February 2025

Letters to the Editor

On March 10 Valley County and the City of McCall will hold a joint planning session to discuss the city’s plan for a change to the existing Area of Impact (AOI). Last year legislation updated the state code requirements in Title 67 Chapter 65 that requires a change to the existing AOI. The new law requires that the AOI only encompasses those areas surrounding the city limits where the following criteria apply. These are:

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Births

Born February 17, 2025 at St. Luke’s McCall Hospital to Miyah and Quinn Walgren of Donnelly.

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Viewpoint

I was born and raised in Grangeville and decided I wanted to be a doctor - specifically a rural family doctor in Idaho - after my brother suffered a traumatic brain injury. I was able to realize that goal because of Idaho’s WWAMI program, a medical education partnership between the University of Washington School of Medicine and the states of Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana and Idaho.

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