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Illinois Valley News, Cave Junction, OR Wednesday, October 6, 2004
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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.
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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?
If you walked into a
store, slapped down $29.95
for a nicely packaged box
of whatever to share with
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