Goldendale Sentinel September 1, 2021

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Goldendale, Washington

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Vol. 142 No. 35

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MAKING A POINT: A crowd gathered in front of the county courthouse last Wednesday to protest mandated vaccinations, as ordered by Gov. Jay Inslee. The core issue is vaccinations made requisite by the governor, taking away to the right to individual choice. The group plans to continue protesting at the courthouse every Wednesday from 5 to 7 p.m. for the indefinite future.

TAYLER BRADLEY

HORSES, RIGHT FACE: Left to right, Brandi Vance, 2020/21 Rodeo Queen Natalie Schroder, and 2022 Rodeo Queen Michaela Gutierrez.

Did someone tell the horses to all look to their right at the same time?

Meet the new Rodeo Queen TAYLER BRADLEY FOR THE SENTINEL

It’s coming—more employee tax Right after the holidays, employees must pay into long-term care program Washington State has created a publicly funded long-term care program—the first of its kind in the country—that will begin drawing from employee paychecks on Jan. 1, 2022. The program, called WA Cares Fund, creates a long-term care (LTC) fund for Washingtonians designed to provide a basic level of long-term care protection for working residents. The payments come only from employees (not employers), and there is a one-time opt-out option but only for those who already have a private long-term care insurance policy. And such policies are very hard to secure now, since there is a rush on them in the face of the looming opt-out deadline.

What we know • The program was created in 2019 by majority Democrats in the

Legislature.

• The program is funded through a payroll tax.

• Employees are required to contribute 58 cents per every $100 of income through a payroll deduction.

• Once vested, total lifetime benefits are $36,500/person that is adjusted for inflation.

• LTC benefits are only available to eligible participants in the state of Washington and are not transferable.

• The tax goes into a state trust fund. Lawmakers cannot dip into it without first notifying participants, which is a very loose constraint. The state is prohibited from paying benefits from money outside the trust fund.

An independent commission will regularly check on the solvency of the fund, and if it’s in trouble, the

state must cut benefits.

• Individuals who own a private long-term care insurance policy are able to permanently opt out of the program by applying for an exemption with their employer.

• To qualify for an exemption, the policy must be purchased by November 1, 2021, and the policyholder must apply for the exemption from October 1, 2021 to December 31, 2022.

One big problem with trying to opt out: hundreds of thousands of Washingtonians may be trying to land private long-term care insurance. Most insurance companies in the state have suspended sales because they cannot handle all the demand in so short a time, so many people cannot get private policies and will not be able to opt out.

See LTC page A8

Each year local young ladies get all pretty and fancy to run for the Klickitat County Fair and Rodeo Queen. These ladies are competing against each other to take home the crown and promote the Fair and Rodeo all over the state for the next year. Our rodeo queen is a not just curls and sparkles; she is a promoter, an encourager, and of course a role model. Our 2020 rodeo queen set a sterling example, and everyone anticipates the best from the newest rodeo queen, Micaela Gutierez.

Micaela decided to run for queen for a few reasons. She has always loved to watch the queens make their lap around the arena since she was a child.

Wanting to follow in her mom’s, aunt’s, and great-grandma’s footsteps, she says. “It kind of runs in my blood.” Lastly, she wants to become a better person and step outside of her bubble trying something new. She did a

lot of things to prepare to run for queen. First she had to pick out the outfits she would wear. Micaela had a fun and great selection to choose from, and it was pretty cool to wear some of the same things her mom and aunt wore when they were queen.

She had to prepare a speech and practice her rodeo run. Lots to do, for sure.

Micaela competed with one other girl, Brandi Vance, who has some queening experience.

They each competed in six categories that are point based which include speech, modeling, personal interview, horsemanship, rodeo performance, and parade performance. There were also two non-point categories, which were People’s Choice and Photogenic. Micaela won those, and in the points categories she won horsemanship, rodeo performance, and parade performance. After the points were added up, Micaela had the most and won the crown. She says, “The run-outs and rodeo

See Queen page A8

Locals place at the County Rodeo TAYLER BRADLEY FOR THE SENTINEL The dust has settled from the Klickitat County Rodeo, and what a fun-filled weekend it was. There were a lot of locals who were eager to compete in front of the hometown crowd to try to win big. They all did their very best representing the county, but in the end there were six locals who took home a check.

Jim Jack Davenport, Mike Thiele, Tayler Bradley, Danny Alires, Jarin Ladiges, and Evan Olinger all heard the crowd cheer after they made their runs that earned them a place in the winner’s circle.

Jim Jack Davenport and Mike Thiele both competed in the same event, cow milking, and were the only two competitors to get a time. In the cow milking, each person calls for their cow, ropes it, and gets her slowed

down with the help of their mugger. Then they take their glass bottle, milk the cow, and race to the flagger. The flagger inspects the bottle to make sure they have milk; if they do, they get their time. Jim Jack was the fastest with a time of 25.80 seconds and Mike was the second fastest with a time of 27. 40 seconds. For both these cowboys, roping wild cows is something they do all the time when they check on their own cows on the ranch, so this is nothing new to them.

Danny Alires competed in a totally different event. His involved a wild ride on a bucking horse, for what is known as saddle bronc riding. Danny put a saddle on a horse in the bucking chute, attached a rein to a halter on the horse, and then sat in the saddle. He made adjustments to his grip on the rein, bore down,

See Locals page A8

Half a million people could have utilities shut off

LOU MARZELES

WE’RE OFFICIAL: Kim Salresen cuts the ribbon to officially open the new Goldendale office of Windermere Real Estate Thursday. Salresen said the real estate market is doing well and she saw the Goldendale office as a move that will help local home shoppers with their process.

The emergency proclamation preventing shut-off of water, electricity or natural gas services is slated to end Sept. 30. It is among the many emergency measures enacted by Gov. Jay Inslee in the wake of COVID-19.

State leaders and utility operators estimate more than 500,000 Washingtonians have overdue bills that could result in their services being shut off. They urge customers to contact their utilities as soon as possible and make a plan to keep their services on.

Information for customers is

available at commerce.wa.gov/ utility-assistance in 36 languages.

“This moratorium has provided hundreds of thousands of Washington families much-needed peace of mind during the pandemic, and now utility companies are eager and ready to help their customers make a plan that keeps their services on,” Inslee said. “I urge people to make that call as soon as they can. That call can give a family one less thing to worry about as fall and winter approaches.”

See Utilities page A8

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G oldendale ’ s A ttic Looking Back

July 15, 1911 – 110 Years Ago N.B. Brooks and John Coffield are having plans prepared for an up-to- date garage. The building will be built of brick, at the estimated cost of $5,000, and will be equipped with machinery and tools necessary in maintaining and repairing automobiles. At present, there is no establishment in Goldendale devoted exclusively to the care of automobiles. About 25 machines are owned here, and many more may be purchased next season.

Nearly all automobile tourists between eastern Washington and Portland come through Goldendale and the Klickitat Valley.

November 23, 1911 – 110 Years Ago Washington Facts: Washington State has 5,185 registered autos; Klickitat County has 29 of those registered.

August 26, 1941 – 80 Years Ago Lumber for making more than 50,000 old-fashioned washboards was shipped from the Klickitat Pine Box Corporation Thursday morning.

This week’s Goldendale’s Attic Mystery Picture What in the world is and what are they doing? time a long time ago. If you goldendalesentinel.com) going on here? When was All we know is this picture know more about it, please or give us a call (773-3777) this? Who are these people ran in The Sentinel some- drop us an email (info@ or drop in at the office.

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tuck were able to identify many of them. Please refer to the picture to see the labels with names—that was a lot easier than trying

to say, “OK, see on the front row, no, make that the inside row behind that other row, now see 19 heads from the left…” and so on. Best guess

August 29, 1991 – 30 Years Ago Rabanco’s Citizen of the Week is Kathy Marshall. For the past six years she has been in the forest lookout on Lorena Butte, working for the Washington Department of Natural Resources. Marshall works days unless there is a lightning storm in the area; she will then stay away until the storm is over or moves out of the area. So far this summer she has spotted 15 to 20 fires.

The lifetime resident of Goldendale is married to Robert and has two children. Her children are able to spend their days with their mother on the butte, and the three call themselves “the lookout gang.”

September 8, 1991 – 30 Years Ago Construction workers pound toward the end of an eight-month building project. Goldendale High School’s newest addition, a vocational agriculture building, which will sit north of the high school, is nearly completed. Ground was broken in May and the building will be finished by mid-November, according to a Colamette Construction spokesman.

September 2, 2004 – 17 Years Ago KLCK radio is turning 20 years old and is celebrating the anniversary this Friday, Sept 3, at the radio station studio on South Columbus. The station, part of Klickitat Valley Broadcasting Services, signed on shortly after noon on Sept. 4, 1984, with the National Anthem, followed by a Doobie Brothers song. This Friday morning, the station will give listeners an opportunity to share their memories with on-the air phone calls from 8 a.m. to noon. An open house will follow with refreshments provided by Reno’s Pizza.

August 31, 2011 – 10 Years Ago Goldendale Native Margaret Jane Jones announces the publication of her new historical novel: Summer on the Sun-Up. This book is a fictionalized account of a young family on a Goldendale ranch during World War II. It follows the extended family as some struggle on the home front to save the ranch from foreclosure while others do their part to fight the war as soldiers and sailors. It was published in January 2011, by Create Space Lost Nation Publications, in Glencliff, N.H.

—Richard Lefever Klickitat County Historical Society

for the time of the photo is the mid to late 1970s. There’s speculation the picture was some event for the Goldendale Fire Department.

Points to ponder: Reincarnation is making a comeback.

Animal testing doesn’t work. They get all nervous and give the wrong answers.

If anyone steals my identity, at least I’ll know who to look for.

The President had a meeting with his cabinet today. He also spoke to the bookcase and the chest of drawers.

Exaggeration is a billion times worse than understatement.

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Opinion

The rise of arrogance and the need for ‘Sense’ Arrogance is running wild in Olympia. It has consumed the State Legislature and the office of governor. This article addresses only the arrogance, not the specific policies, of these institutions.

It is time for Uncommon Sense.

In 1776, Thomas Paine published a 47-page pamphlet that, as much as any other factor at work in the American colonies, emboldened the populace to rise up against the monarchy of Great Britain. The pamphlet was called Common Sense. It was a runaway bestseller in its time, ubiquitous from pulpits to barrooms; it remains among the all-time best-selling Lou Marzeles, American literary works.

Its words have a resonance parEditor ticularly appropriate to this day, to this place.

Here is a portion of the chapter entitled, “Of the Origin and Design of Government in General,” in which Paine differentiates between society and government: “Some writers have so confounded society with government as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins. Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices…

The first is a patron, the last a punisher.

“Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil, in its worst state an intolerable one; for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries by a government, which we might expect in a country without government, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer. Government… is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise. For were the impulses of conscience clear, uniform, and irresistibly obeyed, man would need no other lawgiver; but that not being the case, he finds it necessary to surrender up a part of his property to furnish means for the protection of the rest; and this he is induced to do by the same prudence which in every other case advises him out of two evils to choose the least. Therefore, security being the true design and end of government, it unanswerably follows that whatever form thereof appears most likely to ensure it to us, with the least expense and greatest benefit, is preferable to all others.”

Paine saw government as a necessary evil, to be “applied” delicately and with care to prevent abuse.

He portrayed the king of England as an example of government—which in effect the king in and of himself was—gone gravely wrong.

Jay Inslee is certainly not King George III. You can tell because Inslee doesn’t have a British accent, and he doesn’t wear a powdered wig. That we know of.

But in many regards Inslee is as much an exemplar of supreme arrogance as the worst of kings. This can be safely said of a man who stated that we cannot allow people to make decisions that are bad for their health

and that of their students—he was speaking of teachers and education administrators who might object to his mandate for vaccination of all school employees in the state.

Understand, once again, we’re not talking here about whether or not Inslee’s perception of the value of vaccination is right or wrong. We’re addressing only the astonishing state of mind that can dictate of others what their choices can be.

The State Legislature is just as bad. The notion of a bicameral body in Olympia is sheer illusion in these days of single-party control. The party in power openly eschews its powerless counterpart, paying it paltry and duplicitous lip service while remaining wholly unconcerned with its concerns. The ruling party doesn’t care because it thinks it doesn’t have to. This is not true down to the last person within that party, of course; but it is true enough of most of them to make it effectively true for the whole. What else can you say of a party that insinuates itself into the private lives of employees in the state, forcing them to pay for something (this is obvious to anyone with common sense) to be a purely personal matter—long-term care insurance? (See our story on page A1.)

Who died and made these people God? God’s in His heaven, but not all is well with the world.

Letters from the community You have an absolute right

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Quick Labor Day facts • Always the first Monday in September • Became a federal holiday in 1894, signed into law by President Grover Cleveland, but it was already observed by 30 states before then • Oregon was the

first state to create a Labor Day holiday in 1887 • Was created by members of the labor movement who organized strikes and rallies during the Industrial Revolution to push for better working conditions

• Union leaders in New York City organized the largest Labor Day parade in American history (10,000 people) on Sept. 5, 1882 • Congress made the holiday official after the Pullman strike in 1894, a national railroad boy-

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Who first proposed the holiday for workers? It’s not entirely clear, but two workers can make a solid claim to the Founder of Labor Day title.

Some records show that in 1882, Peter J. McGuire, general secretary of the

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Labor Day, an annual celebration of workers and their achievements, originated during one of American labor history’s most dismal chap-ters.

In the late 1800s, at the height of the Industrial Revolution in the United States, the average American worked 12-hour days and sev-en-day weeks in order to eke out a basic living. Despite restrictions in some states, children as young as 5 or 6 toiled in mills, factories and mines across the country, earning a fraction of their adult counter-parts’ wages.

People of all ages, particularly the very poor and recent immigrants, often faced extremely unsafe working conditions, with insufficient ac-cess to fresh air, sanitary facilities, and breaks.

As manufacturing in-

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creasingly supplanted agriculture as the wellspring of American employment, labor unions, which had first ap-peared in the late 18th century, grew more prominent and

vocal. They began organizing strikes and rallies to protest poor conditions and compel employers to renegotiate hours and pay.

Many of these events turned violent during this

period, including the infamous Haymarket Riot of 1886, in which sever-al Chicago policemen and workers were killed. Others gave rise to longstanding traditions: On September

5, 1882, 10,000 workers took unpaid time off to march from City Hall to Union Square in New York City, holding the first Labor Day parade in U.S. history.

The idea of a “working-

men’s holiday,” celebrated on the first Monday in September, caught on in other industrial centers across the coun-try, and many states passed legislation recognizing it. Congress would not legalize the holiday until 12 years later, when a watershed moment in American labor history brought workers’ rights squarely in-to the public’s view. On May 11, 1894, employees of the Pullman Palace Car Company in Chicago went on strike to protest wage cuts and the firing of union representatives.

On June 26, the American Railroad Union, led

by Eugene V. Debs, called for a boycott of all Pullman railway cars, crippling railroad traffic nationwide. To break the strike, the federal government dispatched troops to Chicago, unleashing a wave of riots that resulted in the deaths of more than a dozen workers.

In the wake of this massive unrest and in an attempt to repair ties with American workers, Congress passed an act making Labor Day a legal holiday in the District of Columbia and the territories. On June 28, 1894, President Grover Cleveland signed it into law.

—History.com

McGuire v. Maguire: Who founded Labor Day? Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners and a co-founder of the American Federation of Labor, suggested setting aside a day for a “general holiday for the laboring classes” to honor those “who from rude nature have delved and

carved all the grandeur we behold.”

But Peter McGuire’s place in Labor Day history has not gone unchallenged.

Many believe that machinist Matthew Maguire, not Peter McGuire, founded the holiday.

Recent research seems to support the contention that Matthew Maguire, later the secretary of Local 344 of the International Association of Machinists in Paterson, New Jersey, proposed the holiday in 1882 while serving as secretary of the Cen-

tral Labor Union in New York.

According to the New Jersey Historical Society, after President Cleveland signed the law creating a national Labor Day, the Paterson Morning Call published an opinion piece stating that

“the souvenir pen should go to Alderman Matthew Maguire of this city, who is the undisputed author of Labor Day as a holiday.”

Both Maguire and McGuire attended the country’s first Labor Day parade in New York City that year.

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Benefits include: • 401(K) Matching • Benefits include: Health (medical. dental, Vision. Prescription); Life insurance • Access to Sponsored Medical Clinic (no cost for employee and family).

• Vacation pay & 8-paid holidays • Employees discounts on our wood products, work apparel and more.

• On the job training • Plus other benefits!

If interested please give Nick the HR Supervisor a call at (503) 720-7465 or email at nickr@sdslumber.com

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s e s Hor What is tall, slender, short, stocky and made in many colors? It can sleep standing up or lying down. It only eats plants, so it is a herbivore. This animal can do many jobs and has been domesticated for around 5,000 years. Fossil evidence shows us that the first of this species was no bigger than a dog but now this animal is much larger. This animal is a mammal and has hooves which are basically a foot with just one toe. Have you guessed what it is yet? A horse of course!

Horses come in all sizes, colors and breeds. Some horses are classified as miniature.

That means they have to be less than three feet tall. A long time ago children were put to work in underground coal mines. Their job was mainly to push little rail cars filled with coal through very small passages. People didn’t think children should be treated this way and the mines replaced them with miniature horses known as pit ponies. Miniature horses are now mostly kept as pets. Some people even let them live in their houses.

Horses have been used for many jobs since man first domesticated them. Some horses do heavy jobs like pulling wagons and farm equipment. The horses bred for this kind of work are very large and are called draft horses. It is said that a horse can do the work of 50 men. Horses have helped people farm, work cattle and mine. One very important job horses have done for us is help us travel. Before cars were invented horses made traveling from place to place easier and faster. Many big city police departments use horses because they can travel places that a car has a hard time getting through.

The world’s largest horse was named Sampson and he was 7 feet 2 inches (2.1 meters) tall and weighed 3,359 pounds (1524 kilograms).

The smallest horse was 17 inches (43 centimeters) tall and weighed 57 pounds (26

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ACROSS 4. A sign which shows that something exists or is true 5. Something that looks exactly like something of a much bigger size 6. To bring under the control of and make usable by humans 9. The hard, tough covering on the feet of certain mammals such as horses, pigs, and deer.

10. The remains or traces of plants and animals that lived a long time ago 12. Thick, sturdy, and often short in build or form; stout 13. Warm-blooded vertebrates with hair that feed their young milk 14. A large mammal with long legs and hooves

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Why couldn’t the pony sing?

DOWN 1 To journey from place to place or to a distant place 2. An animal that only feeds on plants 3. Supplies or tools needed for a special purpose 7. A group of similar individuals that are able to reproduce 8. This rock is made up of the energy from plants that grew in swamps and is used for fuel 10 An area of land used to grow crops or raise animals for food or clothing 11 A horse adapted for or used in drawing heavy loads

Because he was a little horse.

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Introducing Smartypants The Sentinel is now offering this new feature for kids: Smartypants.

Smartypants was conceived by the husband-and-wife team of J.D. and MaryLee Meisner during the pandemic months of families “Sheltering at Home.” The two own and operate their own community newspaper. The “smarts” of the team (as the pair puts it), MaryLee, is an active school teacher and reading specialist with decades of classroom experience. J. D. is a career newspaper publisher, editor, writer, and graphic designer.

When families began isolating at home in early spring of this year, school-aged kids stopped receiving the normal five to six daily hours of instruction that classroom learning was providing. MaryLee was immediately concerned that elementary-aged kids—her kids—would become so far behind in their schooling that they would essentially lose a full year by the time school started up in the fall. She said the newspaper needed to do something to engage these kids and help keep them sharp.

The two had already been exploring methods and products they could use to get their newspaper into the hands of children and their young parents each week. After exploring the limited (and cost-prohibitive) options available for an attractive, ready-built activity page, they set out to create their own—something that kids would look at and think, “This looks fun!”

They named it Smartypants. Readers love it — young and old.

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