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The following news itemswere drawn from our archives

from 100 years ago today.

Feb. 15, 1919, Continued

ASHLAND HIGH BUTTERS LOCALS OVER AUDITORIUM

In the presence of the largest crowd that has witnessed a basket ball contest in recent years, the Ashland high team, as Irvin Cobb would say, com-pletely “buttered” the Medford high team all over the audito-rium last night by the score of 42 to 15. The game between the girls teams of the two institu-tions was a pretty close contest with the local girls winning by 9 to 7. Last night’s contests were the opening ones of the season and Ashland rooters were present to the number of 100. Return contests will be played at Ashland tonight and a big crowd of Medford rooters and the high school band will accompany the local teams.

The Medford high boys team was totally outclassed in experience, practice and size last night. The Ashland team has been playing together for the past three years. Two years ago Prof. Heidenreich, the Med-ford high coach, coached the same Ashland teams as played last night. The fi rst half of last night was a pretty contest with Ashland scoring 17 and Medford 8, but the Medford boys went to pieces in the second half. Campbell and Singler, forwards, starred for Medford in the game, while the Ashland stars were Bryan and McMillian. Seely Hall refereed, and Otto Klum, former athletic coach at both the Ash-land and Medford high schools, umpired. Tonight Klum will be the referee and Hall the umpire.

SISKIYOU REPELS I. W. W. INVASION

Relative to the report that is in circulation in the city that a well known Medford man of pronounced anarchistic and Bolshevik leanings, will soon be tried by a lodge of which he is a member on charges embodying Bolshevik utterances recently, the following published in this week’s issue of the Yreka Jour-nal is interesting:

“On what appears to be very good authority, it is rumored that unless their plans are changed, a mob of I. W. W.s, now organizing in southern Oregon will shortly invade northern California. Whether or not these undesirables contemplate cre-ating disturbances of any kind cannot be learned, but Siskiyou peace offi cers are prepared to receive the gentry properly.

“Last week thirty-three members of the ‘red card brotherhood’ dropped off at Hornbrook. Before they had a chance to make themselves very objectionable, however, the bunch was split up into small bunchlets by the offi cers and sent out of town in box cars.”

CORRECTIONS

Interlibrary loansWednesday’s “Since

You Asked” column on the Medford Library should have included that loans between branches within the Jackson County Library system are free. Interlibrary loan searches outside of the system cost $5 to search only until March 4, when the libraries will stop charging the fee.

Dual-language program

Thursday’s article on Med-ford’s newest dual-language program incorrectly identifi ed the program as the district’s fi rst. Medford had a dual lan-guage immersion program in the 1980s and ’90s at Howard Elementary School.

LOCAL

After the recent snow-fall here in the valley, you ran several pictures of dogs enjoying Lithia Park. According to Ashland Parks and Recreation, neither loose dogs nor leashed dogs are allowed in Lithia Park. Are the rules lifted on snow days?

— Oscar Z., Medford

Kids may get a day off from school when the snow flies, but adults don’t get a day off from the rules, Oscar — at least when it comes to Lithia Park and dogs, according to Michael Black, director of the Ashland Parks and Rec-reation Commission.

“We don’t allow dogs in the park, either leashed or unleashed,” Black told Since You Asked. “No difference on a snow day. Obviously people violate that rule, but no, we haven’t changed our rules.”

Ashland Municipal Code 9.16.060 spells it out.

“Dogs, except for service animals, are not permitted in any of the city parks or the Plaza islands under any condition,” the ordinance says. It adds that the ani-mals may be confined to a car or truck “which is owned by its owner or keeper, and such confinement may be either by physical means

No dogs allowed in Lithia Park

JAMIE LUSCH / MAIL TRIBUNE

Alexis Larsen, project manager with the Rogue River Watershed Council, walks along a restoration project on Little Butte Creek Friday.

By Mark FreemanMail Tribune

EAGLE POINT — A mean-dering side channel and a row of bank-fortifying root wads finally have helped a stretch of Little Butte Creek shed its lin-gering hangover from the New Years Day flood of 1997.

A $255,000 restoration proj-ect that was mostly completed last summer has taken hold on this stretch of creek outside of Eagle Point and created a more fish-friendly habitat while reducing bank erosion during rising water times like this week’s rains.

A side channel choked with non-native canary grass is flowing again, and three arti-ficial channels now connect it to the mainstem creek, provid-ing new places for wild juvenile

coho salmon to escape the roil-ing creek during freshets.

Also a series of large trees pile-driven into the bank with t h e i r r o o t wads jutting into the creek now fortify the bank and re-create the stream mean-der damaged by the flood 22 years ago.

This week’s r a i n s c r e -ated enough r u n o f f t o show that the newly reconstituted Little Butte Creek is back and better off than it has been for decades.

“After the first few rains ear-lier this year, this side channel was just standing water,” said

Alexis Larsen, project manager for the Rogue River Watershed Council, which spearheaded the work on city of Eagle Point

land.“And

there’s a l m o s t n o pressure on t h e b e r m because of t h o s e r o o t wads,” Larsen said. “It’s cool.”

Lower Little Butte C r e e k h a s b e e n a n y -

thing but cool fun for its denizens since the 1997 New Year’s Day flood tore through its banks and set the creek on a collision course with nearby Antelope Creek.

Since then, the creek has cut a tight dog-leg right on the property and has systemati-cally scoured a large cut bank, with barely 100 yards of ground remaining to keep Little Butte from flowing into lower Ante-lope Creek.

If that occurred, it would overtax Antelope Creek with dirty water and overwhelm cul-verts under roads, Larsen said.

As Little Butte Creek contin-ued to eat away at that bank, the extra sediment further dirties a stream already over acceptable sediment loads. That created poor habitat for threatened wild coho salmon in the creek, which is consid-ered a key cog in restoring wild coho habitat in the upper Rogue River Basin.

ENVIRONMENT

A woman was arrested F r i d a y o n a s s a u l t a n d drunken driving charges after allegedly running over a pedestrian walking on a sidewalk in Medford.

Ashley Danielle McCallum, 32, was charged in a predawn crash that caused serious injuries to a pedestrian in the area of East McAndrews Road near North River-side Avenue, according to a press release issued Friday by Medford police.

At 2:38 a.m. Friday, the unidentified pedestrian was walking on the south side of East McAndrews Road when McCallum allegedly drove onto the sidewalk and struck the person.

McCallum cooperated with investigators at the scene, but showed signs of being intoxicated from alcohol, the release said.

Mercy Flights rushed the pedestrian to a nearby hos-pital, where the individual is being treated for serious injuries.

McCallum was being held in the Jackson County Jail Friday afternoon on charges of second-degree assault, driving under the influence of intoxicants and reckless driving. Her bail was set at $110,000.

Jackson County Circuit Court records showed that the District Attorney’s Office had not yet filed charges in the crash.

A call to Medford police w a s n o t i m m e d i a t e l y returned Friday afternoon.

CRIME

Woman faces DUII, assault charges after hitting pedestrian

By Caitlin Fowlkesfor the Mail Tribune

A Friday morning two-alarm fire damaged the exterior of the Super 8

Motel in Ashland, but no one was injured, according to Ash-land Fire and Rescue Battalion Chief Kelly Burns.

T h e r e a r e x t e r i o r w a s engulfed in a “well-developed fire” when fire crews arrived on scene just after 10 a.m., Burns said, but crews had it extin-guished within 7 minutes.

“I was told the firefighter had the hose out and ready before the water was turned on, and that doesn’t happen often,” Burns said.

Super 8 employee Alvaro Valereo said he was clean-ing a bedroom on the third floor when he noticed smoke through a window.

He said he immediately ran downstairs and grabbed a garden hose to try to put the fire out, but it was too windy, and the hose didn’t work properly.

He said he then alerted the front desk to call 911.

Ashland Fire and Rescue, Fire District 5 and Ashland police responded to the alarm.

A debris pile on the back-side of the building caught fire and the flames grew until they reached the attic, Burns said.

A member of the motel’s management team, Mukesh Patel, said he has received complaints about transients hanging around that area. He said staff has picked up ciga-rette packs, and he wondered if someone flicked a cigarette butt into the debris pile.

The debris pile was mostly old furniture accumulating from a renovation, Patel said. He said the electrical system in the building is up to code, so he doesn’t think that was the origin.

Valereo said he’s seen

transients sleeping behind the building the last couple of days.

Burns said the cause of the fire is still under investigation.

Fire crews tore down an extensive amount of siding to ensure the fire wouldn’t reignite from heat trapped in the walls.

Patel said the fire did not enter the building interior. All the damage was to the exterior. He said there weren’t many occupants inside, because it’s the off season.

B u r n s s a i d h e t h o u g h t people would be able re-enter

the motel later Friday, but it would ultimately be up to the fire inspector.

He said a slight drizzle gave fire crews time to arrive before the fire took off.

“If this had happened in the summer, it would have been a completely different story,” Burns said. “The fire would have been twice as big.”

Contact Tidings reporter Caitlin Fowlkes at cfowlkes@rosebudmedia.com or 541-776-4496. Follow her on Twitter @cfowlkes6.

ASHLAND FIRE AND RESCUE

Fire damages exterior of Ashland motel

ANDY ATKINSON / MAIL TRIBUNE

A firefighter breaks through the wall at the top of stairs at the Super 8 hotel in Ashland Friday morning.

Fixing the fl owRestoration project helps Little Butte Creek shed e� ects from 1997 fl ood

Lower Little Butte Creek has been anything but

cool fun for its denizens since the 1997 New Year’s Day fl ood tore through its banks and set the creek

on a collision course with nearby Antelope Creek.

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LOCAL

By Noah Berger and Brian MelleyThe Associated Press

PARADISE, Calif. — In the 100 days since a wildfire nearly burned the town of Paradise off the map, Joanie Ellison has made a tearful drive dozens of times to the ruins of her home, resist-ing the urge to look away from the devastation so she can fully absorb the staggering loss.

Even as she made herself push farther into town with each pain-ful visit — past the burned-out cars, neighborhoods reduced to rubble and forests of blackened trees standing in permanent silhouette — she couldn’t bring herself until last week to stop at the crosses placed in memory of the 85 people who perished in the Camp Fire.

The memorial along Skyway Road was emotionally over-whelming and compounded the reality of the fire’s ferocity, but saying a silent prayer at each cross and hoping the deaths were quick and painless moved her closer toward accepting the fire’s impact .

The Nov. 8 blaze that blitzed across the Sierra Nevada foothills destroyed nearly 15,000 homes in the city of 27,000 residents and surrounding hamlets. The long recovery is just starting.

What remains of the pine and oak forest that covered this town is now alive with the buzz of chain saws, the din of heavy equipment tearing up founda-tions and dumping the rubble into trucks hauling the debris

away. But Paradise is mostly a ghost town where survivors still dig for keepsakes in the founda-tions of their homes and try to figure out what lies ahead.

The smell of smoke is finally gone, and ash has turned to goo from steady rains that began falling about two weeks after the fire broke out.

Carol Beall wore white paint-er’s coveralls to keep from getting dirty as she searched the sooty mess of the remains of her mobile home when she returned last week for the first

time since the fire.She had braced for what

friends told her would look like a war zone. Still, she was moved to tears when she saw it for herself.

With use of a trowel and help from friends, she unearthed her class ring and a baby ring that belonged to one of her parents, but couldn’t find a $600 neck-lace she was searching for. She also dug up a broken half-gallon milk jug of quarters and found a knife, fork, spoon and warped cast-iron skillet that she hopes to fashion into wind chimes.

Seeing her daffodils beginning to sprout in front of the metal frame that had been her home gave her hope, but she’s not sure if she’ll be able to return with her limited means on Social Security.

Around town, heavy equip-ment is finishing the work that flames started. Excavators, backhoes and bulldozers are digging into soil to clear wreck-age that is then sorted by scrap metal, concrete and hazardous material to be trucked away.

Chad Yates co-owns an engineering firm that has two

four-man crews preparing lots for reconstruction. His cli-ents don’t want to wait for the government to clean up their properties and are relying on insurance or their own means to pay an average of about $20,000.

The majority of businesses in town burned, though ones that survived have begun to reopen. Starbucks has become a hub of activity, and auto part stores, tire shops and pharmacies are operating, though most are closed at night when workers clear out of town.

Mechanic Cecil Cooper, owner of C&J Service Center, said he was busy with at least four cars in the shop Thursday because only three of 26 garages are open. Although few people now live in town, loyal customers are returning for the repairs.

At Paradise Bikes, owner Rich Colgin has cut back to working from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Tues-day, Wednesday and Saturday because his house burned down and he’s living 80 miles away.

He wants to provide service to the few customers in town and those willing to drive from Chico. Many of the people stop-ping by, though, are workers looking for T-shirts or other Paradise souvenirs.

In her efforts to push deeper into town and absorb her loss, Ellison has found herself lost at times. Street signs are down. Familiar landmarks are missing.

While driving through what she calls the “chimney forest”

one day, she thought she was imagining things when she passed a face of a pretty woman painted on a brick fireplace standing alone where a house had been.

It was the work of Los Ange-les artist Shane Grammer, who has painted murals around the world to lift people’s spirits in difficult times. Grammer, who grew up in the area, spray-painted a dozen murals on everything from stone walls to a burned-out van. He used a transparent paint so it appears the images are burned on.

Two of the images were of Paradise residents: the young daughter of friends who lost their home, and Helen Pace, the mother-in-law of his high school basketball coach’s brother.

Pace, 84, died in the fire and in his tribute to her on a charred wall standing next to a stone fireplace, she is looking slightly upward and into the distance through spectacles.

Grammer did not expect his initial murals to get any atten-tion beyond his circle of family and friends, but they became a sensation that he said is like a miracle.

“I’ve spent my life learning to create artwork that connects and moves people emotionally,” he said. “Without thinking about it, it happened in Paradise.”

Ellison said the mural she saw was so striking it took away her sadness and made her grateful, much like spend-ing time with the crosses.

‘Chimney forest’ symbolic of all that was lost in Paradise

NOAH BERGER / THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

A mural by artist Shane Grammer adorns the chimney of a residence leveled by the Camp fire in Paradise, Calif. Grammer says he painted murals throughout the fire-ravaged town to convey hope in the midst of destruction. In the 100 days since the wildfire nearly burned the town of Paradise off the map, the long recovery is just starting.

Little Butte Creek flows into the Rogue less than a mile upstream of the intake where the city of Med-ford draws Rogue water in summer for municipal use.

The new main log structures not only slow flows and pro-tect the bank but also create complex habitat for wild juve-nile coho that have to slug it out through an entire winter here before heading to sea as smolts.

The side channel does much of the same, giving the creek back its meander.

Though operational, the project is not done, Larsen said.

Crews also have manually cut a massive plantation of non-native Himalayan blackberries that will be replaced by native plants and grasses later this year, she said.

The $255,000 project was funded primarily by the Oregon Watershed Enhance-ment Board and joined with a grant from a partnership of local and federal agen-cies that provide drinking water in the region. In-kind donations also come from the city of Eagle Point, the federal Bureau of Reclama-tion and the Medford Water Commission.

Both OWEB and the drink-ing water partnership in late 2016 helped fund the $70,000 study and design work done last year, Larsen said. Several other govern-ment and nonprofit agencies contributed to the project, she said.

You can reach Mail Tri-bune reporter Mark Freeman at 541-776-4470 or mfreeman@rosebud-media.com. Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/MTwriterFreeman.

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Dear Amy: My in-laws have recently relocated to a town approximately seven hours away. They are very excited about retirement and about their new home, and they are hoping that we (along with other family members) will visit often, including over hol-idays. They used to live closer to us and when we visited, we would stay just for the day.

However, now with the travel distance my husband wants us to stay with them for two (or more) nights. My issue is that my in-laws are both heavy smokers (they have been heavy smokers for many, many years).

I find the cigarette smoke very offensive and toxic. I feel unhealthy being around it. Every article of clothing and item we bring into their home reeks of smoke when we leave. Getting a hotel room for these future visits is out of the ques-tion — my husband has said that they would be offended and very hurt.

I fear that this will be a wedge in my marriage and that it will possibly divide us during hol-idays. I need some advice on how to approach this without “calling in sick” each time we are invited to stay with them. — Smoke-Sensitive Wife

Dear Smoke Sensitive: You are presenting your dilemma and then dismissing

the most logical solution to your problem, which is for you to say to your in-laws: “I hope you understand my choice, but I really struggle being around cigarette smoke. I’m eager to see you and spend time with you, but I know it would be best if I stayed overnight in a hotel during our visit. I’m looking forward to our time together.”

This simple, polite, state-ment of fact is nothing more than a summation of your own needs. Smokers know that their habit is toxic to themselves and other people. That’s why they can basically now only smoke in their own homes (and some-times, not even there). You are not asking your in-laws to change anything about them-selves or their lifestyle.

Despite the health risks, your husband might prefer to stay overnight with his folks in their house. And your response to that should be, “Of course, honey, I understand com-pletely.” Must married couples be joined at the hip? I hope not.

Dear Amy: I met a girl in my TOEFL English course. We are a group of four students — me, a Korean dude, this girl and her friend. We sit at a round table mainly to practice conversa-tion. I noticed the girl looking at me a lot. But last class, she did not even pay attention to the class contents. She kept on watching me.

When I looked at her, some-times she looked away. But some other times we kept on looking at each other, as if she was waiting for one of us to laugh. She’s really good at steady looking. She’s also very sexy.

She’s kind of chained to her friend. They are always chatting together and hang-ing together. This prevents me from talking to this girl. We live in the same neighbor-hood. But I haven’t asked her where, exactly.

When we engage in a con-versation, we suddenly start acting as if we are chatting in a bar (and she laughs about every comment I make, in a good way). But after that role play, the bubble pops, and I go blank. So far, I hav-en’t dared to talk to her after classes. I end up going back home, talking to myself and saying, “What am I gonna do?” — Shy Guy

Dear Shy: Here’s what you’re going to do. You’re going to go for it. Say to her (and her friend), “You want to continue our English lesson over coffee (or bubble tea, or a drink)? I know a good place. Let’s keep practicing!”

Don’t leave out the “Korean dude.” Perhaps he could make conversation with the friend while you concentrate on your crush.

ASK AMY

In-laws’ habit creates toxic smokescreen

By Jim Flintfor the Mail Tribune

The difference between experts and the rest is that experts know how to communicate useful infor-mation to their partners during play of the hand.

This hand illustrates how defend-ers get those extra tricks.

North’s two no-trump call after the double signified a limit raise with four spades in their system. With a bare minimum and some quick losers, South signed off at three spades. Neither East nor West was inclined to bid more, red versus white.

When West led the diamond ace from the A/K, East had an oppor-tunity to give his partner some guidance. He played his diamond 10. West knew it was not asking for a continuation of diamonds since dummy had a singleton. Instead, the unusually high diamond asked West to shift to the highest side suit, hearts. East believed he might be able to get a heart ruff.

If East had wanted a club shift, he would have played a small diamond. How does West know? Because East has a choice of what kind of diamond to play, knowing his part-ner won’t interpret it as anything to

do with diamonds per se.Obligingly, West leads his heart

two, taken by East’s ace, and then a heart back to West’s king.

Now it’s West’s turn to signal. He wants to give East his heart ruff, but needs to tell East how to get back to him for another possible heart ruff. So, West leads the heart three for East to ruff, telling East to lead back a club. If West’s entry was the spade ace, he’d lead the heart 10 for East to ruff instead of the three.

When East ruffs the third heart, he leads a club to West’s ace, and back comes another heart, ruffed in dummy and over-ruffed by East with the spade 10.

Two hearts, two heart ruffs, and the two minor suit aces: six defen-sive tricks for down two.

When the dummy came down, South counted four losers: one diamond, two hearts, and a club. What a difference signaling makes!

Talk to your partner about situations where you can profit-ably indicate suit preferences on defense. With a little practice, your game will improve markedly.RESULTS: Recent first place winners at the Phoenix bridge center: Feb. 7, Donald Tull — Karen Schoessow, Helen Mills — Marion Gribben; Feb. 8, Ed Goldman — Neal Smith,

Donald Provence — Jerry Kenefick; Feb. 11, David McKee — Gee Gee Walker, Dennis Kendig — Kathleen Moore; 99ers, Martha Bertelsen — Joan Greenblatt, Elizabeth Lane — Carol Kato; Feb. 12, David Runkel — Marjorie Stober; Feb. 13, Jim Flint — David McKee. ACBL sanctioned games are held at the center at 4149 S. Pacific Highway in Phoenix weekdays at noon except 6 p.m. on Tuesdays. Games are open to the public.

BRIDGE North ♠ 9 7 6 2 ♥ Q J 9 ♦ J ♣ K 10 9 4 3 West East ♠ 8 ♠ 10 4 3 ♥ K 10 3 2 ♥ A 7 ♦ A K 7 4 ♦ 10 9 6 5 3 ♣ A 8 7 5 ♣ Q 6 2 South ♠ A K Q J 5 ♥ 8 6 5 4 ♦ Q 8 2 ♣ J Dealer: South Vulnerable: E/W West North East South 1 ♠ Dbl 2 NT Pass 3 ♠ All Pass Opening Lead: ♦ A

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We didn’t know this either, Oscar. Please don’t tell on us.

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