THE GORGE — Here is part 3 of our Winter Heroes series, where readers sent in stories of people who went above and beyond during the winter storm that hit the area three weeks ago. This concludes our series. Thanks to everyone who participated.
— Trisha Walker
Sternwheeler crew
Tom Cramblett and crew who helped steer The Sternwheeler to safety during the high winds.
— Suzanne Peterson
Andrew Malcolm
Andrew Malcolm in Goldendale, plowing just to help out, getting some unstuck and clearing mailboxes.”
— Issais Garcia of Klickitat Co. Senior Services in Goldendale on Facebook
Tygh Valley thanks
“In Tygh Valley, Pat Chastain and Fred Ashley.”
— Cindy Chastain
Todd Nunn and Andrew Malcolm
Todd Nunn and Andrew Malcolm in Goldendale. They both pulled multiple people out of the snow, ditches, and helped dig folks out. One or both of them helped get people’s water back on, access heat and groceries, and gave rides. And the truth is they do this all year long not just in the snow. They deserve recognition.
— Kai Nichols
City of WS, Klickitat PUD
City of White Salmon Pubic Works crews did an incredible job keeping roads plowed! And the Klickitat PUD had incredible response times to unexpected outages and their communication of outages was above and beyond.”
— Stephanie Porter
Temira
Temira’s Awesome Travel Advisory Service for providing accurate, timely, extensive and thorough local weather forecasting to maximize everyone’s personal safety in the Gorge.
— Suzanne Peterson
Pete Siragusa
Pete Siragusa for digging us out of our driveway on Reed Road.
— Sarah Kimmerling
Solstice
Solstice Wood Fire Pizza took pizzas to stranded truck drivers.
— Amy Hansen
Jasper Foster
Jasper Foster has plowed many driveways in the community! Towing stuck vehicles on the roadways as well.
— Karly Nyholm
Ixtapa
Ixtapa Hood River took food to the stranded truckers.
— Mathew Rutherford
HR Cherry Co.
Hood River Cherry Company.
— Katie Haskins
Anneke Ayers
Anneke Ayers helped to organize warming shelters at Thunder Island Brewing (Cascade Locks) for folks who needed it, and ensured that a coworker’s bearded dragon lizard was safely transported to a warm place during the power outages! She’s a gem.
— Grace Anton
Maui Meyer
Maui Meyer and his snow blower! He cleared a lot of sidewalks in town!
—Carin Agren
Rick Harris
Rick Harris cleared snow from our neighborhood with his snow blower and tractor.
— Susan Harris
Neighborhood help
Raul Marquez and son Raul Jr. helped clear our local neighborhood roads and I’m sure many other streets, sidewalks, and driveways. Eduardo Salas helped clear sidewalks. Jeremy Cervantes cleared many local storm drains. So incredible thankful to all of those who have helped clear our trapped cars, walkways, streets and sidewalks.
— Amelia Predeaux
Post office
Our post office person delivered mail on a Sunday in Stevenson!
— Sofia Danvers
Gorge Transit
All the Transit employees in The Gorge! Getting people to life saving services like dialysis, running buses whenever they possibly could and making the hard calls to keep people safe when it go too dangerous.
— Emily Reed
Witkowski kids
Moses and Solomon Witkowski are awesome kids. They volunteered to shovel snow in The Dalles.
— Mike Mayfield
Darrell Prowett
I would like Darrell Prowett to be recognized for his efforts during storm he offered snow plowing for many that would have otherwise been stuck in their driveways he also shoveled elderly walkways help people that got stuck in their cars he is trucks.
— Unknown
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