The INDEPENDENT, December 21, 2006
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Business Notes
Couple bring teamwork to local church
Wayne and Maureene Marr
Wayne and Maureene Marr
arrived in Vernonia recently to
serve as pastors to the congre-
gation at the Assembly of God
Church.
Technically, Wayne Marr is
the pastor, but Maureene Marr,
who also has considerable ex-
perience in church music and
education programs, will serve
along with her husband.
Wayne and Maureene were
friends in elementary school in
Chicago Heights, Illinois, but
went separate ways as adults.
Wayne attended North Cen-
tral University in Minneapolis,
Minnesota, where he earned a
degree in theology. His first
church was in Brainerd, Minn.,
in 1954.
He subsequently served at
Assembly of God churches in
North Dakota, Southern Califor-
nia, Arizona and, most recently,
Glenn’s Ferry, Idaho.
Conference set on woody biomass opportunities
Opportunities for conversion
of woody biomass from thin-
ning overly dense forests, into
green electric energy, biofuels
and other bioproducts will be
explored January 3 in a day-
long conference at the World
Forestry Center in Portland.
Designed to inform policy
makers and stakeholders, the
conference precedes the annu-
al Oregon Business Summit,
January 4, in Portland, where
conversion of forest biomass
will also be on the agenda.
“The time is right for Oregon
to explore the environmental,
social and economic “triple win”
offered by woody biomass from
Oregon’s overstocked federal
forests,” said Allyn Ford, CEO
of Roseburg Forest Products
and a director of the Oregon
Business Council.
Conversion of woody bio-
mass by thinning Oregon’s
overstocked forests poses a
unique opportunity to address
three challenging needs:
• Restoring Oregon’s forest
health and wildlife habitat and
reducing the risk of severe fire.
• Helping meet the state’s
goal for renewable energy
• Providing jobs and revital-
izing rural economies
The conference will explore
findings of a new woody bio-
mass study commissioned by
the Oregon Forest Resources
Institute (OFRI) along with oth-
er biomass-related work.
OFRI is co-sponsoring the
conference with the Oregon
Business Council, The Nature
Conservancy, the Oregon For-
est Industries Council, the
American Forest Resources
Council and the Oregon Forest
Biomass Working Group.
Dr. Jim Bowyer, biomass
consultant and professor emer-
itus of the Department of Bio-
based Products at the Universi-
ty of Minnesota, will kick off the
conference with an overview of
bioenergy and biofuels.
Bowyer was part of the study
team spearheaded by Mason,
Bruce & Girard, Inc., a Port-
land-based natural resource
consulting firm. Energy and
forestry experts from Pacific
Energy Systems, Inc., a Port-
land energy consulting firm and
Oregon State University’s col-
leges of forestry and agriculture
also participated in the study.
(The study can be ordered
through the OFRI website
www.oregonforests.org.)
Registration is required for
the conference, which is free
and open to the public. It runs
from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at
the World Forestry Center’s
Miller Hall. The conference
agenda, registration form and
additional details are posted on
the OFRI website at www.ore-
gonforests.org.
Kline gives lesson in budgeting
From page 4
fixed assets (ie., land or build-
ings), he explained, so even
ending up with a negative equi-
ty can be misleading because
there may have been an in-
crease in fixed assets by pur-
chasing land or other assets,
so cash flow can be affected
without the net change in over-
all equity being affected as
negatively as it may appear.
Kline used made-up dollar
figures for the Learning Center
as an example of the right side
(liabilities) of the balance sheet
being negatively impacted
while the left side (assets)
gained value from the Learning
Center. “I wasn’t involved in the
decision or building of the
Learning Center, but I think
Vernonia is an awful lot better
off due to this expenditure,”
Kline said. He went on to say,
“We want to spend dollars on
services and expenditures that
do good for the community and
are consistent with our goals.”
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He also married; he and his
late wife had three children, all
of whom are now adults. He
was widowed five years ago.
Maureene moved to South-
ern California, where she
studied music, theology and
Christian education
at Life Pacific Col-
lege, a Four Square
college in San Di-
mas, and earned an
AA degree at Los Angeles
City College.
Music was both a profes-
sion and a hobby for Mau-
reene. She taught music for
13 years at Life Pacific Con-
servatory, was pianist at Ange-
les Temple, and gave private
music lessons.
She moved to Portland and
attended Portland State Univer-
sity, where she studied – mu-
sic, of course, but returned to
California when her aging
parents needed help. She
started attending
the Lancaster As-
sembly of God
while living with
her sister in Ante-
lope Valley.
Wayne and Maureene
met again, in California;
they have been married for
three years. They both
wanted to come to Oregon
and were happy to answer the
call to Vernonia.