[1][2] Following her husband's death in 1983, Audrey McCall championed a variety of political, social and environmental issues throughout the state.
[1] Owen was holding one of those classes when she met Tom McCall,[4] a local reporter for the News-Review who had been assigned to pen a story for his newspaper.
Led by Governor McCall, a Republican, Oregon became known for its innovative environmental and social policies during their two terms in office.
[1][2] She was also considered one of her husband's closest political advisers behind-the-scenes, while projecting a more traditional public image as a homemaker and first lady.
[2] Audrey McCall agreed that the statue should be placed in Salem, the state capital, since that is where much of her husband's major initiatives were conceived.
[1] Shortly after her fall, she moved to a nursing home facility in Southwest Portland, Oregon, where she died on November 15, 2007, at the age of 92.
The concrete removal was done without heavy mechanized equipment by Human Access Volunteers and collaboration with Multnomah County Inverness Jail Inmate workforce program[3][1] Human Access Project successfully advocated with Portland Mayor Charlie Hales to find $300,000 to study the feasibility of a beach at this site.