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* * *Downtown strip club seemingly unnecessary
From Billie Coakley
Cabin Chemistry, CJThanks for alerting the neighborhood about the topless bar proposing to do
business on main street Cave Junction.Not only that, but drawing customers from out of the area, to spend the evening drinking and driving back out of the area. Drinking and driving: Is that the new revenue-raising plan for the valley?
Let's see: When a theater (in the old theater building) was proposed we were told there is not enough parking available. A strip club sharing the parking lot with Earth Friendly Kids, lovely.
Let’s see: From the JI to the next traffic light how many places sell alcohol? Last count: 6. Isn’t that
enough?Aiding Oregon future pledged by candidate
From Jim Feldkamp
RoseburgThe U.S. Dept. of Labor and Secretary Elaine L. Chao deserve credit for recognizing Oregon’s need to help dislocated workers.
The government grant of $816,929 will go far to retrain workers and make them more viable individuals. And while this is extremely important, there is no substitute for a rebirth of timber, industry, technology, tourism and other sectors and the revitalization of family wage jobs they represent.
Hewlett-Packard’s displaced workers are yet another example of why we must look into the future and plan to ensure that opportunities lie within the grasp for local businesses and Oregonians to have sustainable jobs and a vibrant economy.
As the 4th Congressional District’s next representative in the U.S. House, I will view this through a prism to stimulate jobs -- because in 20 years our current congressman has not brought a single piece of legislation to help our economy.
Library management castigated for situation
From George F. Long
Grants PassAfter having exposed numerous problems in the management of the county’s government during the last few years it comes as no surprise to me that the messenger, in this case myself, is blamed for the county’s woes.
My recent letter calling for the removal of Cessa Vichi as library system manager has had this effect.
When I told the county commissioners about Cessa taking herself and five library employees to Salem for three days, Commissioner Ellis, the library liaison, sent her an email asking for an explanation of the financial details of the trip. Ellis gave the response she sent him to me.
While I need not include it all here, the relevant parts are that Cessa claimed the trip was a budgeted item; no claim of the money coming from a grant was mentioned; and it was the perfect chance to do so. She said that the total cost of the trip was $2,140, but that is not the truth. That was the cost for registration, two nights lodging, mileage and meals.
As with most county managers she neglected to include the real cost of the trip, and that was the salaries and benefits the taxpayers were responsible for to pay for six county employees for three days, 18 man-days as it were.
If the library system in Josephine County is forced to close it will not be because a citizen exposed poor management at the library; it will be because the library has been poorly managed for years.
Claiming that my exposing in county government will cause its failure is rather like saying that the American Revolution would not have occurred had it not been for the misinformation spread by Paul Revere, William Dawes, and Dr. Samuel Prescott that the “Regulars” were coming.
I know, many were taught that they warned that the British were coming. But that’s absurd. They were British citizens warning other British citizens of the troubles and danger in their government.
It is not my desire to see the libraries close, but that is the path it is being led by the current management. I think that Dave Toler, who is running for county commissioner, is one of the few public figures willing to acknowledge that the people of this county have lost faith in their government.
Toler is correct in that if the children of Illinois Valley are hurt due to the closure of the library, then one need to place the blame where it belongs -- on poor management.
‘Massive clear-cutting’ would spoil his place
From Justin Rohde
Cave JunctionI am writing because my favorite place in the world is about to be destroyed by the Siskiyou National Forest and the Bush administration. My favorite place is also Oregon’s largest roadless area, and my governor has asked them to cancel their plans for massive clear-cutting in the area.
If we destroy our roadless areas, then we can kiss good-bye our great hunting, clean water, fishing, tourism and clean environment. The forest service has so far refused to protect Oregon’s most important roadless areas. I live here and view this amazing area every day from Redwood Hwy.
My favorite place in the world is the North and South Kalmiopsis Roadless areas. They are contiguous.
How can the Mike’s Gulch and Blackberry sales go forward in these roadless areas over the objection of Oregon’s governor and its people? In June, the forest service planning to auction these sales.
Trees have also been marked red to be cut along a Coho spawning stream, overlooking the national Wild and Scenic Illinois River, and in the botanical area along the 023 road. Citizens should be outraged.
Last year the forest service made headlines when trees were illegally logged inside a protected wilderness area; then when acres of live trees were illegally logged, and finally when 17 acres were illegally logged in a protected area. Our security ultimately depends on the clean air, water, diverse forests, and species that make life on this planet a reality.
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