We were so surprised when that lower level was first excavated… we thought it would take up the whole lot, but there was plenty of room, even for a pool,” said Amy. Granted, it’s a compact pool, but that leaves room for paver

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decking with a family portion of lawn chairs, and a crisp green surround of absolutely-zero-care grass (via a friend who installs the NFL’s field turf).

Part of the fun of this project for Chuck and Amy was swapping out labor, insider leads on experts and lots of good ideas with their longtime friends Wayne and Sue Keezer. Their home at Alta Lake had burned in the Carlton Complex fire, and

ABOVE: Capturing the best views of the lake and south hills while fitting the lot affected the geometrics: complex roof and ceiling lines, beams, even the continuous flow of hardwood floorboards all accommodated the untypical diagonal floorplan.

AT LEFT: The Slettens planned plenty of mealtime seating, upholstered in wipeclean vinyl, to accommodate family and friends. The table’s glass globes chandeliers are also clustered in the stairwell, their look echoed in the kitchen work area.

the Slettens worked with them as they rebuilt over the last few years, learning and storing up tips for their own new house.

Amy also went online — Houzz and All Modern are her favorite idea-gathering sites — and she had free rein to pick and choose interior decor.

“But,” she said, “Chuck was

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An initial priority was big windows. “Chuck said, ‘I want to walk in and see the lake,’” Amy recalled, “and that’s what we have — a straight line from the front door to the views.” Any time of day, from storm watching to sailboats to sunsets, the distant mountains, hills and the always changing waters are the stars of the show.

To capitalize on the openness and simplify the whole visual impact, Amy chose a palette of soft grays, bright white, and steel accented with dark alder cabinetry, trim and doors. The slightly gray-stained maple flooring upstairs was chosen for its good looks and longevity; downstairs at pool level is waterproof vinyl plank flooring designed for decades of splashes.

A major decision was the eight-foot height of all the doors and a few especially roomy ceilings: the master shower wall, with two windows placed vertically, is 14 feet tall. (The showerhead is high enough, “it’s like a waterfall,” said Amy.) Windows have translucent white shades for sunblock, but deliberately are without trim or curtains.

Other features were custom crafted for visual impact.

Directly inside the entry is a distressed metal steampunk version of the popular sliding barn door style, and subtly separating the living area from the carpeted basement stairwell is a full-view wine rack, both made

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Enthusiasts in the middle of wine country, the couple showcase their choices in a custom-made rack that blends with the basement stair railing. Opaque shades on the east wall shield the easy-access display from the sun.

See 4 homes on Chelan Home Tour Once again, Guild B, the

hard-working fundraising friends of the Chelan Hospital, showcase four distinctive sites for the annual Chelan Home Tour.

Proceeds from $20 ticket sales go directly to the purchase of much-needed medical equipment.

The 2018 tour is Saturday, Sept. 15 from 10 a.m to 4 p.m., and the related art show, another annual attraction, is at Tsillan Cellars the same day and time.

Here are three Chelan residences to which you are invited. (See related story on the Bogey Road house) City Cottage — 418 North Lake Street. This eclectic and

by Irish Iron of Chelan.

The dining furnishings are elegantly sensible — white vinyl counter and table seating looks

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artistic in-town house was built in 1958 and renovated

by Bainbridge architect Bob Hobbles and the current owner.

Hawk’s Eye View — 305 Chukar Run Road. Dave Harkey built this in 2010 with terraced levels featuring a lanai for pool pleasure and a separate guest casita.

French Farmhouse — 148 Mirabella Drive. Built by Greg Cowell in 2007, in the manner of an old world farm house, this has lake-long views and European charm.

More information and photos at facebook.com/ GuildBLakeChelanTour and at LakeChelan.com/events/ hometour. sleek and modern and wipes off easily, and the table extends to fit 10 for major meals. Spare wall-hung artworks, modern

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Then her mother died just before their new place was ready to look at. “I know she’d love it — she’d be proud of me. I feel like a part of her is here.” and color-themed, are positioned with care.

There’s a poignant note in all this newness and optimism.

“My mom and I were always crazy about architecture — we’d go to open houses and home shows, trade ideas… we were always planning and designing the perfect house,” said Amy. Then her mother died just before their new place was ready to look at. “I know she’d love it — she’d be proud of me. I feel like a part of her is here.”

Maybe that makes it even more of a welcoming family home. The open plan, masteron-main design, with two guests suites and a kitchen/living area below, is perfect for hosting the Slettens’ loved ones and friends at holidays, or just enjoying quiet weekend getaways from their busy lives.

But it was also built with an eye to their near-future needs.

Chuck plans to retire in 2020 from his career with the state patrol, and Amy’s sales position allows her to work from a home

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With just a mile’s drive into town, good running pathways, golf-cart access on the local roads and their boat docked way below them, the couple enjoys some serious pleasureseeking during their Chelan visits. (Their college-age son, who spent weekends at the bigger place through his younger youth — no surprise — has also adjusted, with his buddies, to this newer vacation venue.)

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ome of us are so old-fashioned that we look forward to late summer as food-preserving season.

We remember sitting on the porch with Mom, snipping the tips of green beans from a 50-pound gunnysack full, to prepare them for canning, or peeling, coring and slicing a 23-pound boxful of apples, preferably Gravensteins, to make applesauce.

Mom processed jars of beans in the pressure cooker and simmered the jars of applesauce in a water bath in the huge enamel canner on the stove top. After the cooking, we lined the jars on the kitchen counter and listened for the “ping!” of the jars sealing.

When they were cold, we tapped the jars with a spoon to check again for a good seal.

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LEFT: The last batch: With a bow on top, they’re ready to go into Christmas stockings.

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This year I had the romantic notion that I’d make apricot preserves — not jam from mashed fruit, or jelly from clear liquids... venient for our small household of two to buy our green beans and applesauce at the supermarket, but I can’t let go of the old traditions entirely.

Instead, I make jelly from the juice of loganberries that I grow in a small patch in our back yard.

I assure my non-canning friends that making jelly is no more difficult that mixing up a batch of Kool-Aid or Crystal Lite, but actually, it does help to have the right tools and to know a little bit of technique.

I have a large kettle fitted with

Straining the juice.

a jar rack, a tool for grabbing hot jars, and a wide-mouthed funnel for steering jelly into jelly glasses. I chase everybody out of the kitchen while I deal with the scalding liquids.

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This year I had the romantic notion that I’d make apricot preserves — not jam from mashed fruit, or jelly from clear liquids (an old song says “It must be jelly ’cause jam don’t shake like that.”)

I wanted golden morsels of fruit simmered in sugar until the fruit was translucent. At least that’s what the old edition of The Joy of Cooking offered.

I was supposed to dunk slightly under-ripe fruit in hot water to help the skins slide off. It didn’t work. Either the fruit was so green that I had to pare the skin off, or so ripe that it turned to mush in my fingers.

I gave up on preserves, and canned three pints of apricot syrup. It is delicious.

My jelly turns out reliably. The jars full glow like deep red gems.

The product tastes better than any I can buy. I count out jars for my siblings, my sons and my grandsons.

This is my Christmas shopping, and it’s done by August.

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tar Christman of East Wenatchee along with son Curt and daughter Dawn were walking Star’s dog, Yoda.

Yoda is a 4-year-old Coton de Tulear, a breed originally from Madagascar.

The Coton is known as the “Royal Dog of Madagascar.” In its country of origin, the breed has been portrayed on a postage stamp.

Star said the best thing about Yoda is he is a clown. “He is brimming with personality. He understands so many words and he even speaks in different tones.”

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hyahne McGee calls it a “heartwarming story” of a lost lizard found through the work of the community.

“All my boys were outside playing, and they took the lizard” — a 2-year-old bearded dragon named Rex — “outside to get some exercise,” said Chyahne.

Well, while the boys were playing in their East Wenatchee yard, Rex went on a little adventure.

After it was discovered he was gone, “We knocked on everyone’s door in our block,” said Chyahne. “We stayed out until past 11 that night looking.”

She also filed a lost pet report with the Wenatchee Humane Society.

The next day, the kids were up early looking for Rex. But it wasn’t until later that afternoon a neighbor who lives a block away and who had seen the lost pet report called to say, “I’m pretty sure I have your lizard.”

“Now,” said Chyahne, “he wants to get out of his cage and go outside all of the time.”

The lizard’s owner, Evanrain McGee, 13, (above) was super glad he was found and is considering putting Rex on a leash the next time they go outside.

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Homemade sauerkraut is most delicious Sauerkraut is like the little

girl with the curl in the middle of her forehead.

When it is good, it is very, very good; when it is bad, it is horrid.

This concoction is historically important.

The British sailors are called “Limey” but actually what Captain Cook took along on his ’round the world trips beginning in the 1750s was cabbage.

Cabbage has a small amount of vitamin C, and the fermentation of the vegetable into sauerkraut enhanced the level of vitamin C and prevented scurvy on long, sailing voyages.

A version of sauerkraut is served throughout the northern hemispheres where cabbage thrives. The most pungent sauerkraut is kimchi made in Korea.

Sauerkraut can be purchased in the can or “fresh” in a refrigerator plastic pack or imported in jars from Germany.

However, homemade sauerkraut is most delicious because you can determine the level of sourness and saltiness.

The first problem with even bringing up the topic of homemade sauerkraut is that many people have horrible memories of crock-fermented sauerkraut that worked in the basement or the back room all autumn and late into the winter gassing the house with more and more intense aroma of fermented cabbage and a few stray fermenting yeasts that smelled even more powerfully.

The second problem of discussing sauerkraut is determining what to do with 10 quarts of the preserved cabbage.

But, let’s make some first and then cook with it.

It is an easy process. A pound and a half of cabbage makes one quart or two pints of sauerkraut.

Sauerkraut is healthy and delicious and August is the perfect time to make your fall supply.

The recipe below sounds like a lot of salt, but the salt kills the unfriendly bacteria. Use coarse salt without additives since the additives could cause the juice to be cloudy.

I don’t add any caraway seeds, pepper or other spices because they could disrupt the formation, and I want the sauerkraut to be neutral for use in a variety of dishes.

Discard the core and slice the green cabbage thinly.

Place it in a bowl and cover with boiling water.

Stir until it is wilted.

Stuff the cabbage into a quart jar.

Add 1 clove garlic and 1 tablespoon kosher salt, 1 tablespoon sugar.

Re-boil the water.

Top up the jar with the boiling water. Be sure the cabbage is covered completely.

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escapes as the cabbage bubbles and ferments.

If kept about 70 degrees, in two weeks the fermentation should be finished.

Then, you can eat it or store it in the refrigerator. If you make many quarts, process them in a canner following the manufactures or Extension Service directions. The left-over juice is great as the acid in a meat marinade or can replace wine vinegar in salad dressing.

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1. Oil a baking dish.

2. Spoon in the sauerkraut.

3. Layer on the onions and celery.

4. Stir the flour into the wine and pour this mixture over the vegetables.

5. Bake for 30 minutes until bubbly and browned.

6. Add the Swiss cheese and sour cream and cook for an additional 5 minutes until the cheese is melted.

Serve with sausage, kielbasa or chicken.

Sauerkraut soup This is a vegetable soup that resembles borscht but has more zing.

Serves 6; 25 minutes 2 tablespoons olive oil 1 onion chopped 2 cloves garlic, sliced 1 can of drained sliced beets, or 3 cooked beets sliced.

1/2 cup sliced mushrooms 1 quart sauerkraut and its liquid 2 cups chicken broth 2 tablespoons prepared horseradish 1 tablespoon fresh dill leaves chopped.

1 teaspoon summer savory or sweet marjoram minced In a large pot, brown the onion and the garlic in the olive oil.

Add all the other vegetables, horseradish and the chicken stock.

Simmer until well blended — about 20 minutes Add the herbs. Stir.

Serve with crusty bread.

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Standing up and clapping for humility Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it’s thinking of yourself less.

— Rick Warren

Is humility a good thing?

“Oh, yes. Of course,” you may be thinking. “I wish exactly that for my superior-acting co-worker and arrogant boss.”

But humility may not be something we seek for ourselves.

Why is that?

Maybe we don’t really understand what humility is. We don’t know the potential benefits.

What makes humility confusing is there are two types. One is called appreciative humility and has a lot going for it, it’s healthy.

The other type of humility researchers label self-effacing; it’s pretty close to shame, and is

not so good for us at all.

Researchers say healthy humility often goes hand-in-hand with gratitude, being open to feedback, understanding one’s strengths and one’s weaknesses without feeling superior or less than others.

Healthy humility often comes with other beneficial associations like smoother adjustments to life’s transitions including set-backs, aging and dying.

People high in appreciative humility have better physical and psychological well-being, selfcompassion, stronger interpersonal relationships and are more giving.

Unhealthy, self-effacing humility is associated with selfloathing and low interpersonal skills. People with self-effacing

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Later, when I check my email inbox, there is already a “note of appreciation” from Gene. How could HE be appreciating ME? humility may be prey for bullies.

Clearly, it’s healthy humility that would be a good thing for all of us to have.

How do we get more healthy humility?

Well, now, the best thing we can do is look for a rock star, humble role-model. Sound tough? It is, but I know one, Dr. Gene Sharratt.

Gene lives here in the Valley.

He has at least 10 pages of degrees, professional awards, and professional publications.

For example, Gene has been recognized as Washingtonian of the Year. He’s won about every educational award you can think of. He was Executive Director of the Washington State Achievement Council. He’s climbed mountains around the world, jumped out of planes, and been a trainer for Disney.

He’s inspired and transformed many individuals, leaders, and groups.

I have personally been in three different large groups when the audience gave Gene a standing ovation after his presentation.

You’d think Gene would be saying things like Mohammed Ali did, “It’s tough to be humble when you’re as great as I am.”

Instead Gene says things like this: “Never miss an opportunity to be good, kind, and gracious.”

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Gene’s presentations are different, but they always have humor, insights, heart-warming stories, and often include a slide on humility — “If you’re too big for a small job, you’re too small for a big one,” it reads.

“Why do they always do that… stand up at the end?” I ask Gene.

I think I have him cornered.

How can one possibly talk humbly about receiving standing ovations?

“Oh, it’s because we’re all in the same boat navigating this thing called life together, June,” he says.

Gene abruptly stops there and reaches over for a little book from his library; it’s a child’s book — Stuart Little by E.B. White. He reads a lovely passage of dialogue between two travelers. Then he smiles and gives me the book to take home.

Later, when I check my email inbox, there is already a “note of appreciation” from Gene. How could HE be appreciating ME? That’s how paragons of appreciative humility do things. They never miss an opportunity to be good, kind, and gracious.

They see themselves not as more than or less than anyone else, just fellow travelers navigating this thing we call life.

Steeped in genuine humility, Gene embodies the best of our humanity. That’s why I stand up and clap.

How might we all learn from Gene — practice healthy humility and move up to The Good Life together?

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Our state grass: Bluebunch Wheatgrass

By Jaana Hatton

Drumroll, please — here

comes our very own state grass: bluebunch wheatgrass (pseudoroegneria spicata). Now say that three times as fast as you can.

The Latin name implies that the plant is a fake (pseudo) or mimics another grass (roegneria) and with a beard, even (spicata).

Well, our state grass looks like wheat but it actually is not.

Bluebunch Jaana Hatton is a wheatgrass freelance writer can grow and a Wenatchee anywhere be- area resident since 2013. She grew up tween 1.5 to 4 free as a bird in feet tall. The the woodlands seeds grow in of Finland and an alternatcontinues to be ing pattern, enchanted by all things living and giving the wild. plant the resemblance of wheat. The seeds can be bearded (spiky) or not. The flat leaves remain green. It spreads by seed.

This happy-go-lucky plant makes itself comfortable almost

anywhere except in acidic soil.

Bluebunch wheatgrass thrives in coarse ground without too much moisture — it just doesn’t like to

get its feet wet.

Bluebunch wheatgrass is beneficial in all of its carefree manner.

It’s nutritious, for one thing.

Both livestock and wildlife will get protein and carbohydrates with every bite. Eat your greens, most definitely. Wherever you see bunches (I had to say that) of bluebunch wheatgrass, bring the cows. But, only for a day or two, then let the grass recover. And the cows, possibly.

Wildlife, such as elk and deer, love bluebunch wheatgrass. It used to be much more prevalent in the days gone by, but as farming and ranching began, bluebunch wheatgrass along with wild animals lost a considerable portion of the natural habitat.

Besides offering nutrition, this grass is also an excellent landscaping plant. It establishes quickly and happily shares the space with other native grasses.

Bluebunch wheatgrass is widely used for restoration projects, as it doesn’t mind even disturbed soils. A true trooper, it is.

You can see bluebunch wheatgrass all along the Apple Capital Loop Trail, for example. It grows in abundance right along the pathway.

To sum it up, bluebunch wheatgrass is easily adaptable, drought and cold tolerant, nutritious and pleasant to look at.

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How AI will make better medicine For generations in our classic medical teaching, training and clinical practice, we physicians were taught which medical treatments had been successful for populations of “average” patients with certain diseases, symptoms and physical findings including their lab tests and radiologic studies.

We were taught the average patient with a certain diagnosis was best treated in a way that had been successful in other patients like them.

This “one size fits all” approach worked for many patients but not for others.

Precision medicine, also referred to as “personalized medicine,” is changing medicine in a dramatic fashion now and in the future.

Precision medicine is a relatively new approach to disease treatment taking into account the individual variations in the genes, environment and life style.

Artificial intelligence is capable of solving some of the most complex computational problems we have ever grappled with.

This approach will allow physicians and researchers to predict more accurately which treatment or medication for a particular disease or condition will be the best or safest ones for a particular patient.

Precision medicine is only possible due to the development of AI or artificial intelligence.

AI is a branch of computer science dealing with the simulation of intelligence by computers. AI does not “think” like human intelligence. Artificial intelligence

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What AI can do is process millions of data points automatically and constantly in a way human intelligence cannot do.

Without AI there would be no precision medicine.

Genes are the basic unit of heredity. Humans have between 20,000-30,000 genes.

Each person has two copies of each gene, one inherited from each parent. Genes are made up of DNA, which acts as an instructor to make proteins. DNA is the hereditary material in humans and almost all organisms.

The information in human DNA consists of four nitrogenous bases: adenine, guanine, cytosine and thymine arranged in more than 3 billion sequences.

About 99 percent of these sequences are the same in all people, but one percent of

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the total are slightly different in each of us. These relatively small differences contribute to each person’s unique physical differences.

(It seems ironic to me these seemingly small differences have lead to many of our society’s prejudices and our difficulty accepting each other even though we are 99 percent genetically identical in every way.)

An important property of DNA is its ability to replicate, making copies of itself. When our cells divide, each new cell is an exact copy of the DNA in the old cells. A defect in a gene can continually be replicated and can lead to an abnormality, a physical defect or a medical condition.

Without AI it would be difficult or nearly impossible to discover many of these genetic defects. It would be like finding

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Hopefully, soon we will be using deep learning to identify which patients are likely to develop a particular disease.

The hope is early intervention might change the future course of that disease. a needle in a proverbial haystack.

A practical real life example of AI is the company Atomwise that launched a virtual search for safe existing medicines that could be redesigned to treat the Ebola virus.

They found two drugs predicted by AI technology that might reduce Ebola infectivity. This analysis with AI was completed in one day versus what typically might have taken months to years.

Another example has to do with diabetic retinopathy, a leading cause of vision loss affecting 100 million people globally. Diabetic retinopathy affects diabetic patients older than age 40, and if found through early detection, is treatable.

If diabetics worldwide were to be screened, it would take 32 million retinal images annually, a daunting or impossible task to be reviewed, but not so for AI. Another recent example was published by researchers at Northwestern University Medical school regarding rheumatoid arthritis, a crippling arthritic condition.

The study’s author Dr. Perlman said, “We have so many different biologic drugs and there is no rhyme or reason to give one drug versus the other.

We waste $2.5 billion a year on ineffective therapy and patients go through 12 weeks of therapy and often don’t respond and get upset.”

These scientists took biopsies of joints in 41 affected patients.

They identified two particular groups who shared certain aspects of the genetic profiles of particular cells of the immune

system that are overactive in rheumatoid arthritis. They then identified which of these populations had joints getting better and what biologic therapies they were taking. They found a particular gene sequence that they could treat earlier and more effectively. This is hope of precision medicine.

“Deep learning” is a branch of AI with the potential to identify when patients are likely to develop a particular disease or condition so they might be treated earlier and more aggressively. For these patients this is precision medicine.

Google, Facebook and Apple have been using deep learning

data analysis for years to predict how we individuals search the internet, where we travel, what foods we like, and even who our potential friends are.

Hopefully, soon we will be using deep learning to identify which patients are likely to develop a particular disease. The hope is early intervention might change the future course of that disease.

AI’s ability to access tons of data and learn from it definitely applies to the health care industry. Half of all hospitals in the U.S. reportedly plan to adapt AI within the next five years.

Then there is China. China is becoming a major technology super power.

China’s goal is to rival the U.S. and become the world leader in AI by 2030.

In health care they are already number one in AI. China currently has 130 companies specifically working in the health care field and health care research.

For China, improving access to

quality heath care is a priority and not an option.

I am afraid our government’s priorities are currently not even close to China in this area.

On Jan. 30, 2015, President Obama announced his Precision Medicine Initiative. When the Trump administration came into power, they proposed cutting funding by 22 percent or $7.6 billion to the National Institutes of Health’s budget for the coming fiscal year. This cast doubts about the future of precision medicine research.

Fortunately, six months later the House and Senate appropriation committees both approved bipartisan bills that not only restored the proposed cuts, but gave NIH a $2 billion raise in their budget.

Thank goodness, as I don’t think we can afford to fall behind in this important field.

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.

GRATEFUL. For Our Patients. For The Communities We Serve.

Grateful for the Opportunity to Serve.

We are Grateful for the trust our community puts in us with the things that matter most in life—family and friends.

We are Grateful each day for the opportunity to improve the health and quality of life of our friends and neighbors. It’s the daily encounters with members of our community that mean the most.

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big headed art ‘I’m motivated to make art that ... basically moves the audience to let their freak flag fly’

By Susan Lagsdin

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eter heads and goofy grins, knobby noses and improbable ears, goblins and goofuses and pirates and wazzats all prance around voguing for the camera and catch even their creators unaware.

After one of Sara Hasslinger’s art workshops, nobody shows restraint, and everybody’s the star of the show.

Sara’s lifework is varied and artful, but her greatest pleasure comes from helping people make big paper mache masks.

She firmly believes making and wearing those big costume heads — notice the “monsters” are all rather benign — can be therapeutic, not just a bunch of fun, and she has a master’s degree in art education and 17 years’ experience and success in educational, corporate and community settings to prove it.

In Austin, Texas, where she lived and worked before moving to Chelan, she was employed by major corporations like Samsung and Smirnoff to use her pet project, Monsterlove, to enrich company functions and encounter groups with zany art and play; she also did community workshops, facilitated a divorce support group, traveled to Kenya to help village children under the auspices of CTC, Comfort the Children.

“OK, I have to admit,” Sara said, “At first I fought tooth and nail not to come to Chelan.”

In Austin, her career was exploding with potential, and her circle of art contacts and art peers was huge. But to fully escape an abusive relationship, one night in 2015 she needed to flee, baby in her arms, back to the safety of family. Her mother lived in Chelan

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and so to Chelan she went.

Sara had lived here for a few years previously and was not eager to return, especially not on those terms, broke and unknown. She thought her career had collapsed. “It was like a death,” she said.

In the three years since, however, her creativity has burgeoned, she’s familiarized herself with the regional arts community (most notably she cites taking Scott Bailey’s Art 202 class at WVC), and she is close to supporting herself with her artwork.

Especially In the last year, Sara said, “that constant little flame of grief has dissipated. I thought this was the land of no-opportunity, but what Chelan has given me is quiet time to express what I want to — I realized that before, in Austin, I was chasing after my project, trying to keep up.”

And still today her art is mostly about the big paper heads.

She crafted her first one as an art school project; named Oh Gee, he still lives on a top shelf with four more not scary, mostly silly-looking characters. She keeps a troupe of them, some re-gifts from students. “These guys are almost indestructible, and they’re really easy to repair if they get banged up,” said Sara.

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Some of Sara Hasslinger’s monsterlove heads — including this one — are on display at The Gilded Lily Home store in downtown Wenatchee.

With resourcefulness always in mind, Sara calls herself a “rearranger, upcycler and hunter-magnet for cool finds.” making outsized monster heads, all paper mache and paint and protuberances? Or figures, as in a recent class, “Things That Grow and Things That Fly?” Well, they come from cheap and easily-assembled gradeschool ingredients: Elmer’s paste, any kind of recycled paper, a reusable beachball and paint. They’re easy for everyone to make (though tricky for anyone to make really well, said Sara), and they allow for myriad mistakes and nonconforming experiments.

And when the heads are on, they allow an unfamiliar freedom: No one can see me; this is not me.

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pelling phobias are a few of the therapeutic uses, and through her ongoing community-based project, still called Monsterlove, Sara’s recounted some touching stories of revelations about body image and finding a sense of belonging.

With resourcefulness always in mind, Sara calls herself a “rearranger, upcycler and huntermagnet for cool finds.”

But her art is rarely about the medium, and mostly about freedom. She explained, “I’m motivated to make art that provides therapy and transformative experiences and basically moves the audience to let their freak flag fly.”

Her own art is not all monsters.

In her studio, just a few steps down from the two-level living room of her funky downtown house, she also does photo/paint assemblages and oil paintings, but not conventional ones. One large photo-collage grew from the ripped-out pages of a “How to Breakdance” book. A portrait of her grandparents is no oldtime parlor pose; they’re sexy, propped by their elbows, laughwww.ncwgoodlife.com

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Sara makes collaborative paintings with her artist partner Joss (he’s a long-time, long-ago friend she reunited with on her return to the community), her colorful landscapes and murals dot downtown businesses and galleries, and currently in her studio a six-foot wide commissioned mountain scape oil painting has shackled her attention.

But with a busy blended family (her toddler and Joss’s teenager) and picking up new work all the time, Sara still forges on with the heads. “To me the purpose of art is healing, it’s creativity, it’s community. My monster project feeds all those realms seamlessly.”

If you have a hankering to see her paper mache figures this summer, stop by Chelan’s Riverwalk Restaurant display of her students’ creations or enjoy her fish-ladies in The Gilded Lily in downtown Wenatchee.

To see photos of her twodimensional paintings as well as happy monster-lovers in full regalia, go to Sara’s website: monsterlove.org.

fun stuff what to do around here for the next month NCW BLUES JAM, every second and fourth Monday. 7 – 10 p.m. Riverside Pub. Homegrown Country Jam, every first and third Monday night, 7 to 10 p.m. Riverside Pub. Wenatchee Paddle Club, every Tuesday, 9 a.m. open paddle, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 5:30 a.m. masters crew rowing, Wednesdays, 6 p.m. novice kayak paddle group, Saturdays, 7 a.m. masters crew rowing. Info: wenatcheepaddle.org.

Upper Valley Running Club Run, every Tuesday, 4:30 – 6 p.m. check in time. Maps available for a marked 3 mile trail route. Run or walk. Participate 10 or more times and earn a run club tech t-shirt.

Check-in at the gravel lot across from O’Grady’s Pantry. Info: sleepinglady.com.

1 million cups, every first Wednesday of the month. 8 a.m. sharp. Entrepreneurs discover solutions and thrive when they collaborate over a million cups of coffee. Come join this supportive, dynamic community and hear from two businesses that are between 1 – 5 years old.

Discover how we can help move them forward in a positive environment, fueled by caffeine. Coffee provided by Mela Coffee Roasting.

Wenatchee Valley Chamber office, 137 N. Wenatchee Ave. Wenatchee Farmers Market, every Wednesday, 3 – 7 p.m. every Saturday, 8 a.m. – 1 p.m. and, Pybus Public Market.

Shrub-steppe poetry podium, every last Wednesday, 4 – 5 p.m.

A free, poetry-only public reading. Read your own poems or the work of a favorite poet. The Radar Station, 15 S. Wenatchee Ave. Info: sfblair61@gamil.com.

Weekly Club Runs, every Thursday check in between 4:30 and 6:30 p.m. at Pybus Public Market south entrance. Either a 5k or 10k walk or run on the Apple Capital Recreation Loop Trail. Complete 10 weekly runs and receive a free shirt. Cost: free (other than a smile).

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

My Fair Lady, 8/2, 8, 10, 14, 18, 23, 28, 31, 8 p.m. Live performance. Leavenworth Hatchery Park Stage. Cost: $14, $25, $35. Info: leavenworthsummertheater.org.

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.

First Friday Events Include:

Leavenworth Community Farmers market, Thursdays 4 – 8 p.m. Offers everything from local eggs, meats, cheeses and breads to local produce, fruits, prepared foods, local crafts and more. Lions Club Park, Leavenworth. Info: leavenworthfarmersmarket.org.

*Two Rivers Art Gallery, 8/3, 5 – 8 p.m. Featuring Robert G Wilson, The Edge of Modernism: compositions with opalescent light, sharp or tremulous lines that meet beyond the borders trending toward the contemporary Northwest. Wines by Icicle Ridge Winery. Music

by Mary and Steve Sanders, piano and bass.. Complimentary refreshments. 102 N Columbia, Wenatchee. Cost: free. Info: 2riversgallery.com.

Game Night, every 4th Friday. Board games, card games or any games you bring. Open to families and all ages. Hosted by Pacific Crest Church. Pybus Public Market. Cost: free. Info: pybuspublicmarket.org.

Quincy Farmers Market, every first and third Saturday, 8 a.m. – 1 p.m. Lauzier Park. Info: social media.

Jam at the Crow, 7 – 10 p.m. Every first Sunday.

The Club Crow in Cashmere, 108 1/2 Cottage Ave. Cost: free.

Village Art in the Park, Thursdays through Sundays, 9 a.m. – 6 p.m.

Outdoor village art show sponsored by local nonprofit organization dedicated to providing scholarships for art education using a venue that support amateur and professional artists. Downtown Leavenworth. Info: villageinthepark.org.

Plenty of quilts at fiber arts festival Aug. 17 & 18 Some 300 quilts — ranging from traditional

to art quilts — along with whimsical dolls and beading are expected for this year’s Quilt & Fiber Art Festival Aug. 17 and 18 at Town Toyota Center.

The featured quilt artist is valley native, Eileen Dvorak.

A silent auction will benefit the Wenatchee Valley YWCA. Raffle tickets will be available for “Summertime,” a wool appliqué.

Hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. both Friday and Saturday. Admission is $7 at the door.

Sound of Music, 8/1, 3, 7, 11, 15, 17, 22, 25, 29, 9/1, 2, 8 p.m. Live performance at the Ski Hill Amphitheater.

Cost: $14, $25, $35. Info: leavenworthsummertheater.org.

Ol’ Dog Days Benefit Dinner and Concert, 8/2, 4:30 - 10 p.m. Music by Eden Moody, Kevin Jones Band and Elaine Eagle. Raffle for prizes, dinner and a variety of beverages. Proceeds go to Wenatchee Valley Human Society.

The Sunshine Ranch, 2265 Easy St. Wenatchee. Cost: $35. Info: thesunshineranch.wedding.

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GWATA networking event, 8/2, 5:30 -9 p.m. Buffet dinner, no host bar, live music by The 509’s, raffle prizes and yard games. Highlander Golf Course. Cost: $50. Info: gwata. org.

Concert in the Gardens, 8/2, 6:30 p.m. Invisible Touch – A Tribute to Phil Collins live performance at Ohme Gardens. Info: rlstickets. com.

The Full Monty, 8/2, 8, 9, 15, 16, 7 p.m. 8/3, 4, 10, 11, 17, 18, 8 p.m.

8/11, 2 p.m. Live performance.

Numerica Performing Arts Center.

Info: numericapac.org.

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*Tumbleweed Bead Co., 8/3, 5-7 p.m. Refreshments served. 105 Palouse St. Cost: free. Info: tumbleweedbeadco.com. *Wenatchee Valley Museum and Cultural Center, 8/3, 5. – 8 p.m.

Light refreshments. Info: Wenatchee.org. *Robert Graves Gallery, 8/3, 5 – 7 p.m. Info: robertgravesgallery.org. *Mela, 8/3, 5 – 8 p.m. 17 N. Wenatchee Ave. Cost: free.

WVC Night with the AppleSox, 8/3, 6 p.m. The WVC Foundation invites you and your family to join us for a FREE night of baseball at Paul Thomas Sr. stadium as the AppleSox take on the Victoria HarbourCats. Bring nonperishable foods microwavable food, cereal, cereal bars, cooking oil, jams and peanut butter for the Knights Kupboard.

Beer Garden at the museum, 8/3, 7 – 9 p.m. The Prefunc performs live at the parking lot at the Wenatchee Valley Museum and Cultural Center. Beer and wine available for purchase. Cost: $1.

Info: wvmcc.org.

Music in the meadow, 8/4, all day. Hey Marseilles live concert with brew-ha ha and food. Tastings from 6 – 8 breweries and food

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Bring low chair or blanket to sit on.

Meadow Stage next to Snowy Owl Theater. Cost: $50 or just concert $30. Info: icicle.org.

Little Women, 8/4, 9, 16, 21, 24, 30, 8 p.m. Live performance. Ski Hill Amphitheater, Leavenworth.

Cost: $14, $25 or $35. Info: leavenworthsummertheater.org.

Twilight Alphorn Serenades, 8/4, 8 p.m. and every Saturday through September. End your day with the soothing tones of the Leavenworth Alphorns. The evening serenade is followed by a brief demonstration with information and fun facts about this alpine folk instrument. Downtown Leavenworth. Cost: free.

Carol’s Sip and Paint, 8/6, 6 – 8 p.m. Take time out and paint an 11 x 14 acrylic picture. Everything furnished to complete this painting.

Vogue, 117 E Woodin Ave. Chelan.

Cost: $40 includes a glass of wine, beer or soda. Info: artbycaroljenkins.com.

Jeff Sandberg, 8/8, noon. Local resident, teacher and big-time jazz fan will play the saxophone during lunchtime. Pybus Public Market.

Cost: free.

Sip and Paint on the patio, 8/8, 4 – 6 p.m. Be guided into a fun and easy stroke of the brush project while being immersed and inspired by views and flavors. Fielding Hills Winery. Cost: $40. Must reserve.

Info: dorrinda.com.

All of creation art camp, 8/9, 10, 10 a.m. – noon, 8/11, 9 – 11 a.m. Ages 4 to 18. Watercolors, abstracts, sculpture and recycled art, poetry, character drawing and more. Pybus Public Market. Cost: free. Info: pybuspublicmarket.org.

Beer Garden at the museum, 8/10, 7 – 9 p.m. Kevin Jones performs live at the parking lot at the Wenatchee Valley Museum and Cultural Center. Beer and wine available for purchase. Cost: $1.

Info: wvmcc.org.

Lions Club Community Breakfast, 8/11, 25, 9/8, 22, 29. 7:30 – 11 a.m. 10/6, 13, 8 – 11 a.m. All you can eat pancakes, eggs, sausage, coffee and milk. Proceeds goes to projects: sight, hearing and diabetes health education and services, local food banks, college scholarships,

scouts, youth sports, Special Olympics and other community projects.

Cost: $7, $3.50 kids 4-10, under 4 free, active military with ID free.

Info: leavenworthlions.com.

Wenatchee to Roslyn Geology Tour, 8/11, 9 a.m. Tour begins in Wenatchee and continues west on US 2 to look at the geology of the Wenatchee Valley. The route continues to Blewett Pass to Cle Elum and Roslyn. Wenatchee Valley Museum and Cultural Center. Cost: $45. Info: wvmcc.org.

Downtown Historical Walking Tour, 8/11, 10 a.m. – noon. Tour begins at the Upper Valley Museum and is 1 – 2 hours long on flat ground and 2 miles long. Leavenworth. Cost: $5. Info: uppervalleymuseum.org.

Organic Garden Tour, 8/11, 25, 10 a.m. Stroll and enjoy two acres of certified organic fruits and vegetables, herbs and flowers. Learn about environmentally friendly gardening techniques and how to use natural fertilizers and regular crop rotation to improve soil and what insects maintain the health and sustainability of the garden.

Sleeping Lady Resort. Cost: free.

Info: sleepinglady.com.

Music in the meadow, 8/11, 7 p.m. Live performance by The Paperboys. Meadow Stage next to Snowy Owl Theater. Cost: $28 advance or $30 at the door. Info: icicle.org.

Horse Lake Reserve eBird Monitoring Project, 8/14, 9/20, 10/11, 11/8. Meet at 6 a.m. at the end of the pavement on Horse Lake Road to carpool up the gravel road. Walk a 5-mile route, stopping at 7 points to conduct 10-minute counts. All data is entered into eBird. Learn about bird use within the variety of habitats that include areas burned in 2015 wildfire. Info: susan@cdlandtrust.org or 6697820.

Jeff Sandberg, 8/15, noon. Local resident, teacher and big-time jazz fan will play the saxophone during lunchtime. Pybus Public Market.

Cost: free.

Sip and Paint, 8/15, 3 – 4:30 p.m. all instruction and supplies provided. Acrylic painting on stones collected on Lummi Island. Wine, beer, cocktails and food available.

Grotto Bar and Restaurant. Cost: $35. Info: sipandpaint.org.

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work in the afternoon. Bring your own lunch. Confluence Technology Center. Info: WSU Chelan County Extension, pdinius@wsu.edu.

Quilt Show, 8/17-18, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. Some 300 quilts ranging from traditional to art quilts along with whimsical dolls and beading.

Featured quilt artist is valley native, Eileen Dvorak. Silent auction will benefit the Wenatchee Valley YWCA. Town Toyota Center. Cost: $7.

Beer Garden at the museum, 8/17, 7 – 9 p.m. Desmadre Musical performs live at the parking lot at the Wenatchee Valley Museum and Cultural Center. Beer and wine available for purchase. Cost: $1.

Info: wvmcc.org.

Hiking Challenge, 8/18, 7 – 9 a.m. Improve your health, be part of a team, take home prizes and be entered to win one of many grand prizes at the end of the hiking season. A guided hike will begin one hour after the start of the check-in time. Eastside Apple Capital Loop Trail to Coyote Dunes. Info: cdlandtrust.org.

Tomato Gala, 8/18, 10 a.m. – noon.

Taste test many varieties of tomatoes, including heirlooms, slicers and paste tomatoes. Community Education Garden, 1100 N Western Ave. Cost: free.

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Wenatchee Riverfront Railway train, 8/18, 10 a.m. – 2 p.m.

Ride the mini train. 155 N Worthen, east end of the railroad pedestrian bridge. Cost: $2.

Lake Chelan Arts Council Creative Arts Festival 2018, 8/18, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m., 10/19, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Original art from juried artists, silent auction, activities for kids — plus a show from Rustique Diva’s.

Riverwalk Park, Chelan.

Jeff Sandberg, 8/22, noon. Local resident, teacher and big-time jazz fan will play the saxophone during lunchtime. Pybus Public Market.

Cost: free Sip and Paint on the patio, 8/22, 4 – 6 p.m. Be guided into a fun and easy stroke of the brush project while being immersed and inspired by views and flavors. Fielding Hills Winery. Cost: $40. Must reserve.

Info: dorrinda.com.

Theater in the meadow, 8/23,24, 25, 7 p.m. A play called Dancing at Lughnasa. Humor and sadness with eight engaging characters, each with a unique story with lots of Irish music, songs and dancing.

Meadow Stage next to Snowy Owl Theater. Cost: $22. Info: icicle.org.

Pipe organ concert, 8/24, 2 p.m.

With sing-a-longs and silent film.

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By Susan Lagsdin

heater director Jaime Donegan pulled into town in mid-July after a cross-country trek from the East Coast.

Relaxing with laptop and binders in a far corner of the Numerica Performing Arts Center’s vacant lobby — a kind of living room for him after all these years visiting Wenatchee — he’d been listening to a song from 10-time Tony award-winning The Full Monty and making choreography notes in his script.

His directing duties would keep him in Wenatchee for the run of the show.

The first full-cast readthrough was that morning. Rehearsals would start in earnest on Monday, and from then until opening night musicians, singers, dancers and actors would wear themselves to a frazzle, a demanding joy, preparing for opening night and their eager audience.

The dream team of Don Fox Designs LLC and Jaime Donegan Productions, presenting the fifth of their “Hot August Nights” productions, was gearing up for another opening of another show.

“I just love coming back to Wenatchee,” Jaime said. “Last night I walked into South for dinner and two of the waiters ran up to me with ‘Jaime! You’re back!’”

If it feels like home to him, it feels just as comforting for anyone who recognizes him.

At this point in his life, there are many towns across the U.S.A. that Jaime can walk into and hear hearty greetings at

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“Every show we do is unique to this cast, this stage, this single occasion... these plays are not about production, they’re about people.” every restaurant, every street corner.

Ever since graduation from Indiana University, when he ran away from the quiet cornfields of home to the vibrant streets of New York City, he’s centered his theatrical expertise on producing some variety of “The Follies,” first for a nationwide franchise, then independently.

The Follies have been extant in America since 1910, pre-TV, pre-movies, pre-HBO. The premise is simple, the execution is not: to put on a bang-up musical stage show within weeks, hold (very) open auditions, create a cast of hundreds, let ’em sing, let ’em dance, add lights, costumes, makeup and Voila!!

It’s showtime. Jaime goes to cities large and small around the nation and directs three of those a year, every year.

Hundreds of local performers know that Wenatchee has had the pleasure of Jaime’s company as their Follies director every three years since 2001.

“Sometimes ‘The Follies’ feels like herding cats, but the quality of talent here is good,” he said.

“I’m really proud of what I’ve been able to do with it — and I never thought I’d have such a strong effect on people.”

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Ironically, it was the interviews in local filmmaker Howell at the Moon’s documentary, American Follies, that finally made Jaime realize how much joy people have found in his life work.

Jaime bonded with Wenatchee so well that the next step was inevitable. Five years ago, his local friend and facilities/tech collaborator Don Fox basically asked him, “Hey, what are you doin’ this summer?”

The duo soon concocted with PAC leader Matt Cadman a new kind of theater experience that would jazz up the hot months in downtown Wenatchee and fill the PAC’s darkened house, without competing with the well-established Leavenworth Summer Theatre.

Enter “Hot August Nights” a slate of stage shows with rave reviews on Broadway that hadn’t been tried in smaller communities like ours.

“They’re not exactly ‘edgy,’” Jaime reminded this interviewer, “I mean, some of them have been around for 40 or 50 years. But, they have themes and language we’re just not used to in live theater.” He listed The Rocky Horror Show, Bat Boy,

“I admit I was scared to death with Le Cage Aux Folles,” he said. “I had no idea what the reception would be. I was scared for myself and for the actors.”

Cabaret and Chicago.

Last year’s show broke new ground. “I admit I was scared to death with Le Cage Aux Folles,” he said. “I had no idea what the reception would be. I was scared for myself and for the actors.”

Here he paused, remembering.

“But when I stood at the back of the house and heard the roar at the end, the standing ovation, all the applause for that couple…

I realized the play was all about matters of the heart, and that’s something anyone anywhere can relate to.”

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well-known versions that have lingered so long on Broadway or have been made into movies.

“Every show we do is unique to this cast, this stage, this single occasion,” he said. “I learned that whether I’m working with theater majors who’ve been off the stage for 30 years, local pros, new teen actors or middle-aged people trying something new, these plays are not about production, they’re about people.”

Jaime was in fifth grade when he first saw a production of South Pacific. “The songs, the dancing. I remember being absolutely mesmerized by it — I thought ‘that’s what I want to do!’”

He said if life were to hand him copious amounts of time and money he’d love to dig into writing, producing and directing the next big Broadway hit, an idea that’s been cooking for a while.

But for now, between doing Follies all over the country and Wenatchee summer theater with vacations in between, Jaime is part of what he calls “a national community.”

He’s nomadic, in a good way.

“My dad once referred to me as basically ‘homeless,’” he said. “I explained that I’m really ‘home free.’ There’s a difference.”

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Beer Garden at the museum, 8/24, 7 – 9 p.m. Beth Whitney and Troy Lindsey perform live at the parking lot at the Wenatchee Valley Museum and Cultural Center. Beer and wine available for purchase.

Cost: $1. Info: wvmcc.org.

Indoor yard sale, 8/25, 8 a.m. – 3 p.m. Come sell your goods and not worry about the lawn. Lunch and baked goods proceeds go to Chelan Senior Center. No charge to sell your items. Call Vita 682-2712 for a booth. Chelan Senior Center. Info: chelanseniorcenter.com.

Wenatchee Wine and Food Festival, 8/25, 6 – 9 p.m. Meet the wine makers and taste the awardwinning wines, plus enjoy locally hand-crafted distilled spirits, craft beers, as well as a wide selection of amazing food. Town Toyota Center.

Cost: $45. Info: towntoyotacenter. com.

Mountain Home Preserve eBird Monitoring Project, 8/30, 9/27, 10/18, 11/15. Meet 6 a.m. at the Safeway store in Leavenworth. Susan Ballinger will pick up carpoolers in Wenatchee at 5:30 a.m. at the Penny Road Park and Ride. Walk 2.2-mile route stopping at 5 points to conduct 10-minute counts. Info: susan@cdlandtrust. org or 667-7820.

Wenatchee Riverfront Railway train, 9/1, 10 a.m. – 2 p.m.

Ride the mini train. 155 N Worthen, east end of the railroad pedestrian bridge. Cost: $2 Lake Wenatchee Fire and Rescue Auxiliary’s Yard and bake sale, 9/1, 9 a.m. – 4 p.m., 9/2 9 a.m. – 1 p.m. Sales by donation except for silent auction items.

Fire Station 93, 19015 Beaver Valley Rd (next to Beaver Valley School in Plain).

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Lauchlin MacLean and the ‘Big Ditch’ Talk of the need for a ditch

to irrigate all of the Wenatchee Flat had bounced around Wenatchee for years but in 1888 it looked like something might just happen.

In March a meeting was called to start a plan. A small group of farmers and businessmen met at Sam Miller’s store at the confluence.

Mr. B.C. Bonnell, an engineer and town resident, was asked to conduct a survey for a “Big Ditch” beginning just east of Leavenworth to carry Wenatchee River water to the Wenatchee Flat and provide an estimate of the cost of such a project.

Bonnell deemed the project feasible. His cost estimate, which later proved to be accurate, was much higher than expected and proved to be prohibitive and beyond the means of the small community. The project went no further.

The completion of the Shotwell/Gunn Ditch in 1891 re-energized the talk of a “Big Ditch.”

A second effort was made to find funding for the project. This time, community-issued bonds were proposed as the revenue source. This approach also failed. Ten years passed before the idea came back again.

The agitation for a “Big Ditch” heated up again at the turn of the century when 1900 began. It was a census year and the results showed 1,100 white people in the Wenatchee Valley south of the Wenatchee River with 451 of them living in the town of Wenatchee. The Valley was growing but without irrigation the Wenatchee Flat would languish as a dry, dusty place of struggling vegetable gardens and the odd cluster of fruit trees.

By 1901 word had spread throughout the valley about the construction of the 26-mile long irrigation canal between Selah and Moxee in the Yakima Valley.

Eight thousand acres were under irrigation.

That same year Lauchlin MacLean opened a real estate office in Wenatchee. He also actively joined the push for a “Big Ditch.”

Lauchlin MacLean, of Scottish descent, was born in 1856 in Prince Edward Island eastern Canada. He came to Washington Territory in the mid 1880s with a party of railroad survey engineers and worked as a brakeman and conductor for the Union Pacific railroad and for the Northern Pacific between Ellensburg and Pasco.

Soon he was appointed Land Agent for the Northern Pacific Railroad. For a time he sold insurance in the Seattle area then opened real estate offices in Seattle, Yakima and Spokane.

It was in Spokane that he became interested in the Big Bend country.

About 1888 he began developing a 2,000 acre cattle ranch along Foster Creek above Bridgeport. The cattle killing winter of 1889/90 nearly wiped him out but he persisted and eventually rebuilt his herd and ranch. In 1889 he also built and operated the cable ferry crossing the Columbia where Beebe Bridge now stands.

In 1891 MacLean partnered with Judge Joseph Snow and his wife, Sarah Snow to plat and develop the town site of Chelan Falls. He formed another real estate company and sold $40,000 to $50,000 of lots in the new town and re-invested all the proceeds in improvements including the Chelan Falls Hotel built that same year.

He also partnered in the

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...without irrigation the Wenatchee Flat would languish as a dry, dusty place... founding of the Chelan Falls Leader, later the Chelan Leader, to publicize the new town.

In 1891 he bought the town site of Lake Side on Lake Chelan. In 1897 MacLean homesteaded 160 acres across the Columbia from Chelan Falls and proved up on it in September 1903.

But before that, in 1901, he came to Wenatchee. John Gellatly, a fellow Scotsman, described MacLean as, “In every particular a Scotsman. He had the swinging gate of a Scotsman, he had a cheery gesture for friend and foe alike.”

After months of discussion in the community, a meeting was called in the fall of 1901. John Gellatly recalled that 30 or 40 businessmen and land owners attended and proposed that $250 be raised to pay for surveys to determine how far up the Wenatchee River a ditch would need to begin to create a gravity powered system to serve all the un-irrigated land from the headgate to the Wenatchee Flat.

A committee of three men, including John Gellatly, was charged with raising the necessary funds.

Gellatly recalled setting out with L.V. Wells to canvas the town. The first businessman we called on “was a saloon keeper.

We explained to him all about our mission, but he was very disinterested and proceeded to dismiss us in rather discourteous language and stated further that he had no money for our “blan-

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kety-blank” schemes.

“We then called upon a small merchant, He gave us a suspicious look along with some depressing language. Eventually he opened his cash drawer, withdrew a $5 gold piece and threw it on the counter with the statement that he had just as well throw it into the Columbia River so far as any good it would ever do.”

Wells and Gellatly persisted and did, finally, raise the money.

The survey was made and with that in hand Lauchlin MacLean traveled to Yakima for a meeting with William T. Clark who had overseen the construction of the Selah/Moxee ditch. Clark was impressed with the proposal and sent his two engineers, Marvin Chase and C.C. Ward, to Wenatchee to take a look.

Chase and Ward brought back positive and optimistic reports with a cost estimate to Clark who immediately went in search of financing for the project.

They appealed to Robert Livingston, head of the Oregon Mortgage Company. Livingston, within days, visited Wenatchee to see the lands to be irrigated and the route the canal would follow.

Livingston agreed to provide $225,000 secured by signed contracts from the affected landowners promising to pay $60/ acre annually for water rights and give the Oregon Mortgage Company a first lien on their land as guarantee of payment.

Getting the signatures proved to be far more difficult than anticipated.

“Farmers,” as Gellatly wrote, “as a whole are the most conservative class known to the business world.”

Objections were many; the

“When the news became generally known that the Highline Canal would be built, the whole population of the little community really went wild.” $60/acre was exorbitant and almost none were willing to give the first lien.

The task of gathering signa-

tures dragged on for months.

Gellatly recalled that, “One landowner and his wife were in my office a whole day before I could induce them to sign on the dotted line.”

Weeks passed. Many of the men working to get signatures became resigned in the belief that, once again, the “Big Ditch” would never be built.

Lauchlin MacLean was not among the doubters. He kept his plans secret from the rest of the committee, ferreted out the names of absentee landowners and embarked on a letter writing campaign to sign them up.

He said nothing to his fellow ditch advocates until he could announce that the required number of contracts had been signed. With that accomplished, financing was assured.

Gellatly wrote, “When the news became generally known that the Highline Canal would be built, the whole population of the little community really went wild.”

He goes on to point out it was the “eternal persistence” on the part of Lauchlin MacLean that got the job done, adding, “It is only fair to say that Mr. MacLean was, in all respects, the

leader par excellence in the well nigh momentous struggle to win the support of the landowners.”

Construction began in 1902 with crews of men bearing shovels, picks and horse drawn machinery to scrape and dig and form the canal. One hundred and sixteen years later the water still flows.

Historian, actor and teacher Rod Molzahn can be reached at shake. speak@nwi.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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When parks should be pillows A true story written by Julia Scott

Ah, summertime… Being

neighbors in addition to best buddies, Colleen and I used to “sleep out” on either lawn nearly every night of the summer in the 1970s.

And if it rained, no problem, we just grabbed our sleeping bags and pillows and moved onto the porch.

Before bed every night, we each gathered our hair into a ponytail on top of our heads, rolling sections up with curlers, which made a big bun. It was an unorthodox method of curling hair, but after all, when you read this story, you’ll conclude we were unorthodox girls.

We had my dog, Scooby, and a bunch of kitties named after all the Charlie Brown characters, who slept in our mobile beds with us. In the morning, if anyone called, “Heeeere, kitty, kitty, kitty!” cats came shooting out like fireworks.

Often our sibs joined us, but at times it was just the two of us, plus pets. We were the diehard sleeper-outers.

On one such occasion, we gazed at the stars and listened to crickets, talked about music,

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It was all carried out in the clandestine merriment of doing something that, we knew, if our parents found out, would get us drop-kicked into next week. boys, makeup, and other topics of considerable importance for longer than usual.

Normally we’d have nodded off by then. But not that night.

We must have been loaded with sugar or something, because we were saucer-eyed wi-i-ide awake.

It was imperative to come up with something to do. Our families were already asleep, so we didn’t want to wake them by going inside. Both of us being musicians, we’d brought our guitars out, so we sang John Denver, Jim Croce. Doobie Brothers, and the Eagles.

Subsequently, to my surprise, Colleen chirped, “I know — let’s go to the park!”

“The PARK?! In the middle of the night? I-i-in our PAJAMAS?” I asked incredulously.

“Come on!” she exclaimed, while all I saw was the back of her, trotting daintily across the lawn.

Well, she’d come up with some pretty splendid ideas before, and I sure didn’t want to miss out on one, so I followed in hot pursuit.

(I certainly didn’t want to risk damaging her faith in me as a strong accomplice.)

It was only two blocks to the park. (Nothing is very far when you live in a small town.) Sur-

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prisingly, we arrived without a hitch.

I admit there was a certain lift, all right — thrill, in sneaking around. If they’d have found out what we were doing, our parents would have had a fit, and we’d have each been rolled into a ball and SHOT FROM A CANNON. That woulda wiped the silly grins off our faces.

We swung in the swings. We slid down the slides. Spun on the merry-go-round. We sang from the glider swings — things we hadn’t done in five years.

(Not long in the entire scheme of things, yet when you’re in your mid-teens, it’s a third of your life.)

Besides, teenagers on playground equipment? How unDIGnified. We certainly wouldn’t want to be seen in the light of day that way.

It was all carried out in the clandestine merriment of doing something that, we knew, if our parents found out, would get us drop-kicked into next week.

Nevertheless, it WAS dangerous — almost anywhere else, we reasoned. But this was Pomeroy, folks, our “Mayberry”. And this was the 1970s, the age of innocence. (???) For heaven’s sake, we didn’t even have a stoplight.

If a letter was mailed within town, we simply wrote “City.”

And if any kids were seen off school grounds during class time, boy, heaven help them because the phone in the home of the wayward student would be ringing off the hook. Party lines sprang into action — our mothers transformed into an ominous and sinister mafia in a nano-second.

We trotted on barefoot tiptoes back to our sleeping bags, us wayward girls in our summertime pajamas and bouncing

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curler buns.

Now we live in a day where some kids do menacing things for kicks Julia Scott, a we’d never Wenatchee resident, still breaks even have into spasms of dreamed random laughof, but we ter as she recalls thought we’d the hilarity of really pulled many treasured memories. She is one over, currently writing and we did these memoirs of it a few more her life... though times that she now makes a summer and conscious effort to stay in bed at night. the next.

We did have our close calls. But if you were ever a teenager — and if you are reading this I have reason to believe you were, you know that barely skidding around disaster equaled excitement and intrigue.

Scooby and the kitties never told.

But you’d like to bebop right on over to our parent’s houses and spill the beans, wouldn’t you? Too late.

We told our moms when we were past the domestic statute of limitations. They were shocked. And justifiably so. But laugh they did. “If we’d have known you girls were traipsing around in the middle of…”

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