Cathy Gerlitz was excited as she sat behind the wheel of a 1931 Ford Model A car, practicing how to double-clutch.

“Are you nervous?” asked Mike Patterson, her passenger and driving instructor for the day.

“Yeah, a little bit,” Gerlitz said. She already knew how to drive a stick-shift, and her husband owns a Model A, “but these cars are different,” she said. That’s because you have to know how to double-clutch.

Competing at the same stadium in which the OSAA state track meet was held a month ago, local athletes took to Hayward Field in Eugene last weekend for the Nike Outdoor Nationals & USATF U20 Championships in hopes of finding the same kind of success.

The local contingent featuring athletes from Grants Pass, Medford and Central Point faired well in both the U20 and Emerging Elite divisions.

High on the list of repairs last week at the Siskiyou Smokejumper Base Museum’s annual work week was fixing up one of two historic training towers at the Cave Junction-area base, which closed at the end of the 1981 fire season. Each June, the volunteer event draws former smokejumpers and others to the base to spruce it up a bit.

The Talent Show Music Festival, a free outdoor music celebration with a block party spirit, returns for its second year on Saturday in the heart of downtown Talent.

Music takes place from noon to 7 p.m. at eight venues, with stages at local businesses and community spaces across downtown Talent along an easily-walked route.

Visitors can camp out at one stage, drift between a couple, or keep moving to catch a bit of every band.