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The 172 mile Rogue Umpqua Scenic Byway is in the process of being nominated as an "All American Road". It is essential Public Information meetings be scheduled pertaining to upgrading the present designated byway status.

The Rogue Umpqua Scenic Byway begins in Gold Hill and follows Route 234 to the intersection with State Highway 62. The Byway loop continues through Shady Cove, Prospect, Union Creek and continues north around Diamond Lake, then passed Lemolo Lake and down the North Umpqua River through Idleyld Park, Glide, Roseburg and returns south via 1-5 to Exit 43, continuing to complete the loop at Gold Hill.

THE ALL AMERICAN ROAD PROPOSAL FOR THE BYWAY CALLS FOR PUBLIC SUPPORT.

The Benefits: A byway the magnitude of the Rogue-Umpqua Scenic Byway provides a common focus for coordinated State and National marketing. This is a chance to show visitors a sampling of "the best we have to offer." It provides better visitor service through tips and information about the area, directing people to places that can provide needed services and accommodate interests.

For additional information please contact:

Tom Dew, Community Assistance Coordinator

Rogue River National Forest

333 West Eighth Street

Medford, OR 97501

(541) 858-2200

The following is based on a discussion with Wayne Barnes, an Indian, with a very strong and unusual ideas. The discussion kept me up all night afterward. Wayne studied for the ministry, was a star athlete, teacher and a good friend to have at your back..

Partake

by George Fuller

It is a fact.

There are beautiful safe neighborhoods and small towns where folks know each other, are friendly, taxes are low, schools are excellent and jobs are plentiful if you are qualified. These are nearly Eden like places to raise your children and live a rich life. If you are lucky and have lived long enough, then you may have known several such neighborhoods.

Partake?

Would you be interested in much better communities and economy? In the Rogue Valley?

Would you consider partaking, be willing to share in creating a rarely beautiful, healthy, safe, prosperous, family like community with us? Where you live? Around a group you may already belong to like a church or service organization, or a group we may need to create? If you are, please continue.

Partakers are good people who love our country, believe in freedom, individual responsibility, and enjoy working and living in a wholesome beautiful community. Partakers are givers who make the world around them better. Partakers are seeking and cherishing good folks, good neighbors, of whatever creed or color or education wherever they find them.Partakers, knowing their own failures, are tolerant of human fraility, and love good companions wherever they are. Partakers know the value of honesty and strength of character and seek those qualities when choosing their leaders.

Here in the Upper Rogue, we have a good beginning; and several of us are seeking ways to improve the situation. Here are some steps we are planning. (Picture an ideal community, seek information, identify other steps, refine the picture, form a simple plan, form a seed community.)

• Let us begin with a picture of a modern Eden, where people of character are loving and are as free as possible, there is beauty all around, work is plentiful for qualified people and wages are good. Now, here in the Rogue Valley, I am sure that there are already a few such neighborhoods and communities. Let us keep this picture in mind as we move forward.
• Identify minimum requirements for the community to work. Consider the following, two personal traits and three structural requirements:
  • Good character,
  • Love for your neighbor,
  • Freedom,
  • There must be sufficient common interests,
  • The community must have means to regulate and police itself, not against neighbors so much as, to protect the community from abuse or exploitation by outsiders. It means having the ability to limit certain contractural relationships in those functions related to outsiders and to empower a policing activity.

    Rules for good behavior by themselves are not enough. Love alone is not enough. Money and education can contribute but taken alone, cannot make the community. However the community does not even require a physical location in one place. The key conditions, the minimum essential requirements of an ideal community are personal character, love, common interests, and ability to defend. In addition, it is helpful to know practical matters about the upper Rogue.

"The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government." ---Patrick Henry

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