Illinois Valley News, Cave Junction, Ore. Wednesday, March 30, 2011
actions of a spoiled child?
Well, we didn’t have a
photo of Grandma Agnes on the
front page of last week’s paper.
We tried to explain to our visitor
that the rally he was referring
to started at noon and that our
press deadline was also at noon
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on the same day. He didn’t care.
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So, I am pleading with you, our
readers, to be on the lookout for
an extra time machine since I
am in the market for one.
Apparently I’m without a very
On a different note, yes, we noticed
important piece of newspapering
that
we
botched the headline for our storm
equipment, a time machine. Heck, I
don’t even have a DeLorean or a flux story as soon as we sent it to the printers.
Each week, we catch many mistakes
capacitor.
Last week, we had a “gentleman” before press and, sometimes, even more
come into the paper screaming, swearing, after pages have been sent. Thank you
and generally throwing a temper tantrum for pointing them out. We can’t get better
the likes I haven’t seen since my oldest without your input.
Now on to the real root of my column:
daughter was four and wanted another
trees
and private citizens.
cup cake. What, you might ask, would
As an outdoorsman, I understand the
cause a grown man to reduce himself to
need to protect the environment that the
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animals and fish that I want to eat, live in.
I support many environmentally minded
groups in the area, as well as nationally.
But, when it comes to the herbicide
spraying issue that we have been covering
in recent weeks, I am somewhat on the
fence. In my experience, though, when
in doubt, most issues can be settled by
following the relevant law or bylaws.
By law, when a forestry company
needs to spray, they must inform their
neighbors. Perpetua Forest Co. did that.
Oddly enough, the county, city and many
other entities do not have to. What did
the county spray on the Alyssum out near
the airport recently? I don’t know. Did
they alert their neighbors? Don’t think so.
What kind of chemicals does the county
use in the areas around Lake Selmac? Not
sure, because they don’t have to tell us.
It’s obvious that many people are
upset about the upcoming spraying near
Lake Selmac. But, the chemical Atrazine
is legal here in the United States. Less
than four percent of Atrazine is used by
timber companies in the state of Oregon.
The EPA has deemed that the buffer zone
Perpetrua is willing to use goes way
beyond the necessary precautions. Should
Atrazine be banned? Maybe, but it is a
legal Herbicide as of today.
It’s great to see so many people who
are so concerned, but my question is this:
Why spend so much time trying to stop
someone from doing something that is
completely legal? Wouldn’t your efforts
be better spent trying to change the law,
itself?
It seems to me that Perpetua
president Jennifer Phillippi is bending
over backwards to meet with concerned
residents and is doing her best to do the
right thing. If nothing else, we can all
benefit from that outreach, education and
dialogue.
Thank you for picking up this week’s
paper, Enjoy!
— djm
Medical marijuana
awareness benefit draws
crowd
By Darcy Wallace
IVN Staff Writer
It was a busy night at the
Takilma Community Building
Saturday, March 26 as people
gathered for presentations, arts
and crafts, food and music to
raise money for a local family
involved in a case regarding
the Oregon Medical Marijuana
Program (OMMP).
Area resident Lindy
Heise said she is a medical
marijuana cardholder who was
applying for a third card for a
quadriplegic friend, when po-
lice confiscated her plants.
Heise said one main goal
of the benefit was to educate
residents about hemp products
and on OMMP laws to keep
similar cases from happening
to others.
“As far as awareness,
I’m trying to get more com-
munity involvement,” Heise
said. “Even if people just read
some of the information and it
started planting seeds in their
minds, that’s enough for me.”
The benefit started at 5
p.m. and ran well into the night,
including a presentation from
attorney Joshua Gibbs, who is
also a member of marijuana
law reform group NORML.
Heise said event attend-
ees discussed ways to spread
awareness of the possibilities
of hemp production, from fuel,
to building materials and insu-
lation, to clothing and plastic.
“It’s mind-blowing the
products we could be using,”
Heise said. “We wouldn’t
have to go to war for oil. We
wouldn’t have to cut down
trees…we could make prod-
ucts more durable than steel
out of a plant that’s mature in
three months.”
Heise acknowledged the
perception of those who use
marijuana recreationally, but
believes it could be regulated
and taxed to create jobs, re-
duce the cost of the war on
drugs and alleviate those with
true medical need.
“A lot of people smoke
recreationally, but there are
people that it keeps alive,”
Heise said. “It’s not a joke.
More people die from caffeine
or prescription drugs. Nobody
dies from weed.”
Instead of marijuana be-
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gateway drug, Heise believes
hemp production in the future
could transform the Valley.
“It could be tax [revenue]
to give back to the communi-
ty,” Heise said. “It would be a
totally different town with so
many programs, we wouldn’t
have to worry about kids being
on drugs because there would
be so many things for them
to do to help prepare them
for adulthood. They wouldn’t
have to go down that road.”
During the awareness
benefit, musical guests Oneiro-
nauts and Mista Chief, Vinnie
and The Rips, Only Natural
and Wilderness performed and
Taylor’s Sausage and Rosie’s
Inferno Wood Fired Pizza do-
nated dinner.
Youth also had things to
do in the form of face painting
and crafts from 5 to 7 p.m.
“I was blown away with
the amount of people who
came [to the event],” Heise
said. “The community support
is worth more than the mon-
etary value.”
The signature tree of the Illinois Valley Golf course was another victim of the
Sunday, March 13 storm.
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