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Letters and comments for August 19, 2009

Letters and comments for August 19, 2009
 

Letters and Comments for August 18, 2009

Letters and Comments for August 18, 2009

 

Letters and Comments for August 17, 2009

Winkelman

 

 

Letters and comments for August 14, 2009

McCracken, Aldrich, VFW Post 4060

 

 

Difficult decision to quit coaching

This letter is in response to the Opinion letter in the Aug. 12 Observer by John Deal. While everyone deserves to have an opinion on anything they want, Mr. Deal chooses to mislead the public and to smear my name in the process. Until that letter came out I had never heard of John Deal let alone known him well enough to have that kind of conversation with him.

It is important that the public be made aware of the misleading statements. First, the district has been forward and upfront with the public about all cuts made. Had he or anyone else contacted me a very different picture would be seen than the one that he painted.

 

Bicyclists, car drivers can steer to safety

It’s only pure luck and some fancy defensive driving skills that have kept La Grande from not having a serious bike-car crash lately.

Most car drivers and bicyclists know and follow the rules of the road. But there are always exceptions, Darwin Award winners waiting to happen. Car drivers using hand-held cell phones can be severely distracted from their duties, and many bicyclists are seen riding on sidewalks or on the wrong side of the road.
 

Taliban of insects stings NE Oregon

Northeast Oregon is full of WASPs. It also has a lot of stinging insects to keep the White Anglo-Saxon Protestants honest.

A visit from Luis the Dish TV Guy, decidedly not a WASP, Tuesday opened my eyes to the invasion.

Larry the Cable Guy was a no show.

 

Letters and Comments for August 13, 2009

Grende, Patterson

 

 

Job well done by local law enforcement

A lot of rumors have circulated since the bodies of Shannon McKillop, Frank Scaramuzzi and Jeremiah Johnston were discovered in the past couple of weeks. But based on confessions from the suspected killer, police have the perpetrator in jail and the community is able to breathe a sigh of  relief.

Our region’s law enforcement community, from the district attorney to the sheriff’s department to state police and local police departments, did an excellent job of bringing a horrific crime investigation to what  appears to be a quick conclusion.
 

Letters and Comments for August 12, 2009

Deal

 

 
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