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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
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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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