WENATCHEE u LEAVENWORTH u CHELAN u AND ALL OF NORTH CENTRAL WASHINGTON
April 2021
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Home & Garden Issue
EDITOR’S LETTER
The sweet spot on the calendar
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ome say it’s hard to top Seattle on a perfect summer day. OK, I’ve said that more than once after a summertime visit to the Emerald City. Truth be told, I’ve also said it about Vancouver, B.C., San Francisco and San Diego. And I’ve meant it every time. Summer can be wonderful in North Central Washington, but I’m not convinced this is when the region puts its best foot forward. Consecutive 95-plus degree days and … cough, cough … too frequent of late wildfire smoke-filled days aren’t my idea of nirvana. If not summer, then when does our region shine brightest? Some might argue winter, but it can be a harsh time of the year for those of us who don’t ski or hit the backcountry snowmobile trails. Fall is stunning for sure, but its beauty is predicated on plants and trees shutting down. That’s kinda depressing in its own way. Plus, someone has to rake all those leaves! Spring is when it feels like our special valley is, well, most special. There’s a sense of so much promise this time of year as we watch the crocus dazzle and listen to the chatter of the chirping birds as the sun rises to start a new day. Before that happens, though, we must get through the darkest calendar months. Short days and long nights can bear heavy on the soul, but there is hope when we notice that the daylight today is three minutes longer than it was yesterday. Yes, hope springs eternal. We know the snow clinging to the highest hills in March ultimately must give way to spring. It’s inevitable that lush green grasses and wildflowers will fill the hillsides in April and May before withering in the summer’s high heat. Enjoy the show while it lasts, I say. This is the time of year when we can spend time in the great outdoors without having to worry too much about the UV index. It’s when gardeners begin putting into action their plans that will impact the majority of the remaining calendar year. If my argument is not convincing, then I might suggest some additional research is needed on your part. It’s time for you to walk out your front door and take in the sights, breathe in the newness, touch the blossoms that color our world. In the end, you may not agree that spring is the best time of year, but you’ll definitely be better for the experience.
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Contents
30 100-plus years in the making
8 Landmark
Wenatchee’s Carnegie Building has a story
Historic home is on-again, off-again remodel
12 A fresh look
Surefire ways to give your home a new vibe
36 On a hill
Cashmere home is made-to-order
46 AVA workhorse
Wahluke Slope is backbone of state wine scene
18 Gardening Calendar A season-by-season tips list
24 The big clean
Little hands put to good use 6
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54 Upon Further Review Three wines and a beer
oothills A BI-MONTHLY LIFESTYLE MAGAZINE ABOUT NORTH CENTRAL WASHINGTON
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LANDMARK
STORY BY MADELINE HAPPOLD
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The Carnegie Building served as home of the North Central Washington Museum from 1939 to 1976.
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he brick building at the northeast corner of Memorial Park is tiny. So tiny, that five years after it opened as the city’s first library in 1912, it had already become cramped and impractical. The Carnegie Building now faces the city’s larger, newer library and is home to the Washington State Apple Blossom Festival headquarters. During the annual festival, the food court and entertainment stage are situated
Luke Hollister
The historic Carnegie Building at 2 S. Chelan Ave. is the present-day home of the Washington State Apple Blossom Festival. The building opened in 1912 as Wenatchee’s first library. just a stone’s throw from the building. The city of Wenatchee acquired funding for the building from the Carnegie Foundation, which was bankrolled by steel-industry magnate Andrew Carnegie. It is one of 1,687 Carnegie-funded buildings in the U.S. and one of 44 in Washington state. The foundation provided funds for another 822 libraries outside the U.S. The two-level building, complete with clay-red brick, large symmetrical
windows and white-accented to the tune of Jefferson’s Monticello estate, was designed by architects Blackwell and Baker as a “19th Century Revival.” Construction was completed by contractors Bird and Hobsen. According to the history books, the Carnegie Foundation offered the city $10,000 to build a library in 1909. The city accepted, selecting the site in Memorial Park in 1910, agreeing at the time to provide $1,000 a year for
building upkeep. The library opened to the public on Jan. 1, 1912, with 1,500 books in its inventory. It was operated by the Women’s Christian Temperance Union. The library soon ran out of space, though, and its location was moved from the Carnegie Building in 1939 before taking its current residence at 310 Douglas St in 1959. The Carnegie Building later was home to the local museum until 1976. It then April 2021
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Funding for construction of the building came from the Carnegie Foundation, which was established by steel-industry magnate Andrew Carnegie.
Wenatchee World file photo/Don Seabrook
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Valentin Villa with A1 Asbestos finishes up white trim on the windows of the Carnegie Building as part of a 2019 improvement project.
The Carnegie Library is a part of Wenatchee’s register of historical places. It is also listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
served as office space before housing the Apple Blossom Festival offices. The Carnegie Building has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1982. F
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Sources: The Wenatchee World archives, Washington State Department of Archaeology and Historic Preservation
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A gallery wall can make a small statement or it can be a room’s dominant design element.
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HOME & GARDEN STORY BY ERIN REBAR
Something as simple as swapping out the colors of your throw blankets and pillows can completely alter the feel of a room.
Simple ways to refresh your home L
et’s face it: most of us are probably getting sick of our own homes. And who could blame us? After all, we’ve spent an unprecedented amount of time within the same four walls, which can make what once felt like a sanctuary feel more like a prison. Luckily, there are ways to make the old seem new again. These simple tips will help you refresh your home in no time, and you won’t need to break the bank to do it.
Rearrange what you already have You don’t need to go out and buy a bunch of new decor to breathe fresh life into your home. You can completely change your entire living space simply by rearranging what you already have. While changing the layout of your furniture will have the most dramatic impact, sometimes it is better to think small. Consider arranging small knickknacks and other items in clusters on your shelves and tabletops. In interior
design, these small collections are called “vignettes” and are meant to create focal points and tell a story. Candles, books, small plants and any knickknacks or collections you may have accumulated are good candidates for vignettes. If you don’t have a ton of shelf space, you can also apply the same principles to your wall art. Rather than spreading your art around the house, hang pieces with similar or complementary elements together to create a “gallery wall.” April 2021
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Indoor plants do more than just look beautiful — they help to improve the air quality in your home as well. Even more, the simple act of caring for a plant can help to improve your mental health and relieve stress.
Change out your accent pieces Perhaps the quickest and easiest way to make a room feel brand new is to change out your accent pieces. Throw blankets and throw pillows are generally inexpensive, and swapping out your current ones with something in a different color or style can completely alter the feel of a room. You can also try changing your curtains or adding/swapping out rugs. To change up your bedroom, consider indulging in some new bedding. In your bathroom, you can swap out towels, your shower curtain, or your bath mat for a quick-and-easy update.
Add a few plants
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A succulent nestled on a shelf, a vase of cut flowers in the center of your table: these small touches can easily elevate and enliven any room. The best part? It doesn’t have to cost a fortune to add a plant or two to your decor. Succulents and other small
The combination of lighting and color provided by furniture and plants can make a room more inviting.
plants can often be found at grocery stores or nurseries for as little as a dollar, and thrifted containers can make stunning pots. Depending on the variety, cut flowers can be on the pricier side (especially when you consider how often they need to be replaced), but cheap bouquets can be found at the grocery store or the local farmers market.
Pay attention to scents When decorating our homes, we tend to forget one powerful factor — the role scent plays in generating mood and creating ambiance. On top of changing the mood, scent also helps with forming and recalling memories; a whiff of freshly baked cookies, for example, can bring us back to our childhood, while the smell of sunscreen can remind us of a day on the beach. These things can be used to our advantage when trying to create a sense of home. Something as simple as a
Throws in a variety of colors and textures come in handy when changing out a room’s accent pieces.
scented candle can completely alter the atmosphere of a room. A carefully chosen scent can make you feel more alert or imbue your surroundings with a sense of comfort and warmth. If you aren’t into candles — or simply want more options — you can try an essential oil diffuser, fresh flowers, or incense.
More light, please Lighting can make or break a space. The right lighting can create a sense of whimsy or elegance, draw the eye to focal points, and just generally open up a room. Increasing light can
help improve our mood as well — something we all need these days. Lighting doesn’t have to be limited to lamps and overhead fixtures. Try stringing some fairy lights on your wall. You can also use candles or tuck an uplight into a corner. When you are playing with light in your home, don’t forget about its opposite. Purposefully created shadows also play a role in creating mood. Shadows can add drama, depth or mystery. By playing with the placement of the lights in your home, you can create interesting shadows around vignettes or other focal points you have arranged. F April 2021
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HOME & GARDEN STORY BY JAANA HATTON
Left: A lot of time and thought can go into seed selection. If a packet of one type of seed is too much for your need, consider sharing with a gardening friend. Above: Weeds will often flourish right along with your plants. Be sure to stay on top of weeding duties so the work does not seem overwhelming.
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garden is a never-ending story, a work-in-progress, and cycle of life and death. It’s mostly a joy, sometimes a sorrow. There must be some magic to gardening as it has become a popular activity after the COVID-19 pandemic introduced us to close-to-home living. Here in the Pacific Northwest, we have four seasons to keep gardening pursuits interesting. With the help of local Master Gardener Susie Stenkamp, here’s a season-by-season look:
Winter
Dec. 21-March 20 You wouldn’t think that outdoor plants need watering in the winter, but they just might. If they are evergreens or shallow-rooted, new ones will require watering every two weeks and established ones once a month.
The preferable watering time is in the middle of the day and with the temperature above 40 degrees F. Winter is the time for planning and evaluating. What went well, what went poorly last summer? Most importantly, which seeds to order? There are reports that there may a shortage on seeds this year as so many people have taken an interest in gardening and growing their own food. Maybe you would like to combine an order with a friend as just a couple of zucchini seeds is more than enough to produce a year’s worth of the vegetable. If you still feel like doing actual gardening, cold frames will enable you to keep some vegetables growing through the frosty nights. Gardening enthusiast Scott Parsons usually enjoys fresh greens and herbs in January straight from a cold-frame bed in the front yard of his Wenatchee home. “The taste is unbeatable,” Scott said. April 2021
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Scott Parson uses cold frames to successfully grow crops year-round.
Growing plants from seed in pots is one way to get a jump on the gardening season before the soil temperature is warm enough for plants to thrive.
“The cold weather causes the plants to produce more sugar to avoid freezing and you can taste it.” He waters the cold-frame bed every 2-3 weeks and the rest of the time he can relax. The cool months, when plants are dormant, are also a good time for pruning. Late winter is the best time to trim deciduous trees, non-blooming shrubs and ornamental grasses. It is a good 20
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time to tidy up the perennials, removing old and damaged growth.
Spring
March 20-June 20 New plants require some preparation and digging. If the flower and vegetable beds are ready, they may
A compact garden with the right mix of vegetables can provide a bountiful crop.
need fertilizing. Trees and shrubs will also need a boost. The garden area need not be large — a little imagination will create growing places. Lynn Palmer, a local Master Gardener, has cucumber vines climbing along the sunny wall of her garage, leaving room for other plants to grow beneath them. Lynn especially likes to grow her own herbs and has a vast variety in a few raised beds in the corner of her property. She also grows onions and other vegetables in them. Tall and small, vines and creepers — they can grow close together. Depending on what you will be planting, make sure to add the amendments so you will get the best result from your seeds and starts. If in doubt, soil-testing kits are readily available, inexpensive and easy to use. Weeds will come along with the wanted plants. An application of preemergent is helpful, as is mulching, in weed prevention. When you plant your new garden dwellers, pay attention to the weather and frost dates. The soil has to reach a
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For some gardeners, tomatoes are the barometer for a successful gardening year. If the crop is good, life is good. certain temperature (plant-specific) for the new growth to take off. Cold frames and row covers can be helpful when the nights are still cold. When watering, do it deeply and not too frequently to ensure strong root growth.
Summer
June 20-Sept. 22
This is the highlight of a gardener’s year: summer crops, flowers the glory of it all. It is also the busiest season with everything flourishing — including weeds and pests. The summer garden requires daily inspection to make sure plants are getting adequate water, no insect infestation is present and weeds are promptly removed before they seed and produce more. Deep watering with long intervals is generally better than little, frequent sips of water; the roots will grow stronger this way. With the heat of the sun, some plants may need protection. Shade cloths are practical as they can be removed and replaced as needed. It’s good to make a map of the vegetable garden and use a three-year crop rotation method to prevent diseases.
Leaves can provide nutrition for next year’s garden by converting to compost. Toward the very end of summer is when transplanting or new plants should be put in the ground. The cool nights and warm days will help the plant to establish itself and not go into shock.
Fall
Sept. 22-Dec. 21 Fall is just that: things begin to gravitate towards the earth. Leaves begin to fall, plants lose their blooms and vigor. It’s time to harvest and prepare the garden for rest.
If there are diseased plants, they should not be placed in the compost but burnt or put in the trash. Leaves should not be considered a nuisance. They can provide nutrition for next year’s vegetation. Place leaves either in your compost or mix them into your planting areas to allow winter’s dormant period to pull the nutrients out of them. Besides leaves, compost is also a good addition before winter sets in. Some plants require pruning in the fall, others in the spring. It’s best to do the research to determine what to cut and remove and when. Then, rest well garden until springtime arrives again. F April 2021
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INSIDE HOME STORY BY SHARON JORDAN
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Including your kids is challenging, rewarding T
he past year-plus of hunkering down during a pandemic has rendered my home more “lived in” than I could have dreamed. With kids doing online school and a husband working remotely, I’ve
come face to face with just how messy life can be. Did I mention that my kids are ages 8, 6, 4 and 2? So, in addition to our regular family walks, the picnics we pack
for parks (eating in the car when it’s cold out) and occasional movie nights to break up all of our time on top of each other, we’ve also started getting more intentional about cleaning. April 2021
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And while I’m far from an ideal homemaker, we have one relatively pain-free strategy that keeps things running. Once a week — usually Saturday — we make cleaning the whole house a team activity. The day starts with a decadent brunch (OK, it’s usually two kinds of pancakes and some other stuff), then we turn on some music and get to work. By this point in the week, it is desperately apparent how badly we need to reset. But making it a collaborative activity seems key to upholding morale. My kids, thanks in part to their ages, are up for anything done with good cheer. Cleaning is still grownup pretend-play to them. When they do get overwhelmed — it happens to the best of us — my husband stages a competition to see who can pick up the most garbage or collect the most scattered toys. He says they’ll clean “pretty much anything for a cookie.” My youngest two are still learning to help, and are more interested 26
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in taking clean silverware out of the drawer and sticking it back into the dishwasher, so we can put it away… again and again and again. But my oldest two have gotten quite skilled at straightening the furniture, lining up shoes by the door, sorting laundry and toys, and even running the vacuum (pro tip: a canister style makes it easier to fish things back out). I keep a caddy of cleaning supplies that are kid-safe — spray bottles of 50/50 water and distilled white vinegar, a shaker filled with baking soda for gently scouring older spills, sponges and rags. A short-handled broom with an attached dustpan makes sweeping lessons easy — although the pieces must usually be retrieved from separate parts of the house for reasons that remain mysterious to me. There’s a mop in the basement. And that’s where I keep bottles of ammonia and bleach, too (in separate locations so the vapors never shall meet). These are for occasional heavy-duty cleaning situations, like when something needs degreased or disinfected. For bleach, five tablespoons in a gallon of room-temperature water officially does the trick, per the CDC. My favorite cheap and easy stain treater for laundry (also located in the basement) is a spray bottle containing equal parts dish soap, ammonia and water. Try it — it’s great. F April 2021
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HOUSEKEEPING TIPS FOR THE BATHROOM For how to tackle one of the most ... ahem ... “well-used” rooms in the house, I spoke with East Wenatchee resident Andrea Osborne, owner of “Cinderella’s Housekeeping.” “I feel like all cleaning is satisfying when it’s done,” she tells me. Here are her steps for making your bathroom inviting, again: Start by removing all items. Put what’s on countertops into cupboards or drawers. Remove rugs to wash or vacuum. Empty garbage and remove can. Remove shower items, too — you might want to use a tub or bucket to make this part easier.
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Dust. You always work from top to bottom in any room. There are many methods. I myself use a Swiffer duster for places I can’t reach. As for the places I can reach, I like to use a microfiber cloth and a product called Endust. I just spray a bit on my cloth and wipe where I need to dust. It works on wood, glass and most surfaces, and it smells like lemons and leaves no oily residue. 28
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Tackle the commode. Put your toilet cleaner inside your toilet and let it sit there for at least 15 minutes. Let it simmer while you’re cleaning other things; it needs time to break all that junk down. If you have a septic system, your cleaner may need to be different — look it up or check labels.
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Disinfect surfaces. Countertops and faucets are all made differently, so make sure that the cleaning product you use is safe for your surfaces. You can Google what to use. Take your appropriate cleaner and spray the entire countertop and sink area. The cleanser on the counter needs to sit for about 3 minutes to disinfect properly, so while that is sitting, go ahead and clean the mirror. When done with the mirror, go ahead and wipe the counter and faucet with a microfiber cloth, and rinse out the sink.
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On to the shower/bath. Make sure you have the appropriate cleaner for your shower or tub, too, and a soft sponge or microfiber cloth. Spray or wipe cleaner in your shower or tub, and let it sit for 3 to
5 minutes, then scrub or rinse. The length you wait and whether you need to scrub will depend on how dirty your shower/tub is. If you have glass doors on your shower, I recommend getting a squeegee so you can wipe the doors after every use, which keeps maintenance down. Back to the toilet. Spray the entire outside of your toilet with disinfectant and let it sit for 5 minutes. While it sits, go ahead and scrub the inside of the toilet. Then wipe down the outside of the toilet with a microfiber cloth, close the lid and flush.
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Finally, vacuum, sweep or mop. I prefer to vacuum because it traps the dirt; sweeping makes the dirt fly around. Mopping by hand is best, so I can get everything. But when I can’t do that, I use a spray mop with a washable microfiber pad. Floor cleaners depend on floor materials just like for all other surfaces.
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Put everything back where it was and celebrate (or take a break)! F — Sharon Jordan
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Most people are capable of cleaning up after themselves and their family, according 2020 to2021 Merry Maids of Wenatchee owner Tawnee Seals, but the hard-to-reach places, the nooks and crannies, and out-of-sight places are often neglected in day-to-day housekeeping.
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Cleaning all the surfaces of the home is the purpose of the traditional “spring clean.” Seals said that her Grandma Clara used to spread her annual spring cleaning tasks over several weeks. That is not possible for most Special SpecialAdvertisement Advertisement people nowadays, but dedicating at least a Section Section few weekend days to it is the minimum for having a nice, clean home. “This is a great time to make plans to get that deep cleaning done. This is a chance to focus on tasks that are not done on a regular or daily basis,” Seals said of the spring clean.
crannies are places where mold and dust and other unpleasant things can accumulate. Seals’ nutshell strategy for spring cleaning is to set aside a few days which you can dedicate to uninterrupted cleaning, and make a realistic game plan for what you can tackle, working to complete one room at a time. Gather the right products and supplies, and make sure you have the physical energy you will need. Clean from the top down to get every surface. Supplies you will need include an allpurpose cleanser, a cleanser with scrubbing power and a degreaser. Be sure to read the product directions. You will need to let some products sit for a few minutes for optimum sanitizing power. You will also need microfiber cloths, scrub brushes, a good vacuum, a good mop, a cobwebber, and a sturdy ladder. Knee pads are handy for crawling on hands and knees to clean baseboards and floor corners.
Start at the top to remove cobwebs, being sure to get behind curtain rods, and in and around lighting fixtures, ceiling fans, and vents. Then work down to clean door trim, paneled doors, window trim and window sills. Dust the corners and wipe down the baseboards. When cleaning hard surface floors, vacuum first and then mop, changing the mop head frequently to avoid simply moving dirt around. Vacuum upholstery, including under cushions. Be sure to get behind and underneath all furniture and appliances. If the spring clean is starting to sound like more work than you bargained for, consider hiring help. That way you can spend your weekends and free time doing some fun things and still keep on top of those often neglected cleaning tasks. And, most importantly, you can enjoy your clean, wellmaintained home!
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Tracy and Geraldine Warner enjoy spending time in their backyard, especially in the summer when overhanging trees provide shade. They recently removed vinyl siding, repairing the original and putting a fresh coat of paint on the green color that was revealed.
Historic home is on-again, off-again remodel project The Warners have spent over 35 years working on their South Franklin Avenue home in Wenatchee’s Grandview Historic District. The driveway at right was sized for wagons with narrower wheelbases. The couple recently peeled away vinyl siding to expose the 1912 home’s original lap and shingle siding.
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he house at the corner of Franklin and Idaho streets is Geraldine and Tracy Warner’s “35-year remodeling project,” as they fondly call it. The Warner home is in Wenatchee’s Grandview Historic District. The residence has withstood 100-plus years of weather and living, so some maintenance can be expected. The historic district covers six full and two partial blocks, including Delaware, Washington, Miller, Idaho and Alaska streets and portions of Douglas, Emerson, Franklin and King streets. It’s an area where many of the city’s pioneer families built their first homes. The Warners, as newlyweds in 1986,
were looking for a home in the area west of the Chelan County Courthouse campus. Tracy already had an apartment nearby and they both liked the neighborhood. “We used to walk along the streets, looking for available houses,” Geraldine said. They purchased a home on South Franklin Avenue because of its good location and the space inside. At the time, the house, built in 1912, was known as the Albert and Alice Sylvester House, although the first owners were David and Mary Oliver. Mary was the daughter of W.T. Clark who in 1909 built Wells House on the property where Wenatchee Valley College is now located. April 2021
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The present-day living room, the scene of an earlier photograph of the original owners (below).
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Original owners Mary and David Oliver and their children sit in the living room of their Wenatchee home now owned by Tracy and Geraldine Warner.
The home is 2,200 square feet, including the basement awaiting renovation. There are three bedrooms and a full bath upstairs and downstairs. The Warners purchased the home in 1986 for $68,000. “We liked that it had a proper din32
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ing room, separate from the kitchen,” Geraldine said. They knew there was work to be done — and they have accomplished much in the past 35 years. “I only felt overwhelmed once: on our moving day when I saw the house
The Warners have used antique furniture to match the style of their 109-year-old home.
in its bareness,” Geraldine recalled. The orange shag carpet and the mostly yellow interior greeted them in all of its cheeriness as they were transferring their belongings into the empty residence. The carpet was the first to go, then the kitchen floor. After that, painting the interior walls commenced. Underneath the carpet hid the original oak floor which the Warners eventually brought back to its original splendor. The Warners have worked off and on over the past 35 years to remodel the historic home. Since 2005, when the historic district was established, alterations to any of the 141 properties within district boundaries have to be approved by the city. Tracy is handy when it comes to working with wood. He has done many changes to the house’s decorative and functional features, such as building a bookcase in the front parlor and changing some of the too-numerous doorways into bookshelves. “There was a hole in this floor,” Tracy said, pointing at the space by the short stairway in the parlor. “I spent a long time trying to decide what to do about it. I finally built a
An upstairs guest bedroom is filled with furniture from an earlier era. Tracy Warner says the upstairs was once used to board teachers at the old high school nearby.
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Tracy and Geraldine Warner’s front porch catches the morning light.
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bookcase over it, to match the one on the opposite side of the room.” When he later saw a photo of that particular spot, sure enough there had been a bookcase there and very similar-looking. The house was not only the home to the young Oliver family; after them, the Sylvesters called it home. Albert Sylvester was a well-known surveyor, explorer and forest supervisor in the Cascade Range. After the Sylvesters came a dentist, a high school teacher, a Navy recruiter and now the Warners. Many owners brought changes to the structure. “Our TV room had a lot of doors — two leading to the kitchen on both sides of the room (besides the main door),” Tracy explained. “We didn’t understand the purpose of those.” The excess doors no longer exist; Tracy built a floor-to-ceiling bookshelf along the entire wall. A five-week kitchen remodel project was a bit of an endurance test. Tracy’s birthday fell within that time frame,
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one that he remembers as not particularly festive. Initially, the house had no insulation and only single-pane windows. Those were matters the Warners addressed promptly. They also replaced the original cast-iron floor vents with modern ones. “The yellow vinyl exterior started to fall apart,” Geraldine said. The hired Steve Freese, a contractor they trusted, to redo the exterior. All of the vinyl was removed and it exposed the green wood walls, amazingly in fairly good shape without any rot. “The green paint had lead in it, so it had to be taken off by professionals with special precautions,” Geraldine said. Little by little, they’ve brought the old wiring in the house up to modern standards. The old light switches are still in their places and functional. “We only saw an original photo of the house five years ago,” Geraldine said. The Warners are pleased to have been able to restore the exterior of the house fairly close to its initial look. There are still many improvements awaiting. “This is a dream-come-true,” Geraldine stated of their old charmer at the corner. F
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STORY BY DEE RIGGS PHOTOS BY DON SEABROOK
The Lloyds brought in tons of rock from a Snoqualmie Pass road construction project to their home off Brender Canyon Road near Cashmere. They used the rock in their landscaping to create different elevations around the house.
Made-to-order Cashmere-area home is hillside oasis Left: Wally and Leslie Lloyd’s home was put in a carved out area of a steep hillside near Brender Canyon Road outside Cashmere. Their hay harvest sits in the pasture below their house.
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eslie Lloyd likes walking on level ground. That can be hard to do when you build a house on a steep hillside. “I didn’t want to feel like a mountain goat, walking around the area outside my house,” Lloyd says. “I wanted substantial level areas adjacent to the house so when I go outside to drink a cup of coffee, walk the dog or bring groceries in, I don’t
feel like I’m climbing too much.” In 2013, when she and her husband, Wally, built their home off Brender Canyon Road in rural Cashmere, they met the challenge with three things: flat circular concrete patio areas on the north and south sides of the house, mounded planting beds just off the patios and around most of the house, and lots and lots of rocks. April 2021
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Wally and Leslie Lloyd’s home on Willems Road is tucked on the side of a mountain and uses grass and landscaping as transitions to the forest behind them. They created flat areas around their house so walking around wouldn’t always be a climbing experience.
Leslie Lloyd carries flowers from her garden up the driveway to her home in rural Cashmere last summer. She sells flowers to local florists and for events. Her husband is in their pasture below changing irrigation lines. 38
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She hired Graham Murray, owner of Northern Stone Craft, as her rock-placement expert. “I told him I wanted big-ass rocks,” she says. She got what she ordered, with one rock weighing 7 tons. Most are smaller, but still substantial. They are also placed with great care. “There’s this whole zen thing about how the rocks relate to each other,” Lloyd says. “There is a lot of artistry in the rocks. They are just as important as plants, in terms of design.” Lloyd’s vision for her property came from working with her builder, her architect and taking in the vistas on Tumwater Canyon, Icicle Creek and at Whistler in British Columbia. It didn’t hurt that she has expertise in land development. Lloyd earned a bachelor’s degree in urban planning from the University of
Washington. She has worked as a city planner for the City of Seattle, then was in real estate development, was president of the Bellevue Downtown Association and then, for 18 months, was executive director of Icicle Creek Center for the Arts in Leavenworth. She also worked for 501 Consultants before retiring in 2016. Wally is also retired, having owned a marketing, communications and graphic design business in Bellevue for 28 years. Before that, the couple had spent years looking for property to build their dream home. The Wenatchee Valley called their name. “We saw more good sites in one day than we’d seen in 10 years of looking in three other states,” she says. In 2010, they found 22 acres of land off Willems Road. Thirteen acres were in cherries, which turned out to be too small to be sustainable. After a couple of years, they pulled the trees out and now grow hay.
One of the Lloyd’s dogs walks along the driveway to the garage. The house was built into a steep mountainside near Brander Canyon Road in rural Cashmere.
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Clockwise from top left: Pots and plantings of flowers add spots of color to the landscaping. Reflections of the surrounding forest are seen in windows of the Lloyd home. Flowers bloom in the landscaping around the home.
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On a lower hill, Lloyd tends a big flower garden, which she harvests and sells to local florists and to people holding special events such as weddings. “This is my part-time retirement gig,” she says. The couple’s business, which includes hay sales, is called Pioneer Canyon Farm. She grows more than 100 varieties of flowers. Among them are alliums, zinnias, snapdragons, roses, peonies, celosia, stock, lisianthus, ranunculus, ageratum, baby’s breath, amaranth,
lace flower, bronze fennel, coneflowers, rudbeckia, dianthus, crocosmia, scabiosa, dusty miller and dahlias. The dahlias, she says, are her favorites. “They’re cheerful and productive. They go until the frost and they just seem to get better and better throughout the season.” Lloyd, a Master Gardener, also
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Clockwise from top left: Wally and Leslie Lloyd’s home blends into the mountainside with their choice of colors. A lizard habitates large boulders used in landscaping. Flat, circular concrete patios on both sides of the Lloyd house provide areas for seating and enjoying their view down Willems Road near Cashmere.
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provide a pop of color that complements what else is going on.” The area around the two-story, 2,580-square-foot house, which Lloyd describes as a modern mountain farmhouse, is laid out in concentric circles. The couple also set out a 35-foot buffer around the house so it is as firewise as possible. Key to their layout and planting success, she says, is having a spouse who is as outdoorsy and farm-oriented as she is. “He is the happiest man on the planet,” she says. “He always wanted to be in the country.” Lloyd says she and Wally have a lot of other projects to go, but the work will be a joy. “I think I always felt best when I could have my hands in the dirt,” she says. “I’ve learned that, unlike people, plants do what they’re supposed to do. And they never talk back or get in a huff. If you take care of them, they just grow and produce lots of good things.” F
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Wahluke Slope, the backbone of the state’s wine industry
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Milbrandt Vineyards has nearly 3,000 acres of wine grapes in the Wahluke Slope and Ancient Lakes AVA. 46
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THE VINE
WAHLUKE SLOPE AVA
STORY BY RICK STEIGMEYER
Washington State Wine Commission
An aerial view over the Wahluke Slope AVA.
This story is part of a series on North Central Washington’s five American Viticultural Areas. Future stories will focus on Lake Chelan, Ancient Lakes and Royal Slope AVAs and some of the wineries that produce wines from grapes grown in those areas.
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he Wahluke Slope is a place few people go to, but nearly every person who enjoys Washington wine has tasted. The Central Washington region bounded by the Columbia River, the Saddle Mountains and Hanford Reach National Monument is home to the Wahluke Slope American Viticultural Area (AVA) and more than 9,000 acres of the state’s most prized vineyards. With its hot summer temperatures, long growing season, consistent deep sandy soils and access to water, the region is considered the backbone of the state’s wine industry. Its vineyards account for nearly 20 percent of Washington state wine, according to the Washington State Wine Commission. The 81,000-acre appellation sits on a huge alluvial fan of fine soils and sands spread by giant ice age floods
15,000 years ago over basalt bedrock left by volcanic lava flows millions of years old. The deep soils, dry climate and abundant water from the Columbia Basin Project make for one of the best and most uniform growing areas in the state. The unique characteristics of the region’s climate and geology led it to qualify for AVA status in 2006. The Wahluke Slope AVA lies entirely within the much larger Columbia Valley AVA. Many wines labeled as Columbia Valley or Washington State wines are made with a large percentage of grapes from the Wahluke Slope AVA. Drive through Mattawa, the largest town in this remote part of Grant County, and you’ll find a few small Mexican restaurants, grocery store, convenience stores and a gas station. There’s a post office and town hall. Mattawa schools are at the east edge of town. April 2021
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Harvest time in a Jones of Washington vineyard on the Wahluke Slope.
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Ripe Merlot grapes wait to be harvested in a Jones of Washington vineyard on the Wahluke Slope.
An inside look at the J&S Crushing facility near Mattawa.
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The Sentinel Gap in the Saddle Mountains can be seen in the distance in this photo taken from the Wahluke Slope.
WAHLUKE SLOPE AVA
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The Wahluke Slope is one of five distinct grape-growing regions in North Central Washington
What you won’t find is a dozen wine tasting rooms as you might find in Walla Walla, Leavenworth or around Lake Chelan. This is not a tourist area. It’s a farm town surrounded mostly by vineyards, but also by orchards and fields of other crops. There are two boutique wineries along Highway 243 west of the town that do have wine tastings by appointment, if people do want to take the 15 mile drive from Interstate 90 near Vantage. Gingko Forest Winery and
Fox Estate Winery are very much worth a visit, but you might want to call ahead. Bookends to those two wineries, all within a couple miles of each other on Highway 243, are two of the state’s wine giants. J&S Crushing and Wahluke Wine Co. make millions of gallons of wine — yes, millions of gallons — for dozens of other wineries throughout the state. J&S Crushing was built and continues to be operated by the Dick Shaw April 2021
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The Wahluke Slope AVA accounts for roughly 15 percent of the total wine grape acreage in Washington state.
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StoneTree Vineyard on the Wahluke Slope east of Mattawa features a south-facing aspect with views of Rattlesnake Mountain in the distance. 50
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and Jack Jones families. Shaw planted his first 100-acre vineyard on the Wahluke Slope in 1981 and added greatly to that in the 1990s. Jones replanted vast acreage of potato and onion land to vineyard starting in the 1990s. Together, the two families farm close to 5,000 acres of vineyard, much of that in the Wahluke Slope AVA. Most of the vineyards are machine harvested. The industrial crushing plant, built in 2008, is the state’s third-largest producer of wine, processing as much as 24,000 tons of grapes annually from its own vineyards as well as nearby vineyards owned by others. J&S Crushing sells crushed grapes and bulk wine to dozens of other wineries and commercial customers. Its biggest clients are Columbia Crest and its owner Chateau Ste. Michelle wineries, the state’s largest wine producers. The company also produces wine for the owners’ own labels, Jones of Washington and the Shaws’ Henry Earl Estates wine. Jones of Washington, based in Quincy, was named
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• The 80,490-acre region features approximately 9,277 acres of vineyards: nearly 15 percent of the total wine grape acreage in the state. • Top grape varieties: Merlot, Syrah, Cabernet Sauvignon, Riesling, Chardonnay and Chenin Blanc. • Wahluke Slope has one of the driest, warmest climates in the state, allowing nearly complete control of vine vigor and ripening through irrigation. Source: Washington State Wine Commission
Washington State Winery of the Year in 2012. Wahluke Wine Co., just a mile down the road from J&S Crushing, is owned by brothers Butch and Jerry Milbrandt and their families. The company makes custom-crush wine for dozens of Northwest wineries, including their own Milbrandt Vineyards and Ryan Patrick labels. The Milbrandts started planting vineyards along the slope in 1998 with plans to sell the grapes to Chateau Ste. Michelle. The original 200 acres grew to nearly 3,000 acres in the Wahluke Slope and Ancient Lakes (near Quincy) AVAs. At one point, they were growing grapes for not only Ste. Michelle, but nearly 50 of the state’s most prestigious small wineries. The brothers built Wahluke Wine Co. in 2005, starting their own customcrush operation, later adding custom bottling and wine storage, for about 20
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The Wahluke Slope is long on vineyard, but is home to only two tasting rooms — Ginkgo Forest Winery and Fox Estate Winery.
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Clusters of grapes hang heavy on the vine nearly ready for harvest at Ginkgo Winery in late August last year. The fertile Wahluke Slope area includes about 9,000 acres of vineyard. 52
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wineries. They also started their own winery, Milbrandt Vineyards. “When we saw how well those wines were doing with the name of our vineyards on their bottles, we thought we should start making our own wine,” Butch Milbrandt said. Because the company grows its own grapes and has its own processing plant, Milbrandt Vineyards, like Jones of Washington, can offer very high-quality wines at lower prices. Milbrandt Vineyards was named Washington State Winery of the Year in 2019. The warm sandy soils of the Wahluke Slope are known primarily for their ability to produce red grape varieties with intense aromas and flavors that are true to their varietal type. Predominant grape varieties are Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Syrah. White varieties include Chardonnay, Riesling and Chenin Blanc. Jones of Washington has tasting rooms in Pybus Public Market and Quincy Public Market. Milbrandt Vineyards and Ryan Patrick Wines have combined tasting rooms in Leavenworth, Prosser and Woodinville. Ginkgo Forest, in addition to its tasting room at the winery near Mattawa, has tasting rooms in Prosser and Tacoma. F
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Rocky Pond 2017 Double D Syrah, $39
This brand was one of the first local wines I poured by the glass at our wine-centric restaurant almost 20 years ago. Back then, it was owned by the Flanagan family. They planted grapes in 1996 in the Quincy area, and named the winery after their two sons. The Flanagans sold the winery to the Milbrandts in 2012 but kept the vineyard. The Rock Island Red has always been a fruit-forward and approachable wine. The 2017 blend comprises of 54% Cabernet Sauvignon, 27% merlot, 14% Petit Verdot, 2% Malbec 2% Cabernet Franc and 1% Syrah. Dark berry, pomegranate and a hint of hot fudge fill the nose. The sip reveals deep fruit, gentle acidity and a spicy character. The finish is rich and pleasing. Pizza, burgers and pulled pork would work well with the friendly Rock Island Red.
It’s fun to mix it up a little bit, so I am throwing a beer review into the mix. I tasted a version of this beers many eons ago when Dean Priebe was earning awards for his hobby. We are all lucky that he decided to pursue his passion and is now the brewmaster at Icicle Brewing. Priebe Porter smells like richly toasted coffee, with a slight herbal quality. The mouthfeel is round but with some zest. It does not sit heavy in the mouth but at the same time gives your taste buds a full sensation of dry roasted malty and hop goodness. There is not a perception of sweet, and this keeps the dark beer surprisingly refreshing. I cannot help but think of rich chocolate desserts when drinking a porter, but steak pie or a beef stew would also be fabulous. ABV is 6.5%, 34 IBU.
The grapes for this Syrah come from the Double D vineyard planted in 2013. The vineyard is about halfway between Orondo and the Beebe Bridge, on a warm, welldrained slope along the Columbia River. The warmth from this site is evident in the ripe blackberry and raspberry jam aromas. The palate is rich and smooth with more dark berries, black plum and baking spices. The finish is long and reminiscent of a sip of coffee after a bite of pie. It pairs wonderfully with braised short ribs and truffle mash potatoes. It is an easy-going wine and would fit in well with any kind of barbecue or grilled meat.
Barb Robertson City: Wenatchee Credentials: Earned advanced certification through Londonbased Wine and Spirit Education Trust; currently working toward higher-level diploma through WSET. Earned degree in marketing from Central Washington University. Owned The Wine Bin retail shop in Wenatchee for five years, as well as the Mission Street Bistro Wine Bar for 14 years. Has worked 54
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in the Northwest wine industry for more than 15 years, including sales, production and marketing. She is currently a wine industry specialist for Saxco International packaging company. Was a judge for the 2011-18 North Central Washington Wine Awards competition, the 2017-20 Cascadia Wine Competition and Wine Press Northwest’s 2020 Platinum Judging.
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Malaga Springs 2019 Chenin Blanc, $19 Once upon a time, there was more Chenin Blanc planted in California and Washington than in France, where it originated. It is a very versatile and palatable grape, and it made a great base for boxed wine. As the American palate changed, Chardonnay became the white wine darling, and many Chenin vines were ripped out. Chenin Blanc is now seeing a revival, and it is getting treated with the respect it deserves. Malaga Springs does a beautiful job of representing the lush aspect of this grape. Honey, pear and a touch of citrus drift up from the glass. The palate echoes these fruity notes and adds orchard flower with a subtle, salty mineral finish. It would be great with brunch, or as an evening sipper as you watch the flowers start blooming.
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