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Illinois Valley News, Cave Junction, OR Wednesday, January 8, 2003
‘Oil first’
‘NOOSE’ GOOSE - Due to circumstances nearly be-
yond our control, the “Noose” has instituted a new deadline
for letters, announcements and display advertisements: 3
p.m. on Fridays. One more time: Letters, announcements
and display ads must be in the office by 3 p.m. Fridays. Dis-
play ads also will be accepted on Mondays until noon, but
the rate will be $4.50 per column inch instead of $4. Classi-
fied ads will continue to be taken in the office until noon on
Mondays.
AUCTION ACTION - Bidding will begin at 7 p.m. on
Friday, Jan. 10 in Wild River Brewing & Pizza Co. in Cave
Junction at the annual Illinois Valley Chamber of Com-
merce auction. Numerous items, including $100 worth of
Rough & Ready Lumber Co. product, wine, telephones, gift
certificates, services and “Noose” subscriptions have been
donated by valley and some Grants Pass merchants. Jim
Frick, of Century 21 Harris & Taylor, will be auctioneer;
and Anna Swett, of Anna’s Attic, will lead the clerking ta-
ble. The chamber’s largest fund-raiser of each year is
known for providing an evening of fun and bargains.
TREE FLEE - The city of Cave Junction will accept
clean Christmas trees at the wastewater treatment plant at
the end of N. Sawyer Avenue off W. River Street through
Friday, Jan. 10 between 8 a.m. and noon; and on the week-
end from 8:30 to 9 a.m. For more information: 592-2156.
GRAD STAND - The next meeting to plan the Grad
Night Party for the Illinois Valley High School Class of
2003 will be held on Monday, Jan. 13. The informal gather-
ing will begin at 5 p.m. in the school library. Parents of sen-
ior students are encouraged to attend. For more information,
attend the meeting, or phone Janie Pope at 592-2116.
DÉCOR STORE - Winners in the annual IV. Chamber
of Commerce Christmas Decorating Contest have been an-
nounced. Top choice in the indoor category is Treehouse
Florist & Gifts in Downtown Cave Junction. Selected for
the outdoor category prize is A+ Mini Storage at the north
end of CJ.
CHAMBER RANGER - Five persons are nominated
for five seats on the I.V. Chamber of Commerce Board of
Directors. Chamber members have received ballots in the
mail. Incumbents are Kim Kemper, Lancaster Rolling
Video; Corky Quen, Evergreen Federal Bank; and Bob
Rodriguez, “Illinois Valley News.” New candidates -- to
replace Joe Krauss, Rough & Ready Lumber Co., and Lee
Paxton, frontier/Citizen Communications -- are Martin San,
Cave Junction Lions Club; and Monique Allen, TC Com-
puters. Write-in candidates, as long as they’re chamber
members, are allowed; and the deadline to return ballots is
Wednesday, Jan. 15.
GOP TREE - Oregon House Republicans elected Rep.
Karen Minnis (R-Wood Village) Speaker of the Oregon
House late last year after the Republicans increased their
majority from 32 to 25 seats. Also elected: Speaker Pro
Tem/Rep. Lane Shetterly (R-Dallas), House Majority
Leader/Rep. Tim Knopp (R-Bend), and House Majority
Whip/Rep. Rob Patridge (R-Medford).
NOTEPAD - Harvest Kitchen at St. Matthias Episco-
pal Church in CJ, with more than 5,000 pounds of donated
food and nearly 3,400 volunteer hours, served 5,090 meals
during 2002. Harvest Kitchen is not sponsored by the
church, which allows the volunteers to use its facilities. For
more information phone Linda Butler at 597-4383 … The
city of Eugene, the state’s fourth-largest city, is gaining
population rivaling Salem, according to Portland State Uni-
versity’s Population Research Center. Based on the 2000
census, Salem had a 27 percent growth rate during the
1990s and has a population of 136,924; and Eugene 137,893
… A prayer meeting for Illinois Valley women will be
held on Thursday, Jan. 16 at 7:30 a.m. at Living Alterna-
tives, between Klamath First Bank and Carlos’ Restaurante
in Downtown CJ … “Science Is Fun” is the title of a pres-
entation planned at Dome School by Oregon Museum of
Science & Industry on Feb. 8. Registration is under way,
and there is a fee. Phone 592-3911 ... “One Man’s Search
for Justice” is the theme of valley resident Ray
Karczewski’s interview last month on John Stadtmiller’s
National Intell Report radio talk show. It can be heard via
home computers at www.arkenterprises.com/intelrpt.html
… Bumper sticker: Normal people make me nervous … T-
shirt: I don’t have an attitude problem, jerk … Another T-
shirt: Errors have been made. Others are to blame.
LAST WORDS - +To profit from good advice requires
more wisdom than to give it. (John Churton Collins)
+The line separating good and evil passes not through
states, nor between political parties either, but right through
every human heart. (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)
Female Border Collie Mix
Lost from big yellow barn
on Highway 199 near
Westside Road.
Black with
brown markings.
REWARD
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Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
When a man does not know what harbor he is making
for, no wind is the right wind.
- Seneca -
From Larry A. Stein
Cave Junction
War, war, war. That is all
the Bush Administration
seems to have on its agenda.
That and cutting taxes.
No thought to the thou-
sands of young men and
women who will come home
in body bags, and the hun-
dreds of billions of dollars
that will be spent on this fi-
asco.
Where will the money
come from? First it will come
from our youngsters, whose
educations are being sadly
neglected. Then it will come
from our senior citizens,
many of whom have to
choose between eating and
needed medication. Then it
will come from our Baby
Boomer generation, which
will watch as Social Security
vanishes.
Bush certainly fiddles as
our economy goes up in
smoke. Oil first and every-
thing else can go to Hell.
And where is the state
government in all this? Suck-
ing up millions of dollars with
the lottery and other forms of
legalized robbery.
Where are all the prom-
ised benefits from this sup-
posedly fantastic bonanza?
Instead, we spend more dol-
lars on curing compulsive
gambling.
Bah, humbug.
‘The War’
From Will Schneider
Cave Junction
When I stop to contem-
plate the state of affairs in our
world today, I experience a
roller coaster ride of emotions
ranging from frustration to
anger, rage, and yes, some-
times straight-up hatred for
some of the people, who, be-
cause of what they do, cause
misery throughout the world.
And, at this time, are col-
lectively putting life as we
know it on Earth in extreme
jeopardy, more so now than
ever before in the history of
human kind.
From Afghanistan to the
U.S., from Chechnya, to Indo-
nesia, from Iraq to North Ko-
rea, from north to south, east
to west. From the priests who
abuse children, to corporate
thieves running off with more
than enough money to feed all
the world’s starving children.
I am one angry man at times.
I find myself praying a lot
these days. When I pray I
don’t ask the “Great Spirit” to
fix this or that, or to punish
these or them, but I pray for
patience, compassion, and
humility.
Patience to realize that in
the long run throughout eter-
nity, all is well in the heart of
God.
Compassion to help me
realize that we as a human
race are so close. We feel the
same things. We get angry
when hurt. We mourn for our
dead. And we seek love. At
times, wherever we think we
may find it. Humility, I be-
lieve, may be the most impor-
tant, for it is the place where
lessons, hard lessons at times,
are learned. Lessons about
immutable cosmic law.
It is so easy to slide into
the realm of conceit, thinking
we are better than others and
to give ourselves the “okey-
dokey” to hate a despot, an
abusive priest or a thief, but
here’s the catch. Whenever
we hate, be it a little or a lot,
we dip into the same pool of
darkness that evil, throughout
the ages, has used against us.
I feel a need to voice, in
some manner, my utter dis-
may at times at the things
people do and say and what
we allow through our silence
to happen. I do not want to be
guilty of complacency in the
face of evil.
Through our actions dur-
ing the past few thousand
years, of dividing with bor-
ders, the Earth and its re-
sources and the continuing
materialistic approach to a
spiritual existence, thereby
creating greed, we have cre-
ated a situation wherein our
warriors, it seems, are neces-
sary. Maybe these days more
than ever before. But history
has shown that war does not
bring peace.
It only buys time. And
makes very wealthy those
who manufacture and sell
weapons.
Peace comes at the high
price of each and every hu-
man heart. Collectively or
individually, the light comes
through the heart. It is the one
and only long-term solution
that will put down the dark-
ness.
We, the people, needn’t
feel helpless in the face of the
long, dark night. We can,
through simple acts of kind-
ness in our everyday lives, let
love shine through us, and if
nothing else, there will be that
much less darkness and that
much more peace.
Hate is hard work. It de-
mands our attention and time
in order to exist. Love, on the
other hand, is endlessly uni-
versal, existing with or with-
out us. Love transcends relig-
ion, race, and language. If
proof or a miracle is needed,
just look around at the abso-
lute perfection of our natural
world and the stars above.
Love is the great con-
queror of the dark, and our
only legitimate weapon in the
continuing battle for the hu-
man soul.
The real war is not in Af-
ghanistan, Iraq, North Korea,
Chicago, or L.A., but in our
collective heart. May al-
mighty God help us in our
daily efforts to bring more
peace to our troubled world in
this and the coming years.
Measure 28 money
From Ellis Couron
Cave Junction
Here we are again with
another money measure (28)
from the folks who wanted to
be representatives of the peo-
ple, but after getting the job
can’t seem to cope with the
responsibilities.
They all seem to have the
same agenda. When money is
short, delve deeper into the
taxpayers’ pockets; when
there is excess, establish a
new program to spend it.
Why is it that all of those
“new programs” never seem
to go away during a reces-
sion? If those spending tax
money manage their own
households in this manner
where do they get the extra
funds when they overspend?
Understanding fiscal re-
sponsibility is part of their
job, and when was the last
time a “temporary” tax in-
crease was rescinded? What
happened to the state surplus
a couple years ago that was
required by law to be returned
to the taxpayers? Has any-
body seen that refund lately?
And the lies told about the
bad things that will happen to
the poor little children, unwed
mothers, school programs,
fire and police departments.,
etc., if the money is not forth-
coming are commensurate
with the mentality of a 9-year-
old having a temper tantrum.
I heard the same lies years
ago in California during the
Prop. 13 days, after the people
passed that measure to protect
their homes it was reported
that state government “found”
$7 billion in the state treasury
it didn’t know it had.
It had been my observa-
tion that government at all
levels is like a little kid. Give
him an allowance on Monday
and he will spend it, and
more, on Tuesday. Then be
back on Wednesday to borrow
against the following Mon-
day.
Those spending tax dol-
lars have always had an insa-
tiable appetite for spending
other people’s money on
things wanted, rather than
actually needed.
MANSFIELD R. CLEARY
Attorney at Law
General Practice in
Illinois Valley since 1980
Practice includes but not limited to:
Bankruptcy - Eliminate
financial problems
Living trusts - Avoid probate
Estate planning - Wills,
power of attorney
Domestic relations
Auto accident - Personal Injury
Criminal - DUII
Real Estate contracts - Foreclosure
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