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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2017
Craft breweries pour new life into small towns
in Seattle or Denver than rural
Nebraska.
And that’s no accident.
After Hernstrom was recruited
to town, he noticed there were
a lot of recently transplanted
20- and 30-somethings, some
new to town, but many who
had moved home after being
away for college or living in
cities.
“They know what they
like about those other places
they’ve lived, and so they’re
trying to make that happen
here in the small towns,” he
says.
Situated
in
remote
north-central Nebraska along
the South Dakota state line, the
region has been graying and
emptying out for decades.
But in Valentine at least,
there are signs this is changing.
“I feel like I’m in a city,”
says Whitney Mayhew, recall-
ing stepping inside the new
brewery for the fi rst time
recently.
Mayhew’s husband grew
up in Valentine, and the cou-
ple decided to relocate from
Columbia, South Carolina ,
last year to be closer to family.
They saw a niche and opened
a new boutique clothing store
a few blocks away from the
Bolo taproom.
Something is
brewing in rural
Nebraska town
By KIRK SIEGLER
National Public Radio
Chris Hernstrom was brew-
ing in the craft beer mecca of
Bend when an ad caught his
eye: Want to live somewhere
gorgeous and make beer for a
small community?
“It just seemed like an
interesting challenge to come
out to basically the exact oppo-
site of Bend, some place where
the brewing industry is still in
its fl edgling stages,” Hern-
strom says.
That place, Hernstrom’s
new home, is the cattle
ranching hub of Valentine,
Nebraska , population 2,700,
tucked into the Niobrara River
valley in the Sand Hills.
Hernstrom is head brewer
at the Bolo Beer Co . On a
recent weeknight he was pour-
ing pints of Aquifer Ale and
fi lling carry-out growlers of
Wild West Wheat. With its
modern pendant lights and bar
made of reclaimed wood, the
newly opened taproom looks
like it would be more at home
‘We’re the weird people
that ride bicycles around.’
Chris Hernstrom
head brewer at the Bolo Beer Co .
in Valentine
She says the brewery has
fast become a community
gathering place and it supports
other new businesses.
“You’re defi nitely see-
ing a lot of people wanting
to fi nd ways that this city can
grow and attract more people
to come in here who want to
enjoy the small, simple life,”
Mayhew says.
The “simple life” comes
with a few adjustments.
‘Miss my Target’
“I miss my Target,” May-
hew says, laughing. “We had
Target seven minutes away ( in
South Carolina) .”
It’s more than a three-hour
drive now to the nearest airport.
And the closest major city is
Denver — six hours. But May-
hew says she doesn’t miss the
traffi c and the crime. People
don’t lock their doors. Every-
one knows everyone here.
While it’s probably too
early to call it a trend, what’s
happening in Valentine is part
of a broader cultural phenom-
enon in rural America. Young
people who grew up in small
towns, and have been watch-
ing them struggle from afar,
are feeling this calling to come
home.
Take Valentine’s own
mayor, Kyle Arganbright. The
35-year-old decided to move
home a few years ago after
graduate school in Lincoln,
Nebraska , and a stint in Wash-
ington, D.C. He and a buddy
from high school who also
recently moved back are two
of Bolo’s main investors.
“I just thought there was
a lot of opportunity here,”
Arganbright says.
Valentine was already
doing a lot better than a lot of
isolated towns its size. It is a
hub for the livestock business,
shopping and services. It is
also a draw for tourists fl ock-
ing to the scenic Sand Hills
for bird-watching, hunting and
boating. Unemployment in
Cherry County, where Valen-
tine is located, is 2.3 percent,
lower than the national rate of
4.2 percent.
But a lot of those are recre-
ation and jobs tend to be sea-
sonal, and many other people
in town hold down multiple
jobs to get by.
Catalyst to grow
Valentine’s Mayor Kyle
Arganbright sees the new
brewery as a catalyst to grow
other artisanal businesses and
the town’s tourist economy.
For Arganbright, agri-
culture will always be the
anchor in Valentine, but he
sees a niche in the country’s
growing creative and artisan
economies.
“If you’re not growing,
you’re dying,” he says. “You
can’t sit there stagnant, par-
ticularly when all these urban
populations are exploding.”
In fact, the idea of a craft
brewery as a model for small-
town revitalization is being
tested across the Midwest,
with some early successes:
Carson, Iowa, and Ottawa, Illi-
nois , to name two examples.
“I would hate to over-pro-
mote this as the panacea for
every small town,” says Chris
Merrett, director of the Illinois
Institute for Rural Affairs.
But Merrett says it has
potential in places like Val-
entine that already have nat-
ural amenities and attractions
around them and don’t have to
rely on the loyalty of local cus-
tomers only.
Bolo hasn’t been without
its early stumbles. It can be
hard to get supplies quickly
out here. Business also drops
off when the tourists leave.
And Hernstrom admits that the
idea of a craft brewery is still
pretty new, if even strange, to
some longtime locals.
“We’re the weird people
that ride bicycles around,”
Hernstrom says. “And we’ve
convinced a lot of people
to start riding their bicycles
more.”
“Chris the Brewer,” as he’s
known around town, makes
good beer, too. T hat never
hurts.
“I’d love to one day be
able to look back on this and
map the growth of Valentine,”
Hernstrom says.
For now, Bolo is just
focused on hiring its fi rst full-
time employees, and there
are plans to open a beer gar-
den and possibly even add a
kitchen soon.
FIVE-DAY FORECAST FOR ASTORIA
TONIGHT
TUESDAY
Cooler with some sun; a
shower in the p.m.
A shower in the a.m.;
otherwise, some sun
ALMANAC
New
Salem
41/61
Newport
46/57
Oct 19
Coos Bay
48/61
Full
Oct 27
Source: Jim Todd, OMSI
TOMORROW'S TIDES
Astoria / Port Docks
Time
11:10 a.m.
none
Low
2.0 ft.
Ontario
33/69
Burns
23/67
Klamath Falls
28/66
Lakeview
27/64
Ashland
42/70
REGIONAL CITIES
City
Baker City
Bend
Brookings
Eugene
Ilwaco
Klamath Falls
Medford
Newberg
Newport
North Bend
Hi
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Vancouver
Yakima
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TOMORROW'S NATIONAL WEATHER
NATIONAL CITIES
Hi
81
74
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77
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UNDER THE SKY
Today
Lo
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La Grande
38/66
Roseburg
42/63
Brookings
49/63
Nov 3
John Day
40/68
Bend
37/64
Medford
37/70
Tonight's Sky: Look high overhead, the Andromeda
galaxy, M31, can be seen, which is around 2.5 mil-
lion light-years away.
High
7.3 ft.
8.8 ft.
Prineville
34/66
Lebanon
40/61
Eugene
39/61
First
Pendleton
43/68
The Dalles
37/64
Portland
44/59
Sunset tonight ........................... 6:40 p.m.
Sunrise Tuesday .......................... 7:26 a.m.
Moonrise today .......................... 9:43 p.m.
Moonset today .......................... 11:53 a.m.
City
Atlanta
Boston
Chicago
Denver
Des Moines
Detroit
El Paso
Fairbanks
Honolulu
Indianapolis
Kansas City
Las Vegas
Los Angeles
Memphis
Miami
Nashville
New Orleans
New York
Oklahoma City
Philadelphia
St. Louis
Salt Lake City
San Francisco
Seattle
Washington, DC
Kids get a bounce
Partly sunny with a
couple of showers
Periods of rain
Tillamook
45/56
SUN AND MOON
Time
5:39 a.m.
5:04 p.m.
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Shown is tomorrow's weather. Temperatures are tonight's lows and tomorrow's highs.
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Precipitation
Sunday ............................................. 0.05"
Month to date ................................... 0.40"
Normal month to date ....................... 1.01"
Year to date .................................... 53.61"
Normal year to date ........................ 41.25"
Oct 12
FRIDAY
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REGIONAL WEATHER
Astoria through Sunday.
Temperatures
High/low ....................................... 61°/43°
Normal high/low ........................... 63°/45°
Record high ............................ 81° in 1971
Record low ............................. 33° in 1985
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THURSDAY
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Oct. 8, 2017
NIKKILA, Lloyd Richard, 81,
of Astoria, died in Astoria. Caldwell’s
Luce-Layton Mortuary in Astoria is
in charge of the arrangements.
at a home on Irving Avenue to
fi nd stab wounds on the upper
body of Anthony Stoinich, 57,
of Astoria. He was taken to
Columbia Memorial Hospital,
treated and released.
Offi cers located Alasa
Stoinich, 25, on 16th Street
and Franklin Avenue. She
was arrested for second-de-
gree assault and second-degree
attempted assault.
Oct. 5, 2017
STONE, Linda Marie, 59,
of Astoria, died in Astoria.
Caldwell’s Luce-Layton Mor-
tuary in Astoria is in charge of
the arrangements.
HALL, Teresa J., 54, of Asto-
ria, died in Portland. Caldwell’s
Luce-Layton Mortuary in Astoria
is in charge of the arrangements.
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Weather (W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy,
sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow fl urries,
sn-snow, i-ice.
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MONDAY
Youngs River Lewis & Clark
Water District Board, 6 p.m.,
34583 U.S. Highway 101 Busi-
ness.
Cannon Beach Rural Fire
Department Board, 6 p.m.,
Fire-Rescue Main Station, 188
Sunset Ave.
Seaside City Council, 7 p.m.,
City Hall, 989 Broadway.
TUESDAY
Warrenton Urban Renewal
Agency, 5:15 p.m., work session,
City Hall, 225 S. Main Ave.
Warrenton City Commission, 6
p.m., City Hall, 225 S. Main Ave.
Clatsop Community College
Board, 6:30 p.m., Columbia Hall
Room 219, 1651 Lexington Ave.
Lewis & Clark Fire Department
Board, 7 p.m., main fi re station,
34571 Highway 101 Business.
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