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Illinois Valley News, Cave Junction, Ore. Wednesday, August 23, 2017
ROGUE VALLEY
Senior SPoTLiGHT
SPonSoreD BY i.V. Wellness resources
NEW SENIOR PROGRAM IN THE
VALLEY
Caring Callers
COUNCIL
OF GOVERNMENTS
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WEDNESDAY- AUG 30
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Call 541-955-8839
to volunteer or if you
need meals.
Illinois Valley Wellness Resources is
currently offering a Caring Callers program to
seniors and disabled residents.
If you, or someone you know is feeling
isolated and lonely in their home and could
use a friendly caller to do wellness checks and
develop a friendship over the phone than please
sign up for this important new program.
According to an article in Psychology Today,
loneliness sets in motion a variety of “slowly
unfolding pathophysiological processes.” The
net result is that the lonely experience higher
levels of cumulative wear and tear on the body.
Caring Callers volunteers are pre-screened
with an application, background check and
references along with an interview process.
The caller can set-up phone calls for a daily
or weekly schedule depending on what the
WELLNESS CHECKS
If you know a senior that
you are worried about and
feel they need a wellness
check. Please call Laura
at I.V. Wellness Resources
at 541-592-9781.
resident’s needs are and callers are matched with
residents based on a personality questionnaire.
Also, all callers in the program sign a
confidentiality agreement to ensure all
information shared remains private.
Please call Laura Mancuso to get signed up
for the Caring Callers program at 541-592-9781
or email laurasunshine1969@yahoo.com.
You can contact I.V. Wellness Resources at
www.ivwellnessresources@gmail.com or 541-
592-9781 and please like our Facebook Page @
facebook.com/ivwellnessresources.
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9781.
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Looking for services?
If you need special help
Call the Aging and
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Disabled Resource
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& Disability Services at
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org.
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want to place a FREE AD
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need call Laura Mancuso
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How to avoid another Charlottesville: by Dr. Glenn Mollette
Does anybody in America truly want to
repeat another horrific Charlottesville?
I hope the answer is no but it seems
there are different groups lusting for more
of Charlottesville. Three people were killed
and many others injured in a display of civil
warfare reminiscent of what I used to watch
on the evening news back in the sixties.
Are there hate groups in America? The
answer is yes. Is there racism in America?
The answer is yes. Is the solution to hate and
racism violence? No. Hurting one another,
cursing each other, violating each other and
trying to kill each other comes from the bas-
est and most depraved human beings.
Where is the commonsense of what
happened in Charlottesville, Virginia? There
was no commonsense.
How do we avoid another Charlottes-
ville?
Freedom of speech does not mean free-
dom of violence. Every group that protests in
any community in the United States should
first gain a permit from the local county or
city government for a day and length of time
with an exact location to hold the march or
protest. The protest must be civil. There is no
need for guns at a march or at rally to speak.
Freedom of speech does not mean freedom to
start shooting off guns.
Next, the group should be required to
put up a deposit of cash. It takes money to
clean up a town after hundreds or thousands
of people have dropped their cigarette butts
and pop cans everywhere. Part of the cash
deposit should be refundable if the group
marches orderly and leaves the community
orderly.
Tell all the local people that the protes-
tors are coming and to leave town or find
something else to do. In other words ignore
them. The best way to kill anything is indif-
ference. Indifference has been killing church-
es and marriages for many years now.
Forbid another group to protest at the
same time. Civil freedom of speech should
mean I get a turn and then you get a turn.
However national cable television news and
Presidential debates have proven that there is
little civility and manners in our nation any-
more. People start talking and then opponents
begin yelling trying to drown them out. Any
group that has a permit to march and speak
about their cause should have a chance to say
what they want to say. When they are finished
the opposing group should pay their fee to
march and have their say about the issue.
Yelling at each other and throwing
things and driving cars into crowds gains
nothing but death, more hatred and more
violence.
A date and time set by the city and
county gives local and state police the oppor-
tunity to organize in such a way to save lives.
An event such as Charlottesville requires hun-
dreds of state police people and maybe even
the National Guard. Yes, this is tragic.
When a group marched in Pikeville,
Kentucky last April 29 no one was killed.
Lots of words were hurled by the opposing
groups but the community and the police
kept the order. The groups came, the police
made convincing barricades and lives were
sparred. The Pikeville commissioners notably
disallowed either of the groups to wear hoods
or masks in their protesting. This is another
good move that all city and county govern-
ments need to enforce in the future.
When groups interrupt and act violently
toward those speaking they should be hauled
off to jail until somebody pays their fine to
get them out.
I was in the St. Louis airport the other
day and there is a Freedom of Speech stand in
the airport. People can stand at that location
and give a speech. Nobody was giving one
while I was there. Every community should
protect freedom of speech. No one speaking
and conducting him or herself in a civil man-
ner should have to fear being assaulted or run
over by a car. Those speaking should never be
threatening to anyone physically nor should
listeners be allowed to threaten the speaker.
Where or how does violence resolve any
issue? Unless of course people want another
Civil War where hundreds of thousands of
people were killed in order to get the point
across. Is this what we want in America?
Surely we do not want to go backwards to
such a brutal and archaic time in our history?
Violence will only provoke more vio-
lence and more hatred. We are a multicultural
society. All colors and backgrounds live in
America. The solution to our success is to
quit biting and fighting each other and work
together. Or, have we become just too bar-
baric?
Glenn Mollette is a syndicated colum-
nist and author of 12 books. He is read in all
50 states. Read his new book, “Uncommon
Sense.” Contact him at GMollette@aol.com.
Like his facebook page at www.facebook.
Community Bible Church
Eclipse
Joel 2:30-31 (NKJV)
30 “And I will show wonders in the heavens and in the
earth: blood and fire and pillars of smoke. 31 The sun shall be
turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the coming
of the great and awesome day of the LORD.
People are always looking for signs in the heavens and
while not necessarily altogether wrong, I believe it is overplayed.
People take verses like the verse we started with today and try
to read current celestial events into it. The timing of this verse
is made clear: “the great and awesome day of the Lord.” This
past week I received a call from someone who wondered if this
week’s eclipse would have cataclysmic events associated with
it. My thought was – why should this one have any more impact
than the many total eclipses that have occurred over history?
Over the years I have heard of people panicking be-
cause of the planets aligning or arranging themselves in certain
patterns. It seems to me that we look for things to get excited or
upset about – like the 2012 end of the Mayan calendar, or Y2K,
or any number of other events that cross our paths.
Are we subject to major destructive events? Certainly
there are things that could and do happen on a regular basis
around the world: floods, earthquakes, fires, tornados, hurricanes,
volcanoes, tsunamis, and who knows what else! This eclipse has
brought out many bizarre theories – many of which you can read
about on the internet.
Does the Bible address eclipses? The only reference I
found that sounded like one was in Amos 8:9, “And it shall come
to pass in that day,” says the Lord GOD, “That I will make the
sun go down at noon, And I will darken the earth in broad day-
light;”
I believe we should be careful about getting too caught
up in the things that create panic. Yes, there is much going on in
this world of ours that could disturb us, but there is peace found
Places of Worship
BRIDGEVIEW
COMMUNITY CHURCH
5181 Holland Loop Rd., CJ
541-592-3923
“Come Join the Worship!”
Sunday Worship 10:30 a.m.
Pastor Sonny Moore
www.bridgeviewcc.org
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7th DAY ADVENTIST
265 S. Old Stage Rd., CJ
Sabbath School - 9:30 a.m.
Saturday Worship 11 a.m.
Pastor Christian Martin
Church (541) 592-3218
Madrone Adventist School
541-592-3330
* * *
IMMANUEL UNITED
METHODIST CHURCH
200 Watkins St., CJ
Phone 541-592-3876
Pastor Charles Chase
Sunday School - 9:15 a.m.
Sunday Worship - 9:15 a.m.
Child-care for small children
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ST. PATRICK OF THE FOREST
CATHOLIC CHURCH
407 W. River St., CJ
541-592-3658
Fr. William Holtzinger, Pastor
Mass - Sunday 11 a.m..
Sacrament of Reconciliation
Sunday - 10:30 a.m.
Holy Days TBA
* * *
TAKILMA BIBLE CHURCH
10343 Takilma Road, Takilma
Pastor Dan Robinson
Bible Study / Prayer Time
9:30 a.m.
Morning Worship 11 a.m
Wednesday Bible Study
7 p.m
* * *
First Baptist Church of Selma
18285 Redwood Hwy., Selma
541-597-4169
Pastor Monty Pope
Sunday School - 9:45 a.m.
Worship - 11 a.m.
GOOD SHEPHERD
LUTHERAN CHURCH
East River Street
& Lewis Court, CJ
Annemarie Richardson
Lay Pastor.
Sunday School - 9:15 a.m.
Sunday Worship - 10 a.m.
Church Phone: 541-592-2290
www.goodshepherdlutheraniv.net
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VALLEY EVANGELICAL
FREE CHURCH
498 Laurel Road, CJ
P.O. Box 1248
Pastor Marvin Porter
Sunday School - 9:45 a.m.
Worship Service - 11 a.m.
evfree@frontiernet.net
541-592-6160
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FOUNTAIN OF LIFE
ASSEMBLY OF GOD
451 S. Junction Ave., CJ
541-592-3956
Pastor Mark McLean
Morning Worship
9:30 & 11 a.m.
Wednesday - 7 p.m.
Adult Bible Study
* * *
ST. MATTHIAS EPISCOPAL CHURCH
25904 Redwood Hwy., CJ
541-592-2006
Rev. Bryant Bechtold
Sunday Worship
Service 10:30 a.m.
THE CHURCH OF JESUS
CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY
SAINTS
209 S. Junction Ave., CJ
Sacrament Meet - 10 a.m.
Sunday School - 11:20 a.m.
Priesthood, Relief Soc. -
12:10 p.m.
Bishop
Larry Hammersmith
541-592-3919
Ministry at CBC
Morning Worship 10:30 a.m.
Evening Praise and Prayer 6 p.m.
Community Christian Academy
Preschool – 12th grade
Applications available: 541-592-3896
Senior Exercise Class
Monday, Wednesday, & Friday
9-10 a.m. in Dining Room
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for
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WednesdAys
eArly Bird 6 - 6:30PM
17 gAMes 6:30 - 9:30PM
Hamburgers for sale
520 e. river street, CJ
iv senior Center
open to tHe public
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Illinois Valley Baptist Church
541-592-6149
102 S. Redwood Hwy.
(in the County Building)
Sunday Worship 10:30 AM
Wednesday Bible Study, Prayer
& Youth Program 7:00 PM
Ladies Bible Study
Call for info
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Wonder Bible Chapel
11911 Redwood Hwy.
Wonder, Ore.
Sunday worship 10 a.m.
Non-denominational Bible
believing Church
Sunday School Nursery
Youth group meets
Sunday 6:30 p.m.
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Illinois Valley Praise Center
28569 Redwood Hwy. CJ
Non-denominational
Bible-believing Church
Sunday school - 9:30 a..m.
Sunday Service 10:30 a.m.
Thursday Seekers 7 p.m.
Youth group Thursday - 7 p.m.
www.ivpraisecenter.com
COMMUNITY BIBLE CHURCH
Pastor Dave Gordon
113 S. Caves Ave., CJ
Office: 541-592-3896
Email: cbccca@gmail.com
Sunday Worship - 10:30 a.m.
Christian Academy
Pre-K to 12th grade
Awana - Wednesdays - 6 p.m.
in a right relationship with the Lord.
See you Sunday.
In Christ,
Pastor Dave
