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PAGE 2 • July 2016 • The Entertainer
July
2016
CBC Summer Showcase presents
timeless musical Fiddler on the Roof
F
iddler on the Roof is the beloved
theatrical masterpiece that tells the
heartwarming story of fathers and
daughters, and the not-so-heartwarming story of persecution. It appears on
the Diane C. Hoch stage at the
Columbia Basin College outside
amphitheatre this summer.
Set in Russia in 1905, the first plot
centers on Tevye. He is the father of
five daughters who challenge his
beliefs and culture as they urge new
ways to do things, breaking with his
valued traditions. Eventually he comes
to accept the changes because of his
great love for his daughters, but it is a
struggle. This is a timeless battle, as
any parent knows.
The second story in Fiddler deals
with a minority culture trying to cope
with the majority culture in which it
lives. Sheldon Harnick, one of the
authors, says, “We felt that what we
were writing was not just about a
Jewish family but that the themes were
universal. The Jewish group in the
village of Anatevka is subject to abuse
and persecution. This, I think, is
something that reminds people of what
is happening to other minorities around
the world, in places where persecution
persists.”
Fiddler is based on Sholom
Aleichem’s work, “Tevye’s Daughters.”
Made into a musical by Jerry Bock and
Sheldon Harnick, it then opened on
Broadway in 1964 and had the first
musical run in history to surpass 3,000
performances. It was the longest-
Audiences should bring lawn chairs
and blankets to sit on the grassy
berm, as chairs are limited. There will
be food available for purchase, but feel
free to bring a picnic. This portion of
the CBC grounds is nearly 10 degrees
cooler than other Tri-City areas, so a
jacket for later evening would be
encouraged. There is nothing like an
evening under the stars, watching a
good play behind the CBC theatre!
The show stars Kevin Nettleton as
the “bigger than life” Tevye. His wife,
Cast members of the Summer Showcase
Golde, is played by June Gillespie. The
production of Fiddler on the Roof model daughters are played by Diane Milton,
their costumes outside the CBC Theatre. Claire Dann, Anjuli Herr, Patricia
Sackschewsky and Agnes Polk. The
running Broadway musical for almost
boyfriends are Greg Levy, Chris Garcia,
10 years until Grease surpassed its
and Kory Carterby. A cast of 50-plus,
run. The show remains Broadway’s
including special appearances by
16th longest-running show in history.
Joyce Bean and Megan Johnson,
The themes of Fiddler are timeless, round it out.
which is perhaps one of the reasons it
The production staff includes Ginny
won nine Tony Awards including Best
Quinley as director, Justin Raffa as
Musical and the honors for the score,
vocal music director, Phil Simpson as
book, direction and choreography. It is instrumental director and Marlie Buriak
a story that makes one laugh, and
as choreographer, with scenic and
also cry, but there are more laughs
lighting design by Ronn Campbell and
than tears. Some of the recognizable
costumes by Joanne Kirkoff.
songs include “Tradition,” “MatchTickets are $5 for children 12 and
maker,” Sunrise, Sunset” and “If I Were under, and $25 for all others. They are
a Rich Man. “ The show is G-rated and available online at
appropriate for the whole family.
columbiabasin.tix.com or at the Dance
Now in its 34th season, CBC
Boutique in Richland, the Performing
Summer Showcase brings this timeArts Office on the Pasco campus, or at
less tale to life in its new outdoor
the door. For more information, visit
facility after an eight-year hiatus.
columbiabasin.edu/showcase or call
Performances are July 14-16 and 21the Performing Arts office at
23, with show times at 7:30 p.m.
(509) 542-5531.
Chief Joseph Days is in ’Top 10 Must-See
Rodeos’ in article by noted rodeo reviewer
In a list that included some of the
biggest and most well-known rodeos in
North America, Chief Joseph Days
joined the ranks of the “Top 10 MustSee Rodeos of 2016,” according to
rodeo expert and author Gavin
Ehringer. The rodeo is in it 71st year.
Ehringer, who traveled North America
researching rodeos for his books
Rodeo in America and Rodeo Legends,
wrote the “Top 10 Must See Rodeos for
2016” in a piece for the January issue
of Western Horse and Gun Magazine.
“If you’re looking for a small town
rodeo in a setting that’s ideal for a
family vacation, you can’t find much
better,” Ehringer wrote. “Even the
cowboys bring their kids along to play A Nez Perce tribe member dances in full
regalia in the Chief Joseph Days parade.
on the banks of Wallowa Lake.”
Ehringer visited Chief Joseph Days a
corners, featuring scenes of the
few years back, and remembered it
fondly. “Chief Joseph Days may not be American West.
Wednesday through Saturday, you
the biggest, but it’s one of my favorite
can enjoy nightly PRCA rodeos at the
rodeos,” he said. “It’s in a beautiful,
Harley Tucker Memorial Arena, named
intimate setting, and the people of
for the rodeo’s original founder. Each
Joseph are just really cool.”
rodeo gets off to its
Chief Joseph Days
wild and rowdy start
takes place the last full
Even the cowboys bring their with the help of the
week of July, with this
kids along to play on the
Tuckerettes, a team
year’s festivities kicking
banks of Wallowa Lake.
of six fast-flying
off Tuesday, July 26,
cowgirls who
with the traditional
bucking horse stampede. The Growney explode into the arena in a series of
drills and maneuvers. Specialty act
Brothers bucking horses thrill audiences, who line up on both sides of the John Harrison, the 2015 Comedy Act
of the Year winner, will keep audiences
street in Joseph’s classic one-street
town. The downtown area is known for entertained with his antics in the
barrel.
the lifesize bronzes on the street
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This Month’s Features
Kennewick prepares for boat races .... 4
Ephrata’s Basin Summer Sounds ...... 6
ACT offers autism theatre ................... 6
Dust Devils demonstrate ‘blind’ play .. 6
MCMT stages ‘Annie Get Your Gun’ .... 7
Jokers presents Dan Cummins .......... 7
CBC Arts Center summer activities .... 8
Planetarium features space exhibit .... 8
Concerts continue in Oregon parks .... 9
Hermiston hosts county fair .............. 10
Roxy Bar hosts boat-race party ......... 12
Kiss will play Toyota Center concert .. 14
Ellensburg hosts ‘Jazz in the Valley’ . 15
Tears for Fears concert rescheduled 15
Fort Walla Walla plans kids’ camps 16
David Luning to play at Power House16
Joseph hosts blues, brews festival .. 17
Art in the Park set for July 29-30 ......... 18
Prosser celebrates art and wine ........ 19
Walla Walla holds dance festival ....... 22
Try these summer fruit recipes .......... 24
Blueberries ready at Bill’s Berry Farm 24
Irrigon plans Watermeleon Festival ... 25
Reach will host tours, kids’ days ....... 26
Crystal Gayle, Buckinghams perform 27
Travel: Sondra tells of Paris day trips 28
Wildhorse will hold annual Pow Wow 28
Silverwood Theme Park reviewed ..... 29
Union County, Ore., invites you to visit 30
Mother, son wil exhibit art in Bellevue 31
Scenic train ride offered in Oregon ... 31
Tennis elbow explained ..................... 32
Recalling the ‘Refrigerator Bowl’ ....... 34
Former WSU sports legends gather .. 34
Philly Robb gives Pete Rose his due 35
Gardening writer reflects on summer 36
Study may hold key to plant diseases 36
Puzzles, horoscopes .......................... 37
Calendar Of Events
Monthly Entertainment Planner ... 38-39
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rodeo. The action continues after the
rodeo, with music and dancing at the
Thunder Room adjacent to the arena
and at various hot spots throughout
Joseph.
Chief Joseph Days is so popular
that the tiny town of Joseph swells to
more than 10,000 during the four
nights of rodeo and six days of
Western-themed entertainment. It
celebrates the other side of the
American West story, with members
of the Umatilla band of the Nez Perce
tribe returning to the valley they once
called home.
Chief Joseph is remembered for the
ultimately unsuccessful escape he led
to Canada in the war of 1873, surrendering 30 miles south of the Canadian
border with his famous words, “I will
fight no more forever.”
With elder tribal members in full
regalia featured in the Grand Parade
down Main Street, princesses riding
into the arena on the beautiful Appaloosa horses the Nez Perce favored,
and the Nez Perce Friendship Feast
with traditional dancing and buffalo and
salmon for all, visitors to Chief Joseph
Days will experience the rich history
and tradition of the American West.
For more information, visit
chiefjosephdays.com.
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The Entertainer • July 2016 • PAGE 3
‘Thunder’ is back with Columbia Cup and much more!
H
APO Community Credit Union is
once again the title sponsor of the
Columbia Cup unlimited hydroplane
races and the Over the River Air Show
— all part of the Tri-City Water Follies
to be held this year on July 29, 30 and
31. The hydro races have been the
highlight of mid-summer in the TriCities for the past 51 years.
The unlimited hydros of today are
30-foot, 7,000-pound, technical marvels. Powered by turbine engines, they
reach speeds approaching 200 miles
per hour and throw giant “roostertails”
in their wake. This year, about a dozen
of these powerful hydroplanes will be
competing for the cup.
Tri-Citians still tend to call the Water
Follies “boat-race weekend,” but it has
grown over the years to feature not
only the thrilling air show but a number
of other community activities.
Other events
The activities will begin the previous
weekend with the Miss Tri-Cities and
Miss Tri-Cities Outstanding Teen
Pageants on July 23 at 7 p.m. in Art
Fuller Auditorium at Kennewick High
School.
Angela Kirkman Johnson, Miss TriCities of 1996, will emcee the pageant,
and the reigning 2015 Miss Tri-Cities
and Miss Tri-Cities Outstanding Teen,
Stefanie Maier and Sarah Niles, will
participate.
The pageant is an official preliminary
to the Miss Washington and Miss
America Pageants. Young women
compete with their talent, fitness,
poise in answering on-stage questions,
and an evening-gown presentation.
Reserved-seat tickets are $20, and a
optional reception following the pageant is $15. They can be purchased
online from brownpapertickets.com.
On Wednesday, July 27, you’ll have
achance to get up close and personal
with the boats and drivers at the
bridge in Kennewick, and at area
Albertson’s and Safeway stores. Call
(509) 783-4675 for telephone orders. A
two-day weekend pass is $25 for adults
and $10 for children 6 to 12. Children 5
and under are admitted free.
General-admission adult tickets at
the Columbia Park gate are $15 on
Saturday and $25 on Sunday. A threeThe airshow
day pass with pit access is $45, and a
Other
boat
classes
The HAPO Over the River Airshow is
daily pit pass for Friday, Saturday or
But there is other action on the
exciting to watch from anywhere near
Sunday, which doesn’t include admiswater. The automotive-powered hydrothe river, but particularly impressive if
planes of Grand Prix West will be back sion to the park, is $10. Parking is $5
from Columbia Park or Wade Park.
for the 2016 Columbia Cup. Grand Prix per car on Friday and Saturday, and
This year’s airshow will feature
$10 per car on Sunday. Limited Pasco
West is an American Powerboat
aerobatics by Lucas Oil Airshows,
Association class that brings back the general admission parking is available;
featuring the legendary Michael
“thunder,” with lots of full-throttle noise. look for the Water Follies parking signs
Wiskus, and Yellow Thunder, a team
off of Sylvester Street.
The boats will be displayed around
that does stunt flying in formation.
If you want to avoid parking and
town that week and will race on
You’ll hear the thunder of jets as the
traffic
concerns altogether, you can
Saturday
and
Sunday.
Patriots Jet Team performs its precitake a bus from a Ben Franklin Transit
And still more events include the
sion flying maneuvers over the river,
vintage hydroplanes, a nostalgic event Station at a discounted fare.
and you’ll see the U.S. Coast Guard
Among all of the things the Water
for long-time boat-racing fans, and the
demonstrate a helicopter rescue
Follies organization does really well is
5-liter hydros.
mission.
its website. There is a wealth of
Lucas Oil also has a skydiving team
information at waterfollies.com. Keep
that will perform. It is one of the most- Admission
requested skydiving teams in the
checking back for updates on all the
Tickets are available at the Tri-City
country, led by Nick Halseth.
boat classes and other information.
Water Follies office near the cable
“Hydros at the Mall” event at Columbia
Center. They’ll be in front of Barnes
and Noble from 4 to 6 p.m.
And, while the unlimited hydroplanes are racing, the Allied Arts
Association is sponsoring Art in the
Park in Richland (see page 16).
The races
The boats are the big draw, however,
and the 2016 HAPO Columbia Cup will
most likely have 12 unlimiteds in the
competition. The action starts with
with “Fast Lap Friday” a two-hour
window on Friday afternoon in which
teams can register a time-trial speed.
Teams will score points based on the
speed they post during this period.
Racing starts Saturday with two
sets of heats and concludes on
Sunday with two more heat sets and a
final Heat. The winner on Sunday
takes home the Columbia Cup.
There is no comparison between the
modern unlimited hydroplanes and the
limited outboards that started it all in
1947, when the celebration was called
the Pasco Water Follies and the boats
IN BRIEF
Ben Franklin Transit will serve Follies, art show
The best wey to get to either Art in the Park in Richland or the Water Follies
activities in Columbia Park is via Ben Franklin Transit. On the last weekend of
this month, you can park at Fran Rish Stadium and ride to the Richland Community Center from 8:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Friday and 8:30 to 7 on Saturday. On
Saturday and Sunday, bus service to Columbia Park is available hourly from the
Knight Street Station in Richland and the Huntington Transit Center in
Kennewick. Visit www.bft.org..
Hermiston Classics ‘Cool Rides’ show is July 8-9
The Hermiston Classics Car Club’s “Cool Rides” car show will be held for the
21st year in McKenzie Park in Hermiston on Friday and Saturday, July 8 and 9,
in conjunction with the Hermiston Funfest.. Friday night, July 8, is for car-show
participants, with a poker run at 6 p.m. followed by dinner. On Saturday, car
registration starts at 7 a.m. and the show is open to the public from 9 a.m. to
3 p.m. There will be live music and entertainment all day, plus food vendors, and
awards will be presented at 2:30 p.m. Hermiston Classics is a family-oriented
club dedicated to the preservation and enjoyment of classic cars and pickups.
Each year, proceeds from the Cool Rides car show are given back to the
community through established charitable organizations. For information about
the Hermiston Fun Fest, visit hermistonchamber.com or call (541) 567-6151.
raced off of Sacajawea Park. In fact,
they have little in common with those
first unlimiteds that began racing off of
Columbia Park in 1966. Today’s
hydroplanes are almost more “plane”
than hydro, sporting nearly 3,000horsepower engines and hulls that
barely touch the water at high speeds.
Music. Food. Fun...a weekend you won’t forget!
A
lineup rich in rockabilly roots and
steeped in southern charm is
planned for the 2016 Basin Summer
Sounds free outdoor music festival.
The annual event takes place July
15-16 on the Grant County Courthouse
main stage.
The Friday headliner spot belongs to
Barrett Baber, a finalist on NBC’s
“The Voice.” Closing out the festival
Saturday evening are the Railers,
described as “the Eagles, but with
mandolin, violin and accordion, a
female member and a whole lot of Red
Bull.”
Opening for Basin Summer Sounds
2016 is the Nick Drummond Band.
Drummond was formerly with the
popular Northwest group the Senate.
Drummond has been a performing
songwriter for more than 10 years,
selling out multi-night runs at Seattle¹s
Triple Door and Dimitriou¹s Jazz Alley.
The Nick Drummond Band performs at
5 p.m.
Spike and the Impalers fills the 7
p.m. Friday slot. Spike O’Neill and Bob
Rivers, co-hosts of a popular morning
ACT offers autism
theatre program
The Academy of Children’s Theatre
is featuring a special two-week-long
theatre performance camp for students
on the autism spectrum. Spectrum On
Stage Summer Spectacular is created
specifically for students ages 6 and
older. It has been designed under the
direction of Julie Schroeder, a certified
teacher of drama for those with autism
. An information meeting will be on
July 6 at 2 p.m. at the ACT studio, 213
Wellsian Way in Richland,
The camp is scheduled for Monday
through Friday, July 11-22 from 2 to 4
p.m. The camp will focus on presenting
a finale production of Disney’s Aladdin.
Students are paired with a neurotypical partner and the program is
designed to accommodate the special
needs of autistic students.
The program is funded through a
grant from the Charlotte Martin Foundation and there is no charge to enroll,
but space is limited. To register, or for
more information, contact Julie
Schroeder at ACT , 509) 943-6027.
Dust Devils will play ‘beep
baseball’ to help the blind
The Edith Bishel Center for the Blind
and Visually impaired will demonstrate
“beep baseball” at a Tri-City Dust
Devils game on July 2 at 6:15 p.m. at
Gesa Stadium in Pasco. The event will
include a buffet dinner on Dusty’s Deck
while you watch the game of beep
baseball between the Dust Devils and
the Seattle South King Sluggers.
The purpose is to educate the public
about adaptive sports for the blind and
visually impaired. Beep baseball is
played on a grass field with six fielders
and one or two “spotters” from one
team and the pitcher, catcher and
batter from the other team. For this
game, the fielders and batter will be
blindfolded.
The ball is a modified, oversize
softball that beeps, and the 5-foot-tall
foam bases are electronic devices that
buzz steadily after the ball is hit.
Tickets are $25 for adults and $20
for kids ages 4-12. Each ticket includes dinner, the game and upper-box
seating for the regular Dust Devils
game immediately following this event.
Call the Edith Bishel Center at
(509) 735-0699 or stop by the center at
628 N. Arthur Street in Kennewick.
Barrett Baber
drive show on Seattle¹s classic rock
station KZOK, formed the group in
2004. Spike and the Impalers play
covers of classics from the Rolling
Stones, AC/DC, the Who, Guns N¹
Roses and other mainstays of rock-nroll.
Barrett Baber had a life-changing
experience in 2015, when he finished
third on the popular reality show “The
Voice.” From preacher¹s kid to Beale
Street music rat to singer-songwriter,
Baber is known for his perfect blend of
soul and country. He recently completed a Vegas residency opening for
Rascal Flatts. Baber takes center
stage at 9 p.m.
The Saturday-afternoon lineup
includes Rylei Franks, Ranger & the
Re-Arrangers, Briana Renea,
Country Lips, Dylan Jakobsen and
Brewer’s Grade.
Fans of Fleetwood Mac, the Zac
Brown Band and Little Big Town will
embrace the Railers —
brothers Jordan and
Jonathan Lawson,
Jonathan¹s better half
Cassandra Lawson, and
Tyler Oban — all classically
trained musicians with
instrumental prowess and a
knack for lush vocal harmonies. The Railers made their
Grand Ole Opry debut in
December. Their first single,
“Kinda Dig The Feeling,” was
featured on a recent episode of the
ABC series “Nashville.” The Railers
perform at 9:15 p.m.
Rounding out the weekend slate of
activities is a basketball tournament,
the Ephrata Chamber Basin Summer
Sounds Car and Toy Show and Shine,
plus inflatable toys for the youngsters,
food vendors, and the wine and beer
garden, sponsored by Midway Beverage.
For all the information and updates
for the free music festival Basin
Summer Sounds, visit the website
basinsummersounds.com.
The Railers
Annie Get Your Gun is performed on outdoor stage
Y
ou can still catch a performance of
Mid-Columbia Musical Theatre’s
Annie Get Your Gun, which opened on
June 23 on the outdoor stage at the
Reach Museum in Richland. July
performances are on July 1, 2 and 3 at
7:30 p.m.
Annie Get Your Gun, based on the
real-life legendary Western sharpshooter Annie Oakley and her romance
with fellow sharpshooter Frank Butler,
is a classic example of the memorable
work of Irving Berlin. The great Ethel
Merman played the first Annie Oakley,
who starred in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West
Show in the 1800s. The first productions of the musical set records on
Broadway, London’s West End and
tours throughout the world starting in
1946. A 1950 movie version starred
Betty Hutton and Howard Keel.
The stage musical was updated in
1966, 1986, and again in 1999. The
1999 revival is the version being
presented in the Tri-Cities. The show is
full of great songs, including “There’s
No Business Like Show Business,”
Photo by Mike Madison
A stage in a tent at the Reach Museum is the setting for the musical Annie Get Your
Gun by Mid-Columbia Musical Theatre. Get tickts now for July 1, 2 or 3.
“Doin’ What Comes Natur’lly,” “They
Say It’s wonderful” and “Anything You
Can Do.”
MCMT is reviving the show originally
done in 1960, when the group was
called the Richland Light Opera
Company. They wanted to create a
family-friendly outdoor experience that
would be akin to the Wild West Show
itself.
It’s being performed in a tent with
some of the best Tri-Cities talent
portraying the wonderful characters
straight out of wild-west history. Chief
Sitting Bull is played by Curtis
Bearchum of the Confederated Tribes of
the Umatilla Indian Reservation, who
also served as the go-to guy for
updates that would make the show
more appropriate for today.
Tickets for the last three performances are available at the Tri-Cities
Academy of Ballet and Adventures
Underground in Richland, online at
mcmt.tix.com and at the door. Bring
the family and some blankets or chairs,
and you can make a night of it with a
picnic on the grounds of the Reach.
Mid-Columbia Musical Theatre has
also announced its next season’s
shows, beginning with Ragtime in
November, Next to Normal in April and
All Shook Up in summer 2017.
For more information, visit
midcolumbiamusicaltheatre.org.
Jokers Comedy Club has another great lineup of summer comedy
Jokers Comedy Club in Richland will
feature a special Wednesday-night
event in July — Dan Cummins comedy
on July 27 at 8 p.m. Cummins has
been on “The Tonight Show” and
“Conan” as well as Showtime and
Comedy Central, which carried his
one-hour comedy special. He has also
appeared on “Last Comic Standing”
and Nickelodeon’s “Mom’s Night Out.”
Among his radio credits are regular
appearances on “Bob & Tom” and on
Pandora Radio on the Internet. Admission for this special show is $15.
It wouldn’t be Jokers without some
Dan Cummins
new “see-them-here-before-theyexplode” talent. July’s candidate for a
comedian to watch is Nick Guerra.
Nick was an audience favorite on “Last
Comic Standing” and made his Comedy Central debut on Gabriel Iglesias’s
“Stand up Revolution.” Guerra will be
at Jokers July 14-16.
July shows are all guaranteed hits
with headliners Steven Briggs (ESPN)
on July 7-9; Lance Woods July 21-23
and Keith Nelson July 28-30. All
showtimes are at 8 p.m. Thursday
through Saturday.
After the comedy, stick around for
the best dance club in the Tri-Cities.
Jokers has “Girls Night Out” on
Thursdays with DJ Sean Da Don.
Friday is “Friday Night Live bands” with
no cover charge. July bands are
Vaughn Jensen on July 8, the Black
Rose Concept on July 15; Stompin
Ground on July 22 and, for boat-race
Friday, July 29, crowd favorite Foolish
Fortune.
Saturdays are “Salsa Saturdays” —
the biggest club night in the Tri-Cities,
with host Arturo Juarez.
Jokers, at 624 Wellsian Way in
Richland, is the number-one comedy
club in eastern Washington. For the
past four years it has been voted the
number-one adult nightlife venue in the
Tri-City Herald’s People’s Choice poll.
CBC offers ‘Summer Showcase’ musicals outdoors
O
By Bill McKay
ur gifted professor and theatrical
director Ginny Quinley, along with
a large cast and crew, are hard at work
making CBC’s Summer Showcase a
reality once again. We are grateful for
all of the support and creative energy.
After a seven-year hiatus, the
outdoor summer show is back! We are
producing “Fiddler on the Roof,” with
performances July 14-16 and July 2123. Our ticket prices are $25 for
general seating and $5 for children 11
and under. Sales of tickets are going
very well, so it’s time to get yours.
Following “Fiddler” is an elegant
evening of dinner theatre under cover
on the Dianne C. Hoch stage. We are
sure you will love “Musical of Musicals
(The Musical)” this year as much as
you enjoyed “Suds” last year. The
event is on Aug. 4, 5 and 6 and
includes a three-course meal, no-host
bar and other surprises.
Tickets for the dinner theatre are
$100 per person. They went on sale
June 1 via Tix.com and the CBC Arts
Center Office and we are limited to 80
per evening. Tables are filling fast, so
don’t delay.
Columbia Basin Concert Band
Enjoy music outdoors in the beautiful Tri-City weather! The Columbia
Basin Concert Band will play a variety
of classic and contemporary concert
band selections at various retirement
locations throughout the Tri-Cities.
This outreach is so important and so
appreciated by local retirement-center
residents, and they love to have you
join them for some fellowship and
music.
This year, we are delighted to have
Phillip Simpson directing the band for
the following summer events:
July 5, 7 p.m.
Riverton Retirement Center, 1800
Bellerive Dr., Richland
July 12, 7 p.m.
Royal Columbian Retirement Inn,
5615 West Umatilla, Kennewick
July 19, 7 p.m.
The Manor at Canyon Lakes, 2801
W. 35th Ave., Kennewick
We never grow tired of making
opportunities for the arts to thrive in our
community. We hope to see you in the
coming weeks.
Bill McKay is Dean of Arts and
Humanities at Columbia Basin College.
Hands-on interactive space exhibit comes to CBC Planetarium
others, the cost is $4.
By To be Determined
If you are a parent or child caregiver,
you may be looking for ways to beat
the heat and entertain your kids this
month. Where to go, what to do? How
about an immersive planetarium show,
followed by a unique experience with
hands-on space-centric exhibits?
For 10 weeks this summer, the
group Hands In for Hands On Tri-Cities
(HIHO) will be hosting an exhibit on
loan from the Oregon Museum of
Science and Industry called “A View
from Space” in the D Building at
Columbia Basin College, the building
that houses the planetarium.
Two classrooms will be filled with
interactive exhibits designed to give
visitors an appreciation for studying
Earth from space. The exhibits will
allow you to track hurricanes, launch
satellites into space and view amazing
photos of our planet taken from orbit.
The exhibits will be open on Thursdays from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. and
Saturdays from noon to 4. In addition
to the exhibits, HIHO will have various
Planetarium films
By popular request, the planetarium
will run public shows every Thursday
morning to coincide with the exhibit’s
hours. Each of our shows is an hour
long and consists of both a live “sky
tonight” portion, where visitors can
Children are fascinated with the handson displays of “A View From Space.”
activities hosted by different organizations every Saturday. From 12:15 to 1
p.m., the activities will be geared
toward children from 4 to 8 years of
age. From 1:15 to 2 p.m., the activities will be for kids from 9 to 14.
These activities will include a Jedi
Academy hosted by the Academy of
Children’s Theatre, rocket-building
hosted by 4-H, and even a talk given
by the NASA astronaut Story
Musgrave. Admission for the exhibits
is free for kids 3 and under; for all
learn about where to find objects in the
night sky, and a full-dome movie.
Not sure which film is right for your
little explorer? Our website not only
lists each film’s description and a
recommended age level, but you can
also catch a preview of all of our
available films and decide which ones
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CBC PLANETARIUM JULY MOVIE SCHEDULE
July 1: Black Holes, 7 p.m.; Stars of the Pharaohs, 8 p.m.
July 2: Supervolcanoes, 2 p.m.; Cell! Cell! Cell!, 3 p.m.
July 7: Two Small Pieces of Glass, 10 a.m.; Black Holes, 11 a.m.
July 8: Secret Lives of Stars, 7 p.m.; Dynamic Earth, 8 p.m.
July 9: The Little Star That Could, 2 p.m.; The Life of Trees, 3 p.m.
July 14: The Little Star That Could, 10 a.m.; The Enchanted Reef, 11 a.m.
July 15: Black Holes, 7 p.m.; Supervolcanoes, 8 p.m.
July 16: Oasis in Space, 2 p.m.; Secret Lives of Stars, 3 p.m.
July 21: Stars of the Pharaohs, 10 a.m.; Supervolcanoes, 11 a.m.
July 22: Secrets of the Sun, 7 p.m.; Dynamic Earth, 8 p.m.
July 23: Little Star That Could, 2 p.m.; Two Small Pieces of Glass, 3 p.m.
July 28: Little Star That Could, 10 a.m.; Zula Patrol: Under Weather, 11 a.m.
July 29: Black Holes, 7 p.m.; Cell! Cell! Cell!, 8 p.m.
July 30: IBEX, 2 p.m.; Bad Astronomy, 3 p.m.
Free concert series continues
in Boardman and Irrigon parks
T
he steel drum band Bram Bratá
will perform for the Music in the
Park outdoor summer concert series
on July 11 at the Irrigon Marina Park,
off Highway 730 in Irrigon, Ore. You will
want to come early to also see the wild
bird demonstration by Blue Mountain
Wildlife at 6:00 p.m.
The steel-drum band Bram Brata
The name Bram Bratá is derived
from two Trinidadian slang words
East and across America.
meaning “an unexpected party.”
Back in Irrigon on July 25, the
Audiences find this a fitting name as
concert will feature the band 7-Wheel
they enjoy the challenging and varied
Drive at the Marina Park. The Trirepertoire of Caribbean, soca, jazz,
Cities area band plays a mix of R&B
popular and even classical music. The
and jazz. The group features
band performs about twice a
singer Lori Tyler with Steve
month in communities
Haberman on piano, Gary
throughout the Northwest.
Danielson on baritone sax,
They have also performed in
Wayne Land on alto sax,
Hawaii, at Disneyland, and at
Stan Pitman on trumpet,
Caribbean music festivals in
Dave Campbell on bass and
Oregon and British Columbia.
Jerry Larson on drums.
Juggler Rhys Thomas will
The Music in the Parks
perform “Jugglemania” on
outdoor summer concert
July 18 at the Boardman
series alternaties between
Marina Park, off N. Main
Boardman and Irrigon. The
Street on Marine Drive. Before
concerts are free to the
the performance, Thomas will
public and begin at 7 p.m. on
hold a free juggling workshop
Monday nights. The 2016
for people of all ages beginconcert series runs through
ning at 6 p.m. The show
to August 22. You are
starts at 7.
encouraged to bring chairs
Thomas is the only juggler
and blankets. Concessions
to earn a Portland Magazine
will be available for purchase
Rhys Thomas
“Best of Portland” award. He
at the event, courtesy of
uses a wide array of props and quips,
Judy’s Chuck Wagon.
often with the help of audience volunThe series is funded by the Morrow
teers. Rhys has served as artist in
County Unified Recreation District and
residence at the Smithsonian InstituPortland General Electric and spontion, won “Best American Act” at the
sored by the North Morrow Community
street Performers’ World Cup, and
Foundation.
performed on cruise ships and at
For more information contact Tami
festivals in Europe, Asia, the Middle
at (541) 571-0844.
IN BRIEF
Save the date for Tumbleweed Music Festival
The annual Tumbleweed Music Festival in Richland’s Howard Amon Park,
which is always held on Labor Day weekend, falls on Sept. 2-4 this year. The
three days of “great acoustic music on the banks of the Columbia River” is
presented and staffed by volunteers of 3 Rivers Folklife Society. It will feature five
stages with continuous entertainment by up to 100 different acts, plus an openmic stage and an indoor dance floor in the Richland Community Center. There’s
also a songwriting contest, a Friday-night young performers concert, workshops
and a Sunday-night contra dance. For more information, visit
tumbleweedfest.com or 3rfs.org/tmf.
Grandview fair will feature car, truck, tractor show
The Grandview Chamber of Commerce;s 11th annual car show, to be held on
the last day of the Yakima Valley Fair and Rodeo in Grandview, will offer a $700
grand prize. The show will be on Aug. 13 in Country Park Event Center. It’s open
to all makes and models of vehicles, including tractors. The fair runs from Aug.
10 through 13. Entry fees are $20 ($15 for motorcycles), and an entry form is
online at yvfair-rodeo.org. You can also call (509) 786-8250 for information.
‘Space’
“The Enchanted Reef.”
Our films have something for
everyone, and we encourage you to try
them all.
Summer public shows at the
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planetarium run every Thursday at 10
are right for your family.
and 11 a.m., Fridays at 7 and 8 p.m.,
Your youngest may enjoy “The Little and Saturdays at 2 and 3 p.m. Tickets
Star That Could,” in which a new star
for all events and memberships can be
travels the universe learning about
purchased online prior to show time. If
other stars and the planets that orbit
seats are available, you may obtain
around him. For elementary-aged
tickets at the door. Visit
students, try “Oasis in Space,” a quest columbiabasin.edu/planet for more
to find water on other worlds, or “Two
information.
Small Pieces of Glass,” detailing the
HiHo Tri-Cities brought the exhibit
invention of the telescope and its
here as part of its mission to establish
discoveries. Kids of middle-school age a hands-on children’s science muand older might like our film on Earth’s seum in the Mid-Columbia. Visitors will
climate, “Dynamic Earth,” or “Secret
get a taste of what a permanent
Lives of Stars,” a movie about the
museum could look like with continued
various types of stars that exist in our community support. You can visit
galaxy. For a mixed-age group, check HIHO on Facebook at facebook.com/
out “Black Holes,” “Supervolcanoes,” or hihotricities.
Top talent will entertain at Umatilla County Fair
A Thousand Horses, the
Bellamy Brothers,
Creedence Clearwater
Revisited will perform
T
he theme for the 2016 Umatilla
County Fair, “Traditions and
Transitions,” thas a special meaning
this year. This year it will be held Aug.
9-13 at the fairgrounds in Hermiston,
but will be transitioning to the new
Eastern Oregon Trade and Event
Center in 2017. The EOTEC board of
directors has assured the county that
the project will be ready to welcome
the fair next year.
For this year’s fair at the traditional
fairgrounds, the lineup of concerts at 9
p.m. nightly on the Wildhorse Main
Stage is outstanding. Kicking off the
week on Tuesday, Aug. 9, is A Thousand Horses, an up-and-coming group
that formed in Nashville in 2010. They
identify their sound as a hybrid of
English rock, country, American rock,
soul and blues.
The group’s first single, “Smoke,”
set a record for the highest debut by a
new act when it opened at number 28
on the Country Aircheck radio chart.
“Suicide Eyes,” a song from their first
album, “A Thousand Horses,” was
used in the remake of the movie
Footloose.
On Wednesday night, diehard
country-music fans will enjoy the
traditional sound of the Bellamy
Brothers, who had a string of hits in
the 1970s and 1980s. They have
released more than 50 albums of great
music. Their best-known hit song, “Let
Your Love Flow,” released in 1976,
crossed over to become a number-one
hit on the pop charts.
Other hit songs by the Bellamys
include “Redneck Girl” and “Old
Hippie.” And still another of the their hit
songs had a double-entendre message
— “If I Said You Had a Beautiful Body
Would You Hold it Against Me?” It was
their first number-one hit on the
country charts. In 2014, Rolling Stone
Magazine ranked “Old Hippie” number
95 on its list of the 100 all-time great
The Bellamy Brothers will perform on Aug. 10 at the fair in Hermiston.
country songs.
Another pair of real brothers, the
Brothers Osbourne, will take the stage
on Thursday, Aug. 11. T.J. Osbourne
is the lead singer and John Osbourne
plays lead guitar and provides background vocals. Their first three singles,
“Let’s Go There” in 2013,”Rum” in 2014
and, more recently, “Stay a Little
Longer,” have made it into the top 40
on Country Airplay. “Stay a Little
Longer” became a top-10 country hit,
peaking at number 2 last January.
The Friday concert features the
Latino band Grupo Montéz de
Durango, whose sound is deeply
rooted in traditional Mexican music
infused with influences from their
hometown of Chicago. The sevenmember group formed in 1996 and
soon became popular in Chicago
dance clubs.
Besides covers of older traditional
Mexican songs, the group also played
a faster-paced style of music that was
a polka-ranchera mix that became
associated with the dance style called
"El Pasito Duranguense" (The Durango
Step). Grupo Montéz de Durango is
the band most closely identified with it.
Saturday, Aug. 13, is a nostalgia
night with Creedence Clearwater
Revisited. The band was formed by two
original members of Creedence
Clearwater Revival — Rock and Roll
Hall of Famers Stu Cook and Doug
IN BRIEF
Quarterflash is coming to Ione, Ore., on July 4
At the small-town Fourth of July celebration in Ione, Ore., the hugely popular
duo of Marv and Rindy Ross — better known as Quarterflash and perhaps best
remembered for their very first hit song, “Harden My Heart” — will headline the
entertainment. The concert is free. Events throughout the day include
children’s games, a fish pond, frog jumping, a bike raffle, 3-on-3 basketball
tournaments, a parade and a talent show. Food vendors will be on hand, along
with a beer garden and a pie sale. The live music begins at 6:30 p.m. with
Martin Gerschwitz, a hard-rock keyboardist, singer and former lead vocalist with
Iron Butterfly, followed by Quarterflash at 8:30 p.m. Visit cityofioneoregon.com
and click on “calendar” for more details and a schedule of activities.
Save the date for the Morrow County Fair
Morrow County will be celebrating “Country Scenes and Children’s Dreams”
at the 103rd county fair in Heppner, Ore., on Aug. 17-20. The fair offers four funfilled days of family activities with the Irish flair you find only in Heppner. This
classic, old-fashioned small-town fair includes a Saturday parade, wine-tasting,
music, a talent show, exotic animals, inflatables, a watermelon-seed-spitting
contest, a pedal-power tractor pull for the kids. 4-H and FFA livestock showings,
and much more. The evening Oregon Trail Pro Rodeo is always followed by a
live band performance. For more information, contact the Morrow County Fair
at (541) 676-9474 or visit morrowcountyoregon.com.
Elgin, Ore., hosts its annual ‘Stampede’
Four days of rodeo action are in store for you in beautiful Elgin as the town
celebrates the 70th anniversary of the Elgin Stampede from July 6 through 9.
There’ll be a family night, bull riding, PRCA rodeo performances, a dance, a
parade, and other events. For information, call (541) 963-8588 or visit
unioncountychamber.org.
will provide the screams and squeals
coming from the carnival rides. There
will be lots of other entertainment
during the run of the fair, plus openclass exhibits, livestock exhibits,
vendors, food stands and much more.
The Farm City Pro Rodeo is also
occurring Wednesday thru Saturday
nights with professional cowboys and
cowgirls from all across America
competing for thousands of dollars in
prize money. If you like tough and
exciting rodeo action, this is the place
to be each night at 7 p.m. before the
nightly concerts.
Fair admission is $10 for adults, $8
for seniors and $6 for children ages 612. Children under 6 are admitted free.
The Umatilla County Fairgrounds is
at 515 W. Orchard Ave. in Hermiston
and on the web at umatillacounty.net.
“Cosmo” Clifford. They launched
Creedence Clearwater Revisited in
1995.
Creedence Clearwater songs are the
touchstones of an entire generation,
and both older and younger fans have
been loving the new band. After
headlining at Woodstock 47 years ago,
the original band had three albums at
the top of the rock-music charts
simultaneously and four top-3 singles
from those albums. Their string of hits
includes “Susie Q,” “Proud Mary,”
“Born on the Bayou,” “Bad Moon
Rising,” “Lodi” and many others.
General seating to all of the concerts is included in your fair admission.
Reserved seating is $12 more, availOriginal Creedence Clearwater Revival
able at the fair office.
members Stu Cook, left, and Doug
“Cosmo” Clifford pose while members of
An old-fashioned fair
their revival band, Creedence Clearwater
Some call the Umatilla County Fair
Revisited, look on. The band will perform
the best old-fashioned Fair in eastern
Aug. 13 at the Umatilla County Fair.
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Stu Hamm will perform at the Roxy Bar in downtown Kennewick on July 18.
Roxy Bar to host ‘Rock
Experience’ and a cool
boat-race weekend party!
D
owntown Kennewick’s popular
entertainment venue, the Roxy
Bar, is known for hosting concerts,
sports viewing parties and even dance
classes. This month begins with
“country rap” star Bubba Sparxxx,
continues with the Stu Hamm “Rock
Experience,” and wraps up on Water
Follies weekend with the “Rock Rally
Boat Race Party Package” that
includes a great Saturday-night party.
Bubba Sparxxx will play the
Roxy on July 6 at 8:30 p.m. The
“country rap” term that has been
applied to hits by Toby Keith (“Red
Solo Cup”) and Tim McGraw (“Truck
Yeah”) actually began with Sparxxx’s
debut album, “Dark Days, Bright
Nights.” Eleven years later, he’s
reuniting with his original collaborator,
Shannon “Fat Shan” Houchins, to
continue blending the two musical
genres.
“Bubba and I grew up listening to
hip-hop and riding in jacked-up trucks,”
Houchins said. “I was producing
mainstream rap and R&B records
when Bubs first came to me and said
‘why don’t we combine the music we
like with lyrics about the lifestyle we
live?’”
Ticket prices start at $25 and are
available online at ticketfly.com.
The Stu Hamm “Rock Experience” concert is set for July 18 at 8
p.m. Hamm is one of the most influential electric bassists of the past halfcentury, and helped to reshape the
contemporary concept of the bass
guitar as an unaccompanied instrument.
Hamm has released four criticallyacclaimed studio recordings — “On
Radio Free Albemuth” (1988), “Kings
Of Sleep” (1989), “The Urge” (1991),
and “Outbound” (2000). In addition to
his barrier-breaking solo sessions, he
has been hailed for his recording and
touring stints with guitar icons Joe
Satriani and Steve Vai. He has garnered an extensive list of honors
including “Best Jazz Bassist” and
“Best Rock Bassist” in major trade
magazine polls. He has toured for the
past two years and demonstrated his
signature techniques in instructional
videos and books.
Ticket prices start at $18 and are
The Miss DiJulio Rock Rally on
July 30 and 31 is a boat-race weekend party package that includes two
days admission to the Water Follies,
catered meals, reserved seating and
drinks inside the party tent, pit passes
for both days, a souvenir tee shirt and
a concert by the Love Jacks on
Saturday. The entire package is $135,
If you like Thin Lizzy, Journey,
Lynyrd Skynyrd, John Mellencamp and
Bruce Springsteen, you’ll like the Love
Jacks. It’s a hard-driving guitar- based
rock band. created by Brian DiJulio,
Theron Andrews, Sid Anschell and
drummer Keith Lovett. They’ll play at
9 p.m. on Saturday, July 30, at the
Rcxy.
The Roxy Bar is upstairs in the old
Roxy Theater building, 101 West
Kennewick Ave. in downtown
Kennewick, and online at
roxybarkennewick.com. For reservations and information you can also call
(509) 491-1870 or call or text
(509) 438-3425.
IN BRIEF
‘Summer Ball’ for seniors is Aug. 5 in Richland
The Summer Ball on Aug. 5 from 6:30 to 9:30 at the Richland Community
Center will feature the five-piece Easy Swing Dand Band, good food and door
prizes. Dress as casual or as formal as you like. The cost is $10. The Richland
Community Center is at 500 Amon Park Drive near Howard Amon Park. For
information, call (509) 946-5385.
WSU Tri-Cities to be smoke-free next month
Washington State University Tri-Cities will join the other WSU campuses and
more than 900 universities nationwide in becoming tobacco-free beginning Aug.
22. WSU Pullman will also become tobacco-free on the same date. The intent
of the new policy is to promote the health and wellbeing of the students, faculty
and staff on the WSU Tri-Cities campus, according to a statement by Chancellor Keith Moo-Young. Under the new policy, all forms of tobacco, including
smokeless tobacco, e-cigarettes and vaping, will be prohibited on campus
property. That includes buildings, parking lots, leased property, grassy areas
and open space. The prohibition does not apply to WSU research projects.
Tickets still available for Kiss concert on July 10
Band is partnering with military support groups to honor
Guard and Reserve members
T
ickets are still available for The
number-one American winner of
Gold Record Awards — in all categories, for all time — is Kiss. The band
is now touring the United States and
supporting our military with its “Freedom to Rock” tour, which is coming to
Toyota Center on July 10. There will be
one performance at 7:30 p.m.
Kiss has partnered with Hiring Our
Heroes and Veteran Tickets Foundation (Vet Tix) to salute members of the
National Guard and military Reserve
forces in more than 30 U.S. communities, including the Tri-Cities. They are
hiring a currently serving member of
the National Guard or Reserve forces
to be a “Roadie for the Day” for each of
the 32 U.S. concerts.
In addition, Kiss will donate a limited
number of tickets to veterans in each
community and distribute those tickets
through VetTix.org. Veterans and their
family members will also have the
chance to purchase discounted tickets
through Vet Tix. Military discounts will
also be available at venue box offices
with proof of a valid military ID.
The U.S “KISS: Freedom to Rock”
concerts are all in communities with a
large number of Army and Air National
Guard members and Army, Navy, Air
Force and Marine Corps Reservists.
Since September 2001, hundreds of
thousands of Guards and Reserve
members have been called to active
duty and deployed to war zones..
“We are proud to partner with HOH
and Vet Tix to highlight the incredible
commitment and sacrifices of hometown heroes serving in the National
Guard and Reserve forces,” said Gene
Simmons, “Many of these heroes have
given a lot — and some have given all
— and we will honor them in every
Live in Kennewick? Cast your vote on ‘Link’ measure
On the Aug. 2 ballot, Kennewick
voters will be able to opt for a
proposed 110,000-square-foot multipurpose entertainment venue at the
Toyota Center complex.
But a “yes” vote for a small salestax increase means everyone in the
Tri-Cities and beyond who shops in
Kennewick will pay for the facility —
not just Kennewick residents.
The plan called “the Link” would
add a Broadway-quality theatre to
the complex and make some
enhancements to the existing
Toyota Center. If it becomes a reality,
the Tri-Cities will be able to attract
shows that are not currently possible
to stage anywhere in the area.
The majority of the Tri-Cities’ retail
shopping is in Kennewick, so it makes
sense to fund the project with a tiny
addition to the sales tax (an exta 2
cents on a $10 purchase).
The $35 million theatre-anchored
overhaul also includes a 50,000square-foot convention center addition
and a new 30,000-square-foot lobby
facing Vista Field development.
“We are one of the only major
cities in Washington that can’t
support national touring Broadway
shows” said Tyler Borders, who is
heading the campaign for a “yes”
vote on the measure.
Borders said the Link project’s
2,300-seat theatre would complement the Arts Foundation of the MidColumbia’s proposed 800-seat
performing arts center at Vista Field,
“They’re for different kinds of
shows,” he said. “We should have
both in the entertainment district.”
town we tour.”
The band also supports the
Wounded Warriors Project, the USO,
the Legacy Organization in Australia,
Help For Heroes United Kingdom and
the Snapple’s Wounded Warriors
Support Foundations.
Kiss can easily be named one of
rock’s most influential bands. The Rock
and Roll Hall of Famers have released
44 albums and sold more than 100
million albums worldwide. They’ve gone
on record-breaking global tours for
more than 40 years.
Other high-profile appearances have
included the Super Bowl, the Winter
Olympics, and the Rockin’ the Corps
concert.They’ve been included in
multiple episodes of TV’s “Family Guy”
and two special guest performances on
“American Idol” finales.
Tickets for the July 10 concert are
available at the Toyota Center box
office, all Ticketmaster outlets and
online at ticketmaster.com. For phone
orders, call (800) 745-3000.
Jazz in the Valley: Can you believe this amazing lineup?
Annual indoor and
outdoor concerts in
Ellensburg feature
the best jazz, blues,
classic rock and more
E
llensburg is nestled in the Kittitas
Valley of Washington and is known
for its beautiful vistas and checkerboard fields of golden Timothy hay. But
that’s not all this beautiful piece of
Central Washington has to offer.
On the last weekend of July, downtown Ellensburg comes alive for the
Jazz in the Valley Festival, featuring 30
shows at 10 intimate locations,
showcasing a spectacular lineup of the
most diverse musicians the Northwest
has to offer. Ellensburg invites you to
come and stroll the streets of downtown Ellensburg with the sounds of
blues and jazz floating on the warm
summer breeze.
Celebrating its 19th year, Jazz in the
Valley is a three-day festival on July
29,30 and 31 featuring exceptional
musicians and performances at both
indoor and outdoor venues in downtown
Ellensburg. All venues are within easy
walking distance.
The festival has something to offer
just about everyone. Sit outside and
enjoy the warm summer sun while
Oxford’s All-Star Slam
Powerful blues blaster and sultry
soul singer Duffy Bishop
Incomparable saxophonist Lenny
Price and Friends
Gypsy jazz artist Pearl Django
with vocalist Gail Pettis
Driving, dynamic blues trio King
Kom Beaux
Reggae groove of Clinton Fearon
Lap steel slide guitarist and
troubadour Dylan-Thomas Vance
Bebop and standard jazz by the
Joe Brooks Quartet
Saxophone and piano magic of
the Mark Taylor & Ryan Burns duo
Jazz vocalist Tylor Zickefoose
High-energy funk group the Brown
Edition
Audiences gather at the main stage outdoors in Ellensburg for Jazz in the Valley
Latin jazz group Malo Castro
performances. There will be 30 shows at 10 indoor and outdoor venues.
Quartet — a tribute to Cal Tjader
Jazz artist and drummer Kobie
listening to music from the main stage Northwest wineries. While sipping your
Watkins Grouptet
wine, take in the beautiful art and
and sipping local microsbrews or
explore the handcrafted pieces by
Enjoy a night of swing with the
premium wines in the Rotary Pavilion
Ellensburg Big Band
Pacific Northwest artists.
Beer Garden.
Seattle’s own 10-piece soul
Like food? Enjoy the unique culinary
Like outdoor markets? On Saturday
experiences Ellensburg’s restaurants
ensemble DoctorfunK
morning, July 30, visit the Kittitas
Jazz quartet Blue Café
County Farmers Market, known for its have to offer, from casual to fine dining.
Hard-swinging jazz style of the
So gather your friends and family
farm fresh local produce, baked goods
members and travel to Ellensburg. Get Brent Edstrom Trio
and fine hand crafted products.
Kick up your heels with 15-piece
your soul back at Jazz in the Valley
Like wine? On Saturday afternoon,
dance band Wind Power
with this year’s spectacular line-up of
dash across the street from the main
musicians:
Northwest’s own traditional jazz
stage to Gallery One and the Clymer
Blistering guitar-playing and heart Sidewalk Stompers
Museum for two incredible wine-tasting
Seattle’s finest gospel ensemble
and soul vocals of the Richie Blue
experiences, featuring more than 20
Band
the Total Experience Gospel Choir
A Cappella vocal jazz quartet Just
Northwest’s classic rock ‘n’ roll
4 Kicks
band Jr Cadillac
Sultry blues, soul and classic
Full-festival tickets for all three days
are $40 in advance and $50 at the box
rock licks by Kim Archer
office. You can purchase online through
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on rock-n-roll
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ShowClix.com.
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blues musician to come
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Chris Isaak
was propelled
Chris Isaak
into stardom
in the early 90s when his hit single
“Wicked Game” became a top-10 hit.
Last year he released “First Comes
the Night,” his first album of new
material in six years.
Tears for Fears won the pop music
spotlight via their 1983 debut album
“The Hurting,” a sophisticated collection of inward-looking, electro-tinged
pop songs including “Mad World.”
Their reunion was a welcome one for
their many fans.
Maryill also has live music on its
vine-covered terrace every weekend
from 1 to 5 p.m. through September.
For more information and tickets,
visit maryhillwinery.com.
Maryhill Winery continues summer
concerts and music on the terrace
Tears for Fears performance is
rescheduled for September
Although Maryhill Winery’s first
concert of the summer series — Tears
for Fear — was postponed last month
by the artists, it has been rescheduled
for Saturday, Sept. 17, at 7 p.m. The
first concert on the schedule is now a
performance by Grammy-winning
guitarists Jeff Beck and Buddy Guy on
Aug. 20. Following that is Chris Isaak
on his “First Comes the Night” tour on
Sept. 3
You can purchase tickets for the
concerts online at maryhillwinery.com
or by phone from Ticketfly, 877-4-FLYTIX (435-9849).
Jeff Beck and Buddy Guy are both
legendary guitarists. Beck is a
groundbreaking artist whose inimitable
combination of primal shredding and
cool perfectionism has left an indelible
mark on everything from hard rock and
jazz fusion to rockabilly and techno.
Buddy Guy, a seven-time Grammy
winner and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
inductee, has been a major influence
Amber Rose celebrates 20 years in Uptown Richland
It seems like the blink of an eye to
Lynne Bostic, but 20 years passed
since she bought Amber Rose in
Uptown Richland. That’s enough time
to have seen thousands of consigners
drop off their fashionable clothes and
for thousands of customers to be
delighted with the bargains they find.
It has also been long enough for her
granddaughter Michelle to have gone
from a playpen area in the store to
graduating from Hanford High. The
store, which has moved several times
but always remained in the Uptown,
now resides in the airy space on the
George Washington Way side of the
center.
Monday though Thursday, the
counter is often piled with oncoming
inventory as people bring in gently
used current styles for consignment.
Every day except Sunday, expect to
see a steady stream of customers
checking out the ever-changing
inventory.
Reflecting on the last 20 years,
Lynne says the single best thing about
the business has been the opportunity
to work with her daughter Stephanie for
20 years and to have had Michelle be
apart of the store for the last 18 years.
It is also easily evident that more than
a few customers have become fast
friends.
Recently, when joking with a
customer, she claimed she was trying
to figure out if the last 20 years had
been fun. A customer immediately told
her that of course it had been.
And, as any good customer will tell
you — the customer is always right.
Don’t wait another 20 years to visit
Amber Rose. It’s at 1315 George
Washington Way in the Uptown, and
is open Monday through Friday from
10 to 6 and Saturday from 10 to 5.
Kids rule the summer at Fort Walla Walla Museum!
S
ummertime means plenty of fun
activities for kids at Fort Walla
Walla Museum. In addition to the
outdoor playfort, family picnic areas,
and exciting indoor and outdoor
exhibits to explore, there is special
summer programming available for
children ages 9 to 11.
On Saturday, July 9, budding young
artists can join local artist Elizabeth
Matschukat for an “Introduction to
Drawing” workshop. This class, which
runs from 2 to 4 p.m., is geared toward
9-11 ages. Students will practice their
drawing skills with patient and expert
instruction. Subjects will include a
costumed “Living History” performer
and artifacts on display at the Museum. The cost of the class is $15
($10 for museum members).
On Tuesday, July 19, the museum
will be hosting its annual Pioneer Kids
Camp, sponsored in part by Coffey
Communications.
This day camp for children ages 9 to
11 features guided activity stations that
allow kids to experience life the
pioneer way. Activities include building
miniature wooden forts, helping with
blacksmith chores, leather crafts,
scavenger hunts, checking out old-time
musical instruments and a special
presentation by Living History character William McBean.
The camp will run from 8:30 a.m. to
3:45 p.m. The cost is $30 ($25 for Fort
Walla Walla Museum members),
which includes lunch and an official
souvenir.
Pre-registration is required by July
13, but be sure to sign up early, as
limited space is available and the
spots fill up quickly!
Kids practice drawing, learn to pan for gold and much more in summertime programs at the Fort Walla Walla Museum
For more information on these or
any upcoming museum events, call
(509) 525-7703 or send email to
abigail@fwwm.org.
Fort Walla Walla Museum is on
Myra Road in Fort Walla Walla Park.
The museum is open daily from 10
a.m. to 5 p.m. March through October.
Admission is free to museum members and children under 6, $3 for
children ages 6-12, $7 for seniors (62
and older) and students, and $8
general admission.
Admission is also free to
Tamástslikt Culture Institute Inwai
Circle members, and members of the
Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla
Indian Reservation with ID card.
Membership begins at $28 and
includes free admission to more than
40 Living History performances and
other benefits.
For more information, call (509) 5257703, send e-mail to info@fwwm.org,
or visit online at fwwm.org.
Two great concerts offered at Power House
The Gesa Power House Theatre in
Walla Walla will begin the month as
we all will — celebrating our nation’s
independence. On July 2, the theatre
is offering a free concert by bands from
the 133rd Washington Army National
Guard.
Next up, on July 15, is a concert by
the David Luning Band. Here are more
details:
July 2 - 6 p.m.
Free Concert: 133rd Wash. Army
National Guard Bands
Gesa Power House Theatre and the
133rd Army Band present a free
community Independence Day concert.
Two military ensembles will perform —
the General’s 7 Dixieland Band and the
Patriot Brass Band.
The General’s 7 (G7) is a detachment of the 133rd Washington Army
National Guard Band stationed at
Camp Murray. From old standards to
swinging arrangements of military
marches, the music of the G7 offers a
taste of New Orleans groove along with
the red, white and blue.
Patriot Brass is a large ensemble
that performs anything from New
Orleans-style brass-band tunes to
classical standards.
July 15 - 7 p.m.
David Luning Band
Singer and songwriter David Luning
is part of a new generation of indie
musicians who blur the lines of Americana, alternative country, rolk and
blues. His poignant songwriting and
warm, rich-timbre voice captivate
audiences.
Luning plays guitar, piano, harmonica and accordion, and performs
with three other musicians — Linden
David Luning
Reed, Dave Sampson, and Ben Dubin;
collectively called the David Luning
Band.
David Luning’s songs include
surprising insights into love and car
troubles, tales of ramblin’ and homesick desperation, and foot stompin’
sing-alongs. Luning’s original music
and lyrics have won multiple
songwriting competitions, and have
appeared in movie soundtracks.
Reserved seating tickets range from
$24 to $28.
The 2016 season at the Gesa Power
House Theatre is presented by
Waterbrook Winery, Browne Family
Vineyards and Canoe Ridge Vineyard,
with additional support from KVEW-TV,
the Courtyard Marriott, Inland Cellular,
Pacific Power, Wingman Birdz and
Brewz and Baker Boyer Bank.
For more information about upcoming events at the Gesa Power House
Theatre, visit www.phtww.com. Tickets
are available online or by calling the
box office at (509-529-6500.
Box-office hours are Thursdays and
Fridays from noon to 5 p.m. and two
hours before each show. The theatre is
at 111 N. 6th Ave. in Walla Walla.
Last year, the Bronze Blues and Brews Festival in Joseph, Ore., was named “Best
Northwest Blues Event” by the Cascade Blues Association.
Mark your calendar for this year’s
Bronze Blues and Brews Festival!
Sugaray Rayford Band will take it on
home for you.
The weather ranges from hot days to
cool nights in the mountains, so plan
he picturesque mountain commuto take clothing that will get you
nity of Joseph, Ore., invites you for through comfortably. Also, bring
the 20th-anniversary show at the
sunscreen, lawn chairs or blankets,
Joseph City Park on Aug. 12 and 13.
and your ID. Children are welcome,
The Bronze Blues and Brews Festival
and there is a playground in the park.
has lined up an amazing roundup of
If you need lodging, the organizers
live blues musicians, plus beautiful
advise you to book early, as there are
bronzes and a fine selection of Northonly small towns over a wide area in
west microbrews.
this part of Oregon. There is lodging
The fun begins on Friday night,
information on the event website and
Aug. 12, with the jam session at the
on the Wallowa Chamber site,
park, to be led this year by the
wallowacountychamber.com.
Delgado Brothers. Usually, musicians
Camping is available nearby,
with some of the groups scheduled to
including a free “dry” camp area in
perform on Saturday will get up and
Joseph.
jam with the host band.
Tickets are $30 in advance and $35
On Saturday, the doors open at
at the door. Advance tickets are
11:30, and leading off at 12 noon is
available on the festival website,
Devon Allman with his opener Owen
bronzebluesbrews.com. You’ll also find
Campbell.
other information on the website
Next up is the Danielle Nicole Band, including a full schedule and informafollowed by a “Harp Attack” special led tion about the artists.
by the Brandon Santini Band and
Bronze Blues and Brews is a
featuring Franco Paletta and Mitch
nonprofit volunteer-run organization
Kashmar. After that, not to be missed
benefitting local youth music, art, and
is the Chris Cain Band. And, finally, the community programs.
Annual event in Joseph,
Ore., will be Aug. 12-13
T
Art in the Park features local and national artists
F
or 66 years, the Allied Arts Asso
ciation and the Gallery at the Park
have hosted an annual community art
show, now held each year on the
Columbia River in Richland’s beautiful
Howard Amon Park.
This year’s Art in the Park will be
held on Friday and Saturday, July 29
and 30.
More than 200 local and national
artists regularly participate in the
annual show, and more than a dozen
local nonprofit organizations provide
concessions and entertainment.
Artist booths will be shoulder to
shoulder in the park, and you can find
beautiful one-of-a-kind creations for
yourself or someone special.
There will be home décor, clothing,
jewelry, music, children’s specialties,
pampered-pet necessities and unique
gifts. The wide variety of art and
Art in the Park is your chance to cool off
activities will appeal to all ages and
by the river and browse among hundreds
interests.
of arts and crafts booths in the shade of
The hours are 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. on
mature trees in Howard Amon Park.
Friday and 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Saturday.
History
There is no fee for admission or
The forerunner of Art in the Park was
parking, but a shuttle from the parking
lot at Fran Rish Stadium is available for first held in 1950. Artists hung their
works from clotheslines at the Uptown
a small fee.
mall, and it was known as the
“Clothesline Show” until 1965. That’s
when Allied Arts moved to its current
location on Lee Blvd., and the show
was held on the sidewalk in front of the
gallery. Naturally it was renamed the
“Sidewalk Show.”
Thos early shows were small, with
only local artists participating, and the
Sidewalk Show moved to other locations in Richland before moving back to
Howard Amon Park.
In 1975 the show was opened up to
all artists, and by 1977 it had 225
artists and crafters from all over the
Pacific Northwest.
By the late 1990s, up to 350 artists
displayed their works — a big increase
over the eight artists in the 1950
Clothesline Show.
Art in the Park is Allied Arts
Association’s primary fundraiser. It
enables the gallery to provide exhibit
space for artists in featured shows that
change monthly. It also funds scholarships for art students and workshops
for adults and children.
The association believes that art
makes a community a better place to
live, and the goals include introducing
the community to different types of art
and introducing artists to the Tri-Cities
community.
Juried show, workshops
Each year, artists from around the
area vie for the honor of being chosen
for the annual Juried Art Show at the
Gallery at the Park. Each entrant can
submit up to four pieces of their recent
work. The work is then judged by an
independent juror who then chooses
which works will be displayed in the
show. This year, 74 artists submitted
213 pieces to be judged. Out of those,
the juror chose 77 pieces to be displayed.
The juror this year was Judy
Vogland, who taught art for many years
at Portland State University, Hillsboro
High School, the Oregon College of Art
and Craft and other Oregon schools.
She holds a master’s degree in fine art
from Portland State University. Frequent visitors to the gallery may
remember that she was one of the
featured artists in June of last year.
For all their hard work, some of the
artists are rewarded with monetary
‘Artists’ continues on Page 19
Prosser Art Walk & Wine Gala a popular summer event
A
rt, wine, microbrews, music, food
and a picturesque downtown
Prosser street all add up to a perfect
summer evening in historic downtown
Prosser.
The Prosser Chamber of Commerce
will host the 13th annual Prosser Art
Walk and Wine Gala on Saturday,
July 16, from 6 to 10 p.m. on Sixth
Street. You can sip award-winning
wines and stroll on the Art Walk
promenade featuring the creative works
of more than 30 Pacific Northwest
artists. They’ll be exhibiting a variety of
media — everything from paintings,
sculptures, glass and woodwork to
recycled whimsy.
Known as the “birthplace of Washington wine,” Prosser takes this
opportunity to also showcase the
many local wineries that have made
the region famous. Pouring at the 2016
event are 18 wineries, both new and
long-established, including 2dor Wine
Estates, Airfield Estates, Alexandria
Nicole Cellars, Barrel Springs,
DavenLore, Desert Wind, Kestrel
Vintners, Milbrandt Vineyards, Pontin
Del Roza, Sleeping Dog Wines,
VineHeart Winery. Back by popular
demand is the sangria contest. Each
‘Artists’
from 7 to 10 p.m.
In 2013, Luning auditioned for
“American Idol” and made it to the top
100, performing “In Hell I Am,” a song
he wrote. “I love it,” judge Jennifer
Lopez said. “He has a really, really
beautiful tone.”
“It’s the kind of music that speaks of
real life,” Luning said. “Call it Americana, folk, roots or alt-country — it
resonates with me.” Joining him for the
Art Walk will be band members Dave
Sampson, Ben Dubin, and Linden
Reed.
Tickets are $30 per person, which
includes admission, all wine and beer
tastings and a souvenir glass. The
Each year, 600 guests enjoy art, wine and microbrews in historic downtown Prosser. event is limited to 600 guests, who
The annual Prosser Art Walk and Wine Gala will be held on July 16 from 7 to 10 p.m. must be 21 or over. The Chamber of
Commerce anticipates a sell-out, so
you’re encouraged to purchase your
other
local
eateries.
The
culinary
winery will be making sangria from its
tickets early for a perfect summer
own secret recipe, and you’ll have the delights will range from burgers and
evening.
salads to specialty hot dogs, flat
chance to taste and vote for your
Tickets and event information are
breads, and ice cream. There will be
favorite.
available
online at tourprosser.com, at
something
for
every
palate.
Also on tap, serving tastings of their
the Sixth Street Art and Gift Gallery in
You can dance under the stars to
products, are Prosser-area
Prosser and at Adventures Underthe live music of the David Luning
microbreweries including Horse
ground in the Uptown Shopping Center
Band, whose music has been called
Heaven Hills Brewery and Whitstran
in Richland.
“gritty,
joyful,
soulful
Americana.”
Enjoy
Brewing. And you can sample the
If you have questions, contact the
Luning’s original songs, his lively
tasty cuisine of Lucy’s Lunchbox,
Prosser Chamber at (509) 786-3177.
storytelling and rich, captivating voice
Between the Buns, Brewminatti and
You are also invited to attend the
awards ceremony at a reception on
Friday, July 8, from 5 to 7 p.m. at the
gallery. The show will run through Aug.
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Allied Arts’ fun-filled summer of
prizes of anywhere from $50 to $600 — workshops is already under way for
a total of more than $2,000. There are children beginning at age 7. Offered in
11 such awards to be given out,
July is “Cultural Art From Around the
including the People’s Choice Award,
World” on July 11-15 and “Craftavoted on by visitors to the show. The
palooza: Paper Mache” July 18-22.
gallery will be open during Art in the
“Paper Quilling” will be offered on
Park on July 29 and 30.
Aug. 1-5. The fee is $60 for each
workshop, and
class sizes are
limited.
The Gallery at the
Park is at 89 Lee
Boulevard in
Richland, at the
entrance to Howard
Amon Park. It’s
open Tuesday
through Friday from
10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
and Saturday from
10 to 5.
For more information on the Juried
Show, other upcoming shows and
workshops, visit
galleryatthepark.org
or call the Prosser
Chamber at
(509) 943-9815.
Paintings chosen for the Juried Art Show at the Allied Arts Gallery at the Park
during the month of July include A Square Full of Circles (top), by Phillip Harding,
and Fingers of God, by Suzi Vitulli. They are just two of 77 pieces chosen by a juror
to vie for cash prizes, and you can vote for your favorites to receive the People’s
Choice Award. An artists’ reception and awards ceremony will be held on Friday,
July 8, from 5 to 7 p.m. at the gallery. The show will run through Aug. 12.
Finding Dory: Same plot, but still adorably cute
feeling to the movie’s original, and the
words “short-term memory loss” will be
t was a month of sequels, something
branded into the back of your skull, but
many film enthusiasts do not necesmost audience members won’t care
sarily look forward to. In the case of
because they themselves suffer from
some of this summer’s supposed
the same type of memory loss and
blockbusters, the prequel is better than
most will be under 10.
the sequel. The overwhelming disapIt is unfortunate that Finding Dory
pointment audiences are forced to live
lacks the double-entendre jokes and
through can, in some cases, make the
ironic humor of many prior Disney-Pixar
entire series not worth the exorbitant
collaborations. That’s what many older
amounts of money thrown at them.
crowds enjoyed, so this is a pretty
Finding Dory, a sequel to 2003’s
narrow kid’s flick through and through.
Finding Nemo, was one that was longChildren may have mixed feelings
awaited by kids and adults alike. I
about the emotional content of some of
focuses solely on the wide-eyed,
the scenes, and parents should be
forgetful blue tang Dory (Ellen
wary if their children are more empathic
DeGeneres). This time around, the
than others. Sad and tearful toddlers
main focus is on her long journey back
could occasionally be heard sniffling
The blue tang named Dory is again voiced by Ellen DeGeneres in Finding Dory.
to the place where she was born, and
and wiping their noses during some of
her effort to find the parents she
stuffed marine animals will be seen
the more depressing and downright
tang with sweet, understanding
accidentally left behind and forgot
everywhere soon.
gloomy memories from Dory’s childparents.
about in her close-to-10-second shortThe new characters Dory meets on hood. Yet, the emotion is raw and baby
The emotion in the film is both raw
term memory loss.
her journey are fun — like the nearly
Dory is absolutely adorable.
and bittersweet, from the tangible
She is joined again by the everblind whale-shark Destiny — and they
As an adult who has seen both the
sadness and
worrying Marlin
original and the sequel with a young,
personal displace- all learn and grow right along with the
(Albert Brooks),
forgetful tang. It’s a personal growth
incredibly caring 6-year old daughter, I
ment Dory feels
and his positive
must say the more discouraging
from her short-term that seems lacking in other sequels.
and trusting son
Even Marlin, who seems unable to
scenes were difficult for her to watch,
memory loss, to
Nemo (Hayden
recall in the decade since his debut
but she still sleeps with her stuffed
the fear Nemo
Rolence — not the
that, with Dory, where there’s a will
baby Dory and grouchy Hank dolls
expresses at the
same voice actor
there’s a way, manages some profound every night and continues to ask me to
idea of Dory no
as before). They
replay Finding Nemo. When Finding
longer being part of character growth. The individual who
once again
seems to have learned the most is
Dory comes to video, and she will
their very small, eclectic family.
traverse the expanse of the ocean in
Dory herself. Taking close second and surely ask me to purchase it. And I will
Children will be entranced from the
search of things lost, and they meet
oblige, because the film was worth
moment the film opens right up to the third are the cankerous red octopus
old friends and new ones along the
nostalgic ending. They will love the old Hank (Ed O’Neil played him brilliantly) every penny I spent to see it with her in
way in their expedition to California — characters that their parents remember and Bailey (Ty Burrell) the self-doubting the theater, and every giggling smile I
every now and again seeing adorable
Beluga whale.
receive when baby Dory steals the
and will fall in love with the new ones.
flashbacks of a giant-eyed blue baby
Plotlines in this film are similar in
screen.
A lot of red, fuzzy octopuses and other
I
By Aubrey Langlois
Independence Day: Resurgence is literally painful
By Aubrey Langlois
Where to start? With the absolutely
ridiculous rotten-tomato material that
Hollywood has shipped out to the
public for the past few years without a
modicum of shame? The injustice of a
lackluster script that could barely pass
as something to wipe with? Or the fact
that nearly the entire cast of Independence Day: Resurgence, which was
highly anticipated to blow minds on its
June 24 release, could barely keep the
audience’s interest past the first few
confusing moments?
It’s a wonder that no one else
except the obnoxiously loud couple
some seats in front of me, who were
apparently having some public drama,
left. To the couple’s credit, the woman
did shout to the other five occupants of
the theater (myself included), “This
movie was bad, and you should feel
bad.”
I really wish I had taken her advice.
The first five minutes of the movie is
a novel’s worth of information all jampacked into a tiny box with not enough
time to absorb it. In 1996, when the
tall, spindly aliens came to earth in
Independence Day, it was to invade,
infest and overtake. In Independence
Day: Resurgence (IDR for short), it’s
exactly the same thing. The only
difference is the mad scramble after
Bill Pullman as ex-president Thomas J.
Even Liam Hemsworth’s good looks
couldn’t save this movie from itself.
Whitmore opens the film by having
very real flashbacks of the alien
menace storming through space to
ingest the earth’s core, coming for the
human race with a vengeance.
The problem is, introducing new
characters, reintroducing the old ones
and attempting some form of a plotline
is difficult in a series of films, let alone
packing all that into a few minutes of
one film. Those are, however, undeniably the only moments in the entire
movie that make any sense. The rest
of the CGI-laden, horribly acted,
terribly written, cheesy and unoriginal
movie is complete garbage.
There isn’t some new threat of
different aliens coming in to bully the
humans, or some 20 years moreadvanced alien technology from the
1996 invasion. It’s the same aliens,
only one in particular is bigger, uglier
and angrier, with a more urgent need to
use the Earth’s core as their interstellar space fuel. Essentially, it’s the
same invasion as the first film — just
more actors, less character development, and this hollow feeling that your
insides are dying while you watch this
story unfold.
With Jeff Goldblum David Levinson),
Bill Pullman (Thomas J. Whitmore),
and Vivica Fox (Jasmine Hiller)
helping to steer
the direction of the
movie, it should
have turned out
better than it did.
Each gave powerhouse performances in the
previous blockbuster, but with Vivica’s lacking screen
time, Pullman’s shoddy lines and
Goldblum’s lack thereof, IDR was set
up for disaster before it even got off the
ground.
It was difficult to see Liam
Hemsworth (Jake Morrison) struggle
through his scenes with his practically
unknown co-actor Jessie Usher — to
be confused with the R&B musical
artist Usher. Both fumbled in their
scenes together, making the chemistry unbearable. This was exacerbated by Usher’s complete lack of
inflection in delivering many of the
first film’s nostalgic one-liners that
were once said by Will Smith
(Steven Hiller).
The entire film lacks any sense. It
seems to presume that the audience
members are morons who either
never watched the original or are too
stupid to know that this is the same
story simply being retold in a
different way. And it definitely isn’t
told any better. From awkward,
jumpy camera angles to the forced,
repetitious
dialogue that
lacks emotional
punch, IDR is
predictable,
devoid of any
original thought
and thoroughly
bad. It’s completely tedious and borderline absurd in ways never before
conceived.
The time and money wasted in
watching this film in the theater or
even watching it in a couple years on
TNT can never be regained. Use the
time for something more useful, such
as spooning the liquefied mass that
was once your brain out of your
skull.
Witty novel about time travel is also a
commentary on today’s social media
The Status of All Things, by Liz
Fenton and Lisa Steinke, Washington
Square Press, 2016
I
By JoDean Jordan
t’s the night of Kate’s rehearsal
dinner. The wedding planning that
has consumed her life has finally come
to an end, and now it’s time for the
huge Hawaiian, perfectly planned,
Pinterest-worthy event.
But wait! Kate just needs to take a
selfie with her maid of honor and post it
on Facebook and Instagram.
Kate is a 35-year-old woman
obsessed with social media. If it’s not
online, it might as well not have
happened. Status updates rule her
world, and you had better believe
they’re all perfectly constructed and
filtered. No double chins, no fat arms,
only positive thoughts and meticulously thought-out poses.
There is one thing she didn’t plan,
though, and that’s that her loving,
perfect-on-paper fiancé, Max, doesn’t
want to marry her. He’s fallen in love
with someone else — Kate’s co-worker
and friend. What else to do but completely break down and obsess about
how to break the news to her hundreds
of Facebook friends?
But this time it’s different. Delicately
devising a Facebook update turns into
a lesson in fate. Everything she writes
becomes reality, and now she has
more power at her fingertips than she
ever dreamed. Status update: go back
in time and fix everything. Change her
dreams — done. They all three set out
to make big changes in their lives.
Kate’s attempts to help herself and
her friends don’t go exactly as
planned, and fate rears its head time
after time. The question is, can she
really change anything that’s meant to
be? Is it possible to change your fate?
And — most importantly — is it worth
it if you have to change yourself?
The Status of All Things is a fun
story about something that anyone
who uses Facebook or Instagram can
relate to. You just can’t believe everything you read online. There is a lot
going on behind the scenes of perfect
status updates. No one’s life is as it
appears in social media, and the
influence of these types of communication is out of control, completely
skewing reality. The book is a very
timely reminder of what it means to be
real and what hiding behind perceptions can do to someone’s happiness.
The plot is a witty one, filled with
destiny and prevent Max from falling in
love with someone else. She has only pop culture references and clever, fastto become someone different whom he paced dialogue. It is co-written by two
wants to marry. Change her world and women, Liz Fenton and Lisa Steinke,
those in it, so everything goes exactly who obviously have a seamless rapport
and are able to weave a magical and
the way she wants.
believable story. The Status of All
Kate can’t do it alone, so she
Things teaches the main character and
recruits her two closest friends, Jules
and Liam, to help her navigate through Kate the importance of unplugging from
a device and tuning in to the real world.
her bizarre time-travel journey. To
This book can be downloaded to a
convince them she’s not crazy, she
uses her status updates to manipulate Kindle for $10.99 or purchased from
their lives for what they all believe to be Amazon in paperback for $9.37. It can
for the better. Change a marriage —
also be downloaded via iBooks
check. Provide the woman of your
for $10.99.
Dysfunctional family is good for laughs in this novel
We’re All Damaged, by Matthew
Norman, Little A, 2016
while, a self-important Home Owners
Association president hands out
citations like candy to Andy’s poor
By JoDean Jordan
dad, who only wants to ride his
motorcycle on his own street.
Andy Carter’s world crumbled
Then there’s Andy’s brother, an
around him. He used to be married to
apparent sellout with two kids and an
the woman of his dreams, but she fell
important job. Just ask him. Throw in
in love with the paramedic down the
the fact that Andy’s exstreet. He once had a
wife has landed herself a
job. It’s gone. At one
new husband — a
time he had a best
macho, tall, good-looking
friend, but Andy ruined
paramedic who loves her
his wedding in a draimmensely. He’s the
matic flourish and they
exact physical opposite
aren’t speaking anyof Andy, and he’s the one
more.
she wants, even when
His home was in
Andy shows his undying
Omaha, Nebraska —
love by parking his drunk
that is, until he lost it all
self outside her house
and escaped to a tiny
and mangling her lawn
apartment in New York,
gnome.
where even his distemMix all this up and add
pered, kind-of-adopted
a mysterious young
cat doesn’t like him.
woman named Daisy,
Running away was
who pops up out of
Andy’s answer — that
is, until he was summoned back to the nowhere and insists that she’s going to
change his life and help him to be
town of broken dreams to further his
misery by witnessing the slow death of happy despite his lonely sad-spiral.
Her quick wit, fun factor, and cluster of
his grandfather.
Omaha is the last place Andy wants clever tattoos might be just what Andy
needs to survive his family at a time
to be. But it’s family. The second he
arrives, his past slaps him in the face
at every turn. To make matters worse,
Is there any better way to spend a
it seems his mother has lost her mind.
Friday night in the Tri-Cities than
She was once a plump nurturer, but
cooling off by the river, listening to
has now morphed into a blonde, thin,
sharp-edged right-wing talk-show host good music, enjoying local food-truck
fare and watching an outdoor movie?
with her sights set on a future at Fox
For a second summer, the Port of
News.
Pasco invites you to “Date Night at the
His mother’s daily rants about gay
Pointe” on July 15 and Aug. 19 at its
marriage have set loose a barrage of
headquarters at 1110 Osprey Pointe
“gay mafia” members armed with
Blvd. in Pasco (corner of Ainsworth
naked Ken dolls and a lifetime supply
and Oregon). The music starts at 7:30,
of glitter. Both constantly end up on
along with food and a wine and beer
the perfectly manicured front lawn of
garden. Movies will begin at dark.
their brand new McMansion, nestled
On July 15, the music will be
safely in a gated community. All the
when their true personalities burst
forth. But where did Daisy come from
anyway? As far as Andy is concerned,
it doesn’t really matter. She’s just what
the doctor ordered. For now.
We’re All Damaged is an incredibly
written, fast-paced book filled with
laughs and impossible situations.
Every character is well developed and
Andy’s interactions with them are
wonderful. His first-person, selfdeprecating attitude and sense of
humor make the book a funny, witty
page- turner. He’s been through so
much, and he’s surrounded by a
quirky, very flawed family that the
reader can’t help but fall in love with,
despite their obvious dysfunction.
Matthew Norman writes dialogue in
a way that puts the reader in the room.
It’s clever and fun and easy to imagine
the motivation behind every word. The
plot is believable and multi-faceted,
and all the pieces are strung together
beautifully in its modern-day ridiculousness. It’s just a fun book to read, and
one that is difficult to put down. It is
definitely worth the read.
This book can be downloaded to a
Kindle for $4.99 or purchased from
Amazon for $14.95. It can also be
downloaded via iBooks for $13.99.
Port of Pasco free movies returning
provided by popular local band
BadLandz, food will be served by
Jiggy’s Food Truck, and the movie to
be shown is The Intern, starring
Robert De Niro and Anne Hathaway
On Aug. 19, music will be by the
Knutzen Brothers, an Asian fusion
menu will be offered by the mobile
kitchen called Fresh Out of the Box,
and the movie to be shown is Spectre,
with Daniel Craig and Christoph Waltz.
Take lawn chairs, blankets and
movie munchies if you wish. Both
movies are rated PG-13.
Movies
New Releases
Playing in Theaters
July 2016
1st The BFG
The Legend of Tarzan
The Purge: Election Year
8th Cell
Mike & Dave Need Wedding
Dates
The Secret Life of Pets
15th Ghostbusters
The Infiltrator
22nd Ice Age 5: Collision Course
Lights Out
Star Trek Beyond
29th Jason Bourne
Bad Moms
Nerves
August 2016
5th The Founder
Nine Lives
Suicide Squad
12th Pete's Dragon
Sausage Party
19th Ben-Hur
Collide
Kubo and the Two Strings
The Space Between Us
War Dogs
26th Mechanic 2: Resurrection
Hands of Stone
Don't Breathe
The Hollars
Releases
New DVD Releases
July 2016
5th I Saw the Light
By the Sea
The Family Fang
12th Divergent Series: Allegiant
Miracles from Heaven
Everybody Wants Some
19th The Perfect Match
Batman v Superman:
Dawn of Justice
Miles Ahead
Demolition
Elvis & Nixon
26th The Boss
Barbershop 3 The Next Cut
Criminal
Hardcore Henry
August 2016
2nd Mother's Day
Keanu
Meet the Blacks
9th A Hologram for the King
11.22.63
Addicted to Fresno
16th God's Not Dead 2
Ratchet and Clank
23rd The Huntsman Winter's War
Ash vs Evil Dead
Walla Walla Dance Festival back for 6th season
‘Grand Performance’ will be held on July 29
T
he Walla Walla Dance Festival is
once again bringing the absolute
best in professional dance to the
area from July 23 through 29.
This year, the festival will present
guest principal dancers from the
Boston Ballet, Ashley Ellis and
Lasha Khozashvili. These two
dancers are at the top of their field,
and will be presenting the pas de
deux from the famous ballet Le
Corsaire, to the renowned score by
Adolphe Adam. This duet is one of
ballet’s most loved and most performed, and it displays the best in
bravura that ballet has to offer. It is
full of gravity-defying leaps, dizzying
turns and amazing partnering.
John Passafiume Dancers
A special highlight of this year’s
festival will be the pairing of the Walla
Walla Chamber Music Festival
performers on stage alongside the
John Passafiume Dancers of New
York City, performing the third
movement from Beethoven’s String
Quartet No. 15. The pairing of live
music with Passafiume’s poignant,
vibrantly physical and intimate modern
dance choreography is a rare treat for
lovers of both music and dance. Don’t
miss this unique opportunity to
witness one of the most hauntingly
beautiful Beethoven works performed
live with musicians and dancers each
performing together.
Hailing also from the Big Apple is
Gierre Godley’s Project 44 dance
company. Godley is an emerging
choreographer who is a splendid
performer in his own right, combining
relevant social statements with
beautiful movement, through an urban
lens.
so get tickets now and
don’t miss this
opportunity. This
event allows the dance
festival to showcase
some of the best local
professional dance
talent as well as
leading guest companies in works that are
designed to be
performed in a small,
modern setting.
Open rehearsal
The festival will be
presenting a free open
rehearsal with Walla
Cabaret Evening
Walla Chamber Music
On Wednesday, July 27, the Walla performers and the
John Passafiume
Walla Dance Festival will again be
Dancers, and a shorter
Ashley Ellis and Lasha Khozashvili
presenting a Cabaret Evening, to be
performance will be
held in the gorgeous industrial space
geared toward children in collaboration on Friday, July 29, at 7 p.m. This is
of Charles Smith Wines in downtown
where it all comes together for the
Walla Walla. Enjoy a glass of fine wine with the Walla Walla Public Library.
For aspiring dancers, free community
best dance event in the area, with
along wtih the best that dance has to
master classes will be offered during
leading professional performers doing
offer in this intimate setting.
what they do best for your enjoyment.
This event sold out quickly last year, the festival week.
The Grand Performance in Cordiner
For information and tickets, visit
Hall, an annual tradition, will take place wwdf.org or call (509) 240-3428.
IN BRIEF
Athena, Ore., will host annual Caledonian Games
The annual Athena Caledonian Games in Athena, Ore., will be held on the
weekend of July 8-10. Traditional Scottish dances such as the Highland fling and
the sword dance will be featured, bagpipe bands will perform, and athletes from
around the Northwest will compete in events such as the hammer toss, sheaf
toss and caber toss. Sheep dogs will compete as well, herding sheep through
maneuvers while a handler calls commands. Clan tents will be set up, and you
can check your Scottish heritage. Games, storytelling, a Saturday parade, and
performances just for kids make the Caledonian Games a fun family outing. A
special focus this year is on fiber arts and weaving. For information, directions
and a full schedule, visit athenacaledoniangames.org.
Zac Brown Band to headline Whisky Music Fest
The three-time Grammy-winning Zac Brown Band will headline the inaugural
Pendleton Whisky Music Fest on Saturday, July 16, from 5 to 11 p.m. at the
Pendleton Round-Up Stadium in Pendleton. Organizers expect that the festival
will bring more than 15,000 music fans to town for the event, which will also
feature breakout country star Drake White, up-and-coming artist Jackson
Michelson and DJ Sovern-T. The concert is presented by Legacy Dodge and
Pendleton Whisky, which is available nationwide from Hood River Distillers of
Hood River, Ore. Ticket prices range from $45 for grandstand seats to $135 for a
VIP experience, and can be purchased online at pendletonroundup.com. The
festival is open to all ages, but entrance to the exclusive Pendleton Whisky
Lounge for VIP ticket-holders is for 21-and-older patrons only. Campsites will be
available for overnight stays and a variety of games and activities will take place
before the concert.
The waltz, and its place in our independence
T
movements, continuous turns, and rise
and fall. It is graceful and elegant, with
dancers gliding around the floor almost
effortlessly.
The American style is punctuated
with lavish open movements, underarm
turns and solo spins.
At 28-30 measures per minute, the
tempo is slow at best, but the expressive quality of the music often invites
very powerful and dynamic movement
from the dancers.
Our dancers love the waltz. The
dance floor fills up whenever a waltz
tune is played, and the dancers are
transformed into another world of
graceful, timeless body movements.
It is the classic ballroom dance that
you need to have in your repertoire, and
it’s in a class by itself. Join us on July
23 and learn this elegant dance. And
sign up for our five-week class in
August to review the workshop lesson.
By Beth Trost-Hayter
he waltz is the oldest of the
ballroom dances, dating from the
middle of the 18th century, before the
American independence that we
celebrate this month.
I am featuring the waltz this month
in my dance instruction. I will offer a
day-long workshop on Saturday,
July 23, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the
Pasco Eagles Club, for non-members
as well as members. The workshop,
“The Waltz, Beginning and Beyond,”
will be followed by a month-long class
reviewing the workshop lesson in
American ballroom style.
When I think of the early waltz, the
1700s come to mind — colonial times
in America, with English-born women
and men in their attire of that time
period; some men wearing white wigs
and British uniforms. Other popular
dances of that era were the minuet and
round and square dances — although
they were not referred to as “round”
and “square” back then.
The German “lander,” a folk dance,
is said to be the forerunner of the
waltz. Another dance developed that
was called the “walzer,” a word derived
The elegance of the waltz seems to cry out for ball gowns and tuxedos, but you can
also have fun dancing it in your everyday attire.
from the Latin volvere, which indicates
a rotating motion.
WALTZ WORKSHOP, BEGINNING AND BEYOND
Saturday, July 23, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Instructor: Mary Egan, Yakima dance instructor
Pasco Eagles Club (non-members and members)
Hosted by Beth Trost-Hayter, for singles and couples
Cost: $40 per person, prepaid or at the door
Beth Trost-Hayter teaches ballroom,
swing, Latin and country dancing for
adults. Classes
Napoleon’s invading solders spread are held in
the waltz from Germany to Paris; then Kennewick,
the dance glided across the channel to Pasco and
Richland. She is
England and finally made its way to
the director of
the United States
In July 1776, when the Declaration of the Desert
Country Dancers
Independence was signed, I would
assume there were many dances held and the
Showtime Girls,
to celebrate our independence from
and the host of
England. Couples danced the waltz
very much as we do today, and as we Dancing with the Tri-City Stars. Visit
.dancebybethtrost.com, email
will this July, 240 years later..
bethtrost@yahoo.com, call (509) 586The waltz is a smooth, progressive
7609, or call or text (509) 551-9562.
dance characterized by long, flowing
Summer fruit dresses up nicely to serve at parties
Kirsch or
1/3 cup
Beaumes de
sugar
½ cup wine
amed San Francisco chef Deborah Venise or other
or water
Madison loves a juicy bite of fresh Muscat wines;
also in chilled
1½ cups
fruit on a summer day. After all, in
sweet and/or
addition to founding Greens, one of the red or white
wine
sparkling wine
first farm-driven restaurants in the
Pineapple
2 tablecountry, she is the author of “Seasonal
with Kirsch,
spoons fresh
Fruit Desserts from Orchard, Farm,
maraschino or
lemon juice
and Market.”
rum
1 to 1½
But as spirited as fruit alone is,
Apricots
cups fresh
Madison notes that added spirits are
and cherries,
fruit, cut or
the perfect summer complement to
sliced into
dress up fruit for parties. Usually, it just fresh or
sauteed, with
small pieces
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tional work. Some coupling is as easy Kirsch,
sugared (see
as putting the fruit with a liqueur made maraschino or Orange liqueur accents fresh nectarines in an
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innovative tart. See the recipe below.
from the same fruit or its seeds. Other noyaux
Chilled
Yields 4 to
times it benefits from choices that
melon with Asti Spumante or Moscato, 6 servings.
don’t clash and do pull out the best
champagne, port or Vin Santo
Sprinkle the gelatin over ¼ cup cold
from each other.
Simple recipes, like this one from water and set it aside to soften.
Check out these favorites of hers:
Madison’s book, also are well worth
Combine the sugar with the ½ cup
Strawberries with Kirsch, Grand
the effort and a wonderful way for
wine in a saucepan. Bring to a boil,
Marnier, maraschino, curacao,
adults to refresh on summer days:
then lower the heat and simmer,
limoncello or strawberry liqueur
stirring occasionally, until the sugar is
Blackberries, raspberries and
dissolved. Remove from the heat and
other related berries with creme de
BROKEN JELLIED WINE
stir in the softened gelatin. Stir until it’s
cassis or Cointreau
1 (¼-ounce) envelope unflavored
thoroughly dissolved, then pour it into
Raspberries with framboise
gelatin
the 1½ cups sweet or sparkling wine
Blueberries with Kirsch
¼ cup cold water
along with the lemon juice. Mix well,
Peaches and nectarines with
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By Lisa Messinger
Creators Syndicate
then pour into a bowl or a compote dish
and refrigerate until set. Wine seems to
take longer to set than cream or fruit
juices, so plan on at least 6 hours, or
even overnight for a firm set.
Chop the jelly into cubes, then serve
it in the compote or in wine or champagne glasses interspersed with fruit.
Note: For fruit, choose those that are
ripe and full of flavor — white peaches
or nectarines, raspberries, or an
aromatic melon. Slice those that need
to be sliced into bite-sized pieces as
close to serving as possible. Don’t
hesitate to mix fruits. White peaches
and raspberries are always perfect
together.
ORANGE LIQUEURNECTARINE-APPLE TART
1 sheet frozen puff pastry (half of
17.3-ounce package), thawed
Flour, for dusting
1 small Golden Delicious apple,
peeled, halved, cored, thinly sliced
1 small nectarine, halved and thinly
sliced
2 tablespoons unsalted butter,
melted
‘Fruit’ continues on Page 25
Blueberries, u-pick or pre-picked, plus pies, donuts and more are featured July 1-2.
It’s red, white and blueberry at
Bill’s Berry Farm in Grandview!
A great time to visit Bill’s Berry Farm
in Grandviw is July 1 and 2, when the
farm holds its annual Blueberry
Festival. It’s open both Friday and
Saturday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. to
celebrate all things blueberry during
the most patriotic time of the year!
Both u-pick and pre-picked blueberries will be available with varieties
including Duke, Draper, Toro and
Chandler. There will also be fresh and
ripe raspberries and blackberries, just
in time for your favorite cobbler or pie.
Craft and antique vendors will be on
hand with their specialty goods and
crafts. And the festival will feature live
music and offer the farm’s popular
fresh, hot blueberry donuts. Be sure to
make a stop at the new Farm Store —
it’s stocked with fresh baked pies,
country décor and farm-fresh fruit, ripe
and ready for a trip home!
Planning a summer birthday or
company picnic? Bill’s Berry Farm is
now taking reservations through
August. Saturday rentals are available
in the Berry Park and include a private
party area with room for up to 30
guests.
Coming on Aug. 5, 6, 12 and 13 is
the two-weekend Peach Festival
featuring juicy peaches, plums, and
apricots All festival weekends include
the popular barnyard train, pony rides,
scrumptious barbecue, two big playgrounds and special activities. The
Peach Festival stays true to its name
by serving up hot peach donuts.
Remember, you can enjoy fresh, hot
donuts every Saturday, all summer
long, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Bill’s
Berry Farm.
U-pick on the farm continues
Monday through Thursday from 4 to 8
p.m. and Friday and Saturday from 9 to
5. Admission to the farm is always free,
but there is a $5 parking fee on Saturday during festival weekends.
For an up-to-date list of events, a
current produce calendar or more
information about Bill’s Berry Farm,
visit billsberryfarm.com or call (509)
882-3200. Be sure to like and follow
Bill’s Berry Farm on Facebook for
special offers, farm updates and
giveaways.
‘Fruit’
minutes. Serve warm or at room
temperature.
While tarts are cooling, whisk
mascarpone with orange liqueur. Top
Continues from Page 24 each cooled tart with a dollop of
flavored mascarpone.
4 teaspoons sugar
4 teaspoons honey
AFTER-WORK GOURMET
1 cup mascarpone cheese
COOKBOOK SHELF
1 teaspoon orange liqueur
If Manhattan is the center of
Yields 4 tarts.
gourmet cooking, that would,
Line 1 large baking sheet with
geographically at least, make
parchment paper. Place the sheet of
puff pastry on a floured surface and cut borough Brooklyn a bit off center.
Not so, after a red-hot, decadesinto 4 even squares. Separate the
squares and leave some room between long build. Brooklyn is also the
center of its own gourmet universe
them on the baking sheet.
Create a border around the inside of and many of the city’s most acclaimed and innovative chefs emerge
each square by scoring about ½ inch
around the inside the square. Prick the from there.
Chef Bryan Calvert’s Prospect
dough inside the small square. Cover
and refrigerate at least 30 minutes and Heights corner restaurant James
(named after his great-grandfather, a
up to 1 day.
turn-of-the-century New York City
Position 1 rack in top third and 1
chef) has been synonymous with
rack in bottom third of oven and
“New Brooklyn Cuisine,” an eclectic
preheat to 400 degrees F. On each
mix of casual country, urgent urban
pastry square, overlap slices of apple
and global fusion.
and nectarine, within the border.
Calvert has captured that spirit in
Brush fruit on each tart, with melted
Brooklyn Rustic: Simple Food for
butter and sprinkle with 1 teaspoon
Sophisticated Palates. In his tasty
sugar.
Bake tarts until pastry is golden and world, a savory stuffed chicken is
accented by lemon-miso sauce and
apples are tender, about 20 minutes.
he reimagines an everyday Swiss
Drizzle each tart with 1 teaspoon
chard greens dish as a Thai curry.
honey. Transfer tarts to racks; cool 5
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The Oregon town of Irrigon
celebrates its watermelons!
If you love spending a summer day
by the Columbia River— and if you love
fresh watermelons — you have only to
take a short drive to the town of Irrigon,
Ore., on July 30 for a fun outing
celebrating the region’s most famous
product.
Festival day, July 30, begins with a
6:30 a.m. breakfast and the 10 a.m.
parade. Grand marshals for the parade
are the World War II
and Korean War
veterans who are still
living in Irrigon.
The day continues
with food, children’s
games, marine rides,
duck races, prizes,
raffle drawings and, of
course, live entertainment. Some of the
bands that will play
that day include the
Missy G Band, the
Dakota Brown Band,
the Buttercreek Boys
and Nuketown.
Dance acts
scheduled to perform include the
Irrigon High School cheerleaders,
Dance Unilimited and the Round City
Cloggers.
The festivities continue long into the
evening, with a street dance in the park
lasting until midnight.
When Irrigon residents planned their
first Watermelon Festival in 1984, the
organizers knew that there had to be a
parade, entertainment, food, some
games for the children — and, of
course, plenty of fresh watermelons
from the local fields. They produced
and sold buttons, designed a logo for
t-shirts, made fliers and formed a
parade committee. The first festival
parade honored two of the area’s
leading melon growers as grand
marshals — Batie Rand and Don
Kenney, who donated their melons to
the cause.
As the years passed, entertainment became more sophisticated.
From local amateurs to professional
groups, from
greased-pig contests and greasedpole climbs, sheepshearing demonstrations, pony
rides and even a
captive hot-air
balloon ride (which
stopped traffic on
the highway),
everything was up
for consideration.
Today, it is not
unusual for the
festival to welcome
visitors from as far away as Canada
and to book entertainers from Alaska
and other states. The melons come
from the watermelon-growing region
stretching from Hermiston to Irrigon.
Oregonians call Irrigon “the
undiscovered gem” on the Columbia
River. You can discover the town’s
spirit and enjoy the best watermelons
in the world by attending the Irrigon
Watermelon Festival. For information,
photos, reviews and updates, visit
irrigonwatermelonfestival on
Facebook.
The Reach Musum, near the western entrance to Columbia Park
Kids are invited to ‘meet the
farmer day’ at Reach Museum
A
gri Northwest and the Hanford
Reach Interpretive Center will hold
a “Meet the Farmer Day” at the
museum near Columbia Park on July 7
from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. It promises to be
a day of fun and learning for children
from ages 9 to 13 about how their food
is grown.
The day begins with a chance to get
up close with farm equipment used for
potato production. The tour continues
to the irrigation pumping station on the
river and the control room where
irrigation is controlled. Lunch will be
provided by Agri Northwest and will
feature locally grown produce. The
afternoon will feature a corn dryer and
the other farm equipment and products.
The cost $10 per person, and space
is limited. Call Kris at (509) 943-4100,
ext. 108, or send email to
krisc@visitthereach.org.
A July 14 Reach tour includes Palouse Falls.
A jet-boat and bus tour along the
Snake River to Windust Park and
Palouse Falls is scheduled for July 14
from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Geologist, author
and Ice Age Floods expert Bruce
Bjornstad will guide the tour up the
Snake River and through the locks at
Ice Harbor Dam to Windust Park.
From there, you’ll be transported by
bus to Palouse Falls via Devils Canyon
and Washtucna Coulee. Lunch will be
provided at Palouse Falls State
Park. A number of other Ice Age floods
features will be covered on the return
bus trip to the Tri-Cities. The cost is
Other Reach activities
$155 per person, including boat and
“Particles on the Wall” is a new
bus transportation and lunch. Confirm
exhibit that will be at the Reach
by July 5 by calling (509) 943-4100,
Museum on until the end of October.
ext. 108, or sending email to
The exhibit is a multidisciplinary
exhibit fusing art, science and history
A tour of the eastern scablands
to explore the impacts of the nuclear
of
our
region will be led by the other
age. It focuses on Hanford, the use of
recognized
Ice Age Floods expert,
nuclear technology and its bearing on
Gary Kleinknect, on July 23 from 8
the natural world and its inhabitants.
a.m. to 5 p.m.
The exhibit addresses both the
This tour will take you to the remote
human and environmental legacy of
and
less well-known southern portion
nuclear technology, including radioacof the Cheney-Palouse Scabland
tive waste issues and atomic bomb
Tract. Because of its close proximity
production.
to the Palouse Country, the scablands
The exhibit pieces illuminate key
events in nuclear history and the role of of this area feature many streamlined
loess islands (wind-blown silt) sepanuclear technology in the Pacific
rated by scablands and coulees.
Northwest. The contributors have
No major highways traverse this
strong ties to the Tri-Cities and many
tour’s
route, so you will view sights
grew up in Richland or currently live in
known by local residents but very few
the area.
travelers. Features include numerous
“Paricles on the Wall” had its
inaugural exhibit in 2010 and has since loess islands, flood deposits that are
at least 780,000 years old, Rock Lake,
beem shown in venues around WashBig Cove Coulee and more. The cost
ington and Oregon. The exhibit was
created by curators Dianne Dickeman $78, which covers land and water
(visual), Nancy Dickeman (literary) and transportation, plus lunch. Confirm by
July 13 by calling (509) 943-4100, ext.
Steven Gilbert (science). Additional
108, or sending email to
support has come from Washington
Physicians for Social Responsibility.
IN BRIEF
Hermiston will launch new ‘branding’ at Funfest
The City of Hermiston and the Hermiston Chamber of Commerce will host
the public launch of the Hermiston community brand — “Where Life is Sweet”
— on July 9 at Funfest in downtown Hermiston. The launch will begin at 10:45
a.m. on Hermiston’s Main Street Stage. Yo-Country will provide free watermelon
frozen yogurt from 11 a.m. to noon. There will be balloons for the kids, and
some branded T-shirts will also be given away. The community brand will be
used to give Hermiston an identity, promote Hermiston’s livability, attract more
businesses and families to the area, and portray Hermiston as a desirable
destination to increase tourism. To learn more about the community brand
elements, visit hermistonbrand.com.
Visit Columbia Crest for the view, fine wines and music
C
olumbia Crest is now one of the
Northwest’s largest wineries, but
its growth hasn’t changed its commitment to quality and innovation in grapegrowing and winemaking.
Founded in 1983 in the heart of the
Horse Heaven Hills in eastern Washington, Columbia Crest has grown from
a small winery in a relatively unknown
wine region to one of the most significant wineries in the U.S. It has also
become a major force behind Washington state’s emergence as a worldclass wine region. The climate and
unique conditions in the state and in
the Columbia Valley make it a perfect
grape-growing area.
Columbia Crest is acclaimed by
critics and everyday wine drinkers alike
for crafting exceptional wines that are
food-friendly and approachable, and
that consistently over-deliver in
quality. Columbia Crest Merlot
helped establish Washington’s
outstanding reputation for the
variety, and the winery is recognized for the consistent quality
of its popular cabernet
sauvignon.
In fact, in 2009, Wine
Spectator Magazine named the
2005 Columbia Crest Reserve
Cabernet Sauvignon the
number-one wine in the world
on its top-100 list. It was the
first time a wine from Washington state had received this
ranking. In 2011, Columbia
Crest was named U.S. Winery
of the Year by Wine & Spirits
Magazine.
To showcase the depth of
flavors and characteristics of the
region, Columbia Crest offers three
distinct tiers of wines. The Grand
Columbia Crest’s beautiful setting, on a hillside overlooking the Columbia River, is also ideal for growing wine grapes.
Estates wines capture the most
authentic interpretation of each varietal
through the use of uncompromising
winemaking practices. The Horse
Heaven Hills is the source and
inspiration behind the “H3” wines,
which represent the true essence
of this highly-acclaimed appellation. And, hand-crafted in the
Petit Chai — a “winery within a
winery” — Columbia Crest
Reserve wines are full-bodied
masterpieces that are the result
of rigorous quality control. They
represent the pinnacle of
winemaking at Columbia Crest.
Columbia Crest Winery
overlooks the Columbia River in
Paterson, and it’s open for tours
and complimentary tastings
year-round. Visit the website
columbiacrest.com to learn
more about the wines and the
winery, or to join the Reserve
Club. You can also connect
with the brand on Instagram and
Twitter (@columbiacrest) and on
Facebook.
COLUMBIA CREST’S ‘TUNES, WINES AND VINES’
Join your friends at Columbia
Crest Winery for “Tunes, Wines
and Vines,” a weekend of live
music and wine-tasting on Aug 19
and 20. Pack a picnic or purchase
cuisine from a local food truck and
enjoy the concerts while sipping on
the fine wines of Columbia Crest.
On Aug. 19, enjoy “An Evening
with the Buckinghams,” and on
Aug. 20, visit the winery for “An
Evening with Crystal Gayle.” Both
concerts begin at 7 p.m.
If you’re of a certain age, you’ll
remember the Buckinghams, a
1960s “sunshine pop” band, for
“Kind of a Drag” and other hit
songs. They dissolved in 1970, but
formed again in the 1980s and are
still touring.
Crystal Gayle, the younger
sister of Loretta Lynn, is best
known for the crossover hit song
“Don’t it Make My Brown Eyes
Blue.” But she had 19 other
number-one country hits and six
certified gold albums in the 1970s
and 80s. She
was the first
female country
artist to reach
platinum status
with “We Must
Believe in
Magic.” She
was voted one
of the 50 most
beautiful
Crystal Gayle
people in the
world by
People Magazine in 1983.
All seating is general-admission
lawn seating, so plan to bring
blankets and lawn chairs. Tickets
to each concert are $50 and are
available at Ticketmaster outlets
and online at ticketmaster.com. For
phone orders, call (800) 745-3000.
Day trips from Paris by train are easy, affordable
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By Sondra Wilson
ast month I shared with you our
journey from Amsterdam to Brussels on an Avalon Waterways river
cruise. We had tiptoed through the
tulips, visited lovely towns in the
Netherlands and Belgium, and so
much more. But that wasn’t the end of
our journey. We left our beautiful
Avalon ship, sad that it was all over but
excited to continue our trip on a highspeed train from Brussels to Paris.
Trains in Europe are a work of art.
They are sleek and modern, comfortable, affordable and always on time.
Our train was no exception. In an hourand-a-half we arrived in Paris. Security
was tight upon our arrival and I was
happy to see it. We walked along the
platform pulling our luggage, and many
police were lined up to inspect the
passengers.
I know I’ve said it before, but Paris to
me is the most perfect spot in the
world. I just can’t get enough of it! This
time there were three of us staying in
an apartment in the seventh
arrondissement, the area around the
corner from the Eiffel Tower. I love the
idea of being in a neighborhood where
Once you’ve seen the Palace at Versailles, take another day trip to the privately
owned Chateau de Vaux Le Vicomte and the nearby Palace of Fontainebleau.
we know the shops and restaurants,
and of course have our favorites.
Staying in an apartment instead of a
hotel is a wonderful way to feel like a
local. Be sure to call Travel Leaders
if you want that same experience.
Each time I visit Paris, I do try to
plan new activities so we can see
more of the countryside and have
more experiences in France. This
time we did two trips outside of the
city. I’ve been to Versailles, as have
millions of other people, but this time
we visited the Palace of Fontainebleau.
It was just as amazing as Versailles —
maybe more so — without all the
tourists. It is gigantic, with over 1,500
rooms and 130 acres of parkland and
pristine, manicured French gardens.
Every room in the palace has been
lovingly restored to the era of Napoleon, and the view of French history, art
and architecture just swept us away. If
you get a chance to visit
Fontainebleau, don’t hesitate. It should
be on everyone’s list.
From there it was just short hop to
the Chateau de Vaux Le Vicomte.
While Fontainebleau is owned and
operated by the French Government,
this chateau is still privately owned by
the family. It was also lovely, but it was
apparent that money to keep it open
and operating is much more of a
concern. It has an amazing history,
however. Nicolas Fouquet was the
finance manager for King Louis XIV,
and he built the chateau with one large
flaw. That is, it was so grand that the
king became jealous and had him
arrested. Fouquet spent most of his
days in prison for attempting to outdo
his boss. Again, it was very much
worth a visit.
We hired a private car and driverguide for this trip, and that is another
arrangement that Travel Leaders can
make for you. It’s very kid-friendly, and
you can even rent period costumes for
your children to wear as they view the
properties.
The next day we took a train from
Paris to Reims, where we joined a tour
to the Champagne country. We met our
tour right outside the train station at the
tourist board office. We visited the
countryside and the town of Epernay
that houses most of the famous
Champagne houses. It was so easy to
do and so enjoyable. We saw how the
vines managed to survive in the chalky
soil, and then toured and tasted at the
house of Moet & Chandon and the
house of Taittinger. We returned to
Reims in time to visit the very famous
cathedral where many of the kings of
France were crowned, and we were
back in Paris for dinner.
The great rail system and affordable
tickets put many famous sights within
reach on day trips into the countryside
from Paris. Reims is no exception and
should be on everyone’s list.
Back in Paris, we ate wonderful food
in neighborhood restaurants, visited the
macaroon shop across the street and
local wine shops on every street corner.
I’m already planning my 2017 trip back
to Paris with my daughter and granddaughters.
If you want to do Paris, Travel
Leaders can make that happen for you.
I’ll give you a long list of must-do’s and
you can relive the history of France as I
did.
Sondra Wilson is president of Travel
Leaders in Richland and Kennewick.
She considers France her specialty.
Wildhorse will host 22nd annual Pow Wow
The colors, songs and pageantry
of the Wildhorse Resort and Casino
Pow Wow in Pendleton will be back
on July 1 through 3. Twenty-five drum
groups and more than 300 dancers
are expected to compete. The
performances are free to all spectators, and Native American food and
craft booths will be available.
The grand entry kicks off each
day’s events as participants parade
into the Pow Wow arena in their
colorful regalia to start the dancing
and singing competition. The festivities will begin at 7 p.m. on Friday,
July 1, and at 1 p.m. on Saturday
and Sunday on the grass arena
adjacent to the hotel and casino.
Vendors will be offering everything
from Indian fry bread to beadwork,
clothing and jewelry.
The award-winning Cree Confederation of Edmonton, Alberta, will
host the 22nd annual drum event.
Representing the people of Treaty
Six First Nations, the Cree Confederation bridges the older Pow Wow
singing style with more contemporary Pow Wow culture.
Hotel, RV park, and tipi village
reservations can be made by calling
(800) 654-9453.
The ultimate thrill: riding the “Corkscrew” at Silverwood Theme Park.
You can enjoy Silverwood on land,
in the air, and in and on the water!
T
hrill rides with names like “After
shock,” “Corkscrew,” “Panic
Plunge” and “Sky Diver” might be your
first clue that Silverwood Theme Park
in north Idaho is going to be a blast!
But this is a theme park for the whole
family, so there are little kids’ rides too
— “Flying Elephants,” “Frog Hopper,”
“Kiddie Copters” and many more.
World-class coasters, hair-raising
attractions, kiddie adventures, a 1915
steam-engine train, live award-winning
entertainment, restaurants and much
more are featured in the Northwest’s
largest theme park. And it’s all within
an easy drive from eastern Washington
to the beautiful north Idaho panhandle.
The park features more than 221
acres of fun and more than 70 rides,
slides, shows and attractions. You can
cool off at Boulder Beach Water Park
with two massive wave pools, thrilling
water slides, children’s water features,
VIP cabanas and an endless lazy river.
New to Boulder Beach for 2016 is
“Riptide Racer,” a 400-foot-long slide
standing nearly 60 feet tall. The new
mat-racing water slide features six
side-by-side racing lanes for you and
your friends to compete against one
another.
Silverwood is really two parks for
one price, and it’s open from now
through October. On July 4 you can
celebrate Independence day on the
rides, cool off in the water park and
enjoy patriotic music and a spectacular fireworks show at dusk. On Labor
Day weekend, Sept. 3-4, classic cars
will convene there for the 14th Annual
Coaster Classic Car Show, one of the
biggest events of its kind in the Inland
Northwest.
Silverwood is just minutes north of
Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. For the absolute
lowest ticket prices and more information, visit silverwoodthemepark.com or
call (208) 683-3400.
Sometmes the Elgin Stampede is literally a stampede. The four days of rodeo action in Elgin, Ore., begins on July 6. Visit elginstampede.com for more information.
Union county beckons, with lots do do this summer!
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nion County, Ore., has many funfilled events taking place during
the months of July and August.
First, it’s time to bust out your
cowboy hat and boots and join the fun
for the Elgin Stampede — four days of
rodeo action in beautiful Elgin, Ore.
Events include a family night
sponsored by Community Bank,
followed by the Mark Nichols Memorial
Bull Riding, a kids’ parade, the Grand
Parade, dances and two exciting
Professional Rodeo Cowboy
Assocation (PRCA) rodeo performances.
There is also plenty of food, and
there are activities for the whole family
including a kiddie rodeo, music, the
queen’s coronation and a lot more.
By celebrating the heritage and
tradition of the old West for more than
70 years, the Elgin Stampede organization has made significant contributions to the community and its
facilities as well as to the success of
the annual Elgin Stampede itself.
The Elgin Stampede is always the
second weekend in July — this year,
on July 6 through 9.
delicious wild huckleberries that that
grow in the surrounding mountains of
Union County. You can enjoy huckleberry desserts, food vendors, a craft
show, the car show and a parade.
enjoy a weekend with friends and
family.
Also in August
The city of Union is the home of the
annual Grassroots Festival, to held this
year on Aug. 13. You can find bargains
Also in July
In August
and antiques at the city-wide yard sale
Head to downtown La Grande for
“A fair of the heart” is the theme for
Crazy Days, to be held July 15-16. The this year’s Union County Fair Aug. 3-6. and attend a kiddy carnival and pieeating competition. Vendors, live
Timbers Cruiser Car Club teams up
This is an old-fashioned rural fair with
music, a car show, and much more are
with La Grande Main Street Downtown pigs, cows, chickens, goats, bunnies
on tap for the event that takes place on
each year for this weekend of cars and and horses. The 4-H members comMain Street and in the City Park.
festivities.
pete for awards in sewing, crafts, jams
Cove’s annual Cherry Festival is
Food vendors, craft vendors and
and jellies and many more talents on
always the third Saturday in August
businesses will all flock to the downdisplay.
and is taking place on the 30th at the
town core that weekend to provide
This year’s festivities will be kicked
Ascension School Camp and Conferfamily activities with a festival-like
off by a parade through downtown La
ence Center. Plan on spending the
atmosphere. Businesses provide
Grande in the evening, then live
whole day celebrating with live music,
sidewalk sales and discounts through- entertainment, a carnival, animal
activities on the lawn, food vendors and
out the weekend.
judging, exhibit barns, quilts, home
much more.
The city of North Powder will host its goods, art, and local produce throughFor information about any events in
Union County, call (541) 963-8588 or
annual Huckleberry Festival on Satur- out the weekend.
visit unioncountychamber.org.
day, July 30. This event celebrates the
This is a perfect time and place to
Tri-Cities mother, son chosen for Bellevue juried art show
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f you travel across the mountains and
are anywhere near Bellevue on July
29, 30 or 31, stop in at the Bellevue
Festival of the Arts and say hello to a
remarkable mother and son who have
been invited to the prestigious juried
show and will be hanging out at booths
53,58 and 59..
Hundreds of artists apply for the
show and there’s limited space, so it
speaks well of the local art scene that
LuAnn Ostergaard and her son Joseph
Rastovich of the Tri-Cities were chosen
to exhibit at the festival.
Inspiration comes in many forms
LuAnn and Joseph, and a good deal of
it comes from each other. “As professional artists, we inspire each other
daily and the influences show, from
colors and textures to composition in
each of our works,” LuAnn said. “We
both make our living entirely as fulltime artists.”
LuAnn comes from a long line of
artists dating back to her greatgrandfather. She is a professional
LuAnn Ostergaard and Joseph Rastovich
photographer and creates striking
landscapes and abstracts from her
digital images of weathered surfaces.
She prints her work in her studio,
using archival pigment inks on fine art
cotton fiber paper. The print is mounted
on a custom handcrafted box mount,
and she textures the surface with clear
gel medium.
LuAnn is represented by
Earthenworks Gallery of Port
Townsend, Parker Furniture of Portland
Take a train ride through an
amazing Oregon landscape!
The Eagle Cap Excursion Train
winds along the railroad historically
known as the Joseph Branch,
connecting Elgin, Ore., with the
Wallowa Valley.
The track, now called the
Wallowa Union Railroad, follows the
shores of the Grande Ronde and
Wallowa Rivers.
In addition to tumbling waters,
scenic highlights include plentiful
birds and wildlife, rugged canyon
walls and timbered ridges.
Train rides include lunch, or they
may have special themes such as
the Wine and Cheese Train or
Brews and Brats. In the fall, the
colorful foliage is a highlight of the
Photography Train, and robbers on
horseback are known to target the
train a couple of times each year.
In July, two trips are designed
with vacationing families in mind,
offering shorter rides at bargain
prices.
For details, visit online at
eaglecatprainrides.com or call (800)
323-7330.
and Infusion Gallery of Troutdale, Ore.
Her work is licensed with Editions
Limited’s Studio EL Collection in
Emeryville, Calif.,. and Artful Home of
Madison, Wis...
Joseph was immersed in the art
world at a very early age and flourished
as a young artist. From visiting art
galleries and museums to having
access to all of the various art materials in his mother’s studio, he literally
grew up with all of the tools an artist
uses to create work at his disposal.
Joseph, now 24 years old, has
created 11 large public sculptures in
Washington and Oregon over the past
five years. In addition to his public
sculpture work, he creates unique freestanding sculptures, furniture pieces,
lamps and wall sculptures. He is
represented by many of the same
galleries as LuAnn. Collectively they
have art hanging in private and corporate collections from New York to Los
Angeles. and as far away as Australia,
Sweden and Japan.
The Bellevue
Festival of the
Arts is at the
Cost Plus
World Market
just north of
Bellevue
Square, in the
heart of the city.
The festival
supports a
variety of
nonprofits.
Celebrating its
32nd year in
2016, the
festival will
LuAnn in her studio
feature 200 of
the most talented and popular artisans
and craftspeople from the Northwest
and beyond. Friday and Saturday hours
at the show are 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., and
on Sunday it’s open from 10 to 6.
You can visit the artists online at
www.LuAnnOstergaard.com and
www.RastovichArt.com..
Why do I have tennis elbow if I don’t play tennis?
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By Clair Hara, OTR/L
educating you on how to prevent future
episodes.
ou start having pain at your elbow
when you grip or type, so you do a
little research to figure out why. The
term “tennis elbow” comes up in your
search, but you don’t play tennis.
“Tennis elbow” is the common term
for inflammation of the tendon at the
outer side of the tendon. It can happen
for several reasons, not just playing
tennis.
Why choose a hand therapist for your elbow pain?
Symptoms
Typically, there is pain at the outside
of the elbow, near or on the boney
prominence. There is also pain with
gripping. There are so many structures
all together in the small space of the
elbow that, when the tendons are
inflamed, other structures can be
the injured area.
affected too. So there can be numbSo, for an elbow, you might try using
ness, tingling and clumsiness when
ice, wearing a wrist-support brace to
using the hand.
prevent the use of the tendons that
attach at the painful site, and doing
Home care
gentle stretches of the area.
Whenever you have a problem with
joints and muscles you should:
When to seek more help.
Do things to make it feel better.
There can be several reasons for the
Do things to reduce strain.
Do exercises specifically to heal pain at the elbow. The causes range
from overuse to signals from the nerves
at the neck, affecting the elbow. If you
try simple interventions and you don’t
feel better, it’s a good idea to ask for
advice.
A doctor can diagnosis the problem,
which is very important to getting
proper treatment. But hand therapy
specialists not only help you eliminate
pain, but are the most thorough in
Recently, a person came to Therapy
Solutions to get some advice about
elbow pain. A surgery was already
scheduled, but a friend had suggested
one more opinion.
The end result of therapy was no
need for surgery. That isn’t always the
case, but it is an example of the
potential for conservative care. And,
let’s face it, any time you can avoid
surgery, it’s a good idea.
A hand therapist will combine
manual therapies, modalities, education and exercise to help you out of
pain and back into life.
Clair Hara is an occupational
therapist who provides hand therapy
and upper extremity lymphedema
management at Therapy Solutions in
Richland. She provides compassionate
and knowledgeable care, one-on-one,
to help you achieve the outcome you
deserve.
WSU old-timer recalls the 1955 ‘Refrigerator Bowl’
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coldest Nov. 12 in the 75 years of
weather-bureau history. The wind chill
was well below zero.
The band’s woodwind section was
told to stay home, and the instruments
in the brass section froze before
halftime.
One unfortunate trumpet player,
celebrating a Washington State score,
had his lips stuck on his mouthpiece
when he attempted to play.
Coffee in the press
box quickly turned to
ice. A dial on the
telephone stuck, and a
heater had to be used
to keep the machine
that was keeping the
game statistics
functioning.
Seated in the
22,000-seat stadium
were approximately
1,000 frozen students
and 400 customers
who had paid in
advance. And with
them was one — only
one — fan who paid at
Back in Pullman on a much sunnier game day, WSU
the gate.
alumnus George Forbes recalled the “Refrigerator Bowl.”.
The one individual
t was Nov. 12, 1955, when the WSU
Cougars played San Jose State at
Rogers Field in a game that became
known as the “Refrigerator Bowl.”
Cougar Athletic Fund member
George Forbes was there that historic
day more than 60 years ago. “I remember being cold,” Forbes said. “It was
bone-chilling cold.”
The temperature at kickoff was a
brisk 5 degrees Fahrenheit. It was the
In this 1955 photo, courtesy of Washington State Athletics, frost covers the turf and
few fans are in the stands as the Washington State Cougars battle San Jose State to
a 13-13 tie in what became known as “the Refrigerator Bowl.” The temperature was
5 degrees, but the wind-chill factor made it feel well below zero.
who purchased a grandstand ticket
quickly become legend and was
sought by Washington State staff
members and the media. With every
newspaper account of the game was
the story of that one brave fan who was
willing to pay to endure the bonechilling cold.
The Spokesman-Review in Spokane
learned that the individual was Charles
Moore of Harrington, Wash. Upon
learning this, ticket manager Robert
Smawley wrote a letter to Moore
offering to refund his ticket price in
person. The next January, Moore
received his refund during a ceremony
at a basketball game.
And the game, which became known
as the Refrigerator Bowl? It finished in
a 13-13 tie with San Jose State.
Former WSU quarterbacks Drew Bledsoe and Jason Gesser.
Former WSU athletes gathered for
‘Cougar Legends’ event in June
The greats of Washington State
University athletics gathered at the
Suncadia Resort near Cle Elum last
month for Drew Bledsoe’s Cougar
Legends event, a fundraiser for the
Cougar Athletic Fund.
An evening dinner was followed
by an auction to choose teams for
the next day’s golf tournament. In
the live auction, a bidding war
ensued for women’s golf great and
WSU Athletics Hall of Fame
member Kim Welch.
“Guys want to come back and
reconnect, and this is one of those
events where they can accomplish
this, but they reconnect for a
purpose,” said Jason Gesser,
Cougar legend and Athletic Fund
assistant director.
In addition to Gesser, the 2016
Cougar Legends roster for the event
included: Drew Bledsoe, Paul
Sorensen, Jack Thompson, Marcus
Trufant, Jason Hanson, Mike Utley,
Sarah Silvernail, Tony Graziani, Bill
Doba, Rian Lindell, Kim Welch, Tom
Niedenfuer, Rien Long, Honorary
Legend: Fred McGriff, Alex Brink,
Clete Casper, Allan Kennedy,
Devard Darling, Mkristo Bruce, Matt
Kegel, Dustin White, Steve
Broussard, Mark Hendrickson, Kelli
Kamimura, Emma Betland, Torey
Hunter, Jay Miller, Drew Dunning,
Mike Leach, Courtney Harvey and
Kalae Chock.
The Cougar Athletic Fund is
committed to covering the annual
cost of student-athlete scholarships
for young men and women through
private philanthropic support.
Who in MLB is really the all-time pro ‘hit king’?
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By ‘Philly’ Robb Francis
ongratulations, Ichiro Suzuki, for
your 2,983rd major-league hit and
your 4,261st “professional” hit. Nice
work — you are one of the greatest
hitters to ever pick up a baseball bat.
But you aren’t the all-time hit king.
That is still Pete Rose, on so many
levels.
Ichiro, after playing nine years of
professional baseball in Japan, saw his
rights handed to — I mean, purchased
— by the Seattle Mariners for the 2001
season. Controversy followed him from
the beginning. There were questions as
to whether he could hit major-league
pitching. I was, and still am, of the firm
belief that if you can hit a baseball, you
can hit a baseball.
Good hitters get by, and great hitters
make the necessary adjustments.
Near the 2001 All-Star break, it was
pitchers having to make adjustments,
but not Ichiro. He would finish the
season with 242 hits. It would be the
first of 10 straight seasons with 200 or
more hits, the same number Pete
Rose had over his career. One controversy was settled — Ichiro’s ability to
adapt to big-league pitchers — but
another controversy was already
brewing.
Going into 2001, only one player had
ever won Rookie of the Year and Most
Valuable Player in the same season. It
was Fred Lynn with the Boston Red
Sox in 1975. Lynn was 23 years old in
his rookie year and had a total of 337
“professional” games in his minorleague and major-league careers when
he won both awards. Keep the word
“professional” in the back of your mind,
because the explanation for the
quotation marks is coming up.
The rising tide of arguments against
Ichiro winning both awards was that he
technically wasn’t a rookie in the
traditional sense. He was 27 and
played nine years in Japan with 951
“professional” games already played.
The proponents of Ichiro’s eligibility to
win Rookie of the Year (he was a shooin for MVP) claimed that his prior
experience was in Japan, not in
American major-league baseball. It is a
different league, a different quality of
play, and they argued that it should not
be a factor in his eligibility to win
that you get paid to play (no NCAA
jokes please). The Tri-City Americans
are considered professional players in
the United States because they get
paid. The same goes for Tri-Cities
Fever and Tri-City Dust Devils players.
Yes, the minor-league Dust Devils are
considered a professional baseball
team and their statistics would be
included in any calculation of professional statistics. That is why you hear
all MLB stats referred to as such, to
distinguish them from the rest of
professional baseball.
Japanese baseball is on a par with
the minor leagues, so if you include
one you must include both. Pete Rose
had 427 hits in the minors. That would
mean his professional hit total is 4,683.
That puts him 422 “professional” hits
ahead of Ichiro at this time, a number
Ichiro will never catch at this stage in
his career, as he has played in only 60
Ichiro Suzuki (left) and Pete Rose: How do their “professional” hits compare?
games thus far this season and is
approaching his 43rd birthday.
Rookie of the Year. That argument won career that already was Hall of Fame
Once the numbers began to circuworthy. He will be the second Mariners late, that four-letter “entertainment”
out, and Ichiro became the second
player in major-league history to claim player to earn a plaque in Cooperstown network went silent on Ichiro being the
and the first of Japanese birth to be
both awards.
all-time hit king, as math can really be
enshrined in the Hall of Fame. But he
That argument will come back into
a pain — especially when you only
play shortly.
will not go in as the “professional” hit
know how to do “new” math and not
king, as some have claimed.
good old-fashioned math that actually
The four-letter cable network was the adds up correctly.
Pete Rose
main perpetrator of this ruse, as they
During Ichiro’s career, Pete Rose
Ichiro’s accomplishment is amazing,
continued to lobby — as did many on seem to be more like TMZ than a
and he is an amazing hitter, but you
sports network anymore. In their
his behalf — for his reinstatement to
can’t make someone, no matter how
ignorance of what the word “profesbaseball, mainly so he would be
good he is, into something he is not. In
sional” encompasses, they held the
eligible for the baseball Hall of Fame.
this case you can’t forget one man’s
largest bromance in sports history with professional statistics to frame the
Rose wrote a book in which he finally
Ichiro for what seemed like an eternity. argument the way you want. That is
admitted he bet on baseball after
Intelligent sports fans then spoke up
denying since 1989 that he had done
simply being disingenuous.
so. After that admission, quite of bit of and introduced some facts to “TMZN”
Pete Rose will remain the all-time
support for his reinstatement vanished. and the other bandwagon media that
“professional” hit king, quite possibly
tried to sweep Rose and his accomNo one was really keeping track of
forever. Rose will never see the Hall of
plishment under the rug.
Ichiro’s hit totals. Most thought it
Fame in his lifetime, but this is one
would be possible for him to reach
honor he earned, and a bunch of selfWho’s ‘professional’?
3,000 hits if he was able to maintain
righteous hacks have no business
his torrid pace of 200-plus hits per
“Professional” sports are any sports trying to take it away.
season. He wouldn’t maintain that
pace, however, and he would move on
from a fractured Mariners team when
he was traded to the Yankees in 2012.
He signed as a free agent with the
Miami Marlins in 2015 as his quest to
reach 3,000 hits continued. As of this
Pasco will sponsor ‘community campout’
writing, he has 2,983 major-league
Pasco Recreation Services is planning a “community campout” on Aug. 12
hits, just 17 short of 3,000. He should and 13 at Chiawana Park in west Pasco. It’s intended to be an easy camping
get there. It will be the icing on top of a experience for families, with group activities on Friday evening beginning at 4
p.m. and breakfast on Saturday morning. Campsites are $25 for Pasco residents and $30 for nonresidents. That includes breakfast, prepared and served by
Jiggy’s and sponsored by Fiesta Foods. The Pasco Community Campout is the
only time each year that camping is allowed in Chiawana Park, so come and
enjoy a great evening and morning together. Contact Pasco Recreation Services
at (509) 545-3456 or recreation@pasco-wa.gov
IN BRIEF
HAPO will sponsor Pasco’s ‘Grand Old 4th of July’
The “Grand Old 4th of July” celebration in Pasco will feature the MidColumbia’s largest Independence Day parade, plus fireworks and much more. A
Kiwanis pancake breakfast will be begin at 7 a.m. in Memorial Park, and a fun
run to benefit Camp Patriot will be held at 8 at the Pasco Sporting Complex. A
pre-parade kids’ street dance begins at 9:15 in Memorial Park, where the Grand
Old 4th Parade originates at 10. At noon, the “Cardboard Regatta” will be held in
Memorial Pool, and the fireworks will be set off in Gesa Stadium at dark (gates
open at 8:30 p.m.).For information and parade entries visit pasco-wa.gov.
All-day ‘River of Fire’ celebrates July 4 holiday
The 30th annual July 4 River of Fire in Columbia Park in Kennewick, sponsored by Hapo Community Credit Union, will feature a kids’ area, food, various
vendors and live music by R&B band 7 Wheel Drive, the country and pop band
Groove Principal and the national pop-rock sensation Night Argent. If you don’t
want to cool off in the water, you can spend some time int he cooling tent
provided by A-One Refrigeration, Heating and Cooling. The climax of the day’s
festivities is the spectacular fireworks show just after dark. The cost for all day is
just $8 per carload.
Summertime is for poetry, song and gardening!
A
By Micki Perry
s I sit down to write this column, I
keep thinking of the words to the
Scottish folk standard, “Wild Mountain
Thyme”, which honor the season, and
the words and the garden images they
evoke are still running through my
mind:
“Oh the summertime is coming and
the trees are sweetly blooming,
And the wild mountain thyme grows
around the purple heather.
Will you go, lassie, go?”
The song goes on to describe
plucking thyme around the blooming
heather, building a bower by “yon clear
crystal fountain,” piling on all the
flowers of the mountain, and finally
building a shelter on a high mountain
green. I can’t stop thinking about all
these images, and the gardener in me
responds with ideas for improving my
own garden.
I really do need to plant more herbs,
and thyme also makes a wonderful
fragrant ground cover. Heather can also
be a beautiful, colorful ground cover,
and would look wonderful in a little rock
garden full of small alpines (flowers of
the mountain).
That “clear crystal fountain” sounds
like a nice water feature, and every
garden needs a bower. Alhough mine
already has several, I am trying to
figure out where to put another one I
just purchased because it was on sale
and unusual. In our blazing summertime weather, more cooling shelter and
shade is always welcome, and a bower
would be a good support for my
climbing roses which are currently
climbing up my redbud tree.
All these ideas, inspired by a simple
song, could result in a big “to do” list,
A bower can provide a shady place to sit and read those gardening books..
which the gardener in me gets excited
about because it would lead to improving the garden and bringing it into
conformity with my vision of what the
garden could be. Then, thankfully, the
practical nonconformist in me kicks in
and puts the brakes on these visions
of perfection.
I have to remind myself that the
garden is there to be enjoyed, and
everything I can imagine doesn’t have
to be done at once. I have neither the
time nor the money to fulfill all my
garden dreams immediately, but that
doesn’t stop me from dreaming and
planning.
One thing I have learned after years
of gardening is that it involves a
balance of vision, planning for the
future and tending to the business at
hand — which right now means
mowing the lawn, mulching my flower
beds and planting my most recent
garden purchases.
As I work, though, my mind is
thinking about future purchases —
maybe some heather and a little pink
creeping thyme and some alpines.
Another part of my mind is dreaming of
relaxing under my garden bower and rereading my favorite vintage gardening
book.
I’ll close with a quote from that book
mentioned, The Country Garden by
Josephine Nuese, a woman who knew
all about the balance of work and
leisure. Since many of my July articles
have had the reoccurring theme of
staying cool and taking it easy during
the heat of the summer months, I have
often included this quote because it
sums up what our approach to gardening in hot weather should be: “To my
way of thinking, most of your July and
August gardening should be done in a
cool shade with your feet up, a cold
glass at your elbow, and a stack of
garden books, magazines and catalogues within easy reach. Don’t deny
yourself these long lazy afternoons
when, free from any compulsion to
scurry around and do things, you can
relish the fruits of earlier labors. The
whole idea of a garden is that you can
enjoy it. And part of this enjoyment lies
in the planning for further enjoyment,
the consideration of new ideas for
improvement.”
She goes on to write that planning is
“not doing nothing, it’s the most
important part of any garden operation.”
Woody Guthrie said it this way:
“Take it easy, but take it!”
Happy summer! Keep on dreaming!
Micki Perry produces concerts and
is music coordinator of the Tumbleweed Music Festival for Three
Rivers Folklife Society. She has been
a gardener all her life and a Master
Gardener since 1997, though she is
now retired.
WSU study clears way for new approaches to plant disease
A Washington State University
biologist has found what he calls “very
strong support” for an 86-year-old
hypothesis about how nutrients move
through plants. His two-decade
analysis of the phenomenon has
resulted in a suite of techniques that
can ultimately be used to fight plant
diseases.
Some 90 percent of the plant food
we consume at one time went through
a plant’s phloem, the vascular system
that carries sugars and other nutrients
from leaves, where they are produced
by photosynthesis, to roots and fruits.
But scientists know so little about how
this works, said Michael Knoblauch,
professor in the WSU School of
Biological Sciences, that they’re like
cardiologists who haven’t learned about
the heart.
“If you have a little-supported
hypothesis that is central to plant
function, it’s a problem,” he said. “For
example, take plant-insect interactions. Aphids feed on the system. If we
don’t understand how the system
works in detail, we cannot find new
strategies to kill aphids. Plant viruses
also move through the system.”
The fundamental principle of phloem
Photo by Robert Hubner
Michael Knoblauch tends a morning
glory plant he grew on the WSU
Pullmand campus to study plants’
vascular systems, or phloems.
transport was published by Ernst
Münch in 1930. While his hypothesis
is intuitive and elegant, it does not
appear to account for the extreme
pressure needed to move fluid in
something as large as a tree. Münch
left that to others to figure out.
“He came up with the hypothesis
because he knew how solute-driven
flow could work,” said Knoblauch. “But
he was not into measuring all these
things or finding evidence for his
hypothesis.”
To make his finding, published in the
journal eLife, Knoblauch spent more
than 20 years devising ways to look
inside a living plant without disrupting
the processes he was trying to
measure and describe.
“It’s super-tough to work with this
tissue,” he said. “It’s a technical
question. It’s really difficult to access
it and this has always fascinated me.”
He measured flow velocities with
fluorescent dies and radioactive
isotopes. With his son Jan, a second
author on the paper and a WSU
sophomore, he developed a
“picogauge” that could measure
extremely sensitive phloem pressures.
He looked at tomatoes, fava beans,
kelp off the British Columbia coast and
a red oak in the Harvard Forest in
central Massachusetts.
With various microscopes (he
directs WSU’s Franceschi Microscopy
and Imaging Center) he measured the
circumferences of not only plant
stems but the ciabatta-like holes of
sieve plates that separate elongated
cells in the phloem tissue.
The cell geometries were particularly critical, as an order-of-magnitude
change in the diameter of a tube or
hole creates a four-order change in the
volume delivered to the roots or fruits.
For his eLife studies, he made
roughly 100,000 measurements in each
of three morning glory plants he grew
alongside WSU’s five-story Abelson
Hall.
In addition to building the evidence
for a long-held hypothesis, Knoblauch
hopes his work will result in new ways
to protect plants.
It might also lead to ways of making
the energy in biofuels easier to concentrate and access: “If we can tell the
phloem, ‘OK, store it here, where we
can easily harvest it,’ it will be a big
step forward,” he said.
Knoblauch’s WSU co-authors
include post-doctoral researcher Daniel
Mullendore and doctoral student Sierra
Beecher.
Other co-authors are Jessica Savage
and Michele Holbrook of Harvard
University, Benjamin Babst of
Brookhaven National Laboratory, Kaare
Jensen of the Technical University of
Denmark and undergraduate lab tech
Adam Dodgen.
Funding came from the National
Science Foundation, a Harvard Bullard
Fellowship, the Carlsberg Foundation,
the U.S. Department of Agriculture and
the U.S. Department of Energy.
HOROSCOPES
HOLIDAY MATHIS
ARIES (March 21-April 19). This is
a time to do things old-school. Ancient
and traditional remedies will work to
heal whatever ails you, whether it is
physical, emotional or spiritual. Likely
it’s a little of all three. Here’s an oldfashioned idea: Walk beside a friend
and share what’s on your mind and in
your heart.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20). Travel
will grow your mind and spirit in a way
that can’t be duplicated through any
other experience. You feel drawn to
see a place. If you go there and totally
immerse yourself in it, you’ll quickly
get what you need. Arrange it. This is
doable. The financial part will work out
once you dedicate yourself.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21). There
are two kinds of problems: “yours” and
“theirs.” You’re really good at differentiating the two, but much depends on
what you do with the information. If you
ignore your own determination you
could quickly turn a “their” problem into
a “your” problem. If you take it on, just
be clear about your reasons.
CANCER (June 22-July 22). You’ll
be tempted by beautiful, potential-filled
and completely unnecessary items.
This is a hoarder’s dream, but you’re
no hoarder. You don’t want your life to
get cluttered with junk, not even good
junk — because it could keep you from
pursuing meaningful goals. Getting
clear on those goals will save you
money.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Bottom line,
if you’re not being stimulated enough
you will lose momentum, joy, a sense
of purpose and energy in general.
That’s why you need the juicy challenges — the new places, the people
who make you think and laugh and try,
the goals that make you feel small, but
also determined and able.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). Compassion is more than sympathy, pity
and concern. It’s a love that goes
deeper than that, resonating with the
very core of your humanity, making you
feel connected to all things and
therefore simultaneously bigger and
more vulnerable. Your compassion will
be the power that obliterates fear and
elevates your existence.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). Taking
care of loved ones can feel like an
honor and a privilege, especially when
they seem to appreciate it. Then there
are those trying times when they take
you for granted. It happens, but don’t
let it go on for long. Distance yourself a
bit, and let them feel the void that
creates. You’ll be doing you both a
favor.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). Maybe
the truth does hurt. But after that, it
can go a lot of different directions:
liberty, humor and healing, to name a
few. Maybe not today, and maybe not
tomorrow, but as time goes on you’ll
have less resistance to (and derive
more benefit from) telling it like it is
and hearing it that way, too.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). If
you’re always comfortable inside the
cage, it’s not a cage; it’s a nest.
Uncomfortable moments will show you
the boundaries, some of them more
fixed than you thought. Your own
independence day may not be July
4th, but it’s the start of your own
personal revolution.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19).
Getting more joy and laughter in your
life is a matter of placing yourself in the
direct influence of funny people,
entertainment and happy environments
and then maintaining the open and free
perspective that allows for maximum
mirth. The efforts you make in this
regard will enrich your life.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). If
you doubt yourself and then someone
else doubts you, it will be easy to
conclude that you’re both right. But
two doubts don’t make it so. Also, you
don’t have to wait until you know your
answers are correct to believe in
yourself. Believe in your ability to figure
it all out.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). Take
care of practical matters first. Once
the logistics of a situation are solved,
the other components (most notably,
the emotional and motivational) will fall
into place. It will be easier to feel good
about what’s happening when everyone
isn’t worried about getting from here to
there in a comfortable and timely
manner.
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Badlandz, Jokers Comedy Club (509-551-8861), Richland ..................................................... 10
Toga Party with HiLarryOus Entertainment, Emerald of Siam (509-946-9328), Richland ........ 9
Badlandz, Jokers Night Club (509-943-1173), Richland ......................................................... 9:30
Sonic Shaman - Ambient, Emerald of Siam (509-946-9328), Richland ...................................... 5
Piracy Conspiracy - Reggae from San Diego, Emerald of Siam (509-946-9328), Richland ... 9
Kenny Day - R&B/Soul, Emerald of Siam (509-946-9328), Richland ........................................ 5
Live music & jam w/ Mondo Ray, Longbranch Bar & Grill (509-205-4767), Finley ................ 5
I, The Creator, other metal groups, Emerald of Siam (509-946-9328), Richland ...................... 6
Amber & Amber Show - Karaoke & More, Emerald of Siam (509-946-9328), Richland .......... 9
Ink, Paint & Game Club, Emerald of Siam (509-946-9328), Richland ........................................ 8
Mary Lou & Stevie Show - Retro-Pop, Emerald of Siam (509-946-9328), Richland ............... 6
Geeks Who Drink - Pub Trivia, Emerald of Siam (509-946-9328), Richland ............................ 8
Steve Carver - Jazz Piano, Emerald of Siam (509-946-9328), Richland .................................. 5
Strangled Darlings - Folk punk from Portland, Emerald of Siam (509-946-9328), Richland ... 10
John Crigler - Jazz Piano, Emerald of Siam (509-946-9328), Richland .................................... 5
Vaughn Jensen Band, Jokers Night Club (509-943-1173), Richland ..................................... 9:30
Boatrace Weekend, Marceline, Badland Nomad - Rock, Emerald (509-946-9328) ................ 9
The New Triumph - Funk/Afrobeat from Seattle, Emerald of Siam (509-946-9328), Richland 9
Bridgette Austin - Singer/Songwriter, Emerald of Siam (509-946-9328), Richland .................... 5
Live music & jam host: Mondo, Longbranch (509-205-4767), Finley ........................................ 5
Ballroom Dancing, live swing music, Pasco Eagles (509-946-6276), Pasco ........................... 1
Jam night with Vaughn Jensen, Emerald of Siam (509-946-9328), Richland ............................ 8
BitchCraft presents 18 & Over Drag Show , Out & About (509-531-5918), Pasco ................. 10
Noche Caliente with Vida Amore y Divas Latinas, Out & About (509-531-5918), Pasco ...... 10
The Sextones - Soul/Funk from Reno, Emerald of Siam (509-946-9328), Richland ............. 10
Ballroom Dancing, Easy Swing Dance Band, Community Center (509-946-5385), Richland 1
Black Rose Concept Band, Jokers Night Club (509-943-1173), Richland ............................ 9:30
Snug Harbor - Soul/Funk from Bellingham, Emerald of Siam (509-946-9328), Richland ......... 9
Blu Meadows - Afro-Cuban/Funk/Reggae, Emerald of Siam (509-946-9328), Richland ......... 9
Weekly Live music & jam w/ Mondo Ray, Longbranch Bar & Grill (509-205-4767), Finley .. 5
Don t Panic - Art and More, Emerald of Siam (509-946-9328), Richland ................................... 6
Grant Sabin - Blues/Roots/Soul from CO, Emerald of Siam (509-946-9328), Richland ........... 8
Dancing Plague of 1518 w/Technological Taxidermy, Emerald (509-946-9328), Richland ... 10
Stompin Ground, Jokers Night Club (509-943-1173), Richland ............................................. 9:30
Jami Cooper - Singer/Songwriter, Emerald of Siam (509-946-9328), Richland ........................ 5
If Birds Could Fly - Folk/Americana from VA, Emerald of Siam (509-946-9328), Richland ..... 9
Mondo Ray & friends Live music & open mic jam, Longbranch (509-205-4767), Finley ....... 5
3rd Half w/The Drag - Americana/Blues/Rock, Emerald of Siam (509-946-9328), Richland .. 9
Three Rivers Saxtette - Saxophone Quartet, Emerald of Siam (509-946-9328), Richland ..... 5
Wabi Sabi - Jazz Fusion, Emerald of Siam (509-946-9328), Richland ...................................... 9
Live music & open mic jam, Longbranch Bar (509-205-4767), Finley ...................................... 5
The Shades (Dance), WineNotes Wine Bar/Chicken Shack (509-967-1807), West Richland . 7
The Shades, ‘Date Night at the Pointe’, Port of Pasco Osprey Pointe (509-546-3370), Pasco 7
The Shades & Colorblind ‘End of Summer Bash’, Clover Island (509-586-0541), Kennewick 6
Dance, WineNotes Wine Bar/Chicken Shack (509-967-1807), West Richland ......................... 7
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133rd Army Band - Free, Gesa Power House Theatre (509-529-6500), Walla Walla .............. 6
QuarterFlash/Martin Gerschwitz, Ione Amphitheater (541-422-7243), Ione, OR ....................... 4
Faith & Bobby:Hermiston 4th of July, Flat Top Park (541-425-5555), Hermiston ...................... 4
The Shades:Hermiston 4th of July , Flat Top Park (541-425-5555), Hermiston ........................ 6
Abbey Road -’Thunder on the Island’, Clover Island Inn (509-586-0541), Kennewick ............ 6
Abby Road - ‘Thunder on the Island’ , Clover Island Inn (509-586-0541), Kennewick ............ 6
Badlandz Outdoor Concert , Rattlesnake Mtn Harley-Davidson (509-551-8861) Kennewick 12
KISS, Toyota Center (ticketmaster.com), Kennewick ............................................................. 7:30
Stompin Ground - ‘Thunder on the Island’, Clover Island Inn (509-586-0541), Kennewick ..... 6
David Luning (Americana/Folk/Rock), Power House Theatre (509-529-6500), Walla Walla . 7
Basin Summer Sounds Free Music Festival , (509-754-4636), Ephrata ................................... 5
Basin Summer Sounds Free Festival, Grant Co. Courthouse (509-754-4656), Ephrata ......... 5
Basin Summer Sounds Free Music Festival, (509-754-4656), Ephrata .................................. 11
Zac Brown Band, Round-Up Stadium (pendletonroundup.com), Pendleton .............................. 5
Norway’s Martine Kraft, Hapo Community Stage (martinekraft.com), Richland ....................... 7
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Soundwall - ‘Thunder on the Island’, Clover Island Inn (509-586-0541), Kennewick ............... 6
Junkyard Jane - ‘Thunder on the Island’ , Clover Island Inn (509-586-0541), Kennewick ..... 6
Jazz in the Valley, Main Stage: 4th & Pearl & 10 venues (509-929-1291), Ellensburg
Fallout - ‘Thunder on the Island’, Clover Island Inn (509-586-0541), Kennewick ..................... 6
3rd Date- ‘Thunder on the Island’, Clover Island Inn (509-586-0541), Kennewick .................... 6
Bronze Blues & Brews, Joseph City Park (bronzebluesbrews.com), Joseph, OR ......... 11:30
Wasteland Kings - ‘Thunder on the Island’ , Clover Island Inn (509-586-0541), Kennewick ... 6
The Buckinghams, Columbia Crest Winery (columbiacrest.com), Paterson ............................ 7
Crystal Gayle, Columbia Crest Winery (columbiacrest.com), Paterson ................................... 7
Jeff Beck & Buddy Guy, Maryhill Winery Amphitheater (maryhillwinery.com), Goldendale ... 7
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Tumbleweed Music Festival, Howard Amon Park (tumbleweedfest.com), Richland
Chris Isaak, Maryhill Winery Amphitheater (maryhillwinery.com), Goldendale ....................... 7
Sawyer Brown, Outdoors, Clover Island (cloverislandinn.com), Kennewick .......................... 5
Seattle Rock Orchestra Performs Pink Floyd, Power House (509-529-6500), Walla Walla .... 7
Casting Crowns, Toyota Center (ticketmaster.com), Kennewick .............................................. 7
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MCMT ‘Annie Get Your Gun’, Reach Museum, outdoors (509-539-8693), Richland .......... 7:30 pm
‘Fiddler on the Roof’, CBC Theatre (509-542-5531), Pasco ................................................... 7:30 pm
New Old Time Chautauqua Parade, Workshops, Vaudeville (509-382-4825), Dayton ...... 12 Noon
‘Fiddler on the Roof’, CBC Theatre (509-542-5531), Pasco ................................................... 7:30 pm
‘Musical of Musicals (The Musical)’ - Dinner Theatre, CBC (509-542-5531), Pasco ........ 5:30 pm
Shanghai Acrobats of China, Capitol Theatre (509-853-ARTS), Yakima
Adam Trent - Magician, Gesa Power House Theatre (509-529-6500), Walla Walla ................. 7 pm
‘Once’, Capitol Theatre (509-853-ARTS), Yakima
COMEDY
Jul 7- 9
Jul 14- 16
Jul 21- 23
Jul 27
Jul 28- 30
Oct 14
Steven Briggs, Jokers Comedy Club (509-943-1173), Richland ................................................ 8
Nick Guerra, Jokers Comedy Club (509-943-1173), Richland ................................................... 8
Lance Woods, Jokers Comedy Club (509-943-1173), Richland ................................................ 8
Dan Cummins, Jokers Comedy Club (509-943-1173), Richland ............................................... 8
Keith Nelson, Jokers Comedy Club (509-943-1173), Richland .................................................. 8
‘The Complete History of America Abridged’, Capitol Theatre (509-853-ARTS), Yakima
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SPECIAL EVENTS
Jul 1
Summer Picnic, Senior Center, 720 Sprague (509-527-3775), Walla Walla ............................ 11 am
Jul 1- 2
Toppenish Rodeo, Toppenish Rodeo Grounds - 600 S. Division (509-864-5566) ............... 7:30 pm
Jul 1- 2
Blueberry Festival, Bill’s Berry Farm (509-882-3200), Grandview ........................................... 9 am
Jul 1- 3
Wildhorse Pow Wow, Wildhorse Resort (800-654-9453), Pendleton .......................................... 7 pm
Jul 2
‘Beep’Baseball, Gesa Stadium (509-735-0699), Pasco .......................................................... 6:15 pm
Jul 4
Hapo Grand Ole 4th, Memorial Park (pasco-wa.gov), Pasco .............................................................
Jul 4
River of Fire, Columbia Park (Townsquare Media), Kennewick .........................................................
Jul 5
Beer & Seafood Dinner, Wingman Birdz + Brewz (509-529-2199), Walla Walla ....................... 6 pm
Jul 6- 9
Elgin Stampede, Rodeo Arena (541-963-8588), Elgin, OR
Jul 8- 9
‘Cool Rides’ Car Show, McKenzie Park (541-567-6151), Hermiston ........................................ 9 am
Jul 8- 9
Brews by the Blues, Junior Show Grounds, Hwy 11 (541-938-5563), Milton-Freewater ....... 1 pm
Jul 9
Outdoor Concert, Rattlesnake Mountain Harley. 19th & 395 (509-551-8861), Kennewick . 12 Noon
Jul 9
WAAAM Traffic Jam, Car Show & Swap Meet , (541-308-1600), Hood River, OR ............... 8 am
Jul 9
Worship & prayer with Brandon Bee, Calvary Chapel (509-736-2086), Kennewick .............. 7 pm
Jul 9
Community Days & Car Show, Downtown (509-539-2557), Goldendale
Jul 9, 10
Athena Caledonian Games, City Park (541-566-3880), Athena, OR ......................................... 8 am
Jul 11
Second Saturday at WAAAM, Air & Auto Museum (541-308-1600), Hood River, OR ............. 9 am
Jul 15
Gay Skate with Atomic City Roller Girls, Rollarena (509-531-5918), Richland ................... 3:30 pm
Jul 15- 16 La Grande ‘Crazy Days’, (541-963-8588), La Grande, OR
Jul 16
Foodstock, Blue Mountain Station Food Park (509-382-2577), Dayton .................................... 11 am
Jul 16
Spin-In - Summer Fiber Arts Festi, Sage Bluff Alpacas, (509-786-4507), Prosser ................ 11 am
Jul 16
Prosser Art Walk & Wine Gala, Downtown (509-786-3177), Prosser ........................................ 6 pm
Jul 16
Basin Summer Sounds Car & Toy Show and Shine, Basin St. (509-750-6183), Ephrata ....... 8 am
Jul 23- 29 Walla Walla Dance Festival, Various venues (509-240-3428), Walla Walla
Jul 27
Poetry Slam, Storytelling, Open Mic, Emerald of Siam (330-705-5966), Richland ............. 7:30 pm
Jul 29
Buffalo Wing-Eating Contest, Wingman Birdz + Brewz (509-529-2199), Walla Walla ............... 6 pm
Jul 29- 30 Art in the Park, Howard Amon Park (galleryatthepark.org), Richland ........................................ 9 am
Jul 29, 30, 31 Water Follies Columbia Cup, Columbia Park (waterfollies.com), Kennewick
Jul 30
Irrigon Watermelon Festival, Marina Park (541-571-8541), Irrigon, OR ................................... 11 am
Jul 30
Hunt and Gather Vintage in the Park, John Dam Plaza (509-430-2151), Richland ................... 9 am
Aug 3- 6
Union County Fair, Fairgrounds (541-963-8588), La Grande, OR
Aug 4- 6
Creation Fest NW, Benton Co. Fairgrounds (creationfest.com), Kennewick
Aug 9- 13 Uamtilla County Fair, Fairgrounds (umatillacounty.net), Hermiston
Aug 13
Aug 13
Crime Stoppers Drink Wine & Solve a Crime, Southridge Complex (509-582-1351), Kenn. 10 am
Aug 17- 20 Morrow County Fair, Fairgrounds (541-676-9474), Heppner, OR ............................................. 8 am
Aug 19- 21 Milton-Freewater Rocks Festival, Yantis Park, DeHaven St. (541-938-5563) .................... 12 Noon
Aug 21
Ice Cream Social, Fort Walla Walla Museum (509-525-7703), Walla Walla ............................ 10 am
Sep 2- 4
Tumbleweed Music Festival, Howard Amon Park (tumbleweedfest.com), Richland
Sep 9- 10 Wheelin’ Walla Walla, Downtown (509-529-8755), Walla Walla .................................................. 9 am
Sep 10- 11 Annual Hood River Fly-In, 600 Air Museum Road (541-308-1600), Hood River, OR ............. 8 am
Sep 17
Model A Day at WAAAM, Air & Auto Museum (541-308-1600), Hood River, OR .................. 10 am
Oct 2
PNW Mustang Club Concours d’Elegance , Columbia Crest (509-591-9285), Paterson ......... 9 am
Oct 8
Oct 8
‘Dancing with the W2 Stars’ Fundraiser,Power House Theatre (509-529-6500), Walla Walla . 7 pm
Nov 12
Dec 10
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with Pastor Harry Thomas
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CLASSES AND ACTIVITIES
Jul 14
Jul 19
Jul 23
Jul 24
Aug 11
Aug 18
Planning & Planting Fall Crops, Demonstration Garden, (509-735-3551), Kennewick ........ 6:30
Pioneer Kids Camp, Fort Walla Walla Museum (509-525-7703), Walla Walla ...................... 8:30
Waltz Workshop, Pasco Eagles (509-586-7609), Pasco ........................................................... 10
Wine & Watercolors - ‘Peacock Feather’, Holy Mac and Deli (509-430-8633), Kennewick ..... 1
Terrarium Class For Families, Demonstration Gardent (509-735-3551), Kennewick .......... 6:30
Brews and Brushes Winter Forest Sunset, Paper Street Alehouse (509-430-8633), Richland 6
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SPORTS
Jul 21- 25
Jul 23
Jul 26- 31
Jul 30
Aug 1- 5
Aug 19- 20
Showdown at the Loops, Maryhill Loops Road (experiencegoldendale.com), Goldendale
Swing for Life Golf Tournament for Pregnancy Network, Canyon Lakes (509-491-1101)
Chief Joseph Days Rodeo, Harley Tucker Memorial Arena (541-432-1015), Joseph, OR .... 7
Hardhat Classic Golf Tournament, Palouse Ridge (hardhatclassic.wsu.edu), Pullman ........... 7
Soccer Camp, Reata Springs Baptist Church, 2881 Leslie (509-308-6657), Richland ............ 6
Oregon Trail Pro Rodeo, (541-676-9474), Heppner, OR ............................................................. 7
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By Pastor Harry Thomas
ack in 1972, my wife Margery and I
started Come Alive Ministries with a
burden to reach youth with the new
music that largely came out of the
Jesus Movement. God gave me a vision
in prayer of thousands of youth on a
hillside. I did not know what that meant,
but I interpreted it to mean mass media.
We left the pastorate and launched the
Come Alive Show and evangelistic
efforts.
In 1973, I attended an early festival
called “Jesus ’73” in Morgantown,
Pa. While sitting in the crowd, Margery
said to me, “The Lord told me you are
going to be involved in this type of
ministry.”
Since then, we launched Creation
Festivals in 1979 and never looked
back. Over these years we have seen
many of the great founders of Christian
music grace our stages. Over 55,000
have given their lives to Christ and we
have helped to sponsor over 40,000
children through our partnership with
Compassion International. Our heart is
for youth and for the Gospel of Christ
to be presented to this generation. We
know that through music, and the
gathering of a community of believers,
lives will be changed for eternity.
In 1998 we sensed God’s call once
again, to walk out this mission in the
Northwest when we learned that “Jesus
Northwest” would not
be continuing. Amazingly, God opened
the doors for us to be at the Gorge
Amphitheater for 12 years, then
Enumclaw and now in Kennewick,
Washington! Now we are holding our
19th festival in the great Northwest.
We give all the glory to Jesus for the
thousands upon thousands of lives
impacted by the festivals since the
beginning in 1979. Our desire is to
translate the Gospel into music that
relates to youth and to challenge them
with God’s Word to know and follow
Christ.
We hope to see you at Creation
Northwest 2016 in Kennewick. It could
be the Highlight of your summer, and
maybe your life!
Leadership Hermiston seeks recruits
Leadership Hermiston is a 10-month program with 9 full-day sessions and one
half-day session once a month designed to expose participants to current
issues facing the Hermiston area.
During the sessions, participants will work with local leaders to expand
awareness and understanding of unique issues and challenges facing this
community and our region. The program provides exposure and better opportunities for an active and effective”role in addressing community needs and gained
knowledge in education, state and local government, health, human needs and
services, history, economic development, agriculture, technology and the Media.
This program is designed to educate, enhance, develop and train future
leaders to participate in key decision-making positions on community and
regional boards, and be more informed upon completion of this program.
To register for the program you can download the application at
hermistonchamber.com, send email to info@hermistonchamber.com or call the
Hermiston Chamber of Commerce at (541)-567-6151
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