River Peoples Cultural Exchange Study Circles will follow the Lion's Club Pancake Breakfast this coming Saturday, Nov. 6. Join your neighbors at the Lyle Activity Center from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. The first event will show the documentary film by Michael Conford and Michele Zaccheo, "River People: Behind the Case of David Sohappy." The Dec. 4 program will be the presentation of a video interview with Andrew Fisher, author of "Shadow Tribe." The video is by John Hardam of Lightwave Communications. In February the study group will begin its review of the above mentioned book which offers the first in-depth history of the Pacific Northwest's Columbia River Indians.
You can begin your Christmas shopping at Lyle's Annual Holiday Bazaar on Nov. 12 amd 13 at the Lyle Activity Center, 308 3rd St. Arts and crafts, baked goodies and surprises will await your arrival.
Don't forget to get your tickets to see "All My Murders." The performance dates are Fridays and Saturdays, Nov. 5, 6, 12 and 13. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. This is a dinner theatre production by our local "The Pretenders Theatre Company." Remember everyone will be involved as detectives -- to solve the mystery! The show begins at 7 and it will be held at the Columbia Grange Hall on Old Highway 8, in Lyle. Tickets are available at Klindt's Book Store, Lyle Country Cafe and Beneventi's Restaurant.
Excerpts from the book "Early History of Klickitat County" copyright by Jim Attwell 1977: "Chapter Four -- In Rowland Saga. I guess it was too exciting for Mrs. Charley Couver. Mrs. Couver was a Snake Indian. Her husband, Charley, was a white man of Scotch-Irish descent. He was the man who sold White Salmon for $50 and a sack of flour."
"Killer Cougar. The Couver's first baby was a little girl. She was playing on the hill side back of Rowland Lake (now DeBois Lake), and while she was wandering among the scrub oaks a cougar caught her and ate off part of her face."
"Her mother and father hunted all night for her with pitch torches for light. It was just coming day when the mother stepped on something soft under the oak leaves. She scratched the leaves away and there was her little girl. The cougar had covered it up, thinking to return. They saw the cougar lurking around in the trees but they didn't have a gun to kill it with."
An old farmer's advice: Every path has a few puddles!
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