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Fairview: The Closing Chapter

Comments

Do you have a comment or opinion you would like to voice regarding the closure of Fairview?  If so sent them to Fairview Closing Comments and we will post them here.

"Fairview is closed but People First will go on and on"
Terry Schwartz, Salem Chapter People First Member

"Where did everybody go?"
Valerie Schaaf, Salem Chapter People First Member

"I remember when I left Fairview."
John Dye, Salem Chapter People First Member

"Do you think Fairview will ever re-open?'
David Maffitt, Salem Chapter People First Member

"I went to Fairview Training Center after the last meeting to wish the last people good luck."
Judy Cunio, Salem Chapter People First Member

"I would never like to go back to Fairview."
Buddy Bodenschatz, Salem Chapter People First Member

"What is going to happen to the cottages at Fairview?"
Georgeena McDaniel, Salem Chapter People First Member

People First has always taken the position that if the community can provide the services that the people need, then the people don't need to be at Fairview."
Dennis Heath, People First Helper, Social Worker, and Temporary Fairview Employee
Oregonian, February 27, 2000

"If what we do is create an environment where all we do is keep people alive we rob them of life."
Robert Horner, University of Oregon Professor of Special Education
Oregonian, February 27, 2000

"The state has lost a valuable resource in terms of the expertise of the people who worked there for many years."
Sid Stuller, The Oregon Voice of the Retarded, representing family members and guardians of people with mental retardation
Oregonian, February 27, 2000