The inevitability of the Burdoin Fire
Jordan Mayberry For The senTinel
The hazy skies and ashy scent are no illusion—wildfires are up this year. Goldendale and the greater Gorge region have suffered a series of significant burns, including the Rowena Fire, the Maryhill Loops Fire, and the Burdoin Fire, all appearing in quick succession. The Gorge has had little room to breathe, both literally and figuratively. However, the sudden surge in wildfires, even beyond expected seasonal levels, was evident months in advance; indeed, it was almost inevitable. The Gorge region endured an unusually mild winter overall between 2024 and 2025, marked by mild temperatures and scant snowfall. Nationally, average winter temperatures were 5.4 degrees Fahrenheit above the 1991-2020 baseline, with even starker contrasts in the Pacific Northwest. This was followed by early snowmelt into spring, raising immediate alarm bells among conservationists. The Washington State Department of Ecology warned of increased wildfire risk for this year, stating: “Snow is melting earlier in the spring, leading to soil and forests that are drier and stay dry longer.”
That early snowmelt also led to unexpectedly high streamflow during spring 2025, even in the
Fawn in the field: a closer look
lorrie Fox
For The senTinel
A diverse array of wildlife calls Klickitat County home throughout its vast variety of habitats that include forests, prairies, wetlands, and protected areas along the banks of the Columbia and Klickitat Rivers. Among the wildlife, according to the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW), are partially migratory mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) and Columbian black-tailed deer (Odocoileus hemionus columbianus), a subspecies of mule deer. However, a hunting website says that white-tailed deer (endangered) and hybrids also call Klickitat County home.
face of low overall precipitation.
In an April drought report, Jacob Genuise of the Washington State Climate Office explained: “The three main factors that influence natural streamflow are
melting snowpack, rainfall, and groundwater, the last of which is itself largely determined by snowmelt and rainfall.” He continued, “Given that we have seen below normal precipitation, a likely ex-
planation for higher flows is the earlier-than-normal snowmelt.”
These increased streamflows did not prevent the Department of Ecology from issuing an emergency drought declaration for the
Yakima watershed in early April, extending its concern to Klickitat County. According to the department, “Yakima - area reservoir storage is currently 59% of normal for this time of year, the fifth lowest level recorded since 1971.” These drought conditions are expected to worsen wildfire hazards. “This leads to wildfires that can burn hotter and spread faster,” the Department stated. The causal chain is clear: the drier the fuel, the faster the burn; the faster the burn, the bigger the fire.
fawn
Last month, this reporter was surprised to see a new fawn lying in our wheat field, hidden in plain sight, veiled by the shade of a tire on a 12-ton irrigation hose reel. And I didn’t know what to do!
“It’s common for people to see fawns alone this time of year,”
Adult deer (female does and male bucks) can be seen grazing wheat and hayfields, nibbling gardens, crossing roads, and nesting near trees or houses, while fawns (baby deer), with their reddish brown coats sprinkled with white dots, blend into their surroundings.
Funds needed for Pioneer Monument refurbishment
Melissa Uhles
For The senTinel
Gary Crevling is working with the Klickitat County Historical Society and the Presby Museum to get the Pioneer Monument on the Courthouse lawn refurbished. When asked why he was interested in this project, he says, “I had family from the Klickitat Valley; three of my great-grandparents are on that monument.”
He explains it took some time to figure out who was in charge of the monument. Crevling wasn’t sure if it was the county or the city. After some research, he discovered that anything relating to the monument is under the purview of the Klickitat County Historical Society.
Praising the staff at the Presby Museum for their help, Crevling says, “They helped me find two great-grandparents’ homesteads.
Those folks know their stuff.” He adds he couldn’t imagine being able to get that level of help-
fulness in Seattle, where he now resides.
Five years in the making, the monument was dedicated in 1940. Over 250 Klickitat pioneers have their names carved on the granite monument. These are settlers who arrived prior to 1880. Some of the last names will be familiar to some descendants who still live in the area.
Crevling explained that while one side looks great—it was restored 12 years ago—the other three sides have weathered over time, making some of the names hard to read. Interestingly, Pioneer Rock and Monument is the name of the company that will be commissioned to do the restoration. The process involves painting each side with a watered-down molasses mixture, which doesn’t go into carved letters. Next, they will spray it with black paint that goes inside the lettering. The last step is to hose off the molasses. This
“The doe knows where she left her fawn and will return for it.
“If you find a fawn alone, more likely than not, it is safe and healthy,” says Sepulveda. “The
says Jennifer Sepulveda, communications manager of Wildlife Program, Climate and Sustainability Initiatives, WDFW. “Often, people worry that they’ve been abandoned or that they need to try to help the fawn. However, it is normal for does to leave their fawns alone, even for prolonged periods of time, while the doe feeds. A fawn’s natural instinct is to hide, and it will lie still and quietly until its mother returns,” Sepulveda says.
Help on home rebuilding
In the June 2025 Drought Report, Genuise detailed the course of the conditions and how they affected the water cycle. “Warm and very dry conditions in June 2025 contributed to worsening drought conditions and declining streamflow statewide,” he said. Streamflow dropped steeply heading into summer: “Almost all basins have below normal flow, and many across western Washington and the Cascades are now in the ‘much below normal’ category. This means 10% or fewer years have seen lower streamflow during June in these basins,” Genuise explained. Streambeds were left bare, and the ground moisture evaporated. The setup for a dry summer was all but written for an area already at high risk. At the geographic crossroads of rodger nichols
For The senTinel
One question facing those who lost homes in the National Scenic Area on both sides of the Columbia is, “What hoops do I have to jump through to rebuild?”
Columbia River Gorge Commission Executive Director Krystyna Wolniakowski and Gorge Commission Planner Mackenzie Aamodt visited the Klickitat County Commissioners meeting last Tuesday to provide some answers.
“We’ve been thinking about what it is we can do to be as helpful as possible so that people have a smoother process for rebuilding,” Krystyna said.
“We are going to do everything we can to not have any barriers, and we’re even considering some modifications to our current rules.”
To that end, she said, the Commission had put together a question-and-answer document with key points about the process. If you rebuild in the same footprint in the same location, you’ll be allowed to skip a cultural survey requirement in your review. For that, you will have to provide documentation about the original structure, particularly if you don’t have any pictures.
You’ll still have to comply with approved building materials and colors. Despite what you may have heard, yes you can build with a metal roof, as long as it is nonreflective.
You even have a little wiggle room in that you can increase the footprint by up to 10 percent over the home that was lost. The definition of “footprint” in this case includes covered decks, porches, and attached garages.
If you have to rebuild at a different location on the property, you’ll need a licensed professional to demonstrate the original site is no longer usable; and the new site can’t be more visible than the original site. You can temporarily live in an RV or a tent at the site for up to 60 days in every 12-month period, and you can put one new 60-square-foot ten-foot-tall shed without review.
Gorge Commission
Lorrie Fox
often fawns seen alone are perfectly fine; mom is usually nearby.
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This week’s Goldendale’s Attic Mystery Picture
We don’t expect you to be able to name all 35 people in this picture. But to win today’s grand prize—a tasty mint from the candy dish on our counter (yes, technically anyone can
take one, but this is one we hand you personally)—just name 30 of them. Okay, yes, we’re kidding. So are these bicycle aficionados? Why so many of them? Where was this taken?
When? Why? Darned if we can say. All we know is this picture ran in The Sentinel sometime, lost in the annals of yesteryear. If you know anything about it, please send us an email
(info@goldendalesentinel. com), or give us a call (509773-3777), or drop in at the office—and remember, you’re welcome to come in and take a look at the original photograph.
L ooking Back
August 6, 1915 – 110 Years Ago
Niva and Abshier, the big merchants of Centerville, have completed the erection of a brick store building in that city 30 x 86 feet in size and one story in height. They have just begun the erection of another brick building adjoining that one which will be the same size. N. B. Brooks of this city has the contract for both buildings. The Hardin Brothers are doing the mason work on the same.
August 1, 1935 – 90 Years Ago
One of the largest logs ever hauled in this vicinity was delivered to the Klickitat Pine Box Company last week by Ted Guinan. It was taken from the John Kaidera stand of timber in the Grayback section. Measuring 53 inches at the smallest end, the log was five feet in diameter and 60 feet in height and is expected to scale better than 2,500 feet. It will be dynamited into quarters before being sawn.
August 3, 1939 – 86 Years Ago
Miss Dorothy Porter, for the past two years a teacher at the Dot School, has signed a contract to teach during the coming year in a Centralia, Washington, grade school. Dot, according to present plans, will not operate a school. Because only a few children of grade school age now reside in the district, arrangements are now underway to transport all the children in the district to the Bickleton school.
August 1, 1940 – 85 Years Ago
Four Klickitat County horses are in the Army now following the special U. S. Calvary inspection held at the Yeackel ranch last Saturday. Of the group of 10 horses presented for examination Major F. W. Koester, remount service officer, selected four. The four selected brought a top price of $150 each. They were sold by Tom Miller, Mark Kayser, Read Brothers of Alderdale, and Jake Ellsworth.
August 6, 1955 – 70 Years Ago
Lewis and Clark Diary: It was a week of frustration and disappointment for the men of the Lewis and Clark expedition 150 years ago. The party was in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains in western Montana, summer was drawing to a close, and still the men were unable to approach the frightened Shoshone Indians. Without the help of the Indian nation, the commanding officers knew they could not cross through the intricate mountain passes. They needed guides and pack horses. Unless they could make contact with the Indians soon, snow would choke the passes. One day Captain Lewis was scouting ahead of the main party and sighted an Indian brave mounted on an elegant horse. Lewis waved a pocket mirror and other trinkets at him and slowly walked toward the rider. The Indian watched curiously as Lewis approached. Suddenly, one of Lewis’s men made a quick movement. The startled Indian wheeled his horse and disappeared.
August 1, 1985- 40 Years Ago
Goldendale Community Library will be closing August 4, but only for a little while and for good reason. Library workers need a few weeks to move their books and shelving from the temporary location on Columbus Avenue to the newly renovated and expanded library on W. Burgen Street. According to Liberian Jean Thompson, a grand reopening is now scheduled for Saturday, August 17. And after some remodeling, the temporary Columbus Avenue structure will be handed over to the city for use as a new City Hall. The original library structure was built in 1914 with a grant of $8,000 from the Carnegie Foundation. The renovation—which added two large wings to the structure and modernized it throughout—cost $1.1 million.
—Richard Lefever Klickitat County Historical Society
Points to ponder:
Three conspiracy theorists walk into a bar. You can’t tell me that’s just a coincidence. I started a band called 999 Megabytes. We haven’t done a gig yet.
Voter: “Vote for you? Ha! I wouldn’t vote for you if you were St. Peter himself.” Candidate: “If I were St. Peter, you wouldn’t be in my district.”
What do you call an Arab dairy farmer? A milk sheikh.
Monday
This photo has been colorized. Betty Zesiger, Rex Maurer, and a few others were able to identify the people in this picture of a First Aid class in 1957. Front row, left to right: Ivan Allen, Garnder Rowley, Ronnie Speakerman, and Mike
Dugan. Middle row, left to right: Gary Grownwald, Glen Hamilton, Alan Riley, Dan Miller, Mike McCune, and Michael Jensen. Back row, left to righ: Rick Thompson, unknown, unknown, and Ron Hillman.
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Board
At its July meeting, the Goldendale School Board adopted a new strategic plan—one that honors the strong traditions of our community while looking ahead to the skills and mindsets our students will need for the future.
A key responsibility of any school board is to create a strategic vision that guides a district’s priorities. This vision is not created in isolation. Over the course of the past school year, the GSD board sought input from families, staff, students, and community members through surveys, listening sessions, and team meetings. That feedback directly shaped the direction we’re now taking.
Strategic vision that is clear and ambitious guides the district’s direction. The collaboratively created framework will be used for decision making and continuous improvement.
Guest Column Ellen Perconti, GSD Superintendent
One of the most exciting additions to this new plan is the Graduate Profile—a clear and shared description of the knowledge, skills, and dispositions students should develop by the time they leave our schools. It’s more than just a checklist; it reflects our community’s hopes and expectations for young people as they move into adulthood. The graduate profile encompasses traditional content learning and expands to other skills that we know are essential for life.
The Graduate Profile identifies four key areas of growth:
• Cultivates competence and knowledge: Graduates will think critically, apply their learning and take ownership of the learning and future.
• Sustains well-being: Graduates will have a strong sense of self and understand how their actions, interactions, and learning will make a difference.
• Demonstrates resilience and adaptability: Graduates will be able to persist and adapt to meet diverse challenges, using self-motivation, confidence, and positivity to stay driven and advocate for themselves.
• Contributive learner: Graduates will contribute positively to their communities by staying involved and developing connections.
This profile will serve as a guide for teaching and learning across the district. It will shape how we talk about student growth, how we measure success, and how we create learning experiences that prepare students for life after graduation. The Board will monitor progress and celebrate growth as we work together toward these outcomes.
To support this effort, the Board also adopted a data reporting calendar aligned with the strategic plan. Each month, the Board will receive updates on progress toward our goals—creating a consistent cycle of accountability, transparency, and celebration.
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Burn-out has got to go
The Festival of Wheels gave it another try this year. It seems the attendance has dwindled to much lower levels than when the event was new, 10 years ago. There are a lot of competing car shows this time of year, so it doesn’t surprise me . This year Goldendale Motorsports Association and ABATE brought back the burn-out, which was tried several times in the past with questionable benefits to the town. This year someone had the brilliant idea to use the old skateboard park as a place to stage the return of the burnout. It was held on the concrete slab, a tempting medium for anyone inclined to bum rubber. Rednecks of many degrees, punk kids or maybe the little old lady from Pasadena. I personally was left with a bad taste in my mouth and lungs. Even though I made it a point to stay away from the burn-out and was at my home where I thought I would escape the noise and smoke, when the toxic cloud rose from the park and drifted over the Little Klickitat River Park (the swimming pool) on to the kids and families at the pool and on to me while I was sitting on my property. We were contaminated by the toxins in the smoke, and my eyes and throat were imitated, and my lungs filled with carbon monoxide and other cancer causing toxic compounds
for three hours. I think the city of Goldendale needs to rethink supporting burnouts in our park. Next year don’t issue a permit to any group that wants to burn-out. There are places in the county where it could be held, just not in the city please. I hate toxic smoke, and you should too.
On Sept 4 I will be asking the mayor and his administration to make an ordinance forbidding anyone from reckless unsafe burnouts in any ones neighborhood or any street in the Goldendale city limits. I would appreciate some support from like-minded citizens at the council meeting. Let them know how you feel.
Ken McKune Goldendale
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I recently received an updated “Terms for Business and Deposit Account Agreement” from Columbia Bank. I am not in the habit of reading the fine print but for some reason this time I did. I came across an “added” line that I found very concerning. Again, this line is both for personal and business accounts. It reads: “We may refuse to open and account and may close your account at any time for any reason or for no reason at all.”
“For No Reason At All” I particularly found offensive.
I contacted the bank for an explanation. The answer was essentially that “we wouldn’t do that.” Then why is it in your documents, I asked. The answer was to send me up the chain of command. The second person gave the same answer as the first and then was to have me contacted by some-one higher up. That person has not contacted me after more than a week so I am following through on what I told the bank contacts I was going to do—write a letter to the editor to be sure local folks are aware of how Columbia Bank is choosing to deal with its account holders.
My concern is that a comment as broad as this opens the door for abuse. I have had no difficulties with our local branch and am sorry that the headquarters has decided to take such a hard line. It ap-pears I will need to look for a bank that does not behave in this manner.
Ken Margraf Goldendale
Letters from the community
Don’t dump animal bodies
Monday I walked my dog along the segment of the Little Klickitat River between Ekone Park and the swimming pool. This area is visited by groups of families and little kids during summer break and other dog walkers, so I pick up trash along the way to keep the trail clean. I did not expect to see what I saw. I found an Amazon box along the path by the river, and I picked it up thinking it was just a discarded box.
Instead I discovered in the box a dead kitten, maybe about three or four months old, not a newborn. It was wrapped in a pink towel just the head peeked out. It looks like the box had been duct taped and maybe thrown into the river. Apparently someone fished it out, opened the
box and left the dead kitten there in the box on the path.
I’ve never had this happen before. I was aghast. Not knowing what to do, I hauled the box out of the path and took it to the trash barrel by the swimming pool. I do not believe that disposing of dead cats is allowed in a waste management bin, so I left it by the barrel and notified the pool management.
Folks, there are lots of families with little kids that play on that segment of the Little Klickitat. To the public, I just want to say this: we are a civilized community, and this is not the way to dispose of unwanted animals. Do not dispose of unwanted or dead animals in our area rivers—for the health of our rivers, not to mention our children. Take the animal to one of our area
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vets and drop them off.
To those of us who have means to donate to the vets for temporary care and perhaps humane disposal of unwanted pets, and to the group charged with developing a plan for animal control facilities: get to work! You’re taking too long. Finally, to those of us who love the park facilities and especially the paths of the Little Klickitat River along the segment between Ekone Park and the swimming pool: let’s take care of our little patch of heaven. Write to littleklickitattrailfriends@gmail.com, and let’s meet to form a group to care of and improve our nature walk.
Michelle Fortier Goldendale
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I wanted to share this news and heartfelt words from the LaMarrs with everyone here in the Glenwood community. The thunderstorm that recently occurred here in Glenwood hit some residences hard with large hail, heavy rain, and very strong winds. Carl and Jody LaMarr, owners of one residence, were out of town and arrived home to find the roof torn off their beautiful new home. The hail and rain caused many of the furnishings and special things inside to be damaged or ruined. Was it a strong microburst or perhaps a small tornado? They were the only residents to experience serious damage. We saw some down strikes around the Glenwood area but only had a brief downpour here at our place compared to what others experienced.
Carl and Jody told me, “We would like to thank our wonderful community for their support and true friendship.” They are now waiting on the insurance adjuster so they can work toward getting into a home and back to their normal lives. They went on to say, “We are both humbled and grateful that nobody else had any damage. This has been a devastating event for us, but we are managing to look for the positive and are going to continue to move forward.”
The Klickitat County Fair is just around the corner. If you get a chance drive over to support our Mt. Adams 4-H kids as they show and sell their steers, pigs, sheep, rabbits, goats, and other project animals. It really gives our kids a boost of
H ometown
confidence when they know their community is rooting for their success at the fair. You can contact Kelly, Travis, or Chris Miller if you would like to donate to the Market Stock Sale fund to help ensure that our 4-H kids have successful sales of their market animals at the fair.
Students will return to school here in Glenwood on Wednesday, August 27. The latest school newsletter has a list of required supplies each child should bring to school with them. Mrs. Troh is in the school office on weekdays if you have any questions about supplies, schedules, enrollment, or pretty much anything else. She has all the answers. Thank you for being our great go-to person at the school, Mrs. Troh. High School volleyball practices begin the day after the county fair, August 18. This year Glenwood and Trout Lake will have combined volleyball teams, and the team will be known as Lakewood. Jaecee Hoctor of Glenwood and Heidi Crow of Trout Lake will be the coaches. I think it’s going to be a very exciting, successful year for the Lakewood girls and wish them a great season. It was good to learn that, as of August 3, evacuation levels for the Burdoin Fire have been rescinded. Our hearts are with those who are now faced with rebuilding their homes and putting their lives back in order. Thanks again to all who have helped with suppression or donations.
GHS Cheer Camp raises funds for next year
Melissa Uhles
For The SenTinel
Goldendale High School Cheerleaders led a camp at the end of July, open to participants ages five to 18. The cost was $200, and camp was held Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. until 1 p.m. each day. Campers brought their own sack lunches but on Thursday were treated to a pizza party. Friday was an advanced clinic for older students over the age of 12. In addition to learning a cheerleading routine, participants played games, learned how to do strenuous exercises that included a lot of pushups, and competed for a “spirit” award each day.
As most parents probably already know, outside of pool camps for younger kids and vacation bible school camps in the area, there aren’t a lot of summer camp opportunities for teens. GHS cheerleading camp promised a chance for a variety of ages to have fun, get exercise, and make friends.
The summer camp culminated in a Friday evening performance on the old field at Goldendale High School. Campers performed with seasoned cheerleaders as parents snapped pictures. Undeterred by sweltering summer heat, the kids enthusiastically did their cheers and a dance routine. Afterwards, I reached out to the cheerleading coach,
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Washington’s alreadysqueezed food bank system expects further pressure as an estimated 170,000 residents stand to lose food stamp benefits under the president’s tax cut law.
Food banks already face high demand and difficult choices about how much they can stay open and what food they can hand out. Many are also burning through reserves they built up during the COVID era, when more donations were rolling in to help people struggling to buy food. This comes as inflation and other factors have kept grocery prices high, worsening food insecurity.
Temporary boosts to payments under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, that began during the pandemic ended in 2023.
And since President Donald Trump returned to office in January, his administration has cut hundreds of millions of dollars worth of
Holly Howell, to ask her more about the camp.
Sentinel: What is the money raised from cheer camp used for?
Holly: [It] goes directly toward supporting the GHS Cheer Program. These funds help cover a variety of essential expenses, including new poms, uniforms, warmer warm-ups, travel costs, upcoming competition fees, new cheer mats, and more.
Sentinel: What were some of your favorite camp moments?
Holly: One of our favorite camp moments was a game called “Lovers’ Leap.” Watching campers and cheerleaders race to jump into a two-person cradle position—trying not to be the last one left—was absolutely hilarious! There were always a few pairs who ended up rolling on the ground, scrambling to “leap” into someone’s arms before being left standing alone.
Sentinel: What compelled you to coach cheerleaders and lead a camp?
Holly: Last year my daughter was on the squad when I heard the previous coach would be stepping down. I was asked if I might be interested in the position, but at the time I declined due to personal commitments— including running a family-owned coffee business. However, through prayer and reflection, my faith ultimately led me to reconsider. When I brought the decision
shipments to food banks and funding for them to buy produce, meat, dairy and other food products from local farmers.
Aaron Czyzewski, advocacy and public policy director at Seattle-based Food Lifeline, likens the current circumstances to “going into another pandemic.”
“But this time without the disease, and this time without the federal government coming to help,” he said. “In fact, they’re running away and then taking things with them.”
The West Seattle Food Bank, for example, has had to offer cheaper ground turkey or turkey hot dogs as protein options instead of chicken thighs, as it navigates slashed funding and unprecedented need, said Robbin Peterson, the food bank’s development director. The organization also only provides milk every other week now.
Peterson’s food bank serves anywhere from 300 to 400 people on a normal day, to 650 on a busier day.
to my family, the vote was unanimous: I applied and awaited the interview. My background as a fitness professional—including roles as a master trainer, master fitness instructor, and motivational speaker—along with my earlier career as a paramedic—helped me feel confident stepping into the role.
I also bring five years of personal cheerleading experience, which gives me an added sense of readiness.
I’ve always loved working with youth, and this opportunity combines that passion with something that runs deep in my blood: competition. We’ll see how that part of the journey unfolds.
Sentinel: Does this camp help recruit future cheerleaders?
Holly: Absolutely! One of the main goals of our summer cheer camp is to serve as a feeder program for young athletes who may be interested in trying out for cheer-
“We’re barely scraping by,” she said. “We need to be ready, because it’s going to be bad.”
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program previously required ablebodied adults between the ages of 18 and 54 without dependents to work at least 20 hours per week to access food stamps. The megabill signed by Trump on July 4 raises the ceiling to age 64 and adds work requirements for parents whose children are at least 14 years old. Previously exempt veterans, former foster youth and people who are homeless would also need to work.
In Washington in April, more than 906,000 people were enrolled in SNAP and received a total of $167 million in benefits. That averages out to about $6 per day per person.
The state says 137,000 people could lose their benefits under the work requirements, and in addition, 33,000 refugees and asylees would no longer be eligible.
Unlike changes to Medic-
leading in high school. Some campers are still unsure about participating in middle school cheer, while others are in elementary school and just getting started. By investing time and effort into these younger athletes now, we help build their skills and confidence early on. As a result, they’ll be better prepared by the time they reach high school. This ultimately strengthens our cheer program and benefits the school, sports teams, and the broader community.
Sentinel: When will the next cheer camp be held?
Holly: Our next summer cheer camp is scheduled for 2026. Registration is firstcome, first-served, as the camp continues to grow each year. The community is also welcome to contact me to get summer camp dates at ghscheerleading@gsd404. org with any questions as the school year ends.
aid, cuts to SNAP take effect this year. In Washington, the food assistance program is known as Basic Food.
The new law also potentially cuts benefits for those who keep them by an average of $56 per month, according to the state, while slashing federal spending on nutrition programs nationwide by an estimated $186 billion over 10 years.
The White House has said “the mission of the program has failed,” while the GOP overhaul “promotes work, responsibility, and restores SNAP to serve the truly needy.”
What it means for a rural food bank
Many of the clients who frequent the Toppenish Community Chest on the Yakama Reservation are farmworkers. They come from across the surrounding rural communities, like Zillah, Wapato and Granger. Those towns have food banks, but people seeking food often visit several around the county to get enough.
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August 1 - 16, The Spitfire Grill, A Musical: 210 Oak Street in Bingen at The Bingen Theater. Music and Book by James Valcq. Lyrics and Book by Fred Alley. Based on the film by David Zlotoff. Upon finishing a five-year jail sentence, Perchance “Percy” Talbott heads to Gilead, a Wisconsin town whose beautiful natural surroundings she found a photograph of in a donated travel book. In the economically depressed town, Percy finds work at the Spitfire Grill, run by the tough and bitter Hannah Ferguson, who has been trying to sell the Spitfire Grill and start over. When Percy comes up with the idea of having a nationwide raffle and essay contest to find a new proprietor, she and the town learn that, in order to have a brighter future, one must first move on from the past.
The story of “The Spitfire Grill” has drawn widespread praise for its heartening take on the human spirit and its beautifully crafted score. Tickets: https://www.bigbritches.org/ Shows-Events
August 7, Ice Cream Social at the Library: 5 - 7 p.m. at the Goldendale Community Library on Burgen St. Come join us in celebrating our 75th anniversary! Hosted by The Friends of the Goldendale Library.
August 8 - 9, Goldendale United Methodist Rummage Sale Fundraiser: 8 a.m. - 3 p.m. (2 p.m. on the 9th). 109 E Broadway. Come check out our rummage sale!
August 89, Full Sturgeon Moon Celebration: 7 - 9 p.m. at the Field of Star’s Boutique. This enchanting evening will be filled with creativity, intention-setting, and the magic of the Sturgeon Moon as we gather to craft and
Regular Happenings
• Free Community Kitchen
To-Go Meals: the 2nd and 4th Monday of every month and every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday at 5 or 5:30 until the food runs out. Methodist Church on the corner of Columbus and Broadway.
• Alcoholics Anonymous, Goldendale United Methodist Church, 7-8 p.m. every Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
Monday
• Dr. Ogden’s Street Jam every Monday at 7 p.m. in front of the Goldendale Senior Center
• Lyle Lions Meeting 6 p.m. the 1st and 3rd Monday of the month. Lyle Lions Community Center.
• Popup Café – 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. Lunch and support group at the Masonic Lodge on Columbus. Café is open weekly on Monday and Wednesday.
• The Coalition for Preventing Abuse in Klickitat County (CPAKC) 4 p.m. every 2nd Monday via Zoom. 509-773-3776 or CPAKC on Facebook.
• Goldendale City Council meetings 6 p.m. 1103 S Columbus 1st and 3rd Monday of every month (Tuesday if Monday is a holiday) https://www. ci.goldendale.wa.us/
• Adult Book Discussion
Group meets every third Monday at 11 a.m.
– Goldendale Library
• One on One Tech Help 1st Monday of the month 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. at the Goldendale Library, call to set up an appointment
509-773-4487
• Goldendale School Board
Community Events
connect under its luminous glow. Guests will enjoy a variety of hands-on activities, including the creation of Circle of Dreams Wreaths, River Rock Painting, Intention Jars, and Roller Bottles — all designed to help individuals tap into their inner magic, set personal intentions, and harness the powerful energy of the Full Moon. Each craft is an opportunity to reflect, manifest, and align with the natural rhythms of the lunar cycle.
As you craft, indulge in a beautiful Charcuterie Board featuring an assortment of delicious bites, paired with a selection of local wines that highlight the flavors of our community. It’s the perfect way to unwind, connect with friends, and elevate the Full Sturgeon Moon experience. Tickets https://www.fieldofstarsboutique.com/events
August 10, Spaghetti Fundraiser: 4 - 7 p.m. at D’Avanso’s 119 E Main Street, Goldendale. Join us for a fundraiser dinner where all profits will go to the Goldendale FC U12 girls Premier team. These fierce athletes are up for a challenge! Traveling to a Yakima League this upcoming season. Support our recent ‘The Dalles Spring League Soccer’ champions and several years undefeated Klickitat County Soccer champs! All profits will go to the team for equipment, warm ups, ect!
August 12, Goldendale Mobile Market: 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. at 104 E Simcoe DRIVE-THRU distribution, up to 250 families (or while supplies last). Free food items will be distributed including an assortment of nonperishable and fresh items. Free food will be provided to anyone in need of food assistance. Our Mobile Market free food distributions serve people facing hunger. No appointment or documentation required.
August 13, Summer Reading at Your Library Wrap-Up Party: 2:30 - 4 p.m. at the Goldendale Library on Burgen St. Come celebrate the end of Summer at Your Library. Create your own glowing mini solar system! Design swirling gas giants or rocky worlds, then light them up with LED tea lights for a stunning display. There is still time to sign-up for summer reading and log your activities online or in the Beanstack app, or turn in your paper
Work Session: 2nd Monday of the month at the Primary School Library. goldendaleschools.org/ about/school-board
• Goldendale School Board Meeting: 4th Monday of the month at the High School Cafeteria.
Tuesday
• White Salmon-Bingen Rotary Meeting every Tuesday at 301 Dewalt Dr, White Salmon.
• Adult Fiber Art Social Circle: 2nd Tuesday of the month from 1:30 - 2:30 p.m. at the Goldendale Community Library
• EPIC Youth Center Games: 10-11:30 p.m. every Tuesday throughout the summer months. All students (1st grade and up) welcome to come meet new friends and play a variety of games. A release of liabilities and a parent agreement of conduct must be on file. Youth under 8 must be checked in by a parent. Visit epicyouthcenter.org for forms.
• Wellness Warriors 3 – 4 p.m. on the 3rd Tuesday of each month at the Goldendale Library Join us as our local health department nurses teach us about different wellness topics to keep ourselves safe an healthy. Topics include: Hand Hygiene, Nutrition, Physical Activity, Emotional Health, & Safety/ Injury Prevention. All ages are welcome, topics will be covered at an elementary school level.
• Board of County Commissioners meeting every Tuesday Klickitat County Courthouse, 205 S Columbus Goldendale. Visit www.klickitatcounty. org/643/Board-of-CountyCommissioners for information, agenda, and link for Zoom
log by August 31 to be entered into the Grand Prize drawings. Light refreshments will be served.
August 13 - 17 Klickitat County Fair and Rodeo: It’s a Hawaiian Hoedown! Visit https://www.klickitatcountyfair. com/ for all the events, shows, deadlines, and information on this year’s County Fair.
August 14, QuickBooks 101 - Small Business Training: 9 a.m. at the Goldendale Chamber office, 903 E Broadway. Take control of your business finances with QuickBooks 101, a beginner-friendly training led by Rebekah Johnson, owner of Golden Professional Bookkeeping. This hands-on session is perfect for small business owners, entrepreneurs, and anyone new to QuickBooks. Contact the Chamber office to sign up today!
August 15, 1st Red Cross First Aid, CPR, and AED Course: 5 - 7 p.m. at The Missing Corner, BZ Corner. Train for Moments that Matter - Safely, Effectively & Confidently. Whether you need First Aid, CPR, and AED training that satisfies OSHA-mandated job requirements, workplace, or other regulatory requirements, or you just want to know how to keep your loved ones safe, the American Red Cross is your “go-to” source of emergency and safety training for more than a century. More than 5 million people choose our award-winning courses to learn life-saving skills each year. Instructor: Scott Cascella. Cost: $90 Signup Link: https://www.pdxraft.com/ CPR
August 16, Sunshine Jiu Jitsu Academy’s 1 year Anniversary: 10 a.m at 42 Harms Rd in Centerville. Help us celebrate Sunshine Jiu Jitsu Academy’s first year. There will be rounds, BBQ, and shotguns!
August 16, Summer Jam 2025: Gates open at 2 p.m., at Wind Acres Farm, 154 Esteb Rd, Centerville. Join us for a celebration of healthy living & the best music on the ‘70s Live music by The Quick and Easy Boys, great food, games, and camping under the stars. There will also be a local farmers market and a showing of “Dark Side of Oz” synchronicity movie under the stars. This is the pairing of the 1973 Pink Floyd album The Dark Side of the Moon with the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz. This
meeting.
• TOPS Club Inc. – Taking Pounds off Sensibly 10 a.m. at he American Legion on Broadway. Questions? Sally/ojala@gmail. com.
• KC Fair Board Meetings 1st Tuesday of the month is a Workshop, 3rd Tuesday of the month is a Board Meeting.
• Soroptimist International of Goldendale, 5:30 p.m. the second and fourth Tuesday of the month. Dedicated to helping women and youth in our community and worldwide. All welcome. Contact Betty 509250-3746.
• BINGO night: 3 p.m. on the 2nd Tuesday of the month at the High Prairie Community Center on Struck Rd. Meals and cards for purchase (discounted kids’ meals) Come meet your neighbours and enjoy some family fun!
Wednesday
• PARENTS of Murdered Children group meets the 2nd Wednesday of the month at the American Legion at 6 p.m.
• GAMES! Pinochle, cards, dominoes, and more every Wednesday at 1 p.m. at the Goldendale Senior Center on East Main. All are welcome!
• Healing Song Circle: 6:30 –7:30 p.m. every 4th Wednesday of the month, Missing Corner in BZ Corner. By donation $1020, no one turned away. RSVP at laurarosedoctor@gmail.com, 509-637-9425.
• Family Storytime: 10:30
- 11:30 a.m. at the Goldendale Community Library.
• Learn and Play! – 2 – 3 p.m. every 2nd Wednesday of the month at the Goldendale Pri-
produces numerous moments of incredible synchronicity where the film and the album appear to merge together beautifully. Visit https://sites.google.com/view/ summerjam25/home to RSVP. August 21, Nights In White Salmon ~ Artisan Market & Live Music: 5 - 9 p.m. at Pioneer Park in White Salmon, 320 W Jewett. Join us for Nights in White Salmon, a vibrant Third Thursday event happening June through September in downtown White Salmon, Washington. Set against the stunning backdrop of the Columbia River Gorge, this community celebration brings together live music, local art, food, wine, and fun for all ages. Enjoy performances by talented local musicians and performers in our expanded 2025 music zone at Kula Chiropractic. Browse the artisan market featuring handcrafted jewelry, pottery, textiles, and more—vendors will be set up in the parking lots of Kula Chiropractic and Klickitat Pottery. Dine and sip your way through town with gourmet eats and sweet treats from local restaurants, and stop by our tasting rooms for locally made wine, craft beer, or a botanical cocktail at Gander and Goose. Nights in White Salmon is family-friendly, community-focused, and a great way to support local artists, businesses, and creatives. Mark your calendar and come celebrate summer under the Gorge sky.
August 23, Family Scavenger Hunt: 6 - 8 p.m. at The Lodge, 219 S Columbus across from the Courthouse in the old Mason’s Hall. Complete your quest then share your discoveries to earn root beer floats and a family prize! Sponsored by CPAKC, Umpqua Bank, and WAGAP. For more information contact 509-281-2330
August 29 - September 1, An Tir September Crown 2025: Hosted by the Shire of Hauksgarðr! It is the Crowns wish that the populace would come together to celebrate and bear witness as new heirs are chosen. Noble and chivalrous fighters will come from every corner of the kingdom to meet in combat and vie for the Sable Throne! This event will feature the Crown Tournament, as well as activities and contests in rapier, archery, thrown weapons, equestrian, Arts, Sciences, Bardic, and more. Please join us to witness
mary School. Fun and learning for you and your little ones up to 5 years!
• Snowden Community Council Meetings – 1st Wednesday of the month at 6:30 at the Cherry Lane Fire Station
• Kiwanis 7 a.m. Simcoe Café 1st and 3rd Wednesday of the month.
• Popup Café – 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. lunch and support group at the Masonic Lodge on Columbus until further notice. Café is open weekly on Monday and Wednesday.
• Lyle Community Council Meetings are the 2nd Wednesday of the month at 6:30, Lyle Activity Center (308 Klickitat). Meetings also available via Zoom https://lylewa.com/about-us. Thursday
• Dog Obedience and Agility Classes Fundraiser for the 4H Dog Project. Every Thursday at .6 p.m. all summer at Father’s House Fellowship Hall. Proof of vaccinations required Kids and Adults welcome Puppies need 1st series of shots completed 509 -250-1623 for more info
• EPIC Youth Center Games: 6:30 - 8 p.m. every Thursday. All ages welcome though a release of liabilities and parent agreement of conduct must be on file. Youth under the age of 8 must be checked in by a parent. Visit epicyouthcenter.org for forms.
• Rosary every Thursday evening at 6 p.m. at the Holy Trinity Catholic Church 307 Schuster in Goldendale.
• Drinking Democratically 6 - 7:30 p.m. the third Thursday of the month. Food and drink available for purchase. Call Carol for location 971-404-1935
the grand tournament to choose An Tir’s next Heirs! Reservation information for Camping, RVs, Eric space, Merchants and the tournaments will be coming soon! Check the calendar page for updates: https:// antir.org/events/septembercrown-6/. Email us with requests or questions: SeptemberCrown@ antir.org
August 29, Things I Hide From Dad: 7: 30 p.m. at 210 Oak Street in Bingen at The Bingen Theater. Comedy night , a multisensory storytelling show recommended 18+. A One-Man Show by Travis Abels. Award-winning storyteller and comedian Travis Abels brings you an unforgettable solo performance that’s as hilarious as it is heartfelt. In Things I Hide From Dad, Travis takes audiences on a deeply personal, and wildly entertaining, journey through his childhood as a preacher’s son in a doomsday church, where even his thoughts about sex felt like they could end the world.
Told with wit, warmth, and immersive sound design (all triggered live on stage), this 75-minute rollercoaster of memory dives into growing up in a world where shame was sacred, rebellion was silent, and Kenny G was the soundtrack to everything.
Voted a Fringe Festival Favorite and hailed as a “multisensory masterclass,” Things I Hide From Dad combines standup, storytelling, and theater into a uniquely raw, funny, and moving experience. It’s a coming-ofage story for anyone who’s ever felt like the weird kid, the black sheep, or the one who just didn’t quite fit in.
August 30, Comedy night with Northwest Comedian Phat Kidd: 5:30 -6:30 p.m. at the Goldendale Grange Hall on East Darland. Join us for a family night of comedy with Northwest comedian Phat Kidd!
August 30 - September 1, Annual RVOD Freeride, and Tour de Maryhill: This year we are both a points race for the NADL championship and a qualifier for the 2026 USA National Downhill Skate and Luge Team. Be sure to check back for format details.
Registration Opens June 7th at 10 a.m. PST at www.maryhillratz.com. The entry fee is $300.00 USD for all three days, payable online or at the hill, or $125 USD
• Learn and Play! 10:30 –11:30 a.m. at the White Salmon Library. Stories, songs, puppets, crafts and more for young children (birth through 5 yrs) and their parents or caregivers presented by White Salmon Valley Community Library Staff. Free book for each participant provided by the FVRL Foundation.
• Goldendale Grange #49 Meeting – 4th Thursday of the month at 6:30 p.m. at 228 E Darland in Goldendale
• Bingo at the Goldendale American Legion Thursdayscard packets go on sale 6:30 p.m. game starts 7 p.m. Food available
• Bingo - High Prairie Community Center, 2nd Thursday of every month, doors open at 6, starts at 6:30. Questions contact Lori Sweeney 503-260-7129
• WAGAP Mobile Food Bank – 1st Thursday of the month: 9-10:30 a.m. Wishram school, 10:45 - 11:30 Wishram Heights Housing, 12–2 p.m. Dallesport Community Center, 3-5 p.m. Lyle Lions Club. 3rd Thursday of the month: 9-11 a.m. Trout Lake Baptist Church, 12-2 p.m. BZ Corner Community Building. Call 509-493-2662 ext 208 for more information.
• Narcotics Anonymous, 7 - 8 p.m. weekly at United Methodist Church, 109 E Broadway Goldendale. Friday
• Open sewing, knitting, or whatever you do every Friday from 1 - 4 p.m. at Wild Daffodil and 3C’s Fabric in their new location $10.
• Lyle Community Game Day 1 p.m. the third Friday of every month at the Lyle Lions Community Center.
for a single day pass payable at the hill only.
August 30, Bickleton Community Day: 9 a.m. - 3 p.m. in Bickleton. Car show, live music, pie sale, museum tours, flea market, arts and crafts, food vendors. For more information visit Bickletoncommunity.org or call 509-896-2007. Any vendors interested in more information can contact 509-896-2113.
August 30, Forrest VanTuyl/Shadow Basket at the Trout Lake Hall Doors open at 6, show at 7 p.m. Working cowboy, mule packer, and fencepost enthusiast Forrest VanTuyl’s music hews closer to the literature of Annie Proulx and Cormac McCarthy than to Marty Robbin’s Gunfighter Ballads. Inspired by his time on horseback in the remote corners of eastern Oregon and Washington, Forrest’s songs are redolent with carefully crafted details of rural life in the West, speaking of the taciturn men and women who work this land of beauty, raising and herding cattle through landscapes that would be inhospitable to most agricultural crops. There’s a kind of deep pride to this work that unites folks who live this far from the mainstream, and Forrest is one of the few songwriters who can truly express it. Shadow Basket is an indie folk/rock band from San Juan Island, WA. They have toured through the PNW, West Coast, and Mountain West. Their upcoming album is scheduled to be released in August 2025. Their live performance brings an artfully crafted sound, melded harmonies, and droney jams into the room.
August 30, Wa’paas Basket Weaving workshop with Chestina Dominguez: 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. at the Maryhill Museum of Art. To honor Indigenous and traditional ways of healing, join us to practice and learn how to make a Wa’paas. You may bring your own materials and projects to work on. We have materials on hand as well. This learning event is led by Chestina Dominguez, an enrolled member of the Confederated Tribes and Bands of Yakama Nation and descendant of the Warm Springs tribe. Chestina uses contemporary materials to create baskets using the ancient techniques of her ancestors.
• Bingo – 2nd & 4th Friday of the month, Mt Adams Elks Lodge 124 NE Church Ave, White Salmon. Doors open at 5:30, Bingo at 6 and the Salmon Run Grill is open from 5:30 –7:30
• Knitting and Stitching Circle 10 a.m. – 12 p.m. White Salmon Community Library Saturday
• Goldendale Farmers Market May thru October at the Goldendale Chamber of Commerce on Broadway every Saturday from 9 a.m. - 2 p.m.
• High Prairie Farmers Market 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. the first and third Saturday of the month. Vendors please call Bea 509637-0584
• Hope Neighborhood 4:306:00 p.m. 115 E Main Street, Goldendale at the Goldendale Senior Center. A time of fellowship, bible reading, and discussion for those seeking to learn and grow in God’s word.
• Lyle Lions Pancake Breakfast 1st Saturday of every month 7 a.m. -10 a.m. Omelettes and ham and eggs cooked to order. Endless Pancakes. Location: Lyle Lions Community Center 5th & State Street (Hwy 14).
• Columbia Grange meets the 2nd Saturday of every month.
• Goldendale Aglow Lighthouse meets from 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. at the Senior Center 3rd Saturday of every month, 115 E. Main St. Goldendale
• Family Storytimes 10:30 –11:30 a.m. 1st Saturday of the month @ the Goldendale Library Sunday
• Trout Lake Farmers Market: 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. at Grange Hall
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US Forest Service offices in Portland charged with wildfireprevention,scientific research, forestland management, and conservation across the Northwest would be shuttered and moved out of state under a new plan announced by the head of the US Department of Agriculture InaJuly24memo,Brooke Rollins, head of the agriculturedepartmentthatoversees the Forest Service outlined anagencyrestructuringplan that includesclosingall nine regionalForestServiceoffices across the country including the Region 6 headquartersinPortland andmoving theirfunctionsover the next year to five “hub locations” Those are: Fort Collins, Colorado; Indianapolis; Kansas City,Missouri;Raleigh,North Carolina;andSaltLakeCity
The Forest Service’s 100-year-old Pacific Northwest Research Station in Portland,alongwithsixother research stations across the country,arealsoslated tobe closedandconsolidated,with theirfunctions moved to the USDA hub in Fort Collins, accordingtothememo
“Implementationactivities will take into consideration the ongoing fire season ” Rollinswrote
The number of employees working for the US Forest Service Northwest Region Headquartersis unclearand agencyspokespersonsdidnot provide a number via email There are roughly 246 permanent full-timeemployees, mostly scientists, employed by the Pacific Northwest Research Station according toits website Officesfor botharelocated in Portland
It’s unclear if employees would be able to keep their jobs and relocate or if there willbecuts
In an email to the Capital Chronicle,anunnamedUSDA spokesperson for the Forest Service Region 6 office said Rollins’ announcement last weekwasa“firststep”
“Someaspectsof thereorganizationwilltakeplaceover thecomingmonths whileotherswilltakemoretime,”they wrote “We recognize this change may be difficult but we are hopeful that affected employees will remain with usthrough thistransitionas weworktoimproveandcontinue delivering benefits to the people and communities weserve”
Oregon’s senior US Sen Ron Wyden a Democrat called the plan “inane” in an email and said he would fightit
“You don’t have to look at amaptoknowthatUtahand Colorado are hundreds of miles away from the Pacific Northwest and thus much lessaccessibleontheground to Oregonians’ needs,” he said “This latest Trump administrationproposalshutting down the Oregon office for the Forest Service takes directaimatqualityof lifein ruralOregon ”
Restructuring
Rollinssaidtherestructuringwas meant tocut agency spending by moving staff to cities witha lower cost of living and “refocusing its (USDA’s) core operations to better align with its founding mission of supporting Americanfarming,ranching, andforestry”
About4,600 people workat the department’s headquarters in Washington, DC , accordingtothememo Rollinssaidthiswouldbereduced to 2,000 as employees are movedtohubcities
The five new hub cities werechosenfor their “existingconcentrationsof current
USDA employees” a lower cost of living than DC and to “ensure USDA is located closer to the peopleit serves while achieving savings to the American taxpayer, shewrote
There are about 100,000 employees of the USDA nationwide andabout30,000 areemployeesof theUS ForestService More than15,300 people have left the agency under the Trump administration’sdeferredresignation program Rollinssaid Impact
Officials at the Oregon Departmentof Forestryhave notbeeninconversationwith USDA or Forestry Service officials about the proposed changes, according to Joy Krawczyk, a spokesperson for thestateforestry department She said moving the officesout of Portland would be inconvenient but not detrimentalto thecollaborative work between the state and federalagencies
“While not having the regional office in Portland would certainly be less convenient for in-person interactions, theability tocoordinate and collaborate isn’t as limitedbyphysicalproximity today as it was pre-COVID,” Krawczyksaid “ODFandour partner agencies regularly and effectively use the varietyof virtualcommunication toolsavailabletous We’llalso continue to work closely at thelocallevelwiththemany USFSranger districtsacross thestate”
Tom DeLuca dean of Oregon State University’s College of Forestry, said students at the college work collaboratively on projects and research with staff from both the US Forest Service NorthwestHeadquartersand the Northwest ResearchStation Many students end up goingontoworkfor the ForestServiceafter undertaking studieswithfederalscientists andstaff
DeLuca said closing the Oregon offices and moving their functions out of state would likely make that collaborationmoredifficult,and moreexpensive Hesaidthese are costs that would also be bornebyNorthwestforesters, whowouldlosethetechnical supportandongoingresearch and monitoring work that offices do to improve forest ecosystems, study pests, boost timber productionand respondtoachangingclimate
“Secretary Rollins specifically stated that one of theobjectives was to put the officeswherethefarmersare by moving people from DC tootherlocations Yetfor the US Forest Service, it takes themoutof thespecificlocations where there is a lot of forestmanagement,”DeLuca said Itsadecisionthatfeels verymuchlikeacentralized DC-baseddecisionmasqueradingasadecisionforforesters and farmers, and that’s not meetingthe needsof the foresters”
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best thing you can do is give it space and appreciate the wildlife from a distance. It’s also important to control any pets that might go near it.” Sepulveda says to contact a permitted wildlife rehabilitator if the fawn is visibly injured (showing signs of blood or a broken leg or the like).
In addition, be aware that attempting to care for wildlife without the proper skills and experience may further harm the animal and is illegal in Washington without a Wildlife Rehabilitation permit.
Not all fawns need rescuing, according to an article entitled “Fawn Rescue— Signs That a Fawn is in Trouble” by Red Creek Wildlife Center. If a fawn seems vocal but appears healthy, it may not need help. Crying is normal, particularly when a fawn is hungry. Constant loud vocalizations like bleating could indicate trouble—but if people are close,
does make any changes to its rules, that will likely take place at their next meeting on September 9.
In order to give Gorge Commissioners the background for a potential vote, Wasco County gave a number of them a tour of the devastation from the Rowena Fire on Wednesday, July 30.
At another point in the Klickitat BoCC meeting Tuesday, Jail Administrator Bill Frantz reported the generator had been successfully installed at the jail, and a Narcan vending machine had been installed in the lobby.
Frantz said he wanted to clear up some public misconceptions about Narcan and why it was provided for free to the public.
He described it as the brand name of a drug called naloxone, which temporarily stops the effects of opioids.
“It can help a person who’s unconscious and unresponsive to start breathing again,” he said. “But it
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evergreen forest and dry high-desert prairie, Klickitat County is particularly vulnerable. The region’s typical windiness increases the risk of small fires escaping control. The Burdoin Fire highlighted this full spectrum of danger: to the east, rolling prairielands threatened residences in the central region; to the west, moist forested terrain, though more resilient, remained threatened by additional factors. Among these is infestation from pine bark beetles. Higher temperatures have allowed bark beetles to thrive, killing extensive numbers of evergreen trees. These
the mother might stay away. The article states that true orphans needing urgent care are fawns born after a pregnant doe is hit by a car or those found with a deceased mother. Others should only be rescued if they show clear signs of distress, which include: lying on its side with legs outstretched; initial signs of dehydration such as dull eyes, ruffled fur, and curled ear tips; diarrhea, which is life-threatening because it soils the fur and attracts the flies that lay maggots that invade the body; and injuries such as broken bones and puncture wounds. The latter require urgent attention from a permitted wildlife rehabilitator or veterinarian as they can become infected quickly and also attract maggots. “Maggots and maggot eggs are an immediate sign of distress, and action needs to be taken quickly if the fawn is to have a chance of surviving.” And “always assess for dehydra-
only works on opioids, such as fentanyl. It has no effect on someone who’s not taking opioids. If somebody’s drunk or on methamphetamine, it will not work. Also, it cannot be used to get high, and it’s not addictive.
“Some people have called me from the community asking why we would put such a thing in our lobby. That’s why. It’s also easy and safe to administer; you can do no harm with it.”
On the negative side, Frantz said that the department continues to have two full-time correctional officer vacancies, and scheduling problems were made more difficult while several others were on leave or on vacation.
“To put some perspective on the overtime, we have one control board operator who tonight will be working his 12th shift in a row,” he said. “That’s twelve 12-hour days in a row. And we’re thankful that he covers that.”
beetles tunnel through a tree’s vascular tissue, cutting off its water supply and turning its remains into a dry, highly flammable fuel. Large swathes of forest in Klickitat County are now debilitated by beetle damage after a recent wave struck the county as well as other forests to the north. The standing population of dead conifers, left unmanaged, will spell danger in the event of an ignition. Ecological conditions are largely behind this season’s high fire risk, but social factors now play a role, too. Resources to combat wildfires have been strained by policy decisions. In 2021,
tion or injury before intervening” (redcreekwildlifecenter.com).
Sepulveda adds that a new rule in Washington became effective May 17, 2025, “prohibiting people from feeding deer, elk, or moose in the state. This rule was approved due to the high potential for feeding sites to promote disease spread, including Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD), an always-fatal disease of deer, elk, moose, and related species that was recently detected in Washington for the first time.”
It is also illegal to place feed for other wildlife if it causes deer, elk, or moose to congregate. According to the WDFW website, the most significant deer disease identified in Klickitat County is the deadly viral infection Adenovirus Hemorrhagic Disease (AHD), which was first confirmed in a mule deer herd east of Goldendale
Asked if hiring casuals would help, he responded.
“I’m just going to be blunt; it’s dangerous to have casuals come in and work in a correctional facility. It exposes us to a ton of liability. It’d be like having a parttime doctor be your surgeon. Correctional officers bring specific skills. That’s why they’re scrutinized so heavily. They have to pass physical, psychological and polygraph tests, and then they go through an extensive academy. It’s because the work they do is critical.”
Under the consent agenda, commissioners approved:
• An amendment to the agreement to the Klickitat County Health Department’s contract agreement.
• An interlocal agreement with the City of White Salmon disbursing surface transportation funds for 2025.
• A local agency federal aid project prospectus for the curve warning signs and guideposts project,
Washington State enacted House Bill 1168, committing $500 million over eight years toward wildfire preparedness. Annual funding hovered between $115 and $130 million per biennium, until the current 2025–27 budget cycle. Facing tight budgetary pressures, lawmakers reduced the biennial total to $60 million, a slash of more than 50%.
Soon after this cut, the Burdoin Fire struck the White Salmon area, prompting questions about the timing and wisdom of cutting critical resources at a point when fire seasons appeared increasingly volatile. At a moment when a
in August 2017 and again in Goldendale in August 2022. Fawns account for the most reported deaths from AHD. Symptoms include rapid breathing, foaming or drooling, diarrhea (sometimes bloody), weakness, and emaciation. Dr. Kristin Mansfield, WDFW veterinarian, says, “There is no known cure or treatment for the virus. AHD is transmitted by direct contact between deer, making it more likely for the virus to spread in areas with high deer concentrations.” While not all infected deer die, they can succumb to the virus within three to five days from exposure. The occurrence of AHD peaks midsummer and declines in the fall. It is transmitted directly between deer with no risk to humans or livestock.
The WDFW article “Why Feeding Deer and Elk is Harmful” states that feeding free-ranging deer foods including fruit such as like
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apples, or grain such as corn, can be harmful to the deer’s health, even fatal. As ruminants with four-chambered stomachs, their digestive systems are not adapted to high-carbohydrate diets, and rapid dietary changes can cause malabsorption of nutrients, leading to rumen acidosis or starvation. Specialized deer feed also requires a slow transition over several weeks. Additionally, improper feeding can increase the possibility of collisions with vehicles, property damage, and the spread of disease.
Mule deer bucks begin to compete for does during the rut, or deer mating season, that runs from late October through early December.
After a six- to seven-month gestation period, fawns are born from late April to July, peaking in June, depending on food availability. Does aged around two years usually have one fawn, while healthy does aged three to
nine years frequently give birth to twins.
This reporter feels lucky to have stumbled upon a mule deer fawn whose mother was nearby monitoring it at the height of fawning season. Together, they wandered off into the evening.
To read WDFW’s recent blog, visit their website at wdfw.medium.com/whatto-do-if-you-encounter-common-wildlife-babies-thisspring-f53dcc62e190.
To learn how to find a permitted wildlife rehabilitator visit wdfw.wa.gov/specieshabitats/living/injuredwildlife/rehabilitation/find. To learn more about diseases that affect Klickitat County deer populations, visit wdfw.wa.gov/ newsroom/news-release/ wdfw-confirms-ahdgoldendale-deer.
To learn what not to feed wildlife, visit wdfw.wa.gov/species-habitats/living/species-facts/ feeding-wildlife.
• SECO basic service operating contract for fiscal year 2026.
• A local agency federal aid project prospectus for the expansion joint repair project, CRP 377.
• A local agency federal aid project prospectus for the deck repair project, CRP 376.
• A supplement to the funding agreement for the curve warning signs and guideposts project, CRP 381.
• A supplement to the deck repair project, CRP 376.
• A supplement to the expansion joint repair project, CRP 377.
• A local agency federal aid project prospectus for the Bundle No. 2 CRP 378.
• A supplement to the Bundle No. 2 bearing repairs project, CRP 378.
bad fire season seemed less a prediction than a looming reality, the historic hollowing in funding towards wildfire preparedness has drawn sharp criticism. For Klickitat County residents, this reduction has become ever more prescient. The Burdoin Fire destroyed 14 homes, with the fate of over 250 more buildings still being determined. With lives affected by the proliferation of wildfires in the Gorge area, the question still looms as to what the remaining dry season will bring and, most importantly, what is to be done about it.
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it closer to its appearance when it was first erected on the courthouse lawn over 80 years ago. Money is currently being raised to make this project a reality. The total cost will be $1,500. While some funds have already been raised, more are needed. Crevling has promised to match any donations that are made.
When asked when this project would happen, he said, Pioneer Rock must have payment in hand before the project can get added to their schedule. All donations must be
sent by September 1 this year. Any business or community member who would like to contribute to the cause can mail a check to: Klickitat County Historical Society, P.O. Box 86, Goldendale, 98620. Alternatively, they can drop off a check at the Presby Museum. Include the words “Pioneer Monument” in the memo of the check. For those who would like to call first to see how much is still needed, the Klickitat County Historical Society phone number is: (509) 773-4303.
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These new Washington laws just took effect
Jake Goldstein-street
Washington state standard
Funding for more police officers, parking requirements for new housing and penalties for littering.
These are just a few of the issues covered by 333 new Washington state laws that took effect July 27. That day marked 90 days since the end of the 2025 legislative session in Olympia when most bills signed by Gov. Bob Ferguson go into force.
A handful of bills became law July 1. Some legislation can take years to go into effect.
Here’s a look at some of the new laws on the books.
Clergy
Perhaps the most controversial legislation taking effect Sunday requires religious leaders to report child abuse or neglect, adding them to a list of mandatory reporters that includes school staff, psychologists and many more.
But a federal judge ruled last week that Catholic priests can’t be mandated to disclose this information if they learn of it in a confession. The ruling came in response to litigation brought by three Catholic bishops over this aspect of the law. The U.S. Justice Department has also waded into the case on the side of the bishops. On Friday, a federal judge in Spokane issued a similar ruling in a separate challenge to the law brought by several churches.
For now, the requirement for priests to report suspected abuse or neglect they learn of during confessions is temporarily blocked pending further court proceedings. The rest of the law will take effect.
Police funding
When Ferguson entered office in January, he vowed to only sign a state budget that included $100 million in grants to hire police officers, as Washington ranks
last in the country in cops per capita.
House Bill 2015 delivers on that promise, creating the grant program. But a compromise with progressive Democrats will allow the funding to go to more than just bringing aboard more officers.
Peer counselors, behavioral health co-responders, training and other broader public safety efforts are among the other eligible options.
To access the grants, cities and counties need to either implement a new 0.1% sales tax for public safety or have already imposed a similar tax. They also need to follow state model policies as well as collect and report use-offorce data.
The state’s Criminal Justice Training Commission must award the money by June 30, 2028.
Parking
Advocates believe one of the biggest obstacles to building much-needed housing in Washington is local parking requirements that drive up costs and take up valuable space.
A new state law is considered one of the strongest state-level efforts in the nation to relax parking requirements.
Now, cities and counties won’t be able to mandate more than one spot for every two units. They also can’t require builders to include more than one space per single-family home.
Jurisdictions also can’t force commercial developers to build more than two parking spots per 1,000 square feet.
No parking minimums are allowed for existing buildings converted from nonresidential to residential use, homes under 1,200 square feet, commercial spaces under 3,000 square feet, affordable housing, child care facilities or senior housing.
The rules don’t affect cities with under 30,000 residents. Condos Condominiums can serve as a path into homeownership for first-time buyers. But builders have long shied away from building out of fear of litigation due to the state’s liability laws, seen as overly protective of consumers.
A new bipartisan law looks to reduce liability risks for developers.
Transit-oriented development
Washington is looking to accelerate the construction of housing near transit, so-called “transit-oriented development.” A new law allows for more dense housing, which Washington desperately needs, while also potentially reducing pollution as more people use buses and rail to commute instead of driving.
The law requires Washington cities to allow housing development near transit. It also requires 10% of units to be considered affordable and 20% set aside for workforce housing for the next 50 years. The legislation defines affordable as not costing more than 30% of the income for renters who make up 60% of the county’s median income or homeowners who make 80% of the median. Developers who meet those requirements would get a 20-year multifamily property tax exemption. And they’d get half-off discounts on local impact fees meant to help pay for transportation projects to accommodate the population growth.
While the legislation takes effect Sunday, implementation of the new requirements could come as late as the end of 2029 for cities that updated their comprehensive plans last year. Cities that next revise their plans later than 2024 must follow the new rules within six months of updating.
Police report 100 more calls in July
rodGer nichols
For the sentinel
Short, sweet, and under 15 minutes. That was the way it went for the Goldendale City Council August 4 meeting.
City Administrator Sandy Wells reported the city had received the final reimbursement for the airport field project and noted that public works will start crosswalk painting, followed by curb painting, and that striping will start August 12.
Chief Mike Smith reported 389 calls for service in July, 100 more than
in June. He also praised the Back to School Bash event on Saturday, citing an impressive turnout.
“What a great event they put on for the kids,” Mayor Dave Jones added. “They had just tons of fun activities. I was told they gave out about 350 backpacks that were all donated, filled with school supplies for the kids. The organizers and volunteers at that event just did a fantastic job.”
Councilor Andy Halm had a show and tell moment, reporting on Pride Day by holding up a map of Washing-
ton with pins showing homes of visitors who had traveled to Goldendale for the recent Gay Pride celebration.
“One of our vendors actually came from Everett, which was pretty cool,” he said, adding that at least eight hotel rooms were rented out.
“We gave out 249 wristbands,” he said, “but that did not include vendors or people who came after nine o’clock after the welcome table was closed.” He said they estimated the total attendance was about 325.
August heat brings likelihood of more wildfires
As August begins, fire weather forecasters predict higher than average temperatures will continue to dry fuels in the region and, along with lightning, cause numerous natural fire starts across Washington and Oergon.
Since the end of May, fire managers in the Pacific Northwest have engaged in fighting 53 large fires covering just over 200,000 acres, including National Forest lands.
Through initial and extended attack, firefighters work to keep fires small, as they did with last week’s
starts from lightning in central, south-central and eastern Oregon. However, without significant cooling and rain, communities should anticipate more large fires on the landscape in August and September. With four large wildfires currently burning on National Forests in the region, 15 national forests are now in campfire restrictions to help prevent additional human-caused wildfires. Fire danger levels on all National Forests, except the Siuslaw National Forest, are High to Extreme.
Fire managers say with numerous expected natural ignitions that now is the time for people to double-down on fire prevention efforts. According to the National Interagency Fire Center, this year nearly 93% of all wildfires in the nation have been started by people.
For more news and information about national forests in the Pacific Northwest, visit www.fs.usda.gov/news/r6/ news-events or www.fs.usda. gov/r6. For more information about the USDA Forest Service visit www.fs.usda.gov.
Ferguson rating hits historic low
Six months into Bob Ferguson’s first term, the ratings from voters are the lowest an early-tenure Washington governor has received in decades, according to the new Cascade PBS/Elway poll. Just 32% of respondents said Ferguson, a Democrat, was doing an “excellent” or “good” job, while more than half—53%—gave him “only fair” or “poor” marks. That’s the worst showing since pollster Stuart Elway began surveying governor performance in 1993, when Mike Lowry led the state.
Well over half of all survey participants said they’d been surprised by something Ferguson had done as governor. More than half of voters who rated Ferguson negatively cited the state budget or taxes in their opinion. His budget included a mix of spending reductions and higher taxes. Meanwhile, the overall voter outlook in Washington also hit historic lows. The voter outlook index asks voters how they expect things will go in the next year at the national and state levels, as well as in their individual communities and house -
holds.
For only the second time in 33 years of asking these questions, more voters thought things looked worse at all four levels. The proportion of optimists hit all-time lows in the household level (41%), community (33%) and state (24%). By contrast, the 33-year average for positive feelings at the household level is 70%. The legislature also fared poorly in the survey. Nearly two-thirds of respondents said Olympia was doing “only fair” or “poor” in its job.
Special education
Washington’s public school students will be offered special education services until the end of the school year in which they turn 22 or graduate high school, whichever comes first. The current age limit is 21.
Lawmakers made the change in response to a court ruling from last year that found Washington violated a federal law dealing with how long states must provide “free appropriate public education.”
The Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction estimates 300-1,200 students could benefit from the raised age limit. A fiscal analysis found serving them for an extra year will cost between $6.8 million and $27 million per school year. Clean fuels
As the federal government steps back from reducing greenhouse gas emissions, Washington wants to double down.
The state is accelerating its limits on emissions from transportation. By 2038, the state needs to reduce transportation emissions 45% or 55% below 2017 levels. Each year, Washington’s Clean Fuel Standard will now aim for emission drops between 3% and 5%, up from 1% to 1.5%.
The legislation narrowly passed the Legislature amid concerns the change could raise gas prices. Medical debt
Washingtonians don’t need to worry about medical debt appearing on their credit reports anymore.
That debt can stop people from getting approved for car or home loans or result
in them being denied health care services due to the outstanding bills.
Then-President Joe Biden imposed a similar rule at the federal level, but the Trump administration paused that effort so it never took effect.
This week, a federal judge in Texas struck down the federal proposal.
Diapers
One new law looks to increase diaper changing stations.
The statute now mandates baby diaper changing stations in women’s, men’s, or gender-neutral bathrooms in new public buildings or existing ones that undergo remodels costing $15,000 or more.
Littering
Washington faces 42% more litter along state roads than the national average, according to a state Department of Ecology report from 2023.
So the state is toughening its littering penalties. A new law raises the punishment from a class three to a class two civil infraction and fines from $50 to $125.
The littering fine applies to amounts up to one cubic foot, or roughly the size of a backpack.
The fine is in addition to a separate $93 traffic infraction for throwing garbage onto state highways.
Bail bonds
Lawmakers passed a number of measures this session aimed at protecting immigrants from deportation.
One stipulates that it is unprofessional conduct for bail bond agents to enforce a civil immigration warrant. The law also prevents agents from sharing immigration information with anyone
outside their business.
Those who violate the law could face disciplinary action from the state Department of Licensing.
Antitrust
Washington will be the first state in the nation to require companies to notify the state attorney general of a business merger.
Businesses already have to file a premerger notification with the federal government. Attorney General Nick Brown hopes this change will give the state more time to analyze potential anticompetitive consequences from mergers.
The law covers companies based in Washington or that do a certain amount of business here.
“Washington is a trailblazer for the rest of the nation in adopting a premerger notification law,” Brown said in a statement.
“This will allow state antitrust enforcers to protect consumer interests in an even more effective way.” Eid
More than 100,000 Muslims across Washington celebrate Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha. Those celebrations are now on the list of the state’s unpaid holidays.
When he signed the bill, Ferguson, the first-term Democratic governor, said Washington is the first state in the country to designate Eid as a state-recognized holiday.
Eid al-Fitr marks the end of Ramadan, and Eid al-Adha the completion of the pilgrimage to Mecca and commemorates the prophet Ibrahim’s willingness to sacrifice his son at God’s request.
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Lawsuit targeting law to protect trans youth is dismissed
Jerry Cornfield
Washington state standard
Parents trying to overturn a Washington law protecting runaway transgender youth have hit another roadblock in federal court.
A three-judge appeals court panel on Friday unanimously dismissed a constitutional challenge to the controversial 2023 statute, which allows operators of emergency shelters to notify state authorities, rather than parents, when children seek refuge as they pursue gender-affirming care and support services.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco
upheld a lower court ruling that concluded those challenging the law lacked legal standing to sue because they could not prove they suffered actual or imminent harm from the statute. The plaintiffs who brought the case included several parents whose teenage children exhibited signs of gender dysphoria but were not runaways and two nonprofits that oppose gender-affirming care for children.
In a statement, Washington Attorney General Nick Brown’s office said, “We are pleased that the court saw through this politicized attempt to create a case where none existed.”
America First Legal Foun-
dation, counsel for the plaintiffs, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The conservative legal organization was founded by Stephen Miller, deputy chief of staff for President Donald Trump.
State law calls for parents to be notified within 72 hours of their child’s arrival at an emergency shelter unless there are “compelling reasons” not to do so. If there are signs of abuse or neglect, for example, shelter staff are to inform the state Department of Children, Youth and Families, which would take the lead on reaching out to parents.
The court fight is over Senate Bill 5599, which
expanded the list of compelling reasons to cover situations when a young person feels they could be subject to abuse or neglect because they are pursuing genderaffirming care or reproductive health services. The law’s passage incensed conservatives, who said it was an attack on parental rights.
America First Legal Foundation sued in August 2023, days after opponents of the law failed to gather enough signatures to get a referendum on the ballot.
The lawsuit argued the statute “deprives certain parents—but not all parents—of their fundamental right under the U.S. Constitution to direct the care
and upbringing of their children, as well as their rights to the free exercise of religion, due process, free speech, and equal protection.”
Miller, in a statement issued at the time the suit was filed, said his group was “leading the courtroom charge against radical transgenderism and the sexual exploitation of our children by militant gender activists.” He added: “No state action more frighteningly illustrates the threat to our children than this law.”
International Partners for Ethical Care, Inc. and Advocates Protecting Children joined the parents as plaintiffs.
After the state responded that the plaintiffs lacked standing, America First Legal amended its complaint to broaden the original challenge. That didn’t work.
In May 2024, U.S. District Court Judge Robert Bryan dismissed the suit, citing the plaintiffs’ lack of standing. The 9th Circuit Court panel of judges agreed. Judge Milan D. Smith, Jr., a 2006 appointee of President George W. Bush, authored Friday’s appellate decision. Circuit Judges Sidney R. Thomas and Daniel A. Bress joined in the opinion.
State sues contractor to prevent sharing food stamp data with feds
Washington’s attorney general on Thursday sued to stop its food stamp payment processor from sharing program participants’ data with the federal government, which could use the information for immigration enforcement.
But the company, Fidelity Information Services, indicated late Thursday that it had no plans to hand over the data in question without being told to do so by state officials.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture in May requested that states and contractors provide personal data of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, recipients and applicants going back five years. A letter to states explained the rationale was to “ensure program integrity, including by verifying the eligibility of benefit recipients.”
This followed President Donald Trump’s executive orders seeking to get data from state programs that receive federal funding and to stop that money from going to immigrants
without legal status.
Fidelity Information Services has served as the third-party processor in Washington for the federal SNAP program. Over 20 states use Fidelity, according to court documents.
“People who need food assistance for themselves and their families should be able to trust that their data will be protected and kept private,” Attorney General Nick Brown said in a statement. “If a contractor fails to uphold the terms they’ve agreed to, we will hold them accountable under the law.”
After the lawsuit was announced, Fidelity provided the Standard with the text of an email it said it sent to the state on Thursday afternoon, in which the company said that it “has not provided the requested SNAP data” to USDA “and does not intend to do so without your express instruction.”
Fidelity Information Services told its state clients in May that it planned to cooperate with the Trump administration. But the state’s Department of Social and Health Services, which runs SNAP here, told Fidelity not to share the Washington data. Other states
similarly did not comply.
The company had agreed to Washington’s wishes. But, according to the lawsuit filed in Thurston County Superior Court, the company ignored requests from the Department of Social and Health Services this month to confirm the company wouldn’t turn over data.
Washington’s contract with Fidelity includes “strict safeguards” to protect enrollee information, the complaint says.
The Department of Social and Health Services’ contract with Fidelity Information Services runs through Oct. 12, 2029, Norah West, a spokesperson for the department, said in an email. The agency is not currently taking action to replace the company, West said. Due to the pending litigation, the department declined to comment further.
The Trump administration backed off its initial request for the SNAP data in the face of a lawsuit from advocacy groups arguing the federal government was exceeding its authority and violating privacy protections.
But since then, the Department of Agriculture has taken a new approach. In late June, the department filed a notice in the Federal Register about creating a new database of information from states and thirdparty payment processors. In the notice, the federal agency wrote that it plans to use the database to “ensure the integrity of Government programs, including by verifying SNAP recipient eligibility against federally maintained databases, identifying and eliminating duplicate enrollments, and performing additional eligibility and program integrity checks.”
Records shared would include names, social security numbers, dates of birth and addresses.
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins told state agencies across the country they needed to provide her agency with their data by July 30.
In public comment on the Federal Register notice, the state Department of Social and Health Services said it “is concerned that we may be unable to ensure that data can be securely submitted to the new system within the
timeframe outlined.”
“Until functional details of the system including frequency of reporting, data format requirements, transmission methodology, lookback period, protocols to ensure data is not used for purposes not authorized by statute, and other relevant business requirements are communicated by USDA, we cannot estimate the timeframe in which we would be able to provide the data required in the notice,” the agency continued.
Last week, Brown and more than a dozen other attorneys general urged the feds to withdraw the database proposal.
The federal government funds SNAP, which helps low-income residents pay for food via monthly benefits loaded onto Electronic Benefits Transfer, or EBT, cards. States run the program, with the assistance of third-party processors, like Fidelity.
The state also funds its own Food Assistance Program to provide benefits to people excluded from SNAP due to their immigration status. Fidelity is also the contractor for this program.
In April, the most recent
month for which data is available, over 906,000 Washingtonians received a total of $167 million in SNAP benefits. That’s more than 10% of the state’s residents. Nationwide, the program serves upward of 42 million people.
The attorney general asked for a judge to immediately order Fidelity not to provide Washington’s food benefit data. The lawsuit accuses Fidelity of breach of contract and says a data disclosure would violate the state’s anti-discrimination and consumer protection laws.
The Trump administration has made unprecedented moves in recent months to obtain state-level data that could be used to target immigrants without legal status. Washington and other states have sued the White House over sharing personal data of Medicaid recipients with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, which oversees Immigration and Customs Enforcement. A hearing in that case in northern California federal court is set for next month.
Collaboration on forest management gives way to timber interests
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Throughout her two decades working on forestry issues, Jasmine Minbashian has often found herself at odds with the U.S. Forest Service and the timber industry. Her environmental activism started during the second wave of Pacific Northwest “Timber Wars” — an intense period of conflict between environmentalists and the timber industry that unfolded in the late 1980s and ’90s over logging in old-growth forests. Instead of camping out in century-old trees or destroying timber-felling equipment in protest of sweeping logging practices on public lands, Minbashian took a different approach. She worked to bring disparate groups together to restore old-growth forests, supporting rural economies and reducing wildfire risk at the same time.
So when she joined the North Central Washington Forest Health Collaborative in 2019, Minbashian felt cautiously optimistic. The organization — one of dozens of forest collaboratives that had sprung up across the West — brought together conservation groups, agency officials and timber companies to plan forest restoration projects in the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest. As the executive director of the small environmental nonprofit Methow Valley Citizens Council, she was excited to have a seat at the table to find common ground.
One of the group’s first major efforts focused on restoring 50,000 fire-prone acres near Twisp, the rural town where she lived. For years, the group collaborated closely with the U.S. Forest Service to design the Mission Restoration Project and garner community support. The plan included some commercial logging, but largely focused on thin-
ning small trees, restoring habitat and decommissioning old roads — work Minbashian believed could protect communities without resorting to the kind of aggressive logging she had spent years fighting.
But when no timber companies bid on the commercial logging portion of the project, federal and state agencies quietly rewrote the plan to, as Minbashian put it, “sweeten the pot” by including more large trees — circumventing years of planning, environmental assessments and community outreach. The $1.1 million contract was ultimately awarded in 2021 to Hampton Lumber, a member of the collaborative, which trucked the logs more than 100 miles to its mill on the other side of the Cascades.
“That started some of the questioning of, like, what’s going on here?” Minbashian said.
When she later visited logged areas near the Libby and Buttermilk creek drainages, she was stunned. Some sections looked as expected. Others had been stripped of trees she thought were protected by the restoration project plan — including old-growth trees that are key to the forest’s health.
“When you’re talking about restoring forests and climate-smart forestry, you want to retain those old or big trees,” she said. “They’re the most fire-resistant. They store water. They just serve so many important ecological functions.”
Over the last decade, hundreds of millions of private, state and federal dollars have been funneled to forest restoration and wildfire mitigation projects spearheaded by the U.S. Forest Service and collaborative groups like the one in North Central Washington. The group is one of 19 forest collaboratives focused on public lands in Washington and Oregon that emerged in the wake of the “Timber Wars”
in an attempt to find agreement around contentious forestry issues. These forest collaboratives, touted as a model of consensus-driven conservation, have quietly become influential engines for federal forest management decisions across the West. But critics worry the groups are too aligned with timber interests that prioritize commercial logging, and that they helped pave the way for the Trump administration’s latest effort to expand logging on public lands throughout the country by skirting environmental protection laws.
Some community groups and grassroots environmental organizations have become disenchanted with the arrangement, saying forest collaboratives offer a false sense of community engagement and transparency into forestry projects on public lands. Other mainstream environmental groups see timber’s
influence in the projects as a double-edged sword. While the commercial logging aspects of the projects are often the most controversial, the timber sale can help fund other aspects of the restoration plans — like improving fish spawning areas and decommissioning roads that fragment wildlife habitats — to help keep the momentum going. But those funds aren’t always guaranteed.
“Everybody’s at the table because they have their own interests,” said Tiana Luke, the co-chair of the North Central Washington Forest Health Collaborative and the senior conservation manager for The Wilderness Society, a national environmental policy nonprofit. “In this climate, we can’t do the important ecological forest restoration without that economic component.”
Unlike some forest collaboratives, the North Central Washington Forest Health Collaborative is not classi-
fied formally as a federal advisory committee, meaning the group isn’t required to follow accountability and
transparency measures meant to limit the influence of special interest groups on public policy.
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Ancient Egypt
One of the greatest civilizations in history was located along the world’s longest river. These ancient people were very clever and they built an incredible society filled with amazing technology, a powerful army and even schools. Archaeologists have discovered many clues that tell us about their daily life routines and religious beliefs. They helped shape modern civilization in many ways. Imagine living in a place where people used toothpaste made from eggshells, kept pet monkeys, and built giant pyramids without modern machines. Ancient Egypt was a land full of amazing inventions, smart ideas, and a deep love for animals and cleanliness. Even though it was thousands of years ago, the Egyptians were way ahead of their time.
The people of Ancient Egypt were brilliant when it came to technological advances. And no, I am not talking about cell phones, TikTok or Nintendo Switches. We all know about the Great Pyramids, temples and government buildings that amaze the world. Did you know they performed surgeries, embalmed mummies, including their pets, and even made wearing makeup popular? Their art, medicine, architecture and even makeup have inspired people for thousands of years.
Egyptians invented a paper called papyrus and wrote books about almost everything. Not like the books we have today, but pieces of papyrus that were rolled into scrolls after the ink dried. There were scrolls about what people wore, games that were played and fictional stories. They had medical books that taught how to treat diseases and how surgeries were performed. One of the most well known scrolls is the Book of the Dead. This scroll is filled with magical spells, prayers, and instructions meant to help someone reach the afterlife. Some scrolls are very long. The longest one that has been found is 132 feet long after it was unrolled. Weird fact: papyrus was also used as toilet paper.
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The Egyptians didn’t just work, they knew how to have fun. Evidence has shown that they played games, had huge feasts and festivals, went to parades and even had music and liked to go to concerts. Wearing bright colorful clothes and special makeup, people would sail up and down the Nile during some of the festivals. These celebrations could last for almost a month.
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