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Ashland, Oregon HOME Valley & State Sports Opinion/Editorial Classifieds Business Columnists Obituaries Weather Archive Revels Etcetera Backpage O-Zone Real Estate Guide Menu Guide Shakespeare Subscribe Contact Us Rate Card Place an Ad City’s ‘fun’ is new focus: The Ashland Chamber of Commerce is promoting Ashland as a kid-friendly town to visitors as well as business owners who might relocate here. April 1 - 2, 2006 * updated by 5 p.m. daily The Economy Of Ashland Chamber looks beyond tourism The Ashland Chamber of Commerce has increased its efforts to attract businesses and families to town in order to help balance Ashland’s tourist-oriented economy and reputation as a haven for wealthy retirees, according to a packet of information the chamber recently provided to the Ashland City Council. Click here to see the front page of the printed version of today's Tidings WEEKEND Can this be true? Ashland to annex Talent in ’07, Phoenix in ’09 * NEW * Photo editor Orville Hector welcomes you to the O-Zone. Check it out each week and see what "O" is up to when he isn't shooting news and sports. Friday Obstacles slow business growth Chamber of Commerce, city look for solutions Beloved Community challenged again The Beloved Community, an Ashland-based nondenominational religious institution, has again raised the concern of the Oregon Student Assistance Program for offering degrees without state approval. The commission, which oversees academic accreditation in Oregon, has accused the Beloved Community of “misleading the public by claiming accreditation for your programs.” Kai invited as guest to Committee of 100 In 2003, Ashland’s Irene Kai completed “The Golden Mountain: Beyond the American Dream,” a biographical novel about her experiences in coming to America from Hong Kong. Three years later, her work has attracted the attention of the Committee of 100, one of the most respected Asian-American organizations in the country. A place for Ian For Katie Larive, of Ashland, the birth of her son Ian was long and difficult, spanning the Labor Day weekend of 1992. But in the end, Katie marveled at her small son. “He was a beautiful, healthy boy, a sweet, beautiful face and golden hair. He smiled constantly. He rarely cried during the first two years of his life, and he smiled pretty much every day.” Mon: Essentially Ashland A Peerless experience Mon: Tales From The Crib On going on dates – or not Mon: From Denmark Cartoons shatter Danes’ feeling of safety Tues: Off The Vine White wines paired up with cuisine Weds: Food & History The Boiled General Thurs: Sustainability Every Oregon home can support clean electricity Fri: I'll Shut Up — Right After This Bonobo – it’s not an ice cream flavor Fri: Healthy Pets Royal Canin recalls some lines of pet food Fri: For Your Health Good joint pain? There’s no such thing Sat: Marketing Today Get familiar with your future customers Crew team bolts out of ’06 gate Ashland High wins four of six races at regatta Softball SOU finds next softball coach Assistant at Charleston to lead Raiders Raiders pull out slugfests Opinion & Editorial — LETTERS TO THE EDITOR — LETTER: At Length — OPINION PAGE POLICY Updated Tuesdays: From the Right Side Mike Green Love thy neighbor This past weekend an estimated 500,000 marchers participated in a demonstration in Los Angeles, the largest ever in that city’s history. At the same time, Denver had its own version of the same demonstration with 50,000 participants. Phoenix had 20,000. Even Milwaukee was surprised to see 10,000 demonstrators take to its streets. What were these people protesting? The House of Representatives passed new legislation in December that would make it a felony to be in the U.S. illegally. Under the proposed new law, employers that hire illegal immigrants would be hit with new penalties. Additionally, the bill would require churches and others who help illegal immigrants to first check the legal status of individuals they serve; and the federal government plans to build a fence along one-third of the border area between the U.S. and Mexico. Not Canada … Mexico. CASE IN POINT (OPED) Updated Mondays: — Case In Point : Forty-five years of hard love I woke slowly, staring up at the ceiling, my eyes adjusting to the slow rotation of the ceiling fan. The barest breeze stirred the curtains in my hotel room. It was early, the sky still just a bruise of purple and blue, but already the heat was unrelenting, a foreshadowing of another moist, hot day in Cartagena. I wouldn’t have been surprised had the sun decided one day simply not to set. I was a Peace Corps volunteer and a long way from my “Kansas,” i.e., California. I had only been in Cartagena a few days, stationed in this Caribbean city where I would teach in a normal school. My tour was for two years. Life throbbed, pulsated, the center of town teemed with people, many black, whose ancestors long ago were brought to Cartagena to build the walls and fortifications. They spoke a type of Spanish that I had never heard before, consonants swallowed, words clipped, coming at me in a rush, often unintelligible. — There are no obituaries today — No police reports at press deadline click here to see print version BUS STOP Having launched OSF’s 2006 season with her own production of Shakespeare’s “The Winter’s Tale,” Libby Appel now tackles another and very different winter’s tale. It is William Inge’s 1956 gem, “Bus Stop,” that plays in the Bowmer through Oct. 29. In Review | The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada Cowboy speaks volumes by saying little A tale of humanity, in perfect balance As that wonderful, and yet again wonderful, quintessential Jewish grandmother, Bubbie, might say, “What’s not to like?” Well, nothing. “Crossing Delancey” is all good. Movies | T.V. | Calendar Stories updated by 6 p.m. Thursday ( Back issues available ) The fifth Annual Ashland Independent Film Festival will feature 82 films Thursday April 6 through April 10 at the Varsity Theatre downtown and this year, for the first time the Festival will hold special film events at the Historic Ashland Armory and ScienceWorks Museum. Using energy, creating art Staci Ohayon has been living and painting in Ashland since she moved from her Israel home last September, taking her teaching sabbatical to be near her son, Alon, who is taking a year off between high school graduation and compulsory military duty at home to work with teens from Ashland’s two synagogues. Grandmothers honored All-day event offers wisdom, community Lifetime achievement Award recipient MORE LOCAL ENTERTAINMENT Movies: Now playing Poetry often pierces to the heart of ethics “When Nazim Hikmet, the Turkish poet who spent half his adult life in prison, speaks of Spring coming and the sun rising, you can sense that he is seeing Spring coming through a barred window.” Church Listings Ashland residents traveling nationwide and around the globe provide first-person accounts of their travels, complete with pictures to share their adventures with the Tidings' readers. * Note: The stories below are submitted by local residents traveling outside of Oregon. These submissions are not changed on a regular basis, but will be replaced as other submissions are received. Enjoy. FEMA Experience in Texas I was invited by FEMA to act as a Public Information Officer (PIO) in a volunteer capacity. Mis queridos This is my first e-mail and I write it not from Syria but from South Lebanon. New Orleans: Up Close and Personal I returned to my hometown of New Orleans on Oct. 6 to view the devastation and assist my displaced family. The impact of the Gulf Coast tragedy on Native Americans --> Copyright © 2006 Ashland Daily Tidings and Ottaway Newspapers. All Rights Reserved.