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prudent alternatives" for the Corps
and the Environmental Protection
Agency to help fish get past the
dam to spawn in streams up the
river.
The project addresses two
South Santiam River species list-
ed under the Endangered Species
Act, spring Chinook and winter
steelhead, Budai said. Among
them is upgrading fish facilities to
decrease stress on adult, fish trav-
eling upstream to spawn.
The goal is to reduce the fac-
tors leading to pre-spawn mor-
tality, Budai said. A fish friendly
facility to get them over the dam
should help.
The fish will travel up the
existing fish ladder, then over a
structure that will cross in front
of the powerhouse and carry fish
west to the park, where they will
wind up in short- and long-term
holding ponds and a sorting area,
Budai said. The fish can be redi-
rected to the river or taken down a
flume to a waiting biologist.
The biologist will likely han-
dle the fish briefly, sorting native
fish to a holding pond for transpor-
tation upstream and hatchery fish
to a holding pond for transporta-
tion to the South Santiam Fish
Hatchery on the other side of the
river.
"It minimizes the amount of
handling," Budai said, but there
will probably be some handling.
"The ones that go to the sorting
area have to be sorted."
If the biologist is quick
enough, the fish can be sorted
through a series of gates without
handling them at all, Budai said.
From the holding ponds, fish
will be placed in hoppers that will
An excavator prepares space at Wiley Creek Park for a new fish transfer facility.
be set on top of trucks already car-
rying water, she said. Then they
will be released into the truck.
In recent years, the fish ale
lifted in a hopper inside the dam
where they are sorted by hand and
slipped down tubes into waiting
trucks. In the past, they were lift-
ed inside the dam to Foster Dam
Road and sorted.
The funding for the project
comes from the Columbia River
Fish Mitigation Fund, Corps-ap-
propriated dollars, which is used
Photo by Sean C. Morgan
to fund construction projects.
A similar project is under way
in the North Santiam River, about
four miles west of Big Cliff Dam.
It is scheduled for completion in
March and expected to be opera-
tional in April.
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kids, most of them have never seen
a play before," Handman said. A lot
of students are interested in the arts,
but not all of them are exposed to
much.
"Sometimes, it ignites a pas-
sion they never knew they had," she
said.
As the actors work with stu-
dents, they also work with teachers
to more effectively teach Shake-
speare, she said. Gone are the days
of reading Shakespeare's entire
plays. Rather, the teaching staff is
learning to break up the plays and
incorporate group performances of
passages.
The teacher's workshops stress
physical movement, Handman said.
The body language helps illustrate
the meaning of the dialogue.
A team from the Shakespeare
Festival compiles scenes and stitch-
es together a script for the programs,
Albright said during a question and
answer session following the public
performance. She and Carr tweaked
the script to fit their needs before
they set out on their school tour,
visiting mostly high schools and
some middle schools throughout
the year.
The team doesn't work at el-
ementary schools very often, but
she has been to three, Albright said.
"It's great to see those kids engage
in Shakespeare. You think, 'they're
6, 7 or 8;' but they get it."
Albright said the lines aren't
really that hard to remember. Shake-
speare has a rhythm, and it "sticks
with you."
She has performed in "A Mid-
summer Night's Dream," three
times, though she never played Hel-
ena before developing the school
performance. She didn't need to
learn the part. She already knew it
from hearing it so much.
Shakespeare is easier to re-
member than contemporary plays,
Albright said.
Albright said her favorite role
wasn't Shakespearean. It was a
character from the play "Up" in
2006 when she played opposite of
her husband. That's how they met.
She said she plans to leave act-
ing after the next season to teach at
the festival and Southern Oregon
University in an attempt to marry
her love for teaching and acting.
Carr's career includes teach-
ing at schools in New York, and
he has appeared in European indie
films. This is his first year with the
Oregon Shakespeare Festival. He
has appeared on the "Chappelle's
Show" and had a small part in "The
Wire."
How well he enjoys his roles
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of the program through age 21, she
said.
The ACT program started with
27 2012 graduates this year, she
said. Five more are joining during
winter term, but this is the last year
students can join late.
"They were going to but they
just didn't get around to it," Stineff
said. For one reason or another, they
missed registering on time. Those
who put off joining the program
count against the school's gradua-
tion rate if they don't sign up with
the ACT program.
A couple of students in the
program are planning to move on
to four-year schools, she said.
"I think it's going very well,"
Stineff said. "A lot of the kids are
getting really good grades."
Most are getting A's and B's,
and some are getting straight A's,
she said.
"What I'm really pleased
about is - I've talked to several -
it's amazing the maturity I see from
last summer to now," Stineff said.
There are a few who don't keep
good contact and haven't reported,
she said. Some of that may not be
the students' faults because the pro-
gram has had an e-mail problem,
something Stineff discovered last
week.
The program is providing an
opportunity to attend college for
several of the students, she said. "I
know that not all of them would be
because they just couldn't afford it
or they didn't have the support."
The program complements
other programs at the school, in-
cluding the College Now program
along with the Career Center, AS-
PIRE and GEAR-UE
"We just want them to go to
school," she said. The ACT pro-
gram isn't for everyone, but it is
free education for those who'use it.
Even transportation is free on
Linn Shuttle with a student ID card,
she said.
Students should start thinking
about whether to enter the program
next year, she said, She will hold
a parent meeting in February, and
around April, she will issue vouch-
ers to next year's ACT students to
take placement tests in reading,
writing and math at LBCC.
The program is also available
to home-schooled students, and
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Applications for the program
are available now, Stineff said.
Students who have not paid all
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not eligible for the program or to
walk in the graduation ceremony
this year, she said. Last year's se-
niors still owe more than $6,000 in
fees, which are incurred for labs,
sports, student body cards and lost
textbooks, among other items.
One girl owed more than $700
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students incur less than $50 and
about $100 at the high end, she
said. Most people pay the fees.
"I'm really excited about this
program," Stineff said. "It's a great
program. It's helping a lot of kids."
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