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iii. r Soggy: Some practices SARS: Hea. have been cancelled Continued from Page B1 Continued from Page B1 ... ...= McKenzie-Willamette Hospital Mostgames have been and Sacred Heart Medical Cen- its record for• combined ter say they'll •be ready if a March-April precipitation — rescheduled to be SARS patient shows up. set in 1993 at more than 16 played on synthetic The disease is spread mainly inches — Corvallis already surfaces. through close person-to-person has topped its two-month contact. People can get infected mark and Portland is close,ac- lo • if they touch an infected per- cording to data from the state son's skin or objects contami- climatologist's office at Ore- schools or on a handful of nated with droplets from sneez- gon State University. grass fields that remain in ing or coughing,and then touch "The last few years it's playable condition. their eyes,mouth or nose. It al- been, `Isn't this weather But in addition to Kid- so is possible SARS can be great?'" said Dave Clark, se- sports soccer,Battaglia has al- spread through the air. nior programmer at Kidsports. so been trying to find space for Both hospitals'plans include "Now it's back to the normal softball, baseball, lacrosse, Ul- getting a SARS patient into a Oregon spring." timate Frisbee and even semi- room with less air pressure Clark said he's already pro football teams to practice than its surroundings. This asked all Kidsports "classic" or play. would prevent potentially infec- soccer teams—for children in "We've already canceled tious air from circulating out of the fifth through ninth grades our adult Ultimate for the the room and into the rest of the to cancel practices for next weekend," Battaglia said. hospital. And health workers week. Teams of younger chil- "Right now, I'm just so thank- have been instructed in how to dren have been more self- ful we have the four artificial practice effective infection con- policing, with many parents turf fields. They're being trol when coming in contact simply not wanting their maximized." with thepatient. young ones out in the wet John Clark, for one, Nurses and doctors need to weather. wouldn't mind seeing a few wear a special respirator — "We're just in a game mode more synthetic fields around called an N-95 mask because it sends out right now :.. trying to get the town at least during this filters out 95 percent of parti- and make games in on fields that are not time of year.He's the turf and des that are 0.3 micronsacross tations t swamps,"Clark said."But that grounds supervisor for the or larger — gowns, gloves and employees creates problems for parents, city's Park Services Division. eye protection. McKen having 10-year-olds out play- "What we do is mow the PeaceHealth has posted its sharing to ing games at 9 o'clock on Sun- lawns, and we are struggling own SARS page on its internal on SARS day nights." right now, to say the least," Web site, with links to the Cen- from nur Most games have been re- Clark said. "Unfortunately, ters for Disease Control and the telling thc scheduled to be played on syn- the grass doesn't stop growing World Health Organization, do protea thetic surfaces at the four Eu- because it's raining. In fact, said Peggy Schultz,an infection tients, sai gene School District high it's growing full speed." control practitioner. Her office fection cot Friendship turns to romance 20 year Through the Internet ._ "She's and some good timing, a She w� relationship is rekindled and BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS sT y� LOI 44110.i CORVALLIS — Twenty `' years ago, Louis "Bunk" Maddaloze Bunkelman was madly in love lounge. with his friend, Jenny Pheas- The ca ant,but he didn't dare tell her. Bunkelmc "She was the valedictorian. shaky voic She was the prom queen. She : it- their dela ' - . n1nnL e4ri1