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Illinois Valley News, Cave Junction, OR Wednesday, December 13, 2006
Got rads?
ILLINOIS VALLEY BASKETBALL Holiday Tournament
was held Friday and Saturday, Dec. 8 and 9 in Ken Mann
Memorial Gym: girls 1st-place team, Illinois Valley; boys
1st-place team, Cascade Christian High School. Girls All-
Stars:1st, Illinois Valley, Shannon Loock, and Most Valu-
able Player, Sheena Cole; 2nd, Ashland High School,
Natalie DeCarlo and Monica Palmesino; 3rd, Cascade
Christian, Alyssa Tetrus; 4th, Brookings Harbor, Andrea
Medina. Boys All-Stars, 1st, Cascade Christian, Daniel
Shipley and Jeremy Cheyney, and Most Valuable Player,
Andrew Shipley; 2nd, Illinois Valley, Austin Hocker; 3rd,
Brookings Harbor, Jason Bay; 4th, Ashland High, Ethan
Moskowitz. (Photos by Dale Sandberg for IVN)
Oregon’s effort to pro-
tect communities from a
radiation incident is featured
in a new national report as
an example of how states
are using federal prepared-
ness dollars to strengthen
their defenses against public
health threats.
The report describes an
Oregon Dept. of Human Ser-
vices (DHS) project that is
distributing radiation monitor-
ing equipment throughout the
state, said Terry Lindsey,
radiation protection manager
in the DHS Public Health
Division.
“Rural areas will be bet-
ter protected and better able
to respond to a radiation inci-
dent,” said Lindsey. “We
want to make sure that every
Oregonian is protected, no
matter where they live.”
The DHS Public Health
Division used U.S. Dept. of
Homeland Security funds to
purchase 60 radiation moni-
toring kits. The kits are being
given to hospitals and some
health clinics throughout Ore-
gon, with rural areas getting
first priority for delivery.
The kits contain instru-
ments that enable medical
personnel to screen radia-
tion-contaminated patients
as they come into emer-
gency rooms to prevent con-
tamination of medical per-
sonnel and the hospital.
“As kits are delivered,
DHS trains medical staff on
how to handle patients with
radioactive contamination in
a safe and protective man-
ner,” said Lindsey.
DHS also is arranging
for radiological equipment
to be loaned to up to four
universities, which will help
ensure that radiological ex-
pertise exists outside of
Portland.
STUDENTS OF THE MONTH for November were honored at Lorna Byrne Middle School.
(Rear, from left) eighth-graders Aleesia Hennings and Nicholas Dowd, and sixth-grader
Catherine Vawter; (front) seventh-graders Angelina Heath and Tyler Robbins. Sixth-grader
Mathew Brock was absent. The students were recognized for outstanding performance in
many areas. (Photo by ‘Illinois Valley News’)
Remote monitoring of elderly examined
Oregon Health & Sci-
ence University (OHSU) in
Portland has received a fed-
eral grant to continue study-
ing whether continuous
monitoring of elders’ in-
home activities can pick up
mental and physical changes
that may signal declining
health.
The National Institute
on Aging (NIA) of the Na-
tional Institutes of Health
awarded a five-year, $7 mil-
lion Bioengineering Re-
search Partnership (BRP)
grant to OHSU’s Oregon
Center for Aging and Tech-
nology (ORCATECH).
Formed in 2004, OR-
CATECH studies and devel-
ops “enabling technologies”
to discretely assess elders
for memory changes that
may impair their ability to
live independently.
Changes in physical
activity have been shown to
precede changes in memory.
BRPs are multidiscipli-
nary research teams that
bring together bioengineer-
ing experts with basic and
clinical investigators to
study and develop methods
for preventing, detecting,
diagnosing and treating dis-
eases, as well as better un-
derstanding health and be-
havior, according to NIH.
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