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HOOD RIVER | THE DALLES | WHITE SALMON
Wednesday,September23,2020 Volume1,Issue25
‘ABCDE’ IN CASCADE LOCKS
Thunder Island Brewery ups its
game with move to WaNaPa Ave.
■ By Kirby Neumann-Rea
Columbia Gorge News
Thunder Island Brewery’s move
was not entirely an uphill climb.
Owners Dave and Caroline
Lipp embarked on a new building
project and started a family all
within the same year, operating
their popular riverside brewery and
pub under COVID-19 conditions
as they prepared in late August to
move from the original riverfront
location 100 yards up to 601 N.W.
WaNaPa Ave.
Parts of the brewing system itself
are coming with them, for now.
The 10,000-square-foot, three-story
Thunder Island is located next to
the old fire hall, just down from the
post office and features off-street
parking and access that wraps
around the building.
All these preparations led up to
the Labor Day soft opening. Things
went well Sept. 7-9, the menu
featuring small and large plates,
burgers and sandwiches ranging
from lemon grass chicken skewers
to ginger tofu bowl to a Kimchi
chicken sandwich, and beers
including standards such as Easy
Climb Golden Ale, and new ones
such as Dual Eagle Amber and Sais-
Awesome Nelson Edition.
On day one, Labor Day, some
high winds and wildfire smoke
(that at the time felt heavy) did
not deter diners from filling the
socially-distanced tables out-
side. The spacious L-shaped deck
seats about 80 people, even with
coronavirus precautions in place.
Via the elevator or broad stairway
overlooking the ground-floor brew
house, diners find their way to the
airy second-floor, with its dining
room surrounding the bar, and that
deck.
“Things got off to a great start,”
said Dave Lipp.
But then just as things were click-
ing between kitchen and dining
areas, last week’s historically-heavy
wildfire smoke covered the Gorge
and all of western Oregon and
Thunder Island had to shut down,
as did every Gorge establishment
relying on outdoor seating.
“It’s pretty deflating. We were do-
ing well and just getting going, staff
was doing great with things, and we
had to stop,” Lipp said. “It’s been
tough, we feel like we will have
to start over again, but we have
learned a lot. We will open again.”
Thunder Island is part of a devel-
oping brew-town scene in Cascade
Locks: Son of Man Cidery opened
in 2018 in the port’s Herman Creek
business park, sharing space with
two wineries; pFriem Family
Mike Mehrens pours beers at the Thunder Island second-floor bar, which is surrounded by seating.
Kirby Neumann-Rea photos
Smoke and wind did not deter diners from enjoying the Thunder Island deck on
the restaurant’s opening day, Sept. 7, above. Dave Lipp, left, in 2014, with the
bisected ‘knot table,’ he made, to be put into place in the new restaurant.
Brewing built its 10,000 square-
foot barrel aging facility next to
Bear Mountain Forest Products;
and construction is underway on
Gorges Brewery, a few blocks east
on WaNaPa near Marine Park, with
planned opening in May or June
2021.
Gorges co-owner Willis Boyer
said they are brewing in southeast
Portland, adjacent to Tap and
Table Restaurant, which is owned
by partner Travis Preece. Tap and
Table has kept operating with pod
seating throughout the pandemic.
In Cascade Locks, Gorges will build
up to three stories and feature two
dining areas in addition to the
brewhouse.
Thunder Island goes three sto-
ries, with the first and second fully
built out for dining and drinking
with a view. A third-floor roof bar is
an addition that the Lipps hope to
finish out in a couple of years. The
elevator goes to the third, and a sec-
ond elevator and another stairwell
will be added once the roof goes
into service.
The Lipps plan to use the main
dining for community events, trivia
nights and live music and, via a
large drop-down screen, movie
nights.
“We’ll do Timbers games, of
course,” Lipps said.
The bar and dining areas are
designed to maximize views of
the Columbia River and Table
Rock and other Washington peaks
overlooking Cascade Locks and
Stevenson, as well as the dramatic
south view to the Cascade foothills.
“I will show you the best seat in
the house,” Lipp said. He escorts
the reporter to the seat just right
of center of the second-floor bar.
SeeTHUNDER,page3
Klickitat County adopts
multi-hazard mitigation plan
and refines different projects that
would help to mitigate disaster,
Klickitat County recently adopt- the effects of potential disaster,
ed a multi-hazard mitigation plan, and recovery efforts. It also makes
the county and local jurisdictions
the first of its kind to be done for
eligible for disaster funds through
the district.
federal programs.
The Federal Disaster Mitigation
King said another essential
Act of 2000 requires jurisdictions to
piece of the plan is the addition of
develop and maintain such plans
to remain eligible for certain funds information to the base of knowl-
edge available for future planning
through the Federal Emergency
and risk prevention. It highlights
Management Agency, or FEMA.
what resources are available to
What it does for the county is
multifold, said County Emergency each participating agency, what
hazards they need to consider, and
Management Director Jeff King.
strategies to mitigate risks to life,
King said the 330-page docu-
property, and infrastructure. King
ment, prepared in coordination
said the plan points to specific
with county and city staff, com-
actions that can be taken to reduce
munity partners, and contractor
risk. Number one on the list: estab-
Northwest Management Inc. of
lish more stations for emergency
Moscow, Idaho outlines potential
disaster scenarios, including wild- medical services.
“The three current EMS stations
fires, floods, earthquakes, volcanic
eruptions and mass casualty events, are not sufficiently covering the
Columbia Gorge News
Man
stabbed
in TD
■ By Emily Fitzgerald
Columbia Gorge News
■ By Jacob Bertram
$1.00
county,” the planning group wrote
in the multi-hazard mitigation plan.
They then go on to recommend
the establishment of two stations,
one in Glenwood and another in
Wishram areas, to provide more
coverage to the county, a cost
estimated at $1.25 to $1.5 million
each. The planning group also
recommended further upgrades
to emergency facilities, including
installing backup generators and
remodeling structures to adhere to
seismic standards in case of such
activity.
King said mitigation activities
can help protect human life in the
event of an emergency.
“You can’t prevent everything,
but there are things we can do to
help … We can make money avail-
able to drive mitigation efforts,”
King said.
The multi-hazard mitigation plan
took about five years to complete,
King said, spanning nearly the
entirety of his tenure as emergency
management director for Klickitat
County. King conceived of the
idea to get the project started after
two separate wildfires in the area
occurred in 2015. If a multi-hazard
mitigation plan were in place at
the onset of the fires back then, the
county would have been eligible
for more than $1 million in federal
funds for mitigation activities,
including fuel-reduction. Instead,
those funds went back to the feder-
al government, King said.
“That’s what got the whole thing
started,” said King.
Klickitat County then contract-
ed with Northwest Emergency
Management Inc. and assembled
a team of resource professionals,
including city and county staff,
SeePLAN,page3
A man is in
custody for al-
legedly breaking
the windshield
of a car parked
in The Dalles Bi-
Mart’s parking lot
and stabbing the
vehicle’s occupant
Jeremia
James Kenick around 4:15 a.m.
Tuesday, Sept. 17.
The victim, a 39-year-old man
(name withheld by press), called
911 after an assailant, suspected
to be Jeremia James Kenick, 29,
broke the windshield of his truck
while he was sleeping inside and
stabbed him in the arm before
fleeing. The victim followed Kenick
and two others from the scene in
his truck and met up with police
near the overpass at 6th St. and
Hostetler Way, where he received
medical attention for his wound.
Kenick was arrested by The
Dalles City Police and he is
currently lodged at the Northern
Oregon Regional Corrections
Facility (NORCOR). He faces
charges of second and third degree
assault and first degree criminal
mischief, all felonies, and unlaw-
ful entry into a motor vehicle, a
misdemeanor.
Council
rules
against
‘The
Grove’
■ By Mark Gibson
Columbia Gorge News
The Dalles City Council adopted
a resolution granting the appeal
of a 83 lot subdivision known as
“The Grove,” confirming their
preliminary decision of Aug. 31 to
deny the application submitted
by Legacy Development LLC.
The decision reverses staff and
planning commission approval of
the project and passed on a vote of
four to one on Monday, Sept. 14.
The proposed project is located
off Richmond Street between E.
10th and 12th streets.
The question before the council
was whether the resolution and
attached findings reflect the coun-
cil’s decision on Aug. 31.
Voting against the approval was
Councilor Darcy Long-Curtiss,
who said she did not think the
SeeGROVE,page2
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