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Illinois Valley News, Cave Junction, OR Wednesday, April 13, 2005
I.V. Airport
incubator
work due
An engineering contract
for the planned business incu-
bator building at Illinois Val-
ley Airport was among
agenda items for the Jose-
phine County Board of Com-
missioners during its meeting
Wednesday morning, April
13 in Grants Pass.
The $25,170 cost is to be
paid by a U.S. Dept. of Agri-
culture Rural Business Enter-
prise Grant. The contract
would be with T.J. Bossard
Consulting Engineers Inc., of
Grants Pass.
The business incubator is
a project of I.V. Community
Development Organization,
which has been working on it
for some time as part of its
efforts to spur the economy.
The incubator would provide
a central location with various
services and shared facilities
for new businesses or others
wanting to be involved.
In a related matter, a
meeting with Bill Watson, of
the Federal Aviation Admini-
stration (FAA), will occur
during June or early July, said
Josephine County Commis-
sioner Jim Raffenburg, who is
the county board’s liaison
person with the I.V. Airport
Advisory Board.
The advisory board has
suggestions and concerns
about planned changes at the
former Siskiyou Smokejum-
per Base.
Raffenburg said it ap-
pears that at least one build-
ing, thought by many to be
historic, will not be relocated.
But some trees, along Airport
Road at the end of the run-
way, that pose a sight prob-
lem for aircraft will be re-
moved, possibly by the end of
April, he noted.
He said he’s hopeful that
trees in the camping and pic-
nicking area can be saved.
Raffenburg added that
FAA possibly has funds
available to add certain safety
lights at the airport.
Bond ‘match’ proposed
FIRE PLAN OFFICIAL - The Illinois Valley Fire Plan became an official document
Wednesday, April 6, as representative principals affix their signatures in a ceremony
at Cave Junction City Hall. (From left) Mark Sorensen, Josephine County Planning
Dept.; Bob Schumacher, executive director of Illinois Valley Community Develop-
ment Organization; Chief Harry Rich, of Illinois Valley Fire District (IVFD); Don Smith,
director of Siskiyou Regional Education Project; Cave Junction Mayor Tony Paul-
son; IVFD Fire Marshal Jerry Schaeffer; and Don Bellville, of Illinois Valley Ranger
District. The plan is a tool for education and standards for fire safety, said De Spell-
man, IVFD fire prevention coordinator. Copies are available at IVFD headquarters.
(Photo by Dale & Elaine Sandberg/IVFD photographers)
Aware Fair
set at RCC
EMERGENCY RESPONSES by Illinois Valley Fire Dis-
trict (IVFD) and American Medical Response included
a Volkswagen ‘Thing’ fully involved in flames Monday,
April 11 on Eight Dollar Road; and a rollover accident
on Westside Road near Finch Road reported Sunday,
April 10. No one was around the crash. Details regard-
ing both incidents were unavailable. (Top photo by
Dale & Elaine Sandberg/IVFD photographers)
Car assault
suspect held
A 17-year-old Grants Pass
boy suffered severe, multiple
injuries after a motor vehicle
was intentionally backed over
him, said Grants Pass Dept. of
Public Safety (GPDPS).
Arrested Sunday, April 10
on a charge of first-degree as-
sault and placed in Josephine
County Jail was Billy
Swearingen, 19, said GPDPS.
According to GPDPS:
Officers responded at 2:45 a.m.
to the 200 block of S.W. Rogue
River Avenue to check a report
of a vehicle vs. pedestrian acci-
dent.
The unidentified boy, who
was bleeding heavily from his
legs, was being treated by med-
ics from American Medical
Response and the GPDPS Fire/
Rescue unit.
Injuries to both legs in-
cluded a broken right femur;
lower, open fractures to his left
leg, and abrasions to his body.
He first was taken to Three
Rivers Community Hospital in
Grants Pass. After evaluation,
and based on the severity of his
injuries, he was airlifted to Ore-
gon Health Sciences University
in Portland.
Rogue Community Col-
lege will host the third annual
Be Aware Fair on Friday,
April 22 in Grants Pass.
April is Sexual Assault
Awareness Month, and the
fair is part of the college’s
continuing efforts to provide
information about abuse and
healing.
The Be Aware Fair is
scheduled from 8:30 a.m. to 3
p.m. on the Redwood Cam-
pus in the Student Center/
Cafeteria. The title of this
year’s event is, “Shedding
Light on the Issues of Women
in Society.” For more infor-
mation phone 955-7323.
“The goal is to unite
campus and community
members around the issues
that are facing women and
girls in our community with a
strong emphasis on abuse and
healing,” said Virginia Cook,
an AmeriCorps member, who
is coordinating the Riverside
Campus event.
Cook said that work-
shops will address issues of
abuse, empowerment, and
self-care and will be appropri-
ate for college and high
school students, as well as
teachers, community agency
members, and the public.
There is a registration fee
of $5 to $20 on a sliding
scale, and scholarships are
available.
The state would issue
bonds to “match” bonds
approved by school district
voters if a proposed consti-
tutional amendment, HJR
11, heard by the House
Revenue Committee, is re-
ferred by the Legislature and
approved by voters in the
May 2006 primary election.
Oregon School Boards
Association and Oregon
Education Association ap-
peared in support. No fur-
ther action by the committee
is currently scheduled.
Chiefly sponsored by
Rep. Dave Hunt (D-Oak
Grove) and Sen. Ben West-
lund (R-Tumalo), HJR 11
authorizes the state to issue
general obligation bonds,
with proceeds to be placed
in a capital matching fund
for school districts that have
received voter approval for
general obligation bonds.
State Treasurer Randall
Edwards told the committee
in written testimony,
“Oregon’s schools continue
to struggle to maintain and
modernize existing facilities
and to keep up with popula-
tion growth.”
Edwards noted a 2001
secretary of state audit that
pointed to $2.4 billion in
deferred maintenance costs,
including facility problems,
old mechanical and electri-
cal systems, damage from
leaking roofs, warped and
buckling floors, classrooms
with poor ventilation, con-
demned and crumbling
buildings, and the presence
of hazardous materials.
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CJ annexes county ‘island’
By MICHELLE BINKER
Staff Writer
Cave Junction grew a
wee bit during a regular meet-
ing of the Cave Junction City
Council Monday night, April
11 in city hall.
With a 4-0 vote, the
council approved an applica-
tion for annexation of a 1.6-
acre parcel on Raymond
Street, off Hamilton Avenue.
Councilman Russell Ehrman
arrived too late for the vote.
The council then passed
two ordinances, one pro-
claiming the annexation of the
property, and another amend-
ing zoning map boundaries to
reflect the change.
The former “island” of
county land is now zoned
Single-Residential.
The status of Raymond
Street itself remains un-
known. The tiny dirt road
originally was deeded as a
public right-of-way. How-
ever, neither the city nor the
county lay claim to it.
City Recorder Jim Polk
said that the street would not
be accepted by the city “until
it is brought up to city stan-
dards” by a future developer
or coalition of property own-
ers. Or, he added, if the city
“bites the bullet to get it
done.”
In the meantime, jurisdic-
tion is in doubt.
Also during the meeting,
the council approved one re-
quest to use a CD player, and
another to use a public ad-
dress system, during use of
facilities at Jubilee Park later
this year.
The Oregon house voted
Monday, April 11 to extend
unemployment benefits to Ore-
gon workers whose benefits
have expired.
House Bill 3305 now will
move to the Senate for approval
before going to the governor.
The bill would provide an
additional 6 1/2 weeks of emer-
gency unemployment benefits to
those who exhausted their regu-
lar benefits on or after Dec. 1,
2004.
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