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A2 Hood River News, Saturday, February 28, 2015 Car crashes into Parkdale Bicentennial Garden By TAMARA EMLER BALL Parkdale correspondent Just last summer Park- dale’s Bicentennial Memo- rial Garden began to once a g ain take shape and bloom under the combined efforts of the Parkdale Garden Club, the Central Gorge Master Gardeners and the Parkdale Grange. Their efforts came to a crashing halt early Sunday morning Feb. 15 when a driver failed to slow down for the left turn onto Base- line Road from Highway 281, went off the road and into the garden, flipping over and snapping of f trees, breaking sprinklers and tearing out shrubbery. “I didn’t know about the accident and I took my husband by the garden to show him how good it was looking,” said Parkdale Garden Club President Jean Hardman. “That’s A RT when I saw all the damage with car parts all over and a deep rut where the car had been pulled out.” The driver of the car abandoned the vehicle after the crash and when the Sheriff ’s Office went to the registered car owner’s house, he reported the car had been stolen, leaving in doubt the liability for the damages to the property. “We lost several trees that were snapped off and had to be removed, includ- ing Bird’s Nest Spruce, which is very slow grow- ing,” said Hardman. “Plus we lost several other trees and decorator nursery stock plants.” Much of what was de- stroyed in the crash was planted in the original Bi- centennial Garden in 1976, formed wind breaks and borders, and provided shade for the other plants. Master Gardener Paul Marcotte has been a part of the garden reboot, damage cleanup, and is now re- searching how to repair the damage to the garden. “A total of six of the Bird’s Nest Spruce trees, part of the original gar- dens planted in 1976, were uprooted and had to be re- moved,” said Marcotte. “Another master gardener, who works at Good News Gardening, estimated those trees were worth $300 each.” The current damage es- timate is nearly $9,000, but the group is getting an esti- mate from a local land- scaper for some of the work and that figure will probably increase. “When the trees are re- planted they will each need a 3-foot deep hole,” said Marcotte. “We’ll need heavy equipment to do that kind of work.” Marcotte is in contact with the insurance compa- ny of the car’s owner in an effort to get liability dam- ages to bring the gardens back to its former self. He has also contacted the Oregon Department of Transportation and re- quested a guard rail be in- stalled in the curve above the gardens and better sig- nage be installed to warn drivers of the sharp curve. “The guard rail should have be installed years ago,” said Marcotte. “This is not the first car that has rolled in the gardens and in fact I’ve seen two in the last ten years.” The timing of the crash couldn’t be worse as Park- dale is the location for the Central Gorge Master Gar- dener’s Association gar- dens tour on June 29 this year and the Bicentennial Photo by Tamara Emler Ball GARDEN volunteers are taking stock of the full cost of the damage when a car drove into the Bicentennial Garden at the corner of Highway 281 and Baseline Road. Memorial Garden is one of five locations that will be featured. Marcotte says the group will have to work quickly to repair two broken irri- gation lines in order to be able to water the garden this spring in time for the tour. GEORGIANNA SMITH PARK is a his- toric, and popular gathering place, with its river view, sloping lawns, varied trees and plantings, and seating areas. But the grounds are showing the wear and tear, and the Feast of Words event fundraising goal of $25,000 will revital- ize the park. L IBRARY Continued from Page A1 SAWA, on the other hand, is a competition for all high school students in the United States or enrolled in Ameri- can schools overseas. Stu- dents were invited to send in pieces of their work — pho- tography, painting, sketches, sculpture, etc. — via Internet or mail with a $5 entry fee per item. The entered pieces are then “scanned and looked over by a series of judges at a regional level, and then each judge rates your art piece,” she said. “Depending on what score the judges have given your artwork, you then get a certain award.” Her photo, titled “Dispari- ty” because of the contrast between the bright whites and dark blacks, won a Gold Key. “A Gold Key is the highest award given, the Silver Key is second, and then after that they award honorable men- tions,” she explained. “If your art piece is awarded with a Gold Key, it then moves on to the national competition. If it wins the national competition, it’s presented in a show in Carnegie Hall in New York City. No one in Hood River who has ever gotten a Gold Key at the regional level has gone on to win at the nation- al level, so while I’m hopeful, I’m also doubt that I will move on. However, you never know!” Since winning the SAWA, Searcy has earned an intern- ship with local artist Robin Panzer to help with Colum- bia Center for the Art’s up- coming Birds of a Feather art exhibit. The internship just start- ed, but so far, she’s been “ges- soing and painting wooden frames, and then attaching small reproduction prints to said frames,” she said. Searcy plans to attend an art school after graduating from HRVHS and major in photography or film/film production. “I’m currently looking into art schools around the country … How- ever, the only one that’s real- ly caught my eye so far is San Francisco Art Institute,” Searcy said. “It’s currently my dream school.” buy a brick so your personal message is ensconced in the revitalized gardens. Event sponsor are the Bruce and Mary Stevenson Foundation, Cardinal Glass Industries, Copper West Properties, Duckwall-Pooley Fruit Company, Farm Stand in the Gorge, Riverside at the Hood River Inn, and Rotary Club of Hood River. Beer sponsors are Double Moun- tain Brewery and Pfriem Family Brewers, and Viento Wines is the wine sponsor ■ Tickets are $25 each and are available at any library branch, Waucoma Book- store, Volcanic Bottle Shoppe, or online at h o o d r i v e r l i - brary.org/foundation. Tick- Photo by Kirby Neumann-Rea Nick Anderson Horizon Hawks basketball Nick Anderson had a team-high 15 points and scored the game-winning free-throw last weekend in the Hawks’ Big Sky cham- pionship win over Sherman. LOOK! BENSON RETIRES Stan Benson has retired after 25 years on the County Plan- ning Commission. His ser- vice, which began in 1990, was celebrated during a Planning Commission din- ner, held Feb. 25. New com- missioner Ann Dow will suc- ceed Benson on the panel. “Thank you for your ser- vice,” At Large Commission- er Erik von Lubken told Ben- Athlete of the Week ets may also be bought at the event itself. 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