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Hood River News, Saturday, April 25, 2015
Bike Buddies holds bike drive this weekend
8-year-old organizes bike restoration, give-away program
By PAYTON RIGERT
News intern
Submitted photo
BIKE BUDDY Anson Pulk, hard
at work.
Anson is a very special 8
year old who lives in Hood
River.
He has a goal that every
child should have a bike of
their own. Anson came up
with his idea when he realized
that not all children had a bike
of their own. He had been do-
nating his bikes, after growing
out of them, and he realized he
could do more.
This led to the idea of
Anson’s Bike Buddies.
Anson’s Bike Buddies collects
used bikes from the communi-
ty, repairs them, and then
matches them to children ages
6-18 throughout the Gorge who
would benefit from the experi-
ence of owning a bike. Anson’s
Bike Buddies is a State of Ore-
gon non-profit and has part-
nered with local bike shops,
who are donating the repair
work. Anson also won the top
prize in February’s Gorge
Kids’ Soup in support of his
project, taking home $1,400 in
donations from people who at-
tended, dined on soup and
heard pitches from five young
start-up entrepreneurs.
Providence Hood River
Memorial Hospital is then do-
nating a helmet with each bike
that is given out and local or-
ganizations, such as The Next
Door, are helping to distribute
the bikes.
So far, Anson’s Bike Bud-
dies already has bikes on the
trails and about 20 in the
queue; however, demand still
far exceeds the supply. Cas-
cade Eye Center has donated a
storage facility. Anson’s Bike
Buddies will be having a bike
drive from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.,
April 25 and 26 outside of Cas-
cade Eye Center in the Safe-
way plaza.
Anson’s Bike Buddies will
collect and reuse any bike
parts and recycle the rest.
They will also take whole
bikes or frames, but anything
will help.
Contact Jeff Craven 231-392-
2363 or Kristen Campbell 231
620-3810 with any other ques-
tions or see them on the web at
www.ansonsbikebud-dies.org.
Cascade Mountain School announces summer courses
Climbing volcanic trails.
Making fresh mozzarella
cheese. Bicycling through al-
falfa fields. Hunting for
salmon.
Cascade Mountain School
isn’t your typical summer
camp. It takes a roll-up-your-
sleeves and get-your-hands-
dirty approach to outdoor ed-
ucation.
“The only way to learn
about and appreciate the local
landscape, the food, the fresh
water, and other natural re-
sources, is to get out and meet
the geologists, biologists,
farmers and cheese makers in
our community,” said Emily
Goodwin, the creator of Cas-
cade Mountain School, which
is based in Trout Lake, Wash.,
and Hood River. Cascade
Mountain School’s field ecolo-
gy and watershed science pro-
grams are guided by a science,
technology, engineering and
math (STEM) curriculum.
The for-credit courses meet
national and Oregon and
Washington high school sci-
ence standards. This year’s
course offerings are:
■ Mountain Camp for Mid-
dle School Students: June 28-
July 3, based in the White
Salmon River Valley; 8 hours
of service credit are available.
■ Sustainable Agriculture
Course: July 5-18, for-credit
course for students age 15-18,
is based in Trout Lake. High
school science credit, college
credit and 20 hours of service
credit are available.
■ Mt. Hood Watershed Sci-
ence Camp: July 20-31, for stu-
dents age 14-18, explores the
Hood River watershed. Col-
lege credit and 20 hours of ser-
vice credit are available.
■ Farm to Table Bike Camp
for Middle School Students:
July 26-31, for students ages
12-14, based in Trout Lake; 8
hours of service credit are
available.
■ Mt. Adams Field Ecology
Course: Aug. 2-15. This for-
credit course for students age
15-18 is based on Mt. Adams
and in Trout Lake. Students
get a hands-on field science
Photos by Gordon Leigh, Positive Negatives
L IONS L ADIES
Follies 2015 is in the books, but filling chapters during the
last decade or so are performers Amy White, above, a se-
nior at Hood River Valley High School and Wy’east eighth
grader Emily Curtis. Both have had parents and siblings in-
volved over the years, and held small or medium roles in
recent years. This year, Amy and Emilyboth had featured
singing and sketch parts in “Follies in the Ozarks,” pro-
duced the last two weekends.
experience working alongside
professional scientists and
learn about climate change,
glaciers and mountain ecolo-
gy. High school science credit,
college credit and 20 hours of
service credit are available.
■
Want to know what it’s like
to spend a day at Cascade
Mountain School? Join our
upcoming community outing.
Spend a day rafting down the
Klickitat River on May 9,
lear ning about salmon
restoration efforts with a wa-
tershed specialist. The cost is
$12 per person. To learn more
or register, visit cascade-
mountainschool.org or call
503-358-1949.
‘S HREK ’ T HIS W EEKEND
Wy’east Middle School students let the “Freak” flag fly in prepara-
tion for this week’s performances of “Shrek:The Musical,” about an
ogre who finds true love and friendship with the help of his forest
friends, and makes short work of vanquishing an evil prince. Per-
formances are at Wy’east Performing Arts Center on the campus in
Odell. The double-cast show includes dozens of students on stage
and helping as crew members, and features Cooper Case and Freya
Chase as Shrek. Kendra Wilkins and Alexandra Buckles as Fiona,
Aarya Bradley and Taelor Robinson as Donkey, and Rachael Mooney
and Kelsey Stewart as Lord Farquaad. Show dates are April 24, at 7
p.m., April 25 at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. and April 26 at 2 p.m., tickets are
$5 for adults and $3 for children. Jennifer Graves directs the show.
Earth Day events
for youngsters
Columbia Gorge Climate
Action Network hosts sever-
al events on Saturday start-
ing at the Hood River Wa-
terfront Park near the play-
ground at 9:30 a.m. with a
welcome and gathering cir-
cle. Following this will be a
riverside clean up along the
Hood River from 10 a.m. to
noon. All are invited to
meet at the Spit parking
area with gloves in hand.
At 11 a.m. at the Hood
River Waterfront Park play-
ground is the Procession of
the Species: come in cos-
tume or in the spirit of a
being you are drawn to rep-
resent.
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