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Illinois Valley News, Cave Junction, Ore. Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Cougs drop to Hornets, ‘Stangs
By SCOTT JORGENSEN
IVN Staff Writer
A combination of poor
shooting and 32 turnovers
lead to an 88-50 loss for the
The last time the Cou-
gars squared off against the
Hornets, Illinois Valley lost
by 7 points and only turned
the ball over 19 times.
On Friday, Jan. 29, the
Cougars hosted the Hidden
Valley Mustangs and lost
59-39.
Fred Hults scored 12
points and Roger Hults
scored 10. Senior Ben
Kendall scored 6 points, and
so did junior Jesse Bethke.
“He played one of his
better games all year,” Win-
ters said.
Bethke also grabbed 8
rebounds and blocked two
shots. Mikels got 7 re-
bounds and sophomore An-
drew McLaughlin had 5.
The Cougars are set to
travel to Phoenix on Friday,
Feb. 5 to face the Pirates.
“They have plenty of
offensive weapons,” Win-
ters said. “But we match up
pretty well with them.”
I.V.’s Troy Mikels (above, left) battles for control of the ball
on Friday night, Jan. 29 with brother, Tobin Mikels.
(Below, right) Roger Hults fights his way to the basket.
(Photos by Michelle Binker, Illinois Valley News )
Illinois Valley High School
boys’ varsity basketball
team during a Tuesday, Jan.
26 game at Henley High
School.
Coach Jeff Winters
characterized the matchup
as his squad’s “worst game
of the year.”
Laurissa Tausaga drives toward the goal against a Henley defender.
Lady Cougars struggle with
injuries, lack of substitutes
“The stats were better
than the first time we played
them, except on turnovers,”
Winters said.
Junior Roger Hults
scored 18 points, and so did
his brother, sophomore Fred
Hults. Sophomore Troy
Mikels scored 8.
DEQ program nets 19 million pounds
electronic waste during first year
Nearly 19 million
pounds for electronic equip-
ment.
That is the total col-
lected during its first full
year by the Oregon E-
Cycles Program, a network
of more than 200 collection
sites and recycling facilities
statewide that accepts un-
wanted computers, monitors
and televisions from the
public for free.
The program collected
18.9 million pounds of ma-
terials in its first full year –
far exceeding initial expec-
tations and amounting to
more than 5 pounds of elec-
tronic waste per Oregonian.
Oregon E-Cycles, ad-
ministered by the Oregon
Dept. of Environmental
Quality (DEQ), officially
launched on Jan. 1, 2009.
The program, created by
landmark product steward-
ship legislation in 2007,
requires electronics manu-
facturers to fund a program
to provide free electronics
recycling services in the
state.
Manufacturers choose
to either pay a recycling fee
to participate in a DEQ-
administered state contrac-
tor program or implement
and pay for their own state-
wide collection program.
“We suspected there
was a lot of pent-up demand
for these kinds of services,”
said Kathy Kiwala, DEQ
project leader for Oregon E-
Cycles. “Given that e-waste
is the fastest-growing waste
stream in America, coupled
with the rate at which peo-
ple purchase new electron-
ics, it’s not surprising
there’s a glut of e-waste just
waiting to be recycled.”
The nearly 19 million
pounds of e-waste collected
statewide in 2009:
*Roughly translates
into 52,000 pounds of com-
puters, monitors and televi-
sions each day.
*Have kept nearly 1.2
million pounds of lead out
of landfills and incinerators.
*Prevented the release
of greenhouse gases equiva-
lent to the annual emissions
of more than 34,000 cars.
Kiwala said that when
DEQ and electronics manu-
facturer representatives
were setting up the free re-
cycling program two years
ago, they placed the targeted
first-year collection amount
at 12.2 million pounds, or
3.3 pounds per person. The
thought was that, given Ore-
gon’s already strong dedica-
tion to recycling, many Ore-
gonians might have already
taken advantage of existing
opportunities to recycle out-
of-date electronics.
But that theory was
blown out of the water as
Oregonians recycled their
old computers, monitors and
televisions at a record pace,
Kiwala said. The June 12,
2009 switch to digital-only
broadcasting also may have
spurred people to get rid of
older televisions, providing
a boost to the need to recy-
cle.
For 2010, Kiwala
added, the state anticipates
collecting more than 21 mil-
lion pounds of electronics.
The total could be bolstered
by a new law that went into
effect Jan. 1, 2010, making
it illegal to dispose of com-
puters, monitors and televi-
sions in the garbage or at
landfills.
Under the law that cre-
ated Oregon E-Cycles, any-
one may recycle up to seven
computers, monitors and
televisions at a time through
Oregon E-Cycles collectors
free of charge. The program
does not cover computer
peripherals such as key-
boards, mice, speakers,
printers, scanners or other
types of electronics or appli-
ances.
All brands of com-
puters, monitors and TVs,
regardless of working con-
dition, are accepted for free
recycling through Oregon
E-Cycles. The manufactur-
ers pay for the services.
Kiwala said that in
2009, some 220 Oregon E-
Cycles collection sites oper-
ated throughout the state
year-round. That number
has risen to nearly 250 sites
in 2010. The program re-
quires each participating
collection program in Ore-
gon E-Cycles to establish at
a minimum a collection site
in every city with a popula-
tion of 10,000 or more, and
a collection service in each
county.
“These services have
come a long way,” Kiwala
said, noting that a 2006
DEQ study showed that 15
of the state’s 26 counties
were without any electron-
ics recycling options what-
soever. Today, all counties
in Oregon have this service.
For more information
on Oregon E-Cycles or to
find a collection site near,
visit oregonecycles.org or
phone toll-free 888-532-
9253.
Jan. 29, and lost 53-12.
By SCOTT JORGENSEN
Johnson scored 5 points, Tausaga scored
IVN Staff Writer
A series of injuries helped to hamper the 4 and senior Beckah Kaberline scored 3.
Illinois Valley High School girls basketball
Tausaga was injured during the first
team during a pair of recent losses.
quarter and had to sit out the rest of the game.
On Tuesday, Jan. 26, the Lady Cougars
“That hurt us,” Marsden said. “We don’t
hosted the Henley High School Hornets at have a lot of offense, and we need Laurissa’s
Ken Mann Memorial Gymnasium in Cave points. When she was hit during the Hidden
Junction.
Valley
game,
Despite a
that took a lot
strong showing
out of our of-
in the first half,
fense to not have
the Cougars fell
her out there.”
63-23.
Up next for
C o a c h
the Lady Cou-
Steve Marsden
gars is a Friday,
said that the first
Feb. 5 home
half was “some
game
against
of the better
Phoenix High
basketball
School. Marsden
we’ve played all
said that he ex-
year.”
pects his squad
“We’ve
to match up bet-
done that in
ter against the
stretches where
Pirates than they
we play back-to-
did in the previ-
back really good
ous
meeting,
quarters, but we
which resulted in
need to play
a Cougar loss.
four quarters,”
“Tu r n ov e r s
Marsden said.
were a big factor
“The
Henley
in
the
first
game, I wasn’t
game,” he said.
disappointed
“We
couldn’t
with,
even
really handle the
though we lost.” Cougar Kayla Johnson breaks for the net, as
press very well.
Junior Lau- Beckah Kaberline and a Henley defender follow.
“It will be tough
rissa Tausaga (Photos by Michelle Binker, Illinois Valley News )
for us. But we
led the Lady
will play better
Cougars in scoring with 10 points. Kayla against them the second time around.”
Johnson, also a junior, scored 7. Sophomore
Key to a Lady Cougars victory will be
Carly Jensen scored 4, and sophomore ball control and improved offense, Marsden
Megan Householder scored 2.
said. He added that he expects some of his
Tausaga’s scores were particularly im- players to be recovered from their injuries
pressive, given her other duties.
prior to that contest.
“She always covers the most difficult
“We’re not a really deep team, being a
person on the other team,” Marsden said. small school as we are, and we can’t really
“She has to play their top player, plus score afford to have anybody injured,” Marsden
for us. She has to do a lot.”
said. “We don’t have that many players, and
The Lady Cougars traveled to Hidden it definitely has an effect on us.”
Valley High School in Murphy on Friday,
Weed management study grants announced
USDA’s National Insti-
tute of Food and Agriculture
(NIFA) is awarding $4.6
million to 13 universities for
research to develop strate-
gies for management, con-
trol or elimination of weedy
or invasive species.
Rogue Ambassadors scholarship applicants sought
Applications will be
accepted from Feb. 1
through March 31 for
Rogue Ambassadors, a
merit scholarship program
designed to reward local
high school students with
outstanding grades.
Offered by Rogue Com-
munity College and the
RCC Foundation, the initia-
tive rewards high school
students with free tuition at
RCC if they achieve and
maintain a minimum grade-
point average (GPA) of 3.5.
To apply, students must
be on track to earn a regular
high school diploma from a
high school in Josephine or
Jackson or Josephine coun-
ties, and must have earned a
cumulative, unweighted
GPA of 3.5 or better by the
first semester of their senior
year. If accepted as a Rogue
Ambassador, students must
graduate from high school
and enroll full time at RCC
for the summer or fall term
immediately following
graduation.
Rogue Ambassadors are
eligible to receive up to half
their tuition (up to nine
credits per term) the first
year they attend RCC and
full tuition their second year
at Rogue if they maintain
their GPAs.
In addition to maintain-
ing their grades, Rogue Am-
bassadors are required to
successfully complete a ser-
vice project during their first
year by enrolling in HD
180, a one-credit class.
Details and applications
are available at roguecc.edu/
RogueAmbassadors. Stu-
dents also must complete an
RCC admissions applica-
tion,
available
at
roguecc.edu/Admissions.
More information also
is available by contacting
Dan Buck, RCC recruitment
coordinator,
at
541-956-7180
or
dbuck@roguecc.edu.
Agriculture Deputy
Secretary Kathleen Merri-
gan made the announce-
ment.
Of the amount, Merri-
gan said that Oregon State
University at Corvallis will
receive some $125,000.
“Invasive plants and
animals are a major threat ...
costing U.S. producers be-
tween $7 billion and $27
billion per year,” said Mer-
rigan.
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