Ellensburg Community Morning Show, Thursday, October 1st
NEWS
If you've been waiting all summer for a backyard fire, you can have one now. The Kittitas County burn ban was lifted at noon yesterday, when the governor's statewide ban also ended. Fire Marshal Dan Young says fuel moisture, the weather and humidity all now support it. Cle Elum, Roslyn, Kittitas and South Cle Elum are allowing recreational fires too. A few rules still apply: keep water close, stay with your fire until it's completely out, don't burn garbage or construction debris, and don't do any open burning when winds or gusts top 10 miles an hour. Rules on state and federal land can be different. Questions about burning in the unincorporated county go to the Fire Marshal's Office at 5-0-9, 9-6-2, 7-0-0-0.
Cle Elum has a full city council again. On Monday, the council voted unanimously to appoint J. Michelle Swope and Jessica Dickason to the two seats left open when Ken Ratliff and Stephen Cook resigned back to back in early September. Swope owns Crow Creek Fly Shop and will take Position 2. Dickason works at the Big House Lodge and takes Position 6. Three people applied for the two seats.
There's good news on the wildfires east of Snoqualmie Pass. The 815-acre Goat Fire is fully contained, and the local Cle Elum Ranger District took command of all three fires Monday night. Crews are still working on the other two, north of Lake Kachess. The Three Queens Fire is about 9,600 acres and 32 percent contained. The King Fire is about 3,300 acres and 19 percent contained. Up on Cle Elum Ridge, local fire crews and the Nature Conservancy plan a controlled burn of 50 to 100 acres around Monday, depending on the weather, plus burning brush piles on another 18 acres. You may see smoke for a short time, and some trails could close. They're holding a public fire update tonight from 5:30 to 6:30 at the Roslyn Yard, 104 West Pennsylvania Avenue in Roslyn.
A Central Washington University graduate is bringing some world-class voices back to campus. Tenor José Iñiguez studied music at Central and now runs Encanto Arts, a Seattle nonprofit. In January, Encanto Arts will spend four days in residence with the CWU Music Department. Iñiguez and singers from Mexico and beyond will rehearse side by side with the CWU Symphony and Choir. It all leads up to Una Noche de Encanto, a concert on Saturday, January 23rd, at the Capitol Theatre in Yakima, with opera, mariachi, bolero and symphony music on one stage. The program includes two world premieres. Iñiguez grew up in the Yakima Valley. He says he wants young people and families to see themselves on that stage, and know the arts belong to them, too. The show starts at 7 p.m. Tickets are online, and each adult ticket gets up to four K-through-12 students in free.
Here's what's happening around the valley today.
Toastmasters meets tonight at 5:30 at the Hal Holmes Community Center, in person or online. It's an easy way to get more comfortable speaking in front of people.
Again, the Cle Elum Ridge controlled burn update runs tonight from 5:30 to 6:30 at the Roslyn Yard in Roslyn.
And looking ahead to tomorrow, it's the First Friday Art Walk downtown. The Clymer Museum of Art opens "Storytellers," a show of new work by three CWU art alumni and students: Grace Goetz, Rita Tumbusch and Christine Dunlap.
Then on Saturday, the Hammer Deaf Expo runs from 9 a.m. at Central Washington University.
Kittitas County commissioners will hold two public hearings next Tuesday, October 6th, at 2 p.m. One is on the county's six-year road and transportation plan. The other is on new fees for the solid waste department.
SPORTS
The Central Washington Wildcats volleyball team is 8 and 4, has won four straight, and hasn't lost at home this year. They host Montana State Billings tonight at 7 in Ellensburg, then host Seattle Pacific Saturday at 1.
Wildcat women's soccer, 1-5-3, plays at Montana State Billings tonight at 6, then at Seattle Pacific Saturday at 1.
And Wildcat football, 2 and 2 and unbeaten in conference, travels to San Angelo, Texas, to take on Angelo State Saturday at 4.
WEATHER
The forecasted high today in Ellensburg is 70 degrees with a low tonight of 46 degrees. It'll be mostly sunny today, turning mostly cloudy tonight. The sunset is at 6:41 p.m. with calm winds. No rain in the forecast, and no weather alerts for our area. And it's warming up: highs in the mid-70s Friday and Saturday, and near 80 on Sunday.
WHAT'S FOR LUNCH AT THE FISH OPEN TABLE?
The FISH Open Table lunch today is not posted for October yet.
The senior lunch is free and open to all Kittitas County seniors age 60-plus, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Ellensburg Open Table at 204 North Main Street. In Cle Elum, seniors can eat from 11:30 to 1 at the Upper County Senior Center. You do need to register ahead of time. The community lunch for anyone needing a hot meal is from 1 to 2 p.m. at the Ellensburg Open Table.
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