Illinois Valley News Vol. 73 No. 19 Dated: July 21, 2010

Here, There, and Everywhere

From our weekly issue dated July 21, 2010

SWING “N“ SING - The Illinois Valley Chamber of Commerce free Concerts in the Park series will continue at 6 p.m. Thursday, July 22 at Jubilee Park in Cave Junction with a jazzy performance by Oregon Little Big Band. Illinois Valley Little League operates a refreshment stand during concerts. And there is a 50/50 drawing. See the ad elsewhere in this issue.

LABOR DAY LINES - The Illinois Valley Lions Club 39th annual Labor Day Festival again will host an amateur talent show. Cash prizes will be awarded the winners of each age group. Sign up by Aug. 31. For more information, phone “Donna,“ 541-596-2719, or “Sue,“ 541-592-2252. Entry forms for the Monday, Sept. 6 Labor Day Parade and festival vendor sign-ups are available. It costs nothing to enter the parade, said organizer Harry Johnson. “All groups and organizations are accepted and welcomed,“ he said. Phone him at 541-596-2104 to participate.

LUCKY DUCKIES - Public entries for Grants Pass Rotary Club“s 2010 Rogue Duck Derby are available. Proceeds from the event are earmarked for a baseball complex project near Allendale Elementary School in Grants Pass, and a three-year commitment has been made to the Illinois Valley Booster Club to help develop an all-weather track at Illinois Valley High School. Duck Derby entries are available for purchase in Cave Junction at the Illinois Valley News office, Home Valley Bank and Bi-Rite Auto Parts. The race will be held on Sept. 25.

NOTEPAD - A meeting of the Illinois Valley Airport Advisory Board will he held on Monday, July 26, beginning at 5:30 p.m. in the former smokejumper mess hall at the airport “ The Josephine County Board of Commissioners will be in Cave Junction to meet with city government and constituents beginning 6 p.m. on Monday, July 26 at the JoCo Bldg. 102 S. Redwood Hwy. “ Two banner quilts will be created to celebrate the partnership between the National Park Service and the Illinois Valley community which supports Oregon Caves National Monument. The quilts, designed under the expert attention of quilters Carol Dickson and Nancy Brown, will be displayed at I.V. Visitor Center, at the Monument and, it is hoped, the I.V. Lions Labor Day Parade and other outreach events around the region. Phone 541-592-8521 or 541-592-2250 for more information or to participate “ “Don,“ an 80-year-old Korean War veteran who recently relocated to Illinois Valley, relates this story: Wearing his VFW cap as he made his way by wheelchair across a parking lot, he felt a tap on one shoulder. A woman handed him $20. “She insisted that I take it,“ he said. Don wanted her to know that he sent that $20 to a friend in his VFW post, #1 in Denver, which will forward the money to a nonprofit organization that helps meet the needs of the children of U.S. troops stationed in Afghanistan “ After nine weeks of play at Illinois Valley Golf Course final results are in for the Wednesday nighters: The Holland Store team of Bob Reis and Neil Reiske are first with 93 points; Tony Morreale and Kit Fluck“s team, sponsored by Dave“s Outdoor Power Equipment, is second with 92; and Home Valley Bank“s Marv Ahlers and Mike Harbert are third with 84. With four weeks left to play on Monday nights, Mo Wiley and Robin Savage“s self-sponsored team lead with 94 points “ T-shirts: *I support recycling. I wore this yesterday. *I have not yet begun to procrastinate. *I“m confused. Oh, wait, maybe I“m not ... Did you hear the definition of sarcasm“ “Barbed ire.“

LAST WORDS X2 - *“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.“ (Albert Camus) *“A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn“t go by yourself.“ (Unknown)