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The INDEPENDENT, December 1, 2005 Between the Bookends By Angie Spiering, Library Assistant Banks Public Library Preschool Storytime continues with Miss Cathy on Wednesdays at 10:15 a.m. Themes for this month are: December 7th, Winter Wonderland December 14th, Happy Holidays There will be no story- time on December 21 or 28. Miss Cathy will return on January 4, 2006. The friends of the library are offering the op- portunity to order books for your holiday shop- ping needs. Please contact the library at (503) 324-1382 or stop by. You can also send me an e- mail at <banksfolbookfest@yahoo.com>, if that is easier. We will be accepting orders through December 10th. The library is also preparing for summer read- ing 2006 with a shirt sale. You can pre-order t- shirts in adult, teen and kid sizes. We also have denim shirts available. Please contact us at the library for more information. The library now has a new tea shop mystery by writer Laura Childs, Chamomile Mourning. This bestselling author of The Jasmine Moon Murder stirs up a savory new suspense novel, boiling over with mystery and flavored with a hint of foul play. Included are a delicious recipe and tea-making tips. A new book by author Ken Follett, Whiteout, involves a missing canister containing a deadly virus, and a lab technician bleeding from the eyes. Toni Gallo, security director of a Scottish medical research firm, knows she has problems, but she has no idea of the nightmare to come. This is a book of human betrayal, medical terror and a race against time. The library will be closed December 24th and 31st. Letters The Friends of the Banks Library help in many different ways. Their financial contributions in- clude paying for Preschool Storytime, Summer Reading Program entertainers and prizes, and the Hot Titles Sizzler Book Collection. The fund- ing for these items comes from a few different sources. Annual membership dues are a primary source of their financial support. Members can set their own level of involvement; some offer fi- nancial support only, others help with the Swat- co recycling, the plant and book sale and are ac- tive members of group. Recycling is held at the Swatco depot on the second Saturday of each month from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Volunteers are on hand to help with the unloading and sorting of items. For more in- formation or to volunteer, contact Joyce Krull at 503-359-9371. The library staff greatly ap- preciates the Friends and our library volunteers, and would like to thank them all. They put in a lot of time and energy, making our job easier. Anyone with previous experience who is interested in helping with various library tasks, is invited to call us. Banks Public Library: 111 Market Street. Hours: Tues., Wed., Thurs., 12 - 7:00 p.m.; Fri. and Sat. 12 - 5:00 p.m. Preschool Story Time: Wednesdays at 10:15 a.m. Phone: (503 ) 324-1382 for information (503) 846-3245 to renew material Internet: <www.WILInet.wccls.lib.or.us.> to browse library resources, to reserve or renew materials online. You will need your card number and password to renew by phone or online. Ike Says From page 2 lands, your phone call will certainly be answered a lot faster than in the past. These officers coor- dinate their schedules to provide overlapping coverage with each other and with the perma- nent OSP game division officers. Their sched- ules are also spread out during the year, so there may be coverage outside of hunting seasons, as well. You just might find one out and about any time of the day or night or year! Did you see Grant McComie’s piece on Chan- nel 2 News last week? The Disabled Hunter Pro- gram got a review by Grant that is helping to open the eyes of many people who have be- come affected by this program. The original in- tent of the program was right on, but with the re- laxing of rules a few years back, there has been a flood of new participants and, as McComie pointed out, the program is being abused. The abuse stems from more liberal bag limits for disabled hunters, allowing either sex animals to be taken; other hunters may generally take only bulls. The number of participants in the handicap program has sky rocketed, resulting in problems for the antlerless harvest. The district Page 3 biologist for Saddle Mountain unit has had to take action to keep from harming the unit’s elk population; next year there will be a drastic re- duction in antlerless tags to the general public. This would be fine in my book if it was to truly cover disabled hunters’ harvest, but it is becom- ing apparent that some people qualifying for the program are not truly disabled. Another problem is that other hunters in disabled hunters’ parties are taking animals for the disabled person ille- gally. In 2003, 189 disabled hunters took 63 cow elk and 15 bulls. This may not be a high success rate, but it has to be accounted for. Each year the disabled tag numbers increase and the addi- tional harvest has to come from somewhere. ODF&W is currently reviewing the disabled hunter program and is talking about making everybody reapply for permits, along with other measures. Izaak Walton League Nehalem Valley Chapter meets on the third Thursday of each month at 7:00 p.m. Call 503-429-7193 for location of meeting. Vernonia kids shine with sportsmanship To the Editor: The Vernonia Youth Football (both girls and boys) grades 3 through 6 have outclassed the other area teams. Once again, the people of Vernonia should be very proud of the kids playing “Little Guy Football.” Games were played with teams from the following areas – Astoria, Banks, Clatskanie, Gaston, Ilwaco, Seaside and Warrenton. Several Saturday double- headers were played through- out the season. The local teams may not have won as many games as the other ar- eas. Most teams had larger rosters and, yes, even larger players. HOWEVER, they won in the most important area, that of sportsmanship. All of the play- ers showed a whole lot of class in their games. Thanks to the coaches involved in the pro- gram. The citizens of Vernonia should be proud of the teams/ coaches and how well they rep- resented your town. Bill Shaw Grandparent (of a player) Aloha “special order Hampton Collec- tion” desk for $1,111.55 and de- manded that taxpayers pay for that, too. Finally, he went out on his own to buy $800 worth of equipment for the county’s PR person – again, no authori- zation – and demanded that we pay for it. Grand total of unauthorized expenditures of our tax dollars is at least $2,000. This $2,000 is the equivalent of four months rent for a poor family, or rough- ly 1,000 meals for the hungry, or medical care for a vet that can’t get service at a VA hospi- tal because of budget cuts. Any of these are surely better ways to spend our tax dollars than “special order Hampton Collec- tion” desks for Commissioner Corsiglia. Yours truly, Michael F. Sheehan Scappoose Ed. Note: According to Columbia County Counsel John Knight, the referenced newspaper article was based on a misunderstanding of County purchasing policies, and Commissioner Corsiglia’s pur- chase of a camera and printer for the County Economic Develop- ment Department was properly au- thorized. Variety show raised Corsiglia expenditures $500 to help others violate County rules To the Editor: To the Editor: The Spotlight’s article (11/16) on County Commis- sioner Joe Corsiglia’s violation of the County’s purchasing rules to buy what he feels like buying at County expense was surprising on several counts. The rule is that proposed pur- chases have to go through the Purchasing Department to see if there is money for the pur- chase in the budget, to have someone review spending pri- orities for our tax dollars, and to allow Purchasing to get us a better price. According to the article, Corsiglia just ignores these rules on an ongoing ba- sis. He makes the rules but he thinks he doesn’t have to obey them. Secondly, after having bought himself the first new desk without authorization (cost unspecified in the article) he then decided to buy himself something much better, a new On behalf of the Hands on Art board, I want to say thanks to all the performers and the audience who attended our first variety show benefit. We raised $500 for Habitat for Humanity to help Gulf Coast victims and had a great time doing it. Special kudos go to Carol Pelster, who came to Hands on Art with the idea to do some- thing for the Katrina victims. She did the lion’s share of the work in planning and directing the show. We thank Mayor Sally Harri- son for being a great emcee, and we extend special thanks to Photo Solutions for their generous contribution. I think I speak for the rest of the audience in saying that we all had a delightful evening dis- covering the many talents of our local folks. Hands on Art hopes to make this an annual event to benefit local charities. Tobie Finzel, for Vernonia Hands on Art