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• Community . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,4,8• Church Directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7• Life & Health . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B5• Neighbors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

• Opinion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2• Outdoors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B6• Puzzles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B2• Recipe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B5

• Schools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5, 6• Sheriff ’s Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B6• Sports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5, 6

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The tax man comethDoors close on Barney’s RestaurantBy Nevonne McDanielsStaff writer

The doors officially closed on Barney’s Restaurant Aug. 26 with the arrival of

state Department of Revenue agents who revoked the busi-ness license for “nonpayment of taxes.”

The move does not rule out the possibility that the busi-ness, which has been located in Cashmere since before Gary and Virginia Graves purchased it in the early 1980s, will reopen at some point.

“The license was revoked once before, in 2004,” said Mike Gowrylow, spokesman for the state Department of Revenue. “And they got back in business.”

He said revoking business licenses isn’t the ideal method of collecting back taxes.

“We try very hard to keep them in business. Experience shows it’s better for the busi-ness and the employees. And it’s better for the government. We’re more likely to recover the money. But in some cases, it’s obvious it’s not going to hap-pen so we revoke the business license.”

Gary and Virginia Graves could not be reached for com-ment for this article.

Gowrylow said once the busi-ness license has been revoked, it is a felony to continue to operate.

“The only way they can re-turn to operation is to pay all

the taxes and post a bond equal to six months taxes, to cover in case they fall behind again. Then they can reopen,” he said.

And that happens fairly often, he said.

The Department of Revenue files 5,000 or 6,000 tax warrants a year.

“In a lot of cases, it gets paid and everything is fine. In some cases, not. We have revocations on a few hundred each year, so out of 490,000 businesses that are registered, it’s a small percentage,” he said.

The other option is someone else steps in and buys the busi-ness, but they would have to pay the taxes owed, he said.

Beyond that, the state will continue to try and collect its money, which includes looking at accounts receivable and sell-ing off assets.

“We will continue to try and collect for 12 years,” he said.

Barney’s was licensed as a sole proprietorship. The prop-erty at 112 Elberta Ave., Cash-mere, where the restaurant is located, also is owned by Gary and Virginia Graves.

The process that led to re-voking the business license and closing the doors on Aug. 26 started in January when the state Department of Revenue issued a tax warrant against the Graves for $13,547.34 for nonpayment of taxes. A second warrant was filed in March for

Hired guns might be an optionCities balk at county’s law enforcement contracts, tacticsBy Nevonne McDanielsStaff writer

City cops might make a come-back in Leavenworth, Cash-mere, Chelan and Entiat.

That’s one alternative being discussed in response to law en-forcement contracts drafted and signed by Chelan County Com-missioners Monday and sent to the four cities for approval.

Leavenworth City Administra-tor Joel Walinski said the new Chelan County Sheriff’s Office law enforcement contract for the Bavarian Village reflects none of the concerns discussed during the few meetings held last winter to “negotiate” a new deal.

The new Leavenworth contract calls for a 7.5-percent increase in costs, plus $53,000 to RiverCom for law enforcement dispatch services — covering costs gener-ated by each 911 call. The original contract called for a flat 3.5-per-cent increase in 2012.

“We’re a long way apart,” Walin-ski said. “I think the bottom line is if this is where we are, we’re going to need to look at some different models of providing police services.”

One of those is contracting with a different law enforcement entity.

“We have given some thought to joining with other communi-ties to form a city police depart-

ment,” he said. “If another city is paying similar dollar amounts to share officers, it starts to make sense. Creating a municipal police department is an option.”

Other models include hiring contracted security to provide a “presence” to handle the day-to-day concerns, which would reduce the number of deputies needed.

“Most of the policing that goes on is providing directions and assistance and being visible on the street,” Walinski said, “talk-ing with people, directing traffic, being a contact person.”

And that’s something private security could handle.

The deputies could be called in

to handle the big stuff, including writing citations.

In the new contract, he said, “We’re paying $426,000 a year for 336 citations.”

An e-mail from County Clerk Cathy Mulhall last week was the first he heard a new contract had been drafted, let alone about to be signed. His first response was to schedule a meeting with county officials, set for today.

In Cashmere, the contract from the county was on the city council’s agenda for discussion Monday night. Discussion details were not available at press time.

Cashmere City Clerk Kay

Sign code to become simpler, more business friendly, says Planning CommissionBy Alison Gene SmithStaff Writer

Businesses in Cashmere will soon be allowed to keep sandwich boards

displayed in areas other than around their storefronts if the Planning Commission gets its way. The Commission dis-cussed changes to the city’s sign code, Sept. 6 at a public hearing at Cashmere City Hall.

The discussion centered around sandwich board signs that some businesses have placed in areas other than near their storefront.

Currently the sign code states that a business can only have a sandwich board sign in front of their business and only during business hours.

Commiss ion members agreed businesses should be allowed to continue placing their sandwich board signs

further away, but with some restrictions.

“The whole reason they’re clustered is they want people to know they’re back there,” Commissioner Jim Wonn said of some businesses on Mission Street. “If they have to put the signs back there, then we lose the business friendly aspect,” he said.

He suggested businesses be confined to placing a sandwich board sign within one block of their property. The other coun-cil members agreed one block was a good way to measure, rather than a specific number of feet.

Commissioner John Torrence brought up safety concerns about the signs. On a recent trip to Electric City, Torrence said he witnessed a man in an electric wheel chair trying to

Radio upgrades improve coverage for local firefightersBy Alison Gene SmithStaff Writer

Radio communication and coverage for firefighters has improved since switch-

ing from wide band to nar-row band frequencies, Chelan County Fire District 6 Chief Phil Moser said. Several upper valley agencies including districts 3, 4, 6 and 9 made the switch during the last week of August in accor-dance with federal regulations.

The FCC is requiring public safety systems to switch from wide band to narrow band by Jan. 1, 2013. According to the FCC Website, the switch will allow greater channel capacity and support more radio users.

Mosher said the transition was fairly seamless and the change

has been positive.“We believe with the new

equipment put in, we have bet-ter coverage,” he said.

New mountain top receivers were put in at Blag Mountain, Chelan Butte and Lower Badger as part of a simulcast system, he said.

On the old system, when a fire-fighter pushed the talk button on their radio, they had to select a site to try to get in touch with, Mosher said. With a simulcast system, it is simpler.

“If you push the talk button on your radio, the sites that are in that system will grab your signal. The site that has the strongest signal will be the one you’re talking to,” he said. “You don’t have to select the site now. You just push the button. You won’t

know what site you’re talking to and it doesn’t really matter.”

In the past, there has been occasional overlap on the radio between local in Leavenworth and Lake Wenatchee and those in areas like Chelan, Mosher said, causing some messages to become garbled.

“This helps alleviate that. The plan is to incorporate more mountain tops into the simul-cast system to help alleviate that totally, further down the road,” Mosher said.

Funding for the change came partly from the voter-passed one tenth of one percent sales tax RiverCom 911 put on the Novem-ber 2009 ballot.

“We really appreciate voters understanding that we need to upgrade our systems,” Mosher

said.Bill Horner, deputy chief of

Chelan County Fire District 3, said he thought it was too early to tell if the new system would be better.

“It’s like apples and oranges,” he said. Horner did say the transition has been smooth and there have been no problems so far.

“There were some dead spots in some areas,” he said, which are now gone.

Part of the change was to get all agencies on the same page, said Keith Goehner, Chair of RiverCom board.

“It basically amounts to a significant upgrade,” he said.

Alison Gene Smith can be reached at

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Quilt sewers, veggie growers and fair-goers congregateBy Alison Gene SmithStaff writer

Apples were polished, sheep were sheared, and all over Chelan County, chickens

clucked in protest as their nails were trimmed, all in preparation for the 2011 Chelan County Fair, held last Thursday through Sun-day in Cashmere.

Alina Cibicki, 17, of Cashmere Future Farmers of America brought her sheep, Gyro, to the fair this year.

“Gyro, like the sandwich,” she

said.For Cibicki and other FFA

members, preparation for show-ing animals starts as soon as they get them. The animals get high quality feed with lots of protein in it, she said. Closer to the fair they switch over to feed known as “high octane.”

“It’s high in fat and protein to give them a good finish,” she said.

In order to get good muscle definition, Cibicki said many people with flat pens walk their sheep before the fair, but since her pen is located on a large hill,

it wasn’t necessary. The sheep get plenty of definition from running up and down the hill, she said.

On the Monday before the fair, Cibicki said she washed and dried Gyro then took him to get slick sheared on Tuesday which trims the wool very close to the skin. Before arriving at the fair the lamb got another bath and had his hooves trimmed, she said.

Ondra Crow, 15, brought her Serama chickens to the fair from Chelan. The chickens all got baths and had their nails trimmed, she said. For her part, Crow studied

the parts of her chicken along with information and history about the breed.

Crow said she decided she wanted to raise the rare chicken breed because they are cute and have a nicer temperament than many other breeds.

Serana are the smallest chicken breed in the world and were im-ported from Malaysia starting in 2001, she said. The hens average about 12 ounces and the rooster, 16 ounces.

Sandwich board signs on Cottage Avenue direct drivers to Mission Street businesses.

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Photo by Alison Gene SmithLambs from the Cashmere Future Farmers of America. Groups were judged for their decorations within the theme, “Barn In America.”

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Proud to invest in AmericaBy Paul Egerman

I love America, and have proudly invested in America. I have invested by building successful

businesses employing thousands of American workers. And I have invested in our country by pay-ing taxes.

But our nation loses $100 bil-lion a year to tax dodging by some of our largest corporations and wealthiest people. That’s a trillion dollar hole in our national trea-sury over the next decade unless we act now to plug it.

Tax dodging companies are disinvesting in our country – not investing in it.

Many U.S. multinational com-panies use a gimmick called “transfer pricing” – shifting pat-ents to their offshore subsidiaries, for example – in order to pretend they’ve earned their profits in a tax haven like the Cayman Is-lands, Bermuda or Luxembourg, even though their operations there may be little more than a mail box. What they’re really doing is transferring their U.S. profits offshore and transferring

their tax responsibilities to the rest of us.

In this global version of a shell game, corporations move their profits to offshore shell com-pany subsidiaries; the U.S. parent company reports to the IRS that they’ve made almost no profits, or even lost money on their U.S. operations. These companies are passing the buck to other taxpay-ers and robbing our national treasury of funds we need.

It sickens me that businesses like mine responsibly paid taxes at the rate of 35 percent on mil-lions of dollars in profits while companies like GE would pay zero percent on billions of dollars in profits. Even worse, they had so many tax loopholes and tax subsidies that Uncle Sam actually owed them money. From 2008 to 2010, GE had $7.7 billion in pretax U.S. profits and $4.7 billion in tax refunds, giving it a negative 61.3 percent tax rate, reports the tax experts at Citizens for Tax Justice.

We need to ask what kind of country we want to have and who is going to pay for it.

I have been fortunate to live

the American Dream. I know my success is due to many factors. I know, for example, as a software entrepreneur, that I would have had no business at all without the government assistance I received for my college education, or the government research that led to the Internet.

It’s obscene that computer and internet companies like Google, Microsoft, Apple and Cisco are part of a coalition clamoring for a tax holiday to “repatriate” profits they shifted to tax havens to avoid U.S. taxes.

It’s obscene that so many mem-bers of Congress are willing to legislate austerity for American workers, small businesses and retirees while leaving the door open for big corporations to dodge taxes through tax havens.

We all benefit from public ser-vices, infrastructure and research paid for by tax dollars – education and public transportation, the Centers for Disease Control and food safety inspections, roads, bridges and waterways, the Small Business Administration and eco-nomic development programs,

police and courts, and the public safety nets, from unemployment insurance to food stamps, that so many depend on in these hard economic times.

Instead of reducing our debt by cutting vital services, we need to close two big tax deficits - the tax haven deficit and the deficit from the Bush tax cuts for the affluent. Each is worth a trillion dollars over the next decade.

The Stop Tax Havens Abuse Act introduced recently in Congress by Senator Carl Levin (D-MI) and Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-TX) would close the loopholes that reward those who disinvest in America and dodge taxes to unfairly boost their corporate treasuries. It should be a no-brainer solution in deficit reduction.

It is simply outrageous that we would ask unemployed and disabled Americans and Medicare and Social Security recipients to sacrifice more while continuing to shower tax savings on million-aires and billionaires who have a larger share of the nation’s income than any time since the 1920’s.

It’s time for Congress to plug the loopholes that allow our larg-est corporations to avoid billions of dollars in taxes, and it’s time

for Congress to ask our wealthiest individuals, including people like me, to also pay our fair share of taxes. After all, American corpo-rations and wealthy individuals should be proud to support our country and invest in its future.

Paul Egerman, a software entre-preneur, is co-founder and former CEO of the medical information technology company eScription and a member, US Department of Health and Human Services Health IT Policy Committee.

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BILL FORHAN

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Anti-jobs President gives workers another useless promise

President Obama’s speech offered more spending and more debt to fund his “Amer-

ican Jobs Act.” But like all of his programs the title is more about his reelection than actually creat-ing jobs.

What should be clear to anyone who is objective enough to see Obama’s Presidency based on results and not on his rhetoric is he is completely incapable of ac-tually addressing the problem. We can argue about whether that is because he is personally ignorant about how the economy works; or if it is because he has sur-rounded himself with academic advisors who do not understand; or if his personal agenda to “fun-damentally change” America is driving his every decision. The fact remains that he continues to offer “programs” that are fun-damentally flawed.

The American Jobs Act is not about jobs. It is about political power and influence. For ex-ample, Obama said the AJA “will provide a tax break for companies who hire new workers, and it will cut payroll taxes in half for every working American and every small business.”

Obama and the Democrats already passed a payroll tax re-

duction. They reduced the social security tax on employees from 6.2 percent to 4.2 percent – em-ployer contributions were not reduced. Now think about that for just a minute. Social security, that “untouchable entitlement” program that Democrats always attack Republicans for attempt-ing to reform, is now receiving 16 percent less revenue to support it. And now Obama is suggesting another 50 percent cut in con-tributions to the social security fund. In other words, Obama is suggesting accelerating the bank-ruptcy of social security in order to encourage small business to cut their payroll tax from approxi-mately 6.2 percent of payroll to 3.1 percent?

If a small business hires 1 new full time employee at minimum wage they will be paying that employee $8.67 per hour (in Washington state) or just over $18,000 per year. Cutting the social security tax in half would save the employer $558 (slightly higher if they include the Medi-care tax of 1.45 percent). Would you spend $18,000 to save $558?

This is just political postur-ing and pandering for votes. It will not encourage any small business to hire a new worker. Either President Obama is too dumb to understand the math or

he thinks you are too dumb to understand it.

The reality is Obama does not care about American workers un-less they are unionized or work for the government. Obama has declared war on private sector employers. Sure he bailed out GM - to save union jobs and change the name to Government Motors. He is working at national-izing health care. He demonizes the insurance industry, the oil industry, the coal industry and the banking industry. Now his administration is even suing the banks for making loans his own party forced them to make.

Obama has destroyed thou-sands of American jobs. Think I’m being unfair? Consider this; he shut down drilling in the Gulf throwing thousands of Americans out of work; he has promised to shut down the coal industry; his administration has threatened to shut down tiny Gibson Guitars because they are importing some minor “illegal” wood products; at the same time his administration is suing the state of Arizona for attempting to stop illegal immi-gration. These illegal aliens are finding work. They are taking jobs “Americans won’t do” and putting pressure on wages keeping them artificially low.

If Obama truly wanted to put

Americans back to work and reignite the American economy he would launch an aggressive plan to develop American energy resources. Drill baby drill will not only solve our energy problems, it will end our dependence on for-eign dictators who often support our enemies and abuse their own citizens while lining their own pockets with American dollars.

If Obama truly wanted to put Americans back to work, he would severe his ties to job kill-ing unions and recognize that we must now learn to compete in a global economy. American unions are no longer interested in pro-tecting American workers. They

are interested in protecting their union power. Think I’m wrong? Just remember the reaction of the union leaders a few year’s back when the Alcoa workers said they were willing to go back to work for Alcoa based on Alcoa’s request for contract concessions. The union said – no you can’t do that! We hold the contract with Alcoa and we will decide when you can go back to work.

It’s time Americans started looking at the facts and not the rhetoric. The economy is bad. The politicians either don’t care or don’t understand why. Time to dump the old guard. They have no solutions only promises.

Liberal smear tactics

It was very amusing and en-tertaining to read about the lib-eral fabrications and propaganda spewed forth by C. Burke in the Cashmere Record on 8/31. So, I have spent hours researching the slanderous lies he wrote about some of the GOP candidates.

Rick Perry never proposed that Texas should secede from the Union. What actually happened was that after people shouted “Secede!” at an Austin rally, Rick Perry said that he understood their frustration but added, “We’ve got a great union. There is absolutely no reason to dis-solve it. But if Washington (D.C.) continues to thumb their nose at the American people, who knows what may come of that. Texas is a very unique place, and we’re a pretty independent lot to boot.”

In my opinion, if Obama is elected for a second term, I believe there will be a very seri-ous impeachment movement to remove him from office. And, if that fails, many states may consider secession. Obama is 100 percent fraud!

Another untruth you men-tioned was over half of the jobs that Texas created was minimum wage. Seventy percent of those jobs created in Texas have wages from $40,000 to $118,000 a year. If that is what most of the new jobs pay, maybe we should all move there. Texas ranks number 1 in the nation as the best place

to make a living and number 3 as the best place to live. If Texas is so lacking in education, why would it be declared number 3 in the nation as the best place to live?

Did you know that students from Texas won the GEOBEE in 2010 and 2011 out of 5 million stu-dents tested each year? GEOBEE is The National Geography Con-test hosted by Alex Trebek (of Jeopardy). Google up Tine Va-lencie, age 13, a 7th grader from Texas, Geography Champion for 2011. Also, you might want to go to the Best Educated State Index (1 is best and 50 is worse) to see where Texas ranks in all aspects of education. Texas ranks 24 out of 50 and here are some other interesting rankings; Washing-ton - 30, Illinois - 32, Oregon - 38, Hawaii - 42, California - 46, Nevada - 48. Oh, no, it looks like the ‘Blue’ states aren’t very well educated. But, we already knew that, didn’t we?

Mr. Burke, you must get all your socialistic propaganda from the denigrating and sleazy web-site, the Huffington Post! Do you feel like a really big man to berate a woman because she got a date wrong? Who cares about Elvis when we should be finding ways to reduce the debt, creat-ing jobs, solving our economy problems, reducing the size of government, have affordable housing, protecting our borders, reducing gas prices, reduce taxes, more stringent term limits, limit-

ing the powers of corrupt unions, lobbyists, politicians, etc. We cannot afford another four years of Obama who thinks he presides over 57 states and has damaged our country almost beyond repair with his socialist agenda.

The dream team for 2012 should be Rick Perry for Presi-dent and Marco Rubio for Vice President!

Myra RoyCashmere

Say it ain’t so!

Where is the feminist outcry united in a single noble ‘roar’ of offended pride demanding an abject apology from leftist leader Jimmy Hoffa who in a national keynote speech slurs all women with a vulgar epithet that comes so naturally to him he’s too igno-rant to note its meaning?

Listen ......... si-lence. Where are the righteous indignation, dem-onstrations, vitriolic condemna-tion, resolutions, and demands for resignation that would fairly screech throughout the media for a week were the slur uttered by a prominent Republican leader?

Oh Feminism fair and bold, say it ain’t so; tell me thou aren’t just a vapid tool of the political left whose watery convictions of convenience dribble away merely because thou sharest the petty partisan brand of the sexist.

Woe. Is nothing sacred?William Slusher

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Tragic deaths

Across the nation this week, ceremonies will be held in trib-ute to the nearly 3,000 victims who perished on 9/11. The 10th anniversary of the attacks will no doubt revisit the grief and despair experienced by the loved ones of victims and sense of loss shared by the nation.

Perhaps it is unfortunate that this week also marks the obser-vance of World Suicide Preven-tion Day on Sept. 10. Unfortunate because the number of deaths by suicide in NCW continues to rise and this summer saw the most Army suicides in a single month since the Vietnam era. Of the over 34,000 deaths by suicide in the US annually, 20 percent are by veterans. As the survivor of a suicide death, I hope that the honor paid to those lost in 9/11 does not overshadow the tragedy of suicide and lives that can be saved through prevention awareness. For information on risk factors and warning signs readers can go to www.afsp.org.

For those grieving the tragic loss of a loved one to suicide, a series of 6 weekly sessions for survivors will be meeting at the Good Grief Center in Wenatchee beginning Sept. 19. Readers can contact The Good Grief Center at 509-662-6069 for more infor-mation.

Susan WaskeyPeshastin

More pointless vitriol

Once again, I return from vaca-tion to find the letters column dripping with vitriol. Mr. Cowles labels and berates those who dis-agree with him, but I am unable to tell what topic or comment called forth his wrath. Apparently it has to do with liberals, conser-vatives, and policy, but I would be able to give more consideration to what he has to say if he offered some specific objections and/or specific recommendations.

I do admit that I support the statement, ‘you can have your own opinions but you can’t have your own facts’, which he objects to. Even a few facts might help define the context of the con-versation.

The economy is a current topic of public concern, and perhaps part of what raised Mr. Cowles’ concern. Perhaps his topic is debt (let’s lower it) or jobs (let’s get more of them).

If a person examines the growth of the national debt un-der various presidents in the last half century or so, the pattern revealed is perplexing, especially considering that it seems to be the inverse of the reputations and declared principles of each party. If a person examines a list of the recessions of the past half century, every president with the exception of Clinton has had one or often two. If a person looks at

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Barney’s: Numerous government liens filed against the business

$11,518.53. Gowrylow said a third was filed in August for $3,138.

The revocation order posted on the restaurant door was dated Aug. 16.

Tax warrants are filed only af-ter state agents try to work with business owners to get caught up on the taxes, which are those “es-sentially collected by the business and not remitted to the state,” Gowrylow said.

The first step is trying to reach an agreement with the business owner to set a plan to pay the back taxes while staying current on the ongoing taxes. If an agree-ment is not reached or if the business owner falls behind in the payments, tax warrants are issued.

The license is revoked if the state feels the business owner is unable or unwilling to get caught up, Gowrylow said. The process is not triggered by a particular dollar amount.

In addition to liens filed by the Department of Revenue, liens also have been filed against Barney’s by the state Employment

Security Department and the federal Internal Revenue Service, recorded at the Chelan County Courthouse.

The Graves, in turn, filed for Chapter 13 bankruptcy protection on Aug. 26, the same day their business license was revoked, ac-

cording to records at the Eastern District of Washington U.S. Bank-truptcy Court in Spokane.

Chapter 13, also called a wage earner’s plan, allows a debtor to develop a plan to keep property and pay debts over time, usually three to five years.

Creditors listed as of last week include the state Department of Revenue and the IRS.

Nevonne McDaniels can be

reached at 548-5286 or reporter@

cashmerevalleyrecord.com.

navigate around a sandwich board on a sidewalk and fall into the street. He didn’t want to see a similar accident happen in Cashmere.

“I support the sandwich boards, I think they’re cool,” he said. “People got to get back there, but keep them safe.”

Torrence said he was glad the businesses on Mission Street that utilize the sandwich board signs were seeing more custom-ers, partially due to the new pavement on the street.

“It’s really exciting and en-couraging,” he said.

Cashmere Planning Director Mark Botello informed the rest of the group he had emailed the changes to the code to area busi-ness owners and they reacted positively.

“The sign code isn’t for us it’s for the businesses,” Torrence said. “If they’re all on board it’s good.”

Snapdragon Coffee, on Mis-sion Street has relied on sand-wich boards since it opened just over a year ago, said owner Courtney Schill.

Currently, Schill uses three boards to let people know where her shop is.

“Being off the main street, it’s critical,” she said.

Schill said it was her under-standing that the city would soon have signage on Cottage Avenue, directing traffic to the businesses on Mission Street, and until then she could leave her sandwich board signs up.

After the official signs were up, Schill said she planned to just have one sign in front of her store, so people would know when she was open.

In meetings with the city and the Planning Commission in the past, Schill said she felt both

groups were positive toward businesses and understood their predicament.

“They’re trying to find a solu-tion to a new problem,” she said.

Most of the other changes to the sign code were simplifica-tions and cleaning up redun-dant language.

“House cleaning items,” Botello said, “Things I’ve no-ticed, administering for five years.” Botello said he wanted the code to be easy to under-stand and supportive to local businesses.

Commissioners agreed the sign code as it is, is not bad, but it could use some updating.

“People weren’t being chased away, but the last generation of sign code was loaded with a lot of stuff. It’s much more business friendly now,” Wonn said.

The Commission presented its recommendations to the City Council Monday evening, where several business owners said they would be present.

At the end of last week’s meet-ing, commissioners discussed other issues including request-ing a crosswalk at Riverside Drive and Cottage Avenue.

Wonn said he notices a lot of foot traffic and activity along the river, and with the area growing, an additional cross-walk would be needed sooner or later.

“It makes a lot of sense,” Commissioner Bruce Graham said. “We’ve got all kinds of crosswalks here and paint’s not expensive.”

Torrance agreed, saying they should make the recommenda-tion for the crosswalk to public works and the city council.

“We should do it if it benefits the community,” he said.

Alison Gene Smith can be reached

at 548-5286.

Jones said she received notice last week that the county was signing the contracts Monday and sending them on to the cities, a process that doesn’t lend itself to much negotiation.

That differed from the process discussed by County Commissioner Keith Goehner when he visited Cashmere and Leavenworth city councils last fall. At that time, he used the terms “negotiation” and “dispute resolution.”

Walinski and Cashmere Mayor Gordon Irle reported going to a couple meetings early in the year, but the terms of the contract were not decided then.

“It looked like they were starting with Chelan and working their way to us,” Walin-ski said. The next thing he knew, a contract already signed by the county commissioners was on the way.

What the cities see as high-handed tactics might be considered a way to force the cities to come to the table.

That’s how Goehner described the situation last fall when the county informed the cities it was canceling the sheriff’s office contracts as of this October.

Then-Sheriff Mike Harum had sent letters to the cities in July 2009 asking the cities to renegotiate the contracts after realizing the law enforcement services agreement had “no provision for enhanced 911 services with the RiverCom regional communications center.” The estimated overall cost was about $200,000 a year that the county had been covering since RiverCom was established in 2004.

The cities responded that they believed the costs were included in the new contracts.

When the county commissioners raised the issue again in 2010, inviting the mayors and city administrators to hash it over, the results were the same.

“They were not interested in negotiating,” Goehner said last year, which led to the county terminating the law enforcement services agreements.

“This is the only recourse we had,” Goehner said at the time.

The letter to city officials dated Oct. 4, 2010, stated, “this termination is being done in order to set an appropriate timeline to meet and resolve the issue of payment for RiverCom dispatch.”

The letter suggested setting up a dispute resolution board to discuss and resolve the issue or renegotiate the full law enforcement agreement.

On Monday, Goehner said the idea of start-ing the negotiations a year ago was to avoid waiting until the last minute.

“But when you’re looking at increasing a contract, there’s no motivation to start early. Now we are hoping to get it resolved by Oct. 4,” he said.

Representatives from the cities did not at-tend Monday’s commission meeting, he said, which was a bit of a surprise. He expects to hear more this week.

“Each city has a little different take on it,” he said.

From the county’s perspective, he said, the contracts are fair because they cover the costs, and the per deputy figure being used is a reduction from where the initial numbers were at.

“The other thing to keep in mind is these figures will be in place for two years. There is

no cost increase factor involved. We feel this covers the true cost of providing the services. We’re not trying to recapture money from before,” he said.

Nevonne McDaniels can be reached at 548-5286 or

[email protected]

Commission: Sign code not all bad, commissioners say. But needs updating

Cities: Negotiations did not go well

Photo by Alison Gene SmithThe signs on Barney’s Restaurant door were posted by the state Department of Revenue on Aug. 26, effectively closing the business — for now.

the party control of Congress and relates it to economic metrics, a pattern is difficult to discern. This problem is more difficult than a partisan bumper sticker state-ment can solve - or even explain.

Regarding income tax, the Na-tional Taxpayers’ Union looks at the last ten years (2001-2012) and finds the lowest bracket at 10 per-cent and the highest bracket at 35 percent; in the Clinton years (a time when we were anticipating a ‘peace dividend’ from the federal budget), the lowest rate was 15 percent and the highest was 39.6 percent; under Reagan (a conser-vative hero), the lowest rate was 11 percent and the highest was 50 percent. (The very highest during that period is in the 1950s, when the top bracket was 91 percent and the accompanying lowest rate was in the low 20s.) Once deductions and special schedules have done their magic, as is well-known thanks to Warren Buffett’s comments, millionaires generally

end up paying a lower tax rate than their secretaries.

Republicans say that businesses aren’t hiring out of uncertainty over taxes or regulation, or lack of qualified applicants - hard to credit, as taxes and regulations are always uncertain as they are always sub-ject to change, and there are many more applicants than jobs.

The problem is the consumers: they aren’t buying as much as they used to. They aren’t buying because their jobs are uncertain, their retirement savings have disappeared, or they owe more on their mortgages than their house would bring on the market. They are cautious, and are mak-ing do with less in a world where almost 1/10 of their neighbors are unemployed.

The problem is demand. No business will hire if customers are making do with less, if there is declining demand for their goods or services. That is basic economics: when demand falls, amount produced falls and the jobs of those producing products

and conveying them to mar-ket disappear. Lowering taxes on businesses and millionaires doesn’t increase demand - rather, business responds to demand, and millionaires have enough money to maintain their buying. It is demand from the working class that is missing.

These facts do not make a policy. They ask people to think about what a policy should be, taking this information into con-sideration. How can we increase demand, so that businesses will increase hiring?

Nancy M. MillerLeavenworth

Save the grandchildren

Thank you [9/7] for the ref-erence to the CERN research concerning the possibility that cosmic rays may be a factor in climate change. It is an interest-ing study to read given your com-ment, “Seems Al Gore and friends have done a pretty good job at building their personal wealth

by selling a green agenda.” We heard this identically from Fox [Faux] News.

In fact, if you read the full re-port, the CERN researchers them-selves caution that their research is yet inconclusive and at most may be one factor among sev-eral that influences our climate. Meanwhile, what is conclusive is mankind daily pumps millions of tons of pollutants into our atmo-sphere which our world’s scien-tists have concluded has simply overwhelmed all other natural climate indicators. Sunspots, for example, which it seems histori-cally drove our cyclic cooler and warmer periods, ceased about 20 years ago to have a measurable affect against our accumulating greenhouse gasses.

More here concerning the Re-publican spin of CERN’s study, particularly by Fox and friends. http://mediamatters.org/re-search/201108310023

As our world warms because of C02, I would expect free market conservatives to rethink and

retool to take advantage of the entrepreneurial opportunities rather than villainize those who do. Resisting changes needed to reduce C02 because it will “harm the economy” is a horse and buggy mindset and, at the least, a way of saying our grandchildren and beyond don’t matter.

Mark LindstromLake Wenatchee

Support conservation

Thank you for covering Senator Patty Murray’s appointment to the deficit-reduction Super Com-mittee. The need for responsible action is clearer now more than ever. With the right leadership, I hope we’ll be able to renew economic growth and reduce our nation’s budget deficit.

Budget cuts must be made to restore the economy, but it’s equally important that conserva-tion programs providing benefits to both our nation and economy, like the Conservation Reserve Program, are properly funded.

Conservation programs provide cost-effective ways to conserve wildlife habitat, prevent erosion, keep drinking water clean and promote outdoor recreation. In Washington alone, there are 754,000 sportsmen using these resources, who have a $1.4 bil-lion annual impact on our state’s economy and support more than 19,800 jobs. Conservation programs are community invest-ments that benefit everyone.

Potential cuts to conserva-tion not only threaten America’s outdoor legacy, but could hurt countless local economies and small businesses that depend on the outdoor sporting com-munity. Cutting these programs would be a cavalier dismissal of the economic and environmen-tal benefits that they provide. I encourage Senator Murray to take a fair, balanced approach in the upcoming budget cuts and remember that our precious out-door resources won’t last forever.

Sam JefferiesSammamish


The new dealContracts say deputies cost $155,399 per year

A Chelan County Sheriff’s Office deputy — with

support services — costs $155,399 per year, the

amount used as the basis to determine what each

of the county’s four contract cities will pay in new

contracts signed by Chelan County Commission-

ers Monday.

Chelan County Administrator Cathy Mulhall

said the contracts depend on how many deputies

are being hired by each city. Both Leavenworth

and Cashmere, in the past, have paid for the equiv-

alent of three full-time deputies, which would cost

$466,000 per year.

The price does not include the RiverCom fees

for dispatch services, generated by 911 calls. An-

nual RiverCom fees for each city are determined

by how many calls were received the year before. A

rough estimate is $50 to $54 per call, Mulhall said.

For 2011, the total RiverCom fees came to $53,033

for Leavenworth and $39,970 for Cashmere.

Because the contracts being sent to the cities

are higher than last year, the county is stair step-

ping some of the costs, she said.

For the final quarter of 2011, the county is ask-

ing cities to pay the old contract amount plus a

quarter of the RiverCom fees.

For 2012, the county is charging cities $141,500

per deputy, plus RiverCom fees. The full deputy

rate plus RiverCom fees will be charged in 2013.


Link Transit schedule changes start Oct. 3The Cashmere Valley Record staff

Scheduling changes approved by Link Transit last spring to help balance its budget take

effect on Oct. 3.The changes include putting

an end to the trolley service in Leavenworth and Cashmere and eliminating two of the weekday trips on Route 22 — the trip leaving Leavenworth at 6:40 a.m. and the trip leaving Wenatchee at 7:05 p.m. Some other schedule

adjustments have been made during the day.

Routing in Leavenworth also will now end at Icicle River Road and U.S. Highway 2, where it previously operated west of the highway.

In Cashmere, the trolley (Route 33) is out, but a cutaway bus (operating as a new Route 28) will connect Cashmere riders to Olds Station once an hour and cover all of the trolley’s old route except for the Mission Creek/Tigner Road loop. It will operate

from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. with a two-hour gap from noon to 2 p.m.

The new schedule has bigger changes on Saturdays.

Route 22, between Wenatchee and Leavenworth, is cut to five round trips on Saturday and no Saturday service on Route 37 (Plain/Lake Wenatchee) and Leavenworth DART (Dial-A-Ride-Transportation), East Wenatchee Routes 11 and 12, Routes 20 (Orondo/Chelan), 24 (Malaga), 25 (Waterville), 26 (Ardenvoir).

Other changes impact Chelan

and other outlying areas, as well as downtown Wenatchee and East Wenatchee.

Link is also eliminating ser-vice on three additional holidays — Martin Luther King Jr. Day, President’s Day and Veterans Day.

Overall the cuts represent a 6-percent reduction in weekday service, a 53-percent reduction in Saturday service and major route realignments for Wenatchee.

Service is being reduced be-cause available operating funds

have decreasedabout 18 percent in the past

two years as the result of the recession.

The bulk of Link Transit’s funding is from a 4/10 of 1 per-cent sales taxes, which has been severely impacted. In a work-shop with the Link Transit Board

of Directors in February, staff was directed to come up with a plan that

would reduce operating ex-penses and increase revenue by $850,000 annually. The board approved a mix of service and staff reductions, along with a fare increase, which was imple-

mented in July.According to a Link Tran-

sit press release, the past two months have resulted in an in-crease in fares of 30 percent over the same two months in 2010, and an increase of 32 percent over the first six months of 2011.

Ridership for July and August is down about 9.5 percent from the same two months in 2010.

The new booklets with the new schedules are available now at Columbia Station in Wenatchee. Or check the Web-site for maps and schedules at www.linktransit.com. For infor-mation call 662-1155.


Community• • COMMUNITY BULLETIN BOARDCOMMUNITY BULLETIN BOARD

• • COMMUNITY CALENDARCOMMUNITY CALENDARWednesday, Sept. 14

8:30 a.m., Aerobics, Plain Com-munity Church, $1 fee, 763-3621.

8:30 to 10 a.m., Play and Learn Group, Peshastin Head Start, Lili-ana Torres, 682-6761.

9 to 11 a.m., Mothers of Preschool-ers, Leavenworth Church of the Nazarene. 782-3210.

10:30 a.m., Gentle exercise, Leavenworth Senior Center, 548-6666.

1 to 3 p.m., Pinochle, Leavenworth Senior Center, 548-6666.

3 p.m., Design Review Board, City Hall, Carrie Seiss, 548-5275.

6 p.m., Icicle Valley Chapter of Trout Unlimited, Kristall’s Restaurant.

6:30 p.m., Youth Program for grades six through 12, Leavenworth Church of the Nazarene, 548-5292.

7 p.m., Alcoholics Anonymous, Leavenworth Senior Center, 548-4522, 664-6469 or 425-773-7527.

Thursday, Sept. 158 a.m., Leavenworth Chamber of

Commerce, Kristall’s Restaurant, Kevin Rieke, president, 548-5807.

Noon, Leavenworth Lions Club. Kristall’s Restaurant.

Noon, Alcoholics Anonymous, Buckboard Restaurant, 548-4522, 664-6469 or 425-773-7527.

1 p.m., Grandparents raising grand-children support group, 224 Ben-ton St., Stacy Barnhill, 548-0447.

1 to 3 p.m., Square dancing, Leavenworth Senior Center, 548-6666.

1 to 4 p.m., SCORE small business counseling, Wenatchee Valley Chamber of Commerce, 300 S. Columbia St., Wenatchee, call for appointment, 662-2116.

4 to 8 p.m., Der Bauernmarkt, Leavenworth Community Farm-ers’ Market, Lions Club Park, Eric Link, 548-9048 or 548-5786.

4 to 8 p.m., Fr iends of the Leavenworth Library collects books for the fall sale, Lions Club Park, Ruth 548-1192.

6:30 to 8:30 p.m., Knitting Night with Wooly Bully Yarns. 905 Com-mercial St., 548-0895.

6:30 to 10 p.m., Cashmere Sports-men’s Gun Club shooting range, Turkey Shoot Road, Ed Pipkin, 782-3922.

7 p.m., Autumn Leaf Festival Asso-ciation, Chelan County PUD audi-torium, 222 Chumstick Highway, Ed Rutledge, 548-1451.

7 p.m., LWSC Board of Directors, Ski Hill Lodge, 548-5477.

7 p.m., Celebrate Recover y, Leavenworth Church of the Naza-rene, 111 Ski Hill Drive, doors open at 6 p.m. for free dinner, 548-5292.

Friday, Sept. 168:30 a.m., Aerobics, Plain Com-

munity Church, $1 fee, 763-3621.10:30 a.m., Exercises, Leavenworth

Senior Center, 548-6666.10:45 a.m., Preschool story time,

Leavenworth Library, 548-7923.11:45 a.m., Leavenworth Rotary

Club, Kristall’s Restaurant, Bill Forhan, 548-5286.

6:30 p.m., Bingo, Leavenworth Senior Center, 548-6666.

7 p.m., Women’s Alcoholic Anony-mous, Leavenworth United Meth-odist Church, 418 Evans St., 548-6851.

7:30 p.m., Alcoholics Anonymous, Plain Community Church, 548-4522, 664-6469 or 425-773-7527.

Saturday, Sept. 177 to 9 p.m., Jam and Dance Social,

Leavenworth Senior Center, 548-6666. Public is welcome. No cover charge.

Sunday, Sept. 189 a.m., Alcoholics Anonymous,

Buckboard Cafe, Hwy. 97, 548-4522, 664-6469 or 425-773-7527.

1 or 4 p.m., Church service, Moun-tain Meadows Assisted Living, 548-4076, call for time.

6 to 7:30 p.m., Nazarene Middle School Youth Group, Leavenworth Church of the Nazarene, 548-5292.

6 p.m., Nazarene High School Youth Group, 128 Prospect Street, 548-5292.

7 p.m., Alcoholics Anonymous, Leavenworth Senior Center, 548-4522, 664-6469 or 425-773-7527.

Monday, Sept. 198:30 a.m., Aerobics, Plain Com-

munity Church, $1 fee, 782-3621.10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Foot care,

Leavenworth Senior Center, $23 for appointment, Sue Anez, R.N., 669-0349.

10:30 a.m, Gentle exercise, Leavenworth Senior Center, 548-6666.

6 p.m., Bavarian Volkssport Associa-tion, Pat Russell, 548-4084.

6:30 to 8 p.m., Upper Valley Free Medical Clinic, Cascade Medical Center, Laurie Peek, 548-7186.

7 p.m., Leavenworth Mosquito District Board, Chelan County PUD building, Jennifer Mullins, 548-3316.

7 p.m., Al-Anon and Al-ateen meet-ing, Leavenworth United Method-ist Church, 548-7939.

7 p.m., Boy Scout Troop 28, Ski Hill Lodge, Betty Palmer, 548-6624.

7 to 9:15 p.m., Village Voices, Meth-odist Church basement, Gary Thebault, 548-7389.

Tuesday, Sept. 208:30 a.m., Bavarian Village Business

Association, King Ludwig’s, Cary Sanger, 548-4857.

Noon, Upper Valley Women’s Bible Study, King Ludwig’s, Delores Hall, 548-7803.

1 p.m., Buns, Books and Tea, Peshastin Book Club, Peshastin Library, Kathy Springer, 548-4807.

1 to 3 p.m., Crafts, Leavenworth Senior Center, 548-6666.

1 to 4 p.m., SCORE small business counseling, Wenatchee Valley Chamber of Commerce, 300 S. Columbia St., Wenatchee, call for appointment, 662-2116.

4:15 p.m., Karate, Leavenworth Senior Center, 548-6666.

5:30 to 7:30 p.m., Free dinner, open to everyone, all ages, The Trinity Table, Leavenworth Church of the Nazarene, 111 Ski Hill Dr., 548-5292.

7 p.m., Narcotics Anonymous, St. James Episcopal Church, 222 Cottage Ave., Robert Hendricks, 782-1476.

7 p.m., Alcoholics Anonymous, United Church of Christ, 8455 Main St. in Peshastin, 548-4522, 664-6469 or 425-773-7527.

Ongoing events

Leavenworth Library, 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday and Tuesday; 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Wednesday; 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday and 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday. Children’s story time, 10:45 a.m. Friday, 548-7923.

Peshastin Library, 1:30 to 5:30 p.m. Tuesday; 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and 1:30 to 5:30 p.m. Wednesday; 1:30 to 5:30 p.m. and 6 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday; 1:30 to 5:30 p.m. Friday, 548-7821.

Upper Valley Museum, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday through Sunday, 347 Division St., 548-0728.

Cashmere Pioneer Village and Museum, 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. seven days a week, 600 Cotlets Way, 782-3230.

Tillicum Riders, Monday, Wednes-day, Friday, Chelan County Fair-grounds, Cindy Fowler, 662-5984.

Leavenwor th National Fish Hatchery, 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. daily, 548-7641.

Leavenworth

CUB SCOUTS WELCOMECome join the Cub Scouts on Sun-

day, Sept. 18 Noon to 2 p.m. at the Os-

born Elementary Gym to learn more

about the scouts and join the fun

group. For more information, call Deb-

bie at 548-7703. (er37)

KIDS INVITED TO PARADE

All children are invited to partici-

pate in the Autumn Leaf Festival Kid-

die Parade. Dress up in a costume,

decorate your bike or bring your dog

in costume. Sept. 24 11:15 a.m. Meet

at the Festhalle. The parade proceed

down Front Street and to Lions Club

Park where Wells Fargo employees will

have special treats! (er37,38)

BEWARE THE “NIGHTMARE ON FRONT STREET”

Amberleaf Theatre’s slapstick musi-

cal revue “Nightmare on Front Street”

to perform Sept. 24 at 7 p.m., Sept. 25

at 2 p.m., Sept. 30 at 7 p.m., Oct. 1 at 7

p.m., and Oct. 2 at 2 p.m. at Icicle Riv-

er Middle School. Cost $6 per person,

tickets at the door. Contact Briar Hop-

er 548-0191.

USED BOOK SALE COMING UP

The Friends of Leavenworth Li-

brary’s Used Book Sale will be held on

the corner of Eighth and Commercial

in Leavenworth from Friday, Sept. 23

to Sunday, Oct. 2 during Autumn Leaf

Festival and the first weekend of Ok-

toberfest. The hours are 10 a.m. until

5 p.m. on weekdays, 6 p.m. on week-

ends. All proceeds from the sale are

used to support the Library and en-

courage reading throughout the com-

munity. (er 37,38)

SALMON FESTIVAL FUNDRAISER PLANNED

Come to South Restaurant in

Leavenworth on Sept. 27 for 10 per-

cent Tuesday. Take your friends and

have a great meal while fundraising

for The Salmon Festival. South will do-

nate 10 percent of the sales for that

day to the festival. (er37,38)

POETRY OF THE “UNDERDOG”

In her latest release “Under-

dog,” acclaimed poet Katrina Rob-

erts considers questions of identity.

Her poems wonder at how individuals

through the ages have handled, often

with grace, tremendous injustice, and

seek to comprehend the mysteries of

our perpetual migrations from and to-

ward each other. Enjoy Roberts’ read-

ing at Leavenworth Library, Friday

Sept. 23, 7 to 8 p.m., or visit one-on-

one at her book-signing at A Book For

All Seasons, Saturday Sept. 24, 1 to 3

p.m. (er37.38)

PLAIN HONORS THE CIVIL WAR

The Washington Civil War Associa-

tion will present battle re-enactments

Oct. 1 and 2 as part of an event cele-

brating Plain’s 100th birthday and the

150th anniversary of the American

Civil War. Admission is $8 for adults,

$6 for students and seniors, $22 for a

family of four. Activities include a liv-

ing history demonstration, a tour of

Union and Confederate camps, and

opportunity to talk with soldiers and

civilians about camp life. The battle-

field is at 18639 Beaver Valley Road,

across from the Old Mill Cafe in Plain.

Battles will be at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m.

each day. A 9 a.m. worship service is

offered Sunday. The event benefits

the Plain Pantry food bank and Chelan

County Fire District 9. (er37,38)

TAI CHI CLASSES OFFERED

Tracy Brulotte is teaching Tai Chi

exercise classes most Thursdays from

9:30 to 10:45 a.m. beginning Sept.

22 at RiverHaus, 347 Division St.,

Leavenworth. A donation of $3-$4 is

suggested. Proceeds benefit Icicle

Arts. For information call Brulotte at

548-5583. (er37.38)

MOPS STARTS AGAINThe local Mothers of Preschool-

ers (MOPS) group is starting up again

this fall on Sept. 14. They meet at the

Leavenworth Church of the Nazarene

every second and fourth Wednesday

from 9 to 11 a.m. Inspiration, encour-

agement and childcare provided. For

more information, visit leavenworth-

mops.blogspot.com or call 782-3210.

(er36,37)

AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAM

The Kodiak Cub Club offers care in

a fun, safe and educational environ-

ment after school for children in Kin-

dergarten through 5th grade. Open

Monday-Friday until 5:30 p.m. Open

on early release and days when there

is no school. Daily schedule consists

of reading, homework time and snack.

Monthly enrichment/project themes.

For more information and to enroll

your child, please contact Ammy Snow

at 548-2328 or 393-6866. Located

at Peshastin United Church of Christ,

8455 Main St, Peshastin. (er36,37)

JOIN VILLAGE VOICESDo you like to sing? Come and join

Leavenworth Village Voices, your

community’s professionally direct-

ed mixed chorus, as we prepare for

Christmas in the Mountains, our four-

concert series in December. Practice

is Monday 6:45-9 p.m. at Communi-

ty United Methodist Church, 418 Ev-

ans St. Contact Kathy Lynn, president,

548-9797. (er36.37)

LEAVENWORTH CRUSH FESTIVAL ON TAP

The Leavenworth Crush Festi-

val once again brings together doz-

ens of the finest wineries from Wash-

ington state to the Bavarian village in

Central Washington on Sept. 17. Hun-

dreds of wine lovers will converge on

the Leavenworth Festhalle to taste

wine, nosh on local foods, bid on si-

lent auction items, listen to the great

live jazz of Lenny Price, and stomp

grapes. This is a fundraiser for the

Leavenworth Civic Center Foundation.

You will even have the opportunity to

purchase your favorite wines from the

event! The event is from 3 to 7 p.m.

at the Leavenworth Festhalle. Ticket

prices- $30 for advance purchase and

$35.00 at the door. Your ticket gets

you in the door, 15 scrip and a souve-

nir glass. (er37)

MASS CHOIR PRESENTATION PLANNED

Symphony of Joy, a mass choir pre-

sentation by multiple Wenatchee Val-

ley Churches including a children’s

choir of 50 voices, will be held on Oct.

29 and 30. Leavenworth Church of the

Nazarene and Wenatchee Free Meth-

odist are anchors. Rehearsals start

Tuesday, Aug. 30 at 6:30 p.m. at the

Leavenworth Church of the Nazarene,

111 Ski Hill Drive. Leavenworth. Music

and practice CD’s will be passed out.

Any church is welcome to join in the

rehearsals. (er37)

Cashmere

CASHMERE EXPO CENTER HOSTS DOG SHOW

The Wenatchee Kennel Club Dog

Show “Apple Harvest Weekend” comes

to the Chelan County Expo Center,

5700 Wescott Drive, Cashmere, 7 a.m.

to 9 p.m. Sept. 17-18. The show will in-

clude 1,200 dogs competing in breed

classes, junior showmanship classes

and obedience trial classes. The event

is free to the public. Sporting and

hound breeds will be judged outdoors.

All other breeds and junior showman-

ship will be judged indoors. Obedience

and really will be judged outdoors. For

information call 663-4074. (er37)

CHAMBER MEMBERS MEET SEPT. 27

The Cashmere Chamber of Com-

merce general membership meeting

is at 7 p.m. Sept. 27 at the Cashmere

Senior Center, 120 Cottage Ave. Jim

Fletcher of the Small Business Devel-

opment Center, and a Cashmere City

Councilman, will be the guest speak-

er. The chamber board also is asking

members for ideas. For information

call 782-7404. (er37,38)

MUSEUM HOSTS APPLE DAYS OCT. 1, 2

The Cashmere Museum and Pi-

oneer Village is hosting Apple Days

from 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Oct. 1 and 2, the

museum’s annual fundraising event

of the year. In addition to entertain-

ment and a bake sale and the oppor-

tunity to tour the museum and vil-

lage, the Friends of Old Mission will

select the winning raffle ticket for the

Amish quilt. Tickets are on sale now,

available at the museum and at vari-

ous businesses in town. A special ded-

ication of the park also is in the works.

For information, call the museum at

782-3230. (er37,38)

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BASIC MEDIATION TRAINING OFFERED

You are invited to join the

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GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY TO MEET

The Wenatchee Area Genealogical

Society announces its monthly meet-

ing and program: Migration: Finding

‘Normal’ Our ancestors most-

ly lived and traveled within the con-

text of a family or social group. And

these groups had norms and patterns.

We’ll look at the three sections of early

America and see what settlement pat-

terns we can discern. What signal was

your ancestor sending you if he stayed

within, or went outside these norms?

Anne Livingston, Instructor and Li-

brary Specialist at Wenatchee Valley

College, is our presenter. Saturday,

Sept. 17 10 a.m. to noon at Wenatchee

Main Library at 310 Douglas St. in

Wenatchee. Call 782-4046. (er36,37)

SURVIVORS OF SUICIDE LOSS SUPPORT GROUP TO MEET

Good Grief Center is offering a six-

week support group for people who

have lost a loved one to suicide. The

group will help guide you through

the loss and help you understand the

why’s. Meeting at Good Grief Cen-

ter, 1610 Fifth St., Wenatchee. Begin-

ning Monday night, Sept. 19 at 6:30

p.m. For more information, please call

662-6069 or e-mail us at karen.shep-

[email protected]. This group

is facilitated by volunteers who have

lost a loved one to suicide. This is a

great group to be able to talk to some-

one who understands what you are

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VOLUNTEER WANTED FOR THE DSV CRISIS CENTER

If you have a passion for helping

people in need, and are interesting

in volunteering we are looking volun-

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teers are the backbone of our agency.

They allow us to provide a 24 hour ser-

vice to the victims of sexual assault,

domestic violence, and victims of

crimes. Your caring is important in the

healing of our callers. Our volunteers

complete 43 hours of state certified

training. The training will be held eve-

nings and Saturdays. Orientation will

be held Sept. 20th at 5:30 p.m. at the

DSV Crisis Center- 1207 N Wenatchee

Ave, Wenatchee. For more information

please contact Jessica at 663-7446 or

[email protected]. (er36,37)

SCORE COUNSELORS AVAILABLE

SCORE (Counselors to America’s

Small Business) is ready to help you

with your business questions or prob-

lems. SCORE offers a variety of ser-

vices from face-to-face counseling,

e-mail counseling and workshops.

Counseling is free and confiden-

tial and is offered each Tuesday, 1 to

4 p.m. and each Thursday, 9 a.m. to 1

p.m. at 300 So Columbia St., 3rd Floor,

Wenatchee. To make an appointment,

call the Chamber of Commerce 662-

2116. (er36,37)

COMPASSIONATE FRIENDS TO MEET

The Compassionate Friends will

meet Sept. 14th 7 p.m. at the Grace Lu-

theran Church, 1408 Washington St.,

Wenatchee. Residents of Wenatchee,

Chelan, Cashmere, Waterville and sur-

rounding areas who have lost a child,

grandchild or sibling are welcome. The

Compassionate Friends assist fami-

lies toward positive resolution of grief

following the death of a child of any

age. We are a national nonprofit, self-

help support organization that offers

friendship, understanding and hope

to bereaved parents, grandparents

and siblings. We talk, we care and we

share. We also have a teen support

group. For more information call 665-

9987. (er37)

INFANT LOSS SUPPORT GROUP TO MEET

The Compassionate Friends will be

offering an 12 week program Infant

Loss Support Group July 6 to Sept.

21 from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at Grace Lu-

theran Church, 1408 Washington St.,

Wenatchee. This program is for par-

ents who lost their baby during preg-

nancy, at birth, or within the 1st year.

We also invite the grandparents. Reg-

istration is still open; please call Car-

ol at 665-9987 for more information.

How to submit bulletin board itemsAnnouncements from non-profit groups are published in the Record

for two weeks.

Groups can submit announcements by:

• Using the online form at www.cashmerevalleyrecord.com

• E-mailing them to [email protected] (attn: Bul-

letin Board)

• Dropping them off at the Record office at 201 Cottage Ave.

• Mailing them to P.O. Box 39, Leavenworth

• Faxing them to 548-4789.

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two weeks before the event. Limit the announcement to 75 words

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Gonzalez sets record with double hat trickBulldogs beat Omak 18-1By Nevonne McDanielsStaff writer

Bulldog senior Gaby Gon-zalez made history for the Cashmere High School Var-

sity Girls Soccer team early Satur-day evening, scoring a double hat trick against the Omak Pioneers — in the first half of the game.

The Bulldogs won 18-1, so plen-ty of others contributed as well, including freshman Breanne Knishka with a single hat trick of her own and deuces by fresh-man Tessa McCormick, senior Mackenzi Brunner and sopho-mores Lauren Johnson and Dani Morseman. Sophomore Tianna Helm scored one goal.

“Six goals. That’s the most ever scored by one player in Cashmere,” Head Coach Dennis Tronson said of Gonzalez. “And all in one half. She played defense in the second half.”

The previous record Aleena Davis’s five goals, he said.

Despite the ending score, Tron-

son had concerns with the first 15 minutes of the game, which he described as “ragged.”

Following two quick goals, by Helm and Knishka, the Bulldogs dropped their defenses long enough to allow Omak’s Shawnee Covington to get one past goalie Suzy McCall.

“Then they settled in and started playing,” he said. “I was happy to see that.”

Tronson had 18 girls suit up, but only 16 were eligible to take the field. Seniors Donna Hillock and Monique Blanchard were still catching up on missed prac-tices, so had to sit out. They will be eligible to play in Thursday’s game against Ephrata.

He brought up freshman Riley Christensen from the junior varsity to fill in the roster. He needed as many subs as he could get because of the hot weather.

The game start was pushed from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. because of the heat, but the temperature didn’t start to drop until the sec-

ond half of the game.“Everyone got tired,” he said.Omak couldn’t seem to clear

the ball, which provided the Bulldogs with scoring opportu-nities they otherwise wouldn’t have had.

“Omak did some nice things. They had three or four girls who passed well,” Tronson said.

But as the heat took its toll, the Bulldog conditioning and speed played a major factor.

With a 9-1 lead at halftime, Tronson used the opportunity to try some new things, including putting his forwards on defense.

Senior forward Mackenzi Brun-ner had never played defense before. She scored on a nice shot from midfield.

Helm, Gonzalez and Knishka also played defense in the sec-ond half.

“It was interesting,” he said.And starting goalie, senior Suzy

McCall, took her turn at forward in the final minutes, getting some shots on goal and coming oh-so-close to a goal several times.

Overall, Tronson said he was pleased.

“It’s starting to come together,” he said. “Some of the younger players aren’t making good deci-sions. They don’t see the whole field as well as they could.”

It’s something to work on.He filmed the game with the

new “Sky Cam,” the new video system purchased to go with the new high school grandstands.

The portable system is getting some use by more than the foot-ball team. He expects it will be a useful tool. Two goals from Sat-urday’s game are likely to make his highlight reel, he said.

The first was one of Gonaza-lez’s goals, which she took off a throw-in.

“It was classic. She brought it down, got her foot around it and drove it past the keeper into the back post,” he said.

The second was Johnson’s build off a midfield throw-in, getting past opponents to power it into the net.

“That’s something she wouldn’t have done last year. She has the power now,” he said, “a little seasoning. It’s nice.

The Bulldogs faced Cle Elum at home Tuesday evening. Results were not available at press time. They host Ephrata at 7 p.m. Thurs-day, under the lights. Then they go on the road against Okanogan on Saturday, Cascade on Tuesday and Ellensburg next Thursday.

Tronson has added a 16th game to the lineup, set for 3 p.m. Sept. 24 at home against 2A Cheney High School.

“It will be a good challenge,” Tronson said.

If the hot weather is an issue, it’s possible the game will be moved to later in the evening.



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Soccer • Sept. 10Cashmere 18, Omak 1

Omak 1 0 — 1Cashmere 9 9 — 18

First half: Tianna Helm 2:00; Breanna Knishka (assist Dani Morseman) 5:00; (Omak) Shawnee Covington 6:00; Gaby Gonzalez (assist Morseman) 7:00; Gonzalez 26:00; Gonzalez 30:00; Gonzalez (assist Helm) 34:00; Gonzalez (as-sist Helm) 36:00: Knishka (assist Gonzalez) 39:00; Gonzalez (assist

Morseman) 40:00.Second half: Tessa McCormick

(assist Morseman) 42:00; Macken-zi Brunner 43:00; Lauren Johnson (assist McCormick) 48:00; Dani Morseman 50:00; McCormick (assist Helm) 51:00; Johnson (as-sist Helm) 53:00; Brunner (assist Dosh) 55:00; Morseman (assist Kenoyer) 58:00; Knishka (assist Gonzalez) 78:00.

Shots on goal: Cashmere 38, Omak 4. Saves: Cashmere, Suzy McCall 1, Zelia Zahir 2.

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Running game puts Bulldogs 50-21 over Cle ElumCoach says players face tackling practiceBy Nevonne McDanielsStaff writer

With 432 yards rushing and two players in the 130-yard rushing range in Friday’s

50-21 victory over Cle Elum-Ros-lyn, the Cashmere High School football team’s running game is in fine form.

Tackling leaves something to be desired, though.

“We didn’t play great, but we won,” Bulldog Head Coach Phil Zukowski said. “Our offensive running game is awesome. They did a great job. Defensively, we played out of our assignment areas, so that caused some prob-lems. We didn’t tackle well the whole game, especially the kick-off team. That’s something that will be rectified this week.”

Starting quarterback sopho-more Casey Ruether had 128 yards rushing, made mostly in the first half. Junior fullback Mahliek Roberts had 133 yards rushing, including a 40-yard punt return in the first quarter to get the Bulldogs on the scoreboard, followed by an-other touchdown on a 5-yard run. Extra points by junior kicker Dino Hamilton brought the score to 14-0 before Cle Elum had a chance to respond.

The Bulldogs were put on no-tice, though, when Cle Elum’s Michael Newman brought home a 95-yard kickoff return. The first quarter ended 14-6.

In the second quarter, the Bull-dogs shut down Cle Elum while making three more touchdowns – a 21-yard run by Ruether, a 1-yard run by sophomore fullback Rex Pittsinger and a 10-yard run by Roberts.

Junior Brock Grams followed

that up with a safety to bring the halftime score to 36-6.

The Bulldogs kept the pressure on Cle Elum quarterback Tyler Kretschman.

“He’s probably sore today. He took his hits,” Zukowski said Saturday.

In the third quarter, senior slotback Joey Michael scored fol-lowing a 34-yard run.

The Warriors countered with a 1-yard run by Mitchell Milsap fol-lowed by a 2-point run by Jake Gall.

“Their best athlete, Jake Gall, hurt us on the sweeps because we were knuckleheads and didn’t do the jobs we were assigned to do,” Zukowski said. “But that’s what the pre-season is for.”

In the fourth quarter, Milsap made it into the end zone again

with a 4-yard run.Grams, who came in for most

of the second half as quarterback, scored a touchdown on a 1-yard run for the final score of the game.

Zukowski said he was pleased with both of the Bulldog quarter-backs’ performances.

“It was a very good game for Casey,” he said, and Grams got some quality playing time.

“Brock is a good quarterback. He would be starting for most teams. We’re lucky to have quality back up like Brock,” he said.

Kicker Dino Hamilton also had a good game.

“He was putting it down inside the 10, the 5, even the end zone. We’re looking at college kicker quality. He got it in the proper zones. We were pleased with his

kicking. I think he was, too,” Zu-kowski said

The tackling was the problem.“Our coverage was poor. We

need changes there. If we don’t fix those, it could cost us a game,” he said.

It was a problem in the first game against Royal as well, he said. But the practice schedule didn’t al-low all the focus the coach would have liked.

“It was an odd week for us. We had a JV game on Tuesday, so we only had 17 boys for practice. This week will be a normal week. We will re-emphasize kickoffs and tackling,” he said. “We still have a ways to go. We really do. If you just look at the scores, you’d think we were playing great football. But we have so much to learn.”

Up next for the Bulldogs is a road game in Connell at 7 p.m. Friday.

“It’s going to be a tough game. They’re a good team,” Zukowski said.

The biggest challenge is shut-ting down running back Matt Hadley, a two-time returning state 1A player of the year.

“He’s very good. He’s 70 percent of their offense and rightly so,” Zukowski said.

Cashmere’s coaching staff spent most of Saturday working on that challenge, which translated to the

practice field this week as well.With the weather expected to

cool, a bit, at least the long bus ride to Connell shouldn’t be too bad, which should help the worst part about road trips, Zukowski said.

“It can be a long, hot drive. And the visitor locker room is never a quality environment,” he said. “You just can’t let that throw you.”




Football • Sept. 9

Cashmere 50, Cle Elum-Roslyn 21Cashmere 14 22 7 7 — 50Cle Elum 6 0 8 7 — 21

Cashmere Cle ElumFirst downs 18 13Rushing yards 432 128Passing yards 8 146

Scoring plays First quarter:

Cashmere — Mahliek Roberts, 40-yard punt return (Dino Ham-ilton kick).

Cashmere — Roberts, 5-yard run (Hamilton kick).Cle Elum — XX Newman, 95-yard kickoff return (Kick no good).

Second quarterCashmere — Casey Ruether, 21-yard run (Hamilton kick).Cashmere — Rex Pittsinger, 1-yard run (Kick no good).Cashmere — Roberts, 10-yard run (Hamilton kick).Cashmere — Brock Grams, safety.

Third quarterCashmere — Joey Michael, 34-yard run (Hamilton kick).Cle Elum — Mitchell Milsap, 1-yard run (Jake Gall, 2-point run).

Fourth quarterCle Elum — Milsap, 4-yard run (Lucas Witte kick).Cashmere — Grams, 1-yard run (Hamilton kick).

Individual statisticsRushing — Ruether (12 carries, 128 yards), Roberts (16 for 133), Mi-

chael (9 for 66), Kyle Weiler (4 for 11), Pittsinger (7 for 30), Grams (6 for 24), Jacob Allison (5 fot 13).

Passing — Cashmere: 2 attempts, 1 completion, no interceptions. Cle Elum: 21 attempts, 12 completions, 1 interception.

Receiving — Cashmere: Mitchell Darlington, 8 yards.

Photo by Nevonne McDanielsSenior Bulldog midfielder Kayla Dosh takes forward toward the end of Saturday’s home game against Omak. Cashmere won 18-1. Up 9-1 at halftime and battling the hot weather, Coach Dennis Tronson tried some players in new positions with some interesting results.

Photo by Nevonne McDanielsBulldog Breanne Knishka takes a shot on goal during Saturday’s home game against Omak. The freshman starter scored three of the 18 goals the Bulldogs put in the in the net. Senior captain Gaby Gonzalez scored six of those — all in the first half, setting a team record.

Photo by Nevonne McDanielsBulldog captain Gaby Gonzalez gets the jump on an Omak defender during Saturday’s home game. Gonzalez set a team record by scoring six goals in the first half of the game. The Bulldogs won 18-1.

Photo submitted by Karl RuetherCashmere and Cle Elum team captains approach the middle of the field for the coin toss to start Friday night’s game, which the Bulldogs won 50-21. The Bulldogs, pictured from left are Casey Ruether, Caleb Barnes, Mitchell Darlington and Trevor Mashburn.


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Bulld o g Fo ot ballSept. 9 Cashmere 50, Cle Elum 21

upc oming gamesSept. 16 Cashmere @ Connell, 7 p.m.

Bulld o g Gir ls S o c cerSept. 10 Cashmere 18, Omak 1

Sept. 13 Cle Elum @ CashmereResults not available at press time

upc oming gamesSept. 15 Ephrata vs. Cashmere, 7 p.m.

Sept. 17 Cashmere @ Okanogan, 1:30 p.m.

Sept. 20 Cashmere @ Cascade, 4 p.m.

Bulld o g volleyb allSept. 6 Ellensburg Jamboree

Scores unavailable, Cashmere girls lost to El-lensburg and Kittitas

Sept. 8 Chelan 3, Cashmere 0

Sept. 10 Omak 3, Cashmere 2

upc oming MATCHESSept. 15 Cashmere @ Okanogan, 6:30 p.m.

Sept. 17 Cashmere @ Tonasket, 6:30 p.m.

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Cashmere boys placed 7thCashmere girls placed 3rd

upc oming Mee t sSept. 17 Highland Invite, 11 a.m.

Bulldog volleyball team falls to Chelan, OmakBy Nevonne McDanielsStaff writer

The Cashmere High School var-sity volleyball team learned to deal with some heat in the

first week of the season, starting with the Ellensburg Jamboree last Tuesday where they worked out some jitters before facing Chelan for the first home match Thursday.

The Goats have been undefeat-ed in Caribou Trail League play for the past two years. The Bulldogs weren’t able to change that statis-tic, losing in three games.

Head Coach Sharmen Dye said future meetings could end dif-ferently.

“Next time we will take them,” she said. “We were a wall on the net. Our defense was outstanding. We need to work on our serves. I’m proud of all our players.”

On Saturday, the Bulldogs lost a

heartbreaker against Omak, taking it to five games and battling to the end. Omak won 3-2.

“The intensity was there. We had some unexpected errors, but the girls worked together,” she said, improving with each challenge.

The jamboree last Tuesday was a time for trial and error.

“We got some of the bugs worked out,” she said, but lost to both Kittitas and Ellensburg in the process.

“We really need to work on be-ing more defensive-minded. We’re going to work on that a lot this week. Offensively they are very sharp,” she said.

On Thursday against Chelan, the Bulldogs scored the first point in the first game, but the Goats came back to win, 25-15.

Bulldog Junior Kaylee Caudill worked some magic at the net to keep the Goats guessing whether

she was spiking or tipping and the Bulldogs rallied a 3-point run, but that’s as far as they got in figuring out a way around the experienced Chelan team that includes seven seniors.

The Goats also have two 6-foot-1 players and two 5-foot-10 players, though most of the team’s kills came from 5-foot-6 senior setter Olivia Plew.

In the Bulldog lineup, with one senior, five juniors and four sophomores, sophomore Corine Turner is the tallest at 5-foot-11, followed by juniors Roslyn Green at 5-foot-10 and Caudill at 5-foot-9.

In the second game, Chelan took the lead 3-0 before the Bull-dogs found a rhythm to close the gap. The Goats went on a run and had a 19-12 lead when the Bulldogs added some heat of their own to the already warm gymnasium. They brought the game to within a point, with Chelan leading 19-18.

The next three points were hard-fought. The Goats’ outlasted the Bulldogs, with the match ending in their favor, 25-21.

The Bulldogs took a 4-1 lead in the third game before allowing Chelan to get within a point. The lead changed at least four times until it was tied 18-18. The Goats made the final push without al-lowing the Bulldogs to get anoth-er point, ending with a 25-18 win.

“They were tired. It was a long game. We lost it on the serves,” Dye said.

Lack of effort was not the issue.“I was worried about Lisa Cun-

ning,” Dye said of the 5-foot-5 junior setter. “She was busted up, flying into chairs and hitting the floor. She’s OK, but she played hard.”

Caudill also earned some kudos from the coach.

“She played smart at the front,” she said.

In Saturday’s match against the

Omak Pioneers at home, the Bull-dogs pushed every point, losing only by two in the first game, 25-23. Cashmere won, hands down, the second and third games, 25-16 an 25-13, which boosted the confi-dence going into the fourth game where the score stayed within two points for most of the game. The Bulldogs took a 20-16 lead, but the Pioneers whittled it away until the was tied 23-23. Omak got the next two points and the win.

“They were so close on the fourth game,” Dye said. “They are learning about intensity, working on the mental challenge. Taking it to five games is intense.”

In that fifth game, Omak’s cheering squad — including the soccer players who had finished by then — and the hot, humid gym didn’t help the focus. The Pioneers took an early lead, Cash-mere rallied and closed the gap, but couldn’t make that last point,

ending with a 15-13 Omak win.“[The Bulldogs] kept it togeth-

er,” Dye said. “They were scrappy and they hustled.”

With two home games just two days apart, practice time was lim-ited, but she expects to be hard at it this week in preparation for the next round.

The Bulldogs take a road trip to Okanogan on Thursday and then on to Tonasket on Saturday.




Photo by Nevonne McDanielsSenior outside hitter Kendra Weiler makes a dig during last Thursday’s match against Chelan, the first home game of the season. The Bulldogs lost 3-0, but found a rhythm they put to use against Omak on Saturday, also at home, to get within range, but lost the fifth game by a hair.

Photo by Nevonne McDanielsJuniors Roslyn Green and Kaylee Caudill go up for a block against Chelan during last Thursday’s home season opener. The Bulldogs lost 3-0. The Bulldogs lost 3-0, but found a rhythm they put to use against Omak on Saturday, also at home, to get within range, but lost the fifth game by a hair.

Cava puts art on the front burner for Cashmere studentsBy Nevonne McDanielsStaff writer

Castilia Cava was complet-ing the internship required to finish up her bachelor’s

degree in hotel and restaurant management when she decided that wasn’t what she wanted to do with the rest of her life.

“I realized I wanted to be work-ing with kids,” she said.

She is getting that opportunity full-time this year, teaching art students at Cashmere High School and seventh and eighth graders from Cashmere Middle School.

She replaces Claudia Elliott, who retired at the end of the school year in June, after 16 years on the job.

Cava isn’t an entirely new face in Cashmere. She had a trial run of sorts two years ago when Elliott took a year’s sabbatical.

At that time, she had just earned her teaching degree at Central Washington University.

The 1999 Wenatchee High School grad finished the course-work for her hotel management degree from Washington State University degree in 2004. In 2007, she started her education studies at Wenatchee Valley College and then commuted to Central Washington University to complete her degree in visual arts education.

She said her interest in teach-ing came first. The focus on art came later.

“At first I thought I would go with teaching Spanish,” she said, since she is fluent in the language, a skill helped along by her hus-band, who is from Argentina.

Unfortunately, the classes required to obtain the degree weren’t offered at that time. Art was next on the list, a decision that has since added color, tex-ture, form and more to her life.

“Now I can teach art and use Spanish, too,” she said.

Her year of filling in for Elliott confirmed her love for the job and allowed her an opportunity to test the waters, using Elliott’s lesson plans, but adding her own twist.

This year, she has more of a sense of ownership of the program. She is using her own lesson plans, for the most part, but keeping bits and pieces from

Elliott’s program, including the charcoal drawing classes, which are a big hit.

And the basics are the basics.This quarter she is teaching

beginning ceramics to the seventh and eighth graders, who walk over to the high school art room. She said the longevity of that ar-rangement is in question, which prompted the decision to teach that first. If, next quarter, she has

to go to them, ceramics would be much more difficult.

Her schedule also includes art and ceramics classes for the high school students on which she is putting her mark. One of the first lessons is graffiti, which immedi-ately engages their attention, but also provides an opportunity to dis-cuss the dos and the don’ts, she said.

In the past couple years, since her year-long stint at Cashmere, she has honed both her teaching and art skills, doing substitute teaching for several school dis-tricts and running some after school and summer arts programs.

The experience did make it clear that the Cashmere School District is a good place to work, she said. Her own children are now attending school here, as well.

In the past couple years she also has developed her own art, taking inspiration from her experiences and her own imagination.

She has mostly been working in acrylic and oil painting, along with some ceramics, which she would like to expand.

She was the featured artist at a show from November through mid-January at the Icicle Arts Gal-lery at the Barn Beach Reserve in Leavenworth. It was her first solo show. Titled “Journey to Creativ-ity,” the work explored the her experimentation with form, color, texture and line.

“The show was mostly paint-ings. I love the ocean and fear it, so I’ve been intrigued with sea creatures. I research and paint them,” she said.

She has participated in several other gallery shows, Gallery 1 in Ellensburg, and at Wenatchee’s Gallery ’76 and at the Wenatchee Valley Museum and Cultural Center.

Last year, she also created an artist bowl for the Empty Bowls

fundraiser, which was sold at the online auction. It was the third year she participated in that event. Proceeds benefit the food bank in Leavenworth.

She also has organized the Salmon Festival chalk art for the past two years and will continue that, and participate in Empty Bowls again this year.

Her hope is she will continue her own artistic journey and encourage her students to do the same.

She is off to a good start, she said. The art supplies she ordered several weeks earlier arrived Sept. 1, just in time for the first day of school.




Photo by Nevonne McDanielsCastilia Cava stands in front of the Eiffel Tower she made as a birthday gift for herself that now stands in her Cashmere High School classroom. Cashmere’s new art teacher hopes to inspire students to explore new worlds, including those of texture, color and line.

Bulldogs pick up the pace at Ellensburg InviteBy Alison Gene SmithStaff Writer

Cashmere High School cross country performed well at the Ellensburg Invite, Sat-

urday.Bulldog girls placed third with

a score of 75 and the boys came in seventh with a score of 187.

“They ran a pretty good race for the first race this year,” Coach John Durheim said. “The teams that beat them are just better right now. Most of them are big-

ger too.”Kea Paton was the first on the

girls team to cross the finish line, coming in third place overall. She ran the 2.35 mile course in 15:41. Angela Knishka came in fourth place, finishing in 15:42.

“I thought all our girls had all good races,” Durheim said.

Knishka had health problems for the past two years, and she came back strong, he said.

Sydney Green ran the race in 16:27, coming in 17th place, while Ashton Weddle came in 18th at

16:28. Rounding out the girls, Jozie Kimes came in 34th at 17:50, Um-bee Cho was in 37th at 17:55 and Shaina Miller was in 52nd at 19:15.

“I thought the boys ran well and picked up the pace quite a bit,” Durheim said.

Oliver Fernahndez in 32nd place at 13:33, Joe Mackey in 39th at 13:45 and Ricardo Naranjo in 48th at 13:58 stood out, Durheim said.

“They ran great,” he said. “The other guys ran good, but didn’t have fantastic races.”

Drew Van Polen finished in 13:19 in 24th place. Dawson Tay-lor was in 44th at 13:51, James Stolhammer in 50th at 14:05 and Brock Steele in 69th at 14:54.

In order make it to the top, the teams will have to work hard, Durheim said.

“It’s going to be a long season,” he said. “We’re not going to back off, we’re going to have to work hard every week.”


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Ellensburg JamboreeKittitas def. Cashmere (set

scores unavailable)Ellensburg def. Cashmere

Volleyball • Sept. 8Chelan 3, Cashmere 0

Chelan def. Cashmere 25-15, 25-21, 25-18

Cashmere highlights: Kaylee Caudill (11 serves, 5 kills); Car-rie O’Donnell (8 serves), Corine Turner (6 serves), Lisa Cunning, (6 serves), Breanna Lee (4 digs), Kendra Weiler (4 digs).

Volleyball • Sept. 10Omak 3, Cashmere 2

Omak def. Cashmere 25-23, 16-26, 13-15, 25-23, 15-13

Cashmere highlights: Cashmere highlights: Lisa

Cunning (9 serves, ace); Elijah Smith (kill, 5 serves); Ken-dra Weiler (6 kills, 5 serves, dig); Kaylee Caudill (4 kills, 15 serves, ace); Jaycee Potter (12 serves, ace); Erica Spanjer (3 serves, dig); Corine Turner (3 kills, 9 serves, ace, 2 blocks); Roslyn Green (3 kills, serve, ace, 8 blocks); Breanna Lee (15 serves, ace, dig)


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with peace.”Psalms 29:11 Don Alvin Montgomery

Don Alvin Montgomery passed away at home on Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011. Don was born Jan. 22, 1936 in Goodlett, Texas to Cephas and Thelma (Guthrie) Montgomery. The family moved to Washing-ton where Don graduated from Renton High School in 1954. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1953 to 1955, then in the U.S. Air Force from 1955 to 1961, and was a veteran of the Korea War.

He married Mable Doris Sikes in 1961 and raised two children, Steven and Michelle. He married Debra Larsen in 1984 and had two children, Chad and Dane. Don was the Radio Technician for the Washington State Depart-ment of Transportation until 1991, when he retired. He was active member and past commander of the Cashmere V.F.W Post 64, played Golden Age softball, was a 4-H leader, enjoyed hunting and fishing. Playing along with

his children and grandchildren was also a favorite activity. Don always had a smile and a good story to share, and was willing to help out anyone in need.

He was preceded in death by his parents, his brother, Henry and sister, Vela. He is survived by his longtime partner, Marlene Peterson of Cashmere; son, Ste-ven James (Penny) of Monroe, Wash.; daughter, Michelle Renee of Cashmere; sons, Chad Taylor (Margo) of Genesee, Idaho; son, Dane Thomas of Cleveland, Okla.; grandchildren, Laken, Arieca and Tarrah Te Velde, Emerald and Clifton Montgomery and Tyler, Kaedan and Logan Montgomery; brothers Kenneth “Dale” and Ce-phas “Butch”; sisters Hazel “Lou” and DeLois. He was survived by many cousins and nieces and nephews.

Visitation was held at the Cash-mere Legion Hall on Sept. 12, 2011.

Following the visitation was a gravside service with full military honors. Lunch was served at the Legion Hall. Memorials dona-tions can be made in his name to the Cashmere V.F.W. Post 64 or to WSU Chelan County 4-H Equine program.

Jones and Jones-Betts Funeral home was in care of the arrange-ments.

Runaway Train Opens the Bluegrass Season at Cashmere CoffeehouseSubmitted by Cindy Jackson

The Cashmere Community Coffeehouse blasts off its 11th season at warp bluegrass

speed Saturday, Sept. 17, with Run-away Train. This four piece Puget Sound based regional favorite has stage presence, backed up with strong leads, tight vocal harmo-nies and solid instrumental work. They will deliver, right to your chair, that traditional bluegrass, driving sound, and are willing and able to push the limits of the

genre with finesse and taste. This is definitely “a don’t miss” band! So, get ready for a bluegrass blast off with the Cashmere Commu-nity Coffeehouse and the ener-getic and solid bluegrass sounds of Runaway Train, Saturday, Sept. 17, at 7:30 p.m. This evening is sure to launch you into bluegrass orbit and have you primed and ready for a great Coffeehouse season!

Nolan Elwell is mandolin, lead and harmony vocals. Nolan has been a member of Runaway Train since December 2006. He

is originally from Des Moines, Wash. and now lives in Sumner, Wash. with his wife and four kids. Nolan played for four years with Tacoma’s Knaughty Pine.

Greg Linder, guitar, lead and harmony vocals, is a native of Washington and lives in Union on Hood Canal. He was introduced to bluegrass in 1980 upon attending the nearby Tumwater Bluegrass Festival and the rest as they say, is history.

Kent Powell, bass, lead and har-mony vocals, has been a member

of Runaway Train since August 2005. He is a veteran of bluegrass music having performed for many years with the very popular band Crossfire. That band performed at the Pizza Hut Bluegrass Show-down in Owensborough, Kent. some years back. Kent makes his home in Tacoma, Wash.

Luke Dewhirst, banjo and har-mony vocals, is a name you might recognize, and although young by bluegrass standards, Luke is no stranger to bluegrass and can hold up his end of the stage with

effortless poise. Runaway Train’s newest member, since October 2009, he is also a member of the Bluegrass Regulators. Luke is proudly sponsored by OME Banjos and is the 2009 Rockygrass Banjo Champion.

This music event is brought to you by the good folks of the Cashmere Community Coffee-house, a non-profit organization whose mission is to provide live, affordable, high quality entertainment to the Wenatchee Valley. A cover charge of $3 per

person at the door will help to cover expenses. Refreshments are provided.

The musicians will be paid by a one-time hat pass; a suggested donation of $8 to $11 per person will be greatly appreciated. The Riverside Center is located at 201 Riverside Drive, Cashmere, WA. Doors open at 7 p.m. For more information call Marie 548-1230 or Chuck 548-8663. The Cashmere Coffeehouse can also be found on the Web at www.CashmereCof-feehouse.com.

Photo submitted by Marie VecchioThe Cashmere Community Coffeehouse begins a new season Saturday, Sept. 17, with Runaway Train.The energetic and solid bluegrass sounds of Runaway Train begin at 7:30 p.m.


Judges grade chickens on how well they match the breed stan-dard, Crow said. For her Seramas that means having a tail that sticks up and wings that stick down.

Jessica Robertson, 13, who at-tends Foothills Middle school in Wenatchee brought several silkie chickens to the fair this year. In preparation, she paid special at-tention to her chickens’ feet, she said. Judges spend a lot of time looking at feet when deciding which gets the blue ribbon, so she made sure her chickens’ feet were clean and toenails carefully trimmed.

Justin Miller, a veterinarian from Cascade Veterinary Clinic in Wenatchee, checked all the poultry entered into the fair on Wednesday. She said she mainly checks for mites and scaly leg disease. If mites or disease are found, the bird is not allowed into the fair. After they are found to be mite-free a state veterinarian does a blood test to check for diseases.

Susan Cooper of Wenatchee has had a garden for the past four or five years but decided to enter several vegetables into the fair this year. Hungarian Hot Banana peppers, red cabbage, yellow crookneck squash, green beans and cherry tomatoes were among her harvest. Cooper said she is also involved in the Master Gar-dener program and said she has learned a lot from the experience.

“I’ve been a lot more success-ful,” she said.

Cooper said she hoped her en-tries would do well but she said a lot of competition.

“There are a lot of nice veg-etables here,” she said.

Dorothy Thompson and Nancy Cooper were judging canned goods, preserves and dried goods at the this year.

Thompson said it was her first year judging and Cooper had judged one year before.

“We both sew and can our-selves,” Thompson said. She said they look to make sure each jar is full enough and is carefully presented.

“We look at clarity, color and consistency,” Cooper said.

Meanwhile, Edith Clarida and Phyllis Barnet along with Lorna McGill and Vickie Reister judged quilts.

Judges look at stitching angles, appearance, quality of material and edging along with many other qualities of each quilt, said Alex Schmidt, who was helping set the quilts up.

“We’ve seen a lot more embroi-dery this year,” Barnet said.

On day-one of the fair, Cliff Dick, a rabbit judge, said he wanted to see that those who had entered had some knowledge of the breeds and handled their rab-bits with ease.

“I judge rabbits somewhere just about every weekend,” he said.

Dick said he could tell by the way the entrants handled their rabbits if they had played with them and handled them before the fair.

“If they have ease in turning them over,” he said.

Most of all Dick said he wanted to encourage the kids and have them want to enter next year.

“It’s all about fun, isn’t it,” he said.


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