The Dalles Art Center will offer four Summer Art Camps from July 19th through August 12th with a new theme each week. Each camp will serve campers from 2nd through 5th grade.

You can run or walk one a 1 mile, 3k, or 5k along the Riverfront Trail, starting at Lewis & Clark Park on Monday, July 4th. All races start at 7 a.m. to beat the heat; you can register the day of at 6:30, or register in advance online. Click here to get the link.

Columbia Gorge Community College held an outdoor graduation ceremony in their amphitheater at 3 p.m. on Friday June 17th, 2022. CCCNews would like to extend our congratulations to the graduates on their hard work and perseverance!

Comunidades will host a community event to commemorate Juneteenth on Sunday, June 19th at the Riverside Community Church, 317 State St Hood River, OR 97031. The event will start at 3 p.m. and will end at 6 p.m.

Harley Newland and his wife, Julie, give column writer Sarah Cook a tour of their local landmark of a yard.

Wheat harvests in Oregon and Washington are forecasted to surpass 2021 yields by as much as 41 to 85 percent due to heavy rainfall and cooler spring and summer temperatures.

Gorge Youth Mentoring provides youth ages 6 to 21 with one-to-one mentoring relationships with adult volunteers in Wasco, Hood River, and Klickitat Counties. Mentors and youth plan their own activities, meeting at least twice a month for a year or more. Program staff provide consistent support for the youth and mentors, organize match events, and are available for ongoing guidance.

Updated June 15th, 2022 at 4:30 p.m. to include comments from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Communication between the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and local agencies appear to be lacking, resulting in unanticipated damages to public property.

The concern is that changes, such as rising air and water temperatures, are impacting weather patterns, affecting habitats for plants and animals, and increasing wildfire risk. “This Action Plan is the first of its kind for the National Scenic Area” stated Jessica Olson, Senior Natural Resources Planner who co-authored the plan. “With your help, we will add new information and ideas to improve the plan over time. Please share your comments and creative ideas with us. Where possible, specific suggestions and references to sections of the Management Plan are especially helpful.”

The main event is a 6-hour kiteboarding endurance race, designed to embody the battle that someone facing cancer endures every day. This year, the competition has expanded to include windsurfers, and wingfoilers.

On June 14th, around 9 a.m. there was a two car head-on motor vehicle accident on highway 14 just west of the Lyle tunnels that resulted in one fatality.

Early summer rains and cool temperatures in the pacific northwest region have set cherry growers in Oregon and Washington back a few weeks. But nevertheless, the Northwest cherry season has arrived.

On Monday June 13th, Mayor Rich Mays and The Dalles City Council honored six of the Riverhawk Track squad, in recognition of their high achievement at the State meet and their season- or two- of hard work.

On Saturday, June 11th gun safety supporters gathered for a “Rally For Our Lives” in Hood River, in concert with the March For Our Lives in Washington, DC and marches and rallies across the country. Two participants also collected signatures for the Reduction of Gun Violence Act, a gun safety initiative that needs 140,000 signatures to be placed on the statewide November ballot.

In celebration of Nature Photography Day on June 15, Friends of the Columbia Gorge has announced Jesenia Robles of Hood River, Oregon, as the grand prize winner of Our Gorge Connections, Friends’ seventh annual photo contest.

One journalist's search for housing in the Columbia River Gorge reveals LGBTQ+ housing struggles in rural Oregon and Washington and across the nation.

Read In Memory of Fifty Ghosts a poem by Cole Goodwin honoring the memory of the Pulse LGBTQ+ Night Club Shooting in Orlando, FL on June 12th, 2016.

On June 1st, 2022 Oregon Health Authority (OHA) and the Oregon Primary Care Association, One Community Health (OCH) opened two Test-to-Treat Centers at OCH clinics in Hood River and The Dalles. These centers are “one-stop shops” for COVID services such as rapid diagnostic testing, evaluations, and administering of anti-viral treatments such as Paxlovid and Molnupiravir on site.

Andrew Stanek of Spooky’s Pizza got quite a shock on Thursday morning, June 8, at about 9 a.m. when an employee showed up for work and said there was a man slumped over in a vehicle outside the restaurant.

Check out Maiden NW and this week’s roundup of shows and entertainment, including Zim’s, Granada, Route 30, Working Hands Beer, River City Saloon, Taphouse 64, Tabby’s Hole, Ruins, TD Arts Center, St. Peter’s Landmark, White Salmon Library, Grateful Vineyard, Jackson Park, The Dalles Library.