Letters, letters, letters

To the Editor:

What a nauseous, disgusting display of chauvinistic pride, and on the front page, too!("Borland bags a Bighorn" The Nugget, Oct. 1.)

How could Allan Borland do such a thing! I just bet he did it the "hard way."

Too bad that gorgeous Bighorn didn't have a gun! For shame!

Ursula Stauff

To the Editor,

Recently the Sisters Schools Foundation dedicated over $25,000 to various school programs. These funds were generated mostly from last spring's Starry Nights Concert Series.

Jeri Fouts and the scores of volunteers who made this series a reality have truly given this community something to be proud of.

But just as important, are the citizens and merchants of the Sisters area who have supported this series through sponsorships, donations and ticket purchases. Without this vital link, the efforts of all others would be lost.

The foundation and the students of the Sisters School District thank all of you who have been so willing to be involved in making this event a success.

Rod Morris

Chairman, Sisters Schools Foundation

To the Editor:

Before 1950 the county road department made N. Pine St. one-half mile gravel road, the county department put the county dump on this road, maintained it, and all is well.

Middle of the '70s, the county road department took the grader and went up in a subdivision, by mistake. The county said they legally do not maintain subdivision roads, so they opened N. Pine St. into a subdivision, they did grade the road. In the '90s, the south section of the subdivision asked the county road department to stop maintaining the road, so the north section of the subdivision would make less dust, and the holes in the road would be too bad to use.

Now if one wants live in town, buy a home in town, don't let your lack of respect, and your dust, and the holes you leave on the other end of this road hurt others.

We all have freedom, and God keeps the books, and we should live and show respect to our fellowmen.

Court will say to the two subdivisions, help maintain N. Pine St. gravel road, or use your own paved road to town.

Or talk to the county road department.

In God's name don't use your fellowmen with disrespect. Let's have a Godly peaceful life in Sisters, before God brings judgment to Sisters.

God is not pleased with some hearts and souls in Sisters.

Beulah Alden

To the Editor:

Those persons who believe the United States should stabilize its population growth by lowering its current growth rate of 2.5 million plus each year are labeled "anti growth."

Those persons who oppose our present land use policy of urbanizing nine square miles of America each day to accommodate this growth, much of it agriculture land, are labeled "anti growth."

Apparently the pro-growth establishment doesn't understand, or either blinded by greed, that our present pro-growth model is not sustainable. Neither do they seem to understand that this is a finite earth we live on that is the vital support system for mankind and all living creatures.

The pro-growth establishment seems more concerned about profits than saving a viable America for future generations to come. Many of us in the environmental movement understand the power, money, and insatiable desires of the pro-growth establishment. We hope that enough Americans are sufficiently concerned that an environmentally good quality of life can be saved for future generations to come.

John Allen

To the Editor:

On Friday, October 3, Sisters Rotary Club hosted the Sisters Rotary Club Shoot-out Golf Tournament at Black Butte Ranch.

All net profits from the event will go directly to the Sisters Classroom Raising.

We would like to thank all those who participated and contributed to this event. All the sisters Rotary Club members enjoyed working on the event for this great cause.

A fun day on the golf course was enjoyed by all and a total of $6,850 was raised to aid in the completion of the classrooms.

Sincerely,

Jim Craig, President

Scott Lamoreaux, Golf Committee Chair

To the Editor:

Flak, flak - no end of media-flak tries to trash our voter-approved, merciful Measure 16, the Physician-Assisted-Right-to-Die. Buzzwords abound, like "90 pills," "Netherlands," "Fatally flawed!" Plus poison potshots.

Says Brian Platt, (Eagle Point): "Vote 'yes' to overturn it, or you're a barbarian, a cannibal!"

Visit one of our 50,000, always-short-of-help nursing homes. Many, like slowly dying "Mr. Jones" are in agony, yet medicine "can do nothing more." For hours neglected, smeared in his own slime, "Oh God," he moans, "let me die!"

"Shut up you creep!" quips the cute aide as she smacks him on the head.

Hotly denied by management, such atrocities constitute a nauseating, national cover-up. A serious allegation? Can I prove it?

A bedside nurse in nine nursing homes in five states, I've observed these places nationwide; recorded abuse in three published books; presented 540 seminars on the subject in 46 states. But until U.S. health care shapes up, must we condemn dying patients to hang in limbo? To pay this appalling price in suffering?

Despite pulpit manipulation, we say "no" to their cruel power-play. Oregon will not overturn the patient's option for Doctor-Assisted Suicide. (Hey, it's their body, their choice!)

Tax-exempt churches had better not call the shots for the rest of us taxpayers! Refusing to overturn that Measure-of-Mercy, we say "no." On Ballot Measure 51, it's no, no, a thousand times no!

Nancy L. Fox