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A2 Hood River News,
Wednesday, May 20, 2015
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Sunshine Mill makes first urban renewal loan payment
THE DALLES — Sunshine
Mill Winery’s owners made
their first payment on a
$600,000 urban renewal loan
Friday.
With the loan through Co-
lumbia Gateway Urban Re-
newal Agency, the Martins
have worked for the last five
years to reshape the land-
scape of the industrial east
end of downtown The Dalles
and add jobs to the former
abandoned mill that had
once housed Cheez-It Crack-
ers — creating a flourishing
tourist destination in the
once desolate spot.
Sunshine Mill and Copa Di
Vino employ 76 people at the
site.
“This has been among the
most exciting and rewarding
experiences of our family,”
said Martin.
“Given our strong track
record, I’m confident it will
continue to flourish. We are
grateful for the opportunity
to help start something so in-
novative and valuable to our
community here in The
Dalles. We appreciate the
support we as a family have
received from our incredible
staff and those in the com-
munity that we are proud to
be part of and we will con-
tinue to foster the rebirth
and resurgence that will con-
tinue to bring more jobs and
innovation to the area and
our community.”
James and Molli Martin,
President and CEO of Copa
Di Vino and Sunshine Mill,
celebrated the fifth anniver-
sary of their Sunshine Mill
Urban Renewal Project last
week. On Friday, May 15,
they made their first pay-
ment on the loan, which al-
lowed them to bring a his-
toric landmark back to life.
“My family and I have
strong ties to The Dalles. It’s
where I grew up and where
we raised seven generations
of Martins. This is a chance
for us to return to a commu-
nity that is a rich part of the
fabric of our family; we love
that we have been able to cre-
ate 76 jobs and created a
strong resurgence within the
town that we call home,”
Martin said.
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For more infor mation
about Sunshine Mill and
Copa Di Vino at 901 E 2nd
S t , T h e D a l l e s, v i s i t
www.sunshinemill.com or
www.copadivino.com or call
541.298.8900.
Mount St. Helens ‘Crater Glacier
View Climb’ offers view like no other
Photo courtesy of Mount St. Helens Institute
MOUNT ST. HELENS Institute will be leading guided trips to the
scenic Glacier View Climb atop the mountain.
Amboy, Wash. –Mount St.
Helens Institute is leading
multiple guided trips this
summer to an up-close view
of Crater Glacier from a
vantage point on the north
side of the mountain.
The eight-mile hike be-
gins at Windy Ridge and
crosses the Pumice Plain—
ground zero during the 1980
eruption and an area that
h a s s e e n a re m a rk abl e
resurgence of life in the past
35 years. Participants then
climb to a vantage point at
5,300 feet with an eye-level,
panoramic view of Crater
Glacier, the lava domes
formed during the 1980 to
1986 and 2004 to 2008 erup-
tive periods and spectacular
the Loowit Falls cascading
out of the crater.
Along the way, Mount St.
Helens Institute guides
s h a re n at u r a l h i s t o r y
knowledge of the resilient
landscape as participants
enjoy views of nearby Mt.
Rainier, Mt. Adams, Spirit
Lake, Mt. Margaret Back-
country and Goat Rocks
Wilderness.
“The Crater Glacier View
Climb offers a perspective
from the opening of the
horseshoe shaped crater and
an experience like no other
on Mount St. Helens. The
view of glacier, lava domes
and crater walls and will
take your breath away,” says
Peter Frenzen, Mount St. He-
lens monument scientist.
“Other than by helicopter,
there is no better view of
what’s happening inside the
Mount St. Helens crater than
this one,” Frenzen said.
C r at e r G l a c i e r Vi ew
Climbs are offered week-
ends from July 25th through
September 12th. These
climbs are available by guid-
ed trip only; the cost of this
adventure is $195 ($145 is a
tax-deductible donation).
The Mount St. Helens Insti-
tute operates under a special
use permit from the Gifford
Pinchot National Forest.
For more information and
to sign up for this climb visit:
http://bit.ly/CraterGlacierVi
ewClimb. For a preview of the
beautiful sights, watch the
Mount St. Helens Institute’s
video at: https://www.you-
tube.com/watch?v=PTjG0sfU
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Photo by Sunshine Mill
SUNSHINE MILL and Copa Di Vino are transforming a desolate spot in the east end of downtown The
Dalles into a tourist destination, part of their extensive urban renewal project.
Washington man dies in White
Salmon River kayak accident
John O’Neill
Post Independent
Vail, Wash. — Area resi-
dents were saddened to
learn over the weekend of
the death of 20-year-old
Logan Jauernigg, of Ed-
wards, Wash.
Jauernigg, a 2013 gradu-
ate of Battle Mountain High
School, drowned Friday in a
kayaking accident on the
Green Truss section of the
White Salmon River in
Washington state.
As of Sunday, official re-
ports had yet to be released
from the Klickitat County
Search and Rescue. A kayak-
er who was with Jauernigg
at the time of the incident
said Jauernigg was separat-
ed from his kayak in the
Zigzag Canyon rapid, and
his body was subsequently
pinned underwater.
Jauernigg was the third
in a group of three kayakers
who entered the rapid one at
a time.
The Green Truss section
of the White Salmon River
is classified as Class V, or
most difficult whitewater by
American Whitewater. The
Zigzag Canyon rapid con-
sists of Upper Zigzag and
Lower Zigzag, both approxi-
mately 200 yards long re-
quiring expert navigation.
“He was always putting
100 percent into everything
he did. I have never met any-
one like him,” saod Annika
Heid, a student at Battle
Mountain High School.
“They are the type of
rapids where it is difficult to
offer any assistance, so you
are pretty much on your
own until you get to the re-
covery pool at the bottom,”
reads the rapids description
on the American Whitewa-
ter website.
Jauernigg lived in the Co-
lumbia River Gorge area
from September to Decem-
ber of 2014 and was very fa-
miliar with the Green Truss
section of whitewater, hav-
ing completed the run ap-
proximately 20 times.
A kayaker who was with
Jauernigg on Friday and
also with him throughout
his stay in the area in 2014
said Jauernigg was very
confident in the rapid and
knew every move well. The
had group already descend-
ed what is considered more
challenging rapids on the
Green Truss, such as Big
Brother — a 30-foot waterfall
— and Double Drop, a set of
ledge drops that stack on top
of one another.
Despite being regularly
paddled for more than 20
years, at least three other
deaths have occurred on the
Green Truss, including two
in Zigzag Canyon, one in
1994 and one in 2012. The
other death occurred up-
stream on Big Brother falls
in 1997. Kayakers in all three
incidents were described as
being of expert ability.
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