I believe the commissioners don't want people to travel outside of our county for care.

This isn't an easy fix unfortunately. We're still in our infancy gathering data to find solutions.

This has been an ongoing problem ever since the Rural Health Clinic closed.

One of the major problems was the initial flow of people coming in, ... Everyone came at the last minute.

My dad used to say that the holidays are when you get a whole bunch of people that really aren't that close and don't know each other that well and overcrowd them into a small room for an extended period of time so they can make each other miserable.

You see the same people throughout the shopping center and they're an extension of that. I think it helps to make people feel like part of the community. They provide a real service to the community and to our shoppers.