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in other words june20 2013 The Sounding Board: WOEC Elections are Nigh! By Nick Galaday done something about it by now. We PM to nominate a new representative. even pay 1.74 times as much as the next You should have all gotten a letter In my headline I am referring worst co-op in Oregon! WOEC does not inviting you from WOEC. Please to the two positions for consider serving on the Districts #2 and #5 on Board. For those of you our Board of Directors in District #2, I hope you at West Oregon Electric. nominate someone to run Nominations for these against the incumbent in positions are being taken your area (Apiary, Mist this month and the actual & Birkenfeld) on June elections will take place 20 th . If not, you can at the WOEC annual elect a write-in candidate meeting on Saturday, at the August meeting. August 17 th . Important: Remember; do not send in If voting by mail, please your mail-in ballot before hold off doing so, at least we find a candidate to run through July; so, we can against the incumbents. find worthy write-in Here are our current candidates for these two representatives. Contact positions. yours soon. Power of One Why is this so would like to know how important? Because it may your chat turns out. Please turn out that replacing the call Jack Phillips at entire Board of Directors 503-429-8089 with the might be the only way we results. Remember, the can regain control of our Board works for us, the electric co-op. members. In-turn, the U n f o r t u n a t e l y, WOEC hired staff works it would take us over 3 for the Board. I think our years to elect a whole current Board may have new Board. So we must forgotten for whom they continue to try to get serve. our current representatives to help us even come close to performing up to par! find a solution. We can’t wait three We all buy our electricity from the BPA WOEC Board of Directors Contact years and I would prefer to not throw at one of the lowest prices imaginable. information the baby out with the bath water. This In addition, our co-op, as such, is non- Email for the Board of Directors: Board, even as presently constituted, profit. We should be able to compete directors@westoregon.org is probably as capable as anyone we handily with for-profit utilities in the This is the monitored business email could find to replace them; but they’ve state, and we are not even doing that! account for the WOEC Board of gotten into some bad habits and simply If you really want to take Directors. refuse to acknowledge that our rates are back control of your co-op, call your If you would like a non-confidential unacceptable and that it’s their job to representative and have that chat. They email to go to one director in control them. Rather than contrition all should at least be given a chance to do particular, and not all seven members I’ve seen so far is denial and a measure the right thing. Ask him or her to see if of the board, just note the director’s of indignation. we can at least be average next year! Tell name in the subject line and it will be It appears that whenever WOEC them their planned rate hike in October forwarded to that director only. needs more funds the Board simply is out of the question. I wouldn’t mind allows them to raise our rates. They are even being second worst. Tell them that Dist #1 Brian Baker - Serving Elsie, planning to raise them again in October. reaching into our pocket every time they Jewell, & Necanicum They have done this so often that we are run low on cash is totally unacceptable. Phone: 503 755-2438 now paying, on average, nearly two and Better yet, do as I did and speak Address: 81410 Best Rd., Seaside, OR a half times as much as other Oregon before one of the regular Board meetings 97138-6160 co-op members. Yes, that’s right; we on the 3 rd Tuesday of every month. You WOEC members pay 2.42 times as much might suggest, as I did, that they hold Dist #2 Robert VanNatta*, President - for our electricity as the average of all an executive (private) session with you, Serving Apiary, Mist, & Birkenfeld other Oregon electric co-op members. excluding the hired staff, so they can Phone: 503-556-7305 Yes, we have lots of trees and hills, but preserve their options as to how they’re Address: 24259 Van Natta Road, really! 2.42 times as much as the other going to react. co-ops? And those of you who live in I gave our Board of Directors District #5 - West Vernonia, (Corey the benefit of the doubt and assumed Hill, Noaks Rd., Roseview Heights), that surely, this must have missed their Buxton & Timber-come to the WOEC attention or logically they would have building on Monday, June 24 th at 7:00 9 Rainier, OR 97048 Dist #3 Marty Van Dyken, Secretary/ Treasurer - Serving E. Vernonia, Keasey Rd, Top Hill, & Pebble Creek Phone: 503-410-1160 Address: 15160 Creek View Lane, Vernonia, OR 97064 Dist #4 Dan Murphy - Serving Central Vernonia Phone: 503-429-4101 Address: 476 North Street, Vernonia, OR 97064 Dist #5 Bob Paleck* - Serving West Vernonia, Buxton & Timber Phone: 503-429-0898 Address: 57041 Nehalem Hwy S / PO BOX 341, Vernonia, OR 97064 Dist #6 Dixie London - Serving Scappoose & Chapman Phone: 503-543-3986 Address: 57232 Cedar Creek Rd., PO BOX 1074, Scappoose, OR 97056 Dist #7 David Hess, Vice President – Serving Manning, Hagg Lake, & Yamhill Co. Phone: 503-647-2061 Address: PO Box 518, Banks, OR 97106 *Subject to reelection in August 2013 Vernonia Veterinary Clinic Small and Large Animals Now Open Mon, Wed & Saturday 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. Call for Appointments (503) 429-1612 Or 24 hr. Emergency Number (503) 397-6470 700 Weed Ave. Vernonia, OR Columbia Humane Society Featured Pet "Hotlips" Lessons for children 0-18 All lessons taught by certified swim instructor Session 1: July 8-July 12 Session 2: July 15-July 19 Session 3: July 22-July 26 Session 4: Aug. 5-Aug. 9 Session 5: Aug. 12-Aug. 16 Hot lips is a very sweet girl. We don't have much of a history on her, as she came to the shelter as a stray. We would like to see her go to a home where she is going to have room to roam. She is good with dogs that are smaller than her, and she seems to really like little kids. 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