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txlitonal continued from page I To the Editor and Reader» W e expect the next few years to be interesting in the Chinese Curse sort o f way. It is possible that w e could watch a battle o f epic proportions between the cultures and classes that live together here in less than harmony. One could im agine a scenario where a Bill o f Impeachment could again be before the House o f Representatives before the next election. One could im agine untold damage to the planet and the people. One could im agine Thomas Jefferson’s quill boldly stroking “W e”.... thus beginning the declaration o f our independence, and wonder what w as he thinking. This doesn’t seem to be the problem with the current fellow eating in T om ’s old house. War is the “W ” that needs to be taken o ff the keyboards. This guy has in two months destroyed laws that have been ten years in the making. This man has taken on diplomatic efforts to avoid warfare that took decades to build, and trashed them. This fellow has decided that this is his chance to show daddy that he has learned his lesson. This person has defied not only the majority o f the people in this country, but the basic premise o f this country. “That this nation conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the premise that all people are created equal, a nation o f the people, for the people and by the people shall not p erish ...” Y es, a quote from a Republican. But that is not what w e have at the moment. W e have a nation o f the corporations, by the corporations, and for the corporations. Eisenhower warned about the ‘Military Industrial C om plex,’ but now w e are faced with the ‘Military Industrial Media Conglom erate’ and it isn’t pretty. Really, folks who don’t read the Edge or live by the ocean, get most o f their information from the Conglomerate. And that isn’t information, that is advertising. It isn’t honest. To live outside the law, as Mr. Zimmerman says, you must be honest. And your beloved editor is sick and tired o f being lied to. W e the people don’t seem to be being considered. N o, this doesn’t seem to be about democracy, this seem s to be about money. And obviously America is for sale to the highest bidder. In the short period o f time from when the supreme court (yes, the low er case is intentional) defied the laws o f the land and declared this guy leader o f the free world, to now; (and hell, he will probably do something between the time the paper is on its way to the printer and you read this) Barb’s B oy has managed to piss o ff the majority o f the civilized world. This guy is a piece o f work. Y es, w e know that B oy George is not running the show , but he signs the papers. And that is scary. What can be done? W ell, Joe Hill said it long ago; “D on ’t mourn, organize!!” The majority o f us didn’t vote for him and w e are mad as hell. There are sites on the internet that are expressing that anger. 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England, The Public House Bookstore » I By A J Coyne The key points are: 1. If this deal is killed the North Coast Land Conservancy has a $212,000 LID lien to pay. If we were unable to raise the money to do this the property reverts back to Cascade Trust and would be turned into Condos!!!!! 2. The city o f Seaside made a legal deal in January to purchase the properties when they voted; now some councilors are trying to back out and kill the project that has been in the works for over 2 years!! 3. The Ordways will be forced to sell their property to a developer and their land is zoned for condos or a large motel. Please contact me with any other questions that may help answer any concerns from the good folks in Cannon Beach. 1 appreciate your willingness to be involved - this is the final step from when we all came together to stop die condos; now with this final effort we can assure that Sahalie is protected forever and we all can have access and enjoy this unique piece of our world. Please try to make time in your life to attend the crucial meeting: April 4th @ 7:00 P.M @ Seaside City Hall, on the comer of Broadway and Hwy 101, and help assure Sahalie is finally protected forever. Thank you to all for your time and consideration Doug Ray “Some people are happy inside the church, some are happier outside. Those who prefer to stay outside should write Nature with a capital N. They should bless and venerate the Nature that composed mankind. That would leave a thin wall between those who are inside and write God with a capital G. If you knock, it can be heard on both sides. The disagreement is about the spelling o f a word.” Thor Heyerdahl E d ito r/P u b lis h e r/J a n ito r. The Beloved Reverend Billy Uoyd Hulls Graphics Editor. 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My hope was instantly replaced by panic, I wanted to slam the door and run but I had made a decision and I was going to see it through to the end Armed with bleach, disinfectant, sanitizer and all o f the soap I could find I was going to clean this house from top to bottom It belongs to a friend o f mine who has taken the term bachelor to an immeasurable level He was away on vacation and had mentioned getting someone to clean it while he was gone It had fallen through at the last minute so after he left I decided that I would do it instead Why you might ask, well not only is this a friend that I would do anything for but I am also one o f those sick people who actually enjoy cleaning, it is therapy to me At the time o f my decision I didn’t really grasp how much therapy 1 was about to receive. After this experience I am now one o f the sanest people in the world and have been completely cured o f my need to clean After getting past my fear o f entering this house o f horror I decided the only way to attempt a project this huge is to find the easiest room and start there so I put on my gloves and tackled the living room Starting at the top I swept cobwebs off the ceiling and started dusting everything in sight, the curtains had to be taken down and aired out and every book and CD (hundreds o f books and CDs) needed to be wiped off I found bills from 1998, magazines from 1999 and unrecognizable substances that had moved past moldy to petrified I have to quickly say in my friend’s defense that this bachelor museum was not only created by him but also by at least a dozen other local boys who have found comfort in its fetid disarray I spent four hours cleaning the first room and walked away realizing I needed to call in for backup. That evening after a few beers and a couple cocktails I had managed to convince a friend to help The brave man had agreed to remove the tower o f beer bottles that had taken over half o f the kitchen and we agreed to meet the next day. I had to laugh the next morning for the look on his face told me that he was hung over and kicking himself for agreeing to this in his altered state the night before When he saw the temple o f beer his shoulders slumped considerably but this generous soul recovered gracefully and told me he would take care o f it. So while he cleared away the bottles I started in on the bathroom. With a gallon o f bleach in hand I started dousing every inch o f the tiny room. I removed all the dirty clothes and started throwing away all o f the clutter I found used prescriptions from years ago, dead plants, burned incense sticks stuck in the wall, ancient empty shampoo bottles and stacks o f magazines (thank goodness none o f them pornographic). The walls and the ceiling were yellowed from years o f smoking on the pot and the toilet itself lets just say it is too much for words. I had been trying to avoid the shower all morning but after everything else was cleaned I couldn’t ignore it any longer. His shower curtain was black with mold from the top to the bottom and the shower itself wasn’t much better. The bleach that I had dumped in the day before had done little to eat away at the fungus but I had to believe that it had killed enough o f the bacteria so I could scrub without fear o f disease By the time I had finished the shower my friend and newfound hero had filled the back o f his truck with all o f the bottles and with a smile and a slight look o f pity wished me w ell. What were left behind after the beer had been removed were stacks o f pizza boxes and newspapers What I thought was going to be a simple clean up had become an archaeological expedition As I was cleaning the layers away I was learning about my friend’s life for the past four years. In January o f 1998 my friend liked pepperoni, olive and garlic on his pizza and in March switched from olives to mushrooms. By August he was ordering the combo and in December he opted for plain pepperoni. The next year he bounced from one topping to another but the one constant was pepperoni I can only think this was the reason the spiders were able to live so long in the boxes, it was if they were magically preserved by the additives. I spent eight hours at the house that day cleaning and sorting through the life o f my friend. After I was through I stepped back and started noticing all o f the things that were being overshadowed by the dirt. Instead o f a bachelor pad I saw the home o f a man who loves to read and listen to great music. He loves his friends and family and even more than that he loves life. He lives his life as though everyday could be the last and each day is a gift What started out as a favor for a wonderful friend turned out to be a lesson to me about what is important - you have to sort through the crap to find the real stuff That being said there is one word o f advice to all you bachelors out there, clean your house before some well-meaning friend decides to do it for you and then tells the world what they found IN AN UNJUST W ORLD... JUSTICE. Personal Injury Lawyer GREGORY KAFOl RY 202 Oregon Pioneer Building 320 S.W. Stark Street Portland. OR 97204 C oast R ange A ssociation N E W P O R T, O R 97365 M IR T H ID H S T T im e s KHG LI J “The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum o f acceptable opinion, but allow very active debate within that spectrum — even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there’s free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions o f the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range o f the debate.” Noam Chomsky P .O . B O X 148 A lO h g M A b O f A < V A H » tteeec.ee ft eoce Llama Spit ru P P E U L E rT E D C tu I -A small paper for a small planet.*_______ 2 The same group who promoted having Sahalie (Neacoxte FYxnt) turned into 95 condos are now pulling all the stops to derail a done deal that would acquire 3 acres of the Sahalie site lor a federal Scenic By/Oateway and provide public access to residents and visitors to another 13 acres of protected land, and views across the estuary to the ocean. During the January meeting of the Seaside Improvement Commission, it voted 12 to 1 to accept the staff recommendation to purchase 1.57 acres from the North Coast Land Conservancy and just under 2 acres from Pat and Jim Ordway. The combined properties currently have two homes on them and lawn. Of the entire site, these previously impacted areas are where a scenic turnout would be built that would allow public access to the rest of the site and preserve in perpetuity (which as Tom Peterson says, "is a very long time") the entire site and all of the natural resource values that had been slated for conversion to condos. We are at the sad point where last week attorneys representing the sellers and the city had to meet and all parties agreed that a legal sale agreement had been entered into by the vote of the commission in January. Two city councilors, Diane Schafer and Don Larsen, along with some appointees, are saying they made a mistake and the purchase price is too high (but they support the project, which is not true, but...). They tried to pass a motion that would have killed the project. We ended up with this: on the 4th of April @ 7:00 P.M (be there @ 6:30 for "best seating") there will be a final vote to adopt a resolution sealing the deal. I am asking anyone who cares about the north coast and our quality of life to please come to Seaside that night to show, and if you are so moved, to voice, your support to finalize what is a legal done deal to acquire the Sahalie site and put into the public trust for all of us to enjoy not just a few wealthy condo owners. Phone: (503)224-2647 “I say, oh you young fuddie-duddies! You young fogies, you prematurely middle-aged! Where are the gray flannel suits to go with your gray flannel mouths? You crumb-eaters! You knuckle- gnawers! You cappuccino drinkers! What right have YOU to be so wise, so dull, so blasé and jaded, so conservative, so timid, so morose and defensive? At your age! So bored with protest, so disdainful o f revolt, so tired o f the straight and angry statement! What have you done to earn your indifference?” Edward Abbey