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ROSES to Will Tucker, who is riding off into the sunset after serving for 12 years on the Linn County Board of Commissioners.
Tucker, for lack of a better term, has been viewed as the heart of that government body, for reasons that were on full display during 2020.
One of the key accomplishments of his career was opening up the Linn County Fair & Expo Center as an emergency shelter for residents displaced by the wildfires in September. Tucker also was a key figure in securing personal protective equipment for staff at the Edward C. Allworth Veterans Home in Lebanon during the novel coronavirus pandemic.
When Linn County Commissioner Will Tucker was 15 years old, he ran away from home and lived in San Franciscoâs Haight-Ashbury district, which in 1968 was the epicenter of the hippie movement.
âI strung beads for a few weeks and girls would sell them for 50 cents,â Tucker said. âI saw the good and bad in people.â
Tucker chose to do good things in life, a decision that has guided his decision-making ever since.
Tuesday, with only 48 hours left, the clock was ticking on Tuckerâs time in office. But phone calls from constituents in need â flooding, a neighborâs garbage pile, squatters â continued rolling into his temporary office in the county courthouse in Albany.
Brian James McIntire, 30, is scheduled to be sentenced on Jan. 13 in Linn County Circuit Court.
A 12-member jury also found McIntire guilty of driving under the influence of intoxicants and fourth-degree assault, for injuring the driver of the other vehicle. The jury found McIntire not guilty of another charge of fourth-degree assault regarding a 3-year-old girl in the other car.
Emma Pulido, 5, and her mother Stormy Barge, 24, of Sweet Home were killed in the near head-on crash, which occurred at about 6:15 p.m. on July 23 on Brush Creek Road near Crawfordsville.
McIntire âmade a string of horrible, horrible decisions that resulted in a horrible tragedy,â said prosecutor Keith Stein, during closing arguments on Monday morning.
Opening statements were heard on Tuesday afternoon in the manslaughter trial of a Sweet Home man accused of killing a mother and her daughter in an alleged drunk driving crash last year near Crawfordsville.
Brian McIntire, 30, is charged with two counts of first-degree manslaughter, two counts of fourth-degree assault for injuries suffered by survivors of the wreck, and driving under the influence of intoxicants.
Stormy Barge, 24, of Sweet Home and her 5-year-old daughter, Emma Pulido, were killed in the July 23, 2019, crash. Bargeâs daughter Macy Pulido, then 3, and Bargeâs boyfriend, Ty Kirkland, were injured.
Defense attorney Tyler Reid told the 12-member jury that McIntireâs Jeep, headed north on Brush Creek Road, had swerved into the southbound lane that night. âHe corrected, and when he corrected, there was a vehicle in his lane,â Reid said.