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BAPTIST

Columbus Avenue Baptist, S.B.C.

815 N Columbus, Goldendale, 509.773.4471; Interim Pastor Paul Logue, Sun Worship 11am, Sun School 9:45am. Call for Zoom services. We’re on YouTube, FaceBook, & Instagram. Mon 6pm prayer meeting.Wed 6pm Youth & Children's groups. For updates: ColumbusABC.org, ColumbusABC@embarqmail.com or call.

CATHOLIC - Holy Trinity Catholic

307 Schuster, Goldendale; Father William Byron, 509.773.4516. Sat Eve Mass 5:30pm; Sun Mass 9am & 10:30am. Eve of Holy Days 7pm; Holy Days 9am. Daily Mass Mon-Fri 9am

CCD Classes Wed 2:15-3:30pm, K thru grade 6; Wed 7-8:30pm grades 7-12. Confessions every other Saturday noon -1pm

EASTERN ORTHODOX

Ss. Joachim & Anna Orthodox Mission

301 NW 2nd St, Goldendale, 907-317-3828; Rev John Phelps; Sat: 5:30pm Vespers; Sun: 8:15am Orthros, 9:30am Liturgy; Wed: 7pm Youth Group; Fri: 9pm Compline

1180 S Roosevelt, Goldendale. 509.773.3388. Sun Svc 10:30am in person. Wed: AWANA 2pm & Youth Group 5pm GoldendaleGrace.com. Watch us on Facebook

Live: Facebook.com/GoldendaleGrace

"Learning - Living - Loving JESUS."

LUTHERAN

Christ the King Lutheran

S Columbus & Simcoe Dr, Goldendale; Pastor David Daugs. 773-5750. Worship services 10

Everyone welcome.

METHODIST - United Methodist

Columbus & Broadway; Pastor Kendra BehnSmith; 509.773.4461. Service times: Worship 9:00am; Adult classes 10:45am; Fall & Winter Children’s Church available during worship. All are welcome. Call the church for regularly scheduled events.

NAZARENE - Church of the Nazarene

124 W Allyn, Goldendale; Pastor Earnie Winn and Pastor Greta Sines. 509.773.4216; Sunday worship 10:45am; Sunday School all ages 9:30am; goldendalenaz@gmail.com.

Klickitat Street, Goldendale. A free and confidential program for parents or caregivers of youth ages 9-14, designed around promoting healthy development and reducing risky behavior for children as they enter their teenage years. This is a 5-week course on Tuesdays through March 21st. Snacks, drinks, and childcare available. Register online at https:// forms.gle/AEwfbHHH3dghDGmZ8. Questions call 509-2812330 or email cpwi@wagap.org.

March 11, 2023, Fully Loaded Baked Potato and Silent Auction Fundraiser: 5 – 7 p.m. American Legion, Goldendale. Sponsored by Goldendale Archery Sharpshooters. Come support our archer, Alissa Conroy, as she prepares to compete in Grand Island Nebraska in June 2023.

March 14, 2023, Guiding

Good Choices-Refusal Skills: 6- 8 pm Fathers House Fellowship 207 S Klickitat Street, Goldendale. A free and confidential program for parents or caregivers of youth ages 9-14, designed around promoting healthy development and reducing risky behavior for children as they enter their teenage years. This is a 5-week course on Tuesdays through March 21st. Snacks, drinks, and childcare available. Register online at https:// forms.gle/AEwfbHHH3dghDGmZ8. Questions call 509-2812330 or email cpwi@wagap.org.

March 18, 2023, Klickitat County Livestock Growers

Banquet: Goldendale Legion, details to follow.

March 18, 2023, Conservation District Plant Sale: 9 a.m. – 1 p.m. Klickitat County Fairgrounds, Goldendale. Plants will be available for purchase the day of the sale, but supplies are limited. Please use our new online shop at www.EKCD.org to place pre-orders thru 2/17. Pickup will be 3/18. Call 509773-5823 for more information.

March 21, 2023, Guiding Good Choices-Strengthening Bonds: 6- 8 pm Fathers House Fellowship 207 S Klickitat Street, Goldendale. A free and confidential program for parents or caregivers of youth ages 9-14, designed around promoting healthy development and reducing risky behavior for children as they enter their teenage years. This is a 5-week course on Tuesdays through March 21st Snacks, drinks, and childcare available. Register online at https://forms.gle/AEwfbHHH3dghDGmZ8. Questions call 509-281-2330 or email cpwi@ wagap.org.

NEW LIFE ASSEMBLY of GOD

1602 S Columbus, Goldendale; Pastor Kevin Gerchak, 509.773.4650; Sun. School 9:30 ; Morning Worship Service 10:30am; Evening Service 6pm; Family Night on Wed. 7pm with programs for ages 3 years through adult.

RIVER of LIFE CHURCH of GOD 2023 Pipeline Rd; Pastors Rod & Cathy Smith, 509-773-3185, Sunday Worship 10:30am; Wednesday Bible Study 7pm. RiverofLife222.org

SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST

1/2 mile east on Bickleton Hwy. Sabbath School Sat. 9:30am; Worship Service 11am; Pastor Michael Smith; 509.773.4381

May 20 – 21, 2023, Goldendale Home and Garden Show: 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. both days. Klickitat County Fairgrounds, Goldendale. Make plans now to attend the Annual Goldendale Home & Garden Show. FREE ADMISSION, FREE PARKING. Want to be a vendor or interested in being a sponsor for the show? Give the Goldendale Chamber of Commerce a call at 509-773-3400 or email teja@ goldendalechamber.org

Exhibitors, live music, food, and family friendly. Get tips on spring planting, landscaping, pick up plants and trees, and meet face-to-face with area home improvement contractors.

June 1 - 4, 2023, Goldendale Pickers Festival: Ekone Park, Goldendale off of Broadway. The annual festival is back, whether you play or just love the music, stop on in.

June 3, 2023 Lincoln Day Dinner Klickitat County Republicans: 120 East Steuben, Bingen.

June 3, 2023, June Blooms: 10 a.m. – 5 p.m., Goldendale Area. This free garden tour is self-directed, and no registration or tickets are needed to see the gardens. Free maps can be picked up at the Goldendale Chamber a week before the event including Saturday June 3rd and will also be available as a Google Map at goldendalechamber. org/events a week before the event or go to: https://bit.ly/ JuneBloomsMap

June 9 – 11, 2023 Pioneer Picnic and Rodeo: 6/9 5:30 – 8 p.m., 6/10 & 6/11 8 a.m. – midnight. Established in 1910, Alder Creek Rodeo is the oldest rodeo in Washington and has been held the second weekend in June since then. Dry camping is available on the Cleveland Park grounds. The antique carousel will run Fri-Sun. Come and join in the fun. Contact Susan Powers at 509-820-8671 for more information.

June 16-17, 2023, Goldendale City Wide Yard Sales: 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. throughout Goldendale. The annual city-wide yard sale is back again for another year. Signup details to follow as we get closer to the event, September 2, 2023, Bickleton’s Annual Community Day: 9 a.m. – 3 p.m. Bickleton. Enjoy a classic car show Meet and Greet, a raffle for Meet and Greet entries, homemade pie sale, food, flea market, arts and crafts, vendors, street entertainment and live music throughout the day in beautiful Bickleton. For more information call 509.896.2007.

NON-DENOMINATIONAL

Centerville Community Church 508 Dalles Mountain Road, Centerville, WA 98613; 509-637-3068; Pastor Patti McKern; pastorpatti53@gmail.com; Sunday Worship Celebration 10am "Find refreshment for your soul and friends for your journey."

Father’s House Fellowship

207 S Klickitat Ave, 509.773.4719. Basic Bible Fellowship 9:30 ; Worship 10:30 ; Tue. 6:30pm Freedom Now Meeting. “A Gospel-Centered Church.”

Mid-Columbia Unitarian Universalist Fellowship

Online Worship Sunday 10am Religious Exploration for Children and Youth; email mcuuf1@gmail.com for a link to Online Service; MCUUF2.org; Rev. Judy Zimmerman, 541-241-6771. Justice. Inclusion. Compassion. A Welcoming Congregation marketing, and selling its “Early Evidence Kits” to Washington consumers. Ferguson noted in the order that “Leda’s Early Evidence Kits are ineligible for testing by the Washington State Crime Lab as they are self-administered and face numerous barriers to admission as evidence, including on the basis of potential cross-contamination, spoliation, and validity.”

Mosbrucker noted several concerns about the kits, including:

• They do not contain the elements of a sexual assault kit identified in Washington law, specifically photographs, blood and urine samples; There is no precedent for

MONEY from page A1 erately incomplete minutes of the council meetings, a charge Munyan refutes. “The meetings are out there on YouTube—they’re recorded. Anybody can come in here and get a tape or watch it on YouTube and see exactly what was said. Minutes are not made to be verbatim. They’re a brief description of the topic and what the discussion was and who and what council members voted for.”

To the point of expenditures made by the Chamber but not entirely used, Munyan says the figures don’t support Schroder’s claims across all the years he cited. Mindy Jackson, executive director of the Chamber, shared figures with The Sentinel showing requests to the City for lodging tax funds and the totals actually used; those figures, originating with

CITY from page A1 the $108,000 total requested by eight local nonprofits. The final scorecard of appropriations to organizations:

• Brighter Goldendale Christmas Committee requested $15,000 and self-collected DNA evidence being admissible in criminal court and the kits are generally not admissible because of chain-ofcustody issues; While professional examinations are conducted at no cost to sexual assault victims at health facilities and hospitals in Washington state, private companies are profiting by selling the DYI kits. By Washington law, sexual assault kits are supposed to be free for survivors—not a product that victims pay money to receive; and

• Private companies have no access to the FBI’s criminal justice database, CODIS, which can create a DNA the City, reveal the Chamber’s figures as well as GMA’s and those of all requesting groups.

In 2020 the Chamber was approved for $27,500 and spent $26,025 ($1,475 less than budgeted). In 2021 the Chamber was approved for $27,500 and spent $21,838.79 ($5,661.21 less than budgeted). In 2022 the Chamber was approved for $43,000 and spent $40,442.40 ($2,557.60 less than budgeted). Over those three years, the Chamber went under budget by a total of $9,693.81. But in the years 2017 through 2019, the Chamber spent more than it was allotted by a total of $28,514.89.

In 2020 GMA was approved for $6,000 and spent $0 (it was a pandemic year, and no events were held). In 2021 GMA was approved for $6,000 and spent $7,651 ($1,651 over what it was allocated). In 2022 GMA was received $10,000, the same as the previous year.

Goldendale Motorsports Association (GMA) requested $7,075 for the Community Days Show ’n’ Shine and received $5,500, a $475 reduction profile of the suspected perpetrator from sexual assault evidence kits.

“These kits provide a false sense of security to victims who have just gone through a traumatic experience and harm the potential for a successful prosecution of the rapist. There is no comparison to the actual sexual assault evidence kit administered by trained medical professionals who provide these examinations at no cost,” Mosbrucker added. “Rape is a serial crime by nature and often results in physical and/ or mental trauma. Sexual assault survivors need more than a simple and inadequate over-the-counter test. It is reprehensible that any com- approved for $11,000 ($5,000 more than in previous years) and spent $11,389.80 ($389.80 over what was budgeted). That totaled $3,959.20 under what GMA was allocated unless the pandemic year is not included; then it was $2,040.80 over its allocations for years 2021 and 2022. In years 2019 and 2020 GMA spent $4,250 more than it was allocated. Munyan says the slump in Chamber funds used reflects the pandemic years. “In 2020 and 2021,” he states, “Covid was rampant. The Chamber didn’t do the Home & Garden Show, they didn’t do Community Days. They didn’t need the money for advertising.”

Similarly, GMA too held no events in 2020, though it did in 2021. GMA’s key annual events for which it regularly requests tax dollars cost the from $5,975 received in 2022. pany would try to profit from victims when they are most vulnerable. This bill would stop companies from selling kits that create false expectations and could impose further trauma.” organization much less than the monies it spent in recent years, amounts higher than its designated allocations. While neither Munyan nor Jackson addressed detailed itemization of GMA’s money requests, The Sentinel has learned some of its requested funds went to merchandising (such as tee shirts) and, in one conspicuous case, was spent to buy a $1,400 television to be used in a GMA giveaway. Neither of those uses, strictly speaking, constitutes appropriate use of tax dollars. A question that arises is why GMA is asking for City money in the first place for one of its events since its Concours de Maryhill Car Show is held at Maryhill Museum, outside City limits. Klickitat County has its own pot of lodging tax money that organizations can request portions of.

GMA also requested $7,300 for the Concours de Maryhill and received $5,500, an $85 increase over the $5,415 received the previous year.

House Bill 1564 would prohibit over the counter, at home, and/or self-collected sexual assault evidence kits from being sold or provided to the public, including college students who have been targeted for marketing of DYI kits.

A public hearing on the bill was held Feb. 7 in the House Community Safety, Justice and Reentry Committee.

• The Goldendale Chamber of Commerce requested $54,596 and received $45,000, a $6,000 increase from the $39,000 last year.

• Goldendale Pride requested $2,000 and received $1,700. They had

LAND from page A1 simply cannot allow companies from China to lock down our resources and undermine our farmers’ and ranchers’ ability to feed the world,” said Rep. Rodgers. “Americans should not be forced to rely on China for the food they put on the table. Prohibiting the Chinese Communist Party from purchasing farmland in the United States is a nobrainer that will support domestic food production and decrease our dangerous dependence on foreign adversaries.”

“Under no circumstances should our food supply be dependent upon the Chinese Communist Party,” said Rep. Fitzpatrick. “That is why I am proud to be an original co-sponsor of the Prohibition of Agricultural Land for the People’s Republic of China Act, which will protect American agriculture, bolster our domestic food production, and prevent hostile regimes from having a hand in our supply chain.”

“America is the land of the free — not the land owned by China,” said Rep. Reschenthaler. “The Chinese Communist Party’s malign efforts to purchase domestic farmland is a direct threat to the American homeland. As an original cosponsor of the Prohibition of Agricultural Land for the People’s Republic of China Act, I am proud to join Rep. Newhouse on this important effort to protect our nation’s national security, food security, and economic security.”

“China must be banned from buying our farmland because American farm - not been funded previously.

Goldendale Kiwanis requested $2,358 for displays of the American Flag on holidays and was not awarded tourism dollars. The request was land belongs to American farmers,” said Rep. Feenstra. “I am proud to work with my colleague Rep. Dan Newhouse to prevent malign foreign interests from infiltrating rural America and threatening our national and food security.”

“To allow China, governed by the Chinese Communist Party, to acquire farmland near and around key military and otherwise strategic areas of the United States, is as dumb as it gets,” said Rep. Rouzer. “Not only are these purchases of key areas of farmland a threat to our national security, but it is a threat to our food security as well. This must end, and I am proud to cosponsor legislation to do just that.”

“Increased ownership of U.S. farmland by foreign adversaries like China is an alarmingly growing trend that poses a risk to our national and economic security,” said Rep. Valadao. “Farmers in the Central Valley produce a quarter of our nation’s food with less than one percent of our nation’s farmland. We cannot sit idly by while China strategically purchases the rich land in our own backyard, jeopardizing our nation’s food security and giving China control over our food supply. I’m glad to join my colleague and fellow farmer Rep. Newhouse to introduce the Prohibition of Agricultural Land for the People’s Republic of China Act, which will ensure American farms are kept out of the hands of our adversaries.” instead fully funded from the city’s general fund.

• ABATE of Washington requested $15,000 and received $13,000. They had not been funded in previous years.