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| The Dalles Chamber of Commerce E-Newsletter |
August 17, 2010 | |
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Dear Member,
Greetings! This weekend is packed full of fun and excitement! From the Wasco County Fair to the Maryhill Arts Festival, you won't want to miss out. Make sure you check
out the What's Happening section for more
events.
Don't forget that the Chamber is here to help you promote your
business so send us your news items and promotions. We'll make sure that they
are seen by your fellow chamber members and others in the community.
Sincerely,
Salvador Miramontes Jr., Marketing and Communications
Coordinator
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Wasco County Board of
County Commissioners
Regular Session Agenda
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 18, 2010
LOCATION: WASCO COUNTY COURTHOUSE,
COUNTY COURTROOM #202
511 Washington Street, The Dalles, Oregon
9:00 a.m. OPEN TO PUBLIC
9:30 a.m. OPEN TO DEPARTMENTS
10:00 a.m. SECOND PUBLIC HEARING
On the formation of the Tygh Valley Rural Fire Protection District.
10:30 a.m. CONTINUATION OF
PUBLIC HEARING
To consider the adoption of an Ordinance designating the Offices of Wasco County Commissioner as Nonpartisan Offices; referred for the November, 2010 General Election.
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City Council
Candidate Filing
Deadline is August 24, by
5PM
Information packets are now available for citizens interested in
running for the following City elected offices: Mayor; Councilor at Large;
Council Position #1 (west district); and Council Position #3 (east
district). The positions will be elected at the November 2, 2010, General
Election.
Minimum qualifications include: the candidate must be a
registered voter and reside within the city limits at least 12 months
immediately before being elected or appointed to office. If the candidate will
represent a district, the candidate must reside in the specific district from
which the person seeks nomination for a period of 90 days prior to the
election. No person may be a candidate at a single election for more than one
elective City office.
Candidates and/or Chief Petitioners may obtain
nominating petitions & additional info from the City Clerk's Office,
313 Court Street, The Dalles.
Deadline for filing nominating petitions
for City positions is August 24, 2010,
5:00PM.
For more information see the City's website:
www.ci.the-dalles.or.us.
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Join Us: Maryhill Arts Festival & Shakespeare in the Gardens
August 21 & 22, Maryhill Museum of Art
Don't miss this fabulous weekend featuring over 60 artists working in a variety of media, live music and theater, food and hands-on art for families. Best of all, it's FREE!
SATURDAY, AUGUST 21 from 10AM to 5PM.
SUNDAY, AUGUST 22 from 10AM to 4PM.
Family Fun: Under the Big Tent
Saturday & Sunday, from 1PM-4PM
Explore your creativity at the Maryhill Art Tent with free drop-in art activities open to all ages.
On Family Fun days children under 17 are admitted to the museum FREE all day with one paid adult admission.
Sun Viewing!
Saturday & Sunday, All Day
The Goldendale Astronomy Club will give visitors an opportunity to view the sun through specially filtered telescopes.
Special Outdoor Exhibit
Saturday & Sunday, All Day
This year's featured exhibitor is the Oregon Glass Guild, whose membership includes many Columbia River Gorge glass artists. Live Theater: The Comedy of Errors
Saturday, Aug. 21 at 7PM
Pull
up a picnic blanket or lawn chair in the museum's Outdoor Sculpture
Garden and enjoy a free performance of "The Comedy of Errors" presented
by Portland Actors Ensemble. Made possible through a generous donation
from Judith Lackstrom and Robert Morrow.
For more information visit: www.maryhillmuseum.org
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What's
Happening
Your Guide to Local Happenings 8/18 -
8/28
7/01- Outdoor
Sculpture Garden
10/3 Maryhill Museum of Art
www.maryhillmuseum.org
7/01- William Morris: Native
Species
9/6 Maryhill Museum of Art
www.maryhillmuseum.org
8/01- "Baskets Tell a Story"
10/10 Museum
at Warm Springs
Info: 541-553-3331
www.warmsprings.com/museum
www.maryhillwinery.com
3-28 Gorge Artists Create Open Juried
Show @ The Dalles Art Center
Opening
Reception Aug. 5, 5-7pm
18 The Dalles
Rotary Club Meeting
Noon @ the Civic Auditorium
18 Chris Dudley @ Casa El Mirador - 6PM
Republican candidate for OR Governor
19 The Dalles Kiwanis
Meeting
Noon @ Spooky's
19-22 Wasco Co. Fair & Tygh Valley
Rodeo
19 Business After Hours
Mill Creek
Point Assisted Living
Chamber Members & Guests
Info: TDACC 541.296.2231
20-22 The
Dalles High School Class of 1960
50th Class Reunion -
Shilo Inn The Dalles
Info: Judy Reynolds, 541.389.4484
21 The Dalles Farmers Market
City Park (5th & Union)
8AM - 1PM
21 Wasco County's Original Court House
By Karl Vercourteren: 2PM - FREE
@ the Rorick House, 300 W. 13th
21 The Comedy of Errors
Sculpture Garden @ Maryhill Museum
7PM - 9PM. FREE
www.maryhillmuseum.org
21 FREE Chemical Roundup
@ hazardous waste center of
The Dalles Disposal - 9AM to 2PM
Details: 541.506.2636
www.tricountyrecycle.com
21-22 Maryhill Arts Festival
@ the Maryhill Museum of Art
Mexican Fiesta Dinner on Grand Lawn
5PM & catered by Casa El Mirador
Info: 509.773.3733
www.maryhillmuseum.org
22 Fourth Sunday at the Fort
FREE Concert Series
@ Fort Dalles Museum
4PM - 6PM, featuring: The Dufur Boys
22 Garden Party at Sakura Ridge
Benefit for Opportunity Connections
Event Time: 3-6PM
Info: 541.386.2636
23 Riding the Ghost Rails: Continues
Railroad Stories Along the Deschutes
@ the Discovery Center, 1PM
Info: Roxie, 541.296.8600
24 Gorge Nonprofit Collaborative
Brown Bag Lunch Series:
Individualized Help from a
Social Media Techie; 12PM-1:30PM
Skyline Hospital Community Room
Cost of $10. Sign up/Info: see below
www.gorgenonprofitcollaborative.org
24 The Dalles Lions Club Meeting
Noon @ Spooky's
24-28 Sherman County Fair & Rodeo
25 The Dalles
Rotary Club Meeting
Noon @ the Civic Auditorium
25 Live Music @ Imperial River Co.
Barbara Chamberlin & Terry Robb
Starts @ 8PM, All Ages, NO COVER.
Info: 800.395.3903
www.deschutesriver.com
26 The Dalles Kiwanis Meeting
Noon @ Spooky's
26-30 6th Annual Pacific NW Plein Air 2010
Paint Out & Write Out
Interested writers & artists visit
www.columbiaarts.org
27 Groove in the Gorge Dance Party
8PM-10PM, Paris Fair Event Space
315 Oak Street, 3rd Floor, Hood River
Cost of $8 at the door.
Info: 541.298.2378
28 The Dalles Farmers Market
City Park (5th & Union)
8AM - 1PM
28 Making Monotypes with Pastels
& Metallic Crayons
@ The Dalles Art Center
Info: 541.296.4759
28 Maryhill Winery 2010 Concerts
Earth, Wind & Fire; @ 7PM
www.maryhillwinery.com
28 Tournament Fishing: Columbia River
between TD Dam & John Day Dam
Info: 541.442.5079
28 A Day of Learning
9:30AM-3PM, CGCC, The Dalles
For parents of children w/disabilities &
professionals who work with them.
Info: 888.891.6784
www.orpti.org
28 WCHS Summer Outing to
Imperial River Company
in Maupin, OR; 12PM lunch & speaker
Registration/Info: Jan, 541.478.3429
28 Tour The Dalles Dam
11AM; over 16yrs. needs photo ID
Pre-registration required
Call: 541.506.7819
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Business After Hours at Mill Creek Point
Thursday, August 19, 5-7PM
Business
After Hours (BAH) events are the area's premier networking opportunities,
offering guests the chance to meet people representing products and
services in a relaxed, social setting.
Not only will you meet
representatives from the host company and caterer, but since BAH
attracts between 100 and 200 business members, there's no telling who
you'll see!
Join us this month Mill Creek Point on Thursday, August 19th, from 5-7PM. Mill Creek Point
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The Dalles City Council Agenda
No Meetings in August
There are no City Council Meetings in the month of August.
The next City Council meeting will be September 13th.
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Chamber Monthly Newsletters
Now Available Online
The Chamber of Commerce is pleased to announce the newest
feature on our website:
Our Chamber Monthly Newsletters.
To view this month's newsletter in pdf format click on this link: Chamber of Commerce Newsletters.
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Riding the Ghost
Rails: Historic Railroads of Wasco County
August 23 & 30, at the Discovery Center
Local
historian/storyteller Jerry Tanquist
will offer three audio-visual programs for history enthusiasts on the
constant movement of trains against the landscape on Mondays at 1PM featuring: "Railroad
Stories Along the Deschutes" (August 23rd),
and
"The Portage Railroads & the Celilo Canal" (August
30th).
Jerry grew up "at
the end of the line" in a small prairie town, and remembers watching trains at
the switch- back with his mother, the day an engineer invited him to ride with
him into the roundhouse. He first began researching railroads in '95, when he
and wife Betsy Johnson begin to find evidence of tracks cutting through their
property in The Dalles. Their neighbor on Fifteen Mile Road, Jack Kaiser, said
"That used to be the Great Southern," and Tanquist's hobby was born. The Great
Southern Railroad was built in 1905 from The Dalles to Dufur, and then on to
Friend. John Heimrich had a dream of laying rails from the Columbia River
all the way to San Francisco, thus the name "The GREAT Southern." Jerry has a
wealth of stories about the people who lived along the route, and its history
from beginning till end, in 1936. He even picked up a rare pair of Great
Southern tickets at a swap meet (on display at the Discovery Center).
Many people have
donated ghostly photos and oral histories to his collection. He claims "the
best stories come from railroad retirees," who have experienced everything from
the rails, like mentor Gary Conley, formerly of Union Pacific. "Railroad
Stories along the Deschutes" offers new episodes of the fierce competition between railroad tycoons J. Hill & E. Harriman; the Stand Off between their
forces at the Fred Girt place; a shooting at Oak Brook, the water cistern tale
of Tuscam, and the building of the Crooked River Bridge.
"The Portage
Railroads and the Celilo Canal," tells of lines constructed with the purpose of
making river traffic possible around Celilo Falls from 1863 on, including one
built in 1905 to serve as a shuttle for river traffic during the construction
of the Celilo Canal, until 1957.
Two decades after
the Oregon Trail brought pioneers to The Dalles in 1843, the railroads opened
the area up from the ocean to the tri-cities area. We still depend on railroads
for freight, and they are a great, environmentally friendly way move people,"
states Tanquist. No other form of travel is as social or scenic, and trains
are an enduring part of the romance and history of the Gorge.
The Discovery
Center & Wasco County Historical Museum is the official interpretive center
for the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area, located off 1-84 at exit 82,
5000 Discovery Drive, The Dalles, OR - (541) 296-8600 or
visit www.gorgediscovery.org
Open daily from
9AM-5PM. Adult admission is $8 and $7 for Seniors.
*Railroad
programs included with paid admission, FREE to Members.
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"Cowboy Boots
& Country Roots"
Wasco County Fair, August
19-22
Have a friendly
competition with your neighbors in exhibiting your produce,"get ether" after
harvest is over and take a look at the very latest in the equipment line - at the Wasco County Fair.
Dates and Events to remember:
Farmers Fun Day, Aug. 19
Antiques RoadShow,
Aug. 19
Zac Grooms & Unwound, Aug. 20
Donkey Race, Aug. 20 &
21
Run & Walk, Aug. 21
Coyote Creek Band, Aug. 21
Demolition
Derby, Aug. 22
Safeway's Free Breakfast, Aug. 22
2010 The Great Oregon
Grill
For
an Event Guide, visit: Wasco County Oregon
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Musical Blast At The Sunshine Mill
This week on August 18, 19 & 21
Wednesday, August 18 from 7PM - 10PM
Open MIC Night: hosted by Les Vaughn
PA system provided FREE for musicians & fans!
Thursday, August 19 from 6PM - 8PM
Flamenco, Tapas & Sangria: Vamos a la Mill!
Saturday, August 21 from 8PM - 10PM
Singer & Song Writer Ben Ballinger in the Amphitheatre: Ben is a very talented musician from The Dalles who plays folk music with compelling lyrics.
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Weekend at the Rorick House
Saturday, August 21, 2PM
Wasco County
Historical Society invites the public and its members to hear Karl Vercourteren share his knowledge on the "Wasco
County Original Court House" this weekend.
Saturday the 21st, 2:00 p.m., in the Rorick
House located at 300 W. 13th St. in The Dalles.
FREE event. Refreshments.
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Sherman County
Fair: Next Week
Tuesday-Saturday, August
24-28
The Sherman
County Historical Museum invites you to c'mon over to the Sherman County Fair.
4-H/FFA/Open Class
Contests, Oregon Trail Valley Boys, Carrie Cunningham & the 6 Shooters,
Paradise Rose Chuck Wagon, Demolition Derby, Geocache Challenge and a Barn
Dance to the music of Countryfied.
FREE admission to the
Museum during the fair.
More
info see: www.co.sherman.or.us and
www.shermanmuseum.org.
The Wasco Salmon/Steelhead Tournament is August 28th. Bring your
fishing gear!
See www.wascooregon.com for
details.
Visit the historic Wasco Railroad Depot Museum and History
Center! Stay on for dinner at the Lean To Café in Wasco or Bob's Texas T-Bone in
Rufus on the Columbia River!
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Summer Outing in
Maupin
Saturday, August 28,
12PM
With a registration deadline of August 18th, Wasco County
Historical Society invites the public and its members to its Summer Outing
in Maupin at the Imperial River Company for a 12PM
luncheon highlighted with a presentation by Imperial Stock Ranch owner Jeanne
Carver.
Dan & Jeanne Carver will host a tour of the historic Ranch
following the luncheon.
Further details and registration information
may be obtained from Jan Leininger, 541-478-3429.
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Beer Fest 2010: Coming Soon
September 11 @ the Civic Auditorium
The Civic
Auditorium Preservation Committee will be celebrating craft beers on September
11 at its 2010 Beer
Fest.
Ten breweries, some nationally known, such as Widmer, McMenimins and
Deschutes, have joined with local producers such as Full Sail and Double
Mountain, providing over 18 specialty beers for the beer lovers pleasure.
This
is a benefit fundraiser for the Civic and its plan to fully renovate the theatre. For $10, each
guest will receive a Civic commemorative glass
beer mug and 5 tokens, each good for a four ounce taste of one of these
specialty beers.
It will be a first time event
which the Civic plans to grow. Please
get behind this exciting event and join the Civic on September 11 from 1PM - 9PM. Sponsored by
Clock Tower Ales and Rivertap.
For more info, visit: www.thedallescivic.org
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Local
Promotions
Maryhill
Winery Concert Schedule
Earth, Wind & Fire - August 28th - 7:00
p.m. Maryhill Winery
Summer Concert Information
Rivertap Pub
Summer Hours
SUN-THURS Open at 4PM, FRI & SAT Noon -
Midnight HAPPY HOUR DAILY from 4-6PM Located next to TACO DEL MAR &
THE MINT. 701 E 2nd Street, Downtown The Dalles; (541)769-0059 OPEN EVERYDAY. www.rivertappub.com Go
with the flow.
Dave's Hometown Pizza Offers
Milkshake Mondays
Milkshakes for $2 with pizza purchase at regular
price. Get up to 2 with medium and 4 with large. Check us out at Dave's Hometown Pizza or
Facebook.
Come to Erin Glenn on Friday
NightsNorthwest grown music, food, and beverage! Enjoy our special
monthly dance party opportunities, as well! Also, follow our Twitter and
Facebook pages for more details about events and to give us feedback! We have
live music every Friday night from 7-10 pm or so. $5 cover charge (except where
noted) allows you to enjoy a wide variety of live music and monthly (or MORE)
dance parties! Along with great tunes, we offer a variety of tasty foods from
our menu. For more information click here: Erin Glenn
Wines at The Mint Columbia Laser Skin Center SpecialsFeatured
Product: JaneIredale Bronzer - 10% OFF
This Month Only. August Special: Microderm
Madness! Microdermabrasion Only $75Click on this link to see all the
current specials: Columbia Laser
Skin Center Specials. Cousin's Restaurant & SaloonRock Bottom
Wednesdays! A burger, beer, and bottomless fries for only $5.00! Available in
the Gandy Dancer Saloon from 4pm to 9pm! The best deal in town! Cousins' Rock
Bottom Wednesdays. Buffet Breakfast Sundays from 9am to 2pm
Meal comes with a variety of homemade
breakfast items and pastries and fresh fruits and waffle bar.
Adults are
$11.99, Seniors are $9.99 and kids eat for only $4.99. Come check us
out! Cups
For PupsGood Coffee-Good Causes. Mo Joe's coffee located at 400 East
Second Street, The Dalles has banned together with Home at Last Humane Society
for a good cause. When you purchase a coffee or smoothie from Mo Joe's $2 from
every cup sold goes to help homeless and unwanted pets at Home At Last, The
Dalles. Wasco County Historical
Society Current EventsWasco County Historical Society invites you to
the following free weekend activities @ the Rorick House, 300 W. 13th Street. Each activity begins at 2PM. Saturday, August 21, Karl Vercourteren, "Wasco County Original Court House." For more information visit: Wasco County
Historical SocietyWindseeker
Restaurant SpecialsEnjoy Singing? Karaoke on Thursdays, Fridays &
Saturdays from 9PM - 2AM at The Portside. We have brand new state of the art
Sound system. Come to the Portside and let us make you a star. The
Windseeker Restaurant Caters on site and off site for all your special
gatherings. Let us take care of the cooking for you partys, reunions
receptions, or special gatherings. Call 541-298-7171 for more
information. Why cook on Sundays? Bring your family to the Windseeker
for Sunday Brunch. Available every Sunday from 10AM - 2PM. What a great way to
spend time as a family. Enjoy the view of the Columbia River as you share a
delicious meal. The Windseeker Restaurant - The only river side dining
in town. Our deck is open and NOW SERVING. For more information: windseekerrestaurant.com. |
DID YOU KNOW?
"A dollar spent at a locally
owned store is usually spent 6-15 times before it leaves the community. From
$1, you create $5-$14 in value within your community."
"Spend $1 at a national
chain store and 80% of it leaves town immediately."
Quotes: Tim
Mitchell, first cited in 'E' Magazine - article available through the Northwest
Earth Institute's 'Changes For Sustainable Living' discussion course book.
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Introductory
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