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10 kicking horse by the numbers

Andy Dappen goes on another ski trip... where runs were long and scary steep

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12 still rockin’ after all these years

What do rock ’n’ rollers do when they grow up? These band members got professional jobs, but then kept on rocking

14 train fan

He knew he could, he knew he could, he knew he could build a scale locomotive in his well-equipped shop

16 from ukraine to wenatchee A journey of hope and courage

18 finding freedom in small business

Andrea and Tom Lynch are happy vendors of their sustainably produced goods at Pybus Public Market

20 The get-away-cabin that became home

A happy job change allows family to move from Mercer Island to a log home in Forest Ridge Art sketches n Art entrepreneur Ron Evans, page 30 n Theater producer Bonnie Van Hoven, page 33 Columns & Departments 24 Pet Tales: Walking with the big dogs 25 Bonnie Orr: Hip, hip, hooray for horseradish 26 June Darling: Better loving this Valentine’s Day 28 The traveling doctor: Aging and living extra years 30-35 Arts & Entertainment & a Dan McConnell cartoon 36 History: Dry, dry Quincy 38 Alex Saliby: Stories from the tasting rooms February 2017 | The Good Life

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Year 11, Number 2 February 2017 The Good Life is published by NCW Good Life, LLC, dba The Good Life 10 First Street, Suite 108 Wenatchee, WA 98801 PHONE: (509) 888-6527 EMAIL: editor@ncwgoodlife.com sales@ncwgoodlife.com ONLINE: www.ncwgoodlife.com FACEBOOK: https://www. facebook.com/NCWGoodLife Editor/Publisher, Mike Cassidy Contributors, Brian Mitchell, Steve Tidd, Andy Dappen, Cary Ordway, Duane Kaasa, Jaana Hatton, Emily Millard, Donna Cassidy, Bonnie Orr, Alex Saliby, Jim Brown, June Darling, Dan McConnell, Susan Lagsdin and Rod Molzahn Advertising manager, Terry Smith Advertising sales, Donna Cassidy Bookkeeping and circulation, Donna Cassidy Proofing, Dianne Cornell Ad design, Clint Hollingsworth TO SUBSCRIBE: For $25, ($30 out of state address) you can have 12 issues of The Good Life mailed to you or a friend. Send payment to: The Good Life 10 First Street, Suite 108 Wenatchee, WA 98801 For circulation questions, email: donna@ncwgoodlife.com BUY A COPY of The Good Life at Safeway stores, Walgreens, Mike’s Meats at Pybus, Rhubarb Market, Martin’s Market Place (Cashmere) and Dan’s Food Market (Leavenworth) ADVERTISING: For information about advertising in The Good Life, contact advertising at (509) 8886527, or sales@ncwgoodlife.com WRITE FOR THE GOOD LIFE: We welcome articles about people from Chelan and Douglas counties. Send your idea to Mike Cassidy at editor@ncwgoodlife.com

Morning breaks over the columbia By Brian Mitchell

Most mornings start slow.

I often take my time getting out of bed, slowly dragging myself towards the coffee pot. Not on this morning. On this morning I arose with vigor and determination. I had decided the night before that I would wake early to go take photos on the Columbia River.

As I gathered my equipment and strode from the house, I noted how clear and calm it was in the twilight. Perfect for sunrise photos. There is a certain peacefulness that settles in on mornings like these. In a way I think that this is what I seek out almost more than the photo. I made it to the dock with just a little time to spare. The sun was slowly starting to peek over the horizon. I’ve got my camera settings where I like them and I started to shoot. My serenity turned into focus

and the pictures I envisioned became a reality on the camera display in front of me. This is why I do it. You can see more of my work in person at Stones Gastropub or online at https://www.facebook. com/thehinterlandphotography and on Instagram at hinterland_ photography.

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MIKE CASSIDY

Too fast, too fast to be known Over a Friday lunch of clam

chowder and beer bread at a local restaurant, a friend and I were talking about — of all things — how our TV viewing habits have changed. “I laughed the first time I read that many tech-savvy viewers today watch TV with a computer on their lap,” I told him. “And then that evening, I went home, and while streaming an Irish police show, I said to my wife (who was watching TV with me while playing a video game on her iPad), ‘Hey, we’ve seen that actress before. What program was that?’ “And so I reached for the laptop sitting on the end table next to the sofa, looked up the actress’ name, found other shows she had been in, googled them, followed some links and that’s how now I often watch TV with a computer on my lap.” My friend laid down his spoon, and replied: “I watch the Seahawks with a computer in my lap checking out stats and other games and then I’m on my phone texting with my son in Seattle about the plays. “We all now have A.D.D. (attention deficit disorder),” he said. “We can’t be doing just two things at once.” And that’s why when Ingrid Millard called a few days later to pitch a story idea, she had me in the first sentence. Essentially, she said that a Wenatchee man, wishing to be a minister, went to Scotland for training, where he fell in with people who believed that to get more out of life — to really know life — they needed to go slower. Now, the minister — Matt Canlis — was returning to

Wenatchee to share his findings with a local congregation and had created a short movie to explain the concept to a wider audience. And so that’s how the article on Godspeed and pastor Matt came to find a home on page 35 in this issue. I am guessing if you should attend the free showing Feb. 26 at 7 p.m. at the Liberty Theater, it would be a good idea to turn off your cell phone and leave the laptops at home. Or, in the words of singing philosopher Paul Simon: Slow down, you move too fast You got to make the morning last Just kicking down the cobblestones Looking for fun and feeling groovy

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ot and cold runs February. Cold on the outside, hot on the inside. This month still offers plenty of snow fun — such as a lowcost guided snowshoe hike around Squilchuck State Park — with a touch of the hot, like the chili cook-off at Pybus. You can also dream about your house or remodel of the future at the BNCW Home Show (stop by and say “Hi” to us at The Good Life booth), or enjoy reenactments celebrating some of the characters of Wenatchee’s entertainment past. Whether you’re inside or outside, there’s plenty to do this month. Check out these highlights from our calendar: Rumors —The Music Theatre of Wenatchee perform Neil Simon’s Rumors. Directed by John Mausser. Riverside Playhouse. Tickets: numericapac.org. Continues Thursday through Saturday, Feb. 2-4, 7:30 p.m. (See story on Rumors producer Bon-

nie Van Hoven, page 33.) Guided Family Snowshoe Hike — Learn the basics of

snowshoeing, while exploring established trails and discussing winter ecology. Hillary Schwirtlich, membership and education coordinator, will guide the group along familyfriendly trails while sharing fun and interesting information and answering questions along the way. Squilchuck State Park. Cost: $7.75 adults, kids $5.50. Sign up: cdlandtrust.org. Saturday, Feb. 4, 10 a.m. – noon. Koho Radio Chili cook-off — This is the public’s chance to

taste and vote on the region’s tastiest chili from some of the top restaurants and chefs in north central Washington. Admission and sampling is free. Pybus Public Market. Info: pybuspublicmarket.org. Saturday, Feb. 4, noon – 1 p.m. BNCW Home Show — Town

Toyota Center. Cost: $6. Info: towntoyotacenter.com. Friday through Sunday, Feb. 10-12. Wenatchee Valley Sportsmen Show — Fly casting clinic,

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and accessories, guides and lodges from all over the Northwest and more. Town Toyota Center. Cost: adults $8, kids 6-12 $4, under 6 free. Info: towntoyotacenter.com. Friday through Sunday, Feb. 24-26. Auction for the animals

— Dinner and auction. Signature drink will be The Purple Cow, entree, green Paul Pugh, as Guppo the Clown. salad, sides and dessert. Wenatchee Conby Jeff Heminger; musical vention Center. Cost: $55. Info: theater director Pam Cole is wenatcheehumane.org. Saturportrayed by Sue Lawson; and day, Feb. 25, 5 p.m. Wenatchee Youth Circus founder and director Paul Pugh is People of our past — Livportrayed by Ettore Castellente. ing history this year focuses Wenatchee Valley Museum and on our valley’s entertainment Cultural Center. Info: wenatchecommunity. Music Theatre of evalleymuseum.com. Free shows Wenatchee founder Joan VanSaturday, Feb. 25 at 10 a.m. and 2 Divort is portrayed by Grace p.m. and at 2 p.m. Sunday. HisLynch; KPQ Radio founder tory-themed dinner and show at James Wallace, Sr. is portrayed 6 p.m. Saturday for $35.

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Full tilt Always more, bigger, better for athletic dad and family By Steve Tidd

Dr. Doug Milner is a tech-

savvy dentist, who is always looking for ways to provide better care for his patients. His dental practice, Fibonacci Smile, employs 12 people, and is a bustling center of activity that anchors the ground floor of the Waterworks Building at the foot of Fifth Street. The industrious nature of Doug’s practice is what most people see, but Doug applies that same level of industriousness to whatever he does. He puts the same amount of effort for instance, into his community involvement with the River Academy, the Festival of Trees, and Grace City Church. He has been described as a “very busy guy,” “well-rounded” and “a perfectionist.” That drive to succeed shows in all of his endeavors. His family is a primary focus, and with a family of four girls

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and one son, he and his wife Tami are plenty busy with all of the activities they are involved in. But even with a busy practice and large family, Doug still finds time for athletic pursuits, and like the rest of his interests, he goes at them full tilt. From Doug’s perspective,

a run is never just going out jogging, and a ski outing is never just the opportunity to get outside and go skiing. There is always more, bigger and better. You are more likely to find him backcountry skiing fresh powder than downhill skiing on groomed runs. Or why simply

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Doug Milner: ‘These moments are electrifying’ The moments leading up to that release are filled with intense emotions of excitement, fear, dread, worry and hopeful expectation. As a support person you can feel that energy, as a competitor it’s almost overwhelming. Did I sleep enough this week? Did I hydrate properly? Will I cramp on the course today? What if I have a flat on my bike? Did I bring my running shoes? Oh no, did I forget my spare tube? Did I train hard enough? Who will I be racing against

today? Will I be last? Do I have a shot at being on the podium? Every nerve ending feels primed to respond. We have our favorite song list we blare over the car speakers as we begin to approach the race venue. Songs like Hall of Fame and Lose Yourself. We rack our bikes, arrange our running shoes and take one last nervous pee prior to donning our wetsuits and heading down to water’s edge. We often huddle together with our #1 fan and gear

Sherpa, Tami Milner (wife and mother of this crazy crew) as well as any other family members and close supporters for one last prayer before taking our place at the starting line. These moments are electrifying and it is one of the reasons many of the adrenaline junkies are lined up beside us. However, to have the privilege to experience and partake in these moments with my own daughters is something I know I will treasure for years to come.

that he should challenge himself to a race composed of swimming, biking and running. What he learned was that he was not just challenging himself, but that he and Abbi were pushing each other in competitions. “My dad really pushes me in

the bike” said Abbi. “I can swim faster than him so I get out of the water first, but I know that he is back there and gaining on me in the bike.” Shortly after Doug committed to training and racing triathlons, Doug’s daughter Amanda jumped into the mix. What they

discovered is that they all liked the idea of hanging out, training together, and making lifestyle changes that would help them perform better. The three of them became a consortium of triathlon buffs, discussing things like how to do quick repairs on their bikes,

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Kicking Horse by the numbers Looking for more snow, skier andy dappen heads north where the runs are long and oh so steep By Andy Dappen

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years back had me frustrated. Thanks to snowmaking, the home skiing at Mission Ridge had been tolerable but, frankly, most of the skiing around Washington was poor. North of the border in British Columbia, however, the precipitation we had received in Washington as rain had come as snow falling softly on cedars. In many places the Canadian snowpack was normal so the real problem was how to decide. Did we want the mountain with the best powder (Red, Whitewater, Revelstoke), best Nordic and Alpine combo (Silver Star), sunniest weather (Apex, Sun Mountain, Panorama), most demanding terrain (Kicking Horse, Fernie, and Revelstoke), or prettiest women? In the end I chose Kicking Horse, above the town of Golden, because of its numbers. It had twice the vertical and 2.5 times the acreage of Mission. On a normal year it’s got twice the snow of Mission — this particular year it had four times the snow. It also had five times as much steep terrain. Finally, it had been 10 years since I had last skied it. I called my friend and local skier, Matt Dahlgreen, and we decided to pay a visit. Following are my notes from our visit… Matt’s a better skier than me but he’s also more anxious.

Today he’s obviously fighting mental demons as we ride the gondola from the base of Kicking Horse to the top station, a ride spanning the resort’s 4,100 vertical feet. This mountain is shaped something like a closed fist with the palm down. The knuckles are the peaks, the dimples between knuckles are the bowls, and the fingers of the fist are the east-west ridge systems separating the bowls. Drop off the fingers in one direction and you ski north-facing slopes into the bowl below; drop off the opposite side of the finger and you ski south-facing glades into a different bowl. Our mutual friend, Jake Birchard, skis the mountain often and during our first gondola ride up he’s reciting the names and the allure of dozens of steep lines we might sample today. He’s also pointing out dozens of lines the locals ski that, for us, are synonymous to suicide. The drops within our ability, however, are plenty menacing. Most of the entrances to the lines Jake thinks we should sample are scary steep and, given today’s firm conditions, a botched turn at the top may result in a rapid slide that will deposit a botched body at the bottom. Meanwhile the lines we won’t ski usually entail jumping outcrops and/or straight-lining chutes to access slopes where we can actually imagine making turns. Twenty years ago only a hand-

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... given today’s firm conditions, a botched turn at the top may result in a rapid slide that will deposit a botched body at the bottom.

ful of Old School skiers would call these lines skiable. Now they are common fare for New School hotshots. Matt’s teeth are clenched and his gaze is somber — he’s wondering whether following Jake will end with an ambulance ride. During our first plunge down Jubilee, the initial turns are dizzyingly steep on very firm, packed powder. The snow takes an edge but an unplanned slip onto nylon ski pants will result in a zip-line descent of some 600 to 700 vertical feet. After four or five turns, which feel like giant sideslips rather than giant slalom turns, the slope dials

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back enough to alchemize fear into fun. This pattern keeps repeating itself over the hours ahead. Jake leads us to the edge of a precipice. “Don’t go straight down,” he’ll say pointing with his pole. “See how the slope rolls over a little cliff?” Those words will form dark clouds on Matt’s brow. “Take a few turns, and then traverse left into that slot,” Jake will continue, while moving his pole to a new target. Then, before mutiny can form in the ranks, Jake will drop off the lip, make a few turns, and work left. No sweat — a textbook dem-

ABOVE: Jake Birchard finds a pocket of fresh snow to lay down tracks.

onstration of what’s expected. Matt, with his please-let-mesee-my-wife-again look, will follow. Then I, will bring up the rear silently whistling Gordon Lightfoot’s Canadian Railroad Trilogy — a song these mountains bring to mind and one that quells my mind through distraction. The Stairway to Heaven Chair services two of the four bowls forming the top of the resort but many of our ridge drops deposit us below the bottom station of that chair. That means many of our forays leave us skiing the ski area’s 4,100 vertical feet back down to the base of the gondola.

Because it’s been many days since the mountain received fresh snow and because some of the recent days were warm, the lower half of the mountain is armored in ice our ski edges just barely penetrate. On the razor’s edge between controlled turns and wild sideslips, we plunge downward. Many of the “intermediate” blue runs on the lower mountain like Kicking Horse, Wiley Coyote, Grizzly Paw, Buffalo Jump and Big Ol’ Bear, might be rated black at Mission so we dub them purple. This is also descriptive of what our sides might look like if we lose a ski edge and give the slopes a Canadian hip check. On one ride skyward we share the gondola with a Canadian couple from Quebec who have skied Kicking Horse for several days. The woman has an alluring French lilt. “Zee snow I dink iz behter at homme on Mont Sant Ann. Maybee we should half skied zehr — dis montain iz February 2017 | The Good Life

sooo intimiedating.” She’s cute and I want to follow her, but Jake is beholden to a colder mistress. Whereas Monique exits left at the top, Jake branches right and soon has us gliding down CPR Ridge and standing above Derail. Matt and I share a half smile — we are gaining a measure of confidence that, in our own wild and unsightly ways, we can navigate these slopes without causing a train wreck. Much farther down, we finally find ourselves on Gentle Ben, a green cruising run that has actually been churned with grooming machines and allows us to effortlessly sink an edge. “Thank God!,” Matt yells, “Please give me more easy cruising runs!” His prayer falls on deaf ears and we ride the lifts back to the steeps up high. A little after 3 p.m. when the shadows are growing long and our legs are growing weak, Jake suggests we sample the newer terrain in Super Bowl, the most southerly of the area’s bowls and one that was not open when I last skied Kicking Horse. Thinking this will be yet another double-diamond episode, Matt says he’ll find an easier line down and meet us at the base. Jake assures us this will be to our liking, “It’s the easiest of the bowls ... kind of intermediate really.” Only later when I study the trail map do I notice there’s not a single intermediate line down Super Bowl, just two black-diamond runs and a hail storm of double-diamond routes. Nonetheless, Matt and I bite on the bait and off we go. We choose a line that’s only half intimidating and are managing it well until, halfway down, the light goes flat. What had been fun becomes disorienting. We survive the bowl and move into the aptly named Crazy Legs, a black run with big frozen bumps that go on, and on, and on... The light is flat and the mowww.ncwgoodlife.com

Kicking Horse details Kicking Horse, 8.5 miles from Golden, BC, is a resort serious skiers will want to visit soon after skiing the province’s biggest star (Whistler-Blackcomb). The resort boasts 2,825 acres of terrain, 4,133 vertical feet of gain, four large bowls, and an average of 300 inches of snow per winter. The drive from the Wenatchee Valley to Golden takes 8.5 hours, making it about two hours longer than driving to Bend, Ore., and marginally closer than driving to Sun Valley, Idaho. For information about skiing, lift tickets, and on-mountain lodging, see www.kickinghorseresort.com. To research the many other dining and lodging options 15 minutes away in the town of Golden, see www.tourismgolden.com or www.tripadvisor. com. guls bash me around like bumper cars. Eventually that run ends and we peer down another steep bump run, also appropriately named Terminator. The bumper car treatment continues and our legs get pushed beyond crazy into the realm of rubber. Finally we hit a gentle cruising run traversing back to the gondola. “I’ve rediscovered the joy of groomers,” Matt tells me as we glide side by side. We catch up to Jake who stands straight and strong on steel legs while we wobble beside him. “We have time for one more top-to-bottom run,” he announces. Matt and I give each other a conspiratorial look. “You’ve got time for one run,” I correct him, “We’re calling it quits before this mountain calls in our number.”

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a Waterdog practice is a little like holding a Rotary Club meeting with musical instruments. Take drummer Greg Wright, past president of the Washington Realtors who has also served on the Board of Directors for the National Realtors. Now Managing Broker at Nick McLean Real Estate Group, Greg’s a church-going family man with seven kids who is caring for an eighth. Don’t know if you could say all that about Mick Fleetwood. Lead guitar player Tyler “Shaggy” Freeman has the long hair and guitar licks to be a true rock and roll star, but turns out he’s a contractor who builds custom homes. He runs his own crew and is responsible for some of the finest dwellings in and around the Brewster area where he resides. I’ll bet Jimi Hendrix never built a house in his life. Lead singer Cathy Morehead is the aforementioned “baker” and is known far and wide for her catering business that began

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has been a rewarding complement to my other work, and my daily KPQ radio show on Northwest travel — heard statewide — dates back to the mid-1980s. The only member of Waterdog who has actually made a fulltime living playing rock and roll is Steve Barone, our second lead guitarist. For many years, Steve worked with local bands and, in some cases, toured. So Steve is the Real Deal among the other five wannabes. Steve is also my label mate — meaning we both were in rock groups back in the late 1960s that released records on Wenatchee’s Julian Records label and, in fact, Steve and I once competed in a local band competition when we were just 16 years old. As you might expect, a group with so many professionals and entrepreneurs is all business when it comes to weekly rehearsals. There are heavy discussions about marketing, the direction of the band and how

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TRAIN FAN DUPLICATING A â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;BEAUTIFUL PIECE OF MACHINERYâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; TO SCALE By Duane Kaasa I am the type of person who just likes to make things. I have always been that way. My current project (one of them) is a 1/8-scale live steam locomotive that I am building from scratch. I have always had more hobbies than I can afford. By building things myself, I can play with toys above my means. The real play for me is in the building. There is also a sense of accomplishment that goes with completing projects. The full-size locomotive (UP 844) that I am modeling is the only American-built steam engine in the United States that was never retired. Union Pacific used it for steam blasting ice off the rails in one of their main yards for several years. After that, it was restored to full glory for excursion use. It is a truly beautiful piece of machinery. Last summer we were able to get a tour of it at the UP yard in Cheyenne, Wyoming. I was able to get lots of close-up detail pictures. I needed these since I am in the detail stage of construction. A project like this was sort of a bucket list thing for me. My wife and I went to a triennial meet at Train Mountain in southern Oregon in June 2006. Train Mountain is the largest miniature railroad in the world with 37 actual miles of track. Some 370 trains from all over the world were at this meet.

Duane Kaasa figures he is about 85 percent complete on his working scale locomotive, with a tender where the engineer will sit, built to match the only American-constructed steam engine that has never been retired (see model, top).

I was hooked. I have lost about two years with moving and with medical issues but have been working on it ever since. As I had never built a steam locomotive before, I spent six months gathering info before starting to make drawings and parts. I purchased a set of plans from a kit for a similar locomotive just to see how things were done. I soon learned that a lot of the big kit stuff, which I could not afford anyway, was not as true to scale as I wanted. Plus, construction is not a problem, as I have my own machine shop including a lathe, a milling machine and a CNC mill. I also had a lot of steel and aluminum stock on hand. I have done design and build-

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The kit parts available would cost close to $100,000 and my goal was to build it from scratch for about $10,000. ing of machines and tooling for 40 years so it was a natural fit for my abilities. The kit parts available would cost close to $100,000 and my goal was to build it from scratch for about $10,000. Since I had no real basis for this cost estimate I have done quite well. It will end

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up at about $15,000. Part of this cost over-run is because I have hired some of the work done like having the boiler welded by a pressure vessel certified welder. I am also buying some detail parts like the headlights at $325 each. At one-eighth scale the engine will end up close to nine feet long and the tender will be a bit over five feet for a total of about 14 feet. The weight will be near 3,000 pounds total. When finished and in operation, the engineer will sit up front on the tender with feet on foot pegs at the very front of the tender. The roof of the cab will hinge up to allow access to the controls in the cab. There are eight valves on the

steam manifold in the learning how everything cab. These control most works then duplicating of the functions of the everything in miniature. locomotive. These include I think I am at about controlling the water 85 percent complete and injectors for adding water plan/hope to run it next to the boiler while underfall at the ‘’Fall Colors’’ way. meet at Train Mountain. The boiler is made They have six meets each from a length of 10-inch year. I then hope to have diameter steel pipe with it finished and fully de3/8-inch wall thickness. tailed the following June All the rest of the boiler is for the 2018 Triennial 3/8-inch thick steel plate meet. The Triennial is the with copper fire tubes big one. swaged in place. I really look forward This is a bit heavy but to lighting the fire and this size engine needs watching the steam preslots of traction. It may sure come up, then adbe pulling as many as vancing the throttle and 24 people on 12 cars up with a blast of the steam a 3 percent grade. When whistle feel the power of Duane sent the boiler out to be welded by a certified welder, but most of the rest of the running on actual scale the train I built. locomotive and tender he made himself in his machine shop that includes a lathe, a milling track, most locomotives machine and a CNC mill. Duane Kaasa and his wife, will pull scale type train Pat, moved to Cashmere three years cars or riding cars that can carry radius. real learning experience. I have ago. “We lived up Merry Canyon passengers. The front and rear trucks on a deep respect for the early near Plain. We downsized a bit and Part of the experience of opthe engine pivot like a trailer but designers who created these manow I have a more crowded shop erating a working scale model the axles still have to shift sidechines. The actual fabrication of but I made room for the locomotive project,” he said. engine is just riding on trains ways a bit to fit the track curves. the parts was not as difficult as and looking at the scenery. For The tender, called a “Centipede’’ some builders, the fun comes in is worse yet with seven axles in a running their train. For others row. The front tender truck with it is showing people a good time two of the axles also pivots like a while running their train. trailer being pushed backwards The brakes on the locomobut those axles, too, have to on these Icicle Broadcasting stations. We’ll broadcast both tive and tender are air operated shift. home and away games for the basketball seasons. from a control lever in the cab. I have many parts finished There is a compressor and air that are not installed as yet. tanks located in the front half of Most of the complex valve gear Panthers Boys & Girls the tender. The lever in the cab is finished and ready to install. I applies air pressure to both the have boxes full of parts to fit and locomotive and tender brakes. make work. The rear half of the tender is a Recently, I have been workwater tank to make steam. ing on the cab and the tender. Brewster Boys & Girls The engine will be fired with Except for the hinges the cab propane. A boxcar will be towed is about complete. Now I can behind the tender that will carry go to work on the steam piping two 7.5 gallon horizontal proand the brake piping from the Brewster Boys & Girls pane tanks. The propane prestender to the cab and all points sure regulator and control valves forward. are in the front of the tender in This has been the largest projHear the games live and available on our station’s online audio streams. easy view of the engineer. ect I have ever taken on. That The tightest track curve includes building an airplane. ICICLE BROADCASTING, INC. radius at Train Mountain is 75 It has been a lot of fun and a KOZI feet. Even though my target is a Know of someone stepping 75-foot turn, I did a scale layout H O M E T O W N R A D I O off the beaten path in the showing a 50-foot track radius search for fun and exciteto determine the amount of side ment? E-mail us at editor@ play needed in the axles and ncwgoodlife.com trucks so it could fit around this

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From Ukraine to Wenatchee: A journey of hope and courage

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y neighbor first introduced me to Olga Lisewych in September 2015 so I could hear Olga’s fascinating life story. We quickly became friends despite our 40-year age difference. What especially connects us is that we are both immigrants. While Olga came to the United States on a stomachchurning sea voyage that lasted eight days in 1943, and 40 years later, I flew over the Atlantic in eight hours while watching a movie, there is one thing that we both share: the belief that we can succeed if we try. Olga remembers sleeping in their barn to hide from the Russians. She remembers marrying a man she didn’t know and moving to Germany and finally, the Jaana Hatton, United States, born in Finland into an uncerand now a U.S. tain future — citizen, immigrated to our but never once country in 1983. hesitating. She takes a Looking special interest back today, she in people who have come to the smiles despite United States to the many start a new life. hardships she and her family had to endure. Olga was born in 1920 in Prysivtsi, Ukraine, and the Polish-controlled Galicia region. The following year the central and eastern section of Ukraine fell under Russian rule and suffered through one of the Stalinimposed famines. Millions of Ukrainians starved to death as the Communists confiscated pri-

Above: Olga taking a break at the meatpacking factory in Germany in the 1940s. Left: Olga on her wedding day with her new husband, Michael (to her left), posing with the groom’s family in 1942.

vate farms in order to establish collectivization. To their good fortune, Olga’s family lived in the Polishcontrolled Ukraine, able to retain their productive farm and enjoying adequate food supplies. They had milking cows, chickens, geese, ducks and plenty of vegetables from the expansive

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garden. Olga’s family enjoyed honey from their own bees and a basement full of potatoes, grown on their fields. She has no memories of going hungry as a child. “We used goose down for our bedding. That’s the only good kind, as it doesn’t get wet,” Olga explained about their self-suffi-

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ciency. “Chicken feathers don’t work at all.” The security of Olga’s life began to shatter in 1939 when the Russians invaded Poland and took control over eastern Poland, including Galicia. Ukrainian farmers were forced to give up their lands for the good of everyone and give rations of agricultural produce to the government. The long arms of collectivization had reached Olga’s home town. “We gave the government milk and grain, with no right to refuse,” Olga recounted those times of dramatic change. “At times, we children were sent to the barn to sleep in hiding. There were a couple of loose planks on the wall of the loft, and that’s where we hid from the Russians.” The Soviet militia used to come to Olga’s house at night and demand that their father, Theodor, harness his horses and give the men a ride on the wagon. It was usually to apprehend some unfortunate Ukrainian who had done or said the wrong thing, or had withheld some potatoes or wheat from the authorities. Neighbors often betrayed each other in hopes of gaining favor with the Russians. Despite the turmoil in Ukraine, life went on with the framework of normalcy. Olga went to school, the first four years in her hometown Prysivtsi, and then in the nearby town of Zboriv. “At that time, not many girls continued their education past the first four grades. But my parents wanted me to have an education, and I, along with two other girls, finished the last three years of it in Zboriv,” Olga recalled. “It was about a mile away, and we walked there every

They arrived in New York with 15 dollars and a suitcase only containing their son’s clothing. day. Sometimes, in bad weather, my father harnessed the horses and treated us with a wagon ride to school.” In 1941 the Nazis invaded Ukraine, pushing out the Russian occupiers. Nothing good came from this: the Russians destroyed homes and land as they retreated and the Germans turned out to be another menace. They were not the liberators many Ukrainians had hoped for, but brutal enemies, instead. The Germans looked down upon the Ukrainians, considering them as disposable as the Jews. Germany tried to lure Ukrainians to come to work, as World War II was going on and manpower within Germany was scarce. Some Ukrainians went willingly, but many were taken forcibly to work like slaves. One of the volunteer Ukrainians was Olga’s husband-to-be, Michael. In 1942, the young man visited from Germany to see his family in Ukraine. He needed transportation from the train station to get his luggage home, and came to Olga’s house to ask Theodor for a wagon ride. Michael’s house was 14 km away. Not much later, in three weeks, there was a wedding to unite Olga and Michael. “I was in tears at my wedding,” Olga reminisced, chuckling. “I didn’t know him, or even like him. I didn’t want to get married — I was happy at home. And there I was, pushed into a life with a stranger who was 10 years my senior, an old man to me.” Olga’s family organized the marriage for practical, if not life-saving purposes: to get Olga

Olga in Wenatchee today with her son Jerry and daughter-in-law, Judy.

away from the war. Theodor knew the Russians would soon return, along with the imposition of the Communist system. Olga understood, but was not happy. “When you are young, you just do what you have to. I wasn’t afraid,” she pointed out. Upon the Germans’ retreat from the Ukraine, the Russians made sure to destroy as much of the land and homes as they could. (Later, after Olga and Michael had settled in the United States, she discovered that her father and brother had been sent to the freezing gulag of Soviet Siberia. For seven years, the two men suffered terribly. In 1953, upon the death of Joseph Stalin, they were allowed to return. Because of his poor health, Theodor died soon afterwards. Due to the Cold War at that time, Olga could not go to Ukraine to attend her father’s funeral.) The marriage turned out to be a friendly companionship, and they did well in Germany. Olga and Michael worked in the same meat-packing factory, Fleischwerkshaft, in Ansbach, enjoying hearty meals at the February 2017 | The Good Life

workplace and saving money. They used their food ration cards, Lebensmittelkarte, to buy coal instead of food, and lived relatively well. Ansbach, a small agricultural town with no military importance, did not suffer any Allied bombings. Even though life in Germany was decent, the war had taken its toll on everything and everyone. Postwar Germany was economically destroyed. Many “Displaced Persons” wanted to emigrate, mostly to the United States or Canada. By now Olga and Michael had a young son, Jaroslaw (Jerry), to think about. They filled out the necessary paperwork and with the help of Ukrainian friends already in the United States, soon found themselves on an old military troop ship “General Ballou,” crossing the Atlantic. It was a rough eight-day journey on the turbulent seas. “We were sick for the first three days on that ship. Their coffee smelled so good, but I didn’t dare drink any,” Olga recalled the voyage. “Only our three-year-old Jerry was fine.” They arrived in New York with 15 dollars and a suitcase only www.ncwgoodlife.com

containing their son’s clothing. “I felt stupid at first,” Olga said. “We didn’t speak a word of English, had nothing and knew no one.” They first settled in Ambridge, Pennsylvania, where the Ukrainian Greek Orthodox church helped them find a rental home. Things slowly fell into place. As the years moved on, Olga and Michael found work where they could. Michael worked long hours at various meat packing factories, Olga cleaned offices, banks and homes into the wee hours of the morning. “Sometimes I only slept four hours, but I wasn’t tired. I had never been poor in Ukraine, and I wasn’t going to be poor anywhere else — so I worked,” Olga said with a proud smile. In 1970 they moved from Pittsburgh to Hollywood, Florida, to run a 32-room hotel called the Polk Street Hotel. Because the hotel was so close to the local Greyhound station, there were plenty of customers for their establishment. “If you had asked me then what the weather was like on that day, I wouldn’t have known. I just worked in that hotel. It was hard work,” Olga explained. After three years, they decided to sell their business — and with the good profit of $30,000. They bought a smaller, long-term apartment building. The work there was easier, and they kept it running for 17 years. They finally retired in Palm Bay, Florida. After Michael’s passing in 1991, Olga only lived in the house for three more years before deciding the hurricanes made house maintenance too hard for her. With the help of her only child, Jerry, Olga purchased a condo apartment in Wenatchee, to be close to family. She now lives at a local care facility, enjoying the social and professional benefits of assisted living. “People ask me how I’m always happy,” Olga said, smiling. “Well, I just am. It’s been a good life.”

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ing anybody in the southern states,” Andrea confessed of her visits. “It was especially difficult at Buffalo Wings where you had to take orders over the speakers.” She felt the work periods were a good experience, overall, and a good push for her to get out of her comfort zone. Tom jumped ship from his steady job with the Douglas County PUD as an IT professional to begin a very different life with his wife. One of Tom’s friends pointed out that “it was really smart or really stupid.” Tom can tell you which one he thinks it is. “People talk about benefits and a steady income,” Tom said. “We feel good about working for ourselves, not for the paycheck.” “Financially, we are now better off than with our previous jobs.

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“We really don’t miss our old jobs.” What’s more, we have freedom and flexibility — there is a balance in our lives,” Andrea added. Tom already had a website established for the jewelry, but they wanted to be out with the public selling their products. They went to a craft show in Moses Lake and set up a table at Chelan’s Art in the Barn, trying out different locations to see how things would sell. “Shows and markets are nice, because you get to talk to other vendors,” Andrea Some of their jewelry — such as this explained. necklace — is made of Tagua seeds from They first set up their disEcuador. play at Pybus Public Market on Sept. 30. Now they come daily and enjoy the growing “We really don’t miss our old customer base. jobs,” Tom said without hesitaBesides Tagua jewelry, Andrea tion. and Tom also sell 100 percent They seem happy spending evAlpaca shawls and purses. They ery minute of the day together, are hoping to add table cloths working or relaxing. and summer dresses to their “I guess we picked well,” Tom selection. said. “I feel good about selling They have clearly defined roles Tagua products because the in their small business: Andrea whole process is sustainable is the administrative branch and and eco-friendly,” Andrea said. Tom takes care of the creative “And it helps support families side of things. Their personaliwho make it all by hand. I know ties are equally distinct: she is the people who do the carefully calm and organized while he crafted designs.” bursts with restless energy. Tom and Andrea are handy, As different as they are, they themselves. Tom makes a hot share a common desire: to exsauce which they sold $400 plore ways to be happy on their worth at Packwood Market. own terms. They are currently too busy to pursue the hot sauce sales, but >> RANDOM QUOTE are pleased to know it could be successful. Andrea also likes to make her own soap and deodorIf you do what ant. you need, you’re They aren’t completely dependent on the jewelry sales. Ansurviving. If you drea does online administrative do what you want, work and Tom is a professional you’re living. photographer. But, they both work without ties to any comUnknown pany. February 2017 | The Good Life

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The get-away ski cabin that became a home Looming large from the outside, the house is actually cozy and efficient on the inside. The building on the left is a garage with bonus space, and the walk-out basement provides a family rec space and the kids’ rooms.

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place is not a “ski house” just because it’s five minutes from the chair lift. Or because it’s got the iconic beams and slanty snow roof of an alpine chalet. Or because winter weekend parties might include a day on the slopes. It’s a ski house because all four members of the Platt family adore the sport. They live and breathe skiing, with shelves of trophies, an at-ready boot warming rack and year-round socializing with fellow ski families attesting to their devotion. That devotion means skiing has also driven some major family decisions. The sturdy cabin perched on a Forest Ridge hillside was originally meant to be a getaway and a solution to a commuting problem. Trekking their athletic and ski-bedazzled kids to Mission Ridge ski lessons and practices

The long cedar island and a strategic column nicely delineate the two downstairs rooms — both are open to the upstairs “learning loft” with its art and computer stations. Peeled 16-inch cedar logs support the post and beam house throughout.

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The great room offers lots of wood, lots of light and all the comforts of home, including the much-used piano and guitar. The fireplace was a purchased unit, but its facing was a special find of a cache of slate, which the Platts installed themselves.

back and forth from Seattle would be so much easier with a second home. Dad and mom could keep the west side jobs (in law and engineering) and the children, who’ve skied seriously for five years and have both outgrown

their local lesson options, would have optimum training time on a top-flight ski team. Teresa and Brian had it all figured out, both on their busy calendars and in their pocketbooks. They conceived of the cabin in 2010 just as the housing

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market was dipping precariously, so they knew they had to keep to a strict budget or they’d be “underwater” price-wise. Teresa sketched plans for the compact three-level, four-bedroom retreat with a log cabin designer who knew the tolerances

of post and beam construction and had also had connections with Smokey Point Log Homes, near Marysville. That year even big builders were lying low, reluctant to mobilize for a single job, but they

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The ski cabin that became a home }}} Continued from previous page agreed to build the Platt house. Brian is glad they chose that company. “Some log home places just drop the materials at your site and you’re on your own. This company assembles it, break it down, brings it over and does all the heavy lifting.” Literally, they lifted the massive, 16-inch diameter Douglas fir beams that characterize the house visually and hold the entire structure firmly in place. When their work was finished, said Teresa, “It was just one big open air structure.” The overall construction beyond the superstructure was handled by general contractor Paul Satterfield, using handmilled materials provided by Teresa’s father Erwin Mallernee from his woodlot on the west side. His rough-cut exterior siding, planked from 100-plus year-old downed cedar trees, was stained gray to create tree bark color, and more refined boards were used for all the interior trim. He even provided the dramatic 18 foot-long live-edge kitchen bar. Worried that length was too long, he ensured success by bringing over three in case one split. (One did. The non-split spare is stored in the garage). Determined to stay in smart budget mode, Brian and Teresa did much of the end work themselves, finishing up the electrical work, painting, staining and tiling (again with Dad’s help) and installing floors. The tough weeks of sometimes tedious handwork and a steep learning curve were ultimately very satisfying and countered by the fun of bargain-hunting, digging for deals. They found shingles from a planing mill in Forks at one-

ABOVE: The house-wide deck features a bump-out for a bit more comfortable dining and some visual diversity. The woods surrounding the development were thoughtfully thinned last year to lessen the chance of fire danger. LEFT: The efficient kitchen (with its natural wood kitchen bar, below) tucked under the loft was furnished with some serendipitously-scrounged components. Saving on counter tops and cabinets allowed leeway on other fixtures.

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He’s since become a regular on early-morning Pangborn flights connecting to the Bay Area and Europe, and when he comes home, he comes home to the quiet woods of Forest Ridge. third price, an apple bin full of fireplace slate for $200 dollars, a massive estate sale chandelier for $50, short “unusable” scraps of solid maple flooring, kitchen cabinets still in the box, deeply discounted, left over countertops (called “paper stone” and granite hard). The last choices, the interior colors and finishes, contribute charm and intimacy to the house. Hefty timbers and boards surround the structure, but warm, creamy yellow paint on the walls catches and holds light. Having saved big money on building materials, they chose luxury for some creature comforts: plenty of cushy seating, super-soft carpeting, heated bathroom tiles, lovely fixtures like a freestanding oval tub, a deep farmhouse sink, wrought iron spot-lighting fixtures and an almost sculptural ceiling fan. Brian and Teresa are proud of the choices they made and the labor they contributed (though they admit had they known what was coming, they would have liked a bigger kitchen and more closets). Brian advises first-time homebuilding couples, “You need to have a shared vision from the very beginning, but you also need to be flexible. And keep a close eye on every step of the process.” Their process took 18 months from design to door keys, and

Teresa and Brian, top, and Hadley and Owen pose on their loft staircase. Their busy lives are calendar-driven, but their home place is a quiet refuge. (Lily the new kitten was pleased to be photographed; Terry the pound-hound declined.)

was completed in August of 2012. The Platts were adjusting to their two-town commute between city home and country

cabin when a serendipitous job offer changed everything. Brian joined a Switzerlandbased company as an intellectual properties attorney, which

meant that his workplace was no longer Seattle but the world. He said, “We figured, if I’m going to travel so often, why not just make Wenatchee our home base?” He’s since become a regular on early-morning Pangborn flights connecting to the Bay Area and Europe, and when he comes home, he comes home to the quiet woods of Forest Ridge. Teresa, a civil engineer, took the home place helm to become a 24/7 mom and home school teacher, chauffeuring Owen, 12 and Hadley, 10, to frequent Mission Ridge ski team practices and to Valley Academy a few days a week. Brian recalled days of driving one hour from Mercer Island to his office in Seattle four miles away. He realizes Forest Ridge may seem back-of-beyond to some downtowners but says, “This 20-minute drive down a good road into Wenatchee is nothing compared to city traffic.” The Platt family’s part-time cabin has evolved into their fulltime home, and their strong social and civic connections will continue to reflect, for at least a few more years, the children’s passion for competitive skiing. Living in Wenatchee, however, means that opportunities to get outdoors to hike, bike, kayak or climb are also close at hand. The Platts definitely are not one-season nature-lovers — they’ll all be out in the woods or on the water as soon as the snow clears.

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Horseradish warms a gray February Horseradish, Moringa oleif-

era, is easy to grow. And that really is the problem. This relative of wasabi, cabbage, mustard, beets and radishes makes itself at home in the garden once it has put down roots. It has the potential of becoming a garden thug and can be difficult to eradicate. However, the zing of horseradish would seem to make all its garden misbehavior worth it, wouldn’t it? The real challenge of growing horseradish is not its culture but its preparation. You have to be sturdy, tough and determined to dig the roots, then clean, peel and grind them to make the base for horseradish sauce. I think it is necessary to “suit up” before peeling and grating or grinding the roots. The volatile fumes wreak havoc on sinuses and eyes. If you are going to go to that much trouble, and believe me, it is trouble, you need to process at least 10 pounds of roots. That produces about four quarts of creamy white horseradish. Let’s see. Most recipes call for 1 tablespoon of horseradish sauce — there are 16 tablespoons in a cup, four cups in a quart and there are four quarts. My gosh, you have produced 256 tablespoons of horseradish — you had better love the stuff! The better option is to buy a modest-sized bottle of prepared horseradish. It comes in mild, hot or extra hot depending on how much and how soon vinegar was added during its processing. Some brands contain mustard or mayonnaise as well. Most brands are the creamy style. My favorite is a plain horseradish. In the same way I love the spicy hot of watercress and rad-

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ish, I love horseradish. The heat dissipates faster than the hot kick provided by capsicum that peppers such as jalapeño contain. One of the advantages of using horseradish is you can cut back on the amount of salt called for in a recipe. The best homemade horseradish I ever ate was served by my hostess at a home stay in Transylvania. She cooked beets and added butter and horseradish. It brought tears to my eyes and was delicious. Horseradish can add spark to so many dishes from mundane meatloaf to exotic Eggs Benedict. Horseradish is more than an optional condiment; it is an important ingredient. One tablespoon makes us forget February’s cold and gray. (Other things that brighten February and go with horseradish are: n A pitcher of Bloody Mary’s n Deviled eggs or omelets n Enchiladas February 2017 | The Good Life

n Guacamole n Reuben sandwich n Potato salad n Coleslaw n Salmon and any seafood n Beef, beef, beef) Beef, especially roast beef, is horseradish’s most common partner. When Dan Kuntz told me about his slow-cooked brisket that called for eight ounces of horseradish, I knew why we get along so well. When we are not talking gardening on Green Thumbs and Dirty Knees, a program we do on NWC LIFE Television, we are talking food. Heat dissipates a great deal of horseradish’s’ kick but the long cooking leaves the pungent aroma of the root. Dan uses a crockpot so dinner is ready after his long day at the studio. This dish also can be cooked in a slow oven (300 degrees) or on the stovetop.

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3 tablespoons oil 3 pound beef brisket or boneless Chuck eye roast 1 1/2 teaspoons salt 2 tablespoons flour 1 eight-ounce bottle of prepared horseradish. 1 large onion

coarsely chopped 2 carrots coarsely chopped 2 stalks celery 2 cloves garlic 2 potatoes, peeled and quartered 1 cup beef stock 1/2 cup red wine 1 tablespoon vinegar Black pepper

Sprinkle the meat with salt and let sit for an hour. Save the juices that drip out. Heat the oil in a large frying pan. Dust the meat with the flour and brown it on all sides in the hot oil. Remove the meat from the pan and coat it with the horseradish. Lay the onion, carrot and celery in the bottom of the crockpot or roasting pan. Pour in the beef stock, drippings and red wine. Place the meat on top of the veggies. Add the potatoes. Cover very tightly and cook on low heat for 4 hours. Serve with crusty bread and a salad. Bonnie Orr — the dirt diva — cooks and gardens in East Wenatchee.

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ing about this thing we call “love” for many years. I’ve read various theories and definitions of love from theological, romantic, philosophical, psychological and biological perspectives. I’ve researched the many benefits of being able to give and receive love. I’m coming very close to proclaiming that learning to love is THE most important thing we can do to live the good life. Yes, I know that’s what many philosophers and spiritual thinkers have been saying for hundreds of years. And I’m getting it. But all that enthusiasm for love doesn’t bring us any closer to knowing how to do it. What we need to know is how. I don’t know about you, but I’m interested in the general how-to of loving others not only for the purpose of living the good life together — for enhancing our general well-being as a species; but also to keep us from harming each other. I’d like to figure out a way to keep us from blowing ourselves and our planet to smithereens. As I’ve examined the research, I think there are probably many paths to learning to better love each other, but three recent methods stand out. One method comes from Dr. Barbara Fredrickson who has shaken up the psychology world by her thoughts and research about what love is, the benefits, and especially about how to go about getting better at loving

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each other. For Fredrickson love is those small moments of connection and resonance between people. According to Fredrickson if we want to better love each other, then we need to value meaningful connections and create more opportunities for meaningful connections to happen. Fredrickson has tested her “connection” method with good success. Basically, she advises people to start off the day with the intention of creating three meaningful interactions. At the close of the day she asks people to reflect on the degree to which they were successful in having these connections. But how does one go about having a meaningful interaction? Fredrickson advises certain behaviors and attitudes like eye contact, approaching others with goodwill, respect and warmth, listening and being present and sharing in response to others’ sharing. You can find out much more about the Fredrickson’s approach and success in her book Love 2.0 as well as on the internet. The second method for developing love was devised by Dr. Arthur Aron and has recently gotten a lot of press for its success in bringing strangers closer together. The idea is people become closer to each other as they disclose themselves at deeper and deeper levels. Dr. Aron and colleagues developed questions

Gables’ research shows better loving seems more about paying attention to others’ GOOD times... to provoke self-disclosure. The specific 36 questions Aron devised are widely available on the internet and in books, but Aron says the questions aren’t all that important; it’s vulnerability — the opening up to each other, seeing commonality in each other and appreciating each other that’s important. The third method of loving each other builds on the work of Dr. Shelly Gable. Gable points out that most of us think better loving involves being attentive and responsive to others during their low periods, during the bad times. Gables’ research shows better loving seems more about paying attention to others’ GOOD times and celebrating with them. Celebrating with others might involve asking others to expand on their good times, letting them relive the good moments, generally helping others savor their high moments. However we love, in the general sense it comes down to not treating the other as an object (an “it”) to be manipulated, but a subject (a “thou”) as Jewish philosopher Martin Buber explains it. When we love, the person we love is a unique and appreciated center of value. Seems simple enough when we think about it, but as most of us know, loving people can be tough, confusing work. This article won’t solve all the issues associated with how to love each other, but it can help. February, the month of love, reminds me to continue reading and thinking about love, and especially to practice loving others even though I may not have all the answers. Maybe you see the

importance of loving others too. Any of these methods — purposefully connecting with others, disclosing yourself and inviting others to disclose themselves to you, and being responsive to others’ good times are something we can experiment with this month. It certainly can’t do any harm and has the potential for doing a lot of good for others as well as for ourselves. Here are a couple of interesting thoughts from Stephen Post on how loving others develops us in ways we may not have thought about. Post is a professor of preventive medicine at Stony Brook. He says in addition to all the health benefits often touted around love (lower blood pressure, better immune function, increased heart health for example), we rarely realize that loving others keeps us from getting bored. Post maintains selfishness and self-focus keep our worlds small and uninteresting. As we begin loving others — desiring their well-being, we become much more interested and engaged in their world. Most of us can recall stories of when love for others has broadened our understanding. My world was certainly broadened when our son married a girl from the Chinese mainland. My affection for my daughterin-law has provoked me to

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learn much more about Chinese culture. Beyond opening us up to new worlds, Post says when we love others and see their suffering, we often shake off our malaise and develop our talents in ways we could have never imagined. As I was returning home from South America on a Delta flight, I read a feature article about a guy named Jake Wood, a former U.S. marine, who had founded a group called Team Rubicon. Team Rubicon gets vets involved in disaster relief and has brought many out of depression as they look beyond themselves to helping others. The immense suffering around the world seemed overwhelming at first. But the vets have risen to the challenge, providing disaster relief to many (including to us here in north central Washington during the fires in Pateros). February is the perfect month for focusing our attention on love. Even if we don’t have all the answers, we do have some very good ideas for connecting with others that can help us move forward. How might you move up to the good life by learning how to better love others? June Darling, Ph.D. can be contacted at drjunedarling1@gmail. com; website: www.summitgroupresources.com. Her books, including 7 Giant Steps To The Good Life, can be bought or read for free at Amazon.com.

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jim brown, m.d.

Living extra years, thinking about today Recently the National Center

for Health Statistics reported that the overall U.S. life expectancy fell more than a month last year to 78.8 years, the first decline in two decades. For males it was 76.3 years down from 76.5 years and for women it fell a month to 81.2 years. It looks like my wife can breathe easy for a few years, but for me I am already living “on borrowed time.” Heart disease and cancer are the top causes of death. Death from heart disease increased by 1 percent while the death rate from cancer fell by 1.7 percent. There was a 3 percent increase in the category called “unintentional injuries,” which included traffic accidents and drug overdoes that often involve younger victims, which can strongly affect the overall numbers. In some ways, I am not surprised by these death rate statistics. Obesity, America’s major current “epidemic,” plays a large factor in our nation’s health, contributing to heart disease, stroke, diabetes and even cancer. Unfortunately, we are one of the most obese nations on earth. Despite these statistical worries,

The United States ranks 43rd out of 224 countries for life expectancy. We are perhaps the richest nation on earth, and that makes our relatively poor statistics difficult to understand. babies born here in 2015 are still expected to live 2 years longer than those born in 2000 and 10 years longer than those born in 1950. The United States ranks 43rd out of 224 countries for life expectancy. We are perhaps the richest nation on earth, and that makes our relatively poor statistics difficult to understand. We spend 18 percent of our GDP on health care, more than any other country, yet we have dismal statistics to show for it. Some have suggested we need to divert some of our health care expenditures elsewhere,

including more educational opportunities or raising workers’ take home pay in an attempt to reduce the disparity between the haves and have nots, the educated and less educated. We know, in general, more education brings higher incomes and, usually, a healthier life style. Reading these statistics recently started me thinking about my “living on borrowed time” and assessing the remaining time ahead of me. Obviously, no one knows when his or her life is over, which I think is a good thing. Recently, I had some unexpected health issues. My routine annual physical turned up some abnormalities, and as a result, I ended up seeing four different doctors, had x-rays, cat scans and other tests at Confluence Health. While the findings were not fatal, they did show I had some limitations that would affect to some degree what I was able to do from a physical standpoint. I’ve been lucky to enjoy excellent health except for a bout of prostate cancer some years ago. Sometimes it takes a wake-up call to change one’s perspective. Cancer definitely does that for most people as it did for me.

This recent health concern, although not life threatening, was another wake-up call for me. I decided not to dwell on any limitations but continue a healthy life style and take my mother’s sage advice, “live one day at a time.” The question is how best to live one day at a time? Many of us have spent our lives planning for the future. At some time that is no longer relevant. Living each day to its fullest becomes the goal. That does not necessarily mean doing something all the time either. Many times it requires us to slow down, spend time in quiet meditation or prayer. For several years I have subscribed to Father Richard Rohr’s daily meditations. They inspire me and have made me think a lot more about the present moment. Richard Rohr is a Franciscan priest who lives in New Mexico. His daily meditations and books have changed my thinking and my life in many ways. I read them the first thing every morning, and then I spend some time in meditation, prayer >> RANDOM QUOTE

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ments quickly that way. Non-dualistic thinking is both/and. According to Rohr that is the only way we can become our true selves. I am working hard on that, and find it is comfortable and comforting as well as challenging. I know reality isn’t just black and white. I need to look beneath my first impressions to discover the both/and. Does that mean we give up our principles and what we believe is truth? No, but it means we learn to appreciate there are many different ways to understand. It

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on Evans is not bragging. He’s just explaining. “I think I was the first-time lucky winner of the coveted Eastmont High School Academic Suspension award. I’d failed my senior year, and they offered me another year of high school to make up credits. I figured that would make me 20… so I just split.” That was 1994, and in the years since, Ron has parlayed his curiosity, talent, resourcefulness and drive (what he calls “chasin’ the hustle”) into a self-taught marketable skill in advertising design and an enviably flexible and diverse art life. He said he was a terrible art student, didn’t want to learn anything he didn’t know, and he didn’t know much. But teacher Phil Yenney saw something there, and engaged him in stimulating conversations about art. It was a few years into his acceptably mature, working, married life when a chance viewing

Ron Evans in his gallery: Looking to move and expand his gallery while growing as an art entrepreneur.

of a single art video reminded him how much he really loved working with media and using his imagination, and so that’s what he did. Ron’s work is genrespecific: “pop surrealism.” H.R. Giger, Escher and then Warhol broke all the rules with its first iterations, and 50 years later it’s been distilled and extended into not only paintings and drawings but found art, collages, assemblages, digital graphics and “kitbashing” figures that don’t defy the midstream art world but coexist happily outside of it. Pop surrealism may not yield the painting everyone wants to hang Elizabeth’s Shadow Theater — digital illustration above the couch, but it’s not a closeted inner-circle like, on media, sexuality and oddity anymore. gender, politics, environment, The themes are often postbig industry. apocalyptic and dystopian with It’s the whole of mass culture commentary, sometimes razorthat many other 21st Century like, sometimes sledge-hammer- artists also tackle. And some-

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“I just wanted to show my own stuff to friends, in the ground floor of my house.” times the work is just beautiful, or just wacky, goofy, fun. Ron wasn’t so sure Wenatchee was ready for his first art exhibit a few years ago. “I just wanted to show my own stuff to friends, in the ground floor of my house,” he said. By midday 100 people had trooped through the small space on Grant Road, named RadarStation, and after the many thank-you’s and the I’m-gladthis-is-here’s (“A few people said they’d ‘come home’ at last!” Ron said), he decided to make a go of

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The Mighty Pacific — acrylics on canvas

it as an actual… gulp… art entrepreneur. This year he and working partner Rhia Foster are movin’ uptown (downtown Wenatchee, really, into the Material Things space) with RadarStation, creating a new storefront gallery that will offer art, music, designer cocktails, healthy tapas and more art. “And regular business hours,” said Ron, who’s glad to be a good business neighbor. Ron’s not basking in anything like contentment, and he shudders at the thought of conventional success, warning wryly, “I must not be left to my own devices.” He’s most creative when he’s hungriest, he said, and he needs that tension to keep moving. And keep moving he does — in addition to hosting artists from the region and beyond in the soon-to-enlarge gallery, after his work at the Wenatchee World he edits RadarStation quarterly art magazine, publishes graphic comic Edgar Rue, does regular podcasts with some band members and creates online multi-instrumental albums in his digital studio (“Lushly produced,” he promised). Albums? Band members? Yes. Though he’s had to forgo regular gigs, Ron’s group, The Bloody

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Writer’s competition, all submissions must be postmarked by 2/17. Cash prizes. Categories are nonfiction (essay, article, or memoir on any theme or subject) and fiction (short story on any theme or subject), each with 1,000 word limit. Info: writeontheriver.org. Write on the River, writing contest: 1,000 word limit, $100 cash prize. No entry fee. High school and running start eligible. Judges are five local authors and writing professionals. Deadline: March 31. Info: writeontheriver.org. Weekly Club Runs, every Thursday check in between 4:30 and 6:30 p.m. at Saddle Rock Pub and Brewery. 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). Info: Joel Rhyner 387-0051.

Oranges played here for years. And, no, he didn’t study music in school, ever, just listened to punk rock, then heavy metal. His voice has always been good; he’d even get in trouble for singing too much. “To learn guitar, I would just stop the tape of Stairway to Heaven over and over and then try to make that one sound with my fingers on the strings. It took a long time, but it worked,” Ron said. That’s how he taught himself drums and piano, too. “I play those… sufficiently.” Ron knows he created problems for himself as a teen, but he also knew people believed in him. These years as an artist, musician, gallery owner and publisher — pretty establishment words — have changed him, he said, and he feels the growth he’s gained. “I remember the word that bugged me so much back then when I was a kid, totally uninterested in school — everybody said I had potential. Potential’s a dirty word when you’re in seventh grade. It makes sense now, though.” February 2017 | The Good Life

2 Left Feet, every Thursday, 7 – 9 p.m. 2 Left Feet is a loose organization of local dance enthusiasts who would like to see more dancing in the Wenatchee Valley. Beginner lesson at the top of the hour followed by carefree social dancing. No partner necessary to join in the fun. Dance style will be 1940s swing with a bit of salsa, blues, waltz or tango thrown in. Pybus Public Market. Cost: free. Info: pybuspublicmarket.org. Tread Lightly Fridays, noon. This concept is simple – as a business or employee, do something environmentally mindful each Friday. This could mean riding a bike to work, utilizing a self-container for takeouts, selling locally sourced foods, composting waste, or something else entirely. It can be as simple or complex as you like. This project, as part of the Our Valley What’s Next community visioning and development initiative, aims to help reduce the community’s carbon footprint while having fun at the same time. Participating businesses and individuals will receive attention on the Tread Lightly Friday Facebook page. There also will be classes held to educate businesses on how they can “tread lightly” and save money at the same time. Contact Tandi Canterbury with The Hunter’s Wife Health Bar at 509 264-7466 or tmcanterbury@gmail.com. Jam at the Crow, 7 – 10 p.m.

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Every first Sunday. Special guests Mugsy’s Groove. The Club Crow in Cashmere, 108 1/2 Cottage Ave. Cost: free. Start the season right, 2/2, 6:30 – 8 p.m. Learn about preparation for the gardening year. Great preparation will make the entire gardening year less troublesome. When can you plant what? Can you rush the season? Make a plan for what you want to grow. Create year around color. What do you need to know about your soil, your irrigation practice your light exposure. Join WSU Master Gardener, Bonnie Orr at Chelan County PUD auditorium at 327 N Wenatchee Ave. Film Series: Figures of Speech, 2/2, 7 p.m. This documentary follows a group of high school students from all over the country as they vie for glory in the little-known world of competitive acting, otherwise known as Speech or Forensics. Snowy Owl Theater. Cost: $7 - $10. Info: icicle.org. Rumors, 2/2, 3, 4, 7:30 p.m. The Music Theatre of Wenatchee perform Neil Simon’s Rumors. Directed by John Mausser. Riverside Playhouse. Tickets: numericapac.org. Wenatchee Jazz Workshop presents Jazz night – Pro Night, 2/2, 7:30 p.m. The LA 6 performs. Numerica Performing Arts Center. Cost: $10 - $24. Info: numericapac.org. Wenatchee Jazz Workshop Presents Jazz night – Student night, 2/3, 7:30 p.m. Over 150 jazz students from Wenatchee and Eastmont schools along with the visiting pros will perform, showing what they have accomplished after a week of workshop sessions. Numerica Performing Arts Center. Cost: $10. Info: numericapac.org. First Friday events include: *Two Rivers Art Gallery, 2/3, 5 – 8 p.m. Presenting the artworks of Wenatchee collage artist Chad Yenny plus the works of over 40 local and regional artists. Music by Wenatchee and Hawaiian musician Lance Tigner. Introducing the wines of Gilbert Cellars poured by Northwest Public Radio representative Jamie Huber. Complimentary refreshments. 102 N Columbia, Wenatchee. Cost: free. Info: 2riversgallery.com. *Merriment Party Goods, 2/3, 5 – 8 p.m. Welcome Mickie Files.

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}}} Continued from previous page Mickie is a self taught artist that loves to produce art that is pleasing to the eye. Sips and snacks available. 23, S Wenatchee Ave. Cost: free. Info: facebook.com/merrimentpartygoods. *Tumbleweed Bead Co., 2/3/ 5-7 p.m. Welcome Bonfire Design jewelry to our shop. This bohemian style of rustic jewelry is full of color and variety and is inspired by nature and music. Refreshments served. 105 Palouse St Cost: free. info: tumbleweedbeadco.com. *Cafe Mela, 2/3, 5 - 7 p.m. 12 artists display their works stemming from an intense experiential painting workshop facilitated by artist and local therapist, Diana Sanford. In her workshops students practice setting aside their thinking mind and engage spontaneously. Cafe Mela. Cost: free. Mike Bills, 2/3, 6 – 8 p.m. Live on the Railcar. Pybus Public Market. Cost: free. Info: pybuspublicmarket. org. My Old Man and the Mountain with Leif Whittaker, 2/3, 6:30 – 9 p.m. An engaging and humorous story of  what it was like to “grow up Whittaker”—the youngest son of Jim Whittaker and Dianne Roberts, in an extended family of accomplished climbers. Barn Beach Reserve, Leavenworth. Info: wenatcheeriverinstitute.org. Guided Family Snowshoe Hike, 2/4, 10 a.m. – noon. Learn the basics of snowshoeing, while exploring established trails and discussing winter ecology. Hillary Schwirtlich, membership and education coordinator will guide the group along family-friendly trails while sharing fun and interesting information and answering questions along the way. Squilchuck State Park. Cost: $7.75 adults, kids $5.50. Sign up: cdlandtrust.org. Koho Radio Chili cook-off, 2/4, noon – 1 p.m. This is the public’s chance to taste and vote on the region’s tastiest chili from some of the top restaurants and chefs in north central Washington. Admission and sampling is free to the general public. Pybus Public Market. Info: pybuspublicmarket.org. Night Skiing and Mountain Music, 2/4, 11, 18, 25. On the 4th the Hoyer Brothers will perform, on the

11th, Dynamite Supreme, the 18th Prefunc, and 25th Massy Ferguson. Night skiing runs from 4 – 8 p.m. Mission Ridge. Cost: $20. Info: missionridge.com. Chicks on Sticks, 2/5, 9:30 – 11:30 a.m. 8 KM women’s event. Proceeds go to The Wellness Place in Wenatchee. Participants can skate, snowshoe or classic ski. Prize for best-dressed chick. Refreshments and lots of raffle prizes. Icicle Trails at the Leavenworth Fish Hatchery. Info: skileavenworth.com. Pybus University, 2/7, 7 – p.m. Question, persuade, refer – three simple steps to help respond to a person in need who may be suicidal. This training is designed to teach how to recognize the warning signs, clues and suicidal communications of people in trouble, and how to respond, in order to prevent a tragedy. Pybus Public Market. Info: pybuspublicmarket.org. Art Rageous! 2/8, 7:30 p.m. Troupe of artists, musicians, and dancers pay tribute to a variety of art forms, pop icons, and musical genres culminating in a gallery of fabulous finished paintings, created live on stage. Numerica Performing Arts Center. Cost: $19 - $35. Info: numericapac.org. Movie on the Big Screen: The Book of Life, 2/9, 6:30 p.m. Manolo, a young man who is torn between fulfilling the expectations of his family and following his heart, embarks on an adventure that spans three fantastic worlds where he must face his greatest fears. Numerica Performing Arts Center. Cost: $3. Info: numericapac.org. Film Series: At the Fork, 2/9, 7 p.m. A refreshing and unbiased look at the moral dimensions of farming animals for food. Snowy Owl Theater. Cost: $10. Info: icicle.org. BNCW Home Show, 2/10, 2 – 7 p.m., 2/11, 10 a.m. 7 p.m. 2/12, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. Town Toyota Center. Cost: $6. Info: towntoyotacenter. com. Slim Chance, 2/10, 6 – 8 p.m. Live on the Railcar. Pybus Public Market. Cost: free. Info: pybuspublicmarket. org. Full Moon Ski and Dinner, 2/10, 5 – 8 p.m. Join O’Grady’s Pantry and Leavenworth Winter Sports Club for dinner and a full moon ski at Icicle River Trail. Cost: $15 adults, $7.50 kids. Info: skileavenworth. com.

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Learn about all 4 seasons of gardening in NCW Have you ever wanted a

guided tour through the growing season? So many gardeners wonder: “When do I do this? Is it time for that already?” Your questions will be answered during a new, free series of seminars to be offered in 2017. The four seminars — one at the beginning of each season — are taught by WSU Master Gardener Bonnie Orr. The sessions will be held from 6:30-8 p.m. on various days of the week. There will be handouts for each session. People 16 years or older can attend one or all of them. Thursday, February 2 (Ground Hog’s Day) Chelan County PUD Auditorium at 327 N. Wenatchee Ave. will be the place to learn about preparation for the gardening year. When can you plant what? Can you rush the season? Make a plan for what you want to grow. Create year-around color. What do you need to know about your soil, your irrigation practice, your light exposure? Monday, March 20 (Vernal Equinox). This class will be held at the WSU Community Education Garden at Springwater and Western. It is the beginning of spring, and you will learn about the “bones” of your garden. The various sections of the demonstration garden will provide Red Wine and Chocolate, 2/11, 12, 18, 19. Lake Chelan Wine Valley hums with couples on romantic retreats and friends gather for a much needed winter getaway. Our tasting rooms fill with smiling faces and the sound of surprised delight at each taste of red wine and chocolate. Info: lakechelanwinevalley.com. Chelan District 7 Firefighter Association Gala, 2/11, 5:30 p.m. Dinner, entertainment and an

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hands on, easy to see ways to put together your garden. How do you plan a vegetable garden, site annuals and perennials, create raised beds, be ecologically sound by composting? What plants thrive in NCW with the least amount of problems? Wednesday, June 21 (Summer Solstice). This session is at the Community Education Garden at Springwater and Western. It is summer, everything is growing. How do you care for it to maximize your gardening pleasure? And it is time to think about planting more flowers and vegetables for an extended season to harvest in October. What pests and diseases will you have to deal with? How can you prevent them from overwhelming your garden by using methods most friendly to pollinators? How can you help your garden survive the July heat? Friday, Sept. 22 (Autumnal Equinox). This session is at the Community Education Garden at Springwater and Western. It is time to think about putting your garden to bed. But don’t do it yet. There is still lots of growing time especially for the second season of crops that you planted in early August. How do you save seeds or store your harvest for early winter consumption? When do you apply mulches? What is available for mulches? auction to raise funds for fire and emergency relief as well as increased community awareness and disaster preparation for the greater Chelan Valley. Info: chelanfireaux@ gmail.com. Wenatchee Valley Symphony Orchestra: Sweetheart Musical Soiree, 2/11, 7 p.m. In addition to Valentine-themed chamber music, the evening includes wine, premium appetizers and dessert in

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Bonnie Van Hoven once bitten by the theater bug, she has happily never recovered W

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hen a theater artist responds to an interview request with “Oh, no — there are lots more people who are involved as much or more than me,” you know she’s a team player, and that collaborative instinct is part of what makes her so valuable. Bonnie Van Hoven, currently producing Neil Simon’s Rumors for Music Theater of Wenatchee (MTOW) at Riverside Theatre, is a veteran of years of roles both front stage and back stage, and she’s quick to applaud her coworkers’ efforts. They used to be strangers. In 1992, at the mature age of 41, Bonnie was bitten by the theater bug, a condition several hundred people in the area have experienced. She was totally new to the stage. She said, “My sisters had both been involved in theater, and I admit I was a little bit jealous. I thought I’d give it a try.” Bonnie ventured tentatively into an audition for Carousel. Her first role was singing in the chorus; in the next show, she was a dancer. By training neither a singer or dancer, she acutely remembers that everyone at the theater was so totally welcoming it made her fearless. She said, “I probably had to work a lot harder than other people because it was new to me, but I loved it.” Staying with it, enjoying the camaraderie and the commitment, trying out her skills, she became involved in dozens of plays. The first 20 years with the group was spent mostly on stage in comedies and musicals. There

were also character roles, and she learned that, “I love becoming someone else, trying to figure out who they really are as I play the part.” Bonnie appreciates that most directors give actors free rein to create their individual characters, only correcting them if that vision doesn’t fit. Some parts she’s enjoyed were Aunt March in Little Women and the ditzy homeowner in The Drowsy Chaperone. A strong lead role was the Elwood Dowd’s sister in Harvey; though it was comedy, she found the character’s personality nuanced enough to be a challenge. Bonnie was even awarded the once goofy but now revered Golden Ham award, one of the loving old traditions of MTOW. Annually, the previous year’s winner names the next recipient, who (tongue-in-cheekily) is given the painted plastic pig trophy for egregious overacting. She was delighted to receive it in 2013 for playing Betty Blast in Footloose. Partly because she feels an obligation to the theater and partly because she’s darned good at it, for the last five years Bonnie has turned her attention from auditions and acting to the organization itself. She’s on the MTOW Board of Directors and has also tried her hand at a variety of non-performing tasks. This season’s stint as producer is the biggest job yet: she’s primarily in charge of selling the show and has been at it since October, with all the public relations and promotion activity that entails. Closer to curtain she overFebruary 2017 | The Good Life

On the set of Rumors, Bonnie raises a toast (with a prop glass) to the success of the first show she has produced for MTOW.

sees facilities and cast and crew amenities during rehearsal. Then, from opening night on, she’ll “just make sure the cast and crew are happy, that they’re fed, that everything in the house goes smoothly,” she said. The assistant director (Shawn Peet for this production) assists the director (John Mausser) daily and then acts as stage manager for the run of the show. Bonnie praised that twosome and the creativity and dedication of the MTOW volunteers, from the long-time prop woman to the costumer, the set designer, the graphic artist and dozens more. www.ncwgoodlife.com

Bonnie’s been up close and personal with a lot of theater in Wenatchee and is especially pleased to be producing Rumors. She said, “I saw it out of town years ago, and was doubled over laughing, and it gets funnier every time I watch it! It’s a really fast-paced, crazy comedy full of complications — and the acting is just amazing.” Looking forward to years more in the theater with her old friends and always a few newcomers, bringing to life who-knows-what productions, Bonnie declared, “I’m going to stay with it and work until they kick me out.”

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}}} Continued from page 32 a lovely decorated setting. Numerica Performing Arts Center. Cost: $45. Info: numericapac.org. Chamber Series: A musical Valentine: An evening of Romantic songs, 2/12, 7 p.m. composer include Strauss, Rachmaninoff, Beethoven, Duparc and Britten. Icicle Creek Center for the Arts. Cost: $22. Info: icicle.org. Pybus University, 2/14, 7 – 8 p.m. Wine and Romance. Learn the basics of wine terminology, wine appreciation, why wine is romantic and much more. Pybus Public Market. Info: pybuspublicmarket.org. Janice Franz Talent Show, 2/15-17, 7 p.m. Thirty acts will be competing for a chance to perform on Feb. 17. The winner of the competition will earn awards. This is a fund raiser for Wendy Skalisky to aid her fight against breast cancer. Wenatchee High School. Cost: $10 and donations at the door. Info: janicefranz.com. Fire in the Mountains with John Marshall, 2/15, 7 – 9 p.m. Join photographer John Marshall in learning how we came to experience the horrific fires of the last two years, including the Buck Creek, Wolverine and Table Mountain Fires. Barn Beach Reserve, Leavenworth. Cost: by donation. Info: wenatcheeriverinstitute.org. Film Series: Whole Gritty City, 2/16, 7 p.m. Marching bands in New Orleans teach young members how to succeed and to survive. Snowy Owl Theater. Cost: $12 at the door or $10 advance. Info: icicle.org. The Side Door Band, 2/17, 6 – 8 p.m. Live on the Railcar. Pybus Public Market. Cost: free. Info: pybuspublicmarket.org. Concert Series: Jayme Stone’s Lomax Project, 2/17, 7 p.m. Focusing on songs collected by folklorist and field recording pioneer Alan Lomax, this collaboration brings together some of North America’s most distinctive and creative roots musicians to revive, recycle and re-imagine traditional music. Snowy Owl Theater. Cost: $22 advance or $24 at the door. Info: icicle.org. Have-A-Heart Auction, 2/18, 5 – 10 p.m. Dinner and auction. St.

Joseph School. Info: stjosephwen. org. WDA Annual Dinner, 2/22, 5:30 p.m., Social hour, 6:15 p.m. dinner, 7 p.m. program. Wenatchee Convention Center. Cost: $35 members or $40 non members. Stargazing The February Night Sky, 2/18, 10:30 a.m., 11:30 a.m., and 12:30 p.m. Explore the night sky with planetarium expert Dirk Horton from the comfort of your seat within the planetarium. Barn Beach Reserve. Cost $10. Info: wenatcheeriverinstitute.org. Environmental Film Series: Underwater Odyssey: River Snorkeling with Russ Ricketts, 2/21, 7 p.m. Explore the beautiful underwater landscapes of North Central Washington with images and cinematography by river snorkeler and guide Russ Ricketts. Wenatchee Valley Museum and Cultural Center. Cost: $5 donation suggested. Info: wenatcheeriverinstitute.org. Bird ID skills building, 2/22, 3/8, 7:30 – 9:45 a.m. Come along with naturalist Susan Ballinger on this outing for birders of all levels, from beginner to expert. Hone your field ID skills and learn to contribute to the online birding tool eBird, which lets you track your findings and contribute real data used by scientists to monitor bird populations around the world. Walla Walla Point Park. Info: susan@cdlandtrust.org. Film Series: Fly Fishing film Tour, 2/23, 7 p.m. F3T makes a stop in Leavenworth bringing fly fishing films from around the globe. Snowy Owl Theater. Cost: $15 advance or $17 at the door. Info: icicle.org. Wenatchee Valley Sportsmen Show, 2/24, noon – 7 p.m., 2/25, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m., 2/26, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. Fly casting clinic, hourly door prizes, free fishing for kids, big game display. See the latest in outdoor gear, the newest in fishing boats, motors and accessories, guides and lodges from all over the Northwest and more. Town Toyota Center. Cost: adults $8, kids 6-12 $4, under 6 free. Info: towntoyotacenter.com. Norman Baker, 2/24, 6 – 8 p.m. Live on the Railcar. Pybus Public Market. Cost: free. Info: pybuspublicmarket.org. Opera Series: Live in HD: Rusalka, 2/25, 9:55 a.m. Kristine Opolais stars in a new production of the opera that first won her interna-

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tional acclaim, Dvorak’s fairy-tale opera about the tragic water nymph. Snowy Owl Theater. Cost: $22 advance or $24 at the door. Info: icicle.org. Rock n’ Rowl, 2/25, 2 – 9 p.m. Chelan-Douglas CASA annual bowl-a-thon. Eastmont Lanes. Info: 662-7350. Auction for the animals, 2/25, 5 p.m. Dinner and auction. Signature drink will be The Purple Cow, entree, green salad, sides and dessert. Wenatchee Convention Center. Cost: $55. Info: wenatcheehumane.org. Wenatchee Valley Symphony Orchestra: Fairy Tales, 2/25, 7 p.m. Pieces by Maurice Ravel and Igor Stravinsky that were inspired by children’s stories will be showcased. Wenatchee-native and professional harpist Ellen Heinicke Foster will join in, performing Joaquín Rodrigo’s beautiful Concierto de Aranjuez. Ravel’s warm Mother Goose Suite and Stravinsky’s popular 1919 Firebird Suite will spotlight the orchestra. Numerica Performing Arts Center. Cost: $18-$37. Info: numericapac.org. Concert Series: James Hunter Six, 2/25, 7 p.m. It’s been 10 years since the Englishman James Hunter burst onto the scene with his U.S. debut People Gonna Talk (GO/Rounder 2006), topping the Billboard Blues chart, earning a Grammy-nomination, and attract-

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ing universal acclaim from critics and his fans. Snowy Owl Theater. Cost: $30. Info: icicle.org. People of our past, 2/25-26, 10 a.m., 2 p.m. on Saturday, and 2 p.m. on Sunday. Living history this year focuses on our valley’s entertainment community. Music Theatre of Wenatchee founder Joan VanDivort is portrayed by Grace Lynch; KPQ Radio founder James Wallace, Sr. is portrayed by Jeff Heminger; musical theater director Pam Cole is portrayed by Sue Lawson; and Wenatchee Youth Circus founder and director Paul Pugh is portrayed by Ettore Castellente. Wenatchee Valley Museum and Cultural Center. Cost: free. Info: wenatcheevalleymuseum.com. People of our past, 2/26, 6 p.m. Performance and dinner. Wenatchee Valley Museum and Cultural Center. Cost: $35. Info: wenatcheevalleymuseum.com. Godspeed, 2/26, 7 p.m. A documentary about how pastor Matt Canlis learned to slow down to better connect to people while serving at one of the smallest parishes in Scotland. Liberty Theater. Free. Pybus University, 2/28, 7 – 8 p.m. Honey Bees, Colony Collapse Disorder and Native Bees of Wenatchee Valley. Learn more about the state of the honey bees so important to our valley. Pybus Public Market. Info: pybuspublicmarket.org.

The pace of being known What happens when a city boy, with a pocket full of sermons, lands in a rural Scottish parish? By Emily Millard

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ber One Canyon resident Matt Canlis took off for a short-term adventure in Scotland. He was headed for the University of St. Andrews with his wife for post-graduate work to become a pastor. What they learned there — and what they have brought back with them — has been captured in a short documentary called Godspeed, coming out in February. Matt first coined this term after realizing most people move beyond the speed of God — meaning, they fail to be rooted in a place and with a community where they can be known face-to-face. Matt arrived in Scotland with a pocket full of sermons, eager to help change the Scottish church. What he found instead is that he needed to be reeducated by the Scottish parish system with its aging congregations and old-world mentality. No one was impressed by his education or perfectly crafted messages. Helped by his mentors, Eugene Peterson and N. T. Wright, Matt began to learn anew in a world that only valued things at a leisurely, personal pace. Diving in deeper, Matt became ordained at one of the smallest

filmmaker Danny Lund filmed a 30-minute documentary titled Godspeed just as he was leaving Scotland. Matt said, “It’s a story of how a guy fresh out of seminary with great ideas became rooted in a place and humbled by people. The real heroes are Matt Canlis learned by walking the parish of Methlick, Scotland, the value of taking the time to the people that know people. weaned me off of all the gifts parishes in all of Scotland — in wooden doors, and spoke to (and addictions) that I thought North Aberdeenshire where it welcoming strangers. would make me really effective.” took him six months to underOne person who offered him Even though Matt found godstand the dialect. hospitality was a man by the speed in Methlick, Scotland is As a result, he found himself name of Alan Torrance, a sixnot the greener grass. He says, at the end of Road B999 in a foot-five, kilt-wearing man with “It is about being present to small village called Methlick, flaming red hair. Alan invited where we already are and to the Scotland, at a church that had Matt into his house for tea. (And people we are already with.” been established over 1,600 whisky, if truth be told). The first thing Matt noticed years ago — the same time As Matt was leaving, a Bible was houses in Scotland don’t Rome fell. fell off a bookshelf revealing a have numbers — they have Lacking basic cell phone covpassage of John’s Gospel. Matt names. His pocket full of sererage, this eight-mile by fouroffered to meet with Alan to go mons didn’t help him. What he mile patch of earth would train through John’s gospel. needed to learn was the names him to walk at the pace of being Alan politely declined but, in of the people — their homes and known. response, Matt countered “What their stories. His first day on the job, Matt if we gather some other people Today Matt serves as a pastor arrived as a parish assistant to a who don’t want to read the Bible at Trinity Church in Wenatchee, small church. He asked the head and ask questions together?” where he and his congregation pastor where he would find his Even though Matt was the are trying to translate the wisnew office. pastor, it was in meeting with dom learned from people rooted “Your office?” the pastor asked. Alan regularly that Matt began in the parishes of Scotland onto “Right …” Matt sheepishly reto discover godspeed. American soil. sponded, “I mean, where is your As he was packing up to reA free pre-release screening of office?” turn to his home state in AmerGodspeed will be shown at the “My office?” queried the pastor ica, Matt wished to tell about Liberty Theatre in Wenatchee again. Then the pastor showed his journey and how the Scoton Feb. 26 at 7 p.m. The commuhim the hand-lettered church tish parish taught him to live at nity is invited to join Matt and notice board, listing the pastor’s godspeed. others involved in the produchome phone number as the only Rather than spend limittion of the film for an evening of “office” number that existed. less hours in an office preparcelebration and discussion about “Start walking, Matt. Out there ing spectacular sermons, Matt how to live a life at godspeed — is your office. Get out into the instead has learned to center his the pace of being known. parish.” energy engaging with his parish Emily Millard was born and raised in Instead of phone calls, paper on a slow, daily, and personal Wenatchee. She is a junior at Washdocuments and office hours, basis. This parish is now in ington State University pursuing Matt learned to walk. He walked South Wenatchee. a Degree in Creative Writing with a minor in Communications. After along the cobblestone streets of In an effort to capture everygraduating she hopes to return to Methlick, sauntered up porch thing he had learned, Matt, his Wenatchee to raise a family. steps, knocked on neighbors’ brother from Seattle, and friendFebruary 2017 | The Good Life

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Water for Quincy: Early farmers dug deep The story of Quincy is the

story of water. Quincy author, Faye Morris, described the Columbia Basin as, “an uninviting desert and not a livable land; just a vast cattle range overgrown with sagebrush. Even the Indians by-passed it for there was no water for man or animal.” That may be overly harsh. The land was important to the Indians. Chief Moses included it in his proposal to the government for a reservation. It was part of his people’s traditional lands. Wild horses roamed the country feeding on the belly-high bunch grass that grew with the sagebrush. They drank from the

With the profit from his first crop Mr. Carlock drilled a well. He hit water at 198 feet and erected a windmill. nearby Columbia River and from springs both west and east of present day Quincy. In the 1880s, Lord Thomas Blythe, an Englishman, as well as other stockmen, ran large herds of cattle in the basin. The cattle grazed on the bunch grass and quenched their thirst on snow through the winter. Large bands of sheep also took advantage of the winter pasture. Jack rabbits and coyotes prospered in substantial numbers. Two large springs were espe-

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cially significant. Willow Springs in the canyon north of the Trinidad rail siding (above Crescent Bar) was the site of a Great Northern water tank where early settlers were allowed to fill their barrels for home use. It was also the location of one of Lord Blythe’s corrals as well as a butchering scaffold where cattle were killed and dressed to feed hungry Great Northern workers during track laying through the area in 1891 and ’92. Water could be found in a

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draw west of Ephrata. The area was originally called Beasley Springs and Two Springs. To the east of town the northern end of Crab Creek, now called Rocky Ford Creek, bubbles from the ground and begins its run to Moses Lake. Lord Blythe had his headquarters there and early Quincy settlers hauled home barrels of water from there. In early fall of 1901, Ashael Carlock, his wife and their six children claimed 80 acres immediately south of the Great Northern Quincy siding. That was the beginning of 63 homestead filings during September and October of that year. Quincy was on the map. Mr. Carlock hauled lumber from Ephrata to build his twobedroom house and began the arduous task of clearing rocks and sagebrush from his land. In 1903 he planted it in dry-land wheat. With the profit from his first crop Mr. Carlock drilled a well. He hit water at 198 feet and erected a windmill. In 1904, 12 more wells were sunk by settlers to depths of about 100 feet. To the southwest of town on Babcock Ridge, a 500-foot deep well provided water for Mr. Babcock’s cattle and for several nearby settlers. The promise of water brought more settlers to the budding town of Quincy. However, well water and barrels hauled from springs and the Columbia only served the household needs of the settlers. Dryland farming was still the only way to raise the ever-increasing acres of wheat. The rains were good dur-

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The rains were good during the “wet years” of the early 1900s. A family could make ends meet though they also endured scorching summers with constant wind blowing dust and sand from the newly tilled desert. ing the “wet years” of the early 1900s. A family could make ends meet though they also endured scorching summers with constant wind blowing dust and sand from the newly tilled desert. In 1906 the “wet years” ended. Constant dry heat took over and failed crops drove many settlers out. By 1908 wells began to go dry and families began to move out. Remaining settlers went back to hauling barrels of water from the springs and the river. The need for irrigation water was clear. What wasn’t clear was where it would come from and how it would get to the crops. In response the Quincy Valley Water Users Association was formed with the goal of bringing water to the parched land. The association commissioned a study to identify the best plan to bring the water. The study concluded that Lake Wenatchee was the best source. The water would move through gravity canals from the lake then across the Columbia through a siphon pipe similar to the one bringing Highline Canal water across the Wenatchee River to the Wenatchee Flat. From the east side of the Columbia the water would travel through 30 or more miles of gravity canals to the Quincy basin. In 1914, after much study by state and federal engineers the Washington State Legislature put to the state voters a $40 million bond to build the project. The bond was defeated 2 to 1, primarily due to the high cost of the project. In 1917 a similar proposal,

called the “ditcher’s plan” gained support in the basin. It would bring water from the Pend Oreille River at the Washington/ Idaho border through 130 miles of canals, tunnels and aqueducts to reservoirs in the Quincy Basin. The plan faced off with the “pumpers plan” that called for a dam across the Columbia where water would be raised from the dam reservoir by electric pumps to canals leading to the basin. Supporters of the two plans battled mightily for almost 15 years. In 1921 a thorough engineering study of both plans concluded that the “ditcher’s plan” was economically unfeasible and, instead, supported the “pumper’s plan.” This coincided with growing support for construction of Grand Coulee Dam. In 1934 the plan to build the great dam was approved and construction began. In 1946 construction of the main irrigation canal started. In 1952 the first irrigation water reached 65,000 acres in the northern part of the project. In 1984 the Columbia Basin Project was complete. It included 330 miles of main canals, 1,990 miles of smaller canals and 3,500 miles of drains and wasteways. The water was moved by 240 pumping plants to nearly 10,000 farms.

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Tasting rooms: Sipping stories and wines February is Red Wine and

Chocolate month, and of course all the local wineries will be actively participating. It should be a fun month throughout the area. Do I have a favorite place to taste? Well, yes I do, but you may be disappointed to learn what it is, as my favorite place to taste wine is at home, sitting in my recliner, laptop Word software at hand should the spirit move me. A better question is: do we enjoy visiting wineries and tasting wines in tasting rooms? The answer here is an emphatic, “Yes.” Then which one is our favorite? We have had too many marvelous experiences in a plethora of tasting rooms to single things down to one in any specific location. I do have favorite memories from tasting rooms — here’s a short list of some of the best times. First most memorable moment comes from when we were living in San Jose, CA. We drove to Napa for the first time alone, though we’d been there a few times earlier with friends who were taking us to their favorite spots. This trip was just the two of us, out to explore the young and developing Napa wine region. The famous, “Judgment in Paris” wine competition in which California wines finished first, second and third ahead of all the French competitors in both the red and white wine categories was still five years or more away at this time. Our first stop was at a new building, where the grounds were obviously still unfinished and in process of being landscaped. We entered the building. No

It was unavailable to the world, but it was there for us to sample, to share and to thoroughly enjoy ... one was there. As we looked around the empty room, a man came in, pushing a broom. Seeing us, he stopped and asked: “Hi. Tasting today?” We replied affirmatively, so he led us through the wine tasting. When we had finished, he asked, “Would you like to look around and see where the wines are made and stored?” Just the two of us spent over an hour with him; it wasn’t until later that we learned that our tour guide was none other than Robert Mondavi himself. Early days. I know that has nothing to do with February and Red Wine and Chocolate, but to me, it underscores the reason why you should visit the wineries and the tasting rooms to enjoy not just the wines, but also, the people and the facilities. If you’ve not been to Tsillan Cellars and encountered the company of Bob Jankelson, you’re missing out on a memorable experience. Similarly, how is it possible you haven’t been down to Chelan Estates winery and chatted with Bob and Mary Broderick about their vision for planting grapes and making wine from South Shore grapes. Bob’s grapes are, if memory serves me, 1992 plantings, and the earliest in the area. Or, drive on over to Manson

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and stop in at Lake Chelan Winery to taste wines and enjoy the people. Steve and Bobbie Kludt are not frequent attendees these days, but if you’re lucky, they’ll be there and Steve will talk about his early planting efforts in the region. When you’ve finished at Lake Chelan Winery, pop up the hill to Benson Estate Vineyards. With luck, you’ll have the pleasure of the company of brothers Jeff and Scott. Together, they are a delight in conversation. Get them, if you can, to talk about the days in 2001 and 2002, when the winery was a single building where everything was being done, from creation to end sales. This is history, not just wine tasting. Similar stories abound in other areas. In Wenatchee, Stemilt Creek winery, for example, is in my file of fun experiences. In the year of the winery’s opening, we had the pleasure of visiting there with owner Jan Mathison, who poured for us some of Stemilt Creek’s first barrels of Cabernet Franc… Yum. It was unavailable to the world in general, but it was there for us to sample, to share, and to thoroughly enjoy — both the wine and Jan’s excitement about the winery’s future. If you haven’t as yet made the drive out toward Quincy and White Heron Cellars, and listened to Cameron Fries talk about his trials and tribulations of building his dream in this area, you’re missing an important part of the history of wine making in the Tri-County region. Talk to the man about his vision for planting grapes in an area where, before he got there, you’d find only desert-like growth and a few snakes bask-

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ing in the sun on the slopes above the Columbia River. And, yes, White Heron Cellars will be participating in Red Wine and Chocolate weekend, as will Errant Cellars and Beaumont Cellars. I’ll close this ride down memory lane by recalling our first wine tasting at Boudreaux Cellars back in 2001, when Rob Newsom had taken over the garage at the homestead and was making wines in the building. There were plans, of course, to construct an actual winery, but this was the start up, with barrels in the garage serving as the tasting bar, and carboys of juice sitting around on the floor completing fermentation. There was also an excited Rob the winemaker enjoying the company and sharing information about his dreams for the future. You now can taste Boudreaux wines at the tasting room in Leavenworth, and if you’re lucky, Rob will enter from the back door and saunter into the tasting room to see how things are going. If you get the chance, ask him about the early days when one of his wines was selected by the newly elected governor for the celebration of her recent election success. Yes, you can sit at home on your sofa and read about my memories — and I hope you do — but it’s much better to get out and visit the local wineries and make your own memories. Alex Saliby is a wine lover who spends far too much time reading about the grapes, the process of making wine and the wines themselves. He can be contacted at alex39@msn.com.

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