The Porch, July 14 edition

“MY HARDEST stop,” said the Columbia Distributing employee (who declined to give his name), of the Locks Café at Cascade Locks marina. The truck won’t fit under the train trestle, so he parks on WaNaPa Avenue, loads up the merchandise on a pallet jack and schleps it down the hill and 300 yards east to the restaurant and back. Think of that next time you have a cold one at the scenic riverside eatery.

 Kirby Neumann-Rea

WELL SAID: “In many ways an artistic nature unfits a man for a practical existence.” — Robert Louis Stevenson

WELL DONE: Waterline replacement and paving project street flaggers, staying on top of matters and having to deal with numerous rude and even unsafe drivers who argue with or ignore their instructions. The patient neon-clad crew members also accomplish this at multiple and fast-changing locations, at times resembling the movie “Multiplicity.”