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Letters to the editor for May 22, 2013

Letters to the editor for May 22, 2013
 

Drive-in is a gem

Spotlight 88 in Pennsylvania ended business as a drive-in after a tornado struck in1985. The owners put up a sign: “Now-showing: Gone with the Wind.” 
 

Letters to the editor for May 20, 2013

Letters to the editor for May 20, 2013
 

Program honors WWII vets

Veterans from World War II are becoming a more and more exclusive club. Consider this: A person who joined the Army at age 18 in 1941, is now 90 years old. It is estimated that the nation loses 800 World War II veterans every day.
 

Was the old public library built at the site of a jail?

The library building, which opened in 1914 at 1006 Penn Ave., was constructed at the site of an old city jail, according to the book “A Little Bit of This and Little Bit of That: La Grande and Union County Trivia, Vol. II,” by Robert Bull of La Grande.
 

Letters to the editor for May 17, 2013

Letters to the editor for May 17, 2013
 

The unbearable lightness of perfect

Today, people complain about a lack of role models. Growing up on the banks of Crooked Creek in the 1960s, I had no such problem. Role models were everywhere. Many of them watched closely out their windows to make sure me and the other kids did not beat each other with sticks.
 

Support parade

Island City deserves a hearty pat on the back for hosting tonight’s Ag-Timber Parade. Here’s hoping more people than ever turn out to line the parade route when the parade kicks off at dusk on Island Avenue, then turns south on McAlister Lane.
 

Smokey’s influence

got to see Smokey Bear Monday and was awash in a flood of childhood memories.
 

Sounds of the season

A friend of mine talks about the noise of farming outside his home office window in the summer. He says when he looks out onto a thousand acres of fields dotted with deer he thinks, “At least it’s not a housing development.”
 
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