The INDEPENDENT, January 20, 2011
2011 Dairy Princess named Jan. 15
Jessica Budge, representing
Clackamas
County,
was
crowned 2011 Oregon Dairy
Princess-Ambassador January
15, at the 52nd Annual Corona-
tion Banquet hosted by the
Oregon Dairy Women.
Ms. Budge was crowned by
outgoing 2010 Oregon Dairy
Princess-Ambassador, Hanna
Emerson. There were four oth-
er Oregon County Princess-
Ambassador finalists. The final-
ists were evaluated by a three
judge panel over the course of
two days. In addition to Satur-
day evening’s onstage person-
al interview and four-minute
dairy related speech, the
judges conducted personal in-
terviews, evaluated impromptu
speeches, a creative commer-
cial for a dairy product, and a
mock classroom presentation.
Each finalist was awarded
points based on communica-
tions and speaking ability,
knowledge of the dairy industry,
appearance and poise, and ex-
tracurricular activities and
scholarship.
Rebecca Thomas, repre-
senting Washington County,
was named First Alternate Ore-
gon Dairy Princess-Ambas-
sador. Carly Hartenstein, rep-
resenting Marion County, was
voted to receive the Congenial-
ity Award by the other finalists.
Other candidates for the 2011
competition were Amanda Wor-
man, representing Columbia
County, and Emily Whalen,
who represented Tillamook
County.
The Oregon Dairy Princess-
Ambassador scholarship pro-
gram is available to qualified
young women applicants with a
family background in dairy
farming, dairy 4-H or FFA expe-
rience, employed in the dairy
industry or has a parent with in-
volvement in dairy support in-
dustries who are interested in
promoting the benefits of dairy
farming and dairy products.
For more information regarding
qualifications, please contact
DairyPrincessBiz@aol.com.
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Power of the People
By W. Marc Farmer, General Manager,
West Oregon Electric Cooperative
WOEC Board Passes
2011 Budget
At its December Board
Meeting, the WOEC Board
of Directors approved the
2011 operating budget.
The budget went through a
rigorous review and cost cutting process by the
Budget Committee, made up of management
staff and three of the board members. The final
draft was unanimously approved by the full
board.
There are several points that are worth noting
on this year’s budget. After management staff
had gone through its cost cutting process and re-
duced discretionary budget items by 4.12%, the
Budget Committee went back through the entire
budget and reduced discretionary spending by
an additional 4.4% for a total reduction of 8.52%.
These reductions included cuts in a wide range
of areas from smaller items to larger items. For
example, even the BBQ lunch we have been
serving at our Annual Meeting, donations we
make to community programs, travel, training,
promotions, and outside services are some of
the areas that were cut or reduced. Also salaried
staff accepted a wage freeze, at 2009 levels, for
the second year in a row.
Though some of the smaller items did not
have significant impact on the overall budget, it
was the recognition that times are extremely dif-
ficult for our members, and we had a responsibil-
ity to our membership to do everything we could
to reduce the overall budget. As our Board of Di-
rectors pointed out in our meetings, this is in-
deed a bare bones budget.
Staff at WOEC really took the challenge to re-
duce costs during 2010, not just in the voluntary
wage freeze for all employees, but in constantly
looking for ways to reduce expenses and costs.
We scrutinized each purchase and cost as we
went along and made some changes in the way
we operated, as we could. These changes are
still in place today, even on things as small as
taking papers and documents that are one sided
and using the blank side as scratch paper.
We are taking seriously the financial con-
straints and difficulties our members are having.
We are doing what we can to be frugal and care-
ful with the fiduciary responsibility we are en-
trusted with at WOEC. There are outside events
and expenses, whether it be wholesale power
costs, costs of goods and services, or weather
related events that impact our ability to control
costs and therefore rates. The things we do have
some control over, we are committed to doing
so.
Apply for a controlled hunt and you could win a 2012 Sports Pac
Apply for a controlled hunt
by January 31 and you will be
entered into a drawing to win
one of fifty 2012 Sports Pacs (a
$164.75 value).
For the second year, ODFW
is awarding a total of 100
Sports Pacs to Oregon resident
hunters among those who ap-
ply for and are issued a fall big
game controlled hunt applica-
tion before April 15. (Non-resi-
dents that apply early and are
selected in the drawing will win
a hunting license, a $140.50
value.)
The purpose of the drawings
is to encourage hunters to ap-
ply for controlled hunts early,
well before the May 15 dead-
line. The sooner hunters apply,
the better their chances of win-
ning one of the three drawings:
50 Sports Pacs (or Non-Res-
ident Hunting Licenses) will be
awarded from the pool of
hunters who apply between
Dec. 1, 2010, and Jan. 31, 2011.
30 Sports Pacs (or Non-Res-
ident Hunting Licenses) will be
awarded from the pool of
hunters who apply by March
15, 2011.
20 Sports Pacs (or Non-Res-
ident Hunting Licenses) will be
awarded from the pool of
hunters that apply by April 15,
2011.
A Sports Pac includes a
Combination Angling/Hunting/
Shellfish License, a Combined
Angling Harvest Tag, a Valida-
tion for Upland Bird and Water-
fowl hunting, plus a General or
Controlled Deer, General or
Controlled Elk, General Cou-
gar, General or Controlled Bear
and Spring Turkey Tag.
The drawings will take place
February 1, March 16 and April
18; winners will be notified by
mail. Hunters unsuccessful in
the first or second drawing will
be re-entered into future draw-
ings. Only one entry per hunter
is allowed, meaning hunters
who apply for several con-
trolled hunts will still only be en-
tered once. Controlled spring
bear hunt applicants are not el-
igible for the drawing.
Hunters can apply for con-
trolled hunts online, at a license
sales agent, at ODFW offices
that sell licenses, or by mail or
fax order using the fax or mail
order application (also found on
page 17 of the 2011 Oregon
Big Game Regulations).
Mail order/fax applicants
should allow 7-10 days for their
applications to be processed
and issued. Remember, to be
eligible for the drawing, the
controlled hunt application
must be issued, not just re-
ceived, by the drawing dead-
lines (January 31, March 15
and April 15). Controlled hunt
applications can be processed
and issued immediately online,
at license sales agents or
ODFW offices.
The deadline to apply for a
controlled hunt is May 15 each
year. In 2010, 79,861 out of
375,227 total applications (21
percent) were processed by
April 15. The previous year,
68,849 out of 426,921 (16 per-
cent) were processed by April
15.
Some of Oregon’s big game
hunts are limited entry, includ-
ing almost all rifle hunting of
deer and elk east of the Cas-
cades and pronghorn antelope,
bighorn sheep, and Rocky
Mountain goat hunts. These
hunts require a controlled hunt
application.
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