WINNERS 1. Duck and Beaver fans are sky-high after their teams won convincingly on Saturday and climbed in the polls. But the most impressive team performance of all was PSU's aerial circus, which boosted the Vikings to No. 2 in Division 1-AA. 2. The sky's the limit for speeding suburbanites now that Beaverton cops have agreed to refund 67 photo-radar tickets after an officer admitted placing a warning sign too close to the snoop van. That's the third refund in as many years for the Beaverton bureau. 3. Northwest Portland's Chapman Elementary School fired up a brand-new boiler this week--good news for the roughly 40,000 Vaux's swifts who roost in the school's old chimney on their yearly migration south. Now classrooms can be heated without the lingering stench of singed feathers.           .

LOSERS 1. Incumbent Republican Sen. Eileen Qutub got a tongue-lashing from Gov. John Kitzhaber last week for painting herself as an anti-gun, pro-education legislator in her race against the Democratic challenger, Lil' Ryan Deckert, in Senate District 4. Kitz reminded the citizenry that Qutub voted against gun-control measures and refused to meet with Beaverton school board members. 2. Oregon greens are holding the feds' feet to the fire. This week the Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides sued the Environmental Protection Agency for not requiring full disclosure of the nasty stuff on pesticide labels. 3. No group has worked harder to ventilate its concerns than the anti-noise coalition who live near the airport. What a blow to see a Port-commissioned survey unveiled last week showing that the No. 1 concern people have about PDX is crime.