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Hood River News, Saturday, June 20, 2015
‘Beach Bash’ celebrates, wakes things up June 25-28
By KIRBY NEUMANN-
REA
hands-on gear demo
days for windsurfers,
stand-up paddle board-
News editor
This is a case of “at ers and spectators.
Throughout the week-
home, go big.”
“Beach Bash,” the an- end, CGWA hopes the
nual celebration of the events will appeal to
Gorge wind and water everyone, from those
lifestyle, covers four who have never surfed
or SUP’ed to
days next
those with
week with
plenty of ex-
LEARN MORE
events in-
perience.
‘Ways of the
cluding a
“Beach
concert, bar-
Wind’ column, A7
Bash is all
becue, swap
about hav-
meet, and, of
ing a good time in the
course, racing.
Columbia
Gorge Gorge, on and off the
Windsurfing Associa- water,” said CGWA Ex-
tion presents its new ecutive Director Greg
and improved four-day Stiegel, “This year’s
festival
Thursday event builds on the lega-
through Sunday, June cy we have built with
Windfest and is de-
25-28.
The popular windsurf signed to include more
event will include a live of the community, so
concert, a community everyone can have a
barbecue, an all-sports good time, We’ve re-
gear swap, the “Never branded and reinvigo-
Ever Windsurfed Before rated the lineup this
Race” and fun relays, year.”
Stiegel gives the run-
plus two days of water-
down on page A7, but
sports gear demos.
CGWA offers two dif- here are a few high-
ferent watersports lights:
■ June 25 -— Pray For
Wind Party hosted by
Stonehedge Gardens
restaurant in Hood
River. Activities will in-
clude a fully catered din-
ner (tickets for sale at
the door are $10-$20), live
music, cash bar, and
loads of auction and raf-
fle items to raise money
for the CGWA kids pro-
gram, Gorge Groms.
■ June 26 — New this
year, from 6-10 p.m., is a
live outdoor concert at
the Hood River Water-
front Park’s newly built
amphitheater, featuring
Tim Snider out of Port-
land,
with
Smoke on the
Water open-
ing. Presented
by 10 Barrel
and support-
ed by Naked
Winery. Free
entrance and
open to all
ages.
■ June 27
—
T he
B e a c h
Party, hosted by Big
T RAVELING
C HAIR
Art on Oak Gallery of Arti-
sans, a new collaborative
gallery, opened at 210 Oak St.
Monday.
Artists Jill Warila, Noelle
Newton and Michael Scrivens
coordinate the gallery, which
currently presents the work of
23 artists doing watercolor,
oils, woodwork, sculpture,
jewelry, soaps, cards, ceram-
ics, clothing, metalwork, and
more on display and for sale.
Art on Oak is open seven
days a week (arton-oak.com),
541-436-4472.
The gallery is the first of
three tenants in the former
Second Wind store. The space
recently underwent extensive
remodeling after being vacant
for more than a year.
A grand opening is planned
for First Friday on July 3.
Many of the artists had par-
ticipated in the 2014 holiday
pop-up gallery at the adjacent
Butler Bank Building, 301
Oak. The artists themselves
mind the shop on a rotating
basis, and sometimes they
will be working in the gallery.
Ben-Ami
surf and SUP g ear
demo (the latest and
greatest gear) at the
Hood River Event Site
for $5-$10 all day.
For up-to-date infor-
mation on Beach Bash
visit GorgeWindsurf-
ing.org/events/beachb
ash.
Photo by Trent Hightower
WHATEVER YOUR
speed, leisurely messing
about in boats or high-
flying windsport athletics
like Rob Watkins shows
in 2014, Beach Bash has
something to offer.
Workshops look at landscaping with less water
Join OSU Extension Ser-
vice, Columbia Gorge Master
Gardeners, Hood River Soil
and Water Conservation Dis-
trict and Hood River Water-
shed Group for a series of
free presentations starting
July 11 on water-conserving
landscapes in the Learning
Garden at the Extension
grounds.
Jane Nichol, left, of Hood River B & B,
passes a special red chair to Mary Pel-
legrini of Old Parkdale Inn. The red
chair visited Hood River County in May
and June as part of a national B & B
awareness program that focuses on a
traveling red porch chair to highlight
the comfort, hospitality and friendli-
ness of bed and breakfasts. The chair
previously visited Sakura Ridge Farm
and Lodge and Oak Street Hotel. Since
the start of the red chair’s travels in
New England in 2012, B & Bs and inns
have taken inspiring photos of the red
chair from beaches to bandstands. Par-
ticipating B & Bs and inns listed on Be-
dandBreakfast.com host the red chair,
chronicling its stay with blog posts and
photos on RedChairTravels.com. Nichol
said that in its week at her Oak Street
establishment, the chair was the hon-
ored seat at the head of the table. Pel-
ligrini has transported the chair to
Madras, where she met a B & B owner
from Bend for the red chair’s next
stage of the journey.
Art on
Oak
gallery
opens
Photo by Sam
my
Wi n d s .
This is an
a c t i o n -
packed day
of fun in the
sun for the
whole com-
munity. Ac-
tivities in-
clude wind-
I N
The presentations will take
place in the gardens and will
begin at 9 a.m., with high-
lighted features to include
bioswales, a native plants gar-
den, hellstrip garden, herb
garden, and water-efficient
lawns, followed by a primer
on drip irrigation from 11-
11:30 a.m.
The OSU Mid-Columbia
Agricultural Research and
Extension Center is located at
2990 Experiment Station
Drive. Experiment Station
Drive connects with Tucker
Road south of Hood River, at
Excavation Rental Services
(formerly Your Party and
Rental Center).
Call 541-386-3343 for more
information.
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