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Illinois Valley News, Cave Junction, OR Wednesday, June 21, 2006
Campaign planning for library district
topic of June 26 meeting in CJ branch
An open meeting with
library supporters “to review
campaign plans to build sup-
port for a real library in Jose-
phine County,” and consider
how to possibly contribute to
the community initiative will
be held Monday, June 26.
The public meeting will
begin at 6:30 p.m. in the Illi-
nois Valley Branch Library on
Palmer Street off Hwy. 199 in
Downtown Cave Junction.
Due to a lack of available
funding, the county has re-
duced operating hours county-
wide. The I.V. Branch now is
open Mondays and Tuesdays
from noon to 5 p.m.; Wednes-
days from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.;
and Saturdays from 10 a.m. to
1 p.m.
The gathering June 26
will be led by Cessa Vichi,
director of the county library
Get the lead
out per DEQ
Some $17,600 in penal-
ties have been levied against
the Medford Rifle and Pistol
Club Inc. by Oregon Dept.
of Environmental Quality
(DEQ).
The fines are for haz-
ardous waste violations re-
lated to mismanagement of
large accumulations of lead
waste debris at the club’s
facility in Central Point,
according to DEQ.
The club has until June
21 to appeal. The penalties
stem from a Jan. 19 DEQ
hazardous waste inspection
of the gun club’s facility.
DEQ inspectors discov-
ered several large outdoor
piles of sand and bullet de-
bris, remnants of the club’s
cleanup of its indoor shoot-
ing gallery bullet traps. Sev-
eral of the piles were as high
as 3 feet and as long as 12
feet. Overall, the piles con-
tained approximately 17
tons of lead-contaminated
debris, said DEQ.
DEQ noted that the club
was aware of the dangers of
lead poisoning, and even
had posted articles on its
bulletin board. The club had
obtained a bid on how to
properly dispose of the lead-
containing waste.
When receiving infor-
mation on the cost, how-
ever, the club decided it was
too expensive, so it decided
to handle the waste on its
own, according to DEQ haz-
ardous waste officials work-
ing on the case.
By choosing to dispose
of the waste on its grounds
instead of at a permitted
hazardous waste facility, the
club exhibited a “reckless
lack of regard” for the threat
the waste posed to ground-
water, wildlife and other
elements in the environ-
ment, DEQ officials said.
Being ready
for disasters
important
Oregon is taking steps to
plan and prepare for a devas-
tating earthquake and tsu-
nami, and the state wants
citizens to do the same.
Oregon state agencies
recently joined federal, re-
gional, state and local part-
ners to test emergency plans
with an earthquake and tsu-
nami exercise, Pacific Peril,
at Camp Rilea near Warren-
ton on the Oregon coast.
“The West Coast is at
risk for a massive earthquake
and tsunami wave,” said Rose
Gentry, Emergency Opera-
tions manager for the Oregon
Dept. of Transportation and
one of the exercise partici-
pants.
“This exercise will allow
emergency managers and
planners at all levels to work
together on strengthening our
planning, preparation and
response,” she said.
Pacific Peril participants
were the U.S. Dept. of Trans-
portation, the Dept. of Home-
land Security/FEMA, the
Dept. of Defense, the U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers, the
U.S. Navy Third Fleet, the
Center for Asymmetric War-
fare, the British Columbia
Provincial Emergency Pro-
gram, the states of Washing-
ton, Oregon, California and
Alaska, utilities, the American
Red Cross, country and city
governments, and other emer-
gency response agencies.
The exercise tested these
agencies’ abilities to work
together to coordinate re-
sponse, recovery and repair
efforts in a large-scale natural
disaster.
The exercise was one of
many planning and prepared-
ness initiatives that will occur
throughout the Pacific North-
west this spring. These efforts
serve as “a great opportunity
to promote personal emer-
gency preparedness and en-
courage Oregonians” to:
*Get a kit of emergency
supplies.
*Make a plan for what
they will do in an emergency.
*Be informed about what
might happen.
For more information,
visit one of these Websites:
www.oregongeology.com,
www.ready.gov, and
www.prepare.org.
system, with Whitney Lard,
Bill and Carolyn Kohn, Joe
Momyer, Susan Cohen, and
Bill Peterson.
“At the meeting we’ll
explain what will be happen-
ing each month between now
and November, how we’ll
organize to get the work done
and how people can contrib-
ute,” said Vichi.
She listed examples of
ways people can help:
*Provide leadership for
the new library district by
offering to serve on the li-
brary board of directors.
*Offer to allow district
supporters to list you as a
supporter of the Library Dis-
trict Project.
*Participate on the com-
munications team to help get
the word out.
*Join the group of
“responders” who will be
organizing to get answers to
citizen questions quickly and
accurately during the cam-
paign.
*Work on fund-raising
projects to raise the money
that will be needed for adver-
tisements, signs, brochures
and media coverage.
*Serve on the Speakers
Bureau, giving talks to com-
munity groups.
*Participate in a voters
registration drive, and the get-
out-the-vote effort.
Help on the Community
Voice Team that will be lis-
tening to voters and providing
insight to the communications
team.
*Contribute graphic art
support for campaign materi-
als.
“If your talent is Website
management or content de-
velopment, those also would
be helpful,” said Vichi. “Or,”
she added, “if you’d simply
like to fill in wherever a need
arises, that would be great
also.”
For more information
contact Vichi at 592-3291, or
Lard at 218-5656.
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