Okanogan Valley Gazette-Tribune, April 17, 2014

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Chamber plans for busy summer

FABULOUS FLAMENCO

Oroville’s May, June weekends to be much more active than in recent years

BY BRENT BAKER BBAKER@GAZETTE-TRIBUNE.COM

OROVILLE - It promises to be a busy summer in Oroville, and the city’s Chamber of Commerce won’t even be waiting until summer officially begins for things to get underway. Though the May Festival weekend isn’t officially a Chamber event, the organization does participate on a number of fronts and is seeking volunteers, said President Clyde Andrews at the Thursday, April 11, Chamber meeting. The barbeque is the Chamber’s big part to play on Saturday, May 10. “The idea is to make money,” said Sandy Andrews. “It used to be for insurance to pay for our events. But we’re going to step it up a notch and add to our scholarship fund which has diminished.” Workers are needed on Friday to prepare the meat; on Saturday, to set up the tables at the high school (8-10 a.m.), serve the food (11-1), then for takedown (2-3 p.m.). “For most it’s an hour or two,” she said. “We’re not hiring out for anyone to help us out. We’re keeping the money for ourselves for the scholarship fund.” Clyde Andrews said that the Chamber, which in recent years has contributed $500 to the scholarship fund, is hoping to at least double that amount.

Eric y Encarnacion, who have proven to be wildly popular during previous visits to the Community Cultural Center of Tonasket in previous years, again dazzled more than 100 admirers Saturday, April 12 at the CCC with their latin Flamenco performance. The CCC will have two more events this weekend: a drum circle led by Mike Stenberg on Friday at 6:00 p.m., and a reggae/world music performance by Adrian Xavier & Friends on Saturday at 7:00. Brent Baker/staff photos

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Kylee Davis May Queen 2014 Bethany Roley is May Festival Princess

games, babysitting, hanging out with friends, volunteering, and I just recently have been enjoying bowling. I have four brothers and three sisters. My parents are Nina Davis and Ray Davis. I’m really happy I have my mom, dad and his wife Teresa to support me in this exciting journey! I am also excited to be representing Oroville as May Day Queen with Princess Bethany Roley. This is going to be a fun year, and I hope everyone is there to enjoy May Day with us this year.

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OROVILLE – This year Kylee Davis, daughter of Ray and Nina Davis, will be crowned Oroville’s May Festival Queen. She will serve with fellow OHS junior Bethany Roley, daughter of Ross and Nysa Roley, as May Festival Princess. The young ladies will serve as royalty during all the activities that surround May Festival including riding on the community float. They will also represent the community at other parades and festivals throughout the region. The two Oroville High School Juniors volunteered as the 2014 royalty, with Kylee stepping forward as queen and Bethany agreeing to be her court. While normally the royalty candidates submit their bios and thoughts on Oroville’s big festival in February, this year it is a little different and their bios follow.

Queen Kylee Davis

Hi. My name is Kylee Davis. I am 17-years-old and I am a junior at Oroville High School. I have lived in Oroville almost my whole life. I attended Tonasket Schools until seventh grade, when I transferred to the Oroville School district. I didn’t know about May Day until I transferred schools and I thought it was a really fun idea. Last year I was Sophomore Class Princess and I really enjoyed it, so I decided to run for May Festival Queen this year.

When chosen as your May Festival Queen I was really excited because May Day is a huge deal in our community. May Day is a weekend when everyone’s families come together to watch the parade and other festivities. Going to the parade with my family is something that I have done since I was little, and I always wanted to be up there on that beautiful float. Representing our community is an honor, I get to show how our community comes together to help do something amazing. My hobbies are reading, playing board

Kylee Davis

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Bethany Roley

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My name is Bethany Roley. I am 17-years-old and a junior at Oroville High School. My parents are Ross and Neysa Roley. I have a very large family, two brothers, two sisters and also four half sisters, a step sister and step brother. My family moved to Oroville more than 10 years ago and we have loved living here. I grew up watching the May Festival parade and wishing I was a Princess. Now my wish has come true! I am very honored to be representing the city of Oroville as your 2014 May Festival Princess. Queen Kylee and I have a full schedule of parades and events to go to this Summer. Our purpose will be to represent our city and citizens around the state. I am looking forward to the fun times and memories we will make together. Our first parade will be the Apple Blossom parade in Wenatchee. The next weekend will be our own May Day Festival with Coronation Friday night and parade Saturday morning. We will

Princess Bethany Roley also visit Spokane, Moses Lake, Omak and many other cities. Between parades we will be meeting with many civic organizations in town. At school I am involved with many activities including cheerleading, FBLA (I’m heading to state this year!), year book staff, etc. I am also active with my church youth group. I work during the summer and like to babysit. When I graduate I am planning on going to school to be a radiology technician and hope to start my own family one day.

TONASKET - North Valley Hospital CEO Linda Michel shared with the NVH Board of Commissioners that she and others who attended a county-wide hospital/health care confab at the behest of the Okanogan County Commissioners a couple of months ago have been asked to attend another hospital committee meeting on April 30. “The items on the agenda are to identify what we can do as three hospitals, what do we want to accomplish, how do we engage the public and is a survey needed,, Michel said. “We’re going to set monthly meeting times and at the bottom they have asked if anyone has ever done a study considering combining all three hospitals; and if so bring that to the meeting.” Michel also mentioned media reports that architectural plans already exist for a new $80 million hospital in Omak. “Who paid for these plans?” asked Commissioner Dick Larson. “That is significant ... divide the number of taxpayers (in the county) into 80 million and see what you come up with.” Michel said she had been researching hospital collaborative work since the last meeting, particularly work being done by a far-flung group of west-side hospitals that mostly involves sharing some

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