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* * *Injured bicyclist notes his Good Samaritans
From Mark Rehmar
O'BrienI want to express my appreciation to those individuals who stopped and helped my fellow riders assist me after I had a bicycle wreck in the Tartar Gultch area recently.
While I remember little of what happened, I am aware that their aid made a big difference.
She’d like to start a girls dance team
From Tabitha Van Meter
Cave JunctionI am a proud resident of Illinois Valley, and recently graduated from I.V. High.
One thing I noticed is that there aren’t many sports that are appealing to girls. I did a survey on how many girls would sign up for a dance team, and I got 63 responses.
I took it to the school district as an idea: Let’s start a dance team! They were thrilled about it, but the school wasn’t. When I presented the idea they seemed more amused than thrilled.
I was and still am a professional dancer. I have danced at the half-time of the Citrus Bowl; danced as a member of an elite pom team has taken eight national championships; danced on a high school dance team that has taken home three championships; and worked with various professional squads and trainers.
The school told me that the community wouldn’t support a dance team, but I think otherwise. I think that maybe if someone did a story on what the team would be about, and how fantastic and fun it would be, maybe some intrigued parents, and maybe even sponsors, would respond.
I have several reasons why I would love to do this, and why I know it would be successful:
*I know what I am doing.
*I am willing to volunteer my time and efforts for putting together a community competition dance team that I can guarantee will bring home winnings.
*Summer is coming, and this would be a great thing for the kids to devote their time to.
*I have seen the talent in this community.
Biscuit salvage seen as shallow endeavor
From Roger Brandt
Cave JunctionThe economic debate over the Biscuit salvage project continues in utterly amazing shallowness.
It is shocking how timber continues to be used as the exclusive indicator to measure the economic success or failure of the Biscuit salvage project while ignoring all the economic values that were sacrificed to make these timber dollars available.
For example, salvaging on the T.J. Howell Botanical Drive destroyed an extraordinary tourism attraction that could have contributed a million tourism dollars to our economy annually. The project took this tourism asset, worth millions of dollars annually, and permanently sacrificed it for a one-shot timber receipt.
We could have used a small part of the forest along this drive to establish a sustainable economic future for hundreds of people. But instead, the Biscuit salvage sacrificed the opportunity for a few seasonal jobs now long gone.
A multimillion dollar, sustainable economic future was sacrificed for the short-term chicken feed that the timber industry got out of the salvage. It is unimaginable to me that anyone could point to this and declare that timber is the way to our economic future.
Statements by two in public called drivel
From William Schneider
Cave JunctionPat Robertson, in my opinion, gives Christianity a bad name. With a lot of help, of course.
I compare the ignorance of statements suggesting that Ariel Sharon is being punished by God through his failing health to the same sort of drivel spewing from the mouth of Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in his denial of the Holocaust.
I say, “Gentlemen, please shut up.”
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