OPINION
A10 • HERMISTONHERALD.COM
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26, 2019
Cashing in on Oregon Lottery
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
the region. He walked out, as not to allow
this legislature slamming us with another
To the editor:
tax. Yes folks it is a tax. Th is will increase
I’ve lived here about 18 years, coming
products and services we use daily in our
from the southwest Portland area.
lives.
I’ve seen this beautiful city grow from
It’s socialism at its best, and Kate
a smallish country town to a renewed city
Brown will do anything to keep her so-
and countryside. My thanks to the city of
cialist ideas and cronies in power to push
Hermiston, crews from Umatilla Electric
their economic disastrous ideas to frui-
Cooperative, the street sweepers, parks
tion. Th is includes having our only real
and recreation, the construction crews
representatives of eastern Oregon to be
and of course the brave men and women
forced if found, dragged back and have to
guarding our safety (the policemen and
sit in and watch the socialist super major-
police women), Burns Mortuary, the
ity ram this cap and trade bill down our
Charles Burns family of Pendleton and
throats.
the Joseph E Burns family of Burns Mor-
Since the governor and her cronies
tuary in Hermiston and our wonderful
consistently and defi antly ignore feder-
Lady of Angels Catholic Church.
al law should the president order U.S.
Th anks again!
marshals to fi nd them, round them up
Bernadette Bass
and make them sit unwillingly in federal
Hermiston
court to be prosecuted in violation of
federal law. I would say that would be fair
Hansell walkout should be according to their actions.
supported
Th ank you Bill! I have your back, as
To the editor:
you have had mine, and my neighbors.
When I read the East Oregonian
We need more representation like you
Friday, I was so pleased to see that we in
who care about us all, not the ones who,
Eastern Oregon were being clearly rep-
with special interet groups, fatten their
resented by a man of integrity. Sen. Bill
pockets.
Hansell knows the impact of this super
Perry Hawkins
majority socialist agenda against us in
Hermiston
City is growing
S
everal weeks ago I thought I had the practical one, he said he’d believe
it when he saw the money.
a sudden windfall of $30,000.
Then I thought, I have to sign
After scratching about half
the back of the card. Before doing
of the corresponding coordinates on
Oregon Lottery’s “Game of Riches,” so, I decided to double-check the
scratched coordinates.
it appeared I won the top prize. I
It was then that the disappoint-
scrambled downstairs to show my
ing reality slapped me in
husband the card.
the face. I had inadvertently
In the 15-20 minutes that
scratched F-8 instead of
I had thought I won, several
E-8. The worst part about
things came to mind. First, I
my error is it appeared
was ecstatic. I play sporad-
I won the top prize. If it
ically, collecting winning
had only been $10 or $20
cards and cashing them in
I wouldn’t have been so
for additional cards. They
bummed out.
might sit on a nightstand for
T AMMY
M ALGESINI
And when I fi nally
a week or more until I get
INSIDE MY
forced myself to fi nish play-
around to scratching them.
SHOES
ing the card, adding insult to
I was thinking I wished I
injury, I didn’t win a thing.
had scratched this particular
Not even the minimum $3. Zero.
card sooner, as we could have gone
to the lottery offi ce during our recent Nada. Nothing.
Later, John came upstairs to fi nd
trip to Coos Bay. I looked at the cal-
me on the daybed looking at the card.
endar and told John I would need to
“Staring at it isn’t going to change
take some Friday off from work so
it,” he said.
we could go to Salem to collect the
I had to break the news to my
winnings.
cousins that we aren’t going to
Pondering aloud about what I
Hawaii or some exotic place. Ini-
might buy, John interrupted to sug-
tially, they were a bit confused
gest I could use part of the winnings
to take my cousins with me on a 60th because they didn’t even know I had
been planning it in my head.
birthday trip next February. This
The $17 I currently have in win-
brought tears to my eyes — what a
ning tickets won’t even fi ll my gas
sweet thing for my husband to think
tank for a road trip. Maybe, if I keep
of. Not only is he aware that Laura,
my fi ngers crossed, a future scratch
Lynda and I have been talking about
taking a trip together sometime, John ticket will be a big winner — or
someone decides to send me a check
knows how I like to do something
or start a GoFundMe campaign.
special for monumental birthdays.
Meanwhile, I’m still dreaming about
John wasn’t getting worked up
a 60th birthday in paradise.
with excitement like I was. Always
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