In the first regular board meeting since the White Salmon Valley School District’s reopening process, Superintendent Jerry Lewis updated the board on the progress of the multiple bond projects nearing completion, and administrators gave reports to the board on how each school is handling the…
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Yup, that’s right — free seeds for your garden! If you haven’t heard about the 2021 "Grow This: OR Garden Challenge," well, pull up a chair and let me share. This is an annual challenge, which started March 1, promoted by Oregon State University in conjunction with Oregon Supplemental Nutrit…
Virtual tour explores local history
Columbia High School senior Jacob Lockman has been named a 2021 National Scholar by the Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans. Lockman will receive a $25,000 scholarship.
Last week, The History Museum of Hood River County launched its latest outreach effort: GorgeLearns.com.
Phil Williams, currently vice principal at The Dalles High School, will be stepping in as the principal at Chenowith Elementary for the remainder of this school year following the immediate resignation of Monica Darnall, who had planned to leave at the end of the year, according to a press r…
Klickitat County — February is Teen Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention Month (TDVAM). This annual campaign helps parents and teens to understand the difference between a healthy relationship and an abusive one.
February is Teen Dating Violence Action month
Join the Hood River Watershed Group for their Feb. 23 virtual presentation "Salmon and Steelhead Resiliency to Disturbance and Implications for Watershed Restoration" from 6-8 p.m.
Ellen Donoghue's "Raptor Love Stories" presentation will be held Feb. 14 at 7 p.m. via Zoom; us02web.zoom.us/j/83370679803, meeting ID: 833 7067 9803.
Join Friends of the Columbia Gorge on Tuesday, Feb. 16 from 6-7:30 p.m. for a free, live webinar exploring eagle winter migration, behavior, and biology; the history of the Gorge Eagle Watch program; local efforts to protect migrant and resident eagle populations; and viewing opportunities f…
Six Rivers Dispute Resolution Center invites the public to join in a facilitated community discussion Thursday, Feb. 11 from 5:30-7 p.m. Join fellow community members to discuss viewpoints on COVID-19 vaccination and the intersection of mass vaccination, protest, and nonviolence.
Providence Volunteers in Action is launching a new program to help older adults in the Mid-Columbia River Gorge area learn new skills, save money, get in shape, and make new friends.
What’s Happening is a free service of Columbia Gorge News and may be edited for length. Items can also be found online on the Columbia Gorge News website (Gorge Life tab); calendar items are updated daily. Send items to trishaw@gorgenews.com.
Many know OF the garden, but most don’t know ABOUT the garden. Let me start at the very beginning ... there were once two Hood River churches, Asbury United Methodist Church and Our Redeemer Lutheran Church, that decided to join forces to become Spirit of Grace Church. Located at 1140 Tucker…
Starting Feb. 1, the Hood River County Library District is going fine free for all patrons. “Fine free” means that patrons will not be fined daily for overdue materials. This change is a part of an institutional movement from libraries nationwide, guided by the recommendations of the America…
Former youth center offers free Wi-Fi, safe space for study
Do we want a world of more people with less opportunity, peace, good health and prosperity or fewer people with more of each?
Hood River — Beginning the week of Jan. 25, Hood River County School District plans to offer limited in-person instruction (LIPI) to eligible students within Hood River County, HRCSD announced in a press release Jan. 22.
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Hood River County School Board will not act on a change to in-person learning prior to its Jan. 27 meeting. New state metrics, statistics on COVID-19 positivity cases, were scheduled to be issued Jan. 19.
The Hood River Valley High School Speech and Debate competed Jan9-10, virtually, at the Hap Hingston Forensic Invitational at Pacific University. For the Sweepstakes (teams with most points), HRVHS took second place. In Lincoln Douglas Debate, Sadie Smith took gold; Mel Glatter, Jacob Kaplan…
Six Rivers Dispute Resolution Center will host a Facilitated Community Discussion on Zoom Thursday, Jan. 21 from 5:30-7 p.m. at us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMlcu-upjsoEtbWwEWbAilKSqR3k_MIBN4t.
White Salmon — Children in the White Salmon Valley School District’s after-school program, A-List Adventures, received coats, sweaters and hats this fall and winter, thanks to a number of community donations.
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Comunidades — an advocacy group focusing on environmental and social justice — has hired its first employee.
Hood River Valley High School teacher Dave Case is up for an award from the National Society of High School Scholars (NSHSS), the premier international honors and scholarship program. Case was named one of 20 Claes Nobel Educators of the Year Award 2020 finalists.
THE DALLES — On Saturday, The Dalles High School robotics students compete in new territory, on several levels.
The Dalles — In conjunction with community volunteers, The Dalles Civic Auditorium is opening their Fireside Room as a teen study space.
The White Salmon Valley School Board is set to vote on a proposal to reopen to in-person instruction, the first time since last March most students in the district would be able to make a return to the classroom.
Join historian and journalist David Mould on a journey to borders, both real and imagined in this virtual event at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 13.
In his latest book on travel, history and culture, Postcards from the Borderlands, Mould explores the meaning of borders. Are they simply political and geographical, marked by posts, walls and fences, or should we think of them more broadly? Some borders, set by surveys and treaties, take no account of geography, language or culture. There are borders within countries — physical, economic and social. And finally, there are the borders of our minds — the way we may think of unfamiliar places.
I am a member of Soroptimist International of Mt. Adams. If you ask me why, the quote from a young woman our club recognized sums it up for me: “Receiving the Live Your Dream Award was the first time I ever really felt like maybe I was worth believing in,” said Bailey McManus, 2016 Live Your…
Mid-Columbia Oregon Retired Teachers, Unit 20, has selected Theresa Schugt as its 2020 scholarship recipient.
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Making tracks to graduation in 2026, students reflect on year
“These are the voices of gratitude, as one.”
WHITE SALMON — Three Bingen/White Salmon-area organizations — CultureSeed, Gorge MakerSpace and the White Salmon Valley Education Foundation — have received grants from the Washington Youth Development Nonprofit Relief Fund to support out-of-school programming for vulnerable youth.
The Columbia Gorge STEM Hub recently announced the recipients of the 2020-21 STEM Educator Microgrants. Winning proposals focused on enhancing access and equity in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) learning and were selected by a committee from a competitive pool. More than $…
WHITE SALMON — Three Bingen/White Salmon-area organizations — CultureSeed, Gorge MakerSpace and the White Salmon Valley Education Foundation — have received grants from the Washington Youth Development Nonprofit Relief Fund to support out-of-school programming for vulnerable youth.
A screenshot of Hood River Valley High School Speech and Debate member Jacob Kaplan competing in the Wilson Speech and Debate Tournament Nov. 14. All competitions are currently virtual due to COVID. Kaplan took first place in Open Informative Speaking at the Nov. 14 Wilson Speech and Debate …
The Oregon Department of Education, in partnership with the Oregon Lottery, has announced Oregon’s 2021 Regional Teachers of the Year.
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Two local medical professionals are part of a new charitable organization to address the worsening decline in the college enrollment of women that has spiraled downward since the COVID pandemic began earlier this year.
Crew from LaRusso Construction from Portland smooths some of 220 cubic yards of concrete to create the floor slab at the White Salmon School District’s new multi-purpose building, underway at the east end of the Columbia High-Henkle Middle School campus. The project is the largest structure …
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CORRECTION: A Columbia Gorge News article on Nov. 11 stated little scholarship money would be available. This was incorrect. According to Jim White of the Trout Lake Community Foundation, the organization has built up an endowment to provide for scholarships during uncertain times. “We thus …
“Stream Restoration: The What, Why and How” is the first of three monthly workshops, to be held virtually, from Underwood Conservation District, on Dec. 10, from 6-7:30 p.m.
Trout Lake School has announced its first term Honor Roll students:
Every Friday at the Rockford Grange, 4262 Barret Drive, the Hood River County School District Bookmobile rolls into the parking lot from 1-3 p.m.
What’s Happening is a free service of Columbia Gorge News and may be edited for length. Items can also be found online on the Columbia Gorge News website (Gorge Life tab); calendar items are updated daily. Send items to trishaw@gorgenews.com.
Hood River County School District (HRCSD) and the Hood River County Health Department hosted a virtual community forum on Nov. 16, to share about COVID-19 and plans to reopen schools in Hood River County.
Robotics students from The Dalles will host their first remote VEX robotics tournament, “Salute to Service,” Saturday, Nov. 21. The event will be live streamed via the Wasco County 4-H Facebook page.
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…
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