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Help make CAN food drive a success

With unemployment in the area still hovering in the double digits and numerous families dealing with layoffs, furloughs and pay cuts, it’s clear that food insecurity remains a major issue for many families. In order to help restock the shelves of local food banks, the volunteer Community Action Network, or CAN, is gearing up for its second annual countywide food drive.

The effort will take place Nov. 7 in conjunction with local Scouts’ annual door-to-door Scouting for Food event. Combined, CAN and Scouting for Food hope to collect enough food to make sure food banks can sustain those in need for some time.
 

Letters and Comments for October 27, 2009

Letters and Comments for October 27, 2009

 

Join La Grande Main Street effort

The word is spreading quickly among downtown businesses that the annual Main Street meeting is fast approaching. Oct. 29 is the big event, hosted by Mount Emily Alehouse.

While this meeting is especially important to the business community, it is also a time that the community as a whole can show their support for our new Main Street program. Everyone is invited to be a member of La Grande Main Street.

 

Letters and Comments for October 26, 2009

Letters and Comments for October 26, 2009

 

Letters and Comments for October 23, 2009

Letters and Comments for October 23, 2009

 

No pain, no gain

“This is for the pain,” the kindly pharmacist said.

“The pain?” I replied.

Had I looked in pain when I visited the doctor? It’s possible.

People in my family tend to look in pain most of the time, which can be awkward, especially on happy occasions.

 

Letters and Comments for October 22, 2009

Letters and Comments for October 22, 2009

 

Letters and Comments for October 21, 2009

Letters and Comments for October 21, 2009

 

Outrage at socialism for rich

The anger rises. The fury rages at a new economic order that rules our lives. American capitalism has now been redefined to mean the freedom of the rich to reap enormous rewards if the risks they take do work out and — more importantly — if those risks do not work out, for everybody else to bail out the rich. In the American financial world, we have an economic hybrid: free enterprise for the working majority and socialism for the privileged rich.

 

Letters and Comments for October 20, 2009

Letters and Comments for October 20, 2009

 
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