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business february22 Vernonia Service and Repair- Mater Introduces Phase II continued from front page Open and Ready for Business Regence led them to also suggest that never been done before.” Have you noticed the sign for Vernonia Service and Repair, just south of Vernonia on Highway 47? Aaron Milstien has opened a new automotive repair shop in town. But Milstien doesn’t just work on cars and trucks. Milstien, who grew up in Vernonia and seems to be handy with all kinds of repairs, says if he has the right tools, he can do the work you need. In addition to oil changes while you wait, Milstien can do any other automotive repairs. He has installed a lift at the two-bay garage he’s working from at 58605 Nehalem Highway South, right next door to the Storage Too office. He also does welding work, will work on trailers, four-wheelers and anything else mechanical you want to bring him. He also says he can do detail work to help you get your interior cleaned up after the winter. G o t something that needs fixing? Why not stop by and give Aaron Milstien at Vernonia Service and Repair a try? Ve r n o n i a Service and Repair is located just south of Vernonia on Highway 47 at 58605 Nehalem Highway South. Aaron Milstien can be reached at (503) 706-9409. these health care options might be paid for not with dollars, but with carbon credits earned by family forest owners, just by conserving and managing their forests well. According to Mohan Nair, Chief Innovation Officer at Regence BlueCross BlueShield, this program represents a return to their roots as well. “Regence was started many years ago by families working in Pacific Northwest forests that pooled their resources to provide health care for one another. We appreciate that this Pinchot Institute initiative seeks to use those same forests to help make health care more affordable and sustainable for forest landowners and their families.” A key component of Mater’s plan involves creatively using carbon credit payments to, not only pay for family health care of land owners, but to also use a portion of those payments to help fund a community health care clinic for the community of Vernonia, creating additional incentive for carbon investors to become involved in the project. “We are recreating the playing ground of the value of carbon,” explained Mater. “We are doing something very unusual for the landowner and, at the same time, we are redirecting a whole different paradigm for carbon investors and the value added-- it’s 2011 9 In cooperation with Oregon State University, the next phase of the Forest Health-Human Health Initiative will evaluate whether new forest biomass scanning technology can be upgraded to include carbon scanning. “This single- pass process could reduce monitoring costs to participating FH-HH landowners by up to 30 percent,” said Mater. “This is critical, since the cost of monitoring can make the difference for family landowners hoping to participate.” A recent study conducted by the Pinchot Institute and Mater Ltd. as part of Phase I found that local forests could supply the new “green building certified” K-12 school that is being constructed and another public building complex, the proposed Rose Avenue Project, with wood biomass. According to Dr. Ken Cox, Superintendent of Vernonia Public Schools, this project will provide many valuable opportunities for the schools and for the community itself. “This will create a living laboratory for sustainability throughout our entire community,” said Cox. “The lessons learned from this Forest Health-Human Health Initiative will be incorporated into our teaching curriculum for all our children in the community.” Intruder Alert: Computer Viruses and Other Parasites By Burt Tschache also a curious sort and wanted to see the picture of a 40-foot tapeworm and learn that John Wayne (the Duke) had 80 pounds of impacted fecal matter in his intestine when he died (a big time parasite breeding ground). Yuck!!! This is all to let you know what could be lurking inside our own bodies and there is no security suite to protect us, except very costly drugs or grandma’s potions. Parasites do not broadcast their presence. They are known as the Great Masqueraders in that they mimic so many other conditions that they are usually the last thing a health care professional looks for. I mean, we don’t have parasites in America, do we? From what I’ve been reading, parasites are at plague level in America because we do not take Mom’s magic potions anymore. Because we are world travelers, we can pick up bugs in one country and carry them around the world in less than 80 days. There is much more in the food that we eat than we think. All processed foods and some of those supposedly unprocessed can carry passengers we would not know about except for the increasing number of e-Coli outbreaks and digestive problems. Many farms are allowed to water with semi-processed sewage. According to the FDA, there is even a permissible level of toxicity in everything we eat or drink to appease the petrochemical industries. I would rather the level be 0%. From the National Institute of Health (NIH): Some very informative articles are Computer viruses are like available at: parasites in that they interfere with http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ and slow system processing, take over news/fullstory_107925.html resources for their own use, give nothing http://www.dr-dan.com/tapeworm.htm in return, reproduce rapidly and, unless you get rid of them promptly, can cause And here you thought you only major problems to your system and had to worry about computer parasites. data. The critters are everywhere. While looking up some information on our cats’ health, I Be Safe Out There . . . discovered a veritable plague of pestilential parasites that can infect Burt Tschache is the owner of B&B them. We all know about fleas and Computing in Vernonia. He can be worms and do our best to keep our four- “Animal diseases that people can catch reached at bnb998@msn.com or (503) legged, finned and feathered friends free are called zoonoses. About 75 percent of 429-0817. of invasive creatures. However, there the new diseases affecting are other critters that hide within the humans in the past decade Save your local economy... fleas that can surreptitiously invade our can be traced to animals three stores at a time. own inner environment. or animal products. Human parasites are far more You can get a disease widely dispersed than we ever knew. directly from an animal, Did you know that your loving family or indirectly, through the pets can accidentally pass along all kinds environment.“ of creatures that mom never saving the brick and mortars our nation is built on told you about because she Think about which three independently owned businesses probably did not know? Did you’d miss most if they were gone. Stop in and say hello. you know that in days of Pick up a little something that will make someone smile. yore, it was commonplace Your contribution is what keeps those businesses around. for mom or grandma to If dust half the employed U.S. population spent $50 each pour an anti-parasitic month in independently owned businesses, their purchases potion down the throat of a would generate more than $42.6 billion in revenue.* Imagine the positive impact if 3/4 of the employed struggling child and not be population did that. accused of abuse? For every $100 spent in independently owned stores, Some of the great $68 returns to the community through taxes, payroll, and research tools on the other expenditures. If you spend that in a national chain, internet are hyperlinks, only $43 stays here. Spend it online and nothing comes home. Google or Wikipedia. If you want to find out more about The number of people it takes to start the trend...you. anything, you can find a link to lead you there. Curious Pick 3. Spend 50. Save your local economy. sort that I am, I occasionally find myself getting lost in Family owned and operated for over 40 years. cyberspace, much to the Visit the350project.net dismay of my dear wife. © ® Cinda Baxter 2010; all rights reserved. Proudly supporting RetailSpeaks and independent retailers everywhere. * Employment statistics courtesy U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2/6/2009; 68/43 courtesy Civic Economics study, 2008. 721 Madison Avenue, Vernonia (503) 429-5018 Thankfully, she is Mariolino’s Pizza & Grill Serving breakfast, lunch, dinner & ice cream v the 3/50 prodect b 3 50 68 1 [ oi ® v s 5 6 ®
