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Carolyn Wood adds a golden touch to
First Friday by reading autobiography
ANNETTE UTZ
SPECIAL TO THE APPEAL TRIBUNE
Oregon author, Olym-
pic gold medalist and for-
mer world record holder
Carolyn Wood has experi-
enced many “firsts” dur-
ing her life.
She will add one more,
Silverton’s First Friday
that is, during a speaking
engagement on June 2.
She will be reading from
her
autobiography
“Tough Girl: An Olym-
pian’s Journey” and will
remain to sign copies of
her book. The event takes
place at 5:30 p.m. at Ap-
ples to Oranges Fine Yarn
& Teas, 204 E. Main St.
“Tough Girl” inter-
twines her road to the
Olympic Games and her
thousand mile solo trek
along the Camino de San-
tiago in Spain and France
during 2012. Throughout
the book, she recollects
many other journeys,
both physical and emo-
tional.
At the 1960 Summer
Olympics in Rome, Wood
won a gold medal as a
member of the U.S. wom-
en’s 4×100-meter free-
style relay swimming
team, which set a world
record during the compe-
tition finals. She also fin-
ished fourth in the indi-
vidual 100-meter free-
style. At 14 years old, she
was the youngest member
of the U.S. Olympic team
to win a medal.
After returning from
Rome, Wood attended
Beaverton High School,
SPECIAL TO THE APPEAL TRIBUNE
Oregon author Carolyn Wood won an Olympic gold medal at the age of 14. She will read from her autobiography on June 2 in Silverton.
where she won seven indi-
vidual state champion-
ships in butterfly, free-
style and the individual
medley.
Working as a lifeguard
one summer, she was
ruled to be a professional
and was ineligible to swim
Democrats slam Richardson
for inaccurate alert on audit
TRACY LOEW
STATESMAN JOURNAL
“I think that we can and should expect of our Secretary of
Oregon Gov. Kate
Brown and members of a
legislative budget-writ-
ing committee slammed
Secretary of State Dennis
Richardson May 23 for is-
suing an “audit alert” con-
taining information they
say Richardson should
have
known was
inaccurate.
“I think
that we can
and should
expect of
our Secre-
Richardson
tary
of
State to send out informa-
tion that is accurate, that
is honest,” Sen. Sara Gel-
ser, D-Corvallis said. “I
expect more. I can’t begin
to imagine the amount of
work this has caused by
sending out an alert that
clearly has some faulty
and inaccurate informa-
tion.”
On May 17, Richardson
sent an email to each
member of the Legisla-
ture and to the press stat-
ing that Oregon could be
paying for Oregon Health
Plan coverage for as
many as 86,000 people
who are no longer eligi-
ble.
In his email, Richard-
son said the Oregon
Health Authority had
failed to disclose the
problem, putting federal
funding at risk.
But
Richardson’s
staffers had been told
May 11, in written an-
swers to written ques-
State to send out information that is accurate, that is
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Tragedies
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dents around the North-
west.
At Three Pools Recrea-
tion Site, northeast of Sa-
lem, a 25-year-old swim-
mer went underwater on
Monday in the Little
North Santiam River and
didn’t resurface. He is
presumed dead.
In Washington, a 16-
honest.”
SEN. SARA GELSER
D-CORVALLIS
tions, that those asser-
tions weren’t true, OHA
director Lynn Saxton told
the Joint Ways and Means
Subcommittee on Human
Services on Tuesday.
OHA has regularly
kept Legislative commit-
tees and the federal gov-
ernment apprised of the
situation, Saxton said,
and federal funding is not
at risk.
“We have had consis-
tent and clear communi-
cations with Centers for
Medicare & Medicaid
Services throughout this
process on a weekly ba-
sis,” Saxton told the com-
mittee. “We do have writ-
ten approval for operat-
ing the way we have.”
Richardson’s
office
also abruptly canceled a
May 11 meeting it had
scheduled with OHA to
discuss answers to the
questions, Saxton said.
The problem stems
from the process to tran-
sition from the failed
Cover Oregon computer
system to a new one,
which has taken more
than three years. Enroll-
ees must fill out paper ap-
plications, which then are
hand-entered into the
new system.
There actually are
about 115,000 people re-
maining on the plan who
have not had their eligi-
bility
“redetermined,”
Saxton said.
Just over 14,000 have
not responded and are in
the process of being ter-
minated. A little more
than 17,000 have respon-
ded and are undergoing
the eligibility process.
And about 85,000 require
manual review to deter-
mine what action is need-
ed.
OHA estimates that 28
percent of the total, or
about 32,000 people, will
prove to be ineligible.
In a statement May 23,
Gov. Brown said the re-
maining cases include Or-
egonians who must meet
multiple eligibility crite-
ria and may be facing sig-
nificant health chal-
lenges.
“Elected
officials
should be focused on pro-
tecting the health care of
Oregonians, not playing
politics with it,” Brown
said. “These are Orego-
nians who cannot afford
the health care they need
in order to pursue healthy
and productive lives.”
Brown has set an Aug.
the power of the currents.
“Mother Nature is
powerful and it’s tragic
and those things are trag-
ic but in our eyes they are
preventable as long as you
know your limits,” Bal-
dridge said.
The Three Pools Rec-
reation Area was closed
May 23 as crews search
for the man.
year-old boy was swept
off a waterfall on the
South Fork Snoqualmie
River after swimming
with friends and is pre-
sumed drowned, officials
said.
In Southern Oregon, a
man is still missing after
he jumped off a bridge
into the North Umpqua
River near Roseburg, and
a woman is presumed
drowned after being
swept downstream in the
Illinois River last week
near Cave Junction.
Also on Monday, a
woman died in a boating
accident when the boat
she was in crashed in the
Columbia River.
Zach Urness has been
an outdoors writer, pho-
tographer and videogra-
pher in Oregon for eight
years. He is the author of
the book “Hiking South-
ern Oregon” and can be
reached
at
zurness
@StatesmanJournal.com
or (503) 399-6801. Find
him
on
Twitter
at
@ZachsORoutdoors.
31 deadline for OHA to
process the final renew-
als, she said, and has
asked for weekly pro-
gress updates.
“As Governor I expect
state agency leadership
to work quickly and dili-
gently to fulfill their du-
ties and complete this
task,” she said. “But I will
not play games with peo-
ple’s health care in order
to score a few political
points.”
Richardson’s
office
did not immediately re-
spond to an interview re-
quest.
Richardson took office
in January 2017 after be-
coming the first Republi-
can to win a statewide
election in Oregon since
2002. He previously ran
for Governor in 2014, los-
ing to John Kitzhaber.
tloew@statesmanjour
nal.com, 503-399-6779 or
follow at Twitter.com/
Tracy_Loew
in college or in any fur-
ther Olympic Games.
This is a free event. For
further information, call
503-874-4901.
During Free
Miller
Fishing Weekend
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... no license or
Saturday night at many
of the parks.
The hitch is that the
free camping is based on
availability, so good luck
if the weather’s good.
Another bonus is that
you can have four days of
free fishing if you visit
our neighbor to the north
on June 10 and 11 during
Washington’s Free Fish-
ing Weekend.
And thanks to the 2015
Oregon Legislature, the
June 3 and 4 weekend is
one of four Free Fishing
weekends offered annu-
ally in Oregon.
In 2017, the first was
April 22 and 23, and the
next are June 3 and 4 and
Dec. 31 and Jan. 1.
June 3 highlights
Detroit Lake was
scheduled to be stocked
with 20,000 keeper-size
trout during the two-
week run-up to Free Fish-
ing Weekend. The annual
event is 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
June 3 at the Hoover
Campground boat ramp.
Watch for the sign for the
U.S.
Forest
Service
campground on Highway
22 at the east end of the
lake.
Or you can shuttle off
to Silverton Reservoir,
which features a pair of
events, one for kids and
families and another for
those with physical and
tags are required
to go fishing,
clamming or
crabbing in
Oregon.
mental challenges. Be-
cause of limited parking,
the lot at the lake will be
closed, and shuttle buses
will run from 8 a.m. to
2:30 p.m. from the park-
ing lots next to Roth’s, 918
First St., and Dutch
Brother’s, 301 Westfield
St., the Silverton Library,
410 S Water St., the Naza-
rene Church, 1130 S Wa-
ter St., and the Silverton
Grange, 201 Division St.
For information or regis-
tration for the event for
those with special needs,
call Jon Debo at (503)
932-7699.
Finally, there will be a
9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. clinic
with free gear and bait —
along with 500 keeper-
size trout scheduled to be
stocked the week prior —
at St. Louis Ponds west of
Gervais off St. Louis
Road (from Salem, left at
the light at Gervais Road
off Highway 99E, then
left on Tesch just before
the railroad tracks).
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mer Statesman Journal
outdoor
writer/colum-
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