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his month, once again, Perry pre-empted my suggestion for the cover. I admit my idea was a bit of a stretch, contrived and way too busy. I liked his idea better, as it turns out — even though it shows a spider, albeit a whimsical-looking one. But at some level even this particular spider still gets to me, touching some sort of deep-seated primitive fear and giving me the creeps.

Sue’s Views

I’m not sure when I developed my aversion to spiders. Maybe it was reading about Little Miss Muffet as a young girl. But I know I’m not alone. I can spot a spider in a room immediately.

I feel no shame in recruiting someone else — anyone else — to “take care of it.”

Bats, spiders, owls, oh my! In this issue, Fort Clatsop invites you to a walk in the woods (see page 13). If that doesn’t creep you out enough, you can also visit the Street of Screams, the Cinema of Horrors haunted house and even St. Helens Old Town, decorated this year, I hear, in an impressively-haunting, over the top expression of creativity and spookiness.

Sometimes it looks like I’m dancing, but it’s just that I walked into a spider web.

~ Demetri Martin

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Little Miss Muffet and me.

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amusing adventure trough the former Ormsby House casino/hotel, at the time closed for extensive renovations.

At one point, hot water (perhaps by mistake, from a leaky fog machine?) streamed down the back of our shirts and a “fake” gun was fired from close range within a pitch-black room. I paid money for this!? Thankfully, nobody called CPS. Growing up, I did enjoy trick or treating in the neighborhood. My two brothers usually transformed themselves into pirates or hobos, with coffee grounds plastered on their face to simulate a few days’ growth of beard. I usually went as a princess or gypsy. Concocting the costume was easy, combining massive amounts of my mom’s sparkly scarves, costume jewelry and — oh, the joy — LIPSTICK! These days, to me Halloween is merely part of the larger “package” of fall, which includes football games, harvest festivals, hot mulled cider, crunchy

Little Miss Muffet Sat on a tuffet, Eating her curds and whey; Along came a spider, Who sat down beside her, And frightened Miss Muffet away.

~ Mother Goose

leaves, walking into spider webs (!), crackling fires, scented spicy candles, candy corn and pumpkin pie. And the return to Pacific Standard Time on Nov. 5.

And even with spiders, I think Fall is still the best time of year. May we all find our favorite ways — along with a few new ones — to enjoy it.

Sue Piper

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Letters to the Editor Dispatch from the Discovery Trail Besides CRR...What Are You Reading?

Cover to Cover ~ Bestsellers List / Book Review Miss Manners Biz Buzz Roland on Wine Northwest Gardener: Tempted by Tillandsia?

Out & About: Pumpkin Land / Stella Autumn Festival Out & About: Hikes abound in Battle Ground Cooking with the Farmer’s Daughter: The Cornfed Cook Gingerbread Haus Contest From a Reader’s Kitchen: Real Pound Cake Dr. Bob on the Movies My Slant: Doctor as Patient Outings & Events Calendar /Hikes / Holiday Bazaars Lower Columbia Informer ~ Super taster, stuper maester Quips & Quotes Astronomy ~ The Night Sky Report Columbia River Dining Guide Master Gardener ~ Putting your garden to bed Where Do You Read the Reader?

The Spectator ~ Words, words, words What’s Up Under the Bridge?

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Lewis & Clark

What happened to Sacajawea?

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hen the Lewis and Clark Expedition returned to the Mandan villages in 1806, Toussaint Charbonneau (Sacajawea’s husband) was given a voucher for $500.33 for his services, but Sacajawea received nothing. In a letter to Charbonneau, Clark wrote, “Your woman who accompanied you that long dangerous and fatiguing rout to the Pacific Ocean and back diserved a greater reward for her attention and services on the rout than we had the power to give her at the Mandans.”

Clark offered to take Pomp back to St. Louis where he would educate “and raise him as my own child.” Sacajawea and Charbonneau agreed to let Clark raise their 18-month old son but felt it was too soon to do so. In a

letter, Clark wrote, “Charbono, if you wish to live with the white people, and will come to me, I will give you a piece of land and furnish you with horses, cows, & hogs.”

Three years later, Charbonneau, Sacajawea, and Pomp traveled to St. Louis to cash his voucher.

Charbonneau was given 320 acres of land, but after a year he decided he was not meant to be a farmer and sold the land back to Clark for $100, leaving 5-year old Pomp in the care of Clark and taking Sacajawea back up the Missouri River. However, since Clark had married two years earlier, he did not actually raise Pomp as his “own child” as he had promised.

Instead, he put Pomp in a boarding house and paid for his schooling.

We are pleased to present

Installment 29 of Michael Perry’s popular 33-month series which began with CRR’s April 15, 2004 inaugural issue. During the 2004-2007 Bicentennial Commemoration of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, each installment covered their travels 200 years prior. We are repeating the series for the enjoyment of both longtime and more recent readers. To find prior installments visit crreader.com Click “Archives.”

Installment #1 ran in the July 2015 issue.

Will the “real” Sacajawea please stand up?

On December 20, 1812, John Luttig, the clerk at Fort Manuel, a trading post on the upper Missouri in present-day South Dakota, included a terse obituary in his daily log: “This evening the wife of Charbonneau, a Snake squaw, died of a putrid fever. She was a good and the best woman in the Fort. Aged about 25 years. She left a fine infant girl.” Even though her actual name does not appear in the record, many people believe it was Sacajawea who had died about four months after giving birth to a daughter.

Michael Perry enjoys local history and travel. His popular 33-installment Lewis & Clark series appeared in CRR’s early years and began an “encore” appearance in July 2015.

Was this really Sacajawea? Probably. Sacajawea would have been about 24 years old in 1812. Tousaint Charbonneau had gone to Fort Manuel in 1811 cont page 8

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t was because of her friend, Penny Lightfoot, that Sharon Jeffries has gotten “hooked” on the books by Jodi Picoult. (Well, what are friends for?) “So far, I’ve read two of Picoult’s books, and I’m now starting a third,” Jeffries said.

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By Alan Rose Where Bigfoot Walks: Crossing the Dark Divide

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here were many times when climbing in the Goat Rocks wilderness that I wished I had someone like Bob Pyle along with me: a naturalist who could identify that pretty little alpine flower or that high-altitude butterfly, a poet who could put into words the beauty and wonder I was experiencing, and a storyteller who, as we sat around the (small, environment-friendly) campfire, would enthrall me with his tales of mountain lore, none more so than about Sasquatch.

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BIGFOOT FOUND! the investigators, from responsible scientists to kooks, even diving into the tabloids (“I Am the Mother of a Bigfoot Baby.”)

The resulting book, Where Bigfoot Walks: Crossing the Dark Divide, was published in 1995, and has been recently re-issued in an expanded version with the latest research.

What he reports is tantalizing. The late Grover Krantz, professor of anthropology at WSU and among the first academics to give the search scientific legitimacy, analyzed many tracks, pronouncing some to be genuine. He proposed that Bigfoot could be a descendant of Gigantopithecus, a huge primate in the Pliocene and Pleistocene eras, that has managed to survive here and as the Yeti in the Himalayas. Other scientists have suggested these creatures might be surviving Neanderthals.

Pyle also explored the numerous Indian traditions about the large hairy animals that pre-date the arrival of white men (Sasquatch comes from the Salish saskehavas,) as well

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(No, just kidding.)

…hundreds of readers have written or cornered me and put it to me: “So—do you believe, or not?” I never give them satisfaction, because the fact is, I still don’t know. The best of the evidence is not easily dismissed and is sometimes compelling. But proof—in the form of big artifacts like bone or tiny molecules of DNA—continues to be maddeningly elusive.

creature at Bluff Creek in northern California, which Pyle concludes is “not definite proof but also not dismissable.” Disney studios claimed no one could have “manufactured” the film except them—and they had not.

The descriptions have been consistent from the earliest accounts: of a 7-foot or taller hairy creature with humanlike face, big feet 14-18 inches long, and exuding an intolerable smell— although to be fair, most backpackers ~ from Where Bigfoot Walks who have been on the trail Robert Michael Pyle for three or more days usually exude an intolerable smell. as the accounts will be reading from of early explorers his book and talking In the updated version, Pyle and missionaries. presents more recent research about Bigfoot at cont page 8 In 1811, the Yukon explorer WordFest on Nov. 14.

David Thompson recorded finding tracks of a biped measuring 14 by 8 inches in the snow.

He reviewed later accounts. The first recorded report of a man-like giant in California was in 1886, in the vicinity of Crescent City. There was the 1924 account of miners who were attacked by “giant hairy apes” in what came to be called Ape Canyon (In fairness to Sasquatch, the miners had shot one of their band.)

Then there is the iconic 1967 Patterson-Gimlin film of a female

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and evidence that is compelling and not easily dismissed, including tracks he has found on two occasions. Yet in spite of the many efforts, the actual creature remains “maddeningly elusive.” (The North American Wildlife Research organization constructed a Bigfoot trap. Over six years, they managed to catch one bear and one hippie.)

No doubt, if I were to meet the creature in the Dark Divide, Bob Pyle is the fellow I would want with me. (“Relax, it may not be real.”)

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shortly after leaving his son, 5-year old Pomp (Jean Baptiste), with Captain Clark in St. Louis. Believing Charbonneau to be dead, Luttig took Charbonneau’s daughter to St. Louis in 1813, where the Orphan’s Court made Luttig legal guardian of two Charbonneau children (one-year old “Lisette” and ten-year old “Tousant”).

Who was this “Tousant”? Most people believe this was an error and the records actually refer to seven-year old Pomp (“Jean Baptiste”). But, why would a judge have allowed Luttig to become legal guardian for Pomp?

Clark was away on business at the time, but Pomp had been under his care, attending a private school, for two years. And why do the records show the boy was ten years old when Pomp was only seven? In any case, Luttig’s name was later crossed out in the court records and the name of William Clark substituted.

So, who was the ten-year-old “Tousant Charbonneau” shown on

the legal papers? Some people believe Charbonneau’s other Shoshone wife (Otter Woman) gave birth to a son in 1803, three years before Pomp was born. Thus, it is uncertain which Shoshone wife Luttig’s obituary pertains to. Charbonneau may have abandoned Sacajawea after returning to the Mandan villages from their 1811 visit to St. Louis when Pomp was left with Clark. Perhaps he took Otter Woman and her son to Fort Manuel.

William Clark’s cashbook for 18251828 showed the status of all the Expedition members and states “Se car ja we au Dead.” However, since that same cashbook erroneously lists Sergeant Patrick Gass as being dead (he lived to be 99-years old, dying in 1870), some people think Clark could have been wrong in listing Sacajawea as being dead.

In 1884, on the Wind River Indian Reservation in present-day Wyoming, a Shoshone woman named Porivo, said to be about 100 years old, was laid

to rest. Sacajawea would have been about 96 years old in 1884. The burial records said Porivo was “Bazil’s mother (Shoshone).” When the Lewis and Clark expedition reunited Sacajawea with her Shoshone Indian tribe at Three Forks in 1805, she learned most of her family was dead, so she immediately adopted the young son of her dead sister. Could this be “Bazil”?

Bazil was living with his mother when she died. For years, this woman had told people she had been with Lewis and Clark on the expedition to the Pacific Ocean and that her son Baptiste was a little papoose whom she carried on her back from the Mandan villages across the shining mountains to the great lake. It seems odd an Indian woman living in Wyoming could have known so much about the woman who accompanied the Corps of Discovery 80 years earlier. One has to wonder if she might indeed have been the real Sacajawea!

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Public servant can’t use own titles DEAR MISS MANNERS: I’ve recently left elected office. How and when do I use “The Honorable” and “Senator”?

GENTLE READER: Never.

Lest you squeal in protest, Miss Manners assures you that she is not trying to deprive you of your honors. But these are for others to confer. In writing to you, the correct address is “The Honorable,” followed by your full name and no other title; you should be addressed as “Senator” with your surname.

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DEAR MISS MANNERS: I find that I could use a guide to the invitation language regarding wedding attire.

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I have seen these and more on wedding invitations, and am uncertain about how women and men should dress, not to mention how this is affected by the time and season of the wedding. Would you please explain how to dress properly based on the invitation language?

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there is no need to bring anything, that I enjoy planning and doing the cooking. On one occasion, she told me we would do the party at her house if I didn’t let her bring anything as her contribution. It was MY invitation and MY party. I got so annoyed, I just canceled the party.

To my last invitation, she told me she would come to see everyone, but not eat anything. This would have been awkward for me and possibly other guests, so I rescinded my invitation to her. There was also another guest who brought something to my last party even though I asked everyone not to.

Is there any tactful way to respond to those who insist on bringing a dish and get my point across?

GENTLE READER: You will get your point across by accepting those offerings while saying, “Thank you, we’ll look forward to enjoying this tomorrow,” and whisking them out of sight and reach of the donors.

But don’t you wonder why your supposed friends are frantic about contributing to the meal, to the point of antagonizing you?

Miss Manners guesses that it is because they believe that this excuses them from doing any share of the entertaining themselves. When your guest threatened to hijack your party, your response should not have been to cancel it, but to say, “Well, my party is already planned, but I’d be delighted if you would pick another date when we can go to you.”

DEAR MISS MANNERS: Our family received a save-the-date card in the mail for an upcoming bar mitzvah.

Our families’ children attend school together and our family was very excited to be included.

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ot everyone who visits a destination like Turin, Italy, and finds a unique wine shop near her hotel, will, years later, turn that discovery into an exciting new business. But then, Marci Sanders, of St. Helens, Oregon, is not like everyone.

Sanders recently opened Tap Into Wine at 245 S. 1st Street in the heart of Historic Old Town, Marci Sanders, proprietor at Tap Into Wine in St. Helens, Ore. St. Helens, Ore. Shop hours are Fri-Sat, Take your purchase home. Enjoy the 3–7pm and Sundays, 2–5pm. wine with family and friends. Rinse the bottle. Repeat the process.”

The concept behind Sanders’ shop was made possible when the Oregon For those who buy wine, the tasting Legislature passed legislation allowing is free. You may also purchase wine small batch wine to be sold by tap into by the glass. reusable bottles, similar to “growlers” for craft beer lovers. Note: Legislation You can count on (HB1039) introduced in Washington could eventually allow wine to be sold in growlers, similar to beer.

She offers six wines at a time in her shop, all supplied on a rotating basis from many of the 200 Oregon wineries that are not only making a name for themselves locally, but also in the world market. Sanders has learned that small batch wineries within 200 miles of St. Helens are very willing to sell their overstock wine in bulk containers to be connected to the taps at Tap Into Wine.

The cost is reduced, as the wine maker doesn’t have the expense of bottling, corking, labeling and marketing the product. Currently, Sanders makes the supply runs to the wineries herself.

Here’s how it works: Consumers buy the reusable 1000 ml bottle for $8. They take home the wine of their choice.

After consuming the wine, the rinsed bottle can be taken back to Tap Into Wine for refilling. The cost of the wines runs from $15–$30 per 1000-ml bottle.

Customers may also bring in regular 750-ml twist-cap bottles for filling.

Sanders shared her formula for enjoying her shop: “Taste first before buying.

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Roland on Wine

Everyday enjoyment, not elitism Wine snobbery – from the vineyard to the

By Marc Roland tasting room – hurts the cause

T

he world of wine can be a snobby landscape.

For the sake of full disclosure, I think I’m a bit of a snob, but I’m working on it. From the vineyards to the wineries and into the tasting rooms, we find snobbery at every turn. Even wine advertising depicts beautiful people drinking wine in exotic places with other beautiful people. Why not show people sitting around the table with friends and family (including the kids), eating good food, or folks sitting in the family room watching a football game? The truth is: Wine can be enjoyed every day in everyday situations.

So we find snobbery in all sectors of the wine industry.

Wine snobbery may be a systemic problem that has to do with the nature of wine itself. Wine is so diverse and tastes differ so much from person to person, that we can start to think that our evaluation is superior.

They say wine is made in the vineyard and I couldn’t agree more, but if you can’t even get good grapes in the top vineyards unless you have a PhD in wine, then someone doesn’t understand that at least a little bit of the winemaking process is an art learned through experience.

For example, at one point, I inquired about getting grapes from a top vineyard in Walla Walla. I got the phone number of the owner and called. It was a short conversation because she insisted that I send her a resumé. A resumé? Are you kidding?

I have a degree in education, but you need a degree in enology to make good wine? I’m not saying it wouldn’t help, but people have been making wine way before we had schools that now teach it. I have followed many great winemakers and most have said they didn’t learn to make good wine until they started work in a winery.

Then there are the celebrity winemakers, and the media that make them, who would want you to think that it is their special alchemy that makes them great. No, it is their outstanding ability to brand themselves that makes them great. This usually requires an unusual background story, an American story, if you will. Like the wild wild west, they were rebels who didn’t follow tradition, and forged their way to the top. High drama, exceptional marketing prowess, and a little bit of luck. The wine press love these folks because it paints a picture that is glamorous and interesting.

We love it, even if it defies reality.

It’s just wine, folks. If it’s good, then who cares who made it? But we all do, because it is the story we crave, even if the wine is only decent. But it is a form of snobbery. Wine snobbery is the attitude that only a select few can learn the code to good winemaking and tasting.

In the tasting room

That brings me to the most damaging place where snobbery is 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 360-8467304.

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found: the tasting room. Granted, wine stimulates conversation. It’s fun to talk about wine’s nuances and subtleties. Personal tastes are always fascinating to share with one another.

But have you noticed that many tasting rooms are somewhat formal?

They usually have a bar where everyone is within earshot of each other. This creates an audience for the tasting room Many tasting rooms are somewhat formal associate, but more importantly, for the wine snob customer who wants to school everyone on the fine points of wine. Most wine tasters get used to this, but even the best of us are sometimes impressed, and a little bit intimidated, by their amazing palates. Forget it. I’m here to tell you the best palates don’t flaunt their knowledge because they know that it doesn’t help the cause, it just makes people feel inadequate.

We have a bar in our tasting room but we don’t use it too much for tasting, especially when we are busy.

Wineries need to rethink how they do wine tasting. I know of one winery in Southern Oregon that takes each tasting party into a separate area that is more informal, where someone walks you through the tasting and answers any questions about the wine. True wine professionals should protect their customers from snobbery and it starts with them. I believe we are educators first and, second, salesmen and marketers.

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Tillandsia are a genus within the Bromeliad family consisting of about 650 species and their popularity is growing by leaps and bounds.

Commonly referred to as “airplants,” these distinctive horticultural specimens are “flying off the shelves” according to local floral retailers.

to the southern United States and the jungles, deserts and mountains of South America. Spanish Moss, which grows on tree limbs in the swamps of Louisiana, is the most common epiphyte form of Tillandsia, which attach themselves to other plant species. Some of them are aerophytes, which are the true ‘airplants.’ They have no roots and grow on the shifting desert sands (see photo, top of next page). The thinner-leafed varieties grow in high moisture climates. The broader leafed varieties can store more water in their leaves and therefore are more tolerant of drought.

The following guidelines will help you discover the satisfaction of living with Tillandsia. Yes, they are easy to grow. But they do need to be fed and watered regularly. cont page 15

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Temperature: The plants are generally happiest at maximum 90°F day and minimum of 50°F night.

Light: Natural or supplemental of no less than 12 hours per day. Think of where they live — at the Equator where there are no seasons, but consistent light.

At the Flower Pot, in Castle Rock’s uptown, Sue also acknowledged the growing popularity of the Tillandsia species.

Her customers have been asking and she had just received a new supply. We both laughed when she replied to my inquiry, “Do you have airplants?” with “Yes! I just got some in. They are right here. Still in the brown paper bag they were shipped in!”

Water: Thoroughly wet your Tillandsia two to three times per week — more often in a hot, dry environment, less often in a cool, humid one. Plants should be given enough light and air circulation to be completely dry within four hours of watering.

Display of multiple aerophyte Tillandsia; the species have no roots. At right, a deluxe desert of crystals in a brandy snifter is the luxurious home for these aerophytes. Below: Suspended in lass globes, a few grains of sand for Nutrition Tillandsia websites list stability is all that these epiphytes need if nutrients are provided by fertilizing.

“Bromeliad fertilizers” as being appropriate for airplants, with a recommended N-P-K (Nitrogen-Phosphorus-Potassium) ratio Jason, of Pollen Floral Works in downtown of 17-8-22. Feed twice a month.

Castle Rock, Wash., sells a special “airplant food” of the proper ratio, which he buys from the At Tsugawa Nursery, in Woodland, wholesale greenhouse that grows his plants. His Wash., Peggy feeds the Tillandsia every inventory includes both the epiphytes, displayed week with a solution of HB-101, an in suspended glass globes, and the aerophyte organic fertilizer. She mists them a couple airplants nestled into “desert” sand, similar to of times a week with water and gives their natural habitat (at right). them a good soak for several hours every two weeks. She credits the proliferation Hunter, of Greg’s Gardens in Longview, Wash., of photos shared on Pinterest with the said they always have a few on hand because rise in awareness about “airplants.” their younger customers are asking about them.

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Obviously, I can’t just stick them in a tiny wall pot with a bit of moss in the guest bathroom and walk away. It takes a little more attentiveness than that. I may try growing them again.

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omeroy L i v i n g History Farm kicks off the 2017 Pumpkin Season with the opening of Pumpkin Lane on October 7th.

Open every full weekend in October, this year’s hours will be Saturdays 10am-4pm and Sundays 11am-4pm.

Admission is $6 for adults, and $4 for children ages 3-11; kids 2 and under are free.

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Driving directions: Travel west on SR-4 (Ocean Beach Hwy, Longview) 8.5 miles, turn right on Germany Creek Rd, continue 1.8 miles to slight left onto Sherman Rd. The Chapel is on the right, at 124 Sherman Road, Longview, Wash.

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The event is made possible in part by a grant from Thrivent Financial for a Thrivent Action Team Project. All proceeds benefit Stella Lutheran Chapel. For more information, call Laura 360-636-2032.

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We will have different vendors throughout the month offering a variety of festive snacks and yummy goodies to our guests.

Admission to Pumpkin Lane provides your family with a day’s worth of fun and activities. This includes our featured activity: the enchanting mile long hayride around Pumpkin Lane, featuring over 100 pumpkin people set in various scenes and vignettes.

Also included in admission is a hay bale maze for children, pumpkin flume game, yard games, farm animals, several fun photo opportunities and more! Our historic log house will also be open for tours during Pumpkin Lane.

The table’s not set ‘til the flowers are on!

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Out & A

Get your shoes on: Hikes abound Outdoor playground beckons Fall adventurers

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isitors and locals alike often overlook the lush evergreen forest and clean clear waters in the outdoor playground of Battle Ground, Washington. Situated just 15 minutes east of I-5, north of towering Mount Hood in Oregon, and south of Mount St. Helens, Battle Ground offers those seeking adventure a wealth of recreational opportunities, entertaining nightlife, and even a few good bites to eat. One scorching hot September day, my cousin, Goni, and I ventured out to uncover the hidden exploits that Battle Ground had to offer.

First Stop: The Lewis River

Photos, clockwise from top: Moulton Falls; the popular Battle Ground Lake; a bicyclist enjoys the trail; Lucia Falls.

The Lewis River, famous for its flooding during Mount St. Helens’ big eruption in 1980, runs right alongside Battle Ground. The river is a spectacular place for fishing, swimming, and overall water fun. The forested area has recovered and regrown since the flooding, and new life abounds in the area, making this fertile place perfect for hiking. Goni and I began our trek at the Lucia Falls Trail on the east fork of the Lewis River.

The trail begins at 27781 Lucia Falls Road in Yacolt. We hiked a very short distance before we got our first view of Lucia Falls. It is an easy five-minute walk to reach the first sighting. Swimming at Lucia Falls and several other areas along the Lewis River is prohibited. Authorities have posted signs informing visitors to stay out of the water to protect the vulnerable fish habitat. Unfortunately, when the temperature heats up in the area, both locals and visitors find the inviting waters too difficult to resist and they ignore the signs.

As we hiked alongside the river listening to the rushing waters and the crunch of pine needles beneath our feet, we discovered many children and adults splashing, swimming, and playing in the water hoping to find relief from the overwhelming heat of the day.

The Lucia Falls Loop trail connects at Hantwick Road allowing hikers to meander the 2.5 miles to Moulton Falls. The trail parallels the river presenting hikers with both comprehensive and peek-a-boo views of the rushing waters along the way. Winter snow was still melting and the Moulton Falls flowed freely, spraying the air with a gentle cooling mist. Parking is available right off the road next to Moulton Falls, and, here again, we found people could not resist the enticing waters.

Walking along the trail, visitors view volcanic rock formations and an arch bridge. The round-trip hike is relatively easy and only five miles long; but for those looking for a more extensive hike, the Bells Mountain Trail begins near the Moulton Falls Trail. This hike is less traveled and far more rugged. It requires

Vancouver resident Tracy Beard loves food, wine, exploring solo and with friends and family. She writes travel and adventure stories for several publications. Read more about her at tracybeardwrites.com.

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in the summertime, offers paddle boat rentals and tasty treats for purchase. There are more than 10 miles of hiking and biking trails, including a flat trail looping around the entire lake that is easy enough for even small children to circumnavigate.

Battle Ground and the surrounding areas offer many different outdoor options for hiking, waterplay, horseback riding, and cycling. These activities have a way of increasing participants’ appetites. After hiking, Goni and I checked out some of the local eateries, hoping to quench our thirst and suppress the growls emanating from our stomachs. Rather than choosing just one place to eat, we decided to indulge in a progressive-style meal, visiting three different ethnic restaurants for separate courses.

Ethnic Eats in Battle Ground

an upward climb for nine miles and then it connects with links to Rock Creek Campground.

Clark County Lewisville Park

The Clark County Lewisville Park, located at 26411 N.E. Lewisville Highway in Battle Ground, encompasses 154 acres and is Clark County’s oldest park. With its 13 shelters of various sizes, 17 barbecues, and 147 picnic tables, this park is extremely popular for outdoor parties and events. Visitors can meander around the park for a good walk, hike the wooded two-mile trail, or lie by the gently flowing river and relax.

Parking is $3 per car, and guests may use the shelters by reserving space ahead of time and paying a rental fee (Call 360397-2285).

Battle Ground Lake

Battle Ground Lake features a heavily wooded campground suitable for tents and RVs. Non-motorized boats, kayaks, paddle boards and floaties occupied the lake on the day we arrived. A roped-off swimming area encourages swimmers to stay near the shore. The snack bar, open

Goni had eaten in Battle Ground before; and since it was such a hot day, she suggested we start our meal at the Golden Tusk Thai Cuisine Restaurant, where we began our escapade with their lettuce wraps. The wraps, made of rice paper, arrived bulging with carrots, cucumbers, rice noodles, and a variety of lettuces that were both cool and crunchy. Two dipping sauces accompanied the rolls — a sweet chili sauce and a perfectly spiced peanut sauce. After finishing the rolls, along with large refreshing glasses of ice water, we ventured to the other end of town to try out the newest Mexican restaurant, the Cerveza Factory Grill & Cantina.

Cocktails here did not disappoint. The Cadillac Margaritas arrived mixed with the perfect ratio of tequila, Grand Marnier, lime, and triple sec. I prefer my margaritas without any mixer and these ice-cold beverages hit the spot. Still hungry, we ordered chips with bean dip and salsa along with some deep-fried calamari.

The food was plentiful; but after finishing, we found we were craving something sweet to complete our progressive extravaganza.

Jason Meeks plays regularly at Rusty Grape Vineyard’s outdoor venue.

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Adventurers will find the Rusty Grape Vineyard, located in the country about three miles outside of downtown Battle Ground. Visitors can choose to relax at any one of the several patios decorated with small tables and strings of twinkling lights or indoors in the comfortable country setting. The tasting bar inside offers glasses of the vineyard’s wine or cider for purchase.

The vineyard hosts live music on the main patio attached to the wine tasting bar on Wednesday through Saturday from 7 to 9pm. Goni and I enjoyed music by Jason Meeks, who typically plays 90s alternative, 90s traditional and today’s country music. He plays regularly at the vineyard and we thoroughly enjoyed listening to music on a warm night in this outdoor venue.

The South Pacific Café & Battle Ground is not far Lounge is located directly away. Whether you love across the street from the Clockwise from top: Lettuce the outdoors, want to try Cerveza Factory Grill wraps; Cadillac Margarita some local ethnic food, or & Cantina. After we ;Pineapple Foster. just need to get out of the perused the menu, the house and do something waitress sold us on the different, jump into your car and head South Pacific Pineapple Foster. This dessert, made with two homemade waffles down the road to enjoy these outdoor sandwiching two scoops of vanilla ice cream, was finished with a generous topping of activities and visit local eateries. pineapple flambéed in rum, butter and brown sugar. To complete the day, we decided to check out the entertainment at the Rusty Grape Vineyard.

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Northwest Foods

COOKING WITH THE FARMER’S DAUGHTER

Corn Pudding • 6-8 servings

4 ears fresh corn or 2 cups canned or frozen corn 2 large eggs 1 cup milk 1 Tbl sugar 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/2 tsp freshly ground black pepper Dash cayenne pepper 1 Tbl butter, softened 2 Tbl fine fesh bread crumbs

Confessions of a cornfed cook Story and photos by Suzanne Martinson

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ven in the dead of winter, sweet corn still in the husk pops up in the produce aisle. Whither thou cometh, corn? Mexico? Costa Rica? A giant greenhouse?

Cornfed as a child on our family’s Michigan farm, I adored sweet corn.

When the corn in our garden just outside the kitchen window was ready, my mother’s instruction for the upcoming meal carried the angelic lilt of heaven: “Lefty, go out and pick some corn for supper.”

When corn is ripe, the silk has turned a crispy brown, though it may require pulling back a few husks to see if the corn kernels go all the way to the top of the ear and is ripe for picking.

The sugar in the kernel’s endosperm changes to starch quickly — all part of the aging process. That’s why the joke on the family farm was that Mom put the water on to boil and sent me out to the garden to pick the corn, husk it and wash it off under the garden hose.

Who stops at one ear?

As an unrepentant corn-lover, I consider a minimum serving size to be two ears, more if I could get them.

For me, an ear of corn was not a side dish, it was the whole meal. No longer just flaunting the golden color of my childhood, corn now also comes in white and a bi-color mix of white and yellow. Like a loving mother, I won’t pick a favorite.

In a perfect world, our farmers market would be open every day, and I could look the sweet corn purveyor in the eye

and ask, “What time did you have to get up this morning to pick this corn?” The answer might be 4am.

Preheat oven to 350º. Butter a 1-quart casserole. Use a sharp knife to scrape kernel from cob. Mix the corn, eggs, milk, sugar, salt, peppers, butter and breadcrumbs together in a bowl and beat well. Pour into casserole and bake until set, about 40 minutes.

Let’s pause a minute for a corn clarification. There is sweet corn and there is field corn.

Here’s where it gets confusing: Sweet corn, whose kernels are soft, is typically grown in the garden, and field corn is grown, well, in a field, and picked by machine when the kernels are dry and hard. So hard they could break your teeth, though our Tony the Pony didn’t have any trouble nibbling an ear or two right out of the corn crib. Field corn is often ground into cornmeal, which I use to bake my favorite muffins.

The fingernail test

Once an ear of sweet corn is lying in the supermarket produce section, ripe and ready for sale, I ponder when it was picked and how far it’s traveled. When I was a newspaper food editor in western Pennsylvania, a corn farmer told me a fresh kernel of corn will spit at you when you pricked it with your thumbnail.

When I gleefully printed that information in the newspaper, that same grower told me I shouldn’t have told anybody. He claimed my readers were mauling his corn, making the ears unfit for sale.

This is what can happen to just-picked peaches. “Please don’t squeeze the peaches,” read a warning sign at my favorite farm market outside Pittsburgh.

Easily bruised by too many caresses, the ripe peaches soon appeared unfit for sale.

And to some customers, appearances are everything.

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However difficult, I find it hard to keep my hands off the fresh produce. I just want to reach out and pat my dinner. But I don’t. Vegetable growers work hard, and they don’t need me molesting their fresh-picked crops.

For a fact, today’s sugary, sugar enhanced and supersweet varieties were traditionally bred for these qualities, not inserted with genes in the laboratory, GMO style.

I am not one who likes vegetable growers who sell their produce with ads about what they aren’t. Like “Non GMO.” The badmouthed GMO initials stand for genetically modified organism. Honey, on the farm we called it breeding.

Commercial fertilizers, properly applied, don’t bother me. I remember interviewing one of the first “organic” farmers, who touted the fact that he didn’t use any growing agent “not found in nature.” In his particular case, sheep manure. A fine idea, that, if you happen to have a flock of sheep grazing out back.

It meant progress: Better germination.

Higher yields. Quality taste. Longer shelf life.

Organic vs. “commercial”

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Corn Chowder • Serves 4

/2 lb. bacon /2 cup finely chopped celery 1 small onion, finely chopped 2 Tbl. flour 4 cups whole milk 3 cups cooked potatoes, peeled and well chopped 2 cups creamed corn (see note, below) Freshly chopped parsley and paprika for garnish 2 Tbl fine fresh bread crumbs 1 1

Fry bacon in sauté pan until very crisp and dry.

Discard drippings, reserving 1/2 Tbl. or more.

Chop bacon into small pieces. To the drippings, add celery and onion; cook until tender.

Blend in the flour and then the milk, stirring constantly until smooth.

In a saucepan, cook potatoes in water to cover until they are tender. Drain. To the milk mixture, add the creamed corn and the potatoes. Stir in the bacon. Sprinkle with fresh chopped parsley and paprika.

Note: Fallingwater owner Liliane Kaufmann was particular about her corn, and this recipe is made her way. She insisted that after the ears were husked and washed and the corn silk was removed, only the tip of each kernel be cut from the cob with a sharp knife. The rest of the kernels left on the cob were discarded. Elsie placed the tender kernels in the oven on low heat to draw out the natural “cream” from the corn. ~from The FallingwaterCookbook: Elsie Henderson’s Recipes and Memories

Kelso, Wash. resident Suzanne Martinson wrote The Fallingwater Cookbook (with Jane Citron and Robert Sendall), relating recipes of Elsie Henderson, the longtime and last cook for Edgar and Liliane Kaufmann for whom Fallingwater — designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and hailed as the most architecturally significant private residence in the U.S.— was a welcome retreat for their family and many guests.

Prior to her retirement, Martinson was food editor and writer for the Pittsburgh Press and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette; during her career she became friends with Henderson, who is now 104.

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Holiday Fun

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I have always been intrigued by gingerbread houses,” says Longview resident Gail Wells, who will serve as this year’s judge of the Longview Downtowners’ Gingerbread Haus Contest. In her college days, she began a collection of recipes and pictures. Some 15 years later, a friend encouraged her to make her first gingerbread house — and her gingerbread journey began.

This journey began as a family Christmas tradition but has, at times, become almost an obsession. She has made gingerbread houses for Easter, for retirement dessert buffets, and for auctions — gingerbread barns, gingerbread churches, gingerbread outhouses, gingerbread restaurants, gingerbread aircraft carriers, replica gingerbread homes, garages, doghouses, birdhouses, lamp posts.

In 1996, Wells made a small gingerbread house illuminated by a flashlight and sent it to her son, attending college in New York. This started another tradition for all her children; over the years she has sent gingerbread houses to them at West Point, George Fox University, the USS Abraham Lincoln, Bosnia, Afghanistan and South Korea.

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Curiosity satisfied

From a Reader’s Kitchen

By Rena Langille

What is real pound cake?

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first read a recipe for pound cake buried in a very old cookbook narrative about life in the late 1800s. It was mentioned that it is called pound cake because it is made up of one pound each of sugar, butter, flour, and eggs. This is, purportedly, the cake Martha Washington made for her guests. I filed the information in the back of my brain with various other ephemera that occasionally pop out and pique my curiosity.

Years later, I encountered the recipe a second time, finding it in The New York Times Cookbook, by Craig Claiborne.

This recipe calls for the addition of a little nutmeg and lemon. I set the book aside for a few years.

The third time being a charm, I decided to actually make it. The New

York Times recipe reads as though the ingredients given in cups might have been extrapolated from the weights given in the original recipe, but in smaller amounts. It made up beautifully, forming a nice brown, tender crust when baked in an old loaf pan. I made some lemon curd and served it up at a retirement party where it went over quite well. This was about 25 years ago.

Now, in 2017 — something about the season changing to fall, and begging for hearty fare — the recipe piqued my curiosity once more. I really wanted to try the real thing, so I looked up pound cake on the Internet. There are dozens of recipes, some calling for leavening, such as baking powder or

Rena Langille lives in Seattle on Beacon Hill with her husband, Longview native and R.A.Long High School graduate Steve Trotter. They enjoy living 20 minutes from downtown, where they attend the annual Film Noir series at Seattle Art Museum and shop at the Pike Place Public Market. She enjoys oil painting and writing and likes to make pastry research recipes.

Frequently she uses recipes as a base for something, using new techniques to create a new dish. This Fall she began making meat and vegetable filled Crostata. She has contributed to CRR over the years via letters to the editor and “What Are You Reading?”

baking soda, only two eggs, and many variations. This was not what I wanted.

I looked and looked. Becoming frustrated, I punched in “True Pound Cake” on the Internet and bingo (!) there were recipes for the real thing. Much to my joy, Steve Gorton, writing for the North Carolina State Star, had done research. His recipe dated from the 1700s. He discovered that the sugar used in the cake was powdered, and that pastry flour was suggested. He made the cake and found it delicious.

I have a scale for weighing ingredients and, thanks to Steve, tried his recipe. It was for a friend’s retirement party, so I added 3/4-cup chocolate (I don’t know the weight) and made Pound cake is delicious on its own, and also makes a a sour cherry/chocolate sauce versatile dessert base for additives and embellishments. for the top. I baked it in an oldPound Cake “Recipe” fashioned, shaped tin form with a The true recipe is 1 lb. of each: sugar, tube in the center. It was lovely. Since butter, eggs and flour. we couldn’t stay but a few minutes at the party, therefore missing out on the That's it. To make a smaller recipe, just food, the next day I made a quarter make equal weight proportions, i.e. 1/2 or 1 recipe for us. How easy is that? /4 lb. of each.

I think this cake would travel well as 1 pound unsifted regular flour = 3-1/2 cups it is rather dense, and can be baked 1 pound granulated sugar = 2 cups in any shape pan or mold. The cake 1 pound butter = 2 cups itself is delicious eaten plain, but it 1 pound large eggs = 10 eggs also lends itself to additions of things The eggs raise the batter when it bakes, like chopped walnuts or pecans, dried so you don’t need baking powder or soda. cherries, and a plethora of seasonings.

One pound of each ingredient makes a I’ll bet a teaspoon or so of rosemary four-pound cake, which is very large. The would go quite well in it. proportions are the right amounts for a dense cake. Make one, using 1/4 pound of I mean, calories be damned, how can each ingredient and you will see. you argue with a cake made with a large quantity of eggs, and a pound

~ Rena Langille of butter?

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Dr. Bob on Movies

TWO FOR THE SHOW

“Battle of the Sexes” and “Blade Runner 2049”

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by Ridley Scott. her game. And, yes, she apparently did have a girlfriend in addition to a “Battle of the Sexes” was well cast. husband, but same-sex attraction is Emma Stone was far more attractive not so shocking today and never has than the stoic Billie Jean King, though been in the world of sports, though it on the court Stone showed her athletic usually never makes the newspapers as well as acting talents. Could a nor the tube. In any case, King won determined feminist defeat a male the match, and most of the audience chauvinist? You bet. Oh, and there was in the theater seemed to like the film. a $100,000 purse at stake.

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Ryan Gosling as Officer K is a worthy antagonist to Harrison Ford’s Rick Deckard. The buzz in the audience at the end of the film and my wife’s comment: “I’d like to see that one again” both struck me as unusual.

People often keep their comments to themselves until they are seated at a table with alcohol or coffee to start up the discussion.

Permit me to observe that I thought the film was well cast and well written. I did not, however, find it as gripping as the original film. Nor did I find the action as intense. And I certainly wished the cinematography could have been done with a little more lighting. I felt like pulling out my mini-flashlight and brightening up half of the sets on some occasions. I feel free to make these comments because I am not a replicant movie reviewer.

It is a good film. Nothing is as intense in this film as Rutger Hauer’s death in the original film, but it is a film worth seeing and remembering. Harrison Ford was as good as ever, bless him.

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Suck it up?

Determination, rehab after car crash help

By Dr. Tom Pence with pain

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’m 69, and like most people that age I’ve had medical problems, most involving pain — a heart attack, coronary artery bypass, four stents, more kidney stones than I can count, a herniated disk and discectomy and diabetic neuropathy. The result was I took oxycodone most nights probably more as a sleep aid than for pain relief and resented jumping through hoops to get monthly refills. I also slept poorly, at least in part due to sleep apnea.

Last year I was visiting my son in Minneapolis, where I had lived most of my life. I was driving alone to meet friends for lunch and fell asleep at the wheel. I awoke when my car careened off a tree and launched into the air, landing on a sapling about four inches in diameter.

Immediately a lady about my age came to my aid, called police and paramedics and asked if I was alright.

I had back pain when I tried to move, but I could move. Paramedics put me on a stretcher, in an ambulance and brought me to Hennepin County Medical Center—the same hospital where I had trained for five years and served on the staff for another 10 years.

There, they found my fourth lumbar vertebra, in my lower back, had blown into fragments—a burst fracture and the sort of injury that often leaves you paraplegic. They admitted me to the surgical ICU — ­ because I also had bleeding — and consulted neurosurgery.

Over the next month I was hospitalized in an inpatient rehabilitation center in that hospital. I was seen at least daily by physical medicine doctors (physiatrists) and received physical therapy and occupational therapy twice daily to teach me to walk again and to begin to care for myself. I needed help for everything.

My wife, Jane, was with me every day and for most of my therapies and

offered as much support as humanly possible. A psychologist and another therapist suggested meditation and marijuana for pain relief and implied I needed to get used to pain. I was receiving 60 mg of oxycodone and 30mg of MS contin (morphine) daily with generally acceptable pain control until I moved. With movement, my pain was unbearable.

After a month, I was finally seen by the neurosurgical attending who told me they had nothing to offer and that I needed to suck it up. My brother-in-law, a physical therapist who I respected, told me the same thing in kinder terms, but helped me to understand that my pain was probably coming from nerves irritated not only by trauma, but by the several unit bleed I had from the fracture. Knowing the origin of my pain was enormously helpful.

At the end of a month I could walk 200 feet with a walker and climb three steps with two- person assistance.

That was enough to fly home. In Longview, I received excellent help from my physiatrist and my primary care physician and I was continued on oxycodone and MS contin. I was referred to both physical therapy and cardiac rehab (I had been on cardiac rehab for a year before my accident).

I told my physicians I was going to get off the narcotics, and they made no demands upon me.

Over the ensuing months I did both physical therapy and cardiac rehab three times weekly and worked my time at cardiac rehab up to 7-½ hours each week. Ultimately, I was able to stop physical therapy. I wore a clam shell brace for five months. I slowly withdrew myself from narcotics and have now, after at least eight years, taken none for two months.

I have learned several things that may be useful to other people with pain and also to physicians treating pain: It is important that patients understand the cause of their pain and can conceptualize the process resulting in pain. This allows them to try interventions for themselves like heat, cold and exercise and offers them some control over their own illness.

Once the initial trauma has stabilized there is nothing to be gained by rest. Movement and exercise, resulting in increased flexibility, strength and endurance are the heart and core of rehabilitation. You can’t get better without it, within reason the more the better and you will definitely benefit from expert guidance in how to exercise. Unless you are being treated for a terminal illness, everyone on narcotics should have a plan to get off them. I think it is better if the patient creates and manages the plan rather than having it imposed upon them, but physicians Oregon’s best are responsible for guidance and discipline. Nothing insulated units beats determination.

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I feel stronger now than before my accident, but I tend to walk bent over and walking a distance requires rest stops. I have pain much of the time, but I live with it and am able to sleep. Yesterday I mowed an acre lawn and I look forward to working more and more. Nothing will make me stop rehab.

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

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

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

Unsolicited submissions may be considered, provided they are consistent with the publication’s purpose. Advance contact with the editor is recommended. Information of general interest submitted by readers may be used as background or incorporated in future articles.

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

Broadway Gallery Artists co-op. Classes for all ages, workshops and paint parties. Featured artists, Oct: BWG member Carol Boudreau (painting); Cooperative Gallery members, 3D art works; Nov: Susan Miller (painting). Fashion Show & Tea. Sat, Oct. 21, 2pm. Latest fashions & jewelry creations by gallery members will

be modeled. Free event. Door prizes. Holiday Opening Nov. 18. Refreshments,music and oneof-a-kind holiday ornaments and gifts. Gallery hours: Mon-Sat 10-5:30. 1418 Commerce, Longview, Wash. 360-577-0544. www.thebroadway-gallery.com Tsuga Gallery Fine arts and crafts by area artists.

Thurs-Sat 11–5. 70 Main Street, Cathlamet, Wash. 360-795-0725.

wine, available for purchase. All event proceeds will benefit Col. City Community Hall capital campaign. Purchase tickets at City Hall in Columbia City. 503-397-4010.

Columbia Theatre for the Performing Arts 2017-18 season now underway. See ad, page 16.

Redmen Hall History and art. 1394 SR-4, Skamokawa, Wash. Thurs-Sun, 12-4pm. Info: 360-795-3007 or email fos1894@gmail.com.

FIRST THURSDAY • Nov 2 Broadway Gallery Enjoy refreshments and meet the artists! See featured artists listed above.

Reception, 5:30-7:30pm.

Acoustic guitar & vocals

by Dian McCracken. www.the-broadway-gallery.com 1418 Commerce Ave. Downtown Longview, Wash.

Across the River: Cowlitz County Historical Museum, 405 Allen St.,Kelso, Wash “Peace Weavers: Uniting the Salish Coast through Cross-cultural Marriages,” by Candace Wellman 7pm.

HOW TO PUBLICIZE YOUR NON-PROFIT EVENT IN CRR Send your non-commercial community event’s basic info (name of event, sponsor, date & time, location, brief description and contact info) to publisher@crreader.com Or mail or hand-deliver (in person or via mail slot) to: Columbia River Reader 1333-14th Ave Longview, WA 98632 Submission Deadlines Events occurring Oct 15 to Nov 30:

by Sept 25 for Oct 15 issue.

Events occurring Nov 25–Jan 15:

by Nov 10 for Nov/Dec Holiday issue.

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

Koth Galler y Longview Public Librar y Columbia Artists Assn Fall Members Show through Oct. 26. Nov: Three Amigas; Dec: Christmas Quilters. 1600 Louisiana Street, Longview, Wash. Mon-Wed 10am-8pm, ThursSat 10am-5pm. 360-441-5300.

SWW Symphony Fall concert Sun, Oct 15, 3pm. Columbia Theatre for the Performing Arts, 1231 Vandercook Way, Longview. Free. Info: 360-783-6165.

The Odd Couple - female version Thru Oct. 22.

Stageworks Northwest, 1433 Commerce Ave., Longview, Wash.. See ad, below.

Piano Recital by Abriana Church See photo at right. Presented by Martin Kauble Piano Studio.

Sun, Nov 5, 3pm. St. Stephen’s Church, 1428 22nd Ave., Longview, Wash. Free admission.

Donations welcome.

War of the Worlds (Oct. 28), Lisa Tyaack Trio (Nov 5) Berkenfeld Theatre, 75. S. Nehalem, St., Clatskanie, Ore. Presented by Clatskanie Arts Commission. See ad, below.

Holiday Concert with Michael Allen Harrison Nov 25, 2pm. Columbia City Community Hall, 1850 2nd St., Columbia City, Ore. $20 per person. Appetizers and beverages, incl beer and

Enjoy a Sunday afternoon treat Pianist Abriana Church, 18, of Gardena, Idaho, will perform “Paganini Etude; Op. 10, No. 3,” by Robert Schumann; “Sonata in E-Major, Op. 109,” by Ludwig van Beethoven; and “La Valse,”

by Maurice Ravel. The concert will take place Nov. 5, 3pm, at St. Stephen’s Church, 1428 22nd Ave., Longview, Wash. Admission is free, donations welcome. Ms. Church’s performance is presented by the Piano Studio of Martin Kauble.

The Odd Couple (female version)

Stageworks Northwest presents Neil Simon’s classic comedy with a twist, directed by Scarlett Clark.

Oct. 6-7-8, 13-14-15, 20-21-22 Fri-Sat 7:30pm • Sun 2pm TICKETS $15 gen’l, $12 students/ seniors. Group rates available.

stageworksnorthwest.org

360-636-4488

1433 Commerce Ave., Longview.

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Outings & Events

Miss Manners

Recreation, Outdoors, Gardening History, Pets, Self-Help Cowlitz County Museum “Peace Weavers: Uniting the Salish Coast through Crosscultural Marriages,” by Dancade Wellman.

First Thurs Nov 2, 7pm. New exhibit, “Cowlitz Encounters.” Open Tues-Sat 10am–4pm. 405 Allen St, Kelso, Wash. www.co.cowlitz.wa.us/ museum. Info: 360-577-3119.

Wahkiakum County Historical Society Museum Logging, fishing and cultural displays.

Open 1-4pm, Th-Sun. 65 River St, Cathlamet, Wash. For info 360-795-3954.

Appelo Archives Center Historic exhibits, Naselle-Grays River area. 1056 State Route 4, Naselle. T-Fri 10–4, Sat 10–2, or by appt. 360484-7103. appeloarchives.org.

Resume/Cover Letter Writing One-on-one assistance. Weds 6–8pm or by appointment, Project Read area of Longview Public Library, 1600 Louisiana St., Longview, Wash. More info at the Information Desk at the Library, call 360-442-5300 or visit www.longviewlibrary.org.

In their Footsteps “America’s Master Park Maker: Frederick Law “Olmstead,” by Laurence Cotton, Oct. 15. “A Town Called Seaside,” by Gloria Linkey, Nov. 19. Programs at 1pm. Free lecture series. Fort Clatsop Visitor Center (near Astoria, Ore.) Netul Room. Series presented

by Lewis and Clark National Park Assn. Info: 503-861-2471 or visit nps.gov/lewi/index.htm.

Living Without Depression Seminar Oct 18, 3–4:30pm. Suggested donation $1. Kelso Senior Center, 106 NW 8th Ave., Kelso, Wash. Info: 360-232-8522.

Kelso Senior Center Work Party Oct 21, 10am–3pm. Come help clean up the Center and grounds! Kelso Senior Center, 106 NW 8th Ave., Kelso, Wash. Info: 360-232-8522.

TAKE A

Spooktacular Halloween Ball Thurs., Oct 26, 6:30–8pm Monticello Park, 605 Broadway, Longview, Wash. Dreadful costumes & crafty cocktails. Enjoy a Bloody Mary or Witches Brew along with Wicked Treats while dancing to music by David Cooley. Wear your spooky, kooky, or hauntingly favorite costume for a chance to win $50 gift card! Beware…You are in for a howling fun night! Costumes encouraged, but not required. Free for all, but seating is limited. To attend, please RSVP: 360-575-1778.

Harvest Festival Oct 28, 11am–5:30pm. Free admission. $1 suggested donation. Kelso Senior Center, 106 NW 8th Ave., Kelso, Wash. Info: 360-232-8522.

Three Rivers Photo Show Enter Nov 4-5.

12-4pm; People’s Choice viewing & judging, Nov 7-9, 5–8pm; Award reception Nov. 10 5pm. Public viewing Sat-Sun, Nov 11-12.

Winners displayed at Three Rivers Mall.

Entry fees $6 each image or 5 for $25. Youth $3 each. Print or digital. For more info: www. threeriversphotoshow.com or Lisa Nathan, 360-747-7119.

Longview Bridge Club Weekly duplicate bridge games Mon 10:30am, Thurs 6:30pm, Kelso Senior Center, 106 NW 8th Ave. New players welcome. For info or help finding a partner: Rich Carle, 360-425-0981 or rhcarle@msn.com.

R Square D Dance Club Dances on 2nd Friday, 4th Saturday. Plus: 7– 8pm, Mainstream with rounds: 8–10pm. Craig Abercrombie, caller.

Lonnie Sycks, Cuer. Kelso Senior Center, 106 NW 8th Ave, Kelso, Wash. More info: www.rsquare-d.info. or 360-414-5855.

HIKE

with

Mt. St. Helens Club

This friendly club welcomes newcomers. For more info please call the hike leader or visit mtsthelensclub.org.

RT(round trip) distances are from Longview.

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

Wed, Oct 18 • Lake Sacajawea (E) Walk around the whole lake (3+mi.) or walk half the lake (1+ mi.), little e.g. Leaders: Trudy & Ed, 360-414-1160.

Sat, Oct 21 •Salmon Butte(S) Drive 185 mi. RT. Hike 8.6 miles, 2.800 ft. e.g. to summit of old lookout in SalmonHuckleberry Wilderness. Great views of Mt. Hood and Mt. Jefferson. Leader: Bruce, 360-425-0256.

Wed,Oct 23 • Coweeman Dike (E) Hike 3+ miles, no e.g. on dike. Leaders: Trudy and Ed, 360-414-1160.

Sat, Oct 28 • Placid Lake Loop (M) Drive 230 mi. RT, hike 10.5 mi RT with 1,500 ft. e.g. Indian Heaven at its finest: grand meadows, lakes, the old Cascade Crest Trail, and the modern Pacific Crest Trail.

Leader: George W., 360-562-0001.

Tues, Oct 31 • Powell Butte Nature Trail (E). Drive 110 mi. RT. Hike 4 mi. loop with about 610 ft. e.g. in SE Portland.

Good winter hike with good view of Mt. Hood and surrounding hills with open meadows and trees. Leader: Art, 360425-3140.

Thurs, Nov 2 • Moulton Falls (E) Drive 93 mi. RT. Hike 4.8 mi.RT along the Lewis River. Great views of the river and waterfalls. Leader: Marcia, 360-846-7827.

Sat, Nov 4 • Hummocks to Johnston Ridge M/S) Drive 120 mi. RT. Hike 10 mi. wth 1,500 ft. e.g. An out and back hike through the rugged beauty of the blast zone. Can also do one-way; we’ll give you a ride back to Johnston Ridge Vis. Ctr. Leader: Bill D., 503-260-6712.

Wed, Nov 8 • Camp Wilkerson (E) Drive 40 mi. RT. Hike 3.6 mi. loop with 720 ft. e.g. Very nice wooded trail southwest of Rainier. $3 entrance fee. Bring cash for cash box. along the Lewis River. Great views of the river and waterfalls. Leader: Bonny, 360-556-2332.

Sat, Nov 11 • Waterfront Renaissance Trail (E/M) Drive 90 mi. RT. Hike10 mi. with 50 ft. e.g. Nice opportunity to get some fresh air and exercise close to home along Vancouver’s waterfront. Leader: George, 360-562-0001.

Wed, Nov 15 • Lake Sacajawea (E) Walk around the whole lake (3+mi.) or walk half the lake (1+ mi.), little e.g. Leaders: Trudy & Ed, 360-414-1160.

Sat, Nov 18 • Multnomah Falls - Wahkeena Loop (M/S) Drive 150 mi. RT. Hike 5-mile loop with 1,550 ft. e.g. Very popular Col. Gorge trail passes numerous waterfalls. Great year-round. Leader: Bruce, 360-4250256.

Wed, Nov 22 • Rainier High School Loop (E) Drive 12 mi. RT. Hike 3.5-mile loop with 100 ft. e.g. on the Rainier Nature Trail. Pass picnic table donated

by MSH Club. Leader: Bruce, 360-425-0256.

Wed, Nov 29 • Kalama Waterfront (E) Drive 20 mi. RT. Hike 3+ miles on level path along Col.River.

Leader: Uncle Bob, 360-703-3564.

HOLIDAY BAZAARS Ryderwood’s Fall 2017 Arts & Crafts Fair Fri-Sat, Oct 20-21, 10am–4pm. Community Hall will be decked out for “Christmas in October,” filled with 30+ quilters, painters, ceramicists/ potters, woodworkers, fiber artists, weavers, stained glass artists, jewelers and other vendors of fine handcrafted items.

Several new vendors this year. See the “What’s Happening?” page at www.ryderwood.org for details. Grandma’s Kitchen Bake Sale benefits outreach projects of the Ryderwood Women’s Christian Service.

Lunch 11am–2pm across the street in the Cafe features baked potatoes, chili and hot dogs with all the fixin’s. The craft fair and lunch proceeds support the Women’s Club efforts to maintain and restore the historic Pioneer Hall.

Ryderwood is located 9 scenic miles from I-5 Exit 59 at the very end of SR 506. The “Village in the Woods” was built in 1923 by Long-Bell Lumber as a town for loggers and their families. The virgin timber in the surrounding hills supplied Long-Bell’s Longview mills on mile-long trains three times a day. In 1953, after the logs and loggers were gone, the town became what is now the oldest “planned community for retired persons.”

Holiday Bazaar, Sat. Nov. 4, 9am–4pm, Rainier Senior Center. Stew meal $5, popcorn and drinks $1 each available for purchase. 48 West 7th & “A” Streets, Rainier, Ore. Info 503-5563889. Tables for rent $15; contact the Center M-F, 9:30–2:30 or call Rachel 503-369-6382.

45th Annual Arts & Crafts Faire, Fri-Sat, Nov 10-11, 9am–4pm. Christ Episcopal Church, 35350 E. Division Rd., St. Helens, Ore. Quilts, jewelry, art, handmade items. Soup, chili, pie, etc. served in Faire Café. Benefits local outreach programs. Central cashier, credit cards accepted.

Vendor info: Cindy 503-366-3743 or Sherine, 503-543-3763.

Christmas Shopping Festival Sat, Nov 18, 10–4. Three Rivers Christian School gym, 2610 Ocean Beach Hwy, Longview, Wash.

Soup lunch available, children’s carnival, music.

Info: mpeabody@www.3riversschool.net. Local vendors, $15 per table plus prize donation, sign-up forms online 3riversschool.net or at school office.

St. James Christmas Bazaar Nov. 18, 10-4, St. James Family Center, 1134 Columbia St., Cathlamet, Wash. Artists and artisans vendors needed. Handmade crafts and gifts; holiday decor. Lunch available (clam chowder, coleslaw, chili, nachos, hot dogs, desserts, coffee, cider).

Raffle for 8 gift baskets. Bake sale featuring Scandinavian and holiday goodies. Children’s Christmas Store for kids 12 and under. Live music. Proceeds to benefit St. James Family Center’s programs for children and families.

More info: call Christie 360-849-4489 or Maureen 360 849-4557.

The Artisan Guild of Mt St Helens Annual Artisan Holiday Fairé, Thur, Nov 30 and Fri, Dec 1, from 9am–5pm at Cassava’s, corner of 14th and Broadway, Longview. Dog and cat Christmas treat bags or $2 to benefit the Humane Society of Cowlitz County. Monetary donations, cat and kitten food, and new or useable towels will also be collected. Info: Chris, 360-749-0991.

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GENTLE READER: Having been asked to save the date, it is only reasonable of you to assume that an invitation would be forthcoming. Miss Manners would not want you to be accused of not responding to an invitation that was mailed but not delivered, nor for your hosts to feel regret that you missed the event because of a mistake on their part — either failing to mail an intended invitation or assuming that the “save the date” was all that was required.

You should therefore inquire directly.

If the omission was not innocent -- for example, an attempt to solicit gifts without an invitation — you will find out soon enough.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I have dinner with a small group of longtime friends who come together once or twice a year to touch base. One person in the group tends to dominate the conversation with greatly detailed storytelling of mishaps and adventures of family members and friends.

I believe I speak for the others in the group as well — as I recognize the glaze in their eyes and the curious questions ceasing — that we’d all like a chance to contribute and catch up.

For example, I want to hear about everyone’s newest grandchild, latest hobby or how they’re coping with an aging parent, but it’s hard to get past this one long-winded person. Can you suggest a delicate way to redirect the conversation without being rude?

GENTLE READER: Even when a dinner party includes a relatively small number of guests, etiquette allows — even expects — many multiple, simultaneous conversations among different groupings. It is natural that at some point in the evening, attention may focus on a single speaker, but not for more than a few minutes.

When your lecturer begins, feel free to start a separate conversation with your next neighbor. If your guests follow your lead, only one or two people need be bored at a time, and this duty can be quietly rotated as you move from pre-dinner drinks, to the table, to after-dinner coffee.

••• 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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Q

the Lower Columbia

UIPS & QUOTES

Informer

Selected by Gordon Sondker

•Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example. ~ Mark Twain • No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth. ~Francis Bacon •Habit is ...the enormous flywheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance. ~ William James •It’s going to be fun to watch and see how long the meek can keep the earth after they inherit it.

~ Kin Hubbard • There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice. ~ Mark Twain •Industry, perseverance and frugality make fortune yield. ~ Benjamin Franklin •Man well governed should seek after no other liberty, for there can be no better liberty than a good government. ~ Walter Raleigh •The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won’t get much sleep. ~ Woody Allen •The principles which men profess on any controverted subject are usually a very incomplete exponent of the opinions they really hold. ~ John S. Mill • Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

~ Abraham Lincoln •The secret to dealing successfully with a child is not to be its parent.

~ Mell Lazarus

by Perry Piper

Super taster, stuper maester

U

nlike wine, as Marc Roland discusses in this month’s article (see page 12), beer is already seen as a very casual thing.

However, since we live so close to Portland, the world’s beer capital, there is definitely competition to brew ever-weirder and nuanced beers. I may be biased though, because I can only detect small differences between most wines. My research indicates there are about nine major styles of wine, each with subtypes and various ingredients, but I just can’t seem to get it. Maybe I just have tasting challenges.

According to an article in Scientific American, “super tasters” make up 25 percent of the population; these people actually have far more taste buds than the rest of us. This elite group experiences flavors more vividly

Non-tasters! Can you believe it, folks?

Non-tasters find the majority of food to be bland and the rest of us fall into the average category. There is actually a test you can perform with a mirror to figure out which group you probably are in. You can find it at the Scientific American website, searching “supertaster.”

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360-423-7175

•If youth is a defect, it is one that we outgrow too soon.

~ Robert Lowell

Tried turning it OFF and back ON again?

•Youth is such a wonderful thing.

What a crime to waste it on children. ~ George Bernard Shaw

Yes? Still doesn’t work?

I can help.

Longview resident Gordon Sondker, 90, grew up on a farm in Kansas. He has enjoyed many adventures and, like Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz, knows there’s no place like home.

than others and, typically, they report broccoli, cabbage, spinach, grapefruit and coffee as very bitter. The other groups around the world are apparently called “non-tasters” and “average tasters,” making up 25 and 50 percent, respectively.

Wine is a chemical “cocktail” that exceeds the complexity of most palates.

Serving temperature also matters. Color affects us subconsciously, revealed by different expert ratings of identical white wine having been dyed red. (Off with their heads!) The well-being and

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emotions of the judges— and even the weather — go into their verdicts, as well. All these variables add to the mix. Even when functioning perfectly, our brains can be easily fooled by trying to juggle so many things at once while trying to come up with consistent ratings among groups of drinks.

An article in The Guardian reports that oceanographer and statistician Robert Hodgson says even expert wine judges rate the same set of wines differently year to year, so what does that say about the average wine lover? I’ve had high-end wines at various parties, but I wouldn’t pay any more for them than my parents’ go-to “Two Buck Chuck.” It seems to me that the popularity of most wines, or maybe even all alcoholic products, is based 80 percent on brand perception. Recently, at Chocolate Fest in Portland, I found for the first time a bottle of wine I wanted to buy.

It was from HV Cellars in Oregon.

Even then, a bottle cost only $20. And at the same event, there were many expensive, gold medal winning wines I didn’t care for.

To me, the range of taste differences in wine, collectively, mirrors the range in a single style of beer. Among IPAs, or India pale ales, for example, there are small differences once you try several, but I wouldn’t blame newbies for saying most taste the same. Perhaps my taste buds are just more accustomed to barley and hops over grapes.

With American beer, the difference between the mass market and craft is light years apart. While lifelong wine aficionados might say the same thing about wine, I’d bet the average reaction to different beers is greater than wines. Coors Light is purposely served as cold as possible to camouflage its lack of flavor, while Russian imperial stouts are often served just below room temperature to bring out a rich array of subtle flavors. Everyone has their own subjective preferences, so I’m not saying I’m capable of reliably critiquing beer, either.

If our taste bud limitations, along with branding and price influences were discussed up front, I think the experience of tasting — both beer and wine — could be more fun for everyone.

••• From Perry Piper’s favorite drinking song: Ninety-nine bottles of beer on the wall, ninety-nine bottles of beer; take one down and pass it around, ninety-eight bottles of beer. Ninenty-eight bottles of beer on the wall . ninety-eight bottles of beer ...

Astronomy

Where to find the new Reader It’s delivered all around the River by the 15 of

LOOKING UP/FRIENDS OF GALILEO

Sky Report for October-November

th

each month, but here’s a list of handy, regularlyrefilled sidewalk box and rack locations, most of which you can visit any time of day and even in your bathrobe ...

RYDERWOOD LONGVIEW Comm. Center Post Office Bob’s (rack, main check-out) RAINIER In front of 1232 Commerce Ave Post Office In front of 1323 Commerce Ave Cornerstone YMCA Glaze, Gifts & Fred Meyer (rack, grocery entrance) Giggles US Bank (15th Ave.) Rainier Fibre Fed’l CU - Commerce Ave Hardware (rack, entry) Monticello Hotel (side entrance) Earth ‘n’ Sun (on Hwy 30) Kaiser Permanente El Tapatio (entry rack) St. John Medical Center DEER ISLAND (rack, Park Lake Café) Deer Island Store Cowlitz Black Bears box office LCC Student Center COLUMBIA CITY - Post Office Mini-Mart next to Regents WARREN Indie Way Diner Warren Country Inn Columbia River Reader ST HELENS 1333 14th Ave. Chamber of Commerce KELSO Sunshine Pizza Heritage Bank Post Office Visitors’ Center/ Kelso-Longview Wild Currant Chamber of Commerce Olde Towne (near Bemis Printing) KALAMA Safeway Fibre Fed’l CU SCAPPOOSE For more Kalama Shopping Center Post Office locations or

corner of First & Fir Road Runner the pick-up WOODLAND Fred Meyer point nearest Visitor’s Center (east entrance) you, visit The Oak Tree Fultano’s crreader.com Ace Hardware CASTLE ROCK and click “Find Lacie Rha’s Cafe (32 Cowlitz W.) CATHLAMET the Magazine” Four Corners General Store Cathlamet Pharmacy under Parker’s Restaurant (rack, entry) CLATSKANIE “Features.”

Visitor’s Center Post Office 890 Huntington Ave. N. Hump’s (inside entry) Exit 49, west side of I-5 Chevron / Mini-Mart Wauna mill (parking area)

By Ted Gruber

MORNING SKY

Venus and Mars appear in the eastern sky before sunrise,with Mars rising just before Venus. The two planets, which appeared closest to each other on Oct. 5, will appear to separate a bit more each morning during October and November. A crescent moon appears between the two planets the morning of Oct. 17.

Uranus reaches opposition on Oct. 19, meaning it lies directly opposite the sun and is visible all night. A planet at opposition is also at its closest distance to earth and shines as brightly as possible. Uranus is a difficult object to locate with the naked eye, but can be located through binoculars or a telescope throughout October and November.

Jupiter joins the planetary parade in the pre-dawn eastern sky in early November, rising after Mars and Venus.

On the morning of Nov. 13, Jupiter and Venus will appear almost directly on top of each other, and then for the rest of November, Jupiter will rise before the brighter Venus.

Orionid Meteor Shower

The Orionid meteor shower is active from Oct. 2–Nov. 7. The meteors appear to radiate from the constellation Orion in the southeastern sky, which gives the shower its name. It occurs every October when Earth passes through debris left

by Halley’s Comet on its periodic path through the inner solar system, which last occurred in 1986. The meteors appear as brief flashes of light when pieces of the debris burn up in the Earth’s atmosphere. The shower peaks before dawn on Oct. 21 with a maximum rate of 20 meteors/hour.

NIGHT SKY

Saturn sits about 20° above the southwestern horizon in the evening sky in early October, dipping lower each night into early November.

Saturn’s rings are currently tilted 27° to our line of sight, which is the maximum possible angle. This will next occur in 2032.

Ted Gruber makes a regular report to fellow members of Friends of Galileo, a family-friendly astronomy club which meets monthly in Longview. Beginning with this issue, CRR will feature info from this sky report each month. Watch for CRR’s astronomy columnist Greg Smith’s next article in the Nov. 25 Holiday issue. For info about FOG, call Chuck Ring, 360-636-2294.

NEXT FOG CLUB MEETING 7 pm, Wed., Oct. 18, at Mark Morris High School in Large Group Instructional Center adjacent to the cafeteria. The speakers will present short topics: Ted Gruber discussing “Drake Equation 2017 Update” (i.e.: probability factors for life elsewhere in Universe); and Mark Thorson demonstrating the “Solar System Model at 500 foot scale” (with planet size increased 10X). Refreshments will be served during intermission after Ted’s presentation and Sky Report. Mark’s demonstration and the club business meeting will follow intermission. Visitors are welcome.

The closest thing to living at home

10 locally-owned, privately-operated adult family homes in Longview serving our community

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Astoria Fulio’s Pastaria 1149 Commercial St., Astoria.

Italian-Mediterranean cuisine. Steaks, pasta, veal scallopini, lamb. Full bar, wine. Open 11:30–9, 7 days a week.

503-325-9001.

Clatskanie

COLUMBIA RIVER

dining guide

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

See ad, page 11.

Kelso

1260 Commerce Ave. Serving lunch & dinner Mon–Sat 11am–10pm. Full bar, banquet space, American comfort food. 360-703-3904. www.millcitygrill.com. See ad, page 9.

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

M-Sat 11am–10pm; Sun 11am–9pm.

503-728-2922

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

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

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

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

Open daily 11am.

503-556-9753 See ad, page 11.

Grounds for Opportunity 413 S. Pacific Ave. 360-703-3020 Wed– Sun 7am–3pm. Breakfast and Lunch available all day.

Longview

1329 Commerce Ave., Longview (alley entrance). Fine dining, happy hour specials. wine tastings. Tues-Sat open 5pm.

360-425-2837. See ad, page 6.

Homestyle cooking from the 1960s-1970. All natural ingredients. Beer and wine available. Open Wed. thru Sun, 7am–8pm. See ad, page 9.

614 Commerce Ave., Longview. 18 varieties of pizza. Salad bar, Lunch buffet all-you-can-eat. Beer & wine. Mon-Fri open 11am, Sat-Sun 12 Noon. 360-3533512.

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

33 draft beers. Full bar. Family-friendly, weekly jazz and acoustic dinner hour sets on Weds. 360-636-1616. See ad, page 24.

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

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

Locally roasted espresso, fine teas, fresh pastries daily, smoothies, beer & wine, homemade soups. Breakfast and lunch. 1333 Broadway. 360-425-7700 See ad, page 4.

Country Folks Deli 1329 Commerce Ave., Longview. Open for lunch and dinner. 360-425-2837.

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

503-556-9935. See ad, page 11.

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

1110 Commerce 360-414-3288.

See ad, page 4.

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

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Fire Mountain Grill • NEW Location 9440 Spirit Lake Hwy, Milepost 19.

Lunch & Dinner: Burgers, sandwiches, salads, steaks seafood, chicken & dumplings, housemade cobblers and infamous Bigfoot Burger. Riverside dining. Open daily thru Oct 31, 10am– 8pm. Call to confirm possible season extension. 360-274-5217.

St. Helens, Oregon

Sunshine Pizza & Catering 2124 Columbia Blvd.

Hot pizza, cool salad bar. Beer & wine.

503-397-3211 See ad, page 12.

Scappoose Fultano’s Pizza 51511 SE 2nd.

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

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

503-543-5100.

Ixtapa Fine Mexican Restaurant

Restaurant & Lounge

Conestoga Pub

Hometown Pizza 109 E. “A” St. Take-and-bake, Delivery, To-Go and dine-in. Lunch Buffet M-F 11–2.

Open daily 11am; close M-Th, Sat 9pm, Fri 10pm. 503-556-3700

The Original Pietrio’s Pizzeria

The Carriage Full breakfast, lunch and dinner. Daily drink special: Bloody Mary $5. Homemade soup 6am–2pm. Full bar in lounge, open 6am.

1334 12th Ave. 360-425-8545.

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

See ad page 11.

421 20th Ave., Authentic Thai food, i.e. Drunken Noodles, Pad Thai, Green Curry. Tues–Sat 11:30– 2:30pm, 4:30–7:30pm. 360560-3779.

Toutle/Mt St Helens

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

Casual ambience, al fresco and indoor dining. 5–9pm Wed-Sat. See ad, page 10.

Teri’s 3225 Ocean Beach Hwy, Longview.

Lunch and dinner. Fine dining, with specials, fresh NW cuisine. Happy Hour.

Full bar. Mon–Sat open 11am. Closed Sundays. 360-577-0717.

Fresh-roasted coffee, snack and pastries. 1335 14th Ave., M-F 9am–4pm, Sat-Sun 9am–4pm.

360-232-8642 Second location: 931 Ocean Beach Hwy (Inside seating plus drive-thru).

M-F 6am–8pm, Sat-Sun 8am–8pm.

360-232-8642. See ad, page 9.

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

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

360-967-2333

33452 Havlik Rd. Fine Mexican cuisine.

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

Warren Warren Country Inn 56575 Columbia River Hwy. Fine family dining. Breakfast, lunch & dinner. Fri Prime Rib special, Taco Tuesday. Karaoke Fri-Sat. Full bar. M-Th 8am–9:30pm, Fri-Sat 8am–10:30pm, Sun 9am–9pm. 503-410-5479.

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

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Farmer’s Daughter: Cornfed from page 20

On our farm, we had a small herd of dairy cows, and you haven’t lived “natural” until you dad is running the manurespreader outside the open kitchen window — Smelly! — while, inside, you’re kneading the bread dough for your 4-H entry in the county fair.

I do admire people like my Vancouver friends who go the extra mile to grow their vegetables organically. Their homegrown produce is wonderful and a salad created at their house is worth writing home about.

Last I heard, some shoppers were willing to pay about 30 percent more for organic produce, although I don’t insist on that.

As for myself, I like to go to the farmers market and talk to the people who grow what I’m buying. I figure the food they’re serving their children and grandchildren, organic or not, is good enough for me.

How sweet it is

But back to corn. The varieties have multiplied faster than sow thistle in an uncultivated field. I won’t get into the whole issue of what’s labeled “local” in the supermarket. Some stores plaster LOCAL signs on produce imported from California. Not on my map.

In Longview-Kelso stores, Rainier, Ore., vegetables and fruit are probably “local.”

But what about Yakima where much of our produce is grown?

It all depends on where we’re doing the eating. In Hawaii, bananas are local; in Castle Rock, probably not.

To my mind, the cooks I most admire are the ones who pluck food from their backyard garden. Farm-to-table, in spades.

When I worked in Gresham, Ore., it drove me crazy to see shoppers buying armloads of what I considered “foreign” strawberries from California — pretty as a picture outside, but ugly white inside — while east Multnomah County farmers were picking their strawberries but a stone’s throw away. I wanted to make a citizen’s arrest, but I did not. Call me a strawberry snob, and so I remain.

If only our food could talk. “Where did you come from, sweet cob of corn? Did you have a happy childhood growing up?

Will you be the one guest at my table that every diner has been waiting for?”

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Master Gardeners

GARDEN CHORES

Put your yard to bed for winter

By Alice Slusher, WSU Master Gardener Volunteer

A

nd you thought you were finished in the garden, eh?

Not quite yet. It’s time for a few more chores that will give your garden a healthy, fresh start next spring.

•Clean up all plant debris from under shrubs and in gardens— helps prevent spring disease!

•Improve water drainage before the rains start. Organic matter improves the drainage of heavy clay soil. Work 3 inches of organic matter, such as chopped tree leaves, compost, and cover crops, into the top 6 inches of soil. You can also add fresh manure and grass clippings to add nitrogen to the soil, but they don’t do as well in building better soil. You can till fresh manure into the soil now so that it will compost over the winter; all pathogens will be gone by the time you plant in spring. Avoid tilling in straw, sawdust, bark, or wood chips because they will make nitrogen in the soil unavailable to plants.

•Use paper or cardboard to cover garden areas to keep weeds down.

I’ve raided local recycle bins for large pieces of cardboard to cover my raised beds.

•Harvest any green tomatoes.

Wipe them down, discard damaged fruit. Place them in a box and cover lightly with paper towels. Soon you’ll have yummy red tomatoes!

•Mulch your asparagus, rhubarb, roses, rhododendrons, azaleas, and other tender shrubs to protect from winter injury.

•Cut down all your perennial plants — the ones that come up every year — to prevent wind damage and reduce plant disease from rotting leaves and stems.

•Clean up your garden tools; oil and sharpen them before stowing away for the winter.

•Fall is the best time to plant new ground cover, trees, and shrubs. It’s also time to plant garlic for next spring.

•You can divide many perennials now.

Dig them up, divide the roots with a knife or shovel, and replant.

•If you have any dahlias, gladiolas, or tuberous begonias, carefully dig them up, clean off excess soil, let them sit on a newspaper for a couple of weeks until the stem and leaves dry up and fall off.

Place them in a lidded cardboard box filled with dry, clean peat moss, sawdust or vermiculite and place in a cool, dry, dark place that doesn’t freeze until next spring.

•Fruit trees: It’s essential to clean up all plant debris from under trees, as they harbor diseases that will affect them in the spring. You can help prevent leaf curl in the spring on peaches, nectarines by applying a fungicide containing chlorothalonil (Daconil), such as Bonide Fung-onil or GardenTech, now.

•Bring your hanging baskets of fuschias into a dark, cool place (or somewhere they won’t freeze). Water them every 3-4 weeks. They’ll wither and look dead, but are actually just dormant.

Cut them back in the spring, and watch them grow!

MASTER GARDENER ACTIVITIES New Cowlitz County Master Gardener class starting in Jan 2018.

You don’t need to know anything about gardening, just have an interest in learning about it, and sharing what you learn with the community through volunteer-driven MG programs For more information, please call Gary Fredricks, 360-577-3014, Ext. 3 Columbia County Master Gardeners: Faves New & Old for Autumn and Winter Color Oct. 26, 6:30pm. Free, OSU Extension Classroom, St. Helens. Details: 503-397-3462.

Master Gardeners Info: WSU Cowlitz County. 360-577-3014 OSU Columbia County: 503-397-3462

•Houseplants: Stop fertilizing them, and cut back a bit on watering. Keep them away from cold drafts and heat vents.

••• Kalama resident Alice Slusher volunteers with WSU Extension Service Plant & Insect Clinic.

Drop by 9am– 12noon Wed. at 1946 3rd Ave., Longview, with your specimen, call 360577-3014, ext. 8, or send question via cowlitzmastergardener@gmail.com.

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Where do you read

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THE READER?

Can this marriage be saved? Longview residents Larry & Connie Wilhelmsen (at left) celebrate their 50th anniversary while on a cruise to Alaska with family: Kurt, Jonelle, Elin & Alec Wilhelmsen; Kraig, Kiera, Sam & Charlotte Wilhelmsen, all of Seattle.

Longview residents, left to right, Geri and John Willems and Janet and Dan Jacobs at Galway, Ireland.

Kylemore Abbey shows in the background.

The foursome enjoyed 10 days in Ireland.

Gone to Canada Longview residents JoAnne Baker and Majean Roehne at the End of the Road on the Sunshine Coast in historic Lund, B.C.

WHERE DO YOU READ THE READER? Send your photo reading the Reader (high-resolution JPEG) to Publisher@ CRReader.com. If sending a cell phone photo, choose the largest file size up to 2 MB. Include names and cities of residence. Thank you for your participation and patience, as we usually have a backlog. Keep those photos coming!

Enjoying the solar eclipse: the ‘Eyes’ have it! Residents of Peardale condo in Longview enjoyed brunch and viewing the solar eclipse, all while reading The Reader together. Left to right, front row: June White, Jean McCrimmon, Bev Laulainen, Louise McAulliffe, Ireda Grohs, Peg Johnson, Karen Peterson, Bev Hart. Back row, left to right: Steve Pulliam, Vona Williams, Kathy Thompson, Jim Fernandez, Fred Johnson, Bruce Eyer, Clint Hart, Dick Grohs, Larry Peterson.

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the spectator

by ned piper Words, words, words

A

bout a year ago I was invited to join a writers’ group. The decision to join was not an easy one, having been involved in a similar group 10

years earlier. There were only three members in the old group, but I came to realize how much time it takes to write 20 or so pages of original stuff

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every other week and then to critique the works that your fellow writers have submitted.

There are five writers in the new group, representing an even larger commitment. Just fitting a two-hour time slot into the busy schedules of five active individuals is a serious challenge. In a way, however, it’s getting easier to schedule our meetings than when we first started, as it has become more important to all of us.

For example, in planning a visit to my friend Lee Quarnstrom in California in a few weeks, I scheduled the visit around our writers’ group.

The new group is made up of three men and two women; two novelists, two playwrights and me. I’m currently submitting two short stories every two weeks to my compatriots.

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Here’s how it works: We each e-mail our manuscripts to the group a week prior to our gathering. Invariably, one or two of us can’t open the attachment to one of the e-mails. This creates a frenzy of digital messaging with everyone trying to forward the missing document to the member(s) who hadn’t received it. So far, we’ve never failed to succeed in getting everything to everybody.

The bi-weekly meetings are very enjoyable. We’ve all become good friends with a common interest, improving the craft of our writing.

Since I didn’t get their approval to name names, let me just say that, to a person, they are not only excellent story tellers, but they have a keen sense of constructive criticism.

The stories they tell are all so different one from the other that it makes for an interesting discussion at our gatherings. Their works are infused with drama, humor, brilliantly constructed characters and plots that twist and turn like salted pretzels.

To those who have tried to publish their novel, poem, play or essay: you know how difficult it is to succeed.

That said, I fully anticipate that one day I will see in print, or on a stage the works of my fellow writers.

••• Ned Piper lives in Longview, where he enjoys watching football, feeding his backyard birds and squirrels and schmoozing with advertisers and readers as he delivers copies of CRR.

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WHAT’S

UP

UNDER THE BRIDGE?

T

By Brooke Hendrickson

he Port of Longview has been moving increasingly large amounts of cargo for the last several years, all due to strategic investments in infrastructure which leads to new customers doing business at the Port.

Ports are owned by the citizens and taxes collected are an investment in the livelihood of our community. They are not private businesses, nor were they designed to be. Ports were designed to spur economic development, keep money moving through the economy by managing public assets and to create economic gain for the area. By law, ports may collect $0.45 per $1,000 of the port district’s assessed valuation.

Even at the maximum rate, the Port of Longview collects less in total taxes than competing ports, a disadvantage when it comes to making capital investments in docks, rail lines, roads and equipment.

Although the Port has seen steady increases in tonnage and revenue throughout the last few years, more cargo movement means more investments in infrastructure to maintain that momentum. When analyzing a successful business year, the Port looks at its operating revenues– a successful year would show high numbers in operating revenue, indicating that the Port has handled a lot of cargo in that given year. The Port’s revenue is invested into new capital assets and improvements to existing assets, all aimed at local economic growth.

Your tax dollars are an investment in the future of the Port of Longview and the local community. As more money is invested into infrastructure at the Port, more customers are drawn to the area, increasing the amount of economic benefits to our area. Your Port is invested in creating economic opportunities for the benefit of our community.

••• Brooke Hendrickson is Communications Associate with the Port of Longview. Reach her at bhendrickson@portoflongview.com or 360-703-0256.

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Peter Kung and Tony Lin Now Taking Appointments

Before joining Longview Orthopedic Associates, Peter Kung, MD, and Tony Lin, MD, both attended the worldrenowned Kerlan-Jobe Sports Medicine Clinic in Los Angeles, where they were members of a medical staff that treated professional athletes from the L.A. Dodgers, L.A. Lakers, L.A. Sparks, L.A. Kings, and Anaheim Ducks.

In addition to sub-specialty board certification in sports medicine, Kung and Lin specialize in treating knee and shoulder injuries and conditions.

Call Longview Orthopedic Associates to schedule an appointment. MRI and physical therapy services are located on site for your convenience.

Peter Kung (left) and Tony Lin of Longview Orthopedic Associates

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625 9th Ave • Longview, WA 98632 • www.longvieworthopedics.com 36 / October 15 – November 25, 2017 / Columbia River Reader