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USE SUBJECT TO LICENSE AGREEMENT. REPRODUCTION, DISSEMINATION, STORAGE, DISTRIBUTION PROHIBITED. PAGE 4 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. THE GOLDENDALE SENTINEL OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER FOR GOLDENDALE AND KLICKITAT COUNTY, WA ESTABLISHED 1879 • PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY FROM OFFICES AT 117 W. MAIN • GOLDENDALE, WA 98620 TELEPHONE (509) 773-3777 • FAx (509) 773-4737 EMAIL: (NEWS) SENTINEL@GORGE.NET OR (ADS, EDITORIAL, COMMUNITIES, HOMETOWN) GSENTINEL@GORGE.NET OR THE GOLDENDALE SENTINEL STAFF BETH SCHRoDER, PAGE LAYOUT/DESIGN AMY WALKER, GRAPHIC DESIGN HELMUT ADLER, ADVERTISING SALES & CIRCULATION Deadlinee: Display Advertising: 5 p.m. Friday Classified Advertising: Noon Monday Legal Notices: 10 a.m. Tuesday News and Letters: Noon Friday Subscriptions: 1 Year, 2 Years Goldendale - Carrier $22, $37 In Klickitat County - $29, $52 Outside Klickitat County - $38, $70 USPS 2213-6000 WEEKLY. Periodical postage paid at Goidendate Post Office, Goldendale, Wash, 98620. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to The Goldendale Sentinel, 117 W. Main St. Goidendale, WA 98620-9526. Goldendale Sentinel tit leo ANOTHER FUN-FILLEI> FAMILY VACATION... HE MM N 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,