COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL JULY 5, 2017
and put the profi ts in a trust fund
for his education. He was a nat-
ural entrepreneur, who learned
about cost, business, selling, and
banking. He even suggested ways
to save money on production, which would cre-
ate bigger profi ts. Today, Taylor is 20 years old
and at college studying business, economics, and
fi nance."
Over the years, their catnip mice morphed into
catnip fortune cookies and Tanya spent sleepless
nights trying to think of funny feline fortunes. A
few she came up with are:
The time for play is now.
Don't meow over spilt milk.
Let your inner cat out of the bag.
A nap is in your future.
Their syccessful business allowed Tanya, a sin-
gle mother, the fl exibility to attend Taylor's sports
events. Then reps discovered their product at gift
shows and distributed them in Germany, Holland,
Purr-Pet-Chew-ly High Cats
I
know two of the happiest cats on the planet!
Imagine Chess and Checker's joy of being
rescued, from a shelter, by Tanya, the founder of
Feline Fortune Cookies, whose only ingredient is
catnip!
Sixteen years ago, Tanya had a small home dog
product and baby bib company. Her young son,
Taylor, was allowed to play with the bib's round
neck scraps on the sewing machine.
At the age of four, he folded one of the rounds
in his hand, held it up, and said, "Look Mom! I
made a mouse! We should make catnip mice!"
"It was an ingenious idea," said Tanya, "so we
ran with it. Taylor sat on my lap, placed the circle
in a bowl, folded in the catnip, we sewed them
closed together, and fi nished by putting ears on
the mice. We created a small business for Taylor
Brazil, Japan, Europe,
United Emirates, and
Canada.
"Our cats, Chess and
Checker, are our prod-
uct and quality control
testers," laughs Tanya.
"The catnip arrives dou-
ble-bagged, 20 pounds
at a time, in boxes. The
cats go crazy rubbing
and pawing the boxes
before falling asleep on
top of them. Right away, we know that the organic
herb is a ‘high' quality, because cats don't respond
to stale catnip. We have to store it in Rubbermaid
bins to maintain its freshness and keep our cats
from being purr-pet-chew-u-ally high."
Initially, nervous about ordering 35,000 little
fortune cookie boxes, Tanya did a test run of her
products at an 11 day trade show. She put three
fortune cookies in each of the trail boxes, and
made enough to last her the entire show, but she
sold out in two days! As a side note: during our
interview, Checker was busy on the fl oor "killing"
a fortune cookie.
Chess, six-years-old, and Checker, fi ve-years-
old, are inseparable, even though they were ad-
opted from different shelters, and are different
ages. Chess was sold as a female, but when the
vet "looked under the hood" it was revealed that
she was a "he" and there was no way Tanya would
return the gentle kitty to a shelter.
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The funny thing
about the kitties is
that Tanya adopted
Chess as her buddy,
and Taylor adopted
Checker as his, but
cats being cats had
different plans. Pets
choose their owners.
Checker is now in-
separable from Tanya,
and Chess is Taylor's Tanya and one of her furry
babies.
best bud.
Cats are and have been a big part of Tanya and
Taylor's lives, and we can see they will be in the
future, too.
TIPS
Catnip is historically known as an anti-spas-
modic, carminative, diaphoretic, nervine, sto-
machic, stimulant, and sedative. It grows like a
weed. We planted several varieties in our outside
enclosure, The Cat's Castle. We often fi nd our
precious Persians sleeping in the middle of their
catnip plant. We, also, put either the fresh or dried
herb on the fl oor or the scratching posts for our
cats' treat.
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The losses are projected to
come by 2021 and may see Or-
egon having to come up with an
additional $6.2 billion to cover
the cost of retracted federal-
ly-matched funds.
“While younger Oregonians
would likely pay lower premi-
ums for health coverage on the
individual commercial market,
older people would pay more.
On average, consumers would
face higher deductibles and
copays than they currently pay
under the ACA,” Oregon Health
Authority said in a statement on
the subject.
The agency also warned that
the state could lose up to 23,000
jobs created by the ACA in
terms of compliance and execu-
tion of the law.
“This Senate bill is no more
than a giant tax break dis-
guised as a health care bill. As
a health care bill, it is cruel. It
creates barriers to preventive
services.,” said Oregon Gov-
ernor Kate Brown in a state-
ment released June 28. "Since
the passage of the Affordable
Care Act, Oregon has expanded
health care coverage to 95 per-
cent of residents, while bending
the cost curve and saving tax-
payers more than $1.5 billion.
The Senate bill would wipe out
that progress, slashing critical
services, lowering standards of
care to unacceptable levels, and
cutting 23,000 jobs.”
Locally, PeaceHealth leader-
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would not be able to carry out its
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mission of promoting personal
and community heath without
“as many people as possible”
covered by health insurance.
“Hundreds of thousands of
residents of Washington, Ore-
gon and Alaska obtained cov-
erage through Medicaid ex-
pansion. But the Better Care
Reconciliation Act would erode
the ability of many people to ac-
cess health insurance and health
services – especially through
Medicaid reductions,” said
Rand O’Leary, chief executive
for the PeaceHealth Oregon
Network.
“Without access to health in-
surance, people lose access to
affordable healthcare options
and are more likely to avoid
seeking needed medical atten-
tion,” he continued. “This can
overwhelm emergency care set-
tings when urgent needs arise,
and lead to more serious health
conditions that require more ex-
pensive, long-term care. The re-
sult is a less healthy population
and a more costly healthcare
system. For these reasons, we
urge all members of Congress
to work together toward a sus-
tainable, lasting solution that
preserves healthcare coverage
and access for as many Ameri-
cans as possible.”
Senate Majority Leader
Mitch McConnell delayed the
vote on the bill until after the
July 4th holiday after it was re-
vealed that several key republi-
can representatives planned to
vote against the measure.
After the vote was delayed,
President Donald Trump tweet-
ed, “If Republican Senators are
unable to pass what they are
working on now, they should
immediately REPEAL, and
then REPLACE at a later date!”
The move, according to
health care experts, would leave
residents without health care
and the industry and Congress
without a plan to move forward
on how to address health care
coverage.
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The 2017 School Year came to a joyful end and as the 34th annual Drug and Alcohol free Graduates All Night party saw 116 revelers came safely through their fi rst
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Flower Basket
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Grove Tavern & Café
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Jerry’s Home Improvement Center
Jim’s Tire Factory(Point S)
Joyous Massage
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Kepson’s Garage
Lane Electric Cooperative
Les Schwab Tire Center
Lions Club
Little Caesar’s Pizza
McDonalds
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Oregon Coast Aquarium
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Trinity Luth
Lutheran Church
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United Methodist Church
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