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Hood River News, Saturday, May 2, 2015
Seasonal weekend
transit begins May 2
Going to the Gorge Blues
and Brews, tired of trying to
find parking on the weekend
at Dog Mountain trailhead,
or need a ride to Vancouver?
If so, ride the WET bus
seven days a week starting
May 2. The seasonal week-
end expansion will add four
runs a day on Saturday and
Sunday. The last run on Sun-
day is an express to Vancou-
ver/Fisher’s Landing and
back. The bus is ADA acces-
sible.
The bus schedule includes
stops at Stevenson, Carson,
North Bonneville, Fisher’s
Landing in Vancouver on
164th Avenue, and then a re-
tur n to Columbia River
Gorge trailheads and resorts.
The additional stops include
Salmon Falls Park and
Ride/Cape Horn Trail, Bea-
con Rock, Bonneville Hot
Springs, Pacific Crest Trail,
Skamania Lodge, and Dog
Mountain.
The public transportation
grant is intended to relieve
congestion at trailheads and
shuttle guests from hotels
and motels, festivals and fair
visitors from resorts to trail-
heads, and locals from town
to town.
Paid for by a grant from
Wester n Federal Lands,
Washington Department of
Transportation, Friends of
the Columbia Gorge, Steven-
son, and North Bonneville
Tourism funds.
For a complete schedule,
see skamaniacounty.org or
call 509-427-3990.
Photo by Patrick Mulvihill.
THE BRIDGE OF THE GODS may see electronic tolling and major deck upgrades as part of the Port
of Cascade Locks’ 10-year bridge plan.
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to Kumari. We have option to
walk and hiking 3-4 hours
from the highway. We can
supply all supplies nearby
Kumari and all needy people
will come to pick it up from
village. We will monitor all
records and collect numbers
of victims from Kumari.
“Recently, we need about
5,000 sleeping tents, blankets
about 10,000, medicines and
foods. Foods are Dal (lentil),
rice, salt, sug ar, and
kerosene, etc. These all we
can buy here in Nepal and
just need funds to get it.
“More emergency supplies
for the injured and some so-
cial supports and coun-
selling to the children and
people. Children and women
are the really fearful and
whole days they are on to the
hill and (won’t go) home be-
cause scaring from the de-
stroyed buildings and hous-
es. I am thinking all the
times about my Kumari and
clinic building, my 85 year-
old Mom, also my home
where I was born 43 years
ago.
“It has been really hard
life here and we don’t have
net services, telephones and
not able to communicates
with anybody. Our all banks
and offices are closed and we
can’t check yet. I will try to-
morrow once if they are
open. Thanks brother for
your thought and recently,
we are not getting any sup-
ports from anybody. I hope, if
this money been collected
into bank then will see be-
cause, in Kumari we have re-
ally big trouble to save our
(supplies) from the clinic
building and have to buy as
soon as tents, plastics and
shelters for (families).
“Our situation is much
critical and hard to live safe.
Diseases everywhere be-
cause of dead bodies around.
I am really worrying be-
cause, my 12 years young son
and wife is in Kathmandu on
the road tent and the rest of
(supplies) with us. Our Kath-
mandu house is all damaged
and very fearful to spend
nights. Namaste …”
automated.
In addition to speed and ef-
ficiency, a goal of the up-
grades is to efficiently raise
prices for bridge crossers
from out of town without
raising prices for locals.
“The commission decided
that we don’t want to raise
tolls for the locals, but we
may want to raise tolls for
people who are not local,”
said Groves.
The raised prices are in-
tended to fund the bridge’s
necessary upgrades over the
upcoming years, said
Groves.
Estimates for the electron-
ic tolling project range in
cost from $800,000 to $1 mil-
KUMARI LEADER Jagat Lama
in happier times; the view of the
hillside clinic in Kumari, where
Hood River visitors have visited
and delivered assistance to a
community that lacks access to
health care and education even
in normal circumstances.
years old on or before Sep-
tember 1st to meet the age re-
quirement for entry into
kindergarten.
Parents need to bring the
following to registration:
■ Child’s birth certificate,
immunization records, and
social security card (volun-
tary)
■ Proof of residency in
Hood River County: Parent
electric bill, other utility bill,
current rent receipt with ad-
dress signed by landlord or
mortgage statement, Oregon
driver’s license or Oregon
DMV card or Oregon voter
registration card.
Oregon law requires the
following shots for a child en-
tering kindergarten. These
vaccinations may be ob-
tained from your family doc-
tor, local county health de-
partment, or health screen-
ing clinic.
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called “BreezeBy,” on the
Hood River Bridge in 2007.
Koch said the Port of Cas-
cade Locks hadn’t yet con-
fir med a decision on
whether to upg rade its
tolling system. “This is the
beginning of the process,”
said Koch. “At this point the
commission has only autho-
rized us to get proposals. The
(proposals) deadline was just
last week. We haven’t had a
chance to analyze what’s
there and hold work ses-
sions.”
Koch said the port is tar-
geting to make a decision on
the electronic upgrades by
the end of the year. In the
meantime, the port staff will
review proposals from elec-
tronics companies and then
hold work sessions through
the upcoming months, nar-
rowing down their search.
Kindergarten Roundup May 4-8
The Hood River County
School District will hold
their annual “Kindergarten
Roundup” during the week
of May 4 - 8, 2015. This is the
time for parents to register
their children entering
kindergarten for the 2015-
2016 school year. Parents are
to register their children at
their local school on the fol-
lowing dates and times:
■ Cascade Locks, Monday-
Friday from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m.
■ May Street Elementary,
Monday-Friday from 7:30
a.m. to 3 p.m.; May Street is
having a parent orientation
on May 12 at 6 p.m.
■ Mid Valley Elementary,
Monday-Friday from 7:30
a.m. to 3 p.m.
■ Parkdale Elementary,
Monday-Friday from 7 a.m.
to 3 p.m.
■ Westside Elementary,
Monday-Friday from 8 a.m.
to 3 p.m.; Westside is having
a parent open house on May
4 at 6 p.m.
Students must be five
Photos by Peter Marbach
lion, although the port has
not yet accepted bids. Ac-
cording to the Port’s Interim
General Manager Paul Koch,
several companies have laid
out an alternative system,
which would charge two or
three cents per bridge cross-
ing, instead of one blanket
cost.
The electronic upgrades,
which would be installed and
coordinated by companies
like Xerox and 3M, would use
radio transmitting devices,
transponders, which are at-
tached to a vehicle’s wind-
shield or dashboard and are
then read by an antenna as
they pass through the toll
booth. T he transponder
could be connected to the dri-
ver’s bank account like a
credit card.
The Port of Hood River in-
stalled similar technology,
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1867 12th St, on the Heights
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1867 12th St, on the Heights
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■ 2 MMR or 2 Measles, 1
Mumps, 1 Rubella
■ 3 Hepatitis B
■ 2 Hepatitis A
Contact the following if
you need further details:
■ Cascade Locks School,
300 WaNaPa St., 541-374-8467
■ May Street Elementary,
911 May St., 541-386-2656
■ Mid Valley Elementary,
3686 Davis Dr., 541-354-1691
■ Parkdale Elementary,
4880 Van Nuys Dr., 541-352-
6255
■ Westside Elementary,
3685 Belmont Dr., 541-386-
1535
■ Prime Time After School
Program, 1009 Eugene St.,
541-386-2055
■ ExCel After School Pro-
gram, 4880 Van Nuys Dr., 541-
352-6255
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