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4A • COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL • JUNE 27, 2018 The First Amendment O PINION Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridg- ing the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition their Government for a redress of greivences. Letters to the Editor Policy Th e Sentinel welcomes letters to the editor as part of a community discussion of issues on the local, state and national level. Emailed letters are preferred. Handwritten or typed letters must be signed. All letters need to include full name, address and phone number; only name and city will be printed. Letters should be limited to about 300 words. Letters are subject to editing for length, grammar and clarity. Publication of any letter is not guaranteed and depends on space available and the volume of letters received. Letters that are anonymous, libelous, argumentative, sarcastic or contain accusations that are unsourced or without documentation will not be published. Letters containing poetry or from outside Th e Sentinel readership area will only be published at the discretion of the editor. Political/Election Letters: LETTERS Caring community made ‘Relay’ possible Bohemia Park came alive Saturday for the an- nual Relay for Life to fi ght cancer. It was made possi- ble by caring people and sponsors of our commu- nity. It takes many hours of planning, contacting sponsors, setting up and taking down. Twenty-fi ve members of our family who attended thank all of you. Cancer is a heartbreak- ing disease that aff ects most families. Th is is a time to celebrate the sur- vivors and remember the many who lost the fi ght. Th e luminaria ceremo- ny is so heartfelt, silently walking around the pool reading the names and messages on candlelit lu- minaries is so beautiful and touching. Th e only thing lacking was more people to enjoy this event. Th anks to everyone that made it possible. —Pat Couturier Cottage Grove Payment for convenience of plastic is quickly becoming ‘past due’ China, which has been the • Th e average “working recipient of nearly a third life” of a plastic bag is 15 of America’s recycle waste, minutes, aft er which it “re- banned the import of 24 tires.” diff erent kinds of assorted • In 1996, 3.8 billion waste — including unsorted plastic water bottles were he inclusion of plastic paper and several types of sold in the U.S. By 2014, that in our lives has grown plastic. number had grown to 57.3 exponentially over the When we lose electricity billion. past 70 years, making our in our home, I still walk into • It’s no small irony that lives easier, more convenient every dark room and fl ip the the process of producing a and oft en at a signifi cant cost switch because it’s second water bottle actually requires savings almost too good to be true. As we have begun to From the Managing Editor’s Desk realize, that’s exactly what it was; the interest rate on Ned Hickson the cost of convenience has come due with an unex- pected balloon payment. nature. I’m so used to it six times as much water as We produce nearly 300 being there that I don’t even there is in the actual contain- million tons of plastic think about how oft en — er itself. products each year, nearly and in how many ways — I In Lane County, our goal half of which is designed for use electricity without giving was to recycle two-thirds single-use purposes in what it a second thought. of our waste products by has increasingly become a Th e same can be said for 2025. We were making great disposable society. our use of plastic. Here are a strides, leading the state in Despite our eff orts to few statistics to help illus- this campaign by being the educate the public about the trate the scope of how plastic only county in Oregon to importance of “Reduce, Re- has become a second-nature send more waste to recyclers use and Recycle,” each year element of our lives: than we did to landfi lls. more than eight million tons • Worldwide, more than However, restrictions that of plastic is dumped into our 500 billion plastic bags are we began to feel late last year, oceans. used each year, or more than and which became offi cial And that was before 1 million bags every minute. at the beginning of January, T are jeopardizing the progress we’ve made as a county, and ultimately as a society. While our dependence on plastic is a global issue, the solutions will need to be implemented one commu- nity at a time, with the fi rst step in that process being education. Before we can solve the plastic problem, we need to fully understand its scope and the ways it is intertwined not only among those of us who use it, but how any changes we make could im- pact us economically. Th e impact of plastic on our planet’s oceans is a com- munity conversation that needs to happen if we are to fi nd solutions in dealing with what we once embraced as an element of everyday life that was too good to be true. And which we have now discovered was exactly that. Wrtite to managing editor Ned Hickson at nhickson@ cgsentinel.com Election-related letters must address pertinent or timely issues of interest to our readers at-large. Letters must 1) Not be a part of letter-writing campaigns on behalf of (or by) candidates; 2) Ensure any information about a candidate is accurate, fair and not from second-hand knowledge or hearsay; and 3) explain the reasons to support candidates based on personal experience and perspective rather than partisanship and campaign-style rhetoric. Candidates themselves may not use the letters to the editor column to outline their views and platforms or to ask for votes; this constitutes paid political advertising. As with all letters and advertising content, the newspaper, at the sole discretion of the publisher, general manager and editor, reserves the right to reject any letter that doesn’t follow the above criteria. Send letters to: nhickson@cgsentinel.com or cmay@cgsentinel.com HOW TO CONTACT YOUR REPS Oregon state representatives Oregon federal representatives • Sen. Floyd Prozanski District 4 State Senator PO Box 11511 Eugene, Ore. 97440 Phone: 541-342-2447 Email : sen.fl oydprozanski@ state.or.us • Rep. Cedric Hayden Republican District 7 State Representative 900 Court St. NE Salem, Ore. 97301 Phone: 503-986-1407 Website: www.leg.state.or. us/hayden Email: rep.cedrichayden@ state.or.us • Rep. Peter DeFazio (House of Representatives) 405 East 8th Ave. #2030 Eugene, Ore. 97401 Email: defazio.house.gov/ contact/email-peter Phone: 541-465-6732 • Sen. Ron Wyden 405 East 8th Ave., Suite 2020 Eugene, Ore. 97401 Email: wyden.senate.gov Phone: (541) 431-0229 • Sen. 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