COMMUNITY NEWS

July 2002

Last Week in July 2002:
At the monthly meeting of the Lyle Community Action Council Monday the 22^nd, we were pleased to see breathing bodies not belonging to the Council.  We continue to extend the invitation to all of you to come to our meetings, become involved, and help us protect and take care of the “greatest little town in the Columbia River Gorge”.  The Council is involved in a lot of different projects this summer and into the fall.  Park Benches/Equipment Repair, Phone Trees/Block Watch, Disaster Preparedness, Washington State Department of Transportation Plans, Lyle Calendar, Newsletter, Candidate’s Night, Grant Ideas/Sidewalks, Lewis and Clark: Community Celebration, Chili Cook-Off.  If any of these projects interest you, come on down to the meetings held each 4^th Monday of the month, 7:00 p.m., at the Lyle Lions Community Center.  Welcome!

I was asked via phone to take a look at the Chip Site.  Since we encourage you to use this facility made available to us by the county, I did just that.  While there, I copied the sign that maybe is not as visible as this column.  It is as follows:

KLICKITAT COUNTY BRUSH RECYCLING DROP SITE
Chipped material is free to the public.
This site authorized for the following:
Brush and tree limbs 1/4" to 6" in diameter, only for brush originating in Klickitat County.

Specifically forbidden:
No grass clippings, no poison oak, no thorns, no stumps or roots, no construction or demolition debris, no lumber, no rocks, no bagged leaves, pine needles or other fine materials.
Unauthorized use of this site is subject to a fine of up to $25.00 per cubic foot: RCW Chapter 70.93R.

For information or to report abuse, call 509-773-4448.

Klickitat County Solid Waste is in cooperation with The Washington State Department Of Ecology.  The link to the Klickitat County Solid Waste Department has an extensive content indexes listing specific areas relating to solid waste disposal. 

Since several of the “forbidden” items have been left at the site, it would be greatly appreciated if the person or persons responsible for the over-site would pick them up and take them to the proper place.  All of the following can be disposed of at the transfer station at Dallesport or Bingen.

Large black bags of yard debris, railroad ties, pieces of plywood and wood, a tire, broken pieces of cement and anything else that is not brush or limbs of the sizes listed above.

Please go to the back of the lot to dump your limbs and brush and not in the road or in front of the chips.  In doing so, you block any one else’s access to the back and to the chips. Thank you in advance and appreciate your helping us out.

Reminders: 
The chip site is open for the summer.  Dispose of your brush and limbs at this site, recycle all that you can and lets see if we can do away with burn barrels.

Lyle’s burn ban is in effect.

July’s Community Action Council meeting is Monday July 22^nd.  Don’t forget your entry into the Town Slogan Contest entry deadline is September 2^nd.   

Lyle History: As published in the Ruralite September 1985. 

Not too long before Jim’s 1975 retirement from the railroad, the Crosbys moved from Wishram to the ideal spot for Crosby Stables – just a mile or so up the winding Appleton road not far from Lyle.  “They say this old house used to be a cavalry headquarters in pioneer days and later it was a post-office.   There’s plenty of room for the big barn and the exercise wheel for the horses.” 

We can’t all be shining examples, but we can at least twinkle a little.

Week of July 16:
There’s nothing worse than writing a fish story and finding out that you had the facts wrong.  It was Danny Frey that caught the whopper, not Danny Chase.  Anyone that caught a fish that big really should get the credit for the catch.  Sorry Danny, does that mean that you are not going to share? 

At the end of June, 5 rigs from the local Sundowners’ group went to Moses Lake to the Washington State Samboree.  We would like to ask if any of the Sundowners’ that no longer attend Samborees, etc., might have some of the 8 inch light green embroidered patches with the trailer and pickup on them that they used on their vests.  Call Eileen Brashers if you do.

The July outing was at Elk Meadows with 9 rigs attending and the August trip will be to the Lakeside Resort at Pine Hollow.  A change has been made due to the hot weather and the Saturday Potlucks will be held around 5:30. 

It was good to see Pamela Lyle-Walton (a direct descendent of Lyle’s founding family) visiting our area for the weekend.  She was a guest at the Lyle Hotel for a couple of nights and with Barbara one night. 

Reminders: 

The chip site is open for the summer.  Dispose of your brush and limbs at this site, recycle all that you can and lets see if we can do away with burn barrels.

Lyle’s burn ban is in effect.

July’s Community Action Council meeting is Monday July 22^nd.  Don’t forget your entry into the Town Slogan Contest entry deadline is September 2^nd.   

Lyle History: As published in the Ruralite September 1985. 

After all those years of railroad work, Jim was ready in 1964 for some spare-time fun, challenge and hard work of training a Tennessee Walker.  Flash’s Honey Rose seemed always to be in the money wherever she was shown, which included all the small and big shows on the West Coast.  Even in the Cow Palace in San Francisco, the biggest show of all, she placed 4^th, 5^th, and 7^th. 

By 1970 the Crosbys has bought three more Walkers, and Jim was really into the extensive and strenuous program that made them winners.  “Tennessee Walkers have to be in top physical condition, for competition is hard work and takes lots of stamina.  They have to be absolutely perfect in performing three complicated steps: the Flat Walk, the Running Walk and the Rocking Chair Canter.” 

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

Week of July 12:
We discovered Thursday and Friday of this week that it is too blamed HOT for a yard sale. But we do thank all you who ventured out and made a purchase. The proceeds of our sale this year will go to Hospice of the Gorge in Lillian Hamm’s memory. THANK YOU. 

Long time Lyle resident Maude Gibbs celebrated her 93^rd birthday on Friday July 12, with family and friends at the foster home in Lyle were she resides. On Saturday her family had a large gathering and celebration for her at her daughter's home. 

Talk about a fish story: Dan Chase just returned from a fishing trip to Alaska where he landed a 160# Halibut. Looks like lots of fish fries for family and friends this winter.  This trip was the guys’ night out. Dan Chase, Danny Frey, and Jerry Chase spent nine days fulltime fishing. They left all their clothes and other luggage in Alaska just so they could get the entire catch home to their freezers. They are exhausted and exhilarated and ready to go back! 

Reminders: 

The chip site is open for the summer.  Dispose of your brush and limbs at this site, recycle all that you can and lets see if we can do away with burn barrels.

Lyle’s burn ban is in effect.

July’s Community Action Council meeting is Monday July 22^nd.  Don’t forget your entry into the Town Slogan Contest entry deadline is September 2^nd. 

Lyle History: As published in the Ruralite September 1985.

But Henry insisted. The upshot was that Jim got really excited about that fancy-stepping Tennessee Walker with motions so smooth that the rider’s body never moved up and down at all! 

“I just kept thinking what a challenge it would be to train up a colt myself to do all that fancy stuff!” In three months he bought two-year-old Flash’s Honey Rose in Milton-Freewater, and he has been hooked every since. 

Jim had begun working as a brakeman for the Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railroad in 1941, and in 1945 he was promoted to be a conductor. He really liked both jobs. Since 1946 Eunice had also worked for S. P. and S. as a clerk in the office of railroad yards and a day and night caller to notify the freight crews an hour before the train’s departure. 

 If Jimmy cracks corn and no one cares, why is there a song about him?

Week of July 6:
The students and parents of the Lyle High School graduating class of 2003 are planning the first ever Lyle High drug and alcohol free graduation party.  Fund-raisers have begun!  The first fund raiser was a great success as students and parents volunteered for Tommy the Tank Engine’s appearance in Hood River.  They did such a good job that they were asked back for a second day on the 4^th of July.  The next fund-raiser is a car wash at Albertsons’ in The Dalles on July 20^th.  Coming up on August 17^th, a back to school sale/car wash/refreshments, at the Lyle Park Place.  Please contribute time or funds to this very worthy cause.  Our kids are our future. 

Lyle’s first responders had 4 medical calls and firemen had 4 fire calls in the month of June. 

Wishram held their 2^nd PineWood Derby during their Wishram Community Days on the 4^th of July.  Joy went, it was a ball, and pictures and a story will follow in next week’s edition of The Monitor. 

We would like to thank all of you for your patience during the past few weeks while we were unable to prepare a column.  We’re back at it again and welcome any and all news you have to offer.  Thanks. 

Barbara would like to thank everyone for hugs and loving memories shared with her this past week.  They mean the world to her. 

Just a reminder:

The Chip Site is open for the Summer
Dispose of your brush and limbs at this site, recycle all that you can and let’s see if we can do away with burn barrels. 

Lyle’s Burn Ban is in effect as of the 10^th of June.

July’s Lyle Community Action Council meeting is Monday, the 22^nd.

“Town Slogan” Contest for Lyle: Entry deadline is September 2^nd. 

“Multi-Family” Garage Sale, July 11^th and 12^th, 9-5, both days.  610 Columbia Drive, Lyle, Wa  98635.  Everything but the kitchen sink!  Barbara Sexton 509-365-5374

Lyle History: As published in the Ruralite September 1985:

The Crosbys’ daughter Karen, who is a speech and hearing therapist, recalls that she was never allowed to have a dog when she was growing up.  But in 1973, she began to breed and raise Schipperkes when she and her husband lived in Tennessee, and she gave the tiny pup to her parent’s two years ago.  “And now my folks think Pepper Tu is the greatest, and I’m glad!”

Jim’s first big change of mind came in 1964 when his friend Henry Patera invited the Crosbys to come see his Tennessee Walker horse.  Jim had worked long and hard with horses when he was growing up on a farm in Iowa, and he had enough of them to last a lifetime. 

Words are the window to the heart.

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