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community october3 2013 Carlton Named Oregon EMT-Basic of the Year continued from front page 9 to Vernonia in 2007. Within days of other EMS providers. He is also a member is a volunteer for the Vernonia Head patients. Shawn is very involved in the move they watched their new home of the Vernonia Festival Committee, Start Program. Randy’s love for EMS helping to mold the expanding role that flood and the small community face a Christmas in Vernonia Committee and and for the community he serves is paramedics can play in the evolving heart wrenching disaster. In the years obvious. Calvin Coolidge once said, health care industry. He believes in that have followed, Randy not only “No person was ever honored for what making the concepts of community stayed in his community, but he has truly he received. Honor is given by what he paramedics, telemedicine and critical made Vernonia his home. Randy has gave.” Metro West Ambulance along care trained paramedics, and how they been an EMS EMT-Basic with Metro with the Vernonia Volunteer Ambulance can offer cost effective alternatives to West Ambulance since November of Association and the Vernonia Rural Fire many traditional healthcare services, 2006. He joined the Vernonia Volunteer Protection District are very proud of come to life. Shawn is a member of Ambulance Association in 2007 and the Randy Carlton, “Oregon EMS Provider the Regional Protocol Development Vernonia Rural Fire Protection District of the Year-EMT Basic”. Committee that develops and refines in 2009. Randy currently serves as the Shawn Wood, EMT Paramedic protocols used in our region. He President of the Vernonia Volunteer has always followed the credo “lead serves as a member of the OHSU/OIT Ambulance Association and is currently by example.” It is a statement he not Advisory Committee to their Paramedic an officer in training with the Vernonia only says but truly lives. Shawn is Program. His most recent project is Rural Fire Protection District. Randy’s this year’s recipient of the EMS EMT- his participation in a pilot project using involvement goes beyond providing Paramedic of the Year for the state of paramedics in a community setting. Not medical care and fire suppression in Oregon. Shawn started with Metro only does Shawn believe in moving the the 9-1-1 system. He truly embraces West Ambulance in 2003. During his EMS industry forward but also makes “community.” He is involved in years at Metro West Ambulance, he sure all those he trains in the EMS field the Vernonia Friendship Jamboree has served as a Senior Paramedic and know that the most important person in and Logging Show, coordinating the as a Field Training Officer. Shawn was EMS is the patient. Vernonia Volunteer Fire and Rescue Golf recently also awarded the 2013 “Star of Congratulations to both Randy Benefit which raises money to purchase Life” from the American Ambulance Carlton, EMT-Basic and Shawn Wood, toys during the holiday season for Toy Association. Shawn is not only Oregon, EMT-Paramedic for being chosen as the & Joy; conducts classes as an AHA but nationally certified, as an EMT and top EMT and Paramedic in the State of CPR instructor and also for EMT-Basic has also completed the Critical Care Oregon for 2013! Metro West’s Shawn Wood was named courses and for continuing education for EMT course, specializing in critical Oregon EMT-Paramedic of the Year. Witt Announces Candidacy Witt went on to state specifically his goals for his next term, including more, better, and family wage jobs; a clean and healthy environment; and an education system that is second to none. “An education system that provides the kind of education that means rewarding jobs for our students when they graduate, global competitiveness for our employers, and the bedrock of our states’ future,” said Witt about his final goal. Recognized as an innovative leader in Salem for jobs and education, Rep. Witt sponsored legislation increasing Oregon’s investment in Career and Technical Education Programs. These programs assist school districts throughout the state as they revitalize vocational training (i.e. shop classes) for students, providing them with skills they will use throughout their lives. As a member of the Oregon House of Representatives, Witt has worked to create sustainable, family- wage jobs for his constituents throughout his district. “Our district’s geography and sustainable natural resources offer us an incredible opportunity to create and maintain family wage jobs right here in our own district,” said Witt. “I, as your voice in Salem have, and will continue to champion policies that will allow us to realize the incredible continued from front page potential to get people back to work, provide our children with a world class education and lay the groundwork for a sound economy that will support our families for generations to come.” Following his prepared remarks Witt stated, “I am very proud to, along with State Senator Betsy Johnson, gone out and fought, quite literally for an entire legislative session, for the last $4 million that enabled the construction of the school project to go forward. I could think of no better place to make my announcement than right here in this school with the Loggers as a backdrop.” More information on Representative Witt’s candidacy can be found at www.votebradwitt.com. Rock Creek Levels Now Available Online Approximately ten years ago the Upper Nehalem Watershed Council, led by Maggie Peyton, received a grant from the Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board to install an automated river gauge on Rock Creek. The purpose of the gauge was to alert the City to low flows that occur during the late summer in order to protect fish by reducing the amount of city water drawn out of Rock Creek. Initially, the creek levels were sent to the City and the Water Resources Department (WRD) via telephone line, but that method was too expensive for the City, so for years the gauge data have been read and transmitted manually. In the meantime, Vernonia experienced flooding and attention understandably turned to seeing stream data on the Web in near real-time. That finally came to pass Thursday, September 26th when the WRD’s Richard Marvin, Watermaster Greg Beaman and Kara Morris installed a satellite telemetry link to the gauge. The project is being funded by the WRD. Andy Bryant, hydrologist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), put the Rock Creek data on the NOAA website. Emergency personnel have relied on Nehalem River data on the Web, but now have the ability to add data from the Rock Creek gauge to their arsenal during weather- related events. The Rock Creek gauge may be accessed at: h t t p : / / w a t e r. w e a t h e r. g o v / a h p s 2 / h y d r o g r a p h . php?wfo=pqr&gage=rcbo3 The Nehalem River gauge upstream of Vernonia near Clear Creek may be accessed at: http://water.weather.gov/ ahps2/hydrograph.php?wfo=pqr&gage=veno3 Bighorn Logging since 1981 NOW BOOKING: Tournaments Company Parties Class Reunions Family Reunions And More Full dinner menu every Friday Vernonia Golf Club • 15961 Timber Rd. • (503) 429-6811 Contract Logging 503-324-2422 Free Estimates Timber Purchases Timber Management Oregon Professional Logger certified since 1996
