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Leavenworth — A piece of Bavaria in the Northwest

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Editor: Mike Gallagher Contributors: Amy Mumma, Kevin Camarillo, Kermit Swift, Mary Swift, Brian Myrick and Daily Record News Services

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evin “KC” Camarillo, executive chef of dining services at Central Washington University, and Amy Mumma, coordinator of the World Wines Program at CWU have agreed to team up to provide Seasons with food and wine pairings. Camarillo came up with the recipe suggestion and Mumma researched the wines that would complement and enhance the meal. Mumma founded the CWU World Wines Program in 2003. She holds an 

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MBA in wine from the University of Bordeaux, and advanced certificate of Wine and Spirits from the Wine and Spirit Education Trust in London and a diploma in tasting from the Université de Bourgogne in Dijon, France. Camarillo added to his career

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Shrimp By AMY MUMMA coordinator World Wines Program at CWU Some drink pairings for CWU Chef KC’s Scampi Camarones. This dish consists of large scampi over a choice of pasta and rice. The ingredients of cream, butter, garlic and onions are counteracted beautifully by a kick of citrus, chili and Worchester sauce with a Pancetta

garnish for flavor, color and texture. There is a delightful variety of drinks to pair with this meal, so don’t hold back! All the wines and other supplies can be found right here in Kittitas County. 

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the citrus and melon notes counteract the chili. Choose a sauvignon blanc with less herbaceous notes such as the Chateau Ste. Michelle sauvignon blanc or a Sauvignon Blanc from Chile. Avoid New Zealand sauvignon blanc as they have too many grassy notes. My favorite pairing is a specialty drink from Argentina. Pour a glass of sauvignon blanc and add 4 teaspons of pure cane sugar. Mix well and add a slice of lime. Delicious on its own and perfect with Camarones Scampi!

Viognier

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Another white wine would be a Viognier. This is a grape varietal originally from the northern Rhône Valley of France, but is showing nicely here

in Washington and Argentina. Viognier is slightly lower acid and fuller bodied than Sauvignon Blanc and tastes of apricots, orange and spice. Try an C.R. Sandidge Winery Viognier  from Washington for a treat.

Merlot

For the red wine lovers, do not despair. A soft, fruity Washington merlot will make an excellent match. Again, we can turn to Chateau Ste. Michelle Indian Wells Merlot as a staple. 

Beer

Not into wine? Beer and mixed drinks also make this dish sizzle. Try it out with a wheat beer from Deschutes Brewery. A Tequila sunrise or simple margarita will match the citrus notes of the dish and bring a cooling sensation to counteract the chili.   

From the Kitchen From the kitchen of Kevin “KC” Camarillo, campus executive chef dining services, CWU.

Scampi Camarones 3 each garlic cloves, chopped ½ cup tomatoes, sundried in oil, chopped ¼ cup oregano, fresh chopped ¼ cup capers ½ lbs butter 1 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon pepper, black ground 1 teaspoon chili flakes ¼ cup lemon, juice 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce 12 large shrimp ½ cup heavy cream 1 pound pasta, cooked Place garlic, tomato, oregano, capers, butter, salt, pepper, chili flakes, lemon and Worcestershire in food

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Central Washington University English professor Joseph Powell, 57, recently won a $25,000 grant from the National Endowment of Arts for his poetry.

Poet put in his place By MICHAEL GALLAGHER assistant editor

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ost everyone can name a poet: Robert Frost, Elizabeth Browning, E.E. Cummings, Alfred Tennyson, Walt Whitman and an all-star list of others comes to mind. It’s just a bit tougher to name one who isn’t dead — long dead for that matter. Joseph Powell is a poet, a live one. That might doom him to pop culture obscurity, but he seems fine with that. Powell, age 57, is an Ellensburg native, a Central Washington University 

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English professor, and a 2009 National Endowment of the Arts Grant recipient. “Poetry is free from the pop culture,” Powell said. “That’s a good thing. It doesn’t have the sell things.” But poets have to eat, pay the bills and perhaps get coffee now and then. Powell has supported himself for the past 25 years by teaching at CWU. The $25,000 National Endowment of Arts Grant provides Powell a modicum of freedom from those workday demands. “The idea behind the grant is to free you up to write,” Powell said. “In my case, I’ve taught summers for 21 of the

last 25 years. This will free my summers up to write.” Powell figures the grant grants him four summers.

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As contemporary poetry is to modern culture, Powell’s preferred form of poetic expression is to contemporary poetry. In other words, he’s not the flavor of the month, even among those who only sample at the exotic flavors counter. “I tend to write poems with a narrative,” Powell said. “Most of poetry has moved very far from that.” Powell said the poetry that receives most notice now reflects a poet’s introspective

explorations. “I’m more interested in other people and animals,” Powell said. Although he has applied for the grant six times, when he received the call from the National Endowment organizer his first thought was that it was a prank. “I was astounded,” Powell said. It’s not that Powell is a poet without props. He’s had books of poems published, co-authored a book on meter with fellow CWU professor Mark Halperin, received the 2004 Scholar of the Year Award at CWU, scored an

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Artist Trust Grant in 2005 and has received numerous acknowledgments for his poetry. It just that he knew how highly competitive the grant was. “More than 1,000 people applied,” Powell said. “You have to have a book just to apply.”

Path to poetry

Powell grew up on a small farm outside of Ellensburg. He was not the kid who sprinkled quotes from “The Iliad” into casual conversation. “I was completely into sports,” Powell said. “I played football, basketball and baseball.” He went to the University of Washington as a math major, switched to psychology and ended as an English major. “I wasn’t really very good at English,” Powell said. “I didn’t write my first poem until I was 21.” Powell eventually took a creative writing course and began to find his calling. “I liked poems. I started reading John Keats,” Powell said. “I liked the language.” A poet named John Haines visited campus and read his poems about homesteading in Alaska. “They were poems I

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was attracted to,” Powell said. “Like anyone who is attracted to art, who admires something, I wanted to do that.” Powell said poetry is difficult and he struggled at first. He was helped greatly by legendary UW English professor Nelson Bentley. “I don’t think I would have kept at it if if wasn’t for him,” Powell said.

Inspired by surroundings

Powell earned his bachelor’s degree from the UW, a master’s in literature from CWU, and a master’s of fine arts from the University of Arizona. At the end of the MFA process he had one small detour. “I came back here and drove a laundry truck, and then went back and finished in the winter of ’81,” Powell said. Unfortunately his stack of degrees failed to impress employers. “When I got out, after three degrees I couldn’t find a job,” Powell said. “I went back and got a teaching certificate and taught high school for a year.” Powell said he enjoyed teaching in Sequim, but jumped at the chance to join the English department at CWU. “They had just added an English requirement at Central,” Powell said. “Suddenly they had a big need. At that point they hadn’t hired anyone in the English department in 17 years.” Although Powell was composition director at CWU for seven years, it was several years before he obtained tenure. He had no aversion to returning to Ellensburg. His family still lived in the area, and over the years Kittitas Valley has served as his muse. “Everything I write comes out of this place,” Powell said. 10

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Poems by Joe Powell THE LIBRARIAN We are getting old together and have lain beside each other’s nakedness so long the sap and sinew inside us, the hook and eye, the push and pull, no longer tear the day to pieces. Turtles and hares of the mind now feed in the same places. Distances and sullen phantoms that fed the heart when we were young can hardly remember their differences. The new ones trust that embers cool to ash. Our nothingness makes you more beautiful: A hand absently drying a plate, a finger turning a page, the way our travels pool behind a faraway glance. We’ve come to believe love’s librarian wanders our corridors of books looking not for a way out, nor an elastic metaphysics— signs and wonders— but the best read for the lateness of the hour.

DESIRE The blackboard eraser breathes the words it ate, the way we cannot unthink a sexual thought. The empty grommet, that blue lacy eyelet, is fastened to one idea, a golden hook. The boat is nothing without its length of lake, the wake is nothing without its moving boat. The shovel excavating each depression loves the flinty dark it travels toward. All our instruments need their objects: the hammer’s claw is drawn to the nail’s resistance. If the window’s muddled by the windowshade, roll up the afternoon, roll down the night. Let sun and moon, this yang and yin, abide until the eye is blinded by belief. The fork dreams of the pie’s embroidery. The shoe longs to impress the solid earth.

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The charm of the shops and restaurants along Front Street lure visitors to Leavenworth.

By MARY SWIFT staff writer

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hen she graduated from Central Washington University in 2004, Susan Schweizer used her graduation money to start a pet shop in Leavenworth. Along with the usual array of pet paraphernalia, Schweizer sells lederhosen. For dogs. Call that a perfect fit in a town where lederhosen is as common as beer and an annual contest called “Looking Good 12

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in Lederhosen” includes a category for dogs. (It also includes a category for “most unusual.” A goat in lederhosen won that one year.) Ah, those crazy chicken-dancing, beer-drinking, sausage and sauerkrauteating Bavarian wannabees! They do have fun — and they prove it year-round. An old railroad town, Leavenworth was facing its economic deathbed when, in the early 1960s, it opted to reinvent itself as a Bavarian-themed village. Forty-plus years later, rimmed by Alp-like peaks and perched along the Wenatchee River, Leavenworth is a successful study in tourist industry

self-determination. My family discovered Leavenworth three decades ago and, for a dozen years, when our children were young, it was the place we spent Christmas. My oldest daughter’s mother-in-law, Bavarian-born and raised and now a U.S. citizen, considers it a treasure. She’s among an estimated 2.5 million people, from across the country and across the globe, who visit Leavenworth annually, drawn by the area’s natural beauty, recreational opportunities, shops, restaurants, lodging and entertainment. Fall is huge. Mother Nature sets the

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scene, the area’s foliage erupting into a Kris Kringl, a two-story shop where “Culinary Travels with Dave Eckert.” breath-taking spectacle of color. Christmas is always in season Chocolate lovers get their fix at Celebrations kick off with the annual (merchandise ranges from limited Visconti’s, a consistent recipient of Salmon Festival at the Leavenworth Fish edition Christopher Radko items to Wine Spectator’s Award of Excellence. Hatchery Sept. 19 and 20. The Autumn bubble lights) and a sleigh bearing a Overlooking Front Street, the restaurant Leaf Festival, Leavenworth’s longest life-size Santa hangs from the high has second- and third-floor seating and running festival, follows on Sept. 25-27 ceiling. an outside deck. with three days of free entertainment Eating spots abound. Munchen Reservations are suggested and including the annual parade at noon on Haus Bavarian Grill and Beer Garden, a window-seating, for quality Front the 26th. popular outdoor-seating only sausage, Street people-watching, is recomOktoberfest, born in 1998, drew 400 beer and wine spot on Front Street, mended. Visconti’s White Chocolate people the first year. The festival, which features spirited Bavarian music on its Raspberry Cheesecake was chosen for features food, beer and bands, and is sound system, apple cider sauerkraut “The Chocolate Lover’s Guide to the spread over three consecutive weekends for its sausages and a family (and dog) Northwest.” beginning A few Oct. 3 now blocks away, draws gingerbread 25,000 people (men, people women and annually. children) Per tradihave been tion, Mayor marching out Rob Eaton the door of kicks off the the Gingerfestival by bread Factory tapping the for nearly 21 keg of beer. years. His How many? political “A whole fortunes army. We hang in the definitely balance make a lot of — or so gingerbread,” goes the Anita Snyder, superstition who’s owned that says the business that if he for six years, doesn’t do says laughing it right he as she rolls won’t be out dough. re-elected. Fall marks Christhe start of kindlmarkt, Brian Myrick / Daily Record the busy a Bavarianseason, Balconies, flags, and umbrellas add to the European charm along Front Street in Leavenworth. style at least in Christmas terms of market, is gingerbread, scheduled Nov. 28 and 29. It serves up friendly beer garden that is cooled by as Snyder and her staff focus on handcraft and food booths, entertainment misters in the summer, warmed by an crafted gingerbread houses fresh-baked and lantern-decorating for children. outdoor fireplace and propane heaters from scratch and no one house the The good news for Leavenworth in cooler months. same as another. (As with the real visitors? You don’t need a festival for fun. At Pavz Café Bistro on Front Street, housing market, size affects price. A steady menu of music (often passersby can stand at the window Cottages start at $14. Mansions run involving accordions) is served up and watch owner Bill Brownlee and $140.) regularly from the gazebo at the city his crew serve up a repertoire that Gingerbread may be the mainstay park on Front Street. (It never hurts to includes both savory and sweet crepes. but the shop also serves up over-sized know the Chicken Dance.) Horse-drawn The restaurant may be small but it’s heart-shaped sugar cookies smothcarriages, rental scooters and a trolley gotten notice in the Alaska Airlines ered in pink frosting to cream cheese provide alternatives for those who don’t in-flight magazine and “Good Living,” brownies, apple strudel, and a host want to walk around the downtown and earned mention in the New York of other treats. That’s not to mention area. Times as well as the Seattle Times. Shops are plentiful. Among them: It’s also gained attention from PBS’ Continued on page 14

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quiche, salads and other deli offerings, plus an array of gingerbread-themed gift, cooking and décor items. Lodging options in Leavenworth range from chain motel rooms to European or rustic-themed inns, cabins and bed-and-breakfast places. At the Enzian Inn, owner Rob Johnson (or his father Bob) play the alphorn, Switzerland’s national instrument, each day. Across the street, golfers can try their skills out on the 18-hole championship bent-grass putting course, Enzian Falls, which features a 20-foot waterfall and mountain goats for your gallery. Hotel Pension Anna, a small, elegant hotel in downtown Leavenworth, includes two units created out of what was the former St. Joseph Catholic Church. The church was replaced in the 1990s and the former sanctuary, built in 1913, was moved to a site on Commercial Street. The results are heavenly. The ceiling soars in Alte Kapelle, the tastefully and luxuriously turned out “chapel suite” that includes a sitting room with fireplace, Jacuzzi tub and European king bed. Stairs in the suite lead to two single beds in a sleeping loft that was once part of the choir loft. The smaller parish nook also features a high ceiling, European furnishings and old arched windows. Outside of Leavenworth, Run of the River Lodge offers luxury suites in an adult-only, romantic setting good enough to earn Four Stars from “Best Places in the Northwest” and four “lips” from “Best Places to Kiss.” Each suite includes a rainhead shower, stone-sided Jacuzzi and an old typewriter for you to “release your hidden Hemingway.” Cozy cabins in a serene setting mark the Sleeping 14

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The warm red bricks and colorful plants outside the Baren Haus restaurant along Front Street lure visitors inside for a hot meal or a cold beer. A big stuffed bear (below) often greets diners at the door. Lady Lodge Mountain Retreat on Icicle Road, a place where worries disappear. Trails meander through quiet grounds. A large organic garden offers seating area for reading or meditation. An abundance of art graces the buildings and grounds from nine large fiberglass salmon sculptures on the banks of the river to the Chihuly “Icicles,” a spectacularly stunning glass sculpture — lit at night — that explodes out of a mammoth boulder. Guests as well as non-guests are welcome to tour the art. Call (509) 548-

6344 for information. Just for fun, while you’re in the area stop at KOHO radio, home of Icicle Broadcasting, for a photo with the life-size Elvis standing outside. (Summer or winter, he’s a hunkahunkahunka burning love.) Consider this an appetizer and hardly the full meal deal. Leavenworth is a place where one visit automatically demands another and each season serves up different flavors of things to see and do. Some things of note:

n Louie and Judy Wagoner’s Icicle Ridge Winery in nearby Peshastin is a must-see destination for wine lovers, in part because it makes good wine, as much because it also offers a notsoon-to-be-forgotten setting. The Wagoners’ 5,000-square foot log home is built of 16-inch logs and serves as the winery’s tasting room. It’s distinctive enough to have been featured on a number of TV shows including a piece H & G did on Christmas in Leavenworth. n The noise and energy of festivals isn’t for everyone. For those looking for a quieter sojourn in Leavenworth, Waterfront Park is one of the town’s best-kept secrets. A flat trail wends its way along the river, past interpretive signs, benches and small beaches. It’s a perfect place for birdwatching in the spring, salmon-watching in the fall

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To get there To get to Leavenworth, take Highway 97 over Blewett Pass and go left on Highway 2 which runs straight through Leavenworth. Parking in town is at a premium on busy weekends. For those who don’t mind a bit of a walk, try parking at Waterfront Park.

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or relaxing in any season. n The Leavenworth area is the largest producer of organic pears in the country. Fruit stands dot the area. If you’re traveling with children, a stop at Smallwood’s Harvest on Highway 2 east of Leavenworth is in order. Dubbed “the Disneyland of fruit stands” by some locals, its attractions include a picnic area, a petting zoo, rides on a miniature “cow train,” horseshoes, a maze and, in the fall, a scarecrowmaking contest.

n Ryan Johnson and

Julie Lodge of Leavenworth Walking Tours offer pleasant walking tours that share stories of the town’s many murals and its evolution into a Bavarian-themed village. n Alpine Lakes Cheese, a sheep farm 10 miles east of Leavenworth on Highway 97, offers handson cheese making classes every Saturday through September. Classes are by reservation only. For information, go to www. alpinelakescheese.com.

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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25:

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Bavarian style architecture dominates the landscape in and around Leavenworth.

The Lady, The Legend….Jeanne Cody as Patsy Cline. Cost: $5 (Includes banana splits) Time: 6:30 p.m.

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 28: Ballard Locks

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29: Snoqualmie Casino. Cost: $20 Time: 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30: Gold Creek and Boulder Cave. Cost: $23 • Time: 9 a.m.-3 p.m.

Volunteers needed for the Senior Lounge at the Kittitas County Fair from Thursday, Sept. 3rd to Mon. Sept. 7th. Call the AAC to Sign-up!

For information regarding any of these events or activities contact the Ellensburg Adult Activity Center 509-962-7242 | 506 S. Pine St. [email protected]

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Winterization program expands reach By MICHAEL GALLAGHER assistant editor

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omeowners who did not think energy assistance and weatherization programs applied to them, may want to think again. Federal money has allowed HopeSource to expand the range of those who qualify. Ben Eckley, energy services coordinator for HopeSource, said the eligibility requirement has been redefined from families earning 125 percent of the poverty level to those at 200 percent of the poverty level. “We’ll be able to reach more households in the low- to moderate-income range,” Eckley said. Eckley said it’s possible HopeSource may be able to double the number of homes in the program. “Historically we’ve done two to three homes a month,” Eckley said. “We want to be ranging up to five to six.” Assistance is comprehensive, starting with an in-home conservation evaluation. “We start with an energy analysis,” Eckley said. Eckley said the purpose of the evaluation is to determine how much is set cost and high much additional is generated by heating and cooling. While people call about how bills in the winter, Eckley said those people are usually paying too much year round. “We look for ways to save money,” Eckley said. If the person qualifies, the program includes weatherization work. Eckley said weatherization traditionally involved replacing windows and doors, but analysis conducted by the Department of Energy indicated those types of improvements do not have the highest payback. “Duct sealing is very cheap and the payback is phenomenal,” Eckley said. Insulating along heat ducts is critical, Eckley said. “The heat from your furnace is the most expensive air in the house,” Eckley said. Eckley said another beneficial exercise is air sealing — looking for all the leaks in a house. He said an easy way to do that is carry a burning incense stick through a house and see where the air is drawn. In addition to improving energy effi16

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Common leaks

Quick hints

According the Energy Star literature, the most common household air leaks are:

Ben Eckley, energy services coordinator with HopeSource, said one spot people often miss is making sure the attic hatch is insulated. He also said silicone calking is an easy way to seal around pipes, and that wrapping exterior pipes not only protects from freezing but also conserves energy.

A: Behind Kneewalls B: Attic hatch C: Wiring holes D: Plumbing vent E: Open soffit (the box that hides recessed

lights F: Recessed lights G: Furnace flue or duct chaseways H: Basement rim joists I: Windows and doors

ciency, Eckley said there is also some money available for health and safety work — making sure there is adequate ventilation so there are no problems associated with moisture build-up. For information on income qualifica-

tions and eligibility, call HopeSource at 925-1448 (Ellensburg), or (509) 674-2374 (Cle Elum). Eckley said even though there is more money for the projects, there is a waiting list. Applications are taken year round.

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Celluar advances By BARB OWENS staff writer

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ell phone technology has come a long way from the first commercial mobile produced by Motorola in 1983. It was called DynaTAC and weighed a little short of two pounds. Recent devices are not only getting more petite, but are sounding more delicious. Cell phones today are liable to whet an appetite with names like Chocolate, Blackberry, Apple, Cookie and of course Ice Cream. What these new phones can do is also notable. Making a call may be the last thing a cell phone is used for anymore. Most mobile phones on the market today include a digital camera, shoot video, play music, send e-mail, get directions and text message. Communication and entertainment needs are indeed getting convenient. Consolidating all these features into one small device also frees up valuable pocket space. “I found myself carrying iPods, headphones, cell phone, it was just getting to be a pain in the butt,” said Arlin Leonard, general manager at The Shack on Water Street in Ellensburg. Leonard’s Sony Ericsson phone has an expandable 18

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memory, which allows him to take pictures, “videos for days” and download music. “I have just as much music on my phone as Brian Myrick / Daily Record most people Peter Later, with Wild Haven Construction in Ellensburg, uses his AT&T Blackberry do on their 9000 while working on a house under construction along Canterbury Drive. iPods,” he said. Chris Kerney works with Leonard of Call Me! AT&T on North County Cellular as a sales associate at The Main Street, agrees about Shack. He’s been there for current trends. Touch screens Service Dealers three years. and full keypads are most “The biggest thing being popular with his customers. Alpha Wireless (Verizon), pushed right now of course “People are talking 708 E. University Way is the touch screen,” Kerney person-to-person less and Totally Cellular (US Cellular), said. “The most popular ones less,” Flores said. “It’s all are iPhones, which are based about texting now.” 409 S. Main St. off of heat. So your fingers The LG Xenon and BlackThe Shack (AT&T, Sprint, are what actually make the berries are some of the most Virgin Mobile, Boost Mobile), touch screen work.” popular phones Flores sells. 304 S. Water St. Other touch screen phones Many people inquire about use pressure sensors, Kerney the Apple iPhone, but Call Call Me! AT&T, 702 N. Main St. said. Me! AT&T doesn’t carry those. Intermountain Radio Shack “A big thing with the new Only corporate stores, Best Dealer (AT&T, Boost Mobile), generation is having a full Buy and Wal Mart carry them. keypad so they can text,” “We can help them out 208 E. First St., Cle Elum Kerney said. He didn’t text with customer care or himself at first but admits, ordering online,” Flores said. Moines, Iowa. Her thumbs “you kind of get forced into it.” The popularity of texting really paid off, she won $50,000. Full keypads can be has grown tremendously. LG But for those who want exposed on many phones Electronics held a National a basic model that does when slid or flipped open, Texting Championship in New nothing but place and receive sideways or vertically. York in June. The winner was Ostric Flores, co-owner 15-year-old Kate Moore of Des Continued on page 15

Fast Facts Year end figures for December 2008: Number of wireless subscribers Percent of United States population Wireless-only households Annual total wireless revenue Annual minutes of use Monthly text messages Yearly text messages 911 calls per day

270.3 million 87 percent 17.5 percent $148.1 billion 2.1 trillion 110.4 billion 1 trillion 291,000

— CTIA, Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association

calls and has large buttons, consider a phone like the Jitterbug. Manufactured by Samsung, the Jitterbug’s motto is simplicity. “You actually get a dial tone when you flip it open, it’s more like a real phone,” Leonard said. He said The Shack sells quite a few Jitterbugs, mostly to older people. The various accessories that compliment cell phones are becoming more advanced too. Bluetooth wireless has transformed hands-free communication. Before Bluetooth, Kerney remembers the bulky contraptions that attached to the back of a car’s headrest. A boom microphone stretched around in front to talk into. “It actually blocked your sight,” Leonard laughed. Then the next step was the wired headset and now there’s Bluetooth, a totally wireless technology. “It sends a wireless signal to the cell phones and so it just transfers the currents of the phone conversation to that headset,” Kerney explains. “And the headset reads the vibrations in your jaw to pick up the sounds.” Very few of them actually have microphones, said Leonard. The clip-on earpieces that enable Bluetooth may cause someone to appear crazy if

they’re using it while walking down the sidewalk or sitting alone in a restaurant. Leonard said for a long time people wore them as a fashion statement. “Now with the law it’s a necessity,” he said. With the evolution of hardware and accessories comes the ever-changing cell phone plan. Most contract plans today require a one- to two-year agreement. According to Kerney and Leonard at The Shack, there is no secret loophole or tricks that let users get out of their contracts early. “Unless you can find a way where they broke their end of the deal, you’re not getting out of that contract,” Leonard said. There are other options though. If a user finds someone wanting to switch to their carrier, it can be arranged for them to take over the remaining contract. It works the same way as someone taking over an apartment lease, provided they pass a credit check. Prepaid phone plans and pay-as-you-go plans are gaining in popularity. “There’s no strings attached,” Kerney said. “That’s the big thing is people don’t like being locked into a contract for a year or two.” Perhaps contracts will be phased out if prepaid phones

continue to sell at high rates and contracts don’t start adjusting their pricing. Boost Mobile is an example of a prepaid cell phone with no contract. “Boost Mobile gets you unlimited talk, text, Web, GPS for $50 a month,” Kerney said. “People are going crazy for it.” Owning the newest cell phone gadgets today is likely to tire a person out and empty their wallet. Today’s model is tomorrow’s has-been. What’s in store for the future of cell phones? Nokia has a concept phone called the Morph. On its Web site, Nokia claims the Morph will utilize nanotechnology, which will make the phone flexible and stretchy. It will be self-cleaning, meaning it will repel water, dirt and fingerprints. Other phone manufactures are creating phones that

will be entirely waterproof, thus saving consumers the anguish of discovering their warranty or insurance doesn’t cover water damage. Another concept phone plans to allow its users to charge its battery by walking, running or shaking it. It also has a built-in pedometer and heart-rate monitor. LG Electronics has created a new touch screen watch phone. According to its Web site, It looks like a watch but doubles as a high-tech videophone, has voice recognition and a Bluetooth headset. It also has a text-to-speech feature that allows the phone to read text messages out loud. More phones in the making have built in projectors, which will project onto a nearby wall or whiteboard. Some manufactures even hope to create the image with touch sensitivity so the virtual screen can actually interact with the user.

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Fall means preparing for colder temps

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all. Sunlight no longer beats down on the sparsely protected top of my head. The light seems a little tired, diffused, cooler, somehow gentler. Fall has fallen, and will take the hot hectic “make hay while the sun shines” season down with it with a blast of nippy air and the silvery wonder of the seasons’ first frost. Around the county hunkering down for winter mixes with last minute outdoor frolics under the suns cooler rays. Youth soccer and football keep kids busy and parents run ragged. Hikers seek the eye-straining beauty of the “fire in the hills” where the cold nights paint deciduous trees and shrubs eye-popping reds, oranges and yellows that seem to leap out from the hillsides as if lit

Fresh start Kermit Swift contributing columnist from within. Trailers and trucks heaped with firewood sprout like mushrooms on roadsides and in parking lots, their value to the “chain saw challenged” clearly declared on hand-lettered signs. Camo is the fashion of the day! Men women and children don “mossy oak breakup” and “woodland” to publicly practice degrees of invisibility in crosswalks and grocery stores in preparation for the hunts to come.

“Last cutting” bales sit scattered on green fields with dun-colored edges. The lifeblood of the farming community is turned off until spring. Rivers and lakes are low, having spent themselves feeding rich thirsty harvests. The roar of leaf blowers and the scritch-scritch of rakes become dominant sounds on tree-lined streets as summer’s shade trees dance this year’s fandango, dropping their riotous fall-colored fans, ultimately standing exposed. Their stark branches rattling in chilly winds until spring. The gridiron calls to boys of all ages. It’s a heart-tug so strong that boys too young and skinny and men too old, fat and gimpy report to back yards and grade school fields. Sometimes they wind up in emergency rooms, still

trumpeting their prowess while silently hoping their “plaster badge of courage” will keep them off the field until baseball begins. In the wake of goose bumps too obvious to hide, muscle shirts and bare chests give way to long-sleeve work shirts and “hoodies,” Heavy canvas jackets are dug out of the backseats and tool boxes of crew cab pickups just in case. The annual run to the tire store happens in November where drivers wait like expectant fathers for their studs to arrive. Winter and ice follow no schedule, but the DOT tries to out guess them every year. Those of us on higher, steeper terrain know better than to trust those guesses. We want our studs NOW. Once they’re on fall can give way to winter weather any time it likes.

Books to get you through a blustery fall day A flood of titles, from thrillers and killers to American history By Allen Pierleoni McClatchy Newspapers

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”The Signal”

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wife, Vonnie, take their 10th camping trip together in the Wyoming mountains. It’s to say goodbye to their failed marriage. But Mack has another motive for the trek — one more job, a big one. Things quickly go bad in this literary thriller that’s getting great reviews.

”The Thing

Around Your Neck”

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The master storyteller weaves a dozen

insightful tales set in warravaged Nigeria and America, where violence continues to escalate.

”We Came In Peace For All Mankind” by Tahir Rahman (Silicon Disc, LLC, $28, 293 pages):

When astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin visited the moon in 1969, among the items they left behind was a silicon disc with encrypted messages from Earth’s leaders. Rahman tells the behind-the-scenes story

and reproduces the leaders’ messages. With rare photos.

”Fifty Grand” by Adrian McKinty (Henry Holt, $25, 320 pages):

McKinty belongs to a crop of Irish crime novelists that includes John Connolly, Declan Burke and Ken Bruen. He takes a break from his Forsythe series to introduce Detective Mercado, a cop from Cuba who goes undercover as a maid to track down her father’s killer.

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