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Illinois Valley News, Cave Junction, OR Wednesday, June 23, 2004
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VIETNAM MEMORIAL - The National Viet-
nam Memorial “Moving Wall,” dedicated to those
who died in service during the Vietnam War, will be
on display at Riverside Park in Grants Pass from
Thursday, June 24 through Sunday, June 27.
FOOTBALL BAKE SALE - Lorna Byrne Mid-
dle School football team is having a car wash, bake
sale and yard sale at Sterling Savings Bank in Cave
Junction on Saturday, June 26. The Vikings need
clean items for the yard sale. For pick up or donation,
contact Sarah Nichols at 592-6142 or Lola Reynolds
at 592-4572.
FAMILY FLY DAY - Rogue Valley Flyers are
having an Open House at the Josephine Sky Park, 905
Kerby Mainline Road, on Sunday, June 27 from 10
a.m. to 2 p.m. There will be opportunities to try the
controls of a radio-controlled airplane or learn more
about Rogue Valley Flyers. There will also be a raffle
drawing for a radio-controlled airplane.
NOTEPAD - I.V. Senior Center is having a yard
sale on Saturday, July 3; see ad in this issue...Oregon
Tourism Commission is offering free customer ser-
vice training. Register by Thursday, June 24 by phon-
ing IVCRT at 592-4440...
LAST WORDS - A hero is no braver than an or-
dinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
(Ralph Waldo Emerson)
cost taxpayers more than
$40 million.
The forest service
wants to help the forest
recover. It doesn’t need
our help, it’s already re-
covering naturally. Reports
show that the Siskiyou Na-
tional Forest has a poor
success rate in reforesta-
tion attempts in areas with
living trees that provide
shade. Some areas show
six of seven trees they
planted died.
If salvaged, the Biscuit
area will become a virtual
desert. The reports also
show a history of excess
damage to live trees and
high levels of slash left
which increases fire dam-
age.
I support the Siskiyou
Restoration Plan that re-
tains the ecological integ-
rity of roadless areas and
old-growth reserves; em-
phasizes restoration work;
and allows harvest of up to
26 million board feet while
creating 400 long-term
jobs.
Park controversy
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
592-2195
200 W. Lister
From Ellis Couron
Cave Junction
I have watched with
interest the controversy
between the I.V. Lions
Club and the city of Cave
Junction over the property
known as Jubilee Park.
On one side, we have
the city that claims from its
records that there is no
evidence of the Lions Club
ever having any say over
the property or facilities at
the park.
On the other side we
have the Lions Club,
which claims it is what’s
left of the Jubilee Park As-
sociation (JPA).
We know that JPA
deeded the park to the city
because the city managers
say that is true, but they
refuse to recognize that
JPA and I.V. Lions Club
are one and the same. The
reason I suspect this is that
the city is afraid it might
lose some control of the
park (the lathe house), and
besides there is that pesky
$250 monetary benefit that
could get lost.
I have known Irv
Whiting since he took over
supervision of Pacific
Power in this area from
Larry Musil way back
when. I saw him recently
at the Cave Junction Post
Office, where he told me
that he came here from his
retirement home in Ari-
zona to support the claims
of I.V. Lions Club.
Most of you might
remember Irv, who served
as mayor of the city a time
or two,and as a county
commissioner, and who is
a very nice guy, whom I’m
sure came all this way just
so he could tell lies to the
city managers about the
transfer of the park to the
city.
In the June 16 issue of
“I.V. News,” I see where
the city managers are cry-
ing about vandalism at the
CJ Pool and city landscape
and bemoaning the fact
that the residents should
get involved in protecting
city property.
They have even of-
fered a reward for informa-
tion leading to the arrest of
the culprits. A reward they
want to collect $250 at a
time, from those charity
organizations already try-
ing to help the city, no
doubt.
A slamming door
From Roger Brandt
Cave Junction
U.S. Forest Service
officials, politicians and
timber advocates continue
to talk about benefits of
salvage harvesting in the
Biscuit Fire Recovery Pro-
ject while avoiding any
mention of how the harvest
plan will permanently
handicap the travel indus-
try in S.W. Oregon.
Even though the loss
to the travel industry in-
volves $40 million every
year, the subject of tourism
in the Biscuit Fire Recov-
ery Project has been
avoided with a stubborn
tenacity.
This overprint of si-
lence equally seals out any
mention of grass-roots ef-
forts to use the Biscuit Fire
as an extraordinary oppor-
tunity to contribute to a
sustainable economic fu-
ture for the community and
S.W. Oregon.
The Biscuit Fire man-
agement staff is well aware
of these grass-roots efforts,
but their interest in work-
ing with local communities
seems to be as easily
swayed as a horse team
with little flexibility to go
anywhere but where they
are directed.
As a result, the project
now lunges ahead with a
selected handful of passen-
gers enjoying the ride as
they roll over to the travel
industry, an economic sec-
tor repeatedly identified as
the number-one business
development opportunity
in Illinois Valley.
You don’t have to wait
for the dust to settle to re-
alize that the Final Envi-
ronmental Impact State-
ment is a document that
indisputably and officially
excludes travel industry
enterprise as a significant
partner on public lands.
The members of our
S.W. Oregon community
who will be affected by
this exclusion include a
multitude of hospitality
and related service busi-
nesses.
This not only applies
to residents in our immedi-
ate community, but to
businesses located along
all travel routes feeding
into the Hwy. 199 corridor
in Oregon and California.
These residents are
equally entitled as any
other industry to the use of
public lands for their in-
come, and if the Biscuit
Fire management team was
serious about creating a
“balanced” document they
should have devoted the
same energy toward under-
standing the economic
needs of the travel industry
with as much enthusiasm
as was invested in the
wood products industry.
Residents in Cave
Junction, who have been
working on tourism plan-
ning for the valley, tried to
help the forest service with
this responsibility by pro-
viding written information,
taking field trips and meet-
ing with the forest service.
They tried to help it under-
stand what parts of the Bis-
cuit Fire burn needed to be
set aside for tourism devel-
opment, a request that had
no significant effect on the
immense resources consid-
ered for release to the tim-
ber industry.
Travel proponents
asked for a small piece of
the Biscuit, and were
barely given a crumb.
The Biscuit Fire plan-
ning team not only disre-
gards the travel industry,
but supports a proposal to
permanently obliterate a
travel story of compelling
national significance and
importance to tourism de-
velopment.
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EVENTS:
*Thursday, June 24:
UBA
with host Fred Epping
Dinner Special:
Fish & Chips with Cole Slaw - $7.95
*Friday, June 25: Uncle Fluster - 4-piece string band
Dinner Special:
Shrimp & Sirloin - $10.95
*Saturday, June 26:
Dinner Special:
Pork Medallions with Plum Sauce - $8.95
Sunday, June 27:
Dinner Special:
Fried Chicken with Mashed Potatoes and Gravy - $7.95