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About Vernonia's voice. (Vernonia, OR) 2007-current | View Entire Issue (June 6, 2013)
community bulletin board/letters to the editor june6 2013 Challenger British Soccer Camps 2013 July 15-19 Ages 3-12 Includes a free ball and shirt Sign up on-line at challengersports.com Minority and Woman Business Owners Sought The North Coast Watershed Association is looking to put together a local contractors list of MBE/WBE (Minority Business Enterprise, Woman Business Enterprise) that we can send RFPs/RFQs to for watershed council projects. This is in addition of course, to our current list of contractors. If you are an MBE/WBE in Clatsop, Columbia or Pacific county, please send me an email with your organizational information and contact information to jjones@ columbiaestuary.org. Readers Lend Their Voices... To the Vernonia Community, If you live or own a business in Vernonia, then you may be receiving a letter in the mail soon with a short survey. Before you throw it in the recycling bin, please read on. The survey is part of an ongoing community-based research project called the “Vital Vernonia Indicator Project.” Oregon State University Extension Service is collaborating with Vernonia’s community leaders on the Vital Vernonia Indicator Project. The purpose of this project is to document “community vitality” in Vernonia: in other words, whether economic, social, educational, and environmental goals are being met to ensure a good quality of life and well-being for the people who live here. Many organizations, agencies and community sectors are cooperating on this project. Each is providing information that together illustrates the vitality of this community. For example, we are learning about student achievement, teen substance abuse rates, flood resilience, employment rates, and other indicators of community vitality from these cooperators. However, there is some information that only individual people and businesses can provide, related to their way of life and business as Vernonia residents or business owners. For this reason we are implementing two surveys: one for businesses and one for residents. Later this month, the household survey will be mailed to a random selection of all the households in Vernonia. It should take no more than ten minutes to complete. If your household receives the survey, one adult (18 or older) should complete it. Full instructions, along with a postage-paid return envelope, will be included in the mailer. The business survey will go out to all the businesses in the area. These surveys will have several questions, however several of them are industry- specific. The industry-specific questions will require data that will need to be looked up. Many businesses will not need to answer the industry-specific questions. This data has to do with different indicators of economic vitality. Please note that both surveys will be anonymous. They do not ask for any identifying information such as your name, business name, or address. The aggregated data will be shared publicly, but nobody will ever know whether you took the survey, nor will any individual responses be shared. Participation in this project is voluntary and you may refuse to answer any question on the survey. However, full involvement from the community is vital to the quality of our data. We would appreciate timely responses if you receive a survey from us. Your participation is very important to us. We expect to finish collecting all of the data for this project by the end of the summer. Later this year, the results of our study will be shared widely with the community. Contact us if you would like to learn more about the Vital Vernonia Indicator Project or how you can become involved. Amy Grotta, Project Lead Oregon State University Extension Service, St. Helens (503) 397-3462 Amy.Grotta@oregonstate.edu Nicholas Welch, Project Intern (503) 748-9193 VernoniaIndicatorProject@gmail.com HOW TO SEND LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Vernonia’s Voice welcomes and requests your thoughts, opinions and ideas. Please include your name, address and phone number, limit your letters to 300 words or less. Vernonia’s Voice reserves the right to edit, omit, respond or ask for a response to letters submitted. We will print letters space permitting. Deadline is the 1st and 3rd Monday of each month. Email: scott@vernoniasvoice.com or mail to: Letters, PO Box 55, Vernonia, OR 97064. Loc a Han l o rg an ic pr raf o ted goo duce ds ! New ti me & l & mor ocation e! ! d-c June through September (Between Post Office & Subway) Interested in Vending? Contact Bill (971) 998-3705 bill@rangelights.com A PROJECT OF: n C ia OMM U o Vernonia Youth Soccer Presents TY NI ve rn 4 Garden
