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Page 4 The INDEPENDENT, August 1, 2001 New resale shop will emphasize children’s clothing, accessories Western Washington Coun ty will soon have a new shop ping option. SmartyPants, a consignment clothing and chil dren’s furniture shop will open its doors in Banks in early Au gust. The shop will carry infant through teen clothing, materni ty wear and children’s acces sories such as car seats, strollers and bedding. Smarty Pants is also planning to carry videos, parenting books and other miscellaneous child and family related products. The store will also host a free children’s book exchange, allowing people to bring in up to five children’s books, in good condition, and trade for the same. “I want my store to be a unique and fun place to shop, as well as a terrific asset to the community.” said owner Lind say Norling. The store will also have a well-equipped play area for children to occupy them selves while parents browse. Norling is hoping the Banks location will be convenient for residents in the surrounding communities. It will be nice to have a shopping option in Western Washington County rather than having to drive into one of the higher traffic areas. The store is located on Main Street in the new Banks Busi ness Center, next to The Brown Derby restaurant. “Resale and consignment shopping is very smart,” said Norling. In choosing the name “SmartyPants” for her shop, Norling said, she wanted a name that conveyed the wis dom in resale shopping. Be smart, avoid computer virus The Elsie-Vinemaple Rural Fire Protection District will re ceive $14,802 in federal funds to improve training for its 13 member volunteer force, Con gressman David Wu an nounced. The funds will come from the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Assis tance to Firefighters Program. “This grant will make us bet ter trained and knowledgeable fire fighters with more up-to- date information so we can do a better job at protecting our community,” said Elsie-Vine maple RFPD assistant fire chief Hans Mulder. The new funding will be used to buy electronic training equipment for the force. The Elsie-Vinemaple RFPD will match ten percent of the funds granted. S m a r t y ; .P a n ts Aw "wif dently Vied Clothing, Video*, Books an d jlcceisarie* Forums scheduled on proposed expansion of Oregon Health Plan A community forum seeking public opinion about changes to help finance expansion of the Oregon Health Plan will be held Wednesday, August 8, at With big conventions for Tuality Hospital, 335 SE Eighth both the hackers and the secu in Hillsboro. The forum is open rity trackers, the number of to the public and will run from computer viruses floating on 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. State legislation approved the net grew dramatically this earlier this month will add up to past week, LV Schoonover, owner of Cyberian Links, re 50,000 Oregonians to the Ore gon Health Plan and reduce ported. “I had at least three new coverage for many already on ones and an old one in one day the plan to help pay for the ex pansion. alone,” he said. As a result of the legislation, He offers the following safe House Bill 2519, the state ty advice: • If you don’t know the per Health Services Commission son sending you e-mail, don’t has scheduled a series of nine “community forums” across the open any attachments. • If it is someone you know, state to learn how people but it has no personalization or would prefer benefits to change. message don’t open it. “We will ask people how • If it has a file attachment with .exe, .bat, .com, .scr, .vbs, they rank various benefits such or any other type of executable as physician services, dental care and prescription drugs," attachment DON’T open it! • Be very suspicious of any said John Santa, M.D., admin attachment for at least the next istrator of the state Office for Oregon Health Plan Policy and three weeks. As with any human disease, Research, which staffs the computer viruses can be ex state commission. “We also pensive and time consuming. Isn’t it really worth missing a Parade starting time joke or two to miss a virus? returned to 11 am E-M RFPD will get FEMA funds SmartyPants is a consign ment shop that collects items from the public, sells them, and splits the profit with the owner. Consignment guidelines and further information may be ob tained by calling SmartyPants at 503-324-7218. Store hours are Tuesday through Thursday from 10 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., Fri days from Noon to 8:00 p.m. and Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. The store will be closed Sundays and Mondays. Norling promises some great promotional giveaways during the Grand Opening on Saturday, August 4, between 10 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. plus bal loons and drawings. She also has additional promotional events in the planning stage. The Vernonia Jamboree Committee has announced that the Parade starting time will be 11:00 a.m. instead of 10:00 a.m. ''Webcome to Jam bom want to hear opinions about costs such as higher premi ums, deductibles and co-pays.” Santa said that commission members, who will be repre sented at the meeting, will con sider results during public meetings in late August and in September. The Oregon Health Plan provides coverage for people on public assistance. It also provides coverage for about 93,000 people who are not in a traditional Medicaid category or who earn too much for assis tance, but whose household in comes are still below the feder al poverty level ($1,179 a month for a family of three). That expanded coverage, now in its eighth year, would grow to cover Oregonians with house hold income up to 185 percent of the federal poverty level ($2,181 a month for a family of three). Expanding the number of people covered, expected by late 2002, will be financed by a combination of reducing the benefit package and seeking federal matching funds for the state Family Health Insurance Assistance Program, which uses only state money to sub sidize health-insurance premi ums for low-income families. Both the federal matching funds and changes in the health plans benefit package will require federal approval. Lindsay Norling and SmartyPants Wyden bid for Columbia 9-1-1 funding approved by committee U.S. Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) has secured $600,000 to help Columbia County’s 9-1-1 Communications District upgrade their radio communi cation system. Wyden request ed the funding as part of the Commerce, Justice, State ap propriations bill. Jamboree table space sales Vernonia Hardware has of fered their parking lot for local residents to have card table size areas for garage sale type items during the Jamboree. The fee will be $5.00 per table. For more information, in- quire at Vernonia Hardware, or call Bill at 503-429-5651. Annual town yard sale nears The third annual Vernonia Community-Wide Yard and Sidewalk Sale is scheduled for Saturday, September 22, from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. For more information, call Vernonia Realty and Insurance at 503-429-6203. “The funding for this radio system upgrade will enable the regions emergency services to communicate faster and more effectively,” Wyden said. “I am very pleased to have helped make Columbia County safer in this way.” Columbia County unified all emergency dispatching into the 9-1-1 communications district, but is still limited by the many separate radio systems that the emergency agencies use. These funds will help establish a unified and modernized radio system for better communica tion between all emergency agencies and guarantee that nobody will ever be outside of radio coverage. 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