Small rural town in oregon and i just ponder how in your professional career, youre traveling the world and living in a different environment completely but you have reported on World Affairs from all kinds of different reactions and some of the worst tragedies in the planet but you chose to focus on a small town in oregon, why . We were running around and covering mandatory crises and we would go back to my beloved hometown where my mom is still on the family farm and we saw humanitarian crisis unfolding there. A quarter of the kids who were on my old Number Six School bus were on drugs and alcohol and suicide and carol and i tried to process that in the kids who got on the bus right after me where the kids and their sisters and smart talented kids, farland died of drug and alcohol abuse, zealand died in a house fire when he was drunk and farland blew himself up cooking meth and regina died from hepatitis from drug use. For a while we wondered is this something about yamhill, we reali
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