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Illinois Valley News, Cave Junction, Ore. Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Lots of ideas for this week’s effort, but none seemed to
jell, so I will ramble a bit about commercial airline flights.
First, I am always bemused by the announcement for
“preboarding.” How can one preboard? You would have to
get on before you get on. What they really mean is “early
boarding” or “privileged boarding.” It’s OK with me; just say
it properly, please.
Also, we’re told to “get on” the plane. Like George
Carlin said, and I’m paraphrasing here because this is a
family newspaper: “If I get on the plane, I’ll be blown off. I’m
going to get in the plane.”
Then there’s the announcement by someone from the
“flight deck,” which I find amusing. There is no deck; it
could be called the cockpit, I suppose. Anyway, the voice
tells us what altitude we have reached, and that we can
“feel free to move about the cabin.” Yeah, right. There is no
way you can move about because of the beverage/snack
cart or carts in the aisle.
Well, that’s OK too, because I’ve discovered of late
that we’re supposed to stay mostly seated with our safety
belts on “in case we hit some bumps.” Bumps?! In the air?
Sometimes the landings are a tad rough. Usually when
that happens, someone who thinks they’re funny will say, “I
guess the first officer got in some practice there.”
And I heard about a teeth-rattling landing at one air-
port, where, as an elderly women left the plane, she asked,
“Did we land, or were we shot down?”
I’m not complaining, because air travel is so much
faster than driving, walking
or riding a mule. Now ex-
cuse me, I’m going to
munch a crushed sack of
airline crackers I found in
my back pocket while I was
held by my safety belt.
Cave Junction
Wednesday, April 21
A passing shower
High--53 Low--44
Thursday, April 22
Partly sunny
High--63 Low--46
Friday, April 23
Sunny
High--60 Low--40
Saturday, April 24
Cloudy and cool
High--58 Low--40
Sunday, April 25
Cloudy
High--59 Low--45
Monday, April 26
Periods of rain
High--67 Low--38
Tuesday, April 27
Cloudy with showers
High--59 Low--34
Following are the high-and-
low temperatures, and rainfall
recorded at The End of the Road
in O’Brien by Cheryl & Harry
Johnson:
*Fri., April 9
58 31 .00
*Sat., April 10 60 32 .06
*Sun., April 11 56 40 .16
*Mon., April 12 53 36 .41
*Tue., April 13 58 42 .05
*Wed., April 14 50 39 .59
*Thu., April 15 67 33 .00
Following are the high-and-
low temperatures and rainfall
recorded by Good Neighbors
Fence Co. in Cave Junction:
*Fri., April 9
60 32 .00
*Sat., April 10 60 31 .03
*Sun., April 11 57 40 .13
*Mon., April 12 56 37 .12
*Tue., April 13 59 42 .04
*Wed., April 14 47 41 .58
*Thu., April 15 66 36 .00
(Editor’s Note: Views
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statements made as fact, are
strictly those of the letter-
writers.)
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publication. Hand-written
letters that are double-
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be considered. “Thank you”
submissions are not ac-
cepted as letters.
Angel Amber Alert
From Linda Butler
Good Shepherd Lutheran
Church
Cave Junction
An angel is missing.
She last was seen stand-
ing peacefully in the Memo-
rial Garden at Good Shepherd
Lutheran Church.
She stands approxi-
mately 2 feet tall. She was
abducted from the garden
sometime during the past
week.
It is heartbreaking to
think that someone would not
only steal from a church, but
take something that means so
much. She was placed in the
garden in memory of loved
ones who have gone before
us to meet our Lord -- and we
miss her.
If anyone knows of her
whereabouts, please have the
decency to return her to the
church so that she can again
take her place in the garden.
Can’t change leopard spots
From Paul Simon
Cave Junction
The reason Josephine
County is out of money is
that it no longer receives
O&C funds, lost when the
environmentalists were suc-
cessful in shutting down the
timber industry.
This effort was assisted
by the Siskiyou Project,
which Dave Toler was affili-
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be our county commissioner,
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Kerby
Toler was a counter-culture
hippie from Cave Junction.
Now that he has bathed,
cut his long hair and put on a
tie does not make him a rep-
resentative of our communi-
ties’ needs and desires. He is
part of the problem, but he
would like you to think he is
part of the solution.
His solution is to raise
our taxes and make us pay for
the $14 million O&C loss.
The federal government owns
60 percent of Josephine
County, and the O&C agree-
ment was to share logging
proceeds with the county. The
Federal government has re-
neged and now the county no
longer receives this income.
Because of Dave’s roots
he has no desire to try and
work with the BLM to create
a healthy forest and/or sus-
tainable timber harvest.
I am going to vote for
Simon Hare, whom I have
known since he was a boy.
He was born in Josephine
County and grew up on his
family’s farm. After graduat-
ing from Oregon State Uni-
versity he went to work in
Sen. Gordon Smith’s office in
Washington, D.C. He then
worked for the Rural Electric
Co-op in Washington for six
years, where he gained ex-
perience working with rural
communities and small towns
to meet their needs.
He has the expertise to
help generate jobs and in-
come from co-generation
facilities and tying them into
the electrical grid. He also is
not opposed to developing
reasonable timber harvests,
and his Washington experi-
ence would help in this area.
He also has more political
experience than Toler’s three-
year total.
The other option is
Toler’s “Toll.”
Aeromodeling adventures
From Laureano Mier
The Rogue Valley Flyers
We tremendously en-
joyed our visit with Ever-
green Elementary School in
Cave Junction, and bringing
the wonderful world of aero-
modeling and the Academy
of Model Aeronautics (AMA)
to life with the glider building
sessions.
As former director of
education at the Evergreen
Aviation Museum and the
Captain Michael King Smith
Educational Institute, I can
attest to the many skill sets
that aeromodeling brings to
students. Astronaut Neil
Armstrong; and Burt Rutan,
aeronautical engineer extra-
ordinaire and Ansari prize
winner, started their distin-
guished careers as aeromodel-
ers and AMA members.
The Rogue Valley Flyers
are designating Sunday, May
16 from 9 a.m. until to noon
(weather permitting) for Ev-
ergreen Elementary students
to participate in radio control
flight instruction at our Jose-
phine County Skypark on
Kerby Mainline. All students
and their parents are encour-
aged to come try their hand at
this wonderful sport.
All those students who
saw 10-year-old, Tyler John-
son, a Rogue Valley Flyer,
perform his barrel rolls and
loops at Evergreen need to
know that Tyler began his
aeromodeling career at Jose-
phine County Skypark as
well. Hats off to this young
aviator, and his dynamic par-
ents and grandparents who
have played a key role in fos-
tering his passion for flight.
We look forward to see-
ing our future aviators on
May 16.
Speaking of weak cases
From Ron Ruby
Grants Pass
In a recent letter to the
editor an author mocked
those who disagree with Dave
Toler as “right wing wackos.”
His supporters seem to
think that Toler’s Canola
business is the real answer.
Was it these same “wackos”
who banned Canola in other
counties in the Willamette
Valley because Canola is an
invasive weed not worth the
risk?
This environmentalist
mocked loggers and wants
property owners to pay more.
These are probably the ones
who live in secluded areas
that allow them to grow non-
taxed lucrative side crops not
quite legal and pass it off as
medical treatment. They
don’t care about the security
for the county; less law en-
forcement the better for them.
These concerned citizens
found any means to stifle
Oregon counties from using
natural renewable resources
with lawsuits claiming endan-
gered Spotted Owl.
Now they are looking for
a new “endangered” birdie
because the other was a lie.
Not convinced about
friends of Toler? Consider the
Biscuit Fire and how they
prevented 500,000 burned
acres from being harvested,
and left taxable income for
the county to rot. These radi-
cal friends of the environment
were so generous to the
county, they agreed to a 5
percent harvest after a five-
year court battle.
The “radical environ-
mentalist” caused the logging
companies to pay even a
higher price due to vandalism
and protests.
So vote for the East
Coast-educated environmen-
talist Dave Toler or vote for
someone who wants to use
our natural resources wisely,
Simon Hare.
Obama ‘ear candy’
From Gregory Anderson
Cave Junction
Barack Obama has
proven himself to be the
David Copperfield of politics.
His sleight of hand (and
mouth) makes him a master
illusionist.
Example 1. He an-
nounced his decision to open
areas off the East Coast for
oil and gas exploration to
create jobs and ease our coun-
tries reliance on foreign oil.
If in fact jobs and domestic
oil production are really his
goal, why did he cancel the
oil leases already signed and
ready to drill when he came
into office? Jobs? Oil?
Of course not. That is
merely “ear candy” for the
masses. His promise is to
make liberals feel better about
themselves. To the libs,
“feeling” is much preferable
to “doing.”
Example 2. He is push-
ing for a high-speed train
scheme. Few jobs would be
created because the compa-
nies that build these are in
Europe and Asia. They can’t
truly be high speed like Ja-
pan’s Bullet trains, as U.S.
roadbeds can’t handle such
speeds safely.
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