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SILVERTONAPPEAL.COM ❚ WEDNESDAY, MAY 20, 2020 ❚ 3A Tax break Continued from Page 1A taxing entities, such as Marion County Fire District, for the tax breaks to receive the exemption. Marion County, which is the first county in Oregon to allow such tax ex- emptions in accordance with the 2016 law, also approved Marion Ag Services of St. Paul on Wednesday. Marion Ag proposed to build $2.1 mil- lion in new taxable property value in- cluding a 250-foot by 300 foot metal building for storage and was approved for an estimated $72,984.24 in tax breaks over the next three years. The company had 31 employees and planned to add four more with the ex- pansion. Marion Ag already has approval from the rest of its taxing districts for its ex- pansion. “This would be the last step for Mar- ion Ag to move forward,” Marion County Economic Development Coordinator for Marion County Jason Schneider said. In 2019, Marion County approved an application to defer an estimated $129,777 in taxes over three years for $4 million in improvements by DK Fab of Hopmere. The former NORPAC filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in August 2019, stating it had $164 million in debt. The Brooks site served as one of the major processing facilities for NORPAC for decades and at its peak employed more than 500. In the months that followed NOR- PAC’s bankruptcy filing, the company announced it could lay off 466 workers in Brooks, 485 in Stayton and 458 in Sa- lem. Lineage Logistics agreed to purchase NORPAC’s Brooks, Salem and Stayton facilities in bankruptcy court in Janu- ary, but part of that deal included leas- Lawsuit Summer Wheeldon is mourning the loss of her son, Blaize after he died from bacterial meningitis on May 11, 2018. SPECIAL TO THE STATESMAN JOURNAL death. They also confirmed his death was caused by a meningococcal disease. State health officials said Oregon sees an average of 22 meningococcal cases a year. About 10 percent of those cases occur in children under the age of 1, and 10 percent of the total cases are fatal. A year after Blaize’s death, another Salem infant died from meningitis after initially being discharged from Salem Hospital. Ginger McCall, the mother of Evian- na Rose Quintero-McCall — Evi for short — said she wished she would’ve known to demand a meningitis test af- ter her 7-week-old daughter was sent home without being tested. A few hours later, still concerned, McCall took Evi to her pediatrician. At the doctor’s office, the doctor told her to immediately go to the ER. (Story continues below.) Evi’s vital signs crashed at the hos- pital, and she was transferred to OHSU Doernbecher Children’s Hospital, where she was placed on life support. She later died in her parents’ arms after being taken off life support. McCall, too, questioned the hospi- tal’s decision to discharge her daughter after the first visits. Both deaths left the parents reeling and wondering what could’ve been done to prevent the tragedies. Their son’s death damaged Poff and Wheeldon permanently, the lawsuit said. Both struggle with anxiety, depres- sion, insomnia, post-traumatic stress disorder, isolation, loss of faith and even simple daily tasks. The lawsuit requested the Silverton hospital pay a total of $6.37 million, in- cluding $70,000 for medical expenses, $1 million for loss of companionship, $500 for funeral expenses and $3.3 mil- lion for emotional distress and non- economic damages. Editor's note: With statewide re- strictions on in-person restaurant din- ing, Statesman Journal restaurant in- spection reports will be limited due to procedure changes at the county level. Marion County Environmental Health is not currently conducting rou- tine in-person inspections of restau- rants. In-person inspections are cur- rently reserved for situations such as complaints regarding immediate health risks. Environmental health staff is calling all licensed facilities and documenting their phone consulta- tions for food safety and social distanc- ing measures, the department said. Polk County Environmental Health is contacting restaurants to give them the option of an in-person inspection or phone consultation. Phone consulta- tions do not take the place of a formal inspection. In-person inspections will be rescheduled. B's Buzz POLK COUNTY Location: 226 S Main St., Independ- ence Date: April 22 Score: 100 No priority violations Semi-annual restaurant inspections from April 22 to 27. 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E HER GR2120 Member SIPC people to invest in Marion County,” Marion County Commissioner Colm Willis said. “As a result, we’re going to have that capital in Marion County long term.” From March 15 through May 2, there were 17,305 people in Marion County who filed initial unemployment claims. “We need to get people employed,” Cameron said. “Obviously as they ex- pand these businesses, guess what comes with it? Jobs.” The Tiegs-owned National Frozen Foods, which is based in Albany, re- ceived a proposed fine of $2,000 by Ore- gon OSHA Monday in connection with an outbreak of the coronavirus that sickened at least 34 people. It was the first OSHA fine of an Oregon company in connection with COVID-19. bpoehler@StatesmanJournal.com or Twitter.com/bpoehler RESTAURANT INSPECTIONS Continued from Page 1A He was sent home after a few hours, despite the family’s concerns. Over the next few hours, Blaize’s fe- ver and fussiness persisted. Poff said something still wasn’t right. She rushed him back to the hospital, and he was flown to OHSU Doernbech- er Children’s Hospital in Portland. Blaize’s heart stopped. He was re- suscitated and put into an induced co- ma. By the day’s end, her son was dead from bacterial meningitis. A first-time mom, Poff spent that Mother’s Day in shock, planning the cremation and memorial for her son. “No mother should feel the way I feel right now,” she said at the time. Following Blaize’s death, Legacy Health officials expressed their sympa- thies to his family. They declined to comment on what could’ve been done to prevent the baby’s death. On Tuesday, hospital officials said they were not aware of the lawsuit and therefore have not reviewed the allega- tions in detail, but said it was Legacy Health’s practice to not comment on lit- igation. According to the lawsuit, Blaize showed “significant signs and symp- toms of systemic Meningococcemia” when he was first taken to the Silverton hospital. The parents’ attorney accuses the treating ER physician of failing to prop- erly assess these signs and symptoms, including the presence of a rash that nurses noted and an abnormal respira- tory pattern. Medical staff allegedly did not test for a meningococcal infection, did not give Blaize antibiotics and did not ac- knowledge how the treatment with antibiotics for another pre-existing condition could affect the presentation of symptoms in the emergency room. Because of the medical staff ’s “un- reasonable conduct,” Blaize’s condition worsened and resulted in his death, ac- cording to the lawsuit. An average of 4,100 cases of bacteri- al meningitis resulting in 500 deaths are reported every year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Babies are at an increased risk of contracting meningitis, which can be spread during birth, in the air through coughing and sneezing and via con- taminated food. Marion County health officials said all invasive meningococcal diseases are required to be reported to the county within 24 hours and confirmed that the county received a report of Blaize’s ing the Brooks plant to PNW Vegco and eventually purchasing the site so it could condense all remaining vegetable processing operations to that facility. “The anticipated employment for Pa- cific Northwest Vegco at Brooks is 600, about 300 more than was there previ- ously,” said Marion County Business Retention & Expansion Manager Nick Harville for SEDCOR. Vegco’s application states it would make $15 million in improvements, in- cluding building one new building val- ued at about $1 million, $10.5 million in modifications to the existing building and $3.5 million to purchase heavy equipment. 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