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Illinois Valley News, Cave Junction, OR Wednesday, February 19, 2003
Nominees ..
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COMMUNITY EDUCATION - Detectives with the
Josephine County Interagency Narcotics Team (JOINT) will
give a presentation about the rise in clandestine metham-
phetamine labs in the community on Wednesday, Feb. 19 at
6:30 p.m. in the county building, 102 S. Redwood Hwy.
The presentation is designed to help residents recognize the
signs of illegal labs, including the products used, odors and
toxic residue.
BLACKBERRY FESTIVAL - A Blackberry Festival
planning meeting will be held Friday, Feb. 21 at 6 p.m. at
the county building.
GRAD NIGHT - A meeting to plan the IVHS 2003
Grad Night party will be held on Monday, Feb. 24 in the
high school library. Fund-raising continues for donkey bas-
ketball, which will be held Sunday, March 9.
CAVES CONVERSATION - An informational meet-
ing about volunteer and employment opportunities at Ore-
gon Caves National Monument will be held on Thursday,
Feb. 27 at 7 p.m. in the RCC Belt Bldg. in Kerby. Oregon
Caves staff will discuss some of the history of the National
Park Service and the Volunteer-in-Parks program.
JOCO COMMISIONERS - The Josephine County
Board of County Commissioners will hold a workshop on
Thursday, Feb. 27 at 9 a.m. in the commissioners confer-
ence room of the county courthouse, 500 N.W. Sixth St.,
Grants Pass. The subject of the workshop will be waste col-
lection, recycling, processing and treatment facilities in Jo-
sephine County.
GOOD GRIEF - Lovejoy Hospice is accepting registra-
tions for its spring session of Good Grief, a program de-
signed to provide children and their parents a safe place to
talk about how their family is coping with the loss of a
loved one. The program will be held from Monday, Feb. 24
through Monday, April 28 from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at
Lovejoy Hospice, 939 S.E. Eighth St. in Grants Pass. Phone
Bereavement Coordinator Barbara Knox at 474-1193 to pre-
register.
LOCAL MONEY - U.S. Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.)
has introduced legislation which would give more than $3.5
million to the Northwest Assistance Fund, which provides
grant funds to rural timber-dependent communities and to
help leverage other federal, state and local funding for rural
communities. The bill would also give more than $1 million
to the National Park Service to replace the headquarters
building at the Oregon Caves.
VALLEY SOIL AND WATER - The I.V. Soil and
Water Conservation District is raising money to provide
scholarships for high school seniors furthering their educa-
tion in conservation and agriculture. Those interested in
helping, can become a tree-planting sponsor for between $5
and $100. A $5 seedling will plant 20 trees. A $10 sapling
will plant 40 trees. A $100 giant Redwood will plant 400
trees.
BOB GILLIAM RECOVERING - After collapsing at
Lucky Seven Casino in Smith River, Calif. on Wednesday,
Feb. 12, longtime Illinois Valley resident Bob Gilliam is
recovering at Sutter Coast Hospital in Crescent City, Calif.
Virginia, Gilliam’s wife who retired from “Illinois Valley
News” on Jan. 31, said that her husband was kept alive by
casino security personnel, including Librado Garcia and Ce-
cil Smith, who began CPR almost immediately after he fell
from a stool and struck his head. His head injury isn’t seri-
ous, and his heart condition is being treated. Apparently,
Virginia said, the lower portion of Bob’s heart went into
cardiac arrhythmia. He was in Sutter’s ICU for a couple of
days and on a ventilator, but is now doing much better. Vir-
ginia said he might be home later this week.
OVERALL DEADLINE - Beginning Friday, Feb. 28,
everything submitted for publication in the “Noose” -- in-
cluding classified ads -- needs to be in the office by 3 p.m.
on Fridays for the next week’s issue. Classified ads will be
accepted on Mondays until noon, but the price will be $4 for
a maximum of 20 words, and will appear in a Too Late To
Classify column. The deadline was changed several weeks
ago for everything but classified ads, and it’s been decided
to make the deadline all encompassing.
NOTEPAD - T. Lund, one of five recipients of the Mr.
Holland’s Opus Foundation National Music Teacher of the
Year award, was seen on Friday, Feb. 14 on the Today
Show. Lund traveled to New York City with his wife on
Feb. 13 to receive his award. The 2003 Romantic Begin-
nings Bridal Fair will be held at the Josephine County
Fairgrounds in Grants Pass on Sunday, Feb. 23 from 10 a.m.
to 4 p.m. Help is available for those who have a problem
with gambling. For information and treatment at no cost,
phone 474-5363. Sage Beetle has closed, apparently due to
lack of business. The CJ 76 station is temporarily closed
and will replace the current CJ Texaco station.
BULLETIN
It appears that the Medford Air Tanker Base will remain
open thanks to $1.2 million in funding secured in the fiscal
year 2003 Omnibus Spending bill passed by Congress last
week. U.S. Sens. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Gordon Smith (R-
Ore.) and U.S. Rep. Greg Walden (R-Ore.) worked together
to ensure that money for facility upgrades at the base was in-
cluded in the final bill, which now goes to President Bush for
his signature.
This summer the Biscuit Fire in Southwestern Oregon
and Northern California burned nearly 500,000 acres of for-
estland and cost more than $150 million to contain. The U.S.
Forest Service’s aerial fire-fighting efforts in the area would
have been directly affected by the planned closure of the Med-
ford base. The base was slated for permanent closure, with
operations planned to move to the Klamath Falls airport east
of the Cascade Mountains.
person, and another from
Leonard Frick, a chamber di-
rector and owner of Holiday
Motel.
Frick underscored the
firm’s small beginnings, add-
ing that it is now nationally
known for “first-class prod-
ucts and good service.” He
wrote that, “This is the kind of
business that makes Cave
Junction and Illinois Valley
prosper.
“The Taylor family should
be commended and recog-
nized for its achievements,”
Frick wrote.
In the anonymous nomi-
nation, Taylor’s was cited for
helping promote Art Walk
events, and other activities
helping the community.
Rochelle Desser
O’Brien resident Helen
Early nominated Desser, who
works for the U.S. Forest Ser-
vice’s I.V. Ranger District.
Early wrote that Desser
demonstrated leadership quali-
ties during the Biscuit Fire,
particularly “coordinating and
leading our community meet-
ings.
“She worked with profes-
sionals from all over the
United States. She put in
(difficult) hours, away from
her family and other responsi-
bilities. She deserves recogni-
tion,” Early wrote.
Jessica Krska
Krska, store director at
Shop Smart Food Warehouse
in Cave Junction, was nomi-
nated by Dennis Strayer, man-
ager of the I.V. Visitor Center.
He wrote:
“Jessica is very supportive
of a variety of community and
youth groups. She has spon-
sored fund-raisers for the I.V.
High School (IVHS) cheer-
leading, football and wrestling
teams.
“She continually helps
other community groups by
providing a discount on items
to help make every group’s
event a success.
“Jessica is a tireless
worker,” noted Strayer, “and
she never receives recognition
for her significant contribu-
tions to our community and
valley.”
T. Lund
Lund, director of music
for IVHS and Lorna Byrne
Middle School, should be rec-
ognized for working with his
students to provide music
“rain or shine or no matter
what the weather,” wrote
nominator Frick.
“The music continues to
improve, and the young peo-
ple really appreciate Lund’s
leadership,” Frick wrote.
Dan McLeod
McLeod, vice president of
I.V. Little League, was nomi-
nated by the group’s board,
and Moore.
“Dan is a very dedicated
community member who goes
above and beyond the extent
of many other volunteers,”
wrote the board. “He works at
Oregon Caves Chevron, and,
with his wife, shares the re-
sponsibility for raising their
two grandchildren.
“He can always be found
at a school, Little League,
church or any other commu-
nity activity. He is the former
president for Evergreen Ele-
mentary School PTA. We
could write a book about all
that Dan has done for our
community, young or old. No
matter what the need, you can
always count on Dan,” the
board noted.
Moore also outlined
McLeod’s community activi-
ties in many areas. He wrote
further that McLeod “is al-
ways upbeat and will always
make time to encourage and
let someone know that they
have done a good job.”
Pray for snow.
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beautiful, something that took
months of hard work and lov-
ing care to produce?
What kind of person brags
about destroying an irreplace-
able, one-of-a-kind creation?
What kind of person takes
pleasure in robbing our town
of something that the entire
community has come to love?
And what kind of person
would strike at the very heart
of our future; would under-
mine our dedication to bring-
ing forth in our valley the
beauty and creativity that will
invite good people to visit and
nurture those of us who live
here?
Our public art is our treas-
ure and our future. It is what
makes people stop and say,
“Look at that! This town is
special. The people who live
here really care!”
Did the people who took
the Coffee Heaven Angel start
by pulling flowers from a win-
dow box or taking a baseball
bat to a mailbox? Did you turn
your head or go along then?
Or laugh and share high fives?
Did they knock down a
stop sign or tear down a road
sign? Did you turn your head
or go along then? Or laugh
and shout, “right on!”
Then what kind of a per-
son are you? What kind of
town do you want to live in?
And what kind of person do
you want to be?
Someone knows who
steals an angel. Someone
knows who will surely do
something bigger next time. Is
it you?
Do you have the courage
to say “No!” to destruction in
your town? If so, you know
what do to.
Or, if an angel can change
a thief’s heart, we invite you
to bring her home. An angel
can live with a broken wing,
but not with a broken heart.
Love yourself and love
your town. Help bring good-
ness and joy to our future.
Rally ally
From Lynne Vanderlin-
den
Cave Junction
What a day. Loggers,
miners, farmers and just plain
folk have finally decided
enough is enough.
The Siskiyou Project sent
their children to do the scoff-
ing while their elders scuttled
behind parked vehicles across
the road videotaping the gath-
ering at the forest service.
It was uplifting to have
such a wide variety of speak-
ers, including past and present
commissioners, all in support
of salvage logging to save
Rough & Ready mill, our
socio-economic base and the
valley. Conspicuous by his
absence and thus openly
thumbing his nose at our sur-
vival, was Jim “Greenboy”
Brock, a steadfast ally of the
environmentalist movement.
Music rocked, signs
waved and flags flew. Walt
Freeman blew everyone away
with his “challenges” to the
community. Forest service
personnel were more than ac-
commodating. Hats off to Pam
Bode, our District Ranger,
who literally got thrown into
her own “trial by fire” last
summer.
We appreciate all who
were there. And do those who
drove by, honking and
thumbs-upping us in support
-- do they realize that they are
the real solution to this prob-
lem? It will take them (the
“someone who lets someone
else do something”) to make
the difference. Phone, write
and email our Oregon and
U.S. legislators; even those
(maybe especially those) we
didn’t vote for.
Demand that President
Bush declare Valley a Na-
tional Disaster area so the En-
vironmental Impact Study
(EIS) process can be waived
and we can get those dead and
dying trees out before they rot,
blow down or burn us out
again.
It can mean the difference
between putting our mill back
to work or turning Shop Smart
Food Warehouse into a con-
venience store.
But most of all - definitely
most of all - we need to ap-
plaud Jim Nolan. If it weren’t
for Jim, Ron Smith and the
People for the USA (PFUSA)
working so tirelessly and
without compensation to de-
feat a monument here, and
now drawing national atten-
tion to our present plight, we
would probably be right on
schedule for depopulation of
our valley via the Wildlands
Project.
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Taylor’s Own Smoked Hams - 1/2 or whole … $1.49 lb.
Taylor’s Lil’ Pig Links… $1.98 lb.
February & March Events - 6 to 9 p.m.
*Friday, Feb. 21 - ‘Rock & Roll’ with Imbas
Special - Prime Rib… $12.99
*Friday, Feb. 28 - Folk Jazzist Libby Goines
*Friday, March 7 - “Tamases” with Josh from L.A.
TAYLOR’S NOW SERVING DINNER
Thursday, Friday & Saturday
Open mic Thursday at 6 p.m.
Saturdays - Brian Alec Thom playing Showtunes at 5 p.m.