The Holiday Bazaar Roundup is your source for the latest information on The Gorge’s schedule for Holiday Bazaars and other Holiday Activities such as food drives, parades and making decorations.

What a weekend. This year’s Cherry Fest drew thousands this year as a 2 and half hour parade with more than 90 entries anchored the downtown festival that had kids clamoring for rides, fries and cherry pies. The smoked meat mac sandwich was another major bomb along with the foot-long corndogs. Earth Day events and the Quilt show added other great dimensions to the fest. See you there next year. In the meantime, take a look at all the fun we had!

The Snow Sisters and Goldendale Reindeer Farm are creating a ton of holiday magic for local youths this Christmas Season as they offer events around the Gorge. Tegan Shermikas takes along for the ride as the Sisters work their magic. Sounds pretty fun. We wish we were 5 again.

Activities include a color run/walk, pronoun button-making and “Let’s taco ‘bout it,” which will feature tacos, an informational discussion of LGBTQ+ issues and a viewing of the documentary Texas Strong. Interested people may RSVP for the events, request accessibility accommodations, and get the Zoom links by emailing EQUAL@cgcc.edu.

Find out what is happening at the libraries in Wasco County with this newsletter, which is packed full of events and activities.

Coming shows and events at The Ruins, Everybody’s Brewing, Grateful Vineyard, Bargeway Pub, Granada, River City Saloon, Zim’s, Columbia Center for the Arts, Mid-Columbia Community Concert Association, The Dalles Wasco County Library, The Dalles Eagles, Working Hands, The Pines, Downtown The Dalles, Bingen Theatre, Gorge Blues and Brews, Route 30, Cider Fest, Stone Hedge Gardens.

The gloves are coming off this weekend as The Dalles gets ready to rumble with a stellar set of Fourth of July festivities. Neighbor to neighbor, shoulder to shoulder. Volunteers have blown it out of the sky raising thousands of dollars to bring one of the premier fireworks displays in the entire Northwest with 22 plus minutes of bang and blast, oohs and ahs.