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Illinois Valley News, Cave Junction, OR Wednesday, February 21, 2007
Toxic mess from meth sites addressed
Eighth-grade three-year Honor Society members
Seventh-grade Honor Society members
Communities across
Oregon are being helped to
clean up methamphetamine
labs and the toxic mess
they leave behind by U.S.
Congressmen Greg Walden
(R-Hood River), Peter
DeFazio (D-Springfield)
and Earl Blumenauer (D-
Portland).
They are members of
the Congressional Caucus to
Fight and Control Metham-
phetamine, who co-
sponsored H.R. 365, a bill
that charges the Environ-
mental Protection Agency
(EPA) with development
of health-based guidelines to
assist state and local authori-
ties in cleaning up former
meth lab sites.
The bill passed 426-2.
“As I learned during
seven town halls I held on
methamphetamine through-
out Southern, Eastern and
Central Oregon, from Pen-
dleton to Paisley, families
and communities are being
torn apart by this epidemic,”
Walden said.
“Children and their
families are subjected to
toxic fumes left over from
meth labs, and it’s essential
that we determine when it is
safe to occupy the spaces
where this poison has been
produced,” he said.
“The least we can do at
the federal level,” said Wal-
den, “is help arm those en-
gaged in this battle on the
front lines with the tools and
research critical to the safe
and effective remediation of
facilities and lands contami-
nated by use and production
of this devastating sub-
stance.”
Said
DeFazio,
“Methamphetamines have
devastated the lives of too
many Oregonians and their
families.
“Communities through-
out Oregon and the United
States will face untold costs
in responding to the human,
environmental and health
consequences of this scourge
for years to come.
“The country needs a
better strategy and adequate
resources to fight this grow-
ing epidemic, and this
bill takes an important step
toward that goal.”
Noted Blumenauer,
“Oregon has made impres-
sive strides to prevent the
abuse of methamphetamines
by requiring prescriptions
for pseudoephedrine and
advancing the Stomp Out
Meth Project, an Oregon
solution for methampheta-
mine addiction.
“The federal govern-
ment needs to partner with
local communities to
address this epidemic. One
way we can help is by hav-
ing the Environmental Pro-
tection Agency (EPA) create
guidelines and work with
local authorities to clean up
old meth labs.”
Besides establishing
clean-up guidelines, the bill
also would:
*Direct the National
Institute of Standards and
Technology to consult with
EPA in developing tech-
nologies to detect meth labs,
emphasizing in field test kits
for law enforcement.
*Require the National
Academy of Sciences to
study the long-term effects
of meth exposure on first-
responders and on children
taken from meth lab sites.
Meth abuse is a wide-
spread problem in Oregon. It
treats more people for meth
addiction per capita than any
other state in the country and
is consistently ranked in the
top 10 states nationally for
meth lab seizures. The Drug
Enforcement Agency re-
ported that nearly 200 meth
labs were seized in Oregon
during 2005.
Oregon Reps. David Wu
(D-Portland) and Darlene
Hooley (D-West Linn) also
co-sponsored the bill.
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Sixth-grade Honor Society members (Photos by Scott Jorgensen)
LBMS lists Honor Society membership
Honor Society members
at Lorna Byrne Middle
School were announced.
Among honorees were:
Eighth Grade: Ryan
Andrews, Burt Barker, Jesse
Bethke, James Buck, Chel-
sea Bullock, Cody Chiver-
ton, Matthew Coultas, Greg
Crombie-Fujita, Nicholas
Dowd, Winona Gallegos,
Taylor Harris, Aleesia Hen-
nings, Alexander Hess,
Roger Hults, Kayla John-
son, Marissa Litak, Audrey
Mechling, Cynthia Moore,
Celilo Nordal, Hailee
Parker, Rhiannon Quall,
Mason Roberts, Casey
Robertson, Kieran Rose,
Margaret Ruiz, Cassandra
Thurman, Kara Tyler, Sa-
brina VanTassel, Geneva
Vasquez, and Ashley Webb;
Seventh
Grade :
Stephanie Agee, Thea
Barker-Cortrecht, Tyler
Bryant, Jazmyn Danko,
myana Dhenin, Daniel Go-
mez, Briana Grabarz, Anas-
tasia Greenberg, Makayla
Gunn, Jillian Hanson, Ange-
lina Heath, Sierra Heikka,
Christopher Heise, Meghan
householder, Fredderick
Hults, Cece Imerti, Carly
Jensen, Cheyenne Johnson,
Zachary Kay, Danielle
Lavassaur, Andrew
McLaughlin, Rachel Miller,
Benjamin Milner, Jonathan
Two From Valley
Cited By SWOCC
Zach Pagnotta, of Cave
Junction; and Nichole
Froderman, of Kerby, at-
tained the Dean’s List for
summer term 2006 at South-
western Oregon Community
College (SWOCC) in Coos
Bay, according to informa-
tion received this month.
Nichols, Felisha Ripley,
Travis Robbins, Rebekah
Sawall, Kaitlyn Skiles, Ja-
mie Sowell, Rose Summers,
Levi Vasquez, Xenia
Velasco, Kristen Vidales,
ChaseWeir, and Brandi
Wollerton;
Soldier honored
Sixth Grade: Bruce
Atnett, Tracy Arnold, Mor-
gan Barnes, Clarabelle
Compton, Trey Dilley, Tay-
lor Guion, Artesia Hubbard,
Ellie Jantz, Hannah Kanig,
Andrew Keith, Alexander
Manninen, Kia Parrish-
Haim, Jovany Sanchez,
Krysten Siver, Miranda
Stiles, Catherine Vawter,
and Kayla Young.
All flags at Oregon pub-
lic institutions were flown at
half-staff on Friday, Feb. 16,
in memory of Pfc. Brian A.
Browning of Astoria, by
order of Gov. Kulongoski.
Browning, 20, died Feb.
6, 2007 in Baghdad, Iraq. He
was assigned to the 4th Bat-
talion, 31st Infantry Regi-
ment, 2nd Brigade Combat
Team, 10th Mountain Divi-
sion in Fort Drum, N.Y.
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An Invitation to Apply for Appointment to the
Three Rivers School District Board of Education
The Three Rivers School District Board of Education invites all
interested patrons to apply for a vacant Zone 1 position on the
Board of Education. The Board will appoint the new member to
fill an unexpired position with a term to run from March, 2007 to
June 30, 2009. The new board member will be selected from the
list of those who applied.
To be eligible for appointment the candidate must:
1)
Live in one of the following precincts: Bridgeview,
Cave Junction, Illinois, Selma, or Waldo;
2)
Lived in the district at least one-year immediately
preceding the election;
3)
Not an officer or employee of the School District; and
4)
Be a qualified voter of the School District.
Applications are available at the District Office and must be re-
ceived no later than Friday, March 2, 2007 by 4:00 p.m. Please
phone 862-3111 Ext. 5217 if you need more information.
Three Rivers School District
Superintendent’s Office
P.O. Box 160
Murphy, OR 97533
(541) 862-3111 Ext. 5217
DHS expands sealant efforts to combat youth cavities
Efforts to protect Ore-
gon children from getting
cavities are getting a boost
this month as the state ex-
pands its capacity to deliver
preventive sealants.
The help comes in the
form of two portable dental
sealant units that will sup-
plement the school-based
sealant program adminis-
tered by the Oregon Dept. of
Human Services (DHS)
Public Health Division.
Dental sealants are thin
plastic coatings applied to
children’s molar teeth when
they first appear as a protec-
tion against cavities. Nearly
all tooth decay can be pre-
vented when sealants are
combined with fluoridation
and other fluoride products
such as toothpaste, accord-
ing to Gordon Empey, state
dental director in DHS.
“Sealants are an invest-
ment in a child's health,”
said Empey. “They protect
against first cavities and
against fillings, crowns, root
canals and extractions that
can occur later in life.”
The sealant units will be
used throughout the state,
and dentists and dental hy-
gienists around Oregon al-
First office at I.V. Medical Center
Monday - Friday by appointment
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access to preventive dental
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