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Wednesday,June2,2021
Columbia Gorge News
www.columbiagorgenews.com
Salmon Return to White
Salmon Crosswalks
Lloyd DeKay
■ For By Community
Partners
was important to bring that
tradition back this year,” said
White Salmon Mayor Marla
Keethler.
If you’ve driven through
The salmon have finally
White Salmon in the several
returned, and they’re now
years before last, you’d have
bright and healthy, back
probably noticed the white
in their crosswalk habitat
salmon swimming in the
downtown crosswalks. Since after their longer than usual
the salmon first appeared in absence.
On Wednesday morn-
2015, they’ve been a popular
and much anticipated icon of ing last week, a team of 12
the city.
fish wranglers, including
Then suddenly, they didn’t Community Partners volun-
show up in 2020. A combina- teers and the White Salmon
tion of COVID-19 precautions Public Works crew, worked
with stencils and paint spray-
last spring and the Jewett
Water Main project through
ers to herd those fishies into
the summer resulted in the
their 13 crosswalk holding
window of opportunity for re- pens so they won’t confuse
painting not being available. and confound pedestrians
and vehicle traffic through
“We know how much
people look forward to seeing town.
The whole crew was happy
the fish crosswalks, and it
to get the job done in a little
more than three hours, and
they are happy to see the
salmon swimming peacefully
in their pens again. The crew
said they really appreciated
the smiles and thumbs-up
the passing motorists gave
despite the traffic snarl the
herding created. And White
Salmon residents and visitors
are elated to have the salmon
back on the street.
Community Partners is a
501c3 organization founded
in 2010 to support the com-
munities of Bingen and White
Salmon. Individuals inter-
ested in joining Community
Partners to volunteer on
future community enrich-
ment projects can sign-up at
communitypartnersbws.org/
volunteer.
Above, Community Partners volunteers and city public works personnel paint the crosswalk outside
White Salmon City Hall. Top right, crews set a stencil down in preparation for painting. Bottom right,
the finished work is displayed, white salmon spawling across 13 crosswalks around town.
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