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About The independent. (Vernonia, Or.) 1986-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 13, 1993)
The INDEPENDENT, O c t 13,1993 By Charlene Bechen Banks Library Volunteer November 13 is recycle Saturday at the SWATCO service yard at 15945 NW Sellers Road, about one block south of the Sunset Highway. Hours are from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. M agazines are now accepted, as well as glass, aluminum, tin cans, brown paper bags, newspaper, corrugated cardboard (before 2 p.m.), motor oil in screw-top containers, plas tic milk, juice and water jugs. Volunteer help is always welcomed. Please call Donna Mc Call at 324-3404, or the library at 324-1382, if you would like to help. Quilters and would-be quilters are invited to join the Friends of the Library year-long quilt ing bee. "Shady Evergreen" is the pattern chosen for this year's quilt. The fabric has been purchased and work will begin soon. The quilt is scheduled for completion during the 1994 Washington County Fair. The fin ished quilt will be raffled off at the 1994 Banks Barbeque. Please call Jami Masson at 681- 9453, or the library at 324-1382, for more in formation. Saturday recycling and the quilt project are both sponsored by the Friends of the Library. This community group provides extra funds and resources for the Banks Library. The al ■ ............. Soys lotment of county funds is based upon the number of books checked out at each branch, so smaller branches, such as Banks, receive less money. Without help from the Friends, many books and much of the furn ishing s would not be here. The Friends most recent gift is a new shelving unit and more best sell ers. Membership forms for the Friends of the Library are at the front desk. Staff Sgt. Karl Alberg returns for the fifth time in Prized Possessions, a psychological suspense thriller by L. R. Wright. Sgt. Alberg is asked by a neighbor, Emma O'Brea, to help find her husband, who has mysteriously disap peared, leaving all his prized possessions, in cluding his gun. As Alberg begins his search, he learns the O'Brea marriage may not have been as happy as it appeared and he starts to suspect that Mrs. O'Brea may have other rea sons for wanting her husband found. Mean while, on the other side of town, a second sto ry is unfolding, involving Eddie Addison, a simple-minded delivery boy. Wright masterful ly weaves these two tales together as Eddie and Emma meet in a startling confrontation. Library Hours: Wednesday and Saturday, 10 a,m. - 4 p.m., Thursday 1 - 7 p.m., Friday, 1 « 5 p.m. =•: • M111B From Page 2 this spotting. This is the same parasite that found fair numbers of Coho in the headwater can kill dogs if they ingest fish from our local refions, but from the Highway 26 bridge down streams. We were finding this condition main stream they became nonexistent. Again, the ly in the Nehalem River and it is said to cause lack of large woody debris, deep pools and mortality among infected fish. cool w ater tem peratures are suspected of having lethal ef Nehalem River and Rock Creek Stream Flow Data fects upon these fish. The Steelhead situation in the Nehalem was much better than the Coho's. The surveys fo u n d num erous S te e lh e a d above Timber; they were almost the only fish we found below the Highway 26 bridge to Ver nonia, except for som e C ut th ro a t Trout. The density of Steelhead in the Nehalem near Vernonia is not high but it is en couraging to see that they can s u rv iv e r the e le va te d w ater temperatures. The Steelhead seem to solve the cover prob lem in the summer by using fast w ater slots in the soapstone bedrock. An example of this was seen at Airport Park, where Steelhead live in slots in water depths of less than a foot. A lot of the fish found in this area are w h at we c a ll 1+ S te e lh e a d which means they are over 1 year old. Steelhead have to spend two winters before they smolt the following spring. Rock Creek above Vernonia Water Plant-------------------- One of this year's highlights CFS = Cubic Feet per Second (A cubic foot of water = 7.4 gallons) was watching our video camera operator, Roger Lindsley, walk Rock Creek has considerably more water flow than the Nehalem on water going "Oh! Oh! Oh!" It River, probably due to the geology of the headwater areas. The lowest average stream flows were in early September. The July 24 seems as if Roger got tired of increase was because of rain the previous night. The increase on w a lk in g around in his chest 9 /2 2 is interesting because there had been little or no rain w a d e rs and shed th e m fo r preceding the measurement and it probably was caused by shorter som e te n n is shoes. He days and cooler nights, which reduced the effect of evaporation in seem ed ju st fine around the the stream. ODFW has varying in-stream water rights, with a electroshocker until he stepped minimum of 5 CFS in September, an amount that may be too low for fish survival. Fish survival is linked with stream flow because on the anode tail that trails be higher stream flow is the only thing that can mitigate a lack of hind the electroshocker opera shade cover to keep stream temperatures below lethal limits. tor. Trouble was, we didn't get it on ta p e .. .darn! For quite a few years now we have been Volunteers who helped this year included finding a strange spotting condition, mostly Tom, Craig and Ken Enneberg, Robb Wilson, Steelhead and Cutthroat Trout. Our biologist D olly Keenon, R oger Lindsley, Don and Michael Webb and I. If you are interested in didn't quite know what to make of it until I asked a former assistant biologist from our participating in some fish surveys, give me a area about it and he stated that it most likely call and I will try and give you some advance was Dog Salmon Flukes that were causing notice of next year's planned surveys. A fallen o fficer is remembered To the Editor: On October 1, 1971, (Ver nonia Police) Chief Raymond Garcia died in the line of duty, making the ultimate sacrifice for the safety and well-being of others. The Vernonia Po lice Department is proud to recognize, honor and remem ber Chief Garcia. Chief Garcia's name is en graved on the National Law E n fo rce m e n t M em orial in Washington, D.C., and on the O regon Law E nforcem ent Memorial, located at the Ore gon State Police Academy in Monmouth. The Vernonia Police De partm ent is asking the c iti zens of Vernonia to support the N ational Law E nforce ment Memorial Fund, which ensures that as long as the N ational Law Enforcem ent Memorial stands in our na tion's capitol, the names of America's fallen law officers will never be forgotten. Donations may be made to Law Enforcement Memorial, 605 E Street NW, Washing ton, D.C. 20004, or to the Oregon Police Academy in Monmouth. Sincerely, James L. Walters Chief of Police Vernonia Police Dept. M ist S chool fund raiser a big success To the Editor: The recent Rummage Sale held in the Mist Grade School gym added $1,100 to the Mist School Fund. The money will be used for field trips, assem blies and other types of en richment activities for the stu dents enrolled in Mist School, grades K-5. People in the M ist area were very supportive, with donations of rummage, re freshm ents, many hours of time and a great turnout to purchase sale items. The Vernonia School Dis trict donated items left over from their June auction. This included office machines, fur niture, gym lights, maps and books. On b e h a lf of th e M ist School staff, we wish to ex tend a BIG THANK YOU to all those involved in making th is fu n d ra is e r a SUPER SUCCESS! Sincerely, Sunny Hunteman, teacher Sharon Batty, teacher Mist School Leonetti welcomed to OBC membership To the Editor: Because he stood up for what he believed in, it is my pleasure to welcome Mario Leonetti to membership in the "Old Boy's Club". The O .B .C ., often m en tioned in editorials in The IN DEPENDENT, is supposedly a group of regressive former Page 3 c ity c o u n c il m em bers who ruled the town a few years ago. Why, they were even against hiring a city manager! The next honor to which Mario might qualify could be The INDEPENDENT'S...."Af te r Years of N eglect" club. Those were the years when econom ic tim e s w ere very tight and fees for city services w e re not ra is e d . In the 1 9 80 's, th e e co no m y im proved, things began to look up for the town. Maybe. A well qualified Jim W al ters now starts his job under a cloud, the new city manag er is already at odds with the council, and the council is still being criticized by The INDE PENDENT for doing its job. It's good to know thin gs haven't changed so much af ter all. Bill Hansen O.B.C. Former Councilor Emmett, ID. (Bill: The economy is no be tte r; the m oney is being spent smarter and without the cost of law suits engendered by ineptitude; the police chief is not under a cloud; the city adm inistrator is not a t odds with the council because he did what they instructed him to d o — a n d y o u fin a lly learned not to bet on Buffalo in the Superbowl! Ed.) Carcus Creek sale is short-sighted To the Editor: Let me assure you first that I am very much a believer in the d e m o c ra tic p ro ce ss. H ow ever, th e re are som e fla w s in h e re n t in the s y s tem— including short-sighted decision making by our rela tively short-time elected offi cials. Thomas Jefferson under stood that such flaws were in- terent in democracy. That's why he stressed the im por tance of an educated and in formed citizenry— to advise against such tendencies as we now see in the C ounty Commissioners' dogged de termination to sell off a lovely piece of woodland called Car cus Creek County Park in or der to counter the possibility of a sh o rtfa ll in this year's budget. If the Commissioners have their way, this 250 acres of fin e m ixed O regon tim b e r which we all own will be sold to the highest bidder as soon as possible, at today's low market price, and most likely to a logging o u tfit th a t w ill clearcut it. Isn't using our own avail able assets to balance the budget ju s t responsible b e havior on the part of our com missioners? in the short-term, we might be tem pted to accept the ir logic. But unlike the Commis sioners, we are responsible for long-term effects. We in tend to live here for our life time, and would like our chil dren and grandchildren to en- Please see page 9 I > * B.
