Illinois Valley News, Cave Junction, Ore. Wednesday, July 12, 2017
Page A-3
Lions Club put the heat in hot rods
Jason McMillen
IVN Contributing Writer
The Cave Junction
Lion’s Club successfully
hosted their Classic Car Show
in Jubilee Park Saturday, June
24 and is nearing its 20th
year of operation. Though
car owner and spectator
attendance was unusually
low, and vendor count even
lower, many still came out to
experience the event in 106
degree weather. It is theorized
that many of the vendors
attended the Barter Faire in
Selma instead which, after
changing the date, had its
event the same weekend as
the car show.
The new president of
the club, Sherry Overstreet,
said that her main goal for
the moment is to get new
members. The club has
recently taken a downturn in
membership and has lost all
but five members. Admittedly,
club officials said that they
would not have been able
to host the event without
help from other clubs and
volunteers.
Overstreet herself is
somewhat of a newcomer to
the club and has only been
participating for about two
years before shooting to the
top and becoming president.
The show, which features
antique and classic cars from
1987 and older, fundraised
around $150 which will
be spread amongst several
organizations though the
club’s main focus is vision
correction.
The money is primarily
donated via registration fees
from car owner’s vehicles
with a little extra coming from
the businesses that buy the
trophies. In total, 42 cars and
their owners showed up, out
of the 48 who registered. The
club distributes flyers to car
clubs primarily in California
and Oregon.
“There’s only one person
who’s worked it before in the
club,” Vice President Nina
Horsley said, pointing out
the chaotic and undermanned
effort, “The rest of us are
new so we’re just learning
it.” Compounding their lack
of manpower and collective
inexperience, many of the
members have physical
limitations which made the
task even more difficult.
Additionally, Harry Johnson,
a crucial member of the club,
recently died and his wife
Cheryl who suffered injuries
from a ladder incident which
have made her temporarily
unable to do physical labor.
“There’s no way us five
could have done it. So we
do the best we can, but on a
car show day we definitely
need bodies out there and
having bodies, whether
they’re physically limited
or not, is a great blessing,”
Horsley said. In total, they
had 15 volunteers assist them
at the event which included
members of the Illinois
Valley Lions, Brooking’s
Harbor Lions, the Redwood
Lions, plus the Masons and
the Order of the Eastern Star
which did breakfast and lunch
respectively.
“I just want to thank
everybody from the
community and all the people
that showed up with their cars
for coming and participating
on such an extremely hot day
and making it a wonderful
event,” Horsley concluded,
hoping next year has a better
turnout and the club gains a
few new members.
(Photo by Birdy for the Illinois Valley News)
Miles Tandy watches with amazement one of
the firedancers at the 2017 Barter Faire.
Parks ponder fee change
due to recent vandalism
Josephine County Parks has seen an increase
in Park Fee Box vandalism over the past couple of
weeks. The Parks Department is self-funded and
relies on the public paying for the services they use.
Fees include overnight camping, shelter reservations
and day use.
Since Tuesday, June 27, all three fee boxes at
Fish Hatchery were pried open. The vandal could not
have made out with too much money, as Parks has
been prioritizing collecting fee envelopes on a daily
basis. The latest fee box was pried open overnight
at Fish Hatchery North and was discovered at 9 a.m.
on Saturday, July 1. That box had fee envelopes
collected the day before, an estimated $5 -$30 may
have been in the box. The fee boxes cost about
$500 each. Occasionally the entire box needs to be
replaced, other times staff can work to repair the fee
boxes, but often takes several days to get it back in
working order.
In addition to the boxes being pried open, there
are two additional vandals that are repeatedly hitting
boxes across the park system.
One individual nicknamed the “Sticky Bandit”
uses a very sticky substance to attempt to fish fee
envelopes out of the boxes. He/she may occasionally
get an envelope or two, but for the most part this
person just make a huge mess. Until our park staff
identifies which boxes need to be cleaned, the public
can experience their envelopes having a hard time
being dropped into the box.
Another individual has been trying to drill out
the locks at the boxes, and has only been successful
in opening the box one time, although he has
destroyed at least six locks in the past two months.
Along with the small decline in revenue, there
is the continual expense of supplies and staff time to
repair damages. With only five full-time park rangers
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and a handful of summer park aides, staff are having
a hard time completing other necessary work. For
instance, Indian Mary only just had sprinklers turned
on last week, which normally would have been
in a month ago - and two parks are still in need of
irrigation being hooked up. Every day park needs at
our 20 various locations are being re-prioritized and
what was on the top of the list yesterday, may not
receive attention for another week.
Along with the vandalism to fee box, a lot of
parks and not being respected by day users. Fish
Hatchery is seeing the most amount of issues this last
week. A truck load of trash and tires were dumped at
Fish Hatchery South, discovered on Wednesday, June
28. Not all individuals are using the trash receptacles
onsite and Parks is getting complaints about litter
being left on the river banks and in the parking lots.
Additionally, there are a lot of individuals
not complying with day use fees. At the three Fish
Hatchery locations, 15 citations were written in a 1
hour period on June 29, in addition to a hand-full
of other people paying at the fee box once they saw
other people receiving citations. Parks understands
that $5 per day can add up over the summer, which is
why we are strongly urging everyone who uses parks
to simply buy a $30 Annual Day Use Parking Pass.
The Parks director and staff will be discussing
options with the Parks Advisory Board over the next
week. Some sites may need to be closed temporarily
so that Parks staff can focus on providing quality
service to the sites that have no vandalism and paying
customers. Another option may be to stop accepting
$5 day use fees and change policies so that only those
with Annual Day Use Parking Passes can use the
sites; anyone not in compliance would receive a $260
citation. Parks doesn’t want to have to go with either
of these options, but may not have a choice.
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