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ROSES to Will Tucker, who is riding off into the sunset after serving for 12 years on the Linn County Board of Commissioners.
Tucker, for lack of a better term, has been viewed as the heart of that government body, for reasons that were on full display during 2020.
One of the key accomplishments of his career was opening up the Linn County Fair & Expo Center as an emergency shelter for residents displaced by the wildfires in September. Tucker also was a key figure in securing personal protective equipment for staff at the Edward C. Allworth Veterans Home in Lebanon during the novel coronavirus pandemic.
When Linn County Commissioner Will Tucker was 15 years old, he ran away from home and lived in San Franciscoâs Haight-Ashbury district, which in 1968 was the epicenter of the hippie movement.
âI strung beads for a few weeks and girls would sell them for 50 cents,â Tucker said. âI saw the good and bad in people.â
Tucker chose to do good things in life, a decision that has guided his decision-making ever since.
Tuesday, with only 48 hours left, the clock was ticking on Tuckerâs time in office. But phone calls from constituents in need â flooding, a neighborâs garbage pile, squatters â continued rolling into his temporary office in the county courthouse in Albany.
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Oregon veterans’ home gets vaccine shots, 9 months after first nursing home infections in the state
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Posted Dec 28, 2020
William Lapschies, 104, survived a coronavirus infection at the Edward C. Allworth Veterans Home in Lebanon. He got a shot of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine Dec. 26.
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Oregon was in a panic in March when two senior care residents were diagnosed with coronavirus infections, the first of thousands to be infected in the months since.
Caregivers were reusing masks, state officials were figuring out policies on the fly and protective equipment and coronavirus tests were in woefully short supply.
But in a sign of how far things have come in the last nearly 300 days, 90% of the Edward C. Allworth Veterans’ Home in Lebanon residents got the first of two Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine shots Saturday, along with 60% of the staff.