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My View - Cont'd. on Pg. 31

This year, our City Council must weigh theimportance of and address several challengesincluding the Courthouse, the Jacksonville

Dam, the need for a new Fire Station and updating theComprehensive Plan and Urban Growth Boundary.

On the Courthouse: the decision to move city ocesinto the historic building is seen by many as a positivemeans of re-purposing the building and returning it topublic use. The last City Council voted to appropriateup to $1 million of Urban Renewal funds to restore andrepurpose the building. While I generally like the idea ofrepurposing historic buildings, especially when it resultsin preservation, I still maintain that a more visionaryapproach would be nding a for-prot partner to leaseor purchase the property as a corporate headquarters/campus complex. In private hands, the project would be

beer funded and serve as a springboard to redevelopthe 5th Street corridor. I still maintain that using the

building for city oces is a gross underutilization ofthe property and fear the actual cost of conversion ofthe ground oor alone will exceed $2 million. Basedon a recently-released Update on Project FundFinancials memo drafted by sta, (available on theReviewand city websites), the city has spent $111,500 on

Courthouse-related repairs/improvements. Althoughsome restoration work was mandatory maintenance,other work is being done without the benet of a fully-developed restoration plan with hard engineering orseismic upgrade cost estimates. Another missing link issignicant: whether or not the State Historic PreservationOce will approve of an outdoor elevator or requirea signicantly more expensive indoor elevator to beinstalled. Moving forward on this project absent thiscritical information is nancially ill-advised.

On the Dam: with some cost estimates now rangingfrom $500,000 to $700,000 to remove Jacksonvilles agingdam and spillway, the incomplete project remains ournumber one priority. Although costs were originallyestimated at nearly half this number, the city shouldnot allocate funds for another major project, includingthe Courthouse, until the dam and spillway removalis complete. To date, the city has expended $49,000on dam-related expenses, the majority on requiredengineering and environmental analyses. Althoughmoney could be tapped from other city funds tocomplete the removal, there is talk of seeking grantfunding to partially pay for the project. Please recall

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January marked the four-yearanniversary of the fabulous oral studioknown as Penny and Lulu. To celebratetheir budding success, owners SusiePenwelland Carol Lowenberghavemoved their retail studio from its originalwarehouse to 18 Stewart Avenuethevintage ivy-covered brick building on thenorthwest side of the Highway 99/StewartAvenue intersection pictured here.

The new location sits right next toOld 99a long-standing wine shopand specialty food purveyor, owned andoperated by Sam Desiome. Susie notesthat starting in March, Sam will also carryCoquee Bakerys fabulous artisan bread,

made by Jacksonvilles own Tom andDenika, best known from the JacksonvilleFarmers Market.

The dynamic duo add that Pennyand Lulu Studio Florist and Eventsnow oers custom packages lled withartisan indulgenceswhich they willgladly deliver along with beautiful owerarrangements to your door!

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Lew Applebaker Celebrates 100th Birthday!

l-r: Lew Applebaker, daugher Sue VanDomelen, and son Dan Applebaker

From his early days helping his dad in the blacksmith shop on Third Street, tohis stint as a local business owner, and role as an inuential member of the redepartmentJacksonville native, Lewis Applebakerhas served his community verywell over the past 100 years!

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community-run park is geing amake-over! The Greater ApplegateCommunity Development Corporation(GACDC) is beginning a drive to raisefunds to rehabilitate the parks well-used 40-year-old playground. Over$50,000 will be needed. Parents, kids,private foundations, Jackson CountyParks, businesses, non-prots, artists,and residents from the local area areall geing-in on the act. Well tell youmore about this wonderful project in thecoming months.

In the meantime, wed like to thanksome of our local businesses that havecome on board early and seen the wisdomof investing in our community: Brewster

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The Robertson Collins Award wascreated in 2007 by the JacksonvilleBoosters Club to honor those rare

individuals whose contributions impactthe greater community and encompassmore than just one year or a singularcontribution. The award was inspired

by and named after Robertson (Robbie)Collins, a Jacksonville visionary.

Robbie moved to the Rogue Valleyin 1948 and Jacksonville in 1962. Hesuccessfully mounted opposition toa proposed four lane highway thatwould have cut Jacksonville in half anddestroyed historicproperties. In 1963,shortly after his arrival,the Jacksonville BoostersClub was formed. Withthe help of Robbieand the Boosters, the

Jacksonville we knowand love, was savedand is now a NationalHistoric Landmark. Hecontinued to work at

local and state levels,taking his skills andknowledge to othersmall towns strugglingto save their heritage.Robbie died in 2003, buthis memory lives on in

Jacksonville and in theRobertson Collins Award.

Until now, the Robertson CollinsAward has been given to only one otherrecipient. Dirk and Mary Siedleckireceived the award in 2007, for theirhard work and vision for JacksonvillesHistoric Cemetery. Their work continuesto this day with ongoing preservationand restoration projects, annual HistorySaturday presentations and the popular

Meet the Pioneers program each fall.The Jacksonville Boosters have now

honored Marjorie Edensposthumouslywith this second Robertson CollinsAward. Lori Buerk, Jacksonville BoostersPresident stated, Sometimes the mostextraordinary stories get lost overtime. Marjorie Edens was truly a rareindividual with one of those stories.

Marjorie Edens was a Booster for over35 years and loved history with a specialfondness for Jacksonville. The Bri family,

and therefore the Bri grounds, were onthe top of her list. It was only natural that

back in 2002, when the Boosters Clubformed two commiees to take on twonew projects, the Historic Cemetery andPeter Bri Gardens, Marjorie jumpedat the opportunity to head up the BriGardens Commiee.

Dirk Siedlecki, President Friends

of Jacksonvilles Historic Cemetery,commented, While Marjorie wont bewith us to see the nished gardens, I amso pleased that she did see so much ofwhat has been accomplished in the past

couple of years, andto know that her workwill continue. It was hervision, determinationand special gift thatis making this gardena reality for us andfuture generations of

Jacksonville residentsand visitors.

Rob Buerk, PeterBri Gardens Chair

added, As a result ofMarjories and others'eorts, restorationscompleted in PeterBri Gardens includethe installation of thepaver pathways, a newirrigation system, the

planting of over 200 historical plants,and the installation of a new lightingsystem. Marjorie was a long-termmember of the Jacksonville BoostersFoundation board of directors. Herdetermination and passion helped guidethese improvements through grants,donations, and community volunteers.

Jacksonville has lost a great fr iendin Marjorie Edens. She left a legacy

to Jacksonville that will be longremembered and a gift that will betreasured for decades to come.

The Award, acknowledging Marjoriesmany contributions to the BoostersClub and the City of Jacksonville, waspresented by President Lori Buerk, onDecember 8, 2014 at the Annual BoostersClub Holiday Party at the U.S. Hotel.A commemorative feature in honor ofMarjories award is planned and will beplaced in the Peter Bri Gardens.

Marjorie Edens Posthumously Honored

with Robertson Collins Award

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Linda and Bill Graham were hard atwork preparing for the reopening ofSceel's Tos on Ferar 4!

During January, they remodeled muchof the store and downsized it to beer ttheir lifestyle. Linda noted, the store will

also soon be carrying a wider array ofsouvenirs, gift bags & wrap and some fun

new products for the older crowd. Theever-popular store will still carry theirprimary lines but without $100+ items as inyears past. New store hours have changedto Wednesday-Saturday, 10:00am-6:00pmand Sunday, Noon-4:00pm.

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In mid-January, the vacant lot nextto the Global Cache/Picos buildingunderwent a major transformation whenit was converted into a charming park.The project was made possible thanksto the generosity of GC building ownersWalt Kellerand Robin Ford. GlobalCache, which occupies the upper oorof the building, employs 20 localsits

a hardware manufacturer of networkequipment. Robin notes that the projectwas designed to provide the public andGC employees a nice place to relax,enjoy town and to improve the imageof California Street. The park is divided

by a wrought iron fence and includespergolas, benches, a walking path and adog water fountain!

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News From Britt Hillby Donna Briggs, Britt President & CEO

Comments or questions for Bri Festivals?Email Donna at [email protected]. Visit BriFestivals at www.brifest.org.

As we enterthe NewYear,

Bri welcomesJacksonvillesthree newest City

Council members: Ken Gregg, BradBennington and Jim Lewis. As volunteers,

the City Council works tirelessly withthe citys administrative sta andcitizens to provide a framework for theongoing operations of the City. As I haveparticipated in many proceedings over thepast several years, Ive observed that the

Jacksonville City Council members striveto be responsive to their constituentswhile acting in the best interest of thecity as a whole. Much of their work istedious, stressful and controversial. TheCity Council members are entrusted withthe privilege and challenge of helpingimprove Jacksonville for the beermentof all its residents and they do a great job.The City of Jacksonville is fortunate tohave such high-caliber citizens willing to

work for free on behalf of our town. Wethank them for their leadership.

We are pleased to announce the returnof the String Quartet Academy (SQA)!The SQA will take place July 27-August1, and is designed for intermediate toadvanced violin, viola and cello students,ages 13-18. The Academy will be taught

by the Dover Quartet, who has becomean in-demand ensemble after theirsweep of the 2013 Ban InternationalString Quartet Competition. The NewYorker recently dubbed them, theyoung American string quartet of themoment. The Dover Quartet also has tiesto southern Oregon, as cellist CamdenShaw grew up in Ashland. The Academy

will include a week of intensive study,including ensemble rehearsals, masterclasses, quartet coaching sessions andmore. For a full description of the StringQuartet Academy, including tuition costsand application information, visit brifest.org/stringquartetor call 541-690-3852.

As a reminder, Bri cant do what it

does without the support of our localbusinesses. One way a business can dothat is by becoming a Business Partner.Our Business Partners receive numerousmarketing benets, which ensure highvisibility to a distinctive audience. ABri Business Partnership providesseason-long recognition through all Briadvertising and promotional materials. Inaddition, their business will be featuredat a performance of their selection whichwill spotlight their companys brand.This oers high visibility via bannerplacement at the Bri venue, an ad inthe performance program, and on-stagerecognition. In addition, all BusinessPartners receive tickets, which are an

excellent way to reward employeesand entertain clients. If you would likemore information about this investmentopportunity, please contact BobbyAbernathy at 541-690-3857.

As we enter 2015, I would liketo personally thank the wonderfulcommunity of Jacksonville for openingup your arms and embracing our liveperformances, our incomparable classicalfestival and our dynamic educationprograms. Stayed tuned for our ClassicalSeason Announcement on February 5!

Join us in the Bella Saloon & on the heated patio everyThursdayfor free beer tastings & $1 BBQ Oysters!

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For the month of Novemer 2014, theKiwanis Club of Jacksonville honoredCameron English. His parents are Roband Sandi English ofMedford. Cameronis a senior at SouthMedford High School,and carries a 3.785grade point average.

Some of the subjectshe has been takinginclude Honors Pre-calculus, Algebra 2Honors, Anatomy &Physiology, Spanish3, Honors Geometry,Honors Biology, Worldand American Studies,Physical Science, andSports Medicine.

He is very active inathletics, particularlyin Varsity Basketball.He was Player of the Game at last yearsState Championship games. He also hasplayed on the freshman and JV Baseballteams. His leadership skills have includedCHAMPS Leadership and LINK Leader,advising a group of freshman students. Heworked with the Kids Ministryat Rogue Valley Fellowship, andhelped coach a sixth-grade AAU

basketball team last year.He hopes to maintain his

current GPA through graduation,and go on to college and play

basketball. He plans to studynursing and get his Bachelor ofScience degree in Nursing. Hehopes to have a career in nursingafter graduation.

The main inuences in hislife have been his parents andhis basketball coach, DennisMurphy. His parents have helpedhim further his success as a personin his schooling, athletics, and mostimportantly, when he goes out on his ownin college and a career afterward.

Coach Murphy has helped him become agood player and continues to help him with

the process of nding a college that will suithim best both athletically and academically.

Mae Cramer, a senior at SouthMedford High School, washonored as Student of theMonth for Decemer 2014

by the Kiwanis Club ofJacksonville.

Mahew is the son ofJoseph and Linda Cramerof Medford, and carries a4.0 grade point average. Heenjoys languages, havingtaken three years of Spanishand two of French. He hasmajored in math with coursesin Geometry, Algebra, Pre-calculus, and two of Calculus.Other courses includeBiology, Chemistry andPhysical Science.He has a wide variety of

activities. Athletically, heparticipates in Cross Country and Track,and he enjoys the Adventure Club wherethey go on hikes and go camping.

He is very involved in communityservice helping with JacksonvilleCemetery tours, Medford Gospel Mission

food service,and as kelecounter for

the SalvationArmy. He spenta month downin Mexicothrough hischurch at anorphanage,helping

bathe andfeed severelyhandicapped

children andadults.

He plans to pursue a doctorate in a highlevel engineering program at college. Hefeels that Russell Miller, his math andphysics teacher, has been a big inuence

in his life and has pushed him to reach hishighest potential.

Kiwanis Honors Students of the Month

Cameron English withKiwanis' Dave Wilson

Mahew Cramer withKiwanis' Dave Wilson


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The Unfettered Criticby Paula Block Erdmann & Terry Erdmann

The movie Butch Cassidy andthe Sundance Kidopens withthis line on the screen: Most

of what follows is true. While the

main characters actually existed, theirstorys timeframe has been truncated forconvenience, and, some characters, fordramatic convenience, are consolidationsof several actual people. Such is the natureof a biopicor biographical motionpicture. Fiing a persons lifetime into 120minutes takes a bit of shapeshifting.

When the holiday movie seasonkicked o last fall, the studios couldhave headlined their upcoming releaseswith that line from Butch and Sundance;a surprising number of their big releasesare biopics.

Among them: Selma(biographicalsubject: the Reverend Martin LutherKing); Unbroken(Louis Zamperini,Olympian and Japanese prisoner of warcamp survivor); Wild(Cheryl Strayed,messed up drug-user who takes an 1,100mile hike to nd herself);American Sniper(Chris Kyle, the most lethal sniper in U.S.military history);Mr. Turner(the brusqueand eccentric English landscape artist J.M. W. Turner); and three more that welldiscuss here.

Why these three? We liked them.And each focuses on a fascinating manwho is supported, by degrees, by afascinating woman.

The Imitation Game introducesus to brilliant mathematician AlanTuring (played superbly by BenedictCumberbatch). During World WarII, Turing was hired by the British

government to lead a secret project tocrack Germanys unbreakable Enigmacode. Joan Clarke (Keira Knightley),a member of Turings team, was aCambridge graduate who was denied afull degree in mathematics because, atthe time, the university granted degreesonly to men. Clarke became friends withTuring, an unsocial, closeted homosexualin an era when gay men were jailed

for indecency. Their relationship is atthe heart of this tale of how Turingsproject helped win the war for the Alliedforces. In the process, Turing laid the

groundwork for the computer that werenow writing this column on.

Big Eyesshows us the ways ofhuckster Walter Keane (ChristophWal), the super salesman behindthose phenomenally successfulbutartistically dreadfulportraits of big-eyed waifs that glued the art market

during the 1950sand 1960s. Thewaifs gave Keaneworldwide namerecognition andmade him amillionaireyet henever laid a brushon any of his

paintings. Theywere the work ofhis wife, Margaret(Amy Adams).Why she allowedherself to berobbed of the famethat she deserved

makes this a story worth seeing. Big Eyesis colorful and the paintings are a hoot;plus, this is director Tim Burtons moststraightforward movie.

The Theory of Everythinginvitesaudiences into the life of physicistStephen Hawking (Eddie Redmayne),who envisioned a single, all-encompassing, coherent framework ofphysics that fully explains and linkstogether all physical aspects of theuniverse. Whew. We can barely saythat, let alone understand it. Diagnosedwith ALS (Lou Gehrigs Disease) atthe age of 21, Hawkingwhose mindremains unimpairedwas encouraged tocontinue his pursuit of innitys secrets

by his devoted wife Jane (Felicity Jones).Jane bravely took on the increasinglydicult task of tending to his physicalneeds while caring for their three youngchildren. Redmayne delivers an amazingperformance as he gradually transformsinto the twisted gure of the man weveall seen in photographs and televisionappearances. Hawking is worthy of allthe admiration you can muster, yet in the

end you may feel that Jane, too, is a hero.Thanks to these biopics, the world is

now aware of the contributions of thesewomen behind the men. But rememberonly mostof each movie is true.

Paula and Terry each have longimpressive-sounding resumes implying thatthey are bale-scarred veterans of life withinthe Hollywood studios. Theyre now happilyrelaxed into Jacksonville.

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Digging Jacksonville Artifacts 4:Chinese Bone Dice

Sage King is a McNair Scholar and graduated MagnaCum Laude from SOU in December of 2014 with her B.S.in Anthropology. She did her senior thesis on a collectionof gaming pieces, including the dice, recovered from the

Jacksonvill e Chinese Quarter Site in 2013. You can reachSOULA by contacting Chelsea Rose at [email protected] and

follow SOULA on facebook/Southern Oregon University

Laboratory of Anthropology.

In October, 2013, the SouthernOregon University Laboratory ofAnthropology (SOULA) excavated

a Chinese house in the historic ChineseQuarter of Jacksonville which burnt downin 1888. During the excavation, a large andrich artifact assemblage was recovered,which included seven bone dice, alongwith other gaming paraphernalia. A single

bone dice was also recoveredalong California Street duringa 2004 excavation.

As an anthropology studentinvolved with SOULA, I hadthe opportunity to clean andanalyze the collection of dice

found in the 2013 assemblage.Information gathered fromthese dice was also sharedwith a scholar from UCDavis, who is using themin his research on dice fromaround the world. The seven

Jacksonville dice range in sizefrom .25 inches to .33 inches,making them smaller thanwhat we are familiar withtoday. All the dice have theirnumbers oriented with theone across from the six, thetwo across from the ve, andthe three across from the four, like modernEuropean dice. The One is much larger

than the other numbers, and on four of thedice it is painted red along with the Fourside. The rest of the dice do not have anyof the numbers painted red, or they weretoo damaged to tell.

These dice would have been used bothto play traditional Chinese and Euro-American dice games. These games wereused as a way for Chinese immigrantsto socialize with each other, and

interact with the larger, Euro-American,community in Jacksonville. Gamingwas not only a social activity for theChinese immigrants in Jacksonville, butalso a profession. The 1870 JacksonvilleCensus recorded seven Chinese menas having the occupation of gambler.Their ages ranged from 24 to 52 andthree of the seven had a personal estate

listed of between 200 and400 dollars, which todayequates to between $3,500and $7,100. These menwould have played diceor other popular gamblinggames in either a gambling

hall or the back room of astore. Both Euro-Americanand Chinese patrons wouldhave frequented theseestablishments.

These seven diceprovide insight into theoften overlooked social,leisure, and economicaspects of the daily livesof Chinese immigrantsin the nineteenth centuryAmerican West. Whilehistory books frequentlyglorify the Wild West

with stories of gambling cowboys, thesocial activities of the minorities in the

community are often omied or vilied.Archaeological assemblages, like theone found in the Chinese Quarter, helpus to beer understand the lives of themany undocumented people living in

Jacksonville during the nineteenth century.Excavations in the Jacksonville Chinese

Quarter were funded by the OregonDepartment of Transportation and theCity of Jacksonville.

Pioneer Proles:Gin Lin Prominent Mine Boss, Contract

Labor Broker, and Businessmanby Carolyn Kingsnorth

In the mid-1800s, the promise of gold and free land lured fortune seekers and selers to thenewly-formed Oregon Territory. They were soon followed by merchants who amassed their ownwealth selling supplies to the miners and farmers. This ongoing series shares the stories of these

pioneers and their times.

As Jacksonville celebratesChinese New Year thismonth, we should not lose

sight of the original welcome givenChinese immigrants when they rstarrived in Oregon in the 1850s.

Jackson County greeted the Chinesewith a $2-per month Chinese miningtax levied in 1857 and doubledin 1858, and Oregon included aprovision in its original 1857 stateconstitution stating that no Negro,Chinaman, or Mulao shall have theright of surage. No non-white wasallowed to testify against a whiteseler until 1862, and when Chineseresidents were eventually given votingprivileges, they were charged a $5

poll tax. Chinese engaged in tradingwere charged $50 per month for theprivilege. Chinese miners and laborerswere beaten, bullied, and even killedwhile the law and the courts lookedthe other way.

Despite this institutionalizeddiscrimination, Chinese men came bythe thousands, lured by tales of GoldMountain. Some may have driftedto Oregon from California on theirown, but most arrived under contract toChinese labor bosses who then farmedthem out to work for white mine owners.

One such prominent Chinese mineboss was Gin Lin. He apparently leftChina shortly after gold was discovered

in California in 1849. By the 1860s, he wasin Oregon. Despite state laws prohibitingChinese property ownership, Lin was ableto purchase a claim in 1864 on the LileApplegate River at the mouth of SterlingCreek for $900. He subsequently leasedor purchased other played out placermines in the vicinity from white men whohad already taken out the easy gold.

Soon many of the laborers Gin hadpreviously contracted to other mineowners came to work for him. Locallegend credits him with founding the oldmining ghost town of Buncom to househis Sterling Creek mining crew.

Gin was an honest and fair mine owner,even helping some of his men purchasetheir own claims and insuring their claimswere legally recorded and the propertaxes paid. As a result, Lins crew waswilling to work hard for him. When theplacer gold was depleted, they beganexcavating for gold in old stream bedslong since buried in adjacent hillsides. Tomake the eort protable, Gin introducedhydraulic mining to Southern Oregon.

Hydraulic mining depends on a reliablewater source. Gins crews dug hundredsof miles of ditches to divert water fromthe Applegate River and larger streamsthrough a series of wooden boxes andpipes until it built up sucient pressureto blast exposed hillsides, sending rock,gravel, and dirt through a series ofsluice boxes, separating the gold from

the silt and rubble. This legacy canstill be seen today in various regionaltrail systemsthe most notable beingthe China Ditch Trail and the Gin LinMining Trail, the laer still showingremnants of Gins complex water systemand expensive equipment.

Through industry and ingenuity, GinLin and his mining company beganto play an important role in SouthernOregons economy. It also helped Ginamass a fortune. He reportedly took outover $2 million in gold from his variousmining claims and had an account worthover $1 million in Cornelius Beekmans

Jacksonville bank.Gin was well liked by Beekman, and

also became friends with several otherprominent business leaders, including

pioneer photographer Peter Bri,aorney Wes Kahler; and cabinetmakerDavid Linn.

David Linns son, Fletcher, describedthe Chinese businessman in his book,

Memories:Gin Lin was a large, robustcharacter, not at all like the Coolie or

laboring Chinese who constituted thelaboring force in his operations. Onone of his visits to China Town, hecame across the street to meet father, andintroduced himself as Gin LinDaveLinns cousin, and he and father becamequite good friends.

Unlike many of his contemporaries,Gin Lin discarded his pigtail queue,wore Western dress, and spoke English.He loved to drive his buggy with a highstepping horse around Jacksonville.

He also went to great lengths to keepgood relations with the white peopleof the community, even employingseveral white men in his mines. Heshut down his mining operations

during summer months so that farmerscould use his ditch water for irrigation.And when a Native American burialwas exposed, he would order the areato be left undisturbed.

Gin did return periodically to China,each time bringing a beautiful newyoung wife back with him. He wouldthen sell her predecessor to one of hisworkers. Gin Wye, born in Jacksonville,was the son of Gins youngest and lastwife, Gen Shen.

No one knows exactly what becameof Gin Lin. When his Lile Applegatemining operations played out in the1870s, he purchased additional claimsin the Palmer Creek drainage on theApplegate River. Around 1885, hemoved on to Josephine County andno longer merited aention from the

Jacksonville press.Gin Lin disappeared from Oregon in

the 1880s. One story says that he soldall his Oregon holdings and returned toChina in 1894 where he was murdered forhis money. Another story says he livedin China with his wife and son for threeyears before passing away in 1897.

Pioneer Proles is a project of HistoricJacksonville, Inc., a non-prot whose missionis helping to preserve Jacksonvilles HistoricLandmark District by bringing its buildingsto life through programs and activities. Visitus at www.historicjacksonville.org and followus on Facebook (historicjville) for upcoming

events and more Jacksonville history.

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you can check outa display running

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Library, and heara talk about the

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February 7th at

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YEAR OF THE RAM 2015FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL 541-899-8118 or VISIT WWW.SOCCA.US

NOT TO MISS!8AM Rambuncous 5K Fun Run

Under the leadership of our new Race

Director Becky Grebosky, this family

friendly run starts at the Bigham Knoll

Campus. Get healthy and get moving.

Advance registraon recommended: visit

our website www.socca.us for entry form

and complete instrucons.

10:30AM Chinese New Year Parade

Lions, dragons, gongs, local students,

pep bands and community groups will

be joined by SOU Raiders, the 2014 NAIA

Naonal Football Champions, to welcome

the Year of the Ram. The procession willalso introduce lions danced by students

from SOCCAs Lion Dance Clinic. Parade

begins at the intersecon of Oregon Street

and Main Street in downtown Jacksonville.

Community groups are welcome to strut

their stu. Visit our website www.socca.us

for entry form and instrucons. Sponsored

by U.S. Bank.

12PM-12:45PM (repeats at: 1PM)

Oodles of Noodles

Cooking Demonstraon and Sampling:

Yvonne Chong from Your Cup of Tea in San

Francisco, will demonstrate how to make

Chinese inspired noodles with everyday

ingredients from your pantry. This will be

presented at the Bella Union Restaurant& Saloon, Second Floor, 170 W. California

St. Admission is $5. Tickets are available at

the Jacksonville Chamber of Commerce,

or at the door if available.

11:30AM-1PM Brush CalligraphyUnique to Asian cultures: the ink,

exibility of brush, and absorpvity of

the rice paper, produce an innite variety

of styles and forms and oen thought to

reveal the character of ones personality.

Fuyou Long, graduate of Wuhan

University and Peoples University in

China and a published author will give an

introducon and demonstraon, in the

Naversen Room at the Jacksonville City

Library.

11:30AM-12:30PM Astrology: The

Year of the Wood Ram

In the Chinese Zodiac calendar, if you were

born in 1943, 1955, 1967, 1979, 1991

or 2003, you would be a ram. Fairness,

compromise, and the arts are coming back

in style. So whats the year like for you?

Ken Bendat, Chinese scholar and doctorof Chinese medicine, reveals amusing

and insighul perspecves of the year to

come. At Old City Hall, corner of Main and

Oregon St.

12PM-2PM Kenpo kungfu

Grandmaster SijoDavid Day of Shui

Bing FaKenpo Kungfu returns to

teach this very popular class. It was so

well received in past years that he will

be extending this program as a two hour

parcipatory seminar. Come, enjoy and

learn valuable self defense skills at the

Historic Presbyterian Church Fellowship

Hall (downstairs), 405 E. California St.

12:30PM-1:30PM (repeats at 1:30PM)

Movie Screening: LotusEnjoy this award-winning short lm

by Peabody Award winner and Oscar

nominated lmmaker Arthur Dong.

Lotus is a conal lm set in the Toisan

village of Kay Lok. The story is about a

woman in 1914 China with bound feet

who must make a life changing choice

while her husband is in America. Film runs

27 minutes. Kathy Greene, will present

a brief introducon on the pracce of

foot-binding; an ancient Chinese custom

originated by the upper class and adopted

as a symbol of beauty. Locaon - Historic

Presbyterian Church Sanctuary (upstairs),

405 E. California St.

1:30PM-2:30PM Secret Love in Peach

Blossom Land

A talk and a display by Oregon

Shakespeare Fesval about theirupcoming U.S. Premiere presentaon.

Internaonally acclaimed Taiwanese

playwright Stan Lai will direct his 1986

masterpiece, as two tales intertwine in a

retelling of a Chinese fable and a poignant

story of a separated couple because

of Chinas 1949 revoluon. At Historic

Presbyterian Church Sanctuary (upstairs),

405 E. California St.

1PM-2PM Archaeology of the

Jacksonville Chinese QuarterChelsea Rose will be talking about the

site, arfact conservaon eorts, new

discoveries and much more. Check out

the latest discoveries by SOU sta and

students working on the large arfact

assemblage from Jacksonvilles Chinese

Quarter. This presentaon will be in the

Naversen Room at the Jacksonville City

Library. Arfacts from the excavaon will

also be on display as a month long exhibit

in the Jacksonville library front entrance.

1PM-2PM Chinese Medicine

Acupuncturist and herbalist Ken Bendat

will discuss how and why the ancient artand science of using needles and herbs is

experiencing a renaissance world wide -

both as an alternave and complement to

modern medicine. Locaon - Old City Hall,

corner of Main and Oregon St.

2PM-3PM Searching for Gold

Mountain

The Chinese of Jacksonville presented

by historian Larry Smith. In 1851, the

Gold First Found Here mining site is

as important to the cultural history of

Jacksonville and the people of Oregon as

the 1848 Suers Mill gold discovery is to

the people and history of California. This

will be presented at the Naversen Room

in the Jacksonville City Library. Weather

perming, the group will visit the Long

Tom Sluice Box that was dedicated

by Jacksonville as a Chinese Memorial

Fountain.

CHILDRENS

ACTIVITIES

11:30AM-2:30PM

Romp, jump and slide in our Dragon Jump

Houseset up on the former Jacksonville

(courthouse) Museum grounds (206 N 5th

Street).

Origami is Folding Fun - Start with a

square sheet of paper, fold it up to makeanimals, airplanes and more! Come as you

can and Origami Master Mahew Medina

will show you that this is fun for people

of all ages, at the Art Presence Gallery,

corner of 5th and D Street.

Arts & Cras - Lantern building, face-

painng and many more acvies. IOOF

Hall, 175 S. Oregon Street.

Chinese New Year CelebrationSCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES FEBRUARY 7, 2015 JACKSONVILLE, OR

FEATUREPRESENTATION

3PM Red Panda Acrobats

Performed by Wayne Huey from San

Francisco. Characterized by amazing

skills of strength and extraordinary

balance, Chinese Acrobacs was

developed from the annual village

harvest celebraons dang back to

the Western Han dynasty over 2,500

years ago. Mr. Huey received his

professional training at the Fu Hsing

Acrobac Academy in Taiwan, theTai Yuan Acrobac Troupe and the

Shanghai Circus Schools in China. Dont

miss the opportunity to see this rare

performance up close and personal. This

program is made possible by a generous

contribuon from the Confucius

Classroom at St. Marys School.

Opening Acts by Shaolin trained maral

arts teachers at St. Marys School and

Ashland High School

Tai Chi Fan Dance

performed by Zhang Yanand

her students

Shaolin Kung- Fu

performed by Fan Dongfangand his students

Presented at the Bigham Knoll Ballroom,

525 Bigham Knoll Drive. Admission $5.

Advance cket sales at the Jacksonville

Chamber of Commerce or at door, if

available.

SPECIAL EXHIBIT

Pieces of the PastArfacts recovered in 2013 by the

Southern Oregon University Laboratory

of Anthropology (SOULA) at the

Jacksonville Chinese Quarter site.

The exhibit will be geared towardsillustrang the ways in which arfacts

can shed light on daily life for the

Chinese residents in 1880s. The Chinese

Quarter excavaons were funded by

the City of Jacksonville and the Oregon

Department of Transportaon. Hosted

at the Jacksonville Library foyer display,

on exhibion unl Feb.28.


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Focus on Hanley FarmbyEmma Abby, Educational Programs Coordinator

New Monarch Waystationat the Farm!

During these normally quietmonths of winter, a specialnew garden is developing at

Hanley Farm. In response to the alarmingpopulation crash of the iconic monarch

buery throughout North Americaover the last ten years, a small groupof concerned local citizens

began establishing MonarchWaystations throughout theRogue Valley in 2013. Led byTom Landis, retired NationalNursery Specialist for theUSDA Forest Service, thesevolunteers specically designand implement the MonarchWaystations to have all thecomponents needed for a healthy monarch

buery habitat (food, water, shelter).This concept started with the University ofKansas Monarch Watch program in 2005

and there are now over 9,000 registeredwaystations across the US.

These striking tropical pollinatorscolonize most of temperate NorthAmerica in the warmer months throughan extensive migration of 1000-2000 milesto overwintering sites in Mexico and theSouthern California coast. Annual countsat overwintering sites have documentedsevere declines of up to 90% in someareas, which are aributed primarily tohabitat loss. As amazingly hardy andadaptive as these tiny marvels seem, theycannot survive without a very specichabitat for breeding and overwintering.Since breeding occurs in the US, we havethe ability to improve, restore, and create

safe havens that focus on nectar-bearing

owers for adult monarchs, host plantsof milkweed for monarch caterpillars,shelter of woody trees and shrubs, and awater source. Although there are at least75 varieties of milkweed native to NorthAmerica, there are two widely-distributedspecies in our region, showy milkweed

and narrowleaf milkweed. Asthe name implies, milkweedwas traditionally consideredan undesirable weed that wassprayed or mowed. However,milkweed is essential to thesurvival of the monarch

buery, as it is the onlyfood source for monarchcaterpillars!

We are excited to join the thousands ofmonarch waystations across the country!We hope our garden will not only helpprovide a safe habitat for monarch

bueries during their breeding season,but also to educate and inspire others inour local community to do the same. Ourwaystation is starting as a 12 x 30 spacenext to our community garden plots. As ourgarden becomes more established, we hopeto become a source of free milkweed seedsfor new monarch waystations locally.

For more information, please visitmonarchwatch.org.

For more information about Hanley Farmor upcoming events, please visit us onlineat www.hanleyfarm.org or www.sohs.org;call 541-773-6536 ext. 1002; and LIKE ourHanley Farm Facebook page. Hanley Farm,owned and operated by the Southern OregonHistorical Society, is located at 1053 Hanley

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Historic Jacksonville, Incowes a hugeTHANK YOU to all of the volunteerswho contributed their time, energy, andenthusiasm to our Victorian Christmascelebration at Jacksonvilles 1873 C.C.Beekman House during allfour December weekends!

During our VictorianChristmas tours, ourcostumed docentsentertained 790 people withtales of Beekman familyChristmas celebrationsand stories of the Dutch,German, French, English,and Scandinavian origins ofChristmas trees, Santa Claus,caroling, kissing ballsevenhow Christmas became a holiday!

Our visitors also shopped Mrs.Beekmans Christmas Bazaar stockedwith antiques, collectibles, old-fashionedtoys, beautiful hand-crafts, holiday items,and so much more. We owe another thankyou to the generous community donorswho made it possible!

The 304 individuals who joined usfor our Boxing Day weekend afterChristmas also learned how BoxingDay became the traditional time to

provide for the needs of the communitysless fortunate. Their tour admissions andcanned good donations allowed HJI todonate 215 pounds of food and checkstotaling $500 to ACCESS, the JacksonCounty agency that provides food,housing, warmth and other essentialservices to low income children, families,seniors, and people with disabilities.

We oer a special thank you to HJIBoard member Stephanie Butlerforrecruiting and training all our VictorianChristmas volunteers, for cleaning anddecorating the house, and for being thelead docent three of the four weekends;to Linda Kestner, our greeter everyweekend, our recycler, and our general all

round go-to person; to Lynn Ransfordfor being head honcho and Christmas

cracker and gilded walnut maker forour Christmas Bazaar; to Larry Smith,who as Jacksonville Town Crier handedout our yers to almost everyone visiting

Jacksonville during the season; to JeanenaWhitewilsonfor creating

beautiful holiday swagsfor our gates; and to WhitParker, Terr Erdman,Charley Wilson, and crewfor seing up and takingdown canopies everyweekend to protect ourguests from the weather.

And we extend anadditional thank you toour visitors who joined usfor our Beekman House

Victorian Christmas, allowing us to shareChristmas traditions and Beekman familyanecdotes, and to showcase this treasured

Jacksonville landmark.Plan to join us again in 2015 for 1932

Living History tours with Ben and CarrieBeekman, and for Victorian-themed toursviewing life in the late 1800s throughthe eyes of Jacksonville and the Beekmanfamily. Topics include Victorian Etiquee,Medicine, Architecture, Hobbies and Crafts,Travel, Mourning Rituals, and morea

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Jacksonvilles only remaining museums,and we hope that you will be an integralpart of keeping this history of ourcommunity alive. Please like us onFacebook at historicjville for weekly

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News from the Friends ofJacksonville's Historic Cemetery

by Dirk J. Siedlecki, President FOJHC

Or Volnteer Eorts are Notcedand AppreciatedThanks to all of ourwonderful and dedicated volunteers, 2014was another very busy and productiveyear for the Friends of Jacksonville'sHistoric Cemetery. We received a numberof very generous year-end donations that

will help support some major projects thatare being considered for the New Year.With one of those donations, a note wasincluded that stated,

"Recently we were at the cemetery tovisit family grave sites. The cemeteryhad been in such bad condition; wewere not looking forward to visiting.What a wonderful surprise to seeworkers at the cemetery and to see allthe positive restorations that had beencompleted. As a family member wecommend all that you do."

Another read, "Thanks for yourcontinuing eorts to maintain andenhance the cemetery grounds.Enclosed is a donation to continue our

support for 2015."While we very much appreciate these

donations that allow us to move forwardwith restoration and preservationprojects, we also love the feedback leingus know how we are doing.

Some Very Impressive Numbers andAccomlsments for 2014:

Community Clean-up Days82volunteers contributed 229 hourscleaning-up the cemetery grounds onMarch 15, May 17, and October 4, 2014.

An additional 370 hours were spentcaring for the grounds, in-betweenour regular clean-up days, cleaningInterpretive Panels, the InterpretiveCenter, restocking brochures and other

cemetery-related chores.Marker CleaningVolunteerscontributed 202 hours and cleaned a totalof 144 grave markers during 2014. Thatwas an additional 52 hours and 44 markersover what was accomplished in 2013.

Marker Restoration andPreservation108 hours were dedicatedto restoration of markers, curbingand other cemetery ornamentation.Restoration of the Jacob Ish Block has

been completed with the exception of atop-dressing of pea gravel, which will beadded in the spring. Your donations andour volunteers made this long-anticipatedproject a reality.

TorsOur Docents provided somefun and interesting visits to the cemetery

for groups requesting special tours, atotal of 10 during 2014. Additionally, our

Docents came up with some very creativeand informative topics for our HistorySaturday Program. A total of 478 guestsenjoyed one of the special tours or aendedHistory Saturday. Volunteers contributed84 hours to stang these events.

Day of RemembranceOur Special

event on July 28, 2014, in observance ofthe 100th anniversary of the beginning ofWorld War I was aended by 75 peoplewith volunteers contributing 24 hourspresenting this program.

Meet the PioneersOur 9thproduction of this very popular

Jacksonville event was anothertremendous success playing to a sell-outaudience of over 650 people.

Approximately 600 hundred hours ofvolunteer time was dedicated to puingthis program on.

If you would like to help and getinvolved this year, contact us at info@

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Jacksonville Cemetery.On behalf of the Board of Directors

for the Friends of Jacksonville's HistoricCemetery and all our volunteers, thankyou for your continued support andassistance. We wouldn't be able to do allthat we do in preserving our beautifulPioneer Cemetery without you.

Dates to Rememer for 2015:

Community Clean-upSaturday, March 14, 9:00am-12noon,

Saturday, May 16, 8:00am-12 noon,Saturday, October 3, 9:00am-12noon.

Marker Cleaning and WorkshopsThird Saturday of the month,April 18, June 20, July 18, August 15,and September 19.Workshops are 9:00am-12Noon.Note: no cleaning in May

History Saturday ProgramsSecond Saturday of the month,May 9, June 13, July 11, August 8and September 12.Programs begin at 10:00am.

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Y

ears of tenacity and fundraisinghave paid-o. An energy-ecient, 6,000 square foot,

multi-use building for all residents ofJacksonville, its environs, and visitors isbecoming a realityat the corner ofMain and FourthStreets, nearDoc Grin Parkand downtown

businesses.Enormousgratitude goesto the dedicatedfounders whohave shared many years of their time andtalents with determined community visionto make this building project happen. Thetargeted completion date is 2016.

In January, 2014, the Jacksonville CityCouncil and Mayor granted a requestfor a privately-funded, new CommunityCenter to be built where the SampsonHouse stands. Jacksonville CommunityCenter, Inc. (JCC) requested and secured alot line adjustment between the Miller andSampson properties. Also in November2014, Mayor Paul Becker and JCCPresident, Jerry Ferronato signed a 50-yearCity land lease with an option for renewal.

The Sampson property was purchasedin 1992 with the City sale of the TelephoneCompany building (now Quady North)and donations totaling $27,551 fromSeniors, Inc., Carpenter Foundation,Lyons Club, and Vern Bebee, all with

the purpose of constructing a largergathering place building. The 2001Community Center, Inc. was formed withvolunteers remodeling and upgrading thecurrent building. The lile building has

buzzed with activity by many non-protorganizations, government agencies,quilters, piano lessons, book clubs,card games, pioneer history rehearsals,and holiday decoration and paradestagings. The 682 square foot buildinghas become inadequate for the requestsof our growing population and awesomeactivities. Chinese New Years paper

lanterns ll the two rooms to their limitsbefore decorating Jacksonville.

JCC has raised dedicated fundsthrough the promotion of the Celebratethe Arts Labor Day weekend festival at

the courthousegrounds. Thenon-prot

JacksonvilleSeniors, Inc.has also raiseddedicated fundsfor the new

building throughsales at theirOregon/Main

Street Thrift Store & Collectibles shop.This is a joint project to serve all ages.

Approximately one-third of thefunding has been raised to complete the

building project. We are currently seekingadditional funding through foundations,grants, and private donors. Donations aregratefully appreciated and accepted bymailing checks to Jacksonville CommunityCenter, P.O. Box 1435, Jacksonville, OR97530. The Jacksonville Community Centeris a 501 (c) 3 non-prot corporation. Alldonations are tax-deductible.

David Byland and Rick Patsche,both with backgrounds in building,architecture, and project development,have joined the project's building team.We are currently seeking people withexperience in marketing, technology,nance, or grant writing to join thisenergetic project. For more information

contact Jerry at 541-899-3726 or [email protected] next step involves redrawing

of building plans to meet as manycommunity outreach uses as possiblegiven buildable space, codes, andfunding. Also scheduled is restructuringthe Board of Directors. Some of ourdedicated founders are ready to pass the

baton and retire.Watch for construction updates and

personnel announcements in the nextissue of theJacksonville Review.

Grateful for Those Who Pitch-In

For information on the JacksonvilleChamber, or to join, please contact the visitorscenter at 185 N. Oregon Street, call theoce at 541-899-8118 or email chamber@

jacksonvilleoregon.org. Visit the Chamberwebsite at JacksonvilleOregon.org.

Chamber Chatby Tim Balfour, PresidentJacksonville Chamber of Commerce

Corner of 4th & MainNews Updates on the JacksonvilleCommunity Centerby Jeanena Whitewilson

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ecently, while I was writing myfathers obituary and mentioningthe organizations he was

involved in and how he spent much ofhis time, I made the connection with myown volunteer activities and communityinvolvement. Both my father andmother set the example of being activelyinvolved with and improving theircommunity and organizations.

It was never a question of siing backand taking a passive role. They werealways involvedto varyingdegrees in theirchurch, union,and professionaland socialorganizations. Ialso realized that

they were neverones to complainabout a situation.Instead, theystepped-up andworked to improve the situation, and thatis the example they set for me.

I see a lot of my parents in manyof the people in Jacksonvillepeoplewho dont hesitate to step-up whena situation needs improvement. I seepeople who pitch-in with the thoughtthat many hands make light work.

So I wanted to say thanks to thosepeople who run scout troops, andorganize the parent-run programs atthe elementary school. To those who

clean up the cemetery and hang theChinese lanterns and American ags.To those who add character to our town

by strolling the sidewalks in historiccostume. To those working to maintain athriving art scene and building a strongersense of community.

It really does take a villagewhichreminds me of our Victorian Christmascelebration and how that couldnt happenwithout the support of the community.Thanks to all who made the paradepossible Ed Hunt, CERT volunteers,parade marshals and all of the paradeentrants. Thanks to Larry Smith, theTown Crier for all of the events, and tothe Presbyterian Church for helping out.

Thank you so much to the residentsand friends who made donations totaling

$2500 and toour businesssponsors foranother $4,000,including BurrillReal Estate,Pioneer Village,Windemere Van

Fleet, UmquaBank, JacksonvilleApplegate Rotary,JacksonvilleBoosters,

Pacic Corp & Blue Sky, JacksonvilleChiropractic,Jacksonville Review,

Jacksonville Vision and Scheels Toys.We estimate that over 4,000 people

enjoyed the activities of the celebrationwhich spanned 5 weekends this year. Thetree-lighting ceremony aracted twice asmany participants as last year. And therst daytime parade was deemed a success

by all of those who participated, evensome who didnt like the change in time.

Im grateful for all who stepped-up

and pitched-in.

News From Jacksonville Planning Department:Municipal Code Revision Underway

Happy New Year from the

Jacksonville PlanningDepartment! Our oce had

a busy 2014, and if the rst couple ofweeks of the New Year is any indication,its looking like well have an even

busier 2015. As we begin the New Year,our oce is thinking about new andinnovative strategies to improve theplanning process and delivery of services.We want to ensure that the planningsystem is user-friendly, protects ourNational Historic Landmark District, andadheres to the exceptional quality of lifethat is so important to the community.

One way we are working to improvethe planning process is through a rewriteof the Jacksonville Municipal Code. Thecurrent code served the communityreasonably well for the past thirty or soyears. However, with the recent uptickin building activity within the City, werecognize that we need a more ecientand user-friendly planning process. Tothat end, we need a code that will allowfor a smoother, and more streamlinedprocess. Our goal is to develop a code thatpreserves Jacksonvilles quality of life,reects the best planning practices andprocesses, and compliments the fact thatour city is growing.

To rewrite the code, the City has

been working for over two years witha Citizen Advisory Commiee (CAC),

local engineers, surveyors, certiedarborists and members of the PlanningCommission, the Historic Commissionand the City Council to evaluatenearly every word of the aging codelanguage. The end result will be a codethat will protect our National HistoricLandmark District, adhere to the CitysComprehensive Plan, and make theplanning process easier to navigate andeasier to interpret.

The Draft Code should be available inthe next few months for public review.The community will have an opportunityto submit feedback both via email, by

leer or in-person at a series of openhouses and during oral testimony atpublic hearings. Collaboration with thecommunity is key to developing a codethat works. Your feedback is crucial aswe move forward with the process. Wehope that youll nd the new code to beintuitive, graphically useful, consistent,and easy to understand. We look forwardto sharing the results in the near future.

If you ever have questions, orcomments about how the PlanningDepartment can improve our services,please dont hesitate to emailplanner@

jacksonvilleor.us, call 541-899-6873 or comevisit our oce located in the HanleyBuilding on the Historic Courthouse

grounds on North 5th Street.

by Ian Foster, Planner, City of Jacksonville

Rotary Newsby Dom Campanella, PresidentJacksonville-Applegate Club

The

Jacksonville-Applegate

Rotary Club is

o to a busy start in 2015! Were excitedabout our projects and events scheduledfor this year, and were ready to roll upour sleeves and get to work.

Our club is a group of volunteers fromthe professional community who belongto Rotary International, the worldslargest civic organization, with 1.2 millionwomen and men, and more than 34,000clubs in over 140 countries. Rotary isdedicated to creating beer communities.Our goal is to improve the lives of people

by targeting six areas: promoting peace,ghting disease, providing clean drinkingwater, delivering healthcare to mothersand children, supporting education, andgrowing local economies.

According to the World Health

Organization, 1.8 billion peopleuse a drinking-water source that iscontaminated and unsafe. Contaminatedwater and poor sanitation are linked totransmission of diseases such as cholera,dysentery, hepatitis A, typhoid, and polio.Children are particularly at risk from water-related diseases. Thats why our Rotary clubhas made clean-water a primary focus.

We recently sent a team of volunteersto Guatemala to deliver and install in-home water ltration systems for ruralMayan families. Were happy to reportthat the eort was a huge success anddemonstrated the positive impact we canmake in communities around the world.

Here at home, we are working with

other Rotary clubs to build a new pavilionat Blue Heron Park, in Phoenix. We

have also pledged to donate funds tothe Cantrall Buckley Park playgroundimprovement project, and our memberswill donate their time to help install the

new equipment when it arrives.In 2015, we will continue to focus onthe education of local youth. Once again,we will provide scholarships to localcollege-bound students, and we willdeliver dictionaries to our local thirdgraders. We also continue to sponsor andpartner with the Interact Club at SouthMedford High School. We will send threelocal high school sophomores to CampRYLA (Rotary Youth Leadership Awards),a fantastic leadership developmentprogram run by Rotary.

On February 12, 2015, we will host areception to thank local business ownersand operators for their hard work andcontributions to Jacksonville. We hopeyoull join us for a glass of wine and an

appetizer at the U.S. Hotel Ballroom,from 5:00-7:00m.

Finally, were thrilled to announcewe have accepted a generous oer fromthe Jacksonville Boosters to assign theirannual Garage Sale fundraising project toour club. Along with our annual SalmonBake fundraiser (September 13, 2015), theGarage Sale should solidify our nancialfooting so we can continue to serve thecommunity at home and abroad.

We invite you to have breakfast withus at a club meeting, each Thursday, at7:00am at Bella Union restaurant. Comesee what Rotary is all about!

To learn more about the Jacksonville-Applegate Rotary Club, visit

Jacksonvilleapplegaterotary.org and pleaselike us on Facebook!

Volunteers taking down Christmas lights


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A Few Minutes with the Mayorby Paul Becker

Not-So-Idle Thoughts

City Snapshot

CITY OFFICE

Monday - Friday

8:30am - 4:00pm

MUNICIPAL COURT CLERK

Monday - Friday

9:00am - 4:00pm

PLANNING DEPARTMENT HOURS

Direct #: 541-899-6873Now located behind Courthouse!

Monday, Tuesday, Thursday

& Friday 8:30am-2:00pm

Wednesday: Closed to Public

Submit all applications

& pick-up all permits:Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday:

8:30am-12noon

Planning Director Available

for Drop-In Consultation:

Monday & Thursday,

11:00am-1:00pm

CITY OF JACKSONVILLE OFFICE HOURS

CITY COUNCIL: Tuesday, February 3, 6:00pm (OCH)

PLANNING COMMISSION: Wednesday, February 11, 6:00pm (OCH)

CITY COUNCIL: Tuesday, February 17, 6:00pm (OCH)

HARC HEARING OFFICER: Wednesday, February 18, 10:00am (OCH)

HARC: Wednesday, February 25, 6pm (OCH)

541-899-1231 www.jacksonvilleor.us

Location Key: OCH- Old City Hall (S. Oregon & Main) CH- CourthouseCC- Community Center (160 E. Main Street) NVR- Naversen Room(Jacksonville Library) FH - Fire Hall (180 N. 3rd St. @ C) EOC- EmergencyOps Center at Police Station

JACKSONVILLE CITY SCHEDULE

POLICE BLOTTERJacksonville Police Department

A consolidated report based on type of calls & number of incidences

November 16, 2014 to January 13, 2015

Abandoned Auto - 1

Alarm - 11

Animal Complaint - 13

Assault - 3

Assist - Other Gov't/

Law Enforcement

Agencies - 142

Assist Public - 376

City Ordinance - 2

Civil - 6

Disorderly Conduct - 2

Domestic - 4

DUII - 1

Fraud - 3

Fugitive - 1

Larceny/Theft - 5

Missing Person - 2

Motor Vehicle Crash - 1

Noise - 2

Property Found - 3

Property Lost - 2

Public Safety - 6

Repossession - 1

Suspicious - 19

Trafc/Roads All - 6

Vandalism - 1

Call Type Total Calls

Congratulations to Jim Lewis, Ken Gregg and Brad Bennington (l-r) who weresworn-in as our newly-elected City Councilors on January 6, 2015!

Before beginning this rst column

of the year, I wish to thankthe editor/ publisher of this

newspaper who approached me fouryears ago with the oer to write my owncolumn, promising to allow me totalfreedom to write whatever I felt like.Now I ask you, what observer of thedaily passing parade could resist such anoer? Certainly not yours truly! And... togive him credit, Whit Parker has kept hisword. It has been a privilege to write thiscolumn... one I truly appreciate.

Having said that, I was given a sharpreminder the other day about howpeople may react to what I do write.Apparently, I was critical of someonewho seemed shocked that I would writeabout them the way I did. I could havewrien more... but evidently what I didwrite was obvious, at least to this person.Understanding the power of words, I washardly surprised... but I was also pleased,

because the author in me celebrated thediscovery that someone was reading mycolumn at all.

So what was my sin? Simply put...to possess a fervor and belief that thepresence of Bri in our community is a

blessing and a priceless asset we shouldall support. And I shall continue in that

belief. Perhaps a lile background willexplain my aitude.

A century ago, World War I beganin Europe. Knowing Turkey would beinvolved, my uncles took my 16-year-old

Turkish father to Constantinople wherethey trained him to be a barber, and thenput him on a ship bound for America inthe hope he would avoid the war. Onceon that ship, like so many millions beforeand after him, he was never again to seehis brothers or his parents. But whathappened when he arrived in Americawas so improbable it deed all odds.

Arriving in America, he found himselfdrafted into the U.S. Army once thecountry went to war with the Axis Powerswhich included Turkey. Before he could

be shipped overseas he was stricken withthe deadly 1918 u pandemic. This plaguekilled over 100 million people... most ofthem young adults such as my father.

Though it took him six months to recover,he was one of the lucky survivors.

Now comes the improbable part of

this story. The war over, my fatherseled in Syracuse, New York wherehe met and dated my mother. Herewas an uneducated, illiterate, Moslemimmigrant from an enemy country,dating a white Baptist young womanin her third year at the EastmanCollege of Music with the goal of

becoming an orchestral harpist. Notwo people could be more dierent... in

background, education, or culture . Yet,the dierences paled in their aractionto each other... much to the dismayof her family. They married, movedto New York City, and took up life inthat city crowded with immigrantsfrom not only overseas but transplantsfrom surrounding states, young peopleseizing opportunity in the "big city"rather than their hometown.

My mother may have given up herdreams of becoming a harpist, but shenever surrendered her love of music.Growing up, I found myself dragged toevery piano and harp recital at TownHall or Carnegie Hall... every symphonicconcert at Randall's Island, Central ParkMall, and the Museum of AmericanHistory for free orchestral concerts almostevery week. From Bach to Beethoven,from Grieg to Gershwin, there I was,soaking it all in... admiedly sometimesagainst my will, but catching everymusical nuance issuing forth from someof the greatest musicians in the world.

In spite of my reluctance, my mothersucceeded, for I have lived a life devotedto the proposition that a culture withoutart or music is not just the poorer, butdevoid of any soul. I've also tried to passthat along to my own children in theirearly years, by taking them to concertafter concert at the Hollywood Bowl andthe Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.

So... the boom line is... I make NOapology for anything I've ever saidconcerning my support of Bri. We areindeed BLESSED to have this venue inour midst. The real losers are those whowould voice a certain support whiletheir actions belie their words. It's worthrepeating, without the performing arts,

we have no soul.

City Council January 6, 2015MayorPaul Becker began the rst meeting ofthe New Year by breaking with traditionwhen he invited Pastor Larry Jung of

Jacksonville Presbyterian Church to openthe meeting with a prayer and invocation.

Council agreed to place an emergency

item on the agenda at the request of BriFestivals CEO Donna Briggs. Councillater voted unanimously in favor ofallowing Bri Festivals to open the 2015season on May 28 to accommodate ato-be-announced act that just becameavailable. Briggs reminded council thataccording to the CUP with the city and

Jackson County, such allowances arepermied from May-September.

Newly-promoted City Recorder KimKerneen swore-in newly-elected CityCouncilors Jim Lewis, Ken Gregg and BradBennington. After taking the oath of oceand being formally seated, the council thenelected Councilor David Jesser as CouncilPresident. The Council President serves in

the absence of the Mayor.Mayor Becker announced that he hadappointed the following councilors tothe following commiee/commissionchair posts: Brad Bennington, PlanningCommission. David Jesser, CemeteryCommission & Parking Commission. KenGregg, Public Safety Commission. CrissGarcia, Parks Commiee. Jocie Wall, BedTax Commiee.

Council then appointed Jim Whitlock toll a Planning Commission vacancy aftera drawn-out discussion over the pitfallsof lling the commission with citizenswith ties to the development and realestate professions.

The main event of the evening was a2+ hour public hearing involving a Land

Use Board of Appeals remand over arecently-constructed parking lot on theBri Festival Grounds. The appellant,Carol Knapp, opened the hearing with arequest that councilors with bias not takepart in the hearing. Ms. Knapp accusedMayor Becker of having clear bias, basedon a recent column in theJacksonvilleReviewin which the mayor wrote thatin his opinion, Bri kept Jacksonvilleon the map. After polling his council,Mayor Becker recused himself from thehearing at which point Council President

Jesser presided over the remainder of themeeting. Additionally, newly-sworn-incouncilor Gregg also recused himselfto avoid the appearance of conict of

interest. Gregg disclosed that he and

his partner receive a limited number ofBri tickets in exchange for Bri using aportion of their property for employeeparking.

With Council President David Jesser atthe helm, council held a public hearing.The following is provided for context and

as a summary of the proceedings:On March 26, 2014 the Historic and

Architectural Review Commission(HARC) approved File No. 2014-20, aCerticate of Appropriateness applicationto pave an existing parking lot located at305 S. First Street. The HARCs decisionwas appealed to the City Council. OnApril 28, 2014 the City Council armedthe HARCs approval. An appeal of theCitys decision was led to the Land UseBoard of Appeals (LUBA). The petitioneris Carol Knapp and the applicant isthe Peter Bri Gardens Music and ArtsFestival, Inc. The LUBA nal order, datedOctober 14, 2014, stated that four of thepetitioners ve grounds for appeal were

denied. One was sustained, in part, andthe decision was remanded back to theCity for further consideration on thatpoint. LUBA determined that remand isnecessary for the City to adopt ndingsaddressing the City of JacksonvilleDevelopment Code (JDC) 18.20.040(A),and to provide any interpretations andfactual determinations necessary toresolve whether the application complieswith JDC 18.20.040(A) as stated below.

Most older small towns likeJacksonville seem like a natural part ofthe landscape. This is for good reason;except for major engineering feats such asrailroads, mass grading was impracticaland uneconomical. Homes and other

buildings had to be ed to the existing

landforms. The result was a more naturallandscape. Therefore, existing landformsshall be retained to the greatest extentpossible by limiting the cut-and-lldisturbance area to within twenty-ve(25) horizontal feet of foundations ortwenty (20) horizontal feet from the edgeof the shoulder of driveways and roads.

At the City Council meeting on January 6,2015 the City made the following decision:

The application is in compliance with18.20.040(A). The ndings presented bythe applicants engineer and City staprovided the factual evidence necessaryto determine that the parking lot is astructure with a foundation, and thefoundation is within 25 horizontal feet

from the cut and ll disturbance area.


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Let's Talk Real Estateby Graham Farran, Expert Properties

Home prices increased 8% in 2014.Whats to come in 2015?

Graham Farran is a broker with ExpertProperties, located at 620 N. 5th Street in

Jacksonville. Please see their ad on the backpage and contact them at 541-899-2030 oronline at www.expertprops.com.

2014 Reca2014 was a good year

for the U.S. economy with 3 millionjobs added and the unemploymentrate dropping to 5.6%, the lowestlevel since June 2008. We also sawdeclining gasoline prices and naturalgas prices in most of the Midwestand East Coast, all combined withrecord low interest rates. Thereare still lots of unemployed andunderemployed, especially in marketslike Southern Oregon where we havesuch a small job base, but there is alsogood news in this area. The United Stateslost over 1.6 million manufacturing jobsin the recession, mainly to China, butaccording to Boston Consulting Groupsannual survey, 20% of those companieswho outsourced to China in the last sevenyears are now considering bringing those

jobs back to the United States, citingrising labor and transportation costs.

2014 was also a good year for real estatein the U.S. and in Jackson County. Medianhome prices grew by over 5% in the U.S.

but Jackson County exceeded the averageto grow by 8.1% with the median price ofa home ending at $208,600. Jacksonvillesmedian price grew by 8.2% to a medianprice of $308,500. Areas dominated byinvestors and rst time home buyers greweven faster with West Medford medianprices growing by 22% and White Citymedian prices growing by 18.8%.

2015 ForecastTo predict what wewill see for the Jackson County Market,

we must rst see what is predicted forthe U.S. housing market. For the last twoyears we have seen the median price ofhomes in Jackson County grow at a fasterpace than the U.S. average; but, will thiscontinue for 2015?

Freddie Mac predicted that 2015 willsee the highest level of home sales in theU.S. since 2007 in its newly released U.S.Economic and Housing Market Outlook(hp://www.freddiemac.com/nance/ehforecast.html?intcmp=AFEHRMO).

In the report, Freddie Mac looked backat ve key predictions for 2014, how theyfared, and how they will aect housingand the economy next year. In addition tohome sales, the four other areas examined

were mortgage originations, home values,rental market, and mortgage rates.Here is a recap of the report: Home Sales: A 4% jump is expected

for home sales up to 5.6 million in2015, which would be the highestannual level home sales experiencedsince 2007 according to the report.Home sales and the economy madea strong comeback for the secondhalf of 2014, and analysts expect thatrecovery to continue on into 2015.The recent drop in oil prices has beenan unexpected b

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