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
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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
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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