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Warm up, chill out

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ow, if you’ve lived here as long as many of us, you’d know there is always one stretch of days in early summer when the sun comes out, temperatures rise a bit and sheer wonder runs rampant.

It’s not the air, the water, or even the feel of freshness. It’s just geography. We live where the sun shines and there is nothing that rejuvenates a soggy soul more quickly than those beautiful golden rays. When the warm summer weather kicks in, are you not hit with a renewed sense of optimism? Ah yes, we are ready for our famous summer sun.

We know from experience, that showtime is coming fast, with events and activities centered on getting out of the house and going places. In our area community festivals come to life in the sunshine. Live music fills the air for all ages, all genres. Farmer Markets nourish our appetites and our creativity. Shops are full of treasures. Restaurants prepare cuisine of all flavors. Clever local theater productions entertain us. Nurseries and galleries and museums invite us to view nature and art and history in relaxing atmospheres.

Not only that, we happen to live close to some of the most beautiful lakes, resorts, hiking trails and camp sites in the Pacific Northwest. And did I mention wineries and golf courses? It is not hard to notice the hundreds of RV’s that roll in each year from Seattle and beyond because these people know what we have right here in our own backyard.

Thousands of acres of summer wonderland.

I find it refreshing that we don’t take things for granted.

Everyone here has his or her own special relationship with the sun and the territory we call home. Eastern/Central Washington people know a good thing when they see it, feel it, hear it, photograph it, paint it, perform it, eat it, drink it, hike it, and simply live it. It’s our lifestyle to warm up, chill out and enjoy the sun. Does it get any better?

- Melea Johnson

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SPRING INTO SUMMER at the SOROPTIMIST

Dinner Party SATURDAY JUNE 17TH, 2017 5:00–10:30PM PILLAR ROCK GRILL 1373 RD F.2 NE MOSES LAKE, WA $65/GUEST $1000/EVENT SPONSOR For more information about Soroptimist International Moses Lake and the Dinner Party, visit us at moseslakesoroptimist.org

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Soroptimist is Best for Women C

hartered in 1955, Soroptimist International Moses Lake is part of a global volunteer organization working to improve the lives of women and girls through programs leading to social and economic empowerment. And, as enthusiastic women and community advocates, local Soroptimist members dedicate themselves to women and children locally and throughout the world by empowering them to live their dreams according to their own values.

While the local service projects and fundraising efforts have changed over the years, Soroptimist International Moses Lake continues to consist of passionate and dedicated women working to improve the lives for women and children.

Members represent women in a variety of professions, business owners, community leaders, politicians, and retired women. Through local fundraising efforts and grants, Soroptimist has provided the following services to women and children in Grant County over the last four years:

$18,000 – Live Your Dream Awards to local women looking to improve their education, skills, and employment prospects $25,000 – College Scholarships to deserving High School students pursuing their College Dreams 400 Backpack Grants & 1000 Hygiene Kits to promote self-image and school performance for children in K-5

Committed to women and girls achieving social and economic empowerment, Soroptimist International Moses Lake supports the Dream Programs of Soroptimist: Live Your Dream – Education and Training Awards for Women and Dream It, Be It – Career Support for Girls.

The Dream Programs of Soroptimist ensure women and girls have access to the education and training they need to reach their full potential and live their dreams. Soroptimist is committed to investing in programs that have a sustainable, measurable change for women and girls.

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Dream It, Be It: Career Support for Girls is available to local high school girls. Â

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Carrie Nordberg, Soroptimist Vice President, delivering a session on the importance of self-image during a Dream It, Be It event. Â

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The Soroptimist Live Your Dream Awards assists women who provide the primary source of financial support for their families by giving them the resources they need to improve their education, skills and employment prospects. Each year, Soroptimist International Moses Lake awards $5,000 in education grants to women in Grant County who have overcome enormous obstacles before making decisions to change their lives and pursue their dreams.

Live Your Dream Awards recipients may use the cash award to offset any costs associated with their efforts to attain higher education, such as books, childcare, tuition and transportation.

Dream It, Be It: Career Support for Girls is a program designed to help girls grow up to be strong, successful women. The program provides girls with access to professional role models,

career education and the resources to achieve their dreams. Soroptimist hosts an annual Fall Conference and a Spring Fashion Show and Luncheon for High School girls in Grant County.

Girls are able to interact with professional women from the community while learning about career opportunities, setting and achieving goals, and overcoming obstacles to success and how to move forward after setbacks or failures. Both the Conference and the Spring Fashion Show provide girls with tools to grow and encourage them to DREAM.

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In its 14th year, the largest free music festival in Washington

state showcases up-and-coming musicians, many of them from the Pacific Northwest, as well as seasoned performers.

A band comprised of original Third Eye Blind members and a crowd favorite from 2016 will headline this year’s Basin Summer Sounds music festival, set for July 21-22. Spike and the Impalers fill the 9 p.m. Friday spot, while XEB performs Saturday at 9 p.m. The event main stage is located in front of the Grant County Courthouse.

Back by popular demand are

Spike and the Impalers (Friday, 9 p.m.).

The classic rock band was formed over a decade ago, and continues to collect fans as members Jeff Kathan, Lynn Sorensen, Susan Kendall-Morais, Scott ‘Junior’ Adams, Manuel Morais, Steve Hannah and lead singer Spike O’Neill perform throughout the Puget Sound.

Keeping with the country theme,

Jones & Fischer takes the stage at

7 p.m. Darin Jones and Caleb Fischer are the front men of this Pacific Northwest-based group. Jones & Fischer was named the top country band in Washington by King 5’s "Best Of" in 2014 and 2015.

Home-grown Stoney River Band kicks off the 2017 Basin Summer Sounds lineup at 5 p.m. Lead singer/guitar player Gordy Grenier is from Coulee City; he is joined by band members Doug Thompson, John Tillman and Dave Bomstad. The group plays new and classic country favorites.

XEB brings together former and original members Kevin Cadogan, Tony Fredianelli and Arion Salazar of 90s group Third Eye Blind, known for hits "SemiCharmed Life" and "Jumper." Lead guitarist Cadogan penned 10 of the 14 songs on Third Eye Blind’s debut album in 1997. Fredianelli plays guitar, and bassist Salazar has written many songs, including TEB’s "Never Let You Go."

Also making a second appearance at Basin Summer Sounds is Brewer’s Grade (7 p.m.). The group has been delivering original country music since 2013. Zac Grooms (guitar, vocals) and Cody Christopherson (drums) have been performing together for 16 years; they are joined by brothers Al (guitar) and Nolan (bass) Hare, and fiddle player Joe Smart.

Nite Wave, Seattle’s favorite 80’s band, draws inspiration from Duran Duran, Tears for Fears, WHAM!, Spandau Ballet, The Police and other 80s super groups. Members Evan, Jeff, Dave, Jim and Michael have opened for Billy Idol. Nite Wave performs at 5:30 p.m.

Briana Renea returns to her country roots, and

to BSS for the second year in a row, with a 4 p.m. show.

Raised on a farm in Oregon, Briana released her first EP, "Red Lips White Lies," in 2015. Her original songs reflect her experiences growing up in a rural area.

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Ranger and the Re-Arrangers

(2:30 p.m.). BSS audiences will be familiar with Ranger Sciacca and his band mates, who first brought their gypsy jazz sound to the festival in 2016. Ranger and fellow members Dave Stewart, Mick Nicholson, Jeffrey Moose and Mike Sciacca showcase swing standards, gypsy melodies and unique originals.

Alec Shaw (and Friends)

opens the Saturday schedule at 1 p.m. The Seattle-based musician/producer first picked up the guitar in fourth grade, and soon added singing/songwriting to his repertoire. His debut album, "Car Town," was released in 2016. An eclectic group of nine musicians join Alec during live shows.

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y dad, Harold Wood, was one of the smartest, cheeriest, calmest, most successful people I have ever known. Being around him just sort of made you happy, even when politics had him spouting off like a crazed Archie Bunker.

The odd part of it, when I think about it, is that I never thought of him as being crippled. Neither my sisters nor I thought of him as being anything but perfect. There were no imperfections that we could see.

He was just Daddy and Dad - the loving father who held us on his shoulders during parades, read us books, helped us build tree forts and taught us to drive.

Although he was different from other men it wasn’t until I was in high school, at least that long, that I really became aware of it, before I took stock of the man before me and compared him with other men. That part of it puzzles me—that I could live nearly two decades with a father and not see this flaw.

Perhaps it was because he didn’t seem to see it either.

It must have been a tragic day for his parents, the day this first child came into the

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Dad’s feet

world. How his mother must have wept. He had a He started his own business then—hauling logs head of curly black hair, big sparkling black eyes over the Going to the Sun Highway in Montana’s and two clubbed feet. The feet were twisted and Glacier Park. Not long after he captured one of the turned and fit wrong on the ankles with the arches most sought-after women in town — my mother almost on top and the little toes and sides on the — and, together, they built a successful and happy bottom. life.

The doctors did what they could but it was 1913 World War II started then and he was one and a long time before reconstructive surgery. So of the first to volunteer, driving to Missoula to after a time when they didn’t straighten on their enlist and serve his country. They turned him own, they bent his tiny feet into shape as best they down. The doctors took one look at his feet and could and poured plaster of Paris up to his knees. sent him away in shame. He returned again and They left the casts there two years, never again, asking them to reconsider. He could hike thinking to change alongside any man, he “That part of it puzzles me—that I could them. I wonder now told them. He could live nearly two decades with a father and do anything any other if he spent those years in agony as his not see this flaw. Perhaps it was because man could do, he told bones tried to grow them. Just give him he didn’t seem to see it either.” but couldn’t. After a chance to prove it. they were removed, the bones grew along with the Hike with him. Run with him. They just shook others of his body but never caught up. From the their heads. knees down, they were no bigger than my wrist.

So, Dad served out the war at home, building Dad walked his slightly awkward gait on feet that a company and making lumber at his mill on re-formed every pair of shoes he ever owned to Stillwater Lake and aching inside when his their odd shape. If he was teased it never affected uniformed friends and brothers came back his life. Today, it would have entitled him to a with war stories and tales of other lands. It says lifetime of anger and government compensation something that the only time he felt himself a and counseling for life’s unjust blow. But back then failure was when the government labeled him one. it was just “too bad, son, but life’s unfair; get over He was a successful lumberman and he and it.”

Mom used that success to help others.

He did, too. Enormously handsome and They gave freely and joyfully, helping orphans charming, he was also smart enough to snag a full- and families in other countries and in our ride scholarship to the University of Wisconsin hometown. with his creative writing talent, but he spent only As a father Dad instilled in me the knowledge one day on campus before catching the train back that I can be anything and do anything. To him, to Montana and the familiar. I never learned what there was no such thing as a defeatist attitude. drove him away.

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Every problem had a solution. This philosophy has served me well through life.

As a jokester he was a failure. The man couldn't tell a joke to save his life. He'd laugh so hard he couldn't finish or, more often than not, he'd forget the punch line and leave us hanging. Sadly, I inherited this from him.

But in reality he was a genius. In the 1930s when he needed a way to get through the snow to check out stumpage for logging he created a snowmachine.

To make dragging bagged elk and deer out during hunting season he invented a big-wheeled cart contraption. In later life he invented True Talk, a device that went from one motorcycle helmet to another so the rider could talk to his passenger. (Evil Knievel was going to endorse this one but then was unfortunately critically banged up during one of his escapades.) For years one of Dad's side business was Frame Ups, also known as Easy Ups, devices that hold 2x2s and 2x4s and used to make greenhouses and other things. He once showed me a drawing for a non-electric water pump that was so ingenious a child could understand the concept. He kept little notebooks full of drawings and numbers and ideas and every morning during breakfast wrote ideas down on napkins.

He was an amazing man who was overflowing with joy and exuberance for life. In his 80s he was still going out to a little mill he had in his shop and working.

Dad died many years ago and when my sisters went through his things they saved out his work boots for me. Even as a child I loved his boots and shoes because they were so obviously his. I’d race through the front door as a kid and never have to ask whose boots were on the back step. I’d glance at them and know he was home.

Strangely lopsided with odd bumps and lumps, they were the exact contour of his feet—the same feet that walked beside me through childhood; that hiked with me, stood beside me on the bank of a good trout stream, led me down the aisle at my wedding, and paced the floor with my crying infants.

Dad’s feet carried him well through life. Imperfect though they were, they carried him through a long life of goodness, kindness and success.

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MARKET DAY Saturday, July 29 9:00-3:00 Downtown Quincy Merchant sidewalk sales!

Vendors with crafts, produce, antiques, yard art, fundraising groups and flea market items!

For a vendor application or more information, please email qba07@yahoo.com QUINCY BUSINESS ASSOCIATION

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A walk through the past...in Grant County’s Historical Museum, situated on 3½ acres, a complex of 38 buildings preserving the historical legacy of Grant County.

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Weekend Comedy Directed by Cheri Barbre

Written by: Jeanne & Sam Bobrick

Assisted by Andrew Covarrubias

Pat Rosman

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Produced by special arrangements with Samuel French, Inc.

Week end Comedy PerformanCes

Week End Comedy is a story about what happens when two evening PerformanCes are at 7:30, generations with their separate fridays & saturdays expectations meet for the first time June 16 - 17; 23 - 24; June 30- July 1 in a situation that leaves them with no place to hide. sunday matinees are at 2- Pm Masquers’ very experienced diJune 18 , 25, and July 2 rector, Cheri Barbre, draws upon her tickets : general admission $14.00 long involvement with theater comedy, seniors / students $10.00 and serves up a delightful dish that will rated Pg - 13 keep you chuckling long after you leave the theater.

“This is a very funny gem,” tickets are available at www.masquers.com or call the box office at 509-246-2611 says Cheri. “It is a story of a clash in generations as well as social classes. It makes you think and laugh at the same time. The characters come across as real, and you might even see yourself in them.”

Pat Rosman and Kathleen Stahl play Frank and Peggy, a middle-aged, working class couple.

They are expecting a contemplative and quiet week end in a remote cabin in the woods. What they find is a remote cabin which has also been booked by a much younger couple with a very different world view.

Tony (Christopher Longstreet) and his girlfriend, Jill (Shaina Longstreet) are a much younger yuppy couple. They just want to have a good time in their own way which does not at all fit with contemplation.

AUDITIONS: DINNER BEFORE DAWN Once again Masquers will be presenting a home written play. Dinner Before Dawn was written and will be directed by the playwrights, Andrew Covarrubias and Theresa Freeman.

They will be holding auditions at 7PM on Sunday and Monday, June 18 and 19 at Masquers Theater in Soap Lake.

This is a fairly large cast so there are a lot of parts to fill with people.

A Christmas Story Auditions will also be coming up soon for the Christmas play. It is a musical and it will be directed by Stacey Bresee -- Stay tuned.

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The Washington State Gourd Society

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The classes will be held in the Armory at the Kittitas Valley Event Center in Ellensburg, WA. Classes will be available for beginner to expert and will posted on the WSGS web site the latter part of May. There will be half day and full day classes depending on the skill needed for the class.

When classes are posted you will be able to register on line at the web site. Become a member of the WSGS and you will receive advance notice of when the classes will be posted and a discount on any classes taken.

Membership information is available on the WSGS web site http://www.wagourdsociety.org/ membership/membership.htm.

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