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Thom Nees Serve Wenatchee Valley

2021 Progress Award: In recognition for moving our community forward this year “When we all bring what we have to the table, we can accomplish a lot.”

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2021 Community Connection Award: In recognition for bringing people together this year Her work has always been about helping others.

2021 Local Hero Award: In recognition for demonstrating courage to help out in a crisis “COVID-19 pushed all the health disparities to the surface. They existed before, but now they are obvious.”

Alma Chacón Community for the Advancement of Family Education

Dr. Mabel Bodell Wenatchee Valley Medical Group

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We’re Working Together

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Including NCW Community Impact Award Winners

Heather Dappen and Ellen Smith are the artists behind the new mural on the east wall of the downtown Wenatchee YMCA (Pages 30-31) A pump track for Eastmont Park (Page 44) Heart Breaker: Walking for health (Page 43) Food banks fight hunger (Page 45) World photos/Don Seabrook

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2021 Business Impact Award: In recognition for demonstrating leadership that makes the community better Made sure health officials and government policy makers understood what was at stake — for gym owners and gym members.

2021 Public Life and Leadership Award: Public official who demonstrated exceptional leadership serving their community As Health Officer he became the high-profile face of the effort to protect Chelan and Douglas counties from COVID-19.

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Dr. Malcolm Butler Chelan-Douglas Health District

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And now for some

GOOD NEWS

You hold in your hands a record of what went right when things got more than tough in the Wenatchee Valley and North Central Washington. This year's Progress Edition is a collection of stories and photos that recognize people for the good they did to make a difference.

The reports are drawn from the pages of The Wenatchee World and I hope what you take away is a realization of how much good there is in our home towns, how so many people are working hard to make things — big and small — a little or a lot better. This magazine is a reminder of who we are and what we can be when we are at our best.

We are honoring five people in this magazine for their work during 2020.

And they would be the first to tell you that any award they win is more about the hard work and dedication of the people and the organizations they work with and for.

That's something to remember as you flip through the pages. We couldn't fit everybody in who made a difference in 2020. What you see here is a sliver of the good work accomplished during a tough year and just a few of the names.

I hope you enjoy reading this as much as I did pulling them all together. It was a tough year. Now read stories about some of the tough people who made it better.

Russ Hemphill Managing Editor

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World photo / Don Seabrook Kelsey Alvarado at the Owl in downtown Wenatchee.

World photo / Don Seabrook History never tasted so good. Olivia Shugart, Wenatchee. Owner Kelsey Alvarado, center, and her mother DeEtte Stofleth, left.

Taking care of business: Kelsey Alvarado takes over the historic Owl

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ENATCHEE — History isn’t always just for museums and books.

Sometimes it comes with a cherry on it.

Kelsey Alvarado began preserving a sweet bit of Wenatchee Valley history when she took over operation of The Owl Soda Fountain & Gifts in January 2020.

It began with a date with her husband in 2018. “He and I were sitting on the end of the counter here and I said ‘I would love to own a place like this someday.’

I didn’t know the owner was standing right in

front of me,’” Alvarado said Jan. 2, the day after she took over as owner of the shop that has offered sweet treats in downtown Wenatchee since 1926.

It all stemmed from that conversation Alvarado had in 2018 with the shop’s previous owner, Pam Higgins, who operated it with her husband Frank since 2002.

The pair took Alvarado out to dinner to discuss what it takes to run the shop, which is on the corner of Wenatchee Avenue and First Street.

“She was like ‘Let’s get you in here to work so you can decide if you still love

it,’” Alvarado said.

Alvarado was working full-time at Cafe Columbia in Pybus Public Market and had years of experience as a chef, but running an ice cream parlor requires a different skill set, she said.

She kept her job at Cafe Columbia and worked Wednesdays at the soda fountain for several months. Then in November she came to the shop full time, preparing to take it over.

Alvarado’s mother, DeEtte Stofleth, retired from the U.S. Forest Service to help Alvarado run the shop.

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Training future health care workers during a pandemic | WVC’s Jan Kaiser

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ENATCHEE — Jan Kaiser has been the director of Wenatchee Valley College’s medical assistant program for more than 20 years.

Teaching the next generation of health care professionals is often a challenging and rewarding job.

But during a global pandemic, adapt and overcome became the new normal for the program’s class of 2020.

Like most other students across the country, they transitioned to remote learning last spring. Many had kids of their own who were also learning from home.

During that time, Kaiser had to get creative to allow her students hands-on medical practice.

“I couldn’t send needles home because what if their kids got into them and got hurt? So I had to cut the needles off all the syringes,” she said. “Then, we sent the syringes home so they could at least practice the art of drawing up medication and pretend you’re giving it. It was crazy but it’s what we had to do.”

When her students were able to return to WVC’s campus for some in-person, Kaiser’s creativity resurfaced in the form of pool noodles.

When held out at arm’s length, the 5-foot foam noodles offered a visual representation of the social distance students need to maintain — and offered a dose of levity.

In-person instruction brought symptom screening

World photo / Reilly Kneedler Medical assistant program Director Jan Kaiser, right, offers guidance to students Jessica Flores and Lady Oropeza as they practice giving shots to a synthetic cadaver during lab time on the WVC campus last July. and hours wearing full personal protective equipment.

“Like I tell them, this is part of health care and they’re

getting thrust into it. If they can handle this, they can handle just about everything out there," Kaiser said during a lab

time with the students.

It hit home for Kaiser too, she said.

“I’m 60 and I get nervous about it because I’m at the age now where I could potentially be at risk,” Kaiser said. “You do the best you can, you wear your mask, you wash your hands, you wear gloves if you need to and that’s all you can do.”

But the class of 2020 — and Kaiser — persisted through a year of unknowns.

"It really has taken a lot on the students’ part,” Kaiser said. “And bless their hearts because if they hadn’t stuck with us, they could have gotten frustrated and just quit.

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World photo / Don Seabrook Washington National Guard members secure a pallet of eggs before they are loaded on a truck in April morning and driven to the Rock Island Community Food Bank from the Town Toyota Center in Wenatchee.

In recognition for moving our community forward this year

2021 Progress Award | Thom Nees, Serve Wenatchee Valley: ‘We can accomplish a lot together’

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ENATCHEE — Thom Nees, executive director of Serve Wenatchee Valley, helped organize a large-scale drive-thru food bank at the Town Toyota Center in March. He connected local organizations in order to supply a growing food need at the onset of statewide layoffs due to COVID-19 shutdowns.

“When we all bring what we have to the table, we can accomplish a lot together,” Nees said in March, during a busy day of preparation.

The food bank operation in-

volved creating a space that volunteers could safely use in the midst of COVID-19. His plan was to centralize where people could pick up food, rather than send those in need all over town.

Nees teamed Serve Wenatchee up with the Chelan-Douglas Community Action Council in order to supply food to large numbers of people.

“We are truly in the middle of a crisis,” he said. Adding “We were able to bring people together in order to respond.”

Workers prepared hundreds of

food boxes in advance and set them on tables for people to pick up and load themselves. If somebody comes by, saying they need food, “we’re going to provide it,” he said.

Nees also helped to create a bus route with Link Transit that took people to the food bank at the Town Toyota Center.

“What we’re all doing right now is building a plane in mid-air,” he said.

“We’ve taken off, and we’re flying.”

Organizers kept the food bank open until food distribution numbers lowered in mid-July.

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Keeping people fed: Town Toyota Center

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ENATCHEE — Town Toyota Center became home for the largest food bank in the Wenatchee Valley early in the pandemic shutdown.

Serve Wenatchee — a project of Wenatchee Valley churches — combined with the Community Action Council to hand out hundreds of boxes of food in a drive-thru food bank operation.

“That is just the challenge we’re facing right now, getting a

good food supply to the community. The need is certainly there. We know that,” said Serve Wenatchee Executive Director Thom Nees in March.

“The community has been very generous in responding. It’s just the need is so large right now. You’re adding folks into the need pipeline that perhaps have never needed assistance before,” Nees said. “The need has definitely increased.

Everybody is trying to figure how to best

respond for the need.”

Serve Wenatchee typically distributes 5060 food boxes a week to clients. It gave 450 boxes in an early week of shutdown and turned away more when supplies ran out.

There are also food banks at the Community Center and Saint Joseph Catholic Church on Saturdays.

“We’re grateful to be part of the solution.

When we work together we can accomplish a lot,” he said.

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A woman moves into St. Jude’s Landing at 1545 S. Mission St. in Wenatchee in February 2020.

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Easing the housing crisis | Catholic Charities Housing Services

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ENATCHEE — Catholic Charities Housing Services added 67 affordable homes to the Wenatchee Valley early in 2020.

It as the biggest addition of

affordable housing in years in the Wenatchee Valley which is the middle of an affordable housing crisis. The apartments are at 1545 S. Mission St. Half of the units are reserved for

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Caring for the soul | Churches World photo / Don Seabrook Rev. Peter Steele spreads palm ashes on the forehead of Mike McGlone, Wenatchee, during one of five Ash Wednesday masses at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Wenatchee. Ashes are a symbol of the nothingness of man, dust in the universe.

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World photo / Don Seabrook Brenda Kee, assistant manager of From Scratch By Us, puts french fries into boxed lunches for staff at Central Washington Hospital in April. The business, based at the cafe inside Wenatchee Valley College, had closed, but Kee, her sister and the owner, Linda Brown, and Maria Agnew with the college’s security team, seen in the background, provided 150 meals weekly to the hospital employees.

Saying thanks | Scratch By Us: Sending lunch and gratitude to health-care workers

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ENATCHEE — Preparing 150 meals a week for Central Washington Hospital workers is Linda Brown’s way of paying it forward during the COVID-19 crisis.

Brown, owner of From Scratch By Us, started a fiveyear contract in September to run Wenatchee Valley College’s cafeteria and on-campus catering service. She had just

stocked up on supplies when concerns about the spread of the coronavirus first closed the campus. Statewide closures of schools, restaurants and other businesses soon followed.

Rather than serving 300 students, instructors and staff at the Van Tassell Center a day, plus preparing 800 lunches and dinners for expected groups on campus, Brown found herself with supplies on hand and no

idea what might come next.

“We figured we might as well start using the food,” she said. “And I was missing cooking after the first couple of weeks.”

Brown is the daughter of health care workers — her mom, now 80, is a retired ICU nurse, and her dad still works in quality control at a hospital in the San Francisco Bay Area — she could relate to the stress health care

workers are facing and wanted to do something to help.

“They’re working long hours and their families are home. Providing breakfast, lunch or dinner is one less thing they have to worry about,” she said.

Brown said the first week she wrote notes on the lunch boxes, which got some reaction, so she has continued.

“I write whatever comes off

the top of my head,” she said.

“They’re words of encouragement — ‘You’re our hero,’ ‘We appreciate you,’ ‘You’re in our thoughts.’ It’s sort of like a fortune cookie. I want to make people smile.”

She added: “I just feel what goes around comes around.

Good things have happened to me and doors have opened.

It just feels like this is what people should be doing.”

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Alma Chacón, and her husband, Jorge Chacón.

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ENATCHEE — Ever since the first grade, having only recently seen her first snowfall and after being left in the hall because she could not speak English, the 7-year-old immigrant from Mexico dreamed of being an educator so that others like her would have it better.

Alma Chacón has 30 years of administrative experience in education. She has worked in school districts across the state — Yakima, Soap Lake, Wenatchee, Olympia — as a teacher and principal. She also

worked as a program supervisor in the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction.

In 2004, Chacón and her husband, Dr. Jorge Chacón , started the nonprofit, the Community for the Advancement of Family Education (CAFE), which provides education and resources across North Central Washington.

Whether it be education, financial or food assistance, it has been Chacón's goal to help her community in any way possible.

It's a passion of hers that warms her heart, she said.

The COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately affected the Latino community here in the Chelan-Douglas area. When federal assistance became available to immigrants who did not qualify previously for other COVID-19 relief, CAFE was there to help immigrants with the application.

By the time applications closed, CAFE assisted over 3,400 people apply for financial help, according to Chacon.

CAFE has been hosting informational video sessions over Facebook about

COVID-19 since the beginning of the pandemic. CAFE is also nearly ready to begin CAFE University, a free tutorship program to help students that are perhaps not meeting standards during the pandemic.

"All students no matter what age, whatever career you choose, if it requires university, you can go to university," Chacón said.

Chacón has also rallied the numerous other organizations — Columbia Valley Community Health, Serve Wenatchee, Molina Healthcare, the Chel-

an-Douglas Health District, Confluence Health, Columbia Legal Services, and many more — in the Wenatchee Valley to coordinate their efforts in an education campaign around COVID-19.

Chacón is also a board member in another nonprofit, Our Valley, Our Future which also works to educate the Latino community about COVID-19.

Chacon's work has always been about helping others whether that be 30 students in a classroom, one school district, or the entire community.

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Unexpected gifts | Little Free Library: littlefreelibrary.org/ World photo / Don Seabrook Kaenen Deis, 5, right, jumps in excitement over finding a book about the Transformer cartoon character called BumbleBee at a neighborhood book-sharing spot through Little Free Library. At left, Kaenen's mother, Sarah, and brother Declan, 9, look at what's inside. The little library on the corner of Apollo Place and Lambert Street in Wenatchee was built by Peter Hill and is maintained by his wife, Joanne. Sarah Deis says their family stops by to see what's available whenever they walk through the neighborhood. "We use it a lot," she says. "We always stop and check it out."

According to the Little Free Library website, there are 11 book depositories in the Wenatchee and East Wenatchee associated with the organization.

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ENATCHEE — NCW Libraries is so much more than the beautifully renovated Wenatchee Public Library in downtown Wenatchee.

Closed by pandemic rules for much of the past year, NCW Libraries offers a strong list of online services as well as mail order and curbside services.

And when the doors do open, Wenatchee library lovers have a treat coming in the renovated Wenatchee Public Library.

Bright is the first word that comes to mind when walking into the new Wenatchee Public Library.

The walls are painted a vivid white with shocks of color: yellow, turquoise, deep purple and dark blue. It also has fun designs, including two large wave-like structures that extend over the bookshelves.

"We talked about colors a lot," said Jessica Adams, Wenatchee Public Library branch supervisor.

The renovation cost $4 million and took 18 months to complete.

The library's main floor has less seating than before, Adams said. It's to push people to the middle area or into the upper section to work or socialize. The project added a third-floor space along a wall so people can sit at tables, work and look down into the main library.

"So, there's this phrase amongst most libraries across the country that it should feel like you're in your community's living room, right?" Adams said. "Like that should be the place where you go and interact with one another, you go to learn, you go to have fun."

The changes that Adams is most excited about, though, are the functioning HVAC system, the new windows and the LED lighting. Also, they now have a sound system that works throughout the building, so they can tell people if their vehicle’s lights are on in the parking lot.

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World photo / Don Seabrook Rebecca Mundschenk, library associate for NCW Libraries, wheels a cart of books at the remodeled Wenatchee Public Library in September. Contractors were putting finishing touches on the building.

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World photo / Don Seabrook Marlin Peterson puts a second coat of paint on a greater yellowlegs bird he is painting on the new restroom at Kiwanis Methow Park in Wenatchee.

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ENATCHEE — Artist Marlin Peterson brings art to the Wenatchee Valley in a big way.

Peterson, a muralist and Wenatchee Valley College professor, in 2020 painted migratory birds in and along streets by Kiwanis Methow Park. For some, Peterson’s birds might act as a metaphor — they flow in and out of regions, just like many in the Wenatchee Valley community. The words on his mural read: “These birds are migrants, every year they fly from Wenatchee to Mexico and Beyond.”

Peterson has created other murals in Wenatchee, including the salmon mural above Centennial Park.

Funding for the Kiwanis Methow Park mural came out of a $100,000 grant that the National Endowment for the Arts gave to The Trust for Public Lands.

Before painting, Peterson went door-to-door with the Parque Padrinos, a South Wenatchee group helping involve locals in the park’s growth.

They explained the project, asked for suggestions and permission to paint on private retaining walls.

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Wenatchee High’s Beth Jensen: Graduation solos to remember

ENATCHEE — Orchestra Director Beth Jensen originally planned for students to end the year at Wenatchee High School with a large music performance in Town Toyota Center.

But when the pandemic and shutdowns made that impossible, she came up with her own plan: The Flame of Hope, taking the concert to people’s porches, sidewalks, frontyards and driveways. Each participating Wenatchee High School student, as a part of their final project, went outside on noon on the same day in May to play a piece they have been practicing all semester.

Averi Hunsaker, a graduating senior and violinist, said her orchestra class is something that cannot really be moved online, unlike other classes.

When it comes to performances, It has been kind of difficult.

“As a senior, you work up to this point … everything we’ve been working for, all the practicing we’ve been doing, has resulted in nothing,” Hunsaker said.

For her solo performance, Hunsaker played a melancholy “Adagio in Sol Minor” on her violin.

Charli Plinski, another Wenatchee senior, said right now it is a hard time in the

World photo / Don Seabrook Wenatchee High School Orchestra Director Beth Jensen talks with her student Leila Fischer at Fischer’s home in Wenatchee after her cello performance in May. community, but the whole idea of the project to help inspire some hope. Normally during this time of the year, “we would have been all over the place performing,” she said.

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Finding a way: Parenting and schools World photo / Don Seabrook Pandemic restrictions closed schools and forced parents and children to adapt to virtual classes as best they could. From the dining room of her Sunnyslope house, Chelsea Mahuika holds her daughter Tessa, 1, while helping Gabby, 6, with schoolwork in the spring of 2020. Her four school-aged children normally attend Sunnyslope Elementary and Foothills Middle schools but are distance-learning using resources provided by teachers and the school district. “Not to say that it’s not chaotic having four kids (in school),” Mahuika said. “It’s taken time to figure out what’s working for us.

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Finding a way | Chelan’s Roots Community School: A class in the park

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HELAN — As you stroll through Lakeside Park in Chelan, in one corner are several square tarps laid out with blankets on top and kids perched on lawn chairs.

Some kids are stretching out a measuring tape. Others are seated staring at laptops. Some are drawing.

It’s Roots Community School in the park. It’s a private school in Chelan with an enrollment of 66 students in kindergarten to seventh grade.

“Our purpose is to offer an opportunity in the valley with multi-age classrooms, teaching to the individual child with more hands-on learning,” said school Director Erin Fielding. “A big part of our school is project-based learning. It’s just a little difWorld photo / Don Seabrook ferent from what you might get elsewhere.”

With a view to Lake Chelan, Rachel Robison in September goes over a Roots had to shut down last spring, subject in math with her fifth- and sixth-graders at Lakeside Park in like other schools, due to the pandemic.

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“We thought, How can we do that effectively to let kids be kids and be safe? Outdoors school was just a no-brainer,” she said.

Rachel Robison teaches fifth to seventh grade and has had her students designing theme parks. Her lesson plans are designed with the park in mind. “It’s calm here and not very crowded. Sometimes the ducks are a distraction,” Robison said.

Kelsey Bordner, who teaches third to fifth grade, said her students do get distracted sometimes, but it’s getting better.

“The more days they are here, the more they are ignoring the bird fluttering around or different noises. They will turn and look and then come back. They are getting used to the environment. It’s wonderful to have an in-person learning environment versus a virtual learning environment,” Bordner said.

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World photo / Don Seabrook Abby Wyatt, Wenatchee, paints a trout on the front window of her neighbor’s house in the 600 block of Pearl Street in May. A student at Wenatchee High School, Wyatt is taking two art classes this spring.

With the coronavirus closure, she began painting windows on houses in her neighborhood and has worked on five houses. She hasn’t been charging for her work but using it as a way to spend her time and improve her skills. “I wanted to still do art and my mom asked if I would do our window,” she said. Using acrylic paints, she’s created butterflies, a car, and a Sasquatch, among other subjects. She said it’s fun to see people’s reactions to her work. “It makes me feel good to know it makes them happy.”

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Finding a way | Graduation World photo / Don Seabrook Graduating seniors at Wenatchee and Eastmont high schools High School will have some stories to tell as pandemic restritions ruled out traditional graduation ceremonies.

School officials put together virtual graduation ceremonies and novel portrait taking sessions to honor the students’ academic achievements. In May, Wenatchee graduate Jesus Amaya takes his mask off for his official portrait and Eastmont graduate Audrie Benge receives a graduation cord from LeAnne Branam during a drive-thru cap-and-gown.

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Finding a way: Halloween World photo / Don Seabrook Britta Peaslee, 8, Wenatchee, took wearing a mask to a whole new level as she gathered a bag of treats at Wenatchee Internet Academy's drive-up Costume and Treat Car Parade for Halloween. With 350 students enrolled for online learning, Principal Jennifer Devereaux and the rest of the staff greeted many students who dressed up for the Halloween event in front of WestSide High School.

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World photo / Don Seabrook Tony Desmukes and his wife Sarah, East Wenatchee, listen to John O. Steward Jr., Wenatchee, speak about how racial prejudice has affected his life at a protest in Memorial Park in Wenatchee in June.

Demanding a new conversation | A peaceful march after the death of George Floyd

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ENATCHEE — Hundreds of people gathered in Memorial Park in June to peaceful protest the death of George Floyd, a black man who was killed by police in Minneapolis.

Speeches were given on the steps of

the Chelan County Courthouse before the crowd spread out along both sides of Chelan Avenue from Palouse Street to Yakima Street.

Waiving signs, they chanted — “Black lives matter” “Say his name: George Floyd” — as cars honked in

support. The crowd was energetic but peaceful and largely stayed on sidewalks.

Tony Desmukes of East Wenatchee led a chant of “No justice, no peace” as a throng of people marched down the sidewalk in front of him.

“I’d just like to see some unity.

I’m sick of racial injustice, I’m sick of seeing folks being killed innocently,” he said in an interview. “It’s good to see the community out, just wanting to raise awareness and showing some hope.”

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World photo / Don Seabrook Dr. Mabel Bodell, Wenatchee, gets ready to record an introduction to a video in Spanish about the importance of getting the influenza vaccine. Filming her is Miranda Nayak.

2021 Local Hero Award | Dr. Mabel Bodell, Wenatchee Valley Medical Group In recognition for demonstrating courage to help out in a crisis

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ENATCHEE — Dr. Mabel Bodell has made significant contributions in educating the Latino community with valuable COVID-19 information.

Bodell is a nephrologist and member of the Health Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Council at Confluence Health.

From as far back as 2012 when Bodell was an assistant professor at John Hopkins University, she was writing for local Spanish-language newspapers and doing radio interviews for community outreach. Bodell’s mission has always been to get the right information to the

Latino community in an accessible way.

Quick, educational videos are her forte, and many of them are filmed in her free time.

When the pandemic had just begun, she recounted her experience in the ICU on camera. She witnessessed the most critically ill patients with COVID-19 undergo kidney failure. Half of them do not survive, according to Bodell. She asked for help from the Latino community to help curb the spread.

The video has over 11,000 views on YouTube. Bodell’s concern about the pandemic is genuine and that has reso-

nated with a lot of people.

Too many of these patients looked like family members, she said in a Town Hall meeting back in November. In August last year, Latinos accounted for 80% of COVID-19 cases in Chelan-Douglas counties, according to the health district.

The percentage has dropped down since then. It has plateaued at around 50% since November, a number which is still too high, according to Bodell. But since Latinos represent only about 30% of the population in the counties, they still remain the most vulnerable group, according to Bodell.

"COVID-19 pushed all the health disparities to the surface," Bodell said.

"They existed before, but now they are obvious."

Her work and advocacy has not gone unnoticed. The city of Wenatchee awarded Bodell the 2020 Civil Rights and Social Justice awards. And U.S. Sen. Patty Murray awarded Bodell the Golden Tennis Shoe Award.

“Dr. Bodell took it upon herself to solve a problem she saw in her community, and I have no doubt that she’s saved lives in our state because of her tireless work,” Murray said in a Facebook post.

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Remembering Memorial Day honors World photo / Don Seabrook April Featherkile, Wenatchee, places flags at every gravestone in the veterans section of the Wenatchee Cemetery. She was in the Navy Nurse Corps from 1970 to 1977 and in the reserves from 1978 to 2008.

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Public art | Heather Dappen and Ellen Smith: Better together

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ENATCHEE — Artists Heather Dappen and Ellen Smith teamed up in August to paint a mural on the 115-foot long, 8-foot high retaining wall overlooking the parking lot at the Wenatchee YMCA. “We always wanted to do this wall,” Smith said. They wrote grant proposals and won grants from the Icicle Fund and Woods Family Music and Art totaling $10,000.

Smith teaches art at Pioneer Middle School and Dappen is a freelance graphic designer. They met while working on the Collapse Gallery mural last summer. They maintain the Instagram account @ fightthebeige.

World photo / Don Seabrook The mural, "Better Together Mejor Juntos" fills a 115-foot retaining wall at the YMCA in downtown Wenatchee.

A phrase fills the length of the wall in English and Spanish: “Better Together Mejor

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They say their favorite part of the project so far

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They think it will help the community’s white and Latino population come together.

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World photo / Don Seabrook Ellen Smith, left, and Heather Dappen paint the mural in the parking lot east of the YMCA.

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Opening minds | NCW Libraries: The bookmobile rolls again World photo / Don Seabrook Amy Koulouris, Waterville, checks out books from the NCW Libraries Community Bookmobile in Orondo in late October. It was the first day back for the bookmobile in Orondo after the pandemic shutdowns, in a parking lot near the post office. Helping her is librarian Svitlana Byers.

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Helping the neighborhood: Monitor’s Bill and Laura Cordell World photo / Don Seabrook Bill and Laura Cordell, Monitor, walk along Lower Sunnyslope Road picking up trash in late April. He uses 15-foot extendable, homemade rod with a sharp screw on the end to stab garbage, handing it to his wife to bag.

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2021 Business Impact Award | Blair McHaney, Worx: McHaney unites industry in fight to reopen In recognition for demonstrating leadership that makes the community better

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ENATCHEE — Blair McHaney doesn’t give up.

Setting goals and working hard to reach them come with the territory of a guy who got into the fitness business in 1983 and went on to own two full-service gyms.

In addition to the Worx (Your Workout Prescription) locations in Wenatchee and East Wenatchee, he also is the CEO of MXM (Member Experience Metrics), a fitness software provider. He consults with more than 700 clubs across the nation about using data to improve member experiences and improve operations.

His commitment, though, was tested in 2020, as the founder and president of the Washington Fitness Alliance, a group of more than 740 gyms and fitness centers statewide that worked with the governor’s office and state Department of Health throughout the summer to develop safety protocols to allow gyms statewide to reopen.

It paid off. After being ordered closed in March, gyms were given the green light in October, though it didn’t last long.

As with the overall COVID-19 experience at various levels, the effort took two steps back in November when a virus surge prompted officials to again shutter workout facilities. McHaney,

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Blair McHaney, President and CEO Worx of Wenatchee Valley though, continued the fight that is, for him, both personal and principled.

While some operators went against state regulations — operating under the radar behind windows covered with black plastic — McHaney kept the conversation going, charging ahead with making sure health officials and

government policy makers understood all that was at stake — for gym owners and gym members.

“People need to exercise more than ever just to stay sane,” McHaney said in an interview with Wenatchee World in November. “There’s so much mental health and wellness that goes into the idea

of physical activity. And in the winter, people are not going to go outside.”

Closing gyms also disproportionately impacts lower income residents who can’t afford to set up a gym in their homes, he said.

It’s the data-driven side of his work that helped spur the alliance’s efforts to keep gyms

and fitness centers accessible, showing that safety protocols being used by alliance members across the nation provided a safe environment.

As the state’s reopening plan has evolved, gyms and fitness centers remain part of the discussion — and part of the solution to surviving the pandemic.

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American Legion Post 10: A Veterans Day unlike any other World photo / Don Seabrook Members of the American Legion fired a 21-gun salute, honoring veterans on Veterans Day in front of the Wenatchee Post 10 building in downtown Wenatchee. The salute traditionally takes place in Memorial Park, near the Chelan County Courthouse but the pandemic and shutdowns meant there was no Veterans Day Parade in 2020. That didn’t stop Post 10 whose members fulfilled their mission at 11 a.m. on Nov. 11.

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World photo / Don Seabrook Sande Choate, left, and Mary Pierce with the Wenatchee High School’s kitchen staff, add chicken wraps and cucumbers to the many breakfast and lunch sacks being prepared at the high school in March

Keeping people fed | Eastmont and Wenatchee schools: ‘We’re ready to roll with whatever comes our way’

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ENATCHEE — When Gov. Jay Inslee’s pandemic orders closed schools, lunch workers kept busy prepping hundreds of free meals for young children and teens.

“In this time of uncertainty we want to make sure we’re stable,” Chris

Lutgen, Wenatchee School District’s nutrition services director, said shortly after the schools first closed. “We’re trying to combat the hunger in our community.”

Suzy Howard, food service director at the Eastmont School District, said,

said the goal is to assist families needing help during the statewide business closure and to make sure children in the East Wenatchee community have access to foods.

“We’re ready to roll with whatever comes our way,” Howard said.

Deanna Caggiano, a food service worker helping out the Wenatchee High School, said the community response to the free meals has been very positive. At one point, someone came by just to say “thank you,” she said.

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It all started with an Aplet...

Around the turn of the century two Armenian immigrants, Mark Balaban and Armen Tertsagian, settled in the Cashmere Valley. Here they purchased an apple farm they named Liberty Orchards in honor of the ideals which brought them to America. Soon they were growing more fruit than they could sell, so they invented a candy based on locoum, a treat they enjoyed as children. Crafted from apples and walnuts, they dubbed their tempting creation Aplets. Soon after they came up with Cotlets, made from apricots and walnuts. Before long, the whole state was clamoring for these “Confections of the Fairies” and a new candy business was born!

Over the years, Aplets & Cotlets has been firmly planted by our Cashmere Valley roots.

From our famous billboards, local advertisements, and fruit stand displays... to our award-winning Apple Blossom parade floats... we’ve been proud to call Central Washington our home from the very start.

Making it happen | Linda Haglund, Wenatchee Downtown Association: Veterans banner project World photo / Don Seabrook Jordan Conley with the East Wenatchee Street Department hangs a Hero Banner honoring a veteran on Northeast 8th Street on Tuesday. He said this was one of five additional banners the city received this year. The banner honors A.A. Stevens, a Civil War veteran with the Minnesota Militia. They are purchased with donations through the Wenatchee Downtown Association and Vets Serving Vets.

There are 65 of them in Wenatchee and 36 in East Wenatchee. Linda Haglund, executive director of the Wenatchee Downtown Association, is the driving force behind the banner project honoring veterans.

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World photo / Don Seabrook Numerica Performing Arts Center board member Kathy Campbell, right, talks to audience members before showing “Seven Brides for Seven Brothers.�

World photo / Don Seabrook Before the pandemic, seniors watch the movie during the monthly Memories At The PAC program at the Numerica Performing Arts Center in Wenatchee.

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Finding a way | WRAC: ‘This will have a happy ending’ W

ENATCHEE — The WRAC kept classes going during the pandemic by streaming workouts, including Dean Marney’s gentle-yoga class.

The streaming classes helped the WRAC stay connected with the community.

“I just feel inspired to do it for the people that are home and can’t come to the gym,” said personal trainer Tammi Flynn. “That human element of having someone that you trust and have followed (is huge). Dean has a huge following and if they can just hear his voice or see him, they instantly feel like he is there.”

The classes had a warm reception.

“The comments have been wonderful,” Flynn said. “One person who is homebound said she ‘felt it in her soul’, so things like that make it easier to do.”

The goal for Marney and Flynn

was to provide an outlet for people to escape from the outside drama and stay active while they are stuck at home. Just getting out of the house 30 minutes a day and doing some form of exercise is crucial for both our mental and physical health.

“It’s huge,” Marney said. “It sounds a little ‘yogi’ but its a traumatizing time right now and it gets stuck in your body. Your issues are in your tissues (so) you got to move and breathe it out. Exercise more than you watch the news.”

“Just take a breath and send a message of love, approval and healing to every cell in your body,” Marney said at the conclusion of his class Friday. “Take as much time as you want, as much time as you need and come out knowing it will all be ok, World photo/Don Seabrook we will all be safe and this will have Tammi Flynn performs Yoga with the help of instructor Dean Marney in late March at a happy ending. Namaste. Namaste.

Namaste.”’ the WRAC.

Finding a way | Chelan-Douglas Land Trust / Wenatchee Outdoors

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ENATCHEE — Years of effort to preserve public land — and easy access to public trails — near the Wenatchee Valley paid off big when the pandemic hit.

Popular before the pandemic shutdown, trails in the Wenatchee Foothills got even more use as people looked for ways to exercise and socially distance.

Wenatchee Outdoors — wenatcheeWorld photo / Don Seabrook outdoors.org — has the best collecGustavo Ramirez, front, and Damian Ripper, both from Wenatchee, run down a tion of guides to getting out near the Jacobson Preserve Trail. "We're trying to stay healthy," says Ramirez.

Wenatchee Valley, many of them on

trails and lands preserved through the efforts of Chelan-Douglas Land Trust.

Wenatchee Outdoors is a local non-profit organization focused on hiking, mountain biking, trail running and other human-powered outdoor sports.

It has more than 300 guidebook posts with maps, directions, pictures and trip descriptions for casual to intense hikers. You can find hikes based on location, difficulty, family friendliness, dog friendliness and handicap accessibility.

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Finding a way | Colonial Vista: Residents rolled with the punches

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ENATCHEE — Life inside senior homes is not what it was.

So senior facilities like Colonial Vista looked hard for ways to keep their people going during the pandemic, including balcony fitness

classes like the one in the photo.

And residents generally rolled with the punches. "The feeling is sort of, ‘We’ve been there done that. We’ve seen it all,’” said Aaron Lindholm, executive director of Colonial Vista, 601 Okanogan Ave.

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World photo / Luke Hollister Dr. Malcolm Butler, chief medical officer at Columbia Valley Community Health, has become the face of the effort to protect Chelan and Douglas counties from COVID-19 as health officer at the Chelan-Douglas Health District.

Public official who demonstrated exceptional leadership serving their community

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ENATCHEE — Dr. Malcom Butler became the health officer of the Chelan-Douglas Health District in April and found himself in a lead role for two communities.

Butler inherited the volunteer position in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic and while he may have been aware of the crisis when he took the job, he most likely did not expect the workload

that landed in his lap. Butler has been pivotal in submitting applications to reopen Chelan and Douglas counties’ economies, creating hybrid-learning models to help reopen schools and working with epidemiologists to conduct mass testing and contact tracing.

The health officer for both counties is an important role that requires a medical professional to respond and help handle a variety of health

concerns such as salmonella outbreaks, food safety and also the response to a pandemic. The health officer is appointed by the board of health and works alongside the health district.

It is a position that most people probably didn't know existed until this year.

Butler has been responding to questions about COVID-19 from a variety of news organizations for months. He has

also participated in a bilingual video series put on by Our Valley Our Future to inform people in the Hispanic community about the pandemic.

He’s also started a weekly video series through the health district to help keep people up-to-date on COVID-19.

A September study by a team of epidemiologists from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that Dr. Butler was one of the

most trusted sources of information in the community. It also found a late June opinion column by Butler led to an increase in mask wearing in the community.

In addition to his volunteer work for the health district, Butler has been the chief medical officer at Columbia Valley Community Health since 1995, according to the medical center’s website. He has practiced medicine in Wenatchee since 1993.

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Working together for a cause | Confluence Health

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ENATCHEE — The Heart Breaker runs in February 2020 attracted about 400 started this shorter race while 50 participated in the 10K run along the Apple Capital Recreation Loop Trail.

It was hosted by Confluence Health to raise awareness about heart disease and ways to live with a healthy lifestyle.

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Workers smooth newly applied asphalt to the new pump track being built at the Eastmont Community Park in May.

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Shaping the future with a pump track | Evergreen Mountain Bike Alliance and Eastmont Metro Parks and Recreation

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AST WENATCHEE — A pump track came together in 2020 despite the hurdles thrown in its way by the pandemic.

Organizer Travis Hornby and a few volunteer members of the Evergreen Mountain Bike Alliance broke ground March 16. Early projections were for an April 15 opening but then the pandemic restrictions hit.

The track, now finished, is “great asset to the park and the community,” Hornby says.

It will be "great for the youth in our valley to have another option right here in Wenatchee-East Wenatchee,” he said. “It’s extremely popular and we could have competition between different youth groups in the upper and lower valley.”

World photo / Don Seabrook The Eastmont Park pump track opened to the public in June as a dozen children began using it before noon. “As soon as I took the temporary fence down, they were here,” said Jody Greer with Apple Valley Fence. The opening of the track at Eastmont Community Park came after a threeyear effort between the Eastmont Metro Parks and Recreation and the Evergreen Mountain Bike Alliance.

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Fighting hunger: Wenatchee Valley food banks In March 2020 Wenatchee Valley food banks were gearing up to handle expected increases for food.

Howard Rasmussen hands a large box of food to Alexander Zaytsev while Paul Vargas loads another into the back seat of a car at the Wenatchee Food bank distribution.

People were told to stay in their cars while workers brought them prepared boxes of food at the weekly event at the Wenatchee Community Center parking lot. Normally people in need would select and bag their own food. About 200 families were served.

World photo / Don Seabrook Howard Rasmussen hands a large box of food to Alexander Zaytsev while Paul Vargas loads another into the back seat of a car in March 2020 at the Wenatchee Food bank distribution.

JOIN US TONIGHT AS WE HONOR THESE OUTSTANDING MEMBERS OF OUR COMMUNITY The Wenatchee World’s North Central Washington Community Impact Awards Presented by Confluence Health Virtual Awards Ceremony, Thursday, February 11 • 5:30pm - 6:30pm

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Douglas County PUD engineer Michael Gasbar surveys locations for new power poles on the moonscape-like area along Dezellem Hill Road west of Bridgeport in September. Douglas County PUD is putting in a new power distribution line along the road after fire destroyed the old line.

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Wildfires | Douglas County PUD: Restoring power after the Pearl Hill Fire

AST WENATCHEE — The Cold Springs Fire jumped the Columbia River near Bridgeport on Labor Day, became the Pearl Hill Fire and then burned 223,730 acres in Douglas County.

The fire destroyed more

than 300 power poles, knocking out power to 2,400 customers and handing the Douglas County PUD a daunting challenge to restore power as soon as possible, the work beginning while the wildfire still raged.

“My mind spins at the logistics of getting materials and crews where they need to go,” said Douglas County PUD spokeswoman Meagan Vibbert. That includes figuring out how to feed the 120 linemen — a mix of the four

Douglas PUD crews, contract and mutual aid crews — on the job trying to restore power to customers.

On Sept. 8, about 2,400 customer were without power.

In a little more than 10 days power had been restored. The

concern was not just homes without power, but domestic and irrigation pumps as well.

Other PUDs helped the Douglas County PUD crews, including crews from Chelan, Grant, Benton and Franklin PUDs.

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Making a difference | Okanogan County Fairgrounds’ Naomie Peasley: ‘Way above and beyond what really her job description is’

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KANOGAN — When the Cold Springs Fire removed people from their homes with animals and belongings in tow, Naomie Peasley leapt into action.

Peasley is the Okanogan County Fairgrounds Manager and in the aftermath of the fire she helped people take temporary shelter at the fairgrounds, put up their animals and coordinate relief efforts.

A week after the fire, Peasley was seen at the fairground headquarters with a phone set on her head, coordinating where supplies would

Naomie Peasley go with military-like precision. Awhite board behind her listed the number of bales of hay headed to different farms.

“That was way above and beyond what really her job description is and everything else,”

Okanogan County Commissioner Andy Hover said.

Peasley was hired as the fairgrounds manager in January, 2020, he said. The Okanogan County Fair got canceled, though, due to COVID-19 and then the fire happened.

“And so we just said, ‘Just make sure you’re following a process and that everyone is getting treated equally,’ and she did a really good job with that,” Hover said.

At the Okanogan County Fairgrounds, donations were being brought in and stacked in six-foot tall piles.

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narians provided care to burnt animals and even professional groomers

gave free dog baths.

At the center of it all was Peasley.

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Making it better | Alex Cruz: A community effort to add futsal to Eastmont Community Park E AST WENATCHEE — Futsal came to Eastmont Community Park thanks to two years of work and planning.

The outdoor turf field is smaller than a soccer field and uses a smaller ball and was built near the park's Aquatic Center.

East Wenatchee's Alex Cruz led the community effort of friends, family, businesses and service clubs, including the city of East Wenatchee, Eastmont Kiwanis and Eastmont Rotary.

Architect Luis Rodriguez did a rendition of the field, and Miguel Cervantes and Alex Guerra have given their time and equipment to prepare the site.

“My family’s been in construction one way or another for the past 30 years." Cruz said. "So, we had machinery and the experience to do it. They were in agreement that they wanted to give back to the community."

Alex Cruz led the effort to bring Futsal to East Wenatchee.

World photo / Don Seabrook Former and present Eastmont High School students gathered for a pickup game of futsal at the new court at the Eastmont Community Park in East Wenatchee in May. The artificial turf field, smaller than a soccer field, opened after two years of planning led by East Wenatchee resident Alex Cruz.

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Working together | Community Foundation of NCW gets help to where it’s needed: cfncw.org The Community Foundation of NCW raised more than $560,000 through its Give NCW campaign during the holidays.

The Foundation is the most important local charitable fundraising organization in North Central Washington, channeling money from the community to where it is most needed. The foundation manages $112 million in assets through more than 500 individual funds.

The Give NCW campaign, which ran from Thanksgiving through Christmas, will benefit these 60 nonprofit organizations in Chelan, Douglas and Okanogan counties: Give NCW results: Alatheia Riding Center: $9,774 CAFE: The Community for the Advancement of Family Education: $19,489 Camp Fire NCW: $9,965 Cancer Care of NCW: $9,864 Cascade Fisheries: $7,844 Cascade Medical Foundation: $3,179 Cashmere Museum and Pioneer Village: $6,554 Chelan Douglas CASA: $30,534 Chelan Douglas County Volunteer Attorney Services: $11,169 Chelan Valley Hope: $8,694 Chelan-Douglas Community Action Council: $6,634 Children’s Home Society of Washington: $22,364 Community Cultural Center of Tonasket: $2,859 Garden Terrace Senior Living: $3,709 Greater Leavenworth Museum: $3,584 Green Okanogan: $4,959 Habitat for Humanity — Greater Wenatchee: $5,094 Hand in Hand Immigration Services: $20,974 Heritage Heights: $4,284 Hope Care Clinic: $12,179 Icicle Creek Center for the Arts: $4,890 Ingalls Creek Enrichment Center: $10,105 IRIS: $2,854 Leavenworth Summer Theater: $4,254

Mobile Meals of Wenatchee: $12,654 Northwest Immigrant Rights Project: $28,189 Numerica Performing Arts Center: $8,694 Okanogan Behavioral HealthCare: $2,304 Okanogan County Child Development Association: $3,059 Okanogan County Long Term Recovery Group: $3,234 Okanogan County Search and Rescue Association: $2,234 Okanogan Land Trust: $2,599 Okanogan Regional Humane: $3,134 Okanogan Valley Orchestra and Chorus: $2,754 Pateros Brewster Community Resource Center: $3,754 Plain Valley Ski Trails: $2,629 PowerHouse Ministries: $5,549 Pybus Market Charitable Foundation: $10,189 SAGE (Safety, Advocacy, Growth Empowerment): $22,304 Serve Wenatchee Valley: $26,159 Small Miracles: $11,159 Stage Kids WA: $7,214 Sustainable Wenatchee: $5,444 TEAMS Learning Center: $5,304 The Brave Warrior Project: $4,619 Thrive Chelan Valley: $2,659 TREAD (Trails Recreation Education Advocacy and Development): $6,139 Upper Valley Connection: $4,094 Upper Valley MEND: $32,534 Velocity Swimming: $2,144 Wellness Place: $11,594 Wenatchee Area Genealogical Society: $2,474 Wenatchee River Institute: $9,684 Wenatchee Valley Dispute Resolution Center: $4,864 Wenatchee Valley Humane Society: $19,352 Wenatchee Valley Museum & Cultural Center: $6,209 Wenatchee Valley Senior Activity Center: $6,484 Wenatchee Valley YMCA: $14,502 Wenatchee Youth Circus: $2,574 Women’s Resource Center of NCW: $36,904

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Apple Blossom Festival’s Jeff Neher: ‘It’s really about being a part of the community’ W ENATCHEE — The Apple Blossom Festival organizers in October used the the parade float to celebrate the retirement of Jeff Neher, a long-time festival and community volunteer.

Neher, 66, has done a lot for the festival over the years, says Darci Christoferson, Washington state Apple Blossom Festival administrator.

The accountant tabulated the results of the royalty pageants and the parade float competition. He served as a board member for the festival and general director.

He's chaired the art print committee, which helps pick the poster for the festival, for the last 15 years.

“He loves art and has many pieces of local art in his home and in his office,” Christoferson said. “So he just loves everything about this community for sure.”

Neher was a managing partner for more than two decades at Cordell, Neher & Co. “I’ve always believed that you do the right thing every day, you give back to community and work hard at making sure that you do the right thing for our clients,” everything will work out well, he told former Wenatchee World Publisher Rufus Woods for a fall column in The World.

During his tenure, under the direction of Irv Conner, the firm also launched an

World photo / Don Seabrook Apple Blossom Festival volunteer Jeff Neher laughs while talking with float riders during his retirement event. annual service day in which the entire staff participated — doing cleanup or renovation work on a project. That reinforced the importance of community and the need to give back and also built company morale, Neher told Woods.

“We really have a community where people care,” Neher said.

Neher is passing on some of his festival duties to his son, Steve Neher, such as tabulating results. Claudia Wiggins will take over as art print chair.

Steve Neher also followed his father’s professional footsteps, becoming an accountant and a partner at Cordell Neher.

His father taught him that he needed to be involved in the community if he wanted to run a small

business in that community, he said.

“You know, they really understood that in order to have a small business in town, it’s really about being a part of the community,” Steve Neher said. “Not just doing work for them.”

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Welcome to the neighborhood!

Introducing the newest addition to our fleet, the Pilatus PC-12 turboprop, now based at Pangborn Field in Wenatchee.

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