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Page 3 Illinois Valley News, Cave Junction, OR Wednesday, October 6, 2004 (From page 2) LEGION ’HOP ’N’ ROCK - A “Swing, Hop & Rock Through the Decades” dance, featuring music from the ‘40s through the ‘70s, will begin at 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 9 in the Timber Room at Junction Inn in Cave Junction. There is a cover charge and door prize. Proceeds will sup- port youth and community activities of the sponsors, American Legion Glenn Morrison Post 70 and Auxiliary. HARVEST MARKET - Illinois Valley Family Coali- tion will hold its first Harvest Market on Saturday, Oct. 9 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The location will be the coalition site at 535 E. River St., across from I.V. Senior Center. Arts and crafts, plus plants, will be featured. Entertainment will be provided by vocalist Buster Vanderwoude from 9 to 11 a.m.; Native American flautist Samuel Kurtz from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.; and “Southern Oregon Blues Band,” 1 to 3 p.m. FLY THE SKY - Radio-controlled model airplanes will be featured at Josephine Sky Park, out Kerby Mainline Road, on Saturday, Oct. 9 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Atten- dees will be provided the opportunity to fly a radio- controlled model airplane. The free event is sponsored by Rogue Valley Flyers. MADRONE MONIES - Madrone Adventist Elemen- tary School will hold its annual fund-raising yard sale Sun- day, Oct. 10. It’ll run from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on the Junction Inn parking lot; weather permitting. COALITION CLASS - A class designed to help im- prove parenting skills will be offered on Mondays from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., Oct. 11 to Nov. 15, at Hamilton House, Coalition for Kids, 233 S.E. “M” St., Grants Pass. Regis- tration will close Friday, Oct. 8. Phone 479-1929 for more information. CAREGIVERS’ TOOLS - A workshop, “Taking Care of You: Powerful Tools for Care-giving,” will be of- fered Mondays, Oct. 18 to Nov. 22 from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at Lovejoy Hospice, 838 S.E. Eighth St., Grants Pass. This educational program is designed to help family mem- bers caring for older adults. Pre-registration is required. Contact Patty Martin at (800) 633-6409, or 474-3110, Ext. 287 to register or for more information. CAN SLAM - The Fall Recycle Roundup is scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 23 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Illinois Val- ley Visitor Center. This will be an opportunity to recycle cans, newspaper, magazines, phone books, catalogues, cardboard, paper bags, mixed paper, tin cans, aluminum foil, and plastics numbers 1-7 (opening smaller than base). No glass will be accepted due to handling difficulties. Dur- ing the spring event, more than 4.3 tons of recyclable ma- terial was collected. SMART READERS - Volunteers are needed one hour a week to read to children at Evergreen Elementary School. SMART, Start Making a Reader Today, is a state- wide nonprofit program that matches adults with children in kindergarten through third grade. Kids in SMART can discover that it’s fun to read and show more interest in learning. To volunteer contact Jennifer Marsden at 955- 3759. Information about the SMART program also is available online at www.getsmartoregon.org. NOTEPAD - Overheard: One teen-age girl to an- other, “She thought Vienna was in Italy, and I had to tell her that it’s in France! Plus, the guy canceled his wedding, and now he’s really old, about 30” … Movie Night at Bridgeview Community Church is set for Saturday, Oct. 9 at 6:30 p.m. Refreshments and fellowship will follow … “News from Iraq” is the theme for a talk during an All- Congregations Evening Service on Sunday, Oct. 17 at Takilma Bible Church. The speaker at 6 p.m. will be for- mer valley resident and Evergreen Elementary School teacher, Janet Johnston, who’s been a missionary in Iraq for the past 10 years … Ray’s Food Place, owned by C&K Market Inc., which also operates Shop Smart Food Warehouse in Cave Junction, has been honored with the inaugural Rising Star Award. It was given by Certified An- gus Beef LLC for Ray’s successful launch of the Certified Angus Beef brand … Singles Alive is the title of a gather- ing held Sundays from 3 to 5 p.m. at Bridgeview Commu- nity Church … Two atoms meet. One says, “I’ve lost my electron.” The other says, “Are you sure?” And the first replies, “Yes, I’m positive … Do you know how to make holy water? Answer: Boil the hell out of it. LAST WORDS - Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunder- stood. (H.L. Mencken) Monday, Sept. 27 *11:35 a.m., medical aid, 3400 block Lakeshore Drive. *11:42 a.m., medical aid, 4900 block Holland Loop. Wednesday, Sept. 29 *9:30 a.m., medical aid, 200 block W. River St. *11:32 a.m., motor vehi- cle accident (MVA), 300 block Caves Hwy. Thursday, Sept. 30 *1:43 p.m., brush fire, 2000 block Thompson Creek Road. *5:13 p.m., smoke inves- tigation, 16900 block Red- wood Hwy. *7:06 p.m., medical aid, 200 block S. Redwood Hwy. *10:04 p.m., medical aid, 200 block Schumacher Street. Friday, Oct. 1 *2:49 a.m., MVA, 17300 block Redwood Hwy. *7:54 p.m., MVA, same locations as previous. Saturday, Oct. 2 *3:50 a.m., medical aid, 1100 block Idlewild Drive. *11:43 a.m., fuel spill, 200 block S. Redwood Hwy. *4:42 p.m., medical aid, 800 block Caves Hwy. Sunday, Oct. 3 *11:25 a.m., medical aid, 400 block S. Redwood Hwy. *3:16 p.m., medical aid, 200 block S. Redwood Hwy. Got Ideas? Need Funds? New Micro Loan Funding Available Now!! QS?? 592-4440 First Round of Apps Due: Friday, Oct. 22, 2004 *IVCRT is an Equal Opportunity Lender *We want to help! *Everyone encouraged to apply: start-up, existing, home-based or other business enterprise. Applications at I.V. Library, Selma Video, O’Brien Country Store, I.V. Family Coalition, CRT office not disclose to you the studies that have been done on triclopyr. I am not sure that they are even aware of these studies. They are simply happy knowing that Oregon Dept. of Environmental Quality and the Dept. of Agricul- ture have approved their use of Garlon-4. Visit the Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides web page on t r i c l o p y r a t www.pesticide.org/ triclopyr.pdf for more ex- tensive information. Trees Inc. can be told to not spray on your prop- erty. This will not leave the power lines endangered by the trees. It is Trees Inc. job to maintain trimming of the trees if you opt for no spray. I also think that people should phone Pacific Power and Trees Inc.; and ask them to stop spraying completely. If ground wa- ter is as easily contami- nated by TCP as the EPA states it to be, then we are all at risk for contamina- tion whether Garlon-4 is sprayed on our property or not. Contamination could come from our neighbors’ property or from city drinking water. Illinois Valley is my home. It is home to my children, my family and my friends. The valley is home to many others, their children, their loved ones, as well as to every member of this community that we don’t know. I feel we have a re- sponsibility to our commu- nity and each other to pro- tect not only our valley, but also our neighbors from the consequences that may come from this herbi- cide spraying. Bush ‘best’ From M. Sharp Selma By choice, I never fol- lowed television news or political ads until this year, but now I watch quite a lot. Maybe that’s why some things have really amazed me, like when the primetime newscast on one station carried its report of a speech (by one of the featured speakers at the Republican National Con- vention) in closed caption, yes, closed caption, and the commentator was speaking while that was running by. But they followed it with well-prepared views of military events such as were referred to, and by Sen. Kerry himself com- menting. There seemed to be no problem in getting that out, and I thought, “Are they that afraid of letting us actually hear and see that speaker?” On a later newscast, we saw and heard the speaker. It was not a secret event. More recently, when that fellow from Iraq was giving an address to Con- gress, the newscaster pre- positioned the event as political, to favor the presi- dent, etc., and gave the sense that his words had no value. As the speaker fin- ished, they faded in an uni- dentified person (probably Iraqi) commenting that it wasn’t so. The commentator ob- viously gave no credit to the things the speaker said, and made a point of pre- paring the viewers to have like-response. Another thing I saw, run as a news report, was a new political ad of Kerry. It was run smaller, like a background, but was quite complete. Later I began to see some of those ads run in the background as news reports, but they said, “Political Ad” below them. Even then, it’s usually bits and pieces of the presi- dent’s while Kerry’s may be complete. Most of the time, the newscasts I see pre- position our minds to view the president as having questionable motives, stag- ing tricks, wrong use of his office, etc. They don’t do that with Kerry. What he says and does is given in quite an upbeat, matter-of-fact way. Do those media peo- ple really suppose that we don’t think? Do they think we’ll believe something just because they put the right flavor on the speaker? Well, I’m hoping and praying that they aren’t right if that’s what they think. And I think that President Bush is by far the best choice. ‘Political ads’ From Bill Reid Cave Junction In last week’s “Illinois Valley News,” there were two full-page ads, one pur- porting to be a letter from a serviceman who had served in Iraq, and the other an ad for a documen- tary film that stated it should be viewed before voting. Both full-page ads were either sponsored or associated with the same person. Knowing that full- page ads are expensive, I did a little research and found the following. *The film in Selma was produced by Media Education Foundation, a nonprofit organization. Guess who is on its board of advisers? Naomi Klein, Noam Chomsky and Robert McChesney. These are the same folks who are quoted in the newspaper ad, giving flowing reviews for the film. *This nonprofit or- ganization spent more than 50 percent of its expenses on compensation, salaries and employee benefits. *Julian Bond, the film narrator, is a well-known, left-leaning antiwar activ- ist. Here is a quote from the “Washington Times” concerning Bond’s thoughts on Republicans: “Republicans appeal to the dark underside of American culture, to that minority of Americans who reject democracy and equality.” I’ve thought that a nar- rator was supposed to be impartial and just tell the facts. Apparently, Bond has his own set of facts. The dictionary defines duplicity as hypocritical, cunning or deception, dou- ble-dealing. That is just what both of these ads are. To be truthful, they should have labeled them- selves political ads. ‘ Insane’ From William Schneider Cave Junction As a recovering alco- holic, Mr. Bush should know that in order to fix a problem, one must first acknowledge the problem exists. Whether it be alco- hol, inflexibility, lying, drugs, whatever. One definition of in- sanity is to do the same thing over and over and expect different results. The track record of the sitting president screams for change. Are we as a nation insane? 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