YACHATS, Ore. – Forest Service biologist Ralph Lampman will present a hands-on and puppet assisted program about Pacific Lamprey “eels” on Saturday, Dec. 17, at 2 p.m. at the Cape Perpetua Visitor Center.

“Facing declining populations throughout the Pacific Northwest region, Lamprey lack the poster appeal of salmon and other iconic species, but still play an incredibly important ecological role,” says Lampman, a fisheries biologist with the Central Coast Ranger District who just completed his Masters of Fisheries Science degree.

A pickup and boat trailer completely submerged Saturday afternoon in the Siuslaw River after rolling into the water at the Cushman boat ramp along Highway 126 east of Florence.

The driver backed his Ford pickup down the boat ramp around 3 p.m. to launch his boat of its trailer.  While outside of the pickup to push the boat off the trailer, the pickup rolled backward into the river until both pickup and trailer were completely submerged, state police said.

U.S. Coast Guard responded to the incident with OSP.  A local tow company helped pull the pickup and trailer out of the water.

From a press release

The “most unlucky person in the world” stepped back from the slot machine thinking she had done something wrong.
 
“I thought I had broken the machine. That was my first thought,” said Jodi Mulligan of Florence, who is still trying to comprehend her nearly half million-dollar jackpot won at Three Rivers Casino & Hotel on Wednesday night.
 
In spite of the player next to her assuring her she had won “the big one” it wasn’t until Three Rivers’ attendants told her “Things look pretty good,” that she realized the $437,737.26 jackpot might be real.