Wednesday, August 5, 2020 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
LETTERS
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rental vans and putting them in custody, all done
by federal agents with military gear and weap-
ons but little or no identification? I didn9t see
Mr. Cornelius stand grimly brandishing auto-
matic weapons to protect us from the federal
<jack-booted thugs= or black helicopters circling
overhead.
Perhaps he thinks it is okay to assault the moms
linking arms to protect the protesters and even club
our military veterans who are attempting to do the
same. I admit that it has been years since I prac-
ticed law, but I recall that the right of the people
to peaceably assemble for a redress of grievances
is protected by the First Amendment and freedom
from unreasonable searches and seizures and arrest
only upon probable cause enshrined in the Fourth.
But perhaps his interest in the U.S. Constitution is
limited to the Second Amendment.
Without evidence, he states that the Portland
mayor and city commissioners are <overtly hos-
tile to law enforcement.= Does he mean that they
will not turn a blind eye to law enforcement killing
unarmed black men? The Tell in his piece is that he
mentions George Floyd only in passing.
He couldn9t resist throwing a jab at our gover-
nor. Well, our petite female governor stood up to
the bully boys of Chad Wolf, acting head thug of
the DHS and got them to back down.
T. Lee Brown9s thoughtful and evidence-
based piece on the opposite page more eloquently
answers Mr. Cornelius9s vacuous writing. What
Mr. Cornelius needs to do is watch the excruciating
videos of federal agents9 actions in Portland and
then write and have published his apology.
Michael Wells
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To the Editor:
A road cleanup of Highway 242 4 one of
four scheduled per year 4 between Cold Springs
Campground and Sisters Middle School, was orga-
nized by Crossroads HOA activities committee
Joanne Anttila and Amber Barton on July 22.
It is a great way to make the community a nicer
place, and social distance at the same time.
From the seven volunteers who participated,
nine yellow bags of trash of <various= items were
collected. This was unexpected as we thought
COVID-19 travel would eliminate some of the
debris. What is disheartening is the amount of trash
that traffic has dumped on that section of the road
in just two weeks since that event. I hope it is not
Oregonians doing it.
Another issue I want to mention is that traffic is
supposed to slow down between the orange ODOT
signs warning of litter crews, not speed up. It is
hard to control a yellow trash bag when people
drive by you as if they are being chased by an OSP!
There will be another road cleanup scheduled,
probably in September.
Bill Anttila
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To the Editor:
This letter is to the citizens of Sisters. I am
encouraging you to run for office.
Bah-humbug, you may say, but please read
this. You see, I am working on running. Yep. I
am not a candidate yet 4 takes a little reading
and a splash of paper work to get approved and
confirmed. So, in the meantime, if the possibil-
ity of Cobb on Sisters9 City Council sounds like
a bad omen to you, then you may want to recon-
sider your first reaction of poo-pooing the idea of
running.
The last two election cycles, in which three City
Council seats always become open, only three can-
didates ran. So, of course they won. I think that is
sort of sad. I know from being on an HOA board
for the past three years that many folks will com-
plain and a few will be very supportive, but even
a smaller number, indeed, will run for office. It
appears this is also the case for council seats. Let9s
change that.
To run for City Council (a volunteer job),
you only need to have lived in Sisters for last 12
months continuously, be a registered voter in the
City of Sisters (the seat is non-partisan), and have
a functioning heart (yeah, I added that last bit).
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To get a feel for the job, you will want to check
out the City Council meetings on www.ci.sisters.
or.us/meetings and if you want to be apprised
about up-coming meetings go to www.sisters.
teamaha.com/newsletter/subscriptions. To explore
running, go to the main website to review the
information www.ci.sisters.or.us/administration/
page/elections-information. If you decide you
want a hard copy of the process or have ques-
tions, call or email the City Recorder, Kerry
Prosser at City Hall (541-323-5213 or kprosser@
ci.sisters.or.us). I found Kerry is extremely
helpful.
Here9s the skinny on running: There are three
simple forms to fill out to get the ball rolling. You
formally let the City know you seriously want to
run by filling out and submitting to City Hall an
SE101 and a partially filled out SE121. If your
content checks out, City Hall will give back your
SE121s to be completed with names/signatures
from registered voters living in our precinct 30.
One only needs 10 names but, getting twenty
names assures you9ve got all you need in case
someone signs twice or is not in fact a registered
voter or is in another precinct. Once the SE121s
(only 10 names to one form) are filled out, then you
fill out an SEL338 to go with each SEL121 3 so,
two of those.
Lastly, the City Recorder and Deschutes County
Clerk make sure all is copacetic and let you know if
you need to resubmit one of the SE121s or SE338s.
If all checks out, they let you know if you are a
candidate. This all must get done before August 25
by 5 p.m. and might take you three weeks at most.
Plenty of time left for you to run after reading this
letter.
Once a candidate, there are decisions to be made
about having a campaign or not and assuring you
track your spending. So, please, join me in run-
ning for a seat on Sisters City Council. Let9s have a
lively election this time.
Susan Cobb
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