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Illinois Valley News, Cave Junction, OR Wednesday, October 1, 2003
Oregon big
winner in
agriculture
Carol Crawford and ‘Best Performance’ prize saddle
Pony Express ride ...
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a day or two off.
Crawford owned the
mustang before training
and selling it to a friend.
She borrowed ‘Energizer’
for the ride.
The duo’s efforts ulti-
mately paid off with the
Best Performance Award,
a hand-tooled trophy sad-
dle made by Anne George.
The award was based on
the horse that had gone the
most miles and was still
physically OK to continue
on.
Crawford said she had
no idea there was an
award, or that she had been
chosen until she was pre-
sented with the saddle.
And to think that
Crawford at one point
thought about not partici-
pating.
The adventure carried
a hefty price tag -- Craw-
ford said the overall cost,
including her expenses at
home while she was gone,
totaled around $13,000,
$9,000 of which her par-
ents gave her.
And there were other
concerns, such as finding
someone to help drive on
the trip and help hold
down the CJ fort in her
absence.
Although the final
month of the ride became a
bit tiresome and even gru-
eling at times, Crawford is
grateful she decided to par-
ticipate.
“You just want to keep
going. It was really hard to
end it,” she said. “What I
learned from the experi-
ence is to trust myself and
believe in myself.”
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Oregon is one of the
big winners among west-
ern states receiving federal
funds to increase agricul-
tural export opportunities,
said Oregon Dept. of Agri-
culture (ODA).
Nearly $400,000 will
help expand marketing
nursery products overseas,
educate Japanese buyers
on U.S. food safety pro-
grams, and boost the sale
of food ingredients in Ko-
rea.
ODA, which applied
for the money, will man-
age the various success-
fully funded projects.
The Western United
States Trade Association
(WUSATA) has allocated
the funds to ODA, passing
along federal money origi-
nating from the U.S. Dept.
of Agriculture’s Market
Access Program. Oregon
has nearly doubled the
amount of last year’s allo-
cation, and is near the top
among 13 member states in
the amount of dollars re-
ceived from WUSATA.
ODA officials credit
the “impressive list of pro-
ject proposals, as well as
past successful experi-
ences” with federal funds.
Oregon’s projects for
the coming year all are
geared to the prime Asian
markets of Japan, Korea
and Taiwan.
The list includes addi-
tional funding for develop-
ment of nursery exports to
Japan.
Nursery products re-
present Oregon’s largest
agricultural commodity
with a $714 million value.
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FCC blows radio station off the air
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“… We would like to
use the radio station to
help keep the community
coherent; put out emer-
gency and non-emergency
announcements; provide
educational programs and
forums…”
Klein also said TCA
wants to use the station in
conjunction with Dome
School to teach children
broadcasting skills.
Kacy Clement, a five-
year resident of rural Cave
Junction, said she was an
avid listener of the
Takilma pirate station and
misses it now that it’s
gone.
“It was our only sta-
tion if I wanted to know
what was going on with
local sports, weather or
emergencies,” she said.
Clement said the con-
tent of the latest station
was much improved over
the previous incarnation of
the pirate station.
“I noticed a difference
in the last time they got the
radio up,” she said. “They
did a very good job pre-
senting a well-rounded
show.”
Asked why she be-
lieved the station was shut
down, if the content wasn’t
an issue, she cited a larger
problem in the community
-- divisions over political
and environmental issues.
“This is my percep-
tion: It seems to be part of
those huge dividing fac-
tional feelings we have
here,” she said. “(The feel-
ing that) anyone on the
radio that is (presumed to
be) part of the Siskiyou
Project is unAmerican and
should not be allowed a
voice. Whether that is cor-
rect, I don’t know.
“I don’t care who has
it (radio station) as long as
we have community radio.
We need a way to commu-
nicate (instantly). I just
hope it happens.”
Bridgeview Commu-
nity Church in rural CJ
currently has the only local
radio station on the air.
The Christian-based sta-
tion runs 24 hours.
In a previous interview
for “Illinois Valley News”
about the Bridgeview radio
station, Pastor Charles
Bridges said the station
plans to provide local news
programs when its budget
allows.
Other applications
pending with the FCC for
small radio stations in Illi-
nois Valley have been sub-
mitted by Cave Country
Christian Radio Inc. of
Selma and Oregonians For
Responsible Conservation
Alliance based in Cave
Junction. It is unclear
when any of those stations
will be approved by the
FCC to go on the air.
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