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by. He could barely turn
from one side to the other
in his first year.
But as he grew, his par-
ents and older sister dis-
covered his complexities.
Music, for one, enthralled
and soothed him.
So they have every mu-
sical toy you can think of
— a baby Einstein discov-
ery table, activity cubes,
maracas, anything that
can be used as a drum.
He lives in Aumsville
with his parents, Dave
and Aubrie Shewey, and 8-
year-old sister Hailey, in a
modest,
soft-yellow
ranch. Joey's daily rou-
tine involves three care-
givers. The first takes
him to the pool or library
for a morning activity.
The next works with him
at school in Salem. And a
third handles his feeding
tube and watches him in
the evening.
As he's progressed
with therapy, Aubrie said
you can see the concentra-
tion on his face. When he
steps to the side to avoid
his toys on the ground, or
perhaps one of the fam-
ily's furry members, she
said you can see his mind
race before stepping out.
"Joey has forced us to
look at life differently,"
Aubrie said. "We're learn-
ing from him as much as
he is learning from us."
** *
When Hilary first met
Joey in the PT Northwest
office, she saw a young
boy with goggles fastened
to his face, a boy who
wraps his fingers tightly
around those he mingles
with. He was learning to
pull himself up at a table.
As she sat in the wait-
ing room, she waved at
Joey.
"I remember feeling
broken and unable to
think coming to (physical
therapy), yet Joey was a
little spark, like a light,"
she said. "I couldn’t help
(but) smile at him, hoping
he understood I saw him
and thought he was so spe-
cial."
Though Joey can't
speak, he finds other ways
to communicate, even if
only by making eye con-
tact or offering a smile.
Over the next eight
months, Hilary and Joey
grew as friends. Hilary
didn't know how old he
was, what his last name
was or his background,
but she didn't care.
To her, he was Joey, a
young boy in the midst of
progress, just like her.
"Initially he wasn’t
very mobile, yet over time
he became more and more
active and engaged," Hil-
ary said. "I was very much
blessed by being able to
watch him stand, take
steps, cruise with his
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And though it's chaotic,
the race has been a rite of
passage for thousands of
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Before Joey's race,
Hilary saw him and one of
his caretakers, Victoria
Gidenko, with other par-
ticipants warming up on
the south infield.
Joey and Gidenko took
off excitedly at the start
of the race. But nearing
the first turn, his parents
said Joey began to lose en-
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Though he was the last
to finish, Joey powered
through the 300-meter
race.
When he tossed his
walker aside, the crowd
erupted into cheers. A
tearful cluster of hugs
and high-fives greeted
him at the finish line.
"He's so resilient," Hil-
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finish line, I couldn't wait
for my next ... appoint-
ment."
** *
Two weeks after the
race, Hilary returned to
physical therapy. Waiting
in the lobby, she looked up
to see Joey walk into the
room.
His walker was no-
where in sight.
"Where's Joey's walk-
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didn't need it anymore,
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"One day he came into
the waiting room so deter-
mined ... I had to move to
not be run over."
** *
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port her head when she
drinks or kisses her fam-
ily. Her hands can be
clumsy and she still expe-
riences dizziness, head-
aches, nausea and some
memory lapses.
A wife and mother of
four, she has worked with
special needs children for
years, including as a lead-
er with the special needs
run at Awesome 3000.
She's a mental health
counselor and supervisor
for Yamhill County and
commutes daily from Sa-
lem to McMinnville be-
cause of her passion for
the work and her belief in
the county's approach to
mental health services.
She said the special
needs race is important
for kids like Joey, not just
because it's fun and ac-
tive, but because it pro-
vides children who may
not have typical lives with
the opportunity to enjoy
an activity alongside their
peers.
** *
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Hundreds of people
filled the Salem Conven-
tion Center ballroom in
mid-September for the
annual Salem-Keizer Edu-
cation Foundation back-
to-school luncheon.
It's when the group
recognizes
volunteers
and members who make
their work possible.
Krina Lee, the founda-
tion's executive director,
started telling the audi-
ence about Hilary's rela-
tionship with Joey and the
role she played in helping
him participate.
"When I looked up at
the large screen and they
showed the picture of him
crossing the finish line, I
gasped with tears be-
ideas and also reach out to hear from
the experts. At the county level, that
based approach to poli-
tics.
On the job, PubMed is
his go-to source for mak-
ing wellness-related deci-
sions. As a politician, he
likes to bring in expert
testimony and learn what
other cities and counties
are doing to solve prob-
lems.
Second, he wants Mar-
ion County to utilize the
college students – espe-
cially graduate students –
studying at institutions
here. He wants the county
to participate in more sci-
entific studies, and stu-
dents to tackle real-world
problems in their courses
of study.
“We’re not extending a
hand to students, and
they’re not coming to us,”
he said. “I’ve taught col-
lege for over 10 years, and
I think the relationship
between students and the
community is essential
for success.”
Environmental
sus-
tainability is part of Plum-
mer’s platform, he said,
because “it’s the right
thing to do.” He’s a life-
long promoter of bikes
and other “active trans-
portation” as a key to per-
sonal wellness and pollu-
tion reduction. He also
supports mass transit and
services such as Uber and
Lyft to limit the number of
cars on the roads.
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earth-friendly by operat-
ing its buildings and ser-
vices efficiently and of-
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related areas of concern
and interest for him.
Early next year, Plum-
mer plans to launch a “lis-
tening tour” to learn what
residents want from their
county. At this point, his
real expertise, he said, is
in knowing what, exactly,
each county department
does, as he’s worked so
closely with all of them
for the last two-and-half
years.
“I won’t claim to know
everything, but I will
claim to take the time and
effort to talk to the people
who do,” he said.
Denyc Boles, 48, a Re-
publican, is familiar with
Marion County opera-
tions because she served
on the budget committee
that prepared the $412
million budget for this
year. She supports the
county’s tradition of “liv-
ing within its means” and
its “careful and sustain-
able budgeting,” she said.
“In today’s economy,
voters want that. Voters
want to know their tax dol-
lars are being spent in the
right places,” she said.
But she would like to
expand the county’s part-
nerships with other gov-
ernment agencies, busi-
nesses and nonprofits to
work on problems she
sees every day.
Currently
Salem
Health’s government af-
fairs specialist, she hears
regularly from hospital
staff about patients who
come to the emergency
department because they
“have no one” or are “fall-
ing through the cracks” in
the area’s social service
network.
For example, it’s not
uncommon for 10-12 peo-
ple with addiction prob-
lems to be sleeping off the
effects of drugs or alcohol
at the hospital on any giv-
en day, she said. The
emergency department is
also a catchall for psychi-
atric patients. This reality
and her growing aware-
ness of teen suicide have
convinced her to push for
cooperative treatment fa-
cilities and/or services.
“We live in a part of the
world that offers so much,
but too many people are
falling
through
the
cracks,” she said. “The
county is in a unique posi-
tion to lead and build the
partnerships needed to
address these difficult
and complicated issues.”
Over her 20-year politi-
cal career – seven months
of which were as a state
legislator in 2014 – she’s
heard from many people
seeking help. In the past,
she served on staff for
Rep. Kevin Cameron and
worked on a variety of
campaigns, including for-
mer Silverton lawmaker,
Vic Gilliam’s.
As a short-term mem-
ber of the House, she ac-
complished the unlikely
task of sponsoring a bill –
and seeing it pass – that
raised the penalties for
video voyeurism. She
built a coalition to write
the bill after hearing
about a young woman in
Keizer who was secretly
videotaped in her bed-
room and bathroom.
“My strength is bring-
ing people together,” she
said. “My desire is to pick
up issues and work on
solving them.”
Growing up in Salem,
Boles was surrounded by
strong, educated female
relatives who taught her
that civic engagement is a
norm.
She
attended
Sprague High School and
then earned a bachelor’s
degree from Seattle Pa-
cause that was such a spe-
cial accomplishment and
now everyone could see it,
too," Hilary said.
To her surprise, Joey —
dressed in a dapper vest
and bowtie — walked on
stage with Gidenko's help.
Lee waved Hilary up,
where Joey presented her
with a clear, crystalline
award. She rubbed his
back, beaming back at
him.
"I'm sure he touched
my heart more than I
touched his," she said.
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“When I was young, I
never expected to stay in
Marion County,” she said.
“And now, here I am, and I
have a lot of institutional
knowledge that’s come
from being engaged my
whole life.”
She and her husband’s
three children are nearly
grown now, and she lives
in the house where she
grew up.
She believes in limited
government because, she
said, individuals and non-
government
organiza-
tions do best at providing
“warm and fuzzy” com-
munity services. Person-
ally, she’s offered her
home as a quasi-safe
house for teenagers and
volunteered with Young
Life and Boys and Girls
Clubs.
“Government
does
some things really well,
and they do other things
not so well,” she said.
If she’s elected as com-
missioner, Boles said
she’ll focus on strong in-
frastructure and services
to support family wage
job growth, businesses
and agriculture.
More
information
about Matt Plummer is on
Facebook at “Matt Plum-
mer, Candidate for Mar-
ion County Commission,”
while more information
about Denyc Boles is on-
line
at
www.vote4boles.com.
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