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2A ❚ WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22, 2020 ❚ APPEAL TRIBUNE RESTAURANT INSPECTIONS MARION AND POLK COUNTY Semi-annual restau- rant inspections from Nov. 6 to Dec. 3. 501 Grill Location: 3755 Port- land Road NE, Salem Date: Nov. 26 Score: 100 No priority viola- tions Applebee's Neighborhood Grill & Bar Location: 747 Lan- caster Drive NE, Salem Date: Dec. 3 Score: 100 No priority viola- tions ABOUT RESTAURANT INSPECTIONS This is a snapshot of the inspections conducted by the Marion and Polk County health departments. Twice annually, licensed restaurants receive unan- nounced inspections that focus on food temper- atures, food preparation practices, worker hygiene, dish-washing and sanitizing, and equipment and facility cleanliness. Violations: Restaurant scores are based on a 100- point scale. Priority violations deduct 5 points, and priority foundation violations deduct 3 points. Vio- lations recorded on consecutive inspections result in point deductions being doubled. Scoring: Scores of 70 or higher are considered com- pliant. Restaurants scoring below 70 must be re- inspected within 30 days or face closure or other administrative action. Restaurants display a placard by the entrance to indicate whether they have passed their last inspection. Food trucks, carts and trailers: Mobile food opera- tors do not receive a numerical score. They are either approved to operate or not approved to operate. violations Buffalo Wild Wings Location: 3892 Cen- ter St. NE, Salem Date: Nov. 25 Score: 100 No priority viola- tions Big Blue Thai BBQ Cast Iron Cafe Location: 2679 Com- mercial St. SE, Salem (mobile unit) Date: Nov. 26 Score: N/A Priority violations ❚ Hand towels or a hand drying device is not provided at the hand- washing sink, specifical- ly: Handwashing sink was out of paper towels at the beginning of the inspection. Blondzee's Guest House Location: 4850 Port- land Road NE, Salem Date: Nov. 26 Score: 100 No priority viola- tions Bo & Vine Location: 176 Liberty St. NE, Salem Date: Dec. 3 Score: 100 No priority viola- tions Bossi's BBQ Location: 415 S Main St., Mt. Angel Date: Dec. 3 Score: 100 No priority viola- tions Cheers On 1st Location: 245 N 1st St., Stayton Date: Dec. 3 Score: 92 Priority violations ❚ Potentially hazard- ous food is not main- tained at proper hot or cold holding temper- atures, specifically: Glass reach in refrigerator had an air temperature of 43F with dressing 46F, milk 46F, half and half 50F, salsa 46F, cheese 46F that had been in over- night. Point deduction: 5. ❚ Ready-to-eat food is not properly date- marked, specifically: Co- leslaw and taco meat was dated Nov. 23, which was more than 7 days. Point deduction: 3. Score: 95 Nov. 6: Priority vio- lations ❚ Potentially hazard- ous food is not main- tained at proper hot or cold holding temper- atures, specifically: Up- right refrigerator at the cook line is around 43F. (Hot dogs 45F, ham 43F, cheese 45F, ambient air thermometer 43F). Point deduction: 5. Nov. 26: No priority violations Sale Continued from Page 1A ently there is a reason- able chance, there is a chance Brooks is re- opened,” NORPAC attor- ney Al Kennedy said. In the short term, how- ever, the Stayton facility, the companies' original site when it started as Stayton Canning Compa- ny in 1924, will remain closed. Michigan-based Line- age Logistics is one of the largest cold storage com- Fax: 503-399-6706 Email: sanews@salem.gannett.com Web site: www.SilvertonAppeal.com Staff News Director Don Currie 503-399-6655 dcurrie@statesmanjournal.com Advertising Westsmb@gannett.com Classifieds: call 503-399-6789 Retail: call 503-399-6602 Legal: call 503-399-6789 Missed Delivery? 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Main Statesman Journal publication Suggested monthly rates: Monday-Sunday: $22, $20 with EZ Pay Monday-Saturday: $17.50, $16 with EZ Pay Wednesday-Sunday: $18, $16 with EZ Pay Monday-Friday: $17.50, $16 with EZ Pay Sunday and Wednesday: $14, $12 with EZ Pay Sunday only: $14, $12 with EZ Pay To report delivery problems or subscribe, call 800-452-2511 Comfort Inn & Suites Restaurant Location: 1775 Free- way Court NE, Salem Date: Dec. 2 Score: 100 No priority viola- tions Court Street Dairy Lunch Location: 347 Court St. NE, Salem Date: Nov. 6 (rein- spected Nov. 26) panies in the world. It has over 150 loca- tions in the United States, though the former NOR- PAC facilities it is acquir- ing will be its first in Ore- gon. Oregon Potato Com- pany, an Idaho-based ag- ricultural company, has started a new company, Vegco, to operate the for- mer NORPAC business in Washington and Oregon. Vegco intends to pur- chase the Brooks proc- essing facility from Line- age after the bankruptcy sale goes through. “That condition is not dependent on Lineage PUBLIC POLICY NOTICES Public Notices are published by the Statesman Journal and available online at w w w .S ta te s m a n J o u r n a l.c o m . The Statesman Journal lobby is open Monday - Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. You can reach them by phone at 503-399-6789. In order to receive a quote for a public notice you must e-mail your copy to SJLegals@StatesmanJournal.com , and our Legal Clerk will return a proposal with cost, publication date(s), and a preview of the ad. LEGAL/PUBLIC NOTICE DEADLINES All Legals Deadline @ 1:00 p.m. on all days listed below: ***All Deadlines are subject to change when there is a Holiday. 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Point deduction: 5. Nov. 25: No priority violations Dairy Queen Location: 1465 25th St. SE, Salem Date: Dec. 2 Score: 100 No priority viola- tions Eat My Sweets Location: 186 SW Court St., Dallas (mobile unit) Date: Nov. 14 (rein- spected Nov. 25) Score: N/A Nov. 14: Priority vio- lations ❚ A test kit is not pro- vided or is not accurate enough to measure the concentration of sanitiz- ing solutions, specifical- ly: Operator had quat test strips. Sanitizer on-site are chlorine tabs. Nov. 25: No priority Phone: 503-399-6773 To Place an Ad Baskin-Robbins Location: 474 Lan- caster Drive NE, Salem Date: Nov. 26 Score: 100 No priority viola- tions Address: P.O. Box 13009, Salem, OR 97309 Location: 401 Center St. NE #254, Salem Date: Nov. 27 Score: 100 No priority viola- tions El Pique Location: 289 E Ellen- dale Ave., Dallas Date: Dec. 2 Score: 100 No priority viola- Continued on Page 3 being able to sell to Veg- co,” Kennedy said. “Line- age is bound, even if Veg- co walks away today. These are separate, sepa- rate transactions.” NORPAC filed with the state it could lay off more than 1,400 workers at its Willamette Valley proc- essing facilities. NORPAC filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Aug. 22 with a deal in place to sell the majority of its assets including the Salem, Brooks and Quin- cy, Wash., processing fa- cilities, though not the Stayton plant, to Oregon Potato Company for $155 million. After Oregon Potato Company withdrew its offer in October it offered to purchase the Washing- ton plant and the goods it held for $93.5 million. But after rival Simplot got involved in the bid- ding, the price of the Quincy facility rose to $107 million, with Oregon Potato Company com- pleting the transaction in December. Teamsters attorney William Wilder filed an objection to the sale, stat- ing the successor to NOR- PAC should be required to assume the previous con- Salem Statesman Journal USA TODAY NETWORK Operators of Oregon’s only municipal waste in- cinerator will again ask the state Legislature to designate trash burning as renewable energy, af- ter an identical bill failed last year. Officials from Covanta Marion, the Brooks facil- ity that burns most of Marion County’s trash, have said that if the legis- lation fails again, they will have to double gar- bage rates or even shut- ter the plant. The renewable energy designation would allow Covanta to sell the elec- tricity it produces at a higher rate. That money would fund needed up- grades at the 33-year-old facility, company offi- cials said. Opponents argue that burning garbage is not a renewable resource, and that incentives meant to create new sources of re- newable energy should not go to a plant that’s been operating for three decades. Rep. Brian Clem, D- Salem, said he agreed to introduce the bill during the short session, which begins Feb. 3, at the re- quest of Marion County commissioners. “I declined to do that as my personal bill, but I did offer a slot as a com- The Covanta Marion facility in Brooks. DAVID DAVIS AND KELLY JORDAN / STATESMAN JOURNAL mittee bill,” Clem said. Clem chairs the House Committee on Agricul- ture and Land Use, which discussed the legislative concept Wednesday. The new proposal is the same as an amended bill that passed the Sen- ate last year, but did not get a hearing in the House. It would allow the in- cinerator to be certified under Oregon’s Renew- able Portfolio Standard, which requires 50% of the electricity Orego- nians use to come from renewable sources by 2040. Only electricity gener- ated from the burning of biogenic material, such as wood or paper, would qualify. That material makes up about half of the waste burned there. Combustion of an- thropogenic materials, such as plastic, wouldn’t qualify. Covanta spokesman James Regan could not be reached for comment Wednesday. Regan has previously declined to say how much revenue the designation would bring in. Covanta Marion is a subsidiary of New Jer- sey-based Covanta Ener- gy Corp. It burns about 550 tons of municipal solid waste per day, gen- erating up to 13.1 mega- watts of energy. The in- cinerator was Oregon’s 20th largest greenhouse gas emitter in 2017, ac- cording to the state De- partment of Environ- mental Quality Marion County’s con- tract with Covanta ex- pires in September 2020. If the burner closes, the county will send waste to the Coffin Butte landfill north of Corvallis. Contact the reporter at tloew@statesman- journal.com, 503-399- 6779 or follow at Twit- ter.com/Tracy_Loew Agriculture entrepreneur Frank Tiegs has pulled out of his planned $155.5 million takeover of the bankrupt NORPAC Foods processing company. Despite filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, NORPAC Foods' processing plant in Stayton is still hiring new employees. DAVID DAVIS AND KELLY JORDAN / STATESMAN JOURNAL tracts between the union and NORPAC if it is an ag- ricultural processor. A hearing on that has been set for Jan. 24. Since 2014, nearly a third of co-ops in the United States have dis- solved or gone bankrupt, according to a report by CoBank. NORPAC had 140 members and contracts with another 220 growers under contract, and many are owed money by the company that may never be paid. But the sale to Oregon Potato Company ensures that many farmers in the Willamette Valley will have a place to sell their goods in the future. Vegco does not intend to rehire NORPAC's for- mer truckers, Vegco at- torney Joseph Vanleuven said. Competing bids were required by Jan. 10 and had to exceed Lineage’s offer by $2 million, but none were filed. “We continued to have alternative or potential alternative buyers con- tacting the buyers to the company up until the last week or two and we had one that informed us last Friday that they were not going to bid,” Kennedy said. “I think we had a real estate developer who was willing to bid on one of the sites, but not all three.” Kennedy said in court the sale of the Salem, Brooks and Stayton plants should be closed by the end of January. It’s our winter flash sale: New subscribers get three month’s digital ac- cess to StatesmanJour- nal.com for $1, then $7.99 bpoehler@Statesman- Journal.com or Twit- ter.com/bpoehler