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Hood River News, Wednesday, June 3, 2015
Free fishing June 6
at Spearfish Park
The U.S. Army Corps of En-
gineers invites the public to a
family fishing event at
Spearfish Park, near Dalle-
sport, on June 6 from 9 a.m. to
noon. The event coincides
with the state of Washington’s
free fishing weekend and na-
tional Get Outdoors Day.
Corps park rangers, volun-
teers and partners from the
Washington Department of
Fish and Wildlife, the Klicki-
tat Chapter of Trout Unlimit-
ed and the national Get Out-
doors Foundation will provide
a variety of outdoor activities
for families. Visitors are en-
couraged to bring their poles,
bait and tackle; only a limited
supply will be available for
DRESSES TWIRL at Mid Valley Elementary in a dance led by instructor Sandy Sazalar.
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PRINCIPAL DENNIS McCauley receives an award from Kim Yasui at Mid Valley Elementary school
Thursday night as Hood River County Sheriff Matt English, left, looks on.
connected with the Latino
community. “It makes retir-
ing fun,” said Yasui.
Oropeza is the oldest child
of a migrant farm working
family. She arrived at Mid Val-
ley from Mexico and attended
Hood River Valley schools,
graduating in 2009. Oropeza
attended Columbia Gorge
Community College and grad-
uated with her Masters in 2014
from Eastern Oregon Univer-
sity before she returned to
Hood River to work for the
County Prevention Depart-
ment.
Oropeza said the Odell cel-
ebration was the first major
public event she had ever
hosted.
Many of the educators who
received accolades are retir-
ing this year, including Den-
nis McCauley, principal of
Mid Valley Elementary. The
longtime principal took up the
“chair throne,” as Yasui re-
ferred to it, in the center of
the honorees.
McCauley has served as
principal at Mid Valley for the
last 11 years. His career in ed-
ucation began in 1971, when
he started as an elementary
teacher for Reynolds School
District in Portland. He went
on to become principal of
Reynolds’ Davis Elementary
School in 1998 before moving
to Hood River in 2004.
Kim Yasui, HRSCD instruc-
tional coach and AVID direc-
tor, will take McCauley’s place
next year. Though she was an
event organizer, the celebra-
tion also made note of her
work at Mid Valley.
Other educators on the hon-
oree list were Peggy Dills Kel-
ter, Art teacher at Mid Valley;
Socci Galvez, Mid Valley
Bilingual Preschool director;
Erica Magana, Migrant Pro-
gram Recruiter for HRCSD;
Lorena Manzo, ELL Instruc-
tor at HRVHS; Lourdes Elisea,
Child Care Instructional As-
sistant at HRVHS; and Sandy
Salazar, Mid Valley’s dance in-
structor, who lead students in
a series of Latin dances near
the end of the Odell ceremony.
© 2015 by Vicki Whiting, Editor Jeff Schinkel, Graphics Vol. 31, No. 26
By Nellie Fly
Do you love bugs? How would
you like to have a job where you
got to be with bugs everyday?
You might want to study
entomology. Entomology is the
study of insects and an entomologist
is a bug scientist. There are lots of
careers for entomologists!
Make a flipbook! Paste
each of these pictures on
heavy paper (an old deck
of cards works great).
Flip the cards to see this
bug flip out!
When a movie scene needs
bugs, who gets a call?
Entomologists study
how insects behave, they
know how to get them to do
things movie directors want
them to do. Bug directing
entomologists have made bees swarm a
beekeeper for a fried chicken commercial and
made a cockroach run across a floor then flip over! Find the two identical movie bugs.
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This book that has been grossing out
children and adults since 1973. This
is the story of Billy, a ten-year-old
who takes a bet that he will eat 15
worms in 15 days—all for $50.
Unscramble the title of this book.
Then, check it out at your local
library this summer!
Standards Link: Reading Comprehension: Follow simple written directions.
Find the words in the puzzle,
INSECTS
then in this week’s Kid Scoop
ENTOMOLOGY
stories and activities.
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Standards Link: Letter sequencing. Recognized identical
HEAT
words. Skim and scan reading. Recall spelling patterns.
Many zoos have bug exhibits with live bugs and
they need entomologists to take care of the bugs.
Entomologists create special terrariums that
imitate each bug’s natural habitat. Entomologists
also know what kind of food to feed their bugs
and how much heat and light they like.
Which label goes with which symbol?
Unscramble the letters on each label
and then draw a line from the label to its
corresponding exhibit symbol.
Bug Business
Look through today’s newspaper for
examples of businesses that can be affected
by bugs. For example, grocery stores have
a problem if moths get into their flour.
What other examples can you find?
Standards Link: Spelling: Spell grade-level appropriate words correctly.
Draw a line
from each
missing
word to
where it
belongs in
this article.
Standards Link:
Life Science: Students know that
animals progress through life cycles.
Betty’s bug has spots but not tiny ones.
It has stripes but it doesn’t have short
antennaes. Her
bug has an
odd number of spots.
Standards Link:
Reading
Comprehension:
use context
clues.
Standards Link: Life Science: Know that distinct
environments support the life of different plants and animals.
Bug Verbs
Look through the
newspaper for verbs
that describe the
way different kinds
of bugs move. Copy
these verbs onto a
piece of paper in
abc order.
Standards Link:
Grammar/Spelling: Identify
verbs; list words in
alphabetical order.
When I Grow Up
What do you want to be when you
grow up? Write a paragraph about the
job you would like to have one day
and why you would be good at it.
Two of the pieces of information
below are true and one is false.
Can you figure out which is which?
1. The smallest insect in the
world, the Tanzanian
parasitic wasp, is smaller
than the eye on a housefly.
2. An ant is capable of lifting
fifty times its own weight
and is capable of pulling
thirty times its own weight.
3. A mosquito has 47 teeth,
which it uses to bite people.
ANSWER: Numbers 1 & 2 are
True. Number 3 is False. While a
mosquito has 47 teeth, it does not
use these to bite. Instead, it has a
proboscis, which is a little tube that
it uses to prick skin and suck blood.
of achievement and a hand-
ful of flowers, as well as ap-
plause from the packed
bleachers at Mid Valley’s
gym.
“These people made a big
difference,” said Maija Yasui,
Hood River County Preven-
tion specialist.
Specifically, the celebration
highlighted leaders who had
worked closely with the local
Hispanic community, Yasui
said. “The prevention depart-
ment is honoring different
programs that have served,
and done outreach with the
Hispanic community,” she
said.
Though she sat in the
bleachers with the audience,
Yasui was called down and
recognized for her own ef-
forts in the community.
Yasui will be stepping down
this year from her integral
role, reducing drug use in
teens and helping vulnerable
youth through the county
prevention program, which
she spearheaded.
Oropeza, the county’s new
health and prevention coor-
dinator, will be taking up the
torch.
Yasui described her suc-
cessor as “passionate,” flu-
ent in Spanish and deeply
By Nellie Fly
use. Dress for the weather and
bring bottled water, as potable
water is not available.
Visitors can learn basic
fishing skills, such as properly
baiting and tying a hook, iden-
tifying species of fish, casting
and cleaning your catch, and
most importantly, how to be
safe around the water. This
event is intended for children
and families with beginning
levels of fishing experience. A
fishing license is not required
for children under 14. All
other sport fishing rules apply,
including size and catch lim-
its.
The Spearfish Park ramp
will be closed to boats during
the event.
Standards Link: Reading Comprehension:
Follow simple written directions.
… reading the newspaper
to learn more about the
world around you.
Complete the grid by using all the
letters in the word BUGS in each
vertical and horizontal row. Each letter
should only be used once in each row.
Some spaces have been filled in for you.