Applegater Summer 2018 1 Photo by Teya Jacobi applegater.org SUMMER 2018 Applegate Valley Community Newsmagazine Volume 11, No. 2 Serving Jackson and Josephine Counties — Circulation: 11,000 Wildfire preparedness— Saturday ■ 7.14.18 ■ 11 - 7 all year long? Or not? Cantrall Buckley Park BY SANDY SHAFFER Some things just don’t seem to go seasonal firefighters and training crews for away. Birthdays, arthritis, taxes, an itchy the summer. Pretty soon I’ll be helping the mosquito bite, smoke in the summer. And Oregon Department of Forestry put up all those wild turkeys parading around our those fire-season signs! property, making it impossible to walk the Over the years I’ve realized that keeping dog (that would be Maggie) while keeping our homesite and property fire-safe is Presented by A Greater Applegate shoes and paws clean! an all-year task. There is so much to do! Fire season, though? Given the cold but Thanks to pine needles, something like Join the Applegate Valley community in fairly dry winter we’ve had, who knows cleaning the gutters needs to happen in celebrating the 50th anniversary of what to expect this year? late fall as preparation for the rainy season, As I wrote this in mid-April the 2018 but then again in late spring to prepare for Antonucci Collective Family Carr Cantrall Buckley Park, fire season was already moving forward in fire season. officially opened on July 14, 1968. the midwest and southwest regions of our What about pruning branches close country. Our Applegate Valley Fire District to buildings, mowing fields and trails Free Admission Operations Chief Chris Wolfard was called to provide fuel breaks, burning slash Cantrall Buckley Park, 154 Cantrall Road, off Hamilton Road in Ruch. Rogue Trio Romancing the West Sequoia out on a Type 1 team as the “situational piles, working with the neighbor to Parking: $5 per car at 1470 Hamilton Road. Free shuttle buses. unit leader” for a major fire in Arizona. My get the driveway clearances cleaned up, only question is—who’s next? Southern maintaining a safe bridge on the driveway, Bring lawn chairs or blankets for seating. California or southern Oregon? and practicing the neighborhood telephone Take inventory trees? These are all things that should be Since we all have a role in wildfire happening in your neighborhood now to preparedness, now is the time to “inventory” prepare as many homes and families as our own properties: What do we need to possible. accomplish to make our homes more fire (Note on that driveway cleanup: Make safe before fire season begins? I know sure your driveway has been thinned that our Fire Chief Mike McLaughlin is or cleared of fuels so that you aren’t taking stock of fire district equipment, jeopardizing the safety of your family staffing, and volunteers to make sure that when you evacuate or the responding we can handle whatever Mother Nature firefighters!) throws at us this summer—whether it’s A single family’s personal preparation in Applegate, Murphy, or Ruch. And the list can easily cover several pages— For more information, email [email protected] or visit facebook.com/agreaterapplegate. federal and state fire agencies are hiring See WILDFIRE PREPAREDNESS, page 17. Lavender Festival blooms in June Trails of the Applegate Watershed BY DEREK OWEN BY JIM REILAND This summer, don’t miss the two Lavender When you look up from the Applegate plant communities, offering an excellent Festival weekends: June 22 - 24 and July 13 Valley towards the surrounding mountains, workout and a lesson about the plant - 15. Participating lavender farms include there’s a pretty good chance you’re looking and animal species that thrive at different Goodwin Creek Gardens in Williams, at a landscape that has one or more trails elevations. Or they may follow a stream, an The English Lavender Farm in Applegate, passing through it. We’re blessed with a abandoned water ditch, or a mountainside Lavender Fields Forever in Jacksonville, great variety of places to stroll, hike, run, contour that similarly instructs us about and Oregon State University Demonstration ride, and relax in the great outdoors! how nature arranges herself. Garden in Central Point. Some high-elevation trails wind along These local trails are not only close to The English Lavender Farm is owned mountain ridges through alpine forests home, but they also make it possible to see by Derek and Sue Owen, who provided the and meadows. The Pacific Crest Trail the places where you live, work, and play following information about the seemingly skirts the southern edge of the Applegate from a different perspective—as part of a endless uses of lavender as a natural remedy. Watershed, while others rim the Red Buttes larger whole. You might draw connections Wilderness or pass by Grayback Mountain. that reorient what you know of this place Miracle healer or They afford jaw-dropping views of distant and how you think about it. sweet-smelling snake oil? ranges and valleys at nearly every turn. Well-designed and maintained trails If you are already a lavender lover, Closer in, other trails offer views that further our enjoyment of and appreciation chances are you have an anecdote or two My wife and I are lavender farmers who encompass not only mountains and forests, for the diverse and beautiful landscape about its healing powers. If you’re a skeptic, distil lavender essential oil. We use it in but also farms and ranches nestled in valley around us. Recreation is also a vital element you may take anecdotal evidence with a many of our products, and sell bottles of bottoms. These trails may start nearer the of our local economy—trails are more pinch of salt and look for empirical data. See LAVENDER, page 22. valley floor and climb up through distinct See APPLEGATE TRAILS, page 21. Nonprofit Org US Postage PAID Permit #125 Medford OR Local Postal Customer ECRWSSEDDM 2 Summer 2018 Applegater OBITUARIES Alice Gelston Migliore Rosalind Helene Macy October 7, 1938 - April 3, 2018 May 22, 1930 - April 16, 2018 Alice Migliore was at local libraries and Rosalind (Roz) Macy born in Torrance, children’s museums lived in the Applegate Pennsylvania, the teaching children to for many years where she youngest of five siblings. be independent and enjoyed raising goats, As a child, Alice was troublemakers. She making cheese, baking bright and an instigator loved hosting her bread, and gardening at her multi-grade one- grandchildren’s parties organically. She and her room schoolhouse. She and sleepovers and husband, Hal, were early graduated from Derry was involved in all and long-time supporters Area High School, aspects of their lives. of the Applegater. where she was a drum Both grandchildren Roz is survived by Hal; majorette. considered her their daughters Lynn, Margie, Alice started college best friend and closest and Mary; stepchildren at Indiana State confidante. Marty, Richard, Ray, Teacher’s College in Recently Alice and Sue, and many Pennsylvania but had to completed and grandchildren and great- leave after publishing, as published a novel, The grandchildren. editor of the school newspaper, a critical Legacy of Kathleen Angel. A Celebration of Life article concerning teacher training. She She was a joy to everyone she met. will be held on Sunday, pursued further education at Temple Her generosity was unmatched. She never June 10, at 2 pm at University and subsequently received a judged but welcomed people with open Cantrall Buckley Park, degree from University of Pittsburgh in arms into her ever-growing circle of friends Pavilion A, in Ruch. creative writing. She then served in the and family. She made everyone she loved Parking is $4 per vehicle. Peace Corps in Ethiopia. She married her feel extremely special. Please bring a food dish to husband, Joseph, in 1966 in St. Louis Alice died unexpectedly on April 3, share. And if you have any and moved to Boston to start her family. 2018, while recovering from a surgery. stories to share, the family They had two children. While in Boston, She is survived by her husband, Joseph would love to hear them. she got an MA in geography from Boston Migliore; two children, Alissa Weaver University. and Joseph Migliore; grandchildren Ruby During her life, Alice and her family and Grayson Weaver; and her siblings, Roz and Hal Macy were involved with good!” I asked Hal what kind of cheese it lived in Houston, Texas; Hershey, Karl Gelston and Rita Mines, as well as the Applegater from the very beginning, was. “Goat cheese,” he said. I told him “no Pennsylvania; Williamsport, Pennsylvania; countless nieces, nephews, and extended back when the post office directed us to way,” that I disliked goat cheese intensely! Laguna Beach, California; and Rochester, family with whom she remained in fold thousands of papers in thirds and But, after eating Roz’s cheese, I always New Hampshire. She and her husband frequent contact. staple each one. hoped that Roz or Hal would bring her moved to Ruch, Oregon, in 2010 following Friends and family are invited to a Hal brought some of Roz’s homemade immensely delicious cheese—the only goat the birth of her two grandchildren. The celebration of life to be held on June 16. cheese to one of the first folding sessions. cheese that I have ever loved—to more Migliores lived across the road from her For more information, please contact While working the stapler and developing Applegater mailings. And they did. daughter. Alice’s granddaughter, Ruby Weaver, at carpal tunnel, I sampled some of this J.D. Rogers Alice loved to travel and encouraged 541-890-0681.