FRIDAY, JULY 21, 2017
VOLUME 90, NUMBER 29
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Willamette Valley
vineyards fund health
care van for workers
By ERIC MORTENSON
Capital Press
D
TO OUR
HEALTH
Photos by Eric Mortenson/Capital Press
Leda Garside takes a blood pressure
reading on a worker at Stoller Vineyards
during a mobile medical clinic stop at the
vineyard July 6. Garside is a registered
nurse and director of Tuality Healthcare’s
¡Salud! Services, which is primarily funded
by the wine industry.
Western migrant worker health
Most commonly diagnosed non-communicable conditions*
A 2014 study conducted by the National Center for Farmworker
Health found that Western migrant workers had higher rates of
hypertension, asthma and obesity than in other regions of the U.S.
Rank/condition
Percentage
1. Hypertension
19.5%
2. Diabetes mellitus
14.5
3. Overweight/obesity
12.6
4. Depression/other
Jose Reyna, right, a physical therapy professor at Pacifi c University, talks
with a White Rose Estate vineyard worker about his back pain.
4.4
5. Asthma
3.7
Source: National Center for Farmworker Health
* Study includes 70 migrant health
centers treating 574,687 patients.
AYTON, Ore. — It’s 2 p.m.,
two hours short of quitting
time, when the pickup trucks
roll in from the vineyards.
Workers, all Latino, hop down from the
truck beds; 10, now two dozen, 44 in
all. They take seats in the shade of
the Stoller Vineyards maintenance
shop, chatting, laughing, still
wearing their fi eld garb: hats,
hoods and head scarves to pro-
tect from the sun, long sleeves
despite the heat, many with
pruning shears in holders on
their belts.
The green and white ¡Salud!
Services van before them is a fa-
miliar sight by now. It is from Tu-
ality Healthcare, which operates hos-
pitals and clinics west of Portland and
for more than 25 years has brought ba-
sic medical care to Willamette Valley
vineyard workers. The van, staffed
by bi-lingual nurses and medical
assistants, provides blood pressure
and cholesterol checks, vaccinations,
treatment and referrals — about 5,000
patient visits annually. “¡Salud!” is like
a toast in Spanish, meaning “cheers” or
“good health.”
Oregon vineyards recognize a broad-
er translation, and it is the reason they
pay for the mobile medical service. The
industry raises an average of $700,000
annually — including a record $928,000
in 2016 — with a two-day auction of
their best Pinot noir wines.
The vintners’ broader interpretation
of ¡Salud! is part of the van’s logo,
which shows a kneeling worker tending
a grapevine. It includes the slogan, “To
Our Health,” because everyone in the
industry benefi ts.
Hand in hand
Leda Garside, a registered nurse
who manages ¡Salud! Services, is from
Costa Rica and counts herself lucky.
She came to the U.S. with an American
husband, the proper papers and an edu-
cation. Many of the patients she sees at
the mobile clinic lack those advantages,
yet they are the “backbone” of Oregon
agriculture, she said.
Alan Kenaga/Capital Press
Turn to HEALTH, Page 12
Zinke: How monument’s boundaries were set remains mystery
By MATUESZ PERKOWSKI
Cascade-Siskiyou National
Monument expansion
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While he’s prepared to accept the
premise that the area’s fl ora and fau-
na justify a monument designation,
Zinke said the Cascade-Siskiyou’s
boundaries seem arbitrary in some
areas.
So far, nobody at the Interior Depart-
ment has taken responsibility for draw-
ing the boundaries or explaining their
placement, he said.
It’s become clear the boundaries
weren’t established at the direction of
local U.S. Bureau of Land Management
offi cials, Zinke said.
“They had nearly no input in draw-
ing the boundaries and that concerns
me,” he said.
Turn to ZINKE, Page 12
Labor tight but adequate for
now; September could be tighter
By DAN WHEAT
Capital Press
Halfway through Washing-
ton’s cherry harvest, the labor
supply seems adequate, grow-
ers say.
But there’s concern about
early September, when har-
vest workers are needed for
apples, pears, grapes and hops
— all at the same time.
In California, Daniel
Sumner, director of the Uni-
versity of California Agricul-
tural Issues Center at UC-Da-
vis, says he thinks the labor
shortage is worse than it was
the last several years.
“We have been hearing
from growers in several loca-
tions around the state that la-
bor is harder to fi nd and wag-
es are higher,” Sumner said.
Growers and packers of la-
bor-intensive crops through-
out the West have been wor-
ried about having enough
seasonal workers because
fewer people are illegally
crossing the U.S.-Mexico
border and a heightened fear
of deportation by U.S. immi-
gration authorities.
Turn to LABOR, Page 12
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Enrique Ventura picks Rainier cherries in Doug Drescher’s Orondo,
Wash., orchard on July 12. Growers are paying more and are
worried about having enough pickers for the fall apple harvest.
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MEDFORD, Ore. — Since undertak-
ing a review of Oregon’s Cascade-Siskiy-
ou National Monument, Interior Secretary
Ryan Zinke hasn’t gotten a satisfactory
answer to a key question.
“How were the boundaries made?
Nobody knows how the boundaries were
made,” Zinke said during a July 15 visit to
the monument.
The original 53,000-acre monument
was created in 2000 but was increased to
roughly 100,000 acres by the Obama ad-
ministration last year.
It’s now one of 27 national monuments
created in the last two decades that are un-
der review by the Trump administration.
Zinke’s recommendation for potential
changes to the Cascade Siskiyou’s mon-
ument is due Aug. 23, after which any fi -
nal decision will be in President Donald
Trump’s hands.
“He’s the best boss I’ve ever worked
for. He doesn’t micromanage,” said Zin-
ke.
Unlike many national monuments, the
Cascade-Siskiyou isn’t known for a par-
ticular geological feature, but rather for its
unique biodiversity.
“Other monuments don’t have the
same object,” said Zinke.
Another particular trait of the Cas-
cade-Siskiyou is the large amount of
private land that’s enclosed within its
boundaries, which can create access
problems for landowners, he said.