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 ALERT!  (Both items posted May 14, 2010)

Cougar siting on island.  Four island residents saw a large cougar about 8:30 pm, Tuesday, May 4, near milepost 4 on Reeder Road. The next day Rich Mayberry took Fish & Wildlife representatives to the spot, where they found the tracks of a large cat, approximately 6 feet long by 3 feet high. While ODFW gets reports of cougar sightings on the island about once a year, this is the first time they have been able to confirm the animal’s presence. For more information on living with cougars in Oregon see http://www.dfw.state.or.us/wildlife/living_with/living-with-cougars.asp.

Non-native Wapato bulbs may pose threat. At the SICA April Annual Meeting, speaker Roger Wendlick, generously gave away Wapato bulbs. If you took home some of these bulbs, please do not plant them in open waterways. They are from the store Uwajimaya and are probably not quite the same plant as our native Wapato. We don’t want to take the chance of having a non-native version taking hold and crowding out the native plants. Eat them and enjoy them, or plant them in a backyard pool that is never hydrologically connected to any other surface water. Please share this information with anyone who might have some of these bulbs.

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KUDOS

A Community nod of recognition go the the following:

to:

Scappoose High School varsity baseball team

for

winning the OSAA state championships last week! They beat Astoria, last years’ champions in extra innings, 2 to 1. It was a tied game (1-1) for 6 innings until Nick Paxton hit a single that scored the winning run in the bottom of the eighth.  Scappoose was the underdog going into the final game having lost to the Cowapa league champions during the regular season.  Jason Sawyer, starting pitcher, Max Updike, outfielder, both went to Sauvie Island Elementary and are seniors at Scappoose High.  Austin Egger, catcher is also a senior and his brother, Aaron, another member of the winning squad, are sons of David and Vicki Egger and grandsons of Jerry and Carol Egger of Sauvie Island Farms.  Go Indians!

to:

Julia Alvarez-Garza, Ashley Egger, Austin Egger, Kelly Johnson, Jorie Ruud, Emily Peterson, and Mack Powell

Sauvie Island Grange scholarship recipients

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to:

-Megan Hoffart and Austin Eggers –

for

keeping our island’s American flag flying proudly!  Along with it’s maintenance, they ensure the light is kept shining on our flag in hours of darkness and maintain it’s proper status during times of national mourning and on commemorative holidays.  – The American Legion Auxillary.

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to:

-Sauvie Island Volunteer Fire Fighters-

for

always being the dedicated and caliber people you are!