SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ SATURDAY, MAY 23, 2015
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Last chance to purchase STEP raffle tickets this weekend
Raffle tickets for the
Florence Salmon and Trout
Enhancement
Program
fundraiser can only be pur-
chased during Memorial Day
weekend at Three Rivers
Casino’s Event Center.
Fishing gear, guided fishing
trips, gift certificates from local
businesses and restaurants,
how-to books and cookbooks,
wine, clothing and much more
are offered as prizes for the
annual fundraiser.
Cost is $2 per ticket or three
for $5 and may also be pur-
chased from any member.
Members of the club will be
at the STEP booth in the event
center from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
on Saturday and Sunday.
On Monday, members will
be there at 10 a.m. The prize
drawing will begin around
noon, according to Bill Hennig,
fundraiser coordinator for the
club. North Country Lures and
Flies, a major sponsor of the
fundraiser, will also be on hand
with a booth selling their lures,
flies, rods and reels.
STEP is a non-profit organi-
zation and has been working to
restore fisheries in the Siuslaw
Basin since the early 1990s. Its
main effort is the winter steel-
head broodstock program.
The club live spawns steel-
head during the winter run,
begins the fertilization and egg
growth at its small hatchery
facility in Florence before
sending up to 250,000 eggs to
the Willamette Hatchery in
Oakridge.
Volunteers needed for
Heceta Lighthouse tours
Summer
is
quickly
approaching and Heceta Head
Lightstation’s
Interpretive
Center is preparing for the tour
season.
Each year, the Interpretive
Center hosts thousands of visi-
tors from all over the world.
Volunteers share the fascinat-
ing history of the beautiful
Queen Anne style Keeper’s
House, from its construction in
1892 to the present day.
Discover what life was like
for those at the turn of the cen-
tury and why it took a unique
individual to enjoy living the
life of a light keeper. Learn
what you can do to help keep
the house alive as an historic
site in our community.
Tour
season
begins
Memorial Day weekend and
lasts through Labor Day, with
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causes of injury in high school
basketball.
Protecting the free-throw
shooter is another area of
emphasis for next season. The
STEP
The final point of emphasis
concerns the use of NFHS
mechanics and signals.
“Communication is vital to
the game of basketball, to the
officials and all others involved
in the game,” Wynns said. “It is
essential for officials to master
From Baby to Graduate
(it seemed like just a few short years)
8th Grade, High School or College
~ Grad’s Name ~
School
Birth Date:
Parents:
Grandparents:
prize donations and ticket pur-
chases.”
Education projects are
another focus for the club and
many hours are spent with
youth, introducing them to fish-
ing, sharing the life cycle of the
steelhead through the Fish Egg
to Fry program in preschool
through high school class-
rooms, and supporting Free
Fishing Day and the Siuslaw
Watershed Summer Camp pro-
grams.
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take the insulation off the aquariums, so
students had a much more interactive
experience with the life cycle study.”
Students in all grades eagerly
watched the development of the eggs,
and celebrated as they hatched out.
When most of the fry were swimming,
STEP volunteers emptied the aquariums
and brought the fry to the Munsel Lake
boat ramp. There, they met the first
graders, who travelled by bus to the
lake.
Each student was given a clear plastic
cup with steelhead fry to release by the
boat ramp.
Next on the club agenda was fin-clip-
ping the 10,000-plus coho fry on May
19. The fry were raised at the club’s
small hatchery facility in Florence.
Volunteers helped clip the adipose fin
off of each coho so that the fish can be
identified as hatchery-raised.
Anyone is interested in learning
more about STEP or volunteerig can
contact club president Ron Caputo at
541-997-4961.
tours given from 11 a.m. until
4 p.m., Thursday through
Monday.
Volunteers are needed to
help share the history about
this historic landmark. Here is
an excellent opportunity to
develop your public speaking
skills, brush up on some local
history and spend time at the
beautiful
Heceta
Head
Lightstation.
Volunteer 35 hours during
the tour season and receive a
free night’s stay in the bed and
breakfast during the winter
months.
For more information about
volunteering or our historic
tours, contact Steven Bursey at
866-547-3696 or email keep-
ers@hecetalighthouse.com.
committee noted that the rule
change last year allowing a
player occupying a marked
lane space to enter the lane on
the release of the ball by the
free thrower calls for added
protection of the free-throw
shooter.
Last month, ODFW returned
nearly 80,000 steelhead smolt
to Whittaker and Green creek.
The smolt were raised from
eggs taken by STEP during the
winter of 2014.
“This is our only fundraiser
of the year,” said Bill Hennig,
coordinator of the raffle. “We
rely on the generosity of local
businesses who make contribu-
tions so that we have some
amazing prizes.
“Our community has been
great in supporting us through
PHOTO BY BECKY GOEHRING
A young Girl Scout proudly displays her first
fish, a rainbow trout caught on Cleawox
Lake. STEP volunteers spent the day helping
scouts learn to cast, reel and bring in a fish
during the weekend camping trip for
Eugene-area scouts.
and use only the NFHS-
approved mechanics and sig-
nals.”
The rules committee also
devoted significant time to
updating the NFHS 2015-17
Basketball Officials Manual.
Wynns said the revised pub-
lication will be improved and
expanded to include diagrams
helpful to new officials as well
as the more experienced ones.
A complete listing of the
basketball rules changes is
available on the NFHS website
at www.nfhs.org.
Click on “Activities &
Sports” at the top of the home
page, and select “Basketball.”
According to the 2013-14
NFHS High School Athletics
Participation Survey, basket-
ball is the third-most popular
boys sports nationwide with
541,054 participants and sec-
ond-most popular girls sport
with 433,344 participants. In
terms of school sponsorship, it
ranks No. 1 for both boys and
girls with 18,126 schools for
boys and 17,754 for girls.
Free
becue, free fish print tee-shirt
making and a practice casting
station.
Last year, more than 200
young anglers participated in
the day’s activities.
The first weekend in June is
Free
Fishing
Weekend
throughout Oregon. No license
is required to fish that week-
end, in an effort to invite more
people to try their luck and
learn the delights of fishing.
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shoreline as families line the
banks to try to catch some of
the thousands of rainbow trout
that have been planted into
Cleawox Lake for the event.
Others will staff a fish clean-
ing station, so that the catch
can be taken home, ready to
cook.
There is a free hot dog bar-
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