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Thank you for sharing this! Your email itself is a piece of Oregon history. Thank you for caring about Oregon and not giving up on this great state! May the salmon in the Nestucca always run free!

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Andy, I enjoyed your article in Northwest Observer. Being a Native Oregonian, when I saw you are from Nehalem, I knew you would know where Hebo, Oregon is! Dad had the Hebo Sport shop from 1971-1998. I think Dad's scrapbook went to the new shop owner who remodeled the gas station into a sport shop across the street. Dad, Dave Robertson, wrote fishing columns "Along the Nestucca" that often politicians did NOT like. Relatives were loggers, they all hunted and fished. If any practical joke was pulled whether Dad was the instigator or not, when we lived outside of Sheridan, Dad was blamed.

Myself, I had to get involved in something after husband passed, so I started volunteering in the Salem Republican office June 2020 during the NEVER SHOULD HAVE FAILED GOV.KATE RECALL under ORP chair, Bill Currier's watch!

Following my Dad's path, I like to make people laugh, connect like minded honest people and do research for some of the people I have met.

I started my first job in Sheridan as a telephone operator when 911 was not available from Sheridan to the coast. We handled the MARS calls from the Mt. Hebo air force base during Viet Nam days.

I hesitated to subscribe but your article in Mike's publication NWO pushed me.

I was following some family genealogy that took me from my husband's 1845 pioneers to Oregon Territory, settling outside of Albany to, in 1864, before the trails were cleared for wagon, over the coast range from Grand Ronde to settle on the Trask river to start the first water powered saw mill.

It is because these pioneers before me never gave up, I have to try to help by researching and connecting people whenever I can.

Thanks

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