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A procession was held for the World War II veteran outside the memory care facility Friday, with cars, gifts, music and most of Theodore Mertz's family present.

Keiro: ‘Dedicated to Safety, Well-Being of Residents at Sakura ICF’ Posted On The following statement was released on Feb. 2 by Keiro, former operator of the Intermediate Care Facility in Boyle Heights. =*= Keiro remains committed to the long-term safety and well-being of all residents at Sakura Intermediate Care Facility (ICF), now owned by Pacifica Senior Living. With the contemplated closure of ICF, Pacifica has given assurance to our community that no ICF residents will be evicted during this pandemic. Keiro will continue to work with the ICF administration to help ensure that all r...

Warren Gill Charters, a retiree at Pacifica Senior Living in Vista, has lived through two pandemics, multiple wars, and the Great Depression and he’s still going strong, having celebrated his 106th birthday last week. Charters, a retired teacher and YMCA director, turned 106 on Dec. 23. Born in Ohio in 1914, Charter, an only child, met his wife, Lois Closson, at a square dance while he attended Springfield College in the 1940s, beginning a love story that would last 65 years. The young couple moved to California shortly after they married, and Charters earned his master’s degree in physic...

GRANTS PASS, Ore. – The Oregon Health Authority’s weekly report published on December 17 shows long-term care facilities in Southern Oregon are being hammered by COVID-19. One of those facilities, Oak Lane Retirement in Grants Pass, reported five coronavirus-related deaths in the past 48 hours alone. Oak Lane Retirement’s administrator, Dorie Reid, said the deaths are hitting her employees and residents hard because it feels like they lost some of their family. In Josephine County, there have been other deaths associated with four active outbreaks, according to the state. In Klamath Cou...