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Letters to the Editor: Stop dumping trash in hills I'd like to remind folks to carry out their beer cans, wine bottle, snack wrappers and other trash from the paths and roads of the watershed. Some of us who walk there are straining to keep up with removing trash left there by others. Let's all work to keep our watershed beautiful. Patty Duggan Ashland *** Inaugural award goes to DeBoers For the last several years the Ashland based International Society Of Architectural Research has actively debated the recipient of its first annual residential design award. So many grand new houses, so little consensus on which new home truly represents an award of such magnitude. We are now, however, happy to announce a winner, perhaps by a landslide. Granted, the four-story hillside residence has not yet been built, but for sheer shock and awe, there can be no question that the winner of Ashland's first annual residential ISOAR Award for a new building in an historic district goes to Sid and Karen DeBoer for their proposed 10,000-square-foot house on a 3,820-foot hillside lot on Glenview. The award is not without controversy. Southern Oregon University and The Oregon Shakespeare Festival abstained from voting. To protest the size of this new single-family dwelling during a time of economic hardship for so many, members of these prestigious centers of culture have declared that they will wear black underwear at all future fundraisers at the DeBoer home. The mayor also abstained, saying that the protracted debate over the proposed city ordinance to limit the size of such houses might be perceived to have given his brother an unfair advantage. (Direction for public viewing: Wait till dark, turn south.) Stephen Kiesling Editor Spirituality & Health Ashland *** Celebrate our young children The Jackson County Association for the Education of Young Children (JCAEYC) is celebrating the Week of the Young Child (April 5-12) by sponsoring children's artwork in businesses and offering a concert for families. We do this to focus attention on the needs of young children and their families and to recognize the early childhood programs that meet those needs. I would like to share a story that reminds us to keep in perspective what is truly important in light of all the sorrows and hardships happening in the world today. As a teenager walked home from school carrying his tuba, he passed a preschool. The children saw this and flocked to the picket fence and clamored for him to play. He obliged them and played for quite a while inspiring them to think of parades which, after he left, they then proceeded to enact by parading around all afternoon. The delight of the children and the delight of the tuba player are the breaths of fresh air that keep us going during difficulties. We urge everyone to take into consideration and support the needs of young children so they grow to become effective citizens, capable workers, and loving parents. Nancy Seward JCAEYC president Ashland *** Guest forum: Reasons for being a woman in black By Natalie Padno Ashland Now that the war is entering its second week of fighting, the news is most depressing as Iraq warns of suicide assaults - not only in Iraq but all over the world where the U.S. is regarded as the aggressor. It has already started. 1) A bomber posing as a taxi driver blew up his vehicle, killed himself and four American soldiers in the Iraqi desert. 2) Iraqi oil fields are set afire. 3) So far, NO weapons of mass destruction have been found. 4) Chechen guerrillas killed six Russian soldiers and two riot police after voters approved cementing the breakaway republic to the Russian Federation. 5) Gunmen on motorcycles killed two GIs in Afghanistan. 6) Our citizens will not be safe or welcomed anywhere in the world - not even in England. This is just within 10 days of the start of this war that cannot be won. No group of people will accept peacefully an invasion of their country, their way of life and their religion in the name of "bringing them our form of Democracy." When we were attacked in Pearl Harbor our country was unified in our commitment to win this war against an aggressor. So feel the Iraqi people - much as they abhor Saddam Hussein. President Bush thinks "rebuilding" Iraq with American investments and controlling the oil fields will aid our financially-troubled economy. He could not be more wrong. When the American people finally realize that this war being waged in their name consists of streams of helpless refugees, orphaned children, human beings in pieces on streets, destruction of homes, etc., they will be horrified. We, the people, are not being shown (by our controlled media) the real face of this war. Are we so desensitized that it will take 20 years (as in Vietnam) for us to see this war for what it is? That is why I appeal to the "pro-war" people to look at this war from a realistic and historical perspective. LINKS: DAILY TIDINGS: Main | News | Sports | Business | Obituaries | Opinion | Columnists | AP News | Subscribe | Archives | Weather | Classifieds | Contact Us | Privacy REVELS: Main | Calendar | Dining | Movies | T.V. 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