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WOMAN
-Continued from PAGE ONE flew her and her daughter
homes when they’ve been
invaded by snakes, over-
run with rats, crawling with
cockroaches and broken
into by bears, among other
invasions,” the shows ad-
vertising says.
Sister Penny Krebs
took a photo of Aamodt out-
side her home with a spray-
er fighting the crickets. “My
sister took a picture of me
and put on Facebook with
a backpack sprayer. What
could I do to get them off
my property?” she said. “I
ran over them with a lawn
mower I had done every-
thing I could think of, so my
sister put it on Facebook,
and it went viral and a com-
pany from the UK saw it.”
She says Animal Planet
called and she did five to
six interviews, then they
4-H kids participate in state
shooting
to Dallas, Texas where they
did the production for the
Intruders series. She says
the production company did
a lot of the actual shooting
in England and wanted
some crickets to film. “The
crickets are actually native
to America, so we caught
35 crickets, labeled them,
gave each a name and made
them promise to kill them
when they were done,” she
recalls. “We then sent them
to the UK where they did
the filming.”
Following the show,
Aamodt says she was invit-
ed to Denver to a Mormon
Cricket convention where
she did a presentation, and
has an open invitation to
return, which she says she
might do.
When asked what the
people of Ione could do if
they want to volunteer like
her to locate and fight the
crickets, Aamodt says if
they want to talk to her they
are free to contact her about
how to do it. “I would be
more than happy to come
and talk to them about what
needs to happen to make
this work. Hardest thing is
going to be identification
and location of where the
crickets are to make it fea-
sible financially to spray,”
she says. “There can be a
lot more damage done in
Morrow County because
of the circles and irrigated
land,” she says.
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Pictured (L-R): Joe McMasters (Heppner), Chase Lantis (Boardman), Preslie Bowles (Irrigon),
Keltie Rietmann (Ione), Radley Griggs (Boardman), Gage Heideman (Ione), Carter Eynetich
(Ione), Liam Heideman (Ione) and Kalvin Rietmann (Ione).
chery and shotgun.
Scoring was held Mon-
day and Tuesday. Results
were published on Wednes-
day, September 1, after
this issue of the G-T was
The Heppner Ga-
published.
zette-Times will be closed
for the Labor Day holiday
Monday, September 6.
ALL NEWS AND ADVERTISEMENT DEADLINE: on
The deadline for all news
and advertising for the
September 8 issue will be
Several Morrow Coun-
ty 4-H members missed
their first day of school to
participate in the state 4-H
shooting event in Shedd,
OR, outside of Albany.
Members participated in
smallbore rifle, pistol, ar-
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Biden controlled by
Obama administration
To the editor:
“If I could make an
arrangement where I had
a stand in, a front man or a
front woman, and they had
an earpiece in and I was in
my basement in my sweats
looking through the stuff,
then I could sort of deliver
the law but someone else
was doing the talking and
ceremony, then I’d be fine
with that.” (Barack Obama,
Stephen Colbert show, Dec.
1, 20)
The Biden administra-
tion is controlled by Obama
administration operatives:
Biden’s chief of staff
(Klain), domestic policy
(Rice), national economic
director (Reece), corona re-
sponse director (Zienti), cli-
mate (Kerry), head of state
(Blinken), veteran affairs
(McDonough), agriculture
(Vilsack), defense secretary
(Austin). I could add more
but those with ears to hear
will get the point.
The same Obama glo-
balist operatives control our
military. Gen. Frank McK-
enzie, commander of U.S.
Central Command Afghan-
istan and Peter Vasey head
of U.S. forces on the ground
in Afghanistan have called
on national media the Tali-
ban “our Afghan partners.”
The Biden/Obama military
is in bed with the Taliban.
They have been working
with the Taliban for many
years. In 2015 Obama ex-
changed five Taliban/Al
Qaida terrorists (“the hard-
est of the hardest”) for
a U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe
Berdahl who was later court
marshalled for desertion
and misbehavior before
the enemy endangering the
safety of the command.
American soldiers were
seriously injured in an effort
to find Berdahl. Obama did
not consult congress of this
exchange despite specific
pledges and legal require-
ments. The Biden/ Obama
military command has been
negotiating with Taliban
Head Khairullah Khairkha
for U.S. withdrawal from
Afghanistan, the same ter-
rorist Obama released for a
court marshalled deserter.
Nothing happens by
accident. The Biden/Obama
administration left behind:
1) tens of billions of Ameri-
cas` most sophisticated mil-
itary resources (Black hawk
helicopters, 75,878 military
vehicles including armored
personnel carriers, Hum-
vees, armored vehicle car-
riers, Super Tucano Attack
Aircraft at $427,000,000,
600,000 infantry weapons,
Wolfhounds Radio Mon-
itoring system and night
vision equipment costing
$80,000,000, and that is the
tip of the iceberg horror for
the free world; 2) American
citizens; 3) Afghan citizens
that supported America.
The Obama anti-Ameri-
can operatives will blame
a bungling incompetent
Biden for the planned trage-
dy. He has accomplished his
purpose of destroying and
humiliating America before
the world and turning the
world into “nation shall rise
against nation and kingdom
against kingdom” (Matthew
24:7a) with an America
never to be trusted again.
Is there hope in the
midst of this debacle? Ab-
solutely. Stop listening and
trusting those that lie and
deceive. The same people
that caused the greatest
defeat and humiliation in
American history are the
same people telling us to
take the jab and wear a
mask. These are the same
people that led us into Viet-
nam, Afghanistan, the Mid-
dle East sacrificing millions
of precious souls all based
on lies and subterfuge.
There is hope. Those
patriots that knew and trust-
ed the God of the Bible, our
forefathers, never lost a war
and built the greatest nation
on earth based on obedience
and faith in Jesus Christ
as Lord and Savior. Our
greatest forefather, George
Washington, was given a
vision in Valley Forge of
three great perils to face
America, the Revolutionary
War, the Civil War and the
most fearful “where the
whole world united shall
not prevail against her. Let
every child of the Republic
learn to live for his God,
his land, and the Union.”
(George Washington’s vi-
sion for America, Library
of Congress).
Put your hope and trust
in Jesus Christ my brethren,
not ministers of deception.
Prepare to endure the trib-
ulation (food shortages,
government mandates, pes-
tilence, warfare). Our hope
is Jesus Christ, and He will
return just as He promised
to end this wickedness.
Stuart Dick, Irrigon
I o n e C o m m u n i t y C h u r c h
4 7 0 E M a i n S t r e e t , I o n e
Summer worship at 10:00 AM
Sunday Mornings
“ Y o u w i l l s e e k M e a n d f i n d M e , w h e n
y o u s e a r c h f o r M e w i t h a l l y o u r h e a r t . ”
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