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Letters and Comments for August 6, 2009

Letters and Comments for August 6, 2009

 

Letters and Comments for August 5, 2009

Crader, Pokorney

 

 

A community effort

Fundraising to acquire enough money to run sports and activities at La Grande Middle School and La Grande High School for the coming school year is a sign of the challenging economic times we live in. Most of us agree that sports give our youth opportunities to learn things like sacrifice, teamwork, hard physical and mental effort, tenacity and a cooperative yet competitive attitude. All of these are very important qualities for life success.
 

Investigating a murder; investigators must be careful how much they reveal

Editor’s note: The following was written Thursday night in response to an Observer editorial and submitted Friday morning before Friday’s significant turn of events in the Elgin murder case.


Thursday’s Observer editorial surprised and disappointed me. Surprised, because newspaper editorials are supposed to be objective and factual. This one was neither. It disappointed me, because Observer editorials almost always are.

This community is understandably upset and concerned by the recent discovery of human remains in and around a pond near Elgin. Those of us involved with the Major Crime Team are, too. The paper got pretty strident in taking us to task for not releasing very much information. Let me try to explain why we haven’t.

 

Letters and Comments for July 31, 2009

Levesque, Snaza-Alexis, Barber

 

 

Fear factor builds; crime team silent

Rumors are flying throughout the county concerning the dismembered body parts — a hand and a head — discovered in a pond near Elgin last Friday. Everything from two or three people having disappeared in recent weeks to “extra’’ body parts being found in the pond are among the rumors circulating — rumors that seem to grow more bizarre hour by hour.


And what does the “Major Crime Team’’ investigating the case of a hand and a head being found in a pond have to say?

 

 

Letters and Comments for July 30, 2009

Letters and Comments for July 30, 2009

 

Letters and Comments for July 29, 2009

Lucas

 

 

Enjoy the fair this week

Keeping county fairs viable these days isn’t easy to do. All counties seem to be faced with challenges in keeping their county fairs alive. Throw in the recession and they’ve got an added challenge on their hands.


But in Union County, fair directors have been fine-tuning and looking for new ways to attract fairgoers. Last year the fair added free admission, partly offset by paid parking. But still a good bargain for anyone looking for inexpensive entertainment.

 

 

Letters and Comments for July 28, 2009

Letters and Comments for July 28, 2009

 
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