Elizabeth Austin is preparing to serve her final year as lead organizer for the Ashland Sacred Walk to the New Year. After 25 years, it’s definitely time to let go but not to walk away, she said — the labyrinth walk is a part of her, it has shaped her life as much as she has shaped it.
Bea Bacher-Wetmore: Mentors not only “give back” by helping a youth develop resilience, but they also learn more about themselves and meet new friends. Please consider whether you would like to find out more about being matched with a waiting youth.
Reader Photo: Ashland resident Pepper Trail reports that, “As I was hiking in the Oredson-Todd Woods today, this photo-haiku came to me. … To paraphrase Maya Angelou — at 70 years old, I know why the cold frog sings.”
Carmel Zahran, citing family and health reasons, has declined a promotion from Ashland assistant city attorney to city attorney. The city had been in negotiations with Zahran for the promotion since she was offered the position Nov. 3. Acting City Attorney Doug McGeary will remain head of Ashland’s legal department, according to the release.
Moshe Ross: When someone has asked us for spiritual help, they aren’t coming for loaves and fishes, for physical solutions; they are seeking the Presence of God.
Herbert Rothschild: Our failures to live up to proclamations of freedom and justice are not sufficient reason to deny their validity. Cynicism isn’t synonymous with realism.
After recently launching a $150,000 fundraising campaign goal to help keep the film reels rolling for the Ashland Independent Film Festival, an Ashland nonprofit, new leadership said this week they are more than halfway — raising $88,000 and counting — toward reaching the goal.
On a 4-2 vote, Ashland City Council approved an ordinance Tuesday to control where and how camping can take place on the streets of Ashland. Councilors Paula Hyatt, Dylan Bloom, Gina DuQuenne and Jeff Dahle voted in favor of the ordinance while councilors Bob Kaplan and Eric Hansen voted against.
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management has created a draft plan to log dead and dying trees across 5,000 acres of its properties within 1 mile of communities, within 500 feet of prominent roads or within 500 feet of the boundaries of certain roads, ridges, waterways or other natural features that can be used as fire breaks to control wildfire. The public is being asked to comment on the draft plan through Jan. 7.
Obituary: Marilyn Marie Waldeck, born in Detroit on July 28, 1929, passed away Nov. 20, surrounded by love from family and friends. A celebration of Marilyn’s life will take place at 2 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 13, at Peace Lutheran Church, 205 Tennessee Valley Road, Mill Valley.
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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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