Art Gallery holds annual student show
The Golden Art Gallery has announced its Fourth Annual Goldendale Student Art Show. It will be held at the Golden Art Gallery, from April 20 through May 1. The show is open to all students in the greater Goldendale area, from pre-school through twelfth grade, including public school, private school, and home school students.
Entries must be from regular school art classes, or projects from other classes. Independent projects may also be submitted as long as criteria are met.
Entries must also have been created during the current school year. Any art medium is acceptable; examples are paint, pen and ink, photography, collage, sculpture, etc. Poetry and written works are acceptable as long as they fit on one page and are mounted according to entry rules.
Flat works on paper must be mounted before submission on colored construction paper, either nine by 12 inches or 18 by 24 inches. All entries must also have artist’s name, grade level, school affiliation and title of work, printed legibly on lower, right hand corner of construction paper mount. If the work is three-dimensional or oversized, such as a painting on canvas, make sure there is a label with all information securely attached to work. All entries must also be received, labeled and mounted properly, at the Golden Art Gallery between April 14 and April 17. Lastly, entries in the show will be awarded “People’s Choice” awards as well as judged by a panel of gallery artists. Prizes will be given to the favorite entries.
The Golden Art Gallery promises to treat submitted artwork like the priceless treasure that is it, but also points out that it cannot be held legally responsible for any lost or damaged work. Label entries properly and pick them up promptly after the show closes on May 1 to help keep them in good shape. The gallery reserves the right to reject any work and has final say in which submitted entries are displayed.
Questions can be directed to Sandra Choate, the art gallery director, at (509) 223-3167.
Concert and walk raise funds for research
They call themselves the Country Chicks Team, and they’re hitting the road to raise funds for breast cancer research. They’re also putting on a concert this Saturday at 8:30 p.m. at the American Legion, also to raise money for the Susan G. Komen 3-Day for the Cure™.
Melanie Panther and Kathy Dollarhyde are co-captains of the team. Kathy is a breast cancer survivor. She was diagnosed in 2008 at the age of 35 and tested positive for the BRAC1 gene. She has already lost a sister to breast cancer and recently found out that her daughter also has the same gene, making it virtually certain that she too will have breast cancer.
The team will be walking 60 miles over three days, all to raise at least $20,000. Net proceeds from the Susan G. Komen 3-Day for the Cure™ are invested in breast cancer research.
One in eight women in the U.S. will be diagnosed with breast cancer in her lifetime. Even women from families without a history of breast cancer are not necessarily safe; 80% of all women who get breast cancer do not have a relation who has had breast cancer.
The concert Saturday is for 21-year-olds and older only. Tickets are $7. Three area bands will be performing: Swamp Surfer, a hard-rock band from Portland; Blown, a rock band based in Vancouver ; and Chris Margolin & The Dregs, also out of Portland, described as a lyrically based alternative rock band.
Gifford Pinchot an underdiscovered resource
Justin Garrigus
For The Sentinel
In a time when people are spending less time outside and more time in front of the television, nature is waiting to be explored. Gifford Pinchot National Forest, an hour drive from Goldendale and right in Trout Lake’s backyard, is home to many recreational activities and also has a few little-known facts.
Gifford Pinchot is one of the oldest national forests in the country. Included as part of the Mount Rainier Forest Reserve in 1897, this area was set aside as the Columbia National Forest in 1908 and renamed the Gifford Pinchot National Forest in 1949. The Forest is 1,368,330 acres in size and includes the 110,330-acre Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument established by Congress in 1982. It resides in six counties: Klickitat, Skamania, Lewis, Yakima, Clark, and Cowlitz.
The forest was named after Gifford Pinchot, who was the first head of the U. S. Forest Service.
Gifford Pinchot is home to over 1,475 miles of hiking trails and hosts over 70 various campgrounds, snow parks, and horse camps for visitors to enjoy. The Pacific Crest Trail, which winds through the forest and visits Indian Heaven, Mt. Adams, and Goat Rock Wildernesses, is optimal for hiking or bike riding while experiencing spectacular views of nature and high altitude scenery.
As far as fishing goes, the Gifford Pinchot National Forest has over 20 species of fish including Chinook and Coho salmon and steelhead trout. It has 1,360 miles of rivers and streams and is home to over 100 lakes, some of which are open to boat access. The forest boasts a wide variety of wildlife as well; deer, elk, bear, and cougar are throughout the forest for avid hunters, and among endangered species that reside in the forest are the bald eagle, the northern spotted owl, the gray wolf, and the marbled murrelet.
But the most surprising and little known fact about the forest may be that Gifford Pinchot National Forest ranks fourth in the nation in carbon storage per acre of woods. U.S. Forest study data indicates that the dense northwest forest’s CO2 storage is supreme compared to forests throughout the rest of the country because the forest is bigger and the trees are older. All of the top 10 best carbon producing forests reside in Oregon, Washington, and South East Alaska; the Olympic National Forest is ranked number two and the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest is ranked seventh. These forests in the Northwest hold as much or more oxygen then that of tropical rainforests, and store approximately 9.8 billion metric tons of CO2 on about 19 million acres, which is equivalent to all the fossil fuels that are burned in the U.S. over a year—about 5.8 billion metric tons.
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