Deanna McKay of Sweet Home, a Linn County Sheriff’s Department dispatcher, was named the state’s Telecommunicator of the Year last week at an awards banquet in Welches honoring Oregon’s top public safety personnel.
The award recognizes “a telecommunicator who, by act or deed, makes an especially noteworthy contribution, positively impacting the statewide 9-1-1 system in a significant way.”
McKay was honored for handling the call reporting that her own 7-year-old son Taylor had been run…