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MARCH
DAN RICHARDSON, PUBLISHER
SAM LOWRY, REPORTER
GREG SKINNNER, REPORTER
A PUBUCAmN OF T RTm PUBL T m, INC.. ANDEW J. MCNAB,
PRESIDENT
, new
It must be spring in the air. With the thawing of the season we have sun-
nier weather -- and a sunnier economic horizon.
At least four businesses have started in Goldendale in the past few weeks,
from The Croppin' Corner scrapbook supply shop to the new tea shop on
Main and Columbus, the roadhouse on US 97 to this weekend's grand open-
ing for Aimee's Attic, a used furniture and dothing shop on Broadway.
Now, let's not get carried away with expectations: These businesses won't
add much to the tax base. They won't employ many people. And many, per-
haps most, new businesses fail inside their first year.
But let The Sentinel be the first to congratulate these entrepreneurs, and
wish them the best of luck. It takes guts to start a business, to open your
dream and plans up to the public, roll the dice and hope the numbers come
up fight. A few things will help: Signage, advertising, spreading the word,
and providing first-rate customer service.
People who are willing to start small businesses don't just provide the rest
of us goods and services - they give us hope.
-- Dan Richardson
Vanilla presidential campaign
Every presidential campaign has a flavor of its own. This one could be
described as vanilla, it seems to me.
The only fun we've had so far came from Howard Dean's con-cession
speeches. You know you're in trouble when the losers are getting all of the
attention.
Whatever happened to those big scandals like ...
we had with Gary Hart and Bill Clinton? Those /" ThA ~'~
guys really knew how to get attention. / --"~ ~1
All we've got now is Ralph Nader deciding to I Naci ~1
toss his hat into the ring. If that were Clinton, I FflMll ~7 ]
he'd toss everything else in the ring and keep | .... " ~./ J
the hat.
The big deal now is trying to prove President
Bush skipped National Guard meetings. Doonesbury cartoonist, Gary
Trudeau is offering $1o,ooo to anyone who witnessed the president on
National Guard duty in Alabama.
This is serious stuff. Who wants a president who doesn't show up for
meetings?
We could have Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, and the guys sitting
around in a cabinet meeting, and Cheney says, "Hey, Rummy. Where's
the President?"
"How should I know?" Rumsfeld says. "I haven't seen him in weeks."
What kind of country would this be if everyone skipped National Guard
meetings? There's a job for Doonesbury. See if you can prove anyone was
there.
The ~TLCiontd Guard issue is a red herring it seems to me. The Guard
rle~ds't6 take Some responsibility for this controversy.
~They eouad start.taking attendance, for example. Then someone who
gets elected president will have proof of whether he showed up or not.
The Guard needs a program with a catchy title. Something like "No
Soldier Left Behind."
The National Guard could use some testing and well-defined goals, so
that all soldiers would have the opportunity to be elected presi-dent with-
out fear that people will go back and look for their records.
These goals should be clearly written and enforced. Guard units that
don't meet goals for attendance and accountability would face a loss of
funding, and their soldiers should be allowed to transfer to other units.
(These units would be notified the new soldiers are coming, so they
won't be left behind, again.)
The Guard should have a rigorous testing program, with commanders
responsible for the performance of their charges. Someone could be
assigned to search the Armory on Mondays to make sure no soldier is left
behind anything.
That's what the Democrats should be doing: Proposing programs,
instead of just carping about the President's attendance record.
Who knows? Maybe there's some hope for this campaign after all.
Know your state, federal government
Stata Homm M RimlHmntativu
Rep. Brace Chandler, 404 John L O'Brien Bldg. Olympia,
WA 98504 Office phone: (360) 786-7960
Rap. Daniel Newhouse, 422 John L. O'Brien Bldg.
Olympia, WA 98504 Office phone: (360)786-7874
State- Sen. Jim Honeyford, 403 Legislative Bldg. Olympia
98504 ~ photo: (360) 786-7684
U.S. - Patty Murray, 513 Hart Senate Bldg., Washington,
D.C. 20510 Seattle phone number: (206) 553-5545
Mafia Cantwell, 915 2nd Ave., Ste. 3206, Seattle, WA
98174 ,Seattle phone number:. (206) 220-6400
U.8. House M Rearuentatives
Richard "Dec" Hastings, 1229 Longworth HOB Wash D~C. 20515-4704 Office phone:
(202) 225-5816
Brian Baird, 1721 Longworth HOB, Washington, D.C. 20515 Off~ phone: (202) 225-3536
15th District Hotline! 800-562-6000
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MUN
We value peace
and quiet more
than quarry
To the Editor:
This letter is in response to a letter
published on 2-19-2oo4 ("Develop-
merit is Good for Us").
My husband and I own property
on Cold Hollow Road, not to men-
tion it is right next to the said rock
mining pit. It had taken us 2 years to
find this piece of property.
We fell in love with Goldendale
many years ago and I told my hus-
band that this is the place I want to
retire too, like so many others have
and or plan to. We are not trying to
stonewall anything we are all for
economic growth, but this will only
scare residents, retirees and poten-
tial newcomers out of the area and
to me people are what help the
economy grow, we just want to keep
the peace and quiet we feel in love
with along with all the wildlife. All
the people that would like to see the
said rock mining pit operate should
think if this was going in next to my
place what would I do? I think prob-
ably the same thing as we are doing.
I do not believe that you would
want to listen to blasting and crush-
ing of rock from 6:00 a.m. to 6:00
p.m., six days a week. I need to men-
tion the trucks going in and out all
day long. These trucks will be going
right through our property on our
road. Would you want to deal with
this day in and day out?
Think about your kids and or
grandkids playing outside while
trucks are going up and down your
road. Also think about all the dust,
noise, and fire danger! Chemicals
and possible damage to our wells,
there are a lot of other places this pit
could go not to mention The
Champion Mill on the Glenwood
Highway no where near any resi-
dential areas.
I also do not see how this will
help the economy since this will
employ current county workers to
run the pit. This rock will be used
for the
Glenwood
Highway! Is
everyone
willing to
sacrifice
peace and
quiet, land
value, your
water not to
mention
your lungs
and your
safety?
This by
no means is
progress!
Think about
it. This is
not what we
call quiet
and relax-
ing -- do
you?
Randy
and Lynn
MOM POE5 A BASKETI3ALL GAME ...
Pugh Glenwood
Highway
School levy is a
wise investment
To the Editor:
Fellow Citizens of Goldendale,
I'm a retiree - Living in Beautiful
Goldendale the Gateway to the
Columbia Gorge. I pay almost $300
in Klickitat County taxes every
month for Goldendale and state
schools, hospital, recreation, county
government, roads and fire protec-
tion, That is almost $1o a day wisely
and gratefully invested!
Actually Roli, my beloved
deceased spouse, is still paying our
taxes. He made sure I have enough
to keep our precious palace in
Ponderosa Park by taking less in his
pay check for the quarter century
plus one year that we were married !
So I reacted 'gut-levely' at the
informational meeting Wednesday
night when it was hinted that many
retirees voted against the levy. Do
we know that for sure? It was a par-
ent that told me she voted no.
Unbelievable!
I trust the
They are dedicated to
families. The many many t
students are amazing!
What a joy to see
music, sports and
many of our students
education, and others (if
are prepared to succeed
mechanics,
space, and
Go Goldendale schools!
Hurray for our students!
Also, I'd like to add my
tion for several local staff(
and support staff) who
members supporting
State School Retirees
We need them for political
in Olympia! Sign up in
PS: Now, when I walk in 1
of our middle school I can?t
I ever taught journalism, t
reading to giants
Wonderous years in
schools where they also
with financing our most
institutions.
Retired Junior
assion"
Jesus
I witnessed a phenomena on Tuesday, February 24th.
One tenth of the population of Goldendale drove to The
Dallas to watch a film portray a man's death. They
watched Mel Gibson's blockbuster, "The Passion of the
Christ." Thanks goes to Pastor Greg Howell of the Grace
Brethren Church for arranging the pre-release viewing.
I rarely care for "Jesus" movies. Having studied the
Seriptures and having had experiences with Christ, most
of these movies leave me disappointed. This was not the
ease with The Passion. The movie was Biblical and histor-
ieally accurate to a great degree.
There were scenes that were
ereated with artistic license but
were still in harmony with the
gospels. The actors speaking in
Latin and Aramaic, the original
languages, was with good effect.
Scenes were intimate and mov-
ing. Audience weeping could be
heard throughout the picture
and awed stance reigned when
it was over.
The film is gory and grue-
some. My hope is that viewers
may see the gore as the packag-
ing. There are many mundane
gifts that come in lovely packages. Once in a while there
comes a glorious gift wrapped in what is common, ugly, or
as in the case of The Passion, ghastly. Don't see the gore
and miss the significance. In the box are wrapped the
mysteries of ages - our Creator and Sustainer taking radi-
cal steps to reconcile humanity to Himself:
This movie is destined to inform a culture that is large-
ly Biblically Guest Column
illiterate of
the most Pastor Steve C.
p o w e r f u 1 Fathers House
human event
of history. It will resensitize Christians who
the cross for granted, reminding them ofth,
love Heaven mustered.
This was the most excellent Jesus film I have'
Even so, I found myself rewriting the
it. Jesus was a
not a lesser known
Gibson's crowds maxed'
thous~ind. Histo
were 2 million
Jerusalem for the
certain at least a
sand witnessed the
Having visited
picture where the~
mixture of
shock and
erated crowds?
I would have
up fiis life with a
the Bible declares, rather than with a murmur.
tion of the resurrection
and exhilaration galore as the larger than
emerged.
All in all the film is historically accurate,
expressive and well worth your scrutiny.
national conscience. I heartily encourage you
i|
ion" "
ar,z,ng
"Think not that I am come tO send peace on
earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword."
-- Matthew lO:34
After watching director France Zefferelli's beautiful but
bland 197"/ made-for-television miniseries, "Jesus of
Nazareth," I remember thinking that if anyone ever
depicted on screen the actual torture and brutality of the
erudfixion, the film would have to receive an "R" rating.
Nearly three decades later, Md Gibson has made that
film. "The Passion of the Christ" cannot simply be viewed.
The film demands to be experienced.
My wife and I could not speak as we sat through the
entire dosing credits and through most of the drive home
from the theater. For us, as believers, this film had served
as a hauntingly brutal reminder of the price that had to be
paid to redeem us from our own depravity, and there were
no words that seemed appropriate.
Actor Jim Caviezel becomes Jesus Christ on the screen.
As Gibson has said, Caviezel does not act, he just/s. During
filming, the actor dislocated a shoulder, caught pneumo-
nia, was struck by lightning and received a 14-inch-long
gash in his back during a graphic flogging scene.
Gibson's vision of Satan is chilling: a woman's face com-
bined with a man's voice, oddly seductive and unsettling.
The image draws us in, and then repulses us with a mag-
got crawling in and out of a nostril, just to remind us that
what lies beneath the comely facade is, in reality, vile and
corrupL
~'lae Passion" may well be the most important film of
our time. Christian revival in American society has always
come at times of great Guest
upheaval, and this film m
comes at a time when Doug Patton
our nation is at a cultnr- Freelance ms
al and spiritual cross-
roads.
Aside from the canard about the
Semitism, the primary offered by
elites for their vitriol toward to
story is that it is too bloody. This from the same
rave that Quentin Tarantino is a filmmaking
churning out such gratuitous, blood-soaked
"Pulp Fiction" and "Kill Bill."
As long as
images era peaceful teacher standing on a
ms
ing the Sermon on the Mount, the story is no
media elites' secular worldview. And as long as
his death is a sanitized version of the truth,
innocent man utters a few words and then falls
the cross, like some sort of first century lethal
then there is no outrage. •
But when the public is allowed
God's wrath poured out upon His own
redeem fallen humanity, the story
At that point, the notion that human beings ~ E.
good is threatened, as is all the other secular
about man's autonomy.
By being faithful to what sodety used to call
truth," Mel Gibson has brought a polarizing
to the screen. May it sharpen the sword that
about a spiritual revolution.