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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
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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
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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.
That includes seeing that our housing
stock increases—in other words new
houses being built or our current housing
stock is remodeled in a way that banks
will provide loans so that people can buy
Forest Grove Memorial Chapel
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Resources: “Melody Ennis, Melody
Ennis’ Top 10 List of Dog Training Tips,”
Estacada News, used by permission of
the author.
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.
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