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Look forward to
showing grandbaby
that beautiful star
The star is displayed at Cutsforth Corner on Hwy 207.
To the editor:
The annoying chatter
from the front end of the
Ford pickup had become
an absolute shudder. This
forced me to drift around
Cutsforth Corner en route to
Heppner in a more subdued
manner than I might gener-
ally have. And generally, I
didn’t drive the ranch truck
to work at the county’s his-
toric courthouse, however, I
had gotten every fraction of
tread the factory tires had to
offer, so the truck, if not I,
had its sights set on the tire
shop. Les Schwab Heppner
is not the closest shop to the
ranch, but it is in the county,
and I can always feel secure
in the service I will get from
Amy, John or my old mate
Jeff Orr.
As I rounded the cor-
ner, I thought to myself that
I had not yet seen the giant
Christmas star that annually
rises at this juncture and
junction. Thinking back
to the previous December
I recalled Justin Nelson,
the star’s now sole keeper
lamenting that, “The star
is having technical diffi-
culties, cord is broken, and
rope light is broken.” He
went on to say, “Even if I
did get it going, not sure it
will be as bright, and it is
too heavy for one person,
so no promises…”
I suspect it was less the
star, and more his heart that
weighed heavy, after all just
months before he had laid
his father to rest follow-
ing his untimely passing. I
doubt Justin ever knew how
the texts fairly flew in and
amongst his colleagues. I
reached out to the Todd and
Melissa Lindsay who had
already sounded the alarm.
What to do. Plan a work
party. Slip in undetected
and light the star for him
this year. Something had
to be done, but what? Our
fears were arrested a couple
days later when he post-
ed anew, “Thanks Corey
Miller for helping me with
the new lights and lifting
the star.” I suspect he lifted
Justin as well.
I worked late that night
and it was a stretch after
closing time when I re-
membered that if I was
going to drive the truck
back to Boardman, I better
get to Schwab’s and get
there in a hurry. I exited
the Bartholomew Building
at a gallop. Administrator
Green, just on his way out,
had me jump in his car
and we zipped to Main.
My luck held, as all the
tire shop employees were
gathering around the front
desk readying for departure.
One grabbed my keys as
the other unlocked the front
door to let me in.
The young man who
had the distinction of trad-
ing out the tread, strode
to the fore and excitedly
went on with something
about, “I cannot believe that
you were able to drive that
pickup a mile, let alone all
the way across the county.
Why, you wouldn’t believe
the giant blister inside the
right front wheel.” All while
playing the video he had
captured of the tire, with the
truck aloft the lift. I didn’t
really listen and looked past
the video to my keys. It was
late, the fog was rolling in
and I had to get home. Yet
as I headed for the door, I
well-remembered him say-
ing, “Someone was looking
out for you…”
As I sped through the
gathering fog bank and into
Lexington, a constituent
called, and I weighed my
options. I could pull over
by the airport entrance or
take a message and return
the call a mile or two north
of Lindsay Feedlot Road.
Not much sense in trying
anything in-between.
Perhaps it was because
I had spent 10 minutes on
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Making a decision about COVID-19 vaccination
To the editor:
This letter is addressed
to my family, brethren and
loved ones.
Very soon every cit-
izen in America and the
world will be making a
monumental decision re-
garding whether to take a
COVID-19 vaccination.
I am writing this letter to
give you information that
has been censored, inaccu-
rately reported and delib-
erately withheld by those
that have an agenda to use
the COVID 19 pandemic to
enforce a worldwide lock
down of liberty.
1) The COVID death
rate around the world is
not three in a hundred but
two in a thousand (Heppner
Gazette-Times, Dr. Bhat-
tacharya, 12/2/2020)
2) School age children
in the USA are two to three
times more likely to die
of the seasonal flu than
COVID. (Op. Cit. Bhat-
tacharya) There is no valid
reason to close down our
schools.
3) The impact of the
worldwide lockdowns of
liberty, freedom, businesses
and schools is unprecedent-
ed and has never previously
been used for disease con-
trol. (Op. Cit. Bhattacharya)
4) The draconian world-
wide lockdown will cause
an estimated 130,000,000
additional deaths due to
starvation, mostly children.
Furthermore 80,000,000
children are now at risk of
epidemic diseases due to
the worldwide lockdown.
Children throughout the
world are bearing the brunt
of controlling a disease for
which they face little to no
risk (Op. Cit. Bhattacharya)
5) Our youth are being
denied a proper education,
social activity, sports and
companionship. This is a
grave injustice. A recent
CDC survey found 25 per-
cent of youth in America
between 18-24 have con-
sidered suicide. Requiring
a vaccine for a disease they
have little to no risk is a
travesty.
6) There has never been
a vaccine developed in less
than a year for any epidemic
and never for a COVID flu.
At the present time “there is
no proof these vaccines will
mount a sufficiently protec-
tive immune response or
how long the immunity will
last.” (Jerusalem Post, Nov.
17, 2020)
Even with a vaccine,
the citizens of the world
developing immunity (herd
immunity) will bring an end
to the COVID pandemic.
(Op. Cit. Bhattacharya)
7) Moderna is a new
pharmacy company large-
ly controlled and partial-
ly owned by Dr. Fauci.
(Robert Kennedy, Village
News, 7/24/2020) “Mod-
erna has never produced
an approved vaccine or run
a large vaccine trial.” (Op.
Cit. Kennedy) The National
Institute of Health (NIH) di-
rector Dr. Fauci “owns half
the key patents for Moder-
na’s controversial COVID
vaccine and could collect
half the royalties” (Op. Cit.
Kennedy). “Anthony Fauci
moved Moderna to the front
of the line and allowed the
company to skip animal tri-
als” (Op. Cit. Kennedy). Dr.
Fauci publicly announced
he was encouraged with
phase one of Moderna trials
“despite the fact 20 percent
of high dose and six percent
of low dose groups of super
healthy volunteers had a
grade three severe or med-
ically significant reaction
following the vaccination.
Any other vaccine would
have been dead on arrival”
(Op. Cit. Kennedy). Dr.
Fauci skipped the animal
trials because every other
previous coronavirus had a
unique penchant for “patho-
logical priming” where
death occurs when a vacci-
nated animal encounters a
wild virus.
8) Pfizer was pro-
duced by a German com-
pany called BioNTech,
which Bill Gates largely
controls after investing 55
million dollars (The Mot-
ley Fool, Keith Spreights,
9/24/2020). Pfizer uses a
MRNA technology that
has never been approved
before for vaccinations.
The vaccine transfects mol-
ecules of synthetic RNA
into human cells tricking
the body into making a
protein that initiates an
immune response. “There
are unique and unknown
risks to messenger RNA,
including but not limited
to, local and systemic in-
flammatory responses that
could lead to autoimmune
conditions” (Jerusalem Post
11/17/2020). The National
center for Biotechnology
Information has warned
there are other risks includ-
ing “bio-distribution and
persistence of the induced
immunogen expression;
the phone that my mind sug-
gested I may be well further
down the road, even possi-
bly beyond Chris Rauch’s,
and into straight sailing
down the east boundary of
the Bombing Range. Cer-
tainly, with the headlights
failing to illuminate much
through the now intense fog
you could image yourself
just about anywhere.
I am not sure one is
meant to feel elation, won-
der, fear and incredible
clarity all at a moment in
time. The sight of the bright
blue Christmas star beam-
ing out as far as it might
under the conditions and
rapidly passing me on the
left meant a few things. Not
the least of which, was that I
was going too fast; second,
I was in short order going
to be parked in the front
door of Quinn and Lindsay
Grogan’s; it also meant that
the star was back. The more
daunting reality was that
I was halfway through a
90-degree right hand turn!
As I eased on down the
road to home, my breath-
ing steadied and my heart
stopped crashing, I realized,
that for the second time
today, someone was look-
ing out for me. I am set
to become a grandfather
just after the turn of the
new year. I look forward
to bringing my grandbaby
down on a clear night and
showing her that beautiful
Christmas star. Look out
for one another. And Co-
rey-thanks for lifting all of
us a bit.
Merry Christmas
Jim Doherty
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possible development of
auto-reactive antibodies;
and toxic effects of any
non-native nucleotides and
delivery components” (Op.
Cit. Jerusalem Post). The
general public will be the
guinea pigs for this mass
experiment with no known
assurance of immunity, but
significant unknown and
potentially life changing
auto immune problems.
9) Bill Gates and Dr.
Anthony Fauci have been
working, developing and
experimenting with vac-
cines around the world
for over two decades with
mostly tragic results. In
India Gates developed a
polio vaccine that paralyzed
496,000 children. The India
Supreme Court is hearing
the case as I write. (Chil-
dren’s Health Defense, R.
Kennedy, Jr. 4/9/2020).
In 2017 the World Health
Organization was forced
to admit the present world
polio epidemic is predomi-
nantly a Bill Gates vaccine.
(Op. Cit. Kennedy). The
Gates Foundation has been
using experimental HPV
vaccines on tens of thou-
sands of Indian children
with over 5 percent suf-
fering severe side effects.
(Op. Cit. Kennedy). Bill
Gates organized a simu-
lated worldwide corona
exercise in Oct. 2019 called
Event 201. Both Bill Gates
and Anthony Fauci knew
the COVID 19 pandemic
was about to break out and
used Event 201 to plan the
lockdowns, face masks and
prepared answers to ways
to counter rumors the virus
was man-made. (National
Herald India, 5/1/2020). A
Newsweek article (News-
week, “Dr. Fauci backed
controversial Wuhan Lab
with U.S. Dollars for con-
troversial risky Coronavi-
rus research,”4/28/2020)
documents that Fauci was
head of the lab that gave
the world the Wuhan Flu
and never closed it down
until April of 2020. How is
it possible that the author
of the death of millions in
the world is the world’s
foremost expert on the need
for business and school
closures, face masks in per-
petuity, world police states
and now a miracle vaccine
by which he and Gates own
the patents and control the
exponential profits? None
dare call it a conspiracy,
but that is exactly what it
is. The national news and
media, Google, Facebook,
all fact check, traitors in
the government all cover
for Fauci and Gates, and
they are all accessories to
the greatest crimes in his-
tory. The Apostle Paul in
his letter to the Thessalo-
nians calls it the “mystery
of iniquity.” John in the
book of Revelation calls the
COVID pandemic the be-
ginning of the ‘beast’ global
world tyranny (Rev. 13).
10) America and the
world have been deceived
to believe this COVID
pandemic requires drastic
measures that have put our
civilization at risk. This is
only the beginning of what
the bible in Matthew 24
calls the ‘Great Tribula-
tion.’ The church is largely
quiet because they know
the ‘great tribulation’ is
upon us, but they have
been deceived to believe
they will be raptured out
of the world. This letter is
especially for the church as
a wakeup call because they
need to prepare to endure to
the end as Jesus exhorted in
Matthew 24.
11) Everything that is
happening is leading up to
what John in the book of
Revelation called the ‘mark
of the beast.’ The COVID
vaccine will in due season
be mandated, a prelude to
the ‘mark of the beast.’ Just
as there has been a great and
pervasive effort to require
all to wear a mask that has
no COVID 19 value, in
like manner there will be a
great and pervasive effort
to require all to accept the
COVID vaccination. Bill
Gates has promised all
there will be no chip in
the vaccine, however his
team at MIT has developed
“near infrared nano dots”
(NIRQD) that are water
soluble, biocompatible flu-
orescent nanocrystals that
emit infrared light under
the skin and are compatible
with the COVID vaccine.
These nanocrystals can be
read with a modified iPhone
or smart phone (21stcentu-
rywire.com 12/3/2019). It
will be part of a vaccination
I.D. digital identity used for
surveillance and population
control.
12) Do not put your
faith in the government or
expect to hear warnings
if people are getting sick
or dying after receiving
COVID vaccination. Re-
member the same news
that gave you false polls
and told you the election
voting was the most honest
in history will tell you the
same lies about the “95
percent safe vaccinations.
Know this: You cannot sue
Pfizer or Moderna if you
have severe side effects
(or die). The government
likely will not compen-
sate you either. The federal
government has granted
companies like Pfizer and
Moderna immunity from
liability if something unin-
tentionally goes wrong with
the vaccines. It is very rare
for a blanket immunity to be
passed.” (Rueters, Marisa
Taylor and Robin Respaut,
July 7, 2020).
13) There is hope. God
sent his only begotten son
Jesus Christ to die for our
sins and provide deliv-
erance from this wicked
‘beast’ system that is rising
upon the entire world. Turn
to Jesus and acknowledge
He is indeed Lord and Sav-
ior for all that believe in
Him.
Stuart Dick, Irrigon
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