Here, There, and Everywhere
From our weekly issue dated May 06, 2009
CAVES CRAZE - Saturday, May 9 will be Community Day at Oregon Caves National Monument. Free tours are offered between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. on a first-come, first-served basis. The National Park Service advises that the route is “cold, wet, winding, mysterious and beautiful.” Jackets are recommended, as temperatures in the caves are consistently in the low 40s. Each 90-minute tour covers more than 500 uneven steps. For safety reasons, children under 42-inches tall are not permitted to tour the caves. “This is an especially exciting year,” said Superintendent Vicki Snitzler, “because 2009 marks the 100th anniversary (of the caves) as a national monument.” For more information phone 592-2100.
CIRCUS SITUATION - A public showing of the Culpepper & Merriweather Circus will be welcomed by Cave Junction Lions Club on the Junction Inn lot in Cave Junction on Monday, May 11. Show times are 5 and 7:30 p.m. Tickets are available at Coffee Heaven, Evergreen Federal Bank, Home Valley Bank, Lue-van-o’s, SOFCU Community Credit Union, Michelle’s Family Restaurant, Taylor’s Country Store, River Valley Restaurant, Sterling Savings Bank, and Illinois Valley Visitor Center.
LIBRARY LIFT - Volunteers are asked to pitch in to clean up the Illinois Valley Branch Library grounds on W. Palmer Street in Cave Junction on Saturday, May 16 beginning at 10 a.m. Participants are asked to bring rakes, brooms, trash bags and even lawn mowers, if available. Phone Linda Naydol at 592-3289 for more information.
DONATED DUDS - Takilma Bible Church will hold its semi-annual clothing give-away on Saturday, May 16, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The location is 10343 Takilma Road.
SELMA SAMPLER - Saturday, May 16 is scheduled to be a busy day at Selma Community & Education Center (SCEC). From 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. there will be a spring starter plant sale outside under the farmer’s market pole shed, and inside the gymnasium a flea market will be held. At 6 p.m. SCEC will host a Mexican dinner. Contact Ruth at 592-3759 for information about the plant sale; phone Jim at 597-2455 for flea market information.
PARADE PREPARATIONS - “Labor Day is coming,” says Illinois Valley Lions Club member Harry Johnson. “It's time for all of you to get your floats dusted off or start making them.” This year’s Labor Day Parade theme is 150 years of Oregon History, Hear the Past, See the Future. Float entries should be made to fit this theme. The parade will be held on Monday, Sept. 7. For assistance or questions phone Johnson at 596-2104.
TRACK ATTIRE - An anonymous donor has provided some 31 sweatshirts for this year’s Lorna Byrne Middle School track team. Athletes will get to keep them, as stipulated by the donor. The donor contacted coach Perry Sheehan about the matter, which Principal Damien Crowson calls “very generous and nice.” He estimates the donor’s cost at $600 to $700.
NOTEPAD - Lovejoy Hospice can be supported during its “Sweet Invigoration” Heart of Summer Team Fund-raiser. Order by Thursday, May 7 to have 4 ounces of Cary’s of Oregon fine chocolate and a Mother’s Day card sent to your mom for a donation to Lovejoy. Proceeds support children’s Grief & Loss, children’s hospice and adult bereavement programs. Phone 955-5545 to order ... Oregon Caves National Monument is participating in the Youth Conservation Corps (YCC) program this summer. Two enrollee positions available. YCC is a summer employment program for men and women aged 15 through 18 who work and learn by participating in conservation work on public land. Phone Pat Fine at 592-2100, Ext. 221; and leave a message including name and address to send an application and information packet. Applications are due by May 26 ... Greater Grants Pass Rotary Club will host First Crush, an annual event “showcasing the finest wine, food, cheese and chocolates” from Southwestern Oregon. Proceeds will benefit Josephine County Food Bank. The event will be held at the Von Coelln residence at the Josephine County Fairgrounds on Saturday, May 30 from 3 to 7 p.m. For tickets, phone Nancy Venuti at 476-9616, Ext. 103 or email nancy@grantspasshomes.com ... Raffle tickets are available at Illinois Valley Visitor Center, and Sterling Savings Bank (Cave Junction) to win a doll house replica of the Chateau at Oregon Caves. The drawing will be held on July 5 during the annual I.V. Alumni picnic. Proceeds will benefit the IVHS Alumni & Friends Scholarship fund ... T-shirts: *Celebrate take yourself to work day. *Watch out! Whatever hits the fan will be distributed evenly. *All work completed. All customers satisfied. All staff happy. All pigs fed and ready to fly ... Bumper stickers: *Spell check ... it’s impotent. *I like to jam the copier. *Dangerously overeducated.
LAST WORDS - We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty or profusion and servitude. If we run into such debt, as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our calling and our creeds ... [we will] have no time to think, no means of calling our mis-managers to account to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow-sufferers ... And this is the tendency of all human governments. A departure from principle in one instance becomes a precedent for [another] till the bulk of society is reduced to be mere automatons of misery ... And the fore-horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in its train wretchedness and oppression. (Thomas Jefferson)
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