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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
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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
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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.
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(503) 429-5018
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