Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-06-16
Near the end of design week for the Lithia Park master plan, Ashland Parks and Recreation Commission members, along with lead consultant M.I.G., reviewed their ideas with the public Thursday evening at the Ashland Community Center. Michael Black, director of APRC, said the master plan is intended to be implemented over the next 100 years, but will ultimately take place within the next 20-50 years because that far into the future is nearly impossible to predict. “The reason that we’re going into
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-06-16
The late Edrik Gomez, one of seven firefighters killed in a helicopter crash 10 years ago in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest, will be honored Saturday with a Posthumous Certificate of Achievement at the SOU Alumni Awards breakfast before the Southern Oregon University commencement for “outstanding progress toward degrees in communications and political science” — to be presented to his mother, SanJuanita Gomez, and brother Eduardo Gomez, both of Ashland. Edrik Gomez on Aug. 5, 2013, was worki
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-06-16
The late Edrik Gomez, one of seven firefighters killed in a helicopter crash 10 years ago in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest, will be honored Saturday with a Posthumous Certificate of Achievement at the SOU Alumni Awards breakfast before the Southern Oregon University commencement for “outstanding progress toward degrees in communications and political science” — to be presented to his mother, SanJuanita Gomez, and brother Eduardo Gomez, both of Ashland. Edrik Gomez on Aug. 5, 2013, was worki
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-06-16
Peter Alzado is a prominent theater artist with a long history of work in New York, Los Angeles and elsewhere. More recently, he has impressed Ashland audiences with his work as Mark Rothko in Ashland Contemporary Theatre’s production of “RED” and as Joe Keller in Camelot Theatre’s production of “All My Sons.” I caught up with Alzado to talk about his current and future plans as well as to get his take on the current state of theater. JG: Peter, tell us a little about your theater background and
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-06-17
Teddy Abrams, music director of the Britt Orchestra and a world renowned composer, pianist and clarinetist, will conduct The Britt Orchestra this season (July 25 to Aug. 11) in Jacksonville. This is the second of a two-part column. The first was published on May 26 . EH: How does music influence politics? TA: It’s one of those questions of whether art imitates life or vice versa. You look at eras of American history and you see remarkable relationships between history and music, or politics and
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-06-16
I’ll make two points about the meeting between our president and Kim Jong Un. One is that Democrats and their favored media should stop displaying toward Trump the indiscriminate opposition Republicans and the right-wing media showed Obama. Second, if the U.S. wishes to maintain global leadership while its ability to bully the world wanes, we must learn to see through the eyes of other peoples. Writing in MSN’s The Week, conservative columnist Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry asserted, “Given what could be
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-06-16
Though the popular phrase may be “everything old is new again,” for Scott Bradlee, everything new is old again. That essentially is what he does as founder and lead arranger of Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox, an ensemble created with the idea of taking modern pop hits and playing them in ragtime, vintage jazz and other retro musical styles. It’s an idea Bradlee had as far back as high school. “When I was in high school, I was into really early jazz, stuff like ragtime, New Orleans music and
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-06-16
One of the costs of the Trump Era is that all opinions become suspect because, even more than usual, everything is seen through the prism of whether you are for or against the president. Consequently, criticism of Trump is regularly assumed by his supporters to be rooted in bad faith. The retort to any judgments against his statements or his policies typically begins with “You wouldn’t say this ...” and ends with “if Obama (or Bush or Clinton) were doing it.” In the interest of candor, let’s ack
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-06-16
What is the quintessential experience of Lithia Park? That’s the question posed to a couple dozen town folk gathered Tuesday to kick off a series of confabs aimed at shaping a master plan for the next 100 years. The answers were obvious — get in nature, go for a walk, interact with the creek, enjoy seasonal changes, get some quiet space away from most people — fulfilling the purpose of the exercise: to enshrine these simple but priceless experiences in the hearts of present and future planners,
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-06-16
Moody Little Sister, aka modern folk duo Rob Stroup and Naomi Sparrow, promises audiences on its Northwest tour a paradigmatic shift in its music this summer. Fans may remember the duo from past shows at Britt Festivals venues. Britt President and CEO Donna Briggs called their music “strong and memorable ... Naomi and Rob are provocative performing artists and agents of social change.” Moody Little Sister performs at 7 p.m. Friday, June 15, at Headwaters, 84 Fourth St., Ashland. Singer, songwrit
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-06-16
An annual count tallied at least 732 homeless people living in Jackson County, an increase from the 633 found by volunteers who fanned out into the community in 2017. The actual number of homeless people living in the county is likely 2.5 times the number who were found and counted, said Jackson County Continuum of Care Homeless Prevention Coordinator Constance Wilkerson. “Homelessness is definitely on the rise,” she said. “When I talk to other service providers, they are seeing an increase in t
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-06-16
Ashland voters have the chance to choose majorities of the City Council and Parks & Recreation Commission, as well as a city recorder and a municipal court judge, on Nov. 6. A total of nine positions will be on the ballot, including four of six seats on the council and three of five on the commission. The filing period opened May 30 and closes at 5 p.m. Aug. 16. Incumbents have already filed for reelection to six of the positions: Pamela Turner for judge, Melissa Huhtala for recorder, Mike Morri
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-06-18
Undergraduate- and graduate-level business marketing students at Southern Oregon University will complete their first interactive, real-time and real-life Internet Marketing and e-Commerce course this month. The innovative course — designed by SOU Adjunct Instructor Karen Fronek, the president of Make It Happen Marketing in Medford — has taken students from the classroom to the virtual workplace as they built a marketing website (www.SOU436536.com) using weekly lessons in real-time. Joan McBee,
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-06-16
Luna Bitzer has been gardening at 128 South Laurel St. for 22 years and it shows, making it the Ashland Garden Club’s Garden of the Month for June. She lives in the historic home there with her husband, Joe. He built the charming garden shed and occasionally helps with heavy lifting, but mostly Luna does all the work herself, including some extraordinary tasks such as installing the paver walkway to the front door — using just a shovel — and forming stairs between levels in the terraced yard. Wh
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-06-16
State parks officials are looking for feedback on what the cycling community thinks are the good and not-so-good facets of Oregon’s 17 designated scenic bikeways, including the Cascade-Siskiyou loop east of Ashland. The Oregon Parks and Recreation Department has set up an online survey to collect comments on the experiences cyclists have on these bikeways. The short survey can be found at www.surveymonkey.com/r/PHPCFFL . “We’re trying to capture what people have enjoyed about bikeways so we can
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-06-15
ASHLAND — Southern Oregon University women’s track and field garnered Cascade Conference Team of the Week honors, and sprinter Arianna Daniel was voted the CCC Women’s Track Athlete of the Week on Monday following Saturday’s efforts at the Chico Twilight. Daniel, a sophomore from Elk Grove, Calif., took over the No. 1 spot on the conference’s 400-meter performance list with a time of 57.43 seconds that topped a 17-person field. She also helped the Raidersȁ
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-06-16
As the Southern Oregon Historical Society celebrated 70 years of service to Southern Oregon in 2016, it acknowledged the contributions of thousands of volunteers, including Claire Hanley, the society’s president from 1950 until her death in 1963. Before the society existed, Claire ran the Jacksonville Museum, which provided the society’s first artifacts. Hanley sisters Claire, Martha and Mary were orphaned in 1904. Claire, who was just 6, joined her Aunt Alice who lived on Hanley Farm. Her siste
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-06-16
The Ashland-based Rogue Riverkeeper program this week launched its annual water-quality monitoring program to track bacteria levels in many of the Rogue Valley’s more popular swimming and fishing holes. Volunteers and a Rogue Riverkeeper intern will collect water samples for testing weekly to see whether the water meets or exceeds minimum water-quality standards for bacteria load. The results will be posted online at SwimGuide.org , and a free smartphone Swim Guide app is available to access not
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-06-16
What’s your favorite part of Lithia Park? The duck ponds, the playground, the band shell or Ashland Creek? The consultants contracted by the city to prepare a master plan for the park’s next 100 years listened and took note of all those things and more during this “design week,” capped off by two sessions with the design team from MIG of Portland Thursday. The week wraps up at 9 a.m. today with a meeting of the Parks and Recreation Commission’s Lithia Park Master Plan Committee in the Siskiyou R
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-06-16
The enemy is us The bitching and moaning about the collapse of the recycling market almost always targets someone else. Maybe it’s the Chinese, maybe it’s the disposal and recycling companies. But if we genuinely seek responsibility, we need look no further than our own neighborhood. “Recycling” is one leg of a stool that reduces the environmental impact of our consumption. The other legs are “reducing” and “reusing.” For too many years we thought that recycling allowed us to continue our obscen