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JUNE 24,
ANDREW J. MCNAB- TARTAN PUBLICATIONS, INC., PUBLISHER
KAREN HENSLEE . GENERAL MANAGER
SAM LOWRY, CO-EDITOR
GREG SKINNNER, CO-EDITOR
How we seen, y'all?
During a recent conversation a man asked me to be careful not quote him
using "vernacular" when I later wrote the story; he didn't want to sound like a
hick. I assumed that the media-savvy behavior was in response to stories like
the June t3 piece in the Oregon & The West section of the Oregonian.
Wendy Owen, the writer, succeeded in painting Goldendale as a scene out of
197o's sitcom, Green Acres. Owen's article was sprinkled with colloquial
vignettes and snips of conversation leaving a gullible-bumpkin image of those
taken in the Etalon-Nodak scam. She did so by balancing local shock of the graft
with quotes like, "This is a community of trust." It gives a nice image, and out
of context the though stretches the imagination. The dosing line for that article
reads, "I come from a place where a handshake beats a contract." That idea, too,
suffers the truth. The Jaycees and Klickitat Valley Grain Growers can attest to
the need for some suspicion and one form of contract or another.
Place Owen's view of Goldendale next to last year's now famous April 6
Seattle Times piece and an image builds. Ron Judd pressed the imagination
with quotes like "Despair is in the air," "The whole town is drying up, ""It was
good while it lasted."
Judd laced the column with negative imagery and commentary not attribut-
able to any soul, let alone someone from Goldendale.
Of course those stories are recipe-driven journalism, done off the cuff and
over the phone, quickly conjuring the idea, "If they're here for an hour it's a
newspaper, a day and they work for a magazine, a week and they must be writ-
ing the book."
It's probable that Judd came looking premeditatedly for poverty and Owen
came with the astounded victim in mind- Goldendale gave them what they
wanted.
Regardless of the amount of money being spent on PR in Portland or Seattle
by city or county offices, newspaper archives a~e peppered with colloquial shots
at Goldendale. Eventually someone should ask how people in Goldendale think
the rest of the world sees them? News soutve~ outside the Gorge do not depict
a touristy retirement village. Relevant too, is how Goldendale views those view-
ing them? It seems quotes given and perspectives explained to reporters from
the city reflect a certain voice or a perpetual image that. Does it reflect
Goldendale?
Buried in the pages of city papers are smaller wire stories. If you look hard
you'll read about Goldendale pushing state sponsored girls track into reality
back in 1969, or the public observatory hosting looo people. The Times put
Earl Ferguson's $1.6 million scholarship fund for Goldendale students in the
back of a front section.
One of the first articles I wrote for this paper quoted Judge Brian Altman say-
ing, "We have to be just as intelligent and quick on our feet as anybody in King
County." I've been in Goldendale for 143 days now and I couldn't agree more.
Greg Skinner
Don't forget to pit the cherries
What a deal! A friend called last week to say he had some cherries for us
and would bring theory if I was going robe home, ,
' ~Th'~ fellow no-Con|] ~ieked the cherries from his ti:ee-- but drove miles
out of his way to deliver them. You can't hardly get
friends like that anymore. S Th
These are really good cherries, too. I've eaten 0
so many the past few days that I won't go any-| | RIlek ~l
where without a map to the next bathroom.
I was reminded of a woman in town who used/ ~Oi~ ~/J
to have several pie cherry trees in her yard. Each
year she would tell my wife when her cherries
were ripe, and we'd head over and pick a few gallons.
One year, as we were thanking this woman for the fruit and for thinking
of us, she mentioned she had called several people to ask if they wanted
some cherries. Nearly everyone asked if the cherries were already picked,
and a few wondered if they had been pitted as well!
That's the big job with pie cherries, getting the pits out. Still it's hard to
imagine folks are too lazy to pick free cherries, and some are hoping their
benefactor will pit them, too!
I will admit my cherry picking expeditions often coincided with a visit
from my parents. Mother and Dad provided two additional cherry pitters
and had a noticeable effect upon how many cherries I thought we could
handle.
My parents grew up in the days when fruit generally came out of the gar-
den or from a blackberry patch in the pasture. Taking care of fruit or pit-
ting a few cherries wasn't a big chore for them, and we got a lot of visiting
done while we worked.
Once in awhile Dad and I would get to talking or laughing about some-
thing and miss a pit or two. That was O.K., according to Dad. He always
said each cherry pie was supposed to have one pit in it.
This can be carried too far, however (as my wife learned soon after we
were married). Connie has always been a great pie-maker, and cherry is
one of her best.
When her Mom gave us a nice package of cherries from the tree in her
backyard my mouth began to water for a nice juicy pie. Connie's morn had
picked the cherries and frozen them in quart bags, so all my wife had to do
was make the filling and crust and pop the pie into the oven. (Not a sim-
ple task, as all pie-makers will attest.)
Those cherries made the prettiest pie you ever saw, and we took it to my
cousin's house for ~linner. My cousin, Dean, took one look at the delicious
pie on his plate and took a big bite. "Ya-ahh-ahh!" he said.
"Boy that must have been good!" I thought to myself.
That's when I realized Cousin Dean had bitten into a cherry pit and
nearly broke his jaw! Soon after that we learned there was more than one
pit in that pie. None of the cherries had been pitted!
I think there's a lesson here somewhere, and I can guarantee my cousin will
never bite into another piece of pie without poking it a couple of times first.
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ANOTHER
FUN-FILLEI> FAMILY
VACATION...
HE
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Faith in human
spirit renewed
much she's looking forward to Beverage and Pepsi.
tomorrow and she renews my faith We would like to also
in the human spirit, cial thanks to Randall
doyce McKay Chad Ross for all their
Goldendale Also Paul Schaffer, Dan
Steve and Tina Krause,
To the Editor: CounW poker New HopeFarms, Ellen
June z8 would have been my par- and Karla Fransen,
ents' 73rd wedding anniversary, Crawford, Torrie Leinen,
but my dad died z2 years ago. (This
is just for background informa- run a success
tion). My mom knew life without
him would be next to impossible. Letter To The Editor:
She also knew if she didn't do The directors of The 1st Annual
something she would "shrivel up Klickitat County Poker Run, Scott
and die." so she did something. She and Micki Robinson, would like to
started a little thrift store. She gets thank all who helped and donated
to meet people and make friends, their time and support to help
She shops every week for "bar- make the run a success:
gains" for her store, and she's right. Mayor Mark Sigfrinius, Police
She's still going pretty strong for a Chief Dave Hill and staff, DeHart's,
kid of 95 come July 1. Not too shab- Ekone Hair Salon, Goody's, Reno's
by for someone almost a century Pizza, The Market Place,
old. Of course, her hearing isn't Goldendale Glass, Jerry O'Brien,
what it used to be. She might Ponderosa Motel, Hog farm
answer a question you didn't ask, Custom Machines, Huntington's
but at least she answered. (Some of Bar And Grill, Farvue Motel,
them are pretty funny, too.) And Heavenly Cookie Co., Sunset R.V.
now and then she nods off. But all Park, Chevron, Ayutla's Family
in all, she is to be admired for her Mexican Restaurant, Therapeutic
tenacity and perseverance. She's a Massage, McCredy's Hardware,
special lady. Mary's Tea Time, Shell, CarQuest,
So many times I have thought Good Year, Les Schwab,
how much easier it would be to just Goldendale Chamber Of
quit something that isn't going Commerce, Top Hat, Fun Country,
right, or I'm tired of trying. Then I Goldendale Napa, Columbia River
see her looking at the things she's Bank, The Dalles Electric Supply,
just washed for the store and how Burgerville, Rabanco, Mt. Hood
and Nancy Turner.
Most of all, Scott
thank his wife Micki for
him through the whole rt~,
by his side no matter
things got, and not givizag
faith in their success.
We are looking for
took pictures during
at the fairgrounds.
know if you have any.
Thanks again and
ward to a
Scott and Micki
The risky business of fighting fire in the
Guest Column
Wendy Beye
The 2004 fire season has not yet No one yet knows
truly begun in the Rocky Mountain wrong. He delivered
West, and already three fire-fight- retardant, and the pla
ing pilots have died in crashes. Writers on the Range ed to the ground,
While investigations into the cans- it out of this world in
es of the accidents are underway, In the meantime, regional Forest rising from a mass oi
the U.S. Forest Service finds itself Service and Bureau of Land metal. The video was
crushed between a rock and a hot Management aviation managers lying and
place, are scrambling to find equipment as the 2002 crash
On May 11, with aerial tanker- to replace the large tankers, by the National
training in full swing, top-ranking because fires are beginning to blaze Safety Board.
administrators in the Forest in the drought-stricken West. Perhaps therewas
Service pulled the rug out from Dozens of contractors with little or problem with the
under the agency's tanker contrac- no experience in applying fire ing at an altitude and
tors and regional fire managers, retardant from agricultural spray es higher than th(
Forest Service Chief Dale planes known as SEATs -- Single designed for.
Bosworth declared all large tanker Engine Air Tankers -- are hiring made a fatal error
contracts null and void, leaving a pilots who know how to spray on losing sight of a safe
gaping hole in the bag of tools calm summer days, but not neces- from the drop area.
needed to fight wildland fires, sarily how to douse infernos from sifting through the
The impetus behind his decision the air. Unfortunately, with a single clues may never uncover
was a horrifying video accompa- pilot on board a SEAT, there is no Fighting fire is
nied by a National Transportation one along to coach a neophyte Firefighters die on the
Safety Board report on the cata- through the tricky business of in the air
strophic failure of wings on two delivering a payload that strains admit to any
aerial tankers that crashed in the aircraft's capacity to perform in continue to battle to
2002. All crew members aboard conditions from Hell. that sprout up by the
the planes died. The tankers At a recent fire aviation safety areas of high risk for l
involved in the accidents were briefing for fire patrol pilots, the Agencies
both owned by Hawkins and safety briefer warned, "There's tecting those houses
Powers of Wyoming, but safety going to be a lot of metal flying difficult decisions,
board officials recommended around out there over fires this and practically. But
against using any of the available year, with a lot. of inexperienced what safety
U.S. fleet, pilots [at the controls,] Keep your preached by fire
The jury is still out on whether eyes open." fighters will
structural failure is imminent on A good friend of mine was the with their lives. By
other models of aircraft still in use most recent casualty in the war on important weapon
by other contractors. An avalanche wildfire. He was a conscientious, field kit, I hope
of documentation, including main- safe pilot; a flight instructor with D.C.,
tenance procedures and individual 20,000 hours in small aircraft, sacrificed lives in
aircraft history, has been submit- including many hours of aerial others
ted to DynCorp, an aircraft con- agricultural-application flight; a
tractor that has agreed to review caring man no doubt distressed at
the airworthiness of the large the sight of the fire he was work-
tanker fleet on a plane-by-plane ing, licking at the edges of a "wild-
basis, land interface" subdivision.
Wendy Beye is a
Writers on the Range,`
High Country
Sheisa
ralist in Hamilton,