Here, There & Everywhere
FASHIONS & PASSIONS - Grants Pass Christian Women’s Club is sponsoring a Fashion Show & Dessert event at the county building in Cave Junction on Thursday, Sept. 6 from 1 to 2:30 p.m. Colene Talley from Bear Images Boutique will present clothing, gifts and jewelry. The inspirational speaker will be Nancy Reed, from Union, Ore., known as “Martha Stewart’s twin sister.” And Medford soloist Barbara Wygal will perform. Tickets at $5 will be available at the door, and reservations are requested by Thursday, Aug. 30. Phone Gayl Bohey at 592-6452, or Carol Angus at 592-4742.
I.V. VOLUNTEER GOLF - Friday, Aug. 31 is the deadline to sign up for an Illinois Valley Volunteer Firefighters Association open event at I.V. Golf Course on Saturday, Sept. 15. The three-person mixed scramble will include door prizes and hole-in-one challenge prizes. To enter, phone Firefighter Joe Brown at 659-8726.
WINEMAKERS WINGDING - A special eight-course dinner will be served Wednesday, Sept. 12, highlighting the wines and food offered in Illinois Valley. The event in the dining room of the historic Chateau at Oregon Caves National Monument, 22 miles east of Cave Junction, will begin at 6:30 p.m. Representatives from valley wineries will present each course and discuss the interaction of the flavors. Reservations are being accepted at $55 per person. Those who wish to spend the night will receive a $20 room discount. Reservations are required and can be made by phoning 592-3400.
SWEET & DEER - Rachel Goodman had sliced apples and honey ready for participants in a recent bicycle tour of Takilma organic gardens, organized by Spiral Living Center. But when they arrived, she was so excited she forgot about the snack, and then joined the tour. When she returned home, the plate of apples and honey on her back porch had been consumed by the mostly tame deer who hang around the house. Rachel initially worried about the plastic wrap that had covered the plate, but found it nearby. How the hoofed visitors removed the wrap is not yet known.
NOTEPAD - Illinois Valley Boosters Club for IVHS and Lorna Byrne Middle School will elect officers during an open meeting on Monday, Sept. 10 at 6 p.m. at IVHS … Lelo Kerivan from Bridgeview Winery has taken a spot on the I.V. Chamber board vacated by Vicki Gill ... Some $900 in a wallet was turned in last week by a man at the Cave Junction Post Office. The owner was telephoned in Happy Camp, and he rewarded the man’s honesty with 100 bucks … Following the death of a deaf Cave Junction resident in connection with a rope swing along the Rogue River, the tree was cut down two days later by persons unknown (See obituaries on page 8) … Great Cats World Park will host a mixer for Illinois Valley Chamber of Commerce Friday, Sept. 7. The time will be in next week’s I.V. Noose ... Wine, cheese and art will be featured during a fund-raiser at Bridgeview Winery Sept. 15 to benefit the SMART (Start Making A Reader Today) program at Evergreen Elementary School. Artists who want to donate a work for the auction can phone Nancy Brown at 592-2250 … T-shirts: *I can’t wait to procrastinate. *If you can’t live without me, why aren’t you dead? *Yes, I am the town drunk. *My other T-shirt is dirty.
LAST WORDS - All other holidays are in a more or less degree connected with conflicts and battles of man’s prowess over man, of strife and discord for greed and power, of glories achieved by one nation over another. Labor Day ... is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race, or nation. (Samuel Gompers)
