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community/classified ads january24 13 Better Parenting: A Parenting Thought--“Begin With the End in Mind” 2012 By Sonia Spackman, MA, MFT Basically, parenting is a job you want to work your way out of. When your kids go out your door to enter the work-force, go to college, or get married, you want them to be prepared for the grown-up world they are entering. Beginning while your kids are young, it is your job to teach them how the real world works while they are living at home. And it is the kids’ job to learn the lessons you are teaching them as long as they live under your roof. This dual process is about adults “practicing” to develop good parenting skills and the kids “practicing” to mature into safe, kind, respectful, and responsible adults. In all this “practicing,” try to remember there is no such thing as a perfect child; we are practicing how to live and learn as we go. I hope you can see the parenting connection, humor and wisdom in the following list from “Melody Ennis’ Top 10 List of Dog Training Tips” for raising your kids: 1. Be consistent. 2. Keep their attention. 3. Repetition. 4. Have GOOD treats. 5. Keep training sessions short. 6. Train at least 15 minutes a day. 7. Be fair. 8. Don’t push your dog too fast. 9. Remember to help your dog when he’s confused. 10. Have fun together. Vernonia Veterinary Clinic Small and Large Animals ing to impose on us. And Vernonia has the double whammy that, due to the suc- cess of our flood recovery program, we took forty properties off the tax rolls. So my first absolute priority over the next six months, and quite honestly for likely over the next three to five years, is go- ing to be to put in place a budget that is going to be meaningful in terms of costs against what our revenues are and to make a budget such that all the expecta- tions of the community are met. Related to the budget, and di- rectly related to the wastewater project that is evolving and the work that has al- ready been started by the Public Works Committee with a water rate study, over the next year the City will take a hard look at the water rates and sewer rates. We need to be honest with everybody that those rates are being looked at, they will be modified and likely there will be continued from front page increases. The goal is how to make those increases palatable in the short term and meaningful to the city in the long term. There are no firm numbers yet, but we hope to have more information soon. So by the end of this calendar year we should have a rate structure for both water and sewer that has been modified from what it has been in the past. Hope- fully we can find a way to step into those rate adjustments over a couple of years as opposed to making a dynamic change in any one year—that would be a goal although it is not assured. The Wastewater Facility Im- provement is another priority. The City has selected Tetra Tech as the de- sign engineering firm for the project. Within the next sixty days we need to know whether the current proposed op- tion of a hyporic discharge system does, in fact, work. We will be working with Serving since 1953 Need more room? See us for the lowest prices Fuiten, Rose & Hoyt Funeral Home & Crematory Third Generation Family Owned & Operated GUARANTEED! Debit/Credit now accepted U-Haul now available on site 5x10 $39 Now Open Outside storage available Totally fenced and gated Padlocks Available Mon, Wed & Saturday 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. 58605 Nehalem Hwy S. P.O. Box 292 Vernonia, Oregon 97064 (503) 429-7867 Call for Appointments (503) 429-1612 Or 24 hr. Emergency Number (503) 397-6470 700 Weed Ave. Vernonia, OR 10-5 Tue-Sat, 12-4 Sun Classified Ad Rates $5/month Rideshare/Carpool Ads FREE FOR RENT 3 bdrm, 2 bath $650/mo. 1st, last, deposit and application fee. 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Budge 503-429-1811 SERVICES several engineering firms to determine if we are on the right path. It’s likely that if we are able to use the hyporic dis- charge model it will cost less than the alternatives we have previously consid- ered. How much less, we don’t know yet. But it could be significant. Right now we are trying to demonstrate that it is feasible and a viable alternative that meets DEQ guidelines. We are also do- ing additional assessments to determine whether the removal of the schools and other properties and structures upstream from our current sewage lagoons has sufficient impact to allow us to not be required to modify the shape of our la- goons. We think that is a possibility. If that is so, that also reduces the cost of the final design for the Wastewater System Upgrade. Another, not really a project but a policy of the city, is trying to figure out a way to incentivize people to either stay in Vernonia or move to Vernonia. 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If you have comments or questions you may contact me at PO Box 217, Vernonia, OR 97064 or e-mail soniaspackman@ Next time, we will cover some msn.com. “getting ready for the real world” A Conversation with Bill Haack now she has stepped back into the role of Mayor with yet another new suite of Council members to nurture and bring forward. What she has demonstrated is an appetite for learning and governance and seeing things all the way through— and I think that is to be applauded. I’m sure that all of you who know her and have worked with her before in other capacities—I’m sure that is what you would expect. She is very organized in the way she works and in the way she presents information to the public and the Council. I think she is doing very well. VV: What are your top priorities for the next six months to one year? BH: This city, like all cities right now, are in the process of managing their bud- get against the emerging and evolving impacts that our economic decline is go- parenting tips you can try at home with your kids that work on kids from two to twenty. HELP WANTED Upper Nehalem Watershed Council is looking for (on call, part time, seasonal) tree planters. Must have reliable transporta- tion, valid driver’s license and car insurance. Contact Steve Sorbets: stevansorbets@ya- hoo.com for an application. VA C AT I O N R E N TA L S
