Here, There & Everywhere
BREAST DECISIONS - “Updated Breast Cancer Education: Making Informed Decisions,” is the title of a free workshop, including dinner, set for Wednesday, Oct. 24 from 6 to 8 p.m. The workshop will be held at Siskiyou Community Health Center in Cave Junction. (Check the ad in this issue).
BURNING ISSUES - A fireside vigil will be held by Illinois Valley Safe House Alliance (IVSHA) on Friday, Oct. 26 beginning at 6:30 p.m. The gathering, open to anyone, will be adjacent to Illinois Valley Resource Center, 535 E. River St. in Cave Junction. There will be music, refreshments and a time of sharing. The intent of the vigil is for participants, if they wish, to write a brief note regarding past abuse they’ve endured; then place the note in the fire to symbolically burn it away.
PEACE PROGRAM - A 32-hour basic mediation course at Rogue Community College in GP is offered by Common Ground Community Mediation Center. The Workforce education program will be held on Fridays and Saturdays, Nov. 9 and 10, and Nov. 16 and 17. Phone 476-2422 for more information.
HOSPICE HELP APPEAL - Volunteers are needed as respite aides for Asante Hospice because of continuing growth, especially in Josephine County, said Karin Guy, volunteer coordinator for Asante Hospice. “With patients in Cave Junction and beyond, we are in desperate need of volunteers to sit with our patients while their care-giver takes a break or just to provide companionship,” she said. “We also would like to recruit some therapy dog teams. I would like to start a new training class of volunteers in January.” Contact Guy at kguy@asanate.org or phone 789-6859.
NOTEPAD - Daylight-saving time will end Sunday, Nov. 4. We’ll remind you in our Oct. 31 issue … For those who like to plan ahead, the Three Rivers School District calendar notes that there will be no classes Friday, Nov. 2 … Mail delivery? Illinois Valley News mailed a check to Baltimore, Md. (2,887 miles from CJ), which arrived some four days later. On the same day, IVN mailed a check to Crescent City, Calif. (60 miles), and it took 12 days ... A PTSD group, for any woman who has been through emotional or physical trauma, meets Fridays at 5:30 p.m. in the Cedar Room at I.V. Family Resource Center on E. River Street. Phone Grace Auzenne at 592-2515 to register or for more info … Amara Thelen, of Grants Pass, a founder of I.V. Safe House Alliance, is among 18 persons who have worked tirelessly to improve mental health services to Oregonians, and are the 2007 recipients of the Mental Health Awards for Excellence, sponsored annually by the Oregon Dept. of Human Services Addictions & Mental Health Division ... Turkey bingo, courtesy of Cave Junction Lions Club, will be held Saturday, Nov. 10 in the county building in CJ ... Actual headlines: *Dead man was fed secretary. *All-Stars turn on sparse crowd. *Chinese ape-man dated. *Man held over giant L.A. brush fire. *Traffic dead rise slowly.
LAST WORDS - Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It’s perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we’ve learned something from yesterday. (John Wayne)
