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About The independent. (Vernonia, Or.) 1986-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 8, 1995)
■M f The INDEPENDENT, February 8,1995 I By Charlene Bechen Banks Library Volunteer The next Friends of the Library meeting will be held Saturday, February 11 at 10 a.m. in the library. At January's meeting, Ed Ohlmann, Chairman of the Banks Community Library Advisory Board, presented the Friends with proclamations of appreciation from the Advi sory Board, the Banks City Council and the Washington County Commission. Also present were Banks Mayor Mike Crippen, City Coun cilman Bob Orlowski and Washington County Cooperative Library Services Manager Peggy Forcier. County funding for each library in the sys tem is based on the number of books checked out from that branch. Since the Banks branch is small, revenue from the county does not cover the annual expenses. The Friends of the Library are dedicated to maintaining this branch, which is a valuable asset to the Banks community, and their fundraising efforts literal ly keep the doors open. Drop by to see the proclamations and consider become becom ing a member of the Friends of the Library. February 11 is also the next Recycle Satur day at the SWATCO service yard, 15945 NW Sellers Road. Hours are 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Nar row neck plastic bottles and many types of scrap paper can now be included in the recy- clables. Bottles must be clean and not have contained any toxic materials. Labels may be left on. Examples of acceptable types of bot tles are aspirin, cooking oil and bleach bottles. Scrap paper must be clean, have no food residue and no plastic, tape, carbon paper, foil 9» Ä or string. Brochures with details are available at SWATCO on Recycle Saturday and at the library. New books are in a new format this month. Thanks to an Oregon State Library Children’s Services Improvement Grant, the Banks Li brary now has seven new “Big Books". Titles include Franklin in the Dark, Jum p Frog Jump, Planting a Rainbow, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, The Elves and the Shoemaker, Di nosaurs Dinosaurs, and The Day Jim m y’s Boa Ate the Wash. These books are indeed big (about 18" x 20"), but just like the smaller versions in content. They are excellent for group reading or storytelling and for the young reader who likes seeing larger print. They can be checked out just like other books. Another addition is really a set of books en titled the First Baby Kit. This sturdy cloth bag contains references on breast-feeding, child development, baby games and books de signed to be read to very young children. The kit can be checked out as a unit. The First Baby Kit accompanies our New Sibling Kits that help parents help their older children ad just to the birth of a new baby. The library’s Adopt-a-Magazine program is going quite well, but a few titles still remain on our “wish list” . If you or your organization would like to sponsor a magazine for the cost of one year’s subscription, please call Denise at 324-1382 for more information. Library Hours; Wed. and Sat., 10 a.m.«4 p.m., Thurs. 1-7 p.m., Fri., 1-5 p.m. Address: O a k Village Shopping Center, 669 S. Main Street. Phone:324-1382 ....... Clear culverts and ditches might help To the Editor: My property is located at th e b o tto m of N ehalem S tre e t, below and p a ra lle l with 1st and 2nd Streets, and as w ith so m any p ro p e rty owners in Vernonia, this prop erty has a severe drainage problem. It’s lower even than the adjacent lot. Every time it d riz z le s , the yard and b e neath the house erupts in bubbling springs and spark ling pools fed by lots of road run-off and seepage from the properties above. More than one thoughtful n e ig h b o r, n o tic in g my e x panding moat and numerous trenches, suggested loads of topsoil to build up around the house, but this would create a banked-in pond under the house and the Town might not issue a license/permit for a houseboat. My idea right now is to keep it moving on ward as much as possible. I w ould a p pre cia te it so much if property owners on the streets above Rose Av enue would keep their ditches open and the ends of their culverts clear. It couldn’t hurt, and it might even help. Sincerely, J. Gomes Vernonia Fire district needs special volunteer To the Editor: The Vernonia Rural Fire Protection District is looking fo r a new v o lu n te e r— one who is proficient in general accounting and bookkeeping who can volunteer their time and talent about one day a week (starting July 1) to do the District’s bookkeeping. Please see page 15 BOOKS SPECIAL ORDERS — YES! 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Page 3 MB By Dale Webb, member Izaak Walton League, Nehalem Valley Chapter Have you ever heard of a .fish psychologist? I hadn’t until I read a recent article in the Northwest Energy News. It seems that a psychologist named Dr. Tery DeVietti conducted research on the behavioral differences of native rainbow trout and hatch ery rainbow trout. He used an eight-foot-long tank that was con structed to look like a natural stream. It had a gravel bottom, ledges that served as cover and artificially powered currents. Dr. DeVietti noticed great differences in how the fish moved in the water, it was, he said “Like w atching [the difference between] a ballet dancer and a 300-pcund linebacker.” The article went on to say that the wild fish are agile and conserve energy by resting where the currents are weakest. The hatchery fish swim Cose to the surface of the water, making them easy prey, while wild fish swim close to the bottom or rest on the sub strata. Wild fish readily find the protection of cover and stay there, it continued, unless feeding, while hatchery fish never seek cover. Startling differences were also noted when introducing avian predator situations to the tank-held fish. The wild fish would quickly hide in cover and stay there a long time, while the hatchery fish were only momentarily startled. “A fish that acts that way in the wild is going to be a dead fish,” said Dr. DeVietti. ‘Their early rearing history is very important, and the behavior they are learning in hatcheries does not serve them well in the wild. In the hatchery, the current is gentle, the fish are fed on the top of the water and are protected from avian predators. You wouldn’t expect another animal to be raised in captivity like this and be able to survive in the wild.” Dr. DeVietti said “Let’s see how nature does it and try to mimic those cues. We need to treat the fish from a scientific point of view. If we could combine the many positive aspects of hatcheries with some rearing modifications, we could really make some progress.” After reading this article, I decided to call and find out what, if any, changes are being make in local hatcheries. I contacted Mike Statton, regional fish culturalist for Oregon Department of ish & Wildlife (ODF&W). Statton was very knowledgeable and gave some interesting insights into the problems of hatchery rearing fish. As an example, not in exact numbers but close, he said, “if you have 5,000 eggs spawned naturally in the wild, you could expect about 50 fingerlings. In a hatchery, you could expect somewhere around 4,750 fingerlings. The kicker is that of those 50 wild fingerlings, about six will return as adults, while the 4,750 hatchery fingerlings will yield only 50 adults.” He went on to say that most wild fish mortality occurs to eggs and very young fish, whereas a hatchery fish’ s mortality occurs from smolt size to adulthood. This seems to reinforce Dr. DeVietti’s thoughts on the prob lems with hatchery fish. Statton said that hatcheries are looking at ways to help educate their fish, but there are costs in doing so. Some of the measures that hatcheries use to help make a smarter fish are: lowering and flushing ponds, which helps cre ate endurance: using demand feeders, which take away the hand feeding so the fish don’t associate food with a shadow; leaving some hatchery ponds unscreened to avian predators, which can be done only where avian predation is not severe. Locally, after the water has cleared up, the last few weeks of steelhead fishing has been fairly good on hatchery fish. It seems that a few of these fish are surviving, but at a cost esti mated to be about $100 per fish to produce it, which may not be cost effective. Very few wild fish have been caught and that is a concern for fear the early wild fish have all but disappeared. 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