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About The independent. (Vernonia, Or.) 1986-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 6, 1996)
Page 2 The INDEPENDENT, November 6,1996 INDEPENDENT The o Serving the upper Nehalem River valley. Published twice monthly on the first and third Wednesdays of each month, by Public Opinion Laboratory Ltd., 725 Bridge Street, Vernonia, OR 97064, as a free newspaper. Editors and Publishers, Dirk & Noni Andersen, (503) 429-9410. Opinion D Y i ’ J ,I THE A i AEMCAKZ WAY c ye«/*, vtuce ret. rue f v t u r c ... c Y o u S A T IS F IE D , CiTWFR. V /A Y . ARE You SA / a ” ‘sS >*-' T VJ HY BAC< N THE (4MÔS -x A /v b póuóH V FoR FREEDOM z THE R \6 H T A>vb d u s T , Election’s over, now it’s time to get busy A lot of activity is going on in Vernonia that will have considerable impact on the future. One very important element in that activity is education. A new superintendent of schools will be selected to replace Ellis Mason and, for the first time in recent memory, the community is being asked what charac teristics they feel are important in the chief adminis trator for the school district. To make your feelings known, be sure to attend the public meeting Nov. 14, 5-6 p.m. in the Vernonia High School library. As a plus, you’ll also have an opportu nity to see the bright new look at the high school. Another education-related opportunity would be to volunteer your services on the Site Council for either the high school or the elementary schools. It is not necessary to have children enrolled in school in order to be eligible. Site Councils are legal entities under Oregon law and are, in fact, a requirement of state law. Their pur pose is to facilitate and coordinate improvement ef forts in order to better serve all students. The move toward site-based decision making was made by the Legislative Assembly, based on the belief that those most closely affected by decisions ought to play a major role in making those decisions. Site councils are comprised of teachers, classified employ ees, administrators, parents and others. There are several components of an effective site council. They may incorporate team building, problem solving and conflict resolution as part of staff develop ment, or explore the roles of school boards, adminis trators, teachers, classified personnel and parents in order to achieve the goal of improved educational op portunities for all students. For more information and meeting dates, call Wash ington Grade School, 429-7941, or Vernonia High School, 429-3521. Community members are needed and this may be just the right opportunity to get in volved. Early election returns are neither complete nor final The early election returns on page five were re ceived at 4:30 a.m. this morning, Nov. 6th, after Co lumbia County elections workers spent the night counting votes. Nevertheless, the returns aren’t com plete because there are still approximately 6,800 ab sentee ballots remaining to be counted for county wide races. Ballot counting resumed this morning at about 10 a.m. and will continue through Friday, or until the job is completed. Oregon’s liberal regulations regarding ab sentee ballots are wonderful for the voters, but they can certainly make the work of elections officials a lot more complicated. A tfb TUE I F A a / ò k I FuTuR E . WAS ALC o S T lc c A E L E F /A Y pR.o(A - t ^ a t T < ^ \L A t 15 ■ ¿ '¿ A Up TO A û A lr v J P o l i t i c a l ir TODAY / A/J/Ù Ft 6 HT B i l k l r i / u ó 8LTA. uio Æ , y V E r'D To Acc. Ó ToP A/es, J A/vtS ca F é llo v U W êRC s lo irJ oP F ^ ùac ^ / ¿057- W A Y£ , , /¿ F A / ¿Ak/'S ... CA/J & £ S X f f ë o sis ¿ .o s r ! ! By David Michael Jones, member Izaak Walton League, Nehalem Valley Chapter The take was violent and the fish made three runs all the way into my backing before I was able to bring her to hand. It was appropri ate that the first fish of the trip was taken on Macks Canyon, since that was where Uncle Dick and I were staying while we fished the Deschutes summer run steelhead. The fly that was very firmly lodged in the corner of the little hatchery hen’s mouth was a dubbed bodied fly with a squirreltail wing using Macks Canyon colors, that was given to me by a neighbor in camp the night before. After trying to get the fly out with forceps, I decided to let the hen keep it when I released her. I quickly snipped the leader with sissors that I keep on a pull- chain on my vest. Gently cradling the rainbow colored fish, I let the current wash the cool, life-giving, oxygenated water over her gills un til she exhibited good strength, then released the hand that held her at the wrist of the tail, and the other under her belly. She quickly swam out of sight. One of the trip’s highlights was the way my uncle’s face lit up when I told him of the fish later that evening, as we were down lower on the drift. We got up early the next morning to assure being the first ones on the drift my uncle want ed us to fish. We had tried for this run one evening earlier in the trip, but some drift boat fishermen had already claimed it. The way this works is, a fisherman claims a run by starting to fish at the upper end of it, and you never fish the water below another fisher. It is a cast and step type of fishing until the whole run is systematically covered with the classic downstream quartering cast. We were fortu nate to get the run we wanted and my Uncle Dick again gave me the best water and let me fish through the run in front of him. I used Dicks Hans “Ol Purp” (red tail, purple chenille body with a few wraps of silver mylar and a white calf tail wing on a #4 Jim Teeny hook) and was fortunate to hook three fish on that fly until the third took off downstream and my reel drag failed so I was frantically palming the spool as the pole surged in my hand. Then ev erything felt funny. There was tension on the line but no “fishy” feel to it. I hit the butt of the pole to try to activate the fish and gave some side pulls, when my line finally came in with out the tippet section and no fly. There is cer tainly a lesson to be learned there about rety ing tippits and flys. The fourth fish in that run came to a fly created by Gordon Nash of Kaufmann’s and it was another purple fly with Flashabou for a wing, which Gordon tells me is the secret to its success. This is a good opportunity to thank my Un cle Dick for one of my more memorable and enjoyable fishing trips and for sharing his memories and experiences on one of Ore gon’s great rivers, the Deschutes. Passing in formation down through the generations and sharing knowledge is one of the greatest gifts that one person can give to another. Thank you very much! Another good point about this trip was that my favorite fishing rod held up very well after being repaired by Ole Damons in Portland. I was fishing for summer steelhead down on the Nestucca earlier in the year and had bro ken the top foot off of my rod by reaching up and yanking down some slack. Ole Damons repaired it by putting a graphite dowel inside the hollow sections and sealing the whole splint. It was good enough to fight and land a number of fish and that is good enough for me. My brother, Keith, and I went down to fish the North Fork of the Nehalem near the hatch ery the other day and I would like to pass on the fishing information number for the hatch ery. The number to call for fishing information on the North Fork of the Nehalem is (503) 368-5670. The information is updated every day at 8:15 a.m. Izaak Walton League meetings are on the third Wednesday of each month, 7:00 p.m. at the Vernonia Public Library. The public is welcome.
