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Contents

page 16 A window on spain’s past

spring whitewater kayaking

Seeing raging rivers and thinking: “Yep, this looks like fun!”

10 young skating star

There’s more to Liam Kapeikis than double axels and winning ice skating medals... but those are pretty impressive, too

14 Hey, girlfriend: helping women

Junior Service League of Wenatchee helps women and children, with its fundraiser, My Girlfriend’s Closet, coming in March

16 the ladies in spain

Trip starts on the wrong foot, but then these three generation of family members get into the beat

19 Two determined & resourceful blondes They had an opportunity to achieve a dream, but they also had a very tight budget

20 cary ordway: they built this city A conversation with Wenatchee re-builder Rory Turner

24 their way exactly

Tom and Jean Lehecka wanted a house that embodied their sensible earth-friendly ethic of re-use, re-cycle, re-purpose Art sketches n Artist and art teacher Mark Wavra, page 33 n Video artist Oly Mingo, page 37

Columns & Departments 13 Pet Tales: Red Heart day with Tippy 28 June Darling: You can learn to be lucky 30 The traveling doctor: Eat these, too 32 Bonnie Orr: Fresh, healthy pizza for the game 33-39 Arts & Entertainment & a Dan McConnell cartoon 40 History: They came from the south 42 Alex Saliby: Blending can be beautiful

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Ethereal Chill

By Brad Brisbine

Interesting photographs are

often the result of special lighting effects.

Keep a camera close, because a scene you see every day may suddenly be a “Wow moment.”

Move fast, knowing that a spectacular lighting display may not even last a moment, but literally seconds.

This scene is looking toward East Wenatchee from my Sun-

nyslope home. I’ve been blessed with this view for 23 years, but the morning of Dec. 29 it looked different.

A dense, frigid fog hung low at daybreak. Suddenly, warm penetrating light came from above, giving definition to several neighborhoods. Snow-covered foreground roofs in cool shadow gave color contrast.

I grabbed my long lens to not only reach across the Columbia and isolate this view angle, but also to take advantage of the telephoto’s well-known compression of distance, here taking

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Brad Brisbine is a Wenatchee architect who enjoys photography, landscape oil painting, backpacking and skiing. He and wife Jill live in Sunnyslope with their horse and three cats.

On the cover Tom Potter emerges from the entrance to Chaos, a rapid in the Tumwater Canyon of the Wenatchee River. Photo by Christopher Nelson Kelly.

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Luck comes with work gloves “W

e’re not lazy in this family,” said my grandmother, giving me her stern look. “Hard work has never hurt anybody.”

Now, with my teenage body comfortably slouched as I was in a wooden rocker next to the kitchen stove, and one of my legs slung over an arm of the chair, I was perfectly willing to debate with my grandmother.

But for once, my stomach — knowing my grandmother was the only cook in the house — won a tug-of-war with my sassy mouth, and without a word of retort from me, I rose from the chair and headed outside to do my chores.

As much as my grandmother believed in work, she didn’t believe in luck. Which was kind of odd, because in a poor, oftenseasonally-employed family, sometimes “the luck of the Irish” was the only hope we had.

It wasn’t until I had moved away that I learned of the old adage about hard work bringing luck, and even then, I didn’t fully buy into the necessity of the work part of that equation.

Still, I have been lucky in my life, and yes, I suppose looking back some of it was due to hard work. It turns out, my grandmother was correct: Work hasn’t hurt me.

Now along comes June Darling, and in this issue of The Good Life, she talks about luck and that both good and bad luck result from specific behaviors and ways of thinking.

She even lays out principles that can lead to having better luck in your life. It’s not exactly “Think, and you’ll grow luckier,” but she does talk about research — and offers some examples

from her own life — of making your own good luck.

I have found that often, people in our magazine who are finding adventures and stepping on new paths in their lives are the ones who open themselves to just those ways of thinking.

And yes, along with thinking differently, they also put in the work.

For example, CasSondra Hogan writes in this issue how she and her friend, Jessica Baranouskas, from Entiat, wanted to open their own hair salon in CasSondra’s hometown of Brewster.

Both in their 20s, they were on a tight budget.

A family friend offered them space in an old, unused house, but it was stuffed with discarded furniture and, well, junk. And, the property was not zoned for a business.

Working with the city for a rezone, and working to rehab the space was not quick or easy.

And, remember their tight budget: “We lived on rice, beans and tortillas for six months while doing the work,” said CasSondra when I visited her and Jessica at their now cleverly beautiful Two Blondes Salon.

If you want to get luckier in life, I suggest you read June’s column on page 28. But don’t be surprised if being luckier doesn’t mean you’ll have to labor through some hard effort, like those two blondes of Brewster.

Getting lucky is often being in the right place at the right time — but first, you have to get yourself to that right place.

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fun stuff a full LISTING of what to do begins ON PAGE 34

Quick picks for changeable March March is a month with

variety — chilly winds gusting off snowy peaks at one moment, promising warming sunlight at another.

This month’s calendar of activities is full of quick changes too — with lego fun, menacing pirates, thoughtful documentaries, a very long, long distance runner and flowers that can bring beauty to your home.

Check out these events, cherry-picked from this month’s What To Do list: Mobile Meals Spring Variety Show — Featuring music by

Bonga Marimba Band, Apollo Club and Children’s Choir, All Strings Considered, Fabulous Feet Dance Studio, Columbia River Community Flute Choir, DBB Bongo Brothers, Eastmont Jr. High Jazz Band, and An Daire Academy Irish Dancers. Plus an Apple Blossom Preview of Young Frankenstein. Numerica Performing Arts Center. Cost: $12.

Info: numericapac.org. Friday, 3/3, 7 p.m.

at the door, weekend pass $60 for all five films. Info: icicle.org.

Lego Building Competition — Bring your

own legos and build and compete. Pybus Public Market. Cost: free. Info: pybuspublicmarket.org.

Saturday, 3/4, 9:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m

Pirates of Penzance, Swashbuckling buccaneers, bumbling British bobbies, frolicsome Victorian maidens and the delightfully dotty model of a modern Major-General for a rollicking romp over the rocky coast of Cornwall. A musical theater masterpiece. Numerica Performing Arts Center. Cost: $19-$35.

Info: numericapac.org. Monday, 3/13, 7:30 p.m.

KPQ Home Show — Town Toyota Center.

Info: towntoyotacenter. com. Friday through Sunday, 3/10-12, times vary.

Q and A with ultra runner Max King — Max King, 36, and a

Vox Docs Film Festival

* Friday 3/10, 7 p.m.

The JT LeRoy Story: Documentary that chronicles a 16-year-old literary sensation JT LeRoy and the mastermind behind it all, author Laura Albert.

Opening night party 10 Learn about raising beautiful dahlias March p.m. at Blewett Brewing 28 at Pybus.

Company, downtown former New Orleans Saints and Leavenworth.

WSU football player Steve Glea* Saturday, 3/11, 11 am. Camson’s battle with ALS after being eraperson: A stunning achievediagnosed at the age of 34. 7:30 ment in 25 years of work of p.m. Crazywise: Documentary Kirsten Johnson a touching on what can be learned from and complex look at the person people around the world who behind the camera. 1:15 p.m., have turned their psychological Zero Days: This documentary crisis into a positive transforthriller explores the potential consequences of cyberwarfare. 5 mative experience. Snowy Owl Theater. Cost: $15 advance or $17 p.m. Gleason: Documentary on

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Pybus University: Dahlias: A garden of earthly delights —

This class will provide a handson demonstration of how to plant and care for your dahlias, how to select dahlias to grow, understanding dahlia terminology and how to interpret a dahlia catalog. Tools, accessories, soil preparation, staking, labeling and tending will be discussed.

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It takes years of training, both mental and physical, to look at a river at its max flow and say to yourself:

‘Yep, that looks like fun!’

By Tom Potter

As winter nears its end and

temperatures in the Wenatchee Valley start to rise, the snow pack of the Cascades begins melting into its respective drainages.

While most see this as a simple transition of seasons, whitewater kayakers flock to the Pacific Northwest to chal-

lenge themselves on some of the most pristine whitewater in the country.

From steep, remote creeks, to high volume rivers, the Wenatchee Valley hosts a variety of river characteristics that will keep even the most traveled paddler coming back year after year.

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friend invited me to join him in a six-week whitewater raft guide-training program in Leavenworth.

As we had both recently been laid off from our commercial construction jobs in Seattle, moving to Leavenworth for a summer of whitewater adventures seemed like a logical move.

What I didn’t know is that I was embarking on a life-changing journey that has molded me into who I am today.

My first season of whitewater paddling was full of pushing my limits as a person and truly learning the technique of navigating rivers in ways I didn’t know were possible. There were countless moments of fear, intimidation, and exhaustion followed by celebration and a level of camaraderie that I had only found on the river. I was hooked.

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Tom Potter keeping the bow of his kayak high and dry as he comes out of a massive hydraulic feature in Tumwater Canyon. Photo by Jaime Mae Shultz

in 2011, I moved to Leavenworth with one goal, to really learn the rivers in the area. With Icicle Creek and the Wenatchee River literally flowing right into town, I figured Leavenworth would be a good base camp for an aspiring whitewater kayaker.

I spent most of my spare time paddling laps on Tumwater Canyon of the Wenatchee River and learning the ins and outs of the steep and technical Icicle Creek.

As spring of 2012 came around, it was game on. This was the first spring that I had several months of continuous paddling under my belt and I was ready to get after it.

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THE FIRST TIME

‘I landed in the frothy water a little off balance and flipped upside down’ The first time I paddled Tumwater

Canyon was on a frosty fall day.

It was cold, gloomy and the river was at a healthy flow.

I remember being so gripped, slowly working my way down river with some good friends that knew the river well.

As we approached a rapid called Chaos, all I could see was the river disappearing over the horizon line at the top of the rapid. Volcanic explosions of water were blasting up from the horizon.

I had scouted the rapid and knew the line. I was 100 percent confident in my abilities, but I always get butterflies before a big rapid.

As I came over the rolling lip into a six-foot free fall, I landed in the frothy water a Tom Potter little off balance and flipped upside down. Immediately rolling back upright, I scurried to get back on line.

I managed to get it together and greased my way down the next few drops. Finally, I landed in the eddy at the bottom of the rapid with the rest of the crew.

At that moment, the feeling of accomplishment combined with freedom was unreal. There we were, in the middle of Tumwater Canyon, just ripping down the river in our little plastic boats.

I have kayaked the Tumwater 1,000 times since that day, and I just can’t get enough.

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While working with several river recreation companies out of Leavenworth, I was able to spend almost every day on the river. My knowledge of the area became surprisingly valuable as I found myself showing some of the best kayakers in the world down our backyard rivers during the juiciest time of the year.

Spring flows are difficult to describe to the non-paddler.

The amount of power in the water coming down all of our local rivers is humbling to anyone laying their eyes upon it. As paddlers, our intention is to immerse ourselves within that raging power.

It takes years of training, both mental and physical, to look at a river at its max flow and say to yourself, “Yep, that looks like fun!”

Tumwater Canyon of the Wenatchee River in particular, has become the go to training ground for big water paddlers looking to test their abilities.

Hosting five miles of class IV-V whitewater along the highway, Tumwater Canyon allows paddlers to select specific sections that are within their comfort level.

When kayaking Tumwater Canyon during spring runoff, 20-foot waves, 10-foot tall pour overs, and hydraulics the size of small homes are the norm. The river is literally moving so fast that when you get a second to take your focus off the water in front of you and look at the shore, rocks and trees are buzzing by at an alarming rate.

The amount of control it takes to safely navigate a kayak down these massive rapids could be compared to a Giant Slalom skier flying

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Brett Barton catches a micro eddy just in time to see Tom Potter and Chance Becker work their way through a stout pour over feature in Tumwater Canyon. Photo by Christopher Nelson Kelly

down a racecourse or a downhill mountain biker putting together a perfect line on unbelievably steep terrain. After all, we are downhill kayakers.

A lot of thought and planning is put into each descent of a challenging river. By no means do we get in our kayaks above a big rapid and just hope for the best.

Paddling big water requires a cohesive team of kayakers that have a significant amount of paddling skill and technical rescue training.

The most important part of any difficult river descent is scouting the rapids. From shore, a group of kayakers will analyze a rapid and discuss the features, obstacles and hazards.

For instance, a freshly fallen tree over hanging the shoreline of a rapid would be considered a hazard, as it could be detrimental to a paddler becoming entangled in its branches.

A large wave in the middle

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of a rapid may be considered a feature, as it is a safe and playful component of the rapid that a paddler may choose to launch off of as they come downstream.

An exposed rock in a rapid would be considered an obstacle as it poses no real threat, but the team of paddlers will have to find a safe route around it.

Regardless of what features, obstacles, or hazards are in a particular rapid, it is important that the team of paddlers comes to an agreement of who is taking what lines, where safety will be set, and what alternate options are available if things go differently than planned. The river is such a dynamic environment that things change quickly. The best we can do as paddlers, is be prepared for the worst.

The Wenatchee River throughout its entire 57 miles from Lake Wenatchee to the Columbia River is considered a pool-drop river. This means the water pools up into a small

FOR THE BEGINNER

LEARN FROM A PROFESSIONAL AND TAKE YOUR TIME Whitewater kayaking has become

an activity that I not only crave, but is also a sport that has introduced me to the small community of people who share a love for the river.

It is hard to imagine where I would be in life if I had never discovered paddling.

If you are interested in learning to whitewater kayak, I encourage you to seek professional instruction and take your time learning the ways of the paddle. The river is a dangerous environment, no doubt, but by learning how to read water, be in control of the kayak, and practice river safety techniques, whitewater kayaking is a readily available activity in the Wenatchee Valley.

While spring paddling is something experienced paddlers cannot wait for, the lower flows of July and August are more appropriate for the beginner paddler.

Spring is right around the corner, and I am already getting excited to see how this year’s snowmelt comes down the mountain.

Enjoy the rest of your winter, and I hope to see you on the river in the near future.

— Tom Potter

Chase Nobles patiently waits for his turn on the wave while Darren Albright boosts a huge front flip during a freestyle surfing competition on the Wenatchee River. Photo by Christopher Nelson Kelly

moving lake before cascading down a rapid into another small moving lake.

This allows groups of kayaker’s ample space and time to regroup at the bottom of each rapid in order to prepare for the next one.

During spring flows, the water is crystal clear and the pools offer a nice break to kick back and enjoy the scenery before dropping into the next chaotic rapid.

Most of our rivers in the Wenatchee Valley, however, have a continuous downhill grade.

Rivers like Icicle Creek, Ingalls Creek and Peshastin Creek don’t let up hardly at all throughout their entirety. This requires a team of paddlers to be very choreographed while working their way down stream.

It is common that kayakers will stop in eddies not much larger than their kayak and signal to paddlers upstream with a paddle signal or a whistle blast that it is safe to come down. This process is repeated throughout the entire run to help ensure a safe descent of the river.

The proximity of our local riv-

ers to each other is unlike anywhere I have traveled. On a peak snowmelt day, in May or June, it is possible to paddle four or five different sections of pristine whitewater in a single day.

My personal favorite way to link up our local runs is as follows.

Starting off at the Tumwater Dam up in the Tumwater Canyon, I like to wash the sleep out of my eyes with some solid big water paddling on the Wenatchee River.

After working our way down to the rusty bridge in the canyon, our blood is flowing and the crew is ready for more.

The next stop is Icicle Creek, which is also a roadside run, allowing us to select a specific section of the class IV-V whitewater to paddle.

Depending on the crew, the flows, and individual vibes of the day, I usually like to bite off a good section of Icicle Creek from the Snow Lakes Trailhead down to the Leavenworth Fish Hatchery. At big flows, this section offers plenty of excitement.

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age. This section is unique as three rivers are stacked up allowing us to paddle all three without exiting our kayaks.

Starting at the Ingalls Lake Trailhead we bomb down a fast and frothy mile of class IV whitewater on Ingalls Creek before flowing right into Peshastin Creek.

You can follow Tom Potter on InstaPeshastin Creek at high gram at: @ogtpot water is a non-stop freight train of waves and rock class III whitewater. This section dodging with a crux rapid of river is a great way to wind called Fresh Squeezed. down a big day of full on, class This little creek is not the IV-V creek boating. most challenging river in our All of these rivers can be run area but its continuous charwith no more than 15 miles of acteristic keeps even the most driving between each put in seasoned paddler on their toes. location.

Several miles after Fresh With a crew of stoked, but exSqueezed, the Peshastin Creek hausted paddlers, it is common flows into the Wenatchee River that we will make our way back right above the Dryden Dam. up to Leavenworth and enjoy a Usually, we will stash a few vehicles with our smaller freestyle couple cold beers at the Icicle Brewery while watching the sun kayaks at the Dam and switch disappear behind Icicle Ridge. from our larger creek boats As our wet paddling gear dries when we arrive. in the warm spring air, we rest From the Dryden Dam to Cashmere, the Wenatchee River up for another big day on the hosts big volume, low stress, fun river. www.ncwgoodlife.com

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Writer Maureen Stivers takes the ice with young, award-winning skater Liam Kapeikis: “Wheeee!”

Young skating star ‘a really nice kid’ Story by Maureen Stivers Photos by Wendy Hulse

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he first time I saw Liam Kapeikis skate was in 2012 when my daughter Leonora was participating in the Wenatchee Figure Skating Club’s annual Christmas show.

She was just learning to skate and I had not yet seen the more advanced participants. I and other parents remarked on how strong Liam’s skating skills were for a seven year old. During the rehearsals and performances I watched him pal around and laugh with the other skaters.

My daughter joined the Junior Academy at the Town Toyota Center ice rink two years ago and I have spent many hours in the stands watching Liam prog-

“I think about the jump as I’m gliding toward it.

Then when I’m going into it, my mind is on something totally different, like lunch.” ress during the practice sessions.

Liam’s skills and work ethic paid off this past January when he made the podium with a strong fourth place finish in his division at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships. The Skating

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Club held a welcome back celebration, and although a bit shy at first, Liam was proud to share his engraved pewter medal with his fellow skaters.

Natural talent is only a part of his success. He skates eight times per week and works out at the gym. “Sometimes I get here at 6 a.m. Then I come back in the afternoon,” he said.

These sessions are a bit wild.

Unlike public skate, where many

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are just trying to remain on their feet, the freestyle skaters do jumps and more, often with great speed, flying in all directions. “We’re always looking out for each other,” said Liam,” but sometimes we do crash.”

I’ve seen Liam abandon nearly as many jumps as he completes in order to avoid collisions. This can be frustrating. But despite being the best jumper in town, I have never observed him become impatient or rude with anyone. To the contrary, he is pleasant and friendly, bestowing equal treatment on greater and lesser skaters.

I hadn’t skated with Liam but I do take adult lessons and hope to pass the first test level sometime this year. Summoning my inner George Plimpton, I ask

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FAVORITE MOVE: ‘MY DOUBLE AXEL’ Ah, the fabled double axel.

Anyone who has heard of figure skating mentions this move.

Of course it’s Liam’s favorite: it’s the most difficult jump in skating.

The axel is the only jump with a forward take-off, requiring an extra half-revolution prior to landing. The champion men skaters do quadruples of all the jumps, except this one, which is done at most (by men and women) as a triple.

“I go to a lot of rinks where nobody knows me. Then I do my double axel and they seem to know it’s me doing mine,” said Liam.

When Dick Button landed the first double axel in competition in 1948, I doubt he could have imagined that a handful of 12-year-olds (five at the U.S.

Championships) would one day accomplish the same feat.

I’ve watched in awe many times as Liam does his double axel as smooth as if he’s drinking a glass of water. I ask how he is able to do it.

“We’ve taken some videos, and before I jump I’m like this,” he said, sinking so low in the knee of his take-off leg that he is practically sitting on the ice.

And Liam’s two and a half rotations are lightning fast. “I’m only in the air for about .6 seconds.” He is making quick progress on a triple toe-loop, his first triple jump. Liam thinks he can achieve the all-important completion, a clean landing, in the coming weeks.

Jump on, Liam.

— Maureen Stivers Liam’s double axel: Lightning fast.

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Young skating star ‘a really nice kid’ }}} Continued from page 10 Liam if we can skate together.

I’m intimidated but remind myself that he is kind.

Most high-performing seventh grade male athletes are understandably reluctant to go out and do their sport with a 58-year-old mom.

But Liam is agreeable, even enthusiastic, and my apprehension subsides.

We take to the ice and in Liam’s world we skate and chat.

His mother and father, Louise and Paul Kapeikis, are professional skaters and certified instructors. “I think it’s harder for them than for me,” said Liam. “I know one skater who never got any better because his parents didn’t want to be too hard on

him.”

I ask if he is ever fearful of jumping. “I don’t really think about it,” he said. Liam then described a most curious mental sequence. “I think about the jump as I’m gliding toward it.

Then when I’m going into it, my mind is on something totally different, like lunch. Then when I spin and land, I think about the jump again.”

I believe I’ve got it: approach jump, chicken nuggets and fries, rotate, land.

Liam offers to do a single axel for me and it is a thing of beauty. I do a tiny jump with (barely) a half-revolution and in bright voice he told me, “Not bad.”

He then indulges me in something I’ve always dreamed of

doing: a pair move. Liam takes my hand and skates backwards pulling me in a spiral. It was fabulous fun and my “wheeee!” could be heard off the ice.

When not on the ice, Liam attends Foothills Middle School where he plays the violin in the advanced orchestra. His favorite class is pre-engineering, which he will continue as an independent study next year.

He applies what he learns to his participation in the school’s Robotics Club. “We design robots to play a game and then we go to tournaments.”

Unlike many top-level skaters who are homeschooled or attend classes online, Liam told me he would rather go to a regular public high school.

“I want to go to McGill College where my sister (Danika) goes because they have a good Robotics Engineering program. I hope to work for NASA one day.”

I ask about manned vs unmanned space travel. He believes there is a place for both.

Throughout the years, I have conversed with Liam in passing.

While he is a normal seventh grader, his engaging personality and sense of humor come through. I ask about the other club skaters with whom I see him talking and laughing.

“Some of them are like my family. They’ve supported and helped me a lot. The older ones have known me since I was born.”

I sat down with Paul and Louise and we talked about their son. “Liam is easy to get along

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“I want to go to McGill College where my sister (Danika) goes because they have a good Robotics Engineering program. I hope to work for NASA one day.” with,” said Paul. “His older sisters have made sure he behaves himself. But it hasn’t been that hard for any of us. Liam is just a really nice kid.”

And on being both parent and coach Louise said, “On the ice we do what we have to do.

But once we leave the rink, that stays there and we’re the parents again.”

“It’s like anything parents have to teach their child,” added Paul.

“Whether it’s a skating move or mowing the lawn, it has to be done right.”

Louise emphasized that spending so much time skating together has not distanced them from their children but rather “has made us a closer family.” She also mentioned to me several times how they work to keep Liam humble.

I ask how they balance this with building him up to believe he’s the best and can beat any skater.

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This was in November and there is a frozen waterfall in the background.

Zuzu is ready for adventure and Randy takes her everywhere. Her companionship brings us a lot of laughter and fun in our lives.

For us, having a dog keeps us active and going places.

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his is a picture of me and our Corgi, Tippy, dressed in red in honor of those who have had heart surgery and/or transplants.

My husband had open-heart surgery 10 years ago. My friend, Bailey McMonigle, had a heart transplant a few years ago and is still at the Mayo Clinic.

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Volunteers

Helping organize the clothing for My Girlfriend’s Closet sale March 17 to 19 are, from left, Darlene Leenders, MGFC co-chair; Lorena Villela, JSLW president; Cori Bautista, JSLW past president; Faye Mulhall, past MGFC co-chair, and Kathy Schweitzer, MGFC co-chair.

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ori Bautista, Wenatchee, has been volunteering for the Junior Service League of Wenatchee since its inception in 2008.

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“Our primary focus is the issue of homelessness in our com-

munity, with an emphasis on the needs of women and children,” said Cori. “We not only build confidence within our members but we see the empowerment and confidence with the women and teens we help.”

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projects vary from serving hot meals to the homeless at the Lighthouse, partnering with Serve Wenatchee Valley for their Thanksgiving Basket of Blessings and Christmas Gifts of Empowerment projects, helping with Coats for Kids, providing emergency toiletries to shelters and schools, Prom Dress Giveaway, helping at women’s transitional housing centers and with other non-profit organizations that help homeless women and children.

“Our most current event was our annual Diaper Drive where our members collected 39,106 diapers and 94,611 wipes in eight hours,” said Cori. “These diapers and wipes were delivered to diaper banks at Serve Wenatchee Valley, Women’s Resource Center, SAGE Domestic Violence Centers, Grace House, Gospel

House, Haven of Hope and St. Joseph’s Food Bank.”

The next event coming up is My Girlfriend’s Closet.

“We collect quality, new and gently used clothing items, shoes and accessories, then price and merchandise the items to sell,” said Cori.

The sale opens with a ticketed preview party on a Thursday night, March 16, catered by Tastebuds with featured wine from Horan Estates Winery before opening to the public Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

It’s located at 212 Fifth Street #9, Wenatchee in the MIssion Village between Mission Street and Chelan Avenue. For more information, see: facebook.com/ mygirlfriendsclosetbyjslw.

“Last year we grossed over $55,000 in pure sales alone over the course of the four day event,” said Cori.

“The last four hours of the event on Sunday, we close to the public and invite women and teens from various non-profit organizations we support to shop in our store for free. Our members act as personal shoppers to these women, helping them to choose outfits that will help them in job interviews, for work or for school.

“We actually give the shoppers JSLW dollars so they have a bit of a budget to shop like they would in the real world. It is a generous budget, but it takes the free for all aspect out and encourages women to consider what they have to spend and prioritize their needs.

“We were able to help over 100 women last year during that portion of the event. We have heard time and time again how a nice outfit with matching shoes brings confidence to women finding a job, going to school or just trying to get back on their feet,” said Cori.

The preview party is Thursday, March 16 and the event goes on until Sunday, March 19.

Cori said that a few years ago, “We had someone whose life was truly impacted by the free

Prom dresses and cool trucks

The Junior Service League of Wenatchee has two other events coming up. n Prom Dress Giveaway.

JSLW members have collected nearly 500 new or gently used prom dresses. Bella Sera also made a donation of 99 brandnew dresses valued at over $23,000.

The event is free, but students must show their student ID to be admitted into the event in the Community Room, Pybus Public Market on Sunday, April 23, from noon to 4 p.m. n 8th annual Touch-A-Truck event at the Town Toyota Center in Wenatchee on Saturday, May 13, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Vehicles on site include fire trucks, cement trucks, police cars, heavy equipment, race cars, garbage trucks, helicopters, and more. Plus L-Bow the Clown, games, and other fun activities.

Cost: $5 per adult, $2 dollars per child. Children, 2 and under are free. Proceeds will be donated to help local non-profit organizations that help those who are homeless.

shopping. She was trying to get back on her feet and we helped outfit her for a new job and then continued to help her over the last few years as she continued to grow in the professional business world.

“She is shopping for the first time this year at the preview party. There are so many stories but this person we are still connected to.

“There is an incredible mentorship/leadership process within our membership of women, where they learn to chair committees, lead teams and work together to give back to the community and be a part of something greater than all of us,” said Cori.

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The ladies in Spain Trip starts on wrong foot but soon finds a rousing pace

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he misadventures of travel sometimes cancel out the joy of discovering new places, which almost happened when four women in our family decided to take a trip to Spain.

My granddaughter, Leah, was taking a “gap” year, a break from her college education, and was already in Europe, so she could meet us there. My oldest daughter was in Nottingham, England where she and her husband were directing a program for students from Luther College in Decorah, Iowa. It would be only a two-hour flight from London for her to reach Madrid. Daughter Kathy and I would fly from Seattle.

Our long awaited trip to Spain began at SeaTac airport on Jan. 1 when a rare snowstorm in the Seattle area grounded our 6:30 a.m. flight to Madrid for five hours. Despite frequent announcements regarding our flight delay, there seemed to be only one vehicle capable of de-icing the long line of planes waiting to depart.

Kathy and I had been up since four a.m. and it was almost noon when our plane, free of ice and snow, was able to take off for Chicago. We knew we had already missed our connecting flight.

“We will put you on a later plane out of Chicago,” we were assured. “However, it goes to London, not to Madrid. You can transfer at Heathrow and be at your destination by mid afternoon. Your luggage will follow

... for over an hour we watched as the dancers, two guitarists and a singer told the legends and stories of the people who were outcasts. you,” the gate attendant assured us. “Don’t worry.”

In my opinion, Heathrow Airport should be avoided if at all possible. It is huge, confusing and filled with long, long lines of people waiting for customs, security checks and bathrooms.

I put my coat, purse and my small carry-on bag on the security conveyer belt, one of four checks we encountered. “Take off your shoes,” a woman barked at me.”

“I don’t have to,” I retorted.

“I’m 84 years old.”

“I don’t care if you’re 184, take off your shoes!”

I tottered on one foot and then the other as I unzipped my new ankle high boots, and sent them through the cameras.

At the end of the conveyer belt, I grabbed my belongings and tried to find a place to sit to put on my shoes. In my hurry to catch our close connection, I put my boots on the wrong feet and spent the next 10 minutes wondering why it was so uncomfortable to walk.

When we arrived in Madrid, our luggage did not. Leah and Karen were at the hotel wait-

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ing for us. For two days we kept checking with the airlines and with our hotel.

It’s one thing to say clean clothes are overrated, but three-day old socks and underwear, not to mention missing medications, make-up and my daughter’s night mouth guard, is aggravating.

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It may be a first-world problem, but it’s still frustrating. (My daughter’s luggage arrived a day and a half later and mine finally came after two days.)

Though Kathy and I had been up for almost 30 hours, we found a tapas restaurant near by and a beautiful bottle of red wine.

Most tapas menus list items

TOP: The Alhambra at dusk. This was taken from high up on a hill in Granada, a favorite spot for both locals and tourists to watch the sunset.

FAR LEFT: Caves of Nerja. Discovered in 1959 by five friends. The Caves are five kilometers long and are a huge tourist attraction.

“to share” such as tempura-battered eggplant, creative shrimp dishes, grilled green beans, calamari and trout. A favorite of ours was caramelized onions on a round of goat cheese.

No meal is complete without a dish of large, green olives, seasoned with garlic and olive oil.

The delightful discovery of this

kind of Spanish meal for four people, cost only about 40 euros (About $43). We found Spain was a fairly inexpensive place to travel.

Madrid was a good place to begin our trip.

We explored a lovely park surrounded by art and book vendors, then visited the Centro de March 2017 | The Good Life

Arte Reina Sofia museum to see Picasso’s Guernica, the classic painting representing the evils of war.

We also viewed works by Goya, Salvador Dali and Miro.

In the evening we reserved places at a restaurant that featured flamenco dancing. This

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LEFT: Traditional Flamenco dance in Madrid. This beautiful performance includes the dancer, guitarist and singer.

ABOVE: Restaurant/bar in the heart of Nerja. Spaniards love their nightlife.

The ladies in spain }}} Continued from previous page vibrant, sub-culture dance from southern Spain amazed us. Our table was at eye-level with the wooden stage floor, and for over an hour we watched as the dancers, two guitarists and a singer told the legends and stories of the people who were outcasts.

The singer kept the 12-beattime with his fingers as his foot beat on the wooden floor. The energy, passion and creativity was a highlight of the trip.

The trains in Spain are mostly all the same: on time, fast, quiet, clean and efficient. The sleek, duck-billed engines took us north to Salamanca where Kathy had spent a semester learning Spanish 33 years ago.

It was Epiphany, Jan. 6, the Three Kings Day a Spanish national holiday. We walked to the

huge, ancient Plaza Mayor that featured a ball of red lights, four stories tall.

The parade began with a star float, an underwater theme featuring jelly fish and wide-eyed sea creatures and ended with the three kings waving to the throng of people.

We beat the crowds to a festive restaurant by being there when the doors opened at 8 p.m. In Spain, people rarely eat before nine in the evening. Their day begins later in the morning and many shops close for a siesta in mid-afternoon Two days later we took the train south to Granada. The long ride took us through olive groves, rows of green houses growing fruits and vegetables, dark rich soil and carefully manicured fields.

We passed villages called “white hill towns” named for the uniform white buildings with red roofs found in the Andalusian region of Spain.

There were occasional wind

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turbines and solar panels but few signs of litter, either in the countryside or the cities.

The country looked prosperous and we were told that for the third year in a row, Granada was declared the cleanest town in Spain.

The big attraction in Granada is the Alhambra, that massive fortification/ palace built on Roman ruins in the mid-13th Century by invading Moroccans.

Over the years rival Sultans re-built the edi- Leah kisses her grandma, Mary Schramm, on the cheek fice to fit their in the Atocha train station in Madrid. needs, using Islamic architecture and intricate carvings to display their power.

The Christians defeated this Muslim stronghold in 1492 and it was here that Ferdinand and Isabella approved the expedition of Christopher Columbus.

This magnificent structure is now a World Heritage site. It is difficult to describe the creativity and beauty of the Alhambra.

The last days of our trip were spent in Nerja, a town east of Gibraltar and Malaga, perched above the Mediterranean Sea. The main attraction in Nerja is a magnificent set of caves, discovered in 1959 by five young men who found a hole in a field. wonders and beauty of Spain.

The final misadventure, that It is hard to imagine what it was like to find such immense rooms could have ruined our trip, was again running through London’s with skeletons and pre-historic Heathrow Airport where we cave paintings.

The largest cave, carved out by almost missed our flight back to Seattle. the sea, took five million years But then we remembered to form. It is over five kilometers sitting with a glass of red wine, long, and has the largest stalagbeside the Mediterranean Sea on mites in the world. This tourist a warm evening with people we attraction is truly a treasure, and an exclamation point to the cherish. Life is good.

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Two determined & resourceful blondes

CasSondra Hogan in Two Blondes Salon, a space she and business partner Jessica Baranouskas cleaned of clutter and updated into a modern salon through hard work and hunting alleys for materials.

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By CasSondra Hogan

met Jessica Baranouskas when we were both going to beauty school in Wenatchee.

We hit it off and decided that someday, we would like to work together.

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Brewster called — after us — Two Blondes Salon, but it wasn’t quick and it wasn’t easy.

In September of 2015 a family friend offered us an old building for our business — a house built in the ’30s had only been used for storage the last several years.

When we stepped into the

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Jessica and CasSondra collected driftwood to add to the exterior railing, reinforcing the beach theme of their salon.

Two determined blondes }}} Continued from previous page building, our heads spun with ideas, but we knew we needed to work with what was there as much as possible as we were on a tight budget.

We each went home, drew up a vision on a piece of paper, brought our ideas together and decided what we wanted to do.

Figuring out where to start and how to go about it was a little more complicated.

We started sorting through all the storage that was in there, placing items into a trash pile or good pile. From the trash pile, we made three dump runs — and not small ones in the back of a truck, each run filled up a big trailer.

Then there was a section of carpet in the building that was so old and gross we couldn’t have in the salon so we tore it out.

Then we tore out the kitchen, the kitchen island and the cupboards over the kitchen island and with some help we removed the toilet, sink and shower from the bathroom.

We still had a lot more things to tear out — we had to tear off all the wall paneling, part of the ceiling, wall hooks and at least 100 nails per wall to remove the paneling, and then we needed to

It was a long adventure that allowed us to turn an old, disused house into the salon of our dreams. go through and mud all the nail holes.

After tearing off layers of wall paneling, we discovered two windows that had been covered up, leaving us with holes in the wall. One window we covered, another we turned into internal shelving.

This place went from a mess to a disaster before it got better but through the whole process we kept our vision.

We were on a budget and knew we had to do things the cheaper way. We did a lot of alley hunting for discarded wooden pallets. Plus, a business in town gave us a trailer load of old pallets.

Each pallet we had to drag into the building, jump on it to tear it apart, then sand each wood piece before painting. We needed a lot of pallet wood to cover walls in our bathroom, create a beautiful wall (which we did

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Jessica Baranouskas, 29, left, from Entiat, and CasSondra Hogan, 22, from Brewster, met in beauty school in Wenatchee, where they determined they wanted to be in business together. The wall they are posing against is made from reclaimed pallet boards. Photos by Donna Cassidy

with the help of my boyfriend, Moises Morales) by our washing bowl and for all of our trim.

On the exterior, we whitewashed the deck, and my father’s company, North Cascade Landscaping, built a ramp to make our business wheelchair accessible, fenced the yard and filled a ditch with gravel to create parking.

We went driftwood hunting and found pieces to mix in with our railing.

We spent six months on this building remodeling, averaging 40-plus hours a week.

We had never done a remodel

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before yet here we were by ourselves at least half of the time trying to figure out what to do next.

We texturized the entire interior, then painted over that, then added our main color. We used wall paneling to replace a ceiling that we had torn out and covered the seams with nautical rope to go with our theme.

Our floor was probably our biggest project. We went with a beach look using plywood eight-foot by four-foot cut into four-by-four pieces, rotating the grain of the wood horizontally or vertically. Matching up each

TOP LEFT: A table was made from refinished pallet lumber, while the floor is knotty plywood cut into four-foot squares and then whitewashed and coated with polyurethane.

TOP RIGHT: Jessica Baranouskas cuts aged pallet boards for the trim that went around the ceiling, the floor, a couple of windows and elsewhere. The two women worked six months getting the old building ready for their salon.

The original kitchen counter was sanded down, refinished and repurposed as the business’ front desk.

piece was definitely a project.

After the floor was laid, we sanded the entire floor with an industrial sander but that didn’t do enough of a job so we used a couple of hand sanders and sanded the entire floor square by square. We then whitewashed the floor and applied four to five coats of polyurethane over the top.

When all of that was done we

added everything needed for our salon — including refinishing the old kitchen island to use as our front desk.

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office space and all have what you might call an urban flair.

One of his properties, for example, is the Wenatchee Hotel Building that now houses the India House Restaurant, Sidecar Lounge and Cupcake Blues -- all the types of places you might find in the Big City. It’s all in keeping with Turner’s philosophy that a vital downtown is a key to the city’s overall economic success.

“It’s the heart of the community,” Turner explains. “If that’s not healthy, the community’s not healthy.”

Adding urban flair while keeping the Valley pristine

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or a guy who grew up on a chicken farm in rural Pierce County, it may seem somewhat ironic that this is the man who is having the time of his life bringing Big City amenities to North Central Washington.

Rory Turner arrived in Wenatchee back in 1995 and saw that it was good -- very good. The sunshine, the clean air, the mountains, the recreation, a community chockful of salt-of-the-earth, hard-working people that he was proud to start calling his neighbors -- it was all here.

The only things missing were some of the small niceties that you get living in a more urban environment. You know -- the diversity of restaurants, the vibrant nightlife, a core downtown area that beckons residents to bring their families down to enjoy all the activities on a warm summer night.

“We kind of missed that urban-ness,” said Turner, who could see how adding those simple amenities could still allow the Wenatchee Valley to retain all of its existing charm and allure. “And we thought why don’t we become a part of that change?”

Until Turner moved to Wenatchee he had lived almost his entire life in the Sumner area, a 45-minute

drive southeast of the Seattle urban culture. It was rural, all right, but Turner was fast becoming a highly successful commercial real estate developer, an occupation that satisfied his passion for creating something out of nothing.

Over the past 25 years Turner has been creating partnerships to buy historic buildings, renovate them and populate them with just the right mix of tenants.

Through the late 1990s and up until 2011, Turner and his wife, Laurel, worked on projects as far from Wenatchee as Michigan and California, all the while keeping a home base in North Central Washington. But the Michigan project and just the logistics of working so far from home finally convinced the Turners to focus more on projects right here in Wenatchee and Central Washington. It was time to actually join -- and give back to -- the community Turner loved so much.

Turner signed up for just about every board and association that has anything to do with local planning and business development, eventually becoming president of the Wenatchee Valley

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Chamber of Commerce. Last year he was elected as a Commissioner for the Port of Chelan County. He has been involved with creating such local amenities as Pybus Public Market and, over the past few years, Turner has gradually put together deals that give him an ownership stake in eight Central Washington buildings -five in Wenatchee, two in Douglas County and one in Ellensburg.

The buildings offer retail and

Turner’s knack for restoring historic buildings has been getting statewide attention. Last year he received the Excellence on Main

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Among other projects, the 63-yearold Turner also has made “healthy” improvements to the Exchange Building and the Fifth and Mission Center, and is currently renovating the Dore Building on Wenatchee Avenue.

Near the convention center, the Dore Building will be rebranded as the Metropolitan Building and will have six tenants including the new Wenatchee Visitor Center. In addition, Goodfellow Brothers has purchased the top floor to use as its corporate headquarters, eventually expecting to employ more than 40 people at that location.

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The Wenatchee Hotel Building includes Big-City-like tenants

Award from the Washington State Main Street Program for his work in Wenatchee and a highly successful restoration of the Historic Ellensburg Elks building. The latter was purchased for $300,000 and will likely lead to as much as $7 million being spent on developing six businesses, including two restaurants, and potentially a nearby boutique hotel.

Turner has learned over the years that, in this type of business, he needs to be much more than just a landlord. It’s all about finding good business ideas and tenants that will mix well with each other.

Turner will mentor and guide his tenants to help them create a unique environment that will attract customers and lead to long-term success.

“Too often,” Turner says, “landlords take the send-me-the-check position. But the challenges of starting these businesses are huge and the last thing you need to be is adversarial with your landlord.”

We asked him where he gets his real estate “smarts.”

“It starts with being passionate about your community,” Turner said. “With commercial real estate, you have a civic responsibility. The wrong decision can really set a community back.”

You might say Rory Turner is on a roll. The projects are coming fast and furious, and there doesn’t seem to be an end in sight. Spend some time with Turner and you get the impression he’s really quite grateful for his business success and especially pleased that he’s reached the stage in life where he’s able to indulge his passions rather than worry about making ends meet. He’s having an especially good time with his current project, the Metropolitan Building, which he says will help transform Wenatchee’s downtown core.

“This has been so much fun to work on because all of this activity just kind of came out of nowhere,” he said. “We feel like we are helping change Wenatchee forever.”

(Rory Turner’s company, Commercial Real Estate Services, is the asset manager for Turner’s various enterprises. He is also the managing partner for 135 Holdings LLC which has ownership in some of the buildings. Laurel Turner is the Executive Director of the Women’s Resource Center in Wenatchee and holds numerous positions in the region related to homelessness and services for those in need. The couple has three grown boys, four grandchildren and two on the way.)

Earhart history dates back to 1909

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lthough brothers Brennan and Eric Earhart opened Earhart’s Collision Repair in 1999, their family’s history in the Wenatchee Valley goes back much farther—108 years to be exact.

It was way back in 1909 that their great-grandfather Joe moved here from Pennsylvania. In fact, Joe had already purchased several orchards in East Wenatchee by the time the Wenatchee Valley became known as “The Apple Capital of the World.”

Not too many years later, Joe started a side business with his son, Vance, recycling scrap metal and selling irrigation supplies to other orchardists.

It was called Joe Earhart & Son, and their tagline was “Up the Hill East Wenatchee,” but they were often referred to simply as Junkie Joe’s. They became well-known in the Valley for having just about everything anyone could possibly need.

When the brothers’ father, David, returned to Wenatchee after college, he started his own irrigation and landscaping business, branching out from the irrigation supply business his dad and grandfather were already running.

Since 1972, David has been installing and maintaining sprinkler systems throughout the Valley, while simultaneously building the reputation of the Earhart name. Through many years of operating small businesses,

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everyone in Wenatchee has come to know and trust the Earhart family.

With Earhart’s Collision Repair, Brennan and Eric have carried forward the family tradition of innovating new business in Wenatchee. The brothers got into auto body work because they liked fixing classic cars, and they wanted to have a facility with all the tools they needed for restoring vintage automobiles. They accomplished that in the first year, and haven’t looked back since.

Today, Brennan and Eric own and

operate one of the leading collision repair shops in the Wenatchee Valley, and are continually growing and changing to keep up with modern vehicle construction.

“It’s not as simple as just fixing a dent or changing a fender anymore,” said Brennan. “There are a lot of electronics that go into it as well.”

Today’s vehicles are made with high-strength steel, which is thin and lightweight, but very hard, making them more difficult to repair. It’s not uncommon nowadays for a car to be totaled from what appears to be fairly light damage.

The partnership between Brennan and Eric has worked out well, Brennan says: “Eric likes to work on cars in the back -- and I would rather work in the office.”

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The kitchen and living area are almost one, and this 10-foot island made of reclaimed bowling alley wood is an ever-useful centerpiece. The leather chairs have made several moves with the Leheckas.

Their way, exactly Couple’s new home embodies their sensible earth-friendly ethic of re-use, re-cycle, re-purpose Story by Susan Lagsdin Photos by Donna Cassidy

Tom and Jean Lehecka know

how to live small.

Numerous Air Force postings together in their long marriage

— and Jean herself has moved 29 times — taught them to discard the unnecessary and then pare down the essentials.

So, it might seem out of character that they filled their little rental house’s garage with cobbled together, scrounged and

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Ernie the Sharpei seems to find warm floors in the winter a distinct pleasure, and in the summer the poured concrete is cool to the touch. His folks find that cleaning up after him is really easy.

sought-after goodies a few years ago, while they awaited the sale of one home and the completion of another.

But the items they gathered were the start of a dream, partially captured in an idea

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notebook of carefully archived photos, of a new home that embodied their sensible earthfriendly ethic of re-use, re-cycle, re-purpose.

Retired from the service, they came to Wenatchee 10 years ago

Tom and Jean Lehecka collected bits for years for their new home.

ABOVE Jean and Tom opted for clean unencumbered lines and sturdy materials with steel, concrete, shiplap and granite. The kitchen side of the island and the red armoire/pantry each offer plentiful storage.

LEFT A good view of the old and the new: Tom crafted a 10 foot-long dining table out of the bowling alley wood with the pindeck setup still intact. The glass barn door opens to Jean’s office and quilting room.

with post-retirement degrees — she’s a pediatric nurse, he’s a surgical technician — and found the perfect job situation at the

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too much space and too little personality had stiffened their resolve to do exactly what they wanted in their next home.

They found and purchased a 12-acre high-up site in No. 1 Canyon, then interviewed and even started plans with a few builders. The first hope was to reuse 8-foot by 20-foot shipping containers, but codes and zoning made that too complicated, which in homebuilding generally means “too expensive.”

Moving forward with their unconventional house only came into reality when they found the right builder at the right time.

In 2014, Dave Simmons looked at the shape and interior flow in the sketches of the modules, saw that he could easily translate them into a stick-built house, and basically said, “Sure.”

Jean said, “We told Dave right off that we wanted top-quality construction and excellent insulation and light, and we wanted to be hands-on owners.”

And that they needed to communicate consistently. And that he had to incorporate the used materials they’d gathered.

Those included three deconstructed bowling lanes, three large sliding barn doors, two

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This winter’s deep snow easily (and often) slid off the steep-pitched metal roof. To the left is the view toward Badger Mountain from what will become again a favorite warmweather patio and lawn area.

Their way exactly }}} Continued from previous page old farm-style wash sinks, one antique China hutch, industrial piping, sewing machine bases and a very old medicine cabinet.

(No partridge, no pear tree.)

Some came from antique stores or Second Use, a Seattle restoration retailer and, “an amazing place!” said Jean. Some beloved pieces were inherited from Tom’s grandfather and part of their career-long stuff-hauling experience.

Found-metal yard sculpture, corrugated metal siding and simple posts create the honest industrial look the Leheckas were hoping for in their new home.

Their big garage serves as Tom’s shop.

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They call their 1,920 squarefoot home “Industrial Vintage” style. It’s a fluent melding of disparate design styles.

Ornate older pieces like three decommissioned family dining chairs crafted into a bench, old (and old-look) armoires and hutches, braided rag rugs, and crewel work cozy up very nicely with spartan but chic materials like shiny white shiplap and steel walls in the kitchen, gray sealed concrete and corrugated metal exterior siding.

The home is pale throughout — even with a hill to the south, most months the morning and evening light pours in through 8-foot glass doors.

Jean said the white wall paint could change. “After so many years of moves, we just wanted the simplest look and the simplest move-in possible.” They’ve only been in the house since this last October and decided to live in it a while longer to see if they want to add some color.

Two major acquisitions that were stored in town during construction are more than just accessories; they’re star players in the core of the house. Tom fashioned the three bowling alley lanes into a 10-foot kitchen

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“Dave had so many good ideas. I was going to squeeze the laundry in downstairs and he said, ‘Why not just put it up with the bedrooms?’

Easy!” typical amenity.

“We didn’t want any obstruction — now the rooms just flow together,” said Jean.

A special luxury is radiant heating on the ground level.

Jean said, “We love the warm floors! I can go barefoot down here in the winter and it feels great.” Poured concrete was burnished with a torch to a variegated gray tone and a surface that’s super-easy to sweep or mop.

They also are glad they made the temperature-controlled garage big enough for Tom’s tools

and worktable and a treadmill — plus a few vehicles. It’s almost the same square footage as the whole downstairs and refreshingly free of stacked and packed cardboard boxes.

Tom made a semi-serious rule that at least every six years they have to move — keeps the belongings down to a minimum, clears out the domestic cobwebs.

That’s a rule that’s about to be broken. The Leheckas love their new place and are confident this will be a long-lasting house, the one they’ve been heading toward for years.

One spacious bathroom, with its vintage farmhouse sink and walk-in shower, serves both the master bedroom and the guest room. The entire upstairs is floored with circular sawn Douglas fir.

island, an 8-foot dining table and an 8-foot TV stand. (The tarred underside of one section, destined to be re-discarded, cleaned up so nicely that it got used.)

The three glass sliding barn doors also serve them every day.

One opens into Jean’s home office and sewing/quilting room off the living area. The other two are upstairs and lead from the guest room and the master bedroom, respectively, into a

go-between room. That space has room for a full laundry and storage; a kind of modified “Jack ‘n Jill” floorplan.

Jean said, “Dave had so many good ideas. I was going to squeeze the laundry in downstairs and he said, ‘Why not just put it up with the bedrooms?’

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very year when I see March on the horizon, I think about shamrocks, leprechauns, and luck.

I often revisit The Luck Factor written by British experimental psychologist, Dr. Richard Wiseman. Wiseman founded a luck school.

Dr. Wiseman is a fascinating, dedicated, experimental scientist and skeptic who often critically exposes scams and magical thinking. Strange then that he would be the one to found a luck school to help losers become luckier.

The school came into existence because Wiseman found out quite a lot of useful information about luck in his 10 years of research.

Lucky people really aren’t any luckier in gambling games, but they are much luckier in other ways. Lucky people create and notice more opportunities, they make better decisions, they are happier and more successful.

Wiseman showed both good and bad luck result from specific behaviors and ways of thinking.

For example, lucky people, by expecting good outcomes, persist in their work, resulting in more success. Lucky people are often relaxed, open and outgoing and therefore have many more novel encounters presenting more opportunities Lucky people also often look on the bright side of “bad” experiences. When Wiseman asked a man who broke his leg if he still felt lucky, the man pointed out

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Lucky people are often relaxed, open and outgoing and therefore have many more novel encounters presenting more opportunities to Wiseman that he could have easily broken his neck, so he was quite lucky to have only broken his leg.

Wiseman’s luck school successfully taught unlucky people new habits that led to them becoming luckier.

This year the idea of becoming luckier grabbed even more of my attention because of two things.

Number one, I was going on a trip that pushed me out of my comfort zone and I felt a great need for good luck.

Second, I was asked to talk to several groups of Colombian students about something provocative, interesting, and useful.

“How To Be Luckier” seemed liked a good topic.

Now about this trip to South America — to Bogota, Colombia, the Amazon, and the Galapagos Islands. How exactly might I set myself up for a lucky trip?

The principles were a bit complicated. I needed to break them down into very specific behaviors I understood, could do, could monitor and could evalu-

ate daily.

What I eventually came up with were six questions that largely incorporated the good luck principles: n Did I smile and talk to at least one stranger today? n Did I do something like meditate, go for a walk, or listen to music to relax myself today? n Did I notice my thoughts and feelings today? n Did I look on the bright side when something went wrong toGetting lucky often means being willing to try something new. June Darling had never been day? snorkeling before her recent trip to South America, but after she tried it off the coast of Santa n Did I imagine Cruz in the Galapagos Islands, she discovered a whole new world. Photo by John Darling something good happening in my the principles and took a picture The students not only underfuture today? of the cover. stood, but immediately started n Did I do something new or I noticed she talked with practicing some of the good luck did I do something in a new way others as we waited in line to behaviors. Many students stayed today? get through customs. She had afterwards to talk about how I also wanted to make sure several recommendations and they planned to change their that I noticed lucky things that invitations before we had even lives by becoming luckier. did happen, so I kept a good We have more control over luck diary. The diary turned out officially arrived in Quito. I told her I was quite sure she was gogood fortune than we may to be mostly a way to capture and remember good experiences ing to be very lucky. She told me think. Certain behaviors often she already was. lead to good luck in life. and people.

On a different flight I sat March is a good time to exWhat I can report is even with beside a young man who said al- periment. People in different my rather sporadic and experimost nothing to me except that locations celebrate St. Patrick’s mental use, the questions and he really wanted this job he had Day in all sorts of ways. Why not diary seemed to help a lot in include some lucky behaviors keeping me focused on perform- just interviewed for.

Had he talked more to me he this year and see what happens? ing lucky behaviors and savoring would have found out I had a bit How might you move up to lucky events. of connection to the company he The Good Life by practicing I made connections and had interviewed with — and had he lucky behaviors? experiences that have already struck me as a good prospect, I been life altering.

June Darling, Ph.D. can be concould have easily put in a good As I travelled I also couldn’t tacted at drjunedarling1@gmail. word for him. But that never help noticing people who com; website: www.summitgroupreseemed to be doing or not doing happened. sources.com. Her books, including 7 He may get the job, but I prelucky things. I made predictions Giant Steps To The Good Life, can be bought or read for free at dict he’ll have to change some of in my mind about whether variAmazon.com. his behaviors if he’s going to be ous folks would turn out to be a lucky guy. lucky people.

I shared the luck questions, For example, on my flight to the luck diary and my contrastQuito, I sat beside a very engagKnow of someone stepping off the beaten path in the search for ing young lady who asked about ing predictions with the stufun and excitement? E-mail us at dents in Colombia. That turned the book I was browsing (The editor@ncwgoodlife.com into a great experience.

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jim brown, m.d.

Micronutrients: Little bits vital to health Most of us probably rarely if

ever think about micronutrients and the role they play in our health.

Micronutrients are chemical elements or substances required in only minuscule trace amounts for the growth and development of living organisms. They are critical in the development of fetuses and the normal growth and cellular development from infancy to adulthood.

They are needed only in very small amounts throughout our lives enabling our bodies to produce enzymes, hormones and other substances.

Micronutrients include six B vitamins, vitamin C, folic acid, biotin, beta carotene, D3 and E. In addition magnesium, calcium, potassium and phosphorus are essential minerals and zinc, manganese, copper, selenium, chromium, iodine, fluoride and molybdenum are essential trace elements.

It is amazing to me to think about how these micronutrients are so essential in the complexity of our bodies and physiology.

In general, micronutrients essential for health and development are not produced in or by our bodies. The main exceptions are the production of vitamin K and biotin (B 7) produced by our gut bacteria and vitamin D that is produced by skin synthesis with the help of sunlight. Beta carotene is converted to vitamin A in our bodies.

Prior to 1930, vitamins were obtained only through food intake.

Synthetic vitamins appeared in the mid 20th Century and became widely an inexpensive synthetic dietary and food additive. Prior to this, we got them primarily through the food we ate, which is actually healthier

The ancient Egyptians discovered eating liver (loaded with Vitamin A) helped people with night blindness... and more effective than taking synthesized vitamins and minerals.

There is little evidence synthetic micronutrients for those who are healthy have any benefit in respect to cancer, heart disease or disability.

Nowadays everything from bottled water to orange juice have increased levels of added vitamins and minerals. In addition, eating fortified cereals, energy bars, enriched pasta and taking daily supplements could put one over the recommended daily usage of nutrients.

There is no advantage to taking more than the recommended amount of vitamins and minerals.

That said, if you take a basic multivitamin, there is a wide margin of safety even if combined with fortified foods.

However, experts warn Vitamin D, calcium and folic acid can potentially exceed what our bodies need. Synthetic beta carotene supplements can be particularly harmful in smokers.

Taking vitamin D in excess of 4,000 international units per day can cause heart problems.

Folic acid helps prevent birth defects, but getting more than 1000 IU /day can be harmful.

There is no need to worry about foods rich in folate.

Long before modern science,

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the health value of eating certain foods was recognized.

The ancient Egyptians discovered eating liver (loaded with Vitamin A) helped people with night blindness, which is now known to be caused by a lack of vitamin A. The increase of long ocean voyages after the Renaissance led to development of scurvy, a disease caused by the lack of vitamin C (ascorbic acid) that leads to anemia, debility, exhaustion and swelling (edema).

In 1745 a Scottish surgeon discovered citrus fruits (unknown to him containing vitamin C) prevented scurvy. Not everyone believed him, many thinking scurvy was from poor hygiene, and as late as the early 20th Century, a sea captain exploring the Antarctic thought scurvy was related to tainted canned food.

In Asia, beriberi — which now we know is due to a lack of thiamine (vitamin B 1) — was an endemic serious disease found especially in the poorer population whose diets primarily consisted of polished white rice.

A Japanese ship captain did an interesting experiment with his two battle ships. He fed the occupants of one ship only polished rice and on the other a diet of meat, barley, fish, rice and beans.

On the polished rice ship, 25 of the crew of 161 died and on the second ship there were no deaths.

In 1929 the Noble Prize in Medicine went to two scientists who postulated some foods contained “accessory factors” that were necessary for functions of the human body.

We certainly have come a long way since then.

When I was a Fellow studying at the Mayo Clinic, we were told

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iodine deficiency essentially put the now-renowned Mayo Clinic on the map.

Iodine deficiency worldwide was the cause of an enlarged thyroid gland in the neck called “goiter,” which was more common in females over the age of 40.

Goiters are more common where iodine is not readily available, particularly inland from the oceans. As a result they were quite common in the Midwest, and Dr. Charles Mayo, a surgeon in rural Rochester, Minnesota, built quite a reputation for his goiter surgical skills.

Eventually goiter was attributed to iodine deficiency and thus salt became iodized, essentially eliminating the high prevalence of goiter. By then the Mayo Clinic was well established in the public’s minds.

In 1982, I was 1 of 20,000 young male physicians who volunteered to participate in the Harvard Physicians Health Study. The study was trying to see what, if any effect, taking low dose aspirin regularly had on the development of heart disease and what, if any, effect taking beta carotene had on the prevention of cancer of any kind.

All of the physicians in the study received packets of either real pills or placebos every three months and we were to take one pill every day. One half of us got placebos and the other the real thing. We didn’t know which we had.

At the end of the study that lasted 10 years the results clearly showed the benefit of taking low dose aspirin regularly on the prevention of coronary heart disease. No effect was shown of the impact of beta carotene on

... we should start in the fresh produce department first and pick out foods that are green, leafy, red, orange and colorful. the prevention of cancer.

As it turned out I was getting actual aspirin, and I have continued to take it daily and will do so for the rest of my life.

This randomized study was remarkable because the subjects were all fairly compulsive physicians so the compliance rate of the 10-year study was a remarkable 97 percent.

We participants still living receive an annual health questionnaire from Harvard and an annual report of the findings continues to this day.

So what is the takeaway from this article?

As I have mentioned in other articles, what we eat has a huge affect on our nutrition, health and well-being, even down to our trace micronutrient intake.

The best way to ensure we are getting the proper micronutrients that our creator figured out long before we did is by eating the right foods — despite the fact that, many less healthy processed foods are very tasty and inviting.

My way of thinking starts

when shopping for our fruit and vegetables. We should try to eat fresh, preferably organic, vegetables and fruits every day.

When we grocery shop, we should start in the fresh produce department first and pick out foods that are green, leafy, red, orange and colorful. Preferably we should eat them fresh, uncooked, added to salads, soups and other meals.

Vitamins A, D, E and K are water soluble and they ”leak” when exposed to water, especially in boiling. Foods containing vitamin C, B1, B2, and B6 have the least loss if they are microwaved, steamed, stewed or fried.

The best way to reduce vitamin loss is by eating veggies and fruit raw as well as using cooking methods that reduce the cooking time, such as stir frying.

If we are cooking vegetables we should steam them, as cooking them in water causes a significant loss in the nutrients.

Leaving the skin on when cooking plus cutting the veggies and fruit into larger chunks rather than small is also wise.

We should try to limit our intake of processed foods as much as we can. Our preferred main sources of protein are seafood and meat (avoiding processed meats when possible).

In the end realistically we are our own health guru.

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Beat blues with healthy homemade pizza I

t is March. It is too early to harvest greens from the garden. It is too late to 1/2 cup addimake any more slow-simtional white flour mering, warm-the-kitchen for kneading comfort food.

2 teaspoons All the garden produce yeast (1 package) you froze or canned is 1 teaspoon salt nearly eaten — at least your 1 1/2 cups warm favorite ones are eaten and water- about 100 the remainder are landegrees guishing in the back of the

cupboard and on the lowest Mix the dry ingredients. Stir in shelf of the freezer. the water.

What to cook? Pizza.

Let the dough sit Homemade pizza is a terfor 30 minutes. rific change of pace for Flour your dinner while engrossed in hands and pull and basketball’s Final Four. stretch the dough Notoriously, pizza is and make it into a laden with calories, excesball. sive fat and salt and deLet it rise for Pizzaettes topped with low-calorie, tasty morsels such as oven-baked veggies or vegetables of your nounced as the downfall of choice create delicious snacks. another hour or the American diet. so, and again flour Despite this aspersion, your hands and pull stick them together. Add meat if Make the dough a day or two and stretch the dough. pizza remains one of America’s desired. ahead of time and store it in the Then you can store it covered in favorite foods.

What taste combinations refrigerator where it will conthe refrigerator until the next day. If Have you ever tried making make your mouth water? tinue to work very slowly and you chill the dough, take it out of the one? You can determine the n Smoked oysters, shrimp, enhance its flavor. refrigeration 2 hours before you want level of the fat, salt and number anchovies, onion, lots of garlic, Or immediately, roll out the to use it. of calories per slice that you blue cheese and dill? dough in a circle to create a If you are going to use it immediwant to treat yourself to. n Oven-roasted beets, onlarge pizza or pull it into indiately, divide the dough into two large It may be hard to sell a ions, carrots, garlic and peppers vidual eight-inch pizzaettes. pieces. trimmed down pizza to sports and left over cooked chicken Use white flour for at least Sprinkle flour on the counter and fans, so call it “focaccia with chunks, a generous sprinkle of three-fourths of the amount roll the dough flat and thin. Then pull fabulous toppings.” balsamic vinegar, marjoram and called for in the recipe because and shape it to fit the pizza or baking The toppings can truly be pan.

Monterey Jack cheese? you need the gluten to hold the Repeat with the other half of the fabulous and can be made days n Caramelized onions capers, dough together. roll.

Spread a thin coat of cornmeal on in advance. thyme and lots of cheese?

Use whole wheat or oat flour the pan and ease the dough onto it.

Here’s the fun part. Ignore the n Artichoke hearts finely or any other favorite grains Let the dough rest for 10 minutes. temptation to make a marinara sliced, black olives, red pepper, finely ground. The dough needs Turn the oven on to 400. tomato-based sauce. mushrooms chopped spinach, a minimum amount of salt to Cover the crust with fillings. Start White sauces with lots of lem- feta cheese? control the growth of the yeast. with some cheese; finish with some on are refreshing. The sauce’s n Sliced mushrooms, asparaThe dough does not need oil or cheese. purpose is to stick the ingredigus, broccoli, tomatoes, zucchisugar.

Bake 20 minutes or until bubbling ents to the dough. ni, onions, garlic and basil? and the crust is light brown.

The cheese can be any type The dough for the crust is pre you love. It can be done in mod- pared with very little effort and Enjoy the game!

Makes 2 pizzas or six pizzaettes eration or with a heavy hand. time. You can make it as crusty 400 degree oven I put some cheese directly on or as soft as you like. Add 1 1/2 Bonnie Orr — the dirt diva — cooks and gardens in East Wenatchee. the dough and then some on tablespoons olive oil to make a 2 1/4 cups white flour plus 3/4 cup top of the toppings in order to more “bready” dough. flour of your choice

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Mark Wavra: Never a one-man show ‘I’m not an expert at any one art, but I am an expert learner. I work hard, I ask questions, I’m unafraid to fail, and I always promise more than I can deliver’

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he work tables in the big, airy art room at Eastmont High School are arranged almost counterintuitively: they form a hollow circle facing each other, with space around the perimeter.

Mark Wavra said, “At first they were in rows like school desks, but I figured, I gotta do it this way so they can run laps…”

“They” are the fortunate students whose art teacher knows what kids need, and it’s not always in the fine print of curriculum guidelines. He said, “You’ve got to do what you can to reach everybody.”

Reaching everybody is a career imperative for Mark, who knows how the arts can counteract the stresses and strains of growing up.

In his dream district, with a dream budget, he might offer full year K-12 music, visual art and theater movement classes with staff and facilities matching team sports dollar-fordollar.

Mark attributes his ability to think panarts and integration to growing up in Ephrata, where everybody played a role, so to speak, in each other’s lives: three-season athletes also sang in the choir, acted in plays, and took all the art classes. He grew up doing it all, and his fine arts focus at Central Washington University could have as easily been theater.

He offers all his art students — five groups a day — a rich mix of media and methods, but his personal off-the-clock favorite is drawing, which soothes him like a journal

A midwinter glimpse of Mark’s summertime puppetry gig, with a little horseplay thrown in.

does a writer. Landscapes, cityscapes and even people at meetings — his pen keeps filling his sketchbook. He also does an occasional oil or watercolor painting and experiments with digital photography.

“I’m not an expert at any one art, but I am an expert learner,” he said, defining further, “I work hard, I ask questions, I’m unafraid to fail, and I always promise more than I can deliver!”

But deliver he does, whether its a job or a

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volunteer project. That last trait keeps him on track to meet his own expectations.

As Drama Club advisor at E.H.S. for 13 years, he multitasked on plays, usually an intensive 10 weeks twice a year from auditions to closing night. He masterminded set design and construction, costume, make-up, publicity and everything in between with mostly student volunteers, but he liked it that way; their personal investment and en-

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thusiasm was heartening.

“Well,” he admitted, “maybe I’d go in on a Sunday to undo something the kids had cobbled together — like a platform that wasn’t going to hold anybody.

But that was the job.”

Closing the curtain on his drama position with 2012’s musical Bye Bye Birdie, he segued into the North Central Regional Library’s traveling puppet program. Shaping talk into scripts and storyboards with puppetry partner Brian Higgins is a twoman circus.

“We laugh a lot,” Mark said, “and some of our ideas… well, it’s children’s theater — they just don’t make it to the stage.”

Improvisational puppetry may seem miles away from directing musicals, but it’s showing him an intriguing path to some alternate form of unscripted, multiart, interactive theater.

Creativity’s not all whimsy and clever ideas.

Mark’s innate sense of order and discipline help shape his projects, and too much freedom might spoil him, he said. “I work best with budgets, deadlines, creative restraints — they help me channel my energies and focus my work.”

From his first year in Wenatchee, he’s enjoyed other ways to channel energies. He moves. He swims rigorous laps with friends three mornings a week and hits the trail Thursdays with Run Wenatchee. He bikes, road and mountain, all over the Valley and competes in running/biking events “when time and opportunity allow.”

He gauges himself well.

“If I ever have a bad day at work, maybe just slightly ‘off,’ I know it’s because I didn’t get my heart rate up that morning. I need to clear the static from the attic.”

Mark is also clear about what sustains him on a larger scale.

Likening life to a four-burner stove, he says he’s using three burners, and that’s just enough: family, work, and health.

His wife and two teenage children, arts and teaching (often blissfully interconnected) and vigorous daily exercise satisfy him.

Mark’s made his mark in the arts all over this valley for years, but he said, “If I ever accomplish anything big, it won’t be from a heroic effort, it will be from doing a little bit every day and keeping at it until the job is finished.”

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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 Pybus Public Market south entrance. Either a 5k or 10k walk or run on the Apple Capital Recreation Loop Trail. Complete 10 weekly runs and receive a free shirt. Cost: free (other than a smile).

2 Left Feet, every Thursday, 7 – 9 p.m. 2 Left Feet is a loose organization of local dance enthusiasts who would like to see more dancing in the Wenatchee Valley. Beginner lesson at the top of the hour followed by carefree social dancing. No 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.

Every first Sunday. Special guest Donna Dupras who is lead vocalist for the Seattle area band Scratch Daddy. The Club Crow in Cashmere, 108 1/2 Cottage Ave. Cost: free.

The Disquisition of Wood as Art, now through 3/23. Monday through Thursday, 9 a.m. – 1 p.m.

Artist Ronald Gerton wood and cast bronze sculptures at Robert Graves Gallery at Wenatchee Valley College.

Camp Fire Boys and Girls Benefit Luncheon, 3/1, noon. Camp Fire has after school programs at Columbia, Lewis and Clark, Lincoln, and Mission View schools, Boys and Girls youth clubs, and Co-ed summer camp at Camp Zanika.

The keynote speaker is Michelle McCormick, owner of Stage Kids.

Proceeds will benefit Camp Fire youth programs in Chelan, Douglas, Okanogan, Grant and Adams counties. Wenatchee Convention Center.

Cost: free. RSVP: 663-1609.

Film Series: The Beatles, 3/2, p.m. Documentary film directed by Ron Howard features footage of their concert years of 1963 to 1966.

It also follows how the Fab Four began to change and grow. Snowy Owl Theater. Cost: $10 advance or $12 at the door.

Special Olympics Opening Ceremony, 3/3, 7 p.m. Town Toyota Center. Info: towntoyotacenter.org.

First Friday events include: *Two Rivers Art Gallery, 3/3, 5 – 8 p.m. Showcasing members’ art.

Music by harpist Suzanne Grassell.

Wines by Jones of Washington.

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Turning 65 or new to the area?

Come to a FREE Health Alliance Medicare Seminar.

HealthAllianceMedicare.org 1-877-561-1463 (TTY 711) 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. weekdays.

Complimentary refreshments. 102 N Columbia, Wenatchee. Cost: free.

Info: 2riversgallery.com.

Confluence Health • 1000 N Miller St • Wenatchee

*Merriment Party Goods, 3/3, 5 – 8 p.m. Our March First Friday artist is our very own merry manager, Krystal Devine. She is bringing her macrame and yarn art to share.

Come and say hi. Sips and snacks available. 23, S Wenatchee Ave. Cost: free. Info: facebook.com/merrimentpartygoods. *Tumbleweed Bead Co., 3/3, 5-7 p.m. Refreshments served. 105 Palouse St. Cost: free. Info: tumbleweedbeadco.com. *Wenatchee Valley Museum and Cultural Center, 3/3, 5. – 8 p.m. High School Art Show continues through May 6. Light refreshments. Info: Wenatchee.org. *Robert Graves Gallery, 3/3, 5-7 p.m. Ronald Gerton wood and cast bronze sculptures on display.

Refreshments. Cost: free. *220: Repetition, Rhythm and Pattern, 3/3, 5 - 7 p.m. The art group, 220, got its start in an advanced painting seminar, Art 220, at Wenatchee Valley College. 220 meets monthly to critique work and collaborate on community art ventures. Now in their third year, 220 members share their response to the theme Repetition, Rhythm, and Pattern in an exhibit at Caffe Mela, through the month of March.

Mobile Meals Spring Variety Show, 3/3, 7 p.m. Featuring music by Bonga Marimba Band, Apollo Club and Children’s Choir, All Strings Considered, Fabulous Feet Dance Studio, Columbia River Community Flute Choir, DBB Bongo Brothers, Eastmont Jr. High Jazz Band, and An Daire Academy Irish Dancers. Plus an Apple Blossom Preview of Young Frankenstein.

Numerica Performing Arts Center.

Cost: $12. Info: numericapac.org.

Mike Bills, 3/3, 6 – 8 p.m. Live performance on the Railcar. Pybus Public Market. Cost: free. Info: pybuspublicmarket.org.

Bakke Cup, 3/4, all day. The Leavenworth Classic: Alpine GS, Ski Jumping and Nordic. Leavenworth Ski Hill. Info: skileavenworth.com.

Lego Building Competition, 3/4, 9:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. Bring your own legos and build and compete.

Tuesday, March 14 | 11 a.m.

Wenatchee Senior Center • 1312 Maple Street Wenatchee Thursday, March 23 | 10 a.m.

Two Rivers Art Gallery is hositng it’s eighth annual celebration with a members show Friday, March 3, starting at 5 p.m.

Pybus Public Market. Cost: free.

Info: pybuspublicmarket.org.

Special Olympics Competition, 3/4, 8 a.m. – noon. Town Toyota Center, Icicle Trail at Fish Hatchery for cross-country skiing competition. Mission Ridge for other skiing events.

Voices and Strings, 3/4, 7 p.m.

The Columbia Chorale will partner with Wenatchee High School Chamber Orchestra to present works from three musical time periods – Baroque, Romantic and 20th Century. Grace Lutheran Church.

Tickets at Numerica Pac.

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Nissebakken Tele Race, 3/5, all day. If you can drop a knee, you can participate in this giant slalom race of two runs. Theme: Superhero costume. Prizes awarded, potluck to follow. Info: skileavenworth.com.

Four minutes to fame, 3/6, 6:30 p.m. Local writers reading excerpts from their work. Come and listen or secure your spot for a reading.

Milepost 111 Brewing Company, Cashmere. Info: writeontheriver. org.

EDM Antigone, A Digital Rock Opera, 3/7, 6:30 p.m. Music, dance and drama with high-tech lighting and sound. Numerica Performing Arts Center. Cost: $15. Info: numericapac.org.

Environmental Film and Lecture Series: A River between us, 3/7, 7 p.m. A documentary on the largest river restoration project in American history. Nearly 300

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miles in length, flowing from southern Oregon to northern California, the vast communities of the Klamath River have been feuding over its waters for generations. Wenatchee Valley Museum and Cultural Center.

Cost: $5 suggested donation. Info: cdlandtrust.org.

could make you a winner!

Pybus University: hammered metal spiral necklaces, 3/7, 7 p.m. Join artist and jewelry maker Juliana Marquis and learn the basics of hammered metal jewelry making. You will learn to manipulate wire into organic forms ending in an artistic creation you can wear around your neck. Info: pybuspublicmarket.org.

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ell us one of your favorite moments with your Mom — from when you were a child, or a teenager, or a young adult or from just recently — and be eligible to win a $100 gift certificate.

Remember taking a trip with Mom, or when Mom said that perfect thing at the perfect time, or when she filled the house with delicious smells, or patched that scraped knee along with your bruised ego, or revealed a side of herself as the complex human being she was, or beamed at your accomplishment or chided you for a shortcoming but in a loving way?

Write us an email – 200 to 500 words or so – telling us of a favorite moment with your Mom. Send along a digital photo, too.

We’ll choose one of the writers for a $100 gift certificate to any one of The Good Life’s advertisers from the past year.

But be quick… the deadline is April 7th.

As Mom might say, don’t wait for tomorrow when you can do it today!

Send photos and stories to: editor@ncwgoodlife.com Selected moments may be published in the May issue of The Good Life.

Bird ID skills building, 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.

Stage Door, 3/9, 10, 11, 16, 17, 18, 7:30 p.m. Saturday matinees 2 p.m.

Wenatchee High School drama club performs. WHS auditorium.

Cost: $10 adults, $5 students. Info: numericapac.showare.com.

KPQ Home Show, 3/10-12, times vary. Town Toyota Center. Info: towntoyotacenter.com.

Just Us, 3/10, 6 – 8 p.m. Live performance on the Railcar. Pybus Public Market. Cost: free. Info: pybuspublicmarket.org.

Diabetes Smackdown, 3/11, 12.

A groundbreaking day-and-a half seminar that reveals exactly what is stopping you in your life. Learn how to create new results that lead to long lasting health and vitality.

Cost: $125. www.diabetessmackdown.com.

Vox Docs Film Festival, 3/10, 11. * Friday 3/10, 7 p.m. The JT LeRoy Story: Documentary that chronicles a 16-year-old literary sensation JT LeRoy and the mastermind behind it all, author Laura Albert. Opening night party 10 p.m. at Blewett Brewing Company, downtown Leavenworth.

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go Fly a kite in Entiat March 18 The Seventh Annual Entiat

Kite Festival, “The Rites of String,” will be held at the Kiwanis Park in Entiat along Highway 97A on Saturday, March 18, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Last year’s festival had participants of all ages bringing their kites to fly the friendly skies.

Over 150 free kites were given away to children to assemble, decorate and fly at the festival, and prizes were awarded for the best-decorated kites in all age groups.

This year’s event is expected to be even bigger, with 200 free kites for kids. Organizers plan to have entertainment, live music, vendors for food and kite-related paraphernalia, as well as a stunt kite fliers on hand to demonstrate their skills.

The free family event is sponsored by the Entiat Valley Chamber of Commerce. For more information, contact festival chairman Alan Moen at 509-784-5101 or alanmoen@ nwi.net. * Saturday, 3/11, 11 am. Cameraperson: A stunning achievement in 25 years of work of Kirsten Johnson a touching and complex look at the person behind the camera. 1:15 p.m., Zero Days: This documentary thriller explores the potential consequences of cyberwarfare, including the looming threat of weapons like the Stuxnet computer virus. 5 p.m. Gleason: Documentary on former New Orleans Saints and WSU football player Steve Gleason’s battle with ALS after being diagnosed at the age of 34. 7:30 p.m.

Crazywise: Documentary on what can be learned from people around the world who have turned their psychological crisis into a positive transformative experience. Snowy Owl Theater. Cost: $15 advance or $17 at the door, weekend pass $60 for all five films. Info: icicle.org.

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A 10-year balancing act A little ad here... a little art there...

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ust another day at work for Oly Mingo, creative director of North 40 Productions.

He drives down from Entiat, a short distance that keeps his frenetic work pace — constant deadlines, unscheduled changes, distant shoots, occasional allnighters — nicely separated from hearth and home. He almost always takes the bus, an even better separator. (“…and I can drive 50 miles round trip for two dollars,” he’s calculated.)

A cup of coffee, an email check, a little banter and then a 10 meeting with the whole team — business, production, script and audio experts — to discuss crucial revisions he made last week to Lifted: a Ski Film for the Rest of Us, their latest video project.

Its original 45-minute length, a pleasure glut for the sold out crowd at the Numerica PAC, was deemed one-third too long for the many competitive film festivals it’s heading to this spring.

Oly’s job was to seamlessly cut 15 minutes out. Today it’s at 35 minutes.

From the meeting came plenty of suggestions, and that will be the bulk of his work today, slicing and dicing at his computer until perfect longish becomes perfect shorter.

Oh, and he’s making a twominute trailer to boot. It’ll be a tough haul, but the end of the

day is festive, with a few brews out with the crew Whether he’s on a photo shoot or a family trek, Oly’s in his element in the wide open spaces. to celebrate and filming family, friend and North 40’s community vignettes on his fifth full year in business. own, spotlighting other lives This is Oly’s own 10th anniverin new ways. “I guess you’d call sary of working at his self-taught them glorified home videos,” he and compelling craft. said.

By high school, he’d considRaised and nurtured in the ered other career paths (paleonWenatchee area, Oly at 32 has tologist, animator, pilot, chef) already made another giant step but was personally hooked on toward community involvement making videos. as a member of the Board of DiHe just about failed his senior rectors of the Leavenworth Film year stint in the Tech Center’s Festival. program, but helped by a worldLast year he both initiated and wide burst of accessibility to sponsored its Promising Young new technology, he entered the also value imaginative, nonFilmmaker Award, a competiworld of filmmaking anyway, commercial film that needs to tion for high school students a hungry apprentice with gendo neither. that offers mentorship following erous mentors. “I didn’t go to There’s another push-pull gofilm school,” said Oly, “but I’m ing on in Oly’s life. As the totally public recognition.

That public screening is imconstantly learning online and I besotted dad of seven-monthportant. go to a lot of conferences.” old daughter Chy, he realizes Oly said, “A premier is the Oly calls himself a 100 percent that the perks of his job, which closest thing to a live perforvisual storyteller. His “conceptat the outset promised and ing” and then his video footdelivered on wanderlust, adven- mance — it’s electric to be present when your creative effort is age (shot on location) and his ture and ambition, now seem a editing of it (at the computer) distraction from the fundamen- enjoyed by a large audience.”

Still customizing his craft, still are geared to move audiences, tal joys of fatherhood. on the lookout for more ways to whoever they are.

He’s determined to make the tell stories, Oly is in the sweetAnd that’s sometimes a point very best of both worlds. spot for a guy who loves filmof tension for him. “Ninety per“I am an ambassador of rad cent of my time is spent selling for my little dreamer to be… and making: plenty of time in the great outdoors with a camera and telling other people’s ideas.

I know that being a father will But 90 percent of my passion is make me a better filmmaker,” he and a crew; plenty of solo time at the computer to hone the telling stories that are important said. “Already I can tell I have a details. All in a day’s work. to me.” new perspective, more empathy You can see lots of video at Good clients keep the lights and compassion than I ever had olymingo.com, north40 producon and pay the rent — luckbefore.” tions.com or liftedskifilm.com. ily his compatriots at North 40 He’s started photographing

“I am an ambassador of rad for my little dreamer to be… and I know that being a father will make me a better filmmaker.”

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}}} Continued from page 36 Squirrel Cup Ski Racing, 3/11, 12, 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. U8, U10, U12 and U14. Dual slalom and super G. Mission Ridge. Info: Wenatchee.org.

St. Paddy’s 5k Run and Walk, 3/11, 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. The runnin’ and wearin’ o’ the green. O’Grady’s at Sleeping Lady. Cost: $35. Info: runwenatchee.org.

Wayne Kelly Memorial, 3/11, noon. Top Dog Parade and King County Firefighters pipes and drums performance. Downtown Chelan. Cost: free. Info: lakechelan. com.

Opera Series: La Traviata – The Met: Live in HD, 3/12, 2 p.m. Sonya Yoncheva brings her acclaimed interpretation of the doomed courtesan Violetta Valery in Verdi’s famous opera. Snowy Owl Theater.

Cost: $12-$22. Info: icicle.org.

White River Snowshoe Tour, 3/12, 9 a.m. – noon. Join wildlife biologist Heather Murphy for a naturalist’s snowshoe tour of the White River. Heather will discuss this special area’s importance to forests, birds, mammals and salmon. Carpool from Leavenworth park and ride. Info: cdlandtrust.org.

Pirates of Penzance, 3/13, 7:30 p.m. Swashbuckling buccaneers, bumbling British bobbies, frolicsome Victorian maidens and the delightfully dotty model of a modern Major-General for a rollicking romp over the rocky coast of Cornwall. A musical theater masterpiece. Numerica Performing Arts Center. Cost: $19-$35. Info: numericapac.org.

Pybus University: Family Art

Night, print making, 3/14, 7 p.m.

Join professional artist Terry Valdez and his fellow art assistants for an evening of Print Making explorations. No experience necessary.

Ages 5 to 95. Cost: free. Info: pybuspublicmarket.org.

Lose fat without surgery, 3/15, 5 - 7 p.m. Learn about Coolsculpting. Slide presentation followed by free evaluations. Valley Plastic Surgery. Cost: free. Info: 667-2535.

Wenatchee Chamber Banquet, 3/15. Wenatchee Valley Convention Center. Events include an online auction, silent auction, a social hour and awards for Non-Profit of the Year, Business of the Year, Cornerstone Award, and Legacy Award.

Info: 662-2116 or email jerrilea@ wenatchee.org. Cost: $50.

Monthly movie on the big screen: Rocky, 3/16, 6:30 p.m.

Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone) is a struggling Philadelphia boxer who is scorned by his gym’s owner, patronized by a loan shark and rebuffed by a shy “plain-Jane”, whose butcher brother keeps engineering a romantic match. Numerica Performing Arts Center. Cost: $3. Info: numericapac.org.

Q and A with ultra runner Max King, 3/16, 6:30 p.m. Max, 36, and a Bend, Ore., resident, won the 2014 IAU 100-Kilometer World Championships and the 2011 World Mountain Running Championships.

In 2016, he earned the bronze medal at the 2016 NACAC Cross County Championships. He also has won several national titles at distances ranging from the half- marathon to various ultra marathons. Pybus Public Market. Cost: free. Info: pybuspublicmarket.org.

Film Series: Magnus, 3/16, 7 p.m.

Genius, champion, child. Portrait of Norwegian chess prodigy Magnus Carlsen. Snowy Owl Theater. Cost:

$7-10. Info: icicle.org.

My Girlfriend’s closet, 3/17-19.

Women’s gently used clothing and accessories for sale. Proceeds go to non-profit organizations that help the homeless in the community.

212 Fifth St. #9, Wenatchee.

St. Patrick’s Day parade, 3/17, 7ish. The shortest St. Patrick’s Day Parade Route in the world. One block long at the corner of Orondo and Mission Street. Parade staging 6:15ish. Trophy award ceremony at Pybus 8ish.

Gavin McLaughlin, 3/17, 7 – 9 p.m. Live performance on the Railcar. Pybus Public Market. Cost: free. Info: pybuspublicmarket.org.

Mandy Harvey 3/17, 7 p.m. Award winning singer, songwriter and motivational speaker who has an invisible disability. She lost her hearing at the age of 18. Snowy Owl Theater. Cost: $14-$25. Info: Wenatchee.org.

Insider Hawaii, 3/17, 7 p.m. The Hawaiian Islands offer an array of magnificent wonders, but beyond these are little known treasures and out-of the way experiences.

Explore with us, some of the secret spots, insider tips, little-known locales, suggested tours, itineraries, walking and driving tours. AAA Wenatchee, 221 N Mission RSVP 665-6299.

Caveman Roar and Pour 5k Trail Run, 3/18. Cave B Es-

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Entiat Kite Festival, 3/18, 10 a.m.

– 5 p.m. 200 free kites for kids.

Live music, vendors for food, kite related paraphernalia, stunt kite fliers on hand to demonstrate their skills. Kiwanis Park, Entiat. Info: Alan Moen 784-5101.

Home is where the heart is, 3/18, 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Wenatchee Valley Appleaires perform. Numerica Performing Arts Center. Cost: $18 adults, $25 seniors, $15 youth.

Info: numericapac.org.

Dummy Downhill, 3/18, 4 – 6 p.m.

Create in either human or animal forms weighing no more than 100 pounds a dummy on skis or a snowboard. Mission Ridge.

Fern Hill Bluegrass, 3/18, 7:30 p.m. Fern Hill approaches its bluegrass music in the style of the classic bands of the ’50s and are one of the few bands in the Northwest that plays in the traditional style of Jimmy Martin and Bill Monroe.

Cashmere Riverside Center. Cost: $3 cover charge and hat pass, $8 to $11 per person suggested. Info: cashmerecoffeehouse.com.

Vernal Equinox, 3/20, 6:30 – 8 p.m. 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 hands on easy to see ways to put together your gar-

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revival of Mozart’s Idomeneo, set in the aftermath of the Trojan War. Snowy Owl Theater. Cost: $12-$22.

Info: icicle.org.

den. 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? Class is taught by WSU Master Gardener Bonnie Orr. WSU Community Education Garden at Springwater and Western. Cost: free.

Icebreaker LAX Jamboree, 3/25, 26, 8 a.m. – 5 p.m. The Wenatchee Valley Lacrosse club jamboree generally attracts 25-30 youth teams from throughout the PNW. Walla Walla Point Park.

Pybus University: Mythbusters about foster parenting, 3/21, 7 p.m. This class will dispel many of the myths about who can become a foster parent and answer some common questions about being a foster parent. Cost: free. Info: pybuspublicmarket.org.

The Bluebird Man, 3/21, 7 p.m. Al Larson was one of the first citizen scientists to take up the North American Bluebird Society call to action in 1978. Since then, the 91-year-old has developed a string of 300 nest boxes in the remote Owyhee Mountains on the Oregon/ Idaho border. This film captures the dedication of this conservationist as he monitors every stage of the breading process from nest building to egg laying, hatching and the fledgling of the bluebird chicks.

Wenatchee Valley Museum and Cultural Center. Cost: $5 donation. eBird 101 Workshop, 3/22, 6 p.m.

Chelan-Douglas Land Trust, 10 N Wenatchee Ave. or 3/23, 9 a.m.

Wenatchee River Institute, 347 Division St., Leavenworth. Do you like to bird? Would you like to see your observations contribute to something greater? Then become a citizen scientist with eBird. Cost: free. Info: susan@cdlandtrust.org.

Film Series: It’s So Easy and OTHER LIES, 3/23, 7 p.m. Guns n’ Roses bassist Duff McKagan’s journey through fame, fortune, addiction and finally sobriety. Snowy Owl Theater. Cost: $7-$10. Info: icicle.org.

Saddle Rockers, 3/24, 7 – 9 p.m.

Live performance on the Railcar.

Pybus Public Market. Cost: free.

Info: pybuspublicmarket.org.

Trails in Motion Film Festival, 3/24, 7 p.m. The finest trail running and ultra running films. Sponsored

by Run Wenatchee. Numerica Performing Arts Center. Cost: $12.

Opera Series: Idomeneo – The Met: Live in HD, 3/23, 9:55 a.m.

James Levine conducts a rare Met

Pybus University: Dahlias: A garden of earthly delights, 3/28, 7 p.m. This class will provide a hands-on demonstration of how to plant and care for your dahlias, how to select dahlias to grow, understanding dahlia terminology and how to interpret a dahlia catalog.

Tools, accessories, soil preparation, staking, labeling and tending will be discussed. Bring your questions and ideas. Taught by members of the North Central Washington Dahlia Society. Everyone in attendance will receive a free tuber. Cost: free.

Info: pybuspublicmarket.org.

Innovator Award Luncheon, 3/30, 11:30 a.m. Wenatchee Convention Center.

Film Series: The Eagle Huntress, 3/30, 7 p.m. A 13-year-old Kazakh girl becomes the first eagle hunter in 12 generations. Snowy Owl Theater. Cost: $7-$10. Info: icicle.org.

Concert: Quartet San Francisco with Alex DeGrassi, 3/31, 7 p.m. Non-traditional in their delivery, QSF redefines the sound of chamber music. Snowy Owl Theater. Cost: $15-$30. Info: icicle.org.

Rocklyn Road, 3/31, 7 – 9 p.m. Live performance on the Railcar. Pybus Public Market. Cost: free. Info: pybuspublicmarket.org.

Hike the PCT, 3/31, 7 p.m. Tami Asars’ interactive slideshow shares everything you need to know, including access, camp-to-camp mileage and best places to stake your tent on the Pacific Crest Trail.

Wenatchee River Institute. Cost: by donation.

Mariachi Northwest Festival, 3/31, 7:30 p.m. Town Toyota Center.

Info: towntoyotacenter.com.

Canadian Wanderings, 4/6, 7 p.m. Join John King, AAA’s wideroaming Travel Research Coordinator and Cartographer, as he presents “Canadian Wanderings,” an informative talk following the Trans-Canada Highway to national parks, scenic routes and out-of-theway gems found across Canada.

AAA Wenatchee, 221 N Mission RSVP 665-6299.

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”Voices and Strings!” featuring Schubert’s Mass in G & Credo in D by Antonio Lotti

Saturday, March 4, 7:00pm, Grace Lutheran Church with the Wenatchee High School Chamber Orchestra Tickets at the NumericaPAC

It’s Back,

St. Patrick’s Day Parade!

Friday, March 17

The “Shortest St. Patrick’s Day Parade Route” in the World!

Corner of Orondo and Mission Street, Parade Staging 6:15ish.

Parade starts at 7:00ish p.m.

Trophy Award Ceremony at Pybus 8:00ish.

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They came, and kept coming, from the south About 14,300 years ago,

when the glaciers of the last Ice Age were slowly retreating from northeastern Washington, a band of people inhabited caves at the base of basalt cliffs north of present day Bend, Oregon.

Recent archeological digs in the Paisley Caves have uncovered artifacts that tell the story of the cave dwellers. They were a far north outpost on the slow, inexorable northern migration of ancient people through eastern Oregon and Washington.

Over the next thousand years, people made their way to a cave in the Palouse cliffs known now as the Marmes Rockshelter.

The cave floor and the exposed bench on front of the cave opening have yielded a trove of

artifacts from a human skull to carved bone beads and delicate bone needles expertly shaped and polished for sewing hides into clothes.

By 13,000 years BP (before present) native people were living and hunting along Lind Coulee, a narrow, shallow coulee that winds across the sage prairie and farm lands southeast of Othello. Stone knives, scrapers and burned bison bones show many years of occupation at what was, most likely, a seasonal hunting camp.

Another camp at Sentinel Gap near Vantage held stone and bone tools along with other artifacts that dated to 12,000 years BP. The migration was slowly plodding its way north, likely following the warming climate

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behind the retreating glaciers.

Kennewick Man was buried along the Columbia River near Tri Cities by his friends 9,500 years ago.

It took only another 500 years until people were living in pit houses along the banks of the upper Wenatchee River, building fire pits at the summit of Cascade Pass above the headwaters of Lake Chelan and fishing for salmon at Kettle Falls on the upper Columbia.

For the next 9,000 years eastern Oregon and eastern Washington were Indian lands until the arrival of white miners, ranchers and homesteaders.

In 1855 Washington Territorial Governor, Isaac Stevens, held a treaty council in the Walla Walla Valley with most of the

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native tribes of eastern Washington and Oregon.

In exchange for the promise of reservations the tribes gave up title to almost all their traditional lands. Indian dissatisfaction with the deals ran high and the next three years saw sporadic warfare between tribes and the U.S. Army.

In the spring of 1859 Congress ratified the Walla Walla treaties and the president declared the non-reservation lands of eastern Washington and Oregon open to white settlement. A new south to north migration began.

Charles Splawn along with F.M. Thorpe and his family were among the first to head into the new land. With their cattle they crossed the Columbia at The Dalles then continued north into the Klickitat Valley and claimed homesteads near present Goldendale.

Jack Splawn, Charles’ younger brother, later described Mr. Thorpe as a very committed migrant. “He was a pioneer of the old school who had crossed the plains with ox teams from the Missouri River to Oregon’s Willamette Valley in 1844. When newcomers settled around him there, his spirit rebelled. Preferring to run the risk of Indian warfare than to live in a thickly settled community… he moved into the Klickitat. Here again he was followed. Without more ado, he packed up and started for a new wilderness.”

In February of 1861 F.M. Thorpe, the Klickitat first settler, with his wife and nine small children traveling on horseback, headed north over the snowy Simcoe Mountains. They forded the Yakima River at Union Gap and took a homestead near Moxee, becoming the first set-

After an exploration to the north, 60-year-old Dutch John told Fred that the next year he was going to cross the Wenatchee Mountains, marry an Indian girl, grow grapes, make wine and live like a king and that’s what he did. tlers in the Yakima Valley.

White settlement moved north again in 1868 when two Germans, Fred Ludi and his friend Dutch John Galler, were the first white men to settle in the Kittitas Valley near present day Ellensburg.

After an exploration to the north, 60-year-old Dutch John told Fred that the next year he was going to cross the Wenatchee Mountains, marry an Indian girl, grow grapes, make wine and live like a king and that’s what he did.

He settled near Three Lakes in Malaga, becoming the first white settler in the Wenatchee Valley.

Galler was soon joined by Mr. and Mrs. S.W. Perkins. The Perkins lasted only a year before selling their homestead below Saddle Rock to another German Immigrant, Philip Miller. With years of work Miller expanded and improved the homestead into a valley showplace.

By 1886 the Wenatchee Valley was filling up with homesteads and new migrants looked again to the north.

The Moses/Columbia Reservation had been established in 1880. It stretched from Lake

Chelan to the Canadian border and from the crest of the Cascades east to the Columbia and Okanogan Rivers.

In 1883 a fifteen-mile wide strip along the border was opened to homesteading and mining. In 1884 the entire reservation was restored to the public domain. It was opened for settlement in May of 1886.

Settlement moved quickly as people poured into the Lake Chelan, Okanogan and Methow Valleys.

In 1886 cattleman and saloon owner, John Walsh, miners William Sanders and Henry Dumpke, L.H. Spader and Mr. and Mrs. Ignatius Navarre settled around the foot of Lake Chelan.

That same year the Okanogan Valley got its first white family when L.C. and Mary Malott with three children settled at the mouth of Chiliwist Creek where their oldest son, 15-yearold Claude, had drowned in the Okanogan River on the day the family had arrived from Ellensburg.

Eighteen eighty-seven saw the first white settlers reach the Methow Valley when the Mason Thurlow, Napoleon Stone and Harvey Nickell families crossed the Chiliwist Trail to take land near Beaver Creek south of Twisp.

In 1887 the Entiat Valley, until then ignored, got its first settlers when the Lewis Detwiler family built their small cabin three miles upstream from the Entiat River’s mouth.

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Blending can be beautiful in wine world thing a little different: softer, perhaps, or with a slightly different aroma or flavor. This is done to red, white or rosé wines, and in many different ways. Just as we frequently eat a wide variety of foods, so do we look for different wines to complement them.

Personally, I’m a big fan of blended wines. Tsillan Cellars Sempre Amore blend of Pinot Grigio, Chardonnay and Gewurztraminer is delicious, and Eagle Creek Winery’s Adler Weiss white blend is terrific with spicy Asian foods or sweet fresh crab.

Wine makers in Europe have been blending for centuries, but the blending in the French wines is somewhat different from that which is practiced here.

In France, only specific grapes are allowed to be grown in each region. In many parts of the prestigious wine districts of France, blending starts in the vineyards themselves and is in part dictated by what is grown in the estate’s fields.

Chateau Petrus, for example, is typically a blend composed of Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon, because that is all that is allowed to be grown in the Petrus vineyards.

USA growers are not restricted to growing only certain kinds

I watched an old rerun of

Frasier a few nights ago; a fun show often, but this rerun was hilarious on two levels — first for the performances of both the actors portraying Frasier and his brother Niles, and secondly for the silly, out-right snobbery of the wine enthusiasts.

The wine snobbery scene was classic on several levels: first because of the outright pop on the head for the wine-snobs of the world, and far more subtly, for the innuendo of the difference between blends and single grape variety wines.

Personally, I am a big fan of blends, although in defense of single varietals, some of the best wines both locally and nationally are made from a single variety of grape.

But think of this: Steak is steak, but what the chef does with the meat to present it to the diners, and what sides are served with it, makes all of the difference.

Likewise, Cab is Cab, and a straight-forward, Cab-only wine can be wonderfully fragrant, delicious and satisfying.

But often conditions exist which make blending other varieties with the Cab desirable.

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Sometimes one field is planted with several varieties in order to create a field blend, although this practice has become somewhat rare.

Most blending now happens in the production facilities.

The grape varieties are harvested and kept separate during fermentation and often even during aging, before wines from the various barrels are blended together.

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Often, Syrah juice is mixed with a little Viognier. Typically, the percentage of Viognier is under 10 percent, but in the northern Rhone where this blending originated, the wineries can use up to 20 percent Viognier in the blend.

We do one other thing in the New World that isn’t practiced in those prestigious French growing regions: we blend grapes of all types in our wines.

It’s not at all uncommon to find some Syrah in our Cabernet Sauvignon or some Cabernet Sauvignon in our Pinot Noir.

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Some remarkably great blends can be found in our area.

Lost River Winery makes a marvelous blend called Massif, a powerful blend of Malbec and Syrah.

While it is a bit of a trek up to Winthrop, the tasting room will welcome you with a complimentary wine tasting. Owner, winemaker — and often, chief bottle-washer — John Morgan also does a remarkable job of blending similar grapes from different growing regions into many of his other terrific wines.

Blends can be found in almost every winery here in the tricounty area, so if you’re of an investigative mind, choose a blend you like and look up wineries to find three or four that produce it.

Visit each and taste each blend, and learn how the winemaker’s touch makes each one different but still delicious.

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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