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About The upper left edge. (Cannon Beach, Or.) 1992-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 1, 1994)
Editorial Now & Then Dev. H u lls automobile and how we keep its use lim ite d to e sse n tia l service s G etting cars o ff Hemlock in the dow ntow n area is an absolute p r io r ity , we need the room for sidew alks Next, we begin to prom ote Ecola as an E n v iro n m e n ta l/A rt/S p iritu a l Center we know th is is already how we perceive it, w ith our Environm ental program s in place, and our th riv in g A rt com m unity, and of course the Conference Center, and the various s p iritu a l gatherings. N ative American Elders. Tibetan Monks, and New Eternal vig ila n ce is the p rice of Iib e r ty may sound harsh, paranoid, or obsessive But Wendell P h illip s , not Thomas Jefferson (as we alw ays thought) said it, and it s tru e Wendell was an a b o litio n is t and an ea rly supporter of w om ens rig h t to vote Anytirn#» we stop paying a tte n tio n to what is happening to our lib e rtie s they are in jeopardy This m onth (not last month as your s illy e d ito r thought) the ACLU cele bra tes the freedom s guaranteed by the B ill of Rights w ith an Uncensored C elebrat ion The Beloved Reverend and others w i l l be spouting o ff on a soap box in fro n t of J u p ite r's Rare and Used Books in Cannon Beach at noon on the ides of September There are lo ts of other events going on around the S tate so check it out, a lis tin g is posted in several places around w hatever tow n you live in (Check the book sto re s and co ffe e houses ) C elebrate your lib e rty , and vote, p a rtic ip a te or perish Mayor Schwab dropped us a le tte r asking fo r a no vote on the e le c tio n of (he S h e riff in C latsop County, and we must agree When professional expert is»- is ca lle d fo r p o litic s should be used to decide p o lic y , not personnel We should h ire the best, and fir e them the m inute they prove to be less than we are paying fo r The Edge w ould lik e to take th is o p p o rtu n ity to thank Mayor Schwab for his service to Cannon Beach Though we have ofte n disagreed on s p e c ific issues we appreciate the considerable wisdom he has brought to the o ffic e We are reminded of his s is te r M ild re d when she served on the C ity C ouncil in Portland, and how she saw it as her f i r s t duty to p ro te c t the pocket books of the c itiz e n s who elected her It must run in the fa m ily Thanks, Herb, s ir fc/cWCZcfc/o/c/c/c/c/cA We a ll have ideas we think m ight make our w o rld a b e tte r place, but they usually come one at a tim e , and are easy to fin d fa u lt w ith or defeat So we decided to ask for eve ryth in g at once and see how tha t w orks Okay, here s the plan F irs t we change the name back to Ecola, Oregon Cannon Beach is re a lly in Arch Cape Then we form a Public U t ilit y Age workshops, but we need to le t others know F in a lly, we form a p a rtn e rs h ip w ith a college (Reed) or U n iv e rs ity (P5U) tha t would locate an A rts and Sciences year round program to do s tu d ie s on how a sm all tow n like th is can survive and be liva b le m the next century Cool, huh’ Just a thought Now for som ething c o m p le te ly d iffe re n t a young man was a rreste d in fro n t of the Clatsop County Courthouse a few davs ago He was s e llin g pot Anyway he believed it was pot. he didn t re a lly know, having never smoked it h im s e lf He was p rom p tly arreste d and b a il was set at $70,700 The young man has said tha t th is is a re v o lu tio n , a re v o lu tio n of one, but a He played m usic, he took, damaged art and made it lik e new He was a good and qentle man His name was Rob Yost He was a liv e 47 years He died of AIDS Why’ we don t know but it is our business Please, p ra c tic e safe sex and, DAMMIT, work fo r a cure" A ID S 1 1 « > |i« i Now Located on the Coast: 9rt Restoration ’ II Repair and Restoration of Fine Art Objects OrtartaJ Scraana Scrota and Lacquarwara Martta Jada and Nory SciAp>t»a P an tm ^ t and Pore atari Otaaa Robert Yost N tK o w * OR he (in th is case) fin d s th is p a rtic u la r law at odds w ith h is concept of L ib e rty (yes, |’~ U P P E R L E F T E D G E _ 4 that is a c a p ita l *L") as a rtic u la te d by A Lincoln it is to be noted tha t when the young man was arreste d he was in possession of a book by Thoreau, "Walden* We don't know if it was the e d itio n that includes the essay ca lle d "C iv il Disobedience" C>o we advocate break ing the la w ’ No Do we advocate changing the la w ’ Yes' Can we change a law if we don t challenge i t ’ No We w is h the young man and h is re v o lu tio n w e ll, because he is im prisoned both p h y s ic a lly and econom ically $70,700 is some b a il' Does anyone remember what the last fin e for to x ic p o llu tio n to a m ajor w atershed re s u lte d in ” $ 5 ,0 0 0 ’ Close enough So l e t t e r /F e fc h s fc e r Tha Balov ad Ravarand Billy lloyd Hurts A « « t * t e a t f d r te r /F e fc W tlb e r /G r opfctcc fa rte r The HunfcW Ms Sally Louisa Lac* i f f S e te e e e t a r t e r Z V e te e a t R a a s a e /h a d ia e C e e e t r y /lle e le M t t a / e t c Michael fkrgrss V t W W t Z M a t i c R a p e r ta r Patar -Spud' Siegel f A a c a tte e l a t t e r Pa lav Lwicay M r a e v t l l r te H r v p e r t Alex Lafollette b e p r e v M a lt e a a l I e g w e a r O Karkeys F e t r t t e a l C e a s e I t a e t Kathleen Krushas M e v w s A f e e d : Roh M i U r on M r B a s e ta n Jeff Larson Talas e f the B e rth e r e Sees L e c a lC e te r : Mar A Rory Ron Logo F e e t - te -S e s M eeei Bill C trn e f e r e t g e C e rre s p ta a 4 re ts Bin r ic * l« id A Oar» Char nay t» llb r r t stay tuned, the next issue w ill be way p o litic a l' Fair w arning Oouq rtarx V e r M B eat Michelle Syverson Oar « re leg le t t e r Augusta Benedict (ret ) M a y e r D t s t r A a rtie e Coyote Outrhutior, te e e e e e te s t e t t e r Ms G Roc* A ed a C ast e f lh e e s ta » 4 * t J CJ J J fib re -o p tic cable If you are beginning to think, th is m ight cost money and take tim e , co n g ra tu la tio n s, your brain is s t i l l w orking Then w ith c ity ordinances we R h o r m or M aruuaha L aws 1001 CONMCTltU! 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Neskowin, and the southern coast C A S Í A l »1 When w ill we step try in g to le g is la te m o ra lity ’ P o litic ia n s argue tha t drugs cause violence and th e ft, so they m ust be made ille g a l But violence and th e ft are already ille g a l, whether perform ed under the influence of drugs or not, and cause can c e rta in ly be debated1 The point ,s an American c itiz e n has decided th a t It is w o rth going to ja il to s tre s s the point that Solar. T id a l. we got 'em a l l ) Then we cut down a ll the power poles and bury W?LRLEfTt&&U[PTEIWW we remember a paper in S e a ttle put out by teenagers on the back of c o m p u te r-p rin t-o u t paper, it was c a lle d "Who Died it was. of course, a parody of ’ real newspapers' that b a s ic a lly te ll you who died and how sp e c ta c u la rly they managed it we knew long ago tha t the Edge would not be lik e other papers But we knew there was no way to avoid o b itu a rie s , e s p e cia lly fo r fo lk s we knew You know what we d is lik e about the A s to ria n ’ No. not ju s t th a t in the o b its , they never te ll re v o lu tio n none the less We as c itiz e n s m ust, a fte r a ll these years of m is in fo rm a tio n on drugs and m illio n s spent prosecuting people fo r the use of a re la tiv e ly harm less (when compared to tobacco and alcohol, or b a rb itu a te s . etc ) weed, must jo in th is re v o lu tio n We are sick of lie s, propaganda, and the whole stupid War on Drugs Like the war on poverty, the v ic tim s are the w orkin g poor D is tr ic t, so we can buy power d ire c tly fro m BPA, plus begin to make plans to generate our own (Take your pick - - Wind, 2 Add one to the myartcry« t a k e one fro m the fo ld . -------------------- n m V * (« tt » ««V r»t - imuty mums it. 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