McKenzie River Reflections

Thursday, May 27, 2021 Serving the McKenzie River Valley ... And Subscriber Amy Sessums of Springfield Volume 43, Issue 41 00 Sheriff’s Reports Home Country $1Birthdays Vehicle was parked The honor of being killed There are plenty next over the top of a telephone by a falling, fried horse month, along with wedding box anniversaries PAGE 2 PAGE 4 PAGE 8 EWEB to upgrade More riparian restoration wildfire safety plans McKenzie Trust will restore channel at Finn Rock Reach FINN ROCK: A 60-acre Response to Red Flag warnings construction zone will take shape within weeks just downstream EUGENE: “Although programs the utility’s Electric Division from the old Rockabye Cabins and practices are already in place Manager. Annually EWEB trims site in Finn Rock. During the to help prevent wildfires, the back trees and branches along project to restore riparian habitat, Eugene Water & Electric Board about 280 miles of its electric line water will be temporarily diverted is developing a distinct Wildfire corridors. For this year, Nice said, and large amounts of earth will Mitigation Plan,” according to a an additional 125 miles extra of be moved to re-contour down-cut report from the utility’s Assistant “hot spotting” zones have been areas and old gravel piles. General Manager, Rod Price. added. Recent social media posts During EWEB’s May 18th In addition, an upriver project have been criticized the work session Price outlined new for transformer replacement project, hopefully, due to a programs based on what California is planned for completion this misunderstanding of the water has developed for preparing for year. Part of that work, Nice diversion according to Daniel and responding to wildfires that said, involves replacing three Dietz, Conservation Director of he said should be transferable to wires and one neutral wire with the McKenzie River Trust. The the Pacific Northwest. just one wire and one neutral. Trust purchased the 277-acre “Vegetation is the biggest Eliminating the 3-wire alignment Finn Rock Reach property from impact for both reliability and fire will eliminate “a kind of a cradle Rosboro in 2016. risk,” according to Tyler Nice, Wildfire safety plans - Page 2 Dietz said the Trust was interested in the property because of its current and potential floodplain habitat values and to secure access at the popular Finn Utility pledges to put Rock Boat Launch. “While the Holiday Farm Fire scorched the area, its impacts also highlighted The first phase of the Finn Rock Reach project will begin this summer. The th more lines underground the value of a higher water table Trust will host a webinar with details on June 16 . See the Community Cal- and active connections between endar at: alturl.com/uerws to sign up for the webinar and to learn more. LEC says 52% have already been buried a river and its floodplain,” he Finn Rock side channel, it won’t great improvements in habitat for said. “The two-phased restoration be permanent. native fish and wildlife including During a Monday night cover the estimated $15.5 million project is designed to reclaim Some dry ground is needed Chinook salmon, rainbow and online meeting, Lane Electric costs to bury lines. an area that saw 50 years of while heavy machinery moves cutthroat trout, lamprey, western Cooperative General Manager Plans call for coordinating with heavy gravel extraction and over 1,500 large logs and whole pond turtle, beaver, and more,” Debi Wilson said the utility is phone and internet providers to other negative effects on those trees. But the diversion dam Dietz said. “Upon completion, the planning to put more of its lines see if they can put their lines floodplain dynamics.” will last only from June through area will receive the same volume underground to offset the impacts underground at the same time. What some critics may not August when it will be removed of water from upstream, but it will of natural disasters. “We’re “Members living in the know is that although a diversion before spawning salmon return. be slowed down and will meander committed to rebuilding the McKenzie area lost almost all dam will be used to redirect about “As with similar projects across an area three times what it McKenzie community stronger forms of communication during 20 percent of the flow from the upstream, people can expect to see does today.” than before,” Wilson said. “There the 2019 snowstorm and again are many more hazards that exist during the 2020 windstorm and now than before the wildfire,” wildfire,” according to the general she noted, listing “landslides, manager. “It’s our goal to work Lane Electric receives $3.7 rockslides, and flooding.” collaboratively to protect all those Currently, the Coop is working vital services in the communities with a consultant to develop we serve,” she said. million for storm repairs a rebuilding plan that will be Wilson also addressed news submitted to the Federal Energy reports of a recently filed $107 FEMA grant earmarked for 2019 winter snowstorm damages Management Agency. Federal million lawsuit in which both grant funds, combined with $5.7 Lane Electric and the Eugene WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. we’ve seen during ’s in- lost,” said Merkley. “I’m grate- million already committed by the Water & Electric Board had been Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merk- tense winter storms in recent ful that the Biden administration Coop’s board will be combined to More lines underground - Page 2 ley on Monday announced that years, and during Texas’ power is providing grant funding to help Lane Electric Cooperative will re- crisis this year, lives are put at Lane Electric cover the costs of ceive a $3.72 million federal grant serious risk when that access is critical repairs to power infra- for repairs from the February structure that was damaged in the May 18 Election results 2019 snowstorm that left custom- 2019 storm, and will continue to ers without power and caused se- do all that I can to secure the fund- McKenzie School Bond defeated vere damage to the utility’s power ing we need to expand and protect distribution lines and systems. access to power and other basic McKenzie School Bond Springfield School Board “Oregonians who experienced utilities, so we can keep our com- Yes 221 Position #2 the loss of electricity in their munities safe.” No 285 Emilio Hernandez Jr 5329 homes and businesses for weeks The $3.72 million grant from McKenzie School Board Position #3 on end from this winter storm re- the Federal Emergency Manage- Position #1 Steven Hadley 657 member all too well the damage ment Agency (FEMA) will help Write In 34 Brandy Crosby 712 this snowfall inflicted on Lane Lane Electric cover repair costs Position #2 Samantha Alcantar 1006 County,” Wyden said. “I’m grati- for the winter storm, which the Daniel L. Harold 239 Jonathan Light 3325 fied that FEMA will help Lane agency noted often required up Position 4 Anthony Reed 1829 Electric and its members recov- to two weeks to restore power Elaine Bryson 284 Position #5 er the financial costs from this due to the severity of damages Position 6 Lisa Barrager 1100 storm.” Trees falling on power lines caused and lack of accessibility due to Tim Halloran 264 Kelly Mason 3518 “Everyone in America should outages in many hard-to-reach ar- heavy snow, downed trees, and Position 7 Ruth Linoz 3064 have access to electricity. As eas during the “Snowmagedom.” Storm repairs - Page 2 Melissa Norlund 283 May Election results - Page 7 Page 2 McKenzie River Reflections Thursday, May 27, 2021 Letters to the Editor

rebuilding. In April, the Board of Grant helps to Directors of OCCUF generously rebuild VMC center approved $10,000 toward this ef- Following the Holiday Farm fort. Fire, the Oregon Community- VMCC is very grateful for this Credit Union Foundation formed grant. It will certainly hasten the a Fire Relief Fund to support fire day when the new Center becomes relief efforts in the region. At the a reality. Thank you to Mandy suggestion of a neighbor, Mandy and to OCCU Foundation! Jones, the Vida McKenzie Com- Gerry Aster,VP and Secretary munity Center applied for a grant Vida McKenzie Community to help cover some of the cost of Center

pts., Cascades Academy of Central Oregon 20 pts. and Paisley 10 pts. In the Girls competition, McKenzie featured the two Prater sisters. Hailey Prater finished seventh in the Javelin with a personal record throw of 60-10 ft. and Hannah finished tenth with a mark of 30-10 ft., also a personal Tokatee Golf Pro. Fry and Spiro’s record. Abigail Sanders of Paisley outstanding accomplishments put Wildfire safety plans Levi Lockart and Trent Peek won the Javelin with a throw a bow on a very successful athletic Grab Third Place Finishes At marked at 108-08 ft. Sanders year at McKenzie Continued From Page 1 Outback Invitational likewise won the Discus event, The Eagle Boys Basketball so debris doesn’t have a place to to help when the power is out, McKenzie Track and Field tossing the disc for a personal team, coached by Mike Wiley, won land,” he said. which now creates multiple athletes Levi Lockart and Trent record 84-06 ft. Hailey Prater the Trico League number one seed Estimates for improvements alternate potential sources of Peek each brought home third finished eighth in the Discus at 51- to the OSAA 2A State Basketball along 35 miles of lines in upriver ignition.” Besides educating the place finishes earned Friday, May 10 ft., a PR, and Hannah followed Championship Tournament held areas were in the range of $16.5 public to be careful when running 14, at the Outback Invitational in tenth place at 45-08 ft. Hailey in Pendleton, OR., first ever in million, including burying some generators, EWEB says their new Track Meet, sponsored by North Prater took ninth in the Long school history. sections. plan will also coordinate with Lake High School. Lockart set a Jump, landing in the pit at 7-04.50 Eagle cross country runners When power is turned off fire departments that might need personal record in the Shot Put, ft. and Vanessa Koon of Chiloquin Emily Oldham, Kyle Richardson during Red Flag warning periods electricity to pump water. tossing the iron ball 33-04.00 ft., won the Long Jump with a leap of and Casey Cline, represented EWEB will also look at impacts “Service disruptions also create earning a third place finish behind 14-08.00 ft., a PR. McKenzie at the OSAA 2A State besides reducing fire risks. “In real economic impacts such as LaPine’s Stephen Machin, who Dani Bates of North Lake won Cross Country Meet, held at Lane rural areas, customers, including spoiled food, inability to pump had the winning throw of 47-02.00 the Shot Put with a personal record Community College, and placed fire departments, rely on water gas and operate a business,” ft. Eagle teammate Cody Moralas throw of 32-09.75 ft. Hailey Prater 4th, 11th, and 12th respectively. systems powered by electricity, so according to the report. finished eleventh with his own also threw a personal record mark, The McKenzie Head Coach was their ability to have running water State regulators expect to personal record toss in the shot 19-08.00 ft. and finished eleventh. Jeff Sherman. for life and fighting fires becomes have rules in place during 2022 with a mark of 24-00.00 ft. Hannah Prater followed in twelfth Sherman also coached the Eagle compromised,” according to but EWEB expects to have its Lockart’s second third place place with a mark of 19-05.25 ft. Track and Field teams the Spring the staff report. “Some rural response plan complete by the finish came in the Discus with a Host North Lake, which of 2001 and McKenzie’s Oldham homeowners will install generators end of this year. mark of 85-00 ft. Machin also won amassed 154 pts, won the Girls ran a 11:05.95 minute 3000-meter that event, throwing the disc 129- team competition. total. Chiloquin race at the 2001 OSAA State Track 03 ft. Moralas finished ninth with took second with 109 pts. earned and Field Championships held a personal record mark of 64-08 followed by LaPine with 73 at Western Oregon State College ft. and Eagle teammate Thomas pts., Paisley 30 pts., Hosanna in Monmouth. Oldham’s time More lines underground Hayes took thirteenth wit a throw Christian 24 pts., Cascades of earned her a fourth place finish in Continued From Page 1 of 57-07 ft. McKenzie’s Trent Peek Central Oregon 17 pts., Gilchrist the State Meet and the Eagles a tie earned his third place finish in the 5 pts., and McKenzie 3 pts. This for 25th place with 9 pts. Eagle named as defendants. ongoing and we are giving our full Javelin with a throw of 101-00 ft. meet culminated McKenzie’s teammate Mike McDowell placed “What you’re reading and cooperation.” and Lockart took fourth at 99-05 sports season in Track and Field 5th in the 100 meters at the State hearing are different pieces of Although no timeline has been ft. Moralas had a personal record and for the remainder of the 2021 meet, running the event in 11.60 what happened,” Wilson said. given yet on when a final report throw of 66-06 ft., which earned Spring season as the Eagles could seconds, earning McKenzie a tie “When the U.S. Forest Service on the fire will be released, him an eleventh place finish. Jace not field either a Boys or Girls for 38th with 4 pts. It was indeed and the Dept. of Forestry have Wilson said, “At this time we’re Earls of LaPine won the Javelin basketball team due to lack of a great year to be an Eagle. completed the investigation, their unaware that any of our equipment with a PR throw measured at 103- athlete numbers. report will tell the whole story contributed to the cause of the 10 ft. Peek jumped 31-01.00 ft. in Twenty Years Ago: Remember of what happened on September fire.” the Triple Jump, a personal record When Jared Fry 7th. The investigation is still and a fourth place finish. Won The 2001 2A/1A State Storm The Triple Jump was won by Golf Championship? LaPine’s Dylan Mann with a Eagle senior Jared Fry and leap of 37-09.00 ft. Peek took teammate Ryan Spiro capped repairs home an eighth place mark in the off a very successful 2000/2001 Continued From Page 1 Long Jump, jumping 14-04.50 ft., athletic season at McKenzie. Fry impassable roadways. In addition Hayes finished twelfth at 11-11.00 shot a 76 pt. score on the first to widespread power outages and ft. and Moralas took thirteenth at day of the 2001 2A/1A State impassable roads, numerous com- Phone (541) 822-3358 FAX (541) 663-4550 8-08.00 ft. The Long Jump was Golf Championship and carded munication towers went down, MAILING ADDRESS: 59059 Old McKenzie Hwy. won by Silas Roth of North Lake a 79 pt. score the second day to further isolating the affected com- McKenzie Bridge, Oregon 97413 with a mark of 18-09.00 ft. Roth finish with a total of 155 pts. munities. [email protected] was a dual winner, also placing and earn the coveted individual “Grants like this are essential McKenzie River Reflections, USPS #467-530, PERIODICALS postage first in the 100 meters with a time Co-Championship title, shared to financing repairs to our trans- paid at Blue River and additional mailing offices. POSTMASTER: of 12.25 seconds. Peek finished with Austin Livingston (78,77- mission and distribution system Send address changes to McKenzie River Reflections, 59059 Old that race in 14.22 sec., good for 155) of Enterprise. McKenzie after devastating storms like the McKenzie Hwy., McKenzie Bridge, Oregon 97413. Publisher - Ken seventh place. teammate Ryan Spiro brought snowstorm,” said Debi Wilson, Engelman. Marketing Specialist - Dan Purkey. LaPine won the Boys team home a twenty-ninth place finish, General Manager, Lane Electric competition with a total of 149 shooting a 95 pt. score the first day Co-op. “On behalf of our Cooper- © 2021 McKENZIE RIVER REFLECTIONS points earned on the day. North and following with a 88 pt. finish ative’s 10,400 members, we thank All rights to reproduce the contents of this newspaper, including Lake finished second with 84 the second day for a 183 pt. total Senators Wyden and Merkley for advertising copy, is reserved by McKenzie River Reflections. pts., followed by Chiloquin 76 for the tournament. making a real difference for their pts., Hosanna Christian 75 pts., The Eagle Head Coach for checkbooks and our ability to McKenzie 31 pts., Gilchrist 24 both athletes was Dan King, keep rates affordable.” WEATHER REPORT READINGS TAKEN AT THE READINGS TAKEN AT Friday 5/28 Saturday 5/29 Sunday 5/30 US ARMY CORPS COUGAR DAM EWEB LEABURG POWERHOUSE Date High Low Rain Releases Date High Low Rain Riverflow 5/18 65 45 0.16 480 cfs 5/184 7 46 0.14 3,210 cfs 5/19 72 41 0.32 480 cfs 5/19 66 41 0 2,980 cfs 5/20 57 38 0.08 490 cfs 5/20 59 41 0.22 3,000 cfs 5/21 62 43 0 490 cfs 5/21 56 42 0.15 2,950 cfs McKenzie Valley Santiam Pass McKenzie Valley Santiam Pass McKenzie Valley Santiam Pass 5/22 64 48 0.06 490 cfs 5/22 58 45 0 2,820 cfs AM Showers AM Rain/Sn Showers Partly Cloudy Partly Cloudy Sunny Mostly Sunny 5/23 62 47 0.02 490 cfs 30% chance precip 40% chance precip 10% chance precip 10% chance precip 10% chance precip 0% chance precip 5/23 69 43 0 2,740 cfs High: 66 Low: 43 High: 48 Low - 32 High: 74 Low: 48 High: 56 Low: 34 High: 83 Low: 50 High: 55 Low: 25 5/24 62 50 0.33 490 cfs 5/24 62 50 t 2,720 cfs Thursday, May 27, 2021 McKenzie River Reflections Page 3 Conditions - 46400 blk, McK. were inside an area business. No Hwy. Hwy. suspect information provided. 3:49 p.m: Vehicle Stop - McK. McKenzie Fire Sheriff’s 10:31 a.m: Burglary - 51100 1:44 p.m: Vandalism, Criminal Hwy. & McK. River Dr. blk, McK. Hwy. Mischief - 47800 blk, McK. Hwy. May 21: 1:14 p.m: Assist, & Rescue Report 10:51 a.m: Theft From Vehicle Caller reported finding litter on Citizen Contact – Leaburg Dam & - 45000 blk, McK. Hwy. his property. Ongoing issue. McK. Hwy. May 17: 14:08: 51000 block, May 17: 6:51 a.m: Alarm - 11:26 a.m: Welfare Check - 1:57 p.m: Dog Barking - 40300 3:09 p.m: Assist, Citizen Con- McK. Hwy. Medical, Heart. 90800 block, La Lone Rd. 92100 blk, Marcola Rd. blk, Booth Kelly Rd. tact - McK. Hwy. & Holden Creek Mutual Aid Provided. 11:57 a.m: Illegal Dump - 11:39 a.m: Unlawful Entry 3:12 p.m: Vandalism, Criminal Ln. May 19: 9:17: 88000 blk, Wendling Rd. & Spur Rd. Motor Vehicle - 90900 blk, Mischief - 37000 blk, Goats Rd. 4:59 p.m: Theft - Bigelow Millican Rd. Medical, General. 12:17 p.m: Hit & Run - 39200 Leashore Dr. Caller advised that a tree was Hot Springs. Caller had two 11:39: 79 st & South C St. Check Continued On Page 7 blk, McK. Hwy. 11:50 a.m: Dog At Large - Hwy. destroyed by a neighbor’s fire. for Smoke. Legal Burn Pile. 1:50 p.m: Theft - 92100 blk, 126, Milepost 43. 4:14 p.m: Assist, Citizen Con- 15:54: 44000 blk, McK. Marcola Rd. Undisclosed property 1:06 p.m: Theft From Vehicle tact - 91800 blk, Taylor Rd. State Police Hwy. Medical, General. Patient was stolen from a shed and shop. - 49800 blk, McK. Hwy. Caller 6:31 p.m: Vehicle Stop - McK. Assessed, 1 Transported. 11:34 p.m: Suspicious report unknown suspect(s) broke Hwy. & Quartz Creek Rd. Report 18:43: 43000 blk, McK. Hwy. Conditions - 47800 blk, McK. into the caller’s vehicle. Nothing 6:45 p.m: Animal Complaint - Public Assist. Assist with injured Hwy. was believed to be missing. Leaburg area. May 23: 09:54: Warrant Arrest. dog struck by car. 3:36 p.m: Assist, Citizen Con- 1:06 p.m: Assist Public - 92000 7:53 p.m: Vehicle Stop - Finn Troopers were conducting a boat May 21: 18:22: 37000 blk, tact - Lat: 44.184717 Long: - blk, Marcola Rd. Rock Landing. patrol on the McKenzie River Upper Camp Creek Rd. Motor 122.976753. 2:59 p.m: Theft - 49500 blk, 8:04 p.m: Vehicle Stop - McK. below Leaburg Dam. During the Vehicle Accident. Non-injury. 3:36 p.m: Alarm - 90400 blk, McK. Hwy. Hwy. & Quartz Creek Rd. patrol, an angler was contacted May 21: 20:55: 88000 blk, Sunderman Rd. 5:05 p.m: Threat, Harassment May 20: 11:21 a.m: Suspicious on the river’s bank. The angler Heritage Ln. Medical, General. 3:48 p.m: Vicious Animal - - Camp Creek Rd. & Millican Rd. Conditions - 47800 blk, McK. did not have a 2021 resident Patient Assessed, 1 Transported. 38200 blk, Boscage Ln. Caller Caller reported that an older Nissan Hwy. Caller advised litter found angling license. A records check May 22: 5:36: 7000 blk, reported a dog in the area killed pickup with black primer and a on his property. revealed a Felony warrant out of Thurston Rd. Mobile Home Fire. chickens. Did not desire a police broken windshield was tailgating 11:32 a.m: Towed Vehicle - Lane County for Possession of No smoke, no fire on arrival. response. the caller. While passing, the male 46000 blk, McK. Hwy. Methamphetamine. The angler was 16:38: 38000 blk, MJ Chase 4:08 p.m: Theft - 91200 blk, driver of the pickup pointed his 12:23 p.m: Welfare Check - taken into custody without incident Rd. Medical, General. Patient Donna Rd. A pressure washer was finger at the caller in a ‘finger gun’ 44100 blk, McK. Hwy. and transported to the Lane County Assessed, 1 Transported. reported to have been stolen from motion. 1:31 p.m: Blocked Driveway - Jail. The angler was also issued a 17:48: 88000 blk, Heritage the location. May 19: 12:02 p.m: Hit & Run 46000 blk, McK. Hwy. violation citation for No Resident Ln. Medical, General. Patient 10:03 p.m: Dead Animal - - 39200 blk, McK. Hwy. Caller 2:08 p.m: Burglary - 54400 Angling License. Involved: 55- Assessed, 1 Transported. Miller Ave. & Millican Rd. reported that their vehicle’s rear blk, W. King Rd. Numerous items year-old male from Eugene. 19:33: 43000 blk, McK. May 18: 8:54 a.m: Suspicious bumper was damaged while they including tools were taken from May 24: 15:30: Crash, Non- Hwy. Medical, General. Patient an outbuilding at the location. Injury – Hwy. 126E, Milepost Assessed, 1 Transported. 3:09 p.m: Foot Patrol - Mc- 22. Dispatched to a non-injury May 23: 15:45: 38000 blk, Gowan Quarry. motor vehicle crash. Prior to McK. Hwy. MVA, Injury. ...saving stories 3:13 p.m: Suspicious Vehicle arrival, learned that there was McKenzie Fire & Rescue will - McK. River Dr. & Mill Creek minor damage to both vehicles. hold its monthly Board of Directors from the rising Rd. A vehicle was parked over The drivers were given a copy of meeting the Monday; June 21st, tide of time. the top of a telephone box near the driver exchange information at noon, at the Leaburg Training the location. It appeared as if had and both vehicles were able to Center, 42870 McK. Hwy. backed into a telephone pole. It drive away under their own power. MOVE TO A PLACE From March 20, 1992 edition of McKenzie River Reflections was unoccupied when deputies Involved: gray Ford F35, white arrived. RAM 350, 54-year-old male from THAT MOVES YOU 3:31 p.m: Stalking Order Ser- Myrtle Point, 62-year-old male vice – McK. River Dr. & McK. from Cave Creek, AZ.

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John tried first one spot, then another; As we sat on our tailgates sipping There was a time, and it was one was too rocky, another too coffee and wishing we could be not too long ago, that the state steep, a third too close to a guy he inside at the Mule Barn counter, of Oregon had something of a didn’t like. Finally he disappeared we just sipped and looked in awe. reputation as a place for great with the sleeping bag he’d been When the show began, we’d get liars. issued. in the pickups and drive off home, Now, by “great liars,” I mean The next morning, he appeared but there’s no harm in watching tellers of the GOOD kind of by the fire, bleary-eyed, as Jack the weather’s overture to spring lies, not the kind of lies various was cooking pancakes. violence. politicians are throwing around “Good morning, doctor,” Jack “You boys been out on the plains right now. I’m talking about the said. “How did you sleep?” in spring, right?” asked Steve, our “Paul Bunyan, Casey Jones and “Hardly at all,” the physician tall, mustached cowboy member Pecos Bill” kind of liars. grumbled. “I guess it was that of the vaunted world dilemma One such “great liar” of honored sleeping bag. I almost smothered think tank. memory is a lively to death and my feet froze.” We nodded and sipped fellow named Reub Long. Whitewashing a rat and glanced up at the roiling You may recognize Reub’s Reub’s most famous story is blackness. name if you’ve ever lived on the one which he presents in his book “Always wondered what “dry side” of the Cascades. He’s as a true story, and you can make it would be like to be caught also the homesteader who deeded of that claim what you will. horseback out on the plains in one Fort Rock to the state of Oregon It seems he bought a ranch of these storms. Not something I’d as a park. Fort Rock, of course, that had been a successful, going look forward to, I can tell you.” is where they found the world’s concern, but had been vacant for “I know what they do, Steve,” oldest shoes — a pair of sage-bark a while. During that time, the said Doc. “Had a patient who sandals from 11,000 years ago. rats had moved in, and the place punched cows out that way. He And, oh yes, Reub could tell a was utterly infested with them. said when it rained, he’d get off his story. Reub could not seem to get rid of horse and sit on the ground under “I don’t lie to people, exactly, but them. his belly.” it’s fun to baffle them,” he wrote in “I tried poisoning, shooting, “So the horse would get wet and his book, by way of explanation. trapping — all the things I knew he’d stay dry?” Bighorns that bounce about,” he wrote. “The rats “More or less, I suppose.” In one case, Reub baffled a outsmarted me on every turn.” “But the lightning,” Steve said, group of businessmen from the Then one day while he was “what about the dang lightning?” Bend Chamber of Commerce griping about his dilemma to a “Doesn’t sound like any fun when they came to his ranch and neighbor, the neighbor suggested to me,” Herb said. “But I guess were looking over his collection what you might call a folk it’s some consolation that the of antiquities — Native American remedy — that is, if you were horse, being the highest point for artifacts, fossils, stone utensils, feeling charitable; if you weren’t, 15 miles, would get struck by animal bones. The businessmen Caxton Printers Ltd. you might call the neighbor’s lightning first.” were especially interested in a Reub and Eleanor Long stand in front of Fort Rock, the extinct volcano suggestion something else. “See, Steve,” Doc said, grinning. skull from Reub’s collection; it that they deeded to the state of Oregon for a park. Fort Rock has been He said if Reub would just “If lightning goes through the was from a mountain sheep. the site of some of Oregon’s most important anthropological discoveries, catch a full-grown rat, whitewash horse and hits you on the ground, One of the businessmen including the oldest footwear ever found anywhere — a pair of 11,000-year- him and turn him loose again, the you don’t have anything to worry commented on how thick the bone old sagebrush sandals. other rats would think he was a about, but if it just strikes the horse was between the sheep’s horns. ghost and would all leave. …?” “I suppose that is to enable them stepping off the ledge. These thick Like most good yarn-spinners, “That didn’t seem to be the sort “Yeah, Doc,” Steve said, “then to fight, the way I’ve heard they skulls saved them. They’d calmly Reub appreciated good high- of thing a person could believe you’d have the honor of being did, without injuring themselves,” hurl themselves off the ledge, head quality lies as well. He passed on with all his heart,” Reub added killed by a falling, fried horse. I he said, according to Reub’s down, and they could land on the one particularly entertaining one dryly, “but the remedy was cheap think I’ll stay off those plains for recollection. rocks below without harm.” from Jack Horton of the United and I was desperate.” now.” Reub saw his opportunity. “Yes, Clearly not quite buying it, one States Forest service. So Reub caught one of the rats, ------that is part of the reason,” he said of the businessmen asked if Reub It seems Jack was in charge of a nice big one, and alerted the Brought to you by salmon smoothly. “But those thick skulls had actually witnessed this. a guided Forest Service tour, and neighbor. They brought the rat out fisherman, pastor and friend to are on the females too, and they Sure he had, Reub said — sort a physician from Philadelphia to the road for the whitewashing, all, Mark Henry Miller’s book don’t fight. The sheep grazed of. was in the group. The physician, and soon a large group was River Runs Through Me. At on mountainsides, too steep and “I didn’t get to see him land,” a total greenhorn who’d never assembled there: Reub and his [email protected]. rough for other animals. Often a he explained, “because when he been out of an urban setting, was two hired hands, the neighbor and mountain ledge will follow along was halfway down, he saw me a problem almost immediately. He his hired hands, and “a couple for hundreds of feet, then pinch and turned right around and went demanded a horse that bounced other amateur rat specialists.” Emergency? out … When they got into such a back up.” less, then a saddle that wasn’t so “At that point, several technical Call 911 deal, they couldn’t back up without The grouchy greenhorn hard; he complained bitterly about Spin a wild yarn - Page 8

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BOXES & MEMORIES Then I realized that if you look and chomping starting a control program is to Get a duck, which will make a Do old cookbooks, cooking closely you’d find “codes” about through gardens clean up the garden,” she said. quick dinner out of slugs, but be notes, recipes clipped from your family members’ lives within It’s spring and that means “Don’t leave things all over the sure to check with your city first. magazines and newspapers tell the foods they prepared and recipes it’s time to start slugging it out yard. They can even hide under Some don’t allow them and there about a person’s likes and dislikes, they used. Auntie’s and Mother’s with one of the gardener’s most garden gloves.” are restrictions. even their life? recipes bring back memories of familiar, frustrating and certainly Raise pots onto bricks or “legs” Tape a wide (3-4 inches) strip of Auntie’s notebook of family and them and their foodways. Think slimiest pests. purchased for that purpose. Pull copper around the top of a pot or neighbors’ recipes, Gram Allen’s about your family food history You guessed it, slugs are ready mulch away from favorite plants. the top edge of a raised bed. Watkins’ Cookbook with recipes and relate these memories to your to pounce – or, more accurately, Remove weeds where the pests like Also, you can use bait. There are from friends written inside the children. Write them down for slowly slither – their way through to nestle down. Tidy under porches two types. One is a synthetic bait cover and flyleaf, my mother’s old future generations! the garden leaving wreckage and other raised structures. that contains metaldehyde, which Rumford Cookbook stuffed with A Recipe from Mother’s behind. As soil temperatures start Although sanitation is the first is toxic to humans and can be fatal clippings all are part of our family Collection: to climb, they rise from their line of defense, there are plenty to dogs if eaten in large amounts. food history. They almost tell a CORNSTARCH PUDDING winter hiding place underground to of other methods for control. Get The other contains iron phosphate, story of our likes and dislikes and - This was a basic dessert that munch tender seedlings, emerging started now. Young plants are which is considered very low in food fancies. Also included is my Mother often served with fruit perennials and even seeds. most susceptible. Here are Groth’s toxicity, according to the National recipe box stuffed with 3x5 cards spooned over it or stirred into the “What slugs want is a place that’s recommendations: Pesticide Information Center and clippings of old and new pudding. When it was made very warm and moist,” said Claudia Water in the morning. “If you at OSU, but has been known to recipes. thick, she used it for a cake filling Groth, an water in the evening, it’s wet until sicken dogs in high amounts. It I have a variety of recipes from or for pie. Extension Service master gardener. early in the morning and you’ve can be used in organic vegetable my years of cooking, as well as Cook over a double boiler, “That’s why they’ll be coming out given them the best environment gardens. those from my mother, aunts, stirring frequently, until thickened soon. The soil temperatures are when they come out at night When baiting, scatter rather grandmother, and even great - 1 1/2 quarts milk, 1-cup sugar, getting to be above 50 degrees, hungry,” she said. than making piles or bands. “If grandmother. Some are contained 3 tablespoons cornstarch that have which is perfect for them.” Put out beer traps. Use a pie you use piles or bands,” she in notebooks; others in file folders; been dissolved in1/4 cup of the Slugs aren’t crazy about winter plate or bury a plastic yogurt or explained, “slugs can go right more in a family recipe book Beth milk, dash of salt. When thick, add and summer. They bail from cold margarine container up to about by. If you scatter, they’re likely and I compiled. They tell a story 1-teaspoon vanilla and let cool. or hot weather. But fall and spring an inch from the rim. Pour in beer. to encounter it.” Also, be sure to of our family cooking history. If One of my aunts often stirred are agreeable seasons for slugs. In Remove dead slugs daily and refill look on the label to see how much we have time, we can add stories, in cut up pieces of oranges just the perfect conditions of autumn with beer. to use per square foot. It’s a lot recollections and photos that tell a before serving for an Orange when the heat starts to wane and Don’t use salt. It can build up in less than most people think. Using family story. Pudding. For cake or pie filling the first rains come, the mollusks the soil and damage plants. more is not better. Codes in Recipes use 5 tablespoons cornstarch. lay eggs in clusters called clutches, Attract predators such as frogs, For more information, check out I’m reading a spy novel, Miss If you want CHOCOLATE according to Groth, a horticulturist ground beetles and, yes, snakes. Extension’s publication on How Graham ‘scold War Cookbook PUDDING, add 3 teaspoons cocoa who has made slugs her specialty. Create an artificial hiding place to Control Slugs in Your Garden by Celia Rees in which ladies to the cornstarch before dissolving The eggs hatch fairly rapidly by placing a board in their favorite in English and Spanish. used recipes as codes in messages in milk. and the fast-growing slugs wait places. To make it especially during the Cold War era after (c) Mary Emma Allen it out, showing up in spring to World War II. It’s an interesting scrape and shred plant leaves with concept for a novel and tells the (Mary Emma Allen writes from tongues lined with thousands of story in a unique way, as well as her NH home. E-mail: me.allen@ tiny, extremely sharp teeth. providing food information of that juno.com) “In fall, you’re trying to kill era and the areas in Europe where them off before they lay eggs,” she said. “Now that your plants are poking their heads up, you need to protect them, because once the leaves are nipped, the damage is there all summer.” The pests are particularly fond of lettuce and other salad greens, broccoli, beans, hostas, strawberries, primroses and daffodil flowers. More sturdy plants like ferns, sedums, ornamental grasses, bleeding heart, heuchera, hellebores and most herbs fend them off reasonably well. Woody plants are also usually unbothered. Since slugs go on attack at night and look for protected places during the day, you’ll find them under ground covers or mulches and in thickly planted perennial or annual borders. “Many gardeners grow plants tightly in their beds to keep weeds from growing,” Groth said. “That’s an environment that provides them with a 100 percent hiding place all day.” Slugs will crawl beneath almost anything where it’s dark and moist, including boards, bricks, pots, loose stepping stones and pavers,

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At the same time, I feel like Direct Answers someone’s got to be honest with American Life before me her. She seems to adapt well and walk out into the yard By Wayne & Tamara Mirchell and make casual friends easily in Poetry the sun acts like a father as if it enough. In high school, other girls never left used to complain about her, but I By Kwame Dawes moths sing of you from wherever Taking a Hint was “It’s just a big, white dress,” guess I was oblivious. Sometimes defining what we moths go to sing I’ve had a long and rocky road instead of saying something What do you think? Let it fade mean by love causes us to fumble with a friend who reminds me uplifting or helpful. She even quietly, or let her know what’s around, until we find the right We do not accept unsolicited we’ve known each other over bailed at the last minute on up? language, or, as in this case, the manuscripts. American Life 20 years. Recently, during my the bachelorette party, which Brandi perfect lived image that captures in Poetry is made possible by two-year engagement, I had a was scheduled in the middle of Brandi, this woman did it all. Tyree Daye does this here The Poetry Foundation (www. revelation about how much of a winter to accommodate her! That everything possible to show you in his poem, “Ode to the Common poetryfoundation.org), publisher dud my “friend” truly is. ticked me off because it echoed a how disinterested she was in your Clothes Moth”, which is truly of Poetry magazine. It is also We live in different states. letdown that occurred in the very wedding, and you did everything an elegant ode to his love for De supported by the Department beginning. Although she offered her help possible not to hear it. Lissa. of English at the University and had enthusiasm about my She was going to join me on a When she heard, destination Ode to the Common Clothes of Nebraska-Lincoln. Poem upcoming wedding, she tended, as trip to look at reception venues— wedding, she might have thought, Moth copyright ©2016 by Tyree per her usual behavior, to want to a big deal since I was having a An overpriced extravaganza with By Tyree Daye dominate conversations and refer destination wedding. But she Brandi as the star. When she laid Daye, “Ode to The Common to her own wedding and planning added restriction after restriction down condition after condition In these days of less and less sun Clothes Moth” from Cardinal, experiences. until finally I told her she didn’t about going on the trip to check your love points and I follow (Copper Canyon Press 2016). When she did have questions, need to come, I was taking venues, did you hear what she was like the blind moths you beg me Poem reprinted by permission they were often critical or someone else! not saying? “Now I have to go not to kill of Permissions Company, LLC questions attempting to put her More and more, as the planning twice to her wedding destination. half-asleep and the sun lesser than and the publisher. Introduction back in control. For example, proceeded, I saw how selfish and I can’t afford that, in time or in a minute before copyright ©2021 by The Poetry and this was annoying but not single-minded she was. We’ve money.” I’ll let you go into the night and Foundation. The introduction’s the worst incident, when I called known each other for over 20 Some people don’t want to tell you say and I follow your love author, Kwame Dawes, is George to vent about my mother, all she years, but she didn’t even know you, I don’t want my vacation to of winged things to the back door W. Holmes Professor of English said was, “If your mom is acting my parents’ first names until she be about your wedding. They may watch you empty your hands into and Glenna Luschei Editor of this way, why are you having a big received the wedding invitation! feel you haven’t given them an the sky Prairie Schooner at the University wedding in the first place?” I tried to minimize contact at invitation. You’ve given them a of Nebraska. Why? Many women dream of the actual wedding, but she still debt. You didn’t say you offered to In the morning you will wake a big wedding (rightly or not) as managed to annoy me. First, pay her expenses, and apparently a way to celebrate and show the though she claimed she would the bachelorette party was just world how happy and in love they be devoted to me “on your big one more expense for her. are. Why wouldn’t I want a big day,” she brought her dog. Then, The only fault we find in her is May Election results wedding if I can afford it? when I had the coordinators track that she didn’t tell you directly. Continued From Page 1 Alas, I persisted in seeking her her down to help me go to the But some people would rather advice, though it was peppered bathroom (in my big white dress), talk about their sex life than McKenzie Fire & Rescue Board Write In 8 she went to our suite and cleaned throughout with how the money about money, and you shouldn’t Position #1 Position #4 could go towards a down payment it, which she probably thought be forced to admit your financial Ray Byrne 667 Josh Cloke 28 on a house. (That’s what she was the best surprise. Meanwhile, situation to a casual friend. Position #3 Position #5 thought when she got married.) I had to pee! The source of the problem is the Bruce Daniel 651 She also left the wedding early Tony Casad 21 Even when she tried to pretend 20 years of familiarity. Because Position #5 she was there for me, she was and didn’t help me with my veil, you two go way back, she didn’t Upper McKenzie Fire Board Eric (Rick) Thompson 650 flippant. When I needed hardcore as she promised. feel she could say no to you, and Position #1 Blue River Water Board advice—like when I called her Doing what she wants when you kept asking. Ron England 138 from the dressing room where she wants has been her trademark There is no reason to tell her Position #1 Position #2 I bought my dress—she didn’t behavior since high school. off. She already told you off, only Josh Cloke 30 R Michael Godfrey 144 have anything substantial to ask, Instincts tell me, since we live you weren’t listening. Position #2 Position #3 like, “How does it fit? Is this your across the country from each other, Wayne & Tamara Write In 12 Melanie Stanley 141 dream dress?” this would be an easy friendship write: Directanswers@ Position #3 Brad Longman 30 When I expressed unhappiness to fade out. 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