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WAITING FOR HARRY

Excited Harry Potter fans line up outside Brookings Redwood Theater for the midnight showing.The Pilot/Jef Hatch

Latest Harry Potter film draws midnight crowd

Waiting patiently in line since 5:30p.m., Brookings-Harbor High studentsRonnie Manley and Justin Goodwinwere the first of over 50 people whowere standing outside the Redwoodtheater before it opened at 11 p.m.Thursday night.

With the temperature dipping intothe low 40s through the evening, wait-ing for Redwood Theater to allow pa-trons in for the premiere of “HarryPotter and the Deathly Hallows —

Part 1” couldn’t have been comfort-able, but Manley and Goodwin stuckit out to get perfect seats for the nearlysold out show.

With 220 total seats, being at thetheater early was the difference be-tween getting stuck in the front rowor getting a prime “double seat” onthe back two rows.

The house was packed with fans ofall ages with the majority being high-school aged. The youngest fan waseight and the youngest-at-heart fan75.

Loreen Smallwood, 75, is an avid

fan of the series and has been to seeall of the midnight premieres of theHarry Potter films that have beenshown at Redwood.

“I actually have to drag her (point-ing to her daughter Stacie) to thesethings,” Smallwood said. “I really lovethe Harry Potter movies.”

The youngest fan, Kaidan Murray,was brought to the theater by hismother to enjoy the premiere.

Groups of friends were the norm aspeople came in large groups to watchthe show.

See Movie, Page 2A

By Jef HatchPilot staff writer

Volunteers sought todayfor lighting of Azalea Park

Though volunteers lastweekend nearly completedthe job, there’s still somework to be done in prepar-ing Nature’s Coastal Holi-day for next week’s open-ing.

Organizers estimate thatjust a few hours of effortare left for a final workparty scheduled for 9 a.m.today (Nov. 20) at AzaleaPark.

The work will go on, rainor shine, and is organized

by the Rotary Club ofBrookings-Harbor, one ofthe co-sponsors of the 14thannual lights display in thepark.

An estimated 300,000lights are in the display,many in unique sculpturesof animals, fish and insectsthat are a hallmark of Na-ture’s Coastal Holiday.

Chair Don Tilton saidthis week he was over-whelmed by all the helpcoming from the communi-ty to get the show up andrunning again this year.

See Lights, Page 3A

Stormwarningissued for today

The National WeatherService in Medford has issueda winter storm warning forthe interior of eastern Curryand Del Norte counties fortoday (Nov. 20).

Snow was reported atHayes Hills as of 10 a.m. Fri-day night.

Several inches of snow arepossible as low as 1,500 feet,while 4 to 9 inches of snoware expected above 2,000 feetand up to 2 feet of snow ispossible at the highest eleva-tions, according to the NWS.

Along the coast, showersare likely with possible smallhail and thunderstorms todayand into Sunday.

This time of year leadinginto winter is when the areastarts getting storms like theone expected today, saidTreena Hartley, a meteorolo-gist with the NWS.

“It’s not unusual to getfronts this time of year,” shesaid, “but this one is colderand a little bit stronger.”

Stretches of U.S. highways199 and 101 could have snow-fall. Rock slides are also pos-sible, especially along High-way 199.

The NWS recommendscalling the California Depart-ment of Transportation at 1-800-427-7623 for road condi-tions and chain requirementsbefore traveling.

Motorists are encouragedto check the Oregon Depart-ment of Transportation’s web-site, tripcheck.com, for roadconditions and chain require-ments.

Chains are required whensnow is possible at Hayes HillSummit (elevation 1,640 feet)on Highway 199 between theOregon border and GrantsPass.

Since significant snowfallcan make travel dangerous,the NWS advises drivers tocarry an extra flashlight, foodand water in the vehicle incase of emergency.

The storm warning will bein effect from 6 a.m. today to8 a.m. Sunday. The heaviestprecipitation will start mid-morning through tonight.

This early storm isn’t anindication that winter will beworse than normal, Hartleysaid. The seasonal forecastwas already predicting a cold-er than normal winter, shesaid.

Storms vary in how theyform coming across the Pa-cific Ocean, Hartley said,adding that she “wouldn’t besurprised to see a couplemore of these (storms).”

On the bright side, therecould be decent weather instore for Thanksgiving, Hart-ley said.

Video at schoolraiseseyebrows

When sixth grade socialstudies teacher Nancy Chewprepared her lesson plan ontypes of government, sheturned to the websitewww.neok12.com, which col-lects educational videos forclassroom use.

However, when wordspread into the communityabout what video she choseto show students, the Brook-ings-Harbor School Board gotan earful from several citi-zens — and Chew learned avaluable lesson in checkingher sources.

The 10-minute video shechose, “A brief overview ofall types of governments,”turned out to be a JohnBirch Society production,with the attribution editedout.

The John Birch Society isa controversial ultra-conser-vative group founded in1958.

“There’s no way I couldhave known who producedthat,” Chew said. “In hind-sight, there should havebeen more research on mypart.”

Chew will use the experi-ence as a teaching momentabout the reliability of ma-terials found on the Inter-net, she said.

“You cannot believe every-thing you read, everythingyou see,” she said.

The class completed a sec-tion on how to identify biasin materials earlier in theyear, she said. The new les-son will include another dis-cussion of bias, as well as alesson in knowing yoursources, she said.

The video uses a scale ofgovernment types by degreeof government control, andmixes government and eco-nomic systems.

At one point, the videoclaims democracy is not aworkable form of govern-ment.

Four individuals broughtthe video to the attention ofthe Brookings-Harbor SchoolBoard Wednesday night, ob-jecting to the video’s content.

See Video, Page 3A

Shooter convicted of endangering othersGOLD BEACH — A 74-

year-old man, who told thejudge “I’ve been packing agun since I was 12,” wasconvicted Thursday of reck-lessly endangering anotherfor shooting targets andscaring neighbors across theWinchuck River.

Gerald David Torrancewas arrested on Aug. 27 andcharged with recklessly en-dangering and pointing afirearm after a woman re-ported he was shootingacross the river toward herproperty in her direction.

Sheriff’s deputies receivedthe report about 1:24 p.m.,Sheriff John Bishop said.They then went to the loca-

tion, and from the reportingperson’s home on the northside of the Winchuck RiverRoad saw an older man,later identified as Torrance,pointing a handgun in thedirection of the reportingperson’s property.

“Torrance was on hisproperty located on thesouth side of the WinchuckRiver on State Line Road,”

Sheriff John Bishop said. Deputies contacted Tor-

rance, detained him andseized the handgun he hadin his possession.

He appeared in CurryCounty Circuit Court onThursday without hislawyer, who Torrance saidhad been delaying his courtappearances against hiswishes.

“I’m through with him,”Torrance said.

He said he wished to ac-cept a plea bargain that hadbeen offered to his lawyerby Deputy District AttorneyBob Meyer for Torrance toplead no contest to the reck-lessly endangering charge,with the second charge dis-missed.

See Shooting, Page 2A

Volunteer Joe Donohue prepares to hang a stringof lighted garlands on the shrubs at Azalea Park.

By Charles KocherPilot staff writer

The Pilot/ Charles Kocher

HEAD-ON COLLISIONBrookings woman in critical

condition after car accident • 3A

FISHING TIPSBank fishing madeeasy for newbies • 7A

COATS FOR KIDSEmblem Club collectinggear for local children • 1B

By Valliant CorleyPilot staff writer

By Arwyn RicePilot staff writer

By Kelley AthertonWescom News Service

As a new storm approachedBrookings Friday night, crewsfinished installing a pump andpipe system to divert MacklynCreek water away from thesinkhole and debris-cloggedculvert in front of BrookingsCity Hall.

Engineers were concernedthat a big rain event couldoverload the damaged systemand cause flooding on Elk

Street, Fifth Street and acrossChetco Avenue.

The diversion to otherstorm drain systems shoulddo the job and prevent flood-ing, City Manager Gary Mil-liman said Friday evening.

Poorly constructedA video inspection done

Tuesday revealed the culvertis falling apart due to age andother factors.

The video, shown atWednesday’s emergency coun-cil meeting, clearly showed

cracks in the pipe. About 90feet from where the creek en-ters the culvert, the roundpipe is flattened to an oval.

At the site of the failure,crews had to use a 19-inchpipe to fit the flattened open-ing, Milliman said.

Large cracks are clearly vis-ible on the video, and thereare several mystery openingswhere stormwater drains mayhave once emptied into thepipe.

There are several abruptdrops in the culvert, and itchanges from a 30-inch pipeto a 36-inch pipe at a point ap-proximately midway betweenthe entrance and the break.

City Engineer Mike Erick-son told the council that thedepth of the culvert, an aver-age of 25 feet below theground surface, contributed tothe failure.

The unreinforced concretepipe was not designed for theweight of that much fill, Er-ickson said.

The culvert’s joints werenot tight and have severalcurves, he said.

Erickson said he believesthe culvert was simply placedin the natural drainage, thencovered to raise the level ofthe land.

The original crews made lit-tle attempt to make the seamsbetween pipe sections tight,he said.

No one knows exactly whenthe culvert was constructed,but it is believed that the workwas done before the currentcity hall was built in the early1970s.

Funding and replacementBrookings City Council

voted Wednesday to approvemore than $500,000 in fund-ing for emergency and long-term repairs to the failed cul-vert beneath the city hallparking lot.

Most of the funds will betaken from other city worksprojects.

Replacement of the culvert,

which collapsed on Nov. 7 andresulted in a large sinkhole,will cost the city $470,000.

In addition, the city isbeing charged $2,400 each dayfor a giant vacuum used to re-move debris from the largerpipe downstream, Millimansaid.

The city engineer’s designto replace 540 feet of old cul-vert is expected to take two orthree weeks.

Once the design is ready,bidding is expected to last anadditional two to weeks. Ac-tual construction is likely tobegin in mid-December.

If the weather cooperates,the replacement of the culvertmay be complete by mid-Jan-uary, Milliman said.

Temporary repairs to theexisting culvert will be buriedand filled, and the new 48-inchreplacement will be construct-ed above it, Milliman said.

The new design will meet2007 standards for a 25-yearstorm event.

The broken culvert carriesMacklyn Creek undergroundfrom city hall to Mill Pond,and must be replaced fromnortheast corner of the cityhall parking lot to ChaseBank, where it meets a larger,48-inch culvert.

The city is still investigat-

ing the condition of a largerand newer section of culvert,which runs from Chase Bankto Mill Pond. Crews are clean-ing rubble washed down-stream from the sinkhole.

The larger culvert is almostcompletely blocked by rubblefrom the sinkhole, Ericksonsaid.

The water diversion pipeinstalled Friday will also makeit easier for crews to finish re-moving the rubble, Millimansaid.

City Hall parkingThe parking lot in front of

city hall is closed. Arrange-ments for parking and accessto the water payment box andmail box in front of city hallhave not yet been set, Milli-man said.

There is parking availableon the eastern side of city hall,at Ross Road and Elk Drive,and from the alley behind cityhall on Fifth Street.

The city’s large parking lotwill be closed once construc-tion of the new culvert begins.

Possibilities for alternativeparking include Fifth Streeton-street parking and a city-owned parking area nearBankus Fountain, adjacent toRay’s Food Place.

Continued from Page 1A“I’m here because of the act-

ing and the social aspect,”BHHS student Liz Lindleysaid. “All of my friends arehere.”

Lindley has never even readthe books, she said, preferringthe Twilight series.

The owners of RedwoodTheater, Tim and Cynthia Pat-terson, understand both sidesof the Harry Potter spectrum.Tim has never read the booksand doesn’t enjoy the moviesat all, while Cynthia has readthe books multiple times andhas seen all of the movies.

“I’ve read the first book atleast four times,” Cynthia said.“The other books I’ve read atleast twice.”

According to Cynthia theyare very readable and neverget old. “Some books you canonly read once but these canbe read over and over again,”she said.

Some fans had some quirkyhabits including Eileen Good-win who hasn’t read the sec-ond half of the seventh book

so that she, “doesn’t get aheadof the movies.”

Deciding where to call thesplit was a bit of a struggle forher though. “I stopped whereI thought the most logicalplace to have a break wouldbe,” she said.

Some of Azalea MiddleSchool’s teachers were in at-tendance to be able to bettercommunicate with the chil-dren. Gloria Stehn, TracyByers, Kelly Singleton, Jen-nifer Berger and Ian Keusinkall attended the premiere to-gether.

Another youngster in atten-dance was 10-year old AmayaEckersley who has read all thebooks once and has attendedall the Redwood premieres ofthe Harry Potter movies.

“It’s my favorite series of alltime,” Eckersley said. “Thebooks are good too.”

“Harry Potter and theDeathly Hallows — Part 1” isshowing daily at RedwoodTheater in Brookings andCrescent City Cinemas inCrescent City.

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Movie: ‘I’ve read thebook at least four times’

Continued from Page 1ABut Torrance said he hadn’t

shot across the river andwasn’t nude, as had originallybeen reported to sheriff’sdeputies.

Meyer’s reading of chargesincluded a statement that Tor-rance had been wearing shorts.

Torrance said he was shoot-ing at a target near the rear ofhis house. He said it was a pileof sand with steel and plywood.

“For 20 years I’ve beenshooting at that target,” hesaid. “I’ve been shooting at thetarget 21 feet away. I’ve neverput a bullet in that river in mylife. When salmon were there,I was tempted to. But I neverdid,” Torrance said.

He said the house where

the complainant lived is 170feet down the road.

Judge Jesse Margolis, aftersome discussion, accepted Tor-rance’s plea and convicted himof recklessly endangering an-other.

He sentenced Torrance to36 months’ probation andcharged him $885 in fines andfees and told Torrance he couldnot possess a firearm as longas he is on probation.

The judge said anyone couldhave been alarmed if Torrancehad been shooting in their di-rection.

“I’m telling you what youwere doing was stupid,” Mar-golis said. “You seem like a niceenough guy, but you’re makingsome pretty poor choices.”

Shooting: Man claims hewasn’t nude, as reported

Video reveals failed pipe old, poorly constructedBy Arwyn RicePilot staff writer

Certified results of Nov. 2 ballot reveal no changes

GOLD BEACH — Therewere no changes in CurryCounty’s November generalelection results when the ballotswere certified this week.

“The results remain thesame as far as the percentagesgo,” Curry County Elections Of-ficial Connie Higgins saidThursday.

The certified result in therace for County CommissionerPosition 1, the only countywiderace, showed David Itzen ofBrookings the winner overLucie La Bonté of Gold Beach4,961 to 4,707 or 50.95 percentto 48.34 percent. There were 69write-ins.

The five-year county law en-forcement measure was defeat-ed 7,311 to 2,872 votes, or 71.80percent to 28.20 percent.

There were 10,493 ballotscast in the Curry County elec-tion, with 13,622 registered vot-ers, for 77.03 percent. Thatadded 32 votes to the total count-ed on election night, Nov. 2.

Although mailed-in votesthat arrive after 8 p.m. on elec-tion day are not counted, countyresidents can return their bal-lots to other counties while pollsare still open. Those ballots are

then returned to the propercounty before elections are cer-tified.

The County Clerk’s office has20 days after polls close to cer-tify the election, including thevotes that come in from othercounties.

Higgins said the election wascertified on Monday, well aheadof the Nov. 22 deadline.

She said that immediatelyafter the certification, John He-witt, a Port Orford city councilcandidate, asked for a recount.

There were five candidates

in that election, with the topthree finishers winning councilseats. Hewitt had finishedfourth with 276 votes, just fourfewer than the 280 received byCaroline Clancy.

“John filed with the Secre-tary of State on Tuesday. TheSecretary of State notified us.We held the re-count onWednesday. The result was ex-actly the same,” Higgins said.

That recount will cost Hewitt$204.65.

“It would have had to bewithin one vote difference for

an automatic recount,” Higginssaid.

Had it been an automatic re-count, the county would havepicked up the cost.

The 77 percent of registeredvoters casting ballots in CurryCounty compared to a statewideaverage 70 percent turnout,Higgins said.

The Curry County turnoutcompares to 76.23 percent inthe governor’s general electionfour years ago and 87.5 percentfrom the presidential electionin 2008.

By Valliant CorleyPilot staff writer

Continued from Page 1ATilton, who has been

sidelined by illness, said hisfeelings go beyond appreci-ation. “Until you have beenin my situation, you can’tbegin to understand what itmeans to have so many peo-ple come forward to help.”

Nature’s Coastal Holidayis scheduled to open to thepublic at 5 p.m. Saturday,Nov. 27, and remain openthrough Christmas night.

The lights will be on from5 to 9 p.m. every night. Ad-mission is $1 for adults;

children 12 and under arefree. Admission includes hotcider and cookies.

For groups hoping to hostan evening in the park, con-tact Moira Fossum at 541-661-5126. A crew of sevenpeople is needed for eachevening, in either two-houror four-hour shifts.

The Bruins KnowledgeBowl teams are still undefeat-ed after Thursday’s MarshfieldInvitational Tournament inCoos Bay.

Both Brookings-HarborHigh School teams went 4-0in competition and were des-ignated first and second placeby points scored.

The combined team, whichconsists of two teams of fivestudents, now has a combinedrecord of 16-0 in KnowledgeBowl competition.

“We have a really greatteam,” senior Meredith Horelsaid Friday. “We’re dedicated,we want to be at the top.”

The team has a chance togo undefeated if they continueto study and focus on theirgoal, Horel said.

The team continues to pro-duce Knowledge Bowl super-stars, and several new mem-bers have shown promise tocontinue the tradition.

“It amazes me,” she said.“In Brookings we seem to havea concentration of talent. Idon’t know why.”

However, there is one team

that will eventually ruin theirperfect record.

The Bruins themselves.“Our teams have not met

each other in league play,”Knowledge Bowl coach RobertWilson said.

Team match-ups are deter-mined through random draw-ing, and eventually the teamswill probably face each other,Wilsons said.

Although the A team ismade up of students withstronger academic trivia skills,essentially the varsity team,with younger developing play-ers on B team could give them

a run for their money, he said.Knowledge Bowl is a com-

petition that pits teams of fourstudents against each other ina game-show style tourna-ment featuring academic triv-ia.

The Bruin Knowledge Bowlteam won the regional Knowl-edge Bowl championship forthe last three years, in 2008,2009 and 2010.

The next Knowledge Bowltournament will be on Dec. 8in Reedsport.

BHHS will host severalschools for a Bruin tourna-ment on Jan. 12.

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See Video, Page 3A“I’m really bothered by

this,” Gordon Clay said. “Thevideo said that democracy iswrong.”

Clay went on to add thatthe video had a heavy-hand-ed bias and mis-defined theform of democracy used inthe U.S.

Other speakers describedthe video and the method ofmarketing of the video as“sneaky” and “promoting theatmosphere of fear.”

Board Chair Bob Horelwas contacted by a citizenand contacted Superintend-ent Brian Hodge regardingthe allegations.

Horel was provided a linkto the video.

“It was difficult to watchafter the first few minutes,”Horel said.

Horel and the board di-rected Hodge to review thedistrict policy and proce-dures regarding the selec-

tion of material used inclass.

Hodge, Chew and AzaleaPrincipal Sheryl Lipski ex-pressed frustration that noone contacted them regard-ing concerns about the video.

Inquiries from the CurryCoastal Pilot, which receiveda news tip about the videoearlier in the week, was thefirst time anyone at theschool knew about the issue.

“My phone is always thereand my door is always open,Hodge said.

Chew also has an opendoor policy, she said, andwelcomes parents who haveany questions about whattheir child is doing in her

class.It was not made clear how

the four speakers learned ofthe video being used in theclass.

See the video:The video clip used in

the class can be found atwww.neok12.com/Gov-ernment.html

The full version of thevideo, with attribution,is available at www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_ciT1psaPc.

Video: ‘The video said that democracy is wrong’

Brookings woman hurt in head-on wreckAn 83-year-old Brookings woman

was in critical condition Friday nightfrom injuries she received in a head-on collision with another car on High-way 101 in Harbor.

Barbara Burke-Schmitz was drivingnorth on Highway 101 at 2 p.m. when

she drifted into the center median foran unknown reason and struck the frontof a car in the median waiting to turnleft onto Floral Hill Drive, said OregonState Police Trooper Brandon Smithers.

The driver of the second car, HeidiBlagden, 38, of Brookings, refused treat-ment at the scene, but later went to thehospital complaining of whiplash,Smithers said.

The air bags in both vehicles de-ployed. Although it was raining,Smither said weather did not appearto be a factor in the accident.

Burke-Schmitz was transported toSutter Coast Hospital in Crescent Cityand then airlifted to Oregon Healthand Science University, where she waslisted in critical condition late Fridaynight.

The Pilot/Scott Graves

A firefighter uses an ax to open the smashed hood of a car involved in Friday’s accident.

By Scott GravesPilot staff writer

By Arwyn RicePilot staff writer

BHHS Knowledge Bowl teams remain undefeated

Photo tells aninteresting story

Editor: Interesting picture on the

front page (Pilot, Saturday,Nov. 13).

I wondered why one of ourlocal heroes was pointing hisassault weapon at the OregonState Trooper.

I also wondered as to howmany more officers from ourwoefully understaffed law en-forcement agencies were at theincident but not in the photo.

Rafael KoscheBrookings

Bring back bench to Railroad building

Editor: To whomever this pertains

to: We would like you to bringback the bench that has beenoutside in front of the old skat-ing rink building for a verylong time at 745 RailroadStreet.

Thank you,Milt and Betty LouGowmanBrookings

Need kidney dialysiscenter in Brookings

Editor:I am definitely an advocate

for having a kidney dialysiscenter located in Brookings-Harbor.

My very important person(VIP) has been having theselife-saving treatments upnorth. He is not the only per-son that has to travel threetimes each week to receive this.

If we could just have the“powers that be” listen to usand act upon it.

Please remember that peo-ple that need this treatmentcannot move here now withouta facility, and some are havingto move out of town. And re-member, too, that manytourists and people on vacationpass through town. Theywould then have the opportu-nity to have their dialysis treat-ment here. Therefore, they’dstay at our motels and RVparks and shop, or even endup purchasing a home here.

I had heard from a goodsource that Curry GeneralHospital with their new Brook-ings Medical Center is tryingto get this set up in the springof 2011. We desperately needthis so people can stay hereand not have to find other al-ternatives.

If the cruise lines can havedialysis accommodations andmake it work, surely our med-ical community can and willmake this happen!

Judi KleinBrookings

Send your turkey tolocal soup kitchen

Editor:As the holidays approach,

the volunteer staff of the St.Timothy’s Soup Kitchen wouldlike to thank the communityof Brookings-Harbor for all ofthe support we have receivedover the past year.

We are averaging over 55meals each Tuesday. Eventhough we call ourselves asoup kitchen, we serve muchmore than just soup. Our en-trees vary from salmon tospaghetti with meatballs. But,the most important thing thatwe serve is love and hope.

If anyone needs a home foran extra turkey or ham thisholiday season, please bring itby on Tuesdays from noon to1 p.m., or you can call thechurch, 541-469-3314 toarrange for a drop off. And re-member that everyone is wel-come to come, eat lunch, andshare in our blessings.

Rev. Bernie LindleySt. Timothys EpiscopalChurchBrookings

This could be thedemise of the party

Editor:Democratic strategists Pat

Cadell and Dough Schoen arequickly moving away fromPresident Obama’s far left lib-eral ideals, while Democratsare saying, “So what, listenclosely and we’ll educate you.”

Both men have had closeties with previous presidents:Cadell with Carter, Schoenwith Clinton, and both are nowemployed by Fox News, ex-plaining the weakness of thisadministration and being coywhile doing so.

Every news source agreeswith them. Obama failed mis-erably on his recent far easttrip. Accounts of the trip showsa failure rate of 100 percent atthe cost of over $1 million aday. Normally our Secretary ofState Hillary Clinton wouldmake that tour first and thenreport back that some coun-tries are willing to work withus. President Obama wantedall the accolades and went firstbecause in his arrogance he ex-

pected India, Indonesia, SouthKorea, and Tokyo to fall in hislap — but no such luck for theanointed one occurred.

President Obama will nowback away from blamingGeorge W. Bush, accusing himfor our demise, and will slowlythrow jabs at Bill Clinton, justyou watch! Democrats behindthe scene are now trying to or-ganize a plan to keep him fromrunning another term, andHillary, of course, will be oneof the saviours named.

As long as liberals let thefar-left media pick their can-didate without checking theirpast — Clinton with women,and Obama’s old friends —youwill be hard pressed to find acandidate that’s interested inthe future of this country. Theleft-wing press pushing for afresh face, virtually unknown,and unwilling to expose themfor who they truly are, couldbe the demise of the party.

Teri DalrympleGold Beach

Not fear, but disgustof our government

Editor:Below is my perspective on

your editorial “Voters moreafraid of tax bills than crime”(Pilot, Nov. 6).

For me, it was not fear butrather disgust and distrust ofgovernment. The mentalityand arrogance of governmentwas eloquently stated in 1995by Mark Johnson of Milliman& Robertson, the then State ofOregon pension fund actuary.When asked what would hap-pen if the fund could not meetthe 8 percent guarantee, John-son responded that the ratescharged to government agen-cies (taxpayers) would simplybe increased. “There is some-thing to fall back on,” Johnsonsaid. “And it is the taxpayer.”http://oregonstate.edu/senate/agen/reports/PERS0210.html

A must read article titled“Class War: How public ser-vants became our masters”http://reason.com/archives/2010/01/12/class-war, focuses on theenormous growth in govern-ment hiring, pay, benefits, va-cation, holidays, sick days andthe pending public employeepension tsunamis. The articlerefers to http://grandfather-eco-nomic-report.com/ with chartscreated from Bureau of LaborStatistics showing the growthin state and local governmentemployees since 1946. “Thenumber has increased from 3.3million then, to 19.8 milliontoday — a 492 percent increaseas the country’s population in-creased by 115 percent.”

This has resulted in moreagencies, more regulation,more waste, more control, moreentitlement programs, morefraud, higher taxes and unsus-tainable levels of debt. Thismust stop and be reversed.

Editor, nowhere in all themonths of commissioner meet-ings, trips to Salem, news ar-ticles or $100,000 taxpayerpaid studies evaluating the vi-ability of even placing the taxlevy on the ballot has one wordbeen mentioned about publicemployee concessions. Nextyear the county will add hun-dreds of thousands of dollarsto the budget to offset employ-ee pension losses and reducepublic services by an equalamount.

It is not fear of the tax billbut rather how the taxes areused.

Thomas HuxleyHarbor

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One day. Six hours. Two fishing holes.Two hundred casts.Zero salmon.Sigh. I guess that’s why they

call it fishing, not catching.Nevertheless, it was a good day.

The rising sun pierced theovercast sky Wednesday morn-ing, warming the chilled bankof the Chetco River at SocialSecurity bar where I stood witha dozen other anglers hopingto land a monster Chinook.

Fishing lines whizzedthrough the air as we cast ourbaited hooks and flashy luresinto deep holes along the swiftmoving river. For the first twohours, there was nary a bite.Then, floating in a drift boat atthe top of Social Security bar,appeared a man and woman.

Within 10 minutes, a Chi-nook hit the woman’s bait andthe fight was on. The bank an-glers stopped casting to watchthe action. I did the same,watching in amusement for thenext 20 minutes as the manused giant oars to paddle thedrift boat down river and upriver, and from bank to bank,as the woman slowly reeled thefish closer.

An angler on a nearby rock,having spotted the fish justunder the surface, yelled out“That’s a big one!”

The woman smiled as shecontinued to struggle with thefish. Five minutes later she andher partner netted the Chinook— all 38 or 40 pounds of it (no-body had a scale). With the fishsafely stowed, the pair paddledthe boat back to the top of thebar, drifted back down and —yep, you guessed it — shehooked another one. Ten min-utes later, a Chinook, half thesize of the first, joined the otherin the bottom of the boat.

“If you catch another one,we’ll have to kill you,” a bankfisherman teased the woman,eliciting a few chuckles fromthe rest of us.

That was the only action forthe next hour. I and my fishingpartners, father-in-law, Jim,and his long-time friend Bob,packed it in and headed upriverto Second Bridge. The two hadsome luck there last season.

Jim stayed on the bridge,letting us known when he spot-ted fish in the water below. Boband I picked a spot just underthe bridge and cast our linesinto the emerald green water.

The noonday sun struggledto penetrate the patchworkquilt of clouds that darkenedand solidified above us. Forthe next two hours, we shiftedpositions along the rocky bank,waved to the occupants of drift-boats floating by, and enjoyedthe antics of an otter playingon the opposite shore. Still, nofish. Not even a nibble.

“I think that woman at So-cial Security bar stole all ourfish,” I said.

Bob smiled and cast his lineonce more. He was still smilingand casting as I drove my truckacross the bridge, heading backto civilization.

I pondered why I didn’tcatch a fish. Was it my equip-ment? My bait? My technique?It was probably all three, con-sidering I’m a novice fishermanwith no clue about what I’mdoing.

Then again, perhaps itwasn’t me. There were at leasta dozen other anglers thatdidn’t hook a fish, and most ofthem likely had more experi-ence and fancier gear.

Later, Pilot fish columnistLarry Elllis offered some con-soling insight: Catching Chi-nook in low water conditions isdifficult, at best.

He suggested I find a men-tor, someone who knows howto fish in various conditions.

Hmmm. Perhaps I can track down

that woman who caught twofish at Social Security bar. Shecould probably teach me athing or two. At the least, Icould paddle the boat for her(and hope her husband isn’t thejealous type.)

It’s called fishing,not catching

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A wet, wild weekend:Drive carefully

Winter isn’t waiting for December to start, with rain andeven snow included in the weekend forecast. Temperaturesacross the region will dip into the 30 and 40s, with the possibilityof hail and icy roads along the coast.

It’s a combination that could spell trouble for motoristsdriving around town or long distances. It’s also a warning forall drivers to take precautions now and through the remainderof the winter season.

Here are a few tips from the Oregon Department of Trans-portation:

•Keep a larger than normal distance between your vehicleand the vehicle ahead. A car needs two to three times morestopping distance on wet roads

•Drive slowly and carefully — posted speeds are the maxi-mums in good weather. Lowering your speed helps you preparefor sudden stops caused by disabled cars, debris and other wet-weather hazards.

•Turn on your headlights to improve visibility. • Disengage your cruise control. •Check your windshield wipers and replace if necessary.•Check your brakes. After driving through a puddle, check

that brakes are working properly by tapping them gently a fewtimes.

•Check your tires. Make sure tires are in good condition andare at the recommended inflation level. Tires should have atleast 1/32 of an inch tread depth at any two adjacent grooves,the minimum allowable by law. Driving on over-inflated orunder-inflated tires is dangerous on wet pavement.

Last but not least, before a trip visit www.Tripcheck.com orcall 800-977-6368 for road conditions and chain requirements.

Scott Graves is the editorof the Curry Coastal Pilot.He can be reached by call-ing 541-469-3123 orsgraves@currypilot.com.

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When I arrived at Red-wood Theater late Thursdaynight for the midnight pre-miere of “Harry Potter andthe Deathly Hallows, Part I”the first thing I noticed wasthe din of several hundredexcited voices.

Deep, bass voices.Nine years ago, when I

took my then 9 and 11 yearold sons to the midnight pre-miere of “Harry Potter andthe Sorcerer’s Stone,” thechatter was high, bright, andvery youthful.

In short – children. Wewere surrounded back thenby hundreds of 8- to 12-year-old children, and a few par-ents. They dressed in wiz-ard’s hats, robes and British-style school uniforms.

Thursday’s crowd wasvery, very different. Yes, therewere a few pre-teens, teengirls and older adults, but thetheater was filled with olderteenage boys and young men.

And they had little pa-tience for “talkers.” Everyonce in a while the murmurof social chatter would over-take a quiet scene (from thetone of their voices, teenagegirls), and a booming youngmale voice would shout“hush!”

Those young men caredabout what they were watch-ing, and wanted to hear everyword.

What could bring hun-dreds of teenagers out at mid-night on a school night to seea movie based on a children’sbook, and for young men toinsist on quiet respect?

I think I know.

Ten years ago, I purchasedmy first Harry Potter book.

I had been listening to thehype and wondered what thebig deal was about a youngadult book about a boy wiz-ard.

I grew up on “The HardyBoys,” “Nancy Drew,” “TheBlack Stallion” and “TheHappy Hollisters.”

While they were all verygood book series, most ofwhich also spawned televi-sion series or movies, theynever quite reached the in-sane hype of Pottermania.

I resisted for a year. Theywere children’s books. But Iwas curious. If I could getthrough the first few chap-ters, then maybe there wassomething real in there.

I didn’t read “Harry Potterand the Sorcerer’s Stone.” Idevoured it.

At the time, my son, Sean,was about to turn 8, and wasnot reading.

He struggled with basicsight words and could barelysound out a simple picturebook. He was in third grade,but read at a first-grade leveleven as he excelled in mathand science.

He had no interest in read-ing, there was no spark at all.He couldn’t read because he

hadn’t yet found anything hewanted to read.

I don’t remember if I justleft my copy of the first HarryPotter book lying around, orif I actually gave it to him,but one day I found Seanwith his nose buried in thepages.

I purchased the next bookin the series, and the next.

The child who couldn’tread suddenly leapfrogged hispeers. By the time he startedthe fourth grade, eightmonths after picking upHarry Potter, he was readingat the eighth grade level, andthere was no stopping him.

He ran out of Harry Potterbooks and began on sciencefiction and fantasy serieswritten for adults. And MarkTwain, and Ayn Rand and...

He never stopped. Somehow, Harry Potter

author J.K. Rowling inspiredin him a love of reading.From what I have read andheard from other parents,Sean isn’t the only child sheinspired.

Parents and schools world-wide reported similarly in-spired students.

Is it coincidence that U.S.reading scores unexpectedlyincreased during Potterma-nia?

Reading scores for the na-tion’s 12th-grade studentshave increased after a pat-tern of falling reading scores,according to results of thelargest federal test, releasedThursday.

The National Assessmentof Educational Progress, ad-ministered by the U.S. De-partment of Education, wasgiven in spring 2009 to50,000 high school seniors.

The results of the NAEPrun counter to educationalstatistics, according to thefederal report.

But those students’ agesjust happen to coincide withthe age of young boys andgirls who were introduced toHarry Potter during theheight of Pottermania.

Those young men andwomen were clearly undersome kind of enchantment.

Wizardry and witchcraftmay be a thing of the imagi-nation, but there is somemagic in this world, andRowling is the spellcaster.

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Trash Dogs recover abandoned trailerEd Gross, co-founder of the Curry

County Trash Dogs, hauled in thegroup’s latest catch on Thursday: a31-foot abandoned camp trailerfound on lower Cate Road nearGardner Ridge Road.

“This long-time eyesore was re-covered and recycled at CurryTransfer and Recycling,” said Gross,

a member of the Trash Dogs, a na-tionally-recognized group of volun-teers that regularly collects trashfrom local wilderness roads.

“The trailer was trashed andabandoned by the previous ownermore than a year ago,” Gross said.“With lots of assistance and a towfrom local rancher Byron Brimm,we were able to retrieve and recycleit.”

Gross said he, volunteer Ray

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BHHS students film NBC Academic ChallengeFive Brookings-Harbor

School District studentsfilmed their first NBC Aca-

demic Challenge Wednesdayat the KOBI studios in Med-ford.

The Academic Challengeis a game-show style aca-demic knowledge contest in

which teams of studentsfrom 20 Southern Oregonschools compete for $40,000in scholarships.

Last year the Bruins wereousted in Round 31 by South

Medford High School. Theteam has finished as high asthird place in past years.

NBC Academic Challengeairs at 9 p.m. Sundays onKOBI, Channel 12.

Businesses, officesclosed for Thanksgiving

Businesses and governmentoffices will be closed Thursdayfor observation of ThanksgivingDay.

City and county offices willbe closed on Thanksgiving, butpolice, sheriff, fire and otheremergency services will remainin operation. City offices will beclosed on Friday, but county of-fices will be open regular hours.

All Brookings-Harbor District17-C schools will be closed fromWednesday, Nov. 24, throughSunday, Nov. 28.

The United States Post Officewill be closed Thursday, mail tobe delivered the following day.

Chetco Community Public Li-brary wil close early on Wednes-day, at 5 p.m. They will be closedThursday and Friday, and be

open regular hours Saturday. The Chetco Senior Center

will serve dinner with all thetrimmings from noon to 3 p.m.Thanksgiving Day. The cost is$8 per adult; ages 5 to 12, $5.Ages five and younger will befree. They will be closed Friday.

Area banks will be closed onThursday, with business asusual on Friday. Chetco FederalCredit Union will be closedThursday and Saturday.

Curry Transfer and Recyclingwill observe regular trash pick-ups for residences and business-es; however the office will beclosed Thursday.

Most fast food restaurantsand a handful of independentlyowned businesses will remainopen on a partial basis.

By Scott GravesPilot staff writer

Ed Gross tows a trailer that was found on lower Cate Road in the forest east of Brookings.

By Arwyn RicePilot staff writer

CURRY COASTAL

Page 6A-Saturday, Nov. 20, 2010, Curry Coastal Pilot

JEF HATCH, SPORTS EDITOR – 541-469-3123 – JHATCH@CURRYPILOT.COM

The Brookings-HarborHigh School girls soccerteam had their season-end-ing banquet Wednesdaynight at the high school.

Head Coach Fred Juarezpresented a number ofawards including the FarWest League All-Leagueteam selections to nine ofthe Lady Bruins.

Every girl who playedBruin soccer this year let-tered. The list includes:Hannah Barron, BethaneeBottoms, Savannah Dalby,Mimi Fernandez, HannahGoergen, Samantha Henry,McCalla Murdock, JadeHeredia, Jessica McKee,Karlie Gonzalez, EmileeBottoms, Gemma Cowan,Louie Deraita, Kiara Evans,Mahalee Evans, Jessica Fer-nandez, Ciara Freeman,

Ashley Juarez, BriannaJuarez, Tiani Mitani, JillianMcCool and Lynette Ochoa.

One of the points thatJuarez made is that theteam is responsible forbeing Far West Leaguechampions for the fourthtime in as many years.

“There is nothing thatany coach, including myself,has done that is responsiblefor these girls’ four-peat,”he said. “These girls are thereason for their success.”

The other coaches in theFar West League seem tothink that Juarez had some-thing to do with the team’ssuccess as they awardedhim the league’s Coach ofthe Year award for this pastseason.

The Bruins had nine all-league athlete honors award-ed in addition to Juarez’ nodas coach of the year.

Jillian McCool, Ciara

Freeman, Ashley Juarezand Emilee Bottoms wereall awarded first-team allleague honors.

Second-team honors wentto Tiani Mitani and GemmaCowan.

Kiara Evans, MahaleeEvans and Louie Deraitawere awarded honorablemention awards.

With five first-teamaward winners the Bruinshad two more than leaguerivals North Bend andSutherlin while SouthUmpqua was only able toput one player in the first-team mix. All four of thefirst team honorees finishedjust out of running for theMVP award.

Coach Juarez explainedthat any one of the Bruinfirst-team selections couldhave been MVP and he wassurprised that one of themwasn’t chosen.

Boys soccer Head Coach Pancho Garciaexpressed his gratitude at being allowed tobe a part of the players’ lives Thursday nightat the boys soccer team’s year-end banquet.

He was quick to point out that the teamhad to adapt to new styles and improvisequickly this year but he was grateful thatthey were able to do so easily.

“We accomplished our goal of gettingmore united this year,” he said. “We drewcloser together as a team and that allowedus to change quickly.”

Garcia was full of advice to give his play-ers about their future and the expectationsfor next year. “Next year’s group of playerswill have the largest bunch of seniors,” hesaid. “Our goal should be to win the FarWest League title.”

Varsity letters were awarded to over 15members of the team including: Joe Budge,Travis Wiggins, Tyler Wood, Cole Hannan,Ben Cowan, Tyler Snow, Alan Anaya, Don-aldo Peña, Tyler Frazee, Alex Garibay,Louis Rodriquez, Jake Vaughn, Nick Cor-pening, Pete Peterson, Chandler Gottfried,Brock Bristow, Thomas Spratt and DylanRoberts.

Garcia also awarded a co-MVP award toPete Peterson and Nick Corpening for the

rolls they played in support of the entireteam.

“You have to have support people,” Garciasaid. “These two guys played everywhereand were the support that the offense need-ed.”

Budge was awarded the Most Inspira-tional award for always being a positive,supporting influence and never getting downon the team.

“You inspire me with your hard work,”Garcia said as he handed Budge his award.

Corpening, Peterson, Gotfried and Bris-tow were all awarded honorable mentionhonors for the Far West League all-leagueselection.

Spratt and Roberts were selected for first-team honors in the Far West League andAssistant Coach Dave Botnen expressed hissurprise at Roberts receiving the award.

“I never would have thought that Dylanwould make first-team,” he said. “Not be-cause he isn’t good enough but because hefilled so many different positions as neededthat I didn’t think they would be able to se-lect him to any one position. I guess it didn’thurt when it came time to be selected.”

Garcia capped off the evening by express-ing his hopes that every soccer player willcome out for the team next season.

“We can be champions but, we have towork hard.”

Boys soccer banquetrecognizes inspirationBy Jef HatchPilot staff writer

The Pilot/Jef HatchBoys soccer team all-league honor recipients are, back row from left:Dylan Roberts, Brock Bristow and Nick Corpening. Front row from left:Pete Peterson, Thomas Spratt and Chandler Gotfried.

By Jef HatchPilot staff writer

The Pilot/Jef Hatch

BHHS girls soccer team Far West League award winners are back row:Tiani Mitani, left, Emilee Bottoms, Ciara Freeman, Jillian McCool and Ash-ley Juarez. Front row: Kiara Evans, left, Gemma Cowan, Louie Deraitaand Mahalee Evans.

Lady Bruin soccer team honorsFar West League champions

SMITH RIVER — PautzkeBait Co.’s owner and generalmanager took advantage ofthis year’s big run of fall kingson the Smith River to see firsthand how effective theirnewest cure is for lunkersalmon.

Pautzke owner and CEOCasey Kelley and general man-ager Don Sherman fished theSmith Nov. 16 with pro staffguide Andy Martin of WildRivers Fishing, field testingeggs cured in Pautzke’s FireCure and BorxOFire. The pairhooked six salmon and kept alimit of bright kings.

“The river was low andclear and the salmon wereholding in the deeper holeslower in the river,” Martinsaid. “We decided to fish small-er clusters of eggs with Corkiesto help float them up off thebottom.”

Eggs from salmon caughtearlier this season on theSmith were used as bait.

Both Pautzke cures containkrill, which seems to be a hotadditive for salmon this fall onthe Smith, Martin said. “There

were guys fishing live sandshrimp, which is usually oneof the best baits you can get,but the eggs cured with thePautzke cure with the krillcaught the first few fish out ofthe hole we were all fishing,”

Martin said.Pautzke Bait Co. is based

in Ellensburg, Wash. It is bestknown for its jarred singlesalmon eggs, but in recentyears has become a marketleader in egg cures and scents.

Team Pautzke catches Smith River kings

SALEM — Oregon Departmentof Fish and Wildlife will host sev-eral public meetings to present pro-posed new rules related to thetraining of hunting dogs and rap-tors and competitive field trials forhunting dogs.

The purpose of the revision is torelax and clarify the current rules,which are inconsistent with mostcommercial and recreational dogand raptor training taking place.

For example, dog trainers havebeen releasing their privately-

raised game birds (pheasants,chukars) to train their huntingdogs without realizing that a per-mit is needed to release the birds.State statute defines game birdsby taxonomic family and the term“wildlife” includes all game birds,meaning no distinction is made be-tween captive-raised and wild-bornbirds.

“ODFW wants to revise the rulesso they provide an opportunity toconduct dog training and competi-tive trials for hunting dogs while

remaining consistent with statutes,policies and mandates,” explainedBrandon Reishus, ODFW assistantgame bird biologist.

ODFW will accept public com-ments on the proposed revisedrules at the public meetings. Com-ments can also be sent to odfw.com-ments@state.or.us; ODFW WildlifeDivision, 3406 Cherry Ave NE,Salem, OR 97302; fax (503) 947-6330. Comments received beforeJan. 20, 2011 will be included inthe February 2011 Commission

packet. ODFW staff are scheduled to

present final draft rules to the Fishand Wildlife Commission for po-tential adoption at their Feb. 4,2011 meeting in Salem.

Public testimony will also betaken at this meeting.

All meetings listed below beginat 6:30 p.m. See ODFW’s back-grounder on the revision and thedraft revised rules for more infor-mation.

•Nov. 22 – Springfield, Oregon

Dept of Forestry, 3150 E. Main St.•Nov. 23 – Clackamas, Monarch

Hotel, 12566 SE 93rd Avenue.•Nov. 29 – La Grande, Blue

Mountain Conference Center, 102Elm St.

•Nov. 30 – Bend, Bend PublicLibrary, 601 NW Wall Street.

•Dec. 1 – Klamath Falls, OSUExtension Service Meeting Room,3328 Vandenberg Road.

•Dec. 2 – Central Point, RogueWatershed District Office, 1495 E.Gregory Road.

Public meetings on revised dog and raptor training rules

Pautzke Bait Co. general manger Don Sherman,left, and CEO Casey Kelley hold a pair of SmithRiver kings caught Nov. 16 while fishing withguide Andy Martin of Wild Rivers Fishing.

Submitted photo

Beauty and the BeastBridget Adam, ofBrookings, caughtthis over 40-poundking on a Chetcococktail (roe andshrimp) while fish-ing with GuideJimmy Day ofBrookings at SocialSecurity Bar. Brid-get has been fish-ing since she was10, throwing lineoff the pier in Im-perial Beach, Calif.Since moving toOregon, she hascaught 10 salmonbut this is herbiggest fish to date.

Submitted photo

Bank fishing made easyAfter this weekend’s rain

starts abating, the rest of theweek is looking very promis-ing for more fresh runs ofsalmon, and believe it or not— steelhead. I saw more thanone metalhead being cleanedat the fillet station last week.So bank fishermen, get readyto stuff a steely for Thanks-giving.

This column is especiallygeared for neophyte anglers,so if you are new to the sportof fishing, please have thiscolumn laminated and tape itto your refrigerator.

What many experiencedfishermen tend to forget isthat at one time, we were alsonew to salmon fishing, andwhat appears to be commonlingo to us is a foreign lan-guage to fledgling fishermen.

Before I moved up herefrom Oceanside some 30years ago, I was deckhandingfor Joe Cacciola at Helgren’sSportfishing, spending everyweekend fishing the southernCalifornia coast, thinking Iwas a pretty good fisherman.

Naturally, I thought catch-ing Chetco River salmonwould be a piece of cake. WasI ever surprised. My wideawakening came when fallChinook made their first ap-pearance on the Chetco.Kings of mammoth propor-tions were rolling and jump-ing on both sides of the river,and everyone seemed to havea fish on except for me. Myego was truly deflated. Thelesson here is: When it comesto fishing rivers for salmonand steelhead, everyone is abeginner.

If you’re really seriousabout becoming a successfulangler for salmon and steel-head, there are several thingsyou need to do.

Believe it or not, fishing iswork — hard work. It’s not alazy man’s activity as somepeople think. So I’ve decidedto make it a little easier onyou by clueing you in on bankfishing the Chetco River.

The first thing you need todo is realize that bad weatherand good weather are onlyrelative terms. When folksare depressed about havingtoo much rain, I’m in seventhheaven. For good fishing, I’lltake a rainy, overcast day onthe river any time.

Rain makes the rivers rise,and when the Chetco rises,that sparks batches of fish toenter. So the manner in whichyou fish for salmon is totallydependent on water levels.There is no one method thatconsistently catches fish incoastal rivers. You must ab-solutely have a minimum offour different fishing tech-niques and the gear to matchthem for different riverheights.

In the old days, peopleknew when to fish by payingattention to weather reports,

sticking their head out thedoor and looking at the river.While that’s still done today,there’s an even more accurateway of gauging whether ornot to use one fishing methodover another — the internet.

Reading the Chetco Rivergauge is absolutely critical tosuccess. Get in the habit oflooking at it every day. Waterlevels dictate the fishingmethod you’ll use. To view theChetco’s daily river flows inreal time, go to: www.rivervil-la.com. At the top left-handside of your computer screenyou will see “RecreationalRiver Flows.” Left click onthat link. You will now cometo a list of the most popularrivers in this area. Left clickon the Chetco River and youwill come to current river lev-els.

In the last 10 years, plunk-

ing from the bank or from aboat has taken its rightfulplace in the fishing repertoire,but it is only effective whenthe river has been high andis on-the-drop. In the Chetco,plunkers do quite well forsteelhead and salmon fromthe bank when the river lev-els are between 5,000 and9,000 cubic feet per second(CFS).

Plunking is best done afterthe river has been blown outand muddy and has taken ona slate-gray or pea-green ap-pearance while the river isdropping. For plunking, youwill need size 2, 4 and 6 Spin-N-Glos. The color FlameChartreuse is a stalwart fa-vorite on this river. You willalso need a lot of different sizelead sinkers ranging from 4to 8 ounces. Just get a dedi-cated plunking box and thelocal tackle dealers will sellyou the rest.

Don’t bother plunkingwhen the river is 2,000 cfs,unless you want a few rocksand four-letter expletivesthrown your way. You’ll notonly look like a fool, but youwill hog all the good drift-fish-ing spots. See, the manner inwhich you fish changes withriver levels.

When the river is between1,500 and 4,000 cfs, that’stextbook drift-fishing waterfor bank fishermen. You willneed another dedicated fish-ing box full of slinkies, lead-core sinkers (AKA pencillead), some Puff Balls, ‘LilCorkies, Okie Drifters androe. Roe is simply a term forsalmon eggs.

To drift-fish from the bank,find a tail-out and use enoughlead to keep you bouncing onthe bottom. Salmon are usu-ally at the bottom pool of ariffle while steelhead willoften be at the upper end.You will be cutting off piecesof pencil lead to match thespeed of the current. Again,local tackle shops will showyou how to rig up.

When the river is 1,500 cfsand below, then you can castand retrieve three-quarterounce gold Kastmasters andone-ounce Krocodiles in thelower river and estuary.

At this level, you can alsouse bobbers and sand shrimp,or bobbers and sand shrimpcocktails in the slacker water.We’re not talking about the

red-and-white round bobbers.These are slip-bobbers, de-signed for long casts and tomaintain your bait at a spe-cific distance below the bob-ber.

One of the best bobber fish-ermen on the planet is JackHanson of Jack’s Guide Serv-ice. To see his Super Stealthy

Bobber Rig meant to be usedin clear water, pick up No-vember’s Northwest Sports-man. His secrets for successare in the Rig Of The Month.

It doesn’t hurt to have ded-icated bobber, drift-fishingand spinner/spoon tackleboxes as well.

Tight lines.

The Salmon Run Men’sClub held their 10th Annual“Turkey Shoot” Wednesday anddespite the threat of rain, theturkeys, ‘er men, came out ina “flock.”

The tournament featured33 players in three and fourman teams playing a scram-bel format.

“Our tournament director,Bob Almada, did a very goodjob,” men’s club President RonSloniker said. “Everyoneseemed to have a good time outon the course and enjoyed thegreat lunch prepared by theSalmon Run restaurant staff.”

On a cloudy, cool morning thegolfers’ attire ranged from shortsto heavy jackets and ski caps.

Results were:First Low Gross – Jim

Barnes, Frank Congdon, Steve

Poponi. Second Low Gross — Don

Stiles, Luke Thornton, BillVanscoy, Larry Wallen.

First Low Net — JamieBerkowitz, Dick Craig, GeorgeFrick, Ron Sloniker.

Second Low Net — GaryCooper, Dave Mahaffey. MikeMurray, Bill Smyth.

Awards given for closest tothe pin were:

Don Jackson, Team Robin-

son, Team Strahm and TeamCongdon.

The men’s club also raffledoff “goodies” that ranged fromfree hair cuts to golf equip-ment. Dick Craig, in a turn ofgood luck, won both pair of golfshoes raffled.

The men’s club is planninga Super Bowl Tournament tobe held either the week beforethe Super Bowl or on the dayitself, Sloniker said.

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Golf NewsBy Don VilelleSpecial to the Pilot

George Daves from Medford, Oregon was fishingon the Chetco River with Craig Paulson of SideLine Guide on Monday when this lunker Chinookfell for a back-trolled Kwikfish with a sardinewrapper.

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Hang on, the salmon and steelhead aren’t done yetMore fish are expected up the river as storms alter the rivers’ water levels

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Intoxicated subject, 5:35p.m.: 1100 block of ChetcoAvenue.

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Ellen Mae Foley, 66, ofBrookings, passed away Nov.16, 2010, at her home inBrookings of natural causes.

Ellen was born July 20,1944, in Pipestone, Minn., toRichard and Juanita (Mack-ey) O’Connell.

She spent her childhoodthere, and following highschool, went to work for thephone company in Min-neapolis.

She married Patrick FoleyJune 6, 1964, in Pipestone.They moved to Southern Cal-ifornia where they lived untilmoving to Crescent City in1978.

After Patrick passed theOregon Bar Exam, the cou-ple moved to Brookings.Ellen was a homemakerwhile her children wereyoung. She later beganworking in her husband’slaw office. She served as hisoffice manager until herhealth would not allow it.Ellen was very artistic andenjoyed everything fromneedlepoint and crochetingto painting. She was a mem-ber of Star of the SeaCatholic Church. A caringand loyal wife, mother andgrandmother, Ellen will bemissed deeply.

Survivors include Patrick,her husband of 46 years, ofBrookings; son Patrick M.and his wife Jennifer Foleyof Albany; daughter KatiePratt and her husband USNavy EM1 Travis Pratt, cur-rently serving aboard theUSS Enterprise; sonMatthew Foley of Eugene;grandchildren Jennifer,Stephen, Michael and Cecil-ia; brothers Mike O’Connelland his wife Mary ofElkhart, Ind., Tom O’Connell

of Seattle; sisters LindaShaw of Creswell, and Pa-tricia Manau of Sioux Falls,S.D.

Ellen was preceded indeath by a brother DavidO’Connell.

A Mass of Christian Bur-ial will be at 10:30 a.m., Sat-urday, Nov. 20, at Star of theSea Catholic Church. TheRosary will begin at 10 a.m.Rev. Luan Nguyen will becelebrating.

A luncheon reception willfollow the Mass in theParish Hall. A gravesidecommittal and intermentwill be at 1 p.m., Dec. 4, atSt. Leo Catholic Cemeteryin Pipestone, Rev. GeraldKosse officiating.

Arrangements are underthe direction of Redwood Me-morial Chapel in Brookingsand Hartquist FuneralHome in Pipestone.

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Submitted by RedwoodMemorial Chapel.

Ellen Mae FoleyJuly 20, 1944-Nov. 16, 2010

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Robert “Bob” Lewis, 81, ofBrookings, died Nov. 11,2010, as a result of injuriessustained in a motor vehicleaccident in Brookings.

Bob was born July 2, 1929,in Salt Lake City, to Leo andGenvieve (Atwood) Lewis.

When Bob was 6 years old,the family moved to southernCalifornia where Bob wouldeventually graduate fromFullerton Junior College. Heworked with his grandfatherand stepfather in carpentrybriefly before beginning whatwould be a 25-year career inlaw enforcement. Starting inthe patrol division, Bobworked his way up to inves-tigator with the OrangeCounty Sheriff’s Office.

After retiring in 1993, hemoved to Brookings where heenjoyed hunting and fishing.

Bob married MargaretClem March 11, 2003, inCrescent City. He was amember of Elks Lodge 1934.

Survivors include his wifeMargaret of Brookings;daughters Kandi Crow andher husband Richard of CaveJunction, and Connie Eatonof Merlin; stepchildrenRichard Clem and his wifePaul of Norco, Calif., GenaMiller and her husband Dougof Indian Head, Md., JoannaCampfield and her husbandRichard of Grand Junction,Colo., Jody Cantu of SantaAna, Calif.; grandchildrenTina Edgerton, CindyBrinkman, Robert Crow andKimberly Crow, and numer-ous step-grandchildren. Alsosurviving are great-grand-children Kevin, Brandon, Ali-

cia and Dakota; son-in-lawPaul Edgerton of GrantsPass.

Bob was preceded in deathby a brother, Roy Lewis.

Memorial contributionsmay be made to the Hunts-man Cancer Foundation, 500Huntsman Way, Salt LakeCity, UT 84108.

A funeral service will beat 10 a.m., Tuesday, Nov. 23,at the Church of Jesus Christof Latter-day Saints, 770 ElkDrive, in Brookings.

Grave dedication and in-terment will follow at W.J.Ward Memorial Cemetery. Aluncheon will follow the in-terment at the church.

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Robert ‘Bob’ LewisJuly 2, 1929-Nov. 11, 2010

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VaLeska was born Feb. 13,1925, and passed away Nov.15, 2010.

Preceding her in deathwere her parents, two hus-bands, a sister, a daughterand two grandsons.

During the early 1940s sheleft Des Moines, Iowa on thetrain with her son Leonard.Leonard Senior was in theU.S. Army. She settled in Tor-rance, Calif., and worked atDouglas Aircraft, in LongBeach for nine years.

The family enjoyed manycamping trips. After a divorceVaLeska relocated to Ridge-crest, Calif., and then toYuma, Ariz., where sheresided for many years.

She married Hurley Webband they had great fun ridingthe country on Harleys. Theybecame “snow birds” andspent time in San Felipe, Mex-ico where they enjoyed fishing.

VaLeska was a creativeperson and worked with var-ious crafts and lived her lifedoing what she wanted to do.She also looked forward tospending time with her sisterin Long Beach. She was aspunky lady.

VaLeska is survived by herson Leonard Burton, anddaughter-in-law Violet, ofBrookings; grandson DanielBurton, of Peoria, Ariz.; grand-

daughters Tammy Burton, ofInglewood, Calif., and LaurieKennedy, of Omaha, Neb.;step-grandson Sean Solomon,of Huntington Beach, Calif.Also surviving are nine great-grandchildren and threegreat-great-grandchildren.

Donations may be made inher name to Curry CountyHome Health Hospice, P.O.Box 6042, Brookings OR97314.

Arrangements are underthe direction of Redwood Me-morial Chapel.

Condolences may be ex-pressed online at www.red-woodmemorial.net.

VaLeska Colleen Russell Burton Webb

Feb. 13, 1925-Nov. 14, 2010

VaLeska Colleen Webb

Former Brookings residentMary Lee Foglesong, 67, ofGrants Pass, passed awaySunday, Nov. 14, 2010, inMedford.

She was born April 18,1943, in Marshall, Mo.

A funeral was held Nov.19, in Central Point.

Memorial contributionsmay be made to the Ameri-can Diabetes Association,2350 Oakmont Way, Suite205, Eugene OR 97401.

Mary Lee Foglesong

Walter Louis Oneto, 93,passed away on Nov. 17,2010, in Crescent City.

He was born on Jan. 27,1917 in Jackson, Calif.

Oneto was a 25-year resi-

dent of Del Norte County.Private services were con-

ducted under the direction ofWier’s Mortuary Chapel ofCrescent City.

Walter Louis Oneto

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Felipe Galindo-Ochoa, 60,Bell, Calif., was convicted Nov.10 of driving under the influ-ence of intoxicants. He wassentenced to 48 hours in jail,24 months’ probation and or-dered to pay $930.

~~~Logan James Beaudry, 22,

Brookings, was sentenced onNov. 15 for his Nov. 3 convic-tions on four counts of burgla-ry, unauthorized use of a ve-hicle, two counts of first-de-gree theft and two of second-degree theft. He was sen-tenced to 52 months in prisonand 90 days in jail. He is alsorequired to pay $2,600 plusunitary assessments. Restitu-tion is to be determined with-in 90 days.

~~~Bill Dee Coon, 48, Gold

Beach, was convicted by de-fault Nov. 15 of false liabilityinsurance information to po-lice. He was ordered to pay$1,250.

~~~Collette Alisha Dufour, 27,

Brookings, was convicted Nov.15 of driving under the influ-ence of intoxicants. She wasplaced on a one-year diversionand ordered to pay $458.

~~~Bette Lynn Rose, 41,

Grants Pass, was convictedNov. 15 of possession ofmethamphetamine. Sentenc-ing was set for Dec. 1.

~~~Kenneth Allen Vandervo-

orden, 47, Gold Beach, wasconvicted Nov. 16 of posses-sion of less than an ounce ofmarijuana. He was ordered topay $1,000.

~~~Matthew Michael Barbic,

25, Brookings, was convicted

Nov. 16 of driving under theinfluence of intoxicants. Hewas placed on a one-year di-version and ordered to pay$458.

~~~Dale Robin Busko, 50, Gold

Beach, was convicted Nov. 16of driving under the influenceof intoxicants. He was placedon a one-year diversion andordered to pay $458.

~~~Deborah Francesca Jacquez,

19, Brookings, was sentencedNov. 16 for her Oct. 29 convic-tion for reckless driving andcriminal mischief. She wassentenced to 100 hours of com-munity service, 36 months’ pro-bation and ordered to pay $322plus restitution to be deter-mined within 90 days for reck-less driving and 36 months’probation and to pay $102 forcriminal mischief.

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22, Ashland, was convicted bydefault Nov. 16 for possessionof less than an ounce of mari-juana. He was ordered to pay$1,045.

~~~Breanne Kytola, 24, Port

Orford, failed to appear Nov.16 for arraignment on a showcause order. A warrant was is-sued for her arrest.

~~~Donald Eugene Phillips, 28,

Brookings, was convicted Nov.16 of two counts of contemptof court. He was sentenced to60 days in jail.

~~~Steven John Specht, 23,

Brookings, who was convictedNov. 2 of commercial deliveryof methamphetamine, possess-ing a firearm as a felon andthree counts of identity theft,

was sentenced on Nov. 16 tofive years in prison. That was23 months for delivering meth,13 months each for the threeidentity theft convictions, andone month for the possessionof a firearm. All but threemonths are to be served con-secutively. Restitution is to bedetermined within 90 days.He is to serve 36 months’ post-prison supervision on themeth conviction and 12months’ supervision each onthe other three felonies. Hereceived 36 months’ probationon the gun conviction.

~~~Leslie Ann Martin, 37, Gold

Beach, was convicted Nov. 16of possession of less than anounce of marijuana. She wasordered to pay $500.

~~~Cory Allen Bones, 24,

Brookings, was convicted Nov.16 of first-degree burglary. OnNov. 17, he was sentenced to30 days in jail, 36 months’ pro-bation and to pay $1,642 plus$102 restitution.

~~~William D. Urie, 47, Med-

ford, was convicted Nov. 17 ofa misdemeanor treated as aviolation. He was ordered topay $500.

~~~Denise L. Cairns, Brook-

ings, was convicted Nov. 17 ofprobation violation. She wassentenced to four days in jailand her probation was contin-ued.

~~~Victor Manuel Pelayo, 25,

Brookings, was convicted Nov.17 of driving under the influ-ence of intoxicants. He wasplaced on a one-year diversionand ordered to pay $458.

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Lacy Lynn Rose Landers,24, Harbor, was convicted Nov.17 of possession of metham-phetamine. He was given an18-month conditional dis-charge and ordered to pay$785.

~~~Kerry Dallas Bolter, 45,

Port Orford, was convictedNov. 17 of contempt of court.He was ordered to pay $250.

~~~Christopher Cole, 37,

Trinidad, Calif., was convictedNov. 18 of possession of mari-juana. He was sentenced to 10days in jail, 18 months’ pro-bation and was ordered to pay$785.

~~~Kelly Shannon Bosch, 51,

Petaluma, Calif., was convict-ed Nov. 18 of violation of twoprobations. Probation was con-tinued and extended twoyears, and Bosch was sen-tenced to 20 days in jail andanother 180 days suspended.

~~~Donald Glenn Eldridge, 36,

Harbor, was convicted Nov. 18of assault. He was sentencedto 10 days in jail, 36 months’probation and ordered to pay$1,135.

~~~Jacob Benjamin Hefner, 27,

Central Point, was convictedNov. 18 of unauthorized useof a motor vehicle. He was sen-tenced to 13 months in prison,24 months’ post-prison super-vision and ordered to pay $107plus restitution to be deter-mined within 90 days.

~~~Walter Reed Craft Jr., 34,

Gold Beach, failed to appearfor a scheduled court hearingon Nov. 18. A warrant was is-sued for his arrest.

~~~Chris Lynn Hobbs, 31,

Lebanon, failed to appear Nov.18 for arraignment on a showcause order. A warrant was is-sued for Hobbs’ arrest.

~~~Killian Curtis Kemp, 26,

Brookings, was convicted Nov.18 of driving under the influ-ence of intoxicants. He wasplaced on a one-year diversionand ordered to pay $458.

~~~Cory Lee Lang, 21, McMin-

nville, was convicted Nov. 18of assault. He was given a 24-month deferred sentence andordered to pay $567.

~~~Justin Forest Martino, 30,

Gold Beach, was convictedNov. 18 of possession ofmethamphetamine. He wasgiven an 18-month conditionaldischarge, sentenced to twodays in jail and ordered to pay$785.

~~~Joshua Thom Sanchez-Fos-

dick, 23, Coquille, was convict-ed Nov. 18 of possession ofmethamphetamine. He wasgiven an 18-month conditionaldischarge and ordered to pay$785.

~~~John Robert Serna, 24, Eu-

gene, was convicted Nov. 18 ofharassment. He was sentencedto 160 hours of community and24 months’ probation and or-dered to pay $885.

~~~Gerald David Torrance, 74,

Brookings, was convicted Nov.18 of recklessly endangeringanother. He was sentenced to36 months’ probation, to pay$885, and to possess no gunsduring probation.

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Jonathan Dean Wilbur, 19,Harbor, was convicted Nov. 18of criminal mischief. He wasgiven a two-year deferred sen-tence and ordered to pay $142plus a $100 compensatory fineto Brookings Police Depart-ment and restitution to be de-termined.

~~~Kelly J. Lovejoy, 37, Brook-

ings, was convicted Nov. 18 ofreckless driving and failure toappear on a criminal citationand was sentenced Nov. 19five days in jail, 24 months’probation and to pay $505 forreckless driving and 20 daysin jail, to be served concur-rently, 24 months’ probationand to pay $285 for failure toappear.

~~~Bobby E. Jones, 40, Cres-

cent City, failed to appear Nov.19 for arraignment on a showcause order. A warrant was is-sued for his arrest.

~~~Jon Gordon Miller, 34,

Crescent City, was convictedNov. 19 of identity theft. Hewas placed on 18 months’ pro-bation and ordered to pay$762.

~~~Vernon Dale Stewart, 43,

Gold Beach, failed to appearNov. 19 for a pretrial confer-ence on a possession of methcharge. A warrant was issuedfor his arrest.

~~~Alane Todd Vanhorn, 44,

Brookings, whose diversion fordriving under the influence ofintoxicants was revoked, wassentenced for DUII on Nov. 19.He was sentenced to 120hours of community service,24 months’ probation and or-dered to pay $1,635

The following informationis taken from the daily logsof local law enforcement agen-cies. Charges listed are pre-liminary and are made at thediscretion of the arresting of-ficer or agency. Charges maybe amended or dropped at thediscretion of the district at-torney or courts.

Tuesday, Nov. 16Heather Iverson, 22, of

Gold Beach, for probation vi-olation; no bail.

Samuel Jefferies, 54, ofBrookings, for probation vio-lation; no bail.

Troy D. Wells, 38, of MountVernon, for driving under the

influence of intoxicants;booked and released.

Deetta Jean Wagner, 44, ofLanglois, for failure to per-form the duties of a driver;booked and released.

Wednesday, Nov. 17Michael Burke, 21, of

Brookings, for probation vio-lation.

Freeman Watson Pope, 41,of Brookings, for contept ofcourt; bail set at $7,500.

Colby Shane Busch, 25, ofCoos Bay for a wildlife of-fense; bail set at $15,000.

Toby Wayne Stanley, 19, ofGold Beach, for unlawful pos-session of methamphetamine

and unlawful possession ofmarijuana; bail set at$35,000.

Thursday, Nov. 18Kiley William Ortman, 35,

of Brookings, for unlawfulpossesion of marijuan, unlaw-ful possesion of hashish, un-lawful possesion of metham-phetamines, controlled sub-stance offenses, distributionof methemphetamine anddriving under the influenceof intoxicants; bail set at$135,000.

Codey Allan Grable, 19, ofPort Orford, for contempt ofcourt; bail set at $2,500.

David Michael Sanchez,

20, of Brookings, for an out-of-state warrant; no bail.

Donald Glen Eldridge, 36,36, of Harbor, was relodgedfor a fourth-degree assaultconviction; no bail.

Scott Victor Davidson, 54,no residence listed, for drivingunder the influence of intox-icants; cited and released.

Friday, Nov. 19Wayne Mathew Brinkley,

35, of Medford, for parole vi-olation; no bail.

Amy Lee Crescioni, 45, ofFlorence, for unlawful posse-sion of marijuana and unlaw-ful possesion of methamphet-amine; bail set at $75,000.

County Jail Log

Wednesday, Nov. 3Possession of a controlled

substance, 2:20 p.m.: Twomen from Cave Junctionwere contacted after theywere spotted picking mush-rooms along Old Coast Roada mile north of Gold Beach.The trooper believed themushrooms to be psilocybin.The mushrooms were confis-cated and sent to the CentralPoint crime lab for analysis.

Wednesday, Nov. 10Agency assist, 3:49 p.m.:

Two troopers assisted Brook-ings Police Department on astolen vehicle stop. The driv-er was a wanted felon. Thedriver and passenger weretaken out of the vehicle atgunpoint without incident onFern Avenue. A small amountof methamphetamine, a nee-dle and a pipe were found.Both men were transportedto Curry County Jail.

DUII, 6:44 p.m.: A mo-torist was pulled over onHighway 101 near milepost

356 for suspicion of drivingunder the influence of intox-icants. The driver failed afield sobriety test and laterrecorded a blood alcohol of.12. He was cited for DUII,driving while suspended,driving uninsured andswitching license plates onhis vehicle.

Agency assist, 10:32 p.m.:A trooper assisted Brookingsa police officer attempting tolocated a man who fled onfoot into the woods in the 500block of Fifth Street. The sus-pect was found hiding in thecreek, taken into custodywithout incident and trans-ported to Curry County Jail.

Thursday, Nov. 11Agency assist, 2:30 p.m.:

Oregon State Police trooperswere dispatched to assistBrookings Police Departmentin investigating a fatal crashon Highway 101 near Car-penterville Road.

DUII, 4:14 p.m.: A troopertook over investigation of amotorist driving under the

influence of intoxicants in thelower parking lot at AzaleaPark after a Brookings policeofficer was sent on anothercall. The driver failed a fieldsobriety test, and was foundwith a .21 blood alcohol level.He was cited for DUII andhaving an open container inthe vehicle.

Friday, Nov. 12Recklessly endangering,

11:40 a.m.: A driver was ob-served failing to stop for aconstruction flagger on High-way 101 near milepost 353.When pulled over, the driversaid he was not paying at-tention and tried to slowdown. The driver was citedfor recklessly endangering ahighway worker.

DUII, 7:10 p.m.: A mo-torist was observed drivingfrom the state line to theChetco River bridge possiblyunder the influence of intox-icants with two children inthe vehicle. A breath sampleindicated blood alcohol of .22,almost triple the legal limit.

The driver was cited for driv-ing under the influence of in-toxicants and two counts ofrecklessly endangering.

Agency assist, 11:52 p.m.:A trooper assisted a Brook-ings police officer in a trafficstop. A police dog alerted of-ficers to possible drugs. Asearch found 15 grams ofmethamphetamine. Bothpeople in the car were bookedinto the Curry County Jail.

Tuesday, Nov. 16DUII, 4:30 p.m.: During a

traffic stop on Highway 101near milepost 356, the driverwas found to have a strongodor of alcohol. The driverfailed a field sobriety test.His blood alcohol was .00. Hethen consented to a urinesample. The driver was citedfor driving under the influ-ence of intoxicants, posses-sion of a controlled sub-stance, reckless driving andfailure to maintain a safe dis-tance from an emergency ve-hicle.

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CRESCENT CITY — Itwould be hard to call JasonConger a late bloomer.

He left home at age 16,married at age 21, and thatsame year made his first runfor political office — for CityCouncil in Crescent City —before he even finished hisfour-year college degree.

Today, at 42, he's a partnerwith a prestigious Portland-based law firm, founded a

company that invests in apart-ment complexes and sits onthe boards of several other cor-porations as well as that of theTrinity Lutheran Church.

And now he’s been electedto the Oregon Legislature asa Republican state represen-tative after unseating Demo-cratic incumbent Judy Stieglerin the Nov. 2 election.

Conger says he decided torun because he disapproved ofthe 2009 Legislature, notablyits tax increases.

“I just sort of stuck myhand up and said ‘I’m willing

to do this,'” Conger said,adding his faith is part of whyhe ran. He cited “the call toserve and the obligation toserve. ... I feel like we all insome capacity should do whatwe can to make our state andour community better, andthis felt like something I coulddo.”

He will represent HouseDistrict 54, which includes thecentral Oregon city of Bend.

Conger made his personalhistory a staple of his politicalcampaign, talking about hisyouth living under “crushingpoverty.” In one of his radioads, the female narrator said,“Once homeless and living outof the back of his dad's pickup,Conger worked his waythrough college and HarvardLaw School.”

The full story takes longerto tell.

Conger’s parents were partof the hippie movement in the’60s and ’70s, he said. His fa-ther, a contractor, declaredbankruptcy and divorced hismother when Conger was 8.His father remarried andmoved around a lot: Congerlived in Oregon, Colorado andWashington before, at age 12,the family settled in CrescentCity.

When he was a teenager,Conger left home because hedidn’t get along with his father.He lived in a trailer park for atime and took night classes tofinish high school while work-ing day jobs at Burger Kingand Circle K. He moved toSacramento and worked in theconstruction industry buildinghomes and doing carpentry.

Conger then returned toCrescent City to work and goback to school, eventuallygraduating from Sunset HighSchool.

It was here that he marriedhis high school sweetheart,Amy, and became interestedin politics. Four City Councilmembers were recalled formalfeasance, and Conger ranfor one of the seats. One of 11candidates, Conger took fifthplace with 246 votes; with just21 more he would have beenelected, according to the DelNorte County Elections Office.

According to Conger, he hasbeen homeless three times inhis life.

The first time was when hewas 3 or 4 and his parentswere living in the Santa CruzMountains in a utility truckhis father purchased at anauction. They lived in acamper shell in the truck, Con-ger said.

Conger’s father, Dennis,portrays it differently from hisson's campaign. Currently thedirector of operations for theKlamath River Early Collegeof the Redwoods, he says itwasn’t a pickup: rather, thefamily used a modified campershell on a converted 2-tondump truck and they livedthere on a friend’s land for freein exchange for working on theproperty. The living arrange-ment wasn’t for lack of money,Conger’s father said — in fact,they’d just sold a house in thearea and had a “decent”amount of money in the bankeven as Dennis worked inter-mittently as a well-paid car-penter.

“I wouldn’t characterize it as‘homelessness,’ but I supposefrom some viewpoints it mightbe considered that,” DennisConger said. “We spent a sum-

mer essentially camping out inthe Santa Cruz Mountains.”

“It was one of those nice in-terludes in your life,” headded. “It was sort of a periodof decision-making: what dowe want to do next?”

Later, the family stayedwith Conger’s grandmotherwhile his father looked forwork.

The former head of a socialservices agency, Dennis Con-ger said he isn’t sure the fam-ily actually sank below thepoverty line, though it defi-nitely faced some very hardtimes. And he doesn’t viewthem as ever having beenhomeless, in terms of living onthe street.

Still, Dennis Conger saidhis son’s success is a tributeto his abilities.

“We were not able to helpJason,” he said. “He has ac-complished some remarkablethings. ... I am proud of him.”

Jason Conger says the bot-tom line was that they didn’thave a lot of money, addingwhen his father says living inthe mountains wasn’t home-lessness, he may be speakingfrom a place of pride.

“I don’t know how else youcan characterize it when youdon’t have a house and youspend a significant amount oftime living on the back of atruck in a camper shell,” hesaid.

The final period of home-lessness occurred when Con-ger was 18 and working at adeli in Sacramento. He andhis manager didn't get alongand “parted company,” Congersaid, meaning he could no

longer live in a house ownedby the deli owner. Because hisboss stiffed him on his lastpaycheck, Conger said, he hadonly a Datsun pickup and $25in his pocket.

“A friend of a friend basi-cally just took me in and letme sleep in their kids’ bunkbed for a couple of weeks whileI looked for a job,” he said.

Conger said during thecampaign he talks about hispast not to exploit it, but be-cause he wants people to knowhis views are based on life ex-perience.

“I felt that it was importantfor people to know that justbecause I went to HarvardLaw School doesn't mean Istarted there,” he said. “Beingpoor during most of my child-hood years, I just feel very mo-tivated to work hard and nothave my family in that situa-tion.”

After Conger lost his Cres-cent City Council bid, FrankRiggs, a local congressionalcandidate, invited him to workon his campaign. Riggs wonand Conger spent a year inWashington, D.C., which hesays opened his eyes to a “com-pletely different world.”

He went back to Californiato finish his four-year degreeat Humboldt State. He wentto work for Riggs in his districtoffice there. He also served asdirector of the North CoastSmall Business DevelopmentCenter and sat on the Califor-nia Small Business Develop-ment Advisory Council.

Conger then was acceptedto Harvard Law School, wherehe spent three of his six se-mesters as a teaching fellow,teaching subclasses of stu-dents for $2,000 to $3,000 asemester. The rest of his tu-ition was funded from finan-cial aid and student loans, hesaid.

From there, he got a jobwith Cooley Godward KronishLLP, working as a corporatelawyer in San Diego. There,he says he was part of at least20 mergers and acquisitions,and worked on more than 50venture capital and private eq-uity deals.

He was considered an as-sociate, a level below partner,and was often not the lead at-torney on the deals. But some-times he was, such as whenhe oversaw the public stockoffering of Dot Hill, a Col-orado-based high-tech firm.

“I worked on a lot of deals;some of them were very com-plex, and I was able to learna lot, observe a lot from work-ing with those businesses,” hesaid.

Six years ago he and hiswife decided they wanted tomove to a small town and set-tled on Bend.

“We felt pretty strongly thatwe wanted to get back to theNorthwest and back to asmaller town with more op-portunity for the kids to enjoythe outdoors and just not beimmersed in the SouthernCalifornia culture,” he said.

He went to work for the lawfirm Miller Nash while alsoco-founding Cornerstone Re-alty Holdings, a real estate in-vestment firm.

Don Tavolacci, the principalowner of Cornerstone, callsConger “one of those rare in-dividuals who is very, verysmart, yet humble and has gota fair amount of wisdom.”

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REGIONALNEWSEx-Del Norte resident elected to Oregon LegislatureBy Nick BurdickWescom News Service

Wescom News Service/Ryan BrenneckeJason Conger reacts to his first view of the resultswith his wife, Amy, in Bend on election night.

PORTLAND (AP) — Ore-gon added 7,600 jobs in Oc-tober, the biggest monthlyjump in more than four years,but that was not enough topush a decline in the unem-ployment rate, the state Em-ployment Department report-ed Wednesday.

The seasonally adjustedunemployment rate for Octo-ber was 10.5 percent, virtu-ally unchanged for the pastyear, and still above the na-tional rate of 9.6 percent, thedepartment said.

The jobless rate has beenstuck between 10.5 percentand 10.7 percent for the past12 months. The number rep-resents 196,237 people whowere unemployed.

The seasonally adjustedincrease in job numbers forOctober was the biggest one-month gain since December2005, when 8,700 jobs wereadded.

The private sector hasadded jobs four of the past fivemonths. Since the low pointof 1,290,300 jobs in March,private payroll employmentwas up 11,800, or 0.9 percent.

Strong gains in hiring atuniversities and communitycolleges were spurred by in-creasing enrollment, as wellas at local schools. Overall,

the government added 20,100jobs in October, far above atypical monthly gain of16,600.

State education accountedfor 6,900 new jobs, and localeducation added 14,800 jobs.Budget cuts at many localschool districts, however, haveleft the sector 1,100 jobs below

the figure for the same monthlast year.

Private education added4,200 jobs, and health servicesand social assistance 1,400.

Since December 2009, pro-fessional and business serviceshas seen 5,000 more jobs, anincrease of 2.9 percent, despitecutting 600 jobs in October.

CRESCENT CITY — Ju-rors Wednesday found aCrescent City man guilty ofvehicular manslaughterwhile intoxicated for thedeath of his 29-year-old pas-senger in a wreck two yearsago.

Michael D. Jones, 40, wasconvicted of vehicularmanslaughter and a specialallegation for causing greatbodily injury after a three-day jury trial.

Sentencing for Jones is setfor Dec. 16. He is facing 25

years to life under the threestrikes law after being con-victed of his third felony.

“Aside from the jury ver-dict, he also had a court trialon the issue of his priors,”said Katie Micks, assistantdistrict attorney. “The judgefound he had two prior strikeconvictions, so technicallythis is the third strike.”

He was previously convict-ed of making death threatsin 2001 and assault with adeadly weapon causing greatbodily injury in 1993, Mickssaid.

In November 2008, Joneswas speeding down Parkway

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Ivan Beckendorf, 59, wasdriving in the opposite direc-tion.

Beckendorf was making aleft turn toward his drivewaywhen he was struck by Jones’car. Beckendorf’s truck rolledover.

Peters was pronounceddead at the scene and Beck-endorf and Jones were trans-ported to a hospital in Red-ding. Beckendorf recoveredafter being listed in criticalcondition.

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“Michael Dean Jones de-manded his constitutionalright to a fair trial by an im-partial jury and received it,”said Jon Alexander, Jones’ at-torney and the county’s dis-trict attorney-elect.

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Preliminary population estimates by Portland StateUniversity shows that Oregon had 3,844,195 peoplein 2010, up from 3,823,465 last year.

The increase is only 0.5 percent, marking the fourthstraight year of slowing population growth for Oregon,and the slowest growth since the 1980s.

Growth is the difference between the number ofbirths and deaths, and the number of people movingin or out of the state, called net migration.

Officials said this year there was a decrease in thenumber of births combined with a slight increase inthe number of deaths. Net migration also accountedfor a smaller percentage of the overall populationgrowth,

Two Portland officersarrested for DUII

PORTLAND (AP) — Portland Police Bureau spokes-woman Lt. Kelli Sheffer says two Portland officershave been arrested for investigation of drunken driv-ing.

She says Officer Joshua Sparks was stopped on thenight of Nov. 6 by a Washington State Patrol trooperwho clocked him at 72 mph in a 60 mph zone on In-terstate 205 in Clark County, Wash.

On Sunday, Officer John Shadron was arrested byGresham police after a collision with another vehicle.No one was injured.

The spokeswoman says the officers have been placedon desk duty pending the outcome of their cases andan internal review. Both men were off-duty when theywere arrested.

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PORTLAND (AP) — A Portland woman who wantedto warm up a cold can of spray paint put it in heroven.

KGW reports the can exploded Tuesday, shot outthe oven door and through the kitchen ceiling.

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GRANTS PASS (AP) — An Oregon man who lefthis Volkswagen Beetle outside a Grants Pass videostore with his poodle inside says he is very happy toget his dog back after the car was stolen.

Paul Marshall told the Mail Tribune that his carwas stolen Monday when he left the keys inside andthe motor running to return a movie.

Fortunately, the poodle was found safe inside theBeetle two days later, less than a mile from Marshall’shouse. The suspect apparently ran out of gas andparked the car near an apartment complex.

Marshall said leaving the keys in the car was amistake, but he was happier to find the dog — namedBeo — then he was the car.

Aggressive deer attacksAshland couple, dogs

ASHLAND (AP) — An Oregon couple and their twodogs are the most recent victims of seasonal attacksby aggressive deer, which has become an annual prob-lem in Ashland.

Cyd and Gary Ropp told the Daily Tidings theywere walking their two dogs near Ashland’s downtownPost Office last weekend when a deer reared up onits hind legs and attacked the dogs.

The attack lasted for more than three minutes andleft the couple bloody and bruised from falling on thepavement to avoid the doe, as they tried to protecttheir dogs.

The dogs were not injured. But Cyd Ropp calledthe attack “frightening.”

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Curry County has receivedfunding for three projectsawarded by the Oregon Depart-ment of Energy.

Pacific High School in the

Port Orford-Langlois SchoolDistrict received the largest ofthe three awards, $65,062 fora lighting project at the school.

The other two were for heat-ing, ventilation and air condi-tioning projects in two countybuildings, the South Annex

building in Brookings and theNorth Annex building in PortOrford.

The South Annex projectcalls for installation of a heatpump and insulation. Cham-bers Plumbing and Heatingsubmitted the successful bid,at $31,412. That contract wasawarded by the county Boardof Commissioners this fall.

The North Annex project willcost around $32,000. GoldBeach Heating successfully bid$14,953 to install a heat pump,and Reese Electric received a$1,299 contract for high voltagework to disconnect baseboardand wall heaters.

More than $45 million infederal American Recovery andReinvestment Act (stimulus)funds have been made avail-able for 292 energy projects inOregon’s 36 counties, includingthe three in Curry County.

The total estimated energysaved and/or produced per yearfrom the projects is anticipatedto be nearly 195 million kilo-watt hours — enough to heatmore than 16,243 average Ore-gon homes per year.

“We are pleased to makethese awards in all 36 coun-ties,” said Paul Egbert, Ameri-

can Recovery and Reinvest-ment Act acting manager atODOE. “Not only will theseprojects save energy, but thefunds will be used to put localcontractors to work.”

Energy-efficiency projects in-clude upgrades or replacementfor indoor and outdoor lighting,building control systems, HVACsystems, boilers, window re-placement, weatherization,agricultural irrigation, refrig-eration upgrades, waste heatrecovery, and video conferenc-ing to reduce vehicle miles trav-eled and employee travel time.

The types of Oregon renew-able energy projects that re-ceived funding included bio-mass, solar, geothermal, anaer-obic digesters and upgrades tosmall-scale hydro systems suchas turbine replacement.

Each county was awardedfunds for at least one project.The amount each county re-ceived ranged from the $84,670that went to Yamhill County tothe 19 projects in MultnomahCounty that totaled $7,937,511.

Curry County’s total of$117,562 was the third lowestamount, just above WheelerCounty's $88,370.

County receives funding for energy projectsBy Valliant CorleyPilot staff writer

GOLD BEACH — A secondBrookings-area man arrestedfollowing a Sept. 29 burglaryof a yurt on Short Way inBrookings and the attemptedburglary of a beach house onBoat Basin Road was convictedin Curry County Circuit Courtthis week.

Cory Allen Bones, 24, wassentenced Wednesday afterpleading guilty to first-degreeburglary on Tuesday.

District Attorney EverettDial said that Bones, BrianJoseph Gallardo and AdamKyler Atwood went to a yurtowned by Loren and Judy Pin-

gree. They broke a window andbegan removing property.

Dial said they put the itemsin a borrowed suitcase.

“It was found on the beach.It had things stolen from theyurt inside,” he said.

He said the three werescared off by IPH Security doinga building check before theycould break into a second house.

“Police were able to discoverwho did it. The abandoned suit-case had the name of the ownerthat Mr. Gallardo had bor-rowed it from,” Dial said.

The DA said Bones had noprior property crimes, only hitand run in 2007 and a drivingunder the influence convictionin 2007.

Defense attorney JohnSpicer said Bones had lived inBrookings since he was 8.

“He was out with some ofhis friends and they were high-ly intoxicated and made somepoor choices,” Spicer said. “Itwas not his idea. He tried totalk them out of it, but whilehe was there he did help themmove a fireplace out of thebuilding.”

When Bones was given anopportunity to speak, he said,

“I really did try to talk themout of it. I do accept responsi-bility for my actions. I’m sodeeply sorry for hurting them.I wouldn’t want that to happento me and my family.”

Judge Jesse Margolis sen-

tenced Bones to 30 days in jailand three years’ probation, andordered him to pay $1,642 infines and fees, as well as $102in restitution.

“I considered giving you 90days,” Margolis told Bones.“There are two reasons I didn’t.The jail is at capacity, and theother, today, for the first time,you actually said you’re takingresponsibility for doing some-thing wrong. If you had moreof a criminal history, you wouldbe facing prison.”

Gallardo, 22, who pleadedguilty on Nov. 4 to first-degreeburglary and criminal mischief,was sentenced to 13 months inprison. Atwood, 20, has a Dec.1 court date scheduled.

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There is no clear cause foran accident that killed twoBrookings residents Nov. 11,according to the BrookingsPolice Department.

Rodney Orlando Draheim,80, and Robert Dale Lewis,81, both of Brookings, werekilled the afternoon of Nov.11 when their Dodge Rampickup trucks collided onHighway 101 north of Brook-ings

Accident reconstruction bythe Oregon State Police in-vestigators and autopsies ofthe victims provided no cluesas to why Draheim’s north-bound Dodge Ram crossedinto the southbound lane andcollided with Lewis’ south-bound vehicle

“We will likely neverknow,” Brookings Police Sgt.Terry Murray said Wednes-day.

Toxicology results will notbe available for four to sixweeks, Murray said.

Cause of fatal head-onaccident remains unclearBy Arwyn RicePilot staff writer

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Dozens of fresh cut, fra-grant Christmas trees arrivedin Brookings this week, readyfor the holiday season.

Bill Zander, owner of thefruit stand on Highway 101at the north end of Brookings,set up trees at his lot Thurs-day morning.

The stand will also sellboxes of fresh oranges as aholiday treat, Zander said.

There is a glut of trees thisyear, so prices for trees shouldbe very reasonable, he said.

Christmas trees will alsobe fore sale at local grocerystores in Brookings and GoldBeach.

Beginning to look a lot like ChristmasBy Arwyn RicePilot staff writer

Bill Zander prepares toopen just deliveredChristmas trees.

Bones convicted for burglary of Harbor homeBy Valliant CorleyPilot staff writer