TWO - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, July 5, 2000 County court hears school district report Letters to the Editor tditor's note Letters to the Editor must be signed The Gazette-1lines w ill not publish unsigned letters Please include your address and phone number on all letters for use by the C-T office The C-T reserves the right to edit The G-T is not responsible for accuracy of statements made in letters. Ban cruel traps Traps and poisons are indiscriminate, injuring or killing any animal that comes across them. My daughter reads meters for Columbia Basin and she was saddened a while back when she saw a dead fawn in a trap. Later she found one in a trap and she could let it out and see it limp away. Near Arlington, she saw a dog in a trap, but by the position of the trap, she could not release the dog. She went to town and got a man to save the dog. The report is the dog is well and doing okay. A dog in the Lexington area was not so fortunate. His owner had searched for the missing dog for 10 days and when found it was still warm, but too late. Many states in the U.S. and other countries have outlawed the despicable medieval device of the steel trap. 1080 is the most abominable poison in existence. Poisoned animals suffer violently for hours before dying in agony. Secondary deaths result when other animals feed on the bodies of the poison victims. We have enough at Umatilla Depot to worry about without the danger of 1080 getting in our water level. Please do join me and help promote the ban of the cruel, evil traps. Attitudes are contagious, but not the one that states "Proposed trap ban is too extreme." by the past commissioners of the Oregon Dept, of Fish and Wildlife. (s) Lois Winchester Heppner To the Editor: Animals cannot speak for themselves, so would you please print my letter? Mr. Jim Van Loan and Mr Jim Hahherstad. past commissioners o f the Oregon Department o f Fish and Wildlife: If either of you gentlemen were forced to experience the shock and excruciating pain of the metal spring jump traps as wild creatures are, I’m sure that you vsould not print in big heavy head lines. "Proposed Trap Ban Is Too Extreme." ITie insidious act caused by the despicable trap on flesh, bone and nerves could be compared to having someone close the car door on your fingers by accident. The incident would have a much different ending. The person responsible for the accident would release the door, free your broken fingers and tom flesh, and get medical aid for you. On the other hand the trapper would long be gone and for a very long, long time, perhaps until you were famished from lack of food and water in the hot weather or starved or froze to death in the zero cold, snow, rain, sleet and wind, when your foot would become frozen so hard that if you struggled hard enough, it would break off and set you free. You would be called "Peg-Legs." On the other hand, in the hot weather, if the horrendous misery causes you to chew off your foot so the leg can slip out and free you, the trapper then would call you "Ring-Offs." Churches join for summer VBS noon. All kids, preschool through fifth grade, are invited to attend. Registration forms are available at each church and at various business locations in Heppner, Lexington and lone and may be returned to All Saints Episcopal Church. A fee is requested to help cover costs of materials: $4 per student or $10 for a family of three or more. ".Club Can-Do: Kids Called To Care," a vacation Bible school co-sponsored by All Saints Episcopal, Hope and Valby Lutheran and Heppner United Methodist churches is coming the week of July 17-21. Club meetings w m II be held at Heppner United Methodist Church on the comer of Church and Gale Streets, Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. till HOST FAMILIES NEEDED Make a new lifelong friend from abroad. Enrich your family with another cul­ ture. Now you can host an exchange student (girl or boy) from Sweden, Germany. France, Spain. England. Japan. Brazil. Italy or other countries Becoming a host to a young international visitor is an experience of a lifetime! Ilunna. 16 yrs. Jan. yrs. Call for inform ation or to choose your own exchange stu d en t. Large v ariety of natio n alities, in terests, hobbies, etc. now available (single p are n ts, couples w ith or w ithout children m ay host). Call us now. LOCAL AREA REP: CATHY HALVORSEN (541)422-7107 Petra at 1-800-733-2773 www.asse.com Founded l’)~r> •1r *4+L »#* x - * '! ’ «■»«JfiMAIwHi Fully Accredited International < trganizatirm A W O R U M >F I SDÌ KM ANDINI. I HKOl i.M «.ROSSA I LIT KALAM ) U H < AlTONAL PROGRAMS r if if if if if if if if if if if Lands trom's ‘B C ad^ yiiC C s CJoid V* W atch