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2 Winter 2019 Applegater OBITUARY Thomas Franklin Klinefelter II November 25, 1949 - October 25, 2019 There is no greater honor than to be his son, enjoy the memories we made, and embody him. Tom made patience look easy and lived with strict intention. As a result he was a pillar of strength for the people of his global community. We can only hint at the Joy, Talent and Love he shared. He leaves behind many broken hearts, yet there is no shame in his passing. Sebastian Klinefelter sebastian@excavationoregon.com Mitakuye Oyasin by Tom Klinefelter There was never a time When I did not exist Nor you…you know it’s true Nor will there be any future in which we shall cease to be…so let it be A true renaissance man—an engineer, electrician, poet, and writer. Musician, pilot, chef, photographer, actor, athlete, and martial artist. Survivalist, mountaineer. Counselor, teacher, political/environmental activist, healer, and farmer. Tom Klinefelter was an expert on life and could master anything he chose to. Dear family and friends— we are all one family Please dance when I die I want you to smile and dance when I die…No sad eye I wish for you to sing and party Laugh until you cry A nyone who knew my father, Tom Klinefelter, will tell you that he was a rare and extraordinary person, but to say he will be missed or remembered is not enough. The reach of his influence knew no limits, and, despite his death, he continues to inspire and guide us. This was a man who passed from this place with tremendous dignity and grace, on his own terms. Please don’t hesitate— cause I’m the one that’s free So let’s all celebrate my liberation from me. I love you all! —Space Elk Farewell Janis Mohr-Tipton retiring? Say it’s not true! BY THALIA TRUESDELL The official grand Janis Mohr-Tipton. opening of the new The name is synonymous Ruch Branch Library was with “librarian” and January 2, 2003, and “community volunteer the staff rejoiced at the extraordinaire,” right? bright new windows The latter still holds true, and open spaces. Janis but Janis retired from the worked tirelessly with Jackson County Library Ruch School about how Services (JCLS) this fall, to use this valuable new after spending almost resource—a library next 30 years in an active door! She continued role managing Ruch working shortened hours Branch Library, providing at Ruch Library while also programming and managing the Central events for her community, Point Branch. In the fall tirelessly campaigning of 2008 Janis left Ruch and fundraising to Library to begin doing rebuild our libraries, book talks at Jackson and raising her family County libraries, sharing in the Applegate. Janis enthusiasm with school has always been active in local organizations and in Volunteer extraordinaire Janis students about new and building community. She Mohr-Tipton, in costume as interesting books they was an active 4-H leader Madeline, the young storybook would enjoy. Janis continues for many years, helped character, for Halloween at establish the most recent Ruch Library around 2000. as a volunteer in the SMART Program at Upper Applegate Grange, Ruch Outdoor Community School and has a green thumb up to her elbow. Janis volunteered with Ruch Library and works with the Applegate Partnership for several years and became Ruch Branch and Watershed Council to educate Supervisor in 1992. At that time there schoolchildren about the life cycle of was a committee of dreamers, called the salmon. She is also on the board of A Applegate Valley Community Center- Greater Applegate and chair of its Cantrall Library, who knew the time had come Buckley Park Enhancement Program. She for a new library. Janis helped keep that was instrumental in the construction of group grounded, and the center-library the new sundial at the park and all the ended up merging with the Friends of educational signage. The Friends of Ruch Library are the Library in 1994, a move that gave strength to the grassroots push from this fortunate to count Janis as a board community for a new library. Fundraising member, but we’re going to miss her at efforts followed, including Applegate the library. Thalia Truesdell • 541-899-7438 Valley Days, bake sales, miles of pennies, Ruch Library Branch Manager book sales, and more, always with Janis Jackson County Library Services at the helm. to Barbara Holiday When Barbara Holiday announced at the October board meeting that she would be leaving the Applegater as its editor and a board member, we were stunned. The Applegater without Barbara?! Unimaginable. Inconceivable. But actually, of course, in the end, inevitable. She wasn’t going to go on forever, though we in our complacency at having such a good editor hadn’t been thinking about an end date. To say we are going to miss Barbara is only to scratch the surface. She has been the mainstay of this paper for 14 years. She has overseen articles, making sure every sentence in every article is grammatically correct and syntactically graceful. She has been adamant about giving priority to contributions from the community and letting all voices be heard. The Applegater is visually attractive because of her layouts. She has supervised our ad reps. She does all the interaction with the printer, and it was she who suggested we use a higher quality paper and more color pages. She works like a Trojan for our fundraisers. She got us started on our book projects. She has done so much for the Applegater it would take half this page to tell it all. And Barbara wouldn’t allow that. In her eyes the Applegater’s first function is for the members of the community. We have so much to thank her for. As sorry as we are to see Barbara go (the next issue will be her last), we understand what she meant when she said, “I want a life.” She has put her life into the Applegater, and the whole community of the Applegate is the better for it. We will all miss her. We on the board send her off with hugs and kisses, a thousand thanks, and best wishes for life after Applegater. Applegater Board of Directors Diana Coogle, David Dobbs, Paul Fattig Jeannette LeTourneux, Cathy Rodgers — Employment opportunity — Editor in chief Applegater Newsmagazine Applegate Valley Community Newspaper, Inc., seeks a part-time editor in chief to manage production of its quarterly 24-page newsmagazine, the Applegater. The editor is paid as an independent contractor; benefits are not included. The editor is required by corporate bylaws to sit on the board of directors as a volunteer and attend monthly board meetings in the Applegate Valley. See more information, including responsibilities and requirements, on page 19. Aaron Krikava joins the Applegater Team We l c o m e , A a ro n Krikava, to the Editorial Committee of the Applegater! Aaron was born in Arkansas and raised in upstate New York and suburban Philadelphia. He attended Fordham University, in New York City, where he earned a BS in chemistry with a minor in psychology. After a brief stint in the pharmaceutical industry he decided to heed the deep calling he felt to leave the east coast and explore the rugged natural beauty of the Pacific Northwest. In 2004 he arrived in the “gorgeous” Little Applegate River drainage for an agricultural internship on an organic farm and ranch. He was immediately taken with the incredible beauty and natural diversity of the Applegate area, as well as the kindness and warmth of the local community. Working on a forest restoration crew introduced him to the concepts of ecological natural resource management, and he was hooked. He is currently developing a local prescribed burning program to increase the use of controlled burning on both private and public lands in the Applegate and surrounding areas. While co-owning an Applegate-based ecological restoration crew, he joined the board of the Applegate Par tnership and Watershed Council as a way to contribute h i s k n ow l e d g e a n d experience to the land management of the greater Applegate area. Aaron believes deeply that the volunteer efforts of local residents are vital to a healthy rural community. He has found that communicating regionally important information across a diverse social and geographic region like the Applegate Valley is a complex and difficult task and that small local newspapers like the Applegater have an unmatched ability to do just that. He is honored to help support those efforts by joining the Editorial Committee. Note: The Editorial Committee reviews all submitted articles each issue for appropriateness, clarity, and factualness. Other members are Tom Carstens, Diana Coogle, Barbara Holiday, Sandy Shaffer, and Greeley Wells.
