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Hood River News, Wednesday, July 15, 2015
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Photo by Patrick Mulvihill
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Summer time usually means street maintenance work of all varieties. Above, an Oregon Department
of Transportation crew member applies a fresh coat of black pavement Monday to the innermost lanes
of 12th Street on the Heights, between the stoplights at Pacific Avenue and Brookside Drive.Traffic was
diverted to single lanes, north and southbound. Crews arrived at 6 a.m. and worked through to the af-
ternoon. The overlay project healed the old asphalt that had been showing signs of stress. At left, City
of Hood River public works crew members Vic Snyder, left, and Dave Ouzounian paint new stop lines
at Eighth and Montello streets on the Heights, part of an ongoing safety project in residential and com-
mercial areas in that part of town.
Photo by Kirby Neumann-Rea
ON THE AGENDA
These are the re gular
meeting times of governing
bodies for these agencies:
Cascade Locks
Cascade Locks City Coun-
cil, 7 p.m., City Hall Council
Chambers, 140 W. WaNaPa
St., second and fourth Mon-
days of the month.
Cascade Locks Planning
Commission, 7 p.m., City
Hall Council Chambers, 140
W. WaNaPa St., second
Thursday of the month.
Cascade Locks Port Com-
mission, 6 p.m., City Hall
Council Chambers, 140 W.
WaNaPa St., first and third
Thursdays of the month.
Hood River
City of Hood River Plan-
ning Commission meeting,
5:30 p.m., Hood River City
Hall Council Chambers, 211
Second St., generally the
first and third Mondays of
the month. Place and dates
subject to change.
Hood River Port Commis-
sion, 5 p.m., 100 E. Port Mari-
na Drive, board room, first
and third Tuesdays of the
month.
Hood River City Council, 6
p.m., Hood River City Hall
Council Chambers, 211 Sec-
ond St., second and fourth
Mondays of the month.
Hood River Valley Parks
and Recreation District, 6
p.m., Aquatic Center, 1601
May St., third Wednesday of
the month. Place subject to
change.
Hood River County
Hood River Soil and Water
Conservation District Board
of Directors meeting, 4 p.m.,
OSU Extension Service
Building, 2990 Experiment
Station Road, first Thursday
of the month.
Hood River County Board
of Commissioners regular
session, 6 p.m., 601 State St.,
first floor conference room,
third Monday of the month.
Time subject to change.
Library District Board
meeting, 7 p.m., 502 State St.,
conference room, third Tues-
day of the month.
ning Commission meeting, 7
p.m., 601 State St., first floor,
generally second and fourth
Wednesdays of the month.
Hood River County Water
Planning Group, 2 p.m., 601
State St., first floor confer-
ence room, generally first
Wednesday of the month.
Hood River County Com-
mission on Children and
Families Board meeting, 5:15
p.m., Providence Hood River
Memorial Hospital board-
room, generally first Tues-
day of the month.
Hood River County Plan-
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SKILLY ENJOYING a quiet moment at home.
sympathy is limited.
Now that the two of us are
up, Skilly has completely lost
interest. We point and en-
courage, but he will not even
look at the mouse. Eric re-
sorts to getting the dustpan
and broom to scoop the thing
up, and I help by opening the
screen door and shouting
some more while flailing
around a bit.
Those are really the only
skills I am able to bring to a
situation such as this.
Excitement over, we crawl
back into bed and turn off
the lights, jumping every sin-
gle time Skilly decides to at-
tack a non-existent mouse in
the folds of the new quilt cov-
ering us. He’s completely
clueless about the disappear-
ance of his mouse, and, given
that it is now 2 a.m., his con-
fusion is not as cute as it
would be at, say, 8:30.
This isn’t the first time
that Skilly has brought a
mouse to bed. That incident
occurred in June, and the
mouse was dead — no
squeaks to wake us up, just
Skilly’s repeated dropping of
the thing on our sleeping
forms until we finally got the
point.
The scars still linger from
this second occurrence; it’s
hard not to think the worst
when Skilly leaps up on the
bed. My hopes are not high
that we will not repeat this
game in the near future. Mice
— and Skilly’s joy in finding
and playing with them — are
just opportunity cost of liv-
ing where we do.
It’s a good thing he’s cute
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For more information con-
tact Pastor Mark at Parkdale
Community Church at 541-
352-7747 or 541-490-4511.
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Every Thursday night this
summer is “Family Library
Night” at the Parkdale Ele-
mentary School Library from
5-7 p.m. Students can check
out books, enjoy activities and
free books, and a Popsicle, but
must be accompanied by an
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Ideas for fun in the upper Hood River valley
Five upper valley churches
will hold Vacation Bible
School titled “Outrigger Is-
land” the week of Aug. 3-7
starting at 5:30 p.m. at Park-
dale Community Church.
Children ages pre-K
through fifth grade are invited
to learn about Jesus through
songs, Bible stories and crafts
and families are welcome to
gather at the church at 5 p.m.
and enjoy a light meal before-
hand.
Hood River County Trans-
portation District, 9 a.m.,
Hood River County Trans-
portation District Board
Room, 224 Wasco Loop, sec-
ond Wednesday of the
month.
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ate Tuesday evening.
Or maybe it’s
Wednesday now, be-
cause it’s 1:45 a.m.
It’s hot. Well, of
course it’s hot. We’ve got
the windows open in our
bedroom, and I’m awake
because something as of
yet unidentified has woken
me up.
I can hear a bit of traffic
noise and the gentle squeak
of the sprinklers watering
the flower garden, and I’m
just about to drift off again
when I hear a louder squeak
that appears to be coming
from inside the house.
But it quickly goes away.
My ears can only detect the
sprinklers and the rustling
noise Skilly, our cat, makes
as he comes to my pillow for
a pat on the head. In a flash,
he’s jumping over my body
and I hear that loud squeak
again. I’m tired and still kind
of in denial, so it takes a
minute to realize what is ac-
tually going on.
Which is: Skilly has
brought a live mouse to bed.
When it clicks, I am re-
quired to yell a bit as my feet
hit the floor, because MOUSE
IN THE BED. This wakes up
my husband, which is kind of
the point.
Eric gets up and turns on
the light, and there, snuggled
in the folds of our quilt, is a
rather adorable brown
mouse. Except it’s vermin
and it’s in my bed, so my
Hood River County School
Board, 6:30 p.m., meets at
schools and district facilities
on a rotating schedule (visit
hoodriver.k12.or.us for loca-
tion), second and fourth
Wednesdays of the month
unless school vacations or
other holidays interrupt the
schedule.

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Sunday, Aug. 30, is the date
of this year’s annual Joint
Churches Sunday at Toll
Bridge Park presented by
Parkdale Community Church,
Parkdale Church of the
Nazarene, Parkdale Baptist
Church, Valley Worship Cen-
ter and Pillar Bible Church.
The combined service will
be held at 11 a.m. and a friend-
ly neighbor potluck lunch will
follow.
Calling All
Softball Players
12U ASA Tryouts for the NEW Gorge Softball
team will be held August 1st at 6pm on the
softball field on Nix Drive in Hood River.
To Register or for information Contact Tonya at
(541)705-7217 or gorgeshadows@gmail.com
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