Mystery photos last week were about the Moses Lake Clinic
The 25th anniversary of the Moses Lake Clinic will take place this October.
As stated under the headline above in the Friday, Aug. 3, 1979 Columbia Basin Daily Herald article:
"Establishment of a multi-specialty medical clinic is planned for Moses Lake. Moses Lake surgeon, Dr. Robert Fallon, and the Wenatchee Valley Clinic announced Thursday their association and plans to establish a clinic at the Terrace Professional Medical Center, now under construction adjacent to Samaritan Hospital.
Dr. Fallon and Wenatchee Valley Clinic medical director Dr. Gerald E. Gibbons said the clinic should be open in about six months.
"'We plan to start with three specialists, a surgeon and two internists,' Gibbons said. 'We will not employ family practitioners, but will attempt to supplement the primary and specialty care already available at Moses Lake.'
"Fallon will be the surgeon at the Moses Lake clinic. Gibbons said efforts are underway to recruit two internists.
"The physicians will not be drawn from the 55 specialists employed by the Wenatchee Valley Clinic. Instead they will be recruited to live and work at Moses Lake.
"Moses Lake Community organizations have had poor luck at recruiting specialists. The community has a definite need for physicians specializing in internal medicine, which Gibbons said will be provided first.
"'There's a possibility that once the clinic here is established, we may, for instance, send a cancer specialist here for one day. We would schedule 25 patients for him to see here, instead of requiring those people to travel out of town,' Gibbons said.
"Gibbons estimates10 to 12 physicians of various specialties are needed by the present Moses Lake population. The community currently has five specialists.
"Gibbons said his biggest hope and concern is that cooperation within the local medical community not be disrupted."
Some history of the Moses Lake Clinic from the Wenatchee Valley Clinic historian:
"Early in 1978, Jerry Gibbons had made contact with Bob Fallon, a Moses Lake surgeon. This began some conversations about establishing a satellite in Moses Lake.
"Three factors came in to play: A gasoline shortage several years previously had made it difficult for patients to travel from the Columbia Basin to Wenatchee, a group of Moses Lake doctors were approaching retirement age and the national trend was for clinics to establish satellites to feed patients appropriately to their referral centers.
"In March of 1979, a retreat was held in Moses Lake and business leaders from there met with our representatives to discuss and outline our role in establishing a satellite. Bob Fallon joined our group on Oct. 15, 1979."
Also in the Aug. 3, 1979 Herald:
Tennis lessons
The Moses Lake park and Recreation Department has set a new session of tennis lessons Aug. 6-17.
The advanced beginner class will be 8 a.m. to 9 a.m., while the intermediate class is set for 9 a.m. to 10 a.m.
Rodeo entries
Jack Saulls, secretary of the Columbia Basin Rodeo Association, announces that the rodeo office will be open 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday to accept entries for the upcoming fair/rodeo in saddle bronc, bareback riding, bull riding, calf roping, steer wrestling and open approved girls' barrel racing.
Job Corps softball
The Columbia Basin Job Corps is sponsoring a double elimination slow-pitch softball tournament this weekend at the Corps' intramural field.
The tournament begins at 8 a.m. Saturday and ends 3 p.m. Sunday and is in honor of longtime Job Corps secretary Lilly Hayano.
Teams entered include Zip's Trucking, Sports Elite, Columbia Basin Herald, Curlew Job Corps and four teams from the Columbia Basin Job Corps.
Ephrata finished
There will be no World Series trip to Williamsport, Penn. for the Ephrata Little Leaguers this year.
South Kitsap beat Ephrata, 15-2, Thursday at sectionals in Walla Walla. The loss ended Ephrata's season.
South Kitsap tallied eight runs in one inning and the contest was never close. Ephrata used Sam Barnes, Brian Davisson and Greg Pierce on the mound.