Illinois Valley News, Cave Junction, Ore. Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Page 6
Chief’s contract renewed to 2013
IVFD honors its own -- In recognition of their efforts during the 2009 Lone Mountain Fire which
threatened homes in O’Brien, Tom Zullinger, Ken Gavlik, Pearlene Gavlik, Kris Sherman, Steve Corwin,
Mark Shay, Mike Sturm, Phil Aria, Jerry Shaffer, Joe Feld-
haus and Kamron Ismaili (above) received a Career Ser-
vice Unit Citation; Firefighter Will Sowell, (right) was
noted for 15 years of service; Kamron Ismaili, with wife
Kris (below) was awarded Officer of the Year.
Allison Arnold, Chris Arnold, Paris Drake, Justin Lewin,
Jacob Pretner, Andrea Steelman and Jon Vellinga were
noted for their first year of service; those having served
three years were Sid Humphries, Bob Clark and Richard
Copenhaver; Nick Bjornstad, Tim Norman, Gerald Kauf-
man, Jeff Bradshaw and Dale & Elaine Sandberg were
noted for five years of service; and Capt. Wayland
Sherman’s 10 years of service were noted.
Chief Rich presented a special Hall of Flame
award to Ann Miller (left) in memory of her
late husband, Richard, for his commitment
and dedication. Phil Aria (above) prepared
and served delicious tri-tip and chicken.
Illinois Valley News thanks our firefighters
for their service, and also thanks Sterling
Savings Bank and Home Valley Bank for
their sponsorship of Illinois Valley Fire District awards coverage. (Photos by Dale & Elaine Sandberg,
IVFD Media Dept. and Michelle Binker, Illinois Valley News )
IVHS athletes receive awards
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sel maintained 4.0 GPAs.
Sophomore Angelina Heath
and junior Amy Weaver each
had 3.8, and sophomore Si-
erra Heikka had a 3.6.
Junior Hailee Parker was
named Most Improved, and
junior and co-captain Brittney
Mosley was named Most
Inspirational. Van Tassel,
also a co-captain, was named
Most Valuable.
Cathy Pope, girls JV
basketball coach, bestowed
honors upon some of her
players. Freshman Natalie
Wellen was named Most
Valuable; and freshman Cait-
lyn Jones was named Most
Improved.
Four members of the
girls varsity basketball team
were named Scholar Athletes.
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Wellen and sophomore
Megan Householder main-
tained 4.0 GPAs. Sophomore
Kristen Vidales had a 3.6
GPA and junior Kara Tyler
had a 3.5.
Junior Laurissa Tausaga
received Honorable Mention
for the All-Conference team.
She also was named Most
Valuable, and Householder
was deemed Most Inspira-
tional. Junior Kayla Johnson
was named Most Improved.
Three IVHS wrestlers
By SCOTT JORGENSEN
IVN Staff Writer
It looks as though Illinois
Valley Fire District (IVFD)
Chief Harry Rich will remain
on the job at least through
March 2013.
Rich’s previous contract
expired on Feb. 11, and the
new document was the sub-
ject of an executive (closed to
the public) session during the
70-minute long IVFD Board
of Directors meeting on the
evening of Thursday, March
11 at district headquarters.
The new contract was
approved 5-0 by the board
following the executive ses-
sion. It runs from Thursday,
March 11 to March 10, 2013.
Under the terms, Rich
retains his yearly salary of
$71,000, but the chief has
elected to decline any salary
increases for fiscal year 2010-
11. That figure represents a
salary savings of 8 percent,
County mulls fire protection
standards, park code enforcement
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can see the equipment and
stations in their neighbor-
hoods. Cassanelli said that
some citizens may be reluc-
tant to support the formation
of a larger fire district.
Rich characterized that as
“shortsighted,” and said that
forming a series of smaller
districts would require multi-
ple administrators and boards
of directors.
“It seems to be working
in Williams,” Cassanelli said.
“It seems to be working in the
Illinois Valley.”
Toler pointed out that
Illinois Valley Fire District
(IVFD) covers a large area,
from Hay’s Hill to the Cali-
fornia border. He said there is
not much difference in size
between IVFD and the Mid-
Rogue Rural Fire Protection
District (MRRFPD), which
voters rejected overwhelm-
ingly in the November 2008
general election.
The county should stay
out of forming districts, Toler
said. He said that he sees the
adoption of standards as a
“separate tract” from the pos-
sible MRRFPD formation.
Rich also updated the
board on an updated draft of a
code enforcement ordinance.
Toler said that he wanted to
focus the discussion on en-
forcement of the ordinances
governing the county’s parks.
Cassanelli said that she is
leery of setting up a situation
where a hearings officer can be
“judge, jury and executioner.”
Rich said that hearings
officers do tend to perform all
those functions. He added
that unless the commissioners
themselves want to handle
every single case that would
be referred to a hearings offi-
cer, the only other option is a
Justice Court.
Establishing a hearings
achieved Scholar Athlete
recognition. Sophomore Jesse
Orndoff maintained a 4.0
GPA, junior Matt Coultas had
a 3.8, and freshman Brandon
Parker 3.6.
Orndoff and freshman
Gabe Miller each gained
Most Valuable honors. Miller
was named Most Outstanding
Freshman. Parker got the nod
as Most Improved Freshman,
Coultas was cited as Most
Improved and Orndoff as
Most Inspirational.
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racy, Cassanelli said, adding
that she would rather see a
Justice Court.
But Rich said that he has
yet to see the numbers to jus-
tify such a court. Toler said
that a Justice Court also
would involve bureaucracy,
and invited Cassanelli to for-
mulate a solid proposal for
such a system.
Toler said that he would
like to see a code enforce-
ment draft ordinance pertain-
ing only to county parks.
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times to those locations prior
according to a March 11
to approving annexation.
memorandum from Rich to
Currently, areas of the
board members.
county not covered by fire
An evaluation of Rich’s
districts are serviced by three
performance as chief will be
private companies.
set for some time next month.
Grants Pass resident Jess
During the March 11
Webb verified that efforts are
meeting, Rich told board
under way to form MRRFPD,
members that IVFD may con-
but he expressed doubt that
sider fees for persons hoping
such a proposal will make it
to annex their properties into
to this November’s ballot.
the district.
In other matters:
A proposal to form the
*Deputy Chief Jeff
Mid-Rogue
Gavlik told the board
Rural Fire Pro-
that all five new vol-
tection District
unteer recruits have
(MRRFPD)
completed the IVFD
may be com-
in-house training
ing before vot-
academy.
ers, Rich said,
*Volunteer Fire-
which
may
fighter John Vellinga
cause
some
was sworn in.
persons to peti-
*The board voted 5-0
tion for inclu-
John Vellinga.
to approve the an-
sion
into
(Photo IVFD Media
nexation of property
IVFD.
But
Dept.)
at 32790 Redwood
IVFD
will
Hwy. in Kerby.
have to consider response
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