Editor:
Samaritan Health Services, based in Corvallis, threatened to close Wiley Creek Community, the assisted living facility in Sweet Home.
That meant displacing more than 40 sick, elderly, in-need residents in return for a 15-bed facility for addicts of drugs and alcohol.
Fortunately, our community values those 40 plus residents, the 35 employees that were losing their jobs, and the property at Wiley Creek and its mission. The people of Sweet Home came together and…