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Illinois Valley News, Cave Junction, Ore. Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2009
Celilo Nordal
Celilo Nordal, a junior,
has been named among Illi-
nois Valley High School
Principal’s Students of the
Month for September 2009.
Nordal is the son of Dr.
Jim & Ginger Nordal, of
Cave Junction. He is a mem-
ber of Mathletes, IVHS
Band, and the soccer and
track teams. A Boy Scout, he
is a senior patrol leader, and
has earned the rank of First
Class. Nordal is a National
Honor Society Scholar.
He has earned four var-
sity letters in sports, and has
received the Skyline Confer-
ence Scholar Athlete Award.
After graduation Nordal
plans to attend college work-
ing toward a doctorate in law/
medicine.
Ben Kendall
Senior student Ben
Kendall has been named
Kerby Belt Masonic Lodge
18 AM&AF Student of the
Month for October 2009.
Kendall is the son of
David & Susan Kendall, of
Cave Junction. Currently the
ASB president, he served as
ASB Student Body president
his junior year and held the
offices of Sophomore Class
treasurer and Junior Class
treasurer.
Kendall is a member of
National Honor Society, In-
ternational Club, Mathletes,
Fishwatch, and the soccer,
football, basketball and base-
ball teams.
Kendall previously has
received Principal’s Student
of the Month and Skyline
Conference Honorable Men-
tion honors in soccer and
baseball.
After graduation he plans
to attend the University of
Oregon at Eugene with a pos-
sible transfer to Oregon State
University at Corvallis seek-
ing a degree in sport-and-
exercise science.
Heidi Unger
Heidi Unger is Kerby
Belt Masonic Lodge 18
AM&AF Student of the
month for November 2009.
Unger, a senior, is the
daughter of John & Colleen
Unger, of Cave Junction. She
is the Senior Class ASB busi-
ness manager. She has held
the offices of Junior Class
president and Sophomore
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Class representative.
Unger is a charter mem-
ber of Illinois Valley Interact,
and serves as president. She
also is a member of STAND,
Cougar Pals, SMILE, AS-
PIRE, Mathletes, Drama
Club, and the volleyball,
track and cross country
teams. She received the Best
Attitude Award in volleyball
in 2007, Most Inspirational in
track in 2009, and the Cougar
Pride Award.
She has volunteered for
Relay for Life, Gear Up men-
toring and has served as Bible
Club leader.
Unger plans to attend
Portland Bible College in the
fall to earn her bachelor’s
degree in theology. This will
prepare her for a life as a pas-
tor and later a medical mis-
sionary. She says that this is
not a typical profession for
women, but it is what she
feels called to do.
Jon Anderson
Jon Anderson, a senior,
is among those named as
IVHS Principal’s Students of
the Month for September
2009.
Anderson is the son of
Michael & Amy Anderson,
of Selma. He is a member of
the wrestling, football and
baseball teams. He has earned
three varsity letters.
After graduation next
year, Anderson plans to at-
tend a college and wrestle for
that institution.
Megan Householder
Sophomore student
Megan Householder is
among those named as IVHS
Principal’s Student of the
Month for September 2009.
Householder is the
daughter of Glenn & Stepha-
nie Householder, of Selma.
She is currently the Sopho-
more Class vice president.
She is a member of the bas-
ketball and track teams. Last
year she received the Summa
Cum Laude Award for hav-
ing a 4.0 GPA.
Householder plans to
attend college at the Univer-
sity of Tennessee. She would
like to become a nurse, and
then continue her education
to become a physician.
Wylie Ahl
Senior Wylie Ahl has
been chosen as Kerby Belt
Masonic Lodge 18 AM&AF
Student of the Month for Sep-
tember 2009.
Ahl is the daughter of
Hans-peter & Caitlin Ahl, of
Cave Junction. She is cur-
rently the editor-in-chief of
the Illinois Valley High
School newspaper. She is a
member of Brain Bowl, Aca-
demic Challenge, IVHS Or-
chestra, National Honor Soci-
ety and Mathletes.
She competed in the
Academic Masters event in
social studies last year, plac-
ing third.
She plans to attend the
City University of New York,
majoring in history and Eng-
lish to obtain a master’s de-
gree in education to become a
high school history teacher.
Kayla Young
Kayla Young, an Illinois
Valley High School fresh-
man, is among September
Principal’s Students of the
Month.
Young is the daughter of
Ray & Laura Young, Cave
Junction. She studies dance in
Grants Pass one day a week
and is part of the yoga class at
IVHS. She received the Band
Student of the Year Award
last year.
Young plans to attend a
college after graduation in
2013. She is considering be-
coming a fitness trainer.
Can counties compel coordination?
By SCOTT JORGENSEN
IVN Staff Writer
Local governing bodies
have the ability to compel
federal agencies to coordinate
with them, according to Ash-
land resident Katherine Leh-
man, president of the People
for the USA Grange.
The coordination issue
was the main theme on Fri-
day, Oct. 2, when Lehman
addressed a group of miners
during their monthly meeting
in Pottsville, near Merlin.
Lehman said that because
federal environmental poli-
cies have the potential to ad-
versely affect local econo-
mies, language in those laws
calls for such coordination.
Agencies are required to
inform local governments of
their plans before acting on
them, Lehman said. How-
ever, she added that local
governments must insist on
asserting their authority in the
coordinating process.
Once that authority is
asserted, the agencies must
make their plans consistent
with local policy, she said.
The process is set up to
enable communication be-
tween governing bodies at
different levels, Lehman said,
without the involvement of
outside advocacy groups.
Some entities have
passed resolutions calling for
such coordination, but failed
to follow up, she said.
Harold Haugen, a former
longtime Josephine County
commissioner, said that such
calls for coordination have
been made in the past, and
mostly dealt with policies
surrounding the decommis-
sioning of area roads.
“We felt it was a step
towards moving federal forest
lands to the roadless category
so they could then be turned
into wilderness,” he said.
When he was on the
board of county commission-
ers, Haugen said that body
submitted letters to the U.S.
Dept. of Agriculture and U.S.
Dept. of the Interior indicat-
ing a desire to be involved in
the policy planning process.
“We advised them we
did not support the road clo-
sures and wanted to be a
party to those,” Haugen said.
He said that the commission-
ers’ main concern was that
the roads not be taken off the
map after decommissioning.
“Once they’re taken off
the map, it’s pretty much a
done deal that they will never
be open again,” he said.
Despite the commission-
ers’ initial push for involve-
ment, Haugen said that there
was little follow-through.
“Unfortunately, even
though we sent the letter, we
didn’t get any response from
the agencies. They just sort of
blew us off,” Haugen said.
“I’m assuming there were
probably some legal ramifica-
tions if we wanted to pursue it,
but we never did pursue it.”
The reluctance to push
the issue further was due
largely to a lack of political
will to do so, Haugen said.
“A lot of that had to do
with how much money we
had as a county and how
many resources we wanted to
spend in that particular
arena,” he said.
Current Commissioner
Dwight Ellis said that he has
been examining the county’s
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Fire season ended on
Wednesday, Oct. 14, on land
protected by the Oregon
Dept. of Forestry (ODF)
Southwest Oregon District.
The season began June 19
and lasted 117 days.
The largest fire of the
season was the 633-acre Deer
Ridge Fire that broke out east
of Medford on Sept. 21. Med-
ford Unit crews responded to
120 fires that burned over a
total of 1,073 acres. Grants
Pass Unit firefighters took
action on 116 fires that
burned 123 acres.
The largest fire in the
Grants Pass Unit was the 48-
acre Lone Mountain Road
Fire, which occurred Aug. 24
near O’Brien.
ODF’s S.W. Oregon
District protects 1.8 million
acres of state, private, county,
city and Bureau of Land
Management land in Jackson
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The fire danger level will
be “low” (green), and all fire
restrictions will be removed.
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barrel burning now is allowed
on ODF-protected land.
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rights regarding coordination
with federal agencies.
Ellis said that his under-
standing is that if an agency
decides to designate a wilder-
ness area or close a road, the
county has to have a say in
the matter. Such a policy
could possibly be useful to
the county, he added.
“We can’t go back and
change the Northwest Forest
Plan or anything like that.
That’s already water under
the bridge,” Ellis said. “But
we can be at the table in the
future if these things come
down the pike.”
As an example, Ellis
stated that the directors for
the Association of O&C
Counties has suggested the
use of land swaps to offset the
loss of county revenue from
the designation of wilderness
areas or similar policies.
Through the coordination
process, Ellis said, that body
could bring such an idea be-
fore the agencies involved
and have it be considered.
“Issues like that, I think it
would be very good for,” he
said, adding that the coordi-
nation process is “something
I think Josephine County
needs to check out.”
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