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Wednesday, January 29, 2020 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
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Listening to the heart
By Edie Jones
Correspondent
On a recent afternoon
I spent a bit of time at
Paulina Springs Book Store
researching layouts for
my up-and-coming book
about my dog Walker, and
I spotted the timeless, well-
loved book of <Make Way
for Ducklings= by Robert
McCloskey. It made me
smile as it brought back a
vivid memory from just a
few days ago.
Approaching the round-
about at the west end of town
I noticed all of the cars trav-
eling west and all the cars
traveling east had come to
a dead stop. My heart raced,
fearing something dreadful
had happened. Much to my
surprise and delight I saw a
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female deer, following the
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procession of does and
yearlings safely across the
To the Editor:
family services? Of course we do. We depend
highway. They were in no
I9m a newly registered voter in Sisters. I9ve on having a functioning government to sup-
hurry, and neither were any
been following politics for a long time, and port these programs. If our senators walk off
of the cars that sat waiting. I
I9m concerned about making sure our elected the job, as they did last summer, they abandon
rejoiced at the patience and
officials stand up for our interests.
work on basic services that we need.
kindness being displayed.
The legislature will convene on February 3
We have a new senator, Lynn Findley. I
That wasn9t my only
and will stay in session for just over a month hope we can all depend on him to stay on the
memory.
Earlier in the day
to take care of the people9s business. But I9m job in 2020.
I
stopped
at McDonald9s to
worried that increased political partisanship
Mary Chaffin
pick
up
a
quick bite to eat.
has worn down our trust in each other and in
While
standing
in line a
s
s
s
state government. The threat of another state
kindly
gentleman
greeted
senate walkout in 2020 casts doubt on what
To the Editor:
me
and
asked
if
I
was a
can be accomplished in the legislative short
The residents of Sisters Country have a
local
or
passing
through.
I
session.
right to question the wisdom of opening a
shared I9d been here almost
We need to remember how much we rely
Dollar Store in town. I do not recall any public
30 years, and we mused
on each other 4 and on state government 4
discussion of this move. If not, this suggests a
about the fact that we had
and work together. Don9t we want emergency
lack of due diligence on the part of municipal
services when wildfires and natural disas-
never met. His kind greeting
officials.
ters strike? Don9t we want support for public
reminded me of the caliber
safety? Don9t we want access to health and
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of people who live here.
As I came out of Paulina
Springs a couple whom I
did not know greeted me
on the street and we visited
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that were comfortably trim-
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ming the grass. The yearling
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close enough to record her
presence on my phone. How
nice it is to live where not
only the people feel com-
fortable and safe enough to
be friendly, but so do the
wildlife.
As I turned on my car
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Sisters Weather Forecast
and probably also here in
Central Oregon and Sisters
that is not what we want it
to be. There is much we feel
we have little control over.
However, there is much we
can impact and do have con-
trol over. And, in these dis-
ruptive times, there is much
we can teach our young
people about handling such
situations.
Even though we cannot
always determine the out-
comes of events, we can
always determine how we
react to those events. We
always have it in our power
to stand up for what we
believe, speak up when it9s
appropriate, and to do what
is needed to help rectify the
situation. In the end, it may
still not end up as we would
like, however, we will hope-
fully feel confident that we
did what we felt was impor-
tant. The lesson that needs
to accompany is that being
respectful, collaborative and
positive will usually be the
best offense.
Still looking at the day
from my earlier mood, I
reread a Christmas greet-
ing I saved that I received
many years ago. It said,
<With every hand holding
the hand of another, and
every heart heeding the
needs of a brother, let us
encircle God9s world with
love.= In this time of unrest
and uncertainty I can9t help
but believe this is the man-
tra the world needs to adopt.
With the emphasis on civil-
ity and the work going on in
our small area of the world,
I feel it is happening in
Sisters.
I decided to listen to my
heart, and turned off the
radio.
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