Multiple Vaccine Clinics to be Available This Week

Wasco County Elections Clerk Lisa Gambee had a challenge for voters this morning. “Make us work,” she said. “We spend our hard-earned tax dollars to send these ballots out. Drop them off,” she said.

Dry Hollow Elementary Teacher Ms. Emily Stewart puckered up last Friday, May 14, when she made good on a deal with students to kiss a pig in a fundraiser to purchase trees for Sorosis Park. The drive brought in $3,000, a record for the school. But Ms. Stewart had to pay the piper with this 500-pound sow. Maybe next year, they should kiss the piglet?

Debbie Hendrickx has moved her operation to The Dalles and is busy sweetening up the lives of dogs everywhere with a ‘Swell’ new gelato that’s just for the dogs.

Ceramics as well as throwing a little clay will be happening at The Dalles Art Center this Saturday, May 15 as the gallery showcases its market of incredible pieces brought about by a collaboration of local and regional artists. As expected, five local artists were included in Beyond the Construct: Penny Wallace, Yvonne Wakefield, Savannah Lawton, Tom Bottman, and Jonathan Kranzley. While you're at it, check out the incredible flowers and the newly refurbished floor. Gorrrrrrrrgeous!

Colonel Wright Elementary’s Ramona Harwood directs the “Marimba Pioneers” in her front yard near the Elementary School on Thursday, May 13.

A line quickly formed at the Rivertap for the inaugural “Take a Bite Out of COVID” mobile vaccine event May 7. The next event is planned for May 21, with details to follow.

Dry Hollow principal Ajay Rundell spurred donations when he came to school in this pig costume. Students at the school raised thousands of dollars for trees at Sorosis Park in a Kiss the Pig fundraiser.

North Wasco County School District 21 is well on its way towards the long-term goal of a health center at The Dalles High School. With the help of grants, the ESD is working with school districts in Wasco and Hood River counties to figure out how to provide more school-based treatable mental health care.

It’s a tough job. And what job worth doing is easy?

Fostering children intends to give a whole new outlook on life, one where a child can learn to love themselves as well as others, find success, and swell a foster parent’s heart with pride.

— May 13 Janet Hamada, Executive Director of The Next Door Inc., will share her organizations’ amazing work during the pandemic.

Robin Allen is on a mission to make her community a happier and more stylish place. Her new life and styling services fund and soon-to-be show “Stylist for the People”, will gift transformative life styling services to marginalized communities in Oregon, Washington, and California.

French’s Farm in Lyle is celebrating the Spring season with the last weekend of their Spring plant sale on May 7th-9th from 9AM-5PM!

Sally Fasulo, Bonnie Foote, Ann Ketchum, and Connie Christensen work away at the wall of Mah Jongg tiles on Wednesday Afternoon, May 5 at 409 Lincoln Street, The Dalles. The group has been getting together on Wednesdays to play the Chinese game for more than two decades.

The spring winds pack a punch in the Gorge.

In this week’s column, I give advice on how to dress with confidence despite your insecurities and how your Spring cleaning can easily turn into giving back to our communities!

Live theater returns to The Dalles the third weekend in May as the Serious Theater pod of actors presents “The Edgar Allan Poe Afterlife Radio Show” by Patrick Greene and Jason Pizzarello, produced by special arrangement with Playscripts, Inc. (www.playscripts.com).

The Original Wasco County Courthouse is opening on a limited basis as the 2021 tourist season begins.

Jeremy DePriest, 43, with the Oregon Department of Transportation hammers some anchor bolts home as a crew replaced fencing along I-84 next to Riverfront Trail just east of the Union Street underpass this morning, Monday, April 26.