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Article: Windsurfing has changed Hood River
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- June 29, 2003
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HOOD RIVER, Ore. -- They are returning now, the wind worshippers
who swarm into this scenic Columbia River town every year from all
corners of the world to squirm into their wetsuits, hop onto their
windsurfing boards and go tearing across the whitecaps at 30 mph and
more.
Some will stay the weekend. Some will stay the summer. Others may
stay forever. There are plenty who do.
Sitting on a bench in front of a popular downtown coffee shop is
local windsurfer Bart Vervloet, a 43-year-old who came here nearly
two decades ago in search of the perfect wind, found it, and made
Hood River his home.
Vervloet is fond of pointing out that the first three digits of
Hood River phone numbers -- 386 -- ...