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The flag set at half mast Sunday near the ga-zebo in Gates in commemoration of the tragic events of 9/11/01 as citizens of all ages were met with honks, salutes, and cheers as they proudly displayed the colors to the passing traffic. The event started off with the playing

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“Now and then we all had a hope that if we lived, and were good, God would

permit us to be pirates.” Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi

With International Talk Like a Pirate Day (or TLAPD as known to me mates) nigh upon us, one might wait, and pon-der, “Why do we talk like pirates every September 19th? And why is it so much fun?” A little known fact is that Mark Sum-mers - a mild mannered behavioral con-sultant for the local schools by day - is also world renowned co-founder of this infamous day and swashbuckling Cap’n Slappy by night.

I sat down for lunch Monday with this notorious pirate to find out a little more, just in time to see him steal a straw from a local on duty constable. “It all started in a racquetball game back in ‘95 with my buddy John Baur, (aka Ol’ Chumbucket), when one of us let out an ‘arrrh!’, which led to another, and another,” recollected Summers, as he attacked the plate of double pork burrito. “We let a few of our friends in on our plan, we’d pick one day a year to talk like a pirate. (My ex-wife’s b-day, just so I wouldn’t forget). It started out with us calling each other at work, yell-ing “Arrrh!” into the phone, then hang-ing up in giggles.”

Interview with a Pirate

((cont’d on page 12)

Local founder of infamous Talk Like a Pirate Day explains how the day of swashbuckling swagger became so popular

of Taps and a 21 gun salute by members of the American Legion, while volunteers from the Gates Fire Department contin-ued to volunteer, setting up shelters from the heat and providing ice water to the flag wavers who came from up and down the canyon to honor the fallen. The eyes of local coordinator Carol Anne Boniface (pictured here) brimmed

with tears as the crowd grew, joining in her vision. “I am so very proud to be an American, especially today. Who would think that a small town girl like me could make a difference?” she asked. “A BIG thank you to George and Ma-ria from the Sierra Restaurant as they brought us a tray of yummy food to keep us going.” (more photos page 3)

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On a 94 degree day, it’s hard to find an empty place to swim on the Little North Fork River. It’s even harder to know where to swim without crossing private property. That’s what happened last Saturday when a group of people thought they found a great swimming hole near the second bridge on North Fork Rd, just past Elkhorn Golf Course. There was parking and the only no-trespassing sign around was past the point where most people sat. It didn’t occur to them that they might actually be on someone’s land. Turns out, the no-trespassing sign was too far back because it wouldn’t stay put on the proper-ty line. Closer to the bridge, the river bank belongs to Marion County. Beyond the

bridge, the area belongs to 33 year North Fork resident Sandy Johnson. Sandy Johnson is a patient woman. She’s allowed many visitors to enjoy her fabu-lous swimming hole over the years - and has often found that it causes more trouble than fighting to keep them out. “Just the other day, I had to tell people to put a campfire out,” said Johnson, who also serves as a volunteer firefighter for Elkhorn Fire District. She doesn’t want her property to burn down in this high-risk time. “We’ve got fires raging all over the state. What are they thinking?” It’s the garbage that could be the biggest hassle. “I used to pick up after them. I try to keep it clean. But they throw their gar-

bage in the river - the plastic is the worst. It kills the birds, the fish, everything.” Johnson has posted many signs over the years to try to keep people out - only to have them torn down. She’s given permis-sion to those who asked first and found out that “people are nice until they’ve had a drink or two.” She’s had rocks thrown at her and people argue about the law. She often has to call the Marion County Sheriff to remove people. “I’ve been to many sites like this,” said Jim Herring, a deputy with the department. Part of the problem lies in the lack of clear marking of where people can and cannot swim. The North Fork Road is lined with no-trespassing signs, but unless owners are diligent about maintaining them, they often get torn down. After that happens, many people assume the area is public property. “You have to go with the premise that somebody owns everything,” said Deputy Jim Herring. “The North Fork River is a special kind of river (the land under the water can be owned). You can float it, but if you touch any land, you’re trespassing. If an owner says ‘that’s my rock’, it’s prob-ably their rock. People have the duty to ask before going somewhere.”

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The Detroit Ranger District on the Wil-lamette National Forest has closed a portion of the Opal Creek Wilderness, the Elk Lake Campground, Dunlap Lake, Gold Butte Lookout, and portions of Humbug Creek and other watersheds on the north slopes of the Breitenbush River. Roads that access Elk and Dun-lap Lakes are also closed. Hot, dry and windy weather is expected to persist through the weekend, and managers are taking these steps to provide for public and firefighter safety. “We are concerned that yesterday’s southerly movement of the Mother Lode fire could continue, so we want to assure that no one is in harm’s way,” said De-troit District Ranger Grady McMahan. “We’re closing the Elk Creek camp-ground and the roads that access it, as well as a small portion of the headwaters

of Opal Creek. We appreciate the pub-lic respecting these closures so that we can focus our efforts on keeping the fire contained.” The most well known areas affected by the closure are Elk Lake campground, Dunlap Lake, Gold Butte Lookout, por-tions of the Whetstone Mountain Trail, portions of the French Creek Ridge Trail, Battle Ax Trail east of Opal Pool near Jawbone Flats, and Beachie Saddle Trail. All trails within Bull of the Woods Wilderness were closed in a previous order issued by the Mt Hood National Forest. The East Humbug Road 4696 remains open, as does 4696-850; the Opal Creek Trail is also open. More in-formation on the Mother Lode fire can be found at: http://www.inciweb.org/in-cident/2636/. (cont’d. on page 7)

Forest Service puts ban on campfires and smoking

Local Fire Update, some roads and campgrounds closed

Ron Harris (seated) a Vietnam Veteran, shares the day of homage with his brother, Greg. (standing)Members of the Lyons Fire Department

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Santiam High School will hold their annual open house on September 14th from 5:30-7pm in the High School. Stu-dents and their parents can meet teach-ers and check out all the activities and sports at Santiam. Every student that brings a parent will receive a raffle tick-et to win one of the following: Drama/Annual: Tickets to their first dinner the-atre and an annual of your choice (past current or future), Santiam gear donated from FBLA, baseball and the athletic dept., free homecoming tickets for one couple, free ticket to the FFA after foot-ball game dance and more. Sports and activity schedules will be available and chance to sign up if students are inter-ested.

Lyons-Mehama Water District to hold rate

increase meeting The Lyons-Mehama Water District Board of Directors is holding a pub-lic meeting to discuss potentially raising the base water rate for its cus-tomers. The last rate increase was for $5 in 2005. The Board has not made any decision about how much this proposed rate increase would be. Talks about the rate increase start-ed last year, but were tabled due to an unsuccessful recall effort by lo-cal citizens. A public meeting of the District will be held on Oct. 12, 7-7:30pm at the Mehama Fire Hall at 21475 Ferry Rd. SE. Any person

may appear and discuss the proposal with the Board of Directors.

Hwy 22 improvements start in Mill City

North Santiam Paving was awarded the contract for Phase 1 of the Highway 22 improvement project in Mill City. They will be installing sidewalks, drainage ditches, and landscaping on the south side of the highway from 9th St to just past the Dearhorn Apts. Phase 1 should be finished no later than September 23 per contract bid.

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About 100 classic cars and motor-cycles are expected at this year’s De-troit Lake Cruz-In. The annual event is sponsored by the Detroit Lake Recreation and Business Association and is designed to take advantage of the end-of-season excitement from local and visiting owners.The event will be held on Saturday, Sept. 18 from 10am-pm. Vendors are welcome to set up tents for no charge. “This is not a club atmosphere,” said organizer Rick Ladbury. Prizes are awarded and categories for cars include Custom, Original, Custom Pick-up, Original Pick-up, Muscle, Street Rod, Convertible, Best 30’s, Best 40’s, Best 50’s, Best 60’s, Best 70’s, Best 80’s, Best 90’s, Best 2000 and above, Best Custom Paint, Best Interior, Best Foreign, Best in Prog-ress, Best in Show. The motorcycle categories include: Best Paint, Cus-

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The 32nd annual Regis Green and Gold auction and raffle will be held Oct 15, 5pm at Regis High School and themed the “Run for the Roses.” The auction generates about 10% of the school’s an-nual revenue. “A new twist this year is that we have three prizes to give away,” says Gay Frank, Regis Special Events and Auction Coordinator. “The car is the first place prize, second place wins a Traeger Bar-becue and third place wins an iPad 2!” Invitations will be mailed in Septem-ber; those who are not on the mailing list and would like an invitation should call Ron or Sue Bernt at 503-749-1935, as the event operates solely through presale tickets. Gift donations should be directed to Tami Brentano at 503-769-6961. For more information, visit www.regishigh-school.net or call 503.769. 6243.

Gleaners thanks Labor Day helpers

Canyon Gleaners would like to give a special thank you to Brittany Holman and Jim Grims for helping us with ourgarage sale over Labor Day weekend.The two of them worked hard helping us empty boxes. Brittany even brought her children. This was a very nice gesture on their part to spend their time helping us. It is nice to know that the community is behind us with our mission.

Eagles Lodge gets ready for Carnival

Donations sought for safety-minded Halloween event

The Mill City Eagles Lodge will be hosting their 20th annual Halloween Carnival at Santiam High School this coming Oct. 31 - with prizes for cos-tumes and game play for kids up to 8th grade. “It keeps kids from having to go door-to-door,” said Madam President Lisa Follis, who recognizes the hardships of trick-or-treating in rural areas. “We’ll have games, free food and lots of good-ies. We’re a community organization and this helps keep our kids off the streets.” The Eagles Lodge is asking for help to make it a great night. They need snack items for the evening, as well as goodie candy bags to hand out. Monetary dona-tions are also welcome to purchase sup-plies like decorations. Please drop candy donations at the Eagles Lodge (640 SW Broadway, Mill City). Cash or gift certificate donations can be mailed to North Santiam Eagles Auxiliary Attn: Halloween Carnival PO Box 604 Mill City, OR 97360. Info: Lisa Follis 503-897-2358.

Girl Scout can drive coming Sept 18

Give your cans and bottles to the Troops! Sunday Sept. 18, Girl Scout Troop # 10102 will be collecting cans and bottles, 10am-2pm, on the corner of Evergreen and First St. in Mill City to help pay for field trips and buy new uniforms.

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Students and parents alike volunteered their time August 24th to get the grounds at Santiam High School cleaned up and ready for the new school year. This annual event was started by SHS Leadership Club over 5 years ago and now helps students from freshman to

seniors not only meet their required community service hours, it also “is a great way for kids to feel a sense of school pride,” said activity coordinator Caroline Gillaspy. “We pulled weeds, plant-ed flowers, spead bark dust, and cleaned up the baseball fields.” Their hard work and fun in the sun paid off, as their fellow stu-dents entering Santiam High last week were greeted to a freshly

manicured landscape, and a clean playing field. A special thanks to Jill and Jason Saari, Dawn Plotts, and Sam Suitte for coming out in support of the student volunteers. Photos courtesy of Caroline Gillaspy

Spreadin’ the bark dust and spreadin’ the love

Many children will be walking to and from their schools, often with their minds on meeting their new teachers and getting back in touch with friends. Driv-ers are encouraged to watch for them and anticipate them crossing or running into the streets without us-ing the crosswalks. Children who are getting out of their parent’s cars in front of their school often run into traffic without looking; so be careful and watch out for them. For the protection of the children, the speed limit for school zones is 20 miles per hour. Drivers are also reminded to watch for school buses flashing their lights to indicate they are stopping to load or unload passengers. The red flashing lights re-quire that drivers traveling in both directions stop until the lights are turned off by the bus driver. Kids: Always cross at a corner, using traffic signals and crosswalks. Try to make eye contact with drivers before crossing in front of them. Do not assume that because you can see the driver, the driver can see you.Look left, right and left again when crossing, and keep looking as you cross. Walk, do not run, across the street. And have a great year at school!

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Photos and story by Linda Hagan School aged children had some fun at Mari-Linn school at the end of sum-mer/back to school BBQ bash, hosted by the Santiam Chapel Assemblies of God, Mehama Community and Canyon Baptist Churches last Thursday eve-ning. The Epic Youth group, with 6-12th graders invited students from Mari-Linn to join them for some inflatable fun and games. The obstacle course looked very inter-esting as a large group of young boys and girls stood in line to test their mettle against each other as they raced to the end and back. “Three, two, one...Go!” Two at a time they raced, running barefooted inside the large inflated obstacles, dodg-ing moving walls (made by energetic helpers keeping pace outside) each one fighting to be first out. As one youngster

said, “I had a little trou-ble getting t h r o u g h because the walls were so tight.” In the j o u s t i n g square, two boys stood on stuffed blocks in the center of the inflated ring, batting at each other with colorful “jousting” sticks (each about 4 feet long and dense) trying to knock the other down. Suc-cess! Oh, wait, they’re both down. Get back up, try again! Youth Pastor Daimian Dunn and the Senior Pastor’s wife, Julie Morgan in-vited all 6-12th graders to join the Epic Youth group on Thursday nights, from 6-8pm at Santiam Chapel in Lyons.

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Due to increased fire danger levels, the Willamette National Forest will initiate the following public use restrictions ef-fective 12:01 am on Friday, September 9, 2011:1) Building, maintaining, attending or using a fire, campfire, or stove fire, in-cluding a charcoal fire, except in camp-fire rings at posted, developed and des-ignated recreation areas listed below. Portable cooking stoves using liquefied or bottled fuel are permissible. 2) Smoking, except within an enclosed vehicle or building, a developed recre-ation site, or while stopped in an area at least three feet in diameter that is cleared of all flammable material.3) Possessing or using a vehicle off For-est development roads. (A Forest devel-

opment road is one constructed for au-tomotive use which is maintained clear of flammable debris.) 4) Operating any type of motorized ve-hicle on a trail. Huckleberry Flat OHV Trail will be closed to all OHV use.5) Welding or operating acetylene or other torch with an open flame.6) Operating a chainsaw, generator or other internal combustion engine, except motorized vehicles operated on Forest development roads (as in #3 above), boat motors in water, and generators used in developed recreation listed areas. Firefighters are preparing for some challenging days as this week pro-gresses; hot dry winds from the east, coupled with the possibility of dry light-ning have crews on high alert. Visitors

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River flow last week at Packsaddle was steady around 1,550 cubic feet per second except for a few days when it dropped down to 1,210 cfs. It is right back up to 1,550 or so now, and is scheduled to remain so until rains increase volume. A few steelhead are swimming around the North Santiam between Mehama and Big Cliff Dam. Because of the construction proj-ect at Minto Dam (just upstream from Pack-saddle) the fish are able to swim clear up to Big Cliff. Boating is neither safe nor legal upstream from Packsaddle, so a few anglers fishing from shore have been harvesting steelhead around Niagara and Little Sweden. Some of the steelhead are in the classic drifts below Packsaddle, and it is thrilling to com-bine whitewater boat trips with the chance to hook up with feisty steelhead. Chinook salmon are spawning in big num-bers upstream from North Santiam State Park. Huge numbers are around Packsad-dle, Minto Park, Gates Bridge, and dozens of other redds. Thousands of salmon were spawning each day on recent trips. Several anglers do not know that salmon season closed on August 15, and they do not know that casting lures at spawning salmon interrupts their spawning cycle. It is ille-gal to disturb spawning salmon with lures, rocks, dogs, or any other way. Minto Park is one of the best places around for trying to catch a summer steelhead. An-glers who fish from shore do best in the tail-out of Mad Creek Rapids, about one hun-dred yards upstream from Mad Creek itself. There are ledges and rocks there along with perfect depth and speed of the current. There is enough oxygen in the water for steelhead to spend some time in. Live sand shrimp is

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PageGood Luck!Across2. The whole campground closed down due to fire dan-ger.4. To be American, one of the many things.5. Big and yellow and full of giggles.7. Pirate talk for just about anything.9. Our Girl Scouts will collect our dirty old cans to buy new ones.12. Poppa makes a great burger from this mushroom.17. A great local patriot, who shows her colors proudly.18. We will never.19. Is officially in session.

Down1. Put it out, lest it sparks the whole forest.3. An ancient fabled animal, and name for a great local Chinese restaurant.6. 24 hour care at Ark Animal Care.8. ...of the swimming hole seekers, on the North Fork, that is.10. Some of the bravest hu-mans we should ever know.11. An odd game for pirates to play.13. Stop ye, and take heed!(pirate speak)14. This youth group had inflatable fun.15. Spread this, and/or love for good measure, but watch out for slivers.16. Cars and motorcycles at Detroit’s “Cruz-in.”

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Coming SoonPuppy Kindergarten/S.T.A.R. Puppy Class with Social Graces Dog Tr.aining at D’Tail Grooming in Stayton. Mondays for 8 weeks starting Sept 26. $60 (after 20% discount) Friendly, non-aggressive, vaccinated dogs only, please. Info: Linda Grace 503-859-3647, SocialGracesDog-Training@gmail.com.Canyon Readers at Trexler Farm in Mehama: Oct. 13: Islands in the Stream by Earnest Hemmingway. Nov. 10: The Innocent Man by John Grisham. Dinner starts at 6:30pm, discussion starts at 7pm. Herb Bastuscheck 503-859-2668.North Santiam Watershed Council Meeting at the Stayton Community Cen-ter (400 W Virginia St). Oct. 13, 7-9pm. Free, public welcome. Info: www.nsan-tiamwatershed.org, council@nsantiamwa-tershed.org or 503-930-8202.Federal Lakes Recreation Committee Detroit Lake meets Oct 19, 6:30pm at Detroit Ranger Station. Info: www.detroitlakeoregonrecreation.comIvy removal at Niagara County Park Oct 22, 9am-12pm in celebration of Make a Difference Day. Organized by North Santiam Watershed Council. Please wear weather-appropriate clothing and bring gloves, clippers if you have them. Other tools will be provided. Children under 18 must be accompanied by an adult. Ni-agara County Park is located on the south (right) side of Hwy 22 approx. 5 miles east of Gates. Info: www.nsantiamwater-shed.org, council@nsantiamwatershed.org or 503-930-8202.Doomsday Survival Party at Mill City Eagles Lodge October 22. New members, guest welcome. 897-3100North Santiam Watershed Council Meeting at the Stayton Community Center (400 W Virginia St). Nov. 10, 7-9pm. Free, public welcome. Info: www.nsantiamwatershed.org, council@nsan-tiamwatershed.org or 503-930-8202.9th Annual Santiam Canyon School District Hall of Fame Banquet on November 12, 7pm at the high school commons. The Hall of Fame committee is looking for individual sponsors ($150) or all recipient sponsors ($600). Info: David Plotts, Caroline Gillaspy 503-897-2311.

Local EventsWednesday September 144-7 pm Santiam High School Open House Meet the teachers, sign up for activities,and win prizes. Santiam High School, Evergreeen St, Mill City.4 pm Mill City Middle School Volleyball home game. Middle School gym, Evergreen St. Mill City.6:30 Free Zumba Class for all If you live in the North Santiam Canyon area and are interested in staying fit and healthy -- plus having a BLAST -- plan to come to my free Zumba class this Wednesday night! Yes, it’s FREE. It’s just a chance for us to all get back in the groove for the fall. Whether you’ve never been to a Zumba class or if you’re a “Zumba freak,” please join the party! See you soon! 265 S.W Evergreen, Mill CityThursday, September 154pm Mill City Middle School football home game vs. Scio6-7:30pm Gates Elementary Open House and Book Fair 7-8pm North Santiam School District Board meeting (Lyons) meets at Stayton Elementary School, 875 N Third Ave.Santiam High School Volleyball at Ken-nedy in Mt. Angel starts at 4:45Friday, September 167 PM until we’re done singing! Can-yon Gospel Sing, Living Water Church of God, 132 Sorbin Ave. Gates. Everyone Welcome. Bring a friend!7pm Santiam High School Football Vs Monroe home game. Evergreen St. in Mill City. Saturday, September 1710am-3pm Detroit Lake Cruz-In Classic Car Rally down main street Detroit. Free vendor space available on a first come, first serve basis. Vehicle registration at www.detroitlakeoregon.com, $10 per car and prizes include wine from Willamette Vineyards.Santiam Valley Grange Turkey Dinner fundraiser for the building fund. $5.50. Raffle and play skit.8pm Talk Like A Pirate Party Mill City Eagles Lodge. New members/guests welcome. 897-3100Sunday, September 1812pm Pool Tournament at Mill City

Moose Lodge. Join a team or just come watch! New members/guest welcome. Volunteer cook also needed.Monday, September 19Mill City Middle School home game7pm Lyons-Mehama Neighborhood Watch meets at Mehama Community Church 11336 Morris, Mehama Info: 503-859-31527-8:30pm Santiam Community Chorus resumes rehearsals at Mill City Christian Church, every Monday evening. All voices invited to join us in preparation for the holiday season performances, includ-ing secular and sacred selections. We especially welcome SOPRANO voices to balance the wonderful basses and tenors. Info: Jo Ann at 503-859-3426.Tuesday, September202012 Mill City Fourth of July Com-mittee applications due to Mill City City Hall. Citizens interested in serving please submit a letter of interest to Mayor Tim Kirsch. Info: Stacie Cook 503-897-2302. The committee appointments will be made at the regular city council meeting of September 27, 2011.4:45 and 6pm Santiam High School Volley ball Vs. Culver, home game. SHS gym in Mill City.Wednesday, September 2110am-3pm Judy’s Art Class at Mill City Eagles Hall. Oil painting, all levels wel-come. $10 per class. Weekly on Wednes-days. 503-859-2213. Drop in, open to everyone.10am-3pm Canyon Senior Center Bake Sale 844 S 1st Ave Mill City 503-897-41764pm Mill City Middle School Volleyball home game.Mill City Middle School Football at Jefferson.Thursday, September 22Mill City Middle School Picture Day

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Weekly Events Mondays4pm-8pm Youth Center for 7th-12 grades. Air Hockey, Ping Pong, ect. FREE. Mill City Baptist Church.5-7:30pm Eagles Lodge Taco Night New members welcome. 897-31006:30-8pm Zumba in the Canyon with Nicole Miller 1 hr. cardio, 30 mins. abs & glutes (bring your mat) $5/session. Santiam High School commons 265 SW Evergreen St. Mill City 503-949-76217-8:30 PM Santiam Community Chorus resumes at Mill City Christian Church every Monday evening. All voices invited to join us in preparation for the holiday season performances, including secular and sacred selections. We especially welcome SOPRANO voices to balance the wonderful basses and tenors. Info: Jo Ann at 503 859-3426Tuesdays10am-2pm Quilting Club Canyon Baptist Church 446 Cedar St, Lyons 503-910-4918 12pm Senior Meals Fellowship Hall, Mill City Presbyterian Church. Meals on Wheels avail. Ruth:503 897-22041pm Eagles Lodge Bingo Open to everyone. Mill City 897-31007:30pm Santiam Al-Anon for family and friends of alcoholics, open meeting, Mt. View Church, AumsvilleWednesdays10am-3pm Judy’s Art Class at Mill City Eagles Hall. Oil painting, all levels welcome. Weekly on Wednesdays. Drop in, open to all. 503 859-22134pm-close Wild Wing Wednesday at Marion Fork Restaurant Wings your way (spicy,bbq,or plain) 60 cents each. 503-854-36697pm. AA Meeting Santiam Chapel, Lyons. 7:30-8:30pm Idanha AA at City Hall7pm Wii Bowling Tournament at Mill City Eagles Lodge. Prizes for high scores awarded at the end of each month. New members/guests welcome. 897-3100Thursdays12pm Senior Meals. Fellowship Hall, Mill City Presbyterian Church. FREE 503 897-2204.5:30-9:30pm Teen Movie Night Ages 10-18 Mill City Christian Church, Mill City. All kids MUST be picked up at

9:30pm. Free. 503-602-8742 10am-3pm North Santiam Quilters, Gates Church, all levels! 897-21024pm-8pm Youth Center for 7th-12 grades. Air Hockey, Ping Pong, Foos Ball. FREE. Mill City Baptist Church.4pm-close Tex Mex Thursday at Marion Forks Restaurant Mexican cuisine for your enjoyment.$9.99. 503-854-36696:30-8pm Zumba in the Canyon with Nicole Miller 1 hr. cardio, 30 mins. abs & glutes (bring your mat) $5/session. Santiam High School commons 265 SW Evergreen St. Mill City 503-949-7621 FridaysFree Knife Sharpening Fridays at Gene’s Meat Market from 3pm-6pm (limit 5, please). Located at the flashing yellow light on Hwy 22 in Mehama. 503-859-2252.10am-12pm Kid Zone Fun, crafts and a FREE sack lunch. Mill City Baptist Church. 140 N. 1st. St (503) 536-54141pm Canyon Senior Center Open Pinochle 844 South First St, Mill City 503-897-41767:30-8:30pm Idanha AA Mtg at City HallSaturdays8pm Saturday Night Movies at Mill City Eagles Lodge. Free. New members/guests welcome. 897-3100

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Pastor Brian Byers 503-897-2716

251 SW 3rd St, Mill City

Mill City

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Sunday School 9am

Worship 10am

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(cont’d from page 8) River Reportgood, but hard to find in the tackle shops. The Frank Hole just upstream from Fishermen’s Bend is another great steelhead drift. Wading is necessary, and the North shore has a friendly bot-tom. With chest waders and a nine foot rod (or longer) it is easy to cast from shore to shore and fish all the water. HotShots, Little Cleos, Purple Matu-kas, Green Butted Skunks, a few other secret lures, and sand shrimp all will work in this water at different times.503 897 3301www.nsrtrips.com

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This inside joke lasted about six years, as the friends would gather and make all sorts of grand plans on what they’d do “if”. Until one day in 2002, Ol’ Chum-bucket decided to send an email to Dave Barry, the Pulitzer Prize winning col-umnist/humorist who’s work appeared in over 500 publications in the US and abroad. “And that’s when it all blew up,” said Cap’n Slappy. Before he knew it, he had hooked in-terviews all over the world including the Wall Street Journal, CNN, BBC and radio stations all over the US, Great Britain, Australia, and New Zealand. Quite the plunder for a novice marauder. A holiday was born, with festivals, cards,

t-shirts, websites, and even several books all in the spirit of speaking all things “pi-rate”. It didn’t hurt the cause that the first Pirates of the Carib-bean movie came out in 2003. “Dumb luck, that,” said Slappy. The first official international celebra-tion was in 2002, with numerous countries participating. Then two years ago the in-ternational space sta-tion celebrated, so now TLAPD has gone interstellar. So one might ask, why do we celebrate pirates, weren’t they awful characters

who have done hor-rible things over the centuries? “It ‘tis TALK Like a Pirate Day, not Com-mit Felons Like a Pi-rate Day,” reminds Cap’n Slappy. Cap’n Slappy offers a few words of advice on “improvin’ yer pi-rattitude” by “know-

ing yer 5 ‘A’s.” Ahoy - hello Avast - stop and pay attention

Aye - yes Aye Aye - I’ll get on that right away as soon as I finish my coffee. Arrrr - the meanings are endless e.g. “I agree with that,” “My team is winning,” “My team is losing,” “This is a nice beer,” and “Time to

brush your teeth.” And to make everything a bit more spicy, add “Me hearty” at the end of any sentence. If you still have more to learn check out www.talklikeapirate.com where you can pick up their latest book The Pirate Life ~ Unleashing Your Inner Buccaneer and the just finished, coming out in November, Pirate Santa, which is a story of Cap’n Slappy and his crew for “pirate girls and ninja boys,” the kids who don’t quite qual-ify for the “nice” list, but still need a visit from Santa. A quote from Mark Summer’s Mother:“I’m not sure what’s so funny about talk-ing like a pirate, but I love him anyway.”

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Question:“Whar zee Gold!” Who drank all my barnacle brew?” “Where’d ye hide yer booty?”

Answer to all the above:“Look in me belly!”

Question:“Why does my four year old idolize you?”Answer: “Because, m’dear, a child, he thinks like a pirate. ‘I want it, I want it now, and if you fuss, I’ll make yer life miserable.’”

Cap’n Slappy explains “It ‘tis TALK Like a Pirate Day, not Commit Felons Like a Pirate Day.”

Locals wanted to know - so Cap’n Slappy answered your questions!

Cap’n Slappy (l) and Ol’ Chumbucket (r)