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Love Letter to a Chelan County Snow Plow Driver
Garbage Pickup Thursdays in our neighborhood are trash day. Every week we put out the can by the street and every other week we put out the blue recycling container too. Last week was one of those nasty wintry days where every homeowner is struggling with the snowblower to keep up with the new snow and the county has its plows running a full …
Ira Finklestein’s Christmas Vacation – A N...
Have you heard that Leavenworth is going to be in the movies again? Ira Finkelstein’s Christmas Vacation is the story “of a Jewish kid who’ll stop at nothing to celebrate Christmas.” Photo by Peachland Joe via Flickr Written and produced by Von Piglet Productions, it was originally to be set in a Christmas town in Vermont. However, after a couple of location scouting trips …
Hog Loppet 2011
We here at Icicle Creek Homes are once again pleased to announce that we are the title sponsor of the 2011 Hog Loppet. Hog Loppet is an annual ski tour from Mission Ridge to Blewett Pass organized by the Leavenworth Winter Sports Club. The tour is 30 kilometers and is not a race but a great day out on the snow experiencing the mountains and the joy of Nordic …
Leavenworth Ski Season 2010 – 2011
Winter in Leavenworth means ski season (at least it does at our house!) Since so many of our friends and clients are skiers too, here’s a update of what’s open so far: Lake Wenatchee State Park Lake Wenatchee State Park(from Rick Halstead, Park Manager) We’re not quite there yet. Tonight’s forecasted dump should give us enough to work with to grade and create a good trail base. The …
Banff Film Fest a Success!
Thanks to everyone who came out last night to the Enzian Inn to support the Leavenworth Winter Sports Club at the 2010 Banff Film Fest Tour in Leavenworth. Leavenworth hosts Banff Film Fest The event sold out which is very rare for the first year in a new town. We had approximately 300 people at the event! It was great to see so many clients …
Getting a Leavenworth Christmas Tree
With Thanksgiving upon us, many Leavenworth families start thinking about the annual search for a Christmas tree. For some that means searching the local parking lots for trees sold by local Boy Scout troops and high school marching bands, for others it means venturing to a local Christmas tree farm like Shelton’s in Cashmere, For our family, it means visiting the local national forest for a Christmas …
Leavenworth Hosts Banff Mountain Film Festival
The Banff Mountain Film Festival is taking this year’s films on the road as they do each year and this year we are excited to have them come to Leavenworth. We’re so excited that we told the Leavenworth Winter Sports Club who is hosting the films that we would love to be the title sponsor. So for the inaugural showings here in Leavenworth, we …
Leavenworth First Snow of 2010-2011
The first snow of the winter of 2010 – 2011 hit Leavenworth this afternoon. We were told to expect it at higher elevations, but we actually got snow downtown. Webcam Image from Leavenworth.org 11/9/10 This is a good reminder to be prepared for winter driving for the next few months. Keep chains, a shovel, and a tow rope in your car. You never know …
Leavenworth Real Estate Auctions
Foreclosures and short sales have been the number one topic of real estate in the past 6 months. We haven’t been immune in Leavenworth, but we certainly have seen much less distressed sales here than in other parts of the country. Many of you are already subscribing to our Leavenworth Foreclosure and Short Sale List so you received an email about this news already. (It’s …
Ponderosa Estates Allows Vacation Rentals
Originally posted October 19, 2010 Over the last few years there has been much debate about whether or not allowing vacation rentals makes for a healthy community or if banning them might have a negative effect on home prices in a certain neighborhood. Chiwawa River Pines, after much debate and legal wrangling, decided earlier that vacation rentals are not to be allowed in their …