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By Ruth Liao
Statesman Journal
February 5, 2010
Brittani Padilla, 19, of Salem, felt shy at first when she learned she was going to take her
pregnancy checkups among a group of other women at the same time.
But she’s glad she can listen to what the other women have to say.
“They’re going through the same signs and stuff — [...]

Hillcrest, school districts among nearly 40 agencies to benefit
By Ruth Liao • Statesman Journal • March 30, 2010
Marion County Children and Families Department distributes free books to partnering agencies such as Willamette Family Medical Center on Monday.
It may seem like an unlikely bedtime story setting, but every night, one of the staff members at Hillcrest [...]

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MACKENZIE RYAN Statesman Journal
September 29, 2008
Within the past few years, early childhood development has become more of a focus at the local, state and national fronts — spurred by research in the past 15 years about how the brain develops.
“People started to pay attention,” said Tamra Goettsch, coordinator of Marion County’s early childhood initiative Great [...]