The Corvallist

Tuesday, September 19, 2006

It's Update Tuesday!

Here are some updates to previous posts:

  • In addition to Rich Riffle, two more gentlemen have announced that they will be waging write-in campaigns in the race to see who will be our next sheriff. Animal control officer Randy Hiner and retired Army officer Dana McAvoy have decided that the best way to show their support for a change in leadership at the Benton County Sheriff Dept. is to split the vote, virtually guaranteeing an easy win for Diana Simpson.

  • The Willamette Week published an article last week about Cevelino Capuia that made him sound like a charming young man from a good Christian family led astray by Shawn Womack, "a tough kid" who used "New York slang." Except that Womack is also from a good Christian family and used to live in a suburb of Watertown, NY... more than a 6-hour drive from New York City, more Canada than "the hood." These boys have both freely confessed their roles in a triple homicide. Let's not paint an overly rosy picture of them, but let's not slander their families, either.

  • Arkhold Endowed Websites seems to be offline. Hope that's not an indicator of their ability to preserve websites for posterity!

  • A friend with connections sent me the complete S. M. Stirling trilogy set in a semi-apocalyptic Willamette Valley (thank you, J!) and I burned through most of the first book, Dies the Fire, this afternoon. At first, I found myself nitpicking some of the details that only locals would know (example: locals just don't refer to Squirrel's Tavern as "the Squirrel" the way the book's heroine does), but soon found myself enjoying the story and looking forward to the other books. You see, the Bible had it wrong. It's the geeks who inherit the earth.

  • Last, but not least, the Beastmaster is still spreading his message of... whatever.

posted by Corvallist at 5:31 PM

5 Comments:

  • Thanks again for posting news I wouldn't find out about otherwise. Well, I already saw the Beastmaster's sign myself. It's been there several days now.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 12:46 AM  

  • Maybe Hiner's campaign for sheriff is why I have not received a response to a couple of calls about a really bad animal situation near Philomath. It's kind of frustrating, but then I heard he gets like 70 calls a day on animal issues. By contrast, the city animal control officer never calls me back either. There was an open and shut case early June last year of abandonment. I was cleaning an apartment off Lily before a woman moved in completely. I found all these cat toys under the stove and asked her about them. She said the two female students who'd lived there before, had two cats and the neighbor watched them, just before they moved out, remove their collars and dump collars and litterbox into the dumpster, before shoving both of them out the door. She had fed the orange one outside on her porch. He became ill and she took him to Heartland where I would imagine he well, died. The black one was briefly fed by a couple of gay guys, but then disappeared. They even hired a pet communicator in trying to find and save him. I called Animal Control. These girls, who abandoned their cats like trash, needed charged. It is a violation of OR law and a big problem when students leave. They don't seem to care what happens after they just walk away and leave their cats to fend alone. Both these cats died and suffered. Animal control, the city one, never responded.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 8:07 AM  

  • "They even hired a pet communicator in trying to find and save him. I called Animal Control...the city one, never responded."

    Anything from the black cat yet?

    What does a "pet communicator" charge for his/her services, and shouldnt you be contacting the "Beastmaster" about this?

    You guys dont all hang out at the court house together do you?

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 8:01 PM  

  • Steve, You said "C'mon people, please learn about the sheriff candidates and vote accordingly.... Please learn who your candidates are." Who is this comment directed toward?

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 11:59 PM  

  • Alas, would that I had a local to act as first reader and catch the "Squirrel" stuff. There's a limit to what you can do with guidebooks and Google Maps. I have someone in Portland, but that's just not the same.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 1:28 AM  

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