Scott Swanson
By Scott Swanson
For The New Era
Garry Burks was a journeyman meat cutter in need of a new job when his life took an abrupt turn.
It may not have seemed abrupt at the time, but 49 years later … well, hindsight is 20/20.
Burks, now 77, was a young married man, recently returned to Sweet Home, in 1975, after working for a decade in grocery stores and slaughterhouses around the Willamette…