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Illinois Valley News, Cave Junction, Ore. Wednesday, June 22, 2016
(Photo by Dan Klapheke, Illinois Valley News)
Oberon Fayland, 2016 graduate of Illinois Valley High School, giving his
salutatorian speech at graduation Tuesday, June 7.
Fayland: Strong work ethic
with engineering goals
Judy Hoyle
IVN Contributing Writer
Illinois Valley High School (IVHS)
Salutatorian Oberon Fayland is the son of
“Sparrow” Hansbauer, a well-known Takilma
artisan and musician.
Fayland reported that he plans to go into
robotic engineering.
“It combines the things I’m interested in,
computers and electronics; and I’ve always
liked mechanical engineering,” he said. “I’m
planning on focusing on aerospace. There
will be more widespread use of robotics in
aerospace in the future. They can go where
humans can’t, and they also can analyze
samples much more easily than we can.”
College Dreams coordinator Monet
Talty said, “I’m excited for him that he’s
going to Oregon Institute of Technology. It’s a
wonderful opportunity for him.”
Talty praised Fayland for not being
caught up in materialism like many of the
students she works with. She is also very
impressed by Fayland’s work ethic. “He’s been
a very hardworking student. He took all the
hardest classes. He reads voraciously. He’s a
good listener and he remembers,” she said.
“He’s a bright student with a great
future ahead of him,” Talty added. “He won
one of the largest scholarships available to
IVHS students, the Iva and Elmer Gilmore
Scholarship, which is renewable, $5,000 per
year for 4 years.”
Three Rivers School District board
member Kate Dwyer considers Fayland part of
her family.
“There’s always extra kids around here,”
Dwyer said. “He’s been a part of our clan and
we’ve taken him a lot of places. His mom is
very funny and musical and does gorgeous
world class leatherwork.”
Fayland said, “Kate and Mark Dwyer
made sure I filled out scholarship applications
and made sure I had a place to stay when my
mother needed to go sell her leatherwork at
fairs and festivals.”
Perhaps the Dwyers can take some credit
for this as Kate related, “Mark especially
worked closely with him and gave him
incentives to learn the habit of getting his
grades up; like offering to buy him a new
video game.”
Fayland prefers reading to watching TV
and enjoys playing video games and listening
to music. He hopes to get a summer job to help
earn money for college.
Fayland attended the Dome School
his first 2 years and was home-schooled
for second and third grade before attending
Evergreen, Lorna Byrne and IVHS.
IVHS Spanish and language arts
instructor Jaime Szijjarto also praised Fayland.
“I have no doubt that he will excel in college
and beyond,” she wrote. “He’s one of the few
students who have taken advantage of our
school’s 4-year Spanish language program.
He is a skilled writer, creative thinker, stellar
student and a superbly intelligent young man.
He was even my assistant last year.”
This year Fayland enrolled in Advanced
Placement (AP) Spanish, plus read full novels,
gave presentations and wrote formal essays, all
in Spanish, his second language. Szijjarto was
impressed that he could converse fluently with
native speakers.
Fayland’s hard work and dedication has
paid off. He kept his grades up while taking
numerous AP classes and participating in other
activities, including speech and debate and
senior projects.
“It has been great watching him grow
into the young man he is today,” Szijjarto
wrote.
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*An abandoned camouflage tent, a raft, and water tubes were still at the Josephine
County Camp for the second day, so the U.S. Forest Service will be notified to have the items
removed. (Amazing they were still there after two days.)
*Everything was fine on the west side of the Eight Dollar Bridge River Access at 5:16
p.m.
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* A hellion was carrying a baseball bat and hitting garbage cans and mailboxes in the
1800 block of Lakeshore Drive at 10:12 a.m. He was cursing obscenities and saying that he
hated everyone and is mad at everyone. He was walking down the middle of the street, making
vehicles swerve to avoid hitting him. Michael Cheek, 28, was detained at the Josephine
County Jail for disorderly conduct and two charges of criminal mischief. Another charge for
possession of meth was added to his case after a deputy found meth shoved into the back
paneling of his patrol car. (Now he has something to be mad about.)
*An SOS alarm was triggered by a kitchen motion detector in the 6100 block of Takilma
Road at 10:18 a.m.
* The stereo was missing from a stolen vehicle that was recovered near the river at the
end of Pine Cone Drive and Rockydale Road at 11:42 a.m.
*A big, bald, former Marine who is allegedly squatting in the 600 block of Pine Cone
Drive made threats to neighbors last fall, but there have not been any problems since a gate
was recently installed.
*A burglary occurred between June 1 and June 9 in the 4900 block of Laurel Avenue, and
was reported on June 13.
*On the night of June 12, a 2016 Jeep was parked in the visitor parking lot in the 24500
block of Redwood Hwy. At 8 a.m. on June 13, the car owner noticed damage to the front
driver-side bumper, and it appeared to have been kicked in.
*A domestic violence incident that occurred on June 11 at Briggs Creek and Illinois River
Road was reported on June 18.
*A stalker in the 500 block of Beebe Drive is not taking the stalking order seriously, and
the violations are being documented. Using the upper driveway against the order is a violation.
*At 2:48 p.m., a silver-colored Acura TL with no license plates was upside down with
four flat tires near Indian Creek Road and Draper Valley Road.
*A blond lead-foot in a maroon-colored sedan sped past law enforcement at 2:49 p.m. in
the 27900 block of Redwood Hwy., heading towards Cave Junction.
*The environmentally-conscious lady in the 100 block of Elwood Lane did not want the
Pacific Power contract tree crews cutting on her property. She said they were killing the baby
trees, and they needed to stop. The area manager for the vegetation maintenance department
pulled the crew from the job, and as they were leaving, a pistol fired. The crew foreman did
not actually see her shoot, but he and his crew did not stay around to confirm.
*Some chap was laying on the curb in the 200 block of S. Redwood Hwy. with his eyes
closed at 4:20 p.m., and had reportedly been there all day. When fire and medical assistance
arrived, he was snoring and too intoxicated to provide his date of birth. He declined assistance,
and agreed to leave on foot.
*Investigation of some kind at 5:17 p.m. at Pine Cone Drive and Rockydale Road.
Outside the Valley
* Full moon fever hit early, with thirty-one log items