Scappoose Community Advantage Magazine April 2023

Local Cuisine and Cocktails

With A Southern Twist At The Historic Klondike

around town for their “date night” ambience. Holcombe Waller, owner of The Klondike Tavern explains, “We look to have a finer-dining atmosphere and craft cocktail and wine-oriented beverage program.”

The Klondike Tavern uses locally-sourced Pacific Northwest produce and meats, including grass-fed beef, to turn out a menu with southern flare and Frenchinspired preparations, particularly demi-glace sauces and wines. “Everything is freshly prepared in-house from our dressings and sauces to our smoked and cured meats,” says Holcombe. The chef creates from scratch almost every item on the menu. Known for their Ribeye Steak, Holcombe remarks, “I think we’re the best ribeye steak in the county!” His personal favorite, however, is the Braised Short Ribs. They’re fat-marbled, melt-inyour-mouth tender, and served on top of creamy polenta with sweet root vegetables. Mussels are another popular selection, and the authentic Southern Fried Chicken has developed quite a following as well.

Open for Brunch Saturday 10am-2pm, Lunch Tue-Fri 11am-2pm, and Dinner Tue-Sat 5pm-9pm.

By Patti Jo Brooks, Contributing Writer Photos by Hayley Starkey

“Hearty. Rustic. Fresh. Northwest.”

The Klondike Tavern serves up “local cuisine and cocktails with a southern twist.” Situated in a turn-of-the century building that’s been part of the St. Helens community for over a hundred years, the décor features a historic wooden bar with brass rails, green velvet curtains, hundred-year-old wood floors, and historic furniture. These elements blend together beautifully to create that unique feeling of history. The Klondike’s quaint setting and special dining experience is perfect for date nights, family dinners, lunches, and Saturday brunch.

Freshly prepared food, elevated cuisine, and a place to get craft cocktails is the perfect complement to other food and drink businesses in the area. The Klondike is family-friendly and a great place to celebrate special occasions, as they’re known

The Brunch Menu features Chicken and Waffles, Pancakes, Salmon Hash, and Eggs Benedict topped with freshly-made Hollandaise sauce. On the Lunch Menu, the Beef Brisket Sandwich and the Fried Chicken Sandwich are two outstanding choices. “Our lunch sandwiches are really delicious,” says Holcombe. As soon as they’re able, The Klondike plans to upgrade their ovens for baking their own breads and expanding the dessert offerings. Looking forward to warmer weather,

plans are also being made to open the patio with its own “warm weather” menu.

Holcombe Waller, who had been a performing artist his whole life, is switching his focus to hospitality. In 2021, he purchased The Historic St. Helens Hotel Annex, an old unoccupied hotel with the restaurant sitting empty since closing in 2018. A newcomer to the industry, he brought in Executive Chef Jacob Baker, a resident of St. Helens, and Ben Preacher, a

Portland restaurateur, to help him open The Klondike in June of 2022. Closely connected with the community, The Klondike Tavern employs an entirely local staff and supports local nonprofits such as Amani Center, the St. Helens Boosters, and various historical societies. Pop in today!

The Klondike Tavern is located at 71 Cowlitz Street in St Helens. To view the menu, visit their website at theklondiketavern.com., or give them a call at (503)396-5036.

Bringing the Tire Shop to Your Front Door

Expert Advice & Service

By Angie Helvey, Contributing Writer

Photos by Hayley Starkey

Need new tires but don’t have time to sit at a tire shop all day? Remy Guyen, the owner of 503 Mobile Wheels and Tires, is dedicated to helping customers save time and keeping them safe on the road by providing new tires, repair, and replacement services directly to your home, office, or any location most convenient. “Tires are never something people want to deal with,” says Remy. “It’s expensive, and it takes time at a shop. When I can bring that service to them, on time, with a friendly face and honest recommendations, and get the job done professionally, they are happy, and so am I.”

Remy has been in the automotive industry from a very young age when his parents owned an independent repair shop in France. He opened 503 Mobile Wheels and Tires in June 2020 when he saw the need to make tire services more accessible and convenient. Remy lives in Scappoose but also serves St. Helens and the Portland Metro area, including Hillsboro, Beaverton, and more. Services include new tire sales and replacement, repair, inspection, rotation, and installation of seasonal tires for your personal vehicle, work/fleet vehicle, passenger or light duty truck, RV trailer, or boat trailer. Remy lends his expert advice

to help you choose the right product. “If a customer needs tires and is knowledgeable about tires, they can shop and order tires directly through our website, 503tires.com,” explains Remy. “However, it’s best to give me a call, email, or text so I can help them find the best tires for their needs, preferences, and budget.”

Besides prioritizing superior customer service and highquality work, 503 Mobile Wheels and Tires values helping customers stay safe when traveling. Tires are the most easily damaged part of your vehicle. Drivers often put off tire maintenance because they don’t have time to sit in a tire shop, which can endanger the driver and passengers. Remy’s specialized mobile service is the perfect solution to minimize the risk of an accident and keep you and your loved ones safe on the road. Scheduling service is easy and convenient, and Remy strives to accommodate the customer’s needs. “Being mobile, I don’t stock tires; therefore, everything is by appointment,” says Remy. “But if someone needs help right away, I can pick up tires at a local supplier and meet them for installation.”

503 Mobile Wheels and Tires offers competitive pricing on tires, works with all brands on the market, and guarantees professional service to every customer. Contact Remy to bring the traditional tire shop to your front door, helping you save time, and offering a new and different experience.

503 Mobile Wheels and Tires serves the Portland Metro Area and Scappoose / St. Helens. Give them a ring at 503-509-5633, or visit their website at 503tires.com to order tires or schedule an appointment.

Home and So Much More

Columbia County’s premier full-service plumbing company and home gift shop!

repairs and replacement; they do it all! On new construction and remodels, they will work with you and your general contractor regarding all aspects of the plumbing in your home from the first stages of planning all the way through to finish fixtures. Repair projects can include your home, shop, or office.

NWPS has proudly partnered with Bestbath to provide excellent quality, low-threshold, barrier-free fiberglass shower enclosures which are specifically designed to be ADA accessible. Ask how they can replace your old tub or shower with this fantastic, high-quality product without even having to do a full remodel of your bathroom! David will visit your house to assess the job before presenting you with a bid in order to provide you with the best solution for your plumbing needs.

By Dennis McNabb, Contributing Writer

Photos by Hayley Starkey

Celebrating two years at their “new” location, Northwest Plumbing Services (NWPS) is enthusiastic to have the road construction from the past 2 years become a memory and are celebrating access to their showroom, plumbing supply and retail store. Having a commercial location is helpful to provide a better level of service to their customers and community. They have plumbing products on display and can order products to fit customers’ needs. The office staff is also the showroom staff, and they keep up-to-date on product availability and trends in the kitchen and bath market.

David Sass has been in the plumbing trade since 1985, and has the added distinction of having been the youngest journeyman plumber in Oregon when he received his license at the age of 20! He operates his crew with professionalism, integrity, honesty, and a sincere dedication to providing every customer with consummate workmanship and service. All of the NWPS plumbing crew live, work, and play in the community they serve. They call many of their customers their friends and neighbors, and take great pride in a job well done.

New construction and remodels, toilet repairs and replacements, leaking pipes, garbage disposal repairs and installations, sump pumps, faucet repairs and replacements, sink installations, water heater repairs and replacements, new fire sprinkler system installations in new homes, water line

503.825.2111

Mindy and David’s retail space, Sass at Home, has allowed them the freedom to expand into other related markets, as well as actively supporting local nonprofit organizations and local businesses. Their retail space is jam-packed with kitchen and bath fixtures and accessories, but also locally-sourced and beautifully-crafted artisanal items such as: soaps, lotions, spices, olive oils, candles, PNWthemed and - sourced products, local artist’s prints, mugs, t-shirts, and more! They also carry Derive Jewelry, and a percentage of those sales are donated to nonprofit organization Fighting Pretty, a Portland-based nonprofit helping those battling cancer feel beautiful throughout their fight.

Family-owned and -operated (their daughter, Susannah, and son, Richard also work with them!), and providing the best plumbing products and services in the industry, Northwest Plumbing Services is your one stop shopping solution in Columbia County.

NW Plumbing Services is located at 58105 Columbia River Highway, Suite B in St. Helens. Come down and check out the plumbing showroom and their sister-shop Sass at Home today! Give them a call at 503-773-6647 (NW Plumbing Services) or 503-410-5197 (Sass at Home), or check out their websites, nwplumbingservices.com and sassathome.com.

SETH’S WISH MAKE-A-WISH ® FOUNDATION

Come to MWNW and help Make-A-Wish® come true!

Celebrating 28 years in business, locally-owned and -operated Mattress World Northwest (MWNW) carries the largest selection that will fit your needs best, and the only store with the 4 major sleeping technologies: GelFlex Grid, TEMPUR® foam, Air, and Natural Latex. They carry major brands like: Tempur-Pedic®, Purple™, The Number Bed by Instant Comfort®, and Posh+Lavish™ Natural Latex. They’re all in-store, side-by-side, for your convenience! And they guarantee the lowest price and have a 90-night comfort guarantee, so you can take home a better night’s sleep with confidence. Their employees love working here and will always greet you with a smile, listen to your needs and concerns, and give you a great buying experience. On average, team members have worked here for 5+ years, and their management team 10+ years, so you know they are committed to this company and making their customers happy.

In April, all locations will be accepting donations in support of the MakeA-Wish Foundation whose goal is to fulfill life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses, such as Seth, a passionate golfer, whose story you will read below. Studies have proven that the creation and realization of those wishes can engender strength, hope, and transformation in not only the children receiving the gifts, but also their communities. MWNW is gladly donating to this incredible cause while raising awareness by taking donations on their behalf. Please help raise funds by donating online or visiting a local store.

When he was just a few months old, Seth received his first set of golf clubs from his grandfather. He pulled them around the house everywhere as he crawled. He took his first golf lesson at age 4 and became a competitive golfer by age 13. During his senior year in high school, Seth finished the golf season as the top player for his school. But then, a devastating diagnosis threatened to take him off the greens.

“When my doctor told me I had leukemia, at first I thought it was a joke,” Seth said. “When I knew it was real, I instantly thought I was going to die and felt very sad and afraid.” Doctors told Seth the sooner

he could start treatment the better, so he was back the next morning to get going. During this challenging time, Seth found renewed hope through Make-AWish® Oregon.

“I was super excited when I learned I qualified for a wish and was really intrigued by it all,” Seth said. “It took my mind off of what was going on at home or at the hospital and gave me a reason to believe, gave me something to look forward to and hopefully achieve.” When Seth centered on what his wish should be, it was back to the game he loved. He wished to go to The Masters. It wasn’t just about golf–it was about experiencing the unparalleled beauty of the world-renowned grounds firsthand.

In April of 2022, Seth and his family arrived at Augusta National for the 86th edition of the Masters Tournament to watch his childhood heroes tee off. “I had one of the best experiences of my life,” said Seth. “It gave me so many memories that I will cherish for a lifetime and gave me valuable time and memories with my family that I may not get when I get older.”

Months after an unforgettable experience with golf’s most elite, Seth started at UNLV’s PGA Golf Management program. He says there is no doubt his wish journey transformed his life. “It showed me how to live in the moment,” said Seth. “The connections and love I have received from Make-A-Wish® have been incredible and lifechanging. Even after my wish was completed, I still received so much love and appreciation from Make-A-Wish® that is not comparable to anything out there.”

Family-owned and -operated, dedicated to providing customers with the best products at the lowest prices, and donating to and participating in their local communities – Mattress World Northwest exemplifies the very best of retail. Get a better night’s sleep and help support your community by visiting your local Mattress World Northwest location for more information, or you can order online at mattressworldnorthwest.com.

Seth and his family at The Masters

Seth, age 7, with the Campbell Cup trophy

Feeling Is Believing.

BILL BIXBY The INCREDIBLE HULK & MORE

By David Grove, Contributing Writer

Although actor Bill Bixby certainly played many different types of characters throughout his nearly 32-year television acting career, the essential Bill Bixby television persona is that of an everyman who makes the fantastical seem plausible.

Bill’s career breakthrough in Hollywood came in 1962 when he landed a starring role in the science-fiction television sitcom “My Favorite Martian,” which aired on CBS between 1963 and 1966 over three seasons. In “My Favorite Martian,” Bill plays Tim O’Hara, an eager young newspaper reporter who, in the show’s pilot episode, discovers a crashed spaceship and its Martian pilot, a Mars-based anthropologist played by Ray Walston. “Growing up in the 1960s, I was a big fan of “My Favorite Martian,” and a lot of the show’s appeal, for me, had to do with the impact that Bill made as an everyman,” says magician David Copperfield. “We dreamed, and experienced a sense of awe and wonder, through Bill’s eyes. As an actor, Bill was the man who experienced, and observed, crazy and impossible things. He was relatable. Bill played us.”

In the NBC television series “The Magician,” which aired between 1973 and 1974 for one season, Bill plays Anthony (Tony) Blake, a famous jet-setting stage illusionist who uses his performing skills to solve crimes. Bill himself

was a competent amateur magician. “I think that Bill was underrated as a performer, both as an actor and as a magician,” says Copperfield, who appeared alongside Bill in Copperfield’s 1979 CBS television special, “The Magic of David Copperfield II,” which Bill hosted. “I think that Bill was better than most, if not all, actors who performed magic on television. Bill was cool. He very much acted like, and certainly looked like, a real magician. Again, I found Bill to be so believable and relatable. With “The Magician,” I believed that Bill, playing a magician, knew what he was doing.”

Of course Bill is best remembered–largely due to the proliferation of the Marvel Cinematic Universe–for the Marvel Comics-based television series “The Incredible Hulk,” which aired on CBS between 1977 and 1982 over five seasons.

In “The Incredible Hulk,” Bill plays Dr. David Banner, a brilliant scientist who becomes a fugitive after a cell-altering process causes him to transform into the show’s titular monstrous green being, played by Lou Ferrigno, whenever Banner experiences great anger or stress. “[Bill] was my first, and only, choice for David Banner,” said Kenneth Johnson, the show’s creator and executive producer. “The network [was] very happy that I convinced Bill to come aboard. He was just terrific as David Banner.”

Following the end of the series, Bill and Ferrigno reprised their roles from the series in the 1988 NBC made-fortelevision film “The Incredible Hulk Returns,” followed by the films “The Trial of the Incredible Hulk” (1989) and “The Death of the Incredible Hulk,” both of which were directed by Bill. “Bill took me under his wing and taught me a lot,” said Ferrigno. “He was the first star [whom] I ever met. Bill was very genuine, quick, witty. I remember being so proud when Bill said to me: ‘Your character has connected with the public.’”

Born and raised in the bustling city of San Francisco, California, actor Bill Bixby, best remembered for the television series “The Incredible Hulk,” nonetheless discovered and fell in love with the outdoor lifestyle at an early age.

Throughout his childhood and teenage years, Bill spent many summers vacationing with his parents in the Sierra Nevada mountain range, specifically within the range’s Cisco Grove region, where Bill’s mother’s family owned an acreage

compound. Between 1955 and 1957, Bill spent much of his summers working as a bellhop and fledgling entertainment organizer at the Jackson Lake Lodge in remote northwestern Wyoming.

In July 1971, as a wedding present to his first wife, actress Brenda Benet, Bill purchased 110 acres of land alongside the beautiful McKenzie River in Lane County, Oregon. Bill’s ranch, which was known as the Hidden Valley Ranch, served as his primary vacation home and sanctuary throughout the rest of his career and life.

Whenever Bill visited Oregon, he stayed at the property’s main house, which could accommodate four people and offered a clear view of the surrounding McKenzie River Valley. Off to the west, there was Finn Creek, which ran behind the property’s barn and slaughter house.

To manage the property, the land and ranch, Bill selected his beloved maternal aunt, Ellen Hayes, who lived in Oregon until her death in 1997, and her husband, Ernest Hayes, who died in Oregon in 1986. “They [Ellen and Ernest] did a fair job of buying and registering cattle and maintaining the buildings and land,” said Ellen’s son, John Schubert, who died in June 2022. “Financially, the ranch wasn’t profitable, self-sufficient, nor would I say that it was a money pit. Bill loved the ranch. He needed someone to manage the ranch, and he was very happy with how [Ernest] and Mom took care of the property while Bill was in California.”

Diagnosed with cancer, Bill made his last visit to the beautiful Hidden Valley Ranch in Oregon, where he celebrated Christmas with family, including his Aunt Ellen and mother Jane. Bill died on November 21, 1993, in California, at the age of 59.

Lou Ferrigno & Bill Bixby in The Incredible Hulk November 4, 1977 –May 12, 1982

Bill Bixby & Ray Walston in My Favorite Martian September 29, 1963 – May 1, 1966

Bill Bixby as Tony Blake in The Magician March 17, 1973 – April 15, 1974