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ByTRISHAWALKERHOODRIVER — Janet Planetdreamed of owning a bead storelong before she opened SparklingCreations inHoodRiveralmost10years ago.In fact, you might say she wasobsessed by the idea.She began beading in 1992while in college at the Universityof Louisville, located in her homestate of Kentucky, and “really gotinto it,” she said. “I fell in lovewithbeads. I became completely ob-sessedwith them. I would dreamof beads.“I’dbeendreamingofowningabead store since 1994,” she said.“When Iwould visit bead stores, Iwould think, ‘Now this is a job Icould love to do.’”After graduatingwith a degreein criminology and sociology,Janet joined the Grateful Deadtour for three years, selling herhandmade jewelry “in theparkinglot orwherever I could,” she said.She quit the tour in 1995 andbegan selling her beaded cre-

ations at music festivals, art andstreet fairs, and at private parties.All thewhile, she savedapercent-age of her earnings for the day

whenshecouldopenastorefront.But shealsodid the“normal ca-reer thing” from 1993 to 1999,working with juvenile delin-quents and living in Colorado.You might say a pivotal mo-ment came when, in Durango,Colo., Janet left that job towork at

a bead shop like the ones she’dadmired for so long.“Theowners reallyencouragedand inspired me to continue mydream of owning my own beadstore,” she said.Itwasalsoan intensive, hands-on business class of sorts — shelearned the many aspects of run-ning a business, from pricingitems to locating distributors.Finally, in June 2006, all of herplanning and dreaming and sav-ing finally came to fruition whensheopenedSparklingCreations intheOakMall—whereBGorge-usBoutique is now — and begansellingbeadsandteachingclasses.Eventually, she added a selectionof rocks and gems.“I’ve always had a love forrocks, I had just originally notplanned to sell them,” she said.“I have amazingly dedicatedcustomerswho come in for rocksand crystals,” she said. “A lot ofspiritual people use rocks andcrystals for birthingnecklaces, al-tars, water blessing ceremonies

and somuchmore.”By the time she moved to hercurrent location at 409 Oak inJune 2008, she was a full-servicebead shop. It’s theonly such storein the Gorge.Janet offers free beginnerclasses every six to eight weeksfor those who are looking to trytheir hand at beading.“They can come and enjoy, seewhat’s involved and make a sim-ple necklace to take home,” Janetexplained. “I love working withour customers.”She also offers classes focusingonadvanced techniques;both thebeginner and advanced classescan be found in the CommunityEducation catalog each season.“As styles change, we learnthem and then teach them,” shesaid. “Wirewrapping is very pop-ular rightnow. I’vebeen forced tolearn how to do it,” she laughed.“One of the girls here (AutumnWalker) is a master at it and hastaughta lotof theclasses. She’s re-ally good at it. It’s quirky because

there’s all thesewiresyouhave tomesswith.”But customers can also comeinto the store and create jewelrythen and there — the staff canhelp with design or encourage-ment, and have all suppliesneeded to make a one-of-a-kind

piece. She has people of all ages,from children to adults, take ad-vantage of the shop’s creativespace.“We have amazing customerservice,” Janet said. “TheSparkling

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Janet Planet, owner of Sparkling Creations, is planning thestore’s 10th anniversary next year.Above, she shows formeremployee and self-described bead enthusiast DanaTickner— whose handmade jewelry is one of many on display —newpieces.

SALEM – Grower-owned cooperative OregonCherry Growers, known for perfecting the originalmaraschino cherry and debuting the first line ofmaraschinos made with non-GMO certified Fair-trade cane sugar, is unveiling its latest innovation –this time in packaging.The cooperative’s popular Royal Harvest Bor-deaux-Style Maraschinos and The Royal CherryMaraschinos, featuring hand-picked cherriesgrown in the Northwest, are now available instand-up pouches at select retailers across thecountry, liquor stores in Oregon and on Ama-zon.com.The cooperative is based in The Dalles.The no-mess, convenient and re-sealable stand-up pouches are the first to market in themaraschino category, and feature transparentpackaging for product visibility. Aswith all OregonCherry Growers products, the cherries are of the

highest quality andfreshness standards.“We take great pridein delivering the prod-ucts our customers arelooking for, and weknowconvenient pack-aging is an increasinglyimportant factor,” saidTim Ramsey, OregonCherry Growers Presi-dent and CEO. “Wehave had great re-sponse to the newpouches so far and expect them to be popularwithpeople looking to enhance their cocktail experienceor liven up their desserts.”The pouches are available in three varieties:• Royal Harvest Bordeaux-Style Maraschino

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Creations teammakeseverythingfun.”For those who don’t have timeto make something themselves,Janet also carries a selection ofjewelry handmadeby herself andher employees.“Handmade jewelry has reallytaken off this year,” she said.Shemight be 10 years into thisventure, but the novelty of own-ing her own bead store hasn’tworn off.“I spend so much time in thisstore, and it still mesmerizes meevery day,” she said. “It’s like Iwalk into the store for the firsttime every time.”She’s never lived anywhere aslong as she’s lived in Hood River,and she’s not planning to leaveany time soon.“(Hood River) is an amazingplace,” she said. “I feel sohonoredto live in this place. It’s an amaz-ing community.”

JANETContinued from page 3

Isabel and Keith Doroski have opened Best ofBelgium by Belle, a new chocolatier located at 202Cascade Ave., Suite 1 in Mall 202.

The chocolate shop is “focused on providingdelicious high-quality Belgian chocolates andwaffles,” according to a press release.

The Doroskis specialize in waffles in severalvarieties — sweet, savory, and on a stick — andhave milk, dark and white Belgium chocolates;customers can build their own box of sweets, orchoose from one of the pre-boxed selections.They also serve hot chocolate.

“I am from Belgium and I have been blessed tolive in Hood River for 20 years,” said Isabel. “I al-ways dreamed about opening a shop and sharingthe best chocolate and waffles in the world …”

Best of Belgium by Belle is open Tuesdaythrough Friday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Satur-day and Sunday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. More informationcan be found on their website at www.bestofbel-giumbybelle.com.

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ISABEL and Keith Doroski are the owners of Best of Belgium by Belle, located in Mall 202 in downtownHood River. The shop specializes in chocolates and waffles.


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ByMARK GIBSONTHE DALLES — As manybusinesses in The Dalles engagein the happy challenge of deco-rating for the Christmas holiday— stringing lights, creatingwin-dow displays, hangingsnowflakes —Sunshine MillWinery at the east end of down-town faces a unique challenge:How do you effectively decoratea massive, historic industrialmonument dominating the eastend of the downtown core?“Everybody waits for us todecorate the silos,” said wineryco-owner James Martin. “Thereis a lot of thought that goes intoeven the little changeswemake,you have to be very careful.”The huge mill, with its sixconcrete silos, towers over theeast end of downtown as theonly designated skyscraper in

The Columbia River Gorge.Each holiday season for thepast several years, the wineryhas added new touches to itsChristmas decor. Like last year,colored floodlights now lightthree sides of the mill. In addi-tion, there is a Celtic cross out-lined in lights on the west wall.On the east side, crews areclose to finishing a new holidaydisplay: Three large figures areoutlined in lights, a wine bottle,a traditional wine glass and aCopa wine cup. Within each fig-ure is an adornment resemblinga wax stamp, using shapes thatadvertise thewinery brands butvisually represent the era dur-ing which the mill operated atthe turn of the century. “Wehope to keep adding thoseadornments,” Martin added.Care is taken to maintain thehistoric feel of the silos, he said.

“The antiquity of it, the dis-tressed look, is beautiful.Adding the lights, its beauty isbetter shared.” The coloredfloodlights, which have illumi-nated the silos during the holi-days for several years, havedrawn some criticism, Martinsaid, but “people have takenownership of it.” He appreciatesthe input, he added. “Their opin-ions are strong, this is a monu-ment. We see ourselves ascaretakers.”Decorating a monument isn’teasy, and it isn’t cheap. “It’s sucha big building, anything you dois big and expensive. We try tomake sustainable changes,”Martin said.The new design, although itappears simple, was very diffi-cult to create. “It was tough todraw, it was tough to design,”Martin said, in part because the

simple designs are being in-stalled on the curving walls ofeach silo. “We’re still trying totweak it,” he said.Planning for new additions tothe holiday designs go on allyear. “The balance between art,commercialism and history, it isa very fine line,” he said of thechallenge. “What drives us is,not just making money but pur-suing something that is unique,that is not like anything else inthe world.“You do it from love and pas-sion.”This year, the silo was lit be-fore the holidays even began:Following the recent terroristattacks in Paris, France, the siloswere reflected in the colors ofthe French flag.It was a personal thing, saidMartin. “We have a partner inour Copa Di Vino brand, we are

partners in the technology, peo-ple who live in France. It’s just ablow to us, to see what theFrench people are goingthrough. We wanted to showour support for the people ofFrance.”Those lights were up throughthe Thanksgiving holiday.The Celtic cross occupyingthewest-facingwall was also in-spired by a personal relation-ship, Martin said.A family friend, Rt. Rev.Rustin “Rusty” Kimsey, the lateDiocese of Eastern OregonBishop, had a collection ofbooks on Celtic crosses, Martinexplained.“We wanted to represent hispassions, and honor the Chris-tian holiday. Kimsey died soonafter the lighted cross was firstinstalled.“I know he saw a picture of

it,” Martin said. “He was reallyimportant, really loved in thiscommunity.”What will next year bring?Martin said they plan to dosomething new, something dif-ferent, each year. In the mean-time, residents can take home apiece of the Sunshine Mill Win-ery holiday spirit home for theholidays: They are sellingChristmas ornaments, coffeemugs andmagnets featuring thewinery’s logo in their tastingroom at 901 East Second Street.Like the outside walls, the in-side space is decorated forChristmas as well ... and cus-tomers can take advantage of“happy hour” wine prices from4 to 6 p.m. through all of De-cember as they soak up thespirit of Christmas.“It’s fun to be a part of theholiday season,” Martin said.


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THEDALLES — Taggers have onceagainbeen targetingTheDalleswith spraypainted graffiti — some of it vulgar, someof it threatening—but thosewhoseprop-erties have been hit need not repaint orcall a specialist, saidBarbaraPizzola ofA’sSewing.“People getting all that spray paint andstuff, they can remove it themselves,” shesaid.Pizzola has been selling commercialstrength cleaning products for over 10years, and stocks plenty of “Graffiti Off!”“You spray it on, let it sit for a minuteand clean it off with a scrubber,” she said.The Dalles maintenance departmentuses it to clean the Lewis and Clark Festi-valParkbathrooms,wheregraffiti appearsregularly. It works on dumpsters, walls,glass, vinyl — pretty much any surfacesubject to graffiti.“It’s apretty simpleproduct,” she said. Ithas a mild smell and—most importantly—itworks. Pizzolahad theopportunity touse it herself, when graffiti was spraypainted on poles at the front of her store.A’s Sewing was purchased in 1979 byPizzola’s father, EarlAnderson, andmovedto its current location, 422 E. SecondStreet, in 1984. Sewing machines, acces-sories and repair remain the mainstay ofthe business, but when a cleaning supplycompany located across the street closedaround 2006, A’s Sewingmoved to fill theniche.

Paper products are a mainstay — inthe summer they even deliver paperproducts to the migrant housing facili-ties at area orchards — as are windowwashing supplies. Professional waxesand floor strippers are also in stock.In addition to those providing janitor-ial and maintenance services, many ofher customers are simply homeowners“who just want to clean things up.”

“There are a lot of products you sim-ply won’t find in a box store,” she ex-plained. “It’s industrial strength.” Qualitycleaners are easier to use, more efficient,and can cleanmore thoroughly, she said.“I have people drive all the way upfrom Portland to buy Lightning,” shelaughed. Lightning?It’s a toilet bowl cleaner, one thatworks, Pizzola explained.

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Barbara Pizzola holds up a bottle of “Graffiti Off!” Homeowners can re-move spray-painted graffiti easily with the product,she said.Her husband,who works in public maintenance, swears by the product for removingpaint from public restrooms.

THE DALLES — The Port ofThe Dalles has brought a newwebsite online, MadeinWasco-County.com, spotlighting thefolks in Wasco County whomake everything from hand-beaded jewelry to beer to in-dustrial vats, and more.“MadeinWascoCounty.com isstage two of an effort by thePort to help existing local busi-nesses grow and thrive, frommajor manufacturers to smallcottage businesses,” said KathyUrsprung, Port marketing andcommunications manager. “It’sno coincidence that it is comingonline just as the core holiday

shopping season looms.”The Port started this effort infall 2014 to provide added valueto existing Port District busi-nesses with the launch of thepopular Made in Wasco CountyFacebook page. At currentcount, the page includes about60 Wasco County makers.“If you’re just browsingthrough on Facebook, that’sgreat, but that’s a lot of busi-nesses to scroll through if youare looking for something spe-cific,” Ursprung said. “That’swhy MadeinWascoCounty.comis searchable, alphabetized andorganized into categories — so

it’s easier and quicker to findthe business you’re looking for.”The Port is also seekingmorebusinesses to include on thewebsite and Facebook page. Asthe name implies, the site is forbusinesses or individuals whomake and sell a product.“Making a product doesn’thave to be the only thing thebusiness does,” Ursprung said.“In fact, the product can be sec-ondary to their main purpose,but since the site is oriented to-ward makers and shoppers,some kind of a product needs tobe involved.”The Port’s mission is to sup-

port “the creation, retention, ex-pansion and recruitment ofbusinesses and jobs that will en-hance the economy of the portdistrict.” One of the most effec-tive ways to do that is to helpexisting businesses grow andbecome stronger.“We want people to shopwith local businesses, becausethe money they spend herestays here and circulates toother businesses and serviceproviders,” Ursprung said.“Buying from local businessesalso helps assure that thosebusinesses and the things theyoffer are available in our com-munity in years to come.The quickest way to be in-cluded is to email a businessphoto and brief description to

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ANEWwebsite,MadeinWascoCounty.com,featuresmakerbusinesses from large to small located inWasco County. Itwas created by the Port of The Dalles as part of its missionto help enhance existing businesses.

HOOD RIVER — Emily Lage,an eighth grade student at Hori-zon Christian School, Lyric Em-mons, an eighth grade studentat Hood River Middle School,Connor Chapman, an eighthgrade student at Mid-ColumbiaAdventist School, and AnnaPickering, a sixth grade studentfrom Wy’east Middle School,have all taken the first step tobecoming an internationally-recognized artist by winning alocal competition sponsored bythe Hood River Lions Club.Thewinningposterswill beondisplay in downtownHoodRiverLibrary’s Library Lane, the base-

ment passageway gallery.Lage, Emmons, Chapman andPickering’s posters are amongmore than 375,000 entries sub-mittedworldwide in the28th an-nual Lions Peace Poster contest.LionsClubs International is spon-soring the contest to emphasizethe importance ofworld peace toyoung people everywhere.Staff members, including artinstructors and vice principalsfrom each school, judged theposters based on originality,artisticmerit andportrayal of thecontest theme, “SharePeace.”Thejudgingwasheldduring theweekof Nov. 2-6 at each school.

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ByTRISHAWALKERHOODRIVER — The MayStreet Rockin’ Robo-Dragonsteam is saving the world oneHood River grocery shopper at atime.If you were at Rosauers Dec. 6—or even a couple of afternoonsthe following week— youmighthave noticed a group of studentshandingout free reusablegrocerybags in the store’s entrance, orbeside a new barrel in front bythe cash registers. The program,which the Rockin’ Robo-Dragonshave dubbed “Earth Bags,” is asimple one aimed at reducingplastic sacks coming out of thegrocery store. Parent volunteerand coach AJ Kitt describes it asusing the same idea as pennydishes found beside most regis-ters — if you need a penny, youtakeone, and if youhaveapenny,you leave it.That’s the idea behind EarthBags: If you need a bag at check-out, you can take a free one fromthe barrel. If you have an extrareusablebag, or if youwant to re-turn the one youpreviously took,you place it back in the barrel.“It’s so simple, it’s mind bog-gling,” Kitt said. The studentshave been working on the prob-

lemand its solution sinceAugust.The team—Isis Stenn, PeytonWells, Owen Sheppard, CooperWood, Ava Kitt, Ayden Kitt andAksel Kitt — have also made upstickers for patrons to put ontheir refrigerators or in the car toremind them to bring along theirreusable bags to the store. Stacksof the stickers canbe foundat theregisters.Theirs is one of 450 clubs inOregon (and one of many at MayStreet Elementary) taking placein First Lego League (FFL) robot-ics. Grade school teams aroundthe world have been working onthe same challenge, said Kitt:Building and programming arobot to complete a variety of dif-ferentmissions, and identifying aproblem within the world oftrash — FFL calls it the TrashTrekChallenge.Thestudentspre-sented their robots and theirEarth Bags idea at the FFL robot-ics tournament atWy’eastMiddleSchool Dec. 13.“Our solution is to rid theworld of plastic grocery bags andreplace themwith cloth reusablebags,” Kitt said. “A bunch of 10-year-olds cameupwith it, and thehour and ahalfwewere there (atRosauers on Dec. 6), we made adifference … we made people

aware of it.”There’s a disconnect betweenunloading your reusable grocerybag in your kitchen and then get-ting that same reusable grocerybagnotonlyback into the car, butout into the store for anotheruse.That’swhere the sticker comesin.“It’s something the kidsthought up,” Kitt said. “You take asticker and put it in the car, or onthe fridge, or wherever it will re-mind you.”The May Street Rockin’ Robo-Dragonsarenotonly learningen-gineering and programmingskills, but social skills, creativethinking, critical problem solvingand teamwork. FLL also encour-ages what Kitt called “graciousprofessionalism.”“It’s a pretty remarkable edu-cational tool,” Kitt saidof thepro-gram.The barrel of reusable bagswill stay at the store— assistantmanager Doug Bohn has beenvery receptive and helpful, saidKitt — and the team hopes that,much like thosepennydishes, thebarrel of reusable bagswill catchonwith shoppers.“Hopefully the word willspread a bit,” Kitt said.

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BrettVandenHeuvel, Colum-bia Riverkeeper Executive Di-rector and attorney, receivedthe Oregon State Bar Environ-mental and Natural ResourceSection’s annual Leadershipand Service Award on Thurs-day, Dec. 10.The award recognizes aperson who has providedleadership, service, and out-standing contributions in en-vironmental and naturalresources law. VandenHeuvel,who helms the environmentalconservation group based inHood River and Portland, wasselected out of 460 lawyers.“Oregon is renowned forstrong environmentallawyers, and I’m honored toaccept this award from myoutstanding peers,” Vanden-Heuvel said.

The award, VandenHeuvelsaid, also reflects good workby the Riverkeeper legalteam, which “brings success-ful legal actions to protectclean water and our climate.”Chris Winter, Co-ExecutiveDirector of Crag Law Centerand amember of the executive

committee at Oregon’s naturalresource law center, describedtheRiverkeeper leader’s careeras a “long and distinguishedtrack record” advocating con-servationof theColumbiaRiverecosystem.LizTerhaar,Riverkeeperad-ministrative coordinator, felt itwas a rare opportunity for alocal environmental attorneyto receive the statewideaward.“I think it’s significant that alawyer in a small town likeHood River received astatewide recognition fromhispeers,” Terhaar said. “It’s nicefor anattorney for theGorge tobe recognized.”Now director of ColumbiaRiverkeeper, VandenHeuvelleads the organization’s legaland policy work to protectcleanwater.

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road and into the municipaltreatment plant on RiversideDrive.The Hook will be closed topedestrians and drivers untilMarch. City Public Works Di-rector Mark Lago said the con-struction zone is deceptivelydangerous, and the publicshould heed the signs and roadblocks.“It’s a huge safety risk,”Lago said, especially a trenchon site that leads to a sectionof the main pipe, which is diffi-cult to spot from a distance.While the city endeavorswith physical constructionwork, the Port of Hood Riverhas pushed forward with nu-merous waterfront land sales.The Port expects to close ontwo property sales by the endof the month: Turtle Island

Foods (Tofurky) and Shep-pard’s Inc. respectively.Port Executive DirectorMichael McElwee expected theTofurky land sale to close Dec.28. The vegetarian food pro-cessing company plans to builda 20,000-square-foot refrigera-tion and distribution facility onthe western edge of the parcel,which sits at the corner of Sec-ond Street and Portway on thewaterfront. Construction on theproperty could begin as early asJanuary.Next up at the greater Expoproperty, slightly north of theformer Expo Building itself, willbe a 60,000-square-foot light in-dustrial building designed byKey Development Corp. of HoodRiver. The development com-pany received city approval fortheir design plans in mid-De-

cember, and the Port expects toclose on the deal in March.Also on the riverfront hori-zon: Sheppard’s, a local orchardequipment company, plans torelocate onto the corner ofNorth Second Street and River-side Drive, formerly known asthe “Burger King property.”The Port’s land sale withSheppard’s will likely closewithin the next two weeks,McElwee said. If the deal goesaccording to schedule, con-struction will begin in early- tomid-2016.Other Port news

• The Port of Hood River hasassessed damages to the HoodRiver Bridge at $200,000. Thebridge was struck by a vessel (asuspected four-tow barge) inearly fall, and the Port has been

investigating the incident and isnow conducting recovery workon its lift span, whichwill remaindown for three to fourmonths.• The Port is considering pur-chasing an additional propertynear the formerHanelMill site in

Odell. The new3.5 acre property,ownedbya local orchardist, is bi-sectedbyHighway35.ThePort isinteresting in acquiring it as a“contiguous” property than con-nects to their redevelopmentdis-trict.

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the last to leave. Then, he goeshome and edits all the photos sothey look truly amazing. Perkinsmanages to take beautiful pho-tos even in terrible light, thanksto his obsession with the tech-nology of lighting equipment.When asked what motivateshim, Perkins said, “Photographylets me use my technical skillsand blend my artistic side intosomething that can touch some-one like nothing else. A greatphotograph can invoke a widerange of emotions. I love whenpeople get lost in one ofmy pho-tographs.”Perkins volunteers in otherways as well. He spoke at STEMCareer Day about technologycareers, and he also spoke atToastmasters about the value ofpublic speaking for career ad-

vancement.Janet Hamada, Executive Di-rector of The Next Door, said,“Ray provides a service thatnonprofits need. We are sohappy and grateful to be able togive him this award. He trulydeserves it.”Here’s a partial list of eventsRay has photographed as a vol-unteer: the Gala Fashion Showfor the Hood River ChristmasProject, the Gorge KidsTriathlon, the Lila May TutuTrot, Lila May Santa PhotoShoot, Westside ElementaryChair Affair Fundraiser, MagicalHistory Tour for the CascadeLocks Sternwheeler MuseumFundraiser, Opportunity Con-nections Garden Party and TeaParty, Relay for Life and theGoldendale Festival of Speed.SUBMITTEDPHOTO

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