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Photo Contest
Local shooters
Winners aim and impress
Artist Lance Dooley
‘Just a Wenatchee boy at heart’
Texting ...
Flamethrower Dustin Driver
Editor’s Letter
Home With a View
Y
ou can find the top images from the second-annual Foothills Photo Contest
starting on Page 32 of this issue.
The pictures are striking, creative, inspiring and even funny in one case.
But by no means should you think those are the only good images out of the 225-plus
entries we received this year.
The photo entries as a whole were outstanding. You can view all the entries at
ncwfoothills.com.
After clicking my way through the slideshow of images, I’m left with a feeling of
thankfulness — first of all, thankful to all the photographers who submitted their
photos to the contest, and second, thankful to live in a place as special as North Central
Washington, where all of the photos were taken.
The photo collection is a great snapshot of many of the wonderful reasons why this
is such a beautiful place to live. Even the scary lightning shots that left us holding our
collective breath last summer are mesmerizing.
Also inside this issue, you’ll come across Gary Jasinek’s profile of local artist Lance
Dooley, who is now perhaps most famous for the mammoth E.T. Pybus sculpture at
Pybus Public Market that was unveiled late last year.
Dooley’s talent is unquestionable. His life’s journey from student artist to software
developer — with stints along the way as U.S. soldier and engineering student — is an
interesting one.
It’s obvious, after reading Jasinek’s piece, that Dooley himself is a work in process.
Marco Martinez, editor
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On the cover: Dawn Kranz of Leavenworth
snapped this image at Lake Wenatchee at the end
of last summer. It was one of the many photos that
impressed judges as they reviewed submissions for
the second-annual Foothills Photo Contest. You can
see the top winners, including a differently cropped
version of Dawn’s photo, inside this issue.
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Contents
6 Fast 5
Spring is Mike Irwin’s thing
Page 14
8 Hot Pursuit
Wenatchee PD is sporting new wheels
12 Cold Snaps
Mike Bonnicksen collects freeze frames
14 Good Crabby
Chateau Grill’s recipe for crab cakes
16 Spin is In
Page 48
Indoor cycling gains speed in area gyms
22 Well Sculpted
Artist Lance Dooley is ‘a Wenatchee boy
at heart’
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30 Texting ... Dustin Driver
Teenager hurler is now a pro
32 Winning Images
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Top entries from Photo Contest
48 Top Shelf
Wine bars gaining traction in NCW
56 Upon Further Review
Barb Robertson sips some reds
Now open in East Wenatchee, Lulu’s offers a full-bar lounge,
lunch and dinner menus along with wine-paired tastings for a
fun, relaxing evening. Come in today and see why Lulu’s is
raising the bar in Wenatchee Valley.
58 Icy Reception
Photos from Winter Ice Gala
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daily specials, wine tasting and cooking classes.
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fast five
1
Canoodling on campus
Feeling frisky? There’s no better
place to start your springtime mating
ritual than at “The Smooching Bench,”
an actual bench near the center of the
Wenatchee Valley College campus
where you can sit down and pucker
up. The bench was erected in honor of
Eldon Anderson, first graduate of the
college in 1941 and a good-humored,
vivacious fellow who loved to flirt. The
legend is that he’d teasingly say, “I’d like
to smooch with every girl on campus!”
And then set off to woo the prettiest.
Over the decades, Eldon credited
WVC with giving him the education
that set him on his way to becoming
a successful Seattle attorney and, in
return, donated generously to the WVC
Foundation. The bench is a tongue-incheek way of saying “thanks.”
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Greenish gold
Foragers are often tight-lipped about
their favorite wild-edible locations,
particularly hot spots for asparagus.
(Tip: They’ll often blab with a bribe
of cold beer.) From the end of March
through April, you’ll see diehard
gatherers ranging along roadside
ditches and in moist lowlands for the
prized spear. And even then, when
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questioned, they might claim to be
searching for a lost hubcap. Asparagus
shoots rise from a central stem
growing about a foot underground, so
cagey foragers mark their asparagus
territory in the fall with ribbons or
stakes. Nothing too obvious, of course,
or sneaky, low-life competitors will
grab the booty from right under their
ready-to-pluck fingertips. So what’s
our favorite location for the potassiumrich wild delicacy? Hmm ... a cold beer
would sure taste good right now.
Spring
Rites
(and wrongs)
edition
By mike Irwin
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Green thumb goofs
Since Christmas, you backyard
agronomists have been mentally hoehoe-hoeing and are now ready to get
down and dirty, right? Not so fast. Local
Master Gardener Bonnie Orr points
to three eager-beaver errors: Planting
tomatoes by April 1 (ignore the date
and wait till the soil has warmed to
at least 40 degrees, or the plants will
“turn purple and turn up their toes”);
removing mulch before irrigation water
flows (mulch locks in soil moisture and
keeps loam from getting desiccated);
and fertilizing lawns when they’re
still brown and dry (lawns will only
absorb fertilizer if the grass has already
awakened from its winter doldrums, so
wait till the soil warms and the grass
begins to green up).
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Don’t egg them on
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New season
for AppleSex
Nothing in the Wenatchee
Valley shouts “Spring!” louder than
thousands of revelers celebrating the
sex antics of the apple — or, more
prudishly, the cross-pollination of
pomaceous tree fruit — at the annual
Washington State Apple Blossom
Festival (April 24-May 4). Yep, we’re
literally talking about the birds and the
bees as they flit blossom-to-blossom
to spread the magic pollen that makes
our apple economy possible. Best of
all, the entire spring revel climaxes, so
to speak, with one of the state’s most
joyous flings of mobile merriment,
the Stemilt Growers Grand Parade.
Can we get a shout-out for marching
bands sparking some hot blossom
fertilization?
Beware of tykes with Easter baskets
and fire in their eyes. These veteran egg
hunters have been coached in swoopand-scoop techniques to gather not
just the most, but the most rewarding,
prized eggs at any given hunt. No
baby-chick
sweatshirts
or bunny
costumes for
these brutes.
In running
shoes and
Gore-Tex,
they’re
usually
the oldest
gatherers
in their division and carry the largest,
most battle-scarred baskets. They
stand apart from the crowd to scan the
field, mentally mark their targets and
plot zigzag courses to pluck-up only
the choicest cackle-fruit — golden
eggs stuffed with M&Ms and discount
coupons. Easter is on April 20, but the
hunt starts much earlier. Be ready.
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Wheels of wonder
Story By Sharon Altaras photos By Mike Bonnicksen
The new 2013 Dodge Charger Pursuit driven by Wenatchee police officers has a 370hp HEMI V8, giving officers amazingly quick
pickup for around-town driving.
Patrol Power
Wenatchee PD
adds muscle
to its fleet with
choice of Dodge
Charger Pursuit
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I
f this car could talk, it would
advise you of your rights.
Looking lean, mean and ready
for a back-alley altercation, the 2013
Dodge Charger Pursuit is the city of
Wenatchee’s choice to replace Ford’s
decommissioned Crown Victoria.
Four new marked patrol cars hit the
pavement in early December. They are
being shared, along with nine older
vehicles, by the city’s 24 police officers.
With its HEMI eight-cylinder engine
that puts out 370 horse power and 390
pounds of torque per foot, plus 18-inch
steel wheels, the Charger should have
plenty of stamina. It’s been tested to
go from 0 to 60 mph in just over six
seconds, with a top speed of 130 mph,
though speeds over 90 are almost
unheard of on a chase through the city,
says Officer Brian Bolz.
Bolz doesn’t much miss his first
Officer Brian Bolz shows a barcode
reader scanning a license. Tickets are
automatically printed from the printer
behind the passengers seat, seen in the
background in the upper left corner.
patrol vehicle, a six-cylinder Ford
Taurus he drove for the Douglas
County Sheriff’s Office that nearly
caught fire twice — once due to a
blown hose and another time from
simply overheating. Nor does he miss
the Chevy Caprice he drove next. Or
even the Crown Victorias that came
later.
In 20 years as a law enforcement
officer, this is hands-down his favorite
vehicle.
“It’s more comfortable, better
performing, quieter,” he says.
The Crown Vics were strong and
roomy, but there’s something to be said
for the Charger’s style.
Its white decaling is a vinyl wrap
that will strip off when the cars have
reached the end of their careers and are
ready to be auctioned — all-black cars
should fetch a higher price.
From a practical standpoint, the
Charger is better, also. It boasts
new equipment, which includes:
radios, sirens and light bars; front/
rear dividers, digital video cameras,
computer tablets with mounted
keyboards, and printers in the trunk.
Officers now automatically download
video shot from the dash cameras to a
server in the police station every time
they roll into the department’s parking
garage.
“Before we had to download to flash
sticks,” Bolz says. “That’s been a huge
time savings for us and makes it easier
for us to review the footage.”
Another economical feature is a
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Wenatchee police officer Brian Bolz shows the tablet and keyboard in the car.
“The Dodge has been
on the road a while
for different entities,
so it kind of has a
proven track record.”
Don Bitterman
Wenatchee fleet and
facilities supervisor
programmed setting that shuts the car
down to save fuel if it has been idling
more than 20 minutes.
The car also will lock its doors and
start running if lights or anything else
drains the battery below 12 volts.
Ford produced its last Crown Victoria
in September 2011. In mid-2013, a
task force for the city of Wenatchee’s
police department began the process
of picking out a new patrol sedan.
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The 370hp HEMI V8 engine will run on 4 cylinders when power isn’t needed. The
car automatically starts up to charge the battery if the lights pull the battery below a
certain voltage.
Members compared Chrysler’s Dodge
Charger — customizable for law
enforcement since 2006 — alongside
the Chevrolet Caprice Police Patrol
Vehicle, which was reintroduced in
North America in 2011 after a fiveyear hiatus, and Ford’s new Police
Interceptor Sedan, a re-engineered
Taurus that was marketed to law
enforcement starting in 2012.
The Ford’s turbocharged V-6 engine
has lots of torque but may not have
been the right choice for a workhorse
destined to roam Wenatchee’s 30-mph
streets, says Bolz. Plus, the Dodge was
roomier.
Don Bitterman, fleet and facilities
supervisor for the City of Wenatchee,
was among those who compared and
test drove the three vehicles.
“The Dodge has been on the road a
while for different entities, so it kind
of has a proven track record,” he says.
The V8 Caprice has a smaller
back-seat area than the Charger and
has been largely manufactured and
serviced in Australia, making any
service issues a potential headache,
members of the task force figured.
Decision makers were able to get
feedback from neighboring agencies
who’d updated portions of their fleet,
earlier. Chelan County, for example,
had incorporated Ford’s new vehicle,
while the State Patrol went with the
The high-definition camera mounted in
the car downloads footage automatically to servers at the police station,
whenever the car is near it.
Plexiglass window covers are safer
for suspects riding in the back seat,
providing less hard surfaces for them
to get injured on and the offer better
visibility to officers than metal bars.
new Caprice. Douglas County Sheriff’s
Office had chosen the Charger.
Feedback has been “very, very
positive,” while officers are getting
used to the new cars, Bolz says. There
have been a few complaints about the
computers, which have less screen
area and smaller keys than their
predecessors, but help reduce blind
spots.
Technology has its hiccups. A major
setback occurred when department
officials realized the cars had not been
keyed the same and had to send them
back to be completely reprogrammed.
All told, the Chargers cost
between $50,000 and $51,000 each, a
couple thousand less, each, than the
alternatives, says Bitterman.
Bolz wants to thank the citizens of
Wenatchee for buying the new cars.
“It really is one of the best in the
business,” he says of the Charger
Pursuit. “It’s not a glorified taxi cab.”
“We really just got to put together
a wish list, and that was pretty
much answered for us. We’re really
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On the trail
Frost-covered needles on a
evergreen by the Ingalls Creek
Trail off Blewett Pass. At top, a
rose hip along the Ingalls Creek
Trail. At right, a burned log
beside Swakane Canyon Road
north of Wenatchee.
Frost-covered trees along one of
the many roads near the Beezley
Hills Preserve near Quincy.
Frost
in
Places
I
n December and January, I did a lot of walking on the
back roads around North Central Washington. The lack
of snow also allowed me to get to some areas in the
mountains that would normally be snow covered during this
time of year. I wasn’t able to get out as much as I’d like, but
tried to get out when the hills were frost covered. It’s always so
beautiful to see the frosty covered vegetation and the intricate
details formed by the icy crystals. F
photos By mike Bonnicksen
Ice forms alongside Ingalls Creek on
Blewett Pass. At left, hoar frost covers a
leaf in an orchard near Quincy.
Kitchen creations
photos By frank cone
Crab-tastic
Chateau Grill serves up tasty cakes
Chateau Grill Crab Cakes
40 ounces strained Dungeness crab meat
2 eggs
20 ounces finely chopped fresh cod
1 cup Panko bread crumbs
1 cup mayonnaise
Juice of one lemon
2 pinches blackened seasoning
2 pinches salt and pepper
1 red bell pepper, finely chopped
1/2 white onion, finely chopped
2 garlic cloves, finely chopped
Sauté red bell pepper, onion and garlic
cloves in pan over medium heat, let cool.
Gently mix all ingredients in a large bowl
and divide into 16, 4-ounce crab cakes
using a ring mold. Over medium heat, sauté
in butter until lightly browned on each side,
about 3 minutes per side. Serve over Apple
Celery Coleslaw and top with Chipotle Aioli.
Yield: 16 cakes
Apple Celery Coleslaw
4 stalks celery, thinly sliced
2 cored, halved, and thinly sliced red
apples
1/2 green cabbage head, thinly sliced
2 teaspoons salt
2 teaspoons black pepper
4 tablespoons apple cider vinegar
1 cup mayonnaise
Pinch Bada Bing (mixture of cumin, white
pepper, garlic salt, Italian seasonings and
coarse black pepper)
Mix all ingredients in a large mixing bowl.
Yield: 8 servings
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A mix of finely diced red pepper, white onion and garlic are sautéed.
Chipotle Aioli
2 eggs
1/2 can chipotle peppers in adobo sauce
(7-ounce can)
Juice of 2 lemons
4 cups canola oil
1/4 cup blackened seasoning
1 tablespoon dark chili powder
2 pinches red pepper flakes
Mix all ingredients in food processor
except lemon juice and canola oil until it
becomes a paste, about 10-15 seconds.
Slowly add the canola oil to food
processor to emulsify the aioli.
Add lemon juice at end to finish.
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Spinning classes, like this one at
the Wenatchee Valley YMCA, are
popular at area gyms during the
colder, wetter months of the year.
Health & fitness
Story By m.K. Resk photos By frank cone
Spin
Cycle
Peddling in
place offers
big benefits
W
hen the weather is still
iffy and the roads are slick
but you’re bored with the
usual treadmill and workout videos,
stay indoors to … cycle? Yes, indoor
cycling offers a fantastic cardiovascular
workout, a good cross-training option,
and a refreshing challenge if you’re used
to other forms of exercise.
“It’s great in the winter and year
round to provide a way to train in
inclement weather,” says Hillary
Conner, fitness director and indoor
cycling instructor at the Wenatchee
Valley YMCA. “Benefits can be
achieved in as little as 30 minutes a day.
It’s also an accessible way to do interval
training to help contribute to more
Spinning instructor Hillary Conner works up a sweat leading a class at Wenatchee
Valley YMCA.
success and stamina on outdoor rides,”
she adds.
“Indoor cycling is a really low-impact,
safe, high-quality, low-injury-rate
exercise,” offers Tom Heywood, indoor
cycling instructor at East Wenatchee’s
Mountain View Fitness. “For the person
wanting a good workout, you can
advance pretty quickly.”
Indoor cycling provides “great cardio
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A spin class at Wenatchee Valley YMCA.
and very low impact compared to other
indoor equipment options,” agrees
Jason Jablonski, triathlete, indoor cycle
instructor and owner of SET Coaching.
You can ride solo using a traditional
stationary bike or using a device called
a bike trainer, which allows you to
adapt your road bike to pedal in place.
Jablonski says there are a million
trainers out there but advises that one
brand is not better than another. He
suggests spending money on a good
one, though, like a fluid or magnetic
driven one, somewhere in the $150-200
category. He also offers high-tech, highquality custom-bike fits, which can take
your performance and technique up
another notch.
If you’d prefer to ride indoors with
a group, you can join one of the many
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Hillary Conner’s spin class is well-choreographed, as evidenced by her music set list.
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fun class options available at gyms
around town. Instructors are uniformly
encouraging and approachable.
Be assured that these talented and
knowledgeable bike instructors have
your best interests in mind, too.
The Wenatchee YMCA offers straight
cycling and combination classes.
Jeannine Barnwell of Wenatchee enjoys
combining her cycling with toning. “I
like the combination classes because it’s
important to get the aerobic activity, but
when there’s a teacher there it pushes
me to do things that I wouldn’t do on
my own, and with better form and more
reps,” she says.
Barnwell has gone to the classes since
the YMCA first bought the bikes a few
years ago. She usually attends classes
twice a week. She recommends them
to everyone. “I think they’re absolutely
geared for all levels. You’re in control of
how much tension you have on that bike.
You can work at any level. It doesn’t hurt
your joints. No one else has to know how
hard you’re working,” she says.
Serious competitive cyclists like
East Wenatchee’s Ken Wilson head to
Heywood’s classes at Mountain View
Fitness. “Tom’s an inspiration,” says
Wilson. “ ... He has an upbeat attitude,
a great sense of humor, he’s laid back,
and really makes new people feel
welcome. He just wants to help people
work at their own level and improve
individually.”
Heywood says the bikes at Mountain
View are unique because they are
designed for training on and include
high-tech equipment. The bikes are
capable of very specific workouts.
Professional riders would use them
for indoor workouts. People enjoy
these power-based training measures,
Heywood finds. “Seeing their wattage
output, how much force you are giving
out over time, and having a number in
front of you really motivates people.”
Wenatchee’s Amy Duncan prefers
the high energy and challenge of Jason
Jablonski’s classes at SET Coaching.
“Jason’s spin class is where you go when
you want real bike fitness training,” says
Duncan. “You use your own bike instead
of a gym bike, and instead of riding
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What are you waiting for?
himself as in most instructor-led classes,
he is pacing the room, watching the
riders and giving constant feedback.”
According to Jablonski, the
differences between indoor and outdoor
riding are minimal. He says the main
difference in riding your road bike on a
trainer inside means you are constantly
pedaling instead of stopping at
stoplights and such outside. Because of
this, an hour on a trainer is like an hour
and a half outside.
One downside if you’re new to cycling
indoors or outdoors, Heywood describes,
is that at first getting on the bike seat
can be really painful. Gel saddles can
help some people, but he advises not to
pedal through the pain. Instead, he says,
get off the bike and relieve the pressure.
It will improve eventually. The biggest
difference between indoor and outdoor
riding, according to Heywood, is that if
you’re an outside rider, it can be really
boring to ride for an hour inside. That’s
why group cycling classes are great.
Whatever your indoor-cycling
preference, there’s an option for you.
The WRAC offers cycling classes six
days a week. A 45-minute beginner
class taught by Tony Sauceda is popular.
Punch cards are available for nonmembers. The WRAC also offers virtual
rides whenever a class is not in session.
These rides feature gorgeous scenery
from great outdoor rides around the
world, according to Rachel Cooper,
WRAC membership director.
The area’s two Gold’s Gyms offer
cycling classes of various intervals and
“Benefits can be achieved in as little as 30 minutes a day,” says spin instructor
Hillary Conner.
lengths to include even those on a quick
lunch hour. They also offer Les Mills’
RPM classes, which use choreography,
music and motivating coaches to give
dimension to a high-intensity workout.
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artful life
Artist Lance Dooley spent an
estimated 700 hours creating the
E.T. Pybus sculpture that is now
prominently displayed at Pybus
Public Market in Wenatchee.
Com
Story By gary jasinek photos By ron Mason
‘Drive and
mmitment’
Inside the world of
artist Lance Dooley
I
n the sculpture room of Wenatchee
Valley College’s Music and Arts
Center, Lance Dooley is using a
slender wooden tool to press peas of
clay onto the puffy breast of America.
“America” is the name of Dooley’s
current work, a one-half-scale bald
eagle with a fierce face and wings held
aloft, as if about to take flight from
the stylized bunting that covers the
sculpture’s platform.
Under the oil-based clay, Dooley is
saying, steel rods serve as the bird’s
skeleton. They underlie its wingtip
flight feathers. They are its clavicle, its
ulna, its humerus. Dooley knows his
avian anatomy.
Good thing, since it’s tough to find
an eagle willing to pose for hours in
an art studio. Dooley relies in part on
photos he took at a zoo in the ’90s,
two-dimensional representations of
natural birds, to inform this humancreated 3-D version.
“America,” he says, is an example of
reconstructive realism. “This eagle,
in this exact posture, may not exist in
nature,” he says. “The important thing
is that it could.”
Sponsored by the college, “America”
will be in bronze, not clay, when
it’s dedicated on campus the Friday
before Memorial Day as a tribute to
veterans who are students or who, like
Dooley, work at the college.
Perhaps at that event, Dooley will
be asked to say a few words, as he
did on Dec. 21 at the unveiling of his
more ambitious piece, the 7-foottall cast-bronze rendition of the man
after whom the Pybus Market is
named. Another Dooley, a one-third-
Dooley earned an engineering degree
at Washington State University, later
leaving his job as a software developer
to study art, including a three-year stint
at the Florence Academy of Art in Italy.
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The “America” bronze sculpture is
sponsored by Wenatchee Valley
College. It will be dedicated just before
Memorial Day as a tribute to veterans
who study and work at the college.
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scale female archer, decorates a spot
overlooking the river along the Loop
Trail, near the foot of Fifth Street. His
portrait bust of former Wenatchee
High School football coach and
principal Tom Byrne sits in the
school’s trophy case.
So it is that Lance Dooley’s
sculptures are increasingly figuring
in the Wenatchee landscape. And he
wants to do more, and grander, pieces
in this valley and beyond.
Not what one might expect from
someone who was born in Thailand,
who has lived in Tehran and Italy, who
served in the Army in Germany, who
chose to study engineering instead
of art at WSU, and who eight years
ago was raking in the big tech bucks
as a software developer at a Bellevue
company.
But those descriptions give only two
dimensions of a man.
After talking more with Dooley
and people who know him, he starts
to take shape in 3-D, and it begins to
make sense.
T
he first question might be, why
Wenatchee?
Easy answer: He grew up
here. His foreign origin and early
residence in the Middle East had to
do with his dad’s service in the Navy,
but Dooley, who’s now 45 years old,
attended K-12 here.
Even in those days, he says, he was
known as “Lance the artist.” In his
senior year at Eastmont High School,
he was named the school’s Artist of
the Year.
Retired art teacher Phil Yenney
remembers Dooley now as “one of
those kids who you could just tell
understood things. He had focus and
enthusiasm.”
Yenney saw inklings of Dooley’s
future as a sculptor even back
then. “One of the things I always
admired was that you could tell by
his drawings that he could think in
three dimensions,” Yenney said. “I
could just see this whole idea of his
being very three-dimensional in his
thinking. I was taken by how sculpted
his drawings looked.”
He may have been Lance the artist
in high school, but when Dooley went
to Washington State University after
a stint in the Army and two years at
WVC, it was with a scholarship in
engineering. He was really good at it
and earned straight A’s, as required
by his scholarship. “The discipline I
learned in the military really helped,”
he said. That, plus the way he looks at
the world.
Dooley sees no anomaly in
someone who’s apparently a born
artist excelling at engineering. “If
you can draw really well, you can
envision things,” he said. “You’re good
at visualizing abstract concepts.” And
that had direct applications to his
studies in engineering.
After graduating as a Coug — cum
laude and with a degree in electrical
engineering — Dooley worked for
Boeing in Everett, a job he hated, then
hired on as a software developer at a
Bellevue company called Attachmate.
He was there for nearly 10 years
“The money was great,” he said. “But I
never stopped drawing, never stopped
being passionate about art.”
In off hours, he’d go to Point
Defiance or the Seattle Aquarium
and fill sketchbooks with charcoal
portraits of animals.
It wasn’t until 2000 that he started
sculpting, attracted to the form
because “it’s more permanent. I want
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Dooley’s “Sparrow” sculpture is part
of the Art on the Avenues exhibit.
Kathryn Stevens photo
to make things that last a long, long
time.”
By then his passion for art was
starting to drive him. He needed to
take art more seriously, and be taken
more seriously as an artist, so he
enrolled in the Seattle Academy of
Fine Art. But Dooley wanted even
more of a formal education, one
that he would have only to mention
to earn credibility in any arts
community.
He looked to Europe, and finally
landed in the three-year program at
the Florence Academy of Art in Italy.
Chances are he was the only software
developer attending that institution.
“It was a one-way jump off a very
high diving board,” Dooley said. He
was in his late 30s and had quit his
well-paying job and sold his house
to finance the move. It was 2005, not
long before the housing bubble burst,
so his timing was good.
At Florence, it was an experience of
rigorous scholarship — as difficult, he
said, as engineering school.
But returning to the States in 2008,
the beginning of the Great Recession,
wasn’t such good timing for an artist
trying to make a living. “Arts are
always the first thing to be cut,” he
said.
He started to build his body of
work anyway, procuring the odd
commission, working out of studios
in Ballard and SODO, living in his van
for months when he had to.
In 2009, he returned to Wenatchee.
“I was just coming back for a year
to clear my head, get away from the
Seattle noise,” he said.
He landed a gig teaching figure
drawing at WVC, and kept creating
art.
E
arly last year, Dooley was
selected to create the heroic
figure of E.T. Pybus that now
looms over the center aisle-way of the
Pybus Market.
JoAnn Walker, who with husband
Mike contributed most of the market’s
financing, had the sculpture in mind
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for a while. Her discussion with
Wenatchee artist Jan Cook Mack,
who knew of Dooley’s work, led to a
meeting and Dooley’s selection as the
artist, Dooley said.
Dooley figures he worked on the
statue for around 700 hours, receiving
something less than $8,000 of the
statue’s $64,500 cost. It was a deeply
involving project.
Immigrant E.T. Pybus and Dooley
have certain affinities. Both hail from
English stock, and, some have pointed
out, sort of resemble each other. They
both create valuable works out of
metal. And it might not be stretching
the point to say they both took leaps
of faith to pursue their dreams.
In creating the Pybus statue, Dooley
had little to go on other than written
descriptions, interviews with Pybus’
granddaughters and a few frontal
photographic images — no views
from the oblique or in profile exist, he
said.
“I didn’t really get enough to go on,
but the show must go on,” he said.
From his research, he determined that
Pybus was gentle, patient and strong,
a man of religion and family. These
aspects he tried to install in the clay
rendition of Pybus.
Early on, Dooley had Pybus’ eyes
downcast, attentive to his horseshoe
and tongs. But Dooley wanted him
more accessible to viewers and raised
his gaze slightly. Pybus has a Mona
Lisa smile, as if focused on his task or
listening to what a child is saying. “I
wanted to show him very much in the
moment,” Dooley said.
That was a state Dooley had to be
in for most of 2013 while sculpting the
statue in full view of market-goers.
Talk about public art. Dooley fielded
hundreds of questions from shoppers
who dropped in to watch Pybus take
shape through the year.
Jan Cook Mack marveled at his
patience.
“He was such a teacher to everyone
who stopped by,” she said. “And that’s
so difficult, because once you start
working on a piece, you’re really in
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Photo provided
Dooley was commissioned to sculpt this bronze head of former Wenatchee High
School principal and coach Tom Byrne.
“He has what architects have,
an understanding of weight and
movement. It contributes to his
ability to make art seem real.”
Jan Cook Mack, Artist
a dialogue with it. He seemed to be
able to interrupt the flow and then get
right back into it.”
Cook Mack, who has known Dooley
since he started teaching at WVC,
admires his particular talents.
“He has what architects have,
an understanding of weight and
movement,” she said. “It contributes
to his ability to make art seem real.
The Pybus sculpture is very realistic.
You can see how his muscles and
weight hold him in place, yet he’s in
obvious motion.”
Cook Mack recalled watching a
young girl approach the Pybus statue
and touch the horseshoe that Pybus
holds in stout tongs, in preparation for
a strike with his mighty hammer. She
imagined that horseshoe becoming
worn and shiny in the years ahead
as people stroke it, perhaps for good
luck. “These statues are meant to be
touched,” she said.
Cook Mack hopes “these statues”
will include many more by Dooley.
Photo provided
“Flavius Whiskerius” by Dooley was one
of the pieces on display for the 2012
Dog and Cat show at Wenatchee Valley
Museum & Cultural Center.
“I’d love for him to do more heroic
statues in this community. Perhaps
Grady Auvil or Tom Mathison,” she
said. “I’m still a Pollyanna. I think
he could still do 10 big sculptures in
Wenatchee.”
Dooley does not object to that
notion. But he yearns for even
more ambitious and larger work,
monumental installations involving
landscaping and architectural features,
the stuff of landmarks.
It’s tough to bet against someone so
motivated.
“I’ve been poor, I’ve been well off.
I tossed my Bellevue house out the
window and lived in a van to follow
my passion,” Dooley said. “I’m a
guy who will do what it takes — my
drive and commitment are off the
charts.”
If there’s to be a beneficiary of that
passion, it’s likely to be this valley.
“I’m just a Wenatchee boy at heart,”
he said. “I’m not saying I’ll never move
away, but I’ll always come back.” F
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offbeat
Texting ...
Dustin Driver
D
ustin Driver is a 2013
Wenatchee High School
graduate and pitching star
on the Panthers baseball team. By the
eighth grade he was already attracting
the attention of professional scouts
and colleges from throughout the
nation. After accepting a scholarship
to pitch for UCLA, he was drafted
last year in the seventh round by the
Oakland Athletics and then decided
to pursue a professional baseball
career before attending college. He is
now part of the A’s farm system. This
interview was done entirely by text
message. Words in parentheses were
not part of the original texts.
Where are you right now?
Wenatchee, Arizona, Venezuela? And
where are you headed next?
I am in Wenatchee
right now but I head back
to Arizona the middle
of February for Spring
Training.
Would you agree Dustin Driver is
a really cool name for a professional
athlete?
Yes, I would have to agree with that.
What do you miss most about
Wenatchee when you’re gone, other
than friends and family?
I miss having all four seasons, the
small-town feel, and the fact I know
everybody and I’m not a stranger.
Who is the most famous person
you’ve met so far?
I’d have to say (baseball legends)
Edgar Martinez, Rickey Henderson or
Bob Welch.
By cal fitzsimmons
My professional
assessment is “wow,
you can chuck that
rock.” How hard was
it to choose between
going to UCLA or
turning pro?
It was definitely difficult to choose
between the two but I knew I would
get my college paid for still if I went
pro because of the College Scholarship
Plan and I knew I would get the best
coaching that would develop me faster
so that I could get to the MLB (Major
League Baseball).
When people ask
about your hometown
what do you tell them?
Are apples always
mentioned in your
answer?
Two of those three played
for the (Seattle) Mariners,
I think. Did you grow up
a M’s fan? If so, what now,
considering you’re on the
payroll of a division rival?
Yeah, Edgar and Rickey I think were
M’s. And yes I grew up as an M’s fan but
now I guess I have to be an A’s fan but
I still like and support the home-state
team.
Yeah, I would always mention
Seattle because that’s how most people
know about Washington and of course
the apples and just how green it is here
and how we have all four seasons.
I’m guessing you’ve been the
star player on your teams since youth
baseball. How do you adjust to being one
of many super-talented prospects now?
Remember that when you’re on
the mound at Safeco (Field in Seattle).
Has pro coaching increased the speed
on your fastball? Reports are, you were
93-95 mph in high school.
Yes, pro
coaching has
helped a lot. I
was up to 97 in
the summer.
Photo by Don Seabrook
I just try to keep everything the
same but work harder and just learn
from the older players and coaches and
get as many tips as I can.
What kind of music do you listen
to? Favorite band or performer?
I listen to a lot of rap and some
country. My favorite performer/music
artist would have to be Drake. But I also
like the band Florida Georgia Line.
What pitcher, past or present, do
you look at and say “I’d like to be like
him.” Since you didn’t mention (Seattle
rapper) Macklemore on the music
question, Randy Johnson and Felix
(Hernandez) are off limits.
Haha I was going
to say Felix but I
really like Clayton
Kershaw even
though he is a lefty
and our deliveries
aren’t the same.
His salary is nice too. (In January,
Kershaw signed a seven-year, $215
million deal with the Los Angeles
Dodgers). Final question. Is it too much
pressure if I say “good luck, we’re all
counting on you?” Also, do you get that
movie reference?
No, I don’t believe that adds
pressure, I really want to put Wenatchee
on the map. And I believe I’ve heard that
in a comedy movie before but I’m not
sure.
Airplane!
Photo by Don Seabrook
Foothills Photo Contest
P
rofessional and hobby
photographers from
throughout North Central
Washington submitted more than
200 entries for the second-annual
Foothills Photo Contest. They
sent us images in two categories:
landscape and people.
The only rules attached to the
contest were that the photo had to
be shot in the four-county region
(Chelan, Douglas, Grant and
Okanogan) during the 2013 calendar
year and the image couldn’t
be dramatically manipulated
electronically.
On the following pages, you’ll
find the top three winners and
four honorable mentions in both
categories. Included with the photos
are the comments submitted by the
photographer, as well as judges’
comments.
Our thanks to the photographers
who shared their talent with us.
Visit ncwfoothills.com to view all
the entries.
Judging
Wenatchee World photo editor
Don Seabrook, World photographer
Mike Bonnicksen and Kathryn Stevens
of Atlas & Elia Photography were photo
contest judges. They sat down in early
January to select contest winners.
They did not know the names of the
photographers as they viewed the
images.
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— The Winners
First Place, People
Photo by Phyllis Jess,
East Wenatchee
This photo was taken at
JL Quarter Horse Ranch at
Jameson Lake while moving
cattle. I was personally on a
horse taking this picture!!
Judges’ comments:
The sense of motion, the side
and backlighting and the
remoteness of location all
impressed the judges to give this
photograph the top prize in the
people category for 2013. We
all wished we could have been
there and seen that. All three
top prizes in this category used
lighting that came toward the
camera. Early camera manuals
instructed photographers to
make their photographs with the
sun at their back but with better
cameras and lenses, now that is
bad advice.
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Second Place, People
Photo by Peter Bauer, Winthrop
I shot this while on a horse-packing trip in the Pasayten. We set up a bug tent/
kitchen. This is a shot of Jack cooking breakfast as the sun rises over Remmel Lake.
Judges’ comments:
The photographer saw something that most people wouldn’t think of photographing. The sun
streaming through the mesh tent gives the viewer details in the material of the tent but leaves
us some mystery as to what is going on inside. We liked that part of the sun was left in the
frame and not blocked by the tree at left.
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Third Place, People
Photo by Madison Hoofnagle, East Wenatchee
This photo was taken in a wheat field near Badger Mountain during the fall.
I shot this right before sunset in the freezing cold and was distracted by
honking cars passing by.
Judges’ comments:
It was a close vote for third place in this category with this image winning out. We liked
the contrast of textures and how the gown is set off from the background — light
versus dark. Nice body language to as the model looks out over the Wenatchee Valley.
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Honorable Mention, People
Photo by Brian Munoz, Leavenworth
I was allowed to accompany one of the Osprey Rafting photographers to
Grannies Rapid in Cashmere. He told me the people on this particular boat had
asked to be dumped at Grannies. Looks like they got their wish.
Judges’ comments:
Timing and being at the right place and ready for action was wonderful here. A fast shutter
speed stopped the action and provided detail.
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Honorable Mention, People
Photo by Wendy Brown, Moses Lake
Abbi loves to fly! This is a family outing at Blue Heron Park in Moses Lake.
Grandpa is tossing Abigail to Grandma. I love this picture because even though
it was shot with a cell phone, the composition is just right from the shadow
below Miss Abbi to the look on Grandma’s face.
Judges’ comments:
The timing and facial expression of the catcher made this a very funny moment in time.
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Honorable Mention, People
Photo by Ken Trimpe, Leavenworth
Driving along Highway 97 near Blewett Pass, I saw a large herd of sheep along
the side of the road. Curiosity got the best of me and I turned around to check
it out. After talking to the sheepherders, I took this shot of one with the herd
in the background. I like the close-up portrait capturing the character of the
sheepherder with the sheep in the background to tell the story. They were
from Peru and working for a company located in Moxie.
Judges’ comments:
Wonderful composition here and a relaxed subject make this a great photograph. The
background gives the picture context.
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Honorable Mention, People
Photo by Alan Moen, Entiat
Here at Snowgrass Winery in the Entiat Valley, we raise sheep to mow our
vineyard. My wife, Susan Kidd, frequently takes them for walks, even in the
winter. They love to get out of their pasture and roam down by the river. I took
this photo last February of Susan leading the sheep during one of their jaunts.
Judges’ comments:
We liked how the photographer in this instance anticipated the line of sheep behind the
shepherd and got into a position to capture this moment. The person’s legs had separation,
which shows movement through the frame.
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First Place, Landscape
Photo by Greg Mares,
East Wenatchee
I took this photo of the Aurora
Borealis behind Fancher
Heights in October. It was
taken around midnight, and
I like it because it’s rare to see
the Northern Lights in our area
with such clarity.
Judges’ comments:
We unanimously picked this as
the best landscape photograph
of the entries submitted. The
photographer took his time to
compose the photograph well, not
placing the grain bin in the center of
the frame. The slight wisps of clouds
and the color of the aurora lead your
eye to the bin. The photographer
also used new technology of quality
high ISO settings to bring out the
stars in the skies without being
blurred. The temptation to overly
saturate the colors either in camera
or using software after making the
photograph was curbed. Well done.
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Second Place, Landscape
Photo by Dawn Kranz, Leavenworth
While taking in the sunset from the south shore of Lake Wenatchee one
85-degree September evening, I was exploring the low-light settings on my
new DSLR camera. Of all the brilliant glowing sunset color shots I captured, this
one stood out because of its human element. There were many little flotillas of
kids and parents out in the water enjoying this magical twilight for as long as
they possibly could before retiring to their campsites and tents.
Judges’ comments:
We enjoy the smooth colors and great composition the image uses to convey a relaxed
mood of the end of a day filled with fun. The basics of rule of thirds makes it an easy
photograph to look at and then add the subtle circle of waves to frame the two girls on the
water and you end up with a wonderful picture — beyond the colors of the sun that has
already set on the day.
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Third Place, Landscape
Photo by Morgane Leech, Wenatchee
The unmoving tree of Tumwater Dam on the Wenatchee River drew my
attention. A cold snap caused ice to build on the tree. I used a tripod and a slow
shutter speed to capture the moving water.
Judges’ comments:
The line of the log frozen over the waterfall leads your eye through the photograph. Using
a slow shutter speed, the blur of the water mimics the coldness of the ice. As judge Kathryn
Stevens says, “it shows motion but frozen in time.”
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Honorable Mention, Landscape
Photo by Stephen Hufman, Leavenworth
Morning mist in Leavenworth from the Icicle Ridge Trail.
Judges’ comments:
This image is very pastorale as the morning mist sweeps through a valley.
We liked the addition of the tree at right to give depth to the photo.
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Honorable Mention, Landscape
Photo by Josh Cadd, Wenatchee
Judges’ comments:
This was taken during the Sept. 5 lightning storm
from Burch Mountain. It was a 15-second exposure,
but all of the lightning bolts struck at nearly the same
time. I like this photo because of how the Columbia
River is glowing from the lightning.
The Columbia River leads your eye right to the four
blasts of lightning in this correctly exposed photograph.
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Honorable Mention, Landscape
Photo by LeRoy Farmer, Malaga
This is a smoke blossom bush in our yard. We had a very light rainfall on the
morning of May 21, and then the sun came out. I liked the way the drops were
sparkling and the pretty pink and purple of the smoke blossom bush in late spring.
Judges’ comments:
Drops of water and muted colors give the feeling of spring-time melt. We like the use of shallow
depth of field to add to the emotion and take away clutter.
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Honorable Mention, Landscape
Photo by Peter Bauer, Winthrop
I took this photo on the Columbia River near Confluence Park. We were in a
tandem kayak with my wife controlling the boat while we drifted near the nest.
The short trip was a birthday gift from my wife, who knew I wanted to photograph
this nest. The osprey leaping out of the nest and staring at us was an unexpected
bonus. The drama of the shot makes me smile every time I see it.
Judges’ comments:
Sharp image of an osprey focused on the photographer — very striking.
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the vine
A Worldwide
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Tour of Tastes
Leavenworth’s Vino Prost
is the latest in region’s
burgeoning wine culture
B
eckie Peterson collects and
shares great wines in the same
way she would value and share
a favorite book. Fine wine to her is
something more than just a drink, it’s
an education, an experience, an
adventure.
It all makes sense because Peterson
is a retired school librarian. In the
Vino Prost Wine Bar that she and her
husband John opened in Leavenworth
last fall, you’ll find rare and prized
wines displayed on honey-hued wood
bookshelves. Each bottle stands
proudly, as would a classic, leatherbound novel, ready to sweep you
away to a place more exciting.
“I’m still a librarian. I even have a
library ladder,” Peterson said, showing
off the polished wood ladder that
reaches to the upper shelves of the
shop at 911 Commercial St.
Exotic labels from Joseph Drouhin,
Garnacha, Franco Serra, Bodega
Frontaura and Chateau Potensac
offer magical elixers from old
world wineries. California prizes
from Schaffer, Talbott and Martin
Ray mingle with the best from the
Northwest: Boudreaux, Rotie, Powers,
37 Cellars, Silvara and Fidelitas.
But Vino Prost offers more than
Retired school librarian Beckie Peterson
is still using a library ladder, but her
inventory is now wine bottles. She and
husband John opened Vino Prost Wine
Bar in Leavenworth last fall. Vino Prost,
shown at left, is one of several winecentric establishments in North Central
Washington where wines are available
as single pours, flights or by the bottle.
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Flights at Vino Prost Wine Bar are served in three-pour sets. Below, Vino Prost manager Kevin Fehl and employee Katie Walz.
just a delicious glass or bottle of wine,
a tapas tray or board of fine cheese,
cured meats, olives and bread. The
recently opened wine shop offers an
education into the world of wine.
Prost —the German word loosely
translates as “welcome” or “to your
health” — specializes in serving
flights of wines that take customers
on a tour of tastes that can educate
the palate and make them more
knowledgeable about world wine.
A recent flight offering included
two-ounce servings of a Pinot Noir
from Oregon’s Westrey Winery; a
Sangiovese from Italy, San Pablo
Rubio; and Helix Merlot from Walla
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glass. The Wine Thief and Tastebuds,
both in Wenatchee, are focused
around a wine-bar theme where
customers can linger, socialize and
be entertained over a glass of nightly
selected wines.
Easy chairs, a couch and living
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Micah Burnett and daughter Tara Miller drink wine with their late lunch at Fromaggio Bistro in Manson. The bistro serves wines
by the glass at a tapas bar to complement its vast array of food, including a cheese bar.
“We love wine. We
love wine culture.
We love a glass of
wine with friends.
We feel like we’re
doing a community
service.”
Beckie Peterson
Vino Prost Wine Bar
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found elsewhere. What they offer one
day may never be found again. Many
customers stay awhile and enjoy a
glass of whatever tempting wines the
McNeill’s have open that day. The
store also hosts popular wine-paired,
multi-course dinners every couple of
months.
Tastebuds focuses mainly on new
world wines from Washington and
California, with occasional offerings
from the Southern Hemisphere.
Pizza, fondue, appetizers and weekly
entertainment make the Wenatchee
wine bar a relaxing after-work or
weekend stop.
Fromaggio Bistro in Manson serves
world wines by the glass at a tapas
bar to complement its vast array of
cheeses and appetizers. Vogue Liquid
Lounge is spreading wine culture by
the glass in Chelan.
Visconti’s Restaurant in
Leavenworth and Wenatchee offered
flights of world wines several years
ago. Owner Dan Carr said he still
offers a wide selection of wines by the
glass, but pulled back from offering
flights after several wineries opened
new tasting rooms in Leavenworth.
It takes a lot of time and money to
educate a wine server, Carr said.
“Every time we trained someone,
we’d lose them to one of the wine
distributors,” he said.
Customers have become much
more wine savvy in recent years,
said Peterson. They love the growing
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Red or white — the choices are many at Fromaggio Bistro in Manson.
selection of Washington and
California wines. Now they’re ready
to explore, and Vino Prost and other
wine bars are ready to teach.
“We love wines of the world,”
Peterson said. Beckie and John —
he’s manager of D.A. Davidson and
formerly Smith-Barney investment
advisors in Wenatchee — have
traveled widely and enjoy learning
the wine and food culture of different
countries. They’ve studied wines
under the tutelage of sommeliers.
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They hired Kevin Fehl as manager;
Fehl is a wine expert who was
previously wine bar and restaurant
manager at Kingfisher restaurant at
Sleeping Lady Mountain Resort.
Adjacent to the wine bar in the same
911 Commercial Street building built
by the Petersons is Idlewild Pizza, a
relaxed wood-fired artisan pizza cafe
owned and managed by their son Eric.
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“My focus is on bringing in little
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upon further review
a taste of NCW wines with barb Robertson
Martin-Scott Winery
2010 Malbec, $30
Crayelle Cellars
2011 Syrah, $22
Fielding Hills
2010 Cabernet Franc, $30
As many of you know, Argentina
has made the Malbec grape a
star, but it has roots as one of the
five grapes that make up a classic
Bordeaux. Washington has followed
Argentina’s lead and is now
producing world-class single varietal
Malbec. The Martin-Scott version is
lush with berry fruit … blackberries
and blueberries. There is also a
garden quality to it … herbs, earth
and floral notes — lilac comes to
mind. Chocolate and a hint of pepper
weave through the solid finish. Beef
Fajitas or Andouille Sausage would
be great table mates with this bottle.
I was just telling someone the
other day about the flexibility of the
Syrah grape. It can take on so many
different personalities depending on
where it’s grown, how it’s grown and
how a winemaker decides to vinify it.
Craig Mitrakul’s style comes through
yet again on this new release. It’s
silky smooth right off the bat and
then, as you’re pondering that, the
intensity revs up. Blackberry, wild
rose and earthy notes take me back
to a hike I took last summer after a
soft rain. The wild blackberries and
roses mingled with the warm, damp
soil … it was wonderful and so is this
wine. Honey-spiced chicken thighs or
a Syrah-braised lamb roast would be
nice companions and will put a smile
on your wine-stained lips.
As with Malbec, Cab Franc has a
regal heritage in classic Bordeaux
but these grapes come from the
Riverbend Vineyard in Mattawa.
Although the wine is elegant, it
also has a bit of sass. Cassis and
loganberry waft from the glass and
entice you to sip. On the palate, they
are joined with an intriguing mix of
strawberry, bacon, flowers and chalk.
The integrated tannins wrap around
your tongue and don’t want to let
go, which leads to a long, satisfying
finish. Pair this up with duck or herbroasted pork loin to create one of
your new favorite meals.
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the scene
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he second-annual Winter Ice Gala
presented by Numerica Credit Union was
another success, with more than 200 guests
attending. The event took place Jan. 31 at the Town
Toyota Center. It is a fundraiser for the Arena Youth
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parting shot
photo By howard strong
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place we call home. This image by Howard Strong of Manson does a good job of recording the light cutting through the bank
of clouds. You can practically hear the peaceful quiet of this orchard, its snow-covered ladders taking a much-deserved winter
break. Here’s what Howard wrote: “I took this photo on a cold, wintry day at the Marker Orchard two blocks from my home ... I
like this photo because it captures the mood and solitude of an orchard at rest after a very active and hectic apple harvest just
seven weeks prior. We’re lucky to be able to witness the transformation of the orchard over the course of the entire year.”
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