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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, APRIL 2, 2015
JOSHUA BESSEX — The Daily Astorian
Maurices, a women’s clothing store, opened Jan. 23. T.J. Max will be another clothing store to open in the Warrenton
shopping area near South East Discovery Lane.
T.J.Maxx opens doors soon
WARRENTON — T.J.
Maxx, one of the nation’s
largest off-price retailers
with more than 1,000 stores
in 49 states and Puerto Rico,
will open its new location in
Warrenton April 12.
It offers many items, from
fashion and accessories to
jewelry, home, beauty, pet
products, toys and more.
‘We are pleased to expand
our store base to Warrenton,
delivering value and an ex-
citing selection of merchan-
dise to serve the needs of
customers,” Richard Sherr,
president of T.J.Maxx, said
in a release. “With thousands
of new items from top de-
signers and brands arriving
in stores weekly from around
the world, shoppers will
discover a new store full of
amazing values every time
they visit.”
As part of the grand open-
ing, T.J.Maxx will present a
$5,000 check to the Clatsop
Community Action Regional
Food Bank at 7:30 a.m. April
12. The grand opening starts
at 8 a.m. and runs until 8 p.m.
Reusable bags will be given
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The new store will also
join all other stores nation-
wide in sponsoring a child
who participates in Save the
Children’s U.S. Programs.
T.J.Maxx also supports Save
the Children, Autism Speaks
and Joslin Diabetes Center
with annual in-store fundrais-
ing campaigns.
The store is located at
1479 S.E. Discovery Lane in
the North Coast Retail Cen-
ter.
The new store will add ap-
proximately 60 full- and part-
time jobs locally.
Oregon job vacancies, wages are up
During 2014, Oregon’s pri-
vate employers were looking to
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at any given time, according
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Oregon Employment Depart-
ment’s Job Vacancy Survey. The
Job Vacancy Survey provides a
snapshot of the labor market job
seekers face.
The number of job vacancies
in 2014 increased by 40 percent
compared with 2013.
The average starting wage
offered by employers also im-
proved over the year, increas-
ing by 4 percent to $15.67. The
largest increase in vacancies was
among jobs offering starting
wages between $10 and $15 per
hour. There were 15,200 vacan-
cies in this range, up 72 percent
from 2013. Vacancies offering
more $15 per hour increased
29 percent to 11,900. There
were slightly fewer vacancies
offering less than $10 per hour
in 2014. That’s partly because
the increase in Oregon’s mini-
mum wage from $8.95 in 2013
to $9.10 in 2014 narrowed that
wage range.
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that pays higher than average
wages is to have at least some
post secondary training or oth-
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The average wage offered for
vacancies requiring education
beyond high school was more
than $17 per hour. Average wag-
es increased for jobs requiring
college degrees. The average
hourly wage was $20 per hour
for vacancies that required an
associate degree, $31 per hour
for a bachelor’s degree, and $38
for a graduate degree. Vacancies
that did not require education
beyond high school offered
hourly wages of $12 per hour.
Employers also offered high-
er wages when their vacancies
required more than a year of
previous experience. Vacancies
with no experience requirement
paid an average of $11 per hour.
Those requiring less than one
year of experience paid $12 per
hour. For vacancies that required
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work experience, the average
wage offered was $18 per hour,
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more years of experience aver-
aged $32 per hour.
The health care and social as-
sistance industry accounted for
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more than any other industry
sector. Four additional industries
each accounted for more than 10
percent of Oregon job vacan-
cies: management, administra-
tive, and waste services (which
includes company headquarters
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among other businesses); retail
trade; leisure and hospitality;
and manufacturing.
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industry. For example, nine out
of 10 health care vacancies were
for permanent positions, and
39 percent required education
beyond high school. In natural
resources and mining, however,
just 18 percent of vacancies in
2014 were for permanent jobs,
and only 3 percent required edu-
cation beyond high school.
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being recruited make a big dif-
ference in how industry-level
details play out. Almost two-
thirds of the natural resources
and mining vacancies were for
farmworkers, of which only 11
percent were permanent posi-
tions and most were seasonal.
Health care recruitment was
focused on registered nurses,
nursing assistants, and medical
assistants, which were almost
always permanent positions.
Every region of the state had
more vacancies in 2014 than
in 2013. Eastern Oregon saw
the greatest percentage growth
in vacancies over the year, up
73 percent from 2013, and the
Portland area followed, with
44 percent more vacancies in
2014 than in 2013. The Portland
tri-county area (Washington,
Multnomah and Clackamas
counties) had just over 23,000
vacancies in 2014, 51 percent of
the statewide total.
The Oregon Job Vacancy
Survey has been conducted
since 2008. The 2014 estimates
are based on responses from
10,400 Oregon employers.
Vacancy survey results for the
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uled for release in April 2015.
A special report on Oregon’s
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available later this spring.
For more details on state-
wide and regional vacancies,
visit www.qualityinfo.org/pubs
and scroll down to the section
titled Job Vacancy Survey.
Fervor over PDX carpet spurs new life
SALEM (AP) — Visitors
and Oregon locals lined up
inside Portland International
Airport to have their photos
taken with an odd celebrity —
a piece of nearly 30-year-old
carpet.
Before the day was over,
more than 800 photo booth-
style pictures were snapped
of people standing next to the
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hung up for an event called
PDX Carpet Fest.
It was classic Portland,
a city known for keeping it
weird: a farewell party for the
airport’s trademark teal carpet,
which is being replaced after
three decades under travelers’
luggage wheels.
“I guess this carpet is really
iconic, and I can’t imagine an-
other city getting this worked
up over carpet,” said Sierra
Prior, a Portland resident who
posed for photos before board-
More than 40,000 “foot sel-
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their feet on the carpet — were
plastered on Instagram. The
carpet got its own Facebook
and Twitter pages.
Some local companies
started selling T-shirts, coffee
mugs and other products fea-
turing its signature pattern.
“I’m getting married on
November 6th, and I think I’m
going to have all my grooms-
men wear the PDX carpet
socks,” said Derek Harguth,
AP Photo/The Oregonian, Michael Lloyd
a Portland native who went
TSA officers Andrea Green, left, and Edmund Gray stand to the airport to check out the
beside a piece of dressed up old carpet from the terminal PDX Carpet Fest.
at Portland International Airport during a press confer-
Demand for actual rem-
ence in Portland, March 20.
nants of the carpet has been
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ing her plane to New Orleans. EROL]H DLU WUDI¿F FRQWUROOHUV¶ are giving four local vendors
The unmistakably ’80s view at night.
1,000 square yards each to
carpet at the airport known as
As word spread that it incorporate into items — in-
PDX is decorated with dark- would be torn up, the weath- cluding sofas, doormats and
blue lines and red, lavender HUHGÀRRUFRYHULQJEHFDPHDQ cat beds — that will be sold to
and purple dots meant to sym- online superstar.
the public.
Clatsop County
Property Transactions
Sellers: Donald William
Royse and Theresa Hope
Royse
Buyer: CDogg Properties
LLC
Address: 188 Fernwood
St., Cannon Beach
Price: $917,000
Seller: Lower Columbia
Preservation Society
Buyers: Robert J. Magie
and Cynthia D. Magie
Addresses: 1555 to 1569
Exchange St., Astoria
Price: $375,000
Sellers: Daniel R. Kel-
ley and Debra A. Cheuv-
ront-Kelley
Buyers: Deborah Anne
Stenvall and Jeffrey P.
Gayral
Address: 1064 14th St.,
Astoria
Price: $280,000
Sellers: Dean M. Fuller
and Lynn R. Fuller
Buyer: Jeffrey Arthur
Frane
Address: 6 Auburn Ave.,
Astoria
Price: $245,000
Seller: Pamela E. Hayden
Buyer: Barry F. Mc-
Menamin
Address: 141 Avenue I,
Seaside
Price: $245,000
Sellers: Kevin Mitchell
and Tara Mitchell
Buyers:
Aidan
H.
DeRenne and Karen E.
DeRenne
Address: 89672 Sea
Breeze Drive, Warrenton
Price: $222,000
EDWARD STRATTON — The Daily Astorian
Linda Lawson coaches individuals in person and by
phone through her company, Heart 2 Heart Coaching.
Making
the
Dollar
INTERVIEWS WITH LOCAL BUSINESSES
BY EDWARD STRATTON
Linda Lawson, owner
Heart 2 Heart Coaching
Seaside
A former teacher, Linda Lawson now tries to help peo-
ple realize their potential through her advising business,
Heart 2 Heart Coaching. She works on the go, meeting
her customers in person or by phone, and specializes in
working with people who’ve experienced grief and loss.
She can be reached by calling 188 INGENIO, and enter-
ing code no. 05229439; and at 720-301-3993 or info@
heart2heartcoaching.org
How would you describe Heart 2 Heart Coaching?
“Coaching in itself is a partnering with a client who
wants to make a transition in life… and they don’t feel they
can make it on their own. They know they want to change
but don’t have the internal strength to do that. So when
someone is supporting you, even just by listening … and
you’re talking out and hearing yourself, you start to hear
your own wisdom, which you don’t hear when you’re just
thinking about it in your head. You just have blind spots.
But when someone’s listening and asking you questions
based on what you say, then you start to follow what you
already understand. Coaching is to me a very respectful art.
This is really based on what someone already understands.”
How did you get started doing this?
“I was getting done with teaching, and I was actually
studying something else. I was studying the metaphysical
arts at an academy, and they opened up a branch of life
coaching, and I just was curious and wanted to see what
it was like. I actually took to it right away. It’s not real
different from teaching. You don’t start out deciding what
someone knows. You’re really taking a back seat and let-
ting them take the lead, and then being very being very
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2010. I’m going to say 2011” is when I started.
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certain demographics?
“I’m really trying to specialize in teachers, because
I came out of teaching, and it’s such a strong support to
teachers who don’t get support that much. Some school
districts, or some schools, they have a strong PTA, and
they’ll be really tight-knit and supportive of the teach-
ers, and they’re not just stressed all the time. A lot of the
schools, the demands are unreal. There’s not that much
voice in teaching. You have a union. Nothing is address-
ing teacher self-care. I came out of teaching. I quit early;
I quit 10 years early. There was an incentive, so I took it.
And I knew that there was something else for me to do,
but I just didn’t know what it was. I took off some time
to do some self-care for myself, and then I’m going ‘OK.
What do I do now?’ Then I decided if I’m going to give
back in coaching, I’m going to give back to teachers.”
What are some of the quirks or challenges of being
a life coach?
“The challenges are you do also need to be a business
person, which I’m not particularly. A lot of us will have
this challenge of ‘OK. How do I get known then?’”
Why do people need a life coach?
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how did that happen?’ With coaching, you can have a look
at that. You can interrupt that pattern, so that whatever it
was that was causing you to do that, you become aware of
that and you start to actualize different behaviors. Maybe
there were signs all along that I was quietly paying atten-
tion to but not saying to myself ‘Don’t go there!,’ but I was
going anyway. The whole thing is for you to pay attention
to what you already know. The person I was talking to to-
day started out at one place. She talked herself through a
number of things, and I was taking notes, and I went back
and pointed out what she said, what her own wisdom was
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prised by it, because she was just talking. She wasn’t listen-
ing to herself. So now she’s got some goals based on what
she said, what she knew.”