Letters, letters, letters

To the Editor:

Future historians may look back and view this closing decade of the millennium as a golden age for America. Just watching the stock market regularly soar to new record heights is a constant reminder of this.

But there is an uneven distribution of this wealth, particularly when it comes to the subject of education.

Across the state of Oregon, for example, there is a great disparity between those schools that seem to have everything and those that do not. Well meaning politicians and community leaders try to remedy this, but often it seems as though their hands are tied by some previous legislation that thwarts their efforts.

Under such circumstances, the quickest course of action can be taken by individuals living within a given community. Recently, many of you received "kicker" checks. Those checks could greatly help out programs within the Sisters School District.

Consider this: kick back your "kicker" check by giving it to the Sisters School Foundation P.O. Box 2155, Sisters, OR 97759. If there is a certain program you would like your money to go to (i.e., the arts, technology, sports, etc.), please indicate your choice on your check.

A hundred years from now, this golden age may shine out of the history books not only because of its accumulated wealth, but also because of the high value individuals placed on making a quality education available to all.

Paul Alan Bennett

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To the Editor:

Of great importance to parents, guardians and all interested in the best for our children's welfare (is) helping them as innocent and protected from the harmful influences of that which would rob them at too early an age (such as) pictures on the Internet.

Childhood is so short a period in their lives. All too soon they will be exposed to the unwholesome practices of some adults.

I'm sure the libraries do not want to see and monitor the Internet but I thank God they have been doing it to help parents.

If a bear mother protects fiercely her young from harm, how much more we as humans need to.

Let our libraries know by writing and mailing in to help make a definite decision to black out (pornography) to our children and grandchildren.

A soon to be made decision is very near, so let's do it today. God bless Mark M. Francis for his letter of October 20. We need more MEN to voice their belief in the goodness of mankind.

Sincerely,

M. Irene Wendell

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To the Editor:

To the Sisters community -- I sincerely apologize for my role in the distribution of marijuana on September 28, 1998.

Sincerely,Nicholas Levine