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h, September. Indian Summer has kicked in and we may get the warmest weather yet. The remaining harvest is practically in our arms — the Pipers’ front yard boasts five fat pumpkins, several butternut squash, three eggplants and cucumbers that can’t seem to quit.

Sue’s Views

When we returned to the Kalama Marina boat launch, a friendly mood prevailed, despite nobody having caught much that day.

We, however, brought home a small steelhead, estimated at 5-6 lbs. One bystander, somewhat in jest, remarked: “Oh, that’s bait!” when he saw “our” fish, meaning it was too small to impress. I did not, however, notice him toting a larger fish, or for that matter, any fish.

The Fall Chinook salmon and steelhead are in the river, and the Longview Outdoor Gallery’s latest sculptures are in place. Everything’s coming up roses!

I was vocalizing my desire to go fishing just when we were hearing reports of 22,000 Chinook salmon crossing Bonneville Dam one day. Everyone’s hopes were high then.

Thanks to Ken Chisholm, of Longview, for the invitation to go out and fish in his boat with his friend, Caleb Olson, who was home for the weekend from Perry Technical Institute, where he is about to complete instrumentation studies. He was a delightful fishing mate and I learned a lot from him.

Sitting in a boat for several hours means plenty of time for conversation.

Bonneville has been “adjusting” water spillage over the dam, for various reasons. But less water in the river makes tidal influence even more important in fishing, Caleb explained.

Fall’s bounty: Fish in the Columbia.

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We waited quite a while for the predicted tide to kick in. Spinners, it seems, don’t work right without a certain amount of flow and current.

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when they hook a fish — dropping out slightly downriver of the line of boats, then re-joining once their fish is landed — or lost.

Did you know fish returning from the ocean to spawn swim along whichever side of the river “their” tributary dumps into? Curious, I thought. But hearing the explanation, it makes sense: Fish don’t want to risk crossing the main channel and being nabbed by predators, such as a sea lion or seals.

It was technically Perry’s fish (photo, at left). He reeled it in, but we had earlier agreed to share the catch among all participants. So we cooked it for dinner and found it more than enough for six. And it was delicious.

Be sure to walk in Downtown Longview and see the new sculptures (page 27, 34). Artists/photographers: Consider offering your work for our special Holiday cover. And readers who enjoy cooking, we invite your favorite holiday recipes (details, page 33).

Happy onset of Fall.

Sue Piper

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 4 Quips & Quotes ~ Letters to the Editor 5 Columbia Theatre 7 Biz Buzz 8 Astronomy ~ Comet ISON is on the way 9 Cover to Cover: Top 10 Bestsellers/ Book Review 10 Recreational Music Making 10 Farmers’ Market Listings 12 My Slant: Terrible with Names? Tips & tricks to help 13 Let the People Drink Wine ~ St. Josef’s 15 Northwest Gardener: Overture to Autumn 16 Man in the Kitchen: Saganaki 17 Out & About ~ Greek Festival in Portland 18 Out & About ~ Cooking with the Farmer’s Daughter 19 Out & About ~ Columbia Theatre’s Season Opener 20 Out & About: Hiking Eagle Creek 21 Domestic Arts: Quiltmakers Blast Boundaries 23 Where Do You Read the Reader?

26-27 Outings & Events Calendar / Music Scene 28 Movie Reviews: The Butler, Elysium 29 Lower Columbia Informer ~ Left to your own devices?

30 Columbia River Dining Guide 34 The Spectator ~ Art on the street 34 What’s Up Under the Bridge? Port of Longview Columbia River Reader / September 15 – October 14 2013 / 3

Letter to the Editor So long as you’re going to be thinking anyway, think big.

--Donald Trump

5 Years Ago Favorites re-run in memory of Jean Carnine Bruner

I never regret anything, because every little detail of your life is what made you into what you are in the end.

--Drew Barrymore

I d o n ’t c a r e w h a t i s w r i t t e n about me as long as it isn’t true.

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Optimist: A person who gets treed by a lion but enjoys the scenery.

--Walter Winchell

Giving connects two people, the giver and the receiver, and this connection gives birth to a new sense of belonging.

--Dr. Deepak Chopra

A pessimist thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.

--George Bernard Shaw The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.

--Thomas Carlyle, historian

Speak kindly – it echoes back.

--Sign at Silver Lake Grange Hall Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men. The other 999 follow women.

-- Groucho Marx

No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up.

--Lily Tomlin

Any man who begins conversation with “I don’t want to hurt your feelings” is about to hurt your feelings.

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we re-boarded the bus for our trip to Nancy’s gardens at Sandy Bend. They are overwhelming in their size, plant variety, and creativity in landscaping.

Nancy Chennault led an interesting walking tour of downtown Castle Rock, pointing out the lovely floral hangings adorning businesses and civic buildings, and we even “discovered” a hidden park by the old jail which has been lovingly planted and tended by local residents. Then

Editor’s note: CRR’s Northwest Gardener columnist Nancy Chennault has already agreed to make this possible again next year. Watch her August 2014 column for details about the tours of her display gardens.

Thanks, Sue and Nancy, for providing us a wonderful, relaxing afternoon — and to those of you who missed it, take advantage of CRR’s upcoming tours.

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Not since “Dewey Beats Truman” has a headline been so wrong Saved by Mt. St. Helens’ eruption, theatre going strong 33 years later

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n Saturday, June 30, 1979 The Daily News (Longview) prematurely announced the closure and imminent demolition of the Columbia Theatre. Over the years many historic theatres have been reduced to rubble across our country.

The few that remain are a testament to a grand era of entertainment that had its zenith in 1925, the year the Columbia Theatre opened its doors.

Saved by the…

There are countless stories of historic theatres saved by some last minute reprieve, but none can claim a more spectacular reprieve than Longview’s Columbia Theatre – saved by volcano!

May 1980 After a valiant effort to keep the theatre from being demolished, crews and equipment moved into an adjacent parking lot to prepare the four-story building for demolition.

Significant work was to begin on Monday, May 19.

On Sunday May 18th Mt. St. Helens spoke and the equipment was diverted to assist in disaster relief efforts. In the midst of this international drama, the Columbia Theatre was all but

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forgotten. However, when the dust settled and the mountain went cold again, The Columbia still stood like an orphan waiting to be adopted. And she was. Through the tireless effort of a group of citizens, including Virginia Rubin, the Columbia Theater Task Force, Inc. was formed with the purpose of restoring the Columbia Theater as a regional performing arts center.

A thirty-year-long journey…

Now, thirty years and $11.6 million later, the Columbia has had a 21st Century make-over! The theatre re-opened in February 2010 as a

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As space allows, we will include news of innovations, improvements, new ventures and significant employee milestones of interest to readers.

Please phone (360)636-1143 or (503)556-1295 to share the local buzz.

Recreational music making Longview piano teacher Karla Dudley recently received a grant from the National Piano Foundation to attend a pedagogy session on Recreational Music Making at the Music Teachers National Association Conference in Anaheim.

RMM is a nontraditional approach to teaching music in small groups.

“I’m excited Karla Dudley about this new venture in my studio,” said Dudley. “I’ve used these methods when teaching group piano classes for Yamaha on Crystal Cruises and have as much fun as my students.” Two 6-week RMM sessions for adults will take place Oct. 2 to Nov 14 on Wednesdays, 12:30– 1:45 and Thursdays 6:30–7:45pm at Dudley’s studio. Cost for the full session is $50. All materials will be provided and pre-registration is required. For more information, contact Dudley at 577-1366 or kcpiano@comcast.net.

ENTEK Corporation recently received ACCA’s 2013 Safety Excellence Award for HVAC Contractors with 50 employees or more. ACCA is the nation’s largest association of indoor environmental systems professionals, Its Safety Excellence Award is considered the HVAC industry’s most significant recognition for contractors who are dedicated to safe workplaces. “We are honored to

receive such a prestigious award from a national organization that represents the HVAC industry,” said Lynette Shero, ENTEK’s community relations manager. The company “invests a great deal of time and resources to ensure the safety of our treasured employees.

It is an enormous testament to the entire team’s dedication to safety and our employees deserve a large amount of credit for this recognition.”

Entek Corporation, a heating, air conditioning and energy solutions company operating in the Pacific Northwest since 1946, offers designbuild HVAC services and maintenance services to residential, commercial and industrial customers.

Curves on the move “We are now downtown girls,” said Curves manager Sharon Herbert, who has moved her business from Twin City Plaza to 1313 Commerce Avenue in Longview. Hebert has been with Curves for seven years and remains upbeat about the advantages of joining Curves.

“We call it ‘Curves Complete,’” she said. “It’s exercise, meal plans and motivation all in Sharon Ebert one.” Curves is open from 6am to 7 pm Monday through Friday, Saturday from 8am ‘til noon. Call 360-577-8726 for schedule of Zumba classes offered five times per week. See ad, page 24.

T h e S o u t h w e s t Wa s h i n g t o n Symphony will present three children’s concerts October 10 in the Columbia Theatre for the Performing Arts.

The concerts bring the experience of a live symphony orchestra performance to more than 2,400 third- through sixth-graders from 21 area elementary schools in Longview, Kelso, Castle Rock, Toutle, Rainier and Cathlamet. Program material is supplied in advance to teachers so students can become familiar with the program for maximum benefit.

The program is supported by grants from The Community Foundation and the Cowlitz Community Fund Grants Committee. In a press release, Symphony board chairman David Walworth expressed appreciation for everything these groups do to support arts education and to improve quality of life in the community.

LCC offers ways to finish GED before December deadline More than 600 adults who began the GED testing process at Lower Columbia College in past years but did not complete all five parts must finish by early December or start over.

In January, the national GED Testing Service will replace the current test

Cowlitz PUD collected $5,619.22 operating its 2013 Cowlitz County Fair Bingo Tent, marking the second largest year. Since its inception in 2006, Cowlitz PUD Bingo at the Fair has collectively raised $38,797.17 to benefit local charitable organizations.

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Astronomy

Update: ISON is on its way

Comet of the century? Wait and see!

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have mentioned the comet ISON in previous articles, and I thought I would give you an update. In September the comet will cross what is called the frost line. This is a region that is at a distance from the sun that will bring the surface temperature of the comet above where water ice will start to evaporate. Is space at 32 degrees? No, but the radiation of the sun will warm the surface of the ices that make up the comet. This is just like how the sun feels hotter on your skin than the air temperature does.

Things begin to heat up Brightening of the comet due to this heating will begin from this point on.

Astronomers will begin to study the composition of the comet in more detail. Scientists believe that this is the first time this multi-mile chunk of ice has made a journey to the inner solar system. Astronomers hope this will give them more insight into the composition of the icy bodies that reside in the outer solar system.

It is not known how well it will hold up under the strain of the gravitational pull of the sun as it makes its close pass to the sun’s surface. It may break apart into big and small chunks or it may stay together. We will have to wait to see what kind of a show it puts on.

in the pre-dawn hours as you look east. Mars and ISON will be following each other the last half of September.

It will take a 4” to 6” telescope to see the comet at this time; remember it’s a very faint fuzz ball.

Close encounter with Mars The first week of October will bring the comet much closer to Mars than it will be to Earth in December and January.

In fact, the Mars Rover’s cameras will be aimed at ISON to get a record of the comet. Plus, it will be the first time a comet will be observed from a planet other than Earth.

By mid October, Mars and comet ISON will be visible near the bright star Regulus in the constellation Leo. Mars and ISON will be in this vicinity all month long. By the end of October, the comet will have passed Mars as viewed from Earth. Good binoculars or small- to medium-sized telescopes will be needed to see the comet, as it most likely will not be visible to the eye alone.

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No one really knows. Media hype always blows things out of proportion.

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In mid-September the comet will pass north of the star cluster M44 in the constellation Cancer, heading east. The planet Mars will actually pass through the M44 star cluster. This all happens

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Remember, this is before sunrise, and the sky gets brighter as time passes and the comet heads toward the sun. The comet will be harder and harder to see as it gets later in the pre-dawn sky.

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The comet passes closest to the Sun in late November and will be at its brightest then. Some estimate that at that point, it will be as bright as the full moon.

cat, a comet has a tail and does just as it wants to.” For online information on Comet ISON, Google it and take your pick of the many sites available.

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BOOK REVIEW

By Alan Rose

The reasoned, seasoned memories of a boy fifty years later

The Bartender’s Tale

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Soon before daybreak on my sixth birthday, m y m o t h e r ’s breathing wheezed more raggedly than ever, then quieted. And then stopped.

The remembering begins out of that new silence…

One of the most evocative and powerful openings I had ever read began This House of Sky, Ivan Doig’s 1978 memoir of growing up in Montana.

I was hooked and eagerly read the books that followed, The Sea Runners, Winter Brothers, Prairie Nocturne, The Whistling Season, Work Song. Like Wallace Stegner, Doig is a storyteller of the modern West and a master stylist, meaning that as important as the story he tells

is the way he tells it; his books are full of sentences you want to highlight and underline and remember.

In his most recent novel, The Bartender’s Tale, Doig relates the experiences of Russell (Rusty) Harry when he turned 12 in 1960—“that year of everything”—when his life changed and the world would never be the same again.

Somewhere in the back of our minds lurked the disturbing knowledge that when school started in the fall, I would have to turn into a boy among other boys again and she would have to find a best friend among girls. But that fact of life lay whole months away yet, and in the meantime, all we had to live up to was for each of us to do half the laughing.

~ from The Bartender’s Tale

The events take place in the small fictional town of Gros Ventre, Montana (“where people knew one another’s business almost before it happened”), the setting of several of Doig’s stories.

Rusty lives with his father, who owns the town’s most popular bar, the Medicine Lodge saloon, and who is some kind of legend in the area with his down to earth, no-nonsense philosophy (“All you can count on in life is your fingers and toes.”

“Opposites attract, but usually not for long.”)

Alan Rose, author of Tales of Tokyo and The Legacy of Emily Hargraves and The Unforgiven, organizes the monthly WordFest gatherings. He can be reached at www.alan-rose.com, at www.Facebook.com/Alan.Rose.

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“Newly hatched from childhood into adolescence,” Rusty begins to explore the strange goings-on and baffling world of adults. To accompany him on his explorations is a girl new in town, Zoe Constantine. Overcoming the typical 12-year old boy’s suspicion of girls, he and Zoe quickly become best friends and co-conspirators in growing up.

Rather than the story of some dramatic, life changing event, the novel instead recounts the daily little discoveries and mini-dramas that together add up to what Rusty realizes was a turning point in his life: The prospect of his dad re-marrying, or as he called it “maddermoany,” selling the bar that had become a manageable microcosm

of the world, or being confronted with the possibility that he has a half-sister neither he nor his father knew about.

Through the story of that momentous year, Doig captures the freshness of a 12-year old’s explorations and discoveries filtered now through the reasoned, seasoned reflections of the boy 50 years later: “That’s grown-ups for you. By the time we ever figure them out…we’ll be them.”

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Recreational Music Making

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all is often the time when people think about beginning a new activity. The Parks and Recreation and school catalogs are full of classes. Perhaps this is the year that you take a Zumba or painting class, or maybe you have made a commitment to yourself to actually walk those 10,000 steps a day.

As a local piano teacher, my phone begins to ring in the summer as parents think about signing their child up for piano lessons. When asked why they are interested, they usually say, “Because I think it’s important for my

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Never too late When people learn that I’m a piano teacher, they often say: “I always wanted to play an instrument,” or “I wish my parents wouldn’t have let me quit taking lessons when I was little.”

My response is always: “Why not start now? It’s not too late!”

Today, the baby boomer generation is turning the corner on retirement. For many, the kids are grown, education expenses are subsiding, and schedules are less full. There is an ongoing desire to keep that brain working and studies are showing that one way to do that is by engaging in lifelong learning.

Time to explore?

Studies have shown that making music can have an effect on the wellness of the individual. We all have heard of cases where people with memory loss seem to respond positively to music and, in some instances, remember lyrics to favorite songs when they have trouble remembering other things.

Perhaps it’s time for you to consider exploring music in some way. It doesn’t have to be a painful process.

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Whether for the first time or from where you left off ~It’s fun, beneficial and never too late!

Most local piano teachers welcome adults in their studios and will tailor lessons for adults who just want to learn at their own pace and have fun in the process with “no recitals required!” A new program called Recreational Music Making focuses on enabling people who never before considered themselves “musical” to discover the joy and wellness benefits of playing a musical instrument in a small group setting (see related item in Biz Buzz, page 7.)

No plans for Carnegie Hall There is certainly a place for the serious musician whose goal is to excel and be a performer, but what about all the others who never plan to play at Carnegie Hall and just want to play a favorite song? There is a place for all to find fulfillment in music, whether

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it is taking up the ukulele at 63 ( as I did) or singing in the church choir, or taking a piano class just for fun.

Want more information? Check at the music store or call a local music teacher. Several local teachers belong to the Washington State Music Teachers Association. Call JoAnn Keller, president, 360-414-8814, or call me, 360-577-1366, and I will help you get started.

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Karla Dudley teaches music at St. Rose Parish School in Longview and in her private studio.

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On the Radio

OPB’s “Think Out Loud” show travels to Longview Sept. 18 A

bout once a month, Oregon Public Broadcasting’s “Think Out Loud” crew heads to a different place in Oregon or Southwest Washington, visiting towns and seeking the stories and issues that identify a community.

It’s part of the organization’s “Our Town” series, which shares the rich complexities that make up life in these towns and helps the listening audience appreciate the unique places that make up the region. OPB has developed a website with pictures of these diverse places. Take a look at www.opb.org/news/series/ourtown/ Our Town: Longview will be recorded live Sept. 18 at Cassava, 1333 Broadway in downtown Longview. The doors open at 6 pm for a public reception, with the one-hour show, hosted by Dave Miller, starting at 7 pm. The event is free and open to the public.

The show will air on OPB Radio (and online) Thursday, September 19th.

OPB Radio airs on 91.5FM in Longview.

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I have heard that the reason we never forget faces but often forget names is that faces are interesting while names are boring. The trick, then, is to make the name interesting. Some names don’t need any help, an attorney named Golden Butters or, a surgeon named Samuel Savage. I personally knew both those guys. Most parents are compassionate and try not to set their kids up for ridicule by making names too interesting --hence my husband, Steve, and I do not have a Lily Pond.

dozens of self-help books and the science of mnemonics, which is simply coming up with all kinds of tricks to empower one’s memory.

Associations and visualizations These work best if they are very crazy, so it is best they be kept private.

Even so they can do you dirt. When I was still in high school, I used an obvious association to remember Superintendent Winterbottom’s name and introduced him to my mom as Superintendent Coldseat. Quite recently, I called Jack Moss “Jack Green, Thomas Wheatly “Thomas Fields,” Glenda Trotter “Glenda Rider,” and Bobbie Wong “Bobbie Wright.” I get kind of lost in my visuals.

This means that to make names interesting and to have them stick in our brains we need to use our wit and imagination. This need has spawned

A very common name like Smith presents a real challenge for associations. One expert suggests using your imagination to create a place like

have a new assignment from our church that would make it really nice if I could remember names better. My deficiency is not related to aging. I am just naturally deficient. Is there some comfort here somewhere?

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a blacksmith’s shop and picture all the Smiths in there. Wendy Smith can be blowing up balloons. Bill Smith can be screaming about costs. Melanie Smith can be singing an aria. Cathy Smith can be drinking from a saucer on the floor while Tom Smith can be yowling at Cathy. Simple?

Another trick is to immediately use the name: “So nice to meet you, Carla Tipton. Where did you say you were from, Marla? I knew a Tippery once, Darla. Oh sorry! See you around, Charlotte.”

Talking to the person about her name is also a great way to get it to stick in your brain. “Jill Johnson? Wow I like that alliteration. You could take that name on stage. Tell me. Is Johnson perhaps Korean or maybe Russian? Is ‘Jill’ a nickname for, say, ‘Jillister’ or ‘Jilted?’ You don’t have a twin named Jack do you?”

Asking him to spell his name can slow things down and help you focus on the name. “Vasile, could you spell your name for me? L-O-N-G? Thanks?”

Don’t take a stab What do I do when all my tactics have totally failed and I am greeting a completely familiar but nameless face? If I have time I might stick out my hand and say, “Diane Pond here,” and hope they don’t respond with only, “Oh goodness, Diane, I’d know you anywhere.” AAUGH!! Anyway, I think it would be a stuffy tactic if we are already locked in a warm hug.

From experience, I know it is a bad idea to take a stab at names. It is better

Diane Pond has loved writing for CRR and hopes to do so again in three years.

In the interim, she and her husband will be the Matron and President of the Portland Oregon Te m p l e o f t h e Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday-Saints and will be living in Portland.

Diane invites anybody who might be curious about LDS temples and what she will be involved in to visit: lds.org/church/ temples/temples-a-conversation-with-achurch-leader Editor’s note: We will all miss Diane’s thoughtful and humorous columns, but wish her the best in her next adventure and look forward to her return in 2016, assuming we still have printing presses operating then.

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to keep encouraging them to talk and, while I look for clues and context, not call them anything. I have a son-inlaw who managed not to call me by any name for two years until he was able to refer to me as Grandma. My very best defense is my husband, who has a superb memory. If he is with me he often saves me even before I pinch him.

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One example: St. Josef ’s in Canby, Oregon Recently, I attended a wine tasting that included four of St. Josef’s wines: Gewurztraminer, Riesling, Pinot Noir and Pinot Gris. Here, St. Josef’s applies the same rules and standards that are aligned with a typical sustainable Oregon farm or environmentally

responsible microbrewery: no pesticides, no water waste, no harsh chemicals.

In fact, St. Josef’s has even received a “Salmon Safe” award for their wine making practices! For those who strictly adhere to supporting only environmentally-friendly businesses, it’s covered at this winery. But for those who just want great wine, made to the same organic, family-oriented, European standards that have been passed down for generations, St. Josef ’s has that covered as well.

Grow their own Perhaps the reason is that the founders migrated from Europe — by way of New York and Chicago — and purchased a small lot of land for the sole purpose of growing wine grapes more than 30 years ago.

Initially what caught my attention was the fact that 90% of the grapes used in their wines come from their own vineyards. In corporate wine, buyers hunt down the cheapest grapes they can purchase with an eye always on the profit margin. Most Italian, Spanish and French wineries don’t participate in this practice; they want to control the complete process of wine making from planting the fruit, all the way down the line to corking the bottle. In anything a person does that entails skill and talent, the best success goes to the ones who are in it for the love of it. St. Josef’s motto cont page 29

Randy Sanders is the founder and original publisher of Columbia River Reader. A drummer by profession, he loves music, photography, travel and, of course, wine. He lives in Yonkton, a suburb of St. Helens, Oregon.

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“Aquanastics” exercise movements have descriptive names such as Knee Kiss, Rocking Horse, Windshield Wiper, Spider Walk, Scarecrow Legs, and Frog Jump.

Fun & fitness in the water Clatsop Community College offers Aquanastics classes to adult men and women on Tuesdays and Thursdays, October 3–29, 9 to 9:50am and 10 to 10:50am at KOA’s heated indoor pool at 1100 Ridge Road, Warrenton, Oregon, across from Fort Stevens State Park entrance.

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Northwest Gardener

Overture to Autumn

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by Nancy Chennault

After the storm: Nancy’s “trans-seasonal” planter revival will reward you with new buds as rain-soaked blossoms fade away. The return to full flower will be slower than it is in the height of summer, so what can we do in the interim?

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here’s nothing quite like a late summer storm to make gardeners sit up and take notice. After several weeks of routine grooming and tending to flowering containers and baskets, we were shocked by the devastation of the powerful storm on September 5th.

(Photo # Storm1-2-or 3) The splendid sunny days of our Pacific Northwest summers do indeed come to an end.

However, it is typically not with such a vengeance, nor so early.

There is still time Faced with the soggy reality of what was once a gleaming container of color, the first reaction may be to rip

it all out. But WAIT! Historically, our weather in mid- to late-September to early October can be clear and bright.

Cooler nights with clear days make the flowers glow in the waning summer sun. They are no longer stressed by continuous hot temperatures and seem to have a new vitality. Patience

Look for transitional plants Garden disappointments generate just another opportunity to try something new. With fall months approaching, now would be the perfect time to look for plants that transition your planters from summer to fall. Nurseries and garden centers have many plants with all the colors of the season (see photo,above).

Some annuals, (remember it is still summer!), perennials and grasses will all help restore the container to its former beauty.

For my container I decided to remove the rain-drenched petunia. Yes, the lavender at the back is too big and the ivy is taking over, but for this “quickfix” I left both for now. I will plan to restore the entire container next spring. I pulled the petunia and dug out enough soil to hold all the roots of my plant of choice.

You get the only vote I tried a number of different plants to see what looked the best (see photos below). Plant choices are always subjective. The only person the container needs to satisfy is you.

A “trans-seasonal” planter is the perfect remedy for the premature conclusion to our marvelous summer.

Simple and quick, it will turn your distress into innovation so you can enjoy every ray of late summer sunshine.

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recently and we were unable to verify by press time whether Saganaki is still offered. Call first to confirm.

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any Greek restaurants announce the arrival of a flaming cheese dish called saganaki with a hardy “Opa!” This custom is said to have originated at the Parthenon, a restaurant in Chicago’s Greektown. “Opa! is roughly the Greek equivalent of “Hurray!” It’s a fun custom, and contagious.

Make Saganaki at home butter and half canola oil. It’s presented in the frying pan with a splash of warm brandy and a match. The flame is extinguished with squirts from lemon wedges.

Served with crusty bread and a glass of ouzo (if you dare), it’s a lovely appetizer. Other cheese varieties will work, particularly harder cheeses.

We used “Iberico,” a hard goat/sheep cheese, purchased locally, and it worked just fine.

Charter CRR columnist Paul Thompson remains a regular food writer for CRR. He enjoys fishing, cooking and watching movies.

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Greek art, food, music, fun 62nd annual celebration coming up in Portland

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By Shirley Smith

n our area we enjoy many festivals — everything from garlic to eggs to kites — but my favorite is the Greek Festival in Portland. Last October we attended their 61st annual celebration. Here you find it all – music, Greek folk dancing, cooking demonstrations and tours of the magnificent brick and stained glass Holy Trinity Cathedral. The three day event draws about 15,000 people to the festivities filling an entire city block.

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Greek Festival

Dancers at 2012 festival. Photo by Ray McDermott.

Baklava (at left) and souvlaki. Fotolia photos.

Other delicacies in the food court include lamb gyros, souvlaki (chicken or pork sausage on a stick), spanakopita (cheese or spinach in phyllo dough), Greek salad with feta or Greek pasta salad. The women of the church spend countless hours on site making all the goodies.

Delicious aromas Top of the list of attractions: lambs roasting on rotisseries. You buy special talents (at $1 each) for the lamb and are assigned an hour when they estimate that lamb to be done. The delicious aroma permeates the entire grounds and people crowd in to watch men with large butcher knives whack the carcass into serving sizes – all to be delivered to the crowd on paper food boats with a side of bread to soak up the steaming juices. Yummmy!

Next to the food court is the Taverna featuring Greek beer and wine or sodas and fruit juice. Sit-down benches or stand-up tables are everywhere and wherever you end up, you are greeted like a friend by fellow attendees.

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To me, the most charming part is the children, from kindergarten through high school age, dancing to lively Greek music. Each dancer wears the colorful costumes and many are quite good. Some of the older dancers cont page 18 Longview resident and retired travel agent Shirley Smith remains on the go.

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If you prefer, the church also serves authentic Greek lunches or dinners in a sit-down setting in the main dining room. Get tickets at the info booth or at the door.

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From here we move on to the dessert area. The favorites are the diples: deep-fried pastry dipped in honey and sprinkled with spices and nuts. Other goodies are mountains of cookies , baklava, bougatsda and kataifi. Strng Greek coffee is necessary to down all that sugar!

Take some of it home with you You can move to the market area for imported gourmet delights: cheeses, olives, pastas, herbs, spices, nuts and preserves. The bakery sells all the previously mentioned items “to go.” Also in the market are T-shirts, hats and ethnic costume jewelry.

Another area features fine gold and silver jewelry of the highest quality and a small book store that has a full collection of history, culture and religious material and books for sale.

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OUT • AND • ABOUT

Greek Festival

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learned the traditional dances from their parents and have been dancing in the festival for years.

Don’t miss the tours of the cathedral.

Priests of the church lead you through all the areas with fascinating information about the culture and history. You are also invited to watch the video of Orthodox history.

On the second floor of the Center is the exhibit “Hellas-Footprints in Time.” Featured here is the collection of Elaine Pappas-Suarez that has been given to the museum. The collection dates from about 800 B.C. to some of modern day Greek artists.

Pottery, sculptures, tapestries, coins and traditional dress are just some of the featured artifacts. All are well worth your time to browse.

We didn’t have time to visit the Children’s Corner or the cooking Demonstrations, but there is always this year. The 62nd Annual Greek Festival will be October 4,5 and 6 and you can find more information at goholytrinity.org; click “Our Community.” Don’t miss this memorable experience!

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Oregon Hazelnuts Story by Suzanne Martinson Photos by Bob Martinson

Two nuts go into a health food bar.

“Hello, I’m Filbert,” the first one says. “You can call me Phil.”

“I’m Hazel,” says the second. “Short for Hazelnut.”

They’re the same kind of nut. Sometime in the 1980s, filbert farmers gave in to global pressure for a name change. Farmer Steve Heesacker, of Forest Grove, Oregon, says filbert growers were advised to “get in line with the rest of the world,” and refer to their nutritious, brown-shelled nuts as hazelnuts.

In the beginning, the name was followed by (Filberts) —in parentheses.

Today, it’s tough to find a nut named Filbert, though the nuts add flavor and crunch in everything from pasta to peaches, chicken to chocolate, bread to brussels sprouts.

Forget about the ubiquitous Hazelnut Coffee. “Artificial,” said Heesacker, a board member of the Hazelnut Growers of Oregon.

Oregon: US top producer Oregon produces 99 percent of the hazelnuts grown in the United States, and most of those grow near Cornelius, near Hillsboro. Still, this fall’s expected bumper crop of 40,000 tons is paltry compared to Turkey’s 700,000 tons.

Italy’s production falls somewhere in between. U.S. labeling laws require only that country of origin be listed, and Northwest farms could up their ante with more farm-to-table-friendly branding in supermarkets.

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Steve Heesacker of Forest Grove has 300 acres devoted to hazelnut trees.

He is a board member of the Hazelnut Growers of Oregon, where 99 percent of the hazelnuts raised in the United States are harvested.

Hazelnuts are not picked. When they are ready, they drop from their husks to the ground and are raked up with a harvester and dried.

As first a farm girl, then a food editor, I’ve always been interested in how food comes to the table — and from where. I’m a easy sell when I spot a hand-lettered LOCAL sign. Though my husband, Ace, and I lived on the Oregon side of the Columbia River (in Rainier) for some years, I wasn’t smitten with filberts until the Association of Food Editors visited a beautiful Willamette Valley filbert grove on a tour planned by then-Oregonian food editor Barbara Durman. Strolling under the trees was like entering a shady tunnel, a perfectly spaced hazelnut orchard sprinkled with sunlight.

From husk to harvest So, just as the first hazelnuts were preparing to leave their husks for harvest, Ace and I took a road trip into the lush land where hazelnuts thrive.

Today, more sunlight filters through the trees. There’s a reason for that, said Heesacker, whose father planted his first filberts in 1967. In 2003, Steve and wife, Karla, purchased the 400-acre farm, 300 acres in hazelnuts. cont page 24

In her continuing commitment to enjoying more foods grown in the Pacific Northwest, Suzanne Martinson visited a hazelnut orchard, where she tried not to use the word “filbert” more times than necessary. Contact her at acesmartinson@comcast.net

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oin your friends and neighbors in front of the theatre for the Columbia Theatre’s free Pre-Show Carnival and Season Opening Party! It all begins at noon on Sunday, September 29 and continues until the curtain rises for the “Sing-a-long Grease” show inside. Local DJ and Magic 94.5/KLYK morning show host Kevin Taylor will set the mood and keep things hoppin’.

Polish up your chrome, dress up in your leathers and poodle skirt, and sing-along with Danny and Sandy, the T-Birds, and the Pink Ladies.

Vintage cars will be on display and you’ll enjoy a swing dancing demo, a costume parade, prizes, hot dogs, ice cream, Kettle corn and more…

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OUT • AND • ABOUT

Eagle Creek Canyon: revisited

From the Trail of Life

by Dr. Terry Tack

I am reminded again and again how fortunate we are to live and do business where we do: a wonderful two-city community in a county with a mixture of rural living and city streets surrounded by all the amenities of the great Northwest. I will confess it, I am a native and I am spoiled! Raised on a 40-acre tree farm in Rose Valley, I attended Rose Valley School (and its eight grades), was bounced into Huntington for freshman year and on to Kelso High School.

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fter my article about the French Creek and Klonaqua Lakes “big boy hike” (CRR June 2013), the editor asked for a piece on a “novice” hike, and my interest returned to Eagle Creek and this awe inspiring canyon. To ensure that it was as “novice” as I remembered, I took another amble up Eagle Creek in August. Of course, it was not quite as easy as I remembered. It’s amazing what years can do to your appreciation of exertion.

When I boogied out of town for college I took a parting glance over my shoulder, “knowing” I would never be back and headed out into the world for education and adventure. After finishing school, I entered Uncle Sam’s Air Force, but returned home one summer to take a hike in one of the coolest canyons around: Eagle Creek.

That “walk in the park” has become a little more than that, but still very doable on a day hike.

Take folding money Eagle Creek trail head starts at a parking lot just this side of Bonneville Dam and Cascade Locks, an easy hour and a half drive from Longview. There is now a $5 charge to park (if you go, don’t take coins… I learned they won’t slide through the payment slot!), and you can save a mile round trip off your hike if you can find a spot at the very

small parking lot at the trail head. I was forced to park in the larger lot down below. Both lots were full.

The strategy I figured I would go until I felt about half used up, then turn around and go back. I left the lot at noon alone and really had no agenda except to revisit this canyon, take some photos and rekindle some memories. I took a GPS this time to get a more accurate measurement of the elevation gain and

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Gushing water There are waterfalls and cascades aplenty: First, (at 1.5 miles) Metlako Falls (see photo, page 32), a 120-foot beauty arching into a pool below; next, (at 2.2 miles) Punchbowl Falls, not nearly as high, but spewing a huge volume of water seemingly out of solid basalt into a picturesque container below; Loowit falls (3 miles), a thin ribbon of water from a small arterial

Finally, I realized that the Northwest and its rivers, forests and mountains were not something to get away from, but to return to. I kept an 8x10 photo of Skooknichuck Falls (below) pinned to my exam room wall and vowed to go back another day.

My wife, Ruth Ann, and I did return to our home town in the mid 70s and, in fact, built our home on the same family ground in Rose Valley where I grew up. Over the next few years, I took each of our three kids (our boys together and our daughter alone) on their first overnight hiking and camping adventures up Eagle Creek canyon with its marvelous waterfalls and rugged scenery.

into inviting pools along Eagle Creek; Skooknichuck Falls (4.5 miles), a series of very impressive rapids and cascades; roaring Tunnel falls (6.5 miles, see top photo), a 175-foot whopper that tumbles into a pool dressed in a rainbow; and finally, seven miles in at the end of my trek, Twister Falls, a 200 foot big boy, formed by several rivulets braided into a single pony tail crashing into the rocks below. Just beyond Twister, I lay back cont page 32

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By Lois Sturdivant

fter attending the Association of Pacific Northwest Quilters quilt show in Tacoma recently, fellow quilter Carol Linden remarked, “The boundaries have been blasted!”

The show had an amazing array of quilts, from the familiar to the outrageous, from traditional to modern.

Quilters are no longer limited to ladies with gray hair. A new generation of quilters, including young women and men, has been changing the shape of quilting since the turn of the century. The rise of modern quilting is just the latest chapter of innovations in a craft that is thousands of years old.

The quilting revival started in the US with the Bicentennial in 1975. Soon, rotary cutters replaced scissors, machine quilting joined hand quilting, and the textile industry boomed with

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Friday and Saturday, Oct. 4-5. 10am–4pm Youth & Family LINK, 907 Douglas St., Longview $5 Admission. Demos, door prizes, raffle quilt, vendors Meet Jane Reed, the show’s featured quilter Raised on a ranch in Greenville, Utah, I made my first quilt at age 14 on my grandmother’s treadle sewing machine, which I still have. The fabric was a bag of scraps my Great Aunt Viv sent for from the Sears catalog. Aunt Viv showed me how to make a template from cardboard and how to cut out the fabric. Then I sewed them all together to make a simple quilt from a bunch of squares sewn together.

Portals & Pathways, Sisters Quilt Show. Photo by Geri Willems

Bold colors such as orange, lime green and aqua, high contrast, large areas of solid color—often white or gray, creative piecing and minimalism characterize the modern quilt movement.

Traditional quilts tend to have more muted colors, less contrast between colors, little negative space, and meticulous piecing. Modern traditionalism bridges the two styles in updating of classic quilt designs with modern Modern Black, Portland Quilt Ecxpo 2011. Photo by Lois Sturdivant. techniques. fabric collections made exclusively for quilters.

A pivotal event for modern quilting Today the revolution continues with pre-cuts — recognition was the appearance of strips and squares of fabric geared to simplifying a Denyse Schmidt, one of modern quilter’s work, as well as laser-cut fabric, from basic quilting’s leaders, on Martha Stewart squares to more complex shapes to “Living” in 1998. Stewart called be used for appliqué.

Denyse’s quilts a “chic, modernist aesthetic.” Several cultural shifts also facilitated the growth of the modern quilt movement: social media, Lois Sturdivant is a quilt enthusiast. She affordable digital cameras, and changes is a founding helper with CRR and lives in within the fabric industry. Blogs and Lexington, surrounded by rhododendrons and stacks of fabric squares.

I worked my second quilt at age 16, using the unfinished quilt top my Grandmother started before she passed away in 1907. It was a little more difficult, a red and white “drunkard’s path” design. I sewed some of the blocks by hand and some I tried on the machine without much luck. I still have that quilt.

I continued to make quilts for my children and family over the years, mostly simple quilts made with templates. One day at work my friend Sandee was cutting out a quilt with a ruler and rotary cutter. From that day on my life as a quilter changed.

I have become an avid quilter. I love to incorporate machine embroidery into my quilts. My favorite method of quilting is paper piecing with freezer paper (shown at left.)

Below: machine appliqué. Photos courtesy of Jane Reed).

I enjoy quilting my ow n q u i l t s and don’t like to share the billing with someone else.

My first quilted piece was so bad that I would not even let the cat sleep on it. But I kept practicing, until I got better. The early quilts I machine quilted were done in sections

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Farmer’s Daughter: Hazelnuts Talking with me amid the rows of trees on a day of sunlight punctuated with showers, Heesacker said there used to be a row of trees right where we were standing. “Used to be 16 feet between rows,” he explained. “Now it’s 22.”

In agriculture, things change.

Challenges keep coming. Heesacker Farm experiments with new blight-

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resistant varieties developed at Oregon State University. Like field corn, hazelnuts need to be crosspollinated.

“See that tree that’s smaller than the rest?” Heesacker asked. The filbert-come-lately was planted after they discovered the orchard lacked a pollinator tree. Too many Hazels, you might say, but not enough Phil.

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Laying out an orchard is an exercise in precision, but growers found that the tight crisscrossing rows weren’t letting in enough sunlight for maximum production. It’s not difficult to imagine how chopping down veteran trees planted in the 1970s must have hurt, especially since it takes six or seven years, even a decade, for a tree to pay for its keep.

Today’s regimen on the Heesaker farm, where foothills of the coastal range begin, includes four applications of fungicide, as well as pruning each field every other year, eliminating any blighted branches.

It costs money and time. “Pruning is the hardest work” he said, and he hires a crew, which adds to the farm’s one full-time employee, one part-time and himself. His dad, though retired, also lends a hand.

The Heesacker operation includes machinery to dry hazelnuts. “The goal is to have them dried within eight days of harvest.”

That means some long hours, “about 18 hours (per day) during harvest

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time.” On family vacations, they put some self-imposed distance between him and his long to-do list: “After harvest, we go to Mexico for two or three weeks. If we went to the Oregon Coast, I’d be thinking of projects I should be doing on the farm.”

Hard nuts to crack A nutcracker, I’m not. Like many cooks, I’d rather spend my time at the range, not in the garage with long-handled pliers. In Cornelius I purchased roasted hazelnuts, saving another step.

Ben Coleman, president of Champoeg Farms in St. Paul, Ore., said hazelnuts proliferate near the 45th parallel, in the Pacific Northwest from Roseburg, Ore., to Vancouver, B.C. They revel in the mild, rainy, winter weather. In the 1970s the Eastern Filbert Blight had reached Vancouver, Wash., and many blighted Cowlitz County hazelnut trees were chopped down.

Today, search the computer for Va n c o u v e r / h a z e l n u t , a n d u p comes Hazelnut Grove, a housing development. Today, there is hope, if not a cure, for preserving hazelnut farms after blight-resistant varieties cont page 31

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Meet Jane Reed

online “quilt-alongs” followed in the mid-2000s. Fresh Modern Quilts was established as a Flickr group in 2008. The Modern Quilt Guild, founded in 2009, today has 150 guilds throughout the U.S. and the world, including one in Portland, Oregon.

because I could not fit a queen size quilt in a 7 inch arm on my machine.

I now have a machine with a larger opening and can quilt a queen size quilt all in one piece. As I practice, I think I am getting better but could still use some improving.

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I am very honored to be chosen as the New quilter Thomas Knauer, writing featured quilter for this years Ladies in the August/September issue of the Lake quilt show. ~ Jane Reed of Quilter’s Newsletter, asks “Why Modern?” He theorizes “the driving force behind this new wave of quilters is the desire to have a meaningful relationship to the things that are a part of our lives.” This desire is also present in the revival of knitting and crocheting, and the slow-food movement. Knauer continues, “…making matters…what we choose to possess can make a difference; it is an explicit step away from the disposable and replaceable in favor of resonant relationships.”

A May 9, 2013 Wall Street Journal article characterized modern quilting as a “youthquake,” simple and edgy.

Luana Rubin, owner of the largest online quilt shop, eQuilter, reviewed the February 2013 QuiltCon in Austin, Texas, the first international quilt show of modern quilts.She writes in the September/October issue of McCall’s Quilting: Modern Quilts are made to be used…They can be made from bold prints or solids, and may be improvisational or graphically geometric. They are not intricately pieced…or embellished…They are definitely not fussy or precious…Many entries made political or social statements.

Don’t miss the opportunity to view “Quilts for All Seasons” October 4th and 5th, in Longview (see sidebar, page 21).

HAZELNUT RECIPES Fresh Fruit Salad with Hazelnut Lemon Sauce This refreshing fruit bowl can be served either as a salad or a dessert. The Hazelnut Praline adds an interesting texture and flavor, as the moisture from the dressing melts the candy coating on the nuts.

4 to 6 cups fresh fruit (melons, berries, peaches or nectarines — the Yakima peaches were wonderful) Wash and cut fruit into serving-sized pieces. Arrange in platter or serving bowl.

Serve the Hazelnut Lemon Sauce on the side.

Hazelnut Lemon Sauce 1 /2 cup whipping cream 1 8-ounce cup lemon yogurt 1 tablespoon honey 1 tablespoon orange liqueur (such as Grand Marnier) In a small bowl, whip cream until soft peaks form. In another bowl, whisk together lemon yogurt, honey and orange liqueur (you may substitute orange juice concentrate in place of liqueur). Fold in whipped cream. Just before serving, mix in Hazelnut Praline.

Hazelnut Praline 1 /2 cup granulated sugar 1 /3 cup orange juice 1 /2 cup finely chopped toasted hazelnuts Place sugar and orange juice in a one-quart saucepan and swirl to dissolve sugar. Boil until the mixture turns a medium caramel color, about 5 minutes (ours took longer).

Stir in nuts and rapidly pour out onto a buttered baking sheet.

With a knife, spread as thin as possible.

The mixture will harden as it cools. When cool, break into one-fourth inch pieces, or place in food processor and chop.

Caramelized Onion Focaccia This crisp focaccia should be eaten when it is freshly made. It can be frozen and reheated in the oven; however, reheating in the microwave will make it soft and tough. It can be sliced horizontally for sandwiches.

1 Tbl or package (one-fourth ounce) active dry yeast 1 cup warm water (105 to 115 degrees) 3 tsp granulated sugar, divided 1 tsp salt 3 Tbl olive oil, divided 3 cups unbleached white flour, divided 1 med. onion (1-1/2 cups, thickly sliced 2 tsp fresh rosemary leaves (or 1 tsp dried) 1 /2 tsp coarse salt for topping 1 /4 cup coarsely chopped toasted hazelnuts Stir yeast, warm water and 2 teaspoons sugar together in a large bowl. Let stand until foamy, about 3 minutes. Add 1 teaspoon salt, 1 tablespoon olive oil and 1 and one-half cups flour. With electric

mixer or by hand, beat until the dough is the consistency of thick cake batter, approximately 2 minutes.

Gradually mix in the remaining flour until a firm dough is formed. With heavy-duty mixer, or by hand, knead until the dough is smooth and elastic.

Place in greased bowl, turn to coat the entire ball, cover with a dampened kitchen towel, and let rise until doubled in bulk, about 45 minutes.

While the dough is rising, in a medium skillet, heat 2 teaspoons olive oil and saute onions over medium heat until they are golden, about 5 minutes. To help brown, sprinkle with the remaining teaspoon of sugar during the last few minutes of cooking. Cool.

Turn the dough out onto a lightly floured surface. Punch down and form into a 12inch round. Place on a 12-inch pizza-type pan that has been brushed with olive oil, cover with oiled plastic wrap and let rise until almost doubled, about 30 minutes.

Shortly before baking time, position a baking rack in the center of the oven and heat the oven to 425 degrees.

Press fingers into the risen dough, leaving indentations to catch some of the oil and toppings. Brush with olive oil, spread onions over the dough, sprinkle with rosemary, coarse salt and the toasted hazelnuts.

Bake on center rack of a 425-degree oven for about 18 to 20 minutes, or until golden. Cool on rack.

Pasta Nut Carbonara 4 slices thick-sliced bacon, cut in 1-inch pieces 2 cloves garlic, minced 1 small onion, chopped (one-half cup) 3 medium tomatoes, peeled, seeded and coarsely chopped (3 cups) 8 ounces spaghetti, cooked al dente with 2 tsp salt 1 /4 cup finely chopped parsley 1 /2 teaspoon salt Freshly ground black pepper to taste 1 /2 cup coarsely chopped hazelnuts 1 /2 cup grated Parmesan cheese In a large skillet or microwave, fry bacon until crisp. Drain on paper towels. Pour off all but one tablespoon bacon fat (may use olive oil or vegetable oil, if desired) and, over medium heat, saute garlic and onion for about 4 minutes, or until softened Add tomatoes and stir until heated through. Add cooked spaghetti, parsley and reserved bacon. Cook until just heated through. Add salt and pepper.

Mix in hazelnuts and top with grated Parmesan cheese (we forget the Parmesan and consider it optional).

Recipes from Hazelnuts & More Cookbook

by Lucy Gerspach

Columbia River Reader / September 15 – October 14 2013 / 25

Live Music Scene around the River To learn which band is playing when and where, go online or call the restaurant or bar.

Outings & Events

STAGEWORKS PRESENTS

Comedy Dinner Theatre At Rutherglen Mansion October 3–26 Thurs-Fri-Sat • 6:30pm Choice of entree, salad, dessert, drinks and a great show! $55 For reservations, call The Mansion, 360-425-5816.

The Bistro 1329 Commerce Ave, Longview 360-425-2837 • Music Thurs 6–9; Fridays 6–10, Sats 6–9 thebistrobuzz.com

Fall Pops Concert

Dr. Robert Davis, Conductor

The Mansion 420 Rutherglen Rd, Longview 360-425-5816. rutherglenmansion.com Wed 5-7 pm Winetasting Buffet $20

Sunday October 13, 2013 3:00 pm

Mark’s on the Channel 34326 Johnson Landing Rd Scappoose, OR 503-543-8765 Live music on Saturday nights. marksonthechannel.com

The Columbia Theatre for the Performing Arts 1231 Vandercook Way Longview, WA 98632

Monticello Hotel 23 Club 1405 17th Avenue, Longview 360-425-9900 ”The Original Monticello” Karaoke every Thursday Weekend Music 9 pm–1 am Fireside Lounge

To learn when and where your favorite performer or band is playing check these websites:

Guest Artist: Bonnie Boss

Ticket Price - Adults - $20, Students - $5 available at Columbia Theatre Box Office To purchase tickets online go to

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For more information call 360-783-6165 Sponsored by DeFrancisco, Lampitt & Brado PS

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Broderick Gallery Local, regional and international art. Tues-Sat, 10am–5pm or by appointment. 1416 Commerce, Longview, Wash. Info: 503-703-5188. www.broderickgallery.com

Koth Gallery Through Oct 2, Columbian Artists; Oct 3–31, Carol Boudreau. Mon, Tues, Thurs 10–8, Wed 10–5, Fri 10–6, Sat 12–5. Longview Public Library, 1600 Louisiana, Longview, Wash. 360-4425300.

Goble Tavern 70255 Col. River Hwy, Rainier 503-556-4090 • gobletavern.com

Porky’s Public House 561 Industrial Way, Longview 360-636-1616 facebook.com/pages/Porkys-CafeLounge/11041404898298

Broadway Galler y Artists co-op.

September: Wearable Art Show, Sandy Brown (pottery), Bill Smith (photography); October, Lorena Birk (paintings/sculpture), Scott McRae (paintings). Mon-Sat 105:30. 1418 Commerce, Longview, Wash.

360-577-0544

Columbian Artist Association artists’ exhibit. Longview Country Club, 41 Country Club Dr, Longview, Wash.

Sept-Oct, Nubby Erickson, Jeanen LeRae, Sharon Simpson. Check in at the clubhouse office when entering. Info: www.

Columbiartists.org

The Birk Pub & Eatery 11139 Hwy 202, Birkenfeld, Ore 503-755-2722 • thebirk.com Flowers ‘n’ Fluff 45 E. Col River Hwy, Clatskanie, Ore. 503-728-4222 Live Music Friday evenings clatskanieflowersnfluff@gmail.com

Performing & Fine Arts Music, Art, Theatre, Literary

www.clatskaniearts.org

Exhibition Gallery open Sept 21-29, 10am–5pm at the Train Depot. More info: ARTrailsofSWW.org.

First Thursday Downtown Longview Oct 3. See listings, below.

Tsuga Gallery “Art”oberFest Reception on Fri, Oct 4, 5–8pm. Refreshments and music. Fine arts and crafts by more than 30 area artists. Info:360-795-0725 or visit www.tsugagallery.org. Open Thurs-Sat, 11-5. Sun, noon-4pm. 70 Main Street, Cathlamet, Wash.

Walking Willows Jazz duo: Rich Hinrichsen (bass) and Stephen Cohen (guitar). Oct. 18, 7–9pm. Presented by Martin Kauble piano studio. Free. Electric Bean, 945 Washington Way. Call for artists Cover art for Columbia River Reader’s Nov-Dec Special Holiday issue. Must reside in CRR readership area.

Deadline to submit: Nov. 1, 2013. $100 award to selected artists/photographer. See details, page 33.

LCC Gallery at the Rose Center Crow’s Shadow, Institute of Art, Printmaking.

Oct 7-25, opening reception Oct 7, 4-6 pm. Gallery hours: Mon-Tues 10-6, WedThurs 10-4. Lower Columbia College, 15th & Washington Way, Longview, Wash.

360-442-2510.

McThread’s Wearable Art Boutique.

Grand opening Sat, Oct 12, noon4 pm. Door prizes and refreshments.

1206 Broadway, Longview, Wash. www.mcthreadswearableart.com Teague’s Mezzanine Gallery “Amazing Digital Art,” by Bumble Bee Originals.

October classes: Iconography - Sat and/ or Mon, 10:30 am-12:30 pm; Chalk Paint 101, Thurs Oct 3, 6–8:30 pm; Chalk Paint 102, Sat, Oct 19, 1–3:30pm. MonFri 10–5:30, Sat 10-3. 1267 Commerce, Longview, Wash. Info: 360-636-0712.

ARTrails of Southwest Washington 11th annual tour. Sept 21-22 and 2829. Studios open 10am to 5pm. Gala Opening reception Fri, Sep 20, 4–8 pm at Centralia’s Historic Train Depot, 210 Railroad Avenue, Centralia, Wash.

At Donavon Wooley Performing Arts Center, Clatskanie Mid/ High School • 471 BelAir Dr, Clatskanie, Ore • For general info call Elsa at 503-728-3403

FIRST THURSDAY Downtown Longview

and Cowlitz County Museum)

October 3

Broadway Gallery Art Demo by Gini Smith. Artists reception, 5:30-7:30 pm. Music by Stephen Harvey.

1418 Commerce www.the-broadway-gallery.com Broderick Gallery Artists reception 5–8 pm 1416 Commerce www.broderickgallery.com Koth Gallery Longview Public Library Paintings by Carol Boudreau.

Artists reception at 5:30 pm, open until 8 pm 1600 Louisiana Street Longview Outdoor Gallery New sculptures now installed, 12001300 blocks, Commerce Ave. Teague’s Gallery Digital Art by Bumble Bee Originals and Chalk Paint 101 class, 6-8:30. 1267 Commerce.

To list your music venue here, call Ned Piper, 360-749-2632 26 /September 15 – October 14, 2013

Cowlitz County Museum “Smelt” presented by ecologist Nathan Reynolds. 7 pm. 405 Allen St, Kelso, Wash.

Outings & Events

Recreation, Outdoors, Gardening Pets, Self-Help, Living History 48th Annual Rock and Gem Show Southern Washington Mineralogical Society. Sat., Sept 21 10 am–6 pm, Sun., Sept 22 10 am–4pm. Free. Castle Rock Fairgrounds. 120 Fair Lane, Castle Rock, Wash.

Bandits, Badges and Booze Exhibit on history of local law enforcement. Cowlitz County Historical Museum. Tues–Sat, 10 am–4 pm. “Pioneer Toys” workshop for kids, Wed., Sept 18, 3:30-5 pm. 405 Allen St, Kelso, Wash. Call 360-577-3119 for more info.

Long Bell Reading Room Information on Longview history, including sports photos and memorabilia. 9 am-6 pm, Mon-Sat. In The Merk, 1337 Commerce Ave, Longview, Wash. 360-636-0993.

“So Much to See” exhibit (influenced

by Hellen Keller) by Mark Cullom, wellknown photographer and carver. Through Oct 20 with carving demonstrations most Saturdays. Redmen Hall, 1394 SR-4 West, Skamokawa, Wash. Open Thurs-Sun, noon-4 pm.

Saturday Sewing Classes for Youth WSU 4-H volunteer-led series of sewing classes for youth 3rd grade and up. 7 sessions held on the first Sat of each month Oct 5, 2013, through April 5, 2014, 9am– noon at Longview Community Church, 2323 Washington Way, Longview, Wash. $20 for first family member, $5 for each additional member. Pre-registration is required.

Deadline Sep 21. Call Sharan at 360-6360338 for more info.

Tech 101: Keeping in Touch with your Family in the Digital Age. Free beginner level class with Q&A on Facebook, smart phones, tablets. Thurs., Sept 26º , 1011:30am, Longview. Limited space. Preregistration required. Presented by Perry Piper. Info/registration: 360-270-0608.

Birdfest Nature Festival Oct 5-6, Ridgefield, Wash. Guided bird & nature walks, birder’s marketplace, food booths.

Info: ridgefieldfriends.org.

Proposed Shay Locomotive Pavillion near Longview Public Library. Taxdeductible donations will be matched to a maximum of $1,500 by Friends of Longview. Mail check with notation “Shay Donation Match” to Friends of Longview, Shay Locomotive Pavillion, PO Box 1042, Longview, WA 98632.

100% of donations go to the project.

Volunteers needed Ape Cave Viewpoint Community Trail Project. Washington Trail Assn and Mt St Helens Institute.

Sat., Sept 28, 8:30am–3:30pm. Info and registration: vols.wta.org/web/web. pl?sm+20752+WP or call 206-625-1367.

Willow Grove Pirate Festival working on 2014 event Aug 1-3. Info and link to Kickstarter: www.willowgrovepirates. com.

HOW TO PUBLICIZE YOUR EVENTS IN CRR List your non-commercial community event’s basic info (name of event, sponsor, date & time, location, brief description and contact info) and email to: publisher@crreader.com Or mail or hand-deliver to: Columbia River Reader 1333-14th Avenue Longview, WA 98632 M-W-F • 11–3 or use mail slot Deadline: Submissions received by the 25th of each month will be considered for inclusion in Outings & Events listings in the next issue (published the 15th of the month), subject to timing, general relevance to readers, and space limitations.

Mt. St. Helens National Volcanic Monument

Quality of life ~ from the mountain to our downtowns

By Alice Dietz, Director of Programs Cowlitz Economic Development Council

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will forgo my usual Mt. St. Helens column to discuss Longview Downtown Partnership (LDP).

We are working towards a more sustainable and involved group of citizens who care about maintaining downtown Longview’s personality by working with the folks involved in local commerce.

My job at the Economic Development Council is to work on the quality of life in our county. Just like the mountain’s recreational availability adds to our quality of life, so do downtowns.

Maybe in my next column, I will write about how I see a partnership between Mt. St. Helens and Downtowns — it might be far out there — but have I mentioned I went to Evergreen State College?

This weekend the LDP hosted the food at the reception following the installation of Longview Outdoor Gallery’s (LOG) new sculptures. It is partnerships like these that the LDP is focusing on developing. Our goals are to strengthen partnerships, grow our membership and market our skills as a resource for downtown businesses.

The LOG plays an important role in the beauty of our community and as the LDP president, I believe it’s important that those groups be nurtured and developed. Take a walk down Commerce and check out the new sculptures.

“Earth Spirit”

by Kris Vermeer, of Tacoma, recently installed at Hemlock Street and Commerce Avenue, Downtown Longview

Keep an eye out for the changes we are making as the LDP grows.

Longview Downtown is Cowlitz County’s largest employer with more than 1,800 jobs. If you’re interested in becoming a friend or member of Longview Downtown Partnership, please contact me dietz@cowlitzedc. com.

••• Alice Dietz collaborates with Mt. St. Helens Institute and the US Forest Service. She enjoys good food, good Northwest beverages, good people and good fun.

Reach her at dietz@ cowlitzedc.com

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Movies

Lee Daniels’ The Butler does it Elysium is a good, big budget sci-fi film

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he film “Lee Daniels’ The Butler” is a very free adaptation of the life of Eugene Allen, a real African-American butler in the White House, which details his interaction with presidents from Eisenhower to Reagan. The thrust of Daniels’ film, however, is far more than Presidential anecdotes.

We see how one black man’s life in the USA reflected bad treatment of many African-Americans, how they gained acceptance through struggle, and, at the end of the film, how one of them became a Gloria Gaines (Oprah Winfrey) and her husband, White House butler Cecil Gaines (Forest Whitaker) go through President of the United States. some hard times in “Lee Daniels’ The Butler.”

By Dr. Bob Blackwood

Also, Oprah Winfrey, as Gaines’ wife, shows the problems of an athome mother (alcohol, temptations from another man) who is married to a dedicated workaholic who has some changes of his own to go through.

Some films on these topics seem shallow; this one goes to the roots. It wouldn’t surprise me to see both Whitaker and Winfrey nominated for Oscars.

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is the merciless, well-groomed boss of Elysium Security. Sharlto Copley is her dark killer on Earth, whom, I think, we’ll be seeing more often. It is a good film and memorable, too.

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he best pure science fiction film this summer is Neill Blomkamp’s “Elysium.” You may recall his earlier “District 9,” a scifi film set in South Africa.

Photo: The Weinstein Company Let me not diminish the star turns. I enjoyed solemn sequences with Robin Williams as Eisenhower, downhome sequences Matt Damon stars with Liev Schreiber as Max, one of the as LBJ, a showcase Max (Matt Damon) defends his childhood sweetheart p o v e r t y - r i d d e n (Alice Braga) and her child (Emma Tremblay) in Neill for James Marsden billions on Earth in Blompkamp’s SF thriller “Elysium.” Photo: Tristar Pictures as JFK and Minka the 22nd Century, Kelly as Jackie, whom who is facing death. His only Dr. Bob Blackwood taught at Wright we last see wiping survivaloptionis to join the College in Chicago and, now retired, lives the President’s blood well-to-do on the space satellite in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He plans off her coat in the to visit Longview Elysium by hijacking a multiWhite House, an in October to chat billionaire (William Fichtner) early straight-forward Caroline (Chloe Barach), Jackie (Minka Kelly) & JFK (James Marsden) with his editor/ appearance and a meet the White House Staff (Forest Whitaker—in middle of lineup, slightly and draining his brain (he p u b l i s h e r, h i s deserves it). Along the way, later twisted take forward). Photo: The Weinstein Company friend Paul “Man Max picks up his childhood on Nixon by John in the Kitchen” runs away from Georgia to become a sweetheart (Alice Braga), whose Cusack, and Alan Rickman as Reagan, Thompson, and hotel servant. Eventually, the White daughter needs the MediComps that the charmer. Jane Fonda as Nancy his fellow CRR House recruits him in the mid-1950s. only Elysium contains. Jodie Foster Reagan was memorable. writers.

Gaines’ oldest son, Louis (David Oyelowo), leaves college to become But Cecil Gaines (Forest Whitaker) a civil rights activist, to his father’s sees a white cotton farmer abuse his dismay. As the years go by, both father mother, then kill his father, and, by and son suffer; it was a painful time for way of strange atonement, is taught the entire nation. to become a house servant before he

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Bert recently purchased the new Windows 8 RT tablet, a handheld computer with a touchscreen comparable to an iPad. He also has a companion Windows Phone 8. When he was explaining how the products failed to do one function or another, I asked if he had either reset the devices or tried updating their software. For both questions, he looked at me a bit puzzled and admitted that he had never tried either.

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is: “We make wine because we like to.” That seems to have worked very well for them and they’ve managed to pull down gold medals in the prestigious New York Wine Show and National Orange Competition in Southern California. Vintners here aim to produce wine that everyone can enjoy, any day of the year, not just on special occasions when it warrants the opening of an expensive bottle. Ask any accomplished Italian wine maker about the best time to release their wine into the market to garner maximum profit and they will laugh and tell you that they only pay attention to their palate. Keeping in line with that old world European tradition, St. Josef’s quietly boasts: “Here, the wine is in charge, not the accountants.”

Some fine red and white wines Besides the wines I’ve previously mentioned, St. Josef’s also produces some fine red wines: Merlot and Cabernet, Ports and desert wines.

Reserve wines are where vintners experience an opportunity to really create “out of the box.” Being a lover of big, fat, juicy red wines, I usually pass on white wines and go looking for a good Nero D’Avala, San Giovesse or Cabernet. But as I sampled St. Josef’s whites, I was taken aback by their crisp, bite-of-an-apple sensation and the fact they weren’t too sweet.

These are white wines in the German or Italian Riviera tradition that rely on clean, citrus nose and dry peachy flavors, instead of adding sugar to make up for the lack of complexity, like the cheap wines with fancy labels do.

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Clatskanie Conestoga Pub & Grill 85 N. Nehalem. Lunch & Dinner; homemade soup, Dive Burger Special, steaks, ribs, burgers. Full service bar & grill.

10am to close.

New ownership. 503-728-3702

Flowers ‘n’ Fluff Coffee Shop 45 E. Columbia River Hwy Wine Tasting, Dinner & Live Music Fridays 5–8:30pm.

Unforgettable scones, On-the-go breakfast & lunch.

Coffee Shop M-F 5:30am– 6:30pm; Sat 7am–6pm; Sun 8am–6pm.

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

M-Sat 11am–10pm; Sun 11am–9pm 503-728-2922

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. 503-543-3017

Goble Tavern 70255 Columbia River Hwy. (Milepost 31, Hwy. 30) Food, beer & wine + full bar, Live music. 503-556-4090 See ad page 8.

Cornerstone Café 102 East “A” Street Microbrews, wines & spirits Prime rib Friday & Sat. 503-556-8772

El Tapatio 117 West “A” Street, Rainier Authentic Jalisco cuisine from scratch. Full bar. Karaoke Fri & Sat 9pm–2am Riverview dining. Sun-Thurs 11am–10pm; Fri-Sat 11–11, Bar til 2am.

Karaoke.

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Evergreen Pub & Café 115-117 East 1st Street Burgers, halibut, prime rib, full bar. 503-556-9935 See ad, page 8.

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Toutle 1210 Ocean Beach Hwy., Longview Fish & chips, burgers and more.

Beer and wine.

360-577-7972

Luigi’s Pizza 117 East 1st Street 503-556-4213 Pizza, spaghetti, burgers, beer & wine. See ad, page 8.

Longview Cassava

1333 Broadway. 360-425-7700 Locally roasted espresso, fine teas, fresh pastries daily, smoothies, beer & wine, homemade soups. Breakfast and lunch.

Country Folks Deli 1329 Commerce Ave., Longview. Opens at 10 for lunch. 360-425-2837

The Bistro Restaurant & Wine Club

1329 Commerce Ave., Longview (alley entrance).

Fine dining, happy hour specials. wine tastings.

Wed-Sat opens 5pm.

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dining guide

Hop N Grape 924 15th Ave., Longview M–Th 11am–8pm; Fri & Sat 11am–9pm; Sun 11am–7pm.

BBQ meat slow-cooked on site.

Pulled pork, chicken brisket, ribs, turkey, salmon. Worldfamous mac & cheese.

360-577-1541 See ad page 11.

JT’s 1203 14th Ave, Longview Fine dining, Happy Hour.

Full bar. Specials, fresh NW cuisine. 360-577-0717. See ad page 16.

Ginger’s Restaurant (located in the Monticello Hotel), Longview Traditional breakfast, lunch & dinner – homestyle Sunday dinners. Full bar (‘23 Club).

360-425-9900. See ad page 12

Marina, South Scappoose. 503543-8765.

Live music Sat nights. Full bar.

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Morenita Tacos

1045 - 14th Ave. Dine in or take out. All fresh ingredients. Tortas and green sauce are our specialties.

Mon-Sat 11:30am–9pm; Sun 11:30am–6pm.

360-425-1838

Porky’s Public House 561 Industrial Way, Longview Slow-roasted prime rib Fri & Sat, flat iron steaks, 1/3-lb burgers, fish & chips. 28 draft beers. Full bar. See ad, page 16.

360-636-1616

Rutherglen Mansion 420 Rutherglen Rd. (off Ocean Beach Hwy. at 38th Ave.), Longview Open for dinner Tues – Sat, Wednesday wine tasting, Sunday brunch. Full bar.

360-425-5816 See ad page 8.

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

Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner.

Home of the Rockin’ Burgers, hand-cut steak; seafood and pasta. Restaurant 8am–9pm (‘til 10pm Fri & Sat); Lounge 11am–midnight.

360-967-2333

St. Helens

Fire Mountain Grill at Hoffstadt Bluffs Visitor Center. 15000 Spirit Lake Hwy fmgrill.com Burgers, sandwiches, beer & wine .360-274-5217

Woodland Sunshine Pizza & Catering 2124 Columbia Blvd.

Hot pizza, cool salad bar.

Beer & wine. See ad, page 10.

503-397-3211

Bertucci’s

2017 Columbia Blvd., St. Helens Mon–Fri 9–5; Sat 10–4.

Breakfast sandwiches, deli sandwiches, espresso, chocolates. See ad, page 10.

El Tapatio 2105 Columbia Blvd., St. Helens Authentic Jalisco cuisine from scratch. Full bar.

Karaoke Fri & Sat 9pm–2am Sun-Thurs 11am–10pm; Fri-Sat 11–11, Bar til 2am 503-556-8323

Scappoose

The Oak Tree 1020 Atlantic Ave., Woodland.

New ownership. Full lunch, breakfast and dinner menu. Fresh from scratch cooking. Great happy hour menu. Sun-Thurs 7am–10pm, Fri-Sat 7am-11pm.

See ad, page 16. 360-841-8567

To advertise in Columbia River Dining Guide call 360-749-2632.

Lexington 3 miles north of Kelso on West Side Hwy, or take I-5 Exit 42, turn right (north) after crossing Cowlitz River.

Ernesto’s Espresso & Deli 1626 West Side Hwy Specialty sandwiches, breakfast, build-your-own sandwich, homemade soups, desserts, smoothies, espresso, Italian sodas.

Open Fri 6am, Sat-Sun 7am.

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Castle Rock Links on the Corner

4858 West Side Hwy 5am–8pm, 7 days Fresh soup daily. Burgers, deli, chicken,clam chowder on Fridays breakfast, pizza. Daily lunch & dinner specials.

360-274-8262 See ad, page 34.

Fultano’s Pizza 51511 SE 2nd.

Family style with unique pizza offerings, hot grill items & more! “Best pizza around!”

M–Th, Sat11am–10pm; Fri 11am–11pm; Sun 11am–9pm.

Full bar service ‘til 11pm Fri & Sat. Deliveries in Scappoose.

503-543-5100

Professor Epicurious

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.

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Mark’s on the Channel floating restaurant. 34326 Johnson Landing Rd. McCutty’s

Featured Chef Returns in October.

Watch this space.

Find out where the good food is, and who is cooking it.

Hazelnuts/Farmer’s Daughter were developed by Dr. Shawn Mehlenbacker of Oregon State University.

Resistant, but not perfect, said Hillsboro’s Bob Jossy, another Hazelnut Growers of Oregon board member.

“Oregon is ideal for growing the nuts,” he said. “I call it refrigerator climate — it’s really Mediterranean. Not too hot. Not too cold. An occasional freeze, but not lasting days.”

That’s good, because hazelnuts, which don’t go dormant, produce red blooms once they are fertilized by male catkins, in January, February and March.

While some nut growers shake their trees to make the nuts drop, each filbert takes its own sweet time. They are not picked — the husk drops away when the nut is ripe.

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The nuts on the ground are blown into windrows ­— a familiar term to Midwesterners like me — and swept up with a rake-like harvester and into totes. The blanks (shells missing their nuts) are air-blown away.

Once dried, Oregon Orchard brand hazelnuts travel to the processing plant in Cornelius. The nut shop is on the property — and one in every 100 or so is cracked for inspection.

Quality and size are the benchmarks.

“Our hazelnuts are the biggest in the world,” said Jossy.

“We need more nuts,” said grower Ben Coleman, president of Champoeg Farms in St. Paul, Ore., a family operation that grows 200 acres of hazelnuts. “We need more nut eaters.”

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The Recipes After our farm tour, I expanded my horizon at the range, referring to a beautiful cookbook called Hazelnuts & More, written by Lucy Gerspacher for the Hazelnut Marketing Board. I was introduced to the cookbook, which had been sold by the Southwest Washington Symphony Auxiliary as a fundraiser, after my husband and I returned to the Northwest after retirement.

If you happen to have a hazelnut tree in your neighborhood, spot some in the supermarket or follow a road to some beautiful farmland with a sure supply of hazelnuts, I’ve selected a few recipes especially for you (page 25).

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IF YOU GO Oregon Orchard Hazelnut Outlet Store 195 W. 26th Ave., Cornelius, Ore., on the premises of Hazelnut Growers of Oregon, 401 N. 26th Ave. Hours: 9am to 6pm, Monday through Friday.

Or call: 800-923-NUTS(6887).

Hazelnuts can be purchased in the shell, left, or unshelled.

There are two They are often roasted before appearing with elan in dishes ways to get to that range from entrees to desserts. The recipes Suzanne the Oregon provided also include Northwest-grown Yakima peaches, O r c h a r d tomatoes, Walla Walla onions and whipped cream. hazelnut outlet store in Cornelius, Ore. The suburban sprawl way. The rural way.

Tip: Cornelius is not, as we presumed, at the top of Cornelius Pass. After turning right off Highway 30 onto Cornelius Pass Road, we learned that the hard way that Cornelius is three miles west of Hillsboro.

GPS engaged, my husband, Ace, and I wondered if we’d gone nuts.

We had. Eventually we were at the hazelnut outlet store. There were milk chocolate-covered hazelnuts. Yogurt-coated hazelnuts. Dry roasted hazelnuts, which we bought for our recipes; they cost $8.49 for a 16-ounce package, and Hazelnut Growers of Oregon did the roasting for us.

There were Natural. (Are the others unnatural?) Salted, unsalted. jalapeno. hickory smoked, marionberry, you get the idea.

Our drive through Portland suburbia was enlightening. One shopping spot after another, subdivisions, apartments, condos, senior housing, traffic. City traffic.

Our rural return via Banks, Ore., took us through Vernonia.

Enough said. We may have run amok stopping for a Dairy Queen Blizzard in downtown Manning. One more wrong turn, and we could have stopped in Buxton, where we bought Molly the Wonder Dog. Me: Want to buy another Aussie for Molly to play with?

Ace: No. We still have research to do. A favorite hors d’oeuvres once sold from the refrigerator cases of Your Marketplace, Safeway and Fred Meyer was a symphony of Oregon flavors: marionberry preserves, hazelnuts, cream cheese. We miss it.

As we learned, 99 percent of the hazelnuts grown in America come from Ory-gun. What about supermarket hazelnuts sold in bulk? The pleasant young Oregon Orchard saleswoman lowered her voice: “They may come from Turkey.”

Some might come from your neighbor’s backyard. Back from our Oregon adventure, we discovered our Castle Rock friends have hazelnut trees. Of course, we’d have to pick them up and shell them. Pliers welcome. -- Suzanne Martinson Columbia River Reader / September 15 – October 14 2013 / 31

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not experience. Well, guess what? I was grabbing the cable through that on the warm basalt, had some water, stretch I am not ashamed to say. Just a a granola bar and some sardines (Hey! word of caution, if you go, leash your It’s a nice combo!), listened to music dog (that’s the law) and maybe even created by gravity and water and caught your kids (that’s not the law, but I guess a couple Z’s. Nice. it depends on Just a bit of history your kids!)…

Much of the trail there are some was blasted out of no-foolin’ solid basalt around dangerous 1910 in conjunction drops, and with the opening of there is no the highway through sense in taking the Columbia River crazy risks. If Gorge. Many of the solitude is your cliffs are sheer, with thing, don’t up to 120 foot drops, pick a sunny but cables are placed weekend along the wall at key in August. points to act as a Although, hand rail. Much of b e y o n d the trail is as it was Punchbowl, when blasted free the main of the native rock: attraction for rough and gnarly, Metlako Falls swimmers, the and I am sure, slick population of when wet with rain. Some of the trail hikers is very sparse. meanders through forests of Doug fir, I arrived back at the trail head at hemlock, and cedar. Maidenhair ferns 8:30; 14 (What? Are you serious?) dress the banks and some shade-loving comfortable miles and 1200 easy feet of wild flowers adorn the forest floor. vertical gained and lost. I could have There are several places along this taken a u-ball at any of the points of seven miles to set up a tent, nice camps interest along the way and would have along the creek. Some of these I used felt completely fulfilled, but my old with my kids over 35 years ago….now, boy pace had served me well. I had how can that be? been passed by young couples, teens The aesthetic high point of my walk and young families with kids, men was the sheer enormity of Tunnel falls and boys…well just about everybody, and the trail that has been blasted out I guess. Some wore sandals, most were of solid rock and burrows behind the in tennies and one couple wore rubber thundering waterfall. Amazing. I’d feet-looking footgear. Everybody like to send the engineer that designed seemed in a hurry with places to go and and built that baby a thank you card! people to see. Me? I had a chance to again think on “His eternal power and The trail from just ahead of Tunnel divine nature,” take a photograph or falls to the top of Twister falls around two and be thankful for the cool things a corner or two has been called the that surround us here in the glorious Vertigo Mile, and just a sideways glance Columbia River country. into the rock canyon straight down 120 feet will tell you why. I thought, going A good day? You bet. in, that vertigo was something I would •••

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Coming Soon

Reader input invited for CRR Special Holiday double issue to be published Nov. 25 • Call to artists: Artwork to be used as the main image on

• Readers’ choice: Holiday Cooking

Submit for consideration a 300 dpi scan of your original, previously unpublished work in color or black and white, suitable for type overlay and/or combination with other images added by CRR, to be printed 4-color process on Hi-Brite newsprint. $100 award to chosen artist, with signed release for limited use of the image by CRR. Submit to publisher@crreader. com by Nov. 1, 2013, along with name, city of residence, and phone number. Please note “Holiday Cover Art” in the subject line.

Ad Deadline: Nov. 1 Regular advertisers: Your ad rep will contact you.

New advertisers: See page 4 for ad reps’ contact info

CRR’s 11”x14” (overall size) Nov-Dec cover. Samples of previous years’ covers below.

Submit by Nov. 1 your favorite holiday recipes in one or both categories: Pacific Northwest or International.

We’ll publish several, as space permits. Include a sentence or two about the recipe’s origins and/or what makes it a favorite of yours. Limit 2 per person, email to publisher@crreader, please note “Holiday Recipes” on subject line.

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the spectator by ned piper

Art on the street

A new round of sculptures recently arrived in town. As the years pass, and with ongoing public support, more and more pieces will grace Longview’s downtown.

L

ongview Outdoor Gallery’s latest additions are now installed along Commerce Avenue. This public gallery began in 2010 with 11 sculptures designed by Northwest artists and loaned for two years. At the end of the viewing period, the community voted on its favorite piece. The team behind the idea hoped to raise enough money to purchase at least one of the sculptures, for permanent display in Downtown Longview.

The goal was met and the team purchased the people’s choice, a unique metal statue called “See Horse,” created by artist Dan Klennert of Elbe, Washington. The piece will be a gift to Longview and remain in the collection permanently.

Sue and I attended the recent “part two” kick-off celebration for the Longview Outdoor Gallery, at the Broadway Gallery. Good crowd, nice finger food provided by the Downtown Longview Partnership, and some champagne. I had to leave early to attend my class reunion at the Monticello Hotel.

“The Healer” by Leon White, of Seattle, recently installed at Maple Street and Commerce Avenue, Downtown Longview

DINNER SPECIALS EVERY WEEK available 4–7pm

MONDAY Salisbury Steak, mashed potatoes & gravy and green beans.

TUESDAY Spaghetti and garlic toast WEDNESDAY Chicken & noodles w/biscuits TACO THURSDAY!!

Nachos, tacos, taco salad, taco pizza FRIDAY Meatloaf, mashed potatoes & gravy and corn

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John and Mary Chilson purchased a second work, titled “Mancrow,” by Jesse Swickard of Sherwood, Oregon, and placed it in the lobby of The Merk building for public viewing.

Home Style Cookin g!

We also have Daily Lunch Specials Monday thru Friday~ Come in and see what’s for lunch!

At the reunion, former R.A. Long High School classmate Caroline Moses Funes told me she came up from California a day early to look around town. She said she was amazed at the number of art galleries, theatres and street art we have in Longview. She was curious as to what inspired this explosion of the arts in our community. My answer: “It’s all because a few dedicated people want to create an atmosphere of culture in our town.”

If you want to join the team, donate, buy or sponsor a sculpture, contact the LOG committee at longviewoutdoorgallery@ gmail.com. Or visit www.longviewlog. org, which will be updated soon with details for your self-guided walking tour.Take some time to walk down Commerce Avenue and check out the new sculptures.

••• Longview native Ned Piper enjoys playing golf, following football, and watching old “Mad Men” episodes. He serves on Stageworks Northwest’s Board.

WHAT’S

UP

UNDER THE BRIDGE?

By Ashley Helenberg, Port of Longview Communications/Public Affairs Manager

Jobs from Trees

The Port of Longview’s mission focuses on generating local commerce and development. One of the best measures of success in that area is to look at Portrelated jobs. The Port’s done quite a bit of measuring recently and we’ve been reporting back to you on how we’re doing.

We’re happy to say, we’re doing pretty well in the area of creating jobs in our communities.

The recent economic impact study commissioned by the Port showed that one of every 10 local jobs in our area is related to the marine terminal activity at the Port. Those are jobs in a variety of industries held by people who work directly for the Port, for its tenants and customers, as well as other jobs that support those organizations. A large portion of those jobs are related to an industry Longview knows a lot about, the industry that literally built our town, logging.

Locally, it’s hard not to know someone involved in logging. We have fallers and equipment operators who pull trees out of the forest, and graders and scalers working to inspect the wood’s quality and quantity.

We have truck drivers and many other jobs related to moving raw logs to their final destination. The timber industry in the Pacific Northwest is known the world over, and the Port of Longview helps maintain that awareness by helping to export raw logs to areas of the world with incredible needs for building materials.

It takes a lot of work to harvest trees, and a lot of workers. It’s fitting that the city of Longview was planned and built for the purpose of housing the workers needed to run the Long-Bell Lumber Company’s new mill back in the 1920s. Today those local timber-related jobs are still here, thanks to foreign demand for logs that move through our community, across our docks, and out to sea.

Every log we ship is touched by an amazing number of local people in a wide range of professions all working for the same thing we are: the growth of local commerce and development for the benefit of our communities.

••• To submit comments about this column please send us a note at info@portoflongview. com

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