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Illinois Valley News, Cave Junction, OR Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Small retailers bottled up
Small retail stores may
now accept fewer return soft
drink bottles and cans from
customers under changes in
the redemption section of
Oregon’s Bottle Bill, said
Oregon Liquor Control
Commission (OLCC).
Under provisions of
Senate Bill 707, signed into
law earlier this year, retail-
ers with less than 5,000
square feet of space may
decline to take more than 50
returned containers per per-
son per day.
However, stores with
5,000 square feet or more
still are required to take 144
containers a day. Retailers
must post signs with this
information in areas where
containers are returned.
After Jan. 1, 2009, de-
posits will be required on
bottled water containers, and
stores will make refunds for
returns. More information is
a v a i l a b l e
a t
www.oregon.gov/OLCC.
Grants Pass Caveman Coin Club
presents
42nd Annual
Coin, Currency, & Stamp Show
Josephine County Fairgrounds
Saturday & Sunday,
September 22 & 23
9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
FREE Admission - PRIZE Drawings
Plenty of art was displayed for the auction. (Photo by Jennifer Newsted, Illinois Valley News)
SMART fund-raiser at Bridgeview results in $4,100+
A wine-tasting and art
auction fund-raiser at
Bridgeview Vineyards Win-
ery raised more than $4,100
for the Start Making A
Reader Today (SMART)
program at Evergreen Ele-
mentary School.
Several local artists and
vendors donated items for
the auction, as well as wine
and hors d’oeuvres for
SMART.
Sale!
A big selection of
newsprint roll-ends
is available at the
I.V. News office.
Come and get them.
SMART started 15
years ago in Portland, and
seven years ago at Ever-
green Elementary.
“Currently the goal at
Evergreen is to enroll 60
students in grades K-3, and
we are hoping to enroll
more” said Julie Brimble,
Chautauqua program on punishment set at Selma Center Saturday, Oct. 6
Public executions were
held in many Oregon cities
little more than a hundred
years ago.
Men, women and chil-
dren congregated to watch
convicted criminals hang
from gallows erected in
fields. When it was common
for stockades to hide the
actual event, thousands
watched and waited outside
the walls.
In a state known for its
peaceful, agrarian commu-
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FILMS
October
WORK
SHOPS
18, 19, 20
& 21, 2007
Grants Pass
Oregon
INTER-
VIEWS
www . rogueindependentfilmfestival . org
Speak Up! Lecture Series presents:
Denise Brown speaking
about Domestic Violence
Part of International Domestic Violence
Awareness Month, this event will raise
capital to help bring a safe house to the
Illinois Valley.
Enter to win the stunning “Opportunity
Quilt” donated by local quilters who
contributed quilt blocks. Each block is as
unique as the woman who made it.
nities, what caused such
events to be accepted and
even celebrated? How is it
that many of our state’s
roads, buildings and parks
Diane L. Goeres-Gardner
bear the names of those in-
volved in those executions?
On Saturday, Oct. 6 the
Selma Community & Educa-
tion Center will host fifth-
generation Oregonian Diane
L. Goeres-Gardner to discuss
the evolution of punishment
and justice. Her topic will be,
“Justice in Frontier Oregon,
1851-1905,” an Oregon
Chautauqua (adult educa-
tion) program from the Ore-
gon Council for the Humani-
ties (OCH).
The program will be
free and open to the public
at 1:30 p.m. at Selma Cen-
ter. Wild West attire is en-
couraged. Additional infor-
mation is available from
597-2007.
The speaker will ex-
plore changing attitudes and
perceptions -- from the 1850
hanging of Native Ameri-
cans during the Whitman
Massacre, to 1905, when the
last execution in Oregon
outside a state penitentiary
occurred.
By understanding the
heritage and burden of this
history, Goeres-Gardner
feels that we are better pre-
pared to consider questions
of justice that currently con-
front us.
OCH is an independent,
nonprofit affiliate of the Na-
tional Endowment for the
Humanities dedicated to the
belief that knowledge and
ideas are fundamental to the
health of communities.
OCH funds Chautauqua
programs through the state.
(Editor’s Note: The pre-
ceding was provided by the
principals involved in the
Oct. 6 program.)
Crocker Financial Services
The sister of Nicole Brown Simpson brings a
message of non-violence to Southern Oregon.
Phone: 541-592-3667
Denise Brown
has devoted her
life to ensuring
that her sister did
not die in vain
Saturday, Oct. 13, 7 p.m.
Grants Pass High School Performing Arts Center
830 N.E. Ninth St.
(Doors open at 6 p.m.)
Admission $25.00
The campaign to
build a safe place
for the victims of
domestic violence
in the Illinois Valley
Volunteers read for one
hour each week with chil-
dren who are reading below
their grade level, and need a
little boost. Those interested
in volunteering can visit
www.getsmartoregon.org or
phone 734-5628.
-Zina Booth
‘Hang ‘em high’ was cry in old Oregon
Rogue
Independent
Film Festival
Tickets for the event and
the quilt raffle on sale now.
area manager for SMART.
“The program starts in mid-
October, if we can get more
volunteers, we can read to
more kids.”
Children receive two
books each month during
the seven-month program,
funded by donations.
Contact Iris @ 541-592-4147
for tickets and info.
Illinois Valley
Safe House
Alliance -
More Than
a Safe Place
Suri
Futures
Alpaca
Farm
will be open
Sat. and Sun.
Sept. 29 & 30
from 10-4.
You’re invited
to come visit a
working al-
paca farm.
At the west
end of River
Street on the
North side of
the road.
Cave
Junction