Showing posts with label wenatchee world. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wenatchee world. Show all posts

Thursday, July 10, 2008

Badger Mountain Fire

What a busy week with work. I have been in the office for most of the week. We just purchased a new advertising order entry system and the company that we bought it from (Brainworks) is here this week doing preliminary fact finding for the install up coming in the next few weeks. So busy I was that I didn't realize how bad a fire was that is brewing across the river.


The Badger Mountain Fire started a few days ago and as I drove home from work today the smoke was just billowing high. Could even see some flames. Badger Mountain is across the river from us and over East Wenatchee.


These pictures are from across the street from my house looking over the tops of the other homes in our neighborhood. My house is the on the left border of each picture.

I went outside tonight after dark to see if I could take some pictures of it and it didn't work, but the night sky was glowing. You could see miles of fire lines just burning. Thank goodness so far it is only burning brush and sage covered hills, but it could reach some homes very easily. We pray that all the fire fighters and citizens helping control this are kept safe and that no homes are destroyed or damaged from this fire.

Go to wenatcheeworld.com to read some stories about the fire and check out some arial photos of the burned area.

Wednesday, July 2, 2008

Wilfred Sings

Part of a Wenatchee World tradition is the Chairman of the Board (Wilfred) singing to the employees on their birthday's.

My birthday was a few weeks ago and we celebrate birthdays in the advertising department once a month. So today was a celebration for those of us with birthday's in June and July.

Well, Wilfred got smell of the food, came down to eat and sang to each of us.

It's a fun treat and we love to see Wilf do that for all employees. It is also fun to track Wilf down to do this if he doesn't happen to know of someone's birthday.