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Bay honored as
champion agent
Brandon Bay has been distinction in providing “ex-
named a Championship agent ceptional service to customers
by Farmers Insur-
and commitment to
ance. Bay owns a
furthering the goals
Farmers agency in
and standards’ of the
Keizer.
company.”
“I want to con-
“This honor is
gratulate Brandon
a business career
for his achievement.
highlight and I feel
On behalf of Farm-
fortunate to repre-
ers, we are proud to
sent such a fi ne or-
bestow the honor of
ganization,” said Bay.
being a Champion-
“I share this recog-
ship agent to him,”
nition with my en-
B. Bay
said Roy Smith of
tire offi ce team who
Farmers Insurance.
focus on helping ev-
Bay was selected for a ery customer each and every
number of criteria including day.”
Shred day Saturday
Oregon State Credit Union
in Keizer will hold a free shred
day on Saturday, Sept. 12 in the
Safeway parking lot at 4990
River Road.
The annual event allows
the public to shred documents
and paperwork to protect their
identity from thieves. The event
will run from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Suggested items to shred
include outdated documents
(old checks, forms or state-
ments with personal informa-
tion). Shredding will take place
on site.
For more information visit
oregonstatecu.com.
Family, gym tell different stories
the conversation changed when she told
Blevins that was not the case with her
daughter and friends.
“The representative become combat-
ive when I informed him that contract
law prohibits business from binding mi-
nors to contracts,” Melinda wrote in her
complaint. “Apparently I was then able to
cancel her ‘contract’ but when I asked for
a refund of the $58.90, he refused.”
In an interview with the Keizertimes,
Byron said he also visited the gym and
talked with Blevins.
“My daughter went over there and a
guy talked about year-long memberships,”
Byron said. “They couldn’t do it since
they were not 18. The girls all signed up
and the guy they talked to said they could
back date it.”
Like his wife, Byron said his discussion
didn’t go well.
“The guy was very argumentative,” he
said. “It was to no avail. I asked for a re-
fund for some of my daughter’s account.
I tried to explain it was a minor. He basi-
cally told me it was none of my business.”
Blevins, however, has a much different
account of the conversation.
“I’ve been doing this a long time, and
he was the most inappropriate person I’ve
had to deal with,” Blevins said of Byron,
adding that the father claimed he was
with a daily newspaper and gave him three
minutes to produce a refund. “We don’t
By CRAIG MURPHY
Of the Keizertimes
Local parents are upset about their un-
derage daughter being allowed to sign up
for a gym membership without parental
consent and fi led a complaint with the
state following two interactions with a
manager at the gym.
That manager, however, has a much
different story to tell.
Melinda and Byron Loosli said an
employee at Edge Training and Fitness,
located at 3850 River Road North, il-
legally signed their 16-year-old daughter
and friends to year-long contracts in the
spring.
Melinda fi led a complaint with the
state Department of Justice and provided
a copy of the complaint to the Keizertimes.
After fees were taken from her daugh-
ter’s checking account in March and April,
Melinda wrote that nothing else happened
until August, when the gym took $58.90
from the account.
“When she contacted the gym on Aug.
10, 2015 to ask for a refund she was told
they would not do so and that her contract
runs until March 2016,” Melinda wrote.
Melinda said she visited the gym on
Aug. 19 and talked to a person later iden-
tifi ed as Mark Blevins, the general man-
ager. Blevins informed Melinda a minor
could become a gym member if a par-
ent was present. Melinda said the tone of
KEIZERTIMES/Craig Murphy
A complaint has been fi led with the state
about Edge Training and Fitness, but gym
management disputes the claims..
try to do anything underhanded at all. There
was an honest mistake made. Members sign
themselves up. I can’t control it if someone
enters the wrong information. (The daugh-
ter) signed herself up, without our knowl-
edge. Unless there’s an issue, we don’t know
about it.”
Blevins said he took action once made
aware of the issue.
“I canceled the contract immediately
when it was brought to my attention,” Blevins
said. “They wouldn’t listen to me. I told the
parents we can come to an understanding and
said your daughter paid for the services she
received. She used the gym a lot. We wanted
to work it out with both parents. We don’t
have anything to hide.”
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