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Dispatches from the Discovery Trail ~ Episode 14
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Out & About ~ Prohibition Is Over - Distillery Tour
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The Long View Partner Spotlights
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Longview Centennial Calendar
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Lower Columbia Dining Guide
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Where Do You Read the Reader?
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My Slant: Why I Like Spam!
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Astronomy / The Sky Report: June 15 - July 20
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Me & My Piano: ‘Love at First Sight,’ by Jim Tejcki
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Civilized Living
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DEAR MISS MANNERS: A dear friend of mine began sending me gifts for my birthday a few years ago. We had never previously exchanged gifts at all. After the first gift, I sent a thank-you note, and, when my friend’s birthday arrived, I sent a long letter and some pictures, hoping that she would take the hint that I would prefer not to exchange gifts. As senior citizens, we both thankfully have all that we need and more.
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DEAR MISS MANNERS: I have, on multiple occasions, invited my fiance and his best friends over for dinner. Besides making the meal, the evening usually includes some sort of activity that requires planning.
Her gifts are increasing in extravagance. Is it rude to ask someone to not send gifts? I appreciate my friend’s generosity, but I don’t want to enter into what may become an escalating gift exchange.
I love to host and plan parties. However, two of his friends (a couple) often ask me when they should arrive, only to tell me that they will be arriving at a different time because it is more convenient for them.
GENTLE READER: You do not have to reciprocate in kind, especially if the culmination of this journey will result in matching sports cars. Miss Manners suggests, instead, that you continue sending cards and letters. Eventually your friend will get tired of the one-sided expenditures.
The main excuse is that they need to feed their dogs at a certain time. I find it infuriating that my party is to be planned around their dogs’ eating needs. But also, I feel very disrespected, being told when my party will start. I have my own reasons for why I want to start the evening earlier — and I am the host. Why should their reasons override my party’s start time?
DEAR MISS MANNERS: Can you have a birthday and retirement party all in one? G E N T L E R E A D E R : Etiquette does not, in the abstract, object to combining celebrations. But Miss Manners does believe that
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one outgrows large birthday parties around the time one enters the workforce — which, assuming you are not retiring from kindergarten, would preclude the party you propose.
They are very good friends of ours, so I do not want to create a rift or issue with them. However, I feel hurt that they feel it is acceptable to treat me this way. GENTLE READER: If you are looking for the etiquette rule, Miss Manners is happy to oblige. As the host, you are allowed to specify the start time. As the guests, your friends can accept or decline. When they attempt to bargain, you can say, “I’m so sorry, I completely understand — of course you have cont page 10
Lewis & Clark
DISPATCHES FROM THE DISCOVERY TRAIL EPISODE 14
After Great Falls, the Fourth of July and a Failed Experiment By Michael O. Perry
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fter a grueling eleven days portaging around the Great Falls, finishing on July 2, 1805, the men were exhausted and needed a rest. Thus, the Corps began celebrating Independence Day a little early. Pierre Cruzatte played his fiddle, and the men danced as they drank the last of the whiskey. While the men probably fired their guns, Mother Nature also made a little noise that day. Since their arrival at the falls, the men had repeatedly heard a noise resembling the discharge of a six-pound cannon at a distance of three miles. Initially, it was thought to be thunder. But, Lewis himself “heard this noise very distinctly, it was perfectly calm, clear and not a cloud to be seen.” He heard three such discharges in an hour. The men had reported hearing up to seven discharges in quick succession. Interestingly, while these noises are still heard to this day, nobody has yet come up with a verifiable explanation. A grand experiment One of the more memorable lines in the 1975 movie “Jaws” was Police
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Chief Martin Brody telling Quint, “You’re gonna need a bigger boat.” Lewis and Clark had the opposite problem. As the Corps of Discovery traveled up the Missouri River, they would have to abandon their large boats as the river grew shallower. Dugout canoes replaced the larger boats, but they were unstable and would not carry much of a load. Captain Lewis had foreseen this problem in 1803 while making plans for the expedition and designed what came to be called “The Experiment.” The federal arsenal at Harper’s Ferry, Virginia, constructed a portable iron boat frame that Lewis believed could be covered with buffalo hides and used to carry provisions when the water became too shallow for the heavy wooden boats.
Armory Superintendent Joseph Perkins (left) and Captain Meriwether Lewis inspecting the collapsible iron boat frame built at Harpers Ferry in 1803.
While no drawings exist, records indicate the assembled boat was 36 feet long and 4-1/2 feet wide. The frame was made of wrought iron ribs that could be assembled with screws. According to Lewis’ description, there were two designs used for the individual sections: one curved, or in the shape necessary for the stem and stern, the other semi-cylindrical, or in the form of those sections which constitute the body of the canoe. There were a total of eight sections, each about 4-1/2 feet long, that could be fastened together to make the boat frame. Each
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All they needed was pitch to seal it up. It would’ve been the cat’s meow because when they loaded that thing up, when they first put it in the water when it didn’t leak, it carried some 8,000 pounds of goods. But an hour later it was sinking.”
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, pages 2, 39.
Joseph Fields, Capt. Lewis, Patrick Gass and John Shields stretching leather skins over the iron boat frame. Both illustrations by Keith Rocco for Harpers Ferry National Historic Park. National Park Service.
section weighed 22 pounds, for a total of 176 pounds of iron. The total weight of the iron, hides, wood, and bark needed for the entire boat would be 500 pounds. In an 1805 letter to President Jefferson from Fort Mandan, Lewis wrote, “Our baggage is all embarked on board six small canoes and two pirogues: we shall set out at the same moment that we dispatch the” keelboat back to St. Louis. “One or perhaps, both of these pirogues we shall leave at the falls of the Missouri, from whence we intend continuing our voyage in the canoes and a perogue of skins, the frame of which was prepared at Harper’s Ferry. This perogue is now in a situation which will enable us to prepare it in the course of a few hours.” The best-laid plans
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white pirogue placed in a cache at the base of the Great Falls two weeks later. However, Lewis drastically underestimated the amount of time required to assemble the portable boat. The first of the four portages made around the Great Falls began on June 21 and contained the materials to assemble the iron boat. Lewis already saw a problem: “I readily perceive difficulties in preparing the leather boat which are the want of convenient and proper timber; bark, skins, and above all that of pitch to pay” [seal] “her seams, a deficiency that I really know not how to surmount…” The frame was quickly assembled while the skins from 28 elk and four buffalo were prepared to cover it. The final portage around the Great Falls was completed on July 2nd. cont page 7
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Lewis & Clark
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Rather than resuming their journey up the Missouri River, construction of the iron boat was still not complete and would delay the expedition. While Lewis tried to find a source of pitch, the men shaved the hair off the elk skins. Attempts to extract pitch from pine logs that had floated down from the mountains were unsuccessful. Without pitch or tar, Lewis wrote, “I fear the whole operation of my boat will be useless.” The hides were sewn together and then attached to the iron framework. On July 3rd, Lewis wrote, “I fear I have committed another blunder also in sewing the skins with a nedle which has sharp edges, these have cut the skin and as it drys I discover that the throng dose not fill the holes as I expected.” Using a round needle might have prevented the gaping holes. Two days later, Lewis wrote, “This morning I had the boat removed to an open situation, scaffold her off the ground, turned her keel to the sun and kindled fires under her to dry her more expediciously. I set a couple of men to pounding of charcoal to form a composition with some beeswax which we have and buffaloe tallow now my
It took five more days to carve two additional dugout canoes from cottonwood trees growing about 16 miles upstream. The “Experiment” had cost the expedition 12 days that would have been better spent traveling. The hides were removed and the iron frame put in a cache above Great Falls. When the journey resumed on July 14th, they were far behind schedule and had given up all hope of making it to the Pacific Ocean and back to Fort Mandan by that winter.
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If they hadn’t spent all the time on the portage and 12 days building the iron boat and getting over to get the horses and then getting back to the Lo Lo Pass, they would’ve made it over to the ocean that first year without any trouble at all. As it was, they were lucky just to get through the Rockies — it was snowing on them up there when they went across the Pass.”
only hope and resource for paying my boat; I sincerely hope it may answer yet I feel it will not. The boat in every other rispect completely answers my most sanguine expectation; she is not yet dry and eight men carry her with the greatest ease; she is strong and will carry at least 8,000 lbs.” By July 8th, “The boat was sufficiently dry to receive a coat of the composition which I accordingly applied. This adds very much to her appearance whether it will be effectual or not.” When they “launched the boat, she lay like a perfect cork on the water.” By evening they “discovered that a greater part of the composition had separated from the skins and left the
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Thanks to a popular program initiated by Longview Rotary Club, hundreds more local residences now fly the stars and stripes four times a year — Memorial Day, Independence Day, President’s Day, and Veteran’s Day — with Rotary volunteers doing the hoisting. Besides showing the flag, Rotarians are raising money for club programs — 100 percent of the annual subscription fees go to student scholarships and donations to worthy causes and community projects. And they’re proving the value of networking among their clubs, always on the lookout for new ways to serve. “I’d attended a District Rotary meeting in Victoria and found an old friend on the ferry,”said Jim Hennig of the Longview Club. “Former Longview resident Rich Bemm had moved from our club to Sequim Sunrise Club, and was raving about a new idea they had for fundraising.” Bemm and the Sequim Club were hoisting the colors four times a year in their community, and raising money, as well as flags.
Rotary’s “Freedom Flags” have become familiar icons in Longview, hung at an angle from metal poles, allowing them to drape and flutter in the wind, not simply hang limp. “We have about 15 teams of four members each,” said Hennig, “and some help from local Cub Scout Pack 385.” Before adopting the program, Longview Rotary sent a delegation to Sequim to study the details, he explained, including installing a pole holder on the parking strip of each subscriber. The fee is $50 per year for four flag displays with the volunteers monitoring timing and placement.
The program has met with great success. “Seeing Old Glory along our roadways, house after house, certainly makes me proud,” said Doug Gorman, a charter subscriber to the program. “Especially for us old vets it makes me happy it’s all going to other worthy Rotary projects.” The Rotarians now count about 500 subscribers, and the program brings in more than $20,000 a year, all used to fund community programs and services. Gift subscriptions are an ideal way to lend some new glory to the Grand Old Flag, Hennig said. “It’s a win for everybody. Showing patriotism, supporting worthy projects and having your very own Rotarian doing the heavy lifting!” To subscribe (available for Longview addresses) visit www.longviewrotaryflags. com. More info: flags@ l o n g v i e w r o t a r y. c o m . Subscribe by June 20 to receive a flag in time for July 4th. ••• Photos: Flags at residences along Kessler Blvd (CRR photos); Near left, a Rotarian places a flag at a subscriber’s home (Courtesy photo).
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Miss Manners
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to feed the dogs. But this party was planned around this start time because of everyone else’s schedule. We’ll miss you, but let’s find something we can do together another time.” Proper as this may be, it does not solve your problem. That will require them, or you, to compromise in the name of friendship. DEAR MISS MANNERS: I have a slight case of allergies and occasionally let out a sudden sneeze, which I discreetly attempt to muffle. Those around me sometimes counter with “God bless you,” “Gesundheit” or the like, to which I give a polite nod.
However, there is one person who will bolt upright with alarm whenever I sneeze and exclaim “Well, excuse you!” or, “Why didn’t you give us some warning?!” making everyone stare at me further. Frankly, it’s an awkward situation and I’d rather not have any additional attention, particularly as I’m scurrying for a tissue. How should I respond? GENTLE READER: “Believe me, if I had had any warning myself, you would have been the next to know.” DEAR MISS MANNERS: I am a female medical professional. I advise patients on nutritional and dietary matters
relating to their efforts to lose weight for health reasons. I also happen to be naturally quite slender. Occasionally when I meet a patient (most of whom are women), she will comment, “You’re so skinny!” Or, in the course of a consultation, “Well, I’ll never look like you!” These well-meant remarks make me feel awkward and interfere with my ability to build rapport. I usually just weakly smile, mumble something like, “Well, you know ...” and try to return to the topic at hand. Can you suggest a better way to handle these unnecessary comments? GENTLE READER: “We are each on our own path to good health, and it is pointless to make comparisons. Let’s focus instead on you and your unique goals.” Out of compassion, however, Miss Manners suggests that you refrain from emphasizing your own good fortune by not eating a whole pie in front of these ladies.
DEAR MISS MANNERS: I am irked at the use of the phrase “You’re fine.” It seems to be used in the context of reassuring me that I haven’t done anything wrong, but often in a situation in which they have. For example, if someone is blocking the aisle in the grocery, and I politely say, “Excuse me,” they might move but respond with, “You’re fine.” Or, when explaining to a customer that she would need her ID to renew her membership card, she said that she would need to go out to her car to get it. I reiterated that she would need to bring the ID in, and I got a response of “You’re fine.” Perhaps this is the millennial version of what Miss Manners refers to as a convention. Am I being too prickly? GENTLE READER: No, you’re fine. ••• Please send your questions to Miss Manners at her website, www.missmanners.com; to her email, dearmissmanners@gmail.com; or through postal mail to Miss Manners, Andrews McMeel Syndication, 1130 Walnut St., Kansas City, MO 64106. 1939 Chevy
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A Different Way of Seeing
THE TIDEWATER REACH Poem by Robert Michael Pyle • Photograph by Judy VanderMaten • Field Note by Hal Calbom
Lesser Lives Mostly, we tend to think of the big lives on the river — the ospreys and eagles, salmon and sturgeon, seals and sea lions and otters, and all of their ilk. But underlying, undergirding, underwriting all those grandees are the lesser lives, at least in matters of size. The fry and the copepods, the worms and the gastropods, all the large legions of invertebrates, whose mass far exceeds that of all the migratory whales. The surprise is how many of these little creatures are no more native in these waters than the Chinese cannery workers, Finnish loggers, or the name “Columbia” itself. Whether riding Japanese tsunami or some flag’s ballast, they hail from elsewhere, just as most of us surely do. Have you seen the yellow mayflies, big as grasshoppers and sometimes as thick as locusts? Noted the serried drifts of shiny olive clamshells on some wake-whacked beach? Who knows whose bilge they came in on. But someone eats them all, in this great flowing chowder, this soup-bowl of a river, where we are the least life of all in the long run.
ROOTS Like river pilings and other man-made features, the natural flora of the Lower Columbia have adapted remarkably to the extremes of tides, river flows, and weather. The Lewis and Clark National Wildlife Refuge and other preserved portions of the river offer access to these rare environments, known as part of the “estuary eco-system.” Natural adaptations include vast swamps of Sitka Spruce which have flourished for centuries in the hybrid environment of fresh and salt water, high and low tides. Dense thickets of coast willow, Sitka willow, twinberry, osier dogwood, and Nootka rose line the channels along with abundant sedges, wildflowers, and bulrushes.
On this page we excerpt poems, pictures and field notes from our own “Field Guide to the Lower Columbia River in Poems and Pictures,” The Tidewater Reach, by Gray’s River resident and renowned naturalist Robert Michael Pyle, and Cathlamet photographer Judy VanderMaten. The two dreamed for years of a collaborative project, finally realized when Columbia River Reader Press published color and black and white editions of The Tidewater Reach in 2020, and a third, hybrid edition in 2021, all presenting “a different way of seeing” our beloved Columbia River.
Field Guide to the
Lower Columbia River in
Poems and Pictures
Robert Michael Pyle Judy VanderMaten
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Prohibition is over
OUT•AND•ABOUT Story & photos by Tracy Beard
Visit four local craft distilleries — in Stevenson, Battle Ground, Vancouver, and Tenino — for some delicious spirits
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ore than 100 years ago the United States banned producing, importing and selling alcoholic beverages. Prohibition lasted for 13 years, from 1920 to 1933. Making moonshine and distilling spirits at home became a popular but illegal pastime during that timeframe. The penalty at one point was one year and one day in jail. Today the rules have changed. Permits are required and individual states make up most of the regulations. Join me on a virtual tour through four local craft distilleries where you can purchase old-fashioned corn-based moonshine, whiskey, bourbon, vodka, gin, sweet cordials, sipping vinegars and much more.
run the gamut in flavors from apple pie and cherry to chocolate made with cocoa bean husks instead of cocoa butter. The husks give the cordial a smoother flavor without the bitterness; it tastes like a tootsie roll. Scott sources his ingredients as locally as possible and maintains a practice of being ecologically friendly. His two main stills are named Archie — the stripping still, named for Scott’s grandfather who liked to make the spirits and Earl — the refining still, named for his grandmother, who enjoyed drinking them. Call 360-213-3420 for tasting hours Battle Crest Distillery
The Schefer family produces farm distilled spirits in Battle Ground, Washington. The family roots originate in Germany, where Jim’s ancestors boast more than 500 years of farming history. Jim oversees the operations. His wife Audrey, the administrative officer, manages the graphics development for labels and advertising and uses her background in finance to keep things running s m o o t h l y. T h e i r daughter, Susan, is the lead distiller, and she has refined her palate over the last three years and gets full credit for creating the Kanada Foster’s Coffee Ridge. This coffee liqueur has become a public favorite.
Skunk Brothers Spirits Scott Donoho’s grandfather had a reputation for making moonshine and racing fast cars. Scott and his brother grew up fascinated with his grandfather’s persona. “Dukes of Hazard” and “M*A*S*H were Scott’s favorite TV shows. As a youngster, he and a friend dabbled with making moonshine; and as he got older, he and his brother got more serious about the endeavor. One day, they decided their family moonshine recipe made from corn, water and yeast was good enough to sell, and they started the paperwork to make things legal. The ball began to roll, and today Scott is the owner and distiller at Skunk Brothers Spirits, located along the Columbia River in Stevenson, Washington., “Over the last few years,”Scott said, “We have gone from a smallscale, garage-style distillery to a larger scale operation. We are constantly playing Tetris now, trying to pack everything into the shop. We are currently heading into our eighth year.” Skunk Brothers Spirits currently produces 15 different products. The high-end bourbon Whiskey Road—made with a blend of Washington-grown corn, white wheat, malted barley, a little bit of rye and peated malt, is aged for three years in white oak casks and has a smooth scotchlike smokey flavor. The traditional moonshine recipe is still a big hit, and the cinnamon corn whiskey made with conventional moonshine is one of the biggest sellers. The sweet cordials 12 / Columbia River Reader / June 15, 2022
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Each spirit developed at Battle Crest Distillary comes with an interesting backstory on the label. Jim and Susan use corn, rye, wheat and barley to make their spirits. Jim is very excited about the “Irish” whiskey he currently has in barrels. Technically, it is not “Irish” whiskey because it is not made in Ireland, just as “Champagne” can only be labeled Champagne if it is from that specific region of France. Still, his whiskey is made in the Irish style with malted and unmalted barley, whereas American whiskey is crafted with corn, rye or wheat. The WinterFire Bourbon Whiskey, made with cinnamon, brown sugar and orange, is not syrupy but has a delightful flavor and a nice bite. The Petticoat Courage is a traditional rye whiskey with autumn spices and a smooth sweet finish, and the Edmond John Henry is a straight bourbon whiskey made with more than 51% corn. Battle Crest Distillary also produces a sweet, corn vodka with a velvety finish. Call 907-350-4952 for a private tour and tasting.
Quartz Mountain Distillers My daughter Brittney and son-in-law Jordan joined me on my tour of Quartz Mountain Distillers in Vancouver, Washington, with owners Randy and Debi Kyle. Randy said, “I don’t drink much, but when I do, I like to drink the good stuff. I can’t afford it, so I figured out that I’d just have to make it.” He began selling quality spirits at Quartz Mountain Distillers in 2020. Randy makes a variety of flavored vodkas: vanilla creme, vanilla, vanilla café creme, orange creme, butterscotch, raspberry habanero, huckleberry pie, peanut butter and more. When we arrived, he
57% ABV or 114 proof. This was so that back in the day when it was stored below deck next to the gunpowder, if it spilled onto it, the gin would not dilute the powder and prevent it from going off when it was lit. Many distillers make “Apple Pie.” Randy makes his Apple Shine, which can be used to create “Apple Pie”, a delicious beverage with apple pie flavors, alcohol made from 190 proof grain alcohol or “everclear,” and apple cider. Another favorite is Quartz Mountain Cask Strength two-year bourbon. Call 360-904-5627 for tasting hours. Sandstone Distillery John and Justin Bourdon own and operate Sandstone Distillery in Tenino, Washington. Although this distillery is off the beaten path, out of the approximate 100 distilleries in Washington state, it ranks 17th in tasting room sales. Sandstone offers a formal tasting experience with a tour. Guests choose between the four clear spirit flight including samples of their ready-to-pour cocktails or the amber spirit flight with the cocktails. Flights are accompanied by complimentary bottled water, light snacks and chocolates for $15 per person and a tour of the distillery. John said, “Our unaged white whiskey has won a double gold medal in the Seattle international competition for five years in a row. We also made a bacon bourbon whiskey for this event. The whiskey is just weird, but it was such a hit we kept making it. Once the grains that make the whiskey are spent, they are fed back to the pigs, technically going back into the bacon. It is the circle of life for this whiskey. It is fantastic cooked with an egg; the bacon flavor just distills right into the egg. It also makes a great Bloody Mary.” cont page 14
had just finished a batch of clementine-flavored vodka. My favorite was the unfiltered vodka. Randy also makes gin. He has a Navy Strength Gin that is delicious. The botanicals are perfectly spiced, and the juniper is not piney. Most gin runs about 40% alcohol by volume (ABV) or 80 proof, whereas Navy Strength comes in at
By Tracy Beard
PROVISIONS ALONG THE TRAIL
Farro Salad with Lemon Thyme Dressing
1 cup cooked farro, cooked according to package directions and cooled 1/2 cup tomato, chopped 1/2 cup cucumber, seeded and chopped 1/2 cup canned garbanzo beans, rinsed 4 Tbl. crumbled goat cheese 1 Tbl toasted slivered almonds Arrange on a platter or individual plates, drizzle with dressing to taste.
Dressing
Place in a food processor, mix until emulsified: 2/3 cup extra virgin olive 1/3 cup fresh lemon juice 2 tablespoons fresh thyme 3 tablespoons honey 1 teaspoon Dijon mustard Salt and pepper to taste
Tracy Beard writes about luxury and adventure travel, traditional and trendy fine dining and libations for regional, national and international magazines. She is in her seventh year as CRR’s “Out & About” columnist. She lives in Longview, Wash.
Whiskey Sour
2 ounces bourbon – use your favorite or try something new from one of the above local places 1 ounce fresh lemon juice 3/4 ounce simple syrup 1 egg white Ice 1 maraschino cherry Orange wedges Bitters Place the bourbon, lemon juice, simple syrup and egg white in a cocktail shaker. Seal the shaker and shake vigorously for 10 seconds. Add the ice and shake again for 7 to 10 more seconds to chill. Strain the cocktail through a fine-mesh strainer into a coupe glass. Garnish with drops of bitters and the cherry and orange wedges.
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Distillery Tour
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The equipment used at Sandstone is unique. Everything has been altered, rebuilt and refurbished. John and Justin are former truckers and learned that to make money on the road, they needed to know how to make repairs along the way. That experience served them well. When they began Sandstone Distillery, they acquired all kinds of containers and materials. By watching YouTube videos and through much trial and error, they have built a successful distillery with special equipment and distinctive stills that are effective, consistent and irreplaceable.
Co-owner Jenni began Wi l d H e a r t S i p p i n g Vinegars to add to the distillery’s signature craft cocktails. Cider vinegar is said to have several health benefits, but many find the taste off-putting. I must say, having tried Jenni’s flavored vinegars, I am sold. I love the mango orange chili pepper flavor and the pear cardamon rosemary. With numerous flavors to choose from, these were great buys either to add to my health regimen or to flavor a new beverage.
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or an educational and fun excursion, a trip to the Forest Learning Center located just inside the blast zone on the Spirit Lake Memorial Highway makes a perfect stop on your journey to Mount St. Helens. The center tells the story of Mount St. Helens and the remarkable recovery of forests, fish and wildlife following the eruption.
The Forest Learning Center is the perfect place to learn about the area’s recovery after Mount St. Helens’ historic eruption, the monumental timber salvage after
Visitors can watch a short film in the “Eruption Chamber” theater, which includes news footage and eye-witness accounts of the blast.
The center is free to explore and is a partnership between Weyerhaeuser, the Washington State Department of Transportation, and the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation. School groups and field trips are also welcome
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The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human society is a learning society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together. ~ Eric Hoffer, American social philosopher and author, 1902-1983 I knew that if I allowed fear to overtake me, my journey was doomed. Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves, and so I chose to tell myself a different story from the one women are told. I decided I was safe. I was strong. I was brave. Nothing could vanquish me. ~ Cheryl Strayed, American writer and podcast host, 1968Marriage is a lot like the army. Everyone complains, but you’d be surprised at the large number that re-enlist. ~ James Garner, American actor and producer, 1928-2014
We were made to enjoy music, to enjoy beautiful sunsets, to enjoy looking at the billows of the sea and to be thrilled with a rose that is bedecked with dew….Human beings are actually created for the transcendent, for the sublime, for the beautiful, for the truthful...and all of us are given the task of trying to make this world a little more hospitable to these beautiful things. ~ Desmond Tutu, South African Anglican bishop, human rights activist, 1931-2021
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There is zero correlation between being the best talker and having the best ideas. ~ Susan Cain, American writer, lecturer, 1968If you’re put on a pedestal, you’re supposed to behave yourself like a pedestal type of person. Pedestals actually have a limited circumference. Not much room to move around. ~ Margaret Atwood, Canadian poet, writer, activist, 1939-– Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life.
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Longview native Debra Tweedy has lived on four continents. She and her husband decided to return to her hometown and bought a house facing Lake Sacajawea.“We came back because of the Lake and the Longview Public Library,” she says.
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History is rarely set in stone. It’s often little more than collected stories, fuzzy memories, and myths. Even recent history — like the hundred years it took to conceive, plan, build and develop Longview, a planned city at the confluence of the Cowlitz and Columbia Rivers — rests on un-firm ground. If you were to walk back in time, to this Southwest Washington delta in that busy period in the early 1920s, you’d best bring your wading boots. There are very few stones around here on which to set down this town’s early history. Even the biggest rock in these parts, a sacred Cowlitz Tribe burial spot known as Mount Coffin, will soon be demolished to build river jetties.
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Longview’s story, in fact, rests on truly tenuous ground: mud and muck, swamp water, dredge spoils, coal dust, liquid cement, and manure. Or, what the engineers and wordsmiths might agree to call simply “slurry” — a semi-liquid mixture of who knows what. Attaching days and dates to all this reclamation and development is as slippery as the footing. We know LongBell Lumber Company bought timber from 1918 to 1920. Started buying land in the Cowlitz delta in ’21 and ’22. Established a post office for a place called “Longview” in early 1923, but didn’t formally incorporate the city until February 14, 1924.
The town took four days off. The hype and hoopla ratcheted up a notch. The dredgers and dikers and builders washed the slurry off and took stock of what they’d accomplished — so far. On the last weekend in July 1924, on miles and miles of freshly poured concrete, much of it with not a house nor business yet in sight, Longview celebrated itself with festivities dubbed The Pageant of Progress. And the rest is history.
And the formal “launch” of the place didn’t really occur until that summer, when the huge sawmill opened with a buzz. The salesmen, agents, recruiters and plain hucksters frantic to promote Longview finally had something tangible (and walkable) enough to sell.
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he Long View project pairs history with modern context. To celebrate Longview’s 100th birthday, Columbia River Reader is expanding its monthly “People+Place” feature to contrast the historical “Then” with the contemporary “Now.” “It’s important to look back and celebrate the past,” said publisher Susan Piper, “but equally important to track the
changes that make us what we are today. How close are we to the founders’ vision? What remains? What’s entirely new?”
book. The Long View: A Planned City and America’s Last Frontier will be written by Hal Calbom, with a foreword by John M. McClelland, III.
Thanks to tremendous community support (see Partner Profiles, page 25), the Reader will present 12 months of “People+Place Then and Now” reportage, then combine and expand these features into a commemorative
The Reader will coordinate with the Longview Centennial Committee, led by Reed Hadley and Arlene Hubble, to publicize civic activities and celebrations (see Centennial Calendar, page 25) and will host a Book Launch Gala in late June 2023.
THEN AND NOW 1. Developing Dreams 2. Controlling Nature 3. Magnificent Machines 4. People Problems 5. Renewable Resources 6. Communications 7. Transport and Trade 8. Power and Energy 9. Education for All 10. Sustaining the Spirit 11. Health and Well-being 12. Dreams Developing Columbia River Reader / June 15, 2022 / 17
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A brand-new community shows itself off to the world. The sawing, and the selling, move into high gear.
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Industry, salesmanship, and quality of life still dominate the conversation.
A Small City Gets a Big Start A planned city is a lovely idea. The only problem with a plan — as opposed to the West’s typically haphazard, chaotic, madcap settling of campsites, some of which became villages, some of which became towns, some of which became cities, and many of which then disappeared entirely — is the constant collision of that plan with reality. It’s a perpetual tension — what’s in the head versus what’s on the ground. And almost inevitably the ground wins: The plan breaks down, erodes, disappoints, proves impractical, expensive, too idealistic. Too unreal. Consider the dedication ceremonies for the City of Longview, July 12, 1923, in front of the largely completed Hotel Monticello. The majestic Georgian design stood out for miles, like a medieval cathedral luring pilgrims in the Middle Ages. More than 10,000 people showed up for the event, culminating two days later with a huge banquet. Generally speaking, everything went down according to plan. Well, most everything. In reality, the fledgling town’s sanitary sewer lines had yet to be connected. The waste draining from the toilets and bathrooms of all six stories above (a selling point for the grand palace was that each of the 200 rooms had its own bathroom) was dumping directly into the hotel basement, and did so throughout the gala celebration and christening. It’s really not a bad metaphor for this plan-versus-reality dichotomy. Such has been the evolution of many dreamt-of Western towns: eyes on the stars, poop in the basement. They built the Planned City on two essential foundations — industry and salesmanship. The critical connective tissue in the founders’ vision — and almost impossible to plan for or anticipate — was people. People to man the mills, and people to support the life of a city. J.D. Tennant, builder of the mills, estimated they’d eventually need a skilled workforce of around 3,000. And conventional wisdom suggested that each employee would require three to four people in support — family, retailers, service businesses, teachers, doctors, nurses, even ordinary laborers. That added up to a prospective population of 12,000 to 15,000, simply to establish and populate their new metropolis. From the outset, this proved an ambitious goal.
HOTEL MONTICELLO STOOD OUT FOR MILES, LIKE A MEDIEVAL CATHEDRAL LURING PILGRIMS Above: Longview’s showpiece, the Hotel Monticello; Right: Long-Bell’s new mills featured custom-designed saws — like this 108-inch circular saw — designed to cut the gargantuan old growth fir which astonished even sawmill veterans Opposite page, upper right: The Parade of Progress celebrated Longview’s accomplishments; Opposite page: R.A. Long and evangelist Billy Sunday, who famously said he wouldn’t preach outdoors for anybody “but God and R.A. Long.” Sunday drew thousands to his pulpit set up in front of the Hotel. Photo Credits: Historical photos from Longview Public Library digital archives; other photos by Hal Calbom except where noted.
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Our enthusiasm may have carried us too far in the way of expecting a large population within a given length of time. ~R.A. Long Letter to Letcher Lambuth The People Paradox Mr. Long and his team were trying to do two things at once — build a town and populate it — and those tasks often conflicted. Company engineer Wesley Vandercook, already doing the jobs of three men, was shocked when publicity and recruitment geared up in the midst of his labors. I would not recommend beginning our national advertising campaign until we have something to advertise. Certainly not until we have our plans completely drawn. ~Wesley Vandercook Letter to R.A. Long Rather than fielding inquiries from those who might help him build Longview’s infrastructure, Vandercook’s Kelso office was flooded with traveling salesmen and random job seekers. Still, the publicizing and evangelizing were necessary, and probably critical if Longview was to even survive, let alone meet its ambitious goals. cont page 19
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In January, 1923, the town’s first newspaper, The Longview News, was awarded membership in the Associated Press, gaining instant respectability, and promptly sent out an AP story on its first day of publication announcing the launching of the new city. This story, on January 27, called it a “made-toorder city” and included the confident prediction that the population would reach 25,000 by 1928 and 50,000 by 1933. ~John M. McClelland, Jr. R.A. Long’s Planned City That spring, the founders launched a nationwide sales campaign. For every day’s extraordinary production from the screaming band saws, sheaves of flyers, brochures and circulars shouted their way into the hands of prospective citizens and business people. For every mile of streets paved, people perused thousands of full-page advertisements in The Saturday Evening Post,The American, The Literary Digest, and National Business magazines. As he had with many management, design, and real estate challenges, Mr. Long turned to his native Kansas City for help with advertising and promotion. People clipped and returned coupons for more information. The agency spent an average of $5.50 per returned inquiry, a staggering sum in the 1920s. The Memphis Commercial Appeal and the Kansas City Star produced the best responses.
THE GRAND PAGEANT OF PROGRESS OFFERED VIRTUALLY EVERY FORM OF AMUSEMENT AVAILABLE
Sunday, Billy Sunday With the drumbeat growing, the founders began inviting visitors and entertaining in town. One motive for two of Longview’s original landmark structures — the stately Hotel and the ornate train station standing at the other end of Broadway — was to impress guests and give them a cordial welcome. The grand Pageant of Progress offered virtually every form of amusement available in July 1924, and the relentless backbeat of salesmanship and public relations. Mr. Long, a deeply religious man who began all his business meetings with a hymn, led the crowd in “Nearer My God to Thee,” before the first slab of fir fell to the sawmill’s racing band saw. cont page 20
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During the first two days, thousands toured the colossal sawmill. Baseball games, cruiser races, a regatta on the Columbia, concerts all over town — the Pageant had everything, even to the eyes and ears of a young Virginia Urrutia, who would one day write a compelling history of Cowlitz County and Longview.
Crowds danced, watched a rodeo, a tree topping, and an aerial circus, heard the Portland Rosarian Band, and as a climax, listened to the preaching of the top evangelist of the time, Billy Sunday. ~Virginia Urritia They Came to Six Rivers Sunday typically did not preach outdoors, but thanks to the urging of Mr. Long, and a $500 honorarium, he mounted an outdoor pulpit and preached twice on the last day of the festivities. Sunday later remarked that he wouldn’t preach outdoors for anybody “but God and R.A. Long.” Urrutia recalls: All this writer remembers is hearing the roar of applause when he shouted, ‘Some day I hope to see this country so dry that you will have to pry a man to make him spit.’ Perhaps a waste of words for a child who was a teetotaler to begin with, but we can only hope everyone else repented.
The Long Haul The parallel development initiatives — diking, paving, building and selling, recruiting and public relations outreach — continued at a breakneck pace.
Above: The June 20, 1925 Saturday Evening Post advertisement with the inevitable coupon soliciting inquiries and trumpeting Longview’s 10 essentials; Right: the log entrance gate on Vandercook Way, at Longview’s border with Kelso. Opposite page: Longview’s progress mapped in one of dozens of brochures; an aerial view of the civic circle, known at the time as Jefferson Square, with Hotel Monticello.
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By the fall of 1923, 44 miles of streets had been graded, 24 miles graveled, six miles paved. Seventeen miles of sidewalks built. The estimated population was 4,000. By July 1924, at the time of the Pageant of Progress, a total of 357 buildings had been erected, and 26 retail stores were operating. The real estate men had sold 165 business lots and 1,118 residential lots. Population neared 6,000. But Vandercook and several others of the development team were becoming disenchanted with the grand planning. Chief among their concerns was that the artistic, “visionary” layouts of streets and hypothetical neighborhoods
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left vast gaps: they resembled a street grid built on the moon. Selling was not only lagging behind development, those who had bought and settled were frustrated, too. Huge distances separated the designated “worker’s developments” from retail stores, shops, and services. And the infusion of new citizens brought a mixed group of pilgrims from all walks of life. People came from far-flung places, some able to build beautiful homes around Lake Sacajawea, some happy to live in company housing in Skidville, but some poor beyond decency. These camped in an area set aside for them in a grove of oaks, the Longview Auto Park, the city’s first slum. ~Virginia Urrutia They Came to Six Rivers
The years 1923 and 1924 featured extravagant feats of planning, engineering and celebration. But they also exposed the advantages, and disadvantages, of imposing a blueprint, an organizational scheme, on all this raw real estate and those expected to build and settle it. For better or worse, incremental growth is organic growth. It conforms to the natural ways humans have clustered together, developed a sense of the common good, and tried to civilize themselves. Imposing this from the top down, however benevolent the intent, would challenge, strain, and ultimately almost break the Long-Bell Lumber Company and the developers of the new city. The advertising men broadcast their core messages incessantly. One of the best-known advertisements for the new city appeared in the Saturday Evening Post, America’s fireside companion. The June 20, 1925 issue included a full page (shown, facing page) offering Longview’s 10 keys to success:
THE “VISIONARY” LAYOUTS RESEMBLED A STREET GRID BUILT ON THE MOON
Ten Essentials of Successful Industry 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
Transportation: river, sea, rail and highway Accessible markets, domestic and foreign Expertly planned industrial districts Reasonable land prices Raw materials Fuel and power Labor Unexcelled climate A beautiful city with all modern conveniences Community spirit
The frenzied development would continue through the end of the decade. The drumbeat of the advertising and promotion intensified. But the visionaries in Kansas City, and their lieutenants on the ground in Longview, now braced for a long haul quite unlike anything they’d anticipated. •••
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A brand-new community shows itself off to the world. The sawing, and the selling, move into high gear.
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Industry, salesmanship, and quality of life still dominate the conversation.
Alive and Well May they rest in peace, those founders. By most any standard, they did well. Today the people of Longview enjoy the fruits of promises kept, of visions fulfilled, of generous investments rewarded. We are also children of history, not just of our forebears. Like human beings, cities are products of both their DNA and their environments, the internal and the external. And of course we are all subject to whims of time, change, and fate’s fickle finger. To reflect on these original promises, visions, and investments — especially in the hyperkinetic 21st century Information Age — we gathered three people who ask these questions every day. Where have we been, where are we going, and how are we doing it? You would expect optimism from the City’s recentlyappointed Director of Community Development. “Longview is perfectly placed for overall success for any company that wants to settle here,” said Ann Rivers, who also serves in the state legislature. Rivers brings a realistic sense of regional and state politics to her new job. “We’re close to I-5. We have a regional airport, which is a big deal. As markets globalize, companies will site here to get their people in and out more quickly and efficiently.”
NICE TO MEET YOU MaryAlice Wallis Mayor of Longview
Ann Rivers Director of Community Development, City of Longview
Ted Sprague President, Cowlitz Economic Development Council
AS MARKETS GLOBALIZE, COMPANIES WILL SITE HERE Rivers also touts a strong workforce, readily adaptable, thanks to re-training and skills development available at Longview’s fastgrowing Lower Columbia College. “We have higher education that offers the ability for very specialized trainings for new industry or retraining from industries that are beginning to decline. Work Force +Work Ethic Ted Sprague has worked here in economic development for 20 years, and emphasizes the advantages of Longview’s strong industrial pedigree. Sprague and the Cowlitz Economic Development Council were instrumental in urging WestRock to build its new corrugated box plant in Longview, doubling the size of its current facility (formerly the Longview Fibre Company) and creating at least a hundred additional jobs.
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Ann Rivers MaryAlice Wallis
“We have a good reputation for a strong work ethic here,” Sprague said. “It’s our history of industrial work, a much larger manufacturing base than any other county in western Washington.” He cites strong competition, across the entire country, for coveted industrial companies who shop for the very best deals. “We really emphasize that when we’re talking to cont page 23
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manufacturing companies, convincing them to take a look at us. ‘Hey, if you want a ready and prepared workforce’ — and that’s a huge issue right now — ‘come here, because we’re not afraid of hard work. We’re not afraid of working 24/7.’” The Legacy of Daddy’s Job “I still think it’s a confusing time,” said Mayor MaryAlice Wallis. “Back in the 80s we were flourishing with our industry, and then it kind of went ‘poof!’ — some of it disappeared, or at least shifted. What were we going to do next?” The group recollected the dozens of years when Longview relied upon employment for successive generations at the huge industrial mills —Weyerhaeuser, International Paper, the Fibre, Reynolds Aluminum. Young people often had the option of following a parent’s own occupational path. “We still have good jobs in this town, but it’s much more diversified,” said Wallis, “and the community is wondering what our vision is. They’re seeing all of these great things, great place to work, reside, play, but they’re trying to understand just what our groove is. Because, frankly, I don’t know that we all really know what our groove is, still.” Hiding Our Light Wallis, Sprague, and Rivers all bemoaned the polarization in politics and civic discourse that has made it difficult to create consensus and movement. “Right now, our enemy is political separation,” said Rivers. “It’s like a good idea can only come from here, or from here, instead of coming from the middle, and then everybody getting behind it.” And they mentioned a certain reluctance to self-promote, to assert strengths, to sell. Combine that with difficultly finding an assertive, common voice, and you lose influence. “I think we have some misses in our community,” Mayor Wallis cautioned. “We have an outstanding two- and
four-year college right here in our community. That doesn’t seem to get much play. I think we need to move that to front and center. Make it a foundation of our vision and our story.” “I couldn’t agree more,” added Sprague. “I always have felt that this area has a little bit of an inferiority complex. We get the Portland news here more than we do Washington’s. You just feel disassociated from the state. And it works both ways. This most recent state transportation package, $16 billion. How much did we get in Cowlitz County? Zero. Zero dollars out of $16 billion.” The State of the State At the menton of the two parallel themes identified as crucial to Longview’s beginnings — industry and salesmanship — all three of these very competent sellers expressed frustration at the City’s, and County’s, inability to win state funding and support, usually in the name of the environment. “Our issues are at the state level, much more than the federal level,” said Sprague. “We’re doing just fine with the feds. But the state issues are with the Department of Ecology and all about our large projects, not the smaller ones. They keep moving the goalposts as we’re going down the field. We’ve got to get consistency in the permitting.” “We can’t have a Governor who approves a project that we’re all behind, one day, “ added Wallis,“and then the next day saying, ‘Sorry, I don’t approve that project.’” The City and County are now counted among the state’s cont page 24
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“reddest” in their politics. “That’s not necessarily a Trump phenomenon or a national phenomenon,” said Rivers. “I guarantee you that’s 100 percent due to the state and the governor killing projects that take jobs from Longview and Cowlitz County.” Two Sides of Green I asked the group if they were going to need to wear a green hat to have any hope of getting on the state’s good side, and attracting big new developments. “The WestRock expansion is definitely a green headline,” said Sprague. “This will be a model for the paper products business. It checks all the boxes.” “And NORPAC is leading the way with recycled paper in its boxes,” said Wallis. “We’re not cutting down trees and making paper anymore, but we’re going to make boxes now, and for one of the largest shipping companies in the world. They’re going to lead the pack in that industry,” she continued, “and the irony is we’ve always been very waste conscious — we have whole industries that developed based on using waste products from the sawmills.” “I think a really important test is going to be Divert,” said Sprague, citing a high tech green company that recycles food waste and reduces methane emissions. “We had one of their representatives speak at our board meeting a couple of weeks ago. And the whole board walked away with, ‘If we can’t support this, we can’t support anything.’” Life and Lifestyle A growing selling point, and point of pride, for Longview is the elusive thing we call “quality of life.” In our conversation this seemed to come from a couple of factors: the aging of the population which makes Longview more attractive as a Photo by Brett Renville
retirement community; the influx of urbanites that prefer the local sense of community; and a general sense that Longview is rebounding from its “lost” years of trying to find that “groove,” in the words of the Mayor. “I have a really good friend who manages a high rise apartment building down in Portland,” said Rivers, “And he says people are leaving Portland in droves, they’re very uncomfortable with the way downtown Portland has become.
A Future Worthy of the Founders “When I first got here we were called smokestack chasers,” said Sprague, “and it was pretty true — I just went after every industrial project I could get my hands on. And it’s not that way anymore. We work much more on quality of life, quality of place issues than we ever did 20 years ago. “I equate Longview almost to what Astoria was 20 years ago — Astoria has become a go-to destination,” he said. “People open their windows,
WE ALWAYS LOOK TO THE FUTURE AND FIND THAT NEXT THING, THAT DOABLE THING And he said many of the forwarding addresses are Kalama and Longview and Kelso.” We can attribute part of this to the “zoom town” phenomenon, stimulated in part by Covid, which led to the realization that many jobs could be done remotely, in more hospitable environments. “He said they truly want community,” Rivers continued. “They want to be able to go to the local coffee shop and see the same person day in and day out. They want to go to parades. They want to know who their neighbors are. So I think that Longview is a great landing spot for them.”
stop at three or four different restaurants or pubs, they go to a boutique or a gallery. We’re seeing that here now. We’re getting a pretty vibrant Downtown Longview right now, but we just need people to take advantage of it. We’ve got to not hide our best stuff!” Longview has always had the ability to draw people, from its very founding, Wallis said. “And that’s our heart and soul. We always look to the future and find that next thing, that doable thing, that thing to be proud of, that leading-the-way thing. I mean that’s always been the ‘long view,’ that’s what Longview has always been and that’s what Longview’s going to be.” ••• Hal Calbom grew up in Longview and attended R.A.Long High School. He has a degree in government from Harvard and worked in public affairs television and independent publishing. He is in his fifth year producing CRR’s “People+Place”feature series.
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harles Kletsch was born in Indianapolis in 1868 and came to Cowlitz County in 1878, at age 10.
As an adult, he farmed in the Woodland area before purchasing a large piece of property between Lake Sacajawea and the Columbia River. In May 1918, the Kelsonian newspaper reported that Kletsch had planted 200 acres of wheat, the largest wheat acreage ever planted in Cowlitz County. He continued his farming operation until he sold the property to the Long-Bell Lumber Company. Much of today’s Highlands and St. Helens Additions are located on his former place which also included part of the Weyerhaeuser Timber Company site. Mr. Kletsch then purchased another farm on the west side of Lake Sacajawea from C.A. Taylor, selling it soon afterwards to Long-Bell when the company decided to acquire the entire valley. Kletsch was active in promoting the diking of the west side lowlands. When he died in 1936, he left behind his wife, Evelyn, and nine children. Merrilee Bauman’s father, Wayne Kletsch, was one of them.
“My grandfather would be pleased about what became of his farms!”
t’s an honor to participate in The Long View Project. My business resides in the former ABC Warehouse (shown above), one of Longview’s historic structures on 12th Avenue. In the early days, freight was loaded and unloaded in the back of the building, via the pioneering Longview, Portland & Northern Railroad tracks. Later, the building housed Martin Transfer. For five generations, my family has called this community home, starting with my great grandfather (a LongBell employee) who bought a house on 7th Avenue. Tainted by the stains of segregation commonplace at that time, plat and deed restrictions prohibited the property being sold to “any person not of the white race.” Thankfully, these sort of practices were later deemed unconstitutional and unenforceable. Our country and culture have come a long way since then.
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I myself am a third-generation business owner in this community and am so thankful for the abundant opportunity that continues to present itself to those who have the drive and vision. It’s very encouraging to witness the transformation of Longview’s downtown. With the malls losing favor, it seems that main street revitalization is a growing trend in America. I’m proud to be a steward of one of Longview’s first commercial buildings located in the heart of this movement. Looking towards the future as our children grow, the best we can do is encourage in them an appreciation for those who came before. I’m honored to be a People+Place Then and Now sponsor and hope to show my kids that we need always to be communityminded. An eye on where we have been helps us to better see where we are going. Special thanks to the CRR team for the huge effort they have undertaken. •••
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Volunteers will be needed and appreciated for various events over the coming year.
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The Corner Cafe
796 Commerce Ave. Breakfast & Lunch. Daily Soup & Sandwich, breakfast specials. Tues-Sat 7am-3pm. Closed Sun-Mon. 360-353-5420sndcoffeeshop@ comcast.net
Eclipse Coffee & Tea
Ixtapa Fine Mexican Restaurant 640 E. Columbia River Hwy Fine Mexican cuisine. Daily specials. The best margarita in town. Daily drink specials. Dine-in, curbside pickup. M-Th 11am–9:30pm; Fri & Sat 11am–11:30pm; Sun 11am–9pm. 503-728-3344
Rainier. Ore. Conestoga Pub 102 East “A” Street Microbrews, wines & spirits 7am–8pm Daily. Inside dining.
Interstate Tavern
119 E. “B” St., (Hwy 30) Crab Louie/Crab cocktails, crab-stuffed avacados. 17 hot and cold sandwiches. Amazing crab sandwiches. Full bar service. Catering for groups. 503-556-5023. interstatetavern@yahoo. com 503-556-5023
El Tapatio
117 W. ‘A’ Street Mexican Family Restaurant. Open FriSat 11am-11pm, rest of week 11am-10pm. Full bar. Karaoke Fri-Sat 8-11pm. Patio seating. 503-556-8323.
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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 on-site.
Freddy’s Just for the Halibut
1110 Commerce Ave. Cod, Alaskan halibut fish and chips, award-winning clam chowder. Burgers, steaks, pasta. Beer and wine. M-Sat 10am–8pm, Sunday 11am–8pm. Inside dining, Drive-thru, outdoor seating. 360-414-3288. See ad, page 15. The Gifted Kitchen 711 Vandercook Way, Longview “Celebrate, create, inspire.” Soups, salads, sandwiches, wraps, entrees, sides, pot pies, quiche, grazing boxes & more. M-F 11–6; Sat special events only; Sun closed. 360-261-7697.
Hop N Grape
924 15th Ave., Longview Tues–Thurs 11am–7pm; Fri & Sat 11am–8pm. BBQ meat slowcooked on site. Pulled pork, chicken, brisket, ribs, turkey, salmon. Worldfamous mac & cheese. 360-577-1541. Kyoto Sushi Steakhouse 760 Ocean Beach Hwy, Suite J 360-425-9696. Japanese food, i.e. hibachi, Bento boxes, Teppanyaki; Sushi (half-price Wednesdays); Kids Meal 50% Off Sundays. Mon-Th 11-2:30, 4:30-9:30. Fri-Sat 11am10pm. Sun 11am-9pm.
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Lynn’s Deli
1133 14th Ave.
1335 14th Avenue 18 rotating craft brews, pub fare. M-Th 11am–8pm. Fri-Sat 11am–10pm; Sunday 11am–6pm. Local music coming soon. 360-232-8283. Inside dining See ad, page 4. Follow us on Untappd.
Broadway Barrel Room
1133 Broadway Family friendly tap house and eatery. 18 taps local craft beverages, hand-crafted soups, sandwiches, flatbread and desserts. Live music on Thursdays. Hours: TuesSat 11am–10pm. 360-353-4295. Sun & Mon available for special events.
The Carriage Restaurant & Lounge
The Carriage Restaurant & Lounge 1334 12th Ave. Open 8am–9pm (sometimes closes later, call to check). Breakfast, lunch and dinner. Full bar, banquet room available for groups, parties, family reunions, etc. no charge with min. $250 food/drink purchases. Happy hours daily (9–11am, 5–7pm). 360-425-8545.
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Soups & sandwiches, specializing in paninis, box lunches, deli sandwiches and party platters. Mon-Fri 8-3, Saturday 10-2. 360577-5656
Roland Wines
1106 Florida St., Longview. Authentic Italian wood-fired pizza, wine, and beer. Casual ambience. 5–9pm Wed-Fri, Sat. 1–9. 360-846-7304. See ad, page 28. Scythe Brewing Company 1217 3rd Avenue #150 360-353-3851 Sun-Thur 11am-10pm, Fri-Sat 11am-10pm Family-friendly brewery/restaurant with upscale, casual dining, lunch and dinner.
Stuffy’s 804 Ocean Beach Hwy 360-423-6356 8am–8pm. Breakfast, lunch, dinner. American style food. Free giant cinnamon roll with meal purchase on your birthday with proof of ID. Facebook: Stuffy’sII Restaurant, or Instagram @ stuffys2.
Teri’s, 3225 Ocean Beach Hwy, Longview. Lunch and dinner. Burgers, steak, seafood, pasta, specials, fresh NW cuisine. Full bar. Tues– Sat 12Noon–8pm. Sat 5:30–8:30pm.. Curbside pickup. Inside dining. 360-577-0717.
Castle Rock, Wash Luckman’s Coffee Company 239 Huntington Ave. North, Drive-thru. Pastries, sandwiches, salads, quiche. See ad, page 31
Parker’s Steak House & Brewery 1300 Mt. St. Helens Way. I-5 Exit 49. Lunch, Dinner. Burgers, hand-cut steak; seafood and pasta. Restaurant open 1-8pm Tue-Th, 1-9pm, F-Sat. Lounge Happy Hours 4pm. 360-967-2333. Call for status/options. Vault Books & Brew 20 Cowlitz Street West, Castle RockCoffee and specialty drinks, quick eats & sweet treats. See ad, page 32.
Kalama, Wash.
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. 503-543-5100. Inside Dining.
Ixtapa Fine Mexican Restaurant
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. 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.
Toutle, Wash. DREW’S GROCERY & SERVICE
Temporarily Closed. 5304 Spirit Lake Hwy (10 mi. fr Exit 49) Picnic table, or to go, full deli, fried chicken, chowder, fish, shrimp. See message, page 30. Fire Mountain Grill 19 Mile House 9440 Spirit Lake Hwy. Toutle, Wash 98649
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215 N. Hendrickson Dr., Port of Kalama. A Northwest pub and unique bars serving breakfast, lunch & dinner daily. Info & reservations, bar hours at mcmenamins.com. 8am–midnight daily. 360- 673-9210. Indoor dining, covered outdoor seating, curbside take-out.
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imes are tough with food prices going through the roof, but I have an alternative. I buy Spam. I love Spam for these reasons:
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e are now fully in Summer sky mode. The three bright stars that make up the Summer Triangle are high in the night sky. The swan, or Cygnus the Swan, is flying down the Milky Way with Aquila the Eagle flying just ahead of it and Lyra, the small harp with very bright Vega, is high overhead
1. It is not a computer virus. 2. It is cheaper than ham. 3. You can eat it right out of the can. 4. It does not have to be refrigerated until you open it.
The Evening Sky Shortly after midnight Saturn rises in the east-southeast. The timing will get closer to midnight in early July and will cross over to before midnight July 10th. By late July, Jupiter will join the pre-midnight hour for rising in the eastern sky.
5. You can keep it in your pantry for years. I mean years.
Spam is a unique food product. A combination of minced pork and ham with only a few spices. It was first made by the Hormel company in Austin, Minnesota in 1937. At that time the company found itself with several thousand pounds of leftover pork shoulder. One of their employees had an idea to mix the pork with ham. They had to come up with a name for the new product. So the company had a contest with the winner receiving $100, and that was a lot of money in 1937. The winning entry was called Spam. It became a big hit with Americans during the depression in the late 1930s. World War II caused the company to ship millions of pounds of Spam overseas to the American GIs. Many of those
The Spam Museum is an admissionfree museum in Austin, Minnesota, dedicated to Spam, a brand of canned precooked meat products made by Hormel Foods Corporation. The museum tells the history of the Hormel company, the origin of Spam, and its place in world culture.
GIs still remember it as the “ham that didn’t pass its physical.” Even General Dwight D Eisenhower, who later became President of the U.S., ate spam. When I traveled to Hawaii pre-Covid, Spam and eggs was my favorite breakfast food. It doesn’t get any better than that. Now they sell light Spam, Spam with bacon, and hickory smoke Spam. During these tough times I eat Spam and I love it. ••• Neil C. Martello has lived in Cowlitz County for 47 years. He reports that he’s been married to a wonderful woman for 49 years, with two adult children, a granddaughter, and a greatgranddaughter.
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The Morning Sky Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn are up 50 minutes before sunrise by June 25th. This is a parade of the five nakedeye planets all in a row in the eastern sky about 90 degrees wide. Saturn starts the parade about 12:30 in the morning and Mercury ends it around 4:30am. Neptune is visible in a telescope about 14º southeast of Jupiter in line with Saturn. It will appear as a Moon Phases: 3rd Quarter: Mon, June 20th bluish star in the field of view. New: Tues, June 28th
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r i a n a N e u m a n n ’s loving father was a successful Venezuelan businessman, community leader, and patron of the arts. Raised in a Catholic enclave of Caracas, she was keenly aware of the eccentricities of this serious entrepreneur whose Spanish was flavored by a Czech accent, yet she knew almost nothing about his family, or his past life in Europe. She was left with many unanswered questions when he died, bequeathing her a box of mementos that would propel her on a worldwide quest.
Nevertheless, When Time Stopped is not maudlin. More than a memoir, it is an intriguing blend of mystery, romance, espionage, and history of Jewish resistance that celebrates the human spirit, telling the stories of family members who did not let their circumstances defeat them. She delights in her father’s carefree self and the other personalities who emerged from that troubled past. They were not heroes, just ordinary people who performed heroically in the worst of times.
She would spend years acquiring and sifting through fifty-year-old pieces of the puzzle: old photographs, documents, and memories handed down from a family torn apart by World War II. Under German law, a Jew was anyone with one or more Jewish grandparents. Of the thirtyfour Neumanns who lived in pre-war Czechoslovakia, twenty-five were murdered by the Nazi regime.
The book reminds us that the Holocaust was a real campaign, where groups of people were systematically dehumanized and exterminated for political gain. What began with small steps escalated until atrocities became normalized behavior. We need to be reminded it could happen again.
WordFest restarts at Keebler Coffee in Roxy Theatre The monthly gathering of writers and readers will once again be meeting on second Tuesdays, 6:00-8:00 pm, at Keebler Coffee Roasters in the Roxy Theater, at 1101 Commerce Avenue in Longview. Events feature local writers reading from their published and unpublished works, as well as discussions and networking opportunities. WordFest events are free and open to the public.
••• Jim MacLeod writes as JJ MacLeod, author of seven e-books in the Harry & Company Mystery series available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Smashwords.com. He and his wife of more than 50 years enjoy waking up to scenic views of life along the Columbia River.
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Amid the bleakness comes tenderness, and a flicker of hope alcoholic mother that is even grittier, grimmer, and even more touching than the first book. Named after Glasgow’s patron saint, 15-year-old Mungo lives in the tough tenements of Thatcher’s economically and spiritually blighted era. A gentle lad, kind of heart, he’s been largely raised by his sister Jodie, one and onehalf years older, in the absence of their mother, called “Mo-Maw.” Maureen has been on a perpetual quest to find a man who will provide her the life she feels she deserves. The love for her children is genuine, but has always seemed an afterthought; yet Mungo remains devoted to her. There is also his older brother, Hamish, a vicious and violent leader of the Protestant boys in their gang fights against the Catholic boys. Amid this brutal and brutalizing world of poverty, neglect, and tribal warfare, Mungo finds a tender friendship with James, a Catholic boy who raises pigeons, and a sweet “star-crossed lovers” sub-theme develops (Romeo and Julio?) Stuart is a “writer’s writer,” not only for his insightful observations captured in gorgeous prose (“Mo-Maw had a weakness for compliments, she
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“Do you see what ah mean?” Mungo had been working hard at seeing what people really meant. Mo-Maw and his sister, Jodie, were always nagging him about that. Apparently there could be some distance between what a person was saying and what you should be seeing. Jodie said he was gullible. Mo-Maw said she wished she had raised him to be cannier, less of anybody’s fool. It was a funny thing to be a disappointment because you were honest and assumed others might be too. The games people played made his head hurt. ~ from Young Mungo never seemed to care if they were sincere or not.”) or for the vivid descriptions — Mungo lying on his back “had ribs like the hull of an upturned boat”— but also for the gripping narrative structure: The book opens with “The May After.” After what? The next chapter is “The January Before,” and then in alternating chapters the reader is
slowly drawn to the frightening, lifechanging event that happened between January and May, giving the story an almost thriller-like tension. Written with a harsh realism, Young Mungo is permeated by violence and an unrelenting bleakness, tempting the reader to despair; yet amid the bleakness also comes a redemptive tenderness, and with the tenderness a flicker of hope. After all, Stuart eventually escaped Glasgow to write an award-winning autobiographical novel. •••
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Annually, local WSMTA chapters state-wide hold a Music and Artistry Program, performance-based competitions with an adjudicator who provides feedback to the student and teacher. Selected participants then play at the State conference. All recitals are open to the public. This year’s featured artist, Ukrainianborn American pianist Inna Faliks, will present a program, “Reimagine Beethoven and Ravel,” on Friday, June 24. She is currently Professor of Piano and Head of Piano at UCLA. A Chamber Music program, “Small Flames,” will take place on Saturday, June 25. Faliks and the other pianists will play on the Bösendorfer Imperial Grand piano, a gift to LCC from the late Ken
and Pat Hanson. Bösendorfer pianos, handcrafted in Austria, are known for having 97 keys, a full eight octaves. Most traditional concert pianos have 88 keys. For more information, please visit wsmta. org, innafaliks.com, or contact Karla Dudley, Cowlitz Chapter president, 360577-1366 or email: kcpiano@comcast.net.
IF YOU GO WSMTA Conference • June 23-25 Wollenberg Auditorium, Lower Columbia College Longview, Wash. State Honors Recitals Thursday, June 23, 2:15pm Friday, June 24, 11am, 1:30 pm Saturday, June 25, 11am Young Composers Recital Friday, June 24, 4:30 pm. Tickets $10 Featured Artist Program Friday, June 24, 8pm “Reimagine Beethoven and Ravel” performed by pianist Inna Faliks Tickets $15. Chamber Music Program Saturday, June 25, 6pm “Small Flames”
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Friends of the Castle Rock Library Monthly Book Sale June 16-18; Thurs 1pm, Fri-Sat 10am. Sale held in the back room of the library, 137 Cowlitz Street West, Castle Rock. All items $4 per grocery bag. Bags are provided. Oceans of Possibilities Longview Public Library Summer Reading Program. Activities for readers of all ages, incl book clubs, outdoor family story times, take-and-make oceanrelated crafts, adult and family movies, teen programs and Teen Bookapalooza, summer picnic with Micah and Me and more! Open to all readers, babies to adults. Log your reading on Beanstack and record personal or family reading goals for the summer. Read 30 days (or more!) June 15 – Aug 13 to finish the challenge and earn fun prizes along the way. Register now on the Beanstack app or at longviewlibrary.beanstack. org. More info: Call 306-442-5300 or visit longviewlibrary.org. Summer Reading is supported by the Longview Library Foundation and Friends of the Longview Library. All events are free and open to the public. Southwest Washington Community Yoga In-person Mon-Wed-Fri7:45– 9am, St. Stephen’s Church,1428 22nd Ave, Longview, Wash. (enter via alley). Practices led by volunteers. Suggested donation $2 per session. Money collected is donated to the church. For more info, please contact Ruth, 360-430-0420. NW Voices Presents Author Alan E. Rose Thurs, June 16, 7pm, Longview Public Library magazine reading room. Discussion of As If Death Summoned, hailed by Foreword Reviews for being “as heartwarming and hope-giving as it is heartbreaking,” the novel takes place in 1995, when more than 300,000 Americans had already died of AIDS. In a foreword, the author compares that national health crisis and the coronavirus pandemic. Rose will read from his book and participate in a discussion with staff and other participants. SWW Symphony Summer Youth Camp For S.W.Washington and N.W. Oregon high school band and or.chestra students. Rehearse June 2024 afternoons, performance June 24. Trinity Lutheran Church, Longview. Registration deadline June 17. Info: radavis1111@me.com or 503-8881717. Zine Making with Heather Douglas. Sat, June 18, 10am-1pm. Astoria Studio Collective, 1010 Duane St., Astoria, Ore. Take your storytelling to a new level. Bring your imagination to the Astoria Studio Collective. Learn how zines can be a tool for activism and advocate for change. All materials provided to make one zine in class, but participants may supply their own unique paper scraps, glue stick and scissors if desired. Register in advance at www.thewritersguild.org. $25 Guild members, $35 non-members.
First Thursdays are back!
BROADWAY GALLERY
1418 Commerce Avenue, Longview T-W-F-Sat • 11–4, Thurs 11–6 Visit the Gallery to see new work. For event updates visit our website: thebroadway-gallery.com, at Broadway Gallery on Facebook, and broadway gallery_longview on Instagram.
Join us July 7th, 5:30–7pm for New Art, live music by Curtis Johnson, & refreshments. Mingle with the artists in the Gallery! See ad, page 29
Find a unique gift! We have beautiful artisan cards, masks, jewelry, books by local authors, wearable art, original paintings, pottery, sculpture, photographs and so much more at your local Co-operative Fine Arts & Crafts Gallery.
Featured artists:
June: Galley Members Group Show: “Birds of a Feather.” July: Galley Member Adrienne Stacey, water color and ceramics.
Voted one of top 3 Galleries in Southwest Washington. Free Gift wrapping plus Layaway!
Stella Historical Society Museum Open June 18-19 and June 25-26, 9am–4pm; visitors can watch a blacksmithing class at the museum. Also open July 9, 11-4 for annual Kids Day celebration. Located at 8530 Ocean Beach Highway (10 miles west of Longview). Free admission; donations welcome. Museum tours offered in the off season. To schedule a visit, call: 360423-3860 or 360-423-8663. More info on Facebook. Clatskanie Heritage Days Car Show Breakfast June 25, 7-10am, American Legion Hall, 5th Street, Clatskanie, Ore. Hosted by Quincy Grange. Everyone welcome. $10 per meal includes sausage, eggs, biscuit with sausage gravy, pancakes and beverage. Proceeds benefit Heritage Days July 4th Celebration, youth groups, scholarship fund. Notable Exceptions Guitar duo, June 25, 2pm. “A little Western/Folk with a little rootin’ tootin’ fun.” Ryderwood Community Hall. Tickets presale $15; $20 at the door. Women’s Club Fundraiser to help repair Pioneer Hall, 100 years old in 2023. Info: Bridgette 541-290-2591. Call to artists Artists and fine crafters may submit applications to become vendors at Art in the Park (in conjunction with SquirrelFest at the Longview Civic Circle, Saturday, Aug 20.) This is a juried event; deadline August 10. Application forms at Broadway Gallery, 1418 Commerce Ave., Longview, or online, columbianartists. org. Info: Mary 206-940-9885 or maf43@ comcast.net Finnish American Folk Festival July 29,30,31, Naselle,Wash. Exhibits, lectures, music, dance, food. Worship and closing ceremonies on Sunday. Info@nasellefinnfest. com, 360-484-3602. Delicious Home-Cooked Meal Every Tues/ Thurs. Open to the public.Wednesday Bingo, 12 Noon. Longview Senior Center, 1111 Commerce, Longview, Wash. Info: 360-636-0210. Lower Columbia Genealogical Society Public is invited to Zoom meetings 2nd Thurs each month (except July). Meeting opens at 6pm for welcome to visitors, instructions, announcements. Program with guest speaker 7pm. For a Zoom link, contact lcgsgen@yahoo.com.
Shop Local Saturday (4th Saturday each month) to receive a free gift!
RA Long High School Class of 1967 Reunion Aug 20, 12 Noon. Bring-yourown picnic, alcohol free. Riverside Park, Kelso,. Wash. Reserved tables, Sec. 9 and 10. Info: Chris, 360-261-6051. From Sea to Shining Sea The North Coast Symphonic Band concludes its 42nd season with a concert at 7pm on Sunday, July 3 at the Liberty Theater. 12th and Commercial St, Astoria, with Guest Conductor Brett Paschal, director of bands at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon. The concert features American favorites, including several marches, a Broadway medley, American Riversongs, Bugler’s Holiday, and more. The traditional Armed Forces medley, will also be performed, and a rousing rendition of Stars and Stripes Forever. Doors open 6 pm for concessions. Prelude at 6:30pm is recorded music from past NCSB concerts.
Summer Concerts Mt St Helens Hiking Club (E) - Easier: Usually on relatively flat ground (up to 5 miles and/or less than 500 ft. e.g.) (M) - Moderate: Longer and more elevation gain (over 5 miles and/or over 500 ft. e.g.) (S) - Strenuous: Long hikes and/or elevation gain (over 8 miles and/or over 1200 ft. e.g.)
Call leader to join outing or for more info. Non-members welcome.
June 15 – Wed Pacific Way Dike (E) Walk 5+ miles r.t. on a level gravel path. Leader: John R. 360 431-1122 June 18 – Sat Wahkeena Falls / Devil’s Rest (M/S) Drive 140 miles r.t. Hike 8 miles, 2400’ e.g. Old growth trees and excellent views of the Columbia Gorge. Leader: Bruce 360-425-0256 June 22 – Wed Council Crest/Marquam Nature Park (M)Drive 100 miles r.t. to Marquam Shelter in Portland. Hike to Council Crest viewpoint, 5 miles r.t., 750’ e.g. Leader: Bruce 360-425-0256 June 30 – Thurs Silver Star Mountain (S) Drive 140 miles r.t. Hike 8 miles r.t., 1,980’ e.g. to SW Washington’s jewel via Klochman’s Ridge & Ed’s Trail. Out & Back Hike with spectacular views of Mt. Adams, Mt. Hood, Mt. St. Helens & Rainier from the summit — elevation 4,390’. Leader: Bill D. 503-260-6712.
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Our season is here!
Northwest Gardening
Tips for gardening enjoyment
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ne of the best things about being a Master Gardener is sharing learning experiences, successes, and failures with other MGs. I asked my friends for their best tips for having a better garden this year. Thanks to everyone who offered their suggestions — there’s not enough room to share them all! FREQUENT TOPICS: Irrigating, Mulching, Protecting Your Plants We all agree that watering your plants at ground level is the way to go; it protects leaves from fungal diseases and gets the water to the roots where it’s needed. Install drip irrigation in as many places as possible. Place it in your vegetable garden, ornamental beds, around blueberry bushes, etc. It’s easy to do — no need to hire anyone to do it. And it’s inexpensive. YouTube has some great instructional videos!
By Alice Slusher
Programs & Events OSU Extension Columbia County • 503-397-3462
Chat with Chip: Interactive Zoom program with Chip Bubl. June 21 and each 3rd Tues, 6:30pm-8pm. Register in advance online; you will receive a confirmation email with info to join meeting. Other programs: extension.oregonstate.edu
WSU Extension Cowlitz County 304 Cowlitz Way, Kelso, WA 98626
Free Workshops. Online (Zoom)
360-577-3014 X3, for connection info. Info: cowlitzcomg.com/events) June 14 Noon: Drip Irrigation June 21 Noon: Ask the Master Gardener (common garden problems) June 28 Noon: Tips for Easier Gardening July 5 Noon: Cool Weather Gardens July 12 Noon: Summer Watering
One MG suggested using Olla (“oy-uh”) pots — terra cotta vessels that are mostly buried underground and filled with water. The moisture leaches into the soil when it starts to dry out. Keep refilling the pots all summer. Ollas are another great way to conserve water and get it directly to the plants’ roots. And to keep the moisture in your soil and prevent weeds, mulch your beds. You can use a couple of inches of unsprayed grass clippings, dried leaves, straw, or plastic sheeting (I’m going to try red plastic sheeting to increase my tomato production this summer!). Try a silver reflective mulch like inexpensive mylar emergency blankets to mulch your peppers—it’s been shown to deter aphids and provides more warmth for your pepper plants. Since your drip irrigation is under the mulch, very little water is lost to evaporation. Use free arborist wood chips to mulch between your garden rows and landscape beds. Don’t spend money on artificially dyed mulches—who can afford it with gas prices over $5 a gallon! Resolve to tolerate some garden pests— they create a dinner buffet for the beneficial insect predators who can do most of the dirty work for you! Plant lots of flowers that bloom all summer long to attract these insects. If your broccoli, lettuce, and kale begin flowering, let them remain in your garden for the pollinators. Remember that using even the least toxic pesticides can decimate both the good and bad bugs.
bird netting; birds don’t get tangled up in it and die. If the temps get above 90°, offer your plants some shade. Rig a “wall” of row cover fabric by zip-tying it to two bamboo stakes set in the ground. Most of all, don’t aim for perfection. It will wear you out, and you won’t enjoy gardening. Allow yourself to make mistakes—that’s how you learn. Ask for help from friends, spouses, and children. Don’t try to do it all alone. Break it up into many tasks and delegate them to helpers. Lure them with pizza and soft drinks for the littles, and maybe adult beverages for the adults! And final suggestions from MG friends: When it is not raining, be outside, enjoy the sunshine, stay active — you can always find SOMETHING to do. And leave some time at the end of the day to enjoy the fruits of your spring
Learn to love row cover fabric. It’s a translucent fabric that allows light to reach your plants but protects them from cold and extreme heat (remember last year’s heat dome?) Keep your strawberries, raspberries, and blueberries covered with row cover that lets the sun and water in and keeps the birds out. Row cover is more bird-friendly than 36 / Columbia River Reader / June 15, 2022
tasks, the warm summers with longer days, and the beauty of your garden. Set up a nice seating area in a place where you can stop, and sit and smell the roses! Enjoy the coming growing season! ••• Kalama resident Alice Slusher volunteers with WSU Extension Service Plant & Insect Clinic. Call 360-5773014, ext. 1, or send question via cowlitzmastergardener@ gmail.com.
Michael Henry Joins Staff at Longview Ortho
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ongview Orthopedic Associates has announced that Michael Henry, MD, has joined the staff and begun seeing patients. In addition to general orthopedics and trauma care, Dr. Henry’s focus will be on joint replacement procedures. “My subspecialty skills include minimally invasive surgery, anterior hip replacements, and partial and total knee replacements,” he said. Dr. Henry earned his medical doctorate at the University of British Columbia, completed his residency at UBC and finished his fellowship training at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. In 2008, Dr. Henry served with a multinational medical unit in Kandahar, Afghanistan, where he treated military and civilian casualties. Most recently, he spent seven years at Mason General Hospital (MGH) in Shelton, Washington. While at MGH, he was cited four times for extraordinary service to patients.
“I am also a strong patient ally and advocate when they are dealing with complex healthcare issues,” he said.
Dr. Turner, MD
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Dr. Kung, MD
Dr. Lauder, MD
Dr. McLeod, DPM
Dr. Lin, MD
We welcome Kaiser patients with a referral!
www.longvieworthopedics.com
360.501.3400
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Through Aug. 11, free weekly, familyfriendly entertainment to enjoy from the banks of Longview’s Lake Sacajawea! Thurs, 6–8pm. The perfect way to spend a warm summer evening! Bring chairs, blankets, picnics. No alcohol allowed.
always enjoy attending outdoor summer concerts. Hearing the music waft through the neighborhood while approaching on foot is a small town pleasure. The chance to say hello to old and new friends, and simply relax while listening the diverse styles of music, from country and classic rock, to jazz and hip hop — usually accompanied by food and beverages, of course — adds to everyone’s summer enjoyment.
July 7 Abbey Road (Beatles Tribute)
There are usually several concert series around the area, including those shown at the right. There are likely more. Organizers: Let us know dates and details and we’ll gladly include them in future issues. Email publisher@CRReader.com.
June 23 Funktown PDX Get Down
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July 14 Mainstreet (Bob Seger Tribute) July 21 Eagle Eyes (Eagles Tribute)
13 Nights on the River
Thursdays 6-8:30pm through Aug. 18. Open air market (from 3pm) and free summer concert series at Columbia River Park, St. Helens, Ore. Suggested donations. Food, beverages available for purchase. No outside alcohol allowed. June 16 Hit Factory America’s Top Cover Band June 30 Bon Bon Vivant Authentic New Orleans July 7 Sweetwater Band Country Hits July14 Radio Rockit Band 70s,80s,90s Hits July 21 Hit Machine Local Favorite Dance Band
Longview resident Ned Piper coordinates advertising and distribution of CRR, and enjoys the opportunities to meet and greet friends, both old and new.
By Alice Dietz
Utility, construction industries face widespread supplies & materials shortage caused by pandemic
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owlitz PUD continues to encounter increasing delays in material deliveries which can lead to significant electric system equipment shortages due to supply chain disruptions. These disruptions can be attributed to several causes including material supply issues, labor constraints, expanding demands, increased pricing and shipping issues. We will continue to monitor our inventory levels and work closely with our vendors as well as working outside of our normal suppliers. We have been increasing our inventory levels for the past 12 months and
will continue to place orders for supplies and materials to meet the growing needs of our community. Given the circumstance, we believe we are in an adequate position to meet most projects demands. We do encourage our customers to move forward and not become complacent with their project. We are in the beginning of the construction season and our situation can change as the season progresses. We have and will continue to communicate this situation to our customers. We will continue doing everything we can to minimize any shortages and delays. Our objective is to continue to plan and communicate proactively on how the supply and material shortage may impact our community. We appreciate our customers and encourage you to reach out if you have any questions. ••• Alice Dietz is Cowlitz PUD’s Communications/Public Relations Manager. Reach her at adietz@ cowlitzpud.org, or 360-501-9146.
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