Goldendale Sentinel October 26, 2022

MEET THE CANDIDATES

Sentinel: So you’re running for your fifth term.

Mosbrucker: If I win this election, it’ll be 10 years when I’m done, because I was sworn in by Ross Rakow, our judge, in 2014. That’s a long time for politics. I’m one of the senior members because usually it’s two or four years. And that’s nationwide. It’s not just Washington. There are just lots of challenges. It’s hard to get reelected. It’s a lot of money. It’s frustrating if you’re the minority, especially, and usually difficult to get reelected.

Sentinel: Let’s talk about that. You’re in the party that’s out of power, not even any significant influence. So what makes you go to work every day?

Mosbrucker: I am called by faith to go to the capital and fix things, and that was in 2014. And I just feel like it’s supposed to be my life’s work, even though it’s very challenging, especially in the minority party. And I live my life by faith, family, and friends, faith being number one. There are a lot of things to fix at the capital, and there’s not a lot of faith at the capital. There’s not a lot of faith in government. So my job is to try to restore that, try to be fair, and try to be honest, have integrity, and try to do the right thing. Even when it’s challenging.

Sentinel: Do you ever get the sense that, despite that calling of faith, it’s a futile quest, given the current circumstances in Olympia?

Mosbrucker: No. Never. I have faith in my faith and the ability to keep doing great things. We’ve passed 27 bills since I got in there, which might be a record, what they’re saying, and those are just in eight years. Those bills relate to somebody saying, “I’d like you to fix this.” We passed 27 bills—29, but the governor vetoed two of them, so almost 30. So my goal is to get past 30. But each one of those votes, each one of those bills equates to people like you saying, “Hey, I need this fixed,” or, “This isn’t right,” or “You should try to repeal this,” or, “There are too many regulations on business,” or, “There’s animal abuse going on,” or, “There’s missing murdered women,” or, “There are untested rape test kits,” or, “There’s cyber security issues. Why are we using a full social security number instead of the last four digits in employment security?” We passed that a couple years ago. Every single bill comes from a constituent who says, “Can you fix this?” I like challenges, and it’s obviously a challenge to pass a bill in the Legislature. There are maybe 3,000 bills dropped on a regular session, and about 300 pass, depending on how long the session is. I love the challenge of taking someone’s wish and taking it all the way through the process, and taking them with me, which is

my favorite part, where they testify. I love involving people in the process. So yeah, I don’t feel like my faith waivers or isn’t strong enough to make the world a better place.

Sentinel: So the fulfillment you feel comes from response to input from constituents, your response to them getting those needs met, more than trying to reshape or redirect the state government?

Mosbrucker: I think it’s both. What the constituent asks for, it’s not just for one person, right?

They’re just loud enough to call their legislator and say, “Fix this.”

And we’re warrior enough to fight until we get it. I think that it never pertains to just one person; we don’t help just one person. By helping my constituent base, we’re helping the State of Washington. And then in many cases, like the tribal bill and rape test bill, they go national. So the issues that one person’s concerned about, it usually is the same thing most people are concerned about. It’s usually nonpartisan. Most all the bills I’ve done have a Democrat online, too. Why wouldn’t you? I represent everyone in the whole state, not just Republican, not just Democrat. I’m just there to fix things, that’s all.

Sentinel: How much have you seen change in the structure in Olympia since you’ve been there?

Mosbrucker: A lot. I’ve seen a lot more division than the last eight years, Democrats and Republican party lines. Democrats and Republicans worked across the aisle for the most part. There are always those fringes of right or left that aren’t going to work with anyone, and that’s up to their constituent base to elect them or not. But the majority of the people in the first four years worked together. It was easy to have a Democrat sign on your bill, or I signed so many Democrat bills because they were good bills. They just helped people. They weren’t partisan. Ninety percent of what I work on is not partisan. It’s like the worst kept secret in America. Education, crime, healthcare—you name the topic, we all deal with it, no matter if we’re Independent, Demo-

Sentinel: Do you find it frustrating to be in the minority party in Olympia, unable to wield much influence there?

Corry: I definitely think it is frustrating, and I still think there’s some influence. We have the ability to negotiate, discuss with them, but at the end of the day, they don’t need our votes to pass most things minus some bonding stuff, which requires the two-thirds vote. Our goal here is the majority. That’s what we’re all striving for. Having the majority in the house brings back some semblance of balance to the state government. When you have a trifecta the way we do now [with one party controlling the governor’s office and both chambers of the Legislature], it really makes for bad policy, in my opinion, because there’s no temperance on stuff. They can pass their more extreme stuff. Now I believe we are going to pick up seats. Are we going be in the majority [in the House]? I don’t know. But even if we’re close, it means there’s less of the more extreme policies because they won’t have the members to be able to let off on votes. And some of their more moderate members probably just won’t go along with what they want to do.

Sentinel: As it is now, some committees in the Legislature don’t even invite Republicans to participate in the conversation because they know their votes wouldn’t make a difference.

Corry: It’s interesting. For some of the policy bills we work on, they will bring in the Republicans, just to discuss. That’s part of why having good relationships is important. So for example, a couple years ago when the K-12 sex stuff was going on [school curriculum including sex education], we were obviously going to be a no. There was no question about that. But I had a good working relationship with the leader who was running that bill in the house for the Democrats. I said, “Hey, I’d like to sit down with you. I’ve got a couple suggestions,” knowing full well I’m not going to vote for this thing. I think there’s some stuff that I would like to see in there that at least protects parents better. And she said, “Sure, I’ll sit down and chat.” And so I asked for two things and, again, not trading my vote because I was never going to be a yes on it. And I just said, “Can we do annual notification by grade of what the sex health curriculum is, so that way parents know?” And she said, “Yeah, it seems like a fair idea to me.” And two, “Can we make rules that require better accessibility to the curriculum?” Because these kids are theoretically going to have questions, and the parents should be able to see the curriculum either beforehand to know whether or not they want their kids in it, or

to be able to help answer questions and be involved in their kids’ schooling. And she agreed to that as well. We were able to get those amended into the bill. It’s in the final RCWs. I still voted no. We did our best to stop it, but at the end of the day, I would rather put in stuff that provides more protections on something knowing they’re going to push it through.

Sentinel: The governor took a lot of flack for vetoing some bills that enjoyed strong support in the Legislature, and especially he got a lot of pushback on cutting back the rights of law enforcement to pursue suspects. Do you see any sign of that potentially changing in the upcoming session?

Corry: The repeal of the pursuit [limitations] did not make it to the governor’s desk. The activists in the legislature—and they used that term very specifically—are the ones who prevented that from going through. And so that’s the one piece we’re going to bring back up.

But yeah, there were a number of bills including one of Rep. Mosbrucker’s that the governor vetoed that had maybe not unanimous support, but almost. We would’ve had to call a special session to come back and override that veto. And unfortunately we didn’t. But that’s actually not the most egregious thing. I think the most egregious thing that happened this year that the governor did, and I’m going to be paraphrasing his words here— We had a bill on permitting for solar, for renewable energy projects in the state, obviously primarily affecting eastern Washington. We had a good Republican team that worked with the Democrats to actually craft some protections for eastern Washington in there that were really good. And they agreed to it. They were under the understanding that the governor’s office agreed to it. Democrats said, “We were all good with it,” so we signed it. A number of us voted for it because we thought that there were good protections in there. And then the governor, in his bill signing, vetoed a section of it. In his comment at the bill signing, he said something to the

Reindeer prepare for the holidays

TAYLER BRADLEY

FOR THE SENTINEL

For the last couple of months Goldendale Reindeer has been closed. They have been working some magic with the reindeer and making the farm a winter wonderland for the holidays. They have a few events coming up for all ages to enjoy. Once they reopen the first week of November, you can make a trip out and enjoy the magic.

Owners Tanya Clarke and Daniel Connell recently purchased a bull reindeer, Elvis, to try and start a breeding program. For the safety of visitors and the animals, they closed down their reindeer experience tours during the breeding season. Elvis spent a couple of months with the ladies up until just recently. Reindeer have a very high mortality rate, as only 50% of calves survive. They hope they will be seeing some new additions to the farm in spring to help grow their herd. They won’t know for sure if calves will make an appearance until later next year, so be sure to pray for new, healthy babies.

Now that things are back in full swing, people are again able to schedule a Reindeer Experience. This is about an hour-long opportunity, in which a small group will learn about reindeer, what they eat, how they grow antlers, and more interesting facts. They will also do a safety protocol with everyone. Once the rules have been gone over, everyone gets a chance to pet, feed, and get photos with one of the reindeer. They like to keep the groups small as to not overwhelm the reindeer and so everyone has a good experience.

If you don’t get a chance to get up there for a scheduled experience, you can also attend their Snow Sisters event. The kids can come visit Anna, Elsa, Sven, and Mr. and Mrs. Claus. This is a great way for the kids to get into the holiday spirit while enjoying some of their favorite characters and princesses. This event will take place November 19.

As for the main event, their Believe in the Spirit of Christmas tradition will begin Nov. 26. It will take place for about five weeks, and the kids and parents can come enjoy the whole holiday experience. They will be playing holiday music and setting up multiple fire pits to roast marshmallows and stay warm. You can visit with the reindeer from the fence, and be sure to tell Santa what you want for Christmas. The kids will each receive a wonderful surprise for coming out and visiting.

Tanya and Daniel have some new things in the works around the farm to make this a friendly farm for all, and one that can stay open year-round. They have done a wonderful job with their events for holidays throughout the year, and we can’t wait to enjoy these holidays festivities. If you want to get out and see the reindeer, be sure to add it to your calendar.

If you would like to schedule a Reindeer Experience, call (530) 526-9808, or go to their website at GoldendaleReindeer.com, and get ready to have a great holiday.

‘I live my life by faith, family, and friends, faith being number one.’

‘That’s all you have in Olympia, your word.’

CONTRIBUTED

DEAR TO DEER: The folks at Goldendale Reindeer report their deer are gearing up for a very nice holiday season.

LOU MARZELES

RETURN OF THE NOISE PARADE:

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Students from the Goldendale School District were on fire last week to show their colors—including on their bodies—and fervor for this year’s Homecoming. And it was a good night for Goldendale High football fans; see Sports on page

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KPUD Collins Substation fails

The Klickitat PUD (KPUD) scrambled to fi x an outage last Wednesday at a substation in the Alderdale area.

That morning about 9 a.m. customer service representatives at the KPUD began receiving phone calls about the outage. A fi re inside the substation resulted from damage to equipment, and Alderdale Road was temporarily closed down as a safety pre-

caution. KPUD resources were pulled from other jobs and deployed to this location to de-energize the substation, assess the damage, and determine how to quickly restore power.

Crews worked through the night and restored power to customers around 2:30 a.m. the next day. Due to the significant damage to the substation, field personnel constructed temporary structures that will stay

in place until permanent repairs can be made.

“We would like to recognize our staff for their quick levelheaded response to this situation with their first priority being to secure safety for staff, bystanders and property,” a KPUD press release stated.

“We would also like to recognize Bonneville Power Administration staff and Benton PUD staff being available for us in the event

we needed assistance to secure the site.”

On Friday, October 21, KPUD also had a failure with a connector on the transmission line in this area. Crews responded to the call, located the issue, and completed the necessary repairs. Power was restored at 10:30 a.m.

The cause of the substation outage is still under investigation.

Newhouse endorsed by Washington State Fraternal Order of Police

The Dan Newhouse for Congress campaign has announced that the Washington State Fraternal Order of Police (WAFOP) has endorsed Congressman Dan Newhouse for reelection.

“The Washington Fraternal Order of Police is honored to endorse Congressman Dan Newhouse for reelection as our Representative in the 4th Congressional District. Congressman Newhouse has a proven track record in supporting law enforcement

throughout the country and has earned our support,” said WAFOP President Marco Monteblanco.

With over 364,000 members nationwide, and over 3,400 members in Washington State, the Fraternal Order of Police is the largest professional organization of police in the United States and prides itself on representing all law enforcement regardless of rank or agency. WAFOP works to advance law and order, increase efficiency in law enforcement, pro-

mote public trust in their profession, and improve police officers’ quality of life and working conditions through programs that focus on mental health and fellowship.

“We as a society must get tough on crime again and reject radical calls to defunds the police. I will always stand up for the brave men and women in law enforcement who put their lives on the line everyday to protect our communities,” said Congressman Newhouse. “I

have had the opportunity to meet with hundreds of law enforcement officers throughout my career, and I am in constant awe at the work they do to make our communities stronger and safer – from engaging with families in need and helping individuals in danger, to courageously confronting the most dangerous and evil criminals of our society, we are indebted to them for the brave work they do. I am proud to Back the Blue,” he continued.

Kiwanis holds annul dinner and auction

The Goldendale Kiwanis Club held their annual Installation of Officers Dinner and auction at the American Legion Hall on September 27. Special guests included Lt. Gov. Mike McCay for the Yakima River Basin Division of Kiwanis International, and Past Lt. Gov. Mike Wilson. Installed were President Colleen Andreotti, President-Elect Pat Andreotti, Secretary Theone Wheeler, Treasurer Frank Hewey, and Past-President Doug Miller.

It is a tradition with Kiwanis to hold an auction at the Installation dinner to collect money outside of its normal fundraisers to support the Robotics Club of Goldendale High School. The organization raised $2,000 that it plans to present in person at a meeting of the club in the near future.

It is our goal as Kiwanis members to provide service to our community in ways that support the children and young people of Goldendale and the surrounding area. In addition to our auction, we also hold a Golf Tournament each year to raise money to support our “Books for Kids” campaign and have a booth at the Goldendale Community Days and the Klickitat County Fair and Rodeo, where we give away books and sell snow cones.

This year we are also holding a food drive to support our local food bank. There will be donation boxes outside both Market Fresh and Holcomb’s grocery stores and Allyn’s Building Supply

beginning October 22. Please be generous, as every item donated stays right here in our area.

One of our ongoing service projects is raising the fl ags along our city streets during major holidays and important community events. Wave when you see us.

If any of the projects and services we provide sound interesting to you, please join us. We meet every fi rst and third Wednesday of the month at 7 a.m. at the Simcoe Café. We are always looking for new members. Come join us and be welcome.

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—Colleen Andreotti, President, Kiwanis Club of Goldendale

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This week’s Goldendale’s Attic Mystery Picture

“Whaddya think? Is it a rock?” “Sure looks like a rock.” “Pretty sure that’s a rock.” “It’s a big rock.” Four people standing and looking at—we’ve now

established—a big rock. Or is there something in front of it that they can see but isn’t in the pic ture? Who knows? We sure don’t. All we know about

L ooking Back

October 20, 1892 – 130 Years Ago

this picture is that it ran in The Sentinel sometime, lost in the annals of yes teryear. If you know any thing about it, please drop us an email (info@golden

dalesentinel.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.

N. B. Brooks has canvassed the town and secured enough money to purchase a bunting flag 6” X 10” which will be presented to the public school on Columbus Day.

October 20, 1922 – 100 Years Ago

A very interesting service was held at the cemetery just north of the Congregational Church last Sunday, fol lowing the regular church service for William Willets, the first white person to die among the early settlers in the White Salmon country. The original interment, made nearly fifty years ago, was on the old Warner ranch now owned by J.A. Henderson, and while once surrounded by a neat picket fence for years, the hands of strangers destroyed the markings of the grave. Its very location was lost for a time. Old time friends and veterans of the Civil War, feeling that the character of Mr. Willets and his services as a soldier in the civil war were, worthy of a decent recognition, conceived the idea of locating the remains and giving them a more decent interment. This was accomplished after considerable effort, and by special permission of the city council re-interment was in the cemetery just north of the Congregational Church.

October 16, 1952 – 70 Years Ago

Bert Wilkens has purchased the building now occupied by the Crafton Equipment Company on West Main Street in Goldendale from William Radke. He will occupy the structure about November 1, and Crafton has announced plans to move his business out on the highway when negotiations for property are completed. Wilk ens will use the building as headquarters for his logging company and for storage and repair of logging equip ment. This building is now the parking lot west of NAPA.

October 29, 1962 – 60 Years Ago

Within six hours of each other, on October 15 and 16, in separate hospitals in separate communities, the wives of brothers Dick and Stan Shupe gave birth to new babies—both boys and of identical weight of 7 pounds, four ounces. At 8 p.m., October 15, at Klickitat Valley Hospital, Mr. and Mrs. Dick Shupe of Goldendale welcomed their first born, and at 2 a.m., October 16 at Hood River hospital, Mr. and Mrs. Stan Shupe, Troutlake, became parents of their second child, the new little arrival joined by three-year-old sister Peggy.

September 29, 1962 – 60 Years Ago

Arvo Niemi, manager of JC Penney Company, made a trip to Yakima Thursday to attend a company meeting for briefing on establishment of credit procedures. October 3 is the date on which for the first time the Penney store will allow customer purchasing on credit. Accompanying him to the meeting were Mrs. Ben Owens and Wayburn Thompson, bookkeeping employees in the local store

October 22, 1992 – 30 Years Ago

Sunday Crunch: Like a giant metallic dinosaur, the jaws of a track-hoe take a bite out of one of the brick walls of the Hudson building last Sunday morning. The building was completely demolished before noon and the rub ble cleared away by Tuesday of this week.

October 22, 1992 – 30 Years Ago

Goldendale area residents will soon have all the conveniences of a garbage dump—without having a garbage dump. The transfer station being built by Regional Disposal Company on the west side of town is scheduled to be completed in the next two to three months. Jim Allyn is the general contractor for the project. Mac-Land Enterprises is working as a sub-contractor on the concrete work.

—Richard Lefever Klickitat County Historical Society

We’ve colorized this pic ture from last week. Dave West was the first person to identify last week’s Gold endale’s Attic Mystery Pic ture, and he was not all that sure of his answer. Turns out, Dave was right, which was confirmed a few days later when George Hatha way (Jr.) called to identify himself. George said this was him and his children, from the year they were awarded Klickitat County’s Cattlemen of the Year. Mon day morning Keith Kreps called, from the middle of a swamp on horseback while gathering cattle no less, to let us know this was indeed his college roommate George. We did not find this exact picture in The Senti nel’s archives; instead we found a picture from April 4, 1991, at the Livestock Association’s Spring Ban quet where George and Dee Hathaway (Sr.) accepted the award. At the time, the Hathaway’s ran 200 head of crossbred cattle and grew potatoes in Glenwood.

Pictured here are (left to right): Dana, Brooke, George (behind the gate), Mara, and Hayden. George did not recall the name of the calf.

In honor of our local cat tlemen, cattlewomen, and their families, those who work tirelessly come rain or sun, heat or cold, on good days, bad days, and every thing in between, here are the Klickitat County Cat tlemen of the Year through the years. No awards were given in 2020 and 2021.

1950 Clarence McBride

1951 Russell Kreps

1952 AL. Matsen

1953 Frank Linden and Sons

1954 Quentin and J.R. Jaekel

1955 C.F. and Art Schuster

1956 Stanley Crocker

1957 O.P. Kreps

1958 Delmar Shattuck

1959 Lyle Woods

1960 Harold Sorenson

1961 Horace Allen White

Lawrence Tidyman

1963 William Ownby

1964 Ina Kayser and Sons

1965 Leonard Goodnight

1966 Bill Leaton

1967 Paul Dooley

1968 Art Ladiges

1969 Hugh Cameron and Sons

1970 C.D. Kelly

1971 Jack Davenport

1972 Claude Knight

Blair Shippey

1974 Dewey and Jim Beeks

1975 Roscoe Imrie

Bud and Karl Ami

Points to ponder:

After the age of 35, people start losing 7,000 brain cells a day. That number is tripled if they have a Facebook account.

I lost my job as a sports commentator for saying, “I don’t want to bore you with the details.” I was such an ugly kid, when I played in the sandbox, the cat kept covering me up. It’s a shame that 99 percent of politicians give all the rest of them a bad name.

I got lost on the road to nowhere.

If nobody knows the trouble you’ve seen, then you don’t live in a small town.

Anyone who says an onion is the only vegetable that can make you cry has never been hit in the face with a turnip. Good grammar is something in which I excel in.

The difference between a bear and my wife is that if I play dead, sometimes the bear will leave me alone.

1977 Wayne Eshelman

1978 Fred Holly

1979 Delmar Allbritton

1980 Bob Lee

1981 Clinton Cosner and Sons

1982 Max Read

1983 Phillip and Betty Tuthill

1984 Oliver T. “Chip” Kreps

1985 Morris-Wheelhouse

1986 Dale Thiele

1987 Paul and Dean Miller

1988 Charles Hoctor

1989 Howard and Marvin Norris

1990 Robert Powers

1991 George Hathaway Sr. and George Hathaway Jr.

1992 Robert, Dorthy & Candy Imrie

1993 7F Ranch: Shilling and Rolfe

1994 Quarter Moon Ranch: Agnes, Harry, and Cris Miller

1995 Goodnoe Ranch: Bruce and Peggy Davenport

1996 Arrow H Ranch: Ralph and Anita Holter

1997 Kayser Family Ranch: Neil and Jill Kayser

1998 Frey Ranch: Dan and Joan Frey

1999 Woods Ranch: Mike and Cheryl Woods

2000 Jim and Nancy Sizemore

2001 Craig and Donna Schuster

2002 Fred and Jill Wilkins

2003 J & R Ladiges Ranches

2004 Charles and Alice Eshelman

2005 Mat and Julie Spald ing

2006 Larry and Linda Wil liams

2007 Doug and Vicky Ramsay

2008 Dave and Lauri Dav enport

2009 Kreps Ranch

2010 Kelley Ranches

2011 Sorensen Part nership: Mike and Leroy Sorensen

2012 Walt and Betty Fahl enkamp

2013 Clay and Lauren Schuster

2014 Schreiner Farms

2015 Jess Kayser

2016 Dan Lee

2017 Cameron Brothers Ranches: Brad and Kristin Cameron

2018 Nate Kayser

2019 Ray Willis

2022 John V. and Julie, and John R. and Aubrey Stephens

OpiniOn

Letters from the community

What’s his stand?

With election time fast approaching and the races heating up, there is a sub ject pertaining to the race for Sheriff that I haven’t heard or read about. The subject that I am very curi ous about is: what is Sher iff Candidate Garique Clif ford’s plans for the Sheriff’s Posse Patrol? Is he going to discontinue the program?

Currently there are 140plus posse deputies who contribute to the opera tions of the Sheriff’s Office on their own time. I would think that they and their neighbors would like to know what Candidate for Sheriff Clifford’s plans are for the Sheriff’s Posse Patrol. I would appreciate a public response from Mr. Clifford.

Peter Mercer Bickleton

Wrong answer

I met Sheriff Candidate Garique Clifford at the Home and Garden Show in 2022. I asked him: “Why should I vote for you?” His reply was that he wanted to fix personnel issues within the Sheriff’s Depart ment. (During the day in response to this question several candidates for various offices replied the same; they wanted to fix personnel issues within the department.)

My parting question for Candidate Clifford was: “What will you do if the governor enacts another mask mandate? His reply: “Enforce it.”

Lela DeWitt Goldendale

He’s dangerous

I am voting for Garique Clifford for county sheriff because he will bring com munity focused leadership to the department. Songer has made his position and his leadership dangerously political. Why would I sup port a man who regularly insults almost 50% of the voters in our county? His weekly radio appear-ances are filled with name-call

ing and fear-based rheto ric. Referring to residents who hold different political views as brain dead, idiots and radical extremists who are planning to bring Black Lives Matter and Antifa to Klickitat County has only contributed to the divi siveness and a potentially dangerous scenario. In his desperate attempt to keep his position, he “insulted” Garique by calling him a Democrat, clearly used as a pejorative. Songer’s politics do not belong in our sher iff’s department. His posse pro-gram looks more like militia building—sending armed posse members to a peaceful protest by high schoolers and candidate forums. Songer is a danger ous man who believes that he has more power than any other level of govern ment. There are no checks and balances, no supervi sion of the sheriff position, so the only check we have is to replace Songer’s danger ous rhetoric and extreme political ambitions with Clifford’s focus on serving all of our community.

Sue Kusch White Salmon

Re-elect him

The League of Women Voters hosted a candidate’s night in White Salmon last week which featured the opponents for County Auditor, County Clerk, and County Commissioner, with the shocking omission of the Sheriff’s race.

I’ve attended the Klicki tat County candidate’s nights, that included the Sheriff candidates.

While Sherriff Songer is consistent in his posi tion for supporting our God-given rights, Sheriff Songer’s opponent, Mr. Clifford, has made it very clear that he will enforce bad law until the courts repeal the law. That cer tainly violates the oath of office. Clifford lacks lead ership and management experi-ence dealing with large numbers of employ ees and being fiscally responsible for multimil lion-dollar budgets. Clif ford ignorantly degrades the monthly training given

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Burn-out has got to go

Posse members, which includes annual certifica tion of Policies and Pro cedures. Sheriff Songer’s opponent embraces the false claims coming from the liberal west end of the county. All the training and policies proposed by Sheriff Songer’s opponent are already in place.

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 .

It is obvious Mr. Clifford is being swayed by former deputies who while under disciplinary review chose to resign their positions in the Sheriff’s Department. In an attempt to make him self look better, Mr. Clif ford delivers ver-sions of his positions at candidate meetings.

Sheriff Songer has the integrity, wisdom, educa tion, experience and valor to fulfill government-first obligation of ensuring pub lic safety, protecting our rights from not only others, but also the government.

for Sheriff and make a choice who they would feel would be a breath of fresh air.

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 voted for Songer the last two times he ran. How ever, since earlier he said he would not run again because of his age and health, I took him at his word. When Tim Neher with drew from the race, Songer stepped back in. Why? I have heard what Songer has said about people from the west side of the county, and I don’t like that he is dismissive of people who may not agree with him. Everyone in this county should feel our Sheriff sup ports us.

This year Goldendale Motor sports 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 skate board 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 Lit tle Klickitat River Park (the swimming

I endorse Sheriff Songer for re-election. Hard on Crime. Strong on rights.

Will Samuelson Goldendale

I won’t vote for him again

A letter accused Garique Clifford of not being a real Republi can candidate (a wolf in sheep’s clothing?) because the Democratic party has endorsed him. So, my question is: do the Demo crats and Independents in this county have no right to vote? Yes, many from the Democrat Party have endorsed Clifford. Perhaps, the writer did not realize there are two Republicans running for Sheriff and no Democrats. The implication is the Democrats have no right to look at both candidates

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 ordi nance forbidding anyone from reckless unsafe burnouts in any ones neighbor hood or any street in the Goldendale city limits. I would appreciate some sup port from like-minded citizens at the council meeting. Let them know how you feel.

Lynne Kadlec Dallesport

Easy decision

Ken McKune Goldendale C

In Klickitat County, the ballots are out. There are hugely compelling reasons to vote for Democrats. Since Biden was elected, the Democrats have reduced the budget by hundreds of billions of dollars. They have reduced prescription drug prices by allowing Medicare to nego tiate with pharmaceutical companies. The Chips Act is promoting the manu facturing of high-tech products in America. The Infrastructure Act will pay to repair and expand roads, bridges, airports, and rail. Unemployment is at an alltime low. Biden has rees tablished American global leadership. His leadership has rallied world leaders to the defense of Ukraine, depriving Putin of his bloodthirsty quest to con quer other nations.

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tion, but they have pre sented no specific plan to deal with it. Instead, they want to give more tax breaks for the wealthy and balloon our deficit. They want to repeal Medicare’s ability to negotiate pre scription drug prices. They have proposed cutting Social Security and Medi care. There seems to be no limit to the number of peo ple they want to impeach as pure vengeance. Kevin McCarthy has proposed to cut back on helping the Ukrainians. That idea fits with the party’s infatua tion with authoritarian leaders, including Putin, whom Trump said was a genius upon the Russian invasion of Ukraine. This, too, is the party that says the bloody Jan. 6 insurrec tion was normal “political discourse.” Finally, quite a large number of Republi can leaders are proposing to make abortion illegal across the entire nation. Seems like a pretty easy decision.

for Business and Deposit Account Agreement” from Colum-bia 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 particu larly found offensive.

able. But the ambulances full of wounded children never came, because those kids were already dead. Jones later used those families’grief to spread his consipiracy theory. Songer went on that guy’s show and appears to be proud of his new “fame.”

I voted for Songer in 2014 using “resume” logic. But resumes are written chron ologically. Plus, inter-views and references establish an applicant’s character. I now see who Songer is today, in this moment. His Alex Jones appearance sits at the top of his resume, and I don’t need to read any fur ther. He’s not a good fit for the job.

I contacted the bank for an explana tion. 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 con tacted 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 headquar

When I cast my vote, I’ll be thinking about my new baby. The community I want for him is not the divisive, alienating one Songer is creating. I’m voting for Garique Clifford because his morals are admirable. Bob Songer is ego is driven, and he’s no longer fit to be sheriff.

Rick George White Salmon

His actions speak loudly

Debi Budnik Trout Lake

He is unconstitutional

The Republican national leadership has made quite clear its intentions, should it gain control of Congress. They complain about infla

When Bob Songer went on Alex Jones’ show to promote his politics, he showed me where his pri orities are. Alex Jones is the media personality who denied the murders of 20 children and six teachers at a school in Newtown, Connecticut. He did this for personal gain, and Songer went on Jones’ show to promote his own agenda. I went to elementary school in Danbury, Connecticut, right next to Newtown. It’s as close as Goldendale is to Centerville. The day of the shooting, my friend, our local ER doctor, prepared his team for the unthink

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“We the people” are the owners and interpreters of the Constitution of the United States. It absolutely is not written “Me the Sher iff,” to pick and choose it’s meaning like he still lives in Merry Old England. The very claim by Mr. Songer that he is the absolute authority of the Constitu tion is ludicrous at best. It is unconstitutional at worst. He must be replaced to stop this nonsense of “Constitutional Sheriff.”

Thomas Wilson Goldendale

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and his staff will have hot chili, clam chowder, and cocoa, and prizes will be awarded for best trunk, best adult costume, and best child costume. And the Glenwood Volunteer Fire Department will be there, too. The county burn ban has been extended to November 1, so the Hallenbecks won’t be able to have the fi re pit for s’mores after all, but it’s going to be a great, fun evening.

Volleyball season has come to an end for the Glenwood middle school and high school girls and their coaches. I hope they all hold their heads high and feel proud of the great seasons they had. The Little Klickwood middle school girls, Glenwood/Klickitat, fi nished their season with a tournament in Klickitat last Thursday, October 20. Our Glenwood girls played so well. Hazel Fujita, Kerryna Thompson, and Jocee

Hoctor had awesome serves and played so well out on the court. In the end, they won two games and lost two game and fi nished third out of the five teams. They came home knowing they played well and had fun in a season that almost didn’t happen for them. Coach Sara McFall deserves much thanks for ensuring those three girls, along with Della Fujita and Ariana Jackson, got to be part of a team this year. And thank you also to Abbie Eldred for her willingness to drive to the girls to practices when Sara was unable to.

Our Klickwood High School girls’ season came to an end in Condon when they participated in the play-in. But what a great season it was for them right to the end. Their games were exciting and action-packed, and it was great to see our younger girls playing on the varsity and doing very well out there on the court, despite nerves. Seniors Allison McFall and Alise Gimlin were awesome in their games and so fun to watch. Coach Jaecee Hoctor and assistant coach Kayla Spino

gave many hours of their time and many Saturdays to ensure Klickwood had a great season. And a big thanks to Brad Gimlin for running the score clock and everyone else who pitched in to help. Klickwood, we are proud of you and are looking forward to seeing you out there on the court next year. Let’s not forget our Glenwood Eagles Cross Country team. Tomei and Christian Tomeo and Shae Jackson worked hard this season, practicing on hot afternoons and traveling far and wide to meets. They placed well among teams from much bigger schools and we are proud of the effort they put in under the guidance of coach Aaron Oldenburg. This was the fi rst time in many years Glenwood HS has had Cross Country. They will compete in the District Championship meet on Friday, October 28 in Pendleton, beginning at 2 p.m. Good luck, Eagles.

Don’t forget the Glenwood School open house on Thursday, October 27, beginning at 3 p.m. In addition to touring classrooms and visiting with the teach-

ing staff, there will be a “Haunted Hallway” that evening for the kids and their parents, put on by the Glenwood High School Associated Student Body and individual high school classes. It’s bound to be a fun, exciting evening.

Here's news from Jennifer Hallenbeck. The Pioneer Memorial Community Church will once again host the annual Community Thanksgiving Dinner. This is a wonderful opportunity to come together as a community and enjoy a potluck meal together, celebrating the many blessings of this past year. The church will provide the meat, potatoes, stuffi ng, and rolls. Please bring a dish to share. Last names beginning with A-G should bring hot side dishes and/or a dessert. Last names beginning with H-Z, should bring cold side dishes or salads and/or a dessert. The dinner will be held November 20th at 3:00 PM in the school multipurpose room.

Last week I erred in reporting the Glenwood Station restaurant schedule. The restaurant hours are 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday and closed on Mondays.

Rob your piggy bank for a good cause

Lyle Lions President Dean Oldenburg started a library project/reading room at the Lyle Community School to honor his wife Pam Oldenburg. Pam taught for 39 years and inspired the love of literature and reading in many students. The space is designed primarily for younger students. After Dean (himself a 41-year teaching veteran) got the ball rolling, Lyle Lions joined in to help with painting and preparing the space. The next step will be getting the books with the plan of giving them to the students in the future as they wear and are replaced. Thanks to Lions Dean, Barb, Terry, Lauree, and Jon who helped prepare the reading “nook,” putting in over 100 hours.

The REACH (Relationships, Enrichment, Academics, Community and Homework) program is back! The program is pleased to announce that Dallesport Elementary will serve elementary students in second through fi fth grades. The program typically runs four days

per week before school and two hours after school and aligns with the district calendar. Transportation home and a nutritious snack will be provided. This program is free to you and is funded through a grant. The REACH program will connect with students and their families, help students REACH success, and will collaborate with the community for support and services. Enrollment forms are available in the office. Please return completed forms to the office attention Kenji Stasiewicz.

Have you shaken all the coins out of that piggy bank? Checked your nightstand for leftover coins?

Searched the bottom of your pockets for loose change? That’s all you’ll need to get great items at the Lyle Craft Bazaar, happening November 4-5, Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Homemade and handmade unique gifts can be found at the Lyle

Activity Center (Corner of 3rd & Hwy 14). There will be many vendors with tables full of their craft items that you just can’t find anywhere else. Don’t let this one slip by you—you’d be sorry. Questions? Contact Karen (541) 490-5673.

Gwen Berry is seeking articles for the upcoming High Prairian Newsletter. She says anything you might want to share with the residents would be greatly appreciated. Send any and all items such as: articles, information, stories, poems, photos, recipes, reports, cartoons, and the like to pgwenberry@hotmail.com or call (509) 281-1998. You better hurry though because their deadline is this Coming Saturday, October 29.

French’s Farm in Lyle wishes to thank “ all the neighbors, strangers, friends, friends-of-friends, plant geeks, parents, students, and everyone who stumbled through the door at French’s Farm this past

spring and summer.” And added, “It’s been a joy and a privilege to offer scoops and seeds and share conversation with each of you. Thank you for the enthusiastic response, the excitement for gardening and local ecosystem health, and—of course—ice cream.” Who would ever think to combine a plant store and an ice cream parlor but Claire and Matt? They have been very successful, as I’ve heard, and I hope their business continues to grow.

Congratulations go out to our Lyle-Wishram Cougar girls! The middle school volleyball team, led by Coach Ronni, entered the league tournament in second place, but after defeating the undefeated Centerville Tigers twice, they took home the league’s Champion trophy. What a great feat for our small team—give them a standing ovation!

Submit your news to: Mildred E. Lykens, (509) 3652273 or lykensme41@gmail. com.

FFA and Pumpkin Time

CLAIRE GILMORE GMS FFA SECRETARY

The week of October 17, 41 Goldendale Middle School FFA members taught Goldendale Primary Students in grades 1 through 4 about pumpkins by reading and hands-on activities. The FFA members selected and read the book “Pumpkin Time,” which goes through the process of growing pumpkins from seed to harvest. While the FFA members read the book with the primary students, the primary students fi lled out a sheet about what was happening to the pumpkins while they were growing.

After the reading activity, FFA members helped the students make their own edible pumpkin patch in a cup. As stated by Emmy

Kruger, GMS FFA member, “We picked food items to help the kids get an understanding of how a pumpkin grows from seed through harvesting the pumpkin. We used candy corn as the seeds and sour pumpkin gummies as the mature pumpkin in their cups.”

In the project, FFA members taught nine primary classrooms with a total of 171 students. “Our goal was to educate youth about agriculture through reading and activities but in a fun way. We are planning to go back every month to teach about a new agriculture topic,” said Regan Beasley, GMS FFA member.

Big thank you to the Yakima Farm Bureau for providing funding for Goldendale Middle School FFA to purchase all their books for the project.

FFA Leadership Camp

RYDELL MYERS GMS FFA PRESIDENT

On October 14-16, 26 Goldendale FFA members attended the District IV Leadership Camp hosted at Brooks Park Educational Learning Center with their FFA advisors Mrs. Krieg, Mr. Krieg, and Ms. Jensen, as well as student teacher, Ms. Anderson. Goldendale FFA attended the camp with seven other FFA chapters from the Tri-Cities and Yakima areas with a total of 75 members and guests.

During the camp, FFA members attended workshops hosted by five district officers and three state officers. The workshops covered the topics of Supervised Agriculture Experiences (SAE), Leadership Developing Events (LDE), and Career Developing Events (CDE). As commented by Addi Bomberger, District IV President, “We wanted to get members excited about FFA and help them see the different parts they can participate in.”

In the SAE workshop, members learned about the different projects they could

complete related to eight pathways in agriculture. For the LDE workshop, members worked on their public speaking and job interview skills. And in the CDE workshop, members participated in taste and aroma sensory tests, determined milk quality, practiced giving shots, and created flower pens. “I really liked vaccinating an orange, which is a part of the Veterinary CDE,” said GMS FFA member Logan Smith. FFA members were also able to attend an industry tour at the Goldendale Reindeer Farm provided by the Connell family. Members learned about how to take care of reindeer and about their breeding cycle. “Their horns were huge. And we learned that the females are actually in charge,” said GMS FFA member, Emmy Kruger. The camp provided for lots of educational and recreational opportunities for FFA members. “This experience allowed our FFA members to meet lots of other FFA members, have fun, and learn what all we can do in FFA,” stated Claire Gilmore, GMS Secretary.

Thank You

Senator Patty Murray for supporting Hydropower to Fight Climate Change and Keep Energy Costs Low.

effect of, you have to compro mise. And he vetoed out the parts that we had negotiated in. As you can imagine, that’s very frustrating. And now I’ve been very explicitly clear that I just don’t trust the gov ernor’s office. That’s all you have in Olympia, your word. If you back out like that, it’s going to have negative impli cations. Unfortunately I could have a Democrat come to me and say that we’re all good, we think this will go through, and the governor supports it. I don’t know if I believe it anymore.

Sentinel: Would you speak to some of the pri orities that you intend to bring to the upcoming ses sion?

Corry: We still need to look at emergency powers. What I believe is a glaring flaw in our current emergency pow ers needs to be addressed. It’s important because no per son should have unchecked authority in this state. With our system of checks and bal ances, there’s always some other alternate route in case somebody veers off of an intended course. I had seri ous problems with the emer gency orders. It’s not about Governor Inslee in particu lar. It’s about any governor in that role, any executive in that role, having the abil ity to do what they want with no oversight from the people. That’s not good governance. And I always tell people this would allow the legislature to affirm those powers on behalf of their constituents. “Keep doing what you’re doing.”

crat, or Republican. So why we have this political divide is the most frustrating part for me, because the last four years have been very divided. There are a lot of angry people on both sides. Even in the majority party, people are more frustrated, they’re more angry. They want to find what’s wrong with people versus what’s right. It’s a lot more difficult. We’re down seven votes [the Republican Party] on every single bill that comes across the House. And no bill comes before the House or Senate if the Democrats don’t decide, because they’re the major ity party. We’re not invited to the table.

Sentinel: You mean lit erally not invited?

Mosbrucker: I do on my issues because I work both sides of the aisle. I have best friends who are Demo crats. We do yoga together. It doesn’t matter, right? It’s just people. We go to dinner together, we take Zumba, we go for walks. We run around the lake.

The faith piece I wanted to share with you because what most people don’t know is that every Tues day morning at 7:15, we have Democrat, Republican House and Senate members who get together and pray. There are about 20 to 40 of us in Olympia. It guides us the whole week. Secretary of State Wyman used to always come. We sit together and just prayed. We have some body present and read part of the Bible. Doesn’t matter what faith you are, but it just gave us that base to know that there are 20 or 40 people who were praying for us that day to get through a really hard battle.

Sentinel: It sounds like your philosophy is, it’s better to light a candle than to curse the dark ness.

Mosbrucker: Absolutely. Why not? You can fight with your neighbor across the yard, or you can put a rose bush between you, and both

Or “Reject those powers on behalf of our constituents,” or most likely a hybrid of, “Here’s what we agree with, here’s what we don’t.” I think that’s vitally important in a representative democracy.

Another piece I would like to, uh, work on, and I’ve asked staff to start working on, is a bill that would prioritize rehiring state employees who were laid off due to the vac cine, for those who refused to get the vaccine and were either laid off or fired. Often times you saw people would be granted an exception for a religious or medical excep tion, and then they were told they couldn’t accommodate them, so they were let go. I think that’s, again, bad pol icy. I think it has led to prob lems with agencies across our state. DOT [Department of Transportation] is a huge problem. We’ve got a skilled workforce out there, and some of them may not want to come back, and I fully understand that. But I think that there should be a proac tive law that says you need to prioritize rehiring these people and returning their service aid back to when they started. Politically, I don’t know where that’s going to go because it would force some people to admit that that was a mistake. And as you can imagine, in Olympia, people don’t like admitting when they make a mistake

One of the things we saw in the pandemic was with the OSPI [Office of the Superin tendent of Public Instruction]. They took on a more threat

have roses. I’ve been in lead ership four of those years, half the time I’ve been there. There are five of us in leadership. I’m Deputy Cau cus chair in the House, the House of Representatives on the Republican side. Then there’s also a leadership of that many on the Democrat side. So we strategize and try to figure out ways to help people we serve. The Democrats are who decides the direction, and it’s all, we want to help our con stituents. They want to help theirs. Sometimes they’re not the same. Sometimes it feels like they should be, but as far as who has con trol of the House, that’s who decides the policy. That’s why it’s really important for Republicans to get the control of the House back, at the, the congressional level. Because otherwise you have just one-party leader ship. One party control in the state. That’s why we’re hoping to get control in the House.

Sentinel: What was your bill that the gover nor vetoed?

Mosbrucker: The gover nor’s office called me and said, “Can I veto your bill?” And I said, “Yeah,” because it was during Covid and we needed the money. It was a domestic violence bill. I just passed it the next year. No big deal. The other bill was much more controversial. A hundred and forty-seven legislators voted yes on the bill, House and Senate. Everybody voted yes. The chair of the Energy Com mittee was my co-sponsor. The tribes were on board. Everybody was on board. This bill just said, as we transition to green, which we are in the state of Wash ington—all of us want clean air and safe environments— then we have to keep having these annual meetings that require us to consider the grid. The grid, I think in Bellevue, up in that area, hasn’t been updated since the seventies. And we’re

ening role to our local school boards and said, “Here’s your new rules. And if you don’t do those, we’ll cut off basic fund ing.” For a state agency that is tasked with ensuring kids get education, threatening funding to school boards that are independently elected and supposed to be the local authority over their school district is wrong. So I want to introduce a bill that would have very strict limits on why you could defund a school. I don’t know if anybody actu ally got defunded, but I talked to a lot of school boards in my district who said if they pushed back on any of these things, they were under threat of holding basic edu cation dollars. I don’t think that’s the right approach. We have local authority to these school boards. It should remain that way.

Sentinel: Is there any hope to curb the state’s runaway spending?

Corry: I’m a little worried right now with the economy heading the way it’s heading, with the rampant inflation. I think we are in a recession now, according to how we used to define recessions. We are looking at poten tial revenue problems, and they’re revenue problems only because we’re going to start seeing a curtailing of the state revenue. We have so outspent our inflation and growth over the last 10 years, and now I predict that we will—if not this year, next year—have a budget shortfall, because we have so overspent. I just don’t see the

seeing blackouts and brown outs in Texas and Califor nia. We’re seeing them in Washington. We’re seeing them in Tri-Cities because there’s so much demand on this grid currently. And as we transition to electric vehicles by 2030 [as the state has mandated] by getting rid of natural gas, which is what they’re trying to do, this grid won’t sustain it. It’s too much pressure. You can transition to green slowly and keep having these meet ings to make sure it works. We want to go green, of course, but you can’t go from full electric to all of a sud den green; you can’t be fos sil fuel reliant and then all of a sudden switch. It doesn’t work that way. You have to transition and make sure at the same time you can keep the lights on. You have to keep someone’s oxygen tank going, especially in the winter here, we have rural, elderly people who live in the country. If all they have is electric heat, and if that power grid goes out, then what? It just has to transi tion slowly. And the gover nor vetoed it. So he got hit in every media source across the country. But he said it didn’t match his agenda to simply have meetings every year, which we’re doing cur rently. He got a lot of attacks from newspapers all across the country, because it didn’t ask for money, it didn’t ask for anything.

Sentinel: What are your priorities for the upcom ing Legislative session?

Mosbrucker: Public safety is number one. Safe communities, safe families. I think without being safe, then really not a lot else matters. It’s the same with homelessness. These people who are homeless, there’s so many, it’s heartbreaking. Do fix your addiction, fix your Post Traumatic Stress Dis order. But if you can’t lock the door and you live outside in the bushes, that’s your number one concern. Are you going be attacked that

state’s revenues being able to survive at the level they’re at. For the last two years that I’ve been on Appropriations, the reason why you don’t spend to your max is because you don’t want to have to have the problems we had in the last Great Recession. That was drastic budget cuts, cuts to services. We actually had a great Republican alterna tive budget last year and the year prior that showed how you could provide tax relief and fund all the essential services. This wasn’t some sort of, “Oh, they’re going to cut all welfare” type thing. It was a, “Here’s our core ser vices of government, here’s the things we want to do, here’s how we can fund them without raising taxes and actually provide tax relief.” Unfortunately, we didn’t take that route. I think one of the more egregious things the Democrats did that we were very upset about was, we had a multibillion dollar budget, a rainy day fund passed. That was a law that had biparti san support passed after the last recession. The idea was, “Let’s never do this again. Let’s have good rainy day funds so we can handle this.”

And one of those protective measures on there was, you needed a two-thirds vote to spend it with one small exception. If in the event there were certain revenue and economic growth trig gers, which we ended up hav ing in 2020 where we were projecting a huge bill, a huge deficit, then you only needed a simple majority to pass.

night? Are you safe? I used to go to a homeless shelter for youth in Yakima. And I would take a macaroni and cheese pizzas because that was their favorite. I’d drop it off and I’d hang out with the homeless youth up there. And it was so devastating to watch this mom leave at four o’clock, because it closed at four o’clock. She was maybe in her twenties, and she had a little girl holding onto the stroller, a really gorgeous lit tle baby girl. And so I asked them, “Where is she going?” It was really cold. And they said, “She’s going to find somewhere to sleep for the night.” They didn’t have overnight housing then. I drove home the whole time thinking, “Would I sleep in that bush? Would I sleep by that overpass? Where would I sleep with my child? Where is it safe?” So it’s not right. We don’t have the infra structure in place.

Catalytic converters. We had three bills last session. There was a rash of cata lytic converter theft around here. They’re, what, $1,400 to $2,400 apiece? So we had bills that were, “Can we stamp them? Can we mark them? Can we find who’s buying these?” So the Dem ocrats wanted to study it. We’re in the minority party, so we’re just like, “Can we please take action?” I went to PDX [Portland airport] the other day. I was talking to the security guy, and he says, “Don’t park in econ omy area because they’re just climbing over the fence stealing converters on all the cars.”

We’re trying to figure out how to get more [police] officers. The case that made drug possession legal—so you can have fentanyl in your pocket. They’re rain bow colored. They look like Skittles. “One pill, one kill” is what we call fentanyl because it only takes one to kill you. They look like Skittles, and we’re just so afraid of what’s happening to kids. But under state law,

So what the Democrats did was, they basically moved all that money out of the budget stabilization account [rainy day funds] and moved it into another fund that they could spend at will again on a rainy day, on anything they wanted with a simple majority. And so they basically drained that account. I think as stewards of the state’s checkbook, we have a responsibility to show economic restraint. And I think that the taxpayers would expect that if we were setting this money aside to keep it in a place to show it’s there for set for a rainy day.

Sentinel: Is there any thing else you want to be sure to mention?

Corry: I’m not much for self-promotion, so I can’t give you some rah-rah speech. But I will tell you I love what I do. I believe it is vitally important for our state and our future to have people involved who are raising families currently, who are active in their com munities, who understand what it’s like to be an average Washingtonian. I consider myself one of those, and that’s why I keep doing what I do. It’s about making sure that when my kids are grown and they’re building their lives with their spouses and hav ing their own kids, that this is still a great place to live, both here in central Washington and across the state. I will tell you one of the true gems of Washington state that most people don’t realize or don’t think about is, we have this amazing balanced economy that actually does help us

it’s legal for you to have her oin or whatever you want. We were arguing at three or four in the morning try ing to say, “Please don’t do this. Please don’t make heroin legal.” And they did it anyway. That expires July 23, and they have to make it permanent or run bills, which, again, we can’t stop them. I’m hoping that there’s been enough horrific overdoses to pay attention. I did a ride along in Yakima. I do lots of them, and we saw an overdose on the street on Yakima Avenue, and they Narcanned him. Just really scary. He was furious that we took away his high with the Narcan, but we saved his life because he was dying. And then they Narcanned him two more times the same night.

You can have a drug-free workplace as long as you advertise it when you hire, and you have to equally drug test all the employees, not just random. But some drugs are in your system a week, some are a day, some are a month. It’s just a mess right now. It’s really frustrating. But it’s scary because there’s more and more people addicted.

I do believe that people who are elected are sup posed to reflect who they’re elected by. I do think all of them come in with inten tions of doing the right thing. Is the right thing dif ficult? Yes, because there’s a lot of pressure. There’s an issue of the day which should not have been con troversial: when you have a surgery room and you’re cutting into people who are sick. You’re a surgeon, and that emits virus. The cut ting into a cancerous heart, or whatever the issue is, it’s emitting and you’re breath ing. This nurses right in front of you might have a mask on, but you’re still breathing and your face and your eyes, these toxic chemi cals that are from someone who’s sick. So the bill said, “Can we make sure that all

through some of the rougher times the nation’s facing. We have a vibrant tech space. We have for now a vibrant manu facturing space with Boeing and others. And we have a dominant agriculture space. And those work together in a huge strength. I know there’s a lot of people who talk about splitting eastern Washing ton off from Western Wash ington, and I actually don’t think that’s a good idea as long as we can work together, because we do balance each other out on in terms of how the economy runs and what we do for each other. I worry about people not appreciating that.

I did have one member of the Democrats a couple years ago who was new to the Leg islature make a snide remark to me, saying, “Well your eastern Washington should be thankful for all the indus try in western Washington that pays for everything.” I of course started rattling off all of our ag industries over here and what those provide. We need people to realize that, right? You’ve got west side people who love their fancy farm-to-table restaurants. They love living this lifestyle, and then they demonize us for delivering it to them. That gets frustrating because we grow your craft beer. I also understand that the technol ogy that they’re creating on that side is helping drive our agriculture economy further and further into the 21st cen tury. It’s very symbiotic. And I want to keep that.

of the emergency rooms, those surgery rooms in surgery rooms in Washing ton state have a ventilation system that sucks that toxic air out? Because a lot of sur geons aren’t surgeons for long, because they get sick.” So they’re saying, “Well no, we’re not going to vote for that because it adds cost to the hospitals.” But nurses are reaching out, saying, “Hey, we’re not safe.” So I love the part where you learned something you didn’t know, the missing and murdered women, same thing. I didn’t know that women were being taken and kids were being taken from tribes. I had no idea. And that was 2015. So now we’re on our fourth bill that we passed to help fix that.

Sentinel: Is it accurate to say that some legisla tors act on expediency rather than on long-term thinking? They aren’t looking to the long-range implications and effects, the broader picture on a broader scale?

Mosbrucker: When we’re going to do something, I know it might fix it right now, but what’s going to happen 10 years from now? That’s why we have amendments. So we run a bill, we think we’ve got it down. Attorneys have reviewed it, 147 people have voted on it. The gover nor signed it. And then we hope that there aren’t a lot of unexpected consequences. Often there are. So that’s why we have amendments. That happens a lot. We always feel like we ran out of time [in a Legislative session] because there’s so many things to fix. I think we never feel done. But we feel like at the end that we passed seven bills this year, and we put a roof on the senior center [in Goldendale] instead of all the money going to Seattle. Okay, that was a good ses sion. Now these are 10 things I want to work on again for next session.

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I have the skills and experience to continue leading this office for the next four years. I am proud to run on the record of my accomplishments, and I ask for your vote.

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and employees to provide maintenance, custodial, and security support in all areas of Port operation. This po sition at times may be “On Call” and is responsible for monitoring fire alarms or other emergency building situations and may require response to be made at all hours, day or night. The position also requires work to be performed at heights on building roofs and bridge towers over 100’ above water. The position also requires the ability to lift at least 50 pounds.

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HOOD RIVER COUNTY IS HIRING: SEASONAL-ELECTIONS WORKER

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BILINGUAL RECEPTIONIST/ PAYROLL CLERK

EOSSB in Hood River is hir ing for a full-time Bilingual Receptionist/Payroll Clerk. Our team is looking for a people-oriented front-desk receptionist who can greet our incoming foot traffic, an swer and assist individuals calling into the front line and juggle administrative tasks related to our bi-monthly cli ent payroll. Strong technical skills and an ability to com municate professionally and effectively is a must. We’re a small team, so maintaining a positive and upbeat work environment along with reli ability to the schedule is key for us. If you are looking for a job that supports your community and feel this de scription fits you, check out our website www.eossb. org and send your resume with cover letter and any remuneration expectations to Melanie Tucker, Opera tions Director at mtucker@ eossb.org.

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City of Hood River Public Works is seeking a member to join the operations team.

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Satisfactory drug test, driv ing record and reference checks are required. Obtain ing an employer paid Class B CDL is required after 6 mo. on the job. Position open until filled. Applica tions are on the City website www.cityofhoodriver.gov

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PROJECT MANAGER

The Project Manager is the professional entry-level class in the series, as signed to serve as a proj ect manager on City public works projects. Under the general supervision of the Public Works Director and/ or Senior Project Manager, the Project Manager orga nizes, oversees, and coor dinates multi-disciplinary, multi-phase public works projects from conceptual initiation through completed construction; and performs related duties as assigned. Additional responsibility may include review of land use applications within the City and Urban Growth Area as they relate to possible im pacts on City infrastructure. The City offers excellent benefits, and the pay range is $76,543 - $94,138 annu ally. EOE/AA.

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City of Dufur taking applica tions for full time, 40 hours a week, Utility Assistant. Com plete job description and applications are available at Dufur City Hall, 175 NE Third Street, PO Box 145, Dufur, OR 97021 or online at CityofDufur.org. Start ing pay $15.50 – $19.80 per hour subject to qualifications and experience plus Medi cal, Dental, Vision insurance and retirement benefits are included. Contact Dufur City Hall for questions at 541467-2349. End date: until filled.

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T-Wolf Volleyball clinches league title for 4th straight season

Tuesday night’s win at Mabton gave the Timber wolf Volleyball team a guaranteed share of the league title for the fourth year in a row. It took all hands on deck against a Viking team who had upset on their mind. The first two sets were somewhat close with scores of 25-14 and 25-21. The third set was over quickly as the Timber wolves served very aggres sively, leaving the Vikings with no offense or ability to score. The 25-5 final set showed the dominance the Timberwolves are capa ble once they get firing on all cylinders. 16 aces were served by the team, with Gwen Gilliam accounting for 7 of them.

After a big week of GHS Homecoming activities, the girls looked forward to a bat-le with the 1A Zil lah Leopards. A long-time SCAC rival, the Leopards

came to play the Timber wolves in a non-league but much-desired match to prepare for the dis-trict tournament. The match-up did not disappoint, with a 4-set battle and several lead changes throughout. The Timberwolves had trouble the entire way with their attacking game and simply could not overcome the 37 errors they committed to win the overall match.

The Timberwolves came out strong in the first set with some big stuff blocks from Brook Blain, and things were looking good for a victory. GHS won the first set 25-21, but dropped the next three with scores of 22-25, 22-25 and 20-25. Serving was strong at 95%, but the hitting errors piled up and a kill percentage of .047 (kills-errors divided by attempts) is not going to bring home a win. The teams overall kill percent

age for the season is .235. All in all, the girls pushed through and worked hard amidst their rough hitting, doing all they could on defense to keep rallies alive.

Taryn Rising led the team in attacking with 18 kills, with 17 PP and 14 digs. Blain added 10 kills and 10 stuff blocks. Blains block ing efforts have moved her into second place on the GHS All-Time stuff block list, passing alumni player and for-mer JV coach Tif fany Ferch (2006). HOCO Queen Gwen Gilliam gave double duty efforts all week with HOCO activities and VB. She contributed 8 kills, 17 PP, and 27 digs, leaving her 8 short of the single sea son dig record of 334 held by Kennedy Berry (2022). Lexi Molnar was 12-12 serving with 25 digs and Brylee Mulrony had 15 digs and 14 PP. Emily Tindall tallied 31 assists and 20 digs. Lydia

Hanning served up 3 aces, with 2 stuff blocks, 3 kills, and 5 digs. Ada Garner put down 4 kills and Greta Gilliam had 3 digs in her reserve role.

The Timberwolves finish up league play this week with Kittitas at home on Tues-day for Senior Night and are on the road to High land on Thursday.

A much desired and wellearned first round home district match for the Tim ber-wolves will take place on Tuesday Night, Novem ber 1, at 6 p.m. at GHS. The east side opponent will be decided this week and looks to be either Riverview or War-den. The second and third rounds will be played at Columbia-Burbank High School in the Tri-Cities on Wednesday and Thursday nights, November 2 and 3.

—Jodi Bellamy

Soccer team facing adversity

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For The SenTinel

Last week, the Timber wolves took on the White Swan Cougars for Senior Night on Tuesday, whom they had previously beaten 15-0. On Thursday, the Cle Elum Warriors, who were ranked first in League, gave the Timberwolves a chance to advance their standing. The Timberwolves were eager to get on the field and prove themselves.

The Tuesday game against the Cougars started out slow with neither team scoring until the end of

the second quarter, when the Timberwolves put up multiple goals. The Tim berwolves dominated the field, maintaining control for a total of eight goals at the half, while keeping the Cougars at a score of zero. At halftime, the team took a moment to recognize the seniors, Mackenzie Dahl, Kali Watson, Jordan Hinderliter, and Reanna Oswalt. Coming back from the half, the Timberwolves were determined to raise the score. Tough defense and an unstoppable offense resulted in an end score of 17-0.

The game on Thurs day, against the Cle Elum Warriors, was originally scheduled to be played in Cle Elum but was moved to Ellensburg due to smoke in the air from fires. Both teams were on a field they had never played on, giv ing neither team a home field advantage. The game started out with the Warri ors scoring two goals, while holding the Timberwolves at zero. Coming back from the half, the Timber wolves were determined to increase intensity, only allowing the Warriors to score once, but the Warri

Community events

October 28, 2022, Rally launch event and coat drive: 1 p.m. – 5 p.m. OTC office on Columbus Ave in Goldendale. Stop by our office and celebrate the launch of Rally Networks.

October 29, 2022, Trunk or Treat : Down town Goldendale. Haunted House, trick or treating, refreshments, prizes, and more. Contact Winder mere Realty or The Gen eral Store, more details to be released in October.

October 29, 2022, Klickitat County Histori cal Society Annual Meet ing and End of the Year Program : 1 p.m. Golden dale Grange Hall on East Darland. This year the focus is on the History of the Historical Society.

October 29 & 30, 2022, Howards Haven Pump kin Patch: 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. 37 Monogan Howard Rd, Lyle. A wide variety of activities, photo ops, trac tor rides, petting zoo, pony cart rides and so much more. donations are not required, contact Donette at 509-945-8362 or at Ann 541-571-3485. Please RSVP for a time slot.

October 30, 2023, Trunk or Treat : 4 p.m. Centerville Grange parking lot 2288 Centerville Hwy. Hosted by the Centerville Community Church. Cof fee Cider and Hot Chocolate October 30, 2022, Fifth Sunday Sing: 6 p.m. 124 W Allyn, Goldendale Church of the Nazarene. Commu nity event put on by Golden dale Christian Fellowship. Special music and group singing. Free. Everyone is welcome!

October 30, 2022, Learn

local series – Pumpkin Art and Open House: 3 – 5 p.m. 1256 Hwy 141, BZ Corner. Go beyond the classic pumpkin carving! Come carve, decorate, and create a festive pumpkin to beautify your porch. If you are so inspired, bring a pumpkin dish and recipe to share. Led by Crystal Lus ter of Mt Adams Orchards, email themissingcorner@ gmail.com for information. Registration not required.

October 31, 2022, Glen wood Trunk or Treat : 4 – 6 p.m. on Main Street. Prizes will be awarded for best costume and best Truck. Hosted by the Glen wood Women’s Club and Glenwood Grange No. 94 October 31, 2022, 10th Annual Carved Pumpkin Contest: Glenwood General Store. Carved pumpkins should be brough to the store on 10/31 no later than 5:30 p.m., prizes will be awarded at 6:00 p.m. Com plementary clam chowder, chili and hot cocoa will be served. Two categories, 12 and under and 13 and over.

November 3, 2022, Annual Donor Dinner, Friend Raiser and Silent Auction: 5 p.m. silent auc tion and dinner at 6 p.m. Community Grace Breth ren Church, Goldendale. Annual fundraiser to ben efit the Goldendale Preg nancy Resource Center. To host a table call or email 509-773-5501 center@gold endaleprc.org

November 4 – 5, 2022, Lyle Craft Bazaar: 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. Friday, 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. Saturday, Lyle Activ ity Center at the corner of 3rd and Hwy 14. There will be a quilt raffle and all

proceeds go to the Activity Center. Call Karen Beck to reserve a table 541-490-5673

November 4 – 5, 2022, 1st Annual Giving Tree Festival : 11/4 hours are 4 p.m. – 8 p.m., 11/5 hours are 3 p.m. - 8 p.m. at the Goldendale Grange. Ten beautiful Christmas trees will be on display, and you will have a chance to take one home! These trees will be decorated with a theme and donated by local art ists. Purchase a ticket to win a tree with the draw ing being held on Novem ber 5 at 8 p.m. To decorate a tree, fill out an applica tion available at Goldendale Pharmacy, Pats Place, & Goldendale Chiropractic or contact Susan Marlow 509773-3309 or Jeanne Bradley 509-261-2513. The recipient of this year’s proceeds will be Cameron Mains and Alison Coons-Azevedo, see their story in the October 5, 2022, edition of The Sen tinel.

November 11, 2022Veterans Day Parade : Goldendale Sponsored by ABATE, more information regarding participation and route will be coming later in the year.

November 12, 2022, The Road Less Traveled Fall Vendor Fair: 11 a.m. – 5 p.m. Gorge View Equine Facility, White Salmon. Local artisans, upcycled, country, chic, antiques, junk, local farmers, local food and coffee. Come get last minute Christmas Gifts. For more info email bantamlane@yahoo.com or 360-219-7516.

November 19, 2022, The Snow Sisters Christ mas Celebration : 1 p.m.

ors defense was too strong, not allowing the Timber wolves to score, for an end score of 0-3.

The Timberwolves faced adversity last week, with a huge win on Tuesday and tough competition on Thursday, as well as the plans changing due to the smoke. This week, the Tim berwolves will have played their one game of the week on Tuesday with the High land Scotties at Barthlow Field. That game decided who qualified for District competition. (Details of the game will be in next week’s edition.)

Athlete Spotlight: Mason Goosen

Tayler Bradley For The SenTinel

Though rodeo season is over for the fall, some of our athletes are still get ting in some good practice so they will be prepared when spring rolls around. One of those athletes is Mason Goosen. He is a two-event cowboy com peting in tie down roping and team roping. Though Mason may have gotten a bit of a later start into the rodeo scene then some of the other kids, he has proven that hard work and dedi-cation can help any one achieve their goals.

Mason began roping in the eighth grade. He got to compete at the first rodeo that fall, but unfortunately that same day he broke his collar bone so he had to heal up before he could get back to rop ing again. But once he was back in the saddle, there was no stopping his deter mination. He worked hard and his skills developed.

the more experience he gets with different angles and movements, which helps him prepare for just about anything.

Even with all this prep aration, there is always some kind of obstacle.

Mason has broken his collar bone and his wrist, which have set him back a little but never stopped him. He has also had to be patient when his horse got sick. His heel horse was out for about two months, but with a little TLC he was back in the arena in no time.

Mason also is a part of FFA and FBLA at Golden dale High School. He tries to go other sporting events to be supportive and hang out with his friends. But when he is not doing any of those things, he is out riding his young horses to get them ready to move up to the next level.

Goldendale Reindeer farm. Come join the Snow Sisters, Sven, and Santa and Mrs. Claus for a celebration to kick off the holiday season at Goldendale Reindeer!

The Snow Sisters will be dressed in their holi day finest, and you’ll make memories of a lifetime with Anna and Elsa, and Santa and Mrs. Claus during a story time, sing along, tree lighting and more! Spaces limited, for price and to reserve a spot hoof it on over to goldendalereindeer. com and click BOOK NOW.

November 19, 2022, Bickleton Holiday Bazaar : 9 a.m. – 3 p.m. Bickleton School Old Gym. Free admission, lunch available. Shop at the many craft vendors. For more information contact Mar ily Roberts 509-896-2113 or Jennifer Seng 509-896-2047.

November 22, 2022, American Red Cross Blood Drive: 12:30 – 6 p.m. Grace Brethren Church, Goldendale. Register at www.redcrossblood.org or call Nadine @ 509-439-2011 to reserve your spot.

December 1 – 3, 2022 High Prairie Christmas Bazaar : 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. 701 Struck Rd. High Prai rie Community Center (between Centerville & Lyle.) Come support local vendors with a wide range of homemade & handmade products. Proceeds go towards HPCC firefighters & the center. For vendor information contact Tami 360-241-3537

December 10, 2022, Candy Cane Lane Christ mas Parade: More infor mation and route will be coming later in the year

This couldn’t have hap pened without his horse, Frosty. This horse means so much to Mason. They grew up together so you could say Frosty is kind of like Mason’s best friend. That’s why tie down roping is Mason’s favorite event.

“It’s me and my best friend doing his favorite thing, and it’s the rodeo event that I started with,” he said.

Mason rides his other horse, Roy, for team rop ing. Mason says Roy is a good horse but can be a little dramatic.

Both of Mason’s events are roping events so to pre pare for both, he ropes a lot in the practice pen and really anything else he can throw a rope at: horses, calves, steers, goats, and of course the dummy. The more he throws his rope,

Mason has some great teachers, Seth Hopper and Willy Hart, who are always there to coach and teach when he has any questions. All of these things are essential to help him reach his goal for this year, which is going to the National High School Rodeo in the tie down rop ing.

“That was the dream of mine my freshman year, but this year I want to push harder for it,” Mason said. “My horse and I are much more seasoned and I think we have a good shot.”

Mason has had a good fall season and has placed many times in each of his events, getting him the points he needs to qualify for nationals. We just hope that his spring season will go well for him. In the meantime, we can bet on seeing Mason working hard and getting in the practice he needs to be pre-pared. We look forward to seeing what he will accomplish this spring.

County Senior Services

Home-delivered meals will continue to be pro vided to seniors (60+) and spouse or caregiver in home with senior if quali fied. Please contact the office for more informa tion on eligibility for home delivered meals at (800) 447-7858 for more informa tion. Ask your local office about the Senior Food Box Program as well as the Senior Farmers Market Nutrition Program.

MENU: GD, WS & Lyle 10/26 & 10/27: Ham burger 10/31: Baked Fish White Salmon - Pioneer Center 501 NE Washing ton Street 509-493-3068

Hot Meals at noon Mon day and Wednesday Bunco – 2nd and 4th Fri day of every month at 1:00 p.m. at the Pioneer Center Senior Center.

Hatha Yoga – Tuesday and Thursday 8:30 – 9:30 a.m. All levels are wel come

StrongPeople Strong Bodies – Every Tuesday at 2 p.m. For more infor mation and to complete a short packet of informa tion call Jill at 509-4933068

Virtual Chronic Disease Self-Management Class: 1:30 – 4:30 pm October 26, 2022

Goldendale – 228 West Main 509-773-3757

Hot Meals at noon Tues day and Thursday Nail Trims - Tuesday 10:00 a.m. – noon

Exercise – 1:00 p.m. every Tuesday and Thurs day

Recovery Café – 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. every Wednesday, Lunch, crafts and support group

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The Puritan church believed very strongly in both God and the Devil. They believed that the Devil was always trying to use weak people to interrupt the lives of people who believed in God. These people the Devil used were called witches. It was a crime if someone was found to be a witch. Any small behavior change could get someone accused of witchcraft, and it didn’t matter how young or old a person was. When strange things started happening to the daughter and niece of a Puritan minister named Samuel Parris, people in the village began to talk. The people believed Betty Parris who was 8 years old and Abigail Williams who was 10 had been taken by the Devil and were now witches.

It was a cold January in 1692 when Betty and Abigail began to act strange. They had what were called “fits” that the local doctor couldn’t explain. They rolled on the floor in pain, kicked at things and made “strange” noises. Since the doctor, William Griggs, couldn’t explain what was going on, they said that the girls were possessed by the devil. The girls blamed three people for making them act strangely. They said Tituba, Sarah Good and Sarah Osbourne had bewitched them. The three women were arrested and accused of witchcraft.

After the first women were accused and arrested a group of young girls who were friends to Betty and Abigail began telling strange stories and acting weird. They began having “fits” in public yelling that people were poking, biting and pinching them. They made many accusations against people, causing the arrest and trials of a number of witches. Often when asked to describe what the witch was doing, the girls would say they came at night in a dream and wanted them to sign the devil’s book. This kind of accusation was called spectral evidence and it was impossible to prove it didn’t happen. More than 200 were accused of witchcraft. The group of friends, Ann Putnam, Mary Warren, Mercy Lewis, Elizabeth Booth and Elizabeth Hubbard gave testimony against 17 of the people who were put to death.

Many of the people accused of witchcraft were people who lived differently than the Puritan religion said they should. The oldest person accused of being a witch, Rebecca Nurse, was 71 years old. The youngest person, Dorothy Good, was 4. She was the daughter of Sarah Good. Dorothy was held in prison for almost a year. There were also four men who were killed for being wizards. After more than 150 people were accused of witchcraft and more than 20 were executed the governor of Massachusetts, Governor Phipps, put a stop to the craziness and pardoned everyone. Even his wife had been accused.

Read all about it

The Salem Witch Trials by Michael J. Martin

What Were the Salem Witch Trials?

by Joan Holub

You Wouldn’t Want to Be a Salem Witch by Jim Pipe

Samuel Parris

Proctor’s ledge where executions were carried out.

Homecoming Heroes

HILL

THE SENTINEL

Last week, the Goldendale High School was packed with school spirit for Homecoming week. With competitions of school spirit between the grades, there was a Hallway Decorating Contest, followed by Color Wars, Purple and Gold Day, and to fi nish off the week, the Noise Parade. The Parade traveled along the school district, headed downtown, and came to a standstill on the corner of Main and Grant, where the students rallied, getting excited for the Friday night football game against Cle Elum. With fall setting in, the temperatures were low and the chances of rain were high, but that didn’t stop the Timberwolf supporters from showing up and shouting out. The Timberwolves were ready to take on the Cle Elum Warriors and prove their standing as fi rst in League. They knew the Warriors weren’t a team easily beaten, and they had to keep their heads in the

game. Head Coach Aaron Cochran knew what needed to be done. “With the rain and muddy conditions,” he said, “we knew a lot of it was going to come down to our offensive line executing, and our defense tackling against a State-caliber running back.”

The game started with the Timberwolves in possession. They tried a pass which fell incomplete, followed by multiple handoffs to Seth Lucatero, No.21, to march the ball down the field. The Warriors, putting up a fight, forced the Timberwolves to turn the ball over on downs; it looked like it was going to be a long, tough game. The Timberwolves defense held strong, not allowing the Warriors to score, turning the ball back over to the Timberwolves.

The possession started on the 35-yard line with a handoff to Cameron Groves, No. 15, who ran the ball until he was pushed out of bounds at the 50-yard line. At the 50, few yards were gained, turning the ball over on downs.

The Timberwolves defense was too strong, keeping the

Warriors from the fi rst down. The Warriors opted to kick off with the Timberwolves starting at the 35-yard line.

First play of the possession, quarterback Kade Bomberger, No. 8, threw a 40-yard touchdown pass to Groves. Groves, almost going down, fought his way to the endzone for the fi rst touchdown of the game. They chose to then kick for the extra point for a score of 7-0 to end the fi rst quarter.

The Timberwolves scored another point, and the free

kick brought the score to 14-0. On the kickoff, the Warriors received the ball deep at the 20-yard line. As the Warriors attempted to run the ball up the sideline, Victor Canche, No. 44, made a brutal hit that knocked the ball loose for a forced fumble, which he then recovered for another Timberwolf possession. The Timberwolves threw a 10-yard pass to Canche to be brought down at the 1 yard line. To get the ball in the endzone, the Timberwolves ran Lucatero

up the middle for the touchdown, then attempted a twopoint conversion, which was unsuccessful. The Warriors offense was strong, but the Timberwolves defense was stronger, once again turning the ball over. On the Timberwolves’ fi rst play of the possession, Bomberger threw a 27- yard touchdown pass to Groves for the fourth touchdown of the game and then successfully kicked the ball in for the extra point resulting in a score of 28-0.

The Timberwolves, fi ghting their way down the field on the 13-yard line, handed the ball off to Lucatero, who ran it up the middle for another touchdown. The kick was successful for a score of 39-0 at halftime.

Coming back from halftime, Lucatero ran up the middle for the first touchdown of the second half for the Timberwolves for a score of 41-0. The Warriors managed to throw a pass, which was nearly intercepted by No. 41 and resulted in a Warrior touchdown. They tried for the two-point conversion but

were unsuccessful for a score of 41-6. For the next touchdown, Braxton Seaver, No. 11, fi lling in for Bomberger, who was out on injury, ran a 25-yard quarterback keeper, followed by a successful kick for a score of 48-6 to end the third quarter. The Warriors fought hard to get a touchdown, but the Timberwolves held strong, turning the ball back over. The Warriors managed to get one more touchdown to end the game, with the Timberwolves dominating for a fi nal score of 53-12.

This win secured the title of EWAC West League Championship for the second year in a row, proving the team’s skill. Head Coach Cochran wants to use the game to improve. As the season progresses, the level of play gets more intense.

“We’ve got some work to do in our defensive backfield if we want to be successful down the stretch,” stated Cochran, “but they’re getting better each week.”

Friday, the Timberwolves take on the Highland Scotties of Cowiche at our own Barthlow Field.

Cross Country at Apple Ridge and Cle Elum

TAYLER BRADLEY

FOR THE SENTINEL

Over the past few weeks, the Cross Country team has been running through different courses. Their heart and determination have shown through every time, as each one of them continues to work hard and improve. These Wolves have really done all they can to make sure they have a chance at the district race.

October 1 the Wolves traveled to Apple Ridge for a race against some tough runners. For the men’s team, they had a pretty good day competing in the 3-mile run. Sean Henrikson, who is having a great season so far, fi nished 3rd for the day with a time of 17:47. Raymond Holycross followed close behind him with a 7th place finish and a time of 18:24. Brothers Elliot and Simon Grindling had a race to the fi nish line as they crossed it within seconds of each other. Elliot took 24th and Simon took 25th. Damin Simonds is getting better each time he runs. He fi nished 37th with a time of 20:30. Anthony Hauck ran the 3 miles in 22 minutes and 29 seconds, it was a great run for him. Colby large and Rowen Richelderfer both competed as well and gave it their all crossing the fi nish line. Bailey Holycross was the only lady Timberwolf that ran in the 3-mile race and she fi nished 25th with a time of 30:55.

After the weekend was over, the kids got back at it to prepare for the league meet in Cle Elum on October 5. This race would be run against only athletes in our league. Each one of the racers ran in the 5,000-meter race through a greet course, and let me tell you, the Timberwolves showed up in a big way. Sean Henrikson crossed the fi nish line fi rst not just for Goldendale but for the entire race. He brought home first place with a time of 17:27. Crossing the fi nish line next for the Wolves was Elliot Grindling, who placed 5th overall. Right behind him was teammate Hayden Connell with a 6th place fi nish. Then also fi nishing in the top ten were Simon Grindling finishing 9th, and Raymond Holycross who fi nished 10th. Damian Simonds also saw some improvement this time around as he crossed the fi nish line in the 15th position. As for the lady Timberwolves, both Emily Cazares and Bailey Holycross had no problems in this meet. It was actually a neck and neck race all the way to the fi nish line where Emily got Bailey by just one second for the win and Bailey took second. These girls gave it their all and it paid off.

Each of these athletes continued to get those good runs in during practices to prepare for their meet in Big Cross. Both the girls and the boys competed in a 5,000-meter race. Starting off with the

boys, Sean Henrikson had yet again another great race. He crossed the fi nish line in second place with a time of 18:05. Isaac Call was not far behind him as he fi nished the race in 4th place. Raymond Holycross also saw some improvement as he followed right behind these two to bring home 6th place. Also getting faster with each run was Hayden Connell who came in 10th this race. Elliot Grindling, Damian Simonds and Simon Grindling all also fi nished the race within the top 20. As for the girls Emily Cazares ran a good race coming in 5th for the day. Bailey Holycross also had a good day fi nishing 10th.

On October 20 the Wolves were supposed to have a home meet, but with the smoke Goldendale was getting from nearby fi res, it was moved last minute. They loaded up and drove back to Apple Ridge for their last league meet before districts. Each of the runner ran in a 3-mile race. Sean

Henrikson brought home second place. He has been killing it this season so far. Not too far behind him was Isaac Call who came in third for the day. Raymond Holycross and Elliot Grindling were next to fi nish for the Timberwolves. Raymond took 7th and Elliot took 8th. Hayden Connell worked hard this race fi nishing 13th. Simon Grindling and Damian Simonds also fi nished within the top 20 for the day. For the lady Timberwolves Emily Cazares brought home a second-place fi nish. Bailey Holycross also had a good day fi nishing 9th.

The boys’ team is the EWAC league champions. The kids are having a heck of a season. They are all continuing to work hard and reach for those goals that they have set for themselves at the beginning of the season. The coaches are also doing their very best of keeping these athletes in running shape and their confidence high. The runners will

be competing in the district meet this coming week in

hopes of qualifying for state. Good luck to them all, and we

hope you do amazing.

COURTESY JOHN LONGFELLOW

HARD HIT: Victor Canche makes a stop on a Warriors player, which forced a fumble that Canche recovered.