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Release Your Inner “Tubist” on the Lewis River’s East Fork page 13

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What really — truly — happened during those final wind-blown, rain-soaked thirty days of the Lewis and Clark Expedition’s trek to the Pacific? Southwest Washington author and explorer Rex Ziak revolutionized historical scholarship by providing the answers: day by day and week by week. We’re delighted to offer In Full View, and Rex’s other two books, one with an extraordinary fold-out map, as our inaugural offerings from CRR Collectors Club.

MOSS IN YOUR LAWN? What to do page 15

ONE RIVER, MANY VOICES WASHINGTON’S POET LAUREATE COMES TO WAHKIAKUM COUNTY page 14

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Are we there yet?

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hen I bought the Reader almost 20 years ago (!) I had a dream for the paper, its ideal content and distribution. In my fondest hopes we would eventually reach from the Gorge to the Coast, and count among our readers folks from Ilwaco to Skamania, Astoria to Maryhill.

Today, thanks in part to great interest in our new CRRPress books, it seems we’ve arrived! This month we formally expanded our partnerships upriver, welcoming into the fold gift shops at The Columbia Gorge Discovery Center in The Dalles, and the Columbia Gorge Interpretive Museum in Stevenson, along with North Bank Books, also in Stevenson. See page 25 for full listing.

Still, journalism and publishing are always works in progress, and like antsy kids in the back seat of the family car, we’re always asking, “Are we there yet?” And, indeed, we never are. Our curiosity and sense of wonder remain boundless and as keen as ever.

For example, I couldn’t resist following up on Hal Calbom’s reference to “Cubist” shapes and patterns in referring to the venerable old paper mill in Camas. Cubist? Really?

But in fact, the 1930s and 40s not only witnessed dramatic changes in our conceptions of what was art, and how we rendered our vision of the modern world. They also celebrated industry, human accomplishment, the works of Man, if you will.

An almost abstract photo of Hoover dam could grace the cover of LIFE magazine!

Today perhaps we take a more balanced view of the supposed battle between Man (and Woman, of course) and Nature. We hope to better integrate, balance, co-exist. It’s a struggle.

Are we there yet? Not ever. But getting there is more than half the fun, isn’t it? Wishing you a continuing, lovely summer.

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CRR Collectors Club

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Letters to the Editor

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Civilized Living: Miss Manners

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Dispatches from the Discovery Trail ~ Episode 4

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A Different Way of Seeing ~ The Tidewater Reach

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Provisions along the Trail: Tracy’s Gyros

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Out & About: Go with the Flow ~ Release your inner “tubist”

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Museum Magic: New Mount St. Helens Audio Tour

16 Quips & Quotes 17-21 People + Place ~ Blue Highways ~ Gods of the Gorge 21

Scappoose Celebrates 100 Years

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Where Do You Read the Reader?

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Besides CRR, What Are You Reading?

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Cover to Cover ~ Book Review / Bestsellers List

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Lower Columbia Dining Guide

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Marc Roland on Wine: Corporate Conglomeration

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Letters to the Editor

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I am sad to inform you our dear friend, Smokey, passed away June 25, 2021. I will miss you, Smokey. R.I.P.

~Smokey~ ~Ginger

Man in the Kitchen’s cat

Rose garden kudos, cherries on the sundae When I pick up a current issue of The Reader, I’m tempted to turn to the last page to read Alice Deitz’s interesting information about happenings at the PUD and Ned Piper’s “The Spectator.”

But I control myself and save those two for the cherry on the sundae.

nice: an employee of the Library by the name of Austin Braydon.

He shares his love for gardening by tending the roses on his own time as well as starting a free seed program and doing YouTubes on various gardening tips.

So let’s give a shout out to Austin and let him know his work is appreciated.

So Ned, since all the complimentary things Ned said about the rose garden at the Library were greatly appreciated, I thought you’d like to know who is doing the work to keep it looking so

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Civilized Living DEAR MISS MANNERS: My coworker was due to get married last June, and I was invited. However, due to COVID, they had to cancel.

By Judith Martin, Nicholas Ivor Martin and Jacobina Martin

Give it a think: Office pop-ins, the Age of Greed, reading while others work their cell phones

DEAR MISS MANNERS: A coworker walked into my office while I was in the middle of a task. I said “one moment, please” while I finished typing the line I was on.

GENTLE READER: Entering another person’s office without an invitation is an imposition, and therefore asking that person to wait is not impolite.

She seemed taken aback by my asking for time to finish something so as not to lose my place.

That said, Miss Manners realizes that the word “co-worker”— which implies an equality of rank — is sometimes used indiscriminately. And that not all bosses are enlightened enough to think that a brief wait may be in their own interest, as it increases their worker’s efficiency.

What does etiquette dictate one do in this instance? Drop what you are doing and immediately attend to someone who walks into your office? Or is a request for a moment appropriate?

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Tara divides her time between helping clients, volunteering with

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We asked Tara what she wants to be remembered for. “The name I have made for myself in real estate is caring. I care about my clients achieving their goals and dreams.

I care about their happiness. I want my relationships with all my clients to go above and beyond the standard.”

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Of course, if you did not want to be interrupted, you could be truly revolutionary and close your office door.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: Although bridal showers make me cringe, I am always excited to help welcome a new baby and help out the parents-to-be. I attend their baby showers when invited, and give them items requested on their baby registry.

But one thing strikes me as odd: On every single registry for every baby shower I’ve attended (and I’ve been to many), the mommy-to-be has asked for lactation and nursing items.

I understand that nursing is important to a lot of mothers, but I feel like creams, leak pads and lactation stimulators are a bit too personal to be asking your family and friends to buy for you. I refrain from purchasing these items, and instead go for something else.

Am I being prudish and sensitive? Is this normal and OK to put on a registry?

GENTLE READER: In poor communities, the purpose of a shower was to supply the baby’s basic needs.

In solvent ones, it was to provide tiny, charming extras — the sort of thing that would get all the guests saying “Awwww!”

But in the Age of Greed, people who can well afford to buy their own necessities prefer to have others pay their bills. There is usually a party attached, although Miss Manners quite agrees that such occasions have been robbed of their charm.

The wedding has been rescheduled for this year. However, they have had to reduce the guest list from 150 to 75, and I did not make the cut.

What is the gift-giving etiquette in this situation? I do not typically give gifts for weddings I am not invited to, but I was invited to their original one. What would Miss Manners recommend?

GENTLE READER: Generosity.

They would have liked to have you there, but circumstances prevented it.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I am an atheist with friends who are members of different religions. Whenever my friends talk to me about their faith, I politely listen and say things along the lines of, “That sounds meaningful for you” or, “I understand that means a lot to you.”

They often take this as an opportunity to proselytize at me, telling me what they think I secretly believe (Surprise! They all think I secretly believe in their God!).

Is there any way to point out how rude that is, or to emphasize that I was being polite, not inviting conversion?

GENTLE READER: Stop being so polite.

Miss Manners will rephrase.

Continue being polite by listening, but stop being polite by responding.

You are inviting further conversation where none is warranted. Just nod and smile, and if your friends elaborate or push you into a response, you may say, “Thank you. As you know, it’s just not for me. You know what I do love, though? Skydiving. And I just know that you would secretly love it too.” cont page 30

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DISPATCHES FROM THE DISCOVERY TRAIL EPISODE 4

In April we introduced a revised and expanded version of Michael

Peace Pipes, Pills, and birthdays in the “Garden of Eden”

W

hen the Expedition departed St. Louis in 1804, it was questionable whether members of the Corps of Discovery would survive their daring and dangerous quest into the unknown.

But despite lack of medical care, poor diet and miserable conditions, only one crew member died on the trip.

Medical care had been of great concern to Lewis and Clark. Before starting the journey, Lewis studied medical treatments and procedures. He took along about 30 different pills and drugs to be administered as needed. Still, medical knowledge 200 years ago was not what it is today, and most remedies are laughed at now.

Dr. Benjamin Rush, a top physician of the day, sent along 50 dozen purging pills with Lewis and Clark. These pills, containing a mixture of mercury, chlorine and dried morning glory root, were thought to be a cure for pretty much all the ills of mankind and

Perry’s popular series. In the new book, Dispatches from the Discovery Trail, edited by Hal Calbom and excerpted below, CRRPress includes an in-depth author interview and new illustrations and commentary.

were the medicine of choice for almost every ailment. They were, however, undoubtedly the wrong thing to use in most cases. The pills were a strong purgative of explosive power and the results so awesome they were called Rush’s “Thunderbolts,” or “Thunderclappers.”

Very few of Lewis and Clark’s campsites can be accurately located today, but modern-day researchers have managed to identify some by the mercury content of soil in former latrine sites.

… The Peace Nickel series …

On July 7th the journals tell of “one man verry Sick, Struck with the sun, Capt. Lewis bled him & gave Niter which has revived him much.” Bleeding was a standard remedy of the time, and potassium nitrate (saltpeter) was used to increase the flow of urine and perspiration.

The back of this U.S. Nickel created in 2004 features the design

Mosquitoes and gnats continued to be a major problem. Some mosquitoes probably carried malaria. Clark made numerous entries in his journal about the pesky insects. In fact, he spelled

Americans with whom the U.S. wished to forge good relations.

from the Peace Medal Lewis and Clark gave to Indians they met on their journey. The design shows two hands clasped in friendship: the military uniform cuff symbolized the United States, and the eagle-engraved wristband represents Native Above the hands, a crossed peace pipe and tomahawk symbolize peace. Three additional nickels were introduced showing Lewis and Clark’s keelboat, the American bison, and a scene depicting ‘Ocian in View! O! the Joy,’ with

… unknown territory ...

“

There’s a good reason we don’t hear much of significance, really, about the entire first year of the Expedition. When they were going up the Missouri from St. Louis to Fort Mandan, they’re doing virtually nothing but working their butts off every day going against the current, and moving their keelboat off sand bars and through logs and brush. The territory was already explored and known.”

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

O. P E R R Y

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Discovery Trail with

HAL CALBOM DEBBY NEELY

by woodcut art

A LAYMAN’S

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LEWIS & CLAR

Thomas Jefferson’s likeness on the other side.

the word mosquito 26 different ways (musqutors, musquetors, musquitors, mosquitors, misqutors, misquitors, etc.) and never once got it right!

The Lewis and Clark Expedition officially started on May 14, 1804, but the men would not begin exploring unknown territory until 1805. Fur trappers and Indian traders had previously explored and mapped the Missouri River from St. Louis up to present-day Bismark, North Dakota.

But there was still a great sense of discovery as the Corps members documented new species of animals and plant varieties in the journals.

On July 29, a French fur trapper was sent to invite Oto and Missouri Indian chiefs to come to a council (near present-day Council Bluffs, Iowa). When he hadn’t returned after four days, it became obvious he had either run into trouble or deserted.

A day later, a regular member of the expedition disappeared. Detachments went out to look for both men.

Pink slip They did not locate the elusive Frenchman, but after two weeks of searching, they found the Corps member and brought him back to face charges of desertion, a crime serious enough to warrant hanging or a firing squad. Instead, he was courtmartialed and received a flogging and dishonorable discharge. He ran the gauntlet four times, with each member of the Corps striking him with nine switches as he went by. Indians present were dismayed by the harsh punishment and asked for mercy.

While the deserter was expelled from the Corps, he stayed with the party until the spring of 1805 when the keelboat was sent back to St. Louis.

Why can’t we be friends?

Six Oto and Missouri Indian chiefs and some warriors arrived at camp on August 2. Clark “Sent them Som rosted meat Pork flour & meal, in return they Sent us Water millions.” At a council held the next day, the captains put on their full dress uniforms, raised the cont. page 9

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Dispatches

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American flag, and paraded the men to create a ceremonial atmosphere.

They delivered a long speech telling the Indians they had a new “great

“

father” (Thomas Jefferson), that Americans wanted the Indians to trade exclusively with them and to stop warring with other Indian tribes.

… light my fire ...

We hear so much about food eaten and cooked, and I always wondered something more basic — how did they light all these fires when half the time, especially on the Pacific Coast, they are drenched by rain all day and firewood was scarce? I attended a re-enactment at Fort Clatsop while researching the series and found out about “char cloth,” and a guy there, a reenactor, showed me how they did it. He gets some moss and if you let the wind blow through it, it dries quickly. Then he takes a chunk of cedar and a knife and starts whittling off little shavings — and the wind keeps drying stuff out.

And then they take out their little magic silver pill bottle, like a little round thing you keep your pills in, and there is this piece of char cloth. I said, ‘Char cloth, what is char cloth?’ He says it’s a piece of cotton that they fold up, put in the little tin and stick it in the fire. It’s got a hole in it, one little hole on top for air to get in. It gets hot and there’s enough oxygen in there that it starts to burn but then it can’t burn anymore and that cotton turns to charcoal, basically.

So, when they need to light a fire they take the char cloth out and put it down there in their little bird’s nest and they take a couple pieces of flint — chip, chip, chip, make sparks and pretty quickly that char cloth catches fire.”

The Indians wanted guns to wage war with the Teton Sioux, who were fast becoming the dominant power in the area. While neither side got what they wanted, a calumet (a ceremonial native pipe) was smoked and presents exchanged. The chiefs received peace medals with Jefferson’s profile on the front and two clasped hands on the back.

Dinner on the hoof The Great Plains was a Garden of Eden that no American had ever seen. Herds of elk numbered in the thousands, buffalo herds stretched as far as the eye could see, and deer appeared as plentiful as chickens on a farm. Clark turned 34 on August 1 and his dinner menu demonstrates the diversity of food available from the land now known as our nation’s breadbasket: “This being my birth day I order’d a Saddle of fat Vennison, an Elk fleece & a Bevertail to be cooked and a Desert of Cherries, Plumbs, Raspberries, Currents and grapes of a Supr. Quality.” Besides those fruits and berries, Clark noted “the Praries Contain (crab) Apple, Gooseberris and Hastlenuts and a great Variety of Plants & flours not Common to the U S. What a field for a Betents [botanist] and a natirless” [naturalist].

When Captain Lewis celebrated his 30th birthday on August 18th “the evening was Closed with an extra Gill of Whiskey & a Dance until 11 oClock.”

One of the men who had brought along his fiddle played it that night when the men gathered around the campfire.

Only one man died Disaster struck less than 100 days into the journey. Sgt. Charles Floyd became very sick on August 19 with “Beliose Chorlick,” and was nursed through the night by Captain Clark. The next morning, while Clark was preparing a warm bath “hopeing it would brace him a little” Floyd died, most likely from appendicitis. Even if he had been in Philadelphia, likely nothing could have helped him — not even Dr. Rush’s Thunderclappers. Floyd was buried on the top of a bluff in Iowa.

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THE TIDEWATER REACH

A Different Way of Seeing Poem by Robert Michael Pyle • Photograph by Judy VanderMaten • Field Notes by Hal Calbom

‘Oneness with water mediated by thin skins...’

River Cutters Hollowed cottonwoods, burnt, scraped, adzed, maybe the first craft to ply the river’s face.

Canoes, by the time of the beaver hunters, voyageurs with bottomless skill, paddled all across the continent, headwater to headwater and down again, all the way to Vancouver.

Long time later, it’s all kayaks, cottonwood and birch gone to plastic and fiberglass.

They look like so many gummi worms lined up along the dock, belly down. Then put in, and turn into fish, slicing the whitecaps of the main stem, cutting whitewater in the steep rocky tribs.

Hunting thrills instead of pelts, oneness with water mediated by thin skins of red, yellow, blue, watching wildlife instead of trapping. Oh, it is a different world out there on the river, this latter-day cutting, these Road Scholar voyageurs, when nobody’s life is on the line and only the cormorants take a second look.

KAYAKS: SKAMOKAWA DOCK Sea kayakers flourish on the Columbia. At Skamokowa the interplay of tides and river flow creates exhilarating — and potentially hazardous — shifts in current.

Inshore sloughs and inlets offer calmer water, bird watching and pristine vistas.

Last issue we began excerpting 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 The Tidewater Reach in 2020, presenting “a different way of seeing” our beloved Columbia River.

For information on ordering specific editions, as well as our partner bookshops and galleries, see pages 2 and 35.

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ummer is here! Dust off the water toys and make your way to one of my newest finds, the east fork of the Lewis River. Plan an adventure on this three-mile section of the Lewis River-Vancouver Lake Water Trail. The trail in its entirety includes 32 miles beginning at Vancouver Lake, then connecting with Lake River, a tributary of the Columbia River, the Bachelor Island Slough and the confluences of both the Lewis and Lake Rivers. The last section heads up the east fork of the Lewis River to La Center, and that is where our adventure begins.

The tide seemed to be cooperating and heading downriver, and the wind was light. We got on the river around 11am. The first two hours were fabulous. It was a leisurely float trip requiring little more than gentle kicking and light paddling. Only a few other water lovers were out that day, all of them kayakers. Brittney and I tied our tubes close together and attached our floating cooler to both tubes, so we floated as one unit.

Kayaks, paddleboards or inner tubes all make excellent modes of transport on a river. Be sure to bring a buddy, two cars and some paddles. Unless you plan to make an up-and-back trip, park one car in La Center near the bridge and leave the other at the day park at Paradise Point State Park. You will need a Discovery Pass for the car at Paradise. It is a good idea to check the tide tables and the wind forecast before heading out.

Strong winds and changing tides can determine whether you will enjoy a lazy float down the river or a full-body workout.

I have ventured out twice to check out this river scene. The first time was on the Saturday of Father’s Day weekend. We arrived at 11am to park the cars at the two sites, dropped one car off at Paradise and drove to John Pollock Water Trail Park to begin our adventure. The lots were already getting full.

It was a hot day, and everyone was out enjoying the water. My husband, Steve, Vancouver, Wash. resident Tracy Beard writes about luxury and adventure travel, traditional and trendy fine dining and libations for regional, national and international magazines. She is CRR’s “Out & About” columnist, now in her sixth year.

The river is flanked by the Lewis River Greenway on one side and spacious private properties on the other. We saw several lovely homes with decks sporting spectacular views of the river, and the only real obstacles were a few old wooden pilings and some fallen tree branches that stuck out above the waterline. and I enjoyed a picnic lunch at one of the tables and debated whether we wanted to borrow one or two of the lifejackets at the free lifejacket station. A portable toilet sits at the far side of the parking lot for public use.

At about 1pm, we entered the river amongst numerous kayakers and paddleboarders. Our gear included two inner tubes, a floating cooler and a couple of paddles.

After an hour of paddling we had not gone very far.

Unfortunately, the wind and tide were against us, so we “threw in the towel” and headed back to our starting point, a bit discouraged.

One week later, my daughter Brittney and I gave it another go.

After we’d been on the water two hours, the wind picked up, and things changed; moving now required a more concerted effort. We paddled harder, kicked more vigorously and still found ourselves unable to progress. Finally, it was time to abandon ship. We plunged into the water, firmly gripped the ropes on our “raft” and started swimming.

Success, we were moving downriver again. The east fork of the Lewis River is relatively shallow in many places, so we were often able to walk along the river’s center on the soft squishy sand, pulling our “vessel” behind us. It was fun wading through the river, enjoying cont page14

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the quiet outdoor space, chatting with one another and savoring the peace and tranquility of the moment.

juts out into the river. This beach is part of Paradise Point State Park, and the rope swing on the bluff is a favorite spot for people to fly out and into the river.

Brittney and I exited the water and trekked up a narrow stairway into the woods. We hiked approximately a

Our new level of exertion worked until the last half mile before our exit at Paradise Point. The wind picked up, and the tide changed. Now we were fighting double the battle, and the river got deeper. We headed toward shore the best we could and pulled ourselves downstream by grabbing tree limbs and reeds along the bank.

quarter mile, following the well-marked trail through the forest until we saw our car in the parking lot. After four and a half hours on the water, we were tired. Our relaxing float turned into quite a workout. Although the end of this day required a few Ibuprofen, it was a great adventure and a fun way to explore this section of the Lewis River.

I’ve heard that it takes less than an hour to do this route in a kayak, which seems much more efficient than a couple of inner tubes, and I would recommend heading out earlier to avoid the tide change and afternoon headwinds.

Paradise Point State Park has overnight camping for those who would like to enjoy the water for more than an afternoon, and the day parking area offers a lifejacket station and pit toilets.

We could see a place to get out not far up ahead, so we gave it everything we had and eventually reached the small beach right before a towering bluff that

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Journey to Johnston Ridge Cowlitz County Historical Museum launches new Mount St. Helens audio tour he Cowlitz County Historical Museum recently released an audio tour guiding visitors up SR-504 to the Johnston Ridge Observatory.

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available in both CD and downloadable format. To download the tour to your mobile device, please scan the QR code(see next page) which takes you to the Museum’s website homepage. Scroll down and click the “download” icon when you see the tour.

The free audio tour, known as “Journey to Johnston Ridge,” is

For those using the CD option, the disks are available at several locations, including the Cowlitz County Historical Museum, Kelso-Longview Chamber of Commerce Visitor Center, and at the Mount St. Helens Visitor Center at Seaquest State Park.

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At the end of the hour-long tour, you may recycle your disk at the Johnston Ridge

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Observatory gift shop. This audio tour takes visitors on a journey through SR-504 and focuses on the landscape- altering 1980 blast and its effects cont page 16

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on the area and its people. Information about sights seen a l o n g t h e w a y, reforestation and recovery efforts, and reminders of vistas and interpretive centers along the way are included.

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I come to my solitary woodland walk as the homesick go home...It is as if I always met in those places some grand, serene, immortal, infinitely encouraging, though invisible, companion, and walked with him. ~ Henry David Thoreau, American naturalist and writer, 1817-1862

Putting things off is the biggest waste of life; it snatches away each day as it comes, and denies us the present by promising the future. The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow and loses today...The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately. ~ Seneca, Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist, 4 BC-AD 65 Do the best you can until you know better.

Then, when you know better, do better. ~ Maya Angelou, American poet, writer, and activist, 1928-2014

Like almost all my peers, I want to die young as late as possible. ~ Mary Pipher, American psychologist and writer, 1947--

One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude. ~ Carl Sandburg, American poet, 18781967

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Books and stories are medicine, plaster casts for broken lives and hearts, slings for weakened spirits. ~ Anne Lamott, American writer, 1954-

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us. ~ Albert Schweitzer, Alsatian polymath (theologian, humanitarian, writer, philosopher, physician), 1875-1965

It’s true that I’ve driven through a number of red lights on occasion, but on the other hand, I’ve stopped at a lot of green ones but never gotten credit for it. ~Glenn Gould, Canadian classical pianist, 1932-1982

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In the time of paper maps — wrinkled, shredded, never folded the same way twice — blue highways marked historical routes, secondary roads, old small towns, winding stream courses, rural main drags and scenic byways.

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Excursion: The Gorge-ous Gorge W hen I was growing up one of our favorite family car trips began in Longview and ended up at a picnic table overlooking Bonneville Dam. When visitors came, new to the Northwest, the great dam and the road getting to it were essential destinations.

Usually in a station wagon, with our grandparents in tow, we packed a picnic feast in big old cookers and pots in back: baked beans, potato salad, deviled eggs, fried chicken which seemed even better cold than hot, soft drinks in a huge silver ice chest, and striped table cloths and blankets to turn the drab picnic table cheerful and hospitable.

All this thanks to our automobiles, our great American obsession. Beautiful and sleek, yes. Powerful and useful, yes.

But I think their greatest benefit to us — beginning in their heyday when Henry Ford made cars both affordable and necessary — was to quite literally transport us. To get us out of town, hit the road, see the sights. To tour.

Ken Burns’s documentary series on the National Parks spends a lot of time talking about cars — how critical roadbuilding and car-making were to the establishing and promoting our system of parks and monuments. The parks might facilitate camping, hiking and fishing, but their initial attraction was touring by automobile. We would see the sights out the windows of our cars, or launched from our parking lots and viewpoints. Our “roadside attractions” would flourish and proliferate.

Hard-working Americans were actually getting occasional days off, beginning even to conceive of “weekends” and planning something special for them.

In our newfound leisure we relished and dreamed of “excursions.” Journeys for pleasure, recreation, exploration, education.

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It’s our most unlikely spectacular place.

The Columbia Gorge contradicts textbook geology. It’s the product of catastrophic events — erupting and congealing lava, shattered ice dams, obliterating floods, collapsing mountains.

The gorge offers cultural contradictions, too. It links the dry sides and rainy sides of two neighboring states. It preserves echoes of both the historic native populations and the trailblazing voyageurs and explorers. It pits dams versus fish, upstream versus downstream, commercialism versus conservation.

Even the prevailing wind blows one way while the current flows the other.

At Cascade Locks stands the statue of the graceful Sacajawea, a young child bundled on her back and a Newfoundland dog at her feet. She points the way west, pausing on this evolving, fearsomely contradictory river, anticipating what might come next.

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oad trippers believe in omens. The vibes matter.

Especially starting out. All the espresso baristas, short order cooks and waitpersons, convenience store clerks out there may not realize it, but they often carry the weight of setting the tone for our entire day.

Where to stop for that crucial first coffee?

From Vancouver we’re headed upriver to Bonneville Dam, exploring the Gorge highway, crossing to Cascade Locks at the Bridge of the Gods, then cruising back via Stevenson, Skamania and Beacon Rock.

Fifteen miles upriver, Camas seems an unlikely great coffee candidate. It sits literally atop a huge, sprawling paper mill, or what’s left of it. For decades the mill dominated the

place. Resilient citizens saw various changes in ownership — Crown Zellerbach, Georgia-Pacific — and put up with its aroma, meanwhile spending good money generated by its thousands of jobs.

Mill Town Today’s mill makes paper towels, and employs around 150.

Downtown Camas, however, turns out to be a good omen in its own right. It’s a tree-shaded village of 20 square blocks or so and downright charming. Street art, quaint shops, and the dappled light through the trees create a little patch of Paris, seemingly continents away from the old mill. At Caffe Piccolo Paradiso the barista is as sunny and bright as the weather outside.

We’ve gotten lucky on the day, perfect early summer, the cafe latte perfectly made, the scones fresh and luscious.

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famous LIFE magazine covers documenting the huge dams and public works projects symbolizing our rise to industrial power. I say goodbye to Camas somewhat surprised, well satisfied and well-omened.

Dam Sight Is it possible to feel sorry for a dam? I approach Bonneville less as a sightseeing destination than as a symbol and historical artifact. The great dam still serves us faithfully but we seem to feel it’s past its prime.

The road getting there is now the destination: towering basalt cliff walls, serpentine curves, a hundred-mile stretch of State Route 14 now designated a National Scenic Byway that winds all the way to Maryhill upriver. The official “Scenic Washington Road Trips” booklet calls out nine notable sites en route, including Fort Vancouver, Maryhill Museum, two obscure state parks, and various Bigfoot sniffing spots, but entirely omits Bonneville Dam, once considered an eighth wonder of the world.

Above and beyond the dam the hills are still grey and ashen, legacy of the Eagle Creek wildfire that raged through the gorge three years ago.

COVID protections still linger, of course, but the armed camp feel about the place — with barriers, checkpoints and barbed wire — stems from our fear of terrorists attacking critical infrastructure.

And infrastructure this is: Self-guided walking tours reveal huge galleries and vistas, turbines and interpretive displays, even fish muddling their way upstream in conspicuous greenlighted viewing windows.

And barely a soul here. This wonder of the world, which has powered our cities for more than 80 years (and helped us win World War II, by the way) now feels friendless and forlorn. Worse, many now routinely condemn the Columbia and Snake River dams as blasphemous violators of the natural order.

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Yakima Tribal member Tierra Bass, sells nativecaught fish at Cascade Locks. Other vendors sell local seasonal produce, including cherries.

The cut through the Cascades is spectacular as you twist, climb and descend the Gorge, among the most dramatic results of the relatively recent Missoula Floods (or Bretz’s Floods, as they’re known to those of us who lionize the stubborn geologist Harlan Bretz, the man who proved this improbable deluge not only occurred but also dramatically reshaped the Northwest).

Cascade Locks, three miles upstream from Bonneville Dam, is home port for the triple decker sternwheeler Columbia Gorge. Ticket information: 1-800 2243901. Bridge of the Gods at Cascade Locks connects Washington State Route 14 with O r e g o n ’s I n t e r s t a t e I-84. Tolls for passenger vehicles are $2.

The Gorge itself still feels other-worldly. In geological time, it’s so recent as to be almost contemporaneous.

Its power is still formidable and raw.

Under the Bridge Tierra Bass, a Yakima Indian Tribal member, sells me salmon jerky, or “salmon candy” as it’s called. Regrettabley, I have no room for the 20-pound salmon under ice in the cooler at her feet. The stand next door offers mouth-watering Rainier cherries for sale, and on the other side, a taco truck does a brisk business, all in the shadow of Bridge of the Gods, connecting the Oregon town of Cascade Locks to the Washington side.

These little river towns are prosperous and picturesque. There are breweries galore, historical sites, old fashioned ice cream cones, and regular trips up and down the river by tour boats, a sternwheeler among them. Still a trade way and a source of natural resources, the river is more and more a people place. Retirees are attracted to these

terraced villages. Tourists come for beer and fresh fruit. Amateur naturalists and historians simply soak the place up.

The dozens of bridges across the big river are endlessly fascinating. Like the great dams, they’re products of their own times and state-of-the art engineering. Most are in various stages of decrepitude — you crawl across the narrow twolaner at Hood River at 25 miles per hour, feeling every bump and hoping no obese RV is headed your direction.

Bridge of the Gods actually lives up to its grand name. Built in 1926, it’s a steel cantilever truss construction, raised a additional 44 feet and extended in 1938 to accommodate the higher water behind the new Bonneville Dam. cont page 20

People+ Place explores the ‘Gateway to the Gorge.’

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Native oral tradition says its name derives from a natural Bridge of the Gods, created by the Bonneville Landslide which filled the river valley with five square miles of debris more than 400 feet thick.

The damming of the river formed a huge lake stretching as far back as Walula Gap, and allowed Klickitats and other native peoples to “cross the river without getting our feet wet.”

The river triumphed — it always does — cutting a new passage creating the fearsome Cascade Rapids, or Cascades of the Columbia, noted

by Lewis and Clark as “The Great Shoot” and later submerged by the Bonneville Dam.

on the Oregon side, the Columbia Gorge Discovery Center and Museum is an evocative and informative eastern portal for the Gorge. Its western counterpart is the Columbia Gorge Interpretive Center Museum in Stevenson.

The lofty, glassed-in interior supports a lofty ambition: to reconcile all these contradictory narratives that have created and sustained the Gorge — native habitation, early exploration, industrialization and, of course, the damming and taming of the river for flood control, irrigation, and electric power.

It’s a relatively recent history — at least that of the dominant white culture — and acres of old and rusty equipment out back attest to the backbreaking labor of “settlement” and commercialization on the river. Rail buffs will appreciate beautifully-maintained iron horses and cabooses. Rails remain essential to life and transportation through the Gorge. Their routes, and the machinations of barons like Sam Hill (he who built Maryhill upriver, and highways throughout the Gorge) are an integral part of the great Gorge narrative.

We’re fortunate to have substantial records and artifacts of native peoples, who to this day work to maintain and re-establish their history and sovereignty (as is the case of the Chinook people — see last month’s CRR).

Museums up and down the river are supplementing the old white conquest tales with stories of the conquered ones, too.

The Rock Beacon Rock remains a favorite Gorge destination. Its native name is “Che-Che-op-tin” which translates to “navel of the world.”

Funny name for an outcropping, yet again the contradictory Gorge geology explains. The 848-foot tall column of basalt was once the core of a volcano. Its belly, if you will.

Icebergs and flowing water wore down the softer exterior rock, and the basalt belly became the huge monolith Lewis and Clark camped under and we enjoy today.

The Rock rewards a 45-five minute climb to the top, but on this lazy day I choose an alternative look from nearby Beacon Rock State Park. The best views and pictures are from here, with camping, picnicking and boating facilities popular and scenic. Two couples are grilling steaks on the dock, up by boat from Portland (“this place has been crazy during the pandemic…”) and fishermen are ensconced on the dock. Mostly shad, they say, a species I didn’t even know inhabited the Columbia. “Fun to fish for and not worth anything but bait,” is the angler’s jaundiced eye view.

Open for Interpretation Few trips so well illustrate the value of a great museum. Or interpretive center, as they are now called. At the far end of the Scenic Byway, in The Dalles

A final stop as the day grows late is Skamania Lodge, just adjacent to the Interpretive Center.

It’s a popular golfing and recreational destination, with fine food and drink. Pendleton blankets and other woolens are everywhere, the factory being just downstream in Washougal. And it’s a sobering reminder of what we’ve been through that the electronic reader board inside, usually featuring conferences, weddings and family reunions, has two scheduled “Celebrations of Life” on its agenda, clearly delayed by the pandemic and now bringing together relatives and friends.

The Gorge is infinitely varied in its offerings of history, recreation, and geological wonder. Heading home I seem to keep pace with a kite surfer ripping through the water at an astonishing clip, and marvel at the differences in the light at beginning and end of day.

There remains an elusiveness to this place. You feel its changeable, contrarian nature, its contentious heritage, its dramatic origins, virtually every mile.

Hal Calbom is editor of The Tidewater Reach, and Dispatches from the Discovery Trail published by CRRPress. Now in his fourth year

producing CRR’s People+Place feature series, he has also written Resourceful: Leadership and Communication in a Relationship Age. Hal grew up in Longview, now lives in Seattle, and may be reached at hal@halcalbom.com.

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It’s our most unlikely spectacular place.

••• Photos, clockwise from top: Carved art at the Columbia Gorge Interpretive Center Museum overlooks acres of agriculture and railroad artifacts. The museum is in Stevenson, just upstream from Bonneville Dam. Admission is $10 for adults, $6 for children 6-12 and $8 for seniors.

Climb nearby Beacon Rock (850 feet, about 40 minutes each way); parking requires a Discover Pass, $10 for a day pass, $30 for annual pass, available on site; or at local license vendors or online, store.discoverpass.wa.gov (transaction fee may apply).

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Blue Highways Highways the roads less taken

Recommended Reading Blue Highways

by William Least HeatMoon. He named the phenomenon and immortalized it in this gentle epic.

Northwest Passage: The Great Columbia River

by William Dietrich.

Still the best topographic, geologic, and historical survey.

Voyage of a Summer Sun

by Robin Cody. This Northwest author’s 82day canoe trip from stem to mouth remains a classic.

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he City of Scappoose Centennial Committee invites everyone to our 100-year birthday celebration on August 13th and 14th. This event will encompass all of Veterans and Heritage Parks and may be the largest-ever Scappoose community celebration. After 18 months of being confined by COVID-19, it’s high time for all of us to celebrate our community’s birthday with our friends, neighbors, and acquaintances from years past. Scappoose 100 will be a great opportunity to reflect on our past and embrace our future.

The event will feature several bands, a parade, numerous booths in both parks, kids’ games and events, a cornhole tournament, a 6K and 10K run, a car show and several other activities you don’t want to miss.

Music in the park in Scappoose.

The Weiner’s, Hit Machine, the Hell Cats, Silverhill, and the Rae Gordon Band will be some of the featured bands playing at Veterans Park. The Elks will be operating a beer garden there, as well.

Music is scheduled for Heritage Park, along with “Movies in the Park” both nights and family games in the afternoon. There will also be a history tent displaying historical treasures from Scappoose’s past.

Anyone with old photos to share or display, please don’t hesitate to

Photo courtesy of Scsppoose Celebration Committee

reach out to the committee for more information by contacting Isaac at ibutman@cityofscappoose.org.

If you would like more information on the Scappoose 100-Year Celebration, including a schedule of events, to sign up as a vendor or volunteer, or to get connected to our events such as the 6K/10K event, pre-order event T-Shirts or to sign up for the parade, please follow the link here: scappoose100.com/ Mark your calendar and come join in celebrating this once-in-a-lifetime event.

The Pacific Northwest

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Bretz’s Flood

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Help for frustration with pushy people

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was lamenting my frustration with pushy people when a friend suggested Boundaries: When to Say Yes, How to Say No To Take Control Of Your Life.

by Henry Cloud and John Townsend. This is a self-help book developed by two clinical psychologists.

It’s written from a Christian perspective, using Biblical scripture along with case studies from both authors’ practices. Names and circumstances were fictionalized to protect patient privacy.

They include examples of relationships with spouses and partners, children, friends, bosses and coworkers, people from church, and others. My inner conflicts have often been about being compliant to controllers (“control freaks”) around me. The authors remind us to love ourselves in order that we can love others and accept them as they are.

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The doctor suggested the parent was the one with the problem. The child wouldn’t try to improve their life as long as they knew their parent would continue to fix the problems.

After reading this book, I’m working on establishing and maintaining healthy boundaries with those around me. Like most things in life, it takes work, discipline, and desire.

••• Longview resident Philip Portwood worked for Weyerhaeuser for 30 years and then with Goodwill as a job coach for people with disabilities.

An organist and pianist at several local churches, he also tutored for Project Read 15 years prior to the Covid pandemic.

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By Alan Rose JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century Fredrik Logevall Random House

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One who reached beyond his flaws accounts of extramarital affairs, to see the man in a more balanced and complete light.

Logevall also puts Kennedy’s short life (1917-1963) in the context of America’s ascendancy as an industrial, economic and military powerhouse such as the world had never seen before.

He corrects a number of Kennedy myths: That Jack went into politics only because Joe Jr. was killed in World War II (he had developed his own keen interest in politics and international affairs in college;) that he dated a German spy (the FBI determined, even while they were dating, that Inga Arvad was not a spy;) that he never wrote Why England Slept, his Harvard thesis that became a bestseller (Logevall shows that it was Kennedy’s work, “right down to the poor spelling and errors of syntax.”) Rather than mirroring Joseph Sr.’s isolationist and pessimistic views, Jack was a student of history and government and trusted his own political judgment over that of his father’s, “who was a whiz at making money but lacked a feel for what made people tick.”

Here, too, are the familiar stories of his poor health from the time he was

The survival of democracy depended on having an informed and active citizenry, committed to reasoned discourse and accepting of good-faith bargaining between the parties…

Neither then nor later was Kennedy above bare-knuckle politics or partisan sparring, but he grasped already in this first race that compromise is necessary to a well-functioning democracy, and that civility in the public realm prevents dehumanization and helps us see political opponents as adversaries, not enemies.

influence to stay out of World War II, Kennedy used them to get into the fight.

Certainly, JFK was human with human flaws, and Logevall examines these as well — but, seriously, who among us doesn’t have flaws? (Feel free to cast the first stone.) In the end, we can only hope that our virtues, the good we’ve done, and the better angels of our nature, outweigh the flaws in our character as much as they did Jack Kennedy’s.

•••

~ From JFK

a child and receiving last rites on several occasions before Dallas; of his humor, good looks, charm and charisma that made every woman want “either to mother or marry him.”; of his thoughtful intelligence in a family that prized constant activity and action over reflection.

Particularly interesting is Logevall’s account of how Kennedy, a lackluster student, came to develop a passion for history and politics. Even his critics could not doubt his courage: while many people used family money and

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Clatskanie, Ore. Fultano’s Pizza 770 E. Columbia River Hwy Family style with unique pizza offerings, hot grill items & more!

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Conestoga Pub Cornerstone Café 102 East “A” Street Microbrews, wines & spirits 7am–8pm Daily. Inside dining.

COLUMBIA RIVER

dining guide

Longview, Wash.

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

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

360-232-8283. Inside dining See ad, page 27. Follow us on Untappd.

The Carriage Restaurant & Lounge

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

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

360-425-8545.

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Creekside Café 1323 Commerce Ave. Soups, Salads, Burgers, Wraps.

Closedtemporarily for renovations 360-425-7296. www.creeksidecafe.restaurant

Sunshine Pizza & Catering 2124 Columbia Blvd. Hot pizza, cool salad bar. Beer & wine. Limited inside seating, curbside pickup and delivery.

503-397-3211 See ad, page 5.

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

Open Tues–Sat, 11–7.

Phone 360-261-7879

The Original Pietrio’s Pizzeria

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

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

Eclipse Café

Evergreen Pub & Café

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

11–11 Daily. Inside dining.

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

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

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

Roland Wines

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

St. Helens, Ore.

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

Casual ambience. 5–9pm Wed-Fri, Sat. 11–3. See ad, page 32. Call for status.

Castle Rock, Wash.

33452 Havlik Rd. Fine Mexican cuisine.

Daily specials. The best margarita in town.

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

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

Check Facebook for updates. Dine-in.

Toutle, Wash.

DREW’S GROCERY & SERVICE

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

See ad, page 14.

Goble Tavern

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

503-556-4090

Luigi’s Pizza

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

Pizza, spaghetti, burgers, beer & wine.

11–9, Mon-Thurs, Sun; 11–10 Fri-Sat

Restaurant operators: To advertise in Columbia River Dining Guide, call 360-749-2632

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Freddy’s Just for the Halibut.

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.

1110 Commerce 360-414-3288. See ad, page 8.

Hop N Grape

924 15th Ave., Longview Tues–Thurs 11am–7pm; Fri & Sat 11am– 8pm. BBQ meat slow-cooked on site. Pulled pork, chicken, brisket, ribs, turkey, salmon.

World-famous mac & cheese. 360-577-1541.

Grant’s at the Monticello Hotel on Longview’s

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

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

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

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

Vault Books & Brew 20 Cowlitz Street West, Castle Rock Coffee and specialty drinks, quick eats & sweet treats. See ad, page 25.

Kalama, Wash.

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.

Fire Mountain Grill

Mile 19, 9440 Spirit Lake Highway. Newly remodeled. Burgers, steaks, seafood, homemade cobblers. Riverside dining. 360-2745217. Open Mon-Thurs 11:30–5; Fri-Sat 11:30–7; Sun 11`:30–5.

Woodland, Wash.

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Roland on Wine

Moderately-priced, mass market wines frequent prey of connglomeration

COLUMBIA RIVER DINING GUIDE

The way it is in corporate America

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know I sound like a broken record, but something just isn’t right in the wine industry. Way too much effort is being put into marketing and promotion of brands on an international scale.

Corporate takeovers of your favorite brands, even in Washington State, are on the rise. Think House Wine by Charles Smith, Gallo’s purchase of the iconic Columbia Winery, and just this month, the sale of Woodinville-based Ste. Michelle Wine Estates to a private equity firm. And this is not limited to the wine industry, it is just the way it is in corporate America.

Bigger is deemed “better” and more profitable than smaller and local. It mostly happens in the mass market of wines in the range of $12-$15, what I call commodity wine. These are the wines we drink everyday. They’re inexpensive, good, and predictable. In my world, I’m looking for more because I believe wine

should be a part of a lifestyle that values local economies, quality, discovery, and thought.

Let’s focus on the small producers who do care about wine as an experience —who can’t really compete with the big boys. I have a beef with them, including my own winery. We are influenced and impressed by corporate marketing efforts and secretly want to be like them. We want customers to think we are as good as them; we want to make as much money as them, and be recognized like them. In short, we want to be the best or be perceived as the best. That’s why we see on brand labels, terms like”award-winning, world-class, highly-rated.” It goes on and on. But this is not limited to just the big guys.

We all do it.

So why do we do it?

We think it will lead to more wine sales.

But does it? I don’t think so because wine consumers are smart. They know what they like. Just because a wine costs a lot of money, or they tell you it’s good, doesn’t mean it’s good. The fact is that price and taste drive wine sales. People buy wine and buy it again when they like it. They also buy it from people they like, who they have a relationship with. So why do wine producers keep using scores, awards, and hyperbole to advertise their wine? Because they think it works with the consumer. I will argue it only works for awhile.

Not the best, but good for most people The hard work of selling wine requires consistency, building brand loyalty, gaining a reputation, and taking the wine to the people. Barefoot wine was

Longview resident and former Kelso teacher Marc Roland started making wine in 2008 in his garage. He and his wife, Nancy, now operate Roland Wines at 1106 Florida Street in Longview’s new “barrel district.”

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the top-selling table wine brand in the United States in 2020, by far.

The brand, owned by E&J Gallo Winery, had sales over $673 million.

The next best-selling brand was Sutter Home. Neither think they are the best. Barefoot’s motto is “we believe that life’s more fun when we’re together. That’s why our mission is to introduce new friends to wines that are fun, flavorful, and approachable.”

I think this is an authentic approach to selling wine: not the best but good for most people.

Let me tell you about a recent email conversation I had with a grape grower. I was inquiring about their cabernet sauvignon. They were advertising their grapes for sale, but didn’t put the price in the ad. I asked for more information. I got a long response about how acclaimed the vineyard was and that their wines were reviewed in the Robb Report, a jet-setting magazine for rich people.

He also told me that Columbia Crest Winery won wine of the year by Wine Spectator using their grapes.

He wanted me to know that if I bought his grapes, I could make worldclass wine. What he didn’t tell me was that the Columbia Crest wine at the time was a $25 bottle. Those of us in the wine business know that in order to sell wine at that price, we can only pay a certain price for the grapes to make it work. So when I found out that the asking price for these grapes was double what it would take to make a $25 wine, I learned a lesson.

In the wine business, price is based on perceived value, or what someone is willing to pay. Win an award; get more money. And this, dear reader, is why producers want to be the best.

However, you are only as good as your last great wine. This nonsense is not sustainable. Don’t let the claims of greatness keep you from drinking good, affordable, and non-rated wine.

PS: I didn’t buy the grapes.

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MEDICAL MATTERS

By Jim LeMonds

Kowalski attends peer-to-peer physical therapist conference

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ohn Kowalski, co-owner of Longview Physical & Sports Therapy, attended a peerto-peer conference sponsored by the American Physical Therapy Association in June. The event was held in Alexandria, Virginia, and was focused on networking and training for owners of physical therapy practices.

“They grouped practice owners by size and made sure we were not in each other’s market areas,” Kowalski said. “We discussed why our practices were doing well or poorly in a variety of areas and then looked at ways we could improve our approach as owners and improve our practices.”

After talking with other owners, Kowalski came away convinced that LPST is ahead of the curve. “Our core values are one-on-one treatment, compassionate and evidencebased care, and community outreach. We also prioritize and encourage continuing education and growth for our providers.”

Kowalski completed both a bachelor of science degree in business administration and a doctorate in physical therapy at Marquette University. His clinical experience included working at the University of Chicago Medical Center.

He joined Longview Physical & Sports Therapy as a physical therapist in 2009 and became a co-owner with Bruce Peterson in 2013.

“I moved to Longview with the goal of starting my career as a PT and eventually putting my business education to use,” he said. “I am very grateful to be doing that in this community.”

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John Kowalski, of Longview Physical & Sports Therapy

The clinic’s treatment of athletes from local high schools, Lower Columbia College, and the Cowlitz Black Bears provides an important community connection.

He said that specialization is a growing trend in the field of physical therapy.

“This is one of our strengths. We have six therapists who are orthopediccertified specialists. We’re able to provide manual therapy, hand therapy,

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work conditioning, pelvic health, athletic training, vestibular therapy, return-to-sport therapy, and TMJ (temporomandibular joint dysfunction) therapy.”

Former R.A. Long High School English teacher Jim LeMonds is a writer, editor, and marketer who rides his mountain bike whenever he can.

He lives in Castle Rock, Wash. and has two published books: South of Seattle and Deadfall.

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Miss Manners

from page 5

DEAR MISS MANNERS: As my wife and I were having lunch with four friends at a restaurant, everyone but me started looking at their cellphones while we waited to be served. I don’t have a cellphone, so when I saw a magazine nearby, I picked it up and read it as we waited.

When we got home, I was surprised to hear my wife say that she had been embarrassed by my rudeness. Is it rude to read while everyone else is looking at their cellphones?

GENTLE READER: Not more rude, only more conspicuous.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I am a 68-year-old formerly childless aunt. My sister died two years ago after a very long illness, and I have “inherited” my adult nephew. I think of him more as a son at this point, and he thinks of me as his “aunt-mom.”

He is recently married, and he, his wife and her son are living with me. They plan to continue to do so — I am getting no younger, and they are happy to have extra support; it works well for all of us. Her son is a terrific 6-year-old who calls me “Aunt Bea,” as do many of my younger relatives.

I have sometimes referred to my nephew’s wife as my daughter-in-law, as I don’t wish to explain the whole thing to casual

Where to find the new Reader

It’s delivered all around the River by the 15th of each month. Here’s the list of handy, regularly-refilled sidewalk box and rack locations where you can pick up a copy any time of day and even in your bathrobe:

LONGVIEW U.S. Bank Post Office Bob’s (rack, main check-out) In front of 1232 Commerce Ave In front of 1323 Commerce Ave YMCA Fred Meyer (rack, by service desk) Teri’s Grocery Outlet Fibre Fed’l CU - Commerce Ave Monticello Hotel (front entrance) Kaiser Permanente St. John Medical Center (rack, Park Lake Café) LCC Student Center Indie Way Diner Columbia River Reader Office 1333 14th Ave. KELSO Heritage Bank Visitors’ Center / Kelso-Longview Chamber of Commerce KALAMA Fibre Fed’l CU Kalama Shopping Center

corner of First & Fir McMenamin’s Harbor Lodge WOODLAND Visitors’ Center Grocery Outlet Luckman Coffee Antidote (rack) CASTLE ROCK Lacie Rha’s Cafe (32 Cowlitz W.) Parker’s Restaurant (box, entry) Visitors’ Center 890 Huntington Ave. N., Exit 49, west side of I-5

RYDERWOOD Café porch TOUTLE Drew’s Grocery & Service

CLATSKANIE Post Office Chevron / MiniMart Fultano’s Pizza WESTPORT Berry Patch Wauna mill (parking lot) RAINIER Post Office Cornerstone Rainier Hardware (rack, entry) Earth ‘n’ Sun (on Hwy 30) El Tapatio (entry rack) Grocery Outlet DEER ISLAND Deer Island Store COLUMBIA CITY - Post Office WARREN Warren Country Inn ST HELENS Chamber of Commerce Sunshine Pizza St. Helens Market Fresh Olde Town: Wild Currant, Tap into Wine Safeway SCAPPOOSE To find the 24/7 Post Office pick-up point Road Runner nearest you, Fultano’s visit crreader.com and click “Find the Ace Hardware Magazine” tab.

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acquaintances. She is OK with that. Do you have suggestions as to how this might best be handled?

clearly only one person is enduring those conditions. How would Miss Manners approach this?

GENTLE READER: It is a false assumption that a social introduction must involve a family tree, complete with timelines, genetic identification and background checks for accuracy.

It is clear that the people who matter in your situation find it more than amenable — and that is what is important. Whatever shorthand versions of relationship titles you choose are fine — and if you are called upon to expand, Miss Manners suggests a simple, “We are family, and this works wonderfully for us.”

GENTLE READER: With tolerance and an effort to keep from having a patronizing tone.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I asked someone out to dinner and she responded, “I’m good, thank you.” Does that mean yes or no?

GENTLE READER: It means no.

It also means Not Good at Etiquette.

To Miss Manners, it would mean not repeating such an invitation to someone who is obviously not flattered enough by it to be civil.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: A couple I know is expecting their first child. Their announcement stated “We’re pregnant,” and was followed up with regular updates using collective phrasing, such as “We’ve felt the baby kick” and “We’re starting to show.”

It is, after all, a good thing that the partner identifies so strongly with what the prospective mother is going through. And for all you know, her morning sickness may ruin breakfast for them both.

Oh, dear. Miss Manners’ tone still needs work. But she does appreciate such sweetness in expectant couples.

As for inquiring about them, it is useful that in the English language, “you” is both singular and plural.

••• 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.

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I know that this sort of inclusive approach to pregnancy is now popular, but frankly, I don’t know how to phrase questions for the person who is actually carrying the child without slighting the co-parent.

Letters to the Editor (up to 200 words) relevant to the publication’s purpose — helping readers discover and enjoy the good life in the Columbia River region, at home and on the road — are welcome. Longer pieces, or excerpts thereof, in response to previously-published articles, may be printed at the discretion of the publisher and subject to editing and space limitations.

They’re both very excited and eliciting feedback and comments, but I feel a little silly commiserating with both of them on morning sickness and nausea, which I experienced when I was pregnant, when

Items sent to CRR will be considered for publication unless the writer specifies otherwise. Writer’s name and phone number must be included; anonymous submissions will not be considered.

Recycle IQ (from page 4) None of the items named are recyclable. Items which ARE recyclable include: • phone books • newspaper and inserts • paperboard egg cartons • household paperboard boxes • hardback and paperback books • paper towel and toilet tissue tubes • junk mail (even window envelopes) • mail order catalogs and magazines • greeting cards, gift wrap (no foil) • shredded paper (please place in a paper bag) • CLEAN and EMPTY food & snack boxes

Paper recyclables MUST BE CLEAN. Remove food, plastic liners or Styrofoam packaging from inside the boxes.

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Unsolicited submissions may be considered, provided they are consistent with the publication’s purpose. Advance contact with the editor is recommended.

Information of general interest submitted by readers may be used as background or incorporated in future articles.

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Fundraisers must be sanctioned/sponsored by the benefiting non-profit organization.

Businesses and organizations wishing to promote their particular products or services are invited to purchase advertising.

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We have beautiful artisan cards, masks, jewelry, books by local authors, pottery, sculpture, photographs and so much more at your local Co-operative Fine Arts & Crafts Gallery.

BROADWAY GALLERY 1418 Commerce Avenue , Longview, Wash • Tu-Sat 11–4

Visit the Gallery or see new work on our website: the-broadwaygallery.com, at Broadway Gallery on Facebook, and broadway gallery_longview on Instagram.

Featured artists: July: Guest artists Carla Estevane, painting; Richard Roth, pottery; and Susan Roth, pottery.

August: Community Art Show, theme “A Place for Hope”

First Thursdays and classes will return soon. Updates on our website: the-broadway-gallery.com

CALL TO ARTISTS! Theme: “A Place For Hope” 2D & 3D entries. Entry Deadline: July 28, 4pm.

Details in Gallery or the-broadway-gallery.com Shop Local Saturday (4th Saturday each month)

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Alan Rose novel wins Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award Bywater Books has announced that Alan E. Rose’s novel, As If Death Summoned, about the AIDS epidemic, won the gold award in the LGBT category in the 22nd Annual Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards.

The novel was released in December 2020 by Amble Press, an imprint of Bywater Books.

HOW TO PUBLICIZE YOUR NON-PROFIT EVENT IN CRR

Send your non-commercial community event basic info (name of event, beneficiary, sponsor, date & time, location, brief description and contact info) to publisher@crreader.com Or mail or hand-deliver (in person or via mail slot) to: Columbia River Reader 1333-14th Ave Longview, WA 98632

Submission Deadlines Events occurring: Aug 15 – Sept 20:

by July 25 for Aug 15 issue.

Sept 15 – Oct. 20:

by Aug 25 for Sept 15 issue Calendar submissions are considered for inclusion, subject to lead time, general relevance to readers, and space limitations. See Submission Guidelines, at left.

Since 1998, Foreword Reviews, a book review journal focusing on independently published books, recognizes the best books published the previous year by small, independent, and university presses.

Rose said he had wanted to write the book since the 1990s. “I promised myself that I would someday tell the stories of what happened here, what I witnessed in the midst of a modern plague. Not just the premature deaths and suffering, but also all the kindness and courage and compassion I witnessed. And the humor, incredible humor in the face of death.”

Unique among AIDS novels, As If Death Summoned is written from the viewpoint of staff at a community AIDS organization in the 1980s and ‘90s. Rose worked at Cascade AIDS Project in Portland, Oregon, from 1993 to 1999, when he came to Longview as the director of Community Services for the Lower Columbia Community

sQuatch Fest July 30, 4–9pm, July 31, 10am–8pm. Cowlitz County Convention Center, 1900 7th Ave., Longivew, Wash.

Speakers, vendors, brew mountain, games, etc. Kelso-Longview Chamber of Commerce. More details next issue.

Scappoose 100-Year Celebration FridaySat Aug 13-14, Heritage and Veteran’s Parks in Scappoose, Oregon. See ad, page 12, story, page 21.

SquirrelFest Aug. 21, RALong Park, Longview Civic Circle. Food, crafts, entertainers, kids’ activities. More details next issue.

CALL TO ARTISTS! Art in the Park welcomes artists and fine crafters in almost any media to this juried event.

Held on August 21 in conjunction with, but separate from, SquirrelFest in the Longview Civic Circle Park. Booth fee $50. Applications at Broadway Gallery,1418 Commerce, Longview or online at www.columbianartists.org.

Farm to Fiber Festival Sept. 9–12, Wahkiakum County Fairgrounds. Event to bring together fiber enthusiasts, kids, animal breeders for education, sales, competition. Info 360-703-7291 or lrcagle@gmail.com.

SUMMER CONCERTS

Music scholarships

Lake Sacajawea, Longview, Thurs, 6-8pm

The Southwest Washington Symphony is offering scholarships to private music students residing in Cowlitz, Columbia, Clatsop, Pacific, or Wahkiakum Counties, based on student/family needs.

July 15 5 Guys Named Moe Ultimate Dance and Show band. themoes.com July 22 Rock Bottom Boys Rock n Roll with Hillbilly Soul therockbottomboys.com July 29 Ted Vigil John Denver tribute artist tedvigil.com August 5 The Coats PNW premiere a cappela band thecoats.org August 12 Rockit Radio 80s – 90s greatest dance hits rockitradioband.com

For the scholarship year beginning September 1, 2021, the application deadline will be August 1st. Applicants will receive notification by August 15th.

Applicants must have had some prior musical training, either in school or through private study. Accordingly, instrumental applicants must be enrolled in grades 5 – 12. Vocal music applicants must be in grades 8 – 12 due to concerns about the physical development of children younger than 13 years of age.

Woodland Hot Summer Nights, Fridays 6pm Horseshoe Lake July 16 and 30; Aug 13, 20, 27.

Further information and an application may be found at the symphony’s website: www. swwasymphony.org/ and by contacting the Scholarship Committee Chair: Sue Hinshaw at 360-577-7732 or by email at suesing1@msn.com.

St. Helens 13 Nights on the River, Thursdays, 6-8:30pm Columbia View Ampitheatre Thurs, 6-8pm

Action Program. For this year’s competition, more than 2,100 entries were submitted in various categories, with Foreword’s editors choosing the finalists. Those titles were then mailed to librarians and booksellers charged with picking the Gold, Silver, Bronze, and Honorable Mention winners.

With the news of his award, Rose said it wasn’t celebration he felt so much as “a quiet peace. That I had kept my word. That I had fulfilled my promise.”

Rose is CRR’s book reviewer and book page editor. More info: www. alan-rose.com.

July 15 Black Swan, classic jazz July 22 The Stingrays, classic rock and roll July 29 Sweetwater Band, country hits Aug13 Patrick Lamb Release Party Aug 20 Hit Machine, dance Aug 26 Curtis Salgado, blues

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Northwest Gardening

Gardening in a Heat Wave

By Alice Slusher

Don’t be caught flat-footed next time!

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any gardeners were caught flat-footed in dealing with this recent blast-furnace weather that was euphemistically called a “heat wave.” I posted on our Master Gardeners’ Facebook page how to protect raspberries, apples, and veggies from the searing rays of

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the hot sun. But none of us realized the devastation that three days of unrelieved 100°-plus temps could wreak on our gardens and landscape plants.

I’ve seen some terrible things — a rhododendron with brown, curled up leaves on the side facing the sun, big Douglas-firs toasted brown on the sunny side, crispy tomato plants, and flattened, ruined blueberry bushes. Remember I told you I was going to get one of those beautiful little reblooming hydrangeas?

I planted it on June 5th—morning sun, afternoon shade—and it was so happy. I covered it with row cover fabric in anticipation of the heat. After the first day of the heat wave, the flowers were crispy, but the foliage was fine. By the end of the ordeal, the plant was a crispy critter—not a green leaf in sight. Breaks my heart.

They tell us that this heat wave was a once-in-a-thousand-year occurrence, but I’m going to give you some tips for dealing with the heat and drought for the rest of our summer.

What does a heat/ drought stressed plant look like?

I’ll bet a lot of folks saw the leaves on many of their plants rolled inward. This is the plant’s attempt to reduce water loss. Of course, wilting can happen, even if the roots have enough water. When the weather cools down at night, the leaves usually perk up. Unfortunately, during a sustained wilting period, the sun can permanently damage them. Ozone that occurs with heat and poor air quality— think wildfire smoke — can cause dried brown spots between the leaf veins or bleached, papery areas on cucumber, melon, and squash leaves.

If you planted spinach, chard, broccoli, lettuce, cilantro, or dill, you’ll notice that they “bolted”—sent up flower stalks that complete their life cycles.

If you see a heat wave forecasted, harvest them beforehand to get goodtasting veggies. A few of my tomatoes,

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strawberries, and most of my raspberries were sunburned where they were exposed to the sun — this looks different in each plant. Go out and take a look in your garden. In veggies and strawberries, you’ll usually see a bruised looking area, and in berries, the individual “drupes” that make up the berry turn pearly white and hard.

And check out your nearly ripe tomatoes, peppers, and squash family veggies for blossom end rot— blackened, sunken areas on the part farthest from the stem. This is usually caused by soil that has been allowed to dry out completely before watering again, not by lack of soil calcium as many folks think. Keep the soil consistently moist between watering—that should take care of the problem.

So how do you protect your plants if the thermometer sky-rockets again? Watering is of utmost importance, and deep watering is the way to go. If you’re using drip irrigation, make sure enough water is getting to your plants. Water in the morning, but check the soil with your finger. If the top couple inches have dried out, water again. A morning misting of leaves can help to provide some humidity in dry heat. Your trees and shrubs need water, too. Always water at the base of plants, to get the water directly into the ground. Trees can be watered with just a trickle from a hose over several hours, moving the hose around the dripline beneath cont page 33 Kalama resident Alice Slusher volunteers with WSU Extension Service Plant & Insect Clinic.

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with golf umbrellas or shade cloth. Protect the soil in the pots from overheating in the the tree. Trees may not show drought sun—shield the sun side of the pot with a damage right away, but several years of board or cardboard to reflect the heat. Here dry roots will weaken the tree and make are some things NOT to do during heat it vulnerable to pests and disease. waves: don’t fertilize, prune, transplant, or I can’t stress enough the importance apply chemicals. Wait until the weather of mulching your plants. Mulch can cools down for that. reduce loss of moisture by evaporation I think what we need to consider is that our by a whopping 33 percent! It also summers are getting hotter and dryer—and helps to moderate soil temperatures and the trend is expected to continue. The prevent weeds that compete with your weather patterns indicate that we’ll have less plants for soil moisture and nutrients. mountain snow pack and earlier snow melt, If extreme heat is anticipated, create which means that water is going to be scarcer shade for your plants—if they’re in in the summer when we need it most. Our pots, move them to the shade. If you water bills and plant damage this summer can’t move them, make some shade may encourage us to rethink how and what we’re growing. Next month I’m going to share with you how to

plan a water-wise landscape— OSU/WSU your yard can be stunning, Extension Programs use less water, and result in OSU 503-397-3462 lower water bills and less laborSee us at the Columbia County Fair July 14-18 intensive garden maintenance.

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COMMUNITY/FARMERS MARKETS Astoria Sunday Market

Ilwaco Saturday Market

Thru Oct. 23. Sundays • 10–3 Downtown on 12th, just off Hwy 30, Astoria, Ore. • 503-325-1010 www.astoriasundaymarket.com Mgr: Shelby, 503-440-7168 shelby@astoriadowntown.com

Saturdays • 10–4 Thru Sept 25 Arts/crafts, housewares, cut flowers, foods. Port of Ilwaco, Ilwaco, Wash. www.portofilwaco.com Info: marketmanager.ilwaco@gmail.com or phone 360-670-0120

Clatskanie Farmers’ Market

Elochoman Marina Farmers Market

Saturdays • 10–2, June to Sept.

Copes Park. From Hwy 30, turn north on Nehalem, east on Lillich. New vendors welcome; find application at clatskaniefarmersmarket.com Info: 971-506-7432 Darro Breshears-Routon clatskaniefmvendorcoordinator@gmail.com

Fridays thru Sept 10 • 3–6pm 500 2nd St,, Cathlamet, Wash. cathlametmarina.org Info: port1j@cni.net, call or text Deb Holland, Mgr: 360-849-9401

Columbia-Pacific Farmers Market Fridays •12–5pm, June to Sept Downtown Long Beach, Wash. www.longbeachwa.gov info: cpfmmallory@gmail.com; 360-224-3921

Cowlitz Community Farmers Market Open 9–2, Sat thru October, Tues thru Sept.

1900 7th Ave, Cowlitz Expo Center, Longview, Wash. www. cowlitzfarmersmarkets.com Info: Laurie Kochis 360-957-7023 lauriekochis@msn.com

Scappoose Community Club Farmers Market Saturday, 9–2 • Thru Sept 25 Behind City Hall next to Heritage Park, 2nd St., Scappoose, Ore. www.scappoosefarmermarket.com Info: Bill Blank 503-730-7429 email: scappoosefm@gmail.com

We gladly list local farmers markets. Please send details and contact info to publisher@ crreader.com

SKY REPORT

Looking UP

By Greg Smith

JULY 20 – AUG 19

In late July and on through August the night sky becomes more and more friendly to sky-watchers, as it gets dark earlier and earlier each night and the nights are still warm and inviting. This makes it all the easier to go out and observe. So, what’s up this time of the year?

The Evening Sky The very bright star Vega is high overhead as it marks the anchor point of the summer triangle of three other bright stars in three constellations: Vega is in Lyra; the others are Deneb, the tail in Cygnus the Swan, and Altair in Aquila.

The star Vega, just mentioned for its presence in the Summer triangle, is also part of a triangle of close stars in Lyra as well. In a small or larger scope, the bright star Vega is accompanied by two other bright stars.

One is named Epsilon and is a double star, which you can see even with binoculars. But those two stars are also double stars themselves. Epsilon is popularly named the double-double star. The third star is Zeta which is a double star, too. So, when you are looking at those three stars you are actually looking at 7 stars.

In late July, Venus continues her sinking in the western night sky as the Evening Star; around 10pm she disappears from the horizon. So, catch Venus before it’s gone. By around 11:00pm Jupiter is rising in the southeast along with Saturn just ahead of it. They will be low in the southern sky — about 25 degrees above the horizon, in the constellation of Capricorn — by the time of the Perseid Meteor shower in mid-August. Saturn and Jupiter being higher in the sky than they were last year makes for better viewing. Saturn’s rings are tilted 18 degrees, allowing you to see the gap in the rings even in small telescopes at 25X magnification. Of course, the larger the scope more you will see.

Night Sky Spectacle : The Annual Peresid Meteor Showers August brings the famous meteor shower, known as the Perseids (persee-ids). The peak nights will be the 11th and 12th. Though you may catch some in the nights before and after. This year we will have perfect viewing conditions. The thin crescent moon will be below the western horizon. There will be no extraneous light to hide the shower this year.

It is expected to have as many as 100 meteors per hour in a dark sky. But for the rest of us, 60 – 80 per hour is what we may expect. Best to just lie back and watch the show, no binoculars needed or advised, as you need to see as much of the northeastern sky as possible.

The Perseids are the grain of sand-sized debris trail of the Comet SwiftTuttle which orbits around the sun every 133 years. The Earth passes through this trail every year as it orbits the sun. Some of these meteors are as big as an M&M. Rarely, there may be a larger one that creates a brilliant sky crossing known as a bolide.

Moon Phases Full: Friday, July 23 3rd Qtr Saturday, July 31 New : Sunday, Aug. 8 1st Qtr. : Aug.15, Sun End of twilight - when the stars start to come out Tues, July 20, 9:30pm Sat, July 31, 9:16pm Tuesday, Aug 17, 8:48pm ••• Longview resident Greg Smith is past president of Friends of Galileo. Meet him and other club members at monthly meetings in Longview. For more info about FOG, visit friendsofgalileo.com.

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the spectator by ned piper Welcome, my first-ever guest columnist, Keith Larson

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n last month’s “The Spectator” column, Ned wrote “August 21st brings back the ever-popular Squirrel Fest to Longview’s Civic Circle Park. Billed ‘The Nuttiest Event in the Northwest,’ it always holds up to its motto. In fact it cracks everyone up.”

Ned has offered me the spot of guest columnist this month for a little embellishment of this one-of-a-kind fun event.

This community event, as conceived by Pat Sari, was brought to life in 2011 by a nutty group of

Keith Larson Photo by Shawn Hooghkirk

citizen pranksters calling themselves the Sandbaggers.

The Rotary Club of Longview, commonly referred to as the Noon club, assumed leadership three years ago from the Sandbaggers who led the event planning for the first seven years.

The day-long celebration tells Longview’s story as a nutty place that doesn’t take itself too seriously.

Unfortunately, we had to cancel last year’s event due to the Covid-19 pandemic. This year’s fun event is being planned and designed for kids and their families.

Sandy B. McNut will again be the headliner celebrity and all-day entertainment will feature a kid’s stage with Circus Cascadia, jugglers, magicians, puppets and clowns, and a kids’ band and culminating with an outdoor movie at dusk.

There will also be vendors of various merchandise, high quality local food purveyors of all types, for all tastes, and yes, the adults-only beer garden will return along with an all-day fun Cornhole tournament adjacent to the cold beverages. Art in the Park artisans will also return to the north side of the park across from the Library. Narrated tours of the eight internationally famous Longview Squirrel Bridges will again be featured. Collectible merchandise will be available from “The Nut House.”

The always-fun-for-the-kids kick-off to the 10th Annual Squirrel Fest promises to be bigger and more entertaining than ever when Happy Kids Dentistry again sponsors the Happy Kids on the Run beginning at 9am followed by a Wheeling Squirrel Kids’ Parade around the Civic Circle beginning at 10:30am.

Business and organization sponsorships at several levels are still needed, available and encouraged to keep Squirrel Fest 100 percent free to attend for area residents and visitors of all ages. Sponsorships, vendor fees and contributions allow the Rotary Club of Longview to continue its mission of “Service Above Self” to many important youth literacy, scholarships, parks and schools projects and needed non-profit services in our community, plus world-wide polio eradication and water improvement projects.

Check out the “nutti-ness,” fun and full list of this year’s events, and sponsorship and vendor opportunities at www.lvsquirrelfest.com.

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~ Keith Larson

Keith Larson is Past President of Longview Rotary (Noon club) and an active Rotary and community volunteer. Retired from the City of Longview as Human Resources Director, he lives in Longview with his wife, Pat. Ned Piper coordinates CRR’s advertising and distribution, enjoying the opportunity to circulate throughout his lifelong stomping grounds, greeting old and new friends.

VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITY Lower Columbia CAP is looking for volunteer drivers. If you enjoy being with people, like to help, have a reliable vehicle and clean driving record, consider volunteering.

You’d be providing crucial out-of-town transportation to medical appointments, and receiving taxexempt mileage reimbursement, currently $.56 per mile, and paid trainings. If interested, please call 360261-6236 or 360-200-4911.

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COWLITZ PUD

Cowlitz PUD Seeks Public Input on Clean Energy Transformation Act

By Alice Dietz

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n May 7th, 2019, Governor Jay Inslee signed into law the Clean Energy Transformation ACT (CETA), which commits Washington to an electricity supply clean of greenhouse emissions by 2045. Clean electricity will allow the state to replace fossil fuels in other end uses, especially transportation, and achieve its longterm climate goals.

To aide in this effort, Cowlitz PUD has decided to establish a public engagement process that leverages existing relationships with both community organizations and interested individual within Cowlitz County. The objective of this process is to jointly develop a set of indicators (i.e. utility programs) that can be used by Cowlitz PUD to gauge effectiveness in reducing burdens and risks for under-represented populations within our service territory. CETA specifically refers to these populations as either the highly impacted communities or vulnerable populations. By working together, Cowlitz PUD hopes that we can identify these populations, understand obstacles preventing access to programs and develop strategies to ensure equity in the planning and distribution of clean energy benefits.

The Public Process will begin on July 1st; followed by a series of facilitated focus groups through August 24th of this year. Cowlitz PUD will utilize the feedback gathered during the Public Process to inform and develop the implementation of CETA with equity and inclusivity as it’s guiding principals.

To get involved, email cetapublicprocess@cowlitzpud.org.

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

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