From Page to Stage Gala Highlights

The evening featured Tapestry NW, Brownsmead Flats, Past Longview mayors (and one from Kelso!), readings, tributes, CRR segments on Lewis & Clark, Miss Manners, HaikuFest and Where Do You Read the Reader?

101/Hwy 103) Long Beach, WA. 360-642-2400 • 800-451-2542

• South Columbia County Chamber Columbia Blvd/Hwy 30, St. Helens, OR • 503-397-0685

• Seaside, OR 989 Broadway, 503-738-3097; 888-306-2326

• Astoria-Warrenton Chamber/Ore Welcome Ctr 111 W. Marine Dr., Astoria 503-325-6311 or 800-875-6807

Sept 8-9 2023 Centennial Celebration: Parade, Gala Banquet at Monticello Hotel, Rolleo at Lake Sacajawea, Drone Light Shows, Street Dances, time capsule cornerstone ceremony & MORE

The Longview Public Library’s Podcast Your Shelf or Mine is celebrating the Centennial with historical episodes, including:

• Longview’s ‘23 Club, with Cal Fowler and Abe Ott

• Empire of Trees: America’s Planned City and the Last Frontier, with Hal Calbom and Sue Piper

• Joseph Govednik, Cowlitz County Historical Museum, World War II

To listen, visit longview100.org, click on “Events” and then the Your Shelf or Mine button

Historic Walking Tour

Pick up your FREE Passport at the Longview Library and enjoy exploring nearby places, with information about each inside the Passport. Great family activity, fun for all ages. Limited supplies.

Fri-Sat-Sun July 28th-30th

Loggers Breakfast, Quilt Show, Sculptor Wade Lapp, Parade, Boat Races, Live Music by Bruce Maier Band. Details, www.ryderwood.org

Those who attended the Longview Centennial Vintage Car Show on June 24th were delighted to find an array of vehicles lined up with RAL High School as a backdrop. The day was sunny and warm which led to a large number of pictures being taken.

Among the show cars was a 1927 Model T Speedster and a 1929 Model A Pickup. All participants were given a Longview Centennial Coin and a Centennial Car Show plaque. They were also entered into a drawing for the book Empire of Trees: America’s Planned City and the Last Frontier, by Hal Calbom, and published by Columbia River Reader Press. Doug Walter, who entered his 1953 Willy’s Jeep, was delighted when his name was drawn for the book. All who attended the car show expressed pride in being able to be involved in a Longview Centennial Celebration. Visit Longview100.org for information on upcoming Centennial events.

– Norma Peters, Car Show Chairman, Longview Centennial Committee

WEBSITE longview100.org

Contacts: Reed Hadley, longviewcentury@gmail.com or Arleen Hubble, ahubble61@gmail.com

U.S. MAIL: P.O. Box 1035, Longview, WA 98632

Merchandise

Souvenir Centennial Calendars, artist illustrations, $5

Official Centennial Coins $10, lapel pins $3 (2 for $5); T-shirts $15-22, Pens $1, Stainless steel drink tumblers, etc.

Now available at Kelso- Longview Chamber Visitor Center next to I-5 in Kelso, and Longview YMCA.

NEW EXHIBIT NOW OPEN

“1923: The Year that Changed Cowlitz County”

VISIT WWW.COWLITZCOUNTYHISTORY.ORG

405 Allen St., Kelso • Museum Hours Tues-Sat, 10–4

Sept 30 YMCA Ice Cream Social and Ol’ Time Music, 2–5 pm Ice cream treats, music, dancing. $5 Adults, $3 kids.

Nov 11 First Ever YMCA Military Ball, Saturday 6–10pm Black tie or dress uniform event with dinner and dancing for all active military personnel, veterans and their spouses or dates. AWPPW Hall adjacent to the YMCA. Child care, silent auction, other activities at the YMCA.

The city of Longview turns 100 this year. Longview Masonic Lodge #263 turns 100 next year.

To celebrate their shared history, Longview Lodge will give the City of Longview a birthday present — a new time capsule, to be opened in 2123 during the city’s bicentennial.

A formal Masonic cornerstone ceremony will mark the occasion, and you’re invited!

Saturday, September 9, 2023, 1pm

At the gazebo at RA Long Square (on Longview’s historic Civic Circle)

Cornerstone ceremonies don’t happen often. Don’t miss out!

Longview Lodge needs your help!

What do you think should go into the time capsule? What message do we send our descendants? What wishes?

What was most important about each of the past ten decades? What are your predictions for Longview 10 decades from now?

What objects should go into the capsule to represent each decade — a fad, an innovation? What books should be read in 100 years? What toys should be played with? What objects will puzzle our descendants about life in Longview?

Submit your ideas to the Lodge at freemasoncowlitz.org/time-capsule Or to info@freemasoncowlitz.org

– Roy Gawlick, Time Capsule Chairman, Longview Centennial Committee