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e often say it’s a small world. Or that what goes around comes around. One of CRR’s contributors, Hal Calbom, says we live in a “relationship age.”

Whatever you choose to call it, here are three back stories lingering behind this month’s front pages.

Our May “People+Place” subject is Marci Sanders, who happens to be married to Randy Sanders, founder and original publisher of Columbia River Reader. Randy handed over the keys to the kingdom when he sold CRR to me in 2004. I really didn’t know what I was getting into — and that there was a moat and a dungeon included in the fiefdom — just that I wanted my own newspaper! Now here we are, beginning our 18th year of publication. I so appreciate Randy’s vision and our supporting cast of advertisers, contributors, editors, suppliers and helpers, all of whom make my job manageable, meaningful, and FUN! When I first met Marci, a few years into my CRR “reign,” I immediately liked her bright spark and sense of fun. She has since created a great venue at Tap into Wine in Old Town St. Helens. Maybe I’ll see you there one of these Thursday or Saturday

Publisher/Editor: Susan P. Piper Columnists and contributors: Tracy Beard Hal Calbom Dave Clark Alice Dietz Joseph Govednik Lyn Hartung Jim LeMonds Michael Perry Ned Piper Perry Piper Robert Michael Pyle Marc Roland Alan Rose Alice Slusher Greg Smith Debra Tweedy Technical Advisor: Perry E. Piper Editorial/Proofreading Assistants: Merrilee Bauman, Michael Perry, Marilyn Perry, Tiffany Dickinson, Debra Tweedy

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Front Pages, Back Stories afternoons. Take your own container or get a “Tap into Wine” growler there, just like the one shown on this month’s cover.

If you are so inclined, please join me in sending a financial gift to the Campus Towers expansion project now in the fundraising stage. Campus Towers is very deserving and the need for affordable housing for seniors is greater now than ever.

We can all look forward this spring to taking off the masks (only if everyone is vaccinated, of course), seeing smiles again, and getting outside for some barbecuing and dining al fresco. Tracy Beard shares some tips and tantalizing recipes (pages 12-13), so invite your “long lost” friends and neighbors and get re-acquainted.

Finally, our personal congratulations and best wishes to James Conrod, a true gentleman and community pillar, recently turning 90 years old (see story, page 11). Jim, very dapper, cordial and soft-spoken, is also very humble. He gives God all the credit and glory for the work of Northlake Church, Three Rivers Christian School, and the retirement living complex, Campus Towers. In this context, Jim’s leadership and

Thanks to those of you who continue to make our own back story so rich.

And, as always, for reading the Reader.

Sue Piper

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We got to know Robert Michael Pyle when we featured him as our first People+Place subject in April 2018.

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ON THE COVER Marci Sanders at Cooper’s Hall, Portland.

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Civilized Living: Miss Manners

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Since then he has become a dear colleague and special member of the CRR family. In this issue we’re running our last of Bob’s “Tangled Bank” essays, and will inaugurate a new series, excerpted from The Tidewater Reach: Field Guide to the Lower Columbia in Poems and Pictures, by Bob and photographer Judy VanderMaten.

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Profile / Man of Faith : Defying Expectations

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Provisions along the Trail: Great Barbecue Recipes

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Out & About with Tracy Beard: It’s Time to Barbecue!

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Museum Magic: Gem in the Woods: The Lelooska Museum

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Northwest Gardening ~ Heavenly Hydrangeas

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Farmers Market Listings

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The Natural World ~ Alles ist Blatt!

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Lower Columbia Dining Guide

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Marc Roland on Wine: Old versus New World Wines

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Besides CRR, What Are You Reading?

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Cover to Cover ~ Book Review / Bestsellers List

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Outings & Events / Submissions Guidelines

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Astronomy / The Sky Report May 20 – June 19

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Letters to the Editor April CRR feedback I really enjoyed Perry’s article about the electric cars. Especially interesting to me was his breakdown of how much time you get for how much money when recharging. Plus, the new Tesla that gets 500 miles on one charge.

New CRR outlet I really appreciate The Reader letting us know about the events in the area and areas of interest.

I have had several people stop by the funeral home to discover we are carrying it and take a copy.

Also, Ned’s column reminiscing about Y Camp took me back to my seven years there and friends that I made.

Good times!

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Civilized Living

Miss Manners on Post-pandemic Casual Dress

By Judith Martin, Nicholas Ivor Martin and Jacobina Martin

Give it a think

When can you say “shut up?”

DEAR MISS MANNERS: At a small grocery shop that also serves microbrew beers on tap, I brought some fresh vegetables to the counter to purchase. I paid by credit card, and when I was presented with the screen to add a tip (a choice of 15%, 20%, etc. or no tip), I added a tip as I would have done at a restaurant.

A similar thing occurred at a different shop that sells both groceries and prepared food.

I was offered the tip screen, although my purchase was groceries only. I paid a tip there, too. I thought it felt rude not to tip when clearly being asked to do so, and I want to tip when it is correct. The employee is personally right there, showing the tip screen to the customer.

GENTLE READER: Which is a wonderfully effective practice. It worked on you.

But as manipulative as this was, one does not, Miss Manners assures you, have to fear being rude to a machine.

She is further of the opinion that tipping should be abolished altogether in favor of better wages. But as the practice still exists, it is necessary to supplement underpaid workers, and reasonable to expect that it generally be utilized for service and delivery only.

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To further complicate things, however, she makes an exception for precarious times like this, when workers are risking their health and well-being for ours.

In that case, Miss Manners is inclined to be generous. But she still does not like being bullied into that generosity by a machine.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I find the phrase “shut up” to be hostile, aggressive and just demoralizing. Are there any situations where it is OK to say it?

GENTLE READER: “Shut up the house before the storm hits, Pa!” DEAR MISS MANNERS: What are the manners about answering text messages? We cannot always respond right away, but shouldn’t some response be warranted? I see that some of my recipients have “read” my message, but they do not respond. A quick acknowledgment would be nice, or is it not needed?

GENTLE READER: Not all communications require an answer: You do not have to return a call from a salesman trying to sell you something.

But those that do require responses do so irrespective of the technology.

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N ot for the first time , Miss Manners is confused by the fashion news. There are pronouncements that after having lived so long in leisure clothes, people will never return to structured clothing. And there are counter-pronouncements that after slopping around in sweat clothes for so long, people will be eager to dress up.

Let us skip the naive but automatic protest that it is shallow to notice and interpret clothing, and also the mistaken belief that etiquette applies only to formal situations — thus liberating people to behave badly at home — and that etiquette would, therefore, favor dressing up all the time.

Before the pandemic, if Miss Manners can cast her mind that far back, we had been reduced to two styles of dressing: Casual, and Prom-Wedding-Awards Ceremony.

As the latter category does not often touch the lives of most people, the result was pretty much All Casual, All the Time.

But then came sequestering, and Casual became the more formal dress, at least from the waist up.

Miss Manners has no objection to whatever she cannot see, as long as those who are exposed to it do not.

Etiquette is good at minding its own business.

But when we return to public life, it seems to her that much fun is lost when there is no variety. Wasn’t it the sign of an oppressed proletariat that they all wore similar, drab, monotonous, practical clothing — as opposed to those of us free to exercise our individuality?

Two responses — telling the initiator that you have seen their message and will respond later, and then doing so —are only required if you cannot respond in a timely manner. Miss Manners does not, however, agree that timely and instantaneous are the same thing.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: Is it inappropriate to ask those taking care of you­— like a dental hygienist, dentist or manicurist, e.g. — if they have been vaccinated for the virus, or if they have been recently tested?

True, that sometimes makes trouble: Schoolchildren vying for status symbols their families can’t afford, for example. Disputes over how much of the body should be shielded from public view. Items deemed chic that are not just uncomfortable, but that can cause bodily damage. And styles that cause shock — ­ whether because they are vulgar, silly or what everyone will be wearing next year.

Dress fights are so common between parents and children, and employers and employees, that they are considered to be part of normal life.

And there is a powerful industry devoted to ensuring that our standards of decency and even of beauty are constantly changing.

Despite all that, Miss Manners would think it a shame if people all took to — or perhaps continued — ­­ slouching around in their jammies. It is delightful to lounge backstage, partly because of the contrast with being out in public.

The trade-off between comfort and style is exaggerated, except by those who insist upon wearing stiletto heels or skin-tight pants.

Beyond that, it is a shame to limit life to one mode and mood. The variety is stimulating, to the extent that behavior tends to be influenced by dress — so that, for example, what used to be business dress prompted a professional attitude, and fancy clothes contributed to a festive spirit.

So yes, Miss Manners is hoping for a return to comfortably structured clothing, but only because one shouldn’t have to attend a wedding in order to play dress-up.

I had a tooth pulled recently, and began to wonder, due to their very close proximity to my open mouth, if it would be offensive to them if I asked. I would never ask someone about these things in normal times.

GENTLE READER: You would still have a right to expect a safe and clean environment. What do you think all of those fancy health notices on the walls are for? cont page 9

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n May 14, 1804, the Corps of Discovery set out on a journey that would cover almost 8,000 miles and take more than two years to complete.

Preparations for the trip began a year earlier.

President arranged for Lewis to receive instruction from prominent American scientists about botany, natural history, mineralogy and astronomy. Jefferson also secured passports from the French and British governments to allow the expedition to cross their territory. Spain did not issue a passport.

While the Lewis and Clark Expedition was a bigger undertaking, it was similar to camping trips many families However, the President’s most take every summer — loading up the important contribution was his SUV, driving to the end of the road detailed instructions on June 20, and hiking into the backcountry for a … to receive instruction … week or two. If you forget something, a Besides Jefferson’s impetus, the Expedition credit card comes in handy; if you get enjoyed the sponsorship of the American lost, there’s always Philosophical Society, which strengthened your cell phone. its claim to be a journey of exploration and

But Lewis and discovery, not simply a land grab. Lewis and Clark had to take everything they Clark rewarded the Society for its hours of would need for the tutoring in natural science by cataloging more next two years. than 200 new plant and Their “camping” trip would take animal species during the Expedition. them into areas where no white man had ever set foot.

They took items to 1803. I can only imagine today’s trade with Indians for supplies. And English teachers cringing at Jefferson’s while they would carry a letter of run-on sentences in the following credit from President Jefferson, there excerpts from his letter to Lewis: were no stores or hotels along their route, and nobody knew if they would The object of your mission is to explore find a trading ship waiting when — or the Missouri river, & such principal if — they reached the Pacific coast. streams of it, as, by it’s course and communication with the waters of the During the spring and summer of Pacific ocean, whether the Columbia, 1803, Jefferson and Lewis worked Oregon, Colorado or any other river may feverishly to get organized. The

Michael Perry enjoys local history and travel. His popular 33-installment Lewis & Clark series appeared in Columbia River Reader’s early years and helped shape its identity and zeitgeist. After two encores, the series has been expanded and published in a book. Details, page 2.

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Last month we introduced a revised and expanded version of Michael Perry’s popular series. In the new book, “Dispatches from the Discovery Trail,” edited by Hal Calbom and excerpted below, CRRPress includes an in-depth author interview and new illustrations and commentary.

To salute the bicentennial of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, the U.S. Postal Service issued three attractive commemorative stamps in May 2004.

Two stamps featured individual portraits of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark painted

by Michael J. Deas. These were only available in a 32-page Prestige booklet containing 10 each of the two stamps. The booklet featured informative text, historic illustrations and scenic photographs relating to the Corps of Discovery’s exploration of the Louisiana Purchase during 1804-1806. The booklet had a limited distribution, available in just 10 cities, including Ilwaco, Washington, and Astoria, Oregon. This souvenir book, which originally sold for $8.95 ($1.55 over face value), is available on eBay for $10 or less and is worth owning.

A third stamp showed Lewis and Clark together on a mountain top.

That stamp was available in sheets of 20 in all post offices in the United States.

All three stamps are still valid for postage. However, you will need to add additional postage to your letter since the first-class letter rate increases regularly.

offer the most direct and practicable water communication across this continent for the purposes of commerce.

the notes and maps back by ship, if possible. He didn’t want to risk the loss of everything on a return trip by land.

Beginning at the mouth of the Missouri, you will take observations of latitude & longitude, at all remarkeable points on the river, & expecially at the mouths of rivers. Your observations are to be taken with great pains & accuracy. Several copies of these as well as your other notes should be made at leisure times, & put into the care of the most trust-worthy of your attendants, to guard, by multiplying them, against the accidental losses to which they will be exposed.

Lewis was also to serve as Jefferson’s roving ambassador to the Indian nations they encountered. He was told to collect as much information as possible about each tribe’s territorial boundaries, their numbers, cultures, languages, religions, clothing, customs and housing.

Jefferson clearly valued the lives of the expedition members, but he valued even more the information that would be lost if they died en route.

He told Lewis to turn back if the journey proved too dangerous. If they reached the Pacific coast, Jefferson wanted Lewis to send copies of all

Lewis was instructed to be friendly to all Indians, unless circumstances prevented it, and to inform them the United States now owned the Louisiana Territory. However, none of these instructions were to interfere with the principal goal: finding a practical water route to the Pacific.

So what kind of supplies did Lewis take? Obviously, surveying equipment and blank journals for record keeping. cont. page 9 Columbia River Reader / May 15, 2021 / 7

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Just as important were the guns and ammunition needed for both hunting and protection. Lewis expected the men would be able to feed and clothe themselves by hunting along the route.

While they took little food, they made room for lots of whiskey, a standard military ration in those days.

They took tools such as axes, drills, and files. They also took a hundred pounds of “Indian presents” (beads, fishhooks, cloth, needles and knives) and a wide assortment of medicines.

Guns were obtained from the federal arsenal at Harper’s Ferry, Virginia.

… lots of whiskey…

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... the United States now owned …

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The Louisiana Purchase made it easier for them to get the money from Congress, because they’re going to go out now and establish trade, not just discover and explore. Jefferson wanted to go out and establish trade relations with the Indians, and let them know that we’re the new owner of the land, and to quit trading with the British and the French, because our people are coming out. Our business people will come out and set up trading posts.”

Miss Manners suggests that when you make these appointments, you ask the staff what their safety protocol is — even if it is already listed on their website. Most businesses are eager to assure you that they are doing everything possible to safeguard their practice. Procuring these assurances is reasonable — and doing so in advance will spare you the awkwardness of having the conversation while someone’s (gloved) hands are in your mouth.

like a good idea, but Lewis would be disappointed when it failed to live up to expectations.

In a June 19, 1803 letter to William Clark, Lewis said he wanted “stout, healthy, unmarried men, accustomed to the woods, and capable of bearing bodily fatigue in a pretty considerable degree.” Most men were recommended by their army commanders, and about 45 men gathered at Camp Dubois near the junction of the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers to spend the winter of 1803 getting ready to start their epic journey the next spring.

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I mean, you think about 300 gallons, and 30 people. And every day, they were given a gill of whiskey. How much is a gill? Four ounces.”

One of the guns was an air rifle, which was to be of great interest to the Indians along the way. Lewis also had a 40-foot long collapsible ironframed canoe made at Harper’s Ferry.

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Man of Faith: Defying Expectations

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At age 90, beloved Longview pastor looks back...and ahead

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ames Conrod believes, fervently, in the power of prayer; but he still reserves the right to quibble occasionally with the results.

Conrod still marvels at the twists and turns of his own life journey.

A strapping six feet four, he cuts an elegant figure, especially for our stereotypical idea of a man of the cloth: khakis and a matching black shirt with the Three Rivers School logotype. He could be selling software or cell phones. And it dawned on me as we concluded our conversation, that defying expectations seems to be what Jim Conrod’s God had in mind for him all along.

“I came from Chicago. And the last place I wanted to come was the West Coast,” he told me in a recent conversation. “I looked at a map to see where Longview was. And I saw how close Washington was to the panhandle of Alaska. And in my mind, it was just the Deep Freeze. Chicago winters were bad enough.”

As a recent seminary graduate, Jim Conrod had his sights set on medical school, then the mission field. Instead, he ended up in a different kind of field, sent there to “plant” a new church.

“I mean, we had a barn, a little red barn in the middle of that lot on Ocean Beach and Pacific Way. And I was in a little white house, looking out there trying to dream what kind of a church building would stand there some Sunday, while I’m watching horses roaming around in that field.”

Some 65 years later, Reverend Dr. James Conrod has seeded far more than just Longview’s American Baptist Church, now known simply as Northlake Church, still standing at Ocean Beach and Pacific Way. He’s helped city and county residents, not just churchgoers, begin and end their lives with comfort and care. He’s lobbied in the “other” Washington and radically innovated early childhood education. He’s promoted an ecumenical spirit among his own and other denominations. He remains active in civic and community life, still, 90 years into an exemplary Christian life.

“I said, ‘Lord, why’d you do this to me?’

And little by little I began to discover what God had in mind. The best place to be is where God wants you to be, not where you think you want to be.”

About all Jim Conrod hasn’t done is convince those midwesterners that he’s not completely gone to seed out here, so far from where he started, so far out.

“For a long time they thought that we had wooden sidewalks and that everybody wore red and black shirts.

Everybody was a lumberman and they were very startled when they later visited our church and said, ‘Oh my.’ But they still asked me, when I

worship and work. Do you focus on perfecting your soul and the afterlife or on the day-to-day, ministering in the moment? And I’ve never felt those things were in conflict. The things we’ve done have in no way lessened the need to know Christ, and make the Gospel central to your life. But you’ve got to live in reality, you’ve got to talk about the things that people are wrestling with. And so to me the Gospel is the whole ball of wax. It’s not one or the other. And that’s the mindset I carry with me.”

week. Why couldn’t we do something during the week, too. And we had people who had faith, simple as that.”

James Conrod

was thinking about going back to Chicago, did I really think I could ever re-enter civilization?”

This year will mark the 50th anniversary of Campus Towers, a visionary investment steered by Conrod and others who foresaw the aging of the population, longer lifespans, and a need many could not see. “‘Are you out of your mind? Why would you want to start a retirement home? You don’t even have any retired people in your church.’ Yet there wasn’t anything here and I could see families whose older parents were leaving Longview and going to Vancouver, going to Olympia, even as far as Tacoma just to find living that they could afford.”

Never one to rest on past accomplishments, Conrod and his colleagues are announcing a new capital campaign to add to the Towers’ campus (see sidebar) while still investing their visionary energies at the other end of the age spectrum, too: the dramatically successful Longview Christian School (now known as Three Rivers Christian School) birthed around the same time as the original Campus Towers.

“I had pastor friends that couldn’t believe we were floating two major projects at once. ‘You’re crazy!’ But we saw the need, especially for working moms who were limited by day care options. And I thought, we’ve got all this space that we use only one day a

••• Hal Calbom writes CRR’s monthly People+Place feature and is editor for Columbia River Reader Press. He grew up in Longview and now lives in Seattle.

“You know there’s always been a division in the church, between

CAMPUS TOWERS EXPANSION 50 years later, Longview retirement home still aims to serve affordable housing needs

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Estimated Construction Budget $1 million, proposed Groundbreaking by Fall 2021.

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Total Campus Towers residents currently: 101 • Average Age: 78.6 years According to HUD 2020 Income Limits for Cowlitz County: 24% of Tenants are extremely low income 34% are very low income, 28% are low income “I would like to see 100 CRR readers say, ‘Not only am I thrilled to see this expansion take place, but I will pledge a monthly gift of $25 for the three years of the campaign.’

And I certainly would like for our community to be aware that we need to cut down the 3-years waiting list for our prospective new residents. This 8-plex will help.”

~ Jim Conrod Donations may be mailed to Campus Towers, 1767 20th Ave., Longview, WA 98632.

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It’s Time to Barbecue!

Fire up the grill and gather your friends, family, neighbors ... or ALL of the above Story & photos by Tracy Beard

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arbecue in America is almost as famous as apple pie and dates back well before the 1500s. Barbecuing is a competitive activity, often the cause for serious debate amongst barbecue enthusiasts and foodies around the country and even the world. Whether you are a professional chef, novice or amateur cook, it’s a great time to break out the grill and work on your outdoor cooking and entertaining skills.

America’s Barbecue History Indigenous tribes in the Caribbean have cooked meat over an indirect flame using green and seasoned wood for centuries. This combination of timber prevented the meat from burning.

The Spanish referred to this way of cooking as barbacoa—the first barbecue (BBQ). In 1540, the Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto watched members of the Chickasaw tribe cook pork over the barbacoa near what is now known as Tupelo, Mississippi. Over time this cooking style made its way north to the colonies, where American settlers took the practice west and added various flavors from their European cuisines.

The Great Debate: Is it Barbecue or Not? The debate about what is authentic barbecue and what is not has no boundaries. Natasha Geiling, the author of The Evolution of American Barbecue, July 18, 2013, at Smithsonianmag.com, wrote about North Carolina barbecue purist Jim Villas, the author of My Pig Beats Your Cow. Jim argues that authentic barbecue must be pork; the beef-based Barbecue in Texas and the mutton barbecue in Kentucky do not make his list. Jim says, “The original barbecue-ers of the southern colonies depended on the cheap, low-maintenance nature of pig farming. Unlike cows, which required large amounts of feed and enclosed spaces, pigs could be set loose in forests to eat when food supplies were running low. The pigs, left to fend for themselves in the wild, were much leaner upon slaughter, leading Southerners to use the slow-and-low nature of barbecue to tenderize the meat. Their dependence on this cheap food supply eventually became a point of patriotism, and Southerners took great care raising their pigs, refusing to export their meat to the northern states.

By this time, the relationship between barbecue and pork had been deeply forged.”

Sauces and Rubs Another debate regarding barbecue pertains to sauces and rubs. In the United States, four traditional styles emerged, originating from the Carolinas, Texas, Memphis, and Kansas City.

PLANNING YOUR BBQ Like all dinner parties, it’s a good idea to prepare a few things in advance. It doesn’t matter whether you choose to have four people, a dozen, or more at your outdoor extravaganza, a little planning goes a long way. Follow these guidelines to ensure a successful dinner.

Select and invite your guests well in advance.

Colonial immigrants brought their favorite flavors and spices from overseas. Those with British heritage living in Virginia and North Carolina favored vinegar-based sauces, while Southern Carolina colonists brought their love of mustard-based sauce from France and Germany. The trend moved west, and the German immigrants moving to Texas had large properties to raise cattle, bringing beef into the mix. People moving to Memphis could access a variety of products from the port along the Mississippi River. They developed a sweet, tomato-based sauce using molasses.

Kansas City Barbecue was an offshoot from Memphis.

In the early 1900s, Memphis-born Henry Perry moved to Kansas City and opened a barbecue restaurant. He used a sweet and spicy sauce but did not hold to the pork-only barbecue style. Perry used beef and other meats, creating the ultimate combination of East and West (Texas) Barbecue.

The debate continues: What meat can be barbecued, which sauces are appropriate and what equipment qualifies in preparing authentic barbecue? Again, the answer varies depending on who you ask.

As for me, I say use what works for you. Whether you cook on a gas, charcoal, pellet or wood grill, I believe you can make fantastic barbecue.

Use the sauce or rubs you like and cook whatever meat or vegetable your family or guests prefer. It is all good, and in the end it is about outdoor cooking using direct and indirect heat to produce delicious dishes.

Food pictured, from top: Grilled steak and veggies, cheeseburger, ready-to-grill cauliflower “steak,” pork skewers.

Plan your food and drinks (be sure to have a non-alcohol option).

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Make your sauces or rubs.

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Prep and cook as much as you can ahead of time or purchase some pre-made items (condiments, salads, dessert).

Account for marinating time.

Consider dining traffic flow.

Have fun with lighting (tiki torches, accent lights, etc.).

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Prepare and heat the grill.

Welcome guests.

Enjoy a cocktail while you BBQ. Participate in your party.

Barbecue Methods Direct heat means cooking straight over the heat source or flame; this method will create those beloved grill marks making you appear to be a master griller. Direct heat is great for searing meat and crisping up the skin of fish or chicken. Indirect heat is about cooking in the zone. The food is still on the grill but not in direct contact with the flames. You can wrap things in foil, raise them high above the heat source on a rotisserie or even place them on one side away from the fire; this is the traditional slow-cooking way to barbecue.

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MEDICAL MATTERS

Dr. Kung selected to instruct next generation of orthopedic surgeons Dr. Peter Kung

By Jim LeMonds

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e t e r K u n g , MD, o f Longview Orthopedic Associates, was invited to teach at Arthrex’s Annual Sports Medicine Fellowship Forum in Naples, Florida, May 6–8. Dr. Kung will be working closely with more than 80 orthopedic sports fellows who are on the cusp of finishing their training and starting careers as sports orthopedic surgeons.

Arthrex is a multi-billion dollar global medical device company and leader in innovative product development, with a focus on continued education for orthopedic surgeons and the mission of “Helping surgeons treat their patients better.” As an Arthrex consultant and selected instructor, Dr. Kung feels similarly and believes that teaching the next generation of orthopedic surgeons is critical.

After finishing their orthopedic residency, residents have the opportunity to pursue specialized

fellowship training. Orthopedists interested in sub-specialty training, such as sports medicine, spend an additional year training only in sports medicine. Arthrex invites these sports fellows from across the nation and abroad to spend half a week learning from some of the nation’s best and most experienced orthopedic sports surgeons. Arthrex takes deep pride in these annual courses and maintains rigorous selection criteria for their instructors to ensure a topnotch event.

Dr. Kung will give three lectures, moderate two discussions, and do lab instruction on minimally-invasive shoulder and knee surgery using both arthroscopy and arthroplasty.

He has been invited several times before to teach at the Naples Sports Medicine Fellowship Forum and previously instructed at the National Futures Forum, Innovations Forum, and multiple surgeon labs.

He completed his orthopedic surgery residency at the University of California at San Francisco in 2008 and worked as a sports medicine fellow at the prestigious Kerlan-Jobe Orthopaedic Clinic in Los Angeles.

He earned board certification in 2011, scoring in the 99th percentile on his written board exam.

While at Kerlan-Jobe, Dr. Kung trained under world-renowned orthopedic

surgeons and treated professional athletes from the LA Lakers, LA Do dgers, LA Kings, Anaheim Angels, Anaheim Ducks and LA Sparks, and USC football. He also served as assistant team physician for Loyola Marymount University.

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While researching this month’s People+Place featuring Marci Sanders and Tap into Wine, I called up CRR’s resident wine guru and columnist Marc Roland (writing this month about old world versus new world wines), owner of Roland Wines and pioneering creator of Longview’s own “Barrel District” at the corner of 11th and Florida streets.

“I think Marci’s got a great idea,” said Marc, “and I can tell you from personal experience that you save a lot of money cutting out the bottle and the label and the cork. Plus the labor.” Roland sees specialized markets growing for keg wines, especially among busy restaurants with a lot of traffic. “We’ve tried making up some growlers for Roland Wines but didn’t get much response. We think people still come here mainly for the food, and their own bottle of wine, and the atmosphere.”

The flexibility and innovation of today’s wine culture offer nothing but good options for consumers. Marc sees the advantage of a tap wine model like Marci’s as the ability to spotlight different wines, and offer a “curated” selection. Since he’s a working winery, and featuring his own product only, he concentrates on the amenities, including great wood-fired pizza, and a stated vision of bringing people together.

“People still want the bottled wine experience, too.” Roland enhances the experiential with summer music, an active wine club, and an atmosphere that puts you among working barrels and fellow sippers.

No matter what the business model, the ability of wine to bring people together — convening, conversing, toasting and tasting — seems more potent than ever.

Welcome to the ways of wine and this month’s People+ Place. Salud!

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Tap Dancing: Marci Sanders Marci Sanders exudes the energy of someone doing exactly what she wants to do and loving every minute of it.

Sanders retired a couple of years ago from a successful career as a consultant specializing in energy efficiency solutions, often working remotely from her home near St. Helens, Oregon. Her new career — as the purveyor of a more sustainable and environmentally “green” way to taste, transport and purchase wine — celebrates the best part of the wine experience while improving efficiency and product quality.

It’s a modern revolution in an age-old business. And it’s winning converts, one glass at a time.

MS: All my wine is in kegs.

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HC: And that’s not the cask or barrel the wine was aged in?

MS: No. The wine goes directly from the barrel where it’s created into a keg, instead of a bottling line. And I tap directly into those kegs to serve my customers.

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HC: Or fill their growlers? I still have trouble with that term.

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MS: I know it seems kind of un-chic for wine.

It’s a beer term. But that’s what tapping is about: It’s a more sustainable, purer way to get the wine into your glass or “container” than the usual bottling and labeling and corking.

As one of my colleagues down at Coopers Hall in Portland — where I get some of my wine — says that what we’re doing is taking some of the pretense and drama out of wine.

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HC: But that’s half the pleasure, isn’t it? The sip and the swirl?

MS: Of course, and that’s what we still do here. Don’t worry — a lot of sipping, a lot of swirling, and then if you like something we’ll put it in a bottle for you and let you take it home. Less spendy, and fresher than what you’d buy off a store shelf.

HC: How many taps do you have?

MS: I purposely limit it to six taps.

And I choose the wines on behalf of my customers. I don’t think people can really differentiate with 40 wines on tap, and you don’t want them having contests to see if they can make it through your whole selection and still get in their cars.

HC: So they rely on you — on your taste and selection?

MS: Yes, and that’s the fun of it. I get to hunt down all these great wines, different wines, and educate myself and my customers.

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Sanders and her husband Randy have transformed a storefront on the historic St. Helens waterfront into Tap into Wine. It’s an establishment that defies conventional description, following a business model that’s turning much of the traditional wine business upside down. Tap into Wine is part of a larger series of changes altering the wine landscape regionally. As part of our “research, more swirling and sipping required, of course, we accompanied Marci on a recent visit to Coopers Hall, a Portland-based winery leading the movement in the state of Oregon, and one of her top suppliers.

“So I thought, what if…what if I jus labeling can be expensive. Then there’s just the economy and practicality.

And in the keg format, usually what I use is a one-sixth barrel keg. That holds a little over five gallons of wine, which is equivalent to 26 bottles.

HC: And it’s a lot less fragile? I see kegs by the pallet-full here.

MS: This is a good example of a winery that devotes a lot of its business to keg production.

HC: And where you purchase some of your wine?

MS: But the big advantage is in the freshness and the purity of the wine. Oxidation is the great enemy of fresh wine. When I hook the keg up to a tap, I use an entirely inert gas to push the wine through, argon, and it nicely fills up that space, no taste or environmental taint. So the first time that wine hits oxygen is when I pull the tap. For the whites, it’s great, completely fresh. You can just start sipping it right away.

For the reds, its nice to give them a chance to breathe a bit, just like you would from the bottle. It hasn’t aerated yet, so I usually say for the reds, just let it open up a little bit.

MS: Yes, when I’m “shopping” and tasting wines I’m looking to bring home a keg or two. Or three. Like many urban wineries they have a tasting bar, but they’re really a working winery, too. There’s a machine that carefully sterilizes the kegs before filling — wine is touchy stuff and people take its purity seriously.

HC: What’s the advantage of kegs over bottles?

MS: Well in the first place there’s money saved. The bottle, the corking and the

HC: Well, bottle snobs would be expecting a little twirling time anyway. Isn’t oxidation what can ruin a glass of wine at a restaurant, where the bottle may have been open for hours or for days?

MS: Totally. As I’ve said, the biggest problem with wine by the glass is its freshness. That’s why keg wine is working so well with restaurants, and anyplace, like us, that encourages tasting different wines by the glassful. Especially if you order a glass of something a little out of the mainstream, that bottle could have sat there, open for days.

HC: And this isn’t a conspiracy to serve oxidized wine?

MS: No, of course not. Restaurants and bars are totally aware of the freshness problem. In fact, more often than not they end up throwing a lot of good wine away because they’re afraid an opened bottle might have gone south. It only takes one bad glass of wine to put a customer off.

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HC: I notice lots of different packaging options, too?

MS: These guys even put some of their wine in beer bottles, or in cans. The key is that it’s still wine straight from the barrel, unadulterated.

HC: So stopping for a six pack of chardonnay is not out of the realm of possibility?

MS: Not at all, but as we’ve been talking about, wine is still an experiential thing.

The fascinating question in this business right now is who will use what wine, where? You still want people to savor wine, you still want that ritual quality to drinking wine. So, where and when will you drink tap wine?

HC: Which came first for you, love of wine or being an entrepreneur and business person?

MS: I’m a wine lover that made myself into an entrepreneur. I had been a W-2 employee for my entire career of almost 40 years. But as of February 1, I retired from that world — it’s doing fine without me thank you very much!

And I wanted to learn, I wanted to put the energy that I have into this more completely.

in a neighborhood. And right across the street from our hotel was this store that opened up at about four o’clock in the afternoon. And all the locals would get off work and bring their empty bottles over. And sitting around the walls were these barrels, these casks, these little squatty things. And with this little hose and a little clip thing. And they have tiny plastic taster cups, and you could just get taster cups and go around and taste the different wines.

HC: And then fill up and take home?

MS: Exactly. And there were some fabulous wines! Torino is in the Piemonte wine region of Italy, which is a very prominent wine country area. And so all of these kegs were overstock from some high-quality wineries.

Delivering wine directly to customers, from keg to glass, not only bypasses conventional bottling, corking and labeling. It also prevents waste at the end of the sales and consumption cycle: bottles saved from landfills, kegs refilled and reused. Each keg measures half the shipping weight of its equivalent in fragile bottles. There are other notable changes afoot in the wine business.

Winemakers now buy and blend more grapes they don’t necessarily grow themselves, to raise quality and consistency. And urban wineries like Coopers Hall are proliferating, located not on sprawling vineyard estates but nearer their customers and distribution networks.

HC: Do you deal mainly in Oregon wines, local wines?

MS: Yes, whenever possible. The Willamette Valley is a designated American Viticultural Area — we call it the AVA — and it’s just going nuts with great wine.

HC: Have you always been a wine lover?

HC: So you spend quite a bit of time out in the field, tasting and testing?

MS: Oh yes. And I really got the idea of kegs quite a while ago, in Europe. We love to go to Italy and the last time we went was years ago, like 2010, and we were in Torino staying in a little pensione kind of place, small hotel

MS: And building relationships. It’s all about relationships. Growers and winemakers will tip me off on what’s hot and what’s not, amazing little finds and vintages, and small lots that may never be commercially bottled or sold.

HC: Do customers bring you new wines, new ideas?

M S : Oh yes. It’s hard to keep up with everything going on in the Valley by myself.

But that’s why we have this great developing network. I was getting tired of just going on wine runs for a case of such and such. So I thought what if, what if I just brought the Valley here? And you know of course I picked my favorite ones or the ones that I know, from up and down the AVA. HC: You’ve also invested in this location. Tell me about St. Helens. cont page 20

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To this new way of consuming wine? What changes are you seeing from their end?

MS: I think the biggest change is flexibility and innovation in the business. Kegs are part of it. But also winemakers are less tied to their own fruit, and their own little halfacre. It’s hard enough to build a brand, and once you’ve captured a customer you want to make sure you give them the best possible quality.

happening. They started growing it three years ago. And all of a sudden your wine gets a good reputation and sales but your new grapes are still three, four years out from fruiting. If their winemaker has a dynamite recipe for Sauvignon Blanc that they want to keep doing, they’ll source it someplace else. In a minute.

HC: Give me an example of this new attitude?

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MS: Well as you’ve probably noticed, this is a cool little street right down from the Columbia County Courthouse. We’re not really an “old town” yet but there is a lot of energy behind preserving and promoting this part of town. And when I opened almost four years ago, it was like all of a sudden, Wow, this is a cool little area! These are great people, especially the wine people in this county here and I have gotten to know so many of them.

HC: And you have expansion plans?

MS: Yep, we’re going to serve food, make music, and take advantage of this cool space.

MS: Well, the Pinot that I have on right now is from a very small winery. In fact, they don’t make their wine there. They just have a tasting room on the property where the vineyard is. They make the wine someplace else and ship it to a limited group of resellers. Then there are vineyardists who do grow their grapes, and don’t make the wine, they simply sell the fruit. And there are, of course, classic estate vineyards and wineries that do have the winemaking equipment on site, and they have their own vineyard, too. But sometimes, in fact often times, even they won’t confine themselves to their own grapes.

HC: Why not, that’s their profitability, isn’t it?

MS: Yes, but again it’s about quality and brand building. And grapes are still fickle.

You get good years and bad years, some grapes flourish in some weather, some don’t do so well. Let’s say a Sauvignon Blanc starts Hal Calbom (pictured here with Marci Sanders, and Coopers Hall staffers Adam Rack and Mark Gotell) is editor of The Tidewater Reach, and Dispatches from the Discovery Trail published by CRRPress. Now

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Harvests of Joy: How the Good Life Became Great Business, by Robert Mondavi. Great historical perspective on the “immigration” of great wines to the U.S. (via California). In 1965, after a notorious family feud, Mondavi, then 52,was thrown out of his family’s winery. What happened next became one of the great success stories of American business. Today, the Robert Mondavi Winery is one of the most respected in the world, and Mondavi is remembered as the man most responsible for worldwide recognition of American wine and for changing America’s palate for fine wine and food.

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HC: Does that include crossing the Columbia for grapes?

MS: Of course. It’s the freedom of being able to pick and choose from fruit sources all over. One of my favorite Oregon winemakers loves Washington fruit. He loves Columbia Valley. He loves Walla Walla.

So the reds, a lot of the reds are coming from there versus Oregon only.

HC: Are there purists who want to keep things in the same AVA at least?

MS: Oh, of course. The Oregon purists would say, ‘Well, we’ve got beautiful reds in Southern Oregon.’ The usual thing.

HC: Sounds like never a dull moment.

MS: You know, the other thing I learned from the Italians is there’s always something to talk about, debate about, get excited or head up about, around wine. And we have group tastings that are so much fun — people love to come up with ways to describe wine, and refuse to take themselves too seriously.

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Heavenly hydrangeas harken back to Grandma’s garden

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riting about rhododendrons last month, I told you I was going on a shopping spree with my nursery gift card and feed my rhodie addiction. I lied. The first plant I saw when I got there was this darling, bright red flowering dwarf hydrangea, Cityline Paris, which only grows to 2 ft. tall by 3 ft. wide. The Cityline series comes in different colors— one is a deep blue, and the other is blue and purple with white edges. I will require both, I think. And maybe a larger mophead or lacecap as a backdrop for them. My wish list goes on and on…as does my ever-increasing plant addiction!

I love those old-fashioned bigleaf snowball (mophead) hydrangeas.

Back in Ohio, they were majestic, sprawling bushes with pink flowers because of the alkaline soil. Here in the Pacific Northwest, with our acidic soil, most of the mopheads are the deepest, most spectacular purple-blue I’ve ever seen.

The bigleaf hydrangeas are the most popular—both the round mopheads and the flat-topped lacecaps. Increasingly popular are the panicle (coneshaped) or Peegee hydrangeas, as well as some oakleaf hydrangeas. There are a couple of other types, but let’s take a look at how to care for these.

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That’s nature’s way of protecting the plant, so wait until morning to see if it recovers. If not, then water it again.

Chances are it will be nice and perky by morning. Contrary to popular belief, bigleaf hydrangeas do best in 6 hours of morning sun, dappled shade in the afternoon. On the other hand, conical Peegees do very well in full sun, as long as the soil is kept moist.

How about pruning? It’s not really necessary for blooming—they’ll bloom even if you never prune! Why might you want to prune? For size or shape?

If it’s a larger bush than you’d like, why not dig it up and give it to a cont page 22

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If you decide to prune, it’s essential to know the correct timing. Oakleaf and big leaf hydrangeas, the mopheads and lacecaps, set their blooms for next summer on this year’s new growth.

That means if you prune after August 1st, you will be cutting off next year’s flowers! Some of the newer bigleaf cultivars are re-blooming, and you can deadhead the spent blooms down to the first set of leaves to stimulate the next flush of flowers. The conical Peegee can be pruned in spring, because it forms flowers on this year’s new growth. You can prune out the 4Ds — ­­ dead, damaged, diseased, and distorted (crossing) branches — any time after mid-May, for any hydrangea.

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It depends on the plant and the initial pH of the soil. To maintain the color, you will have to keep liming to maintain a more alkline soil pH. Rain can also leach the lime from the soil—why not just learn to love the deep blue that we get here, and contrast it with other colorful foliage and flowers?

I’m going out to my garden now to decide how to move things around to squeeze in a few more of these lovelies!

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The Natural World

Alles ist Blatt!

Plants are the bees’ knees Essay by Dr. Robert Michael Pyle

Written Autumn 2000.

E

ach May I teach in Washington’s Methow Valley at the Spring Naturalists’ Retreat, an ecological potpourri put on by the North Cascades Institute. While I enjoy the interplay between enthusiastic participants, versatile instructors, and the Okanogan Highlands, the best part is teaching beside Arthur R. Kruckeberg, professor of botany emeritus at the University of Washington. Thirty years ago, Art was our botanical mentor and faculty advisor for our student conservation c l u b . N o w, a s w h i t e - b e a r d e d colleagues, Art and I harmonize on the coevolution of plants and insects and joust over their relative importance in the world. Art, or ARK as he is known among his many followers in the Washington Native Plant Society, can always be counted on to issue his favorite botanical aphorism from Goethe: “Alles ist Blatt”—literally, all is leaf—or, in other words, everything depends on plants.

A few weeks after the latest retreat, I was conjuring with that assertion on the back porch of a certain Portland brew-pub, cask-conditioned IPA in hand. The “porch,” a former truck dock, faces a rutted and railed alleyway just north of Old Portland’s frontier of gentrification. Having gone straight there from the Oregon Livability Conference, I considered the kinds of features that make this city so famously livable: the pubs, of course; the Willamette River off to the east; vast Forest Park up in the West Hills; Powell’s Books a few blocks south. But what really caught

my eye were the mellowed bricks and sparrowed corbels of old warehouses not yet metamorphosing into lofts; the elegant old orange rain gutters, set into the brick not as a philistine addon but as a decorative and functional forethought; the cogs of rusted old pulleys no longer called on to pull their weight. And the green bits, sticking out here and there in the rocky railbed despite the odds.

English ivy, a nuisance at home, softened the far wall, and a tawny patch of foxtail (“tickle grass”) adorned a gutter. Against the crumbling base of a building from another era, the intense pink flowers of herb Robert wobbled in the breeze on purple stems. And best of all, decking an iron bridgework above the tracks, hung a wild, exuberant garland of Boston ivy.

For years I’ve visited this granddaddy vine, its six-inch muscular trunks embracing the brew house brick. In fall its long danglers make a scarlet chain. Now a chartreuse boa tossing on the river’s breath, the Parthenocissus reminded me of the famous Hall of Mosses in Olympic National Park.

The temperate rainforest’s riot of ferns, wintergreens, and oxalis holds little in common with a dusty railroad alley, aside from herb Robert, which grows as an invasive weed along forest and sidewalk edges alike. Yet, what catches my eye in both places is the green stuff—whether the lush giant ears of skunk cabbage, the weird leather ferns on ancient Sitka spruces of the coastal woods, or the formidable thistle emerging from the derelict cityscape.

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This completes the series of essays which originally appeared in Orion Afield or Orion Magazine in the author’s column, “The Tangled Bank” and, subsequently, in the book of the same name published by Oregon State University Press in 2012.

Beginning in June 2021, CRR will feature each month a poem and photograph from Robert Michael Pyle and Judy VanderMaten’s book, The Tidewater Reach: Field Guide to the Lower Columbia River in Poems and Pictures.

On a recent hike to the Olympic coast, the most striking plant I saw was bog laurel (Kalmia occidentalis), blooming like a throw of deep pink chenille across an olive sphagnum bog. Looking closely at its cerise buds and rose-pink flowers, I saw that the stamens are imbedded in the fused petals, giving Kalmia’s flower a curious pleated or puckered appearance. Eventually the anthers pull away and rise up to proffer their pollen to the small bumblebees that work them, leaving the pentangular flowers creased by the stamens’ former beds.

Just a few days later I found myself in Pennsylvania, criss-crossing the Appalachian Trail near Hawk Mountain. Every time I climbed above the lowland mix of multiflora roses and Japanese honeysuckle that lade the air sweetly (if they do nothing for diversity), I came into a zone of aspen, birch, and mountain laurel (Kalmia latifolia). There was that same distinctively pleated and antherspeckled form, in popsicle-pink buds and apple-blossom-white flowers.

Growing on upland soils, these laurels were taller and paler than those of Washington’s acid bogs. Yet had I known nothing else about these two shrubs, I could have told from their forms that they shared a common evolutionary and ecological history, until diverging in some far-off icy event. That recognition linked two forests, two sets of plants and their pollinators, across an entire continent.

ARK is right: every place is a product of its plants, as are its people. Our bodies—like those of all animals—

perish in the absence of plants’ exhalations or their tissues, our minds revel in the intrigue of their lives and forms, and our spirits need their good green ministry wherever we go. At the end of the day, even a zoologist must admit: plants are the bees’ knees.

Note: In May 2012, ARK called our mutual friend, botanist Cathy Maxwell, to report: “The Pleuropogon are in flower here at the nursery!” Cathy had collected seed of the semaphore grass for him for many years, and this was the first time it had flowered for him.

His all-consuming love of leaves and all they mean continued to his death in May 2016, at 96. Many still follow in his literal footsteps as they visit the Kruckeberg Botanic Garden in Seattle.

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N

ow, as yet another May rolls past, this seems a good note to go out on for our three-year run of the Tangled Bank essays in the Columbia River Reader. I have very much enjoyed sharing them again in these pages. I am thankful to CRR for bringing them back, and to the faithful readers for their gentle attention. If you have enjoyed them, you may find them all in the book The Tangled Bank (published by OSU Press), along with a number of others that did not make it into the Reader. I hope my little observations will encourage everyone to look ever more closely at the generous world around us.

~ Robert Michael Pyle

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COLUMBIA RIVER

dining guide

Longview, Wash.

1335 14th Avenue 18 rotating craft brews, pub fare.

M-Th 11am–8pm. Fri-Sat 11am–10pm; Sunday 11am–6pm. Local music coming soon.

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The Carriage Restaurant & Lounge

The Carriage Restaurant & Lounge 1334 12th Ave. Open 9am–11pm. Breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Full bar, banquet room available for groups, parties, family reunions, etc. in lounge, open 6am. Three happy hours daily (8–10am, 12–2pm, 5–7pm). Group meeting room, free use with $150 food/drink purchases.

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Goble Tavern

70255 Columbia River Hwy. (Milepost 31, Hwy. 30) Food, beer & wine + full bar, Live entertainment 11–11 Daily. Inside dining.

503-556-4090

The Original Pietrio’s Pizzeria

614 Commerce Ave., Longview. 18 varieties of pizza, prepared salads. Beer & wine. Open 11am every day. Inside seating by reservation only.

360-353-3512. Inside dining, Take-out, some local delivery.

Porky’s Public House 561 Industrial Way, Longview 38 draft beers. Full bar. Family-friendly.

Dining room open. Take-out. Curbside delivery; partner with Delivery King for deliveries. Live music suspended due to Covid. 360-636-1616.

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In the Merk (1339 Commerce Ave., #113) 360-998-2139. Mon-Fri 8am–4pm. Specialty coffees, teas, bubble teas and pastries....drinks with a smile. Takeout and delivery.

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Freddy’s Just for the Halibut.

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215 N. Hendrickson Dr., Port of Kalama.

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Scappoose, Ore. Fultano’s Pizza 51511 SE 2nd. Family style with unique pizza offerings, hot grill items & more!

“Best pizza around!” Sun–Th 11am–9pm; Fri-Sat 11am–10pm. Full bar service ‘til 10pm Fri & Sat. Deliveries in Scappoose.

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1106 Florida St., Longview. Authentic Italian wood-fired pizza, wine, and beer.

Casual ambience. 5–9pm Wed-Fri, Sat. 11–3. See ad, page 21. Call for status.

Evergreen Pub & Café

115-117 East 1st Street 503-556-9935 Burgers, halibut, appetizers, full bar.

11–11 Daily. Inside dining.

Jay’s Jukebox Burgers, 1232 Commerce Ave.. 1950s Soda shop. Take-out and limited dine-in.

Open Tues–Sat, 11–7.

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Kalama, Wash.

Hwy, Longview. Lunch and dinner.

Burgers, steak, seafood, pasta, specials, fresh NW cuisine. Happy Hour. Full bar.

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Curbside pickup. Inside dining.

Castle Rock, Wash.

33452 Havlik Rd. Fine Mexican cuisine.

Daily specials. The best margarita in town.

Daily drink specials. M-Th 11am–9:30pm; Fri & Sat 11am–11:30pm; Sun 11am–9pm. Curbside pickup and home delivery. 503-543-3017

Warren, Ore. Warren Country Inn 56575 Columbia River Hwy. Fine family dining. Breakfast, lunch & dinner. Full bar. Call for hours.503-410-5479.

Check Facebook for updates. Dine-in.

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DREW’S GROCERY & SERVICE

5304 Spirit Lake Hwy (10 miles from Exit 49. Picnics on site or to go, full deli, fried chicken, Skipper’s chowder, fish, shrimp. Se ad, page 31.

Luigi’s Pizza

117 East 1st Street, Rainier 503-556-4213 Inside dining, Take-out & Delivery

Pizza, spaghetti, burgers, beer & wine.

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Hop N Grape

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historic Civic Circle. Casual upscale inside dining, patio dining. Seafood, steaks, pasta, burgers. Happy Hour specials 3pm. Lunch & dinner. M-Th 11-9, Fri-Sat 11-10.

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Parker’s Steak House & Brewery 1300 Mt. St. Helens Way. I-5 Exit 49.

Lunch, Dinner. Burgers, hand-cut steak; seafood and pasta. Restaurant opens 11am, Lounge 12 Noon. Closed Monday.

360-967-2333. Call for status/options.

Vault Books & Brew 20 Cowlitz Street West, Castle Rock Coffee and specialty drinks, quick eats & sweet treats. See ad, page 29.

Woodland, Wash.

“SoCo” 1350 Atlantic Ave. Rotating craft brews, pub fare. Open M-Th 11am–6pm; Fri–Sat 11am–10pm; Sunday 11am–6pm.

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Roland on Wine

Old World versus New World wines

COLUMBIA RIVER DINING GUIDE

By Marc Roland

Blending’s the thing

I

’ll bet you that your favorite red wine is a blend. Red blends have been made famous over the centuries through both necessity and creativity.

Necessity, because winemakers have the task of turning out great wine even when Mother Nature doesn’t cooperate. For example, when the weather turns bad right before harvest and the grapes fail to reach full ripeness. Solution? Blend in ripe

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grapes from an earlier harvest or blend in an earlier-ripening grape variety.

But more often winemakers are always experimenting, making the most of what grows well in their region.

The most well-known red blend in the world is produced in Bordeaux, France, along the banks of the Garonne River.

On the left bank, Cabernet Sauvignon grows best and on the right bank, Merlot is king. It just happens to be a marriage of two grapes that were made for each other. Some of the other so-called noble grapes, like Cabernet Franc, Petit Verdot, and Malbec grow amazingly well and make up smaller portions of the blend. Each adds something unique to the wine.

Cabernet Sauvignon has herbal notes and lots of tannins that add texture and structure for an age-worthy wine. Merlot has more elegant fruit than Cabernet Sauvignon, with smoother tannins.

Cabernet Franc is known for its dark fruit and peppery profile, less heavy on the palette. Malbec is meaty and brings blueberry to a blend.

Petit Verdot adds aromatic interest with fresh flower bouquet fragrances and dark color. No wonder it’s so good! Some of the world’s greatest wines are blends. My favorite is Châteauneuf-duPape (The New Castle of the Pope), a Southern Rhone wine.

It was created long ago during the 70-year period (1309-1377) when the papacy was moved to Avignon due to growing divisions and unrest in Rome. So the history of this appellation is inextricably tied with papal history.

The Avignon bishops studied Burgundy wines but found it difficult make wine as good as Burgundy with the grapes of the warmer south. John XXII, who succeeded Clement V, regularly drank wine from the vineyards near Avignon and did much to improve viticultural practices there, and under his rule this area came to be known as “Vin du Pape.”

In the old world where winemaking h a s a n a n c i e n t h i s t o r y, t h e knowledge of the land was key, and through centuries practices became established. The takeaway? What will grow where, and what grapes go together. A long historic experiment born of necessity and the art of blending was perfected.

But let’s bring this back to the new world. A side note— you may be hearing the conversation about old world versus new world wine. Simply put, old world wines are the wines of Europe and new world is everywhere else. More on this in another article.

Could I make the argument that blending wine in the United States is different? We learned the art of blending, not out of necessity but out of tradition. We didn’t need to, we just wanted to. True, winemakers do blend wine as a way of overcoming inconsistencies in quality or to make a more balanced and marketable wine. However, the main growing regions of Washington and California can grow a vast majority of grapes varieties well, due to ideal growing conditions across appellations. So the cont page 28

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Wine

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success of old world wines is about the earth where it is grown and the blends that have been proven over time.

In the short history of new world wines, we are still discovering what makes the best blends. The sooner we can figure it out, the sooner we can make great wines. The American psyche of innovation and experimentation sometimes chases fads, and every new blend you can imagine, and people buy them and then promote them as the next great thing. We have an insatiable desire for something new. Hopefully we will someday agree on what works best for our unique wine regions. Only time will tell.

In the meantime drink blends from both the old world and the new.

Some recommendations at right:

Washington Brian Carter Wines Le Courser.

Using five varietals permitted in the Bordeaux region of France, this “Right Bank,” Merlot-dominated wine is a winner with red meats. Notes of cassis, blackberry, fruit, and exotic spices Oregon Sokol Blosser Evolution. Supple and appealing, with blackberry, blueberry, pepper and clove flavors that glide over the polished tannins into the long finish. Syrah, Montepulciano, Sangiovese, Sémillon, Riesling, MüllerThurgau, Pinot Gris, Gewürztraminer, Muscat and Chardonnay.

France Bosquet des Papes Chateauneuf-duPape. A blend of 75% Grenache, 11% each of Syrah and Mourvèdre and the rest a mix of permitted varieties. A classic, old-school bouquet of red and black currants, ground pepper, and smoked game that has a lively spine of acidity, firm tannins, and a great finish.

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None Braver: United States Air Force Pararescuemen in the War on Terrorism

By Dave Clark “That others may live,” is the credo of the US Air Force’s pararescuemen, also called PJs. I found out about this wonderful book in the Air Commando Association Journal (Vol 9, Issue 1.) Michael Hirsh was embedded with an Air Force Combat Unit in Afghanistan during the war on terrorism around 2002. Hirsh does a nice job putting together a picture of life in combat: aircraft crashes, saving lives while under fire, and rescues in various and dangerous situations.

All that was expected. But what surprised me was the lack of respect the Army often showed for the PJs. One gripping story was the decision for three PJs to HALO (high altitude low opening) into a critical rescue mission next to a minefield. The HALO drop was from 3,500 feet (which is low for HALO) in blackout conditions. All three PJs received the Distinguished Flying Cross.

As soon as the PJs left the plane, the aircraft immediately set off to refuel the evac helicopters. The last four chapters of the book dealt with PJs combat deaths and family

notifications. These chapters were hard to read as I recalled my own combat and civilian experiences with death and notifications.

One problem was the acronyms related to military special ops; there are so many and it’s hard to keep up with them, but overall the book is an easy read with humor and a deep look into the PJs’ life, both in combat and in other stations around the globe.

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Dave Clark from Va n c o u v e r s e r v e d in the US Air Force !967 - 1975, went to college, receiving his Nursing degree, and worked 31 years as a registered nurse, mainly in emergency rooms. Now retired, he is a life member of the Distinguished Flying Cross Society, Professional Loadmaster Association, Air Commando Association, and the Veterans of Foreign Wars.

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Satire not for the faint-hearted and/or beheaded, or having a fatwa declared on them, or more recently, been accused of “cancelling culture.”

And Paul Beatty’s The Sellout is an uncomfortable book. It is also a hilarious one. Winner of the 2016 Man Booker Prize & National Book Critics Circle Award, it is less a traditional novel (forget “plot points,” “narrative arcs,” and “character development”) and more a jazz-like riff on race in contemporary America.

The story, as best I can understand it, goes something like this: the narrator tries to save Dickens, his low-income town south of Los Angeles from being eliminated. Among his ideas are reverse segregation (“Apartheid united black South Africa, why couldn’t it do the same for Dickens?”) He begins by putting up “No Whites Allowed” signs throughout the town, then sets about to segregrate the all-Black Chaff Middle School (“Two hundred kids quieted and turned their attention deficit disorders toward me.”) As part of Black History Month, he proposes they include Whitey Week. He sets out to find another town in the world that’s similar enough to Dickens to become sister cities. Candidates are Juárez, Kinshasa, and Chernobyl.

A local Black politician joins the crusade, adapting American classics

racists, academics, protestors, antiprotestors, the media—filled with the kind of humor that makes you cringe while laughing--Oh, yeah, it’s also unapologetically profane, with a generous use of the N-word, as well as the B-word, the S-word, the B+S word, and of course the F-word in all its many and creative variations.

(I found it difficult to even find a short excerpt suitable for a family magazine.)

Five white kids, their backpacks filled with books, rape whistles, and mace, hopped off a rented school bus and attempted to reintegrate Chaff Middle School, where Assistant Principal Charisma Molina stood in the doorway, barring entrance to her quasi-segregated institution…

Shoulders hunched and arms held up protectively in front of their faces, the Dickens Five, as the quintet would come to be known, braced themselves for the pillory of rocks and bottles as they ran the gauntlet and into history. But unlike Little Rock, Arkansas, on September 3, 1957, the city of Dickens didn’t spit in their faces and hurl racial epithets; rather, it begged them for autographs, asked if they already had dates for the junior prom…

In the tradition of Mark Twain and H. L. Mencken, Paul Beatty is a master satirist showing us the outrageous and absurd truth of our time.

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~ From The Sellout

to the modern Black reader, including Uncle Tom’s Condo, The Great Blacksby, and The Pejorative-Free Adventures and Intellectual and Spiritual Journeys of African-American Jim and His Young Protégé, White Brother Huckleberry Finn, as They Go in Search of the Lost Black Family Unit.

There is something here to offend everyone—conservatives, liberals, racists, racists who don’t think they’re

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Literary Tools

Beyond Googling: New resource available for writers

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o, say you’re writing a historical novel about Cowlitz County in the early years of the twentieth century just before R. A. Long arrived with his dream of a model city. Your main character wants to contact her boyfriend in Kalama.

You’re pretty sure she can’t text him, but what about a phone call?

Did Kelso have phones in 1915?

What kind? And what would a phone call be like at that time?

Your great (maybe great-great) grandparents are no longer around to ask, so what do you do?

With her book, Research Like a Librarian, Vikki J. Carter has provided a valuable service to fiction and nonfiction writers who want to go beyond Googling and Wikipedia for their research needs.

She provides chapters on the basics (e.g., how to find your way around a library in the digital age, different options for note-taking) as well as more advanced tools and techniques, like how to search online most efficiently, creating and formatting your bibliography, avoiding plagiarism, and she offers

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a range of useful websites every writer should have next to the computer.

Possessing a master’s degree in Library & Information Science and being a faculty member of the College of Information Technology at Western Governors University, Carter also understands the specific research needs of writers.

Carter is the host and producer of the podcast, “Authors of the Pacific Northwest,” produces the WordFest on Zoom events with Alan Rose and Bethany Glenn, and is herself working on a historical novel that has required the research skills she provides in her book and in the free accompanying workbook.

The e-book is currently available on Amazon for 99¢ until May 25, and then $2.99. She is preparing a print version to be out in June. More information can be found on her website at www. theauthorslibrarian.com.

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June: Gallery member Janet MacGregor, painting; Guest artists Mike Morgan, mixed media sculpture.

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(Traditionally held at Fort Clatsop, Netul Room, Visitor Center, Astoria, Ore. Info: 503-861-2471; now virtually on YouTube.) Following guidance from the CDC and recommendations from state and local public health authorities in consultation with NPS Public Health Service Officers, all forseeable “In Their Footsteps” talks will be held virtually, live, on YouTube: www.youtube.com/user/Lewisandclarknhp Dine in with United Way, Annual Celebration 2021 Friday, May 21. The public is invited to join United Way virtually for a fiesta celebrating the past year’s accomplishments, impacts, donor recognition, volunteer of the year award, live and silent auction.

Proceeds from this event will benefit United Way of Cowlitz & Wahkiakum Counties Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library Program that provides free, ageappropriate books to children ages 0– 5 by mailing monthly books to their homes until they turn 5. The P\ program is considered world class for preparing children for kindergarten, enhancing family engagement time, and building numerous other literacy skills. Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library removes all barriers to books, and gives children an opportunity to learn, grow and imagine. United Way operates this program in the goodwill spirit for our communities’ children taking zero admin fees. 100% of donations to this program help pay for the monthly invoices for books shipping from the Dollywood Foundation.

Mexican Themed Dinner VIP Couples Pkg $100, Deluxe Couples Pkg $75. Presentation & Auction Pkg $25, Added Cocktail Pkg $15. Help United Way reach a $10,000 Match Grant from Weyerhaeuser Foundation. For more info call 360-423-5320 or visit cowlitzunitedway.org (Click on ‘Events,’ then ‘Dine In’); Online Registration closes May 19.

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SKY REPORT

Astronomy

Looking UP MAY 20–JUNE 19

By Greg Smith Evening Sky The bright star Arcturus, in the constellation Boötes, is high in the eastern sky and is leading the parade of summer stars and constellations.

The constellation Hercules is the first in this parade with the fabulous globular star cluster M13. This cluster is on the “western” side of the body of the hunter about one-third of the way from the top. Hercules also has a second globular star cluster M92, located near where you would imagine where the head should be.

The other two constellations are Lyra and Cygnus and their bright stars Vega and Deneb the first two of the Summer Triangle.

In late May, Venus makes her reappearance in the night sky as the Evening Star around 9pm as she reappears from being on the far side of the Sun the last few weeks.

Venus will be very low on the western horizon just after sunset. It should

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pierce through the evening glow of the setting sun as it will be –3 in brightness (negative numbers are very bright). The best view will be a clear unobstructed view of the horizon like a beach or mountain hillside with a western view. Mercury will be just above Venus, so be watching for the tiny planet.

Morning Sky Jupiter and Saturn are rising in the southeast around 4:00am. A nearly third-quarter moon is rising in the southeast the 30th of May at the same time as Jupiter and Saturn.

Night Sky Spectacle: Now for a small telescope challenge: Find the Ring Nebula M57 in Lyra.

It is located between the lower stars of the trapezoid shape that makes up the main body of the shape of the musical instrument, a harp. It is about one-third of the way down from the “higher” of the two stars. It will be seen as a small ring, just like its name.

Of course, the larger the telescope the brighter the nebula will be, and the bigger you can make it.

Next month, I’ll explore the little Constellation of Sagitta the Arrow and its two sky features, one binocular and one telescopic.

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Have a flag placed at your home Ride in Mt. St. Helens blast zone

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• Dolly Parton Imagination Library • Children In Need • Catlin Rotary Spray Park • City Parks and Playgrounds • End Polio Now Campaign • Kelso Skate Park • Student Scholarships • AND MANY MORE!

Patriotic Celebration Festival Celebrate our furry friends Rubber Duck Raffle

Drive through spectacular lighted displays at Tam O’Shanter Park

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Rotary Club of Longview Wednesdays at noon Longview Country Club www.LongviewRotary.com 360.560.3989

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Meet him and other club members at monthly meetings in Longview.

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COWLITZ PUD

Stop to Smell the Roses

By Alice Dietz

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Cowlitz PUD recognized as a Reliable Public Power Provider

ne recent beautiful, sunny day, I took a leisurely stroll around our neighborhood looking for rose gardens. I wanted to see what others are doing, hoping to get ideas to improve my own backyard rose garden, where I’ve been working to bring back its vibrancy.

In February I pruned the 20 bushes back as instructed by the expert on YouTube, loosened the soil around each plant with my shovel, and applied fertilizer. After frequent watering, I can see already these efforts are being rewarded. Last year, only three plants bloomed. Now the majority are already showing promise.

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I walked down several streets, through a number of alleyways, peeking over backyard cedar and through cyclone fences, to no avail. Rhododendrons, azaleas and camellias galore, but very few roses.

Finally, I arrived at rose-garden-Nirvana, the garden located on the east side of the Longview Library on the Civic Circle. I counted 300 bushes in the wood-framed beds. It appeared they will be blooming in a few weeks. Most of the plants are robust and healthy. A few need a little more time to mature. A sign hovering over the garden reminds visitors to look and enjoy, but to not pick the blooms.

For years, this beautiful addition to our community was tended by the Friends of the Longview Library Rose Garden.

Several years back the Friends turned over the care to the City of Longview, whose grounds crew has taken charge of keeping this community gem weeded, pruned and fertilized for our pleasure.

Visitors can sit on either of two benches, one at each of the garden, enjoy a brown bag lunch or just ponder their lives in the company of 300 rose bushes. A little quiet time is good for any of us.

Next time you’re driving around the Civic Circle, having stopped at the Post Office to mail a package, or after enjoying a meal at Grant’s at the Monticello, pull over in front of the library and spend a few minutes in the rose garden. It’s always a good thing to stop and smell the roses. (Just don’t pick any.)

••• Ned Piper coordinates CRR’s advertising and distribution, enjoying the opportunity to circulate throughout his lifelong stomping grounds, greeting old and new friends.

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owlitz PUD has earned a Reliable Public Power Provider RP 3 Diamond designation, the highest of designations available from the American Public Power Association, for providing reliable and safe electric service.

The RP3 designation, which lasts for three years, recognizes public power utilities that demonstrate proficiency in four key disciplines: reliability, safety, workforce development, and system improvement. Criteria include sound business practices and a utilitywide commitment to safe and reliable delivery of electricity. Cowlitz PUD joins more than 270 public power utilities nationwide that hold the RP3 designation.

“I think over the last year or so, we’ve seen the vital importance of running a reliable and safe utility,” said Aaron Haderle, Chair of APPA’s RP3 Review Panel and Manager of Transmission and Distribution Operations at Kissimmee Utility Authority, Florida. “The utilities receiving the RP3 designation have proven that they are committed to running a top-notch public power utility by implementing industry best practices.”

“As a public power utility serving Cowlitz County,” said Cowlitz PUD general manager Gary Huhta, “we are proud to be honored with the Diamondlevel RP3 designation from the American Public Power Association. This is the culmination of a lot of work by Cowlitz PUD employees who really care about powering our community. But this designation is not the final destination.

We are committed to continuing to look for ways to improve our operations and service to our customers.”

The APPA, which has offered the RP3 designation for 16 years, is the voice of not-for-profit, community-owned utilities that power 49 million people in 2,000 towns and cities nationwide.

APPA advocates and advises on electricity policy, technology, trends, training, and operations.

••• Alice Dietz is Communications/Public Relations Manager at Cowlitz PUD. Reach her at adietz@cowlitzpud.org, or 360-501-9146.

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