Crow Butte State Park was the site of the last Sundowners' campout. Eight members and several guests enjoyed the warm weather and the beauty of the river only a stones throw away. Michelle from Goldendale was voted in as a new member. The Delbert and Jim Brashers families went on to Cashmere to the Washington State meeting where Jean and Eileen were on the winning beanbag baseball team. When leaving Cashmere they met in Toppenish with the "Section Eight" group's outing.
You may know that Klickitat County has contracted with American Farmland Trust to organize and facilitate a series of public meetings to learn the public's input, preferences, ideas and suggestions about effective local strategies to keep farm and ranch land available for agriculture. There are meetings scheduled for the next several months. Please call Pat Arnold 395-2233 or Don Stuart of American Farmland Trust at dstuart@farmland.org for dates, places and times.
Condolences go to the family of Dorothy Shippy Jones who passed away about a week ago. She was a long time resident of the area and will be missed by her many friends and family.
The Song of the Rivers (a history of Lyle by Elizabeth McDowell): "V THE PRESENT LYLE -- Thus Lyle is really many communities, related on a larger scale to many more, in the neighborly Klickitat County, enjoying the regard and good will of all. Threads of kinship with a shared past knit them into one."
"No story of Lyle is complete, however with out mention made of Frederick Balch, a young writer of the mid 19th Century, author of The Bridge of the Gods, his best remembered work. Genevieve Whitcomb, his young sweetheart who died at an early age was also the subject of another of his works, Genevieve. He spent some time in the James O. Lyle home. At the age of 30 years, he died and was buried in the Lyle-Balch Cemetery, which still bears his name. By his request, his grave marker is of a native, local stone. The Balch School, now abandoned and standing on the Marshall Hamm property west of Lyle, was also named in his honor. Frederick Balch did not live here long, but he left a lasting imprint on Lyle."
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