Notice: Undefined index: HTTP_REFERER in /home/stparch/public_html/headmid_temp_main.php on line 4394
Newspaper Archive of
The Goldendale Sentinel
Goldendale , Washington
April 29, 2004     The Goldendale Sentinel
PAGE 6     (6 of 14 available)        PREVIOUS     NEXT      Jumbo Image    Save To Scrapbook    Set Notifiers    PDF    JPG
 
PAGE 6     (6 of 14 available)        PREVIOUS     NEXT      Jumbo Image    Save To Scrapbook    Set Notifiers    PDF    JPG
April 29, 2004
 
Newspaper Archive of The Goldendale Sentinel produced by SmallTownPapers, Inc.
Website © 2024. All content copyrighted. Copyright Information
Terms Of Use | Privacy Policy | Request Content Removal | About / FAQ | Get Acrobat Reader




USE SUBJECT TO LICENSE AGREEMENT. REPRODUCTION, DISSEMINATION, STORAGE, DISTRIBUTION PROHIBITED. PAGE 6 APRIL ;i itilinel DAN RICHARDSON, PUBLISHER SAM LOWRY, REPORTER GREG SKINNNER, REPORTER A PUBL T N OF TARTAN PUBU T NS, INC. • ANDREW J. MCNAB, PRESIDENT Leadership made difference Word that the Goldendale School District's levy had passed came this Tuesday; it was three months since the first levy vote narrowly failed to gain the necessary 60 percent majority approval. The election is a well-earned victory for the citizens' levy committee, a group of some 2o or 30 residents who organized, demonstrated, raised money and fought the good fight. I say, good job, all. There's a lesson here, one that's probably not often taught in school, or anywhere. The lesson: In matters of public life, those who take an inter- est in our community cannot simply win arguments or supply a host of facts. That's what the school district did the first time around, with the first levy vote on Feb. 3. Officials convened a committee of interested res- idents, spelled out the facts of the levy (as did this newspaper) and trust- ed that what was self-evident to them would permeate the voting public. They were mistaken. No, what communities need is not just information, but leadership. We need fellow residents to run for public office or join civic groups or hold meetings; and more importantly, those people must have a vision of what the community should do and be and look like. We need leaders, in other words. People with backbone. People willing to present a well-thought-out idea, popular or not. Willing to organize other people to make it happen. Leadership is a burden, heavy with responsibility. Few are willing to take up that burden; it's so much easier to criticize or spout off, without the consequences of taking action. Our community is fortunate to have a few leaders. I've written about them on this page in the past. Today, I applaudthe chief organizers - Linda Anderson, Ruth Davenport, Lori Anderson and Karen Shattuck -- and the others on the levy committee for their leadership on this issue. It's just what the community needed. -- Dan Richardson How do fish smell? (Awful?) "Don't touch any of my tackle," my son said. I had just finished mixing oil and gasoline for my old outboard, and Russ was concerned about the petroleum odors on my hands. Oh? OK, I said. Now the same people who spray WD-4o on their baits are worried about the f ThD ~~ fish smelling oil on their plugs. [ ,.=mH=U /r:~l We got to the river and headed for my favorite | BaCK {~l salmon hole. There were two boats in the area -- | ~nl1[V ~i~//[ but further from shore and further downstream | .... d, ~j/ j thanI wanted to be. "This is it," I told Russ. "We're in just the right spot. Those other boats are too far out." Then we sat there all day without a single bite, while one of the boats that was "too far out" landed five salmon. A little humility is always good for a fisherman. That's the foundation of my fishing philosophy: No man truly under- stands fishing until he realizes that most of what he knows probably isn't true. I have digressed from my original question: Do odors, such as motor oil on a fisherman's fingers really repel fish? I washed my hands after Russ made his comments (and before we went fishing), but it didn't help. ! probably had oil on my fingers when I caught salmon at the same spot a few days before. Who knows what attracted the salmon I caught there a few days later? I've sat in a boat with some of the cleanest people in the world who did- n't catch a thing, while the smelliest folks around hauled in all of the fish. Maybe it doesn't pay to be too spiffy? Let's remember, these salmon have been in the ocean for two or three years. They haven't seen a human since they left the hatchery. If a salmon can remember the hatchery, it might actually be attracted to .humans. Maybe we should stand up in our boats, holding a bucket, and pretending it's feeding time? How would a salmon know we plan to catch it and put it On the grill, rather than pat it on the head and give it something to eat? The scariest thing these fish have seen in years is a sea lion. That's the way I see it: If you smell like a human, don't worry about it. If you smell like a sea lion, you'd better wash your flippers. I do follow some of the experts' advice, however. I always try to wrap new bait on my plugs at least once an hour, for example. I'm pretty sure it doesn't make a bit of difference, but it gives me something to do. I'm reminded of a young fellow we took sturgeon fishing one February day several years ago. This fellow had never fished for sturgeon, so Russ and I thought maybe we could show him the ropes. We set up in our favorite spot and spent over an hour with no results whatsoever. So we decided to move. I pulled the anchor and headed up- river, looking for deeper water. "Where are the sturgeon going to be this timeof year?" the young man asked. "I don't have the slightest idea," Russ replied. "Oh? You guys don't do this very often?" the other man said. "We do this all the time," I told him. "That's how we know we don't knOW." 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 TEI.EPHONE (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: Display Advertising: 5 p.m, FridayI Classified Advertising: Noon Monday Legal Notices: 10 a.m, Tuesday News and Letters: Noon Friday Subscriptions: 1 Year, 2 Years Goldendale - Carrier $22, $37 In Klickitat County - $29, $52 Outside Klickttat County - $38, $70 USPS 2213-6000 WEEKLY. Periodical postage paid at Goldendale Post Office, Goldendale, Wash. 98620. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to The Goldendale Sentinel, 117 W. Main St. Goldendale, WA 98620-9526. 11=e Goldendale entinel www.barr yscart oons.c ~m WHEN ! WUZ A KiD, CoL NI VI R GET US TO INSiPid... N0W THIS /~0/~ CAN'T GL=T HER IS TO Go OUT! KT R|$K! oo~o LETTERS F M THE COMMUN People need to be aware of hospital parents, however, we still need To the Editor: more parental support. I feel the At the last hospital board meet- meeting went from bad to worse ing, CEO Charlotte Lang exhibited with the superintendent running BRIM's professionalism and intro- duced a Management Action Plan, to guide staff and monitor projects. Regarding a new hospital, she lis!- ed tasks of restarting the citizen s advisory committee, meeting with medical staff, and getting up to speed with the project manager. Commissioner Keller was very adamant that he didn't want to "waste any more time; he wanted the existing plans to be sent to BRIM,, architects "even if it costs extra. CEO Lang said" We need to meeting on April 20. Attorney General who At the last board meeting, it was think the Constitution is well attended by both students and paper? one morning (in the not-so-dis- To the Editor: tent future) and find that your rights are gone. I urge people to attend the board meetings, as they are very interesting. The next board meeting will be Tuesday, May 18, at the district office, which is located in the middle school lower parking lot at 7 p.m.. Shelly Herschbach Lyle get our financial feet under us." The CFO said we?d be writing off 51 percent of receivables, about $1 million. We were ~ overpaid byWe may Medicaid and will be repay- be pay- ing that over | ,., for the next four months. (Assol~e- of April 23, the district thing that overdraft is $4o7,7oo. is not We are pay-driven by ing BRIM $3o,ooo per need. month, plus travel costs, ~ less some reimbursement from Medicare.) Commissioner Keller said emphatically he didn't care what the building cost was going to be; he would raise taxes, or get anoth- er bond. He also asked when rates for services were last raised. He said a lot of people were asking him about the 'hole in the ground' and he wanted this project to move forward. (I believe our cost for BRIM to manage a district with a 19-bed hospital, and an average inpatient count of 4.2 per day, is high. Especially if we're going to ignore their advice.) I verbally supported Lang's sug- gestion the citizens advisory .group should meet, and medical staff offer input, also. I was disappoint- ed that Commissioner Claussen did not say, as he did recently, that he wanted to hear from the communi- ty. Commissioner Carver said "I'm sure all three of us are on the same page." Thus it appears the commission- ers only want input in the form of dollars. I urge people to get educated about the issues. Come to the meetings, or call me. It's one thing for our living costs to go up if that's what's needed. We need to encour- age good business decisions, or we may be paying for something that is not driven by need but by desire. Alice Bartoo Goldendale Lyle parents unite/ To the Editor: I am a concerned parent of the Lyle School District. I am appalled at the outcome of the school board A new tourist attraction ? To the Editor: A little past 9:30 a.m. Saturday, my Wife and I were driving north on the street west of the hospital in Goldendale, on our way home. Guess what we saw! We saw five deer just casually walking across the parking lot of the hospital... headed towed the emergency room entrance! I wondered what would happen if they got close enough to set off the automatic door entrance to the hos- pital. Or, maybe they just wanted to visit someone in the hospital? Hard to tell. Only in Goldendale, right? Now that's a real tourist attraction! Dave Francisco Goldendale Leave Gentry alone/ To the Editor: In regard to your article [on Tom Gentry's marijuana charges; see issue April 15] I find it hard to believe that the people down at the court house in Klickitat County have nothing better to do than to step on people's First Amendment rights? Due to a letter to the editor of this paper', the Klickitat County Sheriffs Department went out to Mr. Gentry's property to see what they might find. As a result, Mr. Gentry's guns were taken. As I recall, this is a constitutional right as is the right of free speech. Did the guns match the caliber after testing? Were the guns returned? Who is in charge in the county attorney's office? Did these people read the Constitution? Or did they go to the same school as the U.S. My thanks to the forestry and business related initiatives being by Mt. Adams Glenwood. In addition sion of gratitude, I also clarify what exactb ization is about. Small communities GlenWood, across the around the world, are challenged to livelihoods based in resources. Other paths exist, but The been organizing to that are consistent with and character of our rural nities and maintain ural resources. CentraltOe is the belief that our already possesses many assets necessary to areas; @e just need to from as many angles We are not only ing in the development industries related to ter wood products, but porting family forest information on niche market moting jobs to keep ing in the woods in a role, and even profit ownership would protect our and agricultural lands. goes on. There is no threat some see it as Wal-Mart ever Glenwood. But there is movement of regionally and historically been ral resource finally in a desire to retain scapes of forests and suburban/residential the hope of our we can capitalize on address issues future of the Glenwood surrounding areas. As recently told me, don't stay that way by Mt. Adams ResourCe' The state of Washin spent a lot of time and the case in federal court t0~ the medical marijuana lavJ, the show. From everything I have went all hi been reading, the board is sup- in the land, posed to be the superintendent's to hear the federal boss instead it is the other way case against Washington around. All I can say is good A group of parents, myself Gentry. You're making a included, have had petitions circu- all of our rights. Let's lating to keep the high school prin- Constitution is not cipal, Mrs. Rempe, here in this dis- county of Klickitat and the~ trict. On the day of the board meet- Washington. ing, Mrs. Rempe was given a letter of non-renewal. The parents in this community need,~to wak¢:,~up Ir ..... ! j I '~ : ..... because our school district is now a dictatorship ran by one man, Mr. "Special places Martin Huffman. Unless the parents in this com- stay that way by munity unite together right accident31 now- you are going to wake up