THE BULLETIN • SUNDAY, JANUARY 10, 2021 A9 Vaccine Continued from A1 “The health system is com- mitted to seeing as many people get vaccinated as quickly as possible.” Statewide, as of Thursday morning, 64,921 people were vaccinated in Oregon, and in Deschutes County, 3,038 people have been vaccinated, according to the most cur- rent data on the state health website. At High Lakes Health Care clinics, 92 employees were vaccinated on Thursday and more were expected to re- ceive shots Friday, said Becca Mataya, director of primary care at High Lakes primary and gynecological clinics in Central Oregon. The clinic received word Wednes- day that they’d get vaccines. Within 10 hours the clinic began vaccinating its em- ployees. “As soon as we get word on when we get the vaccine for our patients, we’ll put a plan into action,” Mataya said. “The (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) will decide how to do the rollout. If we’ve learned one thing from this, it’s that we have to be ready in a moment’s no- tice.” Even single practitioners are hearing from patients anxious to get the COVID-19 vaccine. At Hearthside Med- icine Family Care on SW Century Drive in Bend, Havilah Brodhead, a family nurse practitioner, said about 60% of her patients have been asking about it. “I have a lot of eager peo- ple,” Brodhead said. “We’re waiting on final word from the public health depart- ment, which surveyed us if we had the capacity to dis- tribute the vaccine if they can get it to us. We’re on standby.” At Mosaic Medical’s 15 clinics, 500 more calls have been logged this December over the same time the year before, Knobbs-Seaholtz said. And about 900 of those calls were COVID-19-re- lated. The clinic has electron- ically sorted its 27,000 pa- tients into different cate- gories to match the state guidance, she said. Mosaic will contact its patients through text, phone or pa- tient portals when it has definitive information for patients in each of the cate- gories. “Our call centers have been inundated,” Knobbs-Seaholtz said. “While it’s wonderful to hear the excitement, it’s hard not to tell people a specific date.” e e Reporter: 541-633-2117, sroig@bendbulletin.com MICHAEL APTED " 1941-2021 Acclaimed British director was the visionary behind ‘Up’ docu-series BY LINDSEY BAHR Associated Press Michael Apted, the ac- claimed British director of the “Up” documentary series and films as diverse as the Lo- retta Lynn biopic “Coal Min- er’s Daughter” and the James Bond film “The World Is Not Enough,” has died. He was 79. A representative for the Di- rectors Guild of America said his family informed the organi- zation that he passed Thursday night. No cause was given. An incredibly prolific direc- tor, Apted’s legacy is perhaps most defined by the nine “Up” films, which followed the lives of 14 economically diverse British children from age 7 to 63. The project started in 1964 with “Seven Up!” the brain- child of the late Canadian film- maker Paul Almond. Apted served as a researcher on the first film and took over as di- rector seven years later, con- tinuing to check in with the subjects every seven years. “He turned it into a nice film, but I turned it into a po- Sarah Ruegg 1941 - 2020 Margaret “Sarah” Ruegg was born on August 3rd, 1941 in Cleveland, Ohio and passed away on December 17th, 2020 in Tucson, Arizona. Sarah passed away due Covid-19 related complica} ons at the age of 79. Sarah was the only child born to her Swedish father Gustaf Rudolph Walter Peterson, and her Slovenian mother Agnes Cecilia Royce Peterson. Sarah was the light of her father9s life, and was doted on from the } me she was born as her parents had struggled to have children. Sarah ov en shared fond memories of her childhood, of playing on the swingset her father built and spending the summers at her Aunt Angela9s farm. At the farm, she loved feeding the animals, milking the cows and collec} ng eggs from the chickens. There were always baked goods, and Sarah especially enjoyed the family meals at lunch} me with her cousins. Av er gradua} ng from high school in Cleveland, Sarah moved into an apartment with some girlfriends and worked in the purchasing department for a large company. Sarah eventually drove out to San Francisco, California where she would set le down and start a family. Sarah met her husband Frank Ruegg and they married in Mill Valley on November 11th,1967. They would go on to have two daughters. The family lived in various ci} es in the Bay Area before their love of the outdoors took them to Bend, Oregon. Sarah and Frank took their daughters camping every summer and that is how they discovered their love of the Paciû c Northwest. They moved to a property where Sarah could relive her } me on the farm as they quickly bought a horse and had a û ock of geese on their pond, a pet rat and several dogs and cats. Sarah always loved animals! Av er û ve years, they decided to move into town and Sarah would work on û xing up their 1916 historic home. Frank had started a real estate company when they moved to Bend, and Sarah got her license and sold homes for a while. She would also û x up investment proper} es by doing the pain} ng and other work herself. In 1991, Frank and Sarah decided to head north and moved to Camano Island, Washington for three years. They bought a boat and fell in love with Friday Harbor, Washington, which they quickly decided to call home and would reside un} l the present. Frank became the Commodore of the San Juan Island Yacht Club and they greatly enjoyed the new friends they made on the island and all of their boa} ng adventures. Both the San Juan and Canadian Gulf Islands were frequently visited, along with Alaska on several occasions. Frank would catch the û sh and Sarah would û nd a crea} ve way to cook it all up night av er night! They loved crabbing and shrimping, and the freedom of the water. Eventually, the couple decided to spend their winters in Tucson due to the cold and rainy Washington weather. Some of Sarah9s favorite things to do were discovering new recipes in magazines (she had quite a collec} on!), sewing, making crav s with her grandchildren, and she dabbled with making her own jewelry and pot ery. Sarah was a voracious reader and she was always seen carrying around a book. One of her absolute favorite things to do was playing bridge with new and old friends. She had bridge groups in both Friday Harbor and Tucson, and would play a computer version almost daily to sharpen her skills. Sarah could strike up a conversa} on with anyone she9d meet with her warm smile, and she was always up for a good } me. The big heartbreak of Sarah9s life was the accidental death of her daughter Chris} ne Ruegg at the age of 19 in Bend, Oregon. We take comfort in knowing that they have been reunited. She is survived by her devoted husband of 53 years, Frank Ruegg; her daughter Brooke Pigot (Tom) of Seat le, Washington; and her three grandchildren, Reilly Pigot , Blake Pigot and Avery Pigot . Memorial services will take place at a later date, where she will be laid to rest with her daughter in Bend, Oregon. In lieu of û owers, Sarah9s family suggests dona} ons go to the San Juan Island Humane Society in her name. litical document,” Apted said in a DGA Quarterly interview in 2018. “That if you were born into a certain environ- ment, you had no chance at all of achieving any ambition. It was going to be controversial, crude, no holds barred, and was going to tell it as it was. It had a huge effect on the coun- try, not just on television, be- cause it showed graphically how awful things were.” Apted credited the late film critic Roger Ebert for bringing the series to the attention of American audiences. The am- bitious project earned him an Institutional Peabody Award in 2012 and also had the honor of being satirized by “The Simp- sons” in a 2007 episode. The last film, “63 Up,” came out in 2019. “The series was an attempt to do a long view of English so- ciety,” Apted told Slant Maga- zine in 2019. “The class system needed a kick up the backside.” Apted was born in Ayles- bury to a middle class family in 1941. Scholarships allowed him to study at Cambridge, where he counted John Cleese among his friends. He made his feature debut in 1972 on “The Triple Echo” with Oliver Reed and Glenda Jackson. Apted moved to California after that and worked steadily in film and television for the next 40 years. Apted wasn’t looking to slow down either. He told Slant Magazine that he would be keen to do a “70 Up.” “I’d like to go on for as long as I am above ground,” he said. “I’d like it to continue.” Allan G. Patterson of Bend, OR February 20, 1931 - December 30, 2020 Arrangements: Niswonger-Reynolds Funeral Home is honored to serve the family. 541-382-2471 Please visit the online registry for the family at www.niswonger-reynolds. com Services: A gathering of family & friends will be held at a later date. Contributions may be made to: Nature Conservancy https://www.nature.org OBITUARY DEADLINE Call to ask about our deadlines 541-385-5809 Monday - Friday, 10am - 3pm. No death notices or obituaries are published Mondays. Email: obits@bendbulletin.com Norman “Norm” Eugene Hutton Norman