From the editor’s desk: Events to benefit St. Peter’s
By Pat Caldwell
Sunday, May 24, 2009 12:26 AM PDT
If you are looking for an event to support that is truly a good cause, look no further than the sixth annual St. Peter Scholarship Art & Spirits Festival set for Saturday.
Along with the festival, the fifth annual Celebrity Golf Classic will kick off next Sunday at the Ontario Golf Course.
Tickets for the festival are $40, and that includes a host of events. For example, the festival will showcase food, drinks, a silent auction and music. The festival starts at 5 p.m. and goes to 10 p.m. Saturday at the golf course.
The golf classic will open with a shotgun start at 9 a.m. May 31. The golf event costs $300 per team or $75 per person and includes a lunch, refreshments and other amenities.
The best part about both events revolves around the fact proceeds from each will go to benefit the St. Peter Catholic School here in Ontario.
If you want more info about either event, there are several sources.
Those seeking more information can contact St. Peter school at (541) 889-7363 or Janet Kameshige at (541) 889-8838, John & Kim Barinaga at (541) 212-0933 or Steve and Mick Dominguez at (208) 452-2934.
Both events are not new to the area. In a sense, they are evolving into a kind of tradition with the start of summer, and that makes them both appealing.
The fact the proceeds go to a local school right here in Ontario is another great selling point. Good causes in our area abound, and these two events are a good case in point.
So if you are interested, contact the people mentioned above. For more information, check out our story on the event in today’s Argus.
Memorial Day is a time of remembrance, and it is a holiday packed with modern-day themes of travel and vacation and more traditional topics of recalling our relatives who have passed on and those who died for this great nation.
The brave men and women who gave the last full devotion to this nation rightfully take center stage on Memorial Day. I wonder, though, if we can ever do enough to repay both the living and the dead who laid it on the line for America.
Essentially, it always seems to me, those of us who look upon the brave men and women of the armed forces owe a debt we cannot repay.
That’s why Memorial Day is so important, so significant. It is a holiday not just for traveling or throwing a few steaks on the grill. The day is one where we can take stock and reflect on and celebrate the deeds of those before us.
And it is also a day, now anyway, where we are painfully made aware that America is a superpower with infinite responsibilities on foreign, often hostile, shores.
For many, it isn’t a pleasant thought; for some, it isn’t even a thought at all.
Names like Iraq, Afghanistan, Bolivia all sound far, far away. On main street America, what matters, the conventional wisdom goes, is what happens locally.
Except that simply isn’t true now, if it ever was. Unfortunately, what happens in Afghanistan — as long as young men and women enlist and are sent to defend freedom — matters to main street America.
Unfortunately we cannot turn away from the events that happen in faraway places any longer.
Pat Caldwell is the editor of the Argus Observer. He can be contacted at PatC@argusobserver.com
