Stage one of the History Museum of Hood River County’s project to stabilize and renovate its paddle wheel is complete.   Workers this week lifted the 27,000 pound wooden wheel and its axel off its supports, and new timbers treated to prevent weathering were lowered into position to stabilize it.  The paddlewheel was originally part of the Henderson sternwheeler, which was built in 1902, and the wheel was rebuilt by former Nichols Boat Works part-owner John Hounsell and given by him to the museum.  The next planned phase of renovation is replacement of the paddlewheel’s rotten wood buckets.