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2 SANDY (O f* ) POSI Ih u i» Jon* 25 1987 5. The Sandy Post Editorial & Opinion Scott N ew ton, editor Karindo Hedlund, advertising rep resentative Drug education program needed The Sandy Elementary District has thoroughly aired the proposal for a drug education program Ihere is not much need to mull the issue over any longer. The board should add the >12,000 program to the curriculum at its next meeting, which is July 2. For starters, it is hard to imagine people arguing that the >12,000 program is too costly. Compared to the cost of treat ment, a >12,000 drug program is nothing And that doesn’t take in the potential an alcoholic or drug addict has for causing dan nng. A school committee studied the i juc I m a jear, considering at least seven different drug education programs. The Here’s Ixxiking at You 2000” program was endorsed by the district's four principals, two counselors and the four presidents of the parent teachei club It would be hard to get a much more resounding endorsem ent Adoption of tfie program di ittg1,1 guest speakers and involving parents Community forums have been held in the past, and the\ sh nld • n n going part of the drug education program The many elements of this program speak well for it. Teaching refusal skills and factual information is necessary. On face value, the idea of teaching tactual information about drug use might seem ill conceived But children won t be bullied by scare tactics for long, and the damage caused by long-term drug abuse speaks for itself The board should follow up on a suggestion by a parent, Greg Gregus, who said the district should do a study to deter mine the amount of drug use in the school In the future, the study could serve as a basis to m« .c an 1 ■ u< cess of the drug education program. The results of such a study should be open for examination by the public. The commitment shown by the committee studying the issue was adm irable The committei >1 consider its work done but instead plans to m onitor the effectiveness of the program. There is more to winning tin a i hi h ug ibuse than a drug education program, and inenibei s of ti - committee are well aware of that. It would be hard to put it more succinctly than Jaclde Key, a parent. “To make the pi i un work, we must have the support of the home and the < 'iimunity, she said. “ We want the involvement of both We have regularly beard peoph at Sands High School say, “ By the time we get kids with di ug problems, it s too late . . .” This drug education program addri e that t omplaint. Ihe committee did a good job 1 e pi ram should lx* im plemented. Congress must provide solution Resolution of the farm labor shortage is going to require less talk and more agreement on an immediate plan of action if anyone hopes to avoid crops rotting m the fields, subsequent food price increases and severely depressed economies in local farm communities The shortage has been prompted b\ new national legislation regarding illegal immigrant labor A good dose of understanding from officials in the U.S. Im migration anil Naturalization Service would help. Several of these officials can't see the forest for the trees. They acknowledge that the new law, which was initiated to control the flow of illegal immigrant < into the United States, is work ing. But at the same time they refuse • admit that the law's effectiveness has resulted in a shortage : immigrant labor that American farmers have leaned ■ rely on "The good news is the law work said Gregory Ix'o, the immigration service's congressional affairs director. "The bad news is those people who rely on illegal aliens are going to have to find a new way to do busine - Meanwhile, Deputy INS Director J seph Greene said in Portland this week, “ How mans farms are we going to lose in Oregon because of a worker shortage I don't think we are go ing to lose any, and that's the bottom line Those who are more sensitive to the plight of American agriculture and more awai e of the law s f pin <ics for every action, there is an equal and opposite !• action would disagree with both IN’S officials We certainly do. For one, the federal government annot assume that U.S. fanners alone must shoulder the hut den of finding replace ment labor in time for this year s bars est The INS has known for years that hundreds of thousands f illegal immigrants have worked each year on American forms It should be ob vious that if that number of mi i ant workers have not been granted citizenship under the new ,w there would lx* a resulting labor shortage. For another, it is iih 'i, i ' . .i..e n e \ to risk the health of the national economy. higher food prices nation wide and the viability of individual businesses while other federal agencies are spending billions each year to stimulate the economy, subsidize food costs and lend in» run to farmers. It is time for the INS and !oi I M W to provide an immediate solution to this labor short.». 1 he answer may be short-lived. It does not need to permanent Crops left in the fields certainly aren't It is obvious by lu in u ifiih farm ers' general uneasiness over accepting bureaucratic solutions — that the answer will have to • »me from Congress. And Congress must not act slowly It is almost the Fourth of July and the corn in the fields is almost knee-high 'MOVE D o n ’t d r in k the w a te r Funky footwear defines Ashland A local dentist has good instincts Though it was his firs t tune at Ashland's Shakespearean Festival, he showed up at the outdoor theater wearing a pair of Birkenstock san dals If you've ever been to Ashland, you'll know that the funky footwear is almost required apparel there Part of the fun of going to the theater in Ashland is sitting there in the soft summer night, anticipating the play and gawking at other play goers You get extra points if you run into somebody you know And double points for a dentist In addition to being in the right san dals, the dentist's tuning was impec cable He caught the best play of the new season Shakespeare got his act together in "M id su m m e r N ight's D ream ." I wonder if he knew it back in the 16th century I wonder if he called up his wife and said, Methinks I have a h it." And I wonder what he would have thought of the way the folks in Ashland staged the play It was a flash of color, a jewel gleaming against the setting of a somber brown stage So beautiful it made your eyes hurt I like to send postcards from my travels but I rarely do from Ashland, though I have been there every’ sum mer for nine years Ashland is not so much a picture as it is a feeling Californians are always surprised by Ashland They think we rustics in Oregon are too countrified to produce a town so charming and so pleasantly offbeat A perfect postcard of Ashland should include the town's famous luthia water fountain ithe water s till tastes like something you washed your socks in t and a hippie or two The flower children live there as though the 1970s had never given way to the yuppies of the 1960s They slop around town in their Birkenstocks wearing tattered jeans and gauze skirts from India and calling to children named Star and Shasta You can sit in U thia Park and watch the punks in leather and chains gawking at the hippies in their tie-dyed gear One night while sipping a steamed m ilk d rin k in a v ine -co ve re d restaurant my friend Helen looked around and said, “ I may be the only one here in polyester " You can spot everything from camouflage gear to H arris Tweed in Ashland Shakespeare fans are a . • - ------------- Sharon Ne«blt diverse lot and many dedicate themselves to two plays a day while they are there But that doesn't leave tim e to spend a lazy afternoon in Jackson ville. You can wander into the Beekman Bank there and find a clerk w ith a garter on his arm making out checks with a scratchy pen and ink dipped from a bottle Or you can go to the Beekman House where a member of the fam ily tells you about life there The bank and house are museums and the people in them are living history actors portraying the past It is eerie You can almost hear the gunshots fired by rowdy miners tomfooling in the street In both Jacksonville and Ashland, there are cute shops with enough ceramic geese in them to populate France And antique shops, gift shops, candy shops and art galleries The trip home is not bad, either You can gain five pounds on In terstate 5 if you do it right Just north of Hoseburg is the little b rick town of Oakland T o lly ’s restaurant there is worth a stop. Or pull off at Canyon Creek and follow the frontage road south to M exia’s You’ll find a dusty Studebaker in the garage and a rusting gas pump with a glass globe And in the tiny restaurant straight out of the 1930s is Mexia making her pies Don’t look for dainty crust Mexia's pie is the kind you sink your teeth into Or stop at Rice H ill and turn off to the m otley collection of tra ile r houses on the west side of the freeway for the best and biggest ice cream cone you'll ever drip down your front Once you're home and fu ll of ice cream and pie and fudge, go see your dentist And ask him how he liked the play. Addresses of state, national legislators S tate R e p re s e n ta tiv e Bob S h ip ra c k . D -D is t. 23 , 22610 F o re s t P a rk R d ., B e a v e rc re e k , O re., 97004 . 631-3817. O r: S tate C a p ito l, R oom H288, S alem , O re., 97310. 1-800-332-2313. State S en a tor Bob K ln tig h , D -D ist. 14, 38865 E . C edar F la t R oad, S p rin g fie ld , 97478 . 746-1842. O r: State C a p ito l, R oom S310, S alem , O re., 97310. 1-800-327-7389. Sen. M a rk H a tfie ld , R -O regon, 711 H a r t B u ild in g , W a sh in gto n, D .C ., 20510 . 202-224-3753. P o rtla n d o ffic e phone 221-3386 Sen. Bob P ackw ood, R-O regon, 259 R u sse ll B u ild in g , W a sh in gto n, D .C ., 20510. 202-224-5244. P o rtla n d o ffic e phone 221-3370. Rep. D enny S m ith , R-5th D is t., 1213 Ix jn g w o rth B u ild in g , W a sh in gto n, D .C ., 20515 . 202-225-5711. S alem o ffic e phone ( to ll fre e ) 1-80M52-7889. le g is la tiv e access in O regon: 1-800-327-7389. One m a y c a ll th is n u m b e r and ask to be connected to any s ta te le g is la to r’s o ffic e . O regon le g is la tiv e statu s n u m b e r: 1-800-332-2313. One m a y c a ll th is n u m b e r to le a rn the status o f b ills pending in the O regon le g is la tu r e . 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