Illinois Valley News, Cave Junction, OR Wednesday, July 14, 2004
Page 5
Volunteers provide rounded Rangers program
all of Cave Junction; two
grandparents, Richard and
Dorothy Allen, of O’Brien;
and a daughter, Shelby
Linden, with his fiancé,
Amanda Allen, also of
Cave Junction.
Jessie E. Goodwin
Joshua Isaac Allen
Cave Junction resident
Joshua Isaac Allen, 22,
died Thursday, July 7,
2004 as the result of a mo-
tor vehicle accident.
A memorial service
will be held Sunday, July
18 at 11 a.m. at Rough and
Ready Park in Cave Junc-
tion with Lydia Welcome
officiating. A potluck
lunch will follow.
Hull & Hull Funeral
Directors is in charge of
arrangements.
Memorial contribu-
tions can be made at Home
Valley Bank in Cave Junc-
tion in the name of Joshua
Allen. He had no insur-
ance, according to a report.
Mr. Allen was born
July 28, 1981 in Anaheim,
Calif. He lived in Alturas,
Calif. for 16 years; and for
the past seven in Cave
Junction, where he gradu-
ated from Illinois Valley
High School in 2000.
He loved the outdoors
and mountains of Oregon
and Northern California.
He enjoyed hunting, fish-
ing and four-wheel driv-
ing. He also loved building
items of wood and metal.
Said his family, “He
was the best father to his
baby girl, Shelby Linden
Allen. He was wonderful
to everyone who knew him
and would give his last
dime to anyone in need,
which was often.
“Mr. Allen,” continued
his family, “was loyal and
honest; treating his fiancé,
Amanda, like a queen. He
worked hard to supply eve-
rything his family needed.
He always had a smile, and
his girls were his pride and
joy.”
He is survived by his
parents, Darrell and
Corinne “Cory” Allen; a
sister, Mechelle Northrup,
Distance awakens
longing; closeness is
belonging. Yet they are
always in a dynamic
interflow with each
other. When we fix or
locate them definitively,
we injure our growth.
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Takilma native Jessie
E. Goodwin, 86, of Grants
Pass, died Monday, July 5,
2004 at Rogue Valley
Medical Center in Med-
ford.
Visitation was held
Thursday, July 8 at Hull &
Hull Funeral Directors
Chapel in Grants Pass.
A funeral service was
conducted Friday, July 9 at
Hull & Hull with Pastor
Cliff Meyer officiating.
Private interment was at
Laurel Cemetery.
Remembrances may be
made to the American
Cancer Society, Josephine
County Chapter, 31 W.
Sixth St., Medford OR
97501.
Mrs. Goodwin was
born Jessie E. Eggers on
Sept. 18, 1917 in Takilma
in Illinois Valley. On Sept.
25, 1935 in Grants Pass
she married Clarence C.
Goodwin, who preceded
her in death. She lived in
Illinois Valley until 1957
when she moved to
Eureka, Calif., where she
earned a nursing creden-
tial.
In 1965 she moved to
Grants Pass, became nurs-
ing certified in the state of
Oregon, and worked for
Dr. Forsgren at the Grants
Pass Clinic until her retire-
ment in 1973.
She especially enjoyed
the outdoors, including
bird-watching, gardening,
and walking in the woods.
She was also an accom-
plished painter with many
paintings displayed in her
home. She was a member
of the Neighborhood
Church.
Survivors are a son,
John Goodwin, of Grants
Pass; a brother, Herman
Eggers, of Cave Junction;
a sister, Frances Gray, of
Nice, Calif.; a grandson;
and
four
great-
grandchildren.
Say you saw it
in the ‘Noose’
By SHANE WELSH
Staff Writer
* * *
(First of two parts)
The Takilma Dome
School Rangers have been
going strong for more than
seven years, providing
educational after-school
activities for Illinois Val-
ley youth.
Sarah McDonald, di-
rector of the Josephine
County Commission for
Children and Families,
started the program in
1996 at Evergreen Elemen-
tary School in Cave Junc-
tion.
When the success of
the program was realized,
the idea was carried on to
Takilma Dome School.
Dave Toler, former
Dome School administra-
tor, is in charge of the
Dome School Rangers pro-
gram, which took up its
new home in April 1997.
Some people may have
the impression that the
program is for Dome
School youth only.
Throughout the history of
the program, the majority
of those attending are from
Evergreen Elementary,
Lorna Byrne Middle
School, or home-schooled,
Toler said.
There are many after-
school programs whose
mission is to give children
a positive place to go after
school.
What’s unique about
Dome School Rangers is
that, “We used research by
SEARCH Institute, ‘40-
assets,’ a nationwide study
of thousands of youth, to
develop our program,” said
Toler.
That was the heart of
the Rangers design: to
build the critical assets in
younger children so that
they can avoid at-risk be-
haviors which usually get
them into delinquency.
By implementing some
of the 40 assets developed
by SEARCH, the Rangers
program could demon-
strate the benefit of having
a place for youth to go af-
ter school to prevent delin-
quent behavior. With
measurable results, future
funding would be easier to
obtain.
“When you’re identi-
fying an ‘at-risk’ kid at the
age of 6, it’s not the same
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Rangers build bat houses. (Shane Welsh photo)
at the age of 16; we’re not
talking about kids that are
out on the street getting
into trouble,” said Toler.
“We work with kids 6
to 12,” he said. “At 13,
some of them become as-
sistants, but for the most
part, we don’t have the
resources to help teens, so
we have to let them go at
that age. Usually, though,
they are ready.
“We serve all kids at
that age; not just the ones
determined to be at risk for
delinquent behavior. We’re
not an at-risk program
only.
“Individual plans are
designed around the at-risk
kids, to make a program
that will help them build
their assets, whether they
are school performance
assets or personal and so-
cial assets,” he said.
The SEARCH study
showed that the program
didn’t need all 40 assets to
work. It showed that for
the assets to work, the pro-
gram must contain a criti-
cal level of 16 to 20 assets.
With just 20 assets being
developed, the chances of
a child becoming delin-
quent later in life decreases
considerably.
Toler explained, “We
needed to design a tool that
could not only implement
the 20 assets into the pro-
gram, but could measure
the results to help obtain
future grant funding.
“We established a
baseline with the help of
staff and teachers that
could track progress of
children in the program.
“We ask asset-related
questions, such as how are
kids interacting with oth-
ers, or tendencies to not be
able to resolve issues.
Once the baseline is estab-
lished, we use that data
further down the road to
determine where the child
has developed within the
program,” he said.
The other part of the
assets implemented relates
to academics. There are
several of the assets that
have to do with success in
schools.
“We take academic
records from every school
they attend,” said Toler,
“and measure or build a
tutor program that uses the
school records to work on
the weak spots to try to
improve and ensure a
child’s success in school.
“We really emphasize
engagement. Your child
can come here and receive
tutoring in math, reading
and writing, and a variety
of other educational activi-
ties,” said Toler.
Rangers participate in
making arts and crafts such
as paper Mache, ceramics,
and many other art pro-
jects. During the holiday
season, some kids even
make gifts for friends and
parents.
There is even a learn-
ing incentive for kids who
participate in the program.
For each completed assign-
ment, a child can earn 50-
cents to $1. At the end of
the year, the money is
given to the kids to use on
anything they desire.