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Scott Bell calls the action during a Zucchini 500 race.

The inspiration for this piece came while checking out at the Creswell Bi-Mart last week. There was an older man without a facemask on, bellowing his displeasure at Gov. Kate Brown’s requiring citizens to wear facemasks in hard-hit Oregon counties. He said the “The whole thing is (expletive deleted)and unconstitutional,” to anyone who cared to listen. My first impulse was wanting to retrieve the…