Kudos to Ashland’s new emergency management coordinator, Kelly Burns, for providing a cooling center this past week — and even making available a smoke-free place on Saturday morning. Thanks also to the First Presbyterian Church for providing the space. We all can help Burns out by signing on for shifts. He can be contacted at 541-880-3564.
Wendy Eppinger
Ashland
Tom Dimitre: (O’Meara) wants our Police Department to be judge and jury as to who’s excluded, taking that duty away from a judge.
Manuel De Aquino: Rep. Cliff Bentz needs to re-evaluate his perception of federal employees and speak up for them instead of downplaying the contributions they make to our communities.
Selene Aitken: I set an intention to be present without distraction. No Wordle, no crossword, no Scrabble, no headlines, no texts. Not easy.
David Hoffman: As a citizen, I find myself shocked by the news that the Trump administration has on its agenda the opening of IRS and SSA files which will allow the unrestrictive seizure and distribution of private information like tax returns, Social Security numbers, and addresses.
Ask Strider: This column, a reader asks how Strider deals with bullies. Another reader sends good wishes and praise. And a third reader asks the burning question: Pizza with pineapple or without?
A crowdfunding effort to fund a spring play at Ashland Middle School has raised more than $1,000 — 20% of its $5,000 goal — to ensure that the show will go on, but there is still $4,000 to raise by the end of the week if fundraisers are to meet their goal. The play’s GoFundMe page had collected $1,050 as of mid-day Wednesday, March 19.
“Spotlight on Kenny Loggins With Jim Messina,” now playing at the Camelot Theatre in Talent, is an invigorating evening of their celebrated, extraordinarily fine pop-folk tunes. More often than not those tunes are energetically recreated in the spirit of the ’70s and sometimes off the charts.
A packed open house on Saturday at Jackson County Fire District 5 Station 4 outside of Ashland offered a detailed financial update on the embattled district and a chance to discuss everything from staffing struggles to an investigation that remains under review by the Oregon Department of Justice.
Southern Oregon Repertory Singers’ spring concert, dubbed “Charm Me Asleep,” is a “hugely varied program of lyrical, romantic, life-enhancing choral music,” says music director Paul French. “The program title is taken from Robert Herrick’s lyrical ode on the transformative power of music to bring healing and restoration in times of physical and emotional distress.
Ongoing research aimed at increasing the public’s understanding, appreciation, preservation and protection of the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument is set for this week at SOU. The research symposium will run from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 20, at the Southern Oregon University Science Auditorium and online via Zoom.
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