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About The independent. (Vernonia, Or.) 1986-current | View Entire Issue (March 8, 1995)
The INDEPENDENT, March 8,1995 By Charlene Bechen Banks Library Volunteer The City of Banks was recently awarded a $236,899 Com m unity D evelopm ent Block Grant for construction of a new community fa cility. The building will be located on Market Street at the site of the old City Hall, and will be the permanent home of the Banks Commu nity Library and a new community room. The community room will be available to individu als and groups for meetings, classes, special events, etc. In the past, Banks has lacked suit able space for such activities. The full cost of the Community Facility re quires local matching funds, in addition to the grant. The City of Banks will contribute the tot on Market Street for most of the match. The community will also provide certain in-kind ser vices and raise $5,000 in cash. The Friends of the Banks Community Library, a private non profit organization dedicated to the support of the library, will coordinate fund-raising activi ties. This grant concludes years of planning for the library to relocate to more “affordable housing” and transfer to local governance. The library has enjoyed its location in the Oak Vil lage Shopping Center for almost seven years. Moving to the new community facility, howev er, w ill allow money currently being spent spent on the lease to go to new books, pro grams and possibly more Open hours. Patrons and staff agree that “more new books” is key to the library’s future success, The City of Forest Grove presently runs the library under contract with Washington County. Although the City of Banks will accept respon sibility, no significant change in operations is planned. The library will remain a member of Washington County Cooperative Library Ser- .................... S S S S s SL—...... — By David Michael Jones, mem ber, Isaak Walton League, Ne halem Valley Chapter Recently, I was fortunate enough to receive an old ha rdb ou nd copy of The S te e lh e a d Trout* by Trey Combs from my Uncle Dick, who, like me, is concerned about the decline and extinc tio n o f a num ber of the S alm on runs on th e W est Coast. (Please see The Josi R eport in The IN D E P E N DENT, February 8, 1995). On page 164 of The Steelhead Trout, Trey writes that “The removal of streamside timber hhhh Ï ùh vices so patrons can continue to access the county-wide collection through the WILI com puter and daily delivery service to Banks. Construction of the community facility is scheduled to begin this summer, with occu pancy one year later. March 11 is the next Recycle Saturday at the SWATCO service yard, 15945 NW Sellers Road, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday recycling is staffed by volunteers with all the proceeds going to the Friends of the Library. Anyone wishing to donate an hour or two a month for this worthy project is encouraged to call Don na McCall at 324-3404 for more information. This year's Wool Day was a big success. As many as 70 patrons dropped by to see the demonstrations of carding, latch hook, weav ing and spinning. Many children and even some venturesome adults tried their hands at various crafts. The highlight of the day was Sandy Sitzman spinning fleece directly off the angora rabbit snuggled on her lap. Many thanks to all who attended. Like it or not, April 15 will be here soon. The library has reproducible copies of the various tax forms, as well as IRS instruction booklets. Thanks to a State of Oregon Children’s Ser vices Improvement Grant, the Banks Library now has a 1995 edition of Compton’s Encyclo pedia. These will be available for reference only, however, the library has other encyclope dias that may be checked out. They include the World Book, The New Book of Knowledge and Encyclopedia Americana. 0 L ib ra ry H ours; Wed. and Sat., 10 a.m.-4 p .m .T h u re. 1 v 7 p m » t 1 -5 p m > Address: Oak Village Shopping Center, S tre e t Phone; 324-1382 in M Quality Parts - Professional Service Because there are no unimportant parts™. We now Turn Brake Drums & Rotors VERNONIA AUTO PARTS AND SAW SHOP « 2 9 - 2 3 11 • 4 2 9 -N A P A 292 Bridge Street, Vernonia, OR 97064 Huge amount of in formation missing To the Editor: It has come to my attention a fte r reading the February < •• — ............... • : can raise summer water tem peratures beyond the toler ances of spawning fish or de veloping young.” He goes on to quote a letter by Max Katz, Dept. of Fisheries, University of Washington, in the Salmon Trout Steelheader, August- September, 1971: “ I do agree with you that m ore em phasis should be placed on the conservation of steelhead habitat. But this is a losing struggle— I have no ticed with great regret that only a few fisherm en have the faintest idea that soil con servation and land manage ment, including forest man agement, are needed to pre- Logging Accessories • Files • Wedges Safety Equipment • Axes • Saws From page 2 O u r N a tio n a l c h ic k e n house in W ashington D.C. has been tended by a den of these foxes for years. As a resu lt you cannot find one chicken, not even a feather inside. Not only is this true, but as results of years under fo x c o n tro l we are now in debt over four trillion chickens those foxes have already ate. For ou r own good, so they say. Do not allow this to happen here in Columbia County. Let us recall, “O ur Fox” , foxes breed more foxes you know. This would serve well as a sign to hang over our court house doors. “Sorry, no Fox es need apply here.” First let us recall Bruce Hugo, and the n p e rh a p s we w ill gain enough experience to go af te r th o s e c ra fty fo x e s e n trenched in Washington, D.C. However home work must come first. Thank you Juneious F. Harty, for Columbia County Taxpayers United Scappoose Page 3 ■ 22,1995 issue of The INDE PENDENT that there was a huge gap of information left out concerning at least one of the ca n dida te s running for school board. With such limit ed inform ation how can the paper or the people make a true educated vote concern ing the people who will help sha pe o u r s tu d e n ts live s through decisions they make about th e ir education. Per haps if I didn’t know some of the ca n dida te s and be the sister to one of them I would have let this slide. However, th e ju d g m e n t th a t w as passed on Kris D. Crowston, was so blatantly unfair and in correct, that I had to write. Since I was not there and did not hear what he said word for word I assume you judged him on your interpretation of w hat he said. W h a te ve r, should be the case, what I do know is th a t ha vin g been raised in V ernonia as K ris was that he knows first hand what 47J schools had to offer in the past and what it is now offering and sees the differ ence. H a vin g also been raised by an educator who gave o ve r tw e n ty de vote d years to district 47J, has loy alty for this district that per haps others lack. Also, delet ed w as th e fa c t th a t K ris graduated from O.S.U. with a Jh Ï F t: r ; F 3t a 1* • I -> R X"- ' « «' ■ c. Please see page 12 i • serve our streams. They don’t know and too often don’t care that hot dry summer seasons coupled with abused water sheds simply means no na tive steelhead.” That was 1971. “In 1991, the American Fisheries Soci ety found that of 400 distinct salmon stocks on the West Coast, 214 were at risk of ex tinction and 106 were already extinct (from The Josi Report cited above).” Extinct, adj. no longer in existence or use; specif., hav ing no liv in g d e s c e n d a n t; sy n ., see D ead. W EB STER’S NEW WORLD DIC TIONARY. A dm ittedly, the sky isn’t falling, but when the rain falls out of the sky, our stream s are filled with muddy water and that is not good for the fish. Following are some of the adverse effects of stream siltation: • S ilt fills in cra c k s and crevices between the gravel, which suffocates insect larvae and fish eggs. • Silt attaches to the gills of fis h (g ills are to fis h w hat lungs are to hum ans) and creates “clubbing” which is like scar tissue on the gills. • S ilt in te rfe re s w ith the m ucus la y e r on th e fis h , • “ • f Í «fe Boy Scouts spent a recent Saturday helping “Ike” members plant 2500 trees In riparian areas on the Nehalem River. w hich is m eant to p ro te c t them from infection. • Silt and mud fill in eddies and sid e c h a n n e ls w h ich small fish need for rest and hiding. • Silt hides prey and food from sm all fish which must eat as soon as they come out of the gravel in order to sur vive (This may also be an ad vantage because the sm all fish are hidden from the larg- VOTE BLU For Vernonia School District Position #1 7» entune & tufa leanuùtç enuinaunteut fan rdf, ttudeutt Paid lor by C o m m R e e to Elect Michelle Blum, 56661 N ehalem Hwy. S ., Vernonia, O R 9 7 064 er fish.). One of the interesting as pects of research about fish is exposure to new and en lightening inform ation. One tidbit of knowledge I would lik e to s h a re is th a t th e Salmonids are considered by many biologists to be nature’s way of recycling or returning to the land the nutrients that are drained off the land into streams. The Pacific receives the runoff of the streams and salmon feed in those ocean pastures, if you will, returning to spaw n and die in the stream of their birth. They are eaten by humans, bears, ea gles and variou s other life forms. Life is a full circle. Please see page 11 ¡Kw fe fc* * © 4 > F’ \ ,ii • j ,
