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Voices of Summer
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To the Winning Smiles for the Month of JULY 2014:
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Sage Akerman Jackson Alberty Larkin Alberty Matthew Allabaugh Alec Anderson Aspen Anderson Payton Anderson Ty Anderson Jackson Anderson Noah Audelo Payton Augare Kevin Barrow Blake Bauer Evann Baumgartner Mercedez Baumgartner Kellen Bemis Kelsea Bemis Kenna Bemis Kerraline Bemis Alicyn Bending Brandi Bending Trey Bennett Timothy Benton Delbert Blackman Tanis Blythe Ezrah Boles Jonah Boles Haydyn Branch Cheyanne Bridges Hailie Bridges Faite Briggs Evan Brown Kamber Brown Kiera Brown Chloe Browning Gabriel Browning Kason Browning Greyson Brubaker Nathan Bruce Nicholas Bruce Wyatt Buckallew Ariannah Buey John Burger Michael Bush Kason Butts Hannah Byers Maddison Cardon Lola Carpenter Marlo Carpenter Owen Carptener JazmynCarter Khanan Caston Jerome Chandler Latasha Chase Arya Chilson
Ashyr Chilson Brett Christiana Aspen Clark Lilianne Clark Riley Clark Alexi Cobler-Veigel Hailey Colby Lincoln Cornelius Daylin Coughren Porter Craig Presley Craig Lydia Dachs Emma Daniel Shelby Davis Sierrah Davisson Ducan Degroot Joshua Desch Sophie Desch Brodyn Deshaw Ryder Doyle Eian Easter Olson Collin Eastman Leah Eastman Cole Eastwood Lucas Eddy Josie Ekholt Parker Elzig-Miller Ashley Emerson Zane Emerson Izak Emmert Zoe Farnum Arthur Fendich Nelly Fendich Cashton Fields Jade Finley Tyler Fishel Jacob Flannigan Madden Fortuna Tyler Foultner Colton Franklin Zoey Franklin Kaiden Frederick Nathan Frederick Michael Freeberg Charles Gardner Zayne Gargasz Bridger Godfrey Dmitriy Golovko Ayden Goulet Ellie Goulet Lannie Griffith GwennethGuan Ethan Gunderson Joseph Hackett Gracen Haddenham Trevor Hagadone
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SUMMER EVENINGS WHISPER of memories. Clouds of pine pol- len filtering the twilight over ridge lines of the Bitterroot. The San Francis- co Peaks glistening in the aftermath of a summer monsoon in Arizona. A Middle Fork float drifting well into the hours past sunset.
For me those are all memories of adulthood. I grew up a SoCal boy, and the memories from childhood are dif- ferent from those formed since I started wandering the West. I grew up in Riv- erside, California, but despite the name it’s actually a city carved from the des- ert. Summers were blisteringly hot and water sports were miles away. The big respite was the lower Colorado River, which required a long trek across the Mojave Desert.
So my summer water sport activity centered on the backyard pool. When you’re a kid summering where triple digits are the norm three months of the year, you grow to love the burning sen- sation chlorine-laced water sears onto your eyes and sinuses.
There were soundtracks to those summertime festivities. There’s Led Zeppelin and the classic rockers of my teen years, followed by the post punk bands we adopted as we became “seri- ous” thinkers in our college days. I get regular flashbacks 30 years later thanks to satellite radio. Jim Ladd was the DJ we listened to in high school. The sig- nal from LA-based KMET was a little sketchy, but I absorbed his freeform act almost every night as I fell asleep. Lat- er, as corporate radio took hold, Ladd refused to conform to playlists gener- ated from headquarters and he bounced around the SoCal radio dial.
Richard Blade is another blast from the past. He worked at the alt-rock sta- tion KROQ. Both Blade and Ladd have extended their careers due to satellite’s subscription-based business model, which favors the creativity of old-school DJs rather than the canned playlists.
But there’s another radio soundtrack to summer, one I too seldom revisit un-
less I’m visiting home as you can’t find Vin Scully on satellite radio. Scully has been announcing Dodger baseball for 65 years. I know it is 65 because I was back home recently, and instead of listening on the radio, we drove into town to catch a game in person. That night they were handing out commemorative micro- phones to mark the occasion.
It was a perfect summer night for a ball game, the kind that makes me ques- tion my decision more than two decades ago to leave Southern California for life in Montana. It was 74 degrees at the first pitch just after 7 p.m., and four hours later as the Dodgers wrapped up the win, it was 71. The tall palms beyond the out- field pavilion were hardly bothered by the summer breeze.
Back in the 1950s when the Dodgers first came to California, fans brought transistor radios to games so they could listen to Scully and better follow the ac- tion in the Olympic-sized Coliseum. I lent a modern twist to that tradition on my recent visit, using the MLB app on my iPhone. Listening to the great- est baseball announcer ever was such a joy I didn’t mind that the app delayed the broadcast and Scully was calling the game about one pitch behind the action.
Scully’s understated storytelling drew me back to the pool and the sum- mer nights of my youth. It was hot and we’d be in the water late. Through the open sliding glass door we could hear the Dodgers simulcast drifting out into the night. “Hi, it’s time for Dodger baseball,” the golden voice would announce as we practiced backflips off the diving board. Inside, my Dad decompressed after a hard day. As an asbestos worker who died from lung disease, he killed him- self at work, literally, making sure we could afford a nice backyard with a pool though he rarely dipped a toe himself.
And I remember he would usually fall asleep on the couch well before the game ended.
That’s what summer evenings whis- per to me, even when I’m floating the Middle Fork.
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