Pacific NWNews Service Since 1992

Pacific NWNews Service Since 1992
Sept 20, 2013

Members of the National Press Photographers Association

TrekNature was first suggested by Robert Brown in June, 2004 and opened to the public in July, 2004. TrekNature is based on the same code used by TrekEarth. However, TrekNature is a dedicated nature and wildlife photo community.

I say the above because for a Friday this is a slow news  day. But TrekNature goes on with only the very best professionals in Nature Photography. We have a few National Geographic Photographers there as well as other professionals. The whole lot is about 50 thousand users. I became one who gave only positive citiques. I did my work in a creative way and I knew that if a picture looked poorly, in able to help that young person do better he did not need to be whipped about the head by some egotistical news photographer. TN as we all fondly called it, is full of world travellers. I have met my share. It is actually how I first bumped into the now famous Rick Price. Thanks to ingenuity, I have assembled a worldwide cast of photographers who could in theory be on assignment from bobshannon.org....so watch your P's and Q's. No but seriously..I have mentored a few and become grand friend, they allowing me to show their great works on these humble pages.

Kathy Meader frequently does scanner work for fires and accidents we can put together with our Washington State Patrol Media buttons. I have been asking her lately to take more images of people. As seen above, using a very shallow depth of field, the daughter of a friend appears very true to life. Kathy is in New Zealand staying at a friends home. The above image is of her friends daughter getting home from school. It most certainly roves what I have said all along. Kathy is not just another gal from Cheney Washington with a camera. Now she too joins the ranks of all around photographer and world traveler. We do not expect to see her for a couple of weeks.

Although we are moving into Fall, Kathy in New Zealand is moving into Spring. Time-wise she is now 19 hours ahead of us....meaning it is tomorrow there before it is here. Again showing her all around capabilities, she sent us this flora image which is sure sign of spring as we know worldwide. We expect to see a bunch of pictures from such exotic locations and volcanoes which are active. Very exciting for Kathy and for you our readers.

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All are invited to join us as we send the message: Quel Hoy' (We Draw The Line) against coal exports in a showing of blessings and strength for the Totem Pole Journey as it stops in Portland at Cathedral Park along the Willamette River.

The Kwel hoy’ Totem Pole journey, September 15-29, 2013, will start in the Powder River Basin and follow the coal train route west through Indian Country, through the Columbia Gorge, then north to Xwe’chi’eXen, the proposed site of the Cherry Point coal export terminal near Bellingham, WA.

The journey will conclude in British Columbia, where the totem pole will be placed in the homeland of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation, demonstrating unity with the Canadian First Nations’ position opposing the transport of Tar Sands by pipelines across their territories. There, the totem pole will be met by Tribes and First Nations from all directions.

The Totem Pole will be placed as a means of reinforcing the message: Kwel hoy.’ (We Draw The Line)

The House of Tears Carvers and a team of support people and witnesses will accompany the Totem Pole on its 1,200 mile long journey. At each event, Tribal members, non-Tribal local citizens, elected officials, and the press will be invited to attend.

CONNECTING THE PEOPLES OF THE WEST

One primary goal of the journey is to connect tribal nations along the coal corridor. Tribal Nations innately understand and honor the need to protect sacred landscapes and treaty rights. Uniting the Tribal Nations is important for this particular issue and for Tribal communities that would be affected by coal transport and export.

The proposed coal rail line and port brings very different cultural communities together in a common cause. The proposal has unique ramifications not only for Tribal Nations, but also for communities all along the rail lines and shipping lanes that would be affected by coal export. Communities, commerce, livelihoods, public health, tourism, agriculture, fisheries, air and water safety, natural resources, quality of life would all be adversely impacted. In asking for blessings and strength from communities along the coal transportation corridor, the Kwel hoy’ Totem Pole brings together the Peoples of the West. People of many faiths can stand united in protecting the sacred, and people of many traditions can support honoring treaty rights and the traditional livelihoods they ensure. People from all affected communities can stand against this project.

Blanche Montbrousouss tells us that adding a potato will make a complete scrumptious
clam bake meal. Taken recently at the Ma Kettle house in Danville, WA

THE DECISION

Good morning!
    Well, yesterday was decision time... again. I can't get help moving the tree for a couple of more weeks. Working on the hill has been difficult, to say the least. I needed better footing, at least. Enter... Peter Tack.
    Peter is a very
WOW! ABOUT 20-30 GEESE JUST FLEW LOW, OVER THE TREES... RIGHT OVER MY HEAD! I COULD HEAR THE HEAVY FLAPPING OF THEIR WINGS!
    O.K. Where was I???
    Oh, yeah. Peter is a very talented wood carver/artist who made fis living with a chain-saw, back in the day. Now, he makes walking sticks, beaded jewlery, and portraits! He offered to help, with the chain-saw. I couldn't pass it up! He had already offered to hit the big knots, but I wanted more. With my back and knees the way they are, I was having trouble standing on top of the tree. Well, to make a long story short, I can stand IN it, now!
    I'll be choppin' in a big way, today! Afterwards, I will coat a large portion of the canoe with linseed oil. I must protect the gunwales, since they are exposed, now. The bow needs another coat, as well. I'll do the entire outside of the canoe, eventually. For now, the inside stays dry... I'm choppin' in there!
    Let me be clear... I'm making the best DUGOUT CANOE I can! Using the best tools availeable is
A DEER JUST RAN BY THE CANOE!
    Anyway... Using the best tools availeable makes sense. I assure you, my Great Great Great Great Grandpa William used the best tools HE had! I made KNOTTY THE DUGOUT CANOE (GOOGLE IT) with hand tools, only. That said, when I modified her, after paddling across Nebraska, I FINISHED her with a grinder! She's super-sexy, now, and half her original weight (as a canoe)! I'll paddle her down the Mighty Mo', next Spring...
    My focus, here, is the BIG PINE. Mother nature is going to test me, soon, I feel. It's a cool morning. Good chopping weather, though! I need to get this beauty off this hill before the first snow! There's only one thing to do... CHOP!
                                  CANOE! CANOE! 

Telegraph Cove our home for the last couple of days-Rick Price

Voted one of the ten best "towns" in Canada to visit by travel writers (as published in Harrowsmith Magazine), Telegraph Cove is tucked away on the eastern coast of Northern Vancouver Island in one of the last virtually untouched areas of the North American continent. This tiny sawmill and cannery community was important to the development of the North Island and has a rich and colorful history. From 1911 when the first telegraph operator took up residence in Telegraph Cove this little cove has been a unique part of Northern Vancouver Island.
Telegraph cove resorts takes pride in being able to present it to the general public in as close to the original condition as possible. You'll love our cozy cabins/cottages along the boardwalk and our campground / RV park in the old growth forest.

The 2013 September equinox comes on September 22, at 3:44 p.m. CDT (20:44 UTC). In the Northern Hemisphere, the sun is rising later now, and nightfall comes sooner. This is our autumn equinox, when the days are getting shorter in the Northern Hemisphere. At this equinox, day and night are approximately equal in length. For us in the Northern Hemisphere, people are enjoying the cooler days of autumn even as preparations for winter are underway.  

The committee charged with drafting rules for Oregon's state-sanctioned medical marijuana industry meets for the first time this morning. 

The committee, hand-picked by Tom Burns, who oversees the state's pharmaceutical drug program, includes police, prosecutors, marijuana lobbyists, lawyers, advocates and dispensary operators.Their work will be closely watched by the state's medical marijuana community, which has long sought retail access to cannabis. The state plans to finalize rules by Jan. 31, 2014.
The Oregon Health Authority expects to have a dispensary application process in place by March 1.
Oregon lawmakers this year passed House Bill 3460, which creates a registry for medical marijuana retailers. Unofficial estimates by advocates and law enforcement officials put the number of dispensaries currently operating in the state at more than 100.
The meeting starts at 9 a.m. and will be held at the state employment department auditorium, located at 875 Union Street NE in Salem. The public can attend the meeting, listen in by calling 1-888-251-2909 (call-in ID: 539618#) or watch this live stream.
Questions about the process or the law? Include them in the comments section and I'll do my best to answer.
-- Noelle Crombie

St Rose of Lima -RSS

 

We get our news from BLOGS, friends, contacts locally and sometimes when things become quiet, we copy a paragraph from a nationwide story with links to the station or paper for complete stories. What we gave always focused on local since we first had net access through MCN or Mendocino Community Network.

Our last residence, Ferry County Washington, frequently complains of little to no coverage. That's when with the help of Jeff Kocal, KHQ, the local NBC outlet began covering the 50's Sock Hop. We thank the crew from KHQ for putting all of that effort and time into our small wilderness area. A few months ago I started emailing Leslie Lowe, the weather person at KHQ and asked if every so often she would mention such remorse cities as Republic, Malo and Curlew, which she did.....

When I first retired as a news photographer I felt as though I had a lot of time on my hands with little to do, so I started giving out images gratis to the Omak Chronicle, through their lead photographer Al Camp and to a weekly called Huckleberry Press, owned and edited by Victoria Caudell. Now I am in a wheelchair due to a severe neurological syndrome called Guillain Barre. I am lucky to be alive.

These days my photography is limited to those times when my health aide or family member can give me a ride. I take most pictures through an open car window. We are great full to our Canadian friends Ron Rattray and Rick Price who are super duper photographers, and occasionally to other friends who we have met over the years through National Press a Photographers. And in winters my time is rather empty. So thanks to all who help or have helped to keep me alive!

Bob Shannon

 Carol says HI to all her friends..hey Kathy