Many rally to show support

Joy Collins, 365-5102

Barbara Sexton, 365-5374

On Wednesday, June 13, about 150 citizens of the Gorge, state representatives, local officials, and news media from as far away as Portland and Yakima, gathered in Goldendale. They came to rally round and show their support for the honest reporting of Becky Blanton, news editor of the Goldendale Sentinel. She has shown the courage to investigate and report openly all the economic problems facing the people who live and work in Klickitat County and those who come under the oppression of the Scenic Act.

Speakers included the Mayor of Goldendale, Representative Marc Boldt; Dana Peck, Klickitat County Economic Developement; Ken Adcock, Klickitat County's appointee to the Gorge Commission; and others too numerous to name. We are very proud of you Becky, and the Goldendale Sentinel, and urge you to continue as you are. We need people who will speak up.

We hope you have learned to take good reading material with you no matter which way you happen to be journeying from Lyle. Appointments be damned, frayed nerves, empty gas tanks, ete.,etc., seem to have no end. Oh the woes of summer and road repair. Thank the good Lord you can't go south out of Lyle or they would be working on that road too.

Some kids from Klickitat County will be painting the underpass here in Lyle on Tuesday, June 26, and what a welcome happening that will be. We have waited a long time for this and really hope whoever likes to decorate in the fashion we have become accustomed to will refrain from this pastime. We thank you in advance.

Lyle History con't.: A city park became the next project of the Improvement Club and the Grove in Lyle became the site of the Lyle Parkland. A trailer court occupies that site at present.

In the meetings of the Women's Club, they studied, "rearing better babies", and "shortcuts to economy."

With World War l they became an active Red Cross group and were busy preparing items for the Red Cross. They bought a steam cooker and canned and saved all the food they could get. They cleaned the school house, for which they received $28. They gave $10 to the school to be used in a fund to buy a piano. They paid $10.00 for a Service Flag, and $11.30 for a United States Flag. The two flags were presented to the community April 14, 1918. A platform was built by the community and Mrs. Stratton, president of the Club, presented the flags, and Harold Clark received them. Mr. Berkett, father of two sons in the service, raised the United States Flag.

Living on Earth is expensive, but it does include a free trip around the sun.