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2 Wednesday, June 6, 2018 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon O P I N I O Open the gate WELCOME PARTICIPANTS & PATRONS! 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 Unpublished items are not acknowledged or returned.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. he doesn’t care about protecting us from big banks. I believe she is referring to the partial roll-back of the Dodd-Frank bill restrictions, which in fact was the result of a bi-partisan vote, 67-31 in the Senate. As her last attempt of besmirching Greg’s character, Paula is ruthless as she pulls out the “global-warming card,” throwing poor Greg completely under the bus where he is now quite possibly responsible for fires, floods, hurricanes, and tornadoes. Where’s the LOVE? Jeff Mackey s s s To the Editor: Obviously things aren’t going to get any better in town traffic-wise, regardless of the current or next-gen (or next-next-gen, or See LETTERS on page 13 Sisters Weather Forecast Courtesy of the National Weather Service, Pendleton, Oregon Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Monday Partly Cloudy Partly Cloudy Mostly Sunny AM Showers Partly Cloudy Mostly Sunny 79/49 77/43 76/46 57/37 60/37 73/44 The Nugget Newspaper, LLC Website: www.nuggetnews.com 442 E. Main Ave., P.O. Box 698, Sisters, Oregon 97759 Tel: 541-549-9941 | Fax: 541-549-9940 | editor@nuggetnews.com Postmaster: Send address changes to The Nugget Newspaper, P.O. Box 698, Sisters, OR 97759. Third Class Postage Paid at Sisters, Oregon. abandoned when the path proponents would not put Guest Columnist their path preferences on Most of you probably do the table. Through all this not know that McKenzie we were assured by the Pass Highway 242 has been pathies that there were plowed and is ready for no more secret bike paths plans, big group hug. traffic now. Yet here we find our- Unfortunately mem- bers of the local bicycling selves again. Our local community, a local politi- officials including Sisters’ cian and the (retiring) head then mayor/bike shop of ODOT Region 4 have owner, trails club officers, conspired again to secretly and bicycling commu- block it off and again nity have again decided secretly operate a local bike not to tell us about their path. This time it’s State new bike path. Mr. Bryant Highway 242 to McKenzie and former Commissioner Pass. You didn’t know? Of Unger stonewalled, evaded questions, course not, and offered that was their “fluid,” plan. W i t h o u t Want to ski or hike the inconsistent explana- any advance public notice, trails? Sorry, bikes only. tions for the ODOT, our Want to fish or hunt? closure. M r . county com- B r yant’s missioners Sorry, bikes only. ... most recent (Unger and Baney), and It’s a state highway, s t o r y i s this: ODOT members not a bike path. now plows of the local McKenzie bicycling Pass TWICE community have locked us out of our every year “to save us iconic natural landmark and money.” That’s right, he’s national forests for months saving us money! ODOT every spring. Want to take first deploys plows and per- visitors to see the pass? sonnel as soon as possible Sorry, bikes only. Want to in the spring to Highway ski or hike the trails? Sorry, 242, but clears only one bikes only. Want to fish or lane (a bike path), then hunt? Sorry, bikes only. locks the gate again. For Want to camp? Sorry, bikes the following months, until only. In town for the Sisters late June, only bicycles are Rodeo and like to see our allowed beyond the closed most famous landmark gate; no motorized vehicles. Sometime in June appar- attraction? Well, you know, ently ODOT deploys plows sorry. This isn’t the first time and personnel to McKenzie the same players have run Pass a SECOND time and a similar bike path scam on only then plows open the us. Recall the failed Sisters- second lane for motor to-Black Butte Ranch vehicles. Saving you and paved bike path. For those me money all the while. who don’t, a few local Unfortunately Mr. Bryant bicyclists, trail club lead- tells me that ODOT does ers, Bob Bryant of ODOT, not tabulate cost num- Unger and the USFS local bers for plowing, and has district ranger concocted a refused to —“cannot” — plan to pave a path in the provide them to me. Does forest. No notice, moles anyone reading this believe on HOAs, etc. Once some that? It’s time again for some light was shone on the “plan” and the tactics of its light to be shined on another proponents, it became per- secret bike path and reverse haps the most bitter pub- it. It’s a state highway, not lic dispute I can recall in a bike path. We also need to understand how this Sisters. John Allen, head of the has happened again after Deschutes National Forest, being assured that it would overruled the Sisters not. So would you please District Ranger’s approval help me by contacting the and decreed no more paths papers, the county com- without a community pro- missioners, ODOT, USFS, cess and a consensus. A and STA and insisting they state effort to mediate the come clean and reverse this failed bike path plan was fiasco? OPEN THE GATE! By Glenn Brown SISTERS RODEO To the Editor: In the May 30 edition of The Nugget, Paula Surmann submitted a Letter to the Editor chas- tising Greg Walden for becoming more con- servative and no longer caring about regular people. I’m not sure what I’ve missed, but aren’t lower taxes, smaller government, peace through strength, rule of law, standing for the national anthem, creating jobs, securing our borders, support for the unborn, free speech, right to bear arms, transparency at the highest level of government and “One Nation Under God” conservative values that “regular peo- ple” voted for in the last presidential election? Paula then goes on to blame Walden for 64,000 people losing health coverage. I thought Obama Care was supposed to fix all that; plus we were guaranteed to keep our cur- rent doctor and healthcare coverage as well. Millions lost their coverage and doctor. Paula then reads Greg’s mind telling us N Editor in Chief: Jim Cornelius Production Manager: Leith Easterling Classifieds & Circulation: Teresa Mahnken Graphic Design: Jess Draper Community Marketing Partners: Patti Jo Beal & Vicki Curlett Accounting: Erin Bordonaro Proofreader: Pete Rathbun Owner: J. 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