I hope everyone has a merry Christmas and a happy New Year.

As a New Year’s resolution, I suggest we try for the end of the war in Ukraine in 2025. I should also like to see the end of Vladimir Putin’s government in Russia next year. Perhaps Putin will follow his friend, Bashar al-Assad, and fall from power. Now, both of those things together would make 2025 a very good year.

Fair winds and following seas to us all.

Bill Laffen

Umatilla

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