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discoveryakimavalley.com Summer 2015 INSIDE Summer calendar • Wine and spirits map • Summer sports • Float the river Farmers markets and harvest schedule • Museums • Family-friendly activities A SPECIAL INTEREST PUBLICATION OF THE YAKIMA HERALD-REPUBLIC DISCOVER YAKIMA VALLEY Join the parade of good times in the Yakima Valley Fun in the sun 509Classifieds ......... 1-10E Celebrations.................. 5D Crosswords .................. 10E Deaths ...................... 5-6B Home & Garden ...........12C Home Front .................... 1B Horoscope .................. 11C Life in the NW .............. 1D Movies ........................ 11C Opinion ..................... 2-3D Sports ........................ 1-9C Weather ........................ 2A Mini billboards Fans of fruit-box labels gather at the Yakima Valley Museum for swap meet. Page 1B There’s no stopping her Less than 3 weeks after donating bone marrow, Granger’s Kristi Vlieger climbed Mount St. Helens. Now, she’s ready to take on Gap2Gap. Page 1C © 2015 Yakima Herald-Republic Inc. Vol. 112, No. 196 / 6 sections, 114 pages 77 TODAY 53 TONIGHT Y AKIMA H ERALD R EPUBLIC Y AKIMA H ERALD R EPUBLIC SUNDAY, MAY 17, 2015 • A DAILY PART OF YOUR LIFE • $1.50 • WWW.YAKIMAHERALD.COM MOHAMMED MORSI EGYPT COURT GIVES DEATH SENTENCE TO FORMER PRESIDENT/2A CHECK OUT LATEST COPY OF DISCOVER YAKIMA VALLEY INSIDE AMERICAN PHAROAH TWO-THIRDS OF WAY TO TRIPLE CROWN /1C PREAKNESS STAKES the day the mountain blew EDITOR’S NOTE: The eruption of Mount St. Helens was 35 years ago Monday, but judging from the response from readers who were asked to send us their recollections, the event remains freshly etched in their minds. More than three dozen sent us letters recalling that Sunday morning of May 18, 1980. Following is a small selection of the letters and photographs we received; all the letters and many of the photographs will be published Tuesday at yakimaherald.com. Our thanks to those who took the time to record and send their experiences. Glenn Rice, Yakima On May 18, 1980, my family was on the way to a summer home in the Cascades. As we approached the “Y” at the intersection of Highway 12 and State Route 410, the sky became dark with clouds, wind, dust, thunder and lightning. This was differ- ent because the air also smelled of sulfur. I said, “Turn the radio on; something is happening.” And indeed it was! We turned around, and it took an hour and a half to return to Yakima because of poor visibility. The sun seem- ingly set in the east, it was dark, the streetlights came on, the birds were silent and the crickets were out. I called my mother, who lived in Selah, to see if she was all right. She said yes. But she added: “I have lived through two world wars, Prohibition, the Great Depression and cancer. If this is the end of the world, the hell with it. I’m ready.” It wasn’t, of course, and life went on. Ramona Murray , Selah May 18, 1980, looked like the beginning of a beautiful spring day in the Wenas Valley. The hay fields looked good on our cattle ranch and our cattle were grazing on the other side of the hill. Suddenly, the sky turned black with red and green light- ning and something was falling from the sky. We thought it was rain, but it was ash. Mount St. Helens had erupted. The sparrows clus- tered by our rooftop near the porch light. Thank goodness the power stayed on and radio station KIT kept us informed. In the afternoon, my husband, Austin, and our son Dave tied kerchiefs over their noses, took flashlights and left in the pickup to see about our cattle. The cattle had broken down the fence and were coming home. One cow died. My daughter Valerie and I went to bed for a while. At about 7:30 p.m., the ash stopped falling and the sky was light. We stepped outside. It smelled like a chemical lab and it looked like the moon. Everything was gray. A red tailed hawk was searching in the sky, cawing. The little bantam rooster was crowing. These were welcome sounds. Nancy M. Burgess, Yakima I went out to take the covers off the tomatoes, and when I went in, I told my wife, “There’s a big storm coming. A really black cloud in the southwest is heading our way.” Later, at church, we were sitting in the choir, and the ash started falling like rain on the slanted window above us. Our priest told us not to worry. He had been in Italy during World War II and Mount Vesuvius had erupted. He said this SEE READERS REMEMBER PAGE 8 A 35 Y EARS A GO : T HE E RUPTION OF M OUNT S T . H ELENS ASH AND AFTERMATH : OUR READERS REMEMBER The ash stopped falling and the sky was light. We stepped outside. It smelled like a chemical lab and it looked like the moon. WE WERE UNPREPARED IN 1980 ; PLANNING AND COORDINATION HAVE COME A LONG WAY SINCE THE ERUPTION When Mount St. Helens erupted 35 years ago Monday, killing 57 people and blanketing much of Central Washington in ash, officials were ill-prepared for the magnitude of the emergency. “When the mountain blew, every- one was kind of out there on their own,” said Charles Erwin, emergency management specialist for the city of Yakima. “That’s what got the county started on doing disaster planning and coordinating with all the local jurisdictions.” The explosion caused two differ- ent disasters on either side of the mountains. While the west side was dealing with mud and debris flows taking out bridges and roads, the prevailing winds pushed an estimated 520 million tons of ash eastward, turn- ing Sunday morning in Yakima into midnight. Local, state and federal officials say the erup- tion and the disorganized response prompted the development of planning and response protocols that officials say have made the region more prepared for a future erup- tion — because it’s only a matter of time before the volcano erupts again. “We know we have recharge of magma chamber right now,” said Carolyn Driedger, scientist with the Cascade Volcano Observatory. “We’re fairly confident that the monitoring equipment we have there now will give us about as good a warning as we can get that there is magma rising. We could have an eruption with a few days of warning; it could be 100 years from now.” And Mount St. Helens isn’t the only volcano Washington has to worry about. Mount Adams, Mount Rainier, Mount Baker and Glacier Peak are also capable of producing destruc- tive mud and debris flows, known as BY KATE PRENGAMAN YAKIMA HERALD-REPUBLIC SEE ERUPTION PAGE 10 A ROBERT KRIMMEL/U.S. Geological Survey file photo Mount St. Helens erupts on May 18, 1980, sending a plume of ash east to Central Washington. Below, the volcano vents steam on Oct. 10, 2004. RICK BOWMER/Associated Press file I called my mother, who lived in Selah, to see if she was all right. She said yes. But she added: “I have lived through two world wars, Prohibition, the Great Depression and cancer. If this is the end of the world, the hell with it. I’m ready.” Three days after the eruption, crews and equipment began arriving in Yakima to help remove the ash. Here, graders scrape the ash from the east end of the Yakima airport. Yakima Herald-Republic file Inside ■ Mount St. Helens remains the most active volcano in the Cascades and is likely to erupt again. Page 10A Activists hold ‘Shell No’ protest SEATTLE — Hundreds of activists decked out in neoprene wetsuits and life jackets took to the waters of Elliott Bay on Saturday in kayaks, canoes, paddle- boards and other vessels to send the message that Royal Dutch Shell should cancel its plan to drill in the Arctic Ocean. The “Paddle in Seattle” — a daylong, family friendly festival in a West Seattle park and an on-the-water protest by “Shell No” kayaktivists — was held only blocks from where Shell’s Polar Pioneer drilling rig is docked at the Port of Seattle’s Terminal 5. The brightly colored boats lined the grass as paddlers loaded gear while lights on the towering rig twinkled in the background. Once out on the water, kayakers gathered in forma- tion and hoisted signs and banners that read: “Climate Justice,” “Oil-Free Future,” “Shell No, Seattle Draws The Line,” and “We can’t burn all the oil on the planet and still live on it.” Many had posters or red scarfs that had the Shell logo with crossed kayak paddles underneath — resembling the skull-and- crossbones image. Later in the afternoon, they paddled over to the base of the towering Polar Pioneer drilling rig and sang songs, chanted and displayed banners. Eric Day, with the BY MARTHA BELLISLE THE ASSOCIATED PRESS JOSHUA TRUJILLO/seattlepi.com via AP Activists in kayaks and other vessels surround Shell’s Polar Pioneer drilling rig docked in Elliott Bay during Saturday’s “Paddle in Seattle” protest. SEE PROTEST PAGE 11 A Hundreds take to the water of Seattle’s Elliott Bay to show their opposition to company’s plan to drill in Arctic Ocean
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discoveryakimavalley.com
Summer 2015
INSIDE Summer calendar • Wine and spirits map • Summer sports • Float the river
Farmers markets and harvest schedule • Museums • Family-friendly activities
A SPECIAL INTEREST PUBLICATION OF THE YAKIMA HERALD-REPUBLIC
DISCOVERYAKIMA VALLEY
Join the parade of good times in the Yakima Valley
Fun in the sun
509Classifieds ......... 1-10E
Celebrations .................. 5D
Crosswords ..................10E
Deaths ...................... 5-6B
Home & Garden ...........12C
Home Front ....................1B
Horoscope ..................11C
Life in the NW .............. 1D
Movies ........................11C
Opinion ..................... 2-3D
Sports ........................1-9C
Weather ........................2A
Mini billboardsFans of fruit-box labels
gather at the Yakima
Valley Museum for
swap meet. Page 1B
There’s no stopping herLess than 3 weeks after donating
bone marrow, Granger’s Kristi Vlieger
climbed Mount St. Helens. Now, she’s
ready to take on Gap2Gap. Page 1C© 2015 Yakima Herald-Republic Inc.
Vol. 112, No. 196 / 6 sections, 114 pages
77 TODAY
53 TONIGHT
YAKIMA HERALD REPUBLICYAKIMA HERALD REPUBLIC SUNDAY, MAY 17, 2015 • A DAILY PART OF YOUR LIFE • $1.50 • WWW.YAKIMAHERALD.COM
MOHAMMED MORSI
EGYPT COURT GIVES DEATH SENTENCE TO FORMER PRESIDENT/2A
CHECK OUT LATEST COPY OF DISCOVER YAKIMA VALLEY
INSIDE
AMERICAN PHAROAH TWO-THIRDS OF WAY TO TRIPLE CROWN /1C
PREAKNESS STAKES
the day the mountain blew
EDITOR’S NOTE: The eruption of Mount St. Helens was 35 years ago Monday, but judging from the response from readers who were asked to send us their recollections, the event remains freshly etched in their minds. More than three dozen sent us letters recalling that Sunday morning of May 18, 1980. Following is a small selection of the letters and photographs we received; all the letters and many of the photographs will be published Tuesday at yakimaherald.com. Our thanks to those who took the time to record and send their experiences.
Glenn Rice, YakimaOn May 18, 1980, my family was on the way to a summer
home in the Cascades. As we approached the “Y” at the intersection of Highway 12 and State Route 410, the sky became dark with clouds, wind, dust, thunder and lightning. This was differ-ent because the air also smelled of sulfur. I said, “Turn the radio on; something is happening.” And indeed it was! We turned around, and it took an hour and a half to return to Yakima because of poor visibility. The sun seem-ingly set in the east, it was dark, the streetlights came on, the birds were silent and the crickets were out.
I called my mother, who lived in Selah, to see if she was all right. She said yes. But she added: “I have lived through two world wars, Prohibition, the Great Depression and cancer. If this is the end of the world, the hell with it. I’m ready.” It wasn’t, of course, and life went on.
Ramona Murray, SelahMay 18, 1980, looked like the beginning of a beautiful
spring day in the Wenas Valley. The hay fields looked good on our cattle ranch and our cattle were grazing on the other side of the hill.
Suddenly, the sky turned black with red and green light-ning and something was falling from the sky. We thought it was rain, but it was ash. Mount St. Helens had erupted.
The sparrows clus-tered by our rooftop near the porch light. Thank goodness the power stayed on and radio station KIT kept us informed.
In the afternoon, my husband, Austin, and our son Dave tied kerchiefs over their noses, took flashlights and left in the pickup to see about our cattle. The cattle had broken down the fence and were coming home. One cow died.
My daughter Valerie and I went to bed for a while. At about 7:30 p.m., the ash stopped falling and the sky was light. We stepped outside. It smelled like a chemical lab and it looked like the moon. Everything was gray. A red tailed hawk was searching in the sky, cawing. The little bantam rooster was crowing. These were welcome sounds.
Nancy M. Burgess, YakimaI went out to take the covers off the tomatoes, and when I
went in, I told my wife, “There’s a big storm coming. A really black cloud in the southwest is heading our way.”
Later, at church, we were sitting in the choir, and the ash started falling like rain on the slanted window above us. Our priest told us not to worry. He had been in Italy during World War II and Mount Vesuvius had erupted. He said this
SEE READERS REMEMBER PAGE 8 A
35 YEARS AGO: THE ERUPTION OF MOUNT ST. HELENS
ASH AND AFTERMATH: OUR READERS REMEMBER
The ash stopped falling and the sky was light. We stepped outside. It smelled like a chemical lab and it looked like the moon.
WE WERE UNPREPARED IN 1980; PLANNING AND COORDINATION HAVE COME A LONG WAY SINCE THE ERUPTION
When Mount St. Helens erupted 35 years ago Monday, killing 57 people and blanketing much of Central Washington in ash, officials were ill-prepared for the magnitude of the emergency.
“When the mountain blew, every-one was kind of out there on their own,” said Charles Erwin, emergency management specialist for the city of Yakima. “That’s what got the county started on doing disaster planning and coordinating with all the local jurisdictions.”
The explosion caused two differ-ent disasters on either side of the mountains. While the west side was dealing with mud and debris flows taking out bridges and roads, the prevailing winds pushed an estimated 520 million tons of ash eastward, turn-ing Sunday morning in Yakima into midnight.
Local, state and federal officials say the erup-tion and the disorganized response prompted the development of planning and response protocols that officials say have made the region more prepared for a future erup-tion — because it’s only a matter of time before the volcano erupts again.
“We know we have recharge of magma chamber right now,” said Carolyn Driedger, scientist with the Cascade Volcano Observatory. “We’re fairly confident that the monitoring equipment we have there now will give us about as good a warning as we can get that there is magma rising. We could have an eruption with a few days of warning; it could be 100 years from now.”
And Mount St. Helens isn’t the only volcano Washington has to worry about. Mount Adams, Mount Rainier, Mount Baker and Glacier Peak are also capable of producing destruc-tive mud and debris flows, known as
BY KATE PRENGAMANYAKIMA HERALD-REPUBLIC
SEE ERUPTION PAGE 10 A
ROBERT KRIMMEL/U.S. Geological Survey file photo
Mount St. Helens erupts on May 18, 1980, sending a plume of ash east to Central Washington. Below, the volcano vents steam on Oct. 10, 2004.
RICK BOWMER/Associated Press file
I called my mother, who lived in Selah, to see if she was all right. She said yes. But she added: “I have lived through two world wars, Prohibition, the Great Depression and cancer. If this is the end of the world, the hell with it. I’m ready.”
Three days after the eruption, crews and equipment began arriving in Yakima to help remove the ash. Here, graders scrape the ash from the east end of the Yakima airport.
Yakima Herald-Republic file
Inside
■ Mount St. Helens remains the most active volcano in the Cascades and is likely to erupt again. Page 10A
Activists hold ‘Shell No’ protest
SEATTLE — Hundreds of activists decked out in neoprene wetsuits and life jackets took to the waters of Elliott Bay on Saturday in kayaks, canoes, paddle-boards and other vessels to
send the message that Royal Dutch Shell should cancel its plan to drill in the Arctic Ocean.
The “Paddle in Seattle” — a daylong, family friendly festival in a West Seattle park and an on-the-water protest by “Shell No” kayaktivists — was held only
blocks from where Shell’s Polar Pioneer drilling rig is docked at the Port of Seattle’s Terminal 5. The brightly colored boats lined the grass as paddlers loaded gear while lights on the towering rig twinkled in the background.
Once out on the water, kayakers gathered in forma-tion and hoisted signs and banners that read: “Climate Justice,” “Oil-Free Future,” “Shell No, Seattle Draws The Line,” and “We can’t
burn all the oil on the planet and still live on it.” Many had posters or red scarfs that had the Shell logo with crossed kayak paddles underneath — resembling the skull-and-crossbones image.
Later in the afternoon, they paddled over to the base of the towering Polar Pioneer drilling rig and sang songs, chanted and displayed banners.
Eric Day, with the
BY MARTHA BELLISLETHE ASSOCIATED PRESS
JOSHUA TRUJILLO/seattlepi.com via AP
Activists in kayaks and other vessels surround Shell’s Polar Pioneer drilling rig docked in Elliott Bay during Saturday’s “Paddle in Seattle” protest. SEE PROTEST PAGE 11 A
Hundreds take to the water of Seattle’s Elliott Bay to show their opposition to company’s plan to drill in Arctic Ocean
