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The INDEPENDENT, Nov. 8 1995 By Charlene Bochen Banks Library Volunteer Entertainment ’96 books are being sold by the Friends of the Banks Library. For $40.00 purchasers will get page after page of two-for- one and 50 percent-off coupons for Portland area restaurants from Alexander’s to Zio’s Piz za, as well as movie tickets, sporting events and much more. New this year is the North west Getaway book. These coupons provide discounts on local and regional restaurants and resorts. At $10.00 per copy, the Northwest Getaway is quite a bargain. To reserve your Entertainment '96 and Northwest Getaway books, call Karen at 324-9452 or Denise at 324-1382. Saturday recycling continues at the SWAT- CO service yard, 15945 NW Sellers Road. The next Recycle Saturday will be November 11 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Bring in clean scrap paper, newsprint, brown paper bags, motor oil in screw top containers, corrugated cardboard, “tin” cans, aluminum, glass, milk and water jugs and narrow necked plastic bottles with a number in the recycle symbol triangle. Volun teers are always needed for this fundraising project. Please call Donna at 324-3404 if you can spend an hour or two once a month to help. New books this month include Dead By Sunset, by Ann Rule, and From Potter’s Field, by Patricia Cornwell. Most of the nominees for the Young Read e r’s Choice Award have now arrived at the Banks Library. Sponsored by the Pacific NW Library Association, the YRCA is the oldest you ng -rea de rs book aw ard in the U nited States. Students in grades four through 12 who live in Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, Alberta and British Columbia and who have read at least two of the nominated books, can vote for their favorite, March 1-15, 1996. Junior Division (grades four through eig h t) title s in clu d e The B oys S ta rt The War/The Girls Get Even, by Phyllis R. Naylor, Crazy Ladyl, by Jane L. Conly, H arper & Moon, by Ramone R. Ross, Hero of Lesser Causes, by Julie Johnston, Sparrow Hawk Red, by Ben Mikaelsen, White Lilacs, by Car olyn Meyer, and Winter Camp, by Kirkpatrick Hill. Senior Division (grades nine through 12) nominees are A Bone From a Dry Sea, by Pe ter Dickinson, The Giver, by Lois Lowry, Make Lemonade, by Virginia E. Wolff, Shizuko's Daughter, by Kyoko Mori and Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes, by Chris Crutcher. The Banks Library will be closed Friday November 10 for observance of Veteran’s Day. We w ill, how ever, be open on S aturday, November 11. The library is looking for volunteers to help with shelving, processing and special projects. Com puter experience would be especially useful. Please call Denise at 324-1382 for more information. 45 percent, requiring an extra appropriation from the Board of Directors of $200,000! Articles in the Ruralite by the manager of the Coopera tive led me to expect this sort of error from the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA), but not from WOEC. To have it revealed otherwise by the appropriate “stony silence of the Board” reminded me of an im portant and hum bling lesson that I learned years ago in grade school. One day as our teacher returned an exam to us, he read a partic ular answer that was so off the mark that it evoked howls of scornful laughter from us students. I laughed the loud est. Imagine my surprise and c h a g rin when Mr. M cC ray then handed the offending I Preschool children enjoyed trip to farm preschool, October 28th. Mr. and Mrs. Ellis also donated a squash to each child. To the Editor: The children and parents of Vernonia Preschool would like to tha nk Mr. and Mrs. S teve E llis fo r hosting the wonderful field trip we took to their farm on Thursday, Octo ber 26th. The children got to visit the Ellis farm with a guid ed tour by Mrs. Ellis. Each child got to pick out his or her own pum pkin, w hich they carved at family night at the Thank you Vernonia Preschool Is the pot callin g the kettle black? To the Editors: I am a proud member of West Oregon Electric Coop erative, and have for many years enjoyed and appreciat ed the electrical service avail- able to us. We still keep the kerosene lamps at the ready, but find that we use them less and le ss fre q u e n tly the se past few years. It was, therefore, with con siderable surprise that I read the account of the September WOEC Board meeting, ably reported by Jim Buxton in the September 27, 1995, issue of The INDEPENDENT. Appar ently, a m ajor budget item previously presented to the Board by M anager [David] Seuss had an error of about All the graduate p ro fe s sional program s of Pacific University will be holding in fo rm a tio n a l m e e tin g s and open houses on Health Pro fessions Day, Saturday, Nov. 11, on the Forest Grove cam pus. Representatives of the oc cupational therapy, optome try, physical therapy, profes sional psychology and teach er education program s will begin registering participants at 9:15 a.m . at fiv e site s around campus. All events are free and anyone interest ed in applying to these pro grams is invited. From 9:30 a.m. to 11:15 a.m., the deans and directors of the programs will give pre sentations on th e ir p ro fe s sions and the program s of- WINTER RADIAL RETREADS S IZ E PR IC E P165R-13 P185/75R-14 M 95/75R -14 P205/7SR-14 P215/75R-14 P195/75R-15 P205/75R-15 P215/75R-15 P225/75R-15 P235/75R-1S 32.79 35.10 39.90 43.05 49.14 50.10 47.02 40.54 50.50 53.17 53.46 W IL D C A T ALL TR A X TRACTION STEEL RADIAL SIZE P155/OOR-13 P165/OOR-13 P175/S0H-I3 P1I5/00H-13 P105/75R-14 P195/75H-14 P205/75R-14 P205/7SR-15 P215Z75R-15 P225/75R-15 P235/75R-15 PRICE 40.77 50.33 50.69 53.00 56.40 50.12 60.40 62.00 64.93 60.74 71.73 A L L S E A S O N S T E E L R A D IA L LOAD H A M .b »ire « 1 5 /7 5 « - 14 I IJ195/75«-14 c « 0 5 /1 5 * 1 4 • » « 0 5 /7 5 « - 15 B « 1 5 /7 5 4 -1 5 c 12215/758-15 B « 2 5 /7 5 « . 15 r n s /7 » N -i» B Li 2 35/73 M- 1» c c 27,1.508-14 10,9 5« - 15 c 11/10.50» 15 c 11/11 50H 13 c c 11/12 508-15 11211/1311-15«w0 mal C to 7« 75 15 53.20 53.34 50 00 IB 4B 72.04 75 0B »4 51 53.53 BI 15 105.34 112.72 124.31 100.71 S IZ E LOAD RANOl • ALI U J 1 5 ,1 5 « - 1 U .f 104.44 55.111 U 2 25/75*-15k»C 00.15 L 7 2 2 5 /7 5 « -1 U i0 U 2 2 5 ,7 5 « - 1 tn ( 102.35 U 2 1 5 /« 5 « - 1 t» 0 10B.52 111.25 L1225/45R. I « « l LT235.S58-15 C 117.05 LI 243/158-13*6« Ir I I I 75 IT245/B58-15 U 120.33 LI253/758-15 C 111.50 S./3N- 15.3 a « 0 102.BU B 308-1l.5frv 0 115 51 33/12.5U8-15S 0 133 50 Respectfully yours, Charles D. Laird Member, WOEC Keasey fered at P acific. F ollow ing their talks, they will offer tours of the campus facilities. The five sites of the pre sentations will be: • Occupational Therapy - Taylor A uditorium in Marsh Hall. • Optometry-Jefferson Hall Auditorium. • P hysical T h e ra p y -M c - C re ad y H all in th e T a y lo r Meade Performing Arts Cen ter. • Professional Psychology -M c G ill A uditorium in M ur dock Hall. • E d u c a tio n -T h e A lum ni Room in University Center. For more information, call Lisa Lutero in the O ffice of Professional Program Admis sions at (503) 357-6151, ext. 2613. POLICY ON LETTERS ! FOR WINTER answer back to-you guessed it-me! Of course, it is possible th a t all of th e c o m p la in ts about BPA are true, and that th is is the on ly e rro r th a t WOEC has made in the past few years, and is lik e ly to make in the near future. The p ro b le m s fa ce d by p o w e r providers are, however, com p le x; th e y sh o u ld be a d dressed constructively in our community, including by our Cooperative. A courteous and balanced presentation of the issues by the manager of the Cooperative would be both appropriate and welcome. Open house for graduate programs . : Library Hours; Wed, and Sat, 10 a.m.«4 p.m., Thure. t-7 p.m./Fri., 1-5p.m. ^Address* O ak Village Shopping C enter 869 & f e n Streets Phone: 324-1382 C? Letters to the Editor Page 3 The INDEPENDENT welcomes readers' letters, but all letters must be signed and include a verifiable address and telephone number, though we w ill not print the * address and phone number. We re s e r’e the right to shorten or edit letters for clarity; libelous statements will not be printed. y o u and your fam ily are cordially invited to join us fo r an old-fashioned buffet-style Thanksgivingfeast. We do all the cookin’ and cleanin’; you do all the eatin’ and visitin’. Included are football on television (upstairs in the banquet room), gam es and prizes, plus a supervised playroom and movies fo r the children. We look forward to an enjoyable fam ily ru u m i WINTER CHECKLIST TO T r a c t i o n T i r e s -S n o w W h e e ls 95 includes pie, beverage and all yo u c PS B a t t e r i e s nS C h a i n s ♦♦♦♦»»»»1111 » 11»| 11EI Ill'll 111 II t t t t f f lf f l 1 1 If If t i l t r LÍ 4 f 14. 4 Li 1I ¿1
