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From Java Mama 3/5/10
There are more and more angry people in the Columbia county special taxing district for the so called hospital thanks to the board not putting the initiative a lot of us signed on the ballot. After listening to many rants about it, I say let them continue to postpone the vote. Sounds like the longer they put it off the more and madder people will be and the less work those opposing the taxing terrorism will have to do to get them run out of town. I do hope the rumor is true that there may still be a recall for not only the hospital board but the 3 commissioners who are just as guilty for not getting the initiative on the ballot. Either way, they all need to go.

My next biggest hope is that people will remember this episode of county history when we are asked to vote again for anything that is never ending and can be increased without our vote. Not to mention that it can't even get rid of by voting against it. This thought needs to apply to what has happened in Scappoose and Vernonia when they passed school bonds. Even teachers say they didn't know how much it was really going to cost on their taxes. That is sad and scary if they are the one teaching math. It might not be so bad if the kids were taught how to read and write, how to simply cross a street (just check out how ineffective the cross walk is at St Helens high school), or how to graduate without a pregnancy (there is a day school within the high school we are paying for). But in this county that all seems a second thought, if that. Nope, this is one coffee drinking adult who thinks if you brought them into this world then you should have been taught and have enough common sense to think ahead of those brief 1-2 minutes of pleasure to how you will support them whether it be financially, education, or health care and I am one voter who will continue to vote NO on anything raising taxes, bonds, levies, or any other form of taxing terrorism whether it be city, county, state or federal.

From Janet Wright 3/5/10
Prescription Drug Turn-In, Saturday March 13th at the Sheriff's Office 901 Port Avenue in St. Helens. Time: 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM.
WHAT TO BRING TO THE COLLECTION

• Expired or unwanted prescription medications*
  
• Unneeded over-the-counter medicines*
  
• Drugs that didn't work for you, a family member, or pet
  
• Drugs that are no longer used
  
• Medicine from deceased family members
  
• Unknown tablets and capsules
  

The Old Courthouse Museum in old town St. Helens will be open every Wednesday afternoon starting in March, from noon to 4 p.m. The museum is located upstairs in the historic Columbia County Courthouse. There is no elevator access.

From The Light Bulb 2/26/10
The Light Bulb.
Hi Bill, just a thought-
"If any citizen of the United States shall accept, claim, receive, or retain any title of nobility or honour, or shall without the consent of Congress, accept and retain any present, pension, office, or emolument of any kind whatever, from any emperor, king, prince, or foreign power, such person shall cease to be a citizen of the United States, and shall be incapable of holding any office of trust or profit under them, or either of them."
You have just read, possibly for the first time in your life the thirteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States. It was called the "Title of nobility" amendment, and its story concerns the unlawful removal of a ratified Amendment from the Constitution of the United States.
If you go to the link below, you will find the evidence that our original thirteenth amendment was ratified, and disappeared, the reason why it disappeared, and the consequences of it having disappeared.
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/E/thirteen/thirteen1.htm