Last modified: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 10:16 AM PDT Letters to the Editor: Let’s preserve flag day Editor, Did you know that in 1885, a 19-year-old teacher named Bernard J. Cigrand placed a 10-inch flag on his desk and asked students to write essays on the flag and its significance. This assignment launched Cigrand’s fervent, decades-long effort to bring about the national observance of Flag Day to honor the Stars and Stripes. When Cigrand was 50 years old, his perseverance finally paid off. In 1916, President Woodrow Wilson issued a proclamation of Flag Day as June 14. Teachers, celebrate Flag Day by asking your students to do the same and also by flying the flag of our country on that day. Gerald F. Haines Ontario Police harassment? Editor, Police harassment? How does one define harassment? Would it be considered harassment if, in five years, a person was stopped in Washington County 33 times for leaving a bar? Harassment if you’re told by an officer people who work in bars are drunks? You quit playing music in Weiser bars for approximately eight months because you’re tired of being pulled over when you leave a bar, but as soon as you start back to work again in the Weiser bars, it starts again. Would it be harassment if, while at work in a bar in Weiser, you’re threatened by an officer that they are going to start pulling you over again? Upset from the threat, in walks the chief of police. You’re mad, scared, upset, but you go to the chief, tell him what one of the officers said, and you and he get into a heated discussion. That night, when you leave the bar, within two blocks you’re pulled over. When asked why you’re being pulled over, he says he could see you have expired plates and you ask how he saw expired plates when there was a 3-by-4 ton Ford pickup between his patrol car and your vehicle? I have worked bars all over from Boise to McCall, and in 10 years of working in bars the only place I am ever pulled over, or have ever been pulled over for leaving a bar, is Weiser, Idaho. I have the right to make a living without being scared that as soon as I walk out the bar door, I’m going to be pulled over because in Weiser, according to one officer, people who work in bars are drunks. Five years, 33 times pulled over, never once been caught drinking and driving. So why am I treated like a criminal for trying to make an honest living? Please someone answer me that. Candy Fairchild Midvale