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Illinois Valley News, Cave Junction, Ore. Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2010
Hemp Fest Aug. 27, 28 in Selma Grant program offered for non-
profit organizations in Oregon
By SCOTT JORGENSEN
IVN Staff Writer
Lake Selmac likely will be
smokin’ with activity on Fri-
day and Saturday, Aug. 27
and 28, for the Jefferson State
Hemp Expo.
Presented by the Hemp and
Cannabis Foundation, the
event is billed as Southern
Oregon’s largest educational
hemp exposition and world-
class music festival.
Jen Ambrose (file photo)
Approximately 35 regional
music groups and individuals
are to perform.
There also will be camp-
ing, food booths, guest speak-
ers, a beer garden, vendors,
artists and a hemp and recy-
cled clothing fashion show.
Organizer Erik Vestnys
said that the event has been
planned since January, and
was inspired by similar festi-
vals in Seattle and Portland.
Hemp and medical mari-
juana advocates from around
the nation will be present to
educate attendees on those
issues, Vestnys stated.
“There will be a big pres-
ence of people trying to get
the vote out and get people to
educate themselves about the
coming changes to Oregon’s
medical marijuana law and
hemp farming laws,” accord-
ing to Vestnys.
“There are a lot of people
out there that are definitely
supporting the coming
changes to the medical mari-
Entries sought for GP
“Art in Motion” project
A call for entries for the
winter exhibition of the “Art
in Motion” project – Oct. 25
through Feb. 21 – has been
issued by the Grants Pass
Committee on Public Art
(CoPA).
There is no
entry fee.
All work must
be submitted in
digital image for-
mat on a CD. To
receive a prospec-
tus via email con-
tact both ker-
rie@visitgrantspass.org as
well as nddayna@visitgrants
pass.org. Also a prospectus
can be obtained at the Office
of the Grants Pass City Man-
ager, 101 N.W. A St., Mon-
days through Fridays from 8
a.m. to 5 p.m.
The hand-delivery and
postmark deadline is Sept. 30.
CoPA invites artists 18
years of age or older to sub-
mit digital images of original
artwork in any 2-D or 3-D
media except video/film for
“Art in Motion.” Selections
will represent a
broad diversity of
styles and media.
Said
CoPA,
“This is a public
art project, a gal-
lery on wheels
and a new way to
create art aware-
ness. Images of
art work will be displayed as
a printed sign on the side or
back of three Josephine Com-
munity Transit buses.
“The 2010-2011 exhibi-
tion season will consist of
three shows, each four
months in length. Three art-
ists will be selected per show,
a total of nine for the season.”
Farm & Garden Festival set
Sept. 11 in Cave Junction
Illinois Valley Food Coa-
lition (IVFoodCo) will pre-
sent the second annual Farm
& Garden Festival on Satur-
day, Sept. 11 from 10 a.m. to
4 p.m. at Jubilee Park in Cave
Junction.
The festival will include
free workshops, live farm
animals, local farm-related
businesses and crafts, food
booths, activities for children
and live local music.
IVFoodCo is a collabora-
tion of community members
working together to promote
food self-sufficiency, safety
and sharing. Their goal is to
ensure that locally grown,
safe and affordable foods are
available to Illinois Valley
residents.
IVFoodCo is a project of
Spiral Living Center in Cave
Junction, which promotes
sustainable living practices
throughout Illinois Valley.
For information on the
Farm Festival, IVFoodCo or
Spiral Living Center, e-mail
spirallivinginfo@gmail.com,
541-592-3642
or
www.spiralliving.org
Frankie Hernandez (file photo)
juana laws,” he said.
Vestnys added that the
event should be “fun for the
whole family.”
For ticket information,
phone 541-659-3549.
The Oregon Arts Com-
mission announces a new
Access Reimbursement grant
program to assist Oregon
nonprofit arts organizations in
providing public access to all
individuals who want to par-
ticipate in the activities of the
requesting group.
The grants will range
from $200 to $1,000 to offset
expenses made by arts groups
as they work to make their
programs accessible to all.
The Access Reimburse-
ment grants are a result of
work completed through the
Arts Commission’s Arts Ac-
cess Project, a statewide ac-
cessibility campaign, reach-
ing arts organizations state-
wide, providing information
about the details of accessibil-
ity to the arts, and education
regarding the obligation to
provide such access.
Additional tools for the
implementation of access
plans include a new online
resource: http://www.oregon
artscommission.org/
resources/accessibility/.
Examples of eligible
expenses for which reim-
bursement might be requested
include making changes in a
workplace to hire Oregon
artists with disabilities; creat-
ing alternative formats for
audience materials such as
large print or Braille; or pro-
viding audio description,
American Sign Language
interpreting and/or caption-
ing, as requested.
The Arts Commission
will review applications on a
continuing basis. Guidelines
and the application forms are
online: http://www.oregon
artscommission.org/support
_for_the_arts/grants/
grant_orgs.php.
Our D.J. Hans is back!
Friday and Saturday
Aug. 20 and 21
starting at 9 p.m.
JoCo SAR seeks funds,
support from community
By SCOTT JORGENSEN
IVN Staff Writer
During the past few
weeks, people throughout
Josephine County have been
receiving fund-raising letters
from the Search And Rescue
(SAR) division of the sher-
iff’s office.
Jim McNutt serves as
chairman of the Friends of
Search And Rescue, a non-
profit organization that raises
money for the organization.
He also is chairman of the
SAR Mountain Rescue Unit
Committee.
McNutt said that ap-
proximately 200 people re-
sponded to the letter in the
first couple of days after they
were sent. Donations have
been as small as $5 and $1.
But McNutt said that every
last little bit helps.
“It takes a lot of money
to run this organization. No-
body in the organization gets
any money,” McNutt said.
“There’s only one paid per-
son, on the sheriff’s payroll,
and that’s the emergency ser-
vices coordinator. Everybody
else is a volunteer.”
SAR is not funded
through the sheriff’s office or
tax dollars, McNutt said.
“We are only supported
from donations,” he said.
McNutt said that there
are around 125 SAR volun-
teers, divided into several
specialty units. They are
mountain rescue, dive team,
K-9 search, ATV, mounted
SAR, communications, and
snow rescue.
Volunteers must attend
training sessions that meet
Oregon State Sheriffs Asso-
ciation standards, and an an-
nual 40-hour academy of-
fered for basic ground search-
ers. They must also maintain
first aid and CPR credentials
and 30 hours of continuing
education per year.
SAR’s role in the com-
munity is especially impor-
tant, given that much of the
county consists of federally
owned forestland. As such,
McNutt said, SAR volunteers
are prepared to comb the wil-
derness for deer hunters,
mushroom pickers, Alz-
heimer’s patients, children
and anyone else who happens
to get lost.
“We go looking for eve-
rybody,” McNutt said.
As part of their duties,
volunteers are on standby for
call-outs 24 hours a day,
seven days per week.
Donations made to SAR
go toward funding equip-
ment, training and supplies,
McNutt said. They cover eve-
rything from utility bills at the
facility housing the equip-
ment to new tires, repairs and
servicing SAR vehicles, and
batteries for radio and Global
Positioning Satellite units.
“We want to be able to
train at the highest level, and
that takes money,” McNutt
said. “We don’t get the
chance to spend money on
training until the bills are
paid.”
Josephine County SAR
still is looking for volunteers.
For more information, phone
541-474-5300 or visit joco-
sarblog.typepad.com.
Open 7 Days
Monday - Friday
6:30 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Saturday
7 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Sunday
8 a.m. - 6 p.m.
541-592-3888
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