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Polk County News Polk County Itemizer-Observer • May 4, 2016 3A Minet better, but not good DEADLINES NEWS DEADLINES For inclusion in the Wednesday edition of the Itemizer-Observer: Social news (weddings, engagements, anniver- saries, births, milestones) — 5 p.m. on Thursday. Community events — Noon on Friday for both the Community Notebook and Community Calendar. Letters to the editor — 10 a.m. on Monday. Obituaries — 4 p.m. on Monday. ADVERTISING DEADLINES Retail display ads — 3 p.m. Friday. Classified display ads — 11 a.m. on Monday. Classified line ads — Noon on Monday. Classified ads are updated daily on www.polkio.com. Public notices — Noon on Friday. CORRECTIONS The Polk County Itemizer- Observer is committed to pub- lishing accurate news, feature and sports reports. If you see anything that requires a cor- rection or clarification, call the newsroom at 503-623-2373 or send an email to ementzer@polkio.com. WEBSITE The Polk County Itemizer- Observer website, www.polkio.com, is updat- ed each week by Wednes- day afternoon. There, you will find nearly every story that appears in the print version of the newspaper, as well as some items, in- cluding additional photos, that do not appear in print due to space limitations. The Itemizer-Observer is also on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Watch for breaking news, links to sto- ries, sports scores updates and more. WEATHER RECORDED HIGH LOW April 26............ 60 April 27............ 61 April 28............ 64 April 29............ 59 April 30............ 67 May 1................. 83 May 2................. 86 35 47 45 46 39 47 50 RAIN .01 .05 .00 .03 .00 .00 .00 Rainfall during April — 2.04 in. Rain through May 2 — 19.13 in. By Emily Mentzer The Itemizer-Observer CHRIS COLE/ for the Itemizer-Observer The Spring Dance Concert returns to Western Oregon starting on Thursday. Moto-warriors to take stage 40th annual Spring Dance Concert to open Thursday By Emily Mentzer The Itemizer-Observer MONMOUTH — The lan- guage of dance is not set in stone, especially when it comes to modern dance. A group of male dancers will take the stage Thursday during the 40th annual Spring Dance Concert at Western Oregon Universi- ty — on hover boards. “They’ll be running around doing things on (hover boards), moving in different ways,” said Darryl Thomas, dance department faculty. “We’ve experiment- ed a lot of ways to find vo- cabulary, meaning things they can do on the boards that we can then set and teach other people how to do that movement.” Dance vocabulary is simi- lar to words, but in modern dance, choreographers are able to make up new words, Thomas said. “You can experiment in modern dance with things like hover boards,” Thomas said. “Whereas with tradi- tional dance, like ballet, there’s a set vocabulary al- ready. There’s moves that you do that everybody knows the name.” Like with spoken words, dance moves can mean dif- ferent things depending on Check it out: What: Western Oregon University’s dance depart- ment’s 40th annual Spring Dance Concert. When: Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m. Where: Rice Auditorium. Admission: General, $12; seniors, $10; students, $7. For more information: wou.edu. context, he said. “It’s really more poetic,” Thomas said. “With modern dance, we’re always trying to balance how to create an image, how to tell a story, how to give meaning to movement and how to cre- ate something that connects with people.” Choreographers use the title of their dance to help clue people in, he said. The hover boards are just one performance in the con- cert. The evening also will feature a ballet number, hula and more forms of modern dance, Thomas said. The dancers themselves come from a variety of back- grounds, from those who have been out of the dance world for years to those who live and breathe dance daily. Maia Jones is a non-tradi- tional student at WOU who is taking classes to continue her education. This year, she got a part in the concert. It has been a long time since Jones has performed on stage, though she does come from a dance background. “It’s challenging to get back into (dance),” she said. Jones was selected to per- form in Kristie Martinez’s piece, and said it’s been fun working with her. “We mesh well,” Jones said. “She’s been really pro- fessional in rehearsals. That’s what I’ve really appreciated about this experience, is this dance department takes their performances very seriously.” The concert includes stu- dent and faculty choreogra- phers, and guest choreogra- pher Mark Santillano. May 5 - Sept. 29 General Vendors 10:00 am - 3:00 pm Food Vendors 10:00 am - 6:00 pm Featuring Growers, Producers & Artisans of the Polk County area & beyond! Live music each week 11 am to 1 pm Cash & Company 1st & 3rd weeks Truman Price 2nd & 4th weeks Confirmed opening day vendors: Akha Farm (6th season); Bermudez Family Farm (7th Season); Black Rock BBQ (New vendor); City of Dallas – Dallas Fire & EMS (2nd season); Critelli Sweets (New vendor); Cryptic Cuisine (New vendor); Edie’s Designs (3rd season); El Pique (6th season); Geovalue Organics (New vendor); Hound Boy Bakery LLC. (New vendor); Howling Wolves Farm (New vendor); Massage by Ty (New vendor); Mrs. Sew & Sew (New vendor); Rosie’s Scottish Goodies (7th season); Sisters Treasures ReImagined (New vendor); The Soap Store (3rd season); Xiong Garden - Fresh cut flowers (New vendor) You are cordially invited to the Dudley’s Polk County Historical Society’s May Tea on Saturday, May 21st, 2016, at 1:30 p.m. Hearing Aid Service We hope you will be able to join us. Admission: $7.50 each pchsoregon@gmail.com polkcountyhistoricalsociety.org 503-623-6251 Seeking: Vendors, Non-Profit Organizations and Sponsors 182 Academy St., Dallas (Corner of Main & Academy) http://www.exploredallasoregon.org/bounty-market.html 503-623-2564 541-741-2936 Hearing Aids Testing • Sales • Service Come see Curtis every Tuesday 10am - Noon at Dallas Senior Center, 955 SE Jefferson St. In Home Service: Call for details. Birthstone for May V alued by many cultures throughout history, emeralds have are associated with love, fidelity, wisdom, harmony, peace and abundance. this month 503-623-3117 837 Main St. • Dallas Mon-Fri 9-5:30 Sat 9-4 INDEPENDENCE — Monmouth Independence Networks (Minet) has made strides when it comes to taking care of its expenses and debt, but still has work to do, according to Doug Dawson, president of CCG Consulting out of Florida. Dawson evaluated the company two years ago, and was asked to look again to see how Minet could im- prove its bottom line. “Most of the items I rec- ommended in (the old) re- port has been done,” Daw- son said at Thursday’s Minet board meeting. “From what I can tell, the company is operationally sound right now, but you still have a loss.” In the last year, the cities of Monmouth and Inde- pendence have been asked to cover debt payments on behalf of Minet to the tune of roughly $800,000. Both cities have written off the debt, which was taken out by the cities jointly to get the cable, data and telephone company off the ground. Dawson said many of the reasons Minet struggles are out of its control, such as climbing programming costs from networks — some of which have gone up 360 percent in the last year — and changing regu- lations regarding access charges, which the Federal Communications Commis- sion will phase out entirely. To focus on what Minet can do, Dawson said the board will need to re-evalu- ate its policies surrounding discounts, the way the com- pany charges for data and increase rates to keep up with programming costs. D i s c o u n t s g i v e n by Minet to customers have doubled since Dawson did his first report, he said. Dawson said the board could adopt a policy of zero discounts, noting it would likely cost the company some customers, but said it would probably make the company better off in the long run. Another thing Minet could do is increase the data charges for those who only subscribe to the inter- net and to businesses. He said if costs were in- creased to those customers who receive just one serv- ice — as well as to busi- nesses who subscribe to data — the company could gain roughly $250,000 a year in revenue. While making all the suggested changes would not get Minet in a position to pay all of its debt each year — something that is roughly $1 million — it may get them down to under $500,000, Dawson said. “There’s still one dark cloud on the horizon,” Dawson said. “You’re still looking at the fact that your equipment is massively ob- solete. It could crap out on you and you wouldn’t be able to replace it, and you’d go dark.” That means at some point, Minet will have to look into replacing 10-year old technology, he said. 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