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My View JACKSONVILLE What are YOU Grateful For? Published By Jacksonville Publishing LLC REVIEW by Whitman Parker, Publisher The most rewarding aspect of publishing the you are most grateful for in Jacksonville. As an Whitman Parker Review is meeting and working with extraordinary example, you might be grateful for a special Owner & Publisher people who make this community special. On a hiking trail, the fall colors, a helpful neighbor, [email protected] daily basis, I work with our contributors and civic a beloved building, a favorite checker, 541-899-9500 Office leaders who pen articles about the events and shopkeeper or waiter, a special teacher, friend 541-601-1878 Mobile people that impact us all. As editor, my mission or caretaker…perhaps it’s your dog or cat, your has always been to reflect Jacksonville’s outstanding garden… or a favorite tree…it’s about YOU and it’s Andrea Yancey quality of life on these pages, and it’s something I consider for all of us to enjoy together. Design & Production a privilege and honor to do for a living. In order to participate, simply text or email a Each month, I intentionally write “My View” just 60-word-maximum statement + a photo (iPhone photos [email protected] before press time… and I’m always amazed and are okay) no later than October 10. Then look for it in Mail: PO Box 1114, overwhelmed by the amount of “good stuff” happening the November print issue…we will print as many as Jacksonville, OR 97530 here in the community. Fortunately, when searching for possible! Plus, we’ll share your gratitude statement in this good stuff, I never need to look very far. November on our Facebook page with the rest of the Visit: 220 E. California Street To celebrate this fact of Jacksonville life, I’m world. You can simply text me at 541-601-1878 or email (Next To Mccully House) inviting you to participate in our upcoming November me at [email protected]. “Gratitude Issue.” In this special issue, we’ll be printing Cheers to expressing YOUR gratitude for Our Small Advertising in the Review works! Gratitude Notes + photos from YOU, describing what Town with Big Atmosphere! For advertising information, please contact Whit Parker and visit our website: JacksonvilleReview.com

ABOUT THE COVER: “Persimmons,” a one-of- a-kind acrylic painting on glass, is the creation of Jacksonville resident and artist Mark Daucher. This unique 16x20 piece, may be viewed or purchased during the “Imaginarium” art show at Art Presence Art center, Image courtesy of Ken Gregg, publisher of "A Year in Jacksonville"www.photographicart.com running October 4-27. EXPLORE JACKSONVILLE AT-A-GLANCE / AND SEE TOWN MAP ON PAGE 16 Thank You To Our Contributors! Shopping Bella Union...... 14 & 28 Wine Tasting & Wine Shops • Margaret Barnes • Dustin Jernigan Artist & Gardener...... 25 C Street Bistro & Pizza...... 27 Applegate Valley Wine Trail...... 16 • Mayor Paul Becker • Carolyn Kingsnorth Bumble & Wren...... 22 GoodBean Coffee...... 4 Daisy Creek Vineyard...... 6 • Brad Bennington • Mike McClain Carefree Buffalo...... 26 & 32 Jacksonville Inn...... 21 DANCIN Vineyards...... 17 • Jeff Blum • Michele Moir • Donna Briggs • Linda Otto Country Quilts & Gifts...... 20 La Fiesta...... 2 Jacksonville Inn Wine Shop...... 21 • Sandy Brown • Erich & Matt Patten Crown Jewel...... 20 Las Palmas...... 24 Jacksonville Wineries...... 5 • Bob Budesa • Chelsea Rose Farmhouse Treasures...... 28 Miners' Bazaar Craft Cafe...... 22 Kimball's Artisan Wines...... 6 • Dr. Julie Danielson • Pam Sasseen Jacksonville Company ...... 23 Mustard Seed Cafe...... 22 Ray's Food Place...... 31 • Marion Denard • Ashleigh Scheuneman Penny & Lulu Studio Florist...... 32 Pony Espresso Cafe...... 32 Red Lily Vineyards...... 8 • Dr. Michael Dix • Dirk Siedlecki Pickety Place Antiques ...... 21 Ray's Food Place...... 31 Rellik Winery...... 2 • David Doi • Kristen Sullivan Pot Rack...... 20 Schoolhaus Brewhaus...... 11 Rogue Wine Tours...... 25 • Peggy Dover • Kathy Tiller Ray's Food Place...... 31 Umi Sushi...... 25 • Paula & Terry Erdmann • Kate Vangeloff Rebel Heart Books...... 28 • Graham Farran • Marlene Wagener Scheffel's Toys & More...... 22 Lodging Pampering/Self-Care • Ian Foster • Hannah West Shooting Star Nursery...... 19 Élan Guest Suites & Gallery...... 30 Angelica Day Spa...... 21 • Clayton Gillette • Steve Yungen • Lori Grable WillowCreek Gifts...... 14 Horsefeather Farms Ranchette...... 27 Jacksonville Chiropractic...... 25 • Sara Grady Photographers Jacksonville Inn...... 21 Rex Miller Dental...... 9 • Adam Haynes • Mike Gantenbein Dining/Coffee Magnolia Inn...... 24 Snap Fitness...... 27 • Kathy Hoskin • Ken Gregg Applegate Store & Cafe...... 27 Rellik House...... 2 Spa Jacksonville...... 23 • Kate Ingram • Kathy Hoskin Back Porch Bar & Grill...... 18 Standish Cottage...... 12

JACKSONVILLE REVIEW OCTOBER 2019 3 Jacksonville Art Events October 2019 OCTOBER 2019 EVENTS CALENDAR Second Saturday ArtWalk ONGOING • Saturday, October 12, 5:00-7:30pm: Second Saturday Saturday, October 12, 5–7:30 pm • Monday-Friday, 11:30am-12:30pm: Lunch with Food ArtWalk, Downtown Jacksonville. Pgs 4 & 8 Enjoy music, wine tasting, art demonstrations and & Friends, for those 60 or older, Oddfellows Hall, • Saturday & Sunday, October 12 & 13, noon-5:00pm: special exhibitions throughout the downtown area. 175 S. Oregon street. Harvest Festival with Pumpkin Chuckin' at Look for the neon green pennant hanging in front of each participating business and art gallery. This is • Monday-Saturday, 9:00am: Pickleball Group, LongSword Vineyard. Pg 6 the last ArtWalk of 2019. Don’t miss it! at Pheasant Meadows Park, weather permitting. • Saturday & Sunday, October 12 & 13, 7:00-9:00pm: New players welcome. SOpickle.com & Pg 14 The Boogeyman's Bride at Hanley Farm. Gates open at Art Presence Art Center • 4th Friday of the Month, 5:30-8:30pm: Southern 6:00pm. Also on Saturday, October 19. Pg 9 Oregon Songwriters Association Open Mic at Pony • Friday, October 18, 4:00-7:00pm: Jacksonville Espresso Café. All are welcome as audience. Open mic Elementary Harvest Carnival. Pg 22 performers must feature original songs. No covers. Beer, • Saturday, October 19, 11:00am-3:00pm: Shooting wine, full menu available with specials, full espresso bar Star Nursery's Annual Apple Tasting and Fall open as well. Pg 32 Celebration. Pgs 6 & 19 • Saturdays: Jacksonville Presbyterian Historic Church • Saturday & Sunday, October 19 & 20,11:00am- open for Quiet Time. Prayer, Reflection, and Rest. 3:00pm: Beekman House Museum Tours,"Victorian October 5, 12 & 26, 11:00am-1:00pm, October 19, Mourning Customs." Pg 10 11:00am-3:00pm. Pg 11 • Thursday-Sunday, October 24-27: Jacksonville • Sundays, May 26-October 13, 9:00am-1:30pm: Haunted Trolley Tours. Pg 6 Jville Market, Courthouse Grounds. Pg 21 • Saturday, October 26, 10:30am-1:30pm: Open Farm • Sundays at Daisy Creek Vineyard. Pg 6 Day at Sanctuary One. Pg 27 • October at Bella Union Restaurant. Pgs 14 & 28 • Saturday, October 26, 11:00am-3:00pm: Pumpkin • Fall Classes at Shooting Star Nursery. Fest at Hanley Farm. Pg 9 www.roguevalleynursery.com & Pg 19 • Saturday, October 26, 6:00-10:00pm; FOTAS Howl-O- • Classes at Jacksonville Community Center. Ween Fur Ball fundraiser. Pg 26 Sixth Annual October Imaginarium JacksonvilleCommunityCenter.org & Pgs 14 & 21 • Thursday, October 31, 6:00-8:00pm: Not So Scary Art Presence Art Center sends out an October Cre- Harvest Festival, Jacksonville Presbyterian Church. Pg 7 ative Challenge to all southern Oregon artists every OCTOBER year, with an exhibition of the artwork they’ve created in response. Each year has a new theme, and this • Tuesday, October 1, 7:00pm: First Tuesdays Pub SAVE THE DATE time it’s Magic & Mischief. The show opens Friday, Talk, “Southern Oregon Beer: A Pioneering History." Four • Friday, November 8, 4:30-6:00pm: Pioneer Village October 4, and continues through the 27th. Meet the Daughters Irish Pub, 126 W. Main, Medford. Pgs 9 & 10 Chili Dinner and Silent Auction. Pg 8 artists for a festive reception with live music, hors d’oeuvres, numerology readings and more fun activ- • Wednesday, October 2, noon-1:00pm: SOHS Windows • Saturday, November 23, 11:00am-3:00pm: Applegate ities on Saturday, October 5, from 1–4 pm. in Time Series. "Southern Oregon’s Unique Experience Valley Uncorked Barrel Tour. Pg 16 Come to the gallery on October 12 during the During World War II " at the Medford Library. Also, Wednesday, October 9 at the Ashland Library. Pg 9 • Sunday, December 1: Soroptimist International of Second Saturday Art Walk to see a special Medford 28th Annual Holiday Home Tour. Pg 9 demonstration by artist Patricia Wormuth. • Friday & Saturday, October 4 & 5: Meet the Pioneers Art Presence Art Center is a nonproﬁt organization locat- Annual Jacksonville Cemetery event. Pgs 5 & 9. • Friday-Sunday, December 6-8: Providence Festival of ed at 206 N. Fifth St., next to Jacksonville’s historic court- Trees. Pg 9 house. Gallery hours: 11am–5pm every Fri–Sun. • Saturday & Sunday, October 5 & 6, 11:00am-4:00pm: https://art-presence.org Hanley Farm Annual Scarecrow Festival. Pg 9 Free Association • Wednesday, October 9, 6:30pm: St. Mary's School Haunted House Halloween Party! Open House. Pg 23 October 31, Free Associa- • Friday, October 11, 4:00-7:00pm: Jacksonville Fire tion hosts an awesome Department Open House. Pg 14 Halloween Party! Their show of art and curiosi- • Friday & Saturday, October 11 & 12, Tours 6:00, 6:15, ties will be on display all 6:30, 6:45, 7:00pm: Historic Jacksonville Haunted month — stop in any time from October 1–31 History Tours. Reservations suggested. Pg 10 to help decorate the • Friday, October 11, 7:00pm: Movie Night at Old space! All ages and styles City Hall. "Night Train to Munich." Rescheduled from are welcome at Free As- sociation. Accepting submissions for 2020 shows. September. Pg 26 120 North 4th Street ~ 541-200-4184 • Saturday, October 12: Food Project Pickup Day in South Stage Cellars Jacksonville. Pg 22 Paintings by Charity Hubbard This month the Cellar features paintings by Charity Hubbard. Trained in perspective and drafting, she has worked in commercial art and architectural ren- dering, but currently pursues her love of ﬁne art and plein air painting. Her painterly style and lovely treatment of light add Fall...in love atmosphere and emotion to her paintings. Meet the artist and enjoy award- winning wines and live music by Steve Shine and his jazz trio at an opening reception Friday, October 11 from 5:30 to 7:30 PM. Can’t make it Friday eve? Stop by during the Second Saturday ArtWalk on October 12 from 5–7:30 pm! 125 South 3rd Street ~ 541-899-9120 CALL TO ARTISTS! Southern Oregon Artists Resource and Art Presence Art Center call for ANGEL ART to display in our De- cember Angels show! For more information, visit art-presence.org or call Anne Brooke at (541) 941-7057. Pictured, “Angel on High,” by Katherine Bird, 2018 Angels Show. www.soartists.com Website & Art Event Calendar by Order • Pay • On Your Way • Get the GoodBean App today! Hannah West Design, LLC ~ 541.899.2012 4 OCTOBER 2019 JACKSONVILLE REVIEW Meet the Pioneers Returns by Peggy Dover

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History buffs will be in their element when The interest are Fletcher Linn and Louise M. Sawyers Linn, or a family ticket of $35 for two adults and up to three Friends of Jacksonville’s Historic Cemetery once again and Vance Debar Colvig, better known as Bozo the children. For safety reasons, please don’t bring pets. present their annual fundraiser, Meet the Pioneers. Clown. There are five additional stories on this year’s Tickets went on sale September 4, so if you want a place Beginning every fifteen minutes between 4-6:30pm, tour, including a vignette about a thirteen-year-old at the tombs, buy yours today. They are available online Friday and Saturday, October 4th and 5th, Jacksonville bride. There are no repeats in the bunch, with each year at www.friendsjvillecemetery.org, by calling 541-826-9939, will be visited by representatives from the pioneering past. unearthing new early residents. and at their ticket booth next to the Jacksonville Post They welcome folks to meet with them for what is sure to The Siedleckis dug up the idea in 2004 after nabbing Office between 10:00am and 1:00pm September 27 and be an enlightening one hour tour and learn their stories the idea from the Grants Pass Historical Society. 28 and October 4 and 5. from atop the Silent City on the Hill—the Jacksonville Dirk and Mary attended a living history tour at the “It’s such a unique and fun way to share the history Cemetery. Recently I spoke with Dirk and Mary Siedlecki, Oddfellows Cemetery, the one visible from I-5 in Grants of not only Jacksonville but also the Rogue Valley,” Dirk facilitators of Meet the Pioneers, about this popular event. Pass. They thought, “Hey, we ought to do this!” They added. “Adults and children, they love to be told history “Our Meet the Pioneers program is actually living expected it to be a lone project, but those who came to rather than read it.” history tours in the cemetery,” Dirk explained. “We Jacksonville’s inaugural Meet the Pioneers program in History never gets old. It gets told through caring usually have around eight stops on the tour route. And 2006, talked them into continuing, and it’s still going and dedicated individuals like the Siedleckis and the audience comes up on the shuttle bus that Pioneer strong thirteen years later. Diehard attendees vie for their army of volunteers. The mission of Friends Village generously supplies for us along with their an attendance award with many having viewed the of Jacksonville’s Historic Cemetery is to “restore, drivers. We have guides at the top of the hill that greet previous twelve tours. preserve, document, and safeguard our cemetery and the audience and lead the group around. There are With cooperation from at least 65 volunteers, this its history for future generations.” Programs such as anywhere from 14-21 individuals in each tour. Players once-a-year monumental fundraiser provides funds for this one gives us all the opportunity to help assure that in period costumes stand graveside and tell either their the continuing restoration and upkeep of the cemetery this treasure continues to teach for many stories of the deceased buried there or talk about historic grounds and tombstones. Sixteen players and eight years to come. happenings during the 1800s and 1900s.” stories or stops, including props, make for a unique Peggy Dover is a freelance writer who Just how did murderer, Chester Barden, escape the evening of entertainment. First date, anyone? is thrilled to call Southern Oregon home. noose? Listen to tale of a woman considered by some Tours depart from the D Street parking lot. Tickets are Reach her at [email protected] to be a genuine town character. Other histories of $15 for individuals, children twelve and under are $5, or on her Facebook page.

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Shooting Star Nursery’s 6th Annual Apple Tasting and Fall Celebration Come celebrate the fall season at have apple and pecan pies by the slice, Shooting Star Nursery's Annual Apple which you can turn into pie a la mode Tasting and Fall Celebration on Saturday, by visiting Sweet Cream Ice Cream or October 19, from choose one of their 11:00am-3:00pm. homemade ice Join us in October for our Nursery owner cream sandwiches. Sunday events! Christie Mackison The Melt food truck says, “We started will be offering up September 28—Closed for a wedding our Apple Tasting hot grilled cheese September 29–Music by Jeff Kloetzel and event six years ago sandwiches and food provided by Mamma Mia’s Artisan Pizza as a way to thank Hilltop Coffee will October 5–Music by Marshall Thompson, our customers have coffee and Jacksonville’s St. Joseph Rectory Auction and celebrate the espresso to enhance and Raffle. Everybody welcome. bounty of harvest your walk around October 6–Music by J Brothers and food season. It’s a great the nursery. provided by Bill and Joyce Prahl time to enjoy fall colors, good fresh food, The highlight of the event, of course, is October 13–Music by Shybo and food and time with friends and family…we sampling the apples. There will be apple provided by Bill and Joyce Prahl expect 400+ people this year!” tastings from several local orchards— October 20–Music by Jeff Kloetzel and food The event is for the whole family! including some rare heirloom varieties provided by Mamma Mia’s Artisan Pizza Kids can dance, play in the sandbox from Ridgeline Farms in the Applegate. October 27–CODE BLUE from Klamath and check out the kid’s craft table to Potted apple trees and other fruit trees decorate a bag that they can take their will be for sale, and you can put in an Falls and food provided by Joyce and Bill favorite apples home in! You can also order for next year’s bare root fruit trees. Prahl. Halloween celebration—costumes take a family photo with the fall color You are encouraged to car pool and well- encouraged!! backdrop of the nursery. Plus, enjoy behaved dogs are welcome on a leash. live music with Doug Warner Blues and Shooting Star Nursery is located at 3223 675 SHAFER LANE, JACKSONVILLE Justin Gordon and his roots-rock trio. Taylor Road in Central Point. For more Fresh-pressed apple cider will be information and their Fall class schedule, 541-899-8329 available from Green Ridge Farms in visit www.roguevalleynursery.com. Located at the end of Shafer Lane in Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Auntie Mama’s Cookies will See ad page 19. 6 OCTOBER 2019 JACKSONVILLE REVIEW Jones Cares to Give Local Family 12 Months of Housing Payments rah j sa ill t. Jack Fifth S sonvil 05 N le, O Jacksonville residents and local Herstle and Kelly actively support 5 R

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"The real need for most of needy senior through the Food & Friends these seniors is for warmth and a bit of organization. Call 541-899-5590 for more needed coziness, " Kinsella reports. information. See ad page 14. Harvest Festival Dreams Come True by Dustin Jernigan, Pastor, Jacksonville Presbyterian Church My wife and I were sneaky. Very better first experience of our little town. sneaky. When I was interviewing for the The next morning as we walked around job in Jacksonville, we did not tell our Jacksonville, our young daughters said, young kids we “We wish we would be moving; could live here!” we were worried And right then they might spill and there, my the beans too wife and I knew early. Instead, on it was time to October 31st last tell them the year—without great news. Sunday Morning Worship Services telling them Fast forward 8:30 a.m., 10:45 a.m. where we were a year later, Small groups available for all ages at 9:45 a.m. going—we woke and we are our children now living and up early in the working in Toddler and Preschool morning, packed Jacksonville and The Jernigan Family Open Play Fridays them in the car, loving it. If you Connecting People Ages 5 and under. Outdoor activities and drove to the airport. Then, we flew are reading this, you know exactly what I for school age siblings. with God, Each Other, to Medford… from Orlando, Florida! All mean. Our little town is just the best. Things throughout the flight, the only thing we like the church’s community-wide Harvest October 11th and November 8th and Ministry told them was that we were going to Festival make Jacksonville what it is. 9:30 – 11 a.m. the best Harvest Festival ever. Which—for And whether you are a lifelong the record—was true. We just chose not Jacksonville citizen or a recent transplant to mention the fact that we were also like me, I truly hope your children and moving across the country to Oregon. grandchildren experience the same So, when our plane finally landed awesome (not scary!) Harvest Festival. It in Medford, we quickly put on our is on October 31 from 6:00-8:00pm, and is costumes, grabbed a great dinner at held at Jacksonville Presbyterian Church Bella Union, and took them to Harvest (425 Middle Street). All families are 425 Middle Street Festival at Jacksonville Presbyterian welcome, and there is no cost. (541) 899-1287 Church. And to our kids, it really was the Dustin Jernigan is the pastor of Visit our website jvillepres.org for more best Harvest Festival ever. There were Jacksonville Presbyterian Church, which has details about upcoming events. prizes, games, crafts, candy, and even been worshipping in Jacksonville since 1857. 1910 a puppet show. 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State of the Art Presence Art Center by Hannah West, Southern Oregon Artists Resource

The “October Imaginarium” art show Paint-Off, for which we invited artists to Red Lily Vineyards at Art Presence Art Center is celebrating create magical, mischievous artwork on

its 6th year! This artists’ palettes.

has become one Art Presence of the gallery’s invites you to most popular a spellbinding CRUSHING IT~Everyday, 11-5. exhibits, with a reception for Award-winning Spanish wines & tapas along the river! new theme each the artists on year. This year’s Saturday, October theme is Mischief 5, from 1:00- & Magic. Inspired 4:00pm. At the by Halloween reception, you will and the return of find Jacksonville autumn, artists author Sharon create whimsical, Mehdi available thought- for numerology provoking, out-of- readings, a Selfie the-mainstream Station, live art that conjures music by Martin up memories of Ball, and hors costumes and d’oeuvres and haunted houses wine to enjoy and running along with the giddily through fun surrounding the dark with the show. friends. It’s an We would like event not to be missed! And, along with to congratulate Art Presence member, the gallery full of visual treats, there will Mark Daucher, whose beautiful graphic be a bowl of treats on the counter for image of persimmons appears on the cover those of you who secretly wish you could of this month’s Review! You can see more of still go trick-or-treating. his work in this month’s show. Imaginarium opens Friday, October 4 Saturday, October 12, from 5:00- and continues through Sunday, October 7:30pm, will be the last Jacksonville 27. About thirty artists—twenty Art Second Saturday ArtWalk until next Presence members and additional spring. Come to the gallery for a special working artists from Southern Oregon— demonstration by Patricia Wormuth offer works they created in response and let the tricky headless scarecrow to our October Creative Challenge. On paint your portrait in a reprise of the display on the back wall is our Palette Imaginarium Selfie Station. Don’t miss it! Hannah West is a Jacksonville website designer and art advocate. She is the creator

and editor of the Southern Oregon Artists Resource (www.soartists.com), serves on the board of Art Presence Art Center, is a core founding member of

the Arts Alliance of Southern Oregon and curated the monthly art exhibits 11777 Hwy 238, Applegate OR at GoodBean cafe for seven years. See some of her art and web design work 541.846.6800 at www.hannahwestdesign.com, and her Art Events calendar on Page 4. www.redlilyvineyards.com Busy as a Bennett You’re invited to Pioneer Village for a... Jacksonville artists Steve and Sue Bennett will be very busy showing their art in early October. Over October 4 & 5, the couple will attend their First Friday, Featured Artist Show at Art & Soul gallery in Ashland. On Saturday morning they will be in Klamath Falls for a juried show at the Favell Museum. Later in the afternoon, they’ll drive to Bend for the Oregon Watercolor Show which will include Sue's painting. and Recently, the Bennetts each had Silent Auction paintings selected for the Pastel Society of Oregon in Roseburg. Both will also take part in the Art Presence spectacular October Exhibit in Jacksonville. Steve Friday, November 8, 2019 says, “Autumn is always a hugely busy time and very exciting to hang the work Dinner 4:30 - 6:00 pm that has taken months to get ready.” Silent Auction starts at 12:00 pm and ends 6:00 pm Indeed, it's been an amazing summer for the two. Steve was awarded Signature Membership in the Pastel Society of the Join us in a delicious chili dinner and silent auction West Coast and Sue has been working on benefitting Access, a non-profit organization new, contemporary, light-hearted Acrylic dedicated to helping low-income families and paintings which will make their debut at seniors become self-sustaining. Art & Soul. Rogue Valley Symphony Presents Access is a Community Action Agency of Jackson County. They have been serving the American Works and Violinist Elena Urioste needs of seniors, persons with disabilities, children and people of low income since 1976. Rogue Valley Symphony Music Director Majkut will give a pre-concert talk one Martin Majkut says a new program hour before each performance. will feature all American works and Elena Urioste has given acclaimed Enter to Win a will highlight violinist Elena Urioste performances as soloist with major Cooking Basket to make on Barber’s Violin Concerto and Chris orchestras throughout the United States your own chili! Rogerson’s Of Simple Grace. Other works with many international appearances as on the program are Charles Griffes’ The well. Elena previously performed with Pleasure Dome of Kubla Khan and George the RVS in January 2016. Elena believes RSVP to 541-899-6825 or Gershwin’s Porgy & Bess: Symphonic that we should all strive to spend less Picture. Concerts will be on Friday, time looking at screens, that Oxford [email protected] $ 00 by November 1, 2019 5 per dinner October 18 at 7:30pm in the SOU Music commas should be required, and that All proceeds go Recital Hall, 450 S Mountain Avenue, people should clap whenever they feel to ACCESS. Ashland; Saturday, October 19 at 7:30pm moved to do so during concerts. in the Craterian Theater at the Collier Ashland and Grants Pass tickets can be Center for the Performing Arts, 23 S. purchased online at rvsymphony.org or by Central Avenue, Medford; and Sunday, phone at 541-708-6400. Medford concert October 20 at 3:00pm in the Grants Pass tickets can also be purchased through Performing Arts Center, 313 NE Olive the Craterian Theater at craterian.org or 805 N. 5th St., Jacksonville, OR 97530 • www.PioneerVillageOregon.com T Street, Grants Pass. Conductor Martin 541-779-3000. 8 OCTOBER 2019 JACKSONVILLE REVIEW News from the Silent City on the Hill Meet the Pioneers is October 4 & 5 by Dirk J. Siedlecki, President, Friends of Jacksonville's Historic Cemetery I hope by the time you are reading this 1800-1900's. Our amazing cast of players October edition of the Jacksonville Review stand graveside in period dress and you have already costumes and share purchased your tickets the rich history of 180 E. California Street, Jacksonville for this year's show. If Jacksonville and those Debbie Tollefson Don Tollefson Principal Broker/Owner ( Across form the Jacksonville Inn ) Principal Broker/Owner not, visit our website who rest under the at friendsjvillecemetery. Madrones in the Silent 541-973-9184 541-973-9185 org and look City on the Hill. under Meet the This event is the “Jacksonville’s Hometown Realtor” Pioneers—Tickets and only major fundraiser Reservations or call for the Friends of Our Jacksonville Properties 541-826-9939, and we Jacksonville's Historic will do our very best Cemetery with to accommodate you. proceeds supporting COMMERCIAL OPPORTUNITIES This year's program our restoration will take place on and preservation IN JACKSONVILLE Friday, October 4 and The 2018 Suffragettes: Lea Worecester, projects, as well as the Saturday, October 5 Mercy Woodman and Constance Jesser. educational programs Jacksonville Jacksonville with tours departing Photo by Ken Gregg. that we offer. We at 4:00pm and then thank you for your every 15 minutes until the final tour continued support of our organization at 6:30pm. All tours depart from the D and our beautiful Pioneer Cemetery. Street parking lot. Needless to say, with a venue of this These Living History Tours have size, it takes a village of volunteers to been an annual Jacksonville event since prepare for and put on this two day 2006, and remain very popular and are event. My sincerest appreciation and a wonderful and unique way to learn gratitude to each and every one of you about the history of the community we for once again being there to make Meet CUTE BRICK BUILDING on California St. 640 sq. HISTORIC KUBLI HOME with HC zoning for many call home. Each year, we offer new and the Pioneers the success it is. ft. Lots of possibilities or current tenant may possibilities. Over 3000 sq ft could be retail, a different stories of pioneer families and Be sure to read Peggy Dover's article on want to continue. $395,000. restaurant ,offices, or a single family home. of historical events that took place in the Meet the Pioneers on page 5. $495,000 Hanley Farm’s Haunting October Events! Focus on Hanley Farm by Pam Sasseen, Hanley Farm and SOHS Volunteer Jacksonville Jacksonville Annual Scarecrow Festival—On Members, $5. October 5 & 6 at the Annual Scarecrow Pumpkin Fest—On October 26 from Festival from 11:00am-4:00pm, you 11:00am-3:00pm, the Central Point Parks can make a scarecrow and enter it in & Recreation Pumpkin Fest returns to the Scarecrow Contest or take it home Hanley Farm. In addition to pumpkin to protect your gardens and fields. Be decorating and a costume contest, there sure to take a hayride, paint a pumpkin, will be hayrides and Hanley House tours. bob for apples, and tour the historic Admission: $2; Children 3 and under, Hanley House, too. Admission is free free. All proceeds benefit the Southern BEAUTIFUL REMODELED 4 BED2.5 BATH IN DOWNTOWN HOME WITH VIEWS right outside of Jacksonville on Andesite. and Scarecrow kits will Oregon Historical Society. JACKSONVILLE’S PHEASANT MEADOWS. New Chef’s Kitchen, 3 bed/3bath home on1.35 acre has two levels with porches and bathrooms and Wine Closet. 2830 Square feet. Priced to sell views for miles. This has the potential to be a two family set up. be available with all Windows in Time: at $627,000. County living but very close to town. $459,000. MLS#2996618 you’ll need to make your Southern Oregon’s scarecrow for $15 ($10 for Unique Experience SOHS Members). During World War II— River Front | Gold Hill Applegate The Boogeyman's During WWII, Southern Bride–A Haunting Oregonians covered Adventure by the Light their windows at night of the Moon—On the to black-out their homes, evenings of October 12, scrap metal and paper 13 and 19, walk through the dark fields were collected for the war effort, and of Hanley Farm, but keep your guard look-outs along the coast were built. up! Strange things have been known Jeff LaLande discusses these and other to happen out in Hanley Field. Legend wartime experiences on October 2 at the has it that there’s a beautiful lady who Medford Library and on October 9 at the BEAUTIFUL ROGUE RIVER FRONT 9 plus irrigated acres with 3 39.94 ACRES IN THE HEART OF THE APPLEGATE at the end bedroom 3bath home and 6 stall barn. Vinyl fenced and cross of Thompson Creek Road is this 3 bedroom 3 bath secluded comes out in the night hours and roams Ashland Library, noon-1:00pm each day. fenced with over ½ mile of Private River Frontage. Gated com- hideaway with second home that needs a lot of TLC. Private the fields of Hanley. Who is she? Is she Talks are free, and open to the public. pound in Gold Hill. $1350,000. MLS #2999904 with lots of marketable timber. $480,000. the Boogeyman’s Bride? Hold your little First Tuesdays Pub Talks: Author ones tight as you venture into the night, & Journalist Phil Busse Presents keeping an eye out for the mysterious “Southern Oregon Beer: A Pioneering lady haunting the fields of Hanley Farm. History”—featuring brawling German The talented students of Crater High immigrants, irrepressible women and School Renaissance Academy will guide hometown pride. Join Phil to hear about NEW 3D XRAY you on your tour by lantern light. Gates the origins of brewing in the mid-19th TECHNOLOGY open at 6:00pm with performances from Century, October 1, 7:00pm, at the Four 7:00-9:00pm. Purchase tickets at www. Daughters Irish Pub, 126 W. Main. First sohs.org. Adults, $10; Children & SOHS Tuesdays Pub Talks are free!

Soroptimist Holiday Home Tour Now offering Clear Correct! The 2019 Soroptimist of Medford’s 28th Annual Holiday Home Tour is on Sunday, December 1, 2019, from 11:00am-4:00pm. This year’s tour features five loccal homes ClearCorrect is the simple, effective all decked out for the holidays. This is a great chance to get some decorating ideas and way to straighten your teeth, so you see some lovely area homes at the same time. Ticket are $20 and are available locally at Judy’s Florist, Country Quilts of Jacksonville, Travel Medford, Essentials Home Décor, can get a smile you’ll love. or at the door. All proceeds go back into our community to help women and girls. For more information contact Kathy McCullough at 541-941-1508. $99.00 New patient exam, Providence Festival of Trees standard prophy This year marks the 28th anniversary Murphy Co. Holiday Gift Shop, have of the Providence Festival of Trees at your picture taken with Santa, take your (cleaning), and xrays. the Medford Armory. The fun begins on Teddy Bear through the Providence Ask us about conscious sedation for your dental anxiety. We can help! Wednesday, December 4 at the Opening Medical Group Teddy Bear Hospital and Night AllCare Gala. Celebrations enjoy holiday entertainment from local Offer good with coupon only. Cannot be combined with any other offer. Offer excludes treatment for Periodontal Disease. Expires Oct. 31, 2019. continue Thursday, December 5 with the entertainment groups. Excluding insurance reimbursement. No cash value. Rogue Valley’s favorite holiday party Special discount days include: Rex F. Miller DMD PC with catering from over 20 food and • Friday, December 6—Senior Day, Rex F. Miller DMDComprehensive PC & CosmeticClip this Dentistry beverage vendors… and dancing! 65+ free ad! During the public events on Friday, • Saturday, December 7—Veterans and Comprehensive & Cosmetic Dentistry Open Mon. - Thurs. December 6 – Sunday, December 8, Military Members free Comprehensive & Cosmetic570 Blackstone Dentistry Alley • Jacksonville walk through a wonderland of beautiful • Sunday, December 8—Kids 10 and 570 Blackstone Alley • Jacksonville 541-899-1924 trees and holiday displays. Shop in the under free 570 Blackstone Alley • Jacksonville 541-899-1924541-899-1924JACKSONVILLE REVIEW OCTOBER 2019 9 Pioneer Profiles Thomas Fletcher Royal–“Minister and Educator” by Carolyn Kingsnorth

Reverend Thomas Fletcher Royal, “One day he walked into the leading known as “Fletcher” to his family and saloon of the place, where Charley “T.F.” to his friends, arrived with his Williams, Ad. Helms and other were family by wagon train in the Rogue engaged at a game of faro. Said he: ‘Boys, Valley on October 27, 1853. Gold had we must have some help in building been discovered on the banks of Rich our church, and I want you fellows to Gulch the previous year, and hundreds of give us a lift.’ ‘But,’ remarked Helms, fortune seekers and riff raff had poured the dealer, ‘you would not use money into the area, giving got in this way for birth to the boisterous such a purpose, town of Jacksonville would you?’ ‘Oh, yes,’ with its “din of Sunday replied Royal, ‘and trade, gambling, horse we would turn it to a racing, and all kinds better use.’ ‘The little of wickedness.” This is church across the way’ where Fletcher Royal is in part a result of chose to preach, and the better use of that he delivered his first money.” sermon in the Pacific Some of the local Northwest to a rough ladies pitched in as well, and tumble audience touring the saloons on Sunday, three days and mining camps, after his arrival. smiling prettily, and Fletcher came from asking for donations. a deeply religious The men were family. His father, surprisingly generous, William Royal, had and a large part of also been called to the gospel, joining the the building fund for the first Protestant Illinois Rock River Methodist Conference Church in southern Oregon came from the in 1831 as a “circuit rider” covering all of contributions of sporting men. Illinois north of Peoria, excluding only Construction of the Methodist Church Chicago. His grandfather, Thomas Royal, was started sometime in 1853 under had held religious services in his West pioneer builder David Linn. Later James Virginia home whenever an itinerant Donough and Charles Pyle were in preacher dropped in since there was no charge of the construction. The classic church in the area. revival style structure had timbers and Born in his mother’s Dublin, Ohio roof shakes hand-hewn by William hometown in 1821, a 25-year-old Fletcher Kahler, who hauled the lumber to the site had entered the ministry after teaching by ox team. According to one source, the school in Illinois for several years. church was dedicated on Christmas Day, Fletcher was associated with his father’s 1854, and according to another historian Rock Island Methodist Conference for the it was dedicated on New Year’s Day, next seven years before being transferred 1885. Either way, by the time construction to Oregon’s Methodist Conference. of the Jacksonville church was finished, However, when Fletcher reached Fletcher Royal had finally been given a Jacksonville, he was in a quandary. He definite assignment to this district by the had arrived in Oregon without a specific Oregon Methodist Conference. job, and he had a family to support. He Thomas Fletcher Royal was pastor had married Mary Ann Stanley in 1849, of the Jacksonville congregation for and their third child had been born during only a couple of years. But during that their overland trek. When he found out time, he established six Sunday schools that Jacksonville was without a minister, in different parts of the valley. He he decided to stay until the Methodist also set up a subscription school, the elders gave him an assignment. first school here, and served a term as Fletcher’s predecessor in the Rogue School Superintendent, during which Valley had been Rev. Joseph S. Smith time he organized Jackson County into who had started the Methodist Church’s school districts. missionary work in southern Oregon In 1856, Fletcher was appointed and northern California. Religious principal and instructor at the Umpqua services, such as they were, had been Academy in Roseburg, one of the held wherever a room could be found in state’s earliest schools and remained in venues that included a gambling house that position for the next 10 years. He under construction and the “Round then became principal of the Portland Tent,” a large, round, split-lumber Academy and Female Seminary for building with a dirt floor, used the rest four years, followed by a one-year of the week for the court trials and other stint as Principal of Yamhill County’s public gatherings. Sheridan Academy. He next secured an Upon seeing the need for a church appointment under President Grant’s in the growing town of Jacksonville, “Christian Policy” as teacher and clerk Smith had initiated efforts to build at the Siletz Indian Reservation followed one. According to Jacksonville native by a position as superintendent of Pinto Colvig, Smith “was an able man instruction at the Klamath Indian Mission intellectually but did not seem to in charge of the boarding school. understand the knack of dealing with When administrations changed, such a sportive community as the gold Fletcher returned to preaching, serving excitement had brought together at this successively as circuit preacher in Benton, point, so after a brief sojourn he became Polk, Yamhill, and Marion counties. discouraged and returned to Salem.” During his period, he succeeded in However, Smith did succeed in getting building five more Oregon churches the frame of a church building erected. in Canyonville, Ten Miles, Silverton, Fletcher took up the work. According to Salem Heights, and Dallas. After he Colvig, “Royal was a royal fellow with the formally retired in 1896, he was made a ‘boys’ and knew how to deal with them. “superannuate preacher.” Although he Clugage, the proprietor of the town site, held no regular pastorate, he continued his gave the present church lots, and Royal ministry, preaching at the state penitentiary had the framework which Smith had left and the state hospital for the insane. torn down and removed…. Rev. Royal Thomas Fletcher Royal returned then commenced a campaign for building once more to Jacksonville for the funds. He had a familiar way with the Methodist Church’s 50th anniversary ‘boys.’ Would saunter into a gambling on Sunday, October 5, 1902. While his hall, stand around awhile watching the morning sermon drew from Matthew Sunday morning games and then he 1:21, his evening service was filled with would say: ‘Boys, when you get through reminiscences. According to the Mail with the deal let's all go down and listen Tribune, Royal told how he bought his to a little preaching,’ and the boys would first Jacksonville house in trade for his generally turn out to hear him. Pioneer Profiles - Cont'd. on Pg. 26 10 OCTOBER 2019 JACKSONVILLE REVIEW Back to Britt 3174 W. Griffin Creek Road, Digging Jacksonville by Chelsea Rose Medford $799,000 Architecturally designed, contemporary home w/breathtaking panoramic views of the valley and surrounding mountains. This modern 3 bd, 2 ba home sits on a rare, gated 10+ acre lot with sweeping views & tons of privacy. Soaring ceilings, clean lines, sealed concrete floors throughout, an open concept floor plan plus expansive walls of windows & glass doors that allow lots of natural light. Fantastic gourmet kitchen featuring granite countertops, expansive island w/prep sink, gas range & hood fan, farm sink & eating bar. Beautiful master suite w/large sitting area or bonus room & private access to the side yard and patio. 1917 E. Main Street, Medford $1,100,000 Historic Frank C. Clark home seamlessly blends the grandeur of another era w/meticulous modernization to luxury contemporary living. Built in 1931 as Clark’s personal residence, this iconic home features a harmonious blend of formal and informal living areas w/a spacious and open floorplan. A picturesque Dutch door welcomes you to the light-filled, open interiors w/an elegant stairway, hardwood floors, extensive crown molding, base molding and picture rail throughout. Amazing 5 bdrms, 3 full ba, one half bath, a finished basement and 4,720 sq. ft. of living space. Gourmet kitchen w/ commercial grade luxury appliances. Majestic, While those of you who have followed to what we found, it is the where we park-like grounds, gunite pool, patio w/gazebo, our “Digging Jacksonville” column have found it on the landscape that helps us sport court and water feature. had a behind-the-scenes glimpse at some piece together the Britt story over time. 6501 Butte Falls Hwy, of the significant findings from our work This is just one part of a multi-pronged Eagle Point on Britt hill (see the Digging Jacksonville effort to preserve and promote the Britt $875,000 archives to catch-up), there is a lot we have Gardens Site, which also includes its Spectacular Custom-built home situated on not had the chance to tell you. Until now! nomination to the National Register of 106 beautifully treed acres and just minutes to local services. Open 3 bd, 3 ba floorplan w/ We first excavated at the site in 2010 Historic Places, and the creation of a digital luxury & attention to detail around every corner. in preparation for needed infrastructure artifact exhibit hosted in the Southern Main level master suite boasts a stone surround improvements and proposed Oregon University Hannon Library digital fireplace, handicap-friendly ensuite and a wall of windows to enjoy the surrounding mountain development in the Britt Gardens, but archives that will allow select artifacts from views. A chef’s kitchen with granite countertops, plans changed and the funding was the site (and their stories) to be shared with stone tile backsplash, ss appliances, island & eating bar. Hardwood floors w/radiant floor lost. As a result, dozens of artifact boxes a wide audience. heat, soaring ceilings, state of the art water have been waiting patiently in the The Britt Gardens site is an important system, generator & built-in elevator. Fantastic 2000+ sq. ft. shop/storage building, deer-fenced Southern Oregon University Laboratory heritage resource. It marks the location garden area & a finished 3-car garage. of Anthropology (SOULA) for a chance of one of the first photography studios in to tell their story. That day has come. the state. It is where Peter Britt planted Thanks to a roughly $15,000 “Preserving some of the first pear trees in the area, 30 Oregon” grant, SOULA will finally get a years before the first commercial orchards chance to analyze the tens of thousands were established in the valley. It is also of artifacts and compile the report where Peter Britt experimented with wine on the project. This report will help grape varietals and made some of the first the city of Jacksonville to manage the Southern Oregon wine. And it was home park without any unnecessary impact to the formal garden known as “Britt to the archaeology, and allow for the Park,” which was as a popular attraction information gained from the excavations for locals and visitors alike throughout the to be shared with the community, late 19th – early 20th century. Today the visitors, and scholars interested in the site continues to serve the community as a Britt story. place to be inspired and entertained, as it For example, we found a pipe Peter has for more than a century. We think that Britt smoked in his early days in town. is a story worth telling. This pipe is identical to ones found Chelsea Rose is an historical archaeologist at Rogue River War sites across the who specializes in the settlement and region, and may have been one Britt development of the American West. Chelsea Holidays at imported to the valley and sold during and the Southern Oregon University his muleskinning days. We found jet Laboratory of Anthropology (SOULA) mourning buttons that might have been conduct archaeology across Oregon and worn by Amalia Britt upon the untimely have done several projects in Jacksonville. death of their son, Arnold. We found You can reach Chelsea at dolls and tea sets belonging to Mollie [email protected] and follow Britt, dishes that served family meals, SOULA on Facebook/ and glass plates negatives that captured Southern Oregon images of the people and places where University Laboratory of Britt focused his famous lens. In addition Anthropology. “Quiet Time” Offered at Jacksonville Presbyterian Historic Church The Historic Church will be open Several family members were married on Saturdays from September 21 to in the church. Gordon and Charlotte December 21 as a “Quiet Place” for Niedermeyer Henspeter were celebrating personal prayer, reflection and rest. Built their 65th wedding anniversary. Some in 1881, the Historic Church provides a family members are shown in this photo beautiful and serene in front of the wood sanctuary from the and copper cross busy world. This that was a gift to past summer, many the church from visitors enjoyed Joyce Niedermeyer their Quiet Time Harlan. Joyce experience at the hammered the church. A couple copper inlay by from Seattle who herself into a design were in Jacksonville that matched celebrating their the stained glass Holiday Hours : wedding anniversary windows. were thrilled to This fall season, be able to visit the the church will be church where they Niedermeyer Family open to the public had been married at no charge on the 30 years ago. In June, the Niedermeyer following Saturdays: October 5 (11:00am- family included a visit to the church as 1:00pm), October 12 (11:00am-1:00pm), part of their reunion. The Neidermeyer October 19 (11:00am-3:00pm), and family farmed land around Jacksonville October 26 (11:00am-1:00pm). for more than 100 years. Family members Come and enjoy Quiet Time in one from Germany, Nebraska and the Pacific of Jacksonville’s most amazing historic  Northwest gathered for the reunion. buildings. JACKSONVILLE REVIEW OCTOBER 2019 11 529 Plans Now Cover More Than College On Money & More by Erich & Matt Patten, Cutler Investment Group This month, we are looking at a never clear—frequently not even by the popular savings vehicle for parents and time they are getting close to college age. grandparents: Section 529 plans. There So, perhaps a plan could be to determine are many 529 plans to choose from, as a level of financial support that you most states have an offering. However, wish to provide and then target your no matter which state’s plan you sign contributions and growth expectations up for, the funds can be used wherever to meet that goal. Keep in mind that if your beneficiary goes to college. In these you overcontribute and end up not using plans, you contribute after-tax funds, but the money for approved education- growth and withdrawals are tax free. related expenses, there are taxes and fees 529 Plans have long applied to gains that been known as “college are similar to making savings plans,” which an early retirement plan made sense because withdrawal. they had been designed 529 plans are fantastic to help families save savings tools which for college expenses give us the chance to and earn tax-free save for education and growth when used for provide long-term approved expenses. benefit to those we love. However, the 2017 The new rules under tax act has expanded the 2017 tax act have the scope to be even expanded the role that broader “educational savings plans” with these plans can play, but consult with Sourcing local? allowances to cover expenses related to your financial and tax advisors to help private schools as early as elementary determine a path for how you wish to Add Wealth Management and Retirement Planning to your list! school all the way through graduate utilize these plans to make the most of school-level college work. this savings opportunity. This expanded coverage can provide Cutler does not provide tax advice, and nothing herein Trusted advisors for three generations. significant benefit for those looking to should be construed as such. All opinions and data included Based here in Jacksonville, OR. pay for private primary and secondary in this commentary are as of September 10, 2019 and are schooling as well as for college on behalf subject to change without notice. The opinions and views of their children/grandchildren/etc. But, it expressed herein are of Cutler Investment Counsel, LLC and are also begs the question, “How much money not intended to be a forecast of future events, a guarantee of should we put into our beneficiary’s plan future results or investment advice. This article is provided for account?” The most appropriate answer informational purposes only and should not be considered a to this, as it is with so many financial recommendation or solicitation to purchase or sell securities. Individuals Retirement Plans Foundations decisions, is simply “it depends.” This information should not be used as the sole basis to make For instance, keep in mind that the any investment decision. 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12 OCTOBER 2019 JACKSONVILLE REVIEW A Few Minutes With the Mayor City Snapshot Representing ALL City Council 9/3/19—Administrator Jeff for the second floor of the Courthouse. by Paul Becker, Mayor of Jacksonville Alvis informed Council that the City had Noting that is was philosophical received two bids for the construction in nature and used at the time for A prominent citizen accept the Pledge, to whom is your of the New City Hall Interior Elevator Courthouse grant writing purposes, he visited my office recently allegiance when performing your duties? and other building alterations. The scope stated that any upper level use must to complain about a Again, I make no judgment here. I only of work will include installation of a enhance the long-term preservation of statement I made in ask the question. 2-stop commercial the building and its one of my columns. There is also the question of our elevator with a campus and promote The statement read, “It is nation’s flag, another troublesome icon. machine room in the the cultural interests the Constitution that holds I’ve never been inclined to burn a flag. It basement, alterations of the community. He our political parties in check. It stopped looks difficult. Maybe there is a course to the existing first mentioned that this the Republicans from destroying President offered somewhere on how to burn floor restrooms and means the second floor Truman. Today it is stopping the Democrats a flag, for people have been doing it construction of new could work in terms of from destroying President Trump.” successfully since the days of Vietnam. second floor restrooms Britt Festival offices (a This person thought it was too political I mention this because the other day I and a corridor to the proposal that is being since, as your Mayor, I represent all ran across a news item reporting on an new second floor discussed now) and citizens regardless of their ideology. elected congressional representative egress stairs. He noted others uses. Alvis said The truth is I represent even those who who announced to his constituents, that the previous a work/study session hold me in low regard, and I take that having become ashamed of our country’s estimate came in at $465,229 in 2018 and will be scheduled in October to look at responsibility history, he would that Ausland Group had bid the job at renderings for upstairs uses other than seriously, so I was no longer salute the $419,900 and Outlier Construction bid it offices and to provide an opportunity to caught by surprise flag. Again, that is at $430,990. The staff recommendation look at uses discussed six year ago. since there was no his right. But the of awarding the Ausland Group bid in In other news, Finance Director Stacey intent to advance question arises; the amount of $419,900 was approved by Bray introduced Linda Bennington, one political shouldn’t he resign council. Ausland Construction, he noted, who is now serving as the new persuasion over from Congress is the same firm that completed the Administrative Assistant, and Council another. For the where they fly the seismic retrofit of the building in 2016. approved changes to its procedures record, I am not a flag all the time? On a related topic, Administrator Alvis for filling vacant council posts with a member of either Then there is the read the original Mission Statement second reading of an ordinance. political party. question of what Partisan party flag would he like Chapter One is in the Books! group identification too often shuts out to substitute. Everyone has a flag. It’s still by Ian Foster, Jacksonville Planning Director any or all discourse while concentrating a proven form of identification. It’s like on the accumulation of more power. a political ID card, especially if you’re In September 2018, the City Council, into an intuitive guide with clear Neither do I feel my views can be a demonstrator similar to those we see in collaboration with the Committee for policies and objectives that continue neatly categorized to fit pre-determined in Portland. They have a flag they wave Citizen Involvement (CCI), initiated a to adhere to the overarching goal, “to labels such as conservative or liberal. which helps confirm who they are when Citizen Advisory Committee (CAC) to provide opportunity for the citizens These two terms have been so altered actively going about smashing windows review and update Chapter One of the of Jacksonville to be involved in the in meaning they have lost any reliable or harassing motorists. Even though they Jacksonville Comprehensive Plan, the ongoing city planning process.” They sense of identification. Today, each seems wear masks, we know them by their flag. Citizen Involvement Program. Civic also hosted 9 town hall events to solicit to look at the other as a Neanderthal in You may have overlooked it, but Engagement in the planning process feedback from the community. contrast to themselves, as if they had Jacksonville has no city flag. I don’t know is mandated by the Oregon Statewide The end result is a Civic Engagement discovered the true path to a life of why this is so but there are other forms of Planning Program and is an element program that will foster ongoing egalitarian principals. I will admit they identification. Take color as an example. that often falls short of the original positive relationships between the seem comfortable in their sublime view Last year drivers in Paris decided to intent. Jacksonville is fortunate to have community and the City. Having a robust of themselves. As for me, I’m a 20th launch a protest against higher gasoline a long history of robust community engagement program that reaches a century man, so of course I’m hopelessly prices while wearing yellow vests. A few engagement. The purpose for reviewing broad range of community members will out of tune in this modern era. years back, at earlier protests in Hong Jacksonville’s program was based on a create better and more durable results in I admit I’m confused. Example… lots Kong, the color of choice was also yellow. recognition that there was a need for a the Planning Process. of people identify as atheists. That’s fine, The streets were filled with people thoughtful, community-wide discussion On August 20, 2019, the City Council but if they run for public office and take holding up yellow umbrellas. about modifying the chapter to provide a adopted a new version of Chapter an oath to become whatever, to whom It appears that yellow is a good manageable program with clear direction One, which is now titled the Civic is their oath made? I make no judgment color for events such as these but is while affirming Jacksonville’s history of Engagement Element. They also adopted here; I only ask the question. it appropriate for a flag? Red is too community Involvement. The CAC felt an introduction to the Comprehensive Then there is the Pledge of Allegiance. combative or warlike. So is purple. that the value of a guiding document is Plan which provides context and purpose If one doesn’t want to say the Pledge People will tell you they see purple when based on its usefulness and ability to be to the plan in its entirety. You can view they have a right to remain silent. It’s they get angry. Blue belongs to Disney, understood. the approved documents on the city’s not dissimilar to taking communion and white means “I surrender.” Brown To that end, the CAC met 11 times website, or by visiting the Jacksonville at a church service. If you’re not a or black recall images of storm troopers. over several months reviewing every Planning Department. Christian you have no reason to receive Perhaps that’s why the Jacksonville line of the older version of Chapter If you are ever interested in serving on the sacrament. Still, the question arises pioneers didn’t create a flag. Perhaps One of the Comprehensive Plan with a committee, please contact the Planning for those in public office: if you cannot they couldn’t agree on choice of color. the intent of organizing the document Department.

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Trying a new sport can often be in pairs or singles, intimidating, what with the complex indoors or outdoors. rules, competitive athletes, and physical Games last 15 minutes, demands. But, all hope is not lost thanks so getting in a quick to pickleball, a trendy game that’s workout is easy. There gaining popularity across the nation. is even a ranking system of one to five Jacksonville is no exception! Those who to indicate skill level, making finding have recently visited Pheasant Meadow players who want a similar challenge an Park likely noticed the four pickleball option. Rose says, “What I love about it is courts painted perpendicular to the already that it is tremendous exercise. It starts my existing tennis courts. The city originally day off in the right way.” added two courts, but, due to demand, two Another great feature of the game is more were striped in September. the equipment. Unlike many athletic Local pickleball player Kris Rose endeavors, pickleball gear is relatively supported the effort behind these new affordable. To get started, just visit courts. While the city provided the paint, Pheasant Meadow Park and take athletes raised money for additional advantage of the city-owned gear, nets and supplies. The Southern Oregon ready for use by the public. Instructions Pickleball Association, the local group that for access are available on the storage offers information and activities regarding box. Rose recommends new players pickleball, painted the additional courts. stop by during a game to learn the So now that Jacksonville has four ropes, especially when it comes to pickleball courts, is it time to give this setting up the net. sport a try? Why not! Pickleball is a game One of the most enjoyable parts of WillowCreek will again be accepting that is relatively easy to access. In fact, it learning something is meeting like- was developed over 50 years ago by dads minded people. Rose explains that scarf donations through October. who were trying to entertain their bored there is a “real social aspect to it. I’ve kids! In the past decade, it became more made a lot of really great friends.” A Please bring your gently-used, popular, especially in retirement areas. group plays Monday through Saturday warm & cozy scarves, which will be given This goes to show that the game has no mornings at Pheasant Meadow Park age limit and can be fun for families, at 9:00am, weather permitting, and to Food & Friends for distribution to seniors, and everyone in between. “We they are welcoming to new players. love to have new players,” says Rose. Other courts and regular games exist deserving seniors in the area. It combines skills useful in tennis and all over the area. 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He squash makes an externally remarkable must also create his product in strict appearance in October and a more compliance with volumes of planning consumable manifestation in November. and building codes, many of which are Perhaps there aren’t many better object amended often. lessons of what resource management The Builder must satisfy not only the looks like than a pumpkin pie. Who ever desires of his consumer but a never- thought that you could take a big orange ending host of regulators that specify gourd, mostly filled with gooey, seedy a particular response to seemingly slime and turn it into the every possible occurrence perfect dinner companion available to the known for the seasonally tasty, but universe. If the Baker had unfortunate, turkey? to comply with the kind In the last few months, we wage workers can leave their jobs But it’s not without a fair of regulatory impacts a have seen an explosion of hemp for hemp field work that starts at amount of effort that this Builder does, there’s a good fields being planted along every $14 an hour and goes up to $20 miracle happens. The creator chance that pumpkin pie road you drive as hemp quickly hour, all paid above the table, of this customary cuisine would become as scarce as becomes the largest agricultural with taxes and Social Security. must first select the perfect brontosaurus burgers. Come crop, surpassing pears and As for the hemp growers, they can donor globe. You can’t make this Halloween, we’ll be vineyards, in Southern Oregon. yield $40,000 to $50,000 per acre, but a masterpiece with just any hearing the familiar “Trick Based upon statistics from the Oregon the upfront costs to get the field ready old plant; it must be fresh, of or Treat” from children Department of Agriculture, Jackson can run up to $20,000 an acre. the right size, heft, maturity, looking for sweets. Let’s County has 8,578 acres planted giving A rough calculation based on the 8,578 moisture content, color and, dare I say, hope our regulators and legislators the county the distinction of being the acres planted in hemp x $40,000 an acre personality for the task at hand. As for don’t keep offering us the same bargain. largest grower of hemp in Oregon. To adds up to a crop that can boost the the actual mechanics of preparing the Each legislative session has seen the provide some idea of the scale of hemp, Jackson County agricultural economy by pie filling, I will leave that research to promulgation of more regulatory impacts Jackson County has 2,850 acres of grapes more than $340 million this year. your old friend Mr. Google (as my wife even as consumers demand more and 3,800 acres of pears. My personal view comes from living would not tolerate the surrender of her affordable options. Oh, for the days when The question becomes, what will in rural Sonoma County and working secret, but ridiculously delicious, recipe). building was as easy as pie. be the effect of hemp on our valley? in the San Francisco Bay area prior to The crust is and must be a work of art Brad Bennington is the Executive Officer Is hemp a boom to our local economy moving here. The area I lived in was unto itself of the perfect combination of for Builders Association Southern Oregon because of the high demand, or a all farmland and once a year the dairy flour, baking powder, butter and skill. and a 50-year veteran of the construction determent, because it is a cousin of farmers would spray all their fields with The fantastically flaky crust will be filled industry. He also serves as a Jackson County cannabis and has a distinctive odor that a fertilizer consisting of cow manure with the perfectly prepared pumpkin Planning Commissioner, Board Member some find objectionable? and water. That caused quite a smell and baked to perfection. From a gourd of the American Planning Association Hemp is one of the fastest growing and attracted swarms of flies for about a growing gracefully in your garden to the of Oregon, NAHB National Director plants and can be used to make a month. You quickly got used to living in piece of pie placed pleasantly on your and is a past Jacksonville variety of commercial and industrial a rural area among farms and I realized palate with a dollop of whipped cream, City Councilor and products, including rope, textiles, fertilization was a necessary part of what an amazing transformation has current member of the clothing, shoes, food, paper, bioplastics, farming. Also, being from the SF Bay been accomplished. Jacksonville Budget insulations, biofuel and on and on. In area, which was home to thousands of You may be saying, “Well, that’s very Committee. See BASO ad Southern Oregon, it is being grown high-tech companies, I was surprised interesting, but what does any of that this page. mainly for CBD, or cannabidiol, which by the lack of good-paying jobs and the some studies suggest result in various lack of a successful economic base when health benefits as they react with I moved here. The greatest growth that the human body’s endocannabinoid I have seen in our local economy has system. I’m not sure what that means, come from tourism, the wine industry but I do know many of my friends and and the increasing number of escapees family tout CBD’s healing capabilities and retirees who move here and bring in helping depression, anxiety, pain, their money or jobs with them. It just and sleep disorders. feels really good to see our local economy Although I haven’t read a lot of growing from within, and the thought conclusive research yet, the FDA has of adding over $300 million in to the approved a drug using CBD called economy is a nice boost to all of us. “Epidiolex” for the treatment of seizures Time will tell if the demand for hemp associated with epilepsy. The FDA is in increases and if the climate in Southern the process of testing many drugs using Oregon, the local expertise and the CBDs, so how wide spread its use will be in facilities will sustain a strong industry for prescription medicines, will soon be known. the foreseeable future. But for now, let’s The short-term effect on our local enjoy the growth in our local economy economy is being felt. Across our valley, and remember, when you smell that pear growers, cattle ranchers, hay distinctive odor, you may actually be growers, farmers and those with pasture smelling the smell of success. land that may have sat fallow for years Graham Farran is a broker with Expert are now leasing their properties to hemp Properties, now located at 390 E. California growers for $1,000-$5,000 per acre for the Street in Jacksonville. Contact them at 541- season. It’s great to see our local farmers 899-2030 or www.expertprops.com. See ad making money again. Even minimum- on the back cover.

Police Blotter - Jacksonville Police Department A consolidated report based on type of calls & number of incidences August 13 - September 17, 2019

Abandoned Vehicle - 3 Civil - 5 Larceny/Theft - 3 Alarm - 9 Criminal Mischief - 4 Motor Vehicle Collision - 4 Animal - 11 Custody - Detox - 1 Noise - 7 Assault - 1 Disorderly Conduct - 4 Parking Complaint - 10 Assist - LE Agency - 9 Domestic - 2 Property - 9 Assist - Medical - 8 Extra Patrol - 16 Suspicious - 16 Assist - Other - 221 Foot Patrol - 4 Traffic Roads - 2 Assist - Public - 14 Fraud - 2 Trespass - 1 Burglary - 1 Fugitive/Warrant - 4 UEMV - 2 City Ordinance - 11 House Check - 17 Welfare Check - 3

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JACKSONVILLE REVIEW OCTOBER 2019 17 The Continuing Adventures of Bob Part 3 – Annual Election Period by Steve Yungen & Jeff Blum, Jones & Associates It had been a glorious summer “What a timely reminder from my for Bob. He had been traveling trusted advisor,” thought Bob, as in his motorhome, staying he let his wonton soup cool before in various RV Parks along he added a cracker. He hit “reply” the beach in Florida for the on the e-mail and sent off a quick, past several months. Although Thanks for keeping in touch. I sure he had no real commitments to appreciate the reminder about the Annual anyone, or any reason to be anywhere Election Period and how your firm helps me else, Bob felt a desire to move on and with my investments and my insurance. explore other parts of the country. So, Your friend, Bob, then he hit “send.” early on Tuesday morning, with no firm Bob finished his lunch, leaving much destination in mind, Bob packed up his of the fried rice uneaten, then read the belongings, put the motorhome in drive message in his fortune cookie—“Your and pulled onto Interstate 95, heading financial situation will soon be north toward Georgia. improving. Call Steve or Jeff at Jones The drive along the Florida coastline and Associates, 541-773-9567.” Bob was beautiful and Bob marveled at the smiled, and as he paid for his meal, dense forests of longleaf pine along the he bought $5 worth of lottery tickets. way. As Bob crossed into Georgia, and It was nice to know someone was between all the religious programming, watching out for him. Bob somehow twirled the radio dial Have a plan, review your plan to “Statesboro Blues,”by the Allman occasionally, but take time to enjoy Brothers, which added a good local flavor your life, too. The elements of Social to his drive. It was almost noon, so Bob Security, Medicare and Retirement was looking for a place to stop for lunch. It Income Planning all should work had been quite a while since Bob had eaten together to build a successful Chinese food, so he eased the motorhome retirement. Our goal is to help our into the parking lot at Happy Panda China clients understand and coordinate a Wok and parked across two spots. comprehensive plan. We invite you to The smell of Chinese 5-spice, star contact Steve or Jeff for a no-obligation anise and peanut oil hit Bob’s nostrils review of your Medicare / Retirement / as he entered the restaurant, and he was Investment / Life Insurance Plans. instantly greeted by the hostess, who Fee-based financial planning and investment advisory led him to a table and gave him a menu services are offered by Jones & Associates Premier Financial of the lunch specials. Everything on the Solutions, a Registered Investment Advisor in the State menu looked much the same, so Bob of Oregon. Insurance products and services are offered ordered the combo #3 with hot tea. through Jones & Associates Premier Insurance Solutions. The While Bob waited for his food, he entered aforementioned companies are affiliated and do not offer the wi-fi code “SteveorJeff,” which was tax-planning services or legal advice, but they do have strategic written on a small sign by the cash register, alliances to provide these services. They are not affiliated and began checking his e-mail on his phone. with or endorsed by the Social Security Administration or any There was a message from his insurance government agency. advisor at Jones and Associates in Medford, Steve Yungen and Jeff Blum (both ‘Baby Oregon —Dear Bob, This is a reminder that Boomers’), at Jones and Associates Premier the Annual Election Period to add or change Financial Solutions in Medford have the a Medicare Advantage Plan or stand-alone tools and the expertise to help you make the Prescription Drug Plan is Oct. 15 thru Dec. 7. important decisions to maximize your Social Mike O’Grady We should schedule a review. – S & J Security income. See ad this page. 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Maybe a tree in your own yard or somewhere in our beautiful town you’ve found a tree that you keep coming back to because of the amazing fall beauty. 420 W Oak St, Jacksonville 410 W Oak St, Jacksonville This month, we’ll enjoy a colorful show $589,500 | 3 BD | 3 BA | 2098 SF | .28 Acre $320,000 | .37 Acre that lasts several weeks, thanks to our Beautiful home in a unique location just a half-block from the Britt Festival in Rare location and spectacular lot to build your dream home in historic Jackson- historic Jacksonville. It has views out every window, a grand entry, polished ville. This corner lot has a view of the stage of Britt Festival and is just a half-block large number and variety of deciduous oak floors, oak cabinets, granite kitchen counters, vinyl windows, separate air walk from the entry for those that love this unique event. It also is less than a conditioning up/downstairs, newer energy efficient Goodman gas furnace, a gas block from the Jacksonville Woodland Trails at the end of Oak Street. This street trees and shrubs throughout town. fireplace and central vac. 8’ garage door & large extended shop w/large side has low traffic, a feeling of privacy and no other available building sites. Public You also have an opportunity to create dry-storage room. RV parking pad w/dump station & power, plus large parking utilities are already brought to the lot, including city water, sewer and electricity area. Oak Street is quiet & ends at the Jacksonville Woodland Trails. Enjoy Britt plus access to natural gas and cable. Note: Home at 420 W. Oak is also listed in fall beauty in your own landscape by year-long. The roots do the gathering of on the back decks & patio. Enjoy a nice beverage in the covered hot tub while MLS and owner will consider a combined purchase price. planting specific trees and shrubs that the nutrients for the plant and the bulk of listening to the Britt music and the nature that surrounds you. Note: Lot at 410 W. Oak is also listed in MLS & owner will consider a combined purchase price. have dramatic fall color during the the water intake for the plant. autumn season. If a tree is planted in fall as opposed to Here are a few fall color tree spring, it will be less stressed in its growing suggestions: season because of the head start the root • For bright yellows: Birch, Aspen, and system has during the winter months. Ginkgo. We have a significant dry season in • For bright reds to oranges: Red the Rogue Valley with several months Maple (Autumn Blaze, Red sunset, where we may not have any significant October glory) Japanese maple, precipitation. One advantage of Sourwood, Red Oak, Sugar Maple. planting in the fall is the rainy season is A rewarding strategy to plan in your generally just around the corner. Once landscape is to plant specific trees and the rain begins, the need to water new shrubs that will give you early, middle and trees, shrubs and perennials goes away late fall color. In this way you’ll be able as long as we’re getting substantial to enjoy different colors that last several amounts of precipitation. weeks rather than one big show that may It’s an investment to buy planting only last a few days. Fall and spring are material so it’s good insurance to give good times to plant, but fall has added your investment the best possible scenario advantages that spring just can’t match. for success by planting in the fall. For a new tree, shrub or perennial fall, I hope you take in the beautiful colors is the best time to plant because it gives of fall and add a few plants the roots a strong push before the coming of your own to enjoy. spring. When a plant goes dormant Adam Haynes is a during the winter, energy transfers to the resident of Jacksonville roots. The better and more extensive the and the owner of Artisan root system, the healthier the plant will Landscapes. Contact him be during the growing season and all at 541-292-3285. 18 OCTOBER 2019 JACKSONVILLE REVIEW On Real Estate & More PRINCIPAL Private Loans BROKER BROKER DAVID CASE SANDY J. BROWN by Sandy J. Brown, Windermere Van Vleet Jacksonville LAND USE PLANNER

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You get Once your private lender has agreed the cash you need; the person loaning the to loan you money to finance your money earns interest at a rate equal to or home purchase, you'll want to handle $745,000 800 Hwy 238, Jacksonville even higher than they could have gotten the transaction almost as a bank would. 5 BR | 3 BA | 3505 SF | 22.65 ACRES from their investments. This includes drafting and signing a • Less than a mile from Jacksonville Commonly called a “private home written promissory note and supporting • Home remodeled in 2019 • Main floor living w/ 2nd story bonus room loan,” it is not very different than a loan mortgage documents. You would • Beautiful mountain views you'd get from a conventional lender. typically provide a written repayment • Oversized attached garage w/ large detached shop You would normally sign a contract schedule as well. • Usable WR zoned acreage • Jacksonville Elementary School District and establish a schedule of monthly Promissory note—This is a legally • MLS #3005338 repayments with interest. Your private binding document signed by you, the lender will hold a lien on your property borrower, saying that you promise to and have the legal right to demand full repay the loan under agreed-upon terms. Lovely Brookview End payment on the outstanding balance if These terms, including the interest you fall behind in making payments. rate, payment dates, and frequency of Unit Town Home! (Note: Unlike in the past, you'll probably payment, should be included in the need to find a private lender to fund you note. The note should also describe any $349,000 the entire amount of the loan -- trying to penalties that the lender can assess if you 106 McCully Lane, Jacksonville 2 BR | 2.5 BA | 1338 SF | .04 ACRES combine a private loan with a traditional fall behind in repaying the loan. • Just blocks from downtown Jacksonville bank loan may lead to the bank refusing Deed of Trust—This is a legal • Open floor plan with granite counters and to lend if you seem to be taking on more document that secures the promissory stainless appliances • 2 Master Suites debt than you can handle.) note. It says if you don't pay back the • Balcony off each bedroom Your private lender can even foreclose loan, plus all fees and interest, then • Borders Daisy Creek if you default on the loan. Although your private lender can foreclose on • One car attached garage extremely unlikely, it's important to your property and use the proceeds to give them this right, so that if you get pay off the loan. The deed of trust lists into financial trouble and another lender the currently- recognized owner and Horse Property w/ forecloses on you, your private lender legal property description and describes will have some recourse. the borrower's responsibility to: pay Applegate River Frontage By turning to a friend or family principal, interest, taxes, and insurance member, you might gain the following: in a timely manner; maintain hazard $699,900 • Borrowing from someone you know insurance on the property; and adequately 5100 Upper Applegate Rd, Jacksonville can mean a lower-interest loan. maintain the property. If you fail to 4 BR | 3.5 BA | 3109 SF | 6.82 ACRES • Private location 15 minutes to Jacksonville That's because you and your private comply with these requirements, your • Applegate River frontage lender will set the rate (subject to the private lender can demand immediate, • Grandfathered irrigation rights • 3 stall engineered metal barn w/ hay storage & IRS interest minimum). full payment of the loan balance. tack room • Your loan repayment terms can be Repayment schedule—A repayment • Approx. 5 acres fenced/cross fenced pasture • Main floor master suite w/ walk-in closet & bath negotiated between you and your schedule is important to document w/ jetted tub • Oversized 3 car garage private lender. That flexibility can repayment for your family or friend lender. • Backs to BLM land w/ direct trail access allow you to arrange a loan with Some private home loans may fall an unusual repayment schedule at under the federal Dodd-Frank Act, PRICE REDUCED the outset—such as interest-only which is implemented by the Consumer Quiet Location Close payments for the first year—or to Financial Protection Bureau and governs to Jacksonville temporarily pause payments due to mortgage lenders. It's important to get unforeseen circumstances. professional or legal help with this, and $489,900 • If done correctly, private loans can your real estate broker can work with the 1231 Upper Applegate Rd., Jacksonville allow you to benefit from the federal title company or an attorney to help you 4 BR | 3.0 BA | 2863 SF | 10.11 ACRES tax deduction for home loan interest complete these items. • End of road privacy close to Jacksonville • Backs to BLM paid. Sandy J. Brown lives • Above the fog w/ tranquil private setting Your private lender may also benefit in in Jacksonville and is a • Open concept living, dining and kitchen area • Large rear deck off living area a number of ways: real estate broker and • Potential 2 family setup w/FR, multipurpose room, • Even without paying as much land use planner with 2 bedrms, & bath downstairs w/ separate entrance • Main level living & attached 2 car garage interest as you would pay to a Windermere Van Vleet • Private yard w/ ornamental pond bank, you can probably offer higher Jacksonville. She can be interest than the person could get on reached at sandyjbrown@ current investments. gmail.com or 831-588-8204. See ad this page. It’s Time to Think about Burning The Weed Wrangler by Bob Budesa Over the years, I’ve written so many a propane torch, attach it to your small articles regarding puncturevine (p’vine) propane canister, and burn the site. It’s control where not a fast operation. spraying, and/or It takes time to hand-pulling are completely burn the employed, but not so seeds. You should much involving one see the burning of the most effective seeds glow and/ tools—burning. or catch fire, and OK, here are the voila, you’ve toasted steps involved. them. Even if the First, identify the germ within the perimeter that the seed hasn’t been adult plants occupy killed, you’ll have using spray chalk, more than likely stakes, photos, or burned the spines some other marking off, eliminating technique. Once the seeds’ ability that’s done, pull to stick in car/bike and bag all the adult tires, shoes, dogs plants growing on feet, etc., and be site, being careful to transported. Don’t keep as many seeds miss out attached as possible. Pay attention to on this fantastic and easy- not walk, park, or drive in that area! The to-use tool. seeds will stick in your shoes/tires, and Questions – please give you’ll simply be spreading the seed. me a call at 326-2549, or Later, when you’re within the proper write me at bob_budesa@ and safe window to burn, get yourself yahoo.com. JACKSONVILLE REVIEW OCTOBER 2019 19 Speaking of Antiquing Over 1200 Quilts! Oh! Those Bowls Fabrics, Tapestries, Gifts & more! by Margaret Barnes, Pickety Place Antiques & Collectibles Yellowware is one of those items that clue. The vivid glaze and stripe detail are branches off from the original and creates another. It’s interesting how many stripe other categories to collect. and color arrangements bowls can have! Yellowware did not limit its purposes Examples abound. Sides slightly flared, to the functioning of a kitchen with bowls, a rolled rim, two thin chocolate brown pitchers, cups and stripes with a thicker tankards, cannisters, brown stripe between, saltshakers and salt on the bowl’s upper boxes, storage jars, section. Flared bowl, molds, teapots and thick straight rim with coffee pots, tableware two thin white stripes and bakeware. There with a cobalt blue stripe were candlestick holders, between, placed on the match safes, whiskey rim and on the bowl’s jugs, piggy banks, in a upper section. Thick, Full line of Jim Shore & Heartwood wide variety of figures, unadorned slightly flared Creek Statues flower vases, chamber bowl with an almost 2” pots, shaving mugs, bed rim for ease of lifting is a warmers and even toys. heavy dough bowl. Scotland began Other bowls of similar importing yellowware shape with blue and pottery into the US in pink stripes, white and Quilt Finishing • Custom Designs the late 1700’s. Great pink, white and blue, Britain also imported some of the bottom Special Requests • Hand or Machine Quilting much fine china as well sections scraped to 214 E. California Street • 541-899-1972 as stoneware. The Ohio soil proved best create a beautiful design of swirls or (next to Las Palmas) for import competition. The yellow earth striping in the clay. Mix up the colors, clay of Ohio is famous and responsible mix up the stripe size, mix up the rim for most of the pottery made in America. bands or rolls, and you have many Many companies partook in varieties of yellowware. yellowware production including, The Brandtford pottery in Canada used Roseville, Brush-McCoy, Weller, Harker, an interesting feature called seaweed mocha Taylor & Co. The Brighton Pottery Co., to decorate the rims and bands of bowls, and countless others whose stamps and creating a stunning moss-like design. marks are increasingly hard to read as The thickness and sturdiness of the time goes on. yellowware clay is indicative to its Yellowware production in America longstanding. You could have a bowl that spanned a good century between 1828 is cracked or chipped, and it could still and 1930. Producers were also in Illinois, withstand daily use. Sometimes the chips Pennsylvania, and New Jersey. and cracks add to its charm, so don’t pass Canadian companies were also up a bowl just for those “flaws.” involved such as Brandtford Pottery, Choose your color scheme, your Cap Rouge Pottery, and Tara Pottery. interesting item, find your pitcher or The leader being Brandtford, had tankard, nappie or dough bowl, and a distinctive purple-brown glaze let your yellowware collection begin or developed in England called expand right here at Pickety Rockingham. This created a sub-line Place in Jacksonville. called brown-glazed yellowware. Margaret Barnes is an A bowl is a bowl, unless you are a owner of Pickety Place yellowware bowl. The distinctive yellow Antiques & Collectibles. Find the color and thick rim band are your first See ad next page. Perfect Gift Cookware, Gadgets and Spooky Stories Gifts You Can’t Find by Ashleigh Scheuneman Anywhere Else. If you have been a loyal reader of my Sometimes, it seems like Jacksonville OPEN DAILY columns, you will know that October is itself is a ghost story right out of a gothic one of my favorite months of the year. tale. A house with a headstone in its Everything about October is steeped basement, the old home of a clown, and in an exciting, spooky quality you can a catalog mansion would all make for enjoy from the comfort of your sweater, a spectacularly-creepy story of our old, WE SHARPEN KNIVES! pumpkin spice latte, and cozy reading western town. However, by far the scariest chair as the thunder rolls over your occurrence I will witness this October is roof. In October, I make it my goal to the ending of first quarter. Signaling only NATIVE exclusively read stories that contain three quarters to go, you might think ARTS monsters, a “dark and stormy night,” this would be a much looked-forward-to a mystery, or the general ambiance of event. But no matter who you are, the final Halloween. This year, I am going to try to report card of grades is never anticipated Regional Local Charities Oregon Made Artists Handmade read the classic, stereotypical-Halloween with eagerness. & Recycled books titled, “Frankenstein” by Mary So, this October, read a good Social Shelley and “Dracula” by Bram Stoker. Halloween book, whatever that may Bene t If however, one is in need of a spooky be to you, while sipping your favorite story to keep you watching out of the beverage; and don’t forget to enjoy the Giﬅs Sustainable Local With corner of your eye, I would recommend spookiness of the season, even if you Artists any of Shirley Jackson’s works. Some of have a report card on the way. Meaning my favorites are “The Lottery” and “The Ashleigh Lu Scheuneman Featuring Rare Diamonds Haunting of Hill House.” Unfortunately, lives in the Jacksonville hills my imagination ran away with me while with her mother, father, Estate and Vintage in the process of reading “The Haunting and two sisters. She is Jewelry of Hill House” and consequently, I never 18-years-old and is in high finished the book. I encourage everyone school, and would like to be Natural who is old enough to give it a go, though. a published author. USA Made Ingedients Jacksonville/Applegate Writers

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JACKSONVILLE REVIEW OCTOBER 2019 21 News from Jacksonville Elementary School Jog-a-Thon and Harvest Carnival Time

On your mark, perseverance” and get set, go! Students what better show to at Jacksonville exemplify this than the Elementary will musical “Annie!” as in be running the “the sun will come out track on October 4 tomorrow!” during our school- On September 11, wide Jog-a-thon. First Responders from This event is our Jacksonville were yearly fundraising invited on campus opportunity with to have lunch with funds raised used to help enrich the students. We are grateful to all first educational experiences for students at responders for the service and protection JVE. If you are interested in donating they provide. toward the Jog-a-thon, please contact the Please mark your calendar for the PTO at [email protected]. Jacksonville Elementary Harvest This month, Principal Kondziela Carnival, featuring old-fashioned fun revealed this year’s school theme and on October 18, from 4:00-7:00pm. the Britt Play. The focus is on “grit and We hope to see you there! Clear Your Mind with Yoga by Lori Grable Have you ever tried to sit down and Mountain Pose—Stand tall with your relax with a good book only to find your feet parallel, arms at your sides and mind is so distracted that you have to crown of your head reaching toward read the same paragraph over again the ceiling. Close your eyes, relax your and again? Or maybe you have been shoulders and take a few deep breaths. in conversation with a friend only to Imagine that you can see your breath realize your attention has drifted and you traveling through your body. missed half of what she said. In these Standing Forward Fold—With your modern, busy times there are so many feet hips width, hinge forward at your things to distract us. hips and reach your fingertips toward the In the Yoga Sutras, Patanjali defines floor. Feel free to bend your knees and/ yoga as “the cessation of the fluctuations or place your hands on blocks or a low of the mind stuff.” Some yogis refer to table. Relax your neck and let your head this as the taming of the monkey mind. hang. Hold for several breaths. There are five different types of mind Cat/Cow—Begin on your hands and fluctuations defined as: knees with your hands beneath your 1. Correct knowledge shoulders and your knees beneath your 2. Incorrect knowledge hips. As you inhale, drop your belly 3. Imagination towards the floor and lift your chest to arch For the Young & Young at Heart 4. Sleep your back into cow pose. As you exhale, 5. Memory pull your belly in and round your back like Top Quality • Remarkable Selection • Outstanding Service Clearly they’re not all bad and some a cat stretching. Repeat this several times. of them are necessary for us to live Now sit comfortably with your eyes 180 W. California Street, Jacksonville, OR 97530 productive lives. However, it is when our closed and your palms on your thighs. (541) 899-7421 “mind stuff” really begins to whirl that it Breathe in and out through your nose [email protected] takes us away from the present moment and once again, watch your breath. See if and keeps us from connecting with our your mind has become any quieter. true self. Not to mention, an overly-busy Know that your mind may continue to mind can cause us stress, irritability and drift throughout this practice. Try to just anxiety. notice your thoughts without clinging Here is where the physical (asana) to them or judging them and then watch Like us on practice of yoga comes in. Yoga asana them pass. The more you practice, the Facebook! was designed with the aim of preparing easier it will become to quiet your mind. us for meditation. Think of the mind as Lori Grable has been teaching Yoga since a toddler. If you ask him to be still and 2006. She teaches private lessons and has quiet for five minutes, your chances of regular offerings at Bigham him managing to do that are slim. If you Knoll, Jacksonville give him a quiet activity to focus on for Community Center and five minutes, you have a much better DANCIN Vineyards. Our Patio is open! chance of getting five minutes of peace! Please visit www. Here is a simple sequence to help tame lorigrableyoga.com to your monkey mind. view her schedule.

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22 OCTOBER 2019 JACKSONVILLE REVIEW An Unlikely Journey – from Jacksonville to Off-Broadway by Marlene Wagener How could I possibly imagine that “Stuck” to the Breckenridge Film Festival when I sat down to my computer in 1991 and stopped into the barbershop of my to express my fears and dreams about daughter’s birthmother, who shared adopting a child, that one day those that she had written a book about open words would adoption. be acted out at Thomas, the Alice Griffin an adopted Jewel Theater on child himself, 42nd Street in promised New York City? to read the On July 31, book on his I sat with the way back to birthmother of Manhattan. my adopted A few weeks daughter as we later, we got a watched “My call. He loved Real Mother” it. He wanted by playwright to make a Riley Thomas, musical about an adaptation of our book, OPEN-An it. How do you write music about the Adoption Story in Three Voices. It was rocky evolution of two very flawed surreal to make the trek to New York women and their struggles which were almost thirty years after writing those first informed by their personal histories? The Jacksonville Company words in a journal, never thinking anyone birthmother, Tina Zimmerman, felt it was would ever read them… much less see fate. My daughter feared it was a scam. I Where style meets elegance. them played out on stage for all to see. felt that, perhaps, as with all the unlikely West alifornia Street acksonville The book began as a journal and a coincidences in our story, anything was collection of correspondence between my possible, however unlikely. www.acksonvillecompany.com daughter’s birthmother and me, as we Sure enough, Thomas did write began to navigate what was emerging in a musical, a poignant look into the our country: OPEN adoption. Up to that lives of the two women who had to A Therapy Team You Trust point, closed adoptions were the order overcome the demons of their past of the day and often, young women gave to learn the power of love. After its With our 19 year track record serving Jacksonville their child up for adoption without ever workshop debut at Carthage College, knowing what became of the child she Wisconsin, in January 2019, it was Massage Therapy could not raise. Family secrets flourished selected to be showcased at the 2019 Acupuncture and, in the aftermath, life-long searches New York Musical Festival! The three Herbal/Nutritional Counseling began for the “real” mother. I did not main characters made their way to New Spa Treatments want that for my child. York and sat watching our lives play After a rocky start to our relationship, out to the tears of the audience and Esthetics the birthmother and I decided that we standing ovations at every showing. In Aromatherapy should compile our letters and give them fact, the actress that played me, Elena Sauna to our daughter when she grew up. Shaddow, won best actress for the entire When we finished the first draft in 1999, festival. Katie La Mark, who played Tina we stared down at a sugar-coated version Zimmerman, came in 2nd place. The of what it was really like. We then made actors told me that they felt so touched a life-changing decision—to rewrite the by the story. One actor told me, “The story, adding our true feelings behind cast felt that they had to strip naked and the sanguine story we had planned to go out on stage and rip their souls out.” share with our mutual child. In fact, The book sales have skyrocketed. what began as a love story between me Thomas is now seeking producers to and my then-husband morphed into the take the play to Broadway! I would say real love story between the birthmother that is almost impossible, but when you and me, as we attempted to overcome go from Jacksonville to off-Broadway our fears and give the best of ourselves in two years, you start to believe that to our daughter. anything is possible. We published “OPEN” in 2015 Marlene Wagener, aka Alaina O’Connell, and sold about 580 copies with great lives in Jacksonville and teaches Writing Call or schedule online: reviews. It was raw. It rang true. We felt a Legacy, through It Just Takes 1, a local exposed. Then something very unlikely nonprofit. Her book, "OPEN- An Adoption 541.899.7893 www.JacksonvilleSpa.com happened. Riley Thomas, a talented Story in Three Voices," can be purchased A CO-OP COTTAGE RETREAT young playwright, was taking his movie through Amazon or at Barnes & Noble. 235 West D Street, Jacksonville FULL-SERVICE THERAPY SPA

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I have the It is truly remarkable to me the number of people privilege of hearing how people really are: their broken I know who are in pain. I’m not just talking about relationships, their diagnoses, their losses and traumas. I my counseling practice, where I expect to hear about hear about their deep grief and their fears and struggles, difficulties and struggles; I’m talking about friends and and I marvel at how they look so…normal. colleagues who are physically But this understanding isn’t just and emotionally struggling. professional: it’s also deeply personal. And the thing is, these people My husband has chronic, serious, look fine. They drive nice cars, invisible physical issues. He is in grab coffee at the café and smile. constant pain but you would never They take vacations and run know it to meet him on the street. He businesses and post pictures on looks just fine. If you ask him how he Facebook. To look at them you’d is, he’ll say, “I’m okay.” (We all know think they’re living the dream. that most people who ask you how And you’d be wrong. you are aren’t actually interested in A famous lyric from Gilbert how you are. He says, “Okay,” because and Sullivan says, “Things are seldom what they that’s what you say. I had a checker at TJ’s ask me how I seem.” I’m going to bump that up a notch and say that was and before I could even open my mouth to respond things are never what they seem. There’s always more she chirped, “That’s good!”) Sometimes he wishes to the story. his condition were more obvious. Without outward People don’t wear their troubles on their sleeves. Most evidence, it’s easy to feel alone in your suffering. of the time you don’t know, when you run into someone The battle-weary are everywhere. You can just never Grandmas2Go Joy Marshall, ED and Linda Otto, Founder/CEO meet twins, Ethan and Henry. at the store, that their child is seriously depressed, or know what that person across the counter is going their marriage is a sham, or they are on the verge of through—or the guy in the Maserati in front of you, for Mentor a mom... and a dad, too! bankruptcy. You don’t know that they were up all night that matter; they don’t wear medals and their wounds Nurture a newborn! Teach a toddler! with anxiety, or that they struggle with invisible illness likely don’t show. But one thing is certain: your kind Support a struggling family! or that they are three payments behind on the mortgage. word or thoughtful action might just help someone You don’t know, because it doesn’t show. survive the siege. Enjoy being a Grandmas2Go Family Coach! 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24 OCTOBER 2019 JACKSONVILLE REVIEW A Real Life Success Story by Linda Otto, Grandmas2Go-Family Coaches, Founder/CEO Our Grandmas2Go volunteers love the them one day after work and spoke to Linda families we serve and we often become Otto to set up an assessment. very attached to our “new extended From the moment we met Linda and Joy families.” Parents are appreciative of Marshall face to face, we knew that we had the compassion and care they get from made one of the best decisions we could their “Gr’mas” and often express their make as new parents. G2G assigned us two gratitude. First- volunteers, time parents Gr’ma Wendy Stephanie and and Gr’ma Peter K. are Laurie, with Ashland residents Wendy being who sent us a our main beautiful, heartfelt Grandma2Go. letter on the one- The support year anniversary has been of the birth of their nothing short sons. Following of spectacular. are excerpts: From cleaning 130 South 3rd Street On August 27, bottles and corner of 3rd and Main 2018, the life and helping to 541 702-2555 world that we knew Twins Henry and Ethan now one-year-old. cook meals, to ART/HOME/GARDEN/GIFTS was completely introducing us to changed forever as we welcomed not one, baby massage, our G2G volunteers assumed but TWO baby boys into our family. They the role of surrogate grandparent for us when were six weeks premature, which meant we we were the most alone and in such dire need had to spend three weeks in the NICU at for help. Asante RRMC. The volunteers and staff at Grandmas2Go Our time in the NICU was filled with care so very deeply about the families they sleepless nights of feedings, diaper changes, support. It’s as natural, as wonderful, and as and trials by fire. It was no secret to us that priceless as anything I’ve ever experienced we had an epic challenge ahead of us: how do from our Rogue Valley community. It’s the Come see our rofessional team we care for and love two beautiful little beings closest thing to family we have, and we are for te treatment of and help them thrive with both of us working, grateful beyond words to have Grandmas2Go and no family within hundreds of miles? in our lives. • uto nuries We knew there was no other choice but for From Dad Peter, Mom Stephanie, and sons • orts nuries Stephanie to stay at home with the boys while Henry & Ethan • Headace igraine I worked. While we were pacing through For more information on how you • ciatica the NICU, we came across a pamphlet for can be part of the Grandmas2Go • tress elief Grandmas2Go-Family Coaches, a local team or support this local non-profit, program focused on assisting new families visit Grandmas2Go.org, email Hello@ as they navigate the major life changes from grandmas2go.org, and see our Facebook CALL 541 -2760 childbirth and early child rearing. I called page. See ad page 24. r. ason illiams .C. Become a Master Recycler in 2019! aura tille • ose odi udisesi C • evon Huttema Jackson County Recycling Partnership schools, and support countywide waste 50 lacstone lle acsonville • acsonvilleCiroracticClinic.net is now seeking residents of Jackson prevention projects over the course of County to take part in the annual training a year. Every year since 2008, waste course and volunteer service program. prevention ambassadors have been Participants gain a broad understanding contributing more than 1,400 hours of of home waste prevention strategies, service towards waste reduction. the local solid waste infrastructure, Weekly classes will take place hazardous waste avoidance, composting, on Tuesday evenings, September plastics, e-waste and much more. 24-October 29, 5:30–8:00pm at the Rogue The annual course offers and an Disposal & Recycling HQ at One West extensive training manual, discussion- Main in downtown Medford. The cost based classes, presentations from is $75 and need-based scholarships are regional experts, and field trips to available. Enroll online today to reserve the regional landfill, waste-to-energy your space www.jcmasterrecyclers.org. For plant and composting facilities. Master more information, go to jcmasterrecyclers. Recyclers complete 30 service hours in org or call Jackson County Recycling their neighborhoods, workplaces and Partnership at 541-494-5488.

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JACKSONVILLE REVIEW OCTOBER 2019 25 Salmon Poisoning Disease Paws for Thought by Michael Dix, DVM, Jacksonville Veterinary Hospital If you have taken your sick dog to the any of the eggs present. Other testing may be veterinarian, you may have been asked if recommended to make sure there is not another you had gone to the river or a lake in the last disease process going on and to look for clues few weeks or if your dog has eaten raw fish. of salmon poisoning. Blood work is often non- When we ask those questions, we are not just specific in salmon poisoning disease. Dogs may interested in your vacations or concerned that have elevated liver values, abnormal electrolytes, your dog ate or drank something gross—we are low platelets, and either high or low white blood looking for indications that your dog may have Salmon cells. Radiographs (x-rays) are often taken, not to Poisoning Disease. diagnose salmon poisoning disease, but to make sure Like many diseases, referring to this condition as there is not a foreign object present in the intestines, salmon poisoning disease is a misnomer. Salmon are there is no evidence of cancer, and to make sure organ not poisonous, nor is eating raw (even rotten) salmon size is normal. If a dog’s lymph nodes are enlarged, it necessarily bad (though in the case of rotten fish, it will is possible to see the bacteria on aspirates of the lymph make them sick). When we refer to salmon poisoning nodes. Sometimes, when additional testing does not disease, we are specifically referring to a bacterium show other disease, treatment for salmon poisoning Providing compassionate that lives in a parasite that can live in salmon. It is this may be initiated as the sooner treatment gets started, the bacterium that makes dogs sick. Cats do not seem to better the prognosis. care for over 35 years be affected by salmon poisoning disease (though black Once a diagnosis is made, treatment is relatively bears can be—we do not see black bears at Jacksonville straightforward. On the rare times this disease is caught To us, our patients are like family. We’ve Veterinary Hospital, however). when the dog is only having diarrhea, treatment just seen families through generations of best This bacterium is called Neorickettsia helminthoeca. involves the antibiotic “doxycycline.” However, most friends. We believe in a total wellness It lives inside and has a symbiotic relationship with of the time when salmon poisoning is diagnosed, the approach to veterinary care which helps our a trematode (a type of parasite) called Nanophyetus dogs are not eating and are vomiting and dehydrated. In salmincola. This parasite’s egg is shed in canid feces these situations, IV fluids, hospitalization, and injectable patients live long, healthy lives. A blend of (most commonly dogs and coyotes), and hatches. antibiotics are necessary until the dog can hold down compassionate care and the use of the latest The hatched eggs then infect snails that only live the oral doxycycline. As long as treatment is started soon medical technology, all at an affordable in Northern California, Oregon, Washington, and enough, there is a good prognosis and most dogs feel price, makes Jacksonville Veterinary Hospital Southern British Columbia. It is these snails that make significantly better in 1-3 days. However, if treatment is the best choice for your pet’s care. salmon poisoning disease a regional disease. In the delayed, salmon poisoning can result in death. It is for snails, the parasite develops into another stage of this reason that we recommend examining a dog and • Preventitve Care • Spay/Neuter free-swimming larvae. It is in this stage that they infect running a fecal sample on dogs that have had diarrhea salmonid and some non-salmonid fish. A dog then eats that has not improved after 1-2 days. This is especially • Surgery • House Calls a raw or partially-cooked fish containing the parasite true of dogs that have recently visited a Pacific Northwest • Obedience • Emergency (which, again, contains our offending bacteria). 5-7 River or may have eaten raw fish. Training Services days later, the dog becomes very ill. The parasite, Nanophyetus salmincola, does not actually Dogs with salmon poison disease can present any need to be treated—it is not what makes the dog sick. • Ultrasound • And many more! number of ways. In fact, any dog who is just not acting However, most of the time we will treat the parasite right raises our suspicion of this disease. The most with a drug called “praziquantel” as it decreases the Ask about our online Pet Portal! frequent signs are diarrhea, lethargy, fever, lack of amount of parasite the dog sheds, and, thus, interferes appetite, dehydration, abdominal pain, weight loss, with the life cycle of the parasite. ataxia (wobbliness), and enlarged lymph nodes. As with all diseases, prevention is best. Thus, The easiest way to diagnose salmon poisoning we recommend keeping a dog from eating raw or disease is by direct microscopic evaluation of the dog’s undercooked fish. If your dog may have ingested raw feces. The parasite eggs are very distinctive and easily fish and is not acting normal, let us know right away. identified. However, it is possible that a dog could have Dr. Dix can be reached at the Jacksonville Veterinary salmon poisoning and just not be shedding the parasite Hospital at 541-899-1081 or [email protected]. yet or it may be that the sample collected does not have See ad this page.

Pioneer Profiles - Cont'd. from Pg. 10 shotgun and a silver watch; how William Kahler sold Footnote: The Methodist Church building, located at his last yoke of oxen to lift the debt off the church; and the northwest corner of Fifth and D streets, originally he paid a glowing tribute to Isaac Jones, “the negro faced Fourth Street. In 1883 it was rotated 180 degrees preacher whose eloquent sermons and soul-stirring to face Fifth Street and the new courthouse. Today we prayers were a feature of all church gatherings.” know it as St. Andrews Anglican Church…but that’s When Royal died in 1902 at the age of 90, he had another story. been engaged in the ministry longer than any other Pioneer Profiles is a project of Historic Jacksonville, Inc., a clergyman in the northwest. He spent the last years non-profit whose mission is helping to preserve Jacksonville’s Jacksonville Veterinary Hospital of his life writing a history of pioneer life in Illinois Historic Landmark District by bringing it to life through and Oregon titled Trail Followers and Empire programs and activities. Visit us at www.historicjacksonville. 937 N. 5th St. | Jacksonville Builders. He was well qualified as author; he was org and follow us on Facebook (historicjville) for upcoming 541.899.1081 | www.jvillevet.com both…. events and more Jacksonville history.

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Proceeds benefit the animals at the Jackson County Animal Shelter. 26 OCTOBER 2019 JACKSONVILLE REVIEW So Many Questions Trail Talk by Clayton Gillette To live in a town with such a storied The old ditches that supplied water past should have one always looking and for the hydraulic mining area on Ol’ asking, “I wonder what that old wall is Miners’ Tr. can be traced back into from?” or “Where did that old path lead?” Norling Gulch on Ol’ Miners’, Boulder, or “Where did this old water ditch come and Owl Hoot Trails. Another large from?” We find ourselves in Jacksonville’s ditch is evident in the China Ditch extensive public woodlands asking those section of Arrowhead Pass Tr. as well as very questions. Aldo Leopold, in Sand a section of Claimjumper Trail. Along County Almanac, writes of moving into a Canyon Falls, Cantrall Creek, Shade reclaimed woodland area, and marvels at Creek, and Atsahu Trails, one finds "Nature reasserting Herself where Man’s remnant dams- some used to enhance presence has been absent for some time." Jacksonville’s municipal water supply Lunch: We are of the same mind as we explore and others to divert water for mining. Tuesday - Saturday Jacksonville’s trails. On Knobcone Pine, Rattlesnake Gulch, Che aul ein 11:a-2:p The Woodlands of Britt Ridge hold much and Pipsissewa Trails, old ‘diggins’ and Dnner: evidence of the miners’ presence in water remnant barrel hoops speak to other Thursday - Saturday ditches, (particularly the Petard Ditch) mining activity. hydraulic mining sites, and “diggings.” Many of the trails in Forest Park have :-:p What tunneling was done there is mostly reclaimed sections of logging roads. obliterated over time, but remnant Old photographs show that logging has 1 21 7 2 E C St e collapses are still visible. Old fence lines occurred since the first settlers arrived, rom-cratc Cooing • ocall-ourced • ad-ree cststrocom have been removed, but evidence of a and as the forest regenerated itself century of cattle grazing remains. The old and was re-harvested, these old roads waterline from the historic reservoir has were put to use again. Atsahu, Twin become the popular Zigler Trail. Peaks, Jackson Ridge, Jackson Creek, Across the highway, in Forest Park, Legburner, Claimjumper, and Sofie’s other evidence of human activity has Trails follow many of these old roads emerged as trails are re-established along and spurs. old byways. Arrow points recovered near During the 60s and 70s, many of these appropriately named Arrowhead Pass old byways were ‘discovered’ and used and an old pestle along Pipsissewa Tr. by motorcycle riders. When Forest Park tell of the First Nations occupying the became a reality, the riders moved to the watershed and carrying on their daily MRA property, and many of the trails activities. We can only imagine how the became hiking and biking thoroughfares. landscape has changed over the millennia Trails don’t simply show up for no since they first arrived. reason. Ask yourself as you hike along, In each of the canyons of Forest Park, “Why is there a trail here? What is the old roadbeds are evident. These were history of this area?” certainly wagon roads at one time, and Trail Talk is a monthly Rail Tr. follows a good length of the old column by Clayton Bullis Railroad. How far the actual rails Gillette about hiking the extended at one time up toward the Jacksonville Woodlands old mill site above Cantrall Creek is a trail system. For more question for historians, but the evidence information, please visit is literally etched in the granitic bed-rock the Jacksonville Woodlands of Cantrall Creek Trail. Association website at www.jvwoodlands.org.

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28 OCTOBER 2019 JACKSONVILLE REVIEW Sensational Seniors Retired Dentist Remains a Positive Part of Jacksonville by Mike McClain

This “Sensational Seniors” article with its historic heritage, seemed like features much-loved dentist, Bill Brodie, the perfect place, and in 1974 he opened who retired in 2011 after 37 years of his first clinic on North 5th Street. operating a dental clinic in Jacksonville. He remembers, “We had to be very A native Oregonian, conservative as opening Bill was born on May a dental practice is a 15, 1945 in the Belle slow process. You just Knife Hospital in don’t open the doors, Coquille, Oregon—a and people rush in. We small hospital that his were determined that grandmother, a nurse, we would minimize our had started. While debt and any debt we born in Coquille, his assumed was going to early life was lived in be paid off as quickly as nearby Myrtle Point possible. At the onset, where his father had a Linda worked in a small lumber mill and dental office in Grants owned a downtown Pass. What she made is lumberyard and what we lived on. What building supply store. I made went right back All of Bill’s early into the dental clinic.” education days were While it was initially spent in Myrtle Point a slow process building with him graduating from Myrtle Point a patient base, it did happen, and High School in 1963. He was an active eventually he took care of the dental high school student, playing in the band, needs of several hundred people on a serving as a class officer, playing baseball yearly basis. In the process, Dr. Brodie and wrestling. As a second baseman, his became a much loved and respected team finished second in the state in 1963. dentist, a good deal of this because Upon graduation from high school, he of his warm and caring personality. Contat s or or ree design onsltation! entered Oregon State University in a pre- “My patients were so nice, and many dental program. “I really wasn’t certain became good friends. In addition, I had a e onstrtion Reoeling if I wanted to be a dentist, but I did know wonderful group of ladies who worked Renoations oe Eteriors that I wanted to major in some aspect for me which enhanced my clinic and Aitions oe Restorations of medicine. My grandmother probably made my professional life so pleasant.” had a lot to do with this decision. I knew As Bill’s practice grew so did his ommitted to uperior uality and esults! I liked to work with my hands and family. Daughter Michele was born in it[email protected] License one eas eience dentistry seemed to fit.” 1977, followed by son, Scott in 1979. Later Bill spent three years at OSU before Scott and his wife, Kyleen, gave Bill two transferring to the University of Oregon grandsons who Bill maintains, “keep Dental School in Portland where he was me going.” In 2003, a longtime dream to spend four years before getting his was fulfilled when Bill was able to build doctorate degree in dentistry in 1970. and move into a spacious and modern Bill remembers this as a time when a clinic further down the road on North hard-working student could go to college 5th Street. The incentive for this move and emerge without much, if any, debt. was the fact that Scott was finishing up “I was fortunate to be able to get good- dental school and was anxious to join his paying summer jobs either working at father in the new facility which he did in my dad’s mill or setting chokers for a 2004. In 2011 Scott purchased the practice logging company. I always say that the when Bill retired. physical demands of setting chokers As Dr. Brodie’s practice grew, he and Reoel Restore Rene really helped me decide to stay in school Linda started traveling. Yearly, they and get my degree even though dental looked forward to attending a favorite school was very demanding and forced dental seminar in Kauai, Hawaii. “Kauai me to buckle down and concentrate.” is a beautiful place; the seminars were While in dental school, Bill met Linda always very good and held in the Marshall who was studying to be a morning, so the afternoon was free, and dental hygienist. Ironically, Linda was it was all tax deductible!” They also from Coquille and was born in the same enjoyed travel to England, Scotland, Italy, hospital as Bill, but they had never met Spain and Israel as well as doing dental until dental school. While the demands mission work first in Honduras and later of dental school were many, Bill was very at the Carmen Serdan Mission in Mexico happy his junior and senior years when as well as several other places. They he started working more with patients. did this mission work for over 20 years. “At first this was really scary, but, when Recently, Bill attended a missionary I got more comfortable working inside reunion at Carmen Serdan to help with someone’s mouth, I felt good about what handicapped orphans. I was doing to improve a patient’s dental Bill’s retirement life was shattered on health.” Young Bill Brodie graduated with September 28, 2014 when Linda died honors from dental school in 1970. This suddenly. A devout Christian (he and time was the height of the Vietnam War, Linda were baptized in the Applegate and Bill, rather than wait to be drafted, River), Bill is comforted by the fact that enlisted in the Army, stationed at Fort “I know where she is, and this gives me Bragg, North Carolina. He remembers, much peace and comfort. But I still miss “My time in the service, serving as a her a lot.” dental intern, taught me a lot, mainly to Bill, who lives just outside of the respect people who served in the military Jacksonville city limits is very attached at a time when they were often spit upon. to the village. “I love the people of That was no way a service man or woman Jacksonville and the historical aspect should be treated.” and pleasant countryside. I attend While on active duty, he realized how Jacksonville Presbyterian Church and much he missed the companionship of Applegate Christian Fellowship and Linda Marshall, and she felt the same, enjoy their weekly Bible studies. I also so on March 7, 1971 they were married. enjoy hiking the Jacksonville Woodlands After Fort Bragg, the young married trails, doing grounds work at the couple spent two years in Philadelphia Beekman Arboretum and eating at the where Bill worked at an Army base. great restaurants of Jacksonville.” Bill Once out of the service he and Linda Brodie is yet another person who makes went in search of a place to practice Jacksonville such a great place to live. his chosen profession. He first landed Mike McClain spent 32 years as a teacher in White City, Oregon working with a and school administrator, retiring in 1999 as dental school friend, and then started Superintendent of Central Point Schools. He looking around for a small community and his wife re-located to Jacksonville in 2011 that was close to a larger city where he and are enjoying immersing themselves in could start his own practice. Jacksonville, this unique community. JACKSONVILLE REVIEW OCTOBER 2019 29 BOW… BOW… News From Britt Hill by Donna Briggs, Britt President & CEO

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That is something that Joan & Richard Avery Thomas Fasnacht Carol & Tony Laenen Keith Rogers Patricia Tossavainen Andy Batzer Cynthia Furrow Ted & Denise Latty Nancy Ruiz Jim Van Orsow succeeded in interviewing and training you can own and can take with you as Christina Beslin Bruce & Kathy Garrett Ellen Lindquist Lee & Marilyn Seaton Georgene Van Orsow Shirley Blaul Vivienne & Peter Grant Sean & Theresa McCoy April & Robert Sevcik Dennis Vickoren & Scott Clay new volunteers to be productive and you begin the next chapter. Paula Block & Terry Erdman Mark Greenberg Shannon McIntyre Jim Sharp & Cindy Stevens Leslie Vidal Terri & Bob Budesa & Marilyn Schreiber Jim & Donna McKee Scott & Christin Sherbourne Alice White-Hoppe cohesive members of the team. Laurin Morning has broken, like the first morning Ronnie Budge John & Marsha Hall Laurel McKee Karyn & Mitch Shirbroun Marjorie Williamson Peggy & Malcom Carlaw Kerri & Doug Hecox Robert & Stephanie Mengis Pam Smith Fred & Judy Zerull Parker, President of the Britt Society Blackbird has spoken, like the first bird Gayle Clason Dr. Jake & Kelly Hershey Janet Meyer Stephen & Liz Smith HelenAnn Ziegler John D’Angelo Allen & Sandra Hincher Roger & Christine Moore Henry & Christine Soper says, “Bow’s approach to managing Praise for the singing, praise for the Lara & Chris David David & Michelle Hollenback Susan Murphey Sue & Joel Sorem 2019 FELLOWS the Britt Hill has been to embrace morning Linda Davis Richard & Kerry Hunter & Tom Fasnacht Doug & Carolyn Starmer HOST FAMILIES Susan Miler & David Doi Bonnie Johnson Audrey Nathe Cindy Stevens Andora and us all like family. 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30 OCTOBER 2019 JACKSONVILLE REVIEW The Unfettered Critic Once More Unto the Breach by Paula Block Erdmann & Terry Erdmann And They Let Me We’re back. daughters, the extended family, and And so are they. their sometimes adorable, sometimes “We” being your Unfettered Critics. aggravating, always fascinating, servant Have It For A Song! “They” being. . . well, we’ll get to them in staff, won hearts worldwide. a moment. And now that wondrous group (we Some of you may have noticed (and we think of them as friends rather than thank those of you who’ve stopped us on “characters”) will stand tall on the big the street to say you had) that our column screen. The movie’s story begins in 1927, mysteriously went missing from recent a year after the TV series ended. To the issues of this esteemed lifestyle magazine. family’s surprise, a messenger arrives to It’s our fault. announce that One day the King George V phone rang and and Queen Mary we answered. are planning to Life hasn’t been visit Downton. the same since. Imagine the To keep our frenzy! The retirement from primping! The becoming stale, polishing! And we occasionally that tantalizing (as many of you cooking! know) write Most of the books. Projects sprawling cast is pop up from returning: Hugh publishing Bonneville, Image courtesy of Focus Features houses or film Elizabeth studios that we’ve worked with in the McGovern, Maggie Smith, Michelle past. If we like the subject matter, along Dockery, Jim Carter, Phyllis Logan, with a very distant deadline and the Brendon Coyle, Joanne Foggatt, etc., etc., (ahem) budget, we deem it an offer we etc. And with the screenplay written can’t refuse. This time the elements just by Julian Fellowes, who created every fell together. fictional element of the series, it certainly I’m Michele and I’m a singer, an actress and a nurse. Knowing it would be complicated, we looks promising. put our lives (and this column) on hold, Above all, we’re looking forward to How do I accomplish all three? My new Subaru and dove in: five months of researching quotes from the grand dowager, Violet. and interviewing and transcribing The zingers Maggie Smith delivered, of course! I’ll sing the praises of my new Outback and writing and editing and pouring such as: “I do think a woman’s place is on the stage, at the office, or on the road. through digital archives that seemed to in the home, but I see no harm in her reach clear to Hades, until, at the end of having some fun before she gets there;” It’s the one car that does it all… Like Me! August, we sent a first draft manuscript “All this thinking is very over-rated;” to our London-based editor. We’re now or “Principles are like prayers; noble, of awaiting comments—which we know course, but awkward at a party,” have will lead to torturous adventures in text made us miss her most of all. Test drive a new Subaru Outback revision and image captioning. The film opens September 20—after Speaking of torture: We can’t yet reveal the date we’re writing this, but before at Southern Oregon Subaru. to you what the aforementioned project the date this Review hits your doorstep. is about! (Other than it’s a lavishly Hopefully some of you (and us) already illustrated tome that falls within have seen it. We predict it’ll stay on area the category of “show-biz,” which screens a long time. So when next you the publisher plans for wide-release spot us on the streets of Jacksonville, “sometime in 2020.”) ‘Nuff said. instead of asking where we’ve been, Meanwhile, may we please divert your perhaps you’ll tell us how much you attention to the above-mentioned “they.” liked—or not—the film. Consider, if you will, two words: And maybe by then we’ll be able to tell Downton Abbey. Or, better yet: Four you what our bloody book is about! words: Downton Abbey—the movie. We Paula and Terry identify as writers, with couldn’t be more excited. an ever-increasing number of The outstanding British-produced published works to support 3103 Biddle Rd, Medford, OR 97504 historical drama aired on PBS from 2011 the supposition. They live to 2015. The account of the Crawley a primarily pastoral life 541-245-2000 family—Robert, Earl of Grantham, the in the enchanted town of Countess Cora, their three conflicted Jacksonville.

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