Applegater Spring 2018 1 Applegate Valley Community Newspaper, Inc. PO Box 14 Jacksonville, OR 97530 Photo by Linda Kappen applegater.org SPRING 2018 Applegate Valley Community Newsmagazine Volume 11, No. 1 Serving Jackson and Josephine Counties — Circulation: 11,000 AVFD honors its own at Cantrall Buckley Park annual awards event Golden Jubilee Coming this summer! Join the Applegate Valley community in celebrating the 50th anniversary of Cantrall Buckley Park, which officially opened on July 14, 1968. When: Saturday, July 14, 2018, 11 am to 7 pm Where: Cantrall Buckley Park, 154 Cantrall Road, Ruch The whole park is reserved for the day. How: Concerts, exhibits, food, spirits, and much more! The event will emphasize our Applegate community and its history. We are soliciting the participation of local businesses and organizations. At the annual Applegate Valley Fire District awards ceremony and dinner on February 2, the Firefighter of the Year award (photo, above left) was presented Contact Tom Carstens, event coordinator, at 541-846-1025 or to Julian Ramirez (left) by Battalion Chief Cody Goodnough. Volunteer of the [email protected] (subject line: Golden Jubilee). Year award (photo, above right) went to Tim Ryan (left), with Operations Chief Ditto if you’d like to help with planning! Chris Wolfard presenting. For a list of additional awards, see page 22. Photos For more information, visit gacdc.org and courtesy of Rob Underwood. the calendar on applegateconnect.org. See AVFD AWARDS, page 22 The next generation of A historic moment for philanthropists is already A Greater Applegate doing good works BY SETH KAPLAN BY DIANA COOGLE February 1 marked a historic turning Cantrall Buckley Park, but it has remained point for A Greater Applegate (formerly committed to community visioning and The meeting room of GACDC), as the organization handed launching new projects. Below are some the Josephine County back operational control of Cantrall of the key projects and strategies we are Foundation (JCF) at Hidden Buckley Park to Jackson County Parks undertaking. Valley High School (HVHS) and launched the new Applegate Valley While A Greater Applegate will no is a bit of a mess. Cardboard Connect community website. These and longer be operating the park, we remain boxes tumble along two other developments align with our new committed to its improvement. The new walls. The meeting table mission: “To sustain and enhance the Park Enhancement Committee, chaired by seems incidental. The focus communal, environmental, and economic Janis Mohr-Tipton, will benefit from about is on action. vitality of the Applegate Valley.” It’s a big $120,000 in recent grants to take on some The action signified by mission, but it also takes us back to the wonderful new projects. We will partner this mess is the Guatemala original vision of the founders of GACDC with the county to install solar panels, a Project—donations of of “Sustaining Vitality in the Applegate.” sundial, and an educational kiosk. We also lightly used school supplies We want to acknowledge and thank will be providing public art, pollinator (binders, notebooks) Treasurer Larry Anderson and long-time gardens, benches, educational programs packaged by JCF volunteers Promoting the Healthy Food Festival are JCF members, from member Lynn Funk, who resigned from for students, and more. for shipment to Guatemala left to right, Shaley Petropoulos, North Valley High School; the board at the end of 2017, as did Park The new Applegate Valley Connect at later in the month. Milo Dolantree, Hidden Valley High School; Cheyanne Dodge, Committee Chair Tom Carstens. Tom will applegateconnect.org is a free open-source The Guatemala Project North Valley HS; and Aria Back, Hidden Valley HS. stick around to lead the 50th anniversary website for Applegate Valley businesses, represents the desire to celebration of the park on Saturday, July nonprofits, and others to share all the great “make a difference,” the founding principle in 2011 with the vision of vibrancy, 14. All these community leaders will be events, activities, resources, and services of JCF. Under the leadership of HVHS health, education, and prosperity for every missed, although, in this valley, no one is across our valley. Committee chair, Barbara teachers Chris Pendleton (now JCF’s individual in Josephine County. Like the ever too far away to ask for help! Holiday, and our consultant, Community executive director and board treasurer) boxes overflowing with school supplies For more than two decades, GACDC/A Systems, LLC, have led this effort. Register and Dale Fisher, students founded JCF See PHILANTHROPISTS, page 22 Greater Applegate focused on maintaining See A GREATER APPLEGATE, page 7 Nonprofit Org US Postage PAID Permit #125 Medford OR Local Postal Customer ECRWSSEDDM 2 Spring 2018 Applegater OBITUARY Arthur Coulton February 13, 1938 - January 20, 2018 My very dear friend the internet and learned and neighbor, Arthur new tricks, almost Coulton, died on immediately finding Saturday, January 20. Kristi, a Wisconsinite. His wife, Kristi Cowles, Love blossomed, and, in and his community of October 2007, Kristi sold close friends gathered her bed-and-breakfast in to pay their respects and Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, assist in his burial on the and moved to the mountainside above his Applegate. During their home next to his beloved first year together, Kristi deceased wife, Linda. surprisingly “took to the Arthur was born in shoe shop,” becoming Land Steward students learn about trees and forestry during a field-based class. Toronto, Canada, on a welcome addition to February 13, 1938, Country Spirits. into a large, close-knit In the last months Living on Your Land 2018 Latvian Jewish family. of Art’s life, as things When Arthur was 13, became difficult, their BY JACK DUGGAN his parents moved their community came immediate family to Palm Springs, together to care for both of them. Praise More than 100 years ago the Agricultural (RCC) campus on Saturday, April 14, California. After a number of years living is due to all those whose selfless efforts Extension system was created to spread the 2018. The Land Steward Program has in southern California, where his children helped to comfort these two elder hippies knowledge of land-grant colleges to rural partnered with the Rogue River Watershed were born, Art moved to the Rogue Valley through that time. farms, helping to improve food production. Council to offer a selection of classes on with his second wife, Linda. They started a Because of my own efforts in assisting Soon farmers’ wives wanted to share in the How Streams Work, Riparian Restoration, leatherworking business, Country Spirits, Art and Kristi, a good friend referred to knowledge, learning how to process those Water Rights, Fish Biology, Water Quality, with a primary focus on handmade shoes, me as “a true mensch.” I do aspire to be crops into food for the table. Children Rainwater, and Springs. The ever-popular sandals, and boots. They also designed and such a person, but I mentored with the one joined in with the establishment of 4-H. Funding Panel will return with a host of created handbags, belts, pouches, and other who personified that description—Arthur Today the Southern Oregon Research and agencies sharing how you can get help to leather goods, and marketed their products Coulton, a true mensch (“someone to Extension Center (SOREC) offers a wide accomplish tasks on your land. at fairs throughout the western states admire and emulate, someone of noble range of affordable learning—covering Classes on geology, irrigation, native for many years. Arthur and Linda were character, someone with rectitude, dignity, topics like farms, orchards, livestock, plants, dehydrating food, citizen science, juried artists at the Oregon Country Fair and a sense of what is right, responsible, forests, food preservation, and gardening. fire ecology, weeds, tree diseases and beginning in 1978 and were well-known and decorous”). In 2009 the local extension began insects, weed management, and fruit trees throughout that venue. Local people who Arthur is survived by his loving offering a holistic program to guide are also included. own their products may still remember Art wife, Kristi, a brother, three sons, six people in managing their land to achieve There will also be a panel on Neighbors, and Linda 20 years from now because the grandchildren, and a host of Canadian environmental and personal goals. The the Good, the Bad, the Legal. Panelists craftsmanship they put into their shoes cousins. This quote from his son speaks 11-week Land Steward Program covers include a real estate broker, a landowner, ensured that they would last a very long volumes: “My dad always viewed the world everything from pastures to forests, law enforcement, and others who deal with time. Art often joked that his products had as what it could be, not what it is, and wildlife, fire, water, and more. Each neighbor issues. a lifetime guarantee: his lifetime! sought to live his life in a way that exhibited year the programs fills up with some 35 Informational materials and a complete In 1984, Arthur and Linda moved those values. His wisdom, perspective, and students. list of classes, with descriptions, are still into a yurt on their property on Humbug insight will be sorely missed.” But not everyone can afford the time being developed as the Applegater goes to Creek, quickly establishing themselves Arthur lives on in our hearts and minds to take this program, so in 2011 the Land press, but you can get on the list to receive deep in the Applegate community while and on our feet, so comfortable in our Steward Program started offering a one-day a mailed brochure by calling SOREC at building their home and leather shop. Country Spirit shoes. conference, Living on Your Land, covering 541-776-7371.