Port Orford News
Page 8 • January 21, 2009
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Photos by Brandon ORourke
Photos by Brandon ORourke
The PHS boys play some tough defense against Days Creek.
The PHS girls fight for a rebound against the Wolves.
Oberbeck hits for nine in PHS loss
Thin PHS girls squad falls to Days Creek
By Matt Hall
By Matt Hall
PON staff writer
PON staff writer
The Pacific High Boys played fell behind by a
13-7 margin at the end of the first quarter and
never managed to head the visiting Days Creek
Wolves in a 39-28 loss in Saturday night Skyline
League Action.
Tim Maynard scored six points, Reed Brady
tallied five, Thomas Oberbweck hit for nine
points, Peter Swenson added a pair and Joe
Bjornerud closed out the Pirate scoring with six
points.
The Pirates next play Elkton at 7:30, Friday, Jan.
The Pacific High girls basketball team fell off the
pace early and never could catch up to a deeper
Days Creek team in a 38-18 loss in Saturday night
Skyline League play.
“We had some trouble shooting,” said Coach
Tiffany Freitag. “Jesse Culley is doing a great job
of getting position. She’s really stepped up this
year.”
Jenine Manning scored three points, as did Maria
Pascasio while Culley led the Pirates with 12.
It’s all about food: P.O. Author Ann Vileisis talks about her new book
By Carol Berger
PON staff writer
It was standing room only in
the Freedom of Speech Room at
the Port Orford Public Library
on Wednesday, Jan. 14, as local
author and historian Ann
Vileisis presented a lecture and
slide show on her new book,
Kitchen Literacy: How We Lost
Knowledge of Where Food
Comes from and Why We Need
to Get It Back.
In her well-researched book,
Vileisis takes us on a journey
from the eighteenth century to
the present, revealing how
Americans’ awareness of food
has changed from an intimate
relationship that included sow-
ing and harvesting fruits and
vegetables in personal garden
plots; raising pigs, sheep, cows,
and chickens for butchering,
milking, or collecting eggs
from; and growing wheat or
other grains to use in baking
bread, to a prevalent “covenant
of ignorance” that has only
recently begun to be challenged
by the organic movement.
Along the way, she examines
the many influences that led to
this metamorphosis in
Americans’ knowledge of food
and cookery, from an all-encom-
passing awareness that food
came from the land, to the point
where people don’t want to
know where their food comes
from. The expansion of the rail-
roads, industrialization and its
idea of efficiency, the introduc-
tion of canned foods, the begin-
ning of a home economics
based on a scientific approach,
the role of advertising and
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branding, and the advent of
chains and supermarkets are
some of the events that influ-
enced Americans in their atti-
tude toward food.
Vileisis’ entertaining and
informative lecture was a sort of
“Cliff Notes” version of the
book, highlighting the main
points and featuring slides of
some of the photos, but leaving
those interested in cooking
and/or history wanting to read
the book itself for even more
information and photos. Copies
of the book were available for
sale at the event and can still be
purchased directly from Vileisis,
who is more than happy to auto-
graph them.
Following Vileisis’ presenta-
tion, Jennifer Ewing of the Port
Orford Educational
Demonstration Garden at the
Senior Center spoke about the
success of the raised bed gar-
dens installed there. Ewing, who
is a professional gardener and
has owned her own nursery, will
be giving a series of workshops
this year beginning in February.
Planned topics included propa-
gation, building raised beds,
planting and harvesting for
small spaces, composting, seed
saving, perennial plant care, and
canning and preserving, among
others. A schedule will be
released shortly.
Ewing was followed by Zoe
Bradbury of Valley Flora in
Langlois. Valley Flora is starting
a CSA (Community Supported
Agriculture) Harvest Basket
program that will run from June
1 to Nov. 20. Members sign up
in advance to receive a basket of
vegetables, fruits, and berries
each week. The composition of
PON photos by Carol Berger
ABOVE: The lecture at the
library was well attended.
RIGHT: Vileisis is a well-
known, popular speaker.
the basket depends on which
foods are available during that
time of year. The basket costs
$25 a week (either pre-paid for
the entire season or pre-paid on
a monthly basis) and contains at
least $30 worth of retail value
produce direct from the farm.
Valley Flora is committed to
ecological farming. For more
information or to sign up for a
Harvest Basket, call 541-348-
2180 or go online at www.val-
leyflorafarm.com.
The event also included a
table full of tasty concoctions
made with cranberries provided
by Sixes’ Brush Prairie Bogs,
which is Oregon Tilth Certified
Organic. Its crop is “water-
picked, then cleaned and packed
at a local handler that has a cer-
tified organic line.” Though
much of it is sold to small
organic processors, locals can
purchase directly from the farm
in quantities from eight ounce
bags to 25 pound boxes, fresh in
season or frozen. Brush Prairie
Bogs can be contacted at 541-
348-2370 or hjwalter@harbor-
side.com.
CCEC, from page 1
on Nov. 1 has met with unani-
mously positive feedback from
the employees. (The only two
complaints received involved
contractors needing to have
something done on a Friday.)
There was a large drop in over-
time, although miles driven inex-
plicably increased. The new
schedule saved $16,600 in its first
month of implementation, and
Meader hopes that will continue.
The conditional use permit for
the transmission line rebuild has
been approved. An appeal was
filed on the last possible day by
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several property owners in the
Brookings area. At the time of
the Town Hall meeting, the board
had plans to meet with them and
try to work out the problems. If
an agreement cannot be reached,
and it goes into the appeal
process, CCEC would be unable
to do any work on the line until
the end of the year. The plan has
been to take two construction
seasons to do the work, with
crews working only in the dry
months. CCEC would like to get
the foundations in this year, but
an appeal could throw the
planned timeline off.
Touchstone Energy program
The Touchstone Energy Co-op
Connections program is set to
launch; cards should be in the
mail this week. The cards allow
co-op members to get various
discounts and money-saving
offers from both local and nation-
al businesses. All pharmacies in
the CCEC service area from
Bandon to Brookings have joined
the program. Stallard hopes this
will “help drive business into the
local economy.” Belonging to the
Touchstone alliance not only ben-
efits individual members, but it
also gives CCEC a greater voice
in regard to legislative initiatives.
Replace an office ...
CCEC is working on plans to
replace the Coquille office. The
warehouse is presently eight
miles from the office, and CCEC
wants to bring the office and
operations into one building to
save money. The board has also
decided not to hold further Town
Halls in Coquille, due to lack of
interest (aka non-attendance).
Cards mailed out
Capital credits for people who
were members of the co-op from
1973-76 were mailed out.
Annual meeting
The annual meeting will be
held on May 2 at Pacific High
School. Members will be electing
directors to the two new at-large
positions created in 2008,
presently filled by appointment,
and will be electing two directors
to the three-year terms presently
held by John Herzog (Brookings)
and Gary Schlottmann (Gold
Beach).