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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 “Searching for the Wrong Eyed Jesus,” (pictured above) is one of 35 documentaries screening at the Ashland Independent Film Festival this year. March 30, 2006 * updated by 5 p.m. daily Ashland Independent Film Festival AIFF rep grows as haven for documentaries The Ashland Independent Film Festival has earned its reputation by going back to the genesis of the entire film industry. Click here to see the front page of the printed version of today's Tidings Kershaw resigns post; sheriff takes control Phoenix police chief allegedly altered a report to protect his son from being implicated after party RV couple finishes first day in court Higginbotham, Bess given court-appointed attorneys Crandall Arambula to return for more discussion Downtown planners will host several meetings, but some may be private County mulls citizen advisory group on land-use issues the Valley & State In Brief Hunt for counterfeiters turns up hand grenades Man sentenced for shooting, leaving friend at hospital Mental illness doesn’t always show Ever since Deborah Weiner died, Steve Weiner’s been saying inscrutable things. “After my sister’s suicide, I decided I wasn’t going to my grave silent just to look good for other people,” Steve says. Suspenders support his cuffed blue jeans. Keeping up with New Year’s resolutions “A New Year’s resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other,” an unknown author once said. As April approaches, your New Year’s resolutions are probably slipping away faster than the countdown to month four of 2006. 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: Commentary A lust for competition is key to success 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 Sat: Marketing Today What does your business do? Prep Baseball: Sheldon 4, Ashland 0 Grizzlies no match for Besan Sheldon pitcher stymies Ashland’s offense, leads team to shutout win in tourney semis 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 — POLICE click here to see print version A bodily connection through dance In Review | A Little Night Music A lighthearted, if confusing, tale of love and sex Toots and the Maytals perform at the Historic Ashland Armory , Saturday at 8:30 p.m. with opening act The Southland . Toots Hibbert is one of the great voices of Jamaica; a legend whose career spans every development in Jamaican music, from ska through rock-steady to reggae. Movies | T.V. | Calendar Stories updated by 6 p.m. Thursday ( Back issues available ) Isabelle Grossman thinks her life is just fine. She has her own apartment on New York’s Upper West Side, a job she relishes in a bookstore and a thrilling crush on a local author, but every day she’s still … ‘Crossing Delancey’ Celtic fiddle and cello blend at the Unitarian Center Fiddler Alasdair Fraser and cellist Natalie Haas perform the music of Scotland on Friday at 8 p.m., at the Unitarian Center, Fourth and C streets. Young guitar talent lights up the stage at SOU 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.