Here, There, and Everywhere
From our weekly issue dated November 11, 2009
MIX IT UP - Crocker Financial Services will host an Illinois Valley Chamber of Commerce mixer on Friday, Nov. 13 from 5 to 7 p.m. at 204 W. Lister St. across from the Cave Junction Post Office. Chamber members, the business community and the public are welcome to attend. Refreshments will be served. Phone the chamber office at 592-3326 for more information.
SECOND FRIDAY CIRCULATION - Art Walk will return to the Illinois Valley Branch Library on Friday Nov. 13, from 5 to 8 p.m. Featured artists will be Kate Prockl and Hester Mallonee. There also will be music by the I.V. String Band, a book-reading by author Claudia Smith Anderson, and refreshments. The circulation desk will be open and books and materials can be checked out.
HOLIDAY HELPERS - Since 1989 the Cave Junction Cares Program has served needy families in Illinois Valley at Thanksgiving and Christmas. CJ Cares now feeds some 450 people on Thanksgiving and Christmas morning in the pavilion at Jubilee Park; meals also are provided for homebound individuals. The program is made possible entirely through donations and the work of volunteers. To make a donation, to volunteer to serve meals or for more information, phone Lynn Boucher-Johnson at 592-3594 or contact Fred & Sarah Ball at Bi-Rite Auto Parts, 592-3601.
MATMEN MEET - The I.V. Youth Wrestling Tourney will be held in Ken Mann Memorial Gym at Illinois Valley High School on Saturday, Nov. 14. Wrestling will begin at 10 a.m.
NOTEPAD - U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden’s annual Josephine County town hall meeting on Friday, Nov. 13 has been moved to the Heater-Newman Memorial Gym at Grants Pass High School, 830 N.E. 9th St. Also, the event time has been changed to 10 a.m. Doors open at 9 a.m. The meeting was originally scheduled at the Anne G. Basker Auditorium ... Work will begin on the new “drought-tolerant, mostly native plant garden” at the Cave Junction Branch of the Josephine County Library on Saturday, Nov. 14. Volunteers should bring gloves, shovels, rakes, wheel barrows, leaf bags. Phone Linda Naydol at 592-3289 with questions ... IVHS Fall Sports Awards will be presented on Tuesday, Nov. 17 at 6 p.m. This is the last chance to purchase raffle tickets to win a letterman’s jacket, as the drawing will be held during the awards presentation ... The deadline for businesses to enter the Illinois Valley Chamber of Commerce annual Christmas decorating contest is Tuesday, Dec. 1. Judges will visit participating locations on Dec. 5. Phone 592-3326 for more information ... Dell’Arte theatre troupe is scheduled to perform at Lorna Byrne Middle School on Saturday, Dec. 5. Stay with I.V. News for more ... Illinois Valley Chamber of Commerce will hold its annual public auction fund-raiser on Friday, Nov. 20 at Wild River Brewing & Pizza Co. ... T-shirts: *My blood is rich in irony *Zombies only want you for your brain. *Some people are spoiled ... don’t eat them.
LAST WORDS - “Laziness moves so slowly that poverty soon overtakes it." (Benjamin Franklin)
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