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COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL • AUGUST 1, 2018 • Information lost from county Health & Human Services NEWS FROM LORANE • Saturday, Aug. 4, is in a few days, and the big Lorane community-wide garage sale begins. Start your day with an old-fashioned country-style breakfast at the Lorane Re- bekah Lodge from 7 to 11 a.m. Cost is $6 for adults or $3 for children under 12. Proceeds go to support lodge’s community service projects. Go next door to the Lorane Christian Church for the free children’s clothing exchange for those ages birth to 5 years old. Th e event is 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Both the lodge and church are on the south end of old Lorane Road. Lorane Grange is a little further down old Lorane Road with an array of goods in its fl ea market. You will fi nd tools, Native American artifacts, original art, books, housewares, clothing, antique and vintage items. Th is event is also from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. (80342 Old Lo- rane Rd.) Th en, there are more than 20 homes ready for you to come purchase goods from. Maps are available for free at the Lorane Family Store, Lorane General Store and Deli, Rebekah Lodge, Lorane Christian Church and Lorane Grange. • Visit the Art in the Coun- try, traveling Territorial Highway from Lorane north A 7 to Crow, then turn right on Central Road. Th e fi rst annual Art in the Country Fine Art and Author Festival will be at the Apple- gate Regional Th eater in the old Central Elementary at 87230 Central Rd from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Many local authors, actors, musicians and artists will share their talents throughout the day, including local au- thor Pat Edwards and artists Margie McNutt and Michael Matchulat. As you unwind from the day, go back to Crow Grange for its 10th annual Joe’s Chick- en ‘N’ Picken BBQ chicken from 4 to 7 p.m. Th ere will be three classic car shows and toe tapping music. For more information on the BBQ, call Connie Suing at 541-556-2609. • Next weekend, Sunday Aug. 13, come out to Lorane again for the Lorane Commu- nity Potluck starting at 12:30 p.m. with doors opening at 10 a.m. to drop off your food. Th e volunteer fi re depart- ment ice cream social is 1 to 5 p.m., and will include a va- riety of activities and music, great pies and ice cream. At 3 p.m., go down to the Lorane Family Store for the unveiling of the mural paint- ed by two wonderful Lorane artists. Pat Edwards will emcee. Lane County Health & Hu- man Services (H&HS) , on July 24, announced that 49 boxes containing 566 Community Health Centers of Lane Coun- ty patient medical information fi les and 149 Lane County De- velopmental Disabilities client fi les were lost. Contained within the lost records were medical histories, addresses, contact information, and social security numbers. On June 19, during a rou- tine search, staff was unable to locate the records in question. Th e records had previously been relocated by a moving company to a storage facility for temporary storage during the renovation of the Char- nelton Clinic. Subsequent searches by mul- tiple teams failed to locate the records. Analysis indicates the re- cords may have been inad- vertently destroyed as part of routine document manage- ment practice for non-medical records. Because this cannot be verifi ed at this time, the CHC is obligated to provide notifi ca- tion to patients and the public. On Tuesday, July 24, H&HS sent written notifi cation to all patients and clients whose re- cords could not be located and for whom it had up-to-date contact information. H&HS immediately began to review its policies and prac- tices regarding records storage and is taking steps to protect against future incidents, in- cluding obtaining specialized, secure medical records storage services. To date, investigators have yet to determine how the re- cords were misplaced; however there is no indication they were stolen or that any of the infor- mation has been compromised. 'H&HS encourages patients and clients to regularly review fi nancial statements and credit reports to check to for unex- pected items, ac-counts or ser- vices. H&HS will also reimburse patients for up to 6-months of membership to an ac-credited credit monitoring services. Pa- tients can check credit reports online at www.annualcredit- report.com, or by contacting any of the following three com- panies: • Experian: 1-888-397-3742, www.experian.com • TransUnion: 1-800-888- 4213, www.transunion.com • Equifax: 1-800-685-1111, www.equifax.com If unusual activity is de- tected, H&HS advises patients to call the incident hotline at 1-833-404-0027, as well as the appropriate authorities, such as the Oregon Attorney General’s Offi ce, the Federal Trade Com- mission, or local police. Additional updates, should they arise, can be found by visit-ing: www.lanecounty.org/ HIPAAUPDATE. 2018-19 Historic Renovation Grants available until Sept. 8 Th e Cottage Grove Histor- ic Landmarks Commission is extending the opening for applications for the annual Historic Renovation Grant Program. Th is program is designed to assist Downtown busi-ness and property owners with needed historic renovations. Th ere is $7,500 to distribute this year in matching grants of up to $5,000, depending on the scope of the project. Th is is more than has been available in the past, thanks to additional funds from the State Historic Preservation Department’s Certifi ed Local Government Program. Th is is the eighth year of this grant program. Pri- or recipients have included the Club (neon sign repair), Pandora’s (awning), IOOF (sign repair), Craft y Mercan- tile (rear door), the Cottage Grove Hotel (new awning), Burkholder Woods (corbel repair), Mortier building (Coca Cola mural, masonry repair), 802 E. Main Street (new stucco, roof repair), the Bookmine (awning and sid- ing repair), and the First Na- tional Bank (masonry clean- ing, windows repair). Th e Historic Landmarks Commission will make these funds available to Downtown Historic District property owners or tenants who want to make improvements or perform maintenance on the exterior of their building. Projects must meet the Sec- retary of Interior’s Standards for Rehabilitation to qualify. Also, project work plans must be approved by the Historic Landmarks Commission and the State Historic Preserva- tion Offi ce before work may begin. Applications must be sub- mitted by Sept. 8. Work must be completed (and receipts turned in) by June 30, 2019. Anyone interested in ap- plying can contact the Public Works & Development De- partment at 541-942-3340 for more information. Applications and grant program guidelines are avail- able at www.cottagegrove.org or from the Public Works & Development Department, City Hall, 400 E. Main Street. Area National Guard called for fi refi ghting training, deployment SKY-EM TIMBER CO. • Residential and Rural Firebreaking • Commercial Timberfalling • Timber Merchandising • Consulting • Logging TRAVIS CAMERON 541-868-4876 Skyemtimber@hotmail.com California LTO# A11702 As part of the state’s coor- dinated and comprehensive wildfi re suppression eff orts, and with funds allocated by the federal government, 200 citizen-soldiers and citizen-air- men from the Oregon National Guard arrived at the Oregon Public Safety Academy in Sa- lem on Monday for a week-long wildland fi refi ghter training program. Th e 200 fi refi ghters arriving at the academy are in addition to the 200 trained earlier this month at Camp Rilea near Warrenton, Ore. Federal funds were allocat- ed, at the request of state offi - cials, to help prepare members of the National Guard in case their assistance will be needed to support wildland fi refi ghting eff orts around the state. Th e week-long training is being provided by the Ore- gon Department of Public Safety Standards and Training (DPSST) and is the same train- ing required of all public and private wildland fi refi ghters. Th is training the members of the Oregon National Guard will be receiving is oft en known as “red card” training and consists of both classroom and hands- on sessions. Classes include a wide vari- ety of topics including safety considerations, communica- tions, protecting tribal artifacts, fi re behavior, etc. Hands-on sessions include fi re shelter de- ployment, hand lines, gridding, hand tool work, pumps, water sources, and related skills. DPSST’s Director Eriks Ga- bliks said “all of these classes combined will allow the citi- zen-soldiers and citizen-air- men to be safe and eff ective in their work in case they are re- quired this year to help support the eff orts of wildland fi refi ght- ers around the state.” Th e Oregon National Guard has supported wildfi re suppres- sion eff orts, from the air and on the ground, around the state in recent years. In 2015, members of the Oregon National Guard assisted with wildfi re suppres- sion eff orts in John Day and Enterprise. ccb# 217560 TURNING 65 AND NEED HELP WITH YOUR MEDICARE CHOICES? 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