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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. W e suggest bartcop.com, buzzflash.com ,
and the smudgereport.com as a good place to start
Impeachment now!! I disavow the government!
WHERE TO GET AN EDGE
Cannon Beach Jupiter's Rare and Used Books.
Osburn's Grocery, The Cookie Co.. Coffee Cabafta.
Bill's Tavern. Cannon Beach Book Co.. Hane s
Bakerie. The Bistro. Midtown Café. Once Upon a
Breeze. Copies A Fax Haystack Video. Mariner
M arket, Espresso Bean. Ecola Square A Cleanllne
S u rf
M a n za n ita Mother Nature's Juice Bar.
Cassandra s. Manzanita News A Espresso. A
Nehalem Bay Video
Rockaway: Neptune's Used Books
T illa m o o k : Rainy Day Books A Tillamook Library
Bsy City; Art Space
Yachats: By-the-Sea Books
Pacific C ity: The River House.
Oceanside Ocean Side Espresso
L in c o ln C ity Trillium N atural Foods. Driftwood
Library. A Lighthouse Brewpub
Newport Oceana Natural Foods. Ocean Pulse Surf
Shop. Sylvia Beach Hotel. A Canyon Way Books
Eugene Book Mark. Café Navarra. Eugene Public
Library. Friendly St. M arket. Happy Trails.
Keystone Café, Klva Foods. Lane C.C.. Light For
Music, New Frontier M arket. Nineteenth Street
Brew Pub. Oasis Market. Perry's, Red Bam Grocery.
Sundance Natural Foods. U efí O. A WOW Hall
C orvallis: The Environmental Center. OSU
Salem - Heliotrope. Salem Library. A The Peace
Store
A storia KMUN. Columbian Café. The Community
Store, The Wet Dog Cafe. Astoria Coffee Company.
Café Uniontown. A The River
Seaside Buck's Book Bam . Universal Video. A
Café Espresso
Portland Artichoke Music. Laughing Horse
Bookstore, Act III. Bam es A Noble, Belmonts Inn.
Bibelot Art GaUery. Bijou Café. Borders. Bridgeport
Brew Pub. Capt'n Beans (two locations). Center for
the Healing Light. Coffee People (three locations),
Common Grounds Coffee. East Avenue Tavern,
Food Front. Goose Hollow Inn. Hot Lips Pizza. Java
Bay Café, Key Largo. La Pattlsserie. Lewis A Clark
College. Locals Only. Marco's Pizza. Marylhurst
College. Mt. Hood CC. Music M illenium. Nature’s
(two locations). NW Natural Gas, OHSU Medical
School. Old Wives Tales. Ozone Records. Papa
Haydn. PCC (four locations). PSU (two locations).
Reed College. Third Eye. Multnoma Central
Library, and most branches A the YWCA.
Ashland Garo's Java House. The Black Sheep.
Blue Mt. Café. A Rogue River Brewery
Cave Junction. Coffee Heaven A K erty Community
M a rk e t
Grants Pass: The Book Shop
(Out o f Oregon)
Vancouver. W A The Den
Longview. WA: The Broadway Gallery
N aselle. W A Rainy Day Artistry
N ahcotta. W A Moby Dick Hotel
D uvall. W A Duvall Books
Bainbridge l.la n d , WA. Eagle Harbor Book Co.
Seattle. WA Elliot Bay Book Co.. Honey Bear
Bakery. New Orleans Restaurant. SHU Life In
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House. A Bulldog News
Ssn F r a n c l.r o . C A City Lights Bookstore
D enver, Co; Denver Folklore Cenle
Washington. D .C .i Hotel Tabard Inn
(Out o f U.9 -A)
Paris. France: Shakespeare A Cle
B righton. England, The Public House Bookstore
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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
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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
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APP.lL 2004
1 walked up to the house with trepidation but a slight
hope that it really wasn’t as bad as I remembered The last
time I was here I had been drinking or more honestly I was
cross-eyed drunk (it was my birthday) so maybe the picture in
my head was distorted I slowly opened the door and was hit
with the stench o f stale beer and cigarette smoke. 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
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“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
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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