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Wednesday, May 18, 2016 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
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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…
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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.
Judy Bull
See LETTERS on page 16
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