Eric Flowers

Editor's note: Last week we ran Pt. 1 of this great Old Timey letter. We are proud to bring you the exciting conclusion of this rare serialized series.
[ring, ring…]
"Hello?"
"Speckman? This is Benny Facter, I'm calling on behalf of O.W.E.D. Me and the boys have been talking, and while we appreciate what you did at the meeting last night, we've got a new plan. Now I know we originally wanted y'all to force an election for us, but it turns out this economy has hit some of my friends pretty hard. Jack Pott has spent a lot of dough getting his land into the UGB, and Owen Monie has a 70 home subdivision just sitting there vacant. So we all met out at Pronghorn this morning and Phil Mabank suggested we forget about this damn election and focus our energy on flipping one of the 3 holdouts on the council."

This week's letter comes from Tania Enoch who relays a well-earned thank you to a nameless stranger who may have saved her son's life. Thanks to Tania for the letter and thanks to the mystery man who, in a world of watchers, chose to stop and do something when it mattered.

Tania we've got a pound of Strictly Organic coffee for your winning letter, which you can scoop at our offices, 704 NW Georgia. We'll let Karma take care of the Good Samaritan.
My husband and I were driving home from the library last Friday with our two little boys when we decided to stop at a business on Franklin Street that we had never seen before. While we were looking around the employees propped open the door, no doubt because of the beautiful weather that day.

It has been interesting following bio-identical hormone therapy in the news media lately. There have been at a minimum three Oprah shows, and an article
in the February issue of O magazine. Suzanne Somers has been writing about this for years, and one of her latest books focuses on this topic primarily. Having graduated 20 years ago this summer from naturopathic medical school and prescribing these medicines for almost as long, it has been fascinating to see how this treatment modality is reaching a fever pitch pace. From clinical experience there is much more to this than simply "Hormone replacement therapy."

So President Obama has signed the Stimulus Bill to start us on the road to recovery. What I would like to know is, 'How this is going to help people who didn't do dumb stuff like take out a loan on a house that was overpriced and over(ly) large, spend to the limit on too many credit cards, and generally live beyond their means?'

The way I read it is that I now own a couple of banks, and part of a couple of car companies.

I feel compelled to respond, albeit indirectly, to last week's letter/tirade by Anonymous. I wish to describe my own, recent personal experience with the Bend Police Department.