There will be overnight closures of the Bridge of the Gods in Cascade Locks through October 13 for deck rehabilitation work.  The bridge will be closed from Sundays through Thursdays from 9:30 p.m. to 5:30 a.m., and Fridays and Saturdays from 10:30 p.m. to 6:30 a.m.  The bridge will be closed to all pedestrian and vehicle traffic during those times.  The Bridge of the Gods will be open at all other times, with single-lane closures.  Crews will be resurfacing and sealing the concrete bridge deck.  Closure dates may be subject to change.  For more information, call the Port of Cascade Locks at 541-374-2418.

Hood River Valley 30, Parkrose 27:  Ryan Gray’s 26 yard touchdown pass to Grayson Losee with 29.8 seconds remaining gave the Eagles the only lead they held the entire night.  Tanner Fletcher ran for three touchdowns as HRV went to 2-1 on the season.

The Dalles 47, Valley Catholic 42:  T.J. Green’s 18 yard run with 3:22 remaining completed the Riverhawks’ comeback from a 17-point halftime deficit for their first win of the year.  The Riverhawks forced a turnover on the Valiants’ next possession and were able to run out the clock from there.  Green accounted for 270 all-purpose yards and four touchdowns.

Montesano 54, Columbia 14

Mark Morris 34, Stevenson 13

Dufur 34, Union 30

South Wasco 48, Gilchrist 12

Sherman 20, Mitchell-Spray 6

Lyle-Klickitat-Wishram 74, Touchet 0

LaSalle (Yakima) 58, Goldendale 0

 

Volleyball

South Wasco def. Condon-Wheeler 25-21, 25-18, 25-17

Sherman def. Mitchell-Spray 3 sets to 2

 

Boys Soccer

Grand View Christian 3, Horizon Christian 1

The City of White Salmon will be conducting water main repairs and have a moratorium on non-essential uses of water on Tuesday.  The City will be repairing the 14-inch water main after it was discovered two weeks ago to be leaking 30 gallons per minute along Highway 141 at Bald Mountain Curves.  The repairs had been originally scheduled for last week, but city officials say a delay in the arrival of supplies forced the change.  The moratorium will be for 13 hours starting at 8 a.m. on September 24.  The water moratorium does not affect essential uses like drinking, cooking or water for flushing toilets.  It will include irrigation, car washes, laundry, and showers.  All irrigation systems need to be turned off by Monday evening, September 23.  Restaurants and other commercial establishments that use water for their business are asked to reduce usage on the 24th where possible.  For additional information, contact City Administrator Pat Munyan at 509-493-1133, extension 202.

Both the Hood River and The Dalles City Councils meet on Monday.  In Hood River the Council will be selecting a new mayor to replace Paul Blackburn, who stepped down in September as he and his family moved out of the area.  Current Councilor Kate McBride is one of three candidates that will be interviewed for the position, along with local residents Ed Wilder and Jason Gibson.  That meeting begins at 6 p.m. in Hood River City Hall.  In The Dalles, Councilors will be discussing the first phase of an economic opportunities analysis and action plan.  Their meeting starts at 5:30 p.m. in The Dalles City Hall.

Klickitat PUD will host a public open house and facility tour on Saturday for its new H.W. Hill Renewable Natural Gas Facility at the Roosevelt Regional Landfill.  A formal dedication ceremony was held earlier in the week.  PUD General Manager Jim Smith says the Saturday open house is a chance for those who couldn’t make it to Wednesday’s event to see the plant.  The Saturday open house will run from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. More information is available at klickitatpud.com.

The U.S. Census will be taken in 2020, and outreach has begun to emphasize the importance of the national enrollment county.  Marc Czornij is a partnership specialist with the U.S. Census Bureau, and says April 1 will be the official census day, but for the first time people can begin to be counted online on March 12.  This will be the first time the census will use an online component, but Czornij says there will still be phone and paper options.  Census data is used in many ways, including drawing up legislative district and guiding the distribution of billions of dollars worth of federal funding.  More information about the upcoming census is available at 2020census.gov.

Volleyball

Ridgeview def. Hood River Valley 25-18, 25-19, 25-9

Crook County def. The Dalles 25-13, 25-11, 25-21

Dufur def. Ione 25-16, 25-19, 27-25

Klickitat-Glenwood def. Stevenson 3 sets to 0

Goldendale def. Granger 25-16, 25-17, 25-17

 

Boys Soccer

Franklin 3, Hood River Valley 0

 

Girls Soccer

Franklin 3, Hood River Valley 1

Mountain View 0, The Dalles 0

The U.S. Geological Survey Cascades Volcano Observatory will install three new volcano monitoring stations on the flanks of Mount Hood next week.  The Observatory’s Seth Moran says they have a seismic network on Mt. Hood, but these stations will go on to wilderness land within two-and-a-half miles of the summit, with the main goal of detecting signs of ground deformation.  Because of the significant hazards the volcano poses to nearby communities and infrastructure as well as aviation, USGS researchers designated Mt. Hood as a very high threat volcano in the 2018 National Volcanic Threat Assessment.

Preliminary results of studies of elk movement funded by Hood River Valley orchardists shows they are not moving into public lands in higher elevations during the summer as they have in the past.  Kaly Adkins of the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife says there are a number of potential reasons why, but she notes elk are extremely secretive creatures that don’t like to be disturbed, and increased recreation on the public lands they have historically gone to is one possibility.  Another possibility is an increase in fencing put up in response to orchard damage could have blocked some of the traditional migratory corridors.  ODFW is planning to reinstate a controlled elk hunt on private lands next year as a way to drive them back up into the public lands.

The White Salmon City Council has sent a proposed ordinance dealing with short-term rentals back to its Community Development Committee for revisions after a two-hour public hearing on Wednesday.  Mayor David Poucher says the Council and the committee received a lot of input, some of it surrounding the tiered fee structure, but also a number of other issues.  He felt it was a good discussion that left plenty to consider, and it’s the right move to have the Committee go through it again and then get more public input.  The expectation is the Community Development Committee will bring it back to Council sometime in the next month-and-a-half for another public hearing.