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Illinois Valley News, Cave Junction, Ore. Wednesday, July 21, 2010
In face of obstacles, fairgrounds board seeks solar panel project
By SCOTT JORGENSEN
IVN Staff Writer
As a member of the Jose-
phine County Fairgrounds
Board of Directors, Rick Wil-
son has spent the past couple
of years trying to figure out
how to make that operation
more self-sufficient.
In 2008, Wilson and his
fellow board members de-
cided to examine the possibil-
ity of installing solar panels
on one of the buildings at the
fairgrounds in Grants Pass.
He said that the biggest
benefit of installing the panels
would be the cost savings for
the fairgrounds utility bills.
“Basically, we’re using
way more power than we’d
ever be able to generate,”
Wilson said. “But this is
something that can help us
control the costs.”
On a long-term basis, he
said, the panels could save the
fairgrounds around $181,000.
Josephine County Com-
missioner Dave Toler, who
serves as liaison to the fair-
grounds, said that the site was
analyzed to determine the
feasibility of the solar project.
The Flower Bldg. was se-
lected as the most viable loca-
tion, Wilson said.
Total costs for the project
would be around $150,000,
he said, but could be lowered
through various grants and
other programs.
“With all the different
credits and incentives, we
were going to be about
$60,000 short,” Wilson said.
“The county wasn’t going to
spend $60,000, and the econ-
omy is such that the chances
of raising $60,000 are pretty
minimal. So we had to back-
burner it until finding out
where the extra money would
come from.”
He learned about the
Blue Sky grant program of-
fered through Pacific Power,
and said that would enable
the fairgrounds to bridge the
prohibitive financial gap.
But just as the plan was
starting to come together,
another set of problems
emerged.
Some of the money to
offset the project costs would
have come through the state’s
Business Energy Tax Credit
(BETC) program. But unan-
ticipated cost overruns and
resulting bad publicity
prompted legislators to enact
new restrictions.
Wilson briefed his fellow
board members on the situa-
tion during their Wednesday,
July 14 meeting at the fair-
grounds. He said that the
county’s legal counsel office
might have to become in-
volved to sort out other issues.
They include bidding
requirements and questions of
actual ownership of the facili-
ties, he said.
“In the end, it is a county
facility and the county owns
it,” he said. “But we have to
be careful about how we set
up that process, because if
we’re doing it through a
county project, we have (the
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Davis-Bacon labor law) to
deal with.”
If that becomes the case,
Wilson said, the project
would entail requests for pro-
posals, competing bids and
other new legal requirements.
Also, once the panels are
installed, they must remain on
the building for at least 20
years, he said. Removal prior
to that would result in some
of the grant funds having to
be paid back, he added.
During the fair board’s
July 14 meeting, Fairgrounds
Manager Jackie McBee was
directed to write a letter to the
commissioners soliciting their
support for the solar project.
Toler said that he is com-
mitted to ensuring the self-
sufficiency of the fairgrounds
operations. For the past few
months, he said, he and many
county officials have been
preoccupied with implement-
ing an Employer Relations
Board ruling against the
county for its 2006 decision
to privatize mental health
services.
That decision lead to a
lawsuit by the American Fed-
eration of State, County and
Municipal Employees union,
and the county recently
reached a settlement with that
group to resolve those issues.
The fairgrounds could
end up retaining its insurance
coverage through the county,
Toler said, but could be much
more autonomous than now.
“I will be really looking
at seeing if we can allow
them to become a nonprofit
operation over there and not
really part of the county any-
more,” Toler said. “I will
look into that potential, if
that’s something they would
like. I want to see if we can at
least consider it.”
ILLINOIS VALLEY
PENTECOSTALS
987 Caves Hwy., CJ
(541) 592-4716 or 218-2792
Sunday - 2:30 p.m.
* * *
TAKILMA BIBLE CHURCH
10300 Takilma Road, Takilma
Pastor Dan Robinson
Bible Study / Prayer Time
9:30 a.m.
Morning Worship 11 a.m.
Wednesday Bible Study
7 p.m.
* * *
VALLEY EVANGELICAL
FREE CHURCH
498 Laurel Road, CJ
P.O. Box 1248
Pastor Marvin Porter
Sunday School - 9:45 a.m.
Worship Service - 11 a.m.
evfree@frontiernet.net
(541) 592-6160
* * *
FOUNTAIN OF LIFE
ASSEMBLY OF GOD
451 S. Junction Ave., CJ
(541) 592-3956
Pastor Mark McLean
Sunday School - 10 a.m.
Morning Worship - 11 a.m.
Evening Worship - 6 p.m.
Wednesday - 7 p.m.
Adult Bible Study
ILLINOIS VALLEY
BAPTIST CHURCH
102 S. Redwood Hwy., CJ
Pastor Frank J. Matz, Jr.
Sunday School - 9:30 a.m.
Sunday Worship - 10:30 a.m.
Evening Worship - 6 p.m.
Women’s Bible Study
Tuesday at 12:30 p.m.
Wednesday Bible Study 6 p.m.
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More chest compressions key to effective CPR
The chance that a person
in cardiac arrest will survive
increases when rescuers per-
forming cardiopulmonary
resuscitation (CPR) spend
more time giving chest com-
pressions, according to a mul-
ticenter study reported in Cir-
culation: Journal of the
American Heart Association.
“Chest compressions
move blood with oxygen to
the heart and the brain to save
the brain and prepare the
heart to start up its own
rhythm when a shock is deliv-
ered with a defibrillator,” said
Dr. Jim Christenson, clinical
professor of emergency medi-
cine at the University of Brit-
ish Columbia.
“We found that even
short pauses in chest com-
pressions were quite detri-
mental,” he said.
The proportion of time
during CPR that rescuers
spend giving chest compres-
sions during each minute of
CPR, called the chest com-
pression fraction (CCF), is
extremely variable.
Prior to 2005, interrup-
tions to chest compressions
resulted in less than 50 per-
cent of total CPR time being
spent on chest compressions.
However, the 2005 American
Heart Association Guidelines
for Cardiopulmonary Resus-
citation and Emergency Car-
diovascular Care emphasized
the importance of minimizing
interruptions in chest com-
pressions.
This resulted in some
emergency medical services
(EMS) agencies achieving a
CCF between 60 percent and
85 percent, Christenson said.
Researchers analyzed
data from 78 EMS agencies
in seven locations that were
part of the Resuscitation Out-
comes Consortium (ROC).
It’s a group of 11 regional
clinical centers in Canada and
the United States that study
promising out-of-hospital
therapies for cardiac arrest
and traumatic injury.
In 506 cases analyzed,
researchers found that a re-
turn to spontaneous circula-
tion was achieved 58 percent
of the time when the CCF
was 0 percent to 20 percent,
Good Shepherd Lutheran Church
Mary made the right choice, notes Luke 10. Mary and her
sister, Martha, hosted a visit from Jesus Christ.
Mary decided to spend time with the guest, listen to his
teaching, and leave the fixing of lunch to others. That choice
upset Martha very much. Yet Mary was complimented by Jesus
for what she decided, since spending time with God always has
merit.
In this 21st century we cannot sit at Jesus’ feet to listen to his
teaching. But we can read and study the Scriptures. Unhurried
moments of meditation with Bible passages seem to always
bring blessing to the reader; just as a similar action did for Mary
the listener.
Calendar: Thursday, 4 p.m., Good Shepherd Singers re-
hearse; Sunday, 9:15 a.m. all-comers Sunday School followed by
worship and Communion.
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and up to 79 percent when the
CCF was 81 to 100 percent.
Return of spontaneous
circulation means that the
heart begins pumping blood
effectively on its own.
Survival to hospital dis-
charge occurred in 12 percent
of patients when CCF was 0
percent to 20 percent. It in-
creased to nearly 29 percent
when CCF was 61 to 81 per-
cent, but dropped slightly to
25 percent when CCF was 81
to 100 percent CCF.
Researchers said that the
slight drop in survival in the
group with the highest CCF
rate was likely due to the
small sample size of the study
and wide confidence limits.
They acknowledge the possi-
bility of a plateau effect when
CCF is above 80 percent.
More study is needed to
identify the ideal CCF or to
show when compressions are
the most important, such as
immediately before or after
delivery of a shock, Christen-
son said.
For bystanders, the re-
sults emphasize the life-
saving potential of learning
CPR and delivering chest
compressions.
BRIDGEVIEW
COMMUNITY CHURCH
5181 Holland Loop, CJ
(541) 592-3923
“We celebrate God’s Presence
in our lives!”
Sunday Worship 10:30 a.m.
* * *
7th DAY ADVENTIST
265 S. Old Stage Rd., CJ
Sabbath School - 9:30 a.m.
Saturday Worship 11 a.m.
Prayer/Praise 7 p.m. Tuesday
Pastor Lee Larson
Church (541) 592-3218
Madrone Adventist School
(541) 592-3330
* * *
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
OF SELMA
18285 Redwood Hwy., Selma
(541) 597-4169
Pastor Monty Pope
Sunday School - 9:45 a.m.
Worship - 11 a.m.
** *
COMMUNITY BIBLE CHURCH
Pastor Dave Gordon
113 S. Caves Ave., CJ
Office: (541) 592-3896
Email: cbccca@cavenet.com
Sunday Worship - 10:30 a.m.
Christian Academy
Pre-K to 12th grade
Awana - Wednesdays - 6 p.m.
IMMANUEL UNITED
METHODIST CHURCH
200 Watkins St., CJ
Phone (541) 592-3876
Pastor Charles Chase
Sunday School - 9:15 a.m.
Sunday Worship - 9:15 a.m.
Child-care for small children
Web Page:
http://UMCImmanuel.org
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ST. PATRICK OF THE FOREST
CATHOLIC CHURCH
407 W. River St., CJ
(541) 592-3658
Fr. William Holtzinger, Pastor
Mass - Saturday 5:30 p.m.
No Sunday Mass
Holy Days TBA
Sacrament of Reconciliation
Saturday - 4:30 to 5 p.m.
* * *
GOOD SHEPHERD
LUTHERAN CHURCH
East River Street
& Lewis Court, CJ
Pastor Don Torala
Sunday School - 9:15 a.m.
Sunday Worship - 10 a.m.
Tuesday Youth group - 6 p.m.
Church Phone: (541) 592-2290
www.goodshepherdlutheraniv.org
www.illinoisvalleybaptistchurch.org
Phone: (541) 592-6149
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CALVARY FELLOWSHIP
OF CAVE JUNCTION
meeting at
Evergreen Elementary School
520 W. River St., CJ
Sunday Worship - 10 a.m.
Wednesday Bible Study
6:30 p.m.
Pastor Pat Henderson
(541) 592-3092
* * *
THE CHURCH OF JESUS
CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY
SAINTS
209 S. Junction Ave., CJ
Sacrament Meet - 10 a.m.
Sunday School - 11:20 a.m.
Priesthood, Relief Soc. -
12:10 p.m.
Bishop G. Frank Sybrant
(541) 245-3394