SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, 2015
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Items needed for annual Students to receive school backpacks
Relay For Life auction
The Relay For Life of
Florence is seeking quality
new items for its annual silent
auction on Saturday, Aug. 8,
from noon to 5:30 p.m. at
Miller Park. Money raised will
go to benefit the American
Cancer Society.
Silent auction items such as
gift certificates, gift baskets,
Residents in Florence are
about to benefit from a nation-
al backpack giveaway cam-
paign.
The Cellular Connection
(TCC), the largest Verizon pre-
mium wireless retailer in the
nation, will donate 100,000
backpacks full of school sup-
plies to children through its
annual
School
Rocks
Backpack Giveaway.
More than 400 participating
TCC stores across the United
States are inviting local fami-
themed baskets, travel and
lodging packages are appreci-
ated. Donations are tax-
deductible.
For more information or to
make a silent auction item
donation, contact Nancy
Bosket at 541-997-7121 or by
email at nancy.bosket@opbc
.com.
Stagecoach Road will be closed
during the day on Aug. 11-12
A stretch of Stagecoach
Road will be closed on
Tuesday, Aug. 11, and
Wednesday, Aug. 12, for cul-
vert replacement.
The road, 4.1 miles east of
Swisshome, will be closed
from milepost 6.59 to milepost
7.57.
The stretch of Stagecoach
Road will be closed both days
between 7:30 a.m. and 4:30
p.m.
A Lane County spokesper-
son advised using an alternate
route, such as taking Highway
36 to Mapleton, taking
Highway 126 to Richardson
Road and then turning left
onto Stagecoach Road.
Algae
“You are not going to have
these huge massive blooms if
you don’t have something
feeding them,” Otten said.
The second factor is slow
moving or stagnant water.
He cited a lagoon along the
Willamette River in Portland
that allowed algae blooms to
occur and then spilled out into
the Willamette River, creating
drinking water concerns down
river.
“Along the Klamath River
there are five hydroelectric
dams,” Otten said. “Reservoirs
behind those dams become
prime algae breeding grounds.
The toxic algae can travel
down the rivers to the mouth
and out into the Pacific Ocean.
The question we have is, are
the blooms we are seeing in the
reservoirs happening 200 miles
down river (in the ocean)?”
The third factor that pro-
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All leftover backpacks will
be donated to local schools.
In 2014, the National Retail
Federation predicted the aver-
age person with children in
grades K-12 would spend
$101.18 on school supplies,
such as notebooks, pencils and
backpacks.
With nearly 16 million chil-
dren in the nation living in
poverty, TCC is working to
alleviate the rising costs of
school supplies through this
annual program.
motes toxic blue-green algae
blooms, according to Otten, is
temperature,
particularly
warmer temperatures. The
microcystis algae are most
adapted to warm temperatures.
“Last year, at Upper
Klamath Lake,” Otten said,
“with the low snow pack and
warmer temperatures, the
microcystis bloom was signifi-
cant. Right now there is an
advisory issued for Upper
Klamath Lake because there is
a huge Micro-cystis bloom that
has taken off.
“The temperature theory is
gaining a little bit of traction
and there are obvious global
climate change implications,”
he added.
There is mounting evidence
that lakes and other slow mov-
ing or stagnant bodies of water
that have outlets, such as rivers
or streams, are carrying the
toxic blooms into the ocean.
“In Monterey Bay, Calif.,
there was a series of sea otter
deaths that were linked to
microcystis
intoxication,”
Otten explained. “They actual-
ly traced it back to contaminat-
ed shellfish. The otters were
eating the shellfish that had
accumulated the toxins 100
fold or more over the ambient
water concentrations because
the shellfish filter such large
volumes of water.
“Up in Pinto Lake, eight
kilometers away, there was a
huge bacteria bloom and it
flowed down river and into the
Monterey Bay.”
The concern, however, is for
more than just Monterey Bay.
“My collogues who have
been collecting ‘fresh water’
toxic algae samples all along
the coast have determined that
they are probably coming from
fresh water sources,” he said.
“The question is, how much
of these fresh water bacterial
toxins, how frequently and to
what capacity, are they reach-
ing the coast and where do they
go from there?” he said.
Otten said there is not a lot
of long-term data sets for any
given water body on toxic
algae blooms. He said scien-
tists tend to start looking at
systems once they have already
developed a problem. Even if a
lake is perfectly healthy, he
said it is good to have a data set
to monitor to see if it changes,
then researchers can try to fig-
ure out why.
“Human development, cli-
mate change and modification
of rivers, those are all going to
favor more toxic bacteria
blooms. It’s good to be opti-
mistic, but it’s kind of going in
the wrong direction as far as
we can tell,” he concluded.
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lies to bring their children to
the store between noon and 3
p.m. today, Aug. 1, to pick up a
backpack filled with pencils,
paper, a pencil box, folders,
glue and other school supplies.
One backpack per child
present will be given away on a
first-come, first-served basis
while supplies last.
The participating store in
Florence is at 2775 Highway
101, Suite D. Each participat-
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backpacks.
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How do you stay cool in the summer heat?
“We live on Woahink.
When it’s hot, we just go
jump in the lake.”
—J AN L EVERTON , 56
F LORENCE
“Live in Florence for the
summer. I’m originally from
Florida, and (the heat is) dis-
gusting there, so this is won-
derful. I’ve yet to have a bad
day in Florence in the sum-
mertime.”
—J ANET V INCENT , 52
F LORENCE
“Stay on the coast. We live
on the coast and it’s always
generally cooler here than in
the valley. I grew up in the
valley. It’s pretty toasty over
there.”
—K ENNY H ENSEN , 67
F LORENCE
“We’re from the San
Francisco area, so when it
gets hot, we just go down to
the bay and walk on the
beach.”
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ting operation not specifical-
ly mentioned is prohibited
out of doors.
These restrictions will con-
tinue until the current high
temperatures and low humid-
ity weather conditions end,
Langborg said.
As fire season hits full
stride, the chances of fires
starting and spreading rapidly
are of grave concern.
Homeowners and outdoor
enthusiasts alike can con-
tribute to the fire prevention
campaign by reducing fire-
prone activities.
“These conditions are very
rare here on the coast,” said
Fire Marshal Sean Barrett.
“We are seeing conditions
that contributed to some of
the state’s most devastating
wildfires that have occurred
on the coast.”
Oregon Department of
Forestry issued a closedown
order on Thursday, invoking
Industrial Fire Precaution
Order Level 4. This order
states that no activities are
permitted at any time on all
lands protected by the
Western
Lane
Forest
Protection District of ODF
and all forestland within one-
eighth mile thereof.
“We’re looking at a formi-
dable fire weather forecast,”
said Oregon state forester
Doug Decker. “The benefit of
any recent moisture we’ve
received has now evaporated,
and we’re looking straight at
record-breaking tempera-
tures, extremely low humidi-
ty and dry lightning — the
trifecta of bad wildfire condi-
tions.”
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