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Article: Klamath Falls, Ore., Family Holds onto Last Shreds of Farm Life.
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- The Oregonian (Portland, OR)
- Article date:
- May 28, 2002
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Byline: Michael Milstein
May 28--KLAMATH FALLS, Ore.--Almost every day, Charlotte Rohrbacker shuttles four children to and from day care and practices, takes community college courses and deals with about 15 creditors wanting to know where their money is.
By 9 p.m., as she sits in computer class, she's exhausted.
By midnight, she's lying awake, wondering which bill collectors will call tomorrow.
This is what it means for a young farm family in the Klamath Basin to go a year without irrigation water.
It means the big John Deere tractor that once turned their earth is gone, sold for a fraction of its cost.
It means ...