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USE SUBJECT TO LICENSE AGREEMENT• REPRODUCTION, DISSEMINATION, STORAGE, DISTRIBUTION PROHIBITED• q PAGE 4 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 Have something to say? Write us a letter/ Send it to our editorial page at gspublisher@gorge.net THE GOLDENDALE SENTINEL OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER FOR GOLDENDALE AND KLICKITAT COUNTY, WA ESTABLISHED 1879 • PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY FROM OFFICES AT 117 W. MAiN • GOLDENDALE, WA 98620 TELEPHONE (509) 773-3777 ° FAX (509) 773-4737 EMAIL: (NEWS) SENTINEL@GORGE.NET OR (ADS, COMMUNITIES, HOMETOWN) GSENTINEL@GORGE.NET OR (EDITORIAL) GSPUBLIsHER@GORGE.NET THE GOLDENDALE SENTINEL STAFF KAREN HENSLEE, CLASSIFIEDS, JOBWORK &PRINTING AMY WALKER, GRAPHIC DESIGN HELMUT ADLER, ADVERTISING SALES & CIRCULATION • Deadlines: Subscriptions: Display Advertising: 5 p.m. 1 Year, 2 Years Claulfied Adverthflng: ~loon Goldendale - Carrier $22, $37 Monday In Klickitat County - $29, $52 Legal Notices: 10 a.m. Tunny Outside Klickitat County - $38, $70 News end Letters: Noon Friday USPS 2213-6000 WEEKLY. Periodical postage paid at Goldendale Post Office, Goldendele, Wash. 98620. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to The Goldendale Sentinel, 117 W. Main St. Goldendale, WA 98620-9526, Goldendale Sentinel 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.