Bill Text: OR SCR10 | 2011 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Honoring residents of Plush, Oregon, Greg Case of Ashland Fire & Rescue and the Oregon Ambulance Association for their efforts to obtain a vitally needed ambulance.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 3)

Status: (Passed) 2011-04-12 - Filed With Secretary of State. [SCR10 Detail]

Download: Oregon-2011-SCR10-Introduced.html

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     76th OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2011 Regular Session

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                 Senate Concurrent Resolution 10

Sponsored by Senator ATKINSON; Senator WHITSETT, Representative
  MCLANE

                             SUMMARY

The following summary is not prepared by the sponsors of the
measure and is not a part of the body thereof subject to
consideration by the Legislative Assembly. It is an editor's
brief statement of the essential features of the measure as
introduced.

  Honors residents of Plush, Oregon, Greg Case of Ashland Fire &
Rescue and Oregon Ambulance Association for their efforts to
obtain vitally needed ambulance.

                      CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
  Whereas Plush, Oregon, is an unincorporated rural community in
the Warner Valley of Lake County, Oregon, with a population of 40
people; and
  Whereas two women from the Plush area, Corinna Frank and Becky
Susan Kiely, were involved in separate accidents; and
  Whereas Corinna Frank and Becky Susan Kiely both lost their
lives because Plush had no ambulance service and by the time an
ambulance from the nearest medical center arrived in Plush from
60 miles away, both women had passed away; and
  Whereas after this tragedy the residents of Plush banded
together to ensure that this sort of tragedy would not occur
again due to lack of ambulance service; and
  Whereas Greg Case of the Ashland Fire & Rescue coordinated
efforts to secure an ambulance; and
  Whereas Plush residents Leon Flick, a cowboy poet and one of
the few remaining cowboy day riders in Oregon, Tory Jeager, Jason
Jeager, Chandra Cahill, Carissa Jones, Rusty Hammond, Chuck
Messner and Rusty McNair became trained emergency medical
technicians; and
  Whereas Plush residents raised $11,500, secured a $10,000 Ford
Foundation grant, formed the Warner Valley First Responders and
began a search for an ambulance that could be donated; and
  Whereas the City of Ashland donated a surplus 1992 ambulance;
and
  Whereas the Oregon Ambulance Association agreed to outfit the
ambulance with equipment; and
  Whereas local entrepreneur Brian Morse, known as 'The Sign
Dude,' volunteered to do the lettering for the ambulance; and
  Whereas a tiny community accomplished its goal with an
incredible spirit of volunteerism and an indomitable will to
accomplish what must have seemed an impossible goal; now,
therefore,
Be It Resolved by the Legislative Assembly of the State of
  Oregon:

  That we, the members of the Seventy-sixth Legislative Assembly,
honor the residents of Plush, Oregon, for their incredible
achievement that will undoubtedly save the lives of many people
in the future, and commend Greg Case of Ashland Fire & Rescue and
the Oregon Ambulance Association for their efforts in making this
achievement possible.
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