<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8pt"><div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">How is it that <SPAN id=misspell-0 class=mark>Gritman<VAR id=yui-ie-cursor></VAR></SPAN> has $2.38 MILLION to spend on an old deteriorated federal building but cannot afford to keep its <SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" id=misspell-1><SPAN>elderly</SPAN></SPAN> day care building open? Why is it not already providing veterans any space for privacy, that is required by Federal Law that they protect the medical confidentiality of every patient and <SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" id=misspell-2><SPAN>visitor</SPAN></SPAN>. Didn't the county just give it the entire <SPAN id=misspell-1 class=mark>Latah</SPAN> Health Services building for $1? They cannot find one room for veterans to discuss private medical matters? Sounds like misplaced priorities. <SPAN id=misspell-2
class=mark>Gritman</SPAN> should be about providing the best health care for the entire community they can, not acquiring half the office space in area code 88043. Maybe the new Sheriff's detectives in the building can figure it out. </SPAN></div>
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<DIV style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #ccc 1px solid; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 0; MARGIN: 5px 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; HEIGHT: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 0px; BORDER-TOP: #ccc 1px solid; BORDER-RIGHT: #ccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px" class=hr contentEditable=false readonly="true"></DIV><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> Moscow Cares <moscowcares@moscow.com><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> Moscow Vision 2020 <vision2020@moscow.com> <BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Cc:</SPAN></B> Jeanne McHale <jeannemchale@hotmail.com>; Fritz Knorr <fritzknorr@gmail.com>; Lois <loisb@q.com> <BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Friday, January 18, 2013 3:28 AM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> [Vision2020] Thank You, <SPAN id=misspell-5 class=mark>BJ</SPAN> Swanson and <SPAN id=misspell-6 class=mark>Gritman</SPAN> Medical
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<DIV>. . . for being selfless and caring.</DIV>
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<DIV>Courtesy of today's (January 18, 2013) Moscow-Pullman Daily News.</DIV>
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<div style="BACKGROUND-IMAGE: none; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN: 10px 0px 0px; OUTLINE-STYLE: none; OUTLINE-COLOR: invert; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; FLOAT: none; PADDING-TOP: 0px"><SPAN><SPAN id=misspell-11 class=mark>Gritman</SPAN> acquired the property during <SPAN id=misspell-12 class=mark>GSA's</SPAN> <SPAN id=misspell-13 class=mark>online</SPAN> auction in mid-October with a $2.38 million bid, and indicated its hope to keep all government tenants there. Swanson said the hospital has no immediate plans to move any of its offices into the building. Two medical practices have been identified as prospective tenants, she said, adding the Community Health Association of Spokane is not one of them.</SPAN></div></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN id=misspell-19 class=mark>Seeya</SPAN> round town, Moscow, because . . .</DIV>
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<DIV>"Moscow Cares"</DIV>
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<DIV>Tom Hansen</DIV>
<DIV>Moscow, Idaho</DIV>
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