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Wednesday, August 17, 2016 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
Obituary
LETTERS
Continued from page 2
Betty Mae Nelson
February 26, 1929 — August 2, 2016
Betty Mae Nelson was
born to Erma (Phippen)
Nelson and Neils Nelson
in Elgin, Oregon. She
graduated from Elgin High
School and attended Boise
Bible College in Boise,
Idaho. She married William
(“Bill”) A. Kernen on June
8, 1947, in Elgin, Oregon.
During their marriage they
lived in Minnesota, Idaho,
Washington, Oregon and
California. Betty’s dreams
were fulfilled by being a
stay-at-home mom to her
two children.
Betty and Bill moved
to Sisters in 1983. Bill pre-
ceded her in death in 1989.
Betty’s hobbies included
gardening, reading, crochet-
ing and writing letters, and
her love for her cats and
dogs is unparalleled.
Betty is survived by her
sister, Maxine Lee of Castle
Rock, Washington; her
brother Larry (Joyce) Nelson
of Salem, Oregon; son
William C. Kernen of New
York City; and daughter
Susan B. Windell of Sisters,
Oregon. She had three
grandsons: Garett Kernen,
Matthew (Lelah) Windell,
and Caleb (Michelle)
Windell; and five great-
grandchildren: Elizabeth and
Joey Windell; Juliet Kernen;
and Auna and William
Windell. She also leaves
behind her “son-in-law,”
Stephen Perry of Sisters.
Per her request, no ser-
vice is planned. Donations
in her memory may be made
to Russell’s Place at Three
Rivers Animal Shelter in
Madras. Her family wants
to recognize the loving, pro-
fessional care of Hospice of
Redmond and At Home Care
Group and thanks them from
the bottom of their hearts.
Olympic glory...
personal responsibility in the American sys-
tem alive and well?
As an addendum, Denmark recently
announced the termination of their wind-
generation fleet. It is currently subsidized
nearly 70 percent and the citizens are tired of
the cost. The off-shore wind farms are being
feathered. Maybe they are waking up.
As we elect new leaders, we should remem-
ber the old adage, “follow the money.” In this
context, find out who pays and who benefits.
They are likely not the same people. The tax-
payer is under increasing attacks to fund the
entitlement of others. Choose wisely, choose
those who believe in personal responsibility.
Bruce Carpenter
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To the Editor:
(Re: John Kass op-ed column, The Nugget,
August 10, page 2):
Drivel.
I understand a need to provide “fair and bal-
anced” coverage of current affairs, but given
the recent John Kass “article,” I am amazed
that The Nugget allows such biased, misstated,
misleading monologue as valid and informa-
tive — suited for public dissemination.
U.S. economy is growing slowly, yes, but
no mention of how it has also recovered from
an historic bottom with continuously improv-
ing factors impacting our future. To add to
this, Mr. Kass’ trivial claim is that food-stamp
recipients have increased, yet real facts indi-
cate just the opposite.
On Trump:
• A tendency to brag? Tendency?
• Stylistically yells and sighs and makes
idiotic faces? Style?
And Clinton:
• A person nobody listens to? What about
half of the current voters listening and many
GOP donors switching their bets?
• Watching Clinton’s nose grow?
• Timid Romney? A billionaire is rarely
timid BTW.
• And to attempt such a lame metaphor,
gladiators indeed?
I assume the staff at The Nugget has a stan-
dard for truth regardless of where it is found
in factual reporting or words and phrases pub-
lished as “editorial” or “opinion.” As I recall
from my limited introduction to journalism
over the past 60 years, opinion is useful when
applied to or from producible facts and with-
out this baggage, opinions becomes hearsay
and propaganda.
Following along on the national debate
regarding our two viable presidential candi-
dates, it is amazing that someone is trying to
vaguely legitimize Mr. Trump irrespective of
who he is challenging. Mr. Kass’ attempted
sarcasm, metaphor or humor comes to me as
an impassioned but vacuous rambling that is
more appropriate when left to the sophomoric
creative writer of a past generation.
It is quite clear that Mr. Kass has missed at
least one half of the national debate. Is this a
political apology for Mr. Trump?
Michael Richards
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To the Editor:
The comments of local law enforcement
regarding actions by police officers who
have shot and killed a tremendous number of
unarmed people of color in this nation were
tremendously offensive (“Top cops respond
to violence,” The Nugget, August 10, page 1).
It is not the media that is “fertilizing” and
making “theater” of unjustified killing of peo-
ple of color, it is the ability of social media to
make the public aware of some not-so-well-
trained police or police who have been tagged
by their own departments with overly aggres-
sive behavior and assault against minorities.
You can’t watch these videos and not see
unjust killing, no matter how you wish to
stretch reality.
I am very grateful for the ability of citi-
zens to record the overt aggression by officers
that have resulted in so many deaths of pro-
ductive and good people of all ages for being
guilty of being black or Hispanic or Native
Americans. Black Lives Matter (inclusive of
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