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Seattle’s Pacific Science Center comes to Quincy to help unearth the mysteries and secrets of scientific exploration. Story inside. Photo submitted.

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Students at Quincy Junior High work the drones.

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Drone Club flying high at QJHS

Children of all ages will have a chance to learn about the human body when the Pacific Science Center comes to Quincy.

BY SEBASTIAN MORAGA sports@qvpr.com

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One whirring rotor at a time, the interest in drones keeps rising at Quincy Junior High.

The Drone Club, which explores the intricacies of the drones, or as they are more formally known, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) is growing in popularity, with newbies joining right alongside more experienced students.

“Quite a few girls are doing it, too” said Trevor Sill, the advisor for the club at Quincy Junior High School.

Drones also have adepts at both the high school and at High Tech High, said John Boyd, superintendent of Quincy Schools.

Both Boyd and Sill highlighted the support the clubs have received from Microsoft. Sill called the computer giant’s Jack Eaton as “hugely supportive” to the clubs. Sometimes above and beyond the call of drone duty.

“He’s helped fish ‘em out when they get stuck in a tree,” Sill said.

A child operating a drone learns basic aeronautic movements, similar to a plane’s (thrust, yaw, pitch, etc.) More advanced drones let students learn computer software handling, as well as how to install key parts of a drone and how they work.

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Two exhibits from Seattle’s Pacific Science Center will visit eight different branches of the North Central Regional Library network including Quincy this month.

The center’s “Science on Wheels” will be in Quincy’s library at 10 a.m. July 26.

The program offers handson science activities designed to enhance North Central Regional Library’s Summer Reading Program and will focus on wellness, fitness and sports, according to an email from NCRL’s Michelle McNiel.

Here is the schedule for the

eight visits. All visits occur at the individual city’s NCRL branch.: July 25, 10 a.m., Cashmere.

July 25, 6:30 p.m., Wenatchee.

July 26, 10 a.m., Quincy.

July 26, 2 p.m., Wenatchee.

July 27, 10 a.m., Soap Lake.

July 27, 3 p.m. Ephrata.

July 28, 3 p.m. Curlew.

July 29, 10 a.m., Republic.

July 29, 3:30 p.m., Pateros.

The program will offer two different exhbits, “Food Detectives” and “Cells ‘R’ Us.” Food Detectives will give you an opportunity to “get your blood flowing and that heart pumping,” the press release stated.

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“Flex some muscles as you use a stethoscope to listen to the beat of your heart.

Increase your endurance and stretch your knowledge as you set future fitness goals,” the release added.

Cells “R” Us: is described as “Cells, cells everywhere… from the tips of your toes to the ends of your hair. Do all cells look alike? This and other questions will be answered as you use microscopes to distinguish between various cells and learn about their specialized functions.”

To learn more about North Central Regional Library programs, visit its website at www.ncrl.org.

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nce upon a time in a land of wines and farms, lived a philosopher named Omar Vignole, who counted among his closest confidantes and sounding boards, a cow.

Such was the trust that Vignole placed in the cow that some of his books included titles related to the cow’s thoughts: The Cow and I, Talks with the Cow, What the Cow Thinks, etc.

Sebastian So, feeling a little overwhelmed by the viMoraga Sports editor olence and cacophony of recent weeks (She plagiarized! No she didn’t! He’s a racist! No, he’s not!), I headed to Palisades and started looking for a rather smart-looking bovine, to see if she had any wisdom to impart.

After all, who knows more about extreme points of view than someone forced to be both black and white every day?

At first the cow just kind of stared at me.

I asked her if she spoke English and the staring continued. I asked her if she spoke Spanish, German, Italian or French, and nothing.

Then, I took a page out of the Far Side playbook and just said moo. That got an answer.

“Finally,” the cow said. “When in Rome, dude, when in Rome.”

“Sorry, Ms. Cow,” I said. “Been a rough couple of weeks. Can you believe what’s going on in this country?”

“Of course I can,” she said. “Why do you think I live out here?”

“Well, because,” I stammered, “you’re a cow.”

“Oh, good,” she smirked, “you’ve been watching Sesame Street. No, fella, I live here because there’s no NRA, no Hillary, no Donald, no MSNBC, no Fox News, and no rush, both the uppercase and lowercase R. You guys don’t know what you’re doing to your country.”

“Well, it’s an election year,” I said. “It’s like this every four years.”

“Bull.”

“Where?”

“Funny. What I mean is that it’s not like this every four years. It’s like this every four days. The emails! The hair! The birth certificate! Don’t you guys ever just plain vote? No tweets, no posts, no trending topics – just vote?”

“Actually no, almost nobody does. Maybe that’s part of the problem.”

“No,” she said. “That’s not part of the problem. It’s a symptom of the disease that’s caused by the problem, but it’s not the problem. The problem is a fundamental lack of respect and civility for the opinions of others.

“If you like Hillary, you’re a bleeding-heart tax-me-now liberal. If you like Trump, you’re a Klansman minus the sheets. It didn’t used to be this way.

“Robert Dole eulogized George McGovern in the New York Times; Gerald Ford gave lectures alongside Jimmy Carter.

They probably disagreed on everything,

but they never became disagreeable.

“And may the gods help you if you want to take up with the folks from across the aisle.

“Then you’re demonized as a sellout or a traitor.

Look at Dennis Miller.”

“Ick,” I said.

“My point exactly. The man was an independent, now he’s on the right. Look at what people say about him. ‘Ick’ is a compliment compared to the gallons of vitriol he has to swim through every day. ‘He’s a sellout, he sold his soul.’

“Well, you know who else sold his soul? Mark Twain, the former Confederate soldier. Malcolm X, the former black separatist. Ronald Reagan, the former Democrat. And fresh off the shelves, George Will, the former Republican.

“Changing your mind is not selling your soul. In a way, it may well be refreshing it.

“But it’s hard to take,” I protested. “Miller used to call balls and strikes; now every right-handed pitch is a strike.”

“Yes, but that’s no reason to give him the Pete Rose treatment.”

“How do you know about Pete Rose?”

“Hey,” she said. “I’m a cow, I know all about bulls—“ “Family newspaper!”

“Sorry. I know all about, um, people who struggle telling the truth. But still, there’s no reason to demonize him. This is not a war, although you sure like to act as if it is.

“C’mon,” I said. “We know it’s not a war. You’re exaggerating.”

“No,” she said. “You are exaggerating. Look at your rhetoric on TV: War on Christmas, War on Cops, War on Drugs, the Assault on Reason, etc.

“A war has no counterparts, only enemies. If you keep picturing your opponent as your enemy, what do you think he is going to do? How is he going to treat you?”

I paused. “I can see now why you live out here.

You don’t get that kind of perspective while hooked to your TV.” “You bet,” she said. “Anyway, off you go.

Thanks for stopping by but, um, I got flies to swat with my tail. Very pressing.”

“One last question?” I pleaded.

“Sure.”

“Who do I vote for?”

“Vote for whoever you want, as long as you vote with your brain. If you vote out of fear, your candidate might win, but so will fear. And that, we don’t need.”

Sebastian Moraga is the sports editor of the QVPR. He doesn’t seek a cow’s advice for everything in his life. Just the important stuff.

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Area Farmers Markets What better way to get a taste of the area then to visit a local farmer’s market?

There are several popular markets in the area. They include: •The Wenatchee Valley Farmer’s Market, voted the Best Farmer’s Market in the KING-5 Best in the Northwest Escapes, is open 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturdays at Pybus Market in downtown Wenatchee.

It’s also open Wednesday evenings, 4 to 8 p.m., beginning June 15.

•The Ephrata Farmers Market opened for the season on May 28. It is open 8 a.m. to noon on Saturdays on C Street, between Division and 1st Avenue Northwest.

•The Moses Lake Farmers Market is open 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturdays (through Oct. 31) at McCosh Park, off of Dogwood Street.

Grand Coulee Dam Grand Coulee Dam presents its popular laser light show nightly through Sept. 30. The 30-minute, narrated show, “One River, Many Voices,” is free to the public. Visitor Center hours will be from 8:30 a.m. until one hour past the start of the Laser Light Show.

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Drones, from previous page “There’s actually a little bit of hooking the controllers of the UAV to a computer and programming its parameters,” Sill said, later adding that these heavyweight topics --software programming, electronics, and such- were just “the tip of the iceberg.”

The list of things to learn is almost as long as the list of

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The house is open 12:30 to 4:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays through mid-September, or by appointment. Look for the museum’s newest exhibit, “Giddyup: Home on the Quincy Range.”

July Events July 23 Mushroom Festival at White Heron Cellars in Trinidad. Three different kinds of mushrooms prepared by chef Tim Putnam.

Includes live music. Cost is $10 at the door for the musicians with plates of mushrooms available for purchase.

July 28-29 Vacation Bible School at Iglesia de Dios de la Profecía, 408 Deacon Ave., in George. Free for all children. For transportation needs, call 398-2689.

July 30 Family Day Out, noon-5 p.m. organized by Iglesia de Dios de la Profecía. Bouncy house, free manicures, free haircuts, free counseling services.

Youth Believe Night of Worship, 7-9 p.m. at George Community Park. Contact youthbelievewa@ gmail.com for more information.

August Events Aug. 1 Sixth annual National Night Out Event combined with Quincy Youth Action’s Family Fun in the Park. Food, fun and prizes at Reiman-Simmons Historical Park, 5-8 p.m.

Aug. 5 First Friday Jam. Bluegrass enthusiasts gather at George Community Hall, 7 to 9 p.m., to play together or enjoy the music.

Event starts with a potluck. More information at www.georgecommunity hall.com.

Aug. 5-7 Annual Sage ‘n’ Sun Family Festival at Ephrata. The fun includes a talent show, live entertainment, food booths, a junior parade and a grand parade.

Aug. 12 Wonkapalooza at The Gorge Amphitheatre, 5:30 p.m. It benefits

things you shouldn’t do with a drone in the air.

“Don’t fly it over your neighbor’s house, don’t fly it around small children, don’t fly big ones indoors,” Sill recited, comparing the use of a drone to the use of a table saw.

“We have kids in our program that use a table saw, and we teach them to use it safely, but a table saw is still a table saw. You have got to respect

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Kiwanis Pancake Breakfast at Moses Lake’s Sinkiuse Square, 7-10 a.m. Free to children 3 and younger, $6 to children between 4-12 years old. $10 to anyone 13 and older. Fundraiser for scholarships and community programs.

Aug. 13 Double Diamond Fruit Tour with the city of Quincy. Learn how the local apple industry brings fruit to your home. The tour is a part of the city’s summer tours, a longtime tradition in Quincy that introduces the public to everything from the geology and history of the area to unique businesses. The free tours start at 11 a.m. and seating is limited on the 18-passenger tour bus.

Meet at the parking lot at the Reiman-Simmons House, 415 F St. S.W. Aug. 20 Bread, Cheese & Cured Meat Festival at White Heron Cellars in Trinidad, 6 p.m. Event includes live music. Cost is $10 at the door for the musicians, with bread, cheese and cured meat available for purchase.

Blakal Packing Tour with the city of Quincy. The tour, which takes a look at the inside of the potato industry, is a part of the city’s summer tours, a longtime tradition in Quincy that introduces the public to everything from the geology and history of the area to unique businesses.

The free tours start at 11 a.m. and seating is limited on the 18-passenger tour bus. So be advised to get there by 10:30 a.m. Meet at the parking lot at the Reiman-Simmons House, 415 F St. S.W. Aug. 27 Trinity Gardens Lavender Farm Tour with the city of Quincy. The tour is a part of the city’s summer tours, a longtime tradition that introduces the public to things like the geology and history of the area and unique businesses.

The free tours start at 11 a.m. and seating is limited on the 18-passenger tour bus. So get there by 10:30 a.m. Meet at the parking lot at the Reiman-Simmons House, 415 F St. S.W. If you have an event you want included in the Shine Summer Calendar, email the information and a contact email address to editor@qvpr.com.

it.”

Getting started on drones is not too expensive. The smaller drones retail for about $30.

The internet is a great resource, as well, Sill said, with websites like www.flitetest. com offering articles on what a drone is.

A regional competition comes to East Wenatchee’s Red Apple Flyers field July 23.

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Mad-a about colada: In search for one cool summer drink

BY SEBASTIAN MORAGA sports@qvpr.com

Immortalized in many a cheesy song, from Garth Brooks to Jimmy Buffett, this drink is to some the epitome of the summer drink.

To others, it’s the express lane on the highway to diabetes. And to others still, it’s a cliché, the bride-throwingthe-bouquet of drinks.

Ruppert Holmes, who wrote “Escape (The Piña Colada song)” compared it to Kaopectate. Even the Washington Post article which made reference to Holmes’ diss, ended with “The piña colada is dead, long live the piña colada.”

Conversely, some, like me still believe the people of Puerto Rico have a point.

Puerto Rico named the colada its official national drink in 1978. To this day, plaques adorn the spots where Puerto Ricans say the drink was invented.

Because, as with most every major historic milestone, there’s a controversy brewing at the bar Two places in the Island of Enchantment take credit as the birthplace of piña colada.

Such is the prominence of this drink in Puerto Rico that it has its own “birther” movement.

There’s even a controversy as to who invented it, a bartender named Ramon Marrero, or another named Ramon Portas. And just like with the “other” birther movement, each side clings tightly to its

version.

Regardless of which of the Ramones (Joey, perhaps?) invented the drink, it’s still a fave, with the island celebrating Piña Colada Day each July 10.

Marrero’s recipe calls for 3 ounces of coconut cream, 6 ounces of pineapple juice and 11⁄2 ounces of white rum poured into a blender or shaker with crushed ice, and blend or shake very well until smooth. Pour into chilled

In Ephrata, to be exact.

The piña colada at El Agave in Ephrata (see cover shot) was outstanding. Granted, my opinion may have been a little skewed, as I drank it less than 24 hours after battling a tummy bug.

So perhaps, part of the enthusiasm derived from having something other than chamomile tea. Still, for presentation and flavor, it was quite wonderful.

Photo by Tijuana Restaurant staff

Marvelously decadent, in a glass with a cactus-shaped stem. A yummer for summer.

Carne asada at El Agave, in Ephrata. glass, garnish with pineapple wedge and/or a maraschino cherry. They can also be made sans rum, like I like ‘em.

Travel writer Sarah Greaves-Gabbados says there is no bad colada, as long as you drink it in Puerto Rico.

Budget limitations forced me to search for the finest colada a little bit west of Puerto Rico.

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The search continued at Casa Jalisco. The colada was tasty, if too sweet. I offered a sip to my son (it was a virgin colada) and he said no more, And this is a kid who lives on sugar, cheese crackers and and Daniel Tiger cartoons.

Then again, he had just polished off a massive ice-cream sundae (on the house, thank

you, Casa Jalisco), so I could have offered him anything, and he would have rejected it.

Maybe some insulin.

The hunt continued at La Tortuga Loca, in Wenatchee.

I went there mostly because I wanted to be able to write “crazy turtle” in one of my articles this year. Mission accomplished. As the “other” Ramones would say, Gabba-gabba-hey!

Then, the hunt led me to another Mexican place in Quincy that shall remain nameless.

The place looked OK, but this was supposed to be a fun hunt, and the sign reading “We re-

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serve the right to search your purses” sounded a bit scary.

Then, I went to Tijuana’s, another Quincy joint. No cherry, but that’s about the only thing wrong with it. Not too sweet, not too tart, on a pretty glass with a cactus for a stem. Also its staff put up with my forgetting my camera and snapped a picture of it for this page.

No bad colada, as long as you sip it in Puerto Rico?

Maybe. But until, I do, the coladas in Central Washington will do just fine.

Salud, Ramones, your baby is safe with me.

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Second to Nun: Musical comedy ‘Nunsense’ returns

BY SEBASTIAN MORAGA sports@qvpr.com “Nunsense” a musical comedy from the 1980s that found great success off-Broadway, returns to the Quincy stage later this month.

The comedy tells the story of a group of nuns who suffer the sudden death by accidental poisoning of several of the convent’s sisters. To pay for the burials, the nuns decide to put on a variety show.

Things quickly go from the stern to the spectacular and from the funereal to the flamboyant with the nuns, who share their dreams and

tribulations with the audience through a compilation of showtunes.

The original “Nunsense” ran for 10 years as an off-Broadway show, the second-longest off-Broadway show in history, with more than 3,600 shows.

Quincy Valley Allied Arts’ version has a streak of its own.

This summer’s shows are the second time QVAA has put on “Nunsense.”

“We did this show 16 years ago, when Quincy Valley Allied Arts first got started up,” said Sherri Kooy, the self-described designated director of this summer’s version of the musical. She also plays the

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role of Sister Robert Ann. All of the actors, except one, will reprise their roles from 16 years ago.

The group struggled to decide on what show to put on this year, Kooy said. They joked about reviving “Nunsense,”every year for the past four years.

“Until finally, we just decided to do it,” she said.

Putting on the habit after a 16-year hiatus does not come without its challenges. The cast’s knees are 16 years older, for starters.

“A few of my cast members are refusing to go down on their knees and pray, so I have had to revise a lot of the choreography,” Kooy said.

Another struggle, she added with a laugh, is to remember the lines.

Nancy Connelly is reprising her role as Sister Huber; Kooy is also reprising her role, as is Vonna Harris.

The comedy has a sequel named “Nunsense 2” which QVAA has also performed.

Melissa Martinez played Sister Leo in the sequel and she will reprise her role in this summer’s production of the original.

In the original Nunsense 1 and 2, a man played the role of Mother Superior. This summer’s production will also feature a man in the role, Patrick Connelly.

“He fit it perfectly, he attended Catholic school and he loves the theater,” Kooy said.

Connelly is one of two men in

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Nancy Connelly, during rehearsals of ‘Nunsense,’ a musical comedy by Quincy Valley Allied Arts, playing three times this summer. the cast, which also includes Tom Harris.

Passage of time aside, Kooy added, the residents of the convent of the Little Sisters of Hoboken, are giving Father Time all it can handle.

“We are having a ball,” she said. “It’s been like meeting an old friend.”

The show plays July 14-16 at three different locations.

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like my job a lot. Almost as much as I don’t like wine.

So when my boss sent me to interview a winemaker a few weeks ago, I was, shall we say, rather conflicted.

Several generations of my family have tasted enough wine (and Sebastian a share of Moraga some of its Sports editor stronger cousins, too) to make up for my non-drinking ways, and then some.

So my not liking wine never bothered me much. Nor did the fact that I must be the only Chilean male I know who doesn’t.

Clinking glasses is a big deal to us Chileans. We make a toast to everything. New car, new bride, new job, New Zealand? You name it, we follow it with “Salud.”

Chile, in addition to being a Catholic country, is one of the world’s top 10 producers of wine. Many areas of Central Washington remind me a lot of the old country.

Some of my Chilean relatives could not believe I did not have wine (or any alcohol) at my wedding. And about a

year before he died, my dad complained to me that his new girlfriend’s doctor did not let her drink wine. He grunted, “Now I got nobody to make a toast with.”

Here’s to not rushing to divorce. Clink!

But all that mattered little when I got in my car and drove seven miles outside of Quincy to talk about wine.

Questions to ask buzzed around my head, one more snarky than the next.

I realized that snark was probably going to get me banned from the winery like Paul Giamatti’s guzzling of the spit bucket got him nixed in the movie “Sideways,” so I decided to keep it polite, and toss softball after softball if necessary to keep the peace.

Ninety minutes of vino chat later, I started to realize that this was more than a job for the man I was interviewing.

This was a passion. He felt about a glass of his wine the way a parent feels about a child. He even told me, “these are my babies.”

Well, his babies, along with the bottled progeny of every vintner in the world, have spent the last 37 years exiled from every grocery list I have ever written.

For a change, I decided to engage him in a little showand-tell. I asked, what do you see when you look at a glass

of wine?

I was expecting him to wax poetic, like my idol Neruda and his “Ode to Wine.” You know, “starry child of Earth, smooth as a golden sword.”

That kind of deal.

Instead, my oenophile friend pulled out two pretty glasses, poured a little bit of Malbec in one and Syrah in another and nudged them toward me.

He taught me about colors, flavors, smells, the purpose of the shape of the glass, and the key to tasting wine, really tasting it: Keeping it 12 seconds in the mouth.

Let me say now, 12 seconds is about 11.5 seconds longer than the last time I had wine in my mouth in 2002. If I remember correctly, I described the experience as licking a grape’s rear end.

But I couldn’t chicken out now. The guy had been awful nice and patient with me.

And this wasn’t Franzia out of a box; the man had made this with his own hands. In the spirit of Neruda and his lifelong love of the working man, I picked up the Malbec and then the Syrah. Twelve seconds each. I had a watch and everything.

This is wine? This? Hey, this is actually good.

Granted, the Malbec was more sword than golden, but the Syrah was actually kind

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of fun, especially for a newbie like me. I almost, allllmost asked him about the price of a little bottle, but that time, I chickened out for real. No matter the price, a DUI was gonna be far more expensive.

I drove out of that winery, thinking about my dad and how he would have liked to clink glasses with his son, just once. We never did, at least not wine.

I also thought how I now

could get handed a wine list at a restaurant and not look like an 8-year-old. I officially had a type of wine that I liked.

I told a couple of my relatives and they were less than impressed, knowing about my streak of non-wine years.

Oh well, they’ll get over it in time.

And if they don’t, as we wine-drinkers like to say, “que syrah, syrah.”

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SHINE Ongoing Events Quincy Aquatic Center The Quincy Aquatic Center, in East Park, features two large slides, a zero-depth wading pool, fountains, a deeper wading pool and a traditional lap pool. It also has changing rooms, a concession stand, picnic shelter and plenty of green grass for lounging. Opening on June 17, the aquatic center is open through August. It opens at 1 p.m. daily for the public. For more information, visit www.qtownrec.us.

Area Farmers Markets What better way to get a taste of the area then to visit a local farmer’s market?

There are several popular markets in the area. They include: •The Wenatchee Valley Farmer’s Market, voted the Best Farmer’s Market in the KING-5 Best in the Northwest Escapes, is open 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturdays at Pybus Market in downtown Wenatchee.

It’s also open Wednesday evenings, 4 to 8 p.m., beginning June 15.

•The Ephrata Farmers Market opens for the season on May 28. It is open 8 a.m. to noon on Saturdays on C Street, between Division and 1st Avenue Northwest.

•The Moses Lake Farmers Market is open 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturdays (through Oct. 31) at McCosh Park, off of Dogwood Street.

Grand Coulee Dam Grand Coulee Dam presents its popular laser light show nightly through Sept. 30. The 30-minute, narrated show, “One River, Many Voices,” is free to the public. Visitor Center hours will be from 8:30 a.m. until one hour past the start of the Laser Light Show.

Through the end of July, the show will begin at 10 p.m. For August, the show begins at 9:30 p.m. and for September, 8:30 p.m. Onehour, public tours into the John W. Keys III Pump-Generating Plant are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily.

Visitors ride a shuttle bus to the pumping plant to view gigantic pumps lifting water from Lake Roosevelt to Banks Lake. The shuttle also takes visitors across the top of Grand Coulee Dam for views of Lake Roosevelt and the Columbia River.Tours are on a first-come, first-served basis.

Space is limited. More information at www.usbr.gov/pn/grandcoulee/visit/index.

Reiman-Simmons House & Pioneer Church At 415 F St. S.W. in Quincy, the historic home was built in 1904

by German-Russian immigrants.

It is one of the few buildings left from Quincy’s earliest pioneer days. Admission is free.

The house is open 12:30 to 4:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays through mid-September, or by appointment. Look for the museum’s newest exhibit, “Giddyup:

THURSDAY, JULY 7, 2016 Home on the Quincy Range.”

July Events July 9 30 years of Wine Making. Join the celebration at White Heron Cellars, 6 p.m. Event includes live music, food and verticals.

Cost is $10 at the door for the musicians. Wine available for purchase, bring picnic food to share.

July 10 Couples 9-Hole Golf Tournament at Colockum Ridge Golf Course in Quincy. Open to everyone. Register by calling 509787-6206.

July 14 Cardboard boat regatta is back!

Join in the fun by making your own boat. Then bring it down to the regatta at the Quincy Aquatic Center, 6:30 to 8 p.m.

July 14 Quincy Valley Allied Arts performs “Nunsense” on the outdoor stage at Lauzier Park in Quincy.

Show starts at 7 p.m. Cost is $5 a person.Pay at the door; no early tickets will be sold. Please bring your own chair or blanket.

July 15 Quincy Valley Allied Arts performs “Nunsense” on the outdoor stage at George Park. Show starts at 7 p.m. Cost is $5 a person. Pay at the door; no early tickets will be sold. Please bring your own chair or blanket.

July 15-16 Basin Summer Sounds, one of the best free music festivals in the Northwest. Includes a car and toy show, food vendors, 3-on-3 basketball tournament and more.

More information at www.basinsummersounds.com.

July 16 Moses Coulee Tour with the city of Quincy. The tour is a part of the city’s summer bus tours. The free tours start at 11 a.m. and seating is limited on the 18-passenger tour bus. So be advised to get there by 10:30 a.m.

The tour starts with a 30-minute talk and is followed by a twoto four-hour driving tour. Meet at the parking lot at the Reiman-Simmons House, 415 F St. S.W. Please eat lunch before you attend.

Quincy Valley Allied Arts performs “Nunsense” on the outdoor stage at White Heron Cellars in Trinidad. Show starts at 7 p.m.

Cost is $5 a person.

July 23 Mushroom Festival at White Heron Cellars in Trinidad. Three different kinds of mushrooms prepared by chef Tim Putnam.

Includes live music. Cost is $10 at the door for the musicians with plates of mushrooms available for purchase.

August Events Aug. 5 First Friday Jam. Bluegrass enthusiasts gather at George Community Hall, 7 to 9 p.m., to play together or enjoy the music.

Event starts with a potluck. More information at www.georgecom-

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Aug. 5-7 Annual Sage ‘n’ Sun Family Festival at Ephrata. The fun includes a talent show, live entertainment, food booths, a junior parade and a grand parade.

Aug. 13 Double Diamond Fruit Tour with the city of Quincy. Learn how the local apple industry brings fruit to your home. The tour is a part of the city’s summer tours, a longtime tradition in Quincy that introduces the public to everything from the geology and history of the area to unique businesses. The free tours start at 11 a.m. and seating is limited on the 18-passenger tour bus.

Meet at the parking lot at the Reiman-Simmons House, 415 F St. S.W. Aug. 20 Bread, Cheese & Cured Meat Festival at White Heron Cellars in Trinidad, 6 p.m. Event includes live music. Cost is $10 at the door for the musicians, with bread, cheese and cured meat available for purchase.

Blakal Packing Tour with the city of Quincy. The tour, which takes a look at the inside of the potato industry, is a part of the city’s summer tours, a longtime tradition in Quincy that introduces the public to everything from the geology and history of the area to unique businesses. The free tours start at 11 a.m. and seating is limited on the 18-passenger tour bus. So be advised to get there by 10:30 a.m. Meet at the parking lot at the Reiman-Simmons House, 415 F St. S.W. Aug. 27 Trinity Gardens Lavender Farm Tour with the city of Quincy. The tour of the unique George business is a part of the city’s summer tours, a longtime tradition in Quincy that introduces the public to everything from the geology and history of the area to unique businesses. The free tours start at 11 a.m. and seating is limited on the 18-passenger tour bus. So be advised to get there by 10:30 a.m. Meet at the parking lot at the Reiman-Simmons House, 415 F St. S.W. Aug. 28 Doggie swim. The Quincy Aquatic Centercloses to the people on this day and opens its pool up to the dogs. After all, even man’s best friend needs a day to himself.

September Events Sept. 2 First Friday Jam. Bluegrass enthusiasts gather at George Community Hall, 7 to 9 p.m., to play together or enjoy the music.

Event starts with a potluck. More information at www.georgecommunity hall.com.

Sept. 3 Art in the Park at Moses Lake Farmers Market. Amateur and professional artists join in the

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weekly Saturday farmers market at McCosh Park, off of Dogwood Street, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Sept. 9 Chef Extravaganza at White Heron Cellars in Trinidad, 6 p.m. All local food served is collected from within 10 miles of the winery and put into the hands of a chef. Live music by Mugsy’s Groove. Cost is $25 at the door for music and all you can eat.

Sept. 10 Farmer-Consumer Awareness Day. The biggest festival in Quincy celebrates that connection between the field and the grocery store.

Live music, vendors, a car show, volleyball tournament, grand parade, fireworks and so much more.

Events all day at Quincy High School and Lauzier Park.

Sept. 12-18 10th Annual Bluegrass Festival.

Festival kicks off on that Monday and ends with live concerts onstage at George Community Park on Friday and Saturday and a cowboy church program on Sunday.

Dry camping is available. More information at www.georgecommunity hall.com.

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