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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."
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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