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[May 13th, 2009]

PHOTO: Rebecca Gabriel

SHUTTERED PORTLAND WINNERS

Thanks to your online voting, we’re pleased to announce the winners of WW’s April 29 Shuttered Portland photo contest.

The pictures you all thought best represented the current economy are Rebecca Gabriel’s “Generosity in Times of Scarcity,” Melissa Toledo’s “I Got Laid Off. Erg.,” and Shannon Milliman’s “Faith in the Future.”

Congratulations to our winners, who will each receive gift certificates to local businesses.

GIVING US OLD FUCKERS A BAD NAME

I am writing as a member of OPWANC (Old People Who Are Not Coots) to complain about last week’s letter to the editor.

It’s hard for me to believe that a person who is old enough to have been reading you since 1974 is offended by the “f word” (a.k.a., fuck) so strongly that he must write in. I felt I had to reply to defend those of us who did not suddenly lose our minds or have our Self-righteousness Switch thrown when we turned 40. Apparently, Mr. Probandt is shocked—shocked!—to discover that a four-letter word is in common usage? Seriously, he’s giving all us old fuckers a bad name.

Nancy Mack
Southeast 45th Avenue