Scott Swanson
Of The New Era
Ellen Compton of Albany leaned over the side of the driftboat offshore at Andrew S. Wiley Park, on the South Santiam River just above the mouth of Wiley Creek Saturday morning.
She stabbed at something in the water with a pair of long-handled grippers. Up came a beer can.
“Got it,” she exulted.
Compton and nine other members of the local Association of Northwest Steelheaders chapter spent part of…