T h e J e rs e y T r a v e le r
VOTE
It was an old, overly large barn, settled
and weathered Into a hillside w ell out of
town, w ell away from the passerby, the
tou rist, the weekend shopper The
handmade posters had only been put up
around town the week before and assumed
the reader knew where the old barn was
located A few questions answered by the
woman who owned the small bookstore
had us on our way and, despite a wrong
turn, the old barn was found
Inside, the naked and exposed jo ists and
ra fte rs held a welcomed embrace for both
audience and performers In the tw ilig h t
the mix of people made indistinguishable
those who were there to remind and
entertain and those who were there to
receive and remember
Alan, Joe, Tuli and Ed in turn stood,
surrounded on three sides by friends,
acquaintances and admirers s ittin g in an
assortment of chairs ten rows deep
Their music and words reverberated from
a concert given at Berkeley in the late
sixties
Don't smoke1" chanted Ginsberg "K ill
for Peace'" drolled the Fugs Country Joe
and the audience connected in a hearty
highschool assembly version of the
f-l-s -h " cheer The messages keep alive
the s p irit and remind us that m orality and
ethos are not fads
If you were looking for nostalgia, it
wasn't to be found here Nostalgia was in
the making 15 miles away at Winston
Farm, surrounded by an army of private,
local, county and state cops who patrolled
the roads and manned checkpoints, walked
the fenceline and supposedly operated the
metal detectors 15 m iles away Nine Inch
Nails vied w ith Joe Cocker, Dylan w ith
Blind Melon and Melissa Etheridge
chanteused the memory of Janis Santana
brought back his Black Magic Woman as
the Doctors put their own Spin to the
potion 15 m iles away Generation X and
the remnant of the yupple/hippie/chiId
flow er power generation slopped in the
mud and listened to a m illio n w atts of
history now and history restyled 15
m iles away the bonanza was in fu ll
th ro ttle , disgorging th irty dollar
T -shirts, seven dollar a slice cheese
pizza and five dollar a can warm beer
The barn lacked a good mosh p it, and
despite a fine drizzle and an inviting
hillside, no mud people m aterialized But
Alan was there to remind us that the firs t
lesson in Yoga is to awaken the Muladhara
Chakra, and reminiscent of the angelic
choir, the Fugs joyously sang the
awakening mantra “ I Want To Know " In
real life age has no tim eline, reality
endures What is true of one generation
does not dimmish in another
I do no know if in another twenty five
years we w ill be as prodded and provoked
by some d itty now sung by Porno for Pyros
as a generation once was listening to the
like of the Fugs If doubts linger, listen
to the words of Kupferberg when he
laments, "Moonshine, moonshine takes the
h ills w ith Grace, and the secret of the
shining seeks to break my simple face *
(Note The Mega Celebration known as
"Woodstock 94" was held at the Winston
Farm in Saugarties, NY During that
weekend "The Jersey Traveler", v is itin g
the bonaf ide town of Woodstock, NY came
across a small concert held to remind at
least some of us that the more you know
the less you need )
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DAVID
AMBROSE
for
CLATSOP CO. COMMISSION
District 3
Notes From Colorado
Jeff Custar
Late August - - the to ) days of summer ere here
w ith us, even though it seems lik e summer has been
here forever At times lik e these, I harbor thoughts of
ripping up ell of my Kentucky B luegraw (whoever
thought that this stuff should be planted on the High
Plains, anyw ay?) and letting the front yard d ry to the
consistency of concrete One of our local papers
predicts dust storms of great magnitude thia w in ter if
we don't break this drought soon
This mormng about 6AM, a male black bear
appeared downtown on the Boulder M all * Boo B o o ',«
the local gendarmes dubbed h im , led them, and the
Division of W ild life reinforcem ents, e m e rry chase
for an hour, until they fin a lly treed him in a nearby
yard
Boo Bon had made hts fir s t foray into town on
Saturday night, but the weekend crowds, end ths
presence of the Promise Keepers ( more on them
le te r ) . hod kept the authorities from apprehending
him
Our hapless v is ito r , now tagged end o ffic ia lly
known as Bear * 10 2 , w ill be unceremoniously
deposited at Kenosha Pass, about 75 miles southwest
of Boulder Boo Boo has o ffic ia lly earned his firs t
s trik e , unfortunetly, in Colorado, two strikes and
you're out - - Department of W ild life policy is to
‘ term inate* large predators after two ‘ nuisance'
contacts w ith humons
It s shame we can't get that
their t e r r ito r y end ours is the same, and that they
have as much right to It as we
The evangelical C hristian movement known as the
Promise Keepers held their meeting in Boulder over
Dave Am brose has practical know ledge
the weekend
f ift y -t w o thousand C hristian men from
ell over the States and elsewhere gathered in the
Craduatc of Dresel Univ in M n h Engrg ,
Supervisor for conntruction of drinking
water filtration planta;
Small business owner - designed,
manufactured and sold agricultural
equipment.
Peace Corp« volunteer - worked with
groups oa agrit idtai tl >■ hbwrypi
Past program director and new» reporter,
KMUN Community Radio
Dave Ambrose is active locally:
Secretary and treasurer of the Netel
Crange, work mg to restore the histone
Grange building as a community center.
Chairman of Clataop County Housing
Authonty, working for affordable housing.
Dedicated volunteer • KMUN Radio,
VOCA Camp, and Astoria Recycling
Committee,
Active outdoorsman
U niversity of Colorado s Folsom Stadium to celebrate
their cause and hear inspirational speeches from
various evangelical fo lk, including B ill McCartney,
Colorado football coach, one of the founders of the
Promise Keepers, and board member of our old
friends, Coloradans For Fam ily Values, the authors of
Amendment 2
The promise keepers emphasize the
responsibility of men to be good husbands, fathers,
and friends (ju s t fine by me - - long o v e rd u e '), but
also show some intolerance toward gay people, other
non-christian religions, and those members of the
fair sex who insist on being human beings on th e ir
own term s (not so good)
I talked to several women
and other friends who were revolted by the whole
event, but my partner M ary reminds me that perhaps
wa should gat off heti ng and be more conscious of whet
we are far rather than against, and not always make
the other folks wrong Good points
We had a p rim a ry election today, and an interesting
race for one of the Boulder seats in the state
Dave A m brose believes:
The County Commission should work
cooperatively.
Citizens' voices must be listened to.
We must promote a people-friendly
and beautiful County.
We must strengthen our planning for
living-wage fobs.
We must maintain our fishing, forest
ry, and farming lands.
Clatsop County must remain a safe
place to live.
We can have both gixxl jobs and a
good environment!
Legislature An old Boulder fig u re, who was
responsible for pushing a lot of progressive stuff
through (including our open space in itia tiv e s , the
only thing that has saved this county from resembling
the LA b as in ), is running against a new guy who is
also in favor of growth lim its , greater aid to
education, and the repeal of Amendment 1 (o u r
version of Prop 14 in C alifornia - - another column
on that la te r) What s the difference? The old guy is
re ally a lib e rta ria n type - - and sits on the boerdof
Soldier Of Fortune magazine, opposes the Brady Law
and any lim its on assault weapons
An interesting
tu rn of events* The young lion won by four v o te s - - a
recount is mandatory (The recount showed the same
result - - t h e election stands )
INTEGRITY, HONESTY, RESPECT
Yes, the election season is heating up
The
Republican candidate for Governor, a wealthy
A u tk rtz n i & f a t i fur by O rel Itere A m M v Ctm m M rr
TOt Itrurgtuu. A rtu r* OH 97101
businessman, who according even to the media, has
little grasp of the issues, is teking on our Democretie
governor, e real pro The Republicans elected a
conservative, a n ti-a b o rtio n (fe m ale*) candidate for
our local House seat, probably assuring our
Democratic congressmen of re -e le c tio n . In this
moderate to lib e ra l d is tn e t Stay tuned
As I w rite this the s trik e is im m inent (ye s, the
baseball s trik e , for those folks to whom the national
pastime is something less than l i f t ) My team is now
fighting for a playoff spot (Playoffs* What in the
world have we come to 7 *) in the Junior C irc u it
Asa
kid of fiv e , my father (end m other, for wwkdey day
gemes) took me to the Old Lady On 3 3 rd S treet, known
to non-Baltimoreans as Baltim ore Memorial Stadium,
to see the recent transplants from St Louis, now
k n o w n « the Baltim ore Orioles
We saw a lot of the
great ones including Roger M en s giving us left field
bleacher rm d e n ts the finger (a salute much more
shocking in 19 6 6 than these d ays), I got my fir s t beer
poured down my neck, and enjoyed many a humid
Baltim ore summer night riding home In the old Bulck
listening to the post-game show I sew my heroes
sweep Sandy Koufax, Don Drysdale, end the m t of the
fugitives from Brooklyn, four straight In the '6 6
W orld S a r i«
After my Dad passed leet year, I saw
Camden Yards for the fir s t tim e , and now tr u ly believe
thet the gome w ill never die es long « there are
people who build stadiums lik e this one
If this
incredible disgrace to the free enterp rise system ever
Come Helen or Hlqh Muter !
ends, we here in the Boulder area w ill journey the few
m i l « southeast to Denver end to Coors ( Hey, I didn't
neme i t ) Field, b u ilt by the folks who b u ilt the Yard,
Vote for Cannon Beach's own
for County Commissioned
watch our R o c k i« take a few from the Cubs ( s o r r y ) ,
d rin k a brew or two, eat for the cycle, and God w ill not
subtract from our lives the hours we spend watching
baseball.