Letters, letters, letters

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To the Editor:

This letter is to inform the people who drive Edgington Road that I (and a number of my neighbors) are becoming somewhat angry at the stupid, inconsiderate, foolish, egotistical, dangerous individuals who travel that road.

Edgington Road is a very dangerous road, no doubt about it. There are some people now driving that road way too fast! Twice in the past week-and-a-half I personally have been nearly run off the road by some idiot zooming toward me driving like they were on dry pavement.

By the grace of God, both drivers missed by inches .... but both spun out after passing me. Fortunately, neither hit a tree or a rock or turned over.

Edgington Road is not smooth, it is not wide and it does not lend itself to being a good stopping surface, especially at high speed. Instead it is loose gravel which has a tendency to roll under tires like marbles. Further, unless it rains or snows, it is very, very dusty to the point of obscuring proper vision in many cases.

Many kinds of folks are driving way too fast for the type and condition of the road and for the safety of others who also have the right to use it. These folks range from people who live out here (and should know better), to kids coming out here to turn wheelies right after it has been graded, (more fun, you know), to contractors towing heavy-duty work trailers, service vehicles and visitors who don't know any better the first time they drive on it.

From my perspective, Edgington Road is a traffic fatality just waiting to hap- pen. Please show some common courtesy and respect for the rest of us and please, slow down.

Phil Chlopek

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To the Editor:

How dare anyone think that the Sisters small business sector is fleecing the tourist (Michael Humeston, Letters to the Editor, The Nugget, August 18). Where are the tourists in the dead of winter? Sisters looks like a ghost town in February.

Ever try to make payroll or pay the withholding taxes in the winter? Personal property taxes, match social security, real-estate taxes.

I have been self employed for thirty years and know how it feels. KUDOS to Sisters small business people.

John Tice

Camp Sherman

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To the Editor:

My 18-year-old daughter, who was attending COCC found herself without housing in the middle of the semester due to a mix-up.

There was no more available dorm space at that time and money for my family was, as always, tight, since I am a widow and working mom with a younger child still at home. To say that I was feeling pretty frantic, 3,000 miles away was an understatement.

I remembered how nice Tom Anderson had been to us when we stayed as a family at the Comfort Inn on our visits to see my daughter. I told her to go and speak with Tom to see if he knew of anyone who might have available housing until the end of the semester.

His response was nothing short of incredible. He told my daughter not to worry, that he had a trailer at the Comfort Inn where she could stay, rent free (courtesy of the Comfort Inn) for the almost two months until the end of the semester. He and his lovely wife Mabel then proceeded to look after my daughter for the time she stayed there, and even stocked her up with groceries and acted as surrogate parents. All without asking anything in return!

It is very unexpected to receive such kindness from a stranger. I think that the town of Sisters is blessed in having such conscientious and fine citizen in Tom Anderson

Thank you.

Yours very truly,

Merike Kammar

Staten Island, New York