CRR March 2019

CRREADER.COM • Vol. XIV, No. 164 • March 15 – April 15, 2019 • COMPLIMENTARY Helping you discover and enjoy the good life in the Columbia River region at home and on the road

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elcome to the March issue.

You’ll enjoy our People+Place feature on Chris Bailey, president of Lower Columbia College, now a glittering, bustling center of energy and academic achievement.

It has really come into its own in recent years, but LCC’s role as a fount of cultural and personal enrichment opportunities is nothing new.

Sue’s Views

In my young adult years, I took several classes from LCC’s community education offerings. One was Gourmet Cooking, an evening class where we cooked, enjoyed the samples, and took home boxes of leftovers. This was a lifechanging experience for me, influencing the emergence of my love of cooking and — if I do say so myself — my eventual proficiency in the kitchen.

And my interest in building a library of cookbooks. Thank you, LCC! Sure, I’d made it through Pearl Heidenreich’s home ec classes at Monticello Junior High School, learning how to segment a grapefruit and make stewed prunes and basic muffins. But in this LCC class we created things like Spinach and Mushroom Casserole, Chicken Livers with Madeira, and Empanadas de Carne. I know this

Publisher/Editor: Susan P. Piper Columnists and contributors: Tracy Beard Dr. Bob Blackwood Hal Calbom Alice Dietz Ted Gruber Jim LeMonds Gary Meyers Michael Perry Ned Piper Perry Piper Robert Michael Pyle Marc Roland Alan Rose Alice Slusher Greg Smith Debra Tweedy Production Manager/ Photographer: Perry E. Piper Editorial/Proofreading Assistants: Merrilee Bauman Tiffany Dickinson Michael Perry Marilyn Perry Debra Tweedy Advertising Manager: Ned Piper, 360-749-2632 Columbia River Reader, llc 1333 14th Ave • Longview, WA 98632 P.O. Box 1643 • Rainier, OR 97048 Office Hours: M-W-F • 11–3* *Other times by chance or appointment Website: www.CRReader.com E-mail: publisher@crreader.com Phone: 360-749-1021 Subscriptions $28 per year inside U.S. (plus $2.34 sales tax for subscriptions mailed to Washington addresses).

Macaroni and Cheese and TV dinners, long before ordinary people started to cook with much style, these dishes to me seemed very sophisticated. Those faded, folded recipes remain a sentimental treasure to me, tucked in among my cookbook collection.

Later, I took a calligraphy class, a computer class, a real estate class, and intermittently played in LCC’s Symphonic Band.

What a wonderful thing that all-age community members, general college students, music majors, and professional musicians, can come together and enjoy playing and performing great music!

A college for everyone

Just thinking about it makes me resolve (again) to dig my clarinet out and reclaim the embouchure (muscle tone needed in order to play clarinet, lost through lack of playing) and join the fun again. Meanwhile, being in the audience at the quarterly concerts is always a delight.

Special thanks to Wendy Hall, Tiffany Stewart and Linda Clark.

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Thanks to others who participated in the story, including Scott Houston, Katelyn Berezo, Alexis Feb, Keiko Pedersen, Samantha Rutledge, Mavourneen Rister, Vanessa Hoskins, Hayden Gray, Ann Quincey, and Nelly Wengari.

I plan to get one of those RoadPro slow cookers Tracy mentions. Tailgate picnicking can be great fun. And a handy gadget like a crock pot that plugs into the cigarette lighter could add a charming new dimension. If only I’d had one back in the day… I could’ve cooked Chicken Livers with Madeira in my car on the way to my calligraphy class, and dropped off the leftovers at the LCC band room. It’s food for thought!

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because I still have the packet of mimeographed recipes provided by the instructor, a pleasant German woman named Giesela. In the days of Kraft

Students with Lower Columbia College President Chris Bailey at the Rose Center for the Arts. Clockwise, from left: Miina Kanno, Riyuna Shimizu, Chris Bailey, David Jones, Ashley Smith, Ruth Muchai.

This issue contains many other articles to amuse and enlighten you…garden bugs, books, Lewis and Clark’s grizzly bears, Marc Roland’s wine-as-metaphorfor-life column, and more. Tracy Beard’s Out & About story implies spring is around the corner. It is! A nice road trip might do all of us good after this cold, bleak winter.

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Letter to the Editor

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Miss Manners

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Dispatch from the Discovery Trail ~ Just the Grizzly Facts

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Medical Matters

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Roland on Wine: Tasting for the Future

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HaikuFest 2019 ~ Aftershocks

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Out & About ~Gorgeous Getaway

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People+Place Recommended Books

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Essay by Robert Michael Pyle: Lookee Here!

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Northwest Gardening: Good Bug Safari

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Besides CRR, What Are You Reading?

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Cover to Cover ~ Bestsellers List / Book Review

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Lower Columbia Dining Guide

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Movies by Dr. Bob Blackwood

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Lower Columbia Informer ~ Back in Black (and White)

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Civilized Living parents discreetly aside to explain the situation. Cards may be declined for reasons other than fraud.

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DEAR MISS MANNERS: My daughter just got married in a small ceremony, and a group of about 20 friends and family went to dinner after, which I had arranged. The groom’s parents offered to pay half the bill, which wasn’t a problem — but their credit card was declined.

Was I wrong to not give them a chance to pay a different way? I assume they’ll figure out eventually that they weren’t charged, and if they insist on paying me back, they’ll figure out a way to do it. But my main concern was avoiding embarrassing them in that celebratory moment.

As I was the one the wait staff was dealing with, I simply paid the entire bill and handed the declined card back, while saying, “It’s all settled.”

GENTLE READER: Which was tactful. Miss Manners assures you that it also would not have been remiss to have taken one of the other

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onna has lived all her life in Longview, graduating from R.A. Long High School. She continued her education at Lower Columbia College and went to work at Longview Fibre, where she worked for 23 years.

She has enjoyed boating and skiing in the many rivers and lakes in the area and spent many days fishing the local rivers with her husband of 31 years, Don. Donna takes pride in

helping to raise her many inherited children and grandchildren in the local area.

But if you were in a position to be generous without making a show of it — or insisting on immediate payback — it bodes well for the future of the relationship. Or — if it becomes a habit — its complete and utter demise.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: We have two cats, a Siamese and an orange tabby, both about 2 years old. When the orange tabby uses her litter box, well, it’s just pungent and disgustingly smelly. My husband just sits there and says when you have pets they come with smells.

I beg to differ, and what if we had company over? What’s the proper etiquette in these matters? I await your reply because I think leaving it, even after one use with fresh litter, is one too many. I think he’s trying to gaslight me and he’s just being lazy.

G E N T L E R E A D E R : Yo u r husband’s observation that pets come with smells is accurate but lazy — by which Miss Manners means unhelpful. So do people, but we do not therefore conclude that all activities are open to public viewing.

Bathroom facilities for the pets should be kept out of range of visitors, meaning nowhere the two will come into close or sustained contact, olfactory or otherwise.

Within the family, agreement must be reached, with understanding and preference given to more sensitive members.

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Lewis & Clark Grin and bear it While Lewis and Clark spent the winter at Fort Mandan, Indians told them of a ferocious bear they would encounter. On April 17th Clark wrote, tho’ we continue to see many tracks of the bear we have seen but very few of them, and those are at a great distance generally running from us; I thefore presume that they are extremely wary and shy; the Indian account of them dose not corrispond with our experience so far.

Just the grizzly facts, Ma’am 214 years ago, the Lewis and Clark Expedition was preparing to

resume their trek to the Pacific Ocean after spending the winter near the Mandan and Hidatsu Indian villages.

Fort Mandan was located 45 miles upstream from present-day Bismark, North Dakota.

After the Corps of Discovery left St. Louis a year earlier, in May 1804, their progress up the Missouri River had been very slow. Due to the heavily laden boats and fast current, they averaged only seven miles per day until reaching the Mandan Villages where they spent the winter. When they continued their westward journey on April 7, 1805, they did so with fewer men and supplies, and without the heavy keelboat. They had two pirogues from the previous year plus six dugout canoes they carved from cottonwood logs.

The smaller boats and lighter load made it possible to cover upwards of 25 miles per day. Headwinds were a problem, but strong tailwinds allowed the crews to raise the sails and cover great distances on several days. On April 24th, Clark wrote, The wind blew so hard during the whole of this day, that we were unable to move. Clark later wrote The party complain much of the Sand in their eyes, the Sand is verry fine and rises in clouds from the Points and bars of the river, I may Say during those winds we eat Drink & breeth a prepotion of Sand.

Fine alkali dust and constant glare of the sun on the water probably caused the sore eyes.

The land was mostly open grasslands, with a few trees growing along the river. The further west they went, the more wildlife they saw. On April 25th, Lewis wrote, the whol face of

the country was covered with herds of Buffaloe, Elk & Antelopes; deer are also abundant… the buffaloe Elk and Antelope are so gentle that we pass near them while feeding, without appearing to excite any alarm among them, and when we attract their attention, they frequently approach us more nearly to discover what we are.

On April 26th, they reached the mouth of the Yellowstone River, five miles from present-day Montana.

An extra ration of whiskey was served; the fiddles came out, and the men sang and danced in celebration.

By mid-May, they had covered about 350 miles, reaching an area now covered by Fort Peck Lake, near Glasgow, Montana.

Michael Perry enjoys local history and travel. His popular 33-installment Lewis & Clark series appeared in CRR’s early years and began its second “encore” appearance in April 2018.

Lewis & Clark Encore We are pleased to present

Installment #11 of Michael Perry’s popular 33-month series which began with CRR’s April 15, 2004 inaugural issue.

“Dispatch from the Discovery Trail” helped define and shape Columbia River Reader in its early years during the Bicentennial Commemoration of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Each installment covered their travels during the corresponding month 200 years prior. We are repeating the series for the enjoyment of both longtime and more recent readers.

Two weeks later, after trying to kill two Grizzly bears, Clark wrote, one of them made his escape, the other after my firing on him pursued me seventy or eighty yards, but fortunately had been so badly wounded that he was unable to pursue so closely as to prevent my charging my gun; we again repeated our fir and killed him. It was a male not fully grown, we estimated his weight at 300 lbs. It is astonishing to see the wounds they will bear before they can be put to death.

Despite these encounters, Lewis still felt the bears were over-rated. On April 29th he wrote, the Indians may well fear this anamal equiped as they generally are with their bows and arrows or indifferent fuzees [inferior muskets], but in the hands of skillfull riflemen they are by no means as formidable or dangerous as they have been represented.

However, his assessment would be revised a couple weeks later.

Later that week Clark wrote, In the evening we Saw a Brown or grisley beare on a Sand beech, I went out with one man Geo. Drewyer & Killed the bear, which was verry large and a terrible looking animal, which we found verry hard to kill. We Shot ten balls into him before we killed him, & 5 of those Balls through his lights [lungs]. We had nothing that could way him, I think his weight may be Stated at 500 pounds, he measured 8 feet 7-1/2 In. from his nose to the extremity of the Toe… 3 feet 11 Ins. arround the neck. His talents [talon, or claw] was 4 Inches & 3/8 long. Captain Lewis thought the Grizzly weighted 600 pounds.

Grizzly Claw

The obverse design for the 2005 nickel commemorating the Lewis and Clark bicentennial contained a new likeness of America’s third president, Thomas Jefferson. The “Liberty” inscription on the coin is based upon Jefferson’s own handwriting. The reverse featured the American bison. Expedition journals described the buffalo as an animal of great significance to many American Indian cultures. Nickels minted between 1913 and 1938 also had a buffalo on the reverse, while an Indian was depicted on the front; many people feel it was one of America’s most beautiful coins.

Another Grizzly proved hard to kill when Lewis reported a man had shot a brown bear which immediately turned on him and pursued him a considerable distance but he had wounded it so badly that it could not overtake him; I immediately turned out with seven of the party in quest of this monster, we at length found his cont page 9

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trale and persued him about a mile by the blood through very thick brush… and shot him through the skull with two balls.

After that adventure, Lewis changed his opinion about the Grizzly when he wrote, I must confess that I do not like the gentlemen and had rather fight two Indians than one bear. It was next to impossible to kill a Grizzly with one shot; a direct shot to the head or lungs was not enough. And, since it took a minute or more to reload their guns, a second shot was often not possible.

While Clark referred to it as a “grisly beare,” he was not responsible for the scientific name Ursus arctos horribilis.

However, I’m sure he would have approved!

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MEDICAL MATTERS

Longview Ortho adds staff

By Jim LeMonds

Longview Orthopedic Associates She has appreciated the warm welcome has responded to she has received from providers increasing demand by and staff. “There is a tremendous adding board certified amount of collective knowledge nurse practitioner at LOA, and I know I will learn Acacia Syring to its a great deal.” staff. Clinic manager Syring graduated with a Bachelor Kathleen Lappe said of Science degree in nursing from LOA is likely to add Washington State University another ARNP later in Acacia Syring, arnp before completing her Masters of the year.

Science in nursing at WSU in 2014.

“When I was 14, I fractured my She worked previously at Fairchild ankle, which required surgery to fix,” Medical Center (Yreka, Calif.), Syring said. “Since that time, I have Marquis Care Center (Wilsonville, maintained an interest in orthopedics Ore.), Key Laser Institute (Portland, and sports medicine. Having a chance Ore.), Southwest Washington Medical to work with the physicians at LOA is Center (Vancouver, Wash.), and the a great opportunity for me.”

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Her daily duties will include evaluating When she’s not working, Acacia stays patients and assisting during surgeries. busy with a four- and one-year old at She will also work closely with Dr. home. She enjoys camping, boating, A.J. Lauder to expand access to the wakeboarding, soccer, and reading. clinic’s hand-wrist services.

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Roland on Wine

Tasting for the future Cultivating good things

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rom time to time we hold barrel tastings at the winery. It is risky business because wine is in a constant state of evolution and what the wine will taste like at any given time is uncertain. I taste wine everyday. Not a bad job!

But some days it just doesn’t taste good; not because anything is wrong with it, but because it just isn’t there yet. So, by allowing customers to taste directly from the barrel, when the wine could be going through a temporary funk, folks may think something is not right. The job of the winemaker is to taste for the future, to ask, “are all the fundamental elements in place?” If they are, then you can have faith that it will, at a future date, be amazing.

The most important task of the winemaker is to pay attention to what is happening with the wine in its evolution. Some adjustments may have to be made, but mostly it is to figure out first what the potential is.

There’s an old saying: Wine is made in

the vineyard, the winemaker’s job is to not mess it up. Sometimes it is better to let it develop on its own. The job simply boils down to paying attention.

There are also life lessons in this.

Paying attention means that we start looking at the things around us and acknowledging their value and worth. I think that wine, as well as communities that prosper, accentuate the good things that already exist, instead of the things that don’t.

Roland Wines is committed to being ourselves. We don’t want to be someone else. While it may be helpful to look to others for inspiration, we can’t be them. For example, Portland is ‘weird’ not because it tries to be, but because it is a unique collection of individuals who exist there and are recognized for their uniqueness and celebrate it. Thus, ‘keep Portland weird’. Our local area is also unique.

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Paying attention means that we start looking at the things around us, both new and old. Our community has a rich heritage that is evident in our historic buildings, our industrial base, and the people who have settled here over the years. I was born and raised in Longview. There was no better hometown to grow up in.

It was kid-friendly with a thriving commercial area and something for everyone. Things have changed, but the fundamental elements are still there. We just need to find new ways to express those strengths of our past .

Our prosperous future will depend on if we, as a community, focus on what we are becoming. That means being willing to leave attitudes and ideas of yesteryear behind, especially those attitudes that no longer serve today’s realities. We can’t bring the past back, just like I can’t depend on what happened in an earlier vintage.

We don’t even need to think up new ideas. The ideas are already here. Let’s

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LONGVIEW RAINIER Post Office Post Office Bob’s (rack, main check-out) Cornerstone In front of 1232 Commerce Ave Rainier Hardware (rack, entry) In front of 1323 Commerce Ave Earth ‘n’ Sun (on Hwy 30) YMCA El Tapatio (entry rack) Fred Meyer Grocery Outlet (rack, customer service counter) DEER ISLAND Teri’s Restaurant Deer Island Store Grocery Outlet COLUMBIA CITY US Bank (15th Ave.) Fibre Fed’l CU - Commerce Ave Post Office Monticello Hotel (front entrance) WARREN Kaiser Permanente (entrance) Warren Country St. John Medical Center Inn (rack, Park Lake Café) ST HELENS Cowlitz Black Bears box office Chamber of LCC Student Center Commerce Mini-Mart next to Regents Sunshine Pizza Indie Way Diner Post Office Columbia River Reader Olde Town (Wild Currant) 1333 14th Ave. Safeway KELSO SCAPPOOSE Heritage Bank Post Office Visitors’ Center/ Kelso-Lgv For more Road Runner Chamber of Commerce locations or the Fred Meyer pick-up point KALAMA (east entrance) nearest you, Fibre Fed’l CU Fultano’s visit crreader.

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Visitors’ Center CLATSKANIE The Oak Tree Post Office CASTLE ROCK Lacie Rha’s Cafe (32 Cowlitz W.) Chevron / Mini-Mart Parker’s Restaurant (box, entry) Wauna mill (parking area) WESTPORT The Berry Patch (rack) Cascade Select Market (box) Visitors’ Center KNAPPA, ORE The Logger 890 Huntington Ave. N. SKAMOKAWA Exit 49, west side of I-5 Skamokawa General Store Redmen Hall RYDERWOOD Community Center OCEAN PARK Jack’s Country Store

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Kids’ fishing event set for April 27 at Lake Sacajawea This year’s Lake Sacajawea Kids’ FishIn, sponsored by the Longview Early Edition Rotary, is scheduled for April 27. Seven 45-minute sessions starting at 8:00am will start on the hour and end 45 minutes later. Longview Parks & Recreation will handle the registration for each session.

Go online to mylongview.com/rec, stop by the office at 2920 Douglas St., Longview, or call 360-442-5400 11am – 5pm.

We will be hosting 60 participants ages 5 – 14 per session, for a total of 420. Please sign up soon for the session most convenient for you.

Registration filled up and was closed prior to the event last year.

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Please arrive at least 10 minutes before your scheduled session and remember, no personal equipment is allowed into the Martin’s Dock area during this event.

We e x p e c t L a k e Sacajawea to be stocked with more than 2,000 rainbow trout and approximately 30 or more larger brood trout from the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife. Let’s go fishing! ~ Gerry Bosh, Longview Parks & Recreation Foundation volunteer

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Since Ray’s haiku took first place in Pop (HONESTLY!) without so much as a wink or a nod, I made him a special presentation. He was overwhelmed. Ray has been a groomsman often in our events but never the groom. He even exceeded the judges’ votes of his old friend, John Hanna, a patrician from Palo Alto who always produces well-crafted haiku. (John took 3rd place in Traditional this year.) Ray was on Cloud 9 and I wanted to share the moment with CRR readers. ~Gary Meyers.

Editor’s note: Our apologies for neglecting to include Dave’s photo in Gary’s article last month. Here is the related excerpt:

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hile we don’t elicit or encourage photographs to accompany haiku entries, we also don’t forbid them. Judging, however, is based solely on the poetry. This year, Dave Ford from the Kalama boondocks submitted a haiku printed on a Northwest theme photo. He described the setting as “… early spring looking southwest over the clouded Columbia at moonset.

It was noisy…with birds and insects getting an early breakfast.” Those who enjoy spring strolls at dusk in the Northwest woods are very familiar with the “forest orchestra.” This was an entry that begged Special Mention in its own category. Thanks, Dave. ~ Gary Meyers HaikuFest Founder/Chief Judge

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Out & About

A gorge-ous getaway

Story and photos by Tracy Beard

Skamania Lodge area makes fun early spring outing

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he Columbia River Gorge is a wonderland for both locals and visitors to the Pacific Northwest. Plan a quick getaway and indulge in a night or two at the Skamania Lodge while exploring the area. Visit the Columbia Gorge Interpretive Center Museum, discover the area’s scenic outdoors, or stay inside and enjoy one of the lodge’s relaxing activities. This stunning section of Washington offers a plethora of activities.

Winter and early spring travel deserve special consideration. Picnicking and tailgating are favorite summer pastimes, but the cooler months can be just as fun. Before leaving home, prepare a hot lunch to enjoy along the way. To ensure a steamy meal, place the food inside your RoadPro 12-Volt Slow Cooker and plug it into your car’s lighter to keep it toasty while en route. See sidebar, next page.

Stop for a picnic at St. Cloud Day Use Area, approximately 30 miles east of Vancouver, Washington, on WA-14 at milepost (MP) 29.9. Turn right, drive over the railroad tracks, and tote your hot lunch out to one of the picnic tables in the park. This Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area makes for a convenient and attractive stop. The trees are stripped of their colorful leaves at this time of year, revealing to adventurous visitors glorious views of the river. Be mindful of the $5 per day usage fee.

Outdoor Activities Abound Take a scenic drive and view spectacular waterfalls or venture out on one of several nearby hikes. WA-14 affords easy access to trails at Beacon Rock, Hamilton Mountain, and Falls Creek Falls. Follow one of the multiple Lewis and Clark trailhead signs spotted alongside the highway.

Several treks are also available on the property at Skamania Lodge. The newly renovated Gorge Loop Fitness Trail is perfect for those seeking a moderate to difficult hike. Although the trail is only .9 miles long, it includes five stations and 17 workout activities.

Other trails circle the golf course, lead down to the nearby town of Stevenson, or take you down and around Ash Lake.

Art lovers and historians will appreciate the “Art of Discovery” walk. The late John Grey, a prominent developer, the County of Skamania, and the US Forest Service in conjunction with several grants funded the building of the Skamania Lodge. The intent was to give visitors a place to stay while discovering the area. Throughout the lodge and convention center, visitors can peruse the hallways and examine John Grey’s art collection along with other works.

These pieces include Native American and Northwestern sketches, paintings and sculptures. cont next page

Once the weather warms up a bit, outdoor adventurers can tackle Skamania Lodge Adventures: the aerial park, the zip tour and axe throwing. The 18-hole golf course is open midJanuary to mid-November, weather permitting.

Year-Round Indoor Activities On the third Saturday of each month, the Skamania Lodge hosts Vine Gogh at the Gorge Painting Classes. The classes include music and step-by-step painting lessons. Libations are available for purchase.

Skamania Lodge Continue heading east on WA-14 for another 13 miles, turn off on Skamania Lodge Road just before Stevenson, Washington.

The lodge lies nestled amongst 175 acres of lush forest overlooking the Columbia River Gorge. This rustic-luxe resort makes the perfect base camp for investigating the area. Guests can choose from a variety of well-appointed rooms at the lodge ranging from the luxury treehouses and Windows on the Gorge suites to simpler cozy rooms with traditional hotel amenities.

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Photos, clockwise from left: St. Cloud picnic area; Skamania Lodge’s lobby/ viewing area; one of the outdoor hot tubs. Opposite page: Artwork on display at Skamania Lodge.

showcase early transportation, fishing, history, shopping and religion. Director Robert Peterson is an engaging and informative tour guide.

Stories of early transportation are brought to life with antique cars and trucks, old photos, and a model of one of the most luxurious sternwheelers, The Bailey Gatzert, that traveled up and down the Columbia River. The Bailey Gatzert’s whistle, stern wheel and a name board are all on display at the museum. Early passengers could travel from Portland to The Dalles, Oregon, for $1. from page 14

The Waterleaf spa is a splendid place to unwind. Book a treatment, swim in the pool, sweat in the sauna or relax in one of the indoor or outdoor hot tubs. Join in a complimentary yoga class from 8–9am every Sunday.

Columbia Gorge Interpretive Center Museum Less than a mile from the lodge is the Columbia Gorge Interpretive Center Museum, owned and operated by the Skamania County Historical Society. “The museum is a unique and eclectic collection showcasing ‘how the gorge grew up’,” says Kara Owen, Skamania Lodge’s sales and marketing director.

The museum opened in May 1995, and the building is interpretive of an old sawmill. The spacious layout leads visitors through an easy-to-follow pathway to numerous intriguing divisions of the museum. The various exhibits

Tracy Beard writes about luxury and adventure travel, fine dining and traditional and trendy libations for regional, national and international magazines and is a regular “Out & About” contributor to Columbia River Reader.

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Any time of year is a wonderful time to visit the gorge and Skamania Lodge; but if you want to beat the crowds of summer, pack a hot lunch and head out before the end of spring. I love my Road Pro slow cooker.

When my kids played sports, I packed in numerous hot meals during those cold rainy Pacific Northwest nights. It is a favorite travel companion, and I hope it becomes one of yours. In the sidebar you will find a delicious, healthful travel meal.

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The museum has a very eclectic array of exhibits including an enormous fishing wheel with an adjoining “home” where the operators lived. Different rooms throughout the building offer videos of the Mount St. Helen’s explosion, geology in and around the Columbia River and other historical events. The museum boasts a lovely display of old quilts and the Don Brown Rosary Collection, the world’s most extensive collection with just under 4,000 unique pieces. Don received most of the collection as gifts, but one rosary was solicited and was used by President John F. Kennedy during WWII.

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A monthly feature written and photographed

by Southwest Washington native and Emmy Award-winning journalist

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Transforming Lives: Chris Bailey In 1934, the Great Depression still gripped this country and its impoverished people. Americans stood in breadlines as wages sank and jobs disappeared.

One of every two banks failed, taking the life savings of their faithful depositors.

Industry ground to a halt, crops wasted in fields.

Hal Calbom

I’m struck by the date, 1934.

As our homegrown junior college commenced operations, the two people who would become my parents, Esther McDonald of Kelso and Harry Calbom, Jr. of Longview, were 14 and 16 years old, respectively.

Today we refer to them as part of the Greatest Generation. Then, they were simply two teenagers facing what must have seemed hard times: besides the normal pains of adolescence, economic depression and a world drifting towards war.

I remember, however, their stories from those years, which were almost invariably upbeat and positive. That my dad, who worked for his own dad at Highland Dairy after school, and my mom, who earned pennies working for Mrs. Rickles at her grocery downtown, had eventually faced off in the “cooler” belonging to one or the other of these establishments, she agreeing, finally, to go out with him.

Then both of them, most likely courting by then, attended LCJC sometime during these pre-war years.

And perhaps that sense of extending their education and their experience, that sense that there might be opportunity beyond the hard times, fed their spirits, hopes and dreams.

Today we associate the term Greatest Generation largely with World War II and the economic boom times that followed it. But I suspect that its ethos grew from the belief that you could learn and work your way out of hard times, that you could create and influence your own future, and that of future generations.

In that same year, 1934, the citizens of Cowlitz County established Lower Columbia Junior College.

Prospective students registered at Korten’s music store in Longview, Dahlman Hardware in Castle Rock, and Orr Furniture in Kelso. Classes were held at R.A. Long High School. In 1936, the fledgling LCJC awarded associate’s degrees to its inaugural class of seven students. In 1937, to 96 students.

Today their descendants, some 5,000 of them, populate the 21st Century Lower Columbia College. There’s an attractive campus now, clacking computer terminals, howling welding rigs, endless variations in curriculum delivery, career planning, and customized learning for anyone and everyone.

Those visionary founders instilled a belief in 1934, an act of faith, that still energizes this campus: that nothing so powerfully transforms our work, our relationships, and our quality of life, as education. ________________________________________ HC: Have you always been an education guy?

CB: Not always. I came from a very different background than many of the presidents in the system.

HC: Has that helped you or hurt you?

CB: I think it’s really helped me.

I’m trained as a lawyer, which helps a lot with the business side of administration, building the campus, lien law, contracts. I have experience with people, 80 percent of what I do here is managing people, and traditional academics often don’t have a lot of that experience.

HC: And you actually got your hands dirty once or twice, did some business?

CB: I did. I ran a sand and gravel company for 14 years. And that really helps me on the vocational side. Understanding equipment, manufacturing, construction, some of the needs that industry has, what they want in an employee and don’t always get. So that helps us frame the hard skills and the soft skills that we need in a work environment.

HC: Are you as nimble as you’d hoped? Many universities I work with think they’re nimble but…

CB: It’s a very different environment.

HC: That’s a very diplomatic answer.

CB: Well, that’s part of the job, too!

If you’ve gone through the process of becoming a tenured faculty member,

NICE TO MEET YOU Chris Bailey resides

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HIgher education and public speaking reading

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Walking, being outdoors

and then a dean, you understand the academic structure better. And I need to rely on some of my people because I haven’t dealt with some of the issues they’ve dealt with. I have great respect for tenured faculty. And cont page 18

I think that in the 1930s Harry and Esther glimpsed a better future empowered by opportunity and education, nurtured not just by adversity but by their community’s college.

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People in many ways you want a college or university to be inherently conservative, to not shift its focus every time the wind changes direction.

“ We transform lives for a living. It is amazing. The stories, th

HC: But aren’t the community colleges supposed to be more responsive and better listeners? Part of your model relies on knowing the way the wind is blowing, or anticipating it?

CB: We created an international program, first to bring some diversity into our campus and into our community, but also, we’ve got large ports, the third largest port in the state of Washington right here in Longview.

Our students need to be exposed to that world view.

CB: Sure. We’re fairly agile and flexible in meeting workforce needs. But coming from the outside you still see that the systems are often more hierarchical that you expected. There tends to be a premium on consensus, which takes time, shared governance, which you often don’t see in an industrial or manufacturing model.

And, remember we’re a state institution. Our tuitions and lots of our operating procedures are controlled by the people in Olympia.

HC: We usually think of a community college as the two-year stop on the way to a four-year degree someplace else?

CB: Well, our Generalized Transfer Agreement, which is that two-year prep for four-year, is still our biggest program. And is still the heart of most community colleges. More than 40 percent of the baccalaureates in this state come through a community college.

HC: How do LCC students hold up taking those next steps at a four-year?

CB: They actually flourish. The average GPA for LCC students in their next couple of years is 3.24. And we’re an open enrollment, open-toanyone college, not a prep school. We take everybody and anybody that’s interested and motivated. So we’re very proud of that.

HC: Are you getting kids that might have sought out a four-year previously?

Better price? More relevant?

CB: Yes, some. But we’re subject to the same funding pressures the fouryears are. This year we’re looking at a $1.7 million shortfall on a $25 million budget, and because our tuitions are set by the state we don’t have a lot of flexibility. I mean, people think we’re rich, and they love us, but they don’t put us on a priority list for funding.

HC: But your enthusiasm for this place is obvious.

CB: There is no better job in the world. It’s like you wake up in the morning and you go, ‘They’re paying me for this?’ It’s just honestly the best, this job. We transform lives for a living. It is amazing. The stories, the energy, the passion for learning that happens on a campus like this. We transform lives for a living. I love this job.

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~ Chris Bailey HC: This campus and all these wonderful programs would suggest otherwise.

CB: I know. We’ve got great capital resources. People think we’re wealthy. But realistically we’re kind of living in a mansion and we have no heat and no food in the fridge.

Despite funding challenges, proliferating programs, and economic ups and downs, the critical focus of community colleges like LCC remains the student. The evolving student.

Who is he or she, really, and what do they need? Certainly they differ dramatically from the stereotypical 18-year-old taking two years before heading to Central or WSU. Today’s average LCC student is 30. Many have already held jobs, had families, wish to change but are not sure how, and may require a host of support services and various degrees of connectivity to, or freedom from, the traditional bricks and mortar institution called college.

HC: Are all the people who should be taking advantage of this doing so? If not, why not?

CB: We face a lot of the same challenges the four-years do. We can always use and accommodate more students. And there are misconceptions out there that keep good students away.

HC: Such as?

CB: The biggest one I deal with is the concept that college isn’t for everyone. College is for everyone. It’s just a different definition of college. High school students, even the ones with good career pathways, really aren’t prepared to go directly into the workplace. So we become the 13th or 14th year, a skill center.

HC: How about private sector assistance? Seems like you do a lot for this community.

CB: We’ve been innovative.

We’ve gone from about 80 percent of our funding coming from the state sources in the 1980s, we’re down to about 50 percent now. We’ve become more entrepreneurial. Corporate training has to net out some revenue.

We have a lot more self-support. Our cafeteria has to pay for itself now, through catering. We’ve created more room rentals, which is a revenue generator. And this is one area where my own business experience, entrepreneurial experience, can really help us, I think.

High schools give very little focus to technical and vocational skills these days, and we can provide that. Another thing I see in our community is the myth that college is for rich people. They don’t understand that financial aid, Pell Grants, are available out there, that financial aid is generally available for most people, and in some cases nearly free.

HC: Still, your enrollments are booming, are they not? We hear it’s the two-years taking students away from the big guys?

HC: The Seattle Times recently said that over half of Washington students miss out on financial aid because they simply don’t know about the opportunities, or are daunted by the FAFSA form?

CB: Not really. The good economy these days actually hurts our enrollment. We’re counter-cyclical.

When the economy is down people come back to school for retraining. When it’s up our numbers tend to go down.

CB: Yes. And that’s just some simple communication and career guidance in high school. The other thing we struggle with is the notion that ‘I’m not college material.’ I can’t tell you how many people that come here in their thirties think that and they end up being some of our best students.

HC: Current enrollments?

CB: We’re about fifty-fifty part time and full time. We’re two-thirds women, one-third men, in terms of our student body. And we have about 3,000 FTE. The total head count, full time plus part time, is more like 5,000, which is about five percent of our district, which we’re proud of.

HC: You seem to work hard creating comfort zones. cont page 20

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CB: We’re all about the student experience. We want prospective students to visit, with their friends, get a warm reception and not be intimidated. That they can come to college and excel. Make sure their interactions are positive, because they’re vulnerable.

And this is a critical juncture in their life: That single decision to come to college can influence them, and generations in their families to come.

CB: What’s cool about customized training is that the entity, the local organization, gets to say, ‘Here’s what we want, here are the things that are pertinent to our organization.’ They can do more training and education, with fewer dollars, no plane flights to Chicago, and those dollars stay in the community.

HC: Doesn’t this trend isolate students from their professors and the course experience you’re trying to create, this connectivity?

HC: Do you really think you can succeed in bridging this “skills gap” industry complains about?

CB: We already are. It starts with career guidance in high school that represents to kids what real careers, CB: Just the opposite. Most of our online students not just jobs, require. wish to take And then, yes, we courses from our want the STEM own instructors subjects, but I tell because they you the real need can go see them Fun at Ape Cave is they also want if they have a good attitudes and soft skills. They want discipline, showing up for work on time, common courtesy.

HC: How do you do both — create this warm abode for students but give them all these additional options, some of which don’t even require them showing up on campus?

CB: We call it connectivity. It’s possible to get a four-year business degree here and never even set foot on the campus. But you can still be connected, in all sorts of ways.

HC: So online programs are doing well?

CB: Online is the one area that has been increasing, even in this g o o d e c o n o m y. Te n years ago nobody wanted online. Not enough q u a l i t y, n o t s e r v i n g students, Internet and connection problems.

Then about five to six years ago we saw hybrid really taking off. People

HC: Music to my ears, as a liberal arts communications guy. problem. And they want to be connected to the campus, and to the administration, in case they have a complaint or concern.

H C : I teach an online course through WSU, and there’s a raging debate over certifications versus regular course credits. Do you get any of that here?

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liked the idea that they could come in one to two days a week and then do the rest of the work online, because it’s convenient for time and place. That’s particularly true if you’re a 30-year-old parent who works, for instance. Our online courses are the first to fill up.

CB: Probably less so, in that community colleges have always been more adaptable to supplementing other college work, or workplace demands.

And we’re probably closer to the employers and workplaces. Their corporate training directors work with us to develop hybrids. They can offer a mixture of conventional for-credit courses, certificate courses, or even onsite “boot camp” style training we help devise for them.

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The Natural World

Lookee Here!

Robert Michael Pyle is a naturalist and writer residing along Gray’s River in Wahkiakum County for many years. His twentytwo books include the Northwest classics Wintergreen, Sky Time in Gray’s River, and Where Bigfoot Walks, as well as The Thunder Tree, Chasing Monarchs, and Mariposa Road, a flight of butterfly books, and two collections of poems. His newest titles are Butterflies of the Pacific Northwest and Magdalena Mountain: a novel, released in August 2018.

By Dr. Robert Michael Pyle

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y grandfather, Robert Campbell Pyle, was famous for finding money. Each year, the Rocky Mountain News reported how much Mr. Pyle had found since the previous dispatch, usually $200 to $300. Then he would break the take out of his plastic baseball banks and old socks, depositing equal shares in his grandkids’ savings accounts.

GrandPop didn’t go in for a metal detector, nor did he turn up any Spanish gold coins or Confederate scrip from old attics. For him, it was nickels and dimes, quarters and pennies, and very rarely a half or silver dollar, plucked from the streets of Denver.

I remember GrandPop in white shirt, straw hat, and watch chain, and usually a coat and tie except on very hot days, looking down, stooping over, and always coming up with a coin. Strolling in City Park or idling between his boarding house and favorite cafes on Colfax Avenue in East Denver, he was ever watchful for loose change stuck in the hot asphalt

or lurking in a sidewalk crack with the cheeseweed and gum wrappers. Every find was met by the same exclamation, along with a slight chuckle of satisfaction: “Well, lookee here!”

I thought that was just his saying, until much later when I recognized “lookee” as a contraction of “Look ye,” the old formal English having hung on in GrandPop’s Kentucky long after it dissipated elsewhere. I was awed by his money-finding, and believed it a matter of luck. Now that I find myself copying his habit, I realize that my grandfather’s success owed mostly to the simple act of paying attention.

Vladimir Nabokov said “It is astounding how little the ordinary person notices butterflies.” For animals equipped with remarkable sensory tools — less acute of eye than falcons, of ear than cats, of nose than

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dogs, but still darn sharp — we are an oblivious lot. Just as I missed the tarnished dimes and dull nickels that caught GrandPop’s eye, and others often overlook the butterflies I spy as a matter of course, many people are blindered to much of what goes on around them. Nabokov’s plaint might well be rephrased to say “it is astounding how little the ordinary person notices anything.”

You may simply say “search image” and dismiss it at that, and to some degree you’d be right: by honing our ability to pick out certain forms, we succeed in spotting the desired objects more often—as people do with birds, or scarce Model A parts at flea markets. It is also true that some people are naturally more observant than others. Take the journal artist Hannah Hinchman. When groups hike with her, they are routinely abashed and delighted by the elements of the landscape that her eyes tease from the whole. Of course, this trait improves both her art and her effectiveness as a naturalist. Such perceptivity serves the writer’s task as well. No one’s poems, essays, stories, and novels are more richly dressed in nuance than those of Nabokov, who exalted the “individuating detail” in service to his art: as Humbert and Lolita passed through all those motorcourts, the American landscape rolled by in the

first-person particular, trained under the same microscope that the author brought to bear upon butterfly scales.

But most of us, by editing out the clutter of modern culture, miss the good stuff too. When Starbucks logos eclipse backyard beetles, birds of passage, even the stars themselves, the natural world becomes a quaint abstraction, of little familiarity or value. “Unreal,” you might say—as one gentleman recently described a spectacular canyon we were both regarding. And when people do take note of something common but wonderful, they often conclude that it must be “unique,” or “extraordinary,” or even “a mutant.” Every spring someone brings me a “new” butterfly, which invariably turns out to be the handsome but abundant inchworm moth, Mesoleuca gratulata. I too am stunned now and then by some natural feature that had to be there all along — a beetle, a lichen — unable to accept that I have missed it until now.

Not many of us will ever acquire GrandPop’s preternatural eye for small metallic disconformities on the city streets. But just as the scales fell away from Saul’s eyes, restoring his vision, we too could rediscover the gift of sight. This matter is of no little consequence. What we truly see, we have a chance of loving; and what we love, we might hold dear.

No, I’ll never be the money-finder GrandPop was; usually I pull in five or ten bucks a year, unless I make a lucky connection with a stray greenback or two. But peering closely at the ground as well as the sky, watching for shiny Ikes, Abes, Toms, and Georges, I also see the flowers that flout the concrete’s ban and the cities of ants below our own. I want to make things real. I want to live in a world that’s not beneath our notice. I want to say “lookee here!” every time I open my eyes.

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ast summer, I was asked to prepare a talk about beneficial insects. I’d read about them, but had never taken the time to look beyond a lady beetle or green lacewing in my garden. After doing a little more digging, I discovered that most of the beneficial insect predators that control garden pests are very tiny and are nearly invisible among your plants unless you’re looking for them.

So, armed with a magnifying glass, camera, and free WSU beneficial insect ID booklet (search online WSU EM067E), I headed to my garden for a good-bug safari.

I found a boatload of minute pirate bugs, only about 1/8 inch long, hiding on a fuzzy stem. A flock of tiny 3/8 inch bumblebee-striped hover flies were frenetically jockeying for position around a cluster of broccoli blossoms, and a little alligator-shaped ladybug larva was delicately munching on an appetizer of aphids. A word to the wise—learn to recognize the immature forms of the beneficial insects so you don’t mistakenly kill them.

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This will help you make the least toxic choice and minimize harm to bees and other pollinators.

Have I convinced you to welcome beneficial insects and pollinators to your garden this summer? Here’s how to do it: Add an Insectary Garden bed.

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I planted a row of sweet alyssum in a bed about 20 feet from my vegetable garden last year. When they bloomed, they were just buzzing with hover flies and tiny metallic parasitoid wasps (they don’t sting). Both are fierce garden predators. And my garden was never healthier!

So start planning now. Not only will you have a welcoming colorful oasis for beneficial insects, but it’s a great conversation starter for visitors to your garden. Tell them about your Insectary Garden. Spread the word— the more good guys out there, the less pest problems we’ll all have in our garden beds!

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BESIDES COLUMBIA RIVER READER...

What are you reading?

By Alan Rose

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always enjoy hearing of books that people are excited about, especially titles that I’m unfamiliar with.

(Note: If you’re one of those people who are distressed by sentences that end in prepositions, you probably shouldn’t read any further.)

Sharon Jeffries is excited about Barbara Ann Kipfer’s 14,000 Things To Be Happy About. The book is a list of happy places, things, people and ideas that Kipfer compiled over a 20-year period.

First written in 1990, a new version appeared in 2014. “I discovered it in 1995 and have read all of its 612 pages three times,” says Sharon. She calls it a “little compact book of happy.”

“Every time I read it, I use a different colored highlighter to highlight a particular word or idea that touches me, so it’s been fun to re-read it every few years and see what those pages have meant to me.”

It’s also a book that doesn’t need to be read in any particular order. “You can pick it up and flip to any page, and

Sharon Jeffries is a native of Longview.

A retired hairdresser, she loves spending her time reading, gardening, making all kinds of art, and supporting local arts programs, including WordFest.

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you’re pretty much guaranteed a smile.

Who wouldn’t love that!”

Sharon thinks this book would appeal to people of all ages, genders and reading habits. “I love to read, but I don’t always feel like diving into a long story book. This is perfect for those times. I’ve gifted this book to everyone I love (Thank you, Paperbacks Galore for always being so prompt in ordering for me!), especially if I know someone’s going through a rough time. It’s a book I wish I could fill up my trunk with and randomly hand out! This book is a perpetual favorite and will always have a place on my bookshelf.”

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Entering a different mythological universe

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marketing. Black Leopard, Red Wolf belongs much more to the world of folklore, fairy tale and myth than to HBO’s popular medieval fantasy series. The main character is Tracker (the Red Wolf of the title), a famous hunter who has a nose that allows him to follow anyone’s scent. He is charged to find a mysterious missing boy. He opens the story announcing, “The child is dead. There is nothing left to know.” Then the book continues for 600+ pages telling us the nothing there is to know.

One is entering into a very different universe from the Greek, Roman and Norse mythologies that Western readers will be familiar with. James weaves African folklore and myths without many of the tropes that are stock in trade for the fantasy genre— kings and queens and wizards and so forth. Here there are amazing and unsettling creatures, shape-shifting characters whose personalities shift as well as their bodies, where good and evil and maybe-good play out in ways differently than expected.

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n 2015, Marlon James became the first Jamaican author to win the prestigious Man Booker Prize.

His novel, A Brief History of Seven Killings, is a sprawling, complex tale surrounding the 1976 attempt on Bob Marley’s life.

For his next work, James said he wanted to write “the African Game of Thrones.” While that may not be an accurate description of this book, he nonetheless gets points for shrewd

Alan Rose, author of The Legacy of Emily H a r g r a v e s , Ta l e s of Tokyo, and The Unforgiven, organizes the monthly WordFest events and hosts the KLTV program “Book Chat.” For other book reviews, author interviews, and notes on writing and reading, visit www.alan-rose.com.

Tracker’s tale has an earthy rawness that also resembles many myths and fairy tales before being bowdlerized by the Victorians and sanitized by Disney. Anyone who has read the

Leopard to take me out and teach me archery. All I learned was that I should try something else. Now I throw the hatchet…

“During my ithwasa, my master told me that I would see far. Too far,” the Sangoma said.

“Close your eyes, then.”

“You need to respect your elders.”

“I will, when I meet elders I can respect.”

“It is a bawdy planet,” noted Shakespeare, and like many of the ancient myths, James doesn’t skirt around the fact. Clearly, unlike The Hobbit and The Chronicles of Narnia, this isn’t a fantasy epic to read to children before bedtime.

Black Leopard, Red Wolf is not a quick or easy read, but it affords the reader entry into a very different mythological universe where the unfamiliar accosts one on every page.

And, honestly, shouldn’t fantasy worlds be truly strange and unnerving?

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original fairy tales collected by the Brothers Grimm knows they are often…well, grim. They can be bloody and violent, with children who are eaten, stepmothers who should have been reported to CPS, and evil witches who are seriously evil.

James does not apologize for the “gleeful profanity” of his work. He has stated, “I think violence should be violent,” and he scorns the way sex is often portrayed in literary fiction: suggestive rather than explicit, or altogether avoiding it with a discreet ellipsis (…), what he calls “spacebreak sex.”

April 9 • Cassava 1333 Broadway Longview

SECOND TUESDAY

www.alan-rose.com

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Outings & Events

Performing & Fine Arts Music, Art, Theatre, Literary Submission Guidelines Letters to the Editor (up to 200 words) relevant to the publication’s purpose — helping readers discover and enjoy the good life in the Columbia River region, at home and on the road — are welcome. Longer pieces, or excerpts thereof, in response to previously-published articles, may be printed at the discretion of the publisher and subject to editing and space limitations.

Items sent to CRR will be considered for publication unless the writer specifies otherwise. Writer’s name and phone number must be included; anonymous submissions will not be considered.

Political Endorsements CRR is a monthly publication serving readers in several towns, three counties, two states and beyond and does not publish Letters to the Editor that are endorsements or criticisms of political candidates or controversial issues. (Paid ad space is available.)

Unsolicited submissions may be considered, provided they are consistent with the publication’s purpose. Advance contact with the editor is recommended.

Information of general interest submitted by readers may be used as background or incorporated in future articles.

Outings & Events calendar (free listing): Events must be open to the public. Non-profit organizations and the arts, entertainment, educational and recreational opportunities and community cultural events will receive listing priority. Fundraisers must be sanctioned/sponsored by the benefiting non-profit organization. Businesses and organizations wishing to promote their particular products or services are invited to purchase advertising (contact info, page 3).

FIRST THURSDAY • April 4 Broadway Gallery Enjoy refreshments and meet guest artist Robert Stoe (Indian art) and gallery member/featured artist, Debra Chase. New paintings and monoprints.

Reception, 5:30-7:30pm.

Music: by John Crocker, guitar and vocals www.the-broadway-gallery.com 1418 Commerce Ave. Downtown Longview, Wash.

McThread’s Through Mar 29, feature Artists Joan Hitchcock and Sue Wachter, with silk textiles. Free demo, 9:30am. Mar. 16: Nuno felting with Linda McCord, must register. One day only sale on anything green. Refreshments served.

1233 Commerce Ave., Longview, Wash.

360-261-2373.

Across the River Cowlitz County Historical Museum 405 Allen St, Kelso, Wash.

Tsuga Gallery Fine arts and crafts by area artists. Thurs-Sat 11–5. 70 Main Street, Cathlamet, Wash. 360-795-0725.

7pm Program: Tyler Stockton, who is researching local bands & music from the 1950s to the present, will share his findings so far, related to the 1960s, including audio cuts from local bands, band member rosters, etc. We’ll learn about the area’s rich history of bands — some wellknown and some not-so-much — in this unique program!

Redmen Hall History and art. 1394 SR-4, Skamokawa, Wash. Thurs-Sun, 12-4pm.

Info: 360-795-3007 or email fos1894@ gmail.com.

Original • Local HOW TO PUBLICIZE YOUR NON-PROFIT EVENT IN CRR Send your noncommercial community event’s basic info (name of event, sponsor, date & time, location, brief description and contact info) to publisher@ crreader.com Or mail or hand-deliver (in person or via mail slot) to: Columbia River Reader 1333-14th Ave Longview, WA 98632

Broadway Gallery Artists co-op. Classes for all ages, workshops and paint parties.

Featured artists: March: guest artist Mary Duvall (paintings), gallery member/ Japanese artist Masami Kusakabe (jewelry & paper art); April: gallery member Debra Chase (paintings). Hours: MonFri 10-5:30, Sat 10–4. 1418 Commerce, Longview, Wash. 360-577-0544. www. the-broadway-gallery.com.

Celebrating the good life Spreading good cheer Exploring our world Lifelong learning / thinking is a good thing!

Submission Deadlines Events occurring April 15 – May 20:

by Mar 25 for April issue.

Events occurring: May 15 – June 20:

by April 25 for June 15 issue.

Calendar submissions are considered for inclusion, subject to lead time, general relevance to readers, and space limitations. See Submission Guidelines, above.

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Community Arts Workshop/Alcove Gallery with volunteer instructors and a variety of arts and crafts materials available. Free. Located in the CAP building,1526 Commerce, Longview, Wash. Open Mon–Thurs 12–3:30pm. For more info: 360-425-3430 x 306, or email capartsworkshop@gmail.com.

Koth Gallery, Longview Public Library Glass Case ~ March: George Long; April: Cowlitz Coin Club. Gallery ~ March: Greg Bradshaw; April: Karen Jones. 1600 Louisiana Street, Longview, Wash. MonWed 10am-8pm, Thurs-Sat 10am-5pm.

Info: Daniel, 360-442-5307.

Cow litz Valley Old Time Music Association Music jam night with open mic, 7–9pm, 1st, 3rd and 5th Fridays, Catlin Grange, 205 Shawnee, Kelso, Wash.

Primary instruments: guitar, mandolin, banjo, fiddle, piano, accordion. Traditional country and/or bluegrass. Dance floor open. Info: Archie Beyl, 360-636-3835.

“Hatari” starring John Wayne, Elsa Martinelli, and Red Buttons. Monthly movie presented by Friends of the Library at Kalama (F.O.L.K.) Monday, Mar. 18, 1:00pm in the city council chamber at the Kalama Public Library, 312 North 1st Street, Kalama, Wash. Free and open to the public. Donations to F.O.L.K. to benefit the Kalama Public Library will be gratefully accepted. Info: Kalama Public Library, 360-673-4568.

Call to Artists During May, Columbian Artists Association is hosting their 43rd Spring Art Show at the Rose Center for the Arts Gallery. Two judges will award cash, ribbons and Sponsor prizes.

Artists over the age of 18 are invited to participate. More details, entry forms and prospectus are at: columbianartists.org.

Book Sale by Friends of the Library at Kalama. Mar. 22-23, 10am–4pm. Kalama Public Library, 321 N. 1st St., Kalama, Wash. Hardcovers $1, paperbacks 50¢, childrens’ books 25¢. Large bag “youpick-em” $5. Donations invited, proceeds support Kalama Library. Info: 360-6734568.

Columbia Theatre for the Performing Arts season underway. See ad, facing page.

Outings & Events

Recreation, Outdoors Gardening, History, Pets, Self-Help Cowlitz County Museum Open Tues-Sat 10am–4pm. 405 Allen St, Kelso, Wash. www.co.cowlitz.wa.us/museum. Info: 360577-3119. April 4, 7pm program: Tyler Stockton, local music research (see First Thurs. sidebar, page 26.)

Wahkiakum County Historical Society Museum Logging, fishing and cultural displays. Open 1-4pm, Th-Sun. 65 River St, Cathlamet, Wash. For info 360-7953954.

Appelo Archives Center Historic exhibits, Naselle-Grays River area. 1056 State Route 4, Naselle. T-Fri 10–4, Sat 10–2, or by appt.

360-484-7103. appeloarchives.org.

Helping Hungry Children and Youth in Cowlitz County Community forum with facts, stories, resources. Mar .18, 5:30–7:30, McClelland Arts Center, sponsored by Evangelical Lutheran Church Hunger Grant and Bethany Lutheran Church.

More info: barbarajclausen@comcast.net.

Emergency Support Shelter Fund-raising Breakfast Mar. 20, 7:30am (seating begins 7am) Cowlitz County Expo Center. Seats must be reserved in advance. Suggested donation $50, all proceeds support programs and work of ESS. To host your own table or reserve a seat please contact Sherrie Tinoco, 360-353-5777 ext 17 or email sherriet@esshelter.com.

Lewis County Youth Talent Show Auditions Mar. 21, 6–9pm and Mar./ 23, 10am–3pm, Liberty Theatre, 413 N. Tower Ave., Centralia. Age categories and sign-up info: centraliafoxtheatre. com. Talent Show, April 13, 6pm, Liberty Theatre. Proceeds benefit ongoing restoration of the Historic Fox Theatre and missions of local Kiwanis and Soroptimist Clubs.

The Mad Hatter Masquerade Ball Mar. 23, Cowlitz County Event Center.

Fundraiser for Dino Doozer Foundation. $60 per person, incl. dinner. Tickets at Kerr Car Care , 504 West Main St. Kelso, Wash. or via text 360-270-2788. Info: dinodoozerfoundation.ejoin.org\2019, or call 360-270-2788.

Advance tickets only, at Lgv Sewing & Kitchen, 1113 Vandercook Way, Longview, or online until sold out, $20 or $18 each for three or more. Visit www.CowlitzCounty.RoyalFamilyKIDS. org or call 971-225-7352 for details and ticket info.

P.E.O. Mother’s Day Garden Sale May 9–11 (Thurs 4–7pm; Fri 9am–6pm, Sat 9am–4pm). Cowlitz Expo Floral Bldg, 1900 7th Ave., Longview, Wash. Large hanging baskets, planters, birdhouses, vegetable and herb gardens, shabby chic, painted furniture and more. Cash, check and credit card. No early sales. Presented

by Chapter CO members. Proceeds for scholarships for future education of women. Info: Terri, 360-425-5820.

FROM THE PET DEPT

CASA Gala & Auction April 27, Cowlitz County Event Center. Tickets $75; buy online at cowlitzcountycasa.org or at office. Info: Christy Grubbs, 360-4145122.

~Smokey Man in the Kitchen’s cat

Lake Sacajawea Kids’ Fish-In April 27.

Register early! See story, page 12.

Royal Tea Party fundraiser and silent auction April 28, 1:30–3:30pm, Youth & Family Link, Longview, Wash. Benefits Royal Family KIDS, a free summer camp/mentor club for abused/ neglected children in local foster care system.

GARDENING EVENTS OSU Extension/Columbia County. Info: 503-397-3462 Beekeeping Workshop: “The Spring Build Up” Mar. 20, 6pm David Olson, author. The Pacific Northwest Garden Tour Mar. 28, 6:30pm.

Caring for your Large Pond April 6. Sauvie Island, 8:30–4. $30 Spring Native Plant Sale April 13. SBWC Nursery, 9-3.

WSU Extension/Cowlitz Master Gardeners. Info 360-577-3014 Spring Gardening presentation series Visit us at the Cowlitz Co. Fairgrounds Expo Center during the LCCA Home and Garden Show.

Saturday March 16, 9:30–2: Growing Vegetables, Where to Start; Extending the Gardening Season; Spice of Life (Growing Herbs); How to Grow a Red Tomato; Attracting Beneficial Insects with Plants Sunday March 17 11–1: Tips to Control Moles; Doit-Yourself “Irrigation;” Basics of Composting.

Have you hugged a lovable, furry creature lately? ~Ginger

Victoria Findlay’s dog

TAKE A

HIKE

with

Mt. St. Helens Club

This friendly club welcomes newcomers.

For more info please call the hike leader or visit mtsthelensclub.org.

RT(round trip) distances are from Longview.

E=easy, M=moderate, S=strenuous, e.g.=elevation gain.

Sat, Mar 16 Milo Melver State Park (M) Drive 142 miles RT. Hike 5.7-mile loop with 344 ft. e.g. along scenic Clackamas River. Leader: Bruce 360-425-0256.

Wed, Mar 20 Lake Sacajawea (E) Walk around the whole lake (3+miles) or walk half the lake (1+ mile). Leaders: Trudy and Ed, 360-414-1160.

Wed, Mar 27 Lucia Falls/Moulton Falls (E) Drive 93 miles RT. Hike 4.5 miles RT along the Lewis River. Great views of the river and falls. Leader: John R. 360-431-1122.

Sat, Mar 30 Maryhill Loops (M) Drive 300 miles RT. Hike 6 miles RT with 1,000 ft. e.g. on the first asphalt paved road in Washington (now closed to vehicles).

Open, scenic views of the Gorge. Leader: George W. 360-562-0001.

Wed, April 3 Mosier Twin Tunnels (E) Drive 190 miles RT. Hike 6–8 miles up and back on a paved trail with little e.g. Great views of the Gorge and Columbia River.

Leader: Pat D. 360-295-0570.

Sat, April 6 Multnomah-Wahkeena Falls Loop (ME) Drive 140 miles RT. Hike 5 mile loop with 1,600 ft. e.g. The classic and spectacular waterfalls (8 named falls) Gorge hike. Also, see the impact of the 2017 Eagle Creek fire. Leader: Mary Jane 360-355-5220.

Wed, April 10 Whipple Creek Nature Trail (E) Drive 65 miles RT. Hike a 3-mile loop with 110 ft. e.g. through forest and meadows. Leader: Bruce 360-425-0256.

Wed, April 13 Pacific Way Dike Hike (E) Hike/walk 3.2 to 5.2 miles RT on level gravel path. Leader: John R. 360-431-1122.

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Clatskanie Fultano’s Pizza 770 E. Columbia River Hwy Family style with unique pizza offerings, hot grill items & more!

Sun-Thurs 11am–9pm. Fri-Sat 11am–10pm.

503-728-2922

Ixtapa Fine Mexican Restaurant 640 E. Columbia River Hwy Fine Mexican cuisine. Daily specials.

The best margarita in town. Daily drink specials. Sports bar.

M-Th 11am–9:30pm; Fri & Sat 11am–11:30pm; Sun 11am–9pm. 503-728-3344

Rainier Alston Pub & Grub 25196 Alston Rd., Rainier 503-556-4213 11 beers on tap, cocktails.

Open daily 11am.

503-556-9753 See ad, page 10.

COLUMBIA RIVER

dining guide

Longview 716 Triangle Shopping Center. 18 rotating craft brews, pub fare. M-W 12 noon –9pm, Th-Sat 12 noon-11pm, Sun 12 Noon-8pm. 360-232-8283. Follow us on Untappd .

The Original Pietrio’s Pizzeria Homestyle cooking from the 1960s-1970. All natural ingredients. Beer and wine available.

Open Wed. thru Sun, 7am–8pm. 1140 15th Ave., Longview. See ad, page 10.

Evergreen Pub & Café 115-117 East 1st Street Burgers, halibut, prime rib, full bar.

503-556-9935. See ad, page 10.

Goble Tavern 70255 Columbia River Hwy. (Milepost 31, Hwy. 30) Food, beer & wine + full bar, Live entertainment. 503-556-4090.

See ad page 10.

Luigi’s Pizza 117 East 1st Street, Rainier 503-556-4213 Pizza, spaghetti, burgers, beer & wine.

See ad, page 10.

614 Commerce Ave., Longview. 18 varieties of pizza. Salad bar, Lunch buffet all-you-can-eat. Beer & wine.

Mon-Fri open 11am, Sat-Sun 12 Noon.

360-353-3512.

The Carriage Restaurant & Lounge

Full breakfast, lunch and dinner 6am– 9pm. Full bar in lounge, open 6am.

Three happy hours daily (8–10am, 12– 2pm, 5–7pm). Group meeting room, free use with $150 food/drink purchases.

1334 12th Ave. 360-425-8545.

Conestoga Pub Cornerstone Café 102 East “A” Street Microbrews, wines & spirits Prime rib Friday & Sat. Open M-F 6am–8pm; Sat-Sun 7am–8pm.

503-556-8772. See ad, page 11.

1260 Commerce Ave. Serving lunch & dinner Mon–Sat 11am–10pm. Full bar, banquet space, American comfort food. 360-703-3904. www.millcitygrill.com. See ad, page 8.

Country Folks Deli 1329 Commerce Ave., Longview. Serving lunch and dinner. Sandwiches, soups, salads. Open M-Sat 11am. 360-425-2837.

Freddy’s Just for the Halibut. Cod, halibut & tuna fish and chips, oysters & clams., award-winning clam chowder. Prime rib every Thurs. Beer and wine. M-W 10–8, Th-Sat 10–9, Sun 11–8.

1110 Commerce 360-414-3288.

See ad, page 13.

Hop N Grape 924 15th Ave., Longview M–Th 11am–8pm; Fri & Sat 11am– 9pm; Sun 11am–7pm. BBQ meat slowcooked on site. Pulled pork, chicken brisket, ribs, turkey, salmon. Worldfamous mac & cheese. 360-577-1541 See ad page 8

Masthead Castaways 1124 Washington Way, Longview.

Famous fish & chips, gourmet burgers, Chowders. 13 beers on tap. Extra parking in back.

360-232-8500.

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Porky’s Public House 561 Industrial Way, Longview Slow-roasted prime rib Fri & Sat, flat iron steaks, 1/3-lb burgers, fish & chips.

33 draft beers. Full bar. Family-friendly, weekly jazz and acoustic dinner hour sets on Weds. 360-636-1616. See ad, page 14.

360-967-2333

Toutle/Mt St Helens Fire Mountain Grill 9440 Spirit Lake Hwy, Milepost 19. Lunch & Dinner: Burgers, sandwiches, salads, steaks seafood, chicken & dumplings, housemade cobblers and infamous Bigfoot Burger. Riverside dining. Open 10am–8pm daily. 360-274-5217.

St. Helens, Oregon

Sunshine Pizza & Catering 2124 Columbia Blvd.

Hot pizza, cool salad bar. Beer & wine.

503-397-3211 See ad, page 12.

Scappoose Fultano’s Pizza 51511 SE 2nd.

Family style with unique pizza offerings, hot grill items & more! “Best pizza around!”

Sun–Th 11am–9pm; Fri-Sat 11am– 10pm. Full bar service ‘til 10pm Fri & Sat. Deliveries in Scappoose. 503-5435100.

Ixtapa Fine Mexican Restaurant

Red Kitchen 848 15th Ave., Longview. Cocktails, taps, vino. Traditional diner fare, breakfast, lunch, dinner. Sandwiches, burgers, funky comfort food, incl. Bacon Gouda Mac n Cheese, shepherd’s pie, healthy options. Full service bar, incl 12 taps. 7am–10pm, M-F, 8am–10pm Sat-Sun.

Roland Wines 1106 Florida St., Longview. Authentic Italian wood-fired pizza, wine, and beer.

Casual ambience. 5–9pm Wed-Sat. See ad, page 24.

33452 Havlik Rd. Fine Mexican cuisine.

Daily specials. The best margarita in town. Daily drink specials. M-Th 11am–9:30pm; Fri & Sat 11am–11:30pm; Sun 11am–9pm. 503-543-3017

Warren Warren Country Inn 56575 Columbia River Hwy. Fine family dining. Breakfast, lunch & dinner. Fri Prime Rib special, Taco Tuesday. Full bar. M-Th 8am–9:30pm, Fri-Sat 8am–10:30pm, Sun 9am–9pm.

Karaoke Fri & Sat.503-410-5479.

Woodland Teri’s 3225 Ocean Beach Hwy, Longview.

Lunch and dinner. Burgers, steak, seafood, pasta, specials, fresh NW cuisine. Happy Hour. Full bar. Sun-Mon 3–8pm. Tues–Sat 11:30am–9pm.. 360577-0717.

The Oak Tree 1020 Atlantic Ave., Woodland. Full breakfast, lunch and dinner menu. Fresh from scratch cooking. Great happy hour menu. Sun 7am–9pm, M-Th 8am–9pm, Fri-Sat 7am–10pm. 360-841-8567

Castle Rock Parker’s Restaurant & Brewery 1300 Mt. St. Helens Way. I-5 Exit 49.

Lunch, Dinner. Burgers, hand-cut steak; seafood and pasta. Restaurant opens 11am, Lounge 12 Noon. Closed Monday.

To advertise in Columbia River Dining Guide, call 360-749-2632

Blackwood on Movies

DOUBLE HEADER

“Fighting with My Family” and “Cold Pursuit”

E

By Dr. Bob Blackwood

ven if you don’t like professional wrestling, you may very well like “Fighting with My Family,” a PG-13 comedy about a family that actually brought their whole family into the wrestling ring. Yes, I know, it is not exactly the most elegant sport, and, speaking as someone who once did a story on professional wrestling in Indiana, I can tell you that it can be a very rough game, however choreographed you may think it is.

Director Stephen Merchant did a good job on the type of people who can be found not only in the rings of the U.S. and England but throughout Europe.

In this film, we see both men and women showing their talents on the canvas in England. The star in this family is Saraya “Paige” Knight, a very young still-teenaged woman played very competently by Florence Pugh.

As the film progresses, we see her take on the responsibilities of an adult who is worthy of bouncing around even the toughest competitors. We also get to know her entire family who has a very showbiz approach to a game that is often a bit rugged for any man or woman. At the beginning and ending

L

Director Steven Merchant, Florence Pugh, Dwayne Johnson. Universal Studios.

of the film, we see former wrestler Dwayne Johnson encouraging the young woman and others in the sometime dangerous sport (however formatted it may be). You get the feeling that for all the fooling around, there is also an element of physical challenge.

You can appreciate the laughs and the occasional touches of dangerous reality in this film. Give it a try if this knock-around humor is for you. If not, remember to keep your eyes open for Ms. Pugh in future films.

H

ans Petter Moland directed “Cold Pursuit” (R rated) with Liam Neeson and Laura Dern. Neeson is Nels Coxman, a snowplow driver in a Colorado town who is regarded as a pillar of his community and given an award for it. Soon, his son is killed by a drug gang over an alleged shortage in a coke shipment. Soon after, the boy’s mother (Dern) leaves her husband, unable to face her son’s death. This leaves Coxman to seek vengeance upon the gang, which is led by a seemingly well-to-do citizen who not only has a number of sleazy white dudes but also a group of Indians who are in the gang.

Dr. Bob Blackwood, professor emeritus of the City Colleges of Chicago, coauthored with Dr. John Flynn the book, Everything I Know about Life I Learned from James Bond. Mr. Blackwood lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Lower Columbia College to offer Bachelor of Applied Science in Teacher Education

As you might expect, Nels gets into the group of white dudes and begins slicing down their numbers.

Not satisfied with cleaning out the white trash, he also decides to find the leader of the drug gang. He is not satisfied with a few sleazebags; Nels wants the boss.

The boss is the well-dressed and affluent Trevor “Viking” Calcote (Tom Bateman). He appears to be a man who oppresses women as well as anyone else he can. I will leave you to judge what happens to the drug dealers. The Indians, who have some kind of decency, are oppressed by the white hoodlums. In the end, the chief sees some the error of some of his ways. It is a film that you may enjoy, but it is not for the little kids at all.

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ower Columbia College (LCC) will offer a Bachelor of Applied Science in Teacher Education (BAS-TE) beginning in Fall 2019.

This is the first degree for LCC at the applied bachelor’s degree level and prepares candidates for teaching positions in preschool through eighth grade. Students in the program can choose between certificated and non-certificated pathways.

Certificated students will be prepared to teach in Washington public schools, while non-certificated candidates will be prepared to teach in early childhood education in a variety of non-public school settings, including Head Start. The degree combines the knowledge earned from previous degrees, such as an Associate of Applied Science, with upper division (300 and 400 level) Teacher Education courses.

When it passed HB 1794 in 2005, the Washington State Legislature granted authority to the State Board for Community and Technical Colleges to select applied baccalaureate programs at designated community and technical colleges. As part of the 2010 System Design Plan legislation, the status of applied baccalaureate degrees offered

by Washington state’s community and technical colleges was changed from pilot to regular status.

In 2012, the Washington State legislature passed another bill authorizing all community and technical colleges to offer applied bachelor degree programs.

LCC’s new program will help meet the demand for elementary and pre-kindergarten teachers in the region. The program will also benefit prospective students in several ways.

• Studying close to home saves on expenses related to travel, room and board.

• Staying with LCC through the entire degree and credentialing process reduces stress related to applying to other institutions, and transferring credits and other information.

•Selecting the BAS-TE program provides maximum flexibility for future educators, who can choose between elementary education and early childhood education.

•Going to school in the community where you live and work increases exposure to prospective employers and job opportunities.

Prospective students can learn more about the new Bachelor of Applied Science in Teacher Education by visiting lowercolumbia.edu/bas-teachereducation. LCC is accredited by the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities (NWCCU), one of seven regional accreditation bodies in the United States. LCC’s service district includes Cowlitz and Wahkiakum counties.

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Miss Manners

the Lower Columbia

from page 5

At the end of the evening, after most of the guests had left, I went to the bar to assist the bartenders in packing up the liquor, and was surprised to find that both bottles of brandy were missing. The bartenders told me that they had not been emptied by the guests. The manager of the facility, which has excellent surveillance cameras, pulled the video of the bar area, and it showed that one of my dearest friends had taken both bottles. How do I — or should I — address this with my now soon-to-beformer “friend”?

GENTLE READER: Your stickyfingered friend clearly does not share your (or Miss Manners’) ideas about polite behavior. But you do have one thing in common: You are both in possession of guilty information, even if you, unlike your friend, have nothing with which to wash away the unpleasant taste left by such knowledge.

Commercial establishments routinely, and often understandably, install surveillance equipment, sometimes to protect their patrons and always to protect themselves.

But your spying on your friends ­— even your guilty ones — is not polite.

How, then, to correct the problem without admitting your own, lesser, transgression? Your first option is to admit the knowledge, but obfuscate how you came by it. “The establishment tells me you saved the brandies for me. Thank you so much! When can I come by to pick them up?”

Being more confrontational, this approach is more likely to go wrong, particularly if your friend has already disposed of the incriminating evidence. A gentler approach is to talk fondly of the party to your friend at the next social event, mentioning that your only disappointment was that the bartender told you that someone helped themselves to the bottles that you were hoping to share with your guests. This is unlikely to get your brandy back, but it may ruin the thief’s day.

••• Please send your questions to Miss Manners at her website, www. missmanners.com; to her email, dearmissmanners@gmail.com; or through postal mail to Miss Manners, Andrews McMeel Syndication, 1130 Walnut St., Kansas City, MO 64106.

Informer

by Perry Piper

Back in black (and white)

with preservation. Most would test the patience of modern audiences, but that is something we could all use — slowing down a bit and truly taking in an artform.

Even video games have experimented in black and white. Like Playdead’s 2010 game Limbo, available on every major gaming platform including computer and smartphone. Players move left and right across the screen in 2D through a spooky, isolating world avoiding various traps and solving puzzles in search of their sister. It’s very short at two to five hours depending on player skill, but has drawn rave reviews.

It mixes the eerie visual atmosphere, even adding film grain, with haunting sound design reminiscent of film noir.

The next time you want to pop in a movie, go on a photography tour or even play a video game, make it black and white.

T

he sentiment of modern culture seems to be that black and white anything is an obsolete version 1.0 stepping stone to the world of color, 3D and such things. But not only is this idea misguided from a classic art perspective, but the style of binary color has wonderful potential yet today.

During my two-phase photography course in high school, the first thing we learned was how to operate black and white Pentax film cameras and develop pictures in the dark room.

This was a meticulous and unforgiving class and many of my peers failed their first project, fumbling around in pitch black, missing even a single step and destroying their roll of pictures. The fact that each cylinder of film only had about 20 pictures meant that we had to thoroughly understand the variables of f-stop, shutter speed and artistic composition technique to make every shot count.

Having only two colors to work with forced us to hone in on pure style for our lessons. The rule of thirds is one of the core ideas we learned for creating images people are drawn to, rather than centering our subject — the first thing most people do. We imagined a three by three grid superimposed across our camera frame and lined that up the subject forming an L shape on the grid starting from one of the corners.

Pattern and negative space are other things drawn into focus through the use of black and white. Window shades can look rather dull in full color, but removing the rainbow transforms them into pickets silhouetted against

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Opening scene in Sin City

the bright sky. Someone sitting alone in a room can also be spotlighted in black, surrounded by a volume of mostly white walls.

In the realm of film, not only are classic black and white films like 12 Angry Men still important today, actually having acting and dialogue surpassing many of today’s films, but modern films are innovating with black and white with occasional color accentuations, like in Sin City, one of my favorite films, starring a huge array of A-list actors.

Frank Miller’s Sin City, while incredibly violent, uses the contrast of deep blacks and bright whites on modern TVs to set up some great shots and then highlights a character, for example by giving her a red dress, red lipstick and green eyes, as the film opens. Later, characters like Hartigan, played by Bruce Willis, and his love interest Nancy Callihan, (Jessica Alba), are typically in black and white, occasionally coming into golden natural tones before fading back to black and white. The villain, called Roark Junior, though, played by Nick Stahl, gets injured and returns as bright yellow, even bleeding that color, as well. Some characters have colored shoes and cars and for others, their blonde hair is highlighted.

After my trip to Japan, my family and I made a point to watch the top 10 classic Japanese films and it was surprising how good they are. Almost all are black and white, also having shaky camera pans and noticeable film frame scratches because of the age of the works and ongoing problems

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Astronomy

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By Greg Smith

s Elizabeth Bennett and Miss Bingley took a turn around the room with the center of their attention focused on Mr. Darcy, so the Earth and the moon have taken a turn around their orbit of the Sun, and spring is now upon us. The days are equal to the night and the warmth of the season is refreshing us from the snow and cold of the past months.

The stars, too, are letting us know that nicer days are ahead.

Once again, the spring constellations of Cancer, Leo and Virgo are taking over the central part of the night sky. As I have stated before, the lazy princess is lounging on the tail of her pet guardian lion. Virgo, the Virgin, or lazy princess, shows off her jewels.

These are the numerous galaxies that are strewn about her. Astronomically they are known as the Virgo Galaxy Cluster. These “jewels” seem to be flying up from her throat. It’s like her string of jewels broke and they went flying away. There are literally dozens of them. Some are visible with binoculars from a dark sky site, while more of them will be seen with a telescope of any size. The bigger the scope, the more of them you will see. Virgo will dominate the sky until May when the summer constellations begin to make their appearance.

The dim constellation of Cancer, the Crab, which is high in the southern sky, has at its heart the open star cluster known as M44, the Beehive.

With just your eyes this can be seen as a hazy patch at the heart of the Crab, but is fully seen in binoculars looking like a swarm of bees flying around its hive. Cancer sits between Gemini’s bright star Pollux and Leo’s bright Regulus and the Beehive is right in the middle. It is one of the closest star clusters in the night sky at about 580 light years away.

Let’s not forget the brightest star in the spring sky, Arcturus, as it rises very high in the night sky. When you see that very bright star, it is not Venus but Arcturus shining at -0.1 (the smaller the number the brighter the object) only 36 light years away.

Venus is rising in the morning at this time.

We have lost an intrepid explorer, one who has gone far beyond what was asked of it. Opportunity, the

Mars rover, died in the latest dust storm. It was built to run for only 90 days and went on to crawl across the dusty plains of Mars for almost 15 years; that is about 60 times longer than its expected lifetime. Its twin, the rover Spirit, lasted longer than 6 years; still way beyond its expected lifetime. The engineers who built them should be proud of the work they did in their design and construction.

We taxpayers, who forked over the money for them, have really gotten our money’s worth.

Have you heard the latest? NASA wants to have private space companies launch and land exploratory equipment, prospecting gear and other materials on the Moon’s surface so as to have equipment on site before the return of astronauts around 2028.

This has got to be big news, as it shows that lunar exploration and settlement is getting off to a serious start. NASA realizes that not all lunar landings may be successful, but the lessons learned will lead to the safe landing of human explorers on the moon. Who knows, there may even be self-erecting buildings in place for the explorers to walk right into and begin living there. The first launches are hoped to take place by the end of this year! The following comes from NASA Headquarters in DC: “This time, when we go to the moon we’re going to stay...we’re not going back to the moon to leave flags and footprints and then not go back for another 50 years. We’re going to go sustainably. To stay; with landers and robots and rovers — and humans.” ~NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine to a roomful of space industry representatives, Feb. 14, 2019.

SKY REPORT / FRIENDS OF GALILEO

March 15–April 15

By Ted Gruber Evening Sky Mars becomes visible high in the southwestern sky as darkness falls.

Although nowhere near as bright as it was last summer, the red planet is still easy to spot, and only dims very slightly over the next month. Mars remains visible until setting in the west around 11:30pm.

In late March and early April, Mars passes near the Pleiades star cluster, also known as Messier 45 (M45) or the Seven Sisters. People frequently mistake the Pleaides for the Little Dipper, but the Little Dipper (Ursa Minor) is located farther north (higher) on the sky dome and spans a larger swath of the sky. Mars makes its closest apparent approach to the Pleiades the evenings of March 29 and 30.

Between April 6 and 9, Mars appears roughly halfway between the Pleiades and the red giant star Aldebaran, which will be slightly brighter than Mars. A crescent moon joins this trio the evening of April 8.

Morning Sky Jupiter, Saturn, and Venus are easily visible in the pre-dawn southeastern sky. Jupiter rises first, just past 3:00am in mid-March, followed by Saturn a little after 5:00am. Both planets rise earlier each morning, so you’ll be able to see them about two hours earlier by mid-April. Venus rises last, about 6:30am in mid-March. Like Jupiter and Saturn, Venus also rises a bit earlier each morning, but not by as much – about 30 minutes earlier by mid-April.

The three planets appear evenly spaced apart in mid-March. Venus, the brightest of the three, appears farthest east. Jupiter, the second brightest, appears farthest west. Fainter Saturn lies between them. And the morning of March 29 presents a special treat when a crescent moon appears just southeast (to the lower left of) Saturn.

Mercury returns to the morning sky in early April. Look for the innermost planet low to the horizon just east of Venus about 30 minutes before sunrise. The morning of April 11 presents the best viewing opportunity, but even then Mercury only reaches 4° above the eastern horizon.

Lyrid Meteor Shower The Lyrid meteor shower is active from April 14 to 30, peaking the night of April 21-22. I’ll have more info about the Lyrids in next month’s column.

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Kelso resident Ted Gruber makes a regular report to fellow members of Friends of Galileo, a familyfriendly astronomy club which meets monthly in Longview. For info about FOG, visit friendsofgalileo.com.

This is quite the bold statement. Now Congress must get behind the idea and provide the continuing funding for this forward-thinking project.

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Greg Smith is the president of Friends of Galileo, now in its 23rd year. For info about FOG, visit friendsofgalileo.com.

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UIPS & QUOTES

Selected by Debra Tweedy

People will forget what you said.

People will forget what you did.

But people will never forget how you made them feel. ~Maya Angelou, 1928-2014, American writer

Being powerful is like being a lady.

If you have to tell people that you are, you aren’t. ~Margaret Thatcher, 1925-2013, British stateswoman and Prime Minister

Self-control is strength. Calmness is mastery. You have to get to a point where your mood doesn’t shift based on the insignificant actions of someone else. Don’t allow others to control the direction of your life. Don’t allow your emotions to overpower your intelligence. ~Morgan Freeman, 1937–, American actor Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power. ~Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1865, 16th President of the United States

You must not lose faith in humanity.

Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty. ~Mahatma Gandhi, 18691948, leader of Indian independence movement against British rule

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived—that is to have succeeded. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882, American writer and philosopher

I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, “If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.” ~Kurt Vonnegut, 1922-2007, American writer

A library is a focal point, a sacred place to a community, and its sacredness is its accessibility, its publicness. It’s everybody’s place. ~Ursula K. Le Guin, 1929-2018, American fantasy/science fiction author Debra Tweedy was born and raised in Longview and has lived on four continents. Recently retired, she and her husband decided to return to her hometown and bought a house facing Lake Sacajawea.

“We came back because of the Lake and the (Longview Public) Library,” she said.

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Where are the camels? Kalama resident Laurel Murphy and her sister, Joyce Ebbert, of White Salmon, Wash., on a tour of Egypt in Dec. 2018. They are shown here, not on camels by the pyramids, but in front of the Temple of Horos at Edfu, halfway between Aswan and Luxor (their tour included a 3-day cruise on the Nile.)

“We are standing in front of the sculpture of Horos, the falcon-god,” Laurel commented.

“This was the first year that tourism has come back to Egypt since the Arab Spring in 2012 and I think the government is underwriting the tours because it was cheap and we had great food and accommodations. And lots of security. I have been urging people to go to Egypt because the price is right and the temples and tombs are magnificent.

Unfortunately a small tour group from Thailand was hit with a roadside bomb in Cairo near the pyramids (4 killed, 10 injured.) By the next day, the military dictator Sisi had killed 40 terrorists and blamed it on the Muslim Brotherhood. Sisi is also publicly complaining that Egyptians are too fat.”

Lunchtime reading at Zion National Park, Utah That’s Capt. Jack in the middle Dale Saran, Delores Rodman, of Scottsdale, Ariz., and Tom Tomjack, of Bend, Ore., at Kona on the Big Island, Hawaii.

Left to right. back row: Cheryl Risner, of Longview, Wash.; Harvey and Linda Redmond and Vonda and Tom McFadden, of Kelso. Front row: Shirley and John Simpson, Kelso. Wash.

Photo by Jack Risner.

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the spectator by ned piper LCJC and me

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don’t know how many times over the years I’ve told friends, and even a few strangers, that if it hadn’t been for Lower Columbia College I may not have gotten a college education.

Upon graduating from R.A. Long, a fair number of my classmates were getting jobs at Longview Fibre, Weyerhaeuser, or Reynolds Aluminium. Others had been accepted into four year colleges. I envied those who were leaving Longview to attend the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington State in Pullman or schools in California and Arizona.

The cost to attend a four year college in the late ‘50s or early ‘60s, though miniscule compared to the tuition today’s students have to pay, was more than my family could afford.

ENJOY THE EXPERIENCE

DELIGHT IN THE RESULT

I had no choice but to “settle” for enrollment at Lower Columbia Junior College, as it was called in 1959. LCJC, derisively referred to as “Last Chance Junior College.”

As it turned out, I got a fabulous education at LCJC. Smaller class sizes allowed students to receive personal attention from the instructors. I remember taking a class later at the University of Washington with 180 students filling an auditorium-sized classroom. Did I ever have the opportunity to approach the instructor with a question? Fat chance.

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When I attended Lower Columbia, the campus consisted of a building filled with classrooms, a building containing the music and drama departments, the student center and an administration office building. Over the years I’ve been pleased and amazed at how the campus has grown and flourished.

It is a beautiful showpiece in our community!

Along with the Columbia Theatre for the Performing Arts and Stageworks Northwest, Lower Columbia College takes its place as a cultural center for the region.

In addition, offering the pursuit of four-year degrees through its new program offerings and affiliations with four year schools and opening the door to students from foreign countries has greatly broadened the scope of the college.

I am pleased that Sue and our friend Hal Calbom decided to focus this month’s People + Place feature on my alma mater.

••• Longview native Ned Piper enjoys reading, writing, putzing in the yard, watching all manner of TV sports, and schmoozing with CRR advertisers and readers.

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owlitz PUD spends the entire year preparing for potential storm events. Whether it be through vegetation management, tree trimming, improvements to our infrastructure and consistent communication with our teams, who so heavily rely on each other to keep your power on. Just like we practice outage scenarios within our Utility, we are also prepared to assist our neighboring counties when needed.

Fortunately, for Cowlitz County, we have not faced any significant outages this season (fingers crossed) but we have had the opportunity to send our crews out to help both Lewis and Lane County with their storm damage this winter season.

In addition to the emails and facebook messages we are receiving from thankful Lane County residents, there are some incredible before and after photos from our crews who continue to work around the clock to restore the power to the nearly 75% of the homes who have been without power for over a week.

As a community, we are lucky to have avoided some of these weather events. As customers, we are also lucky to know that we have neighboring utilities who will send crews to help when help is needed.

The true heroes here are our linemen, who are on call 24 hours a day, seven days a week. On the back page of this CRR issue is one of our crew foreman, Craig Titus working to restore power along the McKenzie River.

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