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ALBANY (OR) DEMOCRAT-HERALD, CORVALLIS (OR) GAZETTE -TIMES MID-VALLEY SUNDAY. JANUARY 13. 2002 A5 F.Y.I DDI ill TOtelTM'S Information that can make a difference J' Benton County TODAY American Field Service, 3 to 4:30 p.m., meeting room, Corvallis-Benton County Public Library. Program: Steve Karabinyosh of Uzhgorod, Ukraine; Dima Ponomarev of Sukhum, Abkhazia; and Viki Kovacs of Budapest, Hungary. Corvallis Tilth Organic Gardeners, 7 p.m., meeting room, Corvallis-Benton County Public Library, 645 N.W.

Monroe Ave. Information: Al Kapuler, 752-0421. North College Hill Neighborhood Association, 4:30 p.m., Newman Center, 2111 N.W. Monroe Ave. Information: Trish Daniels, 757-7238.

Suite A. Agenda: video conference. RiverfrontDowntown Parking Regulation Work Group, 7 p.m., downtown fire station. "The Edge of Each Other's Battles: The Vision of Audre Lorde," 7p.m., Room 213, Memorial Union, Oregon State University. Presented by the Difference, Power and Discrimination Program at OSU.

A workshop on community organizing will be held at 3 p.m. Tuesday in the Women's Center. Information: 737-2760. Ward 5 meeting with Councilor Rob Gandara, 7 p.m., board room, Corvallis-Benton County Public Library, 645 N.W. Monroe Ave.

Linn County SUNDAY Collector's Market, 10 a.m., Linn Fair Expo Center, 3700 Knox Butte Road S.E., Albany. Antiques and collectibles. Friendship Force, 3 p.m., Camlu Residential Apartments, 1212 34th St. S.E., Albany. Mid-Valley Singles, 11 a.m.

coffee at the I-5 Beanery, on Southeast Fescue Albany. Silver Dollar Horse Show, 9 a.m., Linn Fair Expo Center, 3700 Knox Butte Road S.E., Albany; Julie Hockensmith, 926-8608. Square dance lessons, 6:30 to 8 p.m., at the Lebanon IOOF Hall, 24 E. Ash $3 per person; sponsor, Lebanon Square Orders. Classes last 15 weeks; 451-3480.

Couples, singles and families welcome. MONDAY Albany Budget Committee work session, 5:30 p.m., council chamber, City Hall, 333 Broadalbin St. S.W. Albany City Council work session, 4 p.m., Willamette room, City Hall. Albany Listening Post, noon to 1 p.m., Doug Killin, a city councilor, will be at Heritage Mall to listen to Albany residents' opinions and ideas.

Albany RiflePistol Club, 7 p.m.. Saddle Butte Range, Boston Mill overpass and I-5. American Legion Bingo, 6:30, American Legion Hall, 480 Main Street, Lebanon. Central Linn School Board, 7:30 p.m., 32433 Highway 228, Halsey. Duplicate Bridge, 11 a.m., American Legion Hall, 1215 Pacific Blvd.

S.E., Albany; lunch available; all welcome; $3 per player; 928-0340. Family Storytime, 7 to 7:45 p.m., Albany Library, 1390 Waverly Drive S.E.; stories for all ages. Halsey City Council, 6:30 p.m., UPIU building, 1125 W. First St. Harrisburg School Board, 8 Associated Press A member of the Klamath Tribe displays a sucker fish prior to the annual C'waam Ceremony in Chiloquin in March 2001.

For the Klamath, the C'waam or Lost River sucker, and Qapdo, or shortnosed sucker, are sacred gifts. Shooting incident raises issue in the -Klamath Basin. By Jeff Barnard The Associated Press CHILOQUIN Perry Chocktoot was in front of his house working on the stereo in his pickup when three guys drove by yelling "Sucker lovers, come out and and put a shotgun blast into a portable outhouse across the street. The pickup drove around this town of about 500 that is headquarters for the Klamath Tribes, firing at signs and buildings, and stopped for awhile behind a school bus, where the men asked kids headed for a basketball game whether they were Indians, Chocktoot said. "They shot over one kid's head," said Chocktoot, a tribal member.

"You know what that tells that kid? 'White people hate me. Not for anything I've done. Because I haven't done That is so wrong." Though no one was hurt, taunting Indians with the word sucker an endangered fish, sacred to the Klamath that became an icon of last summer's federal decision to reserve drought-depleted water for fish over farms potentially turned the Dec.l shooting from rabble-rousing to criminal racism. Three men from the farming community of Bonanza were arrested three weeks later and charged with felony intimidation, unlawful use of a weapon, conspiracy, criminal mischief and reckless endangerment. They have yet to go to trial.

Authorities said ranch hand George Curry, 23 logger Richard Sharp, 26; and Adam Lee, 27, no occupation listed, were goose hunting and.drink-ing beer when they decided to shake up the Klamath Tribes. The arrests came on the heels of -an Oregon State University draft report on last summer's water wars noting that "racism that mostly lies below the surface of social life in the basin emerged as some framed the issue as 'Indians vs. Tribal officials say the shooting was bound to happen, given the tension's over irrigation cutbacks mandated by the Endangered Species Act to assure water for the endangered suckers in Upper Klamath Lake, as well as threatened coho salmon in the Klamath River. "I believe it took the drought of 2001 to bring to the surface MONDAY American Association of Retired Persons, 2 p.m., Chintimini Senior Center, 2601 N.W. Tyler Ave.

Program: Jason Wallace, director of Fitness After 50, will discuss "Fit at any age." Information: 753-1499. American Association of University Women Board, 12:30 p.m., second floor, Coldwell Banker, 1109 N.W. Ninth St. Information: Martha Jenkens, 757-4390. Belrfountain Road Refinement Plan Committee, 7 p.m., Benton County Public Works, 360 S.W.

Avery; Agenda: rail transportation and its relation to the corridor, school districts' needs and plans, review of key issues. Benton County Commission on Children and FamiliesYes for Kids Food Security Task Force, 3:30 p.m.. Ash Building, 545 S.W. Second St. Benton County Commission on Children and FamiliesYes for Kids Youth Commission, 5:30 p.m., upstairs large conference room, Benton Plaza, 408 S.W.

Monroe Ave. Corvallis American Legion Post No. 11, 7:30 p.m., Oregon National Guard Armory, 1100 N.W. Kings Blvd. Post Everlasting will pay respects to post members who died during 2001.

Information: Les Whittle, 752-3222. Corvallis City Council, 5 p.m., downtown fire station, 400 N.W. Harrison Blvd. Corvallis Native Plant Society, 7:30 p.m., Avery House Nature Center, 1200 S.W. Avery Park Lane.

Information: Esther, 754-0893. Daughters of the American Revolution Winema Chapter, 11:45 a.m.. Burton's Sunnybrook Restaurant, 119 S.W. Third St. Monthly luncheon meeting.

Program: Margaret Jo Roach will discuss "A Cross-Cultural Experience." Information: 752-5296. Family Playpark Inc. open house, 10 a.m. to noon, gymnasium, National Guard Armory, 1100 N.W. Grant Ave.

Open to children of all ages, home-schoolers and daycare providers. Free. Information: Melanie Johnson, 757-9580. Good Samaritan Hospital entrance relocation. Northwest Elks Drive.

During a two-month renovation of the lobby, the main entrance will be relocated to the entrance of the Ralph Hull Regional Heart Center. Historic Preservation Advisory Board, 5 p.m., Meeting Room City Hall, 501 S.W. Madison Ave. Monroe School Board, 7:30 p.m., library, Monroe High School. Philomath City Council, 7:30 p.m., council chambers.

City Hall, 980 Applegate St. Region 4 Workforce Investment Board Youth Council, 1 p.m.. Community Services Consortium, 545 S.W. Second the basin go back more than 10,000 years, and one of their ancient stories tells of a time when a monster was on the land, eating the people. Creator killed the monster and carried the body to the middle of Upper Klamath Lake, where he ripped it apart and transformed the bones into the white-fleshed C'waam.

Creater told the Klamath people that as long as the C'waam survived, they would survive. And when the C'waam disappeared, the Klamath people would be no more. Besides feeding the Klamath people, the suckers supported a popular sport fishery. But after state-regulated harvests plummeted from 12,500 in 1966 to 687 in 1986, the fish went on the endangered species list. Biologists blamed overfishing and declining water quality and habitat from overgrazing, agricultural runoff and draining marshes for pasture.

Relations between whites and Indians have been tense from the start. After the treaty of 1864 put the Klamaths, Modocs and Yahooskins together on a reservation at Chiloquin, a band of Modocs complained of mistreatment by the Klamaths and left. When the Army tried to force them back in 1872, the Modocs held out for months in one of the last of the Indian wars. The federal government assigned shares of the reservation to individuals in 1887 and in 1954 dissolved the tribes, paying people for their shares of the reservation, which became a national forest and wildlife refuge. The money was quickly spent and the tribes descended from one of the most economically successful in the nation into poverty.

Since regaining tribal status, the tribes have been trying to regain the reservation as a key to their economic revival. Ever since protesters forced open irrigation headgates last July 4, Klamath County Sheriff Tim Evinger has been trying to avoid violence. He was concerned enough about racism to call in two U.S. Justice Department mediators, but says they found no problem. He investigated complaints of Indians refused service by merchants, and found no basis for criminal charges.

He compares the bumper stickers and sucker feeds to a similar focus on the northern spotted owl when national forest harvests were cut back in the 1990s. "A bumper sticker is one thing. Discharging a shotgun in a city is a whole 'nother issue," Evinger said. how deeply embedded racism is in this community," said Joe Hobbs, tribal vice chairman. Though water dedicated to the salmon tipped the balance away from farmers for the first time since the Klamath Project irrigation system opened in 1907, the local focus was on suckers.

People at rallies carried anti-sucker signs, and denounced the sucker as an inedible bottom-feeding trash fish. Bumper stickers said "Save a farmer, fillet a sucker fish." Signs announcing a "Sucker Special" were left at the tribes' Klamoya Casino. "They don't understand how significant these fish are to us," said Tribal Chairman Allen Foreman. "To them it's a trash fish. "Through their minds they associate us with trash.

That's the way they view us. 'The fish is useless and using it takes away from our But to the Klamath people, the C'waam (TCH-waam), or Lost River sucker, and Qapdo (KUP-doe), or shortnosed sucker, are sacred gifts of Creator, celebrated with an annual ceremony to mark the spring spawning run just as Columbia River tribes celebrate the return of the salmon. Estimates on how long the Klamath people have lived in p.m. board meeting, 400 S. Ninth.

Lebanon gospel concert, 7 p.m., First Assembly of God, Seventh and Oak streets; $1 1 258-4494. Doors open at 6 p.m. Linn County Museum Advisory Commission, 4 p.m., 101 Park Brownsville; 515 p.m. restoration meeting at the Moyer House. Linn Farm Bureau, 7:30 p.m., 33254 Highway 99E, Tangent.

Linn Master Gardeners, 7 p.m., Linn Armory, Fourth and Lyon, Albany; public welcome. Mid-Valley Coin Club, 7 p.m., Alterra Villas, 1650 Davidson St. S.E., second floor; everyone is welcome to attend. Sweet Home Gardeners, 1:30 p.m.. Sweet Home Senior Center, 880 18th Ave.

Sweet Home School Board, 7:30 p.m., 1920 Long St. Fire damages unit in Albany fourplex them out," he said, adding that he also held a garden hose on the flames until Albany firefighters arrived. Firefighters had the fire out before 8:30. The cause of the fire and the extent of the damage were not immediately known. No other information was available.

The Valley Pointe Apartments, built in 1978, have 127 units, including duplexes, triplexes and fourplexes, Manager Shelley Frederickson said. It was the first fire she knew of at Valley Pointe. Mid-Valley Sunday smoke marks on her nose and mouth. The names of the three residents were not available. The fire started shortly after 8 p.m.

in apartment No. 88. Dave Clarke said he was visiting a friend next door in No. 89 when the fire broke out. "I rounded up five fire extinguishers and emptied ALBANY Fire damaged at least one unit in a fourplex Saturday night at the Valley Pointe Apartments, 5001 Pacific Blvd.

S.W. The residents of the damaged unit, a woman and her two young daughters, did not appear to be injured. Medics, however, were checking the woman, who appeared to have Pipe bomb kills Sublimity man LOTTEHIIS "Where everybody gets a great deal!" Your full-service Ford dealership including a complete Saturday night. According to family members, at about 3 p.m. Saturday the two men went to an open area along the North Santiam River near Gates to explode two pipe bombs they had manufactured, Burright said in a release.

One of the devices detonated killing Wellsant instantly, he said. The Oregon State Police Bomb Squad assisted sheriff's deputies. The incident remains under investigation. Mid-Valley Sunday GATES The accidental detonation of a pipe bomb killed a 56-year-old Sublimity resident Saturday afternoon, according to Linn County Sheriff Dave Burright. John M.

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