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Illinois Valley News, Cave Junction, OR Wednesday, July 14, 2004
BENEFIT BARBECUE - Five main dishes, in-
cluding a vegetarian choice, will be available at Tay-
lor’s Sausage Country Store on Saturday, July 17 dur-
ing a benefit for Illinois Valley Family Coalition. The
barbecue will run from 5:30 to 10 p.m. “Imbas” will
play Celtic music from 6 to 9 p.m., and the coalition
will hold a raffle drawing “of great prizes around 9
p.m.” Advance tickets are available at the coalition
office, 535 E. River St.
‘EXTREME’ FAMILY FUN - An I.V.
“Extreme” family event will be held Saturday, July 17
from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. at Jubilee Park in Cave Junc-
tion. Activities will include sports, board games, wa-
ter game competitions and more. Sign up for competi-
tion will begin at 10 a.m. There will be free live music
and food hosted by Cross Quest Expeditions and vari-
ous Illinois Valley churches.
WOMEN FOR SOBRIETY - An alternative
women’s recovery meeting, sponsored by I.V. Safe
House Alliance, will be held Wednesdays at 3:30 p.m.
in the Family Resource Center, 535 E. River St. in
Cave Junction. Women who cope with problems by
using drinking, drugs, food, gambling or spending are
encouraged to attend. Phone 592-2525 for more info.
FRENCH FEST - Chef Daniel LeGrand will pre-
pare a French dinner at Selma Community & Educa-
tion Center on Saturday, July 17 at 6 p.m. Seating is
by reservation only. Phone (541) 415-1000.
HEARTBEAT TOUR - A special Lovejoy Hos-
pice “Heartbeat Tour” of the care facility in Grants
Pass is offered to Illinois Valley residents on Wednes-
day, July 21 from 1 to 1:45 p.m. at 939 Eighth St.
Phone (888) 758-8569 for a free ride.
WEED TOUR - The Josephine County OSU Ex-
tension office will offer a free “Weed Tour: ID and
Control” class with Extension agents Steve Renquist
and Shelby Filley, and ODA Weed Specialist Ken
French on Thursday, July 22 at 10 a.m. The class will
last approximately three hours at Josephine County
Sportsman Park, 7407 Highland Ave. in Grants Pass.
Attendees can bring weeds for identification. Phone
(541) 476-6613 for more information.
NOTEPAD - A Dream Design display is at Blue
Moon Café in Downtown CJ during July. Survivors of
abuse, working with the I.V. Safe House Alliance,
have created and are selling jewelry using recycled
materials with the instruction and donation of the Arts
Council. The project “provides economic opportunity
and empowerment to the women the Alliance serves”
… Oregon Bankers Association recently elected
seven new board members including Robert Ward,
president/CEO of Home Valley Bank and Brady Ad-
ams, president/CEO of Evergreen Federal Savings …
Jean Shubert, of Cave Junction, won a hand-made
doll house in a raffle during last weekend’s alumni
reunion festivities … Holland Loop over Sucker
Creek likely will get a new bridge via an ODOT grant
of $1.7 million for it and two other projects out of the
valley ... Dome School Rangers program will receive
$8,109 from JoCo commissioners if they approve the
request Wednesday, July 14 … An I.V. Airport Busi-
ness Incubator project could receive $300,000 through
a USDA Rural Business Enterprise Grant Agreement
if JoCo commissioners OK it July 14.
LAST WORDS - Do not bite at the bait of pleas-
ure ‘til you know there is no hook beneath it. (Thomas
Jefferson)
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the enemy of Iraq is not
the United States.
Nor is the United
States the enemy of any
nation seeking a peaceful
co-existence on this planet.
We must also remem-
ber that the United States
is comprised of people
from all over the world, so
it is a good example of
what it appears many hu-
mans of the species are
seeking. Life, liberty, pur-
suit of happiness. And lots
of stuff.
By now it should also
be clear that there are those
of varying nature and de-
gree within the species that
would deprive us of these
ideals. And our stuff.
Saddam Hussein is
clearly one of those, and I
might add that anyone who
thinks the world was safer
before Saddam’s removal
is deluding themselves.
Are you safer sitting on a
time bomb because you
still hear it ticking?
The armed insurgency
in Iraq coming out of the
sand is comprised, it ap-
pears, of poor, frustrated,
hungry souls without much
hope; financed and armed
by the vampires of a dead
regime and whipped into
frenzy by Mullahs preach-
ing murder, mayhem and
by their acts insulting Al-
lah (as if) and all that is
good, with no intent what-
soever to the cause of a
peaceful world or a better
Iraq.
We must remember
that these demented,
twisted minds were always
just below the surface and
would have sooner or later
found a reason and a way
of attempting to legitimize
their existence, much the
same way that a great,
highly technical military
might wait for, or even
create an excuse to test
itself.
Whatever the hidden
agendas, world leaders
(huh?) might have, we the
people need to realize how
our everyday individual
lives and actions affect the
health of humanity and our
Earth.
While there is abso-
lutely no excuse for the
behavior of some of the
insurgents, it is not diffi-
cult to see how so much
animosity can exist toward
the United States. After all,
‘Buzziness’ a Selma plan ...
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lot of wood is being sold
privately to other compa-
nies outside Illinois Valley
that could otherwise be
turned into useable prod-
ucts locally.
“We hope to attract
people who are participat-
ing in sustainable forestry
practices on their prop-
erty,” he said. “Folks
would be able to get some
of the wood products they
need here rather than hav-
ing to go to Grants Pass.
“Proceeds from sales
would be used for projects
within our community and
aid continuation of SCEC.
“When we make a bid
to purchase the mill, and if
it is accepted, we will need
$75,000 for the down pay-
ment,” said Hunt.
Funding for the
$300,000 purchase still has
a long way to go. Addi-
tional money will be
needed to keep the mill in
operation. SCEC has been
seeking grants from
USDA, ECO Trust, and
other private sources.
There will be a meet-
ing Thursday, July 15 at 7
p.m. at SCEC to gauge
project support from the
community and gather in-
put as to how the mill
could be used by SCEC.
Building limits examined
Amendments to the
Rural Land Development
Code (RLDC) intended to
eliminate urban commer-
cial and industrial land
uses will be voted on.
The JoCo amendments
will be put before the plan-
ning commission for a vote
Wednesday, July 21 at 8
a.m. at the county court-
house in Grants Pass.
The amendments
would limit the size of new
structures within rural-
zoned boundaries. New
commercial uses would be
limited to 3,500 square
feet, and industrial uses to
40,000 square feet.
Representatives of the
Land Conservation and
Development Commission
(LCDC) met at Wild River
Brewing & Pizza Co. in
Cave Junction on Monday,
July 12 to discuss with
Illinois Valley residents
the possibility of adopting
amendments to the RLDC.
Among attendees were
Rep. Gordon Anderson (R-
Ore.), JoCo Commissioner
Jim Riddle; and commis-
sion candidates Dwight
Ellis and Jim Raffenberg.
Said LCDC’s Lane
Shudderly, “This decision
is based on a 1986 Curry
County court decision lim-
iting the options for urban
use of rural lands. This is
an issue that counties are
struggling with.
“The square footage
limitation is being imple-
mented as a way to define
rural and commercial land
use. You can’t have urban
use on rural land.
while most of the rest of
the world struggles desper-
ately for food and shelter,
Americans (not all) have a
tendency to mow down
and pave over their amber
waves of grain, and tear
down their purple moun-
tains majesty, and disgust-
ingly and embarrassingly
replace them with land-
fills and dumps.
May God bless us all,
including the United States
of America.
More Biscuit
From Russell Ehrman
Cave Junction
In last week’s issue
you printed my letter about
the Biscuit Salvage Plan.
In the same issue, a
letter-writer made the ac-
cusation that the current
increase in letters opposing
salvage is due to some
Greenpeace action.
I want to go on record
as saying that my letter is
not in any way inspired by
a group or organization.
I have done consider-
able research and have
concluded that the plan has
no basis in fact, and that all
significant claims by the
forest service are false.
To the following businesses for their
generous donations of time and
merchandise, and the special
attention given us making
Reunion 2004 a success.
Your support is truly appreciated.
* Blue Moon Cafe
* Carlos Mexican & Seafood Restaurant
* Cascade Auto (Mike Trinity)
* Cave Junction Cares
* Caves Pharmacy
* Century 21 Harris & Taylor (Jim Frick)
* Child’s Play
* Darn Near Everything
* Evergreen Federal Bank
* Foris Vineyard
* Hair, Face & Nail Place
* I.V. Building Supply
* I.V. Golf Club
* ‘I.V. News’
* I.V. Senior Center
* Jett Sett
* Junction Inn & Timber Room Lounge
* Rising Suns
* I.V. Select Market
* Shop Smart Food Warehouse
* Sterling Savings Bank
* Stevereno’s Family Restaurant
* Taylor’s Sausage Country Store
* The Tea Cozy/Book Exchange
* Treehouse Florist & Gifts
* Valley Bookkeeping
* Wild River Brewing & Pizza Co.
“Everything since (the
Curry County case) has
been a way to try to figure
out by definition what is
rural and what is urban,”
said Shudderly.
-Shane Welsh
Congratulations to Lacey Madden and
Kim Hamilton, Class of 2004, who received
our $1,500 academic scholarship and
$1,500 vocational scholarship.
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