Here, There & Everywhere
From our weekly issue dated July 16, 2008
FREE MUSIC - On Thursday, July 17, Southern Oregon Blues Band will perform for Concerts in the Park, sponsored by Illinois Valley Chamber of Commerce. Each concert in the annual series in Jubilee Park in Cave Junction runs from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Barbecued hamburgers and hot dogs, and soft drinks are available. Attendees should bring their own chairs. The audience also can participate in the 50-50 raffle, used by the chamber to pay for the musicians.
ZONTA BUCKS - Josephine Community Libraries Inc. (JCLI), which is working to reopen county libraries, is helping to promote sales of tickets offered by Zonta Club members for the annual Extreme Dream Raffle. JCLI is encouraging sales because Zonta has said that it will present a grant of up to $10,000 from its raffle to purchase computers for the library system. Tickets are available in Cave Junction at Dave’s Outdoor Power Equipment, and in Grants Pass at Blind George’s. For more information phone Nancy Smith at 471-9446.
BUSINESS BOOSTER - Because of construction to add an economic development office, the RCC Illinois Valley Learning Center in Kerby will be closed until approximately early December. The overall facility will feature a Northwest lodge-style appearance. RCC is establishing a Business Entrepreneurial Center (BEC)program in collaboration with Illinois Valley Community Development Organization, Southern Oregon Regional Economic Development Inc., and Josephine County. Most of the project funding, said RCC, is from a $300,000 USDA grant with additional funding from the county, RCC Foundation and the Four Way Foundation. The Southern Oregon Guild Gallery in the RCC Belt Bldg. also is closed temporarily.
Regarding the BEC program, Peter Angstadt, RCC president, stated “The center will help fledgling business owners get started, and help existing owners who want to ramp-up production and take their business to the next level. We’ll help point them in the right direction to take advantage of opportunities out there.”
‘TAPS’ FOR VETS - Cremains from 14 identified veterans recently were given military honors and interment at Eagle Point National Cemetery. Three of the 14 are World War I veterans; the remaining 11 represent vets from World War II to the Vietnam War. “We are working diligently to locate, identify and provide proper military burials for these veterans’ remains,” said Jim Willis, director of the Oregon Dept. of Veterans Affairs.
MAKING THE GRADE - Longtime valley resident Gilly Squire notes an error in a July 2 story in the Noose. The story included the notation that Kerbyville Masons in 1979 bought the former Kerbyville Union High School. Squire reports that actually it was the Kerby Grade School, not the high school.
CANINE ATTRACTION - Josephine County Parks & Rec Dept. plans to construct a dog park in the Schroeder Park day-use area in Grants Pass. It would have two sections to separate large dogs from smaller pets. Donations of fencing, gates and a pooper scooper disposal unit would provide animals space to run freely off-leash, which is not allowed elsewhere in the park. Contributions so far total $3,500, approximately half the total needed. For more information contact Kevin
Entriken at 474-5285.
NOTEPAD - A spaghetti feed “with fun, laughter and great music” will be held Saturday, July 26 by Illinois Valley Safe House Alliance. It will begin at 6 p.m. at the alliance building on Lister Street … An outdoor service and potluck picnic will be held on Sunday, July 27 by Good Shepherd Lutheran Church. Phone 592-2290 for details … Gayle Wilson and Sh-Boom will present a Back to the ’50s concert on Tuesday, July 22 from 7 to 9 p.m. at Riverside Park during a free concert sponsored by Grants Pass Chamber of Commerce ... Barbership harmonizing is available to women of all ages through the Rogue Valley Women’s Barbershop Chorus. Like to sing? It’s possible to be a guest for up to four months without joining. Practices are held Thursdays from 7 to 9:30 at the Boys & Girls Club in Grants Pass. For more information phone President Marty Patten at 476-6262 … Newspaper goofs: *Besides their daughter Susan, and Dennis, an altered boy at St. Mark’s, the couple has three other children. *An inmate at the prison said he was awakened and thrown from his bed by a loud blast in his pajamas. *Five outlaw motorcyclists are to be arraigned in connection with a fight at the town diner. No one was seriously injured, except a waitress who was bruised in the fracas. *Huge Pacific smells caused by an Alaskan tidal wave threatened beach homes.
LAST WORDS - I don't believe in a government that protects us from ourselves. (President Reagan)
