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4A COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL July 29, 2015 O PINION LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Bravo! Bravo, Cottage Grove! Tonight a little bit of magic was sprinkled into the center of town via the Eugene Sym- phony’s lovely performance in our new Bohemia Park. It occurred to me how brave it was for the generous benefac- tors and volunteers who must have had moments wondering if anyone would show up. For it takes courage to take a chance on bringing a symphony to town with hopes the music will be a hit (and on a hot night too). Put those wor- ries aside, for it seemed the entire town arrived and thoroughly enjoyed the event. Old friends greeted each other in the crowds, picnickers were every- where and children danced to the tunes with their grinning parents nearby. I’ll remember this night, as it’s a bit too easy to get grumpy with town issues and that certainly includes myself...but tonight? Not so much, for this was a reminder that the real soul of Cottage Grove is how we can come together. Thank you Faye Stewart and everyone else who stepped up to make this night happen. So now...we applaud YOU! Nancy P Wales Cottage Grove Clean up My dog “PUP” and I try to take a walk around the beautiful city of Cot- tage Grove each morning. As Pup and I walk around it makes me happy to be part of a city such as ours, a lot of the well taken care of yards and properties. Occasionally we will notice a Yard of the Week sign; this makes me smile to think of the labor in- volved in keeping one’s place looking nice. Occasionally we will see a yard with large dandelions, morning glory, the start of a blackberry vine and vari- ous other plants that some would fi nd undesirable. I think if the dandelions were just a little bit larger they would be classifi ed as “old growth;” then they would be a protected species. I have to smile then at these yards also, thinking they need a sign that says, “This is not yard of the week”. Just in case some- body was confused, the sign would erase all doubt. Something that is disturbing though, is the inconsiderate jerks who do not clean up after their dogs. A small plas- tic bag is all it would take to pick up the dog poop. I noticed one fellow waiting for his dog to poop then threw his cigarette but down on the sidewalk as he and the dog walked away — nice citizen that person. Signs such as the one on the trails by the ponds that ad- dress dog feces should be placed on the popular walk paths around town; may- be it would cause people to think about cleaning up after their dogs! Dick Gilkison Cottage Grove I recommend prayer Greetings to all of the hate-fi lled lib- erals, Such expressions of hate are not usu- al in the letters to the editor as printed in the Sentinel ("Racism and Hate is alive and well in Cottage Grove, July 22 Sentinel.") But to so blatantly ex- press the desire to trample on another person’s First Amendment rights is certainly indicative of far too much of what passes for the liberal’s credo at the present time. And showing such a childish attitude: “If you will not play by my rules, I will just take my toys home and pout!” And to irrationally punish all the other vendors by with- holding your patronage is just “cutting off your nose to spite your face.” Let me tell you about hate: A few years ago, I was driving in Eugene. Stopped at a red light, I saw a young man run to the middle of the intersection and set an American fl ag on fi re. The hate that I felt toward that person was over- Offbeat Oregon History Oregon’s 20th-century “gold rush”: The quest for uranium BY FINN J.D. JOHN For the Sentinel W hen people talk about mining in Oregon, they’re usually thinking of gold – something the Beaver State still has plenty of, hidden away in high-country streambeds and quartzite ore deposits. But there’s another precious metal out there in Oregon’s out- back, and it’s one that inspired a bigger “gold rush” than even the big one of 1849: Uranium. The heart of the uranium min- ing story is centered on the dry states of the Southwest – Ne- vada, Utah, Arizona, Colorado and New Mexico. But the south- east quarter of Oregon was ura- nium country, too, back in the decade and a half following the Second World War. Uranium: The heaviest metal Uranium is one of the heaviest naturally occurring elements on Planet Earth – except for some traces of plutonium, everything heavier is a man-made element. It comes in several different fl a- vors, only one of which is the radioactive uranium 238 that’s used to make nuclear bombs and reactors. Uranium had been used for other things before the atomic whelming; I wanted to leap out of the car and beat him. But I didn’t. What I did do was to pray to God to remove such hate from my heart, and He did. I have never hated another person, in spite of some considerable provoca- tion. I wonder if those complaining about the presence of what they hate have any idea as to why the sales of the Rebel fl ag in this area were so brisk? It’s something to ponder. I recommend to those complainers and other liberals that they avoid driving around town be- cause there are quite a few Stars and Bars waving in the area. So, remem- ber this, if denying another person’s First Amendment rights is successful, you may be next in line. I recommend prayer. age came along, but for the most part, it had been a waste product – part of the waste tailings gen- erated by refi ning carnotite ore for radium and vanadium. But when the U.S. government start- ed spinning up its production of nukes for Cold War chest- thumping purposes, things sud- denly got very crazy in uranium country. Starting around 1952, the Atomic Energy Commission started building roads into promising uranium regions, and announced guarantees of a minimum of $50 per ton on ore that exceeded 0.3 percent urani- um. They also offered a $10,000 cash bonus for prospectors who found big deposits of the stuff and offered to analyze the sam- ples for free. The result was a massive, government-sponsored mining rush. All over the arid West, this federal intervention got lo- cal residents and out-of-town Herb Ball, PhD Cottage Grove Flags Well here we go again — the Con- federate fl ag. I saw it on the local TV news, so I went right down to get one, and a “Don’t Tread on Me” fl ag also. It will be one subject after another, one controversy after another. Well, I guess it is time to take the American fl ag down, with what this country has done to the Indians. My fl ag is the one that was on the Navy battleships. People, it’s the people behind the scenes that start this garbage to further divide the people. You should really pay attention to what they are really plan- prospectors alike very excited indeed. The dryer parts of Oregon were no exception. Deposits of uranium had been found there, near Steens Mountain, in the late 1940s. Now, remembering that, local residents found themselves joined by hordes of prospectors from out of the area, all of them crawling all over the arid desert in four-wheel-drive rigs looking for “A-metal,” fl ashing Geiger counters at every possible out- cropping and staking claims when the gadgets beeped. Mining on Main Street One enterprising fellow, Earl Sheridan, set the tone for Ura- nium Mania in the Beaver State on the streets of his home city of Klamath Falls. A descendant of city founder George Nurse, he believed that he had inherited the mineral rights to the entire town. So he staked out a claim, ning for you — stop hopping on the bandwagon. You’re being used — they are going after all you care about and love. You can make or believe what- ever you want to about the Confeder- ate fl ag, but get your facts straight. We must stand together, never give in, fi ght like there’s no tomorrow. There will be more garbage coming to keep you off track. Be ready. Flags don’t cause people to shoot people. And I’ve never seen a fl ag get up and shoot people. Mike Ritter Cottage Groves pitched a tent, loaded his shot- gun and stood guard there to de- fend it … in the middle of Main Street. He stayed there on guard through a bout of appendicitis but quit the scene after his law- yer found out that Nurse had in fact deeded over mineral rights to the city. In a sense, Oregon’s back- country was a real uranium “tease.” There was plenty of uranium out there in Oregon, so prospectors’ Geiger counters were kept in a relatively con- stant state of excitement; but only two deposits would turn out to be commercially viable: the White King Mine and the Lucky Lass Mine. They were both close by each other in the Fremont National Forest, near Lakeview. Soon the two deposits were being exploited with giant open- pit mines, and Lakeview got a brand-new uranium processing mill in 1958. It wasn’t long, however, be- fore the federal government de- cided it had enough uranium to blow the world up several times over or provide it with centu- ries of electric power. The feds pulled the plug on the AEC’s heavily subsidized program, and uranium mines all over the arid West were abandoned. fi ned carbohydrates, like white fl our, white rice, and sugars can also raise IGF-1 levels, because they cause rapid increases in in- sulin levels, leading to increases in IGF-1 signaling. In fact, IGF- 1 signaling is thought to be a major factor in the connection between diabetes and cancer. It is the amino acid distri- bution of animal protein that sparks IGF-1 production. For this reason, isolated soy protein, found in protein powders and meat substitutes, may also be problematic because the protein is unnaturally concentrated and its amino acid profi le is very similar to that of animal pro- tein. How can we keep IGF-1 in a safe range? 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