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I reuse plastic bottles. The water here
is very good. I reuse individual cranberry
juice bottles because they are the perfect
size for a half a cup of Splash or V8 fusion.
I only throw the bottles away when they
are too worn out or they won’t come clean.
Catherine E. Southward
Eugene
OREGON BACH FESTIVAL
GUN CRAZY
Earlier this month we marked one year
since the shooting at Pulse nightclub in
Orlando, Florida, and two years since the
shooting at a church in Charleston, S.C.
And the world watched in shock as mem-
bers of Congress were targeted while prac-
ticing baseball.
These are only the shootings that made
headlines. The reality is 93 people are
killed by gun violence every day in this
country, and few of those deaths make
the papers. Between these shocking mass
shootings and the daily toll of gun vio-
lence, I run out of language to talk about
the carnage.
In fact, you know one of my greatest
fears? That all the media coverage and all
the vigils will numb us until it starts to feel
normal.
It doesn’t have to be this way. It
shouldn’t be this way. And together we can
fight this terrifying “new normal.”
We are one nation united against this
kind of violence and working toward a na-
tion where you can go to work or school or
baseball practice without the fear of being
shot. If a divided Congress can come to-
gether for nine innings of baseball, we can
work together to make this the safer nation
we all want and deserve.
Curtis Taylor
Eugene
june
29 - julY 15
starts tODaY!
Bach: St. Matthew Passion
June 29 & 30
Explore German Baroque
with Monica Huggett
July 1
[re]Discovery Series
Bach: St. John Passion
July 5, 10, 12
Paul Jacobs
All-Bach Organ Recital
July 6
Venus & Adonis
July 7
Handel: Hercules
July 8
The Protecting Veil
& Howells Requiem
July 9
Don Quixote
July 13
Beethoven: Missa Solemnis
July 15
MOTHER NATURE’S REVENGE
The United Nations just released a re-
port predicting that our planet’s human
population will grow by another 2.2 billion
(with a “B”) by 2050. America’s contri-
bution to that increase will be due almost
entirely to immigration and births to im-
migrants.
It’s interesting that those who holler
the loudest about anthropogenic-related
climate change, crowded classrooms, re-
source depletion, traffic gridlock, defores-
tation, loss of farmland, habitat destruction
and shrinking water supplies rarely cite the
root cause of all the foregoing as well as
many of the world’s other problems.
Instead they clamor for open borders,
greatly increased “refugee” admission and
sanctuary cities that will lure more illegal
immigration.
Since we refuse to control our numbers,
Mother Nature will eventually do it for us,
and it ain’t gonna be pretty.
Jerry Ritter
Springfield
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