Viewpoints
Viewpoint: Ashland Parks need more than just money
John Enders: “It is time for a thorough and comprehensive clean sweep of the parks and recreation department.”
April 21, 2023
John Enders: “It is time for a thorough and comprehensive clean sweep of the parks and recreation department.”
Stephen Thiroux: “Since the Sandy Hook massacre in 2012, there have been over 50 school shootings involving “active shooters,” killing over 100 students and staff, injuring over 150, profoundly impacting families and loved ones.”
The Southern Oregon University Board of Trustees on Friday unanimously approved “Securing SOU’s Future by Embracing a New Fiscal Paradigm,” also known as the Strategic Realignment Plan. The plan will eliminate the equivalent of almost 82 full-time positions, about 24 of which will result in current employees losing their jobs.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Ashland Planning Commission will conduct a site visit of 1111 Granite Street on Monday, April 24, 2023 at 4:00 p.m.
The coroner couldn’t determine a cause of death for mountain bike rider Forrest Anthony Angwin, 25, who died during a race in the Ashland watershed on April 12. A memorial service is set for 2 p.m. Saturday at Edgewater Christian Fellowship, 101 Assembly Circle, in Grants Pass, with a barbecue to follow.
A Jacksonville resident was arrested Thursday in connection with a fueling station fire in January in Ashland, Ashland police announced Friday. Officers arrested Talon Casey McComb, 32, at his home on Highway 238.
Herbert Rothschild: “Being ‘seen’— having one’s presence acknowledged, one’s experiences valued, one’s achievements praised — apart from any consideration of one’s use value may be what we all need most once our basic physical needs are met.”
Arnold Lipkind: “Where’s the real OSF? Where are the long-term actors of the years 1990-2017 so precipitately gone — without accolades, fanfare, expressions of gratitude for years of devoted service? Why is there no loyalty to, no recognition of, these actors who were OSF for decades?”
Southern Oregon University will celebrate Earth Day from 3:30 to 7 p.m. Friday, April 21, at The Farm at SOU, 155 Walker Ave., Ashland. More than 30 community organizations and businesses will host educational exhibits, and live entertainment will be featured on The Farm’s Thalden Pavilion stage.
Carola Lacy: “Take action in support of an issue you care about. For me, it is the gun safety bill HB 2005, currently under discussion in Salem.”
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Ask Strider: A worried older brother asks our advice columnist’s advice. And a dog’s guardian wants to know if there is any hope getting their hat-hating dog to calm down. As always, Strider tries to give words that help!
After a successful production of “The Vagina Monologues” and raising more than $2,000 for Planned Parenthood of Southwestern Oregon, Ashland actor and director Lia Dugal intends for “The Climate Monologues” to premiere in Oregon in late 2025 or early 2026 at the Bellview Grange in Ashland.
It’s complicated.
Herbert Rothschild: Whether visualization and intention by themselves can effect broad social change is impossible to determine, but the question merits sustained consideration.
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