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Illinois Valley News, Cave Junction, OR Wednesday, July 21, 2004
TC Computers substantiates billing
FORESTRY ACTION ACTION - Ten Forestry Action Committee (FAC) volunteers
pulled weeds at Laurel Cemetery earlier this month; including (from left) Vanessa
Evans and Sabrina Wilson. FAC volunteers also have removed brush and weeds
from the city of Cave Junction reservoir, ‘Forks’ State Park, I.V. Visitor Center, I.V.
High School, Holland Store, and other areas. (Photo by Shane Welsh)
Troopers cite 1,648 July 4 speeders
Oregon State Police
troopers, along with many
other law enforcement of-
ficers across the country,
participated in Operation
CARE (Combined Acci-
dent Reduction Effort) dur-
ing the July 4th holiday
period.
This year, the CARE
holiday period ran from
12:01 a.m. on Friday, July
2 to 11:59 p.m. on Mon-
day, July 5.
During the period,
OSP used federal grants to
increase patrol coverage
with an emphasis on tar-
geting impaired drivers,
speeding violations, safety
belt violations and aggres-
sive drivers. Supervisory
personnel also were used
to increase coverage.
OSP investigated five
of the 10 fatal crashes
statewide that claimed 12
lives. Last year, five fatal
crashes resulted in nine
deaths. Deaths due to
driver impairment are still
pending toxicology exami-
nation and reports.
OSP troopers arrested
110 suspected intoxicated
drivers during this period,
eight more than last year’s
4th of July holiday period.
Troopers cited 1,648
motorists for speeding, an
increase of 551 from the
holiday period in 2003.
Troopers stopped more
than 200 motorists for
safety belt violations and
investigated 289 crashes as
compared to 129 crashes
last year during the same
holiday period.
“Factors including
speed, alcohol and driver
inattentiveness contributed
to the tragic loss of life on
Oregon highways during
the July 4th holiday,” said
Patrol Services Division
Capt. Dan Durbin.
State officer, dog honored by K-9 unit
Oregon State Police
Detective Dave Beck has
received a prestigious
award from the Pacific
Northwest Police Detec-
tion Dog Association.
The association repre-
sents K-9 teams from Cali-
fornia, Washington, Ore-
gon, Nevada, Arizona,
Idaho, Hawaii and all of
Western Canada. Only one
exceptional drug detection
K-9 team is chosen to re-
ceive this award each year.
The “President’s
Award” was presented
Beck as a result of “the
extraordinary skills he and
his K-9 partner have ex-
hibited.” Beck was recog-
nized for both his current
partner, “Beepers,” and for
his first K-9 co-worker,
“Cazzie” (deceased).
Beck’s success in drug
and asset recovery “is un-
surpassed.” He and his
partners have seized:
*55.8 pounds of
methamphetamine.
*193.9 pounds of co-
caine.
*372.2 pounds of
marijuana.
*16 ounces of heroin.
*And, responsible for
$2,307,500 in currency
recovery.
Further, the seizures
“are even more impressive
when taking into account
that Beck and his partner
are only able to work drug
detection 10 percent of
their time, due to personnel
shortages,” according to
the association.
USFS unveils additional Biscuit sales
Salvage timber from
the 2002 Biscuit Fire has
been designated for cutting
in the following proposed
timber sale areas on the
Rogue River-Siskiyou Na-
tional Forest:
*Horse Fire Salvage -
Gold Beach Ranger Dis-
trict, 125 acres at approxi-
mately 2,088 million board
feet (mbf).
*Steed Fire Salvage -
Gold Beach district, 391
acres at approximately
6,538 mbf.
*Chetco Fire Salvage -
Chetco Ranger District, 21
acres at around 289 mbf.
*Hobson Fire Salvage
- Galice Ranger District,
546 acres at approximately
7,319 mbf.
*Lazy Fire salvage -
Galice district, 487 acres at
approximately 5,581 mbf.
It was anticipated that
sales would be formally
advertised on Wednesday,
July 21 and auctioned on
Friday, July 30. Advance
notice is being given to
give interested parties time
to examine the sale areas
prior to auction.
Preliminary sale infor-
mation and maps of the
sale areas may be obtained
from the Gold Beach dis-
trict (Horse, Steed and
Chetco) or the Galice or
Illinois Valley districts
(Hobson and Lazy).
Final minimum stump-
age rates, bidding provi-
sions, and other sale condi-
tions will be announced at
the formal advertisement.
Always do right.
This will gratify
some people, and
astonish the rest.
- Mark Twain -
By SHANE WELSH
Staff Writer
“It’s our responsibility
to make sure you don’t
have a virus on your com-
puter?
“Show me that in the
contract,” posed Taz Allen,
co-owner of TC Com-
puters in Cave Junction
before Illinois Valley Fire
District board members
during its meeting Thurs-
day night, July 15 in Cave
Junction City Hall.
Allen and his wife,
Monique, attended the
meeting to explain a three-
year service agreement that
ended in January and was
contracted several years
ago with the district.
During a board meet-
ing in June, Chief Harry
Rich refuted the contract
before district directors,
and asked that they discon-
tinue further service.
At the time, Rich
noted that he has more
than 16 years experience
working on computers. He
added that when he began
employment with the dis-
trict, he found problems
with the computers from
TC Computers.
The chief, who was
out-of-town and could not
attend last week’s meeting,
said during the June meet-
ing that he determined
three computers were in
need of power supply fans;
two systems needed CPU
fans and were full of dirt;
and that no virus protec-
tion was installed on any
systems, including the
server.
Rich said he felt that
continuing service should
be canceled and that a TC
invoice listing services not
be paid by the district.
Because a representa-
tive from TC wasn’t pre-
sent during the June meet-
ing to explain the service
agreement, the board
agreed to hold over deci-
sion until its next meeting
to obtain a recommenda-
tion from legal counsel and
allow response from a TC
representative.
According to Allen’s
wife, they were never con-
tacted by the district about
the meeting or formally
invited.
Allen reiterated the
district’s service agree-
ment before the board,
stating that the responsibil-
ity of TC Computers was
“to perform biweekly sys-
tem checks and routine
maintenance on systems
and software as needed.
“You got a service
contract, not a mainte-
nance agreement,” he said.
“We provided a service.
We would like to get paid
for it,” he said.
He said that his com-
pany could fulfill its con-
tract simply by phoning
and asking if any machines
needed service.
During last month’s
meeting, Rich referred to
two service bills docu-
mented by TC Computers
in February and April,
2001. He felt that there
was no indication that they
had been back to the main
station since those dates.
Allen said that there were
no invoices in their system
ODOT closing K Falls location
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Effective Sept. 1, the Oregon Dept. of Transportation
(ODOT) will close its trucking registration office located
at the Klamath Falls Port of Entry on the northbound side
of Hwy. 97.
This will be the third truck registration office to close
at a port of entry. The other two were at Cascade and
Woodburn.
“We carefully analyzed the registration workload,”
said Ed Scrivner, manager of Field Motor Carrier Services
for ODOT’s Motor Carrier Transportation Division.
“There is not enough local walk-in business to keep the
staff busy.”
for April.
After further discus-
sion, Joel Downing, board
president, argued with Al-
len, stating that the district
had called TC Computers
requesting that virus soft-
ware be installed on dis-
trict computers.
‘Nowhere in the
service contract does
it state that I’m going
to come down here
and work on your
machines and dust
them out like a good
little boy.’ - Taz Allen
“You never called
me,” Allen said. He told
the board that it wasn’t the
responsibility of TC Com-
puters to install free virus
software on district com-
puters. He said that they
had installed service packs
on machines and elimi-
nated viruses on several
occasions.
Allen’s wife added,
“We were asked to put free
virus software on the com-
puters, which is ille-
gal...that is why we didn’t
put virus software on any
of the machines.”
Allen explained to the
board the difference be-
tween a maintenance
agreement and a service
contract, later stating, “We
are not your software pro-
vider.
“We are not your
maintenance people for
making sure you have vi-
rus protection. We’re not
the people you call when
you want spyware off your
machine.
“Over the last 2 1/2
years, up until the point
when Jeff (Gavlik) took
office (as interim chief),
we have taken care of all
that stuff just because we
didn’t have a problem with
it,” he said.
Additionally, Allen
was upset with an article in
the Wednesday, June 16
issue of “Illinois Valley
News,” which quoted
statements by Rich during
the June board meeting.
Allen said he wants a letter
of apology.
“I am not the type of
person to shirk my respon-
sibilities,” he said. “I take
great diligence and care in
what I do.
“There isn’t another
computer technician this
side of the state that has
the qualifications I have,”
Allen said vehemently.
“Nowhere in the ser-
vice contract does it state
that I’m going to come
down here and work on
your machines and dust
them out like a good little
boy,” Allen said. “I’m not
going to do that. I’m a
computer technician, not a
cleaner,” he said.
Rich was unavailable
to respond to statements
made by Allen because he
was out of town until Mon-
day on personal business.
The board decided to
hold a special session at 7
p.m. on Wednesday, July
21 at the Holland Loop
Fire Station.
The meeting is
planned to allow Rich and
TC Computers to openly
discuss the problems and
invoices and consider
whether or not to pay the
bill.
MANSFIELD R. CLEARY
Attorney at Law
General Practice in
Illinois Valley
since 1980
Practice includes but not limited to:
Bankruptcy - Eliminate
financial problems
Living trusts - Avoid probate
Estate planning - Wills,
power of attorney
Domestic relations
Auto accident - Personal Injury
Criminal - DUII
Real Estate contracts - Foreclosure
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