Illinois Valley News, Cave Junction, Ore. Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Page 12
Boys & Girls Club celebrates programs
Special events next week at Shop Smart
Food Warehouse will be hosted by the Illinois
Valley Branch of Boys & Girls Clubs of the
Rogue Valley to celebrate National Boys &
Girls Club Week.
“Boys & Girls Clubs are increasingly
playing a vital role in many young people’s
lives,” said Scott Thornhill, branch director of
the Illinois Valley Boys & Girls Club.
“In today’s economic climate, we offer a
positive place for kids
whose parents are seeking
an economical, safe and
enriching environment for
their children.” The cost for
parents to send their child
to a club is $40 per year.
Boys & Girls Clubs are
unique in the field of child
development due to five
identifying characteristics,
Thornhill said. He added
that clubs provide:
*A safe place to learn
and grow.
*Continual relationships
with caring, adult profession-
Scott Thornhill, executive director of the I.V. unit of Rogue
als.
Valley Boys & Girls Club, received a proclamation from Cave
*Life-enhancing pro-
Junction Mayor Don Moore designating March 21 - 27 as
grams and character devel-
“National Boys & Girls Club Week.” ( I.V. News photo)
opment experiences.
*Hope and opportunity.
The community can visit the presenta-
*Peer, staff and volunteer recognition.
tion at Shop Smart from Monday, March 22
For more than 75 years, clubs have cele-
through Friday, March 26, from 11 a.m. to 5 brated Boys & Girls Club Week in a variety
p.m. to see first-hand the effects of the pro- of ways, all with an emphasis on five core
gram on today’s youth.
program areas: Character & Leadership De-
There will be free cupcakes and cookies, velopment; Education & Career Develop-
face-painting, free ice cream, Wii sports, I.V. ment; Health & Life Skills; The Arts; and
Lions Club hot dog & soda for $1, basketball Sports, Fitness & Recreation.
hoop give-away, and more.
Activities in these five core areas support
Activities will include: Providing club in- Boys & Girls Clubs of America’s
formation, membership registrations, and spring “overarching goal to help each child reach
sports sign-ups for football and volleyball.
their full potential and ‘Be Great’ by securing
To learn more about these activities, academic success, living a healthy lifestyle
phone 541-592-6151 or 541-592-4771 or visit and distinguishing themselves as young lead-
www.begreat4kids.com.
ers.”
The Illinois River Valley Arts Council Learning Through Art program sponsored a three-day Asian
Art project at Lorna Byrne Middle School on Tuesday through Thursday, March 9, 10 and 11. The
project, held in conjunction with seventh-grade history studies, was led by Kristen Whicheloe and
Noralene Harland, with the help of area artists
and volunteers. Students learned how to make
an accordion-folded book into which they in-
serted original Haiku poetry, their own pieces of
art and their name in Chinese. Each book be-
I.V.’s Robinson seeks Congressional seat
By SCOTT JORGENSEN
IVN Staff Writer
To help defend the Con-
stitution, Illinois Valley resi-
dent and scientist Arthur
Robinson has filed to run for
U.S. Congress.
Robinson traveled to
Salem and submitted his pa-
perwork to the Secretary of
State’s office on Tuesday,
March 9. He is seeking the
Republican nomination for
Oregon’s 4th Congressional
District seat, which has been
held by U.S. Rep. Peter De-
Fazio (D-Springfield) since
1987.
DeFazio has filed for
another term. He had been
mentioned for months as a
possible candidate for gover-
nor, but opted to stay out of
the Democratic primary con-
test between former governor
John Kitzhaber and former
secretary of state Bill
Bradbury.
However, Robinson is
not alone in seeking the Re-
publican nomination. Dillard
resident Jaynee Germond also
is running. In 2008, Germond
ran against DeFazio as the
Constitution Party candidate.
The Republican Party was
unable to field a candidate for
that seat that year.
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Springfield Mayor Sid
Leiken initially was seeking
the Republican nomination in
the May 18 primary election,
but dropped out to run for
Lane County commissioner.
Robinson, who co-
founded the Oregon Institute
of Science and Medicine, has
never run for any elected of-
fice. He said that recent
events have inspired him to
do so.
“It’s a very bad situation
in this country,” Robinson
said. “I felt I should take a
shot at this guy, because he’s
part of the problem.”
Germond has been ac-
tively campaigning for
months, and supporters have
placed signs in locations all
throughout Illinois Valley. As
such, Robinson acknowl-
edges that he has his work cut
out for him.
“I have to run hard to
catch up with her,” Robinson
said. “I will do my best for
the next two months until the
primary, and I will campaign
extremely vigorously against
DeFazio if I get the chance.”
Among other accom-
plishments, Robinson started
the Petition Project, in which
more than 32,000 American
scientists expressed their
doubts about the validity of
man-made global warming.
“I’m not running on the
Petition Project, but I’ve
spent 15 years studying en-
ergy policy,” Robinson said.
“Solar panels are not going to
save this country.”
The United States now
imports around 30 percent of
its energy, Robinson said. But
attempts to shut down the
nation’s hydrocarbon industry
will not help the situation, he
added.
“They’re trying to cut
down the good energy sys-
tems that we have and spend
money on things that don’t
work,” Robinson said. “We’ll
be in a situation where we’ll
have a huge increase in en-
ergy costs and energy ration-
ing pretty soon because of
these people.”
Robinson said his posi-
tion is not to advocate for
nuclear energy, but rather to
“get out of the way of Ameri-
can industry, which will pro-
vide for us, through free en-
terprise, the energy we need.”
The U.S. Constitution is
being ignored by politicians
in Washington, D.C., Robin-
son said. He added that they
are “spending this country
into the ground by trying to
socialize health care and try-
ing to ruin our energy system.
“If they’re allowed to
continue what they’re doing,
the U.S. will be bankrupt.
Many of our most important
institutions will be ruined,”
Robinson said. “We can’t
continue to exist with taxa-
tion, regulation and litigation
that is so severe that Ameri-
cans can’t compete with
workers elsewhere in the
world. The American people
can’t afford to buy the things
they need to continue our
prosperity.”
Robinson said that the
decision to run is entirely his
own, and that he was not re-
cruited to oppose either Ger-
mond or DeFazio.
“Washington is a disas-
ter, and I think all across the
country, anyone who’s will-
ing to fix it should run for
office,” he said. “I think I
have the support of many
people. If people conclude
that I have a chance of being
DeFazio, they will support us
substantially.”
came a work of art and will
be displayed at the school.
Students were treated to a
“Taste of Asia” with chop
sticks to eat with at tables
decorated with Japanese
words for, “please, thank
you, and welcome.” They
sampled rice, vegetable chow
mein, tofu, edamame, tea
and a fortune cookie.
(Photos by Michelle Binker,
Illinois Valley News )
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