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Northwest Reflections offers ‘something different’ E UGENE SLAM MASTER J ORAH
Northwest Reflections Health & Well-
ness is offering Florence residents a new
option for their primary health care needs.
Melinda Gitnes, Adult Nurse Prac-
titioner, opened the doors to her new
private practice in April 2018 and the
response has been a mixture of curiosi-
ty and enthusiasm from those who were
looking for something different.
Northwest Reflections Health & Well-
ness offers a “membership” program for
patients, enabling them to jump in the
driver’s seat and collaborate with their
primary provider regarding their own
health. This is a new way of doing health
care.
This particular practice will limit the
number of patients it sees; meaning there
Melinda Gitnes
is more time to be spent with patients and
getting to know them.
Reflections Health & Wellness is its abil-
One of the key features of Northwest ity and willingness to do home visits.
Making a “patient centered” practice is
what Northwest Reflections is all about.
As a nurse practitioner, Gitnes can pro-
vide all the cares of a primary health pro-
vider, and her focus is on adults aged 18
and older.
“Being accessible, listening and genu-
inely caring about the people I take care
of is what sets me apart from others. My
services range from annual health exams
to medication management and chron-
ic disease oversight,” Gitnes said. “I am
able to assist those who need referrals to
specialists, and I am able to prescribe the
medications and order labs necessary for
each person. This is a full-service prac-
tice, with a small-town approach and feel.”
For more information about North-
west Reflections Health & Wellness, call
541-590-3906
or
visit
www.
nwrhealthandwellness.com.
New license plate transfer law goes into effect Sunday
A new Oregon consumer
protection law will change re-
quirements for transferring li-
cense plates from one vehicle to
another as of Sunday, July 1.
Under House Bill 4062,
passed by the 2018 Legislature,
you will still be able to transfer
plates with unexpired registra-
tion tags to another vehicle that
you own.
However, in a plate transfer
between vehicles with differ-
ent owners, both vehicles will
begin new registration periods
and both vehicles are subject to
all registration requirements.
“Some people were using
plate transfers as a way to avoid
making vehicle repairs to pass
DEQ emissions testing,” De-
partment of Motor Vehicles
(DMV) Administrator Tom
McClellan said. “We also be-
lieve some people were stealing
license plates and selling them
online to unsuspecting buyers.
This law change is intended to
prevent those abuses.”
The new law will help protect
consumers in several ways:
• It will prevent the use of
plate transfers to evade emis-
sions testing requirements that
apply to the Portland and Med-
ford areas.
• It is likely to decrease the
incentive for plate theft to feed
the market of individuals either
seeking to evade air quality
laws or looking for a bargain in
registration fees.
• It will reduce the loss to vic-
tims of plate thefts by preserv-
ing their vehicle registration if
the plates are transferred to an-
other vehicle.
For registration to transfer
with your plates, you must be:
• Listed as a registered owner
in DMV records for the vehicle
from which the plates were re-
moved, and apply for a title and
plate transfer for the vehicle re-
ceiving the plates; OR
• Listed as the registered
owner in DMV records for
both vehicles.
If either of the vehicles in-
volved in the plate transfer are
owned by more than one per-
son or business, at least one
commonly registered owner
must be listed in DMV records
for both vehicles in order to
transfer the registration with
the plates.
Vehicles in areas around
Portland and Medford that are
subject to DEQ requirements
must provide proof of compli-
ance with DEQ emissions test-
ing prior to registration or reg-
istration renewal.
This means that a DEQ emis-
sions test certificate is required
if the plate being transferred is
due for registration renewal, or
if new registration is required
because the plate transfer oc-
curred between vehicles not
owned by the same person or
business.
Any time you need to visit a
DMV office, first check www.
OregonDMV.com to find of-
fice hours and locations, and to
make sure you have everything
you need before your visit. You
also can do some DMV busi-
ness from home, such as renew
your vehicle registration, file a
change of address or file notice
of the sale of your vehicle on-
line without getting in line at an
office.
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drug testing.
Both Yecny and Webb ap-
proved his request.
The same recommendations
by Langborg to adopt a “for-
cause” drug testing policy was
made to SVFR board earlier
this month and was passed
unanimously.
Office manager Dina Mc-
Clure also offered the direc-
tors an update of the work she
has done while acclimating to
her new position working with
the IGA.
“Most of my time during
the month of May was work-
ing on budgets for SVFR and
WLAD,” she said. “Preliminary
work had been done on a draft
before I was hired, which gave
me a head start. Researching
data for the historical infor-
mation and providing actual
numbers was challenging, as
well as making revisions on
both budgets between the two
budget committee meetings.”
McClure then explained that
the work she was doing with
the certified public accountant
that was brought in to assist
her, at a cost of $15,000, was
progressing well.
McClure said she would
have a better handle on the
information she was learning
by the end of July and an ex-
tension of the district’s con-
tract with financial consultant
Kathy Taylor should not be
necessary.
The next meeting of the
WLAD board will be held
on Thursday, July 26. SVFR’s
board will meet Wednesday,
July 18.
All budgetary documenta-
tion and board packets pro-
vided to the Directors of SVFR
and WLAD are available on
the respective websites of both
organizations.
WLAD has never had a poli-
cy of conducting random drug
tests.
Farnsworth asked at last
month’s board meeting that
Langborg contact the district’s
legal counsel to ascertain an
opinion on any liabilities the
district would incur if it offi-
cially adopted this policy.
Langborg
did
follow
through on Farnsworth’s re-
quest and a letter from the dis-
trict’s attorney was included in
this month’s board packet.
The letter from attorney
Spencer Rockwell was clear
that the district was not re-
quired to conduct random
drug testing and it would be
unlikely to be liable under
most, if not all, circumstances.
“In short, there is no require-
ment that we perform random
drug testing. I also understand
your question to ask whether
if we do not conduct random
testing, would there be some
potential additional liability.
Again, in short, the answer
would be no,” Rockwell stated.
Farnsworth remained un-
convinced that adoption of the
new personnel policy would
be wise and asked again that
the suggested changes be ta-
bled for 60 days so that he
could do more research on the
issues surrounding random
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L A F LEUR TO HOST B IG W AVE
P OETRY S LAM TONIGHT AT FEC
Eugene’s accomplished poet
and slam master Jorah LaFleur
will emcee the exciting third
annual Big Wave Poetry Slam
on Saturday, June 30.
The event starts at 6:30 p.m.
at the Florence Events Center,
715 Quince St., and admission
is $5 at the door.
Poets will assemble from
around the state to compete
for a $500 first prize, $250 sec-
ond prize, and $100 third prize.
Registration for poets starts at 6
p.m. There is a $15 fee to com-
pete.
The contest is slam style,
with a 3-minute time limit for
original, performed poems.
Judges are chosen randomly
from the audience, and audi-
ence responses to the judges’
decision are part of the fun.
This event is fast paced with
Jorah LaFleur
a wide variety of subjects and
delivery styles.
While scores are tabulated,
LaFleur will perform one of her
scintillating poems and enter-
tain the crowd with her own
slam style.
Visit fraaoregon.org and
click on Poetry Fest to register.
For more information, call
541-997-1994.
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