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LETTERS Continued from Page A4 Share the road To the Editor: Spring is here Summer is not far Eehind This means more EiNers, runners and ZalNers from here and from far and Zide enMoying our Fommunities and the roads in EetZeen These are people Zho love the EiNer-run- ner-ZalNer-friendly atmosphere Ze offer here Unfortunately there are those in this Founty Zho do not liNe to share our roads Zith EiNes or runners or ZalNers, or even Must Fertain individuals These peo- ple e[press their disliNe Ey us- ing their vehiFle, Zhether a Far or truFN or truFN Zith trailer, to physiFally threaten these people Zho, Ey Oregon laZ, have the same rights to use the roadZays as vehiFles do These vehiFle threats to EiN- ers, ZalNers and runners Farry legal FonseTuenFes as Zell as moral and ethiFal impliFations These vehiFle threats impaFt the reputation that Grant County has for ZelFoming these aFtivities and these individuals Endangering the lives of oth- ers is not O. Over the years I personally have Eeen threat- ened Ey teenagers trying to play FhiFNen and drivers of piFNups, some Zith stoFN trailer attaFhed, attempting to FroZd me off the road This is not Fool for Grant County This is not Fool for the lives of the people Zho live here This is not Fool for the people Zho looN forZard, year after year, to Foming here to en- Moy our friendly and ZelFoming Fommunities I looN forZard to a year in ZhiFh no individual e[perienF- es threats to their safety on our roadZays 3lease Moin me in aF- Fomplishing this goal Eva Harris Canyon City Prescription epidemic To the Editor: Why are people so good at pointing out proElems in soFiety and yet so Ead Zhen it Fomes to applying solutions" For instanFe, our Fountry is e[perienFing an epidemiF in the aEuse of presFription pain- Nillers The US Fonsumes 0 perFent of painNillers sold in the Zorld 3oZerful presFription drugs liNe O[yFontin are fueling a maMor heroin epidemiF Yet doFtors Fontinue to presFriEe these poZerful presFription opiates, apparently not taNing into Fonsideration the highly addiFtive nature of these drugs Opiates made in the laE are si[ times more addiFtive than the natural opium they Zere made to Fopy A reFent study shoZed 0 perFent of patients presFriEed opiate pain Nillers for more than 0 days in a roZ had addiFtion proElems three years after Eeing presFriEed the drug That statis- tiF alone should open the eyes of Eoth doFtors and patients to the dangers of over-presFriEing opiates These drugs have to many side effeFts to list The faFt is over 16,000 people a year are dying from overdoses of pre- sFription pain pills 'eath Fan oFFur from the reFommended dose of these mediFations So, Zhy Zon’t doFtors start Zith something that many doFtors have Falled the least to[iF drug in the pharmaFopia, plaFing it EeloZ aspirin" This drug has never in its 10,000 year history had a death reForded from over- dose This drug is presFriEed for everything from FhroniF pain, sei]ures, insomnia, FirFulation, arthritis, appetite disorders, FanFer and so on The drug I’m talNing aEout is mariMuana I Fhallenge any doFtor to shoZ me a laE-Freated drug that treats suFh a variety of Fondi- tions and has no danger of death from overdose I strongly urge anyone Zho’s Furrently taNing any over-the-Founter or pre- sFription pills to asN their doFtor if marijuana is an alternative to their Furrent treatment, and if they say no, then demand an e[planation in detail Zhy mar- ijuana is not a safer alternative 'on’t aFFept the e[Fuse that marijuana has no mediFinal Eene¿ts .eep in mind, there are other doFtors all over Oregon Zith an open mind Zilling to try marijuana as an option The FhoiFe is noZ yours Eva Kidd John Day Mediocre reporting To the Editor: 5edundanFy in reporting results in medioFraFy I reFall the tale of the Eoy repeatedly Frying ³Zolf´ to garner the pre- sFriEed reaFtion and the toZn folNs stopped Eelieving him I vieZ this as a prime e[ample of the Fontinual and tiresome attaFN on one duly eleFted laZ enforFement of¿Fial The Zolf in the tale aFtu- ally did appear, Eut in the Fase of mimiFry and maliFious re- porting Ey loFal media, the Zolf may have just limped off and died of starvation 5easonaEly intelligent people Zill read the same rhetoriF for just so long and then Zill no longer pay at- tention 3eople Zho folloZ the maliFious intent of this reporting also get painted Zith the same Erush and appear FloZn-liNe, jumping up and doZn Zith their ³not my sheriff´ signs Better yet are the signs that tout fol- loZing the laZs Zhen they have no idea Zhat the laZs really are This is an overZhelming indiFa- tion of ignoranFe /et us Flari- fy the de¿nition of ignoranFe, ZhiFh is not NnoZing a suEjeFt, and stupidity, ZhiFh is NnoZing a suEjeFt Eut Fontinuing doZn the road to idioFy anyZay Be- lieving that the supremaFy of thousands of FonÀiFting federal laZs ZhiFh Fontinually Fhange or just pop up at the Zhim of some hired agenFy overpoZer the Fonstitutional rights of the people Eorderlines ignoranFe stupidity If they Zant to Ee ruled Ey thousands of FonÀiFting and suppressing laZs, then just stand there and let the feds taNe over their lives, herding them liNe sheep into the paths set forth Ey some Washington-Eased poli- tiFians 5eading or listening to the government-led neZs media Zill lead you to Eelieve that the president NnoZs Eetter than you on hoZ to raise your sheep +e Zill let his ten thousands of im- migrants shoZ you Zhat sheep are really for Try reading our history aEout proud heritage and ³Ze the people´ The govern- ment Zas to Ee led Ey the peo- ple, not the reverse Judy Kerr Canyon City First Amendment provides rights for all To the Editor: MuFh has Eeen made of Sheriff Glenn 3almer’s Flaim to Ee a Fhampion of the United States Constitution A reFent let- ter to the editor Fomplained that the dispatFh supervisor ³spoNe to the media´ Zhile in uni- form The very same media on the very same day intervieZed Glenn 3almer Zho spoNe free- ly Zith them Zhile on duty, so Zhat is the proElem" The Eigger issue here is our Fonstitutional right to free speeFh as guaranteed under the First Amendment -ust EeFause a person is a Fommissioner or an undersheriff or anyone else in puEliF serviFe, that does not negate their inherent right as United States Fiti]ens to speaN freely and e[press their opin- ions +oZ often have you seen a respeFted senator or state rep- resentative puEliFly partiFipate in a peaFeful protest, Zithout EreaNing the laZ or destroy- ing puEliF or private property" They are not violating your Fivil rights They are e[erFising their First Amendment rights as provided under the US Consti- tution Turn EaFN the FloFN to 2011 and reFall the suspen- sion of then Undersheriff Todd MF.inley Ey Sheriff 3almer for disagreeing Zith him Fon- Ferning 3almer’s refusal to ZorN Zith the USFS It seems freedom of speeFh only applies to those people Zho agree Zith 3almer, and if you ZorN for him Eetter ZatFh your mouth or your pen On the other hand, it’s perfeFtly ¿ne for our sheriff to Zrite a letter to the viFe pres- ident of the Fountry regarding his intention to disregard any federal laZ ZhiFh he thinNs might infringe on our right to Neep and Eear arms I respeFt his right to do so, even though I disagree Zith his approaFh +oZever, he 3almer doesn’t give the same respeFt or rights to those Zho disagree Zith him It is too Ead the ³Ultimate Au- thority´ in Grant County Fan’t afford everyone eTual Eilling under Zhat he Flaims to Ee a staunFh supporter of, the Unit- ed States Constitution Dan E. Maynard Jr. John Day Wednesday, April 6, 2016 Many people truly Eelieve our government is ³paternalistiF,´ that the federal government really does oZn the land and the people are ³tenants,´ at the merFy and Zhim of fed- eral EureauFraFies That they Eelieve this is sad, Eut Zhat is even more sad is they liNe it that Zay In her letter, Ms Steele reÀeFted ³What is it going to taNe to Ering all these people together"´ Using terms suFh as ³self-deFlared µpatri- ot,’´ armed ³miltiamen,´ de- rogatory personal attaFNs on Sheriff Palmer, these are only inÀammatory and serve to alienate people Some Zould laEel me a radiFal, armed, an- ti-government militia person I feel I’m in pretty darn good Fompany, Ms Steele ³ I am Fommitted against everything ZhiFh, in my judgment, may ZeaNen, endanger, or destroy the Constitution and es- peFially against all e[tension of e[eFutive poZer and I am Fommitted against any at- tempt to rule the free people of this Fountry Ey the poZer and the patronage of the gov- ernment itself´ — 'aniel WeEster, 1 Patti Yellow Hand Bull Monument Search and rescue volunteers do not need deputized To the Editor: Partial Tuote from Sheriff Palmer regarding his most reFent deputi]ation ³I depu- ti]ed him for SAIF and WorN- er’s Comp purposes´ After maNing inTuiries to verify that statement, I thinN it is important to note that vol- unteers are already Fovered if they are ZorNing on the Foun- ty’s Eehalf The ansZer I Zas given Zas that Grant County SearFh and 5esFue volunteers do not need to Ee deputi]ed to have SAIF ZorNers’ Fomp Foverage I also thinN it’s important to NnoZ that in FheFNing Zith Malheur, BaNer, +arney and CrooN Founties, their searFh and resFue people are not dep- uti]ed Judy Schuette John Day A5 C OPS & C OURTS Arrests and citations in the Blue Mountain Eagle are taken from the logs of law enforcement agencies. Every effort is made to report the court disposition of arrest cases. Grant County Sheriff CANYON CITY — The Grant County Sheriff’s Of- ¿Fe reported the folloZing for the ZeeN of MarFh 2-1 ConFealed handgun li- Fenses 11 AYerage inPates BooNings 5eleases 10 Arrests 1 Citations 1 )ingerprints 10 CiYil papers 20 Warrants proFessed 2 AsstZelfare FheFN Cited 5ussell Moore Sr 2, Mt 9ernon, on MarFh 2, for driYing Zhile sus- pended-violation, driving under the inÀuenFe of into[- iFants and Ereath test refusal Justice Court CANYON CITY — The Grant County -ustiFe Court reported the folloZing ¿nes and MudgPents E[Feeding speed liPit Bhanu 3raNash, 0, .irN- land, Wash, ]one, )eE , ¿ned 160 'riving uninsured Brad /ee +artZiFN, , -ohn 'ay, three tiPes on Nov 2, )eE 2 and MarFh 2, ¿ned 260 for eaFh -eanne Ma- rie Moles, 0, -ohn 'ay, tZo tiPes on MarFh and MarFh 2, ¿ned 220 for eaFh -oseph SFott +ay]lett, 0, -ohn 'ay, -an 2, ¿ned 260 Illegal display of plates Brad /ee +artZiFN, , -ohn 'ay, )eE , ¿ned 260 Illegal parNing Brad /ee +artZiFN, , -ohn 'ay, tZo tiPes on )eE , ¿ned 110 for eaFh offense 'riving Zhile sus- pended-violation Brad /ee +artZiFN, , -ohn 'ay, tZo tiPes on )eE 2 and MarFh 2, ¿ned for eaFh -eanne Marie Moles, 0, -ohn 'ay, tZo tiPes on MarFh and MarFh 2, ¿ned 0 for eaFh -oseph SFott +ay]lett, 0, -ohn 'ay, -an 2, ¿ned • Failure to install an ig- nition interloFN deviFe Brad /ee +artZiFN, , -ohn 'ay, tZo tiPes on FeE 2 and MarFh 2, ¿ned for eaFh Dispatch -ohn 'ay dispatFh ZorNed 166 Falls during the ZeeN of MarFh 2-April Along Zith the various traf- ¿F Zarnings, trespassing, inMured aniPals, noise FoP- plaints and Muvenile FoP- plaints, these Falls inFluded • John Day Police MarFh 1 5esponded to a reported theft on North Can- yon Boulevard arrested a man from Boring for failure to register as a se[ offender April 1 Burglary reported at 5iverside MoEile +ome 3arN April Cited a man from Ontario, Canada, for speed- ing • Grant County Sheriff MarFh 1 5eport of shots ¿red in Mt 9ernon • John Day ambulance MarFh 2 5esponded for a 61-year-old Zoman April 1 'ispatFhed for a man Zho fainted April 2 5esponded for a -year-old Zoman Zith numEness and shortness of Ereath • Long Creek ambu- lance MarFh 0 5esponded for a 2-year-old man April 2 5esponded to a rollover aFFident • Prairie City ambu- lance April 2 'ispatFhed for a man Zith a diaEetiF issue dispatFhed for a Zoman Zith dif¿Fulty Ereathing Pro Saw Shop and a Whole Lot More County commissioner did not serve citizens’ best interests To the Editor: In regard to the letter from .ay Steele in the MarFh 0 Eagle that Chris /aEhart Zas ³protesting for all of us,´ Zell he Fertainly Zasn’t protesting for me And he isn’t an ³eleFt- ed leader´ Chris /aEhart Zas eleFted to ³serve´ the Fiti]ens of Grant County in their Eest interests +e has Fertainly failed to do that And so has the rest of the County Court As to the rest of Ms Steele’s letter, let me point out the oEvious ³Constitutional pa- triot´ and ³anti-government´ are a FontradiFtion in terms NO ONE KNOWS YOUR EQUIPMENT BETTER. 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