Feb 25

Feb 25 Japanese drum Ensemble coming to TD; check out March's Library Newsletter

Art, Education, Entertainment, Positive News, The Dalles, Wasco County

Eight members of en Taiko, a youth Japanese taiko drum ensemble from Portland, will be here to entertain and educate us on Saturday, March 19th. This program will take place at 11:00 in the John and Jean Thomas Children’s Wing.

Feb 25

Feb 25 History Forum: Female Champ Bronc Rider acquitted of murder becomes stunt double

Karl Vercouteren

Entertainment, History, Wasco County, Positive News

Lorena Trickey was a three-time winner of the McAlpin Trophy for bronc, Roman, and relay riding at Cheyenne Frontier Days. In 1925 she won the bronc riding title at Chicago and several championships at Pendleton. She was also acquitted for putting a knife to her husband, ‘Smiling Slim’.

Feb 24

Feb 24 North Wasco County School District 21 Announces New Human Resources Director

North Wasco County School District 21

Education, Home Page

North Wasco County School District is pleased to announce the selection of Sandra Harris as the next Human Resources Director for the District. Harris, who has been serving as the Principal at The Dalles Middle School since 2015, will take the reins on her new role this coming July.

Feb 24

Feb 24 Health District Announces 3 New Board Members

North Central Public Health District

Wasco County, Home Page

New members of North Central Public Health District’s board of health include a former county commissioner from The Dalles, a former head of emergency services in Sherman County, and a retired science teacher who lives in Maupin.

Feb 24

Feb 24 Mask requirements to be nixed in Oregon on March 19; D21 to conduct survey

Columbia Community Connection

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Oregon will lift mask requirements for indoor public places and Oregon’s schools on March 19, Oregon Health Authority announced today. Feedback from school districts around the state indicated that preparations for the transition could be completed earlier.

Feb 24

Feb 24 Mumm-Hill named Executive Director at Mt. Adams Institute

Columbia Community Connection

Education, Environment, Klickitat County, Positive News

As the Vice President of Learning Experiences at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry, Deb Mumm-Hill led the camps, education, outreach, research, and exhibit-design teams.

Feb 24

Feb 24 Community College looking for a few good number crunchers

Columbia Community Connection

Home Page, Education, Hood River County, Wasco County

The Columbia Gorge Community College Board of Education seeks interested district electors in Hood River and Wasco Counties for consideration to be appointed to a three-year term as a Budget Committee member.

Feb 24

Feb 24 Locals invited to town hall on making Lyle Food Pantry mobile

Tammy Kaufman

Positive News, Klickitat County

"We also see an opportunity to expand service to other locations such as Dallesport, Wishram, Trout Lake, and perhaps at In Lieu sites to serve our Native communities," aid Leslie Naramore, WAGAP Executive Director. "A Mobile Food Pantry will allow us to do this."

Feb 23

Feb 23 Building Bridges on 3rd St, COVID-19 Protestors and Healthcare Workers Meet in the Middle

Cole Goodwin

Home Page, The Dalles

The interaction between healthcare workers and protestors on 3rd street could have been disastrous or even driven a rift in the community. Instead it taught everyone a little more about how to love and respect their neighbor.

Feb 22

Feb 22 This Week in Gorge Entertainment by Jim Drake - Feb. 22

Jim Drake

Art, Columns, Entertainment, Home Page

When it comes to live music, Jim Drake can get you plugged in. Our local columnist for entertainment Gorge-wide has a good sampling of coming shows and events, including Heather Marlow, Funkship, Mardi Gras, Take 3 Trio, Amber and the Pale Ales, Swindler, Kenny O3, Reddy Black Trio, Norman Baker, Jenny Jahlee, World’s Finest and Music Fest of The Gorge.

Feb 22

Feb 22 Think you Know Batman? He's 83, and he was not always a gadget guy

Jim Drake

Columns, Entertainment, Positive News

The 1949 incarnation of Batman is a good guy/bad guy crime-fighting drama, relying on old-fashioned police work to round up gangsters, and certainly not a techno-gadget-filled escapade with dozens of unstable villains.

Feb 22

Feb 22 Oregon Small Enterprise Fund Reopens Today

Columbia Community Connection

Home Page, The Dalles, Hood River County

$1.5 million will help immigrant-owned Oregon businesses impacted by the pandemic

Feb 22

Feb 22 Pastime turns Tavern in Dufur: Hard Liqs out, Family Friendly in

Jerald Hernandez

Business, Entertainment, Home Page, Wasco County

Heather Phillips, the manager of Kramer’s, and now the Dufur Valley Tavern, wants to run the business differently than its predecessors. Her main goal is to keep the Tavern as a restaurant rather than a bar.

Quick & Easy Wasco County Update: Covid-19 Cases Decreasing, MCCAC Requests Navigation Center Support from County, Public Works gets a New Excavator, and Tri-County Waste to launch new App

Feb 22

Feb 22 Quick & Easy Wasco County Update: Covid-19 Cases Decreasing, MCCAC Requests Navigation Center Support from County, Public Works gets a New Excavator, and Tri-County Waste to launch new App

Cole Goodwin

The Dalles, Home Page

The Wasco County Commissioners Meeting held their regularly scheduled meeting at 9 a.m. on February 16th, 2022 and encompassed topics such as a decrease in Covid-19 cases, MCCAC Navigation Center, purchasing a new excavator for public works, and Tri-County Waste preparing to launch a new App.

Feb 21

Feb 21 Native American Flute player will be in concert at TD's Old St. Pete's on Saturday

Columbia Community Connection

Art, Education, Entertainment, Environment, Home Page, The Dalles, Wasco County

A free concert by Native American Music Award-winning flute musician James Edmund Greeley from the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs will be held on Saturday, Feb. 26th at 7 p.m. in the wonderful Old St. Peter’s Landmark.

Feb 21

Feb 21 The Dalles High School Empowers Career Exploration in Graphic Design

North Wasco County School District 21

Education, Home Page, The Dalles, Positive News

The Dalles High School (TDHS) Graphic Design Teacher Paula Long is empowering students to explore careers in Graphic Design with hands-on design experience and skill set building.

Feb 19

Feb 19 Question of the Week: What’s something most people don’t know about you?

Cole Goodwin

Positive News, The Dalles, Home Page

This week’s question of the week asks people in our community to open up and share something about themselves that others in our community might not know about them.

Feb 18

Feb 18 Moving Pictures by Mo Burford: Review of Licorice Pizza

Mo Burford

Art, Columns, Entertainment, Home Page, Hood River County

And while the film doesn’t always make great choices around its characters, it is always making interesting choices with the camera. If there is any real romance in the film, it's between Anderson and the making of movies: his love of cinema is palpable.

Feb 18

Feb 18 Teacher leads TD High Students to sing out a Carnegie Hall dream

Tom Peterson

Art, Education, Home Page, The Dalles

TDHS Students Alex Rector and Iris Cruz recently vaulted onto the world stage at Carnegie Hall after years of singing in The Dalles. Their teacher Shawn Lutz said getting them on that stage in New York was the ultimate goal. Rector said the experience brought tears to her eyes as the girls saw how hard work led them to a great place.

Feb 18

Feb 18 Hermit, Bogeyman, Gentle Soul? Find out the truth this Saturday, Feb. 20

Karl Vercouteren

Education, History, Home Page

The story of John Woodruff, The Hermit of The Dalles, wagged tongues of older people and conjured mysteries of the bogey man for the children of this gentle man that lived in a cave above the Catholic Cemetary more than 100 years ago. Learn more about his interesting life in a history forum on Saturday, Feb. 20.

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