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Editorial
Now & Then
Well, we imagine by now, some of our readers have heard
about the "thinning" of God's Valley by Christian Future's a
logging company under contract with the Oregon Department
of Forestry. Faithful readers will remember a story from this
spring, when your beloved reverend was drafted by Ol' Joe
Keating to help support a tree sit down on the Acey Line near
the Tillamook/Clatsop border. Yep, the community came
together and we done good, we got ODF to postpone the thin
and come to the table and talk. We talked all summer but no
one listened. August 1st the chainsaws started and the press
releases went out from ODF, in that order. The last "Focus
Ciroup" meeting was the Thursday before, and everyone there
was told by ODF that as soon as the other groups in Astoria
and Forest Grove finished we would know what was going to
happen and when. Apparently the local Sheriffs knew already,
because there were officers surrounding the cut when it
started. And Christian Futures must have known where they
where working and when. The only people who didn't know
when the cut would start was, well, everybody else. We first
heard about it on KMUN when Mike McCusker announced it
on his show Thursday morning August 2nd. They had been
"thinning" for a whole day! The only thing that brought us out
of the shock from the news was that the phone started ringing,
immediately. People were calling to ask what they could do?
Was it true? Where could they go to help stop this? The
Sheriffs from Clatsop and Tillamook Counties were camped
out and not allowing anyone within a mile of the cut. For the
first time in history ODF had put a 600ft no access zone
around an operation. They expressed shock that people didn’t
believe them when they said they were enhancing habitat,
"this is like motherhood and apple pie." They might think that
phrase is a sure thing in America. But, it’s not. To some of us
motherhood and apple pie brings an image of a pregnant
woman chained to a stove. Sorry, it doesn't work that way any
more. And managing a forest with the intent of speeding up
the natural cycles of growth to produce a crop quicker doesn't
work either. And using the story about enhancing habitat for a
species that well might go extinct before the new habitat is
ready doesn't work at all, even using ODF numbers. No, we
think this is about power and money. But never mind, because
it is a done deed. And the ugly thing is how it was done. How
can the average citizen respect or obey authorities that lie to
them . Haven't we learned that, " It's not nice to mess with
Mother Nature", even if we think we are 'experts' and know
how she works" Oh, children.
AM TIDES
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Christian Futures has put $400,000 into the budget of the
ODF and 'thinned' a new habitat for spotted owls and
murellets they say. But in the meantime they have upset a
whole bunch of folks, who arc members of the community,
who don't usually break the law, who teach our children, who
build our houses, who serve our coffee. ODF has activated a
whole new batch of "Eco-terronsts". Yes, some of them are
in their seventies, some are barely in school, but they live
around the place that was 'thinned' and they did everything
they could to work within the system and were lied to and
treated with arrogance.
It seems your beloved editor has been elevated to the ranks
of Eco-terrorists himself by the ODF, as we found out when
we called and asked to be included in the media tour that was
designed to show off the 'good' job that ODF was doing. The
PR person we talked to said that there was limited space in the
crummies that would take the media to the 'thin' and that if the
Upper Left Edge was to be allowed to participate we had to
promise not to "do anything" while we were there. Well, we
promised to be on our best behavior, and made up some new
press credentials for Dean Bonde and Cheryl Rorabeck-Silar,
because she had a camera and is the most knowledgeable
about the area and Dean was our ride. When we got to the
ajJpointed meeting place the ODF PR guy confronted us and
seemed to want to deny us entry because of our previous
articles. He finally said that he would allow only one
representative from the Edge to participate. We explained that
Cheryl was our cameraperson and we didn't know how to
operate her camera, and besides the other media were allowed
both a reporter and a cameraperson. We stood our ground and
since the TV boys had turned on their cameras he backed off a
little and said he would check. He went back to his truck and
called someone. He came back and said Cheryl could come.
He then explained that we would be driving our own rigs to
the site, so much for the 'no room in the crummies' excuses.
We then had to explain that Dean was our driver so he would
have to go too. This seemed to upset him, but since Cheryl
had gotten a nde from friends. Dean's was really our only rig.
We finally decided not to push our luck and hopped into the
back of Matt Love's pick up, leaving Dean to his own devices.
Matt is a reporter for Hipfish and we heard that they weren't
going to let him come because he had made unspecified
"threats".
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BOLDTYPE
Baseball
Yes. it is wrong to be upset lhat the Cubs are in second
place in September, but there you have it No, the Cubs
winning the W orld Series was not really mentioned in
Revelations as a sign o f the “ end times” . By the next
tim e you read the baseball column in the Edge we w ill
all cither be . . what or w hat9 I f you find a car
unoccupied after the Rapture can you keep it? I f the
Cubs beat the Manners that s one thing, i f they beat the
Yankee's that’s another, and i f they tic the Red Sox. w ell
then we have senous problems But it is the Texas
Taliban first Go Cubbies!!!
L -U P P E R LEE LED G ES]
E d it o r , P a b tia b e r, J a a it o r :
I loyd I hilts
the Beloved Reverend Billy
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U a d e M ik e , B la m e it o o th e S ta r» ,
B e h ia d tb e T im e « : Michael Bulges»
M u s ic R e p o r te r a t L a rg e :
Peter "Spud" Sieerl
P ro fe s s o r L ia d a e y t Peter Lindsey
J a a e ’a G a r d e a : June Kroft
L o w e r L e ft B e a t: Victoria StoppaJlo
l l a m a S p it, P o b lia b a a g la t e r a :
Angela Oiyne
Founding F e llo w at la rg e :
Bill WuIt land
Im p r o v is a tio n a l E n g in e e r l>r. Karkeys
W e b W o n d e r W o m a a , D s s trib o tio n
D iv a , S abaeaJber’a S w e e th e a rt:
Myrna I Tilig
W e b M o th e r: I i i I.ynch
Baaa Player: Rill tThl«
M a y o r lh a t r ib e t io a : Ambling Bear
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