Summer Rea ding Progra m
by- La ura Smith & Ina Hilkey
A sneak preview of the Summer Reading
Program using the theme “ Script Your
Summer- Read a Good Movie ” . The
program will open on June 11 and run
through August 18. During that time teens
will have the opportunity to create their
own character, write book reviews rating
items with either thumbs up or thumbs
down or circling the number of stars, add
to an ongoing screen play and earn great
prizes at the same time.
Each branch will have its own cast note
book containing each character’s reading
log, and ongoing screenplay, once the cast
member has read ten items (including
magazines, audio books, and videos as
well as books ) they are eligible for a prize.
They will be given an entry ticket for the
grand prize drawing August 22nd. Each ten
items read will give the teen another
chance to win a grand prize. The grand
prize drawing will include subscriptions to
Cinescope Magazine, movie related books
such as James Bond-The Secret World of
007 and other titles, and for 20 lucky teens
a private tour of Land-mine Video
Production Company of Medford. Contact
your librarian and sign-up.
Friends of the Library Annual book sale
will be July 4th in the park. If you have
books to donate for this sale drop them off
at the library prior to June 30th. All do
nations are greatly appreciated. Watch for
the library float in the parade. Anyone
interested in helping with the float or have
a child that would like to ride on the float
please contact the librarian as soon as
possible.
So, search the shelves forthose books
that have been made into films, grab your
popcorn and let’s read a good movie.
fished for yellow perch and crappie and
had more than I wanted to clean in just a
few hours. I was fishing worms on the
bottom for perch, and used a red and
green jig for the crappie.
Opening weekend of trout season I went
to Diamond Lake and saw some trout on
stringers up to 24 inches. Most of the fish
were caught on rainbow power bait.
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Lemolo Lake was low and not producing
many trout, but should get better soon.
Lost Creek lake is still good for trout, and
Get your surfboa rd out a nd wa xed a nd
the bass are hitting pretty well now also.
hea d for the river. There ’s a fa st moving
wa ll of wa ter going down the Rogue tha t
will get you to Gold Bea ch in 10 minutes.
The kids fishing derby at Medco Pond will
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be on June 9th this year. Sign up for the
Although there a re a “ lot” of sa lmon hea d
kids starts at 7:00 a.m. and the fishing
ed upstrea m now, with the fluctua ting
starts at 8:00 a.m and will end at 11:00.
wa ter levels a nd tempera ture cha nges, the
After that the kids will have their fish
sa lmon ha ve been fa st on the move, a nd
weighed, measured and counted to see
slow to bite on my pole. The fish tha t ha ve
who the best fisherperson is in each age
been ca ught or seen jumping a re bright
category. This year the derby is being
a nd in very good sha pe. I ca lled Pa ts Ha nd
co-ordinated by my wife, Renee, who has
Tied Flys a nd Susa n told me they ha ve
been a lot of help, and myself. We would
been ca tching more sa lmon a nd bringing
like to thank the many people of Butte
in some big fish. The biggest one so fa r
Falls who have offered their help and
wa s a 32.5 pounder! So I would suggest
donations to put on this years kids
with the high, fast water to use heavy line,
fishing derby. Also, our thanks to many
or 5/8 inch chocker cable.
merchants for their discounts and
donations for the prizes and food.
As of 5-19-01 there have been 7225
salmon over Gold Ray dam. This year so
I hope to see you all at the derby on the
far is looking like one of the best runs of
9th. Good luck fishing, catch a whopper!
salmon we ’ve had in a few years.
If your arm gets tired of catching all those
big salmon, I would suggest fishing the
“ Holy Waters ” above Cole River Hatchery.
The salmon flys are hatching now, so use
a salmon fly imitation. That stretch of the
river has some very nice rainbow trout
that are full of fight and fun to catch.
Remember, that part of the river is fly
angling only, catch and release with
barbless hooks.
Karen Davis and friends were up at Willow
Lake recently and caught some nice cat
fish up to 16 inches, some sizable bass
and a few trout. I went the next day and
P.S. So Karen, could you please explain
the many uses of a paper clip you keep in
your tackle box to me again?
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