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As we begin 2020, here’s a look back at just some of the photos the Hood River News staff took in 2019 that did not make into the pages — until now.
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April: Backstage at Hood River Middle School, Jeremy Belcher plays with fellow Lions Follies cast members to pass the time before the show begins. (The photo-bombing change artist in the background is one reason this photo was not published at the time.)
- Photo by Kirby Neumann-Rea
November, runners Gary Daubenspeck and Logan Caldwell soak up the morning flames at Kickstand Coffee after a weekly Friday “donut run” out Indian Creek Trail and back.
- Photo by Gabriel Bravo
March: HRVHS student Monserrat Garrido debates climate change policy with U.S. Rep. Greg Walden at a town hall held at Hood River Armory. Walden announced this fall that he will retire in 2020.
- Photo by Emily Fitzgerald
January: Hood River Police officer Isaac Smith checks on the welfare of a homeless man who spent the night on the rocks at exit 64 to Interstate 84. The man thanked Smith but declined help.
- Photo by Kirby Neumann-Rea
JUNE: Long-time Port of Hood River commissioner Brian Shortt unwraps a retirement present as David Meriwether watches.
- Photo by Emily Fitzgerald
September: Redmond goalie hit the turf hard in making a save on a goal attempt by HRV’S Karla Barajas, center right, and the Eagle player gives her a lift.
- Photo by Kirby Neumann-Rea
May: Typing in her name and destination, CGCC president Dr. Marta Yera-Cronin checks in at Wy’east Middle School, which, like many district schools, saw security and access upgrades in 2019.
- Photo by Kirby Neumann-Rea
October: Wind turns Jackson Park banner into an accordion. Public Works crews change the sign throughout the year.
- Photo by Kirby Neumann-Rea
April: University of Oregon archaeologists look for homestead evidence at Ruthton Park (which is closed for budget reasons.)
- Photo by Kirby Neumann-Rea
October: Diver Archer Mayo on the aluminum BPA-CRITFC boat he salvaged from the Columbia; it had sank in 2017.
- Photo by Kirby Neumann-Rea
September: Jehovah’s Witness Debbie Lincicum sweeps up at the library steps; “we gather here so it’s a way of saying thanks.”
- Photo by Kirby Neumann-Rea
July: Lawn loungers at Georgiana Smith Gardens form a pattern of crossed legs.
- Photo by Kirby Neumann-Rea
August: Michael Peterson repairs library window grout.
- Photo by Kirby Neumann-Rea
June: Eliot Glacier distorted through a glass at Parkdale’s Grateful Winery. (And wine inverts Mount Hood in miniature at center.)
- Photo by Kirby Neumann-Rea
October: Halloween “referees” Sue Fogle and Pat Tanner at A Kidz Zone Dental.
- Photo by Kirby Neumann-Rea
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