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city news august9 Vernonia City News... At the August 1, 2011 Vernonia City Council Meeting: Council Approves Changed Ground Lease for Airport--Council approved a change in language to the Ground Lease at the Airport for Mike Hartzell. The changes allow Hartzell to carry lower insurance coverage than the State of Oregon tort claim cap. Council Approves Planning Process for New Spencer Park—Council approved the details to begin addressing the creation of the New Spencer Park on the school grounds, as well as a Tot Lot near the new school site. The school property is now owned by the City of Vernonia and is being leased by the School District. The School District is responsible for development of replacement fields that were lost when the new school construction was started. The planning process calls for the creation of an Executive Planning Committee which will help the School District with planning the deconstruction/demolition of the current school buildings and the creation of the new park. A Spencer Park Advisory Committee will also be established to include key community users and other City Representatives. A Town Hall is also being planned to gather community input about other potential uses for the park space. Deconstruction is scheduled to begin in the summer of 2012 and subsequent park construction will occur following. Council Approves ODOT IGA for Right-of-Way—Council approved an Intergovernmental Agreement (IGA) with Oregon Department of Transportation for ODOT to act as the city’s agent and provide Right-of-Way acquisition services for the construction that will occur at the intersection of Highway 47 and Missouri Avenue and for the reconstruction of the length of Missouri Avenue that will serve the new school complex. 2011 5 Wetlands Mitigation Plan. The School District is required to replace wetlands lost during construction of the new school complex. According to Effros, construction of the new wetlands was scheduled to begin on Monday August 8. The new wetland will be approximately eight acres in size and will be located on the Mill Site next to Vernonia Lake. Council Approves Two Resolutions for School Property--Council approved Resolution 20-11 which added the current school property into the City of Vernonia Park system. Council Council Hears Update on Wetlands also approved Resolution 20-12 which Mitigation Plan—Council received an amended the current City Parks Rules update from Steve Effros and School and Regulations, adding the current Superintendent Ken Cox on the school school property to those rules. Historic Oregon Newspapers Go Online On Feb. 4, 1910, the headline across the Medford Mail Tribune’s front page announced “United States At Mercy of Foreigners.” The story, based on the Army’s General’s Staff report, warned that the Japanese could land 100,000 troops on the U.S. Pacific Coast in three weeks, and the Germans “a trained army of 200,000” on the east coast. That’s just one look-back-into- time experience to be pulled from more than 180,000 pages from 18 Oregon newspapers now available online through the University of Oregon newly launched website Historic Oregon Newspapers. The website, made possible Board Position The Mist-Birkenfeld RFPD Board of Directors is accepting applications for Board Director position #2. This term will run from July 2011 to June 30th, 2013. Interested parties resid- ing in the fire district are invited to attend regular Board meetings and meet with Board President, Bill De- Jager, to answer any questions con- cerning Board responsibilities. Any interested, qualified person wishing to serve the remainder of the term must mail a letter of intent by August 15, 2011. Please address the letter to Mist-Birkenfeld RFPD. Attention: Board President Bill DeJager, 12525 HWY 202, Mist, Oregon 97016. 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A separate This image of The Daily Astorian from 1889 can be found at http://oregonnews.uoregon.edu. blog site provides project updates and examples of studies users it has long presented serious issues of might do, including June 1 entry access and research value for the public. focusing on “Hawaiians in Northwest Comprehensive microfilm collections History.” are often beyond the means of local Content at Historic Oregon libraries. And even when a copy of Newspapers is drawn from widely the film can be located, a researcher circulated titles like the Portland must spend hours, days, or even weeks Oregonian and Salem Capital Journal, scanning through the filmed pages, short-lived regional papers like the hoping to catch a glimpse of sought-after Sumpter Miner and Jacksonville information. Oregon Sentinel, and community-of- Navigating the Historic Oregon interest titles such as the first African- Newspapers website will be simpler and American paper in the state, the more intuitive for most computer users. Portland New Age, and Abigail Scott All the digitized newspaper pages have Duniway’s suffragist journal, the New undergone a process of optical character Northwest. recognition, in which bit-mapped texts While microfilm continues on scanned page images are analyzed and to be the preservation and archival converted to vector-based characters. medium of choice for newspapers, continued on page 7 Local Properties For Rent 406 A Street 5 bedroom, 3 bath, family room, laundry room. Updated vinyl windows through- out. Formerly a 3-plex converted into a home. For faster reply contact Ted at 503-799-0999 $995/mo. 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