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s I reviewed and edited Hal’s People+Place piece this month, it hardly escaped my notice — or my fond recollections — that we are an entire region built on and of logs. It’s impossible to visit Kevin’s Moehnke’s Mountain Log Homes site in Kalama and not feel humbled. The size and scale, sheer mass, and physical beauty of these magnificent Douglas fir logs speaks a kind of Northwest poetry, especially if you’re born and raised in Southwest Washington. It’s in our DNA. As a child of a long-time Weyerhaeuser employee, I landed one of those cushy Summer Jobs, guiding two tours a day through what was then trumpeted as the “World’s Largest Sawmill,” a kind of Eighth Wonder of the World for the Industrial Age. Weyerhaeuser attracted scores of tourists and locals to its Longview plant to get a closeup look at that colossal labyrinth of industry. We all knew lots of people who worked at The Mill. I grew up in the same neighborhood as Tim and Tom Gilles, who excelled at R.A. Long High School sports, but their overarching claim to fame was as sons of George Gilles, Head Sawyer. His was
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mammoth logs for precision cuts. More importantly, he figured on the spot, with his experience and eyeballs, the most efficient way to maximize the yield of each log by cutting it expertly.
The sound was screaming and ripping. We used bullhorns to shout above the din and admonish the visitors to stay close together along the catwalks overlooking the action.
I sneezed my way through a lot of those tours. Maybe 75 or 80 sneezes a day (I know this because my co-worker, Janell Sisson, kept track one day) triggered by the constant cloud of fine sawdust in the air, fragrant with wood.
In that seemingly casual time before OSHA, we guides wore hardhats (I suspect more for credibility than safety) and regular street shoes (loafers, as I recall, we were college girls, after all) and our guests trooped through the mill unencumbered by safety vests or any other protective equipment. We were more girl scouts than female engineers.
We wore white culottes and green blazers with the company logo. After greeting visitors at the Guest House, enrolling them in the register and chatting about where they were from, we’d clamor into their cars and head through the Main Gate to a succession of stops.
Publishers Log: The Mill, circa 1968 the most important and highest paid job in The Mill. He operated the head rig, the massive hydraulic system of shifting platforms and clamps and chain drives that positioned the
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Tours always started at Sawmill #1, with its impressive and thrilling waterblasting de-barker, then on to the mesmerizing head rig, where George Gilles sliced up old growth trees like slabs of white meat off a turkey breast.
But this was a time of Longview’s significance and magnificence, I think. Being “the largest” of anything was a badge of honor as the country recovered from the war and our fathers worked the good jobs that built our houses and schools and communities, with craftsmanship and care. It’s a legacy of logs, and love.
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Civilized Living
By Judith Martin, Nicholas Ivor Martin and Jacobina Martin
DEAR MISS MANNERS: I am invited to a 50th birthday luncheon for a girlfriend, and the invite says, “no gifts, please.” What can I do instead? GENTLE READER: Bring your most winning smile. DEAR MISS MANNERS: Due to my own carelessness in not writing an entry on my calendar for a housewarming/birthday party, I forgot about it. The invitation from our friends was through social media, to which I had responded that I would attend. My most important concern is what to say to apologize without sounding like the party was of such little importance that I could have forgotten it. A secondary concern is the medium to use to apologize: private message through a social media channel, or handwritten note sent via mail. I think that I know your answer (note via mail), but is it ever acceptable to express apologies (or thanks) electronically? GENTLE READER: Taking the time to write and post a letter, in addition to being the proper thing, will increase your chances of obtaining forgiveness. Miss Manners allows electronic correspondence for actions requiring the most minimal thanks. But as minimal apologies are not likely to sound genuine, she is hard-pressed to think of a case in which they would be either proper or effective.
when they come to our house for dinner? In some ways, it seems ungracious for us not to have such beverages on hand, but a lot of our guests are so used to having a dinner cocktail that I think their dining pleasure is greatly reduced when this is not available. GENTLE READER: Etiquette often sets alcohol apart from other food and drink — not just because of its side effects, but because of its significance in culture, history and religion. But not always. You make clear that your objection to alcohol extends only to yourself and your husband; not only have you expressed no adverse opinion about others’ use of it, you are willing for them to imbibe it in your home. For that reason, your question could instead be about broccoli — in which case the answer would not have required Miss Manners’ intervention, so apparent would it be. As the host, you are free to set the menu, and you can include or exclude alcohol. But if you want it to be available to your guests, then it is up to you to procure it.
DEAR MISS MANNERS: When did it become correct to use “Mr. and Mrs. John and Jane Doe”? I am seeing it a lot. I was taught that it is always “Mr. and Mrs. John Doe.”
However, as our relationship carries on and new situations arise, she (a devout Christian) has increased her inclusion of religious thoughts and ideals, as well as Bible passages and, if I’m honest, quite a bit of pious preaching. While I love and respect her devotion, I find myself increasingly uncomfortable, and my responses are obviously glossing over her religious topics by a mile.
If it is necessary to include the wife’s given name, it would appear as “Mr. and Mrs. John Doe (Jane),” correct? Am I just seriously out of date, or is including both names still incorrect? GENTLE READER: This is a response — and an awkward one — to the system’s being out of date. We are in a period of transition about how to address a couple, and it has lasted
Can I ask her to refrain from the religious chat? How do I broach the subject without damaging our lovely correspondence? GENTLE READER: That the usual method of turning away from discussion of religion would be difficult here, Miss Manners can see. Declaring your religious views personal might seem odd to someone with whom you discuss love, family, and whatever else you mean by “personal dilemmas.” You can still do it if you put it on yourself: “I find I’m not really able to talk about religion.” But as your friend evidently considers it relevant to all aspects of her life, it would be easier just to fail to respond on that subject while you continue to address other matters.
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DEAR MISS MANNERS: I have a dear friend in another country who I correspond
The letter should demonstrate your remorse by showing your would-be hosts that you condemn yourself more than they ever could. Expressing horror at your own thoughtlessness and the deepest contrition should do it. DEAR MISS MANNERS: My husband and I have decided that it is in our best interests to totally abstain from drinking alcohol. As a result, we do not purchase alcohol to have in our home. We do not object, however, or find it uncomfortable, to have guests who wish to have a cocktail or wine with dinner.
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We look at the same criteria professional appraisers do. Age: Sold homes within three years (either side) of the age of your home. Size: We also look at the sold homes’ square footage, but the number of bedrooms and bathrooms also plays a role in determining market value. Location: We try to find sold homes in close proximity to the subject property, but will consider a wider range, if necessary. The location within your particular neighborhood may also impact its market value.
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Joseph Fields, Capt. Lewis, Patrick Gass and John Shields stretching leather skins over the iron boat frame. Illustration by Keith Rocco, courtesy of Harpers Ferry National Historic Park.
After Great Falls, the Fourth of July and a failed experiment The Big Bang theory After a grueling eleven days portaging around The Great Falls, finishing on July 2, 1805, the men were exhausted and needed a rest. Thus, the Corps began celebrating Independence Day a little early. Pierre Cruzatte played his fiddle, and the men danced as they drank the last of the whiskey. While the men probably fired their guns, Mother Nature also made a little noise that day. Since their arrival at the falls, the men had repeatedly heard a noise resembling the discharge of a six-pound cannon at a distance of three miles. Initially, it was thought to be thunder. But, Lewis himself “heard this noise very distinctly, it was perfectly calm, clear and not a cloud to be seen.” He heard three such discharges in an hour. The men had reported hearing up to seven discharges in quick succession. Interestingly, while these noises are still heard to this day, nobody has yet come up with a verifiable explanation. A grand experiment Lewis & Clark Encore One of the more memorable lines in the 1975 movie “Jaws” was We are pleased to present Police Chief Martin Brody telling Quint, “You’re gonna need a Installment #14 of Michael bigger boat.” Lewis and Clark had the opposite problem. As the Perry’s popular 33-month Corps of Discovery traveled up the Missouri River, they would series which began with CRR’s have to abandon their large boats as the river grew shallower. April 15, 2004 inaugural issue. “Dispatch from the Discovery Trail” helped define and shape Columbia River Reader in its early years during the Bicentennial Commemoration of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Each installment covered their travels during the corresponding month 200 years prior. We are repeating the series for the enjoyment of both longtime and more recent readers.
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Dugout canoes replaced the larger boats, but they were unstable and would not carry much of a load. Captain Lewis had foreseen this problem in 1803 while making Michael Perry enjoys local history and plans for the expedition and travel. His popular 33-installment designed what came to be Lewis & Clark called “The Experiment.” series appeared The federal arsenal at Harper’s Armory Superintendent Joseph Perkins (left) and Captain Meriwether in C R R ’s Lewis inspecting the collapsible iron boat frame built at Harpers Ferry Ferry, Virginia, constructed in 1803. Illustration by Keith Rocco, courtesy of Harpers Ferry early years a portable iron boat frame National Historic Park. and began its second “encore” that Lewis believed could be at the same moment that we dispatch the” appearance in covered with buffalo hides and used to carry provisions when the water became too shallow keelboat back to St. Louis. “One or April 2018. for the heavy wooden boats. perhaps, both of these pirogues we shall leave at the falls of the Missouri, from While no drawings exist, records whence we intend continuing our voyage indicate the assembled boat was 36 in the canoes and a perogue of skins, the feet long and 4-1/2 feet wide. The frame of which was prepared at Harper’s frame was made of wrought iron ribs A lifelong resident of Cowlitz Ferry. This perogue is now in a situation that could be assembled with screws. County, Sue loves which will enable us to prepare it in the sharing all the area According to Lewis’ description, there has to offer and is course of a few hours.” were two designs used for the individual committed to giving The best-laid plans sections: “one curved, or in the shape back to the community. As Lewis predicted, the red pirogue necessary for the stem and stern, the other She currently serves on was buried in a cache near the mouth semicilindrical, or in the form of those the boards of Cowlitz County CASA, the of Maria’s river on June 9th, and the sections which constitute the body of the Kelso Public School white pirogue placed in a cache at canoe.” There were a total of eight Foundation and the the base of the Great Falls two weeks sections, each about 4-1/2 feet long, Columbia Theater. later. However, Lewis drastically that could be fastened together to make In her free time, Sue loves being underestimated the amount of time the boat frame. Each section weighed involved in the lives of her children and required to assemble the portable 22 pounds, for a total of 176 pounds of grandchildren and traveling the world boat. iron. The total weight of the iron, hides, with friends and her husband, Cal. wood, and bark needed for entire boat The first of the four portages made would be 500 pounds. Kelso/Longview • 360-636-4663 around the Great Falls began on June
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difficulties in preparing the leather boat which are the want of convenient and proper timber; bark, skins, and above all that of pitch to pay” [seal] “her seams, a deficiency that I really know not how to surmount…” The frame was quickly assembled while the skins from 28 elk and four buffalo were prepared to cover it. The final portage around the Great Falls was completed on July 2nd. Rather than resuming their journey up the Missouri River, construction of the iron boat was still not complete and would delay the expedition. While Lewis tried to find a source of pitch, the men shaved the hair off the elk skins. Attempts to extract pitch from pine logs that had floated down from the mountains were unsuccessful. Without pitch or tar, Lewis wrote, “I fear the whole operation of my boat will be useless.” The hides were sewn together and then attached to the iron framework. On July 4th, Lewis wrote, “I fear I have committed another blunder also in sewing the skins with a nedle which has sharp edges, these have cut the skin and as it drys I discover that the throng dose not fill the holes as I expected.” Using a round needle might have prevented the gaping holes.
A day later, Lewis wrote, ”This morning I had the boat removed to an open situation, scaffold her off the ground, turned her keel to the sun and kindled fires under her to dry her more expediciously. I set a couple of men to pounding of charcoal to form a composition with some beeswax which we have and buffaloe tallow now my only hope and resource for paying my boat; I sincerely hope it may answer yet I feel it will not. The boat in every other rispect completely answers my most sanguine expectation; she is not yet dry and eight men carry her with the greatest ease; she is strong and will carry at least 8,000 lbs.” By July 8th, “The boat was sufficiently dry to receive a coat of the composition which I accordingly applied. This adds very much to her appearance whether it will be effectual or not.” When they “launched the boat, she lay like a perfect cork on the water.” By evening they “discovered that a greater part of the composition had separated from the skins and left the seams of the boat exposed to the water and she leaked in such a manner that she would not answer.” Lewis wrote that the failure of the Experiment “mortified me not a little.” Lewis “found that the section formed of the buffaloe hides on which some hair had been left, answered much the best purpose; this leaked but little and the parts which were
well covered with hair about 1/8th of an inch in length retained the composition perfectly and remained sound and dry.” He now realized that shaving all the hair off the elk hides resulted in nothing for the beeswax and tallow concoction to bond with, but it was too late to start over. It took five more days to carve two additional dugout canoes from cottonwood trees growing about 16 miles upstream. The “Experiment” had cost the expedition 12 days that would have been better spent traveling. The hides were removed and the iron frame put in a cache above Great Falls. When the journey resumed on July 14th, they were far behind schedule and had given up all hope of making it to the Pacific Ocean and back to Fort Mandan by that winter. When the Corps returned a year later, Lewis found “the iron frame of the boat had not suffered materially.” There is no mention of what they did with the iron frame, but it is possible they didn’t leave it there since the metal would have been valuable to the expedition for trading with Indians. No trace of the iron boat has ever been found. Next month, we will arrive at the Shoshone village where Sacajawea had been kidnapped in 1800. •••
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MEDICAL MATTERS
Dr. Tony Lin touts benefits of regenerative medicine
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ony Lin, MD, of Longview Orthopedic Associates, never stops searching for new ways to help his patients. That’s why the benefits of regenerative medicine interest him so much. Regenerative medicine creates living tissue to repair or replace tissues lost due to age, disease, or damage. The process involves an in-office blood draw. The patient’s blood is then spun down to separate the platelets. The platelet portion of the plasma contains proteins important in repairing tissue. The patient’s platelets are then injected into the joint or tendon. Lin noted that research reveals clinical improvements in patients with mild to moderate arthritis. Those with moderate to severe arthritis may benefit, as well.
“The majority of published research with positive pain reduction involved knees and ankles,” Lin said. “At least six randomized studies show PRP Dr. Tony Lin (platelet rich plasma) treatment to be beneficial. The positive results are believed to come from restoring joints to homeostasis while decreasing the inflammatory proteins that arthritis patients produce.” Less is known about the effect of PRP on tendons; however, the results are promising. “It may stimulate increases in blood supply and healing protein to degenerative or injured tendons,” Lin said. “For example, PRP shows superior results for tennis elbow, with longer relief than steroid injections provide.”
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Bone marrow aspirates are another option for regenerating tissue. This process involves harvesting cells in bone marrow stored in the pelvic bones. In orthopedic surgery, bone marrow aspirates have been shown to heal fractures. There is ongoing research that isolates specific cells in the bone marrow and shows their potential to regenerate damaged tissues in joints.
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Amidst busy sidewalks filled with street artists, professionals, and school children on field trips, plus a tourist or many, we walked west on Morrison past the Multnomah County Courthouse, Pioneer Courthouse Square, and Nordstrom to 11th Avenue and the acclaimed Blue Star Donuts. Their motto is “Donuts for Grownups.” cont page 13
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From Blue Star, we walked down 11th to Powell’s City of Books, a less than 10-minute stroll. Powell’s, the largest new and used bookstore in the world, occupies a full city block. Stocking more than 1 million books, nine color-coded rooms house more than 3,500 different sections. Open 9am–11pm 365 days per year, Powell’s draws even nonreaders with its café, gifts, art, magazines, and enough people-watching opportunities to fill any spare hour.
You don’t have to download or get print copies of maps if you have a smartphone or tablet with data. Using Google maps, you can access all routes, lines, and schedules mentioned. Enter your destination, as if you’re driving and select the “bus” or “train” picture, rather than the usual “car” and it will direct your route.
On the way to Powell’s, we passed just one block away from the iconic Jake’s Famous Crawfish Restaurant (12th Ave.). Jake’s, a downtown Portland landmark for more than 100 years, is considered one of the top 10 seafood restaurants in the nation. We stopped at Buffalo Exchange (11th and Burnside), a hip resale shop for women and men.
Keep your phone charged for mapping and photos. Carrying a charger is prudent, as many stores and restaurants have outlets for public use. You may want to download an app or two while in town.
Booked up, we left Powell’s and crossed kitty corner on 11th and Couch (pronounced “kooch,” not “cowch”) to the store, Anthropologie, where it’s fun to wander around, but don’t expect any deals. There is a “sale” room upstairs; that term is relative. Lunch was up 12th to Zeus Café (12th & Stark) two blocks from Powell’s. Service was great with typical McMenamin décor – wood, gilded lighting fixtures, and carved statues. People-watching abounded. Pricing is moderate. Dipping into Whole Foods (12th and Couch) was a must. Although Whole Foods is not a Northwest creation (its home is Austin, Texas), Pacific Northwesterners have adopted it. Amazon owns Whole Foods; if you have Amazon Prime and the Amazon
Public Transportation Fares A full-day fare to use all public transit (MAX, Tri-Met buses, and streetcars) is $5 per person. Honored Citizens (those with disabilities or 65+) may purchase the same pass for $2.50 per day. Youth fares are (ages 15-17, grades 9-12) $2.50 for day pass. One-half these prices for 2 ½ hours. The ticket machines take cash or card. Portland Aerial Tram: $4.90 per person, roundtrip. Machine takes cards only. The Expo Center Opened in 1921 and used for cattle exchanges, shows, and expositions. Its saddest time was its use as temporary housing of Japanese Americans before they were moved to out-of-state internment centers during WWII. A memorial Torii Gate created by Portland artist Valerie Otani, stands close to where you’ll board MAX. Torii gates symbolically mark the transition from the mundane to the sacred.
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App on your phone, certain on-sale items at Whole Foods are an extra 10 percent off. We caught the Portland Streetcar (North-South Loop) at 11th and Couch. Heading south, we traveled about 25 minutes. We disembarked at Moody and Gibbs at the bottom of Marquam Hill, crossed the street, and walked about 50 yards to the Portland Aerial Tram. The Tram climbs 500 feet above Portland and stops at Oregon Health Sciences University. On clear days a ride affords a view of Mt. Hood, Mt. St. Helens, and a peek at Mt. Adams. One way takes about five minutes. Passengers can see out 365 degrees. Mostly a smooth ride, it wobbles some as it passes the center poles. If heights bother you, avoid standing near the windows. After the tram, we took the N-S Loop back downtown. We got off near 11th and Morrison and walked three blocks east to Nordstrom (Broadway/7th Avenue & Morrison). Two blocks from Nordstrom we found Pastini (9th
A memorial Torii Gate created by Portland artist Valerie Otani, stands close to where you’ll board MAX. Torii gates symbolically mark the transition from the mundane to the sacred. See sidebar, page 13.
& Taylor). Director Park (between 8th and 9th) is between the two. It’s a great place to rest and people-watch. Pastini offered attentive service and delicious food. The prices are moderate to high. From Pastini, we walked to Sixth Avenue and caught the MAX Yellow Line back to the Expo Center. Enjoying watching the cityscape flow by without thinking about traffic, we rested. Rush hour had passed by the time we reached our car. We arrived in Longview 45 minutes later. This excursion was easy and inexpensive. We’ll go again, riding public transportation to the Rose Test Gardens and Washington Park. MAX runs west as far as Hillsboro and east to Gresham and as far south as Johnson Creek, near Sellwood. So many adventures, so little time. Get out there while you can! •••
from page 13 up and goes to work every day”) or as an offhand
much too long and provoked endless squabbles. So Miss Manners wishes people would stop improvising.
question that the asker doesn’t really want the answer to (“Are you telling me you really make money doing that?”).
When the idea is to recognize both individuals, a correct alternative, which works whether or not the pair are married or share a surname, is to use two lines: Ms. Jane Doe/Mr. John Doe.
How am I to respond? I’m very supportive of my husband’s job, and he is of mine. It’s making me not want to go to functions anymore.
DEAR MISS MANNERS: If I am not mistaken, controversial subjects like religion and politics are things that should be avoided at social functions, or almost anywhere else, for that matter. What is your advice when it comes to conversations about politics?? GENTLE READER: Duck. DEAR MISS MANNERS: I work from home, at an online job that is writing- and photography-based. While I make a full income, many of my friends and family don’t consider it a real job. I am never asked about it while at functions, but family and friends on both sides ask my husband about his job. (He works in corporate real estate, and has sold a number of sizable buildings.) When someone does mention my work, it is sarcastically (“Well, at least he gets
GENTLE READER: Understandably. Parties at which people talk only about jobs and rate one another accordingly cannot be much fun — even for those who pass the test, such as your husband. In your case, they have gone beyond the pretense of conversation to insult you. So Miss Manners will permit you to make a stiff reply: “You are not familiar with the world of online careers, are you?” and, if necessary, the protestation that “it would be too much of a bore to explain the basics.” DEAR MISS MANNERS: Is it polite to have a clock in the dining room? GENTLE READER: Yes, if you use it to announce that the souffle is ready. No, if you use it to stare at when the guests have outlasted your patience. ••• Please send your questions to Miss Manners at her website, www.missmanners.com; to her email, dearmissmanners@gmail.com; or via USPS to Miss Manners, Andrews McMeel Syndication, 1130 Walnut St., Kansas City, MO 64106.
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e r e ’s y o u r chance to savor the distinctive cultures, art and relics of the past along a 16-mile stretch on the Washington side of the Columbia Gorge. Begin your Rangers conduct tours all summer journey at Milepost 86, at Columbia Hills Historical State Park. Below, pillow basalt forms near Lyle, Wash., on terrain known as “channeled Washington’s Highway scablands” of 14 (about a 3-hour drive Washington. from Longview via I-5 and WA-14 or 2.5-hour The Maryhill Stonehenge Memorial honors servicemen of Klickitat County drive via I-5, I-205, I-84 who died in World War I. E to US-197, crossing the pedal boats and stand-up paddle boards or bring their vessel and Columbia River at The Dalles, Ore.) use one of the two launches that access the water. Picnic tables This Milepost marks the entrance to and barbecues are available on a first-come, first-serve basis. Horsethief Lake a part of Columbia The park offers a variety of campsites for both RVs and tents, one Hills Historic State Park. You’ll dump station and a restroom. Camping in the Columbia River learn about Native American history Gorge can be quite windy, and all guests must bring or purchase through pictographs and petroglyphs a Discovery Day Pass. and then venture east to historic Wishram to view a 1923 locomotive. Continue east and indulge in local wine tasting or stop along the way at Maryhill Museum and revel in a fine selection of historical art. End your excursion of days gone by as you take a slight detour from Highway 14 at Milepost 102 to the Stonehenge Memorial. Columbia Hills Historical State Park’s 3,637 acres extends to vistas rising high above the gorge down to recreational areas next to the river. The park offers visitors a vast array of activities like camping and water sports at Horsethief Lake, rock climbing at Horsethief Butte, and 12.4 miles of incredible hikes with stunning views of Mount Adams and Mount Hood. Campers and daytrippers to the 90-acre lake can rent Tracy Beard writes about luxury and adventure travel, fine dining and traditional and trendy libations for regional, national and international magazines and is a regular “Out & About” contributor to Columbia River Reader.
Native American petroglyphs line a pathway in the park, and guided tours led by rangers escort adventurers back in time to additional carved petroglyphs and painted pictographs on fenced-in rock walls. The worldfamous Tsagaglalal (She Who Watches) is seen on the tour and is considered a Native American place of worship. This dry area is laden with ticks, rattlesnakes and poison oak and is an active archeological site protected by state and federal laws. Ranger Mark Harris led my tour to see the artwork in May, beginning the tour by saying, “We will regularly be stopping to make “tick checks” to ensure that we have no unwanted hitchhikers.” cont page 17
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paint are estimated to be between 200 and 1,000 years old. The images of fish, monsters, people with auras, polymorphs and the famous “She Who Watches” depict life during that time.
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We walked through a locked gate into an area full of volcanic basalt, the ground was covered with fields of pillow basalt formed from being underwater during the Ice Age flood. The Missoula Floods that carved the Columbia Gorge were cataclysmic floods that sporadically ripped across Eastern Washington during the end of the Ice Age. Geologists estimate that 40 to 60 floods took place over 2,000 years 13,000 – 15,000 years ago. The most significant flood occurred when the ice dam broke at Glacial Lake Missoula. This 2,000-foot deep lake stretched for more than 200 miles, comprising more than 500 cubic miles of water. It was more water than Lake Erie and Lake Ontario combined and flowed through the area at speeds of up to 80 mph, tearing out the gorge.
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Wishram, Washington, is located at Milepost 201 and was once known as Fall Bridge. It is a centuries-old Native American settlement. Years ago, James J. Hill wanted to connect two transcontinental railroads to profit from the lumber trade in Oregon. After a few years, lines connected between pertinent cities,
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Native Americans traded up and down the river. The petroglyphs and pictographs in red, white and black
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Mark pointed out a spot that looked perfect for a vision quest. He wove a story about a young person coming there looking for their spirit guide or purpose in life. Each day the tribe shaman checked on the young person and asked if they had met their spirit guide. When leaving, he made a mark on the wall. The scores continued until the young person found their guide. Mark shared that the tally marks could also represent the number of people who were born or died in the tribe or how many years they had of good fishing. People have passed down stories or made up new ones over the years. I was sad to learn that once these images are gone, they will not be restored.
Stone depictions made by Native Americans may be seen at Columbia Hills Historical State Park.
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The Religion of Wood: Kevin Moehnke Mountain Log Homes gets three types of visitors. The curious who’ve passed on the Interstate, back and forth, fascinated by Kalama’s half-built, precision piles of pristine fir and cedar, decide finally to stop by and check it out. Hal Calbom
I worked two jobs the winter after grad school. I taught GED history at Lower Columbia College one night a week and worked 10-hour days at Ross-Simmons Hardwood Lumber Mill in Longview. First day at the mill. “Let’s put the green guy on the green chain.” The new guy. The college kid. “Give him a taste of some real work for a change.” “We need you on the barker,” said Wayne, the foreman. Turns out you heard the barker well before you saw it, its gnashing metal jaws bouncing logs around like pickup sticks and stripping their bark in a screaming frenzy of torque and horsepower. The shed housing this doomsday machine was mangled and dented and misshapen from runaway logs out to prove their bite was as tough as their bark. The number two guy on the barker was out sick. No wonder — his job was dogging all the scraps generated into the chipper, rounding up strays, and staying the hell out of the way. Among the first things our pioneers tamed, for our survival and our economy and eventually for our pleasure, were these behemoth trees we turned into logs. They were stubborn in the taming, with the lives and limbs of the fellers, toppers and choker setters forever at risk.
The future homeowners, doing business directly with owner Kevin Moehnke, are refining their custom designs on sophisticated CAD systems, watching the beautifully tapered fir logs notch and nestle together, smelling the sawdust and realizing their dreams. And, finally, the people who simply want to buy a log. They see timbered mantels, railings, gazebos and picnic tables in their DIY visions. And one of the few things you can’t buy at the local Home Depot or builder’s supply…is logs. _______________________________________________________________ HC: What draws people to log homes? KM: I think the style and simplicity of it. What you see is what you get. And we’re fitting into somebody’s dream that usually involves their property itself. Most of the homes we do are on acreage. So they’re trying to get privacy and their own special view of the mountains or the river. HC: So you really are a dream-cometrue maker? KM: Yeah, I suppose we are. Most of the homes we build people have been dreaming about for their whole lives, a lot of them, and they’ve been waiting to get to a place where they’re either ready to retire or build their dream home. So we get to be a part of that and that’s very cool. HC: Do people come to you directly or through a broker or agent? KM: 99 percent of the time we’re dealing directly with the homeowner. They call up or come by and say, ‘It’s time to make this dream come true.’
That can be something modest, with a limited budget; sometimes budget never even comes up. They want that dream and just go for it. HC: Do you build the entire house? KM: Just the logs, which includes all the roof timbers. I used to do turnkey homes but it works out better if we stick to what we do best, and let the homeowner and their contractor do the rest — floors, windows, electrical, plumbing. HC: So most of the projects involve a contractor as well?
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KM: Maybe half of them. About 20 percent of our clients act as their own contractors, which is pretty common, and another 20 percent are contractors themselves. Once we’ve got the logs in place, they handle systems, roofing, the rest of it. It helps us perfect our own business, which cont page 20
We find undeniable romance in that mountain cabin: warmed by the river rock fireplace, cozying up inside this fortress of fir, with pristine acreage preserved and a glorious view of the wild world. But what a journey getting it there. And here. Welcome to this month’s People+Place. •••
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is expanding a lot, to just stick to the log part of it. We don’t need to try to sell people windows and doors and lumber, and a lot of them want to get that stuff on their own, anyway.
“ I usually ask clients to start a little scra
HC: We’re right here in one of the great logging and lumbering regions in the world. Do you feel that sense of place?
and resins. So it’s kind of a natural product, and if it’s well maintained will last generations.
KM: Every day. When we’re in other parts of the country people are a little bit jealous of our resources here, and they see pictures of our work and they’re envious of the quality of the logs we get to work with, and the size and grade of logs. In fact a lot of companies east of the Rockies will purchase logs from right here because the best in the world are right here. We’re just fortunate to happen to live right where they’re all at. HC: Sounds like the ‘logs’ part of the business is as vital as the ‘homes’ part of it? KM: It is. We sell a lot of logs, just logs — to lumberyards, to contractors, to homeowners. We stock a lot of different sizes, Douglas fir logs, for instance, from two inches to 20 inches in diameter and up to 50 feet in length. HC: Custom orders? KM: Oh yeah. We source a lot of specialty wood, shipped all over the United States. Usually it’s a peeled, finished log ready to be built into something. HC: Are you surprised by that demand for just the logs themselves? KM: It’s been steadily growing. It’s probably 30 percent of our business now, and we’d like to grow it further. Sometimes we sell somebody a single log, sometimes we sell them a hundred logs shipped out on multiple trucks. Kevin Moehnke wanted to be a doctor. He grew up in southwest Washington, Battleground area, and was an active Boy Scout and outdoorsman. Fascinated by log houses, he began working part time at Rick Carr’s Cascade Log Homes in Kalama. Loving the craft and creativity of it, and still going to school, he eventually decided it was the log business, not the operating theater, for him. Kevin has now owned Mountain Log Homes for more than 20 years, the successor to Cascade and on the very same site at the Port of Kalama.
HC: So are a lot of your buyers environmentally-conscious types? KM: I think they’re locally-conscious types. A lot of the work we do is really labor intensive, so there are a lot of jobs generated here, created here. And there’s also the handcrafted nature of it. We like hiring local people, hiring local subcontractors. Our designers and engineering firms are as local as possible. And we try to source everything within an hour away from us. HC: You know, probably well before your time, there used to be something called a sawmill? KM: Don’t worry, I know sawmills. I think there’s a misconception that it all goes overseas. There’s a lot of sawmills domestically here that are milling. Maybe not like in the good old days but a lot are still around. HC: Still, a lot of logs go overseas? KM: No question. There’s huge demand, China and Japan. Japan is still a huge market for highquality logs. In fact, the majority of the type of logs we use are destined for Japan. It’s known as a Japanese Sort. So, ironically, we’re kind of keeping them home, if you will, and using them here versus letting them go overseas.
HC: What about environmental issues? Are “tree huggers” opposed to you? KM: I don’t hear much flak at all. All the logs we deal with are harvested logs planted for harvest. Second growth. It’s actually an environmentallyfriendly product. It’s not something that’s milled up, chopped up, glued back together with formaldehydes
HC: Do they simply want to mill their own lumber?
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KM: Japan has a real religion about wood. They cherish it. In China they use it for a lot of form lumber, for stuff being built. But a lot of wood is still milled here. HC: Are you a worshiper in that religion of wood? KM: I think so. I suppose over the years I’ve gotten a little jaded. And I suppose we probably take it for granted. We’re used to great logs. Some parts of the country they’d give their eye teeth to have these logs. So we’re just real fortunate. But we’re still picky. We go out there to try to find the best of the best.
KM: No, typically all our design work is custom. We don’t do it in-house but we have local firms that we work with and programs like Rhino, where we can do 3D modeling, rendering, where you can actually walk through the house and other cool stuff. We think it’s important to do that in the design phase so our clients really get a good sense of building their dream home. Then we build that home right here. HC: But there’s got to be some artisan work there, hand-crafting? KM: Oh yeah. We have some jigs and templates, and we scribe to get fits just perfect. But there is so much art and craft, all the years of practice. You can’t take a class or just read a book. Maybe you can build a picnic table but not a home. cont. page 22
HC: Is your work mostly residential? KM: No, we do a lot of work with municipalities, states, the forest service, some federal work. There are a lot of landscape architects doing some really neat things. Up in Seattle they’re doing a couple of big projects that are really neat. HC: How about the logging itself? KM: We don’t do any logging ourselves. Unless we get a client that wants to use their own trees. They have their own ground. That’s very labor intensive. Nowadays we have a lot of professional loggers and log buyers that we can buy our logs through. Those are typically brought into Longview or sometimes I’ll buy directly from a logger. We tend to buy in log truck quantity. And then we have our bread and butter logs that we use every day to build homes from. Those are
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The professional log home builder worries about what’s invisible, too, the vagaries of drying and settling and the perfect marriages of notches. According to Kevin, the log structure itself, his product, constitutes 25 to 30 percent of the total cost of most homes. He uses square-foot pricing: most of the full log shell packages run between $50 and $60 per square-foot. A typical 2,000 square- foot log shell might cost between $90,000 and $120,000 built from local Douglas fir logs in the chinked style of construction. Mountain Log Homes also does a good business selling accessory items, such as log railings, stairs, log trusses, posts, and beams. KM:: We completely build the home here, and then everything is color- and number-coded, disassembled and loaded onto a truck, or multiple trucks, shipped wherever it is going. Then we travel along with the home, and re-erect it on the site.
KM:There’s not a lot of competition anymore. There are just a handful left in the state that do the hand crafting we do. HC: What do you tell those dreamers that wander in? How do they get started? KM: I usually ask clients to start a little scrapbook — photos, clippings, locations. Get some log home books and look on the Internet. Some people want the big river rock fireplace, the view of the river, and then we can prioritize the budget for them. We don’t have Plan A, B, C, D. We want people to be able to custom design the home for their views and their own tastes. HC: And there are ways to use log elements for “touches” without going all-in?
HC: How long does that take you?
KM: That’s a big part of our business. Why we sell all those raw logs. Log railings are really popular. You buy a cabin on a lake somewhere, you want to make it more rustic, they’ll put in log railings or a mantel. Sometimes just some columns or posts will add a lot of look and feel to the home.
KM: Usually about a week. We hire a crane operator locally, or somebody we know. HC: Typical locations?
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KM: If you can dream it, it’s happened. It’s really popular now to buy a large chunk of ground in central Oregon, on the John Day River maybe. We’ve done a few down there on huge tracks of land where people want to get away from it all, get away from lawyers and cell phones. You can still buy large tracts of land there. We just did one on 50,000 acres.
HC: Can you make a canoe out of one of your logs?
HC: Not a lot of nosy neighbors there I bet?
KM: Can I make a canoe? Or can you make a canoe?
KM:: People ask me, ‘I don’t see a lot of log homes around,’ and there actually are a lot of them but they’re usually tucked away for privacy. A lot of these acreages you wouldn’t even know there’s a home on it; they’re nestled in the trees.
HC: I guess I know the answer to that one. Thanks, Kevin, for making all these dreams come true!
HC: Do you have competition?
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alking down by the old covered bridge one day during my first fall in this valley, I met a dairy farmer named Bobby Larson. His family had pioneered the south side of the river, while the Sorensons, who sold me my place, farmed the north, and they’d built the bridge between them. Conversation settled on the Alaska Pipeline, and though our views differed, we established a rapport that has only warmed these 20 years since. Before we parted that day, Bobby invited me to attend a meeting of the local Grange. I’ve been a member ever since. Friends are sometimes surprised that I belong to what they imagine to be an antiquated, geriatric, quasimasonic, and reactionary old farmers’ club. But that image is only partly accurate. Antiquated, yes; or at least venerable. The Patrons of Husbandry (Grange) was founded in 1867. Gray’s River Grange #124 arose in 1902, its first Master being H. R Ahlberg, the Swedish immigrant who built my house. The organization was originally a protective society for farmers who teamed up to resist railroads and other big business that was squeezing small producers. Grange ritual, once necessary for secrecy when members were persecuted like union organizers, is indeed vaguely masonic. But I found it to be inoffensive: the lovely rhetoric full of natural images, the ritual laced with symbols of the field, agricultural implements, and for the office of Gatekeeper, a pole topped with an owl. True enough, Granges have closed by the bushel and meetings are largely gray-haired. But I found a vitality among the oldtimers refreshed by younger newcomers like myself, eager to meet the locals and find our place in the deeply ingrained community. Thirsty for new blood, the Grange was welcoming, even of a post-urban, long-haired environmentalist who brought Wendell Berry poems to read aloud during the programs. Not that Grange politics always match my own. As it grew and became top-heavy and complacent over time, the Grange got conservative, turgid, and closer to big agribusiness. I find many of its policies at the national and state levels distasteful. Grange tends to promote pesticides and private property rights, and oppose wilderness and dam removal.
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Robert Michael Pyle is a naturalist and writer residing along Gray’s River in Wahkiakum County for many years. His twenty-two books include the Northwest classics Wintergreen, Sky Time in Gray’s River, and Where Bigfoot Walks, as well as The Thunder Tree, Chasing Monarchs, and Mariposa Road, a flight of butterfly books, and two collections of poems. His newest titles are Butterflies of the Pacific Northwest and Magdalena Mountain: a novel, released in August 2018. Photo by David Lee Myers But at the local level, Granges have been engines for positive change, conservation, and the arts, and homes for true community connection. Ours, for example, secured public water—the best I’ve ever tasted—for a current total of 258 customers; spearheaded the restoration of our historic covered bridge (the only old one left in Washington); re-enacted Captain Robert Gray’s arrival in 1792; opened a shop for local artisans; created a park with big pioneer elms and riparian habitat beside our once-busy tidal basin; and supported the establishment of nearby conservation areas for ancient forest remnants—the last old growth in the county—though the membership includes logging as well as farming families. Tonight, as I write (I always take work to Grange, for the meetings can drag on), we discuss how to protect local utilities and a 911 system where the dispatchers know everyone. We also talk about deeper dredging of the shipping channel in the Columbia River, and the bullying tactics of the Army Corps. The emphasis is on keeping the local local and the small small, and you’d be forgiven for thinking you’d dropped into a meeting of the E. F. Schumacher Society, or the Sierra Club, though good Grangers would probably never go there. But what I love most is the stories. When Merlin tells of how his Uncle Norman, whom I remember peering barely over the steering wheel of his Ranchero wagon, once drove his tractor up the side of his big chestnut; when Carlton recounts how his mother Agnes—whose silver braids I
This is the 13th in a series of selected essays to appear in Columbia River Reader. These were originally published in Orion Afield or Orion Magazine in the author’s column, “The Tangled Bank” and, subsequently, in the book of the same name published by Oregon State University Press in 2012.
recall as she served her last years behind the counter of the general store—took the payroll up to the camps on the logging railroads; or when the travails of particular cows, horses, or black sheep ancestors are passed around with the pie and coffee or the once-a-year oyster stew, I feel more and more woven into the history that I have chosen as my own. Now, not every community has a surviving Grange. But this isn’t really about Granges. It is about finding a place where the hidden heart of community still thrums, and becoming part of that place. It’s about engaging with a social natural history. Too often, we who reinhabit the countryside find ourselves even more isolated than we had been in the city; and those still in the city imagine that true community resides only in some idealized rural Brigadoon. The fact is that you can plug firmly into town or country by attending not only to the plants, animals, soils, and waters, but to the people who made those connections before you. The magic meeting ground might be a village hall, a library, or a cafe; the post office, PTA, or pub. In one town, the Odd Fellows became the focus; in another, the restored schoolhouse. Wherever they spring up, such repositories of the old tales and lifeways are well worth cont page 24
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seeking out for those willing to sit and listen for a spell. If a community can be said to have a soul, it can be found among the ghosts and the living, down at the old Grange hall. Note: Things change, and now I find myself to be the reigning old-timer at the Grange! But we’re still going. To learn
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of program scenarios from more music acts to community performances, to classic movies — you name it! The potential was wide open with no track record in sight! What we truly wanted, though, was something unique— something no casino, or outdoor venue could duplicate. But it had to be fun…and inclusive… and it had to have a bit of spectacle! Hopefully, we have discovered the answer when Aerial Arts troupe Halcyon Shows begins a month-long residency on the corner of Commerce and Vandercook. Classes, performances, and new work development will highlight their residency in Longview. Open rehearsals for their new national touring show will allow the public to peak behind the curtain as the company installs a layer of CGI (computer-generated imagery) to compliment the high-flying performance. All
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of it planned to come together when Halcyon debuts AUREUM the full work on September 20 and 21st as part of the Columbia’s 2019 season. If this works, the Columbia Theatre and Longview may well become the summer home for Halcyon and another reason people should pause in Cowlitz County, perhaps stay the night and take in a show. Other Summer Fun Summer performances Add to this two other shows: Karaoke From Hell (August 10th) featuring Tres Shannon, the founder of Voodoo Donuts, and a Portland-based live karaoke band where they play, you sing! Then a week later, it’s the Best of Seattle International Comedy Competition (August 16th) with Kelsey Cook, Kermit Apio and a host of other past winners. Kelsey recently made her late night debut on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, as well as her Comedy Central debut on This is Not Happening. The addition of summer programming means the Columbia Theatre will be o p e r a t i n g y e a rround for the first time in its history. Is that a gamechanger? I’m willing to bet it is. Is this the right combination of programming? I think it’s a good start. Be a pioneer and come see — and tell us how we’re doing.
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elli Estes’s The Girl Who Wrote in Silk is both an historical novel and a contemporary novel – two for one. In the present day, we are introduced to 24-year-old Inara Erickson who wants to remake her family home into a boutique hotel and restaurant on Orcas Island in the San Juan Islands. It is also a story of Mei Lien, a Chinese-American girl who lived more than a hundred years before. Their stories are linked with the discovery of a beautifully embroidered sleeve hidden beneath a step in the house. Like a diary, it preserves the story of Mei Lien in artful pictures. Mei Lien’s story is especially pertinent today in its description of the discrimination against the Chinese who immigrated to the United States seeking employment. The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 was the first significant law restricting immigration to the United States, and in 1902 Chinese immigration was made altogether illegal. I was moved by reading how Mei Lien’s life and those she loved were affected. Donna McLain, a Mills & Antioch grad, is a published story writer. After 27 years at Boeing, she retired to Longview, working as a substitute teacher in Kelso-Longview schools for 10 years, and now tutors. An avid reader, she’s also active in AAUW, genealogy, and politics.
Family relationships is a key theme in both stories, inviting comparison of the family dynamics between the two cultures and the two time periods — another reason why this has been a favorite with book clubs. Kelli Estes is a Seattle writer. Her story was a finalist in the mainstream category of the Pacific Northwest Writers Association literary contest in 2012. It will appeal to readers who appreciate cozy mysteries, historical fiction, coming-of-age stories, or memoir. If you loved Jamie Ford’s Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet or David Guterson’s Snow Falling on Cedars, you will enjoy this book too. •••
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English Should Be Fun!!! working with authors such as Michael Chabon, Edmund Morris, and Calvin Trillin. Now executive managing editor and copy chief, he distills nearly three decades of experience into this small and compact book. His tone is informal, even chatty, so different from the stodgy, prescriptive air of many “grammar books.” He admits he can’t diagram a sentence to save his life and observes, “You’d be amazed at how far you can get in life having no idea what the subjunctive mood is.”
Benjamin Dreyer began as a copy editor at Random House in 1993,
Recognizing that English continues to be a dynamic language, always changing, he’s wary of rules; as soon as you cite one, an exception immediately pops up. He argues instead for the four Cs to guide the writer—Convention, Consensus, Clarity, and Comprehension.
Alan Rose, author of The Legacy of Emily Hargraves, Tales of Tokyo, and The Unforgiven, organizes the monthly WordFest events and hosts the KLTV program “Book Chat.” For other book reviews, author interviews, and notes on writing and reading, visit www.alan-rose.com.
He challenges many established rules, such as never split an infinitive , arguing that changing Star Trek’s iconic motto “To boldly go where no man has gone before” to the unsplit “Boldly to go where no man has gone before” sounds as if it were translated from the Vulcan. To those grammarians who will fight to the death to never end a sentence with a preposition, he answers with the
Go light on the exclamation points.
When overused, they’re bossy, hectoring, and, ultimately, wearying. Some writers recommend that you should use no more than a dozen exclamation points per book; others insist that you should use no more than a dozen exclamation points in a lifetime. ~ from Dreyer’s English
famous Churchill remark, “This is the kind of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put.” (Though Churchill never actually said it.)
and another chapter on commonly misspelled words, including misspell itself—an instance of what he calls “slapstick tragedy.” One chapter is titled “How Not to Write Like a Brit,” arguing against the sometimes stilted sound of writerly writing. In tone and topic, Dreyer’s English is a worthy companion to Bill Bryson’s Mother Tongue and Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States. Essential for writers, these works are enjoyable, too, for anyone who loves the English language. •••
Which is not to say that Dreyer doesn’t have his own admitted peccadilloes and piques. For example, people’s overuse of literally (“No, you did not literally die laughing”) or suddenly as in Suddenly, he ran from the room. (“Makes it all rather less sudden, doesn’t it.”) Throughout, Dreyer’s humor keeps his book wry instead of dry—“Clichés should be avoided like the plague,” he counsels, and includes a chapter on overused words, close cousins to clichés (“There’s an awfully lot of ‘murmuring’ in fiction nowadays”)
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FIRST THURSDAY • July 11 Broadway Gallery Enjoy refreshments and meet guest artists Krista Mead (water colors) and James Lichatowich (animal wood carvings). Reception, 5:30-7:30pm. Music: by Brad Matthews, acoustic guitar and vocals www.the-broadway-gallery.com 1418 Commerce Ave. Downtown Longview, Wash.
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Broadway Gallery Artists coop. Classes for all ages, workshops, paint parties. Featured guest artists, June: Gail Simmons (figure paintings, oil) and Julie Koch (multi-media 3D art); July: Krista Mead (water color paintings), James Lichatowich (animal wood carvings). Hours: M-F 105:30, Sat 10–4. 1418 Commerce, Longview, Wash. 360-577-0544. www.the-broadway-gallery.com. Call to artists for August Show: “At the Beach” theme, community members welcome. Entry info at Gallery and online.
Tsuga Gallery Fine arts and crafts by area artists. Thurs-Sat 11–5. 70 Main Street, Cathlamet, Wash. 360-795-0725. Redmen Hall History and art. 1394 SR-4, Skamokawa, Wash. Thurs-Sun, 12-4pm. Info: 360-795-3007 or email fos1894@gmail.com. Arts of the Mountain June 22-23, 10–5. Along scenic Spirit Lake Hwy to Mount St. Helens. Stop at Silver Lake Grange, Toutle Lake School, Twosome Art Studio. Info: Kevlyn, 360-4319802. artsofthemountain.org. Ilwaco Art Walk First Fridays, 4–7pm. Ilwaco Harbour Village, Port of Ilwaco. Forsberg Art Gallery at LCC Through June 20: LCC Studen Art Exhibit. Rose Center for the Arts, 1600 Maple St., Longview, Wash. Gallery summer hours: Mon-Thurs 10–4). Free. Info: 360-442-2510 or lowercolumbia.edu/gallery. Clatskanie Bloom Gallery Artwork from the lower Columbia River region. Wed-Sat, 11-4. 289 N. Nehalem St. Clatskanie, Oregon. Info: 503-308-9143. Clatskaniebloom@gmail.com. clatskaniebloom.com Community Arts Workshop/Alcove Gallery with volunteer instructors and a variety of arts and crafts materials provided. Free. Mon thru Thurs, 1–3pm. Mon: water color; Tues, paper crafts, beginning paper quilling, drawing, intro. to music; first Wed. of month: Native American arts, 2nd Wed., collage & beyond, 3rd & 4th Weds., random acts of creativity; Thurs., fiber arts, stepby-step painting. Exhibit through July 31, Scott McRae, paintings. Located in the CAP building,1526 Commerce, Longview, Wash. Open Mon–Thurs 12–3:30pm. For more info: 360-425-3430 x 306, or email capartsworkshop@gmail.com. Cowlitz Valley Old Time Music Association Music jam night with open mic, 7–9pm, 1st, 3rd and 5th Fridays, Catlin Grange, 205 Shawnee, Kelso, Wash. Primary instruments: guitar, mandolin, banjo, fiddle, piano, accordion. Traditional country and/or bluegrass. Dance floor open. Info: Archie Beyl, 360-636-3835. Art in the Park Area artists and fine crafters are invited to participate Saturday, August 17. The event will be held in conjunction with Squirrel Fest located in the Longview Civic Circle. Application deadline: Aug. 1. Applications available at Broadway Gallery, 1418 Commerce Ave, Longview or at columbianartists. org. Info: Mary 206-940-9885 or maf43@ comcast.net. “Some Enchanted Evening” Musical Auditions Sun., June 23, 2 pm for Rodgers’ and Hammerstein’s musical revue directed by Jamie Hegstad. featuring songs from “South Pacific, The Sound of Music, The King and I.” Roles for 3 women, 2 men. Prepare 16 bars of a song from a musical. Show runs Sept. 6-22. Stageworks Northwest Theatre, 1433 Commerce Ave., Longview, Wash.
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Recreation, Outdoors Gardening, History, Pets, Self-Help Cowlitz County Museum Open TuesSat 10am–4pm. 405 Allen St, Kelso, Wash. www.co.cowlitz.wa.us/museum. Info: 360-577-3119. Rainier City-Wide Garage Sales Sat., June 15, 8am–4pm. Around town and at Rainier Senior Center, 48 West 7th St., Rainier, Ore. Kitchen selling food 11am–2pm. R Square D Square Dance Club dances 2nd and 4th Wednesday. Dance times: 7–8pm Plus with advanced rounds, 8– 9:30pm Mainstream with rounds. 106 NW 8th Ave, Kelso, Wash., by the Rotary spray park at intersection of OB Hwy (SR-4) and W. Main, Kelso/ Longview. More info www.r-square-d. info, or call Annie Tietze, 360-4145855.
Oregon Spider Facts June 27, 6:30pm. OSU/ Columbia County Master Gardeners. Info: 503-397-3462. How to Grow, Arrange, Enter Flowers for Cowlitz County Fair Judging June 25, 6pm. Cowlitz County Expo Center, 1900 7th Ave., Longview. WSU Extension. Info 360-5773014, Ex. 0.
Annual Steelhead Derby July 19,20,21. Prizes awarded at the included BBQ on Sunday, July 21, Louis Rasmussen Day Park, Kalama, Wash. Lower Columbia Chapter. Coastal Conservation Assn. Many prizes, incl. $1,000 grand prize.www. ccawashington.org Bunker Hill Cemetery Tour Sat., July 13, 5–7:30pm. Presented by The Stella Historical Society, Cowlitz County Historical Museum and the Bunker Hill Cemetery Assn. Info: Barbara Williamson, 360423-3860. Directions: Bunker Hill Cemetary is located approx. 16 miles west of Longview. Take State Route 4 to Bunker Hill Road, turn right at the first intersection and continue up the hill to the cemetery. Photo at left: Bill Watson whose character was Rolen C. Smathers, a long-time resident of Stella and now “resides” at Bunker Hill Cemetery. Photo by Laura McCartney.
Kalama Pub Crawl Sat., July 6, 12Noon–midnight. In Kalama, Wash. (I-5 Exit 30) at Willie Dick’s 1st Street Tap House, Poker Pete’s, Playa Azul, Lucky Dragon, Columbia Inn Sports Bar. Wearers of lanyards (keepsake magnet/souvenir which come with one raffle ticket and are available on Facebook page @KalamaPubCrawl, along with T-shirts and hats) get discounts and chance for prizes. Proceeds benefit Kalama’s Helping Hands
Community / Farmers Markets Cowlitz Community Farmers Market
Astoria Sunday Market
Sundays • 10–3 thru Oct 13 Downtown on 12th, just off Hwy 30, Astoria, Ore. • 503-325-1010 www.astoriasundaymarket.com
9–2, Tues thru Sept; Sat thru Oct 1900 7th Ave, Cowlitz Expo Center, Longview, Wash. www.cowlitzfarmersmarkets.com Info: Laurie Kochis 360-957-7023 lauriekochis@msn.com
Castle Rock Farmers Market
Sundays • 12-4 thru Sept. Spanning the block between Cowlitz and A Streets, downtown Castle Rock.
Ilwaco Saturday Market
Clatskanie Farmers’ Market
Saturdays • 10–2 June thru Sept. Copes Park. From Hwy 30, turn north on Nehalem, east on Lillich. Music, a food cart, children’s activities each week. SNAP, FDNP accepted. New vendors welcome; find application at clatskaniefarmersmarket.com Info: 971-506-7432 Darro Breshears-Routon clatskaniefmvendorcoordinator@gmail.com
Columbia-Pacific Farmers Market Fridays •12–5pm Thru Sept 27 Downtown Long Beach, Wash. www.longbeachwa.gov info: cpfmmallory@gmail.com Info: 360-224-3921
Elochoman Marina Farmers Market
Fridays thru Sept 27 • 4–7pm 500 2nd St,, Cathlamet, Wash. cathlametmarina.org Info: Mackenzie Jones, Mgr: 360-849-9401
Scappoose Community Club Farmers Market
CRR gladly lists community-based Farmers Markets selling local produce in the Lower Columbia region. Send information to publisher@crreader.com. Please indicate “Farmers’ Market listing” on the subject line.
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Saturdays • 10–4 thru Sept 28 Arts/crafts, housewares, cut flowers, foods. Weekly entertainment. Port of Ilwaco, Ilwaco, Wash. www.portofilwaco.com Info: Cyd Kertson 360-214-4964 cydsatmkt.cyd@gmail.com
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Saturdays, thru Sept 28 • 9–2 Behind City Hall next to Heritage Park, 2nd St., Scappoose, Ore. www.scappoosefarmermarket.com Info: Bill Blank 503-730-7429 email: scappoosefm@gmail.com
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This friendly club welcomes newcomers. For more info please call the hike leader or visit mtsthelensclub.org. RT(round trip) distances are from Longview.E=easy, M=moderate, S=strenuous, e.g.=elevation gain. Sat, June 15 Fossil Trail (M) Drive 110 miles RT. Hike 7.5+ miles to Blue Lake trailhead with 1,300 ft. e.g. This is a newer trail through a remote area inside the MSH Monument, traversing Goat Mountain through an old growth forest that survived the 1980 eruption. Leader: Bruce 360-425-0256. Wed, June 19 Lake Sacajawea (E) Walk around the whole lake (3+ miles) or walk half the lake (1+ mile). Leaders: Trudy and Ed, 360-414-1160. Fri, June 21 Kalama Waterfront (E) Drive 20 miles RT, Summer Solstice walk. Celebrate the start of summer and the longest day of the year with a 3+ mile walk on level path around the harbor and along the Columbia River and if you’d like, stay to enjoy the sunset. Leaders: Jenny 586-872-8126, Karen 360-442-3884.
Sat, June 22 Observation Peak - Trapper Creek Wilderness (M/S) Drive 170 miles RT. Hike up to an old fire lookout site with great views. Several options available for added mileage. 5 miles with 500 ft. e.g. from Observation Peak trailhead. 12 miles with 3,575 ft. e.g. from Trapper Creek Trailhead. Leader: Dan, 360-355-6241. Wed., June 26 Capitol Lake, Olympia (E) Drive 120 miles RT. Hike from interpretive park north around Capitol Lake and back 5 or 6 miles RT on mostly flat path. Leader: John R. 360-431-1122. Wed., July 3 Astoria Riverwalk (E) and Hill Climb (M) Drive 100 miles RT. Join Art for a 4-mile leisurely stroll along the Columbia River with no e.g. Or, join Linda for a more strenuous hike with about 575 ft. e.g. thru the hills of Astoria. Leaders: Art 360-270-9991, Linda J. 360-431-3321.
Sat., July 6 Vernonia/Banks Bike Ride (E/M/S) Drive 100miles RT. Bike paved rails-to-trails path to high point at Stub Steward State Park for a 20-mile outand-back, or go all the way to Banks and back for 42 miles. Leader: George W. 360-562-0001. Wed., Jul y 10 Washougal River Greenway (E) Drive 106 miles RT. Hike 3+ miles in Washougal River Greenway and Round Lake: Art 360-270-9991. Sat., July 13 West Zig Zag Mountain (M/S) Drive 190 miles RT. Hike a 9-mile loop with 1,700 ft. e.g. in the Mt. Hood Wilderness to an old lookout site. Trail passes Devils Meadows, climbs above Cast Lake, and then traverses through forest to a view of Mt. Hood. Leader: Bruce 360425-0256. Wed, July 17 Lake Sacajawea (E) Walk around the whole lake (3+ miles) or walk half the lake (1+ mile). Leaders: Trudy and Ed, 360-414-1160.
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PSA: Important Security Upgrade
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’ve continued to remind computer clients that using an older operating system (OS), especially pre-Windows 10, is unsafe because Microsoft generally no longer updates these closed-source systems. There are some exceptions with optional paid programs, but even those will soon expire. The NSA is warning that even just using these old machines can act like an unvaccinated part of the community, multiplying and spreading risk to others, if viruses sit on these old computers. The easiest way to upgrade your machines is to backup your files and scan them for viruses on a cloud or computer repair service, wipe the machine and install a new operating system. You can also buy a new Windows 10 or Mac computer. But there’s a free third option most people don’t know about: Linux. Let’s end planned obsolescence While I’ve used Windows my entire life and Mac for work, both of these options are quite expensive. Windows has historically required license fees of around $100 every few years for the new upgrade, although there’s speculation that will end. But I wouldn’t plan my future based on that. Mac hardware lasts for a long time, probably about 10 years in many cases, but requires a high upfront cost and is difficult to repair yourself, although there are many official and unofficial stores from Longview to Portland. Both approaches are for-profit companies that force you to pay to upgrade software or buy new hardware after a certain amount of time despite their being perfectly capable of lasting for many more years, requiring infrequently replacing single parts for around $50. Linux is free forever, secure, modern, visually customizable and runs on any hardware, even what many would consider to be historical pieces we have sitting in the closet.
Linux, invented in 1991, has always been an open-source, non-profit project, never having any storefronts and used mainly in corporate and tech crowds. Open-source is a big deal because Mac and Windows are the opposite. If Apple or Microsoft deem a program or system too old or not worth supporting, users will be told to upgrade, often via a fee, risk using insecure old software or jump ship. Open-source allows anyone to view and edit the code in order to keep programs functional and safe forever, as long as there is community interest.
and Wishram was the perfect spot to build a bridge across the Columbia River. Basalt rock stood above the waterline during periods with low tide, making it possible to construct piers to support the bridge. The railroad company built BNSF Railway Bridge 9.6, the first bridge to cross the Columbia River. Eventually, the rail line extended to Bend, Oregon, and Wishram and became a primary passenger terminal, roundhouse and freight switchyard for trains traveling to Bend. To commemorate the railway, a P-2 Class locomotive built by Baldwin in 1923 rests enclosed next to the old railway station in town. This style of engine worked fabulously to transport passengers, but was replaced by the S-2 Northern. The P-2s were used as freight trains until they were retired in 1955. Number 2507 of the Great Northern Railway is enormous, and the mural across the street portrays an old post office and grocery store.
For refreshment, plan a picnic and visit one of the four wineries along this section of Highway 14: Cascade Cliffs Vineyard and Winery, Jacob Williams Winery, Maryhill Winery or Waving Tree Winery and Vineyard. You can also spend an entire day perusing the gorgeous art at Maryhill Museum. The final stop is the Maryhill Stonehenge. Sam Hill’s Stonehenge Memorial was dedicated in 1918 to honor the heroism and sacrifice of service members of Klickitat County, Washington, who fought and died in WWI. Stonehenge was the nation’s first WWI memorial. Hill, along with others at that time, believed that the original Stonehenge was a place of sacrifice, and he drew a parallel between the lives lost in WWI and the sacrifices that took place at the initial site. Several top astronomers of the day designed the position of the altar stone to align with the sunrise on the summer solstice. The altar stone was dedicated on July 4, 1918. It reads, “In memory of the soldiers and sailors of Klickitat County who gave their lives in defense of their country. This monument is erected in the hope that others inspired by the example of their valor and their heroism may share in that love of liberty and burn with that fire of patriotism which death can alone quench.” The Stonehenge Memorial was finally finished in 1929 and rededicated on M e m o r i a l D a y. Samuel Hill died in 1931, and his body was cremated. His ashes now reside in a crypt beneath the memorial.
Standard Linux visual interfaces look good in my opinion, but users can make them look exactly like their favorite operating system, from MSDOS to Windows 95 to an older version of Mac. Linux can be freely downloaded and put on a usb jump drive, following a very simple website guide, and installed on anything. The installation is refreshingly easy and fast compared to Windows, even on ancient machines and actually makes your previously sluggish machines feel new again! This is because Linux is designed to use a low amount of power and resources as opposed to constantly pushing new boundaries of the newer hardware. Most of my clients and likely most of our readers don’t play modern video games requiring high end boxes, nor do they need proprietary programs that exclusively run on Windows or Mac. Most things these days are done all online, making Linux even easier and seamless since your Internet browser will look exactly as you already expect. But Linux also has many offline programs like the ones that come with Windows and Mac.
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‘Pokémon Detective Pikachu’ and ‘John Wick: Chapter 3: Parabellum’ By Dr. Bob Blackwood
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the whole thing not only possible but fun. If you don’t think so, just walk past any theater playing “John Wick: Chapter 3-Parabellum.” The audience roars at his efforts. Unfortunately for Wick, (though not for the audience), Wick is still being hunted by an international crime ring. This means that it is likely that “John Wick: Chapter 4-Parabellum” will appear in a year or more. If Wick were not such an honorable man, who is still mourning for his spouse, I presume he wouldn’t have time for more than an opportunity to kill 10 or 20 of the really bad, bad guys. But maybe they can do something better; this guy could use some feminine interaction in the next “John Wick” film. •••
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Ixtapa Fine Mexican Restaurant 640 E. Columbia River Hwy Fine Mexican cuisine. Daily specials. The best margarita in town. Daily drink specials. Sports bar. M-Th 11am–9:30pm; Fri & Sat 11am–11:30pm; Sun 11am–9pm. 503-728-3344
Rainier Alston Pub & Grub 25196 Alston Rd., Rainier 503-556-4213 11 beers on tap, cocktails. Open daily 11am. 503-556-9753 See ad, page 12.
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Longview 716 Triangle Shopping Center. 18 rotating craft brews, pub fare. M-W 12 noon –9pm, Th-Sat 12 noon-11pm, Sun 12 Noon-8pm. 360-232-8283. Follow us on Untappd .
1260 Commerce Ave. Serving lunch & dinner Mon–Sat 11am–10pm. Full bar, banquet space, American comfort food. 360-703-3904. www.millcitygrill.com. See ad, page 8.
Evergreen Pub & Café 115-117 East 1st Street Burgers, halibut, prime rib, full bar. 503-556-9935. See ad, page 12. Goble Tavern 70255 Columbia River Hwy. (Milepost 31, Hwy. 30) Food, beer & wine + full bar, Live entertainment. 503-556-4090. See ad page 12.
Luigi’s Pizza 117 East 1st Street, Rainier 503-556-4213 Pizza, spaghetti, burgers, beer & wine. See ad, page 12.
Fire Mountain Grill 9440 Spirit Lake Hwy, Milepost 19. Lunch & Dinner: Burgers, sandwiches, salads, steaks seafood, chicken & dumplings, housemade cobblers and infamous Bigfoot Burger. Riverside dining. Open 10am–8pm daily. 360-274-5217.
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The Original Pietrio’s Pizzeria Homestyle cooking from the 1960s-1970. All natural ingredients. Beer and wine available. Open Wed. thru Sun, 7am–8pm. 1140 15th Ave., Longview. See ad, page 9.
The Carriage Restaurant & Lounge
Full breakfast, lunch and dinner 6am– 9pm. Full bar in lounge, open 6am. Three happy hours daily (8–10am, 12– 2pm, 5–7pm). Group meeting room, free use with $150 food/drink purchases. 1334 12th Ave. 360-425-8545.
614 Commerce Ave., Longview. 18 varieties of pizza. Salad bar, Lunch buffet all-you-can-eat. Beer & wine. Mon-Fri open 11am, Sat-Sun 12 Noon. 360-353-3512.
Country Folks Deli 1329 Commerce Ave., Longview. Serving lunch and dinner. Sandwiches, soups, salads. Open M-Sat 11am. 360-425-2837.
Freddy’s Just for the Halibut. Cod, halibut & tuna fish and chips, oysters & clams., award-winning clam chowder. Prime rib every Thurs. Beer and wine. M-W 10–8, Th-Sat 10–9, Sun 11–8. 1110 Commerce 360-414-3288. See ad, page 15.
Hop N Grape 924 15th Ave., Longview M–Th 11am–8pm; Fri & Sat 11am– 9pm; Sun 11am–7pm. BBQ meat slowcooked on site. Pulled pork, chicken brisket, ribs, turkey, salmon. Worldfamous mac & cheese. 360-577-1541 See ad page 34.
Sunshine Pizza & Catering 2124 Columbia Blvd. Hot pizza, cool salad bar. Beer & wine. 503-397-3211 See ad, page 14.
Scappoose Porky’s Public House 561 Industrial Way, Longview Slow-roasted prime rib Fri & Sat, flat iron steaks, 1/3-lb burgers, fish & chips. 33 draft beers. Full bar. Family-friendly, weekly jazz and acoustic dinner hour sets on Weds. 360-636-1616. See ad, page 15.
Conestoga Pub Cornerstone Café 102 East “A” Street Microbrews, wines & spirits Prime rib Friday & Sat. Open M-F 6am–8pm; Sat-Sun 7am–8pm. 503-556-8772.
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Red Kitchen 848 15th Ave., Longview. Cocktails, taps, vino. Traditional diner fare, breakfast, lunch, dinner. Sandwiches, burgers, funky comfort food, incl. Bacon Gouda Mac n Cheese, shepherd’s pie, healthy options. Full service bar, incl 12 taps. 7am–10pm, M-F, 8am–10pm Sat-Sun.
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. 503-5435100.
Ixtapa Fine Mexican Restaurant
33452 Havlik Rd. Fine Mexican cuisine. Daily specials. The best margarita in town. Daily drink specials. M-Th 11am–9:30pm; Fri & Sat 11am–11:30pm; Sun 11am–9pm. 503-543-3017
Warren Roland Wines 1106 Florida St., Longview. Authentic Italian wood-fired pizza, wine, and beer. Casual ambience. 5–9pm Wed-Sat. See ad, page 34.
Warren Country Inn 56575 Columbia River Hwy. Fine family dining. Breakfast, lunch & dinner. Fri Prime Rib special, Taco Tuesday. Full bar. M-Th 8am–9:30pm, Fri-Sat 8am–10:30pm, Sun 9am–9pm. Karaoke Fri & Sat.503-410-5479.
Teri’s 3225 Ocean Beach Hwy, Longview. Lunch and dinner. Burgers, steak, seafood, pasta, specials, fresh NW cuisine. Happy Hour. Full bar. Sun-Mon 3–8pm. Tues–Sat 11:30am–9pm.. 360577-0717.
Castle Rock Masthead Castaways 1124 Washington Way, Longview. Famous fish & chips, gourmet burgers, Chowders. 13 beers on tap. Extra parking in back. 360-232-8500.
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Parker’s Restaurant & 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
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Astronomy
SKY REPORT / FRIENDS OF GALILEO
June 15 – July 15
Early summer treat: A planetary conjunction By Ted Gruber Evening Sky If you picked up your copy of CRR early this month, you’re in for a treat on the evenings of June 17 and 18. As the sky darkens after sunset, Mercury and Mars will appear next to each other low in the west-northwest sky. The two planets will be separated by less than the apparent diameter of a full moon on June 17, and will close this gap a little more the next evening. Although Mars is actually larger than Mercury, Mercury will appear bigger and much brighter than Mars. That’s because the two planets appear aligned when viewed from Earth, but Mercury is currently on the near side of the sun relative to Earth, and Mars is on the far side. Jupiter rises in the southeast around 9:00pm in mid-June, while Saturn follows around 11:00pm. Both planets rise about two hours earlier by midJuly. On the evening of June 18, the nearly full moon passes just south of Saturn, making it easy to locate the ringed planet. The full moon and Saturn appear even closer together the night of July 15-16. Morning Sky Look for Saturn in the pre-dawn southwest sky. The ringed planet sets a bit earlier each morning, so by mid-July you’ll need to be up around 4:00am to see it.
Venus rises between 4:30am and 5:00am in mid-June. By mid-July, the bright planet rises between 5:00am and 5:30am, but by this time the morning twilight might make Venus a bit harder to locate. Look for Venus low in the northeastern sky, almost directly opposite Saturn. Sidewalk Astronomy The local Friends of Galileo astronomy club will host a public sidewalk observing session the evening of Friday, July 12 (weather permitting). Join us starting around 9:00pm in the parking lot outside Starbucks at 808 Ocean Beach Highway in Longview. Several club members will have telescopes set up to observe the moon, Jupiter, Saturn, and possibly some deep sky objects. If skies are overcast or it’s raining on July 12, we’ll try again the next night, again weather permitting. Please check the calendar on the club’s website www.friendsofgalileo. com/calendar for last minute details to confirm the event isn’t cancelled. ••• Kelso resident Ted Gruber makes a regular report to fellow members of Friends of Galileo, a family-friendly astronomy club which meets monthly in Longview. For info about FOG, visit friendsofgalileo.com.
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ummer is a great time to get out in the garden, no matter how old you are. Enjoy spending time with kids or grandkids with some of these activities. And grab your camera—memories are being made! Little bitties love playing in water on hot days. Fill a basin with water and a little baby shampoo for suds. Put it on a bench, drop in some of those toys that could use a washing, and let the fun begin!
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Create a joyful noise in the garden. Gather large tin cans and plastic bottles, paint them bright colors, maybe with some help from older kids, harvest some sticks, and you have a percussion section in the garden! How about a scavenger hunt? Cut out pictures of items that are commonly found in a garden, glue them to paper, let the littlest find them. You can print out more specific items for older kids. It’s always fun to look for insects in the garden with a magnifying glass. It’s amazing what you can find under leaves and on stems if you’re looking. Some of the best beneficial insects are teensy. You can temporarily put them in a Mason jar with netting covering the top to get a better look. Be sure to release them! Search “UC Meet the Beneficials” for a handy reference for identification. Create a small pollinator garden Get a garden hose and arrange it in an interesting pattern. Older kids can dig the sod and flip it over grass side down as a base for the bed. Get some inexpensive cinder blocks, arrange them around the outline you made, and fill with good garden soil. Go out shopping for pollinator plants, or plant a pollinator seed mix. Search “WSU Plants to Attract Bees and Butterflies” for a handy reference. Remember: DON’T use any pesticide near flowering plants.
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Get some chalk and join the kids in decorating the cinder blocks! Mulch half of the bed, but leave the other half un-mulched. See which side dries out faster and gets more weeds. And my all-time favorite: Make a pollinator drinking pond! Get a shallow dish or pan. Place some pebbles, small rocks, twigs, lichen, and moss to create islands for the pollinators to land. Offer them some refreshments, orange slices (wash the orange first), and brightly colored flowers from the garden. Place in a garden bed, and pour in about half an inch of water. Get your camera, or let the kids take pictures of visitors. Refresh the water frequently. A much deserved thank you is in order: We would like to offer a sincere thank you to both Columbia River Reader and to the community for making the Master Gardener Plant Sale and Tomatopalooza a great success! Your support helps to fund the outreach programs we offer to our community. Happy Gardening! ••• Kalama resident Alice Slusher volunteers with WSU Extension Service Plant & Insect Clinic. Drop by 9–12 Mon-WedFri. at 1946 3rd Ave., Longview, with your specimen, call 360-577-3014, ext. 8, or send question via cowlitzmastergardener@gmail.com.
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Northwest Foods
MAN IN THE KITCHEN CLASSICS
Tandoori Chicken
By Paul Thompson
Indian spices satisfy, promote health
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ave you ever smelled a crushed cardamom seed or a pinch of garam masala powder? I hadn’t, until I walked into my first Indian restaurant years ago. Love at first sniff! And Indian cuisine is much more than curry, its signature spice combo. There is so much more to please you. And not all the dishes are hot, even many of the spicy ones. Health scientists are applauding the value of turmeric, cumin, chili pepper and ginger for their potential to inhibit and kill cancer cells, reduce the size of tumors, work as highpowered anti-oxidants and much more. These spices, key ingredients of curry, have long been used in Indian medical treatments. Modern scientists have begun in recent years to discover their significance.
1 tsp. cayenne pepper 2 tsp. garam masala (available in grocery stores’ standard spice sections) ½ tsp. salt 2 tsp. ground coriander seeds 1 tsp. turmeric 1 tsp. cumin ¼ tsp. fresh-ground nutmeg ¼ tsp. ground cloves 4 cloves minced garlic 2 Tbl. minced ginger 2 Tbl. lemon juice, fresh
Lamb and chicken are the primary meats consumed in India, and even vegetarians and vegans find themselves in a veritable Garden of Eden. I’ve been to regular vegetarian restaurants and walked away wondering where the flavor went, and I wasn’t chewing gum. That will never happen in India. India has more vegetarianonly restaurants per capita than any other country in the world, and enough flavors enhancing those veggies to satisfy even the most ardent carnivore.
Mix together all ingredients and blend in: 1 c. Plain low-fat yogurt
People on low sodium diets know that spices can replace salt, and with satisfaction. Indian cuisine is also very low in saturated fats. Check out the skinless Tandoori Chicken recipe, at right.
I generally buy a whole chicken and cut it up myself, but starting with a cut-up chicken saves time. And Band-aids. Paul Thompson returned to his hometown of Longview in 2012 after completing a teaching career at Wright College, Chicago, then building a home in Sequim, Wash., using lumber he milled from logs cut on the property. He wrote for CRR from the first issue, April 2004. Now known as “Man in the Kitchen Emeritus,” his talents as a cook and writer are still appreciated.
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Remove the skin from the chicken. Split each breast in half and slash all the meaty pieces (breasts, thighs and legs) so they’ll more readily accept the marinade. Mix the paste and yogurt, place with the chicken in a plastic bag and fondle it until the chicken parts are evenly coated with the marinade. I double-bag to prevent leakage. Refrigerate for 8 hours or overnight.
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Grill over medium heat outdoors, or bake in a 350º oven. Bottled Tandoori paste is readily available from specialty food stores in the Portland-Vancouver area or online. You can also make a Tandoori paste facsimile in your own kitchen. Here’s my recipe:
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I’ve bagged up and marinated enough of this chicken the night before a cookout to serve 50 people, or a more intimate group of 4. They always devour it, even the finicky eaters. I have never tired of Tandoori Chicken; it’s one of my “signature” dishes. Try it on the grill this summer (or in the oven if, on the odd chance, it rains — what? Here?!). Bon Appetit!
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Use as directed in the preceding Tandoori chicken recipe. Tandoori chicken is a stand-alone dish anytime, but if you want to extend the flavors of India to a complete dinner, add Indian-inspired side dishes such as Matar Paneer (tofu and peas) and Aoloo with Cardamom (potato). Recipes abound in traditional ethnic cookbooks and online and you’ll even find some Indian-esque frozen items in the grocery store (Amy’s brand has several). •••
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Friends in Japan Representatives from Lower Columbia College’s international program partner, Atomi University (Niiza and Tokyo, Japan) and representatives from Longview’s sister city, Wako, Japan, met in April in Tokyo to celebrate LCC’s international program. Kikuko Matsunari, upper right, had just returned from a visit to LCC with her son, Yuuki, who will be attending LCC in the fall, and was sharing copies of the Columbia River Reader with the representatives of Atomi and Wako.
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the spectator by ned piper Paying it forward
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t our 40th class reunion, the R. A. Long Class of 1958 raised $40,000 toward a scholarship fund. The money was placed with the R.A. Long Foundation, with its Scholarship Committee choosing the student who would receive an award each year. This system worked incredibly well until, that is, the funds dwindled during the recession and eventually ran out. That was two years ago. Last summer, our class held our 60th reunion. The appeal to our former classmates succeeded in raising $10,000 to put us back in the scholarship business, with a $1,500 award presented this year to Isabella Kilgore, a graduate whose goal is to become a high school English teacher. I bring this up, not to toot the Class of 1958’s horn, but rather to pose this question: If our class had
begun initiated the funds at our 10th reunion, instead of waiting until our 40th, how many more students would we have been able to help with their education? I believe that’s called “Paying it forward.” If you are a 2019 graduate, or a parent of a graduate from one of the region’s high schools: Congratulations! And let me suggest that you encourage the alumni to start a scholarship fund at their first reunion, and not wait to pay it forward until the 40th. You can do so much good in the intervening years. And trust me: they’ll go fast. Best wishes to all recent graduates. Follow your dreams! ••• Longview native Ned Piper enjoys reading, writing, putzing in the yard, watching all manner of TV sports, and schmoozing with CRR advertisers and readers.
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While this is all great for the general user, gamers like me had one final hangup with Linux and that has been very low gaming support. But in just the past three years or so, a Washington state company called Valve is making a free Linux gaming compatibility mode called Proton. Which some versions of Linux, like Zorin OS, come with built in. Valve has had fast progress, going from a mere 200 supported games at the program start to half of the entire market catalog running perfectly, with only 11% being unplayable. With Proton, Linux is a great choice for the whole family and I would wager that over the next five years, close to 100% of games will become supported. Quickest solution Run your system updates immediately and get into the habit of keeping things up to date. Many systems have a check box to automatically install from now on. The only users who might want to wait a few weeks or months are business users, relying on specific program compatibility to complete their scheduled projects. Instead of paying money to buy a new Mac if it’s too old to be updated, or even paying for a new Windows license, consider Linux as it will provide security and increase the longevity of your system for many more years, if not indefinitely, via inexpensive parts replacement if the hard drive fails, for example. Mac users should download Elementary OS as the most familiar experience and Windows fans should grab Zorin Core OS for modern machines or Zorin Lite if using very old hardware. All these downloads are free, but donations are highly recommended to thank the creators. I would recommend contributing something if you can. Similarly, I routinely give to Wikipedia as it has become an invaluable resource in my own life. You can also wait to donate until you feel the software has greatly helped you. ••• Watch for Perry Piper’s report next month on the Solar Totales he will be experiencing in Chile. He is working remotely for CRR and can refer clients to a technical consultant filling in for him to help with their computer needs. Reach Perry via email (perrypiper@hotmail. com) or text message 360-270-0608.
PLUGGED IN TO COWLITZ PUD They’re back! By Alice Dietz
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n April 2000 an osprey pair attempted to build a nest on a Cowlitz PUD distribution pole. Their nests can cause power outages and fires when sticks interfere with electrical equipment. Our line crews deemed this a safety risk for the public and for the osprey, so we designed and built an alternate, higher nesting platform near the same pole. The ospreys accepted the alternate nesting platform and for 17 years, a pair has been returning to their summer home in Cowlitz County. In 2016, thanks to help from Brian Magnuson and the team at Cascade Networks, Cowlitz PUD launched our OspreyCam. Spring has come and our Osprey have arrived. It is always exciting to get the first views of the their arrival and calling up our partners to squeal over their successful migration. We are excited that our fourth OspreyCam season is underway! This year we made some exciting updates to our live cam. We replaced the platform with a much sturdier and nest-like version that has been fully adopted by the returning Osprey. We also added audio and an additional camera to improve the viewing. Subscribe to our YouTube channels and check out the new baby ospreys that have just hatched. https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=0O26AdYXQCo https://www. youtube.com/watch?v=XfQslvpxTMk Our Manager of Environment Compliance, Amanda Froberg, spearheads projects like these. In 2015, Amanda developed and implemented Cowlitz PUD’s Avian Protection Plan (APP) to improve electrical reliability to customer-owners and ensure compliance with state and federal laws and rules and regulations protecting wild migratory birds. An Avian Protection Plan is a voluntary utility specific program designed to protect and conserve wild migratory birds, by reducing the risks that result from avian contact with utility electric facilities. •••
Alice Dietz is Communications and Public Relations Manager at Cowlitz PUD. Reach her at adietz@cowlitzpud.org, or 360-501-9146.
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