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Illinois Valley News, Cave Junction, Ore. Wednesday, July 12, 2017
Letters to the editor
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I told you so:
I’m not usually one to say,
I TOLD ya so, but this is The
Exception. Not really CJ, but
as regards the ‘growing’ Civil
War in Williams echoed by The
Valley News recent article. Ah, the
chickens, nay, the turkey vultures,
are indeed coming home to roost.
I have lived in Williams, and it’s
mainly ALWAYS been a very
cliquey, standoffish, hippy ghetto-
---a literal dead end ‘town’ with
one basic way in-or-out(unless
of course you didn’t mind using
certain ‘robber roads’). This is
what happens when you FULLY
leagalize anything. Careful what
you ask for. Actually, this has
become a microcosm of Oregon
and the so-called “American Way”,
as some might say.
Well, how ya liking it NOW!
Your dream has become a waking
nightmare of your OWN making.
You sanctimonious frauds. The
only thing that you know less
than is what you CAN in fact
CONTROL, which at this point IS
next to nothing.
You ARE the quintessential
hippy stereotype. Ah, less IS
more, dude...it’s all good. Just
a little seed, moderate growth...
hardly any work to it. Just sit back
and let The Weed do it’s thing.
EXCEPT that when you
LEGALIZED it FULLY, The
Cartel was at the ready, duh...with
all of their money, resources and
ambition, like it or not. You didn’t
hafta compete before, and now
you CAN’T. In fact, some of your
‘kind’ neighbors SOLD you OUT;
but isn’t that the
way it ALWAYS seems to play---
no honor among thieves, nor pot
growers?
You’re tying to make some
sort of legal exemption, yet you’re
discovering the difficulty, if not
impossibility, of that. That is
definitely NOT an option, because
you have no real legal recourse.
Here’s 2 suggestions: 1)
Turn to Jesus; 2) Maybe build a ‘
Weed Wall’, of Industrial Hemp,
where you can ONLY hope to
smoke yer way in Or OUT!
There are good people in
Williams; and I am totally PRO
Medical...but what you have cher’
is a nest of hippie hypocrites
from Hell (like the alliteration?)
Nevertheless, your Paradise has
become your Purgatory.
You hippy-dippies are
meeting your long overdue Karma.
There is a 3rd option, trouble is
that involves BANG, BANG, AND
BANG!!! You can pull some, but
they’ll pull out more. Remember
the lyrics, “Send lawyers, guns and
money!” Oh, yeah, cuz with those
3, they can get all the drugs that
they can use, or sell.
So, are you ready to go all
the way for your ‘principles’? Too
many snowflakes, and the Genie
is out of the bottle. I believe in
miracles, I just don’t believe in
y’all. Good luck; but it’s gonna
take a whole lot more than that.
As Vince Lombardi once said,
‘Luck favors the prepared.’ Well,
that pretty much makes everything
rhetorical for you, doesn’t it.
Jack Faust
Madison, Wisconsin
HS
IV
2 nd Annual
CarrollandDorothyBierbowerrecentlycelebratedtheir72
weddinganniversary.TheyweremarriedonJuly5,1945.
CarrollwasonabriefleaveatthetimefromtheUSNavy,while
hisship,theUSSComfort,wasbeingrepairedinSanPedro,
California,afterbeinghitbyaJapanesesuicideplaneat
Okinawa.TheyraisedtheirfivechildreninQuartzHill,Ca.,and
areveryproudoftheirsevengrandchildren;18greatͲ
grandchildrenand5greatͲgreatͲgrandchildren.
nd
TOUCHDOWN AUCTION!
When:
Time:
Where:
Price:
Saturday, July 15, 2017
4:30pm to 8:30pm
Siskiyou Smokejumpers Base Museum
(IV Airport)
$25 per ticket (includes dinner, 1 beverage)
$170 table of 8 (includes dinner, reserved table, and a
bottle of wine)
Happy Hour (no host bar), Dinner catered by Carlos’
Restaurante, Silent and Live Auction
Come out for an evening of fun and support your local HS Football Team!
Illinois Valley High School, 625 E River St, Cave Junction OR 97523 * 541-592-2116 * FAX 541-592-4853
DorothywasastayͲatͲhomemother,thenlaterwenttoschool,
andworkedasanLVNforseveralyears.CarrollworkedforSo.
Ca.Edisonformanyyears,andhadhisownTVrepairbusiness.
Afterretirementin1991,theyrelocatedtoCaveJunction,
Oregon.
Obituaries
Former Cave Junction resident Peggy Shull Stockbridge, 91, died Wednesday,
July 5, 2017 at a care facility in Redding, Calif.
Peggy taught school in Ferndale, Calif. and Cave Junction. She was born in Sept. 11,
1925 in St. Francis, Kan. the first of seven children born to Harry E. and Gertrude Shull. She is
survived by a daughter, Candice Finck of Redding; a son, Keith Bandy of Whitmore, Calif.; a
sister, Gerry McLean of Kerby, Ore.; and numerous grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
No services are planned.
I llINoIs V alley F uNeral D Irectors
www.since1928Hull.com
541-592-4110
Save the date
July 13
Squeezle will play the Concerts in
the Park.
Summer
2017
FREE
ADMISSION! Sponsored by the IV
Chamber of Commerce. 6 to 8 p.m.
Thursday Evenings at Jubilee Park,
CJ:
July 15
IVHS Football Touchdown
Auction fundraiser. Saturday July
15, 4:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Siskiyou Smokejumpers base.
$25 per person or $170 per eight
seat table. Dinner by Carlos Restau-
rante. No host bar.
Aug. 3
I.V. by Candlelight Walk af-
ter Concerts in the Park (6 - 8 p.m.)
Bring your candles and show com-
munity unity for public safety.
Continuing
Summer Reading Program sign
Illinois
Valley
News
Published weekly by
W.H. Alltheway, LLC
Daniel J. Mancuso, Publisher
ups are still happening at the Illinois
Valley library! Our free program
runs through Saturday, August 5th.
Join us on Saturdays from 11am -
1pm for crafts sponsored by Illinois
River Valley Arts Council. For more
information contact Roberta Lee
at 541-592-4778. IV Branch, Jose-
phine Community Libraries, 209 W
Palmer St, CJ
.
Concerts in the Park - Summer
2017 FREE ADMISSION! Spon-
sored by the I.V. Chamber of Com-
merce
6 to 8 p.m. Thursday Evenings
at Jubilee Park, CJ:
July
20, Circle of Stone
– Celtic rock; July 27, Dale and
Sharon Hopper – old-time country
classics; Aug 3, Kelly Thibodeaux
& Etouffee – rhythm and blues and
Southern rock; Aug 10, Fire Your
Boss – post-Apocalyptic folk core.
Please bring your own seating.
Nachos, Hot Dogs and more avail-
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Cave Junction, OR 97523
Illinois Valley News is published at
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*Illinois Valley Community
Watch Meeting every Monday from
5 - 6 p.m. at Wild River Pizza, 249
Redwood Hwy. – Cave Junction. A
Public Safety Outreach Campaign
effort with all I.V. Neighborhood
Watch Groups – representatives,
including businesses and churches,
and support for anyone wishing to
start a neighborhood watch. In-
cludes a 2-way hand held radio pro-
gram briefing from 4:20 - 4:50 p.m.
Contact Guenter - 541-415-1929 /
ivwatch541@gmail.com.
*The I.V. Senior Thrift Store:
Join the crew and make new friends.
You don’t need to be a senior citizen
to volunteer at the store. Call us at
541-592-6630. Open Monday – Sat-
urday, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
*The C.J. Substation hours are
changed. Open hours are now Mon-
day and Tuesday, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
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Remainder of subscription will be donated to the
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*Cave Junction Patrol, LLC is
looking for volunteers. CJ Patrol is a
private citizen volunteer orgnaniza-
tion dedicated to effectively address-
ing heretofore-unchecked property
crime in our city and neighborhoods.
The primary mission of CJ Patrol is
to prevent, interrupt, report and de-
crease property crime in the city of
Cave Junction. Call 541-592-9665
or visit cjpatrol.org.
*Committee Meeting STATE
OF JEFFERSON Josephine Coun-
ty 1st Thursday of each month at
5:30 p.m. Black Forest Restaurant,
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Grants Pass and 3rd Thursday of
each month at 6 p.m., Wild River
Pizza in Cave Junction.
*Come join the Cave Junction
Lions Club at River Valley Restaur-
rant, at 6 p.m. on the 2nd and 4th
Thursday of each month. We are a
co-ed club and are always looking
for community minded people that
are dedicated, hard working, wheth-
er physically limited or not and most
of all, like to have fun.
We host the Classic Car Show
in late June and Turkey Bingo in
early November. So if you like to
have fun and like to help make great
things happen, to provide glasses,
hearing aids, scholarships and sup-
port for our community and so much
more.
Come by and see what we do
or give us a call, 541-592-9243 Nina
Horsley, vice president or 541-295-
7579 Sherry Overstreet, president.
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