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Illinois Valley News, Cave Junction, Ore. Wednesday, August 31, 2016 Life in the Valley of Riches By DAN MANCUSO, Publisher I have worked and lived in many towns across the county and I have to say Cave Junction is hands down the most anti-business city I have ever known. Until they read this, I have generally gotten along with the City Council and most of the city employees that I know. This is not personal; I am not attacking any one person or council member. I feel it must be a cultural thing. Let’s take a look a why I feel this way: Filing a lawsuit to prevent commerce from the legal marijuana trade. Like it or not this city is kept afloat by marijuana. Cave Junction is so poor that it cannot afford appropriate levels of law enforcement. This is the last city that should be spending money on a lawsuit like this. While getting the actual number spent to date has proved difficult, it’s thought to be over $30,000. This is aside from the lawsuit against PAPA’s dispensary, no clue what that is costing. Voting down the 3 percent sales tax on retail recreational marijuana that by law they are allowed to do. The city cites the lawsuit as the reason, but the lawsuit is regarding medicinal marijuana, not recreational, go figure. They didn’t even take the time to see what revenue this would bring in. The city is spending money fighting a lawsuit that in the end will prevent commerce. Voting no to putting a gas tax on the ballot. While in theory I like a gas tax because it spreads the cost to the tourists, our council could not even give an idea as to the amount the tax would bring in. Not one of them even had a clue. I spent 10 minutes on the phone with the Oregon Fuel Tax Group and learned quickly that January to July 2016, 2.1 million gallons of fuel was delivered within the city of Cave Junction, roughly 3.6 million gallons per year. If taxed at 1 cent per gallon this would equate to a total of $36,000 in taxes. Page A-5 As if all the above was not enough, the city does nothing to deal with transients that stand out in front of our businesses each day. Just this past weekend social media was abuzz over the parking lot of a local store and how many people don’t feel safe parking their car there. Even more residents are tired of being accosted by panhandlers. Every time you see someone on the street with a $400 grocery cart full of stuff, that’s a crime in process. The city needs to get the contract deputy to make this type of incident a priority. The more you pester them, the less they hang around. The less they are around, the more people stop and shop in Cave Junction. Need I even bring up a local motel or Jubilee Park? The city of Cave Junction needs to change its attitude toward the business community. Most of the business owners live outside the city limits so we can’t run for office or vote. I understand there is a lot that needs to be done and it can be overwhelming to the council. They have so many issues to deal with and little to no money to work with. And, yes, I do appreciate the time they volunteer to be a part of the solution. But, maybe if they spent time dealing with the real issues at hand they could actually do something that makes Cave Junction a better place and be friendlier to all businesses. Thank you for picking up this week’s paper, enjoy! ~ ROGUE VALLEY Senior SPoTLiGHT Sponsored by the rogue Valley Council ELDER ABUSE basic care; financial exploitation; Abuse robs older adults and persons verbal or emotional abuse; involuntary with physical disabilities of health, seclusion; wrongful restraint; unwant- safety and property in communities ed sexual contact; or abandonment by across Oregon. the caregiver. In addition, self-neglect Let’s commit to the improvement is when individuals lack the cognitive of vulnerable adults’ quality of life ability to care for themselves, which through prevention and reporting. can also lead to harm. What is adult abuse? Who should report abuse? Abuse of adults aged 65 and older Everyone should report abuse. WE and adults with physical disabilities all have a responsibility to protect under the age of 65 can include: physi- those who cannot protect themselves. cal harm or injury; failure to provide Oregon law requires mandatory COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS Food & Friends Menu FRIDAY – SEPT. 2 Sponsored by MEATLOAF W/ GRAVY i.V. Wellness resources should not be aggressively aimed at senior citizens. Statistics bear this out. There is probably a substantial amount of opioid dependency in senior citizens. So what !! As long as they get their medicine the dependency is not a problem. The pain is !! Yes it must be monitored. Yes, they should have a choice. There is increased suffering and increased risk of death and other untoward consequences in seniors denied opioids and given the NSAID alternative. If seniors in pain were given opioid therapy instead of NSAIDs would as many die or be hospitalized each year? In 2014- 18,900 people died from prescription opioids. That is all people including the ones who got the opioids illegally. 12,000 of those were 45 to 64 years old, not yet seniors. Overdose death rates are highest for people 25 to 54 years old, therefore quite a few deaths probably occurred in those 25 to 44, so add that to the 12,000. Not that many deaths left over for the 65+ year old category. So, would as many seniors die or be hospitalized? Probably many fewer seniors would die and many fewer be hospital- ized and many, many more would have pain free lives. (You can contact I.V. Wellness Resources at www.ivwell- nessresources@gmail.com.) Pain Meds In recent years, NSAIDs, (medicines containing aspirin, ibuprofen, naproxin, celecoxib) have killed more than 16,000 Americans PER YEAR and caused more than 100,000 PER YEAR to be hospitalized. These are just the people who take prescription NSAIDs for arthritis. These are mostly seniors. If all the deaths and hospitalizations were counted for all people who take NSAIDs, that number would be enormous. The deaths and hospitalizations are mainly caused by gastro- intestinal bleeding. NSAIDs weaken the gastro-intestinal (GI) lining. This “side effect” occurs much more frequently in the elderly. Some of the other tragedies caused by NSAIDs are from heart disease, stroke and kidney damage. The main reason for this is the medical establishments ingrained abhorrence with ‘drug dependency’. We are dependent on air, water, shelter and a host of other things. Really dependent. What is so bad about being dependent on a medicine which alleviates one of our greatest miseries. A drug dependency in relation to pain treatment must be put into context with the risks involved with other, less effec- tive treatments. This new campaign to reign in opioid abuse MONDAY – SEPT. 5 CLOSED FOR HOLIDAY WEDNESDAY - SEPT. 7 CHICKEN STIR FRY OVER RICE If you need meals delivered please call 541-955-8839. of Governments reporting by certain people such as physicians, nurses, health department workers and more. State law protects the confidential- ity of all individuals reporting abuse. You are not required to give your name Senior Bulletin if you wish to remain anonymous. Gatekeeper Training at Call Adult Protective Services at 1- 855-503-SAFE or 541-618-7853. I.V. Family Coalition, 535 To learn more about local senior E. River St. Sept. 17 at 10 resources you can call the Aging and a.m. in the River Room. Disability Resource Connection at 1-855-673-2372. CHAIR FITNESS classes FREE at Healthy U, Monday and Wednesdays from 2 - 2:45 p.m. 535 E. 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