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KLCC s Melorie Begay asks How will you remember 2020 and what s something we should think about when looking back? Featuring South Eugene High School Teacher Anna Grace, Holiday Farm Fire Survivor Priscilla Oxley, Eugene-Springfield NAACP President Ibrahim Coulibaly, and Rabbi Ruhi Sophia Motzkin Rubenstein.
As 2020 comes to a close I wanted to know two things. How are people going to remember this year, and what’s worth considering as we head into a new, hopefully better, year.
Anna Grace, South Eugene High School Teacher
“This is going to be the year that things got quieter, yeah, it’s also going to be the year that we’ve had to wrestle with hard things, I think for a long time as a society we have let system racism be, exist right, and I think this is the year that everyone had to step back and say this cannot continue and if we’re not working to change it than we are part of the problem. It’s going to be different. I’m not going to go back to what we wer
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KLCC s Tiffany Eckert follows up on Orchid Health McKenzie Clinic s efforts to continue providing care to patients after the devastating Holiday Farm fire.
Priscilla Oxley stands outside the new Orchid Health McKenzie mobile clinic after her check up. She and her husband Hollis are temporarily living in Eugene after losing their home in the Holiday Farm fire. They are both long time patients of the clinic and Monday, health care came to them.
Credit Tiffany Eckert
Since losing their home, 88-year old Priscilla Oxley and her husband Hollis have been renting in Eugene. They’re both long time patients of the clinic and grateful that health care is coming to them.