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Hood River News, Saturday, June 13, 2015
Cascade Locks School, supporters celebrate Walk/Ride to School Month
Submitted photo
BIKE WINNERS Ever Corbett, left, Bailey Webb, Jacob Bustamante, Alexsia James, Malissa
Popenoe, Adalee Bump, Tyler Fox, Marley Meyers.
Twelve students won new bikes, scoot-
ers and skateboards during the
Walk/Ride to School event in May. Cas-
cade Locks School’s PTO challenged
businesses and organizations to make
donations to purchase the items with the
group donating the most money winning
two hours of community service from
the school.
Nearly $600 was raised during the con-
test with the City of Cascade Locks win-
ning the top prize for their donation of
$175. Coming in second with $164.72 was
the Port of Cascade Locks, followed by
The Charburger, the Best Western Motel
and Lorang Fine Art.
Students were challenged to ride or
walk to school each day during the
month of May to earn raffle tickets for
the prizes.
Ten students were recognized for
walking or riding every day during the
month. Gracie Smallmon and Ethan Cox
won new skateboards during the first
week and Alex Grable and Jilly Ann
Goben won scooters during the second
week.
On May 27, a boy and girl were drawn
from each class for a new bike during the
school’s monthly awards assembly.
HRV students continue streamside enhancement
By KIRBY NEUMANN-REA
News editor
Photos by Kirby Neumann-Rea
ZACH TECKENBURG holds a bundle of the
invasive species Canary grass, which he
spent time Wednesday vigorously cutting
down.
Cleaning out your desk in the final
days of school is one thing.
How about cleaning out a riparian
zone?
That’s what a group of about 20 Hood
River Valley High School students did
Wednesday morning along the Indian
Creek streambed just below Henderson
Stadium.
Guided by biology teacher Joe Kelly,
the students wielded loppers, adzes and
other cutting tools, to cut or pull inva-
sive species — knapweed, canary grass,
scotch broom and blackberries — and
got the ground ready for “solarization”
this summer. The scene is where Indian
Creek Trail comes out into an open
area known as Emily’s Grove, named
for AmeriCorps volunteer Emily Plum-
mer, who planted and carried water in
2007-08 to sustain newly planted trees
and shrubs.
Solarization involves stripping away
vegetation, chopping up the soil, and
covering it in plastic for a few months
to superheat it and kill the canary
grass root system. Then, in the fall,
new and welcome plantings will go in
the same place along the creek: Pon-
derosa pine, Pacific nine-bark dog-
wood, cedars, red osier, or mock or-
ange. These tall shrub and tree species
will develop into a two-tier canopy sys-
tem that shades the creek to lower the
water temperature, as well as increase
dissolved oxygen in the water, two key
components of water quality and im-
proving salmon habitat.
“We are trying to encourage some
species and get rid of others, and pro-
vide dense shade over the creek,” Kelly
explained. The work has a lengthy
scope: once the invasive species are
quelled on the west side of the trail
along the stream, it will take them a few
years to mature into the kind of canopy
the stream needs. Meanwhile, the pines
and other trees planted on the east side
of the trail will need 20 years or so to
fully mature.
The project is a continuation of
streambed enhancement work in recent
years by students taught by Kelly and
Pete Lawson, done as class projects or
in conjunction with other Indian Creek
Steward partners. On hand were Hon-
ors Ecology students fulfilling their
community service component under
the ongoing Salmon Watch curriculum
program; Horizon Christian students
have worked with the Stewards on a
similar project farther north next to
the community college campus. On
Wednesday, the students also removed
another invasive element: plenty of
human-deposited trash.
AT LEFT, biology
teacher Joe Kelly pro-
vides instruction to
sophomore Bianca
Maciel on removing
knapweed from the
opposite side of the
trail as community
members hike past.
The whole idea be-
hind riparian en-
hancement is “clean-
er, colder water” for
salmon, according to
Kelly, who also be-
lieves that in doing
the projects, students
learn the power of
taking action. A side
project is removal of
scotch broom, with
the goal of eradica-
tion of the species
from the entire
HRVHS campus.
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Pitcher Ryan Ward capped off an amazing
season in the state championship game, leading
HRV to a 2-0 victory over Liberty by striking
out 10 batters and extending his pitching streak
to 64 innings since he last had an earned run.
The Athlete of the Week will receive a large
pizza with 2 toppings from Papa Murphy’s.
Congratulations to our winner 6-13-15.
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Photo by Kristen Godkin
N EW ‘V IEW ’ O N S TATE
MacRae Wylde installs his sculpture, “View,” Wednesday at the
new City of Hood River public restroom and bike hub plaza at Third
and State. The work by Wylde, a Hood River artist, had been
planned for installation a year ago at the site, but was postponed
due to construction delays. The concrete pedestal was poured last
week. “View,” one of 16 outdoor sculptures in the “Big Art” tour
throughout downtown and the waterfront, will remain in place
through August. Vote for the People’s Choice Award on the Art of
Community website, art-of-community.com.Awards will be given in
September. Art of Community coordinator Kristen Godkin said the
selections for 2015-16 “Big Art” are almost done, and plans are for
17 to 20 sites downtown, on the waterfront and on The Heights,
with installation in late August.
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