The INDEPENDENT, January 20, 2011
Homeless Connect will be on January 28
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to grow. The unemployment
rate in Washington County has
WEATHER REPORT
DECEMBER 2010
DATE
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PRECIP.
AMT.
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.72
.23
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Temperature and precipitation
amounts are from the official U.S.
weather station at the Vernonia wa-
ter plant. Measurable precipitation in
December totalled 9.75 inches.
grown from 4.4% in January
2008 to 9.0% in October 2010,
with the highest rate occurring
in September 2009 at 9.9%.
Since January 2010, the Ore-
gon Employment Department
has seen 18,182 new unem-
ployment insurance claims in
Washington County, the sec-
ond highest in the state. Ap-
proximately 8,000 Washington
County residents are projected
to have their unemployment
benefits end by or before June
2011, while remaining unem-
ployed. Washington County’s
2010 one-night homeless count
identified 1,383 homeless indi-
viduals, up from 1,243 in 2009.
The 2010 numbers include 449
children under the age of 18.
The 2010 Washington Coun-
ty Project Homeless Connect
saw over 60 nonprofit, faith,
public and private community
partners and 275 volunteers
work to provide services such
as health and dental care, hair-
cuts, food and clothing, and
connections to needed housing
and social services to approxi-
mately 500 individuals in need.
In addition, 65 community lead-
ers attended a key leaders
briefing, hosted by the Vision
Action Network, to learn more
about the issue and how the
community is responding.
Project Homeless Connect
has been identified by the Unit-
Januar y 6 Sudoku solved
ed States Interagency Council
on Homelessness as an inno-
vation that can move people
more quickly toward housing
and stability and furthers the
goals of community 10 Year
Plans. In Washington County, it
is truly an example of how com-
munities can come together to
positively impact people’s lives.
As one 2010 Project Homeless
Connect volunteer put it, “I’m
humbled by the strong commu-
nity response in Washington
County for this issue.”
The Vision Action Network is
a private nonprofit organization
committed to the promotion
and support of collaborative
community-based
problem
solving in Washington County.
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DIRECTV must pays settlement money
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RECTV over the next several
months. Consumers who have
not filed complaints have until
June 9, 2011, to do so. Con-
sumer complaint forms are at
http://www.doj.state.or.us/fin
fraud/engexplanation.shtml.
Consumers also can call the
Attorney General’s Consumer
Hotline at 1-877-877-9392 be-
tween 8:30 and 4:30 M-F to re-
quest that a form be mailed to
them. DIRECTV will attempt to
resolve the complaints directly
with consumers. If a complaint
deemed eligible cannot be re-
solved, DIRECTV shall inform
the consumer that the com-
plaint can be resolved by a
Claims Administrator and will
mail a Claim Form to the con-
sumer for further review of the
complaint.
Keep your power
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what he calls Verbal Judo to
fend off words that hit like a fist.
“In some martial arts,” he ex-
plains, “you don’t meet force
with force. Instead, you take
your opponent’s thrust and
redirect it away from you. Often
their own energy works against
them.”
As an example, he told me
of a college friend who was
teasing him about losing his
hair. Rob replied, “It’s true
John, I am losing my hair, but
you were always the hand-
some one.”