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TWO - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, February 16, 2022 The Official Newspaper of the City of Heppner and the County of Morrow ~ Letters to the Editor ~ Heppner The Heppner Gazette Times will print all letters to the Editor with the following criteria met: letters submitted to the newspaper will need to have the name of the sender along with a legible signature. We are also requesting that you provide your address and a phone number where you can be reached. The address and phone number will only be used for verification and will not be printed in the newspaper. Letters may not be libelous. The GT reserves the right to edit. The GT is not responsible for accuracy of statements made in letters. Any letters expressing thanks will be placed in the classifieds under “Card of Thanks” at a cost of $10. Email to editor@rapidserve.net or upload to Heppner.net. GAZETTE-TIMES U.S.P.S. 240-420 Morrow County’s Home-Owned Weekly Newspaper SEARCH OLD COPIES OF THE HEPPNER GAZETTE-TIMES ON-LINE: http://oregonnews.uoregon.edu/ Published weekly by Sykes Publishing and entered as periodical matter at the Post Office at Heppner, Oregon under the Act of March 3, 1879. Periodical postage paid at Heppner, Oregon. Office at 188 W. Willow Street. Telephone (541) 676-9228. Fax (541) 676-9211. E-mail: editor@rapidserve.net or david@rapidserve.net. Web site: www.heppner.net. Postmaster send address changes to the Heppner Gazette-Times, P.O. Box 337, Heppner, Oregon 97836. Subscriptions: $31 in Morrow County; $25 senior rate (in Morrow County only; 65 years or older); $37 elsewhere; $31 student subscriptions. David Sykes ..............................................................................................Publisher Bobbi Gordon................................................................................................ Editor Giselle Moses.........................................................................................Advertising All News and Advertising Deadline is Monday at 5 p.m. For Advertising: advertising deadline is Monday at 5 p.m. Cost for a display ad is $5.25 per column inch. Cost for classified ad is 50¢ per word. Cost for Card of Thanks is $10 up to 100 words. Cost for a classified display ad is $6.05 per column inch. For Public/Legal Notices: public/legal notices deadline is Monday at 5 p.m. Dates for publi- cation must be specified. Affidavits must be requested at the time of submission. Affidavits require three weeks to process after last date of publication (a sooner return date must be specified if required). For Obituaries: Obituaries are published in the Heppner GT at no charge and are edited to meet news guidelines. Families wishing to include information not included in the guidelines or who wish to have the obituary written in a certain way must purchase advertising space for the obituary. For Letters to the Editor: Letters to the Editor MUST be signed by the author. The Heppner GT will not publish unsigned letters. All letters MUST include the author’s address and phone number for use by the GT office. The GT reserves the right to edit letters. The GT is not responsible for accuracy of statements made in letters. Any letters expressing thanks will be placed in the classifieds under “Card of Thanks” at a cost of $10. Obituaries Billy J. Adams Former Heppner resi- dent, Billy J. Adams, died November 5, 2021 in Alba, Texas. He was buried with military honors at a mili- tary cemetery outside Dal- las, Texas. He and his wife Shir- ley had just celebrated their 45th wedding anni- versary on November 4. He worked at the Mor- row County bus sheds and later at the Morrow County Transfer station after retir- ing from military service. He is survived by his wife Shirley and daugh- ters Jessie of Minnesota and Aileen of Washington state. ALL NEWS AND ADVERTISEMENT DEADLINE: MONDAYS AT 5:00 P.M. Fear not To the editor: All doctors and many medical care specialists take the Hippocratic Oath, an oath to do no harm. Heppner has been blessed over the years with amaz- ing doctors, nurses and medical care specialists. Heppner so venerated Doc Tibbles the city present- ed him with a bland new Bronco on his retirement. Doc McMurdo practiced medicine into his eighties. Doctors like Wally Wolfe and Dr. Wagner, a gift- ed surgeon who died too young in a plane accident in the nineteen fifties, in- vested their entire medical career in Heppner. Even those that have moved on like Joe Gifford and Rus- sell Nichols have never- theless blessed Heppner and Morrow County. The same can be said about the multitude of nurses that have dedicated their lives to minister to the hurting at their greatest time of need. Part of that oath has been solely tested by the Covid pandemic. “I will prevent disease when- ever I can, prevention is preferable to cure.” The governments and public health officials in the west- ern world have put little to no effort in measures to prevent, build up im- mune systems, or out-pa- tient treatment to fight the Covid 19 virus. “There is zero effort, interest, pro- motion or care about early treatment of people who are sick with COVID 19. But there is a complete and total focus on people who don't have COVID 19 and giving them a vaccine.” (Dr. Peter McCullough, THE EPOCH TIMES, Jan. 5-11) As the Hippocratic oath requires prevention preferable to the vaccine cure, Dr. McCullough doc- uments that “early treat- ment markedly changes spreads. So we reduce new cases, we reduce the inten- sity and severity and du- ration of symptoms. And by that mechanism, we reduce hospitalization and death.” (McCullough, op. cit. P. 6) So why has the United States not allowed doctors to honor the Hip- pocratic oath and suppress virtually all efforts for ear- ly treatment and preven- tion of severe sickness and death from COVID-19? The answer, one man, Dr. Anthony Fauci. Dr. Fau- ci and his pharmaceutical cartel have orchestrated the pandemic lockdown, vaccination mandates, so- cial distancing, forced face masks, business closures and the highest COVID-19 death rate in the world. The USA has document- ed 77 million COVID-19 cases and 917,000, 000 deaths. The closest nation to these horrendous num- bers is India with over four times the population and one tenth the death rate per population. Bangladesh, (a) nation with few doc- tors, hospitals and a neg- ligent health care system has lost 28,771 citizens, 35 times less than Dr. Fauci's America. “I will remember that I remain a member of so- ciety with special obliga- tions to my fellow human beings, those of sound mind and body, as well as the infirm.” (Hippocrat- ic Oath) This oath does not just pertain to doctors and nurses but to all cit- izens that have a heart to do good, not harm. We all have a special obliga- tion to support our fellow human beings, especially in the face of a pandemic that is dividing our coun- ty, putting our youth in fear-induced bondage and snuffing out the lives of our loved ones. Can COVID-19 be pre- vented and can early treat- ment save lives? Accord- ing to the Great Barrington Declaration, signed by 50,000 scientists and medical professions and 800,000 members of the public, a strategy of early treatment, protecting the elderly and immune com- promised, and no lock- down of the general soci- ety or forced vaccinations/ face masks, would have saved hundreds of thou- sands of American lives. Fauci and his ilk, rather than engaging in public discourse, “organized a quick and devastating pub- lished takedown" (The Ep- och Times, Jay Bhattacha- rya, Jan. 6-11, 2022) of the Barrington Declaration. Here is the rest of the story much of our present health care system can not honor lest they be fired. You can prevent or at least mitigate the severity of the dreaded COVID-19. Build up your immune system. Vitamin, mineral and nu- trition supplements will help build up resistance to all types of infection and disease. Vitamin A,B, C, D, E; herbs such as milk thistle, echinacea, beet root powder, grapeseed extract, multi minerals, especially zinc, magnesium, seleni- um, macro green super foods, medicine such as ivermectin and many oth- ers according to individ- ual needs will help build up your immune system. More important, take care of yourself. As my dad used to say in his late 80’s, “If I knew I was going to live this long I would have taken better care of my- self.” In closing, there is hope for those struggling with the after effects of COVID-19 as well as the COVID vaccinations and booster shots. Just one ex- ample (there are more) is Apple Pectin (powder or liquid). This apple product has been proven to remove toxins from your body. Ap- ple pectin reduced 137c ce- sium uptake levels 62 per- cent in Ukrainian children after Chernobyl nuclear reactor disaster. (Swiss Medical Weekly, 2004) Apple pectin can bind ra- dionuclides (radiation tox- ins) because it is a natural chelator that can help the body flush out toxins and that includes nanoparticles from COVID vaccinations. (thedrardiashow.com) There is always hope. There is an exhortation “fear not" 365 times in the bible, one “fear not" for every day of the year. “Fear not" my brethren and take care of yourself. Stuart Dick Irrigon BEO Bancorp reports 2021 earnings BEO Bancorp and its subsidiary, Bank of East- ern Oregon, announced consolidated year end 2021 earnings of $6,917,000; average earnings per share of $5.74. Total assets were $821.6 million; net loans were $466.5 million, while deposits ended the year at $753.4 million. “2021 continued where 2020 left off… pandemic, mandates, sup- ply chain. All terms that we have become way too familiar with over the past two years. Throw a drought into the mix and the year included addition- al cause for concern. From a growth and net income perspective, the bank had a very strong year. A tremen- dous amount of fiscal stim- ulus money flowed into the economy via various gov- ernment programs. These programs contributed to bank growth, especially in deposit and total asset ALL NEWS AND ADVERTISEMENT DEADLINE: MONDAYS AT 5:00 P.M. growth,” said President and CEO, Jeff Bailey. According to Chief Financial Officer, Mark Lemmon, “Net income rose 25.2 percent year over year. Return on average assets is 0.93 percent com- pared to 0.95 percent in 2020. Return on average equity is at 15.39 percent, up from 13.88 percent in 2020. Our book value per share is $39.80, up 13.8 percent from last year’s $34.96; while sharehold- er equity increased 14.3 percent year over year. All of these financial metrics reflect a good year for the bank.” Chief Operations Of- ficer Becky Kindle said, “Deposits grew 24 percent year over year. This came from all areas of our branch network. The pandemic created various staffing challenges throughout 2021. We are very proud of our employees’ dedica- tion to providing excellent customer service in some- times less than ideal condi- tions. In 4Q 2021 we also converted to a new core processing system, which added to a chaotic year, but our employees met the challenges admirably.” “Loan volume de- creased 5.1 percent year over year, but if our SBA PPP loans are taken out of the equation, core loans are up 5.4 percent in 2021,” said Chief Lending Officer John Qualls. Chief Credit Officer, Ed Rollins commented, “Our loan portfolio has per- formed quite well over the past year. While produc- tion for our ag producers was down, commodity prices, crop insurance and other stimulus programs helped avert what could have been a terrible year for our agricultural sector.”
