Pateros beats the heat with cool weekend of events

PATEROS – The temperature may have been rising but nobody seemed to notice during a weekend of cool events in Memorial Park and city-wide that had something for just about everyone from Friday, through Sunday, June 23-25.
If the near three-dozen garage sales scattered from Pryor Drive to Alta Lake wasn’t enough to keep a body busy, a string of attractions from a beer garden to bike rally, live music to a long boat and antiques to archeology were available to fill the schedule.
Aaron Naumann and Randy Lewis used the newly installed barbecue in the Memorial to the Methow Park to prepare filets of Copper River salmon fresh from Alaska’s Copper River.
Native flautist and guitar player/singer, Arnold Cleveland entertain the early afternoon crowd before live music by Brian DiJulio and the LoveJacks took over at 3 p.m.
Methow native Mark Miller and a crew of paddlers brought a traditional long boat from the Methow River safely into the Pateros dock.
Stan Gough, Director of Archeological Services at Eastern Washington University manned a display explaining some of the Eastern Washington’s early history unearthed from excavation sites.
The Sinkietqu Okanogan Basketweavers Association brought a display of baskets made from the roots of Western Red Cedar trees and imbricated with corn husk wild cherry bark and beargrass.
Beadwork artist, Linda Saint of Okanogan demonstrated her craft and displayed several of the elaborate baby boards and other articles she has created over the years.
The Okanogan Samaritan Rivers participated with other cyclists in the fifth annual Pateros River Run.
The Junk Stops Here Vintage Market attracted about a half a dozen vendors to this year’s event. It will hold a similar event at Riverwalk Park in Chelan on July 22.
A spectacular fireworks show over Lake Pateros brought the curtain down at 10:30 p.m.