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Sports	The Prater's Creek Gazette 11th Issue Fall 2006 Page #9
Coach Tommy Bowden To Speak At PC Booster Club Dinner Clemson Tiger head football coach Tommy Bowden will be the guest speaker at the Prater’s Creek Booster Club Dinner this Tuesday night. Coach Bowden has been a frequent speaker at the club’s dinner. The coach said he speaks at many such sports banquets, but the Prater’s Creek banquets are the best. “Ah, they treat me right over at Prater’s Creek” the busy coach said in his office at Jervey Athletic Center. “I especially like that they always have it at the Six Mile Café. These football banquets always have chicken but they got the best at that café.” Outdoor Editorial By GAZETTE OUTDOORS EDITOR BUBBA mcCalister and his brother DORRIS Legal Battle Brewing Over Chattooga Water Access James Dickey has often lamented the fact that the phenomenal success of the movie adaptation of his novel Deliverance brought thousands of tourists and development to the Chattooga River. Before the 1972 movie, only 30-40 tourists a year went down the river, and it was a great place to fly fish in mountain serenity. Now the number of people going down the river is in the tens of thousands a year and this has brought an entire industry revolving around whitewater rafting to the area. Since 1976, the US Forest Service deemed the upper portions of the river off limits to watercraft. But now many kayakers and rafting companies say they should have equal access to these waters too. Back in May, a group of whitewater rafting companies filed a federal lawsuit. We're trying to get back to equal access for wilderness users," said Mark Singleton, director of American Whitewater, a plaintiff in the lawsuit, said in an AP wire story. "The Forest Service never did the kind of scientific data collection necessary to close the river to boating. In the words of our lawyers, it was arbitrary and capricious." At a recent meeting at a high school gym in Highlands, NC there was a bitter debate between whitewater rafters and fishermen. The debate soon turned to yelling and finger pointing. Me and my brother Dorris hope the whitewater rafting companies will leave this last bit of the grand river alone for us fly-fisherman. We’d like one part of the lake where rafts full of screaming people don’t come by every twenty minutes, constantly interrupting our fishing trip.

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Sports

The Prater's Creek Gazette

11th Issue Fall 2006 Page #9

Coach Tommy Bowden To Speak At PC Booster Club Dinner

Clemson Tiger head football coach Tommy Bowden will be the guest speaker at the Prater’s Creek Booster Club Dinner this Tuesday night. Coach Bowden has been a frequent speaker at the club’s dinner. The coach said he speaks at many such sports banquets, but the Prater’s Creek banquets are the best. “Ah, they treat me right over at Prater’s Creek” the busy coach said in his office at Jervey Athletic Center. “I especially like that they always have it at the Six Mile Café. These football banquets always have chicken but they got the best at that café.”

Outdoor Editorial

By GAZETTE OUTDOORS EDITOR BUBBA mcCalister and his brother DORRIS

Legal Battle Brewing Over Chattooga Water Access

James Dickey has often lamented the fact that the phenomenal success of the movie adaptation of his novel Deliverance brought thousands of tourists and development to the Chattooga River. Before the 1972 movie, only 30-40 tourists a year went down the river, and it was a great place to fly fish in mountain serenity. Now the number of people going down the river is in the tens of thousands a year and this has brought an entire industry revolving around whitewater rafting to the area.

Since 1976, the US Forest Service deemed the upper portions of the river off limits to watercraft.

But now many kayakers and rafting companies say they should have equal access to these waters too. Back in May, a group of whitewater rafting companies filed a federal lawsuit.

We're trying to get back to equal access for wilderness users," said Mark Singleton, director of American Whitewater, a plaintiff in the lawsuit, said in an AP wire story. "The Forest Service never did the kind of scientific data collection necessary to Tourism Ad close the river to boating. In the words of our lawyers, it was arbitrary and capricious."

At a recent meeting at a high school gym in Highlands, NC there was a bitter debate between whitewater rafters and fishermen. The debate soon turned to yelling and finger pointing.

Me and my brother Dorris hope the whitewater rafting companies will leave this last bit of the grand river alone for us fly-fisherman. We’d like one part of the lake where rafts full of screaming people don’t come by every twenty minutes, constantly interrupting our fishing trip.