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Show I I I 4A Tuesday October 22, 2002 ICctttlMlDOft Stall columi EMflffMlMpqfflr Visiting old haunts can be disconcerting By KEN LARSON Sun Advocate publisher Over the past 20 years I have developed some incredibly beautiful gardens, first in Montana, and then in a couple places in Oregon. I am not sure what part of my makeup causes me to wonder how these gardens are being cared for or kept up but in each case whenever I am visiting these communities I always seem to gravitate back to my former home and check out the yard. Needless to say I have been disappointed in a couple instances and question why it is important for me to see how it has changed. This past weekend I traveled back to Coos Bay, Ore., a beautiful setting about midway down the coast on the Pacific Ocean. I lived there in the late 90's and developed a botanical garden a few miles from the sea, out in the forest It was an ideal setting for a garden, facing southeast and over a period of three years or so I changed the weed patch into a garden with streams, two-ac-re ponds, rock walls, and a rose garden. With the abundance of moisture along the coast the garden flourished. I gathered great rocks from the neighboring mountains and interesting driftwood from the beaches and streams that run into the ocean. I must admit that it was my pride and joy and had a very tough time leaving that garden. I have been gone from the coast for two and half years now and since I sold the place to a good friend of mine she had invited me out to have lunch overlooking the garden I had so lovingly nourished. It is six years old and the little shrubs I put in are now full grown trees. The ground cover has spread and the pond has aged and looks as though it had been part of the landscape for decades. On my drive to the property, I was nervous, only because I knew it would have changed. I knew the people who bought the home loved gardening but were busy with jobs, families and friends. I remembered the hours of work it took to keep it weeded and growing, so my concern grew and I drew closer. also remembered driving back to Montana once and making a point to drive around the block and down the alley of a home where I had also created a large garden. I was so disappointed as I saw the overgrown shrubs, out of control weeds and the rock garden that was in shambles. I vowed not to put myself through that again but here I was about to expose myself to the same kind of torment Although many things had changed, the garden was incredible. The new owner did find that much of the space was planted too closely as it I grew up it needed space to spread apart A couple of the walkways were tom out and a new path of blueberries had been added. The grape arbor was gone but the herb garden was flourishing, with numerous shades of greens and yellows. The roses were doing extremely well, but my beloved Dahlias were all but gone. Thewere just too much work and took up a lot of space. But the garden (Continued on page BA) Stiff editorial Where have all the moderates gone? By RICHARD SHAW Staff writer As I have watched the events of the last year, and the lead up to the election this year, I have begun to wonder one thing. Where have all the moderates gone? In the past the halls of American government WOT6 TlllM Wlul ulOSft UlSI LJJ MQ uldt mK10J8 gTOUIKI on almost any subject Ask them about gun control and they would state they were for gun safety, and for banning assault weapons, but were against registration. Ask them about abortion and they would set some kind of limits on abortion , Sr i I but would not want to ban it Ask them about land use, and they would say we need some wilder- -t ness, and that some areas needed protection, but not at the ruination of whole industries and communities. Ask them about pollution legisla- -f tion and they would vote for those measures which held polluting industries feet to the fire to come up with constraints, but not so much that they burnt their lower extremities off and became completely uncompetitive in the world market These days however, it seems hard to find at the national level who we can conanyone sider moderate in their views on most subjects, and when they do exist they are few and for between. It's not like in the old days, when moderates dominated congress. Even many of our presidents also toll within those bounds. And when they didntthe moderates in the legislative branch of our government found a way to compromise with the executive leadership and get real things done. But no more, because they just dont seem to exist in great enough numbers now. People seem to want to elect people who are one way or another, but never When I was in college in the early 70s the liberal movement had been dominating much of politics for at least 10 years. True Richard Nixon was the president but the liberal agenda had been strong ever since Dwight Eisenhower left office. I pictured myself as a liberal in those days, and it seemed everyone I knew under 30 was. Of course that was a warped belief of my own with no real Letters basis other than the people that surrounded me fit that mold. Today the tone of politics on college campuses among students seems decidedly more conservative. That isn't just due to the events either. It has existed for quite a while. Is Lynx for real? posts used to identity of it in two national forests. DNA. testing of two of the Editor samples matched that of a tynx The Manti LaSal National living inside an animal preserve. Forest Service recent find of Ca- The third DNA sample matched nadian Lynx hair in the Joes that of an escaped pet lynx being held in a federal office until its area was quite a story. I find it hard to believe that owner retrieved ft. Had the deception not been you can take a piece of carpet, spray it with tynx scent, nail it to discovered, the government a tree in a high use recreation likety would have banned many area and get a tynx to come from forms of recreation and use of natural resources in the Gifford Canada and rub against it In 1999, a scientist hired by Pinchot National Forest and Wenatchee National Forest in the federal government submitted lynx hair samples supposedly found in die Oregon Cascades, Hie .Manti La Sal National farther south than where the ani- Forest ecosystem group stated mals were thought to exist. That there a no indication that Federal officials spent thou- the hair sample found in the Joes sands of hours and tens of thou- VbUey area is anything except real sands of dollars trying to dupli-cat- e tynx hair, but we are checking to the finding, but found no see ifan escapee from a fur form, evidence of the creatures. The or someones pet found its way hairs were never validated, the to the Joes Wley area. Hus samples were thrown out, and the sounds like the start of just anscientist was never paid. other hoax. Last year in another lynx hoax, Hie tynx listing and habitat seven government officials: three study began in 1999 during the Forest Service employees, two Clinton administration and this year. I suspect the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officials apd two employees of the is running out of time to Washington Department of Fish make the Canadian Lynx emt- and Wildlife. The officials planted three separate samples of BobSpigaieOi Canadian lynx hair on rubbing 9-- 11 Right now if one watches what congress does it is always a struggle between the left and the right with the breastbone in the middle being of little consequence. If you will notice too, the stalemates in congress continue to increase hi num-do- t. fal-l- ey legislation mat ooes get passed is aimer so watered down that it is ineffective or there are so many amendments to it that it doesn't resemble the original intent in the least (Continued on page . BA) finest editorial t V Television and war, both good to avoid By DONALD KAUL Minute Man Media a U U Dusn gave a speecn m nBSKieni Dnak couple of weeks ago outlining his pniiieume case for go- ing to war with Iraq and... the major networks didnt carry it! ABC ran "The Drew Carey Show while the president balanced us on the brink, CBS had King of Queens while NBC featured Fear Factor. Which leads me to a question: Why do they cafl them major" networks? it cam 06 oecause mey re important, necause they're not I mean, here the nation is, gearing B itself ud far war and the networiis cant tear thent- selves away from the junk they purvey 247 rl not.eyen for a. ' wtiatthei boss'ttiinks?' half-hol- in order let us know was that Ihe White House did not expressly ask for the networks to carry me speecn, wmen was in nsen ssionisning. miL!l. innne House spokesperson Ari Fleischer said they didnt Their lame excuse I I want to give the networks the erroneous impression that the president was going to declare war or anything.) I don't understand it not on either end. Edward R. Murrow must be whirling like a dervish in his grave right now. to be a duplicitous foe who has ignored or circumvented all efforts to monitor the rebuilding of his war machine, including nuclear, biological and chemical weapons programs. Unless Saddam agrees to real, verifiable disarmament complete case, the speech was carried by CNN, MSNBC and the Fox News Channel. It with unfettered U.N. inspections, we must destroy him. Which' sounds good when you say it fost but it In any drew approximately 17 million viewers, a terrific number for cable news but a pathetic one for a country that prides itself on being The World's Greatest Democracy. What is happening to this nation anyway? There was nothing really new in the speech, but it was by for the presidents most coherent attempt to explain his bellicose stand on Iraq. He said that Iraq, by its tochnofogical capabilities, by the merciless nature of its regime' as wefl as its ties to terrorist forces throughout the world, poses a unique threat to us and to the rest of the world. . oaooam nusscui, m saw, nas proved nimseii 1 eqn-dud- es eco-grou- slides by a couple of significant problems, namely: If Saddam Hussein has these terrible weapons of mass destruction ready to go, why wouldn't he use them if we attack? And if he doesn't have these weapons, what's the hurry in attacking him? iLetters tty the editor should M.Va . what then? 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