White Salmon

Hood River Library will hold its Halloween party with craft treats and a glow-in-the-dark room from 4 to 6.

Downtown White Salmon will be busy tomorrow evening with Jewett Boulevard closed to traffic from 5 to 7 for trick-or-treating.

A costume parade will line up at City Hall at 5.15 and begin at 6.

The Castle of Curiosities will be open at the White Salmon Masonic Hall from 4 to 9.

There will also be Trunk or Treat at the 124 Northeast Church Street parking lot.

And the Festival of Light with family-friendly harvest games and treats will be in the Bubba's Brew Lot.

We'll talk to her in a few moments.

We're going to talk about Halloween in downtown White Salmon.

They've got a lot of stuff planned for Halloween, so we'll talk about that.

Second half of our little radio show, it'll be Juan Reyes and Amber Yautze from Washington Gorge Action Programs.

It's a lot of people stepping up.

It takes a lot of volunteers to make this sort of stuff happen.

This year, it really took the City of White Salmon to get the street closed, and that's a big part of how we have the fun environment is just that street closure.

And it's not the easiest thing to get you at Boulevard closed, is it? I mean, that's a state highway, isn't it? Exactly,

Got a couple cities to talk about.

We're going to talk with White Salmon Mayor Marla Keeler, first part of the show.

We'll talk budget quite a bit with her.

They are in the midst of their 2027 budget work.

And those are two really different timelines.

Now, When I hear all that, my thought is strategic plan.

Does the City of White Salmon have a formal strategic plan?

Well, we have many plans, Mark.

Because I'm watching you guys on video from Goldendale, I don't see the entire room.

But every other county and city I deal with on a regular basis, Hood River County, Wasco County, the cities, Hood River, the Dalles, etc., City of White Salmon, they have legal counsel at every meeting.

They have legal counsel there to help answer questions.

Sometimes they have to be researched.

It is 8.57 in

the morning on Mid-Columbia Today.

Tomorrow on this show, we'll be joined by Mayor of White Salmon, Marla Keebler.

And we'll also be joined by the Mayor of the Dalles, Rich Mays.

I grew up in the gorge in Skamania County.

I started my career in Klickitat County in 2004 with the Benjamin White Salmon Police Department.

Got married and decided to move to Goldendale, where her family's at, to raise a family.

And from Goldendale, I lateraled over to the Klickitat County Sheriff's Office.

And we'll talk Klickertag County with County Commissioner Ron Eyrig.

Tuesday, Mayor of the Dalles, Rich Mays.

And also, we'll talk to White Salmon, Mayor Marla Keebler.

Wednesday, Tamara Tappel from the Mount Adams Chamber of Commerce.

Yeah.

We work with, here in White Salmon, we're partnering with the Klickitat County Sheriff, the Bingen White Salmon Police, our local fire EMS, our, uh, hospital emergency coordination.

We also have mental health providers part of these meetings.

We have our school nurses.

You know, we, we had a former student who, um, transferred up to Bend this year, um, who, you know, was attending that school when that shooting happened.

And so that's affected some of our students and families.

You know, there's been a, a overlapping circle there of, like, trauma for that student at the, who, who transferred, but also for his friends and their families who live here in White Salmon.

So it's, it's hit, you know...

I, I did not handle myself well.

I did kind of freak out because I was like, "We're stranded in White Salmon-

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