Car show
Saturday
Inside:
Kerbyville Masons
150th mark due
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Free admission for
spectators; lunch,
breakfast available
Art, wine event
Kerby hosts
Friday program
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Lots of chrome, custom
paint and plenty of “show and
shine” will highlight the 10th
annual Antique & Classic Car
Show on Saturday, June 28 at
Jubilee Park in Cave Junc-
tion.
There is no entry fee for
spectators to attend the event,
sponsored by Cave Junction
Lions Club. Besides a big,
bright display of stock, cus-
tom and restored vehicles,
there will be entertainment by
Nicole Navarro & Band.
There will be a breakfast
by Kerby Masonic Belt
Lodge with biscuits and
gravy, pancakes, sausage and
scrambled eggs. Lunch by
City cop
CJ Council
ponders pact
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Selma seasonal
Farmers Market
open Sundays
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Powerful future
Energy-efficient
car developed
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System at
Caves has
good ring
Telephone service was
restored to Oregon Caves on
Thursday afternoon, June 19
after a nearly seven-month
interruption caused by theft of
more than a mile of telephone
cable in November 2007.
The main telephone
number for the National Park
Service at Oregon Caves Na-
tional Monument -- (541)
592-2100 is now active on a
limited basis -- as is the
phone number for the Cha-
teau at 592-3400.
“This has been a long
time coming,” said monu-
ment Superintendent Vicki
Snitzler. “It has been difficult
for visitors, the National Park
Service, the Natural History
Association and Oregon
Caves Outfitters, which man-
ages the lodging at the Cha-
teau along with food service
and the gift shop.”
The primary reason it
took so long was due to the
lack of access to the sites
needed to install a new type
of system during the snowy
winter months. As this was
the second time cable had
been stolen during the past
three years, replacement of
the stolen cable a second time
didn’t seem a good option.
A new microwave sys-
tem was chosen as the best
alternative. Even helicopter
access was considered to
reach these locations, during
the preceding month.
But overcoming the
problems would have been
difficult, expensive and
would have carried more risk
for installers and park mainte-
nance staff.
Oregon Caves mainte-
nance staff completed all the
site preparation work that
could be done ahead of time.
Then on Monday, June 16, a
seven-person National Park
Service telecommunication
team got right to work. Ore-
gon Caves maintenance staff,
SIS-Q Communications,
Frontier Telephone, C-2
Utilities, and the U.S. Forest
Service all contributed.
In many cases they
shifted their priorities and
worked extra hours to make
this happen.
The result is a new sys-
tem that carries voice and
high-speed data by micro-
wave -- and will be less ex-
pensive to operate than the
old system, saving taxpayer
money and at the same time
improving service.
For more information,
contact Steve Thede (by tele-
phone) at 592-2100, Ext. 225.
Two deaths resulted from a head-on collision on Hwy. 199 on
Sunday, June 22 between Kerby and Selma. Story on page 7.
(Photos by Illinois Valley News and Dale & Elaine Sandberg,
Illinois Valley Fire District Media Dept.)
A 2007 entry ( IVN photo)
Eastern Star will offer ham-
burgers and hot dogs.
Drawings for raffles and
50/50 awards also will be part
of the day. The day’s events
also will include T-shirt sales,
a bicycle raffle, soft drinks
and a number of craft booths.
Additionally, the Oregon
Lions Sight & Hearing Foun-
dation mobile unit will pro-
vide free preventative health
screening. Adults can obtain
screenings for visual acuity,
hearing, blood pressure, glau-
coma and diabetes (fasting
for three hours prior required,
although water and black
coffee can be consumed).
On page 3 is the CJ Li-
ons ad, which lists the hour-
by-hour schedule. The ad is
co-sponsored by Sterling Sav-
ings Bank and SOFCU Com-
munity Credit Union.
U.S. House
strips bill
for monies
Walden aims at major forest restoration
Said to be striking a bal-
ance between the need to
sustain forests, as well as bol-
ster the economy, U.S. Sen.
Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) late last
week proposed an expansive
overhaul of federal forest
practices throughout Oregon.
Wyden, chairman of the
U.S. Senate Subcommittee on
Public Lands and Forests,
estimates that his reforms
would approximately double
the timber harvest for
Oregon that has been
achieved annually since
President Bush took office.
Wyden’s initiative, he
said, would permanently end
logging old-growth trees and
discourage clear-cutting. At
the same time, he added, it
would place a new emphasis
on greatly expedited, large-
scale forest restoration efforts
to improve forest health and
create many thousands of
new jobs.
“For the sake of our envi-
ronment, economy, and our
way of life, we must come
unsound forest management
and fire suppression policies
have put millions of acres of
choked and plantation forests
at an unacceptably high risk
“It is past the time to take the recurring quar-
rels over old-growth forests ‘off the table’ ...”
together to pursue a concerted,
new focus on sustainable for-
estry management that will
create thousands of new jobs
and restore the health of our
forests,” Wyden said. “The
only way to produce this kind
of change is to put new ideas
forward, seek common
ground, and break away from
the old politics that led us to
this dysfunctional and danger-
ous situation.”
Wyden claims that
“decades of scientifically
for uncharacteristically severe
fires, disease, and insect in-
festation.”
Wyden’s proposal, the
Oregon Forest Restoration &
Old Growth Protection Act,
would address what he is
calling an emergency by:
*Requiring the U.S. For-
est Service and Bureau of
Land Management in Oregon
to redirect their management
activities to address fire and
insect risk, while protecting
environmentally sensitive and
significant land, and promote
continuing, sustainable pro-
duction of wood.
*Eliminating administra-
tive appeals for forest man-
agement conducted under
the new forestry directives.
*Allowing pilot restora-
tion projects of up to 25,000
acres in each of Oregon’s
national forests and BLM
districts in at-risk areas with-
out encountering years of
National Environmental Pol-
icy Act (NEPA) and adminis-
trative delay by issuing those
projects a “Categorical Exclu-
sion” from NEPA review.
*Lands designated as
“matrix” under the Northwest
Forest Plan would be required
explicitly to be managed for
economic and ecological
purposes.
Said Jerry Franklin,
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Second District Con-
gressman Greg Walden (R-
Ore.) said that he is
“extremely disappointed”
following the announcement
that the one-year extension of
county payments passed by
the Senate in the emergency
supplemental bill has been
stripped by House majority
leadership.
Dave Toler, chairman of
the Josephine County Board
of Commissioners, had simi-
lar feelings. He stated on Fri-
day, June 20:
“Obviously it’s very dis-
appointing for us O&C coun-
ties out west. The situation is
looking more and more bleak.
“Before Congress re-
cesses in August it’s looking
impossible that we would get
the money. We could still get
it after the beginning of the
fiscal year. We can certainly
use it; we’d have to do a sup-
plemental budget.
“We will continue to do
what we can,” he stressed.
“The county spends some
$60,000 per year in dues to
two different associations that
lobby Congress, and their
number-one priority is the
O&C money.”
Toler continued, “The
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