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Hood River News, Saturday, February 7, 2015
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Hood River Supply
reports record year
Hood River Supply held its
65th annual meeting on Feb.
3 at the Pine Grove Grange.
The meeting was called to
order by Board Chairman
John Wells. President/CEO
Pat McAllister reported on
the past years audited finan-
cial results for the fiscal year
ending on Sept. 30, 2014.
McAllister
re por ted
record sales for the company,
$9.3 million, a 16 percent in-
crease over the previous
year, a direct result of the
completion of first full year
of operation in the new re-
tail facility in Hood River.
He stated that HR Supply
had a local profit of $181,000
and a net profit after region-
al patronage and income
taxes of $401,000.
McAllister also reported
continued growth in the
overall financial condition of
the balance sheet, even con-
sidering the large invest-
ment made in the previous
two years.
HR Supply’s ability to
grow the business and im-
prove its financial condition
after making such a large in-
vestment is very positive
considering the relative flat
economic conditions.
Board Chair man John
Wells gave a brief report on
the actions and accomplish-
ments of the cooperative
during the past fiscal year.
He outlined the cooperatives
continued support of com-
munity organizations and
events especially 4H and the
FFA.
The company also contin-
ued their support of FISH
and The Next Door with the
help of matching funds from
the Land O’ Lakes Founda-
tion for a total of $1,000 to
each organization.
McAllister then gave his
management report review-
ing the past year’s accom-
plishments. Focusing main-
ly on the company’s past fi-
nancial trends and their con-
tinued growth and financial
strength of the company.
McAllister outlined what
the major goals and chal-
lenges lying ahead for HR
Supply. McAllister also re-
ported on the amount of pa-
tronage and stock retirement
HR Supply was distributing
to their members at the
meeting.
This year the cooperative
will be retur ning over
$177,000 in patronage to their
members with $62K in cash
and balance in stock. This
represents 4.05 percemy of
member purchases or based
on last years average petrole-
um price approximately 15
cents per gallon patronage.
HR Supply had previously
announced that the coopera-
tive would suspend stock re-
tirements for three years be-
cause of the large invest-
ment made in the new facili-
ty in HR.
However, after a two year
absence HR Supply will re-
sume their stock retirement
program by retiring all out-
standing stock issued 1994
and prior in the amount of
$75,000. This brings the total
amount returned to mem-
bers in cash and stock over
the last five years to nearly
$1 million.
An election of directors
was also held, resulting in
the re-election of two direc-
tors, each to three year
terms. Susan Wiebalk of
Dee and Darin Molesworth of
Mosier were re-elected.
Ace Gift Cards where
given as door prizes. Two $25
gift cards were won by Phil
Howell and David Paasch,
two $50 gift cards were won
by Mary Couch and May
Klantchneck and the two
$100 gift cards were won by
Alan Moore and John Logan.
In addition members and
guests received a gift card for
$5 off their next purchase at
either the Hood River or
Odell store. Members and
employees enjoyed hors
d’oeuvres and cake prior and
following the meeting.The
Solarize the Gorge hosts open houses
With support from North-
west Solar Communities,
Gorge Owned (GO!) is work-
ing with local solar contrac-
tors to offer discounted, bulk
rates on solar panel installa-
tions to Gorge homeowners
in Klickitat, Skamania,
Wasco and Hood River coun-
ties.
GO! Solar is a community
“solarize” initiative aimed at
helping Columbia River
Gorge homeowners over-
come the barriers associated
with investing in solar
power. Local contractors and
suppliers are working to-
gether to offer a simplified
process and unbeatable
prices. In addition to state,
federal and local incentives,
GO! Solar can reduce total
project cost by up to 20%.
The catch: Homeowners have
to sign up for the program no
later than March 30, 2015 to
guarantee the bulk dis-
counts.
“Going solar pays off in a
number of ways,” said
Amanda Lawrence, Gorge
Owned Membership and Pro-
gram Director. “It reduces
your monthly utility bills, in-
creases your home value, re-
duces your dependence on
fossil fuel and, if done
through GO! Solar, supports
the local economy.”
Attend a GO! Solar com-
munity open house to learn
about financial incentives.
The scheduled for GO
Solar Open Houses, all from
6-7 p.m.:
■ The Dalles: Tues., Feb.
10, , Clocktower Ales, 311
Union St.
■ White Salmon: Thurs.,
Feb. 12, , Columbia Bank
Community Room, 390 NE
Tohomish
■ Goldendale: Tues., Feb.
17, Klickitat PUD Communi-
ty Room, 1313 South Colum-
bus Ave.
Photo by Kirby Neumann-Rea
LOGSDON owner David Logsdon stands in the entry of the Logsdon Barrelhouse and Taproom, 505
Cascade, with his wife, Judith Bams, and his daughter, Tamara. The barrelhouse, located around the
corner from Knead Bakery, will be open for Zwickelmania weekend, Feb. 14-15.
The Ale List
Breweries host Zwickelmania tour
By KIRBY NEUMANN-REA
News editor
Plenty of beer news this
week, what with pFriem
Family Brewing starting its
second expansion since
opening five years ago, and
the Zwickelmania statewide
brewery tour coming Feb. 14.
We’ll have more on Zwick-
elmania in the Feb. 11 edi-
tion, but for now let it be
known that every brewery in
the county will participate in
the annual Presidents’ Day
weekend event. That’s Big
Horse, Double Mountain,
Full Sail, Logsdon Farm-
house Ales, Solera, and
Thunder Island.
Two things of note: Logs-
don will present its beers not
at the farmhouse south of
Hood River but at their new
downtown Hood River Bar-
relhouse and Taproom, 505
Cascade, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Feb. 14 and noon to 4 on Feb.
15.
Also, throughout Feb. 14,
the Breweries in the Gorge
(BIG) folks will be at the
breweries with information
about the new BIG alliance,
featuring a map and website.
Zwickelmania is the annu-
al one-day event in Oregon
when breweries open their
doors to casual and hardcore
beer fans from 11 a.m. to 4
p.m.
More than 100 breweries,
both big and small, are par-
ticipating with meet-the-
brewer events and beer sam-
ples.
pFriem Family
Brewing expands
pFriem is now expanding
its brewery, adding new
tanks and filters to enable
doubling of output from the
cur rent 5,000 gallons to
11,000, with the groundwork
lain to double again within
about two years.
Port of Hood River ap-
proved a change of lease
Tuesday for pFriem and also
affecting neighboring Pocket
Fuel, which will move.
The brewery is moving
into the upstairs office space
formerly used by PocketFuel
owners Mark and Heidi
Ribkoff, and pFriem has
been leasing much-needed
barrel storage space from the
Ribkoffs for the past three
months.
Next month pFriem will
start its first bottling of
Flanders Red and Oud Bru-
ins, two sour beers savoring
since Fall 2013.
Owner Josh pFriem calls
2015 “the year we realize
what we envisioned when we
first started” in 2009, but ad-
mits it is happening a couple
of years sooner than he had
expected.
Double Mountain
hoists ‘Yacht Rock’
Yacht Rock India Red Ale
is now on tap and in bottles
at Double Mountain. “Yacht
Rock” the beer was created
for the Feb. 5-8 Chefs’ Week
PDX (CWPDX), with Chef
Doug Adam, and was intro-
duced Thursday at a CWPDX
dinner. Yacht Rock will be
poured at all CWPDX events.
“We wanted to brew some-
thing that would be perfect to
pair with a menagerie of
menus and keep things sail-
ing easy. Hence, we bring you
Yacht Rock,” Matt Swihart
said.
“Blood orange in color,
this India Red Ale is clean
and refreshing for the palate,
with pine and citrus to ac-
company the bread and bis-
cuit on the back end. This is
the beer you want to invite to
the dinner party. It’s compli-
mentary, polite, provides
witty anecdotes, and will
even help with the dishes.”
Swihart said, “We had a
blast working with Chef
Doug Adams (Top Chef, Im-
perial, and Portland Penny
Diner) on this collabora-
tive beer project.”