Foothills Magazine Mar-Apr 2014

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Photo Contest Local shooters Winners aim and impress

Artist Lance Dooley ‘Just a Wenatchee boy at heart’

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Editor’s Letter

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ou can find the top images from the second-annual Foothills Photo Contest starting on Page 32 of this issue.

The pictures are striking, creative, inspiring and even funny in one case.

But by no means should you think those are the only good images out of the 225-plus entries we received this year.

The photo entries as a whole were outstanding. You can view all the entries at ncwfoothills.com.

After clicking my way through the slideshow of images, I’m left with a feeling of thankfulness — first of all, thankful to all the photographers who submitted their photos to the contest, and second, thankful to live in a place as special as North Central Washington, where all of the photos were taken.

The photo collection is a great snapshot of many of the wonderful reasons why this is such a beautiful place to live. Even the scary lightning shots that left us holding our collective breath last summer are mesmerizing.

Also inside this issue, you’ll come across Gary Jasinek’s profile of local artist Lance Dooley, who is now perhaps most famous for the mammoth E.T. Pybus sculpture at Pybus Public Market that was unveiled late last year.

Dooley’s talent is unquestionable. His life’s journey from student artist to software developer — with stints along the way as U.S. soldier and engineering student — is an interesting one.

It’s obvious, after reading Jasinek’s piece, that Dooley himself is a work in process.

Marco Martinez, editor

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On the cover: Dawn Kranz of Leavenworth snapped this image at Lake Wenatchee at the end of last summer. It was one of the many photos that impressed judges as they reviewed submissions for the second-annual Foothills Photo Contest. You can see the top winners, including a differently cropped version of Dawn’s photo, inside this issue.

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Contents 6 Fast 5

Spring is Mike Irwin’s thing

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8 Hot Pursuit

Wenatchee PD is sporting new wheels

12 Cold Snaps

Mike Bonnicksen collects freeze frames

14 Good Crabby

Chateau Grill’s recipe for crab cakes

16 Spin is In

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Indoor cycling gains speed in area gyms

22 Well Sculpted

Artist Lance Dooley is ‘a Wenatchee boy at heart’

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30 Texting ... Dustin Driver Teenager hurler is now a pro

32 Winning Images

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Top entries from Photo Contest

48 Top Shelf

Wine bars gaining traction in NCW

56 Upon Further Review Barb Robertson sips some reds

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Canoodling on campus

Feeling frisky? There’s no better place to start your springtime mating ritual than at “The Smooching Bench,” an actual bench near the center of the Wenatchee Valley College campus where you can sit down and pucker up. The bench was erected in honor of Eldon Anderson, first graduate of the college in 1941 and a good-humored, vivacious fellow who loved to flirt. The legend is that he’d teasingly say, “I’d like to smooch with every girl on campus!”

And then set off to woo the prettiest.

Over the decades, Eldon credited WVC with giving him the education that set him on his way to becoming a successful Seattle attorney and, in return, donated generously to the WVC Foundation. The bench is a tongue-incheek way of saying “thanks.”

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Greenish gold

Foragers are often tight-lipped about their favorite wild-edible locations, particularly hot spots for asparagus.

(Tip: They’ll often blab with a bribe of cold beer.) From the end of March through April, you’ll see diehard gatherers ranging along roadside ditches and in moist lowlands for the prized spear. And even then, when 6

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questioned, they might claim to be searching for a lost hubcap. Asparagus shoots rise from a central stem growing about a foot underground, so cagey foragers mark their asparagus territory in the fall with ribbons or stakes. Nothing too obvious, of course, or sneaky, low-life competitors will grab the booty from right under their ready-to-pluck fingertips. So what’s our favorite location for the potassiumrich wild delicacy? Hmm ... a cold beer would sure taste good right now.

Spring Rites (and wrongs) edition

By mike Irwin

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Green thumb goofs

Since Christmas, you backyard agronomists have been mentally hoehoe-hoeing and are now ready to get down and dirty, right? Not so fast. Local Master Gardener Bonnie Orr points to three eager-beaver errors: Planting tomatoes by April 1 (ignore the date and wait till the soil has warmed to at least 40 degrees, or the plants will “turn purple and turn up their toes”); removing mulch before irrigation water flows (mulch locks in soil moisture and keeps loam from getting desiccated); and fertilizing lawns when they’re still brown and dry (lawns will only absorb fertilizer if the grass has already awakened from its winter doldrums, so wait till the soil warms and the grass begins to green up).

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New season for AppleSex

Nothing in the Wenatchee Valley shouts “Spring!” louder than thousands of revelers celebrating the sex antics of the apple — or, more prudishly, the cross-pollination of pomaceous tree fruit — at the annual Washington State Apple Blossom Festival (April 24-May 4). Yep, we’re literally talking about the birds and the bees as they flit blossom-to-blossom to spread the magic pollen that makes our apple economy possible. Best of all, the entire spring revel climaxes, so to speak, with one of the state’s most joyous flings of mobile merriment, the Stemilt Growers Grand Parade.

Can we get a shout-out for marching bands sparking some hot blossom fertilization?

Beware of tykes with Easter baskets and fire in their eyes. These veteran egg hunters have been coached in swoopand-scoop techniques to gather not just the most, but the most rewarding, prized eggs at any given hunt. No baby-chick sweatshirts or bunny costumes for these brutes.

In running shoes and Gore-Tex, they’re usually the oldest gatherers in their division and carry the largest, most battle-scarred baskets. They stand apart from the crowd to scan the field, mentally mark their targets and plot zigzag courses to pluck-up only the choicest cackle-fruit — golden eggs stuffed with M&Ms and discount coupons. Easter is on April 20, but the hunt starts much earlier. Be ready.

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Wheels of wonder

Story By Sharon Altaras photos By Mike Bonnicksen

The new 2013 Dodge Charger Pursuit driven by Wenatchee police officers has a 370hp HEMI V8, giving officers amazingly quick pickup for around-town driving.

Patrol Power Wenatchee PD adds muscle to its fleet with choice of Dodge Charger Pursuit

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f this car could talk, it would advise you of your rights.

Looking lean, mean and ready for a back-alley altercation, the 2013 Dodge Charger Pursuit is the city of Wenatchee’s choice to replace Ford’s decommissioned Crown Victoria.

Four new marked patrol cars hit the pavement in early December. They are being shared, along with nine older vehicles, by the city’s 24 police officers.

With its HEMI eight-cylinder engine that puts out 370 horse power and 390 pounds of torque per foot, plus 18-inch steel wheels, the Charger should have plenty of stamina. It’s been tested to go from 0 to 60 mph in just over six seconds, with a top speed of 130 mph, though speeds over 90 are almost unheard of on a chase through the city, says Officer Brian Bolz.

Bolz doesn’t much miss his first

Officer Brian Bolz shows a barcode reader scanning a license. Tickets are automatically printed from the printer behind the passengers seat, seen in the background in the upper left corner. patrol vehicle, a six-cylinder Ford Taurus he drove for the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office that nearly caught fire twice — once due to a blown hose and another time from simply overheating. Nor does he miss the Chevy Caprice he drove next. Or even the Crown Victorias that came later.

In 20 years as a law enforcement officer, this is hands-down his favorite vehicle.

“It’s more comfortable, better performing, quieter,” he says.

The Crown Vics were strong and roomy, but there’s something to be said for the Charger’s style.

Its white decaling is a vinyl wrap that will strip off when the cars have reached the end of their careers and are ready to be auctioned — all-black cars should fetch a higher price.

From a practical standpoint, the Charger is better, also. It boasts new equipment, which includes: radios, sirens and light bars; front/ rear dividers, digital video cameras, computer tablets with mounted keyboards, and printers in the trunk.

Officers now automatically download video shot from the dash cameras to a server in the police station every time they roll into the department’s parking garage.

“Before we had to download to flash sticks,” Bolz says. “That’s been a huge time savings for us and makes it easier for us to review the footage.”

Another economical feature is a

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Wenatchee police officer Brian Bolz shows the tablet and keyboard in the car.

“The Dodge has been on the road a while for different entities, so it kind of has a proven track record.”

Don Bitterman Wenatchee fleet and facilities supervisor

programmed setting that shuts the car down to save fuel if it has been idling more than 20 minutes.

The car also will lock its doors and start running if lights or anything else drains the battery below 12 volts.

Ford produced its last Crown Victoria in September 2011. In mid-2013, a task force for the city of Wenatchee’s police department began the process of picking out a new patrol sedan.

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The 370hp HEMI V8 engine will run on 4 cylinders when power isn’t needed. The car automatically starts up to charge the battery if the lights pull the battery below a certain voltage.

Members compared Chrysler’s Dodge Charger — customizable for law enforcement since 2006 — alongside the Chevrolet Caprice Police Patrol

Vehicle, which was reintroduced in North America in 2011 after a fiveyear hiatus, and Ford’s new Police Interceptor Sedan, a re-engineered

Taurus that was marketed to law enforcement starting in 2012.

The Ford’s turbocharged V-6 engine has lots of torque but may not have been the right choice for a workhorse destined to roam Wenatchee’s 30-mph streets, says Bolz. Plus, the Dodge was roomier.

Don Bitterman, fleet and facilities supervisor for the City of Wenatchee, was among those who compared and test drove the three vehicles.

“The Dodge has been on the road a while for different entities, so it kind of has a proven track record,” he says.

The V8 Caprice has a smaller back-seat area than the Charger and has been largely manufactured and serviced in Australia, making any service issues a potential headache, members of the task force figured.

Decision makers were able to get feedback from neighboring agencies who’d updated portions of their fleet, earlier. Chelan County, for example, had incorporated Ford’s new vehicle, while the State Patrol went with the

The high-definition camera mounted in the car downloads footage automatically to servers at the police station, whenever the car is near it.

Plexiglass window covers are safer for suspects riding in the back seat, providing less hard surfaces for them to get injured on and the offer better visibility to officers than metal bars.

new Caprice. Douglas County Sheriff’s Office had chosen the Charger.

Feedback has been “very, very positive,” while officers are getting used to the new cars, Bolz says. There have been a few complaints about the computers, which have less screen area and smaller keys than their predecessors, but help reduce blind spots.

Technology has its hiccups. A major setback occurred when department officials realized the cars had not been keyed the same and had to send them

back to be completely reprogrammed.

All told, the Chargers cost between $50,000 and $51,000 each, a couple thousand less, each, than the alternatives, says Bitterman.

Bolz wants to thank the citizens of Wenatchee for buying the new cars.

“It really is one of the best in the business,” he says of the Charger Pursuit. “It’s not a glorified taxi cab.”

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On the trail

Frost-covered needles on a evergreen by the Ingalls Creek Trail off Blewett Pass. At top, a rose hip along the Ingalls Creek Trail. At right, a burned log beside Swakane Canyon Road north of Wenatchee.

Frost-covered trees along one of the many roads near the Beezley Hills Preserve near Quincy.

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n December and January, I did a lot of walking on the back roads around North Central Washington. The lack of snow also allowed me to get to some areas in the mountains that would normally be snow covered during this time of year. I wasn’t able to get out as much as I’d like, but tried to get out when the hills were frost covered. It’s always so beautiful to see the frosty covered vegetation and the intricate details formed by the icy crystals. F

photos By mike Bonnicksen

Ice forms alongside Ingalls Creek on Blewett Pass. At left, hoar frost covers a leaf in an orchard near Quincy.

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Crab-tastic Chateau Grill serves up tasty cakes Chateau Grill Crab Cakes 40 ounces strained Dungeness crab meat 2 eggs 20 ounces finely chopped fresh cod 1 cup Panko bread crumbs 1 cup mayonnaise Juice of one lemon 2 pinches blackened seasoning 2 pinches salt and pepper 1 red bell pepper, finely chopped 1/2 white onion, finely chopped 2 garlic cloves, finely chopped Sauté red bell pepper, onion and garlic cloves in pan over medium heat, let cool.

Gently mix all ingredients in a large bowl and divide into 16, 4-ounce crab cakes using a ring mold. Over medium heat, sauté in butter until lightly browned on each side, about 3 minutes per side. Serve over Apple Celery Coleslaw and top with Chipotle Aioli.

Yield: 16 cakes

Apple Celery Coleslaw 4 stalks celery, thinly sliced 2 cored, halved, and thinly sliced red apples 1/2 green cabbage head, thinly sliced 2 teaspoons salt 2 teaspoons black pepper 4 tablespoons apple cider vinegar 1 cup mayonnaise Pinch Bada Bing (mixture of cumin, white pepper, garlic salt, Italian seasonings and coarse black pepper) Mix all ingredients in a large mixing bowl.

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A mix of finely diced red pepper, white onion and garlic are sautéed.

Chipotle Aioli 2 eggs 1/2 can chipotle peppers in adobo sauce (7-ounce can) Juice of 2 lemons 4 cups canola oil 1/4 cup blackened seasoning 1 tablespoon dark chili powder 2 pinches red pepper flakes Mix all ingredients in food processor except lemon juice and canola oil until it becomes a paste, about 10-15 seconds.

Slowly add the canola oil to food processor to emulsify the aioli.

Add lemon juice at end to finish.

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Spinning classes, like this one at the Wenatchee Valley YMCA, are popular at area gyms during the colder, wetter months of the year.

Health & fitness

Story By m.K. Resk photos By frank cone

Spin Cycle Peddling in place offers big benefits

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hen the weather is still iffy and the roads are slick but you’re bored with the usual treadmill and workout videos, stay indoors to … cycle? Yes, indoor cycling offers a fantastic cardiovascular workout, a good cross-training option, and a refreshing challenge if you’re used to other forms of exercise.

“It’s great in the winter and year round to provide a way to train in inclement weather,” says Hillary Conner, fitness director and indoor cycling instructor at the Wenatchee Valley YMCA. “Benefits can be achieved in as little as 30 minutes a day.

It’s also an accessible way to do interval training to help contribute to more

Spinning instructor Hillary Conner works up a sweat leading a class at Wenatchee Valley YMCA. success and stamina on outdoor rides,” she adds.

“Indoor cycling is a really low-impact, safe, high-quality, low-injury-rate exercise,” offers Tom Heywood, indoor

cycling instructor at East Wenatchee’s Mountain View Fitness. “For the person wanting a good workout, you can advance pretty quickly.”

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A spin class at Wenatchee Valley YMCA. and very low impact compared to other indoor equipment options,” agrees Jason Jablonski, triathlete, indoor cycle instructor and owner of SET Coaching.

You can ride solo using a traditional stationary bike or using a device called a bike trainer, which allows you to adapt your road bike to pedal in place.

Jablonski says there are a million trainers out there but advises that one brand is not better than another. He suggests spending money on a good one, though, like a fluid or magnetic driven one, somewhere in the $150-200 category. He also offers high-tech, highquality custom-bike fits, which can take your performance and technique up another notch.

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“Indoor cycling is a really low-impact, safe, high-quality, low-injury-rate exercise. For the person wanting a good workout, you can advance pretty quickly.”

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fun class options available at gyms around town. Instructors are uniformly encouraging and approachable.

Be assured that these talented and knowledgeable bike instructors have your best interests in mind, too.

The Wenatchee YMCA offers straight cycling and combination classes.

Jeannine Barnwell of Wenatchee enjoys combining her cycling with toning. “I like the combination classes because it’s important to get the aerobic activity, but when there’s a teacher there it pushes me to do things that I wouldn’t do on my own, and with better form and more reps,” she says.

Barnwell has gone to the classes since the YMCA first bought the bikes a few years ago. She usually attends classes twice a week. She recommends them to everyone. “I think they’re absolutely geared for all levels. You’re in control of how much tension you have on that bike.

You can work at any level. It doesn’t hurt your joints. No one else has to know how hard you’re working,” she says.

Serious competitive cyclists like East Wenatchee’s Ken Wilson head to Heywood’s classes at Mountain View Fitness. “Tom’s an inspiration,” says Wilson. “ ... He has an upbeat attitude, a great sense of humor, he’s laid back, and really makes new people feel welcome. He just wants to help people work at their own level and improve individually.”

Heywood says the bikes at Mountain View are unique because they are designed for training on and include high-tech equipment. The bikes are capable of very specific workouts.

Professional riders would use them for indoor workouts. People enjoy these power-based training measures, Heywood finds. “Seeing their wattage output, how much force you are giving out over time, and having a number in front of you really motivates people.”

Wenatchee’s Amy Duncan prefers the high energy and challenge of Jason Jablonski’s classes at SET Coaching.

“Jason’s spin class is where you go when you want real bike fitness training,” says Duncan. “You use your own bike instead of a gym bike, and instead of riding 20

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What are you waiting for? himself as in most instructor-led classes, he is pacing the room, watching the riders and giving constant feedback.”

According to Jablonski, the differences between indoor and outdoor riding are minimal. He says the main

difference in riding your road bike on a trainer inside means you are constantly pedaling instead of stopping at stoplights and such outside. Because of this, an hour on a trainer is like an hour and a half outside.

One downside if you’re new to cycling indoors or outdoors, Heywood describes, is that at first getting on the bike seat can be really painful. Gel saddles can help some people, but he advises not to pedal through the pain. Instead, he says, get off the bike and relieve the pressure.

It will improve eventually. The biggest difference between indoor and outdoor riding, according to Heywood, is that if you’re an outside rider, it can be really boring to ride for an hour inside. That’s why group cycling classes are great.

Whatever your indoor-cycling preference, there’s an option for you.

The WRAC offers cycling classes six days a week. A 45-minute beginner class taught by Tony Sauceda is popular.

Punch cards are available for nonmembers. The WRAC also offers virtual rides whenever a class is not in session.

These rides feature gorgeous scenery from great outdoor rides around the world, according to Rachel Cooper, WRAC membership director.

The area’s two Gold’s Gyms offer cycling classes of various intervals and

“Benefits can be achieved in as little as 30 minutes a day,” says spin instructor Hillary Conner. lengths to include even those on a quick lunch hour. They also offer Les Mills’ RPM classes, which use choreography, music and motivating coaches to give

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artful life Artist Lance Dooley spent an estimated 700 hours creating the E.T. Pybus sculpture that is now prominently displayed at Pybus Public Market in Wenatchee.

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Story By gary jasinek photos By ron Mason

‘Drive and mmitment’ Inside the world of artist Lance Dooley

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n the sculpture room of Wenatchee Valley College’s Music and Arts Center, Lance Dooley is using a slender wooden tool to press peas of clay onto the puffy breast of America.

“America” is the name of Dooley’s current work, a one-half-scale bald eagle with a fierce face and wings held aloft, as if about to take flight from the stylized bunting that covers the sculpture’s platform.

Under the oil-based clay, Dooley is saying, steel rods serve as the bird’s skeleton. They underlie its wingtip flight feathers. They are its clavicle, its ulna, its humerus. Dooley knows his avian anatomy.

Good thing, since it’s tough to find an eagle willing to pose for hours in an art studio. Dooley relies in part on photos he took at a zoo in the ’90s,

two-dimensional representations of natural birds, to inform this humancreated 3-D version.

“America,” he says, is an example of reconstructive realism. “This eagle, in this exact posture, may not exist in nature,” he says. “The important thing is that it could.”

Sponsored by the college, “America” will be in bronze, not clay, when it’s dedicated on campus the Friday before Memorial Day as a tribute to veterans who are students or who, like Dooley, work at the college.

Perhaps at that event, Dooley will be asked to say a few words, as he did on Dec. 21 at the unveiling of his more ambitious piece, the 7-foottall cast-bronze rendition of the man after whom the Pybus Market is named. Another Dooley, a one-third-

Dooley earned an engineering degree at Washington State University, later leaving his job as a software developer to study art, including a three-year stint at the Florence Academy of Art in Italy.

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The “America” bronze sculpture is sponsored by Wenatchee Valley College. It will be dedicated just before Memorial Day as a tribute to veterans who study and work at the college.

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scale female archer, decorates a spot overlooking the river along the Loop Trail, near the foot of Fifth Street. His portrait bust of former Wenatchee High School football coach and principal Tom Byrne sits in the school’s trophy case.

So it is that Lance Dooley’s sculptures are increasingly figuring in the Wenatchee landscape. And he wants to do more, and grander, pieces in this valley and beyond.

Not what one might expect from someone who was born in Thailand, who has lived in Tehran and Italy, who served in the Army in Germany, who chose to study engineering instead of art at WSU, and who eight years ago was raking in the big tech bucks

as a software developer at a Bellevue company.

But those descriptions give only two dimensions of a man.

After talking more with Dooley and people who know him, he starts to take shape in 3-D, and it begins to make sense.

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he first question might be, why Wenatchee?

Easy answer: He grew up here. His foreign origin and early residence in the Middle East had to do with his dad’s service in the Navy, but Dooley, who’s now 45 years old, attended K-12 here.

Even in those days, he says, he was known as “Lance the artist.” In his

senior year at Eastmont High School, he was named the school’s Artist of the Year.

Retired art teacher Phil Yenney remembers Dooley now as “one of those kids who you could just tell understood things. He had focus and enthusiasm.”

Yenney saw inklings of Dooley’s future as a sculptor even back then. “One of the things I always admired was that you could tell by his drawings that he could think in three dimensions,” Yenney said. “I could just see this whole idea of his being very three-dimensional in his thinking. I was taken by how sculpted his drawings looked.”

He may have been Lance the artist in high school, but when Dooley went to Washington State University after a stint in the Army and two years at WVC, it was with a scholarship in engineering. He was really good at it and earned straight A’s, as required by his scholarship. “The discipline I learned in the military really helped,” he said. That, plus the way he looks at the world.

Dooley sees no anomaly in someone who’s apparently a born artist excelling at engineering. “If you can draw really well, you can envision things,” he said. “You’re good at visualizing abstract concepts.” And that had direct applications to his studies in engineering.

After graduating as a Coug — cum laude and with a degree in electrical engineering — Dooley worked for Boeing in Everett, a job he hated, then hired on as a software developer at a Bellevue company called Attachmate.

He was there for nearly 10 years “The money was great,” he said. “But I never stopped drawing, never stopped being passionate about art.”

In off hours, he’d go to Point Defiance or the Seattle Aquarium and fill sketchbooks with charcoal portraits of animals.

It wasn’t until 2000 that he started sculpting, attracted to the form because “it’s more permanent. I want

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Dooley’s “Sparrow” sculpture is part of the Art on the Avenues exhibit.

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to make things that last a long, long time.”

By then his passion for art was starting to drive him. He needed to take art more seriously, and be taken more seriously as an artist, so he enrolled in the Seattle Academy of Fine Art. But Dooley wanted even more of a formal education, one that he would have only to mention to earn credibility in any arts community.

He looked to Europe, and finally landed in the three-year program at the Florence Academy of Art in Italy.

Chances are he was the only software developer attending that institution.

“It was a one-way jump off a very high diving board,” Dooley said. He was in his late 30s and had quit his well-paying job and sold his house to finance the move. It was 2005, not long before the housing bubble burst, so his timing was good.

At Florence, it was an experience of rigorous scholarship — as difficult, he said, as engineering school.

But returning to the States in 2008, the beginning of the Great Recession, wasn’t such good timing for an artist trying to make a living. “Arts are always the first thing to be cut,” he said.

He started to build his body of work anyway, procuring the odd commission, working out of studios in Ballard and SODO, living in his van for months when he had to.

In 2009, he returned to Wenatchee.

“I was just coming back for a year to clear my head, get away from the Seattle noise,” he said.

He landed a gig teaching figure drawing at WVC, and kept creating art.

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arly last year, Dooley was selected to create the heroic figure of E.T. Pybus that now looms over the center aisle-way of the Pybus Market.

JoAnn Walker, who with husband Mike contributed most of the market’s financing, had the sculpture in mind

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for a while. Her discussion with Wenatchee artist Jan Cook Mack, who knew of Dooley’s work, led to a meeting and Dooley’s selection as the artist, Dooley said.

Dooley figures he worked on the statue for around 700 hours, receiving something less than $8,000 of the statue’s $64,500 cost. It was a deeply involving project.

Immigrant E.T. Pybus and Dooley have certain affinities. Both hail from English stock, and, some have pointed out, sort of resemble each other. They both create valuable works out of metal. And it might not be stretching the point to say they both took leaps of faith to pursue their dreams.

In creating the Pybus statue, Dooley had little to go on other than written descriptions, interviews with Pybus’ granddaughters and a few frontal photographic images — no views from the oblique or in profile exist, he said.

“I didn’t really get enough to go on, but the show must go on,” he said.

From his research, he determined that Pybus was gentle, patient and strong, a man of religion and family. These aspects he tried to install in the clay rendition of Pybus.

Early on, Dooley had Pybus’ eyes downcast, attentive to his horseshoe and tongs. But Dooley wanted him more accessible to viewers and raised his gaze slightly. Pybus has a Mona Lisa smile, as if focused on his task or listening to what a child is saying. “I wanted to show him very much in the moment,” Dooley said.

That was a state Dooley had to be in for most of 2013 while sculpting the statue in full view of market-goers.

Talk about public art. Dooley fielded hundreds of questions from shoppers who dropped in to watch Pybus take shape through the year.

Jan Cook Mack marveled at his patience.

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Dooley was commissioned to sculpt this bronze head of former Wenatchee High School principal and coach Tom Byrne.

“He has what architects have, an understanding of weight and movement. It contributes to his ability to make art seem real.”

Jan Cook Mack, Artist

a dialogue with it. He seemed to be able to interrupt the flow and then get right back into it.”

Cook Mack, who has known Dooley since he started teaching at WVC, admires his particular talents.

“He has what architects have, an understanding of weight and movement,” she said. “It contributes to his ability to make art seem real.

The Pybus sculpture is very realistic.

You can see how his muscles and weight hold him in place, yet he’s in obvious motion.”

Cook Mack recalled watching a young girl approach the Pybus statue and touch the horseshoe that Pybus holds in stout tongs, in preparation for a strike with his mighty hammer. She imagined that horseshoe becoming worn and shiny in the years ahead as people stroke it, perhaps for good luck. “These statues are meant to be touched,” she said.

Cook Mack hopes “these statues” will include many more by Dooley.

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“Flavius Whiskerius” by Dooley was one of the pieces on display for the 2012 Dog and Cat show at Wenatchee Valley Museum & Cultural Center.

“I’d love for him to do more heroic statues in this community. Perhaps Grady Auvil or Tom Mathison,” she said. “I’m still a Pollyanna. I think he could still do 10 big sculptures in Wenatchee.”

Dooley does not object to that notion. But he yearns for even more ambitious and larger work, monumental installations involving landscaping and architectural features, the stuff of landmarks.

It’s tough to bet against someone so motivated.

“I’ve been poor, I’ve been well off.

I tossed my Bellevue house out the window and lived in a van to follow my passion,” Dooley said. “I’m a guy who will do what it takes — my drive and commitment are off the charts.”

If there’s to be a beneficiary of that passion, it’s likely to be this valley.

“I’m just a Wenatchee boy at heart,” he said. “I’m not saying I’ll never move away, but I’ll always come back.” F

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ustin Driver is a 2013 Wenatchee High School graduate and pitching star on the Panthers baseball team. By the eighth grade he was already attracting the attention of professional scouts and colleges from throughout the nation. After accepting a scholarship to pitch for UCLA, he was drafted last year in the seventh round by the Oakland Athletics and then decided to pursue a professional baseball career before attending college. He is now part of the A’s farm system. This interview was done entirely by text message. Words in parentheses were not part of the original texts.

Where are you right now?

Wenatchee, Arizona, Venezuela? And where are you headed next?

I am in Wenatchee right now but I head back to Arizona the middle of February for Spring Training.

Would you agree Dustin Driver is a really cool name for a professional athlete?

Yes, I would have to agree with that.

What do you miss most about Wenatchee when you’re gone, other than friends and family?

I miss having all four seasons, the small-town feel, and the fact I know everybody and I’m not a stranger.

Who is the most famous person you’ve met so far?

I’d have to say (baseball legends) Edgar Martinez, Rickey Henderson or Bob Welch.

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My professional assessment is “wow, you can chuck that rock.” How hard was it to choose between going to UCLA or turning pro?

It was definitely difficult to choose between the two but I knew I would get my college paid for still if I went pro because of the College Scholarship Plan and I knew I would get the best coaching that would develop me faster so that I could get to the MLB (Major League Baseball).

When people ask about your hometown what do you tell them?

Are apples always mentioned in your answer?

Two of those three played for the (Seattle) Mariners, I think. Did you grow up a M’s fan? If so, what now, considering you’re on the payroll of a division rival?

Yeah, Edgar and Rickey I think were M’s. And yes I grew up as an M’s fan but now I guess I have to be an A’s fan but I still like and support the home-state team.

Yeah, I would always mention Seattle because that’s how most people know about Washington and of course the apples and just how green it is here and how we have all four seasons.

I’m guessing you’ve been the star player on your teams since youth baseball. How do you adjust to being one of many super-talented prospects now?

Remember that when you’re on the mound at Safeco (Field in Seattle).

Has pro coaching increased the speed on your fastball? Reports are, you were 93-95 mph in high school.

Yes, pro coaching has helped a lot. I was up to 97 in the summer.

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I just try to keep everything the same but work harder and just learn from the older players and coaches and get as many tips as I can.

What kind of music do you listen to? Favorite band or performer?

I listen to a lot of rap and some country. My favorite performer/music artist would have to be Drake. But I also like the band Florida Georgia Line.

What pitcher, past or present, do you look at and say “I’d like to be like him.” Since you didn’t mention (Seattle rapper) Macklemore on the music question, Randy Johnson and Felix (Hernandez) are off limits.

Haha I was going to say Felix but I really like Clayton Kershaw even though he is a lefty and our deliveries aren’t the same.

His salary is nice too. (In January, Kershaw signed a seven-year, $215 million deal with the Los Angeles Dodgers). Final question. Is it too much pressure if I say “good luck, we’re all counting on you?” Also, do you get that movie reference?

No, I don’t believe that adds pressure, I really want to put Wenatchee on the map. And I believe I’ve heard that in a comedy movie before but I’m not sure.

Airplane!

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rofessional and hobby photographers from throughout North Central Washington submitted more than 200 entries for the second-annual Foothills Photo Contest. They sent us images in two categories: landscape and people.

The only rules attached to the contest were that the photo had to be shot in the four-county region (Chelan, Douglas, Grant and Okanogan) during the 2013 calendar year and the image couldn’t be dramatically manipulated electronically.

On the following pages, you’ll find the top three winners and four honorable mentions in both categories. Included with the photos are the comments submitted by the photographer, as well as judges’ comments.

Our thanks to the photographers who shared their talent with us.

Visit ncwfoothills.com to view all the entries.

Judging Wenatchee World photo editor Don Seabrook, World photographer Mike Bonnicksen and Kathryn Stevens of Atlas & Elia Photography were photo contest judges. They sat down in early January to select contest winners.

They did not know the names of the photographers as they viewed the images.

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— The Winners

First Place, People

Photo by Phyllis Jess, East Wenatchee This photo was taken at JL Quarter Horse Ranch at Jameson Lake while moving cattle. I was personally on a horse taking this picture!!

Judges’ comments: The sense of motion, the side and backlighting and the remoteness of location all impressed the judges to give this photograph the top prize in the people category for 2013. We all wished we could have been there and seen that. All three top prizes in this category used lighting that came toward the camera. Early camera manuals instructed photographers to make their photographs with the sun at their back but with better cameras and lenses, now that is bad advice.

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Second Place, People

Photo by Peter Bauer, Winthrop I shot this while on a horse-packing trip in the Pasayten. We set up a bug tent/ kitchen. This is a shot of Jack cooking breakfast as the sun rises over Remmel Lake.

Judges’ comments: The photographer saw something that most people wouldn’t think of photographing. The sun streaming through the mesh tent gives the viewer details in the material of the tent but leaves us some mystery as to what is going on inside. We liked that part of the sun was left in the frame and not blocked by the tree at left.

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Third Place, People

Photo by Madison Hoofnagle, East Wenatchee This photo was taken in a wheat field near Badger Mountain during the fall.

I shot this right before sunset in the freezing cold and was distracted by honking cars passing by.

Judges’ comments: It was a close vote for third place in this category with this image winning out. We liked the contrast of textures and how the gown is set off from the background — light versus dark. Nice body language to as the model looks out over the Wenatchee Valley.

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Honorable Mention, People

Photo by Brian Munoz, Leavenworth I was allowed to accompany one of the Osprey Rafting photographers to Grannies Rapid in Cashmere. He told me the people on this particular boat had asked to be dumped at Grannies. Looks like they got their wish.

Judges’ comments: Timing and being at the right place and ready for action was wonderful here. A fast shutter speed stopped the action and provided detail.

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Honorable Mention, People

Photo by Wendy Brown, Moses Lake Abbi loves to fly! This is a family outing at Blue Heron Park in Moses Lake.

Grandpa is tossing Abigail to Grandma. I love this picture because even though it was shot with a cell phone, the composition is just right from the shadow below Miss Abbi to the look on Grandma’s face.

Judges’ comments: The timing and facial expression of the catcher made this a very funny moment in time.

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Honorable Mention, People

Photo by Ken Trimpe, Leavenworth Driving along Highway 97 near Blewett Pass, I saw a large herd of sheep along the side of the road. Curiosity got the best of me and I turned around to check it out. After talking to the sheepherders, I took this shot of one with the herd in the background. I like the close-up portrait capturing the character of the sheepherder with the sheep in the background to tell the story. They were from Peru and working for a company located in Moxie.

Judges’ comments: Wonderful composition here and a relaxed subject make this a great photograph. The background gives the picture context.

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Honorable Mention, People

Photo by Alan Moen, Entiat Here at Snowgrass Winery in the Entiat Valley, we raise sheep to mow our vineyard. My wife, Susan Kidd, frequently takes them for walks, even in the winter. They love to get out of their pasture and roam down by the river. I took this photo last February of Susan leading the sheep during one of their jaunts.

Judges’ comments: We liked how the photographer in this instance anticipated the line of sheep behind the shepherd and got into a position to capture this moment. The person’s legs had separation, which shows movement through the frame.

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First Place, Landscape

Photo by Greg Mares, East Wenatchee I took this photo of the Aurora Borealis behind Fancher Heights in October. It was taken around midnight, and I like it because it’s rare to see the Northern Lights in our area with such clarity.

Judges’ comments: We unanimously picked this as the best landscape photograph of the entries submitted. The photographer took his time to compose the photograph well, not placing the grain bin in the center of the frame. The slight wisps of clouds and the color of the aurora lead your eye to the bin. The photographer also used new technology of quality high ISO settings to bring out the stars in the skies without being blurred. The temptation to overly saturate the colors either in camera or using software after making the photograph was curbed. Well done.

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Second Place, Landscape

Photo by Dawn Kranz, Leavenworth While taking in the sunset from the south shore of Lake Wenatchee one 85-degree September evening, I was exploring the low-light settings on my new DSLR camera. Of all the brilliant glowing sunset color shots I captured, this one stood out because of its human element. There were many little flotillas of kids and parents out in the water enjoying this magical twilight for as long as they possibly could before retiring to their campsites and tents.

Judges’ comments: We enjoy the smooth colors and great composition the image uses to convey a relaxed mood of the end of a day filled with fun. The basics of rule of thirds makes it an easy photograph to look at and then add the subtle circle of waves to frame the two girls on the water and you end up with a wonderful picture — beyond the colors of the sun that has already set on the day.

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Third Place, Landscape

Photo by Morgane Leech, Wenatchee The unmoving tree of Tumwater Dam on the Wenatchee River drew my attention. A cold snap caused ice to build on the tree. I used a tripod and a slow shutter speed to capture the moving water.

Judges’ comments: The line of the log frozen over the waterfall leads your eye through the photograph. Using a slow shutter speed, the blur of the water mimics the coldness of the ice. As judge Kathryn Stevens says, “it shows motion but frozen in time.”

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Honorable Mention, Landscape

Photo by Stephen Hufman, Leavenworth Morning mist in Leavenworth from the Icicle Ridge Trail.

Judges’ comments: This image is very pastorale as the morning mist sweeps through a valley.

We liked the addition of the tree at right to give depth to the photo.

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Honorable Mention, Landscape

Photo by Josh Cadd, Wenatchee

Judges’ comments:

This was taken during the Sept. 5 lightning storm from Burch Mountain. It was a 15-second exposure, but all of the lightning bolts struck at nearly the same time. I like this photo because of how the Columbia River is glowing from the lightning.

The Columbia River leads your eye right to the four blasts of lightning in this correctly exposed photograph.

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Honorable Mention, Landscape

Photo by LeRoy Farmer, Malaga This is a smoke blossom bush in our yard. We had a very light rainfall on the morning of May 21, and then the sun came out. I liked the way the drops were sparkling and the pretty pink and purple of the smoke blossom bush in late spring.

Judges’ comments: Drops of water and muted colors give the feeling of spring-time melt. We like the use of shallow depth of field to add to the emotion and take away clutter.

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Honorable Mention, Landscape

Photo by Peter Bauer, Winthrop I took this photo on the Columbia River near Confluence Park. We were in a tandem kayak with my wife controlling the boat while we drifted near the nest.

The short trip was a birthday gift from my wife, who knew I wanted to photograph this nest. The osprey leaping out of the nest and staring at us was an unexpected bonus. The drama of the shot makes me smile every time I see it.

Judges’ comments: Sharp image of an osprey focused on the photographer — very striking.

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Tour of Tastes Leavenworth’s Vino Prost is the latest in region’s burgeoning wine culture

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eckie Peterson collects and shares great wines in the same way she would value and share a favorite book. Fine wine to her is something more than just a drink, it’s an education, an experience, an adventure.

It all makes sense because Peterson is a retired school librarian. In the Vino Prost Wine Bar that she and her husband John opened in Leavenworth last fall, you’ll find rare and prized wines displayed on honey-hued wood bookshelves. Each bottle stands proudly, as would a classic, leatherbound novel, ready to sweep you away to a place more exciting.

“I’m still a librarian. I even have a library ladder,” Peterson said, showing off the polished wood ladder that reaches to the upper shelves of the shop at 911 Commercial St. Exotic labels from Joseph Drouhin, Garnacha, Franco Serra, Bodega Frontaura and Chateau Potensac offer magical elixers from old world wineries. California prizes from Schaffer, Talbott and Martin Ray mingle with the best from the Northwest: Boudreaux, Rotie, Powers, 37 Cellars, Silvara and Fidelitas.

But Vino Prost offers more than

Retired school librarian Beckie Peterson is still using a library ladder, but her inventory is now wine bottles. She and husband John opened Vino Prost Wine Bar in Leavenworth last fall. Vino Prost, shown at left, is one of several winecentric establishments in North Central Washington where wines are available as single pours, flights or by the bottle.

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Flights at Vino Prost Wine Bar are served in three-pour sets. Below, Vino Prost manager Kevin Fehl and employee Katie Walz. just a delicious glass or bottle of wine, a tapas tray or board of fine cheese, cured meats, olives and bread. The recently opened wine shop offers an education into the world of wine.

Prost —the German word loosely translates as “welcome” or “to your health” — specializes in serving flights of wines that take customers on a tour of tastes that can educate the palate and make them more knowledgeable about world wine.

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Micah Burnett and daughter Tara Miller drink wine with their late lunch at Fromaggio Bistro in Manson. The bistro serves wines by the glass at a tapas bar to complement its vast array of food, including a cheese bar.

“We love wine. We love wine culture.

We love a glass of wine with friends.

We feel like we’re doing a community service.”

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found elsewhere. What they offer one day may never be found again. Many customers stay awhile and enjoy a glass of whatever tempting wines the McNeill’s have open that day. The store also hosts popular wine-paired, multi-course dinners every couple of months.

Tastebuds focuses mainly on new world wines from Washington and California, with occasional offerings from the Southern Hemisphere.

Pizza, fondue, appetizers and weekly entertainment make the Wenatchee wine bar a relaxing after-work or weekend stop.

Fromaggio Bistro in Manson serves world wines by the glass at a tapas bar to complement its vast array of

cheeses and appetizers. Vogue Liquid Lounge is spreading wine culture by the glass in Chelan.

Visconti’s Restaurant in Leavenworth and Wenatchee offered flights of world wines several years ago. Owner Dan Carr said he still offers a wide selection of wines by the glass, but pulled back from offering flights after several wineries opened new tasting rooms in Leavenworth.

It takes a lot of time and money to educate a wine server, Carr said.

“Every time we trained someone, we’d lose them to one of the wine distributors,” he said.

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“We love wines of the world,” Peterson said. Beckie and John — he’s manager of D.A. Davidson and formerly Smith-Barney investment advisors in Wenatchee — have traveled widely and enjoy learning the wine and food culture of different countries. They’ve studied wines under the tutelage of sommeliers.

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They hired Kevin Fehl as manager; Fehl is a wine expert who was previously wine bar and restaurant manager at Kingfisher restaurant at Sleeping Lady Mountain Resort.

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As many of you know, Argentina has made the Malbec grape a star, but it has roots as one of the five grapes that make up a classic Bordeaux. Washington has followed Argentina’s lead and is now producing world-class single varietal Malbec. The Martin-Scott version is lush with berry fruit … blackberries and blueberries. There is also a garden quality to it … herbs, earth and floral notes — lilac comes to mind. Chocolate and a hint of pepper weave through the solid finish. Beef Fajitas or Andouille Sausage would be great table mates with this bottle.

I was just telling someone the other day about the flexibility of the Syrah grape. It can take on so many different personalities depending on where it’s grown, how it’s grown and how a winemaker decides to vinify it.

Craig Mitrakul’s style comes through yet again on this new release. It’s silky smooth right off the bat and then, as you’re pondering that, the intensity revs up. Blackberry, wild rose and earthy notes take me back to a hike I took last summer after a soft rain. The wild blackberries and roses mingled with the warm, damp soil … it was wonderful and so is this wine. Honey-spiced chicken thighs or a Syrah-braised lamb roast would be nice companions and will put a smile on your wine-stained lips.

As with Malbec, Cab Franc has a regal heritage in classic Bordeaux but these grapes come from the Riverbend Vineyard in Mattawa.

Although the wine is elegant, it also has a bit of sass. Cassis and loganberry waft from the glass and entice you to sip. On the palate, they are joined with an intriguing mix of strawberry, bacon, flowers and chalk.

The integrated tannins wrap around your tongue and don’t want to let go, which leads to a long, satisfying finish. Pair this up with duck or herbroasted pork loin to create one of your new favorite meals.

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City: Wenatchee Credentials: Earned advanced certification through London-based Wine and Spirit Education Trust; currently working toward higherlevel diploma through WSET. Earned degree in marketing from Central Washington University. Owned The Wine Bin retail shop in Wenatchee for five years. Has worked in the Northwest wine industry more than 10 years, including distribution, sales, production and marketing.

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he second-annual Winter Ice Gala presented by Numerica Credit Union was another success, with more than 200 guests attending. The event took place Jan. 31 at the Town Toyota Center. It is a fundraiser for the Arena Youth Enrichment Fund. The fund, established in 2012, provides disadvantaged youth the opportunity to learn to skate or attend a show. The event raised $17,450 for the fund. The evening featured live music by the Glen Isaacson & Friends string trio, local wines, a gourmet dinner and a show that combined skating and live music and singers.

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Tom and Carla Altepeter, Tom and Jennifer Lehn, Janet McNealy, Keith Soderstrom, Pat Braddock

Jim and Pat McDonald

Miss Washington 2013 Reina Almon, Wenatchee Mayor Frank Kuntz and Miss East Cascades 2013 Lacey Goble

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FOOTHILLS CATALOGUE

SHOPPING

A Book For All Seasons Palmer’s Shoes The Gilded Lily Home Collins Fashions Lucinda’s Artisan Gallery Mills Bros.

SHOPPING MILLS BROS The place for all things Tommy Bahama!

Shirts: Camp, polo, halfzip sweathshirts; shorts; fragrance; candles. etc.

Providing better quality clothing, sportswear, shoes and tux rentals for North Central Washington gentlemen since 1906 at the same location.

COLLINS FASHIONS Introduces an inspiring collection of masterpieces from Joseph Ribkoff for 2014.

Beautifully designed dresses, tops, jackets and skirts all in washable fabrics. We can help you find your special occasion clothing with the internationally acclaimed Joseph Ribkoff !

Accessorize your ensemble with beautifully designed jewelry and clutches from the Brighton collection!!

10 S. Wenatchee Ave. • 509-662-2650 • www.millsbrosmenswear.com

PALMER SHOES Introducing the Sonnet from the Dansko Sausalito collection. This contemporary clog captures all day comfort with wicking Dri-lex socklinings for added comfort and adjustability for a perfect fit.

Available in peach, sand and violet.

2 S. Wenatchee Ave. • 509-665-7600 www.collinsfashions.com Follow us on facebook!

6 S. Wenatchee Ave. • 509-662-8080 • www.palmershoes.com

THE GILDED LILY HOME Everyone here at the Gilded Lily is exicted about the new merchandise coming in each day. With warmer weather and outdoor entertaining just around the corner the new colors arriving from Le Cadeaux will excite you too! This great product is made from melamine - not breakable ! dishwasher safe! and so elegant! Le Cadeaux, just a corner of what we do. Visit our shop and see the colors we are all craving this time of year. Voted Downtowns Best for 2013, come in and see why.

2 N. Wenatchee Ave. • 509-663-1733 www.gildedlilyhome.com • follow us on facebook!

A BOOK FOR ALL SEASONS It’s our Anniversary and we are celebrating 22 years of connecting authors and readers.

The Regional Read for 2014 is Jess Walter’s Beautiful Ruins, the story of an almost-love affair that begins on the Italian coast in 1962... and is rekindled in Hollywood fifty years later.

This is his funniest, most romantic, and most purely enjoyable novel yet. Other highlights are award winning Carol Cassella’s early release of her brand new novel, Gemini; Karen Spears.

Zacharias shares her first novel, Mother of Rain Other events by Jane Kirkpatrick, Dia Calhoun and Ivan Doig.

LUCINDA’S ARTISAN GALLERY Don’t expect Fair Trade merchandise to be something you have seen before. Lucinda’s represents a number of Fair Trade groups who have, in their staff, some very talented designers. They are using traditional techniques to create new and spectacular products for our discerning tastes.

The criteria for a Fair Trade product is that the workers make a fair wage for their economy. Many groups take it further and drill wells, educate their offspring and plant trees where needed. Lucinda spends her time researching these fine products for your shopping needs.

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I am not one of the judges who picks the winning images in the Foothills Photo Contest. I rely on three extremely talented photographers to make those tough picks. And like last year, I’m drawn to a non-winning photo that speaks of this special place we call home. This image by Howard Strong of Manson does a good job of recording the light cutting through the bank of clouds. You can practically hear the peaceful quiet of this orchard, its snow-covered ladders taking a much-deserved winter break. Here’s what Howard wrote: “I took this photo on a cold, wintry day at the Marker Orchard two blocks from my home ... I like this photo because it captures the mood and solitude of an orchard at rest after a very active and hectic apple harvest just seven weeks prior. We’re lucky to be able to witness the transformation of the orchard over the course of the entire year.”

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