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Illinois Valley News, Cave Junction, Ore. Wednesday, August 5, 2009
Rogue Valley Flyers to hold model
airplane show at Sky Park Aug. 16
An action-packed radio-
controlled model airplane
flight show in Illinois Valley
on Sunday, Aug. 16 is
planned by the Rogue Valley
Flyers (RVF).
The program from 9 a.m.
to 1 p.m. at Josephine Sky
Park off Kerby Mainline will
include flights of the popular
War Birds, demonstrations of
acrobatics, streamer cutting,
balloon bursting and bomb
drops.
Interspersed will be op-
portunities for the public to
fly a club trainer – under the
guidance of a flight instruc-
tor. And for a small fee
guests can fly a model of the
famous World War II P-51
Mustang.
The featured flight will
be a free-style performance
by Alex Stephens with his
massive 40 percent Giant
Scale Extra.
RVF is the Grants Pass
An enthusiast prepares his aircraft to take to the air.
( Illinois Valley News file photo)
chapter of the national organi-
zation, the Academy of
Model Aeronautics. RVF has
been serving the radio-control
community of Josephine
County since 1972. Through
a lease agreement with Jose-
phine County the club has its
flying facility at the Josephine
Sky Park in Kerby.
The club also has an ac-
tive program through which
young people can learn the
principles of flight leading to
an eventual solo of an air-
craft. Additional information
about the air show and other
coming events is available at
home.earthlink.net/
~roguevalleyflyers.
August sesquicentennial celebrations
to begin with historic stage road tour
Eleven area nonprofit
groups, coordinated by Cory
Allen and the Cave Junction
Lions Club, have organized
three weekends of “low-cost,
family friendly” activities to
celebrate Oregon’s “Past,
Present and Future.”
Among participating
groups making the August
“Sesqua-celebration” possi-
ble, to mark 150 years of
statehood, are the Crescent
City and Redwood Lions
clubs, Illinois Valley Senior
Center, I.V. Family Coalition,
Glenn Morrison American
Legion Post 70 & Auxiliary,
Illinois Valley Section of the
Boys & Girls Club, and Illi-
nois Valley-based Southern
Oregon Guild.
The initial leg of the free
event on Saturday, Aug. 22
will be a car tour showcasing
Oregon’s past. The tour will
wind along Old Redwood
Stage Road from Crescent
City, Calif. to Illinois Val-
ley’s Kerby, with interpretive
stops and safety checkpoints.
The route, beginning at
Elk Valley Casino parking lot,
is 60 miles long – approxi-
mately half on maintained
gravel roads. The route will
open at 8 a.m. and the last
vehicle will roll no later than
10 a.m. The maximum num-
ber of vehicles permitted is 75,
and registration is required.
Visit highway199.org for
more information and to reg-
ister at no charge.
The trip into the past will
continue in “Kerbyville,”
where antique cars will be
displayed at Kerbyville Mu-
seum. History demonstrations
will include quilting, spinning,
sewing, canning and cheese-
making. And there will be
presentations by the Josephine
County Historical Society
Living History Players.
Also, works by area art-
ists will be displayed at the
Southern Oregon Guild Gal-
lery, and there will be bingo
games. Lunch will be avail-
able from Western Star Order
of the Eastern Star from 11
a.m. to 2 p.m. The menu:
fried chicken, salad, water-
melon, and lemonade.
Historic Kerbyville ac-
tivities will continue on Sun-
day, Aug. 23.
On Saturday and Sunday,
Aug. 29 and 30, the focus
will shift to Oregon’s present
and the location to Cave
Junction’s Jubilee Park.
There will be games for
youngsters including a water-
melon seed-spitting contest,
frog races (BYO frog), water
balloon relay race, newspaper
and duct tape fashion show,
and egg races.
There also will be face-
painting, a puppet show and
50-cent pony rides. Pony
walkers are needed, and there
is room for more food ven-
dors. Phone Allen at 592-
4301.
The Cave Junction Lions
Club will serve breakfast and
lunch, and the American Le-
gion will have bingo games
from noon to 4 p.m.
The third weekend, Sept.
5, 6 and 7, will coincide with
the Illinois Valley Lions Club
annual Labor Day Festival. A
baseball tournament will take
place during the entire week-
end, as will Tuff-Truck races,
watermelon seed-spitting
contests, talent shows and
evening concerts.
The grand finale will be
the “See the Past, Hear the
Future”-themed Labor Day
Parade on Monday, Sept. 7 in
Downtown Cave Junction.
Illinois Valley Fire District
(IVFD), Oregon Dept. of For-
estry (ODF) and U.S. Forest
Service responded to battle a
1-1/2 acre brush fire on Mon-
day, Aug. 3 in the 18000 block
of Hwy. 199 behind Selma
Quick Stop and Open Door. No
injuries were reported, no
structures damaged and the
cause of the blaze was unde-
termined at press time. (Photos
by Dale & Elaine Sandberg,
IVFD Media Dept.)
Reservation rules change for state parks
As of Saturday, Aug. 1,
state park reservation custom-
ers will pay rental and book-
ing fees in full at the time
they reserve campsites and
other park facilities.
Instead of a first night’s
deposit to go with a $6 reser-
vation fee, Reservations
Northwest will collect pay-
ment for every night a camp-
site is rented, from one night
to the 14-day maximum al-
lowed. Reservations North-
west is the Oregon Parks &
Recreation Dept.’s service
Oregon timber harvest headed for ‘historic low’
Oregon timber harvests
continued to decline during
2008, with a total harvest of
3.44 billion board feet, as
industry figures plummet
toward an historic low.
The falling timber har-
vests have environmental and
economic repercussions for
Oregonians.
Mills closing and lower
lumber and wood products
employment have hit rural
communities hard, and con-
Cave Junction
Wednesday, Aug. 5
Sunny with clouds
High--80 Low--55
Thursday, Aug. 6
Sunny
High--82 Low--55
Friday, Aug. 7
Brilliant sunshine
High--81 Low--57
Saturday, Aug. 8
Rain
High--83 Low--54
Sunday, Aug. 9
Overcast
High--85 Low--55
Monday, Aug. 10
Cloudy
High--81 Low--45
Tuesday, Aug. 11
Clouds limiting sun
High--79 Low--47
tributed to the current state-
wide unemployment rate of
12.2 percent. Some 16 per-
cent of Oregon’s lumber and
plywood mills have closed
since 2005 — and few remain
in many rural areas.
“Only nine sawmills re-
main in operation in all of
Eastern Oregon,” said Lett-
man. “This reduction in lum-
ber and plywood mills across
Oregon also means there are
less mill residuals available
for biomass energy and paper
products, and less industry
infrastructure remaining to
complete much-needed forest
restoration work.”
The total 2008 cut de-
creased 9 percent from the
Following are the high-and-
low temperatures, and rainfall
recorded at The End of the Road
in O’Brien by Cheryl & Harry
Johnson:
*Fri., July 24 102 60 .00
*Sat., July 25 104 57 .00
*Sun., July 26 105 63 .00
*Mon., July 27 109 61 .00
*Tue., July 28 109 64 .00
*Wed., July 29 107 68 .00
*Thu., July 30 96 66 .00
Following are the high-and-
low temperatures and rainfall
recorded at Oregon Builders Inc.
in Cave Junction:
*Fri., July 24 98 55 .00
*Sat., July 25 99 51 .00
*Sun., July 26 102 55 .00
*Mon., July 27 105 52 .00
*Tue., July 28 108 58 .00
*Wed., July 29 106 60 .00
*Thu., July 30 99 60 .00
2007 harvest volume of 3.80
billion board feet (bbf).
“These are the lowest
harvest levels we have seen in
Oregon since the recession-
based lows of 2001,” said
Gary Lettman, Oregon Dept.
of Forestry forest economist.
“That harvest was also 3.44
bbf and only a fraction of a
percent lower than this year's
levels.
“Preliminary data for
2009 project harvest levels
will drop even further to ap-
proximately 3 bbf.”
The drop in harvested
volume came primarily from
a continuing drop in harvests
by private forestland owners.
A 9 percent decrease
(247 million board feet/mbf)
in volume from forest indus-
try land owners was accom-
panied by a 35 percent de-
cline in harvests on non-
industrial private forestland.
Those declined from an over-
all harvest of 240 mbf during
2007 to 156 mbf during 2008
— a 63 percent decrease
since 2006.
Federal harvests re-
mained at historically low
levels, accounting for only 9
percent of the total harvest.
State harvests increased mar-
ginally, from 276 mbf in
2007 to 278 mbf in 2008, due
to wood salvaged in 2008
from the storm in early De-
cember 2007.
Harvests decreased in all
western Oregon counties ex-
cept for Clatsop, Jackson,
Multnomah and Tillamook;
resulting in the nearly 9 per-
cent harvest decrease in the
region.
Lane County remains the
highest producer of timber in
Oregon; but the 432 mbf har-
vested during 2008 is a 14
percent decrease from the
2007 harvest of 504 mbf.
Clatsop County was sec-
ond, increasing its harvest to
420 mbf due to storm-
damaged trees. Douglas and
Coos counties were third and
fourth, with 416 and 282 mbf
respectively.
Harvest levels in Eastern
Oregon also significantly
diminished; with the excep-
tions of Baker, Deschutes,
Jefferson, Lake and Umatilla
counties. Klamath County
remains the highest timber
producer, despite a nearly 40
percent reduction in harvests
since 2007.
Illinois Valley News is
an equal-opportunity
advertising medium.
Phone 592-2541.
center for reserving campsites,
picnic areas and meeting halls
in 37 parks.
The new requirement
does not affect existing reser-
vations made through April
30, 2010, unless changes are
made. After Aug. 1, a cus-
tomer holding a reservation
for more than five nights,
who shortens a booking to
fewer nights or days, will be
charged a fee equal to one
night or day's rental, plus the
usual $6 transaction fee.
The full fee payment rule
is intended to counteract
overbooking tactics that have
given some customers unfair
advantages over those who
reserve sites for only the dates
they intend to use them.
“Only 7 percent of our
customers who reserve sites
for 14 days stay that entire
time,” said OPRD Recreation
Programs Manager Richard
Walkoski. “As a result, many
campsites have been unavail-
able for others to reserve until
those who have overbooked
cancel their excessive dates.”
The Oregon Parks &
Recreation Commission
adopted an Oregon Adminis-
trative Rule (OAR 736, Divi-
sion 15-0015) May 21, 2009
putting the full payment sys-
tem into effect. The action
followed a formal rule-
making process that included
public hearings during April.
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Good Wishes to
Leonard Frick
on his 89th Saturday, August 1st
from son Jim Frick &
Leonard’s whole family!
