Wenatchee, Washington City of Wenatchee Council Wenatchee City Council Wenatchee (/w n t i / wen-atch-ee) is a town/city located in north-central Washington and is the biggest city and governmental center of county of Chelan County, Washington, United States. The populace inside the town/city limits in 2010 was 31,925. In 2014, the Office of Financial Management estimated the populace at 33,070.
Located at the confluence of the Columbia and Wenatchee rivers near the easterly foothills of the Cascade Range, Wenatchee lies on the side of the Columbia River, athwart from the town/city of East Wenatchee.
Wenatchee is the principal town/city of the Wenatchee East Wenatchee, Washington Metropolitan Statistical Area, which encompasses all of Chelan and Douglas counties (total populace around 110,884).
However, the 'Wenatchee Valley Area' generally refers to the territory between Rocky Reach and Rock Island Dam on both banks of the Columbia, which contains East Wenatchee, Rock Island, and Malaga.
The town/city of Wenatchee shares its name with the Wenatchee River, Lake Wenatchee and the Wenatchee National Forest.
Wenatchee is known as the "Apple Capital of the World" due to the valley's many orchards.
This saying is printed at the top of every copy of Wenatchee's newspaper, the Wenatchee World, and is no longer in common use elsewhere. Archeological digs in close-by East Wenatchee have uncovered Clovis contemporary and bone tools dating back more than 11,000 years, indicating that citizens migrating amid the last Ice Age spent time in the Wenatchee area.
Clovis points are on display at the Wenatchee Valley Museum & Cultural Center and research findings are available through the Wenatchee World. As early as 1811, fur traders from the Northwest Fur Company entered the Wenatchee valley to trap and trade with the Indians.
He was followed some 20 years later by Father De Grassi, who assembled a log cabin on the Wenatchee River near the present town of Cashmere.
Wenatchee was platted in September 1888 and officially incorporated as a town/city on January 7, 1893.
Apple field bins are stacked high at a refining facility in Wenatchee.
Its route through the Wenatchee Valley was momentous to the evolution of this region.
The barns not only provided traveler travel to and from Wenatchee, but it provided for freight service for shipments of wheat, apples, and other products to out-of-state markets.
By the early 20th century, the Wenatchee Commercial Club, now the Wenatchee Valley Chamber of Commerce, was advertising the region as the "Home of the World's Best Apples." On 22 May 1910, the Wenatchee no-charge speech fight occurred when members of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) were arrested for speaking in the street in front of the small-town hall of the Socialist Party of America. The town had freed imprisoned IWW members by June; however, tensions resumed in September 1911 when police raided a home rented by six IWW men as well as arresting twenty-five migrant workers found carrying IWW literature.
The Wenatchee Valley also boasts one of only two aluminum smelters remaining in the Northwestern United States at the ALCOA plant in Malaga.
Wenatchee Fire Station No.
On October 5, 1931, Clyde Pangborn and his copilot Hugh Herndon landed their aircraft , titled the Miss Veedol, in the hills of East Wenatchee, and thus became the first aviators to fly nonstop athwart the Pacific Ocean.
Miss Veedol's propeller is on display at the Wenatchee Valley Museum & Cultural Center.
In 1936, with the culmination of Rock Island Dam, Wenatchee was protected from the summer flooding of the Columbia River, and the first of 14 hydroelectric projects on the Columbia began generating electric power.
In 1975, Stemilt Growers moved its command posts from close-by Stemilt Hill to Olds Station, Wenatchee.
The Wenatchee child abuse prosecutions occurred in 1994 and 1995.
Every year from the last week of April to the end of the first week of May, Wenatchee hosts the Washington State Apple Blossom Festival, which probably brings in the biggest number of citizens Wenatchee sees annually, with the exception of all the migrant workers coming in to pick the crop. It features two mostly large parades: the Apple Blossom Youth Parade on the last Saturday in April and the Apple Blossom Grand Parade on the first Saturday in May, a food fair representing cuisine from around the world, and a traveling carnival.
On July 29, 2013, a large wildfire spreading over 31 miles (50 km) south of Wenatchee occurred, affecting over 40 close-by homes. The Wenatchee River, just before it flows into the Columbia.
Wenatchee is positioned at 47 25 24 N 120 19 31 W (47.423316, -120.325279) at the confluence of the Wenatchee and Columbia rivers in the Columbia Basin, just east of the foothills of the Cascade Range.
Irrigation from the Columbia River and her tributaries allows for the large amount of agriculture in Wenatchee and the encircling areas.
The town/city of Wenatchee is bordered by the Wenatchee River on the north, the Columbia River to the east, and the Wenatchee Mountains to the south and west.
Climate data for Wenatchee (1971 2000) The Wenatchee postal service includes an petroleum on canvas mural, The Saga of Wenachee, painted in 1940 by Peggy Strong.
Wenatchee is home to many performing arts groups including the Performing Arts Center of Wenatchee, the Wenatchee Valley Symphony, Wenatchee Big Band, Columbia Chorale, Wenatchee Valley Appleaires and The Apollo Club.
Artists gather and share their work in shows and among one another. Music Theater of Wenatchee and Mission Creek Players present thespian productions and musicals.
Wenatchee also is home to the Mariachi Huenachi Band and a mariachi program in the Wenatchee School District.
The Wenatchee High School Golden Apple Band is well known and has won sweepstakes at the Washington State Auburn Marching Band Championship in the 2012 marching season. The Wenatchee Valley has a burgeoning hip-hop scene with multiple different artists gaining popularity in recent years such as Fogey, Evolution 420, b - Sw, and Edge.
Wenatchee Apple - Sox Baseball West Coast League Paul Thomas Sr.
Wenatchee Valley Rams Football Washington Football League Wildcat Stadium 2005 2 Wenatchee Wild Ice hockey British Columbia Hockey League Town Toyota Center 2008 0 Wenatchee Fire FC Indoor soccer Premier Arena Soccer League Wenatchee Valley Sportsplex 2015 Wenatchee FC Soccer Evergreen Premier League Apple Bowl 2016 Wenatchee Valley Venom Arena football Indoor Football League Town Toyota Center 2011 Wenatchee FC Youth Soccer Wenatchee Valley Sportsplex Wenatchee Figure Skating Club Figure skating United States Figure Skating Association Town Toyota Center Wenatchee Curling Club Curling United States Curling Association Wenatchee Wolves Ice hockey Northern Pacific Hockey League Wenatchee Packers Baseball American Legion Recreation Park The Wenatchee Valley Super Oval in East Wenatchee is a quarter-mile-long banked asphalt oval used for small-town racing.
The Wenatchee Valley and the encircling areas furnish an abundance of sports and recreational activities for any season.
Whitewater rafting and inner-tubing is incessant on the Wenatchee River.
In the winter, the mountain peaks near Wenatchee furnish great snowmobiling, sledding at Squilchuck State Park, as well as skiing and snowboarding at Mission Ridge (30 minutes drive) and Stevens Pass (1 hour and a half drive).
The trail joins in the south at the Old Wenatchee-East Wenatchee Bridge, better known as the strolling bridge, and in the north at the Richard Odabashian Olds Station Bridge.
It passes through Wenatchee Confluence State Park.
Much of the hillside areas encircling the town/city of Wenatchee have been purchased by or have their rights held by the Chelan-Douglas Land Trust which protects them as a natural resource and as a site for hiking in the foothills.
The foothills trail fitness along the edge Wenatchee provides various short trails of varying trouble for strolling, hiking and mountain biking.
The Wenatchee Youth Circus, ("The Biggest Little Circus in the World") established by Paul K.
Wenatchee is inside Chelan County, Washington, and is in the 12th Legislative District and 8th Congressional District of Washington.
Public Safety in Wenatchee is provided by three law enforcement agencies (Wenatchee Police Department, Chelan County Sheriff's Office, and the Washington State Patrol), two fire departments (Wenatchee Fire & Rescue and Chelan County Fire District No.
East Wenatchee Police and Douglas County Fire District No.
2 (East Wenatchee) also assist with police and fire protection services inside the town/city through mutual aid agreements.
Its former grounds are now home to Wenatchee Valley College.
Public K-12 education in Wenatchee is provided by the Wenatchee School District#246, which also serves the communities of Malaga, Olds Station, South Wenatchee, Sunnyslope, and Wenatchee Heights.
Columbia, Lewis and Clark, Lincoln, Mission View, Newbery and Washington Elementary schools furnish instruction within, or near, the town/city limits of Wenatchee, whilst Sunnyslope Elementary provides instruction in the orchard and suburban hills of Sunnyslope, north of Wenatchee.
All Wenatchee middle schools transfer their graduating pupil body up to Wenatchee High School, which operates Grade 9 through Grade 12, with the option for pupils to enroll in Running Start and attend Wenatchee Valley College for grades 11 and 12, or attend North Central Skills Center in Olds Station.
Wenatchee Internet Academy In 2006, the Wenatchee School District#246 began offering pupils of Wenatchee High School and Westside High School the ability to take chose classes online at the Wenatchee Internet Academy.
All classes are designed by educators at Wenatchee High School and directed by small-town instructors inside the Wenatchee School District.
Wenatchee is also the home of the North Central Educational Service District, serving all of north-central Washington, and the Wenatchee Valley College, a two-year improve college with its chief campus in Wenatchee and a satellite ground in Omak, Washington.
Wenatchee Valley College has one of the biggest improve college service areas in the State of Washington, covering more than 10,000 square miles (30,000 km2).
The Washington State University is represented in Wenatchee by the Tree Fruit Research and Extension Center, the North Central Washington Learning Center, and Chelan Co.
Transit services inside Wenatchee is provided by Link Transit, which serves all of Chelan County and parts of Douglas County.
Link Transit also runs commuter bus service from Wenatchee to many outlying communities in the region, including Leavenworth and Chelan.
The agency adopted its first electric buses with batteries in 2014, running on three street car routes in Wenatchee branded as "The Current". The town/city is served by Pangborn Memorial Airport which is positioned about 10-mile (16 km) to the east, and supports commercial flights from Wenatchee to and from Seattle on Alaska Airlines.
The Wenatchee child abuse prosecutions in Wenatchee, Washington, USA, also known as the "Wenatchee Witch Hunt", that occurred in 1994 and 1995, are examples of the child sex-ring hysteria that was prevalent in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and led to over three hundred sex-ring prosecutions in all but four states in the U.S.
In the early 1990's Wenatchee had a reputation as the 'happy pill town'. See also: Columbia Station (Wenatchee) Wenatchee is in the primary barns line of the BNSF Railway (formerly Great Northern Railway) to Seattle.
Wenatchee was once the easterly end of the Great Northern electric-driven train service (1928/1929 1956) on its New Cascade Tunnel route via the Chumstick Valley, which went all the way to Skykomish.
Today, Amtrak's Empire Builder traveler train serves Wenatchee.
Chris De - Garmo of Queensryche fame was born in Wenatchee in 1963.
The Pro Tour cyclist Tyler Farrar of Tour de France fame was born and raised in Wenatchee.
Dan Hamilton of Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds fame was born in Wenatchee.
Actress and producer Susan Hart was born in Wenatchee in 1941. Addictions specialist and educator, interventionist and author Brad Lamm was born in Wenatchee.
Jazz saxophonist Don Lanphere was born in Wenatchee in 1928.
Actress Noreen Nash was born in Wenatchee.
Cartoonist Bud Sagendorf of Popeye fame was born in Wenatchee.
Kurt Schulz of Buffalo Bills and Detroit Lions fame was born in Wenatchee.
Sammy Charles White of MLB fame was born in Wenatchee in 1928. Wenatchee has five sister cities: Columbia Station (Wenatchee) Wenatchee Dome "Home - Wenatchee Valley Museum & Cultural Center".
Wenatchee World "Alcoa to lay off 880 in Ferndale and Wenatchee - The Northern Light".
"Wildfire near Wenatchee continues to grow".
"IMDb: Most Popular People Born In "Wenatchee/ Washington/ USA"".
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