FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2015
4 — THE BAKER COUNTY PRESS
Opinion / Entertainment
— Letters to the Editor —
Thanks to community for ‘Night
with Nancy’ success
To the Editor:
Wow! Occasionally we are blessed to
be part of such a truly incredible event,
a celebration where we are able to enjoy
and honor a truly special person. Satur-
day night was one of those occasions and
Nancy Basche is that special person.
There were two goals for the night and
both were met far beyond our wildest
expectations. Your incredible generosity
helps lighten Nancy’s financial burden,
just as important, was your attendance.
Thank you for turning out in incredible
numbers and for showing Nancy that she
is not alone in her journey, and she is very
dear to so many hearts.
The night would not have been the
success it was without the help of excep-
tional people. Tom Lager, Rocky & Diana
Brown & the Baker County Board of Re-
altors stepped up and brought “The Chaz
Browne Group” to the event. This amaz-
ing band had the juke joint jumping all
night. Bev & Dave White, Tabor & Dee
Dee Clarke, Scott & Tracy Warner and the
lovely Amy Dodson were the backbone of
the event. They joyfully put in the time
and resources needed to make this night
over the top! A night that will keep us
talking and fondly reminiscing about the
fun, the friends and the great time we had
with Nancy for years to come.
Thank you Megan Paoletti & Ember
Smith, you added your own special magic
to the evening. You must have set a world
record delivering 400 syringes of “medi-
cation”! You were a joy to everyone who
attended. Without your participation part
of the magic would have been missed. A
sincere thank you to Timothy Bishop who
preserved the evening by taking hundreds
of professional photos for Nancy and her
family to enjoy.
The “ultimate” auction was made pos-
sible by the vision of two groups and the
generosity of the bidders. Casey Vander-
weile and the folks at Triple C Redi Mix
donated the excavator and Mark & Lisa
Ward of Ward Ranches generously provid-
ed the building to be “removed.” Auction
winner, Rob Miller, was as classy as they
come as he proved when he insisted that
Nancy receive the honor of destroying the
pesky building with Triple C’s excavator!
Rob, you are truly first rate.
Thank you everyone for all you have
done. I ask one more thing of you. Keep
Nancy in your prayers and near to your
heart as her journey continues.
Randy Dodson
Baker City Beach Club
Baker City
time by men looking to better their per-
sonal and career positions, and keep the
local residents as silent at they can.
Luckily I didn’t vote for two of the men
on the court today, but unfortunately I did
vote for one, and I can assure you that will
not happen again come the next election
cycle if he is on the ballot. If you know re-
moving public comment from the county
court meetings this is wrong, I would ask
you contact Judge Myers, Commissioners
Britton and Commissioner Labhart and
tell them so.
While what they’ve done may seem
effective to them, I’m sure the people of
Grant County feel different. You deserve a
local government that works for you, not a
group of three men that move to circum-
vent the very people that elected them into
their positions.
John George
Bates
Hillary should clarify gun
control stance
To the Editor:
Tired of hearing that people want an
open motorized access forest, the Grant
County Court abolishes the public com-
ment period from the court agenda.
Two weeks ago the court removed
public comment from the county court
meetings, effectively abolishing your
rights to speak out on topics the court has
jurisdiction over and in what seems to be
an attempt to help move the forest service
agenda ahead to restrict motorized access
in Grant County.
Apparently it is more effective for the
court to be lobbied outside the open court
To the Editor:
It’s time to ask Hillary for clarification on
her mantra of universal background checks
for gun owners. She hasn’t made any
friends in rural America with her referenc-
es to Australian-type gun control, which
is outright confiscation. I am at a loss as
to who might not pass one of these back-
ground checks. What seems to be gaining
traction is “keeping guns out of the hands
of those who might use them for nefarious
purposes.”
School shootings come to mind. The per-
petrators are usually mentally deranged so
it would make some kind of sense to make
sure that they don’t get their hands on a
weapon. At the same time I heard one of
the gun control people say, “There are 40
million people in the United States with
some kind of mental health issue, and some
300 million guns.” So who are these people
that might get on a list?
I assume federal privacy laws will have
to be altered and possibly mental health
professionals might have to turn over the
names of patients. At the same time we are
talking gun control we are talking about
the shoddy state of mental health treatment
in the United States, depression, teen sui-
cides etc.
I wonder how many will come in for
treatment if they think that just going in
to talk about personal problems might put
them on a gun ownership prohibited list.
Our returning vets suffer from high suicide
rates and the military ranks are filled with
a disproportionately high rural recruitment
rate, gun-owning rural America. Will our
vets opt not to treat PTSD because they
might never be allowed to own a gun?
Domestic violence is another thing that
can get you on a gun prohibited list. Are
there any provisions to punish a vindictive
domestic partner who would use gun con-
trol to punish a used to be significant other?
What provisions are there for appeals?
Drug possession felonies sky high and
felons are prohibited from owning a gun
and many times that is a barrier to getting a
nonviolent kid back into the rural lifestyle
of hunting or carrying protection while
alone in the mountains.
The devil is in the details and we need to
know just what details you have in mind,
Hillary.
Steve Culley
Baker City
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• I watched a man dart
across Campbell Street
with money and food
for the panhandler
there. I don’t know the
story of the man who
was begging for money,
and he may be conning
everyone, but if he is,
the sin is on him.
The man with the
food and money had
his heart in the right
place and I thought if
he reads your paper he
might want to see that
someone was watch-
ing and smiling from a
distance.
Thank you to people
like him.
This week’s crossword puzzle
Across
1- Completely without
madness;
5- Jazz singer James;
9- Pale;
14- “Family Ties” char-
acter;
15- Secular;
16- Because of;
17- Pusher pursuer;
18- Corp. VIP, briefly;
19- Horrify;
20- Disfigure;
22- Billow;
24- Start of the 16th
century;
25- Fruit-flavored ice;
29- Fedora features;
32- “Mon Oncle” direc-
tor;
34- Intestinal sections;
35- Bausch & Lomb
brand;
36- “Don Juan” poet;
37- Votes against;
38- Strong ___ ox;
39- Oven emanation;
40- General ___ chick-
en;
41- Mozart’s “___ fan
tutte”;
42- Swiss city on the
Rhine;
43- Versailles verb;
44- Util. bill;
45- Like a line, briefly;
46- First name in pho-
tography;
47- Polygon having ten
sides;
49- Teaching deg.;
50- Pick-me-up;
52- Frenzied woman;
56- Heart chambers;
59- Crime boss;
61- ___ lay me...;
62- Hospital area, infor-
mally;
63- ___ were;
64- Extended family;
65- Tubular pasta;
66- ___ majeste;
67- Spoollike toy;
Down
1- Hourglass filler;
2- Winglike parts;
3- Soft ball material;
4- Pope’s power;
5- Fragrant resin;
6- Put a strain on;
7- Draws;
8- Habituated;
9- Saw;
10- School VIP position;
11- In the know;
12- Zeta follower;
13- Cambodia’s Lon
___;
21- Map lines: Abbr.;
23- Nasal;
26- Explosions;
27- Pal of Pooh;
28- Pendent ornament;
29- Supported;
30- Fix, as a shoe;
31- Momentarily;
32- Despotic;
33- Got up;
36- Large terrestrial
monkey;
46- Orthodontist’s org.;
48- Freak out;
49- Play to the balcony;
51- Jewel ____; CD con-
tainer;
53- Court plea, for short;
54- Traveling;
55- Pebbles’s pet;
56- PC program;
57- It’s past due;
58- Stimpy’s pal;
60- Greek letters;