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Add news headlines from across North Central Washington to your website or blog by pasting a line of HTML into your web page. Here is the code with instructions on how to customize it to fit the look of your website. If anyone has any suggestions, questions, or would like more customization added, please let me know.

You can customize the number of headlines, text colors, background color, width, height, and border of the news. Below are a few examples of the code pasted directly into this blogger blog post,

City of East Wenatchee Christmas Display

Photos of the Davis Furniture Warehouse Fire

This morning huge plumes of smoke bellowed out of downtown Wenatchee. The source was the warehouse for Davis Furniture located on Columbia Street behind the Davis Furniture store on South Wenatchee Avenue.

The Wenatchee World had the following article today, with information, photos and a short video of the fire. Here are some more photos of the fire,

North Central Washington Wind Storm

A wind storm hit the west coast and continued on over the Cascades into eastern Washington late last night. Many trees and power lines went down. Lots of debris everywhere.

If I remember correctly, it was about 2:00am when I was awoken by a fierce wind that sounded like a bomb hitting the side of my house. It only took a moment to figure out that the wind storm that had plagued Seattle earlier in the day had made it's way over the mountains to us. I grabbed a flashlight, found a lighter and candles, and laid back down in bed. About five minutes later the power shut off. Luckily I had a portable radio so I could keep up to date on the storm.

I was quite discouraged to hear that my child's school wasn't canceled today, like so many other local schools. I even called them to double check. With no hot water and the food in the refrigerator already making an unpleasant order. We left the comfort of are warm bed to get dressed in the cold by candlelight and stop by McDonald's for a less than nutritional breakfast. They must be teaching a very important lesson in school today to want the children to stand outside at the bus stops with icy cold gale force winds blowing down upon them.

Feel free to share your experience with the night of the big wind in the comments section.

Prices at the Pumps

I added a Google gadget, as they call them, to the Weather page. It is supposed to supply the local gas prices for an area around your zip code. So if you go to the weather page and your zip code has available gas prices, then you can either click the "Local Gas Prices" link or simply scroll down the page to view them.

After some initial testing it seems some cities like Conconully are showing some type of error in the gas price area. I don't know if this glitch is temporary or an ongoing problem they are having. Either way, it's out of my control.

Something else I noticed, it didn't list all gas stations, at least for the area I checked. Once again, this might just be a temporary problem with their system or they just haven't added those gas stations yet.

St. Paul's Lutheran Church at Night

On a rainy night a few months ago I was passing by Douglas when I noticed the church was lit up at night. So I stopped and took a quick photo.

Photos from the 2006 Festival of Trees in Wenatchee

The following are some photos from the 2006 Festival of Trees, titled Dance of the Trees, which was held November 16-19th at the Stanley Civic Center in downtown Wenatchee.

This small tree sat along a line of other small trees less than a few feet in height. The tag says it was designed by Jodie Parkins.

The board next to the tree reads, Kenneth Jones, M.D., with the theme title, Polar Express. The design is by Kathy VanLith and Ivy Branam

The board for this very tall tree reads, Puget Sound Energy with it's theme being, Tinsel Town Christmas and the designer is Janine Davis.

This Christmas tree chandelier hung from the ceiling in the center of the Performing Arts Center.

This group was performing in the arts center. The sign next to the group is for the local Woods House Conservatory of Music.

Pro Wrestling Beyond's Ladder Fetish Show

Please visit PWB Ringside for the Ladder Fetish review.

Pro Wrestling Beyond in Wenatchee Tonight!!!

Tonight, December 9th, 2006, at the Wenatchee Community Center (*not* the Convention Center) Pro Wrestling Beyond presents Ladder Fetish.View the official flyer.

Blog Updated

Blogger recently updated their system. I was planning on updating this blog for quite some time but was waiting for them to release their latest update first. I am still working out the little bugs and will be working on it for a few more days. The other reason for the lack of updates lately is completing work on a forum for the website.

2:00pm update - The "search" in the sites menu (not the blogger menu at the top of this page) now searches the North Central Washington Portal website and this blog. The search, like this blog, are free services through Google. Which means, unlike the regular North Central Washington Portal website, they can sometimes be slow and unresponsive. So if you try a search and it doesn't return any results, try the search again in a few seconds.

For the wrestling fans, don't forget that Pro Wrestling Beyond is having a show tomorrow night at the Wenatchee Community Center. It will be their first show with ladders. So if you haven't caught one of their shows yet, this might be the one not to miss.

The Mystery Painting

First off, this painting has nothing to do with North Central Washington except that I have wasted too much time staring at it and haven't been able to finish my work on the new forum.

Be warned, before you click on the painting or this link, this can become very addictive and is more likely than not to be a complete hoax.

Pro Wrestling Beyond, December 9th, Wenatchee Community Center

For more information please visit the Pro Wrestling Beyond group on MySpace.

System Down for a Week

Last week I was lucky enough to recognize the warning signs, a hard drive in my computer was about to fail. Even though I keep current backups, to be on the safe side, I decided to back up the entire drive. I used blank DVD's to back up the data. The problem was, cheap blank DVD's only hold 4.5 gigabytes of data, the hard drive had almost 250 gigabytes of data. I ended up using 52 blank DVD's.

Of course, one of the signs of hard drive failure, is that they start running really slow. This means backing up onto those 52 DVD's took a very long time. Luckily, no data was lost. On my next reboot of the computer, a message ran across the monitor telling me that the hard drive was due for critical failure and needed to be immediately backed up and replaced. I'm glad I caught it early. The drive has been replaced, the data restored, and now it's time to get back to work!

2006 Washington State General Election Results

2006 Election results for Washington State.

2006 Chelan County election results.

2006 Douglas County election results.

2006 Grant County election results.

2006 Okanogan County election results.

Blanket of Fog Over Wenatchee

I posted a panoramic photo of the fog bank that covered the city of Wenatchee at my website. Below are a few more photos of the morning fog bank that blanketed the town. The first is the George Sellars Bridge and the second is looking towards the South end of Wenatchee.

Chihuly Icicles

A friend who recently went to a retreat at the Sleeping Lady Mountain Retreat sent me this photo of the almost 9 foot tall Icicle Creek Chandelier created by Dale Chihuly. Learn more about the chandelier and other artwork at the Sleeping Lady Artwork page.

Make a Difference Day, This Saturday

This Saturday, October 28, is the Wenatchee Valley Make a Difference Day. Click on the flyer image below to view it full size.

NCW Portal Oct 25 Update, Alstown to Lamoine

This North Central Washington Portal update includes Alstown, Withrow, Lamoine, and places around these areas. Below is a few thumbnails from the update which included 24 photos.

NCW Portal Oct 23 Update, Wilson Creek and Krupp-Marlin

This North Central Washington Portal update included 52 new photos of the Wilson Creek and Krupp-Marlin area. Below are some thumbnails of 24 of the 52 new photos.