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Illinois Valley News, Cave Junction, OR Wednesday, August 27, 2008 Page 5 CJ mayor to rebut Courier ‘attack’ A rebuttal to a three-part newspaper series, Living on the Edge, CJ’s Fight With Crime, will be submitted to the Grants Pass Daily Courier by Cave Junction Mayor Tony Paulson. Paulson agreed to write a response to the series during the city council meeting Monday night, Aug. 25 in city hall. He was urged to do so by Councilman Don Moore, who also is president of the Illinois Valley Cham- ber of Commerce. The series, which ran Thursday through Saturday, Aug. 21 through 23 “lambasted and treated us unfairly,” Moore said Mon- day night. He referred to the series as “an attack.” The mayor, who was quoted in one of the articles that included a color photo of him, told the council that he had not read the series. “I feel you were mis- quoted,” Moore told the mayor, “because you would not have said those things.” Moore added, “This is serious” because “no one would want to move here” after reading the articles. “Come on, Don,” re- sponded the mayor, “who gives a rip what they think?” Paulson said that some people have asked him if he had seen “how they ripped us,” but that no one is going to move be- cause of the articles. Moore contends that the series makes it appear that Cave Junction “is the bastion of all the troubles in Jose- phine County. It was bad. “It was terrible, and the chamber manager is going to write a letter to the Courier,” he stated. In another matter during the meeting, which lasted approximately 30 minutes with an audience of two per- sons, the council voted 5-0 to conditionally approve a three- lot land partition for Jerry Sommers. The property at 130 S. Sawyer Ave. contains 31,363 square feet of space. The three parcels will comprise square footage of 11,758, 11,985 and 10,071. Sommers said that he plans to build “affordable housing some- time down the road.” The 11 conditions include that all utilities will be under- ground, a well on one parcel will be disconnected, and all lots “shall be graded and drained to prohibit storm run- off impact to adjacent lots.” The council also heard from City Recorder Jim Polk that questions remain related to a reservoir in connection with a Kerby Water District project. A workshop was held recently, but apparently the questions remain of whether a reservoir is needed, and if so where it should be located. The council also received information from Michael Bollweg, the city’s lead treat- ment operator, regarding “volatile content” from a sep- tic service. Bollweg wrote the service that two such loads have been accepted, but that no others will be taken. The material apparently came from a location on E. River Street. Bollweg wrote that, “The volatile content of the load was excessive. Large amounts of grease. “The microscopic exami- nation showed waste that was literally void of microlife and full of unstabilized material.” He wrote that further loads from the location could be accepted under certain condi- tions, which he specified for the septic service. More than 600 personnel from several agencies are involved in battling the Wild Rivers Complex wildfire. The Horse Mountain Fire, some 15 miles north of Cave Junc- tion, is the only actively burning blaze remaining. Lake Selmac is being used as the incident command post. The complex is at 739 acres; 55 percent contained. (Photo above by I.V. News ; at left by William Freeland) Oregon Rural Congress aims to remedy area economic difficulties By SCOTT JORGENSON Special to IVN Approximately 240 citi- zens from southern, central, western and eastern Oregon converged Thursday, Aug. 21 for the first Oregon Rural Congress (ORC), at the Port of Cascade Locks some 40 miles east of Portland. Union County Commis- sioner Colleen MacLeod helped organize the event. In opening remarks, MacLeod said that the ORC aim is to devise solutions for the prob- lems plaguing rural Oregon and forward them to Gov. Kulongoski and the Legisla- ture. As background informa- tion, MacLeod told partici- pants that the Eastern Oregon Forum started 10 years ago had evolved into the Eastern Oregon Rural Alliance (EORA). She noted that the last Oregon legislative ses- sion was not good for rural parts of the state. She cited the “de-funding” of the Office of Rural Policy and rural ini- tiatives as examples. In February, MacLeod said, EORA began outreach efforts to other similar groups throughout the state, including the Southern Ore- gon Resource Alliance and the Coastal Coalition. MacLeod insisted that the ORC emphasis is educational, not revolution- ary. She also characterized the bad policies currently Evergreen school lists supplies Evergreen Elementary School has provided a Stu- dents Supplies List for the 2008/09 school year. Parents are responsible for supplying the following: Kindergarten (Kindergarten supplies will be put into community buckets so they are not to be labeled for individual chil- dren) -- Backpack, 1 box wash- able colored markers, 2 Pink Pearl erasers, 1 box Crayons, 1 bottle white glue, 4 glue sticks, 1 box Kleenex First Grade (Supplies will be put into community buckets so they must not be labeled for indi- vidual children) -- Backpack, 4 Pink Pearl erasers, 8 glue sticks, 1 bottle white glue, 2 boxes Crayons (1 box of 8/other box your choice), 1 pair scissors (pointed Fiskars are best), 1 box colored pencils, 2 dozen yellow pencils, 1 box Kleenex, 1 tray watercolors, 1 package baby wipes, 1 bottle hand sanitizer. Second Grade Backpack, 2 bottles white glue, 1 yellow high- lighter, 2 boxes colored pen- cils, 1 box colored Crayola markers, 4 Pink Pearl erasers, 4 large glue sticks, 1 box Crayola crayons, 1 pencil sharpener with cover, 2 fold- ers with pockets, 1 pencil box (5-by-8 inches), 1 dozen pen- cils, 1 scissors, 1 spiral note- book with 100 pages, 1 tray Back-to-School Supplies Now in Cave Junction River Mountain Printing 200 W. Lister Street 592-4116 watercolors, 1 box Kleenex. Third Grade Backpack, 4 Pink Pearl erasers, 1 box colored mark- ers, 1 12-inch ruler, 1 pair scissors, 1 box Crayola cray- ons, 1 tray watercolors, 1 spiral notebook, 1 box col- ored pencils, 2 large glue sticks, 2 boxes crackers (class snack), 1 box Kleenex, 2 boxes pencils (all students will share). Fourth Grade Backpack, 1 box Cray- ons, 1 box colored markers, 2 dozen pencils, 1 pair scissors, 2 yellow highlighters, 1 box colored pencils, 2 large glue sticks, 2 pencil sharpeners with covers, 4 Pink Pearl erasers, 1 large bottle of white glue, 1 ruler, 1 red pen, 1 blue pen, 2 boxes Kleenex. Fifth Grade Backpack, 1 box colored markers, 2 yellow high- lighters, 1 ruler, 1 calculator (for teachers Tammy Griffis and Carlie Wiley), 3 large glue sticks, 2 Pink Pearl eras- ers, 1 pair scissors, 1 box col- ored pencils, 1 protractor, 2 pencil sharpeners with cov- ers, 1 spiral notebook with 100 pages, 2 colored pens (any color except black), 1 box Kleenex, 2 dozen pencils. IVHS Activities Calendar Brought to you by the folks at 592-3556 Cave Jct. 469-7545 Brookings 471-7487 Grants Pass Need someone to watch your Precious One? Helping Hands Day Care is here Hours: 7:30am-5:30pm M-F For more info contact Cindy 541-592-4923 helpinghandsdaycare@gmail.com 773-7487 Medford FRIDAY, AUG. 29 * Soccer - IVHS at Phoenix Jamboree Varsity boys: TBA Junior Varsity girls: TBA * Football - IVHS at Myrtle Point High School Varsity: 7 p.m. TUESDAY, SEPT. 2 * Soccer - IVHS vs. Mazama Varsity boys: 4 p.m. * Volleyball - IVHS vs. S. Umpqua High School Junior Varsity girls: 5:15 p.m. Varsity girls: 6:30 p.m. harming rural parts of the state as unintended conse- quences, rather than mali- cious intent. “We are in danger, folks,” MacLeod said. “(But) we’re going to fix these things.” The first group discus- sion involved natural resource issues. In terms of water rights, one participant sug- gested their free transfer and allowing new out-of-stream use in times of surplus. Douglas County Com- missioner Marilyn Kittleman proposed having the state lobby the federal government to allow more logging. Other proposed solutions to natural resource issues in- cluded changing the poor federal management of forest- lands and a call to eliminate a ban of offshore drilling on the coast, and using the money raised to fund county ser- vices. Grants Pass resident Jim Frick, of Southern Oregon Resource Alliance (SORA), suggested that the state sup- port Alternative 2 of the Western Oregon Plan Revi- sion. Jack Swift, also of SORA, called for county con- trol of federal natural re- sources. Rural access to high- speed Internet and cell phone service was also an issue. Suggestions for health care included tuition waivers for health-care personnel to commit to rural areas; the bolstering of mental-health services; allowing small busi- nesses to join forces to form health-care purchasing pools; and providing incentives for small businesses to voluntar- ily provide health care to their employees. Regarding economic development, ideas included oversight for the state’s ad- ministrative rules, work force development training, and more Enterprise Zone desig- nations. A lack of “shovel- ready industrial land” in rural areas was listed as a top eco- nomic concern. A discussion on general, (Continued on page 13)
