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Illinois Valley News, Cave Junction, OR Wednesday, September 21, 2005
USFS, BLM
plan major
relocation
Two federal land man-
aging agencies, the Bureau
of Land Management and
U.S. Forest Service will
move from their current
office on Greenfield Road to
a new location on Spalding
Avenue in Grants Pass.
Approximately 180 em-
ployees of BLM’s Grants
Pass and Glendale Resource
Areas, in addition to forest
service employees in Grants
Pass, are involved.
This is a major move of
personnel, equipment, and
telephone and computer
systems.
During the move, the
Greenfield office building
will close to the public at the
end of business Thursday,
Sept. 22.
To ease the transition, a
temporary office trailer will
be located on the 200 N.E.
Greenfield Road parking lot
to provide for customer in-
formation and map services.
It will serve the public while
the office building on
Greenfield Road closes for
business from Friday, Sept.
23 through Friday, Sept. 30.
During this transition
the agencies phones will be
temporarily staffed by other
agency personnel unaffected
by the move.
On Oct. 3 BLM and
forest service will relocate
and occupy the new Grants
Pass Interagency Building at
2164 N.E. Spalding Ave.,
Grants Pass. The phone
number for Grants Pass In-
teragency Office will remain
the same, (541) 471-6500.
“Sharing office space
between the two agencies
will increase each other’s
opportunities to coordinate
our resource management
across agency boundaries
and improve public ser-
vice,” said Pam Bode,
Galice and Illinois Valley
District ranger, Rogue
River-Siskiyou National
Forest.
Details are pending for
a public open house in early
November.
Calif. vehicle
emission law
for Oregon?
Meeting times and lo-
cations have been deter-
mined for the Governor’s
Vehicle Emissions Work-
group established to study
the effects of adopting
California’s motor vehicle
emission standards in Ore-
gon.
The Oregon Dept. of
Environmental Quality
will provide background
and technical information
about the standards and
prepare briefing materials
for group work members.
The group is tasked
with providing information
to the governor on the
costs, benefits and impacts
of adopting in Oregon the
California motor vehicle
emission standards and
identifying the pros and
cons of implementing cer-
tain features associated
with the standards begin-
ning with the 2009 model
year vehicle.
All meetings will be
open to the public and will
feature time to address the
workgroup. Citizens wish-
ing to comment are en-
couraged to submit com-
ments through DEQ’s
Website at deq.state.or.us/
aq/aqplanninh/callev/
index.htm/.
Meetings in S.W. Ore-
gon will be held Oct. 2 and
6 at a location yet to be
determined.
Street chalk
artwork due
in city of GP
‘GREAT EMANCIPATOR’ ENJOYS ‘I.V. NEWS’- Cave Junction resident Denny Hare (left) shows a copy of ‘Illinois
Valley News’ to (from left) Manny Kinn and President Lincoln during a recent visit to Gettysburg, Pa. Hare and his
wife, Evie, went to the Washington, D.C. area to visit their son, Simon, who works as a lobbyist for the National
Rural Electric Co-op Association. (Photo provided)
‘Gas price gouging’ hit by Wyden and fellows
U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden
(D-Ore.) has joined fellow
Democratic leaders to fight
gas price gouging in the
wake of Hurricane
“Katrina.”
Measures called for by
U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell
(D-Wash.), Wyden
and
others would give the presi-
dent authority to declare a
national energy emergency
and strengthen the hand of
the Federal Trade Commis-
sion (FTC) when fighting
illegal price gouging that
hits Oregonians and all con-
sumers hard at the pumps,
said Wyden.
Before “Katrina,” years
of market manipulation by
oil companies artificially
inflated prices on the West
Coast of the United States;
Wyden said that he has
documented their anti-
competitive practices and
the FTC’s refusal to act on
consumers’ behalf.
Following the devasta-
tion of “Katrina,” skyrocket-
ing gas prices are having an
effect across the economy,
squeezing the budgets of
American families, hurting
farmers and businesses
alike, Wyden said.
“It’s taking the help of
all Americans to recover
from the hurricane, from
kids with lemonade stands
to families making dona-
tions and taking in strangers
-- all we’re asking the oil
industry to do is not to
gouge consumers, to stop
manipulating the market as
they have for years,” said
Wyden. “If the oil compa-
nies won’t step up in this
time of crisis, the FTC needs
to, and Congress has a duty
to make sure that happens.”
Proposals discussed by
the senators include:
*Congress should create
emergency authority at FTC
to investigate gasoline price
gouging if the president
makes an emergency decla-
ration in consultation with
the Energy Dept. and FTC.
Right now this authority is
only available in certain
states that have enacted anti-
price gouging legislation.
*FTC, an independent
regulatory commission,
should conduct the investi-
gation and would be author-
ized to fine companies for
price gouging vs. the more
traditional remedies such as
cease-and-desist orders and
requiring that companies
disgorge profits after the
fact. Definition of price
gouging would be done
through FTC rulemaking.
There should be no pre-
emption of state law.
*FTC should create a
Web site and toll-free num-
ber so consumers could re-
port price gouging.
According to data from
the federal Energy Informa-
tion Administration, na-
tional gasoline prices have
been averaging approxi-
mately $3.07 a gallon
-- or $1.22 higher than last
year, a more than 60 percent
increase. In Oregon, gaso-
I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth,
they can be depended upon to meet any national
crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
- President Lincoln -
line prices recently hit an
all-time statewide high.
Earlier this month, the
Congressional Budget Of-
fice (CBO) also released a
report on the projected eco-
nomic impacts of ‘Katrina.”
The report found that a
40 percent increase in prices
during September could
affect national “gross do-
mestic product” during the
third and fourth quarters of
this year. It called the spike
in prices “a temporary redis-
tribution of income from
consumers of gasoline to the
stockholders of refiners” --
in other words, reporting
that money is moving from
consumers’ pockets to oil
refiners’ profit margins.
Art Along the Rogue
Art and Music Festival is
looking for local and re-
gional, professional and stu-
dent artists to add their tal-
ents to its street painting
event on the Oct. 8 and 9
weekend on H Street in
Downtown Grants Pass.
Artists will receive spe-
cial pastel chalks for a draw-
ing of their choice, an 8-by-
8-foot space on H. They’ll
also receive food and water,
as well as art instruction.
Applications and more
information are available at
artalongtherogue.com.
The Art Along the
Rogue street-painting event
will feature two of the coun-
try’s best professional street
painters, Tracy Stum, of
Ventura, Calif.; and Ann
Hefferman, of Santa Bar-
bara, Calif. They will per-
form and demonstrate the
beauty of street painting
with pastel chalks.
A street-painting semi-
nar will be held Friday, Oct.
7 at 6 p.m. at the Firehouse
Gallery on Fourth Street.
This year Art Along the
Rogue will host as many as
50 artists and will offer $300
in total prizes for the Best
Student (under 18 years)
and the People’s Choice
awards.
For more information e-
mail or phone: Jeff Jones,
coordinator, (541) 488-
0178,
e-mail:
jrjones@opendoor.com.
“Unity in the Community”
Thank You for reinvesting in the
Illinois Valley Chamber of Commerce.
We are pleased to have the following as members and friends:
A+Mini Storage
American Medical Response
Art’s Red Garter Steakhouse
Bagel Junction
Blalock Insurance
Boys & Girls Club
Bridgeview Community Church
Bridgeview Vineyards Winery
Cascade Home Inspections
Carlos Restaurante
Cave Junction Lions Club
Cavenet LLC
Caves Pharmacy
Century 21 Harris & Taylor
Charter Communications
Citizens Communications/Frontier
City of Cave Junction
Clouser Drilling
Community Bible Church
Country Hills Resort
Crossroads Animal Hospital
Curves
Dairy Queen
Dave’s Outdoor Power Equipment
Dr. Joe’s Pet Hospital
Evergreen Federal Bank
Farmer’s Insurance/Irene Guerrero-Acevedo
Federal Paralegal Inc.
Fincher Farms
First American Title Insurance
Forest Edge Farm
Grants Pass Broadcasting
Great Cats World Park
Golden Dragon Gate Restaurant
Grants Pass Chamber of Commerce
Eye Care Group
Hart Insurance
Have Fish Will Swim
Hellgate Jet Boats
Holiday Motel
Home Towne Interiors
Home Valley Bank
It’s A Burl
I.V. Building Supply
Home Mortgage Solutions
IVCDO
I.V. Family Coalition
I.V. Baptist Church
I.V. Fire District
I.V. Golf Association
I.V. Medical Center
‘Illinois Valley News’
I.V. Fine Artists Inc.
I.V. Senior Center
Jefferson State Financial Group
Josephine County Commissioners
Junction Inn
Junction Realty
Kerbyville Museum
Lancaster Rolling Video
Lovejoy Hospice
Marty’s Tree Service
Merrill Pest Solutions Inc.
Mountain Man RV Park
Northwest Hairlines
Oregon Caves Chevron
Oregon Mt. Real Estate
Pacific Power
Redwood Hwy KOA
River Valley Restaurant
River Valley Village Homes
Riverside Physical Therapy
Rough & Ready Lumber Co.
Rusk Ranch
Select Market
Shady Acres RV Park
Shop Smart Food Warehouse
Siskiyou Community Health Center
Siskiyou Market
SOFCU
Sonrise Tile
Southern Oregon Guild
Southern Oregon Sanitation
Special Productions
Smith Barney, Nelson R. Maler
Sterling Savings Bank
State Farm Insurance/Grants Pass
Taylor’s Sausage
Ted Crocker Income Tax Service
Three Rivers School District
Trent Nestler & Associates
True Value Hardware
United Rentals NW Inc.
USF Reddaway Truck Lines
Valley Evangelical Free Church
Whispering Springs B&B
Wild Blackberry Festival
Wild River Brewing & Pizza Co.