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By Lloyd Little
Retired teacher, coach and
game offi cial
Community
&
Lifestyle
With more than 55 years as an
athlete, coach, parent and specta-
tor, Lloyd Little has gained some
insights and perspectives regarding
athletics. Each week, he shares
what he's learned about sports
from his multiple points of view.
Needs and Wants
ODFW REGIONAL
FISHING REPORT
www.dfw.state.or.us/RR
LAKE, PONDS, RESERVOIRS:
All of the mid-coast lakes will
start to slow down for warmwa-
ter species as we head into fall
and the water temperatures con-
tinue to cool down. Some of
these lakes are stocked with trout
in the spring and have some hold
over opportunities as well as
native cutthroat trout that
remains open until Oct. 31.
These lakes include: Mercer,
Munsel, Cleawox and Siltcoos
lakes.
Wild Coho fisheries in
Siltcoos and Tahkenitch lakes
will get going soon in October
and pro-vide a unique opportu-
nity to catch a coho in a coastal
lake.
SIUSLAW RIVER: Cutthroat
trout, fall Chinook
Fall Chinook fishing remains
decent on the Siuslaw River and
fish are being caught every day.
Fish are now spread throughout
the system up to the head of
tidewater. Last week’s rain didn’t
move many fish up into the river
so the majority of fish are staging
in the tidewater waiting for the
next big rain event scheduled to
arrive late next week.
Anglers are reminded that due
to low forecasted returns for the
2020 season bag limits have been
reduced. The bag limit for the
Siuslaw River is 1 wild Chinook
per day and 1 per year for the
2020 season.
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FISHING 3B
Tide Tables
Entrance Siuslaw River
High Tide
Low Tide
Oct. 24
8:11am / 6.0
7:16pm / 6.2
1:12am / 0.4
1:45pm / 3.6
Oct. 25
9:10am / 6.2
8:33pm / 6.0
3:18am / 0.9
4:00pm / 2.4
Oct. 27
10:33am / 6.8
10:34pm / 6.2
4:07am / 1.0
4:47pm / 1.8
Oct. 28
11:05am / 7.0
11:21pm / 6.3
4:48am / 1.2
5:26pm / 1.2
Oct. 29
11:33am / 7.3
5:24am / 1.4
6:02pm / 0.8
Oct. 30
12:04am / 6.4
12:00pm / 7.4
Good gourds!
CROW announces its pumpkin decorating contest winners
C
arving tools were
flying as several
talented contes-
tants vied for the
coveted prizes in CROW’s
(Children’s Repertory of
Oregon Workshops) first
Pumpkin Carving and
Design Contest.
Melanie Heard, CROW’s
Artistic Director, she was
“absolutely delighted” with
the entries, but was also
“glad that she was not a
judge,” explaining that the
competition was fierce and
competitors were “not afraid
to squash one another.”
“The contest’s four judges
had a tough job and did it
with style and panache,” said
Heard.
Each pumpkin was scored
on an artist’s rubric with a
total of 100 points, plus 10
bonus points for theatrical
references. Pumpkins were
rated by the judges on cate-
gories of Design, Artistic
Impact, Degree of Difficulty
and Quality — with 25 pos-
sible points in each section.
The winner of the
“Munchkins” category (ages
3-10) was 9-year-old Che
Bruce, with her entry enti-
tled “LOL Surprise Doll.”
The “Scariest” category
winner was Zane Delisle
with his gourd called
“Pumpkin and the Brain.”
The “Funniest Character”
See
2:19am / 0.7
3:01pm / 3.1
Oct. 26
9:56am / 6.5
9:39pm / 6.1
COURTESY PHOTOS
“Sea Squash,” created by Luna Delisle, was the winner of the “Funniest Character” catego-
ry of CROW’s Pumpkin Carving and Design Contest.
5:58am / 1.7
6:35pm / 0.4
GOURDS 3B
Contest winners included
(from top right): “Pumpkin
and the Brain” by Zane
Delisle; “LOL Surprise Doll”
by Che Bruce; and “Bird
Ballet” by mother-daughter
team Arya and Amanda
Kerkvliet.
Abraham Maslow, a psy-
chologist, identifi ed human
needs and the specifi c order
of importance those needs are
to humans. Aft er decades of
study, Maslow’s order of needs
is as follows: physiological,
safety, belonging, esteem and
self-actualization.
In the sports world, we have
examples of how society has
altered basic needs by insert-
ing wants in some instances.
Th e changes have had pro-
found impacts to athletes, par-
ents and coaches.
Many changes were re-
quired for competitive balance
and safety to athletes.
While playing football at
Warrenton High School in the
1960s, if a player needed water
we were told to drink before or
aft er practice. Soon — but not
soon enough — the need for
water was evident by the many
players suff ering from heat ex-
haustion or heat stroke.
At some schools, players
even died as a result of inade-
quate water availability.
Because of this, water breaks
became scheduled into prac-
tice plans everywhere; running
to the hose or locker room
drinking fountain became
common. Eventually, to save
time during practices, coaches
began allowing water bottles to
be brought to the practice area.
But it wasn’t long before the
need for water became a want
for drinks such as Gatorade as
commercials for athlete-tar-
geted thirst-quenching prod-
ucts changed a need for water
into a want for specifi c prod-
ucts.
If you are the parent of an
athlete, be prepared for your
athlete to have wants that are
beyond the normal needs re-
quired to play their sport.
For example, the single most
infl uential foot-wear athlete
of all time is basketball’s Mi-
chael Jordan. My black high-
top Converse basketball shoes
would be laughed off the court
today.
But this want by basketball
players created fi nancial bur-
dens for many families. Yes,
a basketball player needs the
proper shoes to play basket-
ball — but they do not need
Air Jordans. Yet parents oft en
will go to great lengths to make
sure their son or daughter has
the same shoes as their team-
mates, even when the cost of
those shoes is beyond their fi -
nancial means.
When I played little league
in Hermiston in the late 1950s,
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LITTLE 3B
KXCR welcomes new board members, completes new sign
KXCR 90.7 FM recently an-
nounced three new members
to its board of directors. In
addition, the nonprofit pub-
lic radio station also finished
work on its new sign, thanks to
a donation from Lane County
Cultural Coalition (LCCC).
Joining the board are Kathy
Skelly, James McDonald and
Steve Webster.
Skelly earned a Liberal Stud-
ies degree in Education at CSU
Sacramento, Calif., before
starting a 34-year career as an
elementary school teacher.
She and her husband retired
to Florence in 2016, with Skel-
ly volunteering at Siuslaw El-
ementary School and the Siu-
Two of KXCR’s three new
board members, Kathy
Skelly (right) and James
McDonald, with the radio
station’s newly completed
sign.
slaw Public Library.
She was eventually hired
to work at the Boys and Girls
Club’s After School Program.
Skelly said she is looking
forward to assisting KXCR de-
velop an educational outreach
program as well as helping in
grant writing.
McDonald has lived in Flor-
ence since 2005. He has done
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COURTESY PHOTO
KXCR 3B