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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.
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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
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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.
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BENSON
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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-
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event itself. For more infor-
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son. “It’s been greatly appre-
ciated.” “I just have a big
chair to fill now,” said Dis-
trict 3 Commissioner Kathie
Alley, who follows Benson as
longest-seated commission-
er, having started in Sept.
2004.
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