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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 3, 1994)
Volunteers help store prosper PK ELL. Wash. (AP) — It didn't take much for Sydney Cudyka to get involved with the Pe El) Community Thrift Shop 10 years ago It was a friendly proposition. "We just fell into it, I guess," she said "We're all friends, we re all trustworthy If someone can't go. we get someone else to take our plac e." The Visiting Nurses Association of Chehalis operated a thrift shop in the town for three years liefore pulling out. A hand ful of loc al residents decided the venture was such a good idea they would continue it. "Somebody had to do it." explainer] Trish Islay, a relative newcomer to the western Lewis County town and one of the 1(1 or so thrift shop volunteers. Money raised by the thrift shop over the past nine years, almost $20, has gone to sup port the town's volunteer fire and ambu lance service. Spurred by economic need and community pride, a group of mostly elderly women has watched over the thrift shop sine e July 1085. Now. others in the once-booming timber town urn loining in. Volunteer tat Kir and donated materials are flowing into a pair of community service projects A renovated park on the west end of town and a new space for tin* thrill shop are two examples The thrift shop has (wen plugging along inside a converted apartment just down the street from Town Hall Hut when volunteers learned their rent would go up, the non-profit group knew it would have had a diffit nit time making the new payments Where to go nest? Kiev approai bed the town couiu il earlier this year and asked about the possibility of using a portion of a partly occupied builiiing n< ross the street from Town flail The city had a< quired the dilapidated structure and was using it for storage and maintenance. Because of the shop's donations over the past nine years, many felt it was time for the city to give something Imck "The town's really getting back together and the town's working together." Mayor Jack Rutledge said After a turbulent rec ent history that saw the recall of Rutledge's predec essor and an ongoing federal < ivil rights lawsuit against the- town rtnd its police offic ers, the town was in need of some good news A good volunteer public effort provided just the pick me up Renovation of the city park on the west end of town c ame first Rutledge said play ground equipment has l>e>en installed, three picnic table sheds have gone up and 75 rail road ties from the old Burlington Northern line have been plac od in the park Official* also are pondering the installa tion of a "kiddie" pool With help from l^rwis County jail inmates on work release programs, both progs ts are making significant headway An inmate with carpentry experienc e* is overseeing the* work on the new thrift shop The two-man crow is |>nt< lung the roof with metal shanks and insulating, sealing and wiring the thrift shop's spac e dow n lielow T he* building c ould use the work No one c ould remember exat tly how long the clay brii k slruc tore has lieeii there, but it 's at least hi years old "It was Icefore my time, and 1 was leirn in 1 " said longtime Pe fill resident )a< k Collier It has been a laundromat, a car dealership. a lumber store and a guy even operated a shake mill out of it for awhile It is one of many old buildings that line the main highway. Thev recall a time when the tiny timber town boasted its own movie theaters, hank, clothing stores and several taverns. it was a booming metropolis way hack," Isley said But the timber industry isn't what it once was along the Chehalis River, and I’e Kll is In h different era Volunteer Inlxir and donations an? fueling a comeback of sorts Sometime letfore Nov. 1, the volunteers will pat k up the shop's merchandise and move it across the street Volunteer labor and materials art* helping to renovate a jior tion of the creaky building. It should la* quite a parade Asked to describe the shop's inventory, volunteer Mary Lister dost ribed it this way: ''Anything!'' she said "You should go across and look Anything from nuts to free apples." Indeed, the shop includes an eclectic mix of donated men handise spread throughout the numerous rooms Towels, soc ks. jump suits. picture frames ami lampshades all reserve their particular corners of the mix Hv November, it should l>e open for busi ness. The new digs will provide more open space than the multi-room converted apart ment where the thrift shop is currently locat ed Islev said the new spat e should work well. Cudyka eyed the old building and won dered "We hope so." she said, "we hope so.'' College course to ‘go where no one has gone before’ Ol.YMIMA (A!*) Th»> Tvorgreen Stale College is going vvIiiti' few schools have gone before offering a course on Slur irvk. il si iem e-fitiiotl 1 V series Beginning Monday. r>~ students will wiiti h Star l irk episodes and explore the relationships between popular culture, media, si iem e and lei hnology The wildly popular course is tailed "Where No One lias Gone Before,“ a title gleaned from the introduction to the TV series Required reading includes A Hrief History of t'lmr by Stephen Hawking. Arrive •Vew World by Aldous Huxley end Arthur ( Clarke s 2001 ,-t S/mi r L)dysst>\ The Kii-credit course, spread over two quarters, would make up pist under IK per i ent of the total 180 i redits needed to earn a h<u holer's degree !l is llic tiroiiK Hi Id of Lvergroan fm ultv mitmtiers Carrie Margolin ami Argentina Daley . both fans of the original TV series Margolin, a cognitive psyi hologist, will explore the development of artifii ml intelli gome Dalev will dix uss si reemvriling and popular i ulture Si ience teachers will lei • ture two hours each week oil phvsu s and astronomy for the course "It's a good fit with what Kvergreen is uniquely situated to do in terms of drawing on different disciplines." said l vergreen Provost Barbara Leigh Smith "I don’t think this is alt that unique, actually We have i oiifideiu.e that this is serious and important and worth doing " Many students agree The i lass is full and 20 students are on a waiting list The class is so popular, in fact, that n lawyer from Olympia wanted to enroll at Evergreen just for the class. One student's mother called from Colorado trying to get her son into it. and another student franti cally called a faculty member on a < ellular telephone for help after fie missed the course cutoff last spring Margolin is worried that some students may have enrolled just to watt h (erne Kod denberry s original Star Trek TV series and its successors. The Xr\t Generation and Deep Spate Sine Mi < om ern would be tfiat people would think all they're doing is watching Star Irek, she said. "We're not teaching Star Trek" Tomato juice, guns weapons for skunks GARFIELD. Wash (AP) — Skunks are raisin# a slink in this Whitman County town, sanding some people to the grocery store for tomato juice and others to get their shot guns. Jack Doeblor and his wife, Mary Keman. took the tomato juice approach. "Saturday morning at 5:30, I smelled skunk, and I knew the dogs had returned." Doe bier said Luckily, Keman had stocked up on tomato juice, considered by many to be a first-rate method for removing skunk aroma from dogs Doobler drenched his white dogs with the rod juice to deodorize them Skunk season runs from late spring to early fall This year, the striped stinkers seem to have shown up in record num bers. "As soon os the sun goes down, you've got to get your animals inside because the skunks come out." said Patti Devlin, whose house has been sprayed before. The skunks walk down the street "like they own the place Our dogs have boon sprayed several times.” she said. Mayor C.heryle Curtis’ garage was trashed by a skunk that got trapped inside overnight. "The little dude did all kinds of damage," Curtis said. "He dumped over buckets of oil Hu tore insulation off the walls." Everyone seems to have his or her own way of dealing with skunks Some people feed them, the city provides traps and some people catch tiie skunks and release them outside of town. 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