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Water
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They also admitted that the presence of algal tox-
ins in the drinking water came was a surprise.
"This caught a lot of us off-guard," said Senate
President Peter Courtney, D-Salem, who arranged
the forum.
About a month after Salem's water crisis began,
the Oregon Health Authority instituted new tempor-
ary rules for the testing of cyanotoxins, requiring reg-
ular monitoring of the federally unregulated contam-
inant.
Surface water systems with a history of harmful
algae blooms or those identified as potentially at-risk
for blooms must now test biweekly for toxins micro-
cystin and cylindrospermopsin. If either are detected
in raw water above the health advisory level of 0.3
parts per billion, testing must then occur weekly and
also include finished water.
The Department of Environmental Quality is con-
ducting the tests for most water systems, though
some, like Salem and Albany, are using different labs.
The first samples were gathered and analyzed over
the last two weeks. Testing will continue through
Oct. 31.
"Going into this we had no idea what we were go-
ing to see," Boling said.
The City of Salem has voluntarily monitored algae
blooms since 2011, a decision city officials say al-
lowed them to detect the toxins this year.
The first drinking water advisory was placed May
29, three days after the city learned cyanotoxins were
detected in Salem's drinking water above health ad-
visory levels for the first time ever.
"It’s not unusual for us to see detection in the river
water, in the raw water source," said Lacey Goeres-
Priest, City of Salem water quality director.
The last recorded detection of cyanotoxins at any
level in a drinking water sample was June 29, before
the city implemented its powder activated carbon
treatment system.
Cyanotoxins haven't been identified above health
advisory levels in drinking water since June 18.
Contact the reporter at cradnovich@statesman-
journal.com or 503-399-6864, or follow him on Twit-
ter at @CDRadnovich
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Community Center;
421 South Water Street.
Agenda Item #1:
File Number SU-18-01.
Appeal of a Subdivi-
sion denial to divide
608 North James Street
into 40 lots. The site
contains a total area of
9.51 acres and was pro-
posed to be divided in-
to 40 lots ranging in
size from 7,000 square
feet to 10,482 square
feet with 7 lots being
designated as duplex
lots for an overall den-
sity of 5.0 units per
acre. Located on the
northeast side of the
Jefferson Street and
North James Street in-
tersection,
Marion
County Assessor’s Map
061W27AD, Tax Lot
00700. The application
will be reviewed fol-
lowing
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criteria
found in Silverton De-
velopment Code sec-
tion 4.3.140.
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Silverton Appeal
Aug. 8, 2018
Squash pollination crucial
for good vegetable growth
Gardening
Carol Savonen
Guest columnist
Question: My zucchini blossoms and after the
blossom falls off there is no vegetable. This happened
last year with purchased plants and this year from
plants I grew from seed. Do you have any idea what is
going on in my raised beds?
Answer: Most squashes and cucumbers have sep-
arate male and female flowers, both on the same
plant. But, it is quite normal for early zucchini blos-
soms to fall off before setting any fruit for a week or
two. Why? Squash often produces and opens male
flowers for a week or two before any female flowers
open. These male flowers function to attract pollina-
tors to the area. Then the female blooms, which pro-
duce the fruit, begin to open.
Squash pollination is quite a sexy story. To produce
fruit, pollen from male flowers must be transferred
from male flowers to female flowers. It is the base of
female flower that grows into the fruit, once fertilized.
Bees play cupid— they travel from flower to flower
gathering nectar and pollen from male flowers and
nectar from female flowers. Pollen gathered on male
flowers, carried by roving bees, sticks to the sticky
part of the female flowers called the style. Each style
leads down into the ovaries, where the ovules, or eggs
wait for fertilization.
Squash (and cucumber) female flowers tend to
bloom somewhat later in the season than male flow-
ers. To tell a female from a male zuke flower, go out
into your zucchini patch and examine closely the tiny
unopened flower buds. Female zuke blossoms have
what resembles a tiny squash right below the flower.
The tiny fruit is the ovary, full of eggs not yet fertilized
via pollen from male flowers.
The male blossoms have a regular sized stalk right
below the flower; there is no swollen base like the
Teen
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“Well it got my attention
right away – and kept it.”
In the film, over the
scenes of the city and Sil-
ver Falls State Park, John
narrates his ideas, calling
on local businesses to
train high schoolers in
their various fields of in-
terest. He also suggests
that the mayor offer reg-
ular contests to youth, to
spark creativity.
“So many people have
potential, and they just
don’t have the resources
to show that potential,”
he said.
Silverton’s mayor said
he enjoyed seeing these
practical ideas interwo-
Squash (and cucumber) female flowers
tend to bloom somewhat later in the
season than male flowers.
female bloom has. Male flowers contain long stalked
stamens, each with pollen-filled anthers. Every pollen
grain contains sperm nuclei, which if carried by a bee
to a female flower, fertilize the ovules. When the
ovules are fertilized, a squash grows.
When a pollen laden bee carries pollen grains from
male anthers to female pistil, each pollen grain grows
a long tube down through the pistil, to the egg cells.
The sperm nuclei migrate down the tube to an egg,
where fertilization takes place. Each fertilized egg will
grow into a seed.
There are multiple seeds in the fruit, each contain-
ing a tiny plant embryo, each a product of the union of
an egg and sperm. The surrounding tissue which pro-
tects the embryos is the zucchini fruit.
Be patient with your squash plants. Eventually,
most plants will produce both male and female flow-
ers. Try fertilizing your plant with a dose of bloom
promoting fertilizer, rich in phosphorus. Once blos-
soms of both sexes are opening, and there is still no
fruit formation, there may be poor pollination.
Mother Nature sometimes needs assistance, if you
have a shortage of pollinators. You can try to pollinate
the flowers yourself. Use a small watercolor paint-
brush or Q-tip and lightly transfer pollen from male
flowers to the female flowers. Since each flower,
whether male or female, usually only stays open for a
day, you’ll have to monitor your plants habits closely
to catch them at the perfect time - just when both a
male and female flower opens in the morning, if you
want to help spread the pollen.
Once fruit starts to enlarge after pollination, keep
the plants well watered. And don't let your summer
squash get too big - they certainly aren’t as tasty.
ven with images of the
community. Mostly, he
was delighted to hear
from someone young
about issues that matter.
“Specifically (though
not within the power of a
mayor) John’s concept of
trade-or-career-specific,
on-the-job training is
very do-able, and actual-
ly did exist in Silverton in
the form of the School
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District’s former Struc-
tured Work Experience
Program,” he said.
The statewide contest
is meant to spark conver-
sations and problem
solving among Oregon
cities’ youngest resi-
dents. Every year, ele-
mentary students com-
pete in a poster contest,
middle schoolers in an
essay contest and high
schoolers in the digital
media contest.
Local
fifth-graders
Preslie Carey, Makayla
Chase and Oliver Zur-
brugg won first, second
and third place, respec-
tively, in Silverton’s post-
er contest.
“Oftentimes we learn
as much as those who
sign up for contest,” Rus-
sell said. “It’s amazing
what these young minds
come up with for ideas.
How they perceive their
communities is often
very different from older
residents. It’s very im-
portant to get that per-
spective.”
John Baldwin’s desire
to see youth match their
interest with real-life
skills comes from his own
experience in filmmak-
ing. He started out as a
still photographer at age
9, moving on to making
action movies with a Go-
Pro by age 12.
As a high school fresh-
man, he leaped into Sil-
verton High’s Visual
Communication track in
the Information and
Communication
Tech-
nology program. By the
time he was a sophomore,
he’d learned enough to
join the staff at SCAN-TV,
a cable access channel
operated at the school.
At 16, he started get-
ting paid for his TV work
outside of school hours.
Now a 17-year-old incom-
ing senior, he said he’s
grateful for all the essen-
tial skills he picked up at
school.
Last summer, he put
those skills to work for
money, making movies
for the Oregon Depart-
ment of Forestry. He’s do-
ing that again this year,
along with filming wed-
dings on weekends.
“He has helped us cov-
er a number of communi-
ty events in the last few
years and is a great asset
to our team,” said Abby
Shetler, SCAN-TV’s mul-
timedia assistant.
John Baldwin’s “If I
Were Mayor” film can be
found on his YouTube
channel; more informa-
tion can be found at joh-
nybaldman.myportfolio-
.com.