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The INDEPENDENT, May 21,1997 PageS The Pro Rally returns to Vernonia and will start from high school The Oregon Trail Rally is once again on the Portland Rose Festival Association calendar, after taking last year off due to the storm and flood damage In this corner of the state. The level 3 division al SCCA PRO rally will take place Saturday, June 7, on Tillamook State Forest roads near Hwy. 26, west of Timber. Oregon Rally Group, orga nizers of the rally, is quite proud of the show that they plan to offer to the fans who venture out to witness race prepared, yet street legal, cars roaring down narrow, twisting gravel roads. Drivers set up to take corners they have never seen before; preparing just from mileages and descriptions that the co driver reads from the route book! Vernonia NAPA Auto Parts and citizens of Vernonia are sponsoring the start of the Oregon Trail Rally with activi ties starting at 9:00 a.m. along Bridge Street in Ver nonia, across from the NAPA store. After final registration and tech inspection, all cars will line up for a Parc Expose display for the public. The Vernonia Chamber of Com merce encourages the public to step up and mingle with the teams and inspect the cars. Rally cars will be flagged off one at a time, starting at 11:00 a.m., as they head south out of town toward Tim ber and the race stages. Stage 1 is sponsored by En gine Rebuilders Supply of Troutdale. Stage 2 is spon sored by Hillsboro’s Royal Moore Subaru, homebase of National Production GT points leader Lee Shadbolt’s Subaru Impreza. Spectating is free at rally events, and fans may pick up a spectator guide at the start RIVERCITY S t r e e t S to c k S p o r ts m a n W om en Modified Dirt Flingin*, Ground Poundin', 1/4 Mile Oval flctionl Columbia County Fairgrounds, St. Helens Time Trials 3:30 p.m. • Racing 6:00 p.m. Info: 503-397-2393 Race Day Only: 503-397-6506 Sponsored by CCRA location in Vernonia, at Ver nonia Auto Parts or at the ral ly service area at milepost 34 along Hwy 26. The rally cars will use the ODOT mainte nance yard located on the south side of the highway all afternoon to service their cars. Access to the main spectator viewing area is from the east at Timber, or from the west at Hwy 26 milepost 32, event come off smoothly. The public is invited to the $10 post-rally dinner banquet at Pacific University, but volun teers get their meals free! EMTs, ham radio operators, time keepers, or just crowd and side-road control mar shals are all needed and ap preciated. Call Mike Nagle at 503-244-8570 or Ben Bradley at 503-231-1328. via Salmonberry Rd. From this locale, fans can view two rally stages. Since the stages- are run twice during the day, that’s four times that the com petitors will pass the viewing area. Get a spectator guide, viewing is in the great out doors, it’s fun and it’s free! Want to help out? It always takes dozens of day-of-the- event volunteers to help an Great 1/4-mile action at Rivercity Speedway opener By Mike Weber Special to The INDEPENDENT After ending the 1996 stock car season with two straight wins, Dan Fox of Portland extended his streak to three as he won the sports man main event May 10 at Rivercity Speedway's 1997 season opener. Longview’s Troy Schreiner started on the pole of the street stock feature and led from start to finish on the quarter-mile clay oval. The three divisions of stock car racing at the Colum bia County Fairgrounds in cluded the women’s division with Jackie Fratto of Portland capturing the 15-lap main. Over 70 drivers entered this opening event of the Colum bia County Racing Associa tion, which was originally scheduled a week earlier but was rainied out on May 3. Driving the Northwest Com petition Motorsports Chevrolet Lumina, Fox passed Long view’s Tim Gosch with just three laps remaining in the 35-lap feature. Gosch won the 1996 street stock title and was competing in the sports man division for the first time. Gosch started sixth in the 16-car field and took the lead after passing frontrunner Al 7:30 p.m., VHS Library Boosters 2nd Wednesday 7:00 p.m., LDS Church Boy Scouts Wednesdays 7:00 p.m., Crazy Charlie’s Cemetery Beautification Comm. 2nd Thursday 7:30 a.m., Gran-Ma’s Eatery 2nd Wed. Chamber of Commerce 7:00 VHS Library 2nd Wednesday Community Center Board 7:00 p.m., WGS Gym Tuesdays Cub Scouts 1:00 p.m., Senior Center 3rd Wednesday Doll Club 6:30-8 p.m., Christian Church Thursdays 3irl Scouts 429-7193, Call for location 3rd Thursday zaak Walton League 7:00 p.m., VHS Library 2nd Tuesday Jamboree Committee 6:30 p.m., Lew’s Place 1st & 3rd Tuesdays _ions Club For Info Call 429-4074 Nehalem Valley Car Club 7:00 p.m., WGS Library 3arent-Teacher Assoc. (PTA) 3rd Tuesday 10:30 a.m., City Library Wednesdays 5reschool Story Hour 1 p.m., Senior Center 1st Friday Senior Center Directors 1:30 p.m., New China Rest. 2nd Thursday Society of Arts & Crafts 7:00 p.m., City Library /emonia Airport Committee 3rd Wednesday 627 Adams, 429-1414 for info. Quarterly /emonia Cares Directors 6:30 p.m., City Library 1st & 3rd Mondays /emonia City Council 7:00 p.m., Grange Hall 2nd Friday /emonia Grange 7:00 p.m., 854 Grant Ave. 2nd Wednesday /emonia Health Center 7 p.m., 627 Adams /emonia Preschool Directors 1st Tuesday 7:00 p.m., City Library 'emonia Planning Comm. 1st & 3rd Thursdays 7 p.m., VHS Library 4th Thursday 'emonia Pride 7:00 p.m., WGS Library Last Thursday 'emonia Ridge Riders 7:00 p.m., Fire Station 2nd Tuesday 'emonia RFPD Board 8 p.m., District Office 2nd Thursday 'emonia School Board 7 p.m., Fire Station 2nd Monday ’emonia Volunteer Firefighters 7 p.m., WOEC 3rd Tuesday VO EC Directors 7 p.m., Senior Center 4th Monday Vomen’s Aglow and that was really the turning point in the race that enabled me to get the victory.” Schreiner, 29, started on the front row of the street stock main event since the top-eight from qualifying were inverted at the front of the 14- car lineup. He stayed up front throughout the 35-lap race, while receiving the first main event win of his career in the Rainier Texaco sponsored Oldsmobile Cutlass. Vernonia’s Gary Meyer took second followed by Port land drivers Greg Jeffries and May Sayre, Longview’s Jackie Olson was sixth and Michelle Mears of Rainier finished tenth. It was the street stock debut for Olson and Mears, the only women competitors in the division. Ernie Connall of St. Helens started on the pole and led all the way in the 25-lap caution- free street stock B Main. Doug Lockwood won the sportsman B Main, but per haps the most impressive performance was by Lee Thomas of Longview, who started 11th in the field and finished third. The next event for CCRA is Saturday, May 24, with quali fying at 3:30 p.m. followed by racing at 6:00 p.m. JULY JUNE Community Calendar VERNONIA Cardwell of St. Helens on lap 12. He quickly zoomed ahead in the Little Caeser’s Pizza/ E.C. Exhaust sponsored Pon tiac Grand Prix and led by a straightaway length over Fox and Cardwell by lap 20. He lost the advantage on lap 24 when a caution flag came out for debris on the track. Gosch maintained a slim lead until he was caught in lapped traffic, when Fox made a slick move. The lead ers came out of turn two side- by-side onto the back straight with the lapped car driven by Bruce Liner just ahead in the middle of the track. Fox ducked underneath Liner and Gosch went to the outside, losing the lead. Fox easily led the last three laps and won by four car-lengths over Gosch. Cardwell, who led the first 11 circuits, took third and de fending sportsman champion Paul Liner of St. Helens fin ished fourth. ‘This was a great race and it was one of the toughest wins I’ve had in my 14-year career,” said Fox, who was seventh in the division last year. “Gosch could’ve won because I wouldn’t have been able to catch him if he didn’t get caught in lapped traffic. He went high and I went low 1 2 3 4 8 9 IO I I 15 16 17 18 22 23 24 25 29 30 5 12 19 26 6 7 13 14 20 21 27 28 6 13 20 27 7 14 21 28 1 8 15 22 29 2 9 16 23 30 3 10 17 24 31 4 11 18 25 5 12 19 26 MIST-BIRKENFELD M-BRFPD Board 2nd Tuesday 7:30 p.m., Main Fire Station M-B Firefighters Assoc. 1st, 2nd & 3rd Wednesdays 7 p.m., Main Fire Station 7 p.m., Main Fire Station M-B Ambulance Assoc. 1st, 2nd & 3rd Thursdays 7:30 p.m., Grange Hall Natal Grange 2nd Wednesday BANKS 8:00 p.m., Methodist Church Alcoholics Anonymous Fridays 7:00 a.m., Brown Derby Banks Area Merchants Assoc. 1st Thursday 7:30 p.m., City Hall Banks City Council 2nd Tuesday 7:00 p.m., City Hall Banks Planning Commission Last Tuesday 7:30 p.m., Jr. High Library 2nd Monday Banks School Board Sundays, Wednesdays 7:00 p.m., UMC Youth Bldg. Banks Youth Group 3rd Monday, odd months 7:15 p.m., City Hall Citizen Participation Org. 1st Saturday 10:00 a.m., City Library Friends of the Library 1st & 3rd Wednesdays 7:00 p.m., Methodist Church Lions Club 8:00 p.m., Gun Club 3rd Wednesday Sunset Park Assoc. 7:00 p.m., Jr. High Library Wednesdays TOPS 7:00 p.m., Station 13 2nd Wednesday Tri-City RFPD Board COLUMBIA COUNTY (All meet in St. Helens unless otherwise noted.) 10 a.m., Courthouse Wednesdays Board of Commissioners 7 p.m., Sunset Park Church 2nd Tuesday Citizens for Senior Justice 10:30 a.m., Courthouse 2nd Friday COLCO Transportation 1:00 p.m., Courthouse 2nd Friday County Council of Seniors 7:30 p.m., 800 Port Ave. 3rd Wednesday Columbia ESD 7 p.m., 4-H Bldg., Fairgrounds 2nd & 4th Tuesdays County Fair Board 6 p.m., 1054 Oregon St. 3rd Thursday County Parks Commission 7 p.m., Courthouse Emergency Comm. Dist. (9-1-1) 3rd Tuesday Noon, location call 429-3713 Historical Society 4th Wednesday 7 a.m., Village Inn Traffic Safety Commission 1st Wednesday Organizations and meeting dates not listed may be included by calling 429-9410, or by mail to The INDEPENDENT, 1206 State Avenue, Vernonia, OR 97064.
