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The INDEPENDENT, October 18, 2000
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your family, your livelihood,
please vote yes on Ballot Mea­
sure 5-67.
Cherie Moylan
Deer Island
Hyde well-informed,
consistently effective
To the Editor:
I support C o m m issio ne r
Tony Hyde for County Com­
missioner. In working with him
on community problems, I’ve
found him to be responsive to
solutions for problems facing
the county. He is attentive and
effective in working on emer­
gency m anagem ent, solid
waste and recycling, and as a
volunteer on the county jail ini­
tiative, I welcomed his sincere
concern and interest in ad­
dressing this critical problem.
I’m working with him now on
a forum of elected officia ls
from eight Oregon counties
who are convening on the En­
dangered Species Act listing
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as Columbia County Commis­
was obvious that the best To the Editor:
May I urge you to vote with sioner. Your vote for him is es­
choice was Scott Burge. He
was the only ca n d id a te to me to re-elect Tony Hyde to a sential in keeping Columbia
stand on the side of the tax­ second term as C olum bia County moving progressively.
It is especially important to
payer and not higher taxes County Commissioner, Posi­
the Vernonia area that Tony is
and more governm ent. His tion 3.
retained as Com m issioner.
Tony
has
always
worked
plan to make roads his number
1 priority really struck a cord hard, and very successfully, to Never before has Vernonia
with me. We need more peo­ improve the economic vitality had such a positive influence
ple like Scott, who will priori­ of the entire county. He has in county matters and never
tize the im portant services been instrumental in bringing before have we had such a
government provides and fo­ vital industry and jobs to our successful advocate for the
cus on doing just those few area. He has both the ability things that really matter in Ver­
things well. Finally, I’m sup­ and determination to continue nonia. Re-elect Tony Hyde.
Art Parrow
porting Scott because he is the to work in the best interests of
all
of
our
citizens.
Mayor of Vernonia
only candidate to pledge to
Tony has the understanding
have regular m onthly office
of the needs of our communi­
hours in every city. That’s the
ties learned through his experi­ Vernonia needs to
kind of representative we need
ences as the ex-mayor of Ver­ re-elect Tony Hyde
in Columbia County and that’s
nonia and his four years as
why I’m casting my vote for
county commissioner. He is
To the Editor:
Scott Burge for County Com­
clearly the best choice to con­
I would like to urge my fel­
missioner. Please join me in
tinue as a leader in our county
low Vernonian to vote for Tony
supporting not only a good
government. He will continue
B u rg e’s p rio rities person, but a great candidate to lead us toward worthwhile Hyde for County Commission­
er Position 3.
for office.
econom ic and social goals.
are what we need
Tony has given our commu­
Gerald Wilson
Tony has all the leadership
nity great representation the
Rainier
skills, knowledge and experi­
To the Editor:
last four years.
ence that are vital to the posi­
After watching the first de­
Vernonia needs Tony Hyde
R e-elect Hyde for tion.
bate between the candidates
as our County Commissioner!
We must retain Tony Hyde
for county com m issioner, it good representation
Shirlee Daughtry
Vernonia
for salmon. He is consistently
available and well informed,
asking tough questions and
raising very legitim ate con­
cerns. He represents the coun­
ty’s interests well and is con­
sidered by experts to be a
strong member of the forum.
He is also well respected as
an effective working represen­
tative on the Association of
Oregon Counties and is recog­
nized nationally and consulted
about em ergency m anage­
ment issues. As a long time
o b se rve r of governm ent in
Oregon, I can say with certain­
ty that Tony Hyde is a real as­
set to our county and we
should keep him working for
us.
Judith Mandt
Scappoose
Moving to Vernonia
as soon as she can
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Dear Vernonia:
I don’t even know if any of
you will remember me, but I
was the only stranger in town
for several days in m id-Jan­
uary. The fact that I stayed
alone at the Vernonia Inn, a
plumpish grey-haired woman
with a cane, who went in and
out of shops talking with who­
ever cared to engage, and ate
in a different cafe on Bridge
Street every day should jog a
few memories.
Except for a couple of minor
contretem ps, my trip home
from Vernonia at the end of
January was uneventful and
interesting. The trip was all I
had hoped, and I felt sure I
had found in V ernonia the
home I had been looking for. I
had made some warm connec­
tions, even on the train back,
and a rare sunny day greeted
my return to San Francisco.
The very fact should have giv­
en me some kind of warning.
Anyway, a very surly cabbie
finally arrived to take me home
to my sunny windows and my
beloved Molly-dog. He drove
so fast and so wildly through
traffic that I had to ask him to
please slow down, to which his
an sw e r was to drive even
faster. (I have got to get out of
this city!) I actually asked for
his name and number to report
him, I was so upset. As you
will see, I soon forgot all about
it, indeed, until now, early Oc­
tober, the incident has been
pushed out of my memory by
later events. When we made
the turn into my neighborhood,
we encountered a police barri­
cade, and only my pleas that I
was coming home from a trip,
had luggage, and am partially
handicapped, moved the offi­
cer to let us through. The next
turn, to my block, thrust the
truth home. Several fire en-
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