MIDWEEK EDITION
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Brookings, Oregon
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Monarch mania at Kalmiopsis M
Linda Pinkham Staff Writer
onarch mania has taken hold in teacher Jennifer Legat’s fourth-grade classroom at Kalmiopsis Elementary School in Brookings. Fourth-graders at the school have been raising the butterflies for three years, ever since the first year when Vicki Mion with Brookings Oregon Monarchs Advocates (BOMA) brought some chrysalids so the kids could experience them eclosing (emerging from their cocoons). “It was a wonderful experience and kids loved seeing the new life appear,” Legat said. “I saw a butterfly coming out!” student Christine Slening said. The second year, the students worked with Statia Ryder from the Curry Watersheds Partnership to look into the viability of the school’s Little Bear Patch Garden becoming a monarch waystation, which re- Justin Jones (right) helps Jennifer Legat demonstrate how to get milkweed seeds out of the pod. quires milkweed for eggs and Photo by Linda Pinkham. caterpillars and nectar flowers throughout the district who are coordinated by Vicki Mion again helped students raise monto feed the adult monarchs. Michelle Prudden and Lynette McPherson. The Little Bear Patch Garden was built with More Monarch on Page A4 Last spring, BOMA’s Holly Byer and community support and is maintained by students
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rom heavy downpours to summer-like conditions, sudden weather changes are not uncommon for Brookings during fall, according to the National Weather Service. And as this week ends, high-temperature records could be set here. Meteorologist Brian
Nieuwenhuif of the National Weather Service office in Medford is forecasting temperatures into the upper 70s and low 80s. “We might hit a record on Thursday,” he said. “We will definitely see above-average temperatures over the next several days.” The National Weather Service recorded recordbreaking temperatures of 89 degrees on Oc. 23, 1965,
and 83 degrees on Oct. 24, 1972 and 97 degrees the next day. Nieuwenhuif said a thermal trough - a ridge of high pressure - will influence the local forecast into next week. “We will continue to see a dry pattern,” he said. “These weather shifts are pretty typical for Brookings during fall.” Meantime, towards last week heavy rain showers
swept through Brookings, caused by a series of lowpressure frontal systems passing from the Pacific Ocean inland, said National Weather Service meteorologist Marc Spilde. “We recorded 3.17 inches of rainfall between Wednesday morning and Thursday morning, Oct. 16-17, at the Brookings Municipal Airport,” Spilde said. “This is the tenth-most amount of
Staff Report fire destroyed two Fort Dick buildings and a car late last Sunday morning. Two adults and four children escaped the 11:30 a.m. fire uninjured with two of their dogs. The other two dogs perished in the flames. The Fort Dick Fire Department responded to the fire, which had been reported to the Del Norte County Sheriff’s Office dispatcher by one of the neighbors. Crescent City Fire and Rescue and the Pelican Bay State Prison Fire Department responded as well. By the time firefighters had arrived, the fire had consumed three-fourths of the main structure and was encroaching on a structure 30 feet away. Firefighters kept the fire from reaching the next property, but the flames engulfed a double-wide manufactured home, a shed and a car on the 4600 block of Kings Valley Road. Twenty-one personnel from the three agencies responded to the scene and contained the fire in approximately 30 minutes. The neighborhood took care of the family of six and sheltered them immediately following the fire, according to Battalion Chief Matt Berry. “All the neighbors in that area were great. They were really helping the family out,” Berry said. The cause of the fire is still under investigation.
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Brookings weather bouncing around Jeremy C. Ruark Pilot Editor
Sun. fire destroys Fort Dick buildings
rain in a two-day period in October, according to our records.” But it was even wetter in October 2016. “There were multiple amounts of rainfall on Oct. 13-14, 2016,” Spilde said. “That is when we saw the highest rainfall in October. “There was 6.1 inches More Weather on Page A2
Roadkill putting food on the table Linda Pinkham Staff Writer
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Sheriff John Ward.
Ward files for reelection I
Jeremy C. Ruark Pilot Editor
t may be months away, but already interest in the May primary is building. In Curry County, Sheriff John Ward is the first candidate to file so far for the May 19 election. Curry County Commissioners Court Boice and Sue Gold have yet to announce whether they will seek reelection. Also on the May ballot are Curry County Assessor Jim Kolen, Curry County Clerk Reneé Kolen and Curry County Treasurer Deborah Crumley. As of Monday, Oct. 20, there were no More Sheriff on Page A2
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alifornia has passed legislation joining 27 other states, including Oregon, that have approved bills allowing motorists to salvage game animals killed by vehicles. Oregon’s “Roadkill Bill,” SB 372, was passed unanimously by both legislative chambers in 2017 and went into effect Jan. 1 this year. Under Oregon’s law, people can salvage deer and elk carcasses that have been accidentally struck by a vehicle, as long as they make sure to fill out a permit within 24 hours and follow a few basic rules. Intentionally hitting a deer or elk in order to salvage it remains unlawful. People salvaging animals must take the entire carcass, including any gut piles; must dispose of the remains properly; and must bring the head of the animal to an Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW) field office within five days so it can be tested for chronic wasting disease. Details of the law and an online permit application can be found on myodfw.com by searching the term “roadkill.” The intent of the law is to provide people with a healthy food source that might otherwise go to waste, and to eliminate the work required of road workers to gather the carcasses and dispose of them. “Over a million deer are hit by cars in the U.S. annually, meaning tens of millions of pounds of free-range venison could be salvaged by eating roadkill every year,” according to the website wideopeneats.com
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A mule deer crosses a road in front of oncoming vehicles. Photo courtesy U.S. Department of Defense. The Pilot checked in with ODFW assistant staff wildlife biologist Justin Dion to see how the new Oregon law is working. QUESTION: How many permits have been issued since Oregon’s roadkill law went into effect? JUSTIN DION: The number of permits issued since Jan. 1 is 798.
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Q: Are you able to break the numbers out by species and gender? DION: Most permits are for black-tailed deer (found in western Oregon, where most of Oregon’s human population is). At this time of year, we are seeing a big uptick in males being road-struck, which is to be More Roadkill on Page A4
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