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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.
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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.
The full senate is expected
to approve the CJS appropria
tions bill before the August re
cess.
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