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SATURDAY EDITION
❘ APRIL 15, 2017 ❘
SECTION B
Siuslaw News
Sports & Recreation
A
WEEKLY
FISHING REPORT FOR
THE LOCAL REGION
www.dfw.state.or.us/RR
NORTH COAST
LAKES:
Most of the North Coast
lakes were stocked with
trout this week. Water
temps are great and fish
should be hungry.
So far this season, Town
Lake near Pacific City has
been stocked with nearly
200 surplus summer steel-
head from Cedar Creek
Hatchery. In addition, 66
early run winter steelhead
were released there on Jan.
11.
Trout stocking began the
week of March 20 in most
district lakes. The 2017
trout stocking schedule is
available online.
OSAA throws last-minute OSAA re-districting curve
and approximatley three hours of trav-
el time for the Vikings.
Other schools included in the UVC
would be Coquille, Douglas, South
Umpqua and Sutherlin.
In this latest option, Brookings-
Harbor, Marshfield and North Bend
would stay in the Far West League and
be joined by Cottage Grove, Hidden
Valley and North Valley.
The Umpqua Valley League came
as a result of the OSAA’s committees
revisit the idea of a six-classification
system.
This latest proposal (Draft No. 15)
B Y N ED H ICKSON
Siuslaw News
Following a heated Oregon School
Activities Association (OSAA) meet-
ing held last Monday over the contin-
uing debate regarding redistricting set
to begining in the fall of 2018, the
committee has introduced yet another
option for schools to consider: the
Umpqua Valley Conference (UVC).
This conference would be a six-
school league encompassing Siuslaw
all the way to Rogue River — a trip
that would mean more than 170 miles
came following Monday’s open meet-
ing, when smaller schools rebuked a
five-classification option (Draft No.
13) recommended by the committee.
A revised five-classification model
(Draft No. 14) that would keep the
Vikings in the same league (as in Draft
13) was also considered.
In that model, Siuslaw would return
to the Sky-Em League along with
Creswelll,
Elmira,
Harrisburg,
Junction City, La Pine, Philomath,
Pleasant Hill and Sisters — each of
which would mean a three-hour trip
one way.
In Draft No. 14, Marshfield and
North Bend would shift to the
Midwestern League and join
Churchill, Cottage Grove, Marist,
North Eugene and Springfield.
Brookings-Harbor, Douglas and
South Umqua would join the 3A
Southern Cascade League with
schools from Cascade Christian
(Medford), Hidden Valley, North
Valley, Sutherlin and St. Mary’s in
Medford.
For more detailed information, visit
www.osaa.org/docs/committees/clas-
sification/20170410update.pdf.
Heceta
Lightstation
seeks guides
Flying high
The
Heceta
Head
Lightstation and Keeper’s
House needs tour guides for
2017. Guides greet visitors
and share the rich history of
this special Oregon treasure!
Dedicate 50 hours and earn
a free night stay at the
Keeper’s House Bed &
Breakfast. Over 24,000 peo-
ple from across the globe
visit the Lightstation every
year.
Considered the most pho-
tographed lighthouse in the
United States, the Heceta
Head Lighthouse is the
SIUSLAW RIVER:
Chinook, steelhead
The Siuslaw River and
Lake Cr. are open for
hatchery winter steelhead.
Fishing is fair. Casting
spinners, drifting bait or
using a bobber and jig can
be effective.
MID-COAST LAKES:
The trout stocking
schedule for 2017 is avail-
able online and trout have
been stocked in some
lakes. Fishing for the vari-
ous warm water fish
species are slow as water
temperatures remain cold.
See
See
GUIDES 4B
S PORTS
Calendar
FISHING 4B
• APRIL 15
T IDE T ABLE
SHS TRACK
O REGON R ELAYS
AT H AYWARD F IELD
10 A . M .
Entrance Siuslaw River
High Tide
April 15
2:50am / 6.9
4:05pm /5.9
April 16
3:24am / 6.6
4:54pm / 5.6
Low Tide
SHS SOFTBALL
M ARSHFIELD
NOON AND 2 P . M .
9:40am / 0.3
9:34pm / 2.8
HOSTS
SHS BASEBALL
10:22am / 0.5
10:16pm / 3.2
HOSTS
M ARSHFIELD
1 P . M .
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April 17
4:03am / 6.3
5:52pm / 5.4
April 18
4:53am / 6.0
6:56pm/ 5.3
April 19
5:56am / 5.8
8:00pm/ 5.4
11:10am / 0.8
11:09pm / 3.5
Siuslaw junior Kyle King set personal records in both the long jump and triple jump at Coos Bay last Tuesday.
V IKS
12:06am / 1.0
LEAP INTO
B Y N ED H ICKSON
Siuslaw News
12:18am / 3.6
1:09pm/ 1.0
April 20
7:10am / 5.7
8:55pm/ 5.7
1:36am / 3.4
2:11pm/ 1.0
April 21
8:23am / 5.8
9:41pm/ 6.1
2:46am / 2.9
3:08pm/ 0.9
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T
he Siuslaw track and field team
was in Coos Bay last Tuesday,
competing at Prefontaine Track
during its first official Far West League
meet of the season. Seniors Clark
Hooper, Carissa Oliver and Abby
Watkins, along with and junior Trent
F AR W EST
Reavis, all left with first-place medals,
leading both the Vikings boys and girls
teams to a third-place finish overall in
team scoring, behind Marshfield and
North Bend.
Hooper won both boys hurdles
events, with a personal-record of 42.13
seconds in the 300-meter hurdles, and a
time of 16.0 in the 110 hurdles.
Oliver won the girls discus after
launching a personal-record throw of
• APRIL 18
MEET
SHS SOFTBALL
HOSTS
134-5, then went on to win the shot put
at 38-6.
Watkins won the girls long jump
with a season-best leap of 15-6.5 and
finished second in the triple jump at 29-
6.
Reavis, meanwhile, won both the
discus (143-1) and shot put (50-9). He
also placed third in the javelin.
See
D OUGLAS
5 P . M .
SHS BASEBALL
AT
D OUGLAS
5 P . M .
N OTE : A LL
GAMES ARE
WEATHER PERMITTING
TRACK 3B
State parks to open 1,000 additional eclipse campsites
Starting at 8 a.m. on Wednesday,
April 19, Oregon Parks and Recreation
Department (OPRD) will open reser-
vations for approximately 1,000 camp-
sites for the Aug. 21 total solar eclipse.
These sites are in addition to the
OPRD’s regular campsites, most of
which have been reserved since
November 2016. About two-thirds of
the new sites are inside the path of
totality, where visitors will see a total
solar eclipse.
Most of the others are within 30
miles of totality, in view of a partial
eclipse. Prices range from $10 a night
for a basic spot in a field or parking lot
to $31 a night for an RV site with full
hookups. All sites include an $8 nonre-
fundable reservation fee.
“We want to make this once-in-a-
lifetime event available to as many
campers as we can safely accommo-
date. That’s why we decided to add
additional campsites, all at an afford-
able cost,” said OPRD spokesman
Chris Havel.
All sites will have a three-night
minimum, with check-in on Friday,
Aug. 18, and check-out Monday, Aug.
21.
Customers can make reservations
beginning at 8 a.m. April 19 at
www.oregonstate parks.org or by call-
ing the reservation line at 1-800-452-
5687.
OPRD is making available two
types of sites: traditional campsites
and temporary eclipse camping spots.
Traditional campsites, representing
about a third of the total sites avail-
able, are at parks that normally offer
non-reservable,
“first-come, first-
served” camping. These have picnic
tables and fire rings, but some do not
have showers.
No first-come, first-served camping
will be available at these parks the
nights of Aug. 18 through 20:
• Coast: Beachside, Carl G.
Washburne (both outside the path of
totality).
• Willamette Valley: North Santiam,
Cascadia (both in path of totality);
Cascara Campground at Fall Creek
Reservoir (outside the path of totality).
• Central and Eastern: Farewell
Bend, Unity Lake, Clyde Holliday,
and Bates (all in path of totality);
Cottonwood Canyon, Catherine
Creek, Ukiah-Dale, Minam, Red
Bridge, Hilgard Junction, Lake
Owyhee and Jasper Point (all outside
path of totality).
Two-thirds of the sites are in tempo-
rary eclipse camping areas at camp-
grounds and day-use parks with suffi-
cient space and facilities. These $10
and $11 per-night spaces provide a
place to park and camp in a parking lot
or field, but little else.
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ECLIPSE 4B
CYAN MAGENTA YELLOW BLACK
On the
Bite