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GARFIELD – Current Garfield-Palouse high school assistant FFA advisor for Garfield-Palouse, CJ Clark, 22 had more than the pandemic to deal with in the last four years. Originally from Richland, Washington Clark explained that two weeks after graduating high school in 2019, he started to develop health problems.

"I had pain in my stomach. They kept calling it pancreatitis," Clark said.

Clark would then move in with his stepmom in Gresham Oregon, who got him into the hospital the next day. "They said it was appendicitis, so I got my appendix removed," he said, "I couldn't eat anything, an...