Still alive
Hi Everyone, Just been puttering around the last few days and seeing whats going on in peoples lives, I still see the site is having problems and trying comment on peoples blogs it shoot's back to the top. Everyone doing find here I've just been enjoying life since my last blog. Judy and I celebrated on 27th wedding anniversary in June, Our youngest daughter finely had here wedding in June. Our son in-law i finely home, Well be grandparent again in about 3 months our on and daughter in-law are expecting there 3 child. Haven't had a whole lot of time to watch TV lately so I'm behind on shows. Have a great week. 
Joel E. Ferris Perennial Garden Panorama
Duncan Garden Manito Park Panorama
Moran Prairie Farm
Looff Carousel
The Spokane Falls in the evening
In Memory Lt. Col. Michael P. Anderson
Williams Lake Eastern Washington State
Joel E. Ferris Perennial Garden Panorama
Duncan Garden Manito Park Panorama
Moran Prairie Farm
Looff Carousel
The Spokane Falls in the evening
In Memory Lt. Col. Michael P. Anderson
Williams Lake Eastern Washington State
posted Monday, August 10, 2009 7:50pm
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Been Lurking.
Hi Everyone. It's been almost a year since I've posted a blog on this account. For you that haven't heard from me in almost a year here's what's going on. Judy and I celebrated our 25th wedding anniversary last June, Our grandkids the twins turned 2 on January 11. Also son returned home from his 3rd tour in Iraq in October, My parent's sold there house in October and have moved up by us, We just finished helping them build a small house on the property. Judy dad will be retiring in May. Judy in December was hit by a drunk driver She is fine the car was total they caught the person, July and January I was injured twice fighting fires nothing serious March I went back to building and launching model rockets. That's about it in our lives. Take care everyone and Have a great week. 
Mt Pocono Pennsylvania.
A Tribute to Rod Serling
Port Orford Oregon
Stiles N.C.
St Johns Newfoundland
Lewis River Falls Washington State
Lafayette Indiana
Yoho NP B.C.
Structure Fire
Date : Address : Officer :
2/13/2008 4016 N. Division BC Craig Cornelius
Narrative :
This evening, February 13, 2008 at 2210 hours, the Spokane Fire Department responded to a reported fire in the Kentucky Fried Chicken Restaurant located at 4016 N. Division St. The first arriving fire companies arrived within 5 minutes of being dispatched and found heavy grey smoke coming from the rear of the building. Workers from the restaurant reported that the fire was in the rear kitchen area and that everyone had safely evacuated the burning building. Fire crews forced a rear metal door off the kitchen area and attacked the fire with several fire attack leads. Additional crews ventilated the roof and front windows to assist the firefighters advancing the leads inside the building. Interior crews fought fire throughout the entire kitchen and rear roof areas. The firefighters brought the fire under control within 30 minutes. There were no injuries to civilians or firefighters at this incident. The restaurant sustained heavy fire and smoke damage. The cause of this fire is still under investigation. The official pronouncement will be made by investigators after all evidence has been reviewed. Fire crews will likely be on the scene for the remainder of the night.
Cause :
Still Under Investigation.
Damage :
Extensive damage to the entire kitchen area.
Grand Coulee Dam Laser Light Show. This narrated story, combines colorful lasers that move across
the entire span of the dam, creating magnificent moving images that virtually dance across the spillway!
Beautiful music, and an uplifting patriotic finish, provide worthy entertainment for all ages! You can see and hear the program from and around the Visitors Arrival Center. Viewing bleachers are available.
Mt Pocono Pennsylvania.
A Tribute to Rod Serling
Port Orford Oregon
Stiles N.C.
St Johns Newfoundland
Lewis River Falls Washington State
Lafayette Indiana
Yoho NP B.C.
Structure Fire
Date : Address : Officer :
2/13/2008 4016 N. Division BC Craig Cornelius
Narrative :
This evening, February 13, 2008 at 2210 hours, the Spokane Fire Department responded to a reported fire in the Kentucky Fried Chicken Restaurant located at 4016 N. Division St. The first arriving fire companies arrived within 5 minutes of being dispatched and found heavy grey smoke coming from the rear of the building. Workers from the restaurant reported that the fire was in the rear kitchen area and that everyone had safely evacuated the burning building. Fire crews forced a rear metal door off the kitchen area and attacked the fire with several fire attack leads. Additional crews ventilated the roof and front windows to assist the firefighters advancing the leads inside the building. Interior crews fought fire throughout the entire kitchen and rear roof areas. The firefighters brought the fire under control within 30 minutes. There were no injuries to civilians or firefighters at this incident. The restaurant sustained heavy fire and smoke damage. The cause of this fire is still under investigation. The official pronouncement will be made by investigators after all evidence has been reviewed. Fire crews will likely be on the scene for the remainder of the night.
Cause :
Still Under Investigation.
Damage :
Extensive damage to the entire kitchen area.
Grand Coulee Dam Laser Light Show. This narrated story, combines colorful lasers that move across
the entire span of the dam, creating magnificent moving images that virtually dance across the spillway!
Beautiful music, and an uplifting patriotic finish, provide worthy entertainment for all ages! You can see and hear the program from and around the Visitors Arrival Center. Viewing bleachers are available.
posted Thursday, February 28, 2008 11:05pm
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Yakima trolleys -- a century old and on a roll
Yakima trolleys -- a century old and on a roll
By ROD ANTONE
YAKIMA HERALD-REPUBLIC
LIZ MARTIN/Yakima Herald-Republic
Rich Rowland waits for the parade of the Yakima Valley Transportation Co.'s streetcars and locomotives to resume after stopping at Tieton Drive and Pine Street to turn around on Sunday. Rowland is a volunteer conductor for the trolley line, which celebrated its 100th anniversary with the parade.
One hundred years later, and the trolley wheels are still rolling along in the Yakima Valley.
Yakima Valley Trolley, formerly known as the Yakima Valley Transportation Co., celebrated a century of continuously running streetcars and locomotives through town Sunday. Families hopped on for a free ride and took a short trip down memory lane, even if it was just from the car barn on South Third Avenue and Pine Street to the end of the road on Eleventh Avenue.
"Whenever she sees the trolleys, she says 'Look nana, choo-choo!'" said Julie Harmia of her 4-year-old granddaughter, Theresa Duran, both of whom got on the first trolley ride of the day. "She's had a fascination of trains ever since she saw the Polar Express (movie)."
Yakima Valley Trolley motorman Scott Neel has had the same fascination since he was a boy. So much so that he has been a volunteer with the organization since 1984, just so he can wear a conductor's hat and keep the trolley rides going for kids of all ages.
"I grew up on the Sixth Avenue line seeing big locomotives every day -- one day they gave me a ride ... that kind of hooked me," he said. "The best part about this job is making kids and people smile."
Besides enjoying the view on a trolley -- or streetcar, as they are also called -- visitors gain a sense of history and pride because Yakima has managed to keep its streetcar system all these years. Author Kenneth Johnson, who wrote a book on the history of the Yakima Valley Transportation Co., classified it as the "last intact, early 20th century American, electric, interurban railroad."
"It's the only one still in its original condition: tracks, buildings, power system, locomotives and some of the streetcars," he said. "It's a real gem."
Those touring the facility can see for themselves the same stone and timber car barn and masonry substation that was built between 1910. The railroad itself was constructed between 1907 and 1913 and at one point ran about 44 miles of track heading out to locations like Selah, Wiley City, and Henrybro.
The trolleys still use the same overhead wires now that they did back then as well. But while the trolleys are just weekend amusement now, once it was an integral part of everyday life in Yakima.
"A lot of women didn't know how to drive back in those days, so they would just step on the street corner and caught the streetcar," said Yvonne Wilbur of the Yakima Valley Historical Society. "Some grandmothers would buy a ticket and put their grandkids on the trolley to ride all day ... it was like a baby-sitter."
Theresa Duran, 4, waves from a streetcar during a Sunday's parade of the Yakima Valley Transportation Co.'s streetcars and locomotives.
It was like that all across the country until the 1930s and '40s, when automobiles became more mainstream, Johnson said. And one by one, streetcar systems began disappearing.
"Nobody wanted streetcars anymore, automobiles were the flashy new thing now," Johnson said. "But in Yakima they were also still hauling freight until 1988, so that kept the system up and running. That's what set it apart."
Almost every piece of the Yakima Valley Trolley system is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. And there are plans to expand it further, to have the streetcars running back to Selah again.
The expansion would mean longer five-mile rides that would last about an hour. Although it will eventually mean more work for volunteers, they don't seem to mind.
For those like Neel, it's the real reason why he and others have been volunteering to keep the tracks running all these years.
"It's fun to maintain this system, but what good is it if you can't share it with the community?" he said.
* Rod Antone can be reached at 577-7628 or rantone@yakimaherald.com
* The Yakima Valley Trolley will make runs every Saturday, Sunday and holiday from May 26 through Labor Day. Trolleys leave the car barn at South Third Avenue and Pine Street hourly from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tickets are $4 for adults and $3 for children.
By ROD ANTONE
YAKIMA HERALD-REPUBLIC
LIZ MARTIN/Yakima Herald-Republic
Rich Rowland waits for the parade of the Yakima Valley Transportation Co.'s streetcars and locomotives to resume after stopping at Tieton Drive and Pine Street to turn around on Sunday. Rowland is a volunteer conductor for the trolley line, which celebrated its 100th anniversary with the parade.
One hundred years later, and the trolley wheels are still rolling along in the Yakima Valley.
Yakima Valley Trolley, formerly known as the Yakima Valley Transportation Co., celebrated a century of continuously running streetcars and locomotives through town Sunday. Families hopped on for a free ride and took a short trip down memory lane, even if it was just from the car barn on South Third Avenue and Pine Street to the end of the road on Eleventh Avenue.
"Whenever she sees the trolleys, she says 'Look nana, choo-choo!'" said Julie Harmia of her 4-year-old granddaughter, Theresa Duran, both of whom got on the first trolley ride of the day. "She's had a fascination of trains ever since she saw the Polar Express (movie)."
Yakima Valley Trolley motorman Scott Neel has had the same fascination since he was a boy. So much so that he has been a volunteer with the organization since 1984, just so he can wear a conductor's hat and keep the trolley rides going for kids of all ages.
"I grew up on the Sixth Avenue line seeing big locomotives every day -- one day they gave me a ride ... that kind of hooked me," he said. "The best part about this job is making kids and people smile."
Besides enjoying the view on a trolley -- or streetcar, as they are also called -- visitors gain a sense of history and pride because Yakima has managed to keep its streetcar system all these years. Author Kenneth Johnson, who wrote a book on the history of the Yakima Valley Transportation Co., classified it as the "last intact, early 20th century American, electric, interurban railroad."
"It's the only one still in its original condition: tracks, buildings, power system, locomotives and some of the streetcars," he said. "It's a real gem."
Those touring the facility can see for themselves the same stone and timber car barn and masonry substation that was built between 1910. The railroad itself was constructed between 1907 and 1913 and at one point ran about 44 miles of track heading out to locations like Selah, Wiley City, and Henrybro.
The trolleys still use the same overhead wires now that they did back then as well. But while the trolleys are just weekend amusement now, once it was an integral part of everyday life in Yakima.
"A lot of women didn't know how to drive back in those days, so they would just step on the street corner and caught the streetcar," said Yvonne Wilbur of the Yakima Valley Historical Society. "Some grandmothers would buy a ticket and put their grandkids on the trolley to ride all day ... it was like a baby-sitter."
Theresa Duran, 4, waves from a streetcar during a Sunday's parade of the Yakima Valley Transportation Co.'s streetcars and locomotives.
It was like that all across the country until the 1930s and '40s, when automobiles became more mainstream, Johnson said. And one by one, streetcar systems began disappearing.
"Nobody wanted streetcars anymore, automobiles were the flashy new thing now," Johnson said. "But in Yakima they were also still hauling freight until 1988, so that kept the system up and running. That's what set it apart."
Almost every piece of the Yakima Valley Trolley system is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. And there are plans to expand it further, to have the streetcars running back to Selah again.
The expansion would mean longer five-mile rides that would last about an hour. Although it will eventually mean more work for volunteers, they don't seem to mind.
For those like Neel, it's the real reason why he and others have been volunteering to keep the tracks running all these years.
"It's fun to maintain this system, but what good is it if you can't share it with the community?" he said.
* Rod Antone can be reached at 577-7628 or rantone@yakimaherald.com
* The Yakima Valley Trolley will make runs every Saturday, Sunday and holiday from May 26 through Labor Day. Trolleys leave the car barn at South Third Avenue and Pine Street hourly from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tickets are $4 for adults and $3 for children.
posted Monday, July 2, 2007 7:19am
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Bad news
Just to let you know what's going V's Aunt passed away this morning. She was having difficulties breathing a few days ago and was admitted to the hospital. Just wanted to let you know he's upset.
Judy
Judy
posted Saturday, February 24, 2007 9:37am
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