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4A COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL January 27, 2016 O PINION LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Re: Pet fatality We as a Humane Society Board would like to have a follow-up sto- ry on what happened to the person who killed an innocent creature (a small dog being walked on its leash) and almost hit a pedestrian in a crosswalk (who was crossing when he was supposed to). The person who did this, we read, was “not licensed, not in- sured and not documented”. Will this person be only fi ned, or will he serve time or be deported? Or just let go with a warning to pos- sibly kill again? Please follow up on the outcome of this, as we would like to know. Janetta Overholser, Board Presi- dent Bev Martin Kelly, Vice President Genevieve Rowles Alfred R. January Toni Hutchison Carla Williams Sella Libby Humane Society of Cottage Grove Board of Directors Editor’s Note: Interim Police Chief Scott Shepherd told the Sentinel on Monday that Ru- ben Calmo-Perez, 42, of Cottage Grove struck and killed a dog being walked by its owner at the Sixth Street/Main Street intersec- tion at about 2:46 p.m. on Thurs- day, Dec. 31. The dog and owner, Pepper and Steve Thoemmes of Cottage Grove, were taken to For- est Valley Veterinary Clinic fol- lowing the incident, though Shep- herd said Pepper passed away en route to the vet. According to Shepherd, Calmo- Perez received citations for Fail- ure to Stop for a Pedestrian and Operating Without Privilege or Endorsement (operating a vehicle without a valid Oregon Drivers License.) Greetings from Illinois The fourth-grade class at Avis- ton Elementary, located in south- ern Illinois, is learning about the United States and the different environments, climates, resources and highlights found in each re- gion. The kids in the class think it would be fun to receive postcards, souvenirs, resources or any infor- mation about our great country from each of the 50 states. We hope that people who read this letter will be interested in mailing our class items pertaining to their state. Our address: 4th Grade at Aviston Elementary, 350 S. Hull St., Aviston, IL 62216 A sincere “thank you” to any- one who is able to contribute! We appreciate the excitement you will add to our learning experience. Mrs. Niemeyer and all her students $ PUUBHF ( SPWF 4 FOUJOFM Our Community Newspaper since 1889 Offbeat Oregon History Bizarre scientifi c dinosaur “bone wars” barely touched Oregon BY FINN J.D. JOHN For the Sentinel T hroughout the 20-year personal vendetta known jocosely today as “The Bone Wars,” Oregon was never more than a minor theater of operations. For the most part, the two cowboy-pa- leontologists whose mutual grudge drove all the drama left the fi eldwork and exploration in the Beaver State to teams they’d hired, so that the Great Men could concentrate on states with actual dinosaur bones to fi nd. One of the Bone Warriors did come to Oregon with an exploratory team, though, just a few months before hos- tilities broke out. And by the time he’d departed, he’d left enough of an impression on local scientists that the subsequent fi reworks probably came as little surprise. The Bone Warrior who came to Or- egon did so on at the end of an expedi- tion in the summer of 1871 at the head of a team of scientists from Yale Uni- versity. He was Othniel Charles Marsh, a proud, taciturn man with a full beard and intense, glaring eyes, referred to reverently by the students in his party as “Prof.” Marsh’s increasingly bitter feud with colleague Edmund Drinker Cope would not develop until some time after his Oregon visit, but locals did get a glimpse or two of the person- ality traits that would drive Marsh’s contribution to that feud. The early beginnings of the Bone Wars were already in place in 1871, and although they hadn’t fl owered into full hostility yet, they were well enough along. Marsh and Cope had met in Ber- lin in 1863. They’d gotten along rea- sonably well together, but each subtly looked down on the other from the start. The 1860s were the time when science was passing out of being something a gentleman of leisure did to occupy his time (as in the cases of patrician-scien- tists like Charles Darwin and Benjamin Franklin) to a calling one trained for professionally at a university (as did Albert Einstein, Marie Curie and pretty much every other scientist since). The well-born Cope came from the older (and dying) tradition of “gentle- man-scientists,” who saw university- trained scientists like Marsh as a lesser breed — not true gentlemen, but mere- ly technicians who didn’t know their places. Marsh, in turn, represented the new university-trained cohort, which saw the older generation as ignorant, arrogant dabblers lacking the profes- sional training to do good work. This mutual contempt started fl ow- ering into trouble almost immediately after they came back to the U.S. Cope had introduced Marsh to the owner of a marl pit where a particularly interest- ing dinosaur skeleton had been found; Marsh then went behind Cope’s back and made a deal with the pit’s owner to send any future fossil fi nds directly to him. Then Cope made a major er- ror in assembling a dinosaur skeleton — he put the head on the end of the di- nosaur’s tail — and it was Marsh who spotted and maliciously publicized the mistake. The really nasty part of the Bone Wars would come later. Cope and Marsh would spend the rest of their lives — some 20 years — trying to ruin each other, professionally and socially. Both strove to get each other fi red from jobs; sent spies and “bone rustlers” to one another’s quarries; paid lavish bribes; and — worst of all from a modern scientist’s perspective — ac- tually destroyed fossils and backfi lled dig sites to keep fossils from each oth- er. By the end of their careers in the late 1890s, their feud would ruin both of them, professionally and socially, and for decades American paleontology was an international laughingstock as a result of their unprofessional conduct. But that was all in the future in 1871, when a crew of Yale students crossed the border from Idaho heading for the John Day Fossil Beds. Marsh had heard of the fossil beds, and had written to Thomas Condon — the “father of Ore- gon geology,” who would later become one of the fi rst professors at the Uni- versity of Oregon when it was founded fi ve years later. Condon responded immediately and generously, sending a box of sample fossils to Marsh with an invitation to come to Oregon for more. It was that invitation that Marsh’s crew was re- sponding to now. The Yale team spent a couple weeks in Oregon — fi rst looking over Con- don’s impressive collection of fossils in The Dalles, and then doing fi eldwork in the John Day Fossil Beds. A week later, they’d amassed a collection of some 11 boxes of bones of such crea- tures as saber-toothed cats, mastodons and primitive horses and camels. While they were in the fi eld, Marsh did some things that raised eyebrows among the locals. First, when word came to him that Professor George H. Collier of Pacifi c University in For- est Grove was on his way to a site where some fossil horse bones had been found, he became very agitated and dispatched some of his students “to head him off,” like a nervous gold prospector trying to keep other miners away from his diggin’s. Then a little later, two of his stu- dents, sent to secure some skulls from a local collector, played an ill-advised prank on him by sending word that they planned to abscond with the skulls and form their own fossil-collecting party. Their prank succeeded beyond their wildest imaginings, to the point of likely having a negative impact on their prospects at Yale; Marsh raged about the ostensible betrayal all eve- ning. “If this had been at the fi rst of Please see OFFBEAT, Page 5A The benefi ts of berries, cherries and pomegranates BY JOEL FUHRMAN, MD For the Sentinel W hat makes berries, cher- ries and pomegranates unique and benefi cial? Berries and cherries are high in nutrients, p h y t o - chemicals, and fi ber— all of which protect your health. No- tably, ber- ries have the highest nutrient- to-calorie ratio of all fruits. Berries, cherries and pome- granates are full of benefi cial phytochemicals, many of which act as antioxidants. Berries are some of the highest antioxidant- rich foods in existence and cher- ries—which are not berries, but rather a stone fruit (like peaches and plums)—are also rich in fl a- vonoid antioxidant compounds. Antioxidants are critical for your health as they protect against oxidation and minimize oxidative damage to your cells. Oxidative damage ages the body and catalyzes a host of chronic diseases, including heart disease and cancer. Berries, cherries and pome- granates are abundant in fl avo- noid antioxidants, which are concentrated in their skins and $ PUUBHF ( SPWF 4 FOUJOFM 116 N. Sixth Street · P.O. Box 35 · Cottage Grove, OR 97424 ADMINISTRATION: JOHN BARTLETT, Regional Publisher.............................. 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Several studies have shown that high fl avonoid intake lowers the risk of heart disease by up to 45 percent. Flavonoids in ber- ries, cherries and pomegranates and other pomegranate poly- phenols appear to act in several different ways to maintain heart health including by reducing infl ammation, improving blood lipid, blood pressure and blood sugar levels, and by preventing plaque formation. The antioxidants in berries, cherries and pomegranates help to protect against cancers. In the 1980s, ellagic acid, another type of antioxidant abundant in berries, blocked the formation of tumors, providing the initial evidence that these fruits were anti-cancer foods. Flavonoids have powerful anti-cancer ef- fects including reducing infl am- mation, preventing damage to genetic material, preventing cancer cells from multiplying, slowing the growth of cancer cells, preventing tumors from acquiring a blood supply, and stimulating the body’s own anti- oxidant enzymes. Pomegranate has anti-angiogenic properties that prevent tumors from get- ting nourishment and oxygen via blood vessel support. Pome- granate also can reduce breast cancer risk with natural aroma- tase inhibitors, which inhibit the production of estrogen. Berries are excellent foods for the brain. Substances present in blueberries can both reduce oxidative stress and improve communication between brain cells. Blueberries, strawber- ries, and blackberries have all been shown to slow or reverse age-related cognitive decline in animal studies, and blueberries have now been tested for their effects on human memory. Old- er adults with mildly impaired memory were given wild blue- berry juice as a supplement, and after as little as 12 weeks, mea- sures of learning and memory had improved. The antioxidants in cherries have also been shown to protect brain cells against ox- idative stress, implying that eat- ing cherries may help to prevent neurodegenerative diseases like dementia. In people with mild memory complaints, those who drank pomegranate juice daily performed better on memory task compared to placebo and displayed and increase in brain activation measured by func- tional MRI. Cherries have a unique anti- infl ammatory function that may offer natural pain reduction by inhibiting certain enzymes that are part of the infl ammatory pro- cess and the sensation of pain. These are the same enzymes that are inhibited by many com- mon pain medications, such as ibuprofen and naproxen. Cher- ries and cherry juice have eased symptoms of gout and arthri- tis in human subjects and may also help athletes reduce post- workout muscle pain. Distance runners training for a race who drank tart cherry juice twice daily for eight days (seven days prior to race plus race day) ex- perienced less post-race pain than those who drank a placebo. Similarly in strength training workouts, those who drank tart cherry juice experienced less pain and strength loss over the four following days, compared to those in the placebo group. Cherries may help you sleep. Tart cherries are one of the few food sources of the hormone and antioxidant melatonin, which regulates the sleep-wake cycle in the human brain. Tart cherry juice supplementation has been associated with improvements in sleep quality. Evidence has emerged that the anti-infl ammatory effects of tart cherry juice could benefi t those with gout. In this study, overweight and obese people consumed 8 ounces per day of tart cherry juice or took a pla- cebo for four weeks. Those in the group who drank tart cherry juice experienced reductions in uric acid levels and infl amma- tion markers. In summary, berries, cherries and pomegranates are important components of a natural, high- nutrient diet. I recommend eat- ing them daily to provide the body with protection against free radicals, infl ammation, heart disease, and cancers. In- clude them as part of your va- riety of fruits, in addition to a bounty of vegetables, beans, nuts and seeds, which together can provide an abundant and varied mix of antioxidants, fur- ther protecting your health. Dr. Fuhrman is a #1 New York Times best-selling author and a family physician special- izing in lifestyle and nutritional medicine. His newest book, The End of Dieting, debunks the fake “science” of popular fad diets and offers an alternative to di- eting that leads to permanent weight loss and excellent health. Visit his informative website at DrFuhrman.com. Submit your questions and comments about this column directly to news- questions@drfuhrman.com. 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