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- Subscribe - Contact Us - Rate Card - Place an Ad Archives Revels Classifieds Real Estate Menu Guide Wedding Weather Subscribe Contact Us Six-year-old Rebecca Herbert helps her mother sort donated clothes in the basement of the First Baptist Church in Ashland on Tuesday. The congregation collected hundreds of pounds of toys, clothes and household goods that members will deliver to families in Newell, Calif., on Saturday. December 16, 2005 Christmas in Newell: Dec. 17 Poverty-stricken town will receive outpouring of holiday cheer Christmas comes on Saturday for residents of Newell, Calif. On Saturday morning 76 members of the First Baptist Church of Ashland will make the 95-mile journey over the Greensprings to the small migrant farm workers community in Northern California with several trucks of firewood and two 40-foot cargo trailers packed with food, toys, clothes and household items. Printed version of the front page of today's Tidings City to improve AFN contracting City of Ashland staff will work to create a centralized database of contracts and develop conflict of interest forms for Ashland Fiber Network employees to sign after an auditing firm flagged AFN contracting problems. Boxes of blankets gathered Blankets came freshly washed and folded. New fleece throws still had cardboard wrappers holding them in tight rolls. Some covers even arrived with a $1 contribution to help with the cost of shipping the blankets to Pakistani earthquake victims. Eldridge named V.P. of student affairs Southern Oregon University appointed Jonathan Eldridge, 36, as the vice president of student affairs today, according to university development and communications officer Lynn Green. SPECIAL * Final of a four-part series Back from Ecuador: Final installment of the misadventures of a Tidings reporter on vacation Beach combing, nightlife, bike and horse rides, rapelling down a waterfall, etc., plus links to previously submitted adventures (church climbing, wax museum, train derailment, etc) A quaint nearby outing The green sign that welcomes drivers to Jacksonville reads: population 2,190. It’s hard to believe that a city as quaint and beautiful as Jacksonville could have so few inhabitants. Mon: Essentially Ashland Ashland’s Pioneer glass paved way for locally made pints Mon: Tales From The Crib Bravery from the mind of a 4-year-old Mon: From Denmark Time passes quickly as new host family looms Tues: Off The Vine Aged wines grow in popularity Weds:Food & History (John) Brown versus the British navy Thurs: Commentary Is there a Renaissance man in the house? Fri: I'll Shut Up — Right After This The need for interrelation is obvious Fri: Healthy Pets Eye worms: ugly cause of red eyes Sat: Marketing Today How to guarantee success Raiders now a unanimous NAIA No. 1 A week after ascending to No. 1 in the NAIA Div. II men’s basketball ratings for the first time, the Wednesday top-25 poll contains another milestone for the Southern Oregon University hoops program . Opinion & Editorial — OPINION PAGE POLICY — LETTERS TO THE EDITOR COLUMNIST Updated Tuesdays: From the Right Side Mike Green PANSY politicians George Bush may be a lot of things — and he has been called plenty of names — but let’s face it … he is not likely to be considered a “girly man” by the California governor anytime soon. CASE IN POINT (OPED) Updated Mondays: — CASE IN POINT : Education In America The classroom dynamic defies simple measurement This is the second of a three-part series on education. Clearly, how we as a nation best educate our children is a huge question that does not lend itself to easy answers. But by embracing No Child Left Behind we have once again misplaced our confidence when attempting to address how schools can be held accountable. How do we assess if students are learning? — OBITUARIES — POLICE Ashland man helps bring music back to The Big Easy Think about New Orleans, and it’s almost impossible not to hear music. The spirited, brassy sound of trumpet and saxophone, bass and piano, trombone and drum, brought together in a raucous and stirring celebration of jazz and life. So, as Peter Spring tried to absorb what had occurred in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast, he viewed it through the prism of music, understanding almost immediately that if the soul of the crescent city was going to rebound, music would be integral to its recovery. In Review | Camelot ‘For one brief, shining moment’ Lush, romantic fantasy. A dream of “might for right” and “justice for all.” Yes. But when you actually see the play again, rather than listen to the score, you remember its dark, pessimistic tone. Movies | T.V. | Calendar Stories updated by 5 p.m. Thursday ( Back issues available ) Gypsy Soul ... for the music The music of Gypsy Soul will endeavor to stir audience members’ souls again this holiday season when they perform their fifth annual benefit concert as a fundraiser for WinterSpring Center for Living with Loss and Grief. A ‘warrior princess of comedy’ speaks on improv “It was an actual coronation, with a tiara,” says Eve Smythe, recalling the day she was crowned a “warrior princess of comedy” and inducted into the popular women’s improv troupe, the Hamazons. Aletta Mannix releases Christmas CD MORE LOCAL ENTERTAINMENT Movies: Now playing A lesson from the Nativity: There’s always a little more room Pam Shepherd, the delightful new pastor of Ashland’s United Church of Christ, said the following to me recently about this festive season, “It’s our best story.” She’s right. Christmas is our best story. It’s what is entirely unique about Christianity. Buddha found enlightenment as a young adult. Muhammud experienced his “night of power” as an adult. Moses was married when he encountered his burning bush. Jesus was baptized by John in the Jordan as an adult, but it is his birth that has captured the world’s imagination. 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. FEMA Experience in Texas, September 2005 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. 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