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 […]
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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 […]
