CRR May 2019

CRREADER.COM • Vol. XVI, No. 2 • May 15 – June 15, 2019 • COMPLIMENTARY Helping you discover and enjoy the good life in the Columbia River region at home and on the road

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ME MY PIANO

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MISS MANNERS

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HUGGING page 5

MAN IN THE KITCHEN

GRILLED SALMON

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People+Place

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COLUMBIA RIVER

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THE TOAST OF ROAST

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EVENTS • BOOKS • SUBSCRIPTIONS We’ve recently added two wonderful new CRR series and reprised our popular historical chronicle, Michael Perry’s “Dispatch from the Discovery Trail.” Adding writer and filmmaker Hal Calbom, creator of “People+Place,” and renowned naturalist Robert Michael Pyle to our stable of monthly contributors prompted many of you to ask:

“Can we subscribe to the Reader and not miss a single issue?”

We’re listening! We’ve responded to your suggestions and are introducing a bonus: a line of CRR-published and distributed books. Welcome to our latest innovation: the CRR Collectors Club.

We’re not just celebrating the Columbia River lifestyle and good reads — we’re collectible!

LEWIS AND CLARK REVOLUTIONIZED

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

IN FULL VIEW Rex Ziak

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The newly edited and annotated by Rex Ziak version of Franchére’s 1820 journal, Narrative of a Voyage to the Northwest Coast of America in the Years 1811, 1812, 1813 and 1814, or The First American Settlement on the Pacific.

Alan Rose Books • Miss Manners Civilized Life • Marc Roland Wine Alice Slusher Northwest Gardening • Tracy Beard Out and About Ted Gruber and Greg Johnson Astronomy Debra Tweedy Quips & Quotes • Tiffany Dickinson Happenings Perry Piper Lower Columbia Informer • Ned Piper The Spectator Dr. Bob Blackwood Movies • Columbia River Dining Guide CRR Readers Where Do You Read the Reader?

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ike our namesake river, the ebbs and flows of the Columbia River Reader never cease to amaze and fascinate me.

Recently we made an exciting announcement launching a publishing subsidiary named Columbia River Reader Press, and an expanded subscription program we call the CRR Collectors Club. There are details of both of these on the facing page.

We shared our news at a reception honoring our People+Place sponsors at the Cowlitz County Historical Museum. I realized that evening that most everyone who had contributed to what got us here ­and would help pilot us up or downriver in the foreseeable future, was right there in the room with us that night — namely a whole host of prized contributing writers and sponsors.

Among them were four writers whose work helped create an evolved CRR. They underscore my sense both that we have so much more to celebrate and share, and that there is curated content in the Reader that just might be “collectible.”

Robert Michael Pyle is familiar to many readers as a renowned naturalist Publisher/Editor: Susan P. Piper Columnists and contributors: Tracy Beard Dr. Bob Blackwood Hal Calbom Alice Dietz Ted Gruber Wil Knoop Jim LeMonds Marykay Morelli Cam Parvitee Michael Perry Ned Piper Perry Piper Robert Michael Pyle Marc Roland Alan Rose Alice Slusher Greg Smith Paul Thompson Debra Tweedy Production Manager/ Photographer: Perry E. Piper Editorial/Proofreading Assistants: Merrilee Bauman Tiffany Dickinson Michael Perry Marilyn Perry Debra Tweedy

Sue’s Views

Chalk on the Sidewalk

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and Clark; and Hal Calbom is author and photographer of our “People+Place” series, now in its second year.

The fourth of these writers, Rex Ziak, is a story in himself.

When I was imagining a publication that would celebrate the good life in the Columbia River region and spotlight the upcoming Lewis and Clark Bicentennial Commemoration, the planets must have been aligned. By pure serendipity, the chance to purchase CRR fell in my lap in January 2004. Our first issue came out in April, coinciding perfectly with the launching of the national event.

Rex Ziak draws a map on the sidewalk near

Michael Perry rose to the occasion Dismal Nitch in a presentation which led to his as CRR’s Lewis and Clark columnist book, Lewis and Clark Down and Up the Columbia River. Photo by Michael Perry. and wrote each month, step-by-step of the Corps.’ journey 200 years before. He applied his curiosity and scholarship reading the Expeditions’s journals and dozens of other books on the subject, and driving around the western sates re-tracing their path, visiting sites and attending related programs. cont page 4

Columbia River Reader . . . helping you discover and enjoy the good life in the Columbia River region at home and on the road.

In this Issue 2 5 7 9 11 12 13 15 16 17 18 19-22 23 25 26 27 28-29 30 30 31 32 33 34 36 37 38 38

CRR Collectors Club Miss Manners Dispatch from the Discovery Trail ~ On the Road Again My Slant: Feel Good by Doing Good ~ Volunteer!

Medical Matters In Their Footsteps: Oregon’s Oldest Shipwreck Me and My Piano: Wil Knoop’s Accordion Farmers Markets Out & About ~ The Vista House at Crown Point Provisions along the Trail People+Place Recommended Books People + Place ~ Cultured Coffee: Melisa Vandervalk Essay by Robert Michael Pyle: Naming Names Northwest Gardening: The Secret Life of Stunning Baskets Besides CRR, What Are You Reading?

Cover to Cover ~ Bestsellers List / Book Review Outings & Events Calendar Lower Columbia Informer ~ Vegan Burgers Are Good Now? Mt. St. Helens Club Hikes Movies by Dr. Bob Blackwood Lower Columbia Dining Guide Astronomy ~ Looking Up and The Night Sky Report Quips & Quotes Man in the Kitchen Classics: Grilled Salmon Where Do You Read the Reader?

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Rex Ziak at a CRR Collectors Club event at the Cowlitz County Museum, explaining Lewis and Clark’s challenges on the Lower Columbia River as they neared the mouth.

Sue’s Views

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Mike was delighted to encounter Naselle, Wash. resident Rex Ziak, who had recently revolutionized local history by establishing — contrary to hot shot historians’ prior discounting and dismissals of the claim — that Lewis and Clark had, indeed, seen the ocean from the spot on the Lower Columbia River reported in their journals. Rex documented his “case” in an amazing and beautiful book, In Full View, as well as accounting for their stormy month at the mouth of the river.

Mike joined an “Ocean in View” tour escorted by Ziak in November 2004.

At the Megler rest stop near Dismal Nitch, a mile east of the north end of the Astoria Bridge, as the bus unloaded Mike noticed Rex crouching on the sidewalk, chalk in hand (see photo, page 3). He drew a long map showing the Columbia River drainage from Idaho to the Pacific, the basis of Ziak’s talk that day.

Rex described the Corps making their way from the Bitterroot Mountains to within five miles of the Pacific Ocean in a month, then taking another month to reach the Ocean and crossing the Columbia to where Fort Clatsop was built.

The chalk-drawn map led to Ziak’s second book, Lewis and Clark Down

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and Up the Columbia River. It, too, is an artistic and charming work of art — an extraordinary foldout map that captures his sidewalk presentation and which Ziak describes as a one-page book that took a dozen years to research.

Now, CRR Press is especially thrilled to be distributing Rex Ziak’s books and we are excited to offer them to you for purchase. Although the Reader will continue free local and online distribution, Collectors Club members will enjoy added benefits, such as regular delivery, book signings and author events. Please refer to page 2 for more details.

Lewis and Clark’s mission proved pivotal for the identity and growth of our country, and the Expedition literally touched the ground we all walk on. They camped at Beacon Rock and Prescott Beach, for example. They shaped and flavored the character of the Pacific Northwest and we all continue to take delight learning more about it.

The Columbia River Reader, devoted to celebrating and appreciating the history and beauty of this remarkable region, invites you aboard.

Join the club... we’re collectible!

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A WORD FROM MISS MANNERS

Time to ban ‘promiscuous hugs’ GENTLE READERS: Quick: What is your immediate association with the word “inappropriate”?

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DEAR MISS MANNERS: I have two nieces and a nephew who are each getting married within a short period of time. The first two had modest local weddings. The third is having a much more glamorous destination wedding.

I want to keep all things equal and not play favorites, but should I give him more in a gift because his wedding is costing him more?

GENTLE READER: If you believe that wedding guests are obliged to reflect the bridal couple’s finances, surely it would be kinder to give more to those who could afford only the more modest wedding.

But Miss Manners allows no such consideration, one way or the other. A wedding present should be something you think will please the couple and that you can afford.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I have a friend who gets irrationally mad when you respond to a text invite with “pass” -- whether it’s just the word “pass,” or “I’ll take a pass on that,” or “No, I’ll pass” or any variation of declining the invite that includes the word “pass.”

Is this a proper (polite) phrase to use to decline based on the informal method of the invitation? It’s also usually a group invitation, not a personal one-on-one invite.

Criminal sexual activity, right?

GENTLE READER: Your friend is rational. “I’ll pass” is a proper expression when you have a bad bridge hand, but insulting when you have received an invitation.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: When we celebrated our daughter’s becoming bat mitzvah seven months ago, she received many checks as gifts. Most of them were given at the celebratory brunch; however, some arrived in the mail in the days before and after the event.

The envelopes with the checks were kept together until thank-you notes were written, or so I thought. Soon after the event, my daughter left for summer camp.

A few days ago, she was looking through a box that contained some jewelry she received as gifts. She discovered three checks still in envelopes she apparently had not opened!

Do we contact the people, tell them what happened, and ask if we can deposit the checks? My gut tells me that after this much time, we should be happy they attended the affair and not cash the checks.

GENTLE READER: Which will leave your guests wondering what happened — and having trouble balancing their checking accounts. cont page 24

And before that, it was being used as a euphemism for “wrong” and “rude.” Toddlers were told that it was inappropriate to go around hitting their playmates.

But Miss Manners hates to give up using the word entirely, because there are actions that may not be bad in themselves, but are so in the wrong context.

Hugging, for example.

Sure, go ahead and hug your partner — and your children, if they have not asked you to pe--leeze stop doing that in public. And hug anyone else with whom you are on mutually intimate terms. But stop thinking that you are conferring a blessing on anyone else and exhibiting your own warm feelings about your fellow creatures by thrusting yourself on others.

Clearly some of this activity is illegal harassment. But there has been so much pop-psych nonsense going around for decades about the humanitarian benefits of putting everyone in everyone else’s arms that Miss Manners is half-willing to believe that there are some people who just don’t get it.

This is because they cast the gesture in terms of the target’s presumed feelings.

Their intention, they assure themselves and others when objections are raised, was not to gratify themselves, as would

a sexual move, but to make those who are hugged feel comfortable, accepted, relaxed, included, validated — not violated.

Says who?

Says the male, putting himself in charge of dictating female feelings.

But one person’s idea of being a tactile humanitarian is another person’s idea of what constitutes a creep.

Throughout the touchy-feely era, which started decades ago, Miss Manners has tried to expose the premise as a hoax. If a hug is welcome, as a sign of affection, empathy or solidarity, it is because it is the physical expression of a genuine emotion.

Believing that it represents that, when coming from a stranger, an acquaintance or anyone not previously close, surely requires a stretch.

How is it possible to detach the gesture from one’s feelings about the person who is making it? And if touching is so important, shouldn’t the person being touched have some say in whether to allow it? Shouldn’t the hugger be trying to fathom the possible reaction, instead of congratulating himself on bestowing a treat?

If that all sounds too difficult for a supposedly spontaneous gesture, the solution is to ban promiscuous hugs, and save the hugging for those who have shown it would be welcome.

There are plenty of other ways to show disinterested warmth — through words, facial expressions and good deeds. Anything more is inappropriate.

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Lewis & Clark

On the road again after wintering in Fort Mandan

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s we re-trace the steps of Lewis and Clark’s Expedition 214 years ago, we join them near the Great Falls in present-day Montana, as they continued their journey towards the Pacific Ocean.

Delays and more delays Last month, we learned how, after reaching the mouth of the presentday Maria’s River on June 2, 1805, the Corps spent over a week deciding which fork was the Missouri River.

Lewis & Clark Encore We are pleased to present

Installment #13 of Michael Perry’s popular 33-month series which began with CRR’s 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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They proceeded up the south fork on June 11th and soon reached the Great Falls that the Indians had described. However, rather than just one waterfall, there were five.

The Captains had only planned on spending one day to portage around the falls, but a full month would pass before they resumed their journey up the river.

Sacajawea had become very sick.

Attempts to revive her included several bleedings with applications of quinine and opium. Her husband, Charbonneau, wanted to take her back to the Mandan villages, but Clark refused. Finally, after drinking mineral water from a nearby sulfur

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Portage at the Great Falls – drawing on an interpretive sign at Sulphur Springs, Montana.

spring, Sacajawea recovered and was able to eat, but relapsed after eating too many apples and dried fish. Lewis “rebuked Sharbono severely” for letting her eat such food after being told what she was allowed to eat. Several doses of saltpeter and laudanum led to her recovery. Lewis and Clark were concerned about Sacajawea for two reasons. First, if she died, who would take care of her baby, Pomp? Secondly, and perhaps of greater concern, who would translate when they reached the Shoshone Indians near the headwaters of the Missouri River? The fate of the Corps of Discovery would rest on their ability to obtain horses from the Indians, and without Sacajawea there was little hope of making such a trade.

Big mistake Grizzly bears presented a serious problem around the Great Falls. While exploring a possible portage route, Lewis saw “a herd of at least a thousand buffaloe” and proceeded to shoot one. While waiting for it to die, a large bear crept up behind Lewis to within 20 steps before he saw it. Lewis immediately raised his gun to shoot, but quickly remembered he had not reloaded. Lewis thought he might be able to reach a tree about 300 yards away, but when he turned the bear “pitched at me, open mouthed and full speed, I ran about 80 yards… the idea struk me to get into the water to such debth that I could… defend myself with my espontoon… the moment I put myself in this attitude of defence he sudonly wheeled about as if frightened… and retreated,” running three miles across the prairie.

Lewis added, “I felt myself not a little gratified that he had declined the combat.

My gun reloaded I felt confidence once more… and determined never again to suffer my piece to be longer empty than the time she necessarily required to charge her.”

Rough road ahead Two carts were built to carry the dugout canoes. A large Cottonwood tree was cut into slices to make wheels, and the hardwood mast from the white pirogue was cut up to make axles. The actual portage began on June 21 and was completed on July 2. Thankfully, temperatures were mild (mid-seventies), so the men were not faced with heat exhaustion in addition to physical exhaustion.

The canoes weighed at least 1,000 pounds, and after pulling them out of the Missouri River canyon, they were filled with cargo and pulled across the reasonably level 18-mile portage route. However, the ground was far from smooth. After heavy rains, buffalo left deep hoof prints in the mud, and the sharp edges of those dried out tracks cut into the feet of the men as they pulled the heavy carts. In addition, long spines of the Prickly Pear cactus poked through the bottoms and sides of the men’s moccasins. Even after sewing a double thickness sole, their feet still looked like pin cushions. If that wasn’t enough, rattlesnakes were a constant threat and at least one man was bitten.

A total of four round trips were required to portage everything around the Great Falls. The men were utterly exhausted. Lewis wrote, “they are obliged to halt and rest frequently for a few minutes, at every halt these poor fellows tumble down and are so much fortiegued that many of them are asleep in an instant; in short their fatiegues are incredible; some are limping from the soreness of their feet, others faint and unable to stand for a few minutes, with heat and fatiegue, yet no one complains, all go with cheerfulness.” On the last cont page 9

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two portage trips, the wind was strong and in the right direction to allow the men to raise the sail on two boats – literally, prairie schooners.

Hail to the Chief On June 27th, the men were caught on the open prairie in a violent thunderstorm lasting two hours.

Clark wrote that hail stones “the size of a pigion’s egg and not unlike them in form covered the ground to a debth of 1-1/2 inches. – for about 20 minutes during this storm hail fell of an innomus size driven with violence almost incredible, when they struck the ground they would bound to the hight of ten to 12 feet and pass 20 or thirty before they touched again.” Clark reported some hail stones weighed almost a quarter pound and measured 7 inches in circumference (more than 2 inches in diameter); they were round and perfectly solid. Clark wrote, “I am convinced if one of those had struck a man on the neaked head it would have knocked him down, if not fractured his skull.” Clark issued an extra ration of whiskey that night.

Two days later another storm caught the men. This time, Clark led Sacajawea, Pomp, and Charbonneau to a deep ravine to seek shelter from the hail. Clark wrote, “a torrent of rain and hail fell more violent than ever I Saw before.” While hiding under a rock ledge, they were almost swept away when a 15-foot wall of water roared down the ravine and caught them by surprise. Clark’s slave, York, was not in the gully and thought they had been washed over the cliff into the Missouri. Several men were caught in the open during the storm, others abandoned the loaded canoes and ran for camp. Clark wrote, “the hail & wind being So large and violent in the plains, and them naked, they were much bruised, and Some nearly killed – one knocked down three times, and others without hats or any thing on their heads bloodey & Complained veery much; I refreshed them with a little grog.” After the storm, the prairie was a sea of mud, making it impossible to move the carts. The portage was completed July 2nd – eleven days after they began. However, the journey up the Missouri would not be resumed until July 14th.

Next month we’ll learn about the “Experiment” that would cause the 12-day delay.

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Volunteers reap benefits beyond helping others

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olunteering can reap benefits beyond helping others. In addition to finding new friends and learning new skills, volunteering has proven health advantages, too, according to a 2007 research review by the Corporation for National and Community Service.

Its website states that those who volunteer have lower mortality rates, greater functional ability, and lower rates of depression later in life than those who do not volunteer.

Decades of research indicate volunteering provides individual health benefits and social engagement, CNCS reports. Research also shows that older volunteers are more likely to reap health benefits from volunteering.

The physical and social activity of service, and the purposeful connection to the community are a catalyst to overall health improvement. Some of these findings also indicate that volunteers who devote a “considerable” amount of time to volunteer activities (about 100 hours per year) are more likely to exhibit positive health outcomes.

Carole Sumrall, 75, a volunteer at Community Home Health & Hospice for nearly 15 years, assists in the Longview Hospice Care Center for three hours a week. She enjoys the socialization and the light work, finding it meaningful because she “helps people get ready for a better place.” Volunteering can be an entry to employment, as well. A number of former volunteers at our agency are now full-time employees, including our volunteer coordinator Sheryl Reeder.

Nonprofit organizations like Community Home Health & Hospice rely on volunteers to help carry out its mission — in fact, we’re required by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid to provide a certain level of volunteer support to hospice patients and families. The value volunteers bring is enormous. According to Reeder, volunteers provided our agency with the equivalent of $103,133 in services last year.

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•Reach out to local organizations that work with several other nonprofits, such as the United Way of Cowlitz and Wahkiakum Counties (www.cowlitzunitedway.org), Lower Columbia CAP www.lccac. org, or Youth and Family Link www. linkprogram.org.

•Go to VolunteerMatch www. volunteermatch.org to search by location and organization.

In recognition of the impact of volunteer service, President Richard Nixon established National Volunteer Week with an executive order in 1974. Since then, every sitting U.S. president has issued a proclamation each April celebrating the power of volunteering and urging Americans to give their time to community organizations.

Local nonprofits, including ours, find it an ongoing challenge to meet the need for volunteers. In last month’s Columbia River Reader, the Columbia Theatre’s past board president, Rosemary Siipola, encouraged readers to consider volunteering onthe Theatre’s board. She writes: “Being a part of this effort will give you knowledge and a sense of pride that you are part of something unique and wonderful.”

Are you ready for a gratifying experience through volunteering?

There are many ways to find an opportunity that’s right for you: •Contact the organization directly.

To volunteer with our agency, contact us at 360-425-8510 or online at volunteer@chhh.org.

•Connect with your local Chamber of Commerce for a list of its nonprofit members. The Kelso Longview Chamber’s list is available in its Business Directory and Visitor Guide which can be found online at https:// issuu.com/kelsolongviewchamber/ docs/2018klbd-issuu.

Generally, nonprofits ask interested individuals to complete a volunteer application. They may request references and require a criminal background check. Experience isn’t often needed and free training is usually provided. At our agency, online training is also available.

Like other organizations, our agency needs volunteers in several different areas. Our greatest need is in the Longview Hospice Care Center sitting with patients, helping with meals, stocking linens, and more. We also need volunteers for our Pet Peace of Mind and We Honor Veterans programs, as well as help with our children’s Camp Cedars.

There is a perception that hospice volunteering is sad and depressing. But it’s often a misconception.

“While there are times of sadness,” Reeder said, “it is far from depressing.”

Her last patient assignment before she began working at Hospice full-time was with Barbara, an 85-year-old woman. “I volunteered on Sundays so her daughter could go to church, “ Reeder recalled. “Barbara was a huge Nascar fan, so we spent three hours watching it every Sunday.”

While in Florida recently there was a Grand Prix event, Reeder said.

“Hearing the roar of those cars as they made all those left turns brought back such warm memories of my time spent with Barbara.”

Our community has boundless and varied volunteer opportunities and the needs are many. Give volunteering a try and feel good by doing good.

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Local boy returns to work at Pacific Imaging Center By Jim LeMonds Julian Ledgerwoo d grew up in Longview and graduated from Kelso High School in 2006. He left the area after completing an associate’s degree at Lower Columbia College in 2009.

But he had found his way back to his hometown and is now employed as an MRI technologist at Pacific Imaging Center.

Ledgerwood had job-shadowed Jack Berry, PIC’s Director of Imaging Services, in 2010 and was familiar with the clinic’s reputation.

“PIC is a small group with a great sense of community,” Ledgerwood said. “The focus is on value-based care that’s competitively priced, on quality scans, and on taking the time to make each patient feel at ease.”

Ledgerwood earned an associates degree in radiologic technology at Bellevue College and then interned at the University of Washington Medical

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Center. Before joining PIC, he worked as an MRI technologist at the University o f Wa s h i n g t o n Northwest Hospital in Seattle from 2014 to 2017.

He has experience with Philips 3T, 1.5T Ingenia, and 1.5T Achieva MR systems, as well as the GE 1.5T EchoSpeed Plus. In addition, he is certified in Magnetic Resonance Imaging by the American Registry of Radiologic Technologists.

“I didn’t think much of it when Julian asked to job-shadow me in 2010, but it couldn’t have turned out any better,” Berry said. “He has been a great addition to our team. Because he has roots in the local area, he is very vested and is committed to doing whatever he can to provide quality MRI services to our patients.”

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Ledgerwood and his wife, Madi, enjoy traveling and have visited France, Scotland, and the United Kingdom.

He has played in numerous bands as a drummer and guitarist and sometimes accompanies Madi when she sings.

Pacific Imaging Center is located at 625 9th Avenue in Longview at Pacific Surgical Institute. Call 360.501.3444 for more information.

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IN THEIR FOOTSTEPS

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ort Clatsop, announces the next In Their Footsteps free speaker series event. “Oregon’s Oldest Known Shipwreck: A Spanish Galleon of 1693,” will be presented by Cameron La Follette, on Sunday, May 19 at 1:00pm.

It has long been known that a large ship, probably Spanish, wrecked on Nehalem Spit centuries ago.

Recently an archaeological team (the Beeswax Wreck Project) determined it was most likely the Santo Cristo de Burgos, which left the Philippines in 1693 bound for Acapulco, and was never seen again.

Cameron La Follette and her team of independent researchers then spearheaded research into Spanish, Philippine and Mexican archival sources that revealed for the first time information about Captain Iñiguez del Bayo, the crew, the cargo, the ship, and the fabled Manila Cameron La Follette trade of which the Santo Cristo de Burgos was a part. This talk will summarize these fascinating archival findings, the Native traditions about the shipwreck, and the 150-year aftermath of treasure-hunting in the Neahkahnie area that the galleon wreck ignited.

“Manila Galleon at Sea,” by Roger D. Morris

Cameron La Follette was the lead author on most of the articles in the Summer 2018 issue of Oregon Historical Quarterly, “Oregon’s Manila Galleon.” She is the Director of Oregon Coast Alliance, a coastal conservation organization. She is also lead author of Sustainability and the Rights of Nature: An Introduction, published in 2017 by CRC Press. A companion volume, Sustainability and the Rights of Nature in Practice, is forthcoming in 2019.

In Their Footsteps is a monthly Sunday forum sponsored by the Lewis & Clark National Park Association and the park. These programs are held in the Netul River Room of Fort Clatsop’s visitor center and are free of charge.

For more information, call the park at (503) 861-2471, check out www.nps.gov/lewi, or Lewis and Clark National Historical Park on Facebook.

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Me and My Piano

How I Become an Accordionist 50 years after first lesson, he still plays! of lessons following that one.

Like most boys, I hated the practice and as a result, hated the accordion playing.

All the above said, however, that little 12 bass in my hands for the first time felt kind of neat. I liked making the sounds and I liked the easy-tolearn and easy-to-play pieces (I wouldn’t admit liking anything about accordion to myself until years later). The Christmas songs were fun because they were familiar.

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y accordion career started about 1964 at the behest of my dad, who one day decided that I was the only one of his three sons who had the aptitude for music (we’ll never know if my brothers had aptitude because they didn’t have to learn an instrument). I grudgingly accompanied Dad to Torp’s Music Center near downtown St Paul, Minnesota. There, I was introduced to Arne Fraki, my accordion teacher, who pulled a 12 bass accordion off of a shelf holding about 50 accordions. After my dad prepaid for 10 lessons and the accordion rental, Mr. Fraki took me to the lesson room, measuring about about 8x10-feet with two chairs and a long shelf about waist high (top photo at right).

It wasn’t long before Mr. Fraki took advantage of my dad’s enthusiasm for the accordion and graduated me to a 120 bass, a “used but solid accordion that would last a long time.” My dad was working two jobs to pay the mortgage and feed his family, but he sprung for my accordion, which actually was a very solid instrument. I remember whacking those keys and pulling those bellows as hard as I could, perhaps hoping something would give and I could avoid practice. But that accordion never failed!

By Wil Knoop

During my short childhood accordion career there were many impromptu performances which would occur every time we had company. Someone always said, “Lets have Wilfried play his accordion for us.” Being members of a big German contingent in St. Paul, Minnesota, we always had lots of company (see photo, above).

The day finally came when my dad gave in and told me I could quit lessons. The accordion went into the closet where it stayed for most of 40 years. I sometimes pulled it out during Christmas season to play carols for my daughters. I remember pulling apart those sticking bellows hearing the crackle/snap from lack of use, but the accordion never actually died! It always played and sounded just like the day I got it.

So my life took its course without the accordion — high school graduation, meeting my wife, Terry, at the University of Minnesota, a career in finance, two wonderful daughters, cont page 14

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Practice makes perfect, and of course, Practice half an hour every day! That last instruction was the only one relayed to my dad, who then made sure that I actually sat with the accordion for a half-hour every day, no matter what other fun sports or games I could be playing (and that my brothers were playing while I sat with my accordion). I basically endured a year and a half

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Having so much time on my hands for the first time, I pulled out the accordion and started again with Book 1A, of the Sedlon Accordion Method and just went through the books. Terry encouraged me to keep on playing and I still feel good when I come downstairs after a practice session and she is humming one of the songs I just played!

During one of those childhood practice sessions, my dad said something to me I will never forget. I had just played “Du Du Liegst Mir Im Hertzen.” and he said (in German, which we spoke at home) “Oh, that is so beautiful, one day you will play that by my grave.” He passed

away in 2003 and on a subsequent visit to the cemetery I played for him, “Du Du Liegst Mir Im Hertzen,” along with, what else? The “Tic Toc Polka.”

My dad told me repeatedly while making me practice, that one day I would be glad I could play the accordion. Given the friends Terry and I have made at Tualatin Valley Accordion Club, the performances at senior living homes, TVA socials, picnics and gatherings, trips to Leavenworth, Kimberley and Joseph for accordion festivals, Salvation Army kettle gigs, playing in the senior band in Long Beach, California, and more ... he was right!

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Wil Knoop is retired from a financial services career and lives in Columbia City, Ore. He enjoys fishing, swimming, playing pickleball and shooting pool at the St. Helens Senior Center. He is active in the Tualatin Valley Accordion Club which meets 10–1 every first Saturday of the month at the Forest Grove Library. The club welcomes any level player from beginner to professional, and they have some of each every meeting. Club membership is easy, he says: Show up and you’re a member. Lots of accordion related events happen year-round. For example, there will be a big festival in Leavenworth, Wash., next month and at the recent spring social, players from the entire Northwest came together to play.

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Out & About

Vista House at Crown Point From rest stop to iconic landmark

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protected as a state park property known as the Crown Point State Scenic Corridor. Vista House was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

This April, my husband Steve and I drove to Vista House. I have spied the building numerous times while driving east or west on I-84, the highway that lies 733 feet below Crown Point, but I had never stopped and ventured inside the observatory. From inside and outside of the building, I saw some of Oregon’s most spectacular views of the gorge. It is no wonder that millions of sightseers, photographers, and commercial producers seek this spot.

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or centuries people have traversed the Columbia River Gorge on boats, canoes and rafts. In 1913 Samuel Lancaster, the assistant highway engineer for Multnomah County, supervised the construction of the Columbia River Highway. During the planning stages, Samuel suggested the building of an observatory/rest stop at the summit of Crown Point, a basalt headland created by lava, floods and winds.

He said that this was the perfect site to “serve as a comfort station for the tourists and the travelers of America’s greatest highway.”

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The observatory/rest stop construction began in 1916 and finished on May 5, 1918. Lancaster recommended that the building be named “Vista House.”

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Friends of Vista House, a group established in 1982, currently manages the facility. The house is managed by 120 volunteers working from 9:30am–to 6pm seven days a week, and they are always looking for ways to enhance their volunteer program.

No state funds were available, and the financial burden to construct the observatory fell on Multnomah County. The original budget was around $17,000, and private donors contributed close to $4,000. However, when famous Portland architect Edgar Lazarus finally completed the building that he did name “Vista House” the final cost came in just under $100,000.

The House stands 55 feet high and is 44 feet in diameter.

The design is a German art nouveau style. The exterior sandstone walls are gray, and the roof fashioned from matte-glazed tiles is green. In 1971, Crown Point was designated as a National Natural Landmark and is

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Cultured Coffee: Melissa Vandervalk

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Last month the murder of sheriff’s deputy Justin DeRosier shocked Cowlitz County and the State of Washington. Amid the outpourings of outrage, sadness and grief, local citizens and businesses rallied to support his family and local law enforcement.

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Like so many other of life’s finer things, coffee has gone artisanal.

It’s one of today’s pop culture cliches referencing anything old fashioned and made by hand.

Hand-made, hand-crafted, handground. Can hand-roasted be far behind? Imagine the scene, something from Gulliver’s Travels: six or eight of us huddle after dinner, hovering over our tiny Sterno Campfire, carefully, indeed artisinally, toasting our own curated coffee, one bean at a time, on our miniature artisanal hot dog sticks, themselves crafted from artisinal Valerian Steel.

Far cry from the day. Coffee was sloshed in hash houses, drained from giant urns with unfortunate names like Bunn, erupted from noisy percolators, magically manifested from space age crystals.

And, oh my, the weakness of it.

Seeing through the pot was a very bad sign, like some orange-brown translucent prism: cuppa joe, hot java, brown water.

Tepid, forlorn stuff.

Yet few of our rituals so define us and accompany our moments. Ex-Navy friends of mine say every ship’s bridge they ever were on reeked of burning coffee, the pot perpetually on and only periodically renewed. They miss that smell, embedded in their own experience.

Among the most visible and effective of these efforts, the customers and employees of Red Leaf Organic Coffee stepped up, one cup at a time. With customers queued in its drive-through lanes and crowding its counters, Red Leaf raised more than $44,000(!) for the deputy’s family and solidified its place, not just in the palates but also in the hearts and minds of its customers and its community. ________________________________________ HC: Are people more particular about their coffee these days?

MV: The vast majority of them, yes. We get maybe one in five customers is still just, ‘drip coffee, whatever you’ve got,’ but the rest are pretty particular.

HC: Connoisseurs?

MV: Yes, I guess. And they also like to have fun with it, different toppings and sweeteners. But many of our customers are really, really concerned about their diet — not just the coffee, but the sweeteners, the milk. And our baked goods and treats, too. You’d be surprised how many people avoid dairy and a lot of types of baked goods for a variety of reasons.

HC: Such as?

MV: Food allergies. Gluten intolerances.

Calories. That’s how I got into all this myself. When I was young I had terrible digestion problems. Couldn’t hold things down, felt crummy. And it turns out — and nobody really knew much about this then — I had a gluten intolerance and problems with milk and dairy products that people are more aware of now.

HC: So, and I apologize for this presumption, organic isn’t just a trick of the week or your marketing angle, like green or sustainable can be?

MV: No, it’s not. It’s the source of our success, really. And no apology needed — we get that question from people all the time — is organic just a fad? But the answer is a resounding ‘No.’ People really do care more about what they’re putting in their bodies. And we appreciate that and cater to it. They also appreciate how our coffee is raised and sourced.

HC: So, if it’s more than just good marketing, why organic?

MV: Organic means that the coffee beans we use are not sprayed with any kinds of chemicals. Coffee is the third most sprayed crop in the world, after cotton and tobacco. So, it’s a very heavily treated crop. But it’s more than just the beans. We’re aware of the workers that have to apply all these chemicals, and transport the beans, and monitor and check the beans. cont page 20

NICE TO MEET YOU Melissa Vandervalk resides

Carrolls, Wash., with my husband, two daughters, 6 and 12, and our kitty, Jasper. occupation

Owners, Red Leaf Organic Coffee and Coffee Systems NW, plus looking after our Red Leaf Bakery and putting in requests at our roastery for my favorite coffees or coffee I want to try. from

Fort St. John, B.C. (near Santa’s workshop) on the Alaska Highway. known for

Great memory, sense of humor, customer-obsessed workaholic. reading

What Are You Hungry For? by Deepak Chopra. for fun

Articles on parenting, simple living, organizing, relationships. recommends

Power vs. Force: The Hidden Determinants of Human Behavior

by David Hawkins.

Seeking out a college professor once I was directed to his lab, and well before I got there smelled the telltale burning brown. It made a good conversation starter.

“Something tells me you might have been in the Navy.”

“Eighteen years. How’d you guess?”

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HC: Do your organic beans cost more?

MV: Yes, the beans cost a little more.

It takes more care to monitor every bean that comes in, essentially. And then you pay people who do the licensing, checking all the equipment and processes you’re using, to certify you’re playing by the rules. If you

bought 10,000 pounds of beans, and you sell 15,000 pounds, what else are you slipping in there?

“A lot of people start their day with co

HC: What percent of your customers are coming in specifically for your organic ethic?

put in your body. You only get one body. You only get one life. So if you can choose things that are better for you, that make you feel better, that give you more energy, those are things that we want to provide.

MV: I’d say well more than half, but that’s also just for the taste and the experience.

We’re still educating people on the benefits of drinking organic coffee. They know it tastes great but are not sure exactly why.

And it’s having products that are dye-free, too. We’re just making the push this coming month to change all our syrups to be dye-free, even though it’s more expensive.

Red Leaf Organic Coffee is at once people-focused and technically sophisticated.

Earthy charm and savvy marketing fuel four Red Leaf stores employing 78 people. Orders can be both personalized and computerized. Regulars simply asking for a “Heather” or a “Darren” get their perfectly customized drink in minutes — from their own personalized order button.

Stores teem with Red Leaf merchandize worthy of a rock concert, from caps to sweatshirts to bumper stickers. And, behind the scenes high tech Swiss and Italian machinery ensures precision and product consistency. The atmosphere is both casual and competent, by design.

HC: Are you organic fanatics?

Or just reasonable people on a mission?

MV I’d say we’re reasonable people. My parents own one of the largest recycling companies up in northern British Columbia, and so that got started with me when I was 11 years old. I became aware of products and using things that are more earthfriendly and organic. I’ve been more concerned about what you

HC: How did you two get started with coffee? And why here?

MV: We’re both from British Columbia. I was looking to do something in the hospitality business. We came down to the Oregon Coast for our honeymoon and ended up staying there for five years. I worked at the Cannon Beach Spa. And then we had a baby. And one day my husband came home and said, ‘Hey, I bought you a coffee shop, so you won’t be bored.’ Because I’m something of a workaholic.

HC: And this was in Woodland?

MV: Yes, and it was just me. And down there on the weekend you would see all these people I’d never seen before and I decided I’d ask them where they were from. So I’d ask 10 people in a row where they were from. And it was Longview, Kelso, Castle Rock, Battle Ground, and I said, ‘Don’t you all have coffee shops where you’re from? I don’t see you Monday through Friday.’ And they just said they really loved our coffee.

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offee… and I love that ritual part of it.

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HC: What is a coffee culture? Is coffee the new beer in Longview? Does this sophisticate people?

MV: I’m not sure, really. You definitely get that in Portland and Vancouver.

I find that the coffee culture in Longview/Kelso is essentially an excuse just to meet a friend and get to talk with them. It really is just that third place. ‘I don’t want to go to your house, I don’t want you to come to my house.’ People want to get out and about. You got kids and laundry and all these things at home. But at Red Leaf you can have your drink served to you. I mean moms and such. ‘I want someone to wait on me.’ And sure, give us five bucks and we’ll wait on you! It’s just that place to meet, where it’s comfortable, and you can stay as long as you like, with somebody else to tidy up after you.

Melissa and her husband Ray have bootstrapped their business with hard work, a gift with people, his degree in marketing, and a commitment to supporting their community. They were heavily invested in real estate 10 years ago when the recession devastated his industry, and emerged with only the Woodland coffee store and the resolve to re-build from there. They’ve relied on partnerships and good faith from landlords, suppliers, and customers, and today return that trust from the community as part of the revitalization of West Kelso and their other locations.

MV: Oh, yeah. We had hemp milk and we had natural, plant-based sweeteners. We had whole-fruit smoothies without all the dyes and sugars and stuff that they could give to their kids.

But Monday through Friday they didn’t have time to drive there, but on the weekends they would drive down and I would say, ‘Oh, are you going to Vancouver?’ and they’d say, ‘No, we’re just heading back home,’ and I thought, ‘Wow, that’s quite a commitment to drive 25 minutes down here, get a coffee and drive 25 minutes back.’ So a couple of people kept saying, ‘You should have a place in Kelso.’

HC: Is Howard Schultz a forbidden name? He kind of invented that concept of The Third Place.

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MV: Our landlord here helped front us the buildout on our West Kelso store, so people have been great. Our early office in here had a desk and above it we put a futon bed because either Ray or I were here open to close seven days a week. We did that for cont page 22

THE THIRD PLACE: At Red Leaf Organic Coffee, Kelso resident Shelby Hiatt enjoys an Arctic Carmello while reviewing homework with Maddie Wolff, of Longview.

MV: You know, I never trash talk other coffee shops. Starbucks pioneered a way to bring the Americanized coffee here, more than just the little 4-ounce shots in Europe.

As for the third place, the reason Red Leaf took off originally, I feel, is I thought it was so cool people would come to see me! I was the only one there. I knew them and I knew their drink and would get to know them and their kids. Pure hospitality.

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8-10 months, and we’d have our daughter with us, too. Drop off to school, back here, grab 45 minutes for a nap.

HC: You’ve come a long way!

MV: We’ve stayed pretty humble. I give a lot of credit to my husband, Ray. We now have seven people in the bakery, doing all kinds of healthy stuff; we have a line of whole beans and K-Cups; we have state-ofthe-art systems. But I measure our success on the people side, like the fundraiser. To be able to say to our thousands of followers and thousands of community members, ‘Here’s a family that really needs help and this is how you can help.’

And just have them show up. That’s what success means — when you need a hand then people are there to help you.

and convenience. And our flagship stores, our third place stores, are a considerable investment. You have to pay for that space, the dairy cases and deli cases, you have to have staff there.

I love having a hub for people to meet, but above all you try to give them what serves them best.

HC: I don’t think of coffee as being inherently sweet.

MV: I bet you drink it dark and bold.

HC: Of course. I’m a man, for Pete’s sake!

M V: W h e n y o u s t a r t r o a s t i n g coffee — and people don’t realize the significance and the nuances of the roasting process — when you first start roasting it, it’s sweet to start off with, and the longer you roast it the darker it gets and the more you start tasting the roast and not the coffee. And once you get past the second crack in the bean you taste essentially only the roast and you don’t taste Fun the particular coffee. Cave at Ape

HC: So The Third Place is really a car — at least for a lot of people?

MV: Yeah, there are good customers that have never, ever been inside.

There’s kids and sports and rain

MV: I never used to drink black coffee, and now it’s gotten to me.

I appreciate the flavor nuances of it. A lot of people start their day with coffee and do take that moment just to plan, think about things, when the kids aren’t up yet. And I love that ritual part of it.

HC: So, I’m feeling I need a cup of coffee. What would you recommend when we’re through talking here?

MV: I like all the medium ones. For some reason the darker ones are what we sell the most of, like the Sumatra.

I’m not as fond of that, but it’s what we sell the most of, so who cares what I like?

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HC: And… MV: Probably the Honduran, the Peru, Guatemalan. I think that’s what Kelso is brewing right now. I just enjoy the earthy notes, and I enjoy a little bit of the natural sweetness that’s in there.

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MV: I call it The Elevated Experience.

Until you go to a coffee farm you don’t realize that every bean is hand picked.

It goes through a thousand hands before you get to decide whether you like this coffee, whether you’re going to drink this coffee or throw it down the drain.

And we really want to instill that appreciation for the harvester, the dryer, the people who ship it off, the checker.

And elevate that. We do single-origin coffees so people can choose, what does a coffee from Peru taste like? What does a coffee from Honduras taste like? What does a coffee from Ethiopia taste like?

HC: How about you personally?

What’s your takeaway?

HC: How much of your business is drive-through?

MV: Probably 80 per cent.

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tuffed into the uttermost bowel of a 757, at the ragged end of a red-eye from Portland to Baltimore, I am consoled by visions of the Siskiyous. Hours earlier, my wife Thea and I had returned from those serpentine-girded mountains in southwestern Oregon. We’d long desired to hike, botanize, and butterfly in that wild country, and now its delights bloom anew in my mind’s eye, coaxed forth by a gentle litany of names: Kalmiopsis. Azalea. Ceanothus.

Brodeaia. Wavy soap plant. Sedum laxum. Gorgon copper. Leanira checkerspot. Babyfoot Lake. Eight Dollar Mountain. Papilio indra.

Fontinalis. Golden chinquapin.

Lost among the sensations fetched back by these names, I think back also to a question put by a student in a recent writing workshop in the North Cascades. “Don’t names just get in the way?” she asked. “It seems that by classifying plants and animals we just objectify them.

Shouldn’t their beauty be enough?”

I have heard many versions of this resistance to the practice of naming names. I first encountered such an attitude when I was in college, in the midst of an excited learning frenzy, gleaning the names of everything I could. Returning to Colorado on a spring break, I found that one of my best friends, who was just discovering hiking and nature, thought that naming detracted from the root enjoyment of flowers and creatures.

While for some this is doubtless an earnest truth, I believe that for others it represents a rationalization.

From many conversations, I have discovered three common reasons for avoiding Adam’s task: First, many observers are simply intimidated by the sheer number of things with names out there. They feel they can’t possibly catch up, so why try?

Second, some people are embarrassed that they know so few organisms by name—though this isn’t surprising, since it has been generations now since nature study was considered a standard part of primary education.

Third, a lot of would-be naturalists are just lazy. As an essentially lazy person, I feel a certain kinship with these last

folks. They know it will take some work and application to learn some species by name and cop out instead with the impressionist’s excuse.

But there are at least as many good reasons not to shun the names of the elements of life. For one, by knowing the identities of other living things around you, you come to understand their relationships much better.

This allows you to appreciate your own evolutionary heritage, and how each organism fits into the lineage.

For another, these are times when the need for understanding, documenting, and monitoring biological diversity has never been greater. We can all take part in this.

But there is simply no way to account for life on earth without learning to recognize the constituent parts and applying names to them. Just as surely, observant and curious people find their pleasures afield vastly enhanced by intimate acquaintance with more and more species. Just watch how birders, butterfliers, wildflower watchers, and other seekers ramp up their enjoyment out of doors by making, and naming, new friends wherever they go.

None of this is to discredit those who truly wish to take nature at face value; nameless does not mean faceless, and keen pleasure and communion are possible without knowing the nomenclature. After all, there was no good field guide to Siskiyou plants, and Thea and I did not feel like carrying two or three large floras and spending all our precious time keying.

So for many plants, we went generic: that frilly campion reminiscent of the English ragged robin, those elegant little two-toned violets. But at least we often knew the genera or families, could place their relations. And that would be a worthwhile objective for many of us, and a reasonable one.

You may not know a cardinal from a pyrrholoxia or a blue jay from a scrub, but with a little watchful time in the open spent with your Roger

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This is the twelfth 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.

Tory Peterson, you can easily come to know that this bird is a tanager, that a flycatcher, and the other a finch.

We are landing in Baltimore. When I get to The Orion Society’s Fire & Grit conference, all the humans will have nametags on. The other species will not, but that’s what field guides are for. As soon as I hit the ground, I plan to scan the trees (sassafras,

sycamore, shagbark), looking and listening for warblers (Blackburnian, parula, prothonotary). Along with the Carolina wrens and the great spangled fritillaries, the writer and the activists, they will be my neighbors for a few days.

And that’s what it comes down to in the end: knowing your fellows in the neighborhood of living things. You can smile politely and fake it when you don’t know the folks next door or down the block. But when you call them by name, recognition and relationship become possible. As the great nature writer Ann Zwinger perfectly put it in The Nearsighted Naturalist, entering new territory is “like walking into a big party where at least I know a few families, and recognize some friends.” Those who take the trouble to identify plants and animals, she rightly says, are “at home in a natural world that will offer them challenge and pleasure the rest of their lives.”

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Have your daughter send the thank-you letters now, apologizing profusely for their tardiness and stating that you hope it would still be all right, and that it is not too late, to deposit them. Miss Manners assures you that your guests would rather know that the checks were accounted for — no matter how late — than forever wonder if they fell into the wrong hands.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: My son and his fiance are moving out of the country after their wedding. How do they ask for cash or gift cards instead of using a gift registry without sounding greedy?

GENTLE READER: Guess what? Asking people to give you money -- or specific things, for that matter, in spite of that being a common practice -- IS greedy. Miss Manners will not whitewash it.

Oh, all right. What the couple can do is to say, or include in a cheery note, to friends: “As you know, we are moving abroad. It’s going to be a major chore moving all our stuff, but we hope that once we get settled, you will visit us there.”

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I had the opportunity to travel with a chum to his parents’ house. Upon arrival, I saw a picture of one of the most beautiful women I’d ever seen. Just as my friend stated it was his mother, she came into

the room. She was older and had put on a lot of weight. Is it ever polite to complement a woman on what she used to look like?

GENTLE READER: If you can do so without alluding to how awful she looks now.

GENTLE READER: “Oh yes, I remember you saying that. I have not forgotten!” Or “Thank you; you noticed that yesterday, too. My answer is still the same!”

“What a beautiful picture of you” is infinitely preferable, Miss Manners finds, to “That’s you?! What the heck happened?!”

Miss Manners stresses that tone here is critical. A balance of good humor in the case of your well-meaning parents, and firmness for those merely trying to pose as such, can be adjusted as necessary.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: Several people who I see regularly repeat the same questions and comments each time.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: On what occasions is it not proper to compliment someone — on dress, accomplishments, etc.?

For example, another regular at the gym that I frequent asks me each morning why I do not wear a coat when walking to the gym, which is less than one block from my home.

Further, my parents tell me the same stories about our ancestors over and over, and remind me each time we drive downtown that the parking garage where we park is free. At least my parents are wellintentioned, and hopefully not in the early stages of dementia.

As this repetition is tiresome and unnecessary, would you please suggest a polite and friendly response to people who repeat the same statements over and over?

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GENTLE READER: It is always proper to compliment people on their accomplishments. On dress, only when you know them socially, not professionally. And on “etc.,” Miss Manners suspects you’d better not.

••• Please send your questions to Miss Manners at her website, www. missmanners.com; to her email, dearmissmanners@gmail.com; or through postal mail to Miss Manners, Andrews McMeel Syndication, 1130 Walnut St., Kansas City, MO 64106.

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The Secret Life of Stunning Hanging Flower Baskets How to grow lush, lavish, overflowing pots

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very summer, I’m overcome with amazement and envy seeing the lush, vibrant hanging baskets of flowers in greenhouses and in Castle Rock! How do they get them— and keep them—so large, full, and rounded? I’ve tried the usual — you probably have, too — by plopping three small petunia plants in a hanging pot, and watering and fertilizing them.

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in trailing plants, angling their roots to the top of the 5 inches of soil inside the pot. Next, place 4 or 5 more plants inside the basket. If you are using a 12- inch basket, you can fit 5 plants inside –one in the center, and 4 surrounding it, about 1 inch from the sides of the basket, in addition to 4 or 5 plants popped into the sides. Fill in around the roots with moistened soil to 1 inch below the basket’s edge.

So are you ready for professional results? Here’s how!

Container: I suggest you use a wire basket—bigger is better— with a cocoa fiber, moss or burlap liner. This will give us an important opportunity we don’t have with a regular pot.

Grab a larger plastic grocery bag, and cut open the bottom of it. Arrange the bag in the pot, covering the liner sides, but not the bottom. This will allow for good drainage, but reduce evaporation of moisture.

Soil: Use a good quality potting soil—not garden soil.

One of those “Black” varieties is light, fluffy, and rich. Dump it in a bucket, add warm water, and mix until the soil feels like a wrung out sponge when squeezed.

Add some time release pellet fertilizer for flowers into the soil, following label directions. Fill your container with about 5 inches of soil and lightly tamp it down.

Plant choice: Now for the fun part Wander around your favorite nursery and read the labels of plants that appeal to you. Make sure all the plants you choose

Spring Is Here!

By Alice Slusher

File photo, Basket in Castle Rock.

have similar light and soil moisture requirements. Petunias and “Million Bells” are great choices as they mound on top, as well as trail beautifully.

Lantana and geraniums are great for mounding in the center. Mix it up with some colorful foliage such as chartreuse sweet potato vine or white or lemon licorice plant. A grass or another spiky plant might look great on top, too.

Mix up the colors, or go for subdued monochromes and vary texture, leaf size and shape. The only limit is your imagination!

Planting: Soak your plant roots in water for a few minutes and get ready to plant. And here’s the secret to big stunning baskets: Side planting! Cut several X-shaped openings in the side of the basket liner and plastic, and slide

Feeding and watering The plants are crowded in their new home and are depending on you to feed them. They will need to be fertilized and watered regularly.

Most pros recommend feeding with a water soluble fertilizer with the NPK numbers (Nitrogen/Phosphorus/ Potassium) as close as possible to this ratio: 20-10-20. Another secret: Feed them every time you water with halfstrength solution of fertilizer.

Water early in the morning, if possible, and don’t let your plant dry out—the roots will be damaged. You may be able to keep the plants alive, but they will never reach their full potential. If you find that you’re needing to water 2-3 times a day, only use the feeding solution the first time. Water when the top of the soil feels dry. Apply more time release fertilizer to the top of the soil in mid-July for an extra boost.

There you have it—may your gorgeous hanging baskets be the envy of all your friends this summer!

••• 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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University of Northern Arizona fine arts students Jamie Broken Wing and Charlie Two Fires often find themselves embroiled in crimes of theft and murder. Jamie was raised on the Umatilla Reservation in Oregon by her paternal grandmother, while Charlie’s family had moved to New York City where he was orphaned and raised by an Anglo couple. Although cousins, their tribal spiritual knowledge is different because of where and how they were raised.

The two cousins are brought together by their Uncle Max, who lives in Sedona, to spend the summer improving their painting and learning about their culture. Max is a forensic anthropologist for the Yavapai Nation.

Starkey-Saylor’s descriptions of cultural elements are colorful and accurate.

Longview resident Cam Parvitee is the author of her Black Dragons series, where a group of Tai Chi practitioners (most in their 60s and older) help young teenagers in their community from being bullied by the Snakes, a street gang. For much of her life, Cam has been involved with teenagers and young adults. She got the idea for the series during a Kung Fu class, when she, at 75, threw a teenaged “attacker” to the floor.

She subtly explains various aspects of Yavapai culture and how it relates to Navajo, Ute, Hopi, and others of the area.

For example, in this story there is a kachina doll appearing when and where it shouldn’t.

(A kachina is a spirit being in the Pueblo religious beliefs.)

Starkey-Saylor deftly weaves in the facts of what a kachina is and its proper use among the native peoples of the Southwest.

Though her books are written for an adult audience, teens will also enjoy them. The language is simple, without teen jargon. There is no swearing, sex, or mayhem, and the murders happen conveniently off-stage.

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By Alan Rose

Murder & Scandal in Prohibition Portland J. D. Chandler and Theresa Griffin Kennedy The History Press $21.99

Hidden History of Portland Oregon J. D. Chandler The History Press $19.99

W

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“Portland has a two-faced history,” he begins, and it is “the history we have been too polite to mention” that 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.

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Portland before ‘Portlandia’

interests him. However, as he explores this dark history, what emerges are beacons of light, singular individuals like Charles Erskine Scott Wood, lawyer, poet, and early civil rights advocate for the underdog. As a young military lieutenant, Wood wrote down (or possibly made up) the eloquent words of Chief Joseph’s famous “I Will Fight No More Forever” speech, and became a friend of the Nez Perce leader for the remainder of their lives. Or like Abigail Scott Duniway, honored as one of the “founding mothers of Oregon,” a pioneer wife and pioneering feminist.

Juries were reluctant to convict

people for liquor offenses, especially

bridge to be moved so it required property they owned, and which they sold to the county at an inflated price.

~ from Murder & Scandal in Prohibition Portland

Lily Tomlin once noted, “No matter how cynical I get, I just can’t keep up.”

And yet, in reading these histories, the effect is not cynicism. They remind us that even during times when the KKK marches openly in the streets and corruption is the usual way of doing business, there are individuals of courage, integrity and passion who continue to bend the moral arc of the universe toward justice.

Beatrice Morrow Cannady graduated from the Northwest College of Law (later Lewis and Clark College), becoming the first African American woman to practice law in Oregon and a leading civil rights activist. This was no small feat. From its beginnings, Oregon was a “whites only” state, with black exclusionary laws written into its constitution. The Ku Klan Klan began organizing here in the 1920s, and by 1923 had more than 20,000 members in the state, most living in Portland.

The city developed the reputation for being “the most racist city outside of the South.”

women from the city’s leading families.

Demonstrating in front of saloons, they put the police chief in an awkward position, resulting in their arrest for “disorderly praying.”

Alcohol has always been a powerful force in American culture. Portland’s crusade against alcohol, a key part of the feminist movement, involved

when the evidence disappeared. And the evidence did disappear. There were several cases of liquor evidence disappearing out of Central Precinct or Multnomah County Courthouse.

There were at least two cases in Portland where juries drank the evidence during deliberations and then acquitted the accused bootleggers for lack of evidence.

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Prohibition always was a better idea in theory than in practice, and when it became Oregon law in 1916, it opened up new opportunities for organized crime and the Portland Police Bureau— the two often indistinguishable from each other—as competing distributors of illegal liquor. But this was only the latest illicit activity in the city’s freewheeling style of governing by corruption. In 1924, the Multnomah County commissioners arranged for the location of the proposed Burnside

Portland historian J.D. Chandler will be reading at WordFest on Tuesday, June 11, 6:00 pm.

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Outings & Events

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

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

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

Outings & Events calendar (free listing): Events must be open to the public. Non-profit organizations and the arts, entertainment, educational and recreational opportunities and community cultural events will receive listing priority. Fundraisers must be sanctioned/sponsored by the benefiting non-profit organization. Businesses and organizations wishing to promote their particular products or services are invited to purchase advertising (contact info, page 3).

FIRST THURSDAY • June 6 Broadway Gallery Enjoy refreshments and meet guest artists Gail Simmons (figure paintings, oil) and Julie Koch (multi-media 3D art) Reception, 5:30-7:30pm.

Music: by Dian McCracken, acoustic guitar and vocals www.the-broadway-gallery.com 1418 Commerce Ave. Downtown Longview, Wash.

Forsberg Art Gallery, Lower Columbia College Rose Center for the Arts. Gallery open 5–7pm.

Across the River Cowlitz County Historical Museum 405 Allen St, Kelso, Wash.

7pm Program: TBA. Take a chance!

Programs are always interesting.

Or call the Museum to check, 360577-3119.

HOW TO PUBLICIZE YOUR NON-PROFIT EVENT IN CRR Send your noncommercial community event’s basic info (name of event, sponsor, date & time, location, brief description and contact info) to publisher@ crreader.com Or mail or hand-deliver (in person or via mail slot) to: Columbia River Reader 1333-14th Ave Longview, WA 98632

Submission Deadlines Events occurring: June 15 – July 20:

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Events occurring July 15– Aug 20:

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Broadway Gallery Artists co-op. Classes for all ages, workshops, paint parties.

Featured artists, May: guest artists Jaime Bacchus (paintings, prints) and new gallery member Adrienne Stacey (ceramics); June: guest artists Gail Simmons (figure paintings, oil) and Julie Koch (multi-media 3D art). Hours: M-F 10-5:30, Sat 10–4. 1418 Commerce, Longview, Wash. 360-577-0544. www. the-broadway-gallery.com.

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.

Forsberg Art Gallery at LCC Through May 2: Gail Owen, Reduction Prints.

Rose Center for the Arts, 1600 Maple St., Longview, Wash. Gallery summer hours: Mon-Thurs 10–4). Free. Info: 360442-2510 or lowercolumbia.edu/gallery.

Community Arts Workshop with volunteer instructors and a variety of arts and crafts materials available.

Free. Alcove Gallery through May 29: Neo-Fantasy Art by Jeremiah Landis and Jerry Filbeck. 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.

Koth Gallery, Longview Public Library May Exhibits: Gallery: The Three Artistes; Glass case: Arts of the Mountain.

1600 Louisiana Street, Longview, Wash.

Mon-Wed 10am-8pm, Thurs-Sat 10am5pm. Info: Daniel, 360-442-5307.

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.

Senior Piano Recital for Ethan Chung, RAL/LCC student. May 18th, 7:00 pm at St. Stephen’s, 22nd and Louisiana Street, Longview, Wash. Free admission.

Presented by Karla Dudley Piano Studio.

Northwest Voices Wed, May 22, featuring poet Florence Sage. Writing workshop 3:30-5:00pm, Lower Columbia College, Health Science 101 and a reading at Longview Public Library, 7:00pm in the Magazine Reading Room.

Florence Sage has been an organizer of local poetry mics, a poetry editor, and for 22 years co-producer of the annual FisherPoets Gathering in Astoria. Her 2014 collection is Nevertheless: Poems from the Gray Area (Hipfish Publications.)

All events are free and open to the public. Northwest Voices is funded by the Longview Public Library and Lower Columbia College, Friends of the Longview Library, Longview Library Foundation, and the LCC Foundation.

Barefoot in the Park by Neil Simon. May 17–June 2. Fri-Sat 7:30pm, Sundays 2pm.

Presented by Stageworks Northwest, 1433 Commerce, Longview, Wash.

Tickets/info: www.stageworksnorthwest. org or 360-636-4488.

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Outings & Events

Recreation, Outdoors Gardening, History, Pets, Self-Help Cowlitz County Museum Open Tues-Sat 10am–4pm. 405 Allen St, Kelso, Wash. www.co.cowlitz.wa.us/museum. Info: 360577-3June 6, 7pm program: TBA (see First Thurs. sidebar, page 28.)

BMX Races June 1, 8:30–11:30am, at the new track between 26th and Washington Way, Longview, Wash. Hosted by the Longview Parks & Recreation Foundation along with the Longview Parks & Recreation. Raffle and prizes.

Scappoose Garden Club Plant Sale May 18, 9am–4pm. Middle School on Hwy 30 in Scappoose. Proceeds fund scholarships & community projects.

Oregon’s Oldest Known Shipwreck: A Spanish Galleon of 1693 by Cameron La Follette, will be on Sunday, May 19 at 1pm, Netul Room, Lewis and Clark Nat’l Historical Park, Fort Clatsop (near Astoria, Ore.). Series presented by Lewis and Clark National Park Assn. and Fort Clatsop. Info: 503-861-2471 Annual Rummage Sale Fri, May 31, 9–4, Sat, June 1, 9–3. Bethany Lutheran Church, 2900 Parkview Dr, Longview, Wash. (off Columbia Heights Rd.) LOTS OF EVERYTHING! Proceeds support community programs.

Cowlitz Black Bears season opener, Sat., 6:35pm, Sat., June 8, Story Field at LCC, 1800 Maple St.,Longview, Wash. Every ticket sold raises $4 for local people, parks and programs via Longview Parks & Recreation Foundation. Tickets through June 5: https://qrgo.page.link/B9KL. Forget Me Not Golf Classic Sat, June 1, Three Rivers Golf Course, 2222 S.River Road, Kelso, Wash. Registration 11:30am. Shotgun start 1pm. $100 per person; $80 for veterans. Proceeds benefit Cowlitz County Veterans’ Service Center. Info: 360-200-4611.

R Square D Square Dance Club dances 2nd Friday and 4th Saturday, through May. June begins summer dance schedule: 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. PLUS DANCERS through May 22, workshop/ lessons on Wednesdays, 7pm - 9pm, $2.50 per person. More info www.r-square-d.info, or call Annie Tietze, 360-414-5855.

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Rainier City-Wide Garage Sales Sat., June 15, 8am–4pm. Rainier Senior Center, 48 West 7th St., Rainier, Ore. Table rental $10 each. Call to reserve or for info: Rachel, 503369-6382. Senior Center kitchen will be selling food 11am–2pm.

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

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the Lower Columbia

Informer

by Perry Piper

Vegan Burgers Are Good Now?

I

n the past, going vegan or otherwise meat free has been a serious pain.

There weren’t many alternatives that tasted very good, so it was a serious sacrifice. In the beginning of May however, Beyond Meat had their IPO on the stock market and curious consumers could try their burgers for a single day at participating restaurants for a discounted $4. Even the Longview Carl’s Jr was on the list!

Biting into the Carl’s Jr Beyond Meat burger, I was was surprised to find it was better tasting and feeling than regular burgers at that brand. It tasted like one-third fish and two-thirds beef.

The patty was very soft, but looked normal, although some have said it is unnaturally, precisely circular. I sensed some overcompensation in BBQ flavors, but it didn’t give me a stomach ache like many fast food burgers do. That said, I rarely eat fast food and this Beyond Meat option wouldn’t compel me to return and I like other fast food better anyway, like

TAKE A

Five Guys burgers and fries. While these new plant-based meat options avoid the salmonella risk and negative antibiotic use of the traditional meat industry, they are designed to taste great and, sadly, aren’t any healthier than normal burgers, ingredient-wise.

The competitor to Beyond Meat I tried about two years ago in Portland is called the “Impossible Burger.” It looked and tasted quite raw, like a backyard BBQ burger and had a strong bean flavor, but was good, although at the time it was $20 at an upscale Portland restaurant.

Both Impossible Burger and Beyond Meat are plant-based meat alternative products, meaning while fantastic, they’ll probably never get to a perfect taste match for slaughtered meat. That’s where the endgame technology comes in, called cultured meat, clean meat or lab-grown meat. While we might not see commercial competitiveness for another 5-10 years, real animal

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cells are taken from the source animal, like chicken or cattle, and multiplied in the lab for a true taste and texture just like slaughtered meat. It even looks the same under a microscope. Those companies include JUST Meat, Mosa Meat and Memphis Meats. Some will launch over the next 2-5 years, but will come at a significant premium, estimated at around $10 per burger patty at first. An additional interesting fact is that companies like Memphis Meat are already making lab-grown leather for use in car seats and other luxury goods.

Beyond Meat also makes other meat products, like sausage, for sale at many grocery stores.

Several restaurants in Portland and nearby areas carry the new Beyond Meat or Impossible Burger, including the Hob Nob BrewHouse in St. Helens, the Red Kitchen in Longview and Carl’s Jr. in Longview. Burger King will get them by the end of the year.

McDonald’s is considering it in certain global markets.

Ask your favorite dining spot if they’ve joined the party, and rest easy knowing helping the planet no longer requires eating just tofu.

••• On his extended trip through South America, Perry Piper will be scouring the continent in search of the best chocolate. He is helping remotely with 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.

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Mt. St. Helens Club

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.

Wed, May 15 Lake Sacajawea (E) Walk around the whole lake (3+ miles) or walk half the lake (1+ mile). Leaders: Trudy and Ed, 360-414-1160.

Sat, May 18 Wygant/Chetwoot Trail (M/S) Drive 194 miles RT to east end of the Col. River Gorge. Hike 6 miles with 1,200 ft. e.g. or 8.5 miles with 2,000ft. e.g. Excellent views of Columbia River from ridgetop viewpoints. Leader: Bruce 360-425-0256.

Sat, May 22 Kwis Kwis Trail (E/M) Drive 110 miles RT. Hike 7.5-mile loop or a 3.5-mile loop. We’ll take the Kwis Kwis trail that winds around and up and down, then intersects with the Fort-to-Sea Trail.

Leaders: Art 360-270-9991 and Linda, 360-431-3321.

Wed, May 29 Steiger wald Refuge, Washougal (E) Drive 120 miles RT. Hike 3+ miles on a level path through wetlands to Lewis & Clark Discovery Trail along the Columbia River with great views and a little history. Leader: John 360-431-1122.

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Blackwood on Movies

‘Avengers: Endgame’... mucho dinero, uh-huh! and ‘Long Shot’

By Dr. Bob Blackwood

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ell, “Avengers: Endgame” is PG-13 and three hours and 1 minute long, directed

by Joe and Anthony Russo. Now, the first film I saw that was about that long was a revival of “Gone With the Wind” with Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh in the 1950s. Somehow, I think that film has a little more potential life to it than the current money maker, basically because it is a love story.

We all treasure great romances—e.g. “Romeo and Juliet” — even if our own efforts in romance were disappointing. Very few of us, however, have ever fought with a giant such as Thanos, who has a scientific advantage and great experience, as opposed to many of the simple human warriors. Of course,

The Avengers were supported by the latest human scientific efforts and other human and non-human allies.

My own perspective on the film is that the first hour of the film could have easily been shortened to 15 minutes. Who needs so much discussion? I thought this was an action film. In any case, I guess the audience members needed some time to eat their first box of popcorn and maybe go out for a cola to wash it down before the action starts.

I do compliment the special effects people and the incredible action sequences. The kids loved them too, and the audience was happy to see the hated Thanos bite the big one.

There is nothing like having a really bad guy in your motion picture, someone who not only conquers nations, he conquers planets. Wow! Robert Downey Jr., as Tony Stark, the leader of the Avengers, does a fine job of coordinating his allies, though Chris Evans, as Captain America, rivals him in looking mighty handsome and brave. We’ll see what happens there in future films. Since this film is a big success, however, probably things will stay stable in the world of the Avengers, though when Thor turns into a fat slob in

Dr. Bob Blackwood, professor emeritus of the City Colleges of Chicago, co-authored with Dr. John Flynn the book, Everything I Know about Life I Learned from James Bond.

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“Endgame,” I began to wonder why it was necessary to turn a Norse god into a slob? Norse folks, stand up for your former godheads! All in all, however, if you can sit through the first hour, you will like the action.

Try to keep the little kids quiet during that first hour.

Jonathan Levine’s comedy “Long Shot” (“R” rated), with Charlize Theron and Seth Rogen is a very funny film. She is running for President of the United States with Seth Rogen as her speech writer and with the support of the current president. She has never looked better, and Rogen is surprisingly good as her publicist and lover. It is not the kind of role that Rogen usually goes for, but both of them are at the top of their game. Take this one in if you want a laugh.

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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.

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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 12.

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 11

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. See ad, page 13.

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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.

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Astronomy

SKY REPORT / FRIENDS OF GALILEO

Looking Up: The Summer Triangle, a black hole, and a marsquake!

By Greg Smith The Spring Sky Constellations Here we are in full springtime with the night sky dominated by Virgo very high in the southern sky with its bright star, Spica, showing us exactly where to look.

A small telescope and a dark sky will give you a view of Spica’s jewels rising towards Bootes. High above it is the brighter star Arcturus in Bootes, the kite shaped constellation. If you are still unsure of where to look, follow the curve of the Big Dipper’s handle to Arcturus on down to Spica. A sure sign that summer is on its way, the three stars of the “Summer Triangle” are rising in the east. Vega is the bright one in the northeast, with Deneb lower to the horizon. Hercules the Hero is leading the triangle higher yet and its magnificent globular cluster M13 in the western side of its body.

M13 is easily visible in binoculars. I saw M13 for the first time with binoculars. The next time was in a small telescope and was blown away by how beautiful it was

with those thousands of stars. It was like seeing Saturn for the first time. Lastly, Leo the lion is high in the southwest and is heading for its western plunge into the western horizon in July.

A Black Hole, a Marsquake, and a Magnetic Force Field You read that right, a force field. Well, not like the ones you see in Star Trek. A group of undergraduates from Drake University in Iowa are developing the idea of a magnetic shield to be used on a spaceship that takes Marsonauts on their voyage to Mars. This shield is to deflect cosmic rays just as the Earth’s magnetosphere deflects them and protects us from cosmic rays.

They are still determining what the strength of the magnetic field will have to be. They are also testing different kinds of fabric to coat the spaceship to protect it and crew from high energy gamma rays just like the ionosphere does for the Earth. This idea is called ‘MISSFIT’ – Magneto-Ionization Spacecraft Shield for Interplanetary Travel. As of now this concept is only on paper.

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Many of you by now have seen or read about the recently-publicized Black Hole picture. It was a major feat of cooperation of more than 200 astronomers across the world. They had eight radio telescopes that had to be coordinated. These scopes were located in the US, Spain, Mexico, Chile and Antarctica. It took 20 years’ work, configuring this array of scopes so they would take “data recordings” at the same time. Then they had to gather all the information into one place. The Internet could not handle all the data. So they had to resort to physically sending the hard drives by FedEx. They had to wait months for the data to be collected from Antarctica, due to the winter conditions there. They practiced with three radio scopes to come up with the way to combine the data into a picture. As a reference, they used another black hole with an active jet of material that they already had wide angle pictures of. When they got that down, they applied it to the black hole data and got the picture that was published.

The latest Mars probe, the InSight Lander, has successfully recorded a recognizable Marsquake.

They are still figuring out if it was a quake caused by a break in the crust, like our earthquakes, or if it was from a meteor impact. The strength of it was about a 1 or 2 magnitude, something we on earth would not have felt. The scientists monitoring the seismometer on Mars have detected a few recordings of possible events, but are not sure what they are. This event is helping them to clarify the data so as to be able to determine the origin and distance of future Marsquakes.

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May15 – June 18 Mars welcomes Jupiter and Saturn to

By Ted Gruber the party Evening Sky For the past two or three months, Mars has been the only “naked eye” planet visible in the evening sky, but that’s about to change. You can still see the red planet in the northwestern sky as darkness falls until it sets around 11:00pm (about an hour earlier by mid-June). But about the time Mars now sets, Jupiter rises in the southeast and remains visible overnight.

Then, about two hours later, Saturn rises and follows Jupiter across the night sky.

By the end of May, Mercury appears low over the west-northwest horizon about 30 minutes after sunset. Mercury climbs a bit higher and moves a little closer to Mars each evening. On June 4, a thin crescent moon appears roughly halfway between and slightly below Mercury and Mars. The two planets make their closest approach the evening of June 18, when they appear just 0.2° apart, or less than the diameter of the full moon.

Morning Sky Jupiter and Saturn are also visible in the south-southwest early morning sky.

In the overnight hours of May 20, the nearly full moon passes less than 2° north of Jupiter. Then on May 22 and 23, the moon passes just south of Saturn, again in the overnight hours. Look for Saturn east of the moon on May 22 and on the opposite side the following morning.

Venus rises in the east-northeast between 5:00am and 5:30am. The bright planet remains visible until fading into the morning sunlight. On the morning of June 1, the moon appears 3° south of Venus.

••• 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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UIPS & QUOTES

Selected by Debra Tweedy

You must learn day by day, year by year, to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about—the more you have left when anything happens. ~Ethel Barrymore, American stage actress, 1879-1959 Never argue with a fool; onlookers may not be able to tell the difference. ~Mark Twain, American humorist, 18351910 Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can’t, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it. ~Robert Frost, American poet, 1874-1963 The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away. ~Barbara Kingsolver, American novelist, 1955Everybody can be great...because everybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., American Baptist minister and civil rights leader, 1929-1968 It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it. ~Oscar Wilde, Irish writer, 1854-1900 The purpose of life is not to be happy.

It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, American writer and philosopher, 1803-1882

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A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. ~William James, American philosopher and psychologist, 1842-1910 It would be a shame if brilliant technology were to end up threatening the kind of intellect that produced it. ~Edward Tenner, American historian of technology, 1944I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship. ~Louisa May Alcott, American novelist, 1832-1888 In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt. ~Margaret Atwood, Canadian writer, 1939There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by. How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. ~Annie Dillard, American author, 1945The high value put upon every minute, the idea of hurry-hurry as the most important objective of living, is unquestionably the most dangerous enemy of joy. ~Hermann Hesse, German writer, 18771962 We can change. People say we can’t, but we do when the stakes or the pain is high enough. And when we do, life can change. It offers more of itself when we agree to give up our busyness. ~Anne Lamott, American writer, 1954Debra Tweedy was born and raised in Longview and has lived on four continents.

Recently retired, she and her husband decided to return to her hometown and bought a house facing Lake Sacajawea.

“We came back because of the Lake and the (Longview Public) Library,” she said.

Vista House

cont from page 17

features placards displaying photos dating back to the 1920s showcasing what life was like traveling through the gorge in the early years.

Camping in the gorge began with the Indians and early settlers and is still a favorite pastime of road trippers today. Eagle Creek became the first campground in a national forest in 1914. Albert Weisendanger used boards left over from the framing of bridges built over the creek to make picnic tables and platforms for tents.

Hotels and roadhouses peppered the Columbia River Highway, and many

travelers stayed at the Columbia Gorge Hotel built in 1921. Bridal Veil Lodge, built in 1926, Latourell Villa, built in 1950, and Chanticleer Inn opened in 1912 and rented rooms to numerous travelers over the years. Restaurants have come and gone over the years, but many motorists of the past and present carried a travel kit. The kit from the 1930s may have contained a canvas water bag, goggles, gloves, coats, repair tools and food for a picnic. Today’s kit often contains comparable items, sans the goggles. The Vista House, originally built as an observatory/rest stop, continues to serve that purpose today. When putting together your traveling kit, remember to include a tasty picnic for your travels (see “Provisions along the Trail,” page 17).

The view upriver from the Vista House on Crown Point east of Portland.

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MAN IN THE KITCHEN CLASSIC

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On the grill: Fresh Salmon By Paul Thompson laced with Hollandaise and crab

ost men who cook are one-trick ponies. They have one dish as their specialty or they fill a narrow niche in the kitchen. My friend, Dr. Bob (CRR’s “Blackwood on Movies”), makes a killer spaghetti sauce. Ned Piper, “The Spectator” columnist, is a grill man, a title many men in our society hold. My early claim to fame was grilled and smoked salmon, served with a hollandaise sauce.

I have often served it to guests in my backyard and have been asked several times to prepare it at friends’ homes for their cookouts, as I was on Easter this year in the backyard of the Pipers — Ned, Sue and Perry.

Hollandaise: The Queen of Sauces Hollandaise is little more than a mixture of egg yolks and butter, but the creamy, velvety result can turn common food into a gourmet treat. Spoon it over asparagus, broccoli or cauliflower. Crown Eggs Benedict with it. Or, ladle it over a slab of salmon, fresh off the grill, as I did at the Pipers’.

This is the time of year when wild salmon begin to flood the market, bringing the price down. My favorite, Copper River sockeye salmon, leads the way. Sockeye is known to have one of the highest levels of Omega-3 fatty acids, a key factor in reducing cholesterol and improving health.

Grilled-Smoked Salmon Heat the grill to medium-low. We don’t want to cook our fish too quickly. Wash and pat dry a filet of salmon, or a portion of one, keeping it in one piece. If using a charcoal grill, move the hot coals to one side. Add moistened wood chips to the coals. I prefer apple or cherry chips.

With gas grills, put the chips in a pan over the flames. Close the lid and take a break.

When smoke has developed, lay the slabs of salmon on the grill, skin-side down, away form direct heat, with the thickest part toward the heat. Lather the fish with melted butter and close the lid. Brush the fish with butter once or twice more as it cooks. Butter adds its own flavor and helps the fish absorb the smoky flavor. Add more wood chips when the smoke subsides. There is no need to turn the fish. Keep it sunny side up.

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A publication I enjoy, Cooks Illustrated, recently reviewed fish spatulas. These implements feature a long head to securely support large foods, a thin and moderately-flexible head that scoots under food easily, and a narrow head easy to maneuver in tight spaces. Conventional spatulas’ long handles put your hand farther away from what you’re holding, giving you less control.

Fish spatulas aren’t just for fish, either. Professional cooks, the magazine says, swear by fish spatulas. They’re versatile and nimble.

I ordered one and will be trying it out soon.

Do YOU have a fish spatula?

The fish is done at the moment the thickest part of the flesh turns pink. Using two or more spatulas, loosen the fish from its skin, leaving the skin stuck to the grill. Who wants to eat that? Carefully pick up the fish and move it to the serving plater, in one piece if possible.

This is where a fish spatula comes in handy (see sidebar).

Leave the skin on the grill. As it dries it will later pop loose for easy removal.

Add Dungeness crab At the Piper cookout, for a festive Easter touch, we added a layer of fresh-cracked Dungeness crab meat to the top of the salmon after lacing it with hollandaise sauce.

That’s the one-trick of this pony (me). It inspired me to add a few more tricks over time, many of which I shared in my column over the last 15 years. Some are making encore appearances as “Man in the Kitchen Classics.” Bon appetite!

••• 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. Now known as “Man in the Kitchen Emeritus,” his talents as a cook and writer are still appreciated.

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Classic Hollandaise Sauce /2-cup butter 4 egg yolks 1 Tbl. lemon juice Salt Cayenne pepper 1

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elt butter in a saucepan and keep it hot.

Using a wire whisk, whip the egg yolks in the top of a double boiler, over hot water. They will turn a golden yellow and begin to thicken.

Keep that whisk moving and freely move the pot on and off the bottom of the double boiler to slow the cooking process.

When eggs begin to thicken, add a tablespoon of water and keep whipping. When they thicken again, add the lemon juice, a pinch of salt and a healthy dash of cayenne pepper. Continue whipping until the sauce begins to thicken one more time. Be careful not to overcook the

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Remove the top of the double boiler from the heat,still whisking. Ever so slowly, begin adding small quantities of the hot butter to the egg yolk mixture. Blend before adding more. Patience is essential at this point. If you add too much butter too quickly, the sauce will break, with the fat and egg separating. It happened to me once, with 30 guests waiting. A couple of tablespoons of cream, whipped in, may bring it back. Otherwise, toss it in a blender and give it a whirl. But when you get it right — and all it takes is patience — you have something very special.

Continue adding the butter in increasing quantities, while whipping, omitting the dregs at the bottom of the butter pan. The sauce is ready to serve with the final additions of butter.

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Ancient travels Longview residents Dennis and Kris McElroy Weber Overlooking the Western Wailing Wall and the Dome of the Rock in Old Jerusalem during their two-week visit to Israel.

Awesome experience: Visiting Antarctica

Cathy Peacock of Amagansett, New York and Patty Williams of Longview, Wash., on the Antartic peninsula, March 2019.

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Father and son, fellow travelers...or not?

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ine years ago when our son Perry informed us that he was planning a two-month trip to Europe, I was not at all in favor of his decision. His response was, “How old were you when you and Paul (“Man in the Kitchen”) Thompson bummed around Europe for seven months?”

Okay, so I was 20 at the time, the same age Perry was when he informed us of his plans.

But that was different.

When I went to Europe, I reasoned, it was a different time, a more peaceful time. But Perry’s point was well taken.

Plus, he was traveling with his friend David Thorson. At least there is some safety in numbers, I thought.

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Perry went to Europe where he visited friends and former foreign exchange students from his high school days, and he came home with a collection of photos and experiences he will never forget. I could relate to that, given the memories I still carry from my 1960 travels.

A few years after his first big trip, Perry accompanied Sue and me and traveled in Germany, Switzerland and France for a couple of weeks. It was on that trip that Perry put to rest any fears I’d had that he wasn’t capable of traveling in the world without his mom and dad making sure he caught the right train, had the right kind of money — all those things that can go wrong in a foreign country. Hah! As it worked out, he was the one helping US make decisions, getting directions and train connections. He served almost like our travel guide.

Perry has since traveled to Japan and Columbia and spent a week in Singapore. I have to admire the way he goes about his various trips. He stays mostly in youth hostels, where he meets people from all over the world.

Paul and I in 1960 stayed in a few hostels back in the day. We also crossed paths with young travelers from various countries. That is where the comparison ends. Perry stays in touch with his new friends. Paul and I didn’t even think of that. Of course, we we didn’t have social media at our fingertips.

When Perry travels, he contacts his hostel friends to let them know he’s coming to their country. They often respond by inviting him to stay with them. One side advantage to the invitation is that while he’s staying with them, they take him to places in their country that he wouldn’t even know existed.

And now he’s getting ready to re-visit South America. He assured me that he won’t be going to Venezuela, a country in the midst of considerable unrest. He plans his trip to last for six months. I look forward to viewing what will surely be hundreds of pictures from his trip. He has a good eye for photography and enjoys hiking and seeing architectural and natural wonders. WE can all follow along month-by-month reading his “travel diary” column starting in June in the Reader.

Longview native Ned Piper enjoys reading, writing, putzing in the yard, watching all manner of TV sports, and schmoozing with CRR advertisers and readers.

By Alice Dietz

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n December 9, 1936, the Cowlitz PUD Board of Commissioners passed their first resolution, Resolution No. 1, Adopting Official Seal. The official seal is encircled with the words “PUBLIC UTILITY DISTRICT NO. 1 — Cowlitz Co. Wash.”

Fast forward to more than 82 years later, and the Board of Commissioners have been presented with the reinstatement of our original logo or seal. The full transfer of the newly-adopted seal for Cowlitz County will take place on January 1st, 2020 but you will begin seeing it sooner than that. Like right now, because it is on the back page of this publication.

We have decided to re-adopt the original seal for cost purposes. The one-color seal will assist the District in our continued efforts to save money on printing, data storage and will provide a consistent look and feel for the PUD. Because we are publicly owned and always considering costs, we are currently phasing the new logo into publication rather than doing a complete switch. This helps us deplete the inventory of what we currently have (business cards, letterhead, pens, etc) and restock what we need to order with the updated seal. We think it is important to communicate this to our customers, as you may see our new seal around town. We are looking forward to the new, simplified look – I especially appreciate its history as being the very first resolution passed by the District.

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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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