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Icicle Prize and First Friday, New Art and Another Bike Mural
 Well, I am happy and a little bit proud to say that the recycled art project that Martha and I submitted to this year’s Icicle Prize was accepted and is on display at O’Grady’s Pantry at the Sleeping Lady Resort near Leavenworth. There are a bunch of other great ...
Arts in the Valley and Beyond
Call For Artists * Icicle Prize * Recycled Materials
 Well, you've read in previous blogs about the upcoming Icicle Prize and how all submissions are to be made of recycled material. Well here it is. It is official: Icicle Arts has announced the 2011 Icicle Arts Festival, featuring the Icicle Prize in Recycled Art, sponsored by the Icicle ...
Arts in the Valley and Beyond
Photo Safari
 Well, yesterday was a fine and fulfilling day for Martha and I in our ongoing quest for artful living in this natural paradise. We each had some morning commitments first. Martha had an art student at 10am and I had to open Two Rivers Gallery at 11am and then ...
Caribou Chatter
Bulldogs show mental toughness
The Cashmere High School baseball team made a mockery of the Caribou Trail League this season, rolling through its regular-season conference schedule unblemished. The Bulldogs routinely posted big victories against their overmatched league foes. They have played at a high level all season, but for the most part weren’t tested ...
Caribou Chatter
Okanogan girls basketball coach resigns
Gary Smith, the Caribou Trail League’s all-time wins leader for girls basketball, has resigned from his post as head coach at Okanogan High School. According to athletic director Steve Chamberlin, Smith submitted a letter of resignation, which the Okanogan School Board accepted at its meeting on April 27. Smith coached ...
Caribou Chatter
Chelan softball overcoming inexperience
When Jeff Barker agreed to resume his head coaching duties for the Chelan High School fastpitch softball team this season after spending the previous two years coaching Chelan Middle School’s eighth-grade team, he realized right away that he would be facing significant challenges. While Barker was away, enthusiasm for the ...
Caribou Chatter
For Cascade baseball, youth not an excuse
Entering this season, the Cascade High School baseball team wasn’t expected to duplicate the success that it had last year. In 2010, the Kodiaks, led by the dynamic pitching duo of Evan Parton and Taylor Isadore, finished in second place in the Caribou Trail League and advanced to the 1A ...
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Caribou Chatter
Kodiaks ready for opponents' best efforts
The Cascade High School fastpitch softball team is most likely going to play motivated opponents every time it plays a Caribou Trail League contest this season. But that’s what happens when a team makes a mockery of a league as Cascade has over the past four years. The Kodiaks have ...
Caribou Chatter
Business as usual for Cashmere baseball
Not much has changed around the Cashmere High School baseball program this spring. Oh, sure, the coaches and players who were on last year’s team retain many fond memories of the Bulldogs’ run to the first state championship in the program’s history, but at the same time, they’re not going ...
Ski Team News
Hines Wins Western Region Junior Championship Super-G Title
The Mission Ridge Ski Team just returned from the week long Western Region Junior Championships at Bogus Basin just outside of Boise, Idaho. The best 15 to 19 year old racers in the Western US were competing. MRST qualified 10 out of the 11 their eligible athletes for the championships. ...
Ski Team News
Jones Wins National Super- G Title
Alec Jones of the Mission Ridge Ski Team won the J2 US National Super-G race in Sugarloaf, Maine by over half a second. Second place was Austin Dean from Mt. Hood, Oregon. The win capped a strong series for Jones. In which he was also 2nd in the Giant Slalom, ...
Ski Team News
MRST Freestyle Team Competes in Divisional Championships
The MRST Freestyle Team competed in three back-to-back USSA Pacific Northwest Division Freestyle Events at White Pass, Washington February 25th to 27th. Each day consisted of competition in moguls, dual moguls and slopestyle. The competition culminated with the Divisional Championships. Top male and female competitors were selected to represent the ...
Caribou Chatter
Goats embrace underdog role
So just why, exactly, was the Chelan boys basketball team not considered to be state championship contender this year? In hindsight, it’s kind of hard to figure out. Now, we’re not saying that the Goats are the favorite to win it all at this point. Even though they won their ...
The Daily Dog Walk
Hög Loppet 2011
20 miles of Wenatchee's backyard in winter. Great snow, weather and people.
Ski Team News
MRST Racers find Success at All Levels
Members of MRST started the racing season in December and have been quickly establishing themselves as top runners in all levels of competition. Team members have competed in the North American Trophy Series, FIS University, Northwest Cup, Northwest J3 Qualifiers, PNSA Evergreen Cup, and Youth Ski League events. At every ...
Ski Team News
Freestyle Competition at Mission Ridge
Over the weekend of February 5 and 6, the Mission Ridge Ski Team (MRST) hosted the season’s first USSA Pacific Northwest Division Freestyle Event of the year. On Saturday skiers competed in two slopestyle events at the B24 Terrain Park. In the first event, Connor Dahl of Wenatchee won the ...