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Illinois Valley News, Cave Junction, Ore. Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014
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Help needed
My soon to be mother
in law’s trailer burned to the
ground on Jan 1st and she is
currently without residence.
I am emailing you to ask that
you post something in the pa-
per requesting the Valley’s
help. Deena has lived in the
Valley for over 20 years and
would love to stay but we
can’t seem to find a place for
her. She has helped so many
people and I would like to re-
turn the favor. We have set up
an account at Washington Fed-
eral (Deena Duarte-Decker)
hoping for a little help. Deena
is very proud (she doesn’t ask
for anything...ever!) so it is ex-
tremely hard for her to ask for
help...she really only wanted
me to ask to find her a home.
But I know the Valley likes to
back their own so I am asking
or offers, money, camping
supplies (in case we can’t find
a house), food, toiletries, and
prayers. Deena can be reached
at 541-218-0573 or message at
541-787-0586. Our dream is
to have her in a home by her
birthday on January 27th and
I believe you can help us with
that.
Rose Ballard
Cave Junction
I like meat
Human beings belong
to a group of animals that not
only eat plants & grasses, they
also eat meat, like bacon burg-
ers and yummy lamb chops
with mint jelly. This group of
animals are called Omnivores,
not herbivores as Ron Dez
wrote here Jan. 15, 2014. Her-
bivores are a group of animals
and peculiar humans that es-
chew meat. Carnivores’ (like
tigers) diets consist primarily
of meat including people on
occasion.
Humans, depending on
your point of view, either were
created or evolved so we have
a digestive system that can
handle either herbs and other
plants or flesh. The digestive
system includes about 24 feet
of small intestine (divided
into 3 parts) plus about 5 feet
of large intestine that carries
all the waste matter left from
consumed animals and plants
to the disposal point. This is
after the body has absorbed as
much nutrition as it could from
all those delicious fruits, veg-
etables, rack of lamb, etc.
Kind of like radical en-
vironmentalists, people that
don’t eat meat come up with
all kinds of misinformation
and distorted facts and figures
to try to show why their pe-
culiar way is the only way to
live. This is their interpreta-
tion of the word “tolerance”.
Most people that eat meat
don’t commit violence at home
while many that don’t do!
Some of these non-meat
eating humans have weird be-
liefs like “decontaminating”
cures to cleanse your intestine
from these so called “poisons”
they claim enter your body.
You can get these “poisons”
from fried shrimp, Kentucky
Fried Chicken, and other aw-
ful stuff we can still buy at var-
ious stores. Now here, again
like radical environmentalist,
there is no real evidence this
peculiar belief will make you
live longer. As I’ve told my
vegetarian friends: IT ONLY
SEEMS LONGER!
All this talk about food
has put me in the mood for a
nice slice of rare Prime Rib
with horse radish sauce.
Greg Anderson
Cave Junction
Dear IV News Editor,
After reading the long ar-
ticle about the commissioner’s
upcoming goal-setting meeting
on January 28th, I’ve decided
I’ll send Cherryl Walker some
ideas. I know it won’t do any
good, but I’ll have the satis-
faction of knowing I tried. It’s
like voting on state issues - we
already know that the liberals
in the north will override con-
servative views in the south,
but we have to keep trying.
Local issues are differ-
ent, but with the exception of
the fire department, I vote no
on new taxes. I appreciate the
commissioners’ attempts to
convince us that safety is their
number one concern, but when
you look at their track record
and the history with funding
law enforcement, it’s clear that
they’re just playing us.
One minute there’s no
money for deputies or pa-
trol cars and the next minute
there’s hundreds of thousands
of dollars to bail out the Fair-
ground’s debts. And, special
elections every May and No-
vember; where in the world is
that money coming from? It’s
obvious there’s money stashed
that they can dip into - it’s
astonishing the power they
wield.
If our commissioners
truly think safety is number
one, then they’d let the Sher-
iff’s upcoming levy request be
a dedicated line item on our
tax bills, where the amount
we give goes to his budget
for specific use, and not just
dumped into the general fund.
No Sheriff should have to go
“hat in hand”, pleading for the
meager sums the commission-
ers throw at safety.
Our commissioners have
complete power over every
dollar that goes to law enforce-
ment - they hold us hostage
with every budget our Sher-
iff submits for their approval.
The approved budgets them-
selves are proof of their con-
sistent starvation to adequately
fund this county’s safety.
I believe that 100 percent
of what we are taxed for safety
and law enforcement should
actually go for safety and law
enforcement, with no one giv-
en the authority to redirect that
money for any other purpose.
If you read the fine print
on that last safety levy, it was
written to ensure the commis-
sioners retained their strangle-
hold on those new tax dollars.
I think a lot of people un-
derstood what was really going
on, and it’s one of the reasons
that levy failed.
Marilyn Arnold
O’Brien
TAX PAYER BEWARE
Senator Herman Baer-
tschiger, ph# 503.986.1702,
plans on getting a bill passed
that uses tax dollars to pay
private timberland owners to
replant their land after a for-
est fire. Not even insurance
companies pay for an act of
GOD unless it is specifically
covered. So why do they think
we should have to pay for it?
Do you think that our Gover-
nor would give us tax money
to pay for our losses from a
forest fire? NO, of course they
won’t. The timberland owners
logged their properties so fast
during the fire last year that
one log truck was seen going
down the road with a load still
smoking that ended up lighting
back up. They did not lose any
money from their resources,
they made money.
The icing on the cake is to
reinstate an old law that gives
them a 25 percent tax break
to replant their land after they
log it. Do you know that most
businesses are incorporated so
they can get bigger tax breaks?
Do you know that corporations
in the state of Oregon pay only
3.5 percent in taxes? Where
the working class pays no less
than 32.23 percent in taxes
combined with federal taxes!
And we get nothing but grief
and non-cooperation from our
elected public employees!
So your choice here is to
do nothing and get taken ad-
vantage of again, like we did
with the bank bailout; or you
can start raising a stink that
they can not ignore. Tell Her-
man and all his cronies that if
they pay off their buddies like
they did with Monsanto and
Syngenta with the emergency
legislation to pass the GMO
bill to ensure that we get poi-
soned by their Frankenstein
crops, that we will all storm
the state capitol and fire them
all!
Nina Horsley
Cave Junction
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Obituaries
Janice Marie May, 76,
of Cave Junction died Thursday, Jan-
uary 16, 2014, at Asante Three Rivers
Medical Center.
No services are planned. Cha-
pel of the Valley – L.B. Hall Funeral
Home is in charge of the arrange-
ments. Condolences may be sent
to the family at www.chapel-valley.
com.
One of eight children, she was
born September 26, 1937 in Chero-
kee, Iowa to Swan and Sigrid Lundh.
On December 10, 1955 in Ruthven,
Iowa, she married Glenn E. Hen-
drickson. Later they divorced. Due
to his military service, they lived in
San Diego, Alameda and San Jose,
Calif. She earned an associate of arts
degree from San Jose City College.
On December 26, 1989 in Md.,
she married Charles Lowell May,
who has preceded her in death. They
moved to Cave Junction after his re-
tirement fifteen years ago. She was
primarily a homemaker.
Janice was a member of the Lu-
theran Church. She enjoyed sewing.
Survivors include three sons,
Jerry Hendrickson of Livermore, Ca-
lif.; David Hendrickson of San Jose,
Calif. and Roger Hendrickson of Fre-
mont, Calif.; seven grandchildren and
two great-grandchildren.
Thelma I. Anderson,
age 96 , of Cave Junction, died
Wednesday, January 22, at Royale
Gardens Health & Rehabilitation
Center.
A graveside service was held
at 11 a.m., Tuesday, January 28 at
Cedaredge Cemetery in Cedaredge,
Colo. Hull & Hull Funeral Directors
are in charge of arrangements.
Please sign the family guest
book at www.since1928hull.com
Thelma was born September 22,
1917 in Battle Creek, Neb. to George
and Mettie Hawkins. She grew up and
attended schools in Eckert, Colo. In
1935 in Delta County, Colo. she mar-
ried her childhood sweetheart, New-
man Anderson. She attended beauty
school, owned and operated her first
beauty shop in Delta, Colo. In 1941
she moved to Long Beach, Calif. and
later to Morgan Hill, Calif. where she
owned and operated her second beau-
ty shop. After retirement she moved
to Cedaredge, Colo. in 1979. In 2005
she moved to Cave Junction to be
with family.
For many years she attended
and taught Sunday school at Grace
Baptist Church in Morgan Hill.
Her hobbies included reading
and weekend sightseeing trips.
Survivors include two sons,
Wesley Ray Anderson and Dennis B.
Anderson and wife Lisa all of Sutter
Creek, Calif.; a daughter, Janna Perry
and husband Gary of Cave Junction;
seven grandchildren and two great-
grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by
her husband, Newman Anderson; her
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parents, George and Mettie Hawkins;
a sister, Eula Horn and a brother,
Clarance Hawkins.
Kaaren Sue Farmer
passed away on Friday, January 10,
2014 at Hilo Medical Center. Born
on September 23, 1941 as Kaaren Sue
Berkner to Olive Kathryn Berkner and
Kenneth George Berkner, in Sleepy
Eye, Minn. In 1951 Kaaren moved
with her family to Cave Junction,
Ore. Kaaren attended Kerby Elemen-
tary and Illinois Valley High School.
She married Larry O’Neal Farmer
on January 17, 1959. She was pre-
ceded in death by her son Lawrence
Farmer, her husband Larry Farmer
and his name sake great-grandson
Larry Jack O’Neal Wade, and her el-
dest sister Marilyn Ruth Sams. She
is survived by her brothers Russell
Berkner of Hemet, Calif.; Thomas
Berkner of Waianae, Hawaii; and
her half sister Kristie Lund of Kent,
Wash. Her daughters Lori Recio of
Pahoa, Hawaii; Kristen Duffy of Ke-
alakekua, Hawaii and Shelly Caban-
ting of Kailua-Kona, Hawaii. Kaaren
had nine grandchildren and twelve
great-grandchildren with her name
sake being carried on by great-grand-
daughter Kaaren Anika Orr. One of
Kaaren’s first jobs was at Mariola
Nursing Home as a CNA in Grants
Pass. She worked at the Desaulnier
chicken ranch and at the New Cafe
with longtime friends Ed and Col-
leen Podoll. Later she went on to
help run the family logging business
alongside her husband Larry Farmer.
Kaaren painted in her younger years
and was quite an accomplished artist.
Kaaren loved to travel, spending time
in Mazatlan; Hawaii; Alaska; Yellow-
stone; Washington, DC; Thermopo-
lis, Wyo.; California and the Oregon
Coast. Kaaren enjoyed camping,
hunting, fishing, hiking, garden-
ing and golf. Her most memorable
times were spent with family and
friends. Kaaren was a comforter and
advisor to those she loved. She was
much beloved as a daughter, sister,
wife, mother, grandmother, aunt and
friend. She will be missed, leaving
an impression to last a lifetime. At
her passing, she was surrounded by
family and she passed from this life
to the next with “Grace”.
Gloria
Hoechemer
Murphy passed away peacefully
at home on Thursday, January 9th,
2014. Born in New York City, on June
28, 1923, she lived in Cave Junction
for the past year with her daughter
Deborah Murphy and family.
Gloria was married to Kenneth
Murphy on September 9, 1950 in
New York City . They were happily
married for 53 years.
Gloria leaves behind her daugh-
ter, Deborah Colette Murphy, son-in-
law, Bob Mannix, grandsons Trevor
Murphy Mannix and Seamus Man-
nix, his wife Kasia Mannix and chil-
dren Annora Mannix and brand new,
item donations will go to the Jose-
phine County Food Bank and Animal
Shelter. Each donated item credits
$5 toward overdue fees regardless of
how long the item/s may have been
overdue.
ter Feb. 1), original birth certificate
and three proofs of residency are re-
quired. Proofs must be dated between
Feb. 1 of 2013 to Feb. 1 of 2014. For
more info. Contact Jenna Larkin at
541-592-9899
featuring various uses of herbs in Vin-
egar, Cheese and not your Grandma’s
Butter. Plenty of samples and sur-
prises. Come join the fun! The cost is
only $5. Scholarships available.
Feb. 1, 8, 9, 15
February 3,
I.V. Little League will be hold-
ing early registrations days: Feb. 1,
8, 9, 15 at the Illinois Valley Golf
Course. Early registration price $65
on Feb. 1 (registration fees go up af-
Take Thyme to Refresh Your
Scentses 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. at the
RCC/Kerby Belt Building. Josephine
County Master Food Preservers are
starting off the New Year with a class
Tired of Winter? Join us for
“LOVE BOAT – A
Caribbean
Cruise!” 5 – 9 pm, Saturday, Feb. 22,
at Selma Community Center! 5 pm:
Silent Auction, No-Host Bar & Rum-
ba Lesson. 6 pm: Dinner Catered by
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yet to be named, baby boy!
Her god children Katherine By-
rus and Michael Byrus reside in New
York City.
As a young woman Gloria
worked for Equitable Life Insurance
Company for many years doing in-
vestigative work. She loved being
a career woman in Manhattan all
through the 1940’s. Gloria loved to
dance and enjoyed all the big bands
and famous clubs of that era.
Following the tradition of many
women of that era, she quit her job
when she became a mother. Through-
out the rest of her life her family,
friends and community were her fo-
cus. She was a very creative person
and was always involved in projects
of all sorts from gardening to knit-
ting. She was a member of the Ro-
sarians, the Clearbrook Art Club and
served as a Girl Scout leader.
She traveled extensively in the
United States, Europe and South
America. She enjoyed life thoroughly
and was an inspiration.
A celebration of her life will be
held on Saturday, February 1st, from
3 – 6 pm. at the home of her daugh-
ter and son-in –law. (9457 Holland
Loop Road, Cave Junction)
As she was married to an educa-
tor and mother of an educator, Gloria
highly valued education therefore do-
nations in her honor may be sent to
The Dome School P.O. Box 812 Cave
Junction, OR 97523.
The Vine Restaurant, Dance to Oregon
Little Big Band Duo & Live Auction.
Formal or Resort Wear Please! $25
person, $40 couple. Tickets: Ever-
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branch. No ticket sales after Feb. 14!
Special Thanks to Deer Creek Vine-
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River Brewing & Pizza. Fundraiser
for Illinois River Valley Arts Coun-
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