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Page 3 Illinois Valley News, Cave Junction, Ore. Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2009 Hundreds gather for protest in GP (Continued from page 1) DOME HOPE - Dome School will present Hope Mountain Barter Faire 2009 on Friday, Saturday and Sun- day, Sept. 18, 19 & 20 at 3833 Holland Loop Road, (some 5 miles east of Cave Junction off Caves Hwy.). The gather- ing will feature live music, dancing, giant puppets, skills- share workshops and a kids village. Gates will open at 10 a.m. The Barter Faire is a benefit for Dome School, a non- profit cooperative school in Takilma. See the ad elsewhere in this issue. GIVING LIFE - “Something so Big” is the theme for a fund-raising banquet Saturday, Oct. 3 for the Pregnancy Center of Illinois Valley. The event, catered by Phil Aria, of O’Brien, will be held at I.V. High School. Reservations are requested by Wednesday, Sept. 23 by phoning 592-6058. The keynote speaker will be Thomas Glessner, a lawyer and president of the National Institute of Family & Life Advo- cates. LUCKY DUCKY - Based at Riverside Park, the seventh annual Grants Pass Rogue Duck Derby will be held on Sat- urday, Sept. 26. Duck entry adoption forms are available in Illinois Valley at Bi-Rite Auto Parts, SOFCU Community Credit Union and Home Valley Bank. Prizes include a $15,000 Alaskan fishing trip or a $10,000 home entertainment-and-furniture package; a Southern Oregon get-away package featuring lodging and meals; a “coffee-a-day” pass for a year from Dutch Bros.; one-of-a-kind artwork; and much more. The event, which has raised funds to renovate athletic fields at high schools in Josephine County, is presented by the Grants Pass Rotary Club Foundation. ‘FORE’ THE KIDS - Boys & Girls Club of Rogue Valley will present its second annual “Golftoberfest” on Saturday, Oct. 10 at Illinois Valley Golf Course. The event is co- sponsored by Home Valley Bank and the Eye Care Group. Food, fun, raffles and prizes including a $10,000 hole-in-one are up for grabs. Register by Oct. 1. Phone 592-4771 or download a registration form at www.bgcrv.com. HOME GAME NOTES - IVHS Cougar JV and varsity football squads will play consecutive league games at home on Friday, Oct. 9 and Oct. 30, said Robin Jackson, IVHS athletic secretary. JV games will begin at 4 p.m., fol- lowed by the varsity. Jackson stated that there will be an admission fee to view the JV games, but that attendees will not be charged again for the varsity contests. Students 6 and younger are admitted free if accompanied by a paying adult. Only adults and opposing team representatives will be allowed to leave between games, Jackson said. Also, only unopened beverages are allowed to be brought onto the school grounds, she said. BLUES BENEFIT - Southern Oregon Blues Society will present Women Sing the Blues, a benefit for the Women’s Crisis Center on Saturday, Oct. 10 at the Grants Pass Per- forming Arts Center. The Red Hot Blues Sisters & B Wishes are to perform. Tickets are available in Cave Junction at Home Valley Bank; in Grants Pass at Bank of The Cas- cades, Listen Here Music, Grants Pass Chamber of Com- merce, and Larry’s Music and the Music Co-op in Ashland. NOTEPAD - Rogue River Roundup Western music and arts festival will be held Friday and Saturday, Sept. 18 & 19 at Phoenix High School. Regional musicians, cowboy poets, artists and crafters are to be featured. Phone 601- 2584 for more information ... Grape Stomp 2009, spon- sored by I.V. Chamber of Commerce, will be held Satur- day, Sept. 26 at Bridgeview Vineyards Winery. Hors d’oeuvres and refreshments along with grape-stomping tunes by Eastfork will be featured. Tickets are available at the chamber office (I.V. Visitor Center), Sterling Sav- ings Bank, Northwest Hairlines, Taylor’s and Bridgeview Winery. Phone 592-4688 or 592-3326 for more informa- tion ... Antiques and collectibles will be featured dur- ing the weekend of Sept. 26 and 27 at the Medford Ar- mory during the annual show sponsored by Southern Oregon Antiques & Collectibles Club ... The .45-caliber commemorative replica of a 1911 model pistol, en- graved for Glenn Morrison American Legion Post 70 of Cave Junction, was won by Grants Pass resident Doug- las Morrison. Turns out, according to Dan Warden, post judge advocate, that Douglas is the brother of the post namesake. Warden said that the weapon, one of only 90 to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the forma- tion of the American Legion, is valued at $3,000 ... Art Along the Rogue is looking for artists interested in creat- ing pastel chalk drawings during the festival on Friday, Oct. 2, at 6 p.m. at the Firehouse Gallery in Grants Pass. Artists will receive street painting instructions, pastel chalks, artist T-shirt, lunches, water, and massages. Phone 476-5510 or check the Art Along the Rogue Website for an applica- tion ... Ad double-takes: *Health resort for sale. Owners need to leave due to illness. *Sales manager wanted for large apparel shop. Must have bad experiences in women’s clothing. *For sale: Blond secretary with brass chest. LAST WORDS - “Everything now restrains itself and anxiously hopes for just two things: bread and cir- cuses.” (Juvenal) nians have recourse against the tax increases. “We’re going to close the checkbook,” Swift said. “We can starve this beast.” Jack Brown, chairman of the Constitution Party of Ore- gon, said that Americans are in a “life or death struggle” where somebody else is con- stantly changing the rules. Brown stated that if those elected to represent citizens don’t listen, they should be replaced with people who will. “There’s a tax revolution going on in this country, la- dies and gentlemen,” he said. The temperature rose steadily as the protest contin- ued. Several participants stood on both sides of Sixth Street holding their signs as some passing drivers of some passing cars honked their car horns in support. AFP member Margaret Goodwin told audience mem- bers that for the first 200 years of the nation’s history, Member sought to fill seat on county emergency board Josephine County Emergency Food and Shelter Program (EFSP) wants a new member to fill the designated position of being a homeless person or one who has experienced homeless- ness. EFSP members make recommendations to the county com- missioners regarding funding allocations to organizations that provide emergency food and shelter services. The EFSP board meets quarterly with funded providers to review program ser- vices and emerging needs. To learn more about EFSP, contact its administrator, Janet Bell, at 474-5234. Applications also may be downloaded at www.co.josephine.or.us or phone 474-5234 to request one via manual mail. it produced more than it con- sumed. But she added that the United States has consistently produced trade deficits during the past 35 years. Goodwin said that the country has been importing timber from China and Can- ada while local people remain unemployed and politicians continue their efforts to desig- nate more monuments and wilderness areas on federal forest land. “We don’t want handouts from the federal govern- ment,” she said. “We want our economy back.” Efforts to replace those lost jobs with government jobs don’t make up for the THE overall loss of productivity, Goodwin said. Jim Frick, Southern Ore- gon Resource Alliance chair- man and a real estate broker, echoed many of those same sentiments. He said that 50,000 timber jobs have been lost during the past five years, and added that local leaders have failed to prevent it from happening. “What are they doing to replace it? Absolutely noth- ing,” Frick said. More than 100,000 jobs were lost in Oregon during the last legislative session, Frick said, but there still was a 6 percent rise in the number of state government jobs. C H AT E A U & AT THE OREGON CAVES The Present Haunted Hunters Paranormal Cave Con A hands-on ghost hunting experience to broaden everyday understanding of hauntings, paranormal research, and investigations. Friday - Sunday, September 18 - 20, beginning at 5 p.m. Friday Experience a real, live ghost hunt! Travel the realm of the unknown with the Haunted Hunters as your guide. Spend a night at the Chateau at the Oregon Caves. Illinois Valley Garden Club The 2009-10 meeting year will open on Friday, Sept. 18 with a talk on Carnivorous Plants by Floyd Williams. This is an apt subject as the club symbol is the Darlingtonia. There are many plants in the carnivorous category. Some are lovely; others have an odor. Anyone interested in plants and gardening can attend programs on third Fridays at the RCC Kerby Belt Bldg. in Kerby. Coffee time begins at 12:30 p.m.; meetings at 1 p.m. Rotary Club of Illinois Valley The 2009 Rogue Duck Derby is just around the corner. There is still time to adopt a race entry for the Saturday, Sept. 26 race on the Rogue River. The club will hold a “Last Chance to Adopt” event at Home Valley Bank in Cave Junction on Wednesday, Sept. 23, from 2 to 6 p.m. Shadow Mountain Saint Bernard kennel will give free dog-cart rides to youth with the adoption of a Derby Duck. IVHS Activities Calendar Brought to you by the folks at 592-3556 Cave Junction 469-7545 Brookings 471-7487 Grants Pass 773-7487 Medford FRIDAY, SEPT. 18 * Football at Gold Beach JV @ 4 p.m. Varsity @ 7 p.m. SATURDAY, SEPT. 19 * Volleyball at Gold Beach tournament Varsity girls @ 9 a.m. * Soccer at Rogue River Varsity girls @ 10 a.m. TUESDAY, SEPT. 22 * Soccer vs. Cascade Christian Varsity girls @ 4 p.m. * Soccer at Mazama Varsity boys @ 4 p.m. * Volleyball vs. St. Mary’s JV girls @ 5 p.m. Varsity girls @ 6:30 p.m. Also, people can join the club in participating on Satur- day, Oct. 24 for the 2009 I.V. Biker Toy Run. Registration will begin at 10 a.m. at the Junction Inn followed by music at 1 p.m. with Broadway Phil & the Shouters. The admission fee will be waived for those who bring a toy worth at least $10. All pro- ceeds and toys will be donated to a Christmas give-away pro- gram in Illinois Valley. SMART Reading Program The SMART (Start Mak- ing A Reader Today) reading program helps youth become confident readers by providing individual volunteer attention and new take-home books. The SMART Program in Cave Junction is thriving. Last year Evergreen Elementary School had the largest SMART program in Southern Oregon. Its volunteer readers contrib- uted more than 1,500 one-to- one reading hours with more than 80 children enrolled. “We are starting the or- ganizational process for the school year which began Aug. 31,” said organizer Willa Gus- tavson. Reading with children will begin Tuesday, Oct. 13. Reading days will be Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. All returning volunteers are encouraged to contact Gustavson at 592-0335 to confirm their participation. Inactive volunteers wish- ing to return should also con- tact her. Those interested in joining, or who want more information or want to apply online can visit www.getsmart oregon.org or phone 734-5628. Applications are available online or by contacting Gus- tavson. Information also is available at Evergreen school at 592-3136. I.V. Airport Advisory Board The advisory board will meet on the last Monday of each month at 5:30 p.m. in the restaurant building at Illinois Valley Airport. The primary agenda item for the meeting to be held on Monday, Sept. 28 is the proposed airport perimeter fence. Phone Sharon Westcott, secretary, at 660-7965 for more information. Call for reservations TODAY: 877-245-9022 (specify Paranormal Cave Con) Complete schedule at http://cavecon.hauntedhunters.com A SIMPLE RETIREMENT PLAN COULD WORK FOR YOU Many sole proprietors and small business owners agree on the follow- ing two issues: they pay too much in taxes and they have difficulty at- tracting and retaining good employ- ees. One way to address both of these issues is to have your business sponsor a retirement savings plan. If you’re self-employed or own a small business and don’t currently have a retirement plan in place, consider setting up a SIMPLE plan. SIMPLEs (Savings Incentive Match Plans for Em- ployees) are available in two forms - SIMPLE IRAs and SIMPLE 401(k)s. SIMPLE plans are generally available only to small businesses that don’t maintain any other re- tirement plan. If your business has more than 100 em- ployees, you won’t be eligible for a SIMPLE. Most businesses will find the IRA version preferable to the 401(k) form of SIMPLE. Here’s how SIMPLE IRAs work. Eligible employees (including yourself) can elect to have a portion of their earnings withheld each pay period, limited to $11,500 in annual deferrals ($14,000 for those aged 50 or older). The employees then direct how the deferrals will be invested within their own SIMPLE IRAs. Amounts withheld for the SIM- PLE IRA reduce the employee’s taxable income and grow tax-deferred. The costs to set up and administer a SIMPLE IRA are minimal. However, as the employer, you’re required to make contributions into your employees’ SIMPLE IRAs on their behalf. You have the option of contributing ei- ther 2% of the wages of every eligible employee or mak- ing matching contributions up to 3% of the wages of those employees who participate in the plan. Generally, the deadline for businesses to establish a SIMPLE plan for 2009 is October 1, 2009. To find out more about SIMPLE plans, give us a call. Karen M Bodeving CPA is a Nationally Recognized CPA. She is a Community Oriented Illinois Valley resident. Her office is located at: 574 NE E St., Grants Pass, OR – Non Tax season office hours are 9 am – 1 pm, Monday through Thursday. Other hours and Illinois Valley appointments are available by calling her office at 479-3625. Grape-Stomping Party at Bridgeview Vineyards, 4210 Holland Loop Road, CJ Saturday, September 26, 4 to 7 p.m. refreshments and stomp & dance Music by “East Fork” Tickets available at: Chamber of Commerce, Sterling Savings Bank, Northwest Hairlines, Taylor’s Sausage Country Store & Bridgeview $25 per person for tourism promotion & new welcome sign ridgeview Vineyards & Winery 592-4688 or 592-3326
