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Shasta College to hold 2
cycles of summer session
open registration this year
Shasta College will hold
two cycles of summer session
open registration this
year.
The fi rst cycle of open
registration for the summer
session is Thursday, April 25
through Friday, May 10.
The second cycle is
Monday, May 20 through
Monday, June 10.
There will be no summer
session registration May 13
through May 17.
Summer school begins in
early June.
The start dates will vary
depending on the start dates
of the courses in which students
enroll.
For those interested in
enrolling in only the summer
clinics, there will be a special
one-day registration Saturday,
April 20 from 8 a.m. to 1
p.m. then continuing on April
The Warner Mountain District
has received a Plan of
Operations from Todd King
for mining operations on a
claim situated in the West
Valley area of the Warner
Mountain District.
Mr. King wants to conduct
discovery and exploration
for opal primarily in the fi rst
two years and active mining
throughout the entire 3-year
Plan of Operations.
Forest Service specialists
are reviewing the Plan
of Operations to identify
resource issues and concerns
and associated mitigation
requirements.
The Plan of Operations
provides for the use of hand
tools such as picks, shovels,
rakes, brooms, chisels, and
wheelbarrows.
Powered hand-held tools
such as jackhammer and
chisel would be used occasionally.
Work would be accomplished
during daylight hours
in the spring, summer and fall
with limited operations during
the winter.
Access to the mining claim
The next ACT Assessment
will be administered nationwide
on June 8.
College bound high school
students must register for
the college admissions and
placement exam by May 3,
the deadline for having your
registration postmarked.
There is a late registration
postmark deadline of May 17,
but an extra fee is charged
for late registrations.
ACT scores are accepted
by virtually all U.S. colleges
and universities, including all
Ivy League schools, and are
used by colleges along with
high school grade point aver-
Kids ID Day will be held
Saturday, April 20 from 10
a.m. to 2 p.m. at the California
Department of Motor
Vehicles, 43223 Highway
299E in Fall River Mills.
In addition to processing
identifi cation cards to
minors, representatives from
the Intermountain Injury Prevention
Coalition will inspect
and hold instruction on child
safety seats.
The rules for children riding
in a vehicle has changed
Jan.1.
The California Highway
Patrol will be present with
their Mascot Chipper, to talk
with the children. A CHP car
If you would like to quit
smoking, take this smoking
cessation education and support
group class.
It’s held on Thursdays from
25 as noted above.
The summer session
offers courses for transfer,
upgrading job skills, personal
development, and special
interest.
Two way interactive, audiotape
and videophone classes
will also be available.
Registration fees are $11
per unit, and $24.50 for the
combined Student Health
and Campus Center fees.
Summer school courses
are usually from one to fi ve
units per course.
Class schedules are available
at the Admissions and
Records Offi ce, Distance
Education Centers, local
bookstores and libraries
throughout the community.
Call the Shasta College
Admissions and Records
offi ce at 225-4841 for registration
details.
Discovery and exploration
of opal mining on claim in
Warner Mountain area
is by existing road.
No alteration or improvement
of roads is proposed.
Operations-related traffi c
will consist of light trucks and
recreational vehicles making
one to two trips per day.
Reclamation activities will
include the stockpiling of
topsoil and tailings for redistribution
following mining
operations.
Reclamation will be
accomplished both by hand
and with equipment that may
include backhoe, dump truck,
or other heavy equipment.
The Warner Mountain
District is seeking comments
from interested parties on
this proposed Plan of Operations.
Please direct comments or
questions about this project
to Jane Biggerstaff by calling
530-233-8740 , writing to the
Modoc National Forest, 800
West 12 th Street, Alturas,
CA 96101, or by e-mail
jbiggerstaff@fs.fed.uss.
To be most helpful, please
make your comments available
by May 10.
ACT Assessment
will be June 8,
register by May 3
age and other information in
admissions decisions and to
help place students in appropriate-level
courses.
The test fee is $24.
Students can register for
the ACT by getting information
from their high school
counselors or by registering
online at ACT’s website
www.act.org.
The website also has helpful
information, sample tests
and the opportunity to order
test prep materials including
an interactive CD-ROM,
ACTive Prep, which contains
actual, timed tests and helps
students build a study plan.
Kid’s ID Day set for
Saturday in Fall River
will be there to see and balloons
and coloring books will
be available.
Airline security now
requires picture identifi cation
for adults as well as children
in most cases.
The California Identifi cation
Card is the answer to the
airlines request.
All you have to bring is a
certifi ed birth certificate, not
the one at the hospital, a
child’s social security number
and the $6 fee.
Other legal presence documents
are also accepted.
Call the Department of
Motor Vehicles for more information,
800-777-0133.
Smoking cessation class
set for Thursday evenings
6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at Senior
Center Recreation Room.
For more information contact
Terri Clima at 336-5511
ext. 1188.
Marines of Big Bend hold
dinner, egg finding contest
Marines of Big Bend single out the winners of the
small children egg fi nding contest. About 100 Intermountain
children and parents participated in the
egg fi nding, egg throwing and complete ham and
turkey dinner. Two hundred items of new clothing
donated by the Marines of Klamath Falls were given
out. Marines shown from left, Dennis Burke, Ron
Mason and Al Cunningham.
Eagle Lake boasts
best rainbow trout
By PAUL WERTZ
EAGLE LAKE-Could this
dot on the earth one day
be looked upon as the primordium
of the world’s best
rainbow trout?
Here and there, a Department
of Fish and Game biologist
whispers such a thought,
but no one says such things
out loud.
After all, there must be
consideration for the feelings
of the other rainbows, the
Shasta strain, the Whitney
strain, the Pit River strain and
others.
Yet, when March rolls
around and hearty, 25-inch
Eagle Lake rainbow trout
fi ght their way from the briny
waters of Eagle Lake up Pine
Creek and into the hands of
DFG fi sh culturists, and give
up nearly 2.3 million eggs to
provide more trout, the talk
begins.
“Eagle Lake rainbow are
in New Zealand, Wyoming,
Montana, and throughout
California,” said Paul Chappell,
department fi shery
biologist in Lassen County.
They are an exceptionally
strong subspecies of rainbow
and they are turning out to be
great additions to more and
more trout waters,” he said.
In three days during late
March, crews from the DFG’s
Crystal Lake Hatchery near
Burney sorted dozens of
Eagle Lake trout that had
negotiated a mile of Pine
Creek and had swum into
Fish and Game’s Pine Creek
trap, a partially submerged
concrete and wooden structure
designed for capturing,
sorting and spawning the
fi sh.
When the short-lived
spawning migration was
over, the crew had reached
its goal of collecting trout
eggs, 2,242,800 this year,
that will turn into fi ngerlingsized
trout for aerial plants in
wilderness lakes, sport-sized
trout planted in dozens of
California waters and a few
select brood fi sh from which
more eggs can be collected
two to four years later.
And, of course, they will
also turn into 180,000 large
Eagle Lake rainbows that will
be returned to Eagle Lake in
spring and fall plants, keeping
the popular trophy trout water
among the most popular of
California lake trout angling
targets.
In addition, full-grown
brood fi sh from prior seasons’
egg collections produce
about 4.2 million eggs annually
at Mt. Shasta Hatchery.
Mt. Shasta, in turn, ships
the eggs to eight other California
hatcheries where they
are raised, then planted in
dozens of California waters
as fi ngerlings or “catchable”
sized trout.
Perhaps the most miraculous
part of the Eagle Lake
rainbow trout story is the fact
that a little over 50 years ago,
the unique rainbow subspecies,
at that time found no
where else in the world but
Eagle Lake, had fallen on
hard times.
In fact, DFG biologists in
the mid 1900s worried that
the fi sh was on the brink of
extinction.
Among the problems
besieging the now revered
rainbow of Eagle Lake was
Eagle Lake itself.
A closed basin remnant of
the Great Basin sea, Eagle
Lake is highly alkaline.
No other trout is known to
be capable of surviving the
lake’s harsh habitat.
During the fi rst half of the
20 th Century, drought, poaching
and water diversions
along Pine Creek, the lake’s
only viable tributary, brought
the rainbow to the brink.
Something had to be done,
DFG biologists of the 1950s
decided.
Fish and Game erected
a temporary trapping facility
in the snow on Pine Creek
upstream of the present trap,
and waited. And waited.
Over a period of a month, a
total of six female trout made
their way up the creek to the
trap.
A few males were collected
and the fi rst artifi cial spawning
and incubation of Eagle
Lake rainbow trout eggs was
underway.
From that handful of fi sh,
in fact notes indicate it may
have been from a solitary
female trout, the DFG has
rebuilt the large lake’s trout
population to a level that
draws anglers from hundreds
of miles away.
Eagle Lake is open to fi shing
from the Saturday preceding
Memorial Day, May 25
this year, through Dec. 31.
The limit is two trout per
day and four in possession.
Indoor walking
offered to all at
Word of Life
If you would like to do
more walking but are worried
about the dogs in your neighborhood
or bad weather,
do some indoor walking at
the Word of Life Church in
Burney, in the gym.
The gym walk and short
devotional is held Monday,
Wednesdays and Fridays
from 8 a.m. to 9 a.m.
Everyone is welcome.
For more information,
phone 335-4419.
Burney Chamber’s
Ham Run is set for
May 4 at state park
The second annual Ham
Run sponsored by the Burney
Chamber of Commerce will
be held Saturday, May 4.
The four-mile run will start
at 8 a.m., two-mile walk or
run at 9 a.m.
It will be held at the
McArthur Burney Falls
Memorial State Park.
To pre-register send $15
postmarked by April 27, for
late registration add $5.
To register phone Burney
Chamber of Commerce at
335-2111.
THE INTERMOUNTAIN NEWS • APRIL 17, 2002 • PAGE 5
OBITUARIES
Ted Austin Swan
Retail business, 89
Ted Austin Swan of Nevada
died April 4 at his residence.
He was born June 21, 1912
in Rome, Iowa. He came to
Burney in 1963 and owned
the Burney Bottle Shop until
1974 when he moved to
Redding.
He was active in the International
Order of Lions.
A private family memorial
service will be held in Reno
with a Celebration of Life to
be held on his birthday.
He was preceded in death
by his wife of 63 years,
Hazel.
He is survived by sons
Norman of Placitas, NM,
Theodore of Mercer Island,
WA, Alan of Redding; daughter
Carolyn Rais of Reno, NV;
10 grandchildren and three
great-grand children.
The Intermountain Cattlewomen
invite graduating
seniors and college students
in the Fall River and Big
Valley High School Districts
to apply for a $500 scholarship.
Four scholarships are
being offered.
Applicants must be pursu-
Memorial contributions
may be made to the charity of
your choice.
John Garlowick
Machinist, 92
A private service will be
held for John Edward Garlowick
of Fall River Mills, who
died at Mayers Memorial
Hospital April 10, 2002.
He was born June 17,
1909 in New York and moved
to Shasta County in 1998
from Belmont, Ohio.
He is survived by daughter
Sharon Lahner of Fall River
Mills; brother Edward of
Scottsdale, PA; sisters Helen
Larrea of Phillipsville, Millie
Cooper of Anaheim, Marie
Golojych of San Diego; two
grandchildren and one greatgrandchild.
McDonald’s Chapel in
Burney is handling the
arrangements.
Cattlewomen offer four $500
scholarships to Big Valley and
Fall River High school students
ing a career in agriculture or
in an ag supporting business,
have a 2.0 grade point average
and entering college as a
freshman, sophomore, junior
or senior in the fall of 2002.
Applications may be
obtained from the high school
counselors or from Rose
Thompson, P.O. Box 98,
Bieber, Calif. 96009.