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Local Volunteers Earn Grants from Intel Council Can’t Agree
on Replacement or
Administrator
equipment for Associa-

Several local
tion volunteers. Mathia
Vernonia charity groups
and organizations have
also said the funds will be
used to pay for additional
again been the recipient
training; volunteers will
of funding through the
“Intel Involved Match-
attend classes to become
EMT Intermediate certi-
ing Grant Program.”
fied.

The Intel Foun-
“First of all we wanted to
dation awards grants
say thank you to Intel for
to eligible schools and
their donation and to our
community organiza-
volunteers who earned
tions based on volun-
these funds,” said Mathia.
teer hours reported by
“This program provides
Intel employees. Intel
a great benefit directly to
employees earn $10 in
the community. The EMT
matching funds for their
Intermediate training is
organizations for each
especially important be-
reported hour of volun-
cause Intermediates have
teer time.
a wider scope of prac-

This past year
tice, so when the on duty
the Vernonia Boosters
Paramedic is on a call, we
Club earned $5,595; The
Vernonia Health Center Vernonia Ambulance Volunteers Tom Moss, Loren Loomis have highly trained volun-
and Mike Demeter helped earn a $10,000 grant from Intel.
teers who can respond to
earned $1,540; The Ver-
additional emergencies in
nonia Rural Fire Protec-

Intel employees Mike
the community.”
tion District earned $10,000; the
Demeter, Loren Loomis, and

According to Mathia, the
Vernonia School District earned
Tom Moss were recently recog-
VVAA recorded 1188 volunteer
$1,375; and the The Vernonia
nized by the Vernonia Volunteer
hours, more than the maximum
Volunteer Ambulance Associa-
Ambulance Association (VVAA)
allowed.
tion earned $10,000.
for their volunteer time and the

Intel employees are not

A minimum of 20 hours
matching funds they helped se-
limited in how many organiza-
of volunteer time in a calendar
cure through the Intel Involved
tions they can earn volunteer
year is required to generate a
program.
hours and matching funds.
cash grant for a qualified school

VVAA President Jeff
or organization. Each addition-
Mathia said
al volunteer hour will increase
the $10,000
the amount of the grant. The
his group
maximum grant that a school
r e c e i v e d
can receive in a calendar year is
was
used
$25,000; community organiza-
to purchase
tions can receive a maximum of
some much
$10,000. To be eligible an orga-
needed com-
nization must be a 501(c)(3).
munications

The Vernonia City Council was unable to
move forward on two critical pieces of city business.
The Council were deadlocked in a split vote to name a
replacement to fill an empty City Council seat and were
also unable to reach an agreement to offer a contract to
either applicant for the permanent City Administrator
position.

Council held two interview sessions with City
Council candidates. On Tuesday June 21 Council was
unable to reach a decision about who to appoint to fill
the seat left vacant when Kevin Hudson was recalled
and removed from office on June 13. Councilors
Willow Burch and Marilyn Nicks voted for Victoria
Peters; Mayor Josette Mitchell and Councilor Randy
Parrow voted for Brett Costley. Council invited those
two top choices back for a second round of interviews
on Friday June 24, but were again unable to reach a
majority decision. Councilor Marilyn Nicks asked
for more time to consider the candidates and Council
decided to revisit the decision at their Monday June 27
Special City Council Meeting.

Peters ran for Mayor last November, receiving
20% of the vote, and has never served on any City
Committee. Costley, who was twice elected to serve
as a City Councilor and has prior experience on the
Vernonia Planning Commission, resigned from the
Vernonia City Council last fall for family reasons.
Costley said he reapplied for the position at the request
of several citizens.
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4th of July Parade 
starts at 4 PM
Staging at City Hall, ends at State Avenue
inside
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a place
to rest
10
spiralz
salon
15
summer
meals
Storming the Castle
The SCA is coming to Vernonia to recreate medieval times
By Scott Laird

I am sitting in a bright
and cheerful cafe with Kurios An-
dronikos Belisariou, a merchant
from Constantinople and Eoghan
O’Briain, an Irish/Gaelic merchant.
Both are representative of the Shire
of Dragon’s Mist. We are snacking
on grilled bread, cheese, and fried
potatoes, sipping coffee and discuss-
ing the upcoming tournament these
gentlemen are organizing to be held
July 29-31 on land owned by Ter-
ence Von Schaumburg, in the Canton
of Kaldor Ness within the Barony of
Three Mountains.

Say what?!

Actually I’m sitting in a
Shari’s restaurant in Hillsboro with
Kurtis Pittman and Andrew Morel-
lo, two members of the Society for
Creative Anachronism, Inc. (SCA),
an international non-profit organiza-
tion dedicated to the preservation,
research and re-creation of the crafts,
Members of the Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA) participate in a
Heavy Combat competition. The SCA will host an event in Vernonia July 29-31.
arts and experiences of the Middle
Ages.

Pittman and Morello are
organizing an event to be held out-
side Vernonia on property owned
by Terry Schaumburg at the end of
July, where members of their group
and their guests will re-create a me-
dieval village for a long weekend. At
this tournament participants will be
in character, adopting personas, like
Pittman’s Belisariou and Morello’s
O’Briain that they have meticu-
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