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Month: October 2018

In memoriam – Joe Treleaven

October 27, 2018
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Dr. Joseph H. Treleaven, Born 07/16/1926, Died: 10/08/2018 Joe Treleaven died on October 8, 2018 at age 92 in his home in Salem, Oregon. He was born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. Joe had many fond memories of his early childhood living on a farm out in the prairies. In 1949 he married Catherine Connolly and […]

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What Happened to Matthew Graves

October 26, 2018
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Family to file suit over police shooting death – Medford Tribune, October 26, 2018 A lawyer representing the parents of a mentally ill man shot dead by Eagle Point police in a Carl’s Jr. bathroom said they plan to file a wrongful death lawsuit against the Eagle Point Police Department after seeing bodycam footage of […]

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An Oregon Civil Rights Watchdog Says a Jail for the Homeless Is a Disastrous Plan

October 25, 2018
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A conversation with Bob Joondeph & Nigel Jaquiss of the Willamette Week, October 24, 2018 Without Bob Joondeph, many of the 700,000 disabled Oregonians would be worse off. Joondeph, 68, started work at the federally funded civil rights watchdog group Disability Rights Oregon in 1986 and became the group’s executive director in 1991. DRO led […]

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Suicide is a community-wide issue

October 16, 2018
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From The Register-Guard, October 14, 2018 Sara Scofield doesn’t remembering calling 911 to report her own suicide attempt nearly 20 years ago. All she recalls is the sense of despair and pain she was feeling that day, waiting until she was alone, swallowing a handful of pills — and then waking up in the hospital. […]

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