Lower Columbia Informer
Kayaking is as minimalist a way as possible to become one with the water while having great control over your own motion and maintaining the freedom to go anywhere.
Read some articles from back issues of the print edition and supplemental content.
Kayaking is as minimalist a way as possible to become one with the water while having great control over your own motion and maintaining the freedom to go anywhere.
Paddle Power
To commemorate our recent 25th anniversary, my wife Barb and I went kayaking. With fond memories of our first meeting while taking a kayak class on Seattle’s Lake Union, we rented a tandem for us and a single for our daughter, Kay, at Scappoose Bay Kayaking, located just off of highway 30 along the Old Portland Road south of St. Helens, Oregon.
Join the "art party" at Broadway Gallery Sept. 6
By Laurel Murphy • . . . previous recessions (1990-91 and 2001) did not impact the gallery but since 2006, the current “Great Recession” has reduced the membership from 65 members to 36 . . . Founding member Audrey Hoffman says the new goal is “keep on growing. ”You can help. Attend the 30th Anniversary First Thursday Reception on September 6. Enter the drawings for 30 gifts. Buy a piece of art. Make the packing and hauling a one-way trip for everyone.
Making a Splash
By Diane Pond • The last time I swam the Columbia River was on Labor Day 2003. It was the 5th year in a row that I had participated in the Columbia Cross Channel Swim in Hood River and I was determined to retire. I had faced my terrors and proved myself...
Take Me Home: Country Roads
By Judy Perry • We scour logging roads for good patches, and hope someone wasn’t there the day before. One must dress appropriately — unfashionable jeans, baseball hats with names such as Stihl®tm, flannel shirts over T-shirts, a backpack with sunscreen (not needed much in Pacific County), toilet tissue and water. Yes, we pack our lunch and it does taste good.
Spectator: Nature’s balance in the backyard
Squirrelfest was the brainchild of Pat Sari, one of the owners of Columbia Ford. Pat is a member of a nutty group of pranksters called The Sandbaggers. They caught fire with the idea and promoted it into a very successful event. An event that merged with the Longview Bicycle Criterium, an exciting series of bicycle races through the streets of Longview, this year near the Longview City Library.
Oh, my stars! The Perseids annual meteor shower delights skywatchers
By Greg Smith • Late July and early August are the time for "shooting stars," which are actually not stars, but meteors. The most famous meteor shower is the Perseids. It is called the Perseids because the meteors stream into the Earth from the direction of the constellation Perseus. . . There is a lot to see on a clear night in the summer, and this is the best time of year for us to see what’s out there. So as you relax and look for meteors, just look around, pan the binoculars across the sky, and see the grandeur of the star clouds of the Milky Way. See what you can discover. Maybe you’ll see wonders you’ve never seen before and be thrilled like the astronomers of old.
Bloom Town USA
Northwest Gardener • By Nancy Chennault • Like many communities, the Castle Rock Chamber of Commerce organizes a clean-up event each spring. Last year, volunteers planted the southern entrance beds, known as “The Islands,” with hundreds of bubblegum-pink petunias. It was this display which gave Castle Rock the motivation to really think BIG for 2012. And the recent renovation of the main street through the business district sparked local business owners and community leaders’ desire to enhance the downtown with new landscaping, floral displays and hanging baskets
Book Review - Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
In 1995, 26-year old Cheryl Strayed’s life was coming apart at the seams. She was still experiencing the grief of her mother’s death four years earlier; she had sabotaged her marriage through multiple infidelities (“it’s all my fault…I’m the one. I broke my own heart”); and her use of alcohol and heroin wasn’t helping matters either.
A Simple Logo: CRR's founding publisher looks back
It was days before Thanksgiving in 1999, when I begin playing around with a logo; two weeks later I had created the Columbia River Reader. By the first of the year in 2000, our first issue hit the streets. I was full of enthusiasm and I wanted to break every story hidden away under the seedy bellies of politico small town America.
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