In the days before her death, Miriam “Angela” Chapman talked a lot about going home.
She had arrived in Miami a few months earlier, moving into a motel in a shoddy part of town. Right away, the manager noticed her laugh. It would kick up out of nowhere, even when things weren’t funny.
Like some other young women in the area, she worked the bars as a sex worker. But as the winter of 1976 brightened into spring, she dreamed of getting out. Of climbing on a bus and heading home to Indiana.
“She said she was going to start saving a little money and go home (to her family),” the manager told the Miami News in 1976. “And I don’t think it was just talk, either. She sounded like she meant it.”
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Grant County has moved their vaccination and testing clinics to the former Shopko Building. Check out what will greet you if you head there for a vaccine. The first vaccination clinic is Saturday April 17. Call Grant County Health Department at (608)-723-6416 for details.
JOHN DAY â Grant County had the highest rate of COVID-19 infections per capita in Oregon last week, and the county also has the worst vaccination rate in the state.
The countyâs rate of COVID-19 infections was 625 per 100,000 people, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
As of Sunday, April 11, Grant and Coos counties had the lowest vaccination rate in the state, 17.4%, according to the CDC, which calculates based on complete vaccinations.
Kimberly Lindsay, Grant County public health administrator, estimated that around 30% of the countyâs residents are partially or fully vaccinated.
Lindsay said the county has stopped requesting additional vaccine doses from the Oregon Health Authority because of a lack of demand.