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Columbia Center for the Arts and The Dalles Art Center are collaborating on the exhibit “Beyond The Construct.”
The Warhaven City Council Uptown seat opened when Pete Petrovich decided not to run for reelection. Tootie McDaniels ran successfully for the seat without espousing any formal platform or agenda. As a Republican with Libertarian leanings, she was a proponent of small government, yet Warhaven…
Bilingual virtual performance April 30 thru May 15
In spite of the pandemic, several area musicians have found an enthusiastic new audience through Age+ Circles of Care. Age+ Circles of Care is a program that connects older adults to volunteers in The Dalles and Mosier to help them with supportive services. Volunteers help with grocery shopp…
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Warhaven hosts nearly a score of places to formally worship. This episode is not a reckoning of contemporary faith, rather a historical accounting of the early houses of worship that ministered to the pioneer souls that settled the Rushing River Valley.
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The “Organ Crawl” featuring five historic pipe organs in The Dalles happens every other year, and 2021 is the year — only this time, the local tradition will be presented virtually.
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The Columbia Gorge Orchestra Association (CGOA) is hosting an online auction and fundraiser titled, “The Show Must Go On!”
Columbia Center for the Arts’ First Friday show-opening receptions return in April as the gallery presents “Lillian Pitt: Ancestors Known and Unknown.”
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The Minoru Yasui Legacy Project, in collaboration with the Japanese American Museum of Oregon, will host the annual Minoru Yasui Day celebration online this year with a free and live Zoom meeting. “Immigrants and Refugees: The Path to Justice” will be held Sunday, March 27 from 1-3 p.m. Regi…
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The stage rendition of the classic John Steinbeck play “Of Mice And Men” returns this week in a virtual showing. There will be two Zoomcasts on March 13 of the play, staged at Columbia Center for the Arts in Hood River in 2012.
Maryhill Museum of Art will again be open to the public beginning March 15 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. Timed-entry tickets will be required to limit the number of visitors in the museum at any one time. Masks are required. For tickets, procedures, policies and COVID-19 protocols, visit www…
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Ginnie Greene, writer of the Warhaven Printed Plowshare’s gossip column, the Greene View, was not the first to capture the hearts of readers with quirky reporting of life in Warhaven. Greene published her newsy five-hundred words weekly from 1956 to 1989.
Hood River County Reads is getting ready to kick off its 2021 season with its 2020 title, “The Highest Tide” by Jim Lynch, beginning in March.
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How does a high school performing arts department put on its annual winter play during a pandemic? If you’re Hood River Valley High School Theater Arts Teacher (and Tony Award winner) Rachel Harry, you make it into a film.
Charles Cheatham considered — for just a moment — using his given name in the company name, but never ever considered his surname — for all the snide punning it would germinate in commerce. That was a long time ago, before any of us, now residing in Warhaven, were born. There had been enough…
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Even before the steamboat and the railroad Garfield had the mark of prosperity. It was over 450 miles from saltwater and yet it was a seaport. Some stretches of the Big River were harrowing to navigate, yet the early rivermen found a course by way of steady hand and sober mind. Now it is the…
Serial Narrative of Rural Life in the American West
Auditions: “try to remember” them. They’re back, for the Columbia Gorge Orchestra Association presentation this March of “The Fantasticks."
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HR’s pyro jam session
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“The Founder of the Feast indeed!”
Recalling the holiday programs from the golden age of television, the Columbia Gorge Orchestra Association is preparing a pandemic-safe, holiday-themed variety show that will bring together both national and local talent for the benefit of local charities. The “Stay At Home Holiday Musical S…
The Dalles organist Caroline Homer will give four weekly performances of Christmas carols played on the organ over the holidays.
Oregon Cultural Trust and Columbia Center for the Arts have teamed up with Teatro Milagro to present the free online theatre production, “Blast Off!” from Dec. 5-31.
While the fledgling settlement of Warhaven was named in 1867, incorporation took another three years of debating and planning among those first to arrive with that hallmark zeal for the commonweal, foremost among the pioneers Gettysburg veterans, officers Ebenezer Lyon, Paris DuMont, Andrew …
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Friends of the Columbia Gorge, a Portland-based conservation organization dedicated to protecting the scenic, natural, cultural, and recreational resources of the Columbia Gorge — is accepting submissions for its sixth annual photo contest. The 2020 contest is entitled “Picturing Protection.”
The Dalles High School Drama Department’s production of The Radio Play Disaster by Don Zolidis continues Nov. 19-20. Harlan Bean, the self-proclaimed genius, is attempting to make history with his sci-fi radio masterpiece “Battle of the Planets.” Unluckily for him, his play is in the hands o…
Join Seth Tibbott, founder of Tofurky, on Nov. 18 for a Sense of Place lecture on his incredible journey to become a pioneer in the early plant-based food movement. While many may recognize the “Tofurky” brand, in this presentation, Tibbott will take us back to Tofurky’s roots in Klickitat C…
“Driving Miss Daisy,” seen on the local stage six years ago, returns via Zoom on Nov. 14 as a PACT benefit for the Hood River Valley Adult Center.
Recently we lost a very beloved community member. We are so sorry to hear of the passing of General, the Glenwood General Store cat.
The little rain we had this past week has lifted the county-wide burn ban as of Oct. 15 for central (Zone 2) and western (Zone 3) Klickitat County. The burn ban remained in effect for eastern Klickitat County (Zone 1) until Oct. 31. That doesn’t mean to go crazy and burn all your winter pile…
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This year our dine and drink business locations throughout the Gorge have suffered with closures. You can help support your favorites by purchasing take out and gift cards. Many of these business will offer curb-side delivery and some will deliver to your home. Let’s keep the Gorge going strong!
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