Letters to the Editor 04/13/2005

To the Editor:

I would like to thank all persons for their comments for or against me. This helps encourage me to work harder.

I would normally not disclose everything I do in the community (I feel this is personal) however as a Sisters School Board candidate I feel it is important to let the community know how I have been involved:

Five years volunteering at Sisters Elementary School. This includes general classroom helper, testing, chaperoning, class parties, clean-up, etc.; 550 hours volunteering at the Sisters Hangar High School Youth Group with Sisters Community Church. This included Wednesday night meetings, making kids mochas, leading small groups, camps, food drives, community work groups and retreats. The Hangar Youth Group averaged 90 kids per week.

Our business, Melvco, Inc./Haken, has been involved with the Youth Transition Program for the past two school years. Over the past seven years we have provided nearly 50 high school kids with work opportunities. Melvco/Haken has been involved with a handicapped workshop in St. Helens, Oregon, for about 12 of the past 18 years in which about 20 handicapped workers packaged 70 percent-plus of the products we manufactured. It was a great program.

I currently sponsor two children through Compassion International and I do try to continue to donate to our church, schools and other groups in the community.

Our business currently employs about 20 persons in the Sisters community.

In order to try to get guys together in the community, I established a poker tournament (for entertainment) that now averages abut 80 people per week. I have made a great group of new friends.

I have a wonderful wife and four great children who have been or will attend Sisters schools.

Jeff Haken

To the Editor:

Sisters is most fortunate to have such capable and dedicated citizens running for seats on the school board. Those of us on the sidelines applaud your efforts and thank you for the countless hours it takes to understand and work through the complex issues facing the district.

For the contested seat, Rob Corrigan is the right man for the job. Over the past several years, we have come to know Rob as a natural leader and an excellentcommunicator.

His record of active community and school involvement speaks for itself. Rob has been a member of the elementary school Site Council, the School Foundation Board, and the Soccer Club Board.

He has volunteered regularly in his children’s classrooms. When he coached our kids’ soccer team, he was highly organized and attentive to detail. When conflicts arise, he is tactful and able to achieve consensus.

Based on his track record, we know Rob Corrigan will diligently work through the pros and cons of each decision facing the district and then, not just vote, but actively promote a course that improves the quality of education in the Sisters schools.

Sincerely,

Kris Calvin

May Fan, M.D.

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To the Editor:

Rob Corrigan has played an active part in the lives of the children and students of the Sisters School District.

Rob has been a school volunteer working in the classrooms, computer lab, lunch hall and playground. He has organized fund-raisers and assisted in TAG enrichment activities. He was a key member of the successful local option campaign and is an active member of the Sisters Legislative Action Team for schools.

Rob Corrigan also has a brilliant and collaborative mind. His work in thetechnology field requires him to managebusinesses effectively, efficiently and with financial foresight and acumen. He knows the numbers and the challenges in making the Sisters School District exceptional and without peer within the State of Oregon.

Rob Corrigan is the real deal. He is beyond rhetoric. He shows up and the children of Sisters deserve his commitment

Please vote for Rob Corrigan for Sisters school board.

Lisa Clausen

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To the Editor:

Ever since I moved to Sisters in1996, the summer before fourth grade, I have participated in SOAR activities. SOAR offered many activities for my friends and me to participate in and to keep us active.

Through sixth grade we went to SOAR for after school supervision. My parents say that, “It was a relief to have a reliable after school program that not only had activities to keep our children busy, but also provided daily homework assistance. By having this outlet for our children our evenings at home were more available for family activities.”

Activities that SOAR made available were school sports such as flag football, tackle football, basketball and track.

SOAR also provided us summer activities such as wilderness trips, weight lifting, and sports camps, as well as the teen center, where we played games and had a safe and supervised hang out place.

SOAR has provided outstanding role models for me to follow and great programs that I can participate in throughout my life.

Daniel J. Holloman

To the Editor:

Re: Deanna Robinson’s “Video File.”

Deanna Robinson’s entertaining article, “Stalking Michael Douglas,” concluded that poor Kirk Douglas “had to make do with nuns in Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison.”

Actually, Kirk didn’t even get to hang out with nuns in that movie.

He wasn’t in it.

That was Robert Mitchum’s film.

Perhaps Deanna confused the two stars because they starred together in a film shot in Central Oregon (in which I was an extra), “The Way West,” which one reviewer called “the worst movie of this — or any other — season.”

Sincerly,

Jonathan Hoffman