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4A | NOVEMBER 25, 2020 | 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 2020 © 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anonymous, libelous, argumentative, sarcastic or contain accusations that are unsourced or without documentation will not be published.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: LETTERS Pope should expand apology beyond Mexico In an article published Oct. 12 in the Register-Guard, Mexico’s Presi- dant asked the Pope for an apology for the abuses of the Indigenous people during the Mexican con- quest. I would hope the Pope would also extend an apology for the roughly 50 million Anabaptists and others who were abused and slaughtered during The Dark Ages and beyond the Roman Empire. Those atrocities are described in “The Trial of Blood,” “The Church of the Valleys of Piedmont” and “Foxes Book of Martyrs.” —Joan Davis Creswell Humor at the Speed of Life James Kazad — (Remembrances of life before COVID) Make your first Thanksgiving turkey without losing your giblets The countdown has begun. Tomorrow, thou- sands will be in the kitchen preparing their very first Thanksgiving turkey. As a service to readers, I felt a responsibility to help educate people about food- borne illness by offering a special holiday feature that I’d like to call: Don’t lose your giblets this Thanksgiving. Being a writer, I’ve natu- rally spent a good portion of my career working in the To estimate how long the thawing process should take, the rule of thumb is 24 hours for every five pounds. That means if you forgot to pull your bird out ahead of time, you’ll be thawing your turkey with a blow torch like the rest of us. Once it’s thawed, reach into the abdominal cavi- ty and remove the giblets which, apparently, all tur- keys conveniently wrap in wax paper and then swal- low moments before death. Next, you need to im- mediately place the giblets into the refrigerator. This will ensure they don’t end up on the kitchen floor and, as a result, get thrown away after being mistaken for cat vomit. If you choose to cook the stuffing inside the turkey, make sure that you don’t over stuff the body cavity. This can impede the cook- ing process and provide a Send letters to: nhickson@cgsentinel.com HOW TO CONTACT YOUR REPS Oregon state representatives ON THE LIGHTER SIDE food service industry. And like most writers, it was there that I was able prac- tice my craft and eventually acquire something that all good writers must have: A Food Handler’s Card. Because of this, I can stand before you as some- one highly qualified to talk turkey. So let us begin. Unless you actually live on a turkey farm (in which case you’ll be serving ham or nachos or meat loaf or microwaveable pork rinds or ANYTHING but more turkey this Thanksgiving), your bird has probably been somewhere in the bot- tom of the freezer since last January — in most cases, right next to that unlabeled container of something which, in its frozen state, has become completely un- recognizable. This means that you will have to thaw your turkey before cooking it. 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. breeding ground for food- borne illness. In addition, the ex- pansion of cooked bread crumbs in a confined space can lead to what culinary experts call “Exploding Turkey” syndrome. Though it’s not lethal, it will mean a substantial delay in festivi- ties while family members wait for you to scrape the stuffing from the ceiling. Important tip for first-timers: Once the bird has been stuffed, remember to put the legs into a tucked posi- tion using twine or a metal clip. This is important be- cause, if you don’t, the legs WILL spring up and do the splits at some point during dinner. Okay, not really. But if that does happen, you may want to put the turkey back into the oven for a while — assuming you haven’t lost your giblets. 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 Carla Skeel, Inside Multi-Media Sales Consultant... Ext. 1203 csummers@cgsentinel.com Editorial Ned Hickson, Managing Editor... 541-902-3520 nhickson@cgsentinel.com Damien Sherwood, Lead Reporter... Ext. 1212 dsherwood@cgsentinel.com Customer Service Meg Fringer, Office Manager, Legals, Classifieds... Ext. 1200 mfringer@cgsentinel.com Production Ron Annis, Production Supervisor... 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