If you like the Tulelake-Butte Valley Fair, you’ll want to support it. Seems like a great way to do so.

So, the last time we ran a photo print sale it was pretty popular. So, why no do it again? Prints need to be ordered by Sunday February 5th, and will be available by the middle of that week.

Ya know, a photo print would be a really cool Valentine’s Day gift for mom…just saying.

The Tulelake junior varsity Lady Honkers went home with the 48-24 victory.

It just so happened my brother who, like me, has a bit of entrepreneurial spirit was in town at the time. So, I took the young man over to my bro’s place and we had a little talk about people we knew who had started their own business on a shoe string, as in little or no money. You see, you don’t have to depend on other people to “give” you a job. With some hard work and a willingness to take a risk, you can make your own job.

At my brothers, we talked about a lot of different businesses, including a guy who has started his own business while still attending college at Chico State, Danny Orloff. Many in Siskiyou County may remember Orloff from his time playing basketball at Yreka High School. Well, a year and a half or so ago, Orloff kicked of his clothing business, Fight the Stereotype. What stereotype? Orloff explains.

“So, I first got the idea when I was at College of the Siskiyous. After going away to Stanislaus and coming back home I noticed that it is just habit for us to judge others by appearance. There are certain types of clothing that makes people seem different. We are very judgmental as humans and I think a part of that is today’s society and how we have adapted to stereotyping. It shouldn’t matter if somebody has their hat on backward or their pants up like Steve Erkel. Fight the Stereotype is about putting your judgments aside and seeing what is unique and different about each individual.”

The first order of 100 FTS T-Shirts were marketed primarily by word of mouth in the Chico area, and sold out in about two months or so. The second time around didn’t go quite as well, but Orloff stuck with it, and managed to get together enough capital to make a tank-top order of his custom design for the spring of 2011. That round of product flew out of his hands, selling as many 14 tank-tops in one day.

Orloff spent the summer back in Siskiyou County, working as a fire fighter, but when he returned to Chico, he had another order of FTS Threads ready to sell. Now, it was time for him to move to the next level of marketing.

“The first day back I picked up those shirts and marched my way down to the sickest clothing store in Chico, Trucker. I set up a meeting with the manager and he ended up liking my tank tops, took them, and had them on the shelf within a few days. They sold out within two weeks. I just started making more frequent orders and marketing more and more. I then found out that a close friend’s parents owned Cowells Surf Shop in Santa Cruz. I got in contact with them and before I knew it they had my crew neck sweaters on the shelf. Once I got into a second store things started to pick up,” said Orloff.

The next step for Orloff is taking a page out of the play book of the big time corporate clothing companies, releasing different lines for different seasons. He’s currently working on his 2012 spring line that will be released this March.

You can check out the FTS Threads website at www.ftsthreads.com

Oh, and if you think you couldn’t run your own business because it’s a lot of work, Orloff is doing so while taking six upper division college courses this semester.

BTW: the young man I mentioned in the opening paragraph found a way to earn a few bucks making and selling tamales to carry him through until he found work. He’s now working again.

Scores

Friday, February 3

Girls Basketball

Mt. Shasta 47 – Burney 25
Mt. Shasta Scoring: Jeanette Ricci 15, Sejay Sarti 11, Janelle Jaegel 7

Mt. Shasta JV 46 – Burney JV 30

Etna 58 – Fall River 63
Etna Scoring: Mellisa Berry 20, Jesse Eiler 14, Sara Hoyt 13

Etna JV 46 – Fall River JV 27
Etna Scoring: Natalie Aldrich 12, Hannah Seeley 10

Weed 40 – Modoc 32
Weed Scoring: Karene Marshall 20, Destinee Jones 10, Tyresha Leonard 7

Butte Valley 36 – Tulelake 64

Video highlights, story and photos coming

Butte Valley JV 24 – Tulelake JV 48

Dunsmuir @ Big Valley

Happy Camp @ Surprise Valley

Trinity 52 – Pierce 29

Boys Basketball

Mt. Shasta 78 – Burney 42
Mt. Shasta Scoring: Kegan Snure 14, Paul Thelander 14, Logan Gress 14, Dylan Padula 13

Mt. Shasta JV 58 – Burney 30

Etna 72 – Fall River 87
Etna Scoring: Colby Rimmer 32 (8 treys), Nicky DelaRosa 1

Video highlights coming…maybe

Etna JV 70 – Fall River JV 55
Etna Scoring: JT Murray 23, Sawyer Eastlick 16

Weed 44 – Modoc 56

Butte Valley 42 – Tulelake 61

Story and slide show coming

Butte Valley JV 45 – Tulelake 57

Slide show on Saturday

Dunsmuir @ Big Valley

Happy Camp @ Surprise Valley

Trinity v Pierce

Girls Soccer

Yreka 0 – Lassen 1

Boys Soccer

Yreka 3 – Lassen 2
Yreka Scoring: Julian Mendoza 2 G, Zack Marks G

Schedule

Saturday, February 4

Girls Basketball

COS @ Butte, 5:30 pm

Boys Basketball

COS @ Butte, 7:30 pm

Rugby

State of Jefferson Elite v Colusa @ Lower Greenhorn, 1:00 pm

Scores

Wednesday, February 1

Girls Basketball

Yreka 44 – Corning 36

Yreka JV 31 – Corning JV 27

Yreka Frosh 31 – Corning Frosh 40

Tuesday, January 31

Girls Basketball

Mt. Shasta 32 – Modoc 41
Mt. Shasta Stats: Kathryn Andrus 13 P, 9 R; Jeanette 8 P, 6 A

Mt. Shasta JV 36 – Modoc JV 34 (OT)

Etna 38 – Burney 41
Etna Scoring: Sarah Hoyt 9, Marina Gutleben 8

Etna JV 55 – Burney JV 32
Etna Scoring: Natalie Aldrich 12, Hannah Seeley 12

Weed 34 – Fall River 48

Weed JV 25 – Fall River JV 28

Dunsmuir 33 – Redding Adventist 54

Trinity 51 – Willows 47

Boys Basketball

Yreka 37 – Corning 55
Yreka Stats: Jeremy Cox 14 P, 4R, 3 A; Dean Schafer 7 P; Jayson Sadowski 5 R

Mt. Shasta 56 – Modoc 68

Mt. Shasta JV 47 – Modoc JV 34

Etna 55 - Burney 51
Etna Scoring: Colby Rimmer 14, Tyler Murohy 11

Etna JV 58 – Burney JV 56
Etna Scoring: JT Murray 21, Sawyer Eastlick 15, Tim Greene 13

Weed 44 – Fall River 66

Weed JV 30 – Fall River 60

Dunsmuir 76 – Redding Adventist 59 …or so

Trinity 54 – Willows 61

Girls Soccer

Yreka 0 – Corning 4

Boys Soccer

Yreka 0 – Corning 5

The Yreka Lady Miner frosh team battled hard, but just couldn’t quite complete a fourth quarter comeback, falling to the Corning Lady Cardinal frosh 40-31.

Photos by Kris Prusko

North 1, Girls Varsity Ski
GS RACE RESULTS

Pl Bib Class Team Name Run 1 Run 2 Result
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1 716 1 MTS Cressman Mariah 36.37 (1) 36.49 (1) 1:12.86 (1)
2 706 1 MTS Holst Christine 40.17 (2) 40.08 (2) 1:20.25 (2)
3 704 1 MTS Keane Shannon 42.44 (3) 42.92 (3) 1:25.36 (3)
4 707 1 MTS Rogers Sara 43.51 (4) 43.51 (4) 1:27.02 (4)
5 788 1 YRE VanHooser Kaitlin 47.35 (5) 46.55 (7) 1:33.90 (5)
6 786 1 YRE Day Cassie 48.76 (6) 46.29 (6) 1:35.05 (6)
7 787 1 YRE Kishe Nicole 52.89 (9) 45.62 (5) 1:38.51 (7)
8 785 1 YRE Velarde Miranda 50.40 (7) 50.58 (9) 1:40.98 (8)
9 710 1 MTS Higer Celia 52.73 (8) 50.57 (8) 1:43.30 (9)
10 783 1 YRE Solano Kaitlyn 1:00.77 (10) 55.42 (10) 1:56.19 (10)
11 782 1 YRE Greenfield Marjie 1:08.03 (11) 1:02.33 (11) 2:10.36 (11)
12 781 1 YRE Amens Jensen 1:23.16 (12) 1:07.88 (12) 2:31.04 (12)

North 1, Boys Varsity Ski
GS RACE RESULTS

Pl  Bib  Class Team    Name                Run 1         Run 2        Result
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1   718  1     MTS   Carter David          34.12 (1)     33.89 (1)   1:08.01 (1)
2   701  1     MTS   Poore Clayton         35.34 (2)     36.13 (3)   1:11.47 (2)
3   795  1     YRE   Hall Josh             35.66 (3)     36.45 (4)   1:12.11 (3)
4   720  1     MTS   Stroud Weston         35.93 (4)     36.48 (5)   1:12.41 (4)
5   705  1     MTS   Posl Spencer          36.83 (5)     37.62 (6)   1:14.45 (5)
6   702  1     MTS   Keane Harrison        40.80 (9)     35.36 (2)   1:16.16 (6)
7   737  1     BV    Ericson Lucas         39.16 (6)     39.31 (8)   1:18.47 (7)
8   703  1     MTS   Hake Tommy            40.00 (8)     39.82 (9)   1:19.82 (8)
9   709  1     MTS   Owens Morgan          42.88 (11)    43.18 (10)  1:26.06 (9)
10  791  1     YRE   Wood Matt             48.70 (16)    38.44 (7)   1:27.14 (10)
11  855  1     WE    Miller Stuart         43.08 (12)    44.32 (12)  1:27.40 (11)
12  790  1     YRE   Dowse Austin          43.59 (13)    43.87 (11)  1:27.46 (12)
13  798  1     YRE   Haselton Zach         46.02 (14)    45.06 (13)  1:31.08 (13)
14  856  1     WE    Matheson Andrew       46.83 (15)    47.26 (14)  1:34.09 (14)
15  794  1     YRE   Ogren Chris           39.58 (7)     57.77 (15)  1:37.35 (15)
16  711  1     MTS   Sampson Bryce         41.68 (10)        DNF

North 1, Girls Varsity Board
SLALOM RACE RESULTS

Pl  Bib  Class Team    Name                Run 1         Run 2        Result
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1   844  1     WE    Stensaas Elizabeth    43.73 (1)     48.18 (2)   1:31.91 (1)
2   846  1     WE    Stenmark Giordan      46.06 (2)     49.79 (4)   1:35.85 (2)
3   717  1     MTS   Margot Mattson        47.67 (3)     48.93 (3)   1:36.60 (3)
4   845  1     WE    Stensaas Johanna      50.41 (4)     50.39 (5)   1:40.80 (4)
5   781  1     YRE   Restine  Zoe          57.83 (5)     55.41 (6)   1:53.24 (5)
6   848  1     WE    Schnack Marielle          DNF       42.22 (1)

North 1, Boys Varsity Board
SLALOM RACE RESULTS Top 5 only

Pl  Bib  Class Team    Name                Run 1         Run 2        Result
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1   857  1     WE   Feigley Billy    40.60 (1)     42.83 (1)   1:23.43
2   701  1    MTS   Hamuck Obie      41.11 (2)     43.28 (2)   1:24.39
3           1    YRE  Brian Colla       44.08 (3)     43.88 (3)   1:27.96
4   705 1    MTS  Chris Cazneaux  44.84   44.82   1:29.66
5   785  1    YRE    Ryan Todd      45.86     44.89   1:30.75

To parents, coaches, and athletes,

You may notice that the photos are mainly of Yreka skiers and boarders. That’s because the photographer, Kris Prusko, was there specifically to shoot for Yreka. Through his generosity, SiskiyouYouth.com obtained the photos. When the Mt. Shasta Ski & Board Park was under previous ownership and advertised with the media I was involved with, I went personally to do the photos. For the past few years I’ve been reaching out to the PR and marketing person to work on promoting the Park on SiskiyouYouth.com. However, that person and/or ownership has decided to do very little local advertising, apparently assuming that the locals would just come anyway. Instead, they have spent their money out of town. I guess they’re dreaming of attracting huge crowds from elsewhere, while taking the locals for granted.

The difficulty for me in doing the photos and video personally is simple logistics and revenue. I live well over an hour from the Park, and it’s pretty tough to convince myself to spend the time and money to get there and then sit in the snow all day, without at least getting in a couple of runs. Under past ownership, we did a trade: advertising for a season pass. I always thought it worked out great. They got nearly free advertising, and I was able to do a bit of skiing (not really much because of my limited time, but at least some), and provide what I thought was really good coverage.

I’ve offered to do all kinds of cool things to help promote the Park, all to no avail. I still very much want to do so. The Mt. Shasta Ski & Board Park is very important to the local economy, and it just makes sense to help it succeed. Could it be that the Park simply doesn’t value the kids and families that have made SiskiyouYouth.com Siskiyou County’s top website for youth sports info and coverage? I would think that families would be the most desired group of people for the Park to reach.

Anyway, if the Mt. Shasta Ski Park is ever able to see the light, I can promise awesome ski & board race coverage, as well as doing everything I can to help promote the Park. If not, then I guess not.

Thanks,
Ray Wolf

Owner, SiskiyouYouth.com

The Yreka Lady Miner junior varsity out scored the Corning Lady Cardinal JVs by two points in each of the first three quarters, to take a 24-18 lead into the final frame on Wednesday night at Miner Gym. However, Corning used a 7-0 run to grab the lead with about a minute and a half to play. It didn’t phase the Lady Miners.

Yreka’s Savanna Peters opened the scoring in the fourth quarter with a hoop, upping the Lady Miner advantage to 26-20. The Cardinals then went on a 7-0 run, including a 3-point play the hard way, to take a 27-26 lead with 1:37 left on the clock.

With 44 ticks to play , Taylor Brown hit what would prove to be the game winner, giving Yreka a 28-27 lead. A pair of freebies from Justine Cota, made it 30-27, with 13 seconds to go. Brown finished off the scoring with a free throw to make the final 31-27.

Brown led the Lady Miners with 9 points. Cota had 7 points and 9 boards. Breanna Ruelas had 5 swipes.

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Some people said the Lady Miners had a monkey on their backs. But, with no Northern Athletic League wins in nearly three full years, it may have felt more like a giant gorilla. If so, the Lady Miners body slammed that gorilla on Wednesday night, with a 44-36 win over the Corning Lady Cardinals.

Yreka’s intensity was evident from the opening tip, as the Lady Miners scored the first eight points of the game. Ashley Ensminger drilled a 3-ball to open the scoring. Then Ensminger came up with a swipe and fed Dakota Cash, who converted to make it 5-0. Katie Brummett connected from beyond the arc to up the lead to 8-0.

Corning scored the next five point to make it an 8-5 game. However, the Lady Miners pushed their lead back to eight points, 15-7, at the end of the first quarter, when Erica Phillips dropped a dime to Allison Charleboix who scored.

While Yreka seemed to be in control at the end of the first frame, it was the Cardinals that would rule the roost in the second quarter, as they outscored Yreka, 18-8, to take a 25-23 lead into the locker room.

Yreka came back to the floor to start the third quarter with a renewed defensive focus, and allowed Corning just one field goal and a freebie in the entire quarter. Meanwhile, Cash put up five of Yreka’s eight points in the period. Phillips added a hoop, and Mackenzie Allen dropped in a free throw, giving Yreka a 31-28 lead going into the final frame.

The Cardinals scored the first four points of the fourth quarter, briefly regaining the lead 32-31, with 6:09 to play.

The Lady Miners responded with a 9-0 run. Ensminger put Yreka back in front with a mid-range jumper, 33-32. Phillips scored, 35-32. Ensminger again, 37-32. Then, Brummett beat the shot clock, to extend the Yreka advantage to seven points, 39-32, with 2:40 on the game clock. One from the charity stripe by Ensminger, made it 40-32, with 1:50 to play.

The Cardinals added a freebie, but Brummett did them one better, with a pair from the charity stripe with 53.9 seconds to go, 42-33. Corning put up three points the hard way, making it a two possession game, 42-36, with 44 ticks on the clock. The drama ended there, however, as Brummett notched two more free throws in the final seconds to clinch the 44-36 win.

How’d the Lady Miners (1-3, 10-12) break their NAL losing streak?

“Hey, we improved. We worked hard and we improved. We played with the intensity we need to play with,” said Yreka Coach Ken Dysert. “Simple as that.”

Ensminger led all scorers with 14 points. Brummett put up 12 points. Cash had 7, and Phillips contributed 6.

Kudos to the officials. Now, that’s how you officiate a varsity basketball game. Really, all three levels; varsity, JV, and frosh were well officiated. True, they were 3-man crews. But it wasn’t how many, it was how well done.