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city leaders to make this possible. Let us
all join her in that request.
Margaret Buerk
Eugene
HOMELESS KIDS PROGRAM
Unless I missed it, your Dec. 24
“Give Guide” neglected to mention the
First Place Family Center’s pre-school
program for homeless kids which is slated
to close unless funds ($20,000) are raised.
Certainly this oversight was unintentional?
Karl Stout
Eugene
EDITOR’S NOTE: Give Guide is by no means a
comprehensive list of organizations deserving of
donations. EW published a news story on the First Place
Kids Early Childhood Program on Dec. 17, and since
First Place Kids is under the umbrella of St. Vincent de
Paul of Lane County, we chose to mention the larger
nonprofi t and in doing so gave limited print space to other
nonprofi ts that had not recently received attention. Donate
to First Place Kids at fi rstplacekids.org.
BRING BACK STREETCARS
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southwest neighborhood with the
northwest neighborhood and now goes
over the Steel Bridge to the Lloyd Center.
The original streetcar was built by Skoda
in the Czech Republic in 2002 and is still
running without a problem.
A similar streetcar runs in Santa Fe, New
Mexico and Little Rock, Arkansas. Why
doesn’t Eugene have a streetcar on either
Franklin or Willamette? Have you wrongly
convinced yourselves you are too small?
Downtown Eugene needs revitalization,
since people shop where there’s parking at
the Valley River Shopping Center. Eugene
hasn’t fallen for the bigger-and-faster
myth. The streetcar is even quieter than the
remarkable Sky Train in Vancouver, B.C.
Why isn’t there a streetcar in iconoclast
Eugene? Is it because Eugene people
haven’t been to their sister city Portland?
Marc Batko
Portland
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For the past 19 years I have been my
partner’s caregiver; I doubt I will make
20. While Obamacare has brought many
additional opportunities for health care,
it has also brought lots of rules and
regulations.
Home-bound individuals have lots of
opportunities for visits by nurses, therapists
and social workers to deal with specifi c
issues. But while they’re in your home
these people also check for violations of
the many regulations.
One nurse actually said to me, “You
don’t want the state coming in and
seeing these supplements.” I'm not sure
whether she was referring to the number
of supplements or the fact that a couple of
them had expired. (We had stopped taking
the expired ones.) In any case, she made it
sound almost criminal.
Stuff like this makes me think long and
hard about retiring.
John Kiely
Eugene
NO MORE POLITICS
Take away the money, breakdown the
inner wall, plant the seeds of change and
harvest it in the fall. Walk away from the
monetary system we live in. We all pay
taxes but what is the corporate personhood
given?
We all know the corruption at hand, but
when the brave step up, will you stand? We
need radical action, not what the system
has planned.
No more time for peaceful protest. It’s
time to demand: no more politics, no more
“solutions.” This isn’t about money, it’s
about pollution; it isn’t about who’s right,
it’s about a resolution. No more: It’s time
for revolution.
Phalen Petersen
Springfi eld
HOW TO CHECK A GUN
I was dismayed to hear about the
2-year-old girl shot in the face Christmas
day by an adult “cleaning a gun.”
It is impossible to clean the bore of a gun
while it is loaded. Virtually all accidental
(or rather negligent) such shootings are the
result of an idiot behind the gun, pointing
the gun and pulling the trigger. It is really
as simple as that. In most cases it is because
the idiot assumes the gun is not loaded and
“dry fi res” it.
For those who wish to check a gun in
this manner, please fi rst point the gun at
your own head and pull the trigger.
Daniel Schlender
Springfi eld
ONE IN A MILLION
It’s quite impressive that the Paris
agreement on global warming was agreed
to unanimously by the nations of the world.
Kind of a mind-blowing accomplishment,
actually. But, so far, there’s no evidence
one way or the other that this agreement
will translate into actions that will prevent
more global warming.
While we’re waiting to see how
things turn out, there’s every reason
to immediately start reducing our own
personal contributions to global warming.
You might feel that there’s nothing
signifi cant one person can do to impact
global warming, but I would say there’s
nothing so insignifi cant it’s not worth
doing.
Consider a 12-ounce to-go paper coffee
cup. The reality is that how you dispose of
that one cup will have an infi nitesimally
small effect on the world. Why bother?
But I think of that one paper cup
differently. I don’t think of it as one paper
cup getting recycled, because it’s not just
me recycling paper cups. It’s me and a
million other like-minded people recycling
one paper cup. That’s a million paper cups.
That’s getting somewhere.
If you drive one less mile a week and
are joined by a million others, that’s a
million miles less driving. It’s worth doing.
Be a one-in-a-million kind of guy or gal.
Jack Van Dusen
Eugene