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SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2016
SHS squad preps for biggest cheer of year
B Y S TAN P USIESKI
For Siuslaw News
Siuslaw High School cheer-
leading adviser Diane Conlee
has a serious youth movement
on her hands.
The Vikings will take five
sophomores and two freshmen
to Portland on Saturday for the
Oregon School Activities
Association’s 2016 State
Cheerleading Championships.
Siuslaw’s 10-member team
also will include two seniors
and a junior.
“We’re a complete team of
10, and I think we’ll be com-
petitive,” said Conlee, who has
coached four state champi-
onship teams.
And they will be healthy,
which is a feat in itself for a
season nearly six months old.
“We’ve had a lot of sickness-
es, like the flu virus that’s gone
around,” Conlee said. “But
we’re healthy now.”
All-state individual per-
former Victoria Rojas is one of
the five sophomores, along
with Tallyn Bello, Emilee
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Christensen, Siarrah Rain and
Ariel Rosinbaum.
Members of the Viking cheerleading squad practice their routine for state competition this Saturday in Portland.
Four-year member Amilia
Perez is one of the seniors, when they are the fourth of nine and practice is 8:55 a.m. prior
Her young athletes have to perfect incorporates the key
while transfer Meg Donohue is 4A small teams to perform their to showtime.
been there for all the other elements of the sport, broken
the other.
two-and-a-half-minute routine
That’s a long day, capping a sports, they’ve performed at into three segments.
Filling out the team are jun- at
Veterans
Memorial long month of qualifying, top- least one community event a
“The first piece we’re show-
ior Habana Ramos and fresh- Coliseum.
ping a long season — twice as month, worked fundraisers, and casing is the hard things you
men McKenzie Colton and
The team will be on the road long as any other school sport. put in endless hours of practice. have to do, running tumbling,
Marissa Wells.
from Florence to Portland just
“People don’t know how
And that means more than team jumping, team tumbling,
The Vikings have a three- after 4 a.m. that morning. There hard cheerleading really is, that just jumping up and down, stunting,” Conlee said. “So
part routine to deliver at 9:35 is a team photo scheduled for commitment to practice every yelling “Go, Team!”
we’re kind of showing a lot in
a.m. this Saturday, Feb. 13, 8:05 a.m., check-in is 8:50 a.m. day,” Conlee said.
The routine they’ve worked our first piece.”
ODFW to issue clam dive permit in April
SALEM — The Oregon
Department of Fish and
Wildlife will award one South
Coast bay clam dive permit
April 15, at ODFW headquar-
ters in Salem.
“The commercial bay clam
dive fishery in Oregon is limit-
ed to 15 permits — 10 coast-
wide permits and five south
coast permits,” said DeAnna
Erickson, license services man-
ager for ODFW. “If the number
of permits falls below 15, we
hold a lottery to bring the num-
ber back up to 15.
“Currently there is one
South Coast permit available.”
South Coast permits are only
valid in Oregon estuaries south
of Heceta Head.
Bay clams are harvested by
licensed inter-tidal commercial
harvesters and also by permit-
ted sub-tidal divers. Harvest
focuses on cockles, gapers and
butter clams.
“Historical landings patterns
and species targeted vary
depending on market demand,
environmental conditions and
population abundances,” said
Mitch Vance, shellfish project
leader for ODFW’s Marine
Resources Program. “Some
restrictions also exist for con-
servation purposes.
“For instance, the season for
gapers is closed from January
to June when they are spawn-
ing.”
Only one application per
vessel or individual will be
accepted.
Applications
must
be
received in the Salem office or
postmarked no later than
March 31.
To renew a permit for the
next year, the holder must meet
minimum landing requirements
of five landings of at least 100
pounds each or an annual total
of 2,500 pounds with dive gear.
If there are no landings, the
permit reverts to the state.
For more information on
applying for a permit, contact
ODFW’s licensing services,
4034 Fairview Industrial Dr.
SE. Salem or call 503-947-
6101 or 800-720-6339 ext.
76142.
The second segment is the
cheer portion, which includes
crowd participation.
“The last section we do a lot
dancing,” Conlee said.
The Vikings have showcased
their routine this past month at
competitions at Sheldon High
School (where they finished
fourth, one point out of third
place) and Tualatin High
School, where they placed fifth.
The routine must be the same
for the two qualifiers and the
state meet.
“Officials check that you are
not in violation of safety rules,”
Conlee said.
The goal is to make the rou-
tine flawless for state.
“We are working on making
everybody a good jumper,”
Conlee said. “I have three
power tumblers who I use to
my advantage, and two great
flyers. And some really amaz-
ing dancers.”
Mix in some music that
works, and you’re good to go.
“You take your strengths and
build your routine around
them,” Conlee said. “And then
you hope it’s something people
are really proud of when it’s
done.”
If you want to watch the
cheerleaders live without mak-
ing the trek to Portland, go to
osaa.org.
Click the tab that takes you
to the state cheerleading page.
Click on “NFHS Network,
Watch games live.”
Dunes City seeks
help with Triathlon
Dunes City is seeking vol-
unteers to help with the city’s
annual
Oregon
Dunes
Triathlon and Duathlon.
The event, which is sched-
uled for Saturday, May 7,
offers volunteers an opportuni-
ty to watch their friends and
neighbors compete — and wit-
ness potential Olympic com-
petitors as they swim, bike and
run their way through Dunes
City, Lane County and
Honeyman State Park.
Competitors from as far
away as Australia have made
their way to here to compete in
this iconic event.
Dunes City will pay a $250
cash prize to the organization
that registers and brings the
most volunteers to help.
Volunteers are needed for a
variety of positions and most
only take a few hours.
For more information, or to
register as a volunteer, contact
Dunes City at 541-997-3338
or email admin@dunescityor.
com.
Winter Discovery Series continues Saturday at Cape Perp.
YACHATS — The blue-col-
lar logging community of
Waldport hardly would seem
the birthplace for the radical
peace movement of the 1960s.
But a war a generation earli-
er and a conscientious objec-
tors camp on the Siuslaw
National Forest may have laid
the groundwork for the ensuing
cultural revolution.
Author and historian Steve
McQuiddy will discuss his
book “Here on the Edge” at 2
p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 13, as
part of the Winter Discovery
Series at the Cape Perpetua
Visitor Center, 2400 S.
Highway 101.
From October 1942 until
April 1946, Camp Angell was
the second conscientious
objector’s camp in Oregon,
detaining about 120 objectors.
A brochure circulated at the
time, penned by renowned poet
William Everson, described the
camp as a “School for Fine
Arts,” and men with interests
or experience in the creative
arts were invited to transfer to
the camp.
“These people had an enor-
mous effect on an entire gener-
ation,” McQuiddy said. “But
many Americans today are not
even aware that there were
conscientious objectors at all
during World War II.”
During the day, the men
worked planting trees, crushing
rock, building roads, chopping
wood and fighting forest fires.
At night, however, they pro-
duced books, plays, art and
music — giving up to 15 com-
munity performances a week.
The camp produced such lit-
erary works as “War Elegies”
and “Waldport Poems” by
Everson and “Horned Moon”
by Glen Coffield.
After the war, McQuiddy
said, camp members went on to
influence other cultural events
which eventually led to the rad-
ical peace movement of the
’60s.
“Nearly all the great social
movements in history can be
traced to small groups working
in obscurity, sometimes for
years,” McQuiddy observes.
“It’s powerful to actually see
the evidence of how small
actions really can make a big
difference.”
McQuiddy has won awards
for his feature writing, while
“Here on the Edge” was a 2014
finalist for the $10,000 Dayton
Literary Peace Prize. He is an
honorary director of the
Oregon Cultural Heritage
Commission and teaches writ-
ing at Lane Community
College in Eugene.
The Cape Perpetua Winter
Discovery Series is an opportu-
nity to explore topics and
resources relevant to the
Oregon Coast during the off-
season
months
between
November and March.
Upcoming Winter Discover
Series events:
Feb. 27 (2 p.m.) — Whales
of the Oregon Coast: Joy
Primrose, president of the
Oregon Chapter of the
American Cetacean Society,
will discuss the diverse species
of whales, dolphins and por-
poises found off the Oregon
Coast.
No RSVPs necessary.
March 5 (2 p.m.) — The
Amanda Story and Trail: Learn
the tale behind the trail. Doc
Slyter, an elder, flutist and trib-
al council member for the
Confederated Tribes of Coos,
Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw
Indians, along with Yachats
resident and trails enthusiast
Joanne Kittel, will tell the story
of a native woman and her peo-
ple’s forced march over Cape
Perpetua’s rocky headland to a
resettlement camp and the
legacy they left behind.
No RSVPs necessary.
March 20 (2 p.m.) —
Children’s
Stories
and
Tidepool Walk: Children’s
author Kizzie Jones will read
from one of her latest books,
and then lead families down to
the tidepools for a guided tour.
Jones blends her love of dachs-
hunds and the ocean to create
whimsical tall tales.
For more information, call
541-547-3289.
It’s not like her.
Meet
Sid
Due to my early life, living in
a small crate, I am not house
trained. Staff thinks I will learn
quickly not to go potty in the
house. I love adults, I’m fun
and playful. Come see me
here at my temporary home,
meet me, fall in love and take
me home.
No cats
No Kids
No dogs
If you would like to meet Sid any of his
friends, please visit us at:
Mom has always
been so patient,
but now when I
ask her questions
she gets angry.
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