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Fond memories o f the Prom
Coach W orks
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By Sid M iller
Spilyay Publisher Emeritus
This is an event all high school kids will
always remember, a formal school dance
held during the spring term. Everyone
looks forward to the Prom.
The boys dress up in tuxedos or their
best suit and the girls dress in formals
and gowns, and they look like they just
ftepped out o f a fairytale book. The
only way to describe them is “beauti­
ful.”
I can remember my Junior Prom very
well, because my high school sweetheart
fcnd I were chosen to represent our class as
Prince and Princess. To me it was a great
honor to be chosen to represent my class
and also one o f the highlights o f my high
school days.
My parents took me out and fitted me
with a new suit just for the occasion, and
my girlfriend wore a gown and she looked
beautiful.
The Prom brings back a lot o f memo­
ries o f those good ole days in high school.
Everyone looks nice and dressed to a “T”.
I felt great but very nervous and shy, be­
cause I was not used to being seen with a
girl. Even though she was my high school
sweetheart, I felt uneasy being in public
with a girl. It was because we were popu­
lar with the rest o f our classmates, they
sort o f put us together as boy and girlfriend.
In a way that made things easier for me
because I liked her and I didn’t have to
chase after her. It was like out o f the world
just to hold hands with her, because at that
time I would rather hold a football, or bas­
ketball or something in sports.
Yes, it was a good feeling to come march­
ing in followed by the sophomore and fresh­
men representatives. Everyone anxiously
waiting to see who would be crowned
King and Queen for the Prom. Even
though we didn’t make King and
Queen it was just exciting to be class
representative and it didn’t matter.
That was one o f the best school dances I
had attended, and we danced the night
away. I was sorry it all came to an end.
As time passes on, things change, people
change and new people cofne into your life.
My girlfriend’s parents came from a differ­
ent part o f the country and they moved back
to where they came from.
After that I never had a high school girl­
friend like she was, but the memories are
still there. Even today I think o f those mo­
ments o f my Junior Prom, very happy mo­
ments o f my high school days.
“And that’s all I have to say about that.”
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Pollution may be factor in
sturgeon decline, studies say
(AP) — Chem ical pollution
may be a factor in the decline
o f Columbia River white stur­
geon, researchers say.
The chemicals include the in­
secticide DDT and polychlori­
nated biphenyls - or PCBs, ac­
cording to Oregon State Univer­
sity scientists.
Their studies have shown that
white sturgeon living in the Co­
lum bia R iver in som e areas
above B onneville Dam have
high amounts o f toxic contami­
nants in their livers, sex organs
and muscle tissue.
“We don’t know the exact
s[ource of contamination,” said
Carl Schreck, an OSU biologist.
“The fish move, the stuff they
eat moves and the water and
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sediments bearing the contami­
nants
moves.”
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In the past, such decreases
\yere thought to be linked to
Columbia River dams. Despite
fish ladders for salmon, the bot­
tom -dw elling w hite sturgeon
rarely navigate dams, making it
difficult for them to expand their
fiabitat.
Schreck and fellow biologist
Grant Feist studied white stur­
geo n from th ree reserv o irs
along the Columbia River and
from areas d o w n stream o f
Bonneville Dam, the first one
Collision Repair since 1976
encountered by fish swimming
upriver.
The researchers found some
of the fish in reservoirs behind
the dams had concentrations of
chemicals up to 20 times higher
than the fish below Bonneville.
“We believe that some con­
taminants are accumulating be­
hind the dams by settling out in
the sediment as the water slows,”
Feist said.
D uring the last 25 years,
white sturgeon have experienced
a sharp drop in population in the
upper reaches of the Columbia
River. In 1990, the Committee
on the Status o f Endangered
Wildlife in Canada designated the
white sturgeon as “vulnerable,”
only to reclassify it as “critically
imperiled” in 1994.
S tu rgeo n are the larg e st
fresh w ater fish in N orth
America. They can grow to 20
feet in length, weigh more than
1,500 pounds and live for more
than a century.
As salmon runs decline, stur­
geon are an increasingly impor­
tant food source for American
Indian tribes. But because of
their potentially high contami­
nant levels, researchers warn
against making the fish a regu­
lar part o f the diet. The stur­
geon research has been pub­
lished in the journals Environ­
mental Health Perspectives and
A rch ives o f E n viro n m en tal
Contamination and Toxicology.
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