Here, There & Everywhere
From our weekly issue dated September 10, 2008
HELPFUL BUCKS - Meyer Memorial Trust has awarded $2.42 million intended to increase affordable housing access in rural Oregon by strengthening providers. Recipients include Illinois Valley 2010 Community Response Team, which was awarded $18,000 to attract and increase tourism to benefit the community’s economy. I.V. Family Coalition was given $7,000 to support a program providing aid to low-income families. In Ashland, Rogue Initiative for a Vital Economy was granted$66,000 to implement a strategic plan to increase fund-raising capacity. Other awards: $210,000 to So. Oregon Adolescent Study & Treatment Group, and $350,00 to Medford’s La Clinica del Valley Family Health Care Center.
BEAR WITH US - Umpqua Bank has volunteered to accept donations of dry dog food to help feed the resident black bears at Wildlife Images Rehabilitation & Education Center in rural Grants Pass. Donations can be left at all Umpqua Bank branches in Josephine and Jackson counties. “Our normal sources of dry dog food, which we use to feed the bears, are having trouble supplying us,” said David Siddon, executive director of Wildlife Images. It receives no funding from any government agency, relying solely on contributions from individuals and organizations for its mission of rehabilitation and education. Donations of dry dog food also can be brought to Wildlife Images at 11845 Lower River Road, 12 miles west of Grants Pass and 3 miles southwest of Merlin. Hours are 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. every day.
HEARTACHE HELP - Good Grief is a Lovejoy Hospice six-week peer support group for children who have experienced the death of someone important in their lives.learn new ways to support their grieving children and themselves.staff and volunteers guide children in groups from preschool through high school in creative and engaging activities related to grieving.multiage group meets from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Tuesdays at the Lovejoy Hospice site, 939 S.E. Eighth St. in Grants Pass. A series will begin on Oct. 14 and run through Nov. 25. Pre-registration is required. Phone 474 -1193 to enroll.
NOTEPAD - Grape Stomp 2008, sponsored by Illinois Valley Chamber of Commerce, is coming Saturday, Sept. 20 at Bridgeview Vineyards Winery. See the ad in this issue … Pregnancy Center of Illinois Valley will hold its annual fund-raising dinner Saturday, Sept. 27 at I.V. Senior Center with catering by O’Brien’s Phil Aria. RSVPs are asked by Wednesday, Sept. 24. The keynote speaker will be Beth Chase, executive director of the Life Choice Project/National Institute of Family & Life Advocates … Alcohol and drug prevention work can be aided by funding through the Josephine County Local Alcohol & Drug Planning Committee. The maximum request is $2,500. Phone Kris Gleinser at 474-5234, Ext. 3 ... Newspaper slips: *In searching the car, police found several explosive devices used to destroy rodents that have been declared illegal. *The committee was griefed by the president, who outlined the role of the government during the incursion. *A grass-roots organization is demanding that because of closed-door meetings the city council open its flies to the public ... Lament: The trouble is that the people of today are driving the cars of tomorrow on the highways of yesterday … Church bulletin goof: The pastor is accepting preyer requests.
LAST WORDS - The devil hath power to assume a pleasing shape. (Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 2/scene 2)
