Apple Pie Jamboree is an annual community fundraiser supporting Pateros youth programs. This year, the event is virtual: pies, T-shirts, and raffle buttons may all be ordered online. Visit the Apple Pie Jamboree Facebook page to order: http://www.facebook.com/ApplePieJamboree. A popular event for over 70 years, proceeds from the Apple Pie Jamboree support youth programs in […]
VALLEY LIFE
Winthrop: June 24, 2020
Experiencing art just got more convenient for Methow Valley residents and visitors, with the reopening of the Winthrop Gallery last Friday (June 19). Although it is a “modified reopening,” says gallery board president and member artist Don McIvor, the Riverside Avenue gallery is open Friday through Monday each week, staffed by a member artist. An […]
Mazama: June 24, 2020
Since “soup” doesn’t begin with “A” and “nuts” doesn’t begin with “Z,” one might wonder what the derivation of the phrase “from soup to nuts” actually is. (Well, at least this “one” wondered.) The U.S. colloquialism is generally defined as meaning “from beginning to end” — everything from A to Z. Come to find out, the idiom […]
Twisp: June 17, 2020
Like many, the events in the last few weeks have focused attention and self-awareness of my own biases, racism in our country, and our complacency in it. The Black Lives Matter silent march on Friday in Twisp was a necessary outlet and show of solidarity for many who have benefitted from white privilege and needed […]
Winthrop: June 17, 2020
Six years ago, I interviewed Cyndy and Jerry Oliver about the new shop they had opened at a prominent Winthrop location. Since then the Olivers have poured thousands of cups of coffee, cut hundreds of yards of quilting fabric, and hosted countless birthday parties, baby showers, and meetings. Now, 3 Bears Café and the 4 […]
Mazama: June 17, 2020
Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld’s “unknown unknowns” response to a question posed to him at a news briefing on Feb. 12, 2002, led to some ridicule and fodder for late-night talk shows. It did sound funny at the time: “some things we don’t know we don’t know.” What kind of sense did that make? […]
Lower Valley: June 10, 2020
Congratulations 2020 graduates! What a long strange year it has been for you. Banal platitudes pale in comparison to national events. You’re entering a world on the cusp of change, in the middle of a pandemic. “Be the change you want to see in the world,” must weigh heavy on your shoulders. You are not […]
Twisp: June 10, 2020
A festive atmosphere sparked joy and warmed hearts as friends and neighbors showed up in mass to honor the grads along Glover Street Friday afternoon. While we all gathered to cheer and congratulate the 2020 grads, the jubilance was made all the more meaningful for residents who, after months social distancing, finally, saw familiar faces […]
Winthrop: June 10, 2020
On March 16, the last day that the Methow Valley School District was open for on-site learning for students, I picked up my kids after school. The parking lot was more vacant than usual, as many families kept their kids home that day, after hearing the governor’s decision about school closures three days prior. As […]
Mazama: June 10, 2020
When I was 10 years old, my mom took us three kids on a train from Montana to Florida to visit her parents. Everything I saw out the windows on that long train ride across country was wondrous and fantastical to me: the endless cornfields of Nebraska, the expanse of the big cities like Minneapolis […]
