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Hood River News, Wednesday, April 29, 2015
G ATHERINGS
Submitted photo
‘BIG” JAMES BRAUER and his Little, Robert, take a break
from trying to stand on a foam fish at Hood River Aquatic
Center.
‘Bigs’ and ‘Littles’
splash together
Big Brothers Big Sisters
of the Columbia Gorge
hosted its semi-annual
pool party on Sunday,
April 12 at the Hood River
Aquatic Center.
Approximately 20 pro-
gram participants, com-
posed of Bigs and Littles,
from Hood River, Klicki-
tat, and Wasco counties at-
tended the event, where
they splashed in the pool,
swung from the rope
swing, and slid down the
waterslide.
Little Sister Harlie said
that the best part about the
Big Brothers Big Sisters
pool party is playing in the
water with her Big Sister
Courtney. The two,
matched since July 2014,
had a blast playing basket-
ball in the water with
E ARTH W EEK
N ETWORKING
Winners of the first Business Competition by Gorge
Owned drew 125 or so people to The Pint Shack Thursday,
where five businesses gave their pitches and three earned
enough audience votes to snare the right to apply for a
no-interest Kiva Zip non-profit loan for start-ups. Emily
Reed’s on-line social networking app got the nod, along
with Nicole Basset, center right, and McKenzie Guinon,
right, for the garment-reuse project Re-Make; with them
is Gorge Owned board member Becky Brun. The third
winner was Ari Bacharach of Opa’s Goat Grove farm and
ranch in Mosier, at left, with fellow applicant, photogra-
pher Michael Peterson of Pro Media in Hood River who
tells Bacharach, “We should do some work together.”
other Big/Little pair Katie
and Nevaeh.
Little Brother Robert
and his Big Brother James
were all smiles after their
failed attempts to stand to-
gether on a giant foam
fish. The fish sunk under
the weight, leaving the duo
to suffer the same fate,
only to emerge in boister-
ous laughter.
Big Brothers Big Sis-
ters, a program of The
Next Door, provides chil-
dren ages of 6 and 14 with
one-on-one mentoring re-
lationships with adult vol-
unteers.
For more information,
contact Justine Ziegler in
Hood River and Klickitat
counties at 541-490-9979 or
Courtney Reyes in Wasco
county at 541-993-9022.
Tod LeFevre Sustainability Awards were announced April
22 at Columbia Center for the Arts. Susan Hess of Envi-
rogorge, and Suzanne Baumhackl (with son, Rune) accept
the Individual and Business awards.
HRVHS junior Charley Boonstra
accepts the LeFevre Student
award. With her are LeFevre’s
daughter, Sutton, and Gorge
Owned board member Lindsay
Miller, right.
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HR R EADS C ONCLUDES
Hood River Reads concluded Saturday with a talk by author Luis Urrea (right) of “Into the Beautiful
North” in the main reading room at Hood River Library. At left, HR Reads project coordinator Helen
James, center, talks with committee members Leighton Hazelhurst, left, and Mole Schaefer, right.About
100 people attended the event, co-sponsored by the library and Waucoma Bookstore. Patricia Schmuck
introduced Urrea, who started his talk with a humorous, yet tense, account of his efforts to conduct
research with the reluctant assistance of the U.S. Border Patrol.
Deadline for ‘Big Art’ is May 15 WKO-High Cascade Mills
Art of Community was
e s t a b l i s h e d i n 2 0 1 4 by
artists to build on this dy-
namic relationship, engage
the community with art and
work collaboratively to fur-
ther promote and develop
public art throughout the
Gorge making it available to
people of all ages and back-
grounds.
Vi s i t a r t - o f - co m m u n i -
ty.com to learn more, includ-
ing Artist Response informa-
tion (deadline May 15).
Selections are scheduled
to be made by June 1 and the
2015-16 works installed by
late August, in time for the
Sept. 4 opening reception.
In its second year, the Art
of Community program, aka
“Big Art”, consists of up to
25 sculptures on loan from
artists (and for sale) for a pe-
riod of one year.
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