“Name that Year” is designed to put your knowledge of Tracy and its newsmakers of the past to the test. Each week, we will publish a news item that ran in a past edition — maybe it was a major event, or a story about a Tracy resident — it’s up to you to determine in what year that particular news item hit the pages of the paper:
• BOTH THE BEGINNING OF A NEW ERA IN TRACY ELDER CARE, AND THE END OF A PROUD TRADITION WERE ANNOUNCED IN TRACY IN NOVEMBER OF THIS YEAR.
The new era is the planned merger of the Tracy Nursing Home and the Prairie View Healthcare Center into one operation.
The tradition that’s coming to an end is the independent operation of the Tracy Nursing Home.
The Tracy Nursing Home’s Board of Directors, and Administrator Tennes Eeg announced the consolidation and closing plans to staff and residents Tuesday. Letters were mailed to families of Tracy Nursing Home residents on Monday.
Pending state approval, operations at the Tracy Nursing Home will be taken over by Tealwood Care Centers Inc., the business entity that manages Prairie View, effective Dec. 1. Tracy Nursing Home residents are being given the option of moving to Prairie View or some other long-term care facility. Tracy Nursing Home employees will lose their jobs effective Dec. 1, but have been invited to apply for positions with Tealwood at Prairie View.
“We will make sure that all residents are taken care of,” Tracy Nursing Home Administrator Tennes Eeg said in an interview with the Headlight-Herald.
• Last week’s answer: Tracy kindergarten children went to school two full days and one half day each starting during the 1982 school year in an effort to save busing dollars.
