CRR June 2021

CRREADER.COM Vol. XVIII, No. 190 • June 15, 2021 • COMPLIMENTARY Helping you discover and enjoy the good life in the Columbia River region at home and on the road

Chinook Tribal Recognition Efforts Resume page 13

The Tuaca Lemon Drop Tracy Beard’s Favorite Summer Cocktail page 14

People+ Place

Jim LeMonds

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What really — truly — happened during those final wind-blown, rain-soaked thirty days of the Lewis and Clark Expedition’s trek to the Pacific? Southwest Washington author and explorer Rex Ziak revolutionized historical scholarship by providing the answers: day by day and week by week. We’re delighted to offer In Full View, and Rex’s other two books, one with an extraordinary fold-out map, as our inaugural offerings from CRR Collectors Club.

MOSS IN YOUR LAWN? What to do page 15

ONE RIVER, MANY VOICES WASHINGTON’S POET LAUREATE COMES TO WAHKIAKUM COUNTY page 14

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ince the completion of its new River Walk, I’m now calling Rainier, Oregon, “The San Antonio of the Lower Columbia,” although I admit at 800 feet, Rainier’s is a tad shorter than San Antonio’s 15-mile walk. But the river’s bigger.

Just finished after careful planning, patience and sustained teamwork, Phase 1 leads from Rainier’s downtown plaza past the Eagles’ deck, El Tapatio’s patio and expansive lawn, the Post Office, and on toward the City Park, eventually to be connected by a bridge spanning Fox Creek.

Sue’s Views

Rainier is the “epicenter” of CRR territory and we have a Post Office Box there. Nestled along Highway 30 between the River and a fairly steep hillside — and with trains robustly running right down “A” Street ... how many towns have THAT?! — I have found Rainier to be colorful, historic, friendly, definitely on the move. And they have good food.

I sometimes call it “The Culinary Capital of the Lower Columbia.”

For its size, via its collective eateries Rainier offers an amazing array of food choices: prime rib, fresh crab, hamburgers, steaks, sandwiches, salads, pizza, and Mexican cuisine.

Publisher/Editor: Susan P. Piper Columnists and contributors: Tracy Beard Hal Calbom Alice Dietz Joseph Govednik Donna McLain David Olson Michael Perry Ned Piper Robert Michael Pyle Marc Roland Alan Rose Alice Slusher Greg Smith Debra Tweedy Judy VanderMaten

Cheers to Rainier!

Over the years publishing the Reader I’ve become more and more enamored with this little village. This may stem partly from my fond memory of high school friends Chuck Wyckoff and Vickie Forsberg treating me on my 21st birthday to my first cocktail, a Sloe Gin

ON THE COVER Jim LeMonds near Growler’s Gulch, Castle Rock.

Cheers!

Sue Piper Columbia River Reader... helping you discover and enjoy the good life in the Columbia River region at home and on the road.

In this Issue CRR Collectors Club

Flag of the Chinook Indian Nation, originally created in 1991 by Tony Johnson, Chinook Tribal Chair, as a limited edition serigraph print. It represents a Columbia River King Salmon (iqwanat) and an important spirit power (tamanawas). Salmon will enter a river as long as a person who possesses that particular power stands in the water and sings.

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Letters to the Editor

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Civilized Living: Miss Manners

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Dispatches from the Discovery Trail ~ Episode 3

Image used by permission Tuaca Lemon Drop

Tracy Beard

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With its strong leadership and community pride, Rainier sports an optimism that’s contagious. Maybe I’ll see you there this summer...in the park, picking up the mail, walking along the River, or enjoying a margarita. But make mine a sloe gin fizz.

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They’ve long celebrated the annual Rainier Days in the Park the weekend after July 4th. The event was timed, I’m told, so organizers could get “more bang for the buck,” buying fireworks after the peak of the season.

And to avoid competing with all the area July 4th fireworks displays.

RAINIER’S NEW RIVER WALK A local resident and her dog try out the new trail.

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A Different Way of Seeing ~ The Tidewater Reach

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Shared Heritage: Chinook Recognition Moves Forward

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Provisions along the Trail: Steak-Peach Salad; Tuaca Lemon Drop

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Out & About with Tracy Beard: Hiking at Whipple Creek

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Museum Magic: Northern Pacific Railroad Locomotive

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P+P Books / 71@71 Moonlight Ride

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Stageworks Northwest Names New Artistic Director

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Lower Columbia Dining Guide

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Marc Roland on Wine: No More Whirlwind Winery-hopping

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Besides CRR, What Are You Reading?

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Cover to Cover ~ Book Review / Bestsellers List

30-31 Submissions Guidelines / Outings & Events 33

Northwest Gardening: Down & Dirty

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Farmers Market Listings

34-35 Astronomy / Looking Up / The Sky Report June 15 – July 20 35

Where Do You Read the Reader?

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Tsuga Gallery Celebrates 10th Anniversary

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The Spectator: In the Good Ol’ Summertime

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Plugged In to Cowlitz PUD Columbia River Reader / June 15, 2021 / 3

Letters to the Editor Power to the People I really enjoy reading Alice Dietz’s “Plugged into Cowlitz PUD” column in the CRR, and learn something new with each one. Thanks to Alice for updating our community regularly.

And for her good work at our revered PUD.

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CRR has grown on him, but he thinks Miss Manners “snippy”??!

The Columbia River Reader has grown on me; I’m a bit of a writer and the literary bent of CRR appeals to me.

Your fine journalists are a cut above...

Michael Perry’s “Dispatches” and Hal Calbom and the essays on the natural world by Robert Micheal Pyle…and you encourage submissions by readers and writers in the community…the HaikuFest…the sky report…book reviews… and also Miss Manners.

She’s incisive and a bit snippy but it serves well her purpose of fostering civil relations between folks — sorely needed in our world.

I ran a contracting business in Portland for 30 years and advertised in Neighborhood Community Papers and it worked well, so I have an affection for small independent papers that inform folks of local events and profile and promote small local businesses… where my heart was and is…

I read CRR in my little Astoria apartment or in the coffee shop or wine bar. I like that it is a monthly.

CRR is an important voice to many folks, I’m sure.

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Civilized Living

By Judith Martin, Nicholas Ivor Martin and Jacobina Martin

Give it a think Home entertaining does not make a restaurant DEAR MISS MANNERS: My father passed away in January, and I had to quickly move my mother into a memory care facility. In order to pay the monthly fees, I have to put their house on the market.

The house is a 10-hour drive from where I live, and I do not “know the neighborhood” to identify workers to complete electrical, plumbing, painting, etc. I hired someone whom I felt quite comfortable having in the home, but he needed help and called on someone with relevant experience.

This person is covered in white supremacist tattoos and wears T-shirts that I find offensive and absolutely inexcusable.

you, without your consent, and you are now going to find someone else to do the work.

How do I tell this person they are not welcome in the home when I have few staffing resources to find a replacement?

There is not a contract to do this work.

They are each bonded and insured.

Miss Manners realizes this leaves you temporarily without a worker. She apologizes, but carpentry is beyond her expertise.

GENTLE READER: You will be pleased to hear that you do not have to fire the tattooed worker — that is the responsibility of the original handyman — but to be rid of him, you will have to fire the latter. He breached your trust by foisting the work off on someone unknown to

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She has a genuine love of people, walking alongside them in good

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Growing up locally, she knows the area well and that comes in handy in showing potential homes to clients.

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DEAR MISS MANNERS: My sister thinks my fiance should ask her blessing to marry me in lieu of our parents, who are dead. I say no, but she seems to think it a sign of respect for him to ask her, just as he would ask our parents.

GENTLE READER: You do realize, Miss Manners hopes, that this is a sweet little meaningless courtesy? One left over from a time when fathers mistakenly thought that they should dismiss suitors for whom they did not care, but their daughters did?

Of course you do, because you became engaged without consulting anyone but yourselves. So why do you begrudge humoring your sister?

Isn’t it rather nice that she wants to participate?

DEAR MISS MANNERS: My husband and I have formed a “pod” with three other couples who are good friends.

We enjoy having dinner parties and gatherings with the other couples. We all get along wonderfully, and everyone lives within about 30 minutes of each other.

We all take turns hosting dinners or backyard barbecues. The event is totally up to the couple hosting. We have great meals, wine and conversation.

The problem is the wife in one of the couples. It doesn’t matter who is hosting the event, or if it is a formal, elegant dinner party or a casual backyard patio meal. This one person will invariably ask what is being planned to serve.

If she were to ask me what I planned to make, and I said fish, she might say, “Oh, I haven’t had pork chops for a long time.”

Sometimes, she will even say, without even asking about the menu, that she would really like chicken cordon bleu — or whatever it might be that would please her palate that day! Keep in mind, she has no allergies nor issues with gluten, nor is she lactose-intolerant.

I was brought up that when you are invited to someone’s house for a meal, you eat what is prepared. Unless, of course there are allergies, etc. We would like to get it across to her that we don’t appreciate this.

As I said, we are all good friends, so we don’t want to cause a rift.

GENTLE READER: Then stop answering impertinent questions as if it were proper for her to ask them.

To inquiries about what you plan to make, Miss Manners suggests “a surprise,” even if the surprise is takeout pizza. To her suggestions, respond, “That sounds wonderful.

We’ll look forward to eating that when it’s your turn to host.”

And if you need a general admonishment, “You must miss restaurants, where you can order what you want. I’m afraid none of us can manage that, but I hope you find it worthwhile to enjoy our company anyway.”

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Lewis & Clark

DISPATCHES FROM THE DISCOVERY TRAIL EPISODE 3

Rewards and Punishments of a Rigorous Trip

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ow would you convince 45 young men to join a two-year expedition into the unknown?

The promise of free land and a paycheck made many men eager to sign up, but Lewis and Clark were concerned desertions might be a problem later, when the going got tough. As an extra perk, they took about 300 gallons of whiskey. By the time the “bar” ran dry a year later, the explorers would be too far from civilization for anyone to risk leaving.

Every night, each man got a gill (a quarter-pint) of whiskey — enough to ease the rigors of the day and, by today’s standards, make him legally drunk.

This is why they didn’t backpack

When the Corps of Discovery departed from the location of present-day St. Louis Gateway Arch, they were a party, but a sober one. The group left at 4 pm on May 14, 1804, “under a jentle brease” and progressed only four miles up the Missouri River that day. The 55-foot keelboat, carrying 12 tons of supplies and 25 men, could be rowed, sailed, pushed, or pulled. Two pirogues (flat-bottomed dugout canoes) and four horses carried the additional supplies.

While most men were members of the U.S. military, French Canadians were hired as interpreters and to help get the heavilyladen boats up the mighty Missouri. It is unknown exactly how many men began the journey.

In April we introduced a revised and expanded version of Michael Perry’s popular series. In the new book, Dispatches from the Discovery Trail, edited by Hal Calbom and excerpted below, CRRPress includes an in-depth author interview and new illustrations and commentary.

Captain Clark was in charge the first week, since Captain Lewis was still in St. Louis procuring supplies. In reality, “Captain” Clark was only a Lieutenant.

The Army had refused to assign him the rank of Captain as Lewis had promised.

So, for the entire journey, Lewis treated Clark as a co-Captain and the men never knew the difference.

Just three days into the journey, disciplinary problems arose. Three men sneaked away from camp to get some whiskey. When they returned, they were court martialed by a jury of their peers.

One man received 50 lashes across his bare back with a cat-o’-nine-tails. This punishment was harsh but not unusual.

In the six months it took to reach North Dakota, five courts-martial would be held to hear nine cases involving six members of the crew.

Stuck in the mud, again

The keelboat was so heavily loaded that it often became stuck on sandbars or snags, sometimes requiring the off-loading of enough supplies to re-float the boat. An event described in Clark’s May 24th journal entry was to be repeated many times:

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… disciplinary problems …

“Lewis and Clark,”1804 © by L. Edward Fisher and commissioned by the Missouri Bankers Association

This painting commemorates the two pirogues and 55-foot keelboat used by the Corps of Discovery, perhaps the best moment the keelboat ever enjoyed. It was a continuous source of blood, sweat and tears as the Expedition worked its way up the Missouri.

“The swiftness of the Current wheeled the boat, Broke our Toe rope, and was nearly over Setting the boat, all hand Jumped out on the upper Side and bore on that Side until the Sand washed from under the boat…” Part of the problem was the way supplies were loaded: “The barge ran foul… several times on logs… this was ca[u]sed by her being too heavily laden in the stern.”

This is hard for us to comprehend today. But it reminds us this was a military expedition, which might have been key to their survival. I could see this happening once, but these same guys were court martialed again later for stealing whiskey and get lashed again. I mean, 50 lashes. And the Indians were appalled when they saw that. They just could not believe that anybody was that cruel.”

Michael Perry enjoys local history and travel. His popular 33-installment Lewis & Clark series appeared in Columbia River Reader’s early years and helped shape its identity and zeitgeist. After two encores, the series has been expanded and published in a book. Details, page 2.

Not all of the men rode in boats; some walked along the riverbank and hunted for food.

Records indicate they carried 30 tons of supplies, including a ton of whiskey and seven tons of parched corn, meal, flour, pork, and other food — enough to last just 45 days. Thus, hunting for bear, deer and birds was very important.

O. P E R R Y

dispatches MICHAEL

from the

Discovery Trail with

HAL CALBOM DEBBY NEELY

by woodcut art

A LAYMAN’S

K

LEWIS & CLAR

A week into the trip, they traded two quarts of whiskey to some Kickapoo Indians for a pheasant and four deer.

By the middle of June, two-thirds of the men had scurvy. They were eating practically nothing but meat and no fresh fruit or vegetables. The men consumed up to ten pounds of meat per day just to resupply the calories burned.

The going was slow against the strong current in the lower Missouri, with progress averaging only about 1.5 miles per hour (a leisurely walking pace is 2mph). The work was extraordinarily hard: “I observe that the men Swet more than is common from Some cause, I think the Missouri’s Water is the principal Cause… the Sweet pores off the men in Streams…” A day spent walking along the river hunting was a welcome relief from the drudgery of rowing, poling, or pulling the boats upstream.

Food: A constant problem

Days would pass without the hunters killing anything. But as they went upriver, they began to find different varieties of fruits and berries: “a butifull bottom Plain of about 2000 acres covered with wild rye & Potatoes intermix’t with the grass… wild rice was plenty groeing on the bank of the River, Strawberyes…” and “The Praries Come within a Short distance of the river on each Side which Contains in addition to Plumbs Raspberries & vast quantities of wild apples… great numbs. of Deer are seen feeding on the young willows & earbage in the Banks and on the Sand bars in the river.”

As the Expedition progressed up the Missouri, they met several fur traders returning with a load of pelts. Whenever time allowed, they would stop to talk to boats coming cont. page 9

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downstream, hoping to learn more about what to expect upstream. Although they started out between 5–7am each morning, only 10–15 miles was covered each day. After a month, they had traveled only 250 miles. It rained much of the first month, leading to journal entries like “The Ticks & Musquetors are verry troublesome.” They purchased 300 pounds of buffalo grease (or bear lard?) and tallow from a French fur trader to be used as insect repellent.

These displays are part of a permanent exhibit at the Columbia Gorge Discovery Center and Museum at The Dalles, Oregon.

On June 14, a crew member reported an amazing encounter that Clark recorded: “he heard in this Pond a Snake making goubleing noises like a turkey, he fired his gun & the noise was increased…& may be herd Several miles, This Snake is of emence size.”

Maybe that had man received an extra ration of whiskey the night before?

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… Musquetors …

William Clark’s spelling has amused and amazed people over the years. I didn’t go through and verify them all, but the story is that he spelled the word ‘mosquito” either 26 or 32 different ways during his journaling, and never got it right. It helps to remember they had no dictionaries on the trip.

It’s amazing some of the spellings are as uniform as they are.”

… 33 tons …

To emphasize the sheer weight and mass of the supplies carried when they embarked, a Bicentennial exhibit amassed canisters and cargo representing 33 tons. Above are replicas of 52 lead canisters, each containing four pounds of gun powder and eight pounds of lead, devised by Lewis. Once emptied, each canister was melted down to make lead

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By June 26, the Expedition had covered 400 miles, reaching what is now Kansas.

On June 29, two more courts-martial were held. The previous night, the sentry in charge of guarding the whiskey helped himself to an extra ration (or two or three), resulting in his becoming very drunk. Another soldier came along and helped himself to the whiskey, too. These were the same men court martialed on May 17. The next morning, other crew members were very upset to learn what happened. After all, it was the crew’s whiskey that the two men had been drinking. The sentry was sentenced to 100 lashes and his

bullets in a mold. In addition, 33 metal canisters were made to hold 193 pounds of “portable soup.”

committed, punishable by death. The poor soul may have preferred death; his sentence was 100 lashes — 25 lashes a day for each of the next four days. While it is hard to imagine such brutal punishment, it isn’t hard to imagine what might have happened if a roving band of Sioux had come upon the camp while the guard was asleep.

cohort got 50, administered by their crew mates. As Clark wrote, “we have always found the men verry ready to punish Such crimes.”

Marked with a bang!

The crew celebrated Independence Day by firing the bow cannon on the keel boat in the morning and then “closed the [day] by a Discharge from our bow piece, an extra Gill of whiskey.”

••• Next episode we will continue our trip up the Missouri River and learn of the only Corps of Discovery member to die on the Expedition.

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A Different Way of Seeing

THE TIDEWATER REACH

‘Each piling an island ...Long may they last!’

Poem by Dr. Robert Michael Pyle • Photograph by Judy VanderMaten • Field Notes by Hal Calbom

Piling Islands Long after the old canneries have gone down, the ferry docks turned to kindling, the net-sheds sunk among glittering scales and rotting nets in the funky sediments below, rows and rows of old wood pilings survive.

Whole forests of Doug-fir that today would fill whole convoys of log trucks — better logs than all the standing stumpage in the doghair, in these days of peckerwood poles.

Each piling an island. A 3-D patch of habitat poking out of the aqueous humor of the river’s eye.

Many have small forests on their tops. My favorites, in the backwater docks — spinneys of pilings on the Gray’s, the John Day, the Clatskanine, Elokomin, where plant life proliferates the more and a single pile may be crowned with a Rod Stewart mop of twenty species: grass and sedge, rush and yarrow, trefoil and

FIELD NOTE: TOPKNOTS

jewelweed, two kinds of asters and even white orchids,

River pilings in particular tidal ranges sport colorful vegetative topknots, often including several different plant varieties. Thanks to variations in fresh water levels, pilings can enjoy two nutritious “waterings” a day, of varying duration, and benefit from perpetual re-seeding from the downstream current. Canoeists even name their favorites, and follow their coiffure’s development from season to season.

all the insects you might imagine attendant upon them.

Removing these pilings would be a clearcut all over again, of dire consequence to legions of life.

Canoeing the Gray’s down to its self-named bay, beside the spruce swamp, takes me past Devil’s Elbow.

There in the crook wobble six or eight old pilings, each topped by a hemlock. Was I the only one, I wondered, who noticed the perfect bonsai crowning one of the piles? Then one day

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In this issue we begin excerpting poems, pictures and field notes from our own “Field Guide to the Lower Columbia River in Poems and Pictures,” The Tidewater Reach by Gray’s River resident and renowned naturalist Robert Michael Pyle, and Cathlamet photographer Judy VanderMaten.

The two dreamed for years of a collaborative project, finally realized when Columbia River Reader Press published The Tidewater Reach in 2020, presenting “a different way of seeing” our beloved Columbia River. For information on ordering specific editions, as well as our partner bookshops and galleries, see pages 2 and 39.

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Shared Heritage

Chinook Tribal recognition again moves forward Story by David Olson

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ewis and Clark were thunderstruck. After more than a year in the arid, intermountain West where weeks passed without sight of anyone but themselves, the Corps of Discovery entered the Columbia River system (October 1805) and found themselves in the midst of one of the most densely-populated areas of North America. Though hellbent for the Pacific Ocean, they canoed past self-governing towns, sturdy multi-generational cedar plank houses, intervillage transportation networks, native-tended gardens, and a sophisticated international trading culture like nothing they had ever seen. On both sides of Wimahl (as the River was called by locals), villages were everywhere, fires lit the river at night and a curious population sent out emissaries in dugout canoes to meet, trade and take a closer look at the Corps.

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I am proud that the Town Council has taken the historic step of being the first government in Chinookan home territory to urge Congress to restore recognition to the Chinook ... This is truly both a tribal justice and pocketbook issue for local governments in the Chinookan homeland.”

~ Cathlamet Mayor Dale Jacobson

along the Columbia, including Wahkiakum, Cathlamet, Clatsop, and Willapa. Countless pioneer families can trace ancestors of Chinookan descent, as intermarriage was tribal policy with the Chinook, and strong family relationships helped keep the peace among the many villages on Wimahl. Chinookan language families (including a chain of dialects linking Upper Chinook and Lower Chinook bands, spoken on both sides of the River) were the basis of “Chinuk Wawa” (also called Chinook Jargon) a form of pidgin Chinook developed for trading purposes on the Lower Columbia after first European contact.

Map from chinooknation.org

The self-governing Chinook villages were never a good “fit” for the indigenous peoples template (“Tribe+Big Chief”) preferred by the U.S. Government in order to impose treaties targeted at removing native populations from newly-acquired Oregon Territory (1846). In the meantime, as a result of devastating disease and depopulation, the densely-populated Chinookan villages along Wimahl rapidly eroded as the U.S. pursued an inflexible policy of tribal removal and land seizure to promote non-Native settlement.

Initially, the United States did formally recognize the Chinook in the Tansy Point Treaties signed in 1851. This created an Without the support, supplies ...if we agree the successful return of the unprecedented moment in Chinookan history, when all living and goodwill of the Chinook, it is members of the remaining five Chinookan bands gathered at Corps to St. Louis birthed subsequent U.S. doubtful the Corps of Discovery Tansy Point (near present-day Astoria/Warrenton, Ore.) to sign would have made it through the claims to the Pacific Northwest, the Chinook treaties with the U.S. Government. A reservation was planned rainy winter of 1805-06. In fact, at Willapa Bay along with a cash settlement. But Congress did served as midwife.” ~ David Olson it was expert Chinook oarsmen not ratify the treaties negotiated by the U.S. representative, and canoes that supplied the and the money and land were withheld. The planned Chinook Corps, otherwise trapped in the reservation, now set aside as the Willapa National Wildlife rain at “Dismal Nitch” without Refuge, is currently dedicated to preserving everything in the natural environment and Washingtonians, there were proper food, clothing, or equipment. It (birds, fish, ecosystems) except for the people who used to live there.

Chinooks. For millennia, Chinookan is fair to say, if we agree the successful peoples lived in self-governing bands The United States subsequently ordered return of the Corps to St. Louis (1806) ranging 200 miles east from the territorial Governor Isaac Stevens to birthed subsequent U.S. claims to the mouth of the Columbia River, and For local Chinook-related try again to remove the Chinook during Pacific Northwest, the Chinook served north/south in a ribbon that included the Chehalis River Treaty negotiations sites to visit, see page 31. as midwife.

Willamette Falls near present-day of 1855 with representatives of the Welcome to the Lower Columbia Oregon City. They are still here.

Chinook, Chehalis, and Cowlitz, but River, home to the Chinook Indian the treaty was rejected by all three Today, the Lower Columbia Chinook Nation. When referring to the tribe, tribes due to the requirement that are comprised of the five western“Chinook” is pronounced “ch” as each tribe abandon their ancestral most Chinookan-speaking bands, in “chin” not “shin.” Before the lands. Now, 165 years later, all tribes including the Clatsop and Kathlamet “Columbia” was named by Captain associated with the Chehalis River of present-day Oregon and the Lower Robert Gray in 1792, the Chinook council are federally recognized — Chinook, Wahkiakum and Willapa people were here. Before Oregonians except the Chinook. of what is now Washington. Tribal headquarters remains at Bay Center “The arc of the moral universe is on Willapa Bay. Chinookan names long, but it bends toward justice.” and history are indelibly etched ~ Martin Luther King After a 21-year administrative process with expert testimony Cathlamet Town Councilor David Olson is a based on historical evidence, the retired attorney, Vice-Chair (2021) of the CowlitzChinook Indian Nation was finally Wahkiakum Council of Governments, and primary acknowledged as a federally recognized author of the Chinook Recognition resolution tribe by the Department of Interior on adopted without dissent by the Cathlamet Town January 3, 2001.

Council April 5, 2021.

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The recognition was short-lived; without notice to the Chinook or any commensurate evidence, it was rescinded 18 months later by the incoming George W. Bush administration after a protest filed by another tribe. Influence and deep pockets Painting by Charles Russell depicts Chinooks on the Lower Columbia. dealt the Chinook recognition efforts a staggering blow. the United States. For a sense of the richness of Chinookan culture, visit the Despite this setback, the Chinook full-scale Chinookan cedar plankhouse Indian Nation has persevered. The on the Ridgefield National Wildlife Chinook prevailed in recent court Refuge, reconstructed by Chinookan cases challenging the “broken” federal craftsmen based on documented acknowledement process (admitted by evidence of the Cathlapotle settlement the Department of Interior) and won described in the Lewis and Clark a partial Summary Judgment (January Journals. More information at fws.gov/ 2020) against the Bureau of Indian refuge/Ridgefield/visit/Cathlapotle_ Affairs (BIA), requiring reconsideration Plankhouse.html of a baseless rule forbidding the Chinook from re-petitioning for acknowledgment. The Town of Cathlamet resolution points out that Chinook tribal At this writing, the Chinook have recognition will bring much needed energetically renewed their effort to support to the Southwest Washington promote Congressional passage of economy, with benefits to health legislation to restore federal recognition care, infrastructure, natural resources, and adjustment of Chinook tribal status. housing needs and tourism. Federal These efforts were recently supported by recognition will not only serve the the Town of Cathlamet with a resolution cause of justice and honor history, urging Congress to promptly remedy but will also allow Chinook Indian the historic and ongoing injustice and Nation Tribal Members to exercise injury to the Chinook Indian Nation inherited rights, be admitted to the and its people, resulting from lack of same protections as other federallysustained federal recognition. The recognized tribes, and access health resolution is the first such governmentcare. It will also ensure Chinook sponsored resolution in the Chinook heritage is included in Southwest “home counties” of Wahkiakum and Washington school curricula.

Pacific County (Washington) and Clatsop County (Oregon). Lobbying Finally return a favor is underway to encourage passage of Chinook recognition will ensure native parallel resolutions by the other elected tribal involvement in protecting Lower governments in Chinookan home Columbia environmental, land use and territory. Congressional representatives, natural resource needs, similar to the including the Oregon and Washington efforts of other federally-recognized delegations, have been contacted and tribes. several have already expressed renewed As the Chinook Nation supported the support.

Lewis and Clark Corps of Discovery, The people of the Chinook Indian we hope that long-delayed federal Nation continue to play a critical role in legislation will return the favor and Southwest Washington and Northwest recognize thousands of years of unique Oregon, enhancing the unique natural Chinookan heritage. This is a goal and human resources of the Lower worthy of everyone’s support.

Columbia, and preserving the traditional culture and languages of the Chinookan To learn more, visit chinooknation.org/ bands. The Chinook people have or the Chinook Facebook pagefacebook. survived and maintained their language com/ChinookIndianNation?fref=ts%22 and culture against enormous odds, For local sites to visit, see page 31. despite decades of neglect, obstacles, ••• and lack of sustained recognition by 14 / Columbia River Reader / June 15, 2021

By Tracy Beard

PROVISIONS ALONG THE TRAIL & ON YOUR PATIO!

Tuaca Lemon Drop

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2 Tbl. granulated sugar ½ ounce sweet and sour mix 1-¾ ounces Tuaca 1 ounce Cointreau ¾ ounce fresh lemon juice 1 lemon wedge

STEAK ½ cup extra-virgin olive oil 1-½ sprigs rosemary 1 6-ounce New York strip steak

My favorite summer cocktail!

Rub lemon wedge along the rim of a martini glass. Place sugar on a plate. Dip wet rim in the sugar and set it aside. Put ice in a cocktail shaker. Add sweet and sour, Tuaca, Cointreau and lemon juice. Shake 25 times.

Strain into the sugarrimmed glass.

Note: Tuaca is a sweet, golden brown liqueur originally produced in Italy.

Its ingredients include brandy, citrus essences, vanilla, and other spices.

DRESSING 4 ounces blue cheese 3 Tbl. sour cream ½ Tbl. lemon juice ½ Tbl. red wine vinegar 1 teaspoon minced fresh chives Salt and pepper to taste SALAD 1 peach, peeled and halved 2 cups of salad greens 1 Tbl. chopped fresh chives 1-½ Tbl. thinlysliced fresh basil Heat the olive oil and rosemary in a small pan over low heat for 8 minutes. Let cool.

Place steak in a plastic bag and pour in the oil. Marinate in the refrigerator overnight.

Place all dressing ingredients into a food processor and blend until smooth. Grill the steak to your liking. Tent with foil and set aside for 10 minutes. Drizzle both sides of the peach halves with olive oil. Place on a hot grill for one or two minutes on each side to generate grill marks. Remove from heat.

Place greens in two bowls or on two plates.

Dress the greens, then slice steak and peach and divide between the plates.

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A Summer Stroll in Whipple Creek Park Hidden gem near Ridgefield offers woodsy ramble, wildflowers

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am always excited to discover new trails close to home. Karla Dudley, a longtime friend of Columbia River Reader, suggested Whipple Creek Park for a possible “Out and About” visit. The park, with its 4.3 miles of trails, is open to walkers, runners, hikers, dogs, equestrians and mountain bikers. Several well-signed loops make up the trail mileage within the 300-acre regional park located off Northwest 179th Street in Ridgefield west of the Clark County Fairgrounds.

Over the past 11 years, the Whipple Creek Restoration Committee and several volunteers have spent more than 8,500 hours repairing and restoring the trails. Currently, the park is fully open. However, in the past, Clark County Parks has posted signs closing specific paths to everything other than foot traffic due to muddy conditions.

T h e m o s t accessible entry point to the trails is from the large parking lot located

If you feel adventurous, take the rugged Springboard Hill or Gazebo trail for a short trip out to Castle’s Gazebo. Return the same way and reconnect with the northbound Stone Mill Loop trail that will soon connect with the South Ridge Loop. Make a left and head west. If you would like to continue extending your exploration, there

Decide your route To begin your hike, head south on the gravel trail. Look left to get your bearings from the extensive trail map posted on the left side near the trailhead. All routes are well maintained. I have hiked here in both the early and late spring, and there is an ever-changing array of colors and foliage.

When plotting your trip, you can either meander around the loops or get the most mileage without backtracking on the same path by making the first left onto the NorthSouth trail heading south. Cross a small wooden bridge, then turn left at Everson’s Cutoff trail. The hike is not strenuous, but it is not flat. Most of the course consists of gently rolling terrain with a few short steep inclines and declines.

Along Everson’s Cutoff trail I spotted several Pacific Trillium in the early spring.

This plant, discovered by the Lewis and Clark Expedition of 1806, is part of the lily family. These flowers begin as a soft shade of white and evolve into a light pink as they age. The flowers bloom from early spring into the summer. Along this trail you can see a large field with numerous resident horses wandering about or lounging in the sun. The path leads downhill from here until you connect with the Stone Mill Loop. Before you reach the other main path that enters the park from the south entrance on 21st Avenue, you will pass an old cinder-block building known as

Hillborn’s Stone Mill. After passing the 21st Avenue entrance the trail climbs upward, and you begin heading north.

Wildflowers, from top: Pacific Waterleaf, Salmon berry,Stream violet, Vanilla-leaf.

are several smaller trails inside this loop.

The park is home to a variety of birds and animals. People have spotted woodpeckers, hawks, flying squirrels, beavers, deer and herons in the vicinity.

Salmonberry bushes grow throughout the trail system, so if you visit in the summer you might find a few ripe berries and enjoy a snack. Salmonberries resemble the typical raspberry, although they are far blander in taste. The pathways are predominantly cont page 16

Vancouver, Wash. resident Tracy Beard writes about luxury and adventure travel, traditional and trendy fine dining and libations for regional, national and international magazines. She is CRR’s “Out & About” columnist, now in her sixth year.

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Whipple Creek root-free, allowing visitors to view the beauty above as well as checking out what grows near their feet. Stream violets produce a bright yellow flower on the forest floor that sings out for attention against the Pacific waterleaf, vanilla-leaf and other various green plants found in the forest.

Cedar Loops. Both options continue through the forest, but if you take the Cedar Loop, you will end your journey on a section that travels through a large, grassy field with no tree cover.

My route covers approximately 2.5 to 3.0 miles and takes about one hour at a relaxed pace. You can stretch out your trip by backtracking and looping through the smaller trails within the system to cover the entire 4.3 miles.

Once you reach the top of the South Ridge Loop, you can choose to head back on the north side of this loop or cut over to the North Ridge Way and

Whipple Creek Park is a great find.

Pack a lunch and plan to spend some time enjoying this hidden gem in Ridgefield.

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id-March 2020 marked the start of a long and rough road for us all. It also marked the beginning of a new and significant installation at the Port of Kalama’s Transportation Interpretive Center. A magnificent 150-ton steam locomotive used by Northern Pacific Railway was installed, using heavy cranes to reassemble the massive behemoth which arrived in sections.

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The locomotive, built in 1917, served nearly four decades before being retired and put on display in various locations, including Vancouver, Battle Ground, down to Arizona, and now coming full circle back to Southwest Washington at the Port.

The NPR is significant in our regional history, as Kalama was the crossing point from Oregon to complete the rail line leading to the terminus at Tacoma. The railroad crossed the Columbia River

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NPR founded Kalama in 1870 and began construction of the western leg of the railroad in 1871 here. There was even a first spike ceremony in the spring of 1871 in Kalama. The interpretive center is open and the public is invited to explore the rich history of Kalama and its connection cont page 18

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to commerce through “rails and sails.” Kalama was also the western headquarters of the NPR for a time, and the county seat for Cowlitz County from 1872 to 1922. After admiring the magnitude in size and complexity of the locomotive, take a moment to enjoy the newly improved boardwalk and walking trails along the river, or perhaps stop over for a refreshment at the McMenamin’s Kalama Harbor Lodge.

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Production Notes Going outside to play

My conversation with Jim LeMonds, both of us boys who grew up on bikes, stirred memories ... and a lament.

How often we heard an adult voice reminding us, “When I was your age…” followed by details of five-mile walks to school (usually barefoot through the snow), eating every over-cooked morsel on one’s plate, working hours and hours for mere nickels and dimes, and other improbable tales of hard work, obedience and duty.

Now we’ve conjured our own “When I was your age,” nostalgia, including, among my fondest recollections, going outside to play for entire days at a time.

We romped and roamed through the neighborhood, endlessly inventing our own games and adventures, only to be called back for “Dinner!” shouted off the front porch. In today’s helicopter parenting regime, it all seems impossibly loose, safe, and carefree.

Then, we all got bikes. And the neighborhood, in fact the world, truly was ours.

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Life Cycles: Jim LeMonds 71@71. It’s more a commando mission than a recreational opportunity.

Two years in the planning. Roles rehearsed and practiced: mechanical, timing, logistics, personnel. Detailed maps and recon. All routes scouted and marked.

71 miles, with 9,000 feet of climbing, in 14 hours.

They’ll begin at midnight, under a full moon in July, on the slopes of Mount St. Helens. Up to Ape Canyon, over the Plains of Abraham, across Windy Ridge, up and down Lewis River, their ultimate destination Falls Creek. Jim LeMonds says their chances of success are around 50-50.

HC: What’s the most challenging part of the ride?

HC: This will be where your support team is most crucial?

JL: The start. No doubt. We’re going to be doing the first leg at midnight.

That’s why we put St. Helens first.

JL: Absolutely. I mean, being on Mount St. Helens at midnight? When it’s sketchy in the daylight? And riding with lights? But we thought we better do the hardest part when we’re fresh.

The support team is crucial all the time.

HC: Why the middle of the night?

JL: It’s all about the mileage. This is a seventy-one mile ride to celebrate our 71st birthdays. We were going to do seventy last year but the pandemic canceled it. To do 71 miles is going to take us 14 to 16 hours, and we want to end up in the late afternoon, and do the daylight parts when we’re beat up and ready to finish.

HC: So it’s an endurance contest?

JL: It’s about survival. And it’s a team deal. My ride partner is Bob Horness, same age. And then we have 14 additional people on the ride team itself.

NICE TO MEET YOU Jim LeMonds resides

Castle Rock, Washington occupation

Semi-retired after a 30-year teaching career, followed by freelance work as a writer, editor and marketer from

Castle Rock

50 years of marriage, two delightful daughters and four active grandsons

known for

reading

Yes

Mountain biking, hanging with his grandsons, playing guitar, spending time on Maui

for fun

recommends Being fit and healthy, living as large as possible for as long as possible

We rode everywhere. Northlake School had two huge bike sheds, such was the two-wheeled commuter traffic. With my Rawlings baseball mitt looped over the bars I’d ride to Highland Park for Little League practices and games, stopping by 20th Avenue Grocery and Fountain for baseball cards and stale slabs of pink bubble gum.

HC: This sounds pretty macho? Do you ever get off and walk it? And take breaks?

JL: Totally. We’re slow but we’re not stupid. And speaking of macho, four or five of the people on the ride team will be women, some of the strongest riders I know.

They kick ass! And as for taking precautions, that’s why we have multiple people on the ride, maybe the most important being the Pacer in front, and that will be one of our female riders, the best of the lot.

Gary Bryson, who would later star as R.A.Long High School’s quarterback, cruised by every day on his snazzy bike with a huge bag of coiled newspapers hanging over the front, and pitched the papers like touchdown passes from street to porch. My best friend and I rode across Peter Crawford Bridge at 5:30am to meet the bus to pick beans all day. “When I was your age…” alas.

HC: So the Pacer is a navigator or point person, too?

JL: Got to have that, especially on the mountainsides. One trail has a 500-foot drop-off, another a 200-foot drop-off. And these are places where people will get off

Schwinns, Columbias, Roadmasters. I don’t think we even locked them up.

Going outside to play, unless you happen to be Jim LeMonds, will never be quite the same.

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Jim LeMonds

Mountain bikers are a different breed, he says. Not very smart but really fit.

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“ We can grind a lot of young dudes down. It just takes a wh

and walk. The Lewis River route and a couple of other places also with big drops on the side.

We’re not trying to prove any macho BS here.

We’re trying to do this for endurance and the sense of accomplishment. We’re not trying to take unnecessary chances. But of course there’s going to be risk involved.

always involved in athletics — and you can’t play town league basketball anymore because you’re going to blow your knee out, and all of a sudden you start gaining weight, but you want to stay active.

HC: But the pacer calls the tune?

JL: Probably ’93 or ’94, and these things called mountain bikes had been introduced about 10 years before. I’d always loved the outdoors, so I got a mountain bike and we just rode gravel roads. There were no trails, really, there were hardly any trails in all of Cowlitz County.

And gradually more trails became available, the sport caught on, and I kept making more friends and having more fun.

JL: When this Pacer gets off, everybody gets off. Normally this is all stuff we would try to ride, but it would be daylight. And sometimes you’d make it, sometimes you wouldn’t make it, but every time you try to do that really technical stuff, there’s a chance you or your bike could be broken. And if that happens, it’s going to put down the whole day.

Jim LeMonds, and probably many other mountain bikers too, is a study in contradictions. In the first place, he insists on taking that gliding, easygoing gentleman’s contrivance, the velocipede, later known as the bicycle, to places more friendly to pumas and mountain goats. Second, he and his mates would have you think they’re a gang of muscle-toned, genial idiots when in fact they are a cerebral, highly disciplined set of ambitious athletes — think navy SEALs, not barking seals. Finally, rather than running roughshod over the environment and wreaking macho havoc on its trails, they are careful stewards — constantly building, improving, and maintaining their ups, downs and arounds. They are graceful growlers.

JL: I was a bike kid. Us older guys, we didn’t grow up on kid-sized bikes. There was no such thing as a Strider or a kid’s bike, a BMX bike.

You just got up on the front porch and jumped — found a way to get on that big old bike. And hang on for dear life.

HC: So, “not very smart,” from the get-go?

JL: Yep, that’s my career on bikes! I grew up in Castle Rock and your bike was how you got around. Then you’re grown up — I was

HC: This is, when, the 70s or 80s?

HC: I assume you’re making these trails better for hikers, too?

JL: Most definitely. When we’re at Coldwater Lake, for example, you have to cut back eight feet off the trail — it’s all going to be drooping. Everything we’re doing is to try to make the trails more accessible for everyone. And rideable, as well.

HC: What does “no dig, no ride” mean?

JL: Well it’s not a hard and fast rule, but it means we try to combine trail maintenance and repair with our big group rides. If you’re going to ride five miles up around Coldwater Lake you might as well have some tools with you.

HC: You are known for organizing mega trailmaintenance gigs?

JL: Well, the last one we had took me three months to scope out and we had 125 people.

And you more or less have to handpick everybody because when you’re asking somebody to ride up to the 5,000-foot level with tools, you have to have the right people or they would never make it that far.

HC: Do you scout the trails and flag the spots ahead of time?

JL: Yes, everything is broken down. Here’s this crew’s starting point, you guys are expected to work this far. You have a chainsaw, and you have two metal-bladed weed eaters, here’s who’s carrying the fuel, and so on. You have one chance, so you don’t want to mess it up when you have a crew there. What are you going to do if something goes wrong isolated five miles away?

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HC: How much work can one of your “no dig, no ride” parties do in a day?

J L : Taking the Coldwater Lake Trail for example, that’s about five miles and there’s a super steep trail coming up. And then there’s about four and a half miles where there’s old, destroyed logging equipment from the eruption That’s always the ultimate photo op. So let’s say that whole loop is about 11 miles; we’ll take care of that in one long day.

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Jim LeMonds finds conventional road biking somewhat boring. And motorists are not especially friendly to a bicyclist hugging a highway supposedly reserved for internal combustions only.

Call it a cultural thing. The ups and downs, stops and starts, vistas and visiting, all create more community than a headlong race down a paved piece of pathway. He and his 71@71 ride partner, Bob Horness, train relentlessly, testing their bodies, their determination, and ultimately their commitment to their sport.

Oodles of riders, not enough bikes Pandemic interrupts supply chain

everyone decries the lost sales opportunities.

Most bikes these days, as one might suspect, are made in China, from entry level to elaborate, said Cooper, “and it’s not a problem of frames, it’s the components.”

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hese should be great times for area bike shops. If they had any bikes.

“Once we were into the pandemic sales began to go up dramatically,” said Genece Cooper at Bob’s Bike Shop in Longview, “Then, suddenly, no more bikes.”

Cooper and Bob’s are still waiting delivery on bikes ordered well before Christmas. And, lest they lose out to the competition for lack of merchandise on the shelves, the run on bikes is rampant.

“We’re doing a lot of re-conditioning and repair work,” said Paul Barlow, who owns and runs Barlow Bikes & Boards in St. Helens, Oregon, with his son Jordan. “All of a sudden because people can’t get a new bike, they’re pulling that old 10- or 20-year old bike out of the attic and hoping to re-condition it. All the new bikes are back-ordered for months.”

Turns out the most valuable piece of bike gear these days is a derailleur, that Genece Cooper, Bob’s Bike Shop manager, sophisticated bike-commutes 11 miles each day. mechanism that moves the bike’s chain back and forth from one set of exposed gears to another. Jordan Barlow says people are cannibalizing old derailleurs and setting up a profitable line in spare parts. No derailleur, no elaborate gearing featured in most modern bikes.

Versatility sells Stir crazy and desperate for the air and the exercise, we’ve taken back to two wheels with a passion.

Father-son duo, Paul and Jordan Barlow of Barlow Bikes, St. Helens.

JL: We’re both older now. And Bob still can ride downhill really fast. But we can’t ride the same pace we used to, which is a little frustrating. So physically we just can’t do it. But what we can do is we can grind for a long time. We can grind a lot of young dudes down. It just takes a while.

HC: This sounds good for short attention spans. Never a dull moment?

In the neighborhoods Funny how the pandemic spawns unlikely outcomes, not all of them negative. Golf courses and golf equipment sellers, for instance, report an unprecedented year, since chasing the little white ball was an “approved” recreational activity long ahead of most others. Same thing, it seems, with bikes. “You wouldn’t believe all the families we see cycling through the neighborhoods. It’s pretty cool,” said Jordan Barlow. “And it’s definitely all ages.”

JL: It demands your total attention every minute. Not like road biking. If

Jim LeMonds’ favorite shop in Portland has a three-week scheduling backlog for service, and

The shop managers agreed there’s still high demand for the versatile hybrid often called a “gravel bike,” not a full-fledged mountain bike

but more rugged than the sleek road bikes we used to call ‘racing bikes.” They’re also selling their fair share of two-wheelers that don’t depend on shifting gears, like

BMX bikes and scooters.

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Not enough bikes from page 21 “And electric bikes are completely for real,” said Bob’s Bike Shop’s Cooper, “I have two of them, ride 5-1/2 miles to work every day and beat the traffic most of the time, about 25 minutes.”

Electrics don’t offer a completely free ride — their usefulness is their ability to assist the rider as needed.

“My bicycle mentor is in his 70s and always took long, long rides,” added Jordan Barlow. “He still likes to put in the miles but needs a little electric assist once in awhile. It’s a great way to keep at it.”

Expect prices for a “decent, entrylevel” bike of $600 to $800. These typically come with modern disk brakes which are becoming a standard upgrade in quality.

Law and order on the road As a consequence to all this twowheeling, the uptick in cycling has increased the perpetual jockeying among cars, pedestrians and cyclists that’s a frequent cause of accidents, close calls, and raised middle fingers.

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you’re at Johnson Ridge on a road bike, you can go 50 miles an hour coming downhill, but that really doesn’t interest me.

But if you’re going downhill on a mountain bike, and you’re going 15, you’re really rolling.

HC: Which is more challenging, mountain biking or road biking?

JL: Mountain biking is not for the timid. You have to start slow and learn a lot of techniques. But I can honestly say I think road biking is more dangerous. I was in California and Silicon Valley about a month ago and their bike lanes are as wide as this sidewalk and I never once — I rode seven days in a row — and I never once got honked at or flipped off or yelled at there. When you ride on the road here, that’s always going to be a potential problem. Because it’s just a different attitude about bikes. A lot of people don’t think bikes belong on the road.

want to ride a trail. So they go up on some forested property and they’ll just start riding gravel roads out in the back country. And that’s their way to have an adventure. So my gravel bike is 20 pounds. A typical road bike is, depending on the quality, around 16 pounds.

HC: And this masterpiece you’re going to ride 71 miles?

JL: Well, it’s one of the best mountain bikes made, a Pivot. And it weighs more like 40 pounds.

HC: And the cost?

HC: Do you see mountain biking growing, and biking in general?

JL: Yes, indeed. So many more families have gotten involved in biking in the last three years. I think Northwest Trail Alliance has at least tripled its membership. And there’s a lot of activity around Portland, where NWTA is located. It’s kind of the local mecca for people into bikes.

HC: What are the options for people thinking of getting back into biking?

JL: I’d say gravel bikes and E bikes and fat bikes, those are the most recent things that have become popular. The Ebikes are coming on strong. They’re heavy, so you don’t want to be broke down with one 10 miles out. But they’re making the batteries last longer, and the price has come down. You see bikes around town in Longview and you can get them for maybe $1,200, $1,500, and they used to be around seven grand.

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HC: What’s a fat bike?

JL: Big tires, maybe four or five inches wide, whereas a more normal bike like mine has tires about 2.4 inches across. And at first it started so that you could do snow riding, that kind of thing. They’re really good in loose rock, and they’ve gotten them now to where they’re more mainstream. I’ve got several friends who ride fat bikes as their main ride.

Police Department will be reviving its bike patrols, training two selected officers who will in turn train a couple dozen others, bringing the potential Bikes in Blue total to 25. Their mission will be to educate pedestrians, bicyclists and motorists on the rules of the road, safety precautions, and common courtesies.

Most of our experts and cyclists alike agree Cowlitz County hasn’t always been the most bike-friendly place, but that’s changing. The emphasis on exercise and the ability to tailor all kinds of bike types to one’s fitness and skills have opened up opportunity and demand.

Get your name on a waiting list, and get ready to ride!

HC: And gravel bikes?

JL: I think these are the most popular. They’re basically a hybrid between a road bike and a mountain bike. Larger tires, sturdier, but perfectly good for road riding, too. I use mine for a road bike, because road bikes scare the crap out of me with those super skinny tires. It’s a great compromise: there are a lot of people these days who want adventure but don’t Hal Calbom is editor of The Tidewater Reach, and Dispatches from the Discovery Trail published by CRRPress. Now in his fourth year producing CRR’s People+Place feature series, he has also written Resourceful: Leadership and Communication in a Relatioship Age. Reach him at hal@ halcalbom.com. He grew up in Longview and now lives in Seattle.

JL: Well I actually got this bike as a gift, from a whole bunch of people who wanted to help me replace a bike that was stolen. And I think the price was somewhat north of eight grand.

HC: Wow! Must be state-of-the-art?

JL: Yes, and super strong. The wheels alone are all carbon, and cost $2,000 themselves. It’s one heavyduty machine.

HC: Are you guys driven, as they say? Do you stop and smell the roses, or enjoy the view, too?

JL: You bet we do. I think people mistake our training and discipline for being fanatics. Mountain bikers are the most sociable people I know. I still do some writing (full disclosure, Jim is one of CRR’s favorite local writers and contributors) but now that I don’t teach anymore, I don’t have very many social contacts.

So that’s my social group, and most of my physical activity. And we get to some places you can’t get to any other way, and we stop and look and it’s just gorgeous. It feels great to be alive.

HC: And your legs must be relieved to get back to the parking lot after 40 miles?

JL: Yup, and the beer is cold!

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by Harper Lee. Courage in the face of adversity.

Jim LeMonds’s Book Picks

The Quartzite Trip, by William Hogan. Each year, a whacky English teacher takes 36 high school students, selected by an impossible-tobe-determined set of parameters, on a five-day trip into the desert. What could go wrong? One of the few books about teaching that is worth reading.

Hamlet, by William Shakespeare. Hamlet was a fatalist. I’m a stoic. But there is overlap.

Slaughterhouse Five, by Kurt Vonnegut, a master of reminding us of this basic truth: What we accept as the status quo is the true madness.

The Handmaid’s Tale, by Margaret Atwood.

Prescient, relevant, and extremely frightening.

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tageworks Northwest recently announced Janeene Niemi as its new Artistic Director.

The performing arts have been an important part of Niemi’s world ever since childhood. The granddaughter of professional puppeteers, she had many opportunities to experience the magic of the theatre. She has been active in the local theatre scene since the 1980s, when she attended R.A. Long High School and studied drama with Dana Brown.

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She’s since worked with several local theatre companies, including the (sincerenamed) Dana Brown Mainstage Theatre, Center Stage at LCC, Rising Star Productions, and Stageworks Northwest. She has volunteered with Stageworks over the years, including as an interim board member, resident director, and member of the production team.

Some of her favorite productions include co-directing Peter Pan the Musical (presented at the Columbia Theatre), bringing Audrey II to life as a puppeteer in “Little Shop of Horrors” at Mainstage, and directing “Barefoot in the Park” for Stageworks. Favorite onstage roles include the 2019 Stageworks’ presentation of the one-woman show “Shirley Valentine,” Dotty Otley in “Noises Off!,” Wendi in “Angry Housewives,” Betty in “The Great American Trailer Park Musical,” Eleanor of Aquitaine in “The Lion in Winter” Myra in “Deathtrap,” and Gloria in “Return to the Forbidden Planet.”

When she’s not at the theatre, Janeene enjoys reading and gardening, and she loves spending time with her family.

Husband Rich is very supportive of her theatre habit and, while he hasn’t been convinced to participate onstage yet, he is often actively helping behind the scenes at Stageworks. With three adult children, one delightful grandson, and several “bonus kids” that fill her heart with love and joy, it is no surprise that one of their favorite things to do together as a family is watch a play.

Niemi is very excited about opening the doors at Stageworks soon, and is actively working with the production team and the board to plan an exciting new season. “I have been working with her for many years in the theatre,” said Stageworks board member Rick Little, “and we are proud to have her as our new Artistic Director.”

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1335 14th Avenue 18 rotating craft brews, pub fare.

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Jay’s Jukebox Burgers, 1232 Commerce Ave.. 1950s Soda shop. Take-out and limited dine-in.

Open Tues–Sat, 11–7.

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The Carriage

614 Commerce Ave., Longview. 18 varieties of pizza, prepared salads. Beer & wine. Open 11am every day. Inside seating, outdoor dining.

360-353-3512. Inside dining, Take-out, some local delivery.

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The Carriage Restaurant & Lounge 1334 12th Ave. Open 9am–11pm. Breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Full bar, banquet room available for groups, parties, family reunions, etc. in lounge, open 6am. Three happy hours daily (8–10am, 12–2pm, 5–7pm). Group meeting room, free use with $150 food/drink purchases.

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Creekside Café 1323 Commerce Ave. Soups, Salads, Burgers, Wraps.

Closed for renovations; re-opening mid- or late July.

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Evergreen Pub & Café

115-117 East 1st Street 503-556-9935 Burgers, halibut, appetizers, full bar.

11–11 Daily. Inside dining.

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Sunshine Pizza & Catering 2124 Columbia Blvd. Hot pizza, cool salad bar. Beer & wine. Limited inside seating, curbside pickup and delivery.

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Ixtapa Fine Mexican Restaurant

Porky’s Public House 561 Industrial Way, Longview 38 draft beers. Full bar. Family-friendly.

Dining room open. Take-out. Curbside delivery; partner with Delivery King for deliveries. Live music suspended due to Covid. 360-636-1616.

Roland Wines

Eclipse Café

St. Helens, Ore.

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

Casual ambience. 5–9pm Wed-Fri, Sat. 11–3. See ad, page 14. Call for status.

Castle Rock, Wash.

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. Curbside pickup and home delivery. 503-543-3017

Warren, Ore. Warren Country Inn 56575 Columbia River Hwy. Fine family dining. Breakfast, lunch & dinner. Full bar. Call for hours.503-410-5479.

Check Facebook for updates. Dine-in.

Toutle, Wash.

DREW’S GROCERY & SERVICE

5304 Spirit Lake Hwy (10 miles from Exit 49. Picnics on site or to go, full deli, fried chicken, Skipper’s chowder, fish, shrimp.

See ad, page 23.

Goble Tavern

70255 Columbia River Hwy. (Milepost 31, Hwy. 30) Food, beer & wine + full bar, Live entertainment 11–11 Daily. Inside dining.

503-556-4090

Freddy’s Just for the Halibut.

Cod, Alaskan halibut fish and chips, award-winning clam chowder. Burgers, steaks, pasta. Beer and wine. M-Sat 10am–8pm, Sunday 11am–8pm. Inside dining, Drive-thru, outdoor seating.

1110 Commerce 360-414-3288. See ad, page 8.

Luigi’s Pizza

117 East 1st Street, Rainier 503-556-4213 Inside dining, Take-out & Delivery

Pizza, spaghetti, burgers, beer & wine.

11–9, Mon-Thurs, Sun; 11–10 Fri-Sat

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

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Hop N Grape

924 15th Ave., Longview Tues–Thurs 11am–7pm; Fri & Sat 11am– 8pm. BBQ meat slow-cooked on site. Pulled pork, chicken, brisket, ribs, turkey, salmon.

World-famous mac & cheese. 360-577-1541.

Grant’s at the Monticello Hotel on Longview’s

historic Civic Circle. Casual upscale inside dining, patio dining. Seafood, steaks, pasta, burgers. Happy Hour specials 3pm. Lunch & dinner. M-Th 11-9, Fri-Sat 11-10.

Parker’s Steak House & 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.

360-967-2333. Call for status/options.

Vault Books & Brew 20 Cowlitz Street West, Castle Rock Coffee and specialty drinks, quick eats & sweet treats. See ad, page 29.

Kalama, Wash.

215 N. Hendrickson Dr., Port of Kalama.

A Northwest pub and unique bars serving breakfast, lunch & dinner daily.

Info & reservations, bar hours at mcmenamins.com. 8am–midnight daily.

360- 673-9210. Indoor dining, covered outdoor seating, curbside take-out.

Fire Mountain Grill

Mile 19, 9440 Spirit Lake Highway. Newly remodeled. Burgers, steaks, seafood, homemade cobblers. Riverside dining. 360-2745217. Open Mon-Thurs 11:30–5; Fri-Sat 11:30–7; Sun 11`:30–5.

Woodland, Wash.

“SoCo” 1350 Atlantic Ave. Rotating craft brews, pub fare. Open M-Th 11am–6pm; Fri–Sat 11am–10pm; Sunday 11am–6pm.

360-841-8941. See ad, page 23.

L

uckman

Coffee Company 1230 Lewis River Rd. Small batch on-site roasted coffee, breakfast, lunch. Inside seating. M-F 5:30am–6pm, Sat 6am–5pm, Sun 7am–3pm. See ad, page 33.

Roland on Wine

The ‘new normal’ in wine tasting

COLUMBIA RIVER DINING GUIDE

Forget whirlwind winery-hopping

By Marc Roland

A

re you ready for the “new normal” in wine tasting? As the weather gets gradually better and the pandemic winds down, maybe it’s time to think about a trip to wine country. But let me tell you, expect some big changes from the last time you visited. For better or worse, you can expect a different experien, and it may be here to stay. The days of speeding off to Walla Walla and hitting as many tasting rooms as you can before staggering back to the tour limo, are over. That’s not a bad thing.

As Covid-19 restrictions ease, restaurants’ operations may still fluctuate. Expect mask requirements and indoor/ outdoor, seating/ occupancy limits in accordance with State guidelines. Call first if in doubt. Please support local restaurants — they are vital in the economic and social life of our community!

Longview resident and former Kelso teacher Marc Roland started making wine in 2008 in his garage. He and his wife, Nancy, now operate Roland Wines at 1106 Florida Street in Longview’s new “barrel district.”

For wine tasting hours, call 360846-7304.

The reason is that most tasting rooms I know now require reservations. This started with the pandemic as a way to keep crowds of people from showing up at the same time at a crowded bar.

Restrictions prohibited standing at the bar and having wine poured freely.

Savvy tasting rooms realized that folks just weren’t coming out like they did before, so they got creative with the idea of hosted tastings or curated wine experiences tailored to the group.

There was a shift to this model way before COVID. Wineries have seen revenues fall because the drop-in-andtaste concept didn’t always translate into bottle sales or wine club member sign ups. Taste-and-dash created a drinking culture with little commitment to buying, beyond the tasting fee. The first solution was to raise tasting fees, which backfired because folks quit having fun and even avoided wine tasting altogether, preferring to seek out better experiences elsewhere.

Wineries got smart and offered to waive the tasting fee if a customer bought a bottle. In order to avoid the tasting fee, many folks took advantage of still getting a tasting for free. For many wineries it helped sell wine, even if it was one bottle.

However, wineries were still not recovering the cost of the tasting wine, and that morphed into ”buy two bottles to avoid the fee.” The bottom line for tasting rooms: They were losing money by giving away wine. But what if you didn’t like the wine? It didn’t make sense to buy a bottle just to save the tasting fee if you really didn’t like the wine. This was awkward for the consumer. It seems almost out of nowhere, wineries around the world collectively said “Enough is enough.

There has to be a better way.”

Where I first noticed this was about a year ago in Napa Valley. They were one of the first to start offering “wine experiences” in lieu of standing at the bar and tasting wine one after another in rapid sequence, only to be handed wine club propaganda, and maybe not even a “thanks for visiting.”

So what should you expect next time you go wine tasting? First, you cont page 28

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will need to get a reservation. Yes, as frustrating as it is to pre-plan your trip, it is a new reality. You might get lucky as I did, when I showed up at a winery and called them from the parking lot to get in, but don’t count on it. Secondly, curated wine tasting takes time and costs money, so pick your wineries carefully. Pick a few of the must-visits and maybe a smaller no-name winery to discover.

Thirdly, what can you expect? To pay more for the wine experience, anywhere from $20-$50 per person.

Most likely you will be seated at a private table and served the wines as a flight or maybe one at a time. You will have one person serving you, and they will be your guide. You won’t feel rushed, and part of the service will be an informed and knowledgable person to answer any questions you have. Part of the experience may include some complementary snacks to eat between tastes. For an extra VIP experience you can usually sign up for a winery and property tour when you make your reservation.

What are you reading?

Monthly feature coordinated by Alan Rose

Book title grabs curious reader’s attention Donna McLain

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Takeaways for me are mixed. I like spontaneity and dashing from place to place, but I also like visiting and learning about the wineries and, when possible, meeting the winemaker. Just be prepared to spend a lot more money in wine country and plan accordingly. One last tip is that you don’t have to do the full tasting. I save money and even have a better time if I just ask for a bottle of their best wine and sit somewhere looking out over the vineyard and take in the summer sunshine. Cheers to summer!

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eing a curious reader, I find that obscure titles grab my attention.

Couple that with a story “about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II,” and I’m hooked.

All the Light We Cannot See, by Anthony Doerr, is a 2014 Pulitzer Prize winner, which further seals the deal.

like the Sea of Flames jewel in the book. War historians will find the book riveting. I would hold it up as a great antiwar novel, a modern Red Badge of Courage.

At the end, Doerr provides a look ahead into the lives of his characters, raising as many questions as he answers. This is a book that cries out for a book discussion. I recommend this novel as one whose characters will The chapters bounce back and forth continue to walk with you long after between Werner and Marie-Laure. you close the book or push “Eject” on Hang on for the ride because the the audio disc. It is haunting in so book also jumps forward in time and many ways. back again. Plot questions abound, ••• and I raced through, wondering what would happen to whom, next, and how. There is no end to the Donna McLain, a suspense, and I often wondered if a Mills & Antioch grad, time machine dropped me into the is a published story story, how would I have reacted. writer. After 27 years What decisions would I have made at Boeing, she retired if confronted with the choices facing to Longview, working Werner and Marie-Laure? There are as a substitute teacher also uplifting moments of kindness in Kelso-Longview and beauty that sparkle much schools for 10 years, and now tutors. An avid reader, she’s also active in AAUW, genealogy, and politics.

Cover to Cover Brought to you by Book Sense and Pacific Northwest Booksellers Assn, for week ending May 30, 2021, based on reporting from the independent bookstores of Alaska, Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana. For the Book Sense store nearest you, visit www.booksense.com

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1. Project Hail Mary Andy Weir, Ballantine, $28.99 2. The Hill We Climb Amanda Gorman, Viking, $15.99 3. The Midnight Library Matt Haig, Viking, $26 4. Klara and the Sun Kazuo Ishiguro, Knopf, $28 5. While Justice Sleeps Stacey Abrams, Doubleday, $28 6. The Vanishing Half Brit Bennett, Riverhead Books, $27 7. The Four Winds Kristin Hannah, St. Martin’s, $28.99 8. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue V.E. Schwab, Tor, $26.99 9. The Plot Jean Hanff Korelitz, Celadon Books, $28 10. Great Circle Maggie Shipstead, Knopf, $28.95

BOOK REVIEW

By Alan Rose Horizon Barry Lopez Vintage Books $17 Paperback

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he writer Barry Lopez died on Christmas Day, 2020. Acclaimed author of Arctic Dreams (National Book Award) and Of Wolves and Men, his final book is the culmination of and tribute to a life driven by curiosity and wonder. In the aptly titled Horizon, he revisits and reflects on that life as he sensed its end approaching.

Much more than “a travel writer,” to read his books is to travel with a thoughtful and thought-filled man, to benefit from his sharp observations and his meditations on what he is

Alan Rose’s new novel, As If Death Summoned, is a finalist for the Foreword Indies Book of the Year Awards. Sign up for his monthly WordFest newsletter at www. alan-rose.com

HARDCOVER NON-FICTION 1. The Anthropocene Reviewed John Green, Dutton, $28 2. Finding the Mother Tree Suzanne Simard, Knopf, $28.95 3. Facing the Mountain Daniel James Brown, Viking, $30 4. World Travel Anthony Bourdain, Laurie Woolever, Ecco, $35 5. The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse Charlie Mackesy, HarperOne, $22.99 6. The Premonition Michael Lewis, Norton, $30 7. The Bomber Mafia Malcolm Gladwell, Little, Brown, $27 8. Untamed Glennon Doyle, The Dial Press, $28 9. Crying in H Mart Michelle Zauner, Knopf, $26.95 10. Noise Daniel Kahneman, et al., Little, Brown Spark, $32

MASS MARKET 1. Dune Frank Herbert, Ace, $10.99 2. The Sentinel Lee Child, Andrew Child, Dell, $9.99 3. Dune Messiah Frank Herbert, Ace, $9.99 4. Mistborn: The Final Empire Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $8.99 5. 1984 George Orwell, Signet, $9.99 6. American Gods Neil Gaiman, Morrow, $9.99 7. Bridgerton: The Duke and I Julia Quinn, Avon, $9.99 8. Words of Radiance Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $10.99 9. Lord of the Flies William Golding, Perigee, $11 10. Good Omens Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett, Morrow, $9.99

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To the horizon ...and beyond observing. His was a secular, scientific mind, yet open to the great mystery that surrounds us and of which we are part. Whether at Cape Foulweather on the Oregon coast, in the Great Rift Valley of Africa, Australia’s vast deserts, or Skraeling Island in the Canadian High Arctic, he finds the world “mysterious at a fundamental level.”

I read daily about the many threats to human life — chemical, political, biological, and economic. Much of this trouble, I believe, has been caused by the determination of some to define a human cultural world apart from the nonhuman world…It is here, with these attempts to separate the fate of the human world from that of the nonhuman world that we come face-to-face with a biological reality that halts us in our tracks: nature will be fine without us.

Following in the footsteps and the ship’s wakes of explorers like James Cook, Charles Darwin, Ernest Shackleton, and others, Lopez contemplates what compelled each of them to aim for the horizon, and then go beyond it.

Wary of superstition, he was also aware of the limitations of the rational, empirical mind, realizing that we are all prisoners of our own perceptions.

Such limited perception has been the primary cause of the ignorance and arrogance that has resulted in the exploitation of the natural world, the colonizing and eradication of cultures different from our own, and now the prospect of homo sapiens’ self-extinction.

Particularly insightful are the chapters where he encounters and tries to understand how different is his Western, modern, scientific mind from traditional peoples’ minds and

and another world,” and realizes that we carry our world with us wherever we go.

The book is a fitting epitaph for such a mind as his: “this continuous search for meaning…for coherence, for a way to fit all the pieces of our life experience together into a meaningful whole, to find a direction in which to continue.”

I would like to believe that, for Lopez, death was only one more horizon to explore and to go beyond.

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~ From Horizon

ways of seeing, whether the Iñupiat people of Alaska, the Kurrama of Australia, or the Hadza in Tanzania, who possess different understandings of time, space, and their relationship to the natural world. He notes how the Western mind tends to objectify, to see isolated objects, whereas indigenous peoples tend to perceive patterns of interrelationship. Lopez sees a bear; the traditional people he’s with see “bearing,” how the animal and his actions fit into an interrelated whole. Time and again, Lopez finds himself “at the crossroads of my own

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Miss Manners

from page 5

The giver’s intentions were earnest, but one wishes to gently discourage them from anything further in the same vein — or from further iterations or “refills” of the original gift — in the future.

GENTLE READER: “Thank you, as always, for the side of beef from your local farm. We are still vegetarians, but appreciate your thinking of us.”

DEAR MISS MANNERS: Are there any special rules that apply to old boyfriends who are friends with a married lady? Should we be held to a higher standard than other opposite-

gender friends when one of us is married and the other is not, because we once had a romantic relationship?

I’ve started corresponding with my college girlfriend after many years. She is happily married to a fine gentleman I hope to meet after the pandemic, and I am very happy for her. Though I haven’t seen her in years, I would like to do so again. For any future invitations, should I invite her husband along on every occasion?

Am I limited in complimenting her and expressing any feelings for her? I wish to behave as innocently as my feelings are. I certainly do not want to offend anyone or cause any misunderstandings.

Where to find the new Reader

It’s delivered all around the River by the 15th of each month. Here’s the list of handy, regularly-refilled sidewalk box and rack locations where you can pick up a copy any time of day and even in your bathrobe:

LONGVIEW U.S. Bank Post Office Bob’s (rack, main check-out) In front of 1232 Commerce Ave In front of 1323 Commerce Ave YMCA Fred Meyer (rack, by service desk) Teri’s Grocery Outlet Fibre Fed’l CU - Commerce Ave Monticello Hotel (front entrance) Kaiser Permanente St. John Medical Center (rack, Park Lake Café) LCC Student Center Indie Way Diner Columbia River Reader Office 1333 14th Ave. KELSO Heritage Bank Visitors’ Center / Kelso-Longview Chamber of Commerce KALAMA Fibre Fed’l CU Kalama Shopping Center

corner of First & Fir McMenamin’s Harbor Lodge WOODLAND Visitors’ Center Grocery Outlet Luckman Coffee Antidote (rack) CASTLE ROCK Lacie Rha’s Cafe (32 Cowlitz W.) Parker’s Restaurant (box, entry) Visitors’ Center 890 Huntington Ave. N., Exit 49, west side of I-5

RYDERWOOD Café porch TOUTLE Drew’s Grocery & Service

CLATSKANIE Post Office Chevron / MiniMart Fultano’s Pizza WESTPORT Berry Patch Wauna mill

(parking lot) RAINIER Post Office Cornerstone Rainier Hardware (rack, entry) Earth ‘n’ Sun (on Hwy 30) El Tapatio (entry rack) Grocery Outlet DEER ISLAND Deer Island Store COLUMBIA CITY - Post Office WARREN Warren Country Inn ST HELENS Chamber of Commerce Sunshine Pizza St. Helens Market Fresh Olde Town: Wild Currant, Tap into Wine Safeway SCAPPOOSE To find the 24/7 Post Office pick-up point Road Runner nearest you, Fultano’s visit crreader.com and click “Find the Ace Hardware Magazine” tab.

WARRENTON, OR Fred Meyer CATHLAMET Cathlamet Pharmacy Tsuga Gallery Cathlamet Realty West Puget Island Ferry Landing SKAMOKAWA Skamokawa General Store NASELLE Appelo Archives & Café Johnson’s One-Stop

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GENTLE READER: Time was, it was generally believed that any male and any female, if left together, would get right down to doing one thing. Thus there were chaperones, parietal rules and other awkward devices for denying them the privacy to do it. If a married person was involved, it would be cause for divorce on the grounds of adultery.

Miss Manners is surprised to see this exciting, but unlikely, assumption surfacing in modern times. There is even a new term besmirching warm, opposite-gender friendships: “emotional affairs.”

But there are many different types of emotion. And friendship — even deep friendship, which can be felt for more than one person — is not the same as romantic passion, which, in theory at least, should be limited to one at a time.

Many friendships make for a rich life; many romances make trouble.

Yet we throw boys and girls together in educational, social and work situations, only to condemn them if they maintain any opposite-gender friendships — or, indeed, form new ones — after marriage. Miss Manners considers it a poor commentary on marriage if the partners cannot be trusted to form lesser bonds without breaking faith. Such marriages undoubtedly exist, but their problems have deeper roots.

Now we come to the extra element when, as in your case, there was romance in the past. Generally, we consider it civilized for exes to turn into friends.

But the key question in an individual case such as yours is how the lady and her husband think about this.

Some husbands are amused at former boyfriends resurfacing, giving them endless material with which to tease their wives. Others fear that the old flame will reignite.

By all means, start by seeing the two of them. After that, you can ask her if he would feel left out if you and she had

an occasional lunch. But you might find that you want to be friends with him, as well. Or instead.

••• 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.

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Find a unique gift!

We have beautiful artisan cards, masks, jewelry, books by local authors, pottery, sculpture, photographs and so much more at your local Co-operative Fine Arts & Crafts Gallery.

BROADWAY GALLERY 1418 Commerce Avenue , Longview, Wash • Tu-Sat 11–4

Visit the Gallery or see new work on our website: the-broadwaygallery.com, at Broadway Gallery on Facebook, and broadway gallery_longview on Instagram.

Featured artists: June: Gallery member Janet MacGregor, painting; Guest artists Mike Morgan, mixed media sculpture.

July: Guest artists Carla Estavane, painting; Richard Roth, pottery; and Susan Roth, pottery.

First Thursdays and classes will return soon. Updates on our website: the-broadway-gallery.com Voted one of top 3 Galleries in Southwest Washington. Free Gift wrapping plus Layaway!

CALL TO ARTISTS! Theme: “A Place For Hope” 2D & 3D entries. Entry Deadline: July 28, 4pm.

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OUT & ABOUT

Of the items pictured, only aluminum, steel and tin cans (including drink, food, even pet food) are recyclable. Clean aluminum foil is recyclable, also.

Empty contents and rinse lightly. Labels may stay on. Place the lids inside the cans - this is a safety measure for the crews sorting your recyclables.

ILWACO • Columbia Pacific Heritage Museum 115 SE Lake St., Ilwaco, Wash. columbiapacificheritagemuseum.org/

Chinook Resources

near the Columbia River

The CPHM has one of the most fully-developed Chinook exhibits in the lower Columbia area, including photos, artifacts, canoes and baskets on permanent exhibit. The Museum reopened to the public June 1.

HOW TO PUBLICIZE YOUR NON-PROFIT EVENT IN CRR

Send your non-commercial community event basic info (name of event, beneficiary, 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

Submission Deadlines Events occurring: July 15 – August 20:

by June 25 for July 15 issue Aug 15 – Sept 20:

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

•The Chinook/Confluence installation at Cape Disappointment State Park.

The Confluence Project, funded in connection with the Lewis & Clark Bicentennial, features wonderful installations along the Columbia River overseen by world-renowned landscape designer Maya Lin in consultation with Northwest Native Tribes, including the Chinook. confluenceproject.org/river-site/capedisappointment-state-park/ TOKELAND • Shoalwater Bay Tribe Library and Heritage Museum 4115 State Route 105, Tokeland, Wash. shoalwaterbay-nsn.gov/home/aboutthe-tribe/our-culture/ The beautiful and little-known Shoalwater Heritage Museum includes a rich collection of Chinookan artifacts and photographs, including carving examples and carvings “in process.”

It is across the highway from the Shoalwater Bay Casino. Call for hours.

Winlock Egg Days June 18-19. Winlock, Wash. Friends of Winlock Library book sale, parade, free egg salad sandwiches, free admission. Info: winlockeggdays.com

SquirrelFest Aug. 21, RALong Park, Longview Civic Circle. Food, crafts, entertainers, kids’ activities. More details next issue.

Arts of the Mountain Arts & Music Festival. June 26, 10–4; June 27, 10–4. I-5 Exit 49, drive 5 miles east to Silver Lake Grange, 3104 Spirit Lake Memorial Hwy. Acoustic musicians, various artworks. Info: artsofthemountain.com, 360-431-9802.

C A L L T O ARTISTS! Art in the Park welcomes artists and fine crafters in almost any media to this juried event. Held on August 21 in conjunction with, but separate from, SquirrelFest in the Longview Civic Circle Park. Booth fee $50. Applications at Broadway Gallery,1418 Commerce, Longview or online at www.columbianartists.org.

Rainier Days in the Park July 9-11. Vendors, entertainment, etc. Saturday: Parade 10am, fireworks 10pm. Rainier City Park.

Scappoose 100-Year Celebration FridaySat Aug 13-14, Heritage and Veteran’s Parks in Scappoose, Oregon. More details next issue. sQuatch Fest July 30, 4–9pm, July 31, 10am–8pm. Cowlitz County Convention Center, 1900 7th Ave., Longivew, Wash.

Speakers, vendors, brew mountain, games, etc. Kelso-Longview Chamber of Commerce. More details next issue.

Farm to Fiber Festival Sept. 9–12, Wahkiakum County Fairgrounds. Event to bring together fiber enthusiasts, kids, animal breeders for education, sales, competition. Info 360-703-7291 or lrcagle@gmail.com.

Flag of the Chinook Indian Nation (created as a limited edition serigraph print in 1991 by Tony Johnson, Chinook Tribal Chair) represents a Columbia River King Salmon (iqwanat) and an important spirit power (tamanawas).

Salmon will enter a river as long as a person who possesses that particular power stands in the water and sings.

See related story, page 13

MIDDLE VILLAGE/ STATION CAMP • Lewis & Clark National Historic Park (WA unit, McGowan off Hwy 101, near Astoria-Megler Bridge) nps.gov/lewi/planyourvisit/ stationcamp.htm

RIDGEFIELD • Cathlapotle Chinookan Plankhouse, Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge 28908 NW Main Ave. Ridgefield Wash. fws.gov/refuge/Ridgefield/visit/ Cathlapotle_Plankhouse.html

Located along Highway 101 on the north side of the Columbia River between the town of Chinook and the Astoria-Megler Bridge, outdoors and open daylight hours, year-round.

Built by more than 100 volunteers over the course of two years with direct involvement by Chinookan artists and designers, this full-scale Chinookan plankhouse was built based on findings from the archaeological village site of Cathlapotle, well-noted in the journals of Lewis & Clark. The Plankhouse and the objects inside offer a tangible link to those who lived there and provide a unique site for the interpretation of the Chinookan cultural heritage preserved on the Refuge.

For thousands of years, the Chinook people lived here near the great river’s mouth, an ideal place to find plenty of seafood, game animals, materials for shelter and clothing, and to trade with visiting ships.

The waterway near Middle Village became a virtual trade “water highway.” During the 10 years before Lewis and Clark arrived overland at this spot, almost 90 trade ships from Europe and New England are documented to have crossed the Columbia River Bar to trade with Native Americans. These ships brought metal tools, blankets, clothing, beads, liquor and weapons to trade for beaver and sea otter pelts. By the time the Corps reached the site, the Chinooks had moved to their winter village and this village was unoccupied.

STEVENSON • Columbia Gorge Interpretive Center Museum 990 SW Rock Creek Dr., Stevenson, Wash. www.columbiagorge.org/ The first floor introduces Chinookan culture, the impact of European contact, and native fishing techniques including dipnetting at (now lost) Celilo Falls; as well as a beautiful replica of the Chinookan petroglyph “She Who Watches.”

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Keep pruners, garden gloves, scissors, cloth rag, trowel, weed tool in it with the lid on to protect from the weather.

Have a task list This can be on your phone, whiteboard, notepad...very satisfying to check off!

Amend soil before you plant, but start with a soil test Use the soil test results as a baseline.

Starting in autumn for next season, you will want to add organic matter (shredded fall leaves are an excellent amendment), and possibly lime if indicated.

Plan your irrigation methods Drip irrigation or soaker hoses are best.

If you water by hand, do so early in the morning, and apply water to the soil around the base of the plant. Avoid getting the leaves wet; this helps to prevent fungal diseases.

If problems occur Keep Plant and Insect Clinic contact information handy. If you find a problem, contact us before you attempt a chemical treatment. cowlitzmastergardener@gmail.com, cowlitzcomg.com/plant-and-insectclinic, or 360-577-3014 ext. 8. But be prepared to employ preventive strategies, such as row cover fabric to create a physical barrier to insect infestation when you see, for example, the cabbage butterfly, the culprit responsible for the dreaded leaf-eating imported cabbage worm.

Control weeds Consider using a 4-6 inch layer of arborist wood chips (available for free, cont page 34 Kalama resident Alice Slusher volunteers with WSU Extension Service Plant & Insect Clinic.

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at Roy Morse Park in Longview: 2.8 miles west of Fred Meyer, turn left onto Mt. Solo Rd., left on Branch Creek Dr., continue on Reg Smith Dr. into the park) between rows and along edge of garden. This controls weeds, and keeps your feet clean —no more muddy boots. And mulch your garden bed, with landscape fabric, grass clippings, etc.

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Plant “insectary plants” to create a habitat for beneficial insects and pollinators Plants such as catnip, anise, dill, cilantro, yarrow, coreopsis, cosmos, sunflower, candytuft, sweet alyssum, phacelia, to name a few, are great to plant amongst your plants, or as a garden border. And remember— pesticides of all kinds kill the beneficial insects, too, so use other methods of control first—like squishing bugs or row covers. If that doesn’t work, use the least toxic method and spot-spray only.

Contact the Plant and Insect clinic for your best options. Avoid “homemade” remedies—they can cause far more damage to your plants.

Track your progress Which vegetables did well? Did you encounter pests or disease? When did it

occur? How did you handle it? What varieties of veggies did you plant?

When did you plant them? When did you harvest them? How did you irrigate? Did you have too many green leaves and not many vegetables? How did you put your garden to bed in fall? Did you need to add lime in fall?

Looking back will help you to plan for next year’s garden. And don’t worry about making some mistakes — it’s often the best way to learn!

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Saturdays • 10–4 Thru Sept 25 Arts/crafts, housewares, cut flowers, foods. Port of Ilwaco, Ilwaco, Wash. www.portofilwaco.com Info: marketmanager.ilwaco@gmail.com or phone 360-670-0120

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SKY REPORT

Looking UP

JUNE 15 – JULY 20

By Greg Smith

Evening Sky The bright star Arcturus, in the view will be a clear, unobstructed constellation Boötes, is high overhead horizon like a beach or mountain and leads the parade of summer stars hillside facing west. On July 2, Venus and constellations. The constellation will be next to the open star cluster Hercules is the first in this parade with M44. You will need binoculars to two binocular-viewable star clusters. overcome the evening glow to see the The first one is the fabulous globular cluster, but Venus will be very bright. star cluster M13, on the western Mars and Venus will have a side-byside of the body of the hunter about side encounter on July 11th, low on one-third of the way from the top.

Hercules also has Night Sky Spectacle: Sagitta the Arrow a second globular This small constellation, located between the stars Altair star cluster, M92, and Vega, is made of several not-so-bright stars, but when located near where you know where to look, they are discernable and can be you would imagine found easily the next time you look for it. The first item is a the head should fun item to see. It is Brocchi’s cluster (CR399), unofficially be. named the “coat hanger.” It is made up of nine stars that The Summer Triangle is now fully in the eastern sky with its three bright stars of Vega in Lyra (the harp), Deneb in Cygnus (the swan) as its tail, and Altair in Aquila (the eagle). Within this triangle is a small constellation known as Sagitta, the arrow.

make the shape of an upside-down coat hanger located just up and to the right of the ‘feathers’ of the arrow.

In the diagram the two close star dots are the feathers. The ‘coat hanger’ is the three stars to the right on the green line.

Look for it with binoculars.

The yellow circle with the crosshatch and labeled M71, is another globular cluster, You will need to use a telescope to see it but the small chart will help you find it.

In late June, Venus makes her reappearance in the night sky as the Evening Star around 9pm as she reappears from being on the far side of the Sun the last few weeks. Venus will be very low on the western horizon just after sunset. It should pierce through the evening glow of the setting sun as it will be –3 in brightness (negative numbers are very bright). The best

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Morning Sky For you night owls, Jupiter and Saturn rise in the southeast around 12:30am.

A nearly 3rd quarter moon is rising in the southeast the 30th of June an hour after Jupiter and Saturn rise.

Moon Phases Full: Thur, June 24 3rd Qtr. : Thur, July 1 New : Thur. July 9 1st Qtr. : Sat July 17, End of twilight - when the stars start to come out.

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Looking far and near: Exploration, reveals beauty, surprising

By Greg Smith discoveries

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he start of summer ushers in thoughts of long summer nights and looking forward to warming evenings. Star gazers tend to bemoan the short nights, but also look forward to the beauties of the summer nights, such as the clusters and nebulae of the southern sky that are so thrilling and inspiring. Not to mention the attractions of the mid-altitudes of the northern sky — with nebulae and star cluster and galaxies galore to view and be mesmerized by.

Beauty!

Exploring the views of Scorpio and Sagittarius (the scorpion, and the archer) is to behold beauty. The brilliant red Antares at the heart of the scorpion next to a dense star cluster, along with the cloud of stars that steam forth from the spout of the teapot near the center of our galaxy, are beauties to sink your imagination in. This is where the Lagoon Nebula, the Trifid Nebula, and several more star clusters are found, which have inspired stories by many authors.

Flying overhead is Hercules, with the Eagle, the Harp, and a Swan. Also, in this group of highflyers, is an Arrow, a Fox, and a Dolphin. A flying horse rises in the east carrying a naked-eyevisible galaxy. With luck you may get to glimpse a coat hanger. Just take a pair of binoculars and explore the stars.

The sky is crowded with things to see on a short, clear night. As the summer progresses, and the heat of the days blend into the night it will be fun to just lie back and watch them slowly pass overhead.

Contemplation Summer evenings are also a time to contemplate what we as a civilization are doing out there. We are flying a helicopter on Mars and mapping it out for further exploration and mapping our own planet and seeing Longview resident Greg Smith is past president of Friends of Galileo. Meet him and other club members at monthly meetings in Longview. For more info about FOG, visit friendsofgalileo.com.

what we are doing to and with our own home. Remember, the U.S. is not the only country exploring other worlds. China is also exploring the far side of the Moon and driving around on Mars.

Why do we do all this exploring?

Simply because we are curious.

Exploration is not limited to just going around and finding new places to see, it includes exploring what causes disease, what life was like for the people who lived before written history, or even exploring lost histories of bygone civilizations.

On a closer, more personal note Have we not done exploring of our own? How many of us have explored our own family histories? Have we not found amazing stories of ancestors, surprises in discovering who we descend from, what some did, where they came from?

I personally found corrections to the oral family stories that were passed down in my own family. One was a complete reversal of the adamant story of having native American ancestry to, it turns out, having none. But finding that, yes, there was a native American in our family, although not “blood related,” but a step great-great grandmother. Also, that members of our family fought in the Revolutionary War not only in Boston, Massachusetts, but also in North Carolina, where a fort is named after them.

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They’ve got tickets to ride! Florence Thomas’s grandchildren reading the Reader while waiting for the Wahkiakum Ferry. They were heading home to Rainier after a long day at the beach. Left to right: Nikolas, Jackson and Bennett.

I found that one ancestor was born on board a ship while their parents were heading for America, leaving religious persecution in Germany. Others came from England, Scotland, Ireland, and France. The biggest surprise is that I am descended from a leader of the Plymouth Colony of 1620. My heritage goes all the way back 401 years in America.

Researching my family is a way of exploring. I discovered new things, that reveal my place in history and a better sense of who I am.

Curiosity is a human trait, whether exploring the reaches of space or the reaches of family history. We are all explorers.

Getting ready for travel to resume!

Travel consultant Becki Bozart, of Rainier, Oregon, reads the Reader at Honolulu Zoo while touring resorts for BriBeck Travel.

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Politicians should stay out of such problems and let Mother Nature solve them.

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Tsuga Gallery’s 10th Anniversary Celebration Janet Cimino’s legacy lives on

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n Friday, June 18th at 4pm, Tsuga Art Gallery in downtown Cathlamet will celebrate its Grand Re-Opening/10th anniversary. Come see the newly remodeled gallery. Over the past year and a half, the gallery has been repainted inside and out. New track lighting and landscaping have been installed. After having been closed due to the Covid-19 outbreak, Tsuga (pronounced Su-ga) Gallery is open and back in business. 2021 also marks the 10th anniversary of the gallery, founded by the late Janet Cimino in 2011.

Cimino was born and raised in Wahkiakum County.

She enjoyed the outdoors and did a lot of hiking and photography in the area. She was an art collector and an artist herself. Janet had a dream of a place in the area to provide a forum for the development of art and art education in a collaborative environment that would also showcase the work of local artists.

ribbon and see her dream come true. She passed away just two weeks later.

Tsuga Gallery is located at 70 Main Street in Cathlamet, WA. It is a 501-C3 non-profit art co-op governed by a board of directors.

The membership is open to residents of Wahkiakum County and the surrounding area. Members pay dues and work shifts when the gallery is open. Funding comes from monies left by the Tsuga Art Trust/ Janet Cimino, donations and fundraisers. Art classes are offered to the public at varying times.

Artists in Wahkiakum County who would like to join the gallery, or if those interested in donating to the gallery may contact 360-795-0725, www. tsugagallery.org or tsugagallery@gmail.com.

When diagnosed with cancer in 2011, she purchased a 100- year-old building in downtown Cathlamet and with the help of many area artists, the building was renovated into a gallery. She formed the Tsuga Art Association, and a Grand Opening was held in July 2011. Janet was there to cut the Fashion Jewelry • Diamonds • Wedding Sets • Swarovski Optiks

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the spectator by ned piper It’s the good ol’ summertime

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oad up your cars, friends, summer has arrived and the authorities have re-opened the world of our favorite events and activities… especially to those who are fully vaccinated.

If you’ve never been to Rainier Days, you’ve been missing out. This year, Rainier, Oregon, is back in business with three days in the park, July 9–11. On Saturday, July 10th, at around 10pm the first firework will be launched in what organizers call “the largest display of fireworks on the Columbia River.”

(And I always thought it was the kids in our neighborhood who shot off the most!) The popular event traditionally features a carnival, a parade, and live entertainment to be announced.

Check rainierdaysinthepark.com for the evolving schedule of events, subject to possibly-lingering Covid restrictions.

When I was a little kid, my grandparents drove our family up to Winlock, Washington, north of Castle Rock, to the Winlock Egg Days celebration. I was always impressed with the gigantic white egg that welcomed visitors to the town. I hadn’t been in Winlock for years, but now I visit the town every month since the Cattermole Funeral Home began advertising with us. Winlock is now on my distribution list.

Egg Days, is celebrating its100th anniversary on June 19th this year.

After a year of COVID suspension, Longview’s GoFourth celebration is set to roll at Lake Sacajawea startingJuly 2nd and concluding with a BANG! on the 4th. There won’t be a timber carnival this year, but you can feast at 20 assorted food booths and wander through some 150 Flea Market displays. The grand finale, the fireworks show, will blast off at 10pm Sunday.

August 21st brings back the ever-popular Squirrel Fest to Longview’s Civic Circle Park.

Billed “The Nuttiest Event in the Northwest,” it always holds up to its motto. In fact, it cracks everyone up. Mark your calendar!

When you go to these events, don’t forget to take a picture of you and the family reading the Reader. Sue tells me after a long dry spell when nobody was traveling, we are again receiving “Where Do You Read the Reader?” submissions; two appear on page 35 this issue, with another four already in the queue.

Finally, another word of thanks to CRR’s advertisers who have hung in here through the pandemic while business has been suppressed and uncertain. And thank you, readers, for supporting them. If you get the chance please mention to the owners, managers or staff that you see their ads in CRR and appreciate their part in making the Reader available as a free gift, a community resource. Ad revenue and People+Place sponsorship are CRR’s only funding source and this is what allows us to continue perking along.

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By Alice Dietz

Ways to save money Introducing a NEW Home Energy Loan Program!

Cowlitz PUD and Fibre Federal Credit Union have teamed up to offer residential homeowners financing on five energy efficient programs: insulation, windows, ducted and ductless heat pumps, and heat pump water heaters. Loans ranging from $2,000 to $12,000 are available through the credit union. The PUD rebate is applied to the annual percentage rate of the loan, lowering it to zero in most cases.

How do you get started?

1. Contact Cowlitz PUD’s Energy Efficiency Services 2. Complete the Residential Energy Efficiency Loan Program Participation Form located on our webpage at www.cowlitzpud.org.

3. Obtain project pre-approval. For pre-approval on your home energy project, contact Cowlitz PUD Energy Efficiency Services at 360-501-9514, or email eeservices@cowlitzpud.org.

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