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The INDEPENDENT, August 20, 2009
Vernonian Doug Davenport wins his heat at River City Speedway
by Mike Weber
St. Helens drivers Jeremy
Martin and Justin McMullen set
Columbia County Racing Asso-
ciation track record qualifying
times and both recorded top
three main event finishes in the
Lemmons Trucking Race Sat-
urday, August 15, at River City
Speedway.
Deer Island’s Scott Mc-
Mullen won the Mini Stock main
and Bud Russell of St. Helens,
notched a career best second
to Portland’s Rick Graham in
the Sportsman main. The Nu-
som Racing team of Gresham,
swept the top four positions in
the Street Stock main.
Milwaukie’s Eric Lindquist
led the first 15 laps of the
Sportsman main with his Re-
liant
Elevator
Chevrolet.
Lindquist was slowed by a
lapped car, which provided
Graham with an opening to
move past on the inside lane
and take the lead on lap 16.
Graham led the remainder of
the 40-lap race with his T&T
Draggin’ Wagons Towing/Per-
fection Automotive 1978 Ponti-
ac Firebird. Graham, who
notched his second win, had
half a lap lead over Russell, the
runnerup in his Competitive
Edge Sign & Design/Knife Riv-
er Chevrolet Monte Carlo. Port-
land Frank Elwess took third,
Stephen Kaptur of St. Helens
was fourth and Portland’s
LeRoy White took fifth.
“I just got slowed a little by
lapped cars and there was no
way that I could catch Gra-
ham,” said Russell, a first year
stock car racing driver, whose
pit crew chief is his dad, Mike
Russell.
“The maintenance crew of
Sam Brittain, Ed Brasmer and
Charlie Rigdon did a good job
working on the track and it was
in just perfect condition.”
Mark Beehler of Deer Island,
led the first 12 laps of the Mini
Stock main. Scott McMullen
passed Beehler on lap 13 after
the two circled the track for five
laps while their cars were side-
by-side. McMullen led the dura-
tion of the 30-lap race with his
McMullen Water Systems 1985
Ford Mustang.
McMullen won by a straight-
away length over Beehler.
Justin McMullen (Scott’s son)
set the Mini Stock track record
of 15.73 seconds in qualifying.
Justin, 19, took third in his Skin-
ny’s Texaco Mustang for an
eighth straight top five finish
and he leads the series points.
“The car was dialed-in and it
was really running good,” said
Scott McMullen, who also won
the trophy dash. “It took a while
to get ahead of Brad Beehler.
Once I did get in front, then I
was able to move out into a
sizeable advantage, especially
since it was a caution free
race.”
Joel Beehler of St. Helens
was fourth and he won the heat
race with his Subaru Impreza.
Joel, 16, a St. Helens High
School junior, competed in the
Tracers last year and he’s sec-
ond in the point standings
Eddie Farness led the first
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four laps of the Street Stock
main until Gresham’s John Nu-
som passed him on the fifth cir-
cuit. Nusom led until lap 19
when his older brother Curt
moved in front and held on for
the win.
Vancouver’s Robert Jenner
passed Vernonia’s Doug Dav-
enport on lap 12 of the 30-lap
Modified main and held on for
his second win with the Dis-
count Race Car Parts open
wheel racer. Jenner and Dav-
enport also won heat races.
Jenner is second in the division
point standings behind his un-
cle, Don Jenner of Vancouver.
Martin took second in his
Reser’s Fine Foods racer, fol-
lowed by Davenport. Martin set
the one-lap track qualifying
record of 13.65 seconds on the
quarter mile clay oval.
Vancouver’s Stacey Fordyce
won the 20-lap women’s main
while driving the Recovery
Racing 1975 Nova. Collen
Winebarger of Corbett, won the
Tracer Division (age 13-16 year
olds) race. Winebarger, 13,
who competes at Sunset
Speedway in Banks and St.
Helens, has a combined total of
six Tracer wins out of seven
starts with the Absolute Auto
Service Camaro.
Trey Starks of Puyallup, WA,
won the 25 lap Micro Sprint car
main. Keith Everson, 63, of
Marysville, WA, won the Pacific
Mini Sprint main with his Kleco
Racing open wheel racer. The
ninth event of the 12-race
CCRA series is the Aug. 29
Pavelcomm.com Race.
RIVER CITY SPEEDWAY
August 15, 2009 Results
Sportsman – Fast Time: Jesse
Freeman, Wilsonville 14.86. Tro-
phy Dash: Rick Rehanek, Van-
couver. Heat 1: Larry Wetzel,
Portland; Stephen Kaptur, St.
Helens; Rick Graham, Portland.
Heat 2: LeRoy White, Portland;
John Fordyce, Vancouver; Frank
Elwess, Portland. Heat 3: Larry
Lemmons, Toledo; Eric Lindquist,
Milwaukie; Matt Taylor, Portland.
Main: Graham; Bud Russell, St.
Helens; Elwess; Kaptur; White;
Fordyce; Rehanek; Jerry Strawn,
Deer Island; Lemmons; Free-
man.
Street Stock – Fast Time:
Mike Harrison, St. Helens 16.31.
Trophy Dash: Brad Nusom, Gre-
sham. Heat 1: Mike Crase, Port-
land; Herb Thomas, St. Helens;
Curtis Zelmer, Portland. Heat 2:
Brad Nusom; John Nusom, Gre-
sham; Curt Nusom, Gresham.
Main: Curt Nusom; John Nusom;
Brad Nusom, Eddie Farness,
Sandy; Crase; Harrison; Zelmer;
Steven Harris, Battleground; Ron
Dodge, Vernonia; Thomas.
Mini Stock – Fast Time: Justin
McMullen, Deer Island 15.73
(NTR). Trophy Dash: Scott Mc-
Mullen, Deer Island. Heat 1: Lisa
Liner, St. Helens; Rich Gooding,
Castle Rock; Jenelle Harrison,
St. Helens. Heat 2: Joel Beehler,
St. Helens; Tim Oyler, St. He-
lens; Scott McMullen. Main:
Scott McMullen; Mark Beehler,
St. Helens; Justin McMullen; Joel
Beehler; Oyler; Jenelle Harrison;
Barry Lampert, Canby; Devon
Reed,
Washougal;
Jason
Scheibel, Longview; Liner.
Modified Division – Fast Time:
Jeremy Martin, St. Helens 13.65
(NTR). Trophy Dash: Don Jen-
ner, Vancouver. Heat 1: Doug
Davenport, Vernonia; Mark Hill
Scappoose; Dennis Blasier,
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Much confusion resulted
from the inclusion in the agen-
da of both ARs for the local
wellness program and the re-
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Scappoose. Heat 2: Robert Jen-
ner, Vancouver; Martin; Don Jen-
ner.
Women’s Division – Fast
Time: Stacey Fordyce, Vancou-
ver 15.66. Trophy Dash: Jacki
Graham,
Portland.
Heat:
Fordyce; Graham; Bobbi Harris,
Battleground. Main: Fordyce;
Graham; Susan Nelson, Port-
land; Kathy McMullen, Deer Is-
land; Harris.
Tracer Division – Fast Time:
15.87 (NTR). Trophy Dash:
Collen Winebarger, Corbett.
Heat: Winebarger; Matt Jenner,
Vancouver; Brad Martin, St. He-
lens. Main: Winebarger; Martin;
Andrew Olsen, St. Helens; Jen-
ner.
Pacific Mini Sprints – Fast
Time: Scott Reed, 13.19. Trophy
Dash: Keith Everson. Heat 1:
Everson; Jesse Shannon; Darren
Pierson. Heat 2: Owen Olinger;
Dan Beck; Cody Higgenbottom.
Main: Everson; Pierson; Beck;
Higgenbottom; Olinger; Tracey
Titus; Shannon; Vern Delaney;
Scott Reed; Travis Jarvis.
Micro Sprints – Trophy Dash:
Keegan Walmer. Heat 1: Justin
McConville; Dylan Westrick;
Kady Adelman. Heat 2: Reece
Goetz; Trey Starks; Dylan Marsh.
Main: Starks; Goetz; Marsh;
Mike Vollbrecht; McConnville;
Westrick; Walmer; Alissa Ander-
son; Jeff Hatcher; Adelman.
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Smith said that a committee in-
volving parents, students, ad-
ministrators and the public met
this earlier this year to review
district
wellness
issues.
Sodexo food service manager
Lance Heggem was able to fur-
nish most of the technical infor-
mation. Eventually Smith was
able to clarify that the ARs pre-
sented, incorporated the work
of the committee.
In July and August meetings,
the board also:
• Reinstated four certified
teachers and four classified
employees,
• agreed that board mem-
bers should attend other com-
munity meetings to foster com-
munication with the communi-
ty;
• approved a bus transporta-
tion contract with Mid-Columbia
Bus Company.