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R OTARY R OSES D AY
Tom Jenkins accepts his load of boxed roses from Cathy Carter Thursday in the annual Hood
River Rotary Roses sale, as Lucy Gorman keeps count. Chris Strader, left, arrives for his bunch-
es of flowers. “Rotarians have been ‘making someone’s day brighter’ with Rotary roses for
over 30 years,” said project coordinator Gordy Sato. “This is one of the most fun Rotary
fundraisers, which contributes between $7-8,000 into a pot, which allows approximately
$35,000 in high school scholarships yearly for high school seniors going onto college.” Sato
said that this year Rotarians sold almost 900 dozen and recipients included caregivers at re-
tirement homes. “Thanks to everyone that supported this great fundraiser,” Sato said.
Pelinti Pizza opens
in Pizzicato location
BY TRISHA WALKER
News staff writer
Pizzicato Hood River has a
new name — but lots of fa-
miliar food and faces.
Owner Gabriel Head, who
opened Pizzicato in May
2007, said when his franchise
agreement came to an end
this year, he decided not to
renew.
Instead, he’s ope ned a new
restaurant, Pelinti Pizza, in
the same location: 2910 Cas-
cade Avenue #102, Hood
River (between Walmart and
Les Schwab Tire Center).
Now locally owned and op-
erated, Pelinti Pizza has an
expanded menu that in-
cludes new appetizers, salads
and sandwiches.
But pizza still r ules.
“That’s our main thing —
that’s what we’re known for,”
said Head. Pelinti Pizza
boasts 16 different combina-
tions, or customers can build
their own.
“I have all the ingredients
to make all the favorites that
people have enjoyed over the
years,” he said. “I can still
create everybody’s favorite
dishes.”
Head is “trying to seam-
lessly transition into our
new identity,” holding a soft
opening on Thursday. A
grand opening is slated for
some time in May. “I want all
our regulars to feel at home,
like they always have.”
Staffing has not changed.
Head said he will honor
“indefinitely” all of the
Pizzicato Hood River gift
cards and loyalty cards sold
at the location. “And
coupons, too — we still have
Photo by Trisha Walker
While the sale is one day
only, Shaw and the garden
club ladies work year round:
the plants, shr ubs and
berries sold come solely
from members’ yards.
This year, the club will
offer Shaw’s raspberry, mari-
onber ry and strawber ry
starts in addition to the
usual perennials and shrubs.
She likes the plants to be pot-
ted to sell at least a week in
advance because “if I did it
today and sell it on Saturday,
I wouldn’t be sure if it was
going to live, even though it
probably would,” she said. “I
like everything to stand up
and look pretty.”
One thing she’s known for
is her ability to start plants
from cuttings, such as roses,
dahlias, hydrangeas and for-
sythias. She can’t recall ex-
actly how she learned to
start plants from cuttings,
“but it works,” she said.
“Some things don’t work — I
go by trial and error. Lilacs,
they don’t start from clip-
pings. You have to dig down
— they send out runners and
you pull them up and cut
them off and hope you get a
couple of roots. But roses are
really easy for me.
“They root and then the
next year I put them in pots
and we sell them for $3,” she
said. “That’s mainly what I
do.”
Well, maybe not. Because
she has a large property —
the area where her daughter
used to ride horses now
holds plants — many mem-
bers bring their seedlings for
her to take care of in addi-
tion to her own.
“I keep (the plants) wa-
tered all year — all summer
— and fertilized because no
one else seems to have the
property that I do,” she said.
And for those who lost
rose bushes in the November
freeze, she’ll have her starts
available, which surprising-
ly survived.
“I had started four big
planters full of rose starts,
from climbers to just normal
roses, and the weather didn’t
get them at all,” she said. “I
L INDEN
PELINTI PIZZA has opened in the Pizzicato Hood River location.
Owner Gabriel Head, here preparing fresh balls of pizza dough, said
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the restaurant has expanded its menu but is keeping many aspects
gion Corrections Facility the
of the business the same.
things in print,” he added.
“Anything with the Hood
River logo on it, we’re ac-
cepting.”
He is looking forward to
continuing service to the
community. “I have a really
loyal group of customers
who have stuck with me over
the years, and I want them
reassured that we’re still
here to take care of their
cravings,” he said.
Pelinti Pizza is open daily
from 11 a.m. until 9 p.m.
Summer hours begin after
Memorial Day, with the
restaurant open until 10 p.m.
on Thursdays, Fridays and
Saturdays. While the new
sign hasn’t been installed yet
(“they’re building it as we
speak,” said Head), the
restaurant is clearly marked
with a new banner and sand-
wich board.
For more information, call
541-708-3055
or
visit
www.pelintipizza.com.
following morning, his bail
originally posted at $84,000.
Linden was arraigned at
the Hood River County Cour-
thouse Thursday. He ap-
transplanted them and
they’re beautiful. But the big
roses I cut them off of are
dead. But those little bitty
starts were happy. It’s a mira-
cle. It’s nothing that I did.”
Friday mor ning, Shaw
joined other Odell Garden
Club members in the Com-
munity Building to set up for
the sale, which takes about
five hours. It’s her job to
make sure everything
brought in is labeled — and if
she’s not sure what a plant is,
she finds someone who does.
“Some of the older ladies
who have been in the Garden
Club longer than me, they’ll
tell me what it is,” she said.
At the sale, customers will
find “anything from flowers
to shrubs to berries at a good
price,” Shaw said. “The high-
est thing we have is $3, that’s
shrubs, down to $1.”
Money earned goes to the
many organizations and
charities the club supports,
including Hospice, the Hood
River County Fairgrounds,
St. Francis House, the Hood
River Valley High drug-free
graduation party, and 4H
scholarships.
“We try to kee p (the
money) mostly in Odell,”
Shaw said.
Anything that doesn’t sell
at the April sale is held over
for the club’s second sale in
June, located at Shaw’s
April 18-19 marks the annu-
al Blossom Craft Show at the
Hood River County Fair-
grounds. From 10 a.m. to 5
p.m. each day, vendors from
around the Northwest will
offer arts and crafts, plants,
garden art, handcrafted home
furnishings and decorations,
photos, paintings, and gourmet
food products. Parking and ad-
mission are free.
The Odell Garden Club will
hold their plant sale on April 18
in the Community Building;
Gorge Strings will perform Sun-
day afternoon. Hood River Val-
ley High FFA, Columbia Gorge
Fruit Growers and Special
Olympics will also have booths.
The Blossom Quilt Show is
held in the floral building dur-
ing the Blossom Craft Show.
Quilts will be for sale and
show. Admission is free, with
donations for Hood River
Adopt A Dog accepted at the
door. Those attending can vote
for their favorite blocks to in-
clude the annual Harvest Quilt
fundraiser. The blocks are creat-
ed using one main and a vari-
ety of coordinating fabrics from
ETC in Hood River. This year’s
sale proceeds will benefit Hood
River Adopt A Dog; watch for
the finished quilt to make its
rounds to various business
window displays in the coming
months.
peared before Judge John
Olson via video feed from
Northern Oregon Regional
Corrections Facility. While
the judge read the charges
stacked against him, Linden
shook his head and cursed.
The Judge asked Linden if
he had an attorney, or the
means to hire one. After Lin-
den replied that he was cur-
rently unemployed, the court
appointed Brian Starns as
Linden’s defense attorney.
Olson raised the bail to
$100,000 and ordered that
Linden have no contact with
the alleged victim, even by
phone.
Linden will appear again
for a hearing before a grand
jury at the Hood River Coun-
ty Courthouse Monday, April
22.
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gram fee, a $25 increase to
the welding course fee, and
establishment of a $100 med-
ical assisting lab fee, accord-
ing to the report.
Additionally, the college
will begin to charge normal
tuition and fees for CG101
college readiness courses.
These courses were previ-
ously taught by student advi-
sors and offered to students
free of charge.
Due to staffing reductions
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part-time instructors. Each
of the above fee increases
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house “to babysit … We sell
lots of stuff that way, too.”
Shaw joined Odell Garden
Club 12 years ago, after retir-
ing from Diamond Fruit,
where she worked as a book-
keeper for 44 years. She’s al-
ways been interested in gar-
dening, and “always had
flowers and flowers and flow-
ers,” she said. “I think that’s
how they got me joining —
somebody said, ‘I’m having a
plant sale,’ and I said, ‘I have
lots of this and lots of this,
do you want me to bring it?’
and they said, ‘yeah.’ I did
that for a year and got
hooked and joined. It’s really
lots of fun.
“I like doing the plant sale
and making more plants and
making more plants. And I
love the people. Everybody in
Garden Club is very nice.”
The plant sale isn’t the
club’s only activity; they also
create bouquets for Hospice
patients every Friday, make
Mother’s Day bouquets for
Hood River Care Center resi-
dents, and create all 28 of the
Christmas wreaths and
swags that decorate every
business in downtown Odell.
“It’s a great club to belong
to,” Shaw said. “If somebody
else is bored and needs some-
thing to do, we do a lot of
work, but have a lot of fun,
too.”
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