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Snoqualmie Casino
— bets and buffets just Don Brontsema—
A local artist in
A supplement of the Daily Record

70 miles away
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the early 1900s
the truest sense
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Wine and dine

4 by Amy Mumma and Kevin “KC” Camarillo

Snoqualmie Casino —
5 You can bet on it
by Barb Owens
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2 pounds turkey ground foil. Bake until crispy about by the cranberry cream cheese spread, crunchy mushrooms and sweet an ar
10-15 minutes in a 350-degree potato fries. Lemberger, a Washington favorite is a medium-bodied snac
1 teaspoon sage, ground oven. Then set aside. servi
red wine with a bit of spice and zest to counteract the sweetness. Try
1 teaspoon poultry seasoning Sauté the onions and celery
the Kiona Winery Lemberger. A Saint Laurent Merlot pairs well with
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To taste pepper, black ground cool. Another typical pairing with turkey is the white wine Gewurztraminer.  bake
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Fry up a small piece and well with a number of IPAs.  If you are feeling adventurous, try it with that’
6 Buns Mocha Death from Iron Horse Brewery in Ellensburg. For those of you chos
taste. Add salt and pepper if
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½ cup cranberry (any store turkey on Thanksgiving. smokiness of Glenlivet or Oban compliment the turkey and counteract ordin
bought will do) If you like it, then make the sweetness.  five “
six equal patties. Set them in — Amy Mumma, CWU World Wines program Braz
1 cup cream cheese the refrigerator and let them Chin
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Salt until light and fluffy, add the Place the patty in the pan or cheese on toasted bun and Ne
cranberry and just fold in. on the grille. Flip over finish patty. trou
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By BARB OWENS
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rillo, opened its doors on
Nov. 6, 2008, and in
nd
one year has paid out more
than $1 billion.
ma, On a soggy afternoon in
the Cascades, my mother,
her sister and I stopped into the
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ct we could take home a chunk
of that money.
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red dinning restaurant with a Contributed
seasonal menu and a variety Snoqualmie Casino is located just off Interstate 90 Exit 31 near North Bend. It is about
rillo. of 300 wines from the North-
west as well as France. The
Kindai Sushi and Noodle Bar the salad bar, which could
allows patrons to watch their have been enough without
seafood fare be created. the five “action” stations. It’s our people that
The Boxcar Deli is open There was fresh marinated
24 hours a day and offers mozzarella, spinach, make the difference!
t an array of sandwiches and artichoke hearts, a variety of
snacks. There is also a full- toppings and delicious, belly Rehab Services
service coffee and breakfast warming clam chowder. Our “rehab” services offer retraining for
bar called Café Drip where Venturing deeper into functional skills and include physical,
occupational, speech, and respiratory
guests can choose from the selection, I found red therapy.
  European pastries and other snapper, buffalo steak,
r.  baked goods. tortellini in pesto sauce, veal Skilled Care
That’s not all. No casino and fettuccini Alfredo. Our traditional skilled nursing program Care with
would be complete without I was too full before I
with highly trained teams of professionals
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a buffet. The Falls Buffet has
k something for everyone and
could even make it to the
Chinese wok and Mongolian
specialize in wound care. touch
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When a hospital stay is ending but
u chose to get a bite. be the most popular with services are needed beyond what a home
The Falls Buffet is no other guests. People lined environment offers, we fill the bill. We
ct ordinary buffet. It features the walls for made-to-order work towards giving each resident a
five “action” stations; a specialties. speedy return home.
am Brazilian Churrasco grill, a There’s always room for
Chinese wok bar, a Mongo- dessert. The dessert bar at Uniform Medical, Group
lian grill, an Italian pasta the Falls Buffet was impres- Health and Primera Provider
kitchen, and an American sive, with a selection of
m rotisserie gill. cheesecakes, carrot cake, Royal Vista
d Needless to say we had
trouble deciding where to
cookies, and soft-serve
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toppings to choose from. thought it would.

There’s also a chocolate A group of men playing at Getting there
fountain with strawberries a craps table looked like they
and marshmallows available were having a good time. Directions from Ellensburg: Take Interstate 90 westbound to
for dipping. “It’s easier than it looks,” Exit 31 (North Bend). Turn right (north) on Bendigo Boulevard to
Back on the casino floor, said Daniel Chang, as he
the electronic sound of decided his bet. North Bend Way. Turn left (west) on to North Bend Way. Continue
bells and coins clinking Chang, 29, is from Lake west for about four miles. Snoqualmie Casino will be on the right.
together was paired with Tapps and says he comes to The distance is about 82 miles, taking about an hour and 20
the occasional whoop from the Snoqualmie Casino once minutes.
someone who hit a bonus. or twice a week.
There are more than 1,700 “It’s kind of like a Vegas
slot machines throughout the alternative,” he said. “This is Casino details
casino. actually a little bit relaxing.”
We stopped at the Milk He enjoys the dining The Snoqualmie Casino is open 24 hours a day, seven days a
Money machine because it choices. week, 365 days a year.
is my mother’s favorite and “The Terra Vista is top
costs just one penny to play. notch, I give it five stars,”
It employs more than 1,200 people. There are more than 1,700
The woman sitting next to Chang said. “The sushi bar is slot machines stretched throughout the 170,000 square foot
us had a ritual before each fantastic.” facility. There are 50 table games including, black jack, craps,
spin, rubbing the screen with Chang has had his share of baccarat, three card poker and fortune pai gow, and 10 poker
her hands and pointing to luck at craps. He said one day
different spots on the screen. he won $5,000 playing at the
tables. There are more than 2,000 parking spaces, 400 complimen-
At the Love and War Snoqualmie Casino. Overall, tary valet spaces and 1,000 covered spaces in the six-level parking
machines, a man was playing for the year, he said he’s up a garage.
two at one time. couple of thousand.
There are smoking and “The dealers are really nice
non-smoking sections within
the casino, but it doesn’t reek
… A lot more friendly than
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wander into the offices of bill or two. hooves, Brontsema continues employed as a journalist com
the Economic Develop- Yes, you might have missed to enjoy the magic of the and illustrator. He receivedNews
ment Group of Kittitas Valley it all, but don’t despair — Don Kittitas Valley and all the a degree in biology from
in the last month or so, Brontsema lives in Kittitas creativity it affords. The Occidental University and,
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you’ve not seen the vibrant Valley, works in Kittitas Valley, energy he seeks is evident in upon moving to Ellensburg
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paintings hanging from the and paints in Kittitas Valley, the warm way he speaks of in the 1980s, received an MFAcom
walls with Don Brontsema’s and he isn’t going anywhere the surrounding landscapes from Central Washington News
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in the emotional landscape “As an artist,” Brontsema they walk on hooves, paws, to teach there for several DailyR
of color. You may have says, “you have to set up an or Chuck Taylors. It is in his com
years. Local artist Cindy Deck
missed your chance to gaze occasion for change. There own activity, his daily work recalls witnessing Brontsema News
at horses, Native American are people who have been routine, that he is able to as a enthusiastic employeeReco
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chiefs, fish, soldiers, athletes doing the same thing for 30 capture an image. a local thrift-store. DailyR
— all subjects of his paintings years, over and over. What “Work releases the possi- “One thing I’ll say about com
— depicted in ways that jog
your imagination and draw
you in for a closer look. You
I’m really after is an activity,
and energy; I’m interested in
energizing color.”
bility of an inspiration that’s
really going to work for you,”
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to the community,” Deck to his community continu- by taking classes at High or less noble.”
says. “If someone needs ously pushes his skill in Country Artists in Cle Elum, And when Brontsema
something, he’ll do it.” painting beyond hobbies, or where Brontsema was a guest releases an image, it takes
And it seems like he’s done careers, or a way to make a instructor. He found in Bront- shapes in strokes and drops
it all. Kitty Pratz, a music quick buck. Instead, he has sema a willing and inspiring and splashes of vibrant color.
and theater instructor for allowed art to saturate his artist and teacher. He encourages his students
the Kittitas School District, lifestyle and, whether it be “I was new at painting and to release their own work in
cites a time when her theater painting for a 4H Fundraiser Don told me that the most a similar way. Another artist
department was in dire need or teaching traveling senior important thing to do is to and student at High Country
of scenery for their upcoming citizens in short summer paint what you feel,” says Artists, Karen Watland, feels
production. Pratz contacted classes, he makes no effort to Kauzlarich. that Brontsema’s method of
Brontsema and, just like that, try to keep it in the lines. Brontsema subjects vary: a instruction prepared her to
she had enlisted the help of “We think an image soldier who is also a profes- wrestle with personal expres-
a professional artist to paint is something we put on sional ballerina, an athlete sion and creativity in her own
the set. canvas,” Brontsema says, who is addicted to narcotics, work.
“He’s truly incredible,” “but I think an image or a mountain landscape, “He said he was teaching
Pratz says. “He just looked emanates quietly out of the among others. Beyond that, us backward,” Watland
at the massive expanse of painting and it might not he lets the paint move as it says. “What he meant was
plywood, read the play, and look exactly the same as what wills. he started right from the
created a beautiful set. He you’re trying to paint. Colors “Our first impulse is to try get-go to allow us to paint
painted a bookshelf that was evidently won’t sit still.” to control and not to trust the expressively and not treat our
so real that people walked up Gerard Kauzlarich decided image,” Brontsema says. “But paintings so preciously.”
to it and tried to take a book to take up painting nearly all the drawings I’ve done For Brontsema, the
off the shelf.” eight years ago, after his of horses have never made
Brontsema’s dedication retirement, and began them any faster, or smoother, See Artist, Page 14
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By Arthur J. Damman, could be found down by post where two major trails he said anything you for th
DVM, 1870-1959 the river that was big crossed in the valley: understood right away that why
enough to be a log Snoqualmie Pass he meant it. There wasn’t turn
An excerpt from the 1951 for a house. It from the west anything flashy about him hors
recording of an oral interview was just one and the a’tal, but he could always tell lot o
with veterinarian Dr. Arthur room with Oregon- a good story and appreciated broth
J. Damman, transcribed, a dirt Canadian a good one. If you pulled me o
compiled, edited and roof. If it Trail a good joke on him Jack the f
excerpted by Barb Owen, didn’t from accepted it but look out for start
author of “Making the Grade: rain or the yourself on the next turn Co
Plucky Schoolmarms of snow south. because Jack would be right our s
Kittitas Country.” too Lots after you. He was into every Road

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of blooming thing that was over
y father, mother and grass going and if he thought there Gap,
I came down into the and was a dollar in it, he was right Rive
Kittitas Valley from water out there after it. Nach
Algona, Iowa, on September much made In the ’70s and ’80s familiesinto
6th, 1871, when I was 1 we it a made a trip to the Dalles Wen
year old. My father drove were good twice a year to stock up on is kn
the prairie schooner and dry resting basic supplies. Mother used That
my mother took me in the but a place to make butter with an up- any d
Democrat wagon. She drove hard for tired and-down churn and put it up th
it all the way from Iowa until rain or men and into 2-pound rolls and Father of th
she came to a hog back ridge a heavy animals. made hams and bacon. We and
that went straight down into snowfall A friend hauled this all down to the neum
the valley. It was so steep she would make with a sense of Dalles and sold it for sugar coun
was afraid the wagon would holes up there and humor put a sign and groceries. I remember the S
tip over onto the horses and we had puddles on the over the trading post mother got 50 cents a roll We c
she carried me down that floor. door that read, “Robber’s for her butter. We especially forde
strip of road. We landed When we first came in 1871 Roost” and the name stuck. liked the evaporated, dried the M
south of the Manastash there wasn’t any Ellensburg. That bustling campground apples we got down there. freig
Canyon and camped at the It was Robber’s Roost. In became Ellensburg. In those days it took us 16 My
mouth of Manastash Creek. 1870, A.J. Splawn, better Jack Splawn was a man days to make the Dalles trip Snoq
Our first house was built of known as Jack Splawn, had about 6-foot-2, well built, — 7 days down and 9 back. was
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Of course that included one horses into it and swam

day to load the tote wagon. across. But the animals
I remember my first trip would only cross the river
vividly. I was 14 years old and at certain times of the day.
down there I saw an engine You can’t drive a cow or a
for the first time. I wondered horse against the sun; you
hat why it was that the wheels had to have the sun behind
turned around without any the animal. If the sun is in
m horses ahead of it. I spent a their eyes they can’t see
tell lot of time looking at it. My across. Animals have to see
ated brother kept hammering the landing on the other
me on the back to help load side before they will tackle
the freight so we could get crossing the river.
or started back. At some places, in the
Coming back, we retraced early days, we’d swim the
ght our steps over the old Tote animals and the Indians
ery Road through Goldendale, would canoe us across.
over Satus Pass, into Union Those boats were made of
here Gap, crossed the Yakima Contributed logs, just hewed out in the
right River at the mouth of the middle. The bottom was a
Naches River, went over This photo shows downtown Ellensburg in 1898. On Page 10 is a round bottom affair, so that
miliesinto the Wenas and followed sketch of old Robber’s Roost. when you rode in one of
Wenas Creek up to what those you wanted your hair
n is known as Thief Canyon. To get up to the summit the river where it wasn’t too parted in the middle to keep
sed That was the first canyon of we stayed on the west side of high and we just drove the the thing from rolling over.”
p- any depth a’tal. We climbed the Yakima River, up through
t it up that canyon, then up out Thorp to Peoh Point, on up
ather of the Umptaneum Canyon to Easton where we crossed Lost amidst all Find:
We and then from the Umpta- the Yakima River and went your search Hours
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ed the Manastash and took our somewhere near the head Seriously Local with
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rip Snoqualmie Pass, I think I pass and zigzagged down
ck. was 11 years old. Father and the Snoqualmie River to Fall
e 11 several others got their cattle City.
and hogs together and they At that time Fall City was
drove them from Ellensburg just a little trading post there
to what is now Fall City. I at the head of navigation.
think the trip to Fall City That’s where we sold our
was something like 12 or 14 stuff to the Seattle market.
days. The first 24 hours we They would come up there
had to work with the pigs. It and get it. We got a good
was kind of tough but after price for the stuff. I think I
we had fed them a couple heard father say that he got
of times, why, it wasn’t 5 cents a pound for his pigs
long before the pig figured and 2½ cents a pound for his
out that he had something cattle on foot.
to eat ahead and he just On trips eastward from
stayed right on the trail. It Ellensburg we had to cross
222 was better than driving the the Columbia River. If we
cattle. were in a hurry, we struck Powered by DailyRecordNews.com

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precious part of a painting, of you’d think,” Chang said. enjoying a cocktail and a fruit Morgan said he just played
an image, is one’s interaction At the other end of and cheese platter. that machine and won more
with it. Talk to Brontsema’s the casino Nina Repin, a The cocktail waitresses than $700.
students and you’ll find Snoqualmie Nation council wear strappy short dresses “I get up and the machine
story after story like those member, was playing a slot with black nylons and just starts spitting out more
of Kauzlarich and Watland. machine called Richville USA. high heels as they wander money,” he said.
Speak with his colleagues She was one 7 away from throughout the casino floor The pair is from Kirkland
and you’ll get a picture of winning the $10,000 jackpot. serving beverages. and Seattle and come to the
how his artistry is not caught “It’s fun, out with my girls,” Loud celebratory yelling casino about once or twice a
on the canvas, but spreads Repin said. “If I don’t win, I was coming from the Triple week.
like deep blues and spicy don’t win.” Fortune Dragon machine “I can’t believe how big it’s
yellows throughout the She said penny machines where Lisa Cummings, aka going,” Cummings said, as
community. are the best. Lucky Lisa, was watching her the payout surpassed $700.
Don’t miss your next “Blackjack’s my favorite, money add up. Eventually the slot machine
opportunity to see Don but I really don’t go there,” “I’ve never hit a major stopped at $1,008.95.
Brontsema’s work. Not only Repin said with a laugh. jackpot before,” Cummings Cummings said she’ll play
will you find inspiration in his She’s excited that the said. it safe and take the money
paintings, you just might get casino has become a reality. After about five spins she and run. She cashed out her
to shake hands with a major “It’s just nice that people hit a bonus and the machine ticket.
creative artery of the Kittitas enjoy it,” Repin said. kept going and going and The highest jackpot ever
Valley and, after exchanging In the center of the casino going. Pretty soon a small paid by a slot machine at
a couple words with the is a round bar called MIST. crowd had gathered around Snoqualmie Casino was
painter, you may just decide Guests can step up to watch her and her friend Paul $250,000.
to go home and paint exactly the action of the table games Morgan. Cummings was As for my mother and sister
what you feel. and slot machines while blushing from the attention. and me, we donated $20.

Where to eat/drink
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restaurant. Sat.: 10 a.m. to 11 p.m.
Kindai Sushi/Noodle Bar Sun.: 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., 4 p.m.
Boxcar Deli: open 24 hours to 9 p.m.
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LIT Cigar Lounge tail add $6
Ballroom: for live enter- Thursday after 4 p.m.:
tainment from concerts to Brazilian night ($25.95)
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