Recent Stories
Talking it Over: Yesterday’s planners, as it turns out, had far-sighted vision
The proposed waterfront project at the foot of Orondo Avenue is drawing attention, with questions arising as to feasibility and costs. This location has a long history, dating back to 1919, when an associate of Frank Lloyd Wright submitted a huge park plan that was never carried out.
Talking it Over: 35 years later, Cuc Tran finds Vietnam is even worse off
How does Vietnam look after 35 years’ absence? Totally different, Cuc Tran says — and not for the better. The communists run that country for their own benefit, she says. Education for anybody but the children of communists is terrible, leaving a whole generation of neglected children.
Water lines carry history of early days
Twenty-seven years ago this March the new regional water system replaced old systems in Wenatchee and west of town, the West Wenatchee system. Walkers along the riverfront pass the remains of the old city waterworks, a pier and walkway at the foot of Fifth Street that carried the water from the river to the pumping plant and filter beds now occupied by a three-story commercial office building.
Water-use issues plague cities throughout the U.S.
Water is on our minds, and we’re hearing more and more about “water crises” nationally. Locally, the topic is being discussed at our Wenatchee Valley Museum and Cultural Center.
Talking it over: New stories add to the legend of Miss Veedol’s flight
It’s old, old news now, but over in Moylegrove, Wales, a newspaper clipping of the landing of Clyde Pangborn and Hugh Herndon’s Miss Veedol turned up in the attic of a house. The fliers landed in a pasture in this Welsh community in July 1931, the first stop in their round-the-world flight that terminated in East Wenatchee in October.
Talking it Over: Project aims to cut warming by injecting rocks with CO2
Injecting liquified carbon dioxide deep into basalt formations is a project of our U.S. Department of Energy, which is taking aim at a major cause of global warming. Dr. Charlotte Sullivan of the Pacific Northwest Lab at Richland told an audience of the Erratics Chapter of the Ice Age Institute about the project Tuesday night at the Wenatchee Valley Museum & Cultural Center.
Talking it Over: Presentation brought past to life
The Wenatchee Valley Museum & Cultural Center’s People of the Past presentation last Saturday gave those of us who attended a reminder of this valley at an early time. I was reminded of the presence of American Indians in the valley by the annual visit to our home here by a Wenatchee Indian by the name of Sam.
Talking it over: Haven for state history seems worth saving
Across the street from the Grant County Courthouse in Ephrata sits the historic home of the Washington family, which has been vacant for several years now. It was here that Nat Washington grew up to become one of the state’s long-tenured legislators, a state senator for 30 years. He was attorney for the Grant County PUD, influential in helping them build the Priest Rapids and Wanapum Dams and a leader in the legislative fights over public power in the state.
Talking it Over: Thank 50 years of port planning for today’s economic innovations
The Chelan County Port is proposing to acquire the waterfront property of the old Morse Steel for a private/public development called the Pybus Public Market, we read. The ports of North Central Washington have a history of 50 years or so, dating back to the time when we had hopes of bringing water transportation up the river from the Tri-Cities to Grant, Douglas and Chelan counties.
Talking It Over: Eagles Lodge still jumping with activity
Fraternal organizations have had a long history around here, among the most active being the Eagles Lodge, which at one time had 3,500 members when it was located on Mission Street, next door to the Liberty Theater. If memory serves me well, they had a national head of the lodge in Judge Lawrence Leahy at one time.
