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4A | THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2019 | COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL Cottage Grove Sentinel 116 N. Sixth St. Cottage Grove, Ore. 97424 NED HICKSON , MANAGING EDITOR | Opinion 541-902-3520 | NHICKSON @ CGSENTINEL . COM The First Amendment C ongress shall make no law respect- ing an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Govern- ment for a redress of grievances. “I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.” —Thomas Jefferson (1800) USPS#133880 Copyright 2019 © COTTAGE GROVE SENTINAL Letters to the Editor Policy The 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anonymous, libelous, argumentative, sarcastic or contain accusations that are unsourced or without documentation will not be published.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 The Sentinel readership area will only be published at the discretion of the editor. Political/Election Letters: 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 A whisper rooted in thankfulness you came to being in a se- It wasn’t until returning rious accident. Or when that summer to visit my the gas attendant asks if father in L.A. that I re- you want to use your .50- alized something that cent gas reward when you changed my life: Every- thought you only had 20. thing I thought I knew “What? Yesss.” wasn’t nearly as import- Though it’s been some Oregon changed my ant as how I’d come to 35 years since I arrived in life for the better. know myself thanks to Oregon as a high school Twice, actually. the life I was experienc- sophomore, when people ask where I moved from, I still whisper when I say, From the Editor’s Desk “California.” Ned Hickson I do so in jest (most- ly), secure in the knowl- edge that revealing my First as a 15-year-old ing in Oregon. California roots — how- with my family, then Returning home at the ever withered — won’t again when I moved back end of that summer, I still suddenly bring nearby as a 37-year-old with my remember stepping out conversations to an em- own family. of the car and onto our barrassing halt, leaving In the first instance, dirt driveway in a new cricket chirps in its place. it was culture shock just pair of Nikes, realizing Part of the reason is short of defibrillation as how those shoes — and because, more often than I went from the concrete that life — just didn’t fit not, those around me are jungle of Los Angeles to anymore. also originally from Cal- the blackberry hillsides This is home, I whis- ifornia. of the Willamette Valley. pered. Seriously, folks. I’ve Instead of riding my Mostly because I didn’t heard you whispering. Schwinn to school and want my parents to hear But recently, I’ve come spending afternoons run- and know they had been to realize there’s a dif- ning around the streets in right. I was still a teenag- ferent reason I whisper my Nikes, I was canoeing er, after all. when it comes to explain- over a flooded dike to The lessons learned ing where I was in rela- meet my school bus and and perspectives gained tion to where I am now. returning home to stack from life as an Oregonian It’s a whisper rooted in wood or dig post holes. were things I carried with thankfulness. Usually in mud boots. me after graduating from It’s the whisper that I hated Oregon be- Siuslaw High School in escapes you the moment cause it was the opposite Florence, Ore., and be- after realizing how close of everything I’d known. coming a regional chef in Atlanta for the next 10 years. But during all of that time, the thought of re- turning to Oregon stayed with me, particularly as the gains in my career began costing something far more important: Time with my family. So when, in 1998, the opportunity was present- ed to begin a new career as a journalist, my be- loved Oregon changed my life for the second time. This past Thanksgiv- ing Day, those were the things I was thinking about and quietly giving thanks for as my fami- ly gathered around the dinner table which, if not for Oregon’s surreptitious intervention in my life, I may not have been bless- ed to be sitting at. As we continue through the holiday season — and the busy weeks ahead — I plan to make time for the many reasons to be thankful. Not the least of which is being managing editor of this newspaper, work- ing with our terrific news team and entire staff, and covering this incredible community. HOW TO CONTACT YOUR REPS Oregon state representatives Oregon federal representatives • Sen. Floyd Prozanski • Rep. Peter DeFazio District 4 State Senator PO Box 11511 Eugene, Ore. 97440 Phone: 541-342-2447 Email : sen.fl oydprozanski@ state.or.us (House of Representatives) 405 East 8th Ave. #2030 Eugene, Ore. 97401 Email: defazio.house.gov/ contact/email-peter Phone: 541-465-6732 • 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 • Sen. Ron Wyden 405 East 8th Ave., Suite 2020 Eugene, Ore. 97401 Email: wyden.senate.gov Phone: (541) 431-0229 • Sen. Jeff Merkley Email: merkley.senate.gov Phone: 541-465-6750 S entinel C ottage G rove 541-942-3325 Administration Jenna Bartlett, Group Publisher Gary Manly, General Manager... Ext. 1207 gmanly@cgsentinel.com Gerald Santana, Multi-Media Sales Consultant... Ext. 1216 gsantana@cgsentinel.com Veronica Brinkley, Multi-Media Sales Consultant... 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