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Illinois Valley News, Cave Junction, OR Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Sports challenge
1. Which point value counts
when an arrow cuts two colors of
an archery target?
2. Who beat Denmark 47-0
at the 1949 world hockey cham-
pionships?
3. What is the fastest stroke
in swimming?
4. Whom did Sonny Liston
succeed as world heavyweight
boxing champion?
5. What were Babe Ruth’s
Christian names?
6. What sport features jam-
mers breaking out of the pack?
7. What is the score of a for-
feited baseball game?
8. What’s a turkey in bowl-
ing?
9. What is the prize money
in a horse race or a boxing match
called?
10. How many Olympic
Games were canceled because of
World War I?
Sports Challenge Answers
1. The higher; 2. Canada; 3.
The freestyle or front crawl; 4.
Floyd Patterson; 5. George Her-
man; 6. Roller derby; 7. 9-0; 8.
Three consecutive strikes; 9. The
purse; 10. One.
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A Look Back This Week
White winter weather is in full force for Illinois Valley.
This view between Kerby and Selma gives an idea of
the recent snowfall. Weather during the next several
LEGAL NOTICE
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Budget Committee Vacancies
Illinois Valley Fire District
Illinois Valley Rural Fire Protection District is
now accepting applications to fill 2 (two) vacan-
cies on the annual Budget Committee. We are
inviting all interested persons to apply by stop-
ping by the Administration Building located at
681 Caves Highway, Cave Junction and pick up
an application. Applications may be returned by
mail or dropped off at the above address. If you
have any questions, please phone 592-2225.
All applications must be received at the Admini-
stration Building by 4:00 p.m. on Friday, Febru-
ary 22, 2008.
Publish:
Feb. 6 & Feb. 13, 2008
PUBLIC NOTICE
NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETING
This is to give notice that on Monday, February
11, 2008, at 7:00 p.m. in the Council Chambers
of City Hall, 222 W. Lister Street, Cave Junc-
tion, Oregon, the Common Council of the City
of Cave Junction will meet in a regular session.
The agenda may include, but is not limited, to
the following:
Minutes of Previous Meeting(s)
Council Position Vacancy
Council Updates
Sale of Surplus Vehicles
Resolution
CDBG Grant Status
(Infrastructure Extension)
Executive Session
Comments
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Feb. 6, 2008
PUBLIC NOTICE
PUBLIC NOTICE
On October 22, 2007, Better Life Televi-
sion, Inc. tendered for filing with the Federal
Communications Commission in Washington,
D.C. an application for a construction permit for
a new noncommercial FM station to serve
Selma, Oregon. The new station will broadcast
on 91.5 MHz with an effective radiated power of
200 watts. The transmitter will be located at the
site described by the geographic coordinates
42˚15’29” north latitude, 123˚39’32” west longi-
tude. The antenna will operate at a height of
584 meters above average terrain.
The officers, board members and persons
with a 10% or greater ownership interest in the
applicant are: Robert Heisler, Delmer Wagner,
Olen Nations, Don Eisner, Keith Babcock,
Duane Corwin, Paul Gordon, Patty Highland,
Walter MacPhee, Bob McReynolds, Judy Ran-
dahl, Glenn Ginger, Willard Register, Holly
Rueb, Perry Parks, Richard Surroz, George
White and Ron Davis.
The application and related relevant mate-
rials are available for public inspection during
regular business hours at Better Life Television,
1360 NE 9th St. Grants Pass, OR 97526.
Publish & Aff:
Feb. 6, Feb. 13, Feb. 20, 2008
days, including into the weekend, calls for rain, snow
and freezing rain with cold temperatures. (Photo by
Dale & Elaine Sandberg for Illinois Valley News)
Logging, slides questionable
The massive rainstorm that
soaked the Pacific Northwest in early
December caused major flooding,
more than a dozen deaths and once
again raised questions about the
cause of the numerous, sometimes
destructive landslides which follow
such events.
The landslide answer, according
to experts at Oregon State University
(OSU) at Corvallis, is primarily that
this is a region with unstable geology
and torrential rains that hit often
enough to make landslides a way of
life – more so than in most other
mountainous regions. And in the
early years after timber harvest, they
say, there indeed may be a link to
logging practices, although that link
should not be overstated.
“Most people who have not
studied this issue assume that any
landslide that occurs in a harvested
unit is caused by logging, and that’s
all there is to it,” said Arne Skaugset,
an associate professor of forest engi-
neering at OSU. “This is not true. It
is not nearly that simple.”
A careful review of many stud-
ies shows that logging plays a role,
but it is small compared to the natu-
rally unstable features of this region.
For instance, in an average square
mile of Coast Range forests, scien-
tists can identify some 259
“headwalls,” or areas of deposited
sediments that are the result of a past
landslide and other sediments that fill
in behind it.
Landslides will occur again in
these same places, usually as a result
of major storms such as the one that
occurred during last December and
1996.
The prob-
lem, experts
say, began
millions of
years
ago
when what
is now the
Coast Range
was
the
ocean floor –
mostly sand-
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stone with
ACCESS
interbedded
Safe, secure and
siltstone and
convenient location
mudstone. If
(Located behind SOFCU)
you fast-forward millions of years,
those ocean floor sediments have
been uplifted by geologic forces to
form steep Coast Range mountains
typified by soils of varying depth,
sometimes as shallow as a few feet.
Water soaks through the soils,
hits a less permeable layer and runs
along it until it surfaces, forming
natural seeps where water accumu-
lates. Then – given the steepness of
the land – the heavy, saturated soil
slides.
“Erosion has always happened
in the Coast Range, and landslides
are the primary cause of it,”
Skaugset said. “Most of the time, it
has nothing to do with land manage-
ment.”
Sometimes there is a connec-
tion, he said. Poor road construction
or drainage techniques – much more
of a problem in the past than with
modern engineering standards – can
help lead to landslides. And some
good studies on the relationship be-
tween landslides and clearcut log-
ging were conducted following the
major storms of 1996.
Research by the Oregon Dept.
of Forestry on landslides resulting
from the major 1996 storm found
that logging caused approximately a
40 percent increase in landslides
during the first 10 years, if there was
a major storm event during that time.
But even then, the range of variabil-
ity was huge – some recently logged
areas actually had fewer landslides
while others had significantly more.
In established, previously har-
vested forests, there was no discerni-
ble connection between logging and
landslides. And in some cases there
actually was a decrease in the inci-
dence of landslides. In older, unhar-
vested forests, an increase in the
incidence of landslides was found in
some cases.
“We can’t really be sure what
the causative mechanism of this is,
but there are two dominant hypothe-
ses,” Skaugset said.
“One is that there is a temporary
loss of root strength in the early years
after logging as tree roots decay.
Another idea is that the intensity of
rainfall can be moderated by a forest
canopy.”
On Feb. 10, 1763, a peace
pact was signed between France
and Britain, ending the French &
Indian War; France lost Canada
and the Midwest ... Feb. 6, 1778,
France signed a treaty of aid with
the United States in order to help
the Americans with their war of
independence from Great Brit-
ain ... Feb. 9, 1825, after a dead-
locked election, John Quincy
Adams was elected president by
the House of Representatives ...
Feb. 8, 1861, seven southern
states set up the Confederate
States of America with Jefferson
Davis as president, and captured
federal arsenals and forts ... Feb.
4, 1899, Filipino insurgents, un-
able to obtain recognition of in-
dependence from the United
States, started a guerilla war ...
Feb. 4, 1945, the Yalta Confer-
ence began in the Crimea with
President Franklin Roosevelt,
British Prime Minister Winston
Churchill and Soviet leader Josef
Stalin ... Feb. 7, 1984, U.S. Navy
Capt. Bruce McCandless, fol-
lowed by U.S. Army Lt. Col.
Robert Stewart, became the first
humans to fly free of a space-
craft ... Feb. 9, 2001, nine people
on a Japanese fishing boat died
when it collided with a U.S.
Navy submarine nine miles from
Pearl Harbor off Hawaii ... Feb.
4, 2002, Ken Lay, former chair-
man and chief executive officer
of Enron, ended his connection
with the company by resigning
from its board ... Feb. 4, 2002,
President Bush submitted to
Congress a $2.13 trillion budget
for the 2003 fiscal year ... Feb. 5,
2005, while in Ankara, Turkey,
Secretary of State Condoleezza
Rice said that Russia’s punish-
ment of political dissenters was
complicating relations with the
United States ... Feb. 7, 2005,
President Bush sent Congress a
$2.57 trillion federal budget for
the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1,
2005; the budget would slow the
growth of government spending
from 8.2 percent to 3.6 percent in
one year and put the country on
the road to cutting the federal
budget deficit in half by 2009 ...
Feb. 9, 2005, North Korea con-
firmed what had been widely
suspected, that it possessed nu-
clear weapons.
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Illinois Valley Fire District
(IVFD) staff and volunteer fire-
fighters are fitted for HEPA
masks each year. The masks
are designed to protect them
from contracting infectious dis-
eases when entering contami-
nated areas. (Photo by IVFD)
Study find prevalence of mercury high
A survey by researchers at
Oregon State University at Corval-
lis and the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency, of more than
600 rivers and streams in the west-
ern United States, found wide-
spread mercury concentrations in
fish.
Although few of the more than
2,700 fish analyzed in the study
contained alarmingly high levels of
mercury, the prevalence of the
element throughout 12 Western
states caught the researchers some-
what by surprise.
Don’t drink and drive
LEGAL NOTICES
TRUSTEE’S NOTICE OF SALE Pursuant to
O.R.S. 86.705, et seq. and O.R.S. 79.5010, et
seq. Trustee No.: 039-15944 Reference is made
to that certain Trust Deed made by Cynthia Vetkos
as Grantor/Trustor, in which Mortgage Electronic
Registration Systems, Inc., is named as Benefici-
ary and First American Title Insurance OR as
Trustee and recorded 01/30/2007 as Instrument
No. 2007-002211 in book , page of Official Re-
cords in the office of the Recorder of Josephine
County, Oregon covering the following described
real property situated in said county and state, to
wit: Parcel 1 of Partition Plat No. 2005-055, Jose-
phine County, Oregon.. APN: R343845 The street
address or other common designation, if any, of
the real property described above is purported to
be: 1695 Fruitdale Drive, Grants Pass, OR 97527
The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for
any incorrectness of the above street address or
other common designation. Both the beneficiary
and the trustee have elected to sell the said real
property to satisfy the obligations secured by said
Trust Deed and a Notice of Default has been re-
corded pursuant to Oregon Revised Statutes
86.735 (3); the default for which the foreclosure is
made is Grantor’s failure to pay when due, the
following sums: Total payments from 07/1/2007
through 12/27/2007 $11,400.00 Total advances
$0.00 Interest on Advances (if any) $0.00 Total
due the Beneficiary $11,400.00 Also, if you have
failed to pay taxes on the property, provide insur-
ance on the property or pay other senior liens or
encumbrances as required in the note and Deed
of Trust, the beneficiary may insist that you do so
in order to reinstate your account in good stand-
ing. The beneficiary may require as a condition to
reinstatement that you provide reliable written
evidence that you have paid all senior liens or
encumbrances, property taxes and hazard insur-
ance premiums. These requirements for reinstate-
ment should be confirmed by contacting the un-
dersigned Trustee. By reason of said default, the
beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the
obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately
due and payable, said sums being the following:
The unpaid principal balance of $320,000.00 to-
gether with interest thereon at the current rate of
7.12500 per cent (%) per annum from 6/1/2007
until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow
advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other
sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary
pursuant to the terms and conditions of said deed
of trust. Wherefore, notice hereby is given that the
undersigned trustee will on 5/6/2008, at the hour
of 01:00 PM in accord with the standard of time
established by O.R.S. 187.110 at the following
place: At the front door to the Josephine County
Courthouse, Sixth and "C" Street, Grants Pass,
OR County of Josephine, State of Oregon, sell at
public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the
interest in the said described real property which
the Grantor has or had power to convey at the
time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed,
together with any interest which the grantor his
successors in interest acquired after the execution
of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the foregoing obliga-
tions thereby secured and the costs and expenses
of sale, including reasonable charge by the trus-
tee. Notice is further given that any person named
in O.R.S. 86.753 has the right, at any time prior to
five days before the date last set for the sale, to
have this foreclosure proceeding dismissed and
the Trust Deed reinstated by payment to the bene-
ficiary of the entire amount then due (other than
such portion of the principal as would not then be
due had no default occurred) and by curing any
other default complained of herein that is capable
of being cured by tendering the performance re-
quired under the obligation or to cure the default,
by paying all costs and expenses actually incurred
in enforcing the obligation and Trust Deed, to-
gether with trustee’s and attorney’s fees. In con-
struing this notice, the masculine gender includes
the feminine and the neuter, the singular includes
plural, the word” Grantor” includes any successor
in interest to the Grantor as well as any other per-
son owing an obligation, the performance of which
is secured by said Trust Deed, and the words
“trustee” and “beneficiary” include their respective
successors in interest, if any. If the Trustee is un-
able to convey title for any reason, the successful
bidder’s sole and exclusive remedy shall be the
return of monies paid to the Trustee, and the suc-
cessful bidder shall have no further recourse Date:
12/27/2007 Lawyers Title Insurance Corporation
By: Tina Suihkonen, Assistant Secretary For fur-
ther information please contact: Lawyers Title In-
surance Corporation c/o LandAmerica Default
Services Post Office Box 5899 6 Executive Circle,
Suite 100, Irvine, CA 92616 (949) 885-4500 Sales
Line: 714-573-1965 or www.priorityposting.com
Reinstatement Fax Line 949-606-9274 State of
California County of Orange I certify that I, Tina
Suihkonen am an authorized representative of
Lawyers Title Insurance Corporation, Trustee, and
that the foregoing is a complete and exact copy of
the original trustee’s notice of sale. Signature
Authorized Representative of Trustee This office is
attempting to collect a debt and any information
obtained will be used for that purpose. P350697
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