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  • This week in news (April 5 to April 11)

    This week in news (April 5 to April 11)

    Local

    -Baywood Country Club

    The Baywood country club is broke and is soon planning a golf course timber harvest. The country club is going to file a Timber Harvest plan that looks to lodge roughly 73 forested acres in and around its 18 holes. The harvest could make as much as $700,000 for the country club.

    Source: Mad River Union

    -New tech for St. Joseph’s

    St. Joseph’s Hospital in Eureka has new technology that could help take a closer look at people’s lungs and chest. St. Joseph’s Hospital has the first and only Endobronchial Ultrasound, a device that helps doctors take a closer look at the lungs and chest.

    The machine helps evaluate and examine lymph nodes, identify chest infections, diagnose non cancerous inflammatory disease like sarcoidosis, detect lymphoma and determine stages of lung cancer.

    Source: Times Standard

    -Eureka Moose Lodge

    The Eureka Moose Lodge donated $10,000 to local fire and law enforcement agencies. One donation of $2,000 went to the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office Animal Shelter for use towards the shelter’s emergency medical fund. The money will be used to help animals in need of medical attention.

    Source: News Channel 3

    -Karuk tribe cuts salmon count

    The Karuk tribe is going to limit their ceremonial salmon harvests for tribal members because of the record low forecast for returning Chinook salmon on the Klamath River.

    Source: Times Standard

    U.S.

    -San Bernardino shooting

    A man walked into North Park Elementary school and started shooting. Cedric Anderson, 53 walked into the elementary school and fatally shot his estranged wife and an 8-year-old boy and injured one other students. The shooting came 15 months after the terrorist attack San Bernardino endured November of 2014.

    Source: Washington Post

    -United Airlines passenger dragged

    A United Airlines passenger was dragged from an overbooked flight Sunday evening. A security officer involved in the incident has been placed on leave. The federal Transportation Department is investigating whether the airline complied with rules regarding overbooking.

    Source: New York Times

    -Gun shop burglary

    A man suspected of a gun shop burglary is on the run after allegedly sending a manifesto to President Donald Trump on his grievances about the government. Joseph A. Jakubowski, 32, allegedly robbed the gun shop in Janesville, Wisconsin last week.

    Source: CNN

    -Texas voter ID law discriminates

    A federal judge ruled that the voter identification law the Texas Legislature passed in 2011 was enacted with the intent to discriminate against Black and Hispanic voters. The judge found that the law violates the federal Voter Rights Act.

    Source: New York Times

    -NY State free tuition

    The Governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo, announced free tuition in the state of New York. New York is the first state in the country to offer free tuition for middle-class students from households earning less than $125,000 a year.

    Source: Now This

    World

    -Stockholm truck attack

    A truck ran into pedestrians in one of the busiest streets in Stockholm killing four people. Two suspects were arrested. One suspect, a 39-year-old man from the central Asian nation of Uzbekistan, was known to intelligence services before he was arrested on Friday. He had shown sympathies for ISIS.

    Source: BBC News

    -Growing tensions with North Korea

    The U.S. Navy sent an aircraft carrier and three guided-missile destroyers and cruisers to the Korean peninsula on Saturday, in response to growing tensions with North Korea. On Monday, officials in China and South Korea agreed to impose a tougher stance on North Korea if Kim Jong Un continues to launch nuclear or long range missile tests.

    Source: New York Times

  • 13 Jacks qualify to two prestigious Division I track meets

    13 Jacks qualify to two prestigious Division I track meets

    By Erin Chessin

    Track and field coaches Sarah Ingram and Scott Pesch were frustrated to find that very few of the athletes they entered into two Division I track meets made it.

    They entered  a total of 13 HSU athletes into two prestigious Division I track meets; the 90th Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays and the Stanford Invitational.

    “The ones we entered who didn’t make it had very strong marks,” Ingram said. “It’s really surprising.”

    Four women, Ariel Oliver, Alyssabeth DeJerez, Marisa McCay and Kori Gilley, qualified for Texas Relays, hosted by University of Texas in Austin. No men qualified for Texas Relays.

    Ingram and Pesch entered in the same four women they had entered into Texas Relays into Stanford Invitational as a backup in case their entries were rejected. Three more women were entered into Stanford Invitational. Two high jumpers, Ellie Earl-Rouse and Brailee VandenBoom, qualified.

    Ingram said distance events at Division I tournaments, such as the 800, the 1500, the 5k and the 3000 meter steeplechase, are highly competitive and are tougher to get into. When junior Tatiana Gillick did not qualify in the 1500 meters with her impressive 4:31, Ingram and Pesch were shocked.

    “That was like a slap in the face,” Ingram said. “If you have a better mark than somebody, you deserve to be there.”

    Both coaches expressed that division 1 track and field meets often favor division 1 over division 2 athletes when they receive the entries.

    Luckily, six males and four females made it into the entries for Stanford Invitational.

    Mario Kaluhiokalani, a sprinter on HSU’s track team, will be racing for the second year in a row at Stanford Invitational this weekend.

    “Last year I only made it for the 110 meter hurdles,” Kaluhiokalani said. “I’m hoping to get a provisional mark in both my events this weekend.”

    Kaluhiokalani will be running the 110 meter hurdles and the 400 meter hurdles at Stanford Invitational.

    While ten athletes will be competing in Palo Alto and three in Austin, Texas the rest of the track and field squad will be competing in San Francisco at the 2017 San Francisco Distance Carnival.

    The meet will be hosted by San Francisco State on Friday, March 31 through Saturday, April 1, 2017.

    One athlete is actually competing at both Stanford Invitational and San Francisco Distance Carnival. Junior transfer Corey Berner said he is looking forward to running the 100 and the 200 meters at Stanford and the 4 by 100 meter relay at San Francisco.

    “It’s definitely going to be a busy weekend. There’s going to be good competition at both meets,” Berner said.

    The sprinter is aiming to get pulled to fast times in his events since he will be running up against Division I athletes.

    “Stanford will definitely be my main focus,” Berner said. “The competition is there at Division I tournaments.”

     

    Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays

    1. Alyssabeth DeJerez led the way with another strong performance in the 400m hurdles. She finished 10th against top level division one competition. DeJerez finished in a time of 58.96.
    2. Ariel Oliver placed tenth in the Shotput throwing 44-00.00.
    3. Marissa McKay ran a 14.59 in the 100m hurdles
    4. McKay Placed 14th in the High Jump clearing 5-05.00.
    5. Kori Gilley saw her outing cut short when she was injured in the 300m steeplechase trying to avoid a fallen runner.

    Stanford Invite

    1. Teigan Eilers placed 5th in the Javelin throw with a toss of 56.05m.
    2. Also placed 13th in the High Jump, clearing 1.91m.
    3. Calvin Herman placed 13th in the 400m hurdles with a time of 54.26.
    4. Mario Kaluhiokalani placed 24th in the same event coming in at 56.29.
    5. Corey Berner placed 24th in the 100m dash with a time of 11.22.
    6. Ellie Earle-Rouse placed 6th in High Jump clearing 1.60m.
    7. Bailee VandenBoom finished 9th.