26 March 2008

Bracing the new historical marker while dad and grandpa bolt it, Cameron Miller completes his Boy Scout Eagle Project.

Douglas County voters will have many different decisions to make this May. Choices range from Sheriff to County Commissioners to the many different ballot Measures. The choices are many and all have varying outcomes.

Ed Lamoreaux

Happy 90th birthday goes out to Ed Lamoreaux, Friday, March 21.
Last week was ‘birthday week’ for Lamoreaux, bowling with his league in Drain and getting cake and song. Going out to eat a few times and a church potluck on Easter Sunday in his honor.

From sixteen southern Oregon Goodwill stores, the Sutherlin store was chosen to win the 2007 Retail Store of the Year Award. The beautiful plaque sits atop the display case inside the store. It reads: Retail Store Of The Year 2007 In Recognition of outstanding performance with Southern Oregon Goodwill.
On Tuesday, March 18, the plaque was displayed for customers to appreciate and the employees to be proud of. Enthusiastic employees pointed out the plaque and thanked each shopper for making the award possible by their shopping and donating articles to the store.
Goodwill was founded in 1902 and now is a 2.4 billion non-profit organization. Goodwill’s philosophy is “A hand up, not a hand out.”
Congratulations, and thank you for being in our community, helping stretch our budgets.

The meeting of the Oakland City Council began with a warning to those in attendance that “No Ranting & Raving Allowed. Discussion only to be addressed.” Only one of the seven speakers was not in favor of saving the police department. She wanted to see more professional investigation than what could be done locally.

Javier Zazueta

A tip to Douglas Interagency Narcotics Team detectives led to an arrest of Javier Zazueta, 26, of Eugene, OR for various drug charges.

Enrollment in the Incredible Infant class has been expanded to include infants up to 6 months of age!
This program is presented by Options Counseling in cooperation with the Douglas County Early Childhood Planning Coalition -- and is the first of it’s kind in our area!
The 10 week series beginning April 7 is for families of infants up to 6 months of age at the time of enrollment and babies att end class with mom and dad. The class activities are designed to increase parental nurturing skills and knowledge base about baby’s development and individuality. Parents will learn the importance of play, how to encourage and enhance baby’s development, learn to nurture themselves, how to adjust to life as a new parent, and most importantly -- meet other parents and share the joy and experience of parenthood!
The class will meet at Redeemers Fellowship (3031 W. Harvard Ave.) every Monday morning from 10:00 am to 12:00 pm beginning April 7 (no class May 26). The program is absolutely free!
Please pass this information onto families that you feel would benefit from this program. Parents can register for the class by calling Options Counseling at 464-6455.

The Douglas County Oregon 150 Committ ee is building a cookbook to tell the story of Douglas County through historical photos and recipes. The book will also feature home remedies and food preservation tips that have been used by Douglas County residents in their daily lives throughout the last 150 years. If you have such a recipe, remedy or tip, or a family favorite that has an interesting story behind it, or just a recipe that is too good to be left out of the book, please send it to the Oregon 150 Committee either by email to: DouglasCounty- Oregon150@gmail.com, or by regular envelope-and-stamp mail to P.O. Box 249, Glide, OR 97443. The book will be available this coming Christmas season and the proceeds will help fund Douglas County’s celebration of the Oregon Sesquicentennial in September 2009.
If you have any questions, please contact Pat Harris at 836-7776.

Roseburg-- Enroll in the Umpqua Community College Community Education class “Stretch and Tone.” The class will be on Mondays and Wednesday, April 1 through May 29, 8-9 a.m. at the Winston Community Center and also on Mondays and Wednesdays, April 7 thru June 11, 6-7 p.m., in Riddle at the Riddle Community Center. The class fee for either class is $68. Call 440-7744 to register and request course number 43043 in Winston or 43042 in Riddle.

 Learn a variety of exercise/ yoga routines which will enhance fl exibility, improve balance, and tone your muscles. This class will help trim your waist, flatten your stomach, and fi rm your muscles from head to toe! Please bring a yoga mat; hand weights are optional. Good for all ages. Instructor: Sam Bessey

Please call 874-2102 for more information.

Just wanted to let you know that some friends and I will be picking on SAT. April 5 from 7-10 PM at Murphy’s House of Brews in Roseburg. This is the first time that Murphy’s has scheduled music on a Sat. night so we hope folks come out to support it and make it a regular event. We might do a couple numbers off the new album. There’s no cover but tips are welcome. For more info (541)672-0912. I’ll att ach a photo of the trio (Beth McNamara, Jerry Ashford, Joe Ross), and we’ll be doing swing, jazz, & bluegrass with guitar, bass and mandolin. Jerry was recently awarded Guitar Player of the Year by the No. Calif. Bluegrass Society