Willamette Valley harvest workers receive medical care administered by ¡Salud!

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   ¡Salud! is a nonprofit organization created 21 years ago to assist Oregon’s seasonal vineyard workers. With no other agency like this in the country, ¡Salud! aim’s to care for the migrant grape pickers along with those workers who stay year round to help in the vineyards. They also provide preventative care to the families of these hard working people without whom the Oregon wineindustry would not be possible.

   Recently ¡Salud! held a vineyard clinic toinoculate the harvest crew at Knudsen Vineyard in the Willamette Valley. Ten well-built men filed into the makeshift nurse’s office set ...

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