Job Fair in Winthrop
The Winthrop Chamber of Commerce hosts a Spring Job Fair for high-schoolers and adults on Monday, April 24, at the Winthrop Barn. High school students are invited from 1-3 p.m.; from 3-5 p.m. the free event is open to all ages and experience levels.
About 20 employers and internship providers from the upper valley will be represented. For more information about being part of the job fair, email chamber@winthropwashington.com.
Help ‘Let’s Paint Downtown’ campaign
Donations are being accepted for the “Let’s Paint Downtown” campaign to repaint downtown Winthrop’s business buildings. Tax-deductible donations can be taken to the Bradshaw CPA office at 106 Bluff St. in Winthrop or mailed to P.O. Box 39, Winthrop, WA 98862. Credit card donations can be made at winthropwashington.com/paint.
The effort is spearheaded by Shotgun Nellies owner Nilsine Harris, with assistance from the Winthrop Chamber of Commerce and the town’s Westernization Design Review Board. Call Harris at (509) 996-8030 for information.
Volunteer painters, contractors and fundraisers are also being sought. The campaign’s goals is to fund repainting of downtown buildings between the two pedestrian bridges.
Culbert promoted at MVRU
Christa Culbert, of Twisp, has been named Associate Program Director for Methow Valley Riding Unlimited (MVRU). Culbert has been an MVRU employee since 2019. This spring, MVRU is welcoming back their horses and local students to the Crown S Ranch facility for the Methow Valley Elementary School Horse Club, weekly horsemanship lessons and the Let ’Em Ride program.
Dark Sky Coalition merges with MVCC
The Methow Dark Sky Coalition, a nonprofit that has worked to protect the valley’s nighttime skies from light pollution, is merging its operations in to the Methow Valley Citizens Council (MVCC), the coalition said in a news release.
“Our mission to ‘preserve and promote dark skies in the Methow Valley’ fits well within the MVCC mission to ‘protect the Methow Valley’s natural environment and rural character,’” the coalition said in the press release.
According to the coalition, it will operate as an “independent program of the MVCC, like Resilient Methow and Clean Air Methow.”
“We expect to benefit from the MVCC staff on communications, fundraising, policy actions, recruiting much-needed volunteers and administrative functions,” the coalition said. “We will maintain a separate entity through a separate website, mailing list and public image.”
The MVCC was formed in 1976 to oppose a ski resort proposed for Mazama. Since then, the organization has worked on a variety of issues affecting the valley’s environment, character and development.
Candidate and campaign training
Rural People’s Voice, a Winthrop-based nonprofit that works to advance policies, candidates and local actions that “champion working people’s issues” by identifying and assisting potential political leaders, is offering its first rural candidate and campaign team training on May 6 in Omak and on May 7 in Wenatchee, from 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m. each day. The sessions are free and are intended for people planning to run this year or are interested in running sometime in the future, as well as for campaign volunteers. For more information, email elana@ruralpeoplesvoices.org.
