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Red Cross urges
blood donation
December may be the
season of giving – but it’s
typically a challenging time
to collect enough blood
donations. Add in a pan-
demic, and this year could
be even tougher than usual.
That’s why the American
Red Cross is urging those
who are feeling well to give
the gift of life by donating
blood or platelets this holi-
day season.
The need for blood
doesn’t stop for holidays.
Between Thanksgiving and
Christmas, more than one
million blood transfusions
will be given in the United
States. Donations of all
blood types are needed to
ensure hospital shelves
remain stocked to meet
patient blood needs.
Make your appoint-
ment to give blood, plate-
lets or plasma with the Red
Cross by downloading the
Red Cross Blood Donor
App, visiting RedCross-
Blood.org, calling 1-800-
RED CROSS (1-800-733-
2767) or enabling the Blood
Donor Skill on any Alexa
Echo device.
To encourage donations
this holiday season, those
who come to donate blood,
platelets or plasma with the
Red Cross Dec. 18 through
Jan. 4 will receive a long-
sleeved Red Cross T-shirt,
while supplies last.
Important COVID-19
information for donors
As COVID-19 hospi-
talizations increase, hospi-
tal demand for convalescent
plasma has also grown.
COVID-19 convalescent
plasma is a type of blood
donation given by those
who have recovered from
this coronavirus. Their plas-
ma contains antibodies that
may help patients actively
fighting the virus. Learn
more about convalescent
plasma and sign up to give
at RedCrossBlood.org/Plas-
ma4COVID.
The Red Cross is testing
blood, platelet and plasma
donations for COVID-19
antibodies. The test may
indicate if the donor’s im-
mune system has produced
antibodies to this coronavi-
rus, regardless of whether
an individual developed
COVID-19 symptom. Red
Cross antibody tests will be
helpful to identify individ-
uals who have COVID-19
antibodies and may now
help current coronavirus
patients in need of conva-
lescent plasma transfusions.
Willow Creek
Reservoir
recreational use
health advisory
lifted
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The Oregon Health
Authority (OHA) lifted
the recreational use health
advisory issued for Willow
Creek Reservoir in Morrow
County on November 30.
The OHA issued the advi-
sory on September 3, 2020.
Water monitoring has
confirmed that the level
of cyanotoxins in Willow
Creek Reservoir are below
recreational guideline val-
ues for people. However,
officials advise recreational
visitors to be alert to signs
of cyanobacteria blooms.
This is because blooms can
develop and disappear on
any water body at any time
when bloom conditions are
favorable. Only a fraction
of waterbodies in Oregon
are monitored for blooms
and toxins.
People, especially
small children, and pets
should avoid recreating in
areas where the water is
foamy, scummy, thick like
paint, pea-green, blue-green
or brownish red in color, if
a thick mat of blue-green
algae is visible in the water,
or bright green cells are
suspended in the water. If
you see these signs avoid
activities that cause you
to swallow water or inhale
droplets, such as swim-
ming or high-speed water
activities.
Cyanotoxins can still
exist in clear water. When a
bloom dies toxins released
may reach into clear water
around the bloom. Blooms
can be pushed into other
areas, leaving behind the
toxins released. There also
are species of cyanobacteria
that anchor themselves at
the bottom of a water body,
live in the sediment, or can
grow on aquatic plants and
release toxins into clear
water near the surface.
For health information
or to report an illness, con-
tact OHA at 971-673-0482.
COVID-19 antibody
test results will be available
within one to two weeks
in the Red Cross Blood
Donor App or donor portal
at RedCrossBlood.org. A
positive antibody test result
does not confirm infection
or immunity. The Red Cross
is not testing donors to diag-
nose illness, referred to as a
diagnostic test. To protect
the health and safety of Red
Cross staff and donors, it
is important that individ-
uals who do not feel well
or believe they may be ill
with COVID-19 postpone
donation.
Each Red Cross blood
drive and donation center
follows the highest stan-
dards of safety and infec-
tion control, and additional
precautions – including
temperature checks, social
distancing and face cover-
ings for donors and staff –
have been implemented to
help protect the health of all
those in attendance. Donors
are asked to schedule an ap-
pointment prior to arriving
at the drive and are required
to wear a face covering or
mask while at the drive,
in alignment with Centers
for Disease Control and
Prevention public guidance.
A blood donation op-
portunity will take place
on December 23 from
12:30-4:30 p.m. at St. Pat-
rick’s Parish Hall, 525 Gale
Street, Heppner.
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Mystery of iniquity
To the editor:
Biblical prophecy calls
the present world COVID
pandemic tribulation the
“mystery of iniquity” (II
Thess. 2:6,7). The whole
world is required to wear
a mask, social distance,
schools are closed, liberty
is abrogated, many busi-
nesses are closed, some
never to reopen. Neverthe-
less, despite these draconi-
an measures, the COVID
pandemic supposedly and
suspiciously grows more
virulent by the day, very
conveniently forcing more
draconian lock downs.
Indeed, this is a mys-
tery, difficult to understand.
Iniquity is lawlessness
where the norm of laws and
individual liberty are sus-
pended for the greater good
(i.e. the state). (see Daniel
7:25). Catholic Archbishop
Carlo Marla Vigano, former
Sec. General of the Vatican,
and former Vatican am-
bassador to the U.SA. has
addressed this “mystery of
iniquity” in a letter to Pres-
ident Donald Trump, dated
Oct. 25, 2020.
“Mr. President; allow
me to address at this hour
at which the fate of the
whole world is being threat-
ened by a global conspiracy
against God and humani-
ty…In the midst of silence
of both civil and religious
authorities, may you accept
these words as one ‘crying
in the wilderness.’”
“Daily we sense the
attacks multiplying of those
who want to destroy the
very basis of society, the
natural family, respect for
human life, love of country,
freedom of business and
education. We see heads of
state and religious leaders
pandering to this suicide
of western culture and its
Christian soul, while the
fundamental rights of citi-
zens and believers are de-
nied in the name of a health
emergency…an instrument
for an inhuman faceless
tyranny.”
World leaders, church
and political, have ad-
dressed this ‘mystery of
iniquity’ positively as the
“Great Reset.” Archbishop
Vigano warns the “global
elite are planning the ‘Great
Reset’ …to subdue all hu-
manity, imposing coercive
measures with which to
drastically limit individual
freedoms and those of en-
tire populations.” Perhaps
the most insidious danger
of the ‘mystery of iniquity’
will be what Vigano terms
“the imposition of a health
dictatorship imposing liber-
ticidal measures hidden be-
hind tempting promises of
insuring universal income
and cancelling individual
debt.”
The price of these con-
cessions from the Inter-
national Monetary Fund
will be the renunciation of
private property and adher-
ence to a program of vacci-
nation against COVID-19
and COVID-21 (coming)
promoted by Bill Gates
and the pharmaceutical in-
dustry. The most diabolical
plan of these global elites
commanding the “mystery
of iniquity” according to
Vigano will be the “COVID
vaccine requirement health
passport and digital I.D.
with subsequent contact
tracing of the population
of the entire world. Those
that reject these measures
will be confined in deten-
tion camps or placed under
house arrest, with all assets
confiscated.”
This is the reason the
patriot standing in their
way, Donald Trump, had to
be defeated by any means,
a phony Russian collusion,
an impeachment debacle, or
fraudulent national voting
machines and outright poll
cheating. In truth Trump
won in a landslide. The
God of our forefathers,
(whom Patriots and Chris-
tian’s still honor according
to their written compacts,
covenants, Declarations,
and Constitution) will
honor those that will, “Be
strong and very coura-
geous” (Joshua 1:7). Joshua
faced Goliaths and never
compromised. Stand my
American brethren with
Donald Trump, for God and
Country.
Stuart Dick, Irrigon
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