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Reggie Hoppins, Linda Weems, Bill Weems and Brandy Hoppins
of Quality Mattress and Quality Flooring.
Quality assured at family business
Every home, no matter how big or
small, could use good flooring and a com-
fortable mattress. Fortunately, both of those
elements can be found at the same conven-
ient Grants Pass location.
Quality Mattress and Quality Flooring
share space at 926 SE “M” Street, right off
of the Grants Pass Parkway.
Established more than 26 years ago,
Quality Mattress is owned by Linda and
Bill Weems. Quality Flooring is owned by
Reggie Hoppins, Linda’s son, and his wife
Brandy.
Hoppins has spent his entire adult life
learning nearly every aspect of flooring,
from carpet cleaning to restoration, installa-
tion and sales. All together, he brings more
than 20 years of experience acquired since
the age of 18.
After moving to Las Vegas from Grants
Pass, where he attended his first two years
of high school, Reggie eventually estab-
lished a flooring business.
But before too long, the Hoppins family
started considering a move from Las Vegas.
“We had been talking about moving for
10 years,” Brandy Hoppins said. “Las Ve-
gas is big and fast all the time. It’s not a
great place to raise kids.”
Two years ago, the Hoppins family
decided to make the move to Grants Pass,
and they’re glad they did.
“It’s always a challenge to come to a
new place and open a business,” Brandy
Hoppins said. “But we’re having fun with
it.”
Quality Flooring specializes in carpet,
tile, wood and vinyl. It also carries more
exotic materials such as leather tile, wool
and silk.
Right now, Quality Flooring is holding
a sale on selected carpet varieties, which are
being offered at $5.99 per yard. Some varie-
ties of solid wood flooring are on sale for
$3.99 per square foot.
On the other side of the wall, Quality
Mattress features Englander and custom RV
mattresses. A mattress store inventory and
closeout sale is currently underway at the
store.
Reggie Hoppins said that over the long-
term, he hopes to open a Quality Flooring
store in Medford.
Both businesses are open from 9 a.m. to
5:30 p.m. on Monday through Friday and 9
a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday.
Quality Flooring can be reached at 479-
5800, and Quality Mattress’s number is
476-6292.
~ Story & photo by Scott Jorgensen
DOJ busts Medford imaging clinic
Attorney General John
Kroger announced a settle-
ment that shuts down a Med-
ford health clinic that
“endangered Oregon women
by misrepresenting a breast
cancer detection procedure.”
“Putting the lives of
women at risk is unconscion-
able,” said Kroger. “Given the
lethal consequences of delay-
ing detection of such a deadly
cancer, I am giving medical
imposters fair notice that these
types of misrepresentations
will not be tolerated.”
The settlement requires
the owners of the Laser and
Thermal Imaging Center to
warn women who received
thermographic imaging at the
clinic to undergo a mammo-
gram rather than rely on the
clinic’s thermography testing.
The clinic claimed that
its thermography equipment
could detect the presence of
breast cancer seven to 10
years before other diagnostic
procedures, including mam-
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All medical sources
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has to be interpreted by a
licensed medical doctor with
radiology training.
The operators of the
clinic also engaged in fraudu-
lent billing practices, charg-
ing patients up front for ex-
perimental procedures with
the promise of reimburse-
ment payments that insurance
companies would seldom
make. The clinic operators
sometimes altered billing
codes to obtain unwarranted
reimbursement from insurers.
The settlement requires
the operators to pay $20,000
to cover restitution.
The clinic also went by
the names Mountain Top
Medical and Therapeutic
Laser Centers. It was located
at 115 Stewart Ave, Suite
201.
The owners were Mary
Anne Crandall; her husband,
Tom Crandall; and her
brother-in-law, James Cran-
dall. Mary Anne Crandall
falsely claimed to be licensed
as a registered nurse, a chiro-
practor, a medical doctor and
a naturopath.
The settlement filed in
Jackson County Circuit Court
requires the Crandalls to
close the clinic and never
provide thermography or
laser services or hold them-
selves out as health-care pro-
viders unless licensed by the
state.
Consumers seeking in-
formation should contact the
Attorney General’s office at
(877) 877-9392. Justice is
online at www.doj.state.or.us.
Senior Assistant Attor-
ney General Greg Smith and
investigator Dale Geiger han-
dled the case for the Oregon
Dept. of Justice (DOJ).
Cooperating in the inves-
tigation were the Oregon
State Board of Nursing, the
Oregon Board of Medicine
and the Office of Degree Au-
thorization.
ceive no funding from any
agency or organization,”
Webb continued. “What rela-
tives should realize is that
when they purchase a site,
they are responsible for tak-
ing care of that site. We used
to get help from the old-
timers, but most of them are
gone now.”
LCA has engaged a care-
taker, providing free rent and
power for his RV. However,
because of vandals removing
parts of the water system, he
has no running water. It is
unclear how long the current
unpaid care-taker will remain.
Clouser Drilling has donated
a well, but volunteers are
needed to help install the nec-
essary piping.
Some grave sites show
signs of vandalism. Broken
statues, items knocked over
and a general air of disrepair
are visible. A lack of respect
for the dear departed is evi-
dent, not only by the rubbish
left behind, but because it is
no secret that the cemetery is
used by some for “doing
drugs.”
A clean-up project at the
cemetery is set for May 16 by
Illinois Valley Grange, said
Vice President Kendall Phil-
lips. He said that I.V. Grange
is teaming with SOLV and
Oregon 150 to participate in
Take Care of Oregon Days.
Meanwhile, the cemetery
board is working to contend
with its problems, including
vandals who not only dam-
age sites, but steal anything
that’s not nailed down, in-
cluding tools and six coffin
liners. The latter were recov-
ered, said Gilliam, after
someone who purchased
them from the apparent thief
advertised them as fish
ponds. Two were sold, but
LCA got four back.
Tax-deductible donations
can be sent to LCA at P.O.
Box 994, Cave Junction OR
97523.
IVHS’ Farmer gains research grant
Using a $15,000 grant,
Melissa Farmer, a science
teacher at Illinois Valley
High School, will be able to
conduct medical research.
The M.J. Murdock
Charitable Trust of Vancou-
ver, Wash., announced that it
has awarded a grant of
$15,000 to Oregon Health &
Science University (OHSU)
Foundation. It will enable
Farmer to form a partnership
with Dr. Terry Morgan to
conduct research during the
next two summers in the
OHSU Dept. of Pathology &
Cytopathology.
The title of the research
to be conducted is Gender-
based Renal Pathology and
Compensatory Mitric Oxide
Syntheisi in Knockout Mice.
The award also included
funds to attend two national
Partners in Science confer-
ences where Farmer will
share the results of each sum-
mer’s research.
This grant was awarded
through a competitive proc-
ess in the Partners in Science
program at the Murdock
Trust. Applications are ac-
cepted from high school
teachers and mentors from a
five-state region to conduct
summer research.
The primary goal of the
program is to provide high
school science teachers with
opportunities to work at the
cutting edge of science, and
thus to revitalize their teach-
ing and help them appreciate
the use of inquiry-based
methods in the teaching of
science.
The selection of
awardees is based on the
qualifications of the partner
members, the quality of the
scientific research proposed,
and the potential of its effect
on the high school setting.
The Murdock Trust, cre-
ated by the will of the late
Melvin J. (Jack) Murdock,
provides grants to organiza-
tions in five states of the Pa-
cific Northwest that seek to
strengthen the region’s edu-
cational and cultural base in
creative and sustainable
ways.
The Partners in Science
program is one of its many
efforts to do so in its grant
making region.
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Drinking ban possible?
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He said that he was told
by the committee’s legislative
counsel that several munici-
palities have ordinances ban-
ning public drinking. Those
cities include Bend, Klamath
Falls, Grants Pass, Portland,
Salem, Eugene, Medford and
Seaside, Maurer said.
“Their interpretation of
the law is that all of these
municipal codes are, in fact,
within the scope of the law,”
he noted.
Cave Junction Mayor
Don Moore has requested an
opinion letter from legislative
counsel to verify the data.
“I want something from
the state that says we’re good
to go,” Moore said. “I’m
waiting for their legal inter-
pretation.”
Maurer said that there
“has not been a direct chal-
lenge to the law.” As such, he
said he plans to meet with
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reached.
“This may be one of
those situations where the law
is OK as written and we can
work within it,” Maurer said.
City Recorder Jim Polk
said that if the city moves
forward with a public drink-
ing ban, it would have to fol-
low the typical process, in
which the ordinance would
take effect 30 days after its
second reading. Moore said
that the city is taking a cau-
tious approach to the issue in
an attempt to avoid unneces-
sary litigation.
“We took the safe way
until we could find more safe
legal avenues to explore,” the
mayor stated. “We can’t af-
ford to make any mistakes.”
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