BY ASHLEY LODATO It’s pomp and circumstance time and two Liberty Bell High School alumni were part of Gonzaga University’s largest-ever graduating class. At the ceremony on May 12, Remington Rohrer and Waco Budiselich both received bachelor of business administration degrees. Remington has already been accepted into Gonzaga’s Masters of Accounting program, so will stay […]
VALLEY LIFE
May 15, 2013
BY ASHLEY LODATO According to anecdotal evidence, the ’49ers Day parade in Winthrop was the best-attended ever. At least, that’s how it seemed to those participating in the parade. I had planned to drop my kids off at the Methow Cycle & Sport staging area and then become a spectator as they rode through the […]
May 8, 2013
BY ASHLEY LODATO Darold Brandenburg took his “Bumblebee Car” to Wenatchee for the Les Schwab Classy Chassis Parade and Car Show over the weekend.The Bumblebee is a 1968 Chevrolet Chevelle Malibu convertible that Darold built to honor his two late sons, Chase and Jordan. The Bumblebee identity comes from the Transformers movie series; it’s a […]
April 10, 2013
BY ASHLEY LODATO Chelsea Miller became a nurse partly because she wanted to travel to other countries and connect with people. Growing up, she went on trips with her father, Don Miller (also a nurse), and got to see what it was like visiting other countries as a health care professional. When she found out […]
April 3, 2013
BY ASHLEY LODATO Even though it was the last week before spring vacation and everyone was antsy for a break, lots of things were going on at the elementary school. The week began with a visit from author and artist Betsy Bowen, whose woodcut art is well-known. (In fact, when my oldest daughter was […]
March 27, 2013
BY ASHLEY LODATO I overheard a couple of funny things in the valley this week. The first was at a performance that the Colombian band Cimarròn did for local schoolchildren. When the translator was introducing the different instruments to the students, he held up a bandola – an unmistakably pear-shaped guitar – and asked, […]
Feb. 20, 2013
BY ASHLEY LODATO About 165 skiers tackled one or more sections of the Tour of the Methow last Saturday, skiing anywhere from 5K to 80K on this non-competitive Nordic event that starts at Cub Creek and ends in Winthrop. With mixed weather ranging from sun to silver dollar-sized snowflakes to rain, the conditions made for […]
May 29, 2013
BY BOB SPIWAK Of course, it does not seem like an ordinary Monday morning. The Mazama Store was pretty well packed at the 7 a.m. opening and people just kept coming. There were about 16 big RVs and a few tents at the Edelweiss campground en route. Saturday’s Pancake Breakfast was a booming success and […]
May 22, 2013
BY BOB SPIWAK A large crowd congregated last Saturday at the Mazama Community Hall to pay final respects to Red McComb on a bright, sunny day. Jay Lucas led the way with a reading of Red’s obituary and followed this with an open invitation to the crowd to say a few words of remembrance about […]
May 15, 2013
BOB SPIWAK Last Saturday, bright and sunny, produced what may well be a record crowd in downtown Mazama. Even on the southern outskirts of downtown, cars were parked almost to the bridge over the river. As early as 8 a.m. the parking lot behind the Community Hall was mostly full and the Mazama Store parking […]
