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Parvo
returns
to Valley
By
Annette McGee Rasch
IVN Senior
Contributing Writer
In recent weeks numer-
ous dogs have come into Dr.
Joe’s Pet Hospital sick with
the highly contagious canine
Parvo virus. The clinic has
treated seven dogs with the vi-
rus so far.
“It seems to be a bad year
for Parvo,” said Boni Petersen,
Office Manager at Dr. Joe’s.
“And these cases are not text-
book normal. We’re seeing
more older dogs succumbing
to the virus, and also, even
some dogs that have been vac-
cinated are susceptible to this
strain of the virus in our area
right now.”
Parvo is a dangerous
virus that attacks the intes-
tines and is frequently fatal.
The most common symptoms
of this disease are vomiting
and diarrhea, which could be
bloody and have a foul odor.
Some dogs will exhibit a loss
of appetite, depression and
fever. (Normal temperature
for dogs is 101 to 102.5). In-
fected dogs rapidly dehydrate
and severe cases progress to
shock and death. Another, less
common “cardiac” form of
Parvo occurs in puppies typi-
cally less than two months old.
This form of parvo attacks the
heart muscle and often results
in sudden death.
See Dogs on A-9
Birds, Brews and B’ United Way
going for ‘The
Big Idea’
By
Jenna Larkin
IVN Contributing Writer
(Photo by Dan Mancuso, Illinois Valley News)
Colonel Mustard and their frontman B’ Wishes rocked the crowd during
the annual Birds and Brews fund-raiser for the Siskiyou Field Institute
May 17, in Selma.
Deelia Warner is a volun-
teer for United Way of Jackson
County whose mission, ac-
cording to their website, “Is to
improve lives by mobilizing
the caring power of Jackson
County communities.”
Last year members of
United Way had several meet-
ings with the superintendent
of Jackson County schools
and in discussion realized that
students in rural areas did not
have many opportunities pre-
sented to them to broaden their
knowledge of what life has to
offer. United Way of Jackson
County teamed up with 549 C
and Cave Junction schools and
developed The Big Idea last
year. The concept is to have
100 percent graduation rate
while broadening a student’s
horizon, letting them know that
there are many career choices
available. In its first year The
Big Idea helped around 980
students and their families.
This year The Big Idea
is focusing on Jackson County
and Illinois Valley sixth grad-
ers, the class of 2020. Sixth
grade is the time that students
begin to look at options that
are available and consider ca-
reer choices. With that in mind,
Deelia Warner is in the process
of collecting T-shirts from as
many universities as possible
across the United States. The
hope is to send every sixth
grader home with a university
shirt by the end of the 2013-14
school year. The notion is to
show the kids that there are lots
of choices and help available
to them, all they have to do is
look and go for it. Currently
Warner has 20 shirts and needs
to obtain 90. Some of the uni-
versities that have contributed
include the Naval Academy,
Stanford, OIT now known as
Oregon Tech in Klamath Falls
and University of Idaho.
“The idea is to show these
kids there is a bigger world out
there,” said Warner.
The Big Idea is still in
the pilot phase but has already
shown students that there is so
much to see and experience.
In the year that the program
has been running, students
have visited local universities,
some will get to experience a
Shakespeare play and mentors
have taken on some students
that need a little extra help in
school and life choices. The
plan is to have a different goal
each year the program is run-
ning.
See Big on A-9
Redwood Hwy. movie hits theaters
By
Judy Hoyle
IVN Contributing Writer
Redwood Highway, the long-awaited
independent film shot in Jackson and Jose-
phine counties and northern California during
October 2012 is now in release and will open
at Southgate Cinema in Grants Pass on Friday,
May 23. Local viewers may recognize many
familiar locations including Ashland, Talent,
Phoenix, Grants Pass and Brookings.
Directed by Gary Lundgren from a script
by Lundgren and Ashland musician and author
James Twyman, the film incorporated Cave
Junction locales River Valley Restaurant and
Great Cats World Park. The cast and crew
spent a week in the Illinois Valley rehearsing
and filming the story; which revolves around
76 year old Marie, played by Shirley Knight,
who hasn’t seen the ocean in 45 years.
Living in a comfortable retirement com-
munity, estranged from her family and dissat-
isfied with her surroundings, she’s generally
not happy about her life. In order to confront
an earlier heartbreaking event and attend her
granddaughter’s wedding, Marie decides to
walk the 80 miles from Grants Pass to the
ocean. Along the way, she encounters people
who help her heal her heart, including Pete, the
fictional owner of It’s a Burl, played by Tom
Skerritt.
Twyman, who came up with the idea and
co-produced the film with Gary Kout states on
his website, “One of our most important as-
sets [is] our elders…they initiated the creative
and spiritual movement we find ourselves in
now…It’s time to honor them and to welcome
their wisdom! …I believe we need many more
movies that feature strong senior characters,
and that’s what we’ve done…”
In October 2012, the I.V. News reported,
“As far as Twyman is concerned, the majority
of Hollywood movies seem to be geared to-
ward 15-year-old boys. I thought, what would
happen if an older woman decided to walk the
entire length of 199 from Grants Pass to the
Oregon Coast? What would she experience?
Who would she meet?” Twyman mused.
In the same article, co-producer Kout
stated, “We are really thankful for the help and
support from the Illinois Valley. The people of
Cave Junction and local businesses have been
amazing. You can’t make a movie without that
kind of support from the residents.”
The film was entered in a dozen competi-
tions, winning Best Drama at the Dixie Film
Festival and Best Narrative Feature at the Gig
Harbor Film Festival. It was also screened
at the Ashland, Mt. Rainier, Tacoma, and the
Northwest Film Forum Local Sightings Film
Festivals as well as the Sedona International
Film Festival, among others.
See Redwood on A-9
Skate park takes shape at Jubilee Park
By
Judy Hoyle
IVN Contributing Writer
A world-renowned skate
park designer is leading con-
struction of the new skate-
board facility in Jubilee Park.
Sage Bolyard co-found-
ed Dreamland Skate Parks in
the 1990’s with Mark “Red”
Scott and others in Lincoln
City, Ore. They developed the
business based on their expe-
rience building the legendary
Burnside Skatepark in Port-
land.
Bolyard later moved to
Grindline Skateparks, which
was founded in 1990. The firm
has designed and built hun-
dreds of facilities all over the
U.S. and as far away as Israel
and Okinawa. Like Dream-
land, Grindline is known for
employing actual skaters as
designers and builders. This
emphasis allows the firm to
build “more skate park for
less money,” benefitting both
clients and users in the long
run.
Here in Cave Junc-
tion, the company’s attention
to craftsmanship and safety
made them the first choice
of the local sport enthusiasts
who voted for their design.
The builders are similarly
impressed by the level of
commitment and expertise
volunteers have exhibited in
helping to build the project,
which is quickly taking shape
and is slated to be completed
by the end of June.
Dave Palmer is Bolyard’s
co-contractor for Grindline on
this project.
“You’re
getting
a
10,000-square-foot
project
for a 1,500-square-foot bud-
get because of all the volun-
teer and in-kind work that’s
been contributed,” Palmer
said. “We’ve been able to save
money on wages and use that
to make a better project.”
“We’re building on 20
years of effort,” said Maureen
Connolly, who teamed with
Stacy Williams to make Wil-
liams’ dream a reality. The pair
of mothers co-chair the Sk8CJ
Committee, a project of Youth
Empowerment and Support
(Y.E.S.), which also sponsors
the annual Barter Faire fund-
raiser for the Dome School.
About 20 years ago the
city made plans for a skate-
park at Jubilee Park. A group
led by Thom LeGay and An-
drea Thomas later installed
a concrete slab and built
wooden and metal structures,
which lasted about nine years.
That first C.J. skate park was
dedicated in 1997 at the La-
bor Day Festival. LeGay later
raised funds to have a larger
concrete slab installed.
In 2007, Billy Dillard led
a team that built new tempo-
rary ramps as his Eagle Scout
project. These were disman-
(Photo by Judy Hoyle, Illinois Valley News)
tled in 2012 when they were
The skate park team includes (L to R): Derek Plourde, Dave Palmer, Blair Birch-
deemed unsafe by the city.
See Park on A-12 field, Buffalo, Stacey Williams. Seated: Sage Bolyard and Maureen Connolly.