Gorge Giggin’ Guide - Oct. 27 - Nov. 2

This week The Gorge Giggin’ Guide brings you The Best of The Halloween Season! It’s a Big Celebration - and The Guide has everything from a 80s Dance Party to a Classical Guitar concert for your Trick or Treat Needs! Save Room - because there’s a Day of the Dead Festival to add to your calendar - Have Fun and Get Out There!

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Fill Your Pantry returns November 7 with a new Saturday market format

The annual Fill Your Pantry market returns Saturday, November 7, with a slightly different approach this year. Rather than a separate one-day event, Fill Your Pantry will take place during the regular Hood River Farmers Market, bringing bulk buying and winter food storage to the market’s final stretch of the season.

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Helping Hands Welcomes New Executive Director, Honors 12 Years of Leadership in Hood River

This fall marks an exciting new chapter for Helping Hands as we welcome Kelsey Strand as our new Executive Director. Kelsey brings a background in engineering, leadership, and community service, along with a deep love for the Hood River community, which she has called home for the past ten years.

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Halloween in the Gorge: Witches, haunted houses, trick-or-treating and family fun fill October calendar

Witches will take over downtown The Dalles, haunted houses will welcome thrill-seekers, and costumed children will fill streets across the Columbia River Gorge as communities prepare for more than two weeks of Halloween celebrations.

From Goldendale and White Salmon to Hood River, Stevenson and The Dalles, the festivities begin Friday, Oct. 16, and continue through Halloween on Saturday, Oct. 31.

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Glen Canyon Institute and Friends of the White Salmon Present “What the River Knows” at Columbia Center for the Arts

Glen Canyon Institute and Friends of the White Salmon River will present “What the River Knows,” a documentary about the re-emergence of Glen Canyon from beneath Lake Powell, at 7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 26, in the Columbia Center for the Arts Theater, in downtown Hood River.

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Gorge Giggin’ Guide - Oct. 13-19

The week The Gorge Giggin’ Guide Gets Spooky - we’re Kicking Off the Halloween Season, which is Starting Early! Don’t worry, there’s still Plenty of Music to Get You Through - but start putting a Costume together Now - you’re Gonna Need it Soon! Have Fun and Get Out There!

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Thoughts from the Tractor Seat: One Furrow at a Time

I recently did that with an old horse-drawn walking plow that has been around our family for as long as I can remember. Across its faded red wooden beam, you can still make out some of the gold lettering:

Oliver Chilled Plow Works — South Bend, Indiana.


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Mid-Columbia Innovation Hub aims to help local entrepreneurs turn ideas into growing businesses

An entrepreneur with an idea for a new product may know exactly what they want to build but have no idea how to make a prototype. Another may have customers and a working business but be struggling to hire employees, buy equipment or find enough capital to expand.

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Columbia Gorge SBDC Announces 9-Month Management Programs for Local Retail and Restaurant Owners and Staff

The Columbia Gorge Community College Small Business Development Center (SBDC) has announced the launch of two comprehensive, nine-month business accelerator cohorts designed specifically for local business owners, managers, and key employees: the Retail Small Business Management Program and the Restaurant Small Business Management Program.

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