With a paycheck of $38,000 out of a record $95,000 purse in the Firecracker Futurity race for two-year-old quarterhorses on July 4 at Grants Pass Downs, the call came for a jockey with experience. Juan Manuel Marquez, the owner/trainer of Fast Fly, got one of the best on the West[Read More…]
Author: Brian Mortensen
RR City May Have Council Appointee
Mayor Pam VanArsdale said that former Planning Commission member Brady Lockwood had withdrawn her application to be appointed to the City Council to fill the final months of the late Sharie Davis’s term at the Rogue River City Council meeting on Thursday, June 25. “Her schedule this fall is going[Read More…]
EVFD Board, Chief Reach An Agreement
The Evans Valley Fire District Board of Directors appeared to reach an agreement with Chief Tom Davidson in negotiating the chief’s contract at its Thurs., June 18 meeting. The board approved changes to Section 13 of the contract, which deals with discipline and discharge. Director Jesse Meinerts asked if, on[Read More…]
Lee Steps Away To Recover, Reconnect
When Patrick Lee walked out of the Administration Building of the Rogue River School District on Tuesday, June 23, his final day as superintendent, climbed into his vehicle and headed home, he could finally turn off his cell phone. When he did, it would be the first time in 18[Read More…]
River Valley Team Fights Hard At Tourney
The River Valley team, made up of players from Rogue River’s and Gold Valley’s Little Leagues, went 0-2 in the ages 9-to-11 baseball bracket at the District 8 All-Star Baseball and Softball Tournaments at Central Point June 20-21. River Valley team fell in the opening round to eventual runner-up Del[Read More…]
Samuels Falls, Comes Back To Win The Big Race
This might be the Year of Jake Samuels, again, at Grants Pass Downs. One of regional horse racing’s top jockeys of the last 10 years, and after a short break away from racing, Samuels is back to win race after race on the entire Northwest racing circuit. Samuels was aboard[Read More…]
Early Rooster Crow History
David Dick spent 29 years as a first responder at the Port of Portland, taking on a variety of duties at the ports on both the Willamette and the Columbia Rivers. He was not a longshoreman, he said at the annual Rogue River All-Alumni Picnic at Palmerton Park, held every[Read More…]
FD1 Staff Positions Receive Raises
The Board of Directors for Jackson County Fire District No. 1 voted 4-1 to raise the salary of its finance manager by seven percent, plus a certain Consumer Price Index (CPI) figure at 36 months, and for the administrative assistant, also at seven percent, plus CPI, at 24 months. Jenna[Read More…]
Big Chain Saw Roars To Rooster Crow Title
Some roosters who enter the National Rooster Crowing Competition held every year in Rogue River (brought to you by the Rogue River Rooster Crow Committee and the Rogue River Kiwanis) are raised from hatchlings, waking their human benefactors at the crack of dawn. These are the roosters whose owners know[Read More…]
Ryan Schlapfer Wins Human Crow
“Peter Pan” was in theaters months before the first of the two Rooster Crow weekends in June 1953. What was the titular character’s cry of victory after vanquishing the evil Captain Hook, but … a rooster’s crow. Ryan Schlapfer picked up on this while watching “Peter Pan,” to a studious[Read More…]