Top stories in our weekly issue dated
September 23, 2009
With loppers in hand, Jim Fuller strides through Laurel Cemetery’s oldest, hill-top section. Fuller, past commander of American Legion Post 70, has made a near-daily routine of raising the flag and saluting deceased veterans before diving into the brush and weeds. (Photos by Michelle Binker, Illinois Valley News)
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It’s just after 8 on a crisp September morning.
U.S. Army veterans and Glenn Morrison American Legion Post 70 members Jim Fuller and Robert Soria are at Laurel Cemetery in Cave Junction preparing to pay tribute to their fallen comrades buried there.
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Harsh economic times have prompted Illinois Valley Safe House Alliance (IVSHA) to change its focus from having a safe house complex to providing more services and seeking its own self-sufficiency.
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Food is the great equalizer, and Debbie Lukas, founder of Siskiyou Mountain Herbs and the Spiral Living Center in Illinois Valley, feels that, in a world with so many dividers, “food is one of those issues that unites us.”
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A cornucopia of events and activities are planned for the final month of the season at the Oregon Caves and Chateau, 22 miles east of Cave Junction..
Community News
Hot, dry weather contributed to a spate of fires across Southern Oregon on Monday, Sept. 21, including this one in the 5300 block of Holland Loop. Illinois Valley Fire District (IVFD) and Oregon Dept. of Forestry responded, containing the blaze before it spread deeply into adjacent wildland. Fires in Ashland and Medford burned some 100 and 600 acres, respectively. IVFD firefighters and equipment were called to support the regional firefighting effort. (Photos by Dale & Elaine Sandberg, IVFD)
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Thanks to a $250,000 grant from the U.S. Dept. of Justice (DOJ), Josephine County will be able to fully implement its mental health court for nonviolent persons involved in some offenses.
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The dire economic situation is being played out in both the Medford and Grants Pass offices of the Oregon Employment Dept. (OED), which Manager Gail Gasso described as “very, very busy.”
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Continued high unemployment in Josephine County is cause for concern among many, but these days, it’s certainly getting the attention of Michael Smith.
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Anti-tax activists in Josephine County and throughout Oregon are wrapping up efforts to refer a series of tax increases to voters in January.
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Oregon’s next gubernatorial election won’t be held until November 2010, but candidates already are lining up to seek the nominations of their parties.
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Events calendar
All the Valley's happenings in the Events Calendar
Sports News
Kayla Johnson with a great leap. (Photo by Lorraine Schlabach)
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In only the third volleyball game of the season, against Happy Camp at home in Ken Mann Memorial Gym on Tuesday, Sept. 15, second-year head coach Cathy Pope and her team equaled the win total of last season.
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Despite losing its two most-recent games, the Illinois Valley High School girls soccer team is not defeated, but working to improve.
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The Cougar football team trip to Gold Beach on Friday the 18th of September was not enjoyable, as I.V. lost to the Panthers 42-0.
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- Two from GP arrested in theft cases
- OSP seizes approximately 70 pounds of pot on I-5
- The annual Cycle Oregon bike ride traveled through the ‘Heart of the Siskiyous,’ camping overnight at Lake Selmac
- Plan aims to improve rural health access through EMT training
- C&K Markets seeing the (green) LED lights
- Lovejoy offers ‘Good Grief’
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- ‘Unnecessary roughness’
- Stop pot eradication
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