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SIX - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, February 23, 2022 Good News Only ~ Letters to the Editor ~ 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. History repeats To the Editor: History repeats. Honest history must be preserved, so mankind can avoid the tragedies of the past. That is why the Marxist/left wants to rewrite and/or destroy history to take advantage of historic blunders of the past to use them again to gain power and control of the present. Vietnam is a classic example of why forthright history must be preserved so historic tragedies are not replicated. Had President John F. Kennedy not been assas- sinated, America would never have initiated the horrendous war in Viet- nam. Kennedy was ada- mant that a war against Vietnam would never be tolerated on his watch. The first major act for President Johnson was to declare war against Vietnam. An American President was ruthlessly and clandestine- ly removed from office in order to initiate the most divisive and disingenuous war in American history. Hundreds of thousands of America’s finest young men were sent to the jungles of Vietnam to fight a war their own country had no intent to win. In like manner, Pres- ident Donald Trump was ruthlessly and clandestinely removed from office to re-ignite the leftist agenda to destroy the American Republic, one nation un- der God. President Trump would have never tolerated appeasement in the face of Communist aggression in Hong Kong, Ukraine, Tai- wan, and Islamic brutality in Afghanistan and Iran or the systematic destruction of the American Republic. President Biden left our soldiers and our weapons behind in Afghanistan just like the traitors that left our boys and the soul of Ameri- ca behind in Vietnam. The Vietnam war fos- tered a rebellion against law and order in America. Our returning Vietnam heroes were spit at as baby killers when they came home, save 60,000 that never came home. The police and mili- tary were hailed in the press and media as pigs and racist hate mongers. America to- day is Vietnam on steroids. Law and order has been replaced with defunding the police, feminizing and neutering the armed forces, and watching media incited ‘peaceful’ protests burn down America and disman- tle our ancient landmarks. Vietnam fostered black power and racial division. Dr. Martin Luther King’s vision of a color blind America was assassinated with him. Dr. King’s dream was for his children to “one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their charac- ter.” (Martin Luther King, WWW.HEPPNER.NET Submit News, Advertising & Announcements Letters To The Editor Send Us Photos Start A New Subscription “I have a dream,” Aug. 28, 1963) Today in America, ra- cial division has never been more agitated, pronounced or inflamed. The press, me- dia, Hollywood and much of our educational system are the authors of current class and race warfare (crit- ical race theory) basing human progress and justice on the color of a person’s skin. Dr. King’s vision was to “lift our nation from the quick sands of racial in- justice to the solid rock of brotherhood.” (King op. cit) Barack Obama’s dream (of his fathers) was to inflame racial division, not racial brotherhood. Dr. King end- ed his sermon to America with, “when all God’s chil- dren, Black men and White men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing the words of the old Negro spiritual: Free at last. Free at last. Thank God Almighty, we are free at last.” (King op.cit) Canada’s courageous truckers have stood for the “free at last” banner in front of a watching world placing their lives and their families in harm’s way. That banner of sacrifice is coming to America, it is coming to Oregon, it is coming to our very own homeland in eastern Oregon. Thank God Almighty for those willing to pay the price of freedom so the rest of the world may one day be “free at last.” In honor and grateful thanksgiving: David Clark (Heppner), Greg Gessle (Hermiston), Tom Brehm (Ukiah), Tim Strom (En- terprise) who never came home from Vietnam, R.I P. Stuart Dick, Irrigon This year, she is gathering information on the railroad depot that once existed in Lexington. Jeanne re- ports that most people with whom she has discussed it are not aware that a depot was sited in Lexington, but she is finding definite, reli- To the editor; Spanish flu, our world was able information about it. As our governor has in a Great Depression. We, She invites everyone with decided that March 31 is as a nation, are in one of the knowledge and/or pictures the magic day that they worse inflation rates that we of the Lexington depot to will lift our mask mandate have seen in decades, how contact her at jeancres- on “some” things, is this a can we not compare the two wick@earthlink.net. time to rejoice? Now after time frames. As another “boomer- going into our 3 rd year of I have been just as anger,” I am pleased to a “pandemic” we need to angered by going shopping recently be joined for my “learn to live with the Covid as the rest of you with the walks by a classmate who virus” and be a “free” so- empty shelves, the prices is familiar with the history ciety again. You feel safe of products, stopping at I missed while being gone that that this is not all a plan the gas station to fuel up for about thirty years. So, of a bigger picture? I have and needing to take a loan we have been walking Hep- spent many hours watching, out just to afford the gas pner’s several neighbor- reading, listening to fellow prices. We can blame the hoods, reminiscing about Americans about what can facts on people not working where friends and families really be the reasoning be- or supply shortages, but in lived when we were grow- hind the original mandates fact this is also a form of ing up, noting the many and this upcoming relax on control. Some people do not changes that have occurred mandates. I am sure in my want to work as they are be- since our school days. And, heart that there is something ing required to participate of interest to other walk- bigger going on behind the in the mandated vaccine, ers, in case they haven’t scenes that we are not see- the gas has not stopped noticed, we can walk on ing or being told. flowing in our own land, sidewalks from the front of The Covid virus is not but they shut down our the dam all the way through dying down, as no virus own pipelines, so we are town to the little league does. They mutate, they reliant on elsewhere. This baseball field. change, they become resis- is going to cause our world Good news for local tant to medication. There to collapse, make us reliant athletes: Both the Ione and really is no reason to fear on a government that can’t Heppner girls’ and boys’ this virus compared to fix our world no matter basketball teams saw action any other virus that has what lies they tell us. We, at district-level competi- ever been around. The fear as a nation, are doomed for tions last weekend, and should lay in the fact that another “Great Depression” the Mustang boys will be we have been divided as a at the rate things are going. playing again in this week’s nation. We are not allowed Now is the time to state-level competition. to think for ourselves, make come together, gather re- The wrestling team also our own decisions, live our sources and stand strong went to district competi- lives as we want to or speak against the political non- tion and again, its small freely about this. The dam- sense. I don’t think we are team of eight wrestlers age is done. The division seeing the end to anything, placed fourth among 13 of our nation has been ac- only a lull in control. schools. Going to state-lev- complished. A concern we Our monthly meeting el competition this week should all have right now of Freedom of Choice will will be Cade Cunningham is history repeats itself, as I be held on February 27 at and Conor Brosnan. Good have compared this virus to 3 p.m. at Two Old Hags luck all. the Spanish flu many times, Pizza. Jace Coe’s knee was look back on facts. Spanish Staying Loud and badly injured during last flu lasted 36 months, Covid Standing Proud beside you fall’s football game with Virus we are in our 24 th and for you, Kennedy, resulting in a month (beginning our 3 rd Dawn Brosnan need for two surgeries. At year). Ten years after the least some good news is that Jace had his second surgery on the 15 th , is recovering well at home and can now look forward to successful rehabilitation. As often happens, on the same weekend of these high school district sports competitions, the local Elks Annual featured a ladies’ afternoon tea while the Elk members held a meeting, followed by an evening of socializing, fine foods, and live music. The black and red decorations were ex- tensive, starting with a “red carpet” entry, and striking. The incident/person that brought a smile to your face can do the same for the GT readers when you share by sending your tidbit to dbrosnan123@gmail.com or calling 541-676-5382 or 541-223-1490. Here’s hoping that some good news comes to Pictured (L-R): Home Health and Hospice Director, Molly Rhea, RN, Claudia Hughes and everyone reading this. Time for rejoice or time of concern? By Doris Brosnan Some of Nancy Ek- strom’s entertainment includes playing various card games with friends. She seems to take in stride having long spells of “flat cards,” but recently, after enduring a long, dry spell, she was delighted to play a winning hand at Bridge that contained nine of thirteen possible trump cards. Of course, her delight contin- ued then in recalling this whenever she could corner a listener, and just when she was hearing “Yeah, yeah, yeah. You already told us,” she had a lucrative round of Loo, and a couple days later, another successful round of Loo. Hanging onto this good news will prob- ably help her get through her next long, dry spell, though it might be hard on her friends. Reminder to pinochle players: Tomorrow at 1 p.m. at the St. Patrick’s Senior Apartments, and on Tuesdays, Bingo at 1 p.m. And don’t forget exercising on Mondays at the Ione church at 11 a.m. Sharon Harrison and Nancy Anderson have cre- ated a car-themed quilted throw that will be featured as a raffle item this spring at car shows. The winning raffle ticket for this quilt that was inspired by Betty Burns will be drawn at the Ione July 4 car show. Tickets will be sold at the car shows preceding the 4 th and are now available by calling Harrison at 541- 989-8496 or Anderson at 541-422-7581. Proceeds will support the local clas- sic cars group’s endeavors. Jeanne Creswick, a “boomerang” HHS gradu- ate of 1961, has written sev- eral articles for the Morrow County Chronicles since returning, as she is greatly interested in the history of our area and in genealogy. Book donated in memory of Jepsen The Heppner Book- worms, represented by Claudia Hughes, Heppner, donated the book “Reflec- tions of a Peacemaker,” to the Pioneer Memorial Hospice library in memory of the late Suzanne Jepsen, who was a Bookworms member. The book is a young boy’s poetry and story de- picting hope, love, sadness, humor and gratitude while he struggled with an in- curable disease. “Author, young Mattie J.T. Stepanek, hoped his poems would touch people and bring them peace.” (Edited by his mother, Jennifer Smith Stepanek.) We “liked it because it seemed to encompass all our world,” commented Hughes. Jackie Alleman, Volunteer Coordinator. -Photo by April Sykes. New Baby in Your Family? Engagement? Wedding? We want to share your life events! 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