Talk:Wenatchee, Washington

Image:Wenatchee.jpg
In the photo, Image:Wenatchee.jpg; The Sellar Bridge, can you tell us what direction it is, I would guess northwest? Also can you add what the second bridge is? I would guess that is a railroad bridge, or an old bridge made into a foot bridge? Help us out. WikiDon 21:19, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

The photo is looking northwest. The other bridge is an old train bridge which is now a foot bridge and part of the loop trail which is a recreational trail (paved) connecting the walking bridge and Odibashian bridge (in North Wenatchee). Parks are located all along the trail and provide baseball and soccer fields, tennis and basketball courts and also swimming areas. The loop trail is 11 miles in total (5.5 miles on each side of the river)--Etandrib 19:02, 8 November 2005 (UTC)

The Old Wenatchee-East Wenatchee Bridge was never a rail bridge. Infact, it was the first highway bridge built on the Columbia River. It opened to traffic in 1908. The bridge also contains a large irrigation main that supplies water to East Wenatchee, which continues to operate today. Lennon 21:47 8 December 2005 (UTC)

There has to be a newer picture of Wenatchee available. This one has to be at least 30+ years old. I'm from the Wenatchee area and it hasn't looked like this for a very long time. If need be, the next time I'm there I'll take a new pic. 23:25 11 June 2006 (PDT)


 * What do you think has changed since the photo was taken? I think Wenatchee still looks like that.  The Olds station bridge is around the bend, I presume.  --Fagles 02:30, 27 June 2006 (UTC)


 * Well, all the new construction along both sides of the river is missing, as well as the Olds Station bridge and the loop trail that should be visible from this view. --Patris_Magnus 09:33, 30 June 2006 (PDT)

Conventions
I'm not sure why this section got added. Many towns have a convention center, that is not much of note. Perhaps this section could be re-written to sound like less of an advertisement for the Center and Coast hotel. Lennon 02:26, 24 September 2006 (UTC)


 * I simply removed this section. Lennon 18:54, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

I was born in Wenatchee, Washington in 1963 at the Deconeas Hospital. My Father is from Melbourne, Arkansas and my Mother is from Malaga, Washington. I was partly raised in Wenatchee and in Melbourne. I have no idea why a Lady of my mother's statur would want to marry someone from the bug infested state of Arkansas, but anyway, I have so many wonderful memories of my home place. My dad worked at all the truck stops, tire shops and (Real Gas Stations) from one end of Wenatchee to the other. My mother's cousin had Cross Road Missions in Malaga for over 60 years and still preaching there at age 96. She fed the hungry and had a mans bunk house and a womans bunk house built to take care of the homeless. She also had one of the states largest Bible Camps at this misson.

I do have some concerns about what I seen the last time I came home on vacation.(I still live in Arkansas cause I married an only child) but I seen many, many spanish people living on the once beautiful Yakima Street having there cars sitting in the front of their homes with busted wind sheilds, hoods broken off, no grass in the yard, only dirt. The windows busted on the houses with no screens on them. When I was a child, it was a law that everyone had to water their lawn so that it would be green and pleasant to look at. I went to see the wonderful sights I seen when I was a child there walking up and down the Ave. I used to walk to the Museum and look into the fenced in shed that kept an old model T out of the weather. My question is, why are the people of my home town not careing anymore about what this town looks like. Why does the city alough people to ruin this once beautiful home that I love with such a pasion that I even cried when I was there on my last vacation. I played as a child in the summer and never sweated and played in the snow and never got cold and I never did pay any attention to the bum's that used to walk the rail roads cause that was just home for me. Please, Please Tell me what I can do to get the attention of the city officials. To wake them up and understand that Wenatchee, Washington has to stay above reproach because this town has a name in Arkansas too, It's the Apple Capital of the World. When you mention Wenatchee, Washington in Arkansas, you hear so many people talk about the beauty that they rememberd being there when they would work the harvest.

I am in college now finishing up on my Bachlors of Science in Business Admin., and one day, if God in heaven will alough me to, I want to come back home to my childhood heaven maybe run for Mayor so that I can keep the dream that every child had years ago, alive and a place that they can bring there kids too and be proud again. I have always said, " I don't care what happends in Washington, as long as the river runs through the twin cities, I will still call it home. I just want to make sure that all kids have the same chance as I did to live in a city that can hold so many presious memories.  Now, as I wipe a tear's from my eyes, I hope someone will see this  and help me to find a way to make a difference.

Joseph Vaughn, Mount Pleasant, Arkansas

Dr. Goodwin
The user at 66.172.96.74 removed this paragraph from "History" section.


 * Goodwin was openly resistant to changing his then new way of doing things and was therefore aggressively accused by the Washington State Department of Health's Examining Board of Psychology (EBP) of mental impairment, unprofessional conduct, negligence, and incompetence. All the charges were eventually dropped. Dr Goodwin was finally able to settle his 8 year battle admitting that he once got only a verbal rather than a written release for a client to talk with a prospective client with no danger to either noted; the issue of Prozac and his short-term psychotherapy by then widely accepted. Dr Goodwin continues his still ground breaking work in his office on Wenatchee Avenue.

This paragraph has been changed a number of times by a number of people. Currently I agree with its removal, because is isn't NPoV. However neither is the paragraph which remains. The two should probably be rewritten to sound more nutral. Lennon 01:27, 8 December 2006 (UTC)


 * I'm beginning to wonder why this is even in the Wenatchee history section. Perhaps this would be better suited for either inclusion on a page about Prozac or a page about Dr. Goodwin? Cascadia 01:34, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

Way too many unlinked "links"!
I'm seeing way too many "red internal links" in this article. Either link them, create another aticle for them, or simply don't link them!!!! JustN5:12 23:58, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

Wenatchee "Music Scene"
Nearly every town, village, hamlet, etc. in America has some sort of Local band, or just some dude who plays the six-string at the local hole-in-the-wall bar. Notable music scenes are those that actually shape music nationally, such as Seattle, WA; Tempe, AZ; Los Angeles; etc.

While there have been some good acts to start up in Wenatchee, the city has nothing that anyone should call a notable scene. The closest thing to a notable band out of Wenatchee, the Olds Station Orchestra, is now defunct, and as the attempted addition states, the 'music scene' has all but fizzled out. Now, if some very good sources, such as some music industry magazine articles, could be found to support the notion that Wenatchee has a unique and notable music scene, then by all means, add it in. Myspace pages are not sources though... so please, don't use those as a reference of what constitutes a notable music scene. CASCADIA Howl/Trail 03:42, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

Apple Bowl incorrectly linked.
I believe the Apple Bowl stadium used in this article is the one located in Triangle Park in Wenatchee, not the one in Canada. 66.172.102.80 00:18, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

Not "Technically a Desert"
The climate is claimed to be "technically a desert," but by what technical definition is this? Everthing I've found lists dessert as either <10 inches annual precipitation or too dry to support almost any plants. Could we call it a shrub-steppe instead? --Thomas (talk) 03:10, 27 April 2010 (UTC)


 * The foothills are shrub-steppe climate, however most of the Wenatchee area proper is Desert (less than 10 inches of rain per year) according to the National Atlas annual rainfall map layer when zoomed in on the Wenatchee Valley. So yes, it is technically a desert. GusterBear (talk) 21:15, 26 May 2010 (UTC)

Roots of the name Wenatchee
I believe there is a mistake where it says that Wenatchee is from a Salish word. From my own conversations with Mark Behler, curator of the Wenatchee Valley Museum and Cultural Center, and from other research, I understand that while the Wenatchi were a Salish speaking tribe, they called themselves the P'squosa and were only called Wenatchi by the Sahaptin speaking people to the South. There is a short discussion of this based on the work of E. Richard Hart in this HistoryLink article about Confluence State Park. Also the German Wikipedia entry on the Wenatchi tribe (Wenatchi) has the same information, possibly from the same source. Unless there is any protest, I'll soon change this to say Sahaptin. I thought the meaning of the name was "water rushing forth" but I'll leave that alone for now.Scottfeil (talk) 15:15, 17 March 2011 (UTC)


 * I agree the origin is Sahaptin, however the entry could use more details on the name. The root word is Winátt, a verb meaning "spring", or "wanáytt" meaning "spring from water." The word "Winátshapam" is the Sahaptin term for the Wenatchi tribe, with "-pam" being a locative suffix, similar to many tribes in the area (for example, Walla Walla was named after the Walawálapam). I believe dropping the "-pam" suffix from Winátshapam leaves you with a pretty close phonetic pronunciation of Wenatchee (Winátsha). Also, Winátsha was the Sahaptian name of the fishery at the fork of the Wenatchee and Columbia Rivers. Wardlarson (talk) 16:26, 6 November 2016 (UTC)


 * I also can't find any source material that states "Awenatchela" is a word in any language, or that it means "people at the source [of a river]." Wardlarson (talk) 16:29, 6 November 2016 (UTC)

Mission Ridge Ski Area
Only 20 km off the town could be mentioned. Helium4 (talk) 11:28, 19 December 2021 (UTC)