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Wednesday, February 1, 2017 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
CERTAINpAGE:pCold
weather shelter has
created community
Continued from page 11
welfare. Sitting around the
table, sharing dinner or
breakfast with them, they
have become my friends and
neighbors.
On any given day, I may
run into one or two of them
around town. Instead of
averting my eyes and passing
in silence, I greet them like I
do any of my friends. When I
ask them how they are doing,
I am sincerely interested to
hear their answer. If I drive
by one of my new friends
walking down the street, my
inclination is to offer them a
ride.
Now, I know them indi-
vidually as Sean, Gene,
William, Jeff and Gina. I
have heard a little of their
stories, their hopes, and their
struggles. I care about them
and they are so gracious to
me, full of thanks and appre-
ciation for what Sisters is
doing to try and ease their
burden a little.
A phenomenon I have
noticed occurring is an out-
growth of the efforts to
establish the shelter. The
petty complaints and divi-
sive suspicions that have set
some citizens against one
another have given way to
a true sense of community,
with the singular goal of pro-
viding needed shelter against
the ravages of winter for
our citizens who lack stable
housing.
Actions speak louder than
words, they say. The actions
Taking
Reservations
for Valentines
Day!
— Valentine’s Day Menu —
Tequila Flight
Fresh Bruised
Prickly Pear Margarita
Pork Al Pastor Quesadilla
Lobster Chile Relleno
Chocolate Flan
5% fundraiser for
the Sisters Cold
Weather Shelter
Thursday
through Sunday
Cooking class
Sat., Feb. 11
541-549-6118
FivePine Campus
www.riosisters.com
of the shelter organizers, vol-
unteers, donors, and the busi-
nesses who have offered so
much in the way of food, ser-
vices, and goods, truly exem-
plify the heart of Sisters.
When we pull together in
love and with good inten-
tions, there’s not much we
can’t do.
My heart swells with
pride for our little town. I am
grateful we are serving our
neighbors and bringing some
light and warmth into this
dark winter.
If you haven’t yet, please
consider volunteering to
prepare a meal, spend seven
hours as a shelter host, or
donate some winter cloth-
ing (men’s, women’s, and
children’s). Your life and
the lives of our shelter guests
will be the richer for your
efforts.
For the month of February
the shelter will be located at
Sisters Community Church,
1300 W. McKenzie Hwy. In
the hangar building behind
the baseball field, accessible
from McKinney Butte Road.
LETTERS
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doctor visits etc. longer to reach if you live
north of Highway 20.
Traffic lights were installed and were won-
derful, but they were removed. Now, I hope
this roundabout is not a disaster like “back-
in parking.” Everyone objected, but the city
did it anyway and enforced it. We, the people,
paid for it and then paid to remove it in order
to return to the usual way of parking.
I am glad of my move from Camp Polk
Rd. to a condo on the south side of Cascade
Avenue.
Mickey Duehren
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To the Editor:
I am supporting Senate Bill 6 for humane
trapping of wildlife in Oregon. As a veteri-
narian, Oregon must advance the humane and
effective improved animal capturing tech-
niques. Over 37 states now use these humane
traps with daily checking. Oregon must fol-
low as well. The use of sharp-toothed traps
results in severe and painful injures that are
barbaric. I support the American Veterinary
Medical Association policy of banning con-
ventional inhumane traps. Legitimate science
and management practices that necessitate
the capture of wildlife must employ the most
humane traps and techniques. These humane
traps and techniques reduce injury and stress
as well as minimizing pain and suffering to
wildlife. Moreover, these humane traps pre-
vent capture of non-target animals such as pet
dogs and pet cats.
David K. Johnson, DVM, DACLAM
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To the Editor:
I sent the following email to my
Congressional Representative Greg Walden.
I urge other constituents that he represents to
speak out too.
Trump’s executive order banning citizens
from seven predominately Muslim countries
would have allowed all of the hijackers of
9/11 to enter the U.S.A.
All of the hijackers came from countries
the president has business interests in.
This is clearly a conflict of interest worthy
of impeachment.
If you do not have the integrity to speak
out on this, you are part of the problem, and
this is the problem:
National Plagiarism
Hitler: Blame it on the Jews.
Trump: Blame it on the Muslims.
We have seen this play before. It doesn’t
end well.
You took an oath to defend the
Constitution, not to defend a narcissistic
megalomaniac.
Dean Billing
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