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CoastWatch, our friends who adopt a mile of the
Oregon Coast and report its condition four times a
year, are coming to town. They are meeting at City
Call Council Chamber in Cannon Beach on March
13th, from 9 until 11 AM. They are here to talk
about stuff, and there will be a beach walk afterward,
of course. These are the people who have been
working with SOLV to monitor the New Carissa
disaster. The Upper Left Edge has adopted the mile
south from Braillier Road to Humbug Point, so any
reader who wants to report is welcome — the more
eyes the better.
The idea is not just to look out for oil or injured
wildlife, but to chronicle the changes that happen
every day. This give us information that can not be
gathered any other way. And if you just can’t make
it, give Chet Loving a call in Gearhart at 503-738-
0598 anyway. It’s a good thing to do, it makes you
remember that this is your beach, and your ocean and
your planet.
Editorial
Now & Then
Our faithful readers may have noted that the Edge
has avoided any discussion of the recent doings in
our nation’s capital. The reason is we were taught
when young that when another family is having
troubles, the best thing to do is let them work it out
in the privacy of their own home, and not to gossip
about what was going on. Apparently this is not a
lesson learned by many others in the media, or in
positions of power in our government. It is a pity
that so many folks who are elected to do the people’s
business chose to spend their time preaching rather
than working. Quoting scriptures rather than writing
laws. We have been reminded rather harshly that
this is a nation of laws, as was formed by group of
white males is the late seventeen hundreds. Some
believe that this is a Christian nation, and they can
point to our currency which says “In God We
Trust”, as well as the phrase “under God” in our
pledge of allegiance to the flag. Well, it must be
pointed out that those are recent additions. This
nation was founded by folks who came here either
trying to escape religious persecution, or looking for
a place to practice it, so when they wrote those first
laws they made sure that this country would not have
a state religion. The very first coin minted in
America was designed by Benjamin Franklin; it had
thirteen circles with the names of the states inside,
and they were around a motto that we think should
be returned to our currency. It was: “Mind your
business”. Just a thought.
Regular columnist Victoria Stoppiello and her
husband Anthony and their home were featured in
the March/April issue of Solar Today, the national
publication of the American Solar Energy Society.
Anthony is an architect and they remodeled their
1895 home to maximize natural light, installed a low
cost solar water heater, and reduced their electricity
consumption by two-thirds.
If you want to learn how to do things like that, the
Stoppiellos will be teaching a one-day workshop on
“Simple Steps toward Sustainable Living” through
Clatsop Community College on Saturday, May 15,
from 9AM to 4PM. Call (503) 338-2506 for more
information.
Our headline this month is from a song by a band
called the Bad Livers. Well, it’s a duo really,
anyway when we saw them it was. Tuba and banjo.
Yes, it does sound like an odd duo; yes, they are.
They are also two gifted intense and totally original
musicians whom we suggest you seek out.
We were struck by their words as we were living
through this winter. Big winds, Big waves, Big
stuff has been going down, and coming up. We do
live in interesting times. Locally and Globally we
have some stuff to deal with that could either kill us
or make us strong. Locally we have several items to
deal with; our grade school needs to be moved to a
safer location this summer. We can not allow the
children to be at risk one more year. There are two
locations being debated, one a wooded area in a
residential neighborhood, and the other an RV park
across Hwy. 101. We urge the choice of the latter,
for the same reason we moved our fire station a few
blocks from the RV park, and because there are
existing structures that could be incorporated into the
school and for use as a community center. It should
also be noted that the wooded site, called the
IMPACT zone for some very good reasons, is one of
the last large stands of natural trees in the village.
We have also several times suggested that the soon to
be former site of the grade school be used as an
interpretive center and historical park. As we all
should know, the school sits on the site of the village
where Sacajawea and Capt. Clark visited to trade for
whale blubber, and gave Ecola creek its name. It has
been argued in these pages that where the Cannon
Beach Grade School now sits, the footprints of the
Lewis & Clark Expedition stopped and turned back,
making it the End of the Trail. This is something we
should be respectful of when we talk of what to do
with that site.
Okay, globally, yes, we have problems that if
survived will make us strong. It’s not just that we
have a web site now, and do e-mail, that the problem
called Y2K is something we should talk about.
While in the course of the usual stuff of your beloved
reverend’s days the Y2K problem has been
mentioned a bit lately. At the regular meeting of the
Thanatopis Literary and Inside Straight Club’s last
meeting the topic was broached, and some scary
stuff was talked about Top of the list wasn’t
whether planes would fall from the sky, or the banks
would close, or rioting in the streets would happen;
no, the truly scary thing is the Russian Nuclear
Power Plants. They don’t seem to have a clue, and
they have asked for millions of dollars and as many
computer geeks as we can spare. They pointed out
that it is not ‘just their problem’. The technology has
once again led us down the road, and we have to find
our way home. The best idea we have heard is that a
good neighbor is the best defense. Just like any
serious problems we face, it helps when we face
them together. Y2K, Global Warming, Nuclear
Power, the list goes on. The question is, do we?
Our guess is yes, and yes, we do think it will make
us stronger.
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wants to look at what marijuana prohibition does.
Marijuana never kicks down your door in the middle
of the night. Marijuana never locks up sick and dying
people, does not suppress medical research, does not
peek in bedroom windows. Even if one takes every
reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at
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harm to far more people than marijuana ever could."
Richard Cowan of NORML quoted
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