Illinois Valley News, Cave Junction, Ore. Wednesday, August 10, 2016
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IVHS football balancing inexperience with depth
By Dan Klapheke
IVN Staff Writer
The Illinois Valley High School
(IVHS) football team is gearing up
for the 2016 season, and head coach
Bruce Reece said the team is looking
to make big strides over last year.
“We’re gonna be
inexperienced,” Reece said. “We’ll
have more depth than we did last
year, but we’re looking to improve
on last year’s season quite a bit.”
Those improvements will
come in the form of a stronger
passing game, which will come
from a smoother center/quarterback
exchange and overall good
fundamentals. The team exclusively
runs shotgun out of the snap, and
Reece said the key to better passing
will be the run game.
“Our skill players are really
good, and if we can solidify or run
game like we think we can then
that’ll just make our passing game
that much more effective,” Reece
said.
IVHS struggled with numbers
last year, as the junior varsity (JV)
team was unable to finish the season
due to running out of players. That
hit was also felt on the varsity squad,
which went 1-7 for the season.
“Getting the numbers up,
having a JV schedule; that’s the most
import part of what we’re gonna
have to do this year,” Reece said.
Reece said he expects 38-50
players on the team this year. The
team could see up to 12 seniors,
but there is only a handful currently
committed. Those include Ross
Gaynor at quarterback and outside
linebacker; Jacob Solomon and Paul
Binker on both sides of the defensive
line; Zach Lindell at running
back and linebacker; and Skyler
McLanahan at receiver, running back
and outside linebacker.
The team will largely be young,
inexperienced players, but Reece
said what the team does have is a
broad and talented skillset.
“We’ve got a real good core of
skill players,” Reece said. “They’re
new, but we’re going to be deeper
than the in past.”
The first glimpse of the IVHS
football in action will be at North
Valley’s jamboree versus North
Valley High School Friday, Aug.
26. The team kicks off the regular
season against Scio High School
in Scio the week after, and IVHS’s
home opener will be against Santiam
Christian School Friday, Sept. 9.
Reece said he projects the team
to go 6-3 in its nine-game season,
and winning two out of three of its
league matchups would send IVHS
to the postseason.
“We’re gonna be fun to watch,
that’s the exciting part,” Reece said.
The Archive Zone: by Hillary Mohr from the Illinois Valley News archives
This week is a special request
to travel back to March 18, 1955.
Lost digits, injuries overseas,
spontaneous combustion and Bill
Nye, oh my! This sets the tone for
what can only be, The Archive
Zone.
Loses finger in accident at
Arrow Factory saw. Rocky Jones,
an employee at the Claude Reinoehl
arrow factory, lost a finger on his
left hand Wednesday afternoon.
Jones was working with a gang saw
when the accident occurred. Other
fingers on the same hand were badly
bruised, but it is believed they can
be saved. Valley Ambulance took
Jones to Josephine General Hospital
Wednesday evening, shortly after
the accident which occurred at 5
p.m. He was expected to return
home Thursday (yesterday).
Pfc. Gene L. Gant injured
in Korea. Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Gant of Holland received an army
telegram March 8 telling them that
their youngest son, Pfc. Gene E.
Gant, had been seriously injured
in a sprayer tank explosion at his
post in Korea. Pfc. Gant is now at
the 121st evacuation hospital, APO
971, San Grancisco, recovering
from a compound fracture of the
skull and perforated left eye. The
army will keep the parents posted
on his condition every 10 days.
Through the American Red Cross,
the Gants older son, S/Sgt. Richard
Gant of the 16th Fighter Interceptor
Squadron, Okinawa, has been
notified and has obtained leave to
visit his brother.
Firemen called to Tom White
place as blazing garage threatens
houses. A blazing garage at the
Tom White home 1 and 1 1/2 miles
south of Cave Junction on Redwood
highway called volunteer firemen
out at 1:20 a.m. Saturday. Quick
action however, by Isabel Mellow
at the telephone company, and the
Valley volunteers kept the flames
from spreading to surrounding
buildings. The fire, believed to
have been caused by spontaneous
combustion was discovered by Mrs.
White when light from the flames
awakened her. Two fire district
trucks and a dozen foremen arrived
at the scene eight minutes after the
call went in. Although the garage
and stored wood inside of it was
already lost, the volunteers saved
the White home and guest house,
where Mrs. White’s mother, Irene
McCasland lives, was not more than
25 feet from the blaze.
IVHS teacher, son in
accident. Robert Farrand, Illinois
Valley High School teacher, and
his son, Robert, Jr., returned from
Josephine General Hospital Monday
evening via Valley Ambulance. The
two were injured in an automobile
accident on Caves Highway
Thursday evening, March 10, when
Farrand’s car swerved off the road
and hit a tree in an attempt to miss
another car. Seven-year-old Bobby,
whose broken leg must remain in
traction from four to six weeks,
can recuperate at home. Bill Bye
and Vern Larson fellow teachers at
IVHS, finished building a traction
arrangement for his bed on Monday.
It was used in the ambulance which
brought him home. Bobby also
received a badly lacerated nose and
mouth and lost several teeth in the
accident. His father suffered serious
cuts on the head and a mangled left
leg. Les Tythcott drove the Farrands
to the hospital Thursday afternoon
in the Valley ambulance. The car
was totally damaged in the wreck.
Spaceman: ‘Follow your heart’
By Dan Klapheke
IVN Staff Writer
The quiet trees of Takilma are home to a
community of environmentally conscious and
alternative lifestyle-living former wanderers,
left over from the 1960s and ‘70s. But among
these earth-rooted people is a man who lived
a life on the road and embodies the hippie
movement, and he’s been sending home peace
and meaning on the Takilma airwaves since
1996.
Leo “Spaceman” Goodman was born and
raised in Natick, Massachusetts, just outside
of Boston. He said he remembers one of his
first tastes of activism while in high school,
when the various Boston-area universities
went on strike protesting the 1970 invasion of
Cambodia.
“All this stuff was coming up like
crazy, everywhere,” Spaceman said. “You
had the woman’s rights movement, you had
gay liberation--you had a lot of things going
on. People were just questioning the whole
paradigm.”
Spaceman has spent his life as an
activist, and he was heavy into the antinuclear
movement of the late ‘70s and early ‘80s. But
before that he did some traveling, and not
through a typical mode of transportation. Fresh
out of high school, he hitchhiked across the
country from Boston to San Francisco, and
then back again.
“That opened my eyes. That summer of
‘72 was a big summer for me,” Spaceman said.
“I found myself in that summer.”
But before he delved into following
his true self, he tried college to appease his
parents. Spaceman spent two years at Northern
Colorado University studying anthropology
and environmental science, but he didn’t see
it going anywhere for him. He wanted to work
and be a functioning part of society.
“My sophomore year a friend of mine
said he was taking a carpentry class, and I
thought, ‘Damn, what am I doing here?’”
Spaceman said. “I wanna be out in the world
working. That’s what I wanna do. I wanna do
carpentry.”
He finished his sophomore year and quit
school after to pursue the trade, and Spaceman
found some of his first carpentry work framing
and building houses in Vermont. His first
real involvement in the antinuclear effort
followed soon after, when activists occupied
the Seabrook Nuclear Power Plant in 1978. He
was attached to the movement, and things kept
rolling from there.
“Back then, you could feel it in the
air,” Spaceman said. “There was big changes
happening. You didn’t have to go very far to
figure it out, what was happening.”
After the Seabrook occupation,
Spaceman set out for Europe and spent seven
months of 1979 hitchhiking and visiting
natural wonders. He also worked, helping
build a peace Pagoda in England and working
construction in Greece. Spaceman said he
also spent a fair amount of time camping on
Grecian beaches.
He returned home and picked up more
carpentry work in Boston, but Spaceman said
he wasn’t feeling at home.
“I was always coming back to the west
coast,” Spaceman said. “And this is where my
family is. My roots. Even though my roots are
on the east coast, this is the people I dig.”
A friend convinced him to visit out west,
and this time Spaceman wasn’t looking back.
“I said, ‘I’m buying a ticket but I’m not
coming back,’” Spaceman said. “And I didn’t.
I got a one-way ticket and I hitchhiked up
the coast to Santa Cruz and started living in a
commune.”
That was in 1981, which ended up being
a pivotal year in Spaceman’s life. While
hitchhiking, he met up with two organizers of
an effort to occupy the Diablo Canyon Nuclear
Power Plant, and Spaceman hopped right on
board.
Spaceman said the protesters were over
1,000 strong, and the whole point was to get
arrested and make a scene in order to bring
attention to the movement, but they weren’t
going out easy. The protestors hiked through
backcountry and up to the top of Diablo Peak,
overlooking the nuclear plant, waving “Stop
Diablo” banners and making their point.
Battle of the Bands (7:00 pm)
Phamous Phaces
Billy Lund & Whiskey Weekends
Pre-Sale Discount
one-day Carnival Wristbands
Presale tickets can be purchased at; Grants Pass Chamber of Commerce,
Oregon Book Store, Baskin Robbins and the Josephine County Fairgrounds
Carnival wristband does not include fair admission
July 5th to August 16 th - $20.00
After August 16 th - $30.00.
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