Goldendale Sentinel May 31, 2023

Memorial Day observances at Centerville, Stonehenge, and Goldendale

HONORING FALLEN HEROES: Observances for Memorial Day

Lamboree opens up the world of lambs

ZACHARY VILLAR FOR THE SENTINEL

The humble lamb was celebrated at the Northwest Lamboree last Saturday, May 27, in Goldendale.

The event took place at the Lefever Holbrook Ranch and included a day full of sheep- and goat-related classes, as well as live music and lunch. The Lamboree was created by the Klickitat County Wool Growers Auxiliary to bring attention to the numerous interesting and exciting things going on within the world of sheep ranching. Classes that day included sheep health, lamb showmanship, butchering sheep, wool production, and more.

The morning started with an introduction by Paulette Lefever-Holbrook, then Lamboree attendees split up to attend the different programs. A group of mostly young people met in a barn for the Market Lamb Selection/Nutrition program presented by Mark Baumgartner, owner of Baumgartner Club Lambs. He raises lambs specifically to be

shown. “Club lambs is kind of a slang expression for these types of sheep where the word club is for 4-H club or FFA club,” said Baumgartner. “So the purpose of club lambs is to get them into the hands of kids.” Club lambs are meat sheep, and all the sheep he raises are sold to young people who are in 4-H and FFA.

During Baumgartner’s program, he spoke on several topics such as the diet that a good show lamb needs, and how to clean your lamb, details that help a lamb sell for more at market. One of the obstacles to lamb ranchers in the area is that lamb is not eaten on the West Coast as much as it is in other parts of the country. “A lot of people on the East Coast, especially for Easter holidays, will have leg of lamb,” said Baumgartner. “Lamb meat isn’t that popular here. It’s really good; I like it. The thing that’s kind of unique about it is the fat has a strong taste, so if you aren’t used to that and you get a piece of meat that’s got fat on it, you’re

See Lambs page A8

Fred Meyer inserts to stop in all U.S. newspapers

After decades of providing flyer inserts in newspapers across America, Kroger–the grocery chain that owns Fred Meyer–has decided it’s had enough of print costs and will discontinue inserts in all newspapers throughout the country. The last inserts for Fred Meyer were this month. As of June 1, the inserts will be no more.

The news comes as a major disappointment to countless shoppers who used the flyers to plan their shopping. The Sentinel regrets this inconvenience to its readers. Grocers in general have been trying to cut printing costs, and many are trying to get shoppers to go completely digital or online. But especially in high-retirement communities, the effort is met with considerable resistance.

ZACHARY VILLAR

KIDS ON THE LAMB: Mark Baumgartner gives Elise Golladay tips on how to present a lamb in a barn on the Lefever Holbrook Ranch during the Lamboree.

TOP LEFT: ZACHARY VILLAR. OTHER PHOTOS: LOU MARZELES.

were held at the Centerville Cemetery (top left), the Stonehenge Memorial (top right), and the Mt. Adams Cemetery in Goldendale (bottom right). Middle left: Dr. James Ogden spoke of his military experience at the Goldendale ceremony. Bottom left, a new addition at all the observances was a black horse carrying a single boot in one stirrup to signify a missing man (also seen in the background in the Centerville).

Newhouse introduces legislation to allow shipping of alcohol through Post Office

Thursday, Rep. Dan Newhouse (R-WA) introduced the USPS Shipping Equity Act alongside Rep. Jennifer Wexton (D-VA) and eight original House co-sponsors. This legislation would end the Prohibition-era ban that prevents the United States Postal Service (USPS) from shipping alcoholic beverages to consumers and allow them to ship directly from licensed producers and

Rep. Gina Mosbrucker, ranking Republican on the state House Community Safety, Justice, and Reentry Committee, has been appointed by U.S. Congressman Dan Newhouse to serve on the Central Washington Fentanyl Task Force.

Newhouse, a Republican who serves Washington’s 4th Congressional District, launched the task force on Wednesday, calling it “a vital initiative aimed at combatting the escalating fentanyl crisis plaguing communities across Central Washington and the United States.”

Mosbrucker, R-Golden -

retailers to consumers over the age of 21, in accordance with state and local laws at the delivery location. This bill is critical in leveling the playing field and increasing consumer and manufacturer choice while bringing in millions of dollars in revenue per year.

“While other carriers deliver alcoholic beverages directly to consumers, current law prohibits USPS from taking similar action.

dale, was recently instrumental in bringing Republicans and Democrats together on a compromise agreement for a new state drug possession law that enacted a combination of modified gross misdemeanor penalties and treatment for people addicted to hard drugs, such as fentanyl. The legislation passed during a one-day special session on May 16.

“Washington state is experiencing a drug crisis like we’ve never seen before, and fentanyl has been the leading driver. Drug overdoses in the past year are up by 21 percent. Fentanyl is now the lead-

Allowing USPS to deliver wine, beer, and spirits produced across our great nation provides another option for shipping carriers. This is extremely beneficial to small craft breweries and locally owned wineries, especially in rural regions like Central Washington, who struggle to gain market access. The time has come for us to shatter these barriers and unlock the tremendous

potential of the wine and alcoholic beverage industry,” said Newhouse. “This crucial legislation has the potential to create opportunity for the wine, beer, and spirits landscape, foster economic growth, and empower consumers and businesses alike.”

"The outdated prohibition on shipping alcohol through the Postal Service is bad for consumers and bad for small busi -

nesses—imposing unnecessary costs and hassle.

I’m proud to partner with Rep. Newhouse on this long-overdue, bipartisan reform to support local brewers, vineyards, and distillers by improving their affordable shipping options and opening up access to new markets,” said Wexton.

“Wineries, breweries, and cideries in the Salinas Valley and South Bay could

use another safe delivery option to get products directly to adults nationwide. This bipartisan bill smartly updates our laws so American-owned businesses can use USPS to distribute to underserved communities in accordance with state laws. It's a win-win-win – for rural communities, agricultural businesses, and the Postal Service,” said Rep. Zoe Lofgren.

for treatment.

ing cause of death among adults in our state. In 2021, fentanyl accounted for 765 overdose deaths, more than car crashes and suicides. That number continues to rise as this drug overshadows our communities,” said Mosbrucker. “One pill equals one kill with fentanyl, destroying the lives of mothers and daughters, fathers and sons, and innocent little children. We need to do everything we can to stop this scourge and prevent further loss of life.”

According to Newhouse, the 20-member Central Washington Fentanyl Task Force will address the entire spectrum of issues

tied to the fentanyl crisis, focusing on enforcement, education, prevention, and treatment. The group will meet quarterly. The goal of the group will be to research, discuss, and execute well-informed initiatives that will do the following to address the fentanyl crisis in Central Washington:

• Compile data from federal, state, and local communities to assess trends in the fentanyl crisis accurately.

• Assess current resources available to the public and frontline workers and where potential shortcomings may exist.

• Discuss potential legislative action on the federal, state, and local levels.

• Help organizations and local leaders educate the public about the dangers of fentanyl and opportunities

“I am honored to serve on Representative Newhouse’s task force and hope we can soon find some workable solutions that save lives,” added Mosbrucker.

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Answer to last week´s Mystery Picture

This week’s Goldendale’s Attic Mystery Picture

This is pretty much as challenging a picture as we can run. You’ve got four people in totally different costumes. Were they in a play? At a costume party?

It’s a more recent photo because it ran in color.

But who are these people? What were they doing? When and where was this picture taken? Beats us. All

OOKING BACK

June 1, 1933 – 90 Years Ago

we really know is that this picture ran in The Sentinel sometime, lost in the annals of yesteryear. If you know anything about it, please drop us an email (info@

goldendalesentinel.com), or give us a call (509-773-3777), or drop in at the office—and remember, you’re welcome to come in and take a look at the original photograph.

We colorized this photo from last week. Ted Alexander was the resounding answer we got to last week’s Goldendale’s Attic Mystery Picture. Though the picture has the dates 1945 and 1954 on it, we were advised that Mr. Alexander didn’t move to Goldendale until the summer of 1955. He was the county extension agent for several years, and a few people recalled that he and his wife, Gladys, spent some time in the Middle East and wondered if this was part of the time period. The July 15, 1965, edition of The Sentinel has a story of the Alexanders as they depart for Saudi Arabia on a mission for the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of

the United Nations. Previously they had spent time in Pakistan, and the article mentioned this about their time in both countries:

“Alexander will be based in Riyadh and will probably be doing all his work there, while in Pakistan he was working in the villages with a minimum of equipment. In Pakistan he had to recruit the people he was to train and even write the textbooks with which to train them. He is in hopes that Saudi Arabia will work out a little better. The FAO is a very international group, and Americans are few and far between; however, the primary industry in the country is American oil interests.”

Exploring Goldendale’s roots

Rise in the price of silver and renewed interest in mining ventures have resulted in resumption of work at the silver mine being sunk on the country club property by the Columbia Gorge Mining Company. Work at the mine was discontinued some months ago when a fissure opened, and several feet of water fi lled the lower end of the shaft. It is understood that new interests have taken hold of the venture at the present time. They are now diamond drilling to locate the vein which was stuck when the well was drilled at the golf course.

May 30, 1940 – 83 Years Ago

Temporary repairs were started on the Klickitat County Courthouse Tuesday following a disastrous fi re that early Saturday morning seriously damaged the interior of the building. The fi re started in an upstairs washroom. Damage from smoke and water was serious in parts of the building. Much of the plaster in the courtroom and some in the treasurer’s office was damaged. The 52-year-old courthouse structure, which was built in 1888, was condemned by the state safety inspector several years ago. Since that time only minor repairs have been made to the building. It is feared the fi re Saturday may have further weakened the building. [Construction was started on the current courthouse one year later.]

May 27, 1943 – 80 Years Ago

Sally Albert, a bright, alert Rock Creek Indian woman, mother of the late Mack Albert, has probably seen the Northwest develop more than anyone else in Klickitat County. She was born in May 1843. One hundred years on this earth is a long time, but not enough to make Sally Albert anything but cheerful and greatly interested in her 11 grandchildren.

May 16, 1963 – 60 Years Ago

The newly opened museum of the Klickitat County Historical Society and the Presby House in Goldendale, was struck by fi re Tuesday noon, causing extensive damage to the roof of the structure. Contents of the historic structure, including donated and loaned antiques, period furniture and a display of paintings, and the furnishing of the caretakers’ apartment, were carried to safety by a swarm of volunteer helpers as fi remen battled the flames in the attic. As impressive as the labors of the fi remen were the efforts of the estimated 100-person rescue crew. In approximately 20 minutes the 14-room house was literally stripped, a feat requiring carrying huge pieces of heavy and breakable furniture down the twisting stairway from the clouds of smoke, removal of antique lighting fi xtures and lampshades from fi xtures already dripping water from above, and the careful piece-by-piece transportation of hundreds of pieces of fragile China and glassware. Damage to the museum items was almost nil.

May 1973 – 50 Years Ago

Gold Dust by Pete: Words of advice for cattle business success – origin uncertain: Cattle are animals that are bred and raised in the Western states to keep the producer broke and buyer crazy. Cattle are born in the spring, mortgaged in the summer, pastured in the fall, and given away in the winter. They vary in size, color and weight, and the man who can guess the nearest to the weight and market grade is called a buyer by the public, a robber by the rancher, and a poor businessman by his banker. The price of cattle is determined in Chicago, and goes up after you have sold, and down after you have bought. A buyer from a Montana packer was sent to Chicago to watch the cattle market, after a few days’ deliberation he wired his company to the effect: “some say the market will go up and some say it will go down. I say the same. What ever you do will be wrong. Act at once.” When you have light cattle, the buyers want heavier ones; when you feed heifers you fi nd they want steers, and vice versa, when they’re thin, they should be fat, when your steers are fat the buyer tells you the market on tallow is all shot to heck. You’ve got them too doggone fat. Now if you study all the above carefully, you should be able to figure out how to make money in the cattle business!

May 27, 1993 – 30 Years Ago

Not one, but two Washington State Patrol Troopers were recently honored for serving more than 20 years with the law enforcement agency. Trooper Jim Williams has worked with the WSP for 25 years, while Trooper Steve Cunningham has worked for 20 years. Williams moved to Goldendale 1974 and has remained here since that time. Cunningham was born and raised in Goldendale, but it wasn’t until 1983 that he returned to Goldendale after serving eight years in Connell.

—Richard Lefever Klickitat County Historical Society

This week’s story comes to us from The Sentinel’s Diamond Anniversary Edition, July 1, 1954, and is titled “Author Tells Of Childhood In High Prairie In The Eighties.” It will be continued next week as well.

In her book, “Sketches of Early High Prairie”, published by Binford and Mort of Portland, Nelia Binford Fleming tells of her childhood in that area. She came there with her parents in 1884 and the family resided on the prairie until 1909. Nelia and her brothers and sisters went to school at Hartland. Here are some of her recollections, taken from the book.

Father Gets Lost

During our fi rst winter in Klickitat, a family left the neighborhood. Father bought their groceries and other supplies. He had no horse yet, so made a large sled, and went to the vacated house to get his store of supplies, hauling the sled by hand. Before he reached home a dense fog came up, and as there were no fences or lanes to guide him, he became confused, and wandered over the prairie. All day he trudged on, seeing no fence or house, nothing to tell him where he was. He still clung to the sled with its precious supplies. Finally he saw a light and turned his weary steps toward it. At last he stumbled up on the door and knocked. Mr. Pitman came to meet him, and he was taken in and warmed and fed.

There was a trail broken from the Pitman home on to our place, so the next morning the weary Father reached home with his welcome groceries.

Rattlesnakes

There were rattlesnakes everywhere! We were trained to never put our hands or feet where we couldn’t see, in the rattler season. (This habit sill stays with me). We found them in the paths, in the barn, in the old stone cellar, under the house. One day Mrs. Lee had put her baby to sleep, and she went to lay the child on the bed in the rude log cabin where she was living at the time and heard a snake under the bed.

One thing about a rattlesnake—he will usually give warning when he is disturbed. During the summertime, one diversion of the boys in our neighborhood was to see who could kill the great-

est number of rattlesnakes. It was an unwritten law to never let a rattler escape.

Pitch

Pine trees were rich in pitch. We children chewed pitch gum constantly. Mother was always ironing over a piece of pitch gum in my apron pockets. The sticky mess would stick to the iron and make Mother very unhappy. She would threaten me with dire punishments, but I went right on chewing pitch. It was good, and we were seldom at a town to buy gum.

On the Fourth of July we children decided to celebrate, so we made our fi reworks by splitting small kindlings of pitch wood, setting it on fi re, and watching the melting drops of pitch burn as they dropped to the ground.

Old Gabe

On my thirteenth birthday, Father gave me a pony. To be sure she was old, but she was gentle to ride, and she was mine. I rode her when I brought the cows from their prairie grazing grounds, and I rode her to school and anywhere else that I went. I called her Gabe, or “Old Gabe” because she was old.

Now, Old Gabe had not had a colt in all the years we’d owned her. But one spring, some years after Father had given her to me, we found that Gabe was to have her wish gratified. She was to become a mother, too. Now the other mares on the place could no longer look down on her. But like so many others

who have dreamed of, and wished for, a certain thing, Gabe was doomed to disappointment. One day I rode out into the Big Pasture (a stretch of land consisting of about a thousand acres belonging to several families) and found poor old Gabe, standing over the lifeless form of her tiny baby colt. Other horses would come near, and Gabe ran after them striking and biting. She would then run back to stand over the dead animal. Such a sad, dejected mother she was!

Grief showed in every line of her body, and tears came to my eyes. But the mother was instinctively strong in Gabe. There was a young fi lly in the pasture, who was having her fi rst colt that spring. The colt came, but like many other young mothers, the fi lly could not be tied down with caring for a baby. It was more fun to race over the prairies with the other young horses, manes, and tails flying in the spring wind. She couldn’t be slowed down to a baby’s pace. So, she neglected her child. Old Gabe watched her chance. She ran between the fi lly and the baby colt. She nuzzled the little thing close to her side, while the fi lly ran in the sunshine and kicked up her heels. You could almost imagine Old Gabe, rocking that baby to sleep! To be continued next week.

OpiniOn

Specialized moving services help seniors

Dear Savvy Senior, Can you recommend any businesses or services that specialize in helping seniors downsize and relocate?

I need to find some help moving my mother from her four-bedroom home – where she’s lived for nearly 50 years – to an apartment near me.

Overwhelmed Daughter

Dear Overwhelmed,

ences from previous clients and check them, and check with the Better Business Bureau too. Also find out how many moves they have actually managed and get a written list of services and fees. And make sure they’re insured and bonded.

If you can’t find a senior move manager in your area, another option is to hire a certified professional organizer who specializes in downsizing and relocating. To find one, check the National Association of Productivity and Organizing Professionals, which has a searchable database on its website at NAPO.net.

Send your senior questions to: Savvy Senior, P.O. Box 5443, Norman, OK 73070, or visit SavvySenior. org. Jim Miller is a contributor to the NBC Today show and author of “The Savvy Senior” book.

Savvy

The process of downsizing and moving to a new home is a big job for anyone, but it can be especially overwhelming for seniors who are moving from a long-time residence filled with decade’s worth of stuff and a lifetime of memories. Fortunately, there’s a specialized service available today that can help make your mom’s move a lot easier for her, and for you.

Senior move manager

Senior, Jim Miller

To help your mom get packed up and moved into her new home, you should consider hiring a “senior move manager.” These are trained organizers (they are not moving companies) who assist older people with the challenges of relocating and can minimize the stress of this major transition by doing most of the work for you.

A senior move manager can help your mom pare down her belongings, decide what to take and what to dispose of, recommend charities for donations and help sell her unwanted items. They can even create a customized floor plan of her new home so your mom can visualize where her belongings will fit.

Senior move managers can also get estimates from moving companies, oversee the movers, arrange the move date, supervise the packing and unpacking and help set up her new home, have the house cleaned, and just about anything you need related to her move.

If you want to do some of the work yourself, you can pick and choose only the services you want. For example, you may only want a move manager’s help with downsizing and selling excess furniture and unwanted belongings but plan on doing the actual packing and moving yourself.

The cost of working with a senior move manager will vary depending on where you live, the services you want and size of the move, but you can expect to pay somewhere between $60 and $125 per hour or more, not including the cost of movers.

How to find one

To locate a senior move manager in your area, visit the National Association of Senior Move Managers website at NASMM.org or call 877-606-2766. The NASMM is a trade association with an accreditation program that requires its members to abide by a strict code of ethics that ensures integrity. They currently have around 1,000 members across the U.S.

You can also search at Caring Transitions (CaringTransitions.com), which is the largest senior relocation and transition services franchised company in the U.S. They currently have nearly 200 franchises throughout the country.

But before you hire one, be sure you ask for refer-

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 C

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.

Guidelines for Letters

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 to the editor should be original and comment on an issue. Deadline for letters is noon Monday for the same week’s paper.

Requests to keep letters exactly as they were written when published cannot be honored. All letters are subject to editing for grammar, spelling, clarity, and/or brevity. There is a suggested length limit of about 300 words, though more may be allowed if there are fewer letters.

Unsigned letters (including anonymity requests), letters with fictitious signatures, letters with multiple signatures, or letters to public officials are not accepted.

Please keep the tone of letters free of rants, wild speculation, unsubstantiated claims, or pointedly personal comments. Letters that go overboard in these directions may be refused publication.

Writers must include name, city/town of residence, and phone number for verification purposes. (Street address is not required, only city or town.)

Hometown

Ketchum Kalf to have special guest

After I sent this news in, I received news too great to wait, so I hurried to send in a revision. Our two Glenwood High School rodeo athletes, Joslyn Arnold and Peyton Sanchey, are National High School Rodeo Finals-bound. Those two awesome cowgirls were already sitting high in the rankings going into the State finals in Kennewick last weekend and finished very well. Joslyn placed 3rd at State in goat-tying and 5th in breakaway roping.

Peyton placed third at State in pole bending. Both girls and their families will head to Gillette, Wyoming for the 2003 National Finals July 16th -22nd. Peyton also finished 8th in the State in barrel racing, qualifying for the

Silver State International Rodeo in Winnemucca, Nevada. Way to represent your community, your Klickitat County High School Rodeo Club, and the State of Washington, cowgirls!

Our seven Glenwood High School seniors—Allison McFall, Landon Sanchey, Emily Molyneaux, Alise Gimlin, Rylene Beeks, Tiana Jackson, and Gracie Lehrmann—are wrapping up their final year at GHS, with all the activities that involves. They are currently enjoying their senior trip to Seattle, seeing many interesting attractions while there. Baccalaureate is June 7 at 7 p.m. at the Glenwood Pioneer Memorial Community Church. Jennifer Hallenbeck says

please come help celebrate our graduates. The 8th-grade promotion will take place on Friday, June 9, in the school multipurpose room, starting at 7 p.m. with a reception afterward hosted by the Glenwood Women’s Club. Those moving on to high school are Anthony Avila, Ariana Berge, Hazel Fujita, and Travis Webster. The high school graduation will be Saturday, June 10, at 5 p.m. in the school gym with a reception hosted by the Glenwood Homemakers.

Our three awesome Glenwood Eagles track stars returned from their great experience competing in the State track tournament

at historic Hayward Field in Eugene. Just to be part of that event, standing in that field and on that track where so many great track stars have competed is an unforgettable ex-perience. Kyler Henderson and Ally McFall placed 11th and 14th, respectively, in their high jump events. Tomei Tomeo competed in the 800m in a very tough race against many top runners. Our community is very proud of all three of our track athletes and looks forward to watching Kyler and Tomei on the Glenwood Eagles track team again next spring.

Bruce Wilkins, an uncle to Shane Proctor, shared the following information.

Haley Proctor and her entourage of six horses, a pony, two dogs, a goat, a 16-year-old, and a twoyear-old left Oklahoma yesterday. She is headed to Glenwood to perform at the Glenwood Ketchum Kalf rodeo but will make stops in the Midwest and California on the way. She has family ties to the valley and rodeo, as her husband, Shane Proctor, is the great-great-grandson of Peter A. Conboy, who donated the land the rodeo grounds sit on and also came up with the Ketchum Kalf rodeo slogan.

Haley is a four-time Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association top five dress act of the year. Her act is fast-paced and will have you holding your breath at

Get a free wildfire prevention visit

There are Lyle teens seeking to gain fun life experiences and support from adults like you through the Gorge Youth Mentoring program. Consider contacting Erika to learn more about this meaningful volunteer opportunity today! As our Klickitat County Gorge Youth Mentoring (GYM) Match Coordinator, Erika helps pair adult volunteers with local youth mentees. She says the most inspiring part of the work she does is meeting the incredible people who, like many of us, have busy lives and yet choose to dedicate some of their time to making a difference as a GYM mentor. She enjoys the same activities mentors fill their time with such as bike rides, hikes, or going out for

ice cream. And when she's not doing any of those, she's getting inspired by other mentor/mentee adventures! For more information on how to get involved in Klickitat County, email erikar@nextdoorinc.org.

This spring, the Department of Natural Resources’ Wildfire Ready Neighbors program has expanded to include many counties, including Klickitat County.

Residents throughout the state can go to wildfireready.com to sign up to get a free Wildfire Ready Plan to help make their property more resilient to wildfire. Residents in those counties can also sign up for a free Wildfire Ready Home Visit

What’s in the Sky

Jim White

For The SenTinel

June brings the summer solstice and the start of summer on June 21. That means long days and short nights, especially at our latitude.

The further north you are in the northern hemisphere, the shorter the nights at this time of year. And we are farther north than a lot of people realize. My estimate is that we live farther north than one-fourth of all Canadians, including those in Montreal, Toronto, and Ottawa!

One thing we are all hearing more about recently is displays of the northern lights, or Aurora borealis. I am sometimes asked, “When and where can I see them?” Alas, they do not occur on any regular timeframe, and seeing them requires some persistence and luck. They are caused by powerful geomagnetic storms on our

Sun and occur when one of these storms ejects material aimed toward Earth. Since it takes a couple of days for the storm material to reach Earth, there are alerts that you can subscribe to, in order to get a chance to see them. Check out the “Space Weather Prediction Center” at www.swpc.noaa.gov/ products/aurora-30-minuteforecast. You can subscribe and get email updates. The Sun goes through an approximate 11-year cycle of geomagnetic storms, and we are currently on the upswing in the cycle. It helps considerably to have dark skies, and of course you’ll have to stay up late at this time of year.

While you are watching and hoping for an Auroral display, you can check out the June night sky. You will not miss Venus—our neighbor and near twin continues to shine quite brightly in the western evening sky. I get more questions about

from a wildfire professional who can give personalized advice and recommendations about wildfire preparedness. Klickitat County Burn Ban Zone 2 is being discussed to start in early June 2023. It will be Fire District No. 4 (Lyle), No. 5 (Centerville), No. 6 Dallesport), No. 7 (Rural 7), No. 11 (Wishram), No. 12 (Klickitat), No. 14 (High Prairie), No. 15 (Wahkiacus), and the City of Goldendale. Please be responsible when burning—you could be held liable.

Reminder: on June 10 head on out to our local lakes and join in the fun! Washington Game Commission is offering a free Fishing Day. First at Spearfish Lake, there will

Venus than just about anything. On the 21st, the thin crescent Moon will be just above Venus, which should be a very nice sight. On June 30, Venus and Mars will be very close together. The two planets will be about 3 degrees apart. The full Moon is about a half degree in diameter, for comparison. Our Moon will be full on June 3, with the new Moon following on the 17th. The bright planets Jupiter and Saturn remain in the morning sky. By the end of the month, Saturn will be rising by about midnight. For you early risers, the waning crescent Moon and Jupiter will be close to each other on the morning of June 14.

be sponsors there to teach fishing with bait, tackle, and poles provided, from 9 a.m. to noon. Then at Horsethief Lake, there will be games, prizes, and kayaking instruction from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. This is a good way for your youngsters to find a great outdoor hobby. Questions? Call (541) 506-8475.

To expand your learning and entice your imagination, the Fort Vancouver Regional Library in White Salmon is sponsoring a reading program from June 15 through August 15 that offers con-

tests and prizes for summer reading. Those who join will receive a free book (as supplies last) and be registered to receive prizes by competing in weekly categories. This is a good opportunity to keep your child’s—and your— mind active all summer long. You can register at fvrl.org or at the library. This is for all ages, so bring the kids and grandparents. They can compete with each other.

I’m sure that all of Lyle would like to give a quick shout-out to our local EMTs by recognizing our paramed-

her daring tricks. You can follow her five-month-long summer run on Facebook at Shane and Haley Proctor Fans page. Don’t miss this year’s rodeo. It will be a truly unique one.

Christina Kuhnhausen has placed rodeo parade entry forms in the General Store and post office for anyone wishing to reserve a spot in the parade. For more information, you can reach her at (509) 364-3326. Here’s another reminder from Jennifer Hallenbeck that Stellar Vacation Bible School (VBS) is coming June 26 through 30, 9 a.m. to noon, at the church. VBS is free for all. Registration forms are available at the post office and the church. Call (509) 364-3517.

ics and EMTs during EMS week! We appreciate all that you do getting emergency care to visitors and residents of Klickitat County! A new little business has popped up along Highway 14, almost in the heart of Lyle. It is offering fresh vegetables, eggs, starter plants, and more, all organically grown and raised, so check it out. They'll be there every Thursday and Friday. Submit your news to Mildred E. Lykens, (509) 365-2273 or lykensme41@gmail.com.

O bituaries

Sharon Willis-Little

Sharon was born in The Dalles, Oregon, on September 30, 1941. She passed on May 12, 2023. She grew up in Goldendale and lived her last several years in Dallas, Oregon. She is survived by her husband Donald Little, son Joseph, two stepdaughters, and several grand -

children. She served in the medical field as a certified nursing assistant for over 30 years.

A memorial service is scheduled for June 12, 2023, at the Bridgeport Community Chapel, Dallas, Oregon at 11 a.m.

Burn ban set for Zone Two Coit Troy Stone

Coit Troy Stone passed away on May 17, 2023, in Klickitat, Washington.

Coit was born August 16, 1965. He was 57 years old at the time of his passing. He is survived by his wife of 21 years, our four children, six grandchildren (with one on the way in June), and his mother. He was preceded in death by his father, Leonard Teddy Stone, in September 2009. Coit was an avid motorcycle and car guy and was somewhat of a daredevil. He was quite a character with a great sense of humor. He was loved by many, and he will be sorely missed.

A casual celebration of life with a potluck lunch for all who had the pleasure of knowing Coit will be held at the Seventh Day Adventist Church, 457 Wahkiacus Heights Road, Wahkiacus, Washington on Sunday, June 4, 2023, at 11 a.m. Please come and share memories and stories that you may have and say goodbye to one amazing person. Hot rods are welcome.

Arrangements are under the direction of Gardner Funeral Home 156 N. East Church Avenue, White Salmon.

Klickitat County is establishing a ban on open outdoor burning for Klickitat County Burn Ban Zone Two defined as lands between the Klickitat County Fire District No. 7 eastern boundary west to the western boundaries of Klickitat County Fire Districts No. 4, 12, and 15 then north on the Klickitat River to the north county line, to include but not limited to Klickitat County Fire Districts No. 4, 5, 6, 7, 11, 12, 14, and 15; outside the jurisdiction of the Yakama Indian Nation; and the jurisdiction of the Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission and prohibiting the issuance of burning permits except for authorized agricultural burning. Residential barbecues will be allowed. At

BAPTIST

Columbus Avenue Baptist, S.B.C.

815 N Columbus, Goldendale, 509.773.4471; Interim Pastor Paul Logue, Sun Worship 11am, Sun School 9:45 . 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

the discretion of the Fire Chief, Fire Protection Districts are exempt from this ban for the purposes of live fire training activities. Said ban on open outdoor burning shall be in full force and effect from Monday, June 5, until rescinded. The public is directed to check with the appropriate authorities concerning burning restrictions within the corporate limits of any city or town.

In 2018 Klickitat County Department of Emergency Management (KCDEM) in cooperation with the Klickitat County Interagency Fire Association (KCIFA) created new County Burn Ban Zone designations for establishing County open outdoor burn bans. This consists of three zones across the county starting

Church Directory

GRACE BRETHREN

Community Grace Brethren

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.

in the east with Zone One then Zone Two covering the central area and Zone Three covering the west end of the county. For clarity the zone boundaries follow fire district boundaries as much as possible. Maps detailing the zone boundaries have been created and are available to view and download on the

KCDEM webpage. Information for Klickitat County Burn Ban Zone 3 will be released as soon as the 2023 date is finalized. The full resolution and KC Burn Ban maps can be viewed online at www.klickitatcounty. org/1242/Burn-BansZones-and-Notices.

NEW LIFE ASSEMBLY of GOD

1602 S Columbus, Goldendale; Pastor Kevin Gerchak, 509.773.4650; Sun. School 9:30 ; Morning Worship Service 10:30am; 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

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 9:30am; Worship 10:30am; Tue. 6:30pm Freedom Now Meeting. “A Gospel-Centered Church.”

Zachary Villar For The SenTinel

Matt Chiles owns 3,200 acres in Centerville, southwest of Goldendale, so to say that he is invested in this area would not be an overstatement. He is also Klickitat County’s chosen representative for the Washington State Energy Facility Site Evaluation Council (EFSEC) processing of the Carriger Solar Project application, which means he’s a voting member on the council that will decide whether or not to recommend the project. EFSEC will decide to either approve the application, approve it with conditions, or deny it.

Once that is done, this recommendation will be given to the governor, who is ultimately responsible for the final decision.

Chiles was selected to be on the council for the review of the solar project about two weeks before the in-person meeting with Cypress Creek, the company seeking to create the solar project here, that took place in Goldendale on April 25. Chiles’ job history and history of involvement in Klickitat County led him to be chosen for this position by the county. He was trained as an urban planner and is currently a ranch manager.

He’s lived in the county for 25 years and has found several things besides the solar project to be concerned about and get involved with.

On May 26, Chiles spoke to this reporter about zoning concerns in Klickitat County while sitting in a room in his house surrounded by books and Lego models built by him and his kids. “If we don’t change things, the whole valley is going to be 20-acre pieces, and farming is not going to exist, because 20 acres is too small to farm,” he said.

Chiles was appointed to the Klickitat County Board of Adjustment, representing Commissioner District No.

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going to have a taste that you haven’t experienced before.”

The Klickitat County Wool Growers Auxiliary starting the Lamboree event in 2008 and continued it off and on until 2020, when they were forced to cancel that year’s event due to Covid. This was the first year they brought it back after the 2020 cancellation. The original idea for the event came from wanting to help educate young people. “There was a group us who were selling market lambs, and what we really saw was that our youth needed education on everything from feeding lambs to fitting lambs to showmanship, to all of that,” said Lefever-Holbrook. She said that the Klickitat County Wool Growers Auxiliary has always been focused in part on education, and they decided that they needed to incorporate all the elements of sheep ranching and marketing into one event.

“Sheep is really a wide, diverse animal,” said Lefever-Holbrook. “When you look at it, it’s the fiber, milk, meat, and all the different breeds and breed types in the sheep industry.” The purpose of the Klickitat County Wool Growers Auxiliary and events like the Lamboree wasn’t to tell people what kind of sheep is the best to raise, said Lefever-Holbrook, but to bring together people interested and involved in sheep ranching and to offer assistance and mentorship. She said that the WSU Extension used to hold more of these kinds of in-person events in the past. “They’ve started to pull back away from what we call the ‘hands-on’ types of events like this, and so they’re doing more videos or those types of classes. We find the value is being there, having the questions, learning about it, hands-on. That’s what, as a group, we felt needed to be

3, in March 2021. One of the Board of Adjustment’s responsibilities is to review conditional use permits, a kind of permit that allows the use of property for something that does not conform to normal zoning laws. When Chiles found out that the Board of Adjustments helps deal with some of the issues he was concerned with, he decided to put his name in for the running and was appointed there.

One big issue Chiles is focused on is Klickitat County Code Title 12, “Transportation Standards,” which deals with road standards in the county.

“It was last updated 10 or 15 years ago,” said Chiles. “One of the big things when it was updated was they decided that you couldn’t have development on any road unless it was at least 20 feet wide. There are a lot of roads in the county that are not 20 feet wide, so it suddenly shut off development to huge portions of the county.”

The reason Klickitat County chose to apply this law, explained Chiles, was because the state adopted the national fire code that requires 20-foot-wide roads.

“I personally looked into it,” he recalls. “The state did adopt the national fire code; however, the state did not adopt the section of the national fire code that has to do with roads and road widths. The section of the national fire code that has to do with road widths specifically says in it, ‘If your state does not adopt this specifically, then it does not apply to you.’ So, the section of national fire code having to do with roads does not apply to Washington State per the Washington State legislature.”

Chiles chalks this mistake up to a misinterpretation 15 years ago and says it has caused a lot of grief.

“For instance, Jenkins Creek Road, out of town a few miles up Highway 97— this is one of numerous

preserved.”

Lisa Huebner and Janet Town were presenting the Fiber Prep and Spinning programs that day. In the morning they skirted fleece, washed it, and then carded and combed it, and in the afternoon they spun it. Back in the barn, Pierre Monat presented a program titled “Commercial Sheep Production/Small flock improvement.” The program covered five basic topics: breeding and selection, health and nutrition, basic management skills, wool production, and marketing/promotion. Monat and his wife run M&P Ranches in Goldendale where they sell lamb and wool products. He is also a lead instructor at the Washington State Shearing School in Moses Lake. He said there are several things that he liked about sheep. “They’re lighter on the land than cattle; they’re not going to tear up ground as much,” he pointed out. “Starting out as a shearer, I really value the fact that it’s an animal that can provide you with two products. The wool product is really cool; obviously the meat’s great too.”

When asked if he would like to see more people ranching sheep in the area, Monat said that in the grand scheme of things, we’d be better off transitioning some of our protein consumption to lamb instead of beef. “Lambs are a much more efficient way to produce protein.” He said he thought it would be beneficial if people starting ranching multiple species of livestock on the same land. “I went to this ranch in Texas that ran goat, sheep, and cattle together… Their place was separated into 20 different pastures, and they would rotate those three groups of animals through them, and they had found that they actually increased the for -

roads in the county that has parts of it that are less than 20 feet wide. So, if you own ten acres off Jenkins Creek Road, and you want to split it into five acres—which per zoning is legal to do on Jenkins Creek Road—you cannot do that because that would be putting another buildable lot on a road that isn’t 20 feet wide. It hinders small guys who just happen to have a property they want to split, and it hinders larger developers. When you look at the long-term effect of that over the last 15 years, it means Klickitat County hasn’t been able to develop as much as it probably would have otherwise, and fancy that if we don’t have a housing shortage right now. These things all add up. They all have consequences.”

Chiles says that he and the other members of the Board of Adjustments have met as members of a committee over the last six months to write a new Title 12. He said that they passed it off to the engineering department, which worked on it for 18 months, then brought it back to the committee to

age density and availability by doing that, as opposed to when they just ran cattle.”

MJ Coyne was assisting Baumgartner with his program on lamb presentation. She learned how to show lamb on Lefever-Holbrook’s ranch; then when she was older, she herself taught young people on the ranch. She said that the consumption of lamb was coming into fashion in bigger cities. “We used to have a lot of sheep up in the Simcoes,” said Coyne, pointing towards the mountains. “But they got outcompeted, and cattle came more into favor.”

This was the first year the Lamboree featured goat-themed programs. Patti Gylling presented the Goat Market Class program where she spoke about how to raise a healthy goat. All of her children raised meat goats and showed them all over the Northwest. She said goats are a good entry-level animal for young people starting out in 4-H. “They’re very personal, they’re easy to train, and you show them with a collar,” said Gylling. She said that 4-H helps kids learn many things in addition to how to raise animals. This includes public speaking, leadership, interview skills, and commitment.

4-H is America’s largest youth development organization, empowering nearly six million young people with the skills to lead for a lifetime. It’s well known for its programs that involve raising animals, but Gylling pointed out that it also involves more non-animal programs than people realize, such as cooking, sewing, archery, and others. “If every kid was in 4-H, our world would be totally different,” said Gylling. She said that her youngest son paid for his private pilot license using money he made in 4-H

all the public data to come in.” He said that if the solar project is written about in the newspaper, he can’t allow anything from that to affect his decision. “It has to be only stuff that was actually said at a public meeting or was submitted as public comment. And that’s it.”

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rubber stamp, but it was not able to be approved. He said they hadn’t fixed the 20-footwide road problem, along with several other issues. He said the new Title 12 is open for public comment at the moment, and the county commissioners will eventually vote on it. But at the time of this writing, the Klickitat County website stated comments for the Title 12 Road Standards Revision would only be accepted until May 19, 2023, at 5 p.m.

With his background as an urban planner, his long history in the area and his position on the Board of Adjustments, the county chose Chiles as the local government representative for EFSEC’s evaluation of the Carriger Solar Project. As the sole member of this council allowed to be chosen by Klickitat County, it puts Chiles into a unique position.

“When they asked me to do it I said, ‘Well, is the county for this or against this?’ And they said, ‘Well, that’s for you to decide.’ And it really is,” said Chiles. “I cannot have an opinion on it right now. I have to wait for

Chiles said when he accepted his current role on the council, he didn’t know at that point where Cypress Creek was considering installing the project. Knowing so many people in the community from his years of living here puts him in an unenviable position. “No matter what decision that I, as part of the committee, end up making, it’s going to make some people mad and some people happy,” he said. Chiles encouraged people to make comments on the solar project application being reviewed by EFSEC. He made sure to clarify that they must be official comments made to EFSEC, either at public meetings or on the website at https://comments.efsec. wa.gov/. “Letters to the editor are fine if you want to get your point across to the people, but they mean absolutely zero as far as what the EFSEC committee’s actually going to do,” he added.

Chiles said he would be reading every comment made to EFSEC regarding the Carriger Solar Project, and that he hoped everyone else on the committee would be, too. “The comments do matter, but the process is going to move pretty quickly,” he stated. “The council will be deciding if [the Carriger Solar Project] is going to need a full-blown environmental impact statement or not. According to the county, they would, but this is out of county hands right now; it’s in the state’s hands.” Chiles said the council will have a recommendation for the governor, but he or anyone else on the council can say they disagree with the recommendation. That will also go to the

governor along with the reasons for their disagreement.

“I hope to be a good and honest voice for the county, and I’m allowed to do things like input my own view of the county because I live here, and my own view of things that I have knowledge of,” said Chiles. “I have a planning background; I have a farming and ranching background; I have a background that includes a lot of stuff with wildlife because as a farmer/ rancher, we have to deal with endangered species.” Chiles said it was not a terribly difficult position to be in yet, but it might be more difficult later. “It depends on how heated things get. A lot of people feel really strongly on a lot of issues, and that’s a good thing. One of the things that I feel I’m bringing to this position is, I’ve always been kind of a negotiator, and I think there are ways that we can make a lot of people happy.”

“Solar is coming,” said Chiles. “It might not be Carriger, but there’s going to be other solar stuff coming to the county. There’s a bunch of stuff in the pipeline that everyone already knows about. The more we can learn about how we want to deal with this, the better off the county’s going to be. Solar’s been coming for a long time. As a landowner, I’ve probably gotten half a dozen letters a year, at least for the past 10 or 12 years, saying, ‘Are you interested in putting solar on your place?’ As has every other large landowner in Klickitat County, I’m sure. I’m not the only one. Everyone’s watching us. I don’t think we’re going to see wall-towall solar in the future. But solar is coming, and this is our first shot at it. So I’m going to do my best to work with the EFSEC council to make sure that the right decision is made for the county, whatever that ends up being.”

ing livestock. It’s this kind of wisdom that people can gain from sheep, lambs, goats, and all animals, and it’s this connection with the natural world, on top of all the invaluable education, offered that day at the Lamboree.

classes and programs. Sheep could be seen roaming in flocks around the property. A young girl pointed out one of the sheep and said it was sick and it would have to be slaughtered soon. She said this not with sorrow but with the maturity and understanding gained from raisGoldendale WashinGton A8 May 31, 2023

A LOT TO WEIGH: Matt Chiles, on his property, has been named by Klickitat County to be its representative to the council considering placement of a solar project.

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John Kruse For The

SenTinel SPRING CHINOOK FISHING IMPROVES

After a very slow start for the Columbia River spring Chinook salmon run things turned around in a big way. As of May 24, over 101,000 springers had crossed Bonneville Dam, which matches the 10-year long-term average. Because of this, fisheries managers have reopened Chinook salmon fishing on the lower Columbia River below Bonneville Dam to June 4 and it may be extended again after that. Boat anglers can fish from the mouth to Beacon Rock, while bank anglers can fish right up to the deadline below Bonneville Dam.

The Icicle River near Leavenworth and portions of the Yakima River are also open for hatchery raised spring Chinook and large returns of fish are expected up both streams. The Icicle River is best fished from a drift or pontoon boat, though bank anglers do have some access to the river below the Leavenworth National Fish Hatchery and at a marked pullout on East Leavenworth Road. Catch rates have been relatively low thus far due to high waters and spring runoff but the waters have been receding and there should be good fishing in the week ahead.

One angler who has had a lot of success fishing the Columbia River in recent days is Jarod Higginbotham with Yakima Bait Company. He has been catching springers using a 2.5-inch

Spinfish plug with either Northwest Scent’s Graybill’s sand shrimp formula or Pro-Cure’s bloody tuna scent. The hot plug color for Higginbotham, something called “Touchdown,” a mixed pattern of chrome, chartreuse, and blue.

SWAKANE SHOOTING RANGE CLOSING FOR RENOVATIONS

The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) will be closing the Swakane Shooting Range on the Chelan Wildlife Area north of Wenatchee at dusk on May 30. It will reopen in the fall following a standard fire restriction summer closure.

While the range is closed, WDFW will be upgrading the site to National Rifle

Association range standards. A 25-yard pistol range will be added, completely separated from the rifle ranges. The pistol and rifle ranges will have amenities added including shedstyle covers over the firing lines, shooting benches and tables, a kiosk, and additional signage. There will also be an improved pistol range backstop and better drainage in the area.

LAKE ROOSEVELT

WALLEYE FISHING IS ON

FIRE

Steve Morris, the owner of SJM Guide Service, posted a photo this week of five anglers at Lake Roosevelt who all had limits of eatersized walleye. According to Morris, “The fishing doesn’t get any better than it is right

now!” Morris has just a few openings available over the next few weeks. Go to www. sjmguideservice.com if you want to book a trip with him.

TIME FOR MOREL

MUSHROOMS

Several of my friends have reported having good success hunting for morel mushrooms. If you are wondering where to find them start off in forested areas that have been burned by

Correction

The Sentinel regrets inadvertently misspelling Neil Kayser’s name in last week’s article about Cattleman of the Year.

wildfire in the last couple of years. These mushrooms are prized for their taste and can be fried, roasted, or sautéed. If you are looking for recipes, here is a good place to start: www.allrecipes. com/gallery/best-morelmushroom-recipes.

LEAVE THE BABIES BE

With a late winter in much of the Northwest, now is the time you may run across young fawns, calves, and other animals or birds that appear to be abandoned. Ninety-nine percent of the time these animals are not orphaned, and the mother is foraging or hunting for

food nearby. So don’t make the mistake of removing the animal to save it. Such an act occurred last week in Yellowstone National Park where a man decided to lift a bison calf out of a river, so it could rejoin its herd. Unfortunately, the herd rejected the bison calf after the human interference, and park officials had to euthanize it.

John Kruse – www.northwesternoutdoors.com and www.americaoutdoorsradio. com.

Calling all Klickitat County Photographers!

Now is the time to start capturing those SPRING shots for our 2024 photo calendar contest. Here are some past spring submissions & winners:

To improve your chances of being selected and possibly securing the coveted cover (and winning a valuable prize), carefully read & follow these instructions—even if you've submitted in the past:

1. Regarding your camera's settings:

a. Turn of the date/time stamp.

b. Select camera's highest resolution possible.

c. A general rule-of-thumb is that the le size of the jpg photos you submit should be a minimum o 3 MB. Any smaller and it may be too grainy. (Note: our email server will not allow messages at or above 20 MB, so the photo size must be below this.)

2. Submissions must be landscapes or wildlie—we call these naturescapes. Photos containing people will not be accepted. We also discourage (but don't disallow) close-ups; even if they're lovely shots, they are seldom identiable. Please do not take photos from your car.

3. The orientation of your shots MUST BE HORIZONTAL. All vertical shots, no matter how “good,” will be disqualied.

4. Your subject must be in—or seen from—Klickitat County

For example, while neither Mt Hood or Mt Adams are in Klickitat County, they are clearly visible from much of the county.

5. Do not alter, enhance, or add any efects to your photos using any photo editing software.

6. CHANGE THE FILENAME from your camera's cryptic numeric auto-assignments to something that clearly identies

change it to something like “2023Aug-GoodnoeHills<YourLastName>.jpg”). Yes, include your last name just before the “.jpg.”

7. Do not embed any photo(s) in the body of your email; the lename(s) will be lost. Instead, send your submissions as attachments only. You may be able to attach up to 5 photos to a single email, while staying under the 20MB per email limit. Check the le sizes as you do this. If any photo is less than 3 MB, its resolution is likely not high enough.

8. In the subject line of your email, enter “2023 Calendar Photo rom <your rst and last name>.”

9. Do not re-send photos you've submitted for this contest in the past. While this will require you to keep your photos well organized, this courteous practice will save us lots of unnecessary time.

Keep in mind: the more photos you submit that meet these criteria, the better your chances of winning. As Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, “Every artist was once an amateur.” You will not be notied if any or your photos are disqualied. Check the paper or GoldendaleSentinel.com for updates and winners.

• In promoting and expressing the beauty of Klickitat County, we're seeking landscapes and other outdoor scenes that are unique to our magnicent vistas. Close-ups (of leaves, flowers, streams, or animals, for example) will typically not work because they could be taken almost anywhere in the world and are not distinctly Klickitat County.

• Consider composition: avoid power lines, telephone poles, roads, or other man-made structures that may detract from the subject. (Note that really well-crafted photos tend to keep the main subject of-center. There are many tips online for stunning landscape photography, such as tinyurl.com/DigitalCameraWorld-tips - OR - tinyurl.com/NaturescapePhotos Also check out YouTube!)

E-mail your submissions, as follows:

To: 2024Calendar@goldendalesentinel.com

Subject: 2024 Goldendale Calendar-Your First Last Name

Attachment: Change cryptic lename as described in step 6.

Message: Include your rst and last name (yes, again please), a good phone number, and a brief description of the photo.

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GOOD CATCH: Jarod Higginbotham and Kiana Wilson with a spring Chinook caught out of the Columbia River.

Check It Out

Jan Johnston, Collection Manager

Fort Vancouver Regional Library District

You can email Jan at readingforfun@fvrl.org

Another music icon passed away this week—Tina Turner. She died on May 24 at the age of 83. Sadly, the music industry has lost other legendary musicians this year including David Crosby and Gordon Lightfoot. All three of these performers in uenced my musical tastes, so I was saddened by the news of their deaths.

If you were to take a peek at my digital playlist, you would discover a broad range of musical genres. My husband and I have always been open to a variety of music, and while we certainly don’t try to keep up with the latest and greatest, we appreciate any music that speaks to us. But as we get older (better with age, as I say),

we nd ourselves tuning in to the “classics” of our formative years.

“Sundown” by Gordon Lightfoot, Tina Turner’s “Proud Mary,” and of course, “Suite: Judy Blue Eyes” by Crosby, Stills and Nash keep us grounded in our musical past. I suppose I’m showing my age here.

Today’s reading list pays tribute to Lightfoot, Crosby, and Turner, musical talents who passed away too soon, in my humble opinion. But I acknowledge that while music is universal, it is also very personal; so please search the library’s catalog for music that keeps you in tune.

• “Anatomy of 55 More Songs: The Oral History of Top Hits That Changed, Rock, Pop and Soul” by Marc Myers.

• “Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young: The Wild De nitive Saga of Rock’s Greatest Supergroup” by David Browne.

• “David Crosby: Remember My Name” [DVD] directed by A.J. Eaton.

• “Happiness Becomes You: A Guide to Changing Your Life for Good” by Tina Turner.

• “Lightfoot” by Nicholas Jennings.

Fresh summer avors t for the patio

(Family Features) Gatherings in the summer sun are all about easy, convenient recipes combined with the joy warm weather brings. Spend those special occasions with those you love most and make this summer one to remember with flatbreads, sliders, and sweet treats for all to share.

Keeping cooking simple means more time on the patio or in the backyard engaging with guests, and these Chipotle Chicken Flatbreads, Chicken Shawarma Sliders, and Lemon Cheesecake with Fruit let home chefs skip complicated kitchen duties without skimping on flavor.

Visit Culinary.net to find more simple summer recipes to share with loved ones.

Summery flatbreads for family and friends

When dining outdoors with family, friends and neighbors, there are few things better than a tasty dish the whole family can enjoy like these Chipotle Chicken Flatbreads.

For more summer recipe ideas, visit Culinary.net.

Chipotle Chicken Flatbreads

Recipe adapted from butteryourbiscuit.com

• 2 flatbreads

• 2 cups shredded mozzarella

cheese

• 1 clove garlic, diced

• 4 chicken tenders, cooked and cubed

• 1 pint cherry tomatoes, quartered salt, to taste pepper, to taste

• 1/2 cup ranch dressing

• 1 1/2 teaspoons chipotle

seasoning

• 2 tablespoons cilantro leaves, chopped

Preheat oven to 375 F. Place parchment paper on baking sheet and add flatbreads. Sprinkle cheese on flatbreads. Top with garlic, chicken, and tomatoes. Season with salt and pepper, to taste. Bake 16

minutes until cheese is melted.

In small bowl, mix ranch and chipotle seasoning.

Drizzle ranch dressing on flatbreads and sprinkle with cilantro leaves.

Shareable sliders for a nutritious summer meal

Fresh, mouthwatering foods hot off the grill are a sure sign of summer fun. Hosting sunny get-togethers this year can be made easy when you show off your grilling skills with a simple, nutritious, and flavorful recipe.

These Chicken Shawarma Sliders are a delicious example of how to grill healthy summer meals without forgoing favorite flavors. They’re part of a curated 12-recipe collection of healthy, balanced dishes from the snacking experts at family-owned Fresh Cravings,. Find the entire recipe collection by visiting emeals.com/campaign/FreshCravings-Healthy-Eats.

Chicken Shawarma Sliders

Recipe courtesy of eMeals

Registered Dietitian Rachel West

Prep time: 25 minutes

Cook time: 10 minutes

• 2 pounds boneless, skinless chicken breasts

• 3 tablespoons olive oil

• 4 cloves garlic, minced

• 1/2 tablespoon smoked paprika

• 1/2 tablespoon ground cumin

• 1/2 tablespoon ground coriander

• 1 teaspoon salt

• 1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper

• 1 package (12) slider buns

• 1 container (17 ounces) Fresh

Cravings Honey Jalapeno Hummus

• 1 package (8 ounces) shredded lettuce

• 1/2 small red onion, sliced

In zip-top plastic bag, use meat mallet or heel of hand to pound chicken to even thickness. Cut into 2-inch pieces and place in large bowl. Add oil, garlic, paprika, cumin, coriander, salt, and cayenne; toss.

• “My Love Story” by Tina Turner.

New at the Library

FICTION

“The Making of Another Motion Picture Masterpiece” by Tom Hanks.

“Mother of the Bride Murder” by Leslie Meier.

“The Private Life of Spies: and The Exquisite Art of Getting Even” by Alexander McCall Smith.

NONFICTION

“The Glucose Goddess Method: The 4-Week Guide to Cutting Cravings, Getting Your Energy Back, and Feeling Amazing” by Jessie Inchauspe.

“The LGBTQ+ History Book” by DK Publishing.

“You Have to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can

Cover chicken and chill 8 hours, or up to 2 days.

Preheat grill or grill pan to mediumhigh heat. Grill chicken 4-5 minutes per side, or until done.

Serve chicken on buns with hummus, lettuce and onion.

Unforgettable fruity flavor Summertime often brings cravings for fresh fruits that add a hint of sweetness to warm-weather gatherings. Serving up a delicious dessert for family and guests starts with favorite produce in this Lemon Cheesecake with Fruit.

Find more sweet summer desserts at Culinary.net.

Lemon cheesecake with fruit

Servings: 6-8

1 1/4 cups graham cracker crumbs

1/4 cup sugar

1/4 cup butter, melted

2 packages (8 ounces each) cream cheese, softened

1 can (14 ounces) sweetened condensed milk

3 eggs

1/4 cup fresh lemon juice

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1 orange, peeled and separated

8 raspberries

3 mint leaves, for garnish

Preheat oven to 350 F.

In medium bowl, combine graham cracker crumbs, sugar and melted butter. Press firmly into 9-inch springform pan.

In large bowl, beat cream cheese until fluffy. Gradually beat in sweetened condensed milk until smooth. Add eggs, fresh lemon juice and vanilla extract; mix until combined.

Pour into pan. Bake 50-55 minutes, or until center springs back when lightly pressed.

Chill in refrigerator until completely cooled. Arrange orange slices around border of cake and place raspberries in middle. Top with mint leaves.

Begin to Live: Ten Weeks in Birmingham That Changed America” by Paul Kix.

CHILDREN

“How Does Water Move Around?: A Book About the Water Cycle” written by Madeline J. Hayes, illustrated by Srimalie Bassani.

“Millie and the Great Drought: A Dust Bowl Survival Story” written by Natasha Deen, illustrated by Wendy Tan.

“One Chicken Nugget” written and illustrated by Tadgh Bentley.

This is just a small sampling of the many new titles added each week to the Fort Vancouver Regional Library District collection. Visit the district’s 15 locations, our website at www.fvrl.org, or call (360) 906-5000 to reserve titles or nd additional listings.

The Postscript

Too Old

My new friend, Betty Lou, started a book club, and she asked me to join.

I was delighted. I hadn’t been in a book club for a long time. Because she is a librarian, Betty Lou knows better than most the importance of reading a variety of things, and so, at the very first meeting, we read a graphic novel. None of the members of this group are young, and this was the first graphic novel most of us had read. We weren’t sure what to say about it.

“This book is very heavy!” one member finally said.

“It’s a doorstop!” said another.

We all agreed we were not crazy about the weight of the book. I wondered if a book club should really be concerned with how much a book weighs, but I figured it was a legitimate concern if you could injure yourself by dropping it. And we did, eventually, get to what was inside.

“There were a lot of pictures,” I pointed out.

Since it was a graphic novel, this should not have been a surprise. Still, there were a lot more pictures than I expected, and I didn’t want to look at them all. I wanted to get on with the story. But the story wasn’t being told with a lot of words—it was being told with pictures. I realized this, but it didn’t make me want to look at the pictures, it just made me want more words. I began to think that I was not a good reader of graphic novels.

“Are we just too old for this?” one of the members asked. The question hung in the air.

“It’s an important story!” another member said, and we all agreed. We talked about all the important things the book was saying, and we all agreed they were things that should be said.

“But shouldn’t it be more entertaining?” I asked.

-Carrie Classon

I felt a little like the boy pointing out that the emperor had no clothes. Everyone looked a little relieved. We all agreed that it should be more entertaining than it was—at least for us. We suspected other people (younger people) might have more fun reading this than we did. I don’t think of myself as being too old for very much. I know younger people are better at some things (anything involving technology), but I don’t consider myself too old to learn. Still, there might be things I am simply too old to enjoy. Graphic novels might be one of them.

I’m not sure if that’s a bad thing or not.

There are things I know I will not try because I am no longer young—skateboarding, for instance, video games, learning more languages, or how to draw. Theoretically, I could learn to do any of these things, and yet I am pretty sure I will not.

It occurs to me it would be good to take at least one of those activities off the “Things I Will Never Do” list and move it over to the “Things I Just Started Doing” list. And yet my day already seems filled with the things I’m doing, things I already enjoy.

And so I’m glad Betty Lou got us to read a graphic novel, even if it was not my favorite book. Now I can say I’ve read one, and I am reminded that there are many ways of telling stories, even if not all of those stories are interesting to me.

It was a good reminder. It’s just the sort of reminder you might expect from a librarian.

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Extra Stuff

Angkor Wat

Time travel is not possible in reality but if you look at historical places and objects you can travel back into a time long before electricity, motorized vehicles and smart phones. A time that both looks easier and much harder than now. Buildings, carvings, engineering that seem to have been impossible to build without modern technology. Things that seem impossible to have been created back then, but still stand today. Many questions race through your mind. Why? Who? What? And so many, how, questions that may never be answered. There are a number of places around the world that will take you back in time hundreds and sometimes thousands of years. One of these places is in central Cambodia. Let’s take a trip back in time to Angkor Wat.

Where in the world?

Cambodia is a country in Southeast Asia that is about the size of the state of Utah in the United States. This small country has a diverse landscape that goes from grassy plains with rice paddies to heavily forested jungles full of exotic animals and insects. Asian Elephants, monkeys, cloud leopards and the king cobra live alongside thousands of insect species. It was in the 1840’s that a French explorer and naturalist Henri Mouhot went to Cambodia to catalog the animals and insects of Cambodia. Henri walked out of the jungle into a clearing and saw Angkor Wat. He was not the first European to walk the grounds, but he was the first known modern European to return home to give a detailed account of this incredible temple.

Some time after the year 1110 the Khmer King Suryavarman II built the city of Angkor Wat. This city became very important both religiously and politically and was the capital of the Khmer Empire. The center of the city is the largest religious temple in the world. In fact there is more sandstone in Angkor Wat than in all of the Egyptian Pyramids put together. The builders used more than 6 million blocks and each one weighed one and a half tons. That is about the weight of the average car. With no modern mechanical help the architects were able to design an amazing place.

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Fun Fact

Insects are eaten by a large number of Cambodian people.

Angkor Wat was designed to show that the king, Suryavarman II, was godlike both in life and death. The temple is laid out symmetrically. The central tower is 213 feet tall. During the spring and fall equinox the sun rises directly behind the central tower. This signified the opening of the new year for the Khmer regime, and was a very important date on the calendar for all Cambodians.

It isn’t just the architecture or the placement of the towers that make it an outstanding place. The inner walls of the temple are filled with carvings called Bas-Relief. Bas-Relief means that the carving was done in the stone to give it a 3d look. This type of carving would take thousands of hours by many artists to complete. The carvings show stories from the Hindu religion including the story of how the world began. They also show stories of the king and his rise to power capturing, killing and conquering other people. And all over the grounds are statues of gods, kings and animals.

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GHS Tennis Kills it at State

Tayler Bradley For The SenTinel

The tennis season has had some ups and downs, but Head Coach Jenn Neil has kept things positive and supportive for her players that helped five of them qualify for state: Eli Golding and Kyden Blunt playing doubles, Gwen Gilliam playing in the singles bracket, and Jeslyn Berry and Taryn Rising competing in the girls doubles bracket. The athletes spent their last week of practice preparing for their final season opportunity to prove themselves and then headed out Friday to the Yakima Tennis Club.

Eli and Kyden have had one heck of spring, and they were determined to end it the same way. Their first match was against a team from Vason, Washington. These boys were pretty tough, and the Wolves duo just couldn’t get an edge, losing 1-6 and 4-6. But they stayed positive and kept fighting as they were seeded into the consolation bracket. Their next opponent was a team from Chewelah, Washington. This was a nailbiter, but the Wolves came out victorious with a final score of 7-6 and 7-5. The dream was still

alive, and they were moving forward in the bracket.

Match three was against a doubles pair from Quincy, Washington. Eli and Kyden kept the ball rolling, routing this team 6-4 and 6-4. It all came down to this last match against a pair from East Jefferson. The outcome of this match would decide the boys’ placement in State, and they wanted this win. Goldendale won the first set 6-3, but then couldn’t keep the momentum going and lost the next two sets, 3-6 and 0-6. Eli and Kyden brought home an eighth-place state finish—maybe not the way they wanted to end it, but still something to be greatly proud of.

Gwen Gilliam also found herself back at the state tennis tournament, this time playing in the singles bracket. She knew what to expect and just how tough the opponents could be. She wanted to end her senior year on a high note and hit the courts boldly. In the opening round, her opponent was a tough athlete from Okanogan, and Gwen had to fight hard. She won the first set 6-1, but then lost the second set 1-6. Fortunately, Gwen’s skills triumphed in the final set, and she pulled off a 6-4 victory.

The semi-finals round was next, and Gwen found herself up against another great player, this time a girl from Chewelah who played strate -

gically and ended up with a 2-6 and 2-6 win. Losses may be hard, but Gwen, forever the champion, knew she still had a lot to give, now in the

consolation bracket. She had to win her next match to move into the finals. Her opponent, from Coupeville, Washington, also wanted to see the finals, but Gwen kept calm, putting the ball past her opponent, scoring point after point. The final score was 6-2 and 6-3, sending her onto the last match where she was playing for third or fourth in the state. This time she was matched up against the same girl she played in the opening round. Some might think this would be easy, but stepping back out on the court to play someone you beat earlier isn’t always a breeze. The girls fought back and forth, but Gwen just couldn’t find a groove, losing 0-6 and 4-6. Nonetheless, she brought home fourth place overall in the 2B state tournament—a wonderful way to end her final season as a Timberwolf.

Jeslyn Berry and Taryn

Rising didn’t start the season playing together, but once they did, what a powerful pair they made! The girls excelled and earned a spot in the state tournament. Their opening round was against a team from Pateros, Washington. This was a new experience for the Wolves, and they started out great, winning the first set 6-2, but

then lost the second 5-7. It came down to the last set to decide who would move on to the next round. The girls battled bravely and won the last set 6-1, moving on to the next semi-final finals round. Here the Wolves faced a duo from St. George, Washington. Both teams wanted this win badly. Jeslyn and Taryn won the first 6-2 and lost the second 1-6. They gave it their all but lost the last set 1-6. Seeded into the consolation bracket, their state journey wasn’t over yet, and the girls were now matched up against a team from Manson, Washington. They had a slow start and lost the first set in this match 2-6. The Wolves weren’t giving up, though, and rallied back, winning the next two sets, 6-3 and 6-4. Moving to the final round, the Wolves stepped onto the court for the last time this season, facing the team they played in the opening round from Pateros, Washington. Set number one was tough, but the Wolves took it 7-5. With that momentum, Jeslyn and Taryn came back in the second set and finished the game with a win of 6-2. These Timberwolf athletes are now number three in the state. What an accomplishment!

GHS Wolves Leave their Mark on the Track

Tayler Bradley For The SenTinel

The Wolves had some great athletes qualify for the 2B state track meet this past weekend at Zaepfel Stadium in Yakima, Washington. The boys and girls grew on and off the track this year and were ready to prove that they can compete with the best of the best in the state. The school sent them off in a tunnel of supporting classmates along with each of their coaches who have been there all season helping them through the highs and lows. Head Coach Jennifer Holycross has supported each of the athletes this year, and she couldn’t be prouder of all of them.

This final event of the season is what these athletes have been striving for—competing against the

best in the state meant the Wolves needed to rise to their best, too. Some of the races and field events had preliminaries. Placing high enough here enabled the athletes to move onto the finals, while other events only had one chance to place. Kicking things off Thursday for Goldendale, were Raymond Holycross and Stephen Pittman who competed in the boys triple jump. Each of them got multiple attempts to try reaching the furthest distance they could. Stephen jumped 40 feet 11 inches, placing him 7th overall in the state. Raymond jumped even farther, reaching 43 feet 2.5 inches, the longest jump of the meet, placing him in the number one spot for the 2B state triple jump. Raymond also competed in the 300-meter hurdles prelim race where he ran a time of

40.33 seconds and advanced to the finals on Saturday. In the boys 1600-meter race, Sean Henrikson got only one chance to run as fast as he could. Four laps around the track, and he crossed the finish line in 4 minutes 49 seconds, placing him 12th in the state. That was it for Thursday, so the competitors settled in and got a good night’s sleep.

Starting things off the next morning was Ada Garner, our javelin junkie. She skillfully reached 93 feet, which placed her 12th in the state. Next out in the field events was Emma Olson, competing in one of her favorites, the long jump. After multiple attempts, she was able to jump a distance of 15 feet 3.5 inches for 10th in the state. Rounding things out on the field for the girls Friday, was Bailey Holycross. She

Golf Competes at State

After all the hard work and dedication this spring, it was time for the Wolves to head out for the state golf tournament. This has been a major goal of Ike O’Leary, Jackson Large, and Logan Telford who have each earned their chance to compete against the best of the best. Head Coach Amy Wilson has worked with her team, preparing them mentally, physically, and technically to develop the skills needed to attain this lofty dream. It was their time to shine for Goldendale.

The team met at the high school early last Monday morning where every student came out of class to wish them luck with a human tunnel of arms as the boys ran out to the van. They drove through town with a police escort before their long trip to the course in Tumwater, Washington.

Once there, they played a practice round to get a feel for this new course. Every green is different; the ball will roll faster on some holes than others—it’ll break to left on this green, while on another it’ll break right, and so on. With this practice run the boys could plan how to play each hole to keep their strokes down. A good dinner and night’s

sleep finished off their day. The next morning it was all focus as the Wolves prepared to take the course with hopes of making the final round the following day of the 1/2B state tournament. This wouldn’t be easy—there were very tough competitors on the course that day from all over the state. Each of the golfers teed off and began working their way through the 18 holes. There were some highs and lows as they moved from hole to hole, but they persevered through these obstacles. At the end of the day, Jackson Large finished the day with a score of 91, Ike O’Leary scored a 92, and Logan Telford’s score was 122. All three gave it

their best. Unfortunately, they didn’t make the cut for the next round. This was one heck of a golf season for the Wolves.

“I couldn’t be prouder of not only these three boys who made it to state but the entire team. They played hard to get to state and are already looking forward to an epic 2024 season,” says Coach Amy. These athletes may be done with their high school golf season, but you can bet they will spend many days this summer out on the course having fun and working on their skills. We are so proud of these Wolves and their dedication.

competed in the girls discus event; a throw of 72 feet 8 inches placed her 14th in the state. The only two boys to compete in a field event Friday were Stephen and Raymond who took on the long jump. After a few attempts, they each placed in the top 5, Raymond 5th with 19 feet 11 inches and Stephen 3rd with a jump of 20 feet 2.5 inches.

ran a time of 58 seconds in the 400-meter race, not quite fast enough to make it to the finals. Sean Henrikson and Jimmy Elwell competed in the 800-meters prelim, finishing in just over 2 minutes; Sean came in 10th and Jimmy 15th. That ended Friday’s events.

Lots more running took place Friday. It started out with the boys 110-meter hurdles prelim race. Stephen and Raymond competed in this event, running fast enough to move onto the finals. Raymond won his heat with a time of 16.12 seconds, and Stephen ran a time of 16.05 seconds. Charlotte Matulovich also ran the 100meter hurdles but was shy of making the finals; she ran a time of 18.32 seconds for 12th overall.

Storey Woodbury

Saturday was the last day for all competitors to prove themselves. Starting things off that morning, were pole vaulters Stephen Pittman and Storey Woodbury. Storey cleared 9 feet 6 inches, placing him 12th overall; Stephen cleared 13 feet 6 inches for 3rd overall. The only other Wolf to compete in a field event was Emma Olson in the girls long jump. She was consistent in each of her attempts, with her longest distance of 32 feet 8.5 inches placing her 9th in the state. GHS moved back

to the running events where Raymond Holycross and Stephen Pittman competed in the 110-meter hurdles. It was a tough race, but their finishes were impressive. Raymond ran 15.87 seconds, bettering his time for 4th place overall. Stephen also improved with 15.82 seconds and 3rd place. Raymond rallied and stepped back up to the starting line to run in the 300-meter hurdles final in 40.34 seconds, placing him 4th in the state. These fantastic feats brought the spring track and field season to its conclusion. The Wolves represented Goldendale with awesome athleticism and team spirit. They competed to the very best of their abilities and ended their season with great highs. Good work to every athlete, and congrats on a wonderful season.

Contributed

STRONG FINISH: Left to right: Coach Jenn Neil, Gwen Gilliam, Jeslyn Berry, and Taryn Rising holding their second-place team trophy.

Tayler Bradley

For The SenTinel

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GREAT SEASON: Goldendale golfers Logan Telford, Ike O’leary, and Jackson Large had quite a ride in competition this year.