I remember being in the kitchen with her
trying to keep ahead of the Thanksgiving dishes one
year, everybody in the big old house eating drinking
talking laughing, the ceiling above us hung with
every style of egg beater ever made, photographs and
art filling every space left on the walls. There was a
painting in the living room of her as a young woman
in a plain brown dress with straight short brown hair
and she is playing her violin. As we worked and
laughed and drank I watched her laugh fill her face
until her eyes were almost hidden by her rising
cheeks forced up by her wide smile. She moved with
the grace and rythm of a natural musician. She
worked with an energy that was bom from the joy
she found in what she was doing. She loved what
she did and who she did it with. She let it show.
She was married on Feb 29th, 1964, and so would
only celebrate every four years. Feb 29th, 2000
would have been her ninth anniversary celebration of
her thirty-six years of marriage. Her husband,
children, people she played music with, people she
worked with, people she would have a glass of wine
with, and I, will miss her very much.
Dev.
Hults
Editorial
Now & Then
Well, gentle readers, as March arrives and
Spring Break threatens to fill the streets and
highways with America's youth once again, our
senses are being bombarded with news of politics.
The Grand Old Party has a horse race on its hands in
spite of Dubya's Daddy's friends. Governor Bush,
a second generation wimp, is watching his well-laid
plans to buy the White House slip away, and he
doesn't know whether to pout or sneer. He says
he's running on his record — well, we were handed a
list recently that shows how well Texas has done
under the old Skull and Bones alumni, and we feel
we must share it with our readers.
"The state of Texas, under the leadership of
Govenor George W. Bush, is ranked: 50th in
spending for teachers' salaries, 49th in spending
on the environment, 1st in percentage of working
parents without insurance, 47th in the delivery of
social services, 42nd in child support collections, 5th
in the percentage of population living in poverty, 1st
in the percentage of children without insurance, 48th
in per capita funding for public health, 1st in air and
water polution, 41st in per capita spending on public
education, and 1st in executions, averaging one
every two weeks in Bush's five years in office.
That's what he calls 'compassionate
conservativism'."
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Sigrid Clark
1940-2000
Dear Mr. President,
Well, your last term is about up, and it has
been an interesting eight years. I'm not going to
judge you, history will do that. My purpose
is make a request that you take one more executive
action before you leave office.
During your first campaign you often said, to
the country, "I feel your pain."
I'm asking you to feel the pain of one man.
I'm asking you to feel the pain of a boy growing up
in poverty, amid racism and violence. I'm asking
you to feel the pain of a young man who was forced
to fight for his people's rights against the oppression
of a hundred years. I'm asking you to feel the pain
of a man whose freedom was taken away because of
the lies told about him in a court of law. I'm asking
that you feel the pain of a man who has been in a
cage for twenty five years, unable to be with his
people, and being slowly robbed of his health. I'm
asking you to feel the pain of Leonard Peltier.
I know that many people have pleaded for
freedom for Mr. Peltier. We here on the Oregon
Coast have an organization that is joining with
people all over the word to plead with you for this
man's freedom. We have organized a telephone
campaign, so be expecting some calls. We in the
northwest will be calling you at 202-456-1111 on
Thursdays, the northeast folks will be calling on
Mondays, the southeast on Tuesdays, the mid-west
on Wednesdays, and the southwest will call you on
Fridays. We have been told that if 100 phone calls
come into the White House on any given day,
you are notified.
Please, try to feel the pain of those who call
to ask for your help for Mr. Peltier. He is
considered the American Mandela by some. He is
considered a political prisoner by many. He is in
truth just a man who loves his people, just as you
and I do. His love took him down a road that caused
him to make mistakes, just like your road and mine.
It is in your power to stop this pain, with the
forgiveness in your heart. Please don't let the heart
o f this nation's Native Americans be buried at
Wounded Knee. Open your heart and the prison
door, and let the healing begin, while it is still in
your power.
I ask you this in the name of those who have
fought for freedom for their people. I ask this in the
name of Gandhi, Martin Luther King, your name­
sake Thomas Jefferson, Nelson Mandela, and most
o f all I ask this in the spirit of Crazy Horse.
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History will show that the Oregon Board of
Foresty has never quite come to terms with the
environmental effects o f the forestry practices it
regulates. Oregon's Forest Practices Act is the biggest
collection of perplexing impediments to business
efficiency this country has seen in quite some time.
Legislated under the spell of Earth Day sentimentalism,
the Act's goal seems to be the tortuous slow death of
basic American values like private property rights along
with the shredding o f what's left of the American free
enterprise system. It has contributed immeasurably to
the overall complexity o f intensive forest management
For example, the Act requires replanting almost
immediately after an area is clearcut. This has had
unforseen consequences. We are planting more trees
today than we are cutting, and now there are just too
many small trees. All over the place there is more wood
growing like crazy than there ever used to be, so
naturally foresters have no choice but to prescribe more
vigorous harvest to relieve the over- crowding. Also
there are biological reasons for these frequent harvests.
Immature trees make finer toilet paper and a better grade
of chipper wood than the trees they replaced. State of the
art conveyor systems handle the smallest pieces quickly
and are the best way to keep on top of the timber crop.
So much wood fiber is being produced that overseas
exports on chip ships like the New Carissa are
imperative to stay abreast o f production.
Clearcuts are the best tool we have to ensure
sustainable harvest. Partial cuts don't pencil out when
forest practice laws are allowed to take valuable land out
o f production. There is just no other way to compensate
for riparian setbacks and mandatory reforestation costs.
Expenditures like site preparation and reclamation,
replanting, reproduction release (herbicides), preditor
abatement (traps and poison), fertilization, pre­
commercial thinning, not to mention the administrative
costs for internal security, public relations, genetic
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capital investment in roads and gates. Thus it can be
seen that under Oregon's Forest Practices Act, clearcuts
are essential to sustainable intensive forest
management.
Trees are America's renewable resource. If we're
not suppose to cut them, why were they made of wood?
Woody D'Brie
Seaside
Dear Editor,
Cannon Bitch, Assholia, Sleazeside, Queerhart
and Whoreington. I have always dismissed these terms
o f endearment as small town rivalries. Professor
Lindsey's column last month revealed to me that things
are getting personal.
The snobbery! How dare anyone residing
around these parts judge Seaside? This is Clatsop
County, people, how classy can things get?
Are folks really so aloof as to say; "Our town is
superior because we won't let anyone paint their house
hot pink or let their lawns go. We don't have any neon
signs, either. We would rather bum our homes down than
have a sterile corporate chain merchandising mon­
strosity in our town. Even if the 'Music Man' came to
pitch to our fair City Council. We will never end up like
poor old Seaside.
Seaside has made some poor choices which are
apparent, but nevertheless it is my home town and I'm
standing up for it
So, please everyone, stop taking yourselves so
seriously because it is making me physically ill.
Remember, we are all lucky to live here. It is a beautiful
area with a kicked-back atmosphere. That is true no
matter in which city limits you reside.
Seaside Pride, County Wide!!
Val Mace
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Shipping into Tillamook Bay stopped long ago
and so did dredging the bar. The Bayocean spit,
VicroKia SwppieLlo
dividing Tillamook Bay from the Pacif ic, seemed
undecided about whether to be land or part of the
This side of Sand Island
sea—accreting and promising lor human use a
hundred years ago, turning into a series of lonely
Lying in bed the other night 1 heard fog
dunes and ponds fifty years later. Nearly breached
horns. We don't hear fog horns very often, but
by storms, its sand also contributed to the filling
when we do, they sound like they are in the front
of the bay. With all that sand and silt, the
yard. A long belch, a yawning burp. Awwwww-
channel became more circumspect, unintelligible,
except to the seasoned hand. My dad summed it
ohhhh. And then an answering burp from further
up simply, "Can'I make any money, too hard to
away. The nearer voice sounds like it has strayed
get out," meaning a spot of rough weather would
to this side of Sand Island, but can't be—therc'd
keep the Garibaldi fishermen home when boats
be alarms of all sorts, because a ship with a
from other ports could still get out to fish. Now
voice this loud would surely be aground if in the
even boats from easier ports Itxik like Garibaldi's
old north channel.
From our docks. Sand Island seems only derelicts, there arc so few fish to find. Our hand
on the land has had its impact.
a stone's throw away, an easy row lor an
Now the foghorn voices come not from
experienced oarsman. My dad told me he used to
the old river channel, the natural bend and How of
row there w hen he was a teenager. Maybe this
the Columbia that dropped islands here and there
summer I'll get my neighbor John to take me.
and laid a beach at Ilwaco's dtxrrstcp, but from a
John, like my dad, is a fastidious fisherman. I
new channel plowed into the river bottom and
like both elements—the fisherman part, but
especially the fastidiousness w hen it comes to
out between jetties to the open sea. A constant
task, picking up the river bottom and throwing it
bouts. I feel safe on a boat w here maintenance
has been taken to an art form. That careful beauty overboard further on.
I'm told the channel bottom is clean as a
is something easy for me, an ignorant passenger,
hound's kxith, scraped and scoured to a smixilh,
to observe, but perhaps I can be fooled by a tidy
boat, fooled into thinking the engine, running
lifeless surface lhat provides no catch hold lor
any living thing. This speeds the flow of the
gear, and safety equipment arc all in order. The
river so silt can't drop out. Il speeds the flow of
remains of our fishing fleet, however, especially
traffic, too, right past these old river-based
the old trollers, aren't well-maintained.
communities. The old islands arc still there,
Twenty years ago it was Garibaldi,
along w ith new ones formed by dredging spoils.
Oregon, on Tillamook Bay, that had boats like
"Spoils" is a gtxxl name lor them because truly
these, certainly not Ilwaco or Westport, the great
salmon ports of Washington w ith "easy" access
they arc part of despoiling a place. A blanket of
spoils kills whatever was underneath and
to the ocean. I put easy in quotes, because
sometimes creates a home for something new and
crossing any bar at the wrong time or tide can be
life threatening. Ilwaco, although it is tucked just unintended lhat brings another set of problems.
inside one of the most dangerous river entrances
The sound of foghorns—their reality is
different from my romantic notions. Big ships
in the world, was always a prosperous place,
heading for Portland and Longview arc part of a
w hile Ganbaldi had it tough. Garibaldi had lots
demand for more and more competitive ports,
of fish to catch but a hard time getting to them.
bigger and bigger ships, and deeper and deeper
Five nvers How into Tillamook Bay,
channels, passing us by. We're becoming a
five nvers calling out to homing salmon, five
sleepy village, on a backwater of an «»Id estuary ,
nvers dropping silt from the clear-cut hillsides of
our activities muffled by fog, waiting for a return
the Coast Range into the bay—famous rivers for
to prosperity that may never come.
steelhead, salmon, and ruggedness: Trask,
Victoria Stoppiello Is a writer living in Ilwaco,
Wilson, Tillamook, Kilehis, and Miami.
at the lower left corner of Washington Stale.
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