I was a newspaper reporter for 10 years, the last 2 at the Albany Democrat-Herald, before switching to public relations in the fall of 2007. I've now been on the Marketing & Communications team at Samaritan Health Services for 11.5 years, serving the mid-Willamette Valley communities of Corvallis, Albany and Lebanon. Promoting Samaritan is easy because our organization lives out its mission of Building Healthier Communities Together in any number of ways.