Illinois Valley News, Cave Junction, OR Wednesday, October 29, 2003
Page 13
I.V. softball players
challenge the nation
Illinois Valley resident Emily Hoskins takes a swing
during the Western National Slow Pitch ‘D’ Softball
Tournament in Selma.
(Photo contributed)
Oregon nurseries will reopen
after ‘oak death’ infestation
Three Oregon nurser-
ies quarantined after re-
ceiving out-of-state plant
material infected with sud-
den oak death syndrome
have been cleared to oper-
ate free of restrictions fol-
lowing months of monitor-
ing and inspection by the
Oregon Dept. of Agricul-
ture (ODA).
By lifting the quaran-
tines, Furney’s Nursery in
Clackamas County, Valley
View Nursery in Jackson
County and Kasch’s Gar-
den Centers in the Port-
land-area are declared free
of disease.
ODA originally con-
firmed the presence of
Phytophthora ramorum,
the fungus that causes sud-
den oak death syndrome, at
Furney’s Nursery in May.
Since then, all infected
plants have been destroyed
and multiple follow-up
inspections have found no
additional infected plants.
Surveys of the area sur-
rounding the nursery indi-
cate the disease did not
spread onto adjacent prop-
erties.
The source of infection
at Furney’s Nursery is
thought to be nursery stock
imported from out-of-state.
Also in May, ODA
became aware of an in-
fected shipment of plants
sent to Valley View Nurs-
ery located in Ashland and
Medford from a Stanislaus
County nursery in Califor-
nia that subsequently dis-
covered it had been in-
fected with the sudden oak
death.
All 17 plants from the
infected shipment were
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recovered and destroyed.
Follow-up inspections
have found no additional
infected plants at either
nursery location or sur-
rounding areas.
Early this summer,
Kasch’s Garden Center in
the Porltand area informed
ODA of a shipment of ca-
mellias received from the
same California nursery
involved with Valley
View. ODA inspection and
analysis confirmed the
presence of P. ramorum in
a number of camellias
shipped from the Califor-
nia nursery to Kasch’s.
Some 244 plants that were
still on-site at the nursery
were confiscated and de-
stroyed. Approximately
300 camellias had already
been sold to local retail
customers.
ODA and Kasch’s
were able to located 100 fo
the sold plants.
Laboratory analysis
indicated that only one of
the 100 was infected with
the disease.
Surveys conducted on
other host plants at the in-
fected residential site were
negative for P. ramorum.
Follow-up inspections
have found no additional
infected plants at any of
the retail customer loca-
tions.
ODA officials empha-
size that in all three cases,
the infected material came
from outside the state and
was not part of an estab-
lished infestation of sud-
den oak death in Oregon.
By STEVE FAIRCHILD
Staff Writer
Illinois Valley resi-
dents Lisa Sherier and
Emily Hoskins recently
competed in a national
softball competition in Sa-
lem.
Sherier, a 1994 gradu-
ate of Illinois Valley High
School and Hoskins, a
2000 graduate of IVHS,
joined women from Grants
Pass to field a team at the
double elimination West-
ern National Slow Pitch
‘D’ Softball Tournament.
The team, called the
Combined Extreme, won
five games in a row and
finished in the top 13 in
their division.
“It was pretty excit-
ing,” Hoskins said of the
event. “It was cool because
teams fly in from all over.
“The level of competi-
tion was pretty high,” she
added. “I expected it to be
competitive and it was
every bit competitive.”
Sherier, a first-team all
league player during her
high school junior and sen-
ior years, played left cen-
ter field. Hoskins, also a
first-team all league player
her junior and senior high
school years, played sec-
ond base.
The Combined Ex-
treme also finished in sec-
ond place in the state in a
tournament in Klamath
Falls earlier in the year.
“Both women per-
formed well,” said the
team’s coach and Lisa’s
husband, Pat. “Both have a
winning attitude. Neither
liked to lose at all. Emily
really performed well at
nationals and defensively
Lisa played superb.”
We learn through experience. If the environment permits it, any-
one can learn whatever he chooses. If the individual permits it,
the environment will teach him everything it has to teach.
-- Viola Spolin --
Lisa Sherier and Emily Hoskins
MANSFIELD R. CLEARY
Attorney at Law
General Practice in
Illinois Valley
since 1980
Practice includes but not limited to:
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financial problems
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