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Hood River News, Wednesday, May 20, 2015
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PARKDALE NEWS
Valley Worship Center has permanent pastor
By TAMARA EMLER BALL
Parkdale correspondent
May 19 at 6 p.m.
There will be stories, cook-
ies and a tour of the school for
everyone who attends.
“If you haven’t registered
your child for school yet,
please stop by the
school office between 8
a.m. and 3 p.m. any
weekday,” said Princi-
pal Gus Hedberg.
For questions, call
the school office at 541-
352-6255.
Exactly 73 years to the day
the church first came into
being, life-long valley resident
Rev. Don Howell was voted
unanimously to be-
come the permanent
pastor of Valley Wor-
ship Centerd.
Other than his time
away to attend Bible
College at Northwest
University in Kirk-
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land, Wash., Powell
Parkdale Elemen-
has lived his entire life Tamara Emler
tary students will be
Ball
in Hood River County.
showing off their tal-
He grew up attend-
ing the church he is now pas- ents at their annual Talent
tor of in the 1960s, when his Show that will be held on Fri-
grandparents, Dale and Helen day, June 5 at 12:40 p.m. in the
Howell, owned and operated gym.
Parents and families are
the Mount Hood Dairy, just
across the road from where welcome to attend the event.
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the church is located today.
The last day of school is less
Howell worked for many
years with his father Phil and than a month away, on Friday,
his brothers in the family busi- June 12, and will be a full day
ness, Howell Construction, of school for Parkdale Elemen-
and during that time also tary School students.
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served as the Christian Educa-
Much of the Upper Valley
tion Director and Hispanic
Ministries Director for at community knows Kim Vogel,
Hood River Assembly of God, former principal at Parkdale
Elementary for eight years
now River of Life Assembly.
From 1996 to 2010, Howell until last year, who split her
served as pastor of Cascade job between Parkdale and Cas-
Chapel Assembly of God in cade Locks Elementary for the
Cascade Locks until it merged last three years of that time.
Last year when she official-
with the Cascade Locks Bible
ly retired from Parkdale Ele-
Fellowship.
For the past four years, mentary and Gus Hedberg
Howell has served as a bible was announced the new prin-
teacher at River of Life As- cipal, the Hood River School
sembly as well and filling the District asked her to remain as
pulpit for other area pastors. Cascade Locks principal and
Pastor Howell and his wife she agreed.
Now Vogel says she is “real-
LaRonna have been serving
Valley Worship Center in an ly” retiring at the end of this
interim capacity since the school year, after 25 years in
the education profession, and
middle of October last year.
sent along a note.
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“I wish to say thank you to
Parkdale
Elementary
School is hosting an open all the wonderful families that
house and story time for all in- made my eight years at Park-
coming Kindergarten stu- dale Elementary School so
dents and their families on memorable,” said Vogel.
“Being able to be a part of the
Parkdale family was amazing
– you will always be in my
heart. Perhaps with more
‘free time’ I will be able to see
you more often.”
Many of us in the Upper
Valley hope she is able to do
just that!
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As the school year winds
down, so are some of the class-
es at the Mount Hood Town
Hall.
Tai Chi for Balance had a
successful self-sustaining year
through member contribu-
tions is now closed until the
fall, when classes will resume.
Jill Warila will continue
teaching Open Studio pottery
classes through May 26, then
will close the months of June,
July and August in order to
open an artists’ cooperative in
Hood River.
If any artists would enjoy
working with clay over the
summer, 25 pound bags of
clay can be purchased for $10
each on Tuesdays from 5:30 to
8:30 p.m. at the Town Hall
until the end of classes for
the season.
Open Studio classes will re-
sume in the fall, but a group of
people plan of using the stu-
dio a few mornings a week
over the summer, so if you are
interested, contact Bets Stover
at bets.stover@gmail.com.
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video productions at the
Hood River County Edu-
cation Foundation First
Annual Inde pendent
Film Festival. Student
videos were produced as
an extension of a Video
Production class taught
by Shawn Meyle. Several
films featured action
across many local sports
— snowboard, skiing,
kite boarding, and surf-
ing. The Festival was co-
sponsored by Second
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ed prizes as well as a pro-
fessional film of surfing
in the Aleutian Islands.
Other sponsors includ-
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HRVHS graduate Eric
Nance, who created the
HRVHS Official Music
Video for the Class of
2013, spoke to the stu-
dents about the post-high
school professional op-
portunities that video
production students
might consider.
The
video, “Eagle Nation,” a
performance of an origi-
nal song, was also shown.
The “People’s Choice”
award went to the video
“Vision” by Austin Keil-
lor. Audience members
voted with tokens to se-
lect this winner.
“The quality of these
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LARONNA and Rev. Don Howell of Valley Worship Center.
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student films was excel-
lent. T he Education
Foundation is proud to
sponsor this event that fo-
cuses on a different as-
pect of our students’ ac-
complishments,” said AJ
Kitt, the Film Festival co-
ordinator.
Following the student
videos and the Alaska
surfing film, prizes were
awarded. The winners
were:
Grand Prize $500 Col-
lege Scholarship — An-
drew Clark, “In the Court
of the South Moon,” a
stop-action animation
video.
First Runner Up —
Willem Dickinson, “Ac-
tion Reel,”local snow
board, kite board and
skateboard action.
Second Runner Up —
Lewis Taylor, “Indi Film
1,” the restoration of a
surfboard.
Third Runner Up -—
Austin Keillor, “Vision,”
kite boarding in Mexico.
Hood River County Ed-
ucation Foundation pro-
vided the organization
and funding for the Film
Fest. HRCEF is a local
foundation, funded by
donors, that provides col-
le g e
scholarships,
teacher grants and spe-
cial programs for stu-
dents in the school dis-
trict.
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when I ask her questions she gets angry.
Climbing Wall Rodeo May 26
Gorge Grippers Climbing
Team presents Climbing Wall
Rodeo May 26 at the Hood
River Middle School gym, lo-
cate at 1602 May Street.
The rodeo is for beginners
and experienced climbers
alike. Children ages 6-8 will
climb from 4-6 p.m., and those
uvup-
Student videos capture
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