Letters to the Editor
From our weekly issue dated November 04, 2009
(Editor’s Note: Views and commentary, including statements made as fact, are strictly those of the letter-writers.)
Typed, double-spaced letters are considered for publication. Hand-written letters that are double-spaced and legible also can be considered. “Thank you” submissions are not accepted as letters
Loves the Blotter
From Camille R.
(former I.V. resident)
I wanted to write to you to tell you how much I love your newspaper. Although I have moved some 2,000-miles away, I drop by your Website to read about the news in the Illinois Valley every week. It is a place that is home to me, even though I don't live there anymore.
I wanted to mention how much I love the Police Blotter. When I first moved to CJ, I thought to myself, “Wow this town is so small that they make up some stories to put in the police blotter, since there is nothing going on in this small mountain area.” Of course it didn’t take me long to realize that every story is true, but is written in such a great humorous way that it almost seems fictional.
While discussing the great humor that is your Police Blotter with my boyfriend, I had to stop and explain about the local character known as Jeremy Beck, and how many times this person has appeared in the blotter. I explained that he lands in the blotter once or twice a week, depending on how he is conducting himself, and thus lands himself in jail often, too. I am not sure how Jeremy Beck manages to get out of jail in time to land in the following week’s blotter. He hardly misses a beat, it is quite extraordinary. My boyfriend decided that the I.V. News must actually be bailing him out so he can get himself in trouble in time for the following week’s Police Blotter. He has become somewhat of a main character in the blotter, and the blotter just wouldn't be the same without him.
As time passes I am sure that Jeremy Beck will find himself in better places than the Police Blotter of the I.V. News, but I wanted you all to know that I will still be reading.
Thanks for the news and all of the laughs!
Proud of his son
From Don Peterson
Kerby
I’m writing to let my son, Jared Moran Peterson, and everyone know how proud I am of his accomplishments on and off the motocross race track.
Jared has been racing for five years, and in that short time he rounded up a room full of trophies, most of them in the # 1 spot. We recently finished the Bounty Hunter series at R.V. motocross race park. In that series Jared placed third in two classes: Open 65cc and 65cc 9-to-11 Class. I also want to say that he goes 100 percent at his school work and other sports he plays.
But the main reason is that Jared competed in a 14-race series all over Oregon: the Oregon State Championships. In it he received two second-place trophies for the 65cc Open and 65cc 9-to-11 Class.
American Legion donation
From Carol Ronan,
Executive Director
I.V Family Coalition
We wish to express our appreciation to the American Legion Auxiliary, Unit 70 members in Cave Junction for their generous donation of nonperishable foods.
The Illinois Valley Family Coalition has an emergency food pantry, and we find that as we enter the winter months, our pantry is almost bare. Hazel Smith, Cindy Soria and Laurel Warden delivered boxes of soups, stews, peanut butter and other hardy food on Oct. 24 in honor of “Make a Difference Day.”
The food will definitely make a difference in the day of some hungry Illinois Valley residents.
Additional donations of nonperishable food will be welcomed at our location: 535 E. River St. in Cave Junction. Our telephone number is 592-6139.
Useful information
From Harry E. Abrams
Cave Junction
Following is an excerpt from The Washington Spectator written by Lou Dubose and published Oct. 15, 2009. It contains information that I think is important for folks to know regarding the sources of information in the media and in political meetings around the country.
I also think that it’s very important to know who pays for the “information” we receive and their agenda:
“Republicans on the Senate Finance Committee are determined to obstruct anything that comes close to authentic heath-care reform. But they did provide some levity during the grinding six-hour debate of two public-option amendments they defeated (with the help of committee Democrats).
“Take Nevada’s John Ensign, who last seized the American public’s attention with his confession that he had an adulterous affair with a member of his staff, which he felt compelled to admit after his inamorata’s husband demanded a bribe and talked to the press. Back in his easy chair in the hearing room and impatient with facts and charts that demonstrated high mortality rates in the U. S. when compared to other countries, Ensign weighed in.
“‘Are you aware that if you take out the gun accidents and auto accidents, the United States actually is better than those other countries?’ he said. ‘But that doesn’t have anything to do with health,’ he stammered. ‘I mean - we’re just a much more mobile society…. We drive our cars a lot more, they do public transportation…. And we love our guns’.
“If the phlegmatic and humorless Charles Grassley of Iowa wasn’t laugh-out loud funny, his head-full-of-ideas argument was laughable. ‘Well, you know, there are health economists around here, and I can only quote two, but I imagine there’s dozens you can quote. And the only reason I can quote two is because they’re the only ones that I want to keep in my head to give people answers,’ said Grassley. ‘But one is, Heritage says that 83 million people are going to be forced out of their plan, employer plans, into public option, and Lewin Group says 120 million people.’
“The Heritage Foundation, a right-wing think tank and foresworn opponent of health-care reform, issued a report attacking Democratic reform proposals months before members of the 11th Congress took their oath of office. The Lewin Group is a ‘health-care policy research and management consulting firm,’ that has been crunching numbers and publishing studies of health care in the U.S. for years. But it’s owned by United Health Care, a huge health-insurance combine whose CEO earned $124.8 million last year and is deeply invested in the health-care reform fight.”
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