Polk County News
2A Polk County Itemizer-Observer • March 9, 2016
NEWS IN BRIEF
Dallas police needs reserve officers
DALLAS — The Dallas Police Department is taking reserve
police oicer applications.
Reserve oicers are sworn volunteers who supplement full-
time police oicers. Reserve oicer training is near equivalent
to that of regular oicers, but responsibilities are limited by ex-
perience and ongoing training.
Candidates must be 21 years of age or older and will be re-
quired, at a minimum, to pass a written test, interviews, a crim-
inal background check, a psychological evaluation, medical and
physical itness tests and drug screening.
A city-provided application and “supplemental police ques-
tionnaire” can be found at www.dallasor.gov. Applications
should be completed and returned to Sgt. Steve Dankenbring
by 5 p.m. on April 15.
‘Manos’ sequel exceeds funding goal
FALLS CITY — “Manos Returns,” the sequel to cult favorite
“Manos: The Hands of Fate” surpassed its Kickstarter fundrais-
ing goal of $24,000 by the end of its campaign March 1.
Movie producers netted $31,750, achieving “stretch goals” of
recording new Nicki Mathis single, “Magic Circle” and travel ex-
penses for Diane Mahree, “Maggie” in the original movie, and
Bryan Jennings, son the sherif in the irst Manos, to appear in
the sequel. The movie will be ilmed this summer in Oregon.
The goal is to premier “Manos Returns” in November on the
50th anniversary of “Hands of Fate.”
Dallas Fire presents service awards
DALLAS — On March 2, Dallas Fire & EMS held its annual
years of service and training hours awards, recognizing those
who worked to enhance their skill over the last year. Fire volun-
teers logged more than 4,000 hours in training in 2015.
Service awards: Five years of service — Dan Woolsey, Austin
Champ and Brad Tootle; 10 Year Service Awards — Paul McCal-
lum and Clete Schmitke; 15 Year Service Award for EMS — Todd
Brumield, Kim Storms and Tom Moore; 35 Year Service
Award — Greg Riemer.
The Training Oicer’s Award was presented to engineer/ire-
ighter Paul McCallum. Dallas Fire & EMS also recognized a com-
munity partner, Graphic Latitude, with the Excellence in Com-
munity Service award for its dedication to the department.
RFL celebration swim set for Sunday
DALLAS — Relay for Life of Polk County invites caregivers, can-
cer survivors, those in treatment and their families for an after-
noon at the Dallas Aquatic Center this Sunday. The event is from
5:30 to 7 p.m. and will include a light luncheon, bingo, and prizes.
For more information: Tami or Jen at 503-507-0120.
New fitness course coming
Independence trail system to get obstacles installed this spring
By Emily Mentzer
The Itemizer-Observer
INDEPENDENCE — The 1.5-mile
loop trail from the Independence Dog
Park around the soccer fields is about
to get more interesting.
An obstacle course with about 12 fit-
ness stations will be installed along the
pathway this spring, said Independ-
ence Sgt. Justin Hedlund, a coordinator
of the project.
“I think that things like this would be
really popular and help people just
kind of make fitness more fun,” he said.
“As opposed to just going out and put-
ting in miles, they could have obstacles
if they wanted to.”
Stations will include classics such as
a tire field to practice old military style
quick step and a place to do burpees
and sit-ups.
“We will have stationary walls that
people can vault over,” Hedlund said.
Other stations include a balance
beam, stretching station, pullup station
and tire flip, he said.
Three pieces of equipment were pur-
chased with money from a grant from
Heal Cities, including a combination
obstacle.
“It’s a rope climb with a descending
hand-over-hand ladder to a lateral
hand-over-hand ladder,” Hedlund ex-
plained. “It’s 30 feet overall.”
At the start of the trail, general infor-
mation about safety and heart-rate
monitoring will be installed. At each
station in the fitness loop, signs will
provide basic information on how to
use each obstacle, Hedlund said.
“Because of our bilingual communi-
Graphic courtesy of Justin Hedlund
The course will start at the dog park and run around the soccer complex.
ty, we wanted to make sure we had sig-
nage in both English and Spanish,”
Hedlund said. “To do some of these ex-
planations, I’ve reached out to some of
the fitness people in our community to
make sure we explain these accurate-
ly.”
One option may be using QR codes
with links to short videos for each sta-
tion, showing how to use it.
“That would make translation much
easier,” Hedlund said.
Once the equipment is acquired, the
installation should go quickly, he said.
“We’re going to need building prod-
ucts, donations from area businesses
such as lumber, logs, things like that,”
Hedlund said. “We’re seeking some of
that stuff out. We’re also going to need
manual labor volunteers to come out
and help us cut this trail in and do
these installations and help us build
these things.”
For more information or to volun-
teer to help: Hedlund.justin@ci.inde-
pendence.or.us, or call the non-emer-
gency number at the Independence
Police Department, 503-838-1214.
Falls City to consider increase to rates
By Jolene Guzman
The Itemizer-Observer
FALLS CITY — Those
wanting to attend Falls City
City Council meetings will
need to head down to the
Falls City Community Center
a little earlier from now on.
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Starting with Thursday’s
meeting, the council will meet
at 6 p.m. instead of 7. The
council approved the change
at its February meeting.
The meeting location at
the community center, 320
N. Main St., and day of the
month, the second Thurs-
day, are unchanged.
This month, the council
will hold a public hearing on
changing bulk water rates
and sewer hookup fees.
The city’s public works
committee and staff will
propose bulk water rates be
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increased from $2.55 per
unit (1,000 gallons) to $5 per
unit for bulk sales of less
than 10,000 gallons.
The bulk sales hook up
fee would also be changed
from $50 to $80.
The committee made a
recommendation to elimi-
nate “simple” and “complex”
sewer hookup fees and
charge one rate of $3,250 for
all hookups.
According to the agenda
report prepared for Thurs-
d a y ’s m e e t i n g , t h o s e
changes would bring the city
into compliance with its
own code.
For more information on
the public hearing or Thurs-
day’s meeting agenda, go to
www.fallscityoregon.gov.
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