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6 in other words/community january7 2016 Natural Path to Health: Happy New Year By Dr. Carol McIntyre I wish you all a Happy New Year! We have been celebrating the winter season and enjoying the snow. It is such a blessing to have the beauty of the cleansing white blanket to bless us. The children have most certainly been enjoying the ability to play in the icy fun. As we ring in the new year, let us remember that part of our ambition to renew is inspired by the increasing sunlight we receive at the Winter Solstice. The days are now getting longer and this brings more energy to all of us! This new found energy inspires us to make positive changes in our lives. Basic practices in our daily lives can lead to further, more complex changes. Daily practice of clearing, cleansing and giving thanks can enlighten us to make more positive choices and changes overall. The DaoYin is a way of life that has been practiced for centuries. It involves a routine or way of life that incorporates the above mentioned as well as gentle exercise that allows one to keep free flow of Qi and blood in the body. We review elements of this practice from time to time during our Qigong sessions on Fridays at 9:30 am at the Vernonia Grange. Please join us! Although we set our sights for achieving new year’s resolutions, we should also be prepared for acute situations of illness. Some of my favorite herbs for upper respiratory and sinus infections are usnea, peppermint and honey. Utilizing warming sock therapy is always beneficial as well. This can also be helpful in treating headaches. For stomach flu or GI symptoms I recommend ginger, cinnamon, licorice and peppermint. There are some exceptions with the use of licorice and peppermint, so if you have other medical conditions such as high blood pressure and/or heartburn/GERD you should seek counsel before using licorice and/ Holce Donation Identifies Overlooked Strategy or peppermint. Soothing foods such as oats are also favorable. Just remember the old rule: Starve a fever and feed a cold. I thank you all for a wonderful year and am looking forward to an amazing 2016! Please take advantage of the services at the office such as acupuncture, reiki, infrared sauna, inversion table and of course nutritional supplements, essential oils and herbs to enhance your health this year. Feel free to stop in and ask questions~ I am happy to help. Thanks for joining me. ~Be well. continued from front page By donating the security directly versus selling it and of a long term appreciated security. Using the same securities? According to Fidelity Viewpoint it is mostly then donating the cash from the sale, you eliminate a example, the total income taxes that could be saved because of habit. Most people who contribute to charity $7,140 long term capital gains tax, therefore, increasing would be $19,800 if you donated directly, more than regularly do so by just writing a check. But the fact is double the $9,833 you could claim if you sold the that contributing appreciated securities doesn’t require the amount the charity receives. This is exactly what the Holces did. According investment and contributed cash. that much additional effort. The tax savings can really Obviously this donation strategy only works be significant and the benefit to the receiving charity to Randy, he has been purchasing shares of stock annually since he was a young man, a strategy he for certain types of donors who have securities that can also be substantial. learned from his grandfather and that his mother also have appreciated over time; of course tax strategies are This was a beneficial strategy for the Holces practiced. By accumulating those securities over time complex and different for everyone. It’s important for and Randy Holce hopes that others might consider this individuals to check with their own tax advisors to see as a way to assist the Vernonia Sports Initiative reach they now have an increased value. While this strategy allowed the Holces, and if this would work for them. their goals of providing sports facilities for all sports on So why don’t more people take advantage the school campus. potential other donors, to save on their capital gains tax bill, it also provides the opportunity to increase the of this strategy of contributing long term appreciated size of itemized deductions. According to Fidelity Viewpoint you are generally continued from page 4 allowed to calculate your charitable tax According to Fousek’s report, would be accessed to bring 440v three entire project is on a tight timeline with deduction based on the fair market value the California Avenue Project provides phase power to the new industrial site an expected completion date of May a unique opportunity for the City to and is the first step to attracting other 2017. Vernonia’s Voice is published Council voted unanimously to partner and receive assistance on six small, high-tech business to Vernonia. on the 1st and 3rd Thursday. reaffirm their commitment to the overall 4. Utility Infrastructure to the Industrial separate but linked projects: Our next issue will be out 1. Infrastructure Design Project – With Site – Using City SDC funds this project project and to move forward with initial January 21st. grant funding already secured from IFA, uses City staff to trench and install a design plans for the project using the this project will provide engineering and water line to the industrial site and IFA grant funding, and to request an design for the development of California provide a bench with the trench for gas estimate from their engineering firm, Avenue into a full two lane paved road, and phone to be installed by NW Natural OTEK, for an engineering plan for the Spencer Hill sewer reroute and the utility development to the new industrial and Frontier. Small and Large Animals site, and for a reroute of sewer lines on 5. Paving and Development of extension of the utilities to the industrial California Avenue – Funding secured site. The Council would be asked to Spencer Hill. 2. Spencer Hill Sewer Reroute Project from ODOT would fund the build out approve additional steps in the project if – Using City SDC funds this project of California Avenue beyond the Blue state funding from ODOT and Business would fix serious design flaws that have Heron Apartment development that Oregon is secured at a later date. plagued the Vernonia sewer system would include two full lanes, a parking for decades - pumping sewage from lane and a multi-use pedestrian trail. homes around Spencer Avenue across 6. Photo Solutions New Building – the Nehalem River to the Tree Streets Brad Curtis, owner of Photo Solutions, and Pump station #2 before pumping would be responsible for funding the it back to Pump Station #3 at the base move of his building from its current Mon, Wed & Saturday of Lakeview Drive, with all the water location on California Avenue. The 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. infiltration the system tends to pick up. new facility would be three feet above Call for Appointments The project would route sewage directly the 2007 flood, double the size of the (503) 429-1612 facility, and allow the doubling of their from Spencer Hill to pump station #3. 3. Industrial Infrastructure Project – 12 person workforce. Or 24 hr. 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