In Our View: Cheers & Jeers: Heroic save; misinformation

In Our View: Cheers & Jeers: Heroic save; misinformation

Cheers: To digging in. In July, when the Burdoin wildfire threatened the 136-year-old Columbia Grange Hall in the Klickitat County community of Lyle, 76-year-old Charlie Deach went to work. Deach, a local organic farmer, mowed grass and brush and then used a backhoe to create 50-foot-wide berms around the historic building as flames approached. His thinking: “I can’t live with myself if I don’t do something to save that Grange,” he told The Colu…