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The INDEPENDENT, February 3, 2005 U. Way gives $19,000 to Food Bank United Way of Columbia agencies.” The distribution of funds will County office has announced how $46,377 in National Emer be as follows: • Women’s Resource Cen gency Food and Shelter Pro gram funds (EFSP) will be dis ter, $10,500 to help defray the cost of shelter for homeless tributed. The local EFSP Board - women and children. • Community Action Team, composed of volunteers repre for Emergency senting the American Red $10,000, Cross, VFW, City of Vernonia, Homeless Assistance and Columbia County Emergency Emergency Utility Assistance. • Columbia Pacific Food Services, Salvation Army, Catholic Church, homeless and Bank, $19,000, to purchase retired individuals - determined high protein and emergency the distribution for the Phase food products. • Turning Point Community 23 allocation from requests for Center, $6,500, for Emergency a total $57,350. The EFSP Board stated, Homelessness Assistance and “Even though we are pleased Emergency Utility Assistance. • United Way of Columbia to receive an increase in avail able funds this year, the need County, $377, for administra continues to surpass the in tive costs associated with crease in funding. It is encour EFSP Board support. The money will be distrib aging to be able to increase or at least maintain the level of uted directly from the national funding to the requesting board to each agency in 2005. Join comet viewing on February 6 A comet viewing party is scheduled for Sunday, Febru ary 6 at 7:00 p.m., weather per mitting, on the grounds of Lin coln Grade School. The Macholz Comet will be visible near the Cassiopeia constellation. Bring a telescope if you have one. For more information about the viewing party, contact Robb Wilson at 503-429-7731. Bits & Bites By Jacqueline Ramsay F ir s t off - Arf, Arf and Q uack, Q uack to all you fo lk s th a t gave at the Se- n i o r Center to the Duck Fund last week. You gave enough to feed the ducks to the end of Febru ary if this nice weather holds and the ducks have the green grass to munch. Also, they are working the cattail beds over for bugs at present. The freeze is over? The presidential hoopla is over. How many of you saw the red, white and blue #1 ski cap on the person in the background as they panned the crowd? Or, the president’s daughter apply ing her lip gloss - even the commentator mentioned that. My thought - the parade pro tection was very overdone. It did not look like we felt like a free country. I agree other countries could misinterpret a Dean and Perle headline McCall Forum Former Vermont Governor Howard Dean and conservative political commentator Richard Perle will headline the 23rd An nual Tom McCall Forum on Thursday, February 17, at 8:00 p.m. in the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall in Portland. Presented by Pacific Univer sity and Wells Fargo, with co sponsors Willamette Week and 750 KXL, the pair will debate “American Foreign Policy Post 9/11.” Governor Dean led an influ ential campaign for the Democ ratic nomination for President, focusing the debate on health care and job creation. He mobi lized once apathetic voters and transformed political fundrais ing via the Internet and then formed the new organization Democracy for America, build ing on his grassroots efforts. Dean served as governor of Vermont from 1991 until 2002, and previously was a member of the Vermont House of Rep resentatives and lieutenant governor. Prior to his political career, he practiced medicine in Vermont. Richard Perle, a political commentator, writer, and advi sor, is a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research. He is a regular guest on televi sion’s top news programs and author of Hard Line. Perle served as assistant secretary of defense for International Se curity Policy and on the U.S. Senate staff. He is frequently called upon to advise members of Congress and to testify at congressional policy hearings and serves as a consultant to the Department of Defense and as director of The Jerusalem Post. “September 11, 2001, cast American foreign policy in a new light,” said Russ Dondero, political science professor at Pacific University and founder of the Tom McCall Forum. “With the war in Afghanistan and Iraq, the U.S. entered a new age of foreign policy with terrorism as its centerpiece. What long-term impact will these events have on U.S. foreign policy? Tradi tional alliances such as NATO and our relations with nations in Page 9 the Middle East and beyond have changed. No matter who is in the White House, the cur rent situation will shape Ameri can foreign policy for years, if not for decades.” Created in 1982 by the stu dents and faculty of Pacific Uni versity’s Politics and Law Fo rum, the Tom McCall Forum has become the premier public affairs event in the Northwest, drawing national political fig ures each year to Portland for a spirited debate between a liber al and a conservative of nation al interest. Previous debaters have included Molly Ivins, William Kristol, Bill Bradley, David Gergen, Ralph Nader, Newt Gingrich, Ralph Reed, Alan Dershowitz, James Car- ville, Mary Matalin, William Satire, John Sununu, Pierre Salinger, Robert Bork, Jesse Jackson, Mario Cuomo, and Dan Quayle. For tickets to the 2005 Tom McCall Forum, call TicketMas- ter at 503-224-4400 or the Pa cific University box office at 503-352-2918. Tickets are $25 and $20. lot of things said in the Presi dent’s speech. English speak is only understood by Americans. Elsewhere folks translate it very differently. Walking the lake muddy road I met a man with a tripod. “What now?” I said. Said he, “Sewer line.” This is progress of what kind? Now, to you this may be silly, but I’ve had fish tanks since the early 60’s and outside of gup pies, I’ve never had the pleas ure of births (that I know of) in my tanks. But...I saw swim ming eyes the other morning. Two days later they had be come lunch for the larger fish. Don’t ask why - just read on. Last Sunday at Church the les son was based on Luke 10:25- 37. I had the ultimate example of it around 6:00 p.m. on Stoney Point Road. Dark, yes it was. My car died. My compan ion and I sat, blinkers blinking. Car #1 came and passed by. Car #2 came (I was out of the car trying to flag it down) and passed by. Two 80+ year-old ladies with a small flashlight started up the hill for a house and finally car #3 came by - I stood in the road flashing my candle. Bless you #3, we got to a phone and help. Enough said. Pageant is seeking nominations for 2005 My Fair Lady Court now The My Fair Lady Pageant is seeking nominees for the 2005 My Fair Lady Court. The pag eant is held each year during the Columbia County Fair to recognize senior women for their outstanding service in our community. Nominations are accepted from representatives in each area of Columbia County. A panel of judges from throughout the county reviews the nominations and makes the final selections for the court. If you would like to nominate someone to be a member of the 2005 My Fair Lady Court, contact Nancy Harwood at the Retired & Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP), 503-397- 5655, for an application form. Nominees must be 55 years or older but do not need to be a member of RSVP or their local senior center. Nominations are due by March 1. The court will be selected by the My Fair Lady Pageant Committee and announced in March. The My Fair Lady Pageant will be held Wednesday, July 20, as part of Senior Day activ ities at the Columbia County Fair. A panel of judges will se lect a queen by rating the women on their community service and their responses to questions asked during the pageant. Columbia River PUD organ izes the pageant each year in conjunction with RSVP and Co lumbia River Fire and Rescue. VERNONIA INN Enjoy a quiet weekend with us. FULL SIZE, IN ROOM HOT TUBS "Queen Beds • Private Bath • Separate Entrance Cable TV • Phones • Handicapped Access rnwTTWEKTTAT. BREAKFAST FOR RESERVATIONS CALL 1-800-354-9494 / 503-429-4006 Gift Certificates Available 900 MADISON AVE., VERNONIA, OR 97064 Just one block off scenic Nehalem River Hwy. (Oregon 47)
