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Columbia Basin Culture Tour this weekend

To meet local artists behind the scenes and see first hand what their new creations are, residents are invited to attend free self-tour through the Columbia River this weekend.

Nearly 100 artisans are suspended until their latest inventions - be it paintings, pottery and clothing - and dust off old items reduced for Columbia Tower third annual culture Basin on Saturday and Sunday 10 hours-17 hours

There are five sites in the region this weekend in Rossland.

Finding enough time to bike, ski, raise children and capture everything in a painting was possible by the so-called "old maid" Stephanie Gauvin, who does not need to go far for inspiration in Rossland.

The artist continues to capture the picturesque mountains of the town of Golden and picturesque downtown corners through its vibrant acrylic and oil based paints that could very well be hung in every home second.

"You hear," I have one of your paintings in my house, "and sometimes it's like visiting your children," she laughed in his workshop which will also be open to the public this weekend.

After completing a degree in Fine Arts in Sherbrooke, Que., Gauvin moved west to plant trees. The adventurer wound up in Whistler, before moving to Rossland 17 years ago with her husband Phil Patterson to begin their "family ski."

The free ski champion Rossland and Red Mountain poster girl started painting on glass before going to canvass in 2004.

If it is not hitting Rouge for inspiration in the winter, Gauvin can be found tearing through a mountain bike this summer, stopping only to take the inspiration with a photograph, it can reduce its studio.

"I tell my friends," Stop, we need to move the point of view, "she said of her adventures she recounts.

Constantly eager to learn new techniques, Gauvin attended workshops given by prominent Canadian painters.

"I never want to stop learning," she said."Your whole life you will get better, of course, and after seven years, you begin to change the way you do something and try something totally new."

Over time, the work Gauvin moved closer to abstract, while continuing to stick to the "child-like" images that evoke a sense of community.

"The colors are still very dynamic and I try not to get stuck on making things accurate," she said.

The Beginning of the End Started 30 Years Ago Today « UKIAH BLOG

Michael Moore

Occasionally, someone under 30 ask me: "When will it all began, downward trend in America?" They say they have heard of a time when working people could raise a family and sending children to college on a single parent income (and the college in states like California and New York was almost free). is someone who wanted a decent job might pay get one.That people working five days a week, eight hours a day, got the whole weekend off and had a paid vacation every summer. That many jobs were union, at the grocery baggers the guy painting your house, and this meant that no matter how "humble" your work that you were guaranteed a pension, occasionally lifting, the health insurance and someone to paste for you if you were treated unfairly.

Young people have heard of this mythical time - but it was not a myth, it was real. And when they ask "When is it the end all?"I said," It ended that day: August 5, 1981. "

Beginning on that date 30 years ago, big business and the right wing decided to "go ahead" - to see if they could actually destroy the middle class so they can become rich themselves.

And they succeeded.

On August 5, 1981, President Ronald Reagan fired all members of the Union of Air Traffic Controllers (PATCO), which had defied his order to return to work and declared their union illegal. They had been on strike for two days.

It was a bold and impetuous. No one had ever tried. What made it even more daring is that PATCO was one of only three unions that had endorsed Reagan to the presidency! It sent a shockwave through the workers across the country.If he wanted to do that to people who were with him, what would he do for us?

Reagan had been supported by Wall Street on its way to the White House, and, with the Christian far right, wanted to restructure America and reverse the trend that President Franklin D. Roosevelt started - a tide that was to make life better for the average worker. Hated the rich pay higher wages and provide benefits. They hated paying taxes even more. And they despised unions.The Christian far right hated everything that sounded like socialism or a helping hand to minorities or women.

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