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Illinois Valley News, Cave Junction, Ore. Wednesday, December 3, 2008
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Third-grade students painted penguins in a Learning Through Art project. (Photo provided)
Evergreen sees parade of penguins
Third-grade classes at
Evergreen Elementary School
in Cave Junction created vir-
tual life-size penguins in a
workshop coordinated by the
Illinois River Valley Arts
Council (IRVAC) Learning
Through Art (LTA) Program
on Nov. 20.
There are 17 penguin
species, which all live in the
Southern Hemisphere. They
live in climates ranging from
the tropics to the Antarctic.
Penguins don’t live near
fresh water, so they drink salt
water. They have a special
gland in their bodies that
takes the salt out of the water
they drink and pushes it out
of grooves in their bill. Their
bodies are built for efficient
swimming with their average
speed in the water being ap-
proximately 15 mph.
The Emperor penguin is
the largest of the species, with
adults ranging from 3.5 to 4
feet tall, and weighing from
65 to 80 pounds. The Em-
peror penguin is the only spe-
cies that breeds and nests in
Antarctica through winter.
The students created 3-
foot-tall “paper doll” Em-
peror penguins, using tem-
plates. They traced and cut
out their penguins, then drew
in the markings, and com-
pleted the penguins by paint-
ing them. These penguins will
decorate the gym for the Win-
ter Program.
The workshops were
conducted by LTA Evergreen
Coordinator Patti Culver, and
assisted in Pat Brandt’s class
by volunteer Della Meengs.
IRVAC’s LTA Program
is made possible by funding
from the Cow Creek Umpqua
Indian Foundation and the
Carpenter Foundation, and
community support. For more
information on IRVAC and
the LTA program, visit
www.irvac.com.
Oregon cranberry farms experiencing boost
Only a few years ago,
Oregon’s cranberry industry
faced devastating market con-
ditions that paid growers as
little as $8 per barrel.
This year, thanks largely
to the quality and desirability
of Oregon’s version of the
berry, many producers along
the southern coast are receiv-
ing as much as $150 per bar-
rel, said Oregon Dept. of Ag-
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riculture (ODA).
The cranberry revival is a
boost to a local economy that
has been hoping for some
good news ever since the
decline of the timber and fish-
ing industries in recent years.
“It’s exciting to see how
well our cranberry growers
have rebounded after some
challenging conditions earlier
this decade,” said Katy Coba,
ODA director. “Like many of
our state’s commodities, we
think we produce a premium
cranberry that commands a
top price. Oregon may not
grow as many cranberries as
Wisconsin or Massachusetts,
but I’m sure no other state
produces a better quality
cranberry.”
Oregon’s cranberry pro-
duction has remained rela-
tively constant throughout the
years. Acreage planted in
cranberries has stayed in the
general range of approxi-
mately 2,700 acres -- nearly
1,700 in Coos County and the
rest in Curry County -- and
annual production the past
five years has maintained a
level between 450,000 and
500,000 barrels.
That is far behind Wis-
consin’s 3.8 million barrels
and Massachusetts’ 1.5 mil-
lion barrels, but puts Oregon
close to New Jersey as the
nation’s third-leading cran-
berry producer.
Wildfire study released
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more difficult to get consen-
sus on how land is managed
or controlled, according to
Montgomery.
Continued advances in
what is being called
“computational sustainabil-
ity” – the use of advanced
computing systems to run
simulations and consider mul-
tiple possibilities – also may
be of some value, she said.
According to this study,
there are 12 million acres of
dry forest land in Oregon and
Washington state alone that
are at high risk of fire, usually
due to accumulation of small
trees, bushes, debris and other
undergrowth resulting from
fire suppression efforts during
the past century.
Mechanical thinning,
prescribed fire and other ap-
proaches often are useful in
reducing the risk of catastro-
phic fire, but budgets to ac-
complish this are often
hugely inadequate. This in-
creases the need to maximize
the cost-effectiveness of
whatever fire reduction ef-
forts are attempted, the re-
searchers said.
The study suggests that
this work should provide a
framework for issues includ-
ing further research on fire
risk management issues such
as salvage logging, effective-
ness of various fuel treat-
ments, the tradeoffs between
fuel treatment costs and fire
suppression costs, and non-
timber values.
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Jamie Farr
Jamie Farr, a June
2008 graduate of Illinois
Valley High School,
graduated from U.S. Navy
boot camp Nov. 21 at
Great Lakes Illinois Navy
Division 10.
Farr, the daughter of
Illinois Valley residents
Virgil & Diane Farr, has
the rank of E1 Seaman
Recruit. She now is pro-
ceeding to training for her
military occupational spe-
cialty.
In boot camp, said her
mother, the most difficult
area of adjustment involved
smiling. “She got into trou-
ble for smiling, but those
who know her realize that
she is known for always
smiling and laughing,” her
mother said.
Pearl Harbor
ceremony set
A public Pearl Harbor
Day ceremony will be con-
ducted at Cave Junction City
Hall on Sunday, Dec. 7 at
9:45 a.m.
The observance by Glenn
Morrison American Legion
Post 70 will mark the 67th
anniversary of the attack on
Pearl Harbor. It took the
United States into the second
World War.
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