The INDEPENDENT, August 1, 2001
VERNONIA INN
Enjoy a quiet weekend with us.
FILL SIZE, IN ROOM
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Queen Beds • Private Bath • Separate Entrance
Cable TV • Phones • Handicapped Access
CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST
FOR RESERVATIONS CALL
1-800-354-9494 / 503-429-4006
GIFT CERTIFICATES AVAILABLE
900 MADISON AVE., VERNONIA, OR 97064
Just one block off scenic Nehalem River Hwy. (Oregon 47)
Engineering survey reveals dangerous deficiencies
Other deficiencies noted in
clude:
• A lack of interior bracing
necessary to transfer horizon
tal load (shaking) from the roof
or second floor of the building
to the walls and ground.
• Interior walls at VHS are
built around the lockers and
cannot transfer shaking in the
roof to the floor.
• Walls and roofs have
straight board construction, in
which boards are placed per
pendicularly across joists and
studs. Like a cardboard box
that can be easily pushed out
of its square shape; straight
construction does not allow for
side-to-side or up-and-down
movement.
• Walls and floors are not
anchored together.
• Unreinforced masonry
(URM), i.e. brick, walls and
chimneys, in both buildings
would require support. Some
are overstressed.
• The beautiful brick exterior
of WGS presents particular
problems because it is not rein
forced and it is not attached to
the building. Studies of similar
buildings after significant earth
quakes show that this type of
brick exterior literally falls right
off of the building, like water off
a duck’s back. (In contrast, the
new play structure at WGS,
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have remained constant, re
cent geological studies in
Western Oregon, and observa
tion of building damage in past
earthquakes, have resulted in
a 50 percent increase in the
earthquake force level for
which a building must be de
signed.
Both WGS and VHS have a
number of deficiencies, any
one of which would be suffi
cient to cause all or part of the
building to collapse in the event
of an earthquake, according to
Söderström. For example, the
window wall of the VHS library
is no longer vertical but leans
outward, probably due to
ground settling.
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6:30 p.m., Head Start Bldg.
Mondays
Alcoholics Anonymous
7:00 p.m., Head Start Bldg.
Saturdays
Alcoholics Anonymous
American Legion Post #119 2nd Thursday 627 Adams Ave./ 503-429-4000
2:00 p.m., City Library
2nd Thursday
Arts & Crafts Society
7:30 p.m., VHS Library
2nd Wednesday
Boosters
7:00 p.m., Head Start Bldg.
Tuesdays
Boy Scout Troop 201
7:00 p.m., LDS Church
Wednesdays
Boy Scout Troop 860
7:00
p.m., Leonetti’s Grill
Cemetery Beautification Comm. 2nd Thursday
Noon, Lew’s Place
2nd Wednesday
Chamber of Commerce
1:00 p.m., Senior Center
4th Tuesday
Doll Club
6:30-8 p.m., Christian Church
Thursdays
Girl Scouts
For
location call 503-429-7193
3rd Thursday
Izaak Walton League
6:30 p.m., Lew's Place
1st & 3rd Tuesdays
Lions Club
6:00 p.m., Head Start Bldg.
Fridays
Narcotics Anonymous
For Info Call 503-429-4074
Nehalem Valley Car Club
10:30 a.m., City Library
Mondays
Preschool Story Hour
For location call 429-2401
Upr Nehalem Watershed Council 4th Thursday
7:00 p.m., City Library
Vernonia Airport Committee 3rd Wednesday
For location call 503-429-1414
Vernonia Cares Directors
6:30 p.m., City Hall
Vernonia City Council
1 st & 3rd Mondays
Noon, City Hall
Vernonia Comm. Dev. Corp. 2nd Tuesday
7:00 p.m., Grange Hall
2nd Friday
Vernonia Grange
6:00 p.m., 510 Bridge St.
2nd Thursday
Vernonia Health Center
7:00 p.m., City Hall
1st Thursday
Vernonia Planning Comm.
For
Info
Call,
503-429-5201
Vernonia Pride
7:00 p.m., City Library
Last Thursday
Vernonia Ridge Riders
7:00 p.m., Fire Station
2nd Tuesday
Vernonia RFPD Board
8:00
p.m., District Office
2nd Thursday
Vernonia School Board
1:00 p.m., Senior Center
1st Friday
Vernonia Sr. Center Board
7:00 p.m., Fire Station
2nd Monday
Vernonia Volunteer Firefighters
7:00 p.m., WOEC
3rd Tuesday
WOEC Directors
which looks like brick, is actual
ly constructed of a type of block
with a brick-like face, similar to
cinder block, with the center
hollows reinforced with re-bar
and filled with concrete.
• Examination of the walls at
WGS also revealed that they
were constructed of locally
made hollow clay tiles, instead
of the material called for in the
plan. The hollow clay tiles have
virtually no load carrying ca
pacity according to Söder
ström.
Söderström said that studies
of this type bring a moral re
sponsibility to the engineers
and architects who work on a
project. Even if parts of the
building were retrofitted suffi
ciently to survive an earth
quake, the building still could
not really be considered safe.
The best that could be hoped
for would be to provide the ca
pacity for children to exit the
buildings in relative safety. Ac
cording to Söderström, the
bricks will still fall off, the chim
neys will still collapse, and the
library wall will still fall in a
shower of glass.
Söderström concedes that
WGS, in particular, is the most
beautiful building in town. But
he compares it to fixing the
frame of a car, an expense re
ally not worth the effort.
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7:30 p.m., Main Fire Station
7:00 p.m., Main Fire Station
7:00 p.m., Main Fire Station
7:00 p.m., Main Fire Station
10:00 am, 755-2346 for info.
7:30 p.m., Grange Hall
7:00 p.m., Main Fire Station
BANKS
8:00 p.m., Methodist Church
Fridays
Alcoholics Anonymous
7:30 p.m., City Hall
2nd Tuesday
Banks City Council
7:00 p.m., City Hall
Banks Planning Commission Last Tuesday
7:30 p.m., Jr. High Library
2nd Monday
Banks School Board
7:00
p.m., UMC Youth Bldg.
Sundays, Wednesdays
Banks Youth Group
12:30 p.m., Brown Derby
1st Thursday
Chamber of Commerce
7:15 p.m., City Hall
3rd Monday, odd months
Citizen Participation Org.
7:00
p.m., City Library
2nd Tuesday
Friends of the Library
1st & 3rd Wednesdays 7:00 p.m., Methodist Church
Lions Club
3rd Wednesday
8:00 p.m., Gun Club
Sunset Park Assoc.
Wednesdays
7:00 p.m., Administration Bldg.
T.O.P.S.
2nd
Wednesday
7:00 p.m., Station 13
Tri-City RFPD Board
COLUMBIA COUNTY (All meet in St. Helens unless otherwise noted.)
10 a.m., Courthouse
Wednesdays
Board of Commissioners
7:00
p.m.,
Sunset Park Church
2nd Tuesday
Citizens for Senior Justice
10:30 a.m., Courthouse
2nd Friday
COLCO Transportation
1:00 p.m., Courthouse
2nd Friday
County Council of Seniors
7:00
p.m.,
Fairgrounds 4-H Bldg.
2nd Monday
County Fair Board
6:00 p.m., 1054 Oregon St.
3rd Monday
County Parks Commission
7:00 p.m., Courthouse
Emergency Comm. Dist. (9-1-1) 3rd Tuesday
Noon, location call 429-3713
Historical Society
4th Wednesday
Organizations and meeting dates not listed may be included by calling 429-9410
or bv mail to The INDEPENDENT, 725 Bridge Street, Vernonia, OR 97064.