Artists are invited to become part of the revival of the Lake Chelan Fine Arts Festival. This is a juried show of fine arts and crafts along with a juried art gallery. The Waterfront Riverwalk Park, Campbell's River Room, and part of Emerson Street will be transformed into three distinct argot venues.
Fine arts and crafts will be featured in the Riverwalk, traditinal arts/crafts and culinary arts on Emerson Street, and the art gallery at Campbell's River Room.
Artists are asked to apply now and are all encouraged to put the dates of August 20th, 21st and 22nd on the calendar.
Barb Koenig of the Main Street Gallery and Vice President of the Lake Chelan Arts Council talks with GLC about the return of the Lake Chelan Fine Arts Festival:
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The return of the fine arts event is a partnership of the Arts Council, the Historic Downtown Chelan Association and the Lake Chelan Chamber of Commerce, with special thanks to the city for use of the Riverwalk Park and Emerson Street, and Campbell's for the River Room Gallery.
Construction delayed on new entryway and pedestrian safety enhancements at Lakeshore/Don Morse Park
Construction was to be happening now with completion before the peak of summer traffic. The delay is because needed permits from the Department of Transportation are not in hand.
A complex fee structure will not be replaced with a simple one-price-for-all-rides scheme this year. The Link Board has decided to leave the current boarding structure in place, while declining sales tax revenue and a possible electronic card pass system is studied.
County Commissioner Doug England, from Manson, serves on the Link Board. He tells GLC that while the driver's job is made complex by having to collect fees decided by age of the passenger, where they are going, what if any passes they have, then collecting and tracking money, the Board wanted to wait until other options are fully understood.
Link depends on sales tax revenue and grants for funding, and with sales tax declining, a rate change may have an additional negative impact on the budget.
England also comments on some schedule changes needed to take advantage of new electric busses in the Wenatchee area, and a proposed Link partnership that may see a multi-story parking garage/Link transfer station at the Wenatchee Valley Mall in East Wenatchee.
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Posted by gregory_kennedy on Thursday, March 18 @ 05:53:56 PDT
Joe Harris Presented the title of "Mr. Basketball" by the Washington Interscholastic Basketball Coaches Association
GoLakeChelan has three reports to share about this home town hero's success as an outstanding athlete.
Click on any of our pictures for the full story.
Richard Uhlhorn has a report "Engstrom and Harris selected for WIBCA All-State Game March 20 at Mountlake Terrace High School" which includes a mention of Joe Harris's latest accolade.
Dave Rogge has a video report with "Mr. Basketball".
Posted by gregory_kennedy on Wednesday, March 17 @ 15:37:26 PDT
Chelan High School Agriculture Education Program Honored
March 17, 2010
Paul Quick and Rod Cool, CHS Agriculture Education Department Instructors and recipients of the 2010 WAAE District VII Program of the Year.
Chelan High School Agriculture Education Program Honored
The Chelan High School Agriculture Education Program was selected as the 2010 District VII Program of the Year. The Agriculture Education instructors for CHS are Paul Quick and Rod Cool and their program was nominated and selected by their peers. District VII of the Washington Association of Agriculture Educators (WAAE) encompasses 16 High Schools and the Agriculture Department at Wenatchee Valley College and 27 Agriculture Educators from Leavenworth to Oroville. The Program will be honored at the WAAE Awards Banquet at the annual WAAE Summer conference held the last week of June in Kelso.
The CHS Agriculture Education Program courses include Agriscience and Technology, Agriscience and Biological Systems I and II, Natural Resource Science, Agriculture Mechanics I, II, III, Agriculture Construction, and MS STEM. The CHS Agriculture Education program was selected as the State Program of Year in 2008 and finished second in Region I which is Montana, Idaho, Washington Wyoming, Oregon, Nevada, California and Arizona. . The Equine Science Project portion of Agriscience and Biological Systems I course was selected as the WAAE Ideas Unlimited Award winner for 2009 and is currently being evaluated at the NAAE with an announcement coming in late April. If selected as the Region I Ideas Unlimited winner, the award will be presented at the NAAE National Convention in December of 2010 in Las Vegas.
Posted by gregory_kennedy on Wednesday, March 17 @ 11:37:50 PDT
Fraud Alert from the Wenatchee Valley Humane Society
March 17, 2010
ATTENTION ALL PET OWNERS IN THE WENATCHEE VALLEY: FRAUD ALERT!!!
From a press release by the Wenatchee Valley Humane Society:
The Wenatchee Valley Humane Society is issuing a fraud alert. If you have received a letter in the mail or a phone call from 24 Hour Pet Watch stating that you owe an additional amount of money for your microchip update, please do not respond! This is a scam. Your microchips are not subject to any additional charges after adopting from our shelter. The Wenatchee Valley Humane Society does not sell personal information to any outside organizations. We are currently investigating the source of the fraudulent company contacting our adopters.
If you have any questions or have been contacted by this company, please email Stephanie Manriquez at director@wenatcheehumane.org or call her at (509) 662-9577 during our normal business hours: Monday 11am to 6pm, Tuesday 11am to 6pm, Thursday 11am to 6pm, Friday 11am to 6pm, Saturday and Sunday 11am to 3pm. We are closed Wednesdays.
Founded in 1967, the Wenatchee Valley Humane Society is the only animal shelter serving Chelan and Douglas Counties. They provide care for displaced pets, rescue injured and lost animals, provide spay/neuter services with each adoption, investigate cruelties and find new homes for the abandoned and stray animals in our community. The Wenatchee Valley Humane Society is an independent non-profit shelter, meaning they rely on donations and support from the local community in order to provide these crucial services to our area.
Posted by gregory_kennedy on Wednesday, March 17 @ 11:06:57 PDT
Irma Bumgarner Keeney Named 2010 Manson Festival Grand Marshal
BY STEVEN P. VAUGHN
Manson Apple Blossom Committee
“I feel so honored, I’m still speechless,” beamed long time Manson resident Irma Bumgarner Keeney about her selection as the Grand Marshal for the 2010 Apple Blossom Parade. Keeney was so astonished the day she was asked by the Apple Blossom Royalty, that she couldn’t speak for a while. When prompted by her daughter Patty, she finally squeaked out, “Well . . . . I guess.” The 91 year old Mansonite then turned to Jama England, Chairperson for the Apple Blossom Committee, and asked, “Couldn’t you think of any older people than me?”
Posted by gregory_kennedy on Wednesday, March 17 @ 10:51:57 PDT
Efforts to open the flood-damaged Upper Stehekin Valley Road from Car Wash Falls to Cottonwood has both advocates and detractors.
Any change to a national park raises the concern of many, and to some extent, the National Park Service itself.
GLC asked the Superintendent of the North Cascades National Park Complex, Chip Jenkins, the status of the Upper Stehekin roadway, and the congressional action that would be required to reopen the road:
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Local supporters of the effort to get the road open are still looking for congressional support in the senate to sponsor legislation.
Posted by gregory_kennedy on Wednesday, March 17 @ 10:25:25 PDT
Sometimes called "psychic roots" or referred to as "serendipity", there is a phenomenon frequently happening in genealogical research. Why and how does long-sought information suddenly appear in an unexpected place? Could we be receiving help from our ancestors?
We will learn about this and have a cemetery update from researcher Teresa Sandum at our March meeting. Held at the Chelan PUD Conference Room on March 20 at 11am, we welcome visitors. Members: bring your success stories to share.
A public service message from Jon & Christine Courtright
Posted by gregory_kennedy on Wednesday, March 17 @ 09:34:35 PDT
Hundreds of Geese gather at Chelan's Lakeside Park leaving behind an over-abundance of droppings that are affecting public use of the park. Photo by Richard Uhlhorn.
City of Chelan Hires a Goose-Poop Buster
The number one complaint for the City of Chelan Park and Recreation Department is not dealing with a 165 site trailer park, a 65 site marina, thousands of feet of waterfront, a par 72 golf course, or the thousands of guests that might visit. It's not the ball fields, the putting course, or cleaning bathrooms several times a day. It's goose droppings.
Lake Chelan is host to an untold number of the Anatidae family -- Geese.
The droppings have the attention of Chelan City Council, the Parks Director, thousands of beach goers each summer, and have made swim lessons at Lakeside Park less than a pleasant experience.
The City will try harassing with dogs this summer. To be politically correct, Parks Director Charles Sablan prefers "hazing" to the term "harassing":
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The City has attracted the attention of the Wenatchee World in it's effort to minimize droppings. Beginning just after goose nesting season, June 1st, Elizabeth Tweten-Son will be on patrol with her dogs.
Posted by gregory_kennedy on Wednesday, March 17 @ 09:05:15 PDT
The physicians and staff at The Family Place at Lake Chelan Clinic believe that childbirth is a natural and miraculous process. The family physicians at the Lake Chelan Clinic are the most experienced physician group in the Lake Chelan Valley and treat the whole person, offering excellent prenatal care and childbirth assistance; to helping your child grow into a happy, healthy adult.
The Lake Chelan Clinic accepts all major insurance plans, including Medicaid; offers free pregnancy tests and free OB classes each month. Our bi-lingual OB Coordinator will help you with your financial aid paperwork and will help us meet your individual needs because we know childbirth doesn’t always look the same and each birth is unique.
The Family Place at the Lake Chelan Clinic- from our family to yours.
Lake Chelan Clinic
From Our Family To Yours
The Family Place Monthly
Classes & Pregnancy Experiences
COMING
CLASSES
MARCH 18th BELLY CASTING Dr. Amy
Hutton
APRIL 15th
Nutrition & Gestational Diabetes With Dietician
Shelly Wold
MAY 20th
Infant Massage
Massage Therapist
Laurie MacMillan
Classes are open to everyone in the Lake Chelan Valley. If you are interested in attending a class please contact Angie Hernandez at the Lake Chelan Clinic by calling 509-682-2511. While there is no charge for any of the classes, we do have a size limit on some so be sure to sign up today!
When You Have Urgent Medical Care Needs
Did you know the Lake Chelan Clinic has a walk-in clinic for your urgent medical care needs?
If you are feeling bad and can’t get an immediate appointment for medical treatment, come to the walk-in clinic at Lake Chelan Clinic, at 219 E Johnson Avenue.
If you have a minor injury and don’t want to make that expensive trip to the ER, come to the walk-in clinic at Lake Chelan Clinic.
The walk-in clinic is open
M-W-F from 8:30 to 4:30
On Tuesday and Thursday, we accept walk-in patients from 8:30AM until 6PM and we are open Saturday mornings from 9 to 11:30.
The Lake Chelan Clinic always accepts all major insurance plans, including Medicaid and Medicare.
At the Lake Chelan Clinic
We Care About Your Health!
Well all I have to say is Wow for today..
I haven't had a bite like this in quite a while now..This is going down in my history book as 1 of the best bites that I have had here on Lake Chelan.
Started fishing the lower end of Rocky Point in depths of 180ft and trolled up Lake towards Minneapolis Beach along the South Shore to bang the dickens out of the Laketrout today. After I saw what the bite was like I new that I was going to have a 20 plus fish day from the start. They started just hamm ...
A Michigan woman and her family were vacationing in a small New England town where
Paul Newman and his family often visited.
One Sunday morning, the woman got up early to take a long walk. After a brisk five-mile hike,
she decided to treat herself to a double-dip chocolate ice cream cone.
She hopped in the car, drove to the center of the village and went straight
to the combination bakery/ice cream parlor.
There was only one other patron in the store:
Paul Newman, sitting at the counter having a doughnut and coffee.
The woman's heart skipped a beat as her eyes made contact with those famous baby-blue eyes.
The actor nodded graciously and the star struck woman smiled demurely.
Pull yourself together! She chides herself. You're a happily married woman with three children, you're forty-five years old, not a teenager!
The clerk filled her order and she took the double-dip chocolate ice cream cone in one hand and her
change in the other. Then she went out the door, avoiding even a glance in Paul Newman's direction.
When she reached her car, she realized that she had a handful of change but her other hand was empty.
Where's my ice cream cone? Did I leave it in the store? Back into the shop she went, expecting to see the cone still in the clerk's hand or in a holder on the counter or something! No ice cream cone was in sight..
With that, she happened to look over at Paul Newman.
His face broke into his familiar, warm, friendly grin and he said to the woman,
'You put it in your purse.'
A physics teacher in high school, once told the students that while one
grasshopper on the railroad tracks wouldn't slow a train very much, a
billion of them would.
With that thought in mind, read the following, obviously written by a good
American .
Good idea
One light bulb at a time .
The other day, a friend was in Lowes
and was looking at
the hose attachments. They were all made in China. The next day he was in a
Ace Hardware and just for the heck of it, checked the hose attachments there. They were made in USA. Start looking.
In our current economic situation, every little thing we buy or do affects
someone else - even their job.
Another friend likes Hershey's candy. We noticed, though, that it is marked
made in Mexico now. So he doesn't buy it any more. His favorite toothpaste
Colgate is made in Mexico now .
So he switched to Crest.. You have to read the labels on everything.
This past weekend we were at a big box store and needed 60 W light bulbs and Bounce dryer
sheets. In the light bulb aisle, we found the GE brand and an off brand labeled, "Everyday Value." We picked up both
types of bulbs and compared the stats - they were the same except for the
price. The GE bulbs were more money than the Everyday Value brand but the
thing that surprised us the most was the fact that GE was made in MEXICO and
the Everyday Value brand was made in - get ready for this - the USA at a
company in Cleveland, Ohio .
So throw out the myth that you cannot find products you use every day that
are made right here.
So on to another aisle - Bounce Dryer Sheets . . .yep,
you guessed it, Bounce cost more money and is made in Canada.
The Everyday
Value brand was less money and MADE IN THE USA! I did laundry yesterday and
the dryer sheets performed just like the Bounce I have been using for years
and at almost half the price! My challenge to you is to start reading the
labels when you shop for everyday things and see what you can find that is
made in the USA - the job you save may be your own or your neighbors!
If you accept the challenge, pass this on to others so we can all start buying American, one light bulb at a time!
Let's stop buying
from overseas companies!
We should have awakened a decade ago !!!!
let's get with the program . . . help our fellow Americans keep their jobs
and create more jobs here in the USA.
Attitude Is Everything
By Charles Swindoll
"The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life.
Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think or say or do.
It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company ...a church ...a home.
The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day.
We cannot change our past ...we cannot change the fact that people will act in certain way. We cannot change the inevitable.
The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have; and that is our attitude ...I am convinced that life is 10 percent what happens to me and 90 percent how I react to it. And so it is with you... we are in charge of our attitudes" - Charles Swindoll
Tech Geeks & Cowboys
A cowboy named Bud was overseeing his herd in a remote mountainous pasture in California when suddenly a brand-new BMW advanced out of a dust cloud towards him.
The driver, a young man in a Brioni suit, Gucci shoes, RayBan sunglasses and a YSL tie, leans out the window and asks the cowboy, 'If I tell you exactly how many cows and calves you have in your herd, will you give me a calf?'
Bud looks at the man, obviously a yuppie, then looks at his peacefully grazing herd and calmly answers,
'Sure, Why not?'
The yuppie parks his car, whips out his Dell notebook computer, connects it to his Cingular RAZR V3 cell phone, and surfs to a NASA page on the Internet, where he calls up a GPS satellite to get an exact fix on his
location which he then feeds to another NASA satellite that scans the area in an ultra-high-resolution photo.
The young man then opens the digital photo in Adobe Photoshop and exports it to an image processing facility in Hamburg , Germany .
Within seconds, he receives an email on his Palm Pilot that the image has been processed and the data stored.
He then accesses a MS-SQL database through an ODBC connected Excel spreadsheet with email on his Blackberry
and, after a few minutes, receives a response.
Finally, he prints out a full-color, 150-page report on his hi-tech, miniaturized HP LaserJet printer and finally turns to the cowboy and says, 'You have exactly 1,586 cows and calves.' 'That's right. Well, I guess you can take one of my calves,' says Bud.
He watches the young man select one of the animals and looks on amused as the young man stuffs it into the trunk of his car.
Then Bud says to the young man,'Hey,if I can tell you exactly what your business is, will you give me back my calf?'
The young man thinks about it for a second and then says,
'Okay, why not?'
'You're a Congressman for the U.S.Government', says Bud.
'Wow! That's correct,' says the yuppie, 'but how did you guess that?'
'No guessing required.' answered the cowboy. 'You showed up here even though nobody called you; you want to get paid for an answer I already knew, to a question I never asked. You tried to show me how much smarter than me you are; and you don't know a thing about cows...this is a herd of sheep. . . Now give me back my dog!"
$50 is $50
Morris and his wife Esther went to the state fair every year, and every year Morris would say, "Esther, I'd like to ride in that biplane
and Esther always replied, "I know Morris, but that biplane ride is 50 dollars
and 50 dollars is 50 dollars".
One year Esther and Morris went to the fair, and Morris said, "Esther, I'm 85 years old. If I don't ride that old biplane , I might
never get another chance." Esther replied, "Morris that biplane ride is 50 dollars and 50 dollars is 50 dollars".
The pilot overheard the couple and said, "Folks I'll make you a deal. I'll take the both of you for a ride. If you
can stay quiet for the entire ride and not say a word I won't charge you! But if
you say one word, it's 50 dollars." Morris and Esther agreed and up they went.
The pilot did all kinds of fancy maneuvers, but not a word was heard. He did his
daredevil tricks over and over again, but still not a word. `
When they landed,
the pilot turned to Morris and said, "By golly, I did everything I could to get
you to yell out, but you didn't. I'm impressed!" `
Morris replied, "Well, to
tell you the truth, I almost said something when Esther fell out, but you know
-- 50 dollars is 50 dollars."
Italian Inginuity at Work
An old Italian lived alone in New Jersey.
He wanted to plant his annual tomato garden, but it was very difficult work, as the ground was hard.
It seems his only son, Vincent, who used to help him, was now in prison... and the old man wrote a letter to his son and described his predicament:
Dear Vincent,
I am feeling pretty sad, because it looks like I won't be able to plant my tomato garden this year.
I'm just getting too old to be digging up a garden plot I know if you were here my troubles would be over... I know you would be happy to dig the plot for me, like in the old days.
Love, Papa
A few days later he received a letter from his son..
Dear Pop,
Don't dig up that garden.
That's where the bodies are buried.
Love,
Vinnie
At 4 a.m.. the next morning, FBI agents and local police arrived and dug up the entire area without finding any bodies.
They apologized to the old man and left..
That same day the old man received another letter from his son.
Dear Pop,
Go ahead and plant the tomatoes now..
That's the best I could do under the circumstances.
Love you,
Vinnie
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Barb Koenig of the Main Street Gallery and Vice President of the Lake Chelan Arts Council talks with GLC about the return of the Lake Chelan Fine Arts Festival:
England also comments on some schedule changes needed to take advantage of new electric busses in the Wenatchee area, and a proposed Link partnership that may see a multi-story parking garage/Link transfer station at the Wenatchee Valley Mall in East Wenatchee.
The CHS Agriculture Education Program courses include Agriscience and Technology, Agriscience and Biological Systems I and II, Natural Resource Science, Agriculture Mechanics I, II, III, Agriculture Construction, and MS STEM. The CHS Agriculture Education program was selected as the State Program of Year in 2008 and finished second in Region I which is Montana, Idaho, Washington Wyoming, Oregon, Nevada, California and Arizona. . The Equine Science Project portion of Agriscience and Biological Systems I course was selected as the WAAE Ideas Unlimited Award winner for 2009 and is currently being evaluated at the NAAE with an announcement coming in late April. If selected as the Region I Ideas Unlimited winner, the award will be presented at the NAAE National Convention in December of 2010 in Las Vegas.
GLC asked the Superintendent of the North Cascades National Park Complex, Chip Jenkins, the status of the Upper Stehekin roadway, and the congressional action that would be required to reopen the road:
