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2 Wednesday, May 18, 2016 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon O P I N I O N Local donations go a long way in helping no account held back “for a rainy day.” Grants from Correspondent larger foundations are used The people who to pay for the equipment to inhabit Sisters Country are support these missions, such generous. There are any as fishing rods and reels, number of projects in the boats, trailers, and the trucks community that simply to haul them. A relatively small would not survive without the financial contributions of donation of a couple our friends, neighbors, and hundred dollars can have local businesses. Whether a big impact. It only takes it’s a My Own Two Hands $150 to get four veterans out fundraiser for Sisters Folk on the water for a fly fishing Festival programs — trip. Warfighter Outfitters enormously successful this year — donations of is providing a tremendous food to the food bank, cut- service, and quite likely rate catering services, or saving lives. The hunting, hours of unpaid volunteer fishing, and engagement work, Sisters folk keep trips serve as therapy on the water, or in the woods, giving. In a small town like where those who have been Sisters, the hat gets passed wounded in combat can frequently, and repeatedly, re-integrate into civilian and miraculously, people life, learn a new hobby, or simply get keep giving out of the of money, house with or time, or No one leaves a people who both. No one could blame Warfighter Outfitters event have similar experiences. the fine as a stranger... It would be folks of our difficult to community overstate if a measure of donor fatigue were how important that can setting in. Here’s hoping it be to veterans who might find themselves feeling cut won’t. If you are looking for a off, or shelved, after being worthy cause to contribute wounded in combat. This simple, direct too, please consider a financial contribution to approach to helping disabled Sisters based Warfighter veterans is working, as Outfitters, a 501(c)(3) the long list of applicants founded by Brett Miller, waiting for trips shows. In who was severely wounded the veteran community, the in the Iraq war. The mission word is out: a single fishing of Warfighter Outfitters trip with fellow veterans can is to get combat wounded often do more good than an veterans out on the land entire of year of counseling hunting, or on the waters at the VA. No one leaves a fishing, or out into our Warfighter Outfitters event nation’s National Parks as a stranger, and at a time for engagement missions, when veteran suicides are where veterans from around escalating exponentially, the country assemble to the cause could not be more assist local officials in prescient, or pressing. It is an adage of military understaffed improvement service to leave no one projects. Last year, Warfighter behind. Warfighter Outfitters Outfitters served over 1,000 is striving to accomplish combat disabled veterans, precisely that, and to more than two large offices turn no one away. Please of the Wounded Warrior consider a donation, with Project combined. They the confidence that it will have a goal to serve 2,000 be spent wisely and on a worthy mission. this year. Learn more at Sadly, there are more veterans than money to www.facebook.com/ warfighteroutfitters/. Tax serve them. 100 percent of donations deductible donations can to Warfighter Outfitters be made directly at: www. go directly to fund the warfighteroutfitters.org. Craig Rullman serves veteran outings. When the donations come in, the trips on the board of directors of go out. There is no reserve, Warfighter Outfitters. By Craig Rullman Letters to the Editor… The Nugget welcomes contributions from its readers, which must include the writer’s name, address and phone number. Let- ters to the Editor is an open forum for the community and contains unsolicited opinions not necessarily shared by the Editor. The Nugget reserves the right to edit, omit, respond or ask for a response to letters submitted to the Editor. Letters should be no longer than 300 words. Unpublished items are not acknowledged or returned. The deadline for all letters is noon Monday. To the Editor: Just trust us?! I read and re-read all the articles in the May 4 issue of The Nugget and here’s what I learned. We are told “some” people (do we even get to know how many?) were not happy with our city manager because they felt he was “harassing and bullying” them (to do their jobs, maybe?) and we got so riled up about this that we formed committees, put him on leave, hired an impartial investigator who found the offenses to be inconclusive (a report the public can’t see because it would be EMBARRASSING to the remaining employees) and then regardless the “conflicting evidence” in the findings, we now have the resignation of the best city manager this town has had in a very long time. Sisters has never looked better and, to get great things done in a timely manner, sometimes feelings get hurt or some people get jealous. But most towns get beyond that because their officers, leaders and staff are adults. It is no surprise then that the City of Sisters had to accept Mr. Gorayeb’s conditions of resignation (and give him a reasonable severance) because obviously the efforts to fire him were wrong-headed and we paid for it. To say that the meeting which should have been public was not because it was so stressful council forgot to make it public makes one want to know how dumb council thinks we are. And lastly, to say that the public will know that the council only has the best interest of Sisters at heart is the worst joke of all. And now we should trust council to be reasonable? The way I read it, the city manager was not the problem. S. G. Cobb • • • To the Editor: What a shame that it appears the city council has allowed Sisters to be the latest victim of Gorayeb’s bullying. 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