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Page 2 Illinois Valley News, Cave Junction, OR Wednesday, April 6, 2005 My stuff keeps disappearing. Then sometimes it reappears in places where I already looked for it. This is most distressing, which is a nice way of saying that it ticks me off and gives me a royal pain -- somewhere. It’s a household malady that also affects my wife, Jan. Just the other afternoon she was looking for a book that she had been reading that morning. She looked in our bedroom. In both bathrooms. In the room we use as a library. In the living room. In the kitchen. Not there. The book disappeared off the face of the Earth. A little eerie. Even spooky. So I looked for the book. I literally checked our library shelves four separate times, and then proceeded in that room to look under the couch, on the window ledge, in the closet, and in the dresser. Then under the dresser. No book. I went through the entire house, including the guest closet and the garage. No book. We thought maybe senility had smacked us or that we were simply unobservant. Then we became suspi- cious of our 16-pound Siamese, “Bubba.” It would be just like him to hide the book and think it was real funny. You know, cat humor. I questioned him to no avail. Then our son, Mike, came over. We told him about the missing book. He took pity on his aging parents, what with our tears of frustration, not to mention the gnashing of teeth. He looked around the house, under the living room couch cush- ions, and so on. No book. Then he decided to check the library. I told him that his mom and I both had exhausted the space, but he went in any- way. (He’s stubborn from Jan’s side of the family.) I went in after him. As he began checking the right side of the book- cases, I again looked from the left side. On the second shelf I checked, there was the book. In plain sight. Dang! How could it have been there the whole time and neither Jan nor I see it? Frankly, I think I heard diabolical laughter from tiny voices in that room. You know, gremlins or leprechauns, or those strange crea- tures who keep taking stuff from kitchen drawers and putting them in another place, or rearranging all our stuff in the draw- ers. Thus, when we look for Scotch tape, it’s not there. But the creatures have replaced it with thumbtacks. If I were looking for thumbtacks, they would have replaced them with tape. Weird. Same situation holds true with a storage cabinet in the garage. Whenever I try to find, say, a hammer or pliers I know I put in there a few days earlier: They’re gone! Instead, there’ll be a level or a screwdriver that I don’t need. Sometimes I spin around real fast to see if I can catch the gremlins watching me, but they always hide too fast. But I still can hear their giggling. Maybe those goblins have stock in some stores. For ex- ample, if I can’t find, say, a box of finishing nails, despite tear- ing apart the house and drawers trying to find the ones I know I have, I’m forced to buy more. Then when I’m ready to put away the new box, I open the cabinet, and viola! -- there are the eight other boxes of finishing nails from previous “can’t find” situations. Frankly I’m weary of always looking for stuff that was there a short time earlier. Now, where did I put those car keys ..? Pain - Stress - Injuries Deep massage - CranioSacral Therapy Monday - Friday by appointment Senior Discounts - Gift Discounts Illinois Valley News An Independent Weekly Newspaper Co-owned and published by Robert R. (Bob) and Jan Rodriguez Bob Rodriguez, Editor El Jefe Entered as second class matter June 11, 1937 at Post Office as Official Newspaper for Josephine County and Josephine County Three Rivers School District, published at 321 S. Redwood Hwy., Cave Junction, OR 97523 Periodicals postage paid at Cave Junction, OR 97523 Post Office Box 1370 USPS 258-820 Telephone (541) 592-2541, FAX (541) 592-4330 Volume 68, No. 3 Staff: Kacy Clement, Becky Loudon, Michelle Binker, Nina Holm Consulting, Shane Welsh. Advertising Design Consultant - Wonder Dog Graphics Member: Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association DEADLINES: News, Classified & Display Ads, Announcements & Letters 3 P.M. FRIDAY (Classified ads & uncomplicated display ads can be accepted until Noon, Monday with an additional charge.) POLICY ON LETTERS: ‘Illinois Valley News’ welcomes letters to the editor provided they are of general interest, in good taste, legible and not libelous. All letters must be signed, using complete name, and contain the writer’s address and telephone number. The latter need not be published, but will be used to verify authenticity. The ‘News’ reserves the right to edit letters. One letter per person per month. Letters are used at the discretion of the publisher. Unpublished letters are neither acknowledged nor returned. A prepaid charge may be levied if a letter is inordinately long in the editor's opinion. POLICY ON “HERE, THERE & EVERYWHERE,” DISPLAY & CLASSIFIED ADS & NOTICES: All submissions must be hand delivered, faxed or e-mailed to us for publication. Submissions must be resubmitted each week if the item is to run for more than one week. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One year in Josephine County - $20.80 One year in Jackson and Douglas Counties - $24.40 One year in all other Oregon counties and out-of-state - $28 POSTMASTER: Please send address changes to P.O. Box 1370, Cave Junction, OR. 97523 (Editor’s Note: Views and commentary, including state- ments made as fact, are strictly those of the letter-writers.) * * * Typed, double-spaced let- ters written solely to this news- paper are considered for publi- cation. Hand-written letters that are double-spaced and legible also can be considered. Cards of thanks are not accepted as letters. * * * ‘Great article’ From Melanie Tehan Selma Project Linus thanks Christina Hill for the great article in the March 23 issue of “Illinois Valley News.” She did a fantastic job. I shared it with the group, and several members wanted copies. Some com- mented that another newspa- per didn’t even give us a paragraph, even though a photo and information were provided. We appreciate Christina and “Illinois Valley News.” Our group is impressed. Death penalty From Catherine Austin Cave Junction I recently saw the movie, “The Passion of the Christ.” Besides showing the graphic brutality that Jesus endured, all the while praying for forgiveness for his perpetrators, I was left with two strong messages of what Jesus stood for. First, he told his follow- ers that his one command- ment to them is to love one another as he loves them. Second, that the reward is in loving your enemies, for it is easy to love those who al- ready love you. Sounds like pretty straightforward stuff to me. I don’t consider myself a reli- gious person, but I can defi- nitely understand this, and appreciate it, without partici- pating in any organized churches or religions. After all, it was the church of the time that persecuted Jesus. I am deeply troubled by the trend, with our current Administration in the White House, to claim alignment to Christian faith while uni- laterally starting wars, vio- lating human rights on de- tainees (torture), and execut- ing prisoners domestic and abroad. While Bush was governor of Texas more than 150 Americans were put to death in his state; he did not stop a single one. With all the obsession over the Terri Schaivo case by the government, the ma- jor media, and the religious people, there is an enormous crying out that, “It is better to err on the side of life.” People have been put to death who were later found to be innocent. The United States is one of a minority of countries (like Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, North Korea, and China) left in the world today that still have a death penalty, or conduct torture. Perhaps we have more in common with those we claim to be our enemies than we realize. ‘G-Dub’s great’ From Elaine Horn Cave Junction What a great resource we have here in our valley. I feel very lucky to have G- Dub’s shop in Cave Junc- tion. I had a minivan with a wheelchair lift in it, and every time I had a problem with the lift I had to go to Medford or even Klamath Falls to get it repaired -- until I discovered that G- Dub could repair just about anything. When he repaired the wheelchair lift, it stayed fixed. So when I recently bought a new/used van and needed the old wheelchair lift taken out of the minivan and installed into the newer full-sized van I called G- Dub first. But I also called two other businesses that specialize in accessible vehi- cle modifications. One said they could do the job for about 50 percent more than G-Dub’s quote, if I got both vehicles to Med- ford; and the other person finally got back to me al- most two weeks later after I had called twice and sent an e-mail, quoting me a price more than four times G- Dub’s quote. And again, that is not taking into consideration getting both vehicles to a shop more than 100 miles away. Of course I’m writing to say that G-Dub did an amaz- ing job, and I could not be happier with his work. The 13-year-old wheelchair lift is working as smoothly as it did when it was new. In my opinion, he is a real genius when it comes to electron- ics. As a matter of fact, G- Dub picked up both vehicles and delivered them back to my house. As a person with a disability on a very limited income I appreciate a job well done at a reasonable price. In this age of technol- ogy, where everything changes so quickly, we of- ten aren’t given the option to fix something when the newer, brighter, faster, smarter and more expensive replacement is so easily ob- tained. Let’s save the land- fills and our budgets. Let’s support our local business. When you need electronic work or some- thing needs to be repaired, phone G-Dub’s Enterprises. Skip & Liz Leahy 315 S. Redwood Hwy., Cave Junction 592-2212 Open Mondays through Fridays 2 to 7 p.m. Saturdays 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Cave Junction store only valid month of April We’re happy we made the Switch! “My friends and I made the switch to Frontier High-Speed Internet.Why? Because we wanted SPEED fast enough to do everything we want, GREAT SERVICE, and the same RELIABILITY we’ve been getting from our phone service for years. And switching from cable Internet was easy. 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