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By A/Xcrlyit R o b in s o n
Good grief, have influential people in this nation lost touch
with common sense? I'm not talking basic stuff like w hen your mother
used to preach about wearing clean underwear in case you were in an
accident or the threat that if you didn’t clean your ears birds would
build a nest therein.
Get this, less than two weeks after learning the state was
facing a $700 million cash crisis, the Department of Administrative
Services authorized the purchase of a fleet of Ford Excursions, the
nation’s largest sports utility vehicle. Those large SUVs cost $208,000.
Needless to say, those gas-guzzlers not only help pollute the
environment, but they help increase the deficit balance of trade as
Arab countries are increasing prices to $30 a barrel.
According to statistics, June’s $37.2 billion national trade deficit
was trimmed from a record $37.8 billion in May. Still U.S. consumption
of foreign-made goods reached a 15-month high of $119.2 billion in
June.
It’s true that shopping at home keeps local communities viable.
If our fuel comes by the barrel from a foreign country, we seldom
have much choice. Retail markups keep people in business. But when
things we buy such as clothing or hardware are made in China, etc.,
we are putting Americans out of work. However that doesn’t bother
the large corporations who can buy cheaply from foreign countries
and profit from a larger markup to U.S. consumers. A consumer foreign
goods boycott could impact trade deficits.
W hen it comes to prescription drug costs, U.S. drug
manufactures are leading the pact when it comes to rip-offs. For
example, one drug-maker Eli Lilly and Co. employs 7,600 people.
Solution-seeking com panies pay fees to L illy’s side venture,
InnoCentive, Inc. by giving cash awards to people who come up with
workable solutions. So far, $350,000 has been paid out for 14 solutions
with the highest payout of $75,000 going to a research lab in India. So
take your medicine, your prescription dollars are at work. Perhaps
they'll discover the illustrious fountain of youth that will put new spring
in your step while wearing those Japanese sneakers.
With the anniversary of September 11 facing us and the trauma
and grief dealt to many Americans, I found it very hard to swallow
watching those protesters during President Bush’s visit to Portland.
This country smiled and turned the other check as a former president
played around and did virtually nothing to prevent terrorism. Now this
country is dealing with terrorists worldwide and these protesting dip­
sticks haven’t got anything better to do than promote their own agenda.
While I don't see the necessity for having a president come here to
promote Oregon candidates, if people are affluent enough to pay $2500
for a picture with the president, so be it.
Frankly, candidates should be able to promote themselves with
worldwide television, but it's that clasping of hands. I guess. I'm
wondering how many “pepper spray” incidents will wind up in court;
perhaps they should have used fire hoses to cool down those protesters
in Portland. After all, a cold shower does wonders!
Makes me wonder if these protesters only work at night, if
they work at all, or do they call in sick for such occasions when they
can get full media coverage? Notice how the Oregonian heralded its
liberal views by headlines emphasizing that Bush promotes more forest
jobs and logging instead of emphasizing a position towards more positive
forest management to prevent forest wildfires and disease.
Labor Day, school starting and the heat goes on - - time to do
a rain dance!
Local steers win at the Sherman Co. Fair
K risti
D anielson,
formerly of Boardman, showed
the Grand Champion Steer at the
2002 Sherman County Fair, on
Aug. 28. Joe Danielson won his
confirmation class, and his steer
was third overall.
Both steers. South Devon
crosses, were purchased from Pat
and Leslie Suter of Boardman.
Local lady keeps life fun
Kristi and Joe are the
children of Rick and Kathleen
Danielson, of Moro.
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Rituals mark our happy and sad
occasions
To the Editor:
A num ber o f recent
events related to September l l Ul
have revealed to many of us the
importance of rituals in our lives.
Our society is made up of people
with religions and beliefs from all
over the world, and so we, as a
society, lack a consistent way of
responding to death. Something
we all have in common however,
is ritual and grief. Rituals are
milestones on the path o f life,
marking our happy, as well as, our
sad occasions.
A national moment of
silence, at 8:46, on the morning of
September 11, 2002, will be a
poignant ritual for Americans to
jo in together in g rie f and
remembrance. But it will not be
the end o f our grief. G rie f
continues with us in some form,
throughout the course of our lives.
How we deal with it - individually
and as a society - is w h at’s
important.
In our society we are
urged to hurry ev erything,
including grief. We get three days
of bereavement leave from work
and are expected to resume life
without disruption. Most of us are
uncom fortable being around
someone feeling the pain of grief,
as if it were contagious. We want
people to just “get over it” and
move on - often so we don’t have
to feel our own pain from losses
we have avoided acknowledging.
The terrible tragedy of
Septem ber 11th may be an
opportunity for us to develop
deeper
aw areness
and
compassion surrounding death
and loss. The memorial service in
Pennsylvania, the cerem ony
recognizing
the
cleanup
completion of ground zero, the
pillars of light, the time capsule in
the last stone placed at the
Pentagon, candlelight vigils, the
fore mentioned national moment
of silence, as well as our local
community gatherings, are all
healthy ways of honoring the
reality that nearly 3,000 lives
ended that day.
For most of the families
of those who died on September
11 grief is compounded by the
lack o f a body to see and touch.
There is something profoundly
important about seeing the body
of a person who has died. Without
it our minds find it hard to believe
that death has really occurred. We
cling to hopes and fantasies that
somehow there was a mistake
and our loved one is just lost,
unable to contact us.
Life goes on and we all
are touched by deaths of family,
friends, acquaintances, and even
the deaths o f people we have
never even met. Those we have
known, and those we have loved,
continue to live on in our lives in
new ways. We carry them with
us and there are times when their
absence hurts deeply, other times
when the memories are sweet.
The best we can do for each other
is to let each of us grieve in our
own way, and to let that be okay.
To encourage our own personal
and collective rituals that honor
important people in our lives who
have died. To understand that
grieving is part of what it means
to be human.
The National Hospice
and Palliative Care Organization
offers a series of guides that may
help in better understanding grief
in our personal lives and at work.
These guides are available online
at www.nhpco.org.
L ocally,
Pioneer
Memorial Hospice plans to offer
grief workshops and bereavement
support groups. To find out more,
please call us at 541-676-2946.
(s) Molly Rhea
Director, Pioneer Memorial
Hospice
Heppner
Betty Pfeiffer, 91, o f
Heppner, won first place for her
apple pie at the C elebrate
Heppner pie contest. She entered
her pie, at the prompting of her
daughter, as something fun to do.
B etty m ade pies for
family dinners in the past, but
hadn’t baked one for quite awhile,
and never entered one into a
contest before. Armed with a
good crust recipe and some tasty
apples, she came out a champ.
Betty grew up in Prosser,
Wash., but has lived in Heppner
for 55 years. She moved here with
her husband and they later bought
W estern A uto P arts. They
worked at the parts store until
they retired.
Family is an important
part of Betty’s life. She has two
children, four grandchildren, and
seven g reat-g ran d ch ild ren .
Betty’s children grew up and went
to school here in Heppner. Her
daughter returned four years ago
to live with and help out her mom.
Other family members also make
it habit to come and spend time
with Betty and each other.
Betty has not slow ed
down; she goes on trips, gardens,
and even hang-glides. She has a
nephew who lives in O ahu,
Hawaii, and she and other family
members take a month-long trip,
in May, each year to visit him. On
the trip this year Betty tried her
hand at hang-gliding. A friend said
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Last Word
To the Editor:
In our exchange o f
letters-to-the-editor Stuart Dick
kindly offers me the “last word.”
I appreciate that, but I will not hold
him to his offer.
Stuart asks w ith my
affection for Penland Lake and
Potam us Point, why 1 d o n ’t
support the public prayer language
added to the Pledge of Allegiance
at the height of the Cold War.
The reason is that my God
does not require govemmentally
enforced allegiance.
I can react to Penland
Lake, Potam us Point, and
“Maggy’s Drawers” in my own
way. It adds nothing for the
government to tell me, or those
who recognize another deity, how
to appreciate their beauty.
By the way, does anyone
other than Howard Bryant and
Floyd Jones know the location of
“Maggy’s Drawers”?
(s) Lance
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Heppner’s junior/senior
high school has released its
September calendar. As of Aug.
30, these are the important dates
to remember:
Mon., Sept. 9- Morrow
Co. School Board meeting, 7:30
p.m., at HHS
Wed., Sept. 11- Fall
sports pictures; HHS Site Council
meeting, 6 p.m.
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Thurs., Sept. 19-
Homecoming Parade, 2:30 p.m.;
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Fri.,
Sept.
20-
Homecoming
Don’t forget the many
sports games through out the
month, and be on the lookout for
any other upcoming events or
schedule changes.
One of the best tickets in town
will always be activities at
our local schools.
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Our children are the future.
Let’s give them
all the encouragement
that we can.
Go to a game.
Hear a concert.
See a play.
he wanted to go hang-gliding and
invited her along. “It was a great,”
said Betty.
Snatching her away from
her “delightful place to live,”
Betty’s family surprised her two
years ago with a 10-day cruise to
Tahiti.
W hile at home, Betty
enjoys tinkering around in her two
vegetable gardens and many
flower gardens. In the afternoons
she enjoys sitting in the back yard
with her daughter, enjoying each
other, a glass of iced tea, and the
lovely flowers and hummingbirds.
Betty enjoys life to its
fullest, thankful for “good health,
good family, and super duper
neighbors.”
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