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Steve Becker talks with Lowell Hensley following Becker’s chamber of commerce talk last Thursday at Pepper Jack’s. Coulee Medical Center’s director of marketing said the facility will always be “your hometown hospital” but is working hard at becoming a regional medical center. Becker spoke on behalf of then Gov. Chris Gregoire at the opening of the new medical center. He worked for her for two years and joined CMC last year. “What that medical center represents is a tremendous amount of community vision,” he said. — Scott Hunter photo