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Wednesday, March 1, 2017 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
LETTERS
Continued from page 17
state government is spending eight times more
than it did in 1980.
I don’t believe our population has increased
eight times from the 1980 population to refer
to the budget analysis of newly elected State
Senator Dennis Linthicum from District
28 (Klamath Falls and southern Deschutes
County).
The “Oregon Way” needs an overhaul.
Patti Adair
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To the Editor:
Why do we protest and resist President
Trump’s administration? We are exercising
our First Amendment rights of free speech.
Similar to the Tea Party movement which
arose in 2009 to oppose President Obama,
millions of people across the country who
do not support President Trump have come
together in communities of all sizes to share
concerns and develop initiatives to oppose
actions and legislation that we feel is not right
for the country.
Although President Trump won the
Electoral College vote, the final vote tallies
show that 73,648,823 voters chose someone
other than Mr. Trump — that’s 54 percent
of voters. That’s a lot of people who did not
believe he was the best choice for president. .
Many of us are alarmed by these and many
other issues and actions:
His reliance on Steve Bannon as chief
strategy advisor who has a history of anti-
Semitism and promotion of white supremacy.
His Cabinet choices who appear to want to
destroy the departments and agencies that will
be under their care. His refusal to release his
tax returns so we can see the extent of his con-
flicts of interest.
We want to see an investigation of Russian
interference in the election by an independent
counsel or committee to determine its nature
and extent. We want to make sure that if the
ACA is repealed, it is replaced with a better
and cheaper plan.
We want to be sure that regulation reform
maintains protections important for the wel-
fare of our earth and the people. We are
concerned that his tax policy will enrich the
wealthy while ignoring the middle class and
hurting the poor.
We are watching the actions of our
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President, our senators, representatives and
cabinet officials, and letting them know how
we feel about their actions and plans through
phone calls, emails, letters, office visits, town
halls and demonstrations, if necessary. This is
democracy in action.
Martha Adamson
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To the Editor:
Let me summarize Yvonne Suckow’s
February 22 vitriolic and condescend-
ing assessment of those of us who oppose
Trump: We are children having tantrums, so
immersed in self-pity we don’t understand
Trump “will do great things,” un-American
and unpatriotic, motivated by some kind
of blind hatred. If we don’t want to join
the “majority” who back him, she suggests
we go live in “those countries you love so
much.”
Were it only that simple.
Whether Trump does great things or
destroys our democracy will be answered in
the history books of the future. Thus far, all
we have are promises and signatures on a
pile of edicts that are about to crash the fiscal
wall.
But Suckow’s biggest mistake is saying
Trump’s opponents “…can be Americans…”
We ARE Americans, patriotic Americans at
that. The protests, or “rioting in the streets” as
she calls it, follow a tradition that goes back
to the tea dumped into Boston Harbor. THIS
is the country we love so much. Hatred can be
gotten over, put aside, ignored; love is much
more powerful and incontrovertible.
Blind hatred? No. Rational animus, per-
haps. I’ve lived in a dictatorship. The warning
signs are all there. The adolescent, psycho-
pathic narcissist in the White House would be
Supreme Leader.
Unity is not achievable by bullying and
snarky, playground taunts to “get over it” and
“grow up.” Thus far, Trump has done noth-
ing but pander to his base and wallow in their
adulation. He drives the wedge deeper. His
agenda requires an enemy. 65,853,516 of us
didn’t vote for him, almost 3,000,000 more
than did, so he casts us, his fellow Americans,
as that enemy.
This is OUR country, too; we aren’t going
anywhere. We’ve only just begun.
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Young musicians
will celebrate song
Sisters Folk Festival
is hosting its 10th annual
Americana Song Academy
for Youth (ASAY), March
3-5. ASAY is an inspiring
weekend of music, songwrit-
ing and community-building
through the arts. The week-
end-long event is capped with
a public concert on Sunday.
The academy is produced
by Sisters Folk Festival, and
sponsored by Cris Converse
and The Roundhouse
Foundation.
The Song Academy for
Youth is held primarily at
The Belfry in Sisters, as well
as three additional locations
throughout town. Instructors
this year include: Sisters
Folk Festival veterans Beth
Wood, Keith Greeninger,
Anna Tivel, Mandy Fer, Pete
Kartsounes (from Good Time
Travelers); regional artists
Mosley Wotta, Brent Alan,
Hobbs Magaret, Patrick
Pearsall, Haley Hendrickx;
and Sisters locals and
Americana Project alumni
Slater Smith, Laura Curtis,
Benji Nagel, and many
more. Artists and instruc-
tors Bob Hemenger, Rick
Johnson, Tom O’, and Elias
Appenzeller will also be on
hand to teach and mentor.
“The Song Academy
for Youth is a great oppor-
tunity for both beginners
and advanced artists and
musicians to develop their
skills and build community.
The highlight of the Song
Academy for Youth is wit-
nessing students of all levels
having a chance to shine,”
said Kerani Mitchell, pro-
gram manager of Sisters Folk
Festival.
The Academy brings
young people together in
a non-competitive format
to cultivate musicianship,
songwriting and creativ-
ity. Classes include poetry
and lyric-writing, perform-
ing, singing, guitar-playing
and a private concert perfor-
mance on Saturday evening.
High school students from
Colorado, California, Bend,
Redmond, and Sisters all plan
to attend.
On Sunday, March 5,
many of the young art-
ists will perform in a public
“Celebration of Song” con-
cert at The Belfry at 7 p.m.
The instructors and mentors
will support the performances
by young artists as a culmina-
tion of the ASAY weekend.
Tickets are $5 at the door for
the Sunday evening concert
at The Belfry.
For more information on
the 2017 Sisters Folk Festival
Americana Song Academy
for Youth and “Celebration of
Song” visit www.sistersfolk
festival.org or call the festival
office at 541-549-4979.
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