July `16 - The Entertainer Newspaper
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July `16 - The Entertainer Newspaper
PAGE 2 • July 2016 • The Entertainer July 2016 CBC Summer Showcase presents timeless musical Fiddler on the Roof F iddler on the Roof is the beloved theatrical masterpiece that tells the heartwarming story of fathers and daughters, and the not-so-heartwarming story of persecution. It appears on the Diane C. Hoch stage at the Columbia Basin College outside amphitheatre this summer. Set in Russia in 1905, the first plot centers on Tevye. He is the father of five daughters who challenge his beliefs and culture as they urge new ways to do things, breaking with his valued traditions. Eventually he comes to accept the changes because of his great love for his daughters, but it is a struggle. This is a timeless battle, as any parent knows. The second story in Fiddler deals with a minority culture trying to cope with the majority culture in which it lives. Sheldon Harnick, one of the authors, says, “We felt that what we were writing was not just about a Jewish family but that the themes were universal. The Jewish group in the village of Anatevka is subject to abuse and persecution. This, I think, is something that reminds people of what is happening to other minorities around the world, in places where persecution persists.” Fiddler is based on Sholom Aleichem’s work, “Tevye’s Daughters.” Made into a musical by Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick, it then opened on Broadway in 1964 and had the first musical run in history to surpass 3,000 performances. It was the longest- Audiences should bring lawn chairs and blankets to sit on the grassy berm, as chairs are limited. There will be food available for purchase, but feel free to bring a picnic. This portion of the CBC grounds is nearly 10 degrees cooler than other Tri-City areas, so a jacket for later evening would be encouraged. There is nothing like an evening under the stars, watching a good play behind the CBC theatre! The show stars Kevin Nettleton as the “bigger than life” Tevye. His wife, Cast members of the Summer Showcase Golde, is played by June Gillespie. The production of Fiddler on the Roof model daughters are played by Diane Milton, their costumes outside the CBC Theatre. Claire Dann, Anjuli Herr, Patricia Sackschewsky and Agnes Polk. The running Broadway musical for almost boyfriends are Greg Levy, Chris Garcia, 10 years until Grease surpassed its and Kory Carterby. A cast of 50-plus, run. The show remains Broadway’s including special appearances by 16th longest-running show in history. Joyce Bean and Megan Johnson, The themes of Fiddler are timeless, round it out. which is perhaps one of the reasons it The production staff includes Ginny won nine Tony Awards including Best Quinley as director, Justin Raffa as Musical and the honors for the score, vocal music director, Phil Simpson as book, direction and choreography. It is instrumental director and Marlie Buriak a story that makes one laugh, and as choreographer, with scenic and also cry, but there are more laughs lighting design by Ronn Campbell and than tears. Some of the recognizable costumes by Joanne Kirkoff. songs include “Tradition,” “MatchTickets are $5 for children 12 and maker,” Sunrise, Sunset” and “If I Were under, and $25 for all others. They are a Rich Man. “ The show is G-rated and available online at appropriate for the whole family. columbiabasin.tix.com or at the Dance Now in its 34th season, CBC Boutique in Richland, the Performing Summer Showcase brings this timeArts Office on the Pasco campus, or at less tale to life in its new outdoor the door. For more information, visit facility after an eight-year hiatus. columbiabasin.edu/showcase or call Performances are July 14-16 and 21the Performing Arts office at 23, with show times at 7:30 p.m. (509) 542-5531. Chief Joseph Days is in ’Top 10 Must-See Rodeos’ in article by noted rodeo reviewer In a list that included some of the biggest and most well-known rodeos in North America, Chief Joseph Days joined the ranks of the “Top 10 MustSee Rodeos of 2016,” according to rodeo expert and author Gavin Ehringer. The rodeo is in it 71st year. Ehringer, who traveled North America researching rodeos for his books Rodeo in America and Rodeo Legends, wrote the “Top 10 Must See Rodeos for 2016” in a piece for the January issue of Western Horse and Gun Magazine. “If you’re looking for a small town rodeo in a setting that’s ideal for a family vacation, you can’t find much better,” Ehringer wrote. “Even the cowboys bring their kids along to play A Nez Perce tribe member dances in full regalia in the Chief Joseph Days parade. on the banks of Wallowa Lake.” Ehringer visited Chief Joseph Days a corners, featuring scenes of the few years back, and remembered it fondly. “Chief Joseph Days may not be American West. Wednesday through Saturday, you the biggest, but it’s one of my favorite can enjoy nightly PRCA rodeos at the rodeos,” he said. “It’s in a beautiful, Harley Tucker Memorial Arena, named intimate setting, and the people of for the rodeo’s original founder. Each Joseph are just really cool.” rodeo gets off to its Chief Joseph Days wild and rowdy start takes place the last full Even the cowboys bring their with the help of the week of July, with this kids along to play on the Tuckerettes, a team year’s festivities kicking banks of Wallowa Lake. of six fast-flying off Tuesday, July 26, cowgirls who with the traditional bucking horse stampede. The Growney explode into the arena in a series of drills and maneuvers. Specialty act Brothers bucking horses thrill audiences, who line up on both sides of the John Harrison, the 2015 Comedy Act of the Year winner, will keep audiences street in Joseph’s classic one-street town. The downtown area is known for entertained with his antics in the barrel. the lifesize bronzes on the street “ ” This Month’s Features Kennewick prepares for boat races .... 4 Ephrata’s Basin Summer Sounds ...... 6 ACT offers autism theatre ................... 6 Dust Devils demonstrate ‘blind’ play .. 6 MCMT stages ‘Annie Get Your Gun’ .... 7 Jokers presents Dan Cummins .......... 7 CBC Arts Center summer activities .... 8 Planetarium features space exhibit .... 8 Concerts continue in Oregon parks .... 9 Hermiston hosts county fair .............. 10 Roxy Bar hosts boat-race party ......... 12 Kiss will play Toyota Center concert .. 14 Ellensburg hosts ‘Jazz in the Valley’ . 15 Tears for Fears concert rescheduled 15 Fort Walla Walla plans kids’ camps 16 David Luning to play at Power House16 Joseph hosts blues, brews festival .. 17 Art in the Park set for July 29-30 ......... 18 Prosser celebrates art and wine ........ 19 Walla Walla holds dance festival ....... 22 Try these summer fruit recipes .......... 24 Blueberries ready at Bill’s Berry Farm 24 Irrigon plans Watermeleon Festival ... 25 Reach will host tours, kids’ days ....... 26 Crystal Gayle, Buckinghams perform 27 Travel: Sondra tells of Paris day trips 28 Wildhorse will hold annual Pow Wow 28 Silverwood Theme Park reviewed ..... 29 Union County, Ore., invites you to visit 30 Mother, son wil exhibit art in Bellevue 31 Scenic train ride offered in Oregon ... 31 Tennis elbow explained ..................... 32 Recalling the ‘Refrigerator Bowl’ ....... 34 Former WSU sports legends gather .. 34 Philly Robb gives Pete Rose his due 35 Gardening writer reflects on summer 36 Study may hold key to plant diseases 36 Puzzles, horoscopes .......................... 37 Calendar Of Events Monthly Entertainment Planner ... 38-39 The Entertainer Staff Publisher/Editor: Dennis Cresswell Graphics/Production: Nathaniel Puthoff Sales: Deborah Ross, Aubrey Langlois Webmaster: Bobby Walters Contact Us At: 9228 W Clearwater Dr., Ste 101 Kennewick, WA 99336 Top contestants compete at Chief Joseph Days, hoping to earn a spot to Phone: (509) 783-9256 Fax: (509) 737-9208 the National Finals Rodeo in Las www.theentertainernewspaper.com Vegas in December, the Super Bowl of [email protected] rodeo. The action continues after the rodeo, with music and dancing at the Thunder Room adjacent to the arena and at various hot spots throughout Joseph. Chief Joseph Days is so popular that the tiny town of Joseph swells to more than 10,000 during the four nights of rodeo and six days of Western-themed entertainment. It celebrates the other side of the American West story, with members of the Umatilla band of the Nez Perce tribe returning to the valley they once called home. Chief Joseph is remembered for the ultimately unsuccessful escape he led to Canada in the war of 1873, surrendering 30 miles south of the Canadian border with his famous words, “I will fight no more forever.” With elder tribal members in full regalia featured in the Grand Parade down Main Street, princesses riding into the arena on the beautiful Appaloosa horses the Nez Perce favored, and the Nez Perce Friendship Feast with traditional dancing and buffalo and salmon for all, visitors to Chief Joseph Days will experience the rich history and tradition of the American West. For more information, visit chiefjosephdays.com. Distribution 20,000 copies distributed monthly within the Tri-Cities, as well as Prosser, Sunnyside, Toppenish, Walla Walla, Dayton, Pendleton, Hermiston and Umatilla. The Entertainer gladly accepts any article submissions or calendar event listings. Use of submitted material is at the discretion of the Entertainer. The deadline to submit ads and articles is the 20th of every month. Pick up the Entertainer at more than 400 locations in the Tri-Cities, Southeastern Washington and Northern Oregon, including: the libraries in Pasco, West Richland, Kennewick and Walla Walla, Legends Casino, Wildhorse, Arrowhead Truck Plaza, Albertson’s, Starbucks, Circle K stores, 7-Eleven Richland, Sterling’s, Chapala Express, Zip’s, Red Apple, Chico’s Tacos, Brickhouse Pizza, Country Gentleman, Woo’sTeriyaki, Emerald of Siam, Magill’s, Adventures Underground, the Roxy, Richland Red Lion, Lucky Bridge Casino, Columbia Point Golf Club and Dayton Mercantile. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced without the express written consent of The Entertainer Newspaper. The Entertainer • July 2016 • PAGE 3 PAGE 4 • July 2016 • The Entertainer ‘Thunder’ is back with Columbia Cup and much more! H APO Community Credit Union is once again the title sponsor of the Columbia Cup unlimited hydroplane races and the Over the River Air Show — all part of the Tri-City Water Follies to be held this year on July 29, 30 and 31. The hydro races have been the highlight of mid-summer in the TriCities for the past 51 years. The unlimited hydros of today are 30-foot, 7,000-pound, technical marvels. Powered by turbine engines, they reach speeds approaching 200 miles per hour and throw giant “roostertails” in their wake. This year, about a dozen of these powerful hydroplanes will be competing for the cup. Tri-Citians still tend to call the Water Follies “boat-race weekend,” but it has grown over the years to feature not only the thrilling air show but a number of other community activities. Other events The activities will begin the previous weekend with the Miss Tri-Cities and Miss Tri-Cities Outstanding Teen Pageants on July 23 at 7 p.m. in Art Fuller Auditorium at Kennewick High School. Angela Kirkman Johnson, Miss TriCities of 1996, will emcee the pageant, and the reigning 2015 Miss Tri-Cities and Miss Tri-Cities Outstanding Teen, Stefanie Maier and Sarah Niles, will participate. The pageant is an official preliminary to the Miss Washington and Miss America Pageants. Young women compete with their talent, fitness, poise in answering on-stage questions, and an evening-gown presentation. Reserved-seat tickets are $20, and a optional reception following the pageant is $15. They can be purchased online from brownpapertickets.com. On Wednesday, July 27, you’ll have achance to get up close and personal with the boats and drivers at the bridge in Kennewick, and at area Albertson’s and Safeway stores. Call (509) 783-4675 for telephone orders. A two-day weekend pass is $25 for adults and $10 for children 6 to 12. Children 5 and under are admitted free. General-admission adult tickets at the Columbia Park gate are $15 on Saturday and $25 on Sunday. A threeThe airshow day pass with pit access is $45, and a Other boat classes The HAPO Over the River Airshow is daily pit pass for Friday, Saturday or But there is other action on the exciting to watch from anywhere near Sunday, which doesn’t include admiswater. The automotive-powered hydrothe river, but particularly impressive if planes of Grand Prix West will be back sion to the park, is $10. Parking is $5 from Columbia Park or Wade Park. for the 2016 Columbia Cup. Grand Prix per car on Friday and Saturday, and This year’s airshow will feature $10 per car on Sunday. Limited Pasco West is an American Powerboat aerobatics by Lucas Oil Airshows, Association class that brings back the general admission parking is available; featuring the legendary Michael “thunder,” with lots of full-throttle noise. look for the Water Follies parking signs Wiskus, and Yellow Thunder, a team off of Sylvester Street. The boats will be displayed around that does stunt flying in formation. If you want to avoid parking and town that week and will race on You’ll hear the thunder of jets as the traffic concerns altogether, you can Saturday and Sunday. Patriots Jet Team performs its precitake a bus from a Ben Franklin Transit And still more events include the sion flying maneuvers over the river, vintage hydroplanes, a nostalgic event Station at a discounted fare. and you’ll see the U.S. Coast Guard Among all of the things the Water for long-time boat-racing fans, and the demonstrate a helicopter rescue Follies organization does really well is 5-liter hydros. mission. its website. There is a wealth of Lucas Oil also has a skydiving team information at waterfollies.com. Keep that will perform. It is one of the most- Admission requested skydiving teams in the checking back for updates on all the Tickets are available at the Tri-City country, led by Nick Halseth. boat classes and other information. Water Follies office near the cable “Hydros at the Mall” event at Columbia Center. They’ll be in front of Barnes and Noble from 4 to 6 p.m. And, while the unlimited hydroplanes are racing, the Allied Arts Association is sponsoring Art in the Park in Richland (see page 16). The races The boats are the big draw, however, and the 2016 HAPO Columbia Cup will most likely have 12 unlimiteds in the competition. The action starts with with “Fast Lap Friday” a two-hour window on Friday afternoon in which teams can register a time-trial speed. Teams will score points based on the speed they post during this period. Racing starts Saturday with two sets of heats and concludes on Sunday with two more heat sets and a final Heat. The winner on Sunday takes home the Columbia Cup. There is no comparison between the modern unlimited hydroplanes and the limited outboards that started it all in 1947, when the celebration was called the Pasco Water Follies and the boats IN BRIEF Ben Franklin Transit will serve Follies, art show The best wey to get to either Art in the Park in Richland or the Water Follies activities in Columbia Park is via Ben Franklin Transit. On the last weekend of this month, you can park at Fran Rish Stadium and ride to the Richland Community Center from 8:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Friday and 8:30 to 7 on Saturday. On Saturday and Sunday, bus service to Columbia Park is available hourly from the Knight Street Station in Richland and the Huntington Transit Center in Kennewick. Visit www.bft.org.. Hermiston Classics ‘Cool Rides’ show is July 8-9 The Hermiston Classics Car Club’s “Cool Rides” car show will be held for the 21st year in McKenzie Park in Hermiston on Friday and Saturday, July 8 and 9, in conjunction with the Hermiston Funfest.. Friday night, July 8, is for car-show participants, with a poker run at 6 p.m. followed by dinner. On Saturday, car registration starts at 7 a.m. and the show is open to the public from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. There will be live music and entertainment all day, plus food vendors, and awards will be presented at 2:30 p.m. Hermiston Classics is a family-oriented club dedicated to the preservation and enjoyment of classic cars and pickups. Each year, proceeds from the Cool Rides car show are given back to the community through established charitable organizations. For information about the Hermiston Fun Fest, visit hermistonchamber.com or call (541) 567-6151. raced off of Sacajawea Park. In fact, they have little in common with those first unlimiteds that began racing off of Columbia Park in 1966. Today’s hydroplanes are almost more “plane” than hydro, sporting nearly 3,000horsepower engines and hulls that barely touch the water at high speeds. The Entertainer • July 2016 • PAGE 5 PAGE 6 • July 2016 • The Entertainer Music. Food. Fun...a weekend you won’t forget! A lineup rich in rockabilly roots and steeped in southern charm is planned for the 2016 Basin Summer Sounds free outdoor music festival. The annual event takes place July 15-16 on the Grant County Courthouse main stage. The Friday headliner spot belongs to Barrett Baber, a finalist on NBC’s “The Voice.” Closing out the festival Saturday evening are the Railers, described as “the Eagles, but with mandolin, violin and accordion, a female member and a whole lot of Red Bull.” Opening for Basin Summer Sounds 2016 is the Nick Drummond Band. Drummond was formerly with the popular Northwest group the Senate. Drummond has been a performing songwriter for more than 10 years, selling out multi-night runs at Seattle¹s Triple Door and Dimitriou¹s Jazz Alley. The Nick Drummond Band performs at 5 p.m. Spike and the Impalers fills the 7 p.m. Friday slot. Spike O’Neill and Bob Rivers, co-hosts of a popular morning ACT offers autism theatre program The Academy of Children’s Theatre is featuring a special two-week-long theatre performance camp for students on the autism spectrum. Spectrum On Stage Summer Spectacular is created specifically for students ages 6 and older. It has been designed under the direction of Julie Schroeder, a certified teacher of drama for those with autism . An information meeting will be on July 6 at 2 p.m. at the ACT studio, 213 Wellsian Way in Richland, The camp is scheduled for Monday through Friday, July 11-22 from 2 to 4 p.m. The camp will focus on presenting a finale production of Disney’s Aladdin. Students are paired with a neurotypical partner and the program is designed to accommodate the special needs of autistic students. The program is funded through a grant from the Charlotte Martin Foundation and there is no charge to enroll, but space is limited. To register, or for more information, contact Julie Schroeder at ACT , 509) 943-6027. Dust Devils will play ‘beep baseball’ to help the blind The Edith Bishel Center for the Blind and Visually impaired will demonstrate “beep baseball” at a Tri-City Dust Devils game on July 2 at 6:15 p.m. at Gesa Stadium in Pasco. The event will include a buffet dinner on Dusty’s Deck while you watch the game of beep baseball between the Dust Devils and the Seattle South King Sluggers. The purpose is to educate the public about adaptive sports for the blind and visually impaired. Beep baseball is played on a grass field with six fielders and one or two “spotters” from one team and the pitcher, catcher and batter from the other team. For this game, the fielders and batter will be blindfolded. The ball is a modified, oversize softball that beeps, and the 5-foot-tall foam bases are electronic devices that buzz steadily after the ball is hit. Tickets are $25 for adults and $20 for kids ages 4-12. Each ticket includes dinner, the game and upper-box seating for the regular Dust Devils game immediately following this event. Call the Edith Bishel Center at (509) 735-0699 or stop by the center at 628 N. Arthur Street in Kennewick. Barrett Baber drive show on Seattle¹s classic rock station KZOK, formed the group in 2004. Spike and the Impalers play covers of classics from the Rolling Stones, AC/DC, the Who, Guns N¹ Roses and other mainstays of rock-nroll. Barrett Baber had a life-changing experience in 2015, when he finished third on the popular reality show “The Voice.” From preacher¹s kid to Beale Street music rat to singer-songwriter, Baber is known for his perfect blend of soul and country. He recently completed a Vegas residency opening for Rascal Flatts. Baber takes center stage at 9 p.m. The Saturday-afternoon lineup includes Rylei Franks, Ranger & the Re-Arrangers, Briana Renea, Country Lips, Dylan Jakobsen and Brewer’s Grade. Fans of Fleetwood Mac, the Zac Brown Band and Little Big Town will embrace the Railers — brothers Jordan and Jonathan Lawson, Jonathan¹s better half Cassandra Lawson, and Tyler Oban — all classically trained musicians with instrumental prowess and a knack for lush vocal harmonies. The Railers made their Grand Ole Opry debut in December. Their first single, “Kinda Dig The Feeling,” was featured on a recent episode of the ABC series “Nashville.” The Railers perform at 9:15 p.m. Rounding out the weekend slate of activities is a basketball tournament, the Ephrata Chamber Basin Summer Sounds Car and Toy Show and Shine, plus inflatable toys for the youngsters, food vendors, and the wine and beer garden, sponsored by Midway Beverage. For all the information and updates for the free music festival Basin Summer Sounds, visit the website basinsummersounds.com. The Railers The Entertainer • July 2016 • PAGE 7 Annie Get Your Gun is performed on outdoor stage Y ou can still catch a performance of Mid-Columbia Musical Theatre’s Annie Get Your Gun, which opened on June 23 on the outdoor stage at the Reach Museum in Richland. July performances are on July 1, 2 and 3 at 7:30 p.m. Annie Get Your Gun, based on the real-life legendary Western sharpshooter Annie Oakley and her romance with fellow sharpshooter Frank Butler, is a classic example of the memorable work of Irving Berlin. The great Ethel Merman played the first Annie Oakley, who starred in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show in the 1800s. The first productions of the musical set records on Broadway, London’s West End and tours throughout the world starting in 1946. A 1950 movie version starred Betty Hutton and Howard Keel. The stage musical was updated in 1966, 1986, and again in 1999. The 1999 revival is the version being presented in the Tri-Cities. The show is full of great songs, including “There’s No Business Like Show Business,” Photo by Mike Madison A stage in a tent at the Reach Museum is the setting for the musical Annie Get Your Gun by Mid-Columbia Musical Theatre. Get tickts now for July 1, 2 or 3. “Doin’ What Comes Natur’lly,” “They Say It’s wonderful” and “Anything You Can Do.” MCMT is reviving the show originally done in 1960, when the group was called the Richland Light Opera Company. They wanted to create a family-friendly outdoor experience that would be akin to the Wild West Show itself. It’s being performed in a tent with some of the best Tri-Cities talent portraying the wonderful characters straight out of wild-west history. Chief Sitting Bull is played by Curtis Bearchum of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, who also served as the go-to guy for updates that would make the show more appropriate for today. Tickets for the last three performances are available at the Tri-Cities Academy of Ballet and Adventures Underground in Richland, online at mcmt.tix.com and at the door. Bring the family and some blankets or chairs, and you can make a night of it with a picnic on the grounds of the Reach. Mid-Columbia Musical Theatre has also announced its next season’s shows, beginning with Ragtime in November, Next to Normal in April and All Shook Up in summer 2017. For more information, visit midcolumbiamusicaltheatre.org. Jokers Comedy Club has another great lineup of summer comedy Jokers Comedy Club in Richland will feature a special Wednesday-night event in July — Dan Cummins comedy on July 27 at 8 p.m. Cummins has been on “The Tonight Show” and “Conan” as well as Showtime and Comedy Central, which carried his one-hour comedy special. He has also appeared on “Last Comic Standing” and Nickelodeon’s “Mom’s Night Out.” Among his radio credits are regular appearances on “Bob & Tom” and on Pandora Radio on the Internet. Admission for this special show is $15. It wouldn’t be Jokers without some Dan Cummins new “see-them-here-before-theyexplode” talent. July’s candidate for a comedian to watch is Nick Guerra. Nick was an audience favorite on “Last Comic Standing” and made his Comedy Central debut on Gabriel Iglesias’s “Stand up Revolution.” Guerra will be at Jokers July 14-16. July shows are all guaranteed hits with headliners Steven Briggs (ESPN) on July 7-9; Lance Woods July 21-23 and Keith Nelson July 28-30. All showtimes are at 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday. After the comedy, stick around for the best dance club in the Tri-Cities. Jokers has “Girls Night Out” on Thursdays with DJ Sean Da Don. Friday is “Friday Night Live bands” with no cover charge. July bands are Vaughn Jensen on July 8, the Black Rose Concept on July 15; Stompin Ground on July 22 and, for boat-race Friday, July 29, crowd favorite Foolish Fortune. Saturdays are “Salsa Saturdays” — the biggest club night in the Tri-Cities, with host Arturo Juarez. Jokers, at 624 Wellsian Way in Richland, is the number-one comedy club in eastern Washington. For the past four years it has been voted the number-one adult nightlife venue in the Tri-City Herald’s People’s Choice poll. PAGE 8 • July 2016 • The Entertainer CBC offers ‘Summer Showcase’ musicals outdoors O By Bill McKay ur gifted professor and theatrical director Ginny Quinley, along with a large cast and crew, are hard at work making CBC’s Summer Showcase a reality once again. We are grateful for all of the support and creative energy. After a seven-year hiatus, the outdoor summer show is back! We are producing “Fiddler on the Roof,” with performances July 14-16 and July 2123. Our ticket prices are $25 for general seating and $5 for children 11 and under. Sales of tickets are going very well, so it’s time to get yours. Following “Fiddler” is an elegant evening of dinner theatre under cover on the Dianne C. Hoch stage. We are sure you will love “Musical of Musicals (The Musical)” this year as much as you enjoyed “Suds” last year. The event is on Aug. 4, 5 and 6 and includes a three-course meal, no-host bar and other surprises. Tickets for the dinner theatre are $100 per person. They went on sale June 1 via Tix.com and the CBC Arts Center Office and we are limited to 80 per evening. Tables are filling fast, so don’t delay. Columbia Basin Concert Band Enjoy music outdoors in the beautiful Tri-City weather! The Columbia Basin Concert Band will play a variety of classic and contemporary concert band selections at various retirement locations throughout the Tri-Cities. This outreach is so important and so appreciated by local retirement-center residents, and they love to have you join them for some fellowship and music. This year, we are delighted to have Phillip Simpson directing the band for the following summer events: July 5, 7 p.m. Riverton Retirement Center, 1800 Bellerive Dr., Richland July 12, 7 p.m. Royal Columbian Retirement Inn, 5615 West Umatilla, Kennewick July 19, 7 p.m. The Manor at Canyon Lakes, 2801 W. 35th Ave., Kennewick We never grow tired of making opportunities for the arts to thrive in our community. We hope to see you in the coming weeks. Bill McKay is Dean of Arts and Humanities at Columbia Basin College. Hands-on interactive space exhibit comes to CBC Planetarium others, the cost is $4. By To be Determined If you are a parent or child caregiver, you may be looking for ways to beat the heat and entertain your kids this month. Where to go, what to do? How about an immersive planetarium show, followed by a unique experience with hands-on space-centric exhibits? For 10 weeks this summer, the group Hands In for Hands On Tri-Cities (HIHO) will be hosting an exhibit on loan from the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry called “A View from Space” in the D Building at Columbia Basin College, the building that houses the planetarium. Two classrooms will be filled with interactive exhibits designed to give visitors an appreciation for studying Earth from space. The exhibits will allow you to track hurricanes, launch satellites into space and view amazing photos of our planet taken from orbit. The exhibits will be open on Thursdays from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. and Saturdays from noon to 4. In addition to the exhibits, HIHO will have various Planetarium films By popular request, the planetarium will run public shows every Thursday morning to coincide with the exhibit’s hours. Each of our shows is an hour long and consists of both a live “sky tonight” portion, where visitors can Children are fascinated with the handson displays of “A View From Space.” activities hosted by different organizations every Saturday. From 12:15 to 1 p.m., the activities will be geared toward children from 4 to 8 years of age. From 1:15 to 2 p.m., the activities will be for kids from 9 to 14. These activities will include a Jedi Academy hosted by the Academy of Children’s Theatre, rocket-building hosted by 4-H, and even a talk given by the NASA astronaut Story Musgrave. Admission for the exhibits is free for kids 3 and under; for all learn about where to find objects in the night sky, and a full-dome movie. Not sure which film is right for your little explorer? Our website not only lists each film’s description and a recommended age level, but you can also catch a preview of all of our available films and decide which ones ‘Space’ continues on Page 9 CBC PLANETARIUM JULY MOVIE SCHEDULE July 1: Black Holes, 7 p.m.; Stars of the Pharaohs, 8 p.m. July 2: Supervolcanoes, 2 p.m.; Cell! Cell! Cell!, 3 p.m. July 7: Two Small Pieces of Glass, 10 a.m.; Black Holes, 11 a.m. July 8: Secret Lives of Stars, 7 p.m.; Dynamic Earth, 8 p.m. July 9: The Little Star That Could, 2 p.m.; The Life of Trees, 3 p.m. July 14: The Little Star That Could, 10 a.m.; The Enchanted Reef, 11 a.m. July 15: Black Holes, 7 p.m.; Supervolcanoes, 8 p.m. July 16: Oasis in Space, 2 p.m.; Secret Lives of Stars, 3 p.m. July 21: Stars of the Pharaohs, 10 a.m.; Supervolcanoes, 11 a.m. July 22: Secrets of the Sun, 7 p.m.; Dynamic Earth, 8 p.m. July 23: Little Star That Could, 2 p.m.; Two Small Pieces of Glass, 3 p.m. July 28: Little Star That Could, 10 a.m.; Zula Patrol: Under Weather, 11 a.m. July 29: Black Holes, 7 p.m.; Cell! Cell! Cell!, 8 p.m. July 30: IBEX, 2 p.m.; Bad Astronomy, 3 p.m. The Entertainer • July 2016 • PAGE 9 Free concert series continues in Boardman and Irrigon parks T he steel drum band Bram Bratá will perform for the Music in the Park outdoor summer concert series on July 11 at the Irrigon Marina Park, off Highway 730 in Irrigon, Ore. You will want to come early to also see the wild bird demonstration by Blue Mountain Wildlife at 6:00 p.m. The steel-drum band Bram Brata The name Bram Bratá is derived from two Trinidadian slang words East and across America. meaning “an unexpected party.” Back in Irrigon on July 25, the Audiences find this a fitting name as concert will feature the band 7-Wheel they enjoy the challenging and varied Drive at the Marina Park. The Trirepertoire of Caribbean, soca, jazz, Cities area band plays a mix of R&B popular and even classical music. The and jazz. The group features band performs about twice a singer Lori Tyler with Steve month in communities Haberman on piano, Gary throughout the Northwest. Danielson on baritone sax, They have also performed in Wayne Land on alto sax, Hawaii, at Disneyland, and at Stan Pitman on trumpet, Caribbean music festivals in Dave Campbell on bass and Oregon and British Columbia. Jerry Larson on drums. Juggler Rhys Thomas will The Music in the Parks perform “Jugglemania” on outdoor summer concert July 18 at the Boardman series alternaties between Marina Park, off N. Main Boardman and Irrigon. The Street on Marine Drive. Before concerts are free to the the performance, Thomas will public and begin at 7 p.m. on hold a free juggling workshop Monday nights. The 2016 for people of all ages beginconcert series runs through ning at 6 p.m. The show to August 22. You are starts at 7. encouraged to bring chairs Thomas is the only juggler and blankets. Concessions to earn a Portland Magazine will be available for purchase Rhys Thomas “Best of Portland” award. He at the event, courtesy of uses a wide array of props and quips, Judy’s Chuck Wagon. often with the help of audience volunThe series is funded by the Morrow teers. Rhys has served as artist in County Unified Recreation District and residence at the Smithsonian InstituPortland General Electric and spontion, won “Best American Act” at the sored by the North Morrow Community street Performers’ World Cup, and Foundation. performed on cruise ships and at For more information contact Tami festivals in Europe, Asia, the Middle at (541) 571-0844. IN BRIEF Save the date for Tumbleweed Music Festival The annual Tumbleweed Music Festival in Richland’s Howard Amon Park, which is always held on Labor Day weekend, falls on Sept. 2-4 this year. The three days of “great acoustic music on the banks of the Columbia River” is presented and staffed by volunteers of 3 Rivers Folklife Society. It will feature five stages with continuous entertainment by up to 100 different acts, plus an openmic stage and an indoor dance floor in the Richland Community Center. There’s also a songwriting contest, a Friday-night young performers concert, workshops and a Sunday-night contra dance. For more information, visit tumbleweedfest.com or 3rfs.org/tmf. Grandview fair will feature car, truck, tractor show The Grandview Chamber of Commerce;s 11th annual car show, to be held on the last day of the Yakima Valley Fair and Rodeo in Grandview, will offer a $700 grand prize. The show will be on Aug. 13 in Country Park Event Center. It’s open to all makes and models of vehicles, including tractors. The fair runs from Aug. 10 through 13. Entry fees are $20 ($15 for motorcycles), and an entry form is online at yvfair-rodeo.org. You can also call (509) 786-8250 for information. ‘Space’ “The Enchanted Reef.” Our films have something for everyone, and we encourage you to try them all. Summer public shows at the Continues from Page 8 planetarium run every Thursday at 10 are right for your family. and 11 a.m., Fridays at 7 and 8 p.m., Your youngest may enjoy “The Little and Saturdays at 2 and 3 p.m. Tickets Star That Could,” in which a new star for all events and memberships can be travels the universe learning about purchased online prior to show time. If other stars and the planets that orbit seats are available, you may obtain around him. For elementary-aged tickets at the door. Visit students, try “Oasis in Space,” a quest columbiabasin.edu/planet for more to find water on other worlds, or “Two information. Small Pieces of Glass,” detailing the HiHo Tri-Cities brought the exhibit invention of the telescope and its here as part of its mission to establish discoveries. Kids of middle-school age a hands-on children’s science muand older might like our film on Earth’s seum in the Mid-Columbia. Visitors will climate, “Dynamic Earth,” or “Secret get a taste of what a permanent Lives of Stars,” a movie about the museum could look like with continued various types of stars that exist in our community support. You can visit galaxy. For a mixed-age group, check HIHO on Facebook at facebook.com/ out “Black Holes,” “Supervolcanoes,” or hihotricities. PAGE 10 • July 2016 • The Entertainer Top talent will entertain at Umatilla County Fair A Thousand Horses, the Bellamy Brothers, Creedence Clearwater Revisited will perform T he theme for the 2016 Umatilla County Fair, “Traditions and Transitions,” thas a special meaning this year. This year it will be held Aug. 9-13 at the fairgrounds in Hermiston, but will be transitioning to the new Eastern Oregon Trade and Event Center in 2017. The EOTEC board of directors has assured the county that the project will be ready to welcome the fair next year. For this year’s fair at the traditional fairgrounds, the lineup of concerts at 9 p.m. nightly on the Wildhorse Main Stage is outstanding. Kicking off the week on Tuesday, Aug. 9, is A Thousand Horses, an up-and-coming group that formed in Nashville in 2010. They identify their sound as a hybrid of English rock, country, American rock, soul and blues. The group’s first single, “Smoke,” set a record for the highest debut by a new act when it opened at number 28 on the Country Aircheck radio chart. “Suicide Eyes,” a song from their first album, “A Thousand Horses,” was used in the remake of the movie Footloose. On Wednesday night, diehard country-music fans will enjoy the traditional sound of the Bellamy Brothers, who had a string of hits in the 1970s and 1980s. They have released more than 50 albums of great music. Their best-known hit song, “Let Your Love Flow,” released in 1976, crossed over to become a number-one hit on the pop charts. Other hit songs by the Bellamys include “Redneck Girl” and “Old Hippie.” And still another of the their hit songs had a double-entendre message — “If I Said You Had a Beautiful Body Would You Hold it Against Me?” It was their first number-one hit on the country charts. In 2014, Rolling Stone Magazine ranked “Old Hippie” number 95 on its list of the 100 all-time great The Bellamy Brothers will perform on Aug. 10 at the fair in Hermiston. country songs. Another pair of real brothers, the Brothers Osbourne, will take the stage on Thursday, Aug. 11. T.J. Osbourne is the lead singer and John Osbourne plays lead guitar and provides background vocals. Their first three singles, “Let’s Go There” in 2013,”Rum” in 2014 and, more recently, “Stay a Little Longer,” have made it into the top 40 on Country Airplay. “Stay a Little Longer” became a top-10 country hit, peaking at number 2 last January. The Friday concert features the Latino band Grupo Montéz de Durango, whose sound is deeply rooted in traditional Mexican music infused with influences from their hometown of Chicago. The sevenmember group formed in 1996 and soon became popular in Chicago dance clubs. Besides covers of older traditional Mexican songs, the group also played a faster-paced style of music that was a polka-ranchera mix that became associated with the dance style called "El Pasito Duranguense" (The Durango Step). Grupo Montéz de Durango is the band most closely identified with it. Saturday, Aug. 13, is a nostalgia night with Creedence Clearwater Revisited. The band was formed by two original members of Creedence Clearwater Revival — Rock and Roll Hall of Famers Stu Cook and Doug IN BRIEF Quarterflash is coming to Ione, Ore., on July 4 At the small-town Fourth of July celebration in Ione, Ore., the hugely popular duo of Marv and Rindy Ross — better known as Quarterflash and perhaps best remembered for their very first hit song, “Harden My Heart” — will headline the entertainment. The concert is free. Events throughout the day include children’s games, a fish pond, frog jumping, a bike raffle, 3-on-3 basketball tournaments, a parade and a talent show. Food vendors will be on hand, along with a beer garden and a pie sale. The live music begins at 6:30 p.m. with Martin Gerschwitz, a hard-rock keyboardist, singer and former lead vocalist with Iron Butterfly, followed by Quarterflash at 8:30 p.m. Visit cityofioneoregon.com and click on “calendar” for more details and a schedule of activities. Save the date for the Morrow County Fair Morrow County will be celebrating “Country Scenes and Children’s Dreams” at the 103rd county fair in Heppner, Ore., on Aug. 17-20. The fair offers four funfilled days of family activities with the Irish flair you find only in Heppner. This classic, old-fashioned small-town fair includes a Saturday parade, wine-tasting, music, a talent show, exotic animals, inflatables, a watermelon-seed-spitting contest, a pedal-power tractor pull for the kids. 4-H and FFA livestock showings, and much more. The evening Oregon Trail Pro Rodeo is always followed by a live band performance. For more information, contact the Morrow County Fair at (541) 676-9474 or visit morrowcountyoregon.com. Elgin, Ore., hosts its annual ‘Stampede’ Four days of rodeo action are in store for you in beautiful Elgin as the town celebrates the 70th anniversary of the Elgin Stampede from July 6 through 9. There’ll be a family night, bull riding, PRCA rodeo performances, a dance, a parade, and other events. For information, call (541) 963-8588 or visit unioncountychamber.org. will provide the screams and squeals coming from the carnival rides. There will be lots of other entertainment during the run of the fair, plus openclass exhibits, livestock exhibits, vendors, food stands and much more. The Farm City Pro Rodeo is also occurring Wednesday thru Saturday nights with professional cowboys and cowgirls from all across America competing for thousands of dollars in prize money. If you like tough and exciting rodeo action, this is the place to be each night at 7 p.m. before the nightly concerts. Fair admission is $10 for adults, $8 for seniors and $6 for children ages 612. Children under 6 are admitted free. The Umatilla County Fairgrounds is at 515 W. Orchard Ave. in Hermiston and on the web at umatillacounty.net. “Cosmo” Clifford. They launched Creedence Clearwater Revisited in 1995. Creedence Clearwater songs are the touchstones of an entire generation, and both older and younger fans have been loving the new band. After headlining at Woodstock 47 years ago, the original band had three albums at the top of the rock-music charts simultaneously and four top-3 singles from those albums. Their string of hits includes “Susie Q,” “Proud Mary,” “Born on the Bayou,” “Bad Moon Rising,” “Lodi” and many others. General seating to all of the concerts is included in your fair admission. Reserved seating is $12 more, availOriginal Creedence Clearwater Revival able at the fair office. members Stu Cook, left, and Doug “Cosmo” Clifford pose while members of An old-fashioned fair their revival band, Creedence Clearwater Some call the Umatilla County Fair Revisited, look on. The band will perform the best old-fashioned Fair in eastern Aug. 13 at the Umatilla County Fair. Oregon. Davis Amusement Cascadia The Entertainer • July 2016 • PAGE 11 PAGE 12 • July 2016 • The Entertainer Stu Hamm will perform at the Roxy Bar in downtown Kennewick on July 18. Roxy Bar to host ‘Rock Experience’ and a cool boat-race weekend party! D owntown Kennewick’s popular entertainment venue, the Roxy Bar, is known for hosting concerts, sports viewing parties and even dance classes. This month begins with “country rap” star Bubba Sparxxx, continues with the Stu Hamm “Rock Experience,” and wraps up on Water Follies weekend with the “Rock Rally Boat Race Party Package” that includes a great Saturday-night party. Bubba Sparxxx will play the Roxy on July 6 at 8:30 p.m. The “country rap” term that has been applied to hits by Toby Keith (“Red Solo Cup”) and Tim McGraw (“Truck Yeah”) actually began with Sparxxx’s debut album, “Dark Days, Bright Nights.” Eleven years later, he’s reuniting with his original collaborator, Shannon “Fat Shan” Houchins, to continue blending the two musical genres. “Bubba and I grew up listening to hip-hop and riding in jacked-up trucks,” Houchins said. “I was producing mainstream rap and R&B records when Bubs first came to me and said ‘why don’t we combine the music we like with lyrics about the lifestyle we live?’” Ticket prices start at $25 and are available online at ticketfly.com. The Stu Hamm “Rock Experience” concert is set for July 18 at 8 p.m. Hamm is one of the most influential electric bassists of the past halfcentury, and helped to reshape the contemporary concept of the bass guitar as an unaccompanied instrument. Hamm has released four criticallyacclaimed studio recordings — “On Radio Free Albemuth” (1988), “Kings Of Sleep” (1989), “The Urge” (1991), and “Outbound” (2000). In addition to his barrier-breaking solo sessions, he has been hailed for his recording and touring stints with guitar icons Joe Satriani and Steve Vai. He has garnered an extensive list of honors including “Best Jazz Bassist” and “Best Rock Bassist” in major trade magazine polls. He has toured for the past two years and demonstrated his signature techniques in instructional videos and books. Ticket prices start at $18 and are available online at ticketfly.com. The Miss DiJulio Rock Rally on July 30 and 31 is a boat-race weekend party package that includes two days admission to the Water Follies, catered meals, reserved seating and drinks inside the party tent, pit passes for both days, a souvenir tee shirt and a concert by the Love Jacks on Saturday. The entire package is $135, available online at ticketfly.com. If you like Thin Lizzy, Journey, Lynyrd Skynyrd, John Mellencamp and Bruce Springsteen, you’ll like the Love Jacks. It’s a hard-driving guitar- based rock band. created by Brian DiJulio, Theron Andrews, Sid Anschell and drummer Keith Lovett. They’ll play at 9 p.m. on Saturday, July 30, at the Rcxy. The Roxy Bar is upstairs in the old Roxy Theater building, 101 West Kennewick Ave. in downtown Kennewick, and online at roxybarkennewick.com. For reservations and information you can also call (509) 491-1870 or call or text (509) 438-3425. IN BRIEF ‘Summer Ball’ for seniors is Aug. 5 in Richland The Summer Ball on Aug. 5 from 6:30 to 9:30 at the Richland Community Center will feature the five-piece Easy Swing Dand Band, good food and door prizes. Dress as casual or as formal as you like. The cost is $10. The Richland Community Center is at 500 Amon Park Drive near Howard Amon Park. For information, call (509) 946-5385. WSU Tri-Cities to be smoke-free next month Washington State University Tri-Cities will join the other WSU campuses and more than 900 universities nationwide in becoming tobacco-free beginning Aug. 22. WSU Pullman will also become tobacco-free on the same date. The intent of the new policy is to promote the health and wellbeing of the students, faculty and staff on the WSU Tri-Cities campus, according to a statement by Chancellor Keith Moo-Young. Under the new policy, all forms of tobacco, including smokeless tobacco, e-cigarettes and vaping, will be prohibited on campus property. That includes buildings, parking lots, leased property, grassy areas and open space. The prohibition does not apply to WSU research projects. The Entertainer • July 2016 • PAGE 13 PAGE 14 • July 2016 • The Entertainer Tickets still available for Kiss concert on July 10 Band is partnering with military support groups to honor Guard and Reserve members T ickets are still available for The number-one American winner of Gold Record Awards — in all categories, for all time — is Kiss. The band is now touring the United States and supporting our military with its “Freedom to Rock” tour, which is coming to Toyota Center on July 10. There will be one performance at 7:30 p.m. Kiss has partnered with Hiring Our Heroes and Veteran Tickets Foundation (Vet Tix) to salute members of the National Guard and military Reserve forces in more than 30 U.S. communities, including the Tri-Cities. They are hiring a currently serving member of the National Guard or Reserve forces to be a “Roadie for the Day” for each of the 32 U.S. concerts. In addition, Kiss will donate a limited number of tickets to veterans in each community and distribute those tickets through VetTix.org. Veterans and their family members will also have the chance to purchase discounted tickets through Vet Tix. Military discounts will also be available at venue box offices with proof of a valid military ID. The U.S “KISS: Freedom to Rock” concerts are all in communities with a large number of Army and Air National Guard members and Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps Reservists. Since September 2001, hundreds of thousands of Guards and Reserve members have been called to active duty and deployed to war zones.. “We are proud to partner with HOH and Vet Tix to highlight the incredible commitment and sacrifices of hometown heroes serving in the National Guard and Reserve forces,” said Gene Simmons, “Many of these heroes have given a lot — and some have given all — and we will honor them in every Live in Kennewick? Cast your vote on ‘Link’ measure On the Aug. 2 ballot, Kennewick voters will be able to opt for a proposed 110,000-square-foot multipurpose entertainment venue at the Toyota Center complex. But a “yes” vote for a small salestax increase means everyone in the Tri-Cities and beyond who shops in Kennewick will pay for the facility — not just Kennewick residents. The plan called “the Link” would add a Broadway-quality theatre to the complex and make some enhancements to the existing Toyota Center. If it becomes a reality, the Tri-Cities will be able to attract shows that are not currently possible to stage anywhere in the area. The majority of the Tri-Cities’ retail shopping is in Kennewick, so it makes sense to fund the project with a tiny addition to the sales tax (an exta 2 cents on a $10 purchase). The $35 million theatre-anchored overhaul also includes a 50,000square-foot convention center addition and a new 30,000-square-foot lobby facing Vista Field development. “We are one of the only major cities in Washington that can’t support national touring Broadway shows” said Tyler Borders, who is heading the campaign for a “yes” vote on the measure. Borders said the Link project’s 2,300-seat theatre would complement the Arts Foundation of the MidColumbia’s proposed 800-seat performing arts center at Vista Field, “They’re for different kinds of shows,” he said. “We should have both in the entertainment district.” town we tour.” The band also supports the Wounded Warriors Project, the USO, the Legacy Organization in Australia, Help For Heroes United Kingdom and the Snapple’s Wounded Warriors Support Foundations. Kiss can easily be named one of rock’s most influential bands. The Rock and Roll Hall of Famers have released 44 albums and sold more than 100 million albums worldwide. They’ve gone on record-breaking global tours for more than 40 years. Other high-profile appearances have included the Super Bowl, the Winter Olympics, and the Rockin’ the Corps concert.They’ve been included in multiple episodes of TV’s “Family Guy” and two special guest performances on “American Idol” finales. Tickets for the July 10 concert are available at the Toyota Center box office, all Ticketmaster outlets and online at ticketmaster.com. For phone orders, call (800) 745-3000. The Entertainer • July 2016 • PAGE 15 Jazz in the Valley: Can you believe this amazing lineup? Annual indoor and outdoor concerts in Ellensburg feature the best jazz, blues, classic rock and more E llensburg is nestled in the Kittitas Valley of Washington and is known for its beautiful vistas and checkerboard fields of golden Timothy hay. But that’s not all this beautiful piece of Central Washington has to offer. On the last weekend of July, downtown Ellensburg comes alive for the Jazz in the Valley Festival, featuring 30 shows at 10 intimate locations, showcasing a spectacular lineup of the most diverse musicians the Northwest has to offer. Ellensburg invites you to come and stroll the streets of downtown Ellensburg with the sounds of blues and jazz floating on the warm summer breeze. Celebrating its 19th year, Jazz in the Valley is a three-day festival on July 29,30 and 31 featuring exceptional musicians and performances at both indoor and outdoor venues in downtown Ellensburg. All venues are within easy walking distance. The festival has something to offer just about everyone. Sit outside and enjoy the warm summer sun while Oxford’s All-Star Slam Powerful blues blaster and sultry soul singer Duffy Bishop Incomparable saxophonist Lenny Price and Friends Gypsy jazz artist Pearl Django with vocalist Gail Pettis Driving, dynamic blues trio King Kom Beaux Reggae groove of Clinton Fearon Lap steel slide guitarist and troubadour Dylan-Thomas Vance Bebop and standard jazz by the Joe Brooks Quartet Saxophone and piano magic of the Mark Taylor & Ryan Burns duo Jazz vocalist Tylor Zickefoose High-energy funk group the Brown Edition Audiences gather at the main stage outdoors in Ellensburg for Jazz in the Valley Latin jazz group Malo Castro performances. There will be 30 shows at 10 indoor and outdoor venues. Quartet — a tribute to Cal Tjader Jazz artist and drummer Kobie listening to music from the main stage Northwest wineries. While sipping your Watkins Grouptet wine, take in the beautiful art and and sipping local microsbrews or explore the handcrafted pieces by Enjoy a night of swing with the premium wines in the Rotary Pavilion Ellensburg Big Band Pacific Northwest artists. Beer Garden. Seattle’s own 10-piece soul Like food? Enjoy the unique culinary Like outdoor markets? On Saturday experiences Ellensburg’s restaurants ensemble DoctorfunK morning, July 30, visit the Kittitas Jazz quartet Blue Café County Farmers Market, known for its have to offer, from casual to fine dining. Hard-swinging jazz style of the So gather your friends and family farm fresh local produce, baked goods members and travel to Ellensburg. Get Brent Edstrom Trio and fine hand crafted products. Kick up your heels with 15-piece your soul back at Jazz in the Valley Like wine? On Saturday afternoon, dance band Wind Power with this year’s spectacular line-up of dash across the street from the main musicians: Northwest’s own traditional jazz stage to Gallery One and the Clymer Blistering guitar-playing and heart Sidewalk Stompers Museum for two incredible wine-tasting Seattle’s finest gospel ensemble and soul vocals of the Richie Blue experiences, featuring more than 20 Band the Total Experience Gospel Choir A Cappella vocal jazz quartet Just Northwest’s classic rock ‘n’ roll 4 Kicks band Jr Cadillac Sultry blues, soul and classic Full-festival tickets for all three days are $40 in advance and $50 at the box rock licks by Kim Archer office. You can purchase online through Jaw-dropping funk and Jazz on rock-n-roll sounds of McTuff ShowClix.com. and is known For more information about the Contemporary jazz quartet as the festival, tickets and lodging, visit Industrial Revelation greatest living Northwest’s blues legend Randy jazzinthevalley.com. blues musician to come out of Chicago. Chris Isaak was propelled Chris Isaak into stardom in the early 90s when his hit single “Wicked Game” became a top-10 hit. Last year he released “First Comes the Night,” his first album of new material in six years. Tears for Fears won the pop music spotlight via their 1983 debut album “The Hurting,” a sophisticated collection of inward-looking, electro-tinged pop songs including “Mad World.” Their reunion was a welcome one for their many fans. Maryill also has live music on its vine-covered terrace every weekend from 1 to 5 p.m. through September. For more information and tickets, visit maryhillwinery.com. Maryhill Winery continues summer concerts and music on the terrace Tears for Fears performance is rescheduled for September Although Maryhill Winery’s first concert of the summer series — Tears for Fear — was postponed last month by the artists, it has been rescheduled for Saturday, Sept. 17, at 7 p.m. The first concert on the schedule is now a performance by Grammy-winning guitarists Jeff Beck and Buddy Guy on Aug. 20. Following that is Chris Isaak on his “First Comes the Night” tour on Sept. 3 You can purchase tickets for the concerts online at maryhillwinery.com or by phone from Ticketfly, 877-4-FLYTIX (435-9849). Jeff Beck and Buddy Guy are both legendary guitarists. Beck is a groundbreaking artist whose inimitable combination of primal shredding and cool perfectionism has left an indelible mark on everything from hard rock and jazz fusion to rockabilly and techno. Buddy Guy, a seven-time Grammy winner and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, has been a major influence Amber Rose celebrates 20 years in Uptown Richland It seems like the blink of an eye to Lynne Bostic, but 20 years passed since she bought Amber Rose in Uptown Richland. That’s enough time to have seen thousands of consigners drop off their fashionable clothes and for thousands of customers to be delighted with the bargains they find. It has also been long enough for her granddaughter Michelle to have gone from a playpen area in the store to graduating from Hanford High. The store, which has moved several times but always remained in the Uptown, now resides in the airy space on the George Washington Way side of the center. Monday though Thursday, the counter is often piled with oncoming inventory as people bring in gently used current styles for consignment. Every day except Sunday, expect to see a steady stream of customers checking out the ever-changing inventory. Reflecting on the last 20 years, Lynne says the single best thing about the business has been the opportunity to work with her daughter Stephanie for 20 years and to have had Michelle be apart of the store for the last 18 years. It is also easily evident that more than a few customers have become fast friends. Recently, when joking with a customer, she claimed she was trying to figure out if the last 20 years had been fun. A customer immediately told her that of course it had been. And, as any good customer will tell you — the customer is always right. Don’t wait another 20 years to visit Amber Rose. It’s at 1315 George Washington Way in the Uptown, and is open Monday through Friday from 10 to 6 and Saturday from 10 to 5. PAGE 16 • July 2016 • The Entertainer Kids rule the summer at Fort Walla Walla Museum! S ummertime means plenty of fun activities for kids at Fort Walla Walla Museum. In addition to the outdoor playfort, family picnic areas, and exciting indoor and outdoor exhibits to explore, there is special summer programming available for children ages 9 to 11. On Saturday, July 9, budding young artists can join local artist Elizabeth Matschukat for an “Introduction to Drawing” workshop. This class, which runs from 2 to 4 p.m., is geared toward 9-11 ages. Students will practice their drawing skills with patient and expert instruction. Subjects will include a costumed “Living History” performer and artifacts on display at the Museum. The cost of the class is $15 ($10 for museum members). On Tuesday, July 19, the museum will be hosting its annual Pioneer Kids Camp, sponsored in part by Coffey Communications. This day camp for children ages 9 to 11 features guided activity stations that allow kids to experience life the pioneer way. Activities include building miniature wooden forts, helping with blacksmith chores, leather crafts, scavenger hunts, checking out old-time musical instruments and a special presentation by Living History character William McBean. The camp will run from 8:30 a.m. to 3:45 p.m. The cost is $30 ($25 for Fort Walla Walla Museum members), which includes lunch and an official souvenir. Pre-registration is required by July 13, but be sure to sign up early, as limited space is available and the spots fill up quickly! Kids practice drawing, learn to pan for gold and much more in summertime programs at the Fort Walla Walla Museum For more information on these or any upcoming museum events, call (509) 525-7703 or send email to [email protected]. Fort Walla Walla Museum is on Myra Road in Fort Walla Walla Park. The museum is open daily from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. March through October. Admission is free to museum members and children under 6, $3 for children ages 6-12, $7 for seniors (62 and older) and students, and $8 general admission. Admission is also free to Tamástslikt Culture Institute Inwai Circle members, and members of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation with ID card. Membership begins at $28 and includes free admission to more than 40 Living History performances and other benefits. For more information, call (509) 5257703, send e-mail to [email protected], or visit online at fwwm.org. Two great concerts offered at Power House The Gesa Power House Theatre in Walla Walla will begin the month as we all will — celebrating our nation’s independence. On July 2, the theatre is offering a free concert by bands from the 133rd Washington Army National Guard. Next up, on July 15, is a concert by the David Luning Band. Here are more details: July 2 - 6 p.m. Free Concert: 133rd Wash. Army National Guard Bands Gesa Power House Theatre and the 133rd Army Band present a free community Independence Day concert. Two military ensembles will perform — the General’s 7 Dixieland Band and the Patriot Brass Band. The General’s 7 (G7) is a detachment of the 133rd Washington Army National Guard Band stationed at Camp Murray. From old standards to swinging arrangements of military marches, the music of the G7 offers a taste of New Orleans groove along with the red, white and blue. Patriot Brass is a large ensemble that performs anything from New Orleans-style brass-band tunes to classical standards. July 15 - 7 p.m. David Luning Band Singer and songwriter David Luning is part of a new generation of indie musicians who blur the lines of Americana, alternative country, rolk and blues. His poignant songwriting and warm, rich-timbre voice captivate audiences. Luning plays guitar, piano, harmonica and accordion, and performs with three other musicians — Linden David Luning Reed, Dave Sampson, and Ben Dubin; collectively called the David Luning Band. David Luning’s songs include surprising insights into love and car troubles, tales of ramblin’ and homesick desperation, and foot stompin’ sing-alongs. Luning’s original music and lyrics have won multiple songwriting competitions, and have appeared in movie soundtracks. Reserved seating tickets range from $24 to $28. The 2016 season at the Gesa Power House Theatre is presented by Waterbrook Winery, Browne Family Vineyards and Canoe Ridge Vineyard, with additional support from KVEW-TV, the Courtyard Marriott, Inland Cellular, Pacific Power, Wingman Birdz and Brewz and Baker Boyer Bank. For more information about upcoming events at the Gesa Power House Theatre, visit www.phtww.com. Tickets are available online or by calling the box office at (509-529-6500. Box-office hours are Thursdays and Fridays from noon to 5 p.m. and two hours before each show. The theatre is at 111 N. 6th Ave. in Walla Walla. The Entertainer • July 2016 • PAGE 17 Last year, the Bronze Blues and Brews Festival in Joseph, Ore., was named “Best Northwest Blues Event” by the Cascade Blues Association. Mark your calendar for this year’s Bronze Blues and Brews Festival! Sugaray Rayford Band will take it on home for you. The weather ranges from hot days to cool nights in the mountains, so plan he picturesque mountain commuto take clothing that will get you nity of Joseph, Ore., invites you for through comfortably. Also, bring the 20th-anniversary show at the sunscreen, lawn chairs or blankets, Joseph City Park on Aug. 12 and 13. and your ID. Children are welcome, The Bronze Blues and Brews Festival and there is a playground in the park. has lined up an amazing roundup of If you need lodging, the organizers live blues musicians, plus beautiful advise you to book early, as there are bronzes and a fine selection of Northonly small towns over a wide area in west microbrews. this part of Oregon. There is lodging The fun begins on Friday night, information on the event website and Aug. 12, with the jam session at the on the Wallowa Chamber site, park, to be led this year by the wallowacountychamber.com. Delgado Brothers. Usually, musicians Camping is available nearby, with some of the groups scheduled to including a free “dry” camp area in perform on Saturday will get up and Joseph. jam with the host band. Tickets are $30 in advance and $35 On Saturday, the doors open at at the door. Advance tickets are 11:30, and leading off at 12 noon is available on the festival website, Devon Allman with his opener Owen bronzebluesbrews.com. You’ll also find Campbell. other information on the website Next up is the Danielle Nicole Band, including a full schedule and informafollowed by a “Harp Attack” special led tion about the artists. by the Brandon Santini Band and Bronze Blues and Brews is a featuring Franco Paletta and Mitch nonprofit volunteer-run organization Kashmar. After that, not to be missed benefitting local youth music, art, and is the Chris Cain Band. And, finally, the community programs. Annual event in Joseph, Ore., will be Aug. 12-13 T PAGE 18 • July 2016 • The Entertainer Art in the Park features local and national artists F or 66 years, the Allied Arts Asso ciation and the Gallery at the Park have hosted an annual community art show, now held each year on the Columbia River in Richland’s beautiful Howard Amon Park. This year’s Art in the Park will be held on Friday and Saturday, July 29 and 30. More than 200 local and national artists regularly participate in the annual show, and more than a dozen local nonprofit organizations provide concessions and entertainment. Artist booths will be shoulder to shoulder in the park, and you can find beautiful one-of-a-kind creations for yourself or someone special. There will be home décor, clothing, jewelry, music, children’s specialties, pampered-pet necessities and unique gifts. The wide variety of art and Art in the Park is your chance to cool off activities will appeal to all ages and by the river and browse among hundreds interests. of arts and crafts booths in the shade of The hours are 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. on mature trees in Howard Amon Park. Friday and 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Saturday. History There is no fee for admission or The forerunner of Art in the Park was parking, but a shuttle from the parking lot at Fran Rish Stadium is available for first held in 1950. Artists hung their works from clotheslines at the Uptown a small fee. mall, and it was known as the “Clothesline Show” until 1965. That’s when Allied Arts moved to its current location on Lee Blvd., and the show was held on the sidewalk in front of the gallery. Naturally it was renamed the “Sidewalk Show.” Thos early shows were small, with only local artists participating, and the Sidewalk Show moved to other locations in Richland before moving back to Howard Amon Park. In 1975 the show was opened up to all artists, and by 1977 it had 225 artists and crafters from all over the Pacific Northwest. By the late 1990s, up to 350 artists displayed their works — a big increase over the eight artists in the 1950 Clothesline Show. Art in the Park is Allied Arts Association’s primary fundraiser. It enables the gallery to provide exhibit space for artists in featured shows that change monthly. It also funds scholarships for art students and workshops for adults and children. The association believes that art makes a community a better place to live, and the goals include introducing the community to different types of art and introducing artists to the Tri-Cities community. Juried show, workshops Each year, artists from around the area vie for the honor of being chosen for the annual Juried Art Show at the Gallery at the Park. Each entrant can submit up to four pieces of their recent work. The work is then judged by an independent juror who then chooses which works will be displayed in the show. This year, 74 artists submitted 213 pieces to be judged. Out of those, the juror chose 77 pieces to be displayed. The juror this year was Judy Vogland, who taught art for many years at Portland State University, Hillsboro High School, the Oregon College of Art and Craft and other Oregon schools. She holds a master’s degree in fine art from Portland State University. Frequent visitors to the gallery may remember that she was one of the featured artists in June of last year. For all their hard work, some of the artists are rewarded with monetary ‘Artists’ continues on Page 19 The Entertainer • July 2016 • PAGE 19 Prosser Art Walk & Wine Gala a popular summer event A rt, wine, microbrews, music, food and a picturesque downtown Prosser street all add up to a perfect summer evening in historic downtown Prosser. The Prosser Chamber of Commerce will host the 13th annual Prosser Art Walk and Wine Gala on Saturday, July 16, from 6 to 10 p.m. on Sixth Street. You can sip award-winning wines and stroll on the Art Walk promenade featuring the creative works of more than 30 Pacific Northwest artists. They’ll be exhibiting a variety of media — everything from paintings, sculptures, glass and woodwork to recycled whimsy. Known as the “birthplace of Washington wine,” Prosser takes this opportunity to also showcase the many local wineries that have made the region famous. Pouring at the 2016 event are 18 wineries, both new and long-established, including 2dor Wine Estates, Airfield Estates, Alexandria Nicole Cellars, Barrel Springs, DavenLore, Desert Wind, Kestrel Vintners, Milbrandt Vineyards, Pontin Del Roza, Sleeping Dog Wines, VineHeart Winery. Back by popular demand is the sangria contest. Each ‘Artists’ from 7 to 10 p.m. In 2013, Luning auditioned for “American Idol” and made it to the top 100, performing “In Hell I Am,” a song he wrote. “I love it,” judge Jennifer Lopez said. “He has a really, really beautiful tone.” “It’s the kind of music that speaks of real life,” Luning said. “Call it Americana, folk, roots or alt-country — it resonates with me.” Joining him for the Art Walk will be band members Dave Sampson, Ben Dubin, and Linden Reed. Tickets are $30 per person, which includes admission, all wine and beer tastings and a souvenir glass. The Each year, 600 guests enjoy art, wine and microbrews in historic downtown Prosser. event is limited to 600 guests, who The annual Prosser Art Walk and Wine Gala will be held on July 16 from 7 to 10 p.m. must be 21 or over. The Chamber of Commerce anticipates a sell-out, so you’re encouraged to purchase your other local eateries. The culinary winery will be making sangria from its tickets early for a perfect summer own secret recipe, and you’ll have the delights will range from burgers and evening. salads to specialty hot dogs, flat chance to taste and vote for your Tickets and event information are breads, and ice cream. There will be favorite. available online at tourprosser.com, at something for every palate. Also on tap, serving tastings of their the Sixth Street Art and Gift Gallery in You can dance under the stars to products, are Prosser-area Prosser and at Adventures Underthe live music of the David Luning microbreweries including Horse ground in the Uptown Shopping Center Band, whose music has been called Heaven Hills Brewery and Whitstran in Richland. “gritty, joyful, soulful Americana.” Enjoy Brewing. And you can sample the If you have questions, contact the Luning’s original songs, his lively tasty cuisine of Lucy’s Lunchbox, Prosser Chamber at (509) 786-3177. storytelling and rich, captivating voice Between the Buns, Brewminatti and You are also invited to attend the awards ceremony at a reception on Friday, July 8, from 5 to 7 p.m. at the gallery. The show will run through Aug. Continues from Page 18 12. Allied Arts’ fun-filled summer of prizes of anywhere from $50 to $600 — workshops is already under way for a total of more than $2,000. There are children beginning at age 7. Offered in 11 such awards to be given out, July is “Cultural Art From Around the including the People’s Choice Award, World” on July 11-15 and “Craftavoted on by visitors to the show. The palooza: Paper Mache” July 18-22. gallery will be open during Art in the “Paper Quilling” will be offered on Park on July 29 and 30. Aug. 1-5. The fee is $60 for each workshop, and class sizes are limited. The Gallery at the Park is at 89 Lee Boulevard in Richland, at the entrance to Howard Amon Park. It’s open Tuesday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. and Saturday from 10 to 5. For more information on the Juried Show, other upcoming shows and workshops, visit galleryatthepark.org or call the Prosser Chamber at (509) 943-9815. Paintings chosen for the Juried Art Show at the Allied Arts Gallery at the Park during the month of July include A Square Full of Circles (top), by Phillip Harding, and Fingers of God, by Suzi Vitulli. They are just two of 77 pieces chosen by a juror to vie for cash prizes, and you can vote for your favorites to receive the People’s Choice Award. An artists’ reception and awards ceremony will be held on Friday, July 8, from 5 to 7 p.m. at the gallery. The show will run through Aug. 12. PAGE 20 • July 2016 • The Entertainer Finding Dory: Same plot, but still adorably cute feeling to the movie’s original, and the words “short-term memory loss” will be t was a month of sequels, something branded into the back of your skull, but many film enthusiasts do not necesmost audience members won’t care sarily look forward to. In the case of because they themselves suffer from some of this summer’s supposed the same type of memory loss and blockbusters, the prequel is better than most will be under 10. the sequel. The overwhelming disapIt is unfortunate that Finding Dory pointment audiences are forced to live lacks the double-entendre jokes and through can, in some cases, make the ironic humor of many prior Disney-Pixar entire series not worth the exorbitant collaborations. That’s what many older amounts of money thrown at them. crowds enjoyed, so this is a pretty Finding Dory, a sequel to 2003’s narrow kid’s flick through and through. Finding Nemo, was one that was longChildren may have mixed feelings awaited by kids and adults alike. I about the emotional content of some of focuses solely on the wide-eyed, the scenes, and parents should be forgetful blue tang Dory (Ellen wary if their children are more empathic DeGeneres). This time around, the than others. Sad and tearful toddlers main focus is on her long journey back could occasionally be heard sniffling The blue tang named Dory is again voiced by Ellen DeGeneres in Finding Dory. to the place where she was born, and and wiping their noses during some of her effort to find the parents she stuffed marine animals will be seen the more depressing and downright tang with sweet, understanding accidentally left behind and forgot everywhere soon. gloomy memories from Dory’s childparents. about in her close-to-10-second shortThe new characters Dory meets on hood. Yet, the emotion is raw and baby The emotion in the film is both raw term memory loss. her journey are fun — like the nearly Dory is absolutely adorable. and bittersweet, from the tangible She is joined again by the everblind whale-shark Destiny — and they As an adult who has seen both the sadness and worrying Marlin original and the sequel with a young, personal displace- all learn and grow right along with the (Albert Brooks), forgetful tang. It’s a personal growth incredibly caring 6-year old daughter, I ment Dory feels and his positive must say the more discouraging from her short-term that seems lacking in other sequels. and trusting son Even Marlin, who seems unable to scenes were difficult for her to watch, memory loss, to Nemo (Hayden recall in the decade since his debut but she still sleeps with her stuffed the fear Nemo Rolence — not the that, with Dory, where there’s a will baby Dory and grouchy Hank dolls expresses at the same voice actor there’s a way, manages some profound every night and continues to ask me to idea of Dory no as before). They replay Finding Nemo. When Finding longer being part of character growth. The individual who once again seems to have learned the most is Dory comes to video, and she will their very small, eclectic family. traverse the expanse of the ocean in Dory herself. Taking close second and surely ask me to purchase it. And I will Children will be entranced from the search of things lost, and they meet oblige, because the film was worth moment the film opens right up to the third are the cankerous red octopus old friends and new ones along the nostalgic ending. They will love the old Hank (Ed O’Neil played him brilliantly) every penny I spent to see it with her in way in their expedition to California — characters that their parents remember and Bailey (Ty Burrell) the self-doubting the theater, and every giggling smile I every now and again seeing adorable Beluga whale. receive when baby Dory steals the and will fall in love with the new ones. flashbacks of a giant-eyed blue baby Plotlines in this film are similar in screen. A lot of red, fuzzy octopuses and other I By Aubrey Langlois Independence Day: Resurgence is literally painful By Aubrey Langlois Where to start? With the absolutely ridiculous rotten-tomato material that Hollywood has shipped out to the public for the past few years without a modicum of shame? The injustice of a lackluster script that could barely pass as something to wipe with? Or the fact that nearly the entire cast of Independence Day: Resurgence, which was highly anticipated to blow minds on its June 24 release, could barely keep the audience’s interest past the first few confusing moments? It’s a wonder that no one else except the obnoxiously loud couple some seats in front of me, who were apparently having some public drama, left. To the couple’s credit, the woman did shout to the other five occupants of the theater (myself included), “This movie was bad, and you should feel bad.” I really wish I had taken her advice. The first five minutes of the movie is a novel’s worth of information all jampacked into a tiny box with not enough time to absorb it. In 1996, when the tall, spindly aliens came to earth in Independence Day, it was to invade, infest and overtake. In Independence Day: Resurgence (IDR for short), it’s exactly the same thing. The only difference is the mad scramble after Bill Pullman as ex-president Thomas J. Even Liam Hemsworth’s good looks couldn’t save this movie from itself. Whitmore opens the film by having very real flashbacks of the alien menace storming through space to ingest the earth’s core, coming for the human race with a vengeance. The problem is, introducing new characters, reintroducing the old ones and attempting some form of a plotline is difficult in a series of films, let alone packing all that into a few minutes of one film. Those are, however, undeniably the only moments in the entire movie that make any sense. The rest of the CGI-laden, horribly acted, terribly written, cheesy and unoriginal movie is complete garbage. There isn’t some new threat of different aliens coming in to bully the humans, or some 20 years moreadvanced alien technology from the 1996 invasion. It’s the same aliens, only one in particular is bigger, uglier and angrier, with a more urgent need to use the Earth’s core as their interstellar space fuel. Essentially, it’s the same invasion as the first film — just more actors, less character development, and this hollow feeling that your insides are dying while you watch this story unfold. With Jeff Goldblum David Levinson), Bill Pullman (Thomas J. Whitmore), and Vivica Fox (Jasmine Hiller) helping to steer the direction of the movie, it should have turned out better than it did. Each gave powerhouse performances in the previous blockbuster, but with Vivica’s lacking screen time, Pullman’s shoddy lines and Goldblum’s lack thereof, IDR was set up for disaster before it even got off the ground. It was difficult to see Liam Hemsworth (Jake Morrison) struggle through his scenes with his practically unknown co-actor Jessie Usher — to be confused with the R&B musical artist Usher. Both fumbled in their scenes together, making the chemistry unbearable. This was exacerbated by Usher’s complete lack of inflection in delivering many of the first film’s nostalgic one-liners that were once said by Will Smith (Steven Hiller). The entire film lacks any sense. It seems to presume that the audience members are morons who either never watched the original or are too stupid to know that this is the same story simply being retold in a different way. And it definitely isn’t told any better. From awkward, jumpy camera angles to the forced, repetitious dialogue that lacks emotional punch, IDR is predictable, devoid of any original thought and thoroughly bad. It’s completely tedious and borderline absurd in ways never before conceived. The time and money wasted in watching this film in the theater or even watching it in a couple years on TNT can never be regained. Use the time for something more useful, such as spooning the liquefied mass that was once your brain out of your skull. The Entertainer • July 2016 • PAGE 21 Witty novel about time travel is also a commentary on today’s social media The Status of All Things, by Liz Fenton and Lisa Steinke, Washington Square Press, 2016 I By JoDean Jordan t’s the night of Kate’s rehearsal dinner. The wedding planning that has consumed her life has finally come to an end, and now it’s time for the huge Hawaiian, perfectly planned, Pinterest-worthy event. But wait! Kate just needs to take a selfie with her maid of honor and post it on Facebook and Instagram. Kate is a 35-year-old woman obsessed with social media. If it’s not online, it might as well not have happened. Status updates rule her world, and you had better believe they’re all perfectly constructed and filtered. No double chins, no fat arms, only positive thoughts and meticulously thought-out poses. There is one thing she didn’t plan, though, and that’s that her loving, perfect-on-paper fiancé, Max, doesn’t want to marry her. He’s fallen in love with someone else — Kate’s co-worker and friend. What else to do but completely break down and obsess about how to break the news to her hundreds of Facebook friends? But this time it’s different. Delicately devising a Facebook update turns into a lesson in fate. Everything she writes becomes reality, and now she has more power at her fingertips than she ever dreamed. Status update: go back in time and fix everything. Change her dreams — done. They all three set out to make big changes in their lives. Kate’s attempts to help herself and her friends don’t go exactly as planned, and fate rears its head time after time. The question is, can she really change anything that’s meant to be? Is it possible to change your fate? And — most importantly — is it worth it if you have to change yourself? The Status of All Things is a fun story about something that anyone who uses Facebook or Instagram can relate to. You just can’t believe everything you read online. There is a lot going on behind the scenes of perfect status updates. No one’s life is as it appears in social media, and the influence of these types of communication is out of control, completely skewing reality. The book is a very timely reminder of what it means to be real and what hiding behind perceptions can do to someone’s happiness. The plot is a witty one, filled with destiny and prevent Max from falling in love with someone else. She has only pop culture references and clever, fastto become someone different whom he paced dialogue. It is co-written by two wants to marry. Change her world and women, Liz Fenton and Lisa Steinke, those in it, so everything goes exactly who obviously have a seamless rapport and are able to weave a magical and the way she wants. believable story. The Status of All Kate can’t do it alone, so she Things teaches the main character and recruits her two closest friends, Jules and Liam, to help her navigate through Kate the importance of unplugging from a device and tuning in to the real world. her bizarre time-travel journey. To This book can be downloaded to a convince them she’s not crazy, she uses her status updates to manipulate Kindle for $10.99 or purchased from their lives for what they all believe to be Amazon in paperback for $9.37. It can for the better. Change a marriage — also be downloaded via iBooks check. Provide the woman of your for $10.99. Dysfunctional family is good for laughs in this novel We’re All Damaged, by Matthew Norman, Little A, 2016 while, a self-important Home Owners Association president hands out citations like candy to Andy’s poor By JoDean Jordan dad, who only wants to ride his motorcycle on his own street. Andy Carter’s world crumbled Then there’s Andy’s brother, an around him. He used to be married to apparent sellout with two kids and an the woman of his dreams, but she fell important job. Just ask him. Throw in in love with the paramedic down the the fact that Andy’s exstreet. He once had a wife has landed herself a job. It’s gone. At one new husband — a time he had a best macho, tall, good-looking friend, but Andy ruined paramedic who loves her his wedding in a draimmensely. He’s the matic flourish and they exact physical opposite aren’t speaking anyof Andy, and he’s the one more. she wants, even when His home was in Andy shows his undying Omaha, Nebraska — love by parking his drunk that is, until he lost it all self outside her house and escaped to a tiny and mangling her lawn apartment in New York, gnome. where even his distemMix all this up and add pered, kind-of-adopted a mysterious young cat doesn’t like him. woman named Daisy, Running away was who pops up out of Andy’s answer — that is, until he was summoned back to the nowhere and insists that she’s going to change his life and help him to be town of broken dreams to further his misery by witnessing the slow death of happy despite his lonely sad-spiral. Her quick wit, fun factor, and cluster of his grandfather. Omaha is the last place Andy wants clever tattoos might be just what Andy needs to survive his family at a time to be. But it’s family. The second he arrives, his past slaps him in the face at every turn. To make matters worse, Is there any better way to spend a it seems his mother has lost her mind. Friday night in the Tri-Cities than She was once a plump nurturer, but cooling off by the river, listening to has now morphed into a blonde, thin, sharp-edged right-wing talk-show host good music, enjoying local food-truck fare and watching an outdoor movie? with her sights set on a future at Fox For a second summer, the Port of News. Pasco invites you to “Date Night at the His mother’s daily rants about gay Pointe” on July 15 and Aug. 19 at its marriage have set loose a barrage of headquarters at 1110 Osprey Pointe “gay mafia” members armed with Blvd. in Pasco (corner of Ainsworth naked Ken dolls and a lifetime supply and Oregon). The music starts at 7:30, of glitter. Both constantly end up on along with food and a wine and beer the perfectly manicured front lawn of garden. Movies will begin at dark. their brand new McMansion, nestled On July 15, the music will be safely in a gated community. All the when their true personalities burst forth. But where did Daisy come from anyway? As far as Andy is concerned, it doesn’t really matter. She’s just what the doctor ordered. For now. We’re All Damaged is an incredibly written, fast-paced book filled with laughs and impossible situations. Every character is well developed and Andy’s interactions with them are wonderful. His first-person, selfdeprecating attitude and sense of humor make the book a funny, witty page- turner. He’s been through so much, and he’s surrounded by a quirky, very flawed family that the reader can’t help but fall in love with, despite their obvious dysfunction. Matthew Norman writes dialogue in a way that puts the reader in the room. It’s clever and fun and easy to imagine the motivation behind every word. The plot is believable and multi-faceted, and all the pieces are strung together beautifully in its modern-day ridiculousness. It’s just a fun book to read, and one that is difficult to put down. It is definitely worth the read. This book can be downloaded to a Kindle for $4.99 or purchased from Amazon for $14.95. It can also be downloaded via iBooks for $13.99. Port of Pasco free movies returning provided by popular local band BadLandz, food will be served by Jiggy’s Food Truck, and the movie to be shown is The Intern, starring Robert De Niro and Anne Hathaway On Aug. 19, music will be by the Knutzen Brothers, an Asian fusion menu will be offered by the mobile kitchen called Fresh Out of the Box, and the movie to be shown is Spectre, with Daniel Craig and Christoph Waltz. Take lawn chairs, blankets and movie munchies if you wish. Both movies are rated PG-13. Movies New Releases Playing in Theaters July 2016 1st The BFG The Legend of Tarzan The Purge: Election Year 8th Cell Mike & Dave Need Wedding Dates The Secret Life of Pets 15th Ghostbusters The Infiltrator 22nd Ice Age 5: Collision Course Lights Out Star Trek Beyond 29th Jason Bourne Bad Moms Nerves August 2016 5th The Founder Nine Lives Suicide Squad 12th Pete's Dragon Sausage Party 19th Ben-Hur Collide Kubo and the Two Strings The Space Between Us War Dogs 26th Mechanic 2: Resurrection Hands of Stone Don't Breathe The Hollars Releases New DVD Releases July 2016 5th I Saw the Light By the Sea The Family Fang 12th Divergent Series: Allegiant Miracles from Heaven Everybody Wants Some 19th The Perfect Match Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice Miles Ahead Demolition Elvis & Nixon 26th The Boss Barbershop 3 The Next Cut Criminal Hardcore Henry August 2016 2nd Mother's Day Keanu Meet the Blacks 9th A Hologram for the King 11.22.63 Addicted to Fresno 16th God's Not Dead 2 Ratchet and Clank 23rd The Huntsman Winter's War Ash vs Evil Dead PAGE 22 • July 2016 • The Entertainer Walla Walla Dance Festival back for 6th season ‘Grand Performance’ will be held on July 29 T he Walla Walla Dance Festival is once again bringing the absolute best in professional dance to the area from July 23 through 29. This year, the festival will present guest principal dancers from the Boston Ballet, Ashley Ellis and Lasha Khozashvili. These two dancers are at the top of their field, and will be presenting the pas de deux from the famous ballet Le Corsaire, to the renowned score by Adolphe Adam. This duet is one of ballet’s most loved and most performed, and it displays the best in bravura that ballet has to offer. It is full of gravity-defying leaps, dizzying turns and amazing partnering. John Passafiume Dancers A special highlight of this year’s festival will be the pairing of the Walla Walla Chamber Music Festival performers on stage alongside the John Passafiume Dancers of New York City, performing the third movement from Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 15. The pairing of live music with Passafiume’s poignant, vibrantly physical and intimate modern dance choreography is a rare treat for lovers of both music and dance. Don’t miss this unique opportunity to witness one of the most hauntingly beautiful Beethoven works performed live with musicians and dancers each performing together. Hailing also from the Big Apple is Gierre Godley’s Project 44 dance company. Godley is an emerging choreographer who is a splendid performer in his own right, combining relevant social statements with beautiful movement, through an urban lens. so get tickets now and don’t miss this opportunity. This event allows the dance festival to showcase some of the best local professional dance talent as well as leading guest companies in works that are designed to be performed in a small, modern setting. Open rehearsal The festival will be presenting a free open rehearsal with Walla Cabaret Evening Walla Chamber Music On Wednesday, July 27, the Walla performers and the John Passafiume Walla Dance Festival will again be Dancers, and a shorter Ashley Ellis and Lasha Khozashvili presenting a Cabaret Evening, to be performance will be held in the gorgeous industrial space geared toward children in collaboration on Friday, July 29, at 7 p.m. This is of Charles Smith Wines in downtown where it all comes together for the Walla Walla. Enjoy a glass of fine wine with the Walla Walla Public Library. For aspiring dancers, free community best dance event in the area, with along wtih the best that dance has to master classes will be offered during leading professional performers doing offer in this intimate setting. what they do best for your enjoyment. This event sold out quickly last year, the festival week. The Grand Performance in Cordiner For information and tickets, visit Hall, an annual tradition, will take place wwdf.org or call (509) 240-3428. IN BRIEF Athena, Ore., will host annual Caledonian Games The annual Athena Caledonian Games in Athena, Ore., will be held on the weekend of July 8-10. Traditional Scottish dances such as the Highland fling and the sword dance will be featured, bagpipe bands will perform, and athletes from around the Northwest will compete in events such as the hammer toss, sheaf toss and caber toss. Sheep dogs will compete as well, herding sheep through maneuvers while a handler calls commands. Clan tents will be set up, and you can check your Scottish heritage. Games, storytelling, a Saturday parade, and performances just for kids make the Caledonian Games a fun family outing. A special focus this year is on fiber arts and weaving. For information, directions and a full schedule, visit athenacaledoniangames.org. Zac Brown Band to headline Whisky Music Fest The three-time Grammy-winning Zac Brown Band will headline the inaugural Pendleton Whisky Music Fest on Saturday, July 16, from 5 to 11 p.m. at the Pendleton Round-Up Stadium in Pendleton. Organizers expect that the festival will bring more than 15,000 music fans to town for the event, which will also feature breakout country star Drake White, up-and-coming artist Jackson Michelson and DJ Sovern-T. The concert is presented by Legacy Dodge and Pendleton Whisky, which is available nationwide from Hood River Distillers of Hood River, Ore. Ticket prices range from $45 for grandstand seats to $135 for a VIP experience, and can be purchased online at pendletonroundup.com. The festival is open to all ages, but entrance to the exclusive Pendleton Whisky Lounge for VIP ticket-holders is for 21-and-older patrons only. Campsites will be available for overnight stays and a variety of games and activities will take place before the concert. The Entertainer • July 2016 • PAGE 23 The waltz, and its place in our independence T movements, continuous turns, and rise and fall. It is graceful and elegant, with dancers gliding around the floor almost effortlessly. The American style is punctuated with lavish open movements, underarm turns and solo spins. At 28-30 measures per minute, the tempo is slow at best, but the expressive quality of the music often invites very powerful and dynamic movement from the dancers. Our dancers love the waltz. The dance floor fills up whenever a waltz tune is played, and the dancers are transformed into another world of graceful, timeless body movements. It is the classic ballroom dance that you need to have in your repertoire, and it’s in a class by itself. Join us on July 23 and learn this elegant dance. And sign up for our five-week class in August to review the workshop lesson. By Beth Trost-Hayter he waltz is the oldest of the ballroom dances, dating from the middle of the 18th century, before the American independence that we celebrate this month. I am featuring the waltz this month in my dance instruction. I will offer a day-long workshop on Saturday, July 23, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Pasco Eagles Club, for non-members as well as members. The workshop, “The Waltz, Beginning and Beyond,” will be followed by a month-long class reviewing the workshop lesson in American ballroom style. When I think of the early waltz, the 1700s come to mind — colonial times in America, with English-born women and men in their attire of that time period; some men wearing white wigs and British uniforms. Other popular dances of that era were the minuet and round and square dances — although they were not referred to as “round” and “square” back then. The German “lander,” a folk dance, is said to be the forerunner of the waltz. Another dance developed that was called the “walzer,” a word derived The elegance of the waltz seems to cry out for ball gowns and tuxedos, but you can also have fun dancing it in your everyday attire. from the Latin volvere, which indicates a rotating motion. WALTZ WORKSHOP, BEGINNING AND BEYOND Saturday, July 23, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Instructor: Mary Egan, Yakima dance instructor Pasco Eagles Club (non-members and members) Hosted by Beth Trost-Hayter, for singles and couples Cost: $40 per person, prepaid or at the door Beth Trost-Hayter teaches ballroom, swing, Latin and country dancing for adults. Classes Napoleon’s invading solders spread are held in the waltz from Germany to Paris; then Kennewick, the dance glided across the channel to Pasco and Richland. She is England and finally made its way to the director of the United States In July 1776, when the Declaration of the Desert Country Dancers Independence was signed, I would assume there were many dances held and the Showtime Girls, to celebrate our independence from and the host of England. Couples danced the waltz very much as we do today, and as we Dancing with the Tri-City Stars. Visit .dancebybethtrost.com, email will this July, 240 years later.. [email protected], call (509) 586The waltz is a smooth, progressive 7609, or call or text (509) 551-9562. dance characterized by long, flowing PAGE 24 • July 2016 • The Entertainer Summer fruit dresses up nicely to serve at parties Kirsch or 1/3 cup Beaumes de sugar ½ cup wine amed San Francisco chef Deborah Venise or other or water Madison loves a juicy bite of fresh Muscat wines; also in chilled 1½ cups fruit on a summer day. After all, in sweet and/or addition to founding Greens, one of the red or white wine sparkling wine first farm-driven restaurants in the Pineapple 2 tablecountry, she is the author of “Seasonal with Kirsch, spoons fresh Fruit Desserts from Orchard, Farm, maraschino or lemon juice and Market.” rum 1 to 1½ But as spirited as fruit alone is, Apricots cups fresh Madison notes that added spirits are and cherries, fruit, cut or the perfect summer complement to sliced into dress up fruit for parties. Usually, it just fresh or sauteed, with small pieces takes a quick pairing, with no addiPhoto courtesy FoodNetwork.com and lightly tional work. Some coupling is as easy Kirsch, sugared (see as putting the fruit with a liqueur made maraschino or Orange liqueur accents fresh nectarines in an Note) innovative tart. See the recipe below. from the same fruit or its seeds. Other noyaux Chilled Yields 4 to times it benefits from choices that melon with Asti Spumante or Moscato, 6 servings. don’t clash and do pull out the best champagne, port or Vin Santo Sprinkle the gelatin over ¼ cup cold from each other. Simple recipes, like this one from water and set it aside to soften. Check out these favorites of hers: Madison’s book, also are well worth Combine the sugar with the ½ cup Strawberries with Kirsch, Grand the effort and a wonderful way for wine in a saucepan. Bring to a boil, Marnier, maraschino, curacao, adults to refresh on summer days: then lower the heat and simmer, limoncello or strawberry liqueur stirring occasionally, until the sugar is Blackberries, raspberries and dissolved. Remove from the heat and other related berries with creme de BROKEN JELLIED WINE stir in the softened gelatin. Stir until it’s cassis or Cointreau 1 (¼-ounce) envelope unflavored thoroughly dissolved, then pour it into Raspberries with framboise gelatin the 1½ cups sweet or sparkling wine Blueberries with Kirsch ¼ cup cold water along with the lemon juice. Mix well, Peaches and nectarines with F By Lisa Messinger Creators Syndicate then pour into a bowl or a compote dish and refrigerate until set. Wine seems to take longer to set than cream or fruit juices, so plan on at least 6 hours, or even overnight for a firm set. Chop the jelly into cubes, then serve it in the compote or in wine or champagne glasses interspersed with fruit. Note: For fruit, choose those that are ripe and full of flavor — white peaches or nectarines, raspberries, or an aromatic melon. Slice those that need to be sliced into bite-sized pieces as close to serving as possible. Don’t hesitate to mix fruits. White peaches and raspberries are always perfect together. ORANGE LIQUEURNECTARINE-APPLE TART 1 sheet frozen puff pastry (half of 17.3-ounce package), thawed Flour, for dusting 1 small Golden Delicious apple, peeled, halved, cored, thinly sliced 1 small nectarine, halved and thinly sliced 2 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted ‘Fruit’ continues on Page 25 Blueberries, u-pick or pre-picked, plus pies, donuts and more are featured July 1-2. It’s red, white and blueberry at Bill’s Berry Farm in Grandview! A great time to visit Bill’s Berry Farm in Grandviw is July 1 and 2, when the farm holds its annual Blueberry Festival. It’s open both Friday and Saturday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. to celebrate all things blueberry during the most patriotic time of the year! Both u-pick and pre-picked blueberries will be available with varieties including Duke, Draper, Toro and Chandler. There will also be fresh and ripe raspberries and blackberries, just in time for your favorite cobbler or pie. Craft and antique vendors will be on hand with their specialty goods and crafts. And the festival will feature live music and offer the farm’s popular fresh, hot blueberry donuts. Be sure to make a stop at the new Farm Store — it’s stocked with fresh baked pies, country décor and farm-fresh fruit, ripe and ready for a trip home! Planning a summer birthday or company picnic? Bill’s Berry Farm is now taking reservations through August. Saturday rentals are available in the Berry Park and include a private party area with room for up to 30 guests. Coming on Aug. 5, 6, 12 and 13 is the two-weekend Peach Festival featuring juicy peaches, plums, and apricots All festival weekends include the popular barnyard train, pony rides, scrumptious barbecue, two big playgrounds and special activities. The Peach Festival stays true to its name by serving up hot peach donuts. Remember, you can enjoy fresh, hot donuts every Saturday, all summer long, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Bill’s Berry Farm. U-pick on the farm continues Monday through Thursday from 4 to 8 p.m. and Friday and Saturday from 9 to 5. Admission to the farm is always free, but there is a $5 parking fee on Saturday during festival weekends. For an up-to-date list of events, a current produce calendar or more information about Bill’s Berry Farm, visit billsberryfarm.com or call (509) 882-3200. Be sure to like and follow Bill’s Berry Farm on Facebook for special offers, farm updates and giveaways. The Entertainer • July 2016 • PAGE 25 ‘Fruit’ minutes. Serve warm or at room temperature. While tarts are cooling, whisk mascarpone with orange liqueur. Top Continues from Page 24 each cooled tart with a dollop of flavored mascarpone. 4 teaspoons sugar 4 teaspoons honey AFTER-WORK GOURMET 1 cup mascarpone cheese COOKBOOK SHELF 1 teaspoon orange liqueur If Manhattan is the center of Yields 4 tarts. gourmet cooking, that would, Line 1 large baking sheet with geographically at least, make parchment paper. Place the sheet of puff pastry on a floured surface and cut borough Brooklyn a bit off center. Not so, after a red-hot, decadesinto 4 even squares. Separate the squares and leave some room between long build. Brooklyn is also the center of its own gourmet universe them on the baking sheet. Create a border around the inside of and many of the city’s most acclaimed and innovative chefs emerge each square by scoring about ½ inch around the inside the square. Prick the from there. Chef Bryan Calvert’s Prospect dough inside the small square. Cover and refrigerate at least 30 minutes and Heights corner restaurant James (named after his great-grandfather, a up to 1 day. turn-of-the-century New York City Position 1 rack in top third and 1 chef) has been synonymous with rack in bottom third of oven and “New Brooklyn Cuisine,” an eclectic preheat to 400 degrees F. On each mix of casual country, urgent urban pastry square, overlap slices of apple and global fusion. and nectarine, within the border. Calvert has captured that spirit in Brush fruit on each tart, with melted Brooklyn Rustic: Simple Food for butter and sprinkle with 1 teaspoon Sophisticated Palates. In his tasty sugar. Bake tarts until pastry is golden and world, a savory stuffed chicken is accented by lemon-miso sauce and apples are tender, about 20 minutes. he reimagines an everyday Swiss Drizzle each tart with 1 teaspoon chard greens dish as a Thai curry. honey. Transfer tarts to racks; cool 5 WANT TO RECEIVE ENTERTAINMENT INFO BY TEXT? If you would like to be on our list to receive text messages with information about upcoming shows, concerts, ticket drawings and other entertainment information, send the number of your mobile device via email to [email protected]. It will not be shared or used for any other purpose. The Oregon town of Irrigon celebrates its watermelons! If you love spending a summer day by the Columbia River— and if you love fresh watermelons — you have only to take a short drive to the town of Irrigon, Ore., on July 30 for a fun outing celebrating the region’s most famous product. Festival day, July 30, begins with a 6:30 a.m. breakfast and the 10 a.m. parade. Grand marshals for the parade are the World War II and Korean War veterans who are still living in Irrigon. The day continues with food, children’s games, marine rides, duck races, prizes, raffle drawings and, of course, live entertainment. Some of the bands that will play that day include the Missy G Band, the Dakota Brown Band, the Buttercreek Boys and Nuketown. Dance acts scheduled to perform include the Irrigon High School cheerleaders, Dance Unilimited and the Round City Cloggers. The festivities continue long into the evening, with a street dance in the park lasting until midnight. When Irrigon residents planned their first Watermelon Festival in 1984, the organizers knew that there had to be a parade, entertainment, food, some games for the children — and, of course, plenty of fresh watermelons from the local fields. They produced and sold buttons, designed a logo for t-shirts, made fliers and formed a parade committee. The first festival parade honored two of the area’s leading melon growers as grand marshals — Batie Rand and Don Kenney, who donated their melons to the cause. As the years passed, entertainment became more sophisticated. From local amateurs to professional groups, from greased-pig contests and greasedpole climbs, sheepshearing demonstrations, pony rides and even a captive hot-air balloon ride (which stopped traffic on the highway), everything was up for consideration. Today, it is not unusual for the festival to welcome visitors from as far away as Canada and to book entertainers from Alaska and other states. The melons come from the watermelon-growing region stretching from Hermiston to Irrigon. Oregonians call Irrigon “the undiscovered gem” on the Columbia River. You can discover the town’s spirit and enjoy the best watermelons in the world by attending the Irrigon Watermelon Festival. For information, photos, reviews and updates, visit irrigonwatermelonfestival on Facebook. PAGE 26 • July 2016 • The Entertainer The Reach Musum, near the western entrance to Columbia Park Kids are invited to ‘meet the farmer day’ at Reach Museum A gri Northwest and the Hanford Reach Interpretive Center will hold a “Meet the Farmer Day” at the museum near Columbia Park on July 7 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. It promises to be a day of fun and learning for children from ages 9 to 13 about how their food is grown. The day begins with a chance to get up close with farm equipment used for potato production. The tour continues to the irrigation pumping station on the river and the control room where irrigation is controlled. Lunch will be provided by Agri Northwest and will feature locally grown produce. The afternoon will feature a corn dryer and the other farm equipment and products. The cost $10 per person, and space is limited. Call Kris at (509) 943-4100, ext. 108, or send email to [email protected]. A July 14 Reach tour includes Palouse Falls. A jet-boat and bus tour along the Snake River to Windust Park and Palouse Falls is scheduled for July 14 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Geologist, author and Ice Age Floods expert Bruce Bjornstad will guide the tour up the Snake River and through the locks at Ice Harbor Dam to Windust Park. From there, you’ll be transported by bus to Palouse Falls via Devils Canyon and Washtucna Coulee. Lunch will be provided at Palouse Falls State Park. A number of other Ice Age floods features will be covered on the return bus trip to the Tri-Cities. The cost is Other Reach activities $155 per person, including boat and “Particles on the Wall” is a new bus transportation and lunch. Confirm exhibit that will be at the Reach by July 5 by calling (509) 943-4100, Museum on until the end of October. ext. 108, or sending email to The exhibit is a multidisciplinary [email protected]. exhibit fusing art, science and history A tour of the eastern scablands to explore the impacts of the nuclear of our region will be led by the other age. It focuses on Hanford, the use of recognized Ice Age Floods expert, nuclear technology and its bearing on Gary Kleinknect, on July 23 from 8 the natural world and its inhabitants. a.m. to 5 p.m. The exhibit addresses both the This tour will take you to the remote human and environmental legacy of and less well-known southern portion nuclear technology, including radioacof the Cheney-Palouse Scabland tive waste issues and atomic bomb Tract. Because of its close proximity production. to the Palouse Country, the scablands The exhibit pieces illuminate key events in nuclear history and the role of of this area feature many streamlined loess islands (wind-blown silt) sepanuclear technology in the Pacific rated by scablands and coulees. Northwest. The contributors have No major highways traverse this strong ties to the Tri-Cities and many tour’s route, so you will view sights grew up in Richland or currently live in known by local residents but very few the area. travelers. Features include numerous “Paricles on the Wall” had its inaugural exhibit in 2010 and has since loess islands, flood deposits that are at least 780,000 years old, Rock Lake, beem shown in venues around WashBig Cove Coulee and more. The cost ington and Oregon. The exhibit was created by curators Dianne Dickeman $78, which covers land and water (visual), Nancy Dickeman (literary) and transportation, plus lunch. Confirm by July 13 by calling (509) 943-4100, ext. Steven Gilbert (science). Additional 108, or sending email to support has come from Washington [email protected]. Physicians for Social Responsibility. IN BRIEF Hermiston will launch new ‘branding’ at Funfest The City of Hermiston and the Hermiston Chamber of Commerce will host the public launch of the Hermiston community brand — “Where Life is Sweet” — on July 9 at Funfest in downtown Hermiston. The launch will begin at 10:45 a.m. on Hermiston’s Main Street Stage. Yo-Country will provide free watermelon frozen yogurt from 11 a.m. to noon. There will be balloons for the kids, and some branded T-shirts will also be given away. The community brand will be used to give Hermiston an identity, promote Hermiston’s livability, attract more businesses and families to the area, and portray Hermiston as a desirable destination to increase tourism. To learn more about the community brand elements, visit hermistonbrand.com. The Entertainer • July 2016 • PAGE 27 Visit Columbia Crest for the view, fine wines and music C olumbia Crest is now one of the Northwest’s largest wineries, but its growth hasn’t changed its commitment to quality and innovation in grapegrowing and winemaking. Founded in 1983 in the heart of the Horse Heaven Hills in eastern Washington, Columbia Crest has grown from a small winery in a relatively unknown wine region to one of the most significant wineries in the U.S. It has also become a major force behind Washington state’s emergence as a worldclass wine region. The climate and unique conditions in the state and in the Columbia Valley make it a perfect grape-growing area. Columbia Crest is acclaimed by critics and everyday wine drinkers alike for crafting exceptional wines that are food-friendly and approachable, and that consistently over-deliver in quality. Columbia Crest Merlot helped establish Washington’s outstanding reputation for the variety, and the winery is recognized for the consistent quality of its popular cabernet sauvignon. In fact, in 2009, Wine Spectator Magazine named the 2005 Columbia Crest Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon the number-one wine in the world on its top-100 list. It was the first time a wine from Washington state had received this ranking. In 2011, Columbia Crest was named U.S. Winery of the Year by Wine & Spirits Magazine. To showcase the depth of flavors and characteristics of the region, Columbia Crest offers three distinct tiers of wines. The Grand Columbia Crest’s beautiful setting, on a hillside overlooking the Columbia River, is also ideal for growing wine grapes. Estates wines capture the most authentic interpretation of each varietal through the use of uncompromising winemaking practices. The Horse Heaven Hills is the source and inspiration behind the “H3” wines, which represent the true essence of this highly-acclaimed appellation. And, hand-crafted in the Petit Chai — a “winery within a winery” — Columbia Crest Reserve wines are full-bodied masterpieces that are the result of rigorous quality control. They represent the pinnacle of winemaking at Columbia Crest. Columbia Crest Winery overlooks the Columbia River in Paterson, and it’s open for tours and complimentary tastings year-round. Visit the website columbiacrest.com to learn more about the wines and the winery, or to join the Reserve Club. You can also connect with the brand on Instagram and Twitter (@columbiacrest) and on Facebook. COLUMBIA CREST’S ‘TUNES, WINES AND VINES’ Join your friends at Columbia Crest Winery for “Tunes, Wines and Vines,” a weekend of live music and wine-tasting on Aug 19 and 20. Pack a picnic or purchase cuisine from a local food truck and enjoy the concerts while sipping on the fine wines of Columbia Crest. On Aug. 19, enjoy “An Evening with the Buckinghams,” and on Aug. 20, visit the winery for “An Evening with Crystal Gayle.” Both concerts begin at 7 p.m. If you’re of a certain age, you’ll remember the Buckinghams, a 1960s “sunshine pop” band, for “Kind of a Drag” and other hit songs. They dissolved in 1970, but formed again in the 1980s and are still touring. Crystal Gayle, the younger sister of Loretta Lynn, is best known for the crossover hit song “Don’t it Make My Brown Eyes Blue.” But she had 19 other number-one country hits and six certified gold albums in the 1970s and 80s. She was the first female country artist to reach platinum status with “We Must Believe in Magic.” She was voted one of the 50 most beautiful Crystal Gayle people in the world by People Magazine in 1983. All seating is general-admission lawn seating, so plan to bring blankets and lawn chairs. Tickets to each concert are $50 and are available at Ticketmaster outlets and online at ticketmaster.com. For phone orders, call (800) 745-3000. PAGE 28 • July 2016 • The Entertainer Day trips from Paris by train are easy, affordable L By Sondra Wilson ast month I shared with you our journey from Amsterdam to Brussels on an Avalon Waterways river cruise. We had tiptoed through the tulips, visited lovely towns in the Netherlands and Belgium, and so much more. But that wasn’t the end of our journey. We left our beautiful Avalon ship, sad that it was all over but excited to continue our trip on a highspeed train from Brussels to Paris. Trains in Europe are a work of art. They are sleek and modern, comfortable, affordable and always on time. Our train was no exception. In an hourand-a-half we arrived in Paris. Security was tight upon our arrival and I was happy to see it. We walked along the platform pulling our luggage, and many police were lined up to inspect the passengers. I know I’ve said it before, but Paris to me is the most perfect spot in the world. I just can’t get enough of it! This time there were three of us staying in an apartment in the seventh arrondissement, the area around the corner from the Eiffel Tower. I love the idea of being in a neighborhood where Once you’ve seen the Palace at Versailles, take another day trip to the privately owned Chateau de Vaux Le Vicomte and the nearby Palace of Fontainebleau. we know the shops and restaurants, and of course have our favorites. Staying in an apartment instead of a hotel is a wonderful way to feel like a local. Be sure to call Travel Leaders if you want that same experience. Each time I visit Paris, I do try to plan new activities so we can see more of the countryside and have more experiences in France. This time we did two trips outside of the city. I’ve been to Versailles, as have millions of other people, but this time we visited the Palace of Fontainebleau. It was just as amazing as Versailles — maybe more so — without all the tourists. It is gigantic, with over 1,500 rooms and 130 acres of parkland and pristine, manicured French gardens. Every room in the palace has been lovingly restored to the era of Napoleon, and the view of French history, art and architecture just swept us away. If you get a chance to visit Fontainebleau, don’t hesitate. It should be on everyone’s list. From there it was just short hop to the Chateau de Vaux Le Vicomte. While Fontainebleau is owned and operated by the French Government, this chateau is still privately owned by the family. It was also lovely, but it was apparent that money to keep it open and operating is much more of a concern. It has an amazing history, however. Nicolas Fouquet was the finance manager for King Louis XIV, and he built the chateau with one large flaw. That is, it was so grand that the king became jealous and had him arrested. Fouquet spent most of his days in prison for attempting to outdo his boss. Again, it was very much worth a visit. We hired a private car and driverguide for this trip, and that is another arrangement that Travel Leaders can make for you. It’s very kid-friendly, and you can even rent period costumes for your children to wear as they view the properties. The next day we took a train from Paris to Reims, where we joined a tour to the Champagne country. We met our tour right outside the train station at the tourist board office. We visited the countryside and the town of Epernay that houses most of the famous Champagne houses. It was so easy to do and so enjoyable. We saw how the vines managed to survive in the chalky soil, and then toured and tasted at the house of Moet & Chandon and the house of Taittinger. We returned to Reims in time to visit the very famous cathedral where many of the kings of France were crowned, and we were back in Paris for dinner. The great rail system and affordable tickets put many famous sights within reach on day trips into the countryside from Paris. Reims is no exception and should be on everyone’s list. Back in Paris, we ate wonderful food in neighborhood restaurants, visited the macaroon shop across the street and local wine shops on every street corner. I’m already planning my 2017 trip back to Paris with my daughter and granddaughters. If you want to do Paris, Travel Leaders can make that happen for you. I’ll give you a long list of must-do’s and you can relive the history of France as I did. Sondra Wilson is president of Travel Leaders in Richland and Kennewick. She considers France her specialty. Wildhorse will host 22nd annual Pow Wow The colors, songs and pageantry of the Wildhorse Resort and Casino Pow Wow in Pendleton will be back on July 1 through 3. Twenty-five drum groups and more than 300 dancers are expected to compete. The performances are free to all spectators, and Native American food and craft booths will be available. The grand entry kicks off each day’s events as participants parade into the Pow Wow arena in their colorful regalia to start the dancing and singing competition. The festivities will begin at 7 p.m. on Friday, July 1, and at 1 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday on the grass arena adjacent to the hotel and casino. Vendors will be offering everything from Indian fry bread to beadwork, clothing and jewelry. The award-winning Cree Confederation of Edmonton, Alberta, will host the 22nd annual drum event. Representing the people of Treaty Six First Nations, the Cree Confederation bridges the older Pow Wow singing style with more contemporary Pow Wow culture. Hotel, RV park, and tipi village reservations can be made by calling (800) 654-9453. The Entertainer • July 2016 • PAGE 29 The ultimate thrill: riding the “Corkscrew” at Silverwood Theme Park. You can enjoy Silverwood on land, in the air, and in and on the water! T hrill rides with names like “After shock,” “Corkscrew,” “Panic Plunge” and “Sky Diver” might be your first clue that Silverwood Theme Park in north Idaho is going to be a blast! But this is a theme park for the whole family, so there are little kids’ rides too — “Flying Elephants,” “Frog Hopper,” “Kiddie Copters” and many more. World-class coasters, hair-raising attractions, kiddie adventures, a 1915 steam-engine train, live award-winning entertainment, restaurants and much more are featured in the Northwest’s largest theme park. And it’s all within an easy drive from eastern Washington to the beautiful north Idaho panhandle. The park features more than 221 acres of fun and more than 70 rides, slides, shows and attractions. You can cool off at Boulder Beach Water Park with two massive wave pools, thrilling water slides, children’s water features, VIP cabanas and an endless lazy river. New to Boulder Beach for 2016 is “Riptide Racer,” a 400-foot-long slide standing nearly 60 feet tall. The new mat-racing water slide features six side-by-side racing lanes for you and your friends to compete against one another. Silverwood is really two parks for one price, and it’s open from now through October. On July 4 you can celebrate Independence day on the rides, cool off in the water park and enjoy patriotic music and a spectacular fireworks show at dusk. On Labor Day weekend, Sept. 3-4, classic cars will convene there for the 14th Annual Coaster Classic Car Show, one of the biggest events of its kind in the Inland Northwest. Silverwood is just minutes north of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. For the absolute lowest ticket prices and more information, visit silverwoodthemepark.com or call (208) 683-3400. PAGE 30 • July 2016 • The Entertainer Sometmes the Elgin Stampede is literally a stampede. The four days of rodeo action in Elgin, Ore., begins on July 6. Visit elginstampede.com for more information. Union county beckons, with lots do do this summer! U nion County, Ore., has many funfilled events taking place during the months of July and August. First, it’s time to bust out your cowboy hat and boots and join the fun for the Elgin Stampede — four days of rodeo action in beautiful Elgin, Ore. Events include a family night sponsored by Community Bank, followed by the Mark Nichols Memorial Bull Riding, a kids’ parade, the Grand Parade, dances and two exciting Professional Rodeo Cowboy Assocation (PRCA) rodeo performances. There is also plenty of food, and there are activities for the whole family including a kiddie rodeo, music, the queen’s coronation and a lot more. By celebrating the heritage and tradition of the old West for more than 70 years, the Elgin Stampede organization has made significant contributions to the community and its facilities as well as to the success of the annual Elgin Stampede itself. The Elgin Stampede is always the second weekend in July — this year, on July 6 through 9. delicious wild huckleberries that that grow in the surrounding mountains of Union County. You can enjoy huckleberry desserts, food vendors, a craft show, the car show and a parade. enjoy a weekend with friends and family. Also in August The city of Union is the home of the annual Grassroots Festival, to held this year on Aug. 13. You can find bargains Also in July In August and antiques at the city-wide yard sale Head to downtown La Grande for “A fair of the heart” is the theme for Crazy Days, to be held July 15-16. The this year’s Union County Fair Aug. 3-6. and attend a kiddy carnival and pieeating competition. Vendors, live Timbers Cruiser Car Club teams up This is an old-fashioned rural fair with music, a car show, and much more are with La Grande Main Street Downtown pigs, cows, chickens, goats, bunnies on tap for the event that takes place on each year for this weekend of cars and and horses. The 4-H members comMain Street and in the City Park. festivities. pete for awards in sewing, crafts, jams Cove’s annual Cherry Festival is Food vendors, craft vendors and and jellies and many more talents on always the third Saturday in August businesses will all flock to the downdisplay. and is taking place on the 30th at the town core that weekend to provide This year’s festivities will be kicked Ascension School Camp and Conferfamily activities with a festival-like off by a parade through downtown La ence Center. Plan on spending the atmosphere. Businesses provide Grande in the evening, then live whole day celebrating with live music, sidewalk sales and discounts through- entertainment, a carnival, animal activities on the lawn, food vendors and out the weekend. judging, exhibit barns, quilts, home much more. The city of North Powder will host its goods, art, and local produce throughFor information about any events in Union County, call (541) 963-8588 or annual Huckleberry Festival on Satur- out the weekend. visit unioncountychamber.org. day, July 30. This event celebrates the This is a perfect time and place to The Entertainer • July 2016 • PAGE 31 Tri-Cities mother, son chosen for Bellevue juried art show I f you travel across the mountains and are anywhere near Bellevue on July 29, 30 or 31, stop in at the Bellevue Festival of the Arts and say hello to a remarkable mother and son who have been invited to the prestigious juried show and will be hanging out at booths 53,58 and 59.. Hundreds of artists apply for the show and there’s limited space, so it speaks well of the local art scene that LuAnn Ostergaard and her son Joseph Rastovich of the Tri-Cities were chosen to exhibit at the festival. Inspiration comes in many forms LuAnn and Joseph, and a good deal of it comes from each other. “As professional artists, we inspire each other daily and the influences show, from colors and textures to composition in each of our works,” LuAnn said. “We both make our living entirely as fulltime artists.” LuAnn comes from a long line of artists dating back to her greatgrandfather. She is a professional LuAnn Ostergaard and Joseph Rastovich photographer and creates striking landscapes and abstracts from her digital images of weathered surfaces. She prints her work in her studio, using archival pigment inks on fine art cotton fiber paper. The print is mounted on a custom handcrafted box mount, and she textures the surface with clear gel medium. LuAnn is represented by Earthenworks Gallery of Port Townsend, Parker Furniture of Portland Take a train ride through an amazing Oregon landscape! The Eagle Cap Excursion Train winds along the railroad historically known as the Joseph Branch, connecting Elgin, Ore., with the Wallowa Valley. The track, now called the Wallowa Union Railroad, follows the shores of the Grande Ronde and Wallowa Rivers. In addition to tumbling waters, scenic highlights include plentiful birds and wildlife, rugged canyon walls and timbered ridges. Train rides include lunch, or they may have special themes such as the Wine and Cheese Train or Brews and Brats. In the fall, the colorful foliage is a highlight of the Photography Train, and robbers on horseback are known to target the train a couple of times each year. In July, two trips are designed with vacationing families in mind, offering shorter rides at bargain prices. For details, visit online at eaglecatprainrides.com or call (800) 323-7330. and Infusion Gallery of Troutdale, Ore. Her work is licensed with Editions Limited’s Studio EL Collection in Emeryville, Calif.,. and Artful Home of Madison, Wis... Joseph was immersed in the art world at a very early age and flourished as a young artist. From visiting art galleries and museums to having access to all of the various art materials in his mother’s studio, he literally grew up with all of the tools an artist uses to create work at his disposal. Joseph, now 24 years old, has created 11 large public sculptures in Washington and Oregon over the past five years. In addition to his public sculpture work, he creates unique freestanding sculptures, furniture pieces, lamps and wall sculptures. He is represented by many of the same galleries as LuAnn. Collectively they have art hanging in private and corporate collections from New York to Los Angeles. and as far away as Australia, Sweden and Japan. The Bellevue Festival of the Arts is at the Cost Plus World Market just north of Bellevue Square, in the heart of the city. The festival supports a variety of nonprofits. Celebrating its 32nd year in 2016, the festival will LuAnn in her studio feature 200 of the most talented and popular artisans and craftspeople from the Northwest and beyond. Friday and Saturday hours at the show are 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., and on Sunday it’s open from 10 to 6. You can visit the artists online at www.LuAnnOstergaard.com and www.RastovichArt.com.. PAGE 32 • July 2016 • The Entertainer Why do I have tennis elbow if I don’t play tennis? Y By Clair Hara, OTR/L educating you on how to prevent future episodes. ou start having pain at your elbow when you grip or type, so you do a little research to figure out why. The term “tennis elbow” comes up in your search, but you don’t play tennis. “Tennis elbow” is the common term for inflammation of the tendon at the outer side of the tendon. It can happen for several reasons, not just playing tennis. Why choose a hand therapist for your elbow pain? Symptoms Typically, there is pain at the outside of the elbow, near or on the boney prominence. There is also pain with gripping. There are so many structures all together in the small space of the elbow that, when the tendons are inflamed, other structures can be the injured area. affected too. So there can be numbSo, for an elbow, you might try using ness, tingling and clumsiness when ice, wearing a wrist-support brace to using the hand. prevent the use of the tendons that attach at the painful site, and doing Home care gentle stretches of the area. Whenever you have a problem with joints and muscles you should: When to seek more help. Do things to make it feel better. There can be several reasons for the Do things to reduce strain. Do exercises specifically to heal pain at the elbow. The causes range from overuse to signals from the nerves at the neck, affecting the elbow. If you try simple interventions and you don’t feel better, it’s a good idea to ask for advice. A doctor can diagnosis the problem, which is very important to getting proper treatment. But hand therapy specialists not only help you eliminate pain, but are the most thorough in Recently, a person came to Therapy Solutions to get some advice about elbow pain. A surgery was already scheduled, but a friend had suggested one more opinion. The end result of therapy was no need for surgery. That isn’t always the case, but it is an example of the potential for conservative care. And, let’s face it, any time you can avoid surgery, it’s a good idea. A hand therapist will combine manual therapies, modalities, education and exercise to help you out of pain and back into life. Clair Hara is an occupational therapist who provides hand therapy and upper extremity lymphedema management at Therapy Solutions in Richland. She provides compassionate and knowledgeable care, one-on-one, to help you achieve the outcome you deserve. The Entertainer • July 2016 • PAGE 33 PAGE 34 • July 2016 • The Entertainer WSU old-timer recalls the 1955 ‘Refrigerator Bowl’ I coldest Nov. 12 in the 75 years of weather-bureau history. The wind chill was well below zero. The band’s woodwind section was told to stay home, and the instruments in the brass section froze before halftime. One unfortunate trumpet player, celebrating a Washington State score, had his lips stuck on his mouthpiece when he attempted to play. Coffee in the press box quickly turned to ice. A dial on the telephone stuck, and a heater had to be used to keep the machine that was keeping the game statistics functioning. Seated in the 22,000-seat stadium were approximately 1,000 frozen students and 400 customers who had paid in advance. And with them was one — only one — fan who paid at Back in Pullman on a much sunnier game day, WSU the gate. alumnus George Forbes recalled the “Refrigerator Bowl.”. The one individual t was Nov. 12, 1955, when the WSU Cougars played San Jose State at Rogers Field in a game that became known as the “Refrigerator Bowl.” Cougar Athletic Fund member George Forbes was there that historic day more than 60 years ago. “I remember being cold,” Forbes said. “It was bone-chilling cold.” The temperature at kickoff was a brisk 5 degrees Fahrenheit. It was the In this 1955 photo, courtesy of Washington State Athletics, frost covers the turf and few fans are in the stands as the Washington State Cougars battle San Jose State to a 13-13 tie in what became known as “the Refrigerator Bowl.” The temperature was 5 degrees, but the wind-chill factor made it feel well below zero. who purchased a grandstand ticket quickly become legend and was sought by Washington State staff members and the media. With every newspaper account of the game was the story of that one brave fan who was willing to pay to endure the bonechilling cold. The Spokesman-Review in Spokane learned that the individual was Charles Moore of Harrington, Wash. Upon learning this, ticket manager Robert Smawley wrote a letter to Moore offering to refund his ticket price in person. The next January, Moore received his refund during a ceremony at a basketball game. And the game, which became known as the Refrigerator Bowl? It finished in a 13-13 tie with San Jose State. Former WSU quarterbacks Drew Bledsoe and Jason Gesser. Former WSU athletes gathered for ‘Cougar Legends’ event in June The greats of Washington State University athletics gathered at the Suncadia Resort near Cle Elum last month for Drew Bledsoe’s Cougar Legends event, a fundraiser for the Cougar Athletic Fund. An evening dinner was followed by an auction to choose teams for the next day’s golf tournament. In the live auction, a bidding war ensued for women’s golf great and WSU Athletics Hall of Fame member Kim Welch. “Guys want to come back and reconnect, and this is one of those events where they can accomplish this, but they reconnect for a purpose,” said Jason Gesser, Cougar legend and Athletic Fund assistant director. In addition to Gesser, the 2016 Cougar Legends roster for the event included: Drew Bledsoe, Paul Sorensen, Jack Thompson, Marcus Trufant, Jason Hanson, Mike Utley, Sarah Silvernail, Tony Graziani, Bill Doba, Rian Lindell, Kim Welch, Tom Niedenfuer, Rien Long, Honorary Legend: Fred McGriff, Alex Brink, Clete Casper, Allan Kennedy, Devard Darling, Mkristo Bruce, Matt Kegel, Dustin White, Steve Broussard, Mark Hendrickson, Kelli Kamimura, Emma Betland, Torey Hunter, Jay Miller, Drew Dunning, Mike Leach, Courtney Harvey and Kalae Chock. The Cougar Athletic Fund is committed to covering the annual cost of student-athlete scholarships for young men and women through private philanthropic support. The Entertainer • July 2016 • PAGE 35 Who in MLB is really the all-time pro ‘hit king’? C By ‘Philly’ Robb Francis ongratulations, Ichiro Suzuki, for your 2,983rd major-league hit and your 4,261st “professional” hit. Nice work — you are one of the greatest hitters to ever pick up a baseball bat. But you aren’t the all-time hit king. That is still Pete Rose, on so many levels. Ichiro, after playing nine years of professional baseball in Japan, saw his rights handed to — I mean, purchased — by the Seattle Mariners for the 2001 season. Controversy followed him from the beginning. There were questions as to whether he could hit major-league pitching. I was, and still am, of the firm belief that if you can hit a baseball, you can hit a baseball. Good hitters get by, and great hitters make the necessary adjustments. Near the 2001 All-Star break, it was pitchers having to make adjustments, but not Ichiro. He would finish the season with 242 hits. It would be the first of 10 straight seasons with 200 or more hits, the same number Pete Rose had over his career. One controversy was settled — Ichiro’s ability to adapt to big-league pitchers — but another controversy was already brewing. Going into 2001, only one player had ever won Rookie of the Year and Most Valuable Player in the same season. It was Fred Lynn with the Boston Red Sox in 1975. Lynn was 23 years old in his rookie year and had a total of 337 “professional” games in his minorleague and major-league careers when he won both awards. Keep the word “professional” in the back of your mind, because the explanation for the quotation marks is coming up. The rising tide of arguments against Ichiro winning both awards was that he technically wasn’t a rookie in the traditional sense. He was 27 and played nine years in Japan with 951 “professional” games already played. The proponents of Ichiro’s eligibility to win Rookie of the Year (he was a shooin for MVP) claimed that his prior experience was in Japan, not in American major-league baseball. It is a different league, a different quality of play, and they argued that it should not be a factor in his eligibility to win that you get paid to play (no NCAA jokes please). The Tri-City Americans are considered professional players in the United States because they get paid. The same goes for Tri-Cities Fever and Tri-City Dust Devils players. Yes, the minor-league Dust Devils are considered a professional baseball team and their statistics would be included in any calculation of professional statistics. That is why you hear all MLB stats referred to as such, to distinguish them from the rest of professional baseball. Japanese baseball is on a par with the minor leagues, so if you include one you must include both. Pete Rose had 427 hits in the minors. That would mean his professional hit total is 4,683. That puts him 422 “professional” hits ahead of Ichiro at this time, a number Ichiro will never catch at this stage in his career, as he has played in only 60 Ichiro Suzuki (left) and Pete Rose: How do their “professional” hits compare? games thus far this season and is approaching his 43rd birthday. Rookie of the Year. That argument won career that already was Hall of Fame Once the numbers began to circuworthy. He will be the second Mariners late, that four-letter “entertainment” out, and Ichiro became the second player in major-league history to claim player to earn a plaque in Cooperstown network went silent on Ichiro being the and the first of Japanese birth to be both awards. all-time hit king, as math can really be enshrined in the Hall of Fame. But he That argument will come back into a pain — especially when you only play shortly. will not go in as the “professional” hit know how to do “new” math and not king, as some have claimed. good old-fashioned math that actually The four-letter cable network was the adds up correctly. Pete Rose main perpetrator of this ruse, as they During Ichiro’s career, Pete Rose Ichiro’s accomplishment is amazing, continued to lobby — as did many on seem to be more like TMZ than a and he is an amazing hitter, but you sports network anymore. In their his behalf — for his reinstatement to can’t make someone, no matter how ignorance of what the word “profesbaseball, mainly so he would be good he is, into something he is not. In sional” encompasses, they held the eligible for the baseball Hall of Fame. this case you can’t forget one man’s largest bromance in sports history with professional statistics to frame the Rose wrote a book in which he finally Ichiro for what seemed like an eternity. argument the way you want. That is admitted he bet on baseball after Intelligent sports fans then spoke up denying since 1989 that he had done simply being disingenuous. so. After that admission, quite of bit of and introduced some facts to “TMZN” Pete Rose will remain the all-time support for his reinstatement vanished. and the other bandwagon media that “professional” hit king, quite possibly tried to sweep Rose and his accomNo one was really keeping track of forever. Rose will never see the Hall of plishment under the rug. Ichiro’s hit totals. Most thought it Fame in his lifetime, but this is one would be possible for him to reach honor he earned, and a bunch of selfWho’s ‘professional’? 3,000 hits if he was able to maintain righteous hacks have no business his torrid pace of 200-plus hits per “Professional” sports are any sports trying to take it away. season. He wouldn’t maintain that pace, however, and he would move on from a fractured Mariners team when he was traded to the Yankees in 2012. He signed as a free agent with the Miami Marlins in 2015 as his quest to reach 3,000 hits continued. As of this Pasco will sponsor ‘community campout’ writing, he has 2,983 major-league Pasco Recreation Services is planning a “community campout” on Aug. 12 hits, just 17 short of 3,000. He should and 13 at Chiawana Park in west Pasco. It’s intended to be an easy camping get there. It will be the icing on top of a experience for families, with group activities on Friday evening beginning at 4 p.m. and breakfast on Saturday morning. Campsites are $25 for Pasco residents and $30 for nonresidents. That includes breakfast, prepared and served by Jiggy’s and sponsored by Fiesta Foods. The Pasco Community Campout is the only time each year that camping is allowed in Chiawana Park, so come and enjoy a great evening and morning together. Contact Pasco Recreation Services at (509) 545-3456 or [email protected] IN BRIEF HAPO will sponsor Pasco’s ‘Grand Old 4th of July’ The “Grand Old 4th of July” celebration in Pasco will feature the MidColumbia’s largest Independence Day parade, plus fireworks and much more. A Kiwanis pancake breakfast will be begin at 7 a.m. in Memorial Park, and a fun run to benefit Camp Patriot will be held at 8 at the Pasco Sporting Complex. A pre-parade kids’ street dance begins at 9:15 in Memorial Park, where the Grand Old 4th Parade originates at 10. At noon, the “Cardboard Regatta” will be held in Memorial Pool, and the fireworks will be set off in Gesa Stadium at dark (gates open at 8:30 p.m.).For information and parade entries visit pasco-wa.gov. All-day ‘River of Fire’ celebrates July 4 holiday The 30th annual July 4 River of Fire in Columbia Park in Kennewick, sponsored by Hapo Community Credit Union, will feature a kids’ area, food, various vendors and live music by R&B band 7 Wheel Drive, the country and pop band Groove Principal and the national pop-rock sensation Night Argent. If you don’t want to cool off in the water, you can spend some time int he cooling tent provided by A-One Refrigeration, Heating and Cooling. The climax of the day’s festivities is the spectacular fireworks show just after dark. The cost for all day is just $8 per carload. PAGE 36 • July 2016 • The Entertainer Summertime is for poetry, song and gardening! A By Micki Perry s I sit down to write this column, I keep thinking of the words to the Scottish folk standard, “Wild Mountain Thyme”, which honor the season, and the words and the garden images they evoke are still running through my mind: “Oh the summertime is coming and the trees are sweetly blooming, And the wild mountain thyme grows around the purple heather. Will you go, lassie, go?” The song goes on to describe plucking thyme around the blooming heather, building a bower by “yon clear crystal fountain,” piling on all the flowers of the mountain, and finally building a shelter on a high mountain green. I can’t stop thinking about all these images, and the gardener in me responds with ideas for improving my own garden. I really do need to plant more herbs, and thyme also makes a wonderful fragrant ground cover. Heather can also be a beautiful, colorful ground cover, and would look wonderful in a little rock garden full of small alpines (flowers of the mountain). That “clear crystal fountain” sounds like a nice water feature, and every garden needs a bower. Alhough mine already has several, I am trying to figure out where to put another one I just purchased because it was on sale and unusual. In our blazing summertime weather, more cooling shelter and shade is always welcome, and a bower would be a good support for my climbing roses which are currently climbing up my redbud tree. All these ideas, inspired by a simple song, could result in a big “to do” list, A bower can provide a shady place to sit and read those gardening books.. which the gardener in me gets excited about because it would lead to improving the garden and bringing it into conformity with my vision of what the garden could be. Then, thankfully, the practical nonconformist in me kicks in and puts the brakes on these visions of perfection. I have to remind myself that the garden is there to be enjoyed, and everything I can imagine doesn’t have to be done at once. I have neither the time nor the money to fulfill all my garden dreams immediately, but that doesn’t stop me from dreaming and planning. One thing I have learned after years of gardening is that it involves a balance of vision, planning for the future and tending to the business at hand — which right now means mowing the lawn, mulching my flower beds and planting my most recent garden purchases. As I work, though, my mind is thinking about future purchases — maybe some heather and a little pink creeping thyme and some alpines. Another part of my mind is dreaming of relaxing under my garden bower and rereading my favorite vintage gardening book. I’ll close with a quote from that book mentioned, The Country Garden by Josephine Nuese, a woman who knew all about the balance of work and leisure. Since many of my July articles have had the reoccurring theme of staying cool and taking it easy during the heat of the summer months, I have often included this quote because it sums up what our approach to gardening in hot weather should be: “To my way of thinking, most of your July and August gardening should be done in a cool shade with your feet up, a cold glass at your elbow, and a stack of garden books, magazines and catalogues within easy reach. Don’t deny yourself these long lazy afternoons when, free from any compulsion to scurry around and do things, you can relish the fruits of earlier labors. The whole idea of a garden is that you can enjoy it. And part of this enjoyment lies in the planning for further enjoyment, the consideration of new ideas for improvement.” She goes on to write that planning is “not doing nothing, it’s the most important part of any garden operation.” Woody Guthrie said it this way: “Take it easy, but take it!” Happy summer! Keep on dreaming! Micki Perry produces concerts and is music coordinator of the Tumbleweed Music Festival for Three Rivers Folklife Society. She has been a gardener all her life and a Master Gardener since 1997, though she is now retired. WSU study clears way for new approaches to plant disease A Washington State University biologist has found what he calls “very strong support” for an 86-year-old hypothesis about how nutrients move through plants. His two-decade analysis of the phenomenon has resulted in a suite of techniques that can ultimately be used to fight plant diseases. Some 90 percent of the plant food we consume at one time went through a plant’s phloem, the vascular system that carries sugars and other nutrients from leaves, where they are produced by photosynthesis, to roots and fruits. But scientists know so little about how this works, said Michael Knoblauch, professor in the WSU School of Biological Sciences, that they’re like cardiologists who haven’t learned about the heart. “If you have a little-supported hypothesis that is central to plant function, it’s a problem,” he said. “For example, take plant-insect interactions. Aphids feed on the system. If we don’t understand how the system works in detail, we cannot find new strategies to kill aphids. Plant viruses also move through the system.” The fundamental principle of phloem Photo by Robert Hubner Michael Knoblauch tends a morning glory plant he grew on the WSU Pullmand campus to study plants’ vascular systems, or phloems. transport was published by Ernst Münch in 1930. While his hypothesis is intuitive and elegant, it does not appear to account for the extreme pressure needed to move fluid in something as large as a tree. Münch left that to others to figure out. “He came up with the hypothesis because he knew how solute-driven flow could work,” said Knoblauch. “But he was not into measuring all these things or finding evidence for his hypothesis.” To make his finding, published in the journal eLife, Knoblauch spent more than 20 years devising ways to look inside a living plant without disrupting the processes he was trying to measure and describe. “It’s super-tough to work with this tissue,” he said. “It’s a technical question. It’s really difficult to access it and this has always fascinated me.” He measured flow velocities with fluorescent dies and radioactive isotopes. With his son Jan, a second author on the paper and a WSU sophomore, he developed a “picogauge” that could measure extremely sensitive phloem pressures. He looked at tomatoes, fava beans, kelp off the British Columbia coast and a red oak in the Harvard Forest in central Massachusetts. With various microscopes (he directs WSU’s Franceschi Microscopy and Imaging Center) he measured the circumferences of not only plant stems but the ciabatta-like holes of sieve plates that separate elongated cells in the phloem tissue. The cell geometries were particularly critical, as an order-of-magnitude change in the diameter of a tube or hole creates a four-order change in the volume delivered to the roots or fruits. For his eLife studies, he made roughly 100,000 measurements in each of three morning glory plants he grew alongside WSU’s five-story Abelson Hall. In addition to building the evidence for a long-held hypothesis, Knoblauch hopes his work will result in new ways to protect plants. It might also lead to ways of making the energy in biofuels easier to concentrate and access: “If we can tell the phloem, ‘OK, store it here, where we can easily harvest it,’ it will be a big step forward,” he said. Knoblauch’s WSU co-authors include post-doctoral researcher Daniel Mullendore and doctoral student Sierra Beecher. Other co-authors are Jessica Savage and Michele Holbrook of Harvard University, Benjamin Babst of Brookhaven National Laboratory, Kaare Jensen of the Technical University of Denmark and undergraduate lab tech Adam Dodgen. Funding came from the National Science Foundation, a Harvard Bullard Fellowship, the Carlsberg Foundation, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Department of Energy. The Entertainer • July 2016 • PAGE 37 HOROSCOPES HOLIDAY MATHIS ARIES (March 21-April 19). This is a time to do things old-school. Ancient and traditional remedies will work to heal whatever ails you, whether it is physical, emotional or spiritual. Likely it’s a little of all three. Here’s an oldfashioned idea: Walk beside a friend and share what’s on your mind and in your heart. TAURUS (April 20-May 20). Travel will grow your mind and spirit in a way that can’t be duplicated through any other experience. You feel drawn to see a place. If you go there and totally immerse yourself in it, you’ll quickly get what you need. Arrange it. This is doable. The financial part will work out once you dedicate yourself. GEMINI (May 21-June 21). There are two kinds of problems: “yours” and “theirs.” You’re really good at differentiating the two, but much depends on what you do with the information. If you ignore your own determination you could quickly turn a “their” problem into a “your” problem. If you take it on, just be clear about your reasons. CANCER (June 22-July 22). You’ll be tempted by beautiful, potential-filled and completely unnecessary items. This is a hoarder’s dream, but you’re no hoarder. You don’t want your life to get cluttered with junk, not even good junk — because it could keep you from pursuing meaningful goals. Getting clear on those goals will save you money. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Bottom line, if you’re not being stimulated enough you will lose momentum, joy, a sense of purpose and energy in general. That’s why you need the juicy challenges — the new places, the people who make you think and laugh and try, the goals that make you feel small, but also determined and able. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). Compassion is more than sympathy, pity and concern. It’s a love that goes deeper than that, resonating with the very core of your humanity, making you feel connected to all things and therefore simultaneously bigger and more vulnerable. Your compassion will be the power that obliterates fear and elevates your existence. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). Taking care of loved ones can feel like an honor and a privilege, especially when they seem to appreciate it. Then there are those trying times when they take you for granted. It happens, but don’t let it go on for long. Distance yourself a bit, and let them feel the void that creates. You’ll be doing you both a favor. SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). Maybe the truth does hurt. But after that, it can go a lot of different directions: liberty, humor and healing, to name a few. Maybe not today, and maybe not tomorrow, but as time goes on you’ll have less resistance to (and derive more benefit from) telling it like it is and hearing it that way, too. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). If you’re always comfortable inside the cage, it’s not a cage; it’s a nest. Uncomfortable moments will show you the boundaries, some of them more fixed than you thought. Your own independence day may not be July 4th, but it’s the start of your own personal revolution. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). Getting more joy and laughter in your life is a matter of placing yourself in the direct influence of funny people, entertainment and happy environments and then maintaining the open and free perspective that allows for maximum mirth. The efforts you make in this regard will enrich your life. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). If you doubt yourself and then someone else doubts you, it will be easy to conclude that you’re both right. But two doubts don’t make it so. Also, you don’t have to wait until you know your answers are correct to believe in yourself. Believe in your ability to figure it all out. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). Take care of practical matters first. Once the logistics of a situation are solved, the other components (most notably, the emotional and motivational) will fall into place. It will be easier to feel good about what’s happening when everyone isn’t worried about getting from here to there in a comfortable and timely manner. PAGE 38 • July 2016 • The Entertainer MUSIC & NIGHTLIFE CONCERTS, CONT. 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Soul/Funk from Reno, Emerald of Siam (509-946-9328), Richland ............. 10 Geeks Who Drink - Pub Trivia, Emerald of Siam (509-946-9328), Richland ............................ 8 Steve Carver - Jazz Piano, Emerald of Siam (509-946-9328), Richland .................................. 5 Ballroom Dancing, Easy Swing Dance Band, Community Center (509-946-5385), Richland 1 Black Rose Concept Band, Jokers Night Club (509-943-1173), Richland ............................ 9:30 Snug Harbor - Soul/Funk from Bellingham, Emerald of Siam (509-946-9328), Richland ......... 9 Blu Meadows - Afro-Cuban/Funk/Reggae, Emerald of Siam (509-946-9328), Richland ......... 9 Weekly Live music & jam w/ Mondo Ray, Longbranch Bar & Grill (509-205-4767), Finley .. 5 Don t Panic - Art and More, Emerald of Siam (509-946-9328), Richland ................................... 6 Jam night with Vaughn Jensen, Emerald of Siam (509-946-9328), Richland ............................ 8 Grant Sabin - Blues/Roots/Soul from CO, Emerald of Siam (509-946-9328), Richland ........... 8 Ink, Paint & Game Club, Emerald of Siam (509-946-9328), Richland ........................................ 8 Mary Lou & Stevie Show - Retro-Pop, Emerald of Siam (509-946-9328), Richland ............... 6 Dancing Plague of 1518 w/Technological Taxidermy, Emerald (509-946-9328), Richland ... 10 Geeks Who Drink - Pub Trivia, Emerald of Siam (509-946-9328), Richland ............................ 8 Steve Carver - Jazz Piano, Emerald of Siam (509-946-9328), Richland .................................. 5 Stompin Ground, Jokers Night Club (509-943-1173), Richland ............................................. 9:30 Jami Cooper - Singer/Songwriter, Emerald of Siam (509-946-9328), Richland ........................ 5 Ink, Paint & Game Club, Emerald of Siam (509-946-9328), Richland ........................................ 8 If Birds Could Fly - Folk/Americana from VA, Emerald of Siam (509-946-9328), Richland ..... 9 Mondo Ray & friends Live music & open mic jam, Longbranch (509-205-4767), Finley ....... 5 Jam night with Vaughn Jensen, Emerald of Siam (509-946-9328), Richland ............................ 8 Amber & Amber Show - Karaoke & More, Emerald of Siam (509-946-9328), Richland .......... 9 Mary Lou & Stevie Show - Retro-Pop, Emerald of Siam (509-946-9328), Richland ............... 6 Geeks Who Drink - Pub Trivia, Emerald of Siam (509-946-9328), Richland ............................ 8 Steve Carver - Jazz Piano, Emerald of Siam (509-946-9328), Richland .................................. 5 3rd Half w/The Drag - Americana/Blues/Rock, Emerald of Siam (509-946-9328), Richland .. 9 Three Rivers Saxtette - Saxophone Quartet, Emerald of Siam (509-946-9328), Richland ..... 5 Wabi Sabi - Jazz Fusion, Emerald of Siam (509-946-9328), Richland ...................................... 9 Live music & open mic jam, Longbranch Bar (509-205-4767), Finley ...................................... 5 The Shades (Dance), WineNotes Wine Bar/Chicken Shack (509-967-1807), West Richland . 7 The Shades, ‘Date Night at the Pointe’, Port of Pasco Osprey Pointe (509-546-3370), Pasco 7 The Shades & Colorblind ‘End of Summer Bash’, Clover Island (509-586-0541), Kennewick 6 Dance, WineNotes Wine Bar/Chicken Shack (509-967-1807), West Richland ......................... 7 pm pm pm pm pm pm pm pm pm pm pm pm pm pm pm pm pm pm pm pm pm pm pm pm pm pm pm pm pm pm pm pm pm pm pm pm pm pm pm pm pm pm pm pm pm pm pm pm pm pm pm pm pm pm pm pm pm pm pm pm pm CONCERTS TRI-CITIES & SURROUNDING AREAS Jul Jul Jul Jul Jul Jul Jul Jul Jul Jul Jul Jul Jul Jul Jul 2 4 4 4 6 6 9 10 13 15 15 15 16 16 16 133rd Army Band - Free, Gesa Power House Theatre (509-529-6500), Walla Walla .............. 6 QuarterFlash/Martin Gerschwitz, Ione Amphitheater (541-422-7243), Ione, OR ....................... 4 Faith & Bobby:Hermiston 4th of July, Flat Top Park (541-425-5555), Hermiston ...................... 4 The Shades:Hermiston 4th of July , Flat Top Park (541-425-5555), Hermiston ........................ 6 Abbey Road -’Thunder on the Island’, Clover Island Inn (509-586-0541), Kennewick ............ 6 Abby Road - ‘Thunder on the Island’ , Clover Island Inn (509-586-0541), Kennewick ............ 6 Badlandz Outdoor Concert , Rattlesnake Mtn Harley-Davidson (509-551-8861) Kennewick 12 KISS, Toyota Center (ticketmaster.com), Kennewick ............................................................. 7:30 Stompin Ground - ‘Thunder on the Island’, Clover Island Inn (509-586-0541), Kennewick ..... 6 David Luning (Americana/Folk/Rock), Power House Theatre (509-529-6500), Walla Walla . 7 Basin Summer Sounds Free Music Festival , (509-754-4636), Ephrata ................................... 5 Basin Summer Sounds Free Festival, Grant Co. Courthouse (509-754-4656), Ephrata ......... 5 Basin Summer Sounds Free Music Festival, (509-754-4656), Ephrata .................................. 11 Zac Brown Band, Round-Up Stadium (pendletonroundup.com), Pendleton .............................. 5 Norway’s Martine Kraft, Hapo Community Stage (martinekraft.com), Richland ....................... 7 pm pm pm pm pm pm pm pm pm pm pm pm am pm pm Jul 18 Stu Hamm Rock Experience, Roxy Bar (509-491-1870), Kennewick ................................................................... 8 pm Jul 20 Jul 27 Jul 29- 31 Aug 3 Aug 10 Aug 12- 13 Aug 17 Aug 19 Aug 20 Aug 20 Soundwall - ‘Thunder on the Island’, Clover Island Inn (509-586-0541), Kennewick ............... 6 Junkyard Jane - ‘Thunder on the Island’ , Clover Island Inn (509-586-0541), Kennewick ..... 6 Jazz in the Valley, Main Stage: 4th & Pearl & 10 venues (509-929-1291), Ellensburg Fallout - ‘Thunder on the Island’, Clover Island Inn (509-586-0541), Kennewick ..................... 6 3rd Date- ‘Thunder on the Island’, Clover Island Inn (509-586-0541), Kennewick .................... 6 Bronze Blues & Brews, Joseph City Park (bronzebluesbrews.com), Joseph, OR ......... 11:30 Wasteland Kings - ‘Thunder on the Island’ , Clover Island Inn (509-586-0541), Kennewick ... 6 The Buckinghams, Columbia Crest Winery (columbiacrest.com), Paterson ............................ 7 Crystal Gayle, Columbia Crest Winery (columbiacrest.com), Paterson ................................... 7 Jeff Beck & Buddy Guy, Maryhill Winery Amphitheater (maryhillwinery.com), Goldendale ... 7 pm pm pm pm am pm pm pm pm Sep 2- 4 Sep 3 Sep 3 Sep 17 Oct 1 Tumbleweed Music Festival, Howard Amon Park (tumbleweedfest.com), Richland Chris Isaak, Maryhill Winery Amphitheater (maryhillwinery.com), Goldendale ....................... 7 Sawyer Brown, Outdoors, Clover Island (cloverislandinn.com), Kennewick .......................... 5 Seattle Rock Orchestra Performs Pink Floyd, Power House (509-529-6500), Walla Walla .... 7 Casting Crowns, Toyota Center (ticketmaster.com), Kennewick .............................................. 7 pm pm pm pm PERFORMING ARTS TRI-CITIES & SURROUNDING AREAS Jul 1- 3 Jul 14- 16 Jul 19 Jul 21- 23 Aug 4- 6 Sep 8 Sep 30 Nov 5 MCMT ‘Annie Get Your Gun’, Reach Museum, outdoors (509-539-8693), Richland .......... 7:30 pm ‘Fiddler on the Roof’, CBC Theatre (509-542-5531), Pasco ................................................... 7:30 pm New Old Time Chautauqua Parade, Workshops, Vaudeville (509-382-4825), Dayton ...... 12 Noon ‘Fiddler on the Roof’, CBC Theatre (509-542-5531), Pasco ................................................... 7:30 pm ‘Musical of Musicals (The Musical)’ - Dinner Theatre, CBC (509-542-5531), Pasco ........ 5:30 pm Shanghai Acrobats of China, Capitol Theatre (509-853-ARTS), Yakima Adam Trent - Magician, Gesa Power House Theatre (509-529-6500), Walla Walla ................. 7 pm ‘Once’, Capitol Theatre (509-853-ARTS), Yakima COMEDY TRI-CITIES & SURROUNDING AREAS Jul 7- 9 Jul 14- 16 Jul 21- 23 Jul 27 Jul 28- 30 Oct 14 Steven Briggs, Jokers Comedy Club (509-943-1173), Richland ................................................ 8 Nick Guerra, Jokers Comedy Club (509-943-1173), Richland ................................................... 8 Lance Woods, Jokers Comedy Club (509-943-1173), Richland ................................................ 8 Dan Cummins, Jokers Comedy Club (509-943-1173), Richland ............................................... 8 Keith Nelson, Jokers Comedy Club (509-943-1173), Richland .................................................. 8 ‘The Complete History of America Abridged’, Capitol Theatre (509-853-ARTS), Yakima pm pm pm pm pm SPECIAL EVENTS TRI-CITIES & SURROUNDING AREAS Jul 1 Summer Picnic, Senior Center, 720 Sprague (509-527-3775), Walla Walla ............................ 11 am Jul 1- 2 Toppenish Rodeo, Toppenish Rodeo Grounds - 600 S. Division (509-864-5566) ............... 7:30 pm Jul 1- 2 Blueberry Festival, Bill’s Berry Farm (509-882-3200), Grandview ........................................... 9 am Jul 1- 3 Wildhorse Pow Wow, Wildhorse Resort (800-654-9453), Pendleton .......................................... 7 pm Jul 2 ‘Beep’Baseball, Gesa Stadium (509-735-0699), Pasco .......................................................... 6:15 pm Jul 4 Hapo Grand Ole 4th, Memorial Park (pasco-wa.gov), Pasco ............................................................. Jul 4 River of Fire, Columbia Park (Townsquare Media), Kennewick ......................................................... Jul 5 Beer & Seafood Dinner, Wingman Birdz + Brewz (509-529-2199), Walla Walla ....................... 6 pm Jul 6- 9 Elgin Stampede, Rodeo Arena (541-963-8588), Elgin, OR Jul 8- 9 ‘Cool Rides’ Car Show, McKenzie Park (541-567-6151), Hermiston ........................................ 9 am Jul 8- 9 Brews by the Blues, Junior Show Grounds, Hwy 11 (541-938-5563), Milton-Freewater ....... 1 pm Jul 9 Outdoor Concert, Rattlesnake Mountain Harley. 19th & 395 (509-551-8861), Kennewick . 12 Noon Jul 9 WAAAM Traffic Jam, Car Show & Swap Meet , (541-308-1600), Hood River, OR ............... 8 am Jul 9 Worship & prayer with Brandon Bee, Calvary Chapel (509-736-2086), Kennewick .............. 7 pm Jul 9 Community Days & Car Show, Downtown (509-539-2557), Goldendale Jul 9, 10 Athena Caledonian Games, City Park (541-566-3880), Athena, OR ......................................... 8 am Jul 11 Second Saturday at WAAAM, Air & Auto Museum (541-308-1600), Hood River, OR ............. 9 am Jul 15 Gay Skate with Atomic City Roller Girls, Rollarena (509-531-5918), Richland ................... 3:30 pm Jul 15- 16 La Grande ‘Crazy Days’, (541-963-8588), La Grande, OR Jul 16 Foodstock, Blue Mountain Station Food Park (509-382-2577), Dayton .................................... 11 am Jul 16 Spin-In - Summer Fiber Arts Festi, Sage Bluff Alpacas, (509-786-4507), Prosser ................ 11 am Jul 16 Prosser Art Walk & Wine Gala, Downtown (509-786-3177), Prosser ........................................ 6 pm Jul 16 Basin Summer Sounds Car & Toy Show and Shine, Basin St. (509-750-6183), Ephrata ....... 8 am Jul 23- 29 Walla Walla Dance Festival, Various venues (509-240-3428), Walla Walla Jul 27 Poetry Slam, Storytelling, Open Mic, Emerald of Siam (330-705-5966), Richland ............. 7:30 pm Jul 29 Buffalo Wing-Eating Contest, Wingman Birdz + Brewz (509-529-2199), Walla Walla ............... 6 pm Jul 29- 30 Art in the Park, Howard Amon Park (galleryatthepark.org), Richland ........................................ 9 am Jul 29, 30, 31 Water Follies Columbia Cup, Columbia Park (waterfollies.com), Kennewick Jul 30 Irrigon Watermelon Festival, Marina Park (541-571-8541), Irrigon, OR ................................... 11 am Jul 30 Hunt and Gather Vintage in the Park, John Dam Plaza (509-430-2151), Richland ................... 9 am Aug 3- 6 Union County Fair, Fairgrounds (541-963-8588), La Grande, OR Aug 4- 6 Creation Fest NW, Benton Co. Fairgrounds (creationfest.com), Kennewick Aug 9- 13 Uamtilla County Fair, Fairgrounds (umatillacounty.net), Hermiston Aug 13 Second Saturday at WAAAM, Air & Auto Museum (541-308-1600), Hood River, OR ............. 9 am Aug 13 Crime Stoppers Drink Wine & Solve a Crime, Southridge Complex (509-582-1351), Kenn. 10 am Aug 17- 20 Morrow County Fair, Fairgrounds (541-676-9474), Heppner, OR ............................................. 8 am Aug 19- 21 Milton-Freewater Rocks Festival, Yantis Park, DeHaven St. (541-938-5563) .................... 12 Noon Aug 21 Ice Cream Social, Fort Walla Walla Museum (509-525-7703), Walla Walla ............................ 10 am Sep 2- 4 Tumbleweed Music Festival, Howard Amon Park (tumbleweedfest.com), Richland Sep 9- 10 Wheelin’ Walla Walla, Downtown (509-529-8755), Walla Walla .................................................. 9 am Sep 10- 11 Annual Hood River Fly-In, 600 Air Museum Road (541-308-1600), Hood River, OR ............. 8 am Sep 17 Model A Day at WAAAM, Air & Auto Museum (541-308-1600), Hood River, OR .................. 10 am Oct 2 PNW Mustang Club Concours d’Elegance , Columbia Crest (509-591-9285), Paterson ......... 9 am Oct 8 Second Saturday at WAAAM, Air & Auto Museum (541-308-1600), Hood River, OR ............. 9 am Oct 8 ‘Dancing with the W2 Stars’ Fundraiser,Power House Theatre (509-529-6500), Walla Walla . 7 pm Nov 12 Second Saturday at WAAAM, Air & Auto Museum (541-308-1600), Hood River, OR ............. 9 am Dec 10 Second Saturday at WAAAM, Air & Auto Museum (541-308-1600), Hood River, OR ............. 9 am ‘Calendar of Events’ continues on Page 39 The Entertainer • July 2016 • PAGE 39 ‘Calendar of Events’ Celebrate the creation with Pastor Harry Thomas Continues from Page 38 CLASSES AND ACTIVITIES TRI-CITIES & SURROUNDING AREAS Jul 14 Jul 19 Jul 23 Jul 24 Aug 11 Aug 18 Planning & Planting Fall Crops, Demonstration Garden, (509-735-3551), Kennewick ........ 6:30 Pioneer Kids Camp, Fort Walla Walla Museum (509-525-7703), Walla Walla ...................... 8:30 Waltz Workshop, Pasco Eagles (509-586-7609), Pasco ........................................................... 10 Wine & Watercolors - ‘Peacock Feather’, Holy Mac and Deli (509-430-8633), Kennewick ..... 1 Terrarium Class For Families, Demonstration Gardent (509-735-3551), Kennewick .......... 6:30 Brews and Brushes Winter Forest Sunset, Paper Street Alehouse (509-430-8633), Richland 6 pm am am pm pm pm SPORTS TRI-CITIES & SURROUNDING AREAS Jul 21- 25 Jul 23 Jul 26- 31 Jul 30 Aug 1- 5 Aug 19- 20 Showdown at the Loops, Maryhill Loops Road (experiencegoldendale.com), Goldendale Swing for Life Golf Tournament for Pregnancy Network, Canyon Lakes (509-491-1101) Chief Joseph Days Rodeo, Harley Tucker Memorial Arena (541-432-1015), Joseph, OR .... 7 Hardhat Classic Golf Tournament, Palouse Ridge (hardhatclassic.wsu.edu), Pullman ........... 7 Soccer Camp, Reata Springs Baptist Church, 2881 Leslie (509-308-6657), Richland ............ 6 Oregon Trail Pro Rodeo, (541-676-9474), Heppner, OR ............................................................. 7 pm am pm pm B By Pastor Harry Thomas ack in 1972, my wife Margery and I started Come Alive Ministries with a burden to reach youth with the new music that largely came out of the Jesus Movement. God gave me a vision in prayer of thousands of youth on a hillside. I did not know what that meant, but I interpreted it to mean mass media. We left the pastorate and launched the Come Alive Show and evangelistic efforts. In 1973, I attended an early festival called “Jesus ’73” in Morgantown, Pa. While sitting in the crowd, Margery said to me, “The Lord told me you are going to be involved in this type of ministry.” Since then, we launched Creation Festivals in 1979 and never looked back. Over these years we have seen many of the great founders of Christian music grace our stages. Over 55,000 have given their lives to Christ and we have helped to sponsor over 40,000 children through our partnership with Compassion International. Our heart is for youth and for the Gospel of Christ to be presented to this generation. We know that through music, and the gathering of a community of believers, lives will be changed for eternity. In 1998 we sensed God’s call once again, to walk out this mission in the Northwest when we learned that “Jesus Northwest” would not be continuing. Amazingly, God opened the doors for us to be at the Gorge Amphitheater for 12 years, then Enumclaw and now in Kennewick, Washington! Now we are holding our 19th festival in the great Northwest. We give all the glory to Jesus for the thousands upon thousands of lives impacted by the festivals since the beginning in 1979. Our desire is to translate the Gospel into music that relates to youth and to challenge them with God’s Word to know and follow Christ. We hope to see you at Creation Northwest 2016 in Kennewick. It could be the Highlight of your summer, and maybe your life! Leadership Hermiston seeks recruits Leadership Hermiston is a 10-month program with 9 full-day sessions and one half-day session once a month designed to expose participants to current issues facing the Hermiston area. During the sessions, participants will work with local leaders to expand awareness and understanding of unique issues and challenges facing this community and our region. The program provides exposure and better opportunities for an active and effective”role in addressing community needs and gained knowledge in education, state and local government, health, human needs and services, history, economic development, agriculture, technology and the Media. This program is designed to educate, enhance, develop and train future leaders to participate in key decision-making positions on community and regional boards, and be more informed upon completion of this program. To register for the program you can download the application at hermistonchamber.com, send email to [email protected] or call the Hermiston Chamber of Commerce at (541)-567-6151 Sudoku Sudoku from page 37. Making Capital PAGE 40 • July 2016 • The Entertainer