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Battalion is ready to go

BOISE — A reoccurring theme has emerged during this annual training period on the vast, high-desert Orchard Training Area and it is a simple sentiment: Let’s get going.

Over and over again while I’ve drifted from one company to another in the 3rd Battalion, I keep hearing the same refrain: Let’s just get going.

The sentiment is not delivered with negative overtones. No one appears frustrated. Instead there is a workmanlike sense of responsibility evident in the words, a kind of blue-collar motif stamped with a calm realization that the sooner the battalion gets to Iraq the sooner it can go home.

 

Contract is binding

As a member of the La Grande City Council, there were certain aspects of the 2010-2011 budget that I felt could raise some legitimate questions.  Consequently, when I saw the caption for your editorial of July 29, my first thought was, “Fair enough, let’s see what they have to say.” Imagine my surprise, then, when I discovered that the content of the editorial didn’t address any of those potential issues, but took the council to task for not “...insist(ing) that cutbacks be made and shared by city staff...”

 

 

Auction bids help kids Attend Saturday’s Junior Market Auction

If you missed your chance at the Eastern Oregon Livestock Show to put quality meat in your freezer, here is the last opportunity for the year.

We are gearing up for the Union County Fair this week and once again the youth of our community get the opportunity to bring their 4-H and FFA market animals to a show, have them judged and then sell at the auction on Saturday. We have 110 market animals coming to fair including goats, hogs, lambs, steers and rabbits.

 

Taking issue with Horizon

The Friends of the Grande Ronde Valley want to thank all of the people who attended our presentation of the “Reality of Wind Power.’’ For those who did not attend, please go to www.granderonde.tv where you can see the PowerPoint presentation and the question and answer session.
 

Heavenly Father’s love knows no bounds

Father’s Day, a day we dedicate to our fathers. A time to remember all that they have done for us. For some, it is a sad day. Not all fathers are wonderful, caring and loving. I had one of those. I lived in constant fear that I would not live up to his expectations and would suffer for it.
 

The case for hydro vs. wind

As I sit at my desk composing this letter, a neighbor is spreading rock on the top of his levy, to raise the elevation, in hopes of keeping the Grande Ronde River from going out of its banks and destroying his crops and possibly the crops on adjoining property.
 

Clean and renewable

With the Antelope Ridge Wind Farm under consideration, perhaps now is a time to consider where our electrical power comes from and how future growth in consumption will be met.
 

Help ‘Paint the Town’

First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in La Grande is celebrating 10 years of doing the mission project “Paint the Town.”

The idea came from watching news coverage of Paint the Town projects happening in bigger cities. We believed there would be those in La Grande who could use a helping hand in getting their homes painted.

 

Support youth, save money

Spend money to save money? I know it sounds like an oxymoron.

Many of you will realize I am recycling my article from last year, but the fact is that many families are still eating at home more to save money.

 

Solutions to city budget crunch

To the credit of the city manager, I thought it was a brilliant idea to hold town hall meetings and get public involvement in the city budget. The topic was the “critical budget shortfall” of $500,000 and what to do about it. I would surmise from the wording of the survey given at the meeting, that the manager’s preferred solution is a tax levy to “maintain current services.”
 
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