In case you missed it, our lead story last week chronicled the medical odyssey of Pam Bruhn, a Canyon City woman who found herself stranded in a Boise hospital after a licensing foul-up at Blue Mountain Hospital in John Day temporarily left Grant County without access to a full range of home health services. You can find the story online here.

Other stories in last week’s edition of the Blue Mountain Eagle covered the suspension of John Day’s urban renewal incentives program, the dismantling of a historic home in Dayville and the Grant Union/Prairie City/Monument baseball team’s Arizona road trip.

We also had the first part of a two-part series from our news partners at the East Oregonian about a Pendleton man with Alzheimer’s who has signed up for multiple clinical trials aimed at finding a cure. We’ll have the second installment in this week’s paper.

Also coming up in this week’s Eagle, look for stories on the passing of a Mt. Vernon war hero, the John Day Elks Lodge Quilt Project, the annual state wolf report and more.

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