Weekly Clips for May 30

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This week’s top highlights…

We’ve all got some place to be… Jane Rapier gets there with LTD
In the fast-paced day-to-days we often find ourselves in, it’s easy to buzz by someone walking down the street without ever considering where they’re going. But we’ve all got someplace…
We’ve all got some place to be… Jane Rapier gets there with LTD
In the fast-paced day-to-days we often find ourselves in, it’s easy to buzz by someone walking down the street without ever considering where they’re going. But we’ve all got someplace…
Round 2 of recall attempt afoot in Grove
Councilor fed up, files elections law violation against petitioner COTTAGE GROVE – In what may feel like a time warp back to last August, some Cottage Grove City councilors may…
Round 2 of recall attempt afoot in Grove
Councilor fed up, files elections law violation against petitioner COTTAGE GROVE – In what may feel like a time warp back to last August, some Cottage Grove City councilors may…
Harbick wins District 12 by landslide
Lively to face off Burket for Springfield seat South Lane County will soon have a new representative, after Republican Darin Harbick defeated incumbent Charlie Conrad by a landslide at the…
Harbick wins District 12 by landslide
Lively to face off Burket for Springfield seat South Lane County will soon have a new representative, after Republican Darin Harbick defeated incumbent Charlie Conrad by a landslide at the…
Armed Forces honored with monument
SPRINGFIELD – Memorial Day proved to be a fitting time for Musgrove Family Mortuaries & Cemeteries to unveil its new Court of Honor at Springfield Memorial Gardens to remember and…
Armed Forces honored with monument
SPRINGFIELD – Memorial Day proved to be a fitting time for Musgrove Family Mortuaries & Cemeteries to unveil its new Court of Honor at Springfield Memorial Gardens to remember and…
Heyman turns 100, wonders what’s next
CRESWELL – Now that Richard Heyman has lived to be 100, what’s next on his bucket list? “I don’t know, but it will be something different,” the retired Air Force…
Heyman turns 100, wonders what’s next
CRESWELL – Now that Richard Heyman has lived to be 100, what’s next on his bucket list? “I don’t know, but it will be something different,” the retired Air Force…

In case you missed it…

Take care: Suicide attempt survivor shares perspective, advice

BOB WILLIAMS / THE CHRONICLE Zak Gosa-Lewis got the date July, 26 2017 tattooed on his collarbone about a year later to commemorate the day he chose to live.

Editor’s Note: In recognition of Mental Health Awareness Month, this is Part 4 of a month-long series centering around the many facets of mental health from community, to crime, to survivor stories. Read Part 3, “Increased youth suicide rates stress need for open dialogue,” here.

SPRINGFIELD — On July 26, 2017, Springfield resident Zak Gosa-Lewis chose to live.

A week had gone by since he had attempted suicide, and the itch to attempt again was begging to be scratched. Instead, Gosa-Lewis called the Suicide Prevention Hotline at 988 — something he had never dared to do before out of fear of being hospitalized.

“I talked to this lady who was just everything I needed at that time. She was deeply, deeply Southern, probably a lot of people from here would have a hard time understanding what she was saying, but she talked to me a lot about choosing to be there for myself,” said Gosa-Lewis, a southerner himself. “She told me I needed to choose to live, that I made these decisions that told me the only choice I had was to die; but if I made the choice to live, there was power in that.”

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