Scott Jones

Scio High School

Class of 1989

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Scott Jones - Class of 1989 - Scio High School

First Name	Scott
Last Name	Jones
Graduation Year	Class of 1989
Gender	Male
Hometown	Scio, Oregon
Relationship Status	Married
About Me	Embrace change, with change comes knowledge! What do I Stand for? I stand for love. I believe that this is the most important thing we can do. Love. Many words come to mind and are part of this, empathy, compassion, sharing, caring, believing, honoring, acceptance, listening, patience, understanding and the list can go on. The bottom line is that if I love people for who they are, for where they are, for what they are, I will be more likely to build meaningful relationships and grow myself from those relationships. On top of that I find love to be a central focus in my understanding of Jesus and what he stands for, so why shouldn't I make that a principal focus? I stand for the environment. This is something that has been important to me since I was a young man. Where I grew up it was rural and we had to cart our recycling and refuse 20 miles to a recycling center. I would make sure it was sorted and we would pay the extra money to leave the recycling at the landfill. I grew up in a beautiful place, Western Oregon. The motto was "Keep Oregon Green" this has led me over the last several decades to be careful in what I throw away, what I buy, how I use it. I have also had an awareness of what our civilization is doing to our beautiful planet and I emphatically believe that we can successfully do things differently and with less impact on our planet. The planet that needs to carry future generations through the void of space for many years to come. Seriously, do we go around blowing holes in our yard and pouring caustic chemicals in our flower beds or gardens? Each and every one of us has a responsibility to be considerate of our impact and each of us can make a difference, even if it is small, in how our planet is maintained. I am doing mine to the best of my ability, I implore you to do yours. I stand for a healthy food supply and an awareness of the destructive influence of money and marketing on the food and health care that we must have to truly live a productive and full life. Our food supply has a focus on convenience and addictive flavor more than it does on nutrition and sustenance. This is destructive and has created a health crisis like our species has never seen. Especially in the most prosperous nations. With that health crisis has came a health care industry that is more focused on corporate profits than individual well being. I know this because I was involved. As a professional drug dealer at a major retail pharmacy I was given the #1 goal. Profit. Not health care or patient care. This is pervasive throughout the industry from insurance companies to hospitals. Though the individual nurse, pharmacist or doctor may have the best interest of the patient in mind, simply go up a notch or two in the hierarchy and the focus quickly moves to money. We can do a lot to change this, it all starts with individual awareness of what we put in our bodies and how we take care of our physical and spiritual being. If we could put our food supply and health care back into the hands of our local farmers and local practitioners we would find that we have a much more successful and healthful system. I stand for equality and acceptance, honoring humanity. When I was 17 I flew from Oregon to Georgia to go through Army Basic training. On my flight I met another recruit from Colorado. We became friends over the flight. Soon after we arrived at our post I was pulled aside by other recruits and told that I shouldn't be friends with my Colorado friend because he was black (he was actually Afro-Asian). This disturbed me a great deal and so I rebelled. I hung out with whomever I wanted to during those seven weeks. Later when I came home I began to recognize discrimination and racial hatred in my community and even in my family. Racial slurs and innuendoes were common even if not recognized by the speaker. Later when I moved and lived in several large cities I would often have the opportunity to meet people from other cultures and backgrounds. I remember once handling a situation as diversity affairs coordinator at the retailer I worked for. When a person went through a sex change operation and they were at the point when the identity changed. We met with each person in the store to discuss the issue. The anger and disgust was prevalent. Once we educated and explained what was going on the attitudes became softer and the fears smaller, some became friends with the person. Eventually friendships that didn't exist before, grew. All of these experiences led me to the belief that if we fear a different perspective, a different culture or a different lifestyle than we should really do everything to educate ourselves and learn about that which we fear. More often than not our fears and negative way of thinking are unwarranted and will go away. We will be much more able to have a meaningful interaction with the culture or perspective that we originally feared. It is only then that we can be sure that our perspective can be clearly communicated, because before that if it was even heard it was perceived as hate, discrimination or harassement and fell before deaf ears. Each and everyone of us, no matter where we live, what we do, or where we came from are here for a purpose. I give God credit that he knows what he is doing. He designed me and I am different th...(read more)