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Atlas excerpts, part 2: Springfield gets moving

The Chronicle is featuring excerpts from the “Historic Atlas of Springfield, Oregon,” a 200-page collection being developed by the Springfield History Museum’s History Atlas Subcommittee. This week, we look…

20 Feb 2025

Atlas excerpts, part 2: Springfield gets moving

20 Feb 2025

At a Crossroads: Finding common ground for Oregon’s forest conservation

TO OUR READERS: This guest column begins an initiative by The Chronicle to shine a spotlight on key policy issues affecting life in our communities. We’ll utilize subject-matter experts…

20 Feb 2025

At a Crossroads: Finding common ground for Oregon’s forest conservation

TO OUR READERS: This guest column begins an initiative by The Chronicle to shine a spotlight on key policy issues affecting life in our communities. We’ll utilize subject-matter experts…

20 Feb 2025

In Brief: Bohemia City Marshal swearing in, Willamalane grant, Creswell photographer featured

Bohemia City Marshal swearing in COTTAGE GROVE – Resident and local historian Dave Light will be sworn in as the Bohemia City Marshal by Judge Martin Fisher at noon on…

20 Feb 2025

In Brief: Bohemia City Marshal swearing in, Willamalane grant, Creswell photographer featured

Bohemia City Marshal swearing in COTTAGE GROVE – Resident and local historian Dave Light will be sworn in as the Bohemia City Marshal by Judge Martin Fisher at noon on…

20 Feb 2025

Driver OK, but vehicle on wrong track

CRESWELL –On Monday, Feb. 10, around 2:09 p.m., passerby Larry Laitinen was driving south of Creswell when he captured this Mercedes Benz C-250 stuck on the railroad tracks a few…

20 Feb 2025

Driver OK, but vehicle on wrong track

CRESWELL –On Monday, Feb. 10, around 2:09 p.m., passerby Larry Laitinen was driving south of Creswell when he captured this Mercedes Benz C-250 stuck on the railroad tracks a few…

20 Feb 2025

Doctor: Reese’s Law negatively impacts local patients

Strahan at the 2016 Cycle the Lakes with Dave Fors. PHOTO PROVIDED

I write to you as an owner of Hearing Associates, a small private audiology practice in Eugene, and an individual with complete deafness in my left ear and incredibly profound hearing loss in my right ear since birth.

I want to draw your attention to Reese’s Law (P.L. 117-171). Reese’s Law was passed in 2022 after a child died from swallowing a button-cell battery from a remote control. Due to this law, after March 2024, our clinic was forced to purchase child-resistant hearing aid battery packages for our elderly patients to use in their hearing aids.

Because of Reese’s Law:

Our patients, who average ages 68-75, must use scissors to open hard, plastic packaging to access batteries that are only a quarter of an inch in diameter.
We have had patients cut themselves trying to open the packaging, cut into the battery, and unknowingly put it into their hearing aid, causing corrosion and damage. We have patients who are blind and cannot see to open the packaging safely, along with patients with dexterity issues who cannot work the needed scissors.
We have patients who travel and cannot take scissors with them to open the packaging.

Many of our patients have expressed anger and frustration over the new limitations posed on them by Reese’s law. Some have even cried in our office with concern over their continued ability to use their hearing aids. Everyone is hurt when a child dies, no doubt about this, but we cannot abandon the elderly as well.

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