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Wallowa County Chieftain A4 Wednesday, December 18, 2019 VOICE of the CHIEFTAIN Letters to Santa reveal real Wallowa County needs, hopes and dreams D ear Santa, We hope you read all the letters that Wallowa County’s children wrote to you. Just to be sure you see them, we are publish- ing them all in the Chieftain this week. You’ll notice that a lot of kids here are somewhat wor- ried about you, Rudolph and Mrs. Claus (AKA Mrs. Claws). Perhaps it’s climate change and the fact that you are losing a lot of snow up there and the igloos that your elves work in may be melting too early in the year for them to really get much toy-mak- ing done. Most Wallowa County kids want an assortment of toys, but they also are hoping for pets, including (lots of) pup- pies, kittens, cats, bunnies, horses, and ponies. Some have a more exotic bent: a talking bird, a python, and of course, an assortment of dinosaurs. we hope you are cautious about introducing these to Wallowa County families. There are some letters full of love and pensive worry that you should pay close attention to, even though they might be beyond your magical powers. “My mom is always work- ing so can you get her some- thing to help her get done at work faster so she can have more time with my sis brother and me please.” And “Are the elves working? Can you help my papa with his back. Can you help me in school? Can you help my brother in school?” And “My mom is very tired at night and she still has to feed and I want some- thing that can help her feed faster because my dad is out of town and I want to have more time with her.” For the sake of family peace and sanity you may want to focus on just part of the wish list in others, like the girl who wants one hundred cats, and for her grandma to get her medicine. Cats seem to be on many wish lists of real and important needs. “May I please have a cat? Can my mom have a cat? Can my dad have a cat? Can my sister have a house?” And there are a few wish- ful thinkers out there who are hedging their bets. “Can you please get me a baby chick or a horse with some room for it?” And “I want (my sister) to have a slime kit, a laptop, a iPhone and computer. Also $20,000,000 dollars!” We can all relate to them. Then there are kids with a kind and empathetic spirit, like the girl who wanted a new dog, not for herself, but for a friend who’s dog had passed away. “I feel so sorry! I am thinking that he should get a dog that looks just the same so that he can’t feel the pain,” she said. There’s also a daredevil paleontologist who asked for “a real megladon shark, they’re huge!....Maybe you could shrink them to get them on your sled.” And what will his parent do when Santa delivers? (Megladon sharks were 30 to 60 feet long and lived 23 to about 3.6 million years ago.) As for the Chieftain, what we would like, Santa, in addi- tion to all the above (well, maybe not the Megladon…) is lots of snow in the mountains, lots of water in our streams, no fi res this summer, and lots of health and prosperity for all of us in Wallowa County. We’d also like it if you could help us {span}all be nice and respectful to each other and set our differences aside. Maybe you could help us remember that the things that we get riled up about in the end are just things. Being kind and loving to each other is what will change our lives and others around us. {/span}Also, could you please get people to do that nice two (sometimes four)-fi nger hand-on-the-steer- ing wheel wave to one another again? Hope Rudolph and all the reindeer are well and ready for their trip. We will put out some cookies for you and carrots for the reindeer. Merry Christmas to all. Your friend, the Chieftain. LETTERS to the EDITOR Our commander in chief has the character of a dictator, not the leader of a free country A VIEW from the GALLERY By Kim Hutchison Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukah, Happy Kwanza, Happy Winter Solstice Happy/ Merry whatever YOU chose to celebrate or not celebrate I just spent the day decorating cookies with a bunch of kids at the VFW Post. Reminded me of holidays from years gone past. A day spent making a mess with cookies, rice crispy treats, and just about any other kind of sug- ary stuff that is not really good for you. Had a great time. Don’t really have much to say this month… Not for lack of mate- rial. The circus in Washington is full of stuff I could write about. But I’m going to leave the pol- itics and political talking points outside and just have a good day. I’m going to wish everyone a very unpolitically correct Merry Christ- mas, Happy Hanukah, Happy Kwanza, Happy Winter Solstice, Happy/Merry whatever YOU chose to celebrate or not celebrate. And along with that I’m going to wish you and yours a happy, healthy and prosperous new year. Respectfully, Kim Hutchison To the Editor: A GOVERNMENT OF THE PEO- PLE.. How is this working for us? Our Commander-in-Chief may be an extreme example: Defi es the rule of law Self proclaimed sexual predator Refuses to respond to legal congressio- nal subpoena orders requesting documents and directs executive employees to not appear for congressional subpoenas. Used campaign funds to pay women ‘hush money’. Confl ict of interest Green lighted Turkey’s invasion of Syria and attack on our Kurdish allies (Trump has licensed Trump Towers in Turkey worth millions of dollars in royalties). Financially benefi tted from Saudi Ara- bia even though most of the 9/11 terror- ists were Saudi Nationals, Saudi Arabia is guilty of killing and dismembering an American journalist and a Saudi National Save on your taxes with a year-end donation to the Oregon Cultural Trust JOSEPH, December 13, 2019--Complete your end- of-year gift giving with the Oregon Cultural Trust (OCT) tax credit. To take advantage of this program make a donation to one or more of Oregon’s 1,400+ qualifying nonprofi ts (or total the amount you already gave this year), then make a matching gift to Oregon Cultural Trust by December 31. When you fi le your state taxes claim the cultural tax credit and get 100 percent Wallowa County’s Newspaper Since 1884 M EMBER O REGON N EWSPAPER P UBLISHERS A SSOCIATION Published every Wednesday by: EO Media Group VOLUME 134 USPS No. 665-100 P.O. Box 338 • Enterprise, OR 97828 Offi ce: 209 NW First St., Enterprise, Ore. Phone: 541-426-4567 • Fax: 541-426-3921 Contents copyright © 2019. All rights reserved. Reproduction without permission is prohibited. terrorist has murdered three American ser- vice men. All with no consequences to any actions. Favored Russia in many of his actions. Including resisting new sanctions, efforts to remove existing sanctions, weakening Ukraine’s ability to resist Russia’s inva- sion and sharing national secrets with Rus- sia. Trump’s efforts to establish a ‘Trump Tower’ in Moscow are well known. Nepotism • Ivanka Trump, daughter, and Jared Kushner, son-in-law, each have fi nan- cial interests co-mingled with Donald J. Trump. They have personally benefi tted from their positions assenior advisors to the administration in dealing with China and Saudi Arabia. Donald Trump has per- sonally intervened to provide high level security clearance for each. Let’s be honest — this person has the character of a DICTATOR, not a leader of a free country who has taken an oath to the Constitution. Regardless of belief, skin color or political persuasion, a dictator is dangerous to each and every one of us. Surely we can do better than this! David Ebbert Enterprise, OR General manager, Jennifer Cooney, jcooney@wallowa.com Editor, Ellen Morris Bishop, editor@wallowa.com Publisher, Chris Rush, crush@eomediagroup.com Reporter, Stephen Tool, steve@wallowa.com Reporter, Bill Bradshaw, bbradshaw@wallowa.com Administrative Assistant, Amber Mock, amock@wallowa.com Advertising Assistant, Cheryl Jenkins, cjenkins@wallowa.com of your Oregon Cultural Trust donation back. Your donation will be used to fund Oregon arts, heritage and humanities statewide. Wallowa County Cultural Trust Coalition grant funds come from the Oregon Cultural Trust. 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