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- Subscribe - Contact Us - Rate Card - Place an Ad Archives Revels Classifieds Real Estate Menu Guide Wedding Weather Subscribe Contact Us Toys On Bikes A big stuffed Garfield The Cat toy is strapped to the back of a motorcycle in Talent Saturday waiting delivery in Gold Hill to a needy child for Christmas. Dozens of Harley riders participated in a parade and gift-giving to children in need around the county (no story). Denise Baratta | Ashland Daily Tidings December 5, 2005 Holidays put focus on foster kids For DJ’s manager Andi Black — whose family has owned the video store since 1984 — working with the local foster parent organization is a tradition. However, with more than 400 children in foster care in the county right now and a constant need for foster parents, Fisher hopes things like DJ’s gift tree will make people think about the situation more often than one month out of the year. Printed version of the front page of today's Tidings Housing crisis addressed The city began to address the housing crisis that is afflicting Ashland on Friday, when it invited a number of local businesses to discuss the problems they are having in finding suitable housing for the average wage earner. City Council Options on table for AFN debt Alternatives to $7.50 fee will be heard Tuesday Downtown Plan could be spendy $15,000 for Phase One just the tip of the iceberg for cash needs An AIDS pandemic, and yet they smile HIV/AIDS, seven letters that have become so much a part of our contemporary vocabulary that when we hear them spoken, we scarcely take notice. In America it is seemingly halted, the numbers of those ill are declining, behaviors have changed, antiretrovirals are available to those infected. Like America, surely, the rest of the world will follow this arc of containment. Mon: Essentially Ashland An Ashland Irish session Mon: Tales From The Crib Thanksgiving is always at our house Mon: From Denmark Time passes quickly as new host family looms Tues: Off The Vine Vegetarian can be paired with wine well Weds:Food & History Expressions that have roots in food Commentary The perils of cartoon media Fri: I'll Shut Up — Right After This The need for interrelation is obvious Fri: Healthy Pets Avoid dogs’ parvovirus with vaccine Sat: Marketing Today Balancing interests and commitments PREP SWIMMING Ashland High Senior Scott Cell swims the backstroke during the Ashland Relays, Saturday at the Southern Oregon University pool. Cell and the rest of the Grizzlies opened their 2005-06 campaign in the annual nonleague event. Results were not available at press time. Ashland will square off against both South Medford and Eagle Point on Tuesday in a Southern Oregon Conference three-way, also at the SOU pool. (no story) Robert Petetit | For the Tidings Local Roundup SOU men edge Cavs in overtime Raiders cap solid road trip with 2-0 league record Pirates lose semifinal shootout to high-flying Spartans Phoenix football team comes up one win short of Class 3A title game Opinion & Editorial — OPINION PAGE POLICY COLUMNIST Updated Tuesdays: From the Right Side Mike Green America’s WAR against RELIGION Today our nation is attempting to establish a secular democracy in a nation that is rooted in religion. In other words, we are attempting to achieve in Iraq what could not be achieved in our own nation. ... we have inadvertently swatted a hornet’s nest and released a swarm of problems that threaten to send us running from the region despite the president’s call to “stay the course.” The president ought to take a course in history. CASE IN POINT (OPED) Updated Mondays: — CASE IN POINT : Education In America Reflections on No Child Left Behind With notable exceptions, public education in America has been in steady decline for decades. Generations of school children, to utilize the language of the current administration, have been left behind — passed along, grade after grade, with little regard to their proficiency or their futures. Consider this one fact alone: less than one-third of all fourth graders read proficiently (studies have shown that if a child has not mastered reading by the fourth grade he or she will struggle thereafter). Reading is the one skill that must be mastered. Not just proficiently, but truly mastered. Without it you never even get to base camp. — Obituaries — Police It’s all up in the air for Ashland’s novel ‘Nutcracker’ “Wassail!” a celebration of holiday music, will be presented by the Southern Oregon University Concert and Chamber choirs on Sunday at 3 p.m. in the SOU Music Recital Hall. In Review | Ebenezer, Who? OSW provides a new twist on an old favorite “Ebenezer, Who?,” which recently debuted at Oregon Stage Works, seems at first blush straightforward: two acts, a play within a play. But this is far more than a simple Christmas tale. Commentary & review Why ‘chick flicks’ have that appeal ... ‘Pride and Prejudice’ a worthwhile journey Movies | T.V. | Calendar Stories updated by 5 p.m. Thursday ( Back issues available ) The Jefferson State Choral Coalition will present two performances of their concert, “We Sing!” Saturday, Dec. 3 in the SOU Music Recital Hall. Due to sold out concerts last year, a 3 p.m. matinee has been added before the regular 8 p.m. concert. Ashland artist trades cold steel for warmer copper Deborah DeLaunay’s current artistic work couldn’t be much more different than it is from her work of 20 years ago when she was as an interior designer for a large, architectural firm. Except for the metal. But then it was cool, stainless steel fixtures, a popular choice in corporate offices, and today it’s warm, copper wires sculpted into works of whimsy. The Black Swan Theatre , Pioneer St., Ashland, will present three performances of Sonoluminescence December 8-10 at 8 p.m. Sonoluminescence is four creative performance artists and a visual artist together in an experimental environment to explore the boundaries of time, light, music and space. MORE LOCAL ENTERTAINMENT Movie: Now playing 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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